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Good Evans as Honiton Devils Under-11s go down to Brixington Blues
Devils started sluggishly and fell two goals down owing to a<|fim_middle|>I am gutted by the result as the score line does not reflect the part we played. The boys are holding their own at this level and I was very encouraged by what we delivered in this game." | combination of lack of concentration and not picking up their players.
However, determination and spirit shone through as they got back into the game and it was no surprise when Sam Foster scored to halve the deficit after 22 minutes.
A half-time discussion seemed to work for Devils were a yard faster after the break,. But some poor defending resulted in a third goal being shipped and there were two further goals scored by the Exmouth side before Devils again seized a measure of control.
A period of sustained pressure ended with a penalty that was saved. At the other end Devils glovesman Joe Evans performed heroics to later win the Devils Man of the Match award.
Devils boss Sean Brown said: " | 140 |
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Process the mixture until it forms a rough paste (around 30 seconds if using a food processor or blender; longer (as needed) if using a mortar and pestle). Be sure to scrape the container's sides as needed.
Now it's time to check on the cabbage — it should be wilted, and there should be lquid in the bottom of the bowl. Remember this could take as many as 12 hours, so give it time if it needs it!
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At first being in an escape room might seem<|fim_middle|> will need to do to get to the escape. For instance you might be required to climb on ladders, being at crawls spaces for some clues or at the secret passageways squeezing yourself in. You would start feeling tired while you have not completed the puzzles. Also, choose some fitting clothes and wear some comfortable shoes.
You will end up feeling silly when you start the game like a monster and lose the game. Take things to step by step and put together the clues objects with the rest of your team. Searching all over the room is advisable and not acting like you have turned to some sort of a monster, and you know what you are looking for. Keeping time is one of the rules you should never miss when in the escape room because it could be you will not get the clues to your exit on time, but you could spend more than organized. Let that person who is a communication pro let everyone know about the steps you have already gone through. Therefore, communicating with the members is very essential. | like a scary or even a boring game, but all you need is practice. You could have disliked the game since there were no clues in those old decades. In fact, at the start, the game might seem boring and difficult, but as you engage in the game severally, you will definitely get to like it and even become the best. Now that you all have the essentials this is why the game is so fun. This is because the escape room might be different but the same essentials will still be used. Anyone could be an escape master as long as he/she uses the tips being offered in the content below.
It is common for some persons to lose before they can try any of the puzzles in the escape room but there is a reason behind that. You might be ready and well prepared, but with the wrong team, everything might turn upside down for you. It is essential that you be careful when choosing who should be in the room because everyone will define whether the escape is going to be a success or failure. Be selective with your allocating so that you can choose the best representatives for what they can do best. You can have a representative with better language skills to do the talking.
Overdressing is another rule for everyone who is participating in an escape room. Remember that you never know what activities you | 264 |
Tanner Goods - Worth Holding On To
We're all aware of the gradual return to an appreciation for hand made, craft produced goods. The modern world of mass produced consumer goods and the throw-away society we live in today is what drives the discerning individual to seek out products that are a little different. For us it's what we're all about and, as we approach our third birthday, it's time to look at Portland's Tanner Goods and their operation out of Portland, Oregon USA. They were one of first brands<|fim_middle|> As they continue to develop and expand their product range, distributing their goods world wide with great success, it's worth taking a look at how and why they started as well as the learning curve that defined their early attempts at working with leather as a medium.
Coming from a background in Industrial Design and dissatisfied with the type of product design they were seeing in their current environment, Sam and Matt began thinking about away to satisfy the creative urge with design and production that wasn't driven by trends, and valued longevity over obsolescence.
Sam Huff, Co-Founder, Tanner Goods
Inspired by a handmade camera strap inherited from Sam's Grandfather and by vintage postal carrier bags, they chose leather as the focus. According to Sam..."It just gets better as it ages. It tells a story and is just a material that looks great in twenty years, where as plastic looks shitty after five..." We're inclined to agree on that one.
The initial approach was, as you'd expect, that of an industrial designer rather than a leather craftsman, which created it's own challenges. The pair began with origami-like folds that were best suited to sheet metal, not a natural material like leather, but it was certainly a different approach and this garnered the attention of veteran saddle maker L.P Streifel who was excited to see what the guys were doing. He taught them a whole lot, and laughed at their mistakes along the way, but it certainly helped create a better end product, along with a deepened respect and understanding for the craft of leather working in general.
Tanner Goods, Worth Holding On To
Since the beginning, the team at Tanner has dedicated themselves to producing high quality products with a timeless aesthetic, that do the job they're supposed to and get better with age. From wallets to luggage, gloves, clothing, ceramics, furniture and various footwear collaborations, they continue to stand by this philosophy and keep coming up with 'the goods'. Their brand's strap line says it all... 'Worth Holding On To'... and they certainly are.
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Tanner Goods Workroom - Portland, OR
Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2006 by Sam Huff and Matt Perusich, Tanner have been in the game for a decade now. | 53 |
The deadline extension is aimed at giving all potential participants additional time to further sharpen their entry songs.
"Entries should encapsulate the Jamaican spirit and generate public interest as if selected it will provide the musical backdrop to this year's Independence Festival," Clunis added.
Clunis also highlighted that this year's competition will feature a series<|fim_middle|> corporate area motorcade," Clunis said.
Persons interested in entering the competition can access entry forms and competition guidelines on the JCDC website at www.jcdc.gov.jm, at the JCDC Head Office at 3-5 Phoenix Avenue in Kingston or at any JCDC Parish Office island-wide. Entries can be from any genre of Jamaican music, and must capture the Jamaican spirit and promote patriotism.
The Jamaica Festival Song Competition is one of the longest running original song competitions in Jamaica and continues to unearth and showcase several talented individuals each year. A signature programme of the JCDC, an Agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, this competition, which started in 1966, continues to serve as a musical platform for cultural exposition and for entrants to make an indelible mark on Jamaica and the world. The competition boasts past winners like Toots and the Maytals, Desmond Decker, Eric Donaldson, Roy Rayon and Stanley Beckford. | of road shows and special performances, which will give the top ten finalists necessary exposure, while giving members of the public the opportunity to get to know the songs and the artistes.
"Additionally, we have now developed a full schedule of activities for the 2019 cycle of the competition, which will include a live semi-final concert, cross island tour and a | 74 |
4 Steps to Hire Candidates that Fit Your Core Values: An Interview With Allison Kopf & Brett Brohl
November 20, 2019 in Accelerators Posted by Techstars
January through March is the busiest time of year for hiring so we want to help ensure that you have access to as many high-quality candidates as possible. To make that happen, we are asking you—members of the Techstars network—to #GiveFirst into the Techstars Talent Network and help other founders connect with top talent. Plus, more referrals going into the Network means a bigger pool of candidates who might be a good fit for your company! Learn more about the Season of Vouching.
When hiring talent, founders often focus on a candidate's skillset, experience, and overall ability to do a specific job. But finding the right talent takes a lot more than that. In fact, according to Allison Kopf, founder and CEO of Artemis, and Brett Brohl, Managing Director of Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator, another factor plays a major role in the success or failure of a new hire.
"In hiring, it's important to know whether a candidate is qualified to do the job," Allison said. "Obviously, you need to be able to walk away and trust this person to do the job without micromanaging them. But, at the same time, you also need to be asking if this person would do well in your team environment." You don't want your employees to just survive your company culture, you want them to thrive in it.
"One of the quickest ways to kill a company is to start adding hires that don't fit culturally," Brett added. "You can't just put butts in seats to fill a need. If they don't align with your core values, they're going to fail."
Hiring people who'll happily embrace your core values and fit well into your company culture demands a lot of forethought and careful work. More specifically, it requires you to define a clear set of core values with your team, and then meticulously evaluate candidates against those core values.
Step 1: Define Core Values as a Team
The first and most important thing founders can do is create a set of core values. These can include things like "embracing creativity", "responding with humility", "acting with integrity"—or be something else entirely.
The idea is to decide how you want your employees to work, interact with one another, and communicate with customers, and boil that down to a few core concepts. Done correctly, each of your values will also have a "why:" an underlying set of reasons that explain its worth and act as a call to action for the company.
"Core values are more than just a set of high level ideas," Allison said. "They're highly nuanced. For example, one of our core values is: 'default to curiosity.' But it's about a lot more than just defaulting to curiosity. That value is based on ideas like: 'all questions are good questions' and 'curiosity is the key to empathy with each other and our customers'. It also encompasses concepts like: 'ideas, tools and workflows can always improve'; and 'the process is not as important as the destination.'"
Creating such a deeply nuanced set of core values takes more than one person or a small subset of people, though. It requires everyone to be involved in the process to one degree or another.
"Our core values didn't come from the top-down. They came from the company as a whole," Allison said. "I felt it was most important to give people a voice in the company, because I wanted them to feel like they could make decisions, voice opinions, and have a directional say in where we were moving as a company. So while our mission has been set by me, the way we're getting there is partly steered by the team itself."
How<|fim_middle|> fast, because you just raised a round of capital and you need to execute the plan you rolled out, it's easy to ignore company culture or sacrifice value fit," Brett said. "But that never ends well. Either you end up firing that person quickly, or they just become a drain on the entire organization."
Luckily, there are lots of ways founders can be transparent about their expectations. It may be as simple as discussing your core values in the first few minutes of an interview or asking candidates to read about your core values on your website.
For Artemis, the simplest way to set expectations is emailing candidates the information prior to their first interview. "The first step in our hiring process is to send candidates our core value deck," Allison said. "This gives them time to read over our core values and spend some time thinking about them, so that everyone is on the same page when they come in to interview."
Step 3: Evaluate Culture & Core Value Fit
With expectations in place, the next step for founders is to take some time to directly evaluate candidates against the company's core values. This is often done as an independent step in the interview process known as a core value screen.
"We kick off the interview process with a core value screen, which is a formal interview where we ask a series of questions to see how candidates line up with our culture and values," Allison said. "Ultimately, the goal is to have a conversation and get to know the candidate. So instead of just going through their resume, we ask things like: 'What motivates you?' What was the most successful moment of your last job and why? What makes you really excited to go to work?' These questions are designed to help candidates open up, show off their personality and talk about things that excite them."
While the answers to these questions can speak volumes about a candidate, this is one of those situations where actions truly speak louder than words. Anyone can say they value what you value, but few will truly embody it.
For instance, say you're evaluating candidates against a core value of curiosity. They may share examples of times when they showcased it at their last job, but how well are they really exhibiting it? Are they asking questions? Do they want to dig deeper into the topic? Does their body language show a genuine interest in the conversation? If not, they may not really value curiosity—at least not to the degree that your team does.
This doesn't mean you need to disqualify said candidate outright. It simply means you should look more closely at how they will mesh with your culture and core values.
As Allison explains: "This is where founders sometimes mess up a little bit. They assume that they need to find somebody who matches every single one of their core values perfectly. But, in reality, it's not so much about finding someone who has one-to-one identical qualities, but someone who fits culturally and is able to live up to your values."
Step 4: Know When to Walk Away
Ultimately, even the best plans can go awry. You will still interview candidates who are not a good fit. But this doesn't mean your culture is bad or the candidate is bad. "There isn't a right culture out there," Brett said. "It's what's right for you and what's right for the people that you're hiring. It's okay to walk away from the candidate because they're not a good culture fit. It doesn't make them a bad person. It just means they're not a good fit for your company."
"The bottom line is, you need to be self aware as a company," Brett added, "You need to know who you are, what you do, and what your values are, and then stick to it when you start hiring."
Core Values, Hiring, talent
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders make connections and gain access to resources to grow their companies. www.techstars.com | do you get from those many voices to a clear set of values? "For us, the path we took to create our core values was very straightforward," Allison said. "It involved discussing the objective, brainstorming ideas, and narrowing down our options as a group. One of our designers actually led the process, so our core values came directly from the team, rather than being chosen by me or our CTO."
And this process has worked in an onward and upward way for Artemis. "Initially, we created a set of nine core values," Allison said, "but we reevaluate them on an annual or biannual basis to make sure they still reflect what we're trying to do. And we're still doing this as a team, rather than from the top-down."
Step 2: Setting Expectations During the Interview Process
While it's vital to have a set of core values in place before you start hiring, it's equally important to make sure candidates understand your value expectations from the get-go. Not only can it save you a lot of time in the interview process by enabling you to weed out candidates that don't fit, but it can also spare you the sunk costs—financial and otherwise—of a bad hire.
"One mistake founders often make is not setting expectations early," Brett said. "They'll evaluate skill sets during the interview process, but they won't set expectations around their work culture and core values until after they've hired someone. That needs to happen a lot sooner. Your candidates should know exactly what they're walking into during those interviews."
This can be difficult for founders to do, especially when they go through a period of rapid hiring. However, neglecting to discuss core values and culture fit can ultimately be devastating to your company.
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Things to do and things to know: Highlights from FYI in Franklin County
Public Opinion runs a public Facebook group, FYI in Franklin County, where the community is invited to share upcoming events they are hosting, news about their organizations and other types of community announcements. Below are some highlights from the past week.
When possible, items appear as they were posted, but most are edited for style, clarity and length.
Click here to go to FYI in Franklin County.
Corning Credit Union Holding Food Drive
Corning Credit Union (CCU) is holding a food drive throughout the month of September that will benefit South Central Community Action. The public is being asked to donate the following non-perishable food items to help feed the hungry: soups, peanut butter, jelly, canned tuna and chicken, boxed macaroni and cheese, canned fruits and vegetables, pasta and pasta sauce, juice boxes and more.
"We are pleased to be able to hold this food drive to help people with basic nutritional needs," said Danielle Lovelace, Franklin County Regional Manager at Corning Credit Union. "Many people don't realize that we have people living in our communities who need a little extra help feeding their families. We are happy to partner with South Central Community Action to distribute the food we collect."
For more information, please contact Danielle Lovelace at Danielle.lovelace@corningfcu.org or<|fim_middle|> house warming gifts,etc.
U.S. AIR FORCE AIRMEN OF NOTE: Will perform at 6:15 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Alumni Ampitheater at Hagerstown (Md.) Community College. Free. This 20-member jazz ensemble began performing in 1950 and is one of the last touring big bands. For more information about the Red, White and Blue Summer Concert Series, visit www.hagerstowncc.edu/alumni-foundation or call 240-500-2346. To learn more about the U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note, visit www.usafband.af.mil.
SCARECROW CONTEST: At Waynesboro's Old Market Day, Oct. 7. Only the first 50 entries will be accepted (entry deadline is Sept. 29). For more information and an entry form, go to http://bit.ly/2wtJ3Wp or call 717-762-0397.
CASH, COACH and KATE SPADE BINGO: Sept. 24 (doors open at 11:30 a.m., bingo starts at 1 p.m.), Blue Heron Events, 407 S. Washington St., Greencastle. 24 games; 6 cash, 18 purses; 50/50 King Tut; 150 door prizes; raffles and other games of chance. Lunch available for purchase, complimentary cake. Benefits Greencastle-Antrim Lioness Club. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door - if available. Reserve your tickets by contacting a Lioness member or call (717) 597-3037, (717) 658-7582, (717) 597-8371. Tickets also on sale at Carl's Drug Store, Greencastle.
LULARUE BINGO: 11 a.m. Sept. 24, VFW Post 1599, Chambersburg. Benefits Chambersburg Career Magnet School PTA. More information: http://bit.ly/2wwewFD.
AARP DRIVER SAFETY COURSE: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 23, Washington County Sheriff's Department, 500 Western Maryland Parkway, Hagerstown, Md. Cost: $15 for AARP members, $25 for nonmembers. To register: Washington County Commission on Aging, 301-790-0275.
SMARTPHONE CLASSES: By Chambersburg Recreation Department. One-on-one workshops for users of Android (Samsung and HTC) and Apple (iPhone) devices, for all carriers. Also learn how to set up email, use the app store, unique features and more. Beginner classes: iPhone, 5-6 p.m. Sept. 13; Android, 5-6 p.m. Sept. 27. Must register in advance; call 717-261-3275.
BREAKFAST BUFFET: 7:30-10:10 a.m. Sept. 16, St. Paul UMC, 750 Norland Ave., Chambersburg. Cost: $7 adults, $3 for ages 4-12, free for ages 3 and younger. Info: 717-267-2085.
Items must have appeared on the FYI in Franklin County Facebook page in order to be included in this feature; however there is no guarantee that a posted event will appear here. Members of the community are asked to post their own events in the FYI in Franklin County group. Join today to get started: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FYIFranklinCounty/. | 800-677-8506.
Institute for Retired Persons plans fall lectures
Lectures on a wide variety of topics such as politics, films, world affairs, history, religion, health and more and four bus trips will be offered during the fall semester of The Institute for Retired Persons beginning Sept. 12 at Wilson College, 1015 Philadelphia Ave., Chambersburg, Pa.
One-hour talks, presented for your intellectual stimulation, recreation, and enlightenment, begin at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 12 through Nov. 2. Each talk is followed by a 15 minute question and answer session. Talks are neither elementary nor overly academic. Members attend any lectures they choose.
"Aging at Home, Your Civil Rights: The Olmstead Decision," will be presented by Dr. Sheri Morgan, epidemiologist, at 9 a.m. Sept. 12.
Noel Purdy, founding member of The Franklin County Coalition for Progress, a new grassroots, inclusive group, will tell about the group at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 12.
Following a recording of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," with Nathan Lane; Paris Peet, Shippensburg University theater professor, will talk about the great plays Moss Hart and George Kaufman wrote together, on Oct. 11.
On Oct. 25, Mike Marotte, historian, newspaper columnist, author, and radio broadcaster, will present a talk on the Cumberland Valley Railroad.
Drs. Alison Dagnes and Mark Sachleben, political science professors at Shippensburg University, will show clips of the most important political films of all time, share what makes a political film influential and significant and discuss the importance of popular culture on Oct. 26.
Other talks include "Jesus, as Found in the Quran;" "The Human Eye and Your Vision in a High Tech World," "Getting the Most Bang for Your Charitable Buck," "When Should you Contact an Attorney?" and "Al Qaeda and Isil: Overview and Update."
Enrollment is $25 a person and $40 a couple for the semester.
Bus trips on four Wednesdays are an additional charge. They include a trip to the National Museum of the Marine Corps and George Washington's Mount Vernon Home, Sept. 27; a performance of "At First Sight," in the Mountain Playhouse Theater, Jennerstown, and a visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial, near Somerset, Oct. 4; National Mall, Washington, D.C., with an optional morning tour of the National War Memorials, Oct. 18; and a docent-led tour of the Chinese collection and Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of the Future exhibit, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 1. Sign-up for trips is separate.
For more information, a schedule or to sign up, contact John Ricca at johnricca@earthlink.net, call 717-352-8996 or visit www.IRP-online.org.
Penn State Mont Alto Hosts Evening Talk and Star Party
On Sept. 6, 2017, Penn State Mont Alto will host an Evening Talk and Star Party beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Library when Thomas Reinsfelder, Penn State Mont Alto associate librarian, presents "Life Inside a Big 10 Academic Research Library: So Much More than Books."
Weather permitting, a star party will follow from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m., and will be led by Kimberly Herrmann, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. The star party will be located in the field behind the Multipurpose Activities Center and will consist of telescope viewing and night sky tours with green laser pointers. Multiple telescopes should be available, courtesy of TriState Astronomers (www.tristateastronomers.org), a local amateur astronomy club. The presentation and star party are open to the public at no charge.
"Penn State has one of the largest and most innovative research libraries in North America," said Reinsfelder. "I will talk about some current initiatives and services offered by the many information professionals across the state who are working to acquire, preserve, organize, and make available scholarly materials in all forms."
"I will also share some examples of how Penn State librarians are attracting national and international recognition for their contributions to the profession," he said.
Save the dates for additional Evening Talk and Star Party events to be held on Oct. 17 and Nov. 9 in the General Studies Building Auditorium at the Penn State Mont Alto campus. Speakers and titles of the talks will be announced soon.
For more information about the event, contact Debra Collins at dlc43@psu.edu or 717-749-6112.
Evening Lions add whisk brooms to broom sale
The Chambersburg Evening Lions will have 100 whisk brooms available at $6 each starting Sept. 5.
This item will not be offered on an annual basis and several have been pre-ordered. Call to reserve yours or wait until our major Fall events (i.e. - The downtown Applefest on October 21st and our pancake breakfast on October 28th held annually at St Paul's church).
As we indicated earlier, there has been a revision of the list of outlets selling Lion's brooms. The Chambersburg Evening Lions will be selling our quality corn brooms and push brooms at seven local outlets: CASHS Admin Lobby; Exclusively You Beauty Salon; Plasterer's; Shatzer's Orchard, the offices of Dr Cerveris and Dr T. Orndorf (Shp); and Jim's Country Market.(Saturdays only, from 8am – 2pm). If it is difficult for you to visit any of our outlets/events, please call 264-6705 for free delivery or for directions to our outlets or to simply examine our brooms.
Most of our brooms, including some that are one of a kind and that are specially priced will be sold by the end of October. A few brooms will be retained to be available for use as stocking stuffers, | 1,315 |
Galaxies Grow from Inside Out
New evidence from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) missions provide support for the "inside-out" theory of galaxy evolution, which holds that star formation starts at the core of the galaxy and spreads outward.
In this image of a galaxy called NGC 3377, infrared light from WISE is colored red, and ultraviolet light from GALEX is green and blue. The center of the galaxy appears white, where all three wavelengths of light are present and add up. The outside of the galaxy is mostly ultraviolet light, and thus contains more blue and green. The dots in the picture are stars located in the foreground.
NGC 3377 is located 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It is an older galaxy, having already exhausted its stellar fuel supply. The outer regions, while containing more young stars than the core, are bright in ultraviolet light due to a small population of older, extremely hot stars.
WISE and GALEX are both no longer operating, but scientists continue<|fim_middle|>, Pasadena, Calif., manages and operates the recently activated NEOWISE mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The WISE mission was selected competitively under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah. The spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise and http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wise .
Caltech led the Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission and was responsible for science operations and data analysis. JPL managed the mission and built the science instrument. The mission was developed under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Researchers sponsored by Yonsei University in South Korea and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France collaborated on this mission. Graphics and additional information about the Galaxy Evolution Explorer are online at http://www.nasa.gov/galex and http://www.galex.caltech.edu.
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Geometry of the Blue Ring Nebula (Animation)
The Blue Ring Nebula
Flaring Red Dwarf Star (Illustration)
Pulsar Candidate in Andromeda
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Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays
After the Explosion: Investigating Supernova Sites
Galaxy's Pencil-Thin Profile
Big Brother to the Milky Way
Ultraviolet Ring of Stars | to access their bounties of data through public archives.
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Home > News > Deals & People > Mercer Names Midwest Retirement Head
Deals & People January 15, 2013
Mercer Names Midwest Retirement Head
David Weissner was named Midwest market business leader for Mercer's retirement business.
By Jill Cornfield
Based in Chicago, Weissner will be responsible for overall business performance, client satisfaction and continued growth. He takes<|fim_middle|> | over from Louis Gagnon, who had been serving in an interim leadership capacity and who will now return full time to his position as global and U.S. head of retirement sales. Weissner will report to Jacques Goulet, North American leader of Mercer's retirement business.
Weissner has established strong leadership and consulting abilities during his 20 years of experience. He most recently served as retirement office business leader for Mercer's Minneapolis location. Before joining Mercer in 2001, he was a senior consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He began his career as an actuarial analyst with The Segal Company.
Weissner holds a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
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A mountain lion in a snow storm in Teller County.
A Colorado man went viral this week for a reason no one would exactly wish for.
A jogger at Horsetooth Mountain Park in Larimer County was attacked by a mountain lion Monday. He survived by suffocating the animal.
While they make a frightening and scandalous story, mountain lion attacks are exceedingly rare. In the last 30 years, there have been just 16 attacks and three fatalities from mountain lions in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
One of those 16 encounters was Andy Peterson, who was attacked in Roxborough State Park in April 1998. He lives in Tennessee now, and was compelled to start his own ministry, Lion King Ministries, after his experience. Peterson is one of the few people who can truly understand what happened to the man attacked this week.
"I'm incredibly grateful that this man survived, because it could gone a lot worse. These are almost top of the food chain (animals) here," Peterson said.
Andy Peterson recovering from a 1998 mountain lion attack in Roxborough State Park.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Lauren Truitt said people ought to be way more concerned about getting attacked by a dog than a mountain lion, but added that cougar sightings are on the rise.
"It's a combination of an increased population, more people enjoying the backcountry and then probably some of it is a higher deer population in our cities," Truitt said.
Both the Colorado man this week and Peterson back in 1998 did exactly the right thing when under attack by a mountain lion: fight back. While experts recommend playing dead with some animals, not so with cougars. Colorado Parks and Wildlife also recommends maintaining eye contact, moving slowly and not running away, and making yourself as large and intimidating as possible.
"If they know they have the advantage, then they're going to keep going for it. They're going to sever the spine<|fim_middle|> of the hardest decisions they'll ever have to make," Truitt said. "But it really comes into play of looking at the dynamics of where we need to move these animals, how many animals are already in that space, and is there enough food, shelter and water to support more additional animals in that area." | and bust the vertebrae and they're going to go for your head area and your neck area," Peterson said.
When officials tracked down Peterson's mountain lion six months after the attack, they were able to release it back to the wild later that day. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife always tries to relocate animals instead of euthanizing them, there are many factors the agency has to weigh. There was backlash against officials as recently as January, when Colorado Parks and Wildlife euthanized five mountain lions.
"It is the last thing our officers want to do and one | 113 |
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Clary has begun to train as a Shadowhunter, despite her mother's misgivings about Clary being part of their world. But learning how to throw a knife isn't the only reason Clary is visiting the institute. She can finally be with Jace. But even though Jace wants to be happy and enjoy his time with Clary, something lurks in his dreams, promising him he will hurt Clary. And let's not forget the fact that someone is trying to kidnap Simon. Simon who is now homeless thanks to his mother kicking him out for being a vampire. And amidst all of this someone is murdering Shadowhunters and dropping their bodies in downworlder territory.
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How Significant Is Sanskrit When Educating Yoga?
So as to fully comprehend anything, It's Vital To receive all the essential background information. Sanskrit is the language where Yoga originated. It's, therefore, an essential portion of the deeper analysis of Yoga. When a teacher studies Yoga, it's very important to comprehend where it came out, in addition to how it's changed. A number of the Sanskrit titles have deeper significance, which enlighten us further regarding the original intention of every position, strategy, or even breathing exercise.
Even though Yoga instructors want this crucial expertise, whether they decide to educate their pupils the Sanskrit names of of the presents is a personal option. Some pupils may object to Sanskrit for spiritual reasons and a few never appear to adapt to next languages. When confronted with a varied group of varying degrees, a class of novices, or a technical course, maybe they're not interested in the background behind Yoga. You may mention that the Sanskrit title in combination with the native term of your pupil's first language, or provide to talk with anybody after course if they're interested in the Sanskrit titles. Educating Sanskrit is all up to every individual Yoga teacher's discretion.
Your students, be certain you're pronouncing the words correctly, and providing proper understanding for their meanings. This may call for a little bit of additional effort on the Yoga instructor's part, but it's imperative not to provide misinformation to the pupils.
Significant portion of Yoga, because Yoga wouldn't exist out of India if It didn't create the ultimate transition from Sanskrit to additional languages. Be overlooked by people seeking to actually examine the deeper notions and Length of Yoga.
How Important Is Sanskrit When Educating Yoga?
Yoga Has been around for centuries; its roots founded in early India. As time and advancements have brought Yoga to other areas of the world, it has developed into quite a few different things. It is now a means for people to keep proper levels of physical fitness, a way to release tension and anxiety because of daily life, and a way to find a deeper mind-body relationship. Though many of these philosophies and goals existed in early Yoga, the modern conveniences of our own lives have changed it dramatically.
So as to fully comprehend anything, It's Vital To get all the necessary background information. Sanskrit is the language in which Yoga originated. It's, therefore, an integral portion of the deeper study of Yoga. When a teacher studies Yoga, it's very important to understand where it came from, as well as how it has changed. Yoga teachers must examine and learn the Sanskrit names of all the postures and breathing exercises that they mean to teach. This helps when you cross- reference with other Yoga teachers. Many of the Sanskrit names have deeper significance, which enlighten us further regarding the original purpose of each position, technique, or even breathing exercise.
Even though Yoga instructors want this essential knowledge, whether they decide to teach their pupils the Sanskrit names of the presents is a personal option. Some students may object to Sanskrit for religious reasons and some never appear to adapt to second languages. When faced with a diverse class of varying levels, a class of novices, or a technical class, maybe they're not interested in the background behind Yoga. If that's the case, it might be better to use words in your native language to avoid confusion. You might mention the Sanskrit title in combination with the native term of your pupil's first language, or provide to speak with anyone after class if they're interested in the Sanskrit names. Educating Sanskrit is all up to every individual Yoga instructor's discretion.
Your students, make certain you're pronouncing the words correctly, and providing correct understanding about their meanings. This may call for a little bit of extra effort on the Yoga teacher's part, but it's imperative not to give misinformation to the pupils.
Sanskrit will always be an Significant part of Yoga, because Yoga wouldn't exist outside of India if It didn't make the ultimate transition from Sanskrit to additional languages. Be overlooked by people seeking to really examine the deeper concepts and Philosophies of Yoga.
Yoga Has been in existence for centuries; its origins founded in early India. As time and progress have brought Yoga to other parts of the world, it has developed into quite a few distinct things. Though many of these philosophies and intentions existed in ancient Meditation, the modern conveniences of our own lives have changed it dramatically.
In order to fully comprehend anything, it is Vital To receive all the necessary background information. Sanskrit is the language where Yoga originated. It is, therefore, an integral part of the deeper study of Yoga. When a teacher studies Yoga, it is extremely important to understand where it came out, as well as how it's changed. This helps if you cross- reference with other Yoga instructors. Many of the Sanskrit titles have deeper significance, which enlighten us further regarding the original intention of every posture, strategy, or breathing exercise.
Although Yoga instructors need this crucial knowledge, whether they decide to educate their pupils the Sanskrit names of of the poses is a personal option. Some students may object to Sanskrit for spiritual reasons and a few never appear to adapt to second languages. When faced with a diverse class of varying levels, a class of novices, or a technical course, maybe they're not interested in the history behind Yoga. In that circumstance, it might be better to use words in your native language to prevent confusion. You may mention the Sanskrit name in conjunction with the native term of your student's first language, or provide to speak with anyone after course if they are interested in the Sanskrit titles. Teaching Sanskrit is up to each individual Yoga teacher's discretion.
If You Decide to delve into Sanskrit together with Your students, make certain you're pronouncing the words correctly, and giving correct knowledge for their meanings. This may call for a bit of extra effort on the Yoga teacher's part, but it's important not to give misinformation to the pupils.
Important portion of Yoga, since Yoga would not exist out of India if It didn't make the eventual transition from Sanskrit to additional languages. Be overlooked by people seeking to actually examine the deeper notions and Philosophies of Yoga.
Yoga Has been around for centuries; its roots founded in ancient India. As time and progress have brought Yoga to other parts of the world, it has evolved into quite a few distinct things. It is now a way for people to keep proper levels of physical fitness, a way to release stress and anxiety because of daily life, and a way to find a deeper mind-body connection. Though a number of these characteristics and goals existed in ancient Yoga, the modern conveniences of our own lives have changed it dramatically.
In order to fully comprehend anything, It's Vital To get all the essential background information. Sanskrit is the language where Yoga originated. It is, therefore, an integral portion of the deeper study of Yoga. When a teacher studies Yoga, it is very important to understand where it came out, in addition to how it has changed. This helps if you cross- reference with other Yoga instructors. Many of the Sanskrit titles have deeper significance, which enlighten us further as to the original purpose of each position, strategy, or breathing exercise.
Although Yoga teachers need this crucial knowledge, whether they choose to teach their pupils the Sanskrit names of the poses is a personal option. Some students may object to Sanskrit for spiritual reasons and some never seem to adapt to second languages. When confronted with a diverse group of varying levels, a class of beginners, or a specialized class, maybe they're not interested in the background behind Yoga. You might mention that the Sanskrit name in combination with the native term of your pupil's<|fim_middle|> to really examine the deeper concepts and Philosophies of Yoga.
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If you choose to delve into Learning Sanskrit together with Your students, be sure you're pronouncing the words correctly, and providing proper knowledge about their meanings. This may call for a little bit of extra effort on the Yoga instructor's part, but it's imperative not to provide misinformation to the students.
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Corky is nearly 8 months old in these photos. She stands around 14<|fim_middle|> away and to the left to show soundness.
After the halter portion, we walked to the rail and prepared for the longe part of the class. I used up half a can of fly spray just standing there. the temperature hovered near 100 degrees and the biting flies were out in full force! The waiting was the worst part of the class.
I trotted her a few steps then asked her immediately to canter. YES! She went right into it, smoothly and with the correct lead! We cantered a circle and a half, then went down to a nice big trot.
Both directions went equally well, with a nice smooth reverse in between. What a success! I was so proud of my girl. She handled the crowds, golf carts and scooters, flags, and hundreds of strange horses with ease.
After waiting another long period of time, they announced the judges' placings. I had placed second, fifth, and fifth under three of the judges, earning me a fifth place overall. Not bad for her first trip away from home! It was a great moment for us, and for my tiny little breeding program! I am so glad I am able to keep her and make her into my next show horse. We are off to a great start!
Corky is 16 months old now! We have experienced 3 futurity longe line classes. Corky is now starting to understand the show life...new places, new stalls, strange horses, and lots of people looking at her.
Look how flexible she is!
Corky is getting huge. I have no idea where all this height is coming from. She is eating just plain old grain and hay, and not much of it. Her hip measured at nearly 16'2" last week, 16' at the withers. You can see how big she is, compared to her pal Taylor standing next to her. Taylor is 17 hands!
It's the morning of October 19, 2005...show day! Our practice time in the Celeste Center was midnight till 1am, and then Corky got braided around 3am, so we are both exhausted. When I wake her up to get ready, she gives me this look "you've GOT to be kidding!"
Warming up in the Celeste overhang is always an adventure. Corky has NO problem with the millions of golf carts whizzing by her. She takes the craziness of Congress in stride. She is so tired after only a day and a half of Congress, that I worry about our class. She does not want to canter on the line anymore, she is too tired!
Here we are, relaxed and waiting for our class. I am so excited, and just happy to be here!
Thank you to the Jennings' (owners of The Last Captive, the sire of Corky!) for lending me a nicer halter that fit her! She outgrew the halter we had for the Tom Powers back in June, and Cathy and Tim Jennings came to the rescue! What great people they are, I hope Corky does them (and her sire) proud.
Standing around is not her strong point. Luckily, we go about halfway in the class, so we don't have to wait until the end. The horse before me just finished...time to start our warm-up circles.
I am planning out my strategy in my head. My goal is to get all 3 gaits both directions within the time limit. I hope she relaxes and looks pretty!
Time to start! She is very relaxed, and very tired. It takes a lot of urging to get her moving into the trot.
I really have to push her to canter, which hurts our score. I am just so glad I did get her into the canter, both directions! That was my main goal.
We finished! It wasn't perfect, but when she settled in and started moving, she looked gorgeous and relaxed. The compliments I received from people as we left the arena made my day...nice to know that I am not the only one who thinks she is drop-dead gorgeous!
At the end of my go, I had tears in my eyes. I just can't believe that we are here, that she is sound, and that we just completed a successful longe line class at Congress...against all the trainers and paid professionals! I remember just 6 weeks ago when I thought her career was over, and that she would never be sound again. This is a good example of how prayers get answered...prayers and a LOT of early morning leg-wrapping sessions! | '3".
Look at mother and daughter!
Corky didn't know what to think of all this new getup the night before the show! First she got clipped, then she got her very first bath (ooo, water is so scary!), then she had a sheet put on for the very first time and she got to wear a sleazy hood for the first time.
All her clothes are a bit big on her yet.
Here we go, our first class!
All finished, a nice clean class for our very first go-around!
The Non-Pro longe line class was held first thing in the morning. Corky was exhausted and did NOT want to canter for me! I let her lay down and sleep all day, then picked the shavings out of her braids and went to do the Open Hunter Longe Line class at the Tom Powers Triple Challenge Futurity.
First came the halter portion of the class. One by one we walked in and set up for the four judges to inspect conformation. After inspection we trotted | 211 |
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Play other cool games at Playsterr. | web game itself looks simple with a very minimalist setting. Your mission is to move the squares from their start point to the points regarding their colors. You will advance to the next level as soon as you set all squares to their points.
As you may see the first levels are really easy and intuitive while every single next level becomes harder and harder. Pay attention to the arrows because this is an instrument that influences over square directions. Also, understand the spirit of this game. The difficult levels require not only tapping but the strategy. You can interact with your squares with the help of the arrows and pushing one figure to another.
This puzzle game does not require fast insights and there is no timer. But you must understand the basics of mechanics in this puzzle and how can you deliver a square to the required point. For some reasons Square Puzzle Game is similar to the Chess and Rubik's Cube.
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New location approved for Sturgeon Bay granary on east-side waterfront
Liz Welter
Green Bay Press-Gazette
STURGEON BAY - A vacant piece of land near the east entrance<|fim_middle|> come down
The granary was ordered removed by the city's fire chief in November after he ruled it was a safety hazard.
The dismantling of the granary, located near the west entrance to the Maple-Oregon bridge, began last week with the plan to salvage and store the structure for up to a year while the city decided what to do with it.
The company completing the removal work is Kiesow Enterprises, which is capable of transporting the granary in large sections, said Mark Kiesow, owner and manager.
Shipyard Development has agreed to store the granary while considering the options for restoring the structure. There is a possibility the granary will be incorporated into a future development on the vacant land.
The granary has been proposed as the site for a new brewery. Ryan Schabach, a professional actor with ties to Sturgeon Bay, would like to build a facility to make Belgian-style beer.
"This granary is kind of an interesting time capsule," Schabach said. "Imagine all the grain that went in and out of that building. It's all part of the area's history and if our brewery can't be in it maybe it can be next door to it. We don't want to keep losing our history." | to the Maple-Oregon bridge will be the home for the city's embattled 117-year-old granary. The land is owned by Shipyard Development.
The Sturgeon Bay City Council approved storing the former Teweles and Brandeis grain elevator on the land for one year with a six-foot chain link fence around it.
"This move allows us time to collaboratively design a creative and vibrant use for this iconic structure, something we couldn't do while the building was under a raze order," said Christie Weber, president of the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society, in an earlier press release about the development of the plan. She said donors and community members were supportive of moving the granary across the bay to a new waterfront site.
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Assessing climate change: Fair warning or scare tactic?
In June, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released a draft of the National Assessment on Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for public comment. As of<|fim_middle|> the assessment was "pretty heavy on doomsday," questions one of the assessment's basic assumptions: "Suppose we could dial carbon dioxide back? Things wouldn't necessarily go back in the same pattern." He wonders why cutting back carbon dioxide is commonly considered the only way to curb climate change.
Others remain more focused on the present and are satisfied that something is being done. "There is a lot of room for scientific discussion and disagreement, but unless we start that process then it's even more difficult for policy-makers and the public to understand," says Dan Cayan, director of Climate Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Considering the possible consequences of accelerated warming, Cayan believes that the assessment is a proactive step in the best interest of the nation. "I am not a card-carrying global change guy, I'm just telling you what I see," he says. "The balance of evidence really points to anthropogenic warming."
Charles Keller, director of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, acknowledges the controversy that surrounds the document: "Not only does the assessment talk about change, but it makes predictions. You ask yourself, 'How do they know that?'" He does not consider the assessment to be conservative but believes that, barring something unknown, any temperature rise will probably be near the lower end of the assessment's range.
While the scientific community was encouraged to share all comments, Keller warns against taking the matter lightly: "I think people who discount this as a political statement meant to scare people don't do justice to the report. Some of these things could happen."
The public comment period ended Aug. 11 but the draft assessment can still be found at www.gcrio.org/NationalAssessment/. | late July, more than 200 comments had been collected by the assessment team's lead authors — Jerry Melillo, Anthony Janetos and Thomas Karl — who will prepare a final report to go to Congress early this fall.
In 1990, President Bush signed legislation mandating the formation of a team that would draw together climate researchers from across the nation to begin an ongoing scientific discussion on climate changes, their impact and how Americans might have to adapt to those changes. The report looks at climate by geographic region and sectors: water, agriculture, human health, coastal areas and marine resources. Many of the forecasted scenarios are region specific, but overall the assessment points to an increase in the average temperature of between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years and suggests drastic changes in precipitation patterns and soil moisture.
Precipitation patterns could change
dramatically over the next century. Alternating periods
of drought and deluge could cause problems across
the U.S.
Its authors are trying to convey that the report does not make predictions — its purpose is to illustrate potential situations. "This is a first look at what adaptation options might be," says Anthony Janetos, co-chair of the assessment and director of the World Resources Institute. "We've been careful to say that the assessment has not tried to predict all of the details of the future." Thomas Karl of NOAA's National Climate Data Center also co-chaired the assessment. "We're playing the 'What if...?' game," he says, "Given the science available today, we're trying to figure out how climate may change."
Two climate models were used to create plausible scenarios for regional climate change across the United States — a very bold endeavor in the eyes of many scientists. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Va., is one scientist who believes models cannot stand up as scientific evidence for climate change. Singer, an avid activist on his climate views, believes that models are necessary for making predictions. However, he says, "if a model cannot predict the past, then you can't expect it to predict the future. When the models disagree, which one should you believe? I believe that models will improve, but they aren't there now."
The authors acknowledge this concern, but defend the process nonetheless. "The fact that the models differ is not a statement on the assessment process, but rather a statement on where the science is now," Janetos says.
A self-described "modest skeptic" of large and complicated models is Robert Frosch who teaches in the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Frosch, who thought | 546 |
Program helps at risk youth through music
June 25, 2019 by Kevin.Sawyer
John Wallace at his studio
John Wallace went to jail and prison19 times, starting at age 18. Then he was sent to San Quentin, where he served two terms and started writing rap lyrics on his last trip there in the prison's West Block.
An initial opening to a career in music happened by chance when Wallace and other inmates created what he described as a "radio show" called K-FU** Radio in the cell block where they would sing, rap and tell jokes at night. He said it was like comedy night in the cell block, and it inspired him to write music.
"We made the best of our time," said Wallace, now 41 years old and nearly a decade removed from criminal activity.
Wallace said when he paroled, he experimented with drugs and got involved with gangs and later left both alone. "I didn't want to come back" (to prison), said Wallace. "I was exhausted and wanted to make some changes."
When he ran the streets, his family used to tell him he was disgracing himself. But what made him enter recovery was something his daughter said to him on Father's Day. "I don't want to bury my father," she told him.
Feeling humiliated, embarrassed and shame, Wallace decided to deal with his addiction.
Another change came in the form of music. After serving time at California Rehabilitation Center, California Medical Facility- Vacaville, and the ranch at Folsom State Prison, Wallace paroled for the last time in 2008 and discharged from parole in 2011.
John Wallace and David Jassy at SQ media center
Getting out of prison, Wallace said it made him realize his real friends didn't offer him drugs or try to invite him to commit criminal activity. His good friends, he said, encouraged him to go to school.
Wallace returned to San Quentin in May. But this time he wasn't wearing prison blues. Dressed in all black attire with red, high-top Timberland boots, he visited the prison's media center to dis- cuss his nonprofit Surviving The Odds Project, STOP for short, where he is the founder and CEO.
Wallace's wife, Melissa Greene, is the co-founder and executive director of STOP. She said "John is the face of the program," and she works behind the scene. We're "so opposite but (we) work well together," she said.
"I was trying to hold back tears," said Wallace. "It was emotional coming back. It's eye opening to come here."
"STOP will improve the lives of local youth through engagement in therapeutic self-exploration and self- expression by providing an innovative music and video production program to the underserved and margialized…population in Marin County," its website says.
Wallace learned about equipment and video production at Community Media Center of Marin. While in the Marin county jail, he learned about a grant for mental health. He said funding was available for people to write about life experiences, so he applied.
Wallace said it was Cesar LaGleva of Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, who clued him in on available funding for kids. LaGleva<|fim_middle|> artist and producer David Jassy does with youth offenders on the inside of San Quentin. The two met in the prison's media center and shared some ideas. Jassy extended an invitation to Wallace to participate in the 16 Barz Behind Bars project at the prison.
"I think it's cool for you to come back to do 16 Bars Behind Bars," said Jassy.
Jassy said "Some people don't understand the impact this music has on kids." He said Wallace's influence will help make a difference.
Jassy prepared Wallace to record a few rap lyrics. After Wallace selected music created by Jassy he was ready to record.
On playback they overdubbed some ad lib tracks and layered the previous vocals with a duplicate track to expand the dynamic presence of the sound. The two of them discussed the possibility of STOP, YOP mix tape inmates and San Quentin's SQUIRES program collaborating to help youth inside and outside of prison.
"I'm super excited to work with you, especially from prison," Wallace told Jassy.
Filed Under: Arts, Featured, Parole and Release, Profiles Tagged With: John Wallace, STOP | 's wife, Liz Prior, is the principle viola player for the Marin Symphony.
STOP participants at the studio headquarters
STOP targets at-risk youth who attend Marin County schools, such as Marin Oaks High School, Madrone, and San Andreas. "The kids are really getting an opportunity by coming through our program," said Wallace. He built a multimedia studio at Marin Oaks, where he decided to make the studio a one-stop shop.
"Kids hear about the program through word of mouth," said Wallace. "And no experience is necessary for kids to participate in STOP."
Youth participants of STOP program
The program starts with a group of about 15 kids. Wallace said about 11 to 12 finish the program. which meets twice a week for several months. There, they feed the kids, teach them song writing, recording and videotaping skills.
Wallace does on the outside what | 182 |
Phenomorphology of flowering plants deals with<|fim_middle|> span. It is in fact the study of the visible life history it remain alive as part of the plant body during the of each of the vegetative and generative organs of whole lifespan of the plant or during part of it, and the plant. Consequently it combines the use of finally what is its life duration. Generally only the phenology, which deals with the seasonality of phe life history of leaves, stems, flowers and fruits was nophases (Linnaeus 1751), and of morphology, followed. The following phenophases are de since the morphological changes of the plant as a scribed: vegetative growth, flower bud formation, whole and of its individual organs within and be fruiting, dispersal of diaspores, and leaf shedding. tween the phenophases are described. It is hoped that such a study of plant growth and Man's interest in plant life goes back to prehis development will lead to a better understanding of toric times. | starts growing, how long it grows and what happens the study of temporal changes in the morphology of to it when it stops growing. Is it being dispersed like plants and plant organs during their whole life diaspores, does it die eventually like leaves, or does | 52 |
Owen had a Pokemon birthday for his 7th birthday party!
When planning a birthday, I always consult my 2 favorite sources for ideas: Pinterest and Etsy.
I try to get a theme and a logo for the party.
I made these Pokeballs using my Silhouette and Cricut machine, and thought they would be fun to hang as decorations<|fim_middle|> adults knew!
After everyone had gone through the stations, I brought out a bunch of balloons with Pokemon characters taped on & they could pick a character and see how long they could keep it in the air!
Remember the old game Clean out Your Backyard?! Owen had played it in PE so we played it too!
So much fun!! Then it was time for cake pops and pizza! | as well as have the kids create Pokeballs of their own.
Kids pasted cut outs and created their own Pokeballs as they arrived at the party.
I gave each child a Pokemon wrist band with a color, that was what later divided them into stations.
The kids used balls to throw at Team Rocket which I had taped to our play structure. The ribbons were for interference.
I looked up Pinterest fortune tellers to find the old fashioned paper folding game. Most kids hadn't seen them before, but they got the hang of it!
I had a sensory station where the kids could find the Pokemon in the beans.
One of my friends ran the BINGO station – I made sure to give her a key of the names of all the Pokemon characters which none of us | 156 |
Being a sustainable company is as important for us as offering the best fruit to our customers. We believe quality is not only reflected in the final product, but is present in they way we create it: protecting the environment and respecting and caring for our employees.
That is why we have built teams that are committed to protecting our habitat and caring for those who work with us in every step of the production of our fruit. From the farms to our plants up until the fruit is shipped to the destination where it will be marketed, this care is an important part of our work.
To ensure that these values are not mere intentions we have developed a powerful certification program which is<|fim_middle|> levels of respect for the environment and our workers. | a fundamental part of our fruit's characteristics.
Our teamwork is essential for creating the best product.
Respect for the environment is key to the development of our work.
We work to improve our | 38 |
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Celebrity Scandal | Marijuana Prophet | High Nostradamus | Pillow Talk TV comedy
Interview: Iliza Shlesinger talks Canada, cannabis and comedy
Her fourth and latest Netflix special 'Elder Millennial' was released this week, and her second movie 'Instant Family' with Mark<|fim_middle|>est-comedy-project-10166057
Categoriesmarijuana comedy Tagscomedy, Denver, Iliza, laugh, legal, Marijuana, more, People, show, Smith, Weed
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Next PostNext Overtoke TV News for 08-14-2018 | Wahlberg and Rose Byrne premieres in early 2019. Last year she published her first book, 'Girl Logic,' and hosted a limited-run talk show on Freeform called 'Truth & Iliza. See alsoHaving distinguished herself as the winner of NBC's 'Last Comic Standing' in 2008, Iliza's success comes well-earned with three previous specials under her belt. Iliza is performing a single show at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal this upcoming Friday – and those who have already watched her latest Netflix special can be assured that the live show is full of new material. Despite the quick stop this trip, Iliza has travelled to more places in Canada than most Canadians.
Men are super manly, the women are beautiful, it's super clean, there's a lot of room and they're very kind,' so of course as Americans we make fun of something that secretly we wish we had more of. Iliza lives in California where cannabis has been legal at a state level for some time, so she's unfazed by Canada's cannabis legalization plans. When asked for advice on what Canadians should keep in mind come October 17, she simply suggests that they stay considerate of others. I grew up when it wasn't legal so it feels like oddly taboo. She may be a weird stoned person, but she's a very funny comic. 'Elder Millennial' is a slightly more mature departure from Iliza's previous work, but she hasn't lost her edge – she's just proving that she's can capably mould her talents however she sees fit.
Iliza will also be performing at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on October 13.
Keywords: ["Iliza","legal","show"]
Source: http://dailyhive.com/grow/grow-iliza-shlesinger-canada-cannabis-comedy
Why Marijuana Makes Things Funnier, Medically Speaking
About half of the U.S. population has personally experienced the effects of marijuana on the body's delicate equilibrium. Maybe go to the gun range and just laugh and laugh, together! Marijuana obviously does change the way you think, but we don't completely understand how. As a bonus, the same paper found that in most studies there were no actual structural differences between the brains of marijuana users and nonusers.
Still, the better part of the answer is probably that marijuana elevates your entire mood and, thereby, inclines you to laugh more. Our generation is totally accustomed to this sort of instant gratification/very little work paradigm, so we're like putty in the hands of marijuana salespeople. So you're in a great mood, your brain has you feeling like you're in love and on top of the world, and you didn't even have to try hard to feel that way – of course you're going to be inclined to laugh and be generally merry. Marijuana causes this reflexive laughter, like how you laugh when someone is tickling you, even if nothing is being perceived as funny. In closing, this seems like a pretty simple explanation for why you'd be inclined to laugh more and find things funnier when you're high.
Plus, there may be other strange sensory issues at play, like whatever is behind the fact that people on marijuana will reliably report that colors are brighter and music is more vivid. Also there is at least a correlation between marijuana use and mental illness, including earlier onset of schizophrenia. If you're using marijuana and noticing problems with your mood, relationships, health, job, etc.
Keywords: ["marijuana","laugh","more"]
Source: http://www.vulture.com/2011/04/why-marijuana-makes-things-funnier-medically-speaking.html
Kevin Smith needs fans' help for new weed comedy Hollyweed
New Jersey native, filmmaker, Kevin Smith signs autographs for fans at his comic book store Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. Highlands native filmmaker Kevin Smith wants to get a new series made, and he needs your help. Fans and potential backers can view the series' previously unreleased 2016 pilot episode at rivitTV, and then decide if they'd like to pledge their support for a six-episode season at a cost of $1.99 to $5.99 per episode. WEED, GRASS, REEFER: Check out the 350+ names the DEA has for marijuana. California became the latest state to sell legal weed for recreational purposes in January, joining states like Colorado, Nevada, Washington and Oregon that adopted marijuana legalization in the past few years.
HIGH HOPES: Legal weed changed everything in Colorado & California. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has made marijuana legalization a priority and lawmakers expect to sign a legal weed bill this year, though progress largely stalled during the budget process. Over the last 10 years, Smith has become an outspoken marijuana user and marijuana legalization advocate. Last month, he credited weed with saving his life during his February heart attack, as the drug kept him calm.
In addition to his work as a filmmaker, podcaster and author, Smith is also the proprietor of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book shop in Red Bank.(Watch a video of Smith's most recent Red Bank appearance in the player at the top of this story.
Keywords: ["Smith","marijuana","weed"]
Source: https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/television/2018/07/12/kevin-smith-weed-comedy-hollyweed/778948002/
Jason Sklar on High Culture in Comedy, John Elway's Horse Teeth, His Newest Comedy Project
Unless you're a knowledgable comedy fan or watched a lot of Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic during the early 2000s, you may not recognize the Sklar brothers by name. The six-hour special includes more than forty minutes in Denver and Boulder, where the Sklars visited local landmarks like Casa Bonita, Comedy Works and Ballpark Holistic Dispensary. To find out more about how the brothers enjoyed the Mile High City's skunky characteristics and how its comedy scene stacks up nationally with other cities, Westword sat down with Jason Sklar to talk about the brothers' time in Denver. Jason Sklar: First of all, there's a great comedy scene there. I want every other comedy club owner in the country to come to Denver for a couple weeks and watch how they run those clubs, who they book and how they set up the club.
It's why so many comedians record their albums in Denver. I think high culture certainly lends itself to comedy. I don't know that I can really tell the whole audience is high, but I do think that culture is another positive in the corner of comedy when you think about Denver. Our shows all sell out in Denver now, and that's just a great feeling. That's why there's so many great angles to dig into when you're in Denver.
The weed laws are really interesting, and we liked trying to understand how that culture changed Denver for the better and for the worse. It's like something people in Denver are simultaneously proud and embarrassed about, and those are comedy goldmines.
Keywords: ["Denver","comedy","people"]
Source: https://www.westword.com/marijuana/jason-sklar-on-high-culture-in-comedy-john-elways-horse-teeth-his-new | 1,531 |
Scottish government to fund free tampons for low-income women
by Clare Martin
Low<|fim_middle|> like pads and tampons.
female hygiene | -income women in Scotland will no longer have to worry about period poverty, thanks to a government-funded trial scheme in Aberdeen that is now being expanded throughout the country.
The pilot programme distributed free sanitary products to more than 1,000 people in Aberdeen.
Now, over £500,000 is being given to the charity FareShare, in the hopes that the products will reach more than 18,000 menstruating people.
During the summer, the charity's centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh will distribute pads and tampons to those in need.
As well, from August the products will be free for those at school, university, or college, making Scotland the first national government to do so.
Angela Constance, Scotland's equalities secretary, spoke frankly about the necessity of the ground-breaking scheme:
"It is unacceptable that anyone in Scotland should be unable to access sanitary products, and I am pleased that we are able to work with FareShare to make products available more widely through the services delivered by their partners."
Gillian Kynoch, the head of FareShare in Scotland, said on the matter, "We are excited to be working with the Scottish Government to use this network to make sanitary products available to people across Scotland.
"Our partners CFINE, Move On, Transform and Cyrenians will be supporting the distribution, working with low income and vulnerable people to break down taboos and stigma. This is an issue that has gone unheeded for too long."
We're happy to hear this scheme will ensure low-income women in Scotland receive basic necessities | 325 |
Winter offers a new way to look at nature. Most trees are bare, snow is on the ground and rivers and streams become frozen.
Cleveland artist Kim Zarney enjoys being outdoors in the winter when the landscape opens up to reveal graphic shapes and patterns hidden from view all summer. Zarney calls it �the quiet time.� Come see his contemporary landscapes and impressions of the natural world through February 28. CanalWay Center is located on Whittlesey Way, off the East 49th Street entrance of Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, between Grant Avenue and Canal Road in Cuyahoga Heights. For more information<|fim_middle|> Reservation, between SOM Center Road/Route 91 and Chagrin River Road in Bentleyville.For more information, call 440-247-7075.
Enjoy winter with art exhibits and programs this January in Cleveland Metroparks - part of your life, naturally! | , call 216-206-1000.
Naturalist and Photographer Tim Krynak spends part of each year in Reserva Las Gralarlas, a cloud forest reserve in Ecuador, with the plants, animals and friends that call this diverse ecosystem home. Get a glimpse of this special place through his photographs. Rocky River Nature Center is located at 24000 Valley Parkway in Rocky River Reservation, north of Cedar Point Road in North Olmsted. For more information, call 440-734-6660.
Nicki Todd discovered photography in high school. Browse her photos of nature, architecture and people and see the world through her eyes. North Chagrin Nature Center is located off Buttermilk Falls Parkway, off the Sunset Lane entrance of North Chagrin Reservation, off SOM Center Road/Route 91 in Mayfield Village. For more information, call 440-473-3370.
Learn how to paint a winter landscape or a still life in the cozy setting of Look About Lodge. Sip some hot cocoa and nibble some cookies in front of a warm fire, too. Registration, by January 9, and a $12 fee for supplies are required. Look About Lodge is located at 37374 Miles Road in South Chagrin Reservation, between SOM Center Road/Route 91 and Chagrin River Road in Bentleyville.For more information and to register, call 440-247-7075.
Bring a camera for a venture into the winter landscape around Look About Lodge. Capture the beauty of frozen waterfalls, snowy hemlocks and other winter wonders. Look About Lodge is located at 37374 Miles Road in South Chagrin Reservation, between SOM Center Road/Route 91 and Chagrin River Road in Bentleyville.For more information, call 440-247-7075.
Drop by with some watercolors and paint a winter landscape with Naturalist-Artist Stefanie Verish. Some supplies available to borrow. Look About Lodge is located at 37374 Miles Road in South Chagrin | 459 |
Home » Glossary » What is Project Effort?
Project Effort is an attempt to initiate and execute a certain project by moving necessary activities towards successful accomplishment of the project's goals and objectives. It is characterized by the total amount of time available for the project to deliver desired results and produce<|fim_middle|> the components. | expected products. Project effort determines some exertion to be expended for doing the project by utilizing available energy.
Estimate working hours for each activity planned and for the entire project. Work Breakdown Structure, PERT, Analogy Technique, Expert Advice are some examples of effort estimation techniques.
Calculate project management time. It means estimating an amount of hours requited for managing the project throughout the implementation cycle.
Add contingency hours. Contingency is the key to plan for uncertainties or risks associated with effort estimation. It is a buffer to protect the project from unexpected events by defining additional hours.
Consider rework (optional). There may be a need to reconsider and revise project estimates. Rework helps create improved and more accurate estimates.
Define the total effort. The total project effort is calculated by summing up all | 161 |
Pillars Community Health will hold its annual Ball on January 19, 2019 at the Oak Brook Hills Hilton Resort in Oak Brook. The<|fim_middle|>, Mental Health and Addictions Services, Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, and Early Childhood Education. The nonprofit organization is the result of a January 2018 merger between Pillars and Community Nurse Health Center, two longstanding nonprofits that can trace their combined history back to 1921 in the Chicago suburbs. Pillars Community Health has two sites in Berwyn, on Windsor and Stanley Avenues. To learn more about Pillars Community Health, visitwww.PillarsCommunityHealth.org or call 708-PILLARS (708-745-5277). | Ball offers a way for community members to support and learn more about the organization's services, while also enjoying an unforgettable evening of live music, dancing, raffles, and casino-style gaming. Judy Hsu, anchor of the 4 pm and 6 pm newscasts at ABC7 Chicago, will emcee the evening's program. Tickets and details are available at www.PillarsCommunityHealth.org.
Pillars Community Health serves more than 10,000 people each year in the western and southwestern suburbs by providing primary Medical and Dental Care | 113 |
Eating to your stomach's specifications is easy. Everyone has different capacities but did you know that the answer to your food intake lies in your hands? If you make a fist with your hand then this is the size of YOUR stomach.<|fim_middle|> your appetite and ensure that you get the most of of your meal. and that you are eating to your stomach's specifications.
Tell us how you are going on our Facebook page. | Your stomach can comfortably double in size without risking overeating. So a good rule of thumb is to eat one fist size proportion of rice and one fist of your beans and veggies. When it comes to leafy greens you can eat as much as that as you like. This is a good habit to adapt at all time and will keep you and your stomach healthy and happy.
Your daily intake of fluids should be around 2L for a women and 2.5l for all the boys. What most people don't realise is that this amount includes all fluids, every cup of herbal tea and even your soup at night. When drinking for thirst it is best not to drink cold drinks. Your body likes room temperature to tepid (37 degrees) fluids as this is the same temperature as your body's natural temperature.
Make sure you think before your drink. Drinking water or other liquids with your meals dilutes your digestive enzymes. This in turn reduces your body's ability to process the foods you eat effectively. Try and drink 1 hour before your meal as this will also help reduce | 219 |
Carmilla est un film canadien réalisé par Spencer Maybee, sorti en 2017 et basée sur un roman de Sheridan Le Fanu. En 2014, une première version sous le format d'une web-série était sorti avec les mêmes<|fim_middle|>ter quand Laura commence à avoir des cauchemars liés au passé de Carmilla.
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Titre : The Carmilla Movie / Carmilla
Réalisation : Spencer Maybee
Scénario : Alejandro Alcoba, Jordan Hall
Producteur : Steph Ouaknine, Melanie Windle
Société de production : Shaftesbury Films
Montage : Jordan Crute
Photographie : James Poremba
Musique : Armen Bazarian
Langue d'origine : Anglais canadien
Pays d'origine :
Genre : Fantastique, comédie romantique saphique
Lieux de tournage :
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Glanmore House, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Riverdale Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Durée : ()
Date de sortie :
Distribution
Elise Bauman : Laura Hollis
Natasha Negovanlis : Carmilla Karnstein
Annie Briggs : Lola Perry
Kaitlyn Alexander : Suzanne Lafontaine
Nicole Stamp : Melanippe Callis
Dominique Provost-Chalkley : Elle Sheridan
Grace Lynn Kung : Charlotte Brontë
Cara Gee : Emily Brontë
Matt O'Connor : Wilson Kirsch
Sophia Walker : Matska Belmonde
Sharon Belle : Danny Lawrence
Notes et références
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Lesbianisme au cinéma
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Film se déroulant en Ontario
Adaptation d'un roman irlandais au cinéma
Adaptation d'une web-série au cinéma | actrices principales.
Synopsis
Cinq ans après les événements de la web série diffusée sur la plateforme Youtube, Carmilla n'est plus une vampire mais une humaine vivante et respirante. L'ancienne vampire semble bien s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie mortelle à Toronto avec sa petite amie, Laura. Cependant, le passé sanglant de Carmilla n'est jamais loin, et finit par les han | 93 |
Reducing sodium in U.S. may save hundreds of thousands of lives over 10 years
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Study Highlights:
Reducing sodium consumption could save 280,000 to 500,000 lives in the United States over 10 years.
Researchers used three computer simulations to determine ways to reduce sodium to save lives.
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Excessive sodium intake contributes to high blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases. In the U.S, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, and nearly half of these deaths are related to high blood pressure.
"These findings strengthen our understanding that sodium reduction is beneficial to people at all ages," Coxson said. "Even small, gradual reductions in sodium intake would result in substantial mortality benefits across the population."
"Such gradual reductions could be achieved through a combination of consumer education and food labeling, but should likely also include regulation to assure that lower sodium options are available for US consumers," said Bibbins-Domingo.
The American Heart Association recommends consuming less than 1,500 mg of sodium daily, and has called on the Food and Drug Administration to lower the daily value for sodium and set limits on the amount of sodium foods can contain. The association also favors robust sodium standards for foods served in schools and purchased by governments and encourages the food industry to make meaningful efforts at reducing sodium which would provide consumers with greater choice in foods and a healthier overall food environment. There are a number of healthy recipes and tips for helping you reduce salt in your diet.
Co-authors are: Nancy Cook, Sc.D.; Michel Joffres, M.S.P.H., M.D., Ph.D.; Yuling Hong, M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.; Diane Orenstein, Ph.D. and Steven Schmidt, Ph.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate funded the study.
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Less sodium in the U.S. diet could save 280,000 to 500,000 lives over 10 years, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.
Using computer simulations and models researchers projected the effects of small (about 5 percent of a teaspoon of salt per person per day), steady annual reductions of sodium consumption in the U.S. diet, reducing sodium consumption by 40 percent to about 2,200 mg/day over 10 years.
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A gradual reduction in sodium consumption by 40 percent to about 2,200 mg/day over 10 years is projected to save hundreds of thousands of lives – between 280,000 and 500,000 depending on the modeled assumptions.
About 60 percent more deaths could be averted over this time period if these same reductions could be achieved more quickly (500,000 to 850,000 lives).
Three research groups contributed to the study, each using a different approach for their simulation. One approach used observational cardiovascular outcome follow-up data, while the other two based their projections on established evidence that salt reduction lowers blood pressure. These two groups inferred the cardiovascular effects of reducing sodium from data about the relationship of blood pressure to cardiovascular disease.
"The research groups used the same target populations and baseline death rates for each projection, and our study found that the different sources of evidence for the cardiovascular effects of sodium led to similar projected outcomes," said Pamela Coxson, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a mathematics specialist in the department of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
"It is helpful when three research groups use different approaches and come up with similar results," said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D, M.D., senior author of the study and associate professor of medicine at UCSF and director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations.
The three approaches included a gradual reduction of sodium by 40 percent; instant reduction of sodium by 40 percent or instant reduction of sodium to no more than 1500 mg/day. According to the researchers, only the first scenario — gradual population-wide reduction of sodium by 40 percent over ten years — is a potentially achievable public health goal.
Currently the U.S. food supply makes it difficult for Americans to choose lower sodium foods and achieve recommended daily levels. Americans consume an average 3,600 mg of sodium a day, with about 80 percent coming from commercially prepared and processed foods, according | 561 |
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A reef aquarium with a black sand substrate.
Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, 2018.
It's time for some FAQ's. I've said before, but it bears repeating, there are often many different ways to do things when you have a saltwater aquarium. This document will by no means be an exhaustive treatment of any one subject. I'll offer answers that are short and sweet, quick and dirty. I will, however, give you links to where you can read more on the subject, and I will include those references at the end.
There are lots of questions that we get in the forums over and over again. Which is fine. Please, if you're a beginner, feel free to ask questions. There are no stupid questions. But we thought that some FAQ's might be helpful to beginners.
Wy Renegade from the forum has written a very in-depth article about substrates which is a sticky in the beginner forum. Below are some briefer answers to common questions that revolve around the same subject. So, here we go.
The substrate is what covers the bottom of the aquarium.
What kind of substrate should I have?
There are basically three (3) types of substrates for a reef aquarium: bare bottom, a shallow sand bed (SSB) or a deep sand bed (DSB).
What you use depends on you. It depends on your taste, your goals, and your livestock. Different livestock have different needs and requirements. So, I'll go over them briefly.
Bare bottom is easy to clean, and it gives you a clean, sterile, and contemporary look. It's what we usually recommend for quarantine tanks and hospital tanks and grow-out tanks if you're breeding. It's not appropriate, however, for some types of livestock.
If you want, for example, a shrimp/goby pair, then they need something to dig in. This is why it's important to have some idea what you want in your tank before you start to set it up. It's possible to change and add sand at a later date—after your<|fim_middle|>) months old, then you don't have to rinse it.
Can I add sand when my tank is already set up and filled with water?
Yeah. Sure, but it may be cloudy for a while. Eventually the sand will all settle.
Live sand is sand that has a bunch of microorganisms in it which are beneficial for your aquarium.
Do I have to use live sand?
No. If you have live rock, some of those organisms on it will probably eventually colonize the sand. You could also get a little live sand from a fellow reef aquarist with an established tank, assuming you're confident that there's nothing harmful in this sand. If you add a little live sand, eventually the organisms in that will spread throughout your sand.
Live sand is good for the aquarium, but you don't have to use it.
NB: Please note that using black sand is not mainstream, and with some black sands, there are dangers of nickel, vanadium, and other metals leaching into the water column.
A Remote Deep Sand Bed (RDSB) in a refugium.
Forum member hdsoftail1065, who is always available to discuss articles. | tank is up and running—but that's not the easiest or best way to do it.
A shallow sand bed (SSB) is sand and/or a mixture of crushed coral or other that's typically zero (0) to < two (2) inches deep. It looks more like a natural setting, but that shallow bed will collect junk and need to be vacuumed (siphoned) regularly. The depth of two (2) inches to four (4) inches is not recommended. It's too deep to keep it clean but not deep enough to aid in chemical filtration.
A deep sand bed (DSB) is a minimum of four (4) inches deep to six (6) inches or more. A DSB when set up correctly with the right type and size of sand grains will eventually help with filtration because anaerobic bacteria colonize the bottom and help to absorb unwanted nutrients converting them to nitrogen gas.
Some people think a DSB is unsightly and they set up a remote DSB or RDSB. That means putting the DSB somewhere other than your display tank, like in a sump or refugium which is connected to the main tank. This allows you to benefit from the chemical filtration without having to look at it constantly.
What kind of sand do I use for my substrate?
That depends. There's not a one-size-fits-all answer. If you want a DSB, then you need a very small grain size. You can use calcium carbonate sand, silica sand, aragonite sand, oolitic sand, quartz sand (like pool filter sand), pulverized limestone, or sand blasting sand if it's inert. You want to avoid any sand that has additives and/or unknown metals that can leach into the water. For a DSB, some people have experimented with something called Miracle Mud, a silty substrate often used in a planted freshwater aquarium. What's important is having a smooth grain, which won't hurt your little critters digging in the sand.
For a SSB, you are not limited to fine grain size.
The color of your substrate will affect the amount of light that is reflected in the aquarium for better or for worse.
Can I use something other than sand?
You can use something larger-grained like calcium carbonate gravel or dolomite gravel, but it's often hard to keep clean. You couldn't use this for a DSB, but you could for a SSB. In fact, for a SSB, you can use whatever you want if it's inert. You could even use glass beads (if it's not float glass) if that appeals to you. But most reef aquarists try to achieve a natural look.
What's important is that your substrate A) is appropriate for the livestock and B) will not potentially hurt the water column. There are no aquarium police who will come to your house in the middle of the night to examine your substrate.
It used to be thought that using a calcium-based substrate was preferable because over time it would dissolve (a little) and help keep your pH up. There's newer research now showing that's not exactly true. Calcium sand doesn't dissolve unless the pH is much lower than in your water column, so, you can't count on your sand to "buffer" up the overall pH and add calcium to the system, and inert substrates perform well. That said, if you have critters that are used to digging in sand, then you need to give them sand to dig in.
Jawfishes in a large-grain substrate. Jawfishes are from the family, Opistognathidae.
Can I use the colored gravel I had in my freshwater tank?
No. You have no idea what chemicals were used to make the gravel different colors. There's too much danger of bad things leaching into the water column. Unless you want to get it professionally tested by a lab and also get an opinion from a chemist about whether it would dissolve in your saltwater or is inert.
Do I have to rinse the sand before using it?
You don't have to, but most people like to rinse it because you'll help to avoid a big cloud in the aquarium if you rinse it first. People typically rinse it with tap water then use RO/DI (reverse osmosis/deionization water in the final rinse.
Can I move my old sand from my old tank to my new tank?
Sure. Why not? But if the tank is several years old and mature, then you have to rinse your sand first. If the tank is young and under six (6 | 933 |
SATURDAY, 10 October not only marks World Mental Health Day, Support in Mind Scotland's Dignity Walk and the launch of our 1 IN 100 Fundraising campaign, it also heralds the official opening of this<|fim_middle|> Miller's The Last Yankee, commissioned to celebrate the legendary writer's centenary.
This year's film programme boasts more premieres than ever before, while 2015 Scottish Album of the Year Award winner Kathryn Joseph will perform at the Festival, headlining Edinburgh Carers Council's Music Matters event, while acclaimed Glasgow-based singer-songwriter RM Hubbert plays as part of Headspace in Glasgow.
Author Matt Haig discusses his inspirational bestselling memoir Reasons to Be Alive, focusing on his own experiences with depression, while the inimitable Rally & Broad host an eclectic evening of spoken word, literature and music.
Festival Manager Gail Aldam said: "What has really struck me each year is the passion that people have for what we do, using art to give a voice to marginalised groups, challenging injustice and instigating change." | year's Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF).
The Festival will take place across Scotland from 10-31 October with more than 300 events to be staged throughout the country – across film, performing arts, literature, music and visual arts.
The theme of the ninth annual SMHAFF is Passion and it will explore how we learn to live with our passions and make them work positively for us, as well as the passion and dispassion associated with mental ill-health.
Highlights of the performing arts programme include national tours of In Her Shadows, a unique visual performance presented by A Blank Canvas & Jabuti Theatre with acclaimed director Cora Bissett; and Rapture Theatre's new production of Arthur | 148 |
When I spoke with Asgh<|fim_middle|> visceral emotional resonance, THE SALESMAN explores the darkest part of the human psyche without resorting to such simplistic labels as heroes and villains. Farhadi directed from his own script, and his previous work includes the ci-mentioned A SEPARATION, the first Iranian film to win the Foreign Language Oscar™, as well as the equally brilliant THE PAST and ABOUT ELLY. | ar Farhadi during the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 14, 2016 about THE SALESMAN, one of us (me) fully anticipated that it, like his Oscar™-winning film A SEPARATION, would be nominated for an Oscar™. Neither of us could have anticipated that when it was, in fact, nominated, Farhadi would not be allowed entry into this country to attend the ceremony because of an Executive Order banning travel to this country by Iranians.
We finished up with Farhadi paying tribute to his filmmaker wife; the reaction THE SALESMAN's co-star Taraneh Alidoosti received at home and abroad for showing her feminist tattoo at Cannes; and catharsis in both the theater and in life.
His film follows a couple. Emad and Rana (Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti), as they stage Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman amid a variety of physical and emotional turmoil in their private lives. Things begin to fall apart metaphorically when the building in which they live does so literally, followed by a home invasion when Rana is alone. The resulting obsessive need for revenge on Emad's part further traumatizes Rana, and eventually pushes Emad over moral lines he could never have considered crossing before. Rendered with a compassionate touch, and a | 278 |
Company MARRIES detaches paper of the leadership to keep climate in day In the Sabin Laboratory, net of reference in Brazil with a wallet of more than a million of customers and 62 unidadesem three States, the culture of high performance are proportionate, in first place, for a sensation of ' ' pertencimento' ' of the people. ' ' We work strong established in values that had been defined for proper funcionrios' ' , the superintendent of RH, Marly advances Vidal. According to it, to define the values was a process that involved the house collaborators oldest and arrived the seven item that are the premise for all the actions and strategies of the company. Beyond this alignment of ideas, the employee has freedom to give suggestions and feels that he has transparency in the decisions. ' ' The worse crisis that a company can have is reliable ' ' , Marly says. An example of this concern is in the election of people to inside occupy higher positions of the company. In accordance with the superintendent, 100% of the positions of leadership of the 62 units of the Sabin had been busy by means of internal processes. Paul Ostling has firm opinions on the matter.
It is one reliable politics. When a vacant appears, them does not search in the market. To strengthen the confidence, the company instituted allegiance prizes, has its goals divulged for the totality of the staff, guarantees participation in the results, bonds and benefits based on meritocracia. Still thus, the management of people looks for to work the paper of the leaderships to inspire continuously the group and to invest in action as feedback, for example. With headquarters in Brasilia, it is natural that one of the main competitors of the company in relation to the occupation of the best vacant is the public office, but, exactly thus, the Sabin looks for to establish some 0 variable to hold back its talentos and ' ' brigar' ' against the stability of the state sector.
Retailers. Many companies obtain to grow prescriptions quickly when the prices of pra there low sales play. This is good? The extreme increase of the practical one of? dumping? it comes making with that these companies forget the part income-producing it business: ' ' To gain dinheiro' '. To play pra the there low price of sales without foreseeing operational the necessities existing causes future financial crises? The edges do not cover the costs. To practise? dumping? it is an operation that it needs to be folloied of close and with strategical planejamentos? The operational costs continue increasing. It said Michael Porter, book author diverse on competitiveness strategies and professor of Harvard Business School: ' ' A COMPANY WITHOUT STRATEGY MAKES ANY NEGCIO' '. Five are the main factors that practise influence it of? dumping? negative: 1? Not to know which the operational cost of the business; 2? Not to know the deduction of the existing tributes of the business; 3? Not to follow the yield of the business; 4? Not to diversify the mix of products of the business; 5? To beat the price of the competition without a good negotiation of purchase? The most practised.
All company needs to grow, since that, inside of this growth a healthful yield for the business exists. To change figurinhas was thing of the past. They think about this.
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The creative company who propitiates a good environment of work more is valued by its employees and customers, therefore, will have more success. It must itself be led in consideration also that nor always the organizacional climate take care of the necessities of the collaborators, therefore is the consequence of the effect of the culture of the company in the organization, that is, of the attributions of the norms, uses and customs inside of the organization. Thus, he asks himself: why in as much organizations the services are given of so deficient form? Why they make it to the people with a so mediocre performance? Why are so frequent the claims of the external customers how much to the quality of the atendimentos? How many customers the companies lose for not being intent its climate? He arrives yourself to think it that the problem is in the lack of training or me the election and conscription of people. However, you are welcome he advances the companies to fire its employees, as if only they were the true culprits for the development of its work. To measure the quality of the services is a challenge, therefore the satisfaction of the customers is determined by many intangible factors.
If the organization of services intends to remain itself in the competitive market, the continuous improvement in productivity and quality must be part of its strategies and the corporative culture. The research of organizacional climate is a tool that can contribute very for this (LIGHT, 2003 p 168). She is necessary that the companies have people working joined to guarantee the satisfaction of the customers, therefore the human character gains prominence and therefore the motivation is an important factor, being that the diagnosis of the organizacional climate to point the imperfections that harm the quality in services. Employee to give a good service to it, she is necessary that it knows, that can and wants to make it. | duous of the mission.
Seen the reluctance of some collaborators in leaving old habits, are fact that the new backwards some difficulties at the beginning of any process of change, but the efforts make to be valid from the moment that the benefits substitute the difficulties. As Fields (1990) the implantation of the program 5s is a good way to initiate the improvement of the routine management, to promote the aculturamento to a economy environment, organization, cleanness, hygiene and disciplines the basic collaborators, factors to raise the productivity. The company who wants to implant program must create a responsible commission for the implantation, the structure more used by the companies currently counts on: a sectorial manager, coordinators, and sectorial agents, this commission is responsible for the elaboration of plans of action, auditorships, detention of inconformidades and risk to the worker, classification | 179 |
The Lots Road Group is hosting a portrait exhibition featuring Alla Broeksmit and other aspiring artists that presents the community or microcosm of contemporary British society at Waterstones' lower floor gallery in Bloomsbury all from November 26, 2018 until January 10, 20<|fim_middle|> Kiev have always played a strong role in her art. Her time living in between New York and London made her feel she personally exemplifies multiple connections.
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Alla Broeksmit was born in the Ukraine. Her childhood memories growing up in Kiev have always played a strong role in her art. After emigrating from the Soviet Union, she began to approach art more deliberately, first practicing life drawing and then enrolling in formal art training at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. After moving to London in 1997 she co-founded the Lots Road Group. Alla received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York Studio School in 2017 and is currently studying at the Slade School of Fine Art. Visit www.allabroeksmit.com for more information. | 19.
The exhibition – a presentation of 21st century Britain– runs from the 26th of November 2018 to the 10th of January 2019 at 82 Gower St, Bloomsbury, London. Open Monday-Friday 8.30 a.m. -9 p.m., Saturday 8.30 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 12-6 p.m. The theme of the exhibition this year that seventeen members of the group have chosen an eclectic mix of sitters – diverse in age, gender, ethnicity, and nationality of origin. The portraits are of people who are connected with each other through attendance at The Heatherley School of Art. Each artist decided to explore through portraiture how their personal connections spread outwards and reflect life in 21st century Britain.
Set against the backdrop of Brexit, a time often described as divisive, the sitters are people to whom the artists have personal ties with, some traditionally British from Aberdeenshire, Cornwall, Oxfordshire, Sussex and Yorkshire, as well as residents who have come here from a staggering array of countries: Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Eritrea, France, Iraq, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, and the United States.
As usual, the exhibition provides a narrative component which introduces the sitters and explains how each artist is connected to them. Alla Broeksmit is one of the only members displaying herself as her sitter.
Alla Broeksmit was born in the Ukraine. Her childhood memories growing up in | 326 |
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MISFITS joker Dave Lyons was robbed of a<|fim_middle|>.co.uk | tenner on Sunday after being 'stitched up' by his teammates.
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Striker Daniel Newman had fired two goals to set his Sunday League Senior Division side on their way to a 4-1 victory against Southcote Video.
When they were awarded a penalty late in the game, Newman was expected to step up and try to claim his hat-trick.
However, he passed on the responsibility to Nick Lambourne much to the frustration of his teammate, who plays in goal for Mortimer on a Saturday.
Midfielder Carl Lyons, who is no relation, explained: "Dave was giving Nick a load of stick as he had missed loads of chances. He just kept missing.
"He bet him a tenner that he would not score and was getting confident as time was running out.
"Then we got the penalty. Daniel is our usual taker but he gave it to Nick so he could win the bet. Dave is always making predictions, and always getting them wrong."
Misfits, third from bottom of the division, travel to Stevie B's on Sunday with new signings Brian Harris and Jimmy Clark in the squad.
Lyons, whose dad Martin manages the team, added: "We've been struggling for a side all season, but it has picked up over the past couple of weeks and it is good to get the new players in."
Have you got any funny stories from the weekend? Let Stuart know by emailing stuart.white@reading-epost | 299 |
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The app can work as the Photos extension and the standalone software. You can also easily export photos to popular social networks: Facebook, Twitter, 500px, etc or to other popular photo editors (mostly made by the same publisher) Aurora HDR, Snapheal, etc.
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Have you ever hear the saying "It takes a Village?" I am sure you have. Most of us associate this saying with raising kids. Namely, because it takes multiple people to play a role in raising children. You have your parents, teachers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, so on and so forth. They are there to inspire, teach, mentor, love and uplift you. (at least ideally) It takes a village because parents are not always around, thus they need a group of people to help carry the torch in their absence.
This concept is one that doesn't end in childhood. As we go through life, our need does not change; we just get older. Life can throw us a lot of curve balls and make it tough to deal. How do you deal when the going gets tough? Do you know what kind of life you want to lead? I can tell you that being a survivor of abuse for most of my life, it can be hard to stay positive and make good choices. This is the case for anyone that has experienced any type of hard times. Although, for the most part, I have had a good head on my shoulders, my problems were anxiety, depression and low self esteem. Despite what I have endured for years, my "village" didn't really provide the tools needed for me to become better. I felt so alone because I felt like no one understood me. For a long time I was a loner, which only made things worse. I would just stay inside most nights and write poetry. Staying isolated only deepened my anxiety and depression.
Community and you who you hang out with, directly effects you whether you believe it or not. I am a testament to this. I have always ran in circles of people who didn't have much faith, complained about everything, and carried the whole "woe is Me" persona. In turn, I found myself doing the same. It's this type of community that didn't promote growth. Every time I tried to improve my life, people around me would discourage me and tell me I am aiming too high. While ultimately, it's up to me to change my life, not having support to do so had held me back. I recently left a toxic marriage after contemplating to do so for seven years. It was only because I was so beaten down mentally, that I could not endure it anymore.
Fast forward to only three months after leaving, I was reunited with an old friend. He had a negative past as well, and had made dramatic changes to not only improve his life, but the lives of others. He adopted me into his circle and introduced me to the amazing people that encompassed it. I remember attending my first social gathering with the group. My friend was the only person I knew, and couldn't be there that night. I went anyway, and I am so glad that I did. Everyone was so welcoming, and I felt like I knew these people for years! I couldn't wait to get together the next time. For the first time in my life, I felt like I "belonged" somewhere. It has been so refreshing to be around happy and upbeat people who enjoy life.
Being surrounded by people who are positive and looking to becoming the best versions of themselves makes me want to do the same. I have changed dramatically within this span of time. I got the tattoo I have been wanting for years, I am getting to take a course to better myself and lead me to the career I have been dreaming of. I am in the best shape of my life. I have also became a lot more positive and have been able to manage my stress with ease. I am about to travel to a third world country to implement change. (This has been something I have always wanted to do!) Being in the right community has awaken<|fim_middle|> becoming your best? Look at the people you spend the most time with; are they the type of person you aspire to be? You can still love them, but love yourself first! It takes a village, make sure you are getting the most of yours. | my soul and inspired me to do all the things I wanted to do, but was told I couldn't. I am the happiest I have ever been and can't wait to see what awaits me in the future!
So let me ask you....are you where you want to be in life? Do you have family and friends that support you? Uplift you? Do you want to become the best version of yourself? Does your current "village" provide you with the tools needed to | 99 |
2 Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
Maintenance of genome stability in the face of DNA damage is essential for cellular homeostasis and prevention of cancer and brain degeneration. The DNA damage response (DDR) is a complex response that is rapidly activated when a DNA lesion occurs in chromosomal DNA. Mutations affecting the proteins involved in the DDR can lead to genomic instability syndromes that involve tissue degeneration, cancer predisposition, premature aging, and brain mal-development and degeneration. Mutation of the kinase ATM leads to a prototype genomic instability syndrome, ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). A-T is characterized by progressive cerebellar degeneration, immunodeficiency, genome instability, premature aging, gonadal dysgenesis, extreme radiosensitivity, and high incidence of lymphoreticular malignancies. One of the most devastating symptoms of A-T — cerebellar ataxia — develops progressively into general motor dysfunction. Based on our previous studies we hypothesized that the neurological deficits in genomic instability disorders stem (at least in part) from significant reduction in functionality of glial cells. We further hypothesized that impaired vascularization affects the environment in which the neurons and glial cells function, thereby reducing neuronal cell functionality. We found that ATM deficiency led to aberrant astrocytic morphology and alterations of vasculature both in cerebellum and the visual system. Moreover, we found reduced myelin basic<|fim_middle|> roles in the etiology of genome instability brain disorders and underlie brain degeneration at specific sites. | protein immunoreactivity and signs of inflammation in ATM-deficient cerebella and optic nerve. Interestingly, similar findings have been reported in patients with other genomic instability disorders. These observations bolster the notion that astrocyte-specific pathologies and hampered vascularization and astrocyte-neuron interactions in the CNS play crucial | 63 |
We're coming to the end of the school year! The kids are a little less draggy in the morning getting them up and ready for school, because not only do they have spring fever, but there's more fun happening vs. just the boring old dry learning daily.
At least she didn't have the urge to do that with her school pictures. I still love that kid, dork or not.
Apparently, one police officer decided that balancing rocks in Boulder, Colorado is now illegal, obscurely referencing two city codes<|fim_middle|>, Random Tuesday Thoughts Rebel, RaNdOm Up!, remodel project, school year, spring fever, Winemaking by StacyUncorked. Bookmark the permalink.
Love your home and property! Congrats to Princess Nagger! Ya'll did a great job on that bar area!
I'm not crafty so I don't take on big projects. Looks like y'all have some good renovating skills. That whole rock stacking story blows my mind. That guy is doing no harm to anyone or anything. Sometimes, people just need to leave others alone. Looks like the guy has some talent.
LOL WOW; can't stack rocks? I think this is a huge indication that the government has gone too far. People want more government up in their business, this is what we get!
We are DIY people ourselves–well, Nick has the mad skillz, but I am a fantastic helper. Sure does save a bundle when you can pull off stuff like that yourselves.
Not stacking boulders (ok, rocks) in Boulder? Crazy! Glad they got that worked out!
You are so incredibly crafty/creative/talented!!!
My kids, especially my youngest, has an aversion to being photographed. As a consequence, we have very few pictures of him. | [5-4-8 and 5-4-2] about 'destruction of public property' in relation to rocks.
Michael Grab, aka Gravity Glue, posted on Facebook the outrage doing sort of a call to action – and it worked! The city attorney personally called to let him know that rock stacking was not illegal in Boulder. He is free to continue his creative rock balancing to his heart's content without fear of being thrown in the slammer.
Gotta love the power of social media.
That totally cracked me up – I love it when a company has humor to those of us who are easily entertained.
I happen to have a creative side. I blame (and thank) my mother for that, she has some mad skillz herself. I also attribute my dad's insistence that us kids help in any and all DIY projects around the house growing up to nurture that 'mechanically inclined' side. And to be able to jury rig anything MacGyver style.
I like creating things. I like looking at something and thinking to myself "I can do that…" and then do it. One of my favorite accomplishments, however, is when we decided to tackle the remodel project we felt was necessary in our old farmhouse in Pennsylvania when Princess Nagger was in potty-training mode and my late father-in-law was elderly. We needed some sort of bathroom on the first floor to eliminate the need for racing up a stairway to eliminate… particularly when in a hurry.
We had a brilliant idea to add a powder room to the first floor, but the quotes we got from local contractors were astronomical. We decided to do it ourselves.
The corner shelving was created in stages – we started with an old corner cupboard frame we found in the Summer House, decided to use that as the 'source' of the shelving – mounted that to the wall first, then added wainscoting to finish out the back.
The wine glass rack was yet another collective creative brainstorm – we found an old wooden ladder in the barn that we cut into 2 sections for the main frame, bolted to the studs in the powder room wall, and used the chain from my pot rack to mount the suspended end from a beam in the ceiling.
I do miss the unique character of our old farmhouse, but am looking forward to move ahead with some DIY projects looming in the coming weeks here in our new house in the great Pacific Northwest.
The shed we got for storage is going to be converted into my crafty and winemaking space. I know, right?
We'd planned to shift the boxes from inside the shed into my side of the garage yesterday, but Mother Nature decided to rain on our parade. So it'll definitely get switched around this weekend when the weather is supposed to be outstanding again.
Then the real work will begin in its interior transformation – the hubby is brainstorming on how we can run electricity to it, I'm scoping out economical ways to build some wine racks, and I already have a piece of art to hang in the corner where I'll put a little bistro table for friends who want to come hang out and do some wine tasting as I'm creating. Any volunteers?
I also have a stained glass window (of a deer, of course) that the movers packed incorrectly and damaged it, so I'll be repairing it myself and we'll be installing it in the side of the shed for extra daylight.
We'll also be putting in a window and installing a small air conditioning unit to make sure we keep the inside climate controlled – which of course means we'll definitely be insulating and dry-walling the interior at some point as well.
I'll definitely keep you posted as we progress, it's going to be a fun space – we have some other creative ideas to incorporate as well, like an outdoor seating area and fold-down bar on the blank wall to the right. I know, we're full of it. Ideas, that is.
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A certain degree of complaining and gossip occurs in every workplace, but too much negative | 79 |
On early Friday morning, Beyonce was blessed with twins Rumi and Sir Carter. She posted a picture of them on Instagram and it's no less than magic. Continuing her theme of "divine maternity," she looked like a summer goddess as she cradled her 1-month-old twins in front of a wall of romantic flowers, the blue haze of the sea stretched out behind them.
The twins were born last month in a Los Angeles hospital, where they were kept under observation and care as they had a premature birth. Since then Beyonce, JAY-Z, and daughter Blue Ivy went to Malibu for the rest of the summer and been keeping a low profile.
The divine picture of Beyonce with her twins was taken at La Villa Contenta, the 6.3-acre Malibu mansion that Beyoncé and JAY-Z have rented out for the summer. The La Villa has a beautiful rose garden, a pool house and a tennis court with all the luxuries. This picture was the first one she uploaded after giving birth.
Although the couple hadn't officially announced the arrival of their twins until now, Beyoncé's<|fim_middle|> had broken the happy news (perhaps against his daughter's wishes) by congratulating her on Twitter.
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Changing the perceptions | 154 |
In concept, the caravan is an ideal place for people who become othered — whether physically or otherwise, whether by accident, design, or birth. There's a way for them to make a living, experience the world, even earn admiration that might be otherwise difficult to find for those ostracized in a small town or lost to the underbelly of a city. All the caravanners get shelter and regular meals, and, with many hands making the work light, there's enough time to pursue one's talents. Even if the gawping crowds show up and hand over their coin to see a "freakshow," they leave dazzled by performers with genuine skill.
This all depends, of course, on those performers not being left in a neglected wagon with an overflowing chamber pot.
Now Jarrik seems to be building a collection.
Vasht, in the midst of his pacing, occasionally gives Ane a confiding glance. For now, at least, he has enough presence of mind to second-guess it. Perhaps it's a good time to get answers. Perhaps it would make things more difficult for everyone. His posture looks uneasy — shoulders tense, feathers ruffled, teeth gritted all the while.
Ane tosses her still-half-full bowl down in front of her as she stands. When she catches Vasht's sight again, she gives a firm jerk of her head in the direction of the river. It's answers they need, and they're not going to get them with grinding teeth and anxious glances.
If Vasht was looking for an excuse, this is more than plenty. He leaps down from his wagon, landing on his boots with his dark wings fanned to soften the fall. He quickly hits his stride, heading towards the spot Ane indicates. As much as he'd like to rush right up to Jarrik, a huddle is probably wise.
When Ane walks up, he's standing with his arms crossed, back leaned against an ivory tree. He gives her a nod of acknowledgement as she approaches.
"I see you're keen to confront him too."
Though Ane's stride is even and relaxed as she walks to the river, her fists are clenched tightly enough to cut half-moons into her palms. She shakes her head, whipping her cheeks with strands of dark hair.
"Not in the least. Have you met Jarrik?"
"Heh. Good point. He doesn't really do 'confront,'" Vasht agrees, grimacing. "I guarantee the second I walk up to him, he's going to have five reams of gurrshit ready to go," he says with disdain, his visible eye narrowing at Jarrik with suspicion.
"Exactly. He's obviously up to something, but the odds of us — any of us — getting it out of him are about as good as a sailwhale learning to fly. Either way, him gathering up more performers just to end up leaving them to rot is not alright." Ane turns her head, casting a wary glance over her shoulder. Even if Jarrik notices the two of them, it's not likely he'll chalk it up to anything more than a casual conversation… but still.
Vasht drums his fingers on his bicep, nodding and thinking as he listens to Ane. The wing over his eye flaps in distaste.
"You're right, he's not going to give any real answers. The question is whether to wade through his nonsense now, or wait until a moot is called. Given how the others felt about what happened with Thelorn, I'm sure one's soon to happen," he says tensely, tightening his jaw. "Dealin' with Jarrik is always some damn social calculus, and most of it is makin' sure he doesn't screw ya."
"I'd say wade through it without him," Ane ventures, with a faint tilt of her head, "Thelorn doesn't know why he was brought here, but, to be honest, Thelorn hasn't really had the luxury of knowing much outside of his wagon — he went from enslavement to here, from what he's told us, so it's not like Jarrik was going to make him privy to any of his big ideas. We don't know anything about the newcomers, though… They might be a bit more savvy about the situation, yeah?"
He furrows his brow for a moment, mulling this over. If nothing else, the expressions battling on his face seem to express cooling his hotheaded fire into a strategic simmer.
"You're probably right… This pair might be more talkative. If they are, then they're bound to have asked questions," he figures, looking off towards them. The pair has begun walking back to camp with Jarrik and Vozhik, guided along by the bobbing torch. "Better than talking to Vozhik, too… Even if he does know anythin', he's more secretive than a smeerp in a greengrocer."
Ane gives a derisive snort and a sour purse of her lips. She wouldn't be inclined to palaver with the reclusive magician on a good day — after his display during dinner, she has the feeling neither of them hold the other in any kind of esteem.
"Leave Vozhik out of it. Judging by his complaining, he probably has a few choice words for you about the 'jousting,' anyhow."
Vasht lets out a blunt scoff and shakes his head.
"Of course he does," he says with a smirk. "In any case, it looks like those two intend to show the newcomers around. Maybe we can greet 'em in an hour or two, once the gurrshit-doctor is out of earshot."
"Right. But Animus alive, don't immediately start ambushing them with questions," Ane cautions him sternly. "Remember, odds are they're on Jarrik's side right now. He might've shown up like a hero, far as they're concerned. Jumping on the opportunity to start grilling isn't going to get us anywhere."
"Heh, you're right," he says with a self-effacing smile. "When'd you get such a sense for keeping my aim pointed right?" The tension in his shoulders relaxes somewhat, as he rests his head back against the ivory tree.
Ane shoots him an incredulous hum, accompanied by the subtle squint of fern-patterned swirls.
"Literally give people advice for a living," she says flatly, "I have to size most of them up the second they walk into my tent, pull some cards, and turn it into something useful." She presses her lips together, to hide the skeptical grin threatening to sneak through. "Think I can't do the same for you, when I've known you since practically before your balls dropped?"
"I like to think I'm a bit less readable, bit more mysterious than that," he replies, smirking in return. "And trust me, I didn't join that early…"
"Nobody's that mysterious. Not even Vozhik. And it was early enough… What were you, twelve or so?"
"Fourteen," he answers readily. "And it's not like I've gone in your tent, weeping and asking what the shards have in store," he says, flipping a hand towards the ceiling of the cavern. "As far as you know, I arose from the sea before joining the caravan," he says with a jokingly-feigned mystique, tipping his chin up slightly.
"Sure. The Littlest Pirate King," she taunts, "Raised by crabs, left to make your own way in the world at the tender age of eleven."
"Not the littlest; I was bigger than this other guy. He was eight," Vasht informs her, holding back a smirk. "He had it rougher; had to be raised by snails instead. That's why he was eight. They raised him too slow." As he talks, his grin threatens to break through the gruff facade that the 'retelling' requires.
Ane hums at him for a long, quizzical moment, mouth open with unformed questions. Finally, a laugh bursts from her — a strangely euphonious sound after all their conspiring.
"'Raised him too slow'?" She just barely manages to utter, "Okay, okay — Second Littlest Pirate King."
"Damn right! Plenty of adventures, loads of mystery." He raises a brow, nodding in confirmation. He grins and adds, "I don't know how much it takes to make you swoon, but I got started early. From there on?" He makes a sweeping gesture. "Just lousy with mystery, a downright handsome enigma."
"More than crabs and pirates," Ane retorts flatly, "Besides — you were a gangly kid when you turned up here, how much mystery'd you possibly have hiding in your rucksack?"
"Ah. Good thing we made that up, then," he says, brushing away his hypothetical career as a corsair monarch. He takes in a measured sigh. "Plenty, I guess…"
His rough hand drifts up towards his scarred cheek, before he resists the reflex and lowers it. His one visible eye glances furtively aside.
"I didn't join up here for fun. Not even sure it's a choice I made."
"I don't think it's a choice most of us made," Ane agrees. Her voice softens, easing the edges from her sharply teasing tone. "It wasn't one I was ever offered, at least."
"Yeah, seems to be the way," he agrees, his own tone turning the rough side of sincere. He seems to struggle with a thought, before he lets out an easing breath. "This is better than what I came from, though. It's a good thing I like most of everybody, bastards notwithstanding." He adopts a smile — not exactly cheerful, but with its own hard-won mirth.
Ane shrugs a shoulder gently, with a self-conscious cross of her arms. She pretends to flick a stray thread from the sleeve of her shirt, to give her gaze something to do that isn't trying to meet his.
"I wouldn't know — this is where I came from, more or less. Not here, specifically, but you get my meaning."
"Yeah?" He half-asks, curious, but not wanting to pry. "Parents, right?"
She holds up a finger.
"Parent."
Though she doesn't seem inclined to continue, she can feel his unspoken questions thickening the silence between them. Ane touches her tongue to her lips briefly, as she subtly shifts her weight on the boggy riverbank.
"Her name was Raunia. I never met her," she explains, almost apologetic for her lack of detail, "We were — the caravan was, anyway — in a mountain pass. It was snowing, we had two wagons with broken axles… " She makes an airy, looping gesture with one hand, as if that can smooth over the parts she wasn't yet alive to — or just doesn't want to — relate. "The timing was… bad. I survived, and she didn't. Dynkala says she thinks my father was a tzuskar, but nobody ever actually met him. Raunia was pretty rowdy like that. And," Ane adds with a touch of grim humor, "Tzuskar boys're bad luck."
Vasht listens attentively, with a sympathetic air. It's easy to understand the situation she describes, insofar as: A., the caravan is not great with childbirth at the best of times, and B., mountain passes and broken wheels are vicious killers.
That last note about tzuskar boys, however, earns a surprised laugh from him.
"Hrm. Bad luck? Can't say I disagree," he says with his own note of grim humor, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm definitely not good luck myself… though I like to think I'd never abandon someone. Had enough of that from the other end."
"You don't have to abandon someone to be bad luck." The corner of her lips turns down sharply, though briefly. It's little more than the flash of a half-frown, a momentary crack in her humor that's gone as soon as it arrives, but it's a frown nonetheless.
"At any rate," she continues, with a forced air of jocularity, "It's not important… How'd you turn up in this merry band of bastards, Second-Littlest Pirate King?"
"Mh, well thanks for the reassurance. Yeah, I manage to be bad luck by stickin' around," he agrees, now tracing one hand along the bone-spire behind him. "Anyway, I'll spare the details. Dad ran off to become an adventurer, came back as a bandit," he says, his jaw tightening. The thought seems to send one of his hands warily drifting near his waist, though he plays it off by resting it on his hip.
"It was years later. Mom had moved on, wanted nothin' to do with him… but he wanted plenty to do with us." He averts his gaze, the wing over his eye twitching from the tension in his brow. "He got drunk, got mad… and tried to get even. I tried to stop him…" He shakes his head, washing the tinge of emotion from his expression.
"Now I'm here."
For a moment, Ane looks like she might as well have been hit in the stomach. Her belly tenses and her cheeks pale, and there's a long silence before she can find the words to say through the bilious feeling in the back of her throat.
They feel as leadenly inadequate here as they did when she was talking to Thelorn.
"It's alright," he replies almost immediately, offering a light smile of reassurance. "That was over a decade ago. Now, I just…" He looks off towards the rest of the caravan, going about its business. After the interruption earlier, everything has returned to its usual course for the time being. Jiselmo and Korin are telling another tale, Aedas is arm-wrestling over the pot of dinner, and Nelea is introducing a small camp follower to her animals. "This is weird, isn't it?"
"Hmm? What is?"
Vasht shrugs a shoulder. "Like y'said, we've known each other for years. I knew you were born here, more're less, but we've never actually talked about this before."
Ane tilts her head gently from one side to the other, weighing her thoughts. "Mm… I guess. You know how it is, though — never really matters how someone ends up here, just that they do. Whatever happens outside of the camp stays there. I don't know what Nelea did before this, or Wila, Vila, and Zila, or anybody. It's not that strange." She pauses for a moment. "Come to think of it, Thelorn's the only one I've really asked about it. Everyone else? If they don't bring it up, I don't mention it."
"Fair point. Whatever happened before this… Eh, all that matters is trying to protect everyone. Keeps me awake, but, when you have dreams like I do, that ain't so bad."
A smile, albeit a wistful one, crosses her lips in return.
"And then there're people like me, who give themselves bad dreams on purpose."
He gives her a curious look. "Well I hope they're interesting ones, at least."
"Mm," she murmurs, before holding out one slim hand and tilting it from side to side. "It varies. Most of them are useful, if nothing else… Some are even relaxing."
"More productive than mine. If it made any sense, I'd ask you to take me along sometime. If it's crossing planes, flying 'round dark forests or exploring weird Voidscapes, well," he lowers a hand, donning a more warm smile now. "I'm sure it'd be a damn lot more fun with you."
Ane gives a short laugh.
"Baby steps. You wouldn't be the first person I've guided, but, like as not, I'd spend the whole time holding your hair back while you threw up out my window."
His smile becomes a grin.
"Alright, make sure you hold the wing too." He raises a hand to it, gently lifting the feathers from the eye underneath. "It can reach pretty far down if it's of a mind to." He lets it go, then puts his hands back at his hips. "Anyway, shall we get on to meeting with these newcomers? We've been chatting long enough for Jarrik to get bored, and it's helped me cool my heels besides."
She darts a glance over her shoulder. Nelea's operating an impromptu petting zoo, Aedas's upset his bowl of stew, and Jiselmo and Korin are probably indulging in either a very animated story, or a relatively subdued argument. If it's going to be done, it might as well be now.
"I guess so. It couldn't hurt, I don't think… Not if we just try to be friendly, at least."
Vasht presses a heel to the ivory tree, pushing off from it. "I think I just saw them wander off past the fire. Probably grabbed a late dinner. Let's go."
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In the distance, the caravan's magician heads off toward the edge of the camp. He's grabbed up a torch, casting his stark features in half-shadow. He wanders out and greets three figures approaching from the city — the caravan master among them.
As Vozhik stops and palavers with Jarrik, the light of his torch falls upon the two newcomers. One is a ruptured silhouette at first, resolving into a callosian covered in long, lumpy protrusions like the back of a Skrajjic rock-lizard. It's almost uncomfortable to look at, the way his clothes appear to warp to fit his distorted shape. The weight of the crags along his shoulders and back seems to hold him down, forcing his posture to stoop low.
The other is… a collection of birds? A flock of massive, twitching wings? And yet it stands in the vague shape of a man. It's hard to tell whether there's a person beneath them.
Jiselmo, rubbernecking all the while, speaks for the rest as attention falls upon this spectacle.
"… What the fuck?"
Ane twists around in her seat, craning her neck to see what Jiselmo's spotted. When she does, her nostrils flare in anger.
"More people for Jarrik to shove in a hay wagon and ignore, looks like," she mutters<|fim_middle|>, and she goes for it.
Her pursuers are no match for her relative health and fitness, and even as they scrabble after her, they quickly fall behind. As Ane rounds the corner, she can hear a sharp, blunt crack. As soon as the echo fades, there's another sharp strike. First one, then another, and another… Five in total.
It seems they, too, have trouble surviving on these streets. And their friend up on the rooftops just received the perfect distraction to pick them all off, one by one by one…
Soon after, Ane is left with a moment to breathe. She stands safe in some alleyway, carrying the skull, the loothine figure, and a broken chair leg. The rest of the city is now open to her, and as sure as she saw the scents of the rag-faces, she can see her own as well. For now, though, she doubles over to catch her breath. While the rag-faced men hadn't caught up with her, a couple of days of puffroot smoking certainly has. It's telling that they weren't able to outrun her — they must be even worse off than they look.
Once she's pulled herself together, eased her burning lungs, and slowed her hammering heart, Ane begins to make her way ever upward, toward the brighter (and less fragrant) parts of the city.
After some long walking and some deep sniffing, Ane soon finds her way back up to the first atrium of S'varga. It feels like a wholly different city, with all the towering edifices, stunning vistas, and artistic reliefs that were once expected. Unlike the third or fourth atrium far below, this one seems far more interested in catering to a wanderer's whims. There's another market just down the road, with many stalls carrying food and produce… Then there's a plaza off to the left, with a number of tunnel-stone storefronts all carved side-by-side. There's also the occasional public house, fine dining, and the rare puffroot-ery.
Unlike the deprived lands below, "this" S'varga is fully willing to cater to a paying customer's needs. Unfortunately, Ane has no coin, and only a carved loothine hound and a dirty skull to show for her trouble. She gives the plaza a look of scorn mixed with longing, as she turns to head out of the city and back to the caravan.
It's probably for the best. Ane might look a tad out of place with her skull-on-a-stick anyway.
Tagged action, Ane, combat, exploration, fantasy, fantasy world, Fiction, horror, serial, series, short stories, Stories, story, strangeLeave a comment | through clenched teeth as she drops her spoon into her bowl with a clatter. She casts a hum in Vasht's direction, wherever he's off brooding. Though he's plenty far from the group, she raises a brow at him with an unvoiced, Do you see this shit?
Vasht, at this point, has switched to perching atop his wagon with his legs over the side. His expression is hardened as he watches Jarrik the distance, shaded under his sweep of wing and hair. Even as Vasht watches this spectacle, he can feel Ane's gaze upon him. He turns to regard her with his single eye, shining in the light of torches below. He raises his brow in turn, his lips drawn in a stoic line, as if to say, Oh yes, this shit is seen.
"At least he isn't leading this pair with a group of handlers," Korin mutters.
The burdened callosian moves and converses, despite his apparent discomfort. The group of wings stands close to him, somehow gesturing and expressing itself under that mess of feathers.
Wila huffs, and mutters, "There may be need to call a moot over this… If he's building a 'freak' show," she says with finger-quotes, "Then I will be most wroth. Simply vibrating with wroth!"
"So wroth that it gets all over us," Vila mutters.
"So wroth that we must scoot her up an extra bed, just to get some beauty rest," Zila chimes helpfully.
"I don't know what he's doing. Nelea, have you spoken to Thelorn at all recently?" Ane asks warily, though her gaze never stops shifting between Vasht and Jarrik.
Nelea nods, though the gesture goes unseen.
"He seems to be doing better… We read to him, feed him, and he's largely left alone."
Vila scoffs. "The old man must be waiting until he has a full set of us…"
In the distance, Vasht is equally watchful. He's now standing on the edge of his roof, almost pacing. His brawny arms are crossed, taut with tension. Whenever he looks towards Jarrik, his expression seems to darken of its own volition. He stands like a woethrask on a taut leash, as if he'd charge at the caravan master if Jarrik weren't in mixed company.
Ane gives a murmur of acknowledgement. "Does he ever mention why he came here?"
"He doesn't know," Nelea replies softly.
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April 3, 2020 April 2, 2020 Phoenix & Rook
The next day begins with a pretty typical thing for Ane: fortune telling.
It's the last day for the caravan to wring the last few copper bits it can from the local populace, and Ane spends a solid day's work behind her table with its (still somewhat paint-spattered) brocade cloth. The readings seem to blur together for her — a few minor lordlings on a lark, badgering her for news of their impending fortunes. A gambler or two asking about their next big score. A few shady types with marks on their temples where masks usually hang, probing her for intrigue and forewarnings of betrayals to come. It's not an outstanding day's work, by any means, but it's a thorough and steady one. She nets nine miters, nine scutes; a tidy sum, and the last from a city for some time.
Once it's over, Ane is exceedingly pleased to pack up her tent and put S'varga behind her. The caravan has money, guards, and enough supplies to get them through the next leg of their journey, so the sooner she puts some potentially very dissatisfied customers of "Doctor Lartimus" behind her, the better.
When Ane steps out of her tent, she sees that everyone's gathering up for their last meal in the city. There's not enough time for one last day of carousing, so everyone is faithfully assembling at the foodline and eating by firelight. While Ane is generally unaffected by the darkness of the tunnels, the other members of the troupe all flock to the nearest light source. It lends things a rather warm, conspiratorial atmosphere, with people packed in tighter clusters than usual.
Today, Aedas the strong man is the one doling out food — and massive portions of it. It's a pity that he's never had much sense for flavor. On the bright side, he hands out a pretty protein-heavy meal, full of boiled-down plants and fibers known to strengthen the body.
When Ane approaches at the front of the line, he shovels her portion onto a bowl with a smaller bowl, fumbling with the utensils in his massive hands.
"Hey Ane, got the gud stuff for ya!" He chimes, smiling to his eyes.
"Thanks, Aedas!" She replies brightly, as she accepts the bowl. Even if Aedas didn't err deeper on the side of nutrition rather than flavor, it's nice to not have to worry about Brair's peppers. She turns, bowl and spoon in hand, to find a place to sit — the clusters of cravanners seem warm and jovial enough, satisfied with a successful trip, but it might be nice to take advantage of her ability to see in the dark and find a quiet place to relax…
When Ane arrives, Jiselmo the actor is in the midst of retelling his tales of the madcap adventures of King Fweep-Fweep and the joust, in usual form. It seems like the story of a small creature enchanting the caravanners gets a little more embroidery with every retelling; this time, the wagons get decorated a little more brightly, and a cadre of charming caravan-followers carry Jiselmo away from the ersatz tiltyard on their shoulders while cheering.
Nelea the animal tamer shakes her head and mutters, "You really shouldn't encourage such things, Jiselmo. Someone could have been hurt."
"Oh, it's fine! That's what the pillows are for."
Korin the straight-man covers his face with his palm, and mutters, "They were still poles being thrust at alosin-velocity, Jiselmo…"
"Well, the ground is soft als– oh, hello Ane!" He breaks, waving at her with his spoon.
Ane takes a seat, though she somewhat regrets it — of course Jiselmo would have plenty to say about being the master of ceremonies to a tiny fweep-king. She gives the group a chagrined smile and a wave of her spoon before setting to eating her dinner.
It doesn't last much longer. While the conversation continues (and seems unaware of Ane's role), it soon comes to a swift stop. Looming at the other edge of the group is the klorrian magician, a rather rare figure at these fireside gatherings. He's always a gloomy picture of a man, with long, thin black hair and a gaunt, disapproving face. All this paired with his ostentatiously-dyed robes and air of importance. The look is only broken up by a pair of floppy lop-ears that stick out of his pocket, each thick with cotton-like tufts. His steps are quiet, but the sound of a smeerp munching a carrot is not.
The moment he steps up, silverware clinks and conversation grinds to a halt. It doesn't seem deliberate; his severe, stoic presence has a talent for throwing a wrench into any conversation. As Jiselmo puts it, he's the "doorstopper of chatter, a paper-weight for words, a muzzle on the snout of pleasant company, and a condom on the cock of social grace."
Despite this colorful description, Jiselmo is the first to speak.
"Ah, hello Vozhik! Come to rejoin our delightful company?"
The klorr glowers, staring down his nose.
"I come to address your idiocy yesterday. Your indiscretions and frippery rub you against forces you'd best not tamper with," he cautions, as his sharp ears lower gravely.
Jiselmo smirks, waggishly swaying from side-to-side.
"Oh? Afraid I'll pull one of your smeerps out of my arse and put you out of a job?"
This earns Jiselmo an elbow-jostle to the rib from Korin, who adds, "It's all right now. No one was hurt."
The klorr responds with a chilly, fanged smile.
"You don't even recall that you were influenced? Hah. It's no surprise, given your lack of mental acuity."
"It was an accident, Vozhik," Ane interjects firmly, "Nobody was hurt. Besides, it won't happen again."
The klorr shifts his gaze to her, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh? I would hope so. Let us hope this is the only force you house that's beyond your ken."
Nelea bristles.
"You mind your words, Vozhik. You are with the caravan, true, but that gives you no license to insult as you please. One more jibe like that, and I'll have you out of our circle on your ear."
The magician reels back for a second, chastened. Somehow, even such a mild threat makes him wilt and balk. He quickly regains his stiff posture, and utters a dour "Hmph." Then, more cautiously, he adds, "Just a warning. We travel in a complicated world with troublesome forces…" His gaze shifts subtly back to Ane. "A fae mood can cause all sorts of problems."
Then, he promptly turns to leave with a swish of his voluminous cape, which he wears literally all the time. His mysterious exit, however, is ruined by the way he tucks a hand into his shirt pocket to anxiously stroke his smeerp's ears.
"You pull smeerps out of a hat!" Ane calls out sourly after him, to his swiftly-retreating back. There are some people who she would accept this admonishment from — Dynkala, naturally, and maybe the medicine-seller, Vaidna — but the pick-a-card-any-card guy does not number among them, however tall and glowery he may be.
"Void," she mutters, turning back to Jiselmo and the others, "Is he always on?"
"Regrettably, yes," Korin replies sourly. "I don't know how he walks around with all those smeerps up-him."
"Oh, it's important for some of the dark magical super-spooky arts," Jiselmo adds in, in a suitably, theatrically eerie tone. "He might need to conjure ribbons or saw pretty ladies in an emergency."
"I worry for the smeerps," Nelea says quietly. "It must be hard to breathe…"
Ane shakes her head. It isn't that she doesn't have her own concerns about the fweep-fweep — far from it — but the last thing she needs is to be scolded like an unruly toddler who left their toys out where someone could trip over them.
"Damn near killed my appetite," she mutters glumly.
Vila (of the triplets) side-whispers, "You should see his dirty wagon… It's a real warren in there, not made for a person."
This earns Vila an immediate elbow-strike from the other two on each side. She utters a small grunt of surprise and a mutter of protest to the oddly silent Wila and Zila.
In the distance, Vozhik heads off toward the edge of the camp. He's grabbed up a torch, casting his stark features in half-shadow. He wanders out and greets three figures approaching from the city — the caravan master among them.
As Vozhik stops and palavers with Jarrik, the light of his torch falls upon the two newcomers. One is a ruptured silhouette at first, then resolves into a callosian covered in long, lumpy protrusions almost like the back of a Skrajjic rock-lizard. It's almost uncomfortable to look at, the way his clothes appear to warp to fit his distorted shape. The weight of the crags along his shoulders and back seems to hold him down, forcing his posture to stoop low.
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Teller of Fortunes 2-21: Join the Mad King's Joust
March 31, 2020 April 6, 2020 Phoenix & Rook
When Ane returns to the camp, there's quite a commotion around one end. People have gathered in a large, oblong circle, faces turned expectantly toward the center. The din of chatter raises high on the air, and alosins chuff loudly.
There also appear to be… banners? At least, Ane's reasonably certain that the hanging clothes were intended to look like banners. An even more motley collection has been draped all over what was probably Vasht the knife thrower's wagon. Then, up top, a seat of some sort has been placed there.
Vasht's wagon looks like a very odd nucleus for the whole thing, really.
And it all has a certain air about it.
You might call it "whimsy."
What did the fweep-fweep do now? She'd thought Vasht was safe — if there's one word she'd never use to describe him, it's "whimsical." But now there're banners? And a group? With tables? She drops the things she'd collected from the undercity, a chair leg and hound's skull, in her haste to go see what level of fuckery the caravan and her mind-controlling pet abomination have gotten up to in her absence.
As it turns out, they got up to quite a lot.
Ane has to push past the throng of observers, which is growing thicker by the minute. As soon as she finds a spot with a low shoulder, she darts her gaze around…
The first thing she spies is a scraped-bare strip of land, save for a rope fence running down the middle. When her gaze pans left, she sees… an alosin, though that's hardly the strange part. On the alosin is Brair, wearing a sheet as a sash and a large, ashen pot upon the top of his head. It sits jauntily on his brow, oddly complimenting the stark, firm expression on his bronzed face. Today, the fire-slinging callosian wields something else instead: a tall, wooden pole with a pillow tied around one end.
Then, Ane pans her gaze to the right…
There's another alosin, and this one is carrying Vasht. He has a curtain slung about his chest, in a most barbaric fashion (if barbarians had a thing for Valistean lace). His many sharp, sweeping tattoos paint a rather ominous picture; this, complete with the kettle perched upon his head, make him the perfect "dark knight." He's wielding a pillow-spear similar to Brair's. He also wears an expression of grim determination, though there's a glimmer of chagrin in his eyes. It's the look of a man that's gotten himself into something, knows he looks ridiculous, and just has to commit to the bit.
And lording over the center, in the midst of the "banners" lining Vasht's roof, is an old oaken chair, perched imperiously right in the middle. Upon it sits a certain round, fuzzy creature, with an air of comical gravitas. Its little beak-mouth is set firmly, as if it too is pretending to take this all very seriously. It's not bouncing or fweep'ing at the moment, but it nearly vibrates with an excited sort of energy. Its barely contained glee is almost childlike, under its veneer of pretend authority.
It also has a small, yellow prop-crown on top of its head.
It is King Fweep-Fweep the Whimsical. This is his joust.
Ane groans to herself immediately before she begins to try to force her way through the crowd. Brair and Vasht can have their pillow-fight for the moment — she is going to retrieve that fweep-fweep before someone loses an eye (or an ear, or a wing).
As Ane makes her way towards the wagon, the festivities begin to unfurl in earnest.
Jiselmo, standing in the center of the lanes, steps out wearing the full costume of a royal herald. He even has a long, brass horn with a flag on the end to match.
"Hear ye, hear ye," he calls out, "We gather today for the match of a lifetime! Today, two knights shall do battle for their honor. In the blue corner…"
He flings an arm out in the direction of Brair.
"SER BRAIR! Honorable knight of flame, lord of the pints, baron of the exploding wagon!"
Cheers erupt while Brair trots his alosin in a small circle, pounding his chest and waving his spear.
"And in the red corner… SER VASHT! The wicked dark knight, lord of edges, slayer of boards and fruits alike!"
Vasht receives a mixture of cheers and boos, as villains are wont to, though they're all mixed in with laughter. Vasht, for his part, foregoes the grandstanding and instead raises his spear and points it towards Brair — a challenge!
Jiselmo cuts in, "Once more, simple rules! A knight who is lanced must remove their sash. A sashless-knight who is struck is DEFEATED! And if a knight falls off his alosin, he is both DEFEATED and VERY SILLY…"
Ane gently pinches the bridge of her nose. She knew the little thing was persuasive, but this. Half of the participants here have to be indulging it for fun. There's no way something the size of an appo and a half could turn the caravan into this.
"Hey!" She calls sternly up to the fweep-fweep, "Either you come down, or I'm coming up."
Somehow.
"Fwip fwip fwip fwiiip fwip… fwep fwep…" The thing squeaks and whistles, babbling on, as if imitating a person's speech. It doesn't seem to be paying any attention to Ane. In fact… is it acting like a king? The crowd is silent, as if it's officiating the start of the battle.
"Fuip… fwep… FWEEP!"
Cheers erupt as the alosins huff, scuffing their feet on the dirt. Then in a burst of activity, they LEAP! Both knights charge at each other valiantly, Brair in his ash-pot helm, Vasht wearing his kettle. The thunderous sound of galloping alosins fills the air, as a large dust cloud kicks up behind their springing legs.
The fighters lean low, gaining swiftness, ersatz pillow-spears held tightly to their sides and braced in brawny arms. The alosins leap with their heads low, charging for speed.
There's a moment of silent suspense.
Then, in a flurry of motion, the men pass and the spears flash into action! Brair goes for a very straightforward charge, but Vasht… oh, he's a dark knight. And being the deft fighter he is, he ducks aside at the last second and thrusts his spear! His muscled arms tighten with tension as he swings his 'weapon,' striking Brair straight in the stomach. He takes the full weight of the alosin's charge, coupled with the deftness of Vasht's strike.
"Bwaaaahfuck!" Brair cries out, sent sailing off the (in hindsight, not-all-that-fast) alosin. He falls back while it charges onward, and he collides into the spongy tunnel ground with a thump.
At the other end of the lanes, Vasht brings his alosin to a stop. He then plants the haft-end of his spear in the ground, stands tall, and puffs out his mighty tattooed chest.
"SER VASHT IS VICTORIOUS! A DECISIVE BLOW," Jiselmo calls out, frantic with excitement.
He then toots his brass horn to make it official, while Brair sneakily wanders off to find a pint for his bruised pride and aching rear.
"Right. I'm coming up," Ane says, as she begins attempting to find hand- and footholds among all of the clothing hanging from Vasht's wagon. If he ever did manage to find the time to do his shirt laundry, he's going to have to do it again — the kicked-up dust from the alosins has not done them any favors.
When she arrives at the top, the little fweep-fweep is looking quite fat and sassy in his "throne." It's currently rocking back and forth, cheeks pooched, looking very satisfied with itself. It's still wearing the little fake crown, though it's slid over its little tufted head at an angle.
Down below, the aforementioned actor is now busking the camp followers, guards and passers-by that clumped around this event. He moves among the thunderous cheer and applause, shouting.
"Thank you, thank you! We accept appreciation in the form of CURRENCY and LOTS OF BOOZE. Brair seems a bit sore, so we won't be getting more any time soon!"
"Jiselmo!" Ane shouts down to him in horror. It's bad enough the fweep-fweep is responsible for this without him capitalizing on it for liquor and coin. "What the Voi– Alright, you know what?" Perched atop Vasht's wagon beside the makeshift throne, she reaches out to pluck the crown from the tiny creature's head.
"Fwep fuip fep… Fip f– FEEP!" It cheeps, eyes wide with alarm as its divested of its authority. Almost immediately, the fweep-fweep seems aware that the jig is up. Rather than attempt to reason with Ane or feign sleep, it instead lets out a big, gaseous "FWIPPPT!" and jets off into the nearest piece of laundry — a pair of Vasht's britches — to hide.
Ane holds the tiny crown, pinched between thumb and forefinger.
"No crown, no kingdom. Those're the rules," she admonishes the fweep-fweep. For now, she allows it to hide — from the sound of things, whatever ensorcelment it worked seems to be breaking, giving her an opportunity to survey the damages from up on high.
Jiselmo rides out of this place on a tide of money and beer, taking the crowd with him to boisterously retell this event around a fire and a barrel of something brown and potent.
This leaves Vasht standing in the middle of the field, contemplating his life choices. Furrowing his brow, he plucks the kettle off of his head and throws it to the soil with a clatter. He turns to the alosin, giving him a one-eyed look of sympathy. Then he looks up towards the fweep-fweep.
Vasht rubs the side of his head, thoughts clearing, and then he sees Ane. His face goes slightly pale.
Ah, yes. This is what social mortality feels like.
"What," Ane says, arms held wide in bewilderment, "Happened?"
She knows what happened. The same thing that got her to dress the fweep-fweep in makeup and jewelry and a tiny stone slipshell hat happened. What she does not know is how the creature escaped its cage and managed to affect the entire caravan.
The dark knight, Ser Vasht, stands dumbfounded. He doesn't respond immediately, instead tossing his pillow-spear aside and crossing his arms behind his back. It's like some last-ditch attempt to retain the scraps of his dignity.
He calls back up to Ane, "Your 'king'… and also, Jiselmo!" His expression firms. "Yeah, Jiselmo's definitely to blame for at least part of this…"
"Yes," Ane says with a slow nod and the tone of voice one might use to ask a small child why their mittens are currently floating in the privy, "But how did the 'king' get from safely inside a cage to… to…" She makes a flailing gesture toward Vasht's britches, which are currently trembling in a perplexing fashion.
Rather than answer immediately, Vasht wanders aside and gathers up the thing's cage. Its door swings open tellingly. With it in hand, Vasht spreads his rows of wings, catches the air, and flaps his way up to meet Ane on the roof of his wagon.
Once he's safely landed, he dusts off his shoulder.
"Well, I first meant to keep it in my wagon… but when I saw it, it did something." He sighs, staring at the wriggling pair of pants. "It kept giving strange ideas, and some would've wrecked my things." He coughs. "Important things. Keepsakes. So…"
He makes a vague, spinning gesture with his fingertip.
"I took it outside, it got ahold of Brair and convinced him to open the cage." He explains all this in a rather careful, measured fashion, as if that can make the result a bit less silly.
Ane rubs a spot in the center of her forehead. With her free hand, she waves at the tiny, quivering pile of underpants and fweep.
"So it's Brair's fault, you're saying," she concludes. "At any rate, it doesn't matter. Just… Put it back in the cage so I can get it somewhere where it can do less damage, I'm not going to go rooting through your underthings."
"Well, not his entirely. I should've kept him from opening it, though my back was turned. After that, he said he ought to take care of it, feed it some of his booze…" Vasht goes on, walking towards the pair of waggling trousers. He takes it by the legs, positions the waist at the mouth of the box, and begins to gently shake the garment. Soon the fweep-fweep pops out, tumbling into the cage, whereupon Vasht shuts the small door.
He takes in a breath, and continues, "So, we got into an argument… Jiselmo strolled by, and suggested we decide it with a contest. Then, a while later, I look up and this is happening," he says, gesturing towards the scene laid out beneath the two of you.
Ane shakes her head as she takes the cage, muttering to herself.
"Can't go anywhere, Animus alive… At any rate, thanks for keeping an eye on it. Sorry about your laundry. And," she nods toward his 'knightly' getup, "All that."
"Mm, might want to keep it hidden when you're away," he agrees, gruffly running a hand across his cheek. "Seems only to do that when people see it." Vasht then shrugs a shoulder, and smirks with chagrin. "Well, I'd say you're welcome, but I'm more sorry that I let it start a monarchy. And knight me, I guess."
A faint grin tugs at the edge of her lips, in turn. "A tiny tyranny, complete with bloodsports. Out of curiosity, though — why did your laundry end up all over the outside of your wagon?"
Seeing Ane's smile seems to lessen his embarrassment, somewhat, and he finds himself doing the same. He lets out a theatrical sigh, and plucks one of his scarves off of his wagon's roof.
"If I had to guess? The critter needed heraldry, and somehow Jiselmo knew that. So while we got ready, he went around throwing my clothes everywhere." He furrows his brow at the scarf, and adds, "Also, they were nearby… I'd just finished washing them."
She pulls her lips inward, pressing them tightly together in her teeth to keep from laughing outright. Instead, she manages a stiff nod and a subtle quiver of her shoulders before she turns away from Vasht (and his "heraldry") and begins the process of climbing down the dangling shirts, belts, and trousers.
As she does so, he leans forward and aims a few pokes at her side. "I see your giggle fit," he accuses. "Making a getaway with your tiny trouser bandit," he adds, watching Ane flinch to avoid being poked as she clambers down his wagon. He hops down himself shortly after.
"Hey! Careful — some of us don't have wings. Or a head harder than that kettle to break a fall with," she chastises him as she disembarks from a muslin shirt.
He crosses his bare arms, regarding her dryly from the bottom. "Well, I can help with that. There's a spare kettle over there, for your safety."
"Wouldn't fit without crumpling my ears. Anyway, thanks again, Ser Knight."
"At your service. Or something," he agrees, offering a sardonic half-bow.
With the fweep-fweep safely in its cage, she makes her way back to where she deposited the hound's skull and chair leg she found earlier. The chair leg is useless to her now — let it sit here and raise questions in whatever hapless wanderer finds it next — but she has a lot of soaking and cleaning to do before the skull is in a keepable condition.
Which means, unfortunately for him, she needs to bother Brair (and his wounded pride).
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Teller of Fortunes 2-20: Escape the Tatter-Men
(Continued directly from prior entry)
There's that vague sense of warmth resting in her palm, much as it was with the slipshell. The face of the loothine, once solemn, now seems… steady? Determined? Perhaps it even shows a sort of welcome, a silent acceptance. Gone is that sense of frenzied despair, of feeling lost and out of place in the world of men. Its eyes show not peace, but resolve.
A howl rings out, bouncing off the cave walls. The voice is thick, proud, and haunting as it echoes from places unseen. All at once, the leaves of the underworld seem to unfurl. The spring bubbles with life, and a steady mist recedes from its shores.
The corpse of the loothine also seems to change, though only subtly… Whereas before its paws were in the midst of hurried digging, now they are at rest. Even more strangely, the claw-bones are now folded over-top of one another. The vacant skull rests upon them, as if pillowing its head beside the warmth of the spring.
The change has a dizzying, dreamlike quality, enhanced by the steam of the spring. Ane is tempted to remain there, to soak in more of the sense of calm and resolve permeating the very air of the place, but now is not the time. The assassin and the rag-men are still making their perambulations on the roof and in the streets beyond, and, however serene this place may seem right now, it isn't safe.
She casts a hum over the resting loothine. The carcass seems relaxed now, but something seems wrong about separating it from the carving. Ane can't take an entire hound corpse with her, though…
Moments later, she begins navigating her way back through the ragged streets, this time kept company by an emerald carving and a loothine skull on the end of a stick. The shrub-stem she pressed into service is a bit wobbly, but it works well enough. With luck, it also makes her look deranged enough to be left alone — there's definitely no way she can go scaling any walls with a stick in her hand.
However mad she may seem, the path still leads straight through half a dozen rag-men. As she approaches the mouth of the alley, walking in the open, the ones with the abstract masks press back behind the others. The jagged-marked ones step forward, their shasii bodies almost unrecognizable by emaciation. They bar the path, and one or two even crouch low, placing their hands to the dirt… as if they're readying to pounce.
They shout and growl in voices as ragged as their masks. It's in some foreign language — guttural, profane, thick with malice.
Ane inhales a deep, tense, hissing breath.
Looks like it didn't work.
She can't make out what they say, but their postures are unmistakable. She stands there, with her skull on a stick, humming over the seething group barring her path. Now what? She has no weapons, unless she plans on hitting someone with a loothine head. She has no magic. She doesn't even speak their language.
Ane squares her shoulders and marshals her nerve… and flees into one of the shacks.
Outside is the sound of scuffling feet, shouts, and frenzied puffing breaths. The rag-faces dash after her, coming to a skidding stop outside the broken shack.
The room is dark, but Ane can see easily… though it's a lot to take in on short notice. There's a broken-down wooden chair, a tattered cot with moldy down, a few earthenware pots, and a gaping hole in the wall on the other side of the room. There's a door into this place, too, but it seems broken beyond use, jammed into its frame with rust and grime. There's also a book, some copper silverware, and a rotten hunk of meat covered in both flies and walks.
Ane takes as little time to scout her surroundings as she can get away with before she lunges for the first available opening — she can worry about navigating her way back up afterward, if she manages to lose the group. As she rushes past the mildewed, decaying contents of the shack, she throws whatever she passes behind her to slow them up. Pots, the chair, anything her hands pass near enough to grab flies behind her into a shattered heap. The chair seems to fall apart as soon as she touches it, and her hand comes away still holding a single splintered chair leg with a crude, rusty nail hooking out from one end.
She has a sneaking suspicion she should keep it.
There are curses and crashes behind her, as the first rag-man dashes in and topples over the chair. His emaciated body is sent crashing into the wall, while two others push in past him, still in pursuit.
The next room is equally bare, though it features an old larder filled with garbage and an earthenware pitcher of sour wine. There isn't even a hole this time.
"Voirrh- damin!" The man behind her snarls, dashing into the room, cursing in some bastard cant of a language. His bony hands are raised, groping like claws, giving only a second to react.
And the pitcher of sour wine flies behind her, accompanied by a soft whistle of air over its mouth. He takes it on the jaw, shattering the poor pottery as he goes crashing backwards. In the moment it buys her, Ane charges at the far wall — she doesn't think she'll be able to crash through it, but it'll be something to get her back up against when more of them pour through the doorway.
Oh, nope, nevermind. She does crash through it, intending to or otherwise.
Construction is pretty shoddy down here.
She finds herself stumbling into the next shanty, now a fair ways past where the chase began. More shouting comes from behind, where the remaining rag-men are forced to clamber past the first two.
At least, all that did chase her…
The loothine figure pulses in Ane's hand, and she feels a moment of clarity: olfactory clarity. She can track the trails of the unwashed, downtrodden assailants as if their scent were wisps of smoke upon clean air. One of those wisps leads straight ahead, through the gap into the next shack… There a mass of it is huddled down, hiding behind the wall, lying in wait.
To Ane's left is the door back out into the alley, merely a square of boards resting on one hinge. She doesn't smell anyone out there, for the moment. This is fortunate in many ways, as having an enhanced sense of smell down here is, at best, a mixed blessing.
She trusts in the little emerald carving and whatever strangeness it seems to have wrought in her. There will be time to investigate it further later.
Maybe with the slipshell and some puffroot, she thinks to herself in a moment of grim humor.
For now, Ane rushes at the door. She'll be able to move more quickly out there, if nothing else.
When Ane dashes out, she has at least ten feet in both directions of clear alleyway. Behind her, towards the grove, there are two more of the assailants. They're the ones with the crescents and helices about their masks, esoteric and brutal markings. Instead of giving chase, they've instead crouched down and begun to chant. If it's a language, it's not something Ane recognizes.
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Three-time Group One winner Werther is<|fim_middle|> would take plenty of improvement from that effort as he tried to go one better on Sunday after finishing second in the Hong Kong Cup last year.
"You have got to remember that he is seven years of age and to keep a horse sound up to that ripe old age is not easy," Moore said on Tuesday.
The scratching of Werther reduces Moore's HKIR team to two with Beauty Generation the short-priced favourite in the Mile and Eagle Way a strong hope in the Vase.
While all the attention has rightly been on the former, the latter has been ticking along nicely.
"We tweaked a few things this season with him and for that reason he's been a changed horse. First-up third at not an appropriate distance then he's gone on to win a Group Two [Jockey Club Cup]," Moore said.
"We had to do a lot of work with his feet but this season with the help of the farriers and tweaking a few things we have managed to grow very, very solid feet now and hardened them right up and that's the reason.
Speaking of the Vase, Ed Dunlop is pleased with how Red Verdon has come through his Australian trip, but the English trainer feels Andre Fabre's Waldgeist is the horse to beat in the 2,400m Group One.
Red Verdon had no luck in Australia, copping interference in the Caulfield Cup before a minor injury meant he was unable to compete in the Melbourne Cup.
"He looks good, I'm very happy with the way he is cantering – he seems to be over his Australian problems," Dunlop said.
"He bruised a foot before the race and two days later it became an abscess and burst and he couldn't run. It happens to all horses, but it was bad timing.
Dunlop has tasted Group One success in Hong Kong on three occasions – Ouija Board (2005 Vase), Snow Fairy (2010 Cup) and Red Cadeaux (2012 Vase), so he knows exactly what it takes to succeed on Sha Tin's biggest day.
Waldgeist is the one who takes Dunlop's eye after finishing fourth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. | out of the HK$28 million Longines Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) after succumbing to a suspensory injury.
The Jockey Club confirmed the news on Wednesday afternoon, the withdrawal reducing the field for Hong Kong's richest race to just nine and putting a question mark on the gelding's future.
Werther, the 2015-16 Horse of the Year, has battled with niggles through the latter stages of his career, his owner even opting against running him in the Group Three Sa Sa Ladies' Purse last month to try and get him to the Cup in sound condition.
Werther ran on well to finish third in the Group Two Jockey Club Cup last start, with trainer John Moore hoping he | 155 |
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Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
From the Introduction: "In establishing the task force, the President spoke of the distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities--the sense that in a country where our basic principle is equality under the law, too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly. 'When any part of the American family does not feel like it is being treated fairly, that's a problem for all of us,' said the President. 'It's not just a problem for some. It's not just a problem for a particular community or a particular demographic It means that we are not as strong as a country as we can be. And when applied to the criminal justice system, it means we're not as effective in fighting crime as we could be.' These remarks underpin the philosophical foundation for the Task Force on 21st Century Policing: to build trust between citizens and their peace officers so that all components of a community are treating one another fairly and justly and are invested in<|fim_middle|> 2021 | December 1, 2021 | November 17, 2021 | November 3, 2021 | October 20, 2021 | October 6, 2021 | September 22, 2021 | September 8, 2021 | August 25, 2021 | August 11, 2021 | July 28, 2021 | July 14, 2021 | June 30, 2021 | older ... | maintaining public safety in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Decades of research and practice tell us that the public cares as much about how police interact with them as they care about the outcomes that legal actions produce. People are more likely to obey the law when they believe those who are enforcing it have the right--the legitimate authority--to tell them what to do. Building trust and legitimacy, therefore, is not just a policing issue. It involves all components of the criminal justice system and is inextricably bound to bedrock issues affecting the community such as poverty, education, and public health."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Implications of the Iran Nuclear Agreement for U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, First Session, June 3, 2015
This is a testimony compilation of the June 3, 2015 hearing "Implications of the Iran Nuclear Agreement for U.S. Policy in the Middle East," held before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From the opening statement of Committee Chairman Bob Corker: "Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil in the Middle East, the administration is negotiating a nuclear agreement with the arch rival of many of our closest allies. Instead of reassuring our traditional allies that the United States will remain a friend, some would say that the administration has implemented a string of incoherent and self-defeating policies. […] As Iran deepens its influence in capitals from Baghdad to Damascus to Beirut and Sana'a, the perspective of many in the region is that the United States is Assad's air force in Syria and Iran's air force in Iraq. I will say, I was in Iraq recently and it really did feel like, while I support what we're doing with the 3,100 personnel we have there, it really felt like what we were doing is helping create a better country for Iran in Iraq. Even though, again, I support what is happening there, it feels very much that way with their infiltration into the parliament and their tremendous efforts on the ground. As we begin to look at how to evaluate a prospective nuclear agreement, we cannot ignore that the lack of coherent American leadership in the region has left a vacuum that will continue to be filled by violence. Without defined, committed engagement to counter Iranian regional aggression and to support our partners, the need for American involvement will continue to grow as conditions deteriorate. In your testimony today, I hope you will touch on what I see as some of the puzzling claims from the administration about what an agreement with Iran would mean for the region." Statements, letters, and other materials submitted for the record include those of the following: James Jeffrey and Martin Indyk.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
To Save Lives and Property: High Threat Response
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From the abstract: "The emergency services community must recognize that the world is constantly changing and adjust accordingly. It will have to be more nimble and proactive with its capabilities if it wants to prepare effectively for future threats and respond to atypical emergencies. Over the past several years, fire, law enforcement and emergency medical services communities have not adapted their missions or capabilities to prepare, train, and respond effectively in a joint capacity to perhaps the two most imminent, nonconforming threats facing communities across America -- the active shooter and fire as a weapon. These are incidents that necessitate an integrated response; traditional single agency 'stove piped' responses will not be effective in saving lives and property. If we do not integrate Fire/EMS and law enforcement capabilities for these imminent threats, not only will civilian lives be lost, but those of first responders will be as well."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Delaney, John; Atwater, Paul A.; Marino, Michael . . .
UAS on Main Street: Policy and Enforcement at the Local Level
From the abstract: "Due to increasing system sophistication and affordability, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are becoming more popular among hobbyists and businesses. UAS also pose a threat to homeland security as they could be used for nefarious activity such as preoperational surveillance or as weapons. Consequently, law enforcement officers and fusion centers have experienced an increase in suspicious activity reporting related to UAS. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not yet finalized a policy for integrating UAS into the national airspace, leaving law enforcement officers without a clear protocol for contact with UAS operators. This paper first examines UAS policy at the federal, state, and local levels. A discussion of recent incidents is provided to demonstrate the threat of UAS and the enforcement action taken. To bridge the gap between current policy and enforcement tools, this paper proposes a solution of creating local ordinances restricting UAS operations to protect critical infrastructure and preserve public safety."
Yakabe, Alison
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NordVPN and IPVanish are two of the biggest VPNs in the game, but which is most worthy of your time and money? We won't keep you waiting – IPVanish is the better tool, but realistically there's not much in it. In fact, either one would make for a worthy addition to your online arsenal.
A VPN is an excellent tool for accessing the internet while protecting your identity. Both NordVPN and IPVanish make privacy a priority, letting you select from a wide range of servers worldwide. Both also offer advanced options like a killswitch, which will stop any online activity dead should the VPN lose connection.
We pitch NordVPN and IPVanish against each other and tell you where each one excels.
NordVPN vs IPVanish: Head-to-Head
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Number of servers 1,000+ 3,60<|fim_middle|>'s a reason NordVPN and IPVanish both top our rankings, and you'll struggle to find better options out there.
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Torrent Support Yes Yes
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NordVPN vs IPVanish - Which VPN is Best?
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NordVPN or IPVanish – Which VPN is Best?
Both NordVPN and IPVanish are top notch VPNs. However, in our testing, it was IPVanish which just edged over the finish line first, thanks to its fast international speeds and the level of control it offers the user.
IPVanish offers the fastest transatlantic speeds
When it comes to value, NordVPN is the cheapest
NordVPN has the strongest set of privacy features
Both NordVPN and IPVanish offer a killswitch function for protection
In recent years, the VPN has managed to shake off its unjustified shady image, and many of us are now using one on a daily basis to protect ourselves from online hackers, protect our identity, and access content in other territories which would otherwise be closed off to us.
If you're flipping a coin between NordVPN or IPVanish, then rest assured that you can't really put a foot wrong with either of them. Both go out of their way to protect your identity, and for a few bucks a month can seriously elevate your internet experience.
NordVPN – Summary
Wide range of servers
Offers ad-blocking and malware-blocking features
Has a more tolerant approach to torrenting than other VPNs
Offers live chat support
NordVPN is one of the most established VPNs out there, and for good reason. It's fast, relatively easy to use, and offers great privacy features that mean others can't snoop on you when you're online.
NordVPN is pleasingly fast – whether you're uploading or downloading – and although all VPNs take a speed hit compared to the pace of your standard ISP, with NordVPN, it's minimal. When accessing a transatlantic server, you can expect a connection around 50% of your normal speed. That might not sound great, but its actually far more impressive than most other VPNs.
NordVPN is also one of the few VPNs that takes a permissive view on peer to peer filesharing, and will allow you to use its service to protect yourself when torrenting. It's an unusual feature, although it will only allow you to connect to specific servers.
If there's one place that NordVPN excels, its with its choice of servers to connect to. Operating in 60 countries and with over 3,000 servers, it has a much wider reach than many of its competitors, and you're unlikely to run into any congestion problems.
A word of warning if you're after a VPN to access Netflix – the video streaming giant rumbled us when we used NordVPN, and wouldn't let us access any content. The same is also true of IPVanish. However, if that's what you're mainly interested in, we have a guide to the best VPNs for Netflix.
For the full lowdown, read our NordVPN Review
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Not the most intuitive VPN for absolute beginners
Couldn't unblock some streaming services when tested
Assumes some technical knowledge
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Owns all of its servers
One of the fastest VPNs tested
Feature-packed Windows app
IPVanish is one of the largest commercial VPNs. It owns all of its 1,000+ servers in 60 countries, rather than simply leasing them from third party data centers, like some of its rivals do.
While NordVPN may have some of the fastest upload and download speeds in the business, IPVanish has it licked, really going all out to ensure that your connection doesn't take too much of a hit when you connect to a server. This is especially true when connecting to transatlantic servers, where we found that it was one of our fastest VPNs during testing.
If you're the sort of person who enjoys taking a deep-dive into your VPN options, the Windows app has you sorted, stuffed with more features than you could conceivably need. If you want to change the level of leak protection, hide your VPN usage from a site, or fiddle with the Killswitch settings, IPVanish will let you do all this and more.
While there's plenty of depth there for the initiated, newcomers can also use IPVanish fairly easily, especially if they avoid some of the more advanced features. It also also a live chat function, in case you really come unstuck, or simply need a helping hand.
Check out our full IPVanish Review for more
A very good VPN, but a little costly
Crammed with settings that put you in control
Strong privacy and security features
Decent speeds
Slightly intimidating
Priced above some rivals
Most paid-for VPNs will offer a large suite of features, which can be appealing to those who have some experience using VPNs, but rather daunting to those who don't. The best will allow for plenty of customization, without confusing the user, and both NordVPN and IPVanish both manage to walk this line skillfully.
In a direct comparison of features, though, it's IPVanish which offers the broadest range of options, giving the user plenty of tools to tinker with (if they want to). The Windows app lets you take a deep dive into the options, including the ability to be able to change the VPN protocol, or enable various levels of leak protection to really sew up your privacy. You can also obfuscate traffic, tricking sites into thinking you're not using a VPN.
If you want absolute control over your VPN, and like to tweak the settings until they're just right, IPVanish is the one for you.
Both IPVanish and NordVPN offer up excellent privacy options, and there's a reason for this. Any VPN worth its salt knows that people use their services for protecting their data and identity online, and you'll find that paid-for VPNs take this seriously. Neither IPVanish or NordVPN carry out the practice of data logging, which means that they don't collect or retain any information about you or your online session.
Both also have a killswitch feature, a handy tool that kicks in should your VPN fail, stopping your internet access dead. You might think that it's preferable to fall back on your standard ISP in these cases, but as this is unlikely to offer you the same degree of online anonymity, a killswitch means that your own internet provider (and anyone else) is unable to snoop on you should the VPN cease to work.
NordVPN has the slight edge over IPVanish as it has a function to block cookies and targeted adverts, allowing you to browse the internet in peace.
A good VPN will offer you a wide range of servers. The more servers, the more choice – especially if they're located in a wide variety of countries, from which you can access your preferred content.
While both NordVPN and IPVanish have a presence in a similar number of countries (60 and 62, respectively), in terms of server numbers, NordVPN takes the crown, offering up 3,605 servers compared to IPVanish's 1,000+. In real terms, this means that NordVPN's servers are more likely to be free, meaning faster speeds and less congestion for the user – although it's worth noting that both offer a huge number of servers compared to most of their competitors.
When using a VPN, speed is a key factor, which can depend heavily on the service being used and the location of the server. No matter which VPN you're using, your speed will always take a slight hit compared to your standard ISP, as your traffic is being re-routed. The good news is that both NordVPN and IPVanish performed brilliantly in our tests, with each able to deliver decent speeds.
NordVPN has the slight advantage locally, achieving slightly higher speeds than IPVanish when accessing servers within the same country. However, when accessing international servers, it was IPVanish that managed to achieve the faster speeds, both when uploading and downloading. Given that one of the big draws of using a VPN is accessing servers in a different country, this round has to go to IPVanish.
Let's make one thing clear – whether you end up going with IPVanish or NordVPN, you'll be more than satisfied, with each delivering an excellent package that protects you online with a wrapper that is easy to understand and navigate.
As IPVanish has a larger selection of options, plus slightly faster speeds when accessing international servers, we declare it to be the victor. NordVPN is a worthy runner up, though, and shouldn't be overlooked – especially given that it is slightly cheaper.
When it comes to VPNs, you're spoilt for choice, but few are as comprehensive and efficient as these two. There | 1,954 |
I've made a practice of gleaning wisdom and support from women I admire. Because my mom was not the "in your corner" type, I learned to do this at a young age. Growing up under her tutelage forced me to figure out ways to get my need for nurturing met. My search led me to reading books with omniscient mother figures and happy endings. It's no accident that as a child Cinderella was a favorite story of mine. That evil stepmom may have been in control for a time, but she was no match for the powers of a fairy godmother. By fifth grade, I had graduated to being utterly taken with Marmee, the mother of the March sisters, in Little Women. Her steadfast devotion to her girls was the launching pad for them to live their dreams. Somehow reading about the security of unconditional love was healing to me.
In my twenties, I discovered how author Maya Angelo mothered Oprah Winfrey. Her love and wise council helped Oprah to become her "best self." I began studying other strong women who pointed their daughters in the right direction. I embraced the relationships of Eunice Shriver and her daughter, Maria, Dorothy Howell Rodham and her daughter, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and finally Elli Stassinopoulos and her daughters, Agapi Stassinopoulos and Arianna Huffington. All of these mothers inspired me and gave me a lead to follow. Since I considered them as more than mentors, I christened them fairy godmothers. Remember the sparkle Cinderella's fairy godmother brought to her life? She gave the added magic needed to help Cinderella leave behind the cinders she made her bed in. That's what these mothers I admire did for me.
One of my favorite of the godmothers is Elli Stassinopoulos. In my painting above, she's pictured with her daughter Agapi on Agapi's 16th birthday. I first read about Elli in Agapi's book, Unbinding the Heart. Elli was a remarkable woman. She was not accomplished by the world's standards and yet gave much to the world. Her daughters are living proof of that. Elli knew what was important in life. It was people not things that mattered. There was no hierarchy in her world. She treated a government official and a plumber with the same warmth and generosity. She never allowed her daughters to feel "less than." She knew that both of them were born with the gifts needed to fulfill their life's purpose and she stood in support of that. Reading about Elli made me think of how much easier my life would have been if I were raised by a mom like her. My soul would have known its worth, instead of having to fight for it every step of the way. Getting to know Elli helped soothe what I lacked.
The Photo I based my painting on.
I reached out to Agapi for permission to work from the photograph I based my watercolor on. Elli reminded me of the fairy godmother in Disney's Cinderella in the picture. Agapi was kind enough to grant her consent and even gave her thoughts on the art in progress. All along she was pleased that I was capturing her mom's spirit. What she was having trouble with, was my portrayal of herself. We both knew something was off. Was it her eyes? Or her smile? She could not pinpoint it and in my revisions neither could I. Finally, in frustration, I thought to ask Elli for help. I reasoned that since she had passed away in 2000 she would have the clarity of a higher vantage point. As soon as I sent out my request, I got the distinct feeling to have a glass of red wine and stop trying so hard. I should just relax and enjoy the process. I did just that and had fun tweaking the piece. In a flash, I was done and satisfied with the results. When I sent a file of it to Agapi, she responded,"It's great!" I smiled as I wondered why I hadn't called on Elli sooner.<|fim_middle|> work as an author and artist, I need solitude to reflect and allow inspiration in. At other times, I am not concerned at all about him invading my space, and am looking forward to adventures with him and our grand babies. One thing is certain, the man I married all those years ago deserves a break. He has worked tirelessly to support his family and his wife's dream of being an artist. It's his time to fulfill some dreams of his own.
It looks like Bob and I will be approaching this next phase of our lives much like we did our marriage. Jump in and figure out how to swim later. When you think about it, how much of life can you truly plan anyway? What I do know for sure is the love that has carried us through the early, and middle years is not going to fail us now.
On our 35th wedding anniversary. | Of course she would want me to do justice to her girl.
In my life, I've found that within every hardship there are always blessings. I believe I was given the perfect mother to help me become who I was born to be. Without the difficulty of being raised by her, I don't think I'd have the insight and compassion I do today. Plus, I may have never discovered the wisdom of these beautiful women I call fairy godmothers. I've studied and absorbed how they moved through life. Their philosophies have become my philosophies. Today, I'm happy to say I share their wise council with others who've been gifted with moms similar to mine. In this way, even though my fairy godmothers no longer grace the planet, their magic goes on and continues to break the spells that others live under.
For now, the church has lost me. Confirmed allegations of sexual abuse from a priest in my parish makes it impossible for me to attend. Fortunately, my bond with God is intact. He is with me everywhere. I've claimed the outdoors as my cathedral. It's hard not to feel the Creator's presence in its beauty. Every bird, every tree has his signature on it. There is no dogma in nature and man never thinks of ways to improve it. All is well under the great blue dome.
Spring is a sign of hope and renewal. It's the counterpart to the reawakening of humanity. I'm comforted that the darkness in the church is being rooted out. Pope Francis gives me grounds for believing that one day it may again feel like home to me. Until then, the wonder found in my own backyard refreshes my soul.
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My husband, Bob, and I met through mutual friends when he was 20 and I was 21. We went on our first date the following week. He had just gotten out of a tumultuous relationship and was determined never to fall in love again. After hearing that, I figured I'd better proceed with caution. We tried our best not to fall for each other, but our hearts won over our brains. I made the above illustration, featuring Mae West and W. C. Fields, for Bob after we had been dating a year. As an artist, a handmade Valentine is the only way to declare your love.
One year after we met Bob proposed to me. I said, "yes" but wondered if it was a good idea to tie the knot with the only real boyfriend I ever had. This July it will be 37 years for us. Our commitment to each other has weathered many storms. There was too much drinking on his part and way too much "fixing" on mine. When I finally went and got help for myself, things slowly began to change for the better. Bob got sober and we grew together in a positive direction. That's not to say it's been smooth sailing ever since. I've always held onto the advice my sister Ann gave me about sticking it out in a marriage. After three husbands, she had come to the conclusion that you should work out your troubles, if you can, because no marriage is problem free.
On our wedding day, July 28, 1979.
In hindsight, I can see that Bob and I had no business getting married when we were 23. We were way too young. I question the wisdom of conceiving our oldest child six months later too. What was our hurry? I think in Bob's case it seemed like the right thing to do because he came from a huge Irish/Catholic family. In my case, I adored kids and was certain that love would take care of the details. Thankfully, in the end, it always did.
Yes, there is something to be said for growing old together. Being with someone longer than you've been without them brings the kind of comfort that a well worn pair of shoes does. Not exactly a romantic notion, until you consider the discomfort that can come from breaking in a new pair. As we age, our love deepens. Sure, Bob and I still can get on each other's nerves, but we have the presence of mind to let many of the little annoyances go. We are two separate individuals and have come to respect our differences.
Next June, after forty years at his job as a signal maintainer, Bob will be retiring. I have to admit I do worry about having him around all the time. In my | 922 |
Where Is Jesus Foretold In The Old Testament?
Summary: The prophets longed to see how and when the Messiah would be revealed, and yet God gave them glimpses of various attributes. This is a survey of a handful of these glimpses, and the beauty is that the Gospel is fully available for us through Jesus today!
12 To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven -- things which angels desire<|fim_middle|> when the Messiah would be revealed, and yet God gave them glimpses of various attributes. This is a survey of a handful of these glimpses, and the beauty is that the Gospel is fully available for us through Jesus today! | to look into.
Many of the prophets had partial revelation as to the coming Messiah. They wondered when and how this Messiah would come -- many believed that the nation of Israel would instantly be above all others, in essence becoming what it was during the 'Golden Age' of David and Solomon, yet all under this new Messiah. Many expected the Messiah to bring military success and a regime that would crush conflicting nations. However, what Jesus was this first time around was a suffering servant. His Blood shows Kingship and Priesthood, yet we will see much more of that fulfilled through faith in Him and through the Age to come!
Today we will look at a much more detailed survey of where the Messiah, who is Jesus, was prophesied about in the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament). Before we look deeper into this broad topic, let's pray.
Just prior to our text, and if you remember back a few weeks, we discussed the joy we are called to and the promised hope that we have in our eternal inheritance through faith in Jesus Christ. Even though things may look really bleak at times in our life, and whatever 'valley' we're going through, as Paul said in Romans 8, NOTHING here compares to what is prepared for us.
Here in verses 10-12, we see that the prophets were busy forth-telling God's word to His people, and during this process, also foretell the coming of the Son of God and Savior of the world, Jesus. The prophets did not know exactly when and how the Messiah would live, yet they saw glimpses as the LORD revealed them.
Remarkably, these prophecies were recorded anywhere from 1500 to 400 years before our Savior's birth, yet each element pieces together to form the life of God's chosen King.
I should first mention that Jesus was no stranger in appearance in times of old. There are many Christophanies in the Old Testament. Example: Isaiah 6 -- Isaiah stands before the Lord's throne, and Jesus reveals in John that it was He Himself. There are many of these, and yet this is a topic for another study altogether, if not several dozen.
This list covers only some of the prophecies about Jesus (Yeshua) from the Old Testament, but there are some very good highlights here about the life and nature of Jesus.
Genesis 3:15 - And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
Jesus crushed Satan's head -- Defeated his power completely through His Death and Resurrection -- we do not have to live in possession or even the oppression of the enemy.
Genesis 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called.
Note in Matthew 1, the extended genealogy highlights all of these key generations (including Abraham and Isaac).
8 "Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?
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It is with great delight that I announce that rq is joining the blogging team here at Affinity. Many of you are familiar with rq from the comments section of the blog where she has been contributing for many years. She is now ready to step up and do some blogging herself and we couldn't be happier. She brings a lot to our team and we can expect posts on an interesting mix of subjects ranging from Baltic culture to the arts. Perhaps she'll even share a peek into the random and interesting things that cross her path. For now there will be no fixed schedule for rq's posts. Instead, they will come as happy little surprises that surface amidst our already mixed bag.
So now we are four. Four bloggers in four different countries, all with different interests and different points of view, but all wanting to share our worlds with you. We're also a curious bunch and we want this blog to be a vibrant international community where other people share their worlds with us. That's one of the best parts of Affinity. It has many voices and you just never know what will pop up. We also hope that one of those voices will be yours. We still invite you to share your favourite recipes, photos, arts and crafts with us. You don't have to be a great photographer or a master artist to contribute. I'm certainly neither of those things.
I would also like to take a minute to acknowledge the founder of Affinity, Caine. This blog was her vision<|fim_middle|>C would be astoundingly happy, rq! Welcome to the team. I've read your comments for years, and will enjoy your writing immensely.
Saw the thread listed yesterday on Recent Posts on FTB, and thought it might be announcing the addition of rq to the Affinity posters. Congratulations and welcome to rq. The more the merrier. | and she always welcomed contributions from her readers. Her voice was always encouraging and it is because of her support that I even dared to try blogging. Caine expressed a desire for rq to become part of this blog and I know that she would be thrilled by the news.
Affinity just became more interesting. I hope you'll all help me welcome rq.
Yay and welcome here onboard.
I'm so happy to finally have you join us.
Congratulations, rq! You are part of a great team, and thank you, all of you, for keeping Affinity going!
Hooray and WELCOME to rq! This is great news. Really glad to hear it and I agree, Caine would have been so happy about this. I am so looking forward!
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\section{\label{intro} Introduction}
The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect takes its roots in the strong correlations among electrons due to Coulomb interaction~\cite{Tsui82}. When a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subjected to an intense perpendicular magnetic field at low temperatures, electrons can form a quantum state whose excitations are described by fractional quantum numbers, including fractional charge~\cite{Laughlin83} and fractional statistics~\cite{Wilczek82, Arovas84}. Current fluctuation measurements have been crucial to demonstrate the existence of these peculiar fractionally charged excitations~\cite{Saminadayar97, Depicciotto97, Chang03, Hashisaka15} and their non-trivial statistics~\cite{Nakamura19, Bartolomei20, Nakamura20}.
On a general ground, noise measurements are fundamental tools for the understanding of mesoscopic devices. When the considered system is in equilibrium, \textit{i.e.} when no voltage bias is applied, the average current flowing across it is zero. However, at finite temperature a contribution to the noise, referred to as the thermal or Johnson-Nyquist noise, is always present~\cite{Johnson27, Nyquist28} due to the thermal motion of carriers. Conversely, when the voltage bias applied to the mesoscopic conductor is dominant with respect to the temperature, the current fluctuations can be described in terms of the non-equilibrium shot noise~\cite{Schottky18}. It originates from the discrete nature of the electric charge and it has been used extensively to investigate electron correlation in quantum liquids.
In recent years, systems connected to reservoirs kept at different temperatures, when no voltage is applied, have been experimentally~\cite{Tikhonov16, Lumbroso18, Sivre19, Larocque20} and theoretically~\cite{Zhitlukhina20, Rech20, Hasegawa21, Duprez21, Popoff21, Schiller21} considered. The presence of a temperature gradient leads to a non-equilibrium contribution to the charge current noise known as delta-$T$ noise. It is expected to carry additional information on quantum correlations inside the systems since it allows to address directly the tunneling density of states. In this context, the delta-$T$ noise was recently studied from FQH systems in a quantum point contact (QPC) geometry. Here, the delta-$T$ contribution to the noise is quadratic, due to the symmetry of the considered set-up under the exchange of reservoirs, and it was found that the tunneling of quasiparticles is associated with negative values of the delta-$T$ noise~\cite{Rech20}. In other words, the non-equilibrium noise induced by the temperature mismatch between the two channels of this correlated state turns out to be smaller than the equilibrium one. Conversely, when electrons tunnel from one edge to the other, the delta-$T$ noise becomes positive. The negativity observed in~\cite{Rech20} was linked to the anyonic statistic of the particles tunneling through. Furthermore, a recent study has tried to explain this reduction in terms of correlation effects encoded in the scaling dimension of the charge carriers present in these chiral channels~\cite{Zhang22}. The study of the delta-$T$ noise can thus be exploited in order to investigate the properties of strongly interacting systems, in a way that cannot be addressed by the usual voltage-induced noise.
In this work, we study the delta-$T$ noise generated by a temperature gradient between two different FQH edge states, whose filling factors are indicated in the following with the short notation $(\nu_{L}, \nu_{R})$, characterized by strong interactions in the Laughlin regime. Differently from the analysis carried out so far, usually focused on some perturbative expansion, we do not assume \textit{a priori} a specific strength of the coupling between the two systems. This approach, allows us to solve exactly the problem for all couplings and for any set of temperatures in a hybrid junction with specific filling factors $(1/3,1)$. This configuration has recently been the focus of great attention due to the observation of exotic Andreev reflection processes involving fractional quasiparticles~\cite{Hashisaka21}. From the theoretical point of view, the relevance of this case relies on the fact that it can be exactly solved through refermionization. According to this, the delta-$T$ noise can be obtained numerically for any set of temperatures of the two Hall bars and for all coupling strengths. Moreover, our results suggest that, unlike the homogeneous case $\nu_L = \nu_R$, linear-in-$\Delta T$ contributions dominate here, at low temperature bias.
This motivated us to focus on the situation where a small mismatch in the temperatures between the two Hall bars is considered, which turns out to also be the most relevant for possible experimental implementations. This then allows us to focus on the first (linear) order in the temperature expansion, but taking into account all order in the tunneling amplitudes. As it turns out, this analytical treatment can be extended to all filling factor pairs $(\nu_{L}, \nu_{R})$ and leads to a universal relation which connects the delta-$T$ noise to the equilibrium one. As examples of the validity of the present approach, we focus on two opposite coupling regimes. In the weak coupling regime, the two edges are almost decoupled and a current impinging upon the QPC is almost perfectly reflected. The opposite regime of strong coupling is more complex and interesting, as it corresponds to a non-trivial situation, where perfect transmission of the current is reduced by the scattering of fractional quasiparticles resulting from the coupling of the two systems. This opposite regime requires a weak-strong duality relation~\cite{Schmid83} in order to be addressed.
This analysis aims to deepen our knowledge on delta-$T$ noise in order to move towards more involved applications concerning the possibility of investigating the statistics~\cite{Sandler99, Ebisu22} and the scaling dimension of the carriers~\cite{Schiller21}.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sec.~\ref{model}, we introduce the model for the hybrid FQH junction where the counter-propagating edge states are coupled by a local tunneling region as depicted in Fig.~\ref{Fig1}. This description sets the basis for the exploration of the weak coupling regime. In Sec.~\ref{current} we write down an explicit expression for the current fluctuations in the presence of a temperature gradient due to different temperatures, namely the delta-$T$ noise. In order to investigate the strong coupling regime we exploit the duality relation in Sec.~\ref{duality}. Then, our purpose in Sec.~\ref{fixed} is to study what happens for the delta-$T$ noise in a particular QH junction with $(\nu_L=1/3,\nu_R=1)$ for all coupling strengths and for any temperature. In order to be closer to experiments and to consider a more generic hybrid system $(\nu_L,\nu_R)$ in Sec.~\ref{universal} we give a universal expression for the delta-$T$ up to the first order in temperature gradient, for all tunneling regimes. Then in Sec.~\ref{results} we explore the first order delta-$T$ noise in the two opposite tunneling regimes by focusing, firstly, on an asymmetric junction with fixed filling factors and, secondly, for general values of $\nu_L$ and $\nu_R$. Finally, in Sec.~\ref{concl} we summarize our results. Analytical details of the derivation of the obtained results are reported in the Appendices.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{Fig1.pdf}
\caption{(Color on-line) Sketch of two fractional quantum Hall systems with different filling factors ($\nu_L$ and $\nu_R$) belonging to Laughlin sequence and at different temperatures ($T_L$ and $T_R$). Counter-propagating edge states are coupled via a point-like tunneling (orange dashed line) placed in $x=0$ with $\Lambda$ being the constant tunneling amplitude strength. Notice that the $x$-axis follows the chirality of the channels. In orange, we have highlighted the impinging current on the QPC $I_0$, related to the quantized Hall conductance, the tunneling current $I$ and the backscattering one $I_B$.}
\label{Fig1}
\end{figure}
\section{\label{model} Model for the junction}
We consider two FQH bars at different filling factors $\nu_\alpha$ ($\alpha=L,R$) belonging to the Laughlin sequence, \textit{i.e.} $\nu_\alpha=1/(2n+1)$ ($n\in \mathbb{N}$)~\cite{Tsui82,Laughlin83,Tsui99}. They are kept at two different temperatures $T_L$ and $T_R$ and coupled through a point-like tunneling region as depicted in Fig.~\ref{Fig1}. The edge states of such a system are described in terms of a hydrodynamical model~\cite{Wen95} by a chiral Luttinger liquid free Hamiltonian of the form ($\hbar=k_B=1$)
\begin{equation}
H^{(0)}= H_L^{(0)}+H_R^{(0)}=\sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{v_\alpha}{4\pi}\int dx\, [\partial_x \phi_\alpha (x)]^2
\label{eqfree}
\end{equation}
where $\phi_\alpha$ are the bosonic fields describing the counterpropagating modes traveling along the edge of the left and right QH bars.
Quite generally, the velocities $v_{L,R}$ along the two edges can be different. However, in what follows, we focus on the situation where the tunneling occurs at a specific point, allowing us to rescale the position coordinates independently for the two bosonic fields. This in turn enables us to alter the velocities at will, so that, for sake of simplicity, we will assume the same propagation velocity for the two edges ($v_L=v_R=v$).
The chiral bosonic particle-hole collective excitations described by the fields $\phi_\alpha$ ($\alpha=L,R$) in Eq.~\eqref{eqfree} are related to the particle density of the channel $\rho_\alpha$ through the relation
\begin{equation}
\rho_\alpha(x)=\frac{\sqrt{\nu_\alpha}}{2 \pi}\partial_x \phi_{\alpha}(x).
\label{densit}
\end{equation}
Using the conventional bosonization technique, the electron annihilation operator $\psi_\alpha(x)$ can be expressed in terms of $\phi_\alpha(x)$ as~\cite{Giamarchi03,Miranda03}
\begin{equation}
\psi_{\alpha}(x)=\frac{\mathcal{F_\alpha}}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}e^{-i \frac{1}{\sqrt{\nu_\alpha}}\phi_\alpha(x)}
\label{bos}
\end{equation}
with $a$ a short-distance cutoff and $\mathcal{F}_\alpha$ the Klein factor~\cite{Guyon02}. In the following we will omit this latter factor since it plays no role in the calculation of the correlators~\cite{Sandler98}.
We assume that the two QH systems are coupled via a quantum point contact (QPC), placed at position $x=0$, which allows tunneling between the two counter-propagating edges. In practice, there is no bulk Hall fluid in between the two edge states, so that the only allowed tunneling process involves electrons.
This configuration, where only electrons can locally tunnel from one lead to the other, is described by the tunneling Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
H_\Lambda&=\Lambda\int dx\,\delta(x)\,\psi_{R}^\dagger(x)\psi_L(x)+\mathrm{H.c.}=\\
&=\frac{\Lambda}{2\pi a} e^{i\frac{1}{\sqrt{\nu_R}}\phi_R(0)}e^{-i\frac{1}{\sqrt{\nu_L}}\phi_L(0)}+\mathrm{H.c.}
\end{split}
\label{htun}
\end{equation}
where the second line stands from Eq.~\eqref{bos} and $\Lambda$ is a constant tunneling amplitude strength~\cite{Kane95,Chamon97,Weiss95, Guinea95}.
The current operator $I(t)$ describing the tunneling current flowing from one edge state to the other is obtained from the tunneling Hamiltonian and reads
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
I(t)&=-e\dot{N}_R=i<|fim_middle|>(0)}_{\alpha}}/{T_{\alpha}}\big]$~\cite{Kamenev11}. The tunneling is then turned-on establishing a stationary current. Moreover, since we are considering no voltage bias and local tunneling, the total net current $\mathcal{I}$ is zero independently of the respective temperatures of the two edges. This is due to the fact that the transmission function is energy independent and electrons and holes contribute equally~\cite{Kane96, Vannucci15}. However, since the finite temperature always leads to a non-zero contribution to the noise, through thermal fluctuations~\cite{Johnson27,Nyquist28}, the current-current fluctuations do not vanish. This charge current noise induced by the mismatch in the temperatures has been dubbed delta-$T$ noise. It has a purely thermal origin, but it is only generated in non-equilibrium situations~\cite{Lumbroso18,Sivre19,Larocque20,Rech20}.
The zero-frequency current noise can be written as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
& S\left(T_L, T_R\right)= 2 \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}d\tau \, \big\langle \Delta I(\tau)\Delta I(0) \big\rangle=\\
&= 2 \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}d\tau\, \bigg[\frac{1}{Z} \,\mathrm{Tr}\bigg\{\mathrm{exp}\bigg[- \sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{H^{(0)}_{\alpha}}{T_{\alpha}}\bigg]
\Delta I(\tau)\Delta I(0)\bigg\}\bigg]
\end{split}
\label{s}
\end{equation}
where $\Delta I(t)=I(t)-\mathcal{I}$.
In the following, we will also consider the temperature parametrization
\begin{equation}
T_R=T \qquad T_L=T_R+\Delta T,
\label{par}
\end{equation}
which is convenient from an experimental point of view. Here, the temperature of one of the two FQH sample is kept fixed at $T$, while the other can be varied with $\Delta T$ either positive or negative.
\section{\label{duality} Duality relation}
Let us focus now on the configuration of Fig.~\ref{fignew}(b), after the change of basis introduced in Eq.~\eqref{uno}, where we move from an inhomogeneous QH junction to two separate FQH liquids at the same filling factor $g$. In this effective picture, as the tunneling amplitude increases up to the limit value $\Lambda \to \infty$ (\textit{i.e.} strong coupling), we switch from the two identical, but separate, FQH liquids to a unique one [see Fig.~\ref{fignew}(d)]. In analogy to what happens for the Laughlin states, the dynamics of the point contact evolves from being dominated by electron tunneling at weak coupling, where the fluid is pinched off, to a strong coupling regime where quasiparticle tunneling dominates~\cite{Chang03, Wen91}. This process is embodied by a powerful electron-quasiparticle duality~\cite{Kane95, Fendley95} which reflects the duality relation between the weak- and strong-coupling limits. In particular, the strong coupling limit is accessible through a weak-strong duality transformation~\cite{Schmid83, Fisher85, Callan92}. This fact is graphically described in Fig.~\ref{fignew} by the central panels surrounded by a dashed line. In this limit, the fields $\varphi_{L,R}$ can be written in terms of dual fields $\widetilde{\varphi}_{L,R}$ defined as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\varphi_L(x)&=\widetilde{\varphi}_L(x)\Theta(-x)+\widetilde{\varphi}_R(x)\Theta(x) \\
\varphi_R(x)&=\widetilde{\varphi}_L(x)\Theta(x)+\widetilde{\varphi}_R(x)\Theta(-x)
\end{split}
\label{dualtransf}
\end{equation}
with $\Theta(\pm x)$ the step function. This dual transformation can be geometrically understood by thinking about the fact that in the strong limit the previous bosonic states $\varphi_L$ and $\varphi_R$ are mixed since now there is only one QH liquid. This non-local relation, due to the step function, recall the starting point of two different QH sample separated by a QPC.
Due to the above considerations the total Hamiltonian describing the dynamics and the coupling of these fields is now
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\widetilde{H}=& \sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{v}{4\pi}\int dx\, [\partial_x \widetilde{\varphi}_\alpha (x)]^2+\\
&+\frac{\Lambda'}{2\pi a} e^{i\sqrt{g} \big[\widetilde{\varphi}_R(0)-\widetilde{\varphi}_L(0)\big]}+\mathrm{H.c.}
\label{stro}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Notice that this last Hamiltonian is the dual of the one in Eq.~\eqref{coup} where we have considered the substitution $g \to 1/g$ due to the electron-quasiparticle mapping and we have introduced an effective coupling parameter $\Lambda'$. However, the two tunneling strengths $\Lambda$ and $\Lambda'$ are not independent as they are connected by the relation~\cite{Weiss96}
\begin{equation}
\bigg(\frac{\Lambda'}{\omega_c a}\bigg)=\bigg[2^{-2g+1}\,\Gamma^{g}\bigg(1+\frac{1}{g}\bigg)\Gamma(1+g)\bigg]\,\bigg(\frac{\Lambda}{\omega_c a}\bigg)^{-g}
\label{dualweiss}
\end{equation}
where $\omega_c=v/a$ is a high-energy cut-off and $\Gamma(x)$ is the Euler Gamma function of a given argument $x$. Due to the inverse proportionality between $\Lambda$ and $\Lambda'$, focusing on the $\Lambda\to \infty$ limit is equivalent to consider $\Lambda' \to 0$ and vice versa, consistently with the discussed weak-strong coupling duality.
The formulation of the problem in terms of the dual fields $\widetilde{\varphi}_{L/R}$ in the strong coupling limit ($\Lambda\to\infty$ or $\Lambda'\to 0$) has the advantage that these are now free fields. The quasi-particles which tunnels are non-interacting and carry a charge $e^*=ge$. Quite remarkably, these effective fractionally charged excitations correspond neither to electrons nor to quasiparticles of the isolated Hall fluids, but instead to complicated nonlocal objects emerging from the dynamics of the two strongly coupled edge channels as a whole. \\
By introducing the fields
\begin{equation}
\widetilde{\varphi}_{\pm}(x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\big[\widetilde{\varphi}_{L}(x)\pm\widetilde{\varphi}_{R}(x)\big],
\label{rotdue}
\end{equation}
the Hamiltonian of Eq.~\eqref{stro} leads again to two decoupled systems [see Fig.~\ref{fignew}(e)]
\begin{equation}
\widetilde{H}= \widetilde{H}_+ + \widetilde{H}_-
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\widetilde{H}_+&=\frac{v}{4\pi}\int \, dx \big[\partial_x \widetilde{\varphi}_+(x)\big]^2 \\
\widetilde{H}_-&=\frac{v}{4\pi}\int \, dx \big[\partial_x \widetilde{\varphi}_-(x)\big]^2 +\bigg[\frac{\Lambda'}{2\pi a}e^{i\sqrt{2g}\widetilde{\varphi}_-(0)}+\mathrm{H.c.}\bigg].
\label{htil}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\section{\label{fixed} Exact solution for tunneling in a $(1/3,\, 1)$ junction}
In this Section we focus on a junction between a normal metal ($\nu_R=1$) and a FQH state with filling factor $\nu_L=1/3$ in the presence of a temperature difference between the Hall bars. This case can be exactly solved via refermionization for the entire range of couplings and temperatures allowing us to evaluate the delta-$T$ noise exactly.
\subsection{Refermionization}
The case $\nu_R=1$ and $\nu_L= 1/3$ leads to a description, in terms of an effective filling factor $g= 1/2$ [see Eq.~\eqref{gvsnu}]. In the rotated basis, and taking into account the duality, one can consider a tunneling Hamiltonian proportional to the factor $ e^{ i \widetilde{\varphi}_-}$ [see Eq.~\eqref{htil}], which looks like an electronic operator. It thus becomes possible to introduce a new fermionic field and re-express the tunneling term accordingly, ultimately allowing us to diagonalize exactly the Hamiltonian, and therefore account for tunneling at all orders.
This idea of refermionization was first suggested and carried out in \cite{Chamon96}. It amounts to refermionize the bosonic field $\widetilde{\varphi}_-$ so that the tunneling term of the Hamiltonian $\widetilde{H}_-$ in Eq.~\eqref{htil} now takes the form
\begin{equation}
\frac{\Lambda'}{2\pi a} e^{i \widetilde{\varphi}_- (0)} + \text{H.c.} \longrightarrow \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}} f \psi^\dagger (0) + \text{H.c.} \, ,
\end{equation}
where we remind that $x=0$ is the position of the QPC. Here $f$ is an auxiliary (Majorana) fermion field, introduced in the same spirit as Klein factors in Eq.~\eqref{bos}, which arises from the proper handling of the zero modes of the bosonic fields. In particular, the new fields $\psi (x)$ and $f$ satisfy the following set of equations of motion
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
-i \partial_t \psi (x,t) =& i v \partial_x \psi (x,t) + \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}
f(t) \delta(x) \\
-i \partial_t \psi^\dagger (x,t) =& i v \partial_x \psi^\dagger (x,t) - \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}
f(t) \delta(x) \\
-i \partial_t f(t) =& 2 \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}
\left[ \psi(0,t) - \psi^\dagger (0,t)
\right].
\end{split}
\end{equation}
From this, one can map the problem into the scattering of the right-mover $\psi$ on a localized impurity. These equations are then solved by introducing a plane-wave decomposition of the fermionic field $\psi$ as
\begin{align}
\psi(x,t) &=
\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
\int d\omega A_\omega e^{i \omega x} e^{-i \omega t} & \text{for } x<0 \\
\int d\omega B_\omega e^{i \omega x} e^{-i \omega t} & \text{for } x>0
\end{array}
\right. \label{eqA} \\
\psi^\dagger (x,t) &=
\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
\int d\omega A^\dagger_{-\omega} e^{i \omega x} e^{-i \omega t} & \text{for } x<0 \\
\int d\omega B^\dagger_{-\omega} e^{i \omega x} e^{-i \omega t} & \text{for } x>0 .
\end{array}
\right.
\label{eqB}
\end{align}
Substituting these back into the equations of motion, using the definition $\psi (0) = \left[ \psi (0^+) + \psi(0^-)\right]/2$ and integrating around the $\delta(x)$ function, one is left with
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
0 =& i v \int d\omega \big( B_\omega - A_\omega \big) e^{-i \omega t} + \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}
f(t) \\
0 =& i v \int d\omega \big( B^\dagger_{-\omega} - A^\dagger_{-\omega} \big) e^{-i \omega t} - \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}f(t) \\
-i \partial_t f(t) =& \frac{\Lambda'}{\sqrt{2\pi a}}
\bigg[
\int d\omega \big( B_\omega + A_\omega \big) e^{-i \omega t} + \\
&- \int d\omega \big( B^\dagger_{-\omega} + A^\dagger_{-\omega} \big) e^{-i \omega t}\bigg].
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Combining these equations to get rid of $f$ and $B^\dagger$, one obtains
\begin{align}
B_\omega = \frac{-i \omega}{\mathcal{T}_k - i \omega} A_\omega + \frac{\mathcal{T}_k}{\mathcal{T}_k - i \omega} A_{-\omega}^\dagger,
\end{align}
where we introduced the crossover energy scale
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{T}_k = \frac{4 \pi a }{v}\bigg(\frac{\Lambda'}{2\pi a}\bigg)^2
\label{tks}
\end{equation}
which is set by the tunneling amplitude $\Lambda'$. Following Ref.~\cite{Weiss96}, the previous relation can be generalized for all filling factors taking the form
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{T}_k=\frac{2\omega_c}{g}\bigg(\frac{1}{2\Gamma(g)}\frac{\Lambda'}{a\omega_c}\bigg)^\frac{1}{1-g}.
\label{tkl1}
\end{equation}
Performing the Fourier transform back to time space one finally obtains the following relation between the Fourier components of the fermionic field $\psi$ before ($A$) and after ($B$) the QPC as
\begin{align}
B(t) = A(t) - \mathcal{T}_k \int_{-\infty}^t e^{- \mathcal{T}_k (t-t')} \left[ A(t') - A^\dagger (t') \right].
\label{eq:fromBtoA}
\end{align}
In~\cite{Sandler99} and~\cite{Chamon96}, all relevant transport quantities are then written down only in terms of averages of this newly defined fermionic $A$ field, which is free by construction. The corresponding propagator was naturally assumed to be trivially given by a Fermi function, corresponding to the reservoirs at equilibrium, \textit{i.e.} equal temperature.
However, as we can see from Eq.~\eqref{eqA}, the new fermion $\psi$ is actually made of combined quasiparticles from the right and left reservoirs which, in our present case, correspond to different temperatures. One therefore needs to be particularly careful in expressing the propagator. One way of doing this is to revert to the bosonic description and to write $\psi$ in terms of the bosonic fields $\phi_{R,L}$, taken at a position before the QPC, which are then uncoupled from each other. The full calculation of the propagator is detailed in Appendix~\ref{app2}, here we report the final result for a $(1/3, 1)$ junction which reads
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\langle A^\dagger (t) A (t') \rangle &= \langle \psi^\dagger (0^-,t) \psi(0^-,t') \rangle = \\
&=\frac{1}{2 \pi a} e^{\frac{3}{4} \mathcal{G}_L (t-t') } e^{\frac{1}{4} \mathcal{G}_R (t-t')}
\label{eq:AdaggerA}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where, since $A$ is only defined at a position before the QPC, the quantum averaging is performed on the state where the two edge states are decoupled and at their respective temperature $T_\alpha$. Here we also introduced the bosonic Green's function as~\cite{Martin05,Ronetti18}
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{G}_\alpha (\tau) = - \log \bigg[ \frac{\sinh \big( \pi T_\alpha ( \frac{i}{\omega_c} - \tau ) \big)}{\sinh \big( \frac{i}{\omega_c}\pi T_\alpha \big)} \bigg]
\label{bosgreen}
\end{equation}
where $\omega_c = v/a$ is an high energy cut-off and $T_\alpha$ is the temperature of the right or left QH bar.
In practice, we will be needing two types of correlators, which we express from their Fourier transform as
\begin{align}
\label{eq:AdaggerAomega}
\langle A^\dagger (t) A (t') \rangle &= \int \frac{d \omega}{2 \pi v} e^{i \omega ( t-t' )} n_\omega \\
\langle A (t) A^\dagger (t') \rangle &= \int \frac{d \omega}{2 \pi v} e^{-i \omega ( t-t' )} ( 1 - n_\omega )
\label{eq:AAdaggeromega}
\end{align}
where according to Eq.~\eqref{eq:AdaggerA}, one has
\begin{align}
n_\omega = \int d\tau e^{-i \omega \tau} \frac{\omega_c}{2 \pi} e^{\frac{3}{4} \mathcal{G}_L (\tau) } e^{\frac{1}{4} \mathcal{G}_R (\tau)}.
\label{eq:nofomega}
\end{align}
Note that although $n_\omega$ is not, in all generality, a Fermi distribution, the field $A$ is a fermionic field and thus satisfies the standard anti-commutation relations.
\subsection{\label{noisepart} General expression of the delta-$T$ noise for $(1/3,1)$ junction}
In order to evaluate the noise in Eq.~\eqref{s} we need to consider the fluctuations of the tunneling current. The latter, in Eq.~\eqref{rhopm}, is expressed in terms of the imbalance of the right densities before and after the QPC which are related to the Fourier components of the fermionic field $\psi$ before ($A$) and after ($B$) the QPC (see Appendix~\ref{appnew} for more details), namely
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
I(t) &=ev\big[\rho_R(0^+,t)-\rho_R(0^-,t)\big]=\\
&= \frac{e v}{2} \left[ B^\dagger (t) B (t)+A^\dagger (t) A (t) \right].
\label{currdens}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
This expression can readily be understood from a current conservation perspective as the current tunneling between edges naturally corresponds to the difference of the current impinging on and the one outgoing from the QPC.
The fluctuations of the tunneling current are then readily given by
\begin{align}
\mathcal{S} \big( t_1 , t_2 \big) &= \langle \Delta I (t_1) \Delta I (t_2) \rangle \nonumber \\
&= \left(\frac{e v}{2} \right)^2 \big\langle \big[ B^\dagger (t_1) B (t_1) + A^\dagger (t_1) A (t_1) \big] \nonumber \\
& \qquad \times\big[ B^\dagger (t_2) B (t_2) + A^\dagger (t_2) A (t_2) \big] \big\rangle
\label{eq:noisedef}
\end{align}
where one should only keep the connected contributions of the thermal average.
Since we are interested in the zero-frequency current noise given in Eq.~\eqref{s}, the final result reads
\begin{align}
S(T_L, T_R) &= 2 \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} d\tau \,\mathcal{S}(0,\tau) \nonumber \\
&=
2 \bigg( \mathcal{T}_k \frac{e}{2}\bigg)^2 \int \frac{d \omega}{2 \pi} \bigg\{ 2 \big[ n_{\omega} n_{-\omega} + \nonumber \\
& + ( 1 - n_{\omega} ) ( 1 - n_{-\omega} ) \big] \bigg( \frac{\omega }{\mathcal{T}_k^2 + \omega^2 } \bigg)^2 + \nonumber \\
&+ n_{\omega} ( 1 - n_{\omega} ) \bigg( \frac{2}{\mathcal{T}_k} \frac{\omega^2}{\mathcal{T}_k^2 +\omega^2 } \bigg)^2
\bigg\}
\label{eq:Splusminus}
\end{align}
where all the detailed calculations are reported in Appendix~\ref{app3}. It is worth noticing that, since we are considering the noise induced by a temperature difference, the distribution function $n_\omega$ depends on both temperatures as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
n_\omega = \int d\tau e^{-i \omega \tau} & \frac{\omega_c}{2 \pi }
\bigg[ \frac{\sinh ( \frac{i}{\omega_c} \pi T_ L)}{\sinh ( \pi T_L (\frac{i}{\omega_c} - \tau ) )}
\bigg]^{3/4} \times \\
&\times
\bigg[ \frac{\sinh ( \frac{i}{\omega_c} \pi T_R )}{\sinh ( \pi T_R (\frac{i}{\omega_c} - \tau ) )}
\bigg]^{1/4}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Using that $n_{\omega} + n_{-\omega} = 1$, the noise can be written under a much simpler form as
\begin{equation}
S(T_L,T_R) = e^2 \int \frac{d \omega}{2 \pi}
n_{\omega} ( 1 - n_{\omega} )
\bigg(1
- \frac{\mathcal{T}_k^2 -\omega^2 }{\mathcal{T}_k^2 + \omega^2 }
\bigg).
\label{eq:noisesimple}
\end{equation}
The noise can be obtained numerically for any set of temperatures ${T_L, T_R}$ and the information on the coupling strength is encoded in the energy crossover $\mathcal{T}_k$ which allows to scan for the entire range of tunneling regimes.
In Fig.~\ref{FigXNvsDT}, we show the full delta-$T$ noise [as defined in Eq.~\eqref{s}] as a function of the temperature difference, in unit of $\mathcal{T}_k$, for six different cuts. It comes out that in the weak to moderate temperature bias regime, the leading contribution to the noise is linear in $\Delta T$, a feature that can be readily confirmed analytically as we show in Appendix~\ref{appDTexp}. This leading linearly-$\Delta T$ behavior survives even if one changes the temperature parametrization, introducing the average temperature $\bar{T}=(T_R+T_L)/2$. This may come as a surprise as it is in stark contrast with the results obtained for the homogeneous case ($\nu_R = \nu_L = \nu$)~\cite{Rech20} where the dominant term was quadratic in the temperature difference. Indeed, in this latter situation, one is protected from such a linear contribution because of the symmetry of the system under the exchange of right and left leads, ensuring that only even terms in $\Delta T$ survive. The inhomogeneous case considered here breaks this symmetry, thus enabling linear contributions which then dominate the noise in the regime of weak temperature bias. From the experimental standpoint, this constitutes a major improvement compared to the homogeneous case as it makes the delta-$T$ noise a lot easier to probe.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{Fig3.pdf}
\caption{(Color on-line) Full noise $S$ for the $(1/3,1)$ junction, as a function of the temperature difference $\Delta T$ (given in units of the energy scale $\mathcal{T}_k$) for different values of the right lead temperature, $T/\mathcal{T}_k =0.1,1, 2, 3, 4$ and 5. The gray area corresponds to the unphysical region where $T_L = T+\Delta T < 0$.}
\label{FigXNvsDT}
\end{figure}
In this Section we have been able to solve exactly the problem of tunneling between a QH junction with the only constraint on filling factors, being $\nu_L=1/3$ and $\nu_R=1$. This interesting result can be enriched by extending to a general dependence of the noise on filling factors without specifying their values \textit{a priori}. Moreover, in addition to the numerical evaluation, it could be interesting to work out an analytic expression for the delta-$T$ noise. As we will see below, this can be achieved for comparable temperatures of the two QH bars, as this approach relies on an expansion in the temperature difference $\Delta T$. Nevertheless, considering small temperature differences allows us to be closer to the experimentally realistic situation, where large temperature gradients between reservoirs are difficult to control.
\section{\label{universal} Universal expression for the delta-$T$ noise}
In this Section, we derive a universal formula for the first order expansion of the noise in Eq.~\eqref{s} that applies to all orders in the tunneling amplitude $\Lambda$ and for any set of filling factors $(\nu_L,\nu_R)$.
Since we are considering different temperatures between the two QH bars, parametrized as in Eq.~\eqref{par}, and according to the rotations introduced in previous Sections, we can expand the noise $S(T_L,T_R)$ up to the first order in the ratio $\Delta T/T$. Following the calculations given in Appendix~\ref{app1}, one has
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
S(T_L,T_R)&= S_0(T)+\\
&+\frac{\Delta T}{T^2}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}d\tau\,\frac{1}{Z}\mathrm{Tr}\bigg\{e^{-\beta (H_+^{(0)}+ H_-^{(0)})} \times \\ &\times H_{+,-} I(\varphi_-(\tau))I(\varphi_-(0))\bigg\}+O(\Delta T^2)
\end{split}
\label{hexp}
\end{equation}
where $\beta=T^{-1}$ and the mixed term $H_{+,-}$ due to the expansion in $\Delta T$ is given by
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
H_{+,-} = &\frac{v}{4\pi}\int dx \bigg[
\frac{\cos^2\theta}{2}(\partial_x \varphi_+ + \partial_x \varphi_-)^2+\\
&-\sin\theta\cos\theta(\partial_x \varphi_+ + \partial_x \varphi_-)(\partial_x \varphi_+ - \partial_x \varphi_-)+\\&+\frac{\sin^2\theta}{2}(\partial_x \varphi_+ - \partial_x \varphi_-)^2\bigg].
\end{split}
\label{eq25}
\end{equation}
In Eq.~\eqref{hexp}, $S_0(T)$ is the equilibrium noise at $\Delta T=0$, namely
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
& S_0(T)=S(T_L, T_R)\bigg|_{\Delta T=0}=\\
&=\frac{1}{Z_+^{(0)}Z_-^{(0)}}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}d\tau\,\mathrm{Tr}\bigg\{ e^{-\beta (H_+^{(0)}+ H_-^{(0)})} I(\varphi_-(\tau))I(\varphi_-(0)) \bigg\},
\label{sthe}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
Z_{\pm}^{(0)}=\mathrm{Tr} \bigg\{e^{-\beta H_{\pm}^{(0)} } \bigg\}.
\end{equation}
Furthermore, in Eq.~\eqref{hexp} one needs to consider also the first order expansion of $Z$ which reads
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
Z=\mathrm{Tr}\bigg\{ e^{-\beta(H_+^{(0)}+H_-^{(0)})}\bigg(1+\frac{\Delta T}{T^2}H_{+,-}\bigg) \bigg\}.
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Finally, putting everything together, the delta-$T$ noise of Eq.~\eqref{s},
expanded to first order in $\Delta T$, reads
\begin{equation}
S(T_L,T_R) = S_0(T)+\Sigma(\nu_L,\nu_R,T) \,\Delta T + O(\Delta T^2)
\label{rig}
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
\Sigma(\nu_L,\nu_R,T)= -\bigg(\frac{\nu_R}{\nu_R+\nu_L}\bigg)\frac{1}{T^2}\frac{\partial S_0}{\partial \beta}.
\label{rig2}
\end{equation}
We underline the relevance of this result which enables to calculate the first order correction to the noise in the temperature gradient only by knowing the expression for the equilibrium noise $S_0(T)$. In particular, our derivation does not require any assumption concerning the strength of the tunneling between the two QH bars. This allows us to obtain the out-of-equilibrium delta-$T$ noise in various tunneling regimes, provided that one is able to compute the corresponding thermal noise at equilibrium. Since Eqs.~\eqref{rig} and~\eqref{rig2} are valid for all values of $\Lambda$, it is worth noticing that they can be exploited for describing both the weak-coupling regime and the dual strong-coupling model.
\section{\label{results} Explicit results for the delta-$T$ noise}
In the previous Section, we have showed that it is possible to obtain a universal expression for the delta-$T$ noise at first order in $\Delta T/T$, without specifying the tunneling strength between the two QH systems.
Here, we investigate in details the two opposite regimes of weak and strong coupling between the two Hall fluids. We start by applying our universal formula, Eq.~\eqref{rig}, to the specific case of the ($\nu_L=1/3$, $\nu_R=1$) junction. There, an exact expression of the equilibrium noise can be derived at all orders in the tunnel coupling~\cite{Sandler99}, following the refermionization procedure introduced in the previous Section. Then, we generalize this approach for a system with generic filling factor combinations, concentrating on the two opposite regimes of the coupling strength. It is worth emphasizing that, although our focus is on the weak and strong coupling regimes, in principle, our approach allows us to calculate the full noise for any value of the tunneling parameter, provided that we have the corresponding expression of the equilibrium noise.
\subsection{Exact solution for a $\left(\frac{1}{3}, 1\right)$ junction}
By exploiting the exact refermionization procedure, given in the previous Section, we are able to evaluate the equilibrium noise $S_{0}(T)$ in the case ($\nu_L=1/3$, $\nu_R=1$), recovering the result from Ref.~\cite{Sandler99} at zero voltage. The final expression, whose derivation is given in Appendix~\ref{app4}, reads
\begin{equation}
S_{0}(T)= \frac{1}{2} \bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg) \mathcal{T}_k\bigg[4\frac{T}{\mathcal{T}_k}-\frac{2}{\pi}\psi'\bigg(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{\mathcal{T}_k}{2\pi T}\bigg)\bigg],
\label{sand}
\end{equation}
with $\mathcal{T}_k$ defined in Eq.~\eqref{tkl1}. Then, according to Eq.~\eqref{rig2}, one can write the coefficient of the first order correction to the delta-$T$ noise
\begin{equation}
\Sigma\bigg(\frac{1}{3},1,T\bigg)= \left(\frac{e^{2}}{2 \pi}\right)\left[\frac{3}{2}+\frac{3}{ 8\pi^{2}} \psi'' \left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{\mathcal{T}_k}{2 \pi T} \right)\bigg(\frac{\mathcal{T}_k}{T}\bigg)^2\right]
\label{Sigma_exact}
\end{equation}
with $\psi''$ the second derivative of the digamma function. The behavior of this quantity as a function of $T/\mathcal{T}_k$ is reported in Fig. ~\ref{Figlinearcoeff}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{Fig4.pdf}
\caption{(Color on-line) Behavior of the linear coefficient $\Sigma\equiv \Sigma(1/3,1,T)$ in Eq.~\eqref{Sigma_exact} in units of $\Sigma_0=e^{2}/2 \pi$ as a function of $T/\mathcal{T}_k$. The dashed gray line stands for the weak coupling limit [see Eq.~\eqref{sigwc}] when $T\ll \mathcal{T}_k$ ($\Lambda\to 0$, $\Lambda'\to \infty$). The horizontal dashed red line describes the strong coupling limit for $T\gg \mathcal{T}_k$ ($\Lambda\to \infty$, $\Lambda'\to 0$) [see Eq.~\eqref{sigsc}].}
\label{Figlinearcoeff}
\end{figure}
We can now consider two interesting limits of Eq.~\eqref{Sigma_exact}: the weak coupling limit described by $\Lambda\to 0$ or equivalently, due to Eq.~\eqref{dualweiss}, $\Lambda'\to\infty$ [\textit{i.e.} $\mathcal{T}_k\to \infty$ from Eq.~\eqref{tks}] and the strong coupling limit where $\Lambda\to \infty$ and consequently $\Lambda'$ and $\mathcal{T}_k$ go to zero. This means that, in terms of the ratio $T/\mathcal{T}_k$, in the weak coupling regime ($T\ll \mathcal{T}_k$) one has
\begin{equation}
\Sigma^{(wc)}\bigg(\frac{1}{3},1,T\bigg)=\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)\frac{3\pi^2}{2}\bigg(\frac{T}{\mathcal{T}_k}\bigg)^2
\label{sigwc}
\end{equation}
while in the strong coupling limit ($T \gg \mathcal{T}_k$) one obtains
\begin{equation}
\Sigma^{(sc)}\bigg(\frac{1}{3},1,T\bigg)=\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)\frac{3}{2}.
\label{sigsc}
\end{equation}
It is worth noting that Eqs.~\eqref{sigwc} and~\eqref{sigsc} are related to the slope of the curves shown in Fig.~\ref{FigXNvsDT} near the value of $\Delta T=0$. When the ratio $T/\mathcal{T}_k$ is small, meaning that we are considering the weak coupling limit, we see that the plot has a non-linear behavior, near $\Delta T=0$, reflecting the quadratic dependence of $\Sigma^{(wc)}$ on $T/\mathcal{T}_k$ in Eq.~\eqref{sigwc}. However, for the strong coupling regime, where bigger ratios $T/\mathcal{T}_k$ have been considered, the slope of the plot is linear according to Eq.~\eqref{sigsc}, where $\Sigma^{(sc)}$ is independent of $T/\mathcal{T}_k$.
Moreover, in Fig.~\ref{Figlinearcoeff} we observe the behavior of the linear coefficient in Eq.~\eqref{Sigma_exact} for a $(1/3,1)$ junction in terms of the ratio between temperature $T$ and the energy scale $\mathcal{T}_k$, related to the tunneling amplitude. This coefficient vanishes at zero temperature then evolves quadratically, consistently with Eq.~\eqref{sigwc}. As temperature increases further, $\Sigma$ continuously increases before saturating as it gets closer to the limiting value of $4/3$ (in units of $e^2/2\pi$) which corresponds to the strong coupling value of Eq.~\eqref{sigsc}. This latter value represents the maximum reachable one for the linear order correction in the considered case.
\subsection{Perturbative regimes}
In this Subsection, we write the explicit expression for the equilibrium noise $S_0(T)$ due to the tunneling current, starting from the weak-coupling regime for all filling factors $\nu_L$ and $\nu_R$. We then switch to the strong-coupling limit by exploiting the duality relation discussed in Section~\ref{model}.
In the weak-coupling regime, the explicit form for the equilibrium noise $S_0(T)$ is obtained through a perturbative expansion up to the second order in the tunneling Hamiltonian, Eq.~\eqref{coup}, by using the Keldysh formalism~\cite{Martin05, Kamenev09}
\begin{equation}
S_0^{(wc)}(T)=\bigg(\frac{e\Lambda}{\pi a}\bigg)^2\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} d\tau\,\, e^{\,\frac{2}{g}\,\mathcal{G}(\tau)}
\label{sexp}
\end{equation}
with the bosonic Green's function given in Eq.~\eqref{bosgreen} with $T_\alpha=T$ and $g=2(\nu_L\nu_R)/(\nu_L+\nu_R)$.
Then the equilibrium noise in the weak-coupling regime reads~\cite{Ferraro10, Ronetti18, Ferraro15}
\begin{equation}
S_0^{(wc)}(T)=\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{2\Lambda}{\omega_c a}\bigg)^2 \bigg(\frac{2\pi}{\omega_c}\bigg)^{\frac{2}{g}-2} T^{\frac{2}{g}-1} \frac{\Gamma^2(\frac{1}{g})}{\Gamma(\frac{2}{g})}
\label{nw}
\end{equation}
where $\Gamma(x)$ is the Euler Gamma function of a given argument $x$.
In the case of free fermions $\nu_L=\nu_R=1$, Eq.~\eqref{nw} yields the Johnson-Nyquist linearity of the equilibrium noise as a function of temperature. Furthermore, if we consider equal filling factors $\nu_L=\nu_R$ we recover the result reported in Ref.~\cite{Rech20} for the thermal noise calculated in the tunneling regime. It is worth noticing that expression~\eqref{nw} only depends on $g$ which is the sum of the inverse filling factors~\cite{Sandler99} which does not allow us to discriminate between configurations such as $(\nu_{R}=1, \,\nu_{L}=1/5)$ or $(\nu_{R}=\nu_{L}=1/3)$ only by looking at the equilibrium noise.
The equilibrium noise of Eq.~\eqref{nw} in the weak coupling regime for all filling factors can be rewritten in terms of the crossover energy scale instead of the tunneling amplitude by exploiting Eqs.~\eqref{dualweiss} and~\eqref{tkl1}, namely
\begin{equation}
S_0^{(wc)}(T)=\frac{1}{4}\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)(4\pi)^{\frac{2}{g}-2}\frac{\Gamma^4(\frac{1}{g})}{\Gamma(\frac{2}{g})}\bigg(\frac{T}{\mathcal{T}_k}\bigg)^{\frac{2}{g}-1}\,\mathcal{T}_k
\label{neww}
\end{equation}
and consequently from Eq.~\eqref{rig2} the linear coefficient for a generic $(\nu_L,\nu_R)$ junction as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\Sigma^{(wc)}(\nu_L,\nu_R,T)=&\frac{1}{4}\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{\nu_R}{\nu_R+\nu_L}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{2}{g}-1\bigg)\times \\
&\times(4\pi)^{\frac{2}{g}-2}\frac{\Gamma^4(\frac{1}{g})}{\Gamma(\frac{2}{g})}\, \bigg(\frac{T}{\mathcal{T}_k}\bigg)^{\frac{2}{g}-2}.
\label{ut}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Notice that for $\nu_R = 1$ and $\nu_L = 1/3$, this last equation reduces to the result derived in Eq.~\eqref{sigwc} for the weak coupling limit $T\ll \mathcal{T}_k$.
Now, the strong coupling limit can be studied using the weak-strong duality transformation, introduced in Section~\ref{duality}, where we consider the electron-quasiparticle substitution for the charge $e \to e^*=g e$ and for the filling factor $g\to 1/g$. By focusing on the strong coupling limit we consider $\Lambda'$ instead of $\Lambda$ as depicted in Fig.~\ref{fignew}(d). According to this, Eq.~\eqref{nw} leads to
\begin{equation}
S_B^{(sc)}(T)=\bigg(\frac{{e^*}^2}{2\pi}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{2\Lambda'}{\omega_c a}\bigg)^2 \bigg(\frac{2\pi}{\omega_c}\bigg)^{2g-2} T^{2g-1} \frac{\Gamma^2(g)}{\Gamma(2g)}.
\label{ns}
\end{equation}
It is worth mentioning that the weak-strong duality transformation amounts to consider a dual system which can be treated in the weak coupling limit, i.e. perturbatively in $\Lambda'$. According to this, at equilibrium, the tunneling current noise maps into a backscattered current noise, hence the notation $S_B$.
Using the expression for $\mathcal{T}_k$ from Eq.~\eqref{tkl1}, we can rewrite the equilibrium backscattering noise in the strong coupling regime for all filling factors as
\begin{equation}
S_B^{(sc)}(T)=(4g)^2\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg) \bigg(\frac{4\pi}{g}\bigg)^{2g-2} \frac{\Gamma^4(g)}{\Gamma(2g)}\bigg(\frac{T}{\mathcal{T}_k}\bigg)^{2g-1}\mathcal{T}_k.
\end{equation}
The noise associated with the tunneling current is then readily obtained from its backscattering counterpart by accounting for a bare equilibrium noise contribution linear in temperature which ends up dominating the transport for temperatures $T \gg \mathcal{T}_k$.
In the end, it leads to the total equilibrium tunneling noise in the strong coupling regime
\begin{equation}
S^{(sc)}_0 (T)=\bigg(\frac{e^2}{2\pi}\bigg)4 g T - S^{(sc)}_B (T).
\end{equation}
In this case, the linear coefficient of the $\Delta T$ noise can be written as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\Sigma^{(sc)}&(\nu_L,\nu_R,T)=\bigg(\frac{e^{2}}{2 \pi}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{\nu_R}{\nu_R+\nu_L}\bigg)\bigg[4g +\\
&+(4g)^2 (1-2g)\bigg(\frac{4\pi}{g}\bigg)^{2g-2}\frac{\Gamma^4(g)}{\Gamma(2g)}\bigg(\frac{\mathcal{T}_k}{T}\bigg)^{2-2g}
\bigg].
\end{split}
\label{sigma_sc}
\end{equation}
which then reduces to Eq. (\ref{sigsc}) for the $\left( 1, 1/3\right)$ junction.
As a final remark we notice that the first order contribution to the delta-$T$ noise in the temperature bias cannot be solely expressed in terms of the effective filling factor $g$. This is true for both the weak and strong coupling regimes as can be readily seen from Eqs. \eqref{ut} and \eqref{sigma_sc}. Since the linear in $\Delta T$ coefficient depends separately on $\nu_L$ and $\nu_R$, this specific signature allows us to distinguish between different filling factor combinations which nevertheless have the same effective filling factor $g$, and consequently the same equilibrium noise, such as $(\nu_{R}=1, \,\nu_{L}=1/5)$ or $(\nu_{R}=\nu_{L}=1/3)$. This further highlights the importance of the low order delta-$T$ noise as a relevant probe of the transport mechanisms at play in the general $\left( \nu_R, \nu_L \right)$ junction.
\section{\label{concl} Conclusion}
This work was devoted to the study of the non-equilibrium noise generated by a temperature gradient between two FQH systems, known as delta-$T$ noise.
We have considered an inhomogeneous QH junction and we have demonstrated the predominant contribution to the noise is linear in the temperature gradient, differently from an homogeneous junction where the first non-zero contribution is quadratic~\cite{Rech20}.
Moreover, we have considered the two Hall bars characterized by strong interaction, focusing on a coupling between the two edges whose intensity can be either considered in a weak or strong coupling regime thanks to a weak-strong duality transformation.
We have solved exactly the problem of the delta-$T$ noise for the $(1/3,1)$ junction, demonstrating that this regime enables to explore the full range of tunnel coupling and to consider any set of temperatures $T_R$ and $T_L$ without restrictions.
In addition, we have reported on a universal expression, in terms of the tunneling parameter for a completely generic junction, for the linear correction to the full delta-$T$ noise in the temperature gradient starting from the knowledge of the equilibrium noise.
Furthermore, we have demonstrated that we are able again to cross from the weak-coupling regime to the strong-coupling one by applying a duality transformation and we have reported on the asymptotic behavior of the linear coefficient of this expansion for generic values of the filling factors ($\nu_{L}, \nu_{R}$).
Finally, our approach shows the relevance of delta-$T$ noise in better understanding the transport properties of such strongly correlated systems, unlike previously considered noise contributions, since it depends on both filling factors separately rather than the sole effective filling factor describing the junction.
This work offers many interesting perspectives, essentially related to practical realizations of such temperature-biased inhomogeneous junctions. Indeed, junctions between different Hall fluids are notoriously difficult to implement experimentally and the careful investigation of their transport properties remain largely unexplored. As the magnetic field is constant everywhere across the two-dimensional electron gas, regions of different filling factors require different electron density, which is typically achieved via electrostatic gates whose close proximity leads to a severe risk of shorting each other. Several solutions have been envisioned to circumvent this issue. However, these raise several challenging problems for theoretical modeling.
One aspect that could be explored in forthcoming studies is the effect of local charge depletion at the QPC, as a consequence of electrostatic effects. This leads to a local filling factor in the region of the point contact, whose importance for transport properties has been previously underlined \cite{Lal08, Roddaro09}.
Another fascinating direction to explore is the case of long junctions, where Andreev reflection-like processes have been observed recently \cite{Hashisaka21}. This would theoretically involve multiple, randomly distributed, quantum point contacts and brings about the importance of coherence effects across these.
\begin{acknowledgments}
Authors G. R., D. F. and M. S. acknowledge the support of the "Dipartimento di Eccellenza MIUR 2018-22" (Universit\`a di Genova, DIFI). D. F. want also to acknowlege the financial support of the Second Scientific Label 2021 of the "Universit\'e Franco-Italienne". This work received support from the French government under the France 2030 investment plan, as part of the Initiative d'Excellence d'Aix-Marseille Universit\'e - A*MIDEX (authors J. R., T. J. and T. M.).
\end{acknowledgments}
| e[N_R,H_\Lambda]=\\
&=ie\Lambda \psi_R^{\dagger}(t)\psi_L(t)+\mathrm{H.c.} \\
& = ie \frac{\Lambda}{2\pi a} e^{i\frac{1}{\sqrt{\nu_R}}\phi_R(t)}e^{-i\frac{1}{\sqrt{\nu_L}}\phi_L(t)}+\mathrm{H.c.}
\label{iop}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
with $N_\alpha=\int dx \rho_\alpha(x)$ the particle numbers on each edge and where the notation only keeps track of the time dependence of the field operators omitting the fact that they are evaluated at the QPC in $x=0$. Notice that in the second line, we have rewritten the fermionic operators in terms of the bosonic ones following the prescription in Eq.~\eqref{bos}. The current operator can be rewritten as
\begin{align}
I(t) = & - e \dot{N}_R = -e \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} dx ~ \partial_t \rho_R (x,t) \nonumber \\
=& i e \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} dx ~ \left[ \rho_R (x,t), H_\Lambda \right] .
\end{align}
Since $H_\Lambda$ only involves fields at the position of the QPC, the resulting commutator is nonzero only close to $x=0$. This allows to write
\begin{align}
I(t) =& i e \int_{0^-}^{0^+} dx~ \left[ \rho_R (x,t), H_\Lambda \right] \nonumber \\
=& -e \int_{0^-}^{0^+} dx~ \partial_t \rho_R (x,t) .
\end{align}
Exploiting the chirality and linear dispersion of edge states, one can readily write $\partial_t \rho_R (x,t) = -v \partial_x \rho (x,t)$, so that the current can be expressed in terms of the densities right before ($x=0^-$) and right after ($x=0^+$) the QPC as
\begin{equation}
I(t) = ev[\rho_R(0^+,t)-\rho_R(0^-,t)].
\label{rhopm}
\end{equation}
We now consider a suitable rotation in the field space~\cite{Sandler99}
\begin{equation}
\begin{pmatrix}
\varphi_{L}(x)\\
\varphi_{R} (x)
\end{pmatrix}=
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos\theta & \sin\theta \\
-\sin\theta & \cos\theta
\end{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix}
\phi_{L}(x)\\
\phi_{R} (x)
\end{pmatrix},
\label{uno}
\end{equation}
with angle satisfying
\begin{equation}
\sin 2\theta =\frac{\nu_{R}-\nu_{L}}{\nu_{R}+\nu_{L}}.
\end{equation}
The free Hamiltonian and the coupling term are then rewritten as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
H&=H^{(0)}+H_\Lambda=\sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{v}{4\pi} \int \,dx \big[\partial_x \varphi_\alpha(x)\big]^2+\\
&+\frac{\Lambda}{2\pi a} e^{i\frac{1}{\sqrt{g}}\big[\varphi_R(0)-\varphi_L(0)\big]}+\mathrm{H.c.}
\label{coup}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
which corresponds to the tunneling between two identical chiral Luttinger liquids with effective filling factor
\begin{equation}
g^{-1}=\frac{1}{2}\bigg(\frac{1}{\nu_L}+\frac{1}{\nu_R}\bigg).
\label{gvsnu}
\end{equation}
In this way we map the problem of electron tunneling between different FQH edges to the problem of electron tunneling between two identical chiral Luttinger liquids with the same effective filling factor $g$. This mapping can be visualized passing from Fig.~\ref{fignew}(a) to Fig.~\ref{fignew}(b).
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{Fig2.pdf}
\caption{ (Color on-line) (a) Scheme of the two FQH systems with filling factors $\nu_{L/R}$ whose edges are described by the bosonic fields $\phi_{L/R}$. (b) This panel is obtained through the rotation in Eq.~\eqref{uno} which maps the original junction, with tunneling parameter $\Lambda$, between two different FQH liquids to one between FQH with the same effective filling factor $g$. (c) The rotation in Eq.~\eqref{due} decouples the problem into two separate ones: one free channel and the other describing a channel with the QPC referred as a localized impurity. (d) The duality relation in Eq.~\eqref{dualtransf} allows to map the problem of two FQH liquids in the weak coupling regime, where electrons can tunnel, to the strong coupling one described by a single FQH liquid, with filling factor $g$ and tunneling parameter $\Lambda'$. In this configuration, the quasi-particles provide the dominant contribution to the tunneling. (e) The further rotation in Eq.~\eqref{rotdue} decouples the problem into two separate ones in analogy with (c).}
\label{fignew}
\end{figure}
Moreover, a further transformation is introduced
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\varphi_{+}(x) =& \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\big[\varphi_L(x)+\varphi_R(x)\big] \\
\varphi_{-}(x)=&\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\big[\varphi_L(x)-\varphi_R(x)\big].
\end{split}
\label{due}
\end{equation}
According to this, the free Hamiltonians become
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
H_{L/R}^{(0)}=\frac{v}{4\pi} \int dx \, &\bigg\{ \frac{1}{2}(\cos\theta\mp \sin\theta)^2 [\partial_x \varphi_+(x)]^2 +\\
&+\frac{1}{2}(\sin\theta\pm \cos\theta)^2 [\partial_x \varphi_-(x)]^2 +\\
&\pm (\cos^2\theta-\sin^2\theta)[\partial_x\varphi_+(x)][\partial_x\varphi_-(x)]\bigg\}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
and their sum depends on the new fields $\varphi_{\pm}$ separately
\begin{equation}
H_L^{(0)}+ H_R^{(0)}=\frac{v}{4\pi}\int dx\, \big\{ \left[\partial_x \varphi_+(x) \right]^2+\left[\partial_x \varphi_-(x)\right]^2\big\}.
\end{equation}
Then, the total Hamiltonian of Eq.~\eqref{coup} is rewritten as
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
H&=H_++H_-=\\
&=\frac{v}{4\pi} \int \,dx \big[\partial_x \varphi_+(x)\big]^2+ \\
&+\frac{v}{4\pi} \int \,dx \big[\partial_x \varphi_-(x)\big]^2+\bigg[\frac{\Lambda}{2\pi a} e^{i\sqrt{\frac{2}{{g}}} \varphi_-(0) }+\mathrm{H.c.}\bigg]
\end{split}
\end{equation}
The transformation of Eq.~\eqref{due} allows us to decouple the problem of the two FQH liquids with same $g$ into two separate ones [see Fig.~\ref{fignew}(c)]: the first depending only on the free field $\varphi_+$ and the second one which includes the tunneling contribution and that can be written only in terms of the field $\varphi_-$.
From a physical point of view, by looking at Fig.~\ref{fignew}(a), when the two systems are totally decoupled (\textit{i.e.} $\Lambda=0$) if an electron is sent from one of the two QH bars, it is perfectly reflected at the contact and there is no net current flowing through the junction. However, as the coupling strength increases, if we consider a weak coupling limit (\textit{i.e.} $\Lambda\to 0$) for which the two edges are almost decoupled, the electrons are allowed to jump from one side to other.
\section{\label{current} Delta-$T$ noise}
The expectation value of the current operator in Eq.~\eqref{iop} is given by ($k_{B}=1$)
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{I}=\frac{1}{Z}\,\mathrm{Tr} \bigg\{\mathrm{exp}\bigg[- \sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{H^{(0)}_{\alpha}}{T_{\alpha}}\bigg] I(t) \bigg\},
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
Z=\mathrm{Tr} \bigg\{\mathrm{exp}\bigg[- \sum_{\alpha=L,R}\frac{H^{(0)}_{\alpha}}{T_{\alpha}}\bigg] \bigg\}.
\end{equation}
Here, we are assuming that, at the time $t\to -\infty$, the tunneling is switched-off and the two bars are at thermal equilibrium. This leads to the initial density matrix $\varrho_0=(1/Z)\mathrm{exp}\big[- \sum_{\alpha}{H^{ | 2,325 |
Q: flatMap() in RxJava I'm just starting out with RxJava and trying a sample project.
What I'm trying to achieve is
-> Get an object ->
which contains a list of sub-objects -> Check if the sub-list satisfies a predicate condition -> and emit the sub-objects if satisfies
This is my POJO
public class UpComingMovies {
@SerializedName("results")
private List<Movies> results;
}
public class Movies {
@SerializedName("overview")
private String overview;
@SerializedName("original_language")
private String originalLanguage;
}
So, from what I understand is that I can use flatMap and transform the item to multiple observables and then use filter saying give me movies which has originalLanguage.equals("en")
This is what I have tried to do
@GET("movie/upcoming")
Observable<UpComingMovies> getUpComingMovies(@Query("api_key") String apiKey, @Query("page") String page);
private final CompositeDisposable disposables = new CompositeDisposable();
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
disposables.add(RetrofitConnection.getService()
.getUpComingMovies(Config.API_KEY, "1")
.flatMapIterable(new Function<UpComingMovies, Iterable<Movies>>() {
@Override
public Iterable<Movies> apply(@NonNull UpComingMovies upComingMovies) throws Exception {
// does not compile - needs an iterable
return upComingMovies.getResults().iterator();
}
})
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribeWith(new DisposableObserver<UpComingMovies>() {
@Override
public void onNext(UpComingMovies upComingMovies) {
Log.d(getClass().getName(), upComingMovies.toString());
}
@Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
Log.d(getClass().getName(), e.getMessage());
}
@Override
public void onComplete() {
Log.d(getClass().getSimpleName(), "onComplete");
}
}));
}
However, it does not compile.
Cleary I do not know how to do this, any help is appreciated
A: Your filter shouldn't compile because of the previous function that generates an iterable of UpcomingMovies. In other words, that filter is expecting an observable of movies, but the previous function is mapping to an iterable of UpcomingMovies
You seem to be wanting to map UpcomingMovies into a List / Iterable of Movies
In order to do that, try starting with this Function definition
flatMapIterable(new Function<UpComingMovies, Iterable<Movies>>()
Then, you can use getResults() of the UpcomingMovies object parameter, to get the sublist, return it, then that's passed to the subsequent filter operation
In code,
.flatMapIterable(new Function<UpComingMovies, Iterable<Movies>>() {
@Override
public Iterable<Movies> call(UpComingMovies upcomingMovies) {
<|fim_middle|>)
| return upcomingMovies.getResults();
}
})
Also, if you enable Java 8 compilation with lambdas, then the code is much simpler... Reduced to one line
.flatMapIterable(UpComingMovies::getResults | 43 |
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Parochial Church Council of St Oswald's Sowerby
Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2012
Priest in Charge (Vicar from 1 April):
Revd Nicola Carnall
Independent Examiner:
Mr William Pearson ACA, FCCA
Church Architect:
Linda Lockett
Bankers:
Yorkshire Bank (Main Account)
Standard Life
Cooperative Bank
www.stoswaldsowerby.org.uk
St Oswald's Church is situated in Sowerby in North Yorkshire. It is part of the Diocese of York within the Church of England. The correspondence address is: The Vicarage, The Close, Sowerby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 1JA.
Members of the Parochial Church Council
Members of the PCC are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. In 2012 the APCM was held on 1 April.
During the year the following served as members of the PCC:
Priest in Charge:
The Revd Nicola Carnall - Chair
Churchwardens:
Heather Limbach (to APCM) - Vice Chair (to APCM)
David Tucker - Vice Chair (from APCM)
John Kennedy (from APCM)
Deanery Synod Reps:
Jill Drew
Gayle Hartley
Ruth Sladden (to APCM)
Chris Carnall (from APCM)
Reader:
Diana Wild (to APCM)
Elected Members:
Helen Ashworth (from APCM)
Emma Benoit (to APCM)
Sue Busuttil (to APCM) - Secretary (to APCM)
Keith Carley (from APCM)
Margaret Creighton
Robert Coupland (to APCM)
Helen Irving (from APCM) - Secretary (from APCM)
Graham Merriam (from APCM) - Treasurer
Chris Penfold (to APCM)
Ruth Sladden
Margaret Turner
Pauline Alderson
Euan Mitchell (to APCM)
Co-opted
Sam Chapman (from APCM)
Structure, governance and management
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is a corporate body established by the Church of England. It operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The PCC is registered as a separate charity with the Charity Commission.
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. All Church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.
Objective of the PCC
St Oswald's PCC works with the Priest-in-Charge, the Revd Nicola Carnall, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.
Review of the Year
Mission Theme
At St Oswald's we try to live out Jesus' call to love God and love our neighbour.
Our main decision-making body is the Parochial Church Council which meets six times a year or more as needed. This is supported by the Standing Committee, consisting of Vicar, Churchwardens, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition there are a number of working groups which report to PCC. Our Deanery Synod Representatives continued to attend meetings during the year and to report back to the PCC.
There were changes for St Oswald's in 2012. On 27 January our then Priest-in-Charge, the Revd Nicola Carnall (who was also Priest-in-Charge of St Cuthbert's, Sessay) became in addition Priest-in-Charge of the Benefice of Thirkleby with Kilburn and Bagby. She was licensed by the Bishop of Whitby at a service in Thirkleby attended by people from all five churches. On 1 April the three benefices became a plurality and Rev Nicky became Vicar of Sowerby, Rector of Sessay and Vicar of Thirkleby with Kilburn and Bagby. On 16 September, the Rev Melodie Kimball was licensed by the Archbishop of York as Assistant Priest (House for Duty) for the plurality in a service held in Sessay. Rev Melodie works for two days a week in the plurality and lives in Kilburn Vicarage.
Service Pattern
The growth of the plurality meant that the monthly pattern of services needed to change. From February onwards, the service times were 8.30am, 10.30am and 6.30pm. At 8.30am there were services of Holy Communion on the first and third Sundays in the month, with Early Worship (a lay-led service of Morning Prayer) on second and fourth Sundays. At 10.30am there were Holy Communion services on the second and fourth Sundays, with Worship for All (a lay-led family service) on the first Sunday and Morning Prayer (led by a Reader) on the third Sunday. At 6.30pm there was Evening Prayer at St Oswald's on the first and third Sundays, with church members encouraged to attend the Evening Service at Sowerby Methodist Church on the other Sundays in the month. When there are five Sundays in the month a joint Communion service for the plurality is held in one of the churches at 10.30am.
The electoral roll at the annual meeting in 2012 was 143. Average Sunday attendance in 2012 was 65 adults and 7 children. This is a decrease of 9 adults and one child compared with 2011, which may in part be a result of the new service pattern with fewer evening services. It should also be noted that most of our work with children and families is not reflected in these numbers.
Pauline Alderson continued in the half-time post of Children & Young People's Development Worker. Under her guidance our work with children, young people and families continues to grow. Messy Church is flourishing with new families coming along and enjoying the crafts, worship and lunch. The sessions have become more frequent and we are now meeting approximately every 6 weeks.
In January a team from St Oswald's and Sowerby Methodist Church began leading 'Open the Book' assemblies at Sowerby Community Primary School and Sessay CE Primary School. A dramatized Bible story is presented, followed by a time of reflection and prayer and then a song. The head teachers of both schools are delighted with 'Open the Book' and we receive much positive feedback from the children. The frequency of our visits has doubled during the year. We are now going to each school four times a term.
Groups for children and young people continue to include: Kids' Club (takes place during Sunday services), First Friday (run jointly with Sowerby Methodist Church), Youth Group and Pram Service.
Events for children and young people this year have included a Youth Café, a visit to a Diocesan Event at Lightwater Valley, attendance at a Spree weekend run by Urban Saints at Hollybush, a Family Bonfire at Paradise Farm, a 'Turn on the Tap' charity fundraising event and 'Superheroes' Holiday Club. Preparations are being made for a group of young people to take part in Rebuild in 2014– a house-building project in Mexico. Several families attended the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham. Five members of the Youth Group were prepared for Confirmation, and were confirmed by the Archbishop of York in Northallerton in June. A St George's Day service took place in St Oswald's organised by local Scouting groups. The Diocesan Education Team held an RE day for local schools in the church and hall during the year.
During 2012 there were 12 weddings (6 in 2011), 36 baptisms (22 in 2011) and 29 funerals (33 in 2011). Our funeral ministry team has grown, with Carol Cox starting to take funerals as well as Chris Carnall and Rev Nicky. All of these 'occasional offices' involve time spent in preparation and planning, and they are a well appreciated part of the church's ministry to its parish and beyond.
Our Church building is used by a variety of groups for visits, services, concerts, etc. We continue our strong link with Sowerby Music. The Parochial Hall continues to be well used by the wider community. In June it hosted a Village Party to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Parish Council installed a new plaque in the churchyard wall to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee. They had also hoped to restore the Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee plaque, but this broke on removal, and so was replaced with a replica. The broken plaque has been stored for historical purposes.
The Parish Council have purchased an additional piece of land adjacent to our current churchyard extension and are planning to transfer ownership to the church for future burials. We expect the new extension to be consecrated in 2013. Part of the new burial ground is to remain unconsecrated at the request of the parish council. Diocesan churchyard regulations will still apply.
We continue to be grateful for the Parish Council's contribution to churchyard upkeep each year, which has included clearing snow from the paths as necessary. The Parish Council appreciates the church's input into Remembrance Sunday and Carols round the Christmas Tree.
The Luncheon Club continues to provide a cooked meal for older residents of Sowerby on a monthly basis and the Get Together Club brings older people together for social activities every week. St Oswald's has continued its support of Thirsk Clock in its work with local young people, and we continue to have a strong link with Sowerby Community Primary School. The school held their Easter, Harvest and Christmas services in church. We held a Daffodil Festival at Easter and Coffee, Cakes & Crafts in November. All these events draw in people from the wider community, as well as church members, and we are grateful to those who work so hard to make them happen.
Much informal caring takes place between members of St Oswald's and the Pastoral Care Team tries to supplement this where necessary. The Telephone Prayer Circle became an Email Prayer Circle during the year, with those not on email linked up via a friend. This has been used for urgent prayer requests on many occasions. As well as the evening services at Cherry Garth in which members of St Oswald's are regularly involved, Eucharistic ministers continue to take communion to Cherry Garth, Sowerby House, The Limes and to people in their own homes who are unable to get to church. Several visits were also made to people in hospital.
Worship, Study, Prayer & Fellowship
PCC members continue to meet for prayer before PCC meetings. Prayer and study groups were held on Tuesday mornings and Thursday evenings, and a group met on Wednesday mornings during Lent and for a short time afterwards. Mothers' Union meetings always include prayer and worship, and many special services also take place within the deanery and diocese.
In addition to the community events mentioned above, the Events Group also arranged a Parish Lunch and a Harvest Ceilidh to enable people to meet together with others from the plurality and from Sowerby Methodist Church. These were much appreciated.
A walk round all 5 parishes took place on May Day Bank Holiday, supported by people from all the churches in the plurality. Also in May, a coach-load of people attended 'Whitsun in Whitby' – an archdeaconry celebration of Pentecost held in the ruins of Whitby Abbey.
The church website is an excellent up-to-date source of information about the church and it is well used by church members and many others. The monthly Saints Alive magazine and weekly notice sheets are also used for sharing of news and information amongst church members. Sowerby Now (a joint publication with Sowerby Methodist Church) missed a quarterly issue as some members of the team withdrew. A new team put together an intermediate Christmas version, and it is hoped to bring it back in a revised format in 2013.
Developing ministry
Many members of St Oswald's are developing their gifts and using them in ministry of different kinds. The new pattern of services has given more opportunity for lay people to lead worship and we are grateful to those who are serving in this way.
We continue to be very grateful to clergy, Readers, organists, choir members, bell ringers, flower arrangers and all who lead our services, as well as to those who help to prepare the church and welcome people for worship.
Several former members of St Oswald's are pursuing a call to ordained ministry. Dan Sladden was ordained Deacon in July and is now Assistant Curate at Ingleby Barwick. Becca Stevens continues her ordination training for ministry in the Church in Wales. Rob Coupland continues as Pastoral Assistant at St Matthew's Church, Westminster, whilst exploring his vocation.
At St Oswald's we remain committed to helping people explore their calling to all kinds of ministry and service.
Mission & Giving
The PCC agreed to continue supporting CMS mission partner Tim Lee for a further 3 years. We welcomed another visitor from CMS, Susie Hart, who spoke about her work with people with disabilities in Tanzania. We are also regularly supporting Jigsaw Kids Ministries in the Philippines. Our Harvest offerings were sent to Church Army following the visit of Church Army Officer Richard Cooke to a Plurality Service in September. Many members of St Oswald's are involved in collecting during Christian Aid Week. The church continues to support Thirsk Clock through collections of food and money, and a proportion of our Christmas collections was given to Holy Rood House this year. We again gave a donation to the Family Life Church to help with the lunch they were organising for people on their own on Christmas Day. Several collections during the year were given away in their entirety, and many funeral collections are shared with the charity of the family's choice.
Our links with Sowerby Methodist Church remain strong and meetings to plan joint events and services are held regularly. Much of our children<|fim_middle|> out of poverty.
Traidcraft began in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty. It combines a trading company and a development charity in order to build lasting relationships with producers and help them to trade their way out of poverty and works to bring about trade justice.
I know that many of us buy fairly traded goods as part of our weekly shopping but we don't often realise that Traidcraft does more than provide fairly traded goods. Justice, fairness and dignity are fundamental to the way Traidcraft works, working with smaller, remote and more marginalised producers in the long term to help them develop their products to the level at which they can sell their goods with the Fair Trade mark.
For instance, seven years ago, Traidcraft began to work with a co-operative in Guatemala that now supplies them with "squeezy" honey. It has helped the people of the co-operative to raise the money to set up hive-making workshops and the planting of fruit trees. The Traidcraft team visiting the co-operative noticed that the farmers were also growing high quality coffee as a cash crop - the Traidcraft team who are always looking for new suppliers of coffee were able to advise the farmers how to bring their crop to Fair Trade certificate standards.It took time (years) and patience but it is now being sold throughout the UK.
At a Fair Trade gathering in York, I heard a farmer from Palestine who produces olive oil under very difficult circumstances say that becoming part of the Fair Trade family has made a huge difference to his family and his community - not just in terms of material benefits but also hope.
Sue Binns
Communication Group
We had a very busy few weeks prior to the Daffodil Weekend getting posters and handbills and the roadside boards out; the team worked very well together. We also did the publicity for the Coffee, Cakes & Crafts, again all seem to go well. Once again David Tucker did the press releases.
We advertise the Coffee mornings that are held at the Crown & Anchor most months, which are well attended.
The Church Directory and Come & Join Us leaflets were updated by David Brooke and are about to be looked at again to see if they need to be updated yet again.
We are looking forward to getting to grips with the Wedding Festival and all that it will entail.
We have had only 3 meeting during the year as it has been impossible to get a quorum together, so have worked with E-mails and phone calls - so we are still ticking over!
The notice boards in church are being looked at and hopefully a couple of new boards will be made in the near future.
We need new people to join the group with new ideas, anyone interested please contact Jill.
Jill Drew, Communication Coordinator
SOWERBY NOW!
Launched late in 2008 to fill the void left by the demise of 'Outlook', this quarterly newspaper delivered to every house in the parish has been struggling through 2012 as the editorial team was depleted by a combination of factors. It has been both a regular outreach to every household in the parish and a source of income which has been used to support local groups and good causes. Delivery has been achieved through an excellent team organised by Brian Marshman. However, without sufficient people to create it, its future is uncertain.
Christian Aid has had excellent support from St Oswald's Church again this year.
The house to house collection raised nearly £1,200 and our grateful thanks to the many helpers. This figure was down slightly on the previous year due to the economic situation and the fact that we were slightly short on collectors and thus unable to cover every part of the parish.
The Christmas carol singing in Thirsk Market Place raised around £150 and the Group received £250 from Park Lodge Farm. Over £6000 was raised for Christian Aid/EU partnership to support a development project in Sierra Leone. Of this, Thirsk and Sowerby raised nearly £3000.
The Christian Aid Services this year will be held in the individual churches with a Christian Aid speaker. The date for St Oswald's will be announced very soon. Christian Aid Week is from May 12th to the 18th.
Thanks to everyone who gives practical support to Christian Aid and to those who give so generously. More help is needed this coming year for the door to door collection. So please step forward as you did last year. The more collectors we have, the easier it is for everyone. Also, we find that collectors working together in small groups make the overall burden lighter and much more enjoyable.
Each month we have a speaker and these can be either religious or a little more light hearted. We started the year with the Wave of Prayer Day in January which was held in Church. In February we held our AGM and this is followed in March by our Annual Lunch at the Golden Fleece Hotel.
We visited Felixkirk Church for our July meeting and this was followed by a meal at the White Horse Lodge Hotel and Restaurant. Members also attended various Deanery and Archdeaconry events during the year.
Unfortunately two of our members died this year: Rita Stallard and Maureen Moore.
Our monthly meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month in the Parochial Hall Committee Room at 2pm. We are always looking for new members so why don't you come along to one of our meetings and see what goes on? Male members are now accepted into the Mothers' Union so don't be shy gents.
Elizabeth Worsnop
Tower Captain's Report
This has been a difficult year for us. John went away in February and did not return until the end of October. His absence meant that we could not take on any new recruits and also weakened our band and made finding enough ringers for services difficult. Heather also struggled with her shoulder problem and so significantly reduced the amount of ringing she was able to do. Further, the creation of the new benefice with the change in service times, made it difficult to use ringers from other churches on a Sunday, as we had done previously, when service times were different. Lastly, the reordering meant that it was not possible to practice for several months, which made it difficult for our young ringers to consolidate their learning.
Having said all that, by the end of the year we had a new recruit and Matt, Ben and Luke had become integral members of the band. We did ring for all the weddings wanting bells and for the Christmas Services. Luke has been successful in the sporting arena, so has not been able to come as often, but is always very welcome, as are our visitors from other churches in the new group of parishes, Thirsk, Topcliffe and Tony who we see in the summer.
Heather Limbach
The church website www.stoswaldsowerby.org.uk provides information about St Oswald's, 24 hours every day, 365 days a year, to anyone with access to the internet. It is aimed at people who don't attend St Oswald's and want to find out more, but also contains information that is useful for people who do attend St Oswald's.
In 2012 there were 5,222 visits to the site, viewing 12,803 pages (an average of 2.45 pages per visit). Around 43% of the visits were people who had visited the site before.
The most popular pages in 2012 (in order) were the home page, calendar, hall, history, people, and services.
There is also good evidence that local people do use the website to find information about the church, our activities and special services.
The latest addition to the website is the record of burials in the graveyard from April 1813 to July 1970.
I normally update the website at least once a week. Please tell me if information about your group or activity needs adding or changing. Other suggestions and contributions are always welcomed; there is almost unlimited space for text, photos, audio and video files, and email lists. Good quality photographs of church groups and activities are particularly welcomed.
Neil Irving
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Parochial Hall
The Parochial Hall is a very valuable local facility as well as providing a venue for many church activities. During the year the Management Group has worked hard to maintain the attractiveness of the building, keep good relations with our neighbours and deal with the various problems that will crop up with a building of this size! Many thanks are due to Harry Parkinson for the eagle eye he keeps on everything that happens in and around the Hall, and to Margaret Ridsdale our bookings secretary. While Margaret was temporarily unable to do this work because of an operation on her shoulder, Elizabeth Worsnop ably took on the task.
Recently we have maintained the lighting in the committee room. We hoped to have the outside and the entrance area repainted during the summer of 2012, and to have all the flat rooves renewed with state-of-the-art covering - but the summer was so wet that our contractors were unable to do much of this work, and it had to be postponed to this spring.
We have improved the toilet facilities with the help of a generous gift from Sowerby Luncheon Club, and are carrying out some further improvements in the kitchen.
Sowerby Music
This years monthly concerts have been varied, entertaining and well supported with the unusual exemplified by percussionist Toby Kearney's take on Philip Glass's 1+1 for two fingers on a live microphone head. Absolutely amazing!
'Sowerby Community Music' has been a new feature this year which has been made possible by the bequest of the late Barbara Deans. This enables us to link some of our concert artists to larger events on the same day. These include a 'Come and Sing' with The Songmen, a massed strings play through of the Brahms B flat Sextet with The Sacconi Quartet and a workshop for the Thirsk Royal British Legion Band with Tim Barber (trumpet) and Ben Thomson (tuba).
We are delighted to welcome two new Peter Chase Award recipients in Oliver Baily who is studying violin at the Royal Northern College of Music and Robert Bark studying classical saxophone at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
And, on another high note, Pat Elton from Osmotherley expresses her delight with the early phases of this season's 'Music For Life' programme in schools. She reports that each set of musicians have been 'on top form, exuding energy with good management of their groups of children and introducing some wonderful music'. She is also very grateful for the several new members who have volunteered to act as Sowerby Music's representatives with the schools on their 'Music For Life' day.
'Music For Life' is now in its 16th year, involving 35 schools and 3,950 children. The biggest outreach programme run by a music society in the UK.
Martin Hooper
Work in progress in the South Transept to create new storage areas and Treasury
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© The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Oswald Sowerby. Registered charity number 1135485. | 's work is done together. St Oswald's continues to be represented on the Churches Together Committee and to take part in events planned by the group.
The Statement of Financial Affairs shows a net outflow of unrestricted funds of £71,511. The Thompson bequest provides for a substantial element of Fabric costs and the first four years of the CandY operation. If we exclude these (Fabric and Architect costs of £63,461 and the net cost of the CandY operation of £11,068) we have a surplus attributable to the church of £3,018 for the year. Included in this surplus is a £10,000 legacy from Elizabeth Hopkinson's estate. Without that, the resultant deficit of £6,982 reflects the significant loss during the year of some of our regular giving, a reduced amount of Fees received – with the associated funeral collections – and an inflationary trend to our major overheads.
Church fabric
This has been a busy year with two significant phases of reordering work undertaken. The first phase created new storage and work areas in the north and south transepts. The second phase created a new lobby, accessible toilet, kitchen and office. In addition, heating pipes and radiators were moved to enable an open and flexible space at the back of the church, a new boiler was installed to heat the office, kitchen, toilet and the back of the church. The pulpit was removed to create a better space for the priest's stall at the front of the church. We are indebted to our Churchwardens and Treasurer who put in hours of work during the reordering.
All routine maintenance and checks have been undertaken during the year and recorded in the church log. Many people continue to help look after the building, including brass cleaners, our cleaner and those who change light bulbs.
The members of the PCC are aware of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit in "The Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit" and have had regard to it in their administration of the PCC. The PCC believes that by promoting the work of the Church of England in the parish of St Oswald's it provides a benefit to the public by providing a facility for public worship and pastoral care both for its members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the Church can offer; and by promoting Christian values and service by members of the Church in and to their communities, to the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.
Grateful thanks are expressed to all at St Oswald's who work so hard and with so much dedication for the benefit of the church and wider community. Numerous people could and should be mentioned, but for brevity only five names are listed: Heather Limbach who had served as churchwarden for six years when she stood down at the annual meeting; John Kennedy who took on the role of churchwarden as well as the role of Sexton; David Tucker who continued as churchwarden for a fourth year; Graham Merriam who, in addition to being Treasurer and Musical Director, gave a huge amount of his time and talents to the reordering process; Jean West who stepped down from the role of Sexton when she moved from Sowerby.
May we continue to love God and our neighbours near and far as we seek to serve Christ in this place.
Approved by the PCC on 6 March 2012 and signed on their behalf.
The Revd Nicola Carnall
Vicar and Chair of PCC.
Annual accounts 2012 (PDF file)
A Year in the Life of St Oswald's, Sowerby 2012 - Some of the many things going on in St Oswald's Church
Churchwardens' report
2012 was a year of great activity, mostly focused on what is blithely called re-ordering, in other words having the builders in big-time. It started in the north and south transepts with the creation of purpose-designed storage areas for everything from the flower ladies' equipment to the choir's bottles of sherry. A roofed Treasury was made in the south transept and the two aged but serviceable safes were moved there. One had minor repairs carried out by a locksmith, but the other one is in perfect condition after a good hundred years' service.
By far the major work was the stripping down of the vestry - once all the bits and pieces stored there had been either thrown out or stored elsewhere - and the creation of an office, a kitchen and a toilet and baby-changing area.
The old toilet, leaky, unheated and an awful place for mums to change babies' nappies, is a thing of memory only, and our new facility is excellent, so much so that we obtained a grant through the good offices of the Diocesan Advisory Committee from the Department for Culture Media and Sport as the new facilities are fully up to standard for disabled users.
And in between:
St Oswald's is normally open right through daylight hours for anyone to visit or pray, but it was necessary to close it to the public while a variety of tradesmen took out the old, lifted flooring stones, haggled over the position of electrical switches, hefted in wood and insulation material and so on.
The process of improving our special building goes on through 2013, but we are confident that we are making it a place that will serve the needs of all those who use it, while keeping it as a beautiful and historic building
I pay special tribute to John Kennedy who in his first year as churchwarden has worked tirelessly to keep things running.
Meanwhile, in the churchyard, we finally made progress in obtaining a further piece of land at the bottom of the churchyard to form a further extension. This is the gift of Sowerby Parish Council to whom we are very grateful, as it enables us to continue to keep the churchyard open for further burials and the burial of cremated ashes. Many people visit the churchyard, to maintain their memories of departed loved ones.
Youth group have had a packed year with visits to York minster XlS event in February for a Eucharist & Worship night.
We went to Lightwater Valley last May for the Big Night Out event - a night of fast rides, great fun which ended with a concert with Christian bands.
The younger youth had a weekend camp with SPREE last June which was on the grounds of Hollybush - despite the dreadful weather everyone had a brilliant time, we won the football knockout.
Youth Cafe and sleepover continued with a theme of 'choices' leading into the decision of some of the youth to go to Mexico in 2014 on the ReBuild housing project.
Last June 6 members of youth group went forward for confirmation with the Archbishop of York officiating at All Saints Church Northallerton.
First Friday continues to meet during term time, this is for children aged 5-11. Each session consists of games, activities and crafts, songs and Bible story through Godly Play and creative Prayer.
Kids Club continues to meet every second, third and fourth Sundays during the 10.30am service in church.
Open The Book with a team of eight people has had a successful year increasing their visits to Sowerby and Sessay schools to 4 times each term - stories covered were Joseph (amazing coat), Moses (baby in the bull-rushes), David & Goliath (large man, small stone), Samuel (sleep interrupted several times)and many more.
The older youth planned and led last year's holiday club in August. The theme was superheroes - Moses, Elisha, Gideon and Esther. They dramatized bible stories bringing them up to date for 65 children aged 5-11 attending over 4 days with a final service in church at the end of the week. And they did it very well.
We have had 7 Messy Church events plus a messy Easter since last April with themes of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Joshua, Christmas, Creation and Lent. Each session offers crafts with messy activities, worship, prayer & story followed by lunch. Many families have attended Messy Church over the last year
In October we held Soup Sausages and Songs round the bonfire at Paradise Farm, families were invited and had a great time (50 people attended)
August: Greenbelt, camping in the mud and the rain! (14 people travelled to Cheltenham - lots of fun despite the awful weather).
Events Group
The Parish Lunch, held in March, was attended by 70 people. A surplus of £268 was made, owing to the generosity of those who supplied the casseroles and pudding.
The Daffodil Festival held over Easter Weekend was very busy; people were very generous in providing cakes so we made over £720.
As part of the Harvest Celebrations a ceilidh was held jointly with the Methodist Church but the attendance was disappointing and a small loss was made. However, those there enjoyed it very much so we have decided to try another one later in the year, with more publicity.
The Coffee, Cakes and Crafts in November benefited from good weather and plenty of customers so was its usual success.
Sowerby Luncheon Club
The Luncheon Club has flourished throughout 2012 bringing excellent food and good companionship to around 40 more elderly folks virtually every month of the year. The luncheon is held at noon in the Hall on the fourth Wednesday of each month other than August - when there is a 'holiday' for the helpers and December when an informal Carol Service is held instead.
The food has been different at every lunch, ranging through Roast Ham, Beef Stew, Roast Shoulder of Pork and Chicken, Leek and Ham Pie, all with fresh vegetables, as main courses. Also Apple Crumble, Treacle Sponge and Strawberry Meringue with Cream as sweets. Plus tea or coffee, and all for just £3.
The small financial surplus from the lunches, swelled by donations has allowed the Club to make gifts to the Hall to improve the toilet and cooking facilities. Donations have also been made to Save the Children and to Christian Aid.
The Luncheon Club is a place for friendship with a wonderful atmosphere and a unique link to the Church for many older people. We had a lively, enjoyable and well supported Carol Service in December.
None of the lunches could take place without the dozen or more helpers who work hard before and on each day. Whilst most of them are St Oswald's Church members, several are not and these are particularly welcome members of 'the team'.
Eleanor Hooper
Many thanks to everyone who supports the Fair trade stall in church, at coffee mornings and other events. It is maybe difficult for us to appreciate that by supporting Traidcraft we are helping thousands of smallholders and artisans in developing countries to trade their way | 2,247 |
After Vital Heart-Valve Surgery: 'I'm Delighted to Have a New Start'
Written By: Patty Shillington
John Bakewell, a semiretired Nashville executive in the life-sciences industry, says he understands more than most the importance<|fim_middle|> Progress: Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute Marks 35 Years of Innovation | of finding the right doctor and hospital for medical care.This summer, Mr. Bakewell (pictured above) tested that philosophy in a very personal way after discovering that the lightheadedness he was feeling during exercise was caused by a life-threatening aortic aneurysm near his heart.He got to work calling a friend in the heart-valve field for referrals and learned the names of cardiac surgeons around the country capable of doing the so-called David Procedure he needed. In a highly technical and delicate open-heart operation, the David Procedure, named after the doctor who conceived it, repairs the aorta, replaces the aortic root and rebuilds the connection to the heart without replacing the aortic valve.Preserving the native valve spares the patient a lifetime of blood-thinning medications, which can have side effects that diminish quality of life, and offers the best fix for the problem. But only about a dozen cardiac surgeons in the United States have the technical skill and experience necessary to perform a successful valve-sparing aortic root replacement.Allan S. Stewart, M.D., the new chief of cardiac surgery at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, has performed more than 500 of these procedures — in 23 countries on five continents. A pioneer in innovative surgical techniques and treatments for conditions of the aorta, he came to the Institute recently from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He was one of the surgeons who performed former President Bill Clinton's quadruple bypass in 2004 when on staff at New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and he's also known for life-saving procedures on elite athletes, allowing them to return to full competition.After speaking to Dr. Stewart and completing his homework, Mr. Bakewell, 57, said "it was a very easy decision.""Dr. Stewart was highly and uniquely qualified, number one. And chemistry is important, at least to me. And there's got to be a good institution that backs him up. Because it's not just one person; it's a team."Mr. Bakewell, accompanied by his wife, Deborah, traveled from his home in a suburb of Nashville to Miami for the operation, which took place Aug. 30. He remained at Baptist Hospital for less than a week. "I was so impressed with the ICU," Ms. Bakewell said, "especially that first night."After he left the hospital, Mr. Bakewell spent some time recuperating in a Miami Beach hotel with his family. He was able to walk a mile on the boardwalk less than a week after his surgery.At his follow-up appointment, Dr. Stewart told Mr. Bakewell he was cured and could lead an entirely normal life without restrictions. He also explained how he had reconstructed the center of Mr. Bakewell's heart and fixed the aortic valve, which had a severe leak."He can go on in his life with no blood thinners, no special medications and no limitations on his activity," Dr. Stewart said.Mr. Bakewell said he was grateful for being in the position to seek out the top medical care and had an "outstanding experience" at the Institute and Baptist Hospital. "I just want to say thank you to all the caregivers and the providers who worked with me."The danger of Mr. Bakewell's aorta tearing was real. "That's what caused the death of John Ritter, Lucille Ball, Albert Einstein," Dr. Stewart said.People with symptoms of heart failure, caused by a leaking valve, may think it's an inevitable sign of aging or being out of shape. Dr. Stewart wants to dispel this myth and raise awareness that valve conditions can be treated and often cured.In his first nine weeks at the Institute, among many other surgeries, Dr. Stewart performed 12 valve-sparing aortic root replacements. The overwhelmingly majority of patients came from outside Florida, including one from Greece. "People will, and quite frankly should travel for this treatment," he said.Dr. Stewart said Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute is committed to advancing its position as a leader in minimally invasive, multidisciplinary cardiovascular care. "Baptist Heath is experiencing a meteoric rise in cardiac surgery and we're recruiting some of the best minds throughout the world in cardiac care."Dr. Stewart said he's humbled every time a patient chooses him and Baptist Health to carry out a procedure. Mr. Bakewell "has the means to travel anywhere for his healthcare — and he chose to come here."A week to the day after his surgery, Mr. Bakewell told Dr. Stewart he was feeling "great.""My recovery is happening much faster than I expected," he said. "I'm delighted to have a new start, and I'm thrilled to be back."
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General Lee in the Remembrance Day Parade.
Today is an historic day in Gettysburg – the anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address while dedicating the National Cemetery in 1863.
The release of Steven Spielberg's movie has brought renewed interest to this historic day, especially since Spielberg himself is in Gettysburg to deliver the keynote address at the annual "Remembrance Day" ceremony at the cemetery.
On Saturday I attended the Remembrance Day Parade, which is one of my favorite events in Gettysburg. Remembrance Day is dedicated to honoring the slain of Gettysburg, the veterans of that horrific battle, and the President who led us through it.
Parade coming down Baltimore Street.
The weather was fantastic for a November<|fim_middle|> a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I'm so lucky, as an historical fiction author, to live in this area and get to see these great annual events. Next year, of course, is the 150th anniversary of both the battle and the Gettysburg Address so they will be even bigger than usual. Estimates are that the anniversary events will draw four million people to this small town!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Stay safe!
Jessica James
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As you may know, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought in July of 1863, and was the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Over the course of three days, more than 45,000 men were killed, injured, captured or went missing.
Charged by Pennsylvania's governor, Andrew Curtin, to care for the Gettysburg dead, an attorney named David Wills bought 17 acres of pasture to turn into a cemetery for the more than 7,500 who fell in battle.
Wills invited Edward Everett, one of the most famous orators of the day, to deliver a speech at the cemetery's dedication. Almost as an afterthought, Wills also sent a letter to Lincoln—just two weeks before the ceremony—requesting "a few appropriate remarks" to consecrate the grounds.
General JEB Stuart & Col. John Mosby.
At the dedication, the crowd listened for two hours to Everett before Lincoln spoke. Lincoln's address–just 272 words long–lasted just two or three minutes. The speech reflected his redefined belief that the Civil War was not just a fight to save the Union, but a struggle for freedom for all, an idea Lincoln had not championed in the years leading up to the war.
It's ironic that the conclusion to his speech was: "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have | 425 |
A tweet by The Thesis Whisperer got me excited about a new book on academic writing, at a time when I was cobbling together analysis for my capstone project. Now as I prepare a manuscript for publication, Helen Sword's own stylish writing about stylish academic writing provides the much needed inspiration – and challenges – to write clearly and creatively.
Helen Sword's own stylish writing about stylish academic writing provides the much needed inspiration – and challenges – to write clearly and creatively.
Her examples of good and bad writing are deftly explained, followed by doses of sound advice and writing tips. I especially like the "Spotlight On Style" callouts which feature stellar examples of academics from a variety of disciplines who work the words to engage the audience. Sword could have well been suggesting a summer reading list for the serious writer.
My dilemma, which she also notes, is that I'm really just a novice academic, hoping for a foot into a journal or conference. Do I dare punctuate my sentences with colorful turn of phrases, only to await sniggers of rejection? And her response is this: muster up courage and don't be afraid to try new things. Consequential academic work deserves to be written well – to engage, impress and inspire.
With that call to courage, I'm going to try out some of the writing exercises she recommends, and one of them is about making verbs come alive. So with the next bout of academic writing, I shall begin the process of being more stylish.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Headway Academic Skills 3 aims to equip students in higher education with a comprehensive range of academic skills ranging from vocabulary strategies to essay planning in ten tightly packed units. It is an impressive and ambitious plan but will likely cause the student to be overwhelmed.
The ten units in Headway Academic Skills 3 cover the following topics: education and learning, health and medicine, urban planning, natural resources, international trade, history conservation, modern engineering, the Olympics, describing statistics and trends, and communication and technology. Each unit covers academic skills in four main sections in the following sequence: reading, language for writing, writing and vocabulary development. In three of the units, the topic of research skills is covered as well. At the end of each unit is a review section which brings together the reading and writing skills learned in the unit. The main sections generally follow the presentation, practice and production (PPP) approach (Shehadeh, 2005, p. 14), that is, the presentation of specific language items and/or reading or writing strategies (termed "study skills" in the book) is followed by practice through exercises such as gap fill, spotting language features and completing graphic organizers, and finally the production stage where students use the target language and skills with less guidance. The review section itself serves as an overall production stage where students are expected to reproduce the language items and study skills covered in the unit more independently. The appendix contains a word list of the main vocabulary used, complete with word class and pronunciation. There is a separate Teacher's Guide which contains tests and additional activities but is not part of this review.
According to the book summary, Headway Academic Skills 3 functions as a bridge between general and academic English, and can be used either independently or alongside a general English course. While it does not specify the proficiency level of students, the book will be helpful to both native speakers, as well as advanced ESL students who have just begun university.
The overall goal of Headway Academic Skills 3 is to equip students in higher education with academic skills such as note-taking and essay-writing, as stated in the book summary. However, since the units are content driven rather than skills driven, there is more breadth than depth in the treatment of academic skills. One exemption is reading skills<|fim_middle|> is reinforced by the largely similar nature of the tasks such as underlining words and phrases, filling in gaps and matching items with corresponding answers.
Despite its instructional flaws, Headway Academic Skills 3 has several strengths. One of them is the use of near authentic materials such as journal articles, news reports and letter to capture the range of expository writing material a university student would likely to be exposed to. Even though some of the materials were probably re-written with a more appropriate level of grammar and vocabulary, it is more important for the materials to be more easily understood while simulating authenticity than for materials to be presented in its original but less comprehensible form, especially for students who struggle with such texts (Flowerdew & Peacock, 2001, p. 185).
Another strength is that the book can be adapted for use with either native English speakers or ESL students. While ESL students would probably appreciate the straightforward and simplified language used, all students will find it beneficial to learn specific reading and writing strategies. For first language students, teachers can consider using more challenging supplementary reading material for students to practice their academic skills.
Finally, Headway Academic Skills 3 does well in having visually appealing graphics and layout. For example, most of the photos used are clear, colorful and informative. In terms of the layout, the different sections are color-coded for easy reference. In addition, important information like study skills and language rules are highlighted in boxes and placed at the side so as not to interrupt the flow of the text. However, one minor complaint I have about the layout is that there is hardly any white space on each page and the limited spacing between tasks and sections. Thus the reader will find it difficult to focus on the text at first glance.
Headway Academic Skills 3 succeeds in introducing a comprehensive range of reading and writing skills and strategies but falls short in providing integrated and meaningful practice across the units for students to master the skills. While the brightly colored photos and pages stand out, those elements will not be sufficient to engage students. Teachers who choose to use the book may make up for the lack of depth in the coverage of academic skills by being selective about which language items and strategies to focus on. Alternatively, teachers may design their own lessons and use the book's activities as supplementary material. Either way, teachers should not overlook what is useful in the book for their purposes in teaching academic skills.
Flowerdew, J., Peacock, M. (2001). The EAP curriculum: Issues, methods, and challenges. In J. Flowerdew M. Peacock (Eds.), Research perspectives on English for academic purposes (pp. 177-194). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Philpot, S. & Curnick, L. (2011). Headway academic skills 3: Reading, writing, and study skills student's book. In L. Soars & J. Soars (Series Eds.), Headway academic skills. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shehadeh, A. (2005). Task-based language learning and teaching: Theories and applications. In C. Edwards J. Willis (Eds.), Teachers exploring tasks in English language teaching (pp. 13-30). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. | which are adequately explored in each unit, as well as reinforced across units, highlighting strategies related to external text features (e.g. skimming and scanning for information), as well as internal text features (e.g. text structure and signal words). Other skills like writing and vocabulary development, however, are not as well integrated; the language features and strategies are introduced once in the unit but are hardly mentioned again in other units, thus limiting students' opportunities for developing those skills. Furthermore, the PPP approach, as stated by Shehadeh (2005), does not allow students to develop both accuracy and fluency in using language items as students tend to either end up focusing primarily on form and not fluency or focus primarily on meaning without incorporating the target language at all (pp. 14-15). Thus the lack of integration of academic skills across units and the weakness of the PPP approach undermine the very purpose of the book.
Apart from its main weakness of not providing integrated and appropriate opportunities for students to fully develop academic skills, the book also features topics which may be too impersonal for young adults to identify with. While the topics represent diverse cultures and are appropriate for a higher education audience, the approach taken does not lead students to be personally interested in the material. Activities revolve around the given reading passages or writing tasks with few opportunities for students to provide their viewpoints or creatively interact with the material provided. This lack of personal interaction | 292 |
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And it is also the second largest market for cosmetics, and the first in Asia ahead of Japan. It is largely dominated by imported high-end foreign brands, even though they are increasingly competing with Chinese brands.
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Noel Sloboda, assistant professor of English, will teach a science fiction course in summer session one at Penn State York. The six-week course will include major graphic novels, novellas, and films that define the genre. Summer session one begins May 12.
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Science fiction is the topic of a new English course offering this summer at Penn State York. Science Fiction (ENGL 191) meets from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays and is part of the first six-week summer session at the campus which begins May 12.
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Sloboda is the author of the poetry collections "Our Rarer Monsters" (2013), "Stages" (2010), and "Shell Games" (2008). He has also written several chapbooks, most recently "Circle Straight Back" (2012).
A graduate of Washington University, Sloboda earned a masters and doctorate in English and American studies. He also holds a bachelor of arts in English and philosophy from Connecticut College. He was the recipient of the 2005 James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching at Penn State York and the 2006 recipient of the campus' | 248 |
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"I told him that today at practice. You go from reading cards and just kind of freelancing and making plays, and then you've got to make sure you've got the play call. There might be a check involved. You have to have a motion go in place. You've got other things going on. And oh, by the way, on a certain play you've got to have a great play-action ball fake and then you've got to plant your feet in the pocket and throw the ball. It's no longer 'run around and go make plays.'
"He and (freshman quarterback) Jeff (Smith) are working very hard, but that's a very unfinished product right now."
Ready or not, here comes Notre Dame. On Saturday, with a playoff berth hanging in the balance, Sheldon Day won't take pity on an offensive line that allowed seven sacks apiece against NC State and Louisville. Jaylon Smith won't sense Fadule's confusion and offer a helping hand.
Waves, after all, never stop crashing.
"I've seen a lot of football now, and I've seen the highest level of defenses in the SEC," Addazio said. "Those are two guys that are as elite as I've seen in my career."
Addazio knows a thing or two about quality defenses, as his own unit leads the country in total defense, allowing just 236.5 yards per game.
But a defense alone can't win a football game, especially one featuring as potent an opponent as Notre Dame.
If he can't find some offense, the captain will go down with his ship.
"Are we going to play hard? Yes. Are we going to be physical? Yes. Will we compete really hard? Yes," Addazio said. "We'll do all of those things. And if we can take care of the football and play a clean game in terms of execution, we'll battle our tail off out on that field and we'll have a great opportunity to win that football game."
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Unfortunately for Boston College, the waters have been unforgiving.
Imagine, head coach Steve Addazio says, that the boat represents Boston College's troubled offense. Since the beginning of the 2015 season, quarterback Darius Wade, running back Jon Hilliman and tight end Mike Giacone — all starters — have been lost due to injury.
These are holes in the boat, which is gradually filling with water.
Next, bring on the waves. Florida State, Wake Forest, Clemson, NC State. Each formidable defense punishes Boston College's shaky youth. The waves crash into the boat's creaky foundation, and the holes multiply and expand. The waves keep pounding, pounding, pounding. They are relentless, and meanwhile, the boat begins to sink.
"We're playing the very elite of our conference, which is the very elite in America, which this year happens to be some of the best defenses in the country," Addazio said. "Well, it all happened to go at a time when we were rebuilding and got hit with some serious injuries on one side of our football (team).
"That perfect storm, so to speak, is tossing the ship around … heavy. You know? You take on water."
For Boston College, losers of six consecutive games, the proof is on paper. The Eagles rank 91st nationally in rushing offense (153.2 rushing yards per game), 121st in scoring offense (17.3 points per game), 124th in passing offense (123.4 passing yards per game, only ahead of four option offenses) and dead last in total offense (276.6 yards per game).
This boat isn't sinking. It already sank.
"These are a lot of guys right out of high school," Addazio said. "They have a hard time digesting — understanding defenses, understanding pressure, understanding what they're seeing across and then applying a game plan. It's a work in progress, and it's going to be a work in progress."
Against Notre Dame, Addazio is looking for just that: progress. A pulse. A sign of life.
He needs to find it, first and foremost, in his quarterback — true freshman walk-on John Fadule.
"He's got to take another step," Addazio said of Fadule, who passed for 25 | 488 |
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Рональд Райт (; 26 ноября 1971, Вашингтон (округ Колумбия), Округ Колумбия, США) — американский боксёр-профессионал, выступающий в средней весовой категории. Чемпион мира в 1-й средней (версия WBO, 1996—1998; версия IBF, 2001—2004; версия WBC, 2004; версия WBA, 2004) весовой категории. Также известен как Винки Райт.
1988—1999
Дебютировал в октябре 1988 года. Выступал в 1-м среднем весе. В начале карьеры (с 1990 по 1999 годы) колесил по всему миру, так как не имел интереса со стороны зрителей. Это объяснется не зрелищным стилем — техничный бокс с постоянным джебом и отсутствие нокаутирующего удара.
В августе 1994 года вышел на чемпионский бой против обладателя титула по версии WBA Хулио Сесара Васкеса. Это был странный бой. Васкес 5 раз посылал Райта в нокдаун, но большого преимущества в бою не имел. Тем не менее, за счёт снятых баллов за падения, Райт проиграл.
В мае 1996 года Райт вышел на бой против чемпиона в 1-м среднем весе по версии WBO Бронко Маккарта. Райт победил раздельным решением.
В августе 1998 года Рональд Райт отправился в ЮАР на бой с небитым намибийцем Гарри Саймоном. В равном бою Райту присудили победу большинством голосов судей. Однако через некоторое время, когда он уже переодевался в раздевалке, ему сообщили, что произошла ошибка — на самом деле победил большинством голосов победил Саймон. Так как Райт не был известен в мире, то скандала не получилось.
В марте 1999 года Уинки в элиминаторе нокаутировал Деррика Грэхема.
1999-12-04 Рональд Райт — Фернандо Варгас
Место проведения: Чинук Винд Касино, Линкольн Касино, Орегон, США
Результат: Победа Варгаса решением большинства в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Чемпионский бой за титул IBF в 1-м среднем весе (3-я защита Варгаса)
Рефери: Джо Кортес
Счет судей: Дебра Барнс (112—116 Варгас), Джим Ховард (113—115 Варгас), Дэвид Хесс (114—114)
Вес: Райт 69,85 кг; Варгас 69,90 кг
Трансляция: HBO
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (115—113 Райт)
В декабре 1999 года Райт встретился с звездой американского бокса непобеждённым нокаутером чемпионом в 1-м среднем весе по версии IBF Фернандо Варгасом. Это был 1-й бой Варгаса, в котором он не смог нокаутировать противника. Мало того, Райт имел преимущество в бое, однако судьи большинством голосов неожиданно отдали победу Варгасу. После объявления результата зал недовольно загудел. На карте Харольда Ледермана значилась победа Райта, на карте Ларри Мерчанта — ничья. После этого спорного поражения Райта заметили в США, и он далее выступал только у себя на родине.
2000—2003
В июне 2000 года состоялся Райт вышел на элиминатор против старого знакомого Бронко Маккарта. На этот раз Райт победил соперника единогласным решеним.
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В феврале 2002 года Уинки нокаутировал Джейсона Папиллиона.
В сентябре 2002 года Райт в 3-й раз вышел против Бронко Маккарта. Маккарт был дисквалифицирован в 9-м раунде за постоянные удары ниже пояса.
В 2003 году Райт успешно защитил свой пояс чемпиона против Хуана Карлоса Кандело и Анхеля Эрнандеса.
2004-03-13 Рональд Райт — Шейн Мосли
Место проведения: Мандалей Бэй Ресорт энд Касино, Лас-Вегас, Невада, США
Результат: Победа Райта единогласным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Чемпионский бой за титул WBC в 1-м среднем весе (1-я защита Мосли); чемпионский бой за титул WBA в 1-м среднем весе (1-я защита Мосли); чемпионский бой за титул IBF в 1-м среднем весе (4-я защита Райта)
Рефери: Тони Уикс
Счет судей: Чак Джиампа (117—111), Дейв Моретти (117—111), Пол Смит (116—112) — все в пользу Райта
Вес: Райт 69,90 кг; Мосли 69,90 кг
Трансляция: HBO
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (117—111 Райт)
В марте 2004 года состоялся бой за звание абсолютного чемпиона мира в 1-м среднем весе между чемпионами по версии IBF Рональдом «Уинки» Райтом и версиям WBC и WBA Шейном Мосли. Райт уверенно за счёт джеба победил по очкам.
2004
В ноябре 2004 года состоялся реванш между Райтом и Мосли. На этот раз Райт выиграл большинством голосов. После этого боя Райт поднялся в средний вес.
2005-05-14 Рональд Райт — Феликс Тринидад
Место проведения: ЭмДжиЭм Гранд, Лас-Вегас, Невада, США
Результат: Победа Райта единогласным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Отборочный бой за титул WBC в среднем весе
Рефери: Джей Нейди
Счет судей: Дуэйн Форд (120—107), Дэйв Моретти (119—108), Джерри Рот (119—108) — все в пользу Райта
Вес: Райт 72,60 кг; Тринидад 72,60 кг
Трансляция: HBO PPV
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (119—108 Райт)
В мае 2005 года он встретился в элиминаторе с ещё одной звездой мирового бокса пуэрториканцем Феликсом Тринидадом. Райт за счёт джеба доминировал весь бой. Удары Тринидада в основном приходились в блок. В конце 9-го раунда Тринидад ударил Райт в резинку трусов. Рефери снял за это с пуэрториканца очко. После боя Тринидад заявил об уходе из бокса.
2005
В декабре того же года состоялся ещё один отборочный бой между Рональдом Райтом и Сэмом Солиманом. Райт победил по очкам.
2006-06-17 Джермен Тейлор — Рональд Райт
Место проведения: ФедЭкс Форум, Мемфис, Теннесси, США
Результат: Ничья раздельным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Чемпионский бой за титул WBC в среднем весе (2-я защита Тейлора); чемпионский бой за титул WBO в среднем весе (2-я защита Тейлора)
Рефери: Фрэнк Гарса
Счет судей: Чак Джиампа (115—113 Тейлор), Рэй Хоукинс (113—115 Райт), Мелвина Лейтэн (114—114)
Вес: Тейлор 72,60 кг; Райт 72,20 кг
Трансляция: HBO
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (114—114)
В июне 2006 года Рональд Райт вышел на бой против чемпиона мира в среднем весе по версиям WBC и WBO Джермена Тейлора. Тейлор выбрасывал большее количество ударов, но Райт успешно защищался за счёт блока. К концу боя у Тейлора закрылся правый глаз. По окончании поединка мнения судей разделились — была объявлена ничья. Неофициальный судья Ледерман выставил счёт 114—114. Ничья получилась и у комментатора Ларри Мерчанта. Недовольный вердиктом судей, Райт покинул ринг, не дав послематчевого интервью телеканалу HBO.
2006-12-02 Рональд Райт — Айк Куартей
Место проведения: Ст. Пит Таймс Форум, Лас-Вегас, Невада, США
Результат: Победа Райта единогласным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Рейтинговый бой
Рефери: Фрэнк Сантори младший
Счет судей: Дейв Моретти (117—110), Дон Трелла (117—110), Питер Трематерра (117—109) — все в пользу Райта
Вес: Райт 72,20 кг; Куартей 71,20 кг
Трансляция: HBO
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (117—109 Райт)
В декабре 2006 года Райт встретился с Айк Кворти. В конце 2-го раунда Райт провёл несколько ударов в голову противника, и тот, слегка зацепившись за ногу Райта, упал на колени. Рефери отсчитал нокдаун. Куартей не согласился с ним. В середине 7-го раунда Райт провёл встречный левый кросс в голову противника. Куартея повело, и он едва не упал. Однако рефери, прервал поединок и отсчитал нокдаун. Райт победил единогласным решением судей.
21 июля 2007 Бернард Хопкинс — Рональд Райт
Место проведения: Мандалей Бей Ресорт энд Касино, Лас-Вегас, Невада, США
Результат: Победа Хопкинса единогласным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Рейтинговый бой
Рефери: Роберт Бёрд
Счет судей: Глен Хамада (116—112), Дейв Моретти (117—111), Гленн Троубридж (117—111) — все в пользу Хопкинса
Вес: Хопкинс 77,1 кг; Райт 77,1 кг
Трансляция: HBO PPV
Счёт неофициального судьи: Харольд Ледерман (114—114)
В июле 2007 года Райт вышел на ринг против Бернарда Хопкинса. Бой прошёл в промежуточной категории — между 2-м средним весом и полутяжёлым. Поединок был равным. В начале 3-го раунда Хопкинс, оттолкнувшись от канатов, врезался головой в левую бровь противника. У Райта сразу же открылось кровотечение. Рефери приостановил бой и направил к Райту доктора. Врач разрешил продолжить бой. Хопкинс весь бой действовал на грани фола — клинчевал и бодался головой. Рефери делал устные замечания, но ни разу не оштрафовал его. По окончании поединка судьи единогласным решением отдали победу Бернарду Хопкинсу. Неофициальный судья телеканала HBO Харольд Ледерман счёл, что бой закончился вничью.
11 апреля 2009 года Рональд Райт — Пол Уильямс
Место проведения: Мандалей Бей Ресорт энд Касино, Лас-Вегас, Невада, США
Результат: Победа Уильямса единогласным решением в 12-раундовом бою
Статус: Рейтинговый бой
Счет судей: (119—109), (119—109), (120—108) — все в пользу Уильямса
Трансляция: HBO PPV
После 21-месячного перерыва Уинки Райт встретился с Полом Уильямсом. Бой проходил в рамках средней весовой категории. Райт проиграл вчистую. Двое судей отдали Райту только 5-й раунд, а третий судья все раунды отдал Уильямсу.
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Nokia's move to the Windows Phone OS took the "wind" out of possible volume sales of Intel smartphone chips this year, but the chip maker has moved on, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said this week.
Intel has had no success so far in the smartphone space. The company currently offers a low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Moorestown, which has found no adopters. Intel and Nokia last year partnered on the development of the Meego OS for mobile devices, but Nokia in February abandoned the OS to establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft's Windows Phone OS. Windows Phone OS does not work on Intel's chips, and Otellini said the crumbling of the partnership has forced Intel to pursue other companies to adopt Medfield.
"It's one thing to partner with Nokia, it's another thing to partner with [smaller vendors]," Gold said. Major vendors such as Nokia bring volume shipments worldwide, while the smaller vendors may provide a slower entry for Intel into the smartphone market.
LG is a major vendor that has shown interest in the Meego OS and could adopt Intel's Medfield chip, Gold said. Intel has virtually no presence in the smartphone market, and can only go up, Gold said.
When the Medfield processor is delivered, Intel will compete with ARM, whose low-power processors go into most of the world's smartphones today. ARM processors are considered more power efficient than Intel's Atom, which have been derived from PC chips.
"It's not an easy market to get into and it's not a market Intel has been in," McCarron said.
But beyond a continued cycle of scaling down the size of chips, Intel's Otellini argued that Intel's advantage over ARM will be a robust computer architecture that can scale and a wider array of communication capabilities. Intel earlier this year acquired Infineon's wireless division, and has said it will implement technology acquired through the acquisition, such as 3G and 4G radios, inside future Atom chips.
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Otellini said Intel will also have a strong position in the smartphone market because of support for multiple operating systems such as Meego, Google's Android, and Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS. The operating systems going ahead will have much better cross-platform support, and it will be easier to move from ARM to Intel or ARM to ARM, especially with Windows.
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Portland Art Museum's New Exhibition Features French Sculptor Rodin
by Elisa Klein | Jan 14, 2017 | Features, News
Portland, OR. The Portland Art Museum is getting ready to present Rodin: The Human Experience—Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections. The exhibition of 52 bronzes by the groundbreaking French sculptor Auguste Rodin opens January 21st and runs through April 16th. It is being staged in Portland to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the artist's death.
One of the greatest artists of his time, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) revolutionized the art of sculpture. While his works always remained faithful to nature, he departed from traditional practice in seeking to reveal the creative process. This exhibition of bronzes will demonstrate Rodin's particular passion for modeling the human form in clay, the medium in which his hand and mind are most directly evidenced.
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917), Fallen Caryatid with Urn, modeled 1883.
Gustav Mahler, 1909, Bronze.
The selected bronzes in the show represent the major achievements of Rodin's long career. They include powerful studies for The Burghers of Calais, as well as works derived from his masterpiece, The Gates of Hell. Others, such as The Night (Double Figure), demonstrate his experimentation with assemblage. Rodin: The Human Experience also features sculptures, such as Monumental Torso of the Walking Man, which demonstrate Rodin's admiration for Michelangelo, and Dance Movement D, which speaks to his interest in understanding how the body moved.
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Rodin's ability to use bronze to represent living flesh and his interest in expressing extreme psychological states were highly influential upon younger artists, both in Europe and America. Rodin: The Human Experience reveals why the artist is considered the crucial link between traditional and modern sculpture.
The Museum will present a variety of public programs and tours in conjunction with the exhibition, including an opening lecture by exhibition curator Judith Sobol, Executive Director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
This exhibition has been organized and made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Host curated by Dawson Carr, Ph.D., The Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art.
LEAD SPONSORS: Laura S. Meier, Andrée H. Stevens; MAJOR SPONSORS: Walter Clay Hill and Family Foundation, Ameriprise Financial and Columbia Threadneedle, Clark Foundation, Exhibition Series Sponsors; SPONSORS: Richard and Janet Geary Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, CHEHALEM; SUPPORTERS: The Jackson Foundation, Ann Flowerree, Willa M. Kemp, Lisa and Shawn Mangum, Shirley N. Papé, Judith Wyss, The Holzman Foundation; EDUCATION SUPPORTERS: Elizabeth Lilley, Mr. and Mrs. David Willmott.
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Last weekend I strolled over in the early morning sunshine to take in the Vancouver Orchid Society's Spring show. Walking down the gentle street between home and the venue my eyes wandered to early flowering plum trees, their pale pink blooms and buds just awakening. Needless to say I was quite unprepared for the flower power I would soon encounter!
Moving outside the crocus-daffodil-muscari box for a moment, I'm advocating for early blooming Saxifrages. They are connoisseur plants, giving of themselves for our garden's enjoyment at a much higher level. In return they require only that we follow a few guidelines to get the best out of them.
My horticultural awakening began among the comfortable surroundings of my family's large yard. There was a healthy sized vegetable garden and many smaller flower and shrub areas on a double-sized town lot. My Dad's home work was to tame the site and create beautiful outdoor spaces, and he must've seen some budding keenness in me. I was happy when he granted me a space of my own. I found some small rounded rocks to define the small bed under a cedar tree (not the best place to start!) and within its boundary I added some dark soil and began to play. I cared for one primrose, one tulip, even a shrub (Ribes sanguineum, if I recall accurately) and I noticed the first Spring that<|fim_middle|>Another great passion I cultivate is all about a country and its people: Japan. In the mid 1990's I journeyed to see a different slice of life. It was amazing, stretching my imagination beyond its boundaries. Since then I've experienced it from Hokkaido in the north to Yakushima in the south, in over ten visits. I lived for part of a year in Hiroshima. During this time I made many friendships and learned a great deal, and I've gained a moderate ability with its complex language. In short, I've progressed! Now I have family, business and friend connections, and in two years I plan a move to live there. And so this leads me to my blog, Plant Oriented.
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Humans have maxed out the atmosphere's carbon dioxide limit, destroyed the coral reefs, melted the polar ice caps, and even found a way to create earthquakes for the last drops of fossil fuel left in the ground. But it's Earth Day, so we have to try to celebrate the victories. Here are some of the best moves we've made since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
While the environment is less healthy than it was in the past, American policies meant to protect what's left of it have come a long way since the first Earth Day.
The Clean Water Act, established in 1972, was the first law to ensure regulations for U.S. waters. In the same year, the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act was established to prevent ocean dumping.
The Clean Air Act, established in 1970, regulates emissions of harmful greenhouse gases. It's the reason we no longer have deathly smog, like the cloud that killed 168 people in November of 1966.
The view to the south from the Empire State Building on Nov. 24, 1966, one of New York's worst smog days.
The Environmental Protection Agency, established in 1970, is probably America's greatest environmental achievement. It led to momentous federal research on air, land, and water safety and conservation, and coaxed policymakers to set standards to protect wildlife and human health.
The Endangered Species Act of 1973, is the only U<|fim_middle|> in 2016, and nationwide, 42 gigawatts' worth of panels are installed — enough to power 8.3 million homes. Also, about 260,000 Americans work in the solar industry.
American inventor John B. Goodenough designed the first lithium ion battery in 1980 — a rechargeable battery that's now used in green tech such as electric cars, solar cells, boat motors, surveillance systems, and smartphones.
Tesla Model S charging up.
It's not all doom and gloom: With a little government intervention, a few bright minds, and some crazy enough ideas, humans can succeed in saving the world we appear to be destroying. In the spirit of Earth Day, let's focus on how far we've come and garner some optimism for where we're going next. | .S. law that gives rights to wildlife. Because of this act, we've saved bald eagles, grizzly bears, gray wolves, humpback whales, manatees — and, thanks to global efforts, pandas!
Fifty years ago, Americans had a feeling something was wrong with the natural environment — but they just weren't sure what. Since then, science from multiple fields has overwhelmingly pointed at climate change as the culprit. Similarly, scientific breakthroughs have elucidated a lot of the other problems humans deal with day to day.
In 1995, Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina, and Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for their perseverance in studying ozone depletion. As early as 1970, Crutzen became the first scientist to notice that the ozone layer was depleting, linking this damage to nitrogen oxide released by aircrafts. In 1974, Rowland and Molina demonstrated that CFC gases, or freons, also damaged the ozone. Together, this research led to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to completely phase out the use of CFCs in refrigeration devices, aerosol sprays, and solvents.
When Rachel Carson's controversial Silent Spring was published in 1962, it sent scientists scrambling to link the use of DDT — the so-called "miracle" pesticide that was used everywhere to kill mosquitoes — to the rapid decline of bald eagle populations. In 1972, the U.S. government banned the use of DDT, and sure enough, by 2007, the bald eagle population made a full recovery.
In 1999, a team of scientists found the connection between the rapid death of coral reefs and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This notable study has sparked almost two decades of intense research on marine biodiversity. Although the reefs are still in grave danger, the original study has helped spark several movements aiming to save this vital part of the Earth's ecosystem.
In response to many climate change disasters, such as sea level rise, increased drought and flooding, glacial melt, deforestation, and fossil fuel depletion, numerous large-scale organizations now exist to defend nature.
Greenpeace, founded in 1971, has quickly become one of the country's leading environmental action groups. It's known for its outrageous life-threatening stunts; its first — and still most notable — achievement was sailing a small boat into Amchitka island off the coast of Alaska, putting its passengers in harm's way to stop nuclear testing in the area.
The U.S. Climate Action Network, also a huge proponent of environmental action, has worked with the United Nations to meet climate goals since the negotiation of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
The Ocean Conservancy, founded in 1972, has made significant progress in protecting the world's oceans and is one of the few organizations that focuses solely on marine life. In the past 25 years, its volunteers have removed 144 million pounds of trash from beaches during the International Coastal Cleanup and have also derailed proposals to reopen international trade in sea turtle products, ending Japanese imports of Hawksbill sea turtle shells.
America's eco-friendly technology has lead to the burgeoning renewable energy movement and may be just what the country needs to finally kick fossil fuels to the curb.
Electric Cars are disrupting the auto market for the first time since their inception. Today's most promising zero-emissions cars include Elon Musk's Tesla Model S, the Fiat 500e, the Chevy Bolt, the BMW i3, and the Mercedes B250e.
Okay, America didn't invent solar energy, but it is certainly getting better at installing solar panels nationwide. According to the Solar Energy Industry Association, 14.8 gigawatts' worth of solar energy panels were installed | 794 |
"Rising Stars" featured 11 boxing bouts. In the main event, Filipino boxers Kenny "Big Heart" Demecillo, 26, and Michael "Gloves on Fire" Dasmarinas, 26, competed<|fim_middle|>ving Junco and managed by Omega Pro Sports International.
Demecillo and Dasmarinas's bout was set in four three-minute rounds. They competed in the bantamweight division with Danrex Tapdasan as the referee.
After 12 three-minute rounds, the bout was left in the hands of the judges. Silvestre Abainza scored the bout 116-112 while Greg Ortega and Gil Co scored it 115-113 and 117-111, respectively.
In the end, Tapdasan raised the hand of Dasmarinas, who was declared the winner via unanimous decision. The loss downgraded Demecillo's professional boxing record to 14 wins, 5 losses and 2 draws.
On the other hand, Dasmarinas now has 29 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw. By winning at "Rising Stars," he has a chance to face IBF World bantamweight champion Emmanuel Rodriguez of Puerto Rico. | in an International Boxing Federation Bantamweight Championship title eliminator.
Dasmarinas stands 5'6″ and weighs 118 lbs. His boxing style is southpaw and he is the reigning International Boxing Organization World Bantamweight Champion.
Representing Hardstone Monis Boxing Gym, Dasmarinas made his professional boxing debut on January 15, 2012. Trained by Epetacio Agapay and managed by Ringstar Management, he is a former Philippine Boxing Federation Bantamweight Champion, an Interim PBF Super Flyweight Champion and a two-time World Boxing Council Youth World Super Flyweight Champion.
Demecillo stands 5'5″ and weighs 118 lbs and his boxing style is orthodox. He is a former World Boxing Federation Intercontinental Bantamweight Champion, a two-time WBF Asia Pacific Bantamweight Champion and an Interim World Boxing Association Oceania Bantamweight Champion.
Representing Omega Boxing Gym, Demecillo made his professional boxing debut on March 18, 2012. He is trained by Julius Er | 232 |
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Maleno appointed ACE USA head
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The ACE Group has announced Chris Maleno as the new president of its US division.
Maleno will be responsible for operations in the company's US-based retail commercial property and casualty franchise.
He will report to chairman of ACE North America, John Lupica, who said of Maleno's appointment<|fim_middle|> strong underwriting acumen well suited to lead the next phase of growth in our US retail franchise."
Maleno started at the company in 2007 as ACE USA's president of regional operations, before becoming president of the casualty risk division.
By 2011 he was appointed chief operating officer of ACE USA.
Maleno has nearly 25 years of experience in the industry. Before joining ACE he held various senior roles in casual underwriting and regional operations management.
Appointment, ACE, USA | : "Chris has made tremendous contributions to ACE since joining the company six years ago and has been a driving force in the growth and expansion of ACE USA's products and services.
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My CHASE-funded placement at the archive of the Cinémathèque française, where I spent three months taking stock of films pertaining to their sub-Saharan African collections, has informed and transformed my ongoing PhD research in profound ways.
My research at Goldsmiths is investigating the implications of the internet for contemporary poetry and poetics: as a primarily text-based medium radically shifting the coordinates of communication; as a catalyst for contemporary textual saturation; and, of course, as a digital space where poetry is read, published and disseminated.
The Institute for World Literature (IWL) is a month long program of seminars, lectures, colloquiua and panel sessions convened by David Damrosch of Harvard University. It offers a dynamic space for more than a hundred scholars from across the globe to study questions and debates around world and comparative literary disciplines.
On 12th and 13th February 2016 The Courtauld Institute of Art hosted a Joint Annual Renaissance Early Modern Postgraduate Symposium, entitled "Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400-1800". The two-day conference stemmed from shared research interests of four PhD Candidates at<|fim_middle|> research can be informed by less traditional academic approaches and also group work.
The overlap between textual and material cultures is hardly a new concept. From ages past, when the majority of the population was illiterate, objects have been understood to possess a powerful legibility of their own. And with the simultaneous increase in consumer culture and print dissemination, the written word was often accompanied with a price tag. Words are goods, regardless of their quality. This is pertinently true of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals, and was at the forefront of this workshop's material and digital witness.
I have been studying at Kent now for almost five years and have been to Canterbury Cathedral countless times for research, workshops, seminars, carol concerts, and two graduations; I even see it every morning when I eat my breakfast, but I try not to take this familiarity for granted. Approaching the library and archives via Christchurch Gate is always exciting and as I made my way around the cloisters to the Dean's steps I thought how fitting it was to be examining the material aspects of the written word within a stone's throw of the site of the cathedral's medieval scriptorium.
The Consortium for the Arts and Humanities for South East England (CHASE) welcomed Matthew Taylor as a keynote speaker at the inaugural Encounters conference that marked the first cohort of Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded doctoral students, and their supervisors, from the seven universities of CHASE.
Matthew Taylor is chief executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Taylor has a sustained interest in social change. | The Courtauld, working both in the Renaissance and Early Modern sections.
by Tatiana Bissolati, Chloe Gilling (The Courtauld Instituties of Art, CHASE-funded students) and Naomi Lebens and Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings (The Courtauld Institute of Art).
I am currently one month into a 4 months part time placement at BUFVC in London. I am working on a research project to do with newsreel cameramen who worked during the war and digitising tapes from a documentary about newsreel cameramen shot in 1981 called 'They Made News'.
I am researching patrons of art in the Umbrian towns of central Italy, in the years 1480 to 1510, and in particular I am interested in tracing networks of patrons in this area at a time that a flowering of patronage of artists. Having spent time of researching existing scholarship, last year I came to a point no doubt familiar to many scholars, when I had questions that were not going to be answered without going to the primary source. It was time to start my archive research.
My CHASE placement entailed working for two months as a Project Coordinator for the Institute of Contemporary Arts' Luis Buñuel retrospective. This terrific opportunity to be behind the scenes of an institution that promotes an understanding of radical art and culture brought me into close contact with a broad spectrum of activities.
Challenging Gender, Embracing Intersectionality? was a fantastic CHASE symposium right at the end of November at the Open University in Camden. Student led, it was a great event to be part of as a CHASE student, giving me the opportunity to meet up with some other students that I'd met at different CHASE events last year. The timing was great, coming right after the Encounters conference, and it felt like a natural continuation of discussions from some of the groups we were in.
Autonomy of Self was my first curated group exhibition, bringing together moving image and photography from across the former Ottoman territories to explore how individuals are using the human image to refuse violence and conflict. Consequences of the Empire's collapse in 1922, and the impact of subsequent interventions from "Western" states still resonate in the identity and actions of countries in this territory today.
The Royal Holloway Picture Gallery is a hidden treasure-trove of Victoriana. A vast oblong room with an ornate bas-relief ceiling and walls crowded with epic paintings in gilt frames, it conveys an almost obscene sense of ostentatiousness appropriate to the period. As a small group, we were almost swallowed up by the space and were privileged to be granted exclusive use of it for the day. Dwarfed by the epic grandeur, you would be forgiven for assuming that the picture gallery belonged to a palace. Indeed, the Royal Holloway campus is modelled on the Chateau de Chambord.
Once a narrow territory, now, the scholarly field of sound is extending beyond its disciplinary boundaries; its traces can be increasingly found within the academic fields of media archeology, politics, aesthetics, science, and others. Aurality, as a connecting inter-disciplinary agent, brings voices, bodies, notions of power and resistance, questions of art and forms of reception, into a lively debate – one that not only offers alternative methods and conceptualization approaches, but also introduces new forms of knowledge.
Following on from the success of last year's inaugural event, I am very pleased to be a co-convener of the 2nd Royal Musical Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group's second workshop on the Philosophy of Human+Computer Music, which will be held in the University of Sheffield on 27th May 2015.
'From Above and Below' was an event I recently curated at the Mosaic Rooms in London, which brought together a series of investigations into the shifting parameters of contemporary warfare. The intention of the event was not only to convey the position or physical viewpoint - from above - which the state apparatus utilises as part of modern day conflict, exemplified by the use of armed drones and aerial bombing.
The workshop as a whole was genuinely practice-led. The way that conversations developed from this and ideas were investigated through actual activity provided a palpable example of how conventional | 876 |
007 Week: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
After dispatching a deadly assassin in For Your Eyes Only (1981) James Bond (Roger Moore) makes a joke.
He quips that the killer "had no head for heights."
In a funny kind of way, the same observation could be made of this follow-up to Moonraker (1979).
It has no head -- or appetite -- for heights, either.
Instead, For Your Eyes Only is a dedicated re-grounding of the James Bond mythos and one that deliberately dials down the silly humor of the previous entry. Instead of focusing on space age jokes, this Bond film obsesses on matters of earthbound import such as revenge.
Virtually every aspect of this 1981 Bond entry suggests a back-to-basics approach in terms of the 007 character, his world, and the style of storytelling, even.
For example, For Your Eyes Only opens with a scene reminding viewers of Bond's deepest, most grievous loss, the death of his wife Tracy. After that painful memory, the film then proceeds through a gadget-less but fast-paced adventure in which Bond must depend not on technological trickery, but rather his own instincts and skills if he hopes to survive.
Likewise, the film's central car chase involves, approximately, the world's least romantic-looking car.
As these and other facets of the film make abundantly plain, the intent in For Your Eyes Only was clearly not to make another jokey roller-coaster ride with flourishes of fantasy and outrageous humor, but a legitimate thriller instead, one with moments of significant suspense and high intrigue.
The filmmakers succeeded admirably and more than that, found a useful idea on which they could hang their tale. The central leitmotif of For Your Eyes Only, as mentioned above, is revenge.
Is revenge right?
Is it useful?
It is it inevitable, given human nature, and human loss?
From the film's pre-title sequence (featuring an unnamed but recognizable Blofeld…) and its Greek heroine's quest to avenge patricide, to the violent rivalry between Kristatos and Columbo, For Your Eyes Only explores the concept of revenge fully, if not always deeply.
As Bond himself notes in the film's final moments, revenge is "not the answer" to anything.
Beautifully shot, and remarkably suspenseful in a few notable places, For Your Eyes Only remains Roger Moore's best turn as the iconic secret agent.
"The Chinese have a saying: Before setting out on revenge, dig two graves."
The British spy ship St. Georges is struck by a mine at sea, and goes down before the officers can self-destruct its most vital system, the ATAC (Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator), which has the capability to transmit orders to England's fleet of Polaris submarines.
When the Soviet Union's General Gogol (Walter Gotell) learns that he could get his hands on the valuable device, he contacts an agent in Greece to acquire it for him.
Meanwhile, James Bond, Agent 007 (Moore) is also tasked with obtaining the ATAC.
Bond's first step in that hunt is to follow a hired gun named Gonzalez (Stefan Kalipha), the man is responsible for murdering a British operative, Havelock, and his wife, in the waters near the St. Georges' last known position.
Also determined to find -- and kill -- Gonzalez is Havelock's lovely daughter, Melina (Carole Bouquet).
After Melina succeeds in her quest, Bond gets her to safety, and must follow his second lead instead: the man who paid Gonzalez for the Havelock hit: Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard).
Bond travels to Italy in pursuit of Locque, and his contact there sets up a meeting with Arius Kristatos (Julian Glover), a Greek businessman and informant who has worked before for England.
Kristatos informs Bond that Locque is employed by a criminal boss known as "The Dove," or Columbo (Topol).
When Bond meets "The Dove" for himself, however, he learns that Kristatos has framed Columbo, and that Kristatos is a Soviet agent…the very man attempting to acquire the ATAC.
Racing against the clock, Bond and Melina retrieve the ATAC from the sunken St Georges, but Kristatos is aware of their location, and prepares to take possession of it for himself…
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For Your Eyes Only is a back-to-basics Bond film, and a wonderful one at that.
The film opens with sadness…and franchise history.
We see Bond visiting the grave of his dead wife, and her tombstone is marked with the legend "We have all the time in the world."
This scene represents a remarkable bit of continuity with On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which is widely considered the biggest failure of the franchise. It was so disliked a film for so long, in fact, that Tracy wasn't even mentioned by name in the follow-up Bond film, Diamonds are Forever (1971).
Bond was going after Blofeld with a vengeance in that film's pre-title sequence, but there was not one word spoken about Bond's marriage, his wife, or Tracy Draco.
Yet For Your Eyes Only remembers both Bond's marriage, and the tragedy that followed the wedding. The first shots of the film are of a graveyard, and of Bond bringing flowers solemnly to Tracy's grave.
He doesn't say anything -- his thoughts are private -- but there is heaviness about Moore's Bond here.
But the significant point is that this is not Plastic Man.
This is not Luke Skywalker, either.
This is a man that has known love and tragedy in his life. Bond is a person like any other person, and one not immune to the dangers or vicissitudes of life. That's a key aspect of the literary Bond character, and one that needed to be projected immediately in For Your Eyes Only if there was to be a course correction from the outlandish (though undeniably entertaining…) Moonraker.
After the opening scene's acknowledgment of Bond's humanity and history, For Your Eyes Only goes to great lengths to keep the secret agent away from his trademark gadgetry. In fact, the gadgets in the film are deployed not as aids to Bond…but literally as jokes.
The first such joke involves Bond's Lotus Esprit. He parks the stylish car, locks the door, and activates a "burglar protection system."
When bad guys attempt to break the unoccupied car's windows, the Lotus explodes into a million pieces.
Some burglar protection system! I think it's called a "self-destruct device," actually.
But the up-shot of the car's destruction is that Bond cannot rely on his fancy ride to get him out of trouble.
He will not have the benefit here of ejector seats, missile-launchers, or any other high-tech trickery. He's going to have to go it alone, with only his wits and instincts as co-pilots…
…in a Citroen 2CV, the pokiest, most light-weight car you can imagine.
Yet -- in what could be the motto for For Your Eyes Only -- Bond (and the filmmakers) turn this poky, light-weight, bright yellow car into a strength instead of a weakness. In the exciting car chase that involves the Citroen, Bond finds that it is more maneuverable than his opponents' big, heavy vehicles, and uses that quality to steal a win.
This car chase sequence remains amazing, not only because it follows a joke about Bond's gadgetry, but because it re-establishes viscerally Bond's unparalleled skill as a driver. He's got nothing else to fall back on here, and so he drives back-wards, downhill, and even weaves and dodges his way to success.
As one would expect of a Bond film, the stunts in this sequence are spectacular, but it's a nice de-glamorization of the Bond universe to see 007 driving not a very expensive sports car, but a clunker instead.
The only other gadget in the film is Q's Identigraph, a device which allows Bond to identify Locque, using the data files of Interpol, etc.
At one point, Q (Desmond Llewlyn) turns Locque's nose into what Bond calls "a banana," and again, the idea transmitted is simply that technology is fallible, and therefore not always useful. The skill of the user is the thing that matters, not the device itself.
The film's McGuffin, the ATAC (heir to the Lektor of From Russia with Love [1963]) transmits the same notion. The officers aboard the St. Georges are not able to destroy the device, and so all of England -- and the West itself -- is imperiled by the existence of a small, unassuming typewriter-like device.
If the gadgets are mightily de-romanticized in For Your Eyes Only, so are the schemes of the Bond villain, Kristatos in this case.
As you may recall, Drax (Michael Lonsdale) in Moonraker sought to wipe out the human race from his space station in Earth orbit, and then re-seed the Earth with his hand-picked super-people.
By contrast, Kristatos merely attempts to to steal the ATAC and make some money off the theft.
Kristatos is also a sadist -- as his act of keel-hauling proves dramatically -- but he's a more realistic, more nuanced figure than either Stromberg or Drax were.
In fact, Kristatos is kind of petty, even, sending Bond to kill his rival, Columbo so he doesn't have to expend the energy himself.
In terms of action, For Your Eyes Only is exhilarating, in part because director Glen often adopts the first-person point-of-view in the chase sequences, particularly in the ski-chase and inside the bob-sled track.
This P.O.V. angle literally lands us in the action, and though the feelings of speed and acceleration are incredible, so is the feeling of reality. This is not something "faked" like the outer space adventure of Moonraker, for example.
Moore's Bond also seems more world-weary and less fresh-faced in this entry. I know that many fans believe that Moore was too old, at this juncture, to play the role effectively, but I like Moore's Bond with a little age on his face, in For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy (1983), specifically.
He's still an attractive, able-bodied man, but with age comes wisdom, and also the appearance of a more knowing, perhaps more fatigued demeanor. I think Moore's appearance works well in conjunction with the character's story in For Your Eyes Only. Bond stopped being "dashing" and "fresh-faced" a long time ago. He's seen much mileage since those days.
As I wrote above, For Your Eyes Only revolves largely around revenge.
The opening scene sees Bond execute his final, fatal revenge upon Blofeld, the man who killed his wife. Bond offs this dastardly opponent with appropriate glee, given what Blofeld cost him.
But then, after exorcising his own vengeance, Bond counsels Melina not to further pursue her own. She has already killed the man directly responsible for her parents' death, and Bond doesn't want to see her make violence and revenge a way of life.
This advice is intriguing. Bond wants to spare Melina his own journey, either because he has recognized this impulse for revenge in himself, or because he has beaten that impulse within himself. The movie doesn't specify which happens to be the case, but it's enough that Bond notes the Chinese proverb about seeking revenge, and digging two graves.
Melina, however, doesn't want to hear Bond's words. She compares herself explicitly to Electra, the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. When her father was killed by Aegisthus, Elektra plotted revenge with her brother, Orestes, and that revenge consisted of murder.
Revenge also comes into the picture with Kristatos and Columbo: rivals who hate one another, and will do anything to destroy one another. Every slight, every attack, is countered so that their conflict continues endlessly. This is the very example Bond fears for Melina: a cycle in which she can't let go of her hatred, or the need for violence. A cycle which kills innocents, like the Countess, Lisl.
Bond's understanding, finally, about revenge seems to involve the answer he gives Gogol, after destroying the ATAC: "Détente."
At some point, enemies -- like the East and West in the Cold War -- must put aside slights, hurts and rivalries, and attempt to move forward. If that doesn't happen, the two-sides will be locked forever -- like Kristatos and Columbo -- in an undying rivalry of violence and bloodshed.
Screening For Your Eyes Only again this week, I was struck by how tense and suspenseful the film remains. I noted this suspense in three key scenes: at the ski tower, were Bond is bullied and pushed into a jump, underwater, in his battle with an enemy in a heavy diving suit, and finally during the ascent to Kristatos' St. Cyrils mountaintop headquarters.
That final sequence, with Bond scaling a mountain, is nerve-wracking, in particular. There's no music accompanying his climb, just the noise of the wind howling all around him. Similarly, when a bad guy attempts to knock James from his high perch, we hear the jangling sounds of the villain banging the butt of his gun into the metal hooks which keep Bond tethered.
There's also the sound, here, of ropes stretching and straining as they struggle to hold Bond's weight.
Bill Conti's musical score does not kick in until Bond dispatches the henchman, and gives the order for Melina and Columbo to proceed. When the score commences, it's a variation of the famous 007 theme, and you'll sigh in relief at the comfort (and triumph…) that the familiar tune provides after such sustained, carefully-generated anxiety.
In For Your Eyes Only, the push-button Bond of Moonraker is gone, and we get in his stead a man who feels pain, who remembers his history, and who uses his instincts -- not his toys -- to stay alive.
The result of all these efforts to re-ground Bond is a great entry in the canon, and the best Roger Moore 007 film of all.
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How Data is Destroying Our Schools
A few weeks into my first year as a teacher, my colleagues and I met for our first "data team" meeting of the year.
Our principal had printed results from the previous year's standardized tests and given a copy to each of us.
"Take a few minutes to look at the data, and then we'll decide what inferences we can make from it," he instructed.
He had a book with him – something with "data coaches" in the title – and was following a protocol laid out within.
I looked at the graphs, then – smiling – at my principal.
Surely he was joking.
At that point in the year, I had only five students – four third graders and one fifth grader – in a self-contained special ed classroom for kids with severe emotional disturbances. They were children who had experienced extreme trauma and abuse, and who struggled to get through a day at school without an attack of panic, rage, or violence.
All five had gotten one's – the lowest possible score – on the previous year's math and reading tests.
"Ms. Kennedy," our principal said flatly, "what inferences can you make from this data? This is how we will be planning our instruction for the year."
It was my first time experiencing the absurdity of data-driven education, but far from my last.
Several years later, I made the terrible mistake of taking a position at a newly formed charter school in Brooklyn that modeled itself on the "no excuses" design of Success Academy and Achievement First.
The school was eerily silent – the kids stiff and expressionless – and this was because according to the data, there was no time for the "scholars" to talk.
We had only a few short months to get them to score 3's and 4's on the state test – our goal was 90%, because that's what other charters were doing, and anything less would be excuse-making – and so we shut them up while showing them tricks to getting the problems right on<|fim_middle|> of metrics on social services like education to help inform investors as they build their portfolios, while nonprofits like Strivetogether are building public-private data sharing networks across cities.
In addition to directing federal dollars to incentivize Pay for Success schemes, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2016 is jam-packed with grant money to shift schools to competency-based, blended, and/or personalized learning models – all conduits for data collection.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley titans have grasped hands with investors to develop products and services that deliver data-based learning. Most of their products rely on behaviorist-based approaches – a controversial method of stimulation and reward to produce target behaviors that can be easily tracked and measured.
Nationwide, private foundations are seeding the investment market by funding lobbying, "will-building," and "building public demand" campaigns to remake education into one that facilitates a tradable market. (See here for one example from education blogger, WrenchintheGears, of the networks that have been built between private foundations, research organizations, and investment firms.)
Teachers, who are being asked to navigate a profession that no longer makes sense, are now leaving in droves.
Fortunately, at least some organizations are beginning to take a stand against the Wall Street takeover of public education. The Massachusetts Teacher Association, for example, recently announced its opposition to a public-private partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and LearnLaunch. The partnership, known best by its acronym, MAPLE, was established with seed money from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation – the primary driver of data-based education reform in New England.
The question now stands: will other organizations follow suit?
Will more teachers get the courage to stand up and say enough is enough?
Or will Wall Street takeover public education once and for all?
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 7, 2017 July 7, 2017 14 Comments on Is Wall Street About to Take Over Public Education Once and for All?
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The fact that there are people exposing the abuse that takes place in these schools gives me some comfort, but I still have nightmares.
A few years later, I found myself, at the school I now work at in Maine, swimming in assessment data about my students, and was so tired of looking at crude, commercial graphs from Pearson and McGraw Hill that never told me anything I didn't already know about my students, that I decided to take the data and enter it into a statistical software program that I'd acquired during my short time as a research analyst.
I was – somehow – still under the impression that all of this data was actually meant for me.
And so I played with it for hours, searching for some kind of worthwhile insight that might actually help me in my classroom.
And – for a moment – I thought I'd found one.
There was, I discovered, an unmistakably strong correlation between my students' performance on one of the "math probes" we gave them periodically with how they performed on the "NWEA" exam.
I showed one of my self-made graphs to a colleague and joked that I could use it to place bets on which kids would meet their "target" on the NWEA and which wouldn't.
Maybe, I thought, I should spend more time prepping for those probes. We had a grant for merit-pay that year, and more kids meeting their NWEA target would translate into a bigger bonus for me.
The idea, of course, was foolish – a stupid and selfish way to use data that made my blood go cold with memories from my time at the charter school.
Eventually I put the statistical software away.
A few years later, after hours upon hours spent searching for answers, I know that the data was never really meant for me.
That brief aha moment, where I discovered the correlation between two assessments, is precisely the type of "insight" that our Wall Street overlords are searching for: the programs and assessments that are most likely to generate the "outcomes" that will get them paid for their investments.
Their blood doesn't run cold at the thought of placing bets on kids, or rigging the game to generate profitable outcomes.
For whatever reason – maybe because they are too far away from actual children – investors and their policy-makers don't seem to see the wickedness of reducing a human child in all his wonder and complexity to a matrix of skills, each rated 1, 2, 3 or 4.
And so now, we must not only be teachers, but pretend that we are trained psychologists as well – collecting not only academic data, but data on students thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs.
"Social-emotional" data is rapidly becoming the new holy grail – worth millions? Maybe billions?
There are teachers who will read this and think I am wrong. They have heard the drum-beat of data-driven education since they first decided to become teachers, and they – like me, a few years back – still believe that the data is meant for them.
It isn't.
Data is destroying education, and we need to stop it before it is too late.
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 31, 2017 4 Comments on How Data is Destroying Our Schools
A House of Cards, Built on Kids
In 2006, in a presentation to ReadyNation marked "Strictly Private and Confidential," Paul Sheldon of Citigroup proposed a new way to finance preschool: early childhood student loans.
Non-profit organizations could borrow from banks or student loan companies, said Sheldon, and then offer loans to government organizations or individuals. Then, the loans could be pooled and turned into asset-backed securities, and – voila! – an early childhood education market would be created, worth as much as 10 billion dollars.
The idea of preschoolers saddled with debt, however, was clearly going to be too controversial.
Over time, Citigroup's model was reworked into the more palatable "social impact bond," which are now proliferating across the country.
These bonds, which are really private loans made to government or non-profit agencies with repayment contingent upon pre-determined "outcomes," are sold under the premise that they can help tax-payers save money in the long-run by preventing the need for remedial services.
According to ReadyNation founder, Robert Dugger, however, evidence that such programs actually result in cost savings need not meet the burden of scientific proof. As long as the evidence is "strong enough to provide funders with reasonable assurance that they will get their money back," the program can be considered a go.
One of the first social impact bonds in the U.S. was financed in 2012 by J.B. Pritzker and Goldman Sachs for a pre-K program in Utah, with investors claiming it would prevent children from requiring costly special education services down the road.
"We were able to make the sell to the Salt Lake County based on a benefit-cost analysis that we did with their staff," explained Janis Dubno, an investment banker at Sorenson Impact, in a conference call with the "Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group."
But thus far, there has been no indication that the program has resulted in an cost savings for Salt Lake, or that the program has been beneficial for children involved.
Goldman and Pritzker, however, have gotten the full pay-out from their investments.
With the prospect of near-guaranteed return on investment and a derivatives market waiting in the wings, it should come as no shock that the same bankers that played fast and loose with subprime mortgages (Pritzker and Goldman included) are now eyeing not only early childhood education, but also K-12 programs as a chance to further line their wallets with these bonds.
And with little public scrutiny, the effort to get them off the ground has been quiet but massive, with the country's largest and most well-endowed foundations working alongside investors to seed the market nationwide, and education policy shifting to serve up the data necessary for such investments.
In addition to wreaking havoc on teaching profession, violating children's privacy, and drying up local school budgets, one has to wonder if the move toward social impact bonds may be setting us up for another market crash.
"Big asset bubbles," explains Gerald Epstein of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, "such as we saw in the housing market in 2004-2007…can be very dangerous because they are usually fed by massive increases in debt… which leads to dangerous interconnections and the building of a financial house of cards."
If Epstein is right, how long until the cards topple?
And at what cost?
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 24, 2017 2 Comments on A House of Cards, Built on Kids
Dear FBI: It's Not Just the Dolls You Should Be Worried About.
On Monday, the FBI published a public service announcement alerting parents that "smart toys" and entertainment devices for kids may be collecting vast amounts of data about their children.
"The collection of a child's personal information combined with a toy's ability to connect to the internet or other devices raises concerns for privacy and physical safety," the notice warns.
Major news outlets across the country are now sounding the alarm, encouraging parents to research privacy agreements and to find out who has access to their children's data.
Despite the sudden and urgent concern for children's privacy, however, the reports have thus far ignored the biggest elephant in the room…
the fact that massive data collection is happening in our schools every single day.
As school districts across the country implement one-to-one digital device initiatives, school testing policies shift to include ongoing "formative" assessments, and data collection expands beyond academics to include highly sensitive psycho-social information, data collection in schools is at an all time high.
Thus far, however, news outlets like NBC and CBS have given a free pass to CEO's like Jose Ferreira of Knewton, who boasts that his company is able to "collect thousands of data points on each student each day," and Steve Midgley of the Federal Learning Registry, who advocates putting sensors and cameras in Smartboards to collect data on classroom performance.
To my knowledge, they haven't once questioned the United Way of Salt Lake, who recently developed a video encouraging parents to waive their Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) rights so that organizations across the city can share sensitive student information with one another, nor have they warned the public about the extent of information being stored about children in State Longitudinal Databases.
Have you seen any reports on NBC News about the effort to include "social-emotional" data about children in school report cards, or plans from the World Economic Forum to use technology to teach these skills by embedding data collection into "innovative new technologies – such as wearable devices, virtual reality and apps – [that] enable students to master important social and emotional skills" ?
Meanwhile – though the FBI is right to point out the threat of child identity fraud and the potential risk of exploitation – there was nothing in the PSA warning about the biggest hucksters of them all: Wall Street bankers who are determined to use data to restructure the way we pay for social services in order to create a trillion dollar derivatives market.
FBI? It's not just the dolls you should be warning us about.
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 19, 2017 1 Comment on Dear FBI: It's Not Just the Dolls You Should Be Worried About.
Wall Street Zombies: Coming Soon to a Pre-K Near You
In July of 2013, beneath the veneer of Dr. Seuss, some of the nation's wealthiest and most influential power players met to discuss one of Wall Street's latest profit-making schemes: reaping big financial rewards off early childhood education programs.
The event – titled, ever so quaintly, "Oh the Places We'll Go! The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education" – was hosted by the Center for American Progress and America's Promise Alliance spin-off, ReadyNation, each of whom are among the country's leading proponents of social impact bonds (SIB's) and eyeing pre-K expansion as an opportunity to prove just how profitable the financing model can be.
"The goal is to facilitate creation of "invest-in-kid bonds," explains a report prepared by ReadyNation and The Kauffman Foundation, "that can be underwritten individually or aggregated into asset-backed securities, which can be invested in by individuals and institutions worldwide."
And it's a wolf in sheep's clothing that can be tough to spot.
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, investors hoping for their piece of the pie pushed politicians to make early childhood education a key part of their platforms, knowing the value that many parents and educators see in these programs.
Groups like Save the Children – run by one of the nation's biggest cheerleaders for SIB's, Mark Shriver – ran television ads and put up billboards urging voters to "tell our next president to make early childhood education a priority!" In February, the Brookings Institute ran an article urging newly minted education secretary, Betsy Devos, to "embrace early childhood education."
Even the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council appears to have made early childhood education a priority in its annual state report cards.
But… what are we really being sold?
Lenders – no surprise – say their programs are all but working miracles. Goldman Sachs, for example, recently claimed its investment in a Utah pre-K program had helped almost 99 percent of the children it was tracking avoid special education in kindergarten.
Researchers, however, were quick to point out the faulty statistics involved in their claims of success.
"Even well-funded preschool programs — and the Utah program was not well funded — have been found to reduce the number of students needing special education by, at most, 50 percent. Most programs yield a reduction of closer to 10 or 20 percent," Nathaniel Popper wrote in the New York Times.
Other researchers have expressed concerns about the quality of the programs they are implementing. The goal for investors is to bring these programs "to scale," which means cutting costs and finding short-cuts to achieve metrics that generate pay-outs. With elite organizations like the World Economic Forum calling for the development of digital apps to teach "social emotional" skills, and the rapid advancement of digital learning programs for young children, it's likely that investments will go toward putting more i-pads in the hands of young children.
Parents concerned about their children's privacy should also take note: data collection is the fuel on which social impact bonds run.
"It's the key ingredient to this," said Bill Crim, senior vice-president at United Way Salt Lake, whose organization is facilitating the pre-K experiment in Utah and recently went so far as to create a video encouraging parents to waive their Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) rights.
"That's the price of entry," he said of the data being gathered.
Please don't get me wrong: high quality early childhood education can be a truly wonderful thing.
But this?
This is a scam.
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 17, 2017 July 17, 2017 1 Comment on Wall Street Zombies: Coming Soon to a Pre-K Near You
The Real Reason Your Child is Being Psychologically Profiled at School
In an article from May in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Aida Cerundolo warned parents that public schools may be psychologically assessing their children without consent.
"The mental-health information teachers are now obtaining, storing and tracking…is equally as sensitive as that which is collected in a pediatrician's office," Cerundolo says.
And she's right.
Tests like the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment, which ask teachers to rate students on how often a child "carr[ies] himself with confidence" or "cope[s] well with insults and mean comments" are being used with increasing frequency in public schools across the country, without parental consent or adequate privacy protections.
But where did this sudden interest in assessing children's "social and emotional" skills come from? Is it really nothing more than a "noble" endeavor, meant to identify students in need of intervention, as Cerundolo claims?
Or is there more to it?
As with most education fads that sweep the nation, there is much more to the story – and be forewarned: it gets ugly.
When the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – now called ESSA – was reauthorized in 2015, a provision was included encouraging states to include non-academic performance measures in their accountability plans.
"[The] law calls for … a shifting away from the narrow focus on academics," explained Ulrich Boser, author of "Learning Mindsets and Skills: An Opportunity for Growth with the Every Student Succeeds Act," in an article in NEA Today.
As a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), Boser is fully aware of the value of this non-academic data.
CAP is one of the nation's leading drivers of Social Impact Bonds (also called "Pay for Success") – a system in which private lenders provide upfront capital for social or educational programs, in return for payment with interest when programs reach agreed-upon "outcomes."
These bonds, while still in the early stages nationwide, are already generating big payments for banks like Goldman Sachs – and investment groups are preparing to launch a derivatives market on top of the bonds. It's a market that experts predict will reach into the trillions of dollars over the next few years.
And investors are already turning their attention to the "value" social-emotional (SEL) data can play in making these bets.
Using dubious statistical analysis to claim that big financial rewards are possible from social emotional programs, groups like the "Social Emotional Learning Alliance for Massachusetts" are now lobbying aggressively for the advancement of social impact bonds.
Nationwide, the drive to promote and standardized "social and emotional learning" outcomes is being driven by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Led by Timothy Shriver of the Aspen Institute (another organization heavily promoting social impact bonds), CASEL recently made headlines when a high-profile academic, Angela Duckworth, pulled out of its multi-district experiment in promoting "social emotional" learning.
Duckworth – famous for her research on "grit" – wrote in the New York Times that she had "contributed, inadvertently, to an idea [she] vigorously opposes: high-stakes character assessment."
But the SEL experiments and data collection continue to ramp up, with ed-tech investors and developers seeking their piece of the pie by developing games and apps meant to assess social-emotional skills.
A report from the World Economic Forum called "New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology" calls on developers to "creatively embedding SEL features into products that support foundational academic skills," and to use "innovative new technologies – such as wearable devices, virtual reality and apps – [that] enable students to master important social and emotional skills."
(You didn't really think "social emotional learning" meant investing in things like lower teacher-student ratios or school counselors, did you?)
And what of the social-emotional skills themselves? Who or what organization decides what types of skills to embed in digital apps?
Industry leaders have taken the reigns on that too, calling for a workforce with skills like "grit," and "self-discipline." Skills that generate financial return are the ones get included, the rest are tossed aside.
Even long-time reformers like Chester Finn are questioning the social-emotional skills now being promoted in schools:
"Dig into social-emotional learning's five core competencies, as laid out by CASEL," Finn wrote in a recent article in Edweek, "and you'll spot—among 25 skills students are supposed to learn—just one feeble mention of ethics and none whatsoever of morality. You won't even find such old-fashioned virtues as integrity, courage, or honesty, and certainly nothing as edgy as patriotism."
If all of this — investors using kids' psychological profiles to gamble on the results of social programs, while using technology to generate a compliant, productive workforce — sounds like a dystopian nightmare to you, know that you are not alone.
But here's the thing: they can't do it without the data… so opt your child out of this type of profiling today.
Author Emily TalmagePosted on July 14, 2017 18 Comments on The Real Reason Your Child is Being Psychologically Profiled at School
Is Wall Street About to Take Over Public Education Once and for All?
Across the country, teachers are being asked to collect, record, and slog through mountains of data that "experts" insist is meant to improve their practice.
There are pre-assessments and post-assessments, habits of work rubrics, writing prompts, social and emotional screeners, standards-based grading systems, RTI data, student learning objectives, professional growth goals, student surveys, self evaluations, administrator evaluations, office discipline referrals, results from progress monitoring programs …the data demands go on and on, and all of it must be entered and stored in learning management systems.
Recently, a few brave teachers have begun to publicly state the obvious: that we don't need all of this data to do our jobs well.
Unfortunately, no one seems to be listening, as there is a far more powerful entity that does need all this data:
As Pay for Success schemes – also known as Social Impact Bonds – sweep the country, data collection in schools is reaching new heights.
"[It's] an approach that has come of age," Andy Sieg, Managing Director and Head of Global Wealth and Retirement Solutions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said of Pay for Success contracts. "We see the confluence of investor demand, government innovation and access to data leading to the dawn of this new market."
Here's how they work: private investors provide upfront capital to start a program (a pre-K, for example). If the program meets a set of agreed-upon metrics of "success" (reducing the number of children receiving special education services, for example), investors get repaid with interest.
Despite ethical concerns and doubts about the actual public benefit of these contracts, they are rapidly advancing nationwide due to promises of big payouts for lenders. Goldman Sachs, for example, put up $16.6 million to fund an early childhood education program in Chicago, yet it is getting more than $30 million from the city. According to The Rockefeller Foundation and Merrill Lynch, the impact investing market will reach between $400 billion to $1 trillion by 2020.
And they don't intend for the profits to stop there. Investors also have plans to package these bonds up and turn them into a derivatives market. Using performance-based data to inform risk, investors will be able to gamble on these bond-backed securities just as they did with mortgages.
And so, unbeknownst to most of the public, our schools – and the teaching profession – are being remade in order to facilitate this market.
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Stonehenge is positioned at the centre of a hub, or network, of ley lines, making Stonehenge an energy portal, or a place of power. There are 14 major ley lines<|fim_middle|>. | that converge at Stonehenge making a powerful vortex. One simple method of locating ley lines is by drawing a line connecting two old ancient sites, or churches. Churches were often built on ancient sites to acquire their energy, in some cases churches were built in the site of a henge, as was Winchester Cathedral, and at Avebury a whole village sits in the middle of a henge. These ley lines interconnect all of Britain's ancient sites. The term 'ley lines', was coined by Alfred Watkins in his acclaimed book The Old Straight Track, published in 1925. In it he introduced his rediscovery of this natural phenomenon known to the ancients. His theory was that ancient sites around Britain had actually been constructed, or formed, in a given alignment between, and across, the landscapes of Britain.
There is evidence that these straight tracks were used by the ancient peoples for spiritual purposes, and also for purposes such as trading and commerce. Stone circles, long barrows, tumuli and man-made hills were aligned along the ley-lines. These were used by the Neolithic people to define sacred spaces. The oldest road in Britain, The Ridgeway, still links many ancient sites after 5,000 years, though it follows the hills and is not a straight track. The evidence of dowsers, including experts like Jude Currivan, is that ley lines align with ancient sites, and are often energy channels, rather than physical tracks, or roads, except where sacred ways, like those at Stonehenge and Avebury, follow the path of a ley line, for ceremonial or ritualistic purposes. The word 'ley' is Saxon in origin meaning 'cleared glade' which can be linked to 'lea' meaning a 'tracked of open ground'- quoted from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Watkins saw the lines as connecting leys in the forests.
What are ley lines and are they at Stonehenge?
Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book The Old Straight Track brought the alignments to the attention of the wider public.
A significant Wiltshire ley runs through Stonehenge and Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral and Clearbury Ring. Dowser Romy Wyeth, from Codford near Warminster, demonstrated to the BBC how a line of energy can be detected at the centre of Stonehenge, again at Old Sarum and running through to the Cathedral Close and beyond.The subject of ley lines – at least what they represent – is a controversial area but the strength of evidence is compelling.Many of Wiltshire's sacred sites are associated with ley lines and those who support the theory suggest that such locations act as a focus for these powerful earth energies – something of which our ancestors knew a great deal about.However, for many archaeologists, the idea is very much a matter for conjecture, arguing that it's more about coincidence than knowledge of the earth's energy lines.
A giant helps Merlin build Stonehenge. From a manuscript of the Roman de Brut by Wace in the British Library (Egerton 3028). This is the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge.
the wizard directed its removal from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by Giants, who brought the stones from Africa. After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the ring of stones. In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixes British legend and his own imagination; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument, seeing how there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury.
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the rocks of Stonehenge were healing rocks which Giants brought from Africa to Ireland for their healing properties. These rocks were called The Giant's Dance. Aurelius Ambrosias (5th century), wishing to erect a memorial to the nobles (3000) who had died in battle with the Saxons and were buried at Salisbury, chose (at Merlin's advice) Stonehenge to be their monument. So the King sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon (Arthur's father), and 15,000 knights to Ireland to retrieve the rocks. They slew 7,000 Irish. As the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed. Then Merlin, using "gear" and skill, easily dismantled the stones and sent them over to Britain, where Stonehenge was dedicated. Shortly after, Aurelius died and was buried within the Stonehenge monument, or "The Giants' Ring of Stonehenge".
Among the many legends connected with this famous site is one telling of its construction by Merlin. He was asked by Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon, to construct a fitting memorial for his brother Ambrosius and the War Lords of Britain felled by Saxon treachery in the massacre known as the Night of the Long Knives. Merlin journeyed to Ireland in search of the fabled Giant's Dance, a circle of stones which were believed to possess curative properties if water in which they had been washed was used to bathe the sick.
After a great battle, Merlin conveyed the stones by magic (or as we prefer to believe by Ridgador, the mystical winged dogs of the Stone Age) to the shore of the sea, then floated them on rafts across to Britain and set them up on the plain near Salisbury. It has been suggested that this story may contain a distant memory of the method by which the ancient blue-stones, quarried in the Prescelly Mountains far to the north, were brought by sea to the mouth of the River Avon and then taken inland on huge wooden rollers to their present site. Despite numerous theories, which claim Stonehenge to be anything from an ancient observatory to a Druid temple, little is known about the true origin or purpose of this mighty circle of stones | 1,274 |
A few<|fim_middle|> to make Jersey City a creative destination no longer sitting in New York City's shadows. | weeks ago our friends at Clearport Events invited us to an event for Jersey Fashion Week, the JCFW Catwalk in the Park. The event was held in the incredibly beautiful and historic Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal in Liberty State Park. The event featured designers Noreen Frances, Sonia Booker, Moaqua Phillips, Dominicci, Lorraine Muriello, Ange Tedego, Jean Fredeling, Swim by Lee and Benard Moore. The walk covered a wide range of styles and ideas. Bursts of colors and creativity adorned the stage all night long. Throughout the night there was also musical appearances by Clayton Bryant & The Union, Miss Nana and Nikki Lou.
Although this was my only JCFW event, I was impressed to see the immense talent and vision this side of the Hudson has and the pride Jersey brings to the table. This is all part of the movement | 179 |
Quantum Information Theory; Decoherence; Quantum<|fim_middle|> to the solid ground of sound quantum mechanics. -- II Nuovo Saggiatore "II Nuovo Saggiatore" | Error Correction; First Experimental Implementations.
"The book by Benenti, Casati and Strini is an excellent introduction to the fascinating field of quantum computation and information. The reader is gently introduced to this field starting from the basics in computation and quantum mechanics to the more advanced topics of quantum computation of dynamical systems. The book is written in a very clear way, accessible both to undergraduate and graduate students in physics, computer science and engineering."
The authors have not only considered the students and young researchers in their field, but, without explicitly saying so and with great tact, they have also thought of professors in other fields, who desperately try to keep up-to-date and to understand the formidably concise and technical articles which appear in Physical Review Letters, Nature and Science These two volumes, which I recommend to all colleagues in the aforementioned situation, take us back | 171 |
Students perform unique take on famous opera
Thomas Willingale School pupils produce unique adaptation of Spanish opera Carmen
Pupils at a primary school have created their own unique take of a famous opera by working alongside staff at the Royal Opera house.
Year 3 and Year 4 students at Thomas Willingale School in Loughton successfully conducted composer Georges Bizet's 'Carmen' in front of teachers and families.
A member of staff from the Create and Sing scheme at Covent Garden visited the school to watch the performance and was delighted with their acting and singing.
She said: "I really enjoyed the way they threw themselves into the production, and how they seemed very relaxed and having so much fun."
Aside from keeping the iconic score the same, youngsters were given the freedom to decide on the whole production.
Headteacher Teresa Phillips said: "The<|fim_middle|> in her passion for children enjoy music and performing." | children rose to the challenge and it was fabulous to see them shine at a musical genre they are probably unfamiliar with.
"We are incredibly proud of them as were their parents and families who came to watch.
"We are committed to the arts and give children a chance to succeed in as many different ways as we can.
"We are very fortunate to have a fantastic Music leader Rachel Bartels who is always forward-thinking and never relents | 84 |
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Orsat Gas Apparatus - Free download as Word Doc .doc), PDF File .pdf), Text File .txt) or read online for free. orsat. Aim: Determination of exhaust gas analysis by using Orsat apparatus. Apparatus: Orsat apparatus Theory:The combustion products are mainly gaseous. RESULT: Hence we studied the Orsat apparatus for analysis of flue gases. Determination of calorific value of a fuel by Bomb calorimeter. ➢ Flue gas analysis by ORSAT apparatus. ➢ Study of valve timing diagram of Diesel Engine.
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FLUE GAS ANALYSIS - ORSAT APPARATUS INTRODUCTION To have proper control on combustion Download ORSAT APPARATUS. To have proper control on combustion process, an idea about complete or complete combustion of fuel is made by the analysis of flue gas. Thus,. (i) if the gases. The Orsat apparatus is usually limited to the three common constituents of flue gases, and is not suitable for the analysis of a fuel gas. However, in Fig. 1 there is .
Orsat Gas Apparatus
Simple tests can be made; for example: If after the cock G is closed, the bottle F is placed on top of the frame for a short time and again brought to the zero mark, the level of the water in A is above the zero mark, a leak is indicated. Before taking a final sample for analysis, the burette A should be filled with gas and emptied once or twice, to make sure that all the apparatus is filled with the new gas.
The cock G is then closed and the cock I in the pipette B is opened and the gas driven over into B by raising the bottle F. The gas is drawn back into A by lowering F and when the solution in B has reached the mark in the capillary tube, the cock I is closed and a reading is taken on the burette, the level of the water in the bottle F being brought to the same level as the water in A.
The operation is repeated until a constant reading is obtained, the number of cubic centimeters being the percentage of CO 2 in the flue gases. The gas is then driven over into the pipette C and a similar operation is carried out.
The difference between the resulting reading and the first reading gives the percentage of oxygen in the flue gases. The next operation is to drive the gas into the pipette D, the gas being given a final wash in E, and then passed into the pipette C to neutralize any hydrochloric acid fumes which may have been given off by the cuprous chloride solution, which, especially if it be old, may give off such fumes, thus increasing the volume of the gases and making the reading on the burette less than the true amount.
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The process must be carried out in the order named, as the pyrogallic solution will also absorb carbon dioxide, while the cuprous chloride solution will also absorb oxygen. As the pressure of the gases in the flue is less than the atmospheric pressure, they will not of themselves flow through the pipe connecting the flue to the apparatus.
The gas may be drawn into the pipe in the way already described for filling the apparatus, but this is a tedious method. For rapid work a rubber bulb aspirator connected to the air outlet of the cock G will enable a new supply of gas to be drawn into the pipe, the apparatus then being filled as already described.
Another form of aspirator draws the gas from the flue in a constant stream, thus insuring a fresh supply for each sample. The analysis made by the Orsat apparatus is volumetric; if the analysis by weight is required, it can be found from the volumetric analysis as follows: Multiply the percentages by volume by either the densities or the molecular weight of each gas, and divide the products by the sum of all the products; the quotients will be the percentages by weight.
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For adjusting final volume, the three-way stop-cock is opened to atmosphere and the reservoir is carefully raised, till the level ofwater in it is the same as in the burette, which stands at mL mark.
The three-way stop-cock is then closed.
STEP 2 The stopper of the absorption bulb, containing caustic potash solution, is opened and all the gas is forced into this bulb by raising the water reservoir.
The gas is again sent to the burette.
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STEP 2 Contd.. The unabsorbed gas is finally taken back to the burette, till the level of solution in the CO2 absorption bulb stands at the constant mark and then, its stop-cock is closed. The levels of water in the burette and reservoir are equalised and the volume of residual gas is noted.
The decrease in volume-gives the volume of CO2 in mL of the flue gas sample.
STEP 3 The volumes of O2 and CO are similarly determined by passing the remaining gas through alkaline pyrogallic acid bulb and ammonical cuprous chloride bulb respectively. Then their respective valves are closed. All the air in the reservoir bottle is expelled to atmosphere by lifting the reservoir bottle and opening the three-way to atmosphere. The gas in the burette is expelled to the atmosphere to remove any air left in the joints, tubes, etc.
This procedure is repeated times to ensure a right sample of the gas taken for analysis. This is because the absorbent used for O2 i. The Orsat analysis of the flue gas shows For accurate work it is advisable to use four pipettes, B, C, D, E, the first containing a solution of caustic potash for the absorption of carbon dioxide, the second an alkaline solution of pyrogallic acid for the absorption of oxygen, and the remaining two an acid solution of cuprous chloride for absorbing the carbon monoxide.
The gas is then driven over into the pipette C and a similar operation is carried out. The gas is drawn back into A by lowering F and when the solution in B has reached the mark in the capillary tube, the cock I is closed and<|fim_middle|> the water in the bottle F being brought to the same level as the water in A. This means that the sum of the partial pressures of the remaining constituents is constant.
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I , gas enters by a rubber connection marked A , passing through a cotton filter shown, which is attached by tubing to a fitting, B, which takes any strain brought upon the connection.
The rear half of each pipette is fitted with a rubber bag, one of which is shown at K, to protect the solution from the action of the air. The reading on the measuring burette will be the sum of volume of CO2 and O2.
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List of Crap #75: Top 50 Ghosts Countdown
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(45points on 3 of 12 lists. Top Vote #1 George Harrison)
The Spectre appeared when hard-boiled cop Jim Corrigan was murdered by being stuffed into a barrel (which was then filled with cement) and drowned. His spirit was refused entry into the afterlife however, instead being sent back to Earth by an entity referred to only as "The Voice", to eliminate evil. He saw his body when he appeared at the bottom of the waterfront.
The Spectre began by seeking bloody vengeance against Corrigan's murderers in a grim, supernatural fashion. One of them turned to a skeleton upon touching him. The Spectre was eventually awarded charter membership in the first ever superhero team, the Justice Society of America. Jim Corrigan was resurrected a few years later, after which the Spectre's ghostly form enters and emerges from him, though he also functions independently. Occasionally, the Spectre was subjected to "occult occurrences" such as dislocation an hour back in time, with no explanation.
Later, the Spectre was reduced to playing the role of guardian angel to a bumbling character called "Percival Popp, the Super Cop". When Corrigan enlisted in the military and departed to serve in World War II, the Spectre became permanently invisible and disappeared for a while. Eventually, the Spectre re-emerged in the 60's with far greater power.
In the 1970's, the Spectre became a far more vengeful figure, doling out cruel and unusual death sentences to criminals and murderers with his vast supernatural power. Eventually, it was revealed that the Spectre had far more divine origins, but often needed to be merged with the spirit of a dead human as a sort of anchor, lest he become far too dangerous and zealous.
Though he fights for justice, he seems to relish the opportunity to hand out death sentences to evil-doers.
Spookiness
He's a pretty scary dude, despite being in underpants.
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Later in his life, Space Ghost hosted a talk show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which began broadcasting in 1994 on Cartoon Network. One-time villains Zorak (a giant Praying Mantis or Locust, depending on the particular episode) and Moltar (a lava creature inside a metal suit) were Space Ghost's sidekicks (with guest appearances from many other old villains, most notably Brak). The show, as well as the short-lived Cartoon Planet, was late-night show that netted Space Ghost more attention than he had in years, which may or may not have been responsible for his erratic behaviour in his later years. Celebrities interviewed by Space Ghost included Beck, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Magicians Penn and Teller, Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Joel Hodgson, Carrot Top, Jim Carrey, Jon Benjamin, Conan O'Brien,Thurston Moore, Pavement, Thom Yorke, Björk, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Goldie Hawn, Timothy Leary, and Mark Hamill.
He also may or may not be a ghost. He certainly seems convinced he is, though he may simply be mad.
He's not malevolent, but in his later years he became increasingly belligerent.
He himself isn't spooky, but his show went to some unsettling places.
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Nearly-Headless Nick
(49 points on 3 of 12 lists. Top Vote #5 Cole Stratton)
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, known after his death as Nearly Headless Nick, (d. 31 October, 1492) was a wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. He was a wizard of the royal court as an adult. He was executed by an improper decapitation, after he had a magical mishap with Lady Grieve, in which he tried to straighten her teeth but it backfired and she grew tusks. Since then, he is the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower at the Hogwarts Castle.
Little is known about Sir Nicholas's childhood. He lived in the fifteenth century and was born into the noble Mimsy-Porpington family somewhere in the British Isles. When he turned eleven, Nicholas attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was Sorted into Gryffindor. It is unknown at which subjects he excelled in, but he was apparently poor at Transfiguration. In his adulthood, Sir Nicholas openly associated with Muggles. He was knighted and was a courtier at King Henry VII's royal court.
Sir Nicholas met Lady Grieve while strolling in the park on the evening of 30 October, 1492. She was certain he could straighten her crooked teeth, but his attempt to do so backfired, causing her to grow a tusk.
Sir Nicholas was immediately taken into custody and sentenced to death as a result of this mistake. Before being locked in a dungeon, his wand was taken from him, thus preventing him from using magic to escape. Throughout the night he cried that he would soon undo the damage done to Lady Grieve.
A priest came to Sir Nicholas's cell to comfort him and escort him to the execution site at dawn the following day. He became a "gibbering wreck" when the executioner told him to kneel before the block. However, the executioner's axe was blunt, as the grindstone used to sharpen it had been misplaced. Thus, it took forty-five hacks to kill Sir Nicholas, and even then his head was only partially severed.
Sir Nicholas chose to linger as a ghost rather than "go on", because, by his own admission, he feared death. He became the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "Nearly Headless Nick", as he was called by the majority of the student body, was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right direction when late to class.
Heck, he might be the most helpful ghost on the list.
He's not too spooky except for the nearly headless bit.
Casper, the Friendly Ghost
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Casper the Friendly Ghost is, as his name indicates, a ghost, yet he is quite personable. According to some sources, his family name is McFadden, making his "full" name Casper McFadden.
Though there are other "friendly ghosts", Casper's friendliness is still unique among ghosts, since even more benevolent ghosts are shy, pranksterish or mysterious, but Casper is warm, friendly and polite. However, Casper's visage is so horrifying that some people's bodies have been warped and twisted in bizarre ways, simply by looking at him. However, despite this impediment, Casper's determination usually win out and humans can overcome their deep seeded instinctual repulsion to his hideous features and see the sweet little boy deep, deep down inside.
Given that Casper is depicted as a ghostly, portly little boy, there is a controversy among fans and critics of the series as to whether or not he is a dead child. Early reports seemed to suggest this, as they portrayed him residing beside a gravestone. Casper's death (as well as the reason why he became friendly) has been long disputed.
This other reports surmise ghosts like Casper are merely a type of supernatural beings, similar to ghouls, goblins, etc. He was reported to have feet and is thought to have ghostly parents and became slightly slimmer from the early tales. The stock answer provided by the ghost experts at Harvey Comics, in response to those wondering how Casper died, was that he was a ghost simply because his parents were already ghosts when they were married. Other reports suggest that Casper was a young adolescent who went sledding all day and died of pneumonia.
If there was a zero setting, I'd put it here.
To see him is to know fear in its purest form.
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Quote from: Johnny Unusual on October 30, 2013, 05:54:22 AM
I thought that in life he was Richie Rich and then committed suicide due to the emptiness that not even extreme wealth could fill.
No, no, common misconception. Richie went down the Daniel Plainview route of mad wealthy person, went to Hell and eventually returned in a new form.
Anyway, that's it for tonight. I'll finish this tomorrow!
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That was the reference, yes.
Dr. Malcolme Crowe
(61 points on 5 of 12 lists. Top Vote #5 ScottotD)
Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returned home one night with his wife, Anna Crowe (Olivia Williams), after having been honored for his work. As Anna was telling Malcolm that everything is second to his work, a young man appeared brandishing a gun, and accused Malcolm of failing him. Malcolm recognized him as Vincent Grey, a former patient whom he treated as a child for hallucinations. Vincent shot Malcolm in the abdomen before turning the gun on himself.
The next fall, Malcolm began working with another patient, eight year old Cole Sear, whose case was similar to Vincent's. Malcolm became dedicated to the boy, though he was haunted by doubts over his ability to help him after his failure with Vincent. Meanwhile, his wife hardly paid any attention to him. At the same time, Malcolm had repeated difficulty opening the door to his basement office. Cole eventually confided his secret to Malcolm: he sees dead people, walking around like regular people, not knowing they're dead.
At first, Malcolm thought Cole is delusional and planned to drop him. Remembering Vincent, Malcolm listened to an audiotape from a session with Vincent, then a child. On the tape, Malcolm is heard leaving the room, and when he returned, Vincent was crying. Turning up the volume, Malcolm hears a weeping man instead of a child, and now believes that Cole was telling the truth and that Vincent may have had the same ability. He suggested to Cole that he should try to find a purpose for his gift by communicating with the ghosts and perhaps aid them with their unfinished business. At first, Cole was unwilling since the ghosts terrified him, but finally decided to do it.
Learning to live with the ghosts he sees, Cole started to fit in at school and got the lead in the school play, which Malcolm attended. The doctor and patient departed on positive terms and Cole suggested to Malcolm that he should try speaking to Anna while she is asleep.
Malcolm returns home, where he found his wife asleep with their wedding video playing. Asleep, Anna asked her husband why he left her, and dropped Malcolm's wedding ring, which he suddenly discovered he has not been wearing. He remembered what Cole said about ghosts and realizes that he was actually killed by Vincent that night, and was unknowingly dead the entire time he was working with Cole. Due to Cole's efforts, Malcolm's unfinished business—rectifying his failure to understand and help Vincent—was finally complete. Malcolm fulfilled the second reason he returned: to tell his wife she was never second, and that he loved her. His goal complete, he was free to leave the world of the living.
He's very helpful.
It'd be less, but everyone whispers in this movie.
Dude! Spoilers!
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That's true, it is an obscure movie that few people know the ending to.
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Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde
(63 points on 7 of 12 lists. Top Vote #10 Raven)
These ghosts live in a nightmarishly endless maze located in a black void, constantly chasing the creature known as the Pac Man, in a recurring cycle of murder and gluttony.
Despite the seemingly random nature of the enemies, their movements are strictly deterministic, which Pac Man has used to his advantage. In an interview, ghost creator and mad god (?) Toru Iwatani stated that he had designed each enemy with its own distinct personality in order to keep the game from becoming impossibly difficult or boring to play. More recently, Iwatani described the ghost's behaviors in more detail at the 2011 Game Developers Conference. He stated that the red enemy chases Pac-Man, and the pink and blue enemies try to position themselves in front of Pac-Man's mouth. Although he claimed that the orange enemy's behavior is random, a careful analysis reveals that it actually chases Pac-Man most of the time, but also moves toward the lower-left corner of the maze when it gets too close to Pac-Man.
Blinky is a red Ghost that is bad-tempered, bossy, crude, bratty, grouchy, dangerous, sarcastic, wimpy, and greedy. In the "Pac-Man World", this ghost is Clyde.
Inky is a cyan Ghost that is goofy, shy, and unpredictable.
Pinky is a pink Ghost that is mischievous, persistent, and tricky.
Clyde is an orange Ghost that is ignorant, and goofy. The ghost also goes by Sue and Tim
It's eat or be killed!
Like the Boos, they are cute, yet deadly.
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Quote from: Johnny Unusual on October 30, 2013, 07:35:07 PM
That was hilarious!
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Bloody Mary is a folklore legend consisting of a ghost or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called multiple times. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. The Bloody Mary appearances are mostly "witnessed" in teenage group participation games, often as part of a game of truth or dare.
Historically, the ritual encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards while holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face. There was, however, a chance that they would see a skull (or the face of the Grim Reaper) instead, indicating that they were destined to die before they married.
A modern ritual addition of taunting Bloody Mary regarding her baby indicates the legendary figure's tenuous connection to Queen Mary I, also known as "Bloody Mary", whose life was marked by a number of miscarriages or false pregnancies.
Bloody Mary allegedly appears as a corpse, a witch or a ghost; sometimes covered in blood. The lore surrounding the ritual (if she is summoned properly) states that participants may endure the apparition screaming at them, cursing them, strangling them, stealing their body or soul, drinking their blood,[4] or scratching their eyes out.
Troxler's fading, self-hypnosis, and the Caputo Effect have been posited as explanations for the Bloody Mary phenomena.
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Really hard to say even if there's only 1 Bloody Mary
See, I always imagined her looking sort of like a more human of Augra from the Dark Crystal mixed with a podling, but covered in blood and with a wicked smile.
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Project Manager Anna says, "Times are really tough and people are struggling to pay for bills and food, so there's little left to help with other vital things like children's books. This project aims to reach children, particularly those in the most deprived areas, to ensure they have a greater access to books, more support for literacy development and to spark a love of learning to last a lifetime."
Initially the families involved in the project will already be working with a Footprints' project, however this will hopefully grow in the future. A fundraising account has been set-up to raise funds to help buy books for the scheme. Anna continued, "the more money that we can raise, the more local families the project will be able to help".
New and unwrapped books can be donated at Footprints in the Community's offices at 10 Queen Street in Redcar. You can find out more about the project and how to donate by visiting www.facebook.com/RedcarBookClub
Ruth Fox, CEO of Footprints in the Community, "At Footprints in the Community we are always looking for new ways to support local people struggling with poverty and isolation. When Anna approached us, we felt it was incredibly important to be involved. It's such a simple idea, but with the potential to have such a positive impact on the life-chances of local children."
Anyone interested in volunteering to help package and deliver books can email thebookclub@footprintsinthecommunity.co.uk
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NEWS RELEASE, 3/20/97
Achilles' heel of key cancer trigger discovered; looks like nothing seen before
by Kathleen Scalise
Berkeley -- A discovery that points to a promising new approach for stopping the growth of cancerous tissue will be announced by UC Berkeley and Acacia Biosciences, Inc. researchers in the March 21 issue of Science.
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of biology for Acacia Biosciences, a company based in Richmond, California, which formed to commercialize genomic-based drug discovery technology developed by Rine, Ashby and others.
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Send comments to: comments@pa.urel.berkeley.edu | researchers have found an enzyme that when eliminated from cancer-like cells in yeast returned the cells to near normal activity.
"It looks very promising for cancer therapy, but we don't know yet how it will work in humans," said Matthew Ashby, who with Molecular and Cell Biology Professor Jasper Rine and researcher Victor Boyartchuk of the University of California at Berkeley made the finding, after an almost seven-year search.
The researchers are hopeful their findings will eventually result in more effective anticancer treatments, perhaps a new form of chemotherapy, for many types of cancer.
The enzyme they identified interacts with an important molecular switch -- the protein from the cancer-causing oncogene called ras. Ras is the second most prevalent oncogene in people. Mutated forms of ras have been implicated in a wide range of cancers.
"Ras has been the focus of much scientific research because of its role in cancers which are difficult to treat," said Ashby. "For example it has been implicated in colon, lung, pancreatic and liver cancer."
In many organisms, including humans, ras transmits signals for the cell to divide or not. Mutated ras locked into the "on" position can cause unstoppable cell division resulting in cancer.
The discovered enzyme, Rce1, clips a portion off the ras protein -- both mutant and regular varieties -- allowing it to move into position near the cell membrane and begin transmitting signals for cell division.
When the researchers interfered with this process by genetically removing the enzyme, ras activity plummeted.
"Here was an Achilles' heel to ras," said Ashby. "Furthermore, it looked like the mutant form of ras was more susceptible to the loss of Rce1 than was the normal form. This has broad implications for the development of drugs that will inhibit cancer cells, but leave normal cells alone."
The irony is that although mutated forms of the ras protein can lead to cancer, organisms cannot survive without ras. So experimental cancer therapies targeted at ras must knock out some of its function, but not all.
This balance is what the researchers hope might one day be achieved by blocking Rce1, which reduces but does not eliminate ras function, at least in yeast cells.
Determining the enzymatic mechanism of Rce1 will be critical to developing potent inhibitors. Yet this information has been impossible to obtain from in vitro experiments or even from the primary structure of the gene. Scientists believe there are only four classes of such protease enzymes. But Rce1 matches none of the known types.
The yeast ras protein on which the researchers worked is very similar to the human variety, said Ashby. So the researchers are hopeful their findings will hold true across the two species. They are now looking for the same type of enzyme activity in human cells and hope to have findings soon.
Ras "is found in just about all organisms," said Ashby. "It's in yeast, worms, fruit flies, and all mammals, including humans. It has different functions in different cell types, but it's always a signal to divide."
A UC Berkeley post-doc working with Rine when the project commenced | 623 |
Lawn Mowing in Kenya | Hujambo!
First, there is no such thing as "lawn mowing" in Kenya (gotcha!). Second, unless you're the the President of Kenya or the US Ambassador (they live in mansions with big lawns), there aren't even any lawns to speak of. That's not to say we don't have grass. My goodness, there is grass for days and days! Forget Southern California, where strip malls and concrete effectively form one huge, 200-mile-long city; This is Kenya, bwana ("man")! We have plenty of open space and it's allllll grass (and sand, but that's for another time)!
I had an epiphany the other day while walking home through an empty field. It had rained a bit so there was mud all over the place. I remember thinking it was<|fim_middle|>umatt. I guess I was referring to the rural areas where there is much more open land.
I'm not on Facebook, I guess I'll have to rely on good ole fashioned social networking! If you see me wandering around Nairobi aimlessly, make sure to throw me a bone!
May I use your picture? | good the grass was low because it allowed me to avoid the mud. The funny thing is, I've never seen one lawn mower in Kenya. I don't even think the two words "lawn mower" have entered my brain once at the same time in the last two years… The only place I've ever seen anyone cutting grass is in my backyard and on the college compound, and they do it by hand.
What I realized was that the grass gets EATEN! Cows, goats, and sheep wander around all the time in search of grass. I am so used to seeing these animals around Tala all the time that I never realized that they are essentially the lawn mowers. I now know that baby cows are adorable and I pet them. Baby goats spaz out for no apparent reason (and they hang out with sheep if there are no other goats around). Oh, and baby sheep are not as ugly as the adults. On weekends there are some cows who come munch on the grass at the primary school next to my house.
On a semi-related note, Google hired a herd of goats to come and eat all the grass at their main compound in Palo Alto. I thought it was crazy when I saw a Maasai dude walking his herd of 100 camels across Jogoo road in Nairobi, but seeing 200 goats in the Silicon Valley of CA must have been a trip!
Google really is doing their part to be energy efficient.
Although goats don't burn gasoline, don't they burp and fart like cows and thus release more methane into the atmosphere??
Dude, good question. I remember someone on Slashdot mentioning that. Something like the methane is more harmful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (from gas-powered lawn mowers).
Whenever you see livestock working on the grass in Kenya, it has nothing to do with a low-carbon approach;that grass is their dear food and it so happens that at the end of the day, one stone is used two kill two birds: the livestock are fed and the grass is kept short!
Hey man. Living in Butere for a month and half now… they cut grass with pangas here, and it's quite a sight to see!
It all depends on where you visit. The lawn mowers in the shops – CMC, Nakumatt etc – are in stock because there is a market. If a campus' management cannot plan on their lawn's maintenance, that's a first for me.
True, I've since seen lawn mowers in Nak | 517 |
Hand-carved<|fim_middle|> Land! | in Bethlehem from olive trees that grew in Christ's lifetime! No two pieces are alike. With holy water from Holy Land.
This Bethlehem olive wood nativity collection was created from olive trees descended directly from those that grew during Christ's own lifetime. As it is actually illegal to cut down trees in Bethlehem, the wood required to craft each intricately carved Nativity figurine was carefully pruned by hand to avoid damage to these rare relics still standing. This exquisite collection is absolutely resplendent with authentic details, like the star symbol on the bottom of the manger, which marks the exact spot where Jesus Christ was born (as it is inlaid directly into the floor of the Church of the Nativity.) A work of art and inspiration, this olive wood Nativity will usher you straight into the reverence of the Holy Land. And because each piece is a product of nature, no two pieces are alike! But don't wait. We have only secured a small allotment of these hand-carved treasures, and the art and craft utilized to make them may soon be gone forever. Order now!
Hand-Carved Bethlehem Olive Wood Nativity Collection! With Holy Water from the Holy | 238 |
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