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A friend of mine has an underweight problem she has been fighting for a few months. She's been visiting a dietitian who subscribed a radically different diet. My friend was somewhat shaken by this new diet, because it would mean a dramatic change to her daily routine, her shopping and cooking habits and at some level her daily balance. After a few minutes of explaining to me, she broke down into tears, because of the burden of changes.
It occurred to me that she didn't have do<|fim_middle|> really wanted to do the diet, she should stay committed to it, and do it at a pace she felt comfortable. So no, no habits and routines need to be changed overnight. She could do it over a period of weeks or months. So long as she's gaining weight, it should be OK to take the time!
The next morning I got a call from her, that this simple hack made her feel like a burden has been lifted.
What we understood is that it's inadvisable to allow external pressures weigh on our ability and will. Often they may be incompatible. Adapt the external influences to suit our pace.
Photo credit to Huang Did, Flickr. | this. She had a choice to not do the diet. Even better, she had the choice to do the diet at her own pace. I advised her to not mind the dietitian too much, but if she | 43 |
Swedish black metal mavericks Voodus stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Into the Wild, at Decibel magazine's website. Set for international release today via Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records), hear Voodus' Into the Wild in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Although a seemingly new name, Voodus' history stretches back to 2004 when the band was known as Jormundgang. Under this banner, the band first released a few demos and then an album for the well-respected Christhunt label in 2014. Sensing the need for a fresh outlook, they changed their moniker to Voodus and began sharpening their knives. And carved from these blades emerged the 2015 EP, NightQueen, subsequently followed by the Serpent Seducer Saviour 10" in 2017.
Infused with the same spirit as the preceding EPs, with Into the Wild Voodus has honed their craft to its fiercest and most finesse essence. This record is indeed a wild and winding ride through the murky depths of starkly melodic yet crypt-pure black metal. Their sound is staunchly rooted in the 1990s - with ice-cold melodies racing across the searing surge of black metal – but breathes a refreshing sense of dynamics and pacing. Voodus does not engage with the blast-a-thons of old, the indiscernible blur of one song protracted over 30-plus minutes. Instead, the quartet unloads expert compositional variety here, with memorable melodicism constantly at the forefront - all of it framed in a clear and cutting production courtesy of the esteemed Necromorbus Studio. And it's a truly epic experience clocking in at 61 minutes, allowing the listener's wanderlust to truly run wild.
Join the hunt and go Into the Wild with Voodus! Fully hunt exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. Order info can be found HERE at Helter Skelter Productions' Bandcamp, distributed & marketed by Regain Records.
German Death Metal crew Ichor release new song "Architect of the Portal"
German death metal band Ichor are now streaming "Architect Of The Portal". The track is taken from their album Hadal Ascending, which is out December 7th.
Gutted in Gluttony will be released soon in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
The quiet city of Tolentino in the Marche region of Central Italy not only boasts a rich historical background, it is also the place progressive metal band Last Union calls home. Founded by vocalist Elisa Scarpeccio, guitarist Cristiano Tiberi and keyboardist Claudio Feliziani in 2007, the band — originally known as Blazing Ice — embarked on their journey in the pursuit of sharing their thoughts and feelings about life, and ultimately their art, with the world. With the assistance of professional session bassists and drummers, the trio established themselves on the Italian scene with a string of shows that helped them evolve and refine their craft. Over the course of 20 shows, Last Union presented songs that would eventually make the final cut for their debut album.
Strong and positive reactions to their music spurred Scarpeccio and Tiberi on to take the first of many bold steps. The first was to reach out to Kusch, who, after hearing the music, expressed interest in joining the band as a full member rather than just a touring drummer. A similar scenario played out with LePond and Last Union was officially born. The icing on the cake, however, was getting LaBrie to sing on three tracks.
Australia's premiere incendiary<|fim_middle|> The First Chapter (2014) and Life/Death (2016). In addition to these, the band has also one single release, The Bloodline (2015). Finnish new metal community has given a warm welcome for the band's music.
During couple years of silence Kneel Before The Death has been absorbing ideas for their new sound and for the new material. You might be able to hear influences taken from symphonic black metal to 80's synthwave.
"Miserere Mei was written during the past couple of years of the band's silence. We wanted to create something new and interesting that we have been looking for around the metal music in Finnish and worldwide. We had a vision of huge musical atmosphere, which would have the modern sound we were looking for, but which still respects the old school metal music. Lyrics of the song talk about controversial, but very everyday topics, such as addiction, self-hatred, religion and forgiveness. The final touch what the song needed was added in the mixing process by Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, At The Gates)."
Kneel Before The Death has returned to the stages and is ready to release new material. The band's new single, Miserere Mei, is a foretaste of the coming.
Tearing Up The World featuring guest performances of Abbath and Tim "Ripper" Owens. The album was mixed and mastered in cooperation with Studio Fredman (Dimmu Borgir, Hammerfall, In Flames, Opeth, Soilwork). The artwork and layout was designed by Carlos Cabrera.
Guardians Of Time is considered as one of the leading heavy / power metal bands in Norway, with members holding experience from other bands such as Trail Of Tears, Susperia and Harm. Focusing on in-your-face heavy metal and live performances filled with power and energy, the band is always keen on giving their audience what they want; a heavy metal party! In the recent years they have toured Europe six times, supporting bands like Sabaton, Sepultura and Fear Factory. Guardians Of Time have played in Serbia, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Belarus, Russia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Romania.
InVisions are ecstatic to announce their signing to Stay Sick Recordings. They'll make their return on 8th February 2019 with their most ambitious and loudest work to date, second album Between You & Me. You can pre-order the physical record from InVisions and Stay Sick Recordings, or digitally from iTunes.
Spawned into being in 2016 from the ashes of former local bands in their hometown of York, England, InVisions are contagious, NSFW and blistering. Drawing from a plethora of influences - the adrenaline and aggression in metalcore, combined with intricate guitar work inspired by 80s thrash, with the no-fucks-given attitude of modern rap - it's all tied together with the schizophrenic vocals of Ben Ville leading at the helm, ranging from guttural growls, to biting and demonic squeals, and moments of relief in his emotive singing.
Diving headfirst into their debut self-released album Never Nothing in August 2017, which was recorded at Innersound Studios with Sam and Joe Graves (Asking Alexandria, Eyes Set To Kill, Deaf Havana), InVisions garnered support from the likes of Rock Sound, Kerrang! Radio and Metal Hammer. This fuelled a hefty touring schedule, with highlights including Download Festival and support to Slaves (US), Our Hollow, Our Home and Glamour Of The Kill.
With UK and European tour dates to be announced soon and a monstrous second album, InVisions are on the rise. Watch this space for additional news. | musical export, Thy Art Is Murder, has released the brand new single 'Death Perception'. The song was produced, mixed and mastered by long-time collaborator Will Putney.
Thy Art Is Murder's latest full-length release, 'Dear Desolation' was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio in Belleville, NJ. The artwork was created by Eliran Kantor (Hatebreed, Testament, Iced Earth, Sodom.
Finnish modern metal act Kneel Before The Death has released a new single and music video Miserere Mei.
The band describe their music as modern metal with black atmosphere. The band was founded in 2013 by guitarist Niko Lappalainen and drummer Konsta Vihavainen. Later that year singer Aatu Kovanen and bass player Joonas Peltonen joined the band. Kneel Before The Death has released two EPs; | 195 |
Album Review: Mini Mansions – Guy Walks Into A Bar…
Article by Andrés Alvarado
If love is not the ultimate topic of conversation, then what really is? In all shapes and forms, love has withstood the test of time. It never ages, it never ends<|fim_middle|> lust, deep affection, heartbreak and consequence onto dynamic experimentation of sounds and melody. Truth be told, Mini Mansions has hit a home run here, despite the cliché topic of inspiration (which might be the hiccup haters may point to).
Guys Walks Into A Bar… almost did not happen on accounts of schedules and near disbandment for Mini Mansions, but it did happen, and we are better audiophiles for it. An LP with no real weaknesses and plenty of relatable material can be a recipe for success. Thankfully, the Mini Mansions trio cooked up a delicious take on the different cycles of partnership. Now, let's feast!
Album Score: 8.5/10 — Key Tracks: GummyBear, Should Be Dancing, Works Every Time and Hey Lover.
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Next Nelly // TLC // Flo Rida – Live @ Cellairis Amphitheatre | , it regenerates, and one way or another, it is always on our minds. Naturally, singers and songwriters have paid homage to love time and time again for decades and across thousands, if not millions, of albums. That being said, of course, an album chronicling the rise and fall of any given relationship is not a new concept, yet this format presented is utterly enticing, catchy, pop without being generic, and elegant. Mini Mansions' Guy Walks Into A Bar… is an open book recap and soundtrack to Michael Shuman and his fizzled engagement.
Mini Mansions – Guy Walks Into A Bar Album Cover
Guys Walks Into A Bar… deals with the whirlwind volatility and toxicity of a failed, yet memorable what-if kind of affair. Opener "Should Be Dancing" is a crooning display of creepy seduction relating to the initial cat-and-mouse phase of conquering THAT girl once a guy walks into a bar. The anthem plays to a mid-pace sway that grips and refuses to let go of its listener for four plus minutes.
The honeymoon stage is largely told across the ensuing four numbers that encapsulate the highest of highs and the irrationality that comes with new love. From "Bad Things (That Make You Feel Good)" to "I'm In Love" and in between an '80s round of sound waves take over and hands the listener a dance-worthy look into the euphoria of the early days of this commitment. This portion of Guys Walks Into A Bar… is all shake, rattle and roll, as harmony matches what this chapter represents.
Lead single "GummyBear" is an intriguing slice of psychedelic-pop jointed to cleverly cynical lyrics descriptive of the demise of this union. "Boy, I thought you was sweet, girl // but, you're just sugar free" serenades Shuman; as he commences a sarcastic take-down on the future he and his lady friend will definitely not share — that ends on a note of "No, I got love for you no more."
The lovely Alison Mosshart cameos on latest "Hey Lover." A pulsating ballad that details the sorry acceptance of this connection's conclusion in a hard-to-let-go fashion. It plays overwhelming, sincere, and transports the audience to that sad place within the character's hearts and state of mind.
With Guy Walks Into A Bar… the lads of Mini Mansions prove yet again they are not just integral pieces to their Big Brother bands, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, and The Last Shadow Puppets, but that they can also hold their own — on their own. A record balancing tales of sleaze, | 552 |
With warmer days beginning to seem a bit more realistic and the hope of spring in the Las Vegas air, many people are already looking forward to the vacations they have planned in the upcoming months. So as those trips begin to get a tad closer and you start your<|fim_middle|> to take advantage of some energy savings by having them ensure your thermostat is off and your home sealed up tight.
Think before you share – before you go posting from the airport that you're off to the Caribbean for a week, think about whether it's necessary to post such a thing. After all, it doesn't just tell your friends and family that you're not home, but also alerts potential criminals that you're not home.
Stop the mail – a simple, but effective way to defend against burglars. Plus, you can put a hold on your mail online now, making it really easy to do even if you forget before boarding your plane.
Pull the plug – by now most people understand that electricity is still being used even when a product isn't being utilized, so why not unplug your smaller electronic devices while you're out of the picture? It's an easy way to boost energy savings, and when you unplug your garage door, it can also help protect your home.
Adjust your thermostat – it's another way to increase your energy savings and makes a ton of sense. Turning your thermostat to a setting such as vacation mode keeps you from paying for heating and cooling while you're away too. And with all of the digital thermostats available, you could easily arrange for your thermostat to have your home back to optimal comfort as you travel back home.
Of course these aren't the only ways to make the most of energy savings or keep your home safe, but they're easy to add to your spring break prep list. So if you have any questions about these tips or are interested in maintaining total home comfort with a new thermostat, give Polar Air & Heating Inc in Las Vegas a call at 702-623-0579. | spring break prep, be sure to get your home prepped for you to be gone. From energy savings to safety considerations, keep these few tips in mind as you head off for a little rest and relaxation.
Invest in timers – purchasing timers for your lights allows you to make it seem as though you've never left. Adding timers to a number of lights around your house and setting them to follow your normal schedule can make it look as though you're just going about your everyday business, throwing off would-be criminals.
Consider a sitter – whether it's a friend or a family member, consider having someone drop by to check on your house while you're away. And just because you're on vacation doesn't mean that you can slack when it comes to maintaining your home. That's why it's helpful to have a house sitter keep an eye on things. Plus, it also gives you the ability | 181 |
College football seems to only promote the most affluent teams by using a capitalist league where it seems, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer", Andrew Jackson 1832. Before the whistle blows, teams play on a lopsided stage. For example, the defending national champions, Ohio State University has an 11 week 'preseason' before actually being challenged by a rigorous team. How can small teams that play teams like Ohio State improve and compete with these decorated programs? The answer is that big schools play on another tier than the rest. The top 30 teams in the league are on a pedestal towering over the rest. One<|fim_middle|> day, but keep in mind the funding machine the NCAA dances in front of us every Saturday. | might think that small teams can't improve and should be put in another league and give the viewers a break. Why not have mediocre teams play each other? Have all the prestigious college football teams in one conference. Every Saturday would be a round robin with matchups we normally would only see during bowl week.
This utopia conference that institutes parody I am describing is called "the NFL." But if there's still confusion why the NCAA doesn't adopt this plan, continue reading. Surprisingly the answer has nothing to do with the sport of football. Doug J. Chung is the Assistant Professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. He has been doing research on how the success of college football and basketball teams affects the admission at the school. Sean Silverthorne of Forbes writes on the research done by Doug J. Chung, "Schools build sports programs because it can be financially beneficial to do so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni donations, and TV contracts." This kills two birds with one stone! Schools use popular athletic programs to attract admissions while attaining a large sum of revenue. A university's football or basketball team can be the best form of advertisement.
Chang found that after the Northwestern University football team won the Big Ten Championship, its applications for admission increased 21%. Many colleges that runs on the field Saturday, raises the viewer's general awareness of the school, just by tossing some leather around! This means small schools are fortunate to have some big schools on their schedule because of the attention and fan base the larger schools bring. Once the economic curtain is pulled back, it appears that large and small or mediocre teams benefit on both sides. Sorry to ruin game | 367 |
Q: Typescript method overload isn't working in inherited class I hive 2 classes:
export interface Vec2I {
x: number;
y: number;
}
export class Vec2 implements Vec2I {
constructor(public x: number = 0, public y: number = 0) {}
public set(x: Vec2I): void;
public set(x: number, y: number): void;
public set(x: Vec2I | number, y?: number) {
if (typeof x === "number") {
this.x = x;
if (y !== undefined) {
this.y = y;
}
} else {
this.x<|fim_middle|> // Call the correct version of `super.set`
if (typeof x === "object") {
super.set(x);
} else {
// Here we have to assert that `y` isn't nullish, but we
// know it isn't. I've used a type assertion function here,
// but some would probably just use the "trust me, I know
// it's not nullish" type assertion operator (postfix `!`).
// I'm not a fan of avoidable type assertions, but there's
// an argument for it here
assertNotNullish(y);
super.set(x, y);
}
if (typeof x === "number") {
if (z !== undefined) {
this.z = z;
}
} else if ("z" in x) { // *** Have to guard against `Vec2I` here
this.z = x.z;
}
}
where assertNotNullish is (see comments above for why I used it; you could just use the non-nullish type assertion operator instead):
function assertNotNullish<T>(value: T | null | undefined): asserts value is T {
if (value == null) {
throw new Error(`value expected not to be nullish`);
}
}
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The other alternative that comes to mind is to have a single generic class that accepts a type argument for the data it should be dealing with. That's often the solution you'd want to reach for, but doesn't seem appropriate in this specific case.
| = x.x;
this.y = x.y;
}
}
}
and
import { Vec2, Vec2I } from "./Vec2";
export interface Vec3I extends Vec2I {
z: number;
}
export class Vec3 extends Vec2 implements Vec3I {
constructor(x: number = 0, y: number = 0, public z: number = 0) {
super(x, y);
}
public set(x: Vec3I): void;
public set(x: number, y: number, z: number): void;
public set(x: Vec3I | number, y?: number, z?: number) {
super.set(x, y);
if (typeof x === "number") {
if (z !== undefined) {
this.z = z;
}
} else {
this.z = x.z;
}
}
}
and the error I see when I try to overload a method in inherited class is:
Property 'set' in type 'Vec3' is not assignable to the same property in base type 'Vec2'.
Type '{ (x: Vec3I): void; (x: number, y: number, z: number): void; }' is not assignable to type '{ (x: Vec2I): void; (x: number, y: number): void; }'.
Types of parameters 'x' and 'x' are incompatible.
Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'Vec3I'.
I don't understand the problem. Vec3I extends from Vec2I, so in should be ok to substitute in method parameters.
If I comment overloading, everything works:
A: The error is correct. You're trying to say that Vec3 "is a" Vec2 (Vec3 extends Vec2) but that its set method doesn't accept the same thing that Vec2's set method accepts: a Vec2I object. You can't do that in TypeScript and most similar languages, it violates the Liskov substitution principle. If a Vec3 "is a" Vec2, then you have to be able to use it where a Vec2 can be used, which means you have to be able to call set with an argument of type Vec2I, you can't restrict it to only things that are also Vec3Is.
How you solve it depends on what you're trying to do. Looking at your classes, you could add additional overloads for the third coordinate, and handle that in the updated implementation:
// Inherited
public set(x: Vec2I): void;
public set(x: number, y: number): void;
// Additional
public set(x: Vec3I): void;
public set(x: number, y: number, z: number): void;
// Implementation handling both
public set(x: Vec2I | Vec3I | number, y?: number, z?: number) {
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OK, I definitely started out crying, and finished the video laughing.
The video would be funny if it wasn't so true.
I programmed a device with a GUI and touch screen. Marketing wanted me to add a feature where a user could hover his finger over a button on the screen and help text would show up explaining its use.
Because of that incident, our Engineering department now has a term we use after going into Marketing brainstorming meetings. It's called "Damage Control".
It is Microchip's answer to Dave's (EEVblog) review of the new pickit3.
Thanks Nigel for sharing this great video!
However, I begin to wonder whether the sales guy in this case did the right thing. Obviously the customer doesn't know what he wants, and he will be satisfied with whatever the expert produces, so all the sales guy has to do is<|fim_middle|> actually clueless about the real matter they are making deal about. | to promise… it doesn't need to be done.
I think that the problem is more of a general business environment where often deals are made by the people who are in the decision making chain at higher level, but are | 44 |
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Role: General-purpose bomber, reconnaissance and dive bomber
Manufacturer: Hawker
Designed by: Sydney Camm
First flight: 6 December 1934
Primary user: RAF (intended)
Number built: 1
Variants: Hawker Hart
The Hawker P.V.4 was a 1930s British biplane aircraft built by Hawker Aircraft in competition for a government order for a general-purpose military aircraft.
In 1931, the British Air Ministry issued a specification for a "Standard General Purpose" aircraft (G.4/31). The duties was to include liaison, bombing (both day and night), dive bombing, torpedo bombing, and reconnaissance.
As none of the competing prototypes ordered for the competition could carry out all of the roles, and as individually aircraft of the Hawker Hart series could perform most of these duties, with the Hart having excellent handling in a dive, Hawkers decided to base their entry on the Hind development of the Hart. They built the P.V.4 as a private venture (i.e., with their own money) as a two-seat light bomber; although the bomb load of 570 lb (259 kg) was the same as the Hart, the reinforced fuselage and wings allowed the P.V.4 to dive with this load.
The P.V.4 was first flown from the Brooklands airfield on 6 December 1934 . The Bristol Pegasus III engine was initially used, but this was changed to the Pegasus X in 1935. In trials, it proved to be the only one of the competitors<|fim_middle|> Hawker P.V.4, eventually choosing the Fokker C.X light bomber. The sole P.V.4 prototype was struck off charge on 29 March 1939 .
Specification (with the Pegasus X engine)
Data from The British Bomber since 1914
Length: 29 ft 10 in (9.09 m)
Wingspan: 40 ft (12.19 m)
Height: 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Wing area: 348 ft� (32.3 m�)
Empty weight: 3,728 lb (1,691 kg)
Loaded weight: 6,650 lb (3,016 kg)
Powerplant: 1x� Bristol Pegasus X radial engine, 820 hp (612 kW)
Maximum speed: 159 knots (183 mph, 294.5 km/h) at 6,650 ft (2,027 m)
Range: 400 nm (460 miles, 741 km)
Service ceiling: 23,700 ft (7,224 m)
Wing loading: 19.1 lb/ft� (93.4 kg/m�)
Power/mass: 0.123 hp/lb (0.203 kW/kg)
1 x Vickers machine gun installed in the nose.
1 x Lewis gun mounted in the rear cockpit.
570 lb (258 kg) of bombs
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Only one aircraft was built. This was eventually used for spinning tests, and then sent to Bristol Aeroplane to be used as an engine test bed, with several other engines being installed. The Finnish Air Force in the 1930s, evaluated different dive bombers including the | 125 |
Extending the life of your grill is as easy as cleaning it regularly. While a deep clean isn't necessary after each use, there are no benefits to having a dirty grill. Despite the myth that not cleaning your grill adds flavor, the leftover fat, salt and sauces will cause metal parts to break down and need replacement. You will inadvertently create a fire hazard if you neglect to clean your grill regularly. Not to mention, if mold grows in your grill, it could become a health hazard and it will take time consuming extra steps to clean it out when you could have just cleaned the grill after a cook.
Be sure to check the grill's manual to see if there are any special cleaning instructions before you begin cleaning. The manual may provide you with specific instructions on how to properly remove grill parts and a timetable for grill maintenance. When taking a grill apart to clean, make sure to close and disconnect gas lines.
Cooking grates should be cleaned at end of every cook. This will keep mold, carbon build up, and grease off of the cooking surface and, more importantly, off of your food.
On a gas grill, this means you should turn the grill burners to high at the end of every cook to burn off any excess food or grime left on the grates. If you have a charcoal grill, burn charcoal with the grill's lid closed. Allow the flames to burn until all leftover residue has turned to ash.
Let the grill heat up for 15-20 minutes. As the grill heats, any remaining food will turn into ash and leftover grease will be burned off.
After the leftover grime has turned to ash, use a grill brush to scrub until all particles are removed and the grates are clean.
Once you've scrubbed the grates, apply a light coat of oil to the grates with a cloth or brush. Make sure the oil has a high smoke point, like grape seed oil. This will protect your grates from corrosion and prevent food from sticking. We recommend lightly oiling your grates after each cook.
Make sure to clean any leftover ash or leftover charcoal after you're finished cleaning the grates. Dump the leftover ash into a metal or non-combustible bucket. Do not use plastic or combustible material because if the ash hasn't fully cooled, it could melt the bucket or cause a fire. After checking to make sure everything has finished burning and has completely cooled, you can dispose accordingly.
Every 3-4 cooks, you will need to break the grill down and clean the inside of your grill. After you have burned all the excess off your grill grates like you do after every cook, wait until your gas grill has completely cooled down and you're now able to clean the inside.
Remove the grates, flame tamers such as ceramic trays, and any burner coverings. Clean these pieces with a grill brush.
Make sure to inspect the burners for cracks. Also make sure that all tubes are debris free. If the burners haven't been used in a while, be mindful that if spiders have gotten inside of your grill and webbed up the manifold it could cause gas flow issues.
If a port is clogged, you can use a toothpick to clear the obstruction.
Remove the charcoal tray and empty any remaining charcoal that may be left over from your last cook.
Scoop out the remaining ash with an ash tool.
Use a wire grill brush to push any remaining ash residue into the ash catcher.
Remove the ash catcher and dump it out.
Use warm soapy water to clean the inside of the grill, along with any pieces you have removed (ash catcher, charcoal tray, etc.).
You can prevent build-up on the underside of the hood (caused by carbon, soot, and other by-products) by cleaning it regularly. If neglected, these scaly flakes can break off during a cook and ruin your food.
To clean, put on a pair of grill gloves and use a wire grill brush to scrub. Do not use chemicals like oven cleaners. Instead, you should opt for products like Carbon-Off to easily remove the build-up. Use a shop vac or the grill's ash pan to remove all debris once you're finished.
Keeping your temperature probe on the back side of the hood thermometer clean is important. Carbon can render the built-in gauge useless, especially in a pellet grill or smoker. Use Carbon-Off and a soft cloth or sponge. You can also use a hard bristle tooth brush to scrub around the probe.
If you ever open your grill and find mold, don't panic and take it<|fim_middle|> and let it burn for at least 20 minutes.
Once the grill cools down, and the mold has been burned, use a wire brush to clean everything in the grill.
Remove the inside parts of the grill and scrub with soap and water.
After cleaning, put everything back in the grill and turn the burners on for 20 more minutes on high to burn off any remaining mold, debris, water, or residue.
Maintaining your grill's appearance is simple. Remove dust, dirt, and grime from the exterior of your grill by wiping it down with a damp cloth. Then use Magic Stainless Steel Cleaner to keep the stainless shiny and create a protective coating that repels dirt, water, and fingerprints. Never use an abrasive brush. Polish the exterior with grill cleaner. If you accidentally scratch your grill, use Scratch-B-Gone. | to the curb. Your grill can recover from mold if you clean it properly! Mold is caused by the presence of moisture inside the grill combined with grease. Don't use cleaners or brushes to remove active mold because you can inhale spores, which can cause illness. Instead, use heat to kill the mold.
Discard anything that could retain mold. If you're using a charcoal grill, make sure to remove any charcoal that may still be inside the grill from your previous cooks.
If you're using a gas grill, turn all burners to high. If you're using charcoal, burn a chimney starter of charcoal with the grill's lid closed. Close the lid | 134 |
The craze of iPhone X launch day excitement is now behind us. Hopefully, you were able to get your device to activate in time to enjoy it on the same day. With the device now in the wild, I decided it would be a good time to get back to themed Wallpapers of the Week, instead of just throwing random iPhone X wallpapers against the wall–but I hope you enjoyed the iPhone X wallpaper packs! Getting back to the themes, I'm restarting with a crowd favorite: mountains.
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A Smithsonian magazine special report
Hunting Lost Worlds in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
A geology tour with Kirk Johnson, Director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, and Will Clyde, a geology professor at University of New Hampshire
Kirk Johnson and Will Clyde
Prospecting for fossils in the Morrison Formation near Shell, Wyoming Kirk Johnson
The northwestern corner of Wyoming is home to two of the nation's most famous national parks: Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Each year, these parks see more than 3 million visitors who arrive from all directions, and those who come to Yellowstone from the east by way of Cody must pass through a vast, dry depression known as the Bighorn Basin. The basin's main towns are Thermopolis, Cody, Powell, Lovell, Greybull, and Worland, but we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Shell, Ten Sleep, Meeteetse, Basin, Otto, and Bridger.
This story is an excerpt from 'Ancient Wyoming: A Dozen Lost Worlds Based on the Geology of the Bighorn Basin' by Kirk Johnson and Will Clyde
Merging paleontology, geology, and artistry, Ancient Wyoming illustrates scenes from the distant past and provides fascinating details on the flora and fauna of the past 300 million years.
From outer space or on the Wyoming Highway Map, the basin appears as a giant oval hole about 150 miles long by 80 miles wide. The high points of the surrounding mountains reach more than 11,000 feet, while the low point of the basin is only 3,500 feet. The Bighorn Basin is a curious bit of topography, and it has one of the best geological stories on the planet.
In fact, the Bighorn Basin may be the best place on Earth to tell the story of our planet. Because of its geology, the Bighorn Basin contains layers of rock older than 2.5 billion years, as well as many, many younger rock layers. What makes this place so amazing is that it has layers of rock from almost every single geologic time period. If you had to pick one place in the world to tell the story of Earth's history, you would pick this place. So we picked this place.
The Big Horn Basin is located in the Rocky Mountains in northwest Wyoming. The Big Horn Basin is located in the Rocky Mountains in northwest Wyoming
The layered rocks of the Bighorn Basin were once ancient landscapes, and the fossils in the rocks are clues to what these landscapes looked like, what the ancient vegetation was, and what kinds of animals lived here. Because the Bighorn Basin is a dry place, not many plants grow here today, so it is easy to see the rocks. If you can see the rocks, you can find the fossils in the rocks. In this place, the history of the Earth lies on the ground as if it were an open book. And the goal of our little book is to give you the tools to read the big rock book of the Bighorn Basin.
Using layered rocks and fossils, geologists and paleontologists are able to envision what these lost worlds looked like. To share them with you, we studied the rocks; tracked down the fossils; reconstructed the plants, animals, and landscapes; and then employed an artist to paint them, choosing ancient worlds ranging in age from 520 million years to 18,000 years old. There are so many layers of rock in the basin that we could have painted hundreds of them. Here, we present five.
Scorpion Stream: 400 Million Years Ago, Devonian Period
A rock slab with multiple head plates of armored fish called placoderms Kirk Johnson
Beartooth Butte near Cooke City, Montana, is the best place to see the Beartooth Butte Formation, which is the mass of red rock in the face of the butte. Kirk Johnson
The claw of a sea scorpion known as a Pterygotus. This claw is nearly six inches long, and the animal that owned it was more than five feet long. Kirk Johnson
The view south from Beartooth Butte toward the Absaroka Mountains Kirk Johnson
A red layer of the Beartooth Butte Formation can be seen in Cottonwood Canyon in the Bighorn Mountains near Lovell, Wyoming. Kirk Johnson
Rock slabs containing pieces of the bony head plates of armored fish called placoderms Kirk Johnson
Scorpion Stream Jan Vriesen
Formation: Beartooth Butte Formation
Ancient Environment: Warm and Dry
Streams are entering a coastal area and have cut into the surrounding bedrock of Bighorn Dolomite. The channels are filling with sediment that has eroded from the surrounding hills. Lurking under the brackish water are armored fish, snails, and brachiopods. A five-foot-long predatory eurypterid is trolling the shallows in search of its next meal. These "scorpions of the water" are some of the largest predators of the Paleozoic and close evolutionary cousins to spiders and horseshoe crabs. They have legs for walking and paddles for swimming, so they can easily move in and out of the water. On land, life is now apparent. Thin, low-stemmed plants are sprouting from the muddy deposits on the edges of the streams. True land scorpions are scurrying among the plants, hunting for other critters that have evolved into this new, wide-open ecosystem outside of the water
What you see today
The most spectacular outcrop of the Beartooth Butte Formation is perched on the top of the Beartooth Plateau, more than 6,000 feet above the basin floor. This geological remnant is the only bit of post-Precambrian sedimentary rock left on top of the mountains in this area – the rest was eroded away during the rise of the Rockies. The butte preserves horizontal layers of Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian shale and limestone, with sediments of the Beartooth Butte Formation filling channels cut down into the Bighorn Dolomite. These channels formed when sea level dropped during the Early Devonian, creating a coastal environment where streams flowed in from the adjacent land. Sediment slowly filled these channels, entombing the pieces and parts of the organisms that were living in this thriving ecosystem.
The beginning of the Devonian was the time when organisms were just emerging onto land. The early land plants were small – no forests existed yet, just low stems and a few small leaves. Plant roots and dead plant debris mixed in with weathered rock to form soils that started to live and breathe like the ones we have today. Arthropods, the evolutionary group that includes crabs, insects, and trilobites, were the first animals to be preserved as fossils from this new land-based ecosystem, but other soft-bodied groups were likely there also, leaving behind evidence in the form of burrows and tracks. The Beartooth Butte Formation contains a mix of marine (brachiopods and snails) and land (scorpions and plants) organisms, providing a perfect window into the very environment where this remarkable water-to-land evolutionary transition was taking place.
Red World: 220 Million Years, Triassic Period
The footprint of a Triassic reptile (Chirotherium barthii) preserved in a slab of red sandstone. The track is roughly the size of a human hand. Kirk Johnson
Fossils are extremely rare in the Chugwater Formation, so this tooth of a Triassic reptile is quite a find. Kirk Johnson
In places, the Chugwater Formation has been tilted so that once-horizontal beds are now vertical. Kirk Johnson
The Chugwater Formation south of Ten Sleep, Wyoming Kirk Johnson
At the mouth of Clarks Fork Canyon, the Chugwater Formation has been folded by the uplift of the Beartooth Mountains. Kirk Johnson
Red World Jan Vriesen
Formation: Chugwater Formation
Ancient Environment: Hot and Seasonally Dry
Deeply colored red mudflats can be seen far into the distance. Shallow channels drain the area, and little life is evident. Strong thunderstorms are booming away in the distance over a faraway forest. A lone rhynchosaur ambles across the plain, leaving a track in the soft mud underneath. This creature is like a vertebrate mash-up: a wide head with a short snout that resembles a hammerhead shark's, a stout parrot-like beak, and plates of bumpy fish-like teeth lining its mouth so it can grind the plants that make up its diet. Sharp claws on its back feet could be used to dig up roots to eat or to protect it from the vast array of crocodile-like predators that roam the landscape.
The Triassic Chugwater Formation is the most recognizable geological unit in the basin. Its bright-red color makes it stand out among the other more subdued colors of the adjacent formations. In fact, these red rocks can be seen clearly as you fly over the basin in an airplane and even in satellite imagery from space. During the Triassic, Wyoming was in the northern tropics, and North America was starting to grow to the west by colliding with smaller landmasses. The Chugwater, like the other Paleozoic and older Mesozoic units in the basin, is usually found along the basin margin, folded up during the subsequent rise of the Rockies. Because of this, the Chugwater forms a red ring around most of the basin when seen from above.
The Chugwater's red color is very common for rocks of this age all over the world. It is rust, an oxidized form of iron that is also known as the mineral hematite. Just like a nail rusts when it is exposed to moisture and allowed to dry, sediments rust, and get red, when they experience cycles of wetting and drying. Red sediments are common today in places that have strong seasonal changes in rainfall, like the tropical and continental interior areas that experience monsoons. Why so much rust in the Triassic? This is when all of the world's continents had come together into the great supercontinent called Pangaea. Today, the largest monsoons occur on the largest continents, which means a supercontinent like Pangaea likely had a "mega-monsoon." These extreme wet and dry seasons during the Triassic caused massive rusting of the sediments, leaving behind a geological red ribbon that can be seen on all of the continents. The rusting process in the sediments often destroys the remains of plants and animals that would otherwise become fossilized, so very few fossils have been discovered in the Chugwater over the years.
Longneck Lineup: 150 Million Years, Jurassic Period
A distant view of the Morrison Formation Kirk Johnson
Barnum Brown at Howe Quarry, Shell, Wyoming, in 1934 Kirk Johnson
Fossilized fern leaves show that the climate was warm and wet 150 million<|fim_middle|> more frequently preserved than are plants. The result is a world where we know the animals but are only now beginning to understand the nature of the vegetation. This is all the more important because the long-necked sauropods, who were clearly herbivores, are the largest animals ever to walk the Earth, yet we have little real understanding about what they ate. Sites like the Howe Quarry are beginning to change that.
Greenhouse Bird: 54 Million Years, Eocene Period
A skeleton of the massive Eocene bird, Diatryma gigantea. It is unclear if this bird was a predator or an herbivore, but some recent studies suggest that it ate plants. Kirk Johnson
The badlands of the Willwood Formation east of Cody, Wyoming, are easily recognized by their red- and-whites stripes. Kirk Johnson
A jaw from a Hyracotherium, an extinct, dog-sized horse Kirk Johnson
Paleontologist Ken Rose holds the startlingly robust lower jaw of a Diatryma gigantea. Kirk Johnson
Greenhouse Bird Jan Vriesen
Formation: Willwood Formation
Ancient Environment: Hot and Dry
The large, flightless bird Diatryma quietly moves through the lush floodplain forest, stalking a cocker spaniel-sized horse. The horse is startled by the rustling leaves and starts to run over to the fast-flowing stream cutting across the forest floor. Rainfall in the adjacent mountains feeds the streams here, and the temperature is much warmer than in today's Wyoming. This forest harbors an abundance of species – primates, tapirs, rodents, and crocodiles living amid laurels, legumes, and palms. It looks and feels like a subtropical ecosystem, yet Wyoming sits at just about the same latitude as it does today.
The Eocene Willwood Formation is exposed as red-and-beige-striped badlands throughout the middle of the basin. It formed as the large Rocky Mountain ranges that encircle the basin – the Bighorns, Beartooths, Owl Creeks, and Pryors
– continued to rise. With the rising and eroding mountains delivering a steady supply of sediment into the actively sinking basin, a great thickness of sediment accumulated during the Eocene epoch. Mud settled on the floodplains and sand filled the channels, burying the remains of the animals and plants that lived there. The Willwood Formation is one of the thickest geological units in the Bighorn Basin – as thick as 5,000 feet – and it preserves one of the most abundant and diverse suites of fossil land animals and plants known anywhere in the world. The most common mammals in the Bighorn Basin today (pronghorn antelope, horses, and even people!) can trace their ancestry back to fossils found in the Willwood.
The early Eocene, when the Willwood Formation was deposited, was a period of extreme global warming. Crocodiles lived above the Arctic Circle at this time, and the Willwood shows us that Wyoming hosted a whole array of animals and plants that are more typical of a tropical environment than the mid-latitude, continental interior that it actually was. How could the world
get so warm so far away from the equator? Mainly because the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide was much higher than it is now. It is also likely that large, powerful storm systems carried heat from the equator to the poles, bringing with them volatile weather conditions. Many scientists wonder if we are heading back to a greenhouse world like the Eocene as we continue to burn fossil fuels (like Fort Union coal) and release long-buried carbon back into the atmosphere.
A Bad Day: 640,000 Years, Pleistoncene Period
The bright colors of the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park are caused by microbes that thrive in high temperatures. Kirk Johnson
A Bad Day Jan Vriesen
A bison grazes peacefully while the Old Faithful geyser blasts superheated water into the September sky. Roy Campbell
A skeleton of a large fossil camel from Nebraska. Bones of a similar species have been found in an archaeological site near Worland, Wyoming. Kirk Johnson
Formation: Yellowstone Ash
Ancient Environment: Cold and Dry
The three camels at the mouth of the Clarks Fork Canyon probably don't notice the strange cloud rising from the area of Yellowstone Lake some 100 miles to the west, although they certainly would have heard the loud explosion that preceded it. Within minutes the cloud will collapse under its own weight and roll eastward at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour. The camels will have less than an hour to live. But the cloud will not stop there. It will continue to the east for several hundred miles, burning a path of death and destruction as it travels. Airborne ash will go farther still, covering most of the eastern half of the continent and smothering any life in its way.
Today, Yellowstone National Park is one of the best-known natural sites in the world. More than 3 million people visit every year to vacation in its scenery, observe wildlife, and visit the geysers, boiling mud pots, and other thermal features that make this place so unusual – Yellowstone is home to more than half of the world's geysers. Geologists are growing more interested in Yellowstone as well. The thermal features suggest that there is great warmth in the ground beneath the park, and a series of seismic monitoring devices are now showing that hundreds to thousands of small earthquakes shake it each year. In 1959, a magnitude 7.5 earth- quake on the western side of the park caused an 80-million-ton landslide that dammed Hebgen Lake and killed twenty-eight people who were camping along its shore. The devices that measure earthquakes form a network that lets geologists diagnose what is going on beneath Yellowstone, just like a surgeon uses a CT scan to look into a human body. Based on this data, it is clear that Yellowstone sits on top of a large cavity full of partially molten rock known as a magma chamber. The chamber begins about six miles below the surface and extends down at least 11 miles and is about 25 miles wide and 45 miles long. The last major eruption of this chamber occurred 639,000 years ago, and when it blew up, it released more than 250 cubic miles of molten gaseous magma and ash – more than 1,000 times larger than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The ash plume blew eastward and landed in measurable thickness as far east as Kansas City.
Evidence of ancient massive eruptions clearly has relevance for people who live within range of these volcanoes. An event that happened 639,000 years ago is not necessarily something we need to worry about, but it does make us think about geologic time.
Great Visitor Centers and Museums in the Bighorn Basin
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis. This museum runs an active nearby dinosaur quarry in the Morrison Formation where it is possible to pay to dig.
Washakie Museum, Worland. Recently renovated, this museum has an excellent overview of the geology of the Bighorn Basin, a full-size bronze mammoth, and exhibits of the paleontology and archaeology of the region.
Greybull Museum, Greybull. A small local museum with a long history and excellent samples of local fossils and minerals.
Bighorn Basin Research Institute, Greybull. A storefront in downtown Greybull with some local fossils and interpretations of local geology.
Draper Museum, Cody. A full-blown natural history museum that interprets the biology and geology of the Yellowstone Plateau and the Bighorn Basin and pays tribute to the basin's rich cultural history.
Bighorn Canyon Visitor Center, Lovell. This gateway to the Bighorn Canyon has an excellent movie and a three-dimensional model of the northern portion of the Bighorn Basin.
Cody Dam Visitor Center. Located at the western margin of the basin and at the edge of Rattlesnake Mountain, this visitor center provides great views of the Paleozoic part of the area.
Excerpt from Ancient Wyoming: A Dozen Lost Worlds Based on the Geology of the Bighorn Basin by Kirk Johnson & Will Clyde. Copyright © 2016, Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Reprinted with permission.
Climate Change Dinosaurs Earth Science Fossils Geology Weather | years ago. Kirk Johnson
An elegant skeleton of a young long-necked Diplodocus dinosaur from a quarry near Shell, Wyoming Kirk Johnson
Longneck Lineup Jan Vriesen
Formation: Morrison Formation
Ancient Environment: Warm and Wet
Past
It is a foggy, quiet morning at the edge of a dense forest. The trees look vaguely familiar but on second glance are clearly not. In the distance, barely visible is a group of huge dinosaurs with long necks and tiny heads. They are moving very slowly and deliberately as they feed their way across a meadow of ferns and horsetails. There is no menace, only the muffled footfalls of massive herbivores.
The Morrison Formation was first described in Colorado, and rocks of this name stretch across Utah and up through Wyoming. In the Bighorn Basin, the formation is very colorful with hues of blue, red, orange, and brown, but it is famous for its immense and diverse dinosaurs. Because of its high clay content, the formation does not make prominent outcrops, and it is often covered by geological debris or vegetation. Like all of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations in the basin, the Morrison crops out
around the basin's rim. Most of the best dinosaur fossils
have come from the eastern edge, and active
dinosaur quarries occur from Thermopolis to Shell.
In 1934, Barnum Brown from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York opened
the Howe Quarry east of Greybull, Wyoming.
This expedition was funded by Sinclair Oil and resulted in the company's green dinosaur symbol. The Howe Quarry yielded a remarkable dinosaur bone bed, including the Barosaurus skeleton that now stands on its hind legs
in the Theodore Roosevelt atrium of the AMNH. In 1991, a 95 percent complete Allosaurus skeleton, now at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, was collected at the Howe Quarry. The quarry also preserves carbonized remains of large trees and cones of extinct conifers.
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The world's largest animal
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Cetacea
Suborder: Mysticeti
Family: Balaenoptiidae
Genus: Balaenoptera
Species: B. musculus
(Linneus, 1758)
Blue Whale range
The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. Blue Whales are believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived, at up to 30 metres (100 feet) in length and 140 tonnes (150 short tons) or more in weight.
Blue Whales were abundant in most oceans around the world up until the beginning of the 20th century. For the first 40 years of that century they were hunted by whalers almost to extinction. Hunting of the species was outlawed by the international community in 1966. The current world population is between three and four thousand individuals, which are located in four (or possibly five) groups, the largest of which is in the North-East Pacific. There are two groups in the North Atlantic and one in Antarctic waters. Blue Whales found in the Indian Ocean may or may not be part of the Antarctic group.
1 Taxonomy and evolution
2 Physical description
2.2 Feeding
2.3 Life cycle
2.4 Vocalisations
3 Population and whaling
3.1 The hunting era
3.2 Population and distribution today
6 Pictures of Animals
7 Animal Clipart
Taxonomy and evolution
The Blue Whale is one of seven species of whale in the genus Balaenoptera. DNA sequencing analysis, however, shows that Blue Whales are phylogenetically closer to the Humpback and Gray Whales than other species in its genus. There have been at least 11 documented cases of Blue/Fin Whale hybrid adults in the wild. Aranson and Gullberg (1983) describe the genetic distance between a Blue and a Fin as about the same as that between a human and gorilla. The Balaenoptiidae family is believed to have diverged away from the other families of the Mysticetes suborder as long ago as the middle Oligocene. However, it is not known when the members of these families diverged from each other.
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A phylogenetic tree of animals related to the Blue Whale
Some authorities classify the species into three subspecies: B. m. musculus, consisting of the north Atlantic and north Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the Southern Ocean population and B. m. brevicauda (also known as the Pygmy Blue Whale) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific. Some older authorities also list B. m. indica as a further separate subspecies in the Indian Ocean. Unlike the other three subspecies however, this last designation does not have a listing in the Red List of Threatened Species. Both subdivisions are still questioned by some scientists; genetic analysis may yet show there are just two true subspecies..
The specific name musculus is Latin and could mean "muscular", but it can also be interpreted as "little mouse". Linnaeus, who named the species in his seminal work of 1758, would have known this and, given his sense of humour, may have intended the ironic double meaning. Other common names for the Blue Whale have included the Sulphur-bottom, Sibbald's Rorqual, the Great Blue Whale and the Great Northern Rorqual. These names have fallen into disuse in recent decades.
The Blue Whale has a long tapering body that appears stretched in comparison with the much stockier appearance of other whales. The head is flat and U-shaped and has a very prominent ridge running from the blow hole to the top of the upper lips. The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates; around 300 plates (each one metre long) hang from the upper jaw, running half a metre back into the mouth. Between 60 and 90 grooves (called ventral pleats) run along the throat parallel to the body. These pleats assist with evacuating water from the mouth after lunge feeding (see feeding below).
The dorsal fin is small, visible only briefly during the dive sequence. It varies in shape from one individual to another; some only have a barely perceptible lump, whilst other fins are quite prominent and falcate. It is located around three-quarters of the way along the length of the body. When surfacing to breathe, the Blue Whale raises its shoulder and blow hole region out of the water to a greater extent than other large whales (such as the Fin or Sei). This can often be a useful clue to identifying a species at sea. Whilst breathing, the whale emits a spectacular vertical single column blow (up to 12 m, typically 9 m) that can be seen from several kilometres on a calm day. Its lung capacity is 5,000 litres.
The flippers are three to four metres long. The upper side is gray with a thin white border. The lower side is white. The head and tail flippers are generally uniformly grey coloured. The back, and sometimes the flippers, however are usually mottled. The degree of mottling varies substantially from individual to individual. Some may have a uniform gray colour all over, whilst others demonstrate a considerable variation of dark blues, grays and blacks all tightly mottled.
Blue Whales can reach speeds of 50 km/h (30 mph) over short bursts, usually when interacting with other whales, but 20 km/h (12 mph) is a more typical travelling speed. When feeding they slow down to 5 km/h (3 mph). Some Blues in the North Atlantic and North Pacific raise their tail fluke when diving. The majority, however, do not.
Blue Whales most commonly live alone or with one other individual. It is not known whether those that travel in pairs stay together over many years or form more loose relationships. In areas of very high food concentration, as many as 50 Blue Whales have been seen scattered over a fairly small area. However, they do not form large close-knit groups as seen in other baleen species.
Size comparison chart
The Blue Whale is believed to be the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. The largest creature known from the dinosaur era is the Argentinosaurus of the Mesozoic era, which is estimated to have weighed up to 90 tonnes (100 short tons). There is some uncertainty as to the biggest Blue Whale ever found. Most data comes from Blue Whales killed in Antarctic waters during the first half of the twentieth century and was collected by whalers not well-versed in standard zoological measurement techniques. The longest whales ever recorded were two females measuring 33.6 m and 33.3 m (110 ft 3 in and 109 ft 3 in) respectively. There are some disputes over the reliability of these measurements, however; the longest whale measured by scientists at the American National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) was 29.9 m long (98 ft) — about the same length as a Boeing 737 aeroplane or three double-decker buses.
A Blue Whale's head is so wide that 50 humans would be able to stand on its tongue. Its heart is close to the size of a small car. A human baby could crawl through a Blue Whale's arteries. A newborn Blue Whale calf weighs more than an adult elephant. During the first 7 months of its life, a baby Blue Whale drinks approximately 400 litres (100 U.S. gallons) of milk every day. Baby Blue Whales also gain weight quickly: 90 kg (200 pounds) every 24 hours.
Blue Whales are very difficult to weigh on account of their massive size. Most Blue Whales killed by whalers were not weighed as a whole, but cut up into manageable pieces before being weighed. This caused an underestimate of the total weight of the whale, due to loss of blood and other fluids. Even so, measurements between 150 to 170 tonnes (160 and 190 short tons) were recorded of animals up to 27 m (88 ft 6 in) in length. The weight of a 30 m (98 ft) individual is believed by the NMML to be in excess of 180 tonnes (200 short tons). The largest Blue Whale accurately weighed by NMML scientists to date was a female that weighed 177 tonnes (196 short tons).
Blue Whales feed exclusively on krill. The exact species of this zooplankton eaten by Blue Whales varies from ocean to ocean. In the North Atlantic Meganyctiphanes norvegica, Thysanoessa raschii, Thysanoessa inermis and Thysanoessa longicaudata are the usual food. In the North Pacific Euphausia pacficia, Thysanoessa inermis, Thysanoessa longipes, Thysanoessa spinifera and Nyctiphanes symplex; in the Antarctic Euphausia superba, Euphausia crystallorophias and Euphausia vallentni.
The whales always feed on the highest concentration of krill that they can find. This means that they typically feed at depth (more than 100 m) during the daytimes, and only surface feed at night. Dive times are typically ten minutes when feeding. Diving for twenty minutes is quite common. The longest recorded is thirty-six minutes (Sears 1998). The whale feeds by lunging forward at groups of krills, taking the animals and a large quantity of water into the mouth at once. The water is then squeezed out through the baleen plates by pressing the ventral pouch and tongue up against the water. Once the mouth is clear of water, the remaining krill, unable to pass through the plates, are swallowed.
Mating starts in the latter part of the autumn, and continues to the end of winter. Little is known about mating behaviour or even breeding grounds. Females typically give birth at the start of the winter once every two<|fim_middle|> harder for whales to find a mate.
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This page has been accessed 55103 times. | to three years after a gestation period of ten to twelve months. The calf weighs about two and a half tonnes and is around 7 m in length. Weaning takes place after about six months, by which time the calf has doubled in length. Sexual maturity is typically reached at eight to ten years by which time males are at least 20 m long (or more in the southern hemisphere). Females are larger still, reaching sexual maturity around 21 m or around the age of five.
Scientists estimate that Blue Whales can live for at least eighty years; however, since individual records do not date back into the whaling era, this will not be known with certainty for many years yet. The longest recorded study of a single individual is thirty-four years, in the northeast Pacific (reported in Sears, 1998). The whales' only natural predator is the Orca. Calambokidis et al (1990) report that as many as 25% of mature Blue Whales have scars resulting from Orca attack. The rate of mortality due to such attacks is unknown.
Blue Whale strandings are extremely uncommon and, because of the species' social structure, mass strandings are unheard of. However when strandings do occur they can become quite a public event. In 1920, a Blue Whale washed up on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It had been shot in the head by whalers, but the harpoon had failed to explode. As with other mammals, the fundamental instinct of the whale was to try to carry on breathing at all costs, even though this meant beaching to prevent itself from drowning. Two of the whale's bones erected just off a main road on Lewis remain a tourist attraction.
Vocalisations
See also: Whale song
The Blue Whale is the loudest animal in the world. Estimates made by Cummings and Thompson (1971) and Richardson et al (1995) suggest that source level of sounds made by Blue Whales are between 155 and 188 decibels when measured at a reference pressure of one micro pascal at one metre. Even accounting for different impedances between water and air and different standard reference pressures, an equivalent sound range in air is 89-122 decibels.Template:Ref By comparison a pneumatic drill is about 100dB loud. A human however, would likely not perceive the Blue Whale as the loudest of all animals. All Blue Whale groups make calls at a fundamental frequency of between 10 and 40 Hz, and the lowest frequency sound a human can typically perceive is 20 Hz. Blue Whale calls last between ten and thirty seconds. Additionally Blue Whales off the coast of Sri Lanka have been recorded repeatedly making "songs" of four notes duration lasting about two minutes each, reminiscent of the well-known Humpback Whale songs. Researchers believe that as this phenomenon has not been seen in any other populations, it may be unique to the B. m. brevicauda (Pygmy) subspecies.
Scientists do not know why Blue Whales vocalise. Richardson et al (1995) discuss six possible reasons:
Maintenance of inter-individual distance
Species and individual recognition,
Contextual information transmission (e.g., feeding, alarm, courtship)
Maintenance of social organization (e.g., contact calls between females and males)
Location of topographic features
Location of prey resources
(List adapted from National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinion paper, 2002)
Population and whaling
Blue whale skeleton, outside the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz
The hunting era
Blue Whales are not easy to catch, kill, or retain. Their speed and power meant that they were often not the target of early whalers who instead targeted Sperm and Right Whales. As the populations of these species declined, whalers increasingly hunted the largest baleen whales, including the Blue Whale. In 1864 Norwegian Svend Foyn equipped a steamboat with harpoons specifically designed for catching large whales. Although initially troublesome, the method caught on, and by the end of the nineteenth century the population of Blue Whales in the North Atlantic had diminished.
Hunting of Blue Whales rapidly increased around the world, and by 1925, the United States, Britain and Japan had joined Norway in chasing whales on 'catcher boats' that caught the whales and handed them onto huge 'factory ships' for processing. In 1930, forty-one ships killed 28,325 Blue Whales. By the end of World War II populations had been significantly depleted, and in 1946 the first quotas restricting international trade in whales were introduced. These were ineffective because of the lack of differentiation between species. Rare species could be hunted equally with those found in relative abundance. By the time Blue Whale hunting was finally banned in the 1960s by the International Whaling Commission, 350,000 Blue Whales had been killed and the world population had been reduced to less than 1% of its total one hundred years before.
Population and distribution today
Since the whaling ban, the global Blue Whale population is believed to have remained more or less constant, ranging between 3,000 to 4,000 individuals. The Blue Whale remains listed as "endangered" on the Red List of threatened species as it has been since the list's inception. The largest concentration, consisting of about 2,000 individuals, is the North-east Pacific population that ranges from Alaska to Costa Rica but is most commonly seen from California in summer. This group represents the best hope for a long-term recovery in Blue Whale population. Sometimes this population strays over to the North-West Pacific; infrequent sightings between Kamchatka and the northern tip of Japan have been recorded.
Population estimates for the Southern Ocean population range from 750 to 1200. The migratory pattern of this stock is not well understood. It may or may not be a group distinct from the Indian Ocean population of unknown number that is sometimes spotted off the northeast coast of Sri Lanka. Some members of the Southern Ocean group approach the eastern South Pacific coast. In Chile, the Cetacean Conservation Center, with support from the Chilean Navy, is undertaking extensive research and conservation work on a recently discovered feeding aggregation of the species off the coast of Chiloe Island.
In the North Atlantic two stocks are recognised. The first is found off Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. This group is estimated to total about 500 in number. The second, more easterly group, is spotted from the Azores in Spring and Iceland in July and August; it is presumed that the whales follow the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the two volcanic islands. Beyond Iceland, Blue Whales have been spotted as far north as Spitsbergen and Jan Mayen though such sightings are rare. Scientists do not know where these whales spend their winters. The total North Atlantic population is between 600 and 1500 in number.
Human threats to the potential recovery of Blue Whale populations include the accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) chemicals within the whale's blood, causing poisoning and premature death, and the ever-increasing amount of noise created by ocean traffic. This noise drowns out the noises produced by whales (see whale song), which may make it | 1,558 |
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Former Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-Galveston, who helped Valley lawmakers abolish "slavery" of farmworkers during the 1980s, passes away at age 79
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Featured: Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-Galveston, a longtime and former state lawmaker who helped champion the Labor movement, including helping secure rights for farmworkers, addresses a joint session of the Texas Legislature in this image taken in the mid-1980s on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives. Also in this photograph, seated from left, are Texas Speaker of the House Gib Lewis, D-Ft. Worth; U.S. Speaker of the House Jim Wright, D-Ft. Worth; Gov. Bill Clements; and Rita Clements, who served as a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents. Criss passed away on Sunday, May 10, 2020.
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Former Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-Galveston, who helped Valley lawmakers abolish "slavery" of farm workers during 1980s, passes away at age 79
Former District Judge Susan Criss of Galveston, who is the Democratic Party nominee in the November 2020 election for Texas Senate, District 11, for decades has been inspired at what her father – longtime and former Rep. Lloyd W. Criss, Jr., D-Galveston – helped accomplish with a series of major state laws he helped pass in the 1980s that she says "freed farm workers in Texas from slavery."
Lloyd Criss, Jr., who was chairman of the powerful House Committee on Labor and Employment Relations, worked closely in the House of Representatives with the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, especially Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, then a state representative, and Rep. Alex Moreno, Jr., D-Edinburg, to pass historic legislation to protect tens of thousands of Texas farm workers from economic exploitation, health hazards, stoop labor, and even poisoning.
The longtime and former state representative from East Texas passed away following a brief illness on Sunday, May 10, 2020 in Texas City.
"It is hard to believe, but it is true – farm workers, mostly Mexican Americans, were denied the basic protections that everyone else had back then because they had no political power, no one to fight for them," said Susan Criss, a former longtime district judge of the 212th District Court in Galveston County.
Her comments about her father came in October 2007, when she was seeking the Texas Democratic Party nomination for Texas Supreme Court.
"It is astonishing to realize that for all practical purposes, slavery still existed in Texas as late as the 1980s," Susan Criss said. "I am so proud that my father was able to play a key role in helping bring justice to thousands of our fellow Texans."
Susan Criss provided more details of the hours leading to her father's death in an interview with Angela Wilson of the Daily News of Galveston, published on Monday, May 11, 2020.
"The passing of my father was extremely unexpected," Susan Criss said. "He woke up Sunday in the hospital and asked for the doctors' and nurses' names because he wanted to send them thank-you cards. The staff was more than helpful, and we appreciate them so much."
In the Daily News article, Susan Criss spoke of her father's legacy in the Texas Legislature and on behalf of working families throughout Texas.
"My dad sponsored and passed more than 100 pieces of legislation and was a member of a lot of committees. He was so passionate about helping people who couldn't fight for themselves," she reflected. "But his crowning moment was when he helped to get a bill passed that got benefits for migrant farmers. He fought so hard for that one because his mother was one in California. He always said that was his best achievement in the Legislature."
(https://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_ea5f4846-0300-5944-85f0-8bd71c199592.html)
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa of Brownsville and Vice Chair Carla Brailey of Houston issued the following statement after the news of his passing:
"Texas Democrats lost a giant. We are saddened to hear of the passing of former state Representative and former Galveston County Democratic Party Chair Lloyd Criss, Jr.. A union fighter, respected lawmaker, and proud progressive, Lloyd spent his entire career fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves and was always known as one of the most honest men in the Texas Legislature. Lloyd served in the Texas House for over two decades and will always be remembered for passing protections and benefits for migrant farmers. Simply put, Lloyd was a giant in every single way."
His obituary made special note of why farm workers were important to him in his personal and legislative lives.
"He fought hard for working families and spoke truth to power on their behalf. His proudest work in the Legislature was securing benefits for farm workers. His mother had been a migrant farm worker as a child as her father had died in a work related accident before she was two months old," the obituary stated.
As chairman of the key House committee, Rep. Lloyd Criss, Jr. used his considerable political influence to help pass bills carried by Hinojosa and Moreno, two rising political stars who were champions for laws that are now viewed as "civil rights landmarks", the former Galveston County district judge said.
Among the key legislation shaped by Rep. Lloyd Criss, Jr., in conjunction with Hinojosa, Moreno and other Hispanic legislators, was a state law that now requires farm workers to be protected by workers compensation, which is medical and disability insurance for people who are injured on-the-job, she noted.
Also, her father helped on other key measures, including a law that abolished the use of a short-handle hoe by farm workers, a tool that would result in painful, permanent back injuries to users. He also supported efforts to do away with the long-time practice of aerial spraying of dangerous pesticides on farm workers while they were still in the fields, she added.
Rep. Lloyd Criss, Jr. also fought for a law that now requires that outdoor toilets for men and women be provided for farm workers at their work sites, she said.
Rep. Lloyd Criss, Jr. also carried the legislation that provided unemployment insurance for farm workers, a goal that had been sought for about 50 years. That measure was so significant that César Estrada Chávez, the co-founder of the United Farmworkers of America and a national civil rights activist, came to Austin to support the Criss legislation.
His obituary follows:
Lloyd William Criss, Jr., 79 of La Marque passed away on Sunday, May 10, 2020 in Texas City.
Lloyd William Criss Jr. was born January 17, 1941 into a family of union plumbers and pipe fitters in Galveston. As a young child he moved with his parents, Lloyd and Jesse Pearl Criss and his brother Donnie to Texas City. There his family became active in St. George's Episcopal Church.
He worked in the Youth Job Corps and as a pipe fitter then as a union business agent for Pipefitters 211. He belonged to Plumbers and Pipefitters 200, Pipefitters 211, CWA and AFSCME. He remained a dedicated servant to the Labor movement his entire life.
Lloyd also was a public servant. He served 12 years in the Texas House of Representatives beginning in 1979. His mentors and close friends there were Sen. Babe Schwartz and Nick Kralj.
Lloyd served on several committees and chaired the Labor Committee. He loved the men and women that he served with in the Texas Legislature.
He fought hard for working families and spoke truth to power on their behalf. His proudest work in the Legislature was securing benefits for farm workers. His mother had been a migrant farm worker as a child as her father had died in a work related accident before she was two months old.
He passed numerous pieces of legislation including bills about worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, gambling, flooding, crime victim compensation, banning cop killer bullets, railroads, Texas A&M at Galveston, safe asbestos removal, the port & harbor, judicial education, the Battleship Texas, hurricane evacuation, motorcycle training and safety, child labor, open government and the County of Galveston.
He later served office on the La Marque City Council. The Texas Democratic Party State Executive Committee and as Galveston County Democratic Chair.
In April he celebrated 60 years of marriage. Of all his titles "Grandpa" was his favorite.
He is preceded in death by his parents and brother Donald Criss. Lloyd is survived by his wife Diane Criss, of La Marque, daughter Judge Susan Criss and Col. (Ret.) Rick Rousseau of Galveston, Texas, two sons: Lloyd W. Criss III of Texas City and Ted Criss of Texas City, three grandchildren: Patrick Criss and Kristi, Lloyd Criss IV and Jessica and Courtney Criss and five great grandchildren: Paityn Criss, Cooper Criss, Carter Criss, London Criss and Emmanuel Garza.
A memorial service will be held when it is safe to attend. In lieu of flowers memorials may be sent to St. George's Episcopal Church in Texas City.
REV. JAMES E. DANIELS HONORS CONTRIBUTIONS OF LLOYD CRISS, JR. TO WORKING FAMILIES IN TEXAS
The Rev. James E. Daniels of Texas City, the founder and chairman of the Eagle's Nest community organization, issued the following tribute to Lloyd Criss, Jr.:
I was saddened by the untimely death of my friend and<|fim_middle|> Civil Rights Act of 1964 knew that we needed to fight for the rights that we were being denied because the Civil Rights Act had made it legal for any and all men to work out of any craft that their intelligence, physicality and instincts would allow.
It was during the struggle to open up the crafts to minorities that I met Lloyd.
Lloyd was a pipefitter at the time. He was a person who was keenly aware that times were changing. He began to work with the late Johnny Henderson, who was a civil rights activist for whom the Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Court building is named.
Those two men fought diligently to make change happen. They made strong stances in the Galveston County AFL-CIO and supported the young laborers in the struggle because we all knew that the weight of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Will of God were with us.
With the leadership of these two great men, the crafts were integrated.
As a result of the actions of Criss, Henderson and other men and women who possessed and valued virtues of hard work, honesty, good will and the love of God, Galveston County was integrated. Minority men and women began to run for public office, school districts integrated and College of the Mainland was built out of the need for a changing time.
I believe both Lloyd and Johnny were unifiers. They understood and lived by the words of Jesus Christ. They understood the meaning of the words, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." They knew that spiritual strength is unity.
We now live in a very polarized world. We haven't been this divided since 1861, and we know how that ended. We're under pressure to do something now. Our children and grandchildren's future are at stake. What kind of world do we want to leave them?
Thankfully, those of us who live in the Settlement Community have forged a lasting relationship. The Texas City and La Marque police departments, and the West-end Ministers and Leadership Alliance have unified the twin cities.
Further, the consolidation of the school districts exemplifies what can be accomplished when men and women are willing to work toward a common goal. We can literally point to our new schools, the renovations and additions of the College of the Mainland and can say with assurance that police chiefs Joe Stanton and Kirk Jackson continue to coordinate efforts to make sure that criminals understand that crime in this community will not pay.
For more on this and other Texas legislative news stories that affect the Rio Grande Valley metropolitan region, please log on to Titans of the Texas Legislature. | confidante, Lloyd Criss Jr.
Lloyd was an inspiration to me during the time that I served as a union officer for five different international unions.
I met Lloyd when I became a member of Labor Local No. 116, in the late '60s. At that time, African Americans could only maintain membership in the Laborers Local.
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The payout is expected to lead the insurance industry and is also expected to be the<|fim_middle|>Once again, we've remained steadfast in our commitment to our policyowners – including sharing our success through dividends." Northwestern Mutual has $272.2 billion in assets, $28.5 billion in revenues and $1.8 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force. The company has 4.5 million customers. | highest in Northwestern Mutual's history, according to the company.
The company planned to pay out $5.6 billion in dividends this year, an increase from its plans to pay out $5.3 billion in 2018.
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What We Know About COVID-19 Long Haulers
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Dr. Aluko Hope, co-director of the COVID-19 Recovery Clinic at Montefiore Health Systems in New York, about virus long-haulers, who experience months of symptoms.
There is still so much we don't know about COVID-19. Some people experience few, if any, symptoms. Others - well, their symptoms can last for months. Those patients are known as COVID long-haulers. At the COVID-19 recovery clinic in New York City, pulmonary and critical care specialist Dr. Aluko Hope is studying and treating these patients, and he joins us now from New York to talk about it.
Welcome to the program.
ALUKO HOPE: Thank you for having me.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Your COVID-19 recovery clinic, called CORE, has been looking at these patients for a while now. Do we know yet why this is happening?
HOPE: We have some ideas and some hypotheses. Certainly, coronavirus is not the only virus that's been known to cause changes in the immune system. Other coronaviruses from before have been associated with protracted symptoms before this pandemic. But I think the volume of patients that we saw in the pandemic I think is partly the concern. So I think we're struggling with, as a health system, how to really deal with the number of patients that we're seeing that have protracted symptoms.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Let's talk about what that looks like.
HOPE: I think it's a mix of many things, and there's a lot that we don't know yet. I think, for some patients, the virus does seem to create inflammatory changes. Their immune system responds in a way that does seem a little bit abnormal - for example, a lot of brain fog, fatigue. They might have rashes or changes in their skin, losing of their hair, those kinds of things. Sometimes the cough or the shortness of breath can be protracted - can be very many weeks after the severe illness. And they can also have protracted physical impairment - difficulty walking or difficulty with shortness of breath when they're climbing up stairs.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, how common is it exactly?
HOPE: It doesn't seem to be the rule by any means. I think so far, the estimates suggest that it's going to be the minority of patients. The recent estimates suggest about 10% or so are patients who are going to have protracted symptoms. But yeah, I think for the patients that are struggling with it, it can be quite severe and very distressing.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I'm just curious - when we think about 10% of all the people who have been getting COVID might have these long-haul symptoms - I mean, that's an enormous burden on the health care system in this country. Are you concerned?
HOPE: I mean, I think it's going to be a struggle, right? I think - first of all, I think physicians need to first understand that, because there's a lot we don't know, we have to trust our patients' testimony a lot more. Part of the distress comes when they're not validated by the people that they're seeing, right? It's like, well, you should be better, and you're not. What's going on? You look fine, and yet you're getting rashes or you're feeling fatigued or you're not able to wake up on time.
So I think we have to first sort of start to respect the testimony. And I think if we do that - I think the system is well-structured. I mean, our CORE clinic is here. But, of course, you know, in America, we don't have a robust health care system. And so I think that's always going to be a challenge, particularly in the Bronx, for example, where the patients are more low-income. But I think we're moving in the right direction, and I think the system seems to be more poised, I think, to really engage these patients.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah. I mean, the U.K.'s National Health Service is investing millions of dollars now in clinics for long-haulers. Do you think the U.S. should do the same?
HOPE: I would hope so. I mean, I think we started ours, and then we also started a peer support group for patients who could sort of talk to each other online and just engage with each other and give practical support, emotional support to each other. And these are the kind of things that ultimately help patients, right? It's not just about medicalizing everything that they have, but it's also about treating the symptoms when we can<|fim_middle|> know, acute stress responses. And so when you're recovering in the months after, a lot of our patients struggle with - it could be anything from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, really feeling nervous about being close to the hospital again or talking to a doctor again because of some of the bad reactions you had in the hospital.
And then the social isolation, I think, is a unique aspect of being in the pandemic era. I think for a lot of these patients, when they were at their sickest, they had to be isolated from their loved ones. And so that's something that I think a lot of them are still recovering from, and that's something that I think they struggle with even months after.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Dr. Aluko Hope is a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Montefiore Health System in New York City.
HOPE: Thank you, Lulu. It was a pleasure being with you.
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: Last question. When you talk about peer support groups, what kind of mental health challenges do we see in long-haulers?
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Chelsea set to appoint Lampard as their next boss to replace Maurizio Sarri
By Reuters:
Saturday, June 15th 2019 at 18:51 GMT +3 | Football
Lampard could be man to<|fim_middle|> the perfect choice. People talk about experience and what-not but what experience did Pep (Guardiola) have when he went into Barcelona's first team? He trained the younger kids at the club," Rio Ferdinand said this week.
"Frank knows the club and he knows the players and the players will respect him. You can see he can carry himself in a particular way in front of the media and in the football club and he can change things within a season."
Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba says Lampard's lack of top-flight managerial experience should not be a factor.
"Does he have to wait until he is 50 to be ready?" Drogba was quoted in the Metro. "I think it depends on your experience and depends on your desire to succeed and do it.
"If he feels ready I don't think it is too early."
While Sarri is still officially in charge, the prospective list of replacements is already lengthening.
Rafa Benitez's name crops up regularly, as does that of Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Nuno Espirito Santo while if Abramovich again wanted a marquee name, Massimiliano Allegri, who won five Serie A titles in a row, tops the list.
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has hired some of the world's highest-profile managers during his 16-year reign, but relative rookie Frank Lampard is emerging as the favourite to occupy the Stamford Bridge hotseat.
With Italian Maurizio Sarri's departure to Juventus reported to be imminent, club talisman Eden Hazard already departed to Real Madrid and a FIFA transfer ban looming, Chelsea have arrived at a crossroads.
Derby County boss Lampard, adored by the Chelsea faithful for his record-breaking goalscoring exploits during a trophy-laden 13 years in west London, could be the ideal candidate to lead them in a new direction.
The 40-year-old earned plaudits for taking Derby into the Championship playoffs in his first year as a manager -- even if they just missed out on promotion to Aston Villa, for whom former team mate John Terry is part of the coaching staff.
During a playing career in which he won 11 major trophies with Chelsea, Lampard always stood out as a smart cookie.
He has taken his inquisitive mind into the managerial ranks and proved a fast learner at Derby where his blueprint was an intelligent passing game and a trust in youngsters.
Three of them -- Chelsea loanees Fikayo Tomori, Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham -- were involved in the playoff final at Wembley and could all be back at Stamford Bridge next season.
With teenager Callum Hudson-Odoi having made the breakthrough under Sarri last season, Lampard would appear the ideal choice to construct a Chelsea side based on youth, perhaps with Derby assistant and former team mate Jody Morris, alongside.
Conversely, Lampard might feel it is the wrong time to make such a big move -- especially with the likely handicap of no summer signings and the vast chasm that already exists between Manchester City and Liverpool and the rest.
He would, however, be welcomed by the fans who would show him more patience than they did Sarri despite him taking them to third in the Premier League and winning the Europa League.
Several former team mates are in no doubt that he would be a success if given the chance to return to the club he left to join Manchester City in 2014.
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Britain's Prince Harry is visiting Nepal in an attempt to retrain the spotlight on the country's struggle to recover after it was devastated by earthquakes almost a year ago.
The 31-year-old prince arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, on Saturday on a five-day official visit to the country which is also aimed at helping revive the tourism industry, one of the mainstays of the Himalayan nation's economy.
Two large earthquakes, each measuring over 7 magnitude, hit Nepal in<|fim_middle|> he listened to the residents' experiences.
On Monday morning, Prince Harry rafted down the Khauraha River in Bardiya National Park, a sanctuary for one-horned rhinoceros, tigers and other animals in south-western Nepal. He later watched a folk dance at the nearby Dalla village.
The royal will also visit the area around the city of Pokhara, which is home to many of the Gurkha soldiers who serve in the British army. He will trek in the foothills of the Himalayas and stay overnight with a Gurkha family, according to his website.
On Wednesday, the last day of his visit, the prince is scheduled to open the Nepal Girl Summit along with Nepal's first female president, Bidhya Devi Bhandari. The summit focuses on ending child marriages. | April and May last year, ravaging much of central Nepal and killing nearly 9,000 people.
On the day of his arrival, Prince Harry met top Nepalese officials, including Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, and addressed a government reception in Kathmandu.
"I'm sure you hear this all the time, but your country holds a special place in the imagination for so many people," he said, according to the verified Twitter account of Kensington Palace.
"I want to show all those around the world who want to help that this country is open for business," he said.
The visit also commemorates the 200 years of bilateral relations between Nepal and the U.K.
On Sunday, he visited Kathmandu's earthquake-affected Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where he was seen trying his hand "at restoring ornate wooden carving," seen in a short video clip posted by the palace on Twitter.
Later, he visited a camp for quake-affected families where | 208 |
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Chelsea: Amazing, I appreciate you being straightforward and transparent about your ways of growth. Thank you so much for taking the time to sit here on this beautiful mountain and share your story with me. I look forward to seeing you guys play tonight.
Nahko: Of course, enjoy.
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"As a musical collective, our mission is to be the motivation and inspiration for all that have become members of our Tribe. Within our global community, we have access to the tools needed to make changes, take action and spread awareness of how to live in harmony with Mother Gaia herself. We are honored to be a force of attraction for positive and creative minds during these often-corrupt times. With your trust and support, we humbly accept this role and speak our prayers of intention to take direct action… "Hoka Hey" means, "today is a good day to die", but perhaps with your help, it could transform into a better day to live. Thank you again for your love and support. Tribe members, let us come together today to be the change that we wish to see tomorrow."
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Wanderlust 2014: Stratton Mountain, Stratton VT June 20th, 2014
Nahko Parayno Bear: Welcome to the show folks, we're here live. It's today, we're in the tent-with us, and the rug, that matches the dress. It's fantastic, we're here live.
Chelsea Erin Wright: What a beautiful day it is!
Nahko: What a beautiful day.
Chelsea: What sound in nature speaks to you most clearly?
Nahko: Mmmm…well I would say, right off the top, the ocean. And It's funny, cause I didn't grow up around the ocean, I grew up more inland…the folks I grew up with weren't much of outdoors people, and so it wasn't until I went to Hawaii eight years ago that I actually started swimming in the ocean-like freezing in the ocean-which scared me, a lot. It's so powerful. I started surfing, and since then the ocean has been something that I've returned to a lot…I have to live by the ocean, and be in the ocean as much as possible. I love the mountains, and they
have their own sort of tone to them, ya know. But yeah, the ocean is my "Menaho" – in Hawaiian that means my responsibility as a person, to be with the ocean.
Chelsea: That's a beautiful answer. It's funny that you say that…I was born in
Vermont and have lived here my whole life…I truly feel like anywhere I go, I always need to come back to the mountains. You said you grew up inland – where were you born?
Nahko: I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. I lived in Alaska for a few years before I went to Hawaii, and I've been in Hawaii since then.
Chelsea: Are there specific places, or spaces in nature that influence your songwriting in a profound way?
Nahko: Mhmm, Alaska was a big influence for me. It's straight-up wilderness, like getting chased by a moose and seeing eagles all over the place. And deep forest, worth nothing around. And growing up in the Northwest, we have a lot of cedars and pine trees, a lot of mountains and greenery-it's really filled me with this sort of pallet of colors, and also the feeling of nature to work off of. The Redwoods of course in southern Oregon, and northern California…I've been there so many times…huge influence being around those grandfather trees.
Chelsea: An arising thought, is the vibration of the ocean, the trees…and the effect it can have on you.
Nahko: Absolutely – positive ions of the ocean, ya know…being in it and surfing, creates such an amazing relationship with the ocean, to work with the ocean and sort of…ride the edge of crashing and falling, and maybe getting pummeled or drowning…or being able to gracefully and skillfully ride this wave that's being provided to you by nature. But yeah, I've been to plenty of places where when I get there, I try to connect with the soil, because we're from the soil. I just went to Israel a month ago, and got to collect some samples of the soil there…and realized to be in these different portal/vortex places around the world, to feel their different energies as well…when you can tap into that, you start feeling the connection to nature for sure. You start opening yourself up to that.
Chelsea: How do you feel about sleeping on the ground, with what you just said about the soil?
Nahko: Oh yeah, I do it all the time. Now, for me, I have to do it consistently in order for it not to hurt my back because my body re-adapts to being with the ground. We were just in Australia a couple weeks ago, and took five days to go in to the desert and we slept on the ground around the fire. That's actually how I used to tour, I had my van and slept in that and around campfires.
Chelsea: Totally immersed in the natural world…sounds excellent.
Nahko: Yeah, it was like the hot springs and campfire tour.
Chelsea: Beautiful. So, Land of the Indian –
Nahko: Trevor's song! (Trevor Hall)
Chelsea: It resonates very deeply with me.
Nahko: Did you get it? It was just released.
Chelsea: Yeah. I streamed the live feed the night it was released, it was great. The first time I heard Land of the Indian, was via a youtube video where Trevor had you up on stage with him and you were chanting sacred sounds – how did that song evolve between you two?
Nahko: Well he sent me the song last spring. He had come to see me play in L.A. and then he went home and stayed up all night and wrote this song, right – he tells this story really funny…he sent it to me and I didn't say anything for like two weeks…I mean it wasn't that long, it was like 4-5 days, but he was texting me like "hey man, did you get that song?", and was wondering if I didn't like it, and I finally wrote back and was like "So sorry bro, its so epic, I've been listening to it non-stop but I just haven't had time to write you back"…and so when I heard it I was like wow – he channeled Grandfather, I was super impressed. It was also kind of an affirmation to see that him and I have such a deep connection, and a long road of brotherhood and music together, which is exciting. For me, I was reaching out to the brothers and the sisters to see who was going to be there to be my allies in what I was doing. I was trying certain people and they weren't coming through, but Trevor was there. He was like boom, lets go…ya know? And that was awesome. I had looked up to him, known about him and listened to his music for so long. I was a fan, ya know? And then he became my brother. When we got back together, he was just like try doing what I was doing…and so I listened to his recording, chanted along, then sorta switched it up and did my own thing with it.
Chelsea: I had listened to his music for awhile before I heard of you or Medicine for the People, which is what led me to find your music…youtube suggestions via Trevor Hall music videos…and shortly after hearing your song Black As Night, I envisioned you two on stage together – and then it happened, and it was so moving…just such a beautiful combination of energies.
Nahko: Mmm, yeah – absolutely, it was epic.
Chelsea: When did you begin writing music, and what was your first inspiration?
Nahko: Well, I feel like for most men, or boys…and it's for sure for girls too…generally, you write your first songs about a guy or a girl. I started playing guitar when I was fourteen, but before that I started playing piano when I was six. So I started writing songs on piano around 11 or 12…I used to have this whole book of piano songs that I wrote, and I'd type up lyrics…they were so bad. They were my first songs. I have a VHS, actually, of those-I went to my first open mic when I was like 16, and I had a camera so I was recording all of the open mics…that's priceless footage. So my first song…my parents wouldn't let me talk to girls, I was home-schooled too, so I didn't really see girls…so they were always about this mythical chick that I wanted to talk to and was in love with…this girl. In fact I think this one song was called Raspberry Charm, and it was about this girl that I went on a date with…we went and had Italian sodas, then my car got towed.
Chelsea: That sounds exciting, makes for a sweet story
Nahko: Yeah, that song sucks – but it's really funny to bring it back and go "Mmm yes, raspberry charm"
Chelsea: Sweet. (lots of laughter). Now I have a big one for you. How did Medicine for the People manifest? Did you manifest it?
Nahko: For sure, absolutely. And someone has to steer it in the right direction, ya know. The first year that I was in Hawaii, I was sitting around a fire with some homies, at this farm that I was working at and I was recording onto a Mac which was the first time i've ever done that before, and then my friend around the fire randomly said as I was playing, "Yeah dude, this is medicine for the people!". So it was on the recording, and I would listen to the recording over and over again, because it was the only thing I had ever recorded of me, and I'd always hear him say that-and I thought, well that's cool-and honestly I don't remember when the moment was, when I was like that's going to be the band name. The first person that was actually in the band, besides me, was a hand percussionist named Skye – really funny dude – but then I went back to Portland after Hawaii and started playing farmers markets with this horn player. He still plays with me sometimes…and I think it was at that time, that we were like "oh we should create a band name and start playing at all these open mics and gigs". So I had a couple songs, they were kinda good…they're actually on the first record, and I'd play those a lot, and I was still writing. But yeah, there was years of just being like I'm playing music, this is fun…making some dollars on the side, have this demo I'm giving out…but I didn't ever think, what am I going to do if someone notices me and says "Let me help you out" or "what do you want to do with this?", ya know? There was never a moment where I was like, I know what I'll say…I didn't know what I would say. To me, I was pretty much just living in Hawaii in the winters, working on the farm, and then hanging out and playing music in the summertime driving around. Then working in Humboldt, trimming weed in the fall, ya know, so that was my pattern of life. I didn't have this big mission. In my heart, I always knew I was amazing.
Chelsea: Yeah – you knew you'd do something with it, but you didn't know yet what it was.
Nahko: I always knew I was going to play music, but I didn't know it was going to be in this way. So I would say the last 3 years, since 2012, the shift has gone from kind of serious to very serious.
Chelsea: It sounds like quite a journey.
Nahko: Absolutely.
Chelsea: Perceiving MFTP as a movement that envelopes spiritual, metaphysical and environment healing, how would you say that your Native American ancestry influences the music and the movement?
Nahko: I would say very deeply, to step back a moment and for my heritage – every culture I come from, which includes Native American, Filipino, and Guamaro – I step even farther back and think it's not even really about culture necessarily. I can't even name one Native American that's in the mainstream music scene, and or this scene if you will – so in that regard, I find it to be super important for us to be doing what we're doing. I would say that being able to be representative of this country as a Native American, is super important for me – and is very involved in the lyrics, and involved in the story of the music because of the teachings of our Native American elders, and spirituality. A lot of the songs certainly have come from my journey of finding family within tribe that will take me in – in lots of cultures, its such a crazy world especially being of mixed blood – you have to sort of go through these years of feeling displaced…I went through years of not feeling like I was accepted and trying to find family that recognized me, and I've been trying to find elders and peers that would take me seriously or would bring me in and show me the way, ya know? And that took a long time. It also took me and my own age, and confidence to realize that I don't need anyone else' validation, I know that I'm connected to the Great Spirit, and I know that this is the way, the Red Road – I know the struggles of others…of our past Earth and of our future. So that sort of needed to happen for me to come to terms with being okay with not needing that validation. And then when I decided that, that's when all the elders came. That was the good lesson, you know?
Chelsea: Of course. It puts a huge smile on my face to hear that, and it's interesting what you just said about finding home, being in America…what America is now. For me, listening to your music…I feel that, in your music, which is why I ask. I resonate with that so deeply.
Nahko: It was a good question, good job.
Chelsea: Hah, thank you. How was the song Aloha Ke Akua manifested?
Nahko: aha…well, I was tripping.
Chelsea: Oh really, okay…that makes so much sense.
Nahko: Hah, well not for the whole song obviously…it was 2011 when I | 3,111 |
Every inch a modern winery: Etyeki Kúria
Programme guide for 23 October celebrations in Hungary
Alexandra Béni
According to Funzine, there's a lovely village only 30 kilometres away from the capital city, where innovative winemaking is taken to a whole new level. It's none other than Etyek, the so-called vineyard of Budapest.
Our destination is located in the Etyek-Buda wine region known for its flourishing grape cultivation since the 13th century. Interestingly enough, the Pannonia Sea (a shallow ancient sea) used to cover the land during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, making the terroir rich in limestone.
Once we arrived, we couldn't help but notice the idyllic surroundings, the irresistible view<|fim_middle|> wine.
Etyeki Kúria supports Sándor Mérész, its chief winemaker of nearly 10 years in his experiments: his current project wine (made of the local Zenit variety) became a customer-favourite thanks to its crisp fruity flavours.
From the simple, but expressive labels designed by Austrian graphic designer Cordula Alessandri to the perfectly composed taste harmonies, everything seems to be spot on. Experience the special atmosphere while sipping on Etyek's quality wine at the unapologetically modern Etyeki Kúria, and follow them on social media (Facebook and Instagram) to find out more about their events!
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Source: https://funzine.hu/en/ | , the fresh air and the lovely wine cellars lining up by the brick road.
We parked close to a reimagined chateau, the Etyeki Kúria Winery that was established 22 years ago at Etyek Old-Hill. Today it's every inch a modern winery, with Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir being the three of the important varietals grown by the winery. Etyeki Kúria also has 22 hectares of wine grapes in the Sopron wine region, a historical wine district of Hungary, with Merlot, Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch being the most dominant varieties.
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The building itself is state-of-the-art, characterized by grey concrete and glass surfaces, while the wooden beams above the wine bar add a traditional touch to the concept. Our hosts kindly showed us around the building; first we walked outside to look around at the cosy terrace, then they guided us into a glass-walled, bright room with pieces of contemporary art hanging on the walls.
Functioning both as a meeting room and a place to have lunch or dinner at, this establishment encompasses a classic wine bar, a winery, and the event hall, capable of hosting up to 80 people.
(Thanks to planned developments, this number is going to be doubled in the near future). Finally, we also visited the vinification passage where, thanks to the glass surfaces, one can see the stainless steel tanks and wooden barrels underground without entering the production facilities.
We soon returned to our nicely set table accompanied by Vince Nagy, Etyeki Kúria's commercial director who joined us for the sensory examination and evaluation of the wines. There were porcelain plates in the middle of the table filled with two types of delicious scone (with seeds and cracklings), three types of cheese (washed-rind Rouge, classic Trappist, and Hegedűs cheese made of raw cow's milk) from the local producer Etyek Tej, and dried fruits to complement the characteristic features of wine.
The first stop of our wine adventure was Pláne Frizzante White, a bubbly cuvée made of Királyleányka, Pinot Gris, and a bit of Zenit. Like most of Etyeki Kúria's white wines, this specialty is also the product of reductive winemaking, meaning that fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks to preserve primary aromas and flavours. Just like Pláne Frizzante White, the second wine that we sipped on, Kúria White (2017) was made of the same grape types, but without Zenit. It's similarly light and fresh, with vibrant fruitiness and floral scents.
Among the winery's premium products, we tested Etyeki Kúria's pride and joy, Chardonnay (2016), characterized by elegance, richness, light buttery aromas and roasted notes.
Considering its ripe acidity and juicy fruitiness, it's no wonder that hundreds of people gather together every year at ChardonNITE to chill and celebrate Chardonnay at the winery. We wouldn't leave without trying a red wine: we chose the light, fresh "pop and pour" Kúria Red (2016) which blew us away with its woody aromas, intensive fruitiness, plum scents and fine vanilla note that made it really special. The icing on the cake is that it can be easily matched with food, such as a pasta dish or grilled meats.
Etyeki Kúria's Pinot Noir (2016) must also be mentioned: the winery was the first to plant Pinot Noir grape in this wine region. One sip and you'll feel the intense scents of sour cherry and blackcurrant with a slight spiciness, then a hint of chocolate. Its layered fruitiness, fine acidity and velvety texture make it an elegant Burgundy-style | 843 |
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Exposure to quality education models via her children's schools led Jo Anne to leave the real estate business in 2012 and find a position in education at Loyola's Division of Student Development. As she rides into the sunset of her career, Jo Anne enjoys being in a position where she can assist the quality work being done with and for all our students. | Lester Manzano, and Courtney Bilbrey.
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Dean of Students and Assistant Vice President Will Rodriguez, Ph.D. (he/him/his), joined Loyola in November of 2017. Will received his Ph.D. in Higher Education from Loyola, an M.S.Ed. from Northern Illinois University, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining us at Loyola, Will worked as the Associate Dean of Students and Ombudsperson at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Will brings with him years of experience in student success, crisis management, diversity, and student advocacy.
Will credits much of his leadership style and approach toward serving students to the values he learned from the sisters at a two-year college known at the time as Felician College. It was there that Will, as a first-generation college student, was exposed to an educational mission that focused on social justice and a deep sense of caring for others — ideals that not only mirror the Catholic, Jesuit mission of Loyola but also resonate with Will personally and professionally.
When Will is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family, engaging in community service, mixing music, and riding his bike all around Chicago. Will has also been known to provide guided bicycle tours of the city to family, friends, and even students!
Lester Manzano, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Students
Associate Dean of Students Lester Manzano, Ph.D. (he/him/his), joined the Office of the Dean of Students in April 2019. Prior to joining the Office of the Dean of Students, Lester served as Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola. With over 20 years of service in higher education and student affairs administration, Lester has worked in the areas of student academic affairs, academic advising, residence life, housing, and student conduct at Lake Forest College, Colgate University, and the University of Vermont.
Lester received his Ph.D. in Higher Education from Loyola University Chicago, an M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from the University of Vermont, and a B.A. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
Courtney Bilbrey, L.C.S.W. Assistant Dean of Students & Equity Case Manager; Title IX Deputy Coordinator
Assistant Dean of Students Courtney Bilbrey, L.C.S.W. (she/her/hers), provides guidance, advocacy, and resources as case manager for gender-based (Title IX) and bias-motivated misconduct issues involving students. As a Loyola School of Social Work graduate, Courtney is committed to supporting Loyola students in their personal journeys to thrive academically, socially, spiritually, and psychologically. Courtney believes that college years serve as an opportunity for students to develop their unique identities, challenge their own and others' biases, heal from trauma, and learn to advocate for causes of personal importance. Courtney seeks opportunities to magnify the voices of students who have experienced personal, institutional, and societal trauma and inequity, so our community may continue to strive for healing and justice in our world and at Loyola University Chicago.
Previously, Courtney served as Compliance Officer and Title IX Deputy Coordinator at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she advised the university on Title IX and ADA compliance, supported students, investigated cases, and resolved complaints. With a post-grad certificate in Sexual Health/Sex Therapy from University of Michigan, Courtney also has worked as a therapist at Center on Halsted, where she specialized in areas of sexual health, queer identities, disability, and aging.
Courtney's non-Loyola roles include partner, parent of two small humans, and board member at Upswing Advocates, a Chicago-area nonprofit.
Paige Gardner, M.Ed. Assistant Dean of Students & CARE Case Manager
Assistant Dean of Students Paige Gardner, M.Ed. (she/her/hers), builds resiliency and persistence among students by serving as lead case manager for Coordinated Assistance and Resource Education (CARE) Services.
Prior to joining Loyola University Chicago, Paige graduated from Seattle University with a Master of Education in Student Development Administration. Her graduate internships and professional interests focused primarily on the development of mentorship programs for underrepresented students, facilitation of cultural competency trainings, and leadership development for college students. She then worked in Residence Life at the University of California Santa Barbara before joining Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Loyola in 2013.
Since coming to Loyola, Paige's passion for Jesuit education has deepened, and the value of cura personalis now guides her in developing intentional relationships and holistic experiences with and for students. Paige also remains committed to providing students with proactive strategies that support student activism, leadership, and community efforts towards justice and transformative education.
Finally, Paige is a student herself! As a doctoral candidate in the School of Education, Paige enjoys helping students, staff, and faculty to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills through trainings and workshops oriented toward social justice and diversity. Paige will continue to cultivate spaces that empower students to build inclusive environments, think critically, and successfully navigate their Loyola experience.
Amber Miller, L.C.P.C. Assistant Dean of Students & BCT Case Manager
Assistant Dean Amber Miller, L.C.P.C. (she/her/hers), is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois and a Loyola University Chicago graduate. She obtained her M.Ed. in Community Counseling from Loyola University Chicago in 2005 and worked as a psychotherapist in the nonprofit sector for over five years. In 2010, Amber transitioned into higher education at Columbia College Chicago as the Assistant Director of Student Relations. There, she assisted students in crisis and collaborated with campus partners to ensure student success.
In 2014, Amber returned to her alma mater to join the Student Life and Engagement team as the Behavioral Concerns Team Case Manager. Amber is also a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and a former Mizzou Golden Girl. In addition to helping Loyola students, Amber provides individual, family, and couples counseling in her private practice in Old Town.
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Leap Day -
Live At The Northern Prog Festival
(CD 2016, 46:14, Oskar 1070 CD)
The tracks:
1- The Messenger (7:32)
2- Changing Directions (7:27)
3- Amathia (Homo Ignoramus) (4:05)
4- Walls (8:50)
5- What Would You Do (6:59)
6- Sandgrains (6:24)
7- Haemus (4:58)
Website facebook Oskar Productions
The musicians of the Dutch progressive rock act Leap Day are the guys behind the Northern Prog Festival-a festival held since 2013 (see review) at De Uthof in Siegerswoude, a small town in the Northern part of the Netherlands. The band themselves of course perform at this festival as well. This also happened during the third edition of NPF (see review) in 2015. The audio of this concert was recorded for a possible live album. Exactly one year later they presented the result of those recordings at the next NPF in 2016 (see review). They named it Live At The Northern Prog Festival. I guess this is a title which doesn't come as a surprise!
The band's concert at the time was for me one of the best performances I had witnessed from them ever. Several times the musicians made me speechless with the musicianship they showed on stage which wasn't expected at all because they only had done two rehearsals in the days leading up to the festival. This was not the perfect way to get in shape for a concert that would be released on CD later on. Well of course I was curious if they could capture the true spirit of this amazing concert one year ago.
While looking at the titles that made it to the track list on the album, it became obvious that not the entire concert could be heard on this release. Keyboard player Gert van Engelen<|fim_middle|> a live album you have been present at during the recordings of means you can compare it to the way the memory of it nestled inside your brain. Well I still did hear only brilliant compositions, played perfectly as it should have been! But I guess, everybody who has witnessed a concert can tell you that nothing can be compared to the real thing being present at the venue and looking at the musicians on the stage in front of you, going through all of the emotions while enjoying the amazing music you hear performed by the band in a real live atmosphere. Sure, their concert was very well captured the way it was done one year ago, but hardly any band can make it happen that you can relive that moment on CD or DVD. This was also not possible with Leap Day. It certainly didn't mean you can't enjoy this release. No way! I had throughout the entire live album a really good time listening to all seven fabulous compositions brought to you very closely resembling the original album versions. What else could you ask for?
To finish this review, I can advise all of our readers to have a listen to Live At The Northern Prog Festival released by Leap Day, most of all those who are into neo progressive rock and a band such as Camel who will have a blast! They will hear an unbelievably good live band and one of the best from the Netherlands! Highly recommended!
**** Henri Strik (edited by Robert James Pashman)
All Rights Reserved Background Magazine 2016 | burg told me that during the process of mixing the album it became clear not everything that was recorded could be used-something which of course happens to every band which tries to record one of their performances. In the end this lead to a total time of almost forty five minutes of progressive rock music. But what we did get finally, is rather representative for what the band is capable of on stage. You could call it a real showcase of what the band stands for: melodic prog music with lots of solos performed on the electric guitar by Eddie Mulder and synthesizer solos done by the duo Derk Evert Waalkens and the aforementioned Gert van Engelenburg backed up by an excellent rhythm section consisting of Peter Stel (bass) and Koen Roozen (drums and percussion). Above all they have an amazing front man who sings better and better after each concert. His name is Jos Harteveld!
As for the songs that can be heard, you could say they did come up with a selection of songs taken from all of their four studio albums. The opening tune The Messenger has of course a great intro with the sound of a bell and a voice speaking very seriously. Going through every track separately isn't really necessary. Just look at the track list and see if your favourite Leap Day tune is on it. If not, don't worry as there are just enough to satisfy your appetite. Listening to | 288 |
art in public space
Billboard Series #19: David Shrigley
Written on July 2, 2020 by artlead.
art in public space,
David Shrigley (UK)
Look at this!
David Shrigley is a British artist who questions what brings people together. He is best known for his drawings, but also makes sculptures, animated films, and photographs. The starting point for his work is everyday life in all its strange forms, often with an absurd or surrealistic touch, and a sharp, somewhat dark edge.
The core of Shrigley's practise is drawing. These are immediate translations of his ideas. He draws quickly and spontaneously, and so his drawings sometimes contain spelling errors or strikethroughs. Shrigley doesn't rework an image until it is perfect, he doesn't make a new version to correct a mistake in perspective or text. The drawings are like a stream of thoughts – exploring ordinary, everyday life. It is as if the artist is looking at our hopes and fears, our uncertainties, emotional traumas, heights and lows, and all the other small humanities that define our daily lives. His drawings remind us of what brings us together, and what makes us and human.
Shrigley has a style of drawing in which he combines image and text in a humorous, often colourful, and chaotic way. The drawings are mostly presented in groups – as a multitude of thoughts. Some drawings appeal directly to the viewer - with text like NEWS: Nobody Likes You; Be Nice and Please do not show this to anyone. Other drawings philosophise, with statements like This will not be here tomorrow. Other drawings sketch absurd and strange interactions between characters or show a character who loses himself completely in an unclear environment. The multiplicity of drawings inevitably leads to a dialogue between the images - a universal and at the same time surprisingly intimate conversation full of humour about what it is that man confesses to being.
In<|fim_middle|> offline and 019. Billboard Series takes place within a scenography by architect Olivier Goethals, and is being developed with the support of the City of Ghent and the Flemish Community.
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The work of Sharon Van Overmeiren reflects on the images with which we surround ourselves, and on how a specific image or a complete visual language is ... | addition to drawings, Shrigley is also known for his sculptural work. In 2016, for example, he will be making a seven-metre-high bronze sculpture entitled Really Good at Trafalgar square in London, in the form of a long, raised thumb. Another sculpture, entitled Beginning, Middle and End, was made by Shirgley with the help of a large number of volunteers. The temporary work consists of a four hundred meter long sausage of two tons of unbaked clay. For the artist, this is a metaphor for life: 'a very shot beginning, a very short end, and a huge middle bit where lots of stuff seems to be happening'. Shrigley's sculptures are very diverse, although humour always plays an important role. With I'm Dead, Shirgley made a series of cute stuffed animals that indicate to be dead with a pancarte, and his Giant Inflatable Swan-things is just like the title suggests: giant inflatable swans that fill a room and then slowly deflate again - and then take up space again. And for Live Model, Shrigley made a giant naked boy - who occasionally urinates in a bucket - as part of an installation that invites the viewer to draw the boy.
For Billboard Series, David Shrigley made a drawing that brings together many of his typical characteristics. It's a work that combines text and image - a naked man's behind with the commanding call Look at this. It's a funny and strange image, especially when you see it so tall on the street. At the same time, it also has sharp edges - figuratively speaking, because it is a nice round ass.
As often, David Shrigley plays with a shift of meaning that an image can have. Inevitably you link this billboard to the many street ads full of half-naked women you see everywhere. Why does a naked man have a different connotation than a naked woman? What does it say that the world view imposed on us by marketing and advertisements? And about our consumer behaviour? Or maybe it should be read as a more provocative image, as someone who pulls down his pants - but to whom or what? To politics? To globalized neo-liberal economics? Or perhaps to you as a spectator and reader? At the same time, it could also a perverse image - a vulnerable naked man, put in front of everyone from a kind of sadistic schadenfreude. Or is it all much more innocent? Is this a naked man, a streaker, who walks through your life with no other purpose than to conjure up a short smile on your lips?
All images courtesy of the artist
Installation photography: Michiel De Cleene
Billboard Series is a long-term art project in public space, for which every three months an artist is invited to create a new, site-specific work for a 50 m2 billboard on Dok Noord, Ghent. Through changing presentations, Billboard Series wants to build a sustainable and productive dialogue with the surrounding neighbourhood and urban landscape, reflect on the changes that this neighbourhood is currently undergoing, and introduce a broad audience to different visual languages and ways of looking at the world.
Billboard Series is a project of artlead, together with the non-profit organizations artlead | 668 |
While the mountains of the Northeast may not contain the vast alpine climates of the American West or other regions, many peaks of the Adirondacks, Greens, Whites, and Maine do require extensive travel above treeline to reach summit. Hiking above treeline, especially in winter, can be some of the most spectacular and rewarding hiking around, but it doesn't come without challenged or danger. The unpredictable and harsh weather, inhospitable terrain, and difficulty of getting help all the way up there makes preparation necessary any time you venture into the Alpine, and these tips will start you in the right direction.
1. Do the proper planning.
While sound preparation is a must for any safe hiking experience, it becomes even more important when visiting above treeline trails. You should carefully study your route, read trip reports or descriptions of your hike, and take careful note of weather predictions. Higher summit forecasts can be very different than general weather reports, and you should account for being exposed to any wind or precipitation which can often be more intense on exposed summits and ridgelines. As with any hike, be sure to let others know a detailed itinerary and when to expect you in case of emergency.
Before entering an alpine zone in winter, you should have a chance to test and dial in your gear and technique on lesser objectives and more forgiving trails. A windswept cold summit is not the place to find your water has frozen or your crampons don't fit your boots. Pick a cold and windy day to try a small hike above treeline where you know you have an easy exit to test out your skill, gear, and resolve.
3. Adjust your risk assessments.
A part of more extreme peak bagging that is often learned through (sometimes negative) experiences is decision making and knowing when it is best to bail on an objective. When deciding to travel above treeline, the risks you are willing to take should be adjusted accordingly. Travelling solo or pressing on despite issues can have much more severe consequences here. Have alternative plans, expect the worst, and be willing to bail if needed rather than risk injury or worse.
4. Carry the proper water and food.
Realize that subzero wind chills and exposure to the elements and weather<|fim_middle|> crucial to take extra steps to ensure proper navigation. Consider carrying a GPS, and always be equipped with a map and compass. As you enter an alpine zone, take careful note of the direction you came from, the direction you are heading, and any notable landmarks or indicators. It is wise to even take a quick bearing on your compass of the exit and/or target routes. It is not uncommon for a clear summit to become a windswept and engulfed in whiteout conditions in just minutes. If you do get caught in extreme weather, don't panic. Think carefully for a minute of the information you have and make sound decisions to get below treeline rather than rashly scrambling in what might be a dangerous direction.
Lucas LaBarre grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. An avid year round hiker, Lucas has completed many peakbagging lists in the Northeast including the Adirondack 46, the Winter 46, the NH 48, the NE 67 and the NE 111. He also enjoys backcountry snowboarding and splitboarding throughout the Northeast and beyond. He lives in Albany NY with his wife and daughter and works as an educational administrator. | will change the way you eat and drink. You will be uncomfortable or even dangerously cold if trying to fumble with preparing food or melting snow for water. Carry what you need for fluids in insulated containers to prevent freezing—winter alpine regions are no place for hydration packs whose tubes can freeze easily. Carry snacks that won't freeze in easily accessible pouches or pockets so you can eat on the move without having to access you pack frequently.
5. Dress for the cold.
You will want to be sure to carry and wear the correct clothing. Typical winter layers may also require a heavy down insulating layer and a waterproof/windproof shell depending on conditions. Don't over layer as you will still generate a great deal of heat even in freezing conditions. However, think about what you would need to stay warm should you become immobile for hours or, at worst, even overnight. Depending on the duration of your time above treeline, the availability of bailout options, and other factors, it may even be wise to carry basic winter shelter such as a bivy or emergency blanket as needed.
6. Wear the right traction.
While most winter hikes will include the need for traction devices such as snowshoes or Microspikes, this becomes even more crucial above treeline. The above treeline areas of the Northeast are often rocky, icy, and/or exposed—you may even require full crampons for safety. It is better to have all these devices than to find yourself sliding into a possible injury along a fully exposed section of trail. Be sure to be properly trained in crampon technique before using this potentially dangerous equipment.
7. Protect your face and eyes.
Blasting winds and ice over long stretches of ridgeline can quickly create uncomfortable or even dangerous frostbite conditions on any exposed skin. Carry and use adequate gear to protect your face. While a simple Buff may suffice for cold windy hikes in the woods, alpine exposure may require a full face mask, as well as goggles or glacier glasses to protect your eyes. It seems simple, but some forget that hiking with no vision can quickly lead to disaster.
The regions above treeline in winter look much like the moon. They can be uniform landscapes of rocky white with at best an occasional cairn to mark routes. Besides studying routes ahead of time, it is | 466 |
Siena Assistant Coach Gill Connors Joins Levack and Goz
Earlier this week, assistant coach for the Siena Saints Gill Connors joined Levack and Goz. The Siena Saints men's lacrosse team will officially start their season this Saturday when they face off against the Syracuse Orange. The Saints and Orange will face off at 4pm Saturday afternoon inside the Carrier Dome...
Tom "Goz" Goslowski
Jimmy Patsos Coaches Show
The Siena men's basketball team is finding its stride down the back stretch of the MAAC conference schedule as the Saints have now won seven of their last 10 games. But noticeably absent through most of this winning stretch has been the reigning 6th Man of the Year in the MAAC, Nico Clareth...
Zach Bye
Jimmy Patsos, head men's basketball coach at Siena College, joined Big Board Sports in his normal Wednesday Coaches Show slot. This week Patsos joined us in studio to talk about his Saints team turning things around in MAAC play and the huge match up that looms this Friday with conference rival Iona...
Siena men's basketball team picked up their fourth win in a row on Tuesday night with a 78-68 win over Rider at the Times Union Center. But the win for the Saints and a career night from senior Lavon Long (29pts/12reb) wasn't the story. Rather, a late game scuffle between the two teams stole the headlines...
Longtime Voice of Siena Basketball Joins Big Board Sports
The Siena Saints came into the season with expectations as high as they've been since the Saints last won the MAAC and<|fim_middle|> head coach of the Siena Saints women's basketball program, and looks to have a strong roster for the 2016-17 campaign. Her Saints were picked 3rd in the MAAC preseason poll and she returns a preseason all conference player in Kollyns Scarbrough, and a host of returning support such as Jackie Benitez, and Meghan Donohue...
Pete Iorizzo Joins Big Board Sports
Pete Iorizzo is the sports editor of the Albany Times Union and has been following the crosstown rivalry between UAlbany and Siena for years. In fact, Iorizzo covered the Saints for a seven year period between 2005 and 2012. It's safe to say that Pete has his fingers on the pulse of both programs nearly as good as anyone in the Capital Region... | played in the NCAA tournament in 2009-10. And why wouldn't they be? After returning nearly an entire roster of a team that won 21 games a season ago, it was no wonder they were picked second in the preseason poll and started the season ranked #23 on the mid-major top-25 list... Re
The head coach of Siena men's basketball program, Jimmy Patsos, joined Big Board Sports on Wednesday in his usual spot to discuss the latest on-goings of the Saints program. Currently, Siena is 4-8 on the season and is coming off a 84-64 loss on the road to Hofstra...
The head men's basketball coach of the Siena Saints, Jimmy Patsos, stopped by Big Board Sports in his usual Wednesday slot to give us the latest news and notes on his basketballl team. In this week's coaches show Jimmy looked back at the Saints victory over Patriot league opponent, Bucknell, and looks ahead to the road contest Thursday night at Hofstra...
Jeff Goodman Joins Big Board Sports
Jeff Goodman is one of the lead voices in all of college basketball media. As an insider for ESPN, Goodman can be spotted reporting courtside at the biggest games, appearing on Sports Center, and writing for ESPN.com. Thursday, he took time out of his schedule to join us on Big Board Sports to talk top-25 college hoops, as well as serving up opinions on both Albany and Siena...
Head men's basketball coach at Siena College, Jimmy Patsos, joined Big Board Sports as he does every Wednesday morning. Patsos called in from the recruiting trail and talked about the current state of the Saints. Siena has dropped four of their last five games as they head into this weekend's game vs Bucknell from the Civic Center in Glens Falls...
The Siena college men's basketball team is experiencing some early season bumps in the road. The highly touted Saints have dropped three of their last four games with the most recent defeat coming on the road to MAAC opponent Rider, 71-69. The head coach Jimmy Patsos dropped by Big Board Sports as he does on every Wednesday to talk about his teams recent struggles, dealing with off the court matte
Siena's Ali Jacques Joins Big Board Sports
Ali Jacques is in her fifth year as the | 487 |
Monthly Meeting - Lisa Kastner of Running Wild Publishing
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Join us at our January 25, 2021, meeting to hear Lisa Kastner describe her company's approach to supporting writers whose works don't fit neatly inside a box.
We know many SDWEG members are looking for alternatives to the big publishers but aren't ready to try doing everything independently. Attend our January meeting to find out if Running Wild Press's approach to finding talent may work for you.
Our presenter is Lisa Diane K<|fim_middle|>." Their books have been featured in gift bags to SAG Award Winners, Nominees, and Presenters and Emmy Award Nominees and Presenters.
Focused on stories that don't fit neatly in a box, Running Wild recently launched RIZE with executive editor Andrea Johnson. RIZE focuses on publishing genre stories written by people of color.
A former journalist, corporate communications and marketing consultant, Lisa received her MFA from Fairfield University, her MBA from Pennsylvania State University, and her undergraduate from Drexel University. Lisa's first experience in editing fiction was with The Picolata Review in which she published the short story that later became Jamie Ford's ground breaking, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet".
Running Wild Press's Run Wild with Us, Ask Lisa Anything receives up to 60,000 views a day and the Press's monthly Storyteller's Happy Hour in which storytellers from all walks of life are invited to share stories based on prompts while imbibing receives an average of 50,000 views per day across multiple social media platforms.
The January meeting will start with signing in and networking at 6:30pm, followed by a short business meeting at 6:45pm, and Lisa's presentation beginning at 7 p.m.
Invitations with the Zoom meeting information will be sent to members the week before the meeting. | astner, the founder and executive editor of Running Wild Press which has received multiple starred reviews, two "Best of 2019"s, a "Best of July 2020" and a "Best of 2020 | 51 |
Will the Yankees finally<|fim_middle|> fit their approach. | spend? Will the A's tear it down? What to expect when baseball returns
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MLB free agency: What to expect when baseball returns
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Last week, we covered the late flurry of action before the CBA expired on Dec. 1, which saw an almost unprecedented levels of spending in a short period of time. Now that there's a lockout that should last most of the winter, we don't have any imminent action. But come February, we very well might have a couple of more weeks for the rest of the offseason to play out. Here are some topics that execs and agents are monitoring until then:
There are still candidates for big paydays.
My biggest misses from my free agent predictions were at the top end of the market. Many expected a couple of mid-market teams to jump in the deep end of the pool -- but not this deep, this early, or this often. What I missed was that at least a handful of owners from non-playoff clubs were more willing to spend and, for labor reasons, were incentivized to do it before Dec. 1 if they were going to do it sometime this winter.
While most of the top players have signed, there are still two prominent players left who will get nine figures for sure: Carlos Correa and Freddie Freeman. Correa always seemed likely to get the biggest deal of the winter, by far -- until Corey Seager's deal came in almost $100 million north of many expectations (including mine). Correa is still expected to clear that $325 million hurdle, but not by a ton. Freeman's floor seems to be Paul Goldschmidt's five-year, $130 million deal from 2020, and he should be able to clear that by a good bit. This Braves' regime has been steadfast in not handing out giant multiyear deals in free agency, but they did keep 2020 standout Marcell Ozuna for four years and $65 million. The assumption is that they'll figure out a way to meet franchise icon Freeman's price (especially after a World Series financial windfall).
Beyond those two, finding the big deals gets a bit tougher. Trevor Story, Kris Bryant, Nick Castellanos, Michael Conforto, Kyle Schwarber and Seiya Suzuki are the position player candidates to land north of $50 million, while Clayton Kershaw and Carlos Rodon are the only remaining pitchers at that level. Story has long been expected to get nine figures but his throwing issue may make a shorter deal of some sort a better option for him. As the motivated spenders start to dry up, at least one of these players will sign for less than you think -- but this will be a very healthy market if it's only one of them.
When baseball comes back, big markets will be ready to open their wallets.
Non-playoff clubs (Rangers, Mariners, Tigers, Mets, Jays, Cubs, Angels, Marlins) handed out the top nine and 12 of the top 13 guarantees. The big markets and playoff clubs won't let that stand, with the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox and Giants having plenty of room to spend, even though the early winter conditions didn't | 703 |
How Long Should a YouTube Intro be?
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An attention-grabbing video opener can be a great way to kick off your YouTube videos. But, you'll also be able to boost the quality and visibility of your business online thanks to<|fim_middle|> what it's all about; it's all about usefulness.
Also, like Hope for Paws' YouTube channel. A cat shreds the screen to show the emblem and partners of the rescue group.
Develop a brand for yourself
Without a brand to back you up, YouTube can be a very tricky place to be. Adding certain branding features to your YouTube intro video might help guarantee brand consistency.
If your intro video uses your channel artwork and logo as templates, your channel will appear as though it is branded completely.
Because most videos shouldn't have an introduction, you won't want to use them for presentations. Let's take the time to provide an introduction so that people don't lose interest in the video.
The use of intros may not be a good idea if they are over the top or are disconnected from the content of the blog post.
When people talk about "bumper," they are referring to a beginning section of a business report rather than a descriptive word for beginning. People are doing all sorts of creative things with bumpers nowadays.
Actions that the viewer will recognize, such as animation or theme music, may be included.
The bumpers, found in all videos, feature frequently in the video branding. Bumper (for vehicles) is one of the most commonly used terms among those who refer to the initial portion of an introduction.
Introductions are best when kept short, not over 10 seconds. With a clear and to-the-point message, it is imperative that they focus on explaining the video's subject or presenting a cool additional perspective on the content.
Avoid these elements in your YouTube intro
A curse word or profanity
A lack of maturity in the branding of your channel will cause your profanity to have little effect on the number of people who view your videos, and you will almost certainly get demonetized as a result.
Don't even use profanity; it will just cloud your ability to think clearly.
Extensive and seemingly uninteresting discussions
That won't help you. Toward the conclusion of the day, it is vital that you appreciate those that watch your film since your film could make a difference in their lives.
Make interesting stuff accessible to your audience, but don't penalize them with extended, dull lectures.
Omission of an introductory statement
As with most traditional companies, this is also of critical importance for the channel's branding. The absence of a simple beginning, along with the inclusion of various types of videos, could result in viewer confusion.
For viewers who have been watching for a long time, as well as those who are new, there are numerous distractions on your channel.
Is an introduction to your channel required?
It isn't necessary
An altered version of the beginning, due to the YouTube algorithm, is prudent.
I've observed that I start to become annoyed by YouTube intros after watching hundreds of them.
Time is wasted every time an intro is skipped. It appears to me that a lot of watchers and viewers alike have the same viewpoints and beliefs.
By studying my process, I learned that I used to use much longer video intros until I cut them down to a length I could manage. There is nothing besides the basic screen on which I put my videos' titles.
I only use a title screen because of the algorithms used by Google and YouTube. Because the algorithms on YouTube read the text in videos, I discovered this. It has been seen on the web from time to time.
To maintain the smooth continuity of the movie, I utilize a J-cut to cut the video while keeping the audio flowing. To further motivate viewers, the video doesn't stop the flow of information, and thus they don't need to stop watching.
Viewers may even be surprised to see a title screen since they are considered unwelcome patterns.
Success on YouTube depends on channel uniqueness rather than adherence to an industry-wide standard. A few people go into it when describing their projects, while others have no introduction at all.
You should plan to record videos that don't have introductions and if you want to, you should aim for videos that are 8 seconds or shorter. Please ensure that it is engaging and fits in with the video.
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People Come into Your Life for a Reason Quotes | well-made video opening templates. Let's see How Long Should a YouTube Intro be? The People Count tag line addresses three core aspects of your channel's audience: who your audience is, what your channel is about, and where your audience can discover you.
What Exactly Is A YouTube Intro?
What's the difference between a YouTube intro and a video intro on YouTube? A YouTube Intro is a short video clip with music and sound effects. It normally runs for 3 to 30 seconds at the start of every single video on a channel and is made up of animated visuals or very brief clips.
An introduction video is a single video that explains the purpose of the channel. It's usually 2 minutes long and appears on a channel's page to entice viewers to subscribe.
Is a YouTube video intro necessary?
When someone introduces viewers to the content of the video, they are doing it with the intent of providing a YouTube introduction. An intro will sum up the story in less than 10 seconds, as to what will be shown in the film. It engages the viewers so that they do not get bored.
If you were to ask a marketer, is how a company represents itself to customers.
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by Beacon Hill Times Staff • January 14, 2015 • 0 Comments
Eileen Fitzpatrick
Longtime Gary Drug employee
Eileen Fitzpatrick lost her courageous battle with pancreatic cancer on Dec. 18, 2014. She passed away surrounded by close family and friends who loved her deeply.
The youngest daughter of seven children, Eileen was born to Dorothy and Thomas Fitzpatrick on April 3, 1957, in West Hempstead, N.Y. She was predeceased by her parents and an older brother, Thomas Fitzpatrick Jr. She is survived by five remaining siblings, Kathleen Dawkins, Susan Kross, Gail Bray, Michael Fitzpatrick and Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Eileen moved to Boston in 1975 to attend Boston State College and remained in the city for the rest of her life. She attended many Red Sox games, and would never pass up a Dropkick Murphys Show. She was a true Bostonian.
In December of 1984, Eileen had her first and only child, Thomas Savage, her pride and joy. Everyone on the Hill knows Tom very well, as he also worked with Eileen at Gary Drug Co. over the years. He is also a well-known dog walker in the community. Tom was always the apple of her eye, and they were extremely close. He always made her very proud, and she enjoyed telling stories of her son and all of his great accomplishments. The topic of Tom alone would always put a huge smile on her face. There are no words to explain the true bond and admiration that Eileen and Tom had for each other.
An avid traveler, Eileen wanted to live life to the fullest and explore the world. But her heart was always in St. Croix, where she met her partner, Michael Platt. She would visit yearly with her two best friends, whom she met in the late '70s, Tim Stein and Wayne Fette. Eileen, Tim and Wayne were the "three amigos," with a lifelong friendship that took them through decades of laughs, memories, milestones and jokes. She absolutely loved them dearly.
Eileen was the life of the party, and her smile would bring a light to every room she entered. She was always welcoming and kindhearted and wanted to make everyone happy. She told stories like no one else could, and everyone just wanted to be near her positive, beautiful energy. She gained satisfaction in being there for others and giving all that she possibly could.<|fim_middle|> clerk, and remaining on as a manager for as long as she could, even after she was diagnosed. In addition to Tom, Eileen worked for years with her sister, Gail, and niece, Danielle. Their long hours working in the pharmacy with owners Herman and Dan Greenfield, and with Rich Lane and other long-term employees, always helped give Gary Drug the feeling of a close family establishment, as well as being Beacon Hill's only independent pharmacy.
Words cannot express what she meant to her family and friends and every life she touched. She was a beautiful soul whose life was taken far too soon. She was a fighter who refused to give up and wanted to live life as much as she could. She was an amazing role model and lived her life in a manner most of us strive to accomplish. She will be missed by many and never be forgotten, as she will forever live in all of our hearts and memories.
There will be a celebration of Eileen's life on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Hill House (127 Mount Vernon St., Boston) from noon until 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to GLAD, 30 Winter St., Boston, MA 02108.
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Eileen began working at Gary Drug in 1976 – first, as a | 34 |
Franc<|fim_middle|>ard, Henri ?, Suzanne Ajzensztark (Francine's sister). | ine Ajzensztark Taylor was born in 1928 in Karczew, Poland. In 1931, her father, a tailor, moved his family to Paris to escape Polish antisemitism. He became involved with the French Underground during World War II and was killed at Auschwitz following his arrest. Francine, Suzanne, and their mother, Germaine Königsberg Ajzensztark, survived by hiding in rural France and using false identification papers. After the war ended, the women returned to Paris, where Francine and Suzanne found work at Orly Air Base. Francine met Harry Taylor, an American serviceman, while working at Orly, and, in 1949, the two became engaged and returned to the United States. They eventually settled in Charleston, South Carolina, with their two sons.
Francine and her friends, taken in Graulhet, France at the end of 1942, during the war in free France. Front row, left to right: Suzanne ?, Maurice Rubinsztein, Francine. Back row, left to right: Annette Laut | 232 |
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Mercury has proven itself to be a special planet. Some scientists think it might be shrinking — even though it's already the tiniest member of our solar system — and others speculate that it has volcanoes and water ice. Now, a spacecraft called BepiColombo is scheduled for a mission to uncover the truth.
The BepiColombo spacecraft, the product of a partnership between the European Space Agency and Japan's JAXA space agency, will launch in October 2018 for the third-ever mission to reach Mercury. Understanding Mercury has so far been a<|fim_middle|> to "a problem in one of [its] power processing units." From here on, they'll cross their fingers that the space craft holds up in Mercury's unbelievable heat and radiation. If successful, scientists expect to gather some key information about the birth of our solar system. | difficult process, since spaceships have to enter the planet's unusually thin atmosphere very slowly to avoid smashing into its surface upon arrival. Instead, BepiColombo will have to artfully enter with a series of fly-bys, once around Earth and multiple times around Venus and Mercury. It's a time-consuming process, but the good news is that BepiColombo has a camera to make the journey worthwhile.
"Mercury is the least explored of the rocky planets, but not because it is uninteresting," Professor Alvaro Giménez Cañete, the director of science at the European Space Agency, told the Guardian. "It's because it's difficult – difficult to get there, even more difficult to work there."
Telescopes on Earth don't quite suffice when it comes to studying Mercury, since the sun gives off a bright glare. And though space exploration missions to better understand the planet date back to the 1970s with Mariner 10, working with Mercury's "pizza oven" conditions is particularly challenging for craft designers. The last mission, launched in 2011 with NASA's Messenger, crashed in 2015.
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Ah, stretching…each of us has experienced the sharp pain of stretching muscles. Being stretched by life circumstances, too, is rarely comfortable; yet there are few ways far better for growing and gaining strength than stretching. God often stretches us through the people and situations He places on our paths. We can also intentionally stretch ourselves in order to grow.
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After our really salty meal at The Smith and the sweet ballet at the Lincoln Center, we decided to grab some frozen yogurt at the neighborhood Froyo shop.
The place was a little dirty by the time we got in, around 10pm. There were choco fixings and strawberry bits and yogurt splattered here and there. Guess I can't blame them because since they opened last year, they've been really popular, even during the wintertime. Guess the yogurt craze in NYC hasn't died down one bit.
Nope, not one bit it seems. We were here on friday night, and there were a steady stream of customers.
Hubby and I were both a little hungry after watching the show (it's draining on the mind you know! Especially with our high-area seating you really have to concentrate to catch all the action), so we got a bowl with pistachio, mango and cookies n cream yogurt. For toppings we got cookie crunch and mochi.
There were no sample yogurt tasters like Red Mango, which was a big sad because I would have wanted to try their plain vanilla.
We sat inside the little shop to enjoy our yogurt and chat, lest the yogurt melts by the time we make it back home.
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Because my frame is 'round the other way' I've decided to renumber the levers left to right to match the orientation of the layout and I've upgraded the arrangements at Ashen Road level crossing to include a frame to control the fictional sidings to the fictional mill! I've also decided to include on the frame the points in the yard which would have been hand-operated with local levers just to keep all the operating levers in the same place.
I've had a first quick go at the locking, this is will arranged via servos under the point levers controlled from JMRI.
Looking at levers 5 & 6,you have 6 released by 5. This implies that the lock lever stands normal when the points are locked, and that the points are only locked in their normal position. This is probably the less common option for lock levers but is perfectly acceptable. However having chosen that arrangement it should be consistent through the frame and hence 18 released by 19 is required.
Incidentally its not usual to state the locking as eg. 2 locked by 5, its normal to say 2 locks 5. For the releases either released by or releases can be used and some styles of table use both so that the coverse are written in. Converses are automatic in mechanical locking but need to be included specifically in electric or electronic locking.
I'd wondered which way around the FPL would be. If it is more common for the points to normally be unlocked then I'll do it that way. Presumably the point only needs to be locked when signaled in the facing direction?
barhamd wrote: I'd wondered which way around the FPL would be.
- Is there a slip of the finger in the description of the lever 1 in the GF - did you meant "Distant" signal?
- compared with the original, you don't seem to have a signal reading out of the siding over 14 points (you need a number at both ends BTW). Perhaps this should be 13?
I have not checked the locking as it is a bit difficult to fathom written that way round! - could you re-draw it in table form as Keith suggests?
I've corrected the 'distance' to 'distant'. The original arrangement was apparently a drum which had signal wire leading to the slot on distant 1 and the distant arm on signal 23. It was wound with a crank handle and locally referred to a 'a mangle'. The red lights and targets on the level crossing gates counted as a stop signal.
The coal siding accessed by points 14 was very short (about 3 wagons long) and a rebuild of the arrangement shown in John's plan from about 1952-3. I couldn't see how point 14 could ever be put back normal while it was being shunted and I would not expect a locomotive to ever be 'shut in'. Given the limited number of shut signals elsewhere I suspected that there wasn't a signal to leave the siding as a locomotive would never be in front of it.
The lack of a shunt signal showing the route into the yard is, I think, explained by the position of the prototype signalbox. In reality a train about to set back into the yard would have been directly outside the box. Perhaps I should model an opening window and waving green flag?
I've tried to write the locking table in a more conventional format.
When translating locks R to released by there are one or two omissions.
I'll try and work out a table shortly.
PS. With double line signalling where there was often a procession of trains needing no change to the routes set it was convenient to keep points locked most of the time, and with the usual arangement this resulted in levers standing reverse to some inconvenience to the bobby walking up and down the frame, hence the occasional use of locked when normal lock levers.
In a single line like yours, however, the points are changed for almost every train so no bebefit in keeping the points locked alll the time.
Is that the right idea?
barhamd wrote: The coal siding accessed by points 14 was very short (about 3 wagons long) and a rebuild of the arrangement shown in John's plan from about 1952-3. I couldn't see how point 14 could ever be put back normal while it was being shunted and I would not expect a locomotive to ever be 'shut in'. Given the limited number of shut signals elsewhere I suspected that there wasn't a signal to leave the siding as a locomotive would never be in front of it.
barhamd wrote: The lack of a shunt signal showing the route into the yard is, I think, explained by the position of the prototype signalbox. In reality a train about to set back into the yard would have been directly outside the box. Perhaps I should model an opening window and waving green flag?
<|fim_middle|> usually necessary in model railways, but with major compression of this sort it can be difficult to make the prototype signalling look convincing.
I'd seen the picture you mentioned, the large target on the gates is wonderful.
Ultimately this is all a compromise and I'm pretty happy that I'm now getting close to something which I can live with. I'm not going to be able to extend the room by another 17 feet just to get more space for the home signal!
The double slip is a bit of a problem, in model form I've joined the tie-bars together as is conventional so I'm not going to separate them now. Again if I was going to have the levers for the yard separate from the frame it might make more sense. The ground disk did allow a train to exit the yard from either line. I think swapping over levers 8 and 9 might help avoid the nasty pull of 8 between 7 and 9.
Having levers 10 and 11 on the main frame is a convenience for the model. My signalman has a helicopter eye view..
Only just managed to get back on line following a computer problem that hit when I had almost finished the locking table last night. Wiped out that work as well as the web access.
Anyway while off line I did manage to redo the table so here it is.
There are a couple of differences between this and John's above. The main one being the method of preventing simultaneous entry. I used 24 rel by 6 to achieve this. John has used 2 locks 19 and 24 locks 5. On balance I prefer John's method so use that.
If it were me I would not want to spend time and money building spare levers. Why not use the spares for the siding hand points? Pull betweens and the signalman's view are not an issue for the model as Dave says.
Thanks for that Keith, very useful.
Now, I can think about painting the lever frame to avoid concentrating on building the fiddle yard!
I have managd to re-install JMRI and have set up a simulation for your frame using only ADD conditions as would be the case if using CANCOND firmware.
All appears to be OK, so far as I can see the locking works as required.
It uses JMRI 4.12, if the panel does not come up properly there could be a discrepancy with the paths to the icons from older JMRI versions. | Well, there certainly were some railways which did not believe in shunt signals at all, and I suppose the question is - how was the layout worked? Since there are no facilities to run round the train, I assume that the practice was perhaps to leave the local goods train just inside signal 2, then work wagons off/onto the front of the train and in those circumstances, the signalman could certainly use the Green Locking Defeater out of the window (yes you will have to model it!). But alternatively, the presence of signal 7 might indicate that the train was backed into the sidings then wagons worked between the sidings using the main line as a headshunt, in which case a signal might have been a useful indication to the drivers going in and out of the sidings with cuts of wagons.
That leads to a question concerning your point 11 - is this just a headshunt (in which case, better perhaps to have the point standing the other way) or is it a "kick-back" traffic siding? If the latter, how was it worked? Did they have a horse or was it fly / pole / chain shunted? It must have been some such as there is no signalling to work the loco to the Stoke end of any wagons.
Perhaps photos have the evidence?
The photographs I show seem to show the pick-up goods either left on mainline or shunted into the siding at the front of the yard. The other side of the diamond was only a short cattle dock and not long enough to really be used as a head-shunt. Between points 10 and 11 sat the goods shed and I suspect that pickup goods probably used the length of the train to act as 'reach wagons' to go through the shed and pickup/drop wagons in the yard beyond. Frankly I can't see how siding 11 was shunted without recourse to GER class GG or a pinch bar!
I do have documented a freight train leaving Cambridge 'for Clare' which implies that on occasions a train may have been run around and send back the way it came.
I obviously need to make the diagram clearer, my intention was that point 7 operated the far end of the double slip as well as the connection to the yard and the shunting signal was lever 8.
barhamd wrote: I do have documented a freight train leaving Cambridge 'for Clare' which implies that on occasions a train may have been run around and send back the way it came.
As a Lancashire Lad, I'm not too sure which end is Cambridge... but of course a loco CAN run round (from either direction), using the main arms and a bit of Shunt into Forward Section / Blocking Back, but what it cannot then do, is get back to the same end it arrived on. So it would make sense if the train arrived from the Stoke end, did its work, ran round then departed back to Stoke - assuming that the brake van was put in the yard off the back first, then worked out last to be dropped on the back of the departing train just before the loco ran round. Though it would then need flagging out as there is no backing signal.
Of course, working your mill siding would mean leaving the train out on the main line with only the staff for protection - but then this is the Land of the Carrot Crunchers ... Oops, I mean - out in the sticks ... Sorry - Countryside. So zero risk there.
One of the trickier bits of modelling rural stations is that a lot of work was done using things like pinch bars / horses / poles / chains and they are not easy to model!
If the g/f is released by Annetts key, that lets the goods train guard shunt the mill siding, but causes problems for everyone else, since the g/f cannot be unlocked except by train crews, which means that the level crossing cannot be opened until the train gets to it... Which also means that the signalman has to clear 24 with the crossing not clear and that the distant below 24 is not needed and distant 1 should be fixed, as the crossing will always be against the train. Or have I missed something? I would suggest that the g/f would be operated by a member of the station staff and released from the box. It would then be opened before a train from Stoke is accepted.
All shunting of the mill siding will obstruct the crossing, which is therefore going to spend some time across the road. This is not likely to be popular (which is not to say it never happened).
In reality the level crossing was about 1/4 mile away from the river bridge. This meant that the gate keeper would have had a lever which locked the gates and 'the mangle' which pulled the slot off on the distant signal coming from Stoke and also on the distant arm on the Stoke bound starter (also slotted). My intention is that these operations remain unchanged. The signalman at Clare was quite able to pull of the starter before the gates had been closed, the driver would see from the distant signal for the gates whether or not they were cleared and would expect to have to stop at the next signal (the red light on the gates) unless the distant was clear. Although in pure distance terms in my model world you are right that the home signal would probably have been the other side of the crossing with the river bridge and some trees as a bit of a scenic break it makes sense to leave it in the same position it had relative to the crossing on the prototype.
The Annett's key was only intended to allow shunting of the mill siding, so I had envisioned it locking the FPL on the ground frame. Once unlocked with the key from the train staff the goods could be shunted into the mill yard. Again in reality, had a siding been put in at this point the chances are there would have been two frames, one for the siding arrangement and a separate arrangement for the crossing keeper.
Blocking the road while shunting isn't a problem, cars would have been few and far between in that part of darkest Suffolk.
David, I expect you are probably already aware of the excellent picture of Ashen Road crossing at http://www.stourline.co.uk/page47.htm (Picture no.36, and in colour, no less!), showing an enlarged target performing the function of 'gate home' signal.
I'll stick my head above the parapet with the diagram below, which sets out my take on the required locking. Those with a better grasp of the principles than I can shoot holes in it as they see fit.
I quite understand your desire to concentrate controls for points in a single frame, but assume you recognise that in practice putting 10 and 11 points under the signalman's control would be highly inconvenient because his view of the yard where those points are located would be obstructed by the station building. Might it be worth considering including their controls in the frame, but excluding them from the numbering sequence – and perhaps putting their lever quadrants a short distance from the others?
I'm not clear about your intentions as regards the control of the double slip, as the diagram suggests a different arrangement from that on the prototype, in which the switch immediately adjacent to the number 9 on your diagram was ground worked, whilst the other switch at that end of the slip was controlled from the box (i.e. the switch controlling a movement either into the goods shed or its adjacent road from the running line). Perhaps it's your intention instead to gang these switches together, as in the case of the switches controlled by 7. But if not, then the switch leading from the dock road (to the right of the slip) will need a lever to control it independently, and if you are concentrating switches into the one frame then a place must be found in it for this lever, as for 10 and 11.
Either way, there remains a slight problem in that signal 8 reads over approaches to the double slip both from the goods shed and from the road adjacent to it. Potentially this may make it possible to clear 8 for a movement that will burst one of the switches at the other end of the slip.
I haven't changed the numbering of levers controlling the slip and its adjacent ground signal, but there's an opportunity here to eliminate the awkward 'pull between' sequence for the signalman of 7 then 9 then 8.
Which in 4mm terms means about 17ft. I don't know how much space you have available, but given the usual sort of available space, I assume the crossing to be much closer to the station, and possibly even within station limits. If that is so, it would probably have been dealt with, in signalling terms, very differently (also possibly, but not necessarily, true for the siding connection). Selective compression is | 1,820 |
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– Twice rose to fame in 2016 with their single "Cheer Up": the song charted at number 1 on the Gaon Digital Chart and became the best-performing single of the year. It also won "Song of the Year" at two major music awards shows—Melon Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards.[3][4][5] Their subsequent single "TT", from their third EP Twicecoaster: Lane 1, claimed the top spot for four consecutive weeks. The EP was the highest selling K-pop girl group album of 2016, which sold 350,852 copies by year-end.[6][7] Within 19 months after debut, Twice has sold over 1.2 million units of their four EPs and special album.[8][9]
– The group officially debuted in Japan on June 28, 2017, under Warner | 488 |
Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City.
Atlantic City's Trump Plaza could be an open lot by the spring.
"I've been advised they're going to implode the building," said Dale Finch, the<|fim_middle|> given yet, but expects it could be done by February or early March.
"They want to get it down, and we want to get it down," Finch said.
"I think it's a great property that ultimately could get turned into another great venue," said Kenneth Calemmo, co-chair of the Economic Development Committee of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber.
He said he has not heard of any plans, but that the spot is a perfect one to get attention.
The property still is zoned for a casino, but Calemmo said razing the current facility would likely make it more attractive.
The building is in the process of being cleared out, and then asbestos must be removed, Finch said.
The razing process would include various inspections, along with notifying neighboring building owners and likely cordoning off a section of the city's famous Boardwalk.
"It's a pretty big project," Finch said.
The city wants to make sure everything is done before spring, so that it doesn't hinder the incoming tourist season, he added.
No paperwork has been filed with the city at this time. | city's director of licensing and inspection.
The casino has been closed for more than three years.
Finch said there has been no timeframe | 27 |
For 18 years, Sherry was Intuit's Chief People Officer, responsible for attracting top talent to Intuit and building a company culture where that talent is<|fim_middle|> the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. | empowered to do the best work of their lives. She also led Intuit's diversity and inclusion program and its community giving efforts. During her time as CHRO, the company grew from $1B in revenue and 2,000 employees to over $6B in revenue and a global workforce of 17,000.
Prior to her board position at Glint, she was co-president and board member of the Intuit Foundation for 12 years and a board member for the Alzheimer's Association of Northern California for 6 years in honor of her mother.
Before joining Intuit in 2000, Sherry worked at Silicon Graphics, where she held several senior human resources positions.
She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University, and is a graduate of the Executive General Management and the Human Resource Executive programs at | 174 |
McLennan Dance Company ranked fifth in the nation
The McLennan Dance Company is ranked fifth among the top 11 best dance teams in the nation, according to HerCampus.com, a website for college women written by the nation's top college journalists.
Under the direction of Sandy Hinton for 38 years, the McLenn<|fim_middle|> the first college dance team in the world, hold the top spot. Towson University's Dance Team, winners of 14 consecutive National Dance Alliance (NDA) national championships, ranks second. Rounding out the top five are Brigham Young University's Cougarettes, with 10 NDA championships, and the University of Louisville's Ladybirds, with nine NDA championships since 2002 and 13 top-five finishes in the last 19 years, at third and fourth, respectively.
For the complete list and performance videos of all the squads ranked, go to www.hercampus.com/life/11-best-college-dance-teams. | an squad has won 10 American Dance/Drill Team School National Championships in Division II and three ADTS Collegiate Academic Championships. In 2011, the team won the National Dance Alliance Collegiate National Championship in Division III for the fourth time in school history. McLennan first won the competition in 2001 and completed a three-peat with wins in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The squad has finished in the top three six times in the last 10 years. In 2012, the team won the ADTS Division III Hip Hop and the NDA Division II Hip Hop title for the first time in school history. The squad captured its second consecutive ADTS hip hop title in 2013. Those teams have featured 26 All-Americans.
Kilgore College's world-famous Rangerettes, founded in 1939 as | 197 |
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This secure, resort style living neighborhood offers endless activities and amenities on property so you can fill your social calendar day or night. Ideally located in Palm Beach Gardens, you're close to shopping, galleries, movie theatres, restaurants and more. So whether you want to live it up or kick back and relax, the Seville has your number.
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Settle in and soak up the good life. The Seville is Florida living redefined with gorgeous Spanish style exteriors and interiors that are ideally suited for your comfort and style. With elegant touches, modern finishes and private balconies with scenic water or courtyard views, this is the kind of living that reenergizes the soul over and over again | 186 |
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Fifty years ago on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to land on the moon. This undertaking was an enormous challenge, requiring technical innovation, countless hours of devoted work, and a big dose of courage. It was heralded at the time as the dawn of space travel. We were told that soon everyday people would be traveling to other planets and then the stars. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but let's look at what happened instead. The transformation based upon space travel did not go exactly as planned. Instead it has gone far beyond what was envisioned. Let's consider some of the reasons for the technical and cultural revolution that has ensued.
When President Kennedy made his famous speech in 1961 stating that the USA would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, there was no clear plan for how to do that. There were some general ideas, but there were many things yet to be discovered and developed. However, the focus on putting a man on the moon did bring together three vital enabling elements of the space program's success. First, there was a clear goal or mission that galvanized everyone involved into action. Second, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) went on a hiring spree to bring in bright, young, technically savvy engineers and scientists (the average age of Apollo 11's mission control team was 28) who could both envision and design the needed systems. Third, the integrated circuit technology (computer chip – invented in 1961) received a massive investment which set it on a path of ever-increasing processing capability at an ever-decreasing size and use of power. This combination of a clear goal, innovative resources, and technological capability came together to give us the moon landing on July 20, 1969.
The USA space program's innovative journey of discovery has impacted far more than the transportation sector in society. The program fundamentally transformed society around the world. This was not part of the original plan. But the results of the space program opened doors that were beyond most people's wildest dreams. Let me just point out two of the innovations that occurred and their impact.
As already mentioned, the development of the integrated circuit, or computer chip, was greatly accelerated by the NASA program. The result was the creation of an industry and technology that was not even foreseen in science fiction at the time. Today, virtually every electrical device that is manufactured has a chip in it doing data processing or communication. When the space program started, computers were based upon vacuum tube technology. Today, vacuum tubes are only found in museums. This technical innovation, the computer chip, did not stay confined to its original sphere of development in the space program. Computer use spread and transformed every other aspect of society.
That is the hardware perspective, so now let's think about software innovation. When NASA started the space program, the program plan did not include the word "software." There was no budget, no resources, and no time allowed in the plan to develop software because software as we now know it did not exist. Keep in mind this was ten years before Microsoft was started. The only people who interacted with computers were engineers and scientists. The idea of a user interface did not exist. NASA pioneered the development of the principles of software design that were needed to make the integrated circuit computer chip work within the system. Part of that was the creation of the user interface keypad and screen. A new technical discipline, software, was born. It has grown to dominate innovation and 50 years after the start of the space program Marc Andressen wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal, "Why Software is Eating the World." Software controls how we interact with technology, and that often includes how our customers interact with us.
As we look at society today, nearly every aspect of our life has been impacted by innovations that can trace their roots back to the NASA space program. Consider the field of medicine. Medical imaging technology, mapping the genome, and patient monitoring would be impossible without the innovations from the space program. Or consider communication. Smart phones, wireless systems<|fim_middle|> of the 1950s. The second reason is that digital transformation opens up a world of possibilities and opportunities. The fact that you don't know all of them at the beginning is not a reason to hold back. Instead, go forward and select the path that you believe will be best for you, your company, and society. Digital transformation is an enabler of the future. Go down the path and see what the future reveals.
Let's go back a moment and look at the elements of the NASA space program that combined to put a man on the moon. You should strive to ensure your digital transformation has these same elements. First was the clear goal. While there are many opportunities that are created by digital transformation, a near-term goal is needed to focus the effort. This goal should come from senior leadership and be clearly articulated and supported. The second is to apply the appropriate resources to achieve the goal. Assign the people in your organization who are expert at what you do and what you want your business to become. If you don't have them, hire them and give this team the time and money to do the job right. Finally, embrace the technologies that are at the heart of digital transformation. The specific applications will be based upon your industry and your products. Regardless of the application, you need the core of digital communication, data acquisition from every product and process in your value chain, data processing to turn that data into business intelligence, and the computer processing power do each of those.
So, let's commemorate the moon landing and the insight, innovation, and courage of all those involved. Then let's use the example of the NASA space program to inspire our own digital transformation. The future may not be exactly what we predict – it's likely to be far better!
Raymond Sheen
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Raymond Sheen, PMP® LSS BB, is president and founder of Product & Process Innovation, Inc. He is a veteran business leader with over 30 years of executive, engineering management, and project management experience deploying new technology and improving business performance. He has consulted and trained companies in various industries and business functions including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, service, IT, and Finance. Ray is author of the book, Guide to Building Your Business Case, published by Harvard Business Review Press. Ray received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and his M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has a graduate certificate in Digital Leadership and Strategy from Boston University.
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Copyright © 2022 The Institute for Digital Transformation, LLC · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy | , even the internet, have roots in the space program. Transportation systems today are orders of magnitude better than the 1950's in speed and reliability. We have seen the impact of these transformative systems in industries like retail, agriculture, banking, energy, and entertainment. And the nature of the changes and improvement are far beyond anything envisioned by the NASA engineers who were trying to put a man on the moon.
So, what does this have to do with digital transformation? Your business, once it has started on the transformation journey, will likely change in ways that you can't even envision at this time. Today we can't imagine doing business without our smart phones, yet the iPhone was first introduced in 2007. There are millions of apps that have integrated the smartphone into every aspect of our life. The capabilities of Siri and Alexa are constantly expanding as household systems are integrated with those devices. Other new technologies, like blockchain, have the potential to change the way business is transacted and to transform culture and society. Your digital transformation plans may not include these items now, but if they become dominant you will need to adapt. The point is, you cannot know precisely where your digital transformation will take you. You may have a goal, but it is just a door to many more possibilities.
Now that may sound scary. Why invest in something if you can't predict the result of the investment? There are two reasons. The first is that your competitors are investing in digital transformation and when they discover the new business models and opportunities, your business will soon be like the vacuum tube manufacturers | 321 |
The well-known company named Kakadu Designs was founded in 1990 by the husband and wife team of Aharon and Reut Shahar. Located in the Elah Valley of Israel, master carpenter Aharon and artist Reut opened their first store in Jerusalem in 1994, selling their hand made, hand painted<|fim_middle|> in another and left its natural color on the rest of the vase. It's decorated with retro motifs, reminiscent of the 1950's but also of aborigine paintings of Australia, where the Kakadu Wilderness is located (notice the twiggy trees painted on the back). The talented Shahars designed the Picabu Restaurant at Walt Disney World in Orlando and created the wonderful art that fills the walls.
This vase stands 13 inches tall, with a 4 inch diameter mouth and a 2 3/4 inch wide base. The artist's hand written signature, "Reut S." in black is on the back of the vase, while the bottom is hand signed, also in black, with "KAKADU" and their logo, an outline sketch of two joined cockatoos (kakadu is another word for cockatoo). The vase weighs a mere 1/4 pound and is in very good condition, with no cracks, no paint loss and just one small chip at the very bottom of the back (pictured). The vase can hold dried or silk flowers only, though it's so appealing simply as sculptural modernist décor. | decorative items, like this tall bentwood vase of theirs. The wrapped cylinder shape is fastened with a brass rivet and has an angled rim and a narrow base that give it a modernist appeal. The wood is stained red in one section, dark brown | 52 |
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While it is a relatively simple test to perform, the interpretation of the ECG tracing requires significant amounts of training. Numerous textbooks are devoted to the subject. | us achieve insights into human emotions and their relationship to the intellectual dimension of human functioning.
This test is used to detect signs of nerve injury.
Or University of Martial arts styles endorsement. I tell them not to. Smaller sensors One major advantage of this sensor is that it does not need to carry any kind of power supply, because the radio signals that the external MRI scanner emits are enough to power the sensor.
Children and adults think in basically the same ways. Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence AI is the field within computer science that seeks to explain and to emulate, through mechanical or computational processes, some or all aspects of human intelligence.
These same pathways, however, also become the mental ruts that make it difficult to reorganize the information mentally so as to see it from a different perspective. Students do not always have the necessary skills to teach one another effectively. This fact is apparent when we observe the behavior of young children.
Imagine you are a biology teacher who is teaching students about the nature of evolution. Humans make use of general knowledge—the millions of things that are known and applied to a situation—both consciously and subconsciously.
Every emotion has a cognitive component that distinguishes it from other emotions. Discourse is unique among human activities in that it subsumes all other activities within itself.
The human mind, as I understand it, is comprised, at minimum, of three basic functions: To develop our awareness of the nature of the human mind and how it functions we must be careful not to over-emphasize the importance of "brain" research. This processing includes judgments concerning meaning, relevance, and significance, as well as the mental actions necessary to integrate selected portions of the information into long-term memory.
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Experts say artificial intelligence is coming sooner than you think and robotics will soon replace everyday human jobs, such as driving cars, operating machinery and even making the perfect salad.
Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham tests a semaphore telegraph, mounting the semaphores on ships in the English Channel. The telegraph spawns signals communication, and the analysis thereof, called "signals intelligence" (SIGINT).
Arc lights are used in the Paris Opera House.
Dolbear also work on converting sound waves into electrical. A nerve conduction velocity test (NCV) is an electrical test that is used to determine the adequacy of the conduction of the nerve impulse as it courses down a nerve.
This test is used to detect signs of nerve injury. In this test, the nerve is electrically stimulated, and the electrical impulse 'down stream' from the | 823 |
Révolte au Mexique (Wings<|fim_middle|>ain Ricardo Alba.
C'est aussi le premier film de Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (1925-2006), qui a notamment souvent joué avec John Wayne.
C'est le premier film a utilisé le format panoramique 1,85 (rapport 5,5/3)
Notes et références
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Film américain sorti en 1953
Western américain
Film tourné en Technicolor
Film se déroulant au Mexique
Film réalisé par Budd Boetticher
Film d'Universal Pictures
Adaptation d'un roman britannique au cinéma | of the Hawk) est un film américain tourné en relief (3D) par Budd Boetticher, sorti en 1953.
Synopsis
1911, au Mexique. Irish Gallagher, un "gringo", se retrouve impliqué dans la Révolution mexicaine aux côtés de Pascual Orozco à la suite de la confiscation de sa mine par l'administration.
Fiche technique
Titre original : Wings of the Hawk
Titre français : Révolte au Mexique
Réalisation : Budd Boetticher
Scénario : James E. Moser, d'après le roman Wings of the Hawk de Gerald Drayson Adams
Direction artistique : Bernard Herzbrun, Robert Clatworthy
Décors : Russell A. Gausman, Oliver Emert
Costumes : Bill Thomas
Photographie : Clifford Stine
Son : Leslie I. Carey, Joe Lapis
Montage : Russell Schoengarth
Musique : Frank Skinner
Production : Aaron Rosenberg
Production associée : David Johnston
Société de production : Universal International Pictures
Société de distribution : Universal Pictures
Pays d'origine :
Langue originale : anglais
Format : couleur (Technicolor) — 35 mm — 1,85:1 (Universal 3-D) — son Stéréo 3 canaux (Western Electric Recording)
Genre : Western
Durée : 80 minutes
Dates de sortie :
: (première mondiale à Los Angeles)
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Distribution
Autour du film
C'est le premier film américain de l'acteur mexic | 350 |
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums
Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).
Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction
Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).
Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30
Cabinet of Natural History
Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories
Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00
Contemporary Political Theory
Anger and Remorse
Adam Etison (St. Andrews).
Brewery Room, Jesus College..
Friday 21 January 2022, 13:00-14:30
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).
Early Science and Medicine
Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)
Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).
Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.
Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30
CANCELLED: The Rights of People with Disabilities in the Climate Crisis, Sébastien Jodoin
Sébastien Jodoin.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rights-of-people-with-disabilities-in-the-climate-crisis-tickets-190195669367?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.
Wednesday 01 December 2021, 17:00-18:30
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ways of worldfaking
Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids
Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).
Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment
Lina Weber (University of St Andrews).
Keynes Hall, King's College.
Monday 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).
Causal explanation and revealed preferences
Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).
Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.
Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00
At the Crossroads: The Digital Rights Movement in Times of Data Coloniality, Sebastián Lehuedé
Sebastián Lehuedé.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-the-crossroads-the-digital-rights-movement-in-times-of-data-coloniality-tickets-190198267137?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.
Wednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China
Dror Weil (Faculty of History).
Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989
Michal Kopeček (Cambridge).
Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy
Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
A Reductionist Account of Relationship Duties
Adam Swift (UCL).
Friday 19 November 2021, 13:00-14:30
Physical computations are idealisations
Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).
Climate storylines and managing uncertainty
Mathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).
Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil
Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects
Vera Keller (University of Oregon).
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.
The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America
Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).
Book Launch: 'When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans', by Sharath Srinivasan.
Sharath Srinivasan.
Event will be by invitation only. see below.
Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe
Book Launch: Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen
Stephanie Diepeveen.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-searching-for-a-new-kenya-tickets-190194656337?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.
Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing
Jacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter
Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).
The Political Thought of Charles Malik
Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .
The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain
João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery
Helen McCabe (Nottingham).
Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold
McConnell Lecture
Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).
Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653
Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland).
Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica
Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).
Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk
Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge
Special session, 10am, online only
Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).
Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30
Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy
Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge).
Monday 25 October 2021, 17:00-18:30
'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus
Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).
Rausing Lecture
The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).
The Theatre, Peterhouse.
Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800
Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).
Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany
Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge).
The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832
Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Chris Otter (Ohio State University).
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John's College, Cambridge).
The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history
Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?
Dr Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Dr Birgit Pauksztat (Uppsala University), Dr Sanley Abila (University of the Phillipines Visayas), Dr Helen Devereux (Solent University), .
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.
Thursday 10 June 2021, 12:00-13:30
Exploring the implications of online assemblies
Francesca Fanucci (ECNL), Evelyn Douek (Harvard Law School), Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge Sociology/CGHR), Dr Thomas Probert (Univ. Pretoria/CGHR), .
Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:30
Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'
Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley).
Monday 24 May 2021, 17:00-18:30
Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum
Ella Larsson (University of Westminster).
Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic
Sean Valles (Michigan State University).
Book launch: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World (Severine Autesserre, Barnard College- Columbia University).
Speaker to be confirmed.
Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:15
The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century
Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.
Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"
Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).
The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Nazmul Sultan (Christ's College, University of Cambridge).
Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland
Franziska Holt (University of York).
Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico
Dr Federico Subervi-Vélez, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, Journalist, Puerto Rico; Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Northwestern University.
Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization
Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).
James Bryce and the concepts of constitution
Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .
Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants
Christoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).
Jenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).
Sir William Petty's Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).
Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction
Amelia Urry (University of Cambridge).
World models and intuition in the 1970s
Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge).
Thursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00
Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill
Ellen Fridland (King's College London).
Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940
Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).
Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30
Separation of Powers as a New Theory
Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).
Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00
Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850
Andreas Weber (University of Twente).
Practitioner Series: Mária Patakyová [Public Defender of Rights]
Mariá Patakyová.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-maria-patakyova-tickets-136594151785.
Thursday 11 March 2021, 17:00-18:30
Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past
David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).
Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road
Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).
Audre Lorde on Care
Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).
Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30
Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939
Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).
What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?
Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s
Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).
Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification
Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).
Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge
Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).
Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED]
Aleksandra Dier.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-aleksandra-dier-tickets-136591521919.
Thursday 25 February 2021, 17:00-18:30
Drawing processes
Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).
From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory
Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).
Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).
Experiencing Republican Texts
Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).
Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00
Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700
Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).
Normative Powers
Laura Valentini (KCL).
Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30
Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science
Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).
Kant's 'True Politics'
Susan Shell (Boston College).
A natural history of evil
Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).
Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS]
Lysa John.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-lysa-john-tickets-136589889035.
Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).
P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted
Adrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Thucydides' Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).
We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell's Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment
Tommy Curry (Edinburgh).
Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century
Josie Gill (University of Bristol).
Renaissance eugenics
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?
Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).
Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)
Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).
Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch]
Deborah Brown.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-deborah-brown-tickets-136410133381.
Truth AND consequences
Polly Mitchell (King's College London).
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).
Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power
Steven Klein (King's College London).
Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account
Udit Bhatia (Oxford).
How does process tracing work?
Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).
Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls
Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).
The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century
Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).
Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650
Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).
Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR
Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation).
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124692772439.
How to study animal minds
HPS Virtual Conversation
See description.
Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu
Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).
Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC
Max Long (Faculty of History).
Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction
Melvin Rogers (Brown).
Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case
Rebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs.
Do we live in a post-truth era?
Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).
Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship
Haixin Dang (University of Leeds).
Gender and generation in premodern Europe
Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).
'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality
David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..
A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires
Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).
Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia
Noémi Tousignant (University College London).
Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan
Victoria Lee (Ohio University).
The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Brandon Terry (Harvard University).
'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62
Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory
Vanessa Wills (George Washington).
A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
Anita McConnell Lecture
Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).
Learning from case studies
Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).
The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain
Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).
Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy
Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).
Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes
Christopher Preston.
The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)
Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).
Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State
Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).
Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830
Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).
Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem
Annette Zimmermann (York).
Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30
(Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools
Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020
Henrice Altink (University of York).
Science and speculation
Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).
Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30
The first Egyptian society
Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).
Thomas Paine in the French Revolution
Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).
Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany
Elaine Ayers (New York University).
Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993
Grace Redhead (University College London).
Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).
Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips
Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).
Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt
Bonnie Honig (Brown).
Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science
Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective
Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust
Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science
Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century
Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy
Title to be confirmed
Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).
Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy
Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).
Learning from sociological case studies
Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber
Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).
"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory
Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham).
Audit Room, King's College.
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).
Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Dr Ella McPherson, Sam Dubberley, Dr Alexa Koenig, Dr Daragh Murray, Matt Mahmoudi, Isabel Guenette Thornton.
Old Library at Pembroke College.
Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?
Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).
"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories": Constructing "Tory Democracy", 1881-1931
Emily Jones (Manchester).
Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s
Chris Manias (King's College London).
Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes
Colleen Murphy (Illinois).
Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar
Please note that this seminar is on a Friday
Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).
The good news about killing people
Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).
Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848
Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.
On pluralism in psychiatry
Miriam Solomon (Temple University).
Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).
The search for invertebrate consciousness
Jonathan Birch (LSE).
'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974
Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).
Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury
Robin Douglass (KCL).
Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India
Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).
Political Responsibility
Jude Browne (Cambridge).
Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya
Sabine Clarke (University of York).
Creativity and AI
Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30
Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge
Susan James (Birkbeck).
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925
Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).
"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan
Richard Caplan - Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Room S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.
How atoms became real
Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time
Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).
Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"
Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).
'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900
Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
Fabienne Peter (Warwick).
Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds
Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
Dror Weil (King's College London).
Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'
Adam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.
Monday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00
Coffee with Scientists
Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication
James Dolan (King's College).
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
Bryan Roberts (LSE).
Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa
Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).
The Neoliberal Turn
Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).
Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces
Dr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis.
Newnham College, Lucia Windsor Room.
Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean?
Professor Susan Marks, LSE.
Room S1, ARB.
1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science
Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).
Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach
Desiree Weber (College of Wooster).
Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research
Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).
Pluralism about actual causation
Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
Elaine Leong (University College London).
Digital Verification Workshop
Ray Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge.
Angevin Room, Queens' College.
Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël
Adela Halo (QML).
'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology
Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Science and the approximation account of knowledge
Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).
'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI
Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).
The replication crisis and philosophy
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).
Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life
Heinrich Meier (LMU).
Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur
Matt Holmes (CRASSH).
What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet
Alec Christie (Zoology).
Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy
David Owen (Southampton).
The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)
Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).
CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?
Professor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge.
An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Sahanika Ratnayake (Faculty of Philosophy).
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).
Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen).
It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)
Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria – the evolutionary ABCs
Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s
Arathi Sriprakash and Peter Sutoris (Faculty of Education).
Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal
Henry Shevlin (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).
Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution
Miriam Leonard (UCL).
Radical Reparations
Daniel Butt (Oxford).
Student recruitment for research team - "THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ONLINE"
Venue to be confirmed.
Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africa's Digital Revolution: Power to the People
Dr Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church.
Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
On validators for psychiatric categories
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).
Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy
Serena Ferente (KCL).
The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800
Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).
Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality
Donatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi.
Angevin room, Queens College.
Pluralism and monism in design fixation research
Nathan Crilly (Engineering Design).
Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki
Michael Barany (University of Edinburgh).
Information Session for new Student Group 2019/20 members and coordinator
Dr Ella McPherson; Dr Sharath Srinivasan.
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913
Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).
Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Katrina Forrester (Harvard University).
Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis
Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).
Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy
Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).
From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions
Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).
Does science progress?
Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:30
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico's La Scienza Nuova
Dr Felix Waldmann (Cambridge).
Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.
Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).
Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.
Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS
Jenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).
Early modern history of data and epistemology of form
Aaron Hanlon (Colby College).
Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Jill Frank (Cornell University).
Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)
Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry
Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).
How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back
Ulrika Björkstén (Clare Hall; Sveriges Radio).
Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy
Riana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
Samuel Zeitlin (Chicago) .
When is a cow not a cow?
Harriet Ritvo (MIT).
The instrument of science
CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today
Suyin Haynes, Haley Joelle Ott, Dr Maha Rafi Atal.
The Plantation's Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Adom Getachew (University of Chicago).
Monday 29 April 2019, 17:00-19:00
The politics of the potato in the 19th century
Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).
Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War
Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
How should the UK govern itself in the time of Brexit?
Professor Mike Kenny (POLIS).
SG1/2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices
Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, Robinson Way (Close to the Junction of Robinson Way and Long Road), CB2 0SZ.
Sunday 24 March 2019, 11:00-16:00
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).
Britain in Europe, 1973–1975: From Hope to Uncertainty
Dr Lindsay Aqui.
S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance
Prof Rosalind Gill, City University of London.
Room B, 17 Mill Lane.
Languages of Constituent Power
Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge).
Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Ethics for Communication in a Digital Age
Baroness Onora O'Neill (Emeritus Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge).
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College.
How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa's Voices Foundation
Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church .
V-Dem: measuring democracy
Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).
Legitimacy and eectiveness of the European Semester: does the parliamentary involvement make a dierence?
Ivana Skazlic.
138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots aect Europeans' understandings of themselves and society
Gil Thompson.
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch
Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.
A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).
BOOK TALK - Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
Professor Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University).
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).
The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present
Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin).
The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).
Left Critiques of Equality
Anne Phillips (LSE).
The Future of British Foreign Policy (Book launch celebration)
Professor Christopher Hill.
History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s
Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).
Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory
Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).
Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations
Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).
CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War
Raffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines .
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged
Dr Sam Friedman, London School of Economics.
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Catherine Arnold (Memphis).
Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).
Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people
Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O'Brien KBE
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O'Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Beauty, truth and understanding
Giants and national identity in early modern Europe
Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).
Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism
Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University).
Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).
Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History
Lyndsey Stonebridge (Birmingham).
Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan
Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).
A political history of apolitical science
Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).
The Power of Political Arguments in Understanding Referendums (European Centre Seminars)
Dr Ece Özlem Atikcan.
'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi
Dr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya.
Spatial experience: more than mere structure
Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).
Anatomy museum on the move
Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).
Is Europe Christian?
Prof Oliver Roy, European University Institute.
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Patient reported outcome measures are different
Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).
The Humanitarian Club
Professor Michael Barnett (George Washington University).
Non-literal model interpretations
James Nguyen (UCL).
Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine
Hannah Murphy (King's College London).
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar
Professor Ian Holliday, The University of Hong Kong.
Room 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth).
Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Emancipation for the Unjust Past
Alasia Nuti (York).
Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).
Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools
Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).
Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about?
Prof Sarah Franklin, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge.
Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
Genie Yoo (Princeton University).
Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019)
Professor Erik Jones.
The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance
Prof. Jens Steffek (Darmstadt).
Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature
Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International
Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International.
Explanatory directionality
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge).
Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums
Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm
Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).
University Museum of Zoology.
The Logic of Legitimacy
Amanda Greene (UCL).
Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine
Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).
Decolonising the history of science curriculum
Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).
Seizing the Crisis and Using Europe: The Politics of EU Defence Integration Cooperation after Brexit'
Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau.
Room S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)
Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).
Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00
'Why should one care about European Parliament's elections in the post-Brexit European Union?'
Dr Donatella Viola (University of Calabria) .
S2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
The C theory of time
Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).
'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution
Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford).
Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).
The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law
Carmen Pavel (KCL).
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Global Governance of Migration
Dr Sara Silvestri, City, University of London.
Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Amanda Rees (University of York).
'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation
Tal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).
Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
Katie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress
Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS).
SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, cb3 9dt.
Political Theory for the Real World
Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh).
Room 138, Alison Richard Building.
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872
Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Being human, being Homo sapiens
Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).
'What is "Global Britain"? Brexit and Britain's World Role'
Dr Oliver Daddow (Nottingham University) .
Memory: what is it good for?
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Marissa Mika (University College London).
Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference
Clare College, Cambridge .
Coercion in a Subjective World
Daniel Luban (Yale University).
Critical conversations: intersectionality and sociology
Professor Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland.
Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.
Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future
Prof Anthony Giddens, Prof Patrick Baert, Dr Ali Meghji, Prof Jackie Scott, Prof J Thompson.
Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).
Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope
Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh).
Probabilistic actual causation
Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London).
Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean
Sam Robinson (University of York).
Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination
Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick).
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin (CUNY).
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).
'Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation: National Governments as the Weaker Actors?'
Dr Tomáš Weiss (Charles University Prague) .
Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two
Mat Paskins (London School of Economics).
Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments
Karina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).
How to do things with sensors
Prof Jennifer Gabrys, Cambridge Sociology Department.
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Philippa Byrne (University of Oxford).
Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685
Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).
Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts
Sylvie Delacroix (Birmingham).
Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science
Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford).
A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution
Koji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds
Kaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen).
Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series
Karim Thébault (University of Bristol).
Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)
Nanjala Nyabola, writer, indepentent researcher and political analyst.
Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus
Dr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University.
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959
Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE).
Recent developments in EU energy and climate policy
Dr Alex Bocse (LSE) .
Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France
Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University).
The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion
Stephen Holmes (NYU).
Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
Emma Spary (Faculty of History).
A Just Theory of Riots
Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton).
How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America
Joe Bassi (University of Texas, El Paso).
Many Molyneux Questions
Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris).
Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius
Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge).
The long-lost Paston Collection
Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Note unusual day and time
Sonja Amadae (MIT).
Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction
Mazviita D. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh).
Practical Competition Policy Implications of Digital Platforms: Taking Schumpeter Seriously (Departmental Seminar)
What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?
Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University; Durham University).
Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory
Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen).
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869
Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).
Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ian Shapiro (Yale).
Upper Hall, Jesus College.
Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:30
Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Andreas Malm (Lund University).
Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda
Renny Thomas (University of Delhi).
Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University).
A new way to defend the value free ideal for science
Mike Stuart (LSE).
Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)
Valentina Arena (UCL).
Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)
László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).
From Discord to Cooperation? Armenia and Turkey in the 21st Century
Dr Geoffrey Edwards (University of Cambridge).
SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.
Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America
Erika Milam (Princeton University).
Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration
Agnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).
Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?
Professor Anand Menon.
Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.
Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?
Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.
Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery
Bruno Leipold (Frankfurt).
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)
Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model
Dr Pasquale Annicchino.
Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action
Dr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS).
Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media
Wendy S. Parker (Durham University).
Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket
Siva Arumugam (Cambridge).
Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower
Natalie Gold (King's College London).
Fear and loathing in modern warfare
Prof Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA.
Room 3, Mill Lane.
Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias
Janet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate.
Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.
Representation and the Fall
Eric Nelson (Harvard) .
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade
Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).
Statistical biases in peer review
Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).
Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space
Prof Laura Shepherd, Sydney University & Dr Maria Martin de Almagro, POLIS.
Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March)
Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
Saturday 17 March 2018, 09:00-17:00
Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service
Elizabeth Savies, BBC World Service.
Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP.
How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument
Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).
Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin
Herjeet Marway (Birmingham).
A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times
Lord Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London).
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH.
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University).
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices
Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices.
King's Audit Room, King's College.
The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers).
How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge
Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University.
Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.
Disaggregating goods
Please note change of day and time
Mariam Thalos (University of Utah).
Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
Yari Perez-Marin (Durham University).
Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy
Kenzie Bok (Harvard).
Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s
Caterina Schürch (LMU München).
Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US
John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania).
The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920s–1950s
Susan Jones (University of Minnesota).
CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE
Andrea Coomber, Director, JUSTICE.
Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?
Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego).
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge).
Digital Fakery and its Consequences
Dr Ella McPherson, Cambridge Sociology Department.
Room G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.
"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution
Karma Nabulsi (Oxford).
Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).
The Doctor's Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began
Samuel Moyn (Yale).
Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars
Jack Stilgoe (UCL).
No interpretation of probability
Wolfgang Schwarz (University of Edinburgh).
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
Valerie Worth (University of Oxford).
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
Richard Tuck (Harvard).
Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
Simon Werrett (UCL).
Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty
Heather Widdows (Birmingham).
Sugar, science and the history of capitalism
David Singerman (University of Virginia).
People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China
Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore).
CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room
Alix Dunn, Executive Director, The Engine Room.
Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment
Bennett Holman (Yonsei University).
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).
A Postcolonial Rethinking of the State and Nation: From Comparative to Connected Sociologies
Professor Gurminder Bhambra, University of Essex.
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John Stuart Mill on Universal History
Callum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63
Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
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Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics
Casey McCoy (University of Edinburgh).
Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity
J. Brian Pitts (Faculty of Philosophy).
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
Margaret Charleroy (University<|fim_middle|> Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria) .
Making sense of art and science
Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent).
Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept
Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).
Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A
Arash Kamali Sarvestani, director.
What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?
Emily Thomas (Durham University).
The Weaponisation of Human Rights
Chase Madar, attorney, author and journalist.
Friday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30
Stratification, Centralization, and the Structures of International Societies
Professor Jack Donnelly (University of Denver).
Departmental Seminar- 'A New Global Politics of Religion: Religious Harmony, Public Order, and Securitisation in the Post-colony'
Dr Iza Hussin.
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Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation
Alisa Bokulich (Boston University).
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
James Stark (University of Leeds).
Corruption as a global threat
Laurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS.
Hybrid capture? A comparative perspective on the political economy of biomedical innovation in the age of neoliberal science
Dr Stuart Hogarth, Cambridge Sociology Department.
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Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany
Clara Maier.
A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).
Let's Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia
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Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa
Saul Dubow (Faculty of History).
Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?
Gilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council.
Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'
Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
Erica Charters (University of Oxford).
Jon Elster's Sour Grapes
Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam).
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Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).
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Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge & MIT).
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A bold hypothesis about pursuit
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Nadia Urbinati (Columbia).
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Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).
Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion
Cecile Laborde (Oxford).
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Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies
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Grilling season is upon us and an all time favorite is of course ribs. I find they can be tricky to grill well, leaving them succulent and moist but still with the proper charring to remember it IS summer. I have a tried and true recipe to share for St. Louis Pork Ribs.
The June/July 2011 issue of Saveur magazine is devoted to barbecuing of all types. There is a great chart in the middle of the issue with a small write up on different cuts of meat. They describe St. Louis ribs as: "These are pork spareribs that have been trimmed of the rib tips, skirt meat and the point so that the shape is neat, and uniformly rectangular. St Louis ribs are long and slender with a nice amount of meat on them'. I personally find them to have just the right amount of fat to add fabulous flavor but not to overwhelm the digestion.
A rack of this style of ribs was about $10 at a better local butcher shop. I made 2 racks for 4 diners planning leftovers. There were a lot of leftovers and they were just as delicious the second….and third time!
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Put rack on a foil lined cookie sheet. Salt, pepper and sprinkle spice mix amply on both sides of rib rack. Place in the oven for 3 hours. Flip once halfway through.
2. Preheat a gas grill to low temperature to finish on low direct heat for approximately 30 minutes. Flip once. Ensure no flare ups or charring.
This method allows the ribs are virtually cooked when coming out of the oven but the grilling gives that tell tale flavoring to finish them off without drying them out or blackening them.
Having lived in Boulder for some time I don't think about doing many 'get to know your town' outings (unless it is food-related, then I'm always on the hunt!). A recent out-of-towner visit prompted trying an unusual outing that lived up to what the visual suggests and did leave me more knowledgeable and entertained.
Banjo Billy's is easily recognized around Boulder. Their vehicle has a school-bus-gone-backwoods-outhouse motif complete with a horn that barks like a dog, whinny's like a horse and issues a wolf 'woo hoo' whistle that our driver/guide particularly enjoyed unleashing on unsuspecting senior women, half naked frat boys and bikini clad collegiates as we traversed the town. The inside of the bus offered a thrift store collection of overstuffed chair and a few saddles in exchange for the expected bench seats, an eastern Indian draped ceiling punctuated by a pom pom covered disco ball, as well as strands of cheesy lights above the windows.
Our Aloha shirt clad driver/host divided us promptly down the middle of the bus cueing each side to yell a ghostly call or the 'dun-dun-dun-DUN' cry when a crime is announced. Who knew there were so many grizzly crimes and ghosts in our berg (and this was not the ghost story tour they conduct each October). This is a <|fim_middle|> forward to the Colorado Springs Farmers Market opening next week and to visit my farmer who sells the best pork ribs ever. His pigs live outside on pasture.
I love ribs and specially when it grills…yummy!
Being a Texas girl you know I love me some ribs. These look soooo good and even better because there's not a drop of sauce baked on which in my opinion ruins a great piece of meat.
I found that smoking St louis pork ribs with off side charcoal fire.
I cooked them 4.5 hrs and with very juicy out come.
I did put in oven for about 1hr. at about 350 to dry out a little.
This is my all time favorite blog of yours. I LOVE ribs and have always been intimidated about cooking them. Your recipe is easy and I can't wait to try it. Your photos were great and made me drool!
I consider myself relatively skilled on the grill but it was only 2 summers ago that I tried ribs; they seem to have an aura about them that insures either fabulous success if you have the rib grilling secrets or dismal failure if you don't and so it always sounded too risky for me.
But I wanted to give it a shot and I must say…so glad I did. Your technique is similar to mine but for one thing. I put the ribs into the large roasting pan I have for a turkey and cook them on the grill with ambient heat. The pan sits on one side of the grill and the heat is on the other side. Nice if you don't want to heat up your kitchen but does require a grill that is large enough to accommodate. I bought some ribs a couple of weeks ago; seeing this article now has me hankering for them bad; they look, hmm, in a word? Delicious.
AND…I knew the owner of Secretariat was in Colorado (just watched the movie and the credits say that); just had no idea she was in Boulder! Cool. | 90 minute drive through Boulder, pointing out history, crimes, random facts (I can claim I've seen the local retirement home where the former owner of the horse Secretariat now lives) and that totally makes fun of our quirky culture.
They confirmed my understanding that the largest trust fund community outside New York City is in Boulder by mentioning several 'Trustafarians' and their dalliances. Many other stories of local, historically relevant characters as well as identifiable mega-personae in pop culture who'd attended CU (will omit those for fear of lawsuits). Ironically the 7 tour guides of Banjo Billy's tours all have a Master's Degrees; 'and our parents are all so proud', shared our guide. Oh, yes, Boulder is one of the most highly degreed populations in the U.S. too (clearly with not all of those degree holders employed in jobs utilizing those degrees fully). Our guide in addition to his Banjo Billy gig, is an actor (no question from the delivery of the tour info), performs in Murder Mysteries at the historic Boulderado hotel (by the way NEVER stay in room 304; too many crimes and ghosts for my liking) and teaches Economics at a local community college.
It is kooky-bordering-on-corn-ball fun and informative. They do tours in Boulder and Denver with the mentioned ghost story tour in October AND a local brew tour on Sunday nights. Definitely worth a check out. It is eccentric, affordable, campy and unique. It will be a view of Boulder (or Denver) one will not soon forget.
Toni, your ribs are just in time for the summer BBQ season! Interested in submitting your food photos to a Knapkins battle?
I love you for posting this recipe (as if I didn't love you enough already!). My dad just asked me about cooking ribs for my mom's birthday this weekend, and I've never attempted them! My grandpa always made them, but he's getting older now and isn't cooking much. So, then, I must carry on the tradition. I was nervous about which method to try, but this looks simple and delicious. Thanks for sharing!
I love ribs! These look amazing!!
That was a big deal to my daughter that Secretariat's owner is local. She convinced me to watch the movie with her a few weeks ago.
Can't believe you went on this funny looking bus to tour your hometown! You are so funny.
This is exactly how I make my ribs and they come out perfect every single time. I am looking | 516 |
Kim Kardashian Says She'd Do a Simple Life Style Show With Khloe in Wyoming
The reality star teases all that and more in new interview with Jonathan Cheban on his podcast Foodgod: OMFG
By Cydney Contreras Sep 12, 2019 10:27 PMTags
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Could Khloe Kardashian be joining Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in the great state of Wyoming?
Well, if Kim had her way—and the room in her schedule—she would bring her<|fim_middle|> I would try to sneak in the middle of the circle and give her a sip of water, " Kim explains. "But she would give me like, 'You're the most embarrassing stage mom. Get out of here. I'm a part of the choir. There is no one else bringing them drinks!'"
But who can blame North for wanting to sing with people the likes of Sia?
Kim says that the performer truly sings "from her heart and soul," a talent that makes her one of Kanye's "favorite voices."
As great as Kim & Khloe Take Wyoming would be, it seems like Sunday Services are here to stay.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians returns this September, only on E! | sis Khloe with her so that they could make a new Kards spin-off. "I would do like a Kim & Khloe Take Wyoming," the mother-of-four shares with Jonathan Cheban on the Foodgod: OMFG podcast. "We went to the cutest bar and I was like, 'Khloe and I should take a job in Wyoming.'"
However, a Kards spin-off doesn't appear to be in the cards. After all, she and Khloe have their kiddos and thriving businesses to tend to. But Kim adds, "I have to say, I could move there... Wyoming is one of my favorite places."
Any plans to move there are definitely on-hold though. The Skims designer said on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon that Kanye's "dream" is to move to the great frontier, but right now they only see themselves doing summers and weekends there. That is, when they can escape their work.
At the moment, Kim has her hands full with studying for the bar exam, running her businesses and raising four kids, while Kanye is creating a "musical ministry." On the podcast, Kim shares that Kanye's work has been "super healing for him."
"He just lives his life with Christ," she says. And those beliefs are making a "positive" impact on their large family of six. Every Sunday, the Kardashian clan, their friends and other celebs like Brad Pitt come together to sing and dance at the Sunday Service, which Kim says daughter North West "loves" to participate in.
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However, there's one caveat when it comes to North lending her vocal talents: no kids choir. Kim shares, "There was a kids choir a few times and she said to me afterwards, 'Mommy, these songs are way too baby for me.'"
So, Kim and Kanye allowed North to spread her wings and join the adult choir, even though North would scold Kim for bringing her water. "It's like an hour and a half like standing and being up there and at first | 417 |
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As no doubt you are aware, the Penge Road (Goat House) bridge has been closed on and off over the past few months for improvement works. This work is due to be completed in February 2014.
Last week we sent home a letter regarding the closure of Tennison Bridge which is about<|fim_middle|> ways in which we can work together to help our families access our school site during this time.
Details of te planned replacement of Tennison Road Bridge including before/after images can be found here: http://planning.croydon.gov.uk/DCWebPages/AcolNetCGI.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeDocs&TheSystemkey=137178. | to be closed to traffic. The bridge which dates from the 1920's is to be replaced with a new structure which they say will last for at least 120 years.
Preliminary work has started on the bridge. The main work will commence in September 2014 and will be completed in the spring of 2015. Pedestrian access over the railway will be maintained at Tennison Road at all times.
However, we know that many of you travel by car from this direction. The closure of this bridge will make the congestion on our local streets worse than it already is. Could we ask that as many families as possible park their cars away from the school area and walk for the remainder of their journey.
We appreciate that these road closures are going to cause considerable disruption. We will suspend late marks for all children who travel from this direction for the period of the bridge works.
We have set up a meeting with the contractors to discuss | 199 |
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Revenues for San Luis Obispo cloud-based business management software company MindBody grew 35 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, narrowing its net loss for the year to $23 million, or 58 cents per share.
Net losses for the quarter were $1.6 million, or 4 cents per share, down from $6.5 million for the same period in 2015, or 17 cents per share. For the full fiscal year in 2015, the company lost $27.4 million, on revenues of around $101.45 million, compared to full-year 2016 revenues of $139 million.
Subscribers grew<|fim_middle|> and record ARPS and gross margin," Brett White, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said in a news release.
The company had cash and cash equivalents of $85.86 million, with $143.52 million in total liabilities.
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As working from home becomes new norm, companies look to sublease surplus space | 17 percent year over year to 60,385, according to a Feb. 8 earnings announcement, which highlighted the company's partnerships with Google and others.
The company stated expectations of $41.6 million-$42.6 million in revenue for the current quarter and a 29-31 percent growth in revenue for the year, but net losses of $2.7 million-$5.7 million on a non-generally accepted accounting principle basis.
"We exited 2016 with significant business momentum, accelerating payments revenue and volume growth, | 120 |
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Social mobility—the chance, through education, to achieve greater success compared to one's parents—is one of the most compelling issues of our time. In Moving, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant, and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up to Hargreaves's university education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.
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Understand the obstacles of socially mobile students as they negotiate schoolwork, poverty, cultural collisions, and<|fim_middle|>, Andy Hargreaves presents us with his personal journey from humble roots as a young boy in northern England to his current status as a world-class educational leader in explaining the concept of social mobility. This book is a must-read for all individuals who want to understand the role of education in effecting social change such that there are reduced disparities in this world and greater equity and equality of opportunity for everyone. I am personally drawn to Andy's memoir due to similar geographic and educational beginnings in northern England. Everyone reading this book will see a part of themselves in Andy's story and reflect on the narrative to consider how they might ensure a better life for all."
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The tolerance of disturbance of the ground and field layer vegetation in a moderately fertile Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) on Oxalis-Myrtillus type forest in Southern Finland was studied. One of the sites, a summer cottage yard had been raked regularly during the last 25 years. The structure of the vegetation was quite different compared to the<|fim_middle|> even though the total shoot number decreased with deteriorating tree position. In tree crown there were fourth-order shoots in good light conditions but only first- and second-order-shoots, when light conditions were poor. The length of shoots decreased in accordance with increasing order of the shoot.
The share of the needle biomass and growth increased, when the shoot order increased. Similarly, the share of needles increased with deteriorating tree position. This was especially true in the upper crown. On the other hand, the share of the crown from the total biomass and growth increased with improving tree position. The percentage of crown system of a dominant tree in a sparse stand was 64% of that of biomass and 83% of that of growth. The corresponding values for a suppressed tree in a dense stand were 36% and 35%. The growth of wood, bark and needles in crown systems was linearly correlated with prevailing light conditions around the branch. It is evident that the tree position and light condition within the stand control the wood, bark and needle growth in the crown system and their interrelationships.
English title: Results from the reforestation experiment on ploughed sites established in Finnish Lapland during 1970–1972.
The objective of the study was to compare different reforestation methods on ploughed areas in Finnish Lapland. Four species were compared: Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.), silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) and Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.). The experiments were established in different parts of Lapland on different types of sites in 1970–72.
In Scots pine there was a difference of 15 percentage points in survival of seedlings between the best and worst methods of regeneration. Containerized seedlings and paper pot seedlings had the best survival rates. In Norway spruce the respective difference between sowing and planting was about 20 percentage points. In favour of planting. The survival rate can be increased by about 20 percentage points by selecting the right tree species. The average height varied from 25 cm (the sowed Norway spruce) to 179 cm (the planted silver birch) after 10 growing seasons. The birch was planted at the most fertile sites only. The longer time passed from the afforestation the clearer was the effect of the local growing conditions on the development of the seedlings. The elevation of the site was one factor seemed to influence the success of the seedlings.
A dynamic programming approach toward stem value estimation for standing Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees was developed. The determination of the saw log value was based on the sawing pattern and on the final products composition. The combination of taper curve models and bark models providing taper curves both over bark and under bark, which constituted the basis of the optimum stem scaling. A computer program was developed to determine the optimum log sequence of the stem aiming at maximizing the value of the final products. To examine the reliability of the computation system, 445 Scots pine sample trees from 29 stands were used as a test material. The stem values of sample trees were calculated in two ways: 1) with 12 measured diameters, and 2) with 12 estimated diameters derived from measured tree characteristics. In both cases the values of the intermediate diameters were calculated via cubic spline interpolation. | other sample site situated in a virgin forest. The phytomass and percentual coverage of the vegetation was remarkable lower in the raked habitat. Tall mosses, Pleuroxium schreberi and Hylocomnium splendens had especially disappeared. Most grass shrubs had also deteriorated. Only Deschampsia flexuosa was quite tolerant to raking. The phytomass of the dwarf shrubs was lower in the raked area but their relative production was higher. Three different kinds strategies of species were described: species of virgin shaded forest, species of meadow-like forest floor and species which tolerate or benefit from disturbance. The raked habitat had a higher species diversity than the virgin area. Nitrogen and carbon contents were lower in the soil of the raked area.
The effect of meteorological factors, the total sulphur content of the needles, and SO2 concentration in the ambient air on total peroxidase activity of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) needles was investigated in material obtained from Southern Finland. The correlation between temperature and total peroxidase activity was highest during the most active growing period. Linear correlation between relative humidity and total peroxidase activity appears to be low. The correlation between atmospheric SO2 concentration and total peroxidase activity was also low and varied inconsistently. The detected low association between the sulphur dioxide pollutant and the total peroxidase activity was assumed to be related to the sensitivity of peroxidase activity, many eco-physiological factors and to the genetic variation in conifers. It is difficult to separate a response due to this pollutant from environmental and genetic factors in a complex coniferous forest. Using total peroxidase activity as a routine indicator of air pollution seems to be unsuitable because of the large sample size required in order to obtain a reliable measurement of the pollutant's effect under low pollution levels.
Sawmilling and Carpentry, Forestry and Hunting, and Food Grains are the economic sectors compared in this study by means of the total input-output coefficient. The coefficient measures the value of direct and indirect demand in the economy caused by a demand worth one monetary unit on the sector in focus. Forestry sector has the weakest linkage to other sectors. The derived coefficients are 1.693 for Sawmilling and Carpentry, 1.183 for Food Grain and 1.167 for Forestry and Hunting.
English title: Elevation of the time factor in reforestation decisions.
Length of the regeneration period is a criterion commonly used for comparing different reforestation methods. The time factor should be evaluated using a realistic system for long-term planning. In this paper the preliminary evaluation is made by simplified calculations based on the development series. The slow regeneration method is assumed to be otherwise equal to the rapid one but it has a 5- or 10-years delay at the beginning, and the rotation is thus the final cutting age plus 5- or 10-years delay. Cost of the time delay is taken to be the difference in reforestation costs that makes the rapid and the slow methods equivalent. Calculations are made using zero costs for the slow method; but if the cost of the slow method increases, the critical cost difference decreases very slowly. The final cutting age and the regeneration method must be decided simultaneously. Therefore, the cost of the time delay is presented as a function of final cutting age. By maximizing the average annual revenue, rotation can be even increased if more rapid but more expensive regeneration method is used.
English title: The distribution of blueberry biomass in different forest stands.
The study deals with the distribution of above-ground biomass of Vaccinium myrtillus L. along the vegetation continuum segregated by using phytosociological classification method composite clustering. The qualitative characteristics of forest sites corresponding to different vegetational clusters were defined on the basis of indirect gradient analysis of vegetation data and description of tree stand properties in stands in 160 sample areas in Southern Finland.
Six vegetation types differing from each other mainly in abundance of the most constant and dominant plant species were formed. Sample areas with rich grass-herb vegetation, as well as sample areas representing comparatively dry, barren site type were clearly separated from other groups of sample areas. Stand characteristics, particularly the proportional distribution of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) seems to be another important factor affecting the vegetation composition.
The lowest biomass values of blueberry were connected with herb-rich vegetation and shady spruce-dominated stands. Comparatively low values were connected to also other spruce-dominated sample areas. Pine-dominant or mixed pine-spruce stands the biomass values were significantly higher. Even if the site quality is essentially equal, the abundance relationships between Vaccinium myrtillus and other components of the ground vegetation may vary in wide ranges and cause difficulties in practical site classification.
English title: Observations on structure and growth of crowns of young Scots pines.
A study based on four young Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) showed that the number of needle-covered shoots per crown volume unit was independent on tree position representing a constant value of 600–700 shoots/m3. This was true, | 1,083 |
There weren't signs, but it was pretty<|fim_middle|> buy it, putting a park there, maybe with a plaque with the Herber name there," Blair said.
Susan Kendall noted she moved from Tigard to Verda Lane in Keizer near the Salem Parkway about 18 months ago to be in a more rural setting.
The property is right next to a roundabout scheduled to be installed next year. Brown addressed that, since several people wondered about the connection between the two projects.
Sam Litke, senior planner for Keizer, noted a traffic impact analysis shows 84 new trips during peak morning hours at the intersection and 102 in the peak afternoon hours. Litke also addressed the cow topic.
"As the property is zoned now, the cows have been a non-conforming use for years," he said.
Domas will submit a report to the Keizer City Council. Once the council has the report, a public hearing will be scheduled. That will most likely be at either the July 21 or Aug. 4 meeting. | clear where the crowd stood on the issue.
At the public hearing in front of Keizer Hearings Officer Cynthia Domas in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center on June 12, approximately 100 people filled the room to talk about a proposal to convert the so-called "cow park" by Claggett Creek Park into land for more than 100 apartments.
Nate Brown, director of Community Development for Keizer, emphasized the purpose of the hearing was to consider an application for a comprehensive plan map change, a zone map change and a lot line adjustment.
After proponent Mark Grenz of Multi-Tech Engineering spoke (see related story, pg. 3) about his proposal, it was a chance to supporters to speak.
There were none, so Domas started going down the list of opponents. A total of 23 people spoke, with many more passing on the opportunity to do so since their ideas had already been expressed by others.
Larry Odle, who lives on the same block of Verda Lane, was among a number of people recognizing the property owners can do what they want with property, but hoping for something else.
Like others, Marylin Prothero had school and environmental concerns.
City staff noted an analysis from the Salem-Keizer School District, utilizing the school district's model, showed minimal impact on schools.
Like many, David Bevens shared warm recollections of seeing the cows on the property.
Baldwin was also one of several to express frustration with the process.
"It sounds like a decision have already been made and that this is just a formality," he said.
Deborrah Blair had an idea for something other than apartments on the property.
"I'm more for having the city | 354 |
Location: Castlepollard, County Westmeath, Ireland.
Notes: Tullynally Castle is a country house (also known as Pakenham Hall Castle) situated some 2 km from Castlepollard on the Coole village road in County Westmeath, Ireland. The gothic style building has over 120 rooms and has been home to the Pakenham family (now the Earls of Longford) for over 350 years, except for 32 years in the early 19th century when it belonged to the Ryder family. The house is surrounded<|fim_middle|> early 19th century with a limestone grotto and ornamental lakes. In the 21st century a Chinese garden with a pagoda and a Tibetan garden of waterfalls and streams have been added. The site entrance from the public road is situated 1.5 km outside Castlepollard on the Granard road 20 km from Mullingar, 80 km from Dublin via the N4 or N3 roads. The grounds are open to the public. | by twelve acres of park land and gardens, including woodland gardens and walled gardens laid out in the | 20 |
On my flight to California, I created this page with Anna's new ArtPlay Palette Lavaliere. I'm in California celebrating a birthday with my twin sister, so you are more likely to see photos rather than pages on my blog this week.
I began this page by placing solid paper 4 from ArtPlay Palette Lavaliere as well as the layers of<|fim_middle|> and Saturation adjustment layer to the group of file 4 layers. I also later added a layer mask to erase a part of the image so that it wouldn't interfere with my photo.
Below the multimedia file layers, I stamped two copies of brush 4 in Lock and Key N0. 1 in a warm pink and changed the blend mode to linear burn at 100%. I added glow 2 from LoveGlows No. 2 and changed the blend mode to color at 100%.
I then placed a photo of my granddaughter between the lock and the brush layers and blended the photo into the background paper. I duplicated the photo and I extracted her with the Magic Wand tool before giving her image a custom drop shadow.
Next, I placed the layers of file 4 from Artsy Transfers Lavaliere. I adjusted the color of the transfer layer with a Hue and Saturation adjustment layer. I placed glow 1 from ArtPlay Palette Sun Fun on color burn at 100% to brighten the right corner.
Note: I added a Levels adjustment layer to the solid paper at 50% on screen blend mode. I also went back to adjust the blending of photo layers.
Finally, I added a title and journaling to finish my layout.
While working on this layout, I thought about what Anna shared in her AnnaNews email this week regarding changes she's making in order to make more progress on the things she wants to accomplish. I think my art play was a great use of my time on the flight to Los Angeles even if I forgot to put on my AirPods so I could listen to some of my unfinished coursework while I played. That's what I intended to do. Maybe on the flight home I will. | file 4 from MultiMedia Lock and Key No. 1.
Note: I adjusted the color of the lock by clipping a Hue | 27 |
IB Grateful Gathering Brings Students Together, Celebrating the Spirit of Thanksgiving
Shreya Selvaraju, Campus News Editor
Laughing along the sidelines, Alice Gaede '22 and Anita You '22 play soccer together. Apart from soccer, IB students could participate in other outdoor games, including Capture the Flag in the Warrior Bowl. Students were allowed to choose their own teams.
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IB students line up to get food from the Thanksgiving feast laid out in the cafeteria. Parent volunteers helped serve the food to the students. The feast included both traditional fare and nonconventional dishes.
On Wednesday, Nov. 17, International Baccalaureate(IB) students congregated in the cafeteria to celebrate the fourth annual Grateful Gathering. The event was organized by the IB Student Organization (IBSO) and hosted IB students across all four grades.
Following the virtual school year, many IB students weren't able to connect with others in the same way as in past years. The Grateful Gathering allowed students to enjoy an evening celebrating togetherness before Thanksgiving break.
"We felt like it was really important this year to bring that tradition back, really just to build the community and have fun," IB Coordinator Ms. Christin Key said.
Students were asked to wear their IB house shirts. Each house had a different colored shirt with a unique IB learner profile trait on the back. Students who had not yet been sorted into a house were able to pick up their shirts at the front of the cafeteria.
"It was really amazing to see everybody in all of their house shirts and all the different colors and<|fim_middle|> half of games and activities, IB students met in the cafeteria to eat a delicious spread of Thanksgiving dishes. Students were called up by IB house and served a variety of traditional foods, including turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie, as well as less conventional dishes, like dumplings.
"I think it's really nice that all these parents volunteered to help serve and bring us food," Benjamin Yu '24 said.
During the dinner, students listened to music from a student-created playlist. The playlist was sent out a day prior to the event, and students were able to add school appropriate songs.
"The playlist was[n't great]," said Yu. "[I think] they should've just not had any music."
This night of fun, games, music, and food provided students the opportunity to reconnect with others in the IB program, strengthening the IB community just before students left for Thanksgiving Break.
"It was a great experience and I really liked meeting other IB students," Sheevani Talati '24 said.
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The event began with games. Students could choose to go outside to play Capture the Flag and soccer or stay in the cafeteria to build Jenga towers, create origami designs, or contribute to a paper chain filled with messages of thanks to honor the spirit of Thanksgiving. After an hour and a | 67 |
Davenport District Arts Board Provides Funding to Spokane Arts Fund
— The Davenport District Arts Board has committed to give a one-time gift of $17,000 to the Spokane Arts Fund, the non-profit organization in support of the Spokane<|fim_middle|> added, "We hope that we can provide a continuation of their legacy." | Arts Commission and the arts in Spokane, as part of the Davenport District Arts Board's final actions as an organization.
The Davenport District Arts Board is providing this funding for two purposes. First, for the ongoing care of the Davenport District's 'Metal to Magic' benches which were created in partnership with the Spokane Arts Commission in 2004. Second, to create a fund to support arts activities within a one and a half mile radius of the Davenport Hotel which will be a donor restricted account in the Spokane Arts Fund.
"We are grateful for the service of the Davenport Arts District volunteers over the past 25 years and for the support of the Davenport District Arts Board of the community's efforts to create a vital district in the downtown. Without the community advocacy and tireless work of these folks, the renovation of Davenport District would never have happened," said Karen Mobley, Arts Director for the City of Spokane. She | 191 |
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Expert agronomics and a daily presence in the vineyard ensure that vines are grown in a way which makes the most of the natural expressive potential of the varietals, with complete respect for the timing and rhythms of nature. Everything is done by hand in the vineyard. Grapes are harvested and put into little ventilated boxes to be taken to the winery immediately, preventing micro-fermentation and oxidation: only the healthiest, perfectly ripe grapes go into Balbi Sopr<|fim_middle|> with an intense perfume containing hints of orange blossom, wisteria and acacia along with notes of mountain honey and a spicy backdrop recalling elderberry, yarrow and bergamot. A clear, bright, golden straw yellow color with a fine perlage and sweetness making Asti Docg the perfect wine for a celebration. Excellent as an aperitif, it also goes with sweets such as panettone and colomba, traditional cakes served at Christmas and Easter in Italy, as well as puddings and paste di meliga, the traditional biscuits of Piedmont. Asti Docg is used by mixologists to create cocktails with a delicate, attractive aroma. | ani wines.
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Moscato d'Asti Docg is one of those rare wines that puts the true flavor of newly harvested grapes on the table. Without question one of the most characteristic wines of Piedmont and one of the world's most popular dessert wines. Always delicate and never to sweet with intense aroma recalling wisteria, linden flowers, peach and apricot blossoms with hints of sage, lemon and orange blossom. Moscato d'Asti Docg is a partially fermented must preserving a large part of the grape's natural sugar content, a characteristic that gives it its unique joyful sweetness. Pleasantly bubbly, it is the wine that best represents the area's sunshine and the growers' hard work and dedication.
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The KORG KDM series is renowned for its powerful volume and its clearly-audible tone. We are proud to announce the latest model, the KDM-3 which features a fresh new appearance. Along with an attractive look that resembles a miniature mechanical metronome, it also contains a rich variety of beat patterns and metronome sounds. It's also packed with the convenient functions that<|fim_middle|> wide range of 410 Hz–480 Hz.
Timer mode is convenient for practicing the basics
Timer mode is a function that operates the metronome for a specified length of time and then automatically stops. It's a great convenience for warming-up or when practicing the basics.
Memory Backup function and Auto Power-Off function
Even when the power is turned off, the Memory Backup function preserves the specified tempo, beat, calibration, and reference tone. (These settings are initialized when the batteries are replaced.) The Auto Power-Off function automatically turns the power off when 20 minutes have elapsed with the metronome stopped.
Long-life design ensures worry-free performance even during extended practice sessions
The KDM-3 allows approximately 120 hours of operation when used at 120 beats/minute at maximum volume. Even if you're practicing daily, you won't need to worry about the remaining battery life.
Easy one-touch operation and an easily-readable display
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Stylish design that's reminiscent of a mechanical metronome
The KDM-3's design is similar to that of an acoustic mechanical metronome, except much smaller. It will fit nicely on a tabletop, on your piano, or in any practicing environment. Featuring a newly designed sealed speaker enclosure, it delivers powerful volume that exceeds its compact size. The lineup gives you a choice of two colors: sophisticated black or limited edition wood effect.
Eight metronome sounds, including a mechanical metronome sound
The design is not the only way in which this unit is reminiscent of a mechanical metronome. The KDM-3 now provides the sound of an acoustic mechanical metronome. You can also choose alternative sounds to suit your performance or instrument, including cowbell, rimshot, or voice. All of these sounds deliver a clear tone that is easy to hear and will not be obscured even by high-volume instruments.
19 beat patterns support songs of any genre
In addition to 0-9 beats per measure with your choice of duplets, triplets, triplets omitting the middle note, quadruplets, and quadruplets omitting the middle notes, we've provided variations such as son clave and rumba clave, for a total of 19 built-in beat patterns. The tempo can be freely specified in the range of 30 to 252 beats/minute. From classic to pop, jazz, and Latin, this unit covers your needs in a wide range of genres.
Easy one-touch operation, and an easily-readable display
The START/STOP button located on top of the unit blinks in two colors, red and green, giving you a clear visual indication of the tempo. You can even start practicing with the volume set to zero. The TEMPO/CALIB dial on the top panel provides easy access to the numerical setting that you want. The content of the setting is visible at a glance in the large display.
Choose from three types of tempo settings to suit your needs
You can set the tempo in any of three ways: Pendulum Step lets you increase or decrease the tempo using the same increments as the numerical values of a standard mechanical metronome, Full Step lets you specify the tempo in one-step increments over the full range of 30 to 252, and Tap Tempo lets you set the tempo by pressing the TAP button at the desired interval.
Sound Out mode lets you tune while listening to a reference tone
Sound Out mode produces a reference tone from the built-in speaker or through connected headphones, allowing you to tune by ear. It can generate 12 reference tones in the range from C4 (261.63 Hz) to B4 (493.88 Hz). The calibration of the A4 pitch can also be adjusted over a | 599 |
Kremchek Family Athletic Training Facility
Kremchek Family Athletic Training Facility is the home of the first-class staff keeping Wittenberg student-athletes in the game.
Renovated: 2012
Dedicated: Oct. 5, 2012
Nine treatment tables
Rich-Mar electrotherapy & ultrasound
GameReady cryotherapy & compression
Oversized recovery whirlpools
Private physician examination room
Rehabilitation area with shuttle
Two large-screen HD televisions
Electronic medical documentation station
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About<|fim_middle|> Reds and their minor league affiliates, Kremchek is the team orthopaedist for the Cincinnati Commandos, an indoor football team, the Cincinnati Cyclones, a minor league hockey team, the Cincinnati Sizzle, a women's football team, Indian Hill High School, Archbishop Moeller High School, and Wittenberg.
The Wittenberg athletic training room, as it was known until its 2012 renovation and dedication, has occupied a central spot in the HPER Center since the building's opening in 1982. Prior to that date, athletic training was conducted on site with each team and in a room in the field house.
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Wittenberg student-athletes have a long history of achievement, and maintaining such a track record takes a wealth of care and attention. The Kremchek Family Athletic Training Facility ensures that the Tigers' medical care is professional and capable by providing a first-rate athletic training suite.
Completely gutted in 2012, the updated and upgraded athletic training facility is impressive, starting with nine treatment tables, three GameReady cold therapy and compression machines and four Rich-Mar electrical stimulation and ultrasound machines. The renovation created space for a shuttle machine to help with rehabilitation, a stationary bike, weights, a custom-made taping station and three whirlpools with custom seating.
The athletic training room is bright and colorfully decorated with framed photos of Wittenberg student-athletes in action. Wittenberg's three full-time certified athletic trainers occupy an attached office, where computer equipment outfitted with software allows them to communicate with doctors and generate coaches' reports. Visiting doctors have their own private office within the facility, including a treatment table, desk and storage.
"Our goal is to be able to treat the athletes in a timely manner, use our resources effectively and return our athletes back to their sports," said Ellen Crosbie, Wittenberg's head certified athletic trainer. "With the new facility, we are able to continue to treat our athletes with up-to-date and outstanding health care. We strive to allow them to be able to carry on the strong Wittenberg athletics tradition."
Student-athletes have direct access to locker rooms from the athletic training room, which itself is centrally located in Wittenberg's HPER Center. Satellite athletic training facilities in the Tigers' two off-campus athletic venues, baseball's Carleton Davidson Stadium and softball's Betty Doughman Dillahunt Field, help keep medical attention close to the field of competition for every team.
Read more about the dedication of the Kremchek Family Athletic Training Facility in the press release about the event.
The Kremchek Family
Tim Kremchek, Wittenberg class of 1981 and the team orthopaedist for his alma mater for nearly 20 years, took it upon himself to lead an effort to ensure that the medical care Tiger students receive matches their athletic excellence. He spearheaded a fundraising effort to renovate the athletic training room in Wittenberg's Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) Center.
In light of Kremchek's lead gift to the project, Wittenberg's Board of Directors moved to name the new athletic training room in his honor. Among the other individuals and organizations to make financial contributions to the project were Ron Sortman '72; Roger Parker '73, Jack '63 and Nancy '64 Spohn, Jim and Maria Wymer '77, Doug '79 and Valerie '78 Baker, Bill '54 and Carol Goettman, Doug '72 and Tammy Vinsel, Mark '81 and Betsy Phillips, Kirby and Julie Thompson '81, Dona and Roland Young, John '74 and Catherine Paoloni, Jim '79 and Nancy Donellon, Bill Hauser '78, the Wittenberg football program, Community Mercy Health Partners, and Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.
A 1986 graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Kremchek completed his orthopaedic residency at Tufts University in Boston, Mass., and a one-year orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at the Alabama Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala. A native of Cincinnati, Kremchek returned to his hometown and began private practice in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine in 1993.
He has served as the medical director and chief orthopaedic surgeon for the Cincinnati Reds for more than 15 years, as well as the team's minor league affiliates. He has taken an active role in teaching orthopaedics and sports medicine, and he has been published in professional journals, featured on HBO's Real Sports regarding youth baseball injuries, and quoted in ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated and USA Today regarding medical health topics.
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It's the Kodak moment for law firms
15 January 201<|fim_middle|>, provided that you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, gather the people that know which pieces to use and how to put them together quickly and painlessly. In the world of the billable hour it is sometimes difficult to move the conversation towards meaningful innovation, but as younger, tech-savvy lawyers are entering the industry, the shift is around the corner. We just need to make sure that when it happens it's the right type of Kodak moment, the rare, once-in-a-lifetime memory to frame for posterity.
Wayne Ramsay is Chief Strategy Officer at alternative legal and technology provider Exigent. With a career spanning innovation roles at Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Tony Blair's Cabinet Office, Ramsay leads Exigent's transformational projects aimed at improving business performance through legal and financial data. | 8 at 10:27 BST
Bold innovation-and not just jumping on the latest tech hype-is a necessity rather than a choice, as smart legal providers up their game to deliver more than automation, says Wayne Ramsay, Chief Strategy Officer at Exigent.
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Remember when we applied basic business efficiency principles to legal services and outsourcing was the next big thing? Law firms dragged their feet and many are still trying to catch that wave twenty years on. The tide hasn't changed, but the wave has gotten bigger, faster and stronger. A bit like Kodak in the race to digital photography, law firms cling on to the comforting old ways of the billable hour, worried innovation will cannibalise their source of revenues. Or worse, they rush to create 'labs' and jump into bed with start-ups in a desperate bid to remain relevant. Some argue KodakCoin is precisely that-an ill-advised step into crypto-currencies to revive a dead business. Instead, alternative providers have taken a multifaceted approach to innovation: still applying the FTE billable hour model while slowly shifting to the faster, better quality, fixed-fee model enabled by Artificial Intelligence.
Disruption is painful
While we think of the Kodak parable from a failure and fear perspective, we should celebrate what it gave us: the digital camera and a completely new, richer, more efficient way of recording the best moments in our lives. Disruption is by definition painful, as it breaks away from the known path, but it does deliver incredible positive change. Over the last twenty years alternative providers have contributed to create the prefect environment for an evolutionary split in legal services. The 'old' traditional legal ways continue to exist, but what we used to call 'outsourcing' is separating to create its own branch, offering efficient, high volume, high quality, legal services at everyone's fingertips. Soon, choosing between traditional law or alternative providers won't be an option and objections to technology will be risible and unrealistic. We will stop talking about innovation through automation, as it will pervade every aspect of law and beyond.
Outsourcing needs updating
The old outsourcing efficiency mantra will also need updating: technology, with Artificial Intelligence leading the charge, continues to lower the barriers to cheaper, more accurate ways of delivering the segments of the legal process that are traditionally delivered by external providers, such as document review, contract discovery and due diligence. Wage arbitrage is soon becoming an obsolete driver for business, so clever providers are finding different ways of bringing value to their clients. Technology is one of the answers, but not the only one and certainly not the core commodity, but rather an enabler for better solutions. We are quickly re-writing the definition, scope and impact of alternative legal services before they become the next Kodak.
AI is future-proofing
It's short-sighted to think all we must do to be future-proof is to acquire some Artificial Intelligence capability. It helps, but it will only get alternative providers so far. Legal departments need help figuring out how to go through this unprecedented moment of digital transformation. This means not just equipping them with automated contract discovery, but educating them on the potential benefits of a more holistic approach. Some enlightened GCs, like Kevin Lester of Anglo American, are already thinking in these terms and achieving phenomenal results that break through the barrier of the legal department and improve the performance of the whole organisation.
Smart players
Technology disrupts (it's its prerogative) and it does so indiscriminately. Who's to say legal providers need only speak to GCs? If the positive impact that starts from looking at processes in the legal department applies to the whole organisation, then why not take the conversation to the Board, the CEO and the C-suite in general. The alternative legal services market might as well morph into business consultancy with Augmented Intelligence. It's certainly what smart players are doing: combining the legal expertise acquired over the years with a bottom line approach and access to the latest technology. Automation will be the stepping stone to a more predictive approach, where the opportunities to create value are limitless.
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FSU's Ciaran O'Lionaird Nails 1500m/5,000m Double at ACC Champs
Weekly racing recap for April 25
By Paul Coover
We<|fim_middle|> it would be understandable for this weekend to seem underwhelming by comparison. But make no mistake – even after last week's unusual amount of quality racing, this week was slow by almost any standard. The upside is that the few good races (mostly on the track) really stood out, and we recap them here.
ACC Outdoor Championships
For some reason, the ACC insists on hosting its conference championships even before some of the major invitational meets (like the Payton Jordan Invite at Stanford and the Drake and Penn Relays, to name a few) of the collegiate season. In this year's edition at Duke, Ciaran O'Lionaird of Florida State was the big performer, as the native of Ireland got wins in the 1500m (in a fast 3:40.65 over Virginia's Robby Andrews, who ran 3:40.77) and the 5000m, where he ran 13:52.11. Kate Van Buskirk of Duke and Jessica Parry of Florida State split the women's races, as Van Buskirk ran 4:16.68 in the 1500m while Parry got the win in the women's 5K running 16:14.74. With Andrews absent from his favored event, teammate Anthony Kostelac picked up the slack in the men's 800m, winning in 1:49.02; 2:04.88 was enough for Caroline King of Boston College to get a win in the women's race.
In the steeplechases, Stephanie Garcia of Virginia and Alyssa Kulik of Clemson posted the top two times in the country so far this year in 9:55.10 and 10:05.51, respectively. Duke's Ryan McDermott, who won the men's race in 8:45.42, is now fourth on the national list. Results from the championships are here.
Oregon Relays
The hot race of this meet was supposed to be the men's 1500m, where Oregon's AJ Acosta and Mathew Centrowitz were slated to chase the world championships "A"standard of 3:35.0. Instead, Sally Kipyego of the Oregon Track Club upstaged them when she ran 4:06.23 to win by over 20 seconds and nearly nabbed the women's standard (4:05.90). Centrowitz still managed 3:42.49 for the win, while Acosta flamed out and ran 3:57.63.
In other races, OTC'er Tyer Mulder ran a fine 1:46.79 800m, former Tarheel and NCAA champion Brie Felnagle, now a pro, ran 15:43.87 in the women's 5K, and Geena Gall, a former Michigan star now with the OTC, upstaged Oregon sophomore Anne Kesselring in the 800m, 2:02.04 to 2:02.44. Full results from the Relays are here.
Other Top Results
The rest of the elite results of the week were scattered among races across the country. At the Jesse Owens Track Classic at Ohio State, Penn State super-soph Casimir Loxsom ran 1:46.45 in the 800m, good for the third best time in the NCAA so far this year, while Michael Coe of California ran 4:00.07 in the mile at his home track in Berkeley. Travis Mahoney of Temple ran the second fastest steeple of the year among collegians at Princeton, clocking 8:41.66, one of the only other national-class performance in the NCAA from the weekend.
At Arkansas, Thomas Farrell got a surprise win in the 1500m in 3:42.23 over Chris O'Hare of Tulsa (3:42.54) and Dorian Ulrey of Arkansas (3:42.76). In seventh, German Fernandez continued to struggle, running 3:44.68. Meanwhile, one of last year's breakout middle-distance runners, Molly Beckwith, a former star at Indiana, opened up her outdoor season in an impressive 2:01.49 at her home track in Bloomington. Results from collegiate meets around the country are here.
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The 15 Most Memorable Moments from Dirtybird Campout West Coast 2018
by Katie Estabrook
It's been a week since a few thousand 'birds' flocked to Modesto, California for the fifth installment of Dirtybird Campout. And like you, we're definitely feeling the post-festival blues.
In order to combat these not-so-great feelings, we've compiled 15 of the best moments from this year's West Coast Campout picked by you, the campers. While there were<|fim_middle|>, paddle boarding and even a floatie race hosted by VNSSA.
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2. Silent Disco
After the noise permit fiasco at East Coast Campout, Dirtybird was not going to take any chances. Taking advantage of the situation, they brought in Hush!, a silent disco company, to host the late night sets at the Bass Lodge.
While there were concerns from campers that there would not be enough headphones to go around, that was not the case. There was rarely a line, and when there was, it wasn't long. There were also three channels to choose from, offering a variety of sounds. Not to mention the secret artists, one being Mija.
"[A favorite memory is] chilling at the silent disco on Saturday and using some camp chairs we found set up with no one around. Turns out it was the guys doing the red channel that left their chairs out and we got to meet them and congratulate them on an amazing set. " Kale Sassaman, camper
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3. Renegades
There is something special about being shoulder-to-shoulder with your fellow birds while being arm's length away from one of your favorite producers as they spin into the early hours of the morning. And although Dirtybird had stated there was 'no amplified sound allowed,' it sure didn't seem that way from the number of impressive renegades present this year.
From a closed in 'Brick Oven,' to a silent disco in a dome – and everything in between – the renegades at this year's Campout were in a league of their own.
"One of my favorite memories is, hands down, the renegades at the Brick Oven. So many good memories with all the artists that came through and spun." Drew Pador, camper
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4. Thursday Pre-Party with Patrick Topping
To kick things off with a bang, Claude once again invited a top artist to join him at the Thursday pre-party. If you were at East Coast and missed Seth Troxler, hopefully, you made it this time for Patrick Topping.
A reputable name in the house music scene, Topping put on one of the best sets of the weekend. Not to mention, it was a big pajama party. Even Claude participated.
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5. VNSSA's Opening Set
A rising star in the house music scene, VNSSA did not come to mess around at her set, which kicked off the festival on Friday. One of Campout's most anticipated artists, VNSSA successfully laid down one of the best sets of her career. Campers and artists alike are still talking about it.
As an added bonus, she played another banging set at the silent disco on Friday night. VNSSA is truly making a name for herself in the house scene and it's obvious that she is here to stay.
"Vanessa Barnes aka VNSSA opened DBC 2018 like a boss! Never have I seen so many elated people at the first set of a Campout. The reception she received is a true testament of her astounding talent! She is a queen amongst [sic] queens. Mad love and respect." Anzheliqua Zalkin, camper
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6. Justin Jay's Takeover at the Bass Lodge
There was something about the atmosphere at the Justin Jay takeover that set the perfect vibe for a beach party. Maybe it was the golden sun, the cool breeze or having your best bird friends by your side for a few hours of live music…Whatever it was, multiple campers agreed that it was one of their favorite moments of the entire weekend.
"There's no feeling like getting down in the sand and sun at what felt like a secret beach party that you happened to stumble upon with your best friends." Alexa DiCunzolo, camper
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"Loved being at the Bass Lodge. There's just something special about those sunsets. Justin Jay set on Friday felt like a giant beach party." Sarahi Landrove , camper
7. Variety of Sounds
When one thinks of Dirtybird, they often think solely of house and tech-house music. When it comes to Dirtybird Campout, that is not the case. Although there are only two stages – which is a huge plus when it comes to conflicts – Campout plays host to a wide array of genres.
During any night of the festival, campers could enjoy varying sounds including disco, house, techno, tech-house, drum and bass, classic hip-hop and so much more. The label goes as far as inviting legendary artists to perform, such as Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick the Ruler.
"One of my most memorable moments definitely has to be seeing Big Daddy Kane & Slick Rick The Ruler. So iconic, so legendary. [It's the] closest thing to seeing somebody like Biggie or Pac perform. These guys paved a way for hip-hop and I'm so blessed to have been able to experience something that I may not ever get to experience again." Rio Jimenez, camper
8. Games & Activities
What other festival is there where you get to compete against and participate with your favorite artists in various camp-inspired games and activities? That aspect of Dirtybird Campout is truly something unique.
Campers were able to choose between a plethora of different fun-filled activities including screenprinting with Sacha Robotti, croquet with Christian Martin, bocci ball with Kyle Watson, tye-dying with Claude Vonstroke and Mikey Lion and many more. Campers could also try their hand at competing in the balloon toss, tug-of-war, and various other games.
"Playing croquet with Christian Martin (and losing terribly) is a favorite memory. There was like eight of us there total and my opponents would cheer me on even though I was in a far last place. Then momma Donnie-Marie and baby Athena came and hung out with us and I legit felt like I was back home in the Midwest at a family event. That's what I love most about Dirtybird events. You just feel like you're getting weird with the family." Maddie Bartholomew, camper
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9. The Bunkhouse
If campers were looking for something a little…out of the ordinary…at Campout, they had to look no further than The Bunkhouse. Tucked away in a corner between The Birdhouse stage and the Games HQ, The Bunkhouse was home to a variety of unique acts to enjoy and competitions to take part in. Did we mention there was an act called the LMBRSXLS? (pronounced Lumbersexuals)
Campers could compete in a beat boxing competition, talent show, lap dance competition, late-night disco BINGO and much, much more. One lucky camper even won a car during Sunday night BINGO!
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10. SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket
This was something that campers will not soon forget. During J.Phlip's set on the last night, a round ray of beautiful colors appeared in the sky. Confused, campers looked around at each other wondering if Barclay Crenshaw had brought his alien friends with him to the party.
It wasn't long until we all figured out what was really going on. But nonetheless, it made for a magical and unforgettable moment.
"The Space X launch was top notch. Thousands of people convinced it was the end of the world or a UFO." Audrey Kai, camper
Credit: Conehead Krewe
11. The Fungineers
If you've never experienced The Fungineers, it's a bit hard to explain. Imagine a beatboxing, djing alien puppet spinning house music. Hard to picture? How about a couple of daisies remixing a Drake song? Still no? Take a look at the videos from one of their sets at Campout below and we guarantee they will be on your bucket list.
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12. Pedicabs
Like last year's venue, the new venue was a bit spread out. If you were unlucky enough to be camped in the very far corner of the grounds, you were looking at an hour long walk to the Birdhouse Stage. But that was no reason to fret. The party pedicabs were there to assist.
Not only were they convenient, but a lot of fun and fairly priced. For $10 a head, you could get a ride to anywhere in the grounds. Many of them actually lit up and played music!
"On the last night, I got to party with the Pedicab driver. We went from renegade to renegade." Drew Pador, camper
13. Campout Traditions
If you've been to Campout before, you have come to expect two things – a Martin Brothers drum and bass set and the family set. West Coast Campout 2018 was no different and like always, both sets did not disappoint.
Although the Martin Brothers didn't play a sunrise set, Justin and Christian put on a killer performance that had the entire Bass Lodge vibrating with energy. It was impossible to sit still.
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By the end of the festival, everyone, including the artists, is exhausted. But, whoever is left standing gets to play one last song in an epic b2b2b2b… This year was arguably one of the best family sets ever. Take a look at some of the highlights in Dirtybird's video below.
14. The Community
The community of close-knit and inspiring people that exists within Dirtybird is something that sets the label apart. Everywhere you look while in the crowd at Campout, all one sees are smiles shared between old and new friends.
And let's face it…what other group of people go to such lengths to create silly goodies to gift and trade with each other just for the fun of it? Each year, there are endless patches, pins, bracelets, and other handmade pieces to be found. All it takes is finding the artist and making a new friend.
"Being able to finally connect and vibe with the most creative birds at campout definitely served as inspiration to keep each other going and sparkling." Manny Figueroa, camper
Credit: Aaron Glassman
15. Overall Silliness and Debauchery
Dirtybird, as a brand, is all about not taking yourself too seriously. If that wasn't obvious from the comedic sound that is often present in their music releases, one day spent at Campout will prove that the Dirtybird crew and their fans just want to have fun.
Between the cheerleaders in full Dirtybird uniforms, slow-motion lifeguards, the return of the grannies and much, much more, this year's Campout may have been the silliest yet.
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Credit: Megan Shanker
Now that Dirtybird Campout West Coast 2018 has come to a close, it's time to start looking towards East Coast Campout. While the location is not confirmed, the Claudefather himself announced that there will be an East Coast Campout in 2019 at the end of the family set. Keep an eye out on Dirtybird's socials for announcements.
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But when we got all other way to bassodge for mark ronson and then it was DJ qbert tho! That was so cool!
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1. New Venue (WITH WATER!)
Dirtybird relocated to a new venue once again for the 2018 edition of West Coast Campout and overall, it was a success. With the new location being at an actual campsite – Modesto Reservoir – there was little to no dust, a lot of green and, perhaps most exciting, swimmable water. This meant lots of fun water activities like kayaking | 116 |
When did we last have 200 twitchers trying to view a rare bird in D<|fim_middle|>4th we shall be planting in the glades, so come along and plant a tree.
As mentioned in our Spring Newsletter, the Conservation Volunteers have cleared further areas of invasive brambles in the Bluebell area that should create an even more magnificent display of bluebells than previously.
On Monday March 20th at 7.30 pm in the Reading Room, Terry Weston will be giving his popular annual photographic show, this year entitled "Namibia & Its Wildlife".
The dates for our next Woodland Working parties are March 4th and 11th, and April 1st. Meet at 10am at the wood end of Intake Lane. We aim to finish at 1pm. Strong boots or wellies and good gardening gloves are recommended. Please join us and help make the wood better for us all.
Our next work party is on Saturday 11h March and we would be delighted to see any new volunteers. We meet at 10.00 am at the top of Intake Lane and work until 1.00 pm with a break midway, but even help for just an hour would be appreciated. Bring gloves if you can, and wear stout shoes or wellies. All the necessary tools are provided.
Guy Mandziuk was born in York, grew up in Dunnington, attended Dunnington Primary School, was a member of Dunnington scouts group and played for the mighty Dunnington F.C. Guy is now on a graduate scheme with Unilever, but prior to joining the company spent two months volunteering in 35 degrees heat and 90% humidity with a dedicated group of volunteers from around the world to support building work after the 2013 typhoon Yolanda that devastated parts of South East Asia, and the Philippines in particular. During the summer of 2016 Guy flew to Nepal to join All Hands Volunteers, an American NGO, to help rebuilding after the 2015 major Nepal earthquake.
Guy will give us an illustrated presentation on his inspiring experiences in the face of these natural disasters, at 8.00pm in the Dunnington Reading Room.
Admission is free to members, non-members £1.50, and refreshments 50p. | unnington? The Pine Bunting should not have been here at all. It breeds in Siberia and usually winters in central Asia with a few coming further west but very rarely this far. So we were fortunate to have one mix in with a local flock of yellowhammers, especially if you happened to see it. What has this to do with Hagg Wood? We expect that the establishment of some groves in the wood, and the planting of suitable vegetation will green the floor of the wood and attract insects, butterflies and birds. Not necessarily rarities but more the usual woodland birds that are becoming scarcer in the UK. It will not be long before the first of the summer migrants arrive, so keep your eyes and ears open. Some are more often heard than seen. There might be a rare one among them! Urban Buzz York, the Butterfly Conservation, and our ecological adviser Martin Hammond have been very helpful in suggesting the vegetation that would be suitable in the glades.
During our next Hagg Wood working party on March | 208 |
Q: What are the most common metrics for comparing two clustering algorithms (especially density based clustering) When it comes to compare a new clustering algorithm, one always wants to show the advantages of his/her method over existing and well known methods. Going this way may mislead one to ignore disadvantages proposed method.
For clustering results, usually people compare different methods over a set of datasets which readers can see the clusters with their own eyes, and get the differences between different methods results.
There are some metrics, like Homogeneity, Completeness, Adjusted Rand Index, Adjusted Mutual Information, and V-Measure. To compute these metrics, one needs to know the true labels of data-set, so we may test algorithms with classification data-sets to have true labels and then evaluate results.
Another metrics, like Silhouette Coefficient works only with data and clustering results.
I want to know what measures are most preferred and if there is any other metric which does not require true labels of data-set.
A: It seems that you ask for internal validation measures (using only the data without reference to anything else) to compare different algorithms. This is fraught with perils. See e.g. the answer by Anony-Mousse here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/88550/using-the-gap-statistic-to-compare-algorithm. My original answer (below) discusses external validation measures. It is still useful perhaps.
Here are two standard approaches (there may be more). The first is to use a gold standard and compute a distance or similarity between clusterings. Many people use the adjusted Rand index, but I think the Variance of Information distance (VI) or split/join distance are better suited for this. (See e.g. my answers here: Comparing clusterings: Rand Index vs Variation of Information and here: Forgiving measure for external cluster validation). This is still not straightforward -- a clustering can be consistent with a a gold standard (be a sub-clustering or super-clustering) and this has to be taken into account but often is not. I've seen a case where a very coarse classification was used (large classes), and the other clustering algorithms just produced more fine-grained result (subclusterings with respect to this coarse gold standard).
The second is to have some kind of annotation -- a classification associated with the nodes, where each node can have multiple labels. In biology this could be the GO<|fim_middle|>. It is then possible to compute an enrichment score (e.g. using the hypergeometric distribution) for each cluster (check which labels are overrepresented in the clustering). This is also not entirely straightforward (as collections of P-values have to be compared), but both approaches are definitely very informative if care is taken.
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Italy is a great mosaic of wine styles and wine regions. These 12 wines come from five respectable wine brands of northern Italy.
2010 Castello Banfi "Belnero" Toscana IGT ($29). A lovely blend, especially for the price — mixture of creamy black raspberry and raspy blackberry flavors. Very smooth, medium body, but not a pushover at 14.5 percent alcohol. Good for sipping and with food.
2009 Allegrini "La Grola" Veronese red ($26). Can this wine be only 13.5 per cent alcohol? It's a wonderful pour, a lot like a ripasso — loads of plummy fruit with seductive notes of balsamic and raspy, citrusy finishing texture. Traditional yet edgy, with smidgeons of syrah and sangiovese to round out the local varieties.
2009 Allegrini Veronese "Palazzo della Torre" ($18). Ripe and juicy cherry flavors up front followed by a tangy, gamey finish. Mild tannins, good structure.
201<|fim_middle|> Chiarli "Enrico Cialdini" lambrusco secco ($15). Dark, marinated cherries with crisp, bitters finish and light bubbles. Great with salmon filet.
NV Cleto Chiarli "Grasparossa di Tasteventro Centenario" lambrusco amabile ($12). A mildly sweet but well-balanced, low-alcohol (8 percent), frizzy wine with dominant tastes of elderberries tempered by savory notes of wet dried herbs. Definitely a food wine, not just for Italian pork dishes, but also as an accompaniment for dim sum.
2009 Biserno Bibblona ($160). Just a fabulous wine from the Antinori brothers. Ripe, rich, creamy, purple fruits with great depth. Rounded like a rolling wave. Hint of brulée just before finish. Great body.
2009 Il Pinto di Biserno ($68). A little more traditional ins tastes and structures that the first wine — a tangy rogue with good fruit and intensity that still carries the blood lines.
2011 Aia Vecchia Maremma Toscano Vermentino ($12) How did this white wine slip in with all these big-shouldered reds? Chalky green fruit flavors, some firm apples, moderate body, fragrance in the finish with a lingering taste of green apple skins.
2010 Aia Vecchia "Lagone" Toscana IGT ($15). This wine represents the brown side of red — lots of forest floor, carbon notes, dried plums, moderate tannins. Nice savory wine, but not as complex as it sounds.
2008 Aia Vecchia "Sor Ugo" Bolgheri superior ($35). Ripe mixture of fruit, oak and light bitters or pepperiness — a Right Bank-style of wine if it were in Bordeaux. Red cherries and a little red Italian vermouth. Comes across as old-school Italian, even though it's a French twist of varieties — cabernet, merlot, and petite verdot. | 1 Allegrini Valpolicella ($17). Chunky dark fruit, little cream, touch of spice, chocolate shavings. A good example of how good a basic valpolicella can be when attention is paid.
2012 Cleto Chiarli "Vecchina Modena" lambrusco du Sorba secco ($17). I had this recently at an eight-course BYOB dinner with a pork-belly dish. Great pairing. The wine has a light fizz with tobacco-y dark cherries fruits and lots of acidity.
NV Cleto | 117 |
Amandira combines the Sanskrit words for 'peace' and 'intrepid', and that's exactly what you get on this gorgeous 52-metre, two-masted Phinisi yacht handcrafted by shipbuilders of the Indonesian Konjo tribe. This is the second yacht built and managed by Aman Resorts, so you can expect the same contemporary luxuries and legendary service onboard that you would get at any of the five-star Aman resorts. Even better, you can sail<|fim_middle|> get their PADI certification and provide expert divers with Nitrox for longer bottom times. There are also kayaks, fishing equipment and snorkelling and dive gear available onboard.
Amandira was built in 2015 and spans 52m with a beam of 10m and a draft of 3m. 3 cabins + 2 bunk cabins accommodate up to 6 guests plus additional children. She cruises at a maximum speed of 9 knots. | Amandira in tandem with sister yacht Amanikan for an unforgettable adventure for larger groups through the Indonesian archipelago.
Natural wood and neutral earth tones create a soothing palette onboard Amandira, and the ship was designed with comfort and convenience in mind. The expansive teak foredeck boasts sun loungers, a bar and a dining area, which makes it the perfect spot to sunbathe and watch the seascapes go by during the day, enjoy sundowner cocktails come dusk, and dine under the stars after dark. Inside you have your choice of an air-conditioned lounge, library and entertainment room with soft sofas and state-of-the-art technology like portable Bose Docking stations.
From March to October, Amandira plies the waters of Komodo National Park where you can see the famed Komodo dragons, the largest lizards on Earth that only reside on a few remote islands in the West Nusa Tenggara chain. This expedition also takes you to deserted white sand beaches where you can enjoy picnics of freshly barbecued lobster and local delicacies, empty coves where you can snorkel with colourful corals and fish, and amazing dive sites where exotic marine life gathers.
If diving is your passion, then the Raja Ampat expedition is an absolute must. This protected marine park is where the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean meet, and it is one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet with over 1,500 uninhabited islands, extraordinary coral reefs and crystal clear waters teeming with marine life like sharks, dolphins, manta rays, dugongs and more. Here you will find some of the best dive spots in the world and amazing vistas both above and below water.
Amandira has five spacious cabins that can accommodate up to 10 guests, making this an ideal choice for families with children or groups of friends. The master cabin sits above deck and offers sweeping views out of huge windows and a private verandah on the aft deck. Below deck there are two deluxe cabins with living areas, coffee tables and writing desks. One cabin has a king-sized bed and the other has a queen bed that can also be converted into twin beds. There are also two cabins with bunk beds that are great for children. Each of Amandira's luxurious cabins also has a large ensuite bathroom outfitted with marble and wood, twin vanities and a separate shower and toilet.
There are 14 crew members onboard each of Amandira's expeditions, which means there is always someone on hand to attend to your every need. The crew includes your cruise director, who will take you to spectacular spots and cater your journey to your travelling style; a private chef who will whip up delicious gourmet meals; a masseuse to soothe aching muscles after long treks through rainforests and up volcanoes; and a dive guide who can help new divers | 590 |
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How Surgeons can Help you Navigate the Colorectal Cancer Maze | Dr Francis Seow Choen with Grace Gawler
Dr Francis Seow Choen is himself a medical miracle. As a 7 year old he recovered from major surgery for a cancer in his small intestine after facing a horrendous 6 months of radiation treatment and chemotherapy back in 1964 when treatments were harsh. He survived! Dr. Seow-Choen graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1981 & obtained his higher surgical qualifications in 1987. He sub-specialised in colorectal surgery in 1989 where he worked with the world-class surgeons of St Marks' Hospital in London. He is a remarkable CR surgeon.
Part 2 – How Surgeons can Help you Navigate the Colorectal Cancer Maze
Dr Francis Seow Choen MBBS (Spore), FRCS (Edin), FAMS
Dr Francis Seow Choen Fortis Surgical Hospital Singapore
Dr Francis Seow Choen is himself a medical miracle. As a 7 year old he recovered from major surgery for a cancer in his small intestine after facing a horrendous 6 months of radiation treatment and chemotherapy back in 1964 when treatments were harsh. He survived! Interview CLICK HERE
Dr. Seow-Choen graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1981 & obtained his higher surgical qualifications in 1987. He sub-specialised in colorectal surgery in 1989 where he worked with the world-class surgeons of St Marks' Hospital in London. He is a remarkable CR surgeon.
I have interviewed Dr Francis Seow Choen previously on my internet radio show Navigating the Cancer Maze at Voice America. This time however, we touch on more details about the surgical techniques available for anyone dealing with colorectal cancer today.
As well, speaking as CR surgeon and recovered patient; he had a powerful message to cancer patients. Listen to this short excerpt from his interview: Select the icon below right to hear Dr Seow Choen's message.
A personal message to cancer patients from Dr Francis Seow Choen
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How our immune System Fights Cancer|Knowledge to Help you Navigate the Cancer Maze Grace Gawler & Prof Jerome Galon
Do want to get some insights into the intricate working of your immune system? Navigating the Cancer Maze, Grace Gawler interviews Prof. Dr. Jerome Galon: Research Director at INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) & leader of the INSERM Integrative Cancer Immunology laboratory, at the Cordeliers Research Centre, Paris, France.
Do want to get some insights into the intricate working of your immune system and cancer? On Navigating the Cancer Maze, internet radio Grace Gawler interviews Prof. Dr. Jerome Galon: Research Director at INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) & leader of the INSERM Integrative Cancer Immunology laboratory, at the Cordeliers Research Centre, Paris, France.
PROF DR. JEROME GALON
Listen to the show by selecting the following link:
http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/78656/how-our-immune-system-fights-cancer-knowledge-to-help-you-navigate-the-cancer-maze
Professor Galon's current interests & major contributions concern basic & translational research in cancer immunology, using systems biology.
His laboratory has made some ground-breaking findings demonstrating that the adaptive immune response within a tumor was a better predictor of survival than traditional staging based on the size and spread of a tumor.The new wave of immunotherapies reflects what has been known for some time; that the answer to cancer is in you! But it is not that simple. Our immune system is complex and intricate & as science unravels its mysteries, we are developing new understandings of how the immune system can be captured & recruited in the laboratory; retrained and returned to you the patient!
Awards: In 2008 Prof Dr Galon was awarded The Colon Cancer Research Schaeverbeke Award, Fondation de France,& the Clinical Research Award, Rose Lamarca, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale.
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Laboratory of Prof Jerome Galon Integrative Cancer Immunology (Team 15)
Cordeliers Research Center
In 2010 he received the William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute, NY, USA, 2011: the French National Academy of Science & the French National Academy of Medicine (2011) awards.
He has published many scientific papers and book chapters.
Health professionals and interested patients;
Visit INSERM UMRS 1138
at http://www.ici.upmc.fr/
For more about Integrative Cancer Immunology Laboratory and their research projects, Immunoscore, publications, seminars and links.
Health professionals – I especially recommend the Publications page and homepage side bar at INSERM's website.
Prof Galon was a guest of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane Qld , Australia. See their website at http://www.qimrberghofer.edu.au/
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Grace Gawler Media Proudly powered by WordPress | and science of surgery. My own introduction to surgery came when I was 15 years of age. I began working in a veterinary clinic after school, then during holidays and for while as permanent staff. I was fortunate that the owner took me on as an apprentice as he knew my passion was to become a veterinarian. So, not only did I learn "hands-on" surgery at an early age – I also was involved in co-performing post postmortems on animals which has served as a treasured learning field for understanding anatomy, physiology and pathology – many older dogs and cats who succumbed to an advanced and previously undiagnosed cancer that became a postmortem exercise; allowed me to see a wide range of cancers in vivo.
On the other hand, I was also impressed in how quickly animals responded to surgery for cancer and that for a high percentage of our animal clients – of those caught early in diagnosis; few had a recurrence. There were also cases where enormous tumour loads were surgically removed, and the dog lived a long life afterwards! It was here that I developed a tremendous respect for surgical skills and the associated healing potential and regenerative powers that along with our animal friends, we all possess. However, surgery has come a long way since those days when robotic surgery entered the arena a few years ago.
You will find today's interview with Dr Seow Choen informative, especially regarding the techniques using the new DaVinci Robotic surgery technology. You can read more about this technique as well as listening to the interview with Dr Seow Choen at: http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/80875/how-surgeons-can-help-you-navigate-the-colorectal-cancer-maze-part-2
Singapore Fortis surgical Hospital da-Vinci-Robotic-Surgery equipment
Dr. Seow-Choen helped establish the first colorectal surgery department in Asia at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and is considered a leader in the development in CR surgery and approaches to treatment.
In this interview with Dr Seow Choen he also comments on diet and nutrition for cancer patients from the viewpoint of an experienced CR surgeon.
You may be surprised what he says……
In the last segment of today's show, I provide an overview on treatments available for CR cancer in 2014. A not to be missed show!
DaVinci robotic surgery technology
Contact: www.fortissurgicalhospital.com to learn more…..
Or visit Dr Seow Choen's website:
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Don't miss reading the informative medical media articles at……….
http://www.colorectalcentre.com/eng/media_articles.html
If you missed last weeks interview with Dr Seow Choen's colleague Dr Lim Jit Fong –
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Family of Port Hardy man killed by police worry they won't be able to attend inquest
WATCH The family of a man killed by Port Hardy RCMP in 2015 is reliving the pain after a new development in his case. A coroner's inquest into James Hayward's death has been scheduled for Campbell River this August, but it's nearly three hours from where the incident took place and his family lives.
Being back in a playground and pushing her granddaughter on the swings reminds Nora Hayward of the many days spent with her nephew James Hayward.
"James was subdued," said his aunt Nora Hayward.
"Always quiet. Always thinking. Always planning his future. Thinking of what could be."
Add<|fim_middle|>sville nets thieves $10,000 worth of Makita tools | iction and bipolar disorder made his future a lot harder though. But at 24, his family still had great hope he'd turn his life around and what happened on Port Hardy's Granville Street on July 8, 2015, left his family in shock.
"I was heartbroken," said James's cousin Amber Rabey.
"I felt robbed."
"He was 24 years old," said Nora.
"He was a kid. He was a kid," she said.
An Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C. probe revealed James had threatened to kill a bystander with a knife. When RCMP arrived and yelled for him to drop it, he instead lunged at them and RCMP shot him five times.
"I don't think he needed to be killed. He needed help and we failed him," said Rabey.
The IIO cleared Port Hardy RCMP of any wrongdoing that day but a coroner's inquest will be held on Aug. 20 to try to prevent similar tragedies.
James's family has just learned it will be at Campbell River's courthouse, though, nearly three hours from where the incident took place and much of his family lives.
"He spent most of life in Port Hardy. There's a lot of people who know him who loved him, from Port Hardy and who would want to be a part of this," said Rabey.
The BC Coroners Service tells CHEK News staff are now trying to accommodate the victim's loved ones but said quote:
"The Campbell River Courthouse was the closest one with a courtroom that was available to securely accommodate an inquest with a courtroom equipped for a jury."
"We're getting close to the last thing that we can do for James," said Nora.
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Can the new tranche of Chinese tech brands take the UK by storm?
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In recent years, more Chinese brands than ever have broken new ground in Europe and continued to develop outside of their established Asian markets. One of the most immediately recognisable Chinese brands is Huawei and possibly Hisense but have you heard of Haier, Oppo or Xiaomi? Chinese consumer electronics brands have recently launched in the UK and are fast gaining traction in their respective categories since being made available on the UK high street.
Gekko question whether the launch of Chinese electronic goods will gain traction in the UK.
We live in a society where global brands are the norm. Whilst we are, or at least believe we are, familiar with many of the brands we are exposed to, there are others that we don't know so much about even if we buy-into them as consumers. Do we care about a brand's origins and heritage? Or are consumer purchase decisions driven by a products' look, functionality, usage, price point and status? If this new tranche of Chinese tech brands doesn't focus enough on building their brands and resonance with the UK audience, will they be able to compete with their Californian cousins and achieve their full potential in the UK market?
Cleverly Haier, the world's number one major appliance brand in terms of volume bought Hoover Candy, a traditional stalwart of the Major Domestic Appliance market in the EU which enables Haier to tap into the trust associated with a familiar European brand. Now listed in John Lewis stores, there's brand reassurance of Haier is being established among shoppers.
Oppo, China's leading 4G smartphone manufacturer, launched its range of mobile phones into Dixons Carphone earlier this year. With flagship models coming in at under £800 SIM free, the brand offers premium and innovative features at a fraction of the price other brands may charge. Time will tell if the brand has done enough to resonate and take a big enough market share and see a return on investment on their ICC Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon sponsorship.
Xiaomi, pronounced 'ShwowMee', is actually the world's most valuable privately held company, and the third biggest smartphone maker, selling 61 million handsets last year. Xiaomi has been bold with its UK launch strategy and has opened a great new Mi store at Westfield White City. The store is familiar looking, sharing many similarities, all be it on a smaller budget, to that of its Californian cousins.
It sells a variety of products from mobile phones, TVs, smart kettles, electric scooters and other accessories in an environment where you are encouraged to play and explore. Its pricing is competitive and it's certainly within the budgets of a far wider demographic than other brands but what it lacks is star quality. Star quality on build, packaging and its ability to give consumers that 'feel good' factor from an anonymous brand is essential if it's to mean more to<|fim_middle|>.
Daniel Todaro is the managing director at Gekko.
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Gekko is a full service field marketing agency, specialised in connecting brands with consumers in retail throughout the UK and Ireland. | consumers. All possible if its proud heritage and brand storytelling was more obvious.
Tell me what Mi means to the technology industry and I may be persuaded to purchase some of today's most competitively priced technology and become a brand advocate. Hide from me what Mi is and I may react a bit more suspiciously and feel the brand isn't the best fit for me. Brands, wherever they are from, should be proud of their heritage and success. A confident, honest and ethical brand will help instil the necessary confidence in consumers to help a brand to gain traction and 'win' in a new market | 120 |
On 9 December 2010, 79 Peace Corps Trainees were sworn-in as Peace Corps Volunteers in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was lucky enough to be one of those 79. After Group 40 swears in this week, there will be over 400 Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Ukraine. So exciting! It's hard to believe training is over and we are finally at our sites. It seems just recently that we were sitting in language class for four hours a day learning Ukrainian grammar. Though I will miss my cluster- and link-mates and other friends, I'm excited to officially start my service as a PC Volunteer.
Janira (far L) and I with our counterparts! My counterpart is Galyna, the tiny blond in the middle.
So where am I now, you may ask? I've ended up in the Ivano-Frankivska Oblast (an oblast is like a state) near the border of the Chernivets'ka Oblast in SW Ukraine. My town is a rayon (region) center of 15-20,000 people and I live in the center of town in a beautiful apartment. I'm the first PCV<|fim_middle|>. My counterpart, Galyna – the Ukrainian English teacher with whom I will primarily work – is 21 years old, recently married, and totally great. She and I are really enthusiastic about the next two years. The day I got to site I went to school and met the other English teachers – a range of ages and experiences, but all friendly, funny, and welcoming people. I'll be observing classes for the next few weeks and will start teaching after the holidays. On Monday I was officially introduced and welcomed (in)to the school community – the English pupils of the 8th and 9th Forms gave presentations about Ukrainian places/traditions/food and their knowledge of the U.S. There were also some dance and song performances. I was presented with flowers, a traditional/ceremonial Ukrainian loaf of bread (Каравай), and a book about my town! The director of the school said some words of welcome and I attempted to respond and introduce myself briefly in Ukrainian. The pupils' English was very strong.
Loot from presentation at school: book, flowers, Каравай bread, & of course leftover cookies & candy.
After the hour-long presentation the English teachers, school director, and vice principals swept me off to what will be "my" classroom – for another hour of wine/tea/fruit/cookies/sandwiches/candy and Ukrainian conversation. The director speaks no English and is proud of her status as Ukrainian – as she should be – so I am hopeful that my Ukrainian will continue to improve if I talk to her a lot. They are all wonderful people and I feel so lucky to be in such a community for the next two years.
This entry was posted in education, Peace Corps, teaching on 15.12.2010 by taplatt. | in my town | 3 |
Antique (1910-1919) Minton Sheridan<|fim_middle|> a smooth edge.
THIS LISTING IS FOR ONE (1) PLATE. Currently, more than one plate is available in the shop. | hand-painted, numbered dinner plate | charger. Florals, brown scrolls, edge.
Almost antique (1910-1919) Mintons | Minton Sheridan B1227 pattern hand-painted, numbered large dinner plate or charger.
Extremely hard to find, Sheridan features multicolored florals in predominant shades of pink, yellow, blue and red with pops of greenery and a proliferation of both gold and brown scrolls set into a light yellow band and a smooth, brown edge.
In EXCELLENT! and seemingly little used condition with NO! chips, nicks, cracks or fleabites, NO! crazing and NO! marks or stains. To our eye, there are NO! scratches to the plate surface or pattern. Having saiad this, please review each of the posted photos for a complete visual of the item. The hand-painted artwork is bright and vibrant with NO! fading or wear apparent.
One dinner plate is available with a couple of minuscule nicks to the smooth, mustard edge and this plate is offered at a reduced price (please review the photos for a view of the affected area on the one plate).
Artist's mark - B1227 - in red to reverse, as well as both the stamped and impressed Minton marks for the period in brown.
Approximate measurements: 10-1/2" in diameter (measured edge to edge) with | 294 |
O padrão-ouro, também chamado de estalão-ouro, foi o sistema monetário cuja primeira fase vigorou desde o século XIX até a Primeira Guerra Mundial.
A teoria pioneira do padrão-ouro, chamada de teoria quantitativa da moeda, foi elaborada por David Hume em 1752, sob o nome de modelo de fluxo de moedas metálicas e destacava as relações entre moeda e níveis de preço (base de fenômenos da inflação e deflação). De acordo com a teoria aplicada ao comércio internacional e nos dizeres do economista René Villarreal, "os países superavitários sofreriam processos inflacionários, enquanto que nos países deficitários os preços se moveriam em sentido inverso, até que se restabelecesse o equilíbrio".
Cada banco era obrigado a converter as notas bancárias por ele emitida em ouro (ou prata), sempre que solicitado pelo cliente. A introdução de notas bancárias sem esse lastro causou escândalos na França. Com o padrão-ouro, utilizado principalmente pela Inglaterra, o sistema conseguiu estabilidade e permaneceu desde 1870 até o término da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Em alguns países periféricos, o sistema não foi adotado por se achar que a presença desses países e seus problemas de financiamento desestabilizariam o sistema. Dessa forma, a circulação de papéis-moeda foi feita pelo chamado sistema de "curso forçado". No Brasil, o sistema foi adotado imperfeitamente, durante o Segundo Reinado e no início da República Velha (Governo Campos Sales).
Em termos internacionais, o padrão-ouro significou a adoção de um regime cambial fixo por parte de praticamente todos as grandes potências econômicas do último quartel do século XIX. Cada país se comprometeu em fixar o valor de sua moeda em relação a uma quantidade específica de ouro, e a realizar políticas monetárias, de compra e venda de ouro, de modo a preservar tal paridade definida.
Operando no regime de padrão-ouro, o banco central de cada país mantém grande parte de seus ativos de reserva internacional sob a forma de ouro. As diferenças entre as reservas de ouro sob a propriedade de cada país refletia, portanto, as suas necessidades comerciais. Isto porque, nesse padrão, os fluxos de ouro financiavam os desequilíbrios nas balanças de pagamentos de cada país. Se um país fosse deficitário em sua balança de pagamentos, isto é, se a soma de bens e serviços importados do exterior fosse superior à soma de bens e serviços exportados pelo país, este deveria corrigir o déficit exportando ouro. Os países superavitários, por sua vez, tornavam-se importadores de ouro.
<|fim_middle|>60% de seu preço existente. Com esta autoridade, o presidente, em 31 de janeiro de 1934, fixou o valor do dólar de ouro em 59,06 cêntimos.
Os britânicos hesitaram em retornar ao padrão-ouro
Durante o período 1939-1942, o Reino Unido esgotou a maior parte do seu estoque de ouro em compras de munições e armas à base do cash-and-carry dos Estados Unidos e outros países. Esse esgotamento das reservas do Reino Unido convenceu Winston Churchill da impraticabilidade do retorno ao padrão-ouro, nos moldes vigentes no pré-guerra. De forma mais simples, a guerra levou a Grã-Bretanha à falência
John Maynard Keynes, que lutou contra o padrão-ouro, propôs colocar o poder de imprimir dinheiro nas mãos de um Banco da Inglaterra, de propriedade privada. Keynes, ao advertir sobre as ameaças da inflação, disse que "por um contínuo processo de inflação, os governos podem confiscar, secretamente e sem serem observados, uma importante parte da riqueza de seus cidadãos. Por este método, eles não apenas confiscam, mas eles confiscam arbitrariamente. E enquanto este processo empobrece muitos, ele enriquece outros".
Muito possivelmente devido a isso, o Acordo de Bretton Woods (1944) estabeleceu a criação do Fundo Monetário Internacional e um sistema monetário internacional baseado na convertibilidade de várias moedas nacionais em um dólar americano que era, por sua vez, convertível em ouro. Desse modo, as autoridades deveriam exigir dos bancos e demais instituições monetárias que negociassem seus passivos respeitando esse preço fixo em relação ao ouro, como forma de estabilizar a economia.
Padrão dólar-ouro (1946-1971 )
Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um sistema semelhante ao padrão-ouro, algumas vezes chamado "padrão dólar-ouro", foi estabelecido pelos Acordos de Bretton Woods. Sob este sistema, muitos países fixaram suas taxas de câmbio em relação ao dólar dos Estados Unidos. Os EUA prometeram fixar o preço do ouro em aproximadamente $ 35 por onça troy (31,104 gramas). Implicitamente, portanto, todas as moedas atreladas ao dólar também tinham um valor fixo em termos de ouro.
Observe-se que o padrão dólar-ouro não pôde ser seguido pelos países periféricos (inclusive o Brasil), que adotaram, então, formas de curso forçado e alternativas como o crawling peg.
Essa fase do padrão-ouro, o padrão dólar-ouro, terminaria em 1971, quando os EUA abandonaram inteiramente o sistema de Bretton Woods, em razão das crescentes necessidades de financiamento decorrentes da Guerra do Vietnã.
1971: fim do padrão dólar-ouro e colapso do sistema Bretton Woods
Sob a administração do Presidente francês Charles de Gaulle até 1970, a França reduziu suas reservas de dólar, trocando-as por ouro do governo americano, reduzindo a influência econômica dos Estados Unidos no exterior.
Nos anos seguintes, quando os bancos centrais europeus mostraram a intenção de resgatar, em ouro, o máximo possível de seus inflados estoques de dólares, Nixon, ao mesmo tempo em que impunha um congelamento de preços e salários nos Estados Unidos - na vã tentativa de controlar a inflação no país - decidiu, em 15 de agosto de 1971, unilateralmente e sem prévio aviso, pôr fim ao que restava do padrão-ouro, acabando com a convertibilidade direta do dólar em ouro e quebrando o sistema de Bretton Woods (o "Choque Nixon"). Os EUA não mais honrariam o compromisso assumido em 1944 e, pela primeira vez na história, o dólar tornava-se totalmente fiduciário, ou seja, sem qualquer lastro em ouro. Mesmo aquele tênue elo com o ouro, mantido desde 1933, estava agora definitivamente cortado, e o mundo voltava ao sistema fiduciário dos anos 1930, com a diferença que nem mesmo o dólar possuía agora qualquer ligação com o ouro.Essa decisão foi ratificada na reunião do Fundo Monetário Internacional, realizada na Jamaica em 1973, de modo que o ouro se tornaria doravante apenas uma mercadoria e não mais meio de pagamento. Isso levou a que o sistema monetário internacional passasse a atuar no chamado esquema das taxas flutuantes de câmbio.
Esta era para ser uma medida temporária, com o preço do ouro em dólar e a taxa oficial de câmbio constantes. A revalorização das moedas era o principal objetivo do plano. Mas nenhuma revalorização oficial ou resgate ocorreu. Posteriormente, o dólar flutuou. Afinal, para restaurar uma ordem monetária internacional, agora sem qualquer vínculo com o ouro, os EUA levaram o mundo a implementar o Acordo Smithsoniano, firmado em 18 de dezembro de 1971. Por esse acordo, o dólar foi desvalorizado, passando de US$ 35 para $ 38 por onça troy de ouro, enquanto as moedas de outros países foram apreciadas. No entanto, a conversibilidade em ouro jamais seria retomada. Em outubro de 1973, o preço do metal foi aumentado para $ 42,22 por onça. Em outubro de 1976, o governo americano mudou oficialmente a definição do dólar, e todas as referências ao ouro foram removidos dos regulamentos. A partir de então, o sistema monetário internacional seria constituído de pura moeda fiduciária.
Teoria
A moeda-mercadoria é difícil de se guardar e transportar. Além disso, ela não permite que um governo manipule ou restrinja o fluxo do comércio dentro de seus domínios com a mesma facilidade que uma moeda fiduciária permite. Desse modo, a moeda-mercadoria deu lugar ao dinheiro representativo, e o ouro e outras espécies foram mantidas como sua contraparte.
O ouro era uma forma comum de dinheiro devido a sua raridade, durabilidade, divisibilidade, fungibilidade e facilidade de identificação, muitas vezes em conjunto com a prata. A prata foi o típico meio de circulação médio, com o ouro funcionando como o metal da reserva monetária.
O padrão-ouro foi especificado de várias formas diferentes, quanto ao modo do atrelamento da moeda ao ouro, incluindo a quantidade de espécie por unidade de moeda. A própria moeda era apenas papel, portanto não possuindo nenhum valor intrínseco, mas era aceita pelos comerciantes pois poderia ser resgatada a qualquer hora pela espécie equivalente. Um silver certificate dos Estados Unidos, por exemplo, poderia ser resgatado por uma peça real de prata.
O dinheiro representativo e o padrão-ouro protegem os cidadãos da hiperinflação e outros abusos da política monetária, como foi visto em alguns países durante a Grande Depressão. No entanto, eles possuíam seus problemas e suas críticas, e portanto foram parcialmente abandonados pela adoção internacional dos Acordos de Bretton Woods. Esse sistema posteriormente entrou em colapso em 1971, na época em que quase todas os países haviam adotado moedas inteiramente fiduciárias.
De acordo com a análise keynesiana, a rapidez com que cada país deixou o padrão-ouro tem relação direta com a recuperação econômica da Grande Depressão. Por exemplo, a Grã-Bretanha e a Escandinávia, que deixaram o padrão-ouro em 1931, recuperaram-se muito mais cedo do que a França e Bélgica, que permaneceram com o ouro por muito mais tempo. Países como a China, que possuía um padrão-prata, quase evitaram inteiramente a depressão. A conexão entre deixar o padrão-ouro, como um forte preditor da severidade da depressão por que passa o país, e a demora na sua recuperação foi mostrada ser consistente para dezenas de países, incluindo aqueles em desenvolvimento. Isto pode explicar por que a experiência e a duração da depressão diferiram entre as economias nacionais.
Diferentes definições
Um padrão-ouro com 100% de reserva, ou um padrão-ouro completo ou padrão-ouro clássico, existe quando uma autoridade monetária possui ouro suficiente para converter todo o dinheiro representativo que ele emitiu em ouro à taxa de câmbio prometida. Ele é algumas vezes chamado de gold specie standard (padrão ouro-espécie) para ser identificado mais facilmente de outras formas de padrão-ouro que haviam existido em várias épocas. Oponentes de um padrão com 100% de reserva consideram tal padrão difícil de implementar, dizendo que a quantidade de ouro no mundo é muito pequena para sustentar a atividade econômica mundial aos preços correntes do ouro. A implementação faria o preço do ouro subir consideravelmente. No entanto, defensores do padrão-ouro haviam dito que qualquer quantidade de ouro pode servir como a reserva: "Uma vez que uma moeda é estabelecida, qualquer estoque de moeda torna-se compatível com qualquer nível de emprego e renda real". De acordo com eles, os preços dos bens e serviços irão se ajustar à oferta de ouro.
Em um sistema padrão-ouro internacional (que é necessariamente baseado em um padrão-ouro interno, nos países considerados), o ouro (ou uma moeda conversível em ouro a um preço fixo) é usado como meio de pagamento internacional. Sob tal sistema, quando as taxas de câmbio sobem acima ou caem abaixo da taxa fixada por mais do que o custo de enviar o ouro de um país para o outro, grandes fluxos para dentro ou para fora do país ocorrem até que as taxas retornem ao nível oficial. As regras internacionais do padrão-ouro frequentemente limitam e definem quais entidades têm o direito de resgatar a moeda pelo ouro. Sob os Acordos de Bretton Woods, eles eram chamados de Direitos Especiais de Saque (DES).
Vantagens
A estabilidade dos preços no longo prazo tem sido descrita como a grande virtude do padrão-ouro. Sob o padrão-ouro, elevados níveis de inflação são raros, e a hiperinflação é quase impossível visto que a oferta monetária pode somente crescer à taxa que a oferta de ouro cresce. Aumentos de preços por toda a economia causados por quantidades crescentes de moeda em busca de uma oferta constante de bens são raros, visto que a oferta de ouro para uso monetário é limitada pelo ouro disponível que pode ser cunhado em moeda. Altos níveis de inflação sob um padrão-ouro são normalmente vistos apenas quando a guerra destrói uma grande parte da economia, reduzindo a produção de bens, ou quando uma nova grande fontes de ouro torna-se disponível. Nos Estados Unidos, um desses períodos de guerra foi o da Guerra Civil, que destruiu a economia do sul, enquanto a corrida do ouro na Califórnia tornou grandes quantidades de ouro disponíveis para cunhagem.
O padrão-ouro limita o poder dos governantes de inflacionar preços através da emissão excessiva do papel-moeda. Ele fornece taxas de câmbio internacionais fixas entre os países que o adotam, e assim reduz a incerteza no comércio internacional. Historicamente, os desequilíbrios entre os níveis de preços nos diferentes países seria parcial ou inteiramente compensados por um mecanismo de ajuste automático no balanço de pagamentos chamado de "mecanismo de fluxo de preço-espécie".
O padrão-ouro torna o déficit crônico nos gastos do governo mais difícil, visto que ele evita que os governos inflacionem o valor real de suas dívidas. Um banco central não pode ser um comprador ilimitado de última instância da dívida do governo. Um banco central não deve criar quantidades ilimitadas de dinheiro à sua vontade, pois há uma oferta limitada de ouro.
Desvantagens
A quantidade total de ouro que já foi extraída foi estimada em 142 mil toneladas métricas. Isto é menor do que o valor da moeda circulante nos Estados Unidos sozinha, onde mais de $ 8,3 trilhões está em circulação ou em depósito (M2). Portanto, um retorno ao padrão-ouro, se também combinado com o fim das reservas bancárias fracionais, resultaria em um aumento significativo no valor atual do ouro, o que pode limitar seu uso nas aplicações correntes.
A deflação recompensa os poupadores e pune os devedores. Os encargos da dívida real portanto aumentam, levando os tomadores de empréstimos a cortarem os gastos para o pagamento de suas dívidas ou darem calote. Os emprestadores tornam-se mais ricos, mas podem escolher poupar uma parte de sua riqueza adicional ao invés de gastá-la toda. O montante total de despesas é portanto propenso a cair.
Os economistas ortodoxos acreditam que as recessões econômicas podem ser mitigadas em grande parte pelo aumento da oferta monetária durante os declínios econômicos. Seguir um padrão-ouro significaria que o volume de dinheiro seria determinado pela oferta de ouro, e portanto a política monetária não poderia mais ser usada para estabilizar a economia em tempos de recessão econômica. Tal razão é muitas vezes empregada para culpar parcialmente o padrão-ouro pela Grande Depressão, citando que o Federal Reserve não poderia expandir o crédito suficientemente para compensar as forças deflacionárias que afetavam o mercado.
A política monetária seria essencialmente determinada pela taxa de produção do ouro. Flutuações na quantidade de ouro que é extraído poderia causar inflação se houvesse um aumento, ou deflação se houvesse um declínio. Alguns mantinham a opinião de que isto contribuiu para a severidade e duração da Grande Depressão, visto que o padrão-ouro forçou os bancos centrais a manter a política monetária muito apertada, criando deflação.
Apesar de o padrão-ouro possibilitar a estabilidade de preços no longo prazo, no curto prazo ele traz alta volatilidade nos preços. É argumentado por Anna Schwartz, entre outros, que este tipo de instabilidade nos níveis de preços no curto prazo pode levar à instabilidade financeira visto que os emprestadores e os tomadores de empréstimos tornam-se incertos quanto ao valor da dívida.
James Hamilton afirmou que o padrão-ouro pode ser suscetível a ataques especulativos quando a posição financeira de um governo aparenta ser frágil, embora outros afirmem que esta ameaça desencoraja os governos a adotarem políticas arriscadas (ver risco moral). Por exemplo, alguns acreditam que os Estados Unidos foram forçados a aumentar suas taxas de juros no meio da Grande Depressão para defender a credibilidade de sua moeda após incomuns políticas de crédito fácil na década de 1920.
Se um país quisesse desvalorizar sua moeda, um padrão-ouro geralmente produziria mudanças mais nítidas do que os declínios suaves vistos nas moedas fiduciárias, dependendo do método de desvalorização.
A maioria dos economistas são a favor de uma taxa de inflação positiva porém baixa. Isto parcialmente reflete o medo de choques deflacionários, mas se deve principalmente devido ao fato de eles acreditarem que os bancos centrais ainda possuem algum papel a desempenhar no amortecimento das flutuações no produto e desemprego. Os bancos centrais podem exercer esse papel com mais segurança quando uma taxa positiva de inflação lhes dá espaço para conter o crescimento da moeda sem induzir o declínio dos preços.
É difícil manipular um padrão-ouro para se adequar à demanda por moeda de uma economia, fornecendo restrições práticas contra as medidas que os bancos centrais poderiam usar para responder às crises econômicas.
O mercado de metais preciosos pode ser facilmente manipulado por monopólios.
Defensores de um padrão-ouro renovado
O retorno ao padrão-ouro já foi defendido por Henry Ford e é atualmente apoiado por muitos seguidores da Escola Austríaca, objetivistas, libertarianistas do livre mercado e, nos Estados Unidos, por constitucionalistas estritos em grande parte porque eles se opõem ao papel do governo em emitir moeda fiduciária através dos bancos centrais. Um número significativo de defensores do padrão-ouro também pedem pelo fim da reserva bancária fracional.
Poucos políticos atualmente defendem o retorno para o padrão-ouro, além dos participantes da Escola Austríaca e alguns economistas da oferta. No entanto, alguns economistas proeminentes expressaram simpatia com uma base de moeda forte, e argumentaram contra a moeda fiduciária politicamente controlada, incluindo o ex-Presidente do FED Alan Greenspan (ele próprio um ex-objetivista), e o macroeconomista Robert Barro. Greenspan defendeu o retorno para um padrão-ouro 'puro' em seu artigo de 1966, Gold and Economic Freedom, no qual ele descreveu os apoiadores da moeda fiduciária como "estadistas do bem-estar social" que usavam as políticas monetárias para financiar deficits de gastos. Barro argumenta em favor da adoção de alguma forma de "constituição monetária" que forneceria estabilidade para a política monetária ao invés de permitir que as decisões sobre política monetária fossem feitas na base da política, mas sugere que o que forma esta constituição - por exemplo, um padrão-ouro, algum outro padrão baseado na mercadoria, ou uma moeda fiduciária com regras fixas para determinação da quantidade de moeda - é consideravelmente menos importante. O congressista americano Ron Paul continuamente defendeu o restabelecimento do padrão-ouro, mas não é mais um defensor ferrenho, passando a apoiar uma cesta de mercadorias que emerge dos mercados livres.
Por enquanto, o sistema monetário global continua a confiar no dólar dos Estados Unidos como uma moeda de reserva com a qual as transações importantes, como o próprio preço do ouro, são medidas. Uma série de alternativas foi sugerida, incluindo moedas baseadas na energia, e cestas de mercados de moedas ou mercadorias, sendo o ouro uma das alternativas.
Em 2001, o Primeiro-ministro da Malásia Mahathir bin Mohamad propôs uma nova moeda que seria usada inicialmente para o comércio internacional entre as nações muçulmanas. A moeda que ele propôs se chamava denário islâmico de ouro e foi definido como 4,25 gramas de ouro puro (24 quilates). Mahathir Mohamad promoveu o conceito com base em seus méritos econômicos como uma unidade estável de conta e também como um símbolo político para criar uma maior unidade entre os países islâmicos. O suposto propósito desse movimento seria reduzir a dependência do dólar dos Estados Unidos como uma moeda de reserva, e para estabelecer uma moeda sem base em dívida de acordo com a lei islâmica, que é contra a cobrança de juros. No entanto, a moeda proposta por Mahathir não conseguiu se firmar.
Em 2011, o legislativo do estado de Utah, Estados Unidos aprovou uma lei que aceitava o ouro emitido federalmente e as moedas de prata como moedas de cunho legal para pagar impostos. Uma legislação semelhante está em consideração em outros estados do país. O EIIL defende o uso do padrão-ouro em suas terra como uma maneira de enfrentar o poderio do dólar americano e de cumprir o que está no alcorão e na sunna.
Ouro como reserva atualmente
O franco suíço foi baseado em uma exigência de 40% de reservas legais de ouros a partir de 1936, quando acabou a conversibilidade com o ouro, até 2000. As reservas de ouro são guardadas em quantidades significativas por muitos países como um meio de defender sua moeda, e fazer hedge contra o dólar dos Estados Unidos, que forma o grosso das reservas líquidas de moeda.
Tanto as moedas de ouro como as barras de ouro são amplamente negociadas nos mercados e, portanto, ainda servem como reserva privada de riqueza. Algumas moedas de emissão privada, como a moeda de ouro digital, são atreladas a reservas de ouro.
Acordo de Washington (1999)
Em 26 de setembro de 1999, para proteger o valor do ouro como reserva, quinze bancos centrais da Europa (incluindo os bancos centrais dos onze países que, na época, constituíam a Eurozona, mais o Banco Central Europeu e mais os bancos centrais da Suécia, da Suíça e do Reino Unido) estabeleceram o primeiro Acordo de Washington do Ouro (Central Bank Gold Agreement), no qual declaravam que o ouro permaneceria como um elemento importante das reservas monetárias globais e concordaram em limitar coletivamente as suas vendas do metal a 2 000 toneladas, nos cinco anos seguintes (400 t ao ano). Também anunciaram que seus contratos de derivativos não aumentariam no mesmo período. Na época, os bancos signatários respondiam por aproximadamente 45% das reservas globais de ouro. Posteriormente, os bancos declararam que, naquele mesmo mês, seus contratos de leasing já atingiam um total de 2 119,32 toneladas de ouro.
Outros importantes detentores de reservas do metal - incluindo EUA, Japão, Austrália, o FMI e o BIS, comprometeram-se informalmente com o acordo ou anunciaram que suspenderiam suas vendas de ouro.
Padrão-ouro no Brasil
Com os problemas das desvalorizações cambiais persistentes, o Governo do Presidente Washington Luís tentou uma reforma econômica-financeira consubstanciada na Lei 5 108 de 18 de dezembro de 1926, escrita dentro das regras doutrinárias do padrão-ouro tentando uma estabilização monetária: previa o emprego de recursos para atingir a conversibilidade e a cunhagem do cruzeiro, que possibilitavam a circulação metálica e de ouro. Tais medidas não puderam ser executadas e com a Crise de 1929 foram totalmente abandonadas.
Terminologia do padrão-ouro
gold-stand (br.: padrão-espécie): modalidade de conversão de papel-moeda em ouro amoedado;
bullion-standard (br.: padrão-barra): a conversão é para ouro em barra.
gold-exchange standard (br.:padrão de câmbio-ouro ou padrão-divisas): conversão em divisas para o comércio internacional.
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Terminologia econômica | As "regras do jogo" prevalecentes no sistema de padrão-ouro eram simples: a quantidade de reservas de ouro do país determinava a sua oferta monetária. Se um país fosse superavitário em sua balança de pagamentos, deveria importar ouro dos países deficitários. Isso elevaria sua oferta interna de moeda, levando a uma expansão da base monetária, o que provocaria um aumento de preços, o que, no final das contas, tiraria competitividade dos seus produtos nos mercados internacionais, freando assim, novos superávits. Já se o país fosse deficitário na balança comercial, exportaria ouro, sofreria contração monetária, seus preços internos baixariam e, no final, aumentaria a competitividade de seus produtos no exterior.
Em resumo, o padrão-ouro visava uma situação de equilíbrio na economia internacional de modo que cada país mantivesse uma base monetária consistente com a paridade cambial, mantendo assim uma balança comercial equilibrada.
O padrão-ouro dito clássico foi o primeiro sistema monetário internacional e vigorou de 1870 até 1914 (início da Primeira Guerra Mundial) período em que o Reino Unido era a potência hegemônica e, por sua importância no comércio internacional, bem como pelo desenvolvimento acelerado de suas instituições financeiras, impôs ao mundo o padrão-ouro, quando Londres era o centro financeiro do mundo. A Primeira Guerra levou ao fim do padrão libra-ouro e, posteriormente, não se chegou a um acordo até Bretton Woods, em 1944. Assim, o período compreendido entre 1914 e 1944 caracteriza-se pela desordem monetária e pela inexistência de um país claramente hegemônico, enquanto potencias médias buscavam uma posição de liderança. Ainda em plena guerra, os Estados Unidos e a Inglaterra iniciaram negociações para uma reestruturação econômica, que resultaram na Carta do Atlântico, em 1941, uma espécie de precursor de Bretton Woods . Após o fim da guerra, quando os Estados Unidos emergem como nova potência mundial, o Ocidente passa a ter uma nova ordem monetária e econômica internacional. Ao se tornarem a nação hegemônica, os Estados Unidos impõem ao mundo o dólar como moeda internacional e a supremacia do país, também no campo monetário e na condução das finanças mundiais.
Em 1944, nos termos dos Acordos de Bretton Woods, o padrão libra-ouro (1870 - 1914) dá lugar ao padrão dólar-ouro .
O sistema de Bretton Woods vigeu até 15 de agosto de 1971, quando os Estados Unidos aboliram unilateralmente a conversibilidade do dólar em ouro, determinando, além da extinção do próprio padrão-ouro, o surgimento do sistema flutuante. O regime de flutuação pode ser totalmente livre (como no caso das principais moedas internacionais, o que não impede eventuais intervenções dos bancos centrais nos mercados), ou variar no regime de bandas ajustáveis (cuja referência de variação pode estar ligada a uma cesta de moedas). Mesmo o Direito Especial de Saque do FMI, moeda puramente contábil, tem seu valor determinado em função da variação relativa de um coquetel de moedas, com base no dólar, no iene, na libra esterlina e no euro. A "anarquia" monetária e cambial vivida desde o desmantelamento do modelo de Bretton Woods e os perigos inerentes aos regimes de flutuação (isto é, com ou sem intervenção das autoridades financeiras) tendem a propiciar uma concentração dos regimes monetários nacionais em torno de três principais moedas: o dólar americano, o euro e o iene (esta podendo ser substituída, no futuro, pelo renminbi chinês). Tentativas de restaurar o equilíbrio com base em novas paridades fracassaram e, desde 1973, com as modificações introduzidas no convênio constitutivo do FMI, a economia mundial vive num regime de ausência total de paridades correlacionadas, ou seja, o mundo vive sem um Sistema Monetário Internacional formal e, apesar das instabilidades, esse período não pode ser caracterizado como caótico, o que suscita o questionamento sobre a necessidade real de um Sistema Monetário Internacional formal.
História
Início
O padrão-ouro não foi pré-projetado, mas sim surgiu a partir de uma aceitação geral da utilidade do ouro como uma moeda universal. Quando as mercadorias competem pelo papel da moeda, aquela que com o passar do tempo perde o menor valor toma o papel. O uso do ouro como dinheiro data de centenas de anos sendo que as primeiras moedas de ouro conhecidas foram cunhadas na cidade-estado grega de Lídia, na Ásia Menor, por volta de 610 a.C. Sabe-se que as primeiras moedas cunhadas na China datam de 600 a.C. Durante a Idade Média, a moeda de ouro Soldo do Império Bizantino, também conhecida como Bezante, circulou pela Europa e Mediterrâneo. Mas assim que a influência econômica do Império Bizantino declinou, o mundo europeu tendeu a considerar a prata, ao invés do ouro, como a moeda de escolha, levando ao desenvolvimento de um padrão-prata. Pennies de prata, baseado no Denário romano, tornou-se a moeda básica da Grã-Bretanha por volta da época do Rei Offa, 796 d.C., e moedas semelhantes, incluindo o denari italiano, o denier francês, e o dinero espanhol circularam pela Europa. Depois da descoberta espanhola de grandes depósitos de prata em Potosí e no México durante o século XVI, o comércio internacional passou a depender de moedas como o dólar espanhol, o taleiro de Maria Theresa, e, na década de 1870, o dólar de comércio dos Estados Unidos.
Nos tempos modernos, as Índias Ocidentais Britânicas foram uma das primeiras regiões a adotar o padrão-ouro. Depois da proclamação da Rainha Ana em 1704, o padrão-ouro das Índias Ocidentais Britânicas era um padrão-ouro de facto com base na moeda de ouro espanhola dobrão. No ano de 1717, o mestre da Casa da Moeda Real, Sir Isaac Newton, estabeleceu uma nova razão de cunhagem entre a prata e ouro que teve efeito na retirada da prata de circulação e a inclusão da Grã-Bretanha no padrão-ouro. No entanto, apenas em 1821, depois da introdução da soberania do ouro pela nova Casa da Moeda Real em Tower Hill no ano de 1816, o Reino Unido foi colocado formalmente no padrão-ouro, a primeira das grandes potências industriais. Logo seguiram o Canadá em 1853, Newfoundland em 1865, e os Estados Unidos e Alemanha de jure em 1873. Os Estados Unidos usaram a Águia como sua unidade, e a Alemanha introduziu marco de ouro, enquanto o Canadá adotou um sistema dual baseado tanto na Águia de ouro americana quanto na Soberania de ouro britânica.
A Austrália e a Nova Zelândia adotaram o padrão-ouro britânico, assim como as Índias Ocidentais Britânicas, enquanto Newfoundland era o único território do Império Britânico a introduzir sua própria moeda de ouro como padrão. Sucursais da Casa da Moeda Real foram estabelecidas em Sydney, Nova Gales do Sul, Melbourne, Vitória e Perth, Austrália Ocidental com o objetivo de cunhar soberanos de ouro a partir dos ricos depósitos de ouro da Austrália.
A crise da moeda de prata e das cédulas (1750-1870)
No final do século XVII, guerras e o comércio com a China, que vendeu à Europa mas teve pouco uso para os bens europeus, drenaram a prata das economias da Europa Ocidental e dos Estados Unidos. As moedas foram cunhadas em números cada vez menores, e havia uma proliferação de notas de bancos e ações usadas como dinheiro.
Na década de 1790, a Inglaterra, que sofria uma grande escassez de moedas de prata, cessou a cunhagem das moedas de prata maiores, emitiu moedas de prata em "fichas" e prensou moedas estrangeiras. Com o fim das guerras napoleônicas, a Inglaterra começou um programa massivo de recunhagem que criou soberanos de ouro, coroas e meias-coroas, e eventualmente pences de cobre em 1821. A recunhagem de prata na Inglaterra após uma grande seca produziu uma explosão de moedas: a Inglaterra atingiu ceca de 40 milhões de shillings entre 1816 e 1820, 17 milhões de meias-coroas e 1,3 milhões de coroas de prata. A Lei de 1819 para a retomada dos pagamentos em numerário definiu 1823 como a data para a retomada da conversibilidade, mas alcançada já em 1821. Por toda a década de 1820, pequenas notas eram emitidas pelos bancos regionais, que foram finalmente restritos em 1826, enquanto foi permitida ao Banco da Inglaterra a criação de sucursais regionais. Em 1833, no entanto, as notas do Banco da Inglaterra ganharam força legal, e a retomada pelos outros bancos foi desencorajada. Em 1844, o Bank Charter Act estabeleceu que as notas do Banco da Inglaterra, completamente vinculadas ao ouro, eram de cunho legal. De acordo com a interpretação estrita do padrão-ouro, essa lei de 1844 marca o estabelecimento de um padrão-ouro completo para o dinheiro britânico.
Os Estados Unidos adotaram um padrão-prata baseado no dólar fresado espanhol em 1785. Isto foi codificado na Lei da Casa da Moeda e Cunhagem, e pelo uso por parte do Governo Federal do "Banco dos Estados Unidos" para guardar suas reservas, bem como estabelecendo uma razão fixa de ouro em relação ao dólar americano. Isso era, na verdade, um padrão-prata derivado, visto que não se exigia que o banco mantivesse uma relação da prata com a moeda emitida. Começou uma longa série de tentativas nos Estados Unidos para criar um padrão bimetálico para o dólar americano, que continuaria até a década de 1920. As moedas de ouro e prata tinham cunho legal, incluindo o real espanhol, uma moeda de prata cunhada no hemisfério ocidental. Devido à grande dívida tomada pelo Governo Federal americano para financiar a Guerra Revolucionária, moedas de prata cunhadas pelo governo deixaram de circular, e em 1806 o Presidente Jefferson suspendeu a produção de moedas de prata.
O Tesouro dos Estados Unidos foi colocado em rígido padrão de dinheiro, fazendo negócios apenas em moedas de ouro e prata como parte do Independent Treasury Act de 1848, que legalmente separou as contas do Governo Federal do sistema bancário. Entretanto, as taxas fixas do ouro e da prata sobrevalorizaram a prata em relação à demanda por ouro no comércio e empréstimos com a Inglaterra. A fuga do ouro em favor da prata levou à procura do ouro, incluindo a Corrida do Ouro da Califórnia de 1849. Seguindo a Lei de Gresham, a prata se multiplicou nos Estados Unidos, que comerciava com outros países que usavam a prata, enquanto o ouro se tornou escasso. Em 1853, os EUA reduziram o peso das moedas de prata para mantê-las em circulação, e em 1857 removeram a condição de cunho legal da cunhagem estrangeira.
Em 1857, a crise final da era dos bancos livres das finanças internacionais começou, com os bancos norte-americanos suspendendo o pagamento em prata, repercutindo no jovem sistema financeiro internacional dos bancos centrais. Nos Estados Unidos, esse colapso foi um fato que contribuiu para a Guerra Civil Americana, e em 1861 o governo dos EUA suspendeu o pagamento em ouro e prata, terminando de fato com as tentativas de formar um padrão-prata para o dólar. Durante o período 1860-1871, várias tentativas de ressuscitar os padrões bimetálicos foram feitas, incluindo uma baseada no franco de ouro e prata. No entanto, com o rápido influxo de prata dos novos depósitos descobertos, a expectativa de escassez da prata acabou.
A interação entre os bancos centrais e a moeda base formou a fonte primária da instabilidade monetária durante este período. A combinação que produziu estabilidade econômica foi uma restrição da oferta de novas notas, um monopólio do governo na emissão de notas diretamente, e indiretamente, um banco central e uma unidade única de valor. Tentativas de evitar essas condições produziram crises monetárias periódicas: com as notas desvalorizando, ou a prata parando de circular como uma reserva de valor, ou havendo uma depressão com os governos demandando espécies como pagamento, diminuindo o meio circulante na economia. Na mesma época, havia uma necessidade dramaticamente expandida por crédito, sendo que os grandes bancos estavam sendo fretados em vários estados, incluindo, em 1872, o Japão. A necessidade de uma base sólida em assuntos monetários produziria uma rápida aceitação do padrão-ouro no período que se seguiu.
A título de exemplo, e seguindo a decisão da Alemanha após a Guerra franco-prussiana de exigir reparações para facilitar um movimento para o padrão-ouro, o Japão obteve as reservas necessárias após a Guerra Sino-Japonesa de 1894-1895. É debatido se o padrão-ouro fornecia a um governo autenticidade suficiente quando ele buscava pegar empréstimos no exterior. Para o Japão, mudar para o ouro era considerado vital para ganhar acesso aos mercados de capital do Ocidente.
O padrão de câmbio-ouro (1870–1914)
No final do século XIX, alguns dos países restantes que utilizavam o padrão-prata começaram a atrelar suas moedas de prata aos padrões-ouro do Reino Unido ou dos Estados Unidos. Em 1898, a Índia britânica atrelou a rúpia de prata à libra esterlina em taxa fixa, enquanto em 1906, os Estabelecimentos dos Estreitos adotaram um padrão de câmbio-ouro contra a libra esterlina com os Straits dollar de prata sendo fixados a 2s 4d.
Na virada do século, a Filipinas atrelou o peso/dólar de prata ao dólar dos EUA a 50 cents. Uma atrelação semelhante a 50 cents ocorreu por volta da mesma época com o peso de prata do México e o iene de prata do Japão. Quando o Sião adotou um padrão de câmbio-ouro em 1908, apenas a China e Hong Kong permaneceram no padrão-prata.
Impacto da Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914–25)
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, a maioria dos países abandonou o padrão-ouro, principalmente devido às expansões monetárias e fiscais realizadas por eles durante a guerra, as quais desequilibraram enormemente o comércio internacional.
Os governos encararam uma necessidade de financiar altos níveis de despesas, mas com fontes limitadas de receita tributária, conversibilidade suspensa da moeda com o ouro em inúmeras ocasiões no século XIX. O governo britânico suspendeu a conversibilidade (ou seja, ele saiu do padrão-ouro) durante as Guerras Napoleônicas e o governo dos Estados Unidos durante a Guerra de Secessão. Em ambos os casos, a conversibilidade foi reassumida após a guerra. O teste real, no entanto, veio com a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um teste que "falhou totalmente" de acordo com o economista Richard Lipsey.
A fim de financiar os custos da guerra, a maior parte dos países beligerantes saíram do padrão-ouro durante a guerra, sofrendo níveis significantes de inflação. Como os níveis de inflação variavam entre os estados, quando eles voltaram para o padrão após a guerra a um preço determinado por eles próprios (alguns, por exemplo, escolheram entrar a preços do pré-guerra), os bens de alguns países estavam subvalorizados e alguns sobrevalorizados. Em última análise, o sistema tal como estava não poderia lidar rapidamente o suficiente com os grandes déficits e excedentes criados no balanço de pagamentos. Isto foi previamente atribuído à crescente rigidez dos salários (principalmente em termos de cortes de salários) trazida com o advento do trabalho sindicalizado, mas hoje é mais razoável pensar como uma falha inerente ao sistema que veio a ser descoberta devido às pressões da guerra e a rápida mudança tecnológica. Em qualquer caso, os preços não alcançaram o equilíbrio na época da Grande Depressão, o que serviu para matá-lo completamente. Por exemplo, a Alemanha abandonou o padrão-ouro em 1914 e não poderia retornar para ele efetivamente, visto que o país perdeu grande parte de suas reservas de ouro restantes em reparações. O banco central alemão emitiu marcos sem lastro e virtualmente sem limite para comprar moeda estrangeira para mais reparações e para apoiar os trabalhadores durante a ocupação do Ruhr, finalmente levando à hiperinflação da década de 1920.
O padrão-ouro espécie terminou no Reino Unido e no resto do Império Britânico com a eclosão da Primeira Guerra Mundial. As notas do Tesouro substituíram a circulação dos soberanos de ouro e meio soberanos de ouro. No entanto, legalmente, o padrão-ouro espécie não foi revogado. O fim do padrão-ouro foi realizado com sucesso por apelos ao patriotismo quando alguém pedia ao Banco da Inglaterra para resgatar seus papéis-moeda em troca de ouro em espécie.
Depois da Guerra, as autoridades inglesas iniciaram a política de retorno ao padrão-ouro, buscando valorizar sua moeda até o mesmo patamar de compra que tivera antes das hostilidades. Para isso foram usados os mecanismos de inspiração liberal dos superávits orçamentários e subidas das taxas de juro. O economista John Maynard Keynes ainda relativamente pouco conhecido à época, criticou essa política de revalorização e deflação num pequeno livro chamado Monetary Reform mas não foi atendido.
O padrão barra-ouro e o declínio do padrão-ouro (1925-31)
Em 1925, a Grã-Bretanha retornou ao padrão-ouro em conjunto com a Austrália e África do Sul, quando o padrão ouro-espécie foi oficialmente encerrado.
A Lei Britânica do Padrão-Ouro de 1925 introduziu o padrão barra-ouro e simultaneamente revogou o padrão do ouro-espécie. O novo padrão barra-ouro não previa o retorno à circulação das moedas de ouro. Pelo contrário, a lei compelia as autoridades a vender barras de ouro à demanda a um preço fixo. Este padrão barra-ouro durou até 1931.
Em 19 de setembro de 1931, o Reino Unido deixou o padrão-ouro revisado, forçado a suspender o padrão barra-ouro devido a grandes fluxos de ouro saindo do país para o outro lado do Oceano Atlântico. Os britânicos se beneficiaram da partida apesar da consequente inflação. Eles agora poderiam usar a política monetária para estimular a economia através da diminuição das taxas de juros. A Austrália e a Nova Zelândia já haviam sido forçadas para fora do padrão-ouro pelas mesmas pressões relacionadas à Grande Depressão, e o Canadá rapidamente segui o Reino Unido.
Outros países europeus que mantiveram a convertibilidade e a paridade de suas moedas entre o período de 1929 e 1936 foram Bélgica, França, Itália, Países Baixos, Polônia, Suíça e Tchecoslováquia (até 1934), chamados por alguns autores de "Bloco Ouro".
Depressão e Segunda Guerra Mundial (1932–1946)
Prolongamento da Grande Depressão
Alguns historiadores econômicos, tais como o professor Barry Eichengreen, dos Estados Unidos, culpam o padrão-ouro da década de 1920 pelo prolongamento da Grande Depressão. Outros, incluindo o Diretor do Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke e o ganhador do Prêmio Nobel de economia Milton Friedman colocam algum grau de culpa no Fed. O padrão-ouro limitou a flexibilidade da política monetária do banco central ao restringir a sua habilidade de expandir a oferta monetária, e assim sua habilidade de diminuir as taxas de juros. Nos Estados Unidos, o Federal Reserve foi obrigado por lei a ter 40% de ouro atrelados à demanda de notas do Fed e, desse modo, não poderia expandir a oferta monetária além do que era permitido pelas reservas de ouro em seus cofres.
No começo da década de 1930, o Federal Reserve defendeu o preço fixo dos dólares em relação ao padrão-ouro ao aumentar as taxas de juros, tentando aumentar a demanda por dólar. O seu compromisso e adesão ao padrão-ouro explica por que os Estados Unidos não se engajaram na política monetária expansionista. Para competir na economia internacional, os EUA mantiveram altas taxas de juros. Isto ajudou a atrair investidores internacionais, que compraram ativos estrangeiros com ouro. Maiores taxas de juros intensificaram a pressão deflacionária sobre o dólar e reduziram os investimentos nos bancos americanos. Os bancos comerciais também converteram as Notas do Federal Reserve em ouro em 1931, reduzindo as reservas de ouro do Fed e forçando uma redução correspondente no volume das Notas do Federal Reserve em circulação. Esse ataque especulativo ao dólar criou um pânico no sistema bancário dos Estados Unidos. Temendo uma iminente desvalorização do dólar, muitos depositantes estrangeiros e domésticos retiraram fundos dos bancos dos EUA para convertê-los em ouro ou outros ativos.
A contração forçada da oferta monetária causada pelas pessoas que retiravam seu dinheiro do sistema bancário durante crises de pânico resultou em deflação. Até mesmo as taxas nominais de juros caíram, enquanto as taxas reais (ajustadas pela inflação) de juros permaneceram altas, recompensando aqueles que guardavam dinheiro ao invés de gastá-lo, causando uma maior desaceleração na economia. A recuperação nos Estados Unidos foi mais lenta que na Grã-Bretanha, em parte devido a relutância do Congresso em abandonar o padrão-ouro e deixar a moeda americana flutuar assim como a Grã-Bretanha fez.
O Congresso aprovou a Lei de Reserva de Ouro em 30 de janeiro de 1934. A medida nacionalizou todo o ouro ao ordenar os bancos do Federal Reserve a entregar sua oferta ao Tesouro dos Estados Unidos. Em retorno, os bancos receberam certificados de ouro a serem usados como reservas contra depósitos e notas do Federal Reserve. A lei também autorizou o presidente a desvalorizar o dólar de ouro para que ele não tivesse mais do que | 6,091 |
Docents of Discourse: The Logic of Dispersed Sites
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This essay proposes a revision of the dominant critical vocabulary for site-based practices in contemporary art and poetry through a critical engagement with the work of art historian Miwon Kwon. Focusing on recent art and poetry that sites itself not in relation to physical places but instead in relation to "discourses" (like anthropology or archaeology), the essay contests Kwon's arguments that artists like Mark Dion and Renée Green relativize artistic practice in relation to other disciplines and that their work breaks with the concerns of art history. Demonstrating instead how they recode disciplinary boundaries and modes of authority, I show how such new and expanded models of contextualization became central to the history of site-specific art since the 1960s, once the concept of site began to organize not only literal sculptural objects but the notion of an artistic context (both synchronic and diachronic) more generally. Without acknowledging the contingency inescapable in such modes of contextualization, art historians have presented the discursive site as a stable and authoritative frame. To address this problem, the essay then turns to a range of site-based contemporary poetries (Flarf, Rob Fitterman, Lisa Robertson) in which "discourses" (of Web commerce, nationalism, and urbanism, among others) function similarly as sites. But rather than merely assert such sites as stable frames of reference, contemporary poetry tends, often perversely and playfully, to anatomize the legibility of these very frames. They thus call our attention to what might count as the raw materials, | 441 |
Ten miles to go. It'd been a long week and the smell of the finish line had the whole crew up and energized. Cutter rigged and heading downwind, the additional headsail had us moving along nicely for the last 48 hours.<|fim_middle|> If we could hold Tao off, it would be a great victory for the aged Haji.
One mile to go. Tao had done as predicted and was now on a port tack. They were gaining on us once more. Closer and closer they came. I went to the bow to call when we crossed the line and Amy headed down below ready to take the official time. Between the headland and light on the island was the imaginary line. .2 miles to go. I looked back as Tao closed in. We crossed. "Time!" I yelled. 1258 GMT. One minute later our adversaries, and friends, finished with a lovely view of our stern.
Victory was ours, a small triumph for Haji, and crew. It was a short lived celebration and we quickly set up our lines and fenders for mooring. As we pulled into the marina, there were no crowds, no applause. No one else needed to laud our work, we knew the score. Haji 1, Tao 0. | With a poled out genoa, a preventer on the mainsail, and the additional sail, we had no choice but to stay heading downwind. The skipper had set us up beautifully for the final stretch. Tao was looming close behind though and gaining quickly. To get the most out of Haji we gave Hans (one of our autohelms) a rest in lieu of a more accurate helmsman, our skipper, which added an extra .2 knots to our speed.
Our two mile lead was narrowing. Sailing on their mainsail and red, white, and blue spinnaker, Tao was definitely the faster boat. Three miles to go and our lead was down to .3 miles. An experienced racer, our skipper made the first move. Tao was forced down wind and if they wanted victory, they'd have some work to do. With no choice for them but to drop the spinnaker and go onto a starboard tack, we were in the drivers seat. As our lead increased once more we readied Haji for a gybe.
A well run crew, we made it look easy. First Amy and I dropped the staysail, bundled it up and sent it down the fore hatch, to be dealt with later. Then the bosun brought the genoa in, the skipper still at the helm. We took the preventer off and gybed the main, unfurling the genoa right behind it. The finish line was so close we could taste it. | 308 |
FAA's next generation transportation system
It was a perfect<|fim_middle|> until the year 2025. | landing in San Francisco from Auckland, New Zealand for the Air New Zealand flight which performed the latest test in what is called required navigational performance. It is part of the FAA's next generation plan to make air travel more sustainable.
It is taking the flight plan away from ground control and relying on satellites and computers.
"That means the jets will get from the gate to the runway as quickly and as smoothly as possible. It's like a town that doesn't need traffic systems because all of the car movements are synchronized," said the FAA's Robert Sturgell.
They are looking for the most direct and fuel-efficient routing. At cruising altitude, the flight plan can be altered. It happened twice on the Air New Zealand flight, saving fuel.
"We slightly exceeded our expectations in saving around 4,600 liters, a little over 1,200 U.S. gallons," said Capt. Dave Morgan, the chief pilot of Air New Zealand.
He says that is like 12 tons of carbon dioxide. When planes descend, they come in smoothly, without revving up engines. If it works, it will be a significant change in the way we fly.
Airport director John Martin says it would cut fog delays. But what about passengers? Will this mean lower ticket prices?
"I'm confident if we can optimize this we can take the top off these fuel increases. But it's probably fair to say that we can do little about the impact of fuel on airline costs," said Ashley Smout, CEO of Airways New Zealand.
There is no estimate of what it will cost airports. It will require cooperation among airlines and countries.
This is a plan of stability and efficiency, while not compromising safety. Tests will continue, but the navigational technology won't be fully implemented | 357 |
New Cast Announced For THE WAR OF THE WORLD'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
JASON DONOVAN, ADAM GARCIA, CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER,
NEWTON FALKNER, NATHAN JAMES & ANNA MARIE-WAYNE ANNOUNCED FOR JEFF WAYNE'S MUSICAL VERSION OF THE WAR OF THE WORLD'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
One of the most ground-breaking arena tours of all time, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of 'The War of the Worlds' - Alive on Stage is to make its return to arenas throughout the UK in 2018. Tickets for the Tour are on sale now from http://www.livenation.co.uk.
Nearly 40 years on, based on HG Wells' dark Victorian tale, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds remains a firm favourite to millions around the world.
The show will again feature a stellar cast with Jeff Wayne returning to the podium to conduct the 9-piece Black Smoke Band and 36-piece ULLAdubULLA Strings, while Liam Neeson retains his role in 3D holography as The Journalist.
Star of stage and screen Jason Donovan returns to the role of Parson Nathaniel alongside West End actress Carrie Hope Fletcher as Beth, his wife. Actor and theatre star Adam Garcia will debut as The Artilleryman, British singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner will perform The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist, In<|fim_middle|> reprising the role of Carrie again for the 40th anniversary Tour! I can't wait for everyone to see how the character has developed since the last tour - lots of new and exciting things!"
In 2018 TWOTW will "break through the fourth wall".
Built around a huge arched bridge running through the centre of the arena brings the action closer to the audience for a most captivating and immersive experience.
This production, mixed live in Surround Sound, will once again feature:
The iconic 3-tonne, 35-foot tall Martian Fighting Machine firing real flame Heat Rays at the audience.
A 100-foot wide 'Animation Wall' with 2 hours of cutting edge CGI.
A ground-breaking levitation effect.
The incineration of a cast member in full view of the audience.
Leaf drops over the audience.
…and much, much more!
Jeff Wayne said: "In June 1978 when my original double album was released. I had no idea if it would vanish as quickly as one can say… "ULLAdubULLA!"
But here we are today, celebrating its 40th Anniversary and seeing the newly re-mastered original double album sitting on top of the UK vinyl album charts.
And later this year I believe we'll be performing the most exciting arena tour to date, with a most exciting cast, all of us getting ready to do battle with the Martians later this year.
No one would have believed…"
To start the year off, Sony Music reissued the original 1978 double 12" vinyl album which is currently number 1 in the vinyl chart.
Stunningly remastered for a superior sounding audio experience, it also includes the original double gatefold with 16-page booklet containing the full script, lyrics, original paintings, and credits.
This vinyl reissue is the first in a number of special releases planned throughout 2018 to mark the 40th Anniversary of Jeff Wayne's iconic masterpiece. The reissue is available to order on Amazon now.
The year will continue with a number of additional special releases to mark the 40th Anniversary of this iconic masterpiece.
TWOTW HISTORY
Jeff Wayne's double album was originally released by CBS Records in 1978. It has enjoyed huge success and critical acclaim across the globe with over 15 million records sold and spending over 330 weeks in the UK Album Charts (to date) plus achieving two International hit singles - 'Forever Autumn' and 'The Eve of The War'. It has been Top 10 in 22 countries and Number 1 in 11 of them.
The War of The Worlds has also won two prestigious UK Ivor Novello Awards, the US Best Recording in Science Fiction and Fantasy (the judges included Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg), as well as winning for Jeff, Classic Rock's 'Showman of The Year' Award.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds has grown into a true classic, acquiring new generations of devoted followers since its original release.
Ticket link:
https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/jeff-wayne-s-musical-version-of-the-war-of-the-worlds-tickets
FRIDAY 30th - GLASGOW SSE HYDRO ARENA
SATURDAY 1st NEWCASTLE METRO RADIO ARENA
SUNDAY 2nd MANCHESTER ARENA
TUESDAY 4th LEEDS FIRST DIRECT ARENA
WEDNESDAY 5th LIVERPOOL ECHO ARENA
FRIDAY 7th NOTTINGHAM MOTORPOINT ARENA
SATURDAY 8th BIRMINGHAM GENTING ARENA
SUNDAY 9th CARDIFF MOTORPOINT ARENA
MONDAY 10th CARDIFF MOTORPOINT ARENA
WEDNESDAY 12th BOURNEMOUTH BIC WINDSOR HALL
THURSDAY 13th BOURNEMOUTH BIC WINDSOR HALL
SATURDAY 15th LONDON THE O2 (MATINEE)
SATURDAY 15th LONDON THE O2
SUNDAY 16th BRIGHTON CENTRE
MONDAY 17th BRIGHTON CENTRE
jeff wayne the war of the worlds
Labels: jeff wayne the war of the worlds | glorious front man Nathan James will play The Voice of Humanity, with Anna-Marie Wayne reprising her role as Carrie, The Journalist's Fiancée.
Jason Donovan commented:
"I am delighted to be re-joining the cast for this very special 40th Anniversary Tour. 'The War of The Worlds' has such enduring appeal and its fan base seems to grow and grow. With each tour, the scale, the drama and the special effects get more and more exciting, so I can't wait to see what Jeff has planned for this spectacular celebration!
Carrie Hope Fletcher added:
"I'm absolutely delighted and honoured to be reprising my role as 'Beth, Parson's Nathaniel's Wife', alongside Jason Donovan, especially for this momentous 40th Anniversary year! Having grown up listening to the album, 'The War of The Worlds' holds a personal significance, and with the new ingredients, I can't wait to see how this new production has evolved!"
Newton Faulkner said:
"I grew up listening to 'The War of The Worlds' and I'm playing The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist, alongside Liam Neeson and, as if that wasn't enough, Jeff Wayne asked me really nicely. Also, it's got giant Martian Fighting Machines in it! An actual MFM that shoots real flames out of its giant face! I'm very excited.
Adam Garcia commented:
"I have been waiting to be a part of TWOTW live since it first began in this arena format. Finally I get to be on stage - inside the 'The War of The Worlds'. I'm terribly excited."
Nathan James said:
"I am beyond excited to be part of the 40th anniversary production of The War of The worlds. I can't wait to stand on stage in these incredible venues and perform this wonderful music alongside such a hugely talented cast. I'm so thankful that Jeff has picked me to sing 'Thunder Child' - a song I have loved since I was a kid. I remember hearing those opening chords for the first time and to get to hear them from backstage is going to be a really surreal moment every night. This is a proper dream job."
Anna-Marie Wayne said:
"The War of The Worlds is obviously very near and dear to my heart and I am so excited to be | 470 |
<|fim_middle|> the new store is showing their generous commitment to the community already. They are donating 25 cents from the sale of every sandwich, sub, or wrap from now until February 21st to the Robbinsville Little League.
The Robbinsville location is the 159th store since the family-owned franchise started way back in 1967.
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Categories: Chris & the Crew, Food, Mercer County | The New Robbinsville QuickChek is Open & You Can Score Free Coffee All Week
Chris Rollins
Robbinsville Township via Facebook
The new QuickChek in Robbinsville is officially open for business. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held yesterday (January 22) with local public officials in attendance. The store located at 255 Robbinsville - Allentown Road (Route 526). If you're scratching your head trying to figure out where it is, it's near the NorthStar Veterinary Hospital.
The store has 16 gas pumps. Plus, it will be open 24 hours a day (7 days a week), which is great news for when my Ben & Jerry's cravings kick in.
PS - Please don't be that person who leaves their car at the gas pump while filling up, goes inside the store, taking a really long time, as the gas line backs up. Not cool.
By the way, the store is offering FREE coffee from now until February 3rd. This is a large (hot or iced) coffee.
Plus, I saw on Facebook that | 229 |
Safe As Milk Announce On-Site Pub Details
Christian Eede , March 6th, 2017 12:26
tQ are among the hosts at the festival's on-site pub across the weekend
The first ever edition of Safe As Milk Festival gets underway at the end of next month<|fim_middle|> host a Polytik modular synth workshop, and have a lot more planned, including some special DJ sets, which organisers aren't quite ready to reveal yet.
This will all take place in addition to sets from Butthole Surfers, Shirley Collins, Jeff Mills & Tony Allen, The Residents, Grouper, Karen Gwyer, Princess Nokia, Moor Mother, Actress, Hieroglyphic Being, This Is Not This Heat and many more. The festival takes place at Pontins in Prestatyn from April 21-23. You can get tickets and find more information here.
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Safe As Milk Cancelled » | , and with an already impressive lineup announced, organisers have now revealed what they have planned at the festival's on-site pub for the weekend.
Hosting duties for the weekend will be handled by The Wire, Bleep and your trusty team here at tQ. Plans for the weekend involve talks, screenings, special live performances and DJ sets. The full programme will be announced in the coming weeks, but tQ will host a very special edition of You Are Mark E Smith!, which encourages those in attendance to sign up for a The Fall-based round of karaoke and front a live band in the process.
Strange Attractor's Mark Pilkington will present a screening of his Mirage Men documentary too. The film looks at how the US government used mythology to cover up their own advanced technology. This will be followed by a Q&A with Pilkington. Finally, we'll host a special edition of The Quietus Hour, with guests Michael Rother and Princess Nokia joining the show, and each picking five tracks that they would like to discuss in detail.
The Wire's programme includes a live version of their Invisible Jukebox featuring Richard Dawson, where a series of unseeen tracks will be played to Dawson for him to discuss further. Jeff Mills will talk about his favourite comic books and how they have influenced his work, and author Robert Barry will discuss his book The Music Of The Future, which he describes as "a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music".
Bleep will | 313 |
''Pokémon'' makes a record-breaking debut at the box office
Ben Affleck, Susan Sarandon, and Joan of<|fim_middle|> to Woody and Buzz
How Key and Peele turned Ducky and Bunny into Toy Story 4's biggest scene-stealers
Watch Tom Hanks pal around with Woody on the Toy Story 4 red carpet
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''Pokémon'' makes a record-breaking debut at the box office | Arc all fall to the power of the pocket monsters
By Josh Wolk
Last month it was women calling the shots at the box office, making "Double Jeopardy" a hit. But now it's the kids' turn, if you judge by the outstanding estimated $31 million take this weekend for "Pokémon: The First Movie." The animated feature has racked up a $50.8 million total since its debut last Wednesday, easily setting a five-day opening record for November and besting the $45.7 million gross for "A Bug's Life" last year. Warner Bros., which planned to release its already completed "Pokémon" sequel next summer, may bump that opening up a bit while kids still have their parents' wallets pried open.
Meanwhile, the rest of this weekend's new films — aimed at an older crowd — performed pokily. "Dogma" fared the best, opening in third place with a respectable $8.7 million (behind last week's holdover, "The Bone Collector," which took in another handsome $12 million). The per-screen average for "Dogma" was $6,832, second only to "Pokémon"'s $10,199, so it's likely that all the controversy about this religious comedy actually helped it. (Did the religious picketers learn nothing from the Brooklyn Museum protest?)
The other openers could have used a protest — "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" debuted in fourth place with $6.4 million (and a lousy $2,963 per-screen average), while "Anywhere but Here" landed in fifth with $5.6 million, and a slightly better $3,354 average. The biggest loser was "Light It Up," which took in only $2.4 million for 11th place, giving it a lame $3.1 million since its Wednesday opening. Good thing Burger King didn't opt to give out "Light It Up" trading cards.
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Chapter 2: The Rashness of the King
We meet our hero: Tirian, the last King of Narnia.
This book has a very distinct structure, more akin to modern YA dystopia than fantasy (which makes sense, considering the apocalyptic tone). The first chapter almost serves as a prologue, a scene which gives the reader key information that the characters lack.
"Never in all my days have I seen such terrible things written in the skies as there have been nightly since this year began. The stars say nothing of the coming of Aslan, nor of peace, nor of joy. I know by my art that there have not been such disastrous conjunctions of the planets for five hundred years. It was already in my mind to come and warn your Majesty that some great evil hangs over Narnia. But last night the rumor reached me that Aslan is abroad in Narnia. Sire, do not believe this tale. It cannot be. The stars never lie, but Men and Beasts do. If Aslan were really coming to Narnia the sky would have foretold it. If he were really come, all the most gracious stars would be assembled in his honor. It is all a lie."
"I wonder," said Jewel, "whether Aslan might not come though all the stars foretold otherwise. He is not the slave of the stars but their Maker. Is it not said in all the old stories that he is not a tame lion."
And thus the seeds of mistrust in what has always proven trustworthy are sown! Not that I blame Jewel or Tirian for wanting to both think the best of their people and believe that Aslan, who has evidently been absent for centuries, has finally returned. It's easier for them to think of Aslan as erratic than to totally disbelieve that he's returned. But of course, thinking of Aslan as erratic can easily lead to other misconceptions.
Then, in a somewhat disturbing scene, a Dryad informs them that the trees of Lantern Waste are being chopped down and sold for lumber to the Calormenes – and promptly dies when her own tree is cut down. Tirian is enraged, and spurred to the titular rashness.
"Well," said the King at last, "we must go on and take the adventure that comes to us."
"It is the only thing left for us to do, S<|fim_middle|> that the horses which the Calormenes were driving were their own horses; dumb, witless animals like the horses of our own world. And though he hated to see even a dumb horse overdriven, he was of course thinking more about the murder of the Trees. It had never crossed his mind that anyone would dare to harness one of the free Talking Horses of Narnia, much less to use a whip on it. But as the savage blow fell the horse reared up and said, half screaming:
"Fool and tyrant! Do you not see I am doing all I can?"
Please excuse me while I go look for a new heart…
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Next Article Chapter 3: The Ape in Its Glory | ire," said the Unicorn. He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for the two of them to go on alone; nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end.
King Tirian could almost be a tragic hero – but of course, that all depends on whether The Last Battle is actually a tragedy or not. It certainly feels like it could be at this point: Narnia has never been in such dire straits, and knowing that Shift is ultimately responsible doesn't make the outlook any less bleak.
Then they actually reach Lantern Waste.
Up till now Tirian had taken it for granted | 137 |
Судогда — река во Владимирской области России, правый приток реки Клязьма (бассейна Волги). Длина реки — 116 км. Площадь бассейна — 1900 км². Средний уклон — 0,342 м/к<|fim_middle|>-угорское происхождение.
Основные притоки: Ястреб, Печенка, Побойка, Яда, Войнинга.
На реке расположен город Судогда, село Лаврово и несколько деревень.
Ранее на реке действовало несколько малых гидроэлектростанций: Попелинская у деревни Попеленки и Жуковка.
Притоки (км от устья)
9,4 км: река Войнинга (лв)
36 км: река Яда (пр)
46 км: река Побойка (лв)
54 км: река Печенка (лв)
55 км: река Ястреб (пр)
90 км: ручей Има (пр)
95 км: ручей Смородинка (пр)
Примечания
Литература
Ссылки
Притоки Клязьмы
Реки Гусь-Хрустального района
Реки Судогодского района | м, половина падения происходит на первых 20 километрах.
Река Судогда образуется у деревни Лазаревка (Гусь-Хрустальный район Владимирской области) и впадает в Клязьму на 275-м км на уровне 87,7 м у села Спас-Купалище (Судогодский район Владимирской области).
Река равнинная, лесистая. Берега луговые, заболочены, особенно в верхнем течении. Общее направление течения — северное.
Название реки по наиболее распространённой версии имеет финно | 164 |
Over thirty Year 6 pupils from a number of local schools have been taking part in a Mathematics Saturday School at Bolton School. These additional lessons have been designed to offer ambitious and talented<|fim_middle|> first became involved with coaching local primary school pupils to achieve Level 6 standard last year. Mr Howard and Girls' Division maths teacher Miss Lauren Reynolds ran a 'Maths Club' for a cluster of schools in Farnworth, which proved to be a huge success with half the children achieving Level 6 and the rest scoring highly in the Level 3-5 paper. | children specialist tuition to prepare for the Level 6 SATs examination.
The Saturday morning sessions began in January and will run once a month until May. They are run as a series of fun group workshops in the Leverhulme Suite, located in the new Riley Centre. Girls' and Boys' Division Sixth Form mathematicians lead the children through the different topics under the supervision of Mr Phil Howard, the Boys' Division Community Action Coordinator, who also organised the project.
The Year 6 children will be guided through further exploration of the Level 6 topics, with the workshops supporting and complementing their learning in school. There are also lots of opportunities to have fun with maths and engage with practical activities. For example, in the latest session, each child was able to learn more about polygons by folding a paper frustrum of a tetrahedron – or a triangular pyramid with a flat top instead of a point – and combining these into a twenty-sided isocahedron. The polygons were then used in another learning exercise.
Bolton School | 211 |
The Sally S was built in 1927 in the J.C. Johnson Shipyard Port<|fim_middle|> a local company that works in creating environments from reclaimed materials, and renovated the interior. The result is a fresh look with modern conveniences while still preserving the history of Sally S.
The blueprints for Sally S's sister ship, Doris E. The Sally S is the only one afloat today. | Blakeley, Bainbridge Island, WA - less than 20 miles from where she is moored today.
She was designed by legendary naval architect, L.E. "Ted" Geary, who also designed northwest classics such as the Blue Peter, the Malibu, and the Westward. He was known for his signature fan tail.
The Sally S worked as a tugboat and cannery tender in the Puget Sound and surrounding waters, all the way up to Alaska up until 1985. In 1951 she was purchased by Western Towboat as one of their first tugboats. They are now one of the largest towboat companies in the area.
In 1985, Sally S was retired, abandoned and essentially left to rot. Greg Mallory and his family bought the Sally S and went through major renovations to convert her to a residential live-a-board. He lived there with his family until selling the boat in 2008.
The current owners worked with Marian Built, | 208 |
How to Surrender and Stop Living an Illusion, Ep #55
Both On Board
The current situation in the world seems as though it is causing stress and emotional difficulty for a lot of people. However, things may not be as simple as they appear. If you're feeling overwhelmed by things going on around you, there is good news.
You can control how you respond to stressful situations.
In this episode, Ray and Christy discuss how you are preventing yourself from experiencing happiness, why challenging circumstances aren't the cause of your emotional distress, and several little-known benefits of meditation.
Show Highlights Include:
Doing this is destroying any potential you have for happiness (8:54)
The two ways you can choose to respond when the world challenges you (8:35)
This is what keeps you from enjoying your life all the time (13:13)
Why your current situation is actually NOT what's causing your emotional distress (14:03)
The truth about why your partners see things differently than you (21:10)
This little-known meditation benefit can change your life (21:46)
Having this response to difficult experiences is the most damaging thing you can do to yourself (27:26)
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It's your blockages. Getting hit by something, but it's not. It's not real. It's not there. It's not what's really happening. What's happening is something is happening in front of you. It's coming in through your awareness. You feel something, you think something and then you just let it pass.
Hey, I'm Christy and I'm Ray. And our passion is to inspire entrepreneurial couples to cocreate the life and business of their dreams and enjoy the ride. Together, we built three successful businesses. We have a beautiful three year old daughter and we pride ourselves on living a life by design. And our goal is to help you do the same. Are you ready to take your relationship, your health, and your wealth to the next level? If so, let's do this.
(00:50): A little bit since we do a podcast. Last one. Christy and I did just her and I think was right around when this Corona thing started and locked down started. I think the last time we were at whole foods, that was the last time we did this. So a lot of things have changed from then till now. And we're excited to share with you our path, our growth on this. Stephan been a spiritual path and we went for a walk today and one of the things that came up is in general how we ourselves, we're going to share with you our process for this, but how we, including ourselves in general as people lie to ourselves and we don't even know that we're lying to ourselves. Like we're the easiest. What does that Kobe that someone says that do your best not to fool yourself cause it, you're the easiest to fool something like that.
(01:38): You know what I'm talking about? So one of the things we've done in the last seven days or seven or eight days has been a course by a person by the name of Michael singer, and it's called the surrender course or the surrender experiment. He wrote a book called the surrender experiment. And he also wrote a book called my untethered soul or the untethered soul. And Michael singer is a great spiritual teacher. He's got a big piece of land over in Gainesville. Christy has been to it. So I'm a little jealous of that. The temple of the<|fim_middle|> stuff going on. So there's the stuff that's happening that's coming in through your senses and it's getting perceived a certain way because it's what you know, what you believe, what you've experienced based on all the stuff you've experienced in the past. Then there's the thoughts that come up, right? The ideas and the images and the, and the, the things that you think of when this stuff is happening. Right? All right. And then the emotions that come up, and sometimes they work in unison, sometimes they're at odds, sometimes they're, you know, what? Only one part is happening. But then there's the emotions, right? So your heart of the feelings that you feel because of this stuff. So there's the thoughts and then there's the feelings and then there's what's happening in reality and it's all kind of working together to your detriment.
(20:05): Well let's, let's, let's talk about reality. You can't even see a reality. What you see is your perception of reality. Cause there's a filter based on your past of what you're seeing. Reality. Two people can look at the same event and get two completely different responses
(20:18): Because it's hitting the different stuff that's stored in. Like I, if we both see something happening, I'm going to experience it and feel it and think about it in one way and Ray's going to think about it and feel it and experience it in different way. And then we're going to come talk about it and it's going to be like, what do you mean? What are you talking? Like our stuff doesn't match. So our perspective but we think it should. Right. And that's why like it's another beautiful part of both onboard like being a couple, right, being in a partnership and expecting the other person to think and believe. And we've talked about this, I'm like, I feel like I'm, I'm having, you know deja VU because we've talked about the expecting the other person to think and be and do an act and feel and want everything that you have or do or you know, like all of your stuff.
(21:03): And they never had your experiences. They had come, she has completely different experiences. And I have an intern expect those to, I mean how currently it's just crazy now. So I think that that's, that's, that was the other part that was huge for us as like really starting to get and like for example, he gives the example now we're on, we're on lesson seven. Actually we have eight tomorrow. I mean tonight. But, and less than seven, he discusses like things that we do. So what do we like to do? We like to meditate. Okay, well why do we meditate? Well, it's not just meditate to sit there and, and you know, clear mind and not think of anything. It's start to get familiar with this observer. Start to get familiar with this higher part of yourself that is pretty much neutral. Like it's just experiencing life.
(21:41): And he goes into detail with this. But I thought, I think it's beautiful to share. It's like we're just here to experience life and we've got this beautiful mind that's, that's capable of so much. We've got this beautiful heart that has so many, you know, beautiful notes to play with. We can experience sorrow, we can experience joy. We can experience bliss, we can experience frustrated. Like it's instead of looking at it like, Oh, this is negative, I don't like it and this is positive and I only want this to just experience all of it. And then he talks about how that can, that is what causes expansion and growth and fulfillment is to be able to experience all of it and let it all in and let it flow through you. And the reason why you get those blockages, another huge part, the reason why you get the blockage, it's because like Ray was saying, you're the resistant so you push it down or you hold onto it and you cling to it.
(22:26): But either way you don't let it pass through your consciousness. You don't let it pass through your awareness. You don't let it pass and continue on. You hold onto it or you suppress it and that's why the blockage has happened in the first place. They get stuck there because you don't let them pass. You don't let the, like if you're, if you're feeling, for me, a big one that came up recently was my grandfather's passing. When my grandfather passed away. I was 11 I think, 11 maybe 12 and it was like pain that I had never experienced in my whole life. Like I don't think I've ever experienced pain like that ever again either. But it was this ouch, right? This, this feeling of just constriction. And the thing is that we don't know how to deal with that. So we suppress it and, and instead of saying, wow, I loved him so much, he was, he meant so much to me.
(23:10): He was so amazing. And letting the, the sorrow, the grief, whatever comes up, come up, we suppress it. We're like, no, we can't. Right. Boys don't cry. Right. All these things that come up and, and you know, hide your feelings and be strong, right? All, all of these things are, those are the blockages that come up and it's because we either resisted it or we cling to it. I really want this relationship to work and this has to work in this. And if they leave me, I'll, I'll surely die. Right? You're clinging to it. Neither one is, is worth like, it's just neither one is gonna make you better or worse. It's just letting it pass through. That's what's going to help you grow. That's going to help you be more, be more well versed in life. Right? And it's letting that pass through you and letting it be the way it is and experience whatever you're experiencing.
(23:54): If you're experiencing sorrow of you're experiencing grief, feel it and accept it. And if you're experiencing, you know, bliss and pleasure and, and, and, and excitement feel that too. But don't cling to it because it's gonna go, it's gonna, it's gonna all come tenuously change. He talks about, he goes into like the L a the elements and the particles and the atoms. I got a little bit lost in all that science stuff, but all of it is just constantly moving. So you have to let it move through you and flow through you or else that's why the blockages happened because you resist or you cling to what you want to happen. And none of it's permanent, like none of it. Everything is going to be changing and everything is transient and everything is going to evolve and everything is going to shift and move and grow. So if you cling to things or if you resist things, that's where the blockages come up.
(24:41): Yeah, and in meditation, one of the things he shares is the goal of meditation or the, the preliminary goal of you're starting on meditation is to become aware of the voice. There's a voice talking in your head and you are the one listening to the voice. If you can do that, then you know that there's somebody in there who's listening to the voice. You are not the voice talking. And if you can feel your emotions, if you can be the one feeling and watching, there's someone feeling the emotions and there's someone watching that emotion. If you can be the observer neutral of the emotion, that's the purpose of meditation. It's where you can watch yourself, observe yourself, have an emotion and think a thought. And it's not you. You're just the one observing it. That's a, that's a victory in meditation. So that's all that does.
(25:31): The other thing he says that was very interesting and he talks about like the plan is the universe is how that came to be. The biggest thing I took away, he's like for where we're at right now, it took 13.8 billion years for this situation. Me and Christie in this moment right now recording this podcast and for me to have the audacity to expect and not only expect but needed to be a certain way so I can feel a certain way so it doesn't hit my stuff that I've created on 0.001% of my experiences is utterly ridiculous and then not appreciating what is, what are you, are you out there working to make sure the sun comes up tomorrow and that the moon comes up tonight? Come on like, like it just really brings a lot of perspective and awareness of just really starting to release a lot of these things.
(26:24): You can get to what's real. If you're not willing to release these things, the things that you were attached to or the things that you wanted to get away from, you can never be real. And the truth is you'll never be happy, fulfilled, and you'll be in suffering your entire life and you'll be living a lie and it's unfulfilled. And I don't care about how much things in the external you need that you think will fulfill you. They will never fulfill you, whether it's money or you're chasing this and the external. If there's all these things in the internal, nothing in the external is going to fulfill you. You might say, Oh, I got this goal, great, but the next day you're miserable because you never handled all these, this, this eases that came up through all these, all these wounds that are looking to be healed and released really aren't even. Wounds are just blockages that are, are dying to be released. So what does the universe do in her infinite wisdom? She brings up experiences so that you can actually release that. But what we do as humans is it comes up, Oh no crap, I don't want to feel that. And we push it down even further, usually through an addiction, overeating, drinking something else. And it's, I mean, it's ridiculous that we, that we just continue this pattern.
(27:38): And I think that it's, it's funny cause I got, as he's speaking, and we kind of talked about this, this episode, but we didn't really have like a set thing, but it's just so much more comes up, right? So much more so many more layers and, and this for us, I mean obviously we're, we're, we're excited about this and we're going to continue to work on this and, and, and just evolve through this. And it's just, it made such a deep impact in our lives during this, you know, chaotic time in, in the, on the planet. Right? And, and, and it's just, it is what it is, right? We are where we are and you know, for us, Valentina has been home for two months and our business has shifted completely and we're, we're, you know, just experiencing all these things. And then to really get this peace, this, this awareness of, of what it is that's really happening for us has been so life shifting, right?
(28:30): Just to say, wow, like what? And I and I, and I feel like we always kind of knew it. Like when we, when we talk about, you know, the, these things with personal development and journaling and meditation and yoga and like all these things that we love to talk about and do, but then to really see the simplicity of it, it's just we put that stuff in there and we have, you know, several episodes on responsibility, take the responsibility of saying, wow, I created this. I put that in there. And not from a place that he says not from a place of blame or guilt or, or, or victimization like victim hood. Like it's not, it's not that it was wrong, it's just, it's what we do. Like for whatever reason, this is what humans do. We decide to, to hold onto certain things and we decide to resist certain things.
(29:14): And just having that awareness of saying, Oh, that's why it bothers me when this person speeds up. Oh, that's why it bothers me when my mother talks to me that way. All that's why it bothers me when, when, when I hear this or I see this on one on, on social media, like just that awareness of like who is it that's really observing it and then what is going on with your perception that's making you feel good or bad? Because it's, it's we label the good and the too, like there was nothing wrong with sorrow and grief and anger and like there's nothing wrong with any of it. Obviously you don't want to go like do something bad to somebody else or anything, but there's nothing wrong with it. We just feel like it's bad. We call it bad and then it becomes something very negative.
(29:59): Whereas if you can let it come up and say, Oh wow, I'm feeling sorrow right now. Oh, this, this is what it feels like to lose somebody. Oh, this is what it feels like to have a breakup and really feel lonely. Right. Whatever that is is it's just there to, to, to expand you and, and help you be better. I think like just become a more expansive person where then if it happens again, then you can say, Oh wow, that's what that is. Okay. I know how I know how to deal with that. I know how to, how to continue. I can handle that.
(30:29): I can handle that. Yeah. And one of the things she's also mentioned too is, is we become attached to being attached. Let me go deeper into that. And I had a teacher told me there's a spiritual teacher and when she said it to me, I didn't get it, and now I don't know that I fully get it. So Christie will help us. When she said, attached is you, we humans, we think that we are that emotion or that thought. So not true. You're not that. But then not only do you think of that thought, you become attached to that thought, whether it was a good thought, you want to hold onto it or you become attached to not experiencing it again. So you become attached to thinking you're that emotion or that thought or that experience and then you're attached to that thinking that you are, that, that, that, that that is you, that you are the emotions or you are your thoughts.
(31:18): You are not that. You are simply the observer of that and you forgot and whenever you walk borate from that lower self, that person was living in the past, but living in the present, they're in the present but they're really not ever experiencing the present because they're living all their past stuff. Whenever you're there, you're always going to be suffering. That lower self all can do is suffer. It's a ridiculous game that you created. It's not meant for you to be happy, joy fulfilled. So that's one of the biggest things that we want to share with you out of this. Maybe any other thoughts?
(31:52): I mean I think we've covered a lot. I think that it's interesting to be going through this time and I think that one thing we can, we can ask you all to do as you're listening is think about how that's coming up. And it's not about being wrong or changing everything or being super dramatic or or extreme on anything. It's just look at, especially during this time in this situation like that we're all in right now, right. As a, as a, as a world like where, where can you start to see these patterns? Where can you start to observe yourself and how you're showing up to situations and then like almost like Ray said, like detach yourself from that. Like be the observer, seeing what's going on. You don't have to change anything just yet, but just practice that awareness. Practice that, that, Oh, that is something that in my book, like where people say, like my buttons got triggered, my buttons got pushed.
(32:43): That's exactly what it is. It's not you that got pushed. It's your buttons that got pushed. It's your blockages. It's your, it's your, it's your perception of how things need to be and what you want and don't want that's making you react. And we talked about this in, in, in, in depth, in other episodes react a certain way because you're acting again based off of the past blockages and the things that were put there or you held onto for whatever reason or wanting to hold on or kept repressed for whatever that is. But it's, it's hitting your, it's pressing your buttons. It's, that's another way to put it. It's your blockages getting hit by something and then that means then you make that mean something. Right. But it's not like it's not real. It's not there. It's not, it's not what's really happening. What's happening is something is happening in front of you.
(33:31): It's coming in through your awareness. You feel something, you think something and then you just let it pass. And like that for me was the first time that I really understood that. I remember I went to see Michael singer in, in, in the tumble of the universe probably what, like two years ago I asked him the question like how do you let it go? Like how do you do it? And he gave me an answer and I wrote it down in my journal and I still didn't get it and now is when I'm actually understanding it. It's like because we held onto something or we claimed to something and or we, I'm sorry, we cleansed to something or we push something down and then that is what we're measuring things up against for the rest of our lives. Whether that happened when we were four or 14 or or yesterday, but it's not what's happening right now in front of us. The fact that there's a slow driver in front of you doesn't mean that they're a jerk and you're right. It just means that there's a slow driver in front of you. Like that's it.
(34:21): Yeah. The fact that the lady at the park told me, Hey, I couldn't use the pull up machine and use the park was her just telling me, Hey look, you can't use this, this stuff or now it didn't mean she was trying to infringe on my freedom and punish me, which is what it's meant for me in the past. So I said, thank you. Let me finish up. What I'm doing and I'll leave and I said, have a great day. But in the past I would have reacted toward like I've had done even recently. So again, just knowing what your triggers are, we call them triggers. Remember one of our first episodes, what are your triggers that you put down there? Because you wanted, you didn't want to accept something or you wanted to cling to something. And that's what's coming up. So again, these things will control and ruin and create suffering in your life.
(35:04): If they're not released, they're being hit by your experiences in the world so that they can be released. And the reason they're being hit is because you're seeing them more and more because you're seeing the world and you're experiencing the world, your emotions, your thoughts and your feelings and, and, and, and what the world is showing you to bring these up so they can be released so that you can get back to peace, love, and joy and what you always are. And the great thing is this universe, the moment in front of you has taken 13.8 billion years to get to where it's at. It'll never come back again. Just like that. Love that, embrace that, be appreciative of that, but you never in the moment or you're in your head and you're in your heart about the past. You're not even in your heart of the higher self.
(35:46): You're in your heart of how things need to be. For me to be happy and then looking for the external world to max that to max that. Exactly. Otherwise it's not going to work for you. I mean it's crazy. So we love you. We appreciate you. Thank you for listening to us on the next episode. We're excited. We're going to cover. We're going to go over what, how we've actually used that to actually really disassemble and start to question a lot of these past beliefs and past things that have come up and what we're going to do differently because of them. But you have to first be aware of them so then you can be, you can make a place, you can make a decision or a new action from a place of complete neutrality versus living from the past. Guys, if you live in the past,
(36:29): Which is all that stuff, all you can do is carry that forward. So tomorrow looks like yesterday. Anything else angel? Love you. Appreciate your, thank you. Thanks for hanging out with us and listening to the bolts on board podcasts. Go to our website at bothonboard.com to receive your free special report on seven game changers for highly effective occupant aerial couples. You can also connect to this on Facebook and Instagram at Baucom board. If you got value from us, please subscribe to our channel and leave an amazing five star reviews hub. We can help others get on board to concrete. The life and business of the dreams and enjoy the ride. We hope to connect with you soon.
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(02:23): That's what we really wanted to get to was like there is no getting real with yourself if you're lying to yourself all the time and is much better at this than I am. And the goal of this podcast right now, this episode is to share with you how you can begin to identify your own stuff and begin to create separation so that you don't live in an illusion. And it's a process. There's levels to this. There's levels to the spiritual game, there's levels to the spiritual path. And again, we'll post the link for this course if you guys want it. It's by sounds true. And it's called the surrender course and there's a YouTube video. We'll also share that in the link of the YouTube video with Tony and his and his wife Sage. And they're talking to Michael singer about this course and they got a ton of value as well as the Oprah got a ton of value from Michael singer. So maybe share with them what, what your key takeaways are from Michael singer. And it's, it's, it's been a lot. So we want to share this with you. And again, we're still integrating this and going to be integrating this into our being. And by integrating I mean living it and body cause nothing, nothing means anything. If you just know it intellectually but you're not living it, it doesn't mean anything.
(03:30): So I think that can you just throw a bunch of stuff out there as usual? I wanted to just back it up a little bit and maybe this is something that you resonate with. Maybe this isn't, and I've seen a lot with our circle of people with our social media people, like people that we follow, people that we know. This whole Corona virus has definitely shifted pretty much everything in, in our lives, in our business, in how we live. Right. And, and just, just all of it, like how we interact with others now it gets just shifted and I'm sure most of you guys listening can relate to this, like how, how much it's shifted in such a short period of time. And I think one of the things that we talked about today on our walk, which got us inspired to come and just discuss this with you guys a little bit raw and real and authentically is all of the ups and downs that we've had throughout these last two months.
(04:34): So yeah, it's just been crazy how much things have shifted and how much things have changed and how many ups and downs we've had and how many revelations we've had and how many bad days we've had and how many good days we've had. And I think it's safe to say that everyone has, has been going through this and with our firm, you know, those of you that have listened to other episodes, like with our basis for what we stand for, with both onboard with our relationship with our business, with our daughter, like all of the stuff has just really been tested at a high level. And we're definitely grateful that we had a lot of things in place already. And even then it's, it's been, it's been challenging. And to see others going through these challenging times has also made us realize like the, the, the value and the power in what we're doing with this.
(05:29): And I think that for me has really, it's really validated. It, it's been, it's been difficult. We've been away from, from, you know, I'm recording this stuff because it's just everything has just changed and everything has shifted. And also seeing how incredibly valuable what we're, you know, we're wanting to put out there and we're wanting to do or wanting to share and what we want to inspire. And, and all of you know, you guys that are listening is this kind of thing like this when it's important, most important, right? It's always important. But when something like this really tests you and shakes you, and obviously this isn't a global level, but in, you know, in your life, right? When things are going well, you know, things are easier, right? Everything is, is, is, is flowing and things are smooth and, and things are good, right?
(06:18): But then when something comes in and really like race says punches you in the face, like how do you react? How do you respond? How do you go through it in a way where you can grow and you can continue and to expand and evolve and use it to make you better, right? Not to knock you down and keep you there, right? It may knock you down, right? That's part of the process. And like what is it that you can do to get back up again better, right? And with more growth, with more intentionality, with more resolve, with more resilience, like those things. And I feel like this is the stuff that we, you know, for lack of a better term, prepare for, right? You prepare for these moments, you prepare for these days and you're never fully prepared because you don't know what life is gonna throw up at us.
(07:00): Right? At the beginning of the year, no one thought, Oh, well, March, April, we're going to be just, you know, on lockdown for, for months and everything's going to like, no one knows that. Right? You don't know what's going to happen if there's going to be a business situation that there's going to be an illness, a death, right. None of that stuff is sent to you, right. To, to, to give you a heads up, right? It just happens. And then when that does happen, how you respond to it and how you show up to it is where the gold comes in, right? Where the, where you can see how far you've come and how far you get to continue to go. So it's definitely been, you know, interesting for us and just seeing other people going through similar things as us and, and, and some different things. Right. It's just been eye opening and definitely rocked her rock our worlds quite a bit.
(07:49): I think one of the things you said that was really amazing and, and, and, and audience, amazing listeners. Give us some room cause we're a little rusty on this one. Okay. Give us a little leeway here. One of the things you mentioned that kind of a heard from Les Brown was really key in what you said is I notice a lot of people going through this and I noticed a lot of people growing through this and that's been the, that's been all the difference. And what's really happened is this Coronavirus has exposed people's expectations and illusions. If you had an expectation that something was supposed to be a certain way and then you no longer had control of it, that's what's being exposed right now. Hey, the exterior world doesn't match the way I think it should be and I'm either going to suffer or I'm going to surrender. Those are the choices you have for a long time. We suffered through it versus surrender and surrender is accepting things the way they are and seeing things for what they are, not what you would like them to be and not having had the world show up a certain way so that then you can be happy. I mean that's as he says, ridiculous. It's ridiculous that you would need the exterior world to show up a certain way so that you can be happy. That is crazy.
(09:03): And then not just, you could be happy then the 7 billion ways, right? Cause everybody has their own unique way of looking at things in their own experiences. And we've talked about that in prior episodes. We all have our own stuff. We all have our own beliefs, our own way of, of, of being like all this stuff. And then the outside world that he mentions is, it is what it is, right? This is what's happening and we don't have any control over what's happening or not happening. And yet we want things to come in and be the way we want them to be. The way I want them to be. But what about the way Ray wants them to be? Who's right and who's wrong. There is no right or wrong. So there's no control over what's happening in front of you or how, how things are, are being how things are playing out. But it's how you're perceiving them and what, what you have your expectations that grey said that are getting, you know, challenged, right? Especially when things are not going well and then that's making you feel a certain way. And then it's just this internal process of like constantly feeling like things have to be a certain way for you to feel good, then you're never going to feel good and you're never going to be okay.
(10:10): Yeah. So let's back that up cause there's a lot there. I think what we do on this podcast is we give you our oversight of what we understand this to mean at this current level because we're going to be doing this course, the surrender course again. So right now what we understand is here's what happens. We experience something. How do we experience something? Well, we have a thought in our mind. Think of a giraffe. Think of a cow that's that thought you have with something. When you were a child or those formative years or wherever you had something come up that you couldn't deal with, like you couldn't handle at that age or whatever it is. So you said, Hey, I'm resisting something or I'm attached to something. Those are the two things that are going on. You're either, when you were younger, you either resisted this parent or this ID or whatever, or you said, wow, I love that. I want more of that. And you held onto it and you created what he calls some, some scarer, some SCARA. Really you created something in your body that think of it as a flow of a river and you've just created a barrier there. So now the energy that she, the shock, the whatever, cannot flow through there as smooth. And over the years you've had tons of these based on your unique experiences,
(11:23): Right? So it's, it's, it's, it's, imagine a river, you've got this river flowing, the rivers flowing, it's smooth, there's, there's sand at the bottom and it's just smooth flowing, river flowing. You know, my needs own business. And then something happens that either you liked or you didn't like. And then that is like a pebble or a rock or a Boulder in some cases being tossed into this flowing river. So now what you've got is this blockage, right? This, this, this blockage of the flow of the free flowing river is now getting a little bit pushed to the side a little bit. And then not just that. Then there's splashes, right? So when the flowing river hits the rock or the pebble or whatever your stuff he calls it, then that creates a little bit of a ripple of, of a splash, a dis, a disturbance, right?
(12:11): And then imagine this is, you know, when you're three, four, five, six, imagine now that you're 2030, 40, 50, 60 imagine the amount of pebbles or rocks or boulders that are in this flowing river. And so what he calls out is this energy is not flowing. And it's, I mean it depends on what you obviously what you believe. But he, if he's talking more into the chakras, right? So into the energetic flow of your, of your aura, of your, of your being and it's getting blocked. So that's why what he likes to, I mean there's so much here, but what he likes to say is like that, that moment of like carrying your first child or that like those blissful moments that you can think of, those are just really quick moments. But if you could remove these blockages, right somehow, right? And that's what we're working on right now.
(13:00): But if you could somehow get rid of these things, that bliss and that amazingness feeling can be all the time. But we're blocking it with all of our stuff constantly. So that flow is not there. So surrender is to first before you can surrender to it, to, to anything. You need to work on those blockages. And that's what I think is just mind boggling to us. Cause like we've been doing all this personal development stuff for many, many years. And then we got into the, you know, the business stuff and now the spiritual stuff and we're seeing like it just all makes sense. Like at such a deep level now it's like we've just acquired, accumulated all this stuff. And then when the world happens in front of us, it just comes into our, into our perception. And we basically get stuck in what we're, how we're perceiving it because of past things that have happened to us. It's not what's happening currently right now in this, you know, three D reality. It's things that have happened in the past that I keep coming right back up and they're reminding you of something and then you're, you're dealing off of these, these things that are within you that half the time you don't even know how they got there. And that's what you're basing your feelings, your thoughts, your emotions, your actions. Awful, right?
(14:08): This stuff gets triggered. So you have something now that triggers a decision you made when you were four or five or six or 10 or whatever, something you weren't able to handle at that time. Something new, a new experience comes up and it triggers that old thing in you and now you hold onto it even more. So really, you're never living in the present. You're living in the past because you're reacting to whatever it is. So again, let's go back to your reacting to whatever is showing up. So you have thoughts that you think, right? Thoughts that you think, Hey, think of a drafting of a cow. You have what the external world is actually showing you. So you have that. You're seeing whatever it is. But think of it as you're seeing it through a filter of all your past stuff. So you're not really seeing reality in what you're seeing is a TV that has a bunch of filters that you put based on the past.
(14:58): Our goal for you, for all of us is to live your truth, to know what the truth is, to stop living a lie, right? To get to what's real. And I said, babe, how do we get them to get to what's real when they don't know what real is? Because if I said, Hey, show me who you want to be and what you want to do, all that's going to come up, it's passed. It's going to be passed through that filter, through that lens. And none of it's real. It's all just illusions of what you got a book, you got attached to it, what you don't or what you don't want. We're just trying to more what you're looking to gain and the world has to show up a certain way for you to be happy. That is never going to work it. We're talking about this voice inside of you.
(15:35): Hey, this guy sped up. Hey, this guy slowed down. Hey, what about this? Hey, what about that? That's what we're looking to release, right? That's what's looking to let go of. So we're looking for you to operate from that higher self. So let's back up a second. Let's talk about baby. And again, this was a seven or eight deep course. But what we understand now is that there's things that come into that come into us. So one, there's thoughts that we think, and there's things that we see from the outside. And then there's emotions. What are emotions where emotions think of them as a piano. And the piano is something your heart place, your heart can play, the low deep tone tunes and they can play the high ones. Some were in this and then that triggers thoughts. And then sometimes they all work together, right?
(16:19): You have a negative thought and it goes [inaudible] and then everything else comes up. All the other negative ones. So these, these blockages really create this, sees you're not at ease within yourself. And then the world needs to show up a certain way for you to be at ease, which will never happen. So really you're always suffering and you're living an illusion based on your past. I mean, that's really it. There's more levels to this. I mean, you can, we can break this down further. That's our current understanding. So now that you understand what the issue is, our goal or what the challenge is, our goal is really to help you and ourselves release that so that what, so that you can get to the peace, love and joy. It's always there that you're just not experiencing because the world needs to show up a certain way in order for you to be happy and that's never going to work. So what's our next step?
(17:13): Well, I think that you, you mentioned it, so that's why I was, I was telling him to slow down a little bit because you started talking about the observer and I think that's an important part of it too. So when he mentioned what Michael singer mentions in his course then there's, he's been doing, you know, he's been doing lectures and he's, he's a professor, he's been doing these things for 40 years. So he's met and people come to his events, you know, twice a week for the last 40 years. So it's, it's, he's seen a lot, right. And he, people come to him and say, my heart hurts. And then his question is how do you know? And he says, people look at him like he's crazy because I know, because my heart hurts. Who? Right? So it's who knows? Like who is it?
(17:52): He calls it the observer, right? That voice, that not the voice. The observer of the voice. Right. And it's who is saying that my heart hurts and how do you know that it hurts because someone is in there, something is in there, some kind of, I don't know. What does he call it? Like he calls it like a, like it's the observer. I don't, I don't know how to explain it. Sorry. It's the observer is in there. It's the higher self. Right. But it's like a, it's like a observers in there. It'll come to me. The observer is in there and he's saying he's the one that's seeing this happening. He's the one that's seen the thoughts. He's the one that's feeling the emotion. Right? Or she, and he's not feeling the emotion, right. He's the observer. But then who is in there? Like, that's where you want to get to is that there's, there's that higher level of consciousness of, of a being in there that's experiencing these things. But he, they're just, it's, it's, it's almost like a neutral thing, like right. That's, that's just, it's just being seen. Right? And then you got the, what we call in the past that anybody shitty committee, which is the, the voice in there saying like, almost like narrating everything that's going on. The good, the bad.
(18:55): There's a committee and then there's the orchestra and then there's what you're seeing,
(18:58): Right? There's a whole part of the whole party in there. So that's what he's saying is like, you want to get to that place and he puts his hand like we're both doing it right now, but he puts his hand like back behind his, his head, like at the top of it, that's the observer. That's the one, that's, that's consciousness, right? That's where your, where your higher self is, where you're the true nature of you. And then there's all this other | 4,473 |
Wielki Mur – skała na wzniesieniu Birów w Podzamczu, w powiecie zawierciańskim, w gminie Ogrodzieniec. Znajduje się w grupie skał, na których wybudowano Gród na Górze Birów. Pod względem geograficznym jest to obszar Wyżyny Częstochowskiej będącej częścią Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej.
Wielki Mur znajduje się w północnej grupie skał Birowa pomiędzy Okiennikiem Birowskim i Cynamonową Płytą. Zbudowany jest z twardych wapieni skalistych, ma wysokość do 25 m, ściany pionowe lub przewieszone. Uprawiana jest na nim wspinaczka skalna. Pierwsze drogi wspinaczkowe powstały w latach 70. XX wieku. W 20<|fim_middle|> wspinaczka tradycyjna. Wśród wspinaczy skała jest bardzo popularna.
Drogi wspinaczkowe
Przypisy
Formacje skalne Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej
Tereny wspinaczkowe | 20 r. jest 17 dróg, jeden projekt i dwie możliwości. Drogi mają trudność od IV do VI.5 w skali Kurtyki. Część z nich ma zamontowane stałe punkty asekuracyjne w postaci ringów (r) i stanowisk zjazdowych (st), na pozostałych możliwa jest | 81 |
Downtown Flossmoor
Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery - Upscale brewpub with classics like the brew burger, fish and chips, and the "Burrito that Ate Flossmoor" served with award-winning craft beer, Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery is a special dining experience. Find Flossmo<|fim_middle|> features original Italian beef, pizza, burgers, hot dogs and soup, salad and sides. With an allergy friendly menu and drive-thru options, Buona Beef is a great option for a convenient and quality meal. Visit Buona Beef at 19801 Crawford Avenue Flossmoor, IL 60422. | or Station at 1035 Sterling Avenue Flossmoor, IL 60422 open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. and 11:30 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Call for more information, reservations or to order takeout at (708) 957-2739. Outdoor seating available.
The Bistro on Sterling - An elegant bistro with a wide selection of small plates and savory entrees, combined with a full list of wine and beer pairings. The Bistro on Sterling is open Tuesday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Find The Bistro on Sterling at 1040 Sterling Avenue Flossmoor, IL 60422. Call for reservations, take-out orders or for more info at (708) 957-7900. Outdoor seating available.
Dunning's Gourmet Market & Deli - Think modern market with a wide selection of sandwiches and salads made with fresh ingredients. Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dunning's Gourmet Market & Deli is located at 1050 Sterling Avenue Flossmoor, IL 60422. Call for carryout ordering or with additional questions (708) 799-5151. Outdoor seating available.
Flossmoor Commons
Siam Thai - An authentic Thai restaurant that highlights the internationally recognized flavors of traditional Thai food. Whether chili-hot or comparatively mild, harmony is the guiding principle behind each dish at Siam Thai. Located in the heart of Flossmoor Commons at 3311 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422, Siam Thai is currently only serving guests via take-out orders Tuesday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sundays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Download the menu online and order by calling (708) 798-8030.
Lou Malnati's - Experience classic Chicago deep-dish pizza at Lou Malnati's. Considered the oldest family name in Chicago pizza, Lou Malnati's is as rich in history as its pizza is in flavor. Located at 3315 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422, this store is only open for takeout and delivery from 4 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday , 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday. Order online or by phone at (708) 416-6300.
Subway - Subway makes healthy eating easy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week and located conveniently at 3322 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422, Subway is an excellent option for a sandwich to go or a quick lunch, now with outdoor seating. Order online or by phone at (708) 922-9371. Takeout and delivery available.
Kingsberry Waffle House - Open for your early morning breakfast fix and open until 3 p.m. seven days a week, Kingsberry Waffle House is as traditional as diner eating gets. Enjoy the laid back atmosphere, friendly faces and warm, down home cooking, just like mother's and better than others. Visit the website to check for coupons and weekly specials. Takeout orders available by phone at (708) 922-1799. Visit Kingsberry Waffle House at 3345 Vollmer Rd, Flossmoor, IL 60422.
Wiley's Grill at Coyote Run Golf Course - Enjoy an afternoon on the links then head inside or to the sunset patio for delicious food and drinks at Wiley's Grill at 800 Kedzie Avenue, Flossmoor, IL 60422! Open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the spring, summer and fall (and weekends in the winter) Wiley's Grill prides itself on casual fare with a contemporary flair. Indoor and outdoor seating available. Order curbside pickup by calling (708) 957-8774.
Southwest Business District
Starbucks - With a design as fresh as its coffee, Starbucks at 3760 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422 is open from 5 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sundays from 5 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Enjoy signature drinks and oven warmed food via drive-thru or carry out. Limited indoor seating and outdoor patio seating available.
Captain Hooks - Family-owned and operated fast casual restaurant with a vast menu offering everything from burgers and fries to a full fish or chicken dinner. Located at 3760 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422 and open daily from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., Captain Hooks offers carryout and catering. Download the menu and view catering packages online or call (708) 922-1600.
Jersey Mike's Subs - At Jersey Mike's Subs, it's all about quality. With high quality meats and cheeses sliced in front of customers, store baked bread, freshly chopped vegetables, and hot and cold sandwich options, Jersey Mike's Subs is a great dinner opotion for the whole family. Order online or by phone for pickup at (708) 898-1203. Jersey Mike's Subs is located at 3760 Vollmer Road Flossmoor, IL 60422.
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Adi Sun – "Twin Flame"
A new track from Boston alt-rock artist Adi Sun, "Twin Flame" blends rock and dreamy pop elements with soaring vocal yearning. The "need you by my side," vocal hook throughout allures, followed by reflective guitar tones and yearning sophisti-pop synth effects. The track develops effortlessly from nocturnal guitar flickers into a rousing, rock-forward fervency — in the second half, especially. The "do you know who you are?" bridge is particularly exemplary of the artist's rock-forward capabilities, in addition to powerful lyrics that convey losing oneself in emotional co-dependence.
Adi elaborates more on the track below:
"'Twin Flame' is the equivocal story of someone so infected by a romantic connection, they lose themselves in emotional co-dependence," Adi says. "It's a tragedy of passion<|fim_middle|> "Wasted on You" ft. Aquilo Captures the Warmth & Wonder of the Midnight Sun | and devotion but also psychic connection, attachment, disconnection and surrender." Adi adds: "A friend of mine once said that, in love 'once a flame, always a flame'. In some cases I think that's true really, the heart wants what the heart wants and sometimes it gets us into trouble. A flame has the power to destroy and to purify, and in this story I think it does a bit of both."
"Twin Flame" and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound's 'Best of September 2021' Spotify playlist.
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Police appeal after collision on Broomhouse Road leaves girl with 'potentially life changing injuries'
The incident took place at the roundabout junction between Broomhouse Road and Broomhouse Drive
Published: 11:27 Updated: 12:27 Tuesday 03 September 2019
POLICE have launched an appeal for witnesses after a teenager was hospitalised when a car driven by a pensioner mounted the kerb and struck her in a morning collision.
The 17-year-old girl remains in a serious condition after being hit by the Renault Clio while walking on the pavement on Broomhouse Road, near the roundabout junction with Broomhouse Drive on Monday morning.
The 85-year-old driver was uninjured, however the girl sustained "potentially life changing" injuries to her legs in the incident.
Road Policing Officers responded to the scene and closed the road for three hours while they conducted inquiries at the scene.
Police have now urged the occupants of a blue<|fim_middle|>101 and quote incident number 820 of the 2nd September.
1 in 15 drivers breathalysed by police over festive period found to be under the influence | Vauxhall van to come forward with any information after tracing the vehicle in the area at the time of the incident.
Inspector Roger Park from the Road Policing Unit in Edinburgh said: "This has been a serious collision and the female pedestrian could be left with life-changing injuries as a result."
"We would urge anyone who was on Broomhouse Road on Monday morning and saw what happened to contact police immediately, if they haven't already done so.
"In particular, we are keen to trace the occupants of a blue Vauxhall Vivaro van, which we believe was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident occur.
"These individuals, or anyone else with any other relevant information, should get in touch with us as a matter of urgency."
Those with information can contact the Road Policing Unit in Edinburgh via | 166 |
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By Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA — January 11, 2017
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Calvin Trillin tells a story of taking his out-of-town friends and relatives to New York's China Town to play tic tac toe against a chicken. Frequently, the chicken wins and Trillin reports that the vanquished foes often defend themselves by saying, "But the chicken got to go first" or that "the chicken plays every day." I love that story, which hides behind a paywall here.
Lori Marino, in Animal Cognition, brings some science to the issue of just how smart that chicken might have been in a meta-analysis of chicken cognitive research. Spoiler alert, if you love fried chicken and knowing that pigs are intelligent interferes with your love of bacon, stop reading now.
"Unlike many other birds, chickens are categorized as a commodity, devoid of authenticity as a real animal with an evolutionary history and phylogenetic context. Thus, arguably, perceptions of chickens shape their use as commodities which, in turn, then reinforces those original perceptions. … Chickens are misperceived as lacking most of the psychological characteristics we recognize in other intelligent animals and are typically thought of as possessing a low level of intelligence compared with other animals."
Here are Marino's conclusions
In this paper, I have identified a wide range of scientifically documented examples of complex cognitive, emotional, communicative, and social behavior in domestic chickens which should be the focus of further study. These capacities are, compellingly, similar to what we see in other animals regarded as highly intelligent. They include:
1. Chickens possess a number of visual and spatial capacities, arguably dependent upon mental representation, such as some aspects of Stage four object permanence and illusory contours, on a par with other birds and mammals.
2. Chickens possess some understanding of numerosity and share some very basic arithmetic capacities with other animals.
3. Chickens can demonstrate self-control and self-assessment, and these capacities may indicate self-awareness.
4. Chickens communicate in complex ways, including through referential communication, which may depend upon some level of self-awareness and the ability to take the perspective of another animal. This capacity, if present in chickens, would be shared with other highly intelligent and social species, including primates.
5. Chickens have the capacity to reason and make logical inferences. For example, chickens are capable of simple forms of transitive inference, a capability that humans develop at approximately the age of seven.
6. Chickens perceive time intervals and may be able to anticipate future events.
7. Chickens are behaviorally sophisticated, discriminating among individuals, exhibiting Machiavellian-like social interactions, and learning socially in complex ways that are similar to humans.
8. Chickens have complex negative and positive emotions, as well as a shared psychology with humans and other ethologically complex animals. They exhibit emotional contagion and some evidence for empathy.
9. Chickens have distinct personalities, just like all animals who are cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally complex individuals.
So maybe Trillin's friend and relatives were correct, the chicken did have an unfair advantage.
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Dr. Charles Dinerstein, M.D., MBA, FACS is Director of Medicine at the American Council on Science and Health. He has over 25 years of experience as a vascular surgeon.
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Human rights legal expert Nani Jansen-Reventlow, founding director of the Digital Freedom Fund, engages in conversation at one of the workshops. Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Panelists tell UN expert that artificial intelligence offers promise and peril for social programs
By John Sullivan
While artificial intelligence could help bring greater effectiveness and fairness to social programs such as disability and health benefits, it could also be used to unjustly deny assistance to people in need, experts told a United Nations special rapporteur during a conference at Princeton University last week.
"The promise of these new technologies is very much shaped by power," said Virginia Eubanks, a conference panelist and associate professor at the State University of New York at Albany. Eubanks, who has written on the development of technology and social welfare policies in the United States, said the introduction of technology must be understood in a broader context. She said that transparency in automated systems is important, and that people need to understand how the systems work. But she said deciding whether and how to deploy the technology remains a political decision.
The conference, "Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age," gathered social scientists, human rights activists, policy experts and computer scientists to discuss the impact of technology, and particularly algorithmic decision-making tools, on social protection programs across the world. Hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, the April 12 meeting also served to offer expert opinions to Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, who is preparing a report to the United Nations' General Assembly on technologies used in social protection systems and their impact on the protection of human rights. Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University, is scheduled to deliver the report in October.
The conference gathered social scientists, human rights activists, policy experts and computer scientists, including Princeton's Edward Felten, director of CITP. Video by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications
In discussions during two lengthy panel sessions and interaction with audience members, experts hashed out the potential benefits and pitfalls of the new technologies in relation to social protection programs. The stakes are high. Such decisions include some of the most fundamental societal questions: who receives disability benefits; what neighborhoods receive additional police protection; who loses custody of children; and who is eligible for housing assistance.
Some panelists pointed out that computer systems could correct injustices that currently mark many social protection programs, such as widely varied decisions among administrative judges who rule on Social Security disability applications. Artificial intelligence could also better answer questions about the effectiveness of various programs and allow policy makers to focus resources where they would do the most good.
But several social scientists on the panels noted that many existing aid systems are already overly burdensome and intrusive for recipients. Frequently, they said, the systems seek to restrict and deny benefits rather than genuinely assist people in need. Artificial intelligence could either help lessen those problems or reinforce them, depending on how they are designed and implemented.
Alston, the U.N. rapporteur, said in his address to the conference that the track record for<|fim_middle|> in our technology that is occurring now."
Artificial intelligence offers great promise to assist social scientists in better understanding the causes and the possible solutions to poverty and related social ills, Felten said. Particularly by allowing policymakers to distinguish coincidence from causality, the systems can be extremely valuable in targeting social programs and evaluating their effectiveness.
"It can be common in these discussions to focus all of the attention on the negative implications, the risks and dangers of adopting AI in all sorts of programs, and we really must not lose the fact that there are tremendous gains to be had if we do this wisely," Felten said.
But Felten said technical experts need guidance from policy makers to properly frame these systems to ensure they benefit society.
"And indeed it is only by fitting together the capabilities the strengths and weaknesses of these different modes of work that we will be able to do the best job," he said. "That starts with getting people with these same interests into the same room and talking about the challenges which is what we are trying to do today."
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Edward Felten | artificial intelligence in social protection has not been promising.
"Human rights is almost always acknowledged when we start talking about the principles that should govern AI," he said. "But it's acknowledged as a veneer to provide some legitimacy and not as a framework."
Alston said too often new technology is used to create burdensome requirements for recipients or to raise hurdles for receiving assistance in the name of greater efficiency and economy. He said the instinct is to narrow access to programs rather than ask the question of how best to serve the interest of people who need help.
"There is an overwhelming emphasis on the negative," he said.
One troubling development, Alston said, is the implicit transfer of authority from the public sphere to private industry.
"Instead of the state being responsible to protect your human rights, suddenly its large tech companies," he said.
Alston said the potential automation of social protection programs is a vital question for all members of society because the programs touch nearly all citizens. He said the risk is leaving behind the respect for human rights and basic principles of justice that were fought for in the 20th century.
"Now is the time to be scrutinizing much more carefully the sort of values that we are putting in place and the systems designed to promote those," he said.
Edward Felten, the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, acknowledged concerns about the potential risks of artificial intelligence but said the systems could be managed to do great good rather than harm. Felten, who advised the Obama administration on artificial intelligence and who has investigated computer voting systems and copyright plans, said the key was close and open cooperation between technical experts and policymakers.
"It is not only by working energetically on both sides of that line but also by thinking deeply and creatively about how to integrate those things that we will be able to make the kind of progress that we can make," said Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs. "Whether you are on the technical or policy side of this increasingly thin border, it's important to be thinking about what you can do to enable practitioners on the other side of the line to do their job more effectively,"
Felten, who delivered the opening address of the conference, gave a quick but thorough primer on the development of AI from a seminal, 1943 paper laying out the first steps to a thinking machine to the deployment of modern systems. He said that rapid progress in many areas has led to a sense "that there is a fundamental change | 503 |
Once again, for the third year in a row, Karin and I joined our friends for a holiday on the island of Mallorca. I am delighted to report that the quality of coffee there is improving quickly and that it is well possible to get an enjoyable espresso in a number of towns both in the north and south. We always avoid the party beach regions of the south west so I can't say much about that area, but we did visit much of the rest of the island and enjoyed a few good cups here and there. We are not talking Seattle, Portland or London here and you will get a confused stare in most places if you ask for a flat white, but we're talking here about well-prepared espresso from relatively fresh beans and properly frothed milk in cappuccinos.
There is a chain called Cappuccino, btw. They have improved immensely and I had a very good double at their café in front of the yacht club in Colònia St. Jordi near the southern tip of the island.
My favourite hangout was the Santany hotel in the far south-eastern part of the isalnd. They serve freshly roasted coffee from a small roaster called Salar in Palma. They seem to only have one blend, but it is very well balanced and very clean and was wonderfully fresh with a distinct flavour of almonds. The hotel courtyard is marvelously relaxed, decorated with hundreds of fresh oranges, and the (mostly German) staff are very friendly and courteous.
In Palma near the Plaza Major there is a truly excellent little café on C. Bosseria called the Aroma Cafe. The coffee is a probably the best on<|fim_middle|> I drove up to Pollenca in the far north of the island and spent the day there. The Maffays run an organisation to support disadvantaged and traumatised children and keep it running with much of their own money. He is a very soft-spoken and eloquent man and both he and his wife seem very kind and uncomplicated. I enjoyed seeing them. Unfortunately, it rained cats and dogs the whole day there and we were soaked through when we got back to our little Smart to drive back to our apartment in the south, but it seemed worth it. I'm not especially a fan of Peter's music (I am very suspicious of any music later than that of J.S. Bach including the so-called music of that young upstart named Mozart), but that's secondary, in any case.
There are two cafés near the central market place in Artà in the eastern most part of the island. They both serve very good coffee and I'm sorry I can't remember either of their names, but they are the only two cafés there so it won't be hard to find them. They also serve excellent iced coffee drinks (The temperature was 28°C when we were there).
We also had some good coffees in Manacor, Portocristo and Cala d'Or.
All-in-all I would say that the quality of coffee on Mallorca has improved many times over these last three years. I'm already looking forward to next year's experiences.
Sounds like a great way to celebrate your birthday Bruce, a belated Happy Birthday to you.
It is good to hear that the standard of coffee is improving in Mallorca. Thank you for taking the time to document your experiences.
Congrats, I wish you many years to come!
Thanks GreenBean, Lukas and Aadje! I guess growing old is still better than the alternative. | the island and the biscuits, pastries and sweets they serve are to die for.
As an aside, I celebrated my 70th birthday on the finca belonging to Germany's most well-known rock star, Peter Maffay. It just so happened that my birthday coincided with the day Peter and Tanja Maffay open their doors to fans and Karin and | 76 |
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