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Formula SAE Monocoque Chassis Development
KC Egger, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoFollow
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Joseph Mello, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department
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John Fabijanic, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department
Formula SAE is a collegiate competition hosted by SAE International with the primary goal being to design, manufacture, and race an open wheel race car. The Cal Poly Racing Formula SAE team strives for improvement every race season and has remained competitive as a result. The 2019-2020 management team determined that further research and development towards the chassis would yield the greatest performance benefit for future seasons, as the previous chassis platform limited packaging and mounting options for vehicle subsystems which interfaced with the chassis.
A redesign of the Cal Poly Racing Formula SAE team's carbon fiber reinforced polymer monocoque chassis was requested to improve subsystem integration, increase torsional stiffness, and reduce weight compared to the previous platform. Specifically, this senior project team focused on manufacturing process improvement and laminate design to meet these goals for the 2020 Formula SAE competition.
This report details the design and manufacturing of such a chassis. Specific emphasis was placed on the geometry, laminate, and manufacturing process design. The geometry was designed using subsystem input for satisfactory integration of all subsystem components while maintaining a high specific torsional stiffness. The team also developed numerous analysis tools including spreadsheets and finite element models to design the asymmetric laminate of the chassis. Modular, multi-piece tooling was designed to produce a single-piece chassis and to allow for easy geometric changes in the future.
Though two complete chassis were delivered to the Formula SAE team, the outbreak of COVID-19 prevented the collection of data that would have been used to validate the design. However, the Formula SAE team was made aware of the<|fim_middle|> Manufacturing Commons, Other Mechanical Engineering Commons, Structural Materials Commons | validation plan proposed in this report.
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Around the SUNY Oswego campus
"I'm First Day" on Nov. 8 provided a daylong celebration of students who are the first in their families to attend college, inviting students and faculty to share their stories, pick up some swag and make connections. Shown celebrating at the photo booth hosted by The Compass are SUNY Oswego juniors Denasia Wilson (left), a human development major, and Deneisha Wilson, a history major.
As part of "I'm First Day" celebrating first-generation college students<|fim_middle|> of Citigroup and view of Citi's equities trading floor, thanks to 1996 SUNY Oswego graduate and Senior Vice President Karyn Rose. (Photo submitted by Taeko Kelly) | on Nov. 8, first-generation alumni came back to share their experiences with interested students at a luncheon in The Space. In foreground, 1987 graduate Montos Vakirtzis talks with sophomores Rashan Babb, a marketing major, and Tramar A. Wallace, a criminal justice major. Also at the table are 2007 graduate Shannon David (pink shirt) talking with senior biology major Tylea McCarthy-Walker and senior communication and social interaction major Luis Garcia.
Dianora De Marco presents the keynote talk at the Oct. 30 Upskilling in a Digital World event in Shineman Center, which connected students with alumni who presented skills that are highly sought after in today's business and technology sectors. A 2014 undergraduate majoring in accounting and economics and a 2015 master of business administration graduate, De Marco — who is manager of Financial Accounting Advisory Services for Ernst & Young — said the seeds for the event came from a conversation during a College Foundation Board meeting about how alumni can furnish their expertise to help students in some technologically dynamic job fields.
SUNY Oswego's Upskilling in a Digital World event on Oct. 30 provided knowledge, resources and networking for students entering technologically evolving fields. Sharing encouragement and knowledge with attendees were, from left, Oliver Medonza '16 M'18, UX researcher, Edward Jones Investments; Janette Hausler '89, global vice president of partner marketing, UiPath; master of ceremonies Jeff Knauss '07, CEO and co-founder of The Digital Hyve; President Deborah F. Stanley; Mark Lobel '85, principal, Pricewaterhouse Coopers; and keynote speaker Dianora De Marco '14 M'15, manager of Financial Accounting Advisory Services for Ernst & Young.
Laura Spenceley, assistant dean for graduate studies, staffs the "Grad-itude" event held Nov. 11, speaking with two graduate students in school psychology, Katelynn Washburn (left) and Sophie Meyer. The event, where passersby could write a note of gratitude to anybody they choose, is among Graduate Studies Week events through this Friday.
Senior double major in business administration and finance Henrry Leon is congratulated by SUNY Chancellor Kristina B. Johnson during a ceremony where Leon was one of 42 Educational Opportunity Program students to receive the inaugural statewide Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, recognizing ability to overcome obstacles to achieve success. Read Leon's full story and more on the award. (Photo courtesy of SUNY)
The college's annual Veterans' Day luncheon invited veterans and military members to gather for a meal and fellowship in the Veterans Lounge in Hewitt. Those gathering included Chanel Kung (seated left), a senior operations management and information systems major in the School of Business, and presently serving in the U.S. Army since 2014; Kenneth Cisson (seated right), a 2015 business administration graduate, U.S. Army veteran 2000-2011, and Combat 2 Careers program coordinator; and Joe Stabb (back to camera), a communication studies faculty member on the ROTC advisory committee.
Chemistry department chair Fehmi Damkaci leads a tour group through the chemistry labs in the upper Innovations Wing of the Shineman Center during the Nov. 11 Admissions Open House.
Junior defenseman Carter Allen of the Oswego men's hockey team celebrates his first-period goal (Oswego's second score) in their 3-0 win over Plattsburgh on Nov. 8 in front of a sellout 3,000-person crowd for the annual Whiteout game. (Photo by Megan Briggs)
The annual Whiteout men's hockey game between archrivals Oswego and Plattsburgh involves a line that starts gathering hours before the 7 p.m. puck drop. Morgan Kocher (center, facing camera), a sophomore majoring in teaching English to speakers of other languages, camps out with friends in line Friday afternoon, Nov. 8 -- and Laker fans went home happy that evening with a 3-0 Oswego win.
Criminal justice faculty member Jaclyn Schildkraut (seated, left) prepares for an interview with CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin after a crew from the network spent several hours with Schildkraut, student research assistant Kirsten Klingaman and Syracuse City School District officials conducting lockdown drills and debriefs on Nov. 8. Schildkraut has worked with the district on about 80 such drills and they will prepare findings and suggestions for best practices. The footage and interviews are expected to air as part of a CNN special series in February.
The popular State Employees Federated Appeal Bake Off fundraiser provided hundreds of dollars for local charities and treats for many campus participants, with winners selected via votes for their dessert. Holding some of the new silicone bakeware as winners from the three Bake Offs are, from left, Jenny Grass, EXCEL office; political science faculty members Allison Rank and Helen Knowles; and Angela Galvin, Office of the Vice President for Administration and Finance. The SEFA campaign continues toward its $30,000 goal with Baskets of Caring events today and Thursday.
In a Nov. 9 event marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, department of modern languages and literatures faculty member Ana Djukic-Cocks (foreground) ushers participants to symbolically walk from East to West through the dismantled wall. Djukic-Cocks, who teaches German, introduced the event with a brief historical account about the wall.
Taeko Kelly of the Career Services Office makes conversation with students Alikeju Adejo (left) and Phone Paing at the Fall Etiquette Dinner Nov. 6 in Hewitt ballroom. The popular annual event hosted by Career Services provides participants tips about introductions, conversations, dining etiquette and more. (Photo by Megan Briggs)
The popular Fall Etiquette Dinner on Nov. 6 helps students understand the networking process, including how to make introductions, the art of small talk, finding common ground, situational awareness, joining groups for conversations, effective storytelling, the mechanics of table settings and more. They also heard advice and information from featured speaker Barbara Lang, owner of B. Lang Consulting. (Photo by Megan Briggs)
Student host David Hite (center) and an eclectic cast of characters celebrate wrapping up filming the upcoming Oswego Holiday TV Special. The variety show, directed by Francisco Suarez of the communication studies faculty and produced by and starring Oswego students, has been in the works for months. (Photo by Megan Briggs)
A Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) faculty and student reading group met Nov. 1 to discuss Michael Sandel's book "What Money Can't Buy." Kelly Heed (center), a first-year student and PPE major, takes part in the discussion, part of a series the group hosts. Philosophy professor Craig Delancey, at left, was among the driving forces in adding the interdisciplinary major, which is still a rare offering on American campuses. (Photo by Megan Briggs)
Michael James Olson (left) performed in the college's Ke-Nekt music series on Nov. 6 in the Sheldon Hall ballroom, blending live music, ambient electronics and abstract video. In addition (from left), students Nicky Radford, Clara Tribunella and Ethan Mitchell (hidden, at piano) and music faculty member Paul Leary joined him on stage. (Photo courtesy of Artswego)
Eight SUNY Oswego business students attended the annual Phi Beta Lambda Career Connections Conference in New York City on Oct. 24 and 25. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff from colleges and universities across North America attended, and SUNY Oswego students were able to network with these participants at the Thursday evening kick-off networking event. On Friday, each Oswego student toured and engaged with employers at two different companies, and had additional opportunities such as a behind-the-scenes tour | 1,676 |
Tokyo Olympics: Sky Brown hopes to have changed the perception of skateboarding as she targets two sports in Paris
By Sports Desk August 05, 2021
Sky Brown is hoping her success in Tokyo will help change people's minds about skateboarding as an Olympic sport, as she looks to add another discipline to her bow in 2024.
Brown became the youngest British medallist in Olympic history when she clinched bronze in the women's park skateboarding event on Wednesday.
The 13-year-old – who won gold at the X Games in July – fell on her first two runs, but nailed her final effort to take bronze with a score of 56.47. Japan's Sakura Yosozumi won gold, with the host nation also claiming silver through Kokona Hiraki.
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That decision had its detractors, but all four events across the men's and women's disciplines have been a huge success at the Ariake Urban Sports Park, where youth has reigned supreme.
"I'm feeling insanely happy, it's crazy to be here, I'm thankful," Brown told BBC Sport.
"I hope I've changed people's minds about skateboarding. People don't know how beautiful skateboarding is, there are no rules, you can be creative, just get out there and do whatever you want.
"Falling on your first two runs is the worst feeling ever. I usually make my first two runs so I was a little shocked yesterday. My dad told me: 'This is just a contest, even if you fall you're still amazing, you're still good.'
"Then [gold medallist] Sakura said: 'Sky, we believe in you, you've got it, just stick it.' Everyone was cheering and I just thought, 'I've got to do this. I've got to land it'."
Brown suffered skull fractures due to a fall in 2020, but she explained: "That was a bit of a rollercoaster, but that accident made stronger, it made me feel powerful, it made me want to go hard and push myself.
"That was a heavy time for my family. It's insane to be here right now."
It is not just skating that Brown excels at. She is also a keen surfer, along with her brother Ocean, and is hoping to compete in that event in three years' time.
"That's the goal, that's my dream, competing for skating and surfing in Paris. That would be really cool. I surf more than I skate," she said.
"All I did to get here was believe in myself and take baby steps. If you believe in yourself, you could be here. But you've got to have fun and enjoy the journey."
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IOC opens door to Russian and Belarusian athletes at Paris 2024 amid war in Ukraine
The International Olympic Committee is considering whether to include Russian and Belarusian athletes under a neutral flag at Paris 2024.
The two nations are currently banned following the IOC calling on federations to exclude them amid the former's invasion of Ukraine last year.
On Wednesday, the IOC confirmed they intend to uphold sanctions against state and government officials ahead of next year's games.
But in a statement, they acknowledged they would explore opportunities for athletes from both nations to compete in France.
"No athlete should be prevented from competing just because of their passport," the organisation's executive board said.
"[They would be] neutral athletes and in no way represent their state or any other organisation in their country.
"No flag, anthem, colours or any other identifications whatsoever of these countries being displayed at any sports event or meeting, including the entire venue."
The move has been met with criticism however, and comes just weeks after Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky called for athletes to remain barred.
A joint statement from Athletes for Ukraine and athlete association Global Athlete argued any decision to relax sanctions would endorse the war in Ukraine.
"The return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competition, especially the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, will see the Russian state use athletes once more to bolster the war effort," they said.
"[This will] distract from the atrocities in Ukraine on one of the biggest multi-sport stages in the world."
Russian athletes competed under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee at Tokyo 2020 after the nation was officially banned following multiple doping scandals.
McLaughlin smashes own world record to break 51-second barrier in 400m hurdles
Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record by almost three-quarters of a second to win 400m hurdles gold at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Friday.
The American, who claimed double gold at Tokyo 2020 last year, including in this event, blew past her rivals to post a new world-best time of 50.68 seconds.
It marked a further reduction on the previous world record she set last month with a remarkable 51.41 seconds, and now means she possesses five of the six fastest times in the race's history.
The Netherlands' Femke Bol, who nabbed bronze last year in Japan, came home second for silver behind the 22-year-old, with 52.27, while United States team-mate Dalilah Muhammad.settled for bronze.
"The time is absolutely amazing and the sport is getting faster and faster," said McLaughlin. "I only get faster from here."
McLaughlin is now expected to consider a potential switch in her field, with a move to the 400m flat a likely option.
Rubiales denies making Olympic intervention for Pique
Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has rejected claims of wrongdoing after reports that Gerard Pique asked him to intervene in the selection of Spain's squad for the Tokyo Olympics.
A series of conversations between Rubiales and Pique have been leaked by Spanish publication El Confidencial in recent days, focusing on Pique's involvement in moving the Supercopa de Espana to Saudi Arabia.
New leaks, however, appear to show Pique asking Rubiales to ensure he was picked for the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, at which he wished to make his Spain return after retiring from international football in 2018.
Pique is allegedly heard telling Rubiales in one audio message: "You have to do this for me Rubi, you have to get it for me," referencing a spot in the Olympic squad coached by Spain U21 boss Luis de la Fuente. The Barcelona centre-back is also have said to have hit out at Sergio Ramos' more public request to be involved.
At a news conference held on Wednesday, however, Rubiales denied the messages exposed any wrongdoing from himself or Pique, saying it was "normal" for players, with many of whom he is close, to make such requests.
"Maybe another one [player] appears who asked me to, and it's not Pique. I'm going to keep talking to them like that. I have a conversation with someone I've known for years and I speak as I speak," Rubiales said.
"There were more [players] who asked me. He [Pique] announced a long time ago that he did not want to return, and I spoke with Luis de la Fuente so that he would know who had called me.
"It is common when one is a great player and he wants to come back [to the national team]. Then Luis made a very different decision. We act with the utmost honesty. He is not the only footballer who has asked me to do so."
Pique, along with Ramos, was ultimately left out of the squad, with Spain earning the silver medal after a 2-1 extra-time defeat to Brazil in the final.
Meanwhile, attention has also been drawn to the new four-team format introduced for the Supercopa since it moved to Saudi Arabia, with Rubiales' federation accused of being motivated by a financial need for giants Real Madrid and Barca to remain involved.
Rubiales admitted that the likelihood of those two clubs being involved did result in greater revenue being generated through TV rights sales, but denied that this amounted to any sort of favouritism.
"We sell the TV rights to the final all over the world. There are some countries that wait to bid when they are the finalists," Rubiales added. "If there is a derby or Clasico, the offer multiplies a lot.
"That adds to the management and would affect the variable. [But] we have no idea who is going to play in the final."
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This conference paper is a summary of the article "Dirichlet problems for some Hamilton-Jacobi equations with inequality constraints", J.-P. Aubin, A. Bayen, P. Saint-Pierre, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 47(5), pp. 23482380, 2008, doi:10.1137/060659569. The full article contains all proofs and theorems summarized here. We use viability techniques for solving Dirichlet problems with inequality constraints (obstacles) for a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. The hypograph of the "<|fim_middle|> as the "capture basin" under an auxiliary control system of a target associated with the initial and boundary conditions, viable in an environment associated with the inequality constraint. From the tangential condition characterizing capture basins, we prove that this solution is the unique "upper semicontinuous" solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equation in the Barron-Jensen/Frankowska sense. We show how this framework allows us to translate properties of capture basins into corresponding properties of the solutions to this problem. For instance, this approach provides a representation formula of the solution which boils down to the Lax-Hopf formula in the absence of constraints. | solution" is defined | 4 |
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When shopping for a used pickup truck, keep in mind its towing capabilities, its propensity for damage, as well as what you will need it for.
Trucks are tough vehicles meant to tackle the toughest of environments, and in Alberta that can be a tough task. That means they often get beat up and can sustain some damage that isn't always easy to come back from. When shopping for a used truck, take extra care examining it to make sure there isn't any outstanding damage on the frame, chassis, wheels or anywhere else, tough work damage can easily accumulate.
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Trucks should only be purchased if you are going to be getting specific use out of all of the unique truck capabilities. If you have no intention to haul or tow, and just want a commuting vehicle, there are more affordable and fuel efficient options than a pickup truck. Make sure when browsing used pickups that it is truly a vehicle you will get the most out of, as there are many options beyond trucks that can fit you if the advantages of a truck aren't what you need.
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STANLEY winger Rory Prendergast was furious he was denied a last gasp penalty which would have given<|fim_middle|>,we should have had it."
In fairness the Reds were let down with their first half show. Coleman went for two out and out wingers in Dean Calcutt and Prendergast but both their threats were snuffed out by some tight marking.
Coleman changed things around at the back giving Steve Halford his first start of the season but he was soon back on the bench after Forest Green, without a win prior to the game, opened the scoring in the 12th minute.
Neil Grayson flicked on a cross and Steve Cowe nipped in front of Halford to fire the ball home.
"I decided to put on Jonathan Smith as I thought he would cope with the aerial threat better and I think he did," said the boss.
The Reds didn't have their first real chance until the 31st minute when a Calcutt cross was headed over by Lutel James.
Stanley were starting to find their feet but were hit by the second goal on 40 minutes. Gary Owers - a former team-mate of Gordon Armstrong's at Sunderland - got the ball on the edge of the area and curled the shot into Jon Kennedy's far post.
Coleman gave his team a good talking to at half time and Stanley came out battling. Within four minutes, Steve Hollis lashed the ball against the upright from a free kick.
And the Reds got one back when Prendergast, now finding more time and space, fired in a perfect cross and, with James and Steve Jenkins rushing in, the defender got a touch and the ball rolled into the net on 57 minutes.
Stanley had their chances after that, Andy Procter's 18 yard effort was just wide while Prendergast had a blistering strike saved by keeper Steve Perrin but they ran out of time.
"We started off sluggish but we more positive in the second half," said Coleman. "We were on top when they scored their second and after that, if it had been a boxing match, the referee would have had it stopped. I told the players at half time to believe in themselves a lot more and in the second half they did. Now we need more of that."
His Forest Green counterpart Coin Addison had nothing but praise for Stanley.
"It was a hard game for us as we expected. We scrapped for the win against a good side. It wasn't our best performance but it was a gritty one.
"Paul Mullin and Lutel James are two great players and we knew they would take us the distance. They won the UniBond League in style and I knew we would have to battle.
"We could do nothing about Prendergast's cross - it was a great ball in - but I am just pleased we have got our first win under our belts." | Accrington a share of the spoils at Forest Green.
The 24-year-old felt he should have been given a spot kick in injury time after being felled in the area - instead he was booked for diving. "It was a definite penalty. I couldn't believe it wasn't given," said the former Bradford Park Avenue man.
And boss John Coleman agreed with him. "It was a stonewall penalty. I know Rory and he is an honest lad, he wouldn't dive. I think the referee used it as a cop out, I think he took the easy option as it was so late on. But for me | 131 |
A new lab-based computed tomography (CT) technique enables scientists to produce high<|fim_middle|> of the legs of velvet worms revealed unknown muscular features, demonstrating the technique's value. | -resolution images of the surface and interior of samples without using a particle accelerator. The non-destructive technique will be useful for studying rare samples or other materials that might be damaged by extensive preparation.
A team led by researchers at the Technical University of Munich developed an X-ray source that produces a highly focused beam without using X-ray optics. They combined this with a low-noise, single-photon detector to create the new imaging device, called nano-CT.
With nano-CT, the interior and exterior of samples can be scanned to produce 3D data at a resolution of 100 nanometres. While existing techniques achieve a similar resolution, they require more sample preparation and can only image the surface or the interior of a sample, not both. Nano-CT images | 156 |
Let's be honest! Prior to Thanksgiving, most Celtics fans were at least a little skeptical of the outcome of this season. I admit to having a tiny bit of doubt myself. What kept my hopes up was knowing the pieces were in place. Those pieces are now poised for a concerted playoff run.
As of this writing, the Celtics hold<|fim_middle|>3rd in the League in turnovers for the season, allowing only 13.4/game. Conversely, when they give up the ball, opponents are only able to average 14.0 points/game off the miscues. They are getting back on defense. Boston holds the top spot for Opponent Points off Turnovers. As a measuring stick, the 30th-rated Hawks give up 22.8 points per game off turnovers.
It is obvious the guys are on a roll. They are doing well on both ends of the court, and their record may be about to take flight. Fan-patience could very well be rewarded. Extending the win-streak to 5-in-a-row tonight is the goal. | first place in Offensive Rating since Thanksgiving. They are also in first place in Net Rating (15.2) in that same period, while maintaining a strong 7th place in Defensive Rating. With a 4-game win streak under their belts, they are rolling.
The stats from the team's 4-game win streak tell a lot. Field goal percentage for the season is 44.9% (21st in NBA). That number soared to 5th in the League for the streak (50.8%). Three point accuracy went from 35.9% (9th) for the season to 43.5% (2nd) during the 4-0 stretch. Celtics players are suddenly hitting their shots, and the offense is clicking.
One aspect of the Celtics game is critical - turnovers. They don't give up many, and they don't allow opponents to score off the few mishaps that occur. They are ranked | 198 |
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'India after Independence has produced few leaders who were also political philosophers. Deendayal Ji was one of the few, and the finest.'- L K Advani
Today I am reminded of what our icon and leader Shri LK Advani said : 'India after Independence has produced few leaders who were also political philosophers. Deendayal Ji was one of the few, and the finest.' Indeed Pandit Upadhaya would insist on practising value-based and principled politics with the primary motivation being national interest. And it was the political philosophy of Pandit Upadhaya which has inspired and guided several karyakartas like me in our political journey. Pandit Upadhay once said: A monotonous life, lived without any purpose or direction, is not worth much.
To achieve anything big in life, you should be prepared to risk your all and take a leap of faith for whatever they believed in. And he lived by those words, as a nationalist in the true sense, even after achieving a top position in the then Civil Services entrance in 1942, he chose to not serve the colonial administration. To him serving the nation and creating a generation of patriots deserved more importance. It was to achieve these ideals in 1942, he became a full-time Pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an organisation that was and is still fully committed to create dedicated patriots who will go to all lengths to serve Bharat Mata.
In 1951, when Syama Prasad Mookerji founded the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS), it was Pandit Deendayal Upadhaya who was tasked with creating the structure and thought process which would go on to define the party for decades to come. Pandit Upadhaya's dedication to his work made Dr Mukherjee claim: If I could get two or three more Deendayals, I will change the entire political map of India. After Dr Mookerjee sadly passed away in 1953, Pandit Upadhyaya led the Jana Sangh against the political giant of that timeline which was the Congress party.
The process of defeating the Congress (and creating a Congress-mukt Bharat in PM Modi's words) reached an important phase in 1963 when the iconic leader and scholar Dr Ram Manohar Lohia visited a RSS shivir in Kanpur to stitch out an alliance. The Lohia-Deendayal duo was instrumental in providing an alternate viewpoint to the then ruling Nehruvian Congressism. This viewpoint of Pandit Upadhaya was what we know today as Integral Humanism.
The crux of this viewpoint can be seen in his words: Both from the national as well as human standpoint, it is essential that we think of the principles of Bhartiya Culture. Pandit Upadhaya identified all Indians as part of one organic whole, sharing a common consciousness of national thought. It was through Integral Humanism that we got the concept of "Antyodaya" which is the guiding principle of our governments in the state and the country.
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In Honor of the 90th Anniversary of Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia
Mr. Bishop (GA) – Madame Speaker, I rise today to honor Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia which has served as a tower of strength for the people of the Second Congressional District. The church was founded on July 11, 1920 in a small wooden house located at 627 Society Avenue under the noble leadership of the late Reverend Grant Edgar Hall.
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On the occasion of its 90th Anniversary, it gives me great honor to recognize Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church for all its efforts. I thank the church and its congregation for all their years of service. I wish and hope that they continue to spread the word of God and continue serving the community in Albany. To God Be The Glory! | on the first and third Sundays of each month. The church's first pastor, Reverend Edgar Hall, retired in 1956 due to ill health and old age. He was succeeded by Reverend R.J. Polk. Since then, the church has been blessed by several pastors who have served the people of Albany as evangelists, prophets, teachers, counselors, and friends. Reverend Polk was followed by dynamic leaders like Reverend P.E. Davenport, Reverend J.L. Jones, Reverend J.E. Brown, Reverend C.W. Heath, Reverend R.E. Ousley, Reverend Jimmy Sneed, Reverend Carl K. Rolle, Reverend Veron D. Lloyd, Reverend Clayton D. Smith and Reverend Dr. James B. Rodgers.
In the last 90 years, the church has seen exponential growth. The church's original edifice was expanded under the guidance of Reverend Ousley. The adjacent land and Annex South were developed with Reverend Rolle's valuable assistance and Annex East was purchased and refurbished under Reverend Smith's guidance. With the effective leadership from the church's pastors and tremendous public support, the church has continued to expand. Under the Reverend Walter L. Ingram, Jr., the church relocated to its larger permanent residence on 1501 Newton Road.
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church has served as a pillar of strength for the Albany community. Through its numerous outreach ministries, it has strived to serve the people of the great state of Georgia and the city of Albany. By reaching out to those in need and comforting those who are suffering, the church has become a source of spiritual support for the people | 346 |
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London's Courtauld Gallery Shows Off German Miniature Bibles
by Sean McLachlan on May 2, 2013
The Courtauld Gallery in London has opened a new exhibition of two of the smallest Bibles you'll ever see.
"Dess Alten Testaments Mittler" and "Dess Neuen Testaments Mittler" are tiny illustrated Bibles produced by two sisters from Augsburg, Germany, in the late 17th century. It was a time of increased private devotion, when people looked for more from religion than the rituals in the church. Personal Bibles and images hung in the home became popular for those who could afford them and were used as the individual's way to reach the Divine.
Tiny Bibles like these were generally for children, but the fine quality of the engravings on these examples hint that they were for adults. If you won't make it to London this summer, you can turn the pages of one of the Bibles and admire the detailed yet miniscule artwork at this webpage.
The exhibit is part of the "Illuminating Objects" series, prepared by postgraduate students on their area of study. "Dess Alten Testaments Mittler: Dess Neuen Testaments Mittler" runs from May 1 to July 22.
Overlooked London: The HMS Belfast
by Sean McLachlan on Apr 30, 2012
The United Kingdom used to have the largest navy in the world and it still packs a major punch today. One ship from the glory days is the HMS Belfast, docked on London's South Bank near London Bridge. This World War Two light cruiser also saw service in Korea and is now open to the public under the auspices of the Imperial War Museum, one of the best war museums anywhere.
Clambering up and down the nine decks and into turrets and engine rooms is lots of fun, and the video displays and signs tell you all about the history of the ship and life on board. One interactive display, the Gun Turret Experience, puts you in the middle of a WWII battle. In the Operations Room you can control an entire fleet at sea.
If you go in the winter, visit in the afternoon and catch the early sunset over the Thames, its bridges, and both its busy banks. Watching nightfall from the prow of this historic ship is a memorable experience.
The HMS Belfast is undergoing remodeling and will be even better when it reopens on May 18.
Check out more London attractions most tourists miss in our Overlooked London series!
Top photo, courtesy Steve Parker, shows the HMS Belfast as it appears today. The bottom photo, courtesy the Imperial War Museum, shows the ship bombarding the coast of Normandy in support of the D-Day invasion.
Visiting The Royal Geographical Society, London
by Sean McLachlan on Apr 8, 2012
While London isn't exactly known as an adventure travel destination, unless you're crossing Elephant and Castle late at night, it is a place where adventure travelers gather. The British are some of the best explorers in the world and their Royal Geographical Society is a meeting place and resource for those who want more out of travel than a cruise to the Bahamas.
The society was founded in 1830 to further knowledge of the world and its cultures. It has sponsored numerous expeditions, including famous ones led by heroes such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Edmund Hillary. This work continues today.
I popped in there for the first time earlier this week to use their archives. I'm planning a trip to a remote castle in northern Ethiopia that hasn't been properly explored since 1868, and of course the folks at the Royal Geographical Society had the original<|fim_middle|> of the Witwatersrand and the Government of the Republic of South Africa. At the moment only one skull is on public view. Hopefully the full skeletons will go on display soon. It's the first public exhibition of this species in the UK.
These are exciting times in paleontology. New human ancestors are unearthed almost yearly, and more and more of our family tree is being pieced together. At the same time, scientists are being forced to defend and explain their field of study to Creationists, who have already made up their minds that science and religion are automatically enemies.
The most impressive display of human evolution I've ever seen was at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. It has a huge collection of fossil hominids, including Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago. One room shows the precursors to modern humans arranged in chronological order to show how primate-like traits gradually gave way to a more human appearance. This is also done with other animals like the horse and hippo. Anyone looking, really looking, at these displays will have a hard time dismissing evolution as some sort of conspiracy on the part of Godless scientists, many of whom are actually devout Christians.
Photo courtesy Brett Eloff. | maps! Thanks to them, now I won't get lost when I head into the Ethiopian highlands – well, hopefully not.
The archives are a great resource for travelers planning their next adventure. There's also an excellent series of lectures and exhibitions. Currently there's an exhibition on the castles and monasteries of medieval Serbia.
So if you're in London but pining to ride an elephant through Borneo or climb the mountains of Antarctica, check out the Royal Geographical Society.
Five overlooked attractions in London
by Sean McLachlan on Jan 16, 2012
London is full of great places to see. No matter what your interests are, this city has something for you. In fact it has so much there are some incredible attractions that are overlooked by the majority of visitors. Here are five you might want to visit.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
The Kew Bridge Pumping Station, built in 1838, once supplied water and power to London through massive steam engines. The British were early masters of turning water into power by heating it into steam. This unusual museum shows how it was done, as well as the immense variety of machines built to power the Industrial Revolution. Only selected machines still work, and only on weekends, when they puff away as if they're still powering the Empire. There are special days when additional machines are started up. They're all quite loud with massive moving parts, making them popular with kids. Check out the schedule here.
The Wapping Project
This is a unique art space in London and a personal favorite. Set in a converted power station like the Tate Modern, it differs from that more famous art space in that the curators left most of the machinery intact. This lends the building a ghostly atmosphere and a postindustrial charm. A succession of top artists have done a great job adapting their work to the surroundings. There's also a good restaurant onsite. Check out their webpage here.
Jewel Tower
This stone tower is one of the few surviving parts of the medieval palace of Westminster and dates to around 1365. Outside you can still see part of the original moat. The ground floor is the best preserved, with an original vaulted ceiling and sculpted bosses. Originally the clerk's office, it's now a cafe and gift shop. The first floor contains an informative history of Parliament that's helpful to read before visiting the Houses of Parliament across the street. The second floor covers the history of Jewel Tower, beginning with its construction by Edward II to hold his personal wealth. The Crown Jewels were, and still are, held in the Tower of London since they're the property of the kingdom. The website is here.
Get away from the city without leaving it! This park has 2,500 acres of hills, meadows, woodland gardens, and ponds. Swans, mallards, 650 roaming deer, cycle and jogging paths, and ancient oaks all combine to make it my favorite park in London. It has been a reserved area since medieval times and is now an official National Nature Reserve. It's not all countryside–you'll also find cafes, playgrounds, and a golf course. Check out the website here. Also check out our article on other quiet spots in London.
The British Dental Association Dental Museum
Ah yes, the good old days. . .when cavities meant a trip to the marketplace where a guy with a grimy pair of pliers who hadn't washed his hands in three months yanked out the rotting stump with nothing but brute force and a good swig of rum (usually for him, victims had to supply their own). Displays show early drills, toothbrushes, and the dentures of royalty. You can learn more at their website. Want some more pain? Check out our article on London's surgery museums.
Do you have a favorite overlooked attraction in London? Tell us about it in the comments section!
Early human ancestor on display at London's Natural History Museum
by Sean McLachlan on Nov 20, 2011
The Natural History Museum in London has put an important fossil of one of our species' early ancestors on display.
Australopithecus sediba lived 1.98 million years ago in what is now South Africa. It's thought by some scientists to be a transition species between the more ape-like Australopithecines and the later, more human-like genus Homo. While it has the small brain size of the Australopithecines (although larger than most), its jaw and body look more like the Homo species. The hands are especially well-formed and it may have used tools.
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What is the first platform that comes to mind when the phrase "social media" is mentioned?
I'd bet a large majority of you said "Facebook". So obviously when talking about advertising on social media, Facebook would also be at the top of that list as well.
Is Facebook the king of social ads?
The most popular form of social advertising is Facebook Ads. Facebook could be called the "King of Social Ads" as they have led the way and set the pace for advertising through social media networks. With their extensive targeting capabilities and their acquisition of Instagram – Facebook still reigns king.
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From demographics, interests and behaviors you can get very specific and create a very targeted audience for your ad. You are also able to upload customer lists to show your ads to your current clients, create lookalike audiences and retarget those who have visited your website. Be sure to utilize audience exclusions to help narrow down your audience. The closer your ad matches your targeted audience, the better your ad will perform. Facebook gives a Relevancy Score of 1-10 to your ads to show how relevant your ad is. A score of 10 is the highest possible and means your ad closely matches your audience target.
After you're satisfied with your audience, Facebook provides several placements for your ad. Unlike other networks, Facebook has Instagram, Messenger, Videos and the Audience Network to showcase your ads. The Audience Network is a way for you to expand your ads beyond Facebook and into other mobile apps. There are also advanced options that allow you to select which mobile devices and operating systems to serve your ads.
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What's happening to life expectancy in Britain?
May 31, 2018 by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Hannah Ritchie
Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics.
This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on Life Expectancy.
Most of us want to live a good and fulfilling life; for many this also means living a long one. So when headlines state that life expectancy in Britain is falling, it's important to pay attention.
Here's a list of some pretty unnerving headlines covering this topic.
The Financial Times (3/03/17): "Average UK life expectancy falls"
The Conversation (29/11/17): "Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?"
The Independent (17/01/18): "Life expectancy plummets in parts of UK, data reveals"
The Metro (18/01/18): "Life expectancy now falling in Britain"
What's behind these alarming titles? Let's dig deeper to understand what the data is and isn't telling us.
Is life<|fim_middle|> on with life expectancy in Britain?
According to the figures by the ONS, life expectancy in Britain will likely continue rising throughout the 21st century. However, it remains true that mortality rate improvements for a very specific cohort of people born between 1923 and 1938, have slowed down in recent years. With the available evidence, it's not possible for anyone to say why health improvements for the golden cohort have slowed. This is something that deserves more attention and research.
The media coverage on this was weak – headlines were misleading and arguments were often not supported by the evidence. In particular, several articles over-attributed the role that austerity may have played in explaining the ONS's technical revisions of life expectancy. It is correct to be worried about the impact of public funding cuts on health and wellbeing. If trends in recent years are the result of multiple compounding factors, austerity cuts can only serve to exacerbate this issue.
But it's important to be accurate and fair when presenting the evidence: there is not enough empirical support, at least yet, for the claim that the last couple of years of austerity in Britain have translated into large and widespread reductions in life expectancy with knock-on effects for generations to follow. | expectancy in Britain really falling?
The stories behind these headlines are primarily based on a simple fact: the 2016 statistical bulletin from the UK's Office for National Statistics' (ONS) included estimates of projected life expectancy that were lower than the earlier projections published in 2014. To be specific, the new projections were one year lower in the ONS's 2016 revision.
Does that mean that life expectancy is dramatically falling over time as the headlines suggest? Not really.
In the chart below we show the ONS's life expectancy projections for males and females under the 2014 and 2016 revisions. We see that there is an unambiguously positive trend in all lines. Life expectancy was, and still is projected to increase substantially through the 21st century, both for men and women. The difference is that projections for both males and females, by 2041, were approximately one year lower in the ONS's 2016 revision.
So the story is not really that life expectancy is falling over time; or even that life expectancy has stagnated. The story is that life expectancy will likely keep growing, but the ONS reduced the magnitude of predicted growth.
The ONS revision is less alarming than the headlines suggest, but it certainly deserves attention.
Where do 'life expectancy projections' come from?
The term "life expectancy" refers to the number of years a person can expect to live and it is based on an estimate of the average age that members of a particular population group will be when they die.
Estimating average age-at-death for a group of people would be a simple exercise if we had complete records and we were only interested in a group of individuals who have already died. But this is of course rarely the case – records are often incomplete and we are typically interested in making inferences about how long a group of people can expect to live in the future. So we need to make assumptions.
There are several different approaches. A common one consists in estimating the average length of life for a hypothetical cohort assumed to be exposed, from birth through death, to the mortality rates observed at a given year. This approach, known as 'period life expectancy', does not take into account changes in mortality rates over time – it is completely based on a static snapshot of observed mortality patterns across people of different ages in a specific year.
But since age-specific mortality patterns are not usually constant over time, it is common to add an extra layer of assumptions, in order to estimate period life expectancy projections. These are produced by first making assumptions about how the mortality patterns for people of different ages will evolve over time, and then estimating life expectancy for hypothetical future cohorts.
The life expectancy projections in the chart above are period life expectancy projections. They rest on strong assumptions about how mortality rates across different age groups will improve in the future.
Why did the ONS revise its life expectancy projections?
The assumptions behind the 2014 and 2016 period life expectancy projections are mostly identical except for one crucial detail: The 2016 revision made changes to the assumed mortality rate improvements for one specific group of individuals, the so-called 'golden cohort'. Who are the people in the 'golden cohort'?
When we look at rates of mortality improvements over the 20th century we find an interesting pattern: the cohort born between 1923 and 1938 (the so-called 'golden cohort') have shown consistently higher rates of mortality improvement relative to other cohorts.
In the ONS 2014 projections of life expectancy, it was assumed that this higher rate of improvement for the 'golden cohort' would continue for many years ahead. However, over the last few years this effect within the cohort has almost disappeared. Improvements in mortality rates have fallen more closely in line with other population groups, so in the 2016 ONS revision they therefore removed the special treatment for this group.
This raises two fundamental questions: what is special about the 'golden cohort', and why has this 'golden effect' disappeared in recent years?
The golden cohort effect
The success of the golden cohort in terms of mortality improvements remains to some degree an enigma. Many have attempted to explain it, but the evidence remains inconclusive.
What's difficult to explain is not that those born in the golden cohort have done significantly better than their older cohort – we might expect this to be the case thanks to improvements in healthcare, prosperity, and medical advances. What is difficult to explain is that those in the golden cohort show consistently higher improvements than those born after.
This puzzling pattern is not exclusive to Great Britain: It has also been documented in France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands and Switzerland.
Despite the fact that the evidence is inconclusive, we do have some hints about factors that might make the golden cohort special. These factors include a special childhood in terms of health and nutrition, as well as exceptional behaviour in terms of habits, such as smoking.
This last factor is particularly compelling, since cigarette smoking peaked and then declined remarkably in the second half of the 20th century. Since the decline in smoking translates into lower mortality rates, and these improvements are often greatest for people who are around at the peak of the epidemic, it is natural to expect larger improvements for the golden cohort.
The end of the golden era
This leaves us with the question of why the golden-cohort mortality improvements have changed in recent years. Again, there are many potential explanations and the evidence is inconclusive.
First, it could be that the relative advantage of the golden cohort was bound to end. Indeed, if a dominant driver of the golden cohort's mortality improvements is the dramatic reduction in smoking, we would expect that this effect would eventually disappear as changes in lung cancer mortality begin to stall.
And second, it could be that there have been significant changes in health inputs, such as changes in flu or disease outbreaks, lifestyle factors such as diet, or healthcare and treatment.
What has changed in elements of health and care in recent years?
In 2015 we saw a notable increase in mortality rates and as a result, a temporary drop in life expectancy. The majority of this excess mortality occurred in the first three months of 2015—notably in January—from a particularly fatal influenza season predominated by the influenza A(H3N2) virus. It's known that mortality rates, particularly in the elderly, are higher during seasons of influenza. Indeed, Britain was not alone in experiencing a particularly fatal winter. The trends were widespread across Europe. In 2015, female life expectancy at birth fell in 23 of the 28 EU countries, alongside drops in male life expectancy in 16. The effect was even more dramatic in older demographics: female and male life expectancy aged 65+ fell in 25 and 21 EU countries, respectively.
Additionally, as widely acknowledged, in the period 2014-2016 there were also changes in public spending, both medical and wider services. There are important links between cuts to public spending and negative impacts on health outcomes, so even if particularly fatal influenza periods are to blame for mortality hikes in recent years, inadequate healthcare support can only serve to exacerbate this issue.
We must also be wary of the geographical and distributional aspects that national life expectancy figures hide. Whilst the average life expectancy in Britain continues to rise, particular areas have been badly hit in terms of economic decline as well as health outcomes. Blackpool has the lowest life expectancy in England and there are signs that this is falling. The drivers of this health crisis are likely to be complex: Blackpool has one of the highest rates of obesity, smoking, liver disease and antidepressant subscription rates in the country; it has been hit by austerity but its economic and health decline likely run deeper than this. Understanding these complexities deserve our attention.
In conclusion: What's going | 1,627 |
ST: Deyan, you have been director of the Design Museum for over a decade and have overseen the recent move from the Shad Thames building down past Tower Bridge to these impressive new digs in South Kensington. Can you tell me a bit about that history?
DS: Eleven years ago, I'd been negotiating a contract to become chief curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when I got a call from the London Design Museum saying they needed a new director. In those days the museum was housed in a handsome converted banana warehouse which had been painted white and turned into a miniature Bauhaus on the Thames. It had 3,000 square metres, 45 staff and about 150,000 visitors per year. The director's mission was to grow the museum and turn it into a more relevant cultural force. I thought, What a great opportunity to create something that will be around for a long time. So I unpacked my New York suitcases and took the job.
This new Design Museum is a very different beast, a sleek John Pawson and<|fim_middle|> other. It's this phenomenon we need to be tracking but it is incredibly swift and difficult to pin down. But that is now a major part of the Design Museum's mission. | OMA fit out inside the Grade II-listed former Commonwealth Institute building in museum-heavy Kensington. What is your mission for this new entity?
Simply, we wanted to create a new place to think about design. A larger space, something more accessible. I always had in my mind the Tate Modern which had such an enormous impact on the way Britain sees contemporary art and to some extent the way the world sees Britain. Through Tate Modern, contemporary art managed to become something beyond a curious, cultish sect. We looked around the world at places which specialise in design and quickly realised that there were two models: putting contemporary design and architecture as a department within a much larger, generalist museum where you might have the chance every few years to do something really special. Or it's in tiny institutions which are very much for the hard-core specialists. I felt that there was a much more interesting way to bring audiences in.
The museum opened in November 2016 and has had almost 700,000 visitors since then. Obviously, a lot of that is the novelty effect. What are you doing to garner loyalty and ensure return visits?
The model is not that of a fixed permanent collection, we've opted for more of a Kunsthalle model. Six temporary exhibitions per year, a program of debates and discussions. It's never the same experience and the strength of the program is that it is both engaging and authoritative. The job here is to make sure that those who know a lot are convinced we know what we're doing but at the same time that we can talk in an appropriately respectful tone of voice to those who are not specialists.
Design occupies a very strong place in the English public psyche. How do you explain that?
I don't think design is a 'thing'. Whether they're aware of it or not, people spend their entire lives being shaped by the decisions taken by designers and manufacturers. Whether they know it or not, they use objects to reflect their values and to say things about themselves. It's really a question of unlocking what people already instinctively understand.
Nevertheless, London is a hotspot for contemporary design, isn't it?
Yes, and that is built on the legacy of 150 years of very distinguished colleges, art schools and universities which have strived generation upon generation to attract the brightest students, generating an atmosphere of dialogue. I think that one of the greatest threats today is that many colleges have greatly expanded and that is making for a very different teaching experience. Also, London's become a very expensive place to live, and that affluence in some sense has a stifling effect on creativity. One of the reasons for expanding and developing the Design Museum is to assert London's centrality to the contemporary design dialogue.
Design is both a field of cultural practice and an economic driver. What are the major issues facing design today?
Design is both a cultural and an economic phenomenon and that is the paradox that quite often people find hard to get their heads around. If you're doing an exhibition about a brand are you promoting that brand? One of the massive changes since the museum first opened is that the object is increasingly not where much design conversation is. We are in a dematerialising world in which physical design is an aspect that many people find very important but, as we know, the smart phone has triggered an epidemic of mass extinctions. This process is speeding up. It's been ten years since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone and I think not even he would have predicted that it would create Airbnb and Tinder, services which have transformed the way that we live, the way that we meet each | 733 |
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As we all know, your email marketing campaign extends far beyond your inbox, or your customers'. Your emails are the bond that tie all of your business endeavors together. According to DeMers: "Through an email marketing initiative, you can draw people to your blog by offering snippets of content, or you can drive up your following numbers by inviting people to share deals on social media. You can also use your other marketing channels to invite people to sign up for your email blasts, resulting in a closed, cohesive system that nurtures your overall customer base as one unit." Think of your business as a self-contained ecosystem, and your emails as the water flowing through it, providing sustenance to all areas in need. If executed optimally, your email marketing campaign will direct people to your store, website, and social media pages. It will increase your customer involvement, brand loyalty, and of course, sales. Want to increase your sales? Then give your emailing budget some more love!
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If you find yourself questioning whether an increase in your email budget is the right move for your business, you need only look at the always-reliable, ever-truthful statistics. According to a study concluded at the end of 2014, 73 percent of marketers claimed that email marketing was a central component to their overall business. If that still doesn't | 119 |
As full as life is these days, I didn't want to miss the opportunity to share a special treat that a MOM might like. Besides, I promised a mom I would.
I've shared another crêpe recipe with you previously ("plain," yet not-so-plain, and simply wonderful) – partly because of its versatility, savory or sweet, it remains our favorite.
Don't misunderstand – today's crêpe is no slouch! And it steps in to fill the cockles of a chocolate-lover's heart…it might even be the one to make a Mom or Grandma swoon….if you aim for that sort of thing.
With a plateful of warm crêpes of chocolate, you'll be faced with choices…What to pool inside? What to dribble over?
♥ Maybe you'd like to macerate your berries in melted raspberry sorbet first – you'll know what to do with them from there…!
NOTE: Keep in mind that it's best to prepare these at the very least one hour ahead of cooking. Two hours is better. Overnight, or a full day ahead, is great! This allows the flour molecules to become fully hydrated and the crêpes to become their tenderest.
Into a small to medium saucepan place the butter, chocolate and milk and gently heat, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate has melted. Remove from heat.
Allow to<|fim_middle|>osh ! I hope that I am not too late to ask for a plate of these as I feel that they may have all been eaten by your fellow bloggers. This is a recipe to really wet the appetite and thanks so much for sharing Spree.
Can anything be better than crepes? Not in my mind. So delicate, so delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe, Spree. I just know it will be placed in some of the other ones you treated us to, like the amazing chick pea soup.
These look so good — love your presentation!
They look very vry delicious!!
These look divine… even 3 weeks later! I like the all milk crepe recipe. And all your options with the cinnamon scented whipped cream screaming at me. How about a Mexican chocolate crepe!
These look so beautiful with those pretty strawberries on top! I just brought home some peaches and I'll bet they would be good on crepes, too. I've never tried my hand at making these and it's on my to do list. I think chocolate ones would be perfect to start with!
and I'd like that very much Shimon!
: ) that would have been the kind thing to do!
I DESPERATELY want these. 🙂 Can you post some? 🙂 Beautiful images too..
Thats what i would like for my breakfast tomorrow! | sit for at least one hour. See NOTE above.
Check the consistency of your batter. It should be like a thin cream…add small amounts of milk, mixing thoroughly, until desired consistency is reached.
When it's time to cook your crêpes, a non-stick skillet (8 – 10″) will work best. But any skillet of this size will work…they will just require a spraying or a buttering/oiling of the pan from time to time. Crêpes are better if they're drier, but don't let this stand in your way of a treat!
Heat the oven to 150°F (65°C) and place a plate inside. Place your skillet over medium high and allow it to come to temperature.
Depending on the size of your pan, you'll only need 1½ to a scant 3 Tablespoons of batter per crêpe. Once your pan has reached temperature, raise it off the heat and drop in the batter, tilting the pan in a circular motion so that it coats the bottom of the pan evenly. Any holes can be filled with a touch of additional batter. When the underside is cooked and the topside is mostly dried (only about 1 minute!) lift one edge with a butter knife, or a skinny spatula (or even your fingers) and flip it to finish the crêpe – 30 seconds or so.
Place them on the heated plate in the oven (covered with foil) as you prepare the others, or serve them as they come out of the pan, as you prefer.
These crêpes will freeze well if prepared ahead. Simply place parchment paper or waxed paper squares between them, and then placed in a freezer bag. Allow them to come to room temperature and then gently reheat them in a warm oven. Then fill and prepare as you like.
Whisk together. Add about a tablespoon per crêpe before folding or rolling.
This chocolate crêpe recipe comes from Laura Calder, in French Taste, a lovely little cookbook.
How delicious isn't this … your are some talent lady .. and you make it so fantastic on a plate.
If I had a restaurant I would talk you into … working for me, because I can't do omelets or pancakes – .. and I don't work with yeast … your china even match. This is total eye-candy.
I have tried for years …. I can't …. and I'm a chef – I think it's a mental thing … I have a block somewhere about pancakes.
I'm world champion on souffles.
Yes, Viveka, I know all about mental blocks! It's not that you can't make them, it's that your mind has told you you can't and you believed your lying mind! (Believe me, I know all about that sort of thing!) : ) I still maintain, if we were cooking side by side, you'd soon be flipping crepes onto your own pretty plate!
You nailed … it's so true – my mind has made it's mind up.
I'm sure it will be able to do it … with you as my mentor.
Our berry season is just beginning and I can envision fresh strawberries tucked inside your scrumptious Chocolate Crepes! A marvelous recipe!
I am making these for me this weekend!
That's the way, Sawsan! Enjoy!
That looks really delicious! And the plate ware is really lovely!
Your dreams of oregon raspberries and whipped cream with chocolate crepes are nearly on your table mama…hang on! Much love back!
Such beautiful photos. Adore the plate! And, of course, the crêpes look grand, too.
What can I say? These look beautiful, tasty, maybe even healthy and I'm sure so satisfying.
Lovely photos Antoinette. I love that detailed red too it's perfect for a special lady.
Ah, thank you much "bunny"!
What a beautiful photograph of your delicious crêpes!
Mama, so beautiful! These photos are positively lovely, and berries and chocolate…what could be better?! You've always made such wonderful crepes. Lucky us.
Oh g | 853 |
Beyond a bigger brain: Multivariable structural brain imaging and intelligence
Stuart J. Ritchie, Tom Booth, Maria del C. Valdés Hernández, Janie Corley, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Alan J. Gow, f, Natalie A. Royle, Alison Pattie, Sherif Karama, John M. Starr, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Ian J. Deary;
Intelligence (Juli-August 2015)
Brain size is known to correlate with general intelligence (g).
It is unclear which other neuroimaging variables contribute beyond total brain size.
We model multiple brain measures and g in a large sample aged around 73 years.
All brain variables together account for around 20% of variance in g.
People with larger brains tend to score higher on tests of general intelligence (g). It is unclear, however, how much variance in intelligence other brain measurements would account for if included together with brain volume in a multivariable model. We examined a large sample of individuals in their seventies (n = 672) who were administered a comprehensive cognitive test battery. Using structural equation modelling, we related six common magnetic resonance imaging-derived brain variables that represent normal and abnormal features—brain volume, cortical thickness, white matter structure, white matter hyperintensity load, iron deposits, and microbleeds—to g and to fluid intelligence. As expected, brain volume accounted for the largest portion of variance (~ 12%, depending on modelling choices). Adding the additional variables, especially cortical thickness (+~ 5%) and white matter hyperintensity load (+~ 2%), increased the predictive value of the model. Depending on modelling choices, all neuroimaging variables together accounted for 18–21% of the variance in intelligence. These results reveal which structural brain imaging measures relate to g over and above the largest contributor, total brain volume. They raise questions regarding which other neuroimaging measures might account for even more of the variance in intelligence.
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Elastic energy storage in the shoulder and the evolution of highspeed throwing in Homo
Neil T. Roach1, Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Michael J. Rainbow, and Daniel E. Liebermann (2013)
Although some primates, including chimpanzees, throw objects occasionally, only humans regularly throw projectiles with high speed and great accuracy. Darwin noted that humans' unique throwing abilities, made possible when bipedalism emancipated the arms, enabled foragers to effectively hunt using projectiles. However, there has been little consideration of the evolution of throwing in the years since Darwin made his observations, in part because of a lack of evidence on when, how, and why hominins evolved the ability to generate high-speed throws. Here, we show using experimental studies of throwers that human throwing capabilities largely result from several derived anatomical features that enable elastic energy storage and release at the shoulder. These features first appear together approximately two million years ago in the species Homo erectus. Given archaeological evidence that suggests hunting activity intensified around this time, we conclude that selection for throwing in order to hunt likely played an important role in the evolution of the human genus.
[The Evolution of Throwing]
Valuable Knowledge:
Knowledge that tells us something about the future / that allows us to predict future events at a better than chance level.
Sex differences in human gregariousness
Joyce F. Benenson, Sandra Stella, Anthony Ferranti (2015)
Research on human sociality rarely includes kinship, social structure, sex, and familiarity, even though these variables influence sociality in non-human primates. However, cross-cultural ethnographic and observational studies with humans indicate that, beginning after age 5 years, males and females form differing social structures with unrelated individuals in a community. Specifically, compared with females, human males exhibit greater tolerance for and form larger, interconnected groups of peers which we term "gregariousness." To examine sex differences in gregariousness early in life when children first interact with peers without adult supervision, 3- to 6-year-old children were given the choice to enter one of three play areas: an empty one, one with an adult, or one with a familiar, same-sex peer. More males than females initially chose the play area with the same-sex peer, especially after age 5 years. Sex differences in gregariousness with same-sex peers likely constitute one facet of human sociality.
[See also: Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes (2014)]
Sexual selection protects against extinction
Alyson J. Lumley, Łukasz Michalczyk, James J. N. Kitson, Lewis G. Spurgin, Catriona A. Morrison, Joanne L. Godwin, Matthew E. Dickinson, Oliver Y. Martin, Brent C. Emerson, Tracey Chapman & Matthew J. G. Gage (2015)
Reproduction through sex carries substantial costs, mainly because only half of sexual adults produce offspring. It has been theorized that these costs could be countered if sex allows sexual selection to clear the universal fitness constraint of mutation load. Under sexual selection, competition between (usually) males and mate choice by (usually) females create important intraspecific filters for reproductive success, so that only a subset of males gains paternity. If reproductive success under sexual selection is dependent on individual condition, which is contingent to mutation load, then sexually selected filtering through 'genic capture' could offset the costs of sex because it provides genetic benefits to populations. Here we test this theory experimentally by comparing whether populations with histories of strong versus weak sexual selection purge mutation load and resist extinction differently. After evolving replicate populations of the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum for 6 to 7 years under conditions that differed solely in the strengths of sexual selection, we revealed mutation load using inbreeding. Lineages from populations that had previously experienced strong sexual selection were resilient to extinction and maintained fitness under inbreeding, with some families continuing to survive after 20 generations of sib × sib mating. By contrast, lineages derived from populations that experienced weak or non-existent sexual selection showed rapid fitness declines under inbreeding, and all were extinct after generation 10. Multiple mutations across the genome with individually small effects can be difficult to clear, yet sum to a significant fitness load; our findings reveal that sexual selection reduces this load, improving population viability in the face of genetic stress.
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The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?
Thomas Suddendorf and Michael C. Corballis (2007)
In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they offer for anticipatory behavior and put forward a corresponding taxonomy of prospection. The adaptive advantage of any memory system can only lie in what it contributes for future survival. The most flexible is episodic memory, which we suggest is part of a more general faculty of mental time travel that allows us not only to go back in time but also to foresee, plan, and shape virtually any specific future event. We review comparative studies and find that, in spite of increased research in the area, there is as yet no convincing evidence for mental time travel in nonhuman animals. We submit that mental time travel is not an encapsulated cognitive system, but instead comprises several subsidiary mechanisms. A theater metaphor serves as an analogy for the kind of mechanisms required for effective mental time travel. We propose that future research should consider these mechanisms in addition to direct evidence of future-directed action. We maintain that the emergence of mental time travel in evolution was a crucial step toward our current success.
Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind
Thomas Suddendorf, Donna Rose Addis and Michael C. Corballis (2009)
Episodic memory, enabling conscious recollection of past episodes, can be distinguished from semantic memory, which stores enduring facts about the world. Episodic memory shares a core neural network with the simulation of future episodes, enabling mental time travel into both the past and the future. The notion that there might be something distinctly human about mental time travel has provoked ingenious attempts to demonstrate episodic memory or future simulation in non-human animals, but we argue that they have not yet established a capacity comparable to the human faculty. The evolution of the capacity to simulate possible future events, based on episodic memory, enhanced fitness by enabling action in preparation of different possible scenarios that increased present or future survival and reproduction chances. Human language may have evolved in the first instance for the sharing of past and planned future events, and, indeed, fictional ones, further enhancing fitness in social settings.
Are Animals Stuck in Time?
William A. Roberts (2002)
People can time travel cognitively because they can remember events having occurred at particular times in the past (episodic memory) and because they can anticipate new events occurring at particular times in the future. The ability to assign points in time to events arises from human development of a sense of time and its accompanying time-keeping technology. The hypothesis is advanced that animals are cognitively stuck in time; that is, they have no sense of time and thus have no episodic memory or ability to anticipate long-range future events. Research on animals' abilities to detect time of day, track short time intervals, remember the order of a sequence of events, and anticipate future events are considered, and it is concluded that the stuck-in-time hypothesis is largely supported by the current evidence.
hbd chick:
(A) know thyself
(B) me, myself, and i
Mental Time Travel and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Thomas Suddendorf (1997)
We argue that the human ability to travel mentally in time constitutes a discontinuity between ourselves and other animals. Mental time travel comprises the mental reconstruction of personal events from the past (episodic memory) and the mental construction of possible events in the future. It is not an isolated module, but depends on the sophistication of other cognitive capacities, including self-awareness, meta-representation, mental attribution, understanding the perception-knowledge relationship, and dissociation of imagined mental states from one's present mental state. These capacities are also important aspects of so-called "theory of mind", and they appear to mature in children at around age four. Furthermore, mental time travel is generative, involving the combination and recombination of familiar elements, and in this respect may have been a precursor to language. Current evidence, although indirect or based on anecdote rather than on systematic study, suggests that nonhuman animals, including the great apes, are confined to a "present" that is limited by their current drive states. In contrast, mental time travel by humans is relatively unconstrained, and allows a more rapid and flexible adaptation to complex, changing environments than is afforded by instincts or conventional learning. Past and future events loom large in much of human thinking, giving rise to cultural, religious, and scientific concepts about origins, destiny, and time itself.
[See also: Publications of Thomas Suddendorf]
Mate Choice:
Evolutionary Psychology cares much about mate choice. E.g. according to EP it makes a difference if you choose an intelligent or a stupid mate, a beautiful or an ugly mate, an agreeable or a disagreeable mate, etc. But until now EP doesn't care much about the genetic distance between mates. So my personal hypothesis would be: the genetic distance of mates matters, both on an individual and on a group level (also see: hbd chick). Probably EP would be much more interesting, if it would focus more strongly on questions about outbreeding and inbreeding (and I don't mean just incest avoidance by that).
Eugenics, Ready or Not
Frank K Salter (May 2015)
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Waist-to-Hip Ratio across Cultures: Trade-Offs between Androgen- and Estrogen-Dependent Traits
Elizabeth Cashdan (2008)
A gynoid pattern of fat distribution, with small waist and large hips (low waist-to-hip ratio, or WHR) holds significant fitness benefits for women: women with a low WHR of about 0.7 are more fecund, are less prone to chronic disease, and (in most cultures) are considered more attractive. Why, then, do nearly all women have a WHR higher than this putative optimum? Is the marked variation in this trait adaptive? This paper first documents the conundrum by showing that female WHR, especially in non-Western populations, is higher than the putative optimum even among samples that are young, lean, and dependent on traditional diets. The paper then proposes compensating benefits to a high WHR that can explain both its prevalence and variation in the trait. The evidence indicates that the hormonal profile associated with high WHR (high androgen and cortisol levels, low estrogens) favors success in resource competition, particularly under stressful and difficult circumstances, even though this carries fitness costs in fecundity and health. Adrenal androgens, in particular, may play an important role in enabling women to respond to stressful challenges.
Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia: A Cross-Cultural Study
"The cross-cultural data analyzed here provide no support for the proposition that out-group hostility is a necessary concomitant of in-group loyalty."
Too Materialistic to Get Married and Have Children?
Norman P. Li , Amy J. Y. Lim, Ming-Hong Tsai, Jiaqing O (2015)
We developed new materials to induce a luxury mindset and activate materialistic values, and examined materialism's relationship to attitudes toward marriage and having children in Singapore. Path analyses indicated that materialistic values led to more negative attitudes toward marriage, which led to more negative attitudes toward children, which<|fim_middle|>)
2014 Stephen Bunting (29 years)
2015 Scott Mitchell (45 years)
[Dart championships primarily "measure" throwing accuracy.]
[Sex differences in throwing speed are much larger than sex differences in throwing accuracy. (K. Browne; Thomas and French) However, the size of the sex difference in throwing accuracy is still large.]
[Another interesting topic: >Speed and Endurance<]
Beyond a bigger brain: Multivariable structural br...
Elastic energy storage in the shoulder and the evo...
The evolution of foresight: What is mental time tr...
Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mi...
Mental Time Travel and the Evolution of the Human ...
Waist-to-Hip Ratio across Cultures: Trade-Offs bet...
Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia: A Cross-Cultural Stu...
Too Materialistic to Get Married and Have Children...
Sex Differences in Sports Interest and Motivation:...
The Evolution and Medicine Course Lecture Series b... | in turn led to a decreased number of children desired. Results across two studies highlight, at the individual level, the tradeoff between materialistic values and attitudes toward marriage and procreation and suggest that a consideration of psychological variables such as materialistic values may allow for a better understanding of larger-scale socioeconomic issues including low fertility rates among developed countries. We discuss implications and describe how psychological factors relating to low fertility fit within evolutionary mismatch and life history theory frameworks.
Sex Differences in Sports Interest and Motivation: An Evolutionary Perspective
Sex Differences in Sports Interest and Motivation: An Evolutionary Perspective -> pdf
Robert O. Deaner, Shea M. Balish, and Michael P. Lombardo (2015)
Although girls and women in many societies avidly participate in sports, they have been traditionally underrepresented compared with boys and men. In this review, we address the apparent sex differences in sports interest and motivation from an evolutionary perspective. First, we demonstrate that females' underrepresentation generally reflects lesser interest, not merely fewer opportunities for engagement. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that male and female athletes generally differ in their motivation, specifically their competitiveness and risk taking. Second, we examine the functional explanations for sports. We argue that the courtship display hypothesis applies mainly to females; the spectator lek hypothesis applies chiefly to males; and that 2 other hypotheses—the allying with coalitions hypothesis and the development of skills hypothesis—are important for both females and males. Third, we explore the proximate causes for the sex differences in sports interest and motivation. We show that although there is compelling evidence that prenatal hormones contribute, the evidence that socialization plays a role remains equivocal. We conclude by discussing key findings and identifying areas for further research.
The Earth Is Round (p < .05)
Cohen, Jacob (1994)
After 4 decades of severe criticism, the ritual of null hypothesis significance testing (mechanical dichotomous decisions around a sacred .05 criterion) still persists. This article reviews the problems with this practice, including near universal misinterpretation of p as the probability that H₀ is false, the misinterpretation that its complement is the probability of successful replication, and the mistaken assumption that if one rejects H₀ one thereby affirms the theory that led to the test. Exploratory data analysis and the use of graphic methods, a steady improvement in and a movement toward standardization in measurement, an emphasis on estimating effect sizes using confidence intervals, and the informed use of available statistical methods are suggested. For generalization, psychologists must finally rely, as has been done in all the older sciences, on replication.
[See also: Statistical Misconceptions; Reproducible Research]
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Hypothesentestung und Moralphilosophie:
Analog zur statistischen Hypothesentestung ließen sich moralphilosophische Hypothesen folgenderweise beschreiben:
(A) Null-Hypothese / Unwert-Vermutung / Wertlosigkeitsvermutung
(B) Alternativ-Hypothese / Wert- bzw. Widerwertigkeitsvermutung
Ein Nihilist / ein "Alles-Verneiner" begeht exzessiv beta-Fehler, indem er jede Wert-Vermutung zugunsten einer Wertlosigkeits-Vermutung / einer Vermutung von Wert-Neutralität verwirft.
Demgegenüber begeht der "Alles-Bejaher" exzessiv alpha-Fehler, indem er jede Vermutung von Wertneutralität zugunsten einer Wertvermutung verwirft. So kann es bspw. dazu kommen, dass ein gläubiger Mensch einen Erdbeben, eine Seuche, etc., als eine gerechte Strafe Gottes bejaht. Oder das ein Filmkonsument/Theaterkonsument jeden Film/jedes Theaterstück indiskriminatorisch als wertvoll ansieht.
So gibt es zum einen Menschen, die sich schwer tun, auch wahrhaft Wertvolles als wertvoll zu erkennen, zum anderen solche, die nur ungenügend über das Vermögen verfügen, die Wertlosigkeit von Wertlosem einzusehen.
"Doubt is our Product"
[Regarding the acquisition of knowledge there are two (negative) extremes, that could be labeled as (A) illusory uncertainty, and (B) illusory certainty. People can suffer (A) from an overdose of skepticism or (B) from a complete lack of skepticism. According to Peter Hofstätter, critics are especially prone to commit beta errors.]
Reckoning with Risk, Gerd Gigerenzer (2002):
The United States is home to thousands of trade associations promoting everything from asbestos to zinc. The Beer Institute defends brewers against claims that drunk driving causes car accidents. The Asbestos Information Association protects citizens from their "fiber phobia." The Global Climate Coalition represents scientists who question the evidence for global warming. Washington, D.C., alone, is home to 1,700 such trade associations. Estimates indicate that more than $1 billion is spent by such organizations every year on "image advertising" and "issues management." Trade associations have become active in the manufacture of knowledge and ignorance. Consider, as an example, the Tobacco Institute's "spin" on the hazards of cigarette smoking.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, lung cancer was an exceptionally rare type of cancer—so rare that Isaac Adler, who wrote the first book-length medical review on lung cancer, apologized for writing about such an uncommon and insignificant disease. By the end of the twentieth century, lung cancer had become the most frequent cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Why? At the beginning of the century, cigarette smoking was rare; people smoked pipes and cigars. Smoking cigars causes different kinds of cancer than smoking cigarettes does. To take an example, Sigmund Freud developed cancer of the mouth as a result of his heavy cigar smoking. The cancer cast a shadow over the last 16 years of his life, causing him continuous pain and discomfort and requiring some 30 operations to remove cancerous and precancerous growths.
Cigarettes first became popular during World War I. Unlike cigar and pipe smoke, cigarette smoke is generally inhaled, exposing lung tissue to irritants. The link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was first demonstrated by German researchers in the 1920s and 1930s but was largely ignored in America, possibly because this research was associated with the Nazis. In the early 1950s, however, a consensus developed in the American scientific community that cigarettes are a major source of illness, including lung cancer. By the mid-1950s, there was strong evidence that a two-pack-a-day smoker lived, on average, about seven years fewer than a nonsmoker. Most scientists came to agree that tobacco kills about 400,000 Americans every year and that tobacco is the cause of 80 percent to 90 of lung cancers.
The Tobacco Institute was founded in 1958 as an offshoot of the Council for Tobacco Research, which was established by tobacco manufacturers, growers, and warehouse owners. Since then, it has argued the case for cigarette "safety" by creating doubt in the public mind about the hazards of smoking. In the 1960s, spokesmen tried to undermine and distract from the growing consensus in the scientific community. For instance, they asserted that the link between cigarettes and cancer was "merely statistical," that the evidence was uncertain and the conclusions premature, and that there might be a gene that both leads to smoking and predisposes certain people to developing cancer. In 1962, a Gallup survey found that only 38 percent of American adults knew that cigarettes cause lung cancer. Although many physicians quit smoking after the Surgeon General's Report in 1964 made it clear that cigarettes are a major cause of illness, many members of the public remained under the impression that the question about the effects of smoking on health was still open. The silence in popular magazines about the hazards of smoking played a crucial role in maintaining public ignorance; cigarette advertisers discouraged magazine publishers from covering the topic of smoking hazards. A 1978 article in the Columbia Journalism Review noted that it could not find a single article in a leading national magazine that had discussed the health effects of smoking in the last seven years. The less sophisticated, popular press was more straightforward. A headline in a 1968 National Enquirer read: "Most Medical Authorities Agree, Cigarette Lung Cancer Is Bunk: 70 Million Americans Falsely Alarmed." Much later, in 1989, the Surgeon General's Report explicitly linked the tobacco lobby's suppression of media coverage to the general public's ignorance of the nature and extent of the hazards of smoking.
More recently, the Tobacco Institute has tried to challenge evidence of the hazards of "passive smoking" or "secondhand smoke." Strong evidence of the negative health effects of breathing smoke from others' cigarettes emerged in the 1980s, when Tokyo's National Cancer Center Research Institute showed that lung cancer was twice as common among the nonsmoking wives of smokers as among those of nonsmokers. In the 1990s, the Environmental Protection Agency released data indicating that secondhand smoke was responsible for 20 percent of all lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers, that is, for the deaths of about 3,000 Americans a year. The Tobacco Institute dismissed this study as "characterized by a preference for political correctness over sound science."
The case of the tobacco lobby epitomizes the manufacture of ignorance and confusion. Its efforts at obfuscation shifted constantly; as soon as one argument from the tobacco lobby was discredited, new arguments were constructed to engender fresh confusion. Their arguments and slogans evolved in the following way:
Smoking doesn't hurt your health; it's safe.
OK, smoking may or may not hurt your health, but the scientific evidence is still insufficient and inconclusive.
OK, the evidence is conclusive that smoking does cause lung cancer, but we didn't know until now.
OK, we knew, but we didn't know that nicotine was addictive.
OK, we knew that nicotine was addictive when we added chemicals to cigarettes to make nicotine enter the bloodstream faster, but this was long ago. Today we have low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes.
OK, low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes do not actually reduce the risk of lung cancer, but this is people's own fault because they now smoke more cigarettes.
OK, it is in our interest that people smoke more, but they smoke more by their own free choice.
A similar sequence of claims has been made to cloud people's minds concerning the risks of passive smoking. As the historian Robert Proctor reports, this goal was privately admitted in an internal document produced by a cigarette company: "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of facts' that exists in the mind of the general public."
[Siehe auch: Entscheidungen des praktischen Lebens]
Does Jamie Foxx suffer from Overconfidence?
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The Evolution and Medicine Course Lecture Series by Steven C. Stearns:
1.1 Natural Selection
1.2 Random Evolution
1.3 Mismatch
1.4 Adaptation
1.5 Types of Thinking
2.1 What is a patient? Ancient History
2.2 What is a patient? Recent History
2.3 What is a patient? Genetic Variation for Disease Resistance
2.4 What is a Patient? Genetic Variation for Ability to Metabolize Drugs
2.5 What is a Patient? The Human Life History and its Evolution
2.6 What is a patient? Reaction Norms and Phenotypic Plasticity
2.7 What is a patient? A Bundle of Tradeoffs
2.8 What is a patient? Someone Who Ages
2.9 What is a patient? The Unusual Human Life History
2.10 What is a patient? The Developmental Origins of Disease
2.11 What is a patient? The Microbiome
2.12 What is a patient? Summary
3.1 What is a disease? Introduction
3.2 What is a Disease? Vulnerable vs. Robust Tissues and Organs
3.3 What is a Disease? From Fixed to Adjustable Reactions
3.4 What is a Disease? History and Mismatch
4.1 Defenses: Origins and Costs
4.2 Defenses: Specialized
4.3 Defenses: Key Characteristics
4.4 Defenses: The Major Strategies
4.5 Defenses: Tolerance
4.6 Defenses: Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System
4.7 Defenses: More Detail on the Vertebrate Immune Response
4.8 Defenses: Managing the Microbiome -- Symbionts vs. Pathogens
5.1 Pathogen Evolution: Virulence
5.2 Pathogen Evolution: Evasion of Host Defenses
5.3 Pathogen Evolution: Antibiotic Resistance
5.4 Pathogen Evolution: Evolution-Proof Therapies
6.1 The Evolution of Reproduction: Mammalian Reproduction
6.2 The Evolution of Reproduction: Invasive Placentas
6.3 The Evolution of Reproduction: Evolutionary Conflict
6.4 The Evolution of Reproduction: Genomic Conflict and Mental Health
6.5 The Evolution of Reproduction: Menstruation and Menopause
6.6 The Evolution of Reproduction: Upright Posture and Childbirth
7.1 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Introduction
7.2 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Why we are Susceptible
7.3 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Clonal Evolution
7.4 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Phylogenetics
7.5 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Immune Evasion
7.6 Cancer as an Evolutionary Process: Managing Chemotherapy
Speed and Accuracy (Part 2):
[See also: Speed and Accuracy (Part 1)]
Dart - World Champions:
(years rounded, month of birth/championship not considered)
2000 Ted Hankey (32 years old)
2001 John Walton (40 years)
2002 Tony David (35 years)
2003 Raymond van Barneveld (36 years)
2004 Andy Fordham (42 years)
2006 Jelle Klaasen (22 years)
2007 Martin Adams (51 years)
2008 Mark Webster (25 years)
2009 Ted Hankey (41 years)
2012 Christian Kist (26 years)
2013 Scott Waites (36 years | 3,150 |
Home>Sports> Yankees Credit NY Crowd For Providing Boost In Wild Card Victory
Yankees Credit NY Crowd For Providing Boost In Wild Card Victory
"This stadium is hard to play in. It showed."
The New York Yankees have set the stage for another postseason showdown against the division rival Boston Red Sox, after defeating the Oakland A's 7-2 in last night's American League Wild Card Game. The Yanks, having won 100 games<|fim_middle|>era In Surprise Concert Performance
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SPORTS Yankees Credit NY Crowd For Providing Boost In Wild Card Victory | during the regular season, earned home field advantage for the elimination game and the crowd at Yankee Stadium was raucous from the first pitch to the final out.
The sellout crowd of 49,620 erupted early and often, as Yankees starter Luis Severino retired the A's 1-2-3 on just 10 pitches in the first. In the bottom half of the inning, the noise carried over when leadoff hitter Andrew McCutchen drew a walk and slugger Aaron Judge smoked a rocket into the left field stands giving the Bronx Bombers an early 2-0 lead.
Here's what the players had to say about the atmosphere and energy in Yankee Stadium last night, per NJ.com,
"It was electric," McCutchen said. "That first inning was amazing for us. I definitely think they helped us in that first inning. They were loud. We got a quick three outs and we were able to get it started (with the walk) and Judge with the big homer. That kind of set us up for the rest of the game."
"It was a missile," said first basemen Luke Voit of Judge's two-run HR. "I thought, 'Dang, he might have killed someone.' It was a sense of relief ... and it was so exciting how the crowd was. This stadium is hard to play in. It showed."
"Playing at home, we knew the atmosphere was going to be unbelievable," reliever Dellin Betances said. "It was just crazy to be honest with you how loud the fans were."
"Ah, man, the crowd was amazing," center fielder Aaron Hicks said. "I actually missed my roll call it was so loud in that first at-bat. It was amazing. Really amazing."
The Yankees were 6-0 at Yankee Stadium in the playoffs last year, but before they can return to the Bronx they'll head to Boston for two games at Fenway Park. The best-of-five AL Divisional Series will get underway tomorrow at 7:30pm, followed by Game 2 on Saturday night. The series shifts back to Yankee Stadium for Game 3 next Monday.
Check out some highlights from the AL Wild Card Game in the videos embedded below.
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The research field of proteomics contributes to important new medical insights, producing vast amounts of data along the way. To convert these massive amounts of proteomics data into knowledge requires dedicated computing and storage capacity. Dutch Research & Education network SURF has created a dynamic lightpath to connect a number of life science compute clusters, speeding up proteomics research, and enabling researchers to exchange data.
In many medical conditions, defects in and between proteins play an important role.
The proteomics studies are intensive. "Using a mass spectrometer produces a particularly large amount of information," says Dr Horvatovich.
Distributing the growing quantities of information to computer centres and storage locations was causing a great deal of delay.<|fim_middle|> clusters. Institutions can scale up to greater computational power or storage capacity when performing large-scale analyses. | Processing the information generated during the research requires a lot of computing capacity.
To solve the challenges of Dr Horvatovich and many other life science researchers, a multi-faceted solution was created combining better network connections and access to computer facilities. To speed up the research process lightpaths were used to transmit the data faster to researchers at other locations, and process and store on supercomputers, which are only available in a few places in the Netherlands.
The computing capacity and the associated storage capacity are available in Groningen, at the SURF High Performance Compute center in Amsterdam, and also in Utrecht, Rotterdam and Delft. This Life Science Grid is a network of compute clusters intended specifically for researchers in the life sciences. The Life Science Grid (LSG) consists of 10 compute clusters. Each member institution has access to an on-site compute cluster managed by SURF. Using the grid structure gives researchers access not only to their own local LSG cluster, but also to other LSG | 201 |
Walker Extends Manchester City Contract To 2024
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The One-Hour Guide to Organizing Your Inbox if It's in Shambles | two-year extension to his current contract, the 2018/2019 English Premier League (EPL) champions announced on Wednesday.
The extension will keep him at the club until the end of the 2023/2024 season.
Walker, who was signed from Tottenham Hotspur in 2017 for a reported fee of 50 million pounds ($62.97 million), has won two league titles with the club.
Algeria's semi-final win; deserving and worthy – Nigeria…
This was after he established himself as manager Pep Guardiola's first-choice right-back.
"I'm thrilled to have signed a new deal," England international Walker said in a statement on City's website.
"Playing for Manchester City has been everything I'd hoped it would be and more.
"It was an easy decision. I want to be competing for trophies, playing at the highest level, and I feel I have improved hugely as a player during my time here."
The 29-year-old made 52 appearances in the last campaign as Manchester City won an unprecedented domestic treble, taking his personal trophy haul at the club to five in two seasons.
"His strength, speed and ability have been vital to our accomplishments," Manchester City's director of football Txiki Begiristain said. "He's a key member of the squad.
"His experience is invaluable, particularly to the younger members of the team, and his contribution will be crucial in our efforts for continued success."
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Chinese FA Cup heartbreak for Cahill's Shanghai
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Hyundai A-League teams can rest easy in the knowledge that they will not have to face Tim Cahill in the 2016 AFC Champions League after the Socceroo's Shanghai Shenhua side lost the Chinese FA Cup final 1-0 to Jiangsu Sainty<|fim_middle|>'s waved their mobile phones in the air and celebrated winning a major trophy for the first time in its history.
Not only that but the Nanjing team qualifies for the 2016 AFC Champions League along with Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande, runner-up Shanghai SIPG and third-placed Shandong Luneng.
Shanghai will have to wait a little longer. | on Sunday.
After a goalless first leg a week previously, the second leg took place at the Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai packed with fans desperate for a first major trophy since 1998.
Once again, the 90 minutes ended goalless but with just four minutes of extra time remaining Jiangsu's Brazilian born Croatian international Jorge Sammir Cruz Campos grabbed the only goal in 210 minutes of tense action.
There was plenty of action despite the lack of goals. Jiangsu started strongly but Shanghai soon edged their way into the game.
Cahill had a chance early in the second half but had little time to control a ball kicked right at him and the ball trickled wide.
It was a tough game in all senses of the word with challenges flying in and plenty of aggression showed by both sides.
Cahill was one of six players to be booked and the Australian came closest in the first half of extra time, heading just wide.
With four minutes remaining, Sammir broke the deadlock, swapping passes with Sergio Escudero outside the area and running onto the return to sidefoot the ball past Geng Xiaofeng.
The away fans, as well as Jaingsu coach Dan Petrescu celebrated wildly as the home fans stood in silence.
Shanghai continued to push for a goal and substitute Xiong Fel had a header cleared off the line by Escudero and that was as close as it came.
For ex-Chelsea star Dan Petrescu, it was an afternoon to remember. "We knew it would be tough to come to Shanghai and win.
"There are great players here like Tim Cahill and Demba Ba, experienced players who know how to win big games. We kept going until the end and we got the goal. It is something special for our fans who came here and it is a great way to end the season."
As Shanghai fans shed tears, Jiangsu | 388 |
Rose named after Aneurin Bevan to celebrate the NHS a big hit with gardeners says grower
31 Jan 2022 2 minute read
A Nye by any other name would smell as sweet. Left, Rosa Nye Bevan, right, Nye Bevan.
A rose named after Welsh MP Nye Bevan has been a big hit with the public, a company has said.
'Rosa Nye Bevan<|fim_middle|> loosely yet generously assembled around a central boss of golden stamens, creating a soft, airy appearance.
There is a spectacular first flush of blooms, which are borne in well-spaced sprays and displayed proudly against the mid-green, semi-glossy foliage. Forms a healthy, medium-sized upright bush with a light myrrh fragrance, whose hips must be removed to encourage repeat flowering.
The flower can be found here. | ' was created last year in order to mark 12 months since the start of the pandemic, and was named after Aneurin Bevan who led the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 to provide medical care free at point-of-need.
The company David Austin Roses said that the pale yellow flower had struck a particular chord with the public, particularly those who had lost family members as a result of the pandemic or those who just wanted to show their appreciation towards the health service.
David Austin's rose breeder Carl Bennett told the Financial Times that they bred their roses to last a long time and were not in the business of "putting a topical name on, and knowing it might sell well then disappear in a few years". The hope he said was that they would "stand the test of time".
'Rosa Nye Bevan' was originally introduced in March of last year. At the time David Austin Roses said that it "seemed fitting that this year we celebrate both our NHS and the outdoor havens that we have relied so heavily on by naming our new rose release for 2021, 'Nye Bevan' (Auspital)."
They added that "gardening and health have forever been entwined but this year we experienced this bond in ways we could have never imagined".
The variety is described as an uplifting rose bearing unusual open cupped flowers of soft yellow, paling to cream. The scallop-shaped, incurved petals are | 303 |
Since the year is circular, in that the four seasons of the year just cycle endlessly, it's somewhat arbitrary where we declare the start of the year to be. There are, however, a few natural places to start the year.
One natural place to start the year is at the Winter Solstice (December 22). This is the day the Sun is lowest in the sky, making this the shortest day of the year. From this point on the Sun gets higher and higher in the sky each day, making each day longer and longer.
Another often used place to start the year is at the Vernal Equinox (also called the Spring Equinox; March 21). On this day the Sun rises directly in the East, and day and night are of equal length. It's around here the harvest cycle begins. Time to plant some crops. The Astrology section of the newspaper always begins with Aries, Mar. 21, which is the Spring Equinox.
The Jewish calendar begins with the month of Nisan, around mid-March to early April, a date hovering around the Vernal Equinox. The twelve months of the Jewish calendar are: 1)Nisan; 2)Iyyar; 3)Sivan; 4)Tammuz; 5)Ab; 6)Elul; 7)T<|fim_middle|>al Equinox.
For our purposes we'll start the year at the Winter Solstice, December 22. Three days later, on December 25, the Sun rises 1/10 of its width further northward, just barely enough to be detectable by carefull observation.
1. The Sun is born, or re-born, on December 25th.
I checked this using Starry Night Backyard and indeed the new moon begins on January 1, 45 BCE. | ishri; 8)Cheshvan; 9)Kislev; 10)Tebeth; 11)Shebat; 12)Adar. This is a lunar calendar synced to the phases of the moon. A new moon begins a new month. The twelve lunar months total 354 days. To keep this calendar somewhat in sync with the solar year, a 13th "leap month" is occasionally added, called Adar II.
To further confuse things, the Jewish New Year, "Rosh Hashana," is celebrated on the first of Tishri, the seventh month, sometime in September or early October, a date hovering around the Autumn | 145 |
Bettis returns
Wilder on Bettis return
The Blades boss is delighted with the return of Stephen Bettis as CEO at Bramall Lane
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Chris Wilder has hailed the importance of the return of a vital component in the off-field progress<|fim_middle|> "I feel I have unfinished business at Sheffield United. Chris and I had great success in our first year together, gaining promotion to the Championship whilst improving things off the field also. I am looking to repeat that success in the future."
Stephen Bettis | of Sheffield United.
Stephen Bettis will continue his duties as chief executive officer - a role he fulfilled as the Blades won Sky Bet League One. Last season he took a back seat to concentrate on business ventures overseas but following talks with both owners, he returns to Sheffield on a consistent basis.
Mr Bettis arrived at United in May 2016, the same month as Wilder took over as manager, and the duo struck up an excellent working relationship as the Blades romped to the title in record-breaking fashion.
Wilder commented: "Stephen played a vital role in our League One title success, he was a fantastic sounding board for me and a great link with the Board. He is highly-respected within the Football Club, including by the owners, and this is a very positive move.
"During the discussions about the new contracts for the coaching staff earlier in the summer, we spoke extensively about Stephen's return and I'm genuinely delighted that he is back."
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Making coffee runs and filing papers don't have to define your summer. Internships are a great way to gain experience and JMU students prove they don't have to be boring. Adam Ballou, a 2015 alumnus who majored in international affairs<|fim_middle|> put their education and experience to work through internships all around the world. If students need guidance in their internship search, Career and Academic Planning can help them every step of the way. | and Spanish, received security clearance just 24 hours before leaving the country for his three-month internship with The United States State Department in Madrid, Spain.
One morning Ballou was called up to the fifth floor to the Ambassadors' offices. The head of the Economics Department, Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, wanted to talk to him. Sepulveda wanted to know what Ballou's perception was of the Spanish youth's mindset about the economic crisis in Spain. He asked if Ballou had met any Spanish students who were taking the responsibility to help themselves.
Ballou told Sepulveda and the Economics Department about his Spanish roommate who had started his own wind turbine company. The department brought Ballou's roommate in to discuss ways the State Department could support him. "It was cool to be a part of something, like a young Spanish kid that had no connections … now he got to go with the U.S. government. Now they're doing business," he says.
The internship shaped his life, future and career path. Ballou is applying to the foreign services and hopes to be a diplomat. Thanks to his internship, he now has the connections and experience to do so.
Emily Winter, a senior media arts and design and communication studies double major, traveled to a different country for her summer internship as well. Winter spent her days at Wilton's Music Hall in London developing and contacting lists for specific events at the theatre. Ping pong tournaments were held in the theatre and Winter emailed invites to Ping pong enthusiast groups in the area. She was responsible for running a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo and the theatre's social media.
One of the best parts of the internship for Winter was watching the building transform. As the world's oldest surviving Grand Music Hall, construction is being done in hopes of restoring the building. "It was interesting to see the process of how they are taking this really terrible building that's so beautiful, and how they are making it safe, but keeping that charm," Winter says.
Interning abroad gave her not only a different work opportunity, but also showed her a different work culture. "Something that surprised me about having an internship in London is that the work culture is just very, very laid back," she says. "I like to have tasks, be very organized, like do this, then this, then this, but also the way that their culture was like 'uh yeah you can work on this and then maybe do this'." If Visas weren't so expensive — costing upward of $1,000 with application fees and difficult to get — Winter says she would work in London again in a heartbeat. While interning abroad offers a unique experience, students can find engaging and exciting internships right here in Virginia. Senior hospitality major Devan Darnell interned at Busch Gardens Williamsburg as a facilities supervisor in the Photoshop area for two of the amusement park's rides.
There are opportunities for JMU students to | 602 |
Mumbai city has many secret gems which you will know when you explore the city. There are lot of pre wedding shoot locations in Mumbai but not many people know some of very beautiful offbeat locations for Pre Wedding shoot in Mumbai. Hence most of the people end up having their Pre Wedding Photoshoot at Marine Drive or Gateway of India. Of course these are beautiful locations but they have been used so often that after one point you get tired of seeing them.
Are you are Mumbaikar or outsider who are planning to have their pre wedding shoot done in Mumbai? Do you want to shoot at beautiful locations yet which are used rarely as not many people know about them?
First of all let me share one of the videos in which we have discussed some of the very famous pre wedding shoot locations in Mumbai.
See In fact we also agree that these are very good locations but the problem is every second couple plan to have their pre wed shoot done here. That's why we have come up with a list of offbeat destination for pre wedding shoot in Mumbai. Not many people know about these locations are good for shoot.
This is an ancient water tank which is part of Walkeshwar temple complex in Malabar hills area. It is a holy site for Hindus who believe that the water started after Lord Ram's bow hit the ground hence the name Ban(Bow) Ganga (ganges river). This place is absolute beauty<|fim_middle|> distraction.
Another gem in the city. The Coldplay Band's song "Hymn for the weekend" was shot there. People generally dismiss Worli Village as a fishing village. What they fail to see is the same fishing village provides the most colorful cityscape in Mumbai. There is also fort inside the village but generally photoshoot is not allowed there. This small place give you the view of uninterrupted view of Bandra-Worli sealink. The soothing blues and green of the koli houses make for out of the world backdrops for pre wedding photoshoot. Personally, Worli village is my fav. Spot for Pre Wedding shoot in the city.
Kanheri Caves Complex is inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park(SGNP). While many of the people do their Pre Wed shoot inside SGNP but most of them avoid Kanheri Caves. Kanheri Caves are many century old buddhist complex which is absolutely marvellous and breathtaking. Don't take my words for granted have a look with your own eyes. | . You can explore the area in and around the tank – It gives a very old Bombay type of vibe. There are many ducks wandering around the tank which obviously adds to the charm of the place and of course you can include them in your pre wed shoot. Also there is a dhobi ghat near by if you want some shots there. Overall Banganga is really refreshing, historic and charming as a place for Pre Wedding Photoshoot in Mumbai.
Here are some pics of Banganga Tank.
Another place which has not been much explored for pre wed shoots in Mumbai. Sion fort as the name suggest is in Sion, In fact not very far from Sion Station. The location of Sion fort is central and is ideal offbeat location within the city. Sion fort gives you a feel of bygone era with its ruined walls all over. The place is visited by few locals and nearby college's students. As such there is not much of a crowd there making it ideal for shoot as couples and photographers won't have much of a | 210 |
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The old Man Utd Thread
Of the three being touted (berbatov, frenchie and martins), martins is by far the best choice, imo. We spent a shitload in the offseason tho....
They didn't have a single corner. Lolz.
Yes I do. I don't particulary want Heinze at Anfield but I'm not Rafa Benitez.
Not doubting that you want him, I just can't see us letting him go to you. How to piss on a legacy in one swift move. He is<|fim_middle|> in 10 years is pretty bad. How well do you think the Bolton players liked him in the off season when he said he wanted to move back to Arsenal?
Great player when he feels like it, but he has that cranky gallic thing going on. If we could be sure we'd be getting the great player I'd be for it, but we'd get the baggage too.
his days at left back are surely numbered when Heinze arrives
You really think that's going to happen?
See that's a much more grown-up and intelligent post. Saying "season over" after three games (or even two) is also very different to saying we'll not retain the title.
Either way, it's ridiculous to write us off already. There's six points up for grabs against each of the title challengers. It's been a shit start with some very good signs.
Anelka is dressing room poison. I would be stunned if SAF is even thinking about it.
And then I hope he never referees another Liverpool match again.
As long as you don't get relegated, you should be ok.
Yeah we will wait for two months.
Yea. I still feel like once it clicks, that first 11 will be unstoppable. Rooney and Tevez being fed by Ronaldo, Giggs, Hargreaves. Mmmm.
Damn. You got fucked there. Not all bad for me today then
Torres = future european player of the year, btw. Really thought he was going to sign for us last year.... gutted that he's ended up with you lot.
Its clear that Tevez needs support and Giggs as a striker isn't working. You can't rely on Ole or Saha as they are far too injury prone.
Agreed. Let's give him, Rooney & Ronaldo a few games together before writing them off though.
season. over.
anyone care to tell me i'm over-reacting this time?
Ok: you're overreacting and behaving like a spoilt child who's clueless about football. That kind of talk is what makes others hate United fans. We're three games in. Saying our season is over makes you (and by extension us) look somewhat special needs. Get a grip.
Anyhow, that was fucking bollocks. At this rate we'll be the first team to 100 shots without a victory. And we don't need new players. we just need the ones we have to start working together in the final third. Also: please don't mention that shitehawk Anelka on the same page as eric again: it made me feel dirty. Thanks.
Finally hit 70 this week!
I guess the thing I'm struggling the most with is that now that I'm 70 I've lost that constant target, you know? Every time I lvled I'd be happy for a bit, get my new skills.... feel a certain sense of satisfaction, then immediately get to work on getting to the next level. Now it's all suddenly undefined, to my untrained eye. Feels very strange.
All week I've been saying that it would be very United to draw with Reading and Portsmouth, lose our two biggest stars, then beat cITEH at the council house. These are the kinds of situations Sir Alex has built his career on: them against us, odds stacked against us, who the f do they think they are.... etc. I'll be somewhat surprised if we don't win today: these are the games Ferguson lives for, right?
2-0 United. Scholes & Tevez.
Hope to god I'm right.
There is no 71.
I know. Sorry, I was being facetious
Just feels very strange to have spent so long with one goal in mind. Now that I'm here I feel somewhat lost.
Here's my toon:
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#charact...n&n=Luminar
Update, goddamit.
Hmm. Raiding is just big instances, right?
Sounds crap. Will it get me to 71?
Magtheridon. I'm on the west coast of the states tho, so timing a bit of a prob trying to sync with the UK.
All my efforts have been on lvling this character: my first on warcraft. Now that my xp bar has gone, I don't really know what do do.
Picked up the first two kara quests yesterday, but they don't give xp so I'm sorta confused. What do I do now?
Lost.
Umm. Now what?
I guess I'm done, eh?
Not even Barcelona's Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Messi and Henry?
Ok, Messi, Ronaldinho and Eto I'll give you. Henry was good a few years ago too. 'spose the rest of Barca don't look to bad either.
Once our lot gel tho, I'd be optimistic of our chances against them: they may have more superstars, but we have so many options coming from midfield it's scary. Not to Portsmouth and Reading, granted, but it'll come
Don't worry Chelsea still need to come to Fratton aswell.
you can say all that as much as you want. simple facts dictate we're 4 points behind chelsea already, and we've used up 2 of our draws which should have been wins. simple numbers really innit.
Fair enough. Season over then I suppose. Last one to leave turn out the lights pls.
I'm not worried. Star striker injured, new guys settling in. If we're still losing in a month's time I'll be concerned. Right now it's just teething probs.
If we lose to city I'll be angry tho.
Its not like Chelsea won't draw a couple of times this season is it? These were tough games that we barely won (Reading) and lost (Portsmouth) last year.
Exactly. We've beaten Portsmouth once at fratton park since 2003. Definitely not an easy win.
Now if we lose to city I might get a bit pissy, but I really think this is the best United team in a good few years. Once Rooney & tevez get a good understanding, and start to link up in front of distribution from scholes/ronaldo/giggs/nani/carrick... we're going to be unstoppable. It'll take a little while to click, but when it does there'll be no looking back. No team in Europe can compete with that, imo.
Now, let's get ready to shit on the city. | good tho. Nails.
Side note: it annoys me more than I can put into words that I actually like Benitez. Pleasant, charming, self effacing. A Liverpool manager that's impossible to hate. Annoying.
Cantona was described this way as well.
Yea, but Cantona was the player of a generation..s. so worth taking a risk on. Those don't come about very often, plus the circumstances at the club are very different now.
sack the board!
so, it was uniteds fault, rather than citys effort?
Better finishing we'd have got something. Vidic hit the woodwork, tevez went agonizingly close twice.
Fair play to city tho, great defensive effort. That's three times we've been frustrated now. How refreshing to have sven say they were lucky, too. Bastards.
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Huskers Crush Hawkeyes in Eight Innings
25-May-2019 / NU Athletic Communications
Nebraska Run Rules Iowa...
Omaha, Neb. – The Nebraska baseball team (30-20) delivered a knockout punch to Iowa, 11-1, after eight innings as the run rule came into play at TD Ameritrade Park on Friday afternoon. By rule, a game in the Big Ten Tournament will be ended after seven innings if a team is ahead by at least 10 runs.
Senior left-hander Nate Fisher, making his 14th start of the season, went 7.0 innings and allowed only one run on four hits, while matching his career high with seven strikeouts. Jaxon Hallmark tossed the final 1.0 inning and notched one strikeout in his scoreless outing.
In the top of the first, Fisher retired all three Hawkeye hitters. In the bottom of the first, Mojo Hagge and Angelo Altavilla each managed base hits, but both were left stranded in a scoreless frame for the Big Red.
Iowa scored one run in the top of the second to take the early lead. With two outs, the Hawkeyes managed two hits, but left the bases loaded as two additional batters were walked. NU responded with four runs in the bottom of the second to take a 4-1 lead. Alex Henwood hit a leadoff single before a sacrifice bunt advanced him to second. Spencer Schwellenbach ripped an RBI double to drive him in before Colby Gomes and Hagge drew back-to-back walks. Cam Chick and Aaron Palensky laced back-to-back RBI singles before a sacrifice fly scored Hagge.
Iowa managed one hit in a scoreless top of the third. The Huskers extended their lead to 5-1 with one run in the bottom of the third. Henwood hit a leadoff single before Schwellenbach was hit-by-pitch with one out. Hagge drew a two-out walk to load the bases. Chick also drew a walk, which brought in one run for the Big Red, before a fielder's choice ended the inning.
In the top of the fourth, the Hawks left one runner stranded, while Fisher recorded two strikeouts. Henwood recorded his third hit of the game in the bottom of the fourth, but was left on base as the score remained 5-1.
Iowa produced one hit in the top of the fifth, but a double play and a groundout ended a scoreless inning for the Hawkeyes. NU added four runs in the bottom of the fifth to build a 9-1 advantage. Schwellenbach annihilated a leadoff home run before Gomes doubled. He advanced to third on a groundout before scoring on a sacrifice fly in foul territory. Palensky singled before each of the next three batters walked to bring in one run. Gunner Hellstrom hit an RBI single, which scored one run, before the following runner was thrown out at the plate.
The Hawkeyes went down in order in the top of the sixth. Hagge hit a two-out double in the bottom of the sixth, but was left stranded.
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Late Score Costs Mac's Drive In Marauders Against Boutique Air Hot Rods
Wednesday's game against Boutique Air Hot Rods was a heartbreaker for Mac's Drive In Marauders, as they lost the lead late in an 11-7 defeat. The game was tied at five with Boutique Air Hot Rods batting in the top of the fourth when Boutique Air Hot Rods scored on a stolen base during James Henning's at bat. Then Henning singled. Despite the loss, Mac's Drive In Marauders did collect eight hits in the high-scoring affair. Unfortunately, Boutique Air Hot Rods had seven hits on the way to victory. Mac's Drive In Marauders opened up an early lead in the first inning when Bo Schlegel singled on a 1-0 count, scoring one run. In the bottom of the third inning, Mac's Drive In Marauders tied things up at five when Elijah Smith was hit by a pitch, driving in a run. Mac's Drive In Marauders scored three runs in the third inning. Joshua Lee Hit and Smith all moved runners across the plate with RBIs in the inning. Henning got the start for Boutique Air Hot Rods. He went two innings, allowing five runs on six hits and striking out five. Schlegel was on the mound for Mac's Drive In Marauders. He surrendered eight runs on six hits over three and a third innings, striking out seven. Cruz McCarty threw one-third of an inning in relief. Mac's Drive In Marauders tallied eight hits in the game. Tad Puckett, Jr, Hit, and Schlegel all had multiple hits for Mac's Drive In Marauders. Schlegel, Hit, and Puckett each collected two hits to lead Mac's Drive In Marauders. Puckett led Mac's Drive In Marauders with three stolen bases, as they ran wild on the base paths with nine stolen bases. Brody Anthony went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead Boutique Air Hot Rods in hits. Boutique Air Hot Rods tore up the base paths, as five players stole at least two bases. Anthony led the way with four.
NSAA Boys State High School Golf Results
Class B, C, D Results...
The NSAA Boys State High School Golf Championships was converted to a 1 Day 18 Hole competition rather then the traditional two day event. Due to rainy weather on Day 1. The NSAA made the decision to turn it into a one day event. View the final Team and Individual results below.
Class B Team Results
Class C Team Results
Class D Team Results
Palensky, Chick Receive All-Big Ten Status
Two Husker Baseball Players Receive Postseason Award...
Nebraska produced a pair of second-team All-Big Ten selections as the conference announced its postseason honors and award winners on Tuesday. Sophomore outfielder Aaron Palensky received recognition from the Big Ten after leading the Huskers with a .339 batting average in the regular season and a team-high .323 batting average in conference play. Palensky, in his first year at Nebraska, leads the Huskers in hits (65), doubles (11), triples (2), home runs (5) and runs scored (36). He has 20 multi-hit efforts this season, the most on the team, to go along with six multi-RBI performances, tied for second-most on the squad. Freshman Cam Chick earned the designated hitter spot on the second team and the All-Freshman Team. During Big Ten play, Chick hit .316, second-best average on the team in conference play behind only Palensky. For the regular season, Chick compiled 35 hits, two doubles, four home runs, 25 RBIs and 26 runs scored. He has recorded 10 multi-hit efforts and six multi-RBI showings. Junior outfielder Joe Acker earned Nebraska's Sportsmanship Award for 2019. Acker ranks third on a team with a .286 batting average. He has amassed 40 hits, seven doubles and one triple. Acker's 13 multi-hit games are tied for the second-most on the team. His eight stolen bases are a team high. Nebraska continues its season on Wednesday when the Huskers open the Big Ten Tournament against No. 4 seed Minnesota at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. The game, scheduled for 9 p.m. (CT), will be televised on the Big Ten Network. Tickets for the Big Ten Tournament are on sale at Ticketmaster.com.
Nebraska's 2019 All-Big Ten Selections
Second Team: Aaron Palensky (OF)
Second Team: Cam Chick (DH)
All-Freshman Team: Cam Chick (DH)
Sportsmanship Award: Joe Acker
McCook Bison Golf Team Ready For State
State Golf Tournament May 21st and 22nd...
The McCook Bison Golf Team is ready for the State Tournament at Elks Country Club in Columbus. The Tournament is a two day event on May 21st and 22nd. Hometown Family Radio talks with the McCook Bison Boys Golf Head Coach Joe Vetrovsky about the Tournament. The Bison Qualified as a team, that team consists of Brady Esch, Payton Craw, Logan Barenberg, Joel Gray, and Brandan Eckhardt.
Joe Vetrovsky
Felling Field Baseball Results
My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts Takes A Tough Blow From Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps
Friday was a long day for My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts, falling to Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps 16-0. One bright spot for My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts was a single by Tate Moser in the first inning. Caleb Sughroue led things off on the mound for Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps. He went two innings, allowing zero runs on two hits and striking out six. Wyatt Benes started the game for My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts. He allowed one hit and zero runs over one inning, striking out three and walking zero. Parker Brittain and Beckett Moser entered the game from the bullpen, throwing two-thirds of an inning and one-third of an inning respectively. Moser and Benes each collected one hit to lead My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts. Eli Graff led My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts with two stolen bases, as they ran wild on the base paths with seven stolen bases. Lee Davidson led Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps with two hits in three at bats. Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps tore up the base paths, as three players stole at least two bases. Tripp Floyd led the way with three. Bortner Pioneer Seeds Tin Caps was sure-handed in the field and didn't commit a single error. Rylee Eaton had the most chances in the field with six.
Tweets by HFR Sports | run to build a 10-1 advantage. Altavilla drew a one-out walk before Henwood drew a two-out walk. Henwood drove in one run with an RBI single. Schwellenbach walked to load the bases, but the Huskers left all three stranded.
Iowa managed two base hits in the top of the eighth, but couldn't drive them in. In the top of the eighth, Mojo Hagge drilled a leadoff triple and scored on a sacrifice fly to center field. His run gave Nebraska the 10-run advantage after seven innings it needed to win the game.
The Huskers continue the Big Ten Tournament on Saturday at 9 a.m. (CT) against Michigan.
Nebraska-Iowa Baseball Game Moved to Friday
Nebraska vs Iowa Big Ten Baseball Tournament moved to Friday 5/24/19...
Omaha, Neb. - The baseball game between Nebraska and Iowa at the Big Ten Tournament has been postponed to Friday due to stormy weather at TD Ameritrade Park on Thursday night.
That game will begin approximately one hour after the conclusion of the Ohio State-Maryland game, which will resume on Friday at 10 a.m. (CT). The game was suspended in the bottom of the eighth inning with Ohio State holding a 3-2 lead over Maryland. "Day 2" tickets (Thursday) are good for the conclusion of Ohio State-Maryland as well as the Nebraska-Iowa game. "Day 3" tickets (Friday) will be valid beginning at 2 p.m. Gates open at 9 a.m. (CT) at TD Ameritrade Park.
McCook Class B State Golf Meet
23-May-2019 / Hometown Family Radio Sports Network
Bison Struggle at State Meet...
Comments from McCook Bison Head Coach Joe Vetrovsky:
The McCook Bison Boys golf team competed at the Class B state golf meet on Wednesday May 22nd at Elks Country Club in Columbus, NE. Normally the state meet is a two day event but the first day, on Tuesday May 21st, was cancelled due to inclement weather conditions so it was moved to a one day championship competition. On Wednesday May 22nd the weather conditions were cool and windy. The North Platte Bulldogs took home the Class B state title with a team score of 326 and Hastings Adam Central were state runner-up with a team score of 328. The Bison golfers placed 11th as a team and showed a lot of determination given the adverse weather conditions by posting a team score of 369. The Bison were lead by sophomore Brady Esch who scored an 85 which was only two strokes out of individual medal contention. Brady had a consistent day throughout his entire 18 holes and competed well given it was his first ever state golf meet competition. Other Bison golfers that competed in their first ever state meet competition were Junior Logan Barenberg who scored a 93, Sophomore Payton Craw who scored a 95, Junior Brandan Eckhardt who scored a 96, and Senior Joel Gray who scored a 97. All these players showed a lot of growth and improvement throughout their rounds and managed the course well given the windy and cool conditions. At the conclusion of the state golf meet the Bison wrap up a very successful season.
MCC Summer Camps, Leagues Set for Basketball, Volleyball
23-May-2019 / MCC Athletics/Brent Cobb
McCook Community College Summer Camps...
McCook Community College's summer camps for girls volleyball, boys and girls basketball and high school summer leagues and team camps for volleyball, and boys and girls basketball is set. This will be the eighth year of summer camps and leagues in the $10 million Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center featuring three full-size courts in an air-conditioned, state-of-the-art facility.
MCC Basketball Coach Brandon Pritchett will hold boys youth basketball camps May 29-31 for those in Kindergarten through ninth grade. Youth girls basketball camps are set for June 3-5 for girls in Kindergarten through ninth grade and Coach Hayley Kobza will conduct youth volleyball camps June 19-21.
"Our summer camps are great for kids to come out and test the waters to see if volleyball is the sport for them," Coach Kobza said. "We work on making it skill-based, but also throw in some other fun games in there as well."
Half-day camps for the younger campers are as low $30 and most full-day and multi-day camps are in the $50 range (check individual camp brochures for prices. These are available on-line at the McCook Community College Indian Athletics page in the camps and clinics section of the Fan Zone. The link is listed at the end of this article.)
The MCC coaching staffs and MCC players from these three sports will instruct and supervise all campers. Each day the campers will be given instruction in the fundamentals of the game. Campers will compete for awards on a day-to-day basis, playing numerous games. All players are grouped according to age and grade for competition and instruction. Each camper must provide their own: gym shorts, T-shirt, gym shoes, towel, and water bottle.
Team camps are set for June 8 for boys basketball, June 15 for girls basketball and July 1 and 2 for girls volleyball.
High school basketball summer leagues will begin June 3 for boys and June 4 for girls.
The girls high school volleyball league will start July 3 and continue through July 31.
"The MCC Summer League offers a great opportunity to get next year's team together and play against teams from around Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota," said Pritchett. Varsity and Junior Varsity teams are guaranteed two games each night. Cost is $275 per team. Teams entering more than one team receive a discounted rate of $225.00 per team.
For more information, about all the basketball camps, Brandon Pritchett pritchettp@mpcc.edu or call 308-345-8115. For volleyball camp information, contact Coach Hayley Kobza at (254) 433-1968 or email her at kobzah@mpcc.edu
Application and entry forms are available on the McCook Community College Indian Athletics page in the camps and clinics section of the Fan Zone at: https://mccindians.com/sports/2013/1/28/BB_0128131310.aspx?tab=campsclinics
MCC YOUTH CAMPS
May 29-May 31 -- Boys youth basketball camps: (K-5th grade 9 a.m.-noon; 6-9th grade, 1-4 p.m.)
June 3-June 5 – Girls youth basketball camps: (K-5th grade 9 a.m.-noon; 6-9th grade, 1-4 p.m.)
June 19-21 -- Girls volleyball youth camp (K-8)
June 19 – Girls (6th-8th grade, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.)
June 20 – Girls (6th-8th grade, 9 a.m.-noon); (Kindergarden-2nd grade, from 1-4 p.m.)
June 21 – Girls (3rd grade-5th grade, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.)
June 27 – Girls (high school, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
June 28 – Girls (high school, 9 a.m.-noon, varsity/jr. varsity)
MCC TEAM CAMPS
June 8 -- Boys basketball team camp (8 a.m.-8 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
June 15 -- Girls basketball team camp (8 a.m.-8 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
July 1- 2 – Girls volleyball team camp (9 a.m.-4 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
MCC SUMMER LEAGUES
June 3-24 -- Boys Basketball League (4-10 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
June 4-25 – Girls Basketball League (4-10 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
July 3-31 – Girls Volleyball League (4-10 p.m., varsity/jr. varsity)
Huskers Strike Early in Win Over Gophers
Huskers Win Opening Game of the Big Ten Tournament...
Omaha, Neb. – The Nebraska baseball team (29-20) pounced early in an 8-2 win over Minnesota in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament at TD Ameritrade Park on Wednesday night. The Huskers plated three runs in the first inning and five runs in the third inning.
Starting pitcher Matt Waldron, making his 12th start of the season, went 7.1 innings and matched his career high with nine strikeouts. Waldron has 239 strikeouts in his career, which puts him in fourth place on Nebraska's career strikeouts list. Mike Waldron and Robbie Palkert each came in for shutout relief appearances.
In the opening frame, the Huskers plated three runs to take the early lead. Mojo Hagge drew a leadoff walk before Aaron Palensky reached on a one-out error. Angelo Altavilla drove in both of them with a two-run triple, his 150th career hit. Altavilla scored on Joe Acker's sacrifice fly before a strikeout ended the inning. In the bottom of the first, Waldron struck out the side.
NU went down 1-2-3 in the top of the second with three groundouts. Minnesota scored one run in the bottom of the second to cut the lead to 3-1.
In the top of the third, Nebraska added five runs to extend its lead to 8-1. Cam Chick was hit-by-pitch and stole second after the first out was recorded. With two outs, Altavilla added to his RBI total by driving in Chick with a base hit. Altavilla stole second before Acker drew a walk. Gunner Hellstrom drove in one run with an RBI single before Alex Henwood was hit-by-pitch. Spencer Schwellenbach crushed a three-run double to send the TD Ameritrade Park crowd into a frenzy. A groundout ended NU's five-run, three-hit frame. Minnesota managed one hit in a scoreless bottom of the third. Waldron recorded two strikeouts during the inning.
The Huskers went down in order in the top of the fourth. Waldron retired all three Gopher batters in the bottom of the fourth.
NU went down 1-2-3 in the top of the fifth with a flyout, groundout and strikeout. In the bottom of the fifth, Minnesota went down in order, as Waldron recorded his seventh strikeout of the night.
For the third consecutive inning, Nebraska's offense was shut down, as the Huskers were retired 1-2-3 in the top of the sixth. The Gophers managed one hit in the bottom of the sixth, but left the runner stranded.
In the top of the seventh, Palensky and Altavilla drew back-to-back two-out walks, but a flyout left them stranded in a scoreless frame. Minnesota managed a hit in the bottom of the seventh, but a double play followed by a flyout left the runner on base.
Schwellenbach was hit-by-pitch in the top of the eighth, but left stranded in a scoreless inning. In the bottom of the eighth, Minnesota scored one run to cut the score to 8-2, but left the bases loaded.
In the ninth, Cam Chick reached on an error and stole second, but was left stranded after back-to-back strikeouts. The Gophers went down in order in the bottom of the ninth.
The Huskers face No. 8 seed Iowa in the winners bracket game on Thursday. First pitch is scheduled for 9:03 p.m. (CT) on the Big Ten Network.
Felling Field Baseball Results 5/22/19
Youth Baseball Results...
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The mission of the Women's Forum is to bring together the women of the University System of Maryland in order to enhance the status of women, to foster networking among women and to encourage the participation of women in all facets of the System. It is the express purpose of the Women's Forum to respect and to value the diversity and richness of the perspectives and experiences of all communities<|fim_middle|> era for women in the USM when Fay-Tyler M. Norton, wife of Interim Chancellor
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For over thirty years, the Women's Forum has galvanized women from across the System in
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programs, structures and policies that address issues of concern to women.
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women in reaching personal and professionals.
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A new era began in Maryland in 1988 when the State created the University System of Maryland
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As we go through life, our focus tends to be on our day-to-day joys and pains. The years tend<|fim_middle|> your days doing. | to blend together and go by in a blur that we only notice when we take the time to sit and reflect on the past. Sometimes, it can strike us pretty heavily at how long it's been since this or that event.
For most of us, we'd be more than glad to live to be 70 or 80 years old, so long as those final years are spent in good health. The idea of living to be over 90 years old seems like a possibility so remote it's not even worth thinking about.
Tamara was one such fortunate woman. Hailing from Chechnya, she was born in 1909 and died in 2013 at the age of 104. It's difficult to imagine how different the world seemed to her from when she was a toddler to the day she died. However, there's one other thing that was even more difficult to imagine.
When a parent outlives their children, it's usually the story of a life cut tragically short. But on the day her 104-year-old daughter was being put to rest, Koku Istambulova was there, standing on her own 2 feet at the ripe old age of 123.
5 years later, Koku is still kicking around, fully articulate, able to walk and feed herself about as well as anyone else, although now her eyesight is starting to go. The first thing most folks want to know when they hear of someone so phenomenally long-lived is what their secret is. What kind of life did they lead that let them last so long?
"I see people [who live long] going in for sports, eating something special, keeping themselves fit, but I have no idea how I lived until now." She doesn't do any sort of special exercise and the only things unusual about her diet is she doesn't care for meat and she loves to drink fermented milk.
"I have always worked hard, digging in the garden," something Koku continues to do to this day, which she's not at all happy about. "I am tired," she said. "Long life is not at all God's gift for me but a punishment." Looking back on her history, and the history she's lived through, you might be able to see why she feels that way.
Then there were all the things that happened around her. "I survived the Russian Civil War [after the Bolshevik revolution], the Second World War, the deportation of our nation in 1944 and through two Chechen wars," she said.
Aside from all of the cultural changes Koku lived through so many important historical moments. She was born the same year as Adolf Hitler, was what for most folks would be "middle-aged" at the start of the great depression, and lived through the entire rise and fall of communism.
But for all her time on earth, Koku still claimed never to have known true happiness. Unlike many old people, she has no words of wisdom or sweet memories to share, just enough hardship for 2 or 3 lifetimes.
"Looking back at my unhappy life, I wish I had died when I was young," she said grimly. "I worked all my life. I did not have time for rest or entertainment." While it's sad to hear that she spent so many years toiling in misery, there is an important lesson behind her words.
Perhaps the lesson to take away from Koku Istambulova's life is not the secret to longevity but rather the secret to happiness. That is to say, do the opposite of what she's done. Take time to relax and enjoy yourself because in the end, your life adds up to what you spend | 758 |
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Dog kidnapper asks for reward for returning mutt
The kidnapped dog is a Pekingese, like the one pictured. Photo: SheltieBoy/Creative Commons.
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Austrian woman admits she killed her own dog in a washer-dryer
Austrian avoids jailtime for tourist dog attack | stolen" from outside a shop in Vienna only to be returned by the kidnapper who tried to claim a reward from his owner.
'Lucky', a Pekingese, had been missing for two weeks after he was taken from outside a Spar in Oberlaaer Straße in Vienna's Favoriten district.
A witness had told his owner - 51-year-old Milena Schmalhardt - that they had seen a woman pick him up and put him in a car while Schmalhardt was doing her shopping.
"When I left the shop half an hour later, he was gone," she said.
But after the distressed owner reported him missing and put out an appeal online, she was amazed to get a response from the kidnapper herself, asking for a reward for returning the mutt.
The story is a real-life version of the film Seven Pyschopaths, in which an out-of-work actor played by Sam Rockwell makes a living by kidnapping dogs and collecting the reward when he returns them.
"She asked for a reward! Because she thought she had saved the dog, and watched out for him and fed him," said Schmalhardt.
After the owner protested, however, the woman dropped her request for the reward and just handed over the dog.
"Lucky is still a bit confused but we are happy that he is back. The last few days were hell," his relieved owner said.
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Top 10 Reason to Learn Kotlin, Why Kotlin is Best for Mobile App Development.
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Since its release in 2011 by the Czech software development company JetBrains, Kotlin has grown over the past decade or so to become Google's preferred language for Android app developers. Considered a more clear,<|fim_middle|>1. Demand for Kotlin developers is rapidly rising
3 2. Simplicity and Ease of Use
4 3. Safety is part of the foundation of the language
5 4. Java developers rejoice! You can use Kotlin alongside existing Java libraries
6 5. Android fully supports Kotlin (and Google continues to be a big fan)
7 6. There are tons of resources to build up your Kotlin skills
8 7. JetBrains continues to improve and expand the language
9 8. It's free to use!
10 9. Kotlin programmers earn good salaries
11 10. There are great options to learn both Java and Kotlin and jump-start your career | concise, and streamlined alternative to Java, Kotlin has grown to become a cornerstone language of major companies including Pinterest, Netflix, and Lyft, among many others.
While Kotlin may not have the broad name recognition and massive programmer followings of more well-known alternatives like Swift or Python, it has experienced significant growth especially over the past few years, driven largely by Google's announcement of its "preferred language" status. As such, more and more companies are searching for experienced and proficient Kotlin developers, making it one of the more optimal languages for new and intermediate programmers to add to their programming arsenal.
In the past, some developers were hesitant to spend their time and effort learning Kotlin because it had been exclusively designed (or largely used) for creating Android applications. However, as the JetBrains team continues to build out the capabilities and tool set of the language, cross-platform development and use cases in emerging fields such as machine learning and the Internet of Things are making Kotlin an even more desirable language than it was previously considered.
So why should you learn Kotlin? What can you use this language to build, and how can you make a career of being a Kotlin developer? Here are the top 10 reasons to learn Kotlin and initiate your own career as a Kotlin programmer.
1. Demand for Kotlin developers is rapidly rising
Industry studies like this one conducted by Realm Report, which measures the preferences of global developers every year, have consistently noted the rapid rise in demand from companies for Kotlin developers. Specifically of note in this survey is the rapid transition of apps that were formerly developed in Java, but have now been converted to Kotlin, especially over the past few years.
Industry studies and experts are not the only ones measuring and calling attention to this trend. Hiring platforms for both corporate developer positions and freelancers increasingly feature specific calls for Kotlin developers, and even general positions for Android developers often require experience and skills in Kotlin as a prerequisite to a job interview.
Furthermore, while Kotlin emerged specifically as a primary language for Android app development, the use cases for the language are rapidly growing. Companies and startups looking for server-side development professionals have also begun increasingly to call for developers familiar with Kotlin.
2. Simplicity and Ease of Use
Like many other languages that exploded in popularity, one of the biggest attractions for developers thinking about learning Kotlin is the language's focus on efficiency and clarity. This is reflected by the experience of the language's initial developer, JetBrains – before 2011 when they released the language, the company programmed almost entirely in Java, and cited the switch to Kotlin with increasing their productivity and output exponentially.
This success is due to Kotlin's focus on interoperability and clarity – like any language designed by developers for developers, much care and attention to detail was putting into crafting the structure of the language to require fewer lines of code and inherently built-in logic to make development easier.
3. Safety is part of the foundation of the language
By baking in a variety of safety features to pre-empt common bugs or problems, Kotlin can help you ensure the security and efficiency of your app even as you write it. One example of this is the strong-type system based on null safety, which means that variables simply can't be null. This allows you as the programmer or creator to catch more errors at the time you compile code, letting you prevent issues or fix them before you ever open your app to users.
4. Java developers rejoice! You can use Kotlin alongside existing Java libraries
Remember, Kotlin was designed by a group of software developers who almost solely relied on Java before developing the language. As such, Kotlin features complete interoperability with Java, which lets you migrate apps you've already built in Java over to Kotlin in stages. This also means that if there are things you really love about Java, learning Kotlin doesn't preclude you from sticking with it.
Meanwhile, a variety of extension functions also provide Kotlin programmers with a method to add functionality to existing classes (including even Java classes) without needing a complete rewrite to Kotlin. This means you can still use and make the most of Kotlin's powerful and versatile features without losing any of the knowledge or experience you've built up while creating existing Java applications.
5. Android fully supports Kotlin (and Google continues to be a big fan)
Whenever Google endorses a specific language, you know there must be a good reason. In 2018, Google announced that some 35% of experienced developers were using Kotlin already (that number has only continued to grow) and promised to be fully committed to the language and helping to ensure its growth for the long term.
Why else is the Google endorsement such a good reason to learn Kotlin? Well, as each additional Android Studio version continues to be released with Kotlin integration in mind, you won't need to learn any new tools to continue building Android applications. You can convert simply between Java and Kotlin code through a conveniently simple button click inside the Android Studio.
6. There are tons of resources to build up your Kotlin skills
As we mentioned earlier, developers familiar with Java will find Kotlin's functionality very recognizable, which makes adding Kotlin to your programming language "tool box" significantly easier than other languages.
In addition, there are already some fantastic resources available to quickly learn basic syntax and more advanced topics. One place to start is taking a look at the language reference and trying to solve some Kotlin Koans (interactive exercises designed specifically for developers to familiarize themselves with the language).
Finally, like other more established languages, the Kotlin developer community is a thriving and ever-growing resource for expanding your knowledge. Likewise, the Kotlin Slack channel is particularly active and is highly recommended by new developers.
7. JetBrains continues to improve and expand the language
Even though the language is already 100% interoperable with Java/Android and compiles some JavaScript virtual machines, JetBrains is still constantly improving and tweaking the language to do more. For example, a major project over the past two years has been developing Kotlin/Native which compiles native code directly, specifically geared toward making Kotlin a language that allows the creation of a modern multi-platform application.
JetBrains has also been designing and developing common modules, which allow developers to create multi platform applications by writing Kotlin code specific to each platform. This allows the following possibilities (some of which have already hit the development arena):
Mobile apps for BOTH iOS and Android written in Kotlin (watch out Swift!)
Server-side and micro services applications, adding even more use cases to Kotlin
Data analysis and machine learning, allowing Kotlin to become a supporting language for the Internet of Things and other new innovations
8. It's free to use!
As an open-sourced language, Kotlin also offers developers a great bargain for creating Android applications — it's free! In addition to being a positive for Android developers, as Kotlin continues to evolve toward supporting full-stack development without relying on other languages, this could make it a great bargain for bootstrapped startups and development teams looking for an affordable alternative to some more common (and expensive) programming languages.
9. Kotlin programmers earn good salaries
There are hundreds of millions of Android device users worldwide, all looking for the same dynamic and intuitive apps on their devices as Apple aficionados enjoy. The growing demand for Android developers means salaries for careers in Android programming are also rising. For example, according to ZipRecruiter:
The average entry-level Android developer salary in the US is $76,744 annually
The average mid-level Android developer salary is roughly $108,763 annually
The average senior Android developer salary is $126,066 annually
10. There are great options to learn both Java and Kotlin and jump-start your career
Even if you have no experience with Java, Kotlin, or even Android, there is no reason that you can't start learning these languages and beginning your path to a developer career today. There are some fantastic online coding courses that allow you to learn from home at your own pace. Coding education sites like SoloLearn can also offer:
Courses in a wide variety of languages, not just Kotlin and Java
A thriving learner community, to post questions, help collaborate on projects, and challenge each other to help everyone learn more!
A code playground, where you can experiment with existing code and put the knowledge you learn in coding tutorials to the test!
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Michael Zwack, Fisherman, 2001, oil on panel, 35—66 inches. All photos courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Michael Zwack (b. 1949) moved to Manhattan from his hometown of Buffalo in 1977, settling into the loft on Ken<|fim_middle|> is painting that believes in magic.
This is not necessarily something you went people to know about. It's hard to think of anything more widely ridiculed than vodou. But vodou has much to offer an artist. We speak of it as religion, but vodou is, in the words of Harold Courlander, "a highly formalized and sophisticated attitude toward life." It took shape in the French agricultural colony of Saint Dominique, which became known as Haiti after a long, bloody revolution in which vodou played a central role. Its most prominent influences were Dahomeyan and Congo culture, but it appeared in a place where hundreds of thousands of arrivals direct from distinct regions of Africa were mixed together, and it grew in an independent nation of its own for two hundred years. Highly metaphorical, vodou requires each practitioner to be inventive, investing mundane objects with unexpected powers and meanings. Its rituals and ceremonies, endlessly complicated, are a sort of sacred theater, sometimes frightening and malodorous, but no less beautiful for that. There is a complete artistic system in its magical traditions of painting, flag making, altar decorating, the pictographic writing of veve, the complicated repertoire of the drums and the melodies sung to them, the inexhaustible literature of songs, stories, and procedures.
After years of intensive study, Zwack is now houngan asagwe—the highest level of houngan—able to initiate new practitioners, conduct ceremonies and do "work." Minokan Vodou, the societé to which he belongs has a peristyle (adjacent to the landing strip of the Port-au-Prince airport) whose construction was financed by the sale in New York of dwapo, hand-sewn ceremonial flags. He has hundreds of hours of videos of ceremonies whose analysis will one day be the work of anthropologists.
"The peristyle is just a concrete building with a huge center post, and the floor is just a dirt floor," Zwack says, "but when you come for one of our ceremonies, you are walking into a palace." These ceremonies can last seven days or more, entailing the energetic participation of the entire congregation, with careful attention to every detail—from the preparation of food to the clothes people wear to the intricate veves traced in cornmeal or coffee on the floor. They are and are not works of art in the same way as they are and are not religion—that is, art and religion are words for aspects of something that in Africa has never been separate.
Though there is now a before and after in Zwack's work, the continuity is stronger than the change. His art didn't take a sudden left turn; it's recognizably the product of the same hand and eye, on its way to something new and as yet undefined. And his older work can now be reread: from one of the two djevo (impermanent altars) in his loft peer babies' heads in cast bronze and concrete, Zwack sculptures given a new home and a new meaning.
Despite the unavoidable influence of vodou's visual and symbolic vocabulary. Zwack is not doing the obvious things. He's not making portraits of the lwa, or painting veve, though he will surely do that when he feels like it. And his work doesn't look like that of any Haitian painter I know.
But he's also painting that whole other world, the one on the other side of the water.
I met Verne Dawson while sitting beside him at Table 23 at the celebration for Dream Machine: Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. Dawson revealed a cosmic process previously unsuspected by me: the genii of the 22 paths of the Kabbalah and their correspondence to the 22 major cards of the Tarot.
Artist Tina Girouard spent several years traveling to Haiti to work with Vodou sequin artists. Along the way, she became a "Mambo of Art," inducted into the Vodou ceremony. Excerpts from her journal. | mare Street where he lives today. Trained as a sculptor, he taught himself drawing and painting, inventing his technique as he went along. Though he is known for cofounding Hallwalls in Buffalo (in 1974, along with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo. Charles Clough and Nancy Dwyer) and for being a ground-floor artist of Metro Pictures (he is currently represented by Paul Kasmin), his arresting and strongly personal work was never part of any easily locatable style or movement.
Zwack had indeed been painting the whole world. His images are drawn from the widest possible panorama of geography and culture. He made a series of portraits of faces from all over the globe, their ethnic diversity reinforced by symbols from their corresponding cultures. He painted landscapes peopled not by human figures but by alphabets. "My work is some kind of subliminal intellectual process," he told me. Intuitive, created directly in the language of images, the pictures propose enigmas for the viewer to solve. Zwack composes in layers, painting partly or entirely over images and sanding others away. In Heaven and Earth , 1994, he erased the central figure from a drawing, leaving a white space in the middle of the picture. Deep-perspective surfaces vie with flat ones; meticulous tracings underlie impulsive actions as though space and time were disputing who had control of the picture. Techniques of abstract art play against the emotional power of representation. It is something you can't do with a camera or with pixels; it has to be seen in its original texture and size to be appreciated, because it isn't conceived in terms of how it would be mechanically reproduced. It | 351 |
Матфей Аурогалл, (1490, Хом<|fim_middle|>6 г., Виттенберг, 1539 и 1543 гг., Базель)
Chronik der Herzöge uund Könige von Böhmen (Хроника герцогов и королей Богемии (утеряна)
Hebräisch historisch-geographisches Reallexicon (ивритский историко-географический лексикон) (1526–1539)
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Примечания
Персоналии:Виттенберг
Персоналии:Хомутов (город)
Лингвисты Германии
Умершие в 1543 году
Родившиеся в 1490 году
Гебраисты | утов, Богемия — 10 ноября 1543, Виттенберг) — чешский лингвист.
Латинизировал свое имя Маттеус Гольдхан в Аурогалл по моде гуманистов эпохи Возрождения.
Аурогалл служил профессором иврита в Галле-Виттенбергском университете и был коллегой Филиппа Меланхтона и Мартина Лютера . Он помогал Лютеру в пересмотре реформаторского перевода Ветхого Завета и внес вклад в академическое изучение иврита.
Ранняя жизнь и образование
Матфей Аурогалл начал свое образование в гуманистической школе в Комотау, основанной чешским дворянином и писателем Богуславом Гасиштейнским из Лобковиц в его семейном доме, замке Хасиштейн. Там Аурогалл изучал латынь, греческий и иврит. Затем он изучал иврит в Лейпциге с 1512 по 1515 год, где получил степень бакалавра искусств. После он вернулся в Комотау, чтобы преподавать латынь в своей бывшей школе.
Виттенберг и Лютер
В 1519 году Аурогал оставил свою должность и переехал в Виттенберг, где он завязал дружеские отношения с Филиппом Меланхтоном. Меланхтон недавно занял должность профессора греческого языка в Галле-Виттенбергском университете по рекомендации своего двоюродного деда Мартина Лютера. В это время Меланхтон оценил как впечатляюще Аурогалл владел ивритом. Два года спустя, по рекомендации Меланхтона и Лютера, Аурогалл также поступил на факультет Виттенберга в качестве профессора иврита, заменив Матфея Адриана, который, хотя и был рекомендован на эту должность Лютером несколькими годами ранее, противодействовал религиозным реформам Лютера.
В то время Виттенбург — под руководством Лютера — был эпицентром протестантской Реформации, и Аурогалл был вовлечен в это движение, по крайней мере, как знаток иврита. Аурогалл был советником Мартина Лютера, пока тот работал над своим переводом Ветхого Завета. Он также смог воспользоваться редкими рукописями из обширной библиотеки Лобковича, которые тот одолжил Лютеру и Меланхтону, что еще больше помогло при переводе.
В 1540 году Лютер опубликовал пересмотренный вариант своих переводов книги Псалмов после того, как Аурогалл пересмотрел и улучшил предыдущее издание.
1 мая 1542 года Аурогалл получил престижную должность ректора Галле-Виттенбергского университета.
Вклад в изучение иврита
Аурогалл служил профессором иврита в Виттенберге с 1521 года до своей смерти 10 ноября 1543 года. В это время он сотрудничал с Лютером над последним переводом Ветхого Завета. В отличие от своего предшественника, Матфея Адриана, подход Аурогалла к изучению иврита соответствовал подходу Лютера. И он, и Лютер считали, что иврит должен был быть филологическим средством для определения истинного значения Священного Писания.
Несмотря на такой взгляд на роль иврита, Аурогалл включил список общих сокращений, встречающихся в раввинистических комментариях, в свой Compendium Hebraee Grammatices. Он также основывал свое рассмотрение этимологии библейских имен в своем De Hebraeis, urbium, regionum, populorum, fluminum, montium и aliorulocorum, nominibus (имена на иврите, города, регионы, народы, реки, горы и другие места) на Раши и Таргумах, а также классических и средневековых авторах, демонстрирующих гораздо более глубокий интерес к изучению иврита как такового, чем Лютер.
Такое использование раввинистических текстов при изучении иврита противоречило строгой концепции Лютера об изучении иврита в чисто христианском контексте. Это помогло продвинуть изучение иврита к тому, чтобы стать самостоятельной дисциплиной, а не подразделом богословия.
Вклад в изучение арамейского
Аурогалл также расширил рассмотрение семитских источников библейских комментариев до арамейского и написал грамматику халдейского (неоарамейского языка), которая была добавлена к его грамматике иврита в более поздних изданиях.
В 1539 г. сделал попытку изложить основы арамейского языка. В еврейской грамматике Аурогалла содержится дополнительная глава "De Chaldaeae et Hebraeae linguae discrimine" (О различии халдейского и еврейского языков). Автор дает кратчайшие сведения о памятниках, написанных на арамейском, и об арамейских соответствиях звуков и аффиксов еврейским. Этот материал, помещенный на 16 страницах малоформатного издания, не имеет самостоятельного значения, но знаменателен для истории сравнительно-семитского языкознания в период его зарождения как науки.
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Compendium Hebrae Chaldeaequae grammatices (Сборник еврейской и халдейской грамматики) (1523–25, 1531, Виттенберг)
De Hebraeis, urbium, regionum, populorum, fluminum, montium и aliorulocorum, nominibus (152 | 1,637 |
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Pussy power! "Hearts Like Fists" at Theatre of NOTE, LA theater review
Production photos by Mandi Moss.
A chop-socky cartoon on stage, Hearts Like Fists, written by Adam Szymkowicz, is an action-packed adventure romance set in the surreal world of female crime-fighting superheroes. Nurses by day, skilled warriors by night, a band of ferocious and feisty femmes battle the dastardly and elusive Dr. X and his deadly war against romance.
The one act, comic book-inspired satire starts on a serious note, with the specter of our demonic villain looming to explain his tortured back-story. Clutching a fat syringe loaded with neon blue serum and naked to the waist (also sporting a seriously cut physique – rarw!) Keith Allan's grim monologue is disturbing and spooky, thanks to some atmospheric music by Michael Teoli and sound design by Mark McClain Wilson.
Ingeniously, director Jaime Robledo then stages a series of freeze frames and snippets of the ensuing plot, whetting our appetite for the story that is to follow. It's exactly like flicking through a comic book.
The ominous mood gives way to broader comedic scenes. While the often hard-boiled dialogue is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, serious themes (murder, unrequited love…) lurk beneath.
While a trio of crime fighters (played well by Alysha Brady, Alina Phelan and Jennifer Lee Weaver) are eluded by the murderous night stalker Dr. X, a new recruit Lisa (Lauren Dobbins Webb) is torn between pursuing a new romance with dreamy doctor Peter (Rick Steadman) and answering her calling to be superhero. Can she be in a relationship as well as saving lives? Meanwhile, Peter has his own obsession…
Robledo brings his usual ingenuity to the fluid staging of numerous brief scenes, coaxing some hilarious line-readings and reactions from his talented cast. Keith Allan is especially magnificent as the arch villain.
Hearts Likes Fists features several fantastic and intricate fights, choreographed by Andrew Amani, that involve cutthroat timing synched to multiple technical cues (there are over 400 for this fast-paced, 100-minute show). The climactic showdown has it all – aerial maneuvers, flying leaps, slow-motion action and even pussy power!
Don't miss this show!
Adam Szymkowicz' play is making its world premiere at Theatre of NOTE.
Production photos are by Mandi Moss.
Hearts Like Fists
Theatre of NOTE
1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd., (just north of Sunset) in Hollywood.
Runs until Saturday, September 1, 2012
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm; Sundays @ 7pm
Approximately 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission
$25.00; Seniors, Students: $20.00
Purchase tickets here or call (323) 856-8611
About Theatre of NOTE:
We at Theatre of NOTE are an enduring ensemble of diverse theatre artists in the heart of Hollywood who inspire, inform, and ignite our audiences by discovering courageous voices and creating entertaining, provocative, and revelatory theatrical works.
NOTE was founded in 1981 by Kevin Carr, along with Kitty Felde, Marc Gordon, Melanie MacQueen, Heather Carr, & Ted Parks as a forum for original one-act plays (N.O.T.E. stood for "New One-Act Theatre Ensemble"), and to provide a stimulating environment for new playwrights. Since its inception, NOTE has been through several transitions, but the integrity of the original idea has always remained intact. We premiere an average of four main stage productions a year, by writers such as W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Sheila Callaghan, Christopher Kelley, Tony Kushner, Jennifer Maisel, Leon Martell, Murray Mednick, Dennis Miles<|fim_middle|> matter. Because Black stories matter. The...
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NOTE also upholds a tradition of acclaimed late-night shows, first launched in 1988, in addition to the now-annual, notorious, celebrity-crowd art magnet, The Hollywood Performance Marathon. We have earned consistent commendation from the Los Angeles press and national acclaim from such publications as American Theatre. In all, NOTE has accumulated almost 100 honors and nominations, including awards from the LA WEEKLY, Backstage West, L.A. Stage Alliance (Ovations), and PEN International. Thanks to over 25 years of advancing theatre in Los Angeles, NOTE has received generous government and corporate support, including grants from the California Arts Council, the Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles, the Flintridge Foundation, the Libby Holman Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Robinson's/May, Sedgwick James Inc., the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Foundation, Verizon, Time Warner and, most recently, The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in recognition of our Young Writers Project (www.myspace.com/futureofwords), an outreach program benefiting local high school students.
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Profile: Ray Buffer, an LA Actor Working in the Time of COVID
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Bob Jones Academy's Middle School robotics teams, Light Brigade and Alpha and Omega, placed 1st and 14th respectively out of 49 teams at the end of<|fim_middle|> robot programming, robustness, strong performance, and consistency.
As the winner of the state championship, Bob Jones Academy will represent South Carolina at the VEX Robotics World Championship, which will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28–30, 2019.
The VEX Robotics Competition is the world's largest and fastest-growing educational robotics competition. Presented by VEX Robotics and the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, the event includes 20,000 teams competing in over 40 countries. | the qualifying rounds at the Palmetto State VEX Robotics Competition held Saturday, Mar. 2, at Dutch Fork Elementary School in Irmo, South Carolina. Both teams entered the elimination rounds with the Light Brigade continuing on to win the state championship.
In VEX programs, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, and communications. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels and culminate at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April.
Tim Jones, BJA faculty member, along with Dr. Nelson coached the BJA teams through the state qualifying rounds which required teams to demonstrate their robot's ability to complete a variety of skills both in autonomous mode and remotely guided by the students. The Light Brigade team was the only undefeated team after the qualifying rounds. They then formed an alliance with the Insquiring team from College Park Middle School in Berkeley County, South Carolina, for the elimination rounds. The Light Brigade team went on to win the tournament with a record of 10-0-1.
The BJA Light Brigade team composed of Daniel Hand, Samuel Headley, Jonathan Lovegrove, Henry Miller, Joseph Moran, and Kai Nickerson also won the competition's Amaze Award, given for building a competition robot that clearly demonstrated overall quality, a solid mechanical design, | 296 |
One-Act Play and Creative Processes
This creative piece aims to blend theatre writing with my father's career of professional golf. Research was conducted through interviews, scholarly articles, and conversations between my thesis director and second reader. In the search for information and answers, I found…
This creative piece aims to blend theatre writing with my father's career of professional golf. Research was conducted through interviews, scholarly articles, and conversations between my thesis director and second reader. In the search for information and answers, I found the connection between my written style and personal experiences. This is important to me as a writer and any other aspiring writer, because it helps analyze strengths and create<|fim_middle|> how frequently they used them, and what they reference in Tarantino's movies set before Hitler's death and contrast those with the same three aspects in movies set after Hitler's death. Finally, I inspect on how Tarantino uses violence within his movies and contrast how he uses it in movies before Hitler's death and how he uses it in movies set after Hitler's death.
Murwin, Nicholas (Author)
Miller, April (Committee member)
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (Contributor)
Sketch Show
My creative project was the (aptly named) "Sketch Show," short series of sketches presented in order without greater context or structure. I challenged myself to push the limits of my creativity and be involved in every aspect of the production.…
My creative project was the (aptly named) "Sketch Show," short series of sketches presented in order without greater context or structure. I challenged myself to push the limits of my creativity and be involved in every aspect of the production. I wrote, directed, shot, edited, acted, scored, and color graded 3 sketches. I chose sketch comedy as my genre of focus because it is one that I have loved my whole life, and wanted to try my hand at. My research process was expansive, as I studied many of the great sketch shows and tried to learn what makes them successful. I next wrote many sketches, and they were almost uniformly terrible. My rewrite and selection phase was very difficult as I struggled to identify which of my sketches were working best, and I still question the decisions I made. Regardless, the shooting process began and I continued to push myself through cinematography and especially acting, something I have the least experience in by far. I had acted in theatre in high school, but I quickly learned this was completely different and struggled to give myself the performance I had in my head. Finally in the edit, where I am most comfortable, I pushed myself one step further to score the project, something I had never done before. "Sketch Show" may not have turned out to be the project I intended, but it taught me more about writing and myself than any project ever has.
Ragatz, Caleb (Author)
Creative Project 9
Screenwriting 3
Short Film 3
Films 2
Screenplays 2
International Business 1
Moving Image 1 | a more impactful story.
This entire creative piece is a testament to pursue writing in the film and theatre industry, and acts as a student's own personal take on how creative writing can be developed, analyzed, and improved. The scope of this project was to better understand modern writing and playwrights by creating my own piece. The general findings in this project demonstrated the high difficulty that storytelling demands. Specifically, linking dialogue in plays to meaningful character development.
As such, a major conclusion indicates that masterful script writing falls on each character being fully developed so that they may move through scenes and the plot with the proper emotional stakes.
Carter, Race (Author)
Maday, Gregory (Thesis director)
Messersmith, Randy (Committee member)
Box of Secrets [Working Title]: An Original Television Pilot, Associated Bible Materials, and Writing Experience
"The Evil Box spilled, and someone has to clean it up. That someone rolls into a nothing town in search of an Evil driving possessed Mortals to violence. In saving the target of the attack, she finds a team of…
"The Evil Box spilled, and someone has to clean it up. That someone rolls into a nothing town in search of an Evil driving possessed Mortals to violence. In saving the target of the attack, she finds a team of wannabe do-gooders intent on saving the world – or, at least, keeping it from becoming worse. Armed with apparent eons of experience, cynicism, and a not insignificant amount of Divine Intervention, they set out to contain the mythological Evils and their detriment to the world."
In a world not unlike our own, Pandora opened the world to malicious Evils. With the world, as it is, the last thing it needs is additional evil. Enter: a group of people who are not responsible for the situation. Their only stake in the game is that it affects the world in which they live, and they'd really like to save it.
Following in the tradition of great female-led television dramas and rife with questions about the difference between culpability and responsibility, this modern continuation of the myth of Pandora –an attempt at a generational allegory - finds its form in a 60-minute single camera drama.
This Barrett, The Honors College Creative Thesis Project, consists of the first draft of a pilot screenplay, a corresponding "bible" (a compilation of information regarding the concept, story, and characters so as to facilitate its writing), and a reflection on the process undergone.
Geelhood, Tessa Renee (Author)
Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member)
School of Film, Dance and Theatre (Contributor)
Department of English (Contributor)
A Musical About Harold Johnson From Wilson, Wisconsin
The thesis I completed for Barrett, The Honors College was created as a method to develop and strengthen my long-form storytelling abilities. The goal of my creative project was to create the first draft of a stage musical and mount…
The thesis I completed for Barrett, The Honors College was created as a method to develop and strengthen my long-form storytelling abilities. The goal of my creative project was to create the first draft of a stage musical and mount it in a reading or workshop of some kind. I reached this goal and then some with the help of my directors and two wonderful Barrett students that helped me along the way: Mallory Smith and Ethan Fox. We completed the first draft of the show and then held a read-through with a full cast of actors, with almost twenty people attending.
Then, I went back and used some of the feedback from the read-through to write another draft of the show. However, along the way, I took a few major creative turns and ended up with a story that was similar to the first draft in many ways but was ultimately a larger divergence than I originally anticipated. This was a blessing, as it forced me to re-evaluate multiple creative decisions I'd made and gave me two long-form stories with great potential to work with rather than just one. It also presented multiple opportunities to combine and enhance both ideas in order to write one strong story using both concepts. The beauty of this Creative Project is that my portfolio is much stronger for having completed it and I now have multiple paths to choose from to move this project forward in the future.
In the defense, I discussed the grueling process of actually writing these scripts, hosting a read-through as well as the possibilities for both stories in the future. We also discussed the possibility of taking these scripts and pitching them to companies like Samuel French and in hopes that they're sold, licensed and performed in perpetuity. I'm grateful to my directors, Professors Jason Scott and Gregory Maday, for always pushing me and cutting me slack when I fell behind and to my friends and the wonderful support the Honors College has given me throughout the last four years.
Wright, Andrew John (Author)
Scott, Jason (Thesis director)
Maday, Gregory (Committee member)
Educated: A Single Camera Comedy
Educated is a single camera comedy developed as an adaptation of my and my friend Mazhar's actual friendship through college into a 30 minute single-camera comedy show that attempts to portray a representative college experience in a way that has…
Educated is a single camera comedy developed as an adaptation of my and my friend Mazhar's actual friendship through college into a 30 minute single-camera comedy show that attempts to portray a representative college experience in a way that has not been done before on television. I created a multi-faceted survey about the state of current content set on a college campus as well as elements of what respondents define as representative of a true college experience. My survey featured sections assessing demographic information, collegiate involvement, ability to recall films and TV shows set on a college campus, evaluation of the reality level of existing college films and TV shows, and viewership preferences. Those that took the survey believed that college as currently presented in film and TV is inaccurate and focuses on aspects like party culture over the true complexity of life at a university. In addition, respondents could recall significantly fewer college TV shows than films, and consistently rated that they did not feel represented by the university-set content that they had dealt with. Based upon this information and my own experiences throughout my four years at a university, I developed the concept for my show and wrote concept paragraphs for three 10-episode seasons of the show, with each season representing one academic year at the university. The show focuses equally on the lives of Mazhar and Eli, two high school best friends going to their state university and capturing their experiences with a diverse cast of friends, romantic interests, and professors.
Bliman, Eli Joshua (Author)
Sopha, Matthew (Committee member)
Department of Marketing (Contributor)
"BETTA"
BETTA, a narrative music video short film was produced by Kaitlyn Baucke and directed by June Hucko, and written by both filmmakers. By employing the knowledge and experiences gained in their academic careers, they were able to create a compelling…
BETTA, a narrative music video short film was produced by Kaitlyn Baucke and directed by June Hucko, and written by both filmmakers. By employing the knowledge and experiences gained in their academic careers, they were able to create a compelling yet experimental film that challenges the idea of whether or not people are simply compilations of their memories, and experiences. Sparked by an interest in music media, this project is in the visual style of a music video, but with a 10-minute narrative. This film lightheartedly tells the story of a young woman whose most cherished memories are always accompanied by a meal of tacos. Each memory is memorialized through the collection and personalization of receipts from the taco shop. After collecting hundreds and hundreds of these receipts, she reaches a turning point in her life where she finds herself overrun by her past memories, both positive and negative. She is faced with a decision in which she must choose to dwell in her past, or leave behind memories in order to move forward. The film is scored entirely by original songs of local, ASU affiliated musicians and bands. Producing this film required an extensive pre-production phase of writing, revisions, casting, securing crew, locations, equipment, funding, scheduling, and more. Setting deadlines, sticking to budget, and ensuring smooth production was key to success. From inception, to pre-production, to reflection, this project has allowed the filmmakers to experience evolution, challenges, failures, and immense creative development.
Baucke, Kaitlyn (Co-author)
Hucko, Jennifer (June) (Co-author)
Klucsarits, Philip (Committee member)
My creative project is a feature-length screenplay called Welles. It follows Orson Welles' struggle to get Citizen Kane exhibited .The overarching idea that I wanted to explore within this project is the blatantly self-destructive nature that Welles exhibited in his…
My creative project is a feature-length screenplay called Welles. It follows Orson Welles' struggle to get Citizen Kane exhibited .The overarching idea that I wanted to explore within this project is the blatantly self-destructive nature that Welles exhibited in his personal life, all in an attempt to reach his creative/professional goals.
Domecq, Tyler (Author)
Bernstein, Gregory (Thesis director)
Shutter's Affection
There is a wide range of steps that go into making any film. Pre-production alone can take up to six months on feature-length films. The labor dedicated to bringing the director's vision to life can take over a year on…
There is a wide range of steps that go into making any film. Pre-production alone can take up to six months on feature-length films. The labor dedicated to bringing the director's vision to life can take over a year on long form projects. From concept to final cut, the process is simultaneously abstract and technical, demanding unique contributions from every member of the team. It is the director's job to make a film as entertaining as it can possibly be. This is done through careful planning put into the pre-production which is carried through to on-set production and post-production. The culmination of this hard work is the final film, but the process of making a film from the director's point of view can be seen through an important document known as the director's notebook. In a director's notebook, the creative process is captured through all the steps that go into making a film. The purpose of this creative project is to show the entire process of writing and directing a short film by documenting each step in a director's notebook to be shared alongside the final film, Shutter's Affection. Shutter's Affection is a narrative piece aiming to dissect the thought processes behind a serial killer. In this short, a photographer named Martin lives a blissful perfect life with his girlfriend, but soon finds his relationship with her isn't like it is in the photos he's captured of other couples going through their day to day activities. The director's notebook of Shutter's Affection documents all the steps of the creative process, from conception to shooting script, storyboard, and beyond.
Bender, Brenton James (Author)
Fortunato, Joseph (Committee member)
Casting a Reality Show with a Major Cable TV Network
During my summer internship at a major cable TV network, I pitched the network various show concepts for new reality TV programming. Since then, I have created my own casting company in order to continue developing these shows by casting nationwide for talent.
Houts, Hannah Mackenzie (Author)
W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
Quentin Tarantino's Shared Universe
My thesis provides an in-depth analysis of the Tarantinoverse, a shared universe in which most of Quentin Tarantino's movies exist. I start by talking about the relationships between characters across different movies and how Tarantino portrays them. I examine how…
My thesis provides an in-depth analysis of the Tarantinoverse, a shared universe in which most of Quentin Tarantino's movies exist. I start by talking about the relationships between characters across different movies and how Tarantino portrays them. I examine how he has some characters who are brothers and some characters who have ancestral relationships with other characters. I also observe how two characters in separate movies are the same person and that there is one non-familial relationship within Tarantino's shared universe. Next, I investigate the two distinct universes that make up the Tarantino's cinematic universe, the "realer than real" universe and the "movie" universe. In that section, I explain how he uses crossover characters, who can exist in both the "realer than real" and "movie" universes and how they represent different types of people that exist within both universes. Then I examine fictional products that are exclusive to Tarantino's shared universe. In that segment, I examine how Tarantino critiques the way other filmmakers use product placement in their movies and the way movies are used to market products. After that, I discuss how Tarantino's alteration of history in Inglourious Basterds, namely Adolf Hitler's death, affected the society of Tarantino's movies with respect to popular culture and violence. Regarding pop culture, I examine how Tarantino's characters use pop culture references, | 2,708 |
Yes Transylvania is a part of Europe. It has been a part of Europe, the continent since as long as there was a Europe. At the same time, Transylvania has many identities.
Transylvania is a part of Romania. This country, as it is now in the present day has had the same<|fim_middle|> of Europe and still has a role to play in it. | geographical borders since 1947. Before this time, Transylvania was a part of Romania (Greater Romania) From the years 1919 until 1940. Then the Northern half of Transylvania was a part of Hungary.
Either way it is important to note that Transylvania is a part of Europe which ever country it was in. It suffered much of the same fates as the countries which it was a part of, for good or for ill. It is a culturally interesting place, and that makes it valued by Europe.
There are not too many places where so many different cultures live, and work in reasonable harmony. ( you can at least talk to others about their culture and be angry but there has not been a civil war because of that) It is alive in many senses of the word.
It is a part of a place where history has come alive. It is a part | 185 |
The Quest Diagnostics Bill service is free to use and will require the user to provide a valid email address at the time of sign<|fim_middle|> the online Quest Diagnostic invoice number must match the actual paper invoice so the payment can be applied to the correct invoice.
Quest Diagnostics is a New Jersey based clinical lab company with total assets around 10 billion US Dollars. The firm employs around 40,000 people and can be found on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol DGX. | up. Those who do not want to sign up for a FREE online account can still pay a bill and provide insurance information without registering an account but signing up for an account will save the user time on future visits. Once the user has created a Quest Diagnostics Billing account they can pay down a bill, update their information (i.e. phone number, address), check the status of an invoice, enroll in paperless billing, update insurance information, and review the patient assistance program. Those who would rather make a payment via US Mail are allowed to do so but will have to provide the payment coupon along with the invoice number PLUS a check or money order for the amount due. Please note | 138 |
Seeking a replacenent for Katherine
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Webteam: November 2017
Whilst Rev. Katherine Pickering is still very much with us and making her mark in so many ways, she decided this summer to move on in August 2018. The Circuit therefore entered the Stationing process, hoping to be matched with a Presbyter to replace Katherine next September.
Our Circuit Invitations Committee prepared a "profile" of the circuit and the forthcoming vacancy.<|fim_middle|> evening of 24th February. This meeting is open to anyone who would like to come along.Clive is an engaging speaker and will be sharing with us something of his theme...
Once again Wantage Methodist Church, Newbury Street, will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday 27 January 2020. Their chapel will be open from 10 am to 11.30 am as a quiet space for personal thought to people of all faiths. It will be an opportunity to watch some film clips and images, reflect and to light a candle. All are welcome to drop in for a short while. Their Community... | Along with 145 other appointment profiles, this was circulated to ministers intending to move, and we received 85 profiles of available ministers.
The Committee prepared a shortlist of ministers, and each minister a shortlist of circuits.
The Connexional Stationing panel met in early November, and matched us with Rev. Jocelyn Bennett, currently working in the Hyde & Denton circuit. A visit was arranged, and Jocelyn and her husband Neil visited Milton, Great Western Park, Wallingford and Didcot on Saturday 18th November. After they set out for Manchester later that day, the committee discussed the match and unanimously agreed that we would invite her. Over the phone the following evening, she was pleased to accept. So next August, Jocelyn and Neil, and their teenage son Elliott, will move into the manse in Lydalls Close, to start work in our Circuit at the beginning of September.
Meanwhile, Katherine and Ian visited the South-west Worcester circuit, and she in turn was invited to fill their post, and she accepted; so she will take up her new appointment in charge of two churches in Worcester at the same time.
Grateful thanks are due to all those who gave their time and effort in the three churches to make Jocelyn's visit a success.
Rev. Helen Cameron, new Chair of the Northampton District, joins us in celebrating all this good news!
Chaplaincy can be really exciting and it can also be really daunting at times. This week, I've had the privilege of listening to a soldier about personal struggles he's had, a dad who's struggling to stay above the breadline, a mum whose teenage child has given up on life, and a teenage girl who was so excited that I remembered her and her stories that she'd told me last term. I...
2nd Inspirational Circuit Meeting — Didcot Methodist Church, Monday 24th February 2020 at 7:30pmWe are delighted that the Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, Professor Clive Marsh has agreed to come to speak to us on the | 431 |
Many people flock to<|fim_middle|> has sites on both the ocean and sound. | North Carolina's Outer Banks each year to see the spot in Kill Devil Hills where in 1903 the Wright brothers made their first successful flight. The Wright Brothers Memorial isn't the area's only attraction: The beaches along the edge of the Atlantic Ocean have plenty of yearly admirers as well. Camping on or near the beach means that a dip in the ocean or a walk on the beach is never far away.
About five miles north of Kill Devil Hills, the OBX Campground (obxcampground.com) RV park has 30 RV sites with electric hookups on a sandy wooded area away from the ocean. The park is open year-round with some sites available for long-term campers. Kitty Hawk RV Park (kittyhawkrv.com) is closer to the ocean, with some sites having ocean views. The RV-only park allows pets and provides Internet access at the year-round park. Frisco Woods Campground (thefriscowoodscampground.com), 40 miles south of Kill Devil Hills on the Pamlico Sound, has a pool as well as a waterfront area to launch water craft such as kayaks, canoes and jet skis. The sites can accommodate RVs, tents or pop-up trailers, and a few cabins are available as well.
Adventure Bound (adventureboundnc.com), on the edge of the Kitty Hawk Maritime Forest, is a tent-only campground. The campground provides free use of beach accessories such as crab fishing nets and boogie boards. Grab some before heading to the beach, which is a mile and a half away. Joe and Kay's Campground (no website; 1193 Colington Rd., Kill Devil Hills; 252-441-5468) in Kill Devil Hills has about 15 tent sites open from April through November along the canal bank. In addition to Hatteras Sands' (hatterassandscampground.com) 100 paved RV sites, the luxury resort has six condos that resemble brightly hued dollhouses and five tent sites. About 40 miles south of Kill Devil Hills, the resort has a pool and spa for relaxing when not fishing in the nearby canal.
Four campgrounds on Cape Hatteras National Seashore are available for tent, RV and pop-up trailer camping. Of these, only Ocracoke can be reserved ahead of time. The campground closest to Kill Devil Hills, Oregon Inlet, has 120 sites open from April to October. The only one of the National Park Service (nps.gov) sites with group camping facilities, Oregon Inlet is at the foot of the Oregon Inlet Bridge in Nags Head. Other campgrounds are in Frisco and Buxton. All four campgrounds have bathroom facilities with unheated showers. The terrain for all of the campgrounds except Frisco is sandy but level. Frisco Campground is among sandy barrier dunes, while the others are separated from the ocean by the dunes.
Several oceanfront campgrounds are in Rodanthe, a small village about 35 miles south of Kill Devil Hills. The Cape Hatteras KOA (koa.com) plans many family activities, such as pirate days, skit nights and an outdoor cinema throughout the summer season. The campground's renovated amenities including modern bathhouses and swimming pools. All camping sites have water hookups, while many also have electricity and cable TV. Ocean Waves Campground (oceanwavescampground.com) has its own beach access with the tent sites closest to the ocean. Amenities include a supply store, two bathhouses and pool. Operating year-round, Camp Hatteras (camphatteras.com) has an indoor heated pool, hot tub and game room to keep guests entertained even in the winter. The campground | 785 |
Q: ASP.NET MVC design pattern - Repository and data classes - What's the best practise? I have a project with ASP.NET MVC, using Entity Framework to get data from SQL database.
I designed data classes, which hold information such as Statistics (Class combined a<|fim_middle|>ById, FindByName, Update(Entity entity)... Operations of repositories usually works on objects in memory and when you want persist your changes you call Commit (or somethink simmilar) on your data context object - this approach is called unit of work.
Here you can find good free book about design patters on .NET platoform (included MVC, EF repository pattern).
| product ID, its entries, which is a subclass), and then I realized, to put data in these classes, I would have to have a set of functions, to retrieve the data from SQL, and put to the data classes.
Then I found the repository method, and I wanted to ask, is it just a set of functions, which keeps the business logic in one place? Or is it more complex then that? I have a interface for it, and then the implementation.
A: The idea of a repository is to give your code one place they can go too to fetch data from some persistent store (most of the time your database). Your business logic would be in another layer.
The repository can offer simple Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) functions or more specific ones for fetching or updating data.
Other patterns you can look at are UnitOfWork (the ObjectContext used in the Entity Framework is an example of this) and the Layering design patterns which show you how to seperate the data access code from your business code.
You already mentioned separating the interface from the implementation. Coding to an interface is also a good practice.
Here you can find some more information. PEAA also contains other great descriptions of design patterns and how to use them.
A:
I have a interface for it, and then the implementation
That's pretty much it. You define the set of operations you want to perform on your business entities in an interface and then implement this interface against a specific data access method. Then your ASP.NET MVC controllers take this interface as constructor argument.
A: Repositories are classes not for business logic but for data persistence logic. You should have another layer with bussiness logic. In repositories you should have methods like Find | 354 |
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Very raised round shapes
Crochet · Techniques · Terminology · Tools · Tunisian crochet
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Many of the stitches that crocheters regard as fundamental to their craft were described in non-English publications before the Victorian fancywork press had begun to roll. Naming conventions differed both across and within language boundaries, as is still witnessed by the misalignment of the UK and US glossaries. Diffuse nomenclature also attached to Tunisian crochet when it was added to the documented repertoire in the late 1850s. Stitch clusters didn't even begin to acquire a differentiated set of labels until the end of that century, in surprising contrast to the structural intricacy of the clusters themselves.
Several aspects of this are seen with instructions for a "Crochet Afghan or Carriage Blanket" in an anonymous booklet titled Knitting and Crocheting, published in Boston in 1884 or 1885. (It is undated but includes an advertisement citing a trademark registered 17 June 1884, and the digitized copy shows the Library of Congress accession stamp, 21 Sept. 1885.)
The following snippet shows the gestational state of the English terminology, despite the ornate design. Continue reading "Very raised round shapes" →
Crochet · History · Structures · Techniques
Braid stitch crochet
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The January 1857 issue of Godey's Lady's Book includes the first in a series of "Full Instructions for Needle-Work of all Kinds." It describes the basic elements of crochet and provides a good review of the mid-19th-century state of the craft. Without any indication of it being a recent innovation, a now unfamiliar "double chain-stitch" is included.
"This is a stronger and firmer chain-stitch than the ordinary one; and as it resembles braid, it is sometimes termed braid-stitch. When you have done two ordinary chain-stitches, besides the one on the needle, insert the hook into the first of those two, draw the thread at once through them both: then continue to insert the hook in the stitch just finished, as well as the loop on it already, and draw the thread through both."
I'm still looking for earlier descriptions of it and am not entirely confident that the following drawing of the "double foundation" (doppelter Anschlag) in the July 1867 issue of Der Bazar is the first to have been published. It appears in an illustrated suite of crochet stitches that was reused in numerous subsequent publications — both in authorized syndication and otherwise — and the double foundation as it appears there can safely be seen as an archetype.
Continue reading "Braid stitch crochet" →
Tunisian crochet with two hooks
Instructions · Techniques · Tools · Tunisian crochet
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The German periodical Der Blatt had a leading role in the publication of variant forms of the "ordinary Tunisian crochet stitch." The first two appearing there are described in the post before last and depart markedly from what is now known as the Tunisian simple stitch (TSS). A variant presented in the 1 January 1862 issue differs from it so extremely that it would likely not be seen as derived from the TSS if the instructions didn't say so.
It requires two long cylindrical hook-tipped tools. One is an ordinary Tunisian crochet hook, characterized by a 'ball' at its non-hooked end, and identical to the type of hook-tipped knitting needle used in pairs for flatwork knitting. The other is hooked at one end and tapered at the other to match the smooth tip of an ordinary knitting needle. This is identical to the hook-tipped needle used in sets for knitting in the round.
The designers at Der Blatt would have had a reasonable expectation of their readers being able to obtain the prescribed tools. However, if hook-tipped knitting needles were commonly available to the target audience or in trade under another designation, the instructions would presumably have named them directly. Later instructions also specify a form with hooks at both ends, indicating that the need for altering stock Tunisian hooks or knitting needles was not an impediment.
The 1862 instructions use the hook/point and hook/ball needles together to make a "shell stitch" (Panzerstich) that was published with three other "new crochet stitches," all modifying the TSS by varying the structure of the return chain. They significantly alter the standard form of that chain in different ways but the shell stitch is alone in the extent of its proximity to knitting. As was frequently the case with newly devised variations of the Tunisian stitch, it is only illustrated with a swatch.
Because of its unfamiliarity, a second illustration shows the fabric stretched open and the juxtaposition of the two hooks.
Here are the instructions:
"This stitch differs from the other Tunisian crochet stitches in two significant ways. Namely, it consists of pattern rows that alternate between one and two passes, and is made with two different wooden hooked needles. The one of these two crochet needles, which should be on the heavier side, cannot have a knob at its lower end, which has to be pointed like a knitting needle. The other needle is a wooden crochet needle with a knob at its lower end to prevent the stitches from gliding off, but has to be smaller than the needle without the knob by almost half. In order to highlight the distinction between the individual pattern rows, they are worked in two contrasting colors [here blue and white]. The pattern row that is worked in one pass only is always crocheted from right to left with a double strand of yarn and the hook without a knob. The following pattern row, which includes two passes, is made with the thinner hook and a single strand of yarn. The forward pass in this pattern row is also worked from right to left, as with knitting, using both needles…
1st pattern row. After making a foundation chain with the blue yarn and without cutting it, use the hook without the knob to pull a loop of the doubled white yarn through each stitch in the foundation chain. These loops remain on the hook to form new stitches. At the end of this pass, cut the double yarn and work the,
2nd pattern row with the blue yarn that was left hanging at the starting edge of the fabric, using the thinner hook. In the first pass a loop is pulled through each of the double stitches in the white yarn in the preceding pattern row, by inserting the hook into the back of the stitch as is clearly shown in the illustration, and removing the stitch from the hook so that the double strands on either side of that stitch cross over each other as shown in the completed rows of those stitches. The second pass is crocheted from left to right just as with the second pass in a pattern row of the ordinary Tunisian crochet stitch, and the blue yarn is left hanging until the next pattern row that uses it.
3rd pattern row. Again place the double white strand on the hook without the knob and crochet from right to left, by pulling a new loop through the opening between the vertical parts of each stitch in the preceding row. These loops remain on the hook to form new stitches.
4th pattern row as the 2nd, 5th pattern row as the 3rd, and so forth."
The tip of the heavier hook is not illustrated but the direction in which the loops of double white yarn cross over it follows from the customary crocheter's practice of beginning a stitch by wrapping the yarn over the hook from back to front (YO). In contrast, the thinner hook is shown 'grabbing' the blue yarn from above without a YO. This is equivalent to wrapping the yarn under the hook (YU), and seats the loops on it in the opposite direction.
However, as drawn, the paths taken by both the blue and white yarn around their respective hooks are the same, also consistent with the orientation of the blue stitches in the fabric. Since the white loops are twisted as they are worked into stitches, their orientation in the fabric is the opposite of that on the hook.
The instructions emphasize that the use of the hook to twist the white stitches "is clearly shown in the illustration." However, if the YU is correctly represented, the leg of the blue loop moving toward the tip of the hook should be on the back of the hook rather than on the front. The express statement of accuracy makes it difficult to dismiss the inconsistency in the path of the blue yarn as the result of an initial YU being drawn where a YO is intended. That would be the most straightforward explanation, nonetheless, and is also supported by the orientation of the blue stitches in the fabric. However, the illustrated fabric structure can also be produced in a manner that applies both the YO and the YU techniques.
The instructions twist the loops in the white yarn by inserting the righthand hook into each of them from behind. However, if the white loops are YU rather than YO, they will be twisted by inserting the righthand hook into them from the front. The inconsistency in the drawing can therefore be resolved by swapping the illustrated YU forward pass from the blue to the white yarn, and the YO forward pass from the white yarn to the blue. A proof-of-concept swatch made in that manner can be compared with the initial woodcut.
Another detail of the described procedure requires comment. Cutting the yarn at the end of each row worked flat, and starting the next row with a new length of yarn, was a common attribute of flatwork crochet throughout the 19th century (readily seen in an array of stitches in the 15 June 1867 issue of Der Bazar). However, one feature of the Tunisian crochet stitch is that it permits flatwork without need either for cutting the yarn or turning the fabric. The illustrated shell stitch discards that advantage and the doubled white yarn leaves twice the usual number of dangling yarn ends to be dealt with.
Given the numerous variant Tunisian stitches that were otherwise available, it would be reasonable for readers of Der Blatt to wonder what the one that required a special second hook and additional finishing was good for. In direct response to numerous queries received from readers who posed that very question, the illustrations and narrative explanation were reprinted in the 14 November issue of the same annual volume. Nothing was added about its visual effect but its heading was extended.
"Panzerstich for application in men's shawls, jackets, carriage blankets, etc.
Despite this, Der Blatt never published instructions for any garments using it (that I've managed to spot). Their designers continued to explore special-tool variants of the TSS, producing instructions (to be discussed separately) that call for the now familiar double-ended Tunisian hook before the end the century.
Anyone following this discussion with tools in hand will soon note that the hook on the tip of the righthand needle makes it trivially easy to slip an unworked loop onto it from the lefthand needle and then knit it into a stitch, crochet style (ambiguity intended). It may therefore be simpler to separate the actions that overlap in the illustration, first moving the loop of white yarn onto the righthand needle, and then working the loop of blue yarn into it.
The shepherd's hook in mid-19th-century fancywork
Crochet · History · Techniques · Tools · Tunisian crochet
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The 1 January 1864 issue of the German biweekly magazine Der Bazar (discussed at length in the post before last) includes instructions that prescribe the use of a flat crochet hook in a form that is essentially identical to the one shown in the earliest known description of that tool, published in 1785. It is called a "shepherd's hook" in numerous texts from the early 19th century.
The 1864 instructions present it for use with a "velour crochet stitch" (Velours-Häkelstich) that had previously been described in the issue of Der Bazar from 8 Jan 1861. Quoting from the initial wording, the stitch is:
"…made primarily in wool…using an ordinary crochet hook of a gauge appropriate to the material. However, the hook has to taper towards its tip, which must be narrower than the shaft.
Make a normal foundation and crochet as follows: Wrap the yarn four times around the hook as for a quadruple crochet stitch, push the spiral tightly together and a bit further back on the hook. Insert the hook into the next stitch and pull a new loop both through it and the entire spiral… Repeat this along the entire length of the work, stitch by stitch."
It is illustrated as part of a belt.
The ordinary tapered hook in use at that time is illustrated in a potpourri of crochet stitches in the 15 June 1867 issue (and reproduced in numerous unaffiliated later publications). One of them is a double-crochet-based (UK) "solid shell" (feste Muschen) that also requires the yarn to be pulled through four loops in a single motion.
The 1864 instructions for the velour stitch, which describe its central element "appearing as a loosely knit shell" (lose gestrickt erscheinenden erhabenen Muschen), are effectively identical to those from 1861 (where the shell is a "bulge" — Bäuchen). However, they also specify how the taper is utilized on a flat hook.
"With the right index finger, push the spiral about 1.5 cm back on the hook and hold it firmly there."
The structural detail of the flat hook is explained in a manner that indicates continuity with the 1800 and 1833 descriptions cited above.
"The velour crochet stitch is most easily made using a wedge-shaped pointed crochet hook as shown in the illustration. This hook is completely flat, only as thick as the back of a knife, and where it is not to be had in steel, is made from hard wood or ivory."
Its application is shown with a woman's shoe.
The velour stitch and flat hook are illustrated again in the 15 Jan 1865 issue with another woman's shoe (also showing the floats between the elements made in the light-colored yarn on the reverse side of the fabric).
The range of materials in which flat hooks were produced, listed in the 1864 text, indicates that they were not simply a niche curiosity. The same illustration of the hook appears in 1865. The copy available online has a pencil sketch of a more pointed tip under the original illustration. This demonstrates reader awareness of the importance of its precise shaping and an interest in calling the attention of others to it.
The instructions from 1864 also make reference to a "spiral post stitch" (Spiral-Stäbchenstich) illustrated in the same issue. The differences between it and the velour stitch are described and immediately visible in the illustration. The fabric is worked with a Tunisian crochet hook, anchoring the stitches to the return chain rather than directly to each other, giving a more open structure. The yarn is wrapped around the hook five times, rather than four, adding additional flexibility.
The spiral post stitch is presented as a "very original variant of the Tunisian stitch." Since it is produced using a cylindrical hook, there is reason to wonder why the four-wrap form requires a tapered one. Need for offsetting the additional tightness of the velour stitch provides at least a partial answer, and the shell stitch from 1867 is also intrinsically looser. (Four-wrap and longer spirals are otherwise a definitive attribute of what is now termed bullion crochet, and even longer spirals are a mainstay of crocheted tatting — all made using a long cylindrical metal 'bullion hook.')
However, the velour stitch also appears in instructions for a child's shoe in the 1March 1864 issue of the Swedish women's magazine Iduna, where it is called a "pineapple stitch." It is likely to have been inspired by the earlier shoe in Der Bazar (and may even reflect an editorial relationship between the two publications) but is primarily made with the Tunisian simple stitch.
The instructions explicitly prescribe the use of the same cylindrical wooden hook for both the Tunisian and pineapple stitches, using an illustration of the hook taken directly from Der Bazar (highlighting that it is made of wood by showing its cross-section).
A separate hook is used for the sole, which is "crocheted with a heavy steel hook, back and forth with ordinary stitches." The German description from 1800 of the mid-18th-century industrial use of a flat hook for slip stitch crochet footwear raises a question about whether the steel hook might have been a flat hook. Either way, there is contemporaneous documentation of that tool in Sweden and it is likely that the designer of the shoe was aware of it as an option for the pineapple stitch.
This gives three different implements attested for making the velour/pineapple stitch: an ordinary tapered crochet hook, a cylindrical Tunisian crochet hook, and a flat shepherd's hook. The choice among them would have been a straightforward matter of individual preference. As a Tunisian stitch, the five-wrap spiral post is obviously restricted to a long cylindrical hook. There is also an upper limit to the number of equally sized wraps that can be effected with a tapered hook, varying with the degree of the taper.
The designs in Der Blatt treat the flat hook as advantageous when yarn is pulled through up to four loops or wraps at the same time. This extends the documented use of such tools beyond the realm of slip stitch crochet. In light of the flat hook's long-standing Swedish nexus, it seems a fair guess that it was at times used for the stitches presented in the preceding post. If so, the distinction between flat hook crochet at the urban worktable and in rural tradition becomes all the more diffuse.
The initial categorization of the use of a shepherd's hook as a form of knitting also extends to Tunisian crochet. Both the Tunisian crochet stitch and the long hook are described in terms of knitting in the 23 January 1861 issue of Der Blatt (where the method was introduced three year earlier).
"The Tunisian crochet stitch, [is] widely known as a form of knitting [Strickerei] with a…so-called 'knitting hook' [Strickhaken] (a long crochet hook with an even diameter and a knob affixed to its one end)."
The additional description of the shell as a knitted construct, alternatively produced on a knitting hook or a shepherd's hook, further highlights the discrepancy between 19th-century notions of both procedural and structural classification and those of the present day. It is often pointed out that the conceptual framework is language dependent, and that several languages other than English do not have separate words for crochet and knitting. In that light, it may be of more than coincidental interest that the Oxford English Dictionary defines crochet as "A kind of knitting done with a hooked needle; material so made."
Crochet · Nalbinding · Techniques · Terminology
Crocheted nalbinding
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The post before last discusses the appearance, in ordinary crochet, of structural elements taken from the long-hook crafts of Tunisian crochet and crochet tatting. It focuses on Swedish practice in the second half of the 19th century and one of the source documents is the Handbook of Women's Handicraft (Handbok i fruntimmers-handarbeten) by Hedvig Berg, published in 1873-74.
Berg is atypically rigorous when categorizing fabric, tools, and techniques. In a discussion of the use of a crochet hook for making types of lace that are normally produced with other tools, and where the difference between crochet and the namesake form is clearly visible, she includes the label "imitation" in the name of the crochet stitch. For example, she calls the first presented type of crochet lace "Guipure crochet" but the one following it is an "Imitation of Valenciennes lace."
The 1873 publication is also where the Swedish term krokning (hooking) is first attested as a designation for the family of stitches now normally termed Tunisian crochet. It is introduced in a chapter on "Crochet with wool yarn." The section on krokning includes one stitch labeled as ordinary crochet but commences by placing a number of loops on the hook in the manner that typifies Tunisian crochet. (The current repertoire includes stitches made with this technique but a number of structurally interesting older ones have fallen out of use.)
A related stitch is described in a Swedish publication from 1864, appearing side-by-side with ordinary Tunisian crochet in a child's shoe. This is also discussed in the post before last, showing the illustration again here.
The hybrid technique is used for the cuff and the same method recently reemerged in what was presented as a nearly forgotten variety of Swedish crochet. An article titled "Crochet Historic Mitten" (Virka historiska vante) appeared in the 21 October 2011 issue of the Swedish weekly magazine Land. The banner photograph is captioned:
Proud Crochet Pros. Ulrika Andersson and Elsie-Britt Sondell-Wärnersson show mittens crocheted in a technique they saved from being forgotten — crocheted nalbinding.
Excerpting pivotal snippets from the article:
The adventure with crocheted nalbinding began in the 1970s when staff at the county museum in Jämtland came across a mitten they didn't understand. It looked as though it were nalbound but in a different way, and if Elsie-Britt hadn't seen it, it would likely have been discarded… Elsie-Britt says, 'I immediately saw that it was crocheted but didn't know how, so I asked if I could borrow it to examine more closely at home.'
She was permitted to borrow it until the following morning only if she promised not to damage the object. After a wakeful night she had solved the mystery. Elsie-Britt is somewhat reticent about how she managed to decode the stitches but it apparently involved some creative 'poking' among them. The mitten was then returned to the museum fully intact. After the discovery Elsie-Britt brought her friend Ulrika in on the secret… Ulrika says, 'It's like nalbinding, a bit limited, but a lot of fun and much easier to learn. It's also an advantage not to need to splice the yarn as is necessary with nalbinding.'
The article then presents Ulrika's instructions for a pair of mittens crocheted with the stitch pattern Elsie-Britt extrapolated from the original mitten. In the interim, Ulrika had contacted Ullcentrum (Wool Center), a regional yarn producer with special interest in traditional Swedish yarncraft. They, in turn, consulted with the National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies about an appropriate designation for was subsequently called virkad nålbindning (crocheted nalbinding).
Ullcentrum included it among the crafts they display at public events, such as the Sewing & Crafts Festival in Stockholm, where it is also taught. They first showed the crocheted mittens there in February 2012, where a visitor to their stand, Elsa Hällberg from Arbrå (in the province of Hälsingland, directly southeast of Jämtland), recognized the stitch. On seeing them she said, "…but I crochet mittens like that…my mother and grandmother taught me how to do it…"
The stitch Elsa reported is less complex than the one described in the initial magazine article but they are unquestionably related. Ulrika added it to her documentation with the name "Arbrå pattern" (Arbrå-mönstret), and labeled that of the Jämtland mitten as the "Original pattern" (Originalmönstret). At the same time, she presented an intermediate pattern of her own devising called "Crochet simple nalbinding" (Virkad enkel nålbindning). Her instructions for mittens using each of the forms are available on Ravelry: the attested one from Arbrå, the deduced Original, and the hybrid Simple.
This video shows how the Original pattern is worked, with the first stitch in a start-up form, and the following ones all fully in pattern.
Four loops are first placed on the hook in a manner that provides the vertical bars used as subsequent points of insertion. The Swedish narration emphasizes that the two loops closest to the tip of the hook need to be elongated, as do Ulrika's instructions. The need for loops not pulled closely around the hook is shared by slip stitch crochet, where it is met by using a flat tapered hook. In fact, explicit instructions for the use of that tool for making the four-bars-on-hook pattern in the cuff of the slipper shown above appear in an earlier German publication, to be discussed in detail in a separate post.
Returning to the Swedish mittens, the wording of what started out unambiguously as a crochet stitch pattern is less precise in the compiled description of the variants. That text can be read to suggest that, despite fundamental procedural and structural differences, crochet nalbinding and ordinary nalbinding are forms of the same craft.
This triggered a reaction in the Swedish blogosphere noting that a crucial distinction was being blurred, regardless of how interesting the crocheted emulation of nalbound fabric might be. This confusion extended into anglophone dialog by the Simple pattern being labeled "Simple nålbinding" on the Ravelry page. Comments in the accompanying discussion clearly indicate that it was taken as nalbinding without regard to the somewhat clearer parallel Swedish label "Virkad enkel nålbindning."
One consequence of the ensuing controversy was to damp further interest in the origin of the technique and its potential historical interest, despite the kerfuffle over its name. As far as the Jämtland pattern goes, if a night of loop-tugging on a single mitten is all there was to it, there would be little more to say. Despite the avowed return of the mitten to the museum intact, it is no longer there, and Elsie-Britt's results cannot be corroborated.
It is not clear if the mitten actually belonged to the museum's collections. The consultation may have been part of a discussion about whether to accession it formally or discard it. However, if it was "likely from the 17th century" as Ullcentrum suggests in a discussion of one of their blog posts, it is exceedingly improbable that the museum was contemplating the latter option.
It is similarly unclear when during the interval between the 1970s and the 2010s the examination took place. Swedish museum policies about permitting objects to be taken off-site became continuously more restrictive in that period, with an earlier date being conceivable and a later one far less likely.
The craft that Elsa learned from her mother and grandmother casts an entirely different light. The commentary to the blog post just cited also notes that her aunts were involved in teaching it to her. She was therefore the third-generation bearer of a what would only have been a single-family tradition if her grandmother had invented it, rather than having herself been taught it in a broader context.
The Arbrå pattern is a product of that tradition, whatever the scope of the community that shared it may have been. In contrast, the Jämtland pattern is the result of a single examination of an object by someone who, although clearly in an expert position to distinguish between crochet and nalbinding, had no prior involvement with whatever tradition the mitten might represent.
The four-loops-on-hook commonality of all the patterns Ulrika describes harks directly back to the earlier hybrid crochet stitches. The chronology of their appearance during the latter half of the 19th century comfortably allows Elsa's grandmother, or even great-grandmother, to have been familiar with them or any undocumented form of traditional crochet or hooking that they may have typified.
Had Hedvig Berg included the Arbrå (or Jämtland or Simple) pattern in her 1873 compilation, she would certainly have placed it under the heading of crochet. If presenting it in the context of mitten production, or some other garment with a strong traditional association with nalbinding, she could easily have labeled it 'imitation af bindning,' 'imitation af nålning,' or whatever her preferred designation for the emulated technique may have been. If contemporized to 'crocheted imitation nalbinding' the added qualifier allows the stitch pattern(s) to take an unladen position on the spectrum of looped techniques used for making mittens in Sweden, deserving further investigation in its own right.
Crochet · Structures · Systematics · Tatting · Techniques
Novelties in crochet — crochet à frivolité
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In 1861, Cornelia Mee and Mary Austin published a book titled Novelties in Crochet. It includes three illustrated instructions for "crochet à frivolité" that emulate tatting, using an ordinary crochet hook and standard crochet stitches. One is for the "wide festoon edging" shown here (with the written instructions at the end of this post). They published a similar book dedicated entirely to shuttle tatting in the following year, titled Tatting, or Frivolité. Mee's preface to it indicates that she was thoroughly familiar with that craft.
"I never remember learning the work, or when I did not know how to do it. I believe it was taught me by my grandmother, who, if she had been living, would have been in her hundredth year. I mention this, as I have heard that a claim has been made by some one lately, to have invented the work, which certainly has been known as Knotting or Tatting for more than a century."
(This post is my own preface to an impending major revision of a research report on knotting and tatting during that period, currently titled Early Tatting Instructions.)
Shuttle tatting was first illustrated in the Victorian fancywork literature by Jane Gaugain in the 1842 edition of The lady's assistant for executing useful and fancy designs in knitting, netting, and crochet work.
A large loop of the shuttle thread is first wrapped around the fingers of the opposite hand and a sequence of smaller loops is then worked around it. When the desired number is reached, the large loop is closed by pulling the core thread, and the pattern is repeated. This is seen in "star tatting" from the same publication.
The method Mee and Austin describe for crochet à frivolité replaces the running thread with a crocheted chain. The loops that would be wrapped around the core are instead single and double crochets (UK) stitched around that chain. This produces bulkier fabric but its patterns are those of tatting, not crochet.
This provides a good illustration of the tools and techniques of one craft being used to produce fabric intended to resemble that normally associated with another craft, which has its own implements and methods. The structural overlap will range from nothing more than superficial similarity, recognizable by an untrained eye, to full congruence.
The Mee and Austin 1862 Tatting book makes no reference to crochet à frivolité beyond including the Novelties book in a listing of their other works currently in print. It therefore seems safe to assume that they really didn't regard it as more than a novelty. Nonetheless, a method for tatting on a crochet hook that more closely resembles shuttle tatting, is described as "crochet tatting" (gehäkelte Frivoliteten) in the 1 February 1868 issue of the German women's magazine Der Bazar.
The same illustrations were syndicated to the US publication Harper's Bazar, established in 1867, and appeared there with an English translation of the accompanying text in the 22 February 1868 issue. Translating directly from the initial German version:
"Previously the only tatting known was made with a shuttle. In today's issue, through descriptions and illustrations, we teach how it can be made with a crochet needle… Appropriate needles are of the same diameter along their entire length and fastened either to a wooden or bone handle or screwed into a holder. The hook must be perfectly smooth, with a blunt tip that is 2—3 cm in length, since the entire row of stitches is held on the needle."
The same method is described again in the 1869 volume of Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine and remains in practice, often called 'cro-tatting.' The illustrated tool is commonly marketed as a 'bouillon crochet hook.'
Instead of being worked around a core thread, the loops are wrapped around a crochet hook. When a sequence of them is ready to be closed into a ring, the hook pulls a long loop of thread through the entire row, forming the core that is retained in the fabric. It consists of two parallel strands of thread rather than the single strand of shuttle tatting. The double strand is concealed inside the ring but the use of a hook is revealed by the chained connections between the pattern repetitions. This is seen in a "crochet tatting edging" from the article in Der Bazar and can be compared with the single thread in Gaugain's star tatting.
The connecting thread can also be embedded in tatting stitches, likewise called a chain. This requires the fabric to be placed between the shuttle and the thread supply, dividing the working thread into two separately manipulable segments. In fact, Mee and Austin claim this to be a technique of their own devising in the 1862 book. (The spool is now commonly replaced with a second shuttle, permitting different color threads on each.)
The difference between a tatted chain and a crocheted chain might not be obvious in a mid-19th-century engraving but is readily apparent in actual fabric.
The loops on the crochet hook illustrated above face each other in pairs termed 'double stitches.' There are also 'single' (or half) stitches, all wrapped around the core in the same direction. There is no effective difference between a sequence of either type positioned on a long cylindrical crochet hook, and a cast-on row of knittable loops on a hook-tipped knitting needle.
This cascades into an interesting parallel between crochet tatting and yet another technique using a long cylindrical hook, also first described in Der Bazar in 1858. This is the Tunisian crochet that Mee and Austin dedicated five books to, calling it "crochet à tricoter," spanning the period in which they introduced their crochet á frivolité. By 1868, Tunisian crochet had become extremely popular and it is reasonable to wonder if it influenced the application of the long hook to tatting.
The difference between the starting rows of crochet tatting and Tunisian crochet is that the loops intended for tatting are wrapped directly around the hook rather than first being drawn through a foundation chain. From there, the difference between the return pass in Tunisian crochet and closing a row of tatting stitches is that the former anchors a chain to every second vertical loop and the latter pulls a single chain through all of them.
The pivotal structural distinction is that the row of chains in Tunisian crochet leaves the initial loops suitably positioned for a new row of loops to be knitted into them. The single chain pulled through all of the loops in crochet tatting holds them snugly against each other in a ring, thereby precluding their use as anchors for a new row of knittable loops.
In the context of textile systematics, the tightly-drawn double stitch (aka 'lark's head knot') may have become one of the basic characteristics of tatting by the mid-19th-century, but tatted fabric also includes open loops. Since the thread in a loop-based stitch takes the same path regardless of whether the stitch is tightened to the point that it alternately can be seen as a knot, tatting is categorized as a looped structure.
Irene Emery places it under the heading "knotted loops" in her structural hierarchy. Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger's classification by techniques categorizes tatting as a form of "meshwork lace" alongside needlepoint lace. Both are a "combination of looping and knotting" and the distinctions between the techniques in that "special class" are "generally denoted by the implements used in their manufacture."
The list of structures made with eyed needles includes some that are fundamental to nalbinding and it may also be interesting to note that tatting using an eyed needle was described as an easier alternative to working with a shuttle before the publication of the Victorian texts cited here. Seiler-Baldinger makes the additional observation that "tatting is often produced in combination with crochet."
As Emery explains it:
"Probably the most familiar and prevalent embodiment of the principle of knotted looping is to be found in the fabrics known as knotted netting…although the structure is also found in…mixed (open and closed) textures such as those produced by tatting."
This brings us dangerously close to the laden term knotless netting that Emery abhors and Seiler-Baldinger avoids altogether. If we accept it for the moment as a synonym for nalbinding, a recently described Swedish novelty in crochet — virkad nålbindning — becomes an intriguing construct. It shares basic procedural elements that Tunisian crochet and crochet tatting also have in common, and might therefore qualify for classification under the oxymoronic heading knotted knotless netting.
The Swedish term virkad nåbindning literally means 'crocheted nalbinding' but that label is a pure neologism. It does not have the documented history that crochet tatting does and we have no idea how widespread it may have been or how its putative earlier practitioners conceptualized and labeled it. Nor does the associated fabric come anywhere near as close structurally to what it nominally emulates as crochet tatting does. I'll be taking a closer look at it in a separate post (and the awkward systematics in yet another).
In the meanwhile, here are the full Mee and Austin instructions for the wide festoon edging in crochet à frivolité. As was customary in their day, the worker is expected to glean quite a bit of information from the illustration and resolve any inconsistencies between it and the written instructions. The main stitching is done in "Boar's Head Cotton, No. 10" and the decoration and auxiliary joining with "Glacé thread, No. 16." The stitch names follow UK usage; a single crochet is a slip stitch.
* Make a chain of 12 stitches and unite it, work into the circle 20 stitches of double crochet, make a chain of 23 stitches and unite it to the 4th, work into the circle 32 stitches of double crochet, make 3 chain and repeat from * till 3 large and 4 small loops are made; work a stitch of single crochet into the 6th loop of small circle, *, make 5 chain, miss 2 loops, work a stitch of single crochet into the 3rd, repeat from last * twice more; work a stitch of single crochet into the 6th loop of large circle, make 5 chain, miss 2 loops, work a stitch of single crochet into the 3rd, repeat this 6 times; work into the remaining circles in the same way as before, work 2 stitches of double crochet into the 1st 5 chain of small circle, 2 stitches of double crochet into the next 5 chain, make 3 chain, work 2 more stitches of double crochet into the same place, work 2 stitches of double into the next 5 chain, work 2 stitches of double crochet into the 1st 5 chain of large circle, *, 2 stitches of double crochet into the next, make 3 chain, work 2 more stitches of double crochet into the same place, repeat from * twice more; work into the remaining circles in the same way, work in the centre a stitch of double crochet into each of the 3 chain between the circles; with glacé thread, work the lace stitch in the large circles, as shown in the<|fim_middle|>'m going to wrap things up by focusing on how her perspective of the differences between them shifted during the 1840s (also summarizing snippets presented more fully in an earlier post on Scottish Knitting).
In The Handbook of Needlework, from 1842, Lambert notes that crochet had come into fashion only four years earlier "although long known and practised." She published the first book devoted exclusively to crochet, My Crochet Sampler, in the following year (the 1844 printing is available online). It specifies the earlier form as "a species of knitting originally practised by the peasants in Scotland, with a small hooked needle called a shepherd's hook."
In the same work, Lambert defines "plain single crochet" and "plain double crochet." These correspond to the present single (or slip stitch) crochet and double crochet (UK) with one key difference. The initial forms were worked into the front leg of the chained loop at the top of the corresponding stitch in the preceding row — a technical detail designated as "plain" (now abbreviated FLO; front loop only) — rather than under the entire loop ("both loops"), as is the current standard.
Lambert published a revised second edition of the Sampler in 1848, again emphasizing that:
"Heretofore, Crochet had been practised in its most primitive shape—as a species of knitting; the stitch now recognised as Crochet, being but little known. From that period—now ten years since—Crochet has gradually progressed."
The reference to "the stitch now recognised as Crochet" and the dropped mention of the Scottish tradition are significant. Lambert and her contemporaries emphasize that a crochet stitch presented without further specification is to be taken as a "plain double crochet." The 1848 Sampler labels this a "plain stitch crochet" and does not include the definition of plain single crochet that appeared in 1843.
Lambert describes several additional stitches, some of which are relevant to the present discussion. Here is double crochet worked into the back leg of the loop. (Although the concordance between the legs when designated as back/front or top/bottom is not always clear, in this case the description of the stitch provides the requisite context.)
"Raised, or ribbed crochet,—sometimes called elastic crochet—is worked in the same manner as plain stitch crochet, with this exception—the under loops of the stitches of the previous row are always to be taken. It is worked in rows backwards and forwards."
Double crochet can also be worked under the two legs of the loop rather than into it.
"Double stitch crochet—is worked in the same manner as plain stitch crochet, with the exception that both loops (the upper and under) of the stitch of the preceding row are taken. It is only employed where extra thickness is required,—as for the soles of shoes."
This extends her 1842 description (noted in Part 1) and drops the earlier constraint that "it is not suitable for working patterns," taking a step toward eliminating the constraint on inserting the hook under both legs of the loop. There is also a significant structural difference between stitches worked into the loop and those worked under the loop but not into it. The former has a stronger affiliation with knitting that does the latter, providing greater justification for categorizing shepherd's knitting as a species of knitting than there is for any form of crochet worked under the entire loop.
The visual effect of the changed technique, as that of turning the work at the end of each row rather than the waning practice of cutting the yarn, was to equalize the appearance of the two sides of flat crocheted fabric. Beginning each row from the same edge otherwise preserves the difference in appearance between the front and back, which is particularly marked with slip stitch crochet. That contrast is prominent even when it is worked in the round, as seen in extant shepherd's knitting where both sides are juxtaposed on the public face of the fabric.
Two ways of changing their orientation were presented in the preceding installment. One is found in an instruction by Lambert for a slip-stitched bootee: "When finished it is turned inside out." The other is a less obvious technique described by Jane Gaugain in 1842.
"It is not necessary to work an edge stitch [i.e., turning chain] on a round, but only where the work requires to be turned to the wrong side, in order to work round the other way."
Slip stitch crochet itself successively disappeared as a method for producing fabric, as signaled by the difference in the 1843 and 1848 editions of My Crochet Sampler. It reemerged in the encyclopedic reviews of 19th-century fancywork published later in the century and the beginning of the following one (illustrated in a previous post on Bosnian crochet). Some recent pedagogical material fully reinstates it, illustrating the common legacy stitches and variants that only appear sporadically in the earlier repertoire. Nonetheless, there was a relatively long period when crocheters would likely have had difficulty recognizing shepherd's knitting (by any name).
That interval spanned the late 1940s and mid-1950s, when the broader research community was first becoming aware of the distinction between the crafts of nalbinding and knitting. The joint applicability of these techniques for producing the structure alternately termed cross-knit looping and twisted-stitch knitting has been discussed in a number of previous posts.
The back side of FLO slip stitch crochet also has a superficial resemblance to that structure. Although someone familiar with the craft would immediately recognize the difference, that erudition was not shared by all of the participants in the initial discussion of the candidate production methods. As a result, some exemplars of shepherd's knitting were identified as nalbinding, with the conflation of the two crafts in earlier research reports echoed in more recent studies.
On the other hand, the basic slip-stitch structure that characterizes shepherd's knitting can also be made with an eyed needle pulling a single strand of yarn. Pending the identification of decisive secondary detail equivalent to that used to differentiate nalbinding from true knitting with regard to the cross-knit structure, it is safest to stipulate that there can be reasonable contention about the craft identity of a given slip-stitched object.
However, if the object under examination includes shaped details such as the toe or heel of a sock, the practicability of the respective techniques can also be factored into the evaluation. I'll be discussing a few such equivocal descriptions of potential historical significance in separate posts. These put nalbinding in contexts where it is otherwise unknown and date the crochet-type slip-stitch structure far earlier than can be corroborated by any other evidence.
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The tale of the second bootee
24 January 2019 15 November 2020 stringbedLeave a comment
In the last few posts, I've been working my way toward the description of a baby's sock in the collections of the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. If correctly dated, it could be the oldest object with a slip stitch structure that has yet been noted. It is described as nalbinding in previous documentation, rather than as the slip stitch crochet it is more likely to be. The sock has also been associated with the textile production of Coptic Egypt, which although rich in both simple and compound nalbound material, would make it far older than any other evidence of slip stitch fabric, regardless of the production method.
This increases the care needed in examining the chronological and technological records, and if necessary, setting them straight. If the colloquial information about the sock's provenance should prove even roughly to be correct, it would allow for slip stitch fabric to have emerged around 1,000 years before the earliest firm date in the 1780s that can otherwise be set to it. Radiocarbon dating would immediately rein this in to a more useful interval, assuming that it is not of more recent origin than can be dated with that method, at all.
If it should prove to have been nalbound, slip stitch crochet could arguably have developed as an alternate technique for producing at least that one form of nalbinding. Pending a more precise dating of the sock, this would still suggest an earlier date for the origins of crochet than the one currently accepted. Adding a single new stitch to the already extensive repertoire of nalbinding would be less dramatic but interesting nonetheless.
The third possibility is that the provenance of the sock was misrepresented by the dealer from whom it was purchased, and that it lacks any actual association with either Coptic or early Islamic Egypt. Even so, slip stitch crochet is a traditional practice in Northwest Africa and the sock can reasonably be seen as evidence of its broader range. Again, its radiometric dating might indicate how far back that tradition can be traced, with greater objective potential for shifting perceptions of the craft's age.
I had been waiting to blog about any of this until I had seen the actual sock and not just photographs of it. That finally happened a fortnight before this post was published, when my friend Anne Marie Decker and I were generously given access to the early non-woven Egyptian fabric in the storerooms of the Museum der Kulturen, by the acting Head of the African Department, Isabella Bozsa.
Anne is better equipped than anyone else I know to identify secondary structural detail that might definitively reveal whether the sock was produced with an eyed needle or a hook. If no such determination could be made, we would then consider stylistic attributes that might indicate the more likely method. There was also a small pouch among the objects shown to us that had the same slip stitch structure, so in fact, there were two pieces that we could take into consideration.
We were unable to locate any detail in either that could only have been produced with an eyed needle, and Anne found something she believed might preclude that possibility outright. However, there hasn't yet been time for her to confirm this experimentally. All structural details of both the sock and the pouch are otherwise fully congruent with hook-based slip stitching. The sock also differs from comparable nalbound objects in pivotal stylistic regard.
We'll be preparing a proper report about this as soon as we can manage and I'll be focusing in greater detail on selected aspects of the history of slip stitch fabric and its structural classification, in separate posts.
Anne and I proceeded from Basel to Copenhagen where we both gave presentations at a conference earlier this week on Current Research in Textile Archaeology along the Nile. My presentation is available here, starting at the 19'04" mark, and includes illustrations and commentary specific to the sock and pouch, as well as other evidence of early slip stitch crochet. (There are a number of options for displaying the presentation and selecting "Slides" is preferable to the default "Screen." What may seem to be an inordinate amount of hand-waving is an unfortunate consequence of the camera angle.) Anne's presentation places the Basel objects in a far broader context of simple and compound nalbinding, and is located here.
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Crochet with an eyed needle
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Schematic drawings of the slip stitch structure, identical to the ones seen in the preceding post, appear in published descriptions of other objects said to be nalbinding rather than crochet. Before considering individual such objects, I'm going to take a look at another way to use an eyed needle for producing not just crochet-type slip stitches but a variety of more complex structures normally identified as crochet.
In the present context, the difference between the two tools reduces to the single mechanical detail of whether the end that grasps the yarn is fully closed — an eye — or is open on one side — a hook. The former holds the yarn more firmly and constrains its separation from the tool. The latter allows the yarn to be removed and reattached at any time but is conducive to unintentional separation. Both tools are otherwise made with dull and pointed tips, although that attribute is more relevant to the (by no means unrelated) comparison of ordinary and tambour embroidery.
In 1966, Angela Huber was granted US Patent no. 3,228,212 for a Method of Hand Knitting and Knitting Needle, five years after filing a corresponding application in Austria.
"This invention relates to a method of hand knitting and a knitting needle for it. Both the method and the needle distinguish by being particularly simple because only a single thread and a single needle are employed."
An eyed needle used to push a new loop through a preexisting one, gauging its size with an adjustable collar. The patent illustrates both knit-type and crochet-type looping, showing only the latter here.
A tool of the same design was sold in the late 1960s as the "Grant One Needle Looper" with a pattern booklet titled Grant's One Needle Looping. It was telemarketed shortly thereafter as "The Original K-Tel Knitter — a revolutionary new method of knitting and crocheting with one needle."
There is no indication of the relationship between the Grant/K-Tel items and the Huber patent but the instruction booklet in the K-Tel package (and presumably also Grant's) illustrates a "simplicity stitch" with essentially the same drawings as the preceding ones.
This technique is currently marketed as Fauxchét® using a composite needle that is identical to a standard machine knitting 1×2 transfer tool (but trademarked nonetheless). It is again unclear if there is a relationship to the Huber patent.
As is seen in other videos in that series, an eyed needle can be used in the same manner to make crochet stitches of increasing complexity. This can be compared to the production of hand knitted fabric on a peg loom instead of knitting needles. In both cases, the adherents to the conventional technique are in a substantial majority and have varying opinions about the utility of the alternative.
A similar comparison can be made between the structurally identical cross-knit looping made with an eyed needle, and twisted-stitch knitting made with knitting needles. This highlights why the discussion of the structure of a piece of fabric so often needs to be separated from that of the various tools and techniques that can be used to produce it. This is further demonstrated by the basic principle of a sewing machine, which is to push a loop of thread through fabric using the eyed end of a needle, and that of a knitting machine, using what is essentially a battery of crochet hooks to create vertically chained knitted structures.
The eyed end of the needle is also commonly used in hand embroidery to pass the working thread between preexisting stitches and the base fabric without risk of piercing either. With all this it mind, it is reasonable to wonder why a second point is frequently seen on archaeologically recovered needles such as those found at the Viking settlement in Birka and currently on display at the Swedish History Museum.
Similar needles from an earlier Celtic settlement in Colchester are on display at the British Museum.
Just as it is frequently impossible to look at a piece of looped fabric and know what tools were involved in its production, a tool doesn't always reveal what it was used for. It is safe to assume that it had a primary function. However, for example, it does not follow from the similarity between the second needle from the top in this photo and the needles used in the Nordic nalbinding tradition, as first documented in the 1940s, that the older implement was ever used for that craft. In fact, it cannot be proven that it was intended for work with yarn at all.
With the same caveat, if historical precedent for the production of crochet-type slip stitch fabric using an eyed needle can be established, one with two points at longer and shorter distances from the eye would easily support either of the techniques we've now seen.
A Tale of Two Bootees
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Note: I examined the pair of Scottish child's bootees discussed below on 8 April 2019. This revealed details that necessitate significant revision of the description initially provided by Audrey Henshall and my analysis of it. The bootees are the oldest credibly attributed exemplars of shepherd's knitting and the possibly of their having been nalbound can safely be dismissed. A recent photograph and a summary review of the updated information appears in my article, the Evolution in Early Crochet: From Flat-Hook Knitting to Slip-Stitch Crochet, in the Winter 2020 issue of PieceWork, pp. 47–51. An expert group will be examining the documentation gathered when I saw the bootees and will report its conclusions separately.
An extensive report by Audrey Henshall on Early Textiles Found in Scotland was published in 1952. Its primary scope was "fabrics from the Roman period to the 17th century which are likely to be of native production" but:
"One unexpected item in the collection [of the National Museum of Scotland] is an example of naalebinding or looped needle netting which it is desirable to record though outside the chronological limits of this paper. The naalebinding occurs on a pair of child's shoes made about 1780. This type of work has been described and discussed fully by Dr Hald1: it is known from the Iron Age in Scandinavia where it was used for mittens and caps and, though, rare, from the Middle Ages in other parts of Europe. These shoes are the only example of the work so far recognised in Great Britain. The fabric is worked with a needle, the stitches being a complex type of chain stitch which works into the former row as well as the current one. The general effect of the Scottish example, for which no exact parallel has been found, is of a fine, firm crochet."
The footnoted reference is to Margrethe Hald's Olddanske Tekstiler (Early Danish Textiles), published two years earlier. This played a seminal role in familiarizing researchers with nalbinding (a development described in a previous post). Henshall cites it elsewhere in her text and it is fair to suspect that it influenced her assessment of the shoes.
Since then, one additional nalbound item has appeared in a report on archeologically recovered material in Great Britain. This is the well-known sock found at the Viking settlement in York, described in detail by Penelope Walton in Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate, from 1989. However, she doubts that it was manufactured in England and states:
"The only evidence that this technique was ever practised in the British Isles is to be found in an 18th century pair of child's bootees in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (Henshall 1952)."
Henshall provides the following illustration of their structure.
This can be directly compared to Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger's schematic drawing of slip stitch crochet (discussed in the preceding post).
One key difference between them is that Seiler-Baldinger illustrates the loops with their legs crossed, producing closed stitches, while Henshall illustrates open loops. The two drawings also differ in the way the legs of the loop pass around the side of the stitch to which it is anchored in the preceding row. Seiler-Baldinger shows them passing in front and Henshall shows them passing behind. This correlates to the distinction slip stitch crocheters make between ordinary and 'inverse' stitches, or knitters make between knit and purl.
By showing each row as a separate strand, Henshall's drawing provides a good schematic illustration of shepherd's knitting, which when worked flat, is characterized by the yarn being cut at the end of each row. That craft has a strong attested connection with Scotland and it is reasonable to question whether Henshall correctly identified the tool and technique used to produce them. The earliest non-English descriptions of slip stitching with a hook are also from the 1780s. One is specifically about the production of shoes, adding further reason to pose that question.
The structure visible in the photograph Henshall captions "bootee in naalebinding" could similarly serve as a textbook illustration of slip stitch crochet worked with the flat shepherd's hook explicitly identified with Scottish practice and illustrated in the other 1780s sources. She describes both the technique by which the bootees were made and a pivotal detail of their structure quite differently.
"This pair of child's bootees of the 18th century is included because of the unusual technique employed to make them. The labels on the soles read 'supposed to be made about the year 1780. Belonged to Agnes Taylor's great-great-aunts. 1880.' The uppers are a red wool fabric, the soles are leather. The dimensions are: length 4 3/4 ins., width 1 3/4 ins., height 3 ins.
The general appearance of the fabric is fine and close, rather like knitting or crochet, worked in an evenly spun red 3-ply wool. The fabric is a simple form of naalebinding. It is worked, with the wool threaded through a needle, in a series of stitches in rows working into the current and previous rows simultaneously. The joins between the lengths of the wool are visible in places either as knots or darned-in ends. The bootees are worked horizontally round and round with two converging lines of decreases on either side of the toe. It is uncertain if the top edge, which is finished with three horizontal ribs, is the beginning of the work. The ribs are formed by working the new row into the centre of the preceding row instead of the edge of it, the edge loops standing up on the outside surface making the ribs. The other edge is folded to meet under the foot and is attached to the sole."
Notwithstanding Henshall having physically examining the bootees, it is difficult to reconcile her description of their structure and construction with the detail shown in her photograph. It does not appear to illustrate continuous horizontal rounds of stitching nor are the converging lines delimiting the toe clearly formed by decreases. The configuration of the top edge would draw no comment if the bootee were crocheted. The use of shorter lengths of yarn is consistent with both nalbinding and flatwork shepherd's knitting. However, in the former case one would expect them to be joined in barely visible splices worked directly into the yarn. Darned-in ends are more indicative of shepherd's knitting.
That craft was still practiced in Scotland in Henshall's day with little modification, using a flat hook locally termed a cleek. However, the research community had not yet taken notice of it or any other form of slip stitch crochet. In light of the interest that Hald had recently focused on nalbinding, explaining the bootees as having been produced with an eyed needle pulling a single strand of yarn is understandable.
Henshall also illustrates how a slip stitch can be formed in that manner.
Even if this is taken to be as viable a technique as is the use of a hook, the contextual support for the bootees being shepherd's knitting contraindicates any other technique. However, additional objects that crocheters would identify as evidence of their craft have been described as nalbinding. Some of this material was made after the establishment of modern crochet and is therefore of no historical consequence to it.
From the nalbinding perspective there is a further issue about whether the structure illustrated by Henshall and also seen in the piece remaining to be described, has a proper place in that craft's stitch repertoire. This does not diminish the significance of the objects this post was named for. Admitting to some poetic license in the title, the second bootee it is actually a baby's sock, noteworthy because it has been associated with Coptic Egypt.
Identifying secondary structural characteristics that might differentiate slip stitch fabric made respectively by nalbinding and crochet is therefore worth some effort. If it can indeed be determined that slip stitch fabric was produced by both techniques, a significant new perspective would apply to the relationship between them. Conversely, the failure to locate evidence specifically indicating the use of an eyed needle would largely eliminate any doubt about the Scottish bootees being early exemplars of shepherd's knitting, as the child's sock would also be. The question of the latter object's age would then become pivotal to dating the advent of that craft.
The first description of the putative nalbound Coptic sock was published in 1955, again predating widespread recognition of slip stitch crochet. However, that attribution is echoed in a later report where the alternatives should have been recognized, and which verifies neither the sock's age nor provenance. I'll discuss relevant documents in separate posts.
More information about traditional Scottish cleeking is given in a presentation held by Louise Scollay at the In the Loop at 10 conference at the Winchester School of Art in June 2018, titled Archive Treasure: Cleekit Gloves, with relevant additional commentary in a following panel discussion.
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Twists and turns in the development of crochet — Part 3
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The authors whose writings illustrate the early Victorian practice of crochet in the preceding installments of this series (Part 1, Part 2) continued to publish extensively about the craft. Its development can be traced through each of their works and is concordant across them all. Frances Lambert is particularly clear in relating crochet to the predecessor craft of shepherd's knitting and I | 3,974 |
Peter Strzok Said He Checked His Beliefs at the Door: Who's He Trying To Kid?
By Dr. James Thrasher July 17, 2018 at 9:58am
Peter Strzok, the former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI, testified on July 12 before two House Committees. In his opening statement, he said: "Let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath: Not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took."
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Kelli Ward: Trump's Victories Are Stacking Up in Arizona | 10-hour testimony, he either was disingenuous or unwilling to be honest about the fact that every person on earth lives, breathes, and acts upon personal convictions. Agent Strzok needs to take the college freshman Humanities course which changed my life. In that class, I learned that underlying all that we think, say, and do are basic assumptions that form what is called a worldview. In the simplest of terms, a worldview is a set of beliefs about the most important issues of life.
Indelibly imprinted in my memory is watching my college Humanities professor don an over-sized set of brightly colored clown glasses as he told the class that everyone has a set of lenses through which they see, judge and interpret the entirety of life. Every person alive has a perspective into which they consciously or unconsciously fit everything they believe and by which they interpret and judge reality.
Strzok's more than 50,000 texts and emails sent to his extramarital lover and FBI attorney Lisa Page about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and others, are evidence of the all-encompassing worldview which guides every aspect and dimension of his life. Strzok showed us the prescription of his lenses through the content of his text messages and through his public explanations of the intent of his words.
One of the presumed goals of the House Committees was to ascertain whether the texts established a biased personal position. Then, if bias was affirmed, whether it affected his decisions and actions at the bureau. Agent Strzok stated during his televised testimony that "at no time did my personal beliefs affect my decisions."
Who is he trying to kid? His claim that someone can be completely unbiased truly is absurd, and many were not buying what he was selling. In a Washington Post article, Rep. Mark Meadows was quoted as saying that Strzok's words "left lawmakers unconvinced that political bias did not factor in some of his decisions." The article went on to say that "even the inspector general admitted that bias certainly could have had an indirect effect [on decisions] because of Strzok's role." Wolf Blitzer from CNN even went so far as to call his biased explanations "damning."
Was Strzok's bias related to specific individuals and circumstances, and did his bias affect his reasoning, decisions, and actions? Based on the pervasiveness and comprehensiveness of every person's worldview, the answer is clear. Yes, and yes! What a person says, does, and thinks expresses his or her most deeply held values, beliefs, and commitments. They cannot be separated. This direct relationship is inescapable for all individuals. Strzok's worldview drove how he saw, interpreted, and acted upon the circumstances that surrounded him at the FBI.
A person cannot isolate and then prevent his political and personal views from being thoroughly integrated in his overall life philosophy. That philosophy is the rudder guiding all other thoughts and actions in life. A true understanding of a worldview unequivocally affirms that the bias revealed in the texts did, indeed, affect Peter Strzok's intentions, decisions, actions, and conclusions at the FBI.
Dr. Jim Thrasher is the Senior Fellow for Vocational Guidance at Grove City College and the coordinator of the Center for Vision & Values working group on calling.
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Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow reacts as he leaves the field following of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 31-20. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
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Joe Burrow guided his team to a win. Justin Herbert probably deserved one. And Tua Tagovailoa didn't<|fim_middle|> a rebuilding team coming off a 2-14 year. Burrow has been as good or better than nearly every opposing quarterback he has faced.
And the Bengals are improving.
"We don't feel like a 1-5 football team," he said. "One or two plays go our way over the last couple weeks and we're 6-2 or 7-1, but we know that we didn't make those plays until today and it feels good to make them."
It can't feel very good for Herbert, whose Chargers (2-5) can't hold leads. They've been outscored by only six points overall, but they find ways to lose in excruciating fashion — such as 31-30 at Denver on Sunday.
Still, Herbert has been pretty much everything the Chargers sought with the sixth overall draft pick. He had three touchdown passes in that loss to the Broncos, tying him with Houston's Deshaun Watson (2017) as the only rookies with at least three TD tosses in four consecutive games.
He is resourceful, competitive and possibly more versatile than his two rookie peers.
And he sounds like a veteran already.
"If anyone thinks this doesn't bother me at all, they're wrong," Herbert said. "I take a lot of pride in this team. I know I've only been here for a little bit, but you can't do anything about changing results that have already happened. All we can do now is look forward, go forward, continue to have great weeks of practice and get better.
"It's obviously tough. It's definitely tough any time you lose close games like that, especially for five weeks in a row. It's tough, but we're going to get better and there's nothing we can do about it now. So just keep pushing forward and keep getting better."
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/11/web1_125718089-9217e1ea849b432684606e0521651698.jpgCincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) motions a first down during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow reacts as he leaves the field following of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 31-20. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
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https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/11/web1_125718089-f91fcf8a0f5c43d9a92ce4fec3319499.jpgMiami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) looks to pass the ball, during the first half of an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Burrow, Herbert, Tagovailoa start on same day for 1st time. Here is a link to that story: http://www.wnewsj.com/sports/local-sports-1/150372/burrow-herbert-tagovailoa-start-on-same-day-for-1st-time | have to do much to be successful in his NFL starting debut.
It was a mixed bag Sunday for the three quarterbacks drafted in the top six last April. It also was an intriguing look into what might be ahead for Burrow in "Joehio," Herbert in Hollywood, and Tua in South Beach.
"It was fun just being able to go out there and play a full 60-minute game now, being that it was my first start in the NFL," said Tagovailoa after a 28-17 victory over the Rams in a game the defense and special teams basically won. "We really faced a really good defense. I'm proud of what we got to do offensively, but I do know that there's still a lot of things we need to correct come Monday."
Tagovailoa sat behind veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick for six games, and Fitz led the Dolphins to two straight victories to get to 3-3. But then came the bye week, and it apparently was Miami's plan all along to turn to a healthy Tua — even when the bye was moved up from Week 11 due to league rescheduling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The best moves the lefty from the Alabama Crimson Tide showed were doing a dance following a 3-yard touchdown pass to DeVante Parker. Tagovailoa also retrieved the ball as a souvenir.
But it's not about Tagovailoa being Dan Marino quite yet. It's about establishing him as the team's leader for the next decade, even if he isn't tearing it up the way Burrow and Herbert are.
Tagovailoa also has something the other two NFL newbies don't: a potential playoff contender. So turning him loose might not be on the Dolphins' agenda in 2020.
Burrow, the top overall draftee, has been turned loose since preseason. There was never any question the 2019 national champion at LSU would be the man in Cincinnati. While the Bengals (2-5-1) are barren in so many areas, Burrow looks exactly like a franchise QB.
Burrow has 221 completions, the most by a player in his first eight career games in NFL history. He has completed at least 25 passes in six games, tied with Arizona's Kyler Murray (2019) for the second-most such games by a rookie. Only Philadelphia's Carson Wentz had more, with seven in 2016.
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Lights by Ellie Goulding is a song inspired by the childhood fear of the dark. It was included as a single on her album Bright Lights. The song is about how the singer could only sleep with the lights on, and she felt most comfortable leaving them on.
Fun fact! Lights has been performed by Ellie Goulding on The Early Show and Late Show with David Letterman, as well as The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
This Sheet Music Boss arrangement by Andrew Wrangell is approximately grade 2 level. It's a great song and sure to be a fantastic repertoire choice at a concert given how popular it is!
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Andrew Wrangell is a composer and arranger from Brisbane, Australia. He began adapting music for piano as soon as he began learning at the age of 5, playing his favourite TV show themes on piano. He has been arranging music for all sorts of instrument combinations ever since, and has over 100 piano arrangements to his name and counting!
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Samuel is a composer and engraver from Brisbane, Australia. He regularly edits music for professional composers and ensembles. Clients include The Camerata of St. John's, Greg Andrew (Elton John Experience), Sydney based Fluteworthy and various community and youth orchestras.
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I had a way then
Losing it all on my own
I had a heart then
But the queen has been overthrown
And I'm not sleeping now
The dark is too hard to beat
And I'm not keeping up
The strength I need to push me
You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine them when I'm alone
And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
And dreaming when they're gone
'Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home
Calling, calling, calling home
Noises, I play within my head
Touch my own skin
And hope that i'm still breathing
And I think back to when
My brother and my sister slept
In an unlocked place
The only time I feel safe
Dreaming when they're gone
Home, home
Written by Ellie Goulding, Ashley Francis Howes, Richard Frederick Stannard • Copyright © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Peermusic Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Global Talent Music Pub Inc, BMG Rights Management US, LLC.
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Freelancers made up 35 percent of the workforce in 2016, according to a report from Upwork and Freelancers Union. Sixty-three percent said that they opted to freelance by choice, saying that "having a diversified portfolio of clients is more secure than having one employer." But while working for themselves may feel safer for some workers than working for an employer, there's one area in which employees often have the advantage: benefits.
Freelancers, contractors, and other gig economy workers don't have access to the same health insurance, paid time off, and retirement benefits as full-time workers.
But that might be about to change. Legislation recently introduced by U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Rep.<|fim_middle|>, among other benefits.
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Sen. Warner says he hopes the bill will result in multiple models of portable benefits programs that legislators can evaluate before rolling out a federal law.
"I think if we try to legislate top-down now, we'd probably get it wrong," Warner told Quartz.
Are you for or against legislation like this? We want to hear from you. Tell us your thoughts in the comments or join the conversation on Twitter. | Suzan DelBene (D-WA) would create a $20 million fund under the Department of Labor. The fund would incentivize states and nonprofits such as unions to develop portable benefits programs covering sick leave, health insurance, retirement benefits, and education and training | 54 |
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The zany MTV Movie Awards – which demonstrate their level of seriousness by handing out gilded buckets of popcorn to the winners – air tonight at 9 pm on (duh) MTV. The show was taped on Saturday and the nominees and winners (talk about spoilers) are listed here.
Keeping with the unceremonious tone of the ceremonies, there was much shenanigans at the taping:
Then there was D12. Costumed as various stars of yesteryear, the Detroit rap crew passed the time before their performance by taunting glamorous and beautiful passers-by.
"Sharon Stone! I'm Rick James," shouted D12's Kon Artis, who was dressed as the funky singer. He stopped the stunned "Basic Instinct" star in her tracks and caressed her hand. "I love your movies," he purred<|fim_middle|> only a…
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She forced a smile. "I … love your music …?" she said with uncertainty, before her entourage hustled her out a side entrance.
….Eminem, dressed as Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose (news), remained out of sight for most of the hijinks, shrouded behind a small, curtained room.
He missed Christina Aguilera, a longtime musical foe he once famously mocked in song, as she sneaked past the D12 crew. She giggled "Nice!" to a friend, cocking her head at the ridiculously costumed guys. They were too busy cavorting in front of an MTV camera to notice.
Eminem emerged in time to cross paths with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake star Jessica Biel. He looped his arm across her shoulders and escorted her to the exit, then – in the shadow of his massive bodyguard team – pretended to pick a fight with her in front of the crowd outside.
"You and me – after school!" he taunted.
Biel was happy to play along. "3 o'clock!" she yelled back.
For the less rowdy, the dimly lit hallway was just a place to hang out. Tom Cruise, who presented an award with his "Collateral" co-star Jamie Foxx, was adjusting his sunglasses to hang from the neck of his T-shirt before being confronted by a fan – Vin Diesel.
….At one point Paris Hilton and her Backstreet Boys beau Nick Carter squeezed through the crowd. The hotel heiress/reality TV star/reluctant Internet porn icon leaned back and smiled, "Do I look cute?" as if she already knew the answer.
Carter responded with a kiss to her cheek. Then they went outside so she could smoke a cigarette.
Since the talent wasn't required to show up for rehearsals, some stars showed glimpses of panic as their presentations neared. Dunst was preparing to hand out the final award – best movie, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" – but she had a problem.
"I have no idea what I'm saying!" she said. "I don't know my lines."
Minutes before she went onstage with her "Spider-Man 2" co-star Tobey Maguire, she huddled with the production crew to glance over the scripted patter. Her objective: to escort a person in a pajama-looking Spider-Man suit out to the podium. Then Maguire would came out later as a surprise.
Then the phony Spider-Man showed up. It was Ellen DeGeneres. [AP]
For complete spoilage, read the official MTV recap here.
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Clippers' J.J. Redick isn't worried about poor shooting in exhibition season
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It has been somewhat of a curious exhibition season for J<|fim_middle|>, Redick has made 41.2% of his three-pointers.
"Listen, I've been in the league for 11 years, man," Redick said. "I've gotten off to slow starts in the regular season, and I've gotten off to fast starts. I've always said this: I believe in the law of averages. I've put the extra time in here [at the Clippers' facility] shooting."
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Benches clear in Angels-Astros game after Jake Marisnick is hit by a pitch
Nine days after the Houston Astros' Jake Marisnick flattened Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy on a home-plate collision, Marisnick was hit by a pitch leading to a partial bench-clearing altercation. | .J. Redick, a time when his shot has not been as accurate as it has been over the first 10 years of his NBA career.
Redick has one of the best three-point shooting strokes in the league, but in the two of three exhibition games he has played in for the Clippers, the 6-foot-4 guard has mostly been missing his shots.
Known for seemingly always having a proper perspective on things, Redick is not concerned he's making just 33.3% of his three-pointers in the exhibition season, and just 26.7% of his field goals as a whole.
Then again, Redick's minutes have been scattered in the two games he has played; he's averaging 16.5 minutes per game.
"I've never really put too much into the exhibition season," Redick said after the Clippers' shoot-around in preparation for Thursday's game against the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center. "I learned early on in my career that you can't do that.
"In my second and third year, I had great exhibition seasons and then barely played. So for me, I want to feel like I'm in a rhythm. I would never look at percentages in the exhibition season."
The truth is that Redick has no reason to be worried.
He led the NBA in three-point field-goal percentage last season, knocking down an amazing 47.5% of his threes.
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Whether anxiety rules your everyday life or only upsets you now and then, it still takes a toll on your physical and mental health. Anxiety can raise your blood pressure, disrupt your sleep and make you more likely to adopt unhealthy habits.
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News of governments such as Russia and North Korea deploying their tech teams to hack into companies for political reasons has made headlines (think Sony after release of the movie The Interview). But what about when the U<|fim_middle|> operations, and the U.S. government buys from that market too. For example, in the "Apple vs. FBI" case, the government bought an exploit from an unnamed third party in order to break into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.
Read the full interview at the SLS Legal Aggregate Blog. | .S. government "hacks" to get around security measures designed to protect consumers? Can those hacks backfire and put us all at risk? Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, looks at these issues in a new paper Security Risks of Government Hacking. Here, she discusses her findings.
Your paper explores the security risks posed by government hacking. Can you explain government hacking?
"Government hacking" refers to when government investigators use vulnerabilities (bugs) in software and hardware products to, first, gain remote access to computers that have information the investigators want, and then remotely search the computer, monitor user activity on it, or even interfere with its operation. These hacking operations can be conducted by intelligence agencies or law enforcement agencies, in furtherance of criminal, national security, or terrorism investigations.
Does the U.S. government have the technical expertise for that? Are they typically government employees?
The U.S. government, particularly its intelligence agencies, likely has more technical expertise than most if not all other countries in this area. And law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation request funding from Congress every year to develop their capabilities even further.
Sometimes the people developing government hacking techniques are government employees, and other times not. As the paper explains, the U.S. government may discover vulnerabilities itself and build "exploits" that make use of those vulnerabilities. But there is also a market where third-party entities (that are not governments themselves) sell software and services to governments to conduct their hacking | 312 |
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© 2021 Copyright Boxing Wales. All Rights reserved. Website by Websdirect | sh Wizard' Cordina earlier today as he was crowned the lightweight (60KG) champion of Europe.
The 23-year-old claimed the gold medal at the European Championships in Bulgaria with a Unanimous Decision points victory over Georgia's Otar Eransyan. After a gruelling five fights in 10 days, Cordina retained enough of his quick reflexes and sharp skills to stay a step ahead of a determined Eransyan and claim his first major tournament victory.
The Welshman's legs seemed heavier than usual in the first round but he quickly adapted to take advantage of his opponent's eagerness, catching the pressure fighter as he recklessly approached. Cordina's counterpunches caught the officials' eyes and two of the three judges favoured him in the opener.
The pattern remained the same in the second round with Cordina circling the perimeter of the ring but despite his calmness, it was far from comfortable for the gutsy St Joseph's Boxing Club member who was forced to work for every second. With Eransyan eager to gain momentum, he rushed forward only to be met with several flush right uppercuts and left hooks from Cordina.
The crisp replies weren't enough to stop Eransyan in his tracks, though. Cordina adapted to the blatant charges by staying very close on the inside and smartly smothering his opponent without holding, tactics that clearly worked as all three judges awarded the second round to him.
Amidst warnings from the referee to keep his head above waist height, Cordina stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Eransyan for periods of the last round. Having matched the naturally aggressor at his own game, Cordina came through it and remained ahead on the scorecards.
Throughout Cordina's previous four fights, he hadn't overexerted himself and it meant his well-maintained tank matched his mental maturity which allowed the Cardiff native, who has recently become a father for the first time, to produce the best results of his eight year career. It was Cordina's second medal at a major event in the space of 12 months, having collected a bronze at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
On that occasion, the switch-hitter appeared to tire by the time he reached the semi-final due to another gruelling schedule but the way he preserved his energy in Bulgaria will give him confidence in future physically demanding tournaments.
Cordina was the only one of Team GB's five finalists to win a gold medal as Harvey Horn, Muhammad Ali (not that one!), Qais Ashfaq and Pat McCormack were all defeated and collected silver medals. In 2011, St Mellons' Fred Evans and Barry Town's Andrew Selby became Wales' first European amateur champions for 86 years and both progressed to the Olympics, with Evans making even more history by annexing a silver medal.
It's a path Cordina will be keen to follow and his European venture has now secured him a | 607 |
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Byler, Dudinsky spark Badgers in 9-0 win at Harvey
Berkshire's Luke Byler and Connor Dudinsky both went 3-for-4 at the plate to lead the Badgers to a 9-0 win at Harvey on Monday. The win kept the Badgers in the hunt for a share of the Chagrin Valley Conference Valley Division title.
The Badgers, who improved to 10-8 overall and 5-1 in league play, have to beat both Harvey and Fairport at home to share the CVC crown with Kirtland.
"I told the guys after the last game we played, it's not about individual stats," said Berkshire coach Steve Smetana. "It's about doing what's best for the team and coming out with the 'W' after each game. We're getting close to tournament time and that's what matters."
Berkshire took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first and added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings before blowing it open with four in the sixth and two more in the seventh.
"We were sluggish at the beginning," Smetana said. "It was a rough go of it offensively. We had a tough time waiting back on their pitcher."
Byler and Dudinsky got things going for the Badgers.
Dudinsky, the leadoff hitter, had a double, two runs batted in and scored three times while Byler, the No. 9 hitter, knocked in a pair of runs and scored once.
"(Dudinsky) did exactly what we need him to do as far as starting the top of the order off," Smetana said. "With our 9-hole, Luke Byler, hitting, and Connor hitting, they turn over the top of the order to get to 2-3. That helps us offensively."
Sam Fisher kicked things off in the fourth when he singled and scored and also played a big role in the Badgers' fifth inning outburst.
"He did what we needed him to do with his speed," Smetana said.
Fisher was 1-for-2 with a walk and two runs scored.
Jarett Smetana pitched the first three innings of the game to pick up the win for the Badgers. He didn't allow a hit and struck out four. Will Blechschmid pitched the fourth and fifth innings and Mitch Freeman closed it out.
Berkshire hosts Harvey on Tuesday.
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One of<|fim_middle|>, such as the Fine Food Store, that line the gloriously Georgian high street. It feels familiar — the town has starred in period dramas from Middlemarch to Pride and Prejudice, just one lucky by-product of Stamford being named Britain's first conservation area. The architecture and honey-stone streets really are magnificent, but that's not all Stamford has to recommend it; this friendly town offers good organic produce as well as designer boutiques. There's even an indispensable hardware store, Harrison & Dunn, which has been a stalwart of the area for years. | Stamford's honey-coloured streets (Travelpix)
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The ducks are quacking and the river sparkles in the spring sunshine. Across the green of Stamford's famous water meadows, young families and couples enjoy the day, sipping takeaway coffees from the cosy independent cafes | 62 |
Cale Brandon is the #1, most highly rated violinist in Georgia for ceremony music on GigSalad and The Knot.
In addition to a rich solo violin sound, Mr. Brandon can provide a piano accompanist or a duo, trio, or quartet for your ceremony or event. He graduated with a Bachelor's of Music from Georgia State University in 2015, where he studied with Julliard graduate Dr. Christos Galileas. He is a member of the LaGrange, Albany, and Rome Symphony Orchestras, and performs regularly with the symphonies of Huntsville and Tallahassee. Mr. Brandon plays on a masterly crafted Italian violin by Vigato and has a wide<|fim_middle|>ED OUR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING ON 10./28/2017. EVEN WITH THE RAIN AND COLD ON THIS DAY, CALE MADE SURE THAT OUR GUESTS WERE ENTERTAINED AND EVEN MADE THE EFFORT TO PLAY OUTSIDE FOR HER CEREMONY. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HIS SERVICES!!!
Our experience with Cale Brandon was nothing short of spectacular. He took initiative and set up and started playing wonderfully. I had a large amount of people comment on how talented he was. He set the perfect mood for the perfect wedding. He kept constant communication from the day he was contacted. Knowing that he had the music covered made the wedding just that much more stress free. Thank you so much for a lovely evening of beautiful music.
Cale was absolutely incredible for my proposal he was very professional and prepared, really made the proposal! If you are thinking about getting a violinst for any event you should definite get Cale!
We hired Cale for our wedding ceremony and he was great! We highly recommend him if you are looking for a violinist!
This is the first time I've used GigSalad, and I was very pleased with Cale's playing and professionalism. Will definitely use him again!
Cale played for my wedding and he was incredible!! He dressed perfectly for the event, was on time and very accommodating during the whole planning process. He even helped me find a pianist in my budget who played during our cocktail hour. I submitted to Cale a long list of music from my mother- classical music enthusiast- and he more than met mine and my mother's expectations. We talked and emailed much during the planning and I cannot stress enough how great it is to have a vendor be so easy to work with. His music elevates any event you throw. So many of my guests told me how much they loved him and the beautiful music he provided. BOOK HIM!
Professional, on time, communicated with us well throughout the process. Played a nice variety, a very likable young man -we would recommend to anyone. Our class said it was the Best Valentine party, Thanks for the memories!
Thank you, Candy! You were awesome too and I so look forward to working with you again!
Mr. Brandon did a phenomenal job. He helped me with engagement proposal to my now fiance. He went up and Beyond of what I expected. He played the song i choosen and played it prefect. My fiance was very impressed. He stayed in contact with me throughout the day . He ran into a situation where others might have canceled but he still came to perform. I would hire him again in a heartbeat. Thank you again Mr. Brandon.
Cale was easy to work with and did great.
Cale is a very talented and professional musician. His sound is full and beautiful. I am a singer and was in need of a violinist last minute. Cale not only had the skill level to be able to step into a performance and find his place with only 1 rehearsal, he added an extra special touch which brought the song to life. You will enjoy working with him and you will enjoy listening to his sound. | repertoire featuring classical favorites, jazz standards, and pop/rock songs.
Cale managed to find four extremely professional musicians who performed exceptionally well together. Cale also arranged the music for a special request of the bride. I was nervous using someone I've never met or heard before, but everything went very well.
We cannot say enough good about Cale. He was prepared, worked with us on our unusual requests, was on-time, everyone loved him. He completely set the mood for our wedding. I would work with him again any chance I got!
Thank you so much for the sweet words and kind donation, Tissiana! Your ceremony was absolutely beautiful and your vows touchingly authentic. And how appropriate to have your ceremony on the morning of the longest day of the year! Wishing you both love, wealth, and happiness in the years to come.
Cale was extremely professional, his play is superb. We got married during the freak snow event of 2017. While some guests and even our photographer canceled, Cale arrived on time, as promised, and performed all that we requested and had other pieces prepared for moments we had not considered. He helped make our day perfect and we would definitely recommend him.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post your review. Your ceremony was touchingly authentic and you and your loved ones made me feel as part of the celebration. It absolutely made my day to hear you and Myra were happy with my service. Wishing you two a new year full of love and laughter and a happily ever after!
Cale has amazing talent! Very professional! He played for a corporate event for our venue and we will definitely be referring other clients to him! Arrived on time, played the perfect combination of music, and was incredibly wonderful to work with! Highly recommend!!
Cale played violin during my wedding ceremony and was absolutely fantastic! He is an excellent musician and many of my guests expressed how much they enjoyed listening to him play. His music is smooth and adds a lot of emotion to the moment. I'll never forget the song he played when my DH and I exited together. So good! Not only was his music beautiful, but Cale was SO easy to work with -- clear contract, a expansive song list, and responsive via email. Cale was even willing to play an off-list song I requested. He arrived onsite extra early. If you are planning your own wedding like I did, you cannot ask for a better person to work with!
Amber, Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful review! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed your experience working with me and that my playing was what you were looking for. Wishing you and Rex a marriage filled with wealth, love, and happiness!
This was a total last minute booking and I don't think I could have picked a better violinist. I had no idea what I wanted my music selection to be. I left it all in Cale Brandon's hands and he couldn't have made the ceremony anymore beautiful! Thank you for being a part of the special day! He's the whole package at one rate!! Book him now!
Cale took a collection of electronic songs and wedding classics and performed them beautifully. His renditions of Starlight and Sun and Moon had all the guest talking later in the night. I would highly recommend Cale for any event.
I cannot express how thankful I was to have worked with such a flexible, skillful and like-minded musician. He delivered a lovely minute rendition of a favorite OST as a surprise to my (now) husband for our shared love for TLOTR and it was a huge hit! This gig started out as a strings accompaniment for a different song that I would be walking in to and it was absolutely beautiful and emotional walking down to LIVE strings, keyboard and vocals. THANK YOU, CALE! What a gift!
Thank you for the very sweet review, Phoebe! And thank you again for having me - your ceremony was absolutely beautiful and your friends in the band were a delight to work with. Wishing you and Kevin a happily ever after!
A+ Performance from Cale Brandon!!
outstanding job returning , phone calls , emails and texts. He also provided me with a very impressive list of music that I could choose from even with the short notice.
NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC!!
This is an extremely talented individual!!
Cale played the processional , bridal march , and the recessional . He also played the 30 minutes while our guests were arriving . We received dozens of compliments regarding his performance. He arrived early and stayed until we released him. I would hire him again for anytime you need beautiful music .
Best Violin and Piano Duet!
My wedding ceremony was beautiful at the Decatur Courthouse, and Cale and John made it exceptionally amazing. They play so beautifully together. Cale was awesome to work with both before my ceremony and on the day of. Having spoken briefly through emails, Cale called me additionally to give any suggestions, or clarifications as to which songs would be played both before ceremony and during. I am extremely grateful for sharing in such a memorable experience with these professionals. Thank you.
My groom and I were so fortunate to have found Cale and John (his pianist). They play amazing music and have a large selection of songs to chose from. I received many compliments from my guest about this wonderful duo. They were even able to play mine and my husband's first wedding dance song. They were able to accommodate this request in such a short notice. I highly recommend this duo. Their rates were really the best. Thank you so much for everything I will be hiring you again in the future.
Thanks for taking the time to post this, Charlene! Really enjoyed playing for y'all!
He did great! Learned how to do songs that I requested quickly and was able to work with me for the proposal surprise. Very professional! Highly Recommended!
Thanks, Travis! Very pleased to hear you were happy with my work. Let me know if I can help with music for the ceremony. In the meantime, wishing you two a very happy and loving engagement!
Thanks man you did super good!
Thanks Ted, it was a beautiful wedding and I was happy to be a part of it! Wishing you both plenty of wealth, love, and happiness in the years to come!
I hired Cale to perform 2 songs for my fiance for Valentines Day. He was a complete professional from the start. He arrived early to set up, which took no time at all. Cale knocked it out the park. You can tell he has put a lot of time and practice in his craft. My fiance was blown away by his performance and was even moved to tears. I highly recommend hiring this guy. I know i will again. You cant go wrong with Cale.
Thank you for your sweet and thoughtful review, Terrence! I'm so glad Aja enjoyed it and hope you two had a great Valentine's Day together!
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Will "No More Woof" Be Able To Translate Dog-Speak Into English?
Dog researchers in Scandinavia are developing a gadget called No More Woof. They believe it will be capable of translating a dog's thoughts into English and other languages.
If it works, will dog lovers be in<|fim_middle|> will be developed by the Scandinavian Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery (NSID) organization.
The device looks like a pair of headphones. It is made of an electroencephalogram (EEG) element hooked up to a processing unit (a Raspberry PI computer) and a loudspeaker that helps the dog "talk".
In the early stages, the device will only detect only a few thought patterns, including including tiredness, hunger and curiosity.
You can learn more and donate to the research here.
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No More Woof aims to develop a small gadget that uses the latest technology in micro computing and EEG to analyse animal thought patterns and spell them out in Human Language* using a loudspeaker. But we admit, we are optimistic dreamers, so even more importantly we want to raise AWARENESS about this area of science, and point others to the potentials!
Among the patterns we have found are "I'm Tired", "I'm excited" and possibly "I'm Hungry" and the clearly intense brain activity when a dog sees a new face, that we translate into: "Who ARE you?"….
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The project is aptly named "No More Woof". The gadget | 70 |
On March 14, the second, fourth, and eighth grade students of Saint John the Baptist School in Milpitas had the opportunity to attend the San Francisco 49ers Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) field trip<|fim_middle|> football and the world, and they were challenged to create a miniature stadium of their own. Eighth graders explored the Engineering Design Process by attempting to create facemasks that would safe for players and effective for a given position.
Saint John's students also had the opportunity to show off their athletic and intellectual skills on the field, where they participated in activities that combined athleticism, teamwork and mental math skills. Students finished the day with a tour of the 49ers museum, where they learned about some of the most important people, places, and events in 49ers history.
The day was an excellent exploration of ways in which students can apply their talents in STEM education with their interests in athletics. | at Levi's® Stadium.
The day began with pictures on the field, a brief lesson on the engineering and design that went into the building of Levi Stadium, and finally a tour of the locker rooms used by music icons such as Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Coldplay. Students were then able to engage in some hands-on engineering of their own during a lesson held in one of the high-tech classrooms at Levi's Stadium.
Second and fourth grade students were shown how the Engineering Design Process can be directly related to | 103 |
Moonwalking Flies!
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How do you teach someone to Moonwalk? You could watch YouTube videos to learn… or you could just figure out how the brain controls backwards walking. And that's exactly what scientists have done. They discovered that just two neurons control a fly's ability to back up, and then they got some fruit flies<|fim_middle|>).
Of the seven neurons uniquely activated in the moonwalker fly, activating just a pair of them -- one in the brain, one along the belly -- was sufficient to make the fly back it up.
Specifically, the descending MDN neurons start in the brain with extensions down to the nerve cord (which runs along the belly); these are required to walk backwards when they encounter an impassable barrier. The ascending MAN neurons start at the bottom of the nerve cord with extensions into the brain; these inhibit forward walking.
Activating the neuron in the brain was enough to induce reverse motion, but activating the second neuron was not. So if the fly was a car, the MDN neurons would be the reverse gear and the MAN neurons would be the brakes – which the fly probably uses as a failsafe that reflexively stops forward motion.
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Being able to put one foot behind the other isn't uniquely human. Many land animals start walking backwards if they sense an obstacle or danger directly ahead -- but the neural circuitry involved isn't well understood. After all, it's not merely a reversal of walking forward: Hip muscles actually move differently in backwards walking. But they do know that the brain plays a commanding role. A change in walking direction is likely triggered by "command" neurons signaling to the motor system, which then alters the timing of leg muscle activation.
A team from the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, started by creating about 3,500 lines of Drosophila fruit flies. To identify neuron combinations that (when activated) can change a fly's walking direction, each of the lines have a different nervous system "expression pattern." That is, each fly has a temperature-controlled switch that can turn on different neuron networks. By turning various neurons on, the researchers could narrow down which ones control walking direction.
The team found one batch of flies that would walk backwards when exposed to heat, and they dubbed them "moonwalker" flies. They put these guys in a special chamber and silenced the neurons activated in them. This prevented the flies from walking backwards, even when it would have been really helpful to do so (like when they hit a dead end | 279 |
Like humans need oxygen to breathe, organizations need to sell new products to maximize their potential for future growth and long-term success. However, data suggests that over 80% of new products fail. Innovative firms are defying this statistic by<|fim_middle|> the best system and process that coincide with your organization's strategy and culture, and with your new product.
The product development system and program management process selected should also support live collaboration and communication, as this is now the industry expectation, not the exception. Implementing a cloud software application would complement this type of teamwork while also providing project members with early, real-time product analytics on elements like weight, cost, timing, and risk, and will empower them to make faster, better decisions throughout the process, compressing the product development timeline.
Leading companies are no longer taking the approach that the engineering department conceives products and the supply chain department delivers them. In fact, supply chain leaders have the abilities to positively impact the product development process by providing the upfront directional costs, investment costs, and lead times to develop new products, a practice that recently shifted from being a "nice-to-have" to a requirement.
A product's entire end-to-end value stream should be deeply thought through during its product development phase, as an ill-conceived production supply chain may deteriorate a product's profitability. To progress quickly and guarantee all critical customer internal inputs are considered early in the product ideation stage, assign a team lead from each function for a given program on day one.
Most companies launch new technologies periodically, while for others it's their specialty. This focused core competency creates a massive advantage through economies of scale due to the volume of commercialization problems these companies encounter and solve with regularity. The technical and commercial scope intricacies of today's complex integrated products and progressively shorter life cycles require organizations to partner with such a specialized firm to speed up innovation.
Product development, engineering, technology, and supply chain as a service firms make great additions to in-house teams by reducing development and launch risk. Partnering with a firm that provides support from idea to launch is invaluable, as it's time consuming and expensive to vertically integrate the array of skill sets required to swiftly innovate while remaining flexible.
The adage, "same people + same process + same thinking = same results" still holds true in the development of new products. Even if your organization's internal team, processes, and mindset are perfect, new products require new thinking. Inserting fresh perspectives into your processes via product development partners could bring about the change needed to accelerate development.
All profitable companies have distinct core competencies – i.e. engineering, manufacturing, and sales – so it's necessary for a business to identify these and then outsource the remaining product development needs to accelerate innovation. Internal politics, approvals, and funding lengthen timelines, so placing specific initiatives with a smaller, nimbler partner will reduce this red tape.
To compress the product development process, firms often design a prototype without considering production volumes, only to later experience launch delays needed to "productionize" the product. Supply chains need to be tailored to support new products, not just fit existing ones, otherwise maximum efficiency won't be reached, nor will performance targets.
Scaling up production requires the consideration of many interconnected data points throughout a product's life cycle. Preeminent companies prepare themselves for multiple pre- and post-launch scenarios to facilitate continuous on-time supply. The complete production launch strategy, processes, and metrics should be taken into account during product development to ensure a smooth transition, from idea to prototype, and through production.
Organizations experience success or defeat based on the speed at which they deliver new products. Crystallizing product development frameworks and the supporting program management processes are critical steps along the journey to faster new product development processes. Further, creating a cross-functional product team and aligning with a specialized partner will establish the appropriate personnel bandwidth and fresh perspectives needed to accelerate commercializing new products.
Thorough upfront planning is required for breakthrough products, so product development teams must be aware of pre- and post-launch plans early on to aid new product progress from idea to launch. Success goes to those who act, so implement these six actions to advance your pace of product development and out-innovate the competition. | generating up to one third of their revenue from products that did not exist three years prior. Consumer demands for mass customization and instant availability are resulting in shorter product life cycles, requiring manufacturers to implement faster, more flexible product development processes.
How then do companies accelerate the design, development, and launch of complex hardware and integrated software products to fulfill consumer needs? Our experience revealed six actions you can use in your product development processes to maximize efficiency and expedite timelines.
Leading companies invest heavily in product development systems like Stage Gate, Lean, Design for Six Sigma, and Agile. These systems are most effective when part of a larger platform used to take a product from idea to launch. In our experience, many new product launch frameworks focus solely on next generation products, falling short early on in the product ideation stage or later during product launch; they tend to lack details for customer research to define product characteristics, identifying new suppliers and new materials, and mapping alternative distribution models. The Technology Commercialization Framework (TCF), however, is one such platform flexible enough to support the use of a wide range of product development methods while streamlining program management processes, and without leaving behind critical commercial data.
Program management processes and individual leadership styles can vary widely, but it is important for managers to choose a process – Waterfall, Critical Path, Agile, etc. – and stick with it. A common misconception is that any product development system and program management process can be paired if the two are considered to be related. Although both are effective management tools, it is crucial to select | 311 |
Glendale Ranked #6 in Fiscal Strength Among 116 Large US Cities
It is easy to tell when our own finances are strong. We have more money to spend, more money to save, and in general, worry a lot less. Cities can be a bit harder to figure out. The Fiscal Times, in an attempt to find the country's fiscally-strongest cities, has compiled an index of 116 US Cities with over 200,000 residents.
Out of 116 other large U.S. Cities, the City of Glendale ranked sixth in the nation for its strong finances and reductions in unemployment. The Fiscal Times used a methodology that attempted to move away from outdated methods of rating fiscal health, and embrace a wider vision of what makes a city fiscally strong. The index used five criteria:
The ratio of a city's general<|fim_middle|> in recent months including being considered "5th Most Fun City in California", "9th Least Sinful City in America", and being the city with the "7th Lowest Property Crime Rate Among Midsize Pacific Cities".
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Magnus Carlsen Wins The 2021 World Chess Championship
Magnus Carlsen of Norway successfully defended his world chess championship title on Friday, extending an unbroken reign atop the game that began in 2013. He defeated his challenger, Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, in the most lopsided championship in recent memory, over a series of 11 games in Dubai that began two weeks ago.
The championship match featured some of the strongest chess ever played by humans alongside some baffling errors. Carlsen, the world No. 1, won four games and never lost. He emerged victorious in a marathon battle in Game 6, an instant classic and the longest world championship game ever played. In Games 8 and 9, he was the beneficiary of inexplicable blunders that saw Nepomniachtchi, the world No. 5, surrender a pawn and a bishop. And on Friday, perhaps most egregiously, Nepomniachtchi blundered yet again.
Carlsen controlled the black pieces in Game 11. Nep<|fim_middle|>, the American No. 1 who fought Carlsen to 12 straight draws in 2018; Sergey Karjakin, the Russian grandmaster who sent the championship to tiebreakers in 2016; and Alireza Firouzja, the 18-year-old world No. 2, who's rated even higher than Carlsen was at his age.
But that's for another day.
"I'm very happy, of course," Carlsen said after the game. "I didn't expect it to go quite like this."
Carlsen was also asked if the imprecision of his opponent's play, and the lack of chess style points, had diminished his latest championship.
"No," he said. "That's fine by me."
For even more writing on chess and other games, check out Roeder's new book, "Seven Games: A Human History," available in January.
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For the umpteenth time, Nepomniachtchi emerged from the opening with a small attacking edge, while Carlsen battened down his hatches. No pawns were captured until the 20th move as artillery maneuvered behind the phalanx. But Nepomniachtchi missed some sharp ideas, Carlsen played with familiar precision, and the tension cooled into what seemed to be a sure draw.
But on the 23rd move, Nepomniachtchi pushed his pawn to g3, as shown below.
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Instantly, the computer's evaluation plummeted from 0 to negative 8 — from dead-level terms to a clearly winning position for Carlsen. Nepomniachtchi's position quickly unraveled. After the knight on e3 and rook on f4 were traded, black's queen flew in, capturing the pawn on g4 and spearheading a terrifying attack on the white king.
Carlsen missed the clean kill, but when the carnage of the attack was cleared off the board, he remained up a pawn in a rook-vs.-rook endgame. One of those pawns became a queen, and Nepomniachtchi had no defense. After Move 49, Nepomniachtchi offered his hand in resignation, handing Carlsen his fifth world title.
"In my career, I've lost some stupid games," Nepomniachtchi said afterward. "But not as many in such a short amount of time."
Whether the 23rd move was an honest mistake or a gesture of resignation, the match was hard to watch at times. A defeated and seemingly uninterested Nepomniachtchi, his jacket off and shirt untucked, spent much of the game hidden in his private breakroom out of view of spectators and cameras, appearing only to move a piece quickly and disappear again. This had become the norm. The indelible image of the match will be Carlsen, defending his world title against an empty office chair.
"I would like to apologize for the way it went in the end," Nepomniachtchi told Chess.com after the game.
While Carlsen has been reluctant to discuss his legacy, in the view of many chess observers, the victory cements his status as the greatest player of all time.
"It's really between him and Garry Kasparov — most people think it's neck and neck," Jennifer Shahade, the two-time U.S. women's chess champion, told me before the match. And with yet another world title, Carlsen adds a bold line to an already sterling resume and pulls a length ahead.
It's unclear exactly when and where Carlsen will defend his title again, after the pandemic disrupted the regular cycle. The elite Candidates Tournament, which will determine his next challenger, will be held sometime next year. Its participants will include Nepomniachtchi himself; Fabiano Caruana | 664 |
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The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame
Christopher Hood and Martin Lodge
10.1093/019926967X.001.0001
The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized ... More
The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such bargains? In what conditions do bargains rise and fall? And has there been a universal and uniform change in these bargains? This book offers a distinct perspective to answer these questions. It develops a unique analytical perspective to account for diverse bargains within systems of executive government. Drawing on comparative experiences from different state traditions, it examines ideas and contemporary developments along three key dimensions of any Public Service Bargain: reward, competency, and loyalty and responsibility. The book points to diverse and differentiated developments across national systems of executive government, and suggests how different 'bargains' are prone to cheating by their constituent parties. It explores the context in which managerial bargains — widely seen to be at the heart of contemporary administrative reform movements — are likely to catch on and considers how cheating is likely to destabilize such bargains.Less
The Politics of Public Service Bargains : Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame
Christopher HoodMartin Lodge
The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such bargains? In what conditions do bargains rise and fall? And has there been a universal and uniform change in these bargains? This book offers a distinct perspective to answer these questions. It develops a unique analytical perspective to account for diverse bargains within systems of executive government. Drawing on comparative experiences from different state traditions, it examines ideas and contemporary developments along three key dimensions of any Public Service Bargain: reward, competency, and loyalty and responsibility. The book points to diverse and differentiated developments across national systems of executive government, and suggests how different 'bargains' are prone to cheating by their constituent parties. It explores the context in which managerial bargains — widely seen to be at the heart of contemporary administrative reform movements — are likely to catch on and considers how cheating is likely to destabilize such bargains.
Keywords: bureaucracy, civil service, public service bargain, competency, reward, loyalty, blame avoidance, UK, Germany
In Praise of Blame
George Sher
Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the grain of a therapeutically oriented culture and has been far less discussed by philosophers than such related notions as responsibility ... More
Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the grain of a therapeutically oriented culture and has been far less discussed by philosophers than such related notions as responsibility and punishment. This book seeks to show that neither the opposition nor the neglect is justified. The book's most important conclusion is that blame is inseparable from morality itself — that any considerations that justify us in accepting a set of moral principles must also call for the condemnation of those who violate the principles. Because blame has not received much sustained attention, the book works its way toward its conclusions by first raising, and then seeking to resolve, a series of conceptual and normative questions. These questions include: How are blameworthy acts related to the characters of the agents who perform them? Can agents deserve blame for their bad traits as well as their bad acts? Is blame best understood as a kind of action, a kind of belief, a kind of feeling, a combination of these elements, or something entirely different? What sort of moral concept is blameworthiness? How do blame and blameworthiness — correlative concepts — fit together? Although the book draws both on Hume's treatment of the relation between character and blame and Strawson's landmark discussion of the "reactive attitudes", the theory that emerges is neither Humean nor Strawsonian. It is a new theory that seeks to do more justice than its predecessors to the indispensable role that blame plays in our moral lives.Less
Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the grain of a therapeutically oriented culture and has been far less discussed by philosophers than such related notions as responsibility and punishment. This book seeks to show that neither the opposition nor the neglect is justified. The book's most important conclusion is that blame is inseparable from morality itself — that any considerations that justify us in accepting a set of moral principles must also call for the condemnation of those who violate the principles. Because blame has not received much sustained attention, the book works its way toward its conclusions by first raising, and then seeking to resolve, a series of conceptual and normative questions. These questions include: How are blameworthy acts related to the characters of the agents who perform them? Can agents deserve blame for their bad traits as well as their bad acts? Is blame best understood as a kind of action, a kind of belief, a kind of feeling, a combination of these elements, or something entirely different? What sort of moral concept is blameworthiness? How do blame and blameworthiness — correlative concepts — fit together? Although the book draws both on Hume's treatment of the relation between character and blame and Strawson's landmark discussion of the "reactive attitudes", the theory that emerges is neither Humean nor Strawsonian. It is a new theory that seeks to do more justice than its predecessors to the indispensable role that blame plays in our moral lives.
Keywords: blame, blameworthiness, character, action, agent, morality, responsibility, reactive attitudes
The Philosophy of Criminal Law: Selected Essays
Douglas Husak
Law, Philosophy of Law
Husak reprints 15 of his earlier essays in the philosophy of criminal law (and add two previously unpublished pieces) collected from philosophy journals, law reviews, and book chapters. These ... More
Husak reprints 15 of his earlier essays in the philosophy of criminal law (and add two previously unpublished pieces) collected from philosophy journals, law reviews, and book chapters. These articles cover a broad range of topics about the nature of penal liability, criminal law culpability, defences, and the justification of punishment. Together, these essays present a desert-based analysis of issues in criminal theory that resist the consequentialist approach more familiar among legal scholars. The author's foremost concern is to ensure that the principles and doctrines of the criminal law preserve justice and do not sacrifice individuals for the common welfare. Although Husak draws equally from existing criminal law and contemporary moral and political philosophy, readers need neither a Ph.D. in philosophy nor a J.D. in law to understand and assess his essays.Less
The Philosophy of Criminal Law : Selected Essays
Husak reprints 15 of his earlier essays in the philosophy of criminal law (and add two previously unpublished pieces) collected from philosophy journals, law reviews, and book chapters. These articles cover a broad range of topics about the nature of penal liability, criminal law culpability, defences, and the justification of punishment. Together, these essays present a desert-based analysis of issues in criminal theory that resist the consequentialist approach more familiar among legal scholars. The author's foremost concern is to ensure that the principles and doctrines of the criminal law preserve justice and do not sacrifice individuals for the common welfare. Although Husak draws equally from existing criminal law and contemporary moral and political philosophy, readers need neither a Ph.D. in philosophy nor a J.D. in law to understand and assess his essays.
Keywords: crime, punishment, blame, justice, desert, culpability, defences, sentencing
How Public Service Bargains Change and Fall
in The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame
This chapter explores how public service bargains can weaken or collapse, focusing on the ways in which different types of bargain provide incentives for different ways of cheating and strategic ... More
This chapter explores how public service bargains can weaken or collapse, focusing on the ways in which different types of bargain provide incentives for different ways of cheating and strategic behaviour. Varieties of cheating behaviour across different trustee and agency bargains are considered, while highlighting the various forces and strategies that can keep cheating in check. It is argued that making any PSB cheat-proof requires particular and demanding social conditions.Less
This chapter explores how public service bargains can weaken or collapse, focusing on the ways in which different types of bargain provide incentives for different ways of cheating and strategic behaviour. Varieties of cheating behaviour across different trustee and agency bargains are considered, while highlighting the various forces and strategies that can keep cheating in check. It is argued that making any PSB cheat-proof requires particular and demanding social conditions.
Keywords: cheating, habitat, change, blame, trustee, agency
Public Service Managerialism and Public Service Bargains: Control, Blame Avoidance, and Cheating
This chapter uses the public service bargain perspective to analyze the contemporary theme of managerialism and demands for changing controls over public services. It shows what managerialism means ... More
This chapter uses the public service bargain perspective to analyze the contemporary theme of managerialism and demands for changing controls over public services. It shows what managerialism means for public service bargains and points to the demanding conditions of such a bargain, given the incentives to cheat that affect the various parties to this type of bargain. Given its vulnerability to cheating, the managerialist type of bargain seems likely to emerge and 'stick' only in some traditions and cultures.Less
This chapter uses the public service bargain perspective to analyze the contemporary theme of managerialism and demands for changing controls over public services. It shows what managerialism means for public service bargains and points to the demanding conditions of such a bargain, given the incentives to cheat that affect the various parties to this type of bargain. Given its vulnerability to cheating, the managerialist type of bargain seems likely to emerge and 'stick' only in some traditions and cultures.
Keywords: NPM, managerialism, agency, control, cheating, blame, homeostatic control, thermostat
Responsibility for Justice
Iris Marion Young
Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy
When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass ... More
When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. This book discusses our responsibilities to address "structural" injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we are not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. The book argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which it calls the "social connection" model. The book develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structural injustice; developing the notion of political responsibility for injustice and how it differs from older ideas of blame and guilt; and finally how we can then use this model to describe our responsibilities to others no matter who we are and where we live.Less
When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. This book discusses our responsibilities to address "structural" injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we are not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. The book argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which it calls the "social connection" model. The book develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structural injustice; developing the notion of political responsibility for injustice and how it differs from older ideas of blame and guilt; and finally how we can then use this model to describe our responsibilities to others no matter who we are and where we live.
Keywords: structural injustices, responsibility, social connection model, political responsibility, injustice, blame, guilt
Regime Development Under Pressure: Staged Retreats and Lateral Mutations
Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein, and Robert Baldwin
in The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes
Moves away from explaining the comparative statics of risk regulation regimes and explores what happens when regimes are under pressure to change, and, in particular, when they are under presure for ... More
Moves away from explaining the comparative statics of risk regulation regimes and explores what happens when regimes are under pressure to change, and, in particular, when they are under presure for greater openness and transparency. The chapter develops a style‐phase model of staged organizational responses to external pressure for change and compares its predictive value against two competing hypotheses. Examination of the nine case‐study risk regulation regimes reveals that, contrary to the common belief that such pressures are all pervasive, less than half were exposed to substantial pressures of this type. Responses of organizations in the 'high‐pressure' regimes were varied, but the overall pattern was consistent with a mixture of an autopoietic and staged‐response hypothesis stressing blame prevention. The chapter presents a hybrid 'Catherine‐wheel' model of the observed pattern and concludes by discussing the implications for policy outcomes.Less
Christopher HoodHenry RothsteinRobert Baldwin
Moves away from explaining the comparative statics of risk regulation regimes and explores what happens when regimes are under pressure to change, and, in particular, when they are under presure for greater openness and transparency. The chapter develops a style‐phase model of staged organizational responses to external pressure for change and compares its predictive value against two competing hypotheses. Examination of the nine case‐study risk regulation regimes reveals that, contrary to the common belief that such pressures are all pervasive, less than half were exposed to substantial pressures of this type. Responses of organizations in the 'high‐pressure' regimes were varied, but the overall pattern was consistent with a mixture of an autopoietic and staged‐response hypothesis stressing blame prevention. The chapter presents a hybrid 'Catherine‐wheel' model of the observed pattern and concludes by discussing the implications for policy outcomes.
Keywords: autopoiesis, blame avoidance, blame prevention, blame shifting, openness, policy outcome, risk regulation, staged response, transparency
Who Knew?: Responsibility Without Awareness
To be responsible for their acts, agents must both act voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the ... More
To be responsible for their acts, agents must both act voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the epistemic condition has received far less attention. This book seeks to remedy that imbalance: it first criticizes a popular but inadequate way of understanding the epistemic condition and then seeks to develop a more adequate alternative. The popular but inadequate view asserts that agents are responsible only for what they are consciously aware of doing or bringing about. (Because this view takes an agent's responsibility to extend only as far as the searchlight of his consciousness, the book refers to it as the searchlight view.) By contrast, on the proposed alternative, even agents who unwittingly act wrongly or foolishly can be responsible if (1) they have information that supports the conclusion that their acts are wrong or foolish, and (2) their failure to draw that conclusion on the basis of that information falls short of meeting some appropriate standard, and (3) the failure is caused by the constellation of psychological and/or physical features that makes them the persons they are. Because it integrates first- and third-personal elements, this alternative account is well suited to capture the complexity of responsible agents, who at once have their own private perspectives and live in a public world.Less
Who Knew? : Responsibility Without Awareness
To be responsible for their acts, agents must both act voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the epistemic condition has received far less attention. This book seeks to remedy that imbalance: it first criticizes a popular but inadequate way of understanding the epistemic condition and then seeks to develop a more adequate alternative. The popular but inadequate view asserts that agents are responsible only for what they are consciously aware of doing or bringing about. (Because this view takes an agent's responsibility to extend only as far as the searchlight of his consciousness, the book refers to it as the searchlight view.) By contrast, on the proposed alternative, even agents who unwittingly act wrongly or foolishly can be responsible if (1) they have information that supports the conclusion that their acts are wrong or foolish, and (2) their failure to draw that conclusion on the basis of that information falls short of meeting some appropriate standard, and (3) the failure is caused by the constellation of psychological and/or physical features that makes them the persons they are. Because it integrates first- and third-personal elements, this alternative account is well suited to capture the complexity of responsible agents, who at once have their own private perspectives and live in a public world.
Keywords: responsibility, blame, knowledge, awareness, consciousness, first-person, third-person, negligence
Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
Nomy Arpaly
This book presents a positive theory of moral worth. Chapter 1 examines the complexities of moral life that appear to differ from the paradigmatic cases of moral psychology. Chapter 2 argues against ... More
This book presents a positive theory of moral worth. Chapter 1 examines the complexities of moral life that appear to differ from the paradigmatic cases of moral psychology. Chapter 2 argues against the common assumption that akrasia is always irrational, or at least, always less rational than the corresponding self-controlled action. The theory is presented in Chapter 3 — that people are praiseworthy for acts of good will and blameworthy for acts of ill will or absence of good will, and the amount of praise or blame they deserve varies with the depth of their motivation or extent of their indifference. Chapter 4 and 5 defend this theory against potential objections to the effect that there is something wrong with its failure to invoke autonomy, and clarifies the theory's implications about some issues in moral responsibility often associated with autonomy (i.e., responsibility of kleptomaniacs, drug addicts, makers of Freudian slips, and persons driven to murder by hypnotists).Less
Unprincipled Virtue : An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
This book presents a positive theory of moral worth. Chapter 1 examines the complexities of moral life that appear to differ from the paradigmatic cases of moral psychology. Chapter 2 argues against the common assumption that akrasia is always irrational, or at least, always less rational than the corresponding self-controlled action. The theory is presented in Chapter 3 — that people are praiseworthy for acts of good will and blameworthy for acts of ill will or absence of good will, and the amount of praise or blame they deserve varies with the depth of their motivation or extent of their indifference. Chapter 4 and 5 defend this theory against potential objections to the effect that there is something wrong with its failure to invoke autonomy, and clarifies the theory's implications about some issues in moral responsibility often associated with autonomy (i.e., responsibility of kleptomaniacs, drug addicts, makers of Freudian slips, and persons driven to murder by hypnotists).
Keywords: moral worth, praise, blame, moral psychology, self-control, autonomy
Deontologism
Michael Bergmann
in Justification without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism
Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter focuses on whether deontologism — the view that justification is to be understood in terms of concepts such as duty, obligation, and blame — entails internalism. If it does, then ... More
This chapter focuses on whether deontologism — the view that justification is to be understood in terms of concepts such as duty, obligation, and blame — entails internalism. If it does, then internalists could still avail themselves of this deontological motivation for internalism despite the argument made in Chapter 1, that internalists endorsing the weak awareness requirement lose the main motivation for their view. It is argued that deontologism does not entail internalism. An explanation is offered for why philosophers are misled into thinking it does.Less
This chapter focuses on whether deontologism — the view that justification is to be understood in terms of concepts such as duty, obligation, and blame — entails internalism. If it does, then internalists could still avail themselves of this deontological motivation for internalism despite the argument made in Chapter 1, that internalists endorsing the weak awareness requirement lose the main motivation for their view. It is argued that deontologism does not entail internalism. An explanation is offered for why philosophers are misled into thinking it does.
Keywords: blame, deontology, duty, Ginet, internalism, Steup
Conversation and the Scope of Moral Responsibility
in Conversation and Responsibility
Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, General
This chapter attends to questions of scope. The conversational theory explains blaming on analogy with a conversational response. Central to the explanation is the relation between blamer and blamed. ... More
This chapter attends to questions of scope. The conversational theory explains blaming on analogy with a conversational response. Central to the explanation is the relation between blamer and blamed. But we often blame in the absence of the blamed, for example, blaming the dead. The theory explains these cases as parasitic on the fundamental cases in which blame is able to take on its communicative role as a response to the one blamed. Yet a different question of scope has to do with the range of things a person can be responsible for. Some contend that an agent is only blameworthy for acts that involve violations of moral obligations or moral wrongdoing. Others claim that one can be blameworthy for bad or vicious acts as well. An even more inclusive view is that one can also be blameworthy for the nonvoluntary, such as character traits not freely acquired. The conversational theory makes room for the inclusive view while attempting to accommodate the intuitive support for the more restrictive thesis. Just as different kinds of conversations have different norms that are more or less restrictive, so too our moral responsibility practices have different norms, some more and some less restrictive.Less
This chapter attends to questions of scope. The conversational theory explains blaming on analogy with a conversational response. Central to the explanation is the relation between blamer and blamed. But we often blame in the absence of the blamed, for example, blaming the dead. The theory explains these cases as parasitic on the fundamental cases in which blame is able to take on its communicative role as a response to the one blamed. Yet a different question of scope has to do with the range of things a person can be responsible for. Some contend that an agent is only blameworthy for acts that involve violations of moral obligations or moral wrongdoing. Others claim that one can be blameworthy for bad or vicious acts as well. An even more inclusive view is that one can also be blameworthy for the nonvoluntary, such as character traits not freely acquired. The conversational theory makes room for the inclusive view while attempting to accommodate the intuitive support for the more restrictive thesis. Just as different kinds of conversations have different norms that are more or less restrictive, so too our moral responsibility practices have different norms, some more and some less restrictive.
Keywords: blaming dead, blaming in absence of blamed, scope of moral responsibility, moral obligation and blame, suberogatory and blame, nonvoluntarism, Robert Adams, Angela Smith
Shaping the Normative Landscape
This book affirms the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. These are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative ... More
This book affirms the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. These are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment. Philosophers from Hume to Scanlon have supposed that when we make promises, give our consent, etc. our real interest is in controlling (or being able to anticipate) what people will actually do and that our interest in rights and obligations is a by-product of this more fundamental interest. In fact, we value for its own sake the ability to decide who is obliged to do what, to determine when blame is appropriate, to settle whether an act wrongs us. This book describes how we control the rights and obligations of ourselves and of those around us. We do so by making friends and thereby creating the rights and obligations of friendship. We do so by making promises and so binding ourselves to perform. We do so by consenting to medical treatment and thereby giving the doctor the right to go ahead. The normative character of our world matters to us on its own account. To make sense of promise, consent, friendship, and other related phenomena we must acknowledge that normative interests are amongst our fundamental interests. We must also rethink the psychology of human agency and the nature of social convention.Less
This book affirms the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. These are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment. Philosophers from Hume to Scanlon have supposed that when we make promises, give our consent, etc. our real interest is in controlling (or being able to anticipate) what people will actually do and that our interest in rights and obligations is a by-product of this more fundamental interest. In fact, we value for its own sake the ability to decide who is obliged to do what, to determine when blame is appropriate, to settle whether an act wrongs us. This book describes how we control the rights and obligations of ourselves and of those around us. We do so by making friends and thereby creating the rights and obligations of friendship. We do so by making promises and so binding ourselves to perform. We do so by consenting to medical treatment and thereby giving the doctor the right to go ahead. The normative character of our world matters to us on its own account. To make sense of promise, consent, friendship, and other related phenomena we must acknowledge that normative interests are amongst our fundamental interests. We must also rethink the psychology of human agency and the nature of social convention.
Keywords: promise, consent, forgiveness, friendship, request, blame, wrong, obligation, rights, David Hume
The Regime<|fim_middle|> his errors.
Keywords: Hume, character, dispositions, act, agent, blame, blameworthy
Blame for Traits
The main thesis of this chapter is that agents can be blamed for their bad traits as well as for their bad acts. Because we often cannot help being the sorts of people we are, this thesis is ... More
The main thesis of this chapter is that agents can be blamed for their bad traits as well as for their bad acts. Because we often cannot help being the sorts of people we are, this thesis is inconsistent with the view that agents can only be blamed for what is (or once was) within their control. However, although that view is widely held, its grounding is not well understood. The chapter's main argument is that no version of it that applies to traits (as opposed to acts) is defensible.Less
The main thesis of this chapter is that agents can be blamed for their bad traits as well as for their bad acts. Because we often cannot help being the sorts of people we are, this thesis is inconsistent with the view that agents can only be blamed for what is (or once was) within their control. However, although that view is widely held, its grounding is not well understood. The chapter's main argument is that no version of it that applies to traits (as opposed to acts) is defensible.
Keywords: character, traits, blame, control, fairness
What Blame Is Not
This chapter asks what blaming someone adds to believing that he has acted badly. It examines three of the most popular accounts of the additional element: roughly, those which construe it as a ... More
This chapter asks what blaming someone adds to believing that he has acted badly. It examines three of the most popular accounts of the additional element: roughly, those which construe it as a public expression of one's disapproval, as a belief that the agent's misdeeds have marred his moral record, and as a negative emotional reaction. Of these familiar accounts, each is shown to be inadequate.Less
This chapter asks what blaming someone adds to believing that he has acted badly. It examines three of the most popular accounts of the additional element: roughly, those which construe it as a public expression of one's disapproval, as a belief that the agent's misdeeds have marred his moral record, and as a negative emotional reaction. Of these familiar accounts, each is shown to be inadequate.
Keywords: blame, wrongdoing, disapproval, punishment, moral blemish, Strawson, resentment
What Blame Is
This chapter develops a new account of what blame adds to the belief that someone has acted badly. According to the proposed account, the additional element consists of a set of dispositions (to ... More
This chapter develops a new account of what blame adds to the belief that someone has acted badly. According to the proposed account, the additional element consists of a set of dispositions (to become angry, express one's disapproval, and the like) which are explained by the combination of the belief that the agent has acted badly and a desire that he not have done so. Unlike most desires, this one is oriented to the past rather than the future. Nevertheless, it remains a source of motivation that is capable of accounting for the blame-constituting dispositions.Less
This chapter develops a new account of what blame adds to the belief that someone has acted badly. According to the proposed account, the additional element consists of a set of dispositions (to become angry, express one's disapproval, and the like) which are explained by the combination of the belief that the agent has acted badly and a desire that he not have done so. Unlike most desires, this one is oriented to the past rather than the future. Nevertheless, it remains a source of motivation that is capable of accounting for the blame-constituting dispositions.
Keywords: blame, disposition, anger, reproach, desire, belief, backward-looking | Perspective in Risk Regulation: Implications for Policy and Institutional Design
Rehearses what the regime perspective can do for enhancing our understanding of how risk regulation varies, works, and fails. Drawing on the preceeding analysis, the chapter identifies three key ... More
Rehearses what the regime perspective can do for enhancing our understanding of how risk regulation varies, works, and fails. Drawing on the preceeding analysis, the chapter identifies three key problems central to contemporary risk regulation. First, the chapter argues that many of the regimes studied in the book were afflicted by limited institutional coherence, with basic constituent components either missing, malfunctioning or poorly linked. Second, the chapter argues that contemporary trends to reform risk regulation regimes need to take greater account of blame‐avoidance imperatives in the institutional shaping of reform processes. Third, the chapter identifies some of the challenges and intractabilities of actually doing risk regulation, which are often overlooked by commonly cited but rarely followed principles of better regulation. The book concludes with an overall assessment of what future developments in regime analysis might promise for our further understanding of risk regulation.Less
Rehearses what the regime perspective can do for enhancing our understanding of how risk regulation varies, works, and fails. Drawing on the preceeding analysis, the chapter identifies three key problems central to contemporary risk regulation. First, the chapter argues that many of the regimes studied in the book were afflicted by limited institutional coherence, with basic constituent components either missing, malfunctioning or poorly linked. Second, the chapter argues that contemporary trends to reform risk regulation regimes need to take greater account of blame‐avoidance imperatives in the institutional shaping of reform processes. Third, the chapter identifies some of the challenges and intractabilities of actually doing risk regulation, which are often overlooked by commonly cited but rarely followed principles of better regulation. The book concludes with an overall assessment of what future developments in regime analysis might promise for our further understanding of risk regulation.
Keywords: blame avoidance, institutional coherence, reform, risk regulation
Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman (eds)
A collection of fifteen new papers on themes from the philosophy of T. M. Scanlon. The contributions include discussions of issues in metaethics and the theory of value (reasons and reasoning, ... More
A collection of fifteen new papers on themes from the philosophy of T. M. Scanlon. The contributions include discussions of issues in metaethics and the theory of value (reasons and reasoning, valuing, desire and action); normative ethics (contractualism, aggregation, promising, tolerance); political philosophy (conservatism, global justice, freedom of expression, distribution), and the theory of responsibility (psychopathy, blame, and opprobrium). Contributors: Christine M. Korsgaard, Samuel Scheffler, Niko Kolodny, Michael Smith, Pamela Hieronymi, Rahul Kumar, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Angela M. Smith, G. A. Cohen, Charles R. Beitz, Joshua Cohen, Aaron James, Gary Watson, Susan Wolf, and R. Jay Wallace. Together, the papers contribute to a deeper understanding of Scanlon's views, while advancing the discussion of the important issues addressed in his ground-breaking work.Less
Reasons and Recognition : Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
A collection of fifteen new papers on themes from the philosophy of T. M. Scanlon. The contributions include discussions of issues in metaethics and the theory of value (reasons and reasoning, valuing, desire and action); normative ethics (contractualism, aggregation, promising, tolerance); political philosophy (conservatism, global justice, freedom of expression, distribution), and the theory of responsibility (psychopathy, blame, and opprobrium). Contributors: Christine M. Korsgaard, Samuel Scheffler, Niko Kolodny, Michael Smith, Pamela Hieronymi, Rahul Kumar, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Angela M. Smith, G. A. Cohen, Charles R. Beitz, Joshua Cohen, Aaron James, Gary Watson, Susan Wolf, and R. Jay Wallace. Together, the papers contribute to a deeper understanding of Scanlon's views, while advancing the discussion of the important issues addressed in his ground-breaking work.
Keywords: Scanlon, reason, value, action, contractualism, aggregation, promising, tolerance, conservatism, global justice, free speech, distribution, responsibility, blame
in In Praise of Blame
This chapter sets the stage for a discussion of blame by asking how a world that did not contain it would differ from our world. The chapter poses the problems that the remainder of the book attempts ... More
This chapter sets the stage for a discussion of blame by asking how a world that did not contain it would differ from our world. The chapter poses the problems that the remainder of the book attempts to resolve and outlines the arguments of the chapters to come.Less
This chapter sets the stage for a discussion of blame by asking how a world that did not contain it would differ from our world. The chapter poses the problems that the remainder of the book attempts to resolve and outlines the arguments of the chapters to come.
Keywords: Strawson, Hume, Pereboom, blame, blameworthy, act, agent
When Good People Do Bad Things
This chapter examines the Humean thesis that agents can only be blamed for their bad acts insofar as those acts are manifestations of defects in their characters. Several versions of this thesis are ... More
This chapter examines the Humean thesis that agents can only be blamed for their bad acts insofar as those acts are manifestations of defects in their characters. Several versions of this thesis are distinguished and criticized. The criticisms include both the familiar charge that the Humean can't explain how someone can deserve blame for an act whose badness is "out of character" and the less familiar charge that on the Humean account, the badness of the act itself drops out as irrelevant. It is argued, however, that although Hume was wrong to say that every blameworthy act reflects a flaw in the agent's character, it may be right to say that every blameworthy act is rooted in the agent's character.Less
This chapter examines the Humean thesis that agents can only be blamed for their bad acts insofar as those acts are manifestations of defects in their characters. Several versions of this thesis are distinguished and criticized. The criticisms include both the familiar charge that the Humean can't explain how someone can deserve blame for an act whose badness is "out of character" and the less familiar charge that on the Humean account, the badness of the act itself drops out as irrelevant. It is argued, however, that although Hume was wrong to say that every blameworthy act reflects a flaw in the agent's character, it may be right to say that every blameworthy act is rooted in the agent's character.
Keywords: Hume, character, character flaw, disposition, act, agent, blame, blameworthy
The Structure of Blameworthy Action
This chapter exploits the insight that emerged in the previous chapter — that a bad act may be rooted in an agent's character without manifesting a defect in that character — to explain how an act's ... More
This chapter exploits the insight that emerged in the previous chapter — that a bad act may be rooted in an agent's character without manifesting a defect in that character — to explain how an act's badness can render an agent blameworthy. According to this explanation, the crucial fact is that the act's bad-making features can be traced to the interplay of the very same desires, beliefs, and dispositions that also make the agent the person he is. By assigning character this reduced but still substantial role, we can preserve what is important about Hume's account while avoiding his errors.Less
This chapter exploits the insight that emerged in the previous chapter — that a bad act may be rooted in an agent's character without manifesting a defect in that character — to explain how an act's badness can render an agent blameworthy. According to this explanation, the crucial fact is that the act's bad-making features can be traced to the interplay of the very same desires, beliefs, and dispositions that also make the agent the person he is. By assigning character this reduced but still substantial role, we can preserve what is important about Hume's account while avoiding | 1,752 |
Michael Bennet MACQUARIE has copped a broker downgrade again, with an analyst describing its near-term outlook as "not so bright".
Enda Curran CAPITAL city house prices fell again in May, led by the higher<|fim_middle|> search firm to find a replacement for outgoing chief financial officer John Stanhope.
Damon Kitney ACCOUNTING firm KPMG will today announce Peter Nash as the new Australian chairman.
Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor AUSTRALIA'S trade with China hit an astonishing $105 billion last year, a national record.
Sarah-Jane Tasker TRANSPACIFIC Industries, Australia's largest waste management company, has forecast a significant annual loss.
Michael Bennet THE IPO market has been dealt a blow, with Barminco, scrapping its $545 million offering due to volatile markets.
David Cottle SADLY for those betting on a euro bounce from the Greek austerity vote, there are more harrowing episodes to come.
Sarah-Jane Tasker GINDALBIE Metals has joined a growing list of West Australian miners confirming major cost blowouts on significant projects. | end of the market.
Ben Dummett THE merger of the London and Toronto bourses has been terminated due to a lack of shareholder support and strong opposition in Canada.
David Fickling MINARA Resources has cut production at its Murrin Murrin nickel processing plant after the failure of a heat exchanger.
Rhys Blakeley AS Biz Stone returns to internet start-up roots, the last of Twitter's three co-founders is stepping away from full-time work at the site.
Gavin Lower THE RBA's Warwick McKibbin called on the US Fed to tighten policy, saying "you cannot give away money and have a vibrant economy".
Alkman Granitsas GREECE'S Parliament approved a five-year austerity plan but doubts remain about its ability to pay back its debts.
THE Australian stockmarket was up 0.8 per cent by early afternoon, on track to post a third straight day of gains.
RETIRING Telstra chief financial officer John Stanhope is convinced the company got the best deal possible from the NBN talks.
THE Telstra board has appointed an executive search firm to find a replacement for outgoing chief financial officer John Stanhope.
AUSTRALIA is embracing the digital age, with 70% of households connecting to the internet, and more than half of them online daily.
CISCO'S long-awaited Cius Android business tablet will be available in Australia from July 31, the networking giant said overnight.
AS Biz Stone returns to internet start-up roots, the last of Twitter's three co-founders is stepping away from full-time work at the site.
A GROUP associated with singer Justin Timberlake has bought the Myspace entertainment website from News Corp.
POP music sensation Justin Timberlake is set to own a slice of MySpace, following news that the company has been sold for $US35 million.
NINE Network has pulled the plug on plans to offer a State of Origin iPad app after failing to resolve a legal dispute with Telstra.
VIRGIN Mobile is launching its own version of a customer-first push.
THE replacement of credit cards with mobile phone payments seems no closer despite an apparently successful four-week trial by ANZ Bank and Visa.
AUSTRALIAN businesses will need to make their own arrangements if they want to use Microsoft's new cloud-delivered office software service locally.
SONY CEO Howard Stringer took a 16 per cent pay cut, reflecting the company's third straight year of losses.
Technology Metals Research shows Norra Karr to be the fourth largest heavy rare earth project in the Western World by contained metal.
Mark Saxon, Tasman Metals President & CEO: "These substantial new intersections from Norra Karr, with grades well above the current resource grade including high grades of dysprosium, will feed into the recently commissioned update to the NI 43-101 resource being completed by Pincock, Allen & Holt.
"A critical or strategic material is a commodity whose lack of availability during a national emergency would seriously affect the economic, industrial, and defensive capability of a country". My comment: Even without a national emergency we cannot live without strategic metals.
As a carbon tax deal draws closer, speculation mounts about what's in and what's out.
The PM's Diary: Julia Gillard begins her day in Darwin. She'll inspect defence housing at Larrakeyah Barracks and then visit the Inpex Larrakia training centre this morning before taking the VIP to Melbourne at midday. The PM will spend the rest of her day working at the federal government offices at 4 Treasury Place. The NT News splashes with the PM's visit and carries two pages of reports on live exports and community cabinet in Palmerston last night.
Tony Abbott is in Sydney and attended the departure breakfast for the Xstrata Cycle for SMILE team this morning. Mr Abbott is part of the team riding from Darwin to Broome over nine days to raise funds for the SMILE Foundation (Supporting Medical Innovation for Life Enhancement).
Senator boot camp: The twelve new Senators that will be sworn in next Monday face an unusual challenge - they won't begin their three-day training course in how the Senate works until after their first sitting week is finished. As Clerk of the Senate Rosemary Laing points out in the latest in-house staff bulletin, next week is the first July sitting with new Senators in 61 years. What else happens? First off, the Senators will be presented with a lapel pin that identifies them as Senators when inside the building. They'll receive email addresses, offices and a training DVD starring Ms Laing that has been months in the making. Once sworn in, a vote will be held for the positions of President and Deputy President of the Senate. Labor Senator John Hogg is expected to be re-elected unopposed as President and Liberal Senator Stephen Parry is expected to become the new Deputy President.
Brendan Conway US stocks advanced for a third day on passage of a Greek austerity package and a major settlement on toxic securities.
Susannah Moran THE Australian Taxation Office will crack down on large businesses sending profits offshore and scrutinise "novel" financial deals next year.
John Durie RETIRING Telstra chief financial officer John Stanhope is convinced the company got the best deal possible from the NBN talks.
Tracy Lee THE Telstra board has appointed an executive | 1,086 |
PMPs recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Ellen Kriz
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Pest management professionals (PMPs) around the country are donning pink in recognition and in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The Clendenin Consulting Group launched a pink logo and all communications will be colored pink. The company also plans to give 10 percent of its October profit to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This is the first year Clendenin Consulting Group has done this initiative.
"Not only the logo but all emails will be on pink background, all stationery and correspondence sent out will be on pink paper," says Greg Clendenin, CEO of Clendenin Consulting Group. "We just want to have a part in bringing attention to this disease that is the second-leading cause of cancer death among women. It will kill over 40,000 women in our country this year. One in eight women will be stricken with breast cancer in their lifetime in the United States. We are happy to be able to support foundations such as the Breast Cancer Research Foundation whose focus is on prevention and cure."
From left are California Pest Management's Alex Ramirez, Josh Alvarez, Jorge Sanchez and Derek Harmon-Wong. PHOTO: CALIFORNIA PEST MANAGEMENT
Out in La Verne, California, California Pest Management is equipped with pink B&G sprayers in celebration of the event, as well as pink bows on staff uniforms and trucks.
"All of our staff have personally been touched by cancer, and especially losing a loved one to breast cancer," says Jim Harmon, owner of California Pest Management. "We celebrate those that have survived and the hope of beating this horrendous disease in the future."
"So many of us have had either a close friend or a relative get this disease … We all can't do everything, but each of us can do something," says Clendenin.
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Ellen Kriz is the managing editor for PMP magazine. She can be reached at ekriz@northcoastmedia.net or 216-70 | 415 |
This is a great little stroll around Lago di Averno, a volcanic crater lake in the heart of the Campi Flegri, to the west of Pozzuoli<|fim_middle|> the lake to the car. | . It's flat and completely straightforward – ideal for children and dogs.
In Virgil's Aeneid, it is from Lago d'Averno that Aeneas descends into the underworld. It's hard to imagine hell in such a bucolic setting, where old vineyards and citrus groves fringe the ancient crater. The lake's name stems from the Greek work άορνος, meaning 'without birds': according to legend, birds who flew over the lake would fall out of the sky. Scientists have since suggested that this was from poisonous volcanic gases from the lake's fumaroles. While it may have been unlucky for birds, Lago d'Averno proved useful to Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who in 37 BC linked it to nearby Lago Lucrino and the sea, turning hell's portal into a strategic naval dockyard. The battleships may have gone, but the lakeside ruins of the Tempio di Apollo (Temple of Apollo) remain. Built during the reign of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, this thermal complex once sported a domed roof almost the size of the Pantheon's in Rome. Sadly, only four great arched windows survive but they are still very impressive.
Drive right to the end of Via Italia (before it curves left) and park on the right hand side. You will see a small cafe in front of you on the edge of the lake. Go right here onto a nice wide trail (Via Lago d'Averno Lato Destro). Follow this towards the ruins of the Temple of Apollo which will be very obvious up ahead. Continue on until the lakeside track finishes – it forks right up and takes you between some buildings onto the road. To your right you'll see a short road up to a tunnel entrance. This is the Cocceius Tunnel built in 38-36 BC. It's a straight subterranean gallery nearly a 1km in length which connects Lago di Averno with Cuma and was part of Agrippa's project to turn the lake into a port but it is no longer open to the public. Go straight on and follow the road back all the way round | 460 |
Sunniest July on record
News • Number of the day • 02.08.2018 • Jess Bauldry
July 2018 was a record-breaking month for Luxembourg whose weather experts recorded the highest number of hours of sunshine in history.
It narrowly beat July 2006, when 345.5 hours of sunshine were recorded at the Findel airport weather station. With an average temperature of 22.1C°, last month ranked as the second-h<|fim_middle|> the making | ottest in history, meteorological office Meteolux reported on Wednesday. "The month of July 2006 retains the top spot with a monthly average of 23.5°C," Meteolux reported, adding that July 2018 did not beat any daily temperature records.
The hottest July day ever in Luxembourg's history was on 4 July 2015 when the weather station recorded a sweltering 36.1°C. The hottest day last month was 26 July 2018, with a maximum temperature of 34.7°C. With all that sun, Luxembourg received little rainfall making July 2018 the fifth-driest July since records began with 14.3 l/m2 recorded.
The sun and heat is expected to continue in Luxembourg over coming days, with the mercury tipped to reach 34°C on Friday and Saturday.
Meteolux • weather • heatwave • sun • rain
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How can creating partnerships with moving companies help domestic violence advocates address survivors' relocation needs?
By Patty Branco, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
"I am trying desperately to get back home to North Dakota before my abuser is released from jail. I am stranded in Louisiana. Please help me if in any way possible." – Marie* (survivor reaching out to NRCDV)
Like Marie, survivors often reach out to NRCDV with inquiries about relocation assistance. In my role as a technical assistance provider, I often feel heartbroken over the challenges they face, and at the same time, inspired by the resilience and resourcefulness that they carry. While our organization does not provide direct services such as emergency shelter or crisis intervention, we do refer survivors to their local domestic violence program, state/territory coalition and the community-based resources best positioned to offer the support that they need. Although leaving is not an option for or the desire of every survivor – not to mention that ending the relationship does not necessarily end the abuse – many survivors do leave their abusive partners. Some survivors see relocating to a different city, county, state or country as the only option for finding support and safety from abuse.
Relocation is certainly a broad and complex issue, with many important considerations. For example, there are legal implications that domestic violence survivors must consider when moving with children from one state or tribal jurisdiction to another. The Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women and the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody provide training and resources to help advocates and survivors navigate these legal issues (see Frequently Asked Questions on<|fim_middle|>, and services should be offered in an inclusive, welcoming, destigmatizing, and non-retraumatizing environment (NCDVTMH, 2011).
When moving services are offered in partnership with domestic violence programs, victim advocates can play a key role in ensuring that services are delivered in a trauma-informed and empowering way. In addition to providing comprehensive training to volunteers, local domestic violence programs are also best positioned to screen requests for help, protect victims' private information throughout the process and provide safety planning assistance before, during and after the move. "While leaving and relocating can be significant steps for women in changing the power dynamics of an abusive relationship, women are still in need of protection from their abusers and assistance from various informal and formal support systems following separation" (Crisafi & Jasinski, 2015, p. 989).
"I have been trying to find an agency that can help us to escape the area where we are not safe. I would like any information you can help me with regarding flight assistance." –Renee* (survivor reaching out to NRCDV)
These considerations can also be applied to other creative collaborations that advocates may explore in order to address the breadth of survivors' relocation needs, including but not limited to partnerships with hotels, rental car companies, rideshare services (see example of partnership with Lyft), as well as aviation charities that provide free air transportation to individuals and families in crisis (see, for example, Angel Flight West and Air Charity Network). Fortunately, resources are available to enhance advocates' skills and mindset for successful collaborations and for engaging new or nontraditional partners. In developing and sustaining relationships with moving companies and other new partners, advocates must find and build common ground and a shared sense of purpose. And, often, this involves building bridges and making connections where none existed before.
*Survivor's name has been changed to protect their safety and privacy. | Relocation for Victim Advocates). While relocation may be the most viable option for a survivor to permanently cut ties with an abusive partner in some cases, it is critical that survivors receive strategic guidance to make informed choices when they need to relocate for their personal safety. Safety Net Project provides resources and consultation to better equip advocates and other professionals to address the complexity and challenges of ensuring survivors' privacy and safety when they relocate (see, for instance, important considerations about identity protection and change).
"I was wondering how I can apply for grants, so my children and I can relocate and get established elsewhere where we feel safe." – Paula* (survivor reaching out to NRCDV)
Most of the time, when survivors reach out to NRCDV, they are seeking information about financial resources to make their relocation possible. They need money to fuel their car or buy a bus or plane ticket, to pay the security deposit on a new apartment, to support themselves until they find a job. The process of leaving and relocating can be particularly challenging for survivors who are socially or economically marginalized, including low-income survivors, those in isolated, rural areas, as well as immigrant survivors who may lack support networks. Available research has consistently identified poverty, economic dependence, and lack of tangible resources and social support as strong predictors of women's decisions to return to, or remain with, their abusers. Additionally, studies have also found that women of color are at an "increased risk of encountering structural and social barriers that complicate help-seeking" for domestic violence (Crisafi & Jasinski, 2015, p. 1002).
Relocation funding may vary from state to state. In some states, the crime victim compensation program may cover relocation expenses for victims who must move for their physical safety, or a relocation assistance program for domestic violence victims may be available through the Department of Children and Families. In some instances, the cost of emergency relocation to a safer housing situation may also be offset by flexible funding – an emerging approach being used in many states across the country to address survivors' housing needs (see How can I use funding from the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to address the housing needs of domestic violence survivors in my community?). It is important that survivors connect with their local domestic violence program and state/territory coalition for assistance with learning about and accessing available funding.
Partnering with Moving Companies as an Advocacy Strategy
Victim-defined advocacy must address the economic safety needs of survivors, including tangible economic resources. Creative and strategic community collaborations can create opportunities for supplementing traditional relocation funding and/or providing assistance when survivors do not qualify for these funding options. As one such strategy, this TAQ highlights examples of partnerships to provide free moving services to survivors.
"Just moved here. I have no family to assist me. I'm trying to get the money for a deposit and to hire someone to load and unload a truck for me to move out of this very dangerous situation." – Kathy* (survivor reaching out to NRCDV)
We know that survivors leaving dangerous situations need a variety of things such as safety planning assistance, legal advocacy, affordable housing, adequate child care, job training and stable employment. As Kathy (quoted above) reminds us, they also need very tangible things like help packing their belongings and loading and unloading a truck. I first learned about free services designed to assist victims of domestic violence with their moving needs back in 2016, when I provided domestic violence training materials to Shelter Movers. A volunteer-based organization, Shelter Movers offers no-cost moving and storage services to domestic violence survivors and their children. The organization collaborates with community partners in Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto to help families move out of abusive homes. According to their website, this "service model is highly replicable and requires very little overhead to operate, making its establishment in other communities across Canada very viable."
SMT - a client's story from Mike Meehan on Vimeo.
In the United States, through partnerships with several domestic violence programs in California, Meathead Movers has been providing, for over 15 years, "premium moving services while extending a philanthropic arm to victims of domestic violence by giving them a fresh start with free moving services" (see California Moving Company Helps Victims of Domestic Violence Flee Their Abusers for Free). Similarly, the nation-wide moving company TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® has also established partnerships with local domestic violence programs such as Friendship Home in Lincoln, Nebraska. Whether it is moving survivors' belongings from their previous home into storage while they are in shelter or moving them into a new home away from their abusive partners, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® offers what Friendship Home staff describe as a "unique and invaluable confidential service" to survivors in their program. Julie Havener, Counselor and Strengths-Centered Advocacy Coordinator with Friendship Home explains:
"When survivors take the courageous step to reach out for help in finding safe shelter, there are already so many things they have to leave behind – the place they called home, their neighborhood, everything that was familiar to them. When it is safe to do so, our partnership with TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® allows survivors to keep their belongings rather than have to lose those too."
Partnerships between moving companies and domestic violence programs are filled with potential. For many survivors, having access to free packing, moving and storage services may be their only viable option for safely relocating without losing their treasured belongings. For advocates, these partnerships represent an opportunity for expanding strategic collaborations with non-traditional partners to fill service gaps when resources are scarce. For moving companies and community members, such collaboration provides individuals and local businesses with a unique avenue for assisting survivors of domestic violence and getting actively involved in creating safer communities.
Considerations for Successful Partnerships
Connecting survivors with free moving/relocation services may prove to be an invaluable component within a broader array of trauma-informed services that are offered to those fleeing abusive homes. However, it is critical that these services be provided in partnership with and under the guidance of domestic violence programs. Moving companies and volunteer movers need adequate training to ensure that the experience is as safe as possible for both survivors and volunteers, and that survivors are connected with the support they need beyond moving day. Within a trauma-informed approach, safety relates to survivors' physical as well as emotional well-being | 1,291 |
Mr. Ted Woodhead, Vice President of Federal Government and Regulatory Affairs at TELUS, pitched in to clean the toys that our toddlers use during outdoor play!
On Saturday, May 31st, 2014, TELUS Ottawa employees returned to Youville Centre for their annual TELUS Day of Giving. Each spring, TELUS demonstrates its Day of Giving motto: "Give Where You Live" by giving their employees the opportunity to choose to volunteer at a local charity that is participating in the program. We were fortunate to have some of the same volunteers back again this year, and happy to see some new faces as well!
This young lady weeded our entire yard<|fim_middle|> working so hard to make this day such a success, and for TELUS' generous donation that made it all possible! | by hand! She worked hard all day with smile on her face.
The employees and their families got to work weeding, raking, pruning and planting, all in an effort to make our yard and gardens clean and beautiful! Our childcare play yards were raked, and the equipment and toys were washed and organized neatly. Even Mr. Ted Woodhead, Senior Vice President of Federal Government and Regulatory Affairs at TELUS, pitched in to spruce up our play yards for the 55 infants and toddlers we serve each day.
Our play yard equipment never looked so clean!
By the end of the day, we had fresh herb gardens, beautiful flowers and a clean yard and property due to the hard work of the families and individuals who chose to "give where they live".
Special thanks to Ted Woodhead, Shannon Gorman, Sarah Arden, and Greg Purdy for | 177 |
Explore Houston
Call Houston Home
Not a weekend goes by where Houston is not celebrating life in a big way, with art festivals, parades, music, food, and international celebrations that have become world famous. Conveniently located off of Beltway 8 and 59, The Groves is convenient to numerous attractions in Houston, Texas:
Minutes away from the Theater District of downtown Houston, the largest Museum District in the country.
Close proximity to the largest indoor luxury shopping center at the Houston Galleria.
Houston is home to the largest Rodeo celebration, the Rockets basketball team, the Texans football team, and the Astros baseball team.
The Houston dining scene boasts more than 10,000 restaurants, representing cuisine from more than 70 countries and American regions.
Direct access to thoroughfares leading to major business corridors of downtown Houston, The Woodlands, and the Port of Houston.
15 minutes to the Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Shop at The Galleria
Tour a Museum
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<|fim_middle|> oasis of its own. Not only does our community encompass acres of wooded pines and the serenity of Madera Creek, but it's also surrounded by the numerous parks and recreational activities within Northeast Houston.
Jesse Jones Park and Nature Center is a 312-acre nature preserve with white sand beaches along Spring Creek and over 12 miles of paved trail system, where family events and festivals are held all year round.
Alexander Deussen Park offers picturesque walking trails, bike trails, picnic areas, places to barbecue, kid play areas, and covered areas for group activities.
Generation Park, a 4,000-acre business park planned for the Lake Houston area, is destined to become a vibrant, walkable community with restaurants and shopping surrounded with lakes and trails.
Northeast Houston also offers desirable shopping, golfing at the Tour 18 Golf Course, Walden on Lake Houston Golf & Country Club, or Golf Club of Houston, water sports on nearby lakes, and hiking trails just about everywhere.
Play at Atascocita Park
The newly opened and highly anticipated Atascocita Park offers the community 21 acres of outdoor fun. The awaited park includes 8 acres of paved hiking and biking trails, a 2.5-acre natural pond with an elevated boardwalk traversing the pond and 2 separate dog parks for large and small breeds. Atascocita forest area and grasslands are accompanied by a sizable picnic pavilion, a large playground and open play areas, restrooms, and plenty of parking.
Discover Atascocita Park and enjoy the great outdoors, located at 17302 West Lake Houston Parkway, Atascocita. The perfect place to bring friends and loved ones closer to nature and is open to all from dawn to dusk, Monday through Sunday.
Life by the Lake
Lake Houston is one the most beautiful reservoirs in the state and encompasses close to 5,000 acres of naturally wooded parkland, where overnight camping is available. Home to Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, this quiet refuge is one of the few places in Texas that offers picturesque fall foliage, 12 miles of hike and bike trails, kayaking, equestrian trails and picnic areas.
Along the waterfront, King's Harbor — an upscale community destination located on Lake Houston — offers shopping, one-of-a-kind eateries and entertainment all year, with a Saturday Live Music Series, Yoga under the Stars with Lifetime Fitness, and other fun activities and events for all ages!
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"The penetrating vision of the work of Giancarlo Impiglia provides a compelling portrait of the mood and mores of the twentieth century. From rush hour to cocktail hour; from bustling city streets to serene stretches of beach; from elegant gatherings in opulent penthouses and aboard luxurious ocean liners to intimate Romantic encounters on moonlit terraces and posh dance floors – the realities and fantasies of our time and culture are depicted with infinite flair in the colorful compositions and bold images filling Impiglia paintings. A keen observer, he examines both the ever passing parade of ordinary workday activities, and the progression of special occasions and celebrations that lend extra dash and sparkle to our existence. What people do, Where they go, how they behave-these are things Impiglia finds endlessly fascinating. For him there is a special challenge in discovery, in finding the new in the familiar. To this task Impiglia<|fim_middle|>, and desires." | applies his formidable talent for interpretation, and establishes himself as a leading chronicler of our actions, hopes | 20 |
When I was studying economics at university in the mid-1960s, I wasn't quite sure what a "model" was. These days, politicians and business people are always using the word, and most of us think we know what they mean.
In case you're not sure, here's an explanation I would love to have seen at uni, provided by Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of the Australia Institute, in his new paper, The Use and Abuse of Economic Modelling.
"A model, be it a model car or an economic model, is a simplified representation of a more complex mechanism. A model is typically smaller, simpler and easier to build than a full-scale replica. A model sheds light on the main features of the reality it seeks to represent," Denniss writes.
"An economic 'model' is not a physical thing, like a model car. Rather, it is a mathematical representation of the linkages between selected elements of the economy."
Thus an economic model is, unavoidably, a simplified version of the economy, or an aspect of the economy. It includes those aspects of reality the model-builder regards as most important in explaining what happens, and leaves out all those aspects that don't seem to make a big difference.
So the results you get from a model are only as good as the modeller's choice of what to include and what to leave out. In practice, the model's predictions will often prove astray because some factor the modeller assumed wouldn't be important turned out to be.
Different types of economic models are used for different purposes. Earlier this week I used Denniss's paper to discuss the input-output model that industry lobbies use to make their industry sound bigger than it is.
Today let's discuss the most sophisticated models economists have developed; "computable general equilibrium" models. These are often used to shed light on the effect of a major policy change on the economy over the next 10 or 20 years.
If you remember nothing else about models, remember this: their weakness is they are built on a host of assumptions, and therefore are only as good as the assumptions on which they are built. Some assumptions are obviously unrealistic and couldn't possibly hold; some happen to be overtaken by events.
Models are sets of equations with dependent and independent variables. The modeller decides the values of the independent (or "exogenous") variables and the model calculates the values of the dependent ("endogenous") variables. So, if the modeller puts in the wrong independent variables (usually assumptions or guesses about the future), the dependent variables will be wrong, too.
The model-builder also specifies the "elasticity" (sensitivity) of the relationships between the variables. For instance, when the exchange rate rises will the reduction in exports be big or small? Elasticities are partly based on empirical evidence, but they also reflect the model-builder's beliefs about how the economy works. Should that belief be wrong, the model's results will be wrong.
It's common for general equilibrium models to be Keynesian in the short run (up to 10 years) but neoclassical in the long run (20 years or more). That is, key variables such as inflation, unemployment and economic growth are determined by the strength of aggregate (total) demand in the short run, but by the strength of aggregate supply in the long run.
This means the economy is assumed to be at full employment in the long run, and economic growth over the period is assumed to be determined solely by the growth in the labour force (the population of working age and its rate of participation in the labour force) plus the rate of improvement in the productivity of labour.
How do you know what the average rates of growth in population and productivity will be over the next 20 years? You take an educated guess, then plug them in. But here's the trick: once you've done that, you've predetermined where the model's results will end up, regardless of whatever policy changes you simulate happening to the economy in the meantime.
No matter how much some change knocks the economy off its assumed long-run course, the model's specifications assume it will not only get back on course but also catch up to where it would have been.
The economy can take up to 10 years to return to its "steady state".
So, the bigger the initial departure from the long-run trend, the bigger the ultimate bounce back - by design. And, by design, nothing can ever happen that changes our destiny.
Thus the<|fim_middle|> unrealistic.
But see what it means? It means the policy change you're purporting to be testing doesn't stand a chance of making much lasting difference, for good or ill. And that means your test is a sham. You give the appearance of testing some proposition, but the outcome is essentially predetermined.
I think such models should be used only in private by consenting economists. They have a good understanding of the assumptions on which the model's results are built and they know whether they share the modeller's faith that the economy works the way her model assumes it does.
When the results of these models are paraded before the public - by governments and treasuries, as well as interest groups - they can't help but mislead. They appear to be proving some policy change would be good or bad but, in truth, they're coming to predetermined conclusions.
The sign that the sponsors and modellers are out to mislead is shown by their failure to highlight their model's key assumptions in some sort of comprehensible product disclosure statement. | model assumes away "path dependency" - the idea that where we end up is determined by what happens to us on the way; that some developments leave us permanently better off, while some leave us permanently worse off. This is clearly | 46 |
There is nothing to report in Le Petit Village.
(Except for the crazy crickets that have been<|fim_middle|> my ninja assassin skills to accommodate their quick demise. My ninja assassin repertoire now includes flies, crickets, and basil plants).
With nothing to report, I will leave you with these photos of Fifty in a t-shirt.
Oh, and I almost forgot, a very pregnant Vicky finally gave birth to four healthy puppies.
None of which look anything like Fifty (thank god) but very much like Leo.
(I can cancel that trip to The Maury Povich Show for the daddy test).
P.S. Despite Vicky's obvious indiscretions, Fifty still loves her.
maybe you will take one of pups, name him "CENT" and you will have a proper la maison gangsta!
how funny is your assassin?
Congratulation for new Vicky puppies! Take pictures!
Meredith - Thanks, but Vicky isn't actually our dog (only Fifty), she belongs to a family that lives in the village. But since she and Fifty are best buddies, she just comes over and hangs out a lot. The puppies have already been sent to new homes. I wanted one but my husband put his foot down on that one. Golden/Spaniel mix sounds adorable!
The picture of Fifty in a Tshirt really made me giggle - embarrassingly outloud, at work, so my colleauges are now looking at me funny!
Love that huge dog! So glad you stopped by yesterday so that I could find you here. I LOVE your blog. Very witty and your writing is incredible. Very entertaining and will be digging in to read your older posts. Nice to meet you!
Girl, you've got plenty! I love the new header.
and the circus post made me laugh.
A couple of pictures of a dog in a T-shirt is good enough for me!
Umm, what's the back story behind putting the Husband's t-shirt on Fifty? I assume it's the Husband's since he's shirtless... Must have been one very interesting night!
Fifty looks happy. Congratulations Vicky!
Fifty is such a stud!! A very forgiving stud to still be in love with that hussy. Congrats on becoming a bug killing machine. I'm sure your abilities will be very useful in Le Petit Village.
So that Vicky found her man...share some photos of the pups! Fifty looks handsome in a T-Shirt..
have fun with the puppies.
i wanna see puppy pictures!!!
I have problems getting a leash on our dog, let alone a T-shirt. Enjoy puppyhood! | invading my home. It's like they've replaced the flies. Slightly more challenging to kill what with the jumping and all but I've honed | 30 |
Un video wall è un maxischermo composto da un numero variabile di moduli che possono essere monitor CRT, pannelli retroproiettati, schermi a cristalli liquidi o al plasma. Gli elementi possono essere combinati fra loro per raggiungere le dimensioni desiderate del maxischermo. Ogni elemento,<|fim_middle|>-monitor
Schermo a cristalli liquidi
Schermo al plasma
Tubo a raggi catodici
Altri progetti
Dispositivi elettronici
Monitor | opportunamente pilotato da un'apposita centralina, visualizza solo una parte dell'immagine completa, che viene visualizzata interamente da tutti gli schermi che compongono il video wall, che si comportano come le tessere di un mosaico.
Oltre alle installazioni classiche (gli schermi sono posizionati in senso orizzontale ed accostati in modo da formare un maxischermo il cui rapporto tra le dimensioni è 4:3 o 16:9) sono possibili videowall con rapporti di forma diversi o con posizionamento degli elementi anche nelle tre dimensioni (ad esempio video wall "circolari").
Il maggiore problema di questa tipologia di schermo era inizialmente dovuto alla presenza delle antiestetiche cornici che circondano gli elementi che lo compongono, generando un fastidioso effetto "a scacchiera"; in seguito, con l'evolversi della tecnologia, sono comparsi sul mercato dei video wall che hanno ridotto al minimo se non eliminato il problema, utilizzando cornici di spessore molto ridotto (qualche millimetro) che a distanza risultano invisibili.
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December Photo Contest Winner
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Lower Suwanee NWR by Ann Kamzelski.
Pine flatwoods with deer-tongue blooming y Larry Woodward
Great Egret fledglings by Larry Woodward
Freshwater pond in hardwood swamp by Ann Kamzelski
Sun setting over former burial ground at Shell Mound by Ann Kamzelski
Sanders Creek from Dixie Mainline by Russ Hall
North Key by Ann Kamzelski
Peg Hall's post with Ann Kamzelski's photo of the Lower Suwannee NWR in Florida was the winning photo for the December contest.
Friends of Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys NWRs is lucky to have two quite different refuges to support, under a single management.
The Cedar Keys NWR was established in 1929 to help protect shore birds, which at the time were being taken in huge numbers for their plumage which was highly valued by the millinery business worldwide. The 900-acre refuge, made up of on 13 islands provides breeding grounds for thousands of ibises, egrets, spoonbills, pelicans, herons, and other shore birds.
The Lower Suwannee NWR was established 50 years later in 1979 to protect the water quality of the historic Suwannee River, 20 miles of which bisects the Refuge at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. The flow of the Suwannee feeds the estuarine waters of the Gulf, habitat for the Gulf sturgeon and feeding grounds for resident and migratory shorebirds, wading birds and waterfowl. The land had been heavily logged before becoming a refuge. The Refuge is working to restore and protect the bottomland hardwood swamps and forests along the Suwannee.
The Lower Suwannee Refuge also includes Shell Mound, an archaeological resource prominent as a civic-ceremonial site from about A.D. 400 to A. D. 650. The location held a burial site aligned with the setting sun on Winter Solstice.
What is our all-volunteer, 22-year-old Friends group doing now?
Celebrating Winter and Summer Solstice
Conducting Native Plant, Butterfly, and Photo Walks and creating trailside interpretive panels and new guides for visitor favorites such as gravel biking
Having outreach booths at local festivals and working to acquire a mobile outreach center to take the story of the Refuges to where the people are
Designing unique merchandise for our pandemic-inspired Online Store, with board members fulfilling orders from home
Acquiring grants to help restore Vista, a 14-acre former in-holding that the donors, who are members of Friends, turned over to the Refuge at our 2022 Annual Meeting.
Providing an extensive website with a blog, bios of Friends board and Refuge staff, a list of Friends members, descriptions of places of interest to visit on the Refuges, guides to seeing the Refuges from your kayak, maps and brochures for many Refuge areas and trails, a primer to butterflies of the Lower Suwannee Refuge, and a link to our widely-distributed and popular email News Brief
Participating in CORFA initiatives!
Congratulation Peg and Ann!
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November Photo Contest Winner
The winner of the November Photo Contest is Julie Filiberti's post of the community of birders at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Vermont. The Friends of Missisquoi NWR hold monthly bird monitoring walks on four of the Refuge trails. As of Julie's post they have had walks for a total of 151 months! They have tallied 162 different species and also as Julie wrote have "collected a wonderful group of people who come together to share the love of our avian friends."
Birders at Missisquoi NWR in Vermont
Lookout Point
Jeep Trail
Monthly monitoring walk led by ken Copenhaver and Julie Filiberti
Bit Sit at Stephen Marsh
The Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1943 to provide habitat for migratory birds. It consists of 6,729 acres, mostly wetland habitats, which support a variety of migratory birds and other wildlife. The 900-acre Maquam bog is designated as a Research Natural Area and the Refuge was designated as an Important Bird Area in partnership with the Audubon Society. The Refuge in partnership with other publicly owned (State of Vermont) lands has been designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. A mosaic of wetland habitats offers opportunities to see and manage more than 200 species of birds. Fall migration features 20,000-25,000 migrating ducks. Nesting bald eagles, osprey and many other waterbirds are present on the refuge.
The Friends of Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2002. The mission of the Friends is to promote a better awareness, appreciation, conservation and responsible utilization of the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.
The majority of the Board members are birders, so a lot of their efforts tend to lean in that direction. Their aim is always to bring awareness to Missisquoi in new and creative ways. In addition, the Friends are the backbone for the Refuge in obtaining grant monies for invasive species control and natural science education. As with most refuges across the country, Missisquoi NWR does not have its operational needs met financially, so the Friends do what they can to help keep Missisquoi on its feet.
Julie said, "I have such appreciation for the group of birders that we've accumulated over the years. Many are regulars that make almost every walk we offer, and some are seasonal or join us occasionally. The Vermont birding community is very small and very friendly so it's always exciting to have a new face appear and warmly welcome them into our birding group".
Some other things to highlight about the Friends of Missisquoi:
The Friends offer a store at the Refuge headquarters, but with Covid and subsequent lack of volunteer staffing at the refuge, it has been closed down other than when there has been an event onsite.
The Friends publish a quarterly newsletter highlighting what they have, what they are planning, and any Refuge information that is timely. Their Refuge Manager and Biologist always contribute a column also. All members of the Friends receive a newsletter.
The Friends have been hosting a Big Sit in October at the Stephen Young Marsh at the Refuge for a number of years now. Because they stay stationary on the marsh's platform, it's a chance for the public to connect with the Friends to find out what they are doing and maybe share a bit of avian and refuge knowledge. This year they tallied 41 different species in 12 hours in the marsh.
The Friends have been hosting "An Evening of Bird Tales" once a year in February. It started<|fim_middle|>. Visitors can also take an archery course or attend one of the many events held at the Refuge.
The Refuge has a variety of wildlife from amphibians to large mammals and is also a stopover for many migrating birds, including an occasional rare one.
Congratulations, Karen!
Monarch caterpillar starting to crystallize by Karen VanDyk
Monarchs on liatris at Wallkill NWR by Karen VanDyk
Monarch caterpillar starting to crystallize by Kaen VanDyk
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Copyright © Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates 2022 | out as a live event where 4-5 people tell stories about birds. It could be any encounter or experience they've had with the avian world. Since Covid, it has turned into a virtual event, which has really widened the audience. In 2023, for the 7th annual Bird Tales, the Friends are partnering with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and having biologists on their staff tell some of the stories of their encounters. It promises to be a win-win for both the Friends and VCE by bringing a new audience to both groups.
Because Bird Tales via Zoom has proved to be such a big hit, the Friends have been trying to host other online events throughout the winter months. This winter the focus is going to be on invasive species. They are planning a series of presentations from experts on the threats to the Refuge that are out there, what dangers they pose, and to teach visitors what to look out for.
In the spring of 2022 the Friends of Missisquoi NWR applied for and were awarded the National Wildlife Refuge Association's O'Brien Prize. Julie wrote: We have developed a land acknowledgement recognizing the Abenaki culture that called the lands and waters home before the creation of the Refuge and have began working with the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on ways to bring awareness to their existence. As stated in our acknowledgement, "We, the Friends of Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, honor the Indigenous heritage of the region and welcome the opportunity to assist the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi in maintaining their close connection with their ancestral lands. Through education and partnership, we will work to bring awareness to their culture and existence. We invite our visitors to share in honoring this vision by engaging in mindfulness while enjoying the Refuge lands and waters and by holding the space with care and appreciation."
Congratulation Julie!
Continue ReadingNovember Photo Contest Winner
October Photo Contest Winner
Cathy Allen is the winner of the October photo contest. Cathy and her teddy shared photos from her recent trip to D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery and archives in Spearfish, SD. Congratulations Cathy!
The Pond Gift Shop
Trout in the underwater viewing area
Generations Statue
More than 30 years before the first national wildlife refuge was established in 1903, the first national fish hatcheries were created. Throughout 2022 the National Fish Hatchery System has been marking its 150th anniversary.
Teddy knew hatcheries were an important part of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service history, so he was thrilled to visit the DC Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery and National Fish and Aquatic Conservation Archives in Spearfish, South Dakota in October. What a fabulous day of discovery he had! Founded in 1896, this fabulous place is still carrying out its original mission, stocking more than 50,000 brown and rainbow trout in 14 reservoirs across South Dakota and Montana in 2021. Named after its first superintendent, DC Booth also preserves the historic and cultural heritage of the USFWS, with a living fisheries museum, an active archive of fisheries records and artifacts, plus interpretive and educational programming.
Teddy was surprised to learn that none of the 67 fish hatcheries have Visitor Services staff or funding. Yet, DC Booth was named "Best Place for a Family Day" in a local contest. How are they able to do take such good care of 190,000 visitors annually? Easy! Their Friends! The Booth Society manages the volunteer corps required to operate multiple educational venues on the site including historic homes, a museum, an underwater viewing area, even a replica Fisheries Railcar. All of it – every single venue on the property – is staffed with two shifts of volunteers daily throughout the season – all managed and paid for by The Booth Society. That's 14,000 volunteer hours!
Let's tip our hats to the amazing board of directors and staff at The Booth Society. Executive Director Karen Holzer, Gift Shoppe Manager Nancy Cole, a volunteer board, and a scattering of interns have created a huge legacy – raising the money to pay for facilities renovations, interpretive signage, even land purchases – to build DC Booth National Fish Hatchery into the spectacular place to visit that it is today. Teddy had a great day and highly recommends taking your whole family for a fun day of exploration and learning.
Congratulation Cathy!
Continue ReadingOctober Photo Contest Winner
September Photo Contest Winner
Volunteer Picnic, Crab Orchard NWR, by Jim Osborn
Janie Pettigrew, Volunteer of the Year, by Jim Osborn
Jim Osborn with Friends of Crab Orchard NWR in Illinois is the winner of the September photo contest. Jim has a passion for photography and leads the Friends photography club in addition to serving on the board. Congratulations Jim!
Thanks for submitting photos of the first live Volunteer Appreciation Event at Crab Orchard NWR since COVID began. It looks like everyone had a great time! The refuge staff presented numerous awards to volunteers in appreciation for the thousands of hours that they donated to the refuge. Janie Pettigrew was named Volunteer of the Year.
The Friends of Crab Orchard Refuge are dedicated to working with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the community to enhance use of the Refuge for wildlife conservation, recreation, agriculture and industry. The group was established in 2000 and has built a force of approximately 100 regular volunteers. The activities they support include:
Facilitating eagle tours
Assisting with interpretive programs
Installing a pollinator habitat
Enhancing refuge services including public use facilities
Sponsoring youth hunting and fishing days
Transporting students to the refuge
Conducting annual photo contest
Operating the Woodland Gift Shop
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (CONWR) was established on August 5, 1947 and is located in southwestern Illinois near Marion. CONWR is somewhat unique among wildlife refuges in that it is actually a vacation destination for many. The Refuge has four campgrounds, boating and fishing on three lakes, and welcomes hunters, naturalists, birders, hikers and photographers.
The refuge is made up of 44,000 acres of land that centers around Crab Orchard Lake. It has a great diversity of flora and fauna. The major habitats on the refuge include oak hickory upland forest, bottomland hardwood forest, cropland, grazing units, brushland, prairie, wetlands and lakes. The refuge also includes a 4,050 acre congressionally designated wilderness area.
Congratulation Jim!
Crab Orchard NWR by Kyra Neal/USFWS
Continue ReadingSeptember Photo Contest Winner
August Photo Contest Winner
Karen Blakely Van Dyk shared beautiful images of monarchs and monarch caterpillars at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge.
River National Wildlife Refuge was established to conserve and enhance populations of wildlife and their habitats, to protect and enhance water quality, and to provide opportunities for wildlife-dependent recreation and research. The refuge conserves the biological diversity of the Wallkill Valley by protecting and managing land, with a special emphasis on forest-dwelling and grassland birds, migrating waterfowl, wintering raptors, and endangered species. The North American Waterfowl Management Plan identifies the Wallkill River bottomlands as a priority focus area for waterfowl management within New Jersey.
Friends of Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge was founded in 2006 to support the work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Refuge. Volunteers manage the activities of the Friends group and work in concert with Refuge staff to protect the environment and promote public awareness.
The Friends' mission is to support the refuge through
Educational and recreational opportunities for the public
Habitat management and enhancement
Wallkill River NWR headquarters is in Sussex, New Jersey and part of the Lenape NWR Complex. The refuge encompasses over 6,000 acres of the Wallkill Valley, which used to be farmland and sod fields. Just 7 miles north of headquarters is the popular Liberty Loop Trail, which is a favorite spot for wildlife observation and photography. A portion of the trail is part of the Appalachian Trail and like the Winding Waters Trail are located in New York. In addition to these two walking trails there are numerous trail along the Wallkill River in New Jersey. You can also fish or kayak on Owens Pond or the Wallkill River | 1,746 |
Laser Tag Safety
Before doing any sort of exercise or playing any kind of sports or games, whether it's you or your kids, you want to make sure that it's completely safe. This way, you can have fun without worrying about getting injured or harmed.
Laser tag is one of these popular games that most people enjoy, especially kids and teenagers. However, having the "laser" word in its name could be a little concerning when it comes to its safety. Throughout this article, we'll be providing you with a guide to laser tag and whether it's actually safe or not.
How Does Laser Tag Work?
Is Laser Tag Safe?
Physical Body Injuries
Before answering the safety question, let's better understand the game and how it works by looking at its mechanics, rules, and equipment.
Laser tag is a shooting style game with the main goal being to tag or to hit your opponents with the gun you have while avoiding being hit yourself. The gameplay and mechanics depend heavily on the hardware and software equipment used and their capabilities as they can range from video games-like modes to extremely realistic combat simulations.
The game has many formats, it can be played in single or team mode. Different styles of play can easily be created by changing the different parameters of the game like the amount of ammo, the number of lives, and the objectives. The arena could also be outdoor or indoor.
A common rule among all styles of play is forbidding physical contact between the players, which results in penalties if it occurred.
The basic equipment needed for the game is the tagging gun used to shoot at targets and a vest worn by the player and embedded with the tagging targets. Additional equipment includes grenades, mines, kits, and boxes, combined with visual and sound effects like light beams, fog, and firearm sounds. All these effects and parameters along with the scoring are controlled by the game computer.
When it comes to safety concerns of laser tag, there are two main<|fim_middle|> game is called "laser" tag, actually most game zones don't use any kinds of lasers at all.
There are different implementations for the shooting and tagging system, which depend on different technologies for the pistol and vest used. The most common system implemented uses infrared light instead of a laser. The gun emits an invisible infrared beam that sends signals to the infrared receivers found on the vest, in order to track the firing.
These signals are exactly like those in TV remote controls, they're low energy and low frequency, which makes them completely harmless. The beam signal is also encoded with info for scoring and security purposes and the visible light that's emitted is just regular light that acts only as a visual effect and has no role in the scoring.
Another less common system uses transmitters (LEDs) on the vest and embeds the infrared sensor along with a focus lens in the gun instead. This way, the sensor detects the transmitter only when it's pointing directly at it and the scoring happens when the trigger is pulled at the same time as the detection. This makes the system more accurate and more reliable over long ranges while keeping it safe by avoiding the use of lasers.
There are laser tag zones that actually use real lasers in their systems. In such cases, the laser equipment must be FDA compliant. The guns are equipped with Class 2 laser, which emits visible light with very low power levels that are less than 1 mW. This class of laser is safe for public use and momentary exposure to it won't cause damage to the eyes, as they will blink and move away.
More safety measures are taken when lasers are used. The use of red laser light instead of green decreases its power level. The duration of the laser pulse is limited so that it doesn't stay in contact with the players' eyes more than milliseconds. Moreover, targets on the players' helmets are avoided to eliminate the need to target the head in the first place. Thus, making these laser zones as safe as the ones that don't use laser equipment.
Laser tag is an entertaining game for people of all ages and it's totally safe, as it uses equipment that causes no harm. So, take your kids or friends and go have fun without any worries.
Angela Waterford - December 29, 2019
Thanks for the advice that it's best to use closed-toe shoes and avoid wearing sandals and flip flops if I'm going to a laser tag arena with my friends. My friends and I are looking for a recreational activity that we can do every month so we can bond and spend more time together. I suppose we can look for someone who's offering this so we can see if that's the right activity that we can do. | areas that need to be addressed: physical body injuries and eyesight. First thing first, let have a look at laser tag safety rules.
As stated before, laser tag is a non-contact game that includes a rule that penalizes physical contact so there's no risk of players harming each other. However, due to the fact that this is somehow a physically demanding game, where swift movement is required, there's always the risk of injuring oneself by falling down or hitting the obstacles found around the arena or even injuring other players by accidentally colliding with them.
Despite this, physical injuries are usually minimal, much less than any type of sports you might be playing.
The main safety concern when it comes to playing laser tag is the risk of eye damage that could be caused by the laser beam shot from the gun. However, although the | 166 |
Mark King, född 28 mars 1974, är en engelsk professionell snookerspelare.
King blev professionell 1991, och avancerade stadigt på rankingen. 1997 nådde han sin dittills största framgång, då han gick till final i rankingturneringen Welsh Open, och säsongen därpå slog han sig in bland topp-16 på världsrankingen. Sammanlagt har han tillbringat sex säsonger bland topp-<|fim_middle|>, 14 minuter och 58 sekunder. Detta inträffade i deras match i andra omgången i VM 2009. Ett annat, mindre smickrande rekord som King innehar, är i kategorin "Lägsta antalet gjorda poäng i en TV-sänd match". King åstadkom bara sammanlagt 11 poäng i en förlustmatch mot John Higgins i Grand Prix 1997.
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Levande personer | 16. Dock har han ännu inte lyckats vinna någon professionell turnering, det närmaste han har kommit förutom finalplatsen i Welsh Open, var ytterligare en finalplats, i Irish Masters 2004.
Efter VM 2004 mötte King den australiske snookerspelaren Quinten Hann i en boxningsmatch. King hade antagit utmaningen i sin vän och snookerkollega Andy Hicks' ställe, efter att denne och Hann förolämpat varandra verbalt i en match under VM, som Hicks vann. Hann vann dock boxningsmatchen.
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"Machu Picchu" is a traveler's dreamland high above the Andes.
There is a name that is sure to appear on most travelers' wish lists or bucket lists, "Machupicchu". "Machupicchu" which until we reached was only considered one of the seven wonders of the world, opened up before us to an amazing view of historical wonders and structures. It was also the answer to the question of why "Machu Picchu" is such a fascination for travelers.
Our plane takes off from Lima, Peru, and prepares to land. Looking out the window of a low-flying plane. A distant view of an ancient city built according to the slope of the earth, amid towering green mountains with clouds billowing over them. "CUSCO" is the cultural capital of Peru.
It was from here that the kings of the famous "INCA" empire, which once stretched from the Andes mountains in South America to the ocean on the other side,<|fim_middle|> have a visa in any of the American, British and Schengen countries, (this visa should be valid for six months from the day of arrival in Peru) and there is no visa charge. The immigration officer scanned our passport photo page and American visa page and asked how long we would be in Peru. Then the entry stamp was put on the passport. Peru's visa is very easy to get for those who do not have the above visa.
Apply through the Peruvian Embassy in India and get the visa within a week. A passport with one-year validity, flight ticket to and from Peru, hotel booking in Peru, a description of the places to visit in Peru, NOC from the company you work for, and a bank statement detailing your finances will get the visa within 3-4 days. The visa fee is INR 2250.
Food, accommodation and travel are generally very cheap in Peru, but travel to Machu Picchu is a bit more expensive. The nearest airport is Cusco.
There are few international flights to Casco. Lima is the main airport. There are flights from most countries. There are many flights from Lima to Casco. The rater is also very low. From Cusco you can go to "OLLANTAYTAMBO" by bus or taxi. The bus fare is very low at 4 US dollars. It will take more than 2 hours to reach "OLLANTAYTAMBO".
From OLLANTAYTAMBO to Machu Picchu there are only two ways mentioned above. Don't forget to book months in advance if you want to go on the four-day Inca Trail. Then there is the train service. The service is operated by two companies namely INCA RAIL and PERU RAIL. Book tickets to and from Machu Picchu in advance. If it is at least 110 US dollars. Tickets sell out earlier in the season and are more expensive. The train is only as far as Aguas Calientes, the valley of Machu Picchu. From there you can walk up the mountain for 2 hours. Or you can use the bus service. A round-trip bus ticket costs US$24.
Due to the rush of visitors, entry to Machu Picchu has now been reduced to two slots. Morning (6-12) and Afternoon (12-5). Each slot has a maximum of 2000 tickets. You can enter twice with the ticket within the above-mentioned time.
If you book directly from the Peruvian government website (http://www.machupicchu.gob.pe) you can get an entry ticket for 48 US dollars. If you are doing any of the Wyanapicchu Mountain / Mountana Machu Picchu hikes described above with Machu Picchu, you can get a combo ticket at a price of 65 US dollars.
Wyanapicchu Mountain tickets are all sold out at least 3 months in advance. So it is better to book all the tickets well in advance. The season is from May to September. The traffic and hotel rates will be high but the weather will be clear. There will be little rain in March and April but the rates will be low.
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Cuba travel guide 2022 | Havana travel guide | Cuba travel requirements | Cuba Travelogue | which included the present-day countries of Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, ruled from here. We flew into a land inhabited by a vast population that amazed the world with its self-sufficiency and incredible advances in agriculture and construction.
It must be because of the 11,000-foot altitude that the airport's outer entrance is lined with shops selling "Altitude Sickness" capsules and cocoa drinks, and tourist companies and taxis to grab people. Having arrived in Bolivia from a higher altitude than this, we now have no problem with Altitude.
We had to go to Ollantaytambo. I had prepared a route map to see the remains of the Inca Empire in Cuzco and on the way to Ollantay, so I talked to the taxi driver about the possibility of going there, and finally confirmed the price of 50 US dollars for a 6-hour trip. The vehicle first stopped at a square, in the middle of which was a huge statue standing on a horse with arms. Pachcutec, the great emperor of the Inca Empire. It was during his time that the Inca Empire reached its golden age. It is believed that he started the construction of Machu Picchu… Traditional Women dressed in Peruvian costumes walk around selling textiles and handicrafts. After wandering around there for a while, we continued our journey.
Farm fields lie on both sides of the road. Valleys are full of plants and flowers. Green mountains on all four sides. Everywhere you look, the beautiful beauty of nature. The landscape that crosses Switzerland. On the way, I stopped at one or two places and took pictures. After about 2 hours of travel, we reached 'Murray Terrace'.
At first, we thought it would be a theater complex similar to the ancient Greek / Roman model due to its huge size and circular terrace. but what surprised us was the description that it was an "agricultural laboratory" built by the "Incas" in the 1400s-1500s for their agricultural purposes!
I walked from the top of the terrace and reached the bottom. Due to the size of the terrace, it took some time to reach the bottom. It is made of circular tiers about 2 meters high, and the soil for each tier is brought from different parts of the country. Big stones, small stones on top, and soil on top of that. It is built with a drainage system so that even in the heaviest rains, not a single floor is submerged in water. It is believed that the "Incas" used this laboratory to test which crops were suitable for cultivation according to the soil, altitude, and climate of each region.
Each of the buildings of the Incas is still a wonder for historians and researchers… From there we will return to the still useful terraced farm called "Chenchilos", visit the surrounding buildings and arrive at the hotel in Ollanta in the evening. Tomorrow morning our journey to Machu Picchu will begin.
We reached Olanta train station around 9 am. It was only a 5-minute walk from the hotel to the train station. We booked PERU RAIL – EXPEDITION TRAIN. This train service goes to the station "Aguas Calientes", a small village below the Machu Picchu mountains. There are only two ways to go from Ollanta to Machu Picchu.
1. An ancient 4-day trek through the mountains built and used by the Incas. (This is the world's number one hiking trail called the Inca Trail. This trek is strictly controlled by the Peruvian government and must be booked months in advance. Only 200 travelers are allowed per day.)
2. This railroad was built by the Peruvian government for tourism. As the road is more than half through the forest, there is not much to see on either side. On the left side is the river named "Urubamba". The rail is built along the river bank. It took more than an hour and a half to reach the "Aguas Calientes" station. The way out of the station is through the souvenir shops. "Aguas Calientes" is a very small village. Just walking distance to everywhere. The tourist business is everywhere. There are souvenir shops, hotels, and restaurants on both sides of the roads. The hotel we booked was right next door. After going there and leaving the luggage, I went straight outside and reached the Machu Picchu bus ticket counter. Took bus tickets for that day and the next day from Q.
As it is afternoon, the bus is less crowded. 10 minutes by bus from QV. It is a 30-minute bus ride to the entrance of Machu Picchu. (If you skip the bus journey, the next option is to take about two hours and walk up the mountain. Many people have seen this journey from the bus in the middle of the journey) – The bus stopped in front of the gate. It's only 12 o'clock. We have tickets for afternoon entry. When I went to the counter with it, the authorized tour guide told me that it was unnecessary. There is a huge line of guides right next door and we finally managed to get a private tour guide for $40 and get in. It is quite busy. The way up is paved steps. It is also an ancient Inca structure. After climbing for about 20-30 minutes, we started to see the wonder carved in stone in the middle of the mountains.
"Machu Picchu" is a great wonder of the world that still remains unclear about what it was built for or how it was built. The reason why they overcame such extremes and built it in such a way that no one else could reach it is a matter of dispute even today. Even when the Spanish conquest of the 1500s destroyed the Inca Empire and wiped the structures from history, Machu Picchu remained undiscovered. Until Hiram Bingham, an American history teacher, discovered it again in 1911 and brought it to the world.
Machu Picchu is built in the middle of steep mountains. Not to be damaged by rain or age. From the bottom of the mountain, terraces are built in many levels and the main structure is at the top. The construction of the floors is amazing. The lower floors are constructed to support the weight/pressure of the upper floors. Each floor has a drainage system that does not stagnate during rain. About 600 such terraces protect Machu Picchu from collapse.
We went down to the main hall. Each wall is constructed using stones of various sizes and shapes cut and polished with 100% precision. Apart from the square shape, the stones are cut in various shapes and the construction is interlocked. These stones come in various sizes and weigh up to 50 tons. Nothing like lime was used to bind the stones together. Due to the fineness of the construction and finishing, the blade cannot even cut between the joints of the stones. This product is called "ashlar". Peru is a land of frequent earthquakes. But Machu Picchu's walls and base are built to withstand these earthquakes. Even when the new-generation buildings in the valley collapsed in previous earthquakes, Machu Picchu was not seriously damaged.
This people, who had no writing or script of their own, were unimaginably ahead of the ancient cultures of the world in their methods of construction and agricultural hygiene. How stones weighing up to 50 tons were transported to the top of the mountain for machi pichu construction without wheels/tires or even load-carrying animals like elephants or horses is a question that still puzzles historical researchers.
Many of the terraces they built for agriculture are still being used in many parts of Peru. The Incas were a completely self-sufficient culture. Agriculture was important. There was no trade or relationship with other countries or within the country. Even within the country, there were no commercial establishments or markets. This meant that each family produced/found their own food and everything else.By the 15th century, the Inca Empire had become the largest economy in South America, with agricultural products, textiles, and gold. The Inca system functioned without a system of currency.
(Instead of money, historians assume that each gave their labor time to the country, and in return gave them the resources they needed.
It took about three hours to cover the whole area. Our guide was telling us in detail about each part and the construction. All are buildings of various sizes and shapes. All the windows are made in "Trapezoid" shape. Some walls are built with a downward slope and some with an upward slope. The finishing of the stones is immense. It is estimated that more than 500 people lived here. Because of the greenery on the terrace, "llamas" can be seen grazing on the grass in many places.
After the guide service ended, we walked up to the famous photo point. There is a rush to take photos and selfies. Jumping up and taking pictures is not allowed. This is a precaution to prevent the terraces from collapsing due to age.
After that we reached the top. Now Machupicchu and the mountain on which it stands are fully visible. We spent there until visiting hours ended at 5 pm. On the way back, there was less traffic and I was able to take some good pictures. After coming back down and getting the famous Machu Picchu stamp on the passport, we took a bus to our hotel at the foothills.
We reached the bus station again at 4.30 the next morning. The purpose is to climb the mountain located in Machupichu. There is a lot of traffic and a queue to get on the bus. As the ticket was taken the day before, I was able to get on the bus after 5 o'clock. The bus brought us back to the entrance of Machu Picchu. Machupichu gate opens at 6 o'clock. The hiking gate to the top of the mountain is located above the entrance. There are mainly two hiking options in Machu Picchu.
1. Huaynapicchu (Hyanapicchu/ Wyanapicchu Mountain)
2. Machu Picchu Mountains (Mountana Machu Picchu)
1. "Wyanapicchu Mountain" is the mountain behind Machu Picchu in the picture of Machu Picchu. From the bottom of the mountain to the top, hiking is done through steps made of rocks. This is a road built by the Incas in the past. There are no safety fences or other means of support on this dangerously steep route. Only 400 people are allowed to enter in two shifts a day. Entry for the trek can be obtained only after signing and signing that we are fully responsible for the journey. Although it is such a dangerous trek, there is a huge queue of tourists to do haiku here. Tickets are available only if booked 3-4 months in advance. Good physical fitness and courage are mandatory for this trip.
2. "Mountana Machu Picchu" is the mountain where Machu Picchu is located. The height is much higher than Wyanapicchu Mountain. But hiking here is relatively easy compared to Wyanapicchu as the rock steps are wider and there are less steep climbs.
1. We have taken the ticket to hike "Mountana Machu Picchu". As soon as the gate opened at 6 o'clock, he climbed up and reached the top of Machu Picchu. Waiting for the sunrise. Due to the cover of snow, the sunrise could not be seen clearly. Walked up again and reached the hiking gate. From the short queue, he reached in front of the guard and gave the ticket. Another guard who was standing inside stopped our call and told us the danger of taking the children with us. He said that the stones are broken in many places on the steps that can barely go for two people and it is very dangerous, and because there are no safety fences, it is very dangerous to go with a child. This one haiku is the purpose of the journey itself.
This one hike is the purpose of the journey itself. We stood aside and thought about what to do. Finally, I made the decision to go hiking and they both stay at Machu Picchu. He went to the guard again and gave the ticket. That's when the Sun Gate. Two more hikes, the Inca Bridge, can be done there. The guard says they have relatively safe routes. When we learned that the Sun Gate Hike offers a beautiful distant view of Machu Picchu. The Sun Gate hike is fixed. We started walking towards the Sun Gate through a jungle path with steps made of rocks. This is the road built by the Incas to Machu Picchu years ago.
It is still there without much damage. All these paths, called the Inca Trail, are built with stones from the bottom and are very solidly built with steps so as not to break in the rain. Construction is done by locking the stones as described above. We are amazed at the technology and progress of their construction industry when we know that these roads that they built more than 35,000 km through the forests and mountains throughout their empire are still standing without any damage. Probably the largest stone structure in the world.
We reached Sun Gate in about an hour and a half. If you look down you will see the breathtaking view of Machu Picchu below the clouds in the distance. This is the entrance to Machu Picchu. This is where the Incas controlled access to Machu Picchu. It is here that we arrive on the morning of the fourth day of the four-day journey from Ollanta to Machu Picchu. On the way up, we saw many travelers doing the 4-day Inca Trail. After spending about an hour there, we started our return journey.
By the time we got back to the valley, it was time for our train. By train straight to Ollanta and from there by taxi to Casco; After staying the night in Casco we will start our next journey via Lima the next morning. To Mexico in search of historical remains of the Mayan culture, one of the most ancient cultures in the world.
We did not need a visa in Peru. Because since last year, Peru has granted an on-arrival visa to Indian citizens who | 2,989 |
2-March and we are bringing in the estimated remaining wood for the rest of the heating season…..
I had an overnight fire in the wood stove by virtue of a cherry log that smouldered all night long. Friday morning I coaxed fire back to life with kindling and more air. While monitoring the process I saw embers transition from glowing to flare ups. On a couple of those occasions I muttered to<|fim_middle|> walked a short distance and burrowed out a shelter in the snow for protection overnight. The burrow had pellets and was urine stained. In the morning he/she left across the pile of snow (the foot prints are visible) launched into the air and a single wing beat shown in the show marks the departure.
What I believe may be bobcat tracks.
One of the several scent marked sticks we encountered on our hike.
Dating back to the 1930s, Tomato Soup Cake was tremendously popular as it required very little butter and eggs, precious ingredients in Depression-era America. The flavors in this cake are rich with no true tomato taste, just the warmth of the spices and sweetness of the raisins. The cake keeps beautifully and can be enjoyed as a snack cake with no icing needed, or iced with a simple vanilla glaze to dress it up.
Christmas Eve day we had Billie Jo's family for mid-day dinner prior to going to church. On Christmas Day we awoke around 8am, opened presents and then took advantage of the new snow for an inaugural ski. Kathryn turned around at the top of Kirkland's hill, while Cullen and I continued to appliance alley clearing downed limbs from the trail along the way.
We invited Skip over for a Christmas dinner. | myself that's "more of a flicker than a flame". What a great name for an over-the-hill volleyball team – the desire is there, but maybe not the passion.
Woke up at 5am (swim time) and dozed until 6. Three brazen grey squirrels at the feeder.
I enhanced this photo's contrast to highlight the Kieppe made by this Ruffed Grouse. I believe he/she flew in and landed at the top of the photo – there were two distinct wing patterns in the snow. The grouse then | 116 |
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