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So I was having lunch with my friend Doris last Saturday, and the conversation wandered around, as it does, to publishing. Now, it's important for you to know here that Doris<|fim_middle|> state universities, and community colleges, and NEA-funded artistic performances. MIRVed InterContinental Ballistic Missiles. If the fact that my dollars fund scientific research means I have an inalienable right to freely access the results of that research, then where the heck is the aircraft carrier I paid for?
If we're not going there, and the argumentum ad absurdum is called fallacious for a reason, then let's start by just saying what we mean when we talk about OA. We don't necessarily think everything should be free to everyone in the whole wide world; we just want some specific information to be accessible without limitation to the people who actually need it. That's the unanswerable principle underlying open access. We don't really want a pony; we just want a reasonable way to get from here to there. | is not a computer scientist (or particularly scholarly, although she's bright enough) and does not have a technical or publishing background. She's younger than I am (well, practically everyone is these days) but hardly a child; she's a professional, a voracious reader, and is possibly over-fond of her cat.
Anyway, at some point (it's possible that margaritas were involved in this lunch) I got up on my soapbox, as I do, and made my usual speech about Open Access. I covered a number of my favorite salient arguments: the unfairness of holding publicly-funded data behind a private paywall; the economics of modern publishing; The Ever-Popular iTunes Analogy®; the role of scholarly research; and the Finch Report.
But on reflection, I determined that I can't. It is, in fact, an unanswerable principle that if the public pays for research, then the public is entitled to have access to it.
Now, fueled by multiple frozen margaritas and a heavy dollop of crema y queso, it was Doris's turn on the soapbox. I'm paraphrasing the next fifteen minutes below.
I don't think Doris is being entirely fair, but as many of Doris's rants do, this one got me thinking in a slightly different way than I had before.
Well, that's not exactly true, because I'd already sort of thought that way. About a year ago, I was visiting one of our conferences, and asked the chair of the steering committee how he felt about the open access debates taking place in academic publishing.
Now, before I am pilloried by OA advocates, let me be clear: I personally and professionally support open access, and I support the strategies and processes that are being put into place by publishers, repositories, governments, and institutions to encourage the broader dissemination of scholarly research. I drank the OA Kool-Aid; they ran OA up the flagpole and I saluted. The OA train has left the station and I'm on board.
And yet I can't help but wonder if Doris may be partially correct: maybe there's something of a pony-thing going on here. If OA is the answer, what, exactly, was the question? Who is not getting access to the scholarly research they need? The much-maligned repositories where the "closed access" content lives are easily accessible through public and private institutions that subscribe to them, underwriting access costs not only for their faculty, staff, and employees, but often for anyone who happens to be on campus. Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure someone will), but my guess is that most researchers are not rogue, solo-operators working independently out of their garages, unaffiliated with any degree-granting or for-profit or comfortably-endowed academic institution or corporation. If the problem is that some institutions can't afford subscriptions to the repositories, then maybe that's the problem in need of fixing.
Most researchers and scholars who can both understand and use the results that flow from publicly-funded research have, as my steering committee professor said, free and easy access to it. If the people working in the institutions who need the data have access to it through existing channels, where exactly is the necessity to implement vast-reaching changes in the scholarly publishing model?
The bottom line question, I think, comes down—as it so often does— to money: Why should one entity (i.e., a publisher) profit from the intellectual property of another (i.e., an author)? That's been the accepted model since Guttenberg, and probably before. But just because something's old and traditional doesn't mean it can't, or shouldn't, be changed. By the same token it doesn't mean that change has to happen, or has to be revolutionary.
In the past, publishers were pretty much the only bridge between an author and readers. That was true at a time when all content was acquired and edited and printed and produced and archived and distributed by a limited number of publishing companies. The Internet, obviously, changed that by eliminating the middleman, as it were: authors could directly access their readership. In scholarly publishing in particular, this raised a question about the role played by publishers. Now instead of a bridge between author and reader, publishers and their repositories are increasingly viewed as a meddlesome intermediary, intent on restricting access to content and controlling the interaction between authors and readers. The nature, extent, and value of the "value-add" provided by the publisher is a subject of debate.
In scholarly publishing, there is also the issue of what to do when public money is used to fund the activities authors wrote about: If the public is paying for the activity, the argument goes, then the public should have the right to freely access the result. It's the Finch Report's unanswerable principle. Sounds good to me, too.
But who, exactly, is "the public" here? It's all well and good to talk about The Public's right to know, The Public's right to access taxpayer-funded research, The Public's interest in publicly-funded research. Oppose these noble sentiments about The Public and you might as well be expressing distaste for babies nestled in flower baskets or kittens curled up in front of a fireplace. But what, exactly, is The Public really, in reality, supposed to do with all this access?
I suspect when we talk about "The Public" in this context, we're really talking about a subset of what that phrase would normally imply. We're not talking about "The Public" in the sense of the folks riding the bus to their jobs at Wal-Mart, or my retired dad, or my friend Doris—although their taxes paid as much as anyone (and more than some) to underwrite publicly-funded scientific research. Frankly, and not to be elitist here, that Public doesn't care and isn't interested. That is, unless and until the eventual application of that research impacts their daily lives in a clear and tangible way. Even then, reports on the research and experimentation and pure science underlying the Angry Birds app they've just downloaded, or the science that makes their GPS capable of locating the nearest Starbucks, is just not something they're going to want to read about.
So by "The Public," what we really mean is a relatively tiny subset: a group of highly intelligent, highly educated, highly dedicated and driven individuals whose work in industrial and academic settings demands that they have access to peer reviewed scholarly content, much of which is derived from publicly funded research work by other highly intelligent, highly educated individuals. I haven't done the math, but I suspect that in terms of the global population, it's not a large group.
Of course, the fact that we're talking about a tiny, elite percentage of the global population doesn't make open access unimportant, or discount its desirability in any way. That small subset is responsible for the time-consuming, often tedious, always demanding work that improves—and frequently saves—lives. But maybe we shouldn't be quite so filled with flag-waving self-righteousness when talking about OA serving the interests of The Public.
The Public pays for a lot of things that are publicly-funded through taxes that The Public does not have free access to. Tollways come to mind, and | 1,496 |
Black jerseys hit the floor as Jockey lands All Blacks sponsorship deal—UPDATED
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We'll be seeing a lot more of the nation's rugby stars in their<|fim_middle|> Dan Carter star for Jockey over the last decade. We see this new sponsorship as a natural progression and expect to see strong brand linkage from our advertising continue," she says.
Given that Carter billboards previously managed to cause traffic problems in France, Lawry might be right in her estimation that Jockey will continue to get noticed.
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A round of applause to Mercer KiwiSaver and Drive Go (NZTA and ACC). | tighty-whities now that Jockey has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with the All Blacks and the All Blacks Sevens.
This is, however, not the first time that the American company has gotten behind the black jersey. Vintage YouTube footage of an old Jockey ad provides an interesting snapshot of how the concept of masculinity has evolved over time.
The announcement of the deal coincides with a new Jockey campaign that features the members of the respective teams clad only in their underwear for in-store promotions at Rebel Sport, Farmers and other independent retailers, as well as online on Jockey's new website.
This sponsorship deal serves as a follow-on from the ten-year endorsement relationship that Jockey has had with Dan Carter, who will now shift into the new role of global ambassador for the Jockey international brand.
"Dan's [new] role will see him as the spokesperson for the brand both internationally and locally. [He] will no longer be modelling in the Jockey campaigns, but fear not as he has handed over the baton to his team mates," says Jockey marketing manager Jane Lawry.
"The timing is right for the All Blacks and All Black Sevens to take it from here," says Carter. "I wish them the very best in the new partnership and … I'm looking forward to watching the boys sweat, pre the Jockey shoot day."
"It's great to see a partnership between a brand Kiwis love and their favourite rugby teams," says New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew. "We welcome Jockey to our group of sponsors and we're sure they, like all our sponsors, will be passionate supporters of our game."
But Jockey may find it difficult to stand out in this well-populated group of sponsors, which already includes AIG, Duracell, Steinlager, Unilever, Ford and Adidas.
Frustrated by the lack of exposure it was receiving, Telecom pulled the plug on its All Blacks sponsorship deal in December last year.
"For Telecom, the All Blacks sponsorship didn't work," said Kellie Nathan, the former general manager of Telecom. "We didn't feature strongly enough in our tracking as an All Blacks sponsor to get the attribution we needed to justify the investment. There are so many others involved who have done a lot of work to build up a presence. So rather than be one of many, we said let's own something and develop it from the grassroots up."
Despite the risk of grappling for space in a saturated sponsorship environment, Lawry is confident that Jockey will not find it difficult to stand out.
"With striking imagery of All Black and All Black Sevens players wearing nothing but their Jockeys, we are very confident this campaign will cut through and get noticed. Kiwis already associate the Jockey brand with sport, and rugby in particular, having seen | 573 |
Paraguay Fun Facts For Kids
Category: Geography Updated on: September 9, 2021 Reading time: 4 min
Paraguay is a country divided. The Rio Paraguay divides the country into east and west sections, and each section has markedly different cultures and characteristics. The Eastern Region is characterized by rolling hills, mountains, valleys, lakes, dense forests and a number of cities and towns. The Western Region is almost completely unpopulated, and is primarily made up of the Chaco, a dry arid region. The country has been established since the 16th century, and nurtures many of the same villages and cities that were founded when it was first explored. As such, Paraguay is an excellent place to learn about the history and culture of South America.
1. Asuncion is the capital city of Paraguay
Asuncion was one of the first established cities in South America and is called the "Mother of Cities" to local inhabitants. It is located along the Paraguay River and is spread out among the riverside and small rolling hills. The city's inhabitants number around 500,000 within the city limits, and 1.8 million in the metropolitan area. 30% of these residents are under the age of 30. Interestingly, Paraguay's average age for both men and women lies in the low 20s.
2. Paraguay is sometimes called the Corazon de America
The nickname was popularized almost 50 years ago, in a documentary form 1961 entitled "Paraguay, Corazon de America". The name was initially coined because of Paraguay's central location in South America. It is one of only two land locked countries on the continent and, although often overlooked by tourists and travelers, the city is rich with culture dating back to (and before) its founding in 1537.
3. Paraguay is one of only two countries in South America that is landlocked
The country lies between Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil. The northwestern boundary that the country shares with Bolivia is formed y the meeting of the Rio Apa and the Rio Paraguay. The rest of the northern border is formed by the Rio Parana, a string of mountain ridges, and the Rio Apa. The southern border of the country is defined by the Rio Pilcomayo, Rio Parana and Rio Paraguay.
4. Paraguay is home to the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, the Itaipu Dam
The Itaipu Dam measures 25,300 feet in length and 643 feet high. It began to generate electricity in 1984, after 14 years of construction. In 2008 and 2009, the dam generated between 90 and 95 TWh each year. This is the largest energy generating facility in the world. The dam lies on the border between Paraguay and Brazil on the Rio Parana, and is co-owned by both countries. In 2008, the country produced 90% of the energy for Paraguay and 19% of the total energy for Brazil.
5. Only about 2% of the entire population of Paraguay lives to the west of the Paraguay River
Paraguay's territory is divided into two areas. The area to the west of the Rio Paraguay is called the Chaco, and accounts for 60% of the total land area of Paraguay. This land, however, only provides homes for 2% of the total population of the country. The rest of the citizens of Paraguay live in the eastern region within 100 miles of the capital city of Asuncion.
6. Iguacu Falls is located just outside of Paraguay on the Argentina/Brazil border.
There are over 275 individual cascades within Iguaçu Falls, spread out across the Iguaçu River. If the falls were unfurled from their winding form, they would measure over two miles wide. They were originally formed by a volcanic eruption, which resulted in a large crack that formed between two previously joined pieces of land. In comparison with Niagara Falls, Iguaçu is twice as wide and even taller than New York and Canada's natural wonder.
7. Roman Catholicism is the primary religion of Paraguay
The first bishop was assigned to Paraguay, and in particular the diocese of Asuncion in 1556. Jesuit and Franciscan priests began to arrive soon thereafter in an attempt to convert the native Indians of the land. The Jesuits protected the Indians from Spanish and Portuguese capture, and the Indians accepted this protection until the Jesuits were driven out of the country 150 years later. At that time, the Indians returned to their previous way of life and belief systems.
In the 1980s, the majority of Paraguayans were Roman Catholics. Other religions in the country included Mennonites and Protestants. People are free to choose their religion, but between 92% and 9<|fim_middle|> 95% of the population of Paraguay. The primary language spoken in the country is Guarani, one of the only remaining signs of the ancestral culture of the Indians. Other demographic groups in the country that account for the remaining 5% of the population are Germans, Japanese, Okinawans, Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Ukrainians, Southern Europeans, Brazilians, Afro-Paraguayans and Argentineans. | 7% of all residents choose Catholicism. Law declares that the president of the country must be a Roman Catholic believer.
8. Poverty estimates believe that up to 50% of the population of Paraguay lives below the poverty line
The wealth distribution of Paraguay is extremely lopsided. There are very few very wealthy citizens, and very many very poor citizens. To illustrate, in the 1990s, only 10% of Paraguayans controlled 75% of the nation's land and 46.6% of the nation's income. The poorest 60% of the population earns only 20% of the total income earned by the country as a whole.
9. Most food in Paraguay is cooked using cassava and corn as a base ingredient
Cassava, also called Yucca, is a plant that is native to the continent of South America. The root of the plant can be portioned into approximately 12" long pieces that resemble a large potato with a root like skin. This starchy food is used to prepare traditional Paraguayan foods such as typyraty, farina, chipa and almidon. Corn is the second grain that is commonly used in the preparation of dishes. One of the most common meals made from this base are bori bori (soup).
10. Paraguay is one of the most ethnically diverse populations in South America.
The most common nationality is the mestizo people, who have Spanish and Guarani ancestry. They comprise approximately | 317 |
Zack Powell, a resident of Athens, finishes cutting excess concrete before the putting the final touches on the new skate park in Pomeroy.
About 30 minutes south<|fim_middle|> help them have a good life."
The Pomeroy park has been in the making for about two months and a grand opening is going to be held on December 12, 2015.
Tim Tice summed up the building on the last day the concrete was poured. "I'm volunteering and I'm doing this for the youth to enjoy." With a peanut bowl and a flow section, this park is going to be a draw for people all over Ohio and may be the foundation for a new scene in Pomeroy.
Tim Tice stands in the bowl form before the concrete is poured. | of Athens, the river town of Pomeroy is being gifted a new skate park. Brewce Martin, the owner of Skatopia, was hired to complete the job. "Building another skate park is a dream come true for me and this is what I've been doing my whole life since the '70s," he said.
A crew of volunteer workers from Skatopia, along with Zack Powell and Dave Covington from Athens, were there to help pour and finish the concrete. The plans were made, holes were dug, and the framing and rebar was placed.
Zack Powell smooths out the concrete on one of the quarter pipes. Powell, a skateboarder, knows what to look for when finishing the concrete.
Dave Covington throws concrete near the coping to make sure the gaps are filled in.
The coping is layered with concrete right after this section of the bowl was completed. After the concrete sets, it will be sanded down to make it smooth.
Tim Tice cuts a mold for when the concrete is poured. Tice has been building ramps and skate parks for most of his life and currently resides at Skatopia in Rutland, Ohio.
James from Skatopia takes a picture of the park and the workers while he takes a small break.
"This whole thing was built with one pencil and one tape measure."
Tim Tice helped out with the measurements and dimensions of the park. "This whole thing was built with one pencil and one tape measure," said Tim. Tim has lived over the U.S. and spent a large amount of time in California building Pro Skateboarder Bob Burnquist's Mega Ramp.
"The bottom line is all communities need things to do, for the youth, the middle aged and the aged. It's not just the young people. I'm trying to give people a place where they can go and skateboard, rollerblade or BMX," said Brewce.
He added that kids in Pomeroy need something to believe in and not live off television, pharmaceuticals and politics. "All I want them to do is have a good life and skateboarding may | 427 |
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This particular project specializes in lifestyle and trying to make the most of what we're given. You'll find a range of topics that our articles cover in this area. Perhaps this site's not for you? Well that's OK, that's exactly the point of a micro news site. It's not for everyone, but we sure hope that at least a small group of people will find it a great place for them to get entertaining and interesting articles, for | 144 |
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Google's mobile-first indexing is finally rolling out: Here's what you need to know
It's here. After more than a year of waiting, the search giant this week announced that it is rolling out mobile-first indexing.
Here's what you need to know about the new functionality.
By Patricio Robles March 28th 2018 08:39
Mobile-first indexing is…
First things first. What is mobile indexing? As the name suggests, mobile-first indexing is an indexing system under which Google will "predominantly" look at a mobile version of a site's content for indexing and ranking. The rationale for this is simple: most Google users now access the search engine through a smartphone so, where appropriate, Google should prioritize the content that mobile users see when it crawls sites.
Google will still have one index
It's important to note that Google has not created a separate index for the content it crawls using mobile-first indexing. The company will continue to maintain a single index. Mobile-first indexing is merely a change to the way Google adds content to that index.
A lot of sites won't be affected
Mobile-first indexing is an important development, but many sites won't be affected by it. Most notably, sites that use a responsive design won't be subject to mobile-first indexing because their content is the same on desktop and mobile. Also not impacted: sites that only have a desktop version and canonical AMP pages.
The sites that will be affected by mobile-first indexing are those that use separate URLs for desktop and mobile users, and those that serve content dynamically based on device type.
Those affected will want to heed Google's best practices
Sites that will experience mobile-first indexing should take care to review and implement the best practices Google has published.
Search Console is being used for notifications
Google will be letting site owners know that mobile-first indexing has rolled out to their sites via notifications in Search Console.
Crawl rates from the Smartphone Googlebot will increase
Google says that sites subject to mobile-first indexing will see increased crawl rates from the Smartphone Googlebot, so it's a good time to check that robots.txt directives are appropriate for mobile sites and to ensure that there's enough capacity to handle higher crawler traffic.
Mobile-first indexing doesn't affect ranking
As noted above, mobile-first indexing changes the way Google adds content to its index. It does not change the way that Google ranks pages.
As Fan Zhang, a Google software engineer, explained, "Content gathered by mobile-first indexing has no ranking advantage over mobile content that's not yet gathered this way or desktop content." He did, however, stress the importance of mobile-friendly content, adding, "We do evaluate all content in our index — whether it is desktop or mobile — to determine how mobile-friendly it is. Since 2015, this measure can help mobile-friendly content perform better for those who are searching on mobile."
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Mobile-first indexing extends to the SERPs and Google cache
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"I know we can and we will beat this virus," Biden said in a speech delivered in a near-empty Wilmington, Delaware, theater to a handful of staffers and reporters wearing masks and sitting inside socially distanced circles on the floor. Biden did not wear a mask.
"Life is going to return to normal. I promise you. This will happen. This will not last forever," said Biden, a 78-year-old Democrat.
Deaths from Covid-19 surpassed 2,000 in a single day for the first time since May on Tuesday and hospitalizations reached a record of more than 89,000 on Wednesday as the country recorded 2.3 million new infections in the past two weeks.
Spiraling infections typically result in a rising death toll weeks later. Coronavirus deaths reached 2,157 on Tuesday - one person every 40 seconds - with another 170,000 people infected, as millions of Americans traveled for Thanksgiving.
Nearly 1 million passengers a day have been screened at airport security checkpoints for the past week, with Sunday's total of 1.047 million being the highest number since the early days of the pandemic in mid-March.
"It's tough. It's a big holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving. But with the situation that we're in right now, it just seems like the safe play is to not come to the airport, to not travel," Los Angeles International Airport spokesman Charles Pannunzio told Reuters.
"But if you are traveling, we're going to do our best to make the journey safer for you."
'We want to see the family'
Daliza Rodriguez, a 33-year-old childhood educator, was traveling to Texas from New York's LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday.
"We know we're taking a risk but we want to see the family, and it has been a long time," she said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, urged people to keep Thanksgiving gatherings as small as possible.
"If we do those things, we're going to get through it. So that's my final plea before the holiday," Fauci told the ABC News program "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.
Families with university students have been forced to evaluate the risk of reuniting for Thanksgiving.
Francesca Wimer, a student at Northwestern University in Illinois, flew home to Washington wearing an N95 mask and a face shield and checked into a hotel for 14 days, quarantining to protect her parents and grandparents.
"She was returning to a vulnerable set of people. We didn't trust that a test was enough," said her mother, Cynthia Wimer.
Luke Burke, studying at Syracuse University in upstate New York, was planning to spend Thanksgiving with his family in New Jersey until his roommate tested positive last week.
"I'm sorry I can't be there with my parents, but it's the right thing to do," Burke said.
Lines in New York City
Across New York City, lines at Covid-19 testing sites wrapped around the block on Wednesday, video on Twitter showed. Bundled-up New Yorkers queued up outside clinics in Astoria, Queens, and Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, starting early as 8 a.m.
MG Robinson, a contract analyst at the Office of New York City Comptroller, waited in line for seven hours outside a CityMD clinic in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on Wednesday.
"I woke up at 6 (a.m.) and I got here at 6:30 ... I couldn't even see the front of the line," said Robinson, 30, who is planning to gather with a small group of family members on Thanksgiving.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was criticized after telling a local TV station he had invited his 89-year-old mother and two daughters to Albany for Thanksgiving, since reversed course.
"This is not a normal Thanksgiving, and to act like it's a normal Thanksgiving is to deny the reality of every health expert in the nation," Cuomo told reporters on Wednesday in urging New Yorkers to stay home.
The first Covid-19 vaccines could be weeks away with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration due to rule Dec. 10 on whether to approve Pfizer Inc's vaccine for emergency use.
A second vaccine, manufactured by Moderna Inc, could also be ready for U.S. authorization and distribution within weeks, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has said.
The Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed program plans to release 6.4 million Covid-19 vaccine doses nationwide as soon as one is approved.
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Q: Question about ad-hominem I know it's a latin phrase and maybe it doesn't belong here. But two of my friends are having an argument and one of my friends, who is the head of some committee said "At least try and then complain"(try becoming the head of the committee, doing my job and then complain) to my second friend who said that she is not doing her duties well enough. A third person who is a spectator to this argument pointed out that what the first person said is<|fim_middle|> are trying to win the argument by making comments about your opponent's physical appearance, personal history, professional experience and other things of that nature.
What makes your particular case an ad hominem is the fact that the head of the committee instead of actually addressing your friend's point started talking about how your friend would not be able to run the committee were he to head it. He is clearly trying to sidetrack the conversation by pointing out the fact that your friend does not know what he is talking about because he has never worked in that position. So, he is making a reference to your friend's personal qualities and abilities which, strictly speaking, has really nothing to do with the real meat of the question that has been posed. But hey, that's one big fat argumentum ad hominem right there, as far as its definition is concerned.
Here's some additional information worth noting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2OnY4d_1Is
| an Ad-Hominem. I don't think it's an Ad-hominem, could someone weigh in on this?
A: I would say that it is an ad hominem. An ad hominem argument is when you instead of addressing the topic in question | 53 |
Helen Murray recognised in 2017 New Years Honours
Helen Murray was recognised in the New Years Honours List, receiving an MBE for services to aquatics in Scotland
Helen Murray, Past President and Life Member of the Scottish Swimming, is amongst a number of individuals from the swimming community to have been recognised in the 2017 New Year's Honours.
Murray who served as president from 2004-2005, remains an active volunteer in the East District and at National Events, as well as volunteering at major events, most recently at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. She receives an MBE for Services to Swimming in Scotland.
A number of Olympic and Paralymic medallists have also been recognised with five-time Paralympian<|fim_middle|> diving
Stephanie Millward - For services to swimming
Aaron Moores – For services to swimming
Helen Murray – For services to swimming in Scotland
Adam Peaty – For services to swimming
Eleanor Robinson – For services to swimming
Susannah Rodgers – For services to swimming
Hannah Russell – For services to swimming
Stephanie Slater – For services to swimming
Alice Tai – For services to swimming
Matthew Wylie – For services to swimming
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Article from British Swimming | and Rio 2016 Champion Sascha Kindred leading the athlete honours as he is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to swimming in Great Britain.
Olympic Champion and Team GB's first gold medallist of the Rio 2016 Olympics, Adam Peaty, is made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
Bethany Firth, ParalympicsGB's most successful athlete at the 2016 Paralympic Games is also awarded an OBE along with nine other fellow Rio Paralympic champions and teammates.
History makers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears are awarded OBEs for their services to diving after winning Great Britain's first ever gold medal at an Olympic Games.
Also recognised in the 2017 honours list is Tim Reddish OBE, he is to be become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Following a successful Para-swimming career he became the Chair of the British Paralympic Association, a position he still holds, and he has seen ParalympicsGB through two highly successful games.
British Swimming Honourees:
Sascha Kindred – For services to swimming
Tim Reddish – Chair, British Paralympic Association. For services to Sport.
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Claire Cashmore – For services to swimming
Bethany Firth – For services to swimming
Michael Jones – For services to swimming
Jack Laugher – For services to diving
Chris Mears – For services to | 322 |
Hypnosis as an art of healing goes at least back to the first dynasty of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Evidence of this can be found in the papyrus Westcar, containing stories about marvels performed by priests and magicians at the court of Pharaoh Khufu (2589-2566 BC).
The fourth story in the papyrus is told by the famous prince Hardjedef during the 5th dynasty, and concerns a miracle set within Khufu's own reign. A townsman named Djedi apparently has the power to reattach a severed head onto an animal, tame a wild lion, and knows the number of rooms in the secret shrine of Thoth. Khufu, intrigued, sends his son to fetch this wise man, and upon Djedi's arrival at court he orders a goose, a waterfowl, and an ox beheaded. Dedi reattaches the heads. Khufu then questions him on his knowledge on the shrine of Thoth, and Dedi answers that he does not know the number of rooms, but he knows where they are. When Khufu asks for the whereas and how's, Dedi answers that the one who can give Khufu access is not him, but the first of the three future kings in the womb of the woman Reddedet. This is a prophecy detailing the beginnings of the 5th dynasty starting with Userkaf.
These lector priests were widely known as dream interpreters, possibly consulting dream books. Scribe Qenhirkhopshef's dream book (1190 – 1175 BC) is a copy of a much older texts, but still gives insight in to dream interpretation, the cousin of hypnosis.
The most complete medical work from the ancient Egyptians is the Ebers papyrus2, possibly written around 1552 BC, but certainly copied from much older sources. In this papyrus there is evidence to suggest three different classes of physicians; the regulars, the priest physicians, and the conjurers. The latter very much a reflection of the modern stage hypnotherapists who's main objective is to entertain and not to heal.
Ebers papyrus at University of Leipzig's library contains 100 pages and is 20,23 m's long. It is is certainly from Amenhotep I's reign (1534 BC) but passages indicates that it could go back to the 1st dynasty (3000 BC).
In Ebers famous papyrus many will be surprised by the advanced level of knowledge these priests and healers had. It gives a surprisingly accurate description of the circulatory system. The papyrus cover cancer, fractures, contraception, diabetes, arthritis, and there is even a short section on psychiatry, dealing with a condition not dissimilar from depression. Mental disorders are detailed in a chapter of the papyrus called the Book of Hearts. For me this is clearly another indication of the fact that the Egyptian priest never thought that intelligence was located in the heart. It was instead used as a metaphor for the fact that m3ˁ-ḫrw (transtransliterated hieroglyphs) or in hieroglyphs:
maak-hrw meant that one is true of voice, speaking from ones heart. Perhaps we know that at least intuitively.
Since magic and proper medical treatments were equally accepted, magic<|fim_middle|>apyrus Eber, reprint from AMA; 1905
© Hieroglyphs published by courtesy of Mark Millmore | probably gave the priest an advantage of having patients truly believing that the treatment would work. The power of placebo was an important tool among those whom had been initiated already 5 000 years ago.
When the British Encyclopedia inform us that William Harvey discovered the blood circulation 1628, almost 3 200 years old knowledge from Egypt has been deliberately dismissed!
1. Pinch, Geraldine; Magic in ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, 1994, ISBN-0-292-76559-2
2. Klein, Karl H von; The Medical Features of The P | 130 |
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Don't worry if you missed these highlights: The next episode of the Christy Mihos saga is already in production. Whether or not John Kerry decides to run again for president, Mihos is committed to seeking Kerry's seat — "I'm in,' he says, stating for the first time his unequivocal intention to make a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2008. If he's feeling emboldened these days, it's with good reason. From the Supreme Judicial Court ruling overturning his firing by Swift to the news stories confirming his warnings about inept Big Dig management, Mihos has enjoyed one vindication after another. His once-controversial claim that a lack of independent oversight had left the project "unglued,' in particular, seems eerily prophetic as water continues to seep through the I-93 tunnel's porous walls.
It's enough to leave you wondering: How much trouble could the state have saved itself by hearing Mihos out? Had the powers that be heeded his complaints about the incestuous Big Dig management setup — in which state officials essentially ceded control of ultracostly, problem-plagued construction under downtown Boston to the politically-connected engineering giant Bechtel — untold millions in overruns might have been avoided, and taxpayers might also be in better legal position to recover questionable costs. If a defensive Big Dig establishment and its political allies hadn't so brusquely dismissed his call for independent engineering oversight, they might not now be scrambling to fix hundreds of leaks that have shaken public confidence in the project's safety, turned Boston into an international laughingstock, and could prompt the withholding of millions in federal funds. Mihos was put on the turnpike board, he recalls then-Governor Paul Cellucci telling him, to provide "some business skills and acumen.' When he did, Democrats and Republicans alike turned their backs on him.
Which may yet turn out, amid stiff competition, to be one of the dumbest of the countless Big Dig blunders. Dropped from the turnpike board when his term expired last summer, Mihos still has plenty to say about the project's woes. He flatly predicts that official scrutiny of its management will one day result in criminal charges. "Anybody who's ever been involved is potentially at risk,' he says. Mihos also lashes out at Mitt Romney, the man he campaigned for to replace Swift, claiming the governor has been "AWOL' in not doing more to take control of the project. (A Romney spokesman notes that his administration's repeated efforts to put the Big Dig under the management of the state Highway Department have been thwarted by the legislature.) And Mihos offers a chilling prospect no other figure with knowledge of the project has ever publicly raised: Unless a reliable fix to the tunnel leaks is found soon, a worst-case scenario requiring extensive reconstruction could add up to a billion dollars to the final price tag. "If we can't get documents on the leaks, how can we really measure the true costs?' he asks.
Son of a Navy veteran with a strong sense of patriotism, Mihos first challenged authority as an undergrad in the late 1960s at staunchly Catholic Stonehill College, where he successfully lobbied for contraceptives to be distributed in the infirmary. In his three-vote loss to Hedlund, his abortion-rights stance and opposition to a popular tax-cut petition cost him the support of conservatives. But the toughest fight of his career was one he didn't go looking for. After donating generously to Republican candidates throughout the 1990s, Mihos was appointed to the turnpike board in 1998. He admits he knew nothing of, and asked little about, the Big Dig until reporters exposed the cover-up of major cost overruns in the spring of 2000. "That was something handled behind closed doors' at the authority, Mihos recalls.
Others were less impressed. As Mihos's and Levy's suspicions about project mismanagement metastasized into the<|fim_middle|>, and Mihos suddenly has plenty of company. The list of politicians who now echo his call for independent oversight includes the likes of Congressman Mike Capuano and Boston Mayor Tom Menino. Investigators from the federal Department of Transportation came to Boston to debrief Mihos and remain in contact with him. Even some former adversaries are beginning to give Mihos his props. "He was right about a lot of things,' concedes Capuano, a critic of Mihos in the past. Widmer, who had once called for Mihos's head, agrees. "The role of a gadfly, given the recent developments with the Artery, is one we could have used more of,' he says.
It's a role Mihos intends to continue playing. Despite appearances to the contrary, he cautions, not everything that could go wrong with the Big Dig already has. Mihos points to thousands of steel valances that adorn the top of the I-93 tunnel's walls. "All of those are fastened to the slurry wall with mechanical fasteners,' he says. "They don't do well when they're immersed in salt water or ground water. This metal will start to corrode, and they'll start to fall, just like the waterproofing and the fireproofing is falling.' Mihos also frets about a tunnel lighting system that he says "cannot stand up against' continual soakings.
"I'm not just gonna stand on the sidelines and watch this degenerate,' Mihos vows. And who's left to doubt him? Certainly not the likes of Cellucci, Swift, or Bill Weld, all exiles from the spotlight while Mihos growls on. With millions in the bank, time on his hands, and a videotaped reputation as that rarest of Massachusetts political creatures — a man who will go hunting for the truth no matter how hostile the weather — Mihos may soon give the local political elite a taste of the medicine he's been dishing out to Big Dig officials for years.
Over at project headquarters, they've learned the hard way what the only practical reaction is: Beware of dog. | bitter battle with Swift over toll hikes, a Boston Globe editorial trashed the pair as "fiscally irresponsible' and "reckless,' claiming their presence on the board "threatens the completion of the Central Artery project.' The Swift sackings were endorsed by a Who's Who of business groups, including the nonpartisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Mihos's alternative proposals for funding the project — such as averting toll hikes by selling off turnpike service plazas — were deemed "too scattered and not substantive enough,' says the organization's president, Michael Widmer.
How times have changed. As the tunnel keeps leaking, public anger keeps mounting | 134 |
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Casting Call this weekend at Confederation College
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"The Film Production program creates over 200 short films a year and there is nothing more exciting than to see the results on the big screen and on TV," said Lee Chambers, Instructor, Film Production program. "You could be a lead actor or an extra in a film made with top quality Hollywood equipment."
Getting added to the casting books is simple. Members of the community can attend the casting event, fill out a simple contact form and have their photo taken. The casting books will be provided to Film Production students who will then contact the actors when it's time for production.
Brittany Moratz took part last year, receiving a call to perform in a student production. "I had an amazing time and met incredible people with inspiring visions," said Moratz. "I can't wait to do it again!"
Coming to the casting call may also lead to opportunities outside of the College. Casting books are shared as an open resource to other community filmmakers and external producers needing talent.
All are welcome to attend the casting; no experience is required. Those unable to attend | 240 |
SEO News Update – Week of Jan 16, 2017
Posted on January 15, 2018 by Loren Baker
Google Changes, 2018 Trends & More
SEO trends and Google changes to expect in 2018
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9 Predictions for SEO in 2018
For the last decade, I've made predictions about how the year in SEO and web marketing would go. So far, my track record is pretty decent — the correct guesses outweigh the wrong ones. But today's the day of reckoning, to grade my performance from 2017 and, if the tally is high enough, share my list for the year ahead.
SEO ranking factors in 2018
In 2006, before iPhones and Androids, a Google document mentioned the search engine uses "over 200 signals" for ranking. There are probably thousands of ranking signals now and we can't pretend to know what they are. What we do know is how much of an impact optimising for the most significant ranking factors has – and how easy it was to get that done in the real world.
A Holiday Hornets' Nest – Analysis and Findings From The December 2017 Google Algorithm Updates
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Google My Business (Google Maps) Lacks Any Credible Spam Algorithms
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Google: URLs In Sitemap Used To Determine The Canonical URL
Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. John said "we recommend doing that is that we use a sitemaps URLs as a part of trying to understand which URL should be the canonical for a piece of content." "So that is the URL that we should show in the search results," he added.
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Google Search Algorithm Update Tweaks Continue Into January
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Is Google's Panda algorithm still relevant in 2018?
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Digital marketing guru Mark Schaefer
Digital marketing guru Mark Schaefer believes we are only in the silent movie stage of the social and mobile revolution. Schaefer was in Dublin today at the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) conference on the confluence of mobile and social media.
There's a scene in the movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise's character is biometrically recognised by his eyeballs and a computer yells out at him on the street, "John Anderton you look like you could use a Guinness!"
To the movie audiences of 2002 when that film was released, that scenario must have seemed novel. To the 2013 users of smartphones, search engines and social networks, this scenario is becoming less surprising.
The speed at which digital marketing is evolving in step with social media and increasingly powerful mobile devices and apps is breadth taking. Already apps like Hailo will bring a taxi to your location within 10 minutes while McDonald's has an app in the US that will set in motion the frying of your burger when your mobile device uses GPS to tell its servers you're within a kilometre of the restaurant.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, said Schaefer, who addressed the DMI conference.
Schaefer is a former journalist who went on to manage the global marketing for brands such as Coca-Cola and Budweiser, and who today advises IBM, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and the UK government on their digital market strategies. He has also written books, such as the Tao of Twitter and Return on Influence.
Schaefer explained that the internet as we know it has become an ever-present entity in our lives, increasingly so because of the power of mobile devices and social and mobile networks.
"Social is driving mobile. Mobile is driving social. It is hard to distinguish the two! Social media is all about publishing and feedback. Mobile allows that to happen instantaneously and from wherever you are. Each trend is helping the other explode in popularity. And beyond mobile and social is augmented reality. The internet will surround us like the air that we breathe. In five years, we will view the Minority Report movie with nostalgia."
The speed of innovation we are experiencing in the world today, Schaefer explained, is impacting on the world of traditional business.
"Crowdsourcing ideas and innovation is becoming a legitimate business model for even the largest companies now. A new tech/university/business/municipal partnership in New York City is blurring the traditional entrepreneurial roles and deliverables. A US entrepreneur is paying business-oriented students to skip college and start their own companies. In Ireland, CoderDojo is enabling entrepreneurial high-tech skills in schoolchildren. The traditional boundaries of innovation are being smashed."
It is no accident that after Facebook's disappointing fourth-quarter results, Wall Street took solace in the fact that 23pc of the social network's advertising revenues now come from mobile.
Schaefer believes Facebook will be under increased pressure to make money from mobile.
"This is a freight train heading right into Facebook's business model. Facebook derives almost all of its revenue from advertising. How many ads do you see on the company's mobile app? Currently, zero with the exception of 'sponsored' posts.
"As the adoption of mobile technology as the preferred mode of internet access continues and intensifies, the revenue stream is at risk. People generally hate mobile ads even though they still want the free Facebook service so it seems like an uphill battle. Facebook is working on this problem and they will solve it. There is no alternative."
But what does this mean for the consumers who could see their rights to privacy eroded by technologies that strive to tell brands and advertisers everything about them?
"Why hasn't there been a backlash already? Some of the privacy violations have been very arrogant and serious. It's like slowly turning up the temperature to boil a lobster in a pot. If it happens gradually, we don't notice or act and then it's too late. Our privacy is eroding week by week and we are being conditioned to accept it and, in fact, hand over more and more information all the time. It's possible that an absolute privacy crisis could stir public opinion but short of that, people generally don't care."
'The internet will surround us like the air that we breathe'
So how will we shop in the future? Schaefer gave a glimpse of the future web where augmented reality will enhance our vision.
"As you enter a store a few years from now, your mobile device will trigger a signal that you are there and all of your preferences, sizes, and previous purchases will be loaded. You will no longer need an actual mobile device or screen. You will be able to see offers, discounts and sizes through your web-enabled glasses, and eventually contact lenses.
"A map in front of you will direct you to the correct department, and by simply looking at a rack we will see price, size, and other information hovering above the product. We'll be able to see holographic images of ourselves trying on the clothes and then we can accessorise our images by voice command.
"Mobile devices are just a temporary aggravation before the day when a digital layer is across the entire world, seamlessly integrated with the traditional ways that we communicate, connect, learn, entertain ourselves and shop," Schaefer predicted.
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This is part two of a three-part Seoul Walks series. In this segment, I'll guide you along Serosu-gil and Garosu-gil and introduce to you Sinsa-dong's best international eats and cultural galleries. For the previous post, click here.
Just as famous as Sinsa's boutiques are its atmospheric restaurants and there are plenty of options for the hungry shopper.
Bordering Serosu-gil offers enough dining options to cater to even the pickiest of palates. Here, the restaurants are a bit pricier than those in other parts in Seoul, but many offer lunch specials on weekdays.
If you're in the mood for Italian, Pizza Di Napoli does a great lunch set that includes focaccia, salad, soup, an entree, and coffee or tea. Their olive oil pasta, which brims with clams, is quite tasty, but the servers claim their pizzas are the most popular among diners.
For authentic New Orleans cuisine, head to Pier 17, which also has affordable lunch deals. Their specialties include gumbo, jambalaya and boiled seafood, as well as some very creative cocktails. Try the Shark Attack, a blue margarita topped with a plastic shark that oozes strawberry daiquiri "blood" when squeezed.
If you're in need of a coffee break, or a quiet place to do some reading, settle into a comfy seat at Cafe Oui, a tucked-away afternoon hangout. This multi-story cafe oozes feminine charm: pastel stuffed animals, dainty desserts and adorable teddy bear cappuccino foam art. If the ethereal decor doesn't keep your attention, then the handsome servers in bow-ties most definitely will.
Makeup junkies will be happy to know that Garosu-gil is brimming with beauty shops that cater to just about every budget. And although it's easy to spend all day shop-hopping, sampling hair oils, lip masks and BB cream, the product that put Korean cosmetics on the map, Olive Young and Lohb's are undoubtedly Sinsa's best one-stop shops for all your beauty needs.
The latter is the bigger of the two, but both offer an endless array of domestic and international brands of toiletries, cosmetics and even specialty snacks. There are also entire sections dedicated to male grooming, so men can enjoy the experience just as much as women.
The Simone Handbag Museum is housed in unique building with a glass facade and a roof constructed to resemble purse handles. Inside, guests can browse an impressive collection of handbags from some of the most luxurious brands in the world; one floor is dedicated to contemporary styles of the<|fim_middle|>insa-dong. | West while the other features historical handbags dating back to as early as the 1500s.
Mannequins are placed strategically throughout the museum to illustrate how handbags were worn throughout history as well as how the lifestyles of the eras influenced handbag design. The bags are beautiful to look at but even more interesting are the stories that each tells, explained thoroughly in the museum brochure.
The building also boasts special exhibits, a cafe complete with adorable handbag decor and a workshop where Korean artisans can be watched cutting, stripping and sewing the latest designs. Fashion enthusiasts can also create their own handbags with the gorgeous high-quality materials for sale in the Material Bazaar.
Near by is Galley Yeh. Founded in 1978, and re-launched in 2005 in its current space that has become a landmark in Sinsa, the gallery has established a solid track record of popular exhibits featuring both traditional and modern works of art by Korean and international artists, including Arman, Jesus Raphael Soto, Lynn Chadwick, Niki de Saint-phalle, Frank Stella, Alberto Giacometti, Nam Jun-paik and Alex Katz.
In the next part of this series, you'll explore Sinsa's most delicious and eye-appealing dessert cafes, as well as some cool nightlife spots.
Click here to go to part three!
To Get There: Take the Seoul subway to Sinsa Station (Line 3, Exit 8).
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Jordan Peele to remake "Candyman"
Jordan Peele, acclaimed writer and director of Get Out is producing a "spiritual sequel" to 1992's Candyman that will be directed by Nia DiCosta. The original was set in Cabrini-Green, the housing complex located on the Near North Side of Chicago, and centered on an urban legend, a killer who entered apartments through his victims' medicine cabinets.
Peele's sequel will take place in the now gentrified neighborhood where Cabrini once stood.
The medicine cabinet pictured below was salvaged from the Jane Addams Homes and is a part of the NPHM commitment to tell all the stories of public housing. So while the cabinet addresses the neglect and abandonment public housing complexes faced from lack of funding, gangs, and inefficient policing methods, there is more to the<|fim_middle|>, like many other housing complexes, initiated innovative public health programs like on-site infant care and well-baby clinics, midwives to provide prenatal care, and wellness checks for the elderly and the most vulnerable residents.
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Bill Abernathy Talks Orwell, Fogelberg, And Why Sales, Awards And Critics Don't Mean That Much To Him
Michael Stover November 12, 2018 Interview 1 Comment
Everyone loves a good story about second-chances, and that's exactly what Bill Abernathy's story is all about. The Kansas City, Missouri resident began writing songs in his early teens. He played all through his school years, but then he stopped…Life took over. Bill went about getting married, building a business career, and raising his children.
After his kids graduated from school and started their careers, Bill picked up the guitar again and began trying to rekindle his love of music.
His last album, 2017's "Find A Way" reached #5 on the Roots Music Report Traditional Folk Album chart, and the single, "Goodbye Will Never Come Again" reached #1 on the singles chart. Bill's latest collection of songs, "Crossing Willow Creek" is available now, with first single, "Cry Wolf" hitting radio airwaves around the globe.
Bill Abernathy took some time out from his busy schedule to conduct this exclusive interview…
MusicExistence: Please tell us your background. How did you get into the music business?
Bill Abernathy: I was in the 4th grade and the youngest member of my family. I have always thought the way I got here was just a "good Friday night" for my parents.( Ha-ha). I was 9 years younger than my brother who really got me into music. He had a great love of the music of the 60's and held jam sessions at our house regularly with his friends. I used to listen and eventually got to play along with them. This really got me started and is without a doubt the reason I tend to lean toward an acoustic sound.
ME: How influential was your family on your music career?
BA: Actually, as time went on and I got better, my brother would take me to live venues in the KC area to listen and sometimes let me sit in and play a bit. In that way, my brother was a big influence. I always thought he used me as a chick magnet. I was a cute little kid with curly hair that could play guitar, and the girls loved it. Ha-ha
My oldest sister was very involved in church music and got me involved in a couple of touring groups in that genre. In this way, my sister influenced me. I learned a lot and enjoyed the travel and meeting many different people.
I think the combination of the opportunities my siblings gave me, as well as my enjoyment of playing, writing and performing really influenced what I wanted to do from a musical perspective.
ME: Being from Kansas City, MO, how do you feel your location has helped and/or hindered your career?
BA: Kansas City is a great music town and I have been able to play a few venues that cater to my style of music which has definitely been helpful. Of course, KC is also known for Jazz and Blues which is great because so many talented musicians live in the area. KC is a great place to listen to really talented musicians perform their craft. With the diversity of venues and music genres, KC is a great place to live, as well as a place that gave me exposure to lots of different music styles which has helped me career.
ME: Tell us about your latest single, "Cry Wolf."
BA: Cry Wolf came to be the day after I had my Achilles tendon rebuilt. I was sitting around with my aching foot in the air taking pain pills and watching a combination of social media and various "news" TV stations. As I watched, I could not help but notice how quickly a tweet<|fim_middle|> the song I wish I had written. We covered this song on my Find A Way album.
"I used to think of myself as a soldier
Holding his own against impossible odds
Badly outnumbered and caught in a crossfire of devils and gods
All I ever wanted to be was free
All I ever looked for was what was within my eyes to see
Oh, but these days are just like you and me" – Dan Fogelberg
I can't say it any better!
ME: If I was to come to dinner, what would you serve and what movie would we watch afterwards?
BA: Meat, it's what for dinner. I am a Midwest guy and I love steak. I would prepare you a steak that would change your life, throw in a baked potato, fresh tomatoes, and corn on the cob and for me, a meal just does not get much better than that. For desert, Cherry or Gooseberry Pie and hot coffee. That makes for a pretty good day and dinner! As for the movie, and a true Bill Abernathy experience, we would watch George Orwell's 1984, and commiserate about a day back in time when the movie was only fiction. "George said it right in 1984. He who controls the present has full control of the past, so we can repeat it complicit with our alternate facts" Bill Abernathy… Cry Wolf.
Find out more about Bill Abernathy at www.billabernathy.com.
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Pittsburgh-based country singer Ashley Puckett hit the ground running in 2019 with her debut single, … | or a comment by someone became "breaking news", and how quickly that "breaking news" was posted into multiple social media sites by many people as fact. This frustrated me because there had been no time to really fact check this "breaking news". As many of these news/opinion stations are really quite biased in their reporting, the fact that so many repeated this on their social media pages was something that I thought it would be fun to write about. I thought using the fable of the boy who cried wolf seemed a perfect fit to develop my ideas. So much of this misinformation and "alternate facts" was being repeated so often that it just became noise. The song is not to challenge anyone's beliefs, make any social statements or certainly not to influence anyone's political thoughts, but rather to challenge each of us to spend the time to validate this mass amount of misinformation and do a little fact checking before we propagate it into our social media accounts. The chorus really says it all. "Who's Cryin Wolf? We've got to recognize the thieves in their tracks. Who's Crying Wolf? We've got to separate the lies from the facts. The truth is callin our names loud and clear, but we're running with a pack that's turned a deaf ear. We have got to learn Who's Cryin Wolf." I really like the bridge as well. "You post their howls in your media feeds, to get a few likes, follows, and tweets. Like sheep you follow these programmed elites, but they are the wolves and we the raw meat." This was a really fun song to write, and hopefully folks will get the intent of the tune without taking it too seriously.
ME: Who are some of your biggest influences?
BA: Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a huge Dan Fogelberg fan. Dan had the ability to write great songs that have really influenced many people's lives. I really enjoy the "hits" he had but find myself drawn to the tunes that are deeper in his collection of work. I have covered one of his tunes in Crossing Willow Creek, and a couple more on my Find a Way album. Icarus Ascending is the tune we covered on Crossing Willow Creek. This was not a tune that got tons of airplay, but when you sit and talk with Fogelberg fans, they feel the same as I. This tune is one I have found solace in throughout my life to help me keep my mind sane in challenging times.
I am also a big fan of Steven Stills, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Kenny Loggins, Jimmie Spheeris (we covered his Love's in Vain tune on Crossing Willow Creek), John Mayer, Jackson Browne, and Jim Croce.
ME: What do you find to be the most difficult thing about the music business?
BA: I think with all the music that is out there in the market today, it's really hard to get yourself heard. There are so many really talented folks playing today, its fun to be a part of, but I think sometimes the consumers get overloaded. Getting the right publicity is key. Working with the MTS management group on the release of Crossing Willow Creek has been a really good choice. They are really focused on getting my stuff to the right groups of folks who will enjoy it.
ME: Where is your favorite place that you've performed? Least favorite place?
BA: Well, this will probably be the opposite of what is true for most artists. I have played really big places and honestly, I don't like it much. It's nearly impossible to have eye contact with your audience. That said, it is cool to play the big venues from a pure performance perspective. I really prefer playing smaller venues where you are in touch with the folks in the audience and can see when your music reaches them in some way. We used to have a venue in KC called CODA that is now closed. It was a smaller place, had seating for about 75 max. No TV's, good sound system and the folks that came to those shows were there to listen. I really enjoy that type of show and wish there were more venues with this focus.
ME: What means more to you: Sales, Awards, or critical praise? and why?
BA: Honestly, none of the above. What I really like is when a fan tells me that a song I wrote or performed touched them in some way. Maybe it helped them get through a tough time, a bad day, or maybe it just made them smile. For me, if an artist can reach their audience in a personal way, the rest of the stuff will take care of itself.
ME: What is your greatest achievement, so far?
BA: I think my greatest achievement has been to be able to take the thoughts I have in my mind, turn them into music, and actually have people enjoy listening to them. I have had several fans tell me that my songs have meant something special to them. From my perspective, that is a great achievement.
That said, I have had some elements of success on a couple of Charts. My Find A Way CD charted for over a year on the Roots music charts, and my tune "Goodbye Will Never Come Again" was #1 on the folk charts for a few weeks. That was pretty cool and kind of unexpected.
ME: What one song do you wish you had written, that you didn't?
BA: Tough question. There have been many songs in my life that have touched me in so many ways. Since you have limited me to only one, I will choose Dan Fogelberg "These Days". I have listened to this song and played it so many times over the course of my life, I really think that's | 1,176 |
Why Do You Need to Know Ethereum Mining Profitability?
by Felix Dexel | Oct 30, 2018 | ethereum
Mining is nothing but the process of solving blocks or complex mathematical problems by making use of computing powers from specialized mining devices. In mining, user transactions are verified and then added to a blockchain which works like a public ledger. Rewards are given to the miners who have successfully solved the problems and these are the crypto coins. While in the case of Bitcoin, rewards will be in the form of Bitcoins, in Ethereum mining, rewards are in the form of Ether coins. To know whether it is actually profitable to mine Ethereum, it is advisable to check the Ethereum mining profitability beforehand. This is possible when you use online mining profitability calculators.
How is Ethereum mining different compared to Bitcoin mining?
When there was an unprecedented spike in prices of Bitcoin, more and more people started mining this cryptocurrency. But, when they had mined for some time, it was realized that the mining processes had become sluggish and mining hardware required high-end maintenance and lots of electricity. So, the miners were keen to explore alternatives and this is how Ethereum mining came to be.
One of the key differences between Ethereum mining and Bitcoin mining lies in the fact that Bitcoin mining can be done with specialized hardware but Ethereum mining is done using GPUs. The Ethereum network is ASIC resistant and users are therefore not able to use dedicated hardware like in the case of Bitcoins. just like those having higher investment powers can produce superior mining rigs for mining the Bitcoin, similarly those having high-end GPUs can easily install a far more powerful mining rig. It is also possible to mine Ether using traditional CPUs. But this is not too productive and this is why mining with GPUs became more popular.
Ethereum mining is popular as it does not need very high-end costly devices and hardware which can burn a hole in your pocket. In short, Ethereum mining may be practiced at home as well and the energy demands for this mining are found to be lower than that of Bitcoin. Since it is easier to mine Ether, profits are also higher. While you may be expected to make some initial investments, these are much lesser when compared to investments for Bitcoin mining.
To know Ethereum mining profitability, you will need to use online mining calculators. You can enter different inputs in these online tools like hash rates, power consumption costs, hardware expenses, cooling costs, the current Ethereum price, mining difficulty levels etc. For mining, you will need to get specialized Ethereum mining hardware and software, an Ethereum wallet and Ethereum mining pools.
Finding out about Ethereum Mining Profitability:
The Ethereum mining calculator refers to a simple calculating device which can help you understand whether mining Ethereum will generate profit for you or not. It will tell you how many others you can generate through mining using specific hardware. For getting accurate results, you will have to consider electricity costs in the area were the mining rig is installed and the configurations of your mining rig.
It is important to understand that cryptocurrency mining is never an easy decision because miners must take into account all kinds of risks in it before they start out. With mining calculators easily available these days, it is possible for miners to verify the profitability of any cryptocurrency to make plans in advance. While the calculator is undoubtedly an excellent resource for the new miners in the business, it is equally useful for those who are already mining Ethereum. Since cryptocurrencies are dynamic by nature and many factors are constantly changing, like difficulty levels and current market prices, it is necessary to monitor Ethereum mining profitability all the time.
A key factor which can change your fortunes is the Ethereum price. Ethereum is considered to be the second largest cryptocurrency in the world but is prone<|fim_middle|> strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.
DocuSign Will Add Ethereum Blockchain Integration to Verify Signatures
San Francisco based DocuSign has announced the integration of the Ethereum blockchain into its electronic signature and transaction management service.
The company, which currently has over 400,000 paying customers, will now have an option for customers to have evidence of a DocuSigned agreement automatically recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. This option will be an alternative to the company's native system for verifying signatures and is poised to be a natural fit for customers who want to have evidence of their agreements in a neutral environment.
Ron Hirson, chief product officer at DocuSign, stated in the release:
"For customers that opt-in, DocuSign will compute a one-way cryptographic hash fingerprint for every completed transaction, and write the value to the Ethereum blockchain — the most popular blockchain for smart contracts in our view."
He went further to explain the hash will act as "tamper-proof evidence for the transaction" that "enables any completed document to be validated independently. And by using the Ethereum blockchain, that third party evidence for a transaction is accessible to anyone."
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The company has been researching on smart contract since it first collaborated with Visa, creating one of the first public prototypes. The prototype, which was developed in 2015, was a proof-of-concept that brought together secure contracts and payments made online via a connected car prototype developed by Visa for car-based commerce.
At the time, Hirson said:
"This proof-of-concept makes it easier and faster for customers to get out the door in their new car by bringing together smart contracts and payments so that customers can electronically sign all pertinent documents and seamlessly pay in one fully digital experience."
The company has also joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, as it hopes to continue innovating in the space. DocuSign recently relaunched a new developer center.
In a tweet shared on Oct. 13, the company also unveiled other new product features including Intelligent Insights and mobile document scanning into its operations. According to the report, mobile document scanning, which was released to iOS devices last year, is now compatible with Android devices.
This allows you to scan any document and then edit, crop, and resize them before importing them into DocuSign for your signature. Intelligent Insights is another feature that uses AI-based search and agreement analytics to go beyond keywords in understanding agreement clauses in the way a human would, e.g., knowing that a clause about Internet cookies is a document centered on privacy, even when the keyword "privacy" is absent.
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SpankChain Hacker Returns Stolen Ethereum, Earns $9,000 Reward
The hacker who stole nearly $40,000 in ethereum from adult entertainment startup SpankChain has returned the stolen cryptocurrency, the company announced last night.
According to messages posted on the company's official Twitter account, SpankChain CEO Ameen Soleimani reached an agreement with the anonymous hacker after speaking to them on the phone.
Following that conversation, the hacker provided SpankChain with the private key to an address holding the stolen funds and then further helped the company retrieve a few thousand dollars' worth of funds that had been immobilized during the attack.
Update on our recent hack: @ameensol spoke with the attacker on the phone, and they sent us the private key with all the funds. We sent them back $5,000 as a reward along with the 5.5 ETH they used as seed capital for the attack.
Congratulations, anonymous haxor!
— SpankChain (@SpankChain) October 11, 2018
Operation "Save My Ass" is a success. The stuck BOOTY has been recovered. https://t.co/OpuHPWDXl5
— ? Ameen Soleimani (@ameensol) October 12, 2018
In return, SpankChain sent the hacker $5,000 as a bounty reward, purchased the formerly-frozen tokens back from them for $4,000, and returned the 5.5 ETH the hacker had used when launching the attack in the first place.
As CCN reported, the hack occurred last Saturday when the attacker successfully exploited a "reentrancy" bug in one of SpankChain's smart contracts. The bug, similar to the one that led to the infamous downfall of The DAO, allowed the attacker to trick the SpankChain contract into allowing them to withdraw funds, even after the attacker's payment channel balance had gone below zero.
The hacker originally made off with $38,000 in ethereum, and the attack immobilized a further $4,000 worth of SpankChain's initial coin offering (ICO) token, BOOTY. Most of those funds belonged to the company, who had planned a $9,300 airdrop to compensate users for their losses.
Instead, the company paid out about $9,000 to the hacker, still far less than the $50,000 the company said that it would have cost to audit the smart contract prior to its deployment on the mainnet. However, the company has acknowledged in retrospect that the peripheral costs associated with foregoing that audit far exceeded the savings.
But while this specific incident was resolved remarkably amicably, computer scientist Emin Gün Sirer has warned that many Ethereum smart contracts remain vulnerable to reentrancy attacks. Subsequent hacks may not have quite such a happy ending.
Ethereum: We Haven't Seen the Last of the Bug That Killed the DAO
More than two years after the collapse of The DAO thrust the Ethereum community into civil war, one of the bugs that caused that caused that black swan event continues to lurk in many smart contracts, waiting to be exploited by hackers.
That's according to Emin Gün Sirer, a computer science professor at Cornell and the co-director of cryptocurrency research initiative IC3, who said that he has seen a variety of smart contracts that may be vulnerable to a "reentrancy" attack that allows a malicious user to drain ETH from a payment channel.
"BTW, I've seen other contracts like this one that implicitly trust the erc-20 tokens issued on top of their platform to not perform reentrant calls. I'm sure this isn't the last episode of this bug," he wrote on Twitter.
Sirer was commenting on the news that SpankChain, an adult entertainment startup whose platform runs partially on Ethereum smart contracts, had been hacked for nearly $40,000 worth of cryptocurrency over the weekend.
As CCN reported, the company said that the hacker used a reentrancy attack to siphon 1165.38 ETH out of the smart contract over a series of transactions. In short, the attacker used a malicious smart contract to trick the SpankChain contract into believing that the attacker could withdraw funds from the payment channel.
The firm explained:
"The attacker created a malicious contract masquerading as an ERC20 token, where the 'transfer' function called back into the payment channel contract multiple times, draining some ETH each time."
As both Spankchain and Sirer noted, the attack was similar to the one that crippled The DAO, a decentralized venture capital fund that long held the record for most funds raised by an initial coin offering (ICO).
Worth as much as $150 million at a time when the total market cap of ethereum was still far below $2 billion, The DAO held nearly 15 percent of the total ETH supply on June 17, 2016, when an attacker stole 3.6 million ETH — today worth nearly $815 million — by exploiting its vulnerable smart contract.
We all know what happened next: a series of futile attempts to recover the funds, the infamous chat room conversation, and the contentious hard fork that resulted in the creation of Ethereum Classic.
Now, more than two years later, Ethereum has largely put The DAO hack in its rearview mirror. The ethereum price, which plunged as low as $6 in the months following the hack, now stands at $230. Hundreds of blockchain startups have used Ethereum to raise billions of dollars through ICOs, and thousands of developers are building decentralized applications (dApps) that run on the platform.
However, though the consequences may not always be quite as serious as they were on that infamous morning in June 2016, the bug that permanently altered the cryptocurrency landscape appears determined to continue to rear its ugly head.
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Decentralized[?] Ethereum Exchange IDEX Waves Goodbye to New York Traders
IDEX, a self-described decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) that allows traders to trustlessly exchange Ethereum tokens, has announced that it will no longer provide trading services to customers with IP addresses originating from New York.
Ethereum DEX to Block New York IP Addresses
Beginning tomorrow, Oct. 25 at 6 pm UTC, New York users will be barred from placing new orders on the platform, the exchange operator announced on Twitter.
***Notice: #IDEX will begin blocking new orders from users with New York State IP addresses on Thursday, October 25th (6pm UTC). Cancels and withdrawals will remain active.
— Aurora (IDEX) *Not Giving Away ETH* (@Aurora_dao) October 24, 2018
According to the platform's terms of service, which was last updated on Sept. 20, users in Washington state and North Korea are also prohibited from trading on the exchange.
"Any user that is found to be using the Service from one of the aforementioned jurisdictions will lose access to their account," the service agreement reads, "their funds will be frozen until the direct withdrawal function activates and the user can interact with the IDEX contract directly to withdraw their assets."
Presumably, traders in New York and other prohibited regions could still access the platform by using a VPN to mask their actual locations, though it's unclear whether the service will blacklist Ethereum addresses previously associated with IP activity from prohibited areas.
New York, the creator of the controversial "BitLicense" framework, maintains one of the strictest regulatory regimes for cryptocurrency exchanges, which is why only a handful of cryptocurrency companies have received authorization to operate in the state and provide services to New York residents.
Such regional restrictions, along with the ever-increasing number of centralized cryptocurrency exchange hacks, have many within the industry optimistic about the current and future development of decentralized exchanges, which allow traders to swap between cryptocurrency tokens while retaining custody of their funds. Major centralized exchanges including Binance, OKEx, and Huobi have even announced plans to build their own DEX-like platforms to complement and perhaps eventually replace their centralized services.
How Can a Decentralized Exchange Block IP Addresses?
IDEX allows users to trade more than 400 Ethereum-based tokens against ether (ETH), though most of these markets are thinly-traded. | Source: CoinMarketCap
However, needless to say, the fact that an operator of a self-described DEX retains enough control over the platform to block users from a particular jurisdiction raises questions about how decentralized that platform actually is.
IDEX is operated by the Panama-registered Aurora Labs S.A., which has developed a variety of blockchain applications, cryptocurrency tokens, and protocols. According to TokenData, the firm raised $5.3 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) concluded in January. CoinMarketCap ranks IDEX as the 114th-largest cryptocurrency exchange (DEX or centralized), with daily turnover of $2 million and 30-day volume of $39 million.
While Aurora describes IDEX as a decentralized exchange — hence the "DEX" in IDEX — it also relies on some centralized off-chain infrastructure, namely a trading engine that allows users to trade continuously without waiting for individual transactions to be mined on the underlying Ethereum blockchain. Meanwhile, the IDEX smart contract trustlessly stores funds and settles funds based on the off-chain trading data.
"By separating trade matching from execution, IDEX provides the speed and user experience of centralized exchanges combined with the security and auditability of the Ethereum Blockchain," the firm explains.
That hybrid model certainly improves the user experience over some other decentralized trading platforms while maintaining the crucial feature of leaving funds under user control. At the same time, however, it requires IDEX to be the only entity authorized "to submit signed trades to Ethereum," which could make the company more vulnerable to scrutiny from authorities in more highly-regulated jurisdictions like New York. Consequently, traders who desire a fully-decentralized experience may have to resign themselves to platforms that trade a friendlier user experience for reduced reliance on off-chain services.
CCN has reached out to IDEX for more information on the IP ban and will update this article upon receiving a reply.
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21255 Tostedt | to market volatility. It seems to be slightly more stable as compared to the Bitcoin which witnesses sharp rises and falls in its price. So, for those who are just starting out in the cryptocurrency mining business, it is crucial to know about this price volatility. When the demands rise for Ether, prices go up and when demands are low, prices automatically fall. But, unlike Bitcoins, Ethereum is not limited in number. This is perhaps why this cryptocurrency is more stable than the Bitcoin.
Among the factors which influence mining profitability of Ether the more common ones are prices of Ether in the market. The higher these prices, the better the profits you can make and when the prices fall, the profits are also lower. Costs of mining hardware will also influence the profitability. Mining is an expensive task and it needs high-end machinery which can cost you a fortune. Besides, power costs must also be taken into account to determine profitability. In mining, a lot of electricity is consumed and this is why countries which can offer low-cost power supplies are attracting miners.
2017 to Today: Ethereum Predictions Are Aging (But Not Well)
Alex Sunnarborg is a founding member of Tetras Capital Partners, LLC, an investment manager focused on investing in crypto assets.
Eighteen months ago, CoinDesk sent a survey to its readers asking for their opinions on the current state of the crypto ecosystem. The results were analyzed and published in the State of Blockchain Q1 2017. In this piece, the original author reflects on some of the core findings.
The most striking survey response was also the most straightforward to understand: sentiment around the 'overall state' of bitcoin and ethereum.
Less than 5 percent of those surveyed in Q1 2017 felt even slightly negative about the overall state of ethereum. The sentiment and optimism could have hardly been any higher.
Network Data: Then and Now
At the time, the number of transactions on the ethereum network was rising.
Transactions on the bitcoin network were rising as well, but the magnitude of growth was less dramatic, and bitcoin blocks had started to average over 90 percent capacity.
Demand for bitcoin block space lead transaction fees to average north of $1 for the first time ever while ethereum's fees averaged less than $0.05.
It was clear that transaction fees were a large component of the negativity that survey participants felt when asked about bitcoin.
In the 18 months since, we've seen the rollout and initial usage of both SegWit and Lightning Network to help address bitcoin scaling, but the block limit kept the on-chain transaction count bounded under about 400,000 per day. Without the same limitations, we saw ethereum's transactional count exceed 1m per day in late 2017.
During that period, we saw ethereum's average transaction fee exceed $1, but also watched bitcoin's pass $50.
When block space is abundant and transaction fees are low, high transaction counts are easy to achieve, useful or not (similar to concerns around trading volumes on zero-fee exchanges).
Analysis has now been done that claims that one mixing system comprised over 60 percent of all ETH transaction volume between February 2017 and February 2018.
Dapps and ICOs
Ethereum had the largest ICO to date in July 2014 and the genesis block was created a year later in July 2015.
In the year between the ICO and mainnet launch, many projects were experimenting with creating early dapps, including Augur, launching a smart contract on the ethereum test net in April 2015.
Many in the community loved the idea of a decentralized prediction market, and in late 2015, Augur used the ICO model to raise $5 million to continue to build out their platform. The Augur ICO was for REP, a token which allows holders to act as oracles to settle markets after the fact in exchange for a percentage of the total amount bet.
Users do not have to own REP and can bet in ETH, a more interesting token design for REP in my opinion than an approach some dapps have taken by introducing a new required currency within their ecosystem.
By Q1 2017, hundreds of dapp ideas and token mechanisms that are irrefutably worse had been funded, and soon venture capitalists had been replaced by the global retail public via ICOs as the preferred and dominant form of early stage fundraising in crypto.
The community was clearly enthusiastic and willing to fund any new decentralized, tokenized attempt to compete with existing industries and companies.
Not only were participants optimistic about the future of Ethereum and its dapp ecosystem, but they also claimed to very positive about their current state.
I believe Augur is great example of the chasm that has become more clear between expectations and reality. As stated, Augur launched an early, test version of their product before Ethereum actually launched. Augur's actual launch just happened just 3 months ago in July 2018, over 3 years later. In the last 24 hours, Augur has had less than 50 users, 106 transactions, and about $10,000 in volume.
At dapp number 48 out of 970 when ranked by users, Augur's minimal usage metrics are not an outlier among ethereum dapps. The top used Ethereum dapps remain decentralized exchanges and games and no dapps had over 2,000 users or 10,000 transactions within the last 24 hours.
Despite new dapps launching, global dapp activity has remained relatively flat over the last year, never exceeding 50,000 users.
When comparing the usage of dapps across platforms, you can quickly find alternative ecosystems like EOS that are currently displaying more usage than ethereum. The weaknesses in comparing dapp metrics across platforms like ethereum and EOS have many parallels to the comparisons made earlier between transaction counts across bitcoin and ethereum.
Casper and Ethereum's Move to Proof of Stake
Since inception, one of the most critical, protocol level events on the Ethereum roadmap has been the shift from a Proof of Work consensus and security model to Proof of Stake. In June 2016, Vitalik predicted this shift would occur in early 2017.
In Q1 2017, Casper was not live, but the community was quite optimistic it would at least be live by today.
Eighty-three percent were wrong, it's now Q4 2018 and proof-of-stake is not live on Ethereum. Casper research remains ongoing.
Scaling with Layer-two Networks
Bitcoin, ethereum, and nearly every blockchain project is researching scaling the network through layer-two networks. In Q1 2017, 87 percent of the community thought that Raiden would be live on ethereum by the end of 2018, while 69% thought Lightning would be live on bitcoin.
Bitcoin now has over 10,000 Lightning channels, while Raiden is not live on Eehereum's main net (and now has a token, RDN, which had an ICO). Ethereum dapps including Funfair and Spankchain have however built dapp-specific scaling solutions and research on generalized state channels is ongoing by several parties.
Public Attention and Growth
In many of the easiest ways to measure however, participants were largely right to be bullish.
After the price of ETH spent much of 2016 above $10, the price of ether was back under $10 in Q1 2017 and global Google search interest was down following the chaos of The DAO and ETC.
In March 2017, ETH's price set an ATH of $50.
In June 2017, search interest exploded and ETH's price hit $400.
In January 2018, search interest surged once again, and at the peak of the bull market, ETH hit $1,400.
If you had bought ETH (with dollars) at any point between the ICO and mid-January 2018, you would have had a profitable trade (if you sold at the top). If you bought in the ICO (at $0.31), you would have returned 451,500 percent (better than equity in Coinbase today at a $8 billion valuation compared to its $4 million seed round, and ETH with public market liquidity).
ETH has undoubtedly been a historic investment opportunity. Compared to many traditional and even crypto asset alternatives, it has often outperformed.
On many time scales however, including in 2018's bear market (2014's which it wasn't around to experience), it has actually severely underperformed.
Both holding $ (as many ICO treasuries now realize they should have done) or even BTC would have been vastly superior strategies in 2018.
Ethereum has clearly fallen short of technical expectations over the last 18 months.
In all reality, the bar of expectations was simply set far too high by un-savvy retail investors with dollars and tokens in their eyes. The Q2 2017 survey article alluding to the inevitable pop that Spongebob saw coming from stupid inflated tokens was also simply bound to happen.
Perhaps we should be thankful it happened quickly within the last 18 months and now we can enter a period like 2014 and 2015 where there is more focus on building than trading (or at a minimum it can help filter out the good traders from those who good lucky with 'diversified exposure' in a bull market).
Much like bitcoin companies benefited from the building heavy period of 2014 and 2015, hopefully ethereum and its dapps can benefit heavily in the coming years from the tech built in 2018's bear market. Hopefully the price depreciation and forthcoming ICO regulatory actions will further help shape the design of the next wave of projects, fundraisers, and token mechanisms.
To see the contrast between Q1 2017 sentiment and today, help CoinDesk Research by taking the Q3 2018 sentiment survey.
Disclaimer: The author has short exposure to ether, with rationale described in this thesis. Disclaimer.
Rusty ether image via Shutterstock
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Global warming is still the topic of much debate, but a short video posted recently by NASA is fairly convincing. The 15-second animation, which was posted by NASA last week and picked up on Tuesday by Co.Exist, shows a view of the entire globe with<|fim_middle|>'s Sydney Brownstone noted.
NASA's full animation follows below. | an overlay that details climate change. NASA scientists analyzed data collected over the past 63 years by 1,000 meteorological stations from around the world, and the animation they compiled shows just how rapidly the Earth's climate is changing.
The GIF above is a consolidated version of NASA's full animation that helps illustrate just how drastic the change has been since 1950. Temperatures in some regions have swung by as much as 4 degrees Celsius in the past 60 years alone.
According to the report, the average global temperature in 2013 was 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That's 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the mid-20th century baseline temperature.
"Last year, when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed levels of 400 parts per million, the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide reached a higher point than it had at any time in the last 800,000 years," Co.Exist | 203 |
In line with its' continuous efforts to support the private sector, Tamkeen has recently signed an agreement with the Family Bank to increase the portfolio of the Micro-Finance Support scheme that provides small and medium enterprises as well as micro businesses with Sharia-compliant financing solutions to enable them to grow.
Following this announcement, Tamkeen will pump an additional BD<|fim_middle|> fees collected by the LMRA in order to enhance the overall prosperity of Bahrain by investing in Bahraini employability, job creation, and social support.
Tamkeen aims to be the enabler and driver in promoting business growth and offering rewarding employment opportunities in order to attain prosperous living for Bahrainis. | 1 million into the Micro-Finance Support portfolio as the second phase of this scheme is approaching. This will bring the total value of the portfolio to BD2 million. Around 1000 enterprises are expected to benefit by the end of the second phase of this scheme. To date, 653 enterprises have benefited from this support with a total support value of BD1 million.
The Micro-Finance Support scheme is part of Tamkeen initiatives to support and develop the private sector and make it the engine of economic development. The scheme basically targets existing small enterprises -- including family businesses -- and low-income individuals, enabling them to start small businesses. Tamkeen subsidies 50 percent of the profit cost charged for financing ranging from BD500 and BD7,000. In addition to financial support, the Family Bank offers advisory services to beneficiaries to enable them to correctly manage their businesses.
Tamkeen's Enterprise and Human Capital Development Vice-President Dr. Ahmed Abdulghani Al Shaikh noted that the programme has been a big success since its launch in January 2011"The success of this programme encouraged us to renew our cooperation with the Family Bank as part of our commitment to providing affordable and comprehensive financing solution to Bahraini enterprises to enable them to obtain the needed capital for expansion, development, and contribution to the national economy," he said.
More than 66,000 Bahraini citizens and enterprises have benefited from Tamkeen's support programmes to date, with the number expected to rise to 100,000.
Tamkeen (Labour Fund) is an independent authority which formulates strategic and operational plans to use the | 339 |
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners continue to recognize the value of maintaining a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful American workplaces. To that end, OSHA, NIOSH, and The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners hereby renew the Alliance, signed January 25, 2007, and renewed September 11, 2009. OSHA, NIOSH, and The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners are committed to providing Partner members and others with information, guidance, and access to training resources that will help to protect the health and safety of workers, as well as promote a better understanding of worker rights and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Through the Alliance, the participants will continue to promote a culture of safety and health within the roadway construction work zone industry, including non-<|fim_middle|>-by, excessive noise, and sprains and strains, as well as illnesses associated with silica exposure.
Work will also involve the use of relevant injury, illness, and hazard exposure data, as appropriate, to prioritize areas of emphasis for Alliance activities, as well as determine a baseline for reducing and preventing such incidents. The Alliance will also explore and implement selected options to evaluate the effectiveness of the Alliance and measure its impact on improving workplace safety for employers and workers in the roadway construction work zone industry. In renewing this Alliance, OSHA, NIOSH, and The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners recognize that OSHA's State Plan and On-site Consultation Project partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort, and that information about the products and activities of the Alliance may be shared with these partners for the advancement of common goals.
Share information on OSHA's National Emphasis Programs, Regulatory Agenda, and opportunities to participate in the rulemaking process.
Disseminate information on occupational safety and health laws and standards, including the rights and responsibilities of workers and employers.
Develop information such as toolbox talks and best practices documents on the recognition and prevention of workplace hazards, and to develop ways of communicating such information (e.g., print and electronic media, electronic assistance tools, and OSHA's, NIOSH's, and The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners members' websites) to employers and workers in the industry.
Speak, exhibit, or appear at OSHA's, NIOSH's or The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners conferences, local meetings, or other events, such as ARTBA's roadway work zone conference.
Share information among OSHA personnel and industry safety and health professionals regarding new technologies in construction and effective best practices for conducting work safely (e.g., The Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners roadway work zone access and egress good practices, or other effective approaches) through training programs, workshops, seminars, and lectures (or any other applicable forum) developed by the participants.
Develop and disseminate case studies for preventing such hazards as runovers/backovers, noise exposure, and sprains/strains in roadway work zones.
An implementation team made up of representatives of each organization will meet to develop a work plan, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the participants. In addition, they will meet at least two times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. OSHA team members will include representatives of the Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs and any other offices as appropriate. OSHA will encourage State Plan States' and OSHA On-site Consultation Projects' participation on the team.
This agreement will remain in effect for five years. Any signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided they give 30 days written notice. The agreement may be modified at any time with the written concurrence of all signatories.
Signed this 17th day of December 2015. | English and limited English speaking employees, to reduce workplace incidents and prevent worker exposures to runover/backover hazards, struck | 23 |
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Welcome to the DC Storytelling System, designed by the Playful Cities group at the AU School of Communication.
CURRENT INSTALLATION (through 2020): Our system links a Smithsonian exhibit to five DC public libraries and a storytelling truck. Residents can call in with their own phones (no app required), receive historic photographs by text message, and record their own stories. To amplify neighborhood events, our tactics range from paper maps that trigger audio content to a repurposed payphone for story collection.
OUR VISION: Rather than simply put "more content online," our goal is to connect physical streets to mediated stories. Strong places have the ability to tell their own story — including in public space. Increasingly, digital media is part of public space and community life, but cities need tactics that emphasize equity and amplify in-person organizing.
April, 2018: Our first re-purposed payphone was featured in the Smithsonian's "A Right to the City" exhibit at the Anacostia Community Museum, on view April 2018-2020. Over the next several years the hotline will gather new voices and evolve, including to distribute multimedia from residents and exhibit partners.
October, 2018: Our Humanities Truck made a first appearance at Adams Morgan Day, including a neighborhood history map tied to our storytelling hotline.
March, 2019: Five branch libraries in the DC Public Library system opened satellite exhibits featuring the storytelling system, as part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
Conceptually, our system investigates a more ecological approach to circulating stories that strengthen our sense of place, community and civic life. Drawing on Communication Infrastructure Theory, our approach is to explicitly bridge neighborhood institutions, resident networks, and local media.
The voices from this project come from the community, and institutions ranging from the Smithsonian<|fim_middle|> of Communication at American University, as part of a collaboration with the Leimert Phone Company, and made possibly thanks to the generous support of the Smithsonian Women's Committee. | Anacostia Community Museum to the DC Public Library. This is a project of the School | 19 |
The name "salsify" is used to describe two similar root vegetables. White salsify is thin, forked, and pale in color, while black salsify (also known as scorzonera) is thicker, darker, and longer, resembling a brown carrot. This root vegetable<|fim_middle|> plastic bag in the refrigerator, salsify can last up to two weeks. | has been popular in Europe since the 16th century and is just beginning to make its way to North American markets. Salsify is popular for its taste and is often referred to as the "oyster plant" as it possesses a similar sweet, earthy flavor. Salsify is also grown for pollination purposes as the purple flowers tend to attract beneficial insects. To prepare, salsify must be peeled and then covered in vinegar or lemon juice so as not to become discolored. Once the outer layer is removed, however, salsify can be blanched, sauteed, or roasted. Salsify is often pureed and can add an interesting flavor to any traditional dish, like soup or mashed potatoes. When purchasing, look for medium sized roots. Larger ones tend to be too fibrous and small ones do not hold as much meat. When stored properly, in a | 184 |
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Ranked #3 in 2017.
Previous positions: #2 (2015), #1 (2013), and #1 (2011).
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Winner of the Thinkers50 2011 Innovation Award.
As the world's foremost authority on innovation, Christensen is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation. His work explores how innovative approaches can lead to organizational transformation and create valuable new sources of growth. Christensen's analysis of the ongoing failure of economic developments to generate sustainable growth – the prosperity paradox – shows how market-creating innovation holds the key to national prosperity.
Until his early passing in January 2020 Christensen was the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was once a missionary in the Republic of Korea, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and was named a White House Fellow. He is the founder of the Christensen Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. He is also founder of strategy consultancy Innosight and Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm that pursues disruptive opportunities. Christensen was shortlisted (with co-authors Karen Dillon and Efosa Ojomo) for the Thinkers50 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award, for The Prosperity Paradox.
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It's that time of year when no one wants to admit that it's too hot to sit on a patio<|fim_middle|> for being so smart and ordering it.
Move over, pimento cheese, macaroni and cheese is taking over local menus. | and drink all day. Enter the drinks of summer.
Slider Inn has an amazing patio — now with misters — and the absolute best way to enjoy it is with a Jameson Slushie (or two). The slushie consists of Barritt's Ginger Beer, house-made lemonade, delicious Jameson Irish Whiskey, and bitters. Depending on the glass situation, it either gets served in a branded Mason jar or a pint glass. (The latter is obviously the better deal.) At $9 a pop, Slider is selling upwards of 300 each week — the hotter the weather, the higher the sales. They are very drinkable, probably too drinkable. I can't imagine summer without them. I won't!
The newly opened Mac's Burgers, which is out east in part of the former Dan McGuinness, is also selling freshly squeezed frozen lemonades — some with alcohol, some without. The virgin options include blueberry, strawberry, mango, peach, pomegranate, and pineapple — all made with freshly puréed fruit. Their spiked varieties ($8 to $11) include a Jameson Slush (sounds familiar!), Arnold Palmer Freeze (Tito's Vodka, lemonade, and iced tea), and Frozen Bellinis (peach lemonade with an inverted champagne split).
Staying cool downtown requires a boozy milkshake. Oshi has six to choose from, and they are also available without alcohol, but where's the fun in that? Even the most lactose intolerant would be foolish to pass up the Kentucky Head Hunter. It's made with bourbon, apple brandy, vanilla ice cream, and bacon dust. Yes, bacon dust! It mostly tastes like frosty bourbon, which is awesome if you consider how much bourbon it takes to outshine the ice cream. Other popular shakes are the Malt Shoppe (vanilla ice cream, malted milk balls, bourbon) and the Godzilla (crème de menthe, Godiva white chocolate, vanilla ice cream, Oreo pieces). They're $10 a pop, $6 without booze.
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And because we need a different kind of buzz on occasion, City & State is now offering house-made carbonated coffee sodas. Say it with me: coffee soda. The first, the Hampliner, is a carbonated iced coffee with pomegranate syrup, fresh lime, and maraschino cherries to top it off ($4.75). The second, the Purist, is carbonated iced coffee with simple syrup, lime juice, and lime slice for garnish ($4). The Hampliner is rich but not too sweet. It feels decadent, which is what summer is all about. Beware, the Purist may give you a grown-up feeling since you'll pat yourself on the back | 599 |
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Air Jordan 4 "Canvas" will be released in summer 2022
Jordan Brand has announced a brand new colorway of Air Jordan 4 called "Canvas", which will be available exclusively in women's sizes.
The sneakers will be decorated in light beige Sail, grey Cement Grey and red Fire Red colors. The traditional leather upper in this pair has been replaced with textiles, which can be decorated as the owner wants. A white sole with red, yellow and blue patches completes the design.
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May 24, 2014 by annaicenter
Venus and Ketu
On May 22nd Mercury moved into his home sign of Gemini where he is sharing space with Jupiter. Mercury is the intellectual and neutral minds and has a strong influence on the nervous system. This is a solid placement for Mercury and along with Jupiter many of can feel a lighter and clearer energy. Mercury will be in Gemini until July 27th because of an upcoming Mercury retrograde. Retrograde or not it is a positive to have Mercury station in Gemini.
Just in time for the holiday weekend Venus moved into the sign of Aries on Friday, the 23rd<|fim_middle|> discouragement and the desire to break free there can be times when many of us feel as if we need to lash out at someone, something or life in general. Each day for the duration of this cycle those feelings will come to the forefront when the ascendant joins Mars – which happens approximately from 3:30 pm until 5:50 pm "eastern time" – adjust the times according to your time zone. These are the two hours in which to practice restraint and not give into the frustration – we are almost out of this cycle – look for the 16th of May as the time when we turn the corner.
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Kaelan Strouse on ARIES NEW MOON | . Aries is not a great sign for Venus but not as challenging as Venus in Virgo or Scorpio. The challenge for Venus at this time is that he is conjunct the detached and heavy Ketu which may explain the emotional drop many have are feeling at the moment. The lowering of the Venus energy for a holiday weekend can be disappointing for some. Because Aries is opposite the relationship sign of Libra there could be conflict or disappointment in relationships for the next week or so. Ketu is the south node of the Moon and leads towards quiet introspection as well as an increase in moments of intuitive clarity. This is a time when it is best to focus thoughts inward and to assess one's self rather than others. It is a given that some people may be quiet, confused or prone to disappointing others at this moment – it is best to not try and force others to change.
It is also the beginning of the New Moon cycle which will be exact on the 28th and the Moon itself will join the Venus/Ketu conjunction on the 25th around 6:40 a.m. The energy will be low and should be respected for that quality. It is a good time for resting, healing, introspection, reading, movies, music and quiet time in nature. Trying to force too much fun or too many projects will be counter-intuitive which can lead to disappointment, conflict with others or pushing the body into greater tiredness. The Moon will enter Gemini on May 29th at approximately 10:45 p.m. Once the Moon moves in Gemini the energy will begin to build, Venus will be farther away from Ketu and the overall mood will improve.
Because we are dealing with the sign of Aries impatience and head-strong impulsivity are always possibles reaction to disappointments or frustration. During this cycle it is important to be aware of yourself and others from approximately 2:15 p.m. until 4:55 p.m. – reacting in anger or without common sense during this time period will not bring about the desired result. ALL TIMES ARE GIVEN IN EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME – ADJUST THE TIMES ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN TIME ZONE.
Paying attention to our reactions and expectations will go a long way towards using the holiday as a restful and perhaps enlightening long weekend. Every planetary configuration is good for something and I think we could all use some quiet rest which is what the planets are offering us at this time – if there are those in your life who can't help but overreact it is best to just give them their space and enjoy your own attitude of peaceful quiet.
Let's Talk About Mars
The end of the Mars retrograde period is the current transit position of the fiery Mars. However, like all the planets, Mars has a position in individual natal charts and, from the natal position, the forward movement is calculated. The ongoing influence of Mars based on the position at birth plays a role in the world of astrology – in the western system of astrology this movement is known as "progressed placement" while in Vedic astrology it is known as the "dasa placement."
This system of individualized natal chart movement has been important to all of us in the past six years because of the natal chart of America. While no one can be sure of the exact moment that the Declaration of Independence was signed, historical research combined with decades of study by astrologers gives us a natal chart calculated for July 4, 1776 at approximately 6 p.m. This chart puts Sagittarius as the ascendant with Mars a part of a conjunction in the strong, angular seventh house along with the Sun, Venus and Jupiter. The impulsive, strong and war-like Mars nature of the USA cannot be denied by anyone with any knowledge of our history.
The Vedic dasa system calculates that a chart has a cycle of 120 years during which each planet has its time of prominence – the planets all have time periods of varying years, and the Mars cycle of prominence is seven years. Obviously, the individual natal charts of human being have yet to live through the entire 120 year cycle. The charts of many nations will be able to be studied from the perspective of moving through all of the cycles. The current Mars dasa is the second time the United States has experienced its Mars dasa, and history can give us some hints of what went on here during its last cycle.
The current Mars dasa began in the fall of 2008 which coincides with the financial crash of the economy. Mars plays a big role in land ownership and while our modern economy was built on fragile legs, it was real estate which pulled those fragile legs out from underneath the economy. Among all of the problems of the economy, Mars has been at the forefront of the nation's mood which has been angry, unreasonable, impatient, and more violent.
We are at the tail end of this Mars cycle as Rahu will take over as the dasa ruler in the winter months of 2015. Most astrologers have an affinity for history and like to study the influence of planets in the past as compared to the present.
I was curious as to what went on during the last dasa of Mars. This dasa took place during the years of 1889 to 1896, and it appears that those years were filled with discord and the nation dealt with many of the same issues we have been fighting about today. Given that this is not a history thesis, I am going to simply list some of the highlights of those years – I leave the exact dates and details to those who enjoy historical studies.
Some of the highlights of those years which have parallels to today include: Jane Adams established "Hull House" in an attempt to address the situations of the most poor members of our country; Jacob Riis wrote his groundbreaking "How The Other Half Lives"; Coxey's Army marched to Washington D.C. (the so-called army was a large group of unemployed workers who were reacting to the second year of misery during a four year economic depression); Steel Workers vs Carnegie Steel Company; economic panic of 1893; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Pullman Strike; McKinley Tariff; Reduction of the McKinley Tariff.
In addition to the fight for economic equality, there were social and environmental issues being addressed and fought about during those years: Sierra Club was formed; Yosemite National Park was formed (much to the chagrin of those who wanted the land for economic gain); Wounded Knee massacre; National American Women's Suffrage Association formed; Baltimore Crisis (USA trying to gain an economic foothold in the Pacific via South America); Plessey vs. Ferguson which legalized the racial "separate but equal" rule for the southern states which led, of course, to the despicable Jim Crow laws. Reading the newspaper accounts of the last seven year cycle of Mars shows a country in angry misery – not very different from today.
The Mars cycle of that time ended, and Rahu took his place just like Rahu will take his place in early 2015. Rahu was the dasa ruler during the years of 1896 until 1914 and history has left a record of some of the highlights of those years and those highlights show advancement, innovation and some positive excitement: gold rush; Boston subway completed; Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American war; Open Door Policy settled trade problems with China; NAACP founded by W.E. Dubois; Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts founded; break up of the Standard Oil monopoly; Armory Show opens in NY introducing Modern Art to America; Hay-Parceforte Treaty which laid the groundwork for the creation of the Panama Canal; US helps to end the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, First Rose Bowl; First World Series, First Indy 500; First Mother's Day; "Great Train Robbery" movie released which was ground-breaking in movie technology; World's Fair in St. Louis; Wright Brothers first powered flight; Panama Canal Zone acquired; Harley-Davidson Co; Ford Motor Co. and Model T; US Steel founded; Ford Assembly line introduced.
Life on planet earth is generally messy, and Rahu coming into his dasa will not transform the world into perfection. However, the planets will always have their say, and it would be very hard for anyone to argue that life during Rahu was an improvement over the years of the Mars dasa. Rahu will bring surprises and changes which will be difficult for those who do not like change and are clinging to a vision of returning to the past, but for people who are not afraid of change and like innovation – – if history is any indication, the upcoming cycle of Rahu will be a positive energy. Even for those who do not like change, the anticipation of a lessening of anger and destructively impulsive actions will bring respite.
As a nation we are at the tail end of the seven year Mars cycle, and that is going to be an improvement. There are upcoming transits happening in the next five months which will begin to usher in the improvements in the planetary placements. Mars moving forward tonight is an improvement, but there are even more improvements coming our way. It is time to let go of the past and face forward while exhaling in the present.
May 8, 2014 by annaicenter
From Quicksand to Mud.
Right now we are all experiencing the opposition of the Sun and Saturn. In Vedic Astrology these two planets are considered to be enemies. The Sun represents the ego, life-force energy, reputation,ambition, action and new beginnings. Saturn represents endings, slow methodical work, karma and sacrifice. It is easy to see why these planets do not get along well. The Sun represents authority and Saturn represents the people and workers. Both planets have a tendency towards selfishness. At the moment bosses and employees can be at odds and there can be too much responsibility for everyone. Saturn, in my opinion, is the stronger force at the moment and many are feeling discouraged, tired and perhaps overwhelmed. The aspect is exact on May 11th at 1:50 p.m., eastern time – once it passes the exact degree of opposition the energy will "begin" to weaken until the 15th when the Sun moves into Taurus. The eclipses are past but as my good friend said – "the difference is like walking through mud instead of quicksand."
Mars and Venus are aspecting one another May 18th which gives a boost to creative action. Use that energy to engage in creative activity – plant those flowers, write that poem or listen to your favorite music as an offset to the heaviness of Saturn and the Sun. This energy can also be good for relationships as long as you are able to stay out of the ego battles of the Sun in Aries and Saturn in Libra. The truth is that at the moment very few people are getting their own way – it's better to find a reason to laugh or engage in creative activities with loved ones.
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Kane Brown covers a bunch of throwbacks on first night of Stagecoach
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It's easy to understand why Kane Brown has been an instant heartthrob. He has a young, childish smile, an innocent presence on stage and his songs are simple, sweet ballads.
He took the Mane Stage on Friday night to a sea of fans at the Stagecoach country music festival in Indio, Calif.
Within the first few songs, he played his first number one hit, "What Ifs," and the crowd went wild. Like most of his discography, the music was modest but the lyrics were honest. While he mostly sang in higher octaves, the moments when he sank deeper, like in "Heaven," offered a vocal delivery that was more polished and warm.
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Brown offered feel-good country music without complex compositions throughout the set, mostly with a lullaby feeling. His lyrics were mostly polite and squeaky clean. There were no surprises, but no terrible upsets either.
He balanced that sweet image with fun, interactive songs, too.
The 25-year-old from Tennessee played a newer song, "Lost in the Middle of Nowhere," that was a peppy, honky-tonk sing-along, which he hoped fans would do. His energy was fed by how much the crowd sang and danced and jumped along.
During the song "Short Skirt Weather," he even threw lyrics to the song up on the screen to encourage is fans to karaoke.
The crowd sang loudly as the lyrics appeared: "Oh my baby is made for short skirt weather/Yeah, she makes me wish summer would just go on forever."
"...Can you blame her it's 100 degrees."
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He engaged the audience while they swung their arms from side-to-side, as he sang a mash-up of classic and current covers, and he popped his hips in a fun, little dance. While he had limited time on stage, he still sang a mash-up of covers including "Gives You Hell" by the All-American Rejects, "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King, "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston and "Happier" by Marshmello.
He shared the stage with a handful of musicians, too. The guitarists and violinist in his band got just as much time on the big screens as Brown.
He had a few technical difficulties, and there were a few silences that suggested the show was over before it actually was. But near the end of the set, he took the energy back to a more slow and serious mood. He sang the first song that got him to Nashville as he asked the crowd to put their lighters in the air.
While the song hovered back and forth between sad and sweet, the opening lyrics seem to ring true to where he is right now: a star country performer, married to the love of his life, with a baby on the way.
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The capital city of Australia, Canberra is a planned metropolis that architect Walter Burley Griffin envisioned as a garden city for some 25,000 people. The design was completed in 1912, and construction began in 1913. Political and economic complications prevented the city from being completed<|fim_middle|> by white pillars. It's an impressive site to visit. There's an incredible collection of 4,000 works of art in these hallowed halls. When you've worked up an appetite, check out the terrific cafe.
The National Gallery is located on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. It concentrates on Australian artists, but there is also artwork from international talent. The National Gallery has children's exhibits, a sculpture garden, cafes and a gift shop. In winter you can see the stunning Manchurian Pear Trees which line the lake in front of the Gallery.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens is a horticultural heaven for plant and flower lovers. It is home to rock gardens, native plants, eucalyptus lawns and its own rainforest. You'll be stunned by this beautiful garden and have your taste buds tempted at the cafe. | until the 1960s. Canberra is currently home to about 300,000 people. However, due to the unique de-centralised design, the city never feels crowded.
Once deemed to lack soul, this city has grown and encompasses the best of everything about Australia.
If you like cultural attractions, you're in luck. Canberra is teeming with art museums and historical attractions for the entire family.
The Australian War Memorial is a must-see museum. It has gallery exhibits, memorabilia, personal stories, combat displays, research facilities and a sculpture garden. It casts a personal light on the nature of war. The "G for George" exhibition is definitely not to be missed.
The National Museum details Australian history and culture via interactive displays, high-tech exhibits and many art galleries. The museum also features several restaurants, theaters and a resource center.
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Many Alaska cruise visitors ask us, "Alaska cruises offer hundreds of shore excursions-which are the best and most unique?"
Well, we've done the legwork for you, and you find the answers to that question here. Since our film crews have shot more than 150 Alaska cruise excursions in the past few years, we know them intimately.
But we aren't the only experts-so are the thousands of passengers who have taken Princess shore excursions, Holland America shore excursions, Carnival excursions, and all other ship excursions. Since cruise lines track customer satisfaction through surveys, we talked with senior Alaska cruise line executives for their thoughts on which tours consistently please their guests. We also asked Alaska shore excursion operators the famous question, "Of course, your shore excursion is best. But if yours is best, what's second best?"
With huge granite cliffs rising straight up from the sea and the sheer beauty of the area, Misty Fjords offers a unique Alaskan flightseeing experience—very different from other Inside Passage areas like Juneau or even a Denali flightseeing tour. This is a great chance for a truly Alaskan experience: to ride in a floatplane and land on a pristine wilderness lake.
Begin with an aerial overview of Misty Fjords National Monument and those granite cliffs. Just beyond is a series of small, remote mountain lakes that would be next to impossible to reach on foot. Your pilot picks out one of the lakes, lands the floatplane, and turns off the engine. You can step out on the pontoon, breathe in the fresh air and listen to the silence. Join Taquan Air for the experience.
Seeing a bear is at the top of many Alaskan travelers' lists, and summer is the perfect time to do it. From late July to September, there are reliable (but not guaranteed) bear-viewing opportunities outside of Ketchikan. You'll fly in by floatplane and have an excellent chance for safe, comfortable viewing and photography of black bears feeding on salmon. Note that these are black bears, not brown or grizzly bears. Join Taquan Air Neets Bay Bear Viewing for the experience<|fim_middle|> gorgeous area.
Since Sitka faces the open Pacific Ocean, a visit just isn't complete without a boat ride—especially one where you'll look for whales, seals, sea lions, bears, black-tailed deer, and the area's most unique creature: the sea otter. In fact, the cuddly sea otter is a huge part of the history of Southeast Alaska and Sitka in particular. Its fur was the first important commodity exported from Alaska, before gold or oil. This gentle creature was nearly wiped out during the sea otter trade, and even today they're rare. But on this tour you'll have a good chance of seeing a sea otter, as well as those other creatures, as you travel in a comfortable boat with a knowledgeable naturalist.
No doubt about it—Sitka is a world-class fishing destination. It boasts the shortest rod-hour to catch ratio for King salmon in the entire state of Alaska. So, if you dream of catching an Alaska salmon, this is a great place. (Your tour operator will process, freeze, and ship the fish back home for you.) Sitka sits directly on the open ocean, so you can go after all five species of Pacific salmon in an easy outing from Sitka. Sitka's also a great place to fish for Halibut. The halibut fishing grounds are farther from shore, requiring a longer tour. All these species, plus lingcod, rockfish, and others feed heavily in Sitka Sound throughout the summer.
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Listen up, anglers (or non-anglers): There are a lot of fish in Ketchikan, so your chances of catching one here are excellent. The best time to cast your line is when the pink salmon are running, in mid-to-late summer. In fact, they return to the streams around Ketchikan by the thousands. While many Alaskan "fish snobs" turn their nose up at pink salmon and prefer king or sockeye salmon, nothing beats the excitement of catching your first wild Alaskan salmon.
If your cruise itinerary includes Sitka, fish there in place of Ketchikan (or fish in both places). Sitka faces the open Pacific Ocean, so fishing in Sitka tends to offer a wider variety of species, including king salmon and halibut.
A visit to Southeast Alaska is not complete without an introduction to the area's original inhabitants, the Tlingit people. Their fascinating history and culture is one reason Ketchikan is such a special place to visit. Another important element of the town is the logging industry, which was one of the mainstays of the Ketchikan economy through the 1990's. This tour introduces you to both.
The single most famous aspect of the Tlingit people is the totem pole. Most visitors know little about them, but the Saxman Village tour offers a deep look at the Tlingit culture overall, and particularly their totem poles. In fact, Saxman Totem park is one of the world's largest collections of totem poles, and your guide will help explain the stories and symbolism behind many of the totems. The Lumberjack show is an entertaining look at the world of logging and the skills needed to survive in this dangerous industry. Lumberjacks compete in a dozen events including sawing, chopping, axe throwing, and log rolling.
Snorkeling? In Alaska? Yes! Just don a wetsuit and you can experience this area's rich marine life. Enter the water and snorkel above shallow tide pools while your PADI-certified instructor describes the ecology and the various creatures you see. You'll have a chance to observe and handle a variety of multi-colored sea starts, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and the giant sunflower star. Just be sure to take advantage of this unique opportunity here: as you sail further north to the ports of Juneau, Skagway, and Haines, snorkeling is simply not offered, due to the large amount of glacial silt clouding the water.
Most folks identify Alaska with dog sledding. But since dog sledding is a winter activity, cruise ship visitors in the early days never had a chance to experience it. That all changed when helicopters became readily available to travelers. On this wildly popular tour with TEMSCO Helicopters, you travel to the Juneau Ice Field by helicopter and get a chance to travel by dog sled on a stretch of gorgeous glacier. Sure, it's expensive—it's also unforgettable.
Explore a glacier on foot! On this tour, you'll travel to the Juneau Icefield by helicopter, don your crampons, learn to use your ice axe, go for a walk in this beautiful, surreal environment. There are different activity levels depending on how active you want to be.
If you're looking to go whitewater rafting in Southeast Alaska, the Mendenhall River rafting trip is your only option. So don't miss out! You start with a float in Mendenhall Lake with a view of the blue-tinged Mendenhall Glacier. The current picks up, and soon you're bouncing through some mild, Class III rapids with ice cold water splashing in your face. The river winds through the forest, and you end the trip floating through a Juneau neighborhood. Watch for real Alaskan wildlife, like a family barbecuing salmon in their backyard!
This long-running favorite tour combines a number of appealing activities into one trip: a scenic glacier flight with Wings Airways, a float plane landing, a visit to a remote lodge with a chance for a guided nature walk, and a barbecue of king salmon (the favorite of the five species of salmon for many Alaskans).
That remote lodge is the Taku Lodge, built in 1923 and located just across the river from the advancing Taku Glacier (that's right… it's one of the few glaciers in Alaska that's actually advancing). Get out and enjoy the lodge and its wilderness ambience. Local guides offer a short nature walk on a wilderness trail, or you may choose to relax. Then enjoy a time-honored Alaskan tradition—the salmon bake. The succulent grilled salmon attracts bears, of course, and you may be lucky enough to spot one!
The combination of plentiful marine plankton and favorable currents makes the waters near Juneau a popular feeding area for humpback whales. And Juneau has a reliable number of humpback whales feeding in the nearby channels. The captain knows where to find them, and you'll learn a lot about these gentle giants along the way. Bring your camera: you may even catch a whale "lunge feeding" or "breaching." And while humpbacks are the highlight, you may also see orca whales, harbor seals, sea lions, and bald eagles. Learn more about the Whale Watching Adventure.
The White Pass and Yukon Route train is the most popular tour in Southeast Alaska, and rightfully so. It's a comfortable, scenery-filled trip: you'll pass glistening glaciers, snow-capped mountains, and crystal clear lakes surrounded by spruce trees. It's also a chance to step back in time: This is the same route traversed in the winter of 1898 by thousand of gold-hungry stampeders. You can still see remains of the famous "Trail of '98" from the train.
Best of all, there are dozens of options to combine the train tour with another activity. History buffs can add a visit to Liarsville, a re-created gold rush camp complete with Vaudeville entertainment and a salmon bake.
This is the tour to take if you want to combine a train trip with some action. Ride this historic train up the White Pass summit. Then, when you reach the top, get outside and ride a mountain bike back down. The road drops about 3,000 feet in 10 miles—it's an exhilarating ride.
Most folks identify Alaska with dog sledding. But since dog sledding is a winter activity, cruise ship visitors in the early days never had a chance to experience it. That all changed when helicopters became readily available to travelers. On this wildly popular tour with TEMSCO Helicopters, you'll fly over the Denver Glacier by helicopter, then land there to visit a dog camp. You can take a ride on the sled and even learn the basics so that you can take the reins yourself. Definitely an unforgettable experience!
Several factors make Skagway an ideal port for flightseeing. One of course is the spectacular view of Glacier Bay from the air: the combination of massive glaciers, iceberg-filled inlets, and jagged mountain peaks make this a flight to remember. Also good to know, though, is that Skagway is the port in Southeast Alaska with the least amount of rainfall, so your flight is less likely to be cancelled!
A new addition to Skagway, this operator lets you take the handlebars and explore Skagway on two wheels. You don't need a special license to drive a scooter, but you do need to be 18+ with a valid driver's license. After a short tutorial to make sure you feel safe and confident on your scooter, you can either set out on your own or take the guided, narrated tour. The guided option lasts 2.5 to 3 hours, covering 15 miles. Sights include the Dyea flats, the site of the old tent city where the Gold Rush actually started, and the head of the historic Chilkoot Trail.
Note: Skagway is great for history and adventure. But if it's wildlife you're after—or if you want to get away from the crowds—consider Haines. It's just 15 miles from Skagway, but since there's no direct road connection, you'll take a 45-minute high-speed catamaran.
There are really only two choices for river float trips in Southeast Alaska: the Mendenhall River in Juneau or the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve float trip in Haines. The Mendenhall is a fun whitewater trip that starts with a spectacular view of the Mendenhall Glacier. However, if you're looking for a wilderness or wildlife trip, choose the Chilkat float. This trip begins with a scenic, 25-mile drive into the heart of the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, an extremely rich wildlife area. You'll board rafts and float on the swift current (no whitewater) of the shallow, glaciated Chilkat River through the Eagle Council Grounds, which are crisscrossed with tracks of bear, moose, wolves, otter, and other wildlife. Keep an eye out for these creatures, but you're more likely to spot eagles (in fact, every trip has eagle sightings). When the sockeye salmon are running in July, you may spot 100 bald eagles or more. And that's not even peak season. To see thousands of eagles at once, you'll have to come back in November.
Another way to see the Preserve is by jetboat tour, which goes up the Chilkat River into a wetland environment that's an excellent place to see moose and bald eagles.
The nature tour in Haines—a driving tour with plenty of stops—takes you to one of the most wildlife-rich areas in Southeast Alaska: Chilkoot Lake State Park. Expert naturalists accompany you along the way, taking time to set up spotting scopes and bring the wildlife in close. Look for harbor seals, bald eagles, and mergansers (a fish-eating duck). Later in the summer, spawning salmon and brown bears add to the mix. The guides follow ethical wildlife-viewing protocols to keep people and bears safe.
Another way to experience the Chilkoot surroundings is by kayak. The area's lake is generally protected from wind and currents, so this trip is suitable for beginners. The views are spectacular, with giant peaks surrounding the lake, and waterfalls flowing down from the mountains. Beginning in mid-July, you can often see sockeye salmon spawning in a shallow tributary stream. In August and September you have a good chance of seeing brown bear walking along the river and along the lake's shore.
Two other popular tours to Haines from Skagway include the Takshanuk Mountain Trail 4x4 Adventure and Steve Kroschel's Wildlife Center.
Note: Some ships that dock in Haines offer tours to Skagway. Unless you're a serious history buff, we don't recommend it. Instead, take advantage of having the town of Haines to yourself. You can enjoy any of the four tours mentioned above: rafting, jetboat, kayaking, and nature tours are also offered from Skagway. Or try one of our recommended tours below.
Travelers to Alaska often wonder what it's like to live in a small Alaskan town year-round. This tour is designed to show you. Your fun and informative local guide will take you to out-of-the-way places, like Svenson's Extreme Dreams Art Studio. You'll also visit the Hammer Museum—the world's only museum dedicated to man's first tool.
Much of Alaska touring revolves around stunning visual sights. But this tour gives you a chance to experience Alaska with the sense of taste of smell. You'll visit the smallest commercial brewery in North America (set in Dalton City, the former movie set for Walt Disney's movie "White Fang") and meet the brewmeister, Paul Wheeler. How small is this brewery? They can only accommodate 10 guests at a time, and Paul likes to quip that Anheuser Busch spills more beer in a day than Haines Brewing Company brews in a year! You'll learn about the challenges of brewing in a small Alaskan town, and sample some of the state's finest brews. Then continue to Dejon Delights to see (and smell!) how the experts smoke salmon and halibut. You'll learn the whole process—from fresh caught fish to vacuum-packed smoked fillet. There are bountiful samples and you may be tempted to ship home a fillet or two!
There are two great stops in Sitka to discover Alaska's wildlife up close. Visit the Alaska Raptor Center, where injured bald eagles and other birds are rehabilitated for eventual release into the wild. The Sitka Sound Science Center features a salmon hatchery, aquarium, and touch tank. Both offer tours.
Unlike other kayaking tours, where you begin your kayaking excursion in town or alongside a road, this tour starts with a boat ride to a remote "floating camp" for some sea kayaking. It's safe and easy to learn: Your guide will teach you the basics of paddling, then set off on a 90-minute excursion where you'll explore the protected bays and inlets as your guide helps interpret the ecology of this | 2,781 |
13 December 2022 19 min read
Story Masters 1: The goal of brand storytelling
Stories are at the very heart of marketing. As a CMO you're tasked with telling your brand's story, your customers', your co-workers', and even your own.
But when it comes to great storytelling techniques, are marketing books the place to go? Definitely not, according to Gastón Tourn, CMO of Curio, who believes that we should be looking to the techniques of great literary figures for advice.
These storytelling techniques have stood the test of time (some of them are thousands of years old), so why shouldn't they be applicable in modern marketing storytelling?
That's we sat down with Gastón for a new series: Story Masters. In each edition, we'll be breaking down the most important techniques in literary storytelling, along with plenty of examples of them in action in modern marketing, with advice on how you too can do the same.
This time, we're taking a look at what should be two of the main goals of your storytelling: defamiliarizing your audience (ostranenie), and maintaining a consistent story they can engage with (willing suspension of disbelief).
Originally an episode of CMO<|fim_middle|> | Convo, now available in written form below.
(Editors note: at the time of recording, Gastón was the CMO of Appear Here. He has since moved on to a new role as CMO of Curio).
CMO Convo | The goal of brand storytelling | Gastón Tourn
Some of the most important techniques in great storytelling are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. But how can they be applied in modern brand storytelling?
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(re)Introducing Gastón Tourn – CMO and storyteller
Welcome back, Gastón! You'll need very little introduction for our regular readers, but for any newcomers, maybe you could tell us a little bit about who you are, what we'll be talking about today, and why it's so important.
Thanks so much for having me again. We're gonna be discussing one of my favorite topics: storytelling. I always wanted to become a fiction writer, but life took me to marketing, which I think is not too far away in terms of writing and creativity. A lot of the skills that apply to fiction writing also apply to my work as a marketer and to the writing I do on the side.
I'm the CMO of Appear Here, the world's largest marketplace for retail spaces. Before Appear Here, I was working at Google in different marketing roles and markets starting in Argentina, where I'm from. I've also worked in Brazil, the US, and now the UK. I was also CMO at Badoo Group, which now is called Bumble Group – it's a group of dating apps – and also at Emma, a B2C company. So, I'm both a marketeer and a storyteller.
The importance of storytelling techniques in marketing
You're the perfect person to be doing this series with for sure. We're going to be taking a look at some traditional and historic literary techniques that people who study literature get pounded over the head with constantly but that don't come up a lot in marketing circles. Why are we talking about Aristotle and Coleridge and why are they important to marketing?
First of all, I'm a nerd and I love studying literary theory. I love to see how the principles that have been true about storytelling for thousands of years are still true to the marketing that we do nowadays.
Sometimes we get lost in new metrics, platforms, and ways to perform marketing, but in the end, marketing is all about influencing someone to do something. If I had to explain my job to my grandparents who have no clue about tech or marketing, I'd tell them that I'm persuading and influencing people.
When we're trying to influence people, one thing we need to remember is that human brains are not purely rational. They connect much more with stories than facts and data, and I think that's a good thing. Of course, sometimes it's a bad thing because we make decisions that are not entirely rational, but it's the way that the human brain has always worked – there's always an emotional side.
I think stories are the best way to connect with that emotional side of the human brain, and that's why storytelling techniques are so relevant for marketers. They're the key to influencing and persuading.
We're going to be talking about some very old concepts dating back to Ancient Greek times, as well as some relatively recent ideas from 18th and 19th-century authors. The principles of storytelling that these writers and literary critics came up with are still relevant in how we tell stories today in fiction and film.
The mediums might have changed but how we tell stories hasn't changed much, and it's the same with marketing. New technologies might come out, but the building blocks of what makes a great story have stayed the same.
Definitely. Some principles have been true for thousands of years, and there's so much we can learn – not just marketers, but anyone in business. Storytelling is a critical skill for fundraising, presenting to boards of investors, and negotiating a promotion too.
Sometimes we just rely on business sources or books to understand how to persuade or influence, but the people who have done this really well for a long time are writers and storytellers, and I think literary critics and people who have studied the art of storytelling can give us a lot of insights on how to make our stories so compelling that people can't resist watching or reading them.
We're not going to get too nerdy – don't worry. We're just going to be sharing some concepts that you can then apply to your own marketing to make your stories much more interesting. These are concepts that I apply to my work every day, and they really help to elevate whatever creative I am producing.
The future of brand storytelling for CMOs
With society, business, and technology constantly evolving, what will brand storytelling look like in the future, and how can marketing leaders and CMOs keep pace?
Ostranenie or the art of defamiliarization
We're going to be looking at two storytelling fundamentals today. Gastón, do you want to introduce the first one?
Yes, the first one has a very difficult name and it comes from the Russian formalists, a very important school of literary theory in the early 20th century. It's called ostranenie, which means estrangement or defamiliarization. It's all about making the familiar unfamiliar or the unfamiliar familiar.
Ostranenie captures people's attention, and that's what marketing tries to do as well. Our everyday lives sometimes can be quite monotonous and repetitive, and I think that's why making the familiar unfamiliar or vice versa is so appealing. It presents a new way of looking at the things we see every day.
Now, I'm from Latin America, so of course I'm biased, but I think magical realism is one of the most interesting literary schools and a great example of the power of defamiliarization. It brings magical elements to reality, telling a story that could be real, but with some unfamiliar aspects that distort it so you're not really sure what's going on.
One of the most important books from that literary school is 100 Years of Solitude by García Márquez, an amazing novel that I recommend every marketeer to read. It's probably one of the best examples of how to tell a truly compelling story.
One thing that García Márquez does brilliantly is use familiar elements in a very unfamiliar way. In 100 Years of Solitude, it starts to rain and it doesn't stop for five years. It's weird to imagine living in a world where the rain doesn't stop for five years, but at the same time it's not completely impossible, and it's interesting to see how something as familiar as rain could affect everyday life in a really strange way.
There are so many other examples. Speaking of rain, a movie I love that uses a very similar resource is Magnolia. Again, it starts to rain, but it rains frogs, so you have a world where rather than the rain we're used to, suddenly you have frogs destroying houses and cars.
That's what ostranenie is in a nutshell – making something that is quite usual look unfamiliar because that captures people's attention. That makes people realize, "Wow, the world I live in is not that common; it's actually quite uncommon," and think it brings back that magic to everyday life.
And it's not just strangeness for strangeness' sake. Particularly with magical realism, the alterations they make to reality are about holding up a mirror to make you think about your current reality differently.
A great example from the world of advertising and marketing is car adverts. Cars are simply machines, but TV car ads don't talk about the mechanics of it; they talk about the feeling that comes with being in the car; they talk about the destinations you can go to. It's not about the practicalities of the object; it's about the potential new ways of looking at the world provided by that by the car.
Yes, marketing stories cannot just illustrate what the product does; they need to elevate the product experience. A marketing advert that just illustrates in very practical terms what a product does is going to have some effectiveness, but it's not going to tell a compelling story about the brand and so it's not going to build the brand.
If you just show the product and how it works, your advert is going to be quite dull, but if you defamiliarize it and you show that experience, it captures people's imagination and creates a much stronger emotional connection with the product.
What are some real-world examples of this in practice? I mentioned car adverts in general, but let's talk about some specific campaigns or brands that are doing this really well.
One of my favorite ones is from Google Analytics, a product that a lot of marketers use in their everyday lives. We're probably all a bit bored of using just Google Analytics and hearing about bounce rates and conversion rates. This campaign is called Google Analytics in Real Life, and it defamiliarizes some of those metrics by putting them into the real world. For example, what would bounce rate mean in a real-life supermarket?
It almost parodies what would happen if those metrics showed up in a real store, and it makes it so visible that a lot of our online experiences are just really bad, for example, when you're trying to check out on a website, and it asks you for 10,000 different pieces of information, and then when you click on "buy", sorry, the connection is not working. It brings all these elements to an interaction with a cashier in a supermarket, which makes it really funny.
That's one of my favorite examples just because I think Google Analytics can be quite dry as a product, but when you see this campaign, you start to understand how those metrics have a massive impact on the customer experience. They do that just by defamiliarizing using some of those online metrics, and that really captures your attention and makes you aware of what may be going wrong in your online customer experience.
Being funny is quite a difficult thing, but parody and satire can be a really great way to think about how to apply defamiliarization.
Absolutely. Most good stories aren't entirely literal. Usually, there is some level of irony or metaphor that makes the story a bit more interesting. If we are literal, people kind of switch off because you're giving them facts without involving them in the story.
In one of the most beautiful parts of Aristotle's Poetics, he says whenever it comes to an argument, if you tell people the conclusion right away and let them infer the premise, they're going to be much more interested in whatever you have to say. That's because you're making them feel smart.
If you go the logical way – premise A, premise B, then conclusion, it's a bit boring and almost patronizing. You're acting like an old-school teacher, which is what more product-led ads do – give you the premise, then tell you that you should buy this product.
If you do it the other way around and start with the conclusion, if you use a more metaphorical tone or you use some level of irony, it just makes people much more compelled and it makes them feel smart. That's what irony does. We're complicit in something that only you and I know, and that makes me feel closer to you, but it also makes me feel smart because I inferred what you were trying to say.
A great example of this comes from one of my favorite adverts of all time – the Guinness surfer advert. It's all about a surfer in Hawaii waiting for his entire life for the perfect wave to come along, and finally it does. He rides the wave while all these dramatic drums are pounding, and at the end just cuts to a pint of Guinness and the slogan, "Good things come to those who wait."
At no point did they say anything as simple as "Drink Guinness – you'll feel as though you just caught the best wave of your life." Instead, it allows the viewer to draw their own connections between the story and a pint of Guinness. People who like Guinness and who know that you have to wait for the pint to settle recognize that anticipation. That builds more of an emotional connection between you and the advert and the product.
It's fantastic and it's one of the reasons I first got into marketing – because I wanted to create stuff like that. It tells an effective story that is unfamiliar – I doubt there's a lot of crossover between Hawaiian surfers and Guinness drinkers, particularly in the UK where the ad was first shown – but you can draw the connection between these scenarios in a way that makes sense. I think that's a great application of ostranenie in marketing.
Let's talk about how you're applying these principles in your marketing work, Gastón.
The campaign that comes to mind is Save The Street. It's a campaign that I led during the pandemic. For those of you who don't know, Appear Here connects mostly independent brands and independent stores with spaces to make their ideas happen.
During the pandemic, a lot of these independent brands were really struggling. Big retailers got a lot of government help, but independent retailers didn't. Some of those big retailers even returned the money because they didn't need the support, whereas independent retailers needed it the most. That was especially sad because they're some of the most important pillars of their local communities.
During that time, to support the independent retailer community, we decided to amplify their voices and bring their demands back to the government, so we started working on the Save the Street campaign alongside a petition to the government.
We got a lot of support for it. Particularly when it comes to business rates, there was a lot of support from the government. The Minister for Small Business in the UK mentioned the Save The Street campaign when he announced new measures for independent retailers. It was a very successful way of helping independent retailers to survive during a pandemic.
For the campaign creatives, we didn't go full political manifesto. We tried to defamiliarize some of these communications and make them much more interesting and compelling for someone who perhaps doesn't care about independent stores or who doesn't care about high streets as much as we do.
With this in mind, we worked with a poet called Charly Cox to create a poem for our high streets, and it was a great way of defamiliarizing how we interact with high streets and the meaning high streets have for people all across the country. One of my favorite lines from that poem talks about the baristas that know your name before you say hello, which I think is a quite beautiful way of showing how we build community and relationships in those high streets.
There were some beautiful moments in that poem that were not typical of a political campaign, but they defamiliarized our high streets and brought new attention to why they're so important to build community.
Your micro-level brand purpose
Gastón Tourn, CMO of Appear Here, joined us again to talk about keeping your messaging and storytelling focused on human beings and how your brand impacts them. He calls this your "micro-level brand purpose" and you can read all about what we discussed below.
Willing suspension of disbelief
Onto the next literary technique: willing suspension of disbelief. This is a phrase coined by one of my favorite poets of all time, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Biographia Literaria, which sounds very, very high-minded and fancy because that's how Coleridge thought. It's a term that I think gets thrown around a lot, but at its core, willing suspension of disbelief is about noticing the differences that don't fit the inherent logic of the story.
An example of this would be an animal suddenly speaking when the story hadn't established that animals could speak in the story. You've got all these human characters, and suddenly, a cat pops up out of nowhere and starts talking to the characters. If you haven't established any reason behind why that cat can talk, it can pull people out of the story.
If you've established that animals can talk right from the beginning you don't have that problem. An example of that would be Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, which establishes right at the beginning that animals act pretty similar to humans. If they had normal foxes at the beginning that suddenly started acting like humans halfway through the story, you'd be pulled right out of it, and you wouldn't understand what was going on.
The best way to think about how this can apply in marketing is in terms of consistency within the brand story you're telling. If you don't have some kind of inherent logic throughout the brand story and the experience that the customer is having, they'll notice that inconsistency and that's gonna pull them out of their connection with the story you're trying to tell.
That's my perception of it in a nutshell. Gastón, what are your thoughts?
I completely agree. If something looks too weird or unreal, people are going to notice it, they're going to be like, "What? This doesn't make any sense," and they're going to switch off. So you want to make sure that in all your communications you're building a world that seems real. That doesn't mean that you can't use any magical or fictional elements, but whatever kind of weirdness you apply needs to be believable within the context of the story.
I think a lot of product placements do this really badly. Everyone was talking about the Peloton placement new series of Sex and the City and how bad it was because Mr. Big was just training on his Peloton and then suddenly he died.
That's just one example. I don't want to talk negatively about Peloton because they helped a lot of people through the pandemic, but I think a lot of those product placements are just so unbelievable that people are immediately aware that what they're watching is just fiction and, worse, maybe the whole series is a way of making money out of product placements rather than telling a compelling story.
Product placements are an example of what happens when you don't follow the suspension of disbelief principle. You can do product placement in a really organic and natural way, and if you do that you're suspending that feeling of disbelief, but I would say most of them get it wrong.
The technical term for breaking that suspension of disbelief is deus ex machina – sorry for bringing all these complex terms. Deus ex machina originally comes from theatrical plays and stories that the writers didn't know how to finish. The plot would end up so complex that the only way to get to a conclusion was for God (deus in Latin) to come and finish everything by, say, killing everyone. From the audience's perspective, that came out of nowhere.
For sure. I think product placements, particularly celebrity endorsements are a great example of that. Seeing very wealthy people talking about using an at-home box dye when they clearly have a huge team of stylists around them is jarring.
You don't want people who don't know how to use your product or have never even seen your product saying, "This is great! You should use it!" There's no logical consistency to why they would be using that product in the first place.
Completely. You're using a concept that marketers love, which is consistency, right? We love to say brands need to be consistent. I wrote an op-ed for Adweek because I got a bit bored of the word consistency. It was at a time when I was working in corporate and pretty much every idea I wanted to present to leadership was getting rejected because it "wasn't consistent." It seemed like everyone was letting consistency get in the way of exciting work.
It kind of went around in a circle for me. In the beginning, I was like, "I hate consistency!" But then I realized consistency is super important. The problem is that a lot of people think that consistency means repetition. You see this especially if you work for a corporate brand – whenever you try to spice up the language or change a few things up, you're told "No, that's not consistent. We always use the same words," but it ends up sounding so robotic.
So what I argue in my op-ed is that consistency doesn't mean repetition. Consistency is about building a world where the brand feels authentic. I don't think you need to be consistent when it comes to the language you use.
Where you need to be consistent is with the values that your brand stands for, and I think that's quite different. For example, if you're a brand like Bumble and you stand for gender equality, you don't need to use the same words to express gender equality, but you definitely need to be consistent with that value. That consistency builds trust.
If you have a friend that's always repeating the same words all the time, you're gonna think "Oh my God, my friend's a robot!" And it's the same with a brand. In that human relationship, what you expect when it comes to consistency is the person just being authentic and staying true to their values.
If someone one day says X and then the next day says the opposite, you're not going to trust that person because you don't know where they stand. Of course, values can evolve over time, but if they dramatically change overnight, that makes me wonder if I can trust this person. It's the same with brands: consistency means making sure that you stand for some values and you stay true to those values. That's what we need to focus on.
I think one of the best recent examples of brand consistency is Patagonia. Giving the company away to help fight climate change – that's an example of consistency with their brand values. It's not repeating the same words – I don't care about what words Patagonia uses in every single ad. What I care about is that they're consistently staying true to the same values they have defended from day one.
How are you applying these concepts in your role as a CMO? Are there any examples that you can pick apart?
Some of our customers at Appear Here have such amazing stories that sometimes it almost seems unreal that they went through so much and managed to achieve what they achieved. In my storytelling, I try to make sure I don't put too much focus on things that are so extraordinary that viewers might find them unbelievable.
As a recent example, we have an amazing customer called Steve. He grew up in South London, he had some difficult personal moments, and he became homeless at the age of 16. He was not enjoying the food he was getting in hostels, so he learned how to cook by watching YouTube videos.
From there, he became the chef of some amazing restaurants, including a Michelin-starred restaurant on the coast of England. He even appeared on BBC2's The Chef's Brigade. His dream was always to launch his own restaurant, but a lot of landlords were not giving him that opportunity because of a lack of economic resources.
At Appear Here, because we are all about giving opportunities to the people we serve and who have great ideas, we helped him launch his first restaurant in South London, where he's from. It's called Sharkbait & Swim. You should check it out if you're in London. It's an amazing seafood restaurant in Deptford.
That story is almost unreal, right? When you hear it, you're like, "Woah! How did he go from here to here?" It's just such an amazing story, and Steve is such an amazing human being. It's almost hard to believe that someone really could go from nowhere to such an exciting place in life.
When telling that story, I have always been very conscious of making sure the journey felt authentic to the character. Steve was always a chef. He went through some hardship that made him unfortunately become homeless, but food has always been at the heart of what he loves.
I think that was really important to the suspension of disbelief. If you have a story where somebody goes from nowhere to being incredibly successful, but there's nothing in that original place that can explain where the story is going, people start questioning the reality of that story.
Defamiliarization + suspension of disbelief = storytelling gold
It seems like the concepts we've been discussing today are almost antithetical to each other, but they're not, are they? You can have defamiliarization and this sort of logical consistency within the same story at the same time.
Ostranenie and suspension of disbelief are incredibly important, and they're not opposite ways of telling the story. Ostranenie makes the unfamiliar look so familiar that you start believing that it could happen. Similarly, when you make the familiar unfamiliar, you do need to do it believably. That movement between familiar, unfamiliar, and making sure that the world we're building makes sense makes stories compelling and makes us want to hear them.
In the end, we listen to stories because we want to learn something about our lives and how we can deal with the complexity of the world. If it's too far-fetched or we don't feel that we're learning anything, we'll probably stop listening, so you want to make sure there is something that people can relate to in your story and that it seems real
Excellent. There's loads more to explore on the subject, but hopefully this has been a nice little introduction to these concepts for our audience. In our next conversation, we're going to be talking more about how you go about constructing a story. We're gonna dig into the four-act structure, the importance of change within a story, and what a scene means within a story. I'm very excited to have that conversation with you, Gastón.
Stay tuned for more editions of Story Masters with Gastón Tourn!
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First Vice-President of the House of Representatives Hassan al-Kaabi and the head of UNAMI's political bureau, Manoj Mathew, discussed Sunday the ministerial cabinet's completion package and ways to strengthen the relationship between the legislative authority and the United Nations.
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I'm still packing. I probably will be taping up the last box and running it to the moving truck as they're pulling down the door and revving up the engine to take off for my new home!
We've been taking stuff over that we think we'll need before the movers arrive, and spending the night when we can. I've been waiting for Milky Way season to be back in our Hemisphere. What is she talking about the Milky Way is always there, you're probably thinking. It is, but the Galactic Center is only visible in the Northern Hemisphere April through mid-September. I've been anxiously waiting to see how it will look from my new backyard/patio since I have a southern unobstructed view.
I set my alarm for the wee hours of the morning to find out. Lookie there! I was doing my happy dance.
There's a lot more light pollution than I thought there would be, and the Moon while really low was 40 minutes from setting adding more light to the sky. The street lamps added our house and the neighbor's shadows on the fairway below.
I'm already eyeing trails to explore for dark skies in the upcoming months.
The movers come in 9 days! I'm so ready to be moved and settled in.
Back to packing, and notifying those that need to know I've got a new mailing address.
I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.
I mentioned in last week's post here that my friends and I had ventured a bit further south while in the Eastern Sierras over Labor Day week-end. We went very nearly to the farthest southern end to the Alabama Hills Recreational Area. If you've ever watched any old Western Cowboy movies you've seen this area. It's rugged, rocky, and beautiful.
Also it's remarkable in that the road to this area is also the road that is known as Mt. Whitney Portal. One takes this road up to the staging area to begin your trek up Mt. Whitney which is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 of the United States.
There's a very famous natural arch among photographer's in the Alabama Hills Recreational Area that features a very nice view of Mt. Whitney. I was blessed and fortunate to photograph the arch called Mobius Arch back in 2012 just before sunrise. Mt. Whitney is framed by the arch in my image seen here. Back then no one read my blog. I am thankful for those of you who have found me since then!
For this trip I suggested a less famous, less photographed arch called Lady Boot Arch, or Boot Arch, or…it has a few other names if you do a search on the internet for it. My friends were open to the idea so we scouted it in the afternoon before the shoot, and were happy with it so we went back to town for dinner then met near the arch before sunset for an evening of photography fun. We had plenty of time to get our compositions in focus, and set up the lights to light up the arch and foreground rocks. Laura brought her warm tea lights to light up the arch interior, and I had my trusty flash light with a gel to paint the rocks in the foreground. I'm not that skilled at light painting so, I passed my torch to Laura who does have the touch, and skill in that area.
Here's the image I made that I like best. It's a two frame composite image. I processed the sky/milky way image from the raw file to look very close to how it looked that night, and blended it with an image of the foreground light painted to highlight the rock formations and lighted arch. I was hoping to get one image that had both sky and foreground close enough to what I saw to be able to edit and develop that, but sadly I didn't have one with the foreground just right. Which is why you light paint more than you think you need, and plan on blending frames if needed. I'm chuffed ( read delighted! for those that don't get British English slang) with the result. It was super fun to shoot, and I would do it again in a nano second! I hope you like the tale, and image nearly as much as I had fun making it.
Some technical stuff… Mars is shining brightest in the sky on the left of the Boot and Milky Way, and in the dark lane of the Milky Way very near the left edge directly across from Mars is Saturn shining bright, out of frame was Jupiter too, but I cropped it out in favor of a stronger composition. Thank you Peter! He was the best teacher I ever had on cropping for the composition. When I got all my frames uploaded I saw that this one had several meteors or shooting stars in the frame. One heading into the Milky Way from the left, and one beside Mars, and two lower and to the right of Mars. They're faint but there!
Did I tell you how chuffed I was?
The sky is filled with billions of stars out here. It's breath taking, and I can't explain in words how amazing, awesome, as well as beautiful it is, and just, How. Small. I. Felt while viewing it, and how just as I know it while standing on top of mountain that God is real and there. He was here too. This is my chapel, my cathedral, my Holy Place. This. THIS Feeds My SOUL.
It's mid September now, so this is the last image I'll be making of the Milky Way until next April or May. The Galactic Center…that wonderfully rich milky bit very close to the tip of Lady Boot Arch's top is headed to the southern hemisphere now. It's their turn to see the richest part of the arm of our galaxy. I will miss it, and yearn for its return as I do every year.
I am behind with emails, and blogs again, and I'm afraid I'm going to be behind for a bit longer. I will catch up!
I hope you're all having a lovely week.
Since this week's Thursday Doors falls during Christmas week I thought I'd share some doors that are decorated for Christmas.
N°4925 The stained glass window pane has a whale in the sea theme. I love this stone wainscoting that is popular around my area now.
…and N°4758- my front door. It's a bit sparse these last few years. After He-Man ruptured his Patella Tendon he wasn't able to get up on a ladder to hang the Christmas lights. I'm not one of those people that keep their Christmas lights up all year, but let me tell ya…these last few Christmas's we've missed the lights!
This year He-Man has seen great progress with his knee recovery. He can climb a short ladder, and he can stand up in the saddle. A BIG DEAL for a Cyclist who rides up mountains. However, since our home remodel the gables are higher than our ladder and he feels it's still too high for him to climb, and we need new hooks all around the front of the house. I don't know how to do that. I can't even hammer a nail in straight, so we're going without lights for the time being. Maybe next year.
Beginning Friday I don't anticipate being online very much. Big Baby Boy, and Dark Haired Beauty are arriving Friday evening for Christmas. Baby Girl, and #1 Grandson are staying home for Christmas. YEAH!
I'm done shopping but I haven't begun to wrap, and<|fim_middle|> to get a few more images, but it was getting too dark to keep the foreground in the image, and I wanted that. I was also a bit frustrated with the wind, and shaking from the passing cars which shook my rig, and the pier I was photographing from. I deleted quite a few blurry images.
Walking back to our place after a play late one evening this entrance with the cut-out Egyptian Motif all lit up, and clock caught my eye. The brass doors fit this style perfectly. I love the revolving door. Though I'm always afraid I look awkward shuffling my way through them.
I dug around the Internet to glean some information about the style, and building.
Shortly after the discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb in the 1920's Egyptian Art Deco and Motif's were popular themes for Architecture in NYC. In 1930 construction began on Rockefeller Center's 14 Art Deco buildings.
Lee Lawrie was commissioned to design the entrance to The International Building. Lee Lawrie is most famous for the statue of "Atlas" located on 5th Avenue in Rockefeller Center.
The International Building began construction in 1933 and was complete by 1935. There are 41 floors in the building 39 are above ground, and it stands 512 ft (157m) tall.
In 1987 Rockefeller Center was listed on National Register of Historic Places. | I need to begin cooking for Christmas dinner.
For those of you celebrating Christmas I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! Hanukkah begins the 24th I think. Happy Hanukkah to those of you who celebrate that!
If you don't celebrate Christmas enjoy the season, the lights, the joy, and good cheer that comes with the season, and I wish you a wonderful week-end!
I went out with one of my photography groups to do a little night photography Saturday evening.
After the sun went down Middle Harbor Shoreline's park security drove by announcing the park was closed it was time to leave so, several of us headed to another park that stayed opened a few hours longer. This is one image I made while waiting for the Crescent Moon to sink lower into the city skyline.
What you're looking at is the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Bridge East Span Pedestrian-Bicycle path in front, mid ground are the tops of the Bay Bridge, and behind that are the two new high rises in the process of being built. The tallest is the new Salesforce Tower. It will be the tallest building in San Francisco, and will be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi when complete. At its completion it will stand 1,070 ft (326 m) tall and be the center piece of the Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco.
The Wilshire Grand Center building located in Los Angeles is the tallest skyscraper in California.
The other skyscraper you see with cranes is going to be the new Transbay Tower…I think.
Someone let me know if I'm wrong please.
Over on the right by itself is the Trans America Building; a shining beacon in the night.
A friend and I went over the hill to Santa Cruz, CA this month to photograph the Moon rising above Walton Lighthouse. We both really like having water in the image, and pretty foregrounds.
We knew there wouldn't be much time to shoot since the Moon would need time to climb to get above the Lighthouse, and it's getting dark earlier.
When we got out of the car and looked at the horizon and lighthouse we groaned. There was a thick band of fog just sitting on the horizon. We wouldn't see the Moon until it got above that! Time wouldn't be on our side.
The sun had set and the sky was getting darker…finally I saw the top of the Moon above the fog bank.
The Moon got high enough for me to make it out almost completely.
It finally got out of the Fog only to be obscured again. I tried | 525 |
Doorbell cam may help investigators determine cause of St. Charles County plane crash
by: Andy Banker
Posted: Jan 11, 2022 / 10:17 PM CST / Updated: Jan 12, 2022 / 10:03 AM CST
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – Investigators confirm a doorbell camera may help them figure out what caused a deadly plane crash in St. Charles County over the weekend. During a news conference Tuesday, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also revealed new information about the flight's final moments.
"The airplane after it took off climbed to 8,000 (feet) on a westerly heading, then it began a turn to the left, back toward the east with a descent," said Michael Folkerts, NTSB. "The airplane impacted into a forested area. It was rural at a high airspeed on a westerly heading."
The plane had no black box data or cockpit voice recorders but Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data provide valuable information about the flight, he<|fim_middle|> in transporting potentially dangerous cargo. This plane was empty. The experienced pilots were certified for "instrument flying" in inclement weather, Folkerts said. They were headed to Denver for a pickup and return to St. Louis. The plane made the same flight six days earlier.
Ice was not a factor, Folkerts said, but the weather still could have been. It certainly has hampered the search for the wreckage.
"The weather was bad. It is very hilly terrain. It was off the roadway. It was really challenging. There was no fire," said St. Charles County Police Chief Kurt Frizz.
It took searchers nearly two hours to find the wreckage in the rugged terrain. The closest highway was Highway F.
The NTSB expects to issue a preliminary report within two weeks. | said.
NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators will reconstruct what little is left of the engines, propellers, and avionics, of the 1981 Beechcraft baron twin-engine plane.
FlightAware shared its flight tracking map with FOX 2. It shows the plane taking off as two small bands of precipitation approached Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield at 7:10 p.m. Saturday. The plane then turns back with the flight ending at 7:19 p.m., the official time of the crash.
The pilots' communications with air traffic control were limited.
"There was not a distress call," Folkerts said. "There are some communications that we're assessing that give the impression that potentially there was an issue."
There's another thing investigators are considering: that audio from a doorbell camera from a neighborhood of new homes about a third of a mile from the crash site outside of New Melle. You can hear the plane going down.
"We'll have a sound spectrum analysis completed on the doorbell video," Folkerts said. "We're looking to try to prevent the next tragedy."
Witnesses who may have heard or seen anything are encouraged to contact the NTSB via email at witness@NTSB.gov.
Investigators identified the pilots as 55-year-old George King of Westerville, OH, near Columbus; and 35-year-old Amanda Youngblood of Huber Heights, OH, near Dayton. Both were killed. They were flying for Airnet II, a Columbus company. Its website says the company specializes | 322 |
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after reading this blog-post and realizing waht superb quality one can achieve on an ultimaker, i've tried to get the best out of my machine.
As test-object i've chosen the thingiverse owl. I've tried for a 0.075 mm layer thickness and 50 mm/s speed several settings for temperature, infill ratio, etc.
Has anyone an idea how to improve the overall quality?
Can you post the settings used?
What revision of the Ultimaker do you have?
What modifications do you have? E.g. clip at extruder drive for retraction, etc.
What filament (supplier/type) do you use?
Can you supply a simple print of a 20mm cube?
Sometimes smaller layers come out worse for me. I try to stick with .2mm and tune everything for that.
Anyway, my only suggestion is that to fix the top of your owl, in cura, the "bottom/top thickness parameter, under "fill" section should be 2 or 3X the value of your layer height. So if you are doing .075mm layers, make this either .150 (two layers on top of owl head) or .225 (three layers). This will greatly reduce the likely-hood of holes.
I'm not sure if your blobs are due to overhang but if so then greatly reducing the speed will help. I can get almost horizontal printing at 20mm/sec. If you have an ulticontroller and are printing at say 70mm/sec then when you get to the chin of the owl dial it down to 40% (50 * 0.40= 20). This might also help with the top of the head. Else if using cura, then go to the tab with speeds and lower the perimeter speed to 40%.
The lowest I'll ever print is 0.1 mm. I think that if you go lower then that, other variables are becoming more importent. For example at 0.05 mm, the effect of the deviation of the filament-thickness becomes much more important. The filament always variates a little bit in thickness (maybe 0.02 or 0.03 mm through the whole spool). Also when the head is travelling over the object can cause more damage to the print because of the small layerheight. And many more things like this. The bigger the object you're printing, the bigger the layerheight can be to still get a very smooth finish.
Indeed<|fim_middle|> ducts that you use? I'm attaching a heated bed to my UM and want the fan ducts to blow more precise at the nozzle. Your's look perfect!
Make sure that you have a V1 hot end as my fan ducts only match this old hot end. | lowering the printspeed improves overhangs but still, because it's a small object, the extruded plastic doesnt have enough time to cool before the 210C nozzle touches it again... Adding a second fan helps a lot!
And optimizing the PLA diameter so that it's JUST enough and you don't get over-extrusion. For straight objects without overhangs a little bit overextrusion of no problem, sometimes even better but with small objects and overhangs it's better that it extrudes only the nescesary ammount of plastic.
I scale it down to 50% then the print is fast but challenging.
I am quite satisfied with this print quality though there is always room for improvement.
The layer height in the picture is 0.05mm, pla-diameter and steps-per-e are standard. And I am using two fans, which helps a lot.
Maybe you try my gcode and test it for yourself. With cura you can use the gcode to see my print profile.
If I reduce the layer height to 0.02mm I have to reduce the extrusion, too. Otherwise the print quality is getting worse.
But I do ask myself, Is a layer height lower than 0.1mm really necessary or even usefull? Most of the time I am using 0.15mm layers and this is totally OK for me.
The new fan ducts route the air directly and only under the nozzle. They do not cool a large area like the original fan duct.
Hey blecheimer, I also have two fans using the fan duct of Ian. But could you please share the stl files for the fan | 345 |
Last month I drank a lot of honey and lemon! Even though its typically a drink you have when you are unwell I quite like the combination of flavours and will often have it when I am perfectly fit and healthy too, especially on a cold wintery night. It got me to thinking about flavour mixes that I love – honey and lemon..lemon and rosemary… garlic and well..anything! It resulted in this recipe for Slow Cooker Rosemary Garlic Chicken with Honey and Lemon. Slow cooked because I can be a lazy chef at times and I adore my slow cooker. I often don't even marinate meat that I slow cook as I find it already takes on the flavour well enough but I have in this instance, purely because I had the time.
Something about lemons makes me feel like springtime has arrived ( although they fill our fruit bowl year round ) and so it was perfect that this was served on a day where the sun shone brightly in a gloriously blue<|fim_middle|>Serve with a large green salad and some new potatoes. These were so good I am making them again later this week, this time to slice thinly and serve in tortilla wraps with a herby mayo.
What is your favourite slow cooker dish??
Love the combo – making me hungry! Lemon and honey go so well with chicken and this looks delish.
I use my slow cooker a lot but not often for Chicken. Must give this one a try. Not a fan of breasts so it will be thighs for me.
Nothing lazy about slow cooking, just means you're doing your food justice. Love lemons and honey too and even better with a bit of ginger. | sky!
Although this is a slow cooker dish I popped onto my griddle pan ( a frying pan will do ) at the end mostly for aesthetic reasons but also as I love the caramelisation and taste that it gives.
Mix your lemon, 3 tbsp honey, garlic and seasoning in a bowl and add your chicken and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate for a few hours. Remove and leave to bring to room temperature then add to your slow cooker and cook on low for 5 hours. Pop a griddle pan over a high heat until sizzling, brush your chicken on both side with a little honey and sprinkle over black pepper then briefly pop on your pan until golden brown and sticky.
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Executive Director Now Permanent
by Becky Kjelstrom | Oct 15, 2013 | OWC News
The board of Oregon Writers Colony has voted to name Holly Franko as its Executive Director. Franko had been serving in an interim capacity. Franko brings a strong writing and management background to the position. In her twenty-year career in journalism, she spent five years as Copy Desk Chief at The Oregonian after stints at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. She led workshops at American Copy Editors Society conferences and high school journalism classes. Since 2009, she has run her own copyediting business, working with writers<|fim_middle|>." She has been a member and volunteer in OWC for several years. Her experience, passion, and knowledge of the Oregon writing and publishing community are the ideal fit for OWC as we transition to a new era of growth and opportunity." | in Oregon and elsewhere. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor's degree in American Culture from the University of Michigan.
"We are delighted to welcome Holly to this position," said Sarah Gilbert, OWC Board President | 52 |
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First wireless system in the USA
Dear SERCOM relation,
At the start of the last quarter of 2019, I have some special news to share with you.
After the introduction of our unique wireless system in 2018, the first systems were quickly sold to companies that mainly worked with so-called rolling (mobile) greenhouses. Our most recent wireless climate control system in The Netherlands has been installed at the company "Klein Canada" in Heemskerk, again a producer of flowers that also uses mobile greenhouses.
Wireless debut in the USA!
At the end of September we received the definitive order from a renowned producer of cut flowers in the United States: Holland America Flowers. This company has facilities in the states of Washington and California. At the California location, various types of flowers are grown on more than 30 hectares. For this garden we have been commissioned to replace the existing climate computer. The customer sees the benefits of our wireless system and we will install a SERCOM climate computer with no fewer than 9 field stations, which will be controlled completely wirelessly. This project has been established with the help of our local partner, Microgrow.
As a result, we have now entered the American market with our unique wireless system.
SERCOM's wireless application appears to be more reliable in practice than a wired system. Every field station is individually in contact with the central computer. This is not the case with a wired system. Should one of the field stations fail due to a power failure, the communication between the other stations and the computer will remain intact.
With a conventional cable connection, power failure, breakage or damage to the communication cable means that climate control is no longer possible. No one is currently able to follow SERCOM's footsteps in that respect.
New SERCOM dealers
During the past two months, major steps have also been taken in the agro-industry. In Russia, our new local partner (AgroSave) has already supplied three SERCOM computers for managing storage cells for potatoes. In Germany, our new local partner (Van Amerom GmbH) has supplied no fewer than seven of these types of systems. The special feature is that two of those systems are equipped with the wireless version. This means that this new technology has now also the German market, and more specifically; in the agricultural industry!
Expansion with 10 hectares in Russia and new building for Hortilife
Via our partner Hortilife, an expansion of no less than 10 hectares of glass construction has recently taken place at a large Russian tomato grower and existing customer. Also for this expansion, the customer preferred the Hortilife / SERCOM combination because of the very good experiences that they have had with SERCOM computers, and the excellent service and support from Hortilife.
From this place I therefore would like to congratulate our much appreciated partner on this assignment. This most certainly also applies to the move to a completely new office, which was recently taken into use. The new Hortilife building is located in Deventer.
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With some important new projects in the pipeline, we have every reason to look forward to what the future brings. Of | 712 |
"For many years Jeff Portnoy has been known as the strongest First Amendment attorney in the state. His counsel has proven correct every time we ask."
"Jeff is an excellent top tier attorney. He has that rare combination of bull dog persistence and diplomatic<|fim_middle|> respectful high profile position here with his extensive community involvement. In addition, he is thought of very highly by his peers and court system, and has been selected as the new President of the Hawaii State Bar Association. Over the years, Jeff has earned my respect to represent our company. He is forthright, honest, clear in his communication, develops consensus, analytical as a strategist, and a realist in his recommendation(s). Jeff and I share the same values of always wanting to be fair in our legal decision and outcome. This allows for a great partnership and commands mutual respect."
"Mr. Portnoy is as good as it gets in terms of effective and experienced counsel, especially on matters requiring local expertise and understanding of the dynamics of the local court's personalities and processes. He has handled a host of matters, large and small, for Verizon (and before that GTE) over the years, and has done so with a deftness of touch that is without peer. On one very substantial class action matter in court (concluded successfully for us), he knew exactly when to make a very pointed response to an argument about "these lawyers from Washington" lodged by the other side - which bundled together all the traits you want from counsel (articulate, smart, tough, spot-on tone). Apart from professional expertise, he's extremely well rounded in a host of other ways that make him a great guy to be around." | candor that serves to advance the goals of his clients and resolve matters fairly and expeditiously. No matter how much he drills down into a particular issue or battle, he is always mindful of the big picture goals, which include helping us keep down our costs. In addition, he often assists us with training of our staff. He is an invaluable resource for our company and for me."
Mr. Portnoy is a partner practicing in the area of litigation. He is the Chair of the firm's litigation department, and has practiced law as a civil litigator at the firm since 1972. Mr. Portnoy has extensive litigation and alternative dispute resolution experience in several areas of substantive law, including insurance, employment, mass tort, product liability, media, securities, and medical and legal professional errors and omissions.
Mr. Portnoy was President of the Hawaii State Bar Association in 2007. He is the current President of the Hawaii Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He served a three year term as Hawaii's representative to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Advisory Board.
He has served two three-year terms as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit, and was Chairman of the United States District Court Advisory (Biden) Committee. He also served as a Hawaii State Per Diem Judge and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawaii teaching media law for several years. He was elected to the Hawaii ABOTA chapter. Mr. Portnoy has served as the Hawaii State Representative to the Defense Research Institute. He has also served as the Hawaii State Bar Association's representative to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. He is presently a regent at the University of Hawaii.
Mr. Portnoy has been selected by his peers as Lawyer of the Year (Hawaii) in several practice areas including Insurance Law. He has also been recognized by Bet the Company Litigation in Best Lawyers in America. He is listed in Who's Who in America. He has been the recipient of several local and national awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists' First Amendment Award, and the Exceptional Performance Award from the Defense Research Institute. Among other state and national recognitions, he has been selected as one of the leading litigators in Hawaii by Chambers USA and several other publications.
In his spare time, he has served as President of Manoa Valley Theatre's Board of Directors for 25 years and is the color analyst for University of Hawaii basketball on ESPN 1420. Mr. Portnoy has served as visiting Professor of Law at the Debrecen School of Law, Debrecen, Hungary, was a visiting professor in Tartu, Estonia, Poland and Warsaw.
Speaker, teacher and author at numerous programs and seminars on media law, employment law, personal injury law, trial tactics, and commercial litigation.
"Jeff is an icon in Hawaii. Jeff enjoys a very | 590 |
Kilkenny have travelled through a never before experienced nine game journey in the minor hurling championship, but it has been a learning experience and they won't fear defending champions, Galway, in the final in three weeks time.
There were hiccups along the way<|fim_middle|> | when the Cats were beaten by Dublin in the Leinster final and then favourites, Galway, in the All-Ireland quarter-finals, Round 1, but Kilkenny emerged from those dark days with renewed spirit and focus.
"To get over the line against that talented Tipperary team was no mean achievement," enthused Kilkenny manager, Richie Mulrooney after his charges performed big time in Croke Park on Sunday to put wins back-to-back, building on the quarter-final Round 2 victory over Limerick.
The Dicksboro clubman reminded that we had spoken a few times during the season when Kilkenny were blazing a trail through Leinster. Then the wheel came off the wagon, and two games were lost.
However, through the darkness of the defeat against Galway, Mr Mulrooney and his selectors saw light in the second half showing, when the Cats out-scored the Tribesmen.
Twice during the second half Tipp, who only got into the game during the closing period, cut the deficit to two points. On each occasion the response from Kilkenny was magnificent as they dug out scores.
Mr Mulrooney admitted Kilkenny had been hurt mentally after the two defeats.
"The players were devastated," he admitted. "It wasn't the defeat in itself. You can be beaten any day, but the manner of the defeats hurt. Our response, and our new defence, if that is what you call it, has conceded very little from play.
"When we get back into the training field we have two weeks of good preparation ahead of us. The third week we will wind down. We know Galway are fantastic, formidable. But we are not bad ourselves.
"We will come back here and give a really good account of ourselves," he assured.
Reminding him that Kilkenny out-scored Galway in the second half of their clash, we wondered where that left his charges.
"Galway were very, very impressive in their semi-final win," he replied. "It is very hard to find a weak link on their team, but our lads are good, skilful hurlers as well. Our work-rate has improved an awful lot since the Leinster campaign.
"That is what you expect. These players are 17 and they are developing. You don't learn about work-rate over night, but all the time they are working and working. I would find it difficult to pick one player over any other. It was a real team effort in terms of work-rate.
"When the chips were down and Tipp were coming our lads stayed going," he reminded.
Kilkenny improved on small things, like keeping the free count against down.
"We spoke about that during the week and in the dressing-room," the manager revealed. "We spoke about how we would have had the Limerick game wrapped up if we hadn't conceded so many frees in the first half.
"The lads were conscious of that. They are very good hurlers and we told them to just get to the ball first.
"To play well in Croke Park was important. I thought the two games against Galway and Limerick really set us up for today. Tipperary were back in their training field. Under Tommy Dunne you can be sure those sessions were top notch, but I don't know, no matter what you are doing when training, it can't match competitive matches.
"Maybe it was a blessing in disguise that we went the scenic route in the championship," he smiled.
While the wet conditions early on made life difficult for the players, Kilkenny suffered most, shooting five wides during the opening nine minutes.
Kilkenny knew they were dominant, and the thought went through the mind that there could be a price to be paid later, the manager said.
And what about the final?
"No fears, absolutely," he shot back.
The All-Ireland final will be Kilkenny 10th match of the campaign. Mr Mulrooney recalled that the last time he was in charge of the minors, from 2008 to 2010, the county qualified for three finals, winning two. During that period they played 16 games over the three seasons.
"That is how things have changed," he said when he reflected on the new championship format. Whatever happens, the boys will look back at it as the year they really started their Kilkenny careers.
"To get 10 matches together, where each one is important, is fantastic," he added when he signed off. | 930 |
Deep Cut<|fim_middle|>Happy Halloween, folks! | Horror Movies You Need to See
Are you tired of watching Halloween over and over again? Are you over Freddie Krueger? I've compiled a list of the best deep cut horror movies to watch leading up to Halloween!
By: Mary Newman
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A Tale of Two Sisters, Alleluia, Bug, Corpse Party, Exclusive, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Grave Encounters, Halloween, Howling Village, Ju-on, Kuchisake-onna, Let The Right One In, Pontypool, Pulse, Rec, Slither, The ABCs of Death, The Devil's Backbone, The Monster Squad, Train to Busan, Trick 'r Treat, Tucker and Dale Versus Evil, V/H/S, We Are What We Are, WNUF Halloween Special
As we near the real countdown to Halloween, it's the perfect time to get into the spooky season. Even if you haven't been as festive this year as previous years – because let's be honest, 2020 has been scary enough without spooky movies. But sometimes it's fun to just let go and forget about what's going on in the world.
With that said, I've compiled the list of my absolute favorite horror movies that everyone should watch before Halloween. (Or on Halloween, I'm not the boss of you) Much like my Must-Read Horror Novels for Spooky Season, these are deep cut movies.
You're not going to see any of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, or Halloween. No Grudge or even the arguably much better Ju-on, the original Japanese version. No, these are movies that you're going to have to go out of your way to watch and trust me, they're worth it.
Celebrate Spooky Season the right way – hot chocolate, extra marshmallows, a super-soft blanket, and lots of gory, bloody, campy, and downright terrifying movies.
Note: Some of these movies are gory. Bloody. Violent. Scary. If you are easily offended by any of these things, be careful which trailers you look at and what movies you look up. By its very nature, Halloween is sort of gritty. You've been warned!
Looking for something funny?
Maybe you're not really that into horror movies, but you want to join in. That's totally okay! While I love horror movies, get really jumpy, so sometimes I have to go the funny route while watching with friends.
My Top Funny Recommendation:
Tucker and Dale Versus Evil
Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk
Tucker and Dale starts like any other good horror movie. A group of teens is going to a cabin to enjoy a long weekend of drinking, questionable sexual choices, and more. Tucker and Dale are two good old boys who are enjoying their time fishing, drinking beer, and making their cabin their own.
The kids, however, have clearly watched too many horror novels. And they seem to think Tucker and Dale, who truly wouldn't hurt a fly, are crazy killers out to get them.
Highlights include the teen who impales himself trying to run away, the one that jumps into the wood chipper, and poor Tucker and Dale telling the police officer that these kids just keep killing themselves!
It plays up the horror movie tropes without being dumb, and is fun for everyone. Unless you hate gore… there are some bloody bits.
ScreamFactoryTV
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks
Spoiler alert: I will watch almost anything Nathan Fillion is in. I think it's a holdover from my deep love of Firefly (#BrowncoatForLife), but when this came out in 2006, I broke my firmly held rule of never watching horror movies in theaters (with consideration for those around me, as… I do jump. And squeak. And scream. It's not pretty.) to see it opening weekend.
This was the directorial debut of James Gunn, who went on to do a little series called Guardians of the Galaxy. Ever heard of it? You can see in this film little moments of brilliance that truly make it an underappreciated black-comedy horror.
Slither is set in South Carolina after a meteorite falls into a town and infects a wealthy resident with an alien snake-worm that takes over his brain. Its goal? Take over as much of the town as possible.
Slither has it all. Horror, laughs, some very gross scenes that make me take a wide berth around slugs… this was wildly underappreciated at release, but is an excellent movie.
Other Funny Movies
If you've seen Tucker and Dale, check out The Cabin in the Woods (2011), directed by Drew Goddard (his directorial debut!) and co-written by Joss Wheadon (of Firefly, Avengers fame). Five college students are headed to the woods for a fun time and get caught up in a dark, ancient secret. Sound serious? No, it's actually fantastic. But stop! Don't read anything more about this. If you'd made it to 2020 without knowing how it ends, don't go spoiling it for yourself. You'll never see this coming.
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I almost didn't include What We Do in the Shadows (2014), since I think it's gotten a lot more recognition with the new television series. However, it remains one of my favorite funny Halloween horror movies, so I wanted to talk about it.
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What We Do in the Shadows is filmed mockumentary style, and follows four vampire roommates as they go about their daily lives. They range in age, but all are old (including the one chained to the basement…), and all have the typical "vampire" powers, like levitation and transformation.
This movie is just genuinely fun, and I can't recommend it enough.
If You Like Traditional Horror Movies
Alright, you want the normal scare – just something you haven't seen? We've got you covered.
Trick 'r Treat
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Released: October 4, 2009
Starring: Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker
This is legitimately a Halloween favorite in our household. I've got a small Sam figure that wobbles when light touches it, that my husband bought me because I couldn't possibly leave the store without it. Trick 'r Treat asks the question: what would happen if the spirit of Halloween was a person? And that Halloween spirit wore a creepy burlap mask and forced everyone to follow a set of specific Halloween rules?
Well, you've got Trick 'r Treat. It's five short stories woven together in a single town, the imaginary Warren Valley in Ohio. Sam is endearing and the movie is just scary enough to be truly great. After watching this, you would absolutely think twice about smashing a pumpkin or complaining about Halloween decorations.
Starring: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray
Much like Trick 'r Treat, Grave Encounters holds a very special place in my heart. This Canadian film is done in a found-footage style that is so overdone now, but in 2011 was still at least a little cool. Despite the fact that it was a decently large box office hit (With a budget of $120k, it made $5.4 million), most people I talk to haven't heard of it!
The movie follows a group of people taping one of those cheesy ghost story TV shows you see on the History Channel despite the fact that they have nothing to do with history. They're locked in an asylum overnight, but predictably, it does not go as planned. Hallways change, doors are locked… stuff gets crazy, you guys.
For some reason, this movie has stuck with me more than almost any other horror film I've seen as an adult. The main character is so convincing in his slow, steady descent into madness, and there is something truly unsettling about the way they continue to struggle to get out of the asylum but simply cannot. This is a must-watch for me during the Spooky Season every year, and I'll bet it will be for you, too.
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Starring: Paul Fahrenkopf, Aaron Henkin, Nicolette le Faye
As this starts, you understand what is happening immediately. We are (apparently) watching a Halloween special from the television station WNUF, which aired in 1987. The plot centers around Frank Stewart who thought the best idea for a Halloween special would be to investigate a reportedly haunted house, where a series of brutal murders took place.
What starts as a novelty gets serious when Frank realizes this isn't just going to be a joke, despite what he believed entering the home. The paranormal investigators along for the ride warn Frank that there is a "menacing presence" and as long as they were in the house, they were in danger.
The movie gets more and more tense as the situation turns serious, and Frank grows utterly frantic by the end. There are fun 'commercials' thrown in that give this truly authentic vibe, and by the end, you'll be wondering how Frank ever thought this was a joke.
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Starring: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
Bug is one of those psychological horrors that really messes with your mind, even after leaving the movie experience. The movie is based on a 1996 play and takes place mostly in a single motel room. The story follows Judd as she becomes involved with a man recently discharged from the Army.
As the story goes on, the soldier – played by Shannon – becomes more and more convinced that the government is watching them, and the motel room is full of bugs. (Get it? It's the movie name… you get it?!)
As you watch the movie, you see Shannon's mental state slowly deteriorate, taking what is left of Judd's sanity with it. This film is grimy, dirty, and makes you question what is really going on. The ending is going to have you wondering what was real, and what the couple made up in a set of drug and mental illness-induced delusions.
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Starring: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle
This creepy and unsettling Canadian horror was based on the book Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess, who adapted it himself for the movie – reportedly it only took him 48 hours. Inspired by the way the infamous Orson Welles' radio broadcast The War of the Worlds unfolded, much of what is going on is told through transmissions from a radio.
The story opens with annoying shock-jock radio host Grant Mazzy (he even has an annoying name…) getting assaulted by a woman who just repeats the word blood over and over again, before staggering away. Reports come in about a riot, but witnesses are few and far between. Reporter Ken Loney ends up transmitting from a grain silo that he had to take refuge in… but from what? Who are the rioters… and could these reports of them eating each other, and themselves, be true?
Really, this is such an underappreciated movie – it made just over $30,000 in box offices, but it's weird and quirky and really makes you wonder what is going to happen next. The way the plot is played out through a series of transmissions and hidden messages is charming. Don't be fooled, though – director Bruce McDonald has said multiple times these are not zombies.
It didn't have the biggest budget, but that is certainly part of the charm.
The Monster Squad
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Starring: Andrew Gower, Robby Kiger
The Monster Squad is an 80s classic that takes all the aspects of a horror movie and explodes them. It's probably more fair to put this in the funny category, but if you're looking for a great horror movie to watch with your kids, The Monster Squad is a great choice.
The story is basically a bunch of meddling kids who love horror and monsters get caught up in a real life monster situation. A team of monsters, led by Dracula, are trying to take over the world. The only people that can stop them? Spunky 80s kids.
It's funny. It's a little spooky. And it's a must-see for Halloween viewing!
If You Like Anthologies
Don't really want to sit and watch a long, drawn-out movie? Do you prefer shorter, bite-sized movies with lots of different stories? Me, too – some of the best horror comes from shorts. These are my absolute favorite anthologies.
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V/H/S is a collection of 'found footage' shorts, all written and directed by the same group of guys – Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, and Joe Swanberg. There are 5 shorts within V/H/S:
Tape 56
Amateur Night
Tuesday the 17th
The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger
Also included in an alternate ending to 10/31/98.
Each short is sort of linked together, but they can be watched individually without missing much. My favorite is the last, a story of four boys who are looking for a Halloween party but sneak into the wrong house. They think what they're seeing is a very elaborate haunted house, but it's really some seriously paranormal stuff. There are no happy endings to this one. (Unless you count the alternate ending, I suppose)
V/H/S has spawned two sequels (the creatively named V/H/S/2 and V/H/S: Viral) as well as a spinoff movie based on Amateur Night, called Siren. A reboot of the original, called V/H/S/94 was announced in June, but no word on progress yet.
The ABCs of Death
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This is a true collection of shorts. A gathering of 26 different shorts, each directed by a different director, makes up this excellent collection. Each director was assigned a letter (get it?), and told to figure it out. Seriously, very little direction was given, other than their own letter, and the theme of Death.
Because of this, you get a huge variety in the shorts, which makes this collection so easy to watch. After the first watch-through, you may find yourself tempted to skip around to your favorite letters for a second viewing. Do it! It's a little bloody, a little dark, but very excellent.
The ABCs of Death spawned two sequels, ABCs of Death 2 and ABCs of Death 2.5. Okay, so I never said that they were cleverly named…
Bonus: International Horror Movies
If you don't mind reading your horror movies instead of listening, there are some absolutely incredible international horror movies out there. I'm going to go ahead and tell you to avoid Italian horror right now because I truly have never enjoyed a single one, but don't worry: there are plenty of options.
I would be remiss if I didn't start with Japan, truly the king of horror. Japanese horror is often less over-the-top gore and jump scares and more horror that messes with your mind in subtle, deep ways. I mentioned Ju-on earlier, and Ringu (1998) is another that everyone knows. Both of these spawned US versions that did very well at the box office.
Corpse Party (2015) is based on a video game, anime, and manga of the same name, and has a dark, twisting story that leaves you on edge.
Pulse (2001) was one of the first J-horror movies I watched that really made me deeply unsettled. This cult classic is now almost 20 years old (yikes), but it's still as disturbing as it once was. The story is about spirits invading real life through the internet, and driving people crazy – to suicide, or eventually to disintegrate into black stains. Even though the technology shown is out of date, it really nails in the feeling that we're truly alone, no matter how connected we are.
If you like urban legends, check out Kuchisake-onna (2007), sometimes called Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman in English. Based on an urban legend about a woman left mutilated by an ex lover, it's got the real creep factor that's just realistic enough to make you uncomfortable.
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If you want something more recent, Howling Village (2020) came out this year and was written by none other than Takashi Shimizu, the mind behind Ju-on. It's based on a real-life place, and a real murder that took place there, which gives it extra creep appeal when you realize that. It's a lot of mind-bending, and a ton of spook.
Korea has it's fair share of horror films, too – while not as well known as the J-horror scene, Korean films are starting to gain traction in the US.
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) has a seriously crazy ending. Like, it's so crazy I don't even want to allude to it – but if you like a good twist, this is the one to go with. It is based on a Korean folktale. Two sisters entangled in an awful situation beyond their control, surrounded by some supernatural twists, leads to something truly awful. This is the highest-grossing horror film Korea has ever put out, so you know it's good. Don't bother with the American remake… they gave it an effort, but it's just not the same.
If you like found footage, check out Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018), the second-highest-grossing horror film in Korea. It takes place in a real-life place, the abandoned hospital in Gwangju, one of Korea's most haunted locations. Need I say more?
While not traditionally as scary as some, Train to Busan (2016) is truly a masterpiece, and an excellent Korean addition to the zombie horror scene. It mostly takes place on a high-speed train as a zombie outbreak is happening, threatening the lives and safety of everyone on board.
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South of the border, we have We Are What We Are (2010), a movie regularly describe as a Mexican Cannibal Drama. I can seriously get behind that. If that's not your cup of tea, Guillermo del Toro directed The Devil's Backbone (2001) that truly shows his vision in horror. It's not as widely appreciated as it should be, but it's truly a great work of art for the time.
Alleluia (2014), from Belgian, is sort of like watching a movie through the eyes of a serial killer. Set in the 70s, the premise sounds so cliche I don't even want to describe it, but watching it? A totally different experience.
Once more for the found footage genre, we've got [Rec] (2007) out of Spain. Don't be fooled if you've seen Quarantine, the shot-for-shot Sony version. [Rec] is seriously terrifying – and if you like it, the sequel picks up exactly where it leaves off.
Finally, I would be remiss without talking about Let the Right One In (2008) which came out of Sweden. We're talking the original, not the 2010 version – yes, it was remade just two years later. There's something incredibly unsettling about a 12-year-old stone-faced child expressing what it's like to be a vampire.
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The weeknight classic, kicked up Cajun-style.
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Put bread, condiments A, and ground spices B in a large bowl together and set aside.
Put a pan over medium-high heat, melt the butter, and add the vegetables C. Cook until they begin to change color, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool for a couple of minutes.
Put the vegetable mixture in the bowl with bread, condiments, and spices. Add the eggs, ground meats, and salts, and mix together. Mix well until homogenous.
Put on a baking sheet (either disposable or lined with tin foil) and shape into a large loaf.
Put in an oven preheated to 350° F and roast for about 45 minutes, followed by 30 minutes at 400°. be sure to brush the meatloaf occasionally with the pan sauces.
Remove from oven and let rest for a few minutes before slicing.
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Kratsas opened her first Cambridge Prep more than two years ago. It's located at 13109 Professional Drive in Jacksonville (near the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard and Hodges.) She held the groundbreaking for the new Ponte Vedra school in June and expects to be open for business in early January. It's located at 185 Landrum Lane.
Kratsas says the schools are something she has always wanted to do. She has an academic background in both childhood development and psychology.
Sherrie Marzi is the director of the new school. She's built a 22-year career in early childhood<|fim_middle|> part of the child's day," says Kratsas.
The school also sends home written reports on how each child spent his or her day. Two-year olds bring home the Rainbow Report. It's a detailed look at the child's day with everything from what the child ate to what happened in the various classes.
Cambridge uses a curriculum, which is both teacher-directed and child-directed.
Each classroom has separate learning centers called The Cambridge City. Each city has a fire department, a post office, a bank and Grand Ma's Grocery. The child-sized rooms contain dress up clothes and various things that teach. The post office contains numbers and letters. Grand Ma's grocery contains the things one finds in a grocery store. Marzi says the children love the creative activities in The Cambridge City.
The children in both the three-year-old and four and five-year old classrooms also get to use computers. Cambridge has a wide range of programs for the children to enjoy. The programs reinforce the different tasks and skills the children are learning.
Kratsas emphasizes that Cambridge gets the children ready for kindergarten with a quality curriculum, and that both the teachers and children have fun doing it.
Cambridge is currently enrolling students for its Ponte Vedra Beach school. Parents can bring their children by the Professional Drive location to take a look and get a feel of the school. Kratsas says she will have an open house at the Ponte Vedra location in December. Parents can call either school for information. The telephone number for the Ponte Vedra Beach school is 285-7997. The Professional Drive location is 220-7737. | education including service in New Jersey and at the Bolles School.
Marzi says the low ratio gives the teachers much more time for sitting down and working with one child individually while others participate in supervised group activities.
Kratsas says parents especially like being able to check on their children during school. Parents are encouraged to drop by and spend time in the classroom. Each classroom also has an observation window where parents can look in on their children from the lobby.
And Kratsas says their KinderCam system is becoming a very popular option for checking in on the children. Cambridge equips each classroom, as well as the outside playground, with cameras, and parents and other relatives can look in on their children over the Internet. The system uses a secure password so only authorized folks can use it. Kratsas says the system is particularly popular with grandparents, aunts and uncles who live in distant cities.
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When Serie A title races captivated the world
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Francesco Totti celebrates, Sven-Göran Eriksson gets the bumps, Zlatan Ibrahimovic laughs, Gianluca Vialli scores and Ronaldo cries. Composite: EPA; Reuters; Getty
"We thought that we had already won the Scudetto, but that is not the case," shrugged Max Allegri a few weeks ago after Juventus fell to their first defeat of the season. That 2-0 loss at Genoa may take the gloss off their season but nobody is fooled. The title, for an eighth year running, is heading to Turin. With eight games to play, Juve are 18 points above their nearest rival, although the term "rival" is definitely pushing it at this stage.
When did it all become so predictable? This, after all, is the same league that gave Gabriel Batistuta just one Scudetto in a decade of domination; the competition that denied Giuseppe Signori, Antonio Di Natale and even Ronaldo a single league trophy. In better days, this was a battle fought gamely between footballing titans. It was the most exciting league in the world and here are five great run-ins to prove it.
1990-91: Sampdoria
Sampdoria's ascent to the Scudetto in 1991 is still celebrated at the Luigi Ferrari to this day. Paolo Mantovani's millions had made the club a force in Serie A and propelled them to victory in the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1990, but the oil man wanted more. Vujadin Boskov, the meticulous Serb who had assumed the coaching role four years earlier, was there to deliver a league trophy.
When Coventry City had the most beautiful programmes ever made
The competition was stiff – Milan had the Dutch trio of Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullitt and Frank Rijkaard, while Inter boasted West Germany's recently crowned World Cup winners Lothar Matthäus, Andreas Brehme and Jürgen Klinsmann – but Sampdoria were rampant, losing just three league games all season. Gianluca Vialli banged in 19 goals in 26 games, while Gianluca Pagliuca and Pietro Vierchowod kept things tight at the back as the club won their first, and so far only, league title.
1999-00: Lazio
Having lost out to Milan on the final day of the 1998-99 season, Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti decided to throw any remaining caution to the wind. Juan Sebastián Verón and Néstor Sensini arrived from Parma in the summer, joining shrewd acquisitions such as Simone Inzaghi and Diego Simeone. Sven-Göran Eriksson's side was now peppered with genuine quality and bite.
Juventus, however, were the team to beat. On the last day of the season, they only needed to beat Perugia to secure yet another Scudetto. They couldn't manage it, Pippo Inzaghi fluffing a handful of decent opportunities in heavy Umbrian rain. With the pressure mounting on Juventus, Alessandro Calori capitalised on some slack defending and cannoned a loose volley into the bottom corner. In Rome, meanwhile, Lazio trounced a tepid Reggina 3-0. For just the second time in their history, they were champions.
"I never thought it would be this beautiful," beamed Eriksson at the final whistle. "The other titles I won elsewhere in Europe cannot compare to this."
2000-01: Roma
Renaissance painter Giotto called Rome "the city of echoes, the city of illusions and the city of yearning." On 17 June 2001, Fabio Capello knew exactly what he meant. With just five minutes to go in the final game of the season, his Roma side were on the verge of becoming champions. Fans were running on to the pitch in celebration, but Capello had learned the hard way that patience is a virtue.
The Roma manager had always been averse to frivolity. Three months earlier he had watched Gabriel Batistuta and Vincenzo Montella pummel an average Verona side 3-1 to give Roma a nine-point lead in the title race. Pundits were already declaring Roma champions. Yet, despite their imperious attack and an impervious rearguard that put Emerson in front of that half-man, half-bulldog-chewing-a-wasp Walter Samuel, they so nearly failed.
They lost to Fiorentina in their next game and stuttered throughout the run-in, allowing Juventus to cut their lead to just two points before the final day of the campaign. Carlo Ancelotti's side were always likely to swat aside Atalanta at home on the last day, so Roma's task was clear: beat Parma at the Stadio Olimpico to be crowned champions.
Not for the first or last time, Francesco Totti came to the rescue. With 19 minutes gone, the 24-year-old latched on to Vincent Candela's cut-back to fire an effort straight through Gianluigi Buffon and into the roof of the net. Goals from Montella and Batistuta calmed the nerves. Roma, despite their best efforts, were champions.
Gabriel Batistuta celebrates winning the title with Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. Photograph: Grazia Neri/Allsport
2001-02: Juventus
What do you do when you lose Zinedine Zidane? Sign Pavel Nedved and Gianluigi Buffon, of course. Zidane's record transfer to Real Madrid robbed Juventus of their brightest star, but Marcello Lippi would not countenance a fourth year without the Scudetto. Brought in to replace the ailing Ancelotti, Lippi chain-smoked his way to the final game of the season where, with just 90 minutes left to play, his side were a single point behind Inter.
It seemed as if Héctor Cúper had obliterated the Inter's inferiority complex, but poor results during the run-in against Atalanta and Chievo opened the door to Juventus and Roma. Only an away win against on the final day Lazio would do. Goals from Christian Vieri and Luigi Di Biagio gave Inter the lead twice and should have been enough but Lazio scored four. Juventus fans, having watched their team win 2-0 at Udinese, were free to enjoy the sight of Ronaldo sobbing helplessly on the Inter bench. "I wept because of that defeat," said Ronaldo. "It hurts even more because we had the title within our reach."
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2007-08: Internazionale
Serie A's lustre faded considerably after the Calciopoli scandal but the 2007-08 campaign proved that Italy could still rustle up a title race. With Juventus still reeling after their relegation, Inter were the undisputed favourites. But Roma were a side reborn under Luciano Spalletti. They beat Real Madrid home and away that season and also snared both the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa that year.
Inter set up home at the top of the table in September and built an 11-point lead, but Roma were relentless in the run-in, scything that advantage down to a single point by the final day of the campaign. It looked as if Inter would have win away at Parma to retain their title.
"We were bloody worried," recalls Zlatan Ibrahimovic in his autobiography. "If we lost or drew against Parma and Roma beat Catania – which they definitely would do because Catania were at the bottom of the table – we'd fall at the finishing line and lose everything we thought we'd had sewn up."
Ibrahimovic hadn't played since 29 March but, with Inter desperately in need of a goal, Roberto Mancini brought him on early in the second half. Just 11 minutes later, he rifled a low shot past Nicola Pavarini's outstretched glove and into the bottom corner. Cue pandemonium. By the time Ibrahimovic swept in a second, the title race was over. Roma had become yet another victim in Serie A's merciless game of thrones. Those were the days.
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Governments world-wide have sought value for money by augmenting the traditional approach to public infrastructure delivery and management by introducing private capital. Two well established platforms for private capital participation are the<|fim_middle|> the inherent uncertainty associated with such long-lived contractual commitments, it is questionable whether competition leads to efficient outcomes. Both approaches have some potential advantages and this paper investigates, whether it is meaningful to merge them. | Regulatory Asset Base (RAB) Model and the Project Finance Model (broadly termed PPPs). This paper reviews available evidence on the efficiency in delivery and operation of major infrastructure of each platform relative to the traditional approach. Overall the basic concern with the RAB model is that its application might lead to excessive capital expenditures, to strategically inflate the base on which the return is being calculated. By contrast, given the complexity of PPP projects and | 88 |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 Comes to Blu-Ray September 18th!
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Labels: Movie Releases | Disney Studios proudly unleashes Hollywood's renowned pack of celebrity Chihuahua stars in the hilarious all-new movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3,Viva La Fiesta!" releasing on Blu-rayTM Combo Pack, DVD and Digital on September 18, 2012.
Everyone's favorite talking Chihuahuas Papi (voice of George Lopez) and Chloe (voice of Odette Annable) are back, joined by their five playful pups in an all-new family comedy. It's canine chaos as Papi's family (dog and human) move into the posh Langham Hotel, complete with a luxurious doggy spa. But there's trouble in puppy paradise when Rosa, the littlest member of the pack, feels smaller and less special than ever. Now it's up to Papi to help Rosa find – and celebrate – her inner strength, which turns out to be bigger than she ever dreamed and reminds humans and canines alike of the importance of family, friends and teamwork.
Papi and Chloe's pack of five pups include the voices of Kay Panabaker ("Little Birds") as Rosa, Emily Osment (TV's "Hannah Montana") as Pep, Madison Pettis (Disney Junior's "Jake and the Never Land Pirates," "Game Plan") as Lala, Logan Grove (TV's "Young Justice") as Papi, Jr., and Delany Jones as Ali.
The canine cast features the voice talents of2Miguel Ferrer ("Beverly Hills Chihuahua," "Traffic") as Delgado, Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo ("Beverly Hills Chihuahua," Hispanic National Radio Morning Show DJ) as Humberto and Tom Kenny ("SpongeBob Square Pants") as Sebastian.
The film's human stars include Marcus Coloma (TV's "Make It or Break It," South Beach") and Erin Cahill ("Fast Track: No Limits", "Boogeyman 3") who reprise their roles from "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2" as the dog's masters, Sam and Rachel Cortez, plus Frances Fisher ("The Lincoln Lawyer" and TV's "Torchwood") as travel writer Amelia James.
Bonus features on the disc include the featurette "Hanging with Papi," a playful look at a typical day on-set for Papi and both his human and canine costars, and the English and Spanish versions of "Living Your Dreams" an all-new music video performed by Raini Rodriguez, star of Disney Channel's popular series "Austin and Ally."
Fans who fell in love with Papi and Chloe in the box office hit "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," and their universally beloved litter of pups in "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2" (the #1 direct-to-video title of 2011*), will enjoy this exciting and playful new installment in the pedigreed franchise. The all-new "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!" is a must-own family fiesta of fun for everyone. Based on characters | 638 |
This week I wanted to share some videos by pianist Oscar Peterson as a source of inspiration. Peterson released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists<|fim_middle|> jubilance with everything he plays - in fact he even once quoted: "I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
To learn more about Oscar Peterson and his career, listen to the NPR Jazz Profile, "Oscar Peterson: Piano Master."
Even the masters were once students - and it is inspiring to know that they never stop learning! Because, even when you conquer one musical idea, there are still infinite possibilities for the imagination. | of all time.
In the following video Peterson gives a piano lesson, where he exemplifies each style of jazz piano. He goes through styles such as stride, and shows the framework behind famous pianists such as Nat Cole and George Shearing. In addition to playing each style of jazz piano, Peterson is able to articulate what exactly goes into each style to make it sound special.
This video is especially eye-opening, as Oscar Peterson is such a unique voice in jazz - yet he can pinpoint the style, sound, and framework behind all the greats. In this way, he showcases how much research and work goes into every phrase - everything he plays has care and meaning.
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Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn't exactly come in handy… more
Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn't exactly come in handy while working every day in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five—Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey—under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.
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Born to race cars, Speed Racer is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized - the legendary Rex Racer, whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company's maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret - some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival - the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.
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One year later, the Kings and Queens of Narnia find themselves back in that faraway wondrous realm, only to discove… more
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A heartfelt and hilarious adventure that chronicles the exploits of Nim, a young girl living a high-tech Robinson Crusoe existence on an unspoiled tropical island with her scientist father and her best friends - a motherly sea lion, a rambunctious iguana, and a sea turtle. When Nim's father embarks on a day of research at sea, she begins an unlikely e-mail communication with an agoraphobic novelist who lives in New York City. When a storm prevents her father's return and unpredictable dangers confront Nim and the Island, she must find the resources to survive. At the same time, the novelist begins to realize that her pen pal is not a scientist, but a little girl who is alone and in trouble, she also has to dig down for the courage to leave her safe haven and rescue Nim.
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Choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time of a young woman's life...unless your overprotective father isn't quite ready to let you go. In the Disney family comedy, "College Road Trip," Melanie (Raven Symone) is eagerly looking forward to her first big step towards independence when she plans a "girls only" road trip to check out prospective universities. But when her overbearing police chief father (Martin Lawrence) insists on escorting her instead, she soon finds her dream trip has turned into a hilarious nightmare adventure full of comical misfortune and turmoil.
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The imaginative elephant Horton hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Sus… more
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From the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a fantasy adventure for the child… more
From the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.
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Three lazy misfits - very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and no self-confident George (Pa Grape) - dream of the day of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems of might not having this dream come true, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century and begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant, and learn about being pirates.
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Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthw… more
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King broken-hearted, the Princess filled with longing and the townsfolk without their soup. Sunlight disappeared. The world became gray. All hope was lost in this land...until Despereaux Tilling was born.
A modern fairy tale from visionary filmmaker Gary Ross, together with directors Sam Fell & Rob Stevenhagen, The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of several unlikely heroes: Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), a good-hearted rat who loves light and soup, but is exiled to darkness; Pea (Emma Watson), a Princess in a gloomy castle who is prisoner to her father's grief; and Mig (Tracey Ullman), a servant girl who longs to be a Princess, but is forced to serve the jailer (Robbie Coltrane).
Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books—reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro's friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig.
After Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her...and that even the tiniest mouse can find the courage of a knight in shining armor. In this tale of bravery, forgiveness and redemption, one small creature will teach a kingdom that it takes only a little light to show the truth: what you look like doesn't equal what you are.
Sigourney Weaver, Stanley Tucci, Emma Watson… more
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In the highly-anticipated sequel to "Madagascar," Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguin… more
In the highly-anticipated sequel to "Madagascar," Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane -- sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all -- the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
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Nothing Like the Holidays
If there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's that family time isn't always a walk in the park. In Nothing Like… more
If there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's that family time isn't always a walk in the park. In Nothing Like the Holidays, two of today's most talented actors, John Leguizamo and Freddy Rodriguez, join Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, and director Alfredo de Villa to tell the humorous and heartwarming story of one unforgettable family holiday. It's Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents' home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother's safe return from combat overseas. For Jesse (Freddy Rodriguez), coming home has rekindled feelings for an old flame, although she can't seem to forgive him for leaving. His older sister Roxanna, a struggling actress, has been chasing her Hollywood dreams for years with little to show for it. And much to the dismay of their mother Anna (Elizabeth Peña), eldest brother Mauricio (John Leguizamo) brings home a high-powered executive wife (Debra Messing) who would rather raise capital than a child. In the course of one eventful week, traditions will be celebrated, secrets revealed and major life decisions made. It all begins when Anna announces to her children she is divorcing their father Eduardo (Alfred Molina). The shock waves from this familial upheaval prompt Roxanna, Mauricio and Jesse, each in their own way, to reevaluate the past and rethink the future. But when the Rodriguezes learn that one of their own is facing a true crisis, they instinctively pull together: Old resentments are forgotten, familial bonds are re-affirmed and the healing power of laughter works its magic as the family discovers they are much stronger than they ever realized.
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A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico withou… more
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Fifteen young sailors...six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This exciting true-life documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the Transpac, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2,300-mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form an unbreakable bond in the process of becoming singular team that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) fac… more
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of separation as they head off to different colleges. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.
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In this groundbreaking 3-D animated adventure, three young flies set off on a courageous mission to become the firs… more
In this groundbreaking 3-D animated adventure, three young flies set off on a courageous mission to become the first insects on the moon by hitching a ride on the historic Apollo 11 space flight. Based on the actual transcripts and the original blueprints from NASA, the film's stunning visuals and meticulous attention to detail introduce a whole new generation to the awe-inspiring achievements of the space program's most momentous mission. The year is 1969 and like everyone else in the world, Nat (Trevor Gagnon) and his pals IQ (Philip Daniel Bolden) and Scooter (David Gore) are abuzz over the upcoming launch of the first manned mission to the moon. Inspired by his Grandpa's (Christopher Lloyd) oft-told tale of hiding aboard Amelia Earhart's plane during her famed solo cross-Atlantic flight, Nat hatches a secret plan for the three young flies to stow away on the Apollo 11 rocket. Thinking the trip will be over in a matter of minutes, the fly boys—and their earthbound families—are shocked to learn they will be in space for closer to a week. When a N.A.S.A. Ground Control official catches sight of the three winged stowaways, he instructs the astronauts to store them in a test tube for later study. But after an electrical short causes the ship's engine to malfunction, the three intrepid insects manage to escape from their glass mini-brig just in time to discover the wiring problem and fix it. After a difficult lunar landing, Nat tags along with Neil Armstrong on his legendary moon walk. Although the flies face a few more close calls, the mission appears to be a success. At least until Grandpa's old flame Nadia (Nicolette Sheridan) arrives from Russia to warn him that her government, angry over losing the space race, has dispatched fly-spy Yegor (Tim Curry) to Cape Canaveral to sabotage the computer flight plans. With the Apollo hurtling toward Earth, it falls to Nat's family to save the mission—and the trio of brave flies—from disaster.
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From Ice Cube, the star of such hits as "Are We There Yet?," "Are We Done Yet?" and "First Sunday," comes a feel-good family comedy, "The Longshots" -- a hilarious and heartwarming story of the the first and only girl quarterback in Pop Warner football history. Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube) - a down-on-his-luck former high school football star - turns his niece, Jasmine (Keke Palmer from "Akeelah & The Bee"), into the quarterback of the local team, the Minden Browns, and gets his stride back when he becomes the team coach. With Curtis as their new leader and their pigtail-wearing star player, this team of misfits wins its way to the the Pop Warner Super Bowl and the small city of Minden, Illinois, is ignited with team spirit, town pride and the glory it once knew.
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Our school motto, like many others, speaks to preparing our students for the future, but what does that really mean and are we doing what we need to in order to deliver on that promise? These questions were at the forefront of our minds when we decided that, in order to get our kids ready to compete in a digital world, we would need to move to a 1:1 environment.
In an Industrial Age classroom, education came down to the 3 R's: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Those plus the ability to listen and follow directions meant you had what you needed to operate in a factory assembly line, where the vast majority of jobs were located. A (frankly terrifying) report from McKinsey Global Institute estimates that between 400-800 million (yes million) current jobs will be automated by 2030 – just 12 years from now. The job market is changing: factory jobs are being automated and today's jobs require new skills. So how do we prepare our students to meet the demands of future jobs? We start by adding the 4 C's of 21st century education: collaboration, critical thinking, creation, and communication.
Adding these elements to a classroom in ways that benefit our students means giving up the dictatorship. You know what I am talking about. It's hard. We like control. We, the same people who are addicted to the school supply aisles, like neat and orderly. We're wired that way. It's important to recognize that embracing new technology that allows students to customize their skills practice doesn't mean that teaching takes a back seat. On the contrary, using new applications can actually help you enhance your instruction by giving you more options for materials and real-time data that can highlight the learning needs of the students in your class. Thankfully, a few adjustments can ease you into the modern area of education, if you aren't there already.
Using technology in the classroom should be seamless, first and foremost, with the focus being on the standards you are trying to meet. Hutchison & Woodward's (2014) TIP cycle can really help walk you through the thought processes needed to make educational decisions with regard to your Technology Integration Plan (TIP). Access more information here.
There are a number of free tools that can give your curriculum a jolt and personalize experiences for students. As our district's technology integrationist, I spend a large part of my time vetting resources for our teachers and students. Using these tools will allow students to engage with standards-aligned content while building 21st century skills in each of these seven golden areas (the 3 R's and 4 C's). In this post, I'll share<|fim_middle|>'ll tackle tools to support the 4 C's.
ReadTheory – Personalized reading skills practice based on completion of an initial placement test. This tool allows teachers to track progress and also assign leveled stories to students. We use this website to provide differentiated texts for each student. The questions that accompany each passage are aligned to Common Core standards and are tracked for the teacher. There are a variety of reports available in the teacher view, providing educators with a robust analysis of performance. We have begun using this program in middle school to provide enrichment, during a period of the day we call "Strategies," where students work both independently and in small groups to enhance their reading skills. It has also added an option for teachers who use Daily 5 within their classrooms as another "Read to Self" option.
ReadWorks – Features non-fiction and literary articles, paired texts, multilevel passages, robust comprehension sets, audio support, and more. While it's important not to assign texts only at a student's reading level, teachers can use their professional judgment to assign texts at or below a student's tested level to build background knowledge, or assign texts more challen ging than a tested level once a student has background knowledge about the text. For our large number of ELL students, the ability to provide and assess background knowledge is essential. Teachers throughout our district assign passages tied to specific standards that have been deemed "power standards," those standards considered most essential to the grade level. It has also been a place to locate passages tied to special events like holidays or other noteworthy occasions. Finding quality, leveled content for these topics can sometimes prove a challenge. ReadWorks.org works to solve that.
Grammarly – A free Chrome extension and web app that provides powerful editing across your platforms. It not only checks spelling but also usage. Adding this as a Chome extension or desktop app allows both teachers and students to screen their content for spelling and usage mistakes. If activated in Chrome, Grammarly will automatically assess any content typed within textboxes and provide suggested corrections. With a tool like Grammarly, conventions awareness extends beyond the English classroom to everyday use throughout a student's digital presence.
No Red Ink – Writing curriculum focused on high-interest topics with exercises that are adapted to learner needs. Diagnostic assessments place kids where they need. Teachers can create new assignments based on skills being taught. The suggested workflow is to assign the diagnostic test, then move to the adaptive practice, and finish with a summative quiz over the skill. No Red Ink takes care of the assessments, any remediation, and scoring, leaving the teacher to focus on instruction. Progress is tracked in real time, allowing teachers to see student scores on individual assignments or by skill. This tool has made its way into our middle and high school English classrooms with much success.
Quill – Free writing, grammar, and usage activities for lower elementary through high school students. Teach whole-group or small-group lessons based on their free lesson plans, prompts, and independent follow-up guidance. This site is especially useful for those new to teaching this content. Quill.org provides a solid, scripted curriculum complete with interactive student slides, proofreading practice, and a diagnostic assessment. Within a Quill lesson, teachers have the ability to flag students who might be struggling, allowing them to easily know who needs additional instruction. It has been a mainstay in classrooms across our district, providing in-the-moment skill review and assessments for our students. With the ability to sync seamlessly with Google Classroom, it saves G-Suite users the time it takes to create a class.
Khan Academy – Available online and as a stand-alone app for iOS or Android. Students can study specific skills or take a placement test for individualized lessons based on their learning needs. Video support and awarded levels keep learners engaged. After being redesigned in recent years, Khan's platform has gone from strictly guidance videos to a more interactive, game-like resource that provides hints and videos as support instead of the main attraction. Students in our district use this throughout the elementary, middle, and high school as a way to review concepts, get additional practice, or as differentiated instructional content. Khan Academy has been used in math centers, especially, as well as a special education tool used to fill gaps in student learning. Speaking from personal experience, the practice questions are easily accessible by name, making it a homework help option as well.
Prodigy – Available online at prodigygame.com and as a stand-alone app for iOS or Android. This resource features math topics for grades 1-8. It includes a diagnostic placement test and automatic differentiation. The gamified atmosphere engages students, and real-time reporting to the teacher account allows teachers to make quick adjustments in their instructional plans to address students' learning needs. The learning is well-masked inside a game setting. Our after-school math enrichment program has found that this resource is one that kids actually ask to play.
Front Row – Available online and as a stand-alone app for iOS or Android mobile devices. Math and ELA content (among other subjects) at personalized levels with skills performance reports by standard. Students start by taking a fully adaptive diagnostic assessment. There are roughly 30,000 Common Core-aligned questions and 2,000 videos designed to provide individualized practice to students in grades K-8. Teachers have access to detailed reports by class, student, or standard. Throughout the district, teachers use Front Row as a way for all students to get individual, differentiated practice while the teacher works with students in small groups. It has really been a great help in providing both remediation and challenges to students who need it.
All of these resources boast characteristics that make them unique. Choose what works best for your classroom. Good teaching is never replaceable, but with sites like these added to your bag of tricks, meeting standards has never been easier to achieve.
About the Author: Rachel Langenhorst is a K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach in Rock Valley, Iowa and serves as an adjunct professor for the University of Sioux Falls and Northwestern College. A 20+ year teaching veteran, she presents throughout the country, focusing on technology integration strategies and instructional best practices. Rachel serves as an expert contributor for edWeb, Mackin Educational Resources, and Education Talk Radio and has written for Big Deal Media's Technology for K-12 Educators. Her innovative work has been featured in such publications as KQED Mindshift and Tech & Learning magazine. Find her on Twitter @rlangenhorst and on her blog: Tech from the Trenches. | technology to enhance teaching of the 3 R's. Be sure to watch for my next post where I | 21 |
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We're moving from the age of one size fits all medicine to personalized medicine based on the genetic profile of individual patients.
Cancer and personalized medicine
Personalized medicine in cancer has made tremendous strides due to the discovery of biomarkers and their corresponding targeted therapies. Biomarkers are defined by the National Cancer Institute as "A biological molecule found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues that is a sign of a normal or abnormal process, or of a condition or disease. A biomarker may be used to see how well the body responds to a treatment for a disease or condition." Biomarkers for a variety of tumor types, such as breast, colorectal and lung cancer, have been identified. These predictive biomarkers can identify the patient subpopulations that are most likely to respond to a specific therapy.
One of the first examples of personalized medicine is the drug Herceptin . "About 30% of patients with breast cancer have a form that over-expresses a protein called HER2, which is not responsive to standard therapy. Herceptin was approved for patients with HER2 positive tumors in 1998 and further research in 2005 showed that it reduced recurrence by 52% in combination with chemotherapy," reports the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC).
The importance of diagnostic tests
To determine whether these new targeted medications will work, the tumors need to be tested for the presence of the biomarker. Diagnostic tests are an essential part of the development of these personalized therapies. I attended a Healthcare Businesswomen's Association event at Merck where Daniel Winkelman from BioTrends noted, "Approximately 10% of marketed drugs recommend a genetic test for optimal treatment." The FDA has included as part of therapy labels the applicable branded diagnostic test.
For example, the medication Selzentry targets a specific strain of HIV known as CCR5-tropic. "Selzentry was developed in conjunction with the Trofile™ assay, a molecular diagnostic test that determines if a patient is carrying the CCR5-tropic variation of the virus," explains PMC.
The future looks bright
Winkelman said that in the past five years there has been a 75% increase in the pharma industry investment in personalized medicine. As targeted therapies are developed for more subpopulations, this investment can be expected to pay off for both industry and patients. What do you think the future holds for personalized medicine?
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Thinking about moving to Minneapolis? Renowned for its park system, bikability, and abundance of breweries and restaurants, Minneapolis is a perfect city for singles and young professionals. Wondering where to settle down? Here are the best neighborhoods in Minneapolis for singles and young professionals!
Located in Southwest Minneapolis, Linden Hills is a quiet neighborhood nestled between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. The area offers plenty of green space, local eateries, and lots of affordable homes. Housing options vary from bungalows and cottages to vintage apartments and modern townhomes. Voted the #1 neighborhood, Linden Hills is one of the safest neighborhoods in Minneapolis, as well as the perfect place for singles and young professionals to enjoy life!
During the summer months, enjoy a free concert at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, or take a walk around the lake on the 2.75-mile paved trail. Linden Hills has several green spaces to explore, including the Southwest Calhoun Wetland Ponds, Linden Hills Park, Waveland Triangle, and Beard's Plaisance. There's also Roberts Bird Sanctuary, a great spot to observe bald eagles. For a trip back in time, visit the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and see eight historic streetcars—you can even book a ride on the Como-Harriet line!
With its own downtown district, Linden Hills delivers fantastic shopping! For affordable women's clothing, visit Lily and Violet boutique. The Wild Rumpus independent bookstore is a gold mine of delightful books that will charm both adults and children. Locally-owned Heart of Tibet & Sky Door has been in the neighborhood for over ten years and offers Tibetan Buddhist art, jewelry, home goods, and more!
Sebastian Joe's ice cream shop is a must-visit for their Salty Caramel flavor. Tilia is a neighborhood bistro featuring a New American menu and excellent wine list. Their brunch menu includes showstoppers like slow-poached eggs in parmesan cream, which makes getting up early worth it! Make sure to leave room for a fresh-made pie at Turtle Bread, a local bakery offering delicious bread and pastries. Argentinian seafood restaurant Martina serves some of the most incredible South American fare like grilled swordfish and cinnamon fried calamari. And locals love the lip-smacking menu at The Harriet Brasserie!
Loring Park is a Minneapolis neighborhood that offers the best of both worlds: close proximity to downtown with enough green space and walkability to make it feel suburban. Affordable apartments, condos, and townhomes are abundant in this neighborhood. Residents love the quick commute to Downtown Minneapolis, Uptown, and other surrounding neighborhoods. Loring Park also has a low cost of living, which makes residing in the area easily attainable for singles and young professionals alike!
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art museum with world-class exhibits and events. Just next door you'll find the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, home to art installations like the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry. The garden also has the Rock the Garden summer festival featuring musical acts like Feist and Father John Misty. Loring Pond sits at the center of the neighborhood's namesake park and is surrounded by the Loring Greenway, running trails, tennis and basketball courts, and picnic areas. The park also hosts events like the Twin Cities Pride Parade and Holidazzle, a winter festival complete with ice skating, food vendors, and outdoor movies!
Browse through your favorite comics or play tabletop games with a few friends at Mead Hall Games & Comics. Upgrade your bicycle or pick out a new one at Cherry Cycles, a women-owned bicycle shop that offers tuneups, accessories, and more. Hear wedding bells in your future? Make an appointment at Che Bella, a boutique with 17 years of experience outfitting Minneapolis brides!
Nestled next to the Sculpture Garden is Sisyphus Brewing, a local brewery that hosts events like amateur comedy, drag queen bingo, and more! Lakes & Legends Brewing Company is another neighborhood spot that boasts a massive taproom with life-size Jenga. Sip on crisp Marigold Golden<|fim_middle|> Design is also located in Whittier, and many students call this bustling area home. Affordable, safe, and packed with things to do, Whittier is one of the best places to live in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is a world-class art museum with an incredible collection of classic and contemporary art that ranges from sculptures to photography—not to mention, admission is always free! Grab a coffee from the MIA Agra Culture Coffee Shop and head to Washburn Fair Oaks Park where you can see beautiful views of the Minneapolis skyline. For an adventurous way to stay active, scale bouldering walls or take rock climbing classes at Vertical Endeavors.
Do you still covet your CD or DVD collection? Visit Cheapo Discs, a consignment music store that offers everything from vinyl records to headphones. Love vintage shopping? b. Resale is a popular consignment shop with both men's and women's clothing, shoes, accessories, and local art. Greater Goods offers more than just selling unique cards and candles. They also donate a portion of their proceeds to a different organization each year!
Known for its diverse restaurants, Whittier is one of the best neighborhoods in Minneapolis to dine in! Vietnamese eateries like Quang, Pho Tau Bay, and Pho Hoa Noodle Soup are located within blocks of one another, making an Asian-inspired food prowl easy for residents. Locals also flock to the The CC Club Bar, a throwback bar that has been serving residents since 1933. Upgrade your dessert game with a visit to Glam Doll Donuts to enjoy one-of-a-kind donuts in a photo booth or on the patio. Looking for late-night eats and incredible margaritas? Make a stop at Little Tijuana—make sure to order a Paloma!
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On the north side of the Mississippi River is Northeast (called "Nordeast" by the locals), an expansive area that makes up the heart of the arts district in Minneapolis. Housing options in the area range from modern apartments and duplexes to bungalow-style single family homes. Since it's close to downtown, residents in Northeast enjoy short commutes and more affordable living than their downtown contemporaries. With more than 400 art studios and a wide range of restaurants and bars, it's easy to see why Northeast is one of the coolest neighborhoods in Minneapolis for singles and young professionals.
Because Northeast Minneapolis borders the Mississippi River, it's perfect for singles and young professionals who love to be outdoors. The 22.5-acre Boom Island Park offers walking paths, canoe and kayaking racks, and a boat dock. There are also tons of festivals to discover in this vibrant area! Art-A-Whirl is a three-day summer festival where artists open up their studios and visitors can explore art, listen to live music, and indulge in the plethora of food trucks. The Stone Arch Bridge Festival is an early summer festival along the waterfront that offers music, good food, a beer sampler, and car shows. If you need a wintertime activity, stop by the Riddle Room for an escape room experience you'll never forget!
Shopping options vary from small boutiques to chain retailers. Surdyk's Liquor & Cheese Shop is a famous spot with its own specialty cheese shop. I Like You is a quirky boutique with stationary, art, jewelry, and clothing made by local artists. For unique women's clothing and accessories, check out boutiques like Urban Violet and PARC. If you love antiques, stop by findfurnish for vintage furniture, records, and home accessories. Show your Minnesota pride with a shirt or hat from Northmade Co, a clothing company that comes up with all of its designs right in Northeast!
If you're a beer lover, then Northeast is for you! Craft breweries are everywhere in this area with hot spots like Dangerous Man Brewing Co, Indeed Brewing Company, Insight Brewing, and many more! Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge is notorious for its tiki drinks, while Grumpy's Bar and Grill is known for its cheap cocktails and darts. Feeling peckish? The Sample Room offers small portions with big flavors! Their menu changes seasonally, and you can always rely on amazing dishes like with the Truffled Bacon Fat Popcorn and Sweet Corn Cakes. And don't forget to stop by Betty Danger's Country Club for brunch on the revolving patio—it's the only restaurant in Northeast with a ferris wheel in front and a golf course in the back!
The North Loop—also known as the Warehouse District—is one of the trendiest neighborhoods in Minneapolis for singles and young professionals because of its eclectic bars, great shopping, and startup scene. True to its nickname, many warehouses have been converted into apartments, lofts, and business spaces, giving this neighborhood an industrial feel. The North Loop's downtown location means commuting is quick and easy for young professionals, and its proximity to spots like Target Field makes it one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Minneapolis.
There are endless entertainment options in the North Loop area to choose from! For amazing live music, hit up First Avenue, the Minneapolis music staple where Prince shot Purple Rain. The summer is for baseball, so make sure to to have a fun-filled day with a Twins game at Target Field. The Lab Theater is a performing arts venue that showcases everything from burlesque to comedy. If you're looking for more things to explore, the blue line of the METRO light-rail starts at Target Field and goes all the way to the airport, making The Mall of America and St. Paul attractions just a short trip away!
With a variety of small boutiques and stores, there's something for everyone in the North Loop! Need to buy a gift for a friend? Statement Boutique sells funky accessories and home decor. Martin Patrick 3 is a men's clothing store that not only offers stylish suits, but also furniture and interior design advice. Or you can pick up a book or two at James & Mary Laurie Booksellers, a used bookstore with over 120,000 books!
There's no shortage of dining options in the North Loop! Upscale restaurants like The Bachelor Farmer and Spoon and Stable have seasonal menus, vast wine and beer options, and are perfect for any occasion. Fulton Beer is a North Loop favorite with an incredible taproom and great beers like the crisp Lonely Blonde. For amazing Italian food, grab a table at Bar La Grassa and try their fresh-made gnocchi with cauliflower and orange. For a few laughs with your dinner, make a date night at Acme Comedy Club. Or show off your best dance moves at Gay 90's, a multi-level dance club with house music and fun-filled events every weekend!
Bordering the Chain of Lakes park district, Uptown is a hip area where singles and young professionals can go paddling on the lake by day and enjoy a happy hour cocktail on a rooftop at night. Housing options in the area include everything from affordable apartments and condos to luxurious single-family homes and massive lakeside estates. Multiple biking and walking trails make walkability within Uptown easy, and the close proximity of grocery stores, pharmacies, and amenities means running errands without a car is a breeze. With plenty to do and a young, dynamic population, it's easy to see why Uptown is one of the most popular neighborhoods in Minneapolis for singles and young professionals!
Rent a paddle board, kayak, or paddleboat from Wheel Fun Rentals and enjoy a leisurely day on the newly renamed Bde Maka Ska Lake (formerly known as Lake Calhoun). Head over to Nice Ride with some friends to rent bikes and pedal around Chain of Lakes trails, or hop on the Midtown Greenway to travel anywhere in the city! The Uptown Theater and the Lagoon Cinema are two great movie theaters that show everything from international films and blockbusters to cult classics.
Explore the Calhoun Square shopping mall, complete with restaurants, coffee shops, a nail salon, and a gym. Pick out a book and get lost in Magers & Quinn Bookstore, a local favorite with a massive array of discount books. Or stop by Paper Source and customize your own cards at the paper bar.
The French-inspired Barbette is a chic cafe with a rotating menu of seasonal dishes like Steak Au Poive and Parisian Gnocchi. The Lowry is local staple with over 30 beers on tap, an expansive food menu, and fantastic brunch specialties like avocado crab toast and sweet potato hash. For some of the best seafood in the city, stop by Stella's Fish Cafe and indulge in the coconut shrimp while enjoying the view from the rooftop patio. Uptown also has a great array of dive bars! Liquor Lyle's is the spot to go for cheap drinks and delicious bar food. And places like Libertine, Chino Latino, Cowboy Slims have amazing late-night eats and happy hour deals!
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Long-range business goals will be the cornerstone of your company's MBO program. To achieve these goals, you must have a method to communicate them to your managers and employees. One way is to bring managers and employees into the process by asking them to help formulate the company's short- and long-range goals. If they have a role in establishing the goals, they will be more committed to achieving them. All goals should relate to and support the long-range objectives for the company. In this way, you can ensure that the goals of all levels of management are consistent. If goals are incompatible, you may find that employees feel like the middle manager of a research and development company who exclaimed in a seminar, How can I set<|fim_middle|> to go?
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CNC machining can be used to move your business to greater heights, but before buying a machine consider all the advantages and disadvantages first.
1) Constant use. These machines can run as long as you wish these to work, be it twenty four hours, weeks, months or even a calendar year, the only time you need to close them straight down<|fim_middle|> things again and again.
3) Staffing. The usage of Machining will assist you to utilize significantly less skilled employees than that of personally controlled equipment. What this means is significantly less designers and less malfunctioning goods.
4) Software. The program is among the main elements of the equipment. It may be up-to-date to enhance your devices. Training in the encoding is available in a virtual practical way. Some of the top quality software program will even allow the developer to imitate the manufacturing method, removing the requirement for prototypes. Saving you money and time.
5) Modern technology. The technologies used in the CNC machining machining software will allow you to produce styles that is certainly difficult to be produced by handbook indicates.
6) Administration. Just one particular person can simply manage a number of programmed machines, the sole element which needs to be altered would be the slicing tools should they go blunt.
7) Coaching. Operators only will need fundamental coaching to work these appliances, diplomas are not required.
8) Versatility. within a matter of hrs the equipment may be reprogrammed to create a totally different component. This may make certain you stay up with consumer requirements without spending considerable time or cash exchanging elements as it would be necessary for manual equipment.
1) The price. CNC machining may be more costly than by hand run machines, but a decrease in these expenses are beginning to present since the demand for them boost.
2) Abilities loss. As a result of limited training required many of the aged abilities employed to manually create components are dropped. With automatic machining so easily available students are no longer taught to by hand generate elements. After a decade all the outdated abilities designers have been so popular for will be shed. This can create issues if you should demand parts which can be handcrafted.
3) Unemployment. Less personnel are required when using Manufacturer/engineering Consultant, that means you may need to retrench or reduce some of your staff.
CNC milling is pc numerical handled sort of machining hence the label. This is a process that entails cutting and drilling to using various devices. Revolving cylindrical reducing device can be used, but you can find most sophisticated machines like people who shift along multiple axes to generate all sorts of styles, openings and slot machine games. 5 axes machining has eliavb very popular as a result of exactly what it can achieve. Addititionally there is our prime speed CNC milling which is now embraced by producers as a result of what it really can accomplish.
High speed Cnc Machining delivers lots of benefits associated with different kinds of software in fact it is a technologies that may be utilized in milling cavities in substantial alloy instrument steels. Using sufficient slicing and retaining tools for that procedure, milling on hard surfaces is made very easy and fast. There exists just so significantly that can be accomplished from your high-speed milling, but what are the advantages which have created this type of machining very popular and reliable?
Considering the pros and cons of these automatic machines you will notice that the advantages considerably outweigh the cons. However the preliminary expenses could be higher the amount you save on competent employees and reject parts will become revenue. The software employed allows you change among diverse design and style parts in a significantly reduced time that manual equipment would require. The best element is nevertheless regularity, each and every new portion you generate is going to be exactly like the previous, getting rid of mistakes developed by handbook machining. | is perfect for servicing.
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It seems like Washington, D.C., is tilting at political windmills these days. The Obama administration and Congress are still promising to slay the fire-breathing dragon of healthcare costs. But the beast they are fighting is<|fim_middle|> fields, to foster continuing advancement of the priority areas over the next couple of years.
While there is still much more to be done, this much is clear: The federal government should not dictate our healthcare choices. The states, with public and private input, are capable of making changes to foster a better and more affordable healthcare system. We no longer can afford to be complacent and wait for the federal government to make things worse and take decisions out of our hands. | , to a large extent, the product of the government-installed cage in which it evolved.
For 35 years now the federal government has been essentially running healthcare in America, masking market signals and supplanting the judgment of patients and physicians with the determinations of politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers. It should be no surprise that healthcare became "health management," people became statistics, and the fear of liability became the biggest expense of all.
Now the federal government is poised to rescue us from the disaster it created, promising "reform" that amounts to little more than increasing government's already dominant role in the healthcare system and further reducing the role of states like Idaho, not to mention individual patients and providers.
The public, policy makers and even patients contributed to the problem with their complacence. Having been lulled into a false sense of security by the promise of Medicaid and Medicare, we failed to insist on meaningful change and self-determination. But now the federal government has seized on healthcare reform as its mission in life, which means we should brace for still higher costs.
Largely missing from this discussion is the real work that Idaho and many other states are doing on their own to address healthcare needs, fulfilling their role as laboratories of the republic. That work includes controlling costs and improving access through a market-driven focus on preventive care, health promotion, building public-private partnerships, and application of technology and professional development.
I convened the Idaho Healthcare Summit in 2007 to evaluate Idaho's healthcare system and recommend ways to make healthcare more affordable. The Governor's Select Committee on Health Care evaluated the recommendations, gathered additional data and provided its top recommendations for implementation in a report submitted to me in 2008.
The recommendations focused on expanding the statewide use of electronic medical records to provide better coordinated patient care; expanding the use of patient-centered medical homes that shift the focus of healthcare to primary and preventive care; expanding the number of already eligible children to register for the State Children's Health Insurance Program; and expanding the number of residency opportunities to attract primary care and specialty physicians to our state. We are making great progress on all those fronts. And at the close of 2009 I created the Governor's Health Policy Implementation Committee, consisting of people who are experts in these | 460 |
The Netflix interface can be a bit confusing to those new to the Netflix service.Couple that with users new to using Windows Media Center and you have a perfect learning curve storm.Much of the functionality added with TV Pack 2008 was included with the version of Media Center<|fim_middle|> Center can play slideshows, videos and music from local hard drives, optical drives and network locations.Users can stream television programs and films through selected services such as Netflix.Content can be played back on computer monitors or on television sets through the use of devices called Windows Media Center Extenders. Up to six TV tuners on a tuner card are supported simultaneously.The Picture Library includes new slideshow capabilities, and individual pictures can be rated.Also, while browsing a media library, a new column appears at the top named "Shared." This allows users to access shared media libraries on other Media Center PCs from directly within Media Center.
It is important to evaluate and assess the benefits and drawbacks of such a relationship. | included in Windows 7, along with an update to the user interface.Playback of H.264 video both locally and through a Media Center Extender (including the Xbox 360) is supported.Luckily, the learning curve is short and overall the service works well.Windows Media Center (WMC) is a discontinued digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft.For television support, the Windows Media Center "TV Pack" released by Microsoft in 2008 is incorporated into the WMC.This includes support for Cable CARD and North American (ATSC) clear QAM tuners, as well as creating lists of favorite stations.
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The Riksbank, Sweden's central bank, has announced the launch of a year-long pilot project of its proposed e-krona. The project will use distributed ledger technology inspired by the blockchains that run cryptocurrencies.
Cashless in Sweden: Physical cash is headed toward obsolescence in Sweden. Nearly everyone uses a mobile payment application called Swish, and it's been estimated that retailers could stop accepting cash by 2023. This concerns the country's central bankers, for two reasons. First, they fear that if the payment infrastructure is left completely to the private sector, certain groups might be excluded. Second, if people lose the ability to convert what's in their commercial bank accounts into a form of "cash" backed by the government, it might undermine their faith in the money system.
That's why, a few years ago, the Riksbank began investigating the possibility of a state-backed digital currency that might play a similar role to the one physical cash plays today.
A public good? For a recent article on the future of cash, I spoke with Riksbank economist Gabriel Söderberg, who argued that whereas private companies are motivated by profit, the central bank would be focused on offering a public good. It has an incentive to focus on making a digital payment system that is user friendly and accessible to everyone.
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Kambi's<|fim_middle|> it did not reveal is exactly when this would happen – the prospectus seemed to hint at it happening at the end of 2020. Whether this is accurate remains to be seen.
Nylén doesn't know when it will be – "that's more a question for DraftKings," he says – but he adds that it will not be an easy process.
"If you look at what has to be completed, it's a significant undertaking and rarely do these mergers go smoothly.
"There's the technology aspect, the customer migration issue, the regulatory impact to ensure the new solution is compliant in every state, and also the product gap compared to what DraftKings offers now will need to be bridged."
He points out that being able to handle high levels of traffic will be a key consideration. After all, DraftKings is a mass market brand, which has taken a podium position in just about every state it has entered, aided by the brand recognition generated from its daily fantasy offering.
Yet something that DraftKings chief executive Jason Robins said in the wake of the deal may infer that part of the reason behind the decision to go for SBTech was price. Robins suggested that future cost savings played a role in the decision to move away from Kambi.
Does this mean that the supplier is too expensive in a market where operators will soon shift their focus from customer acquisition to turning a profit?
Nylén denies this.
"First of all, the income we are getting is based on revenue share," he points out, adding that this is often overlooked by the industry.
"DraftKings risks losing revenue by swapping to a service that may not have the same revenue-driving quality," he explains. "If they can't retain the same quality, they will not be able to retain the same level of revenue, which means there will be no cost saving as the same levels of income won't be there."
In short, success has a price – the more business, the more the software provider is due.
In Pennsylvania, for example, Kambi-powered brands accounted for around 60% of sports betting revenue in December 2019.
"If you add FanDuel's market share as well, you're down to just single digits across all the other operators," Nylén adds. "This highlights the need for a high-quality product. You can only go so far with a strong customer database, as it is very easy for the end user to swap if they're not happy with the product."
"Secondly, it's very easy to underestimate the complexity involved in building a highly competitive sportsbook," he continues. "Outside of Kambi and Bet365, there aren't many that have succeeded in this area.
It's not only difficult to build, but also costly to develop, maintain and improve, he continues.
"Finally, who knows what kind of revenue share we would have been looking at if DraftKings were to generate the size of revenues they set out in the prospectus? It's not certain at all that we would have asked for the same revenue share deal."
Room for manoeuvre
And it's not certain that other sportsbook supply deals will remain in place. Again, he brings up the example of Europe.
The launch of online betting started with the traditional retail giants, before new, online-only challengers were able to steal a march on these incumbents due to superior product offerings.
"We've not seen the end of it in the US, as to who will be the big market leaders in the years ahead," Nylén says.
"[To] be successful long-term, you have to have a great product," he continues. "We more than anyone else have proven what we are capable of, and what market share our operators can achieve in the US.
"At the same time, there are others in the US [not powered by Kambi] that have probably underperformed so you'd have to think that they'd be considering their sportsbook options moving forward."
Kambi, he adds, has not simply seen its product work particularly well with a few partners, and decided that it has now offers an optimal solution. It has been making incremental improvements, to reduce friction for the end user with minimal problems and outages.
This follows extensive development in recent years, to create a strong product for the major US sports and ensure quick and efficient launches.
This has already seen it achieve a number of market firsts. It was the first mobile operator to launch in New Jersey, the first retail solution to go live in New York and the first mobile roll-out in Pennsylvania, not to mention day one launches in Indiana and Iowa.
"We have proved from every angle that we have a great product for the US market," he says.
Ultimately, while Kambi has suffered a setback in losing its highest-profile US client, Nylén insists it's "business as usual". There is not going to be any impact on staff numbers, the product roadmap or a dialling back of its ambitions going forward.
"We're very focused on our partner network and will continue to seek out new opportunities," he says.
"These are exciting times, we are on a long journey and still have so much to look forward to."
It may have suffered a significant, and very public, blow, but it's clear Kambi believes it's far from out. The challenge will be to convince the markets of this. The 12.61% rise from the 52-week low of SEK119.70 per share set on December 23 suggests it is making progress here. This, however, remains far below the high of 224.00 set on 13 February, 2019.
There is a long way to go, but for a business that owes its current profile to an earlier conscious uncoupling from a major partner, it at least has experience of how to achieve this.
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Splitting from a high profile partner is not exactly new territory for Kambi – after all, its break from Kindred gave it the independence to make a push into the US. Those keen to write the supplier's obituary after the loss of DraftKings will therefore be sorely disappointed, says chief executive Kristian Nylén.
For Kambi, 2019 had a sting in its tail. On December 23, Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corporation announced that it had agreed a transaction that would see it act as the vehicle to combine DraftKings with SBTech to create a new, US listed gaming giant.
Yet this was hardly greeted with dismay by Kambi. The supplier was magnanimous, putting out a statement in which chief executive Kirstian Nylén pledged to provide the same level of service that had helped DraftKings become a US market leader as long as the relationship lasted.
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It wasn't hard to detect a note of defiance, too. Nylén noted that it was not up to him to comment on its partner's strategic choices, adding that Kambi had built itself into a supplier with a number of "high-quality, visionary" clients.
"Furthermore, we believe the combination of a competitor and a high-profile operator has the potential to strengthen the appeal of Kambi in future sales processes," he added.
Kambi's share price fell following the announcement. This was to be expected, though the shares have already risen 12.61% from the 52-week low set that day. Trading was suspended on the day, though this was only for the Nasdaq to ascertain whether a notice of termination had been issued (it has not).
The supplier insists its reaction is not damage control. It's more a genuine belief that the opportunities created by the shift for Kambi and its partners will more than offset any hit it faces from losing its highest-profile client, it says.
Speaking to iGamingBusiness.com, Nylén says he doesn't feel let down. DraftKings doesn't owe the supplier anything, he says.
"It's been a great relationship and has created a lot of success for both parties," he says. "It's put Kambi on the map as a leading supplier in the US market.
"Of course, I'm disappointed. Disappointed because I couldn't convince them that they are making a mistake, as I still firmly believe DraftKings would be best served staying with Kambi as a supplier."
While he tells iGamingBusiness.com that he would "of course" have preferred to keep DraftKings as a client, it's just one of a number. This means it's not even a case of going out on the hunt for a similar partner that could 'replace' it.
"I think we already have a wonderful set of partners in the US, with a lot of headroom to grow," he says.
These partners range from the national brands in Rush Street and Penn National Gaming, to the "local heroes" such as New York's Seneca Gaming Corporation and Pennsylvania's Parx Casino. Then there are those waiting for regulations to pass, Connecticut's Mohegan Sun and Ohio-based Jack Entertainment. Its erstwhile parent Kindred is also active in the US, having launched in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
"So we already have a great customer base," he says. "We are firmly committed to the US and believe we are a very attractive potential partner, so I have no concerns regarding our position there."
He views the US as similar to Europe, in that there is a patchwork of different regulatory models, albeit without the added complication of language barriers. There are the multi-state operators, from DraftKings and FanDuel to Fox Bet, Caesars and the MGM-GVC joint venture Roar Digital, but these are few and far between, he says.
Aside from DraftKings, Kambi arguably already has two more of these multi-state clients in its partner roster: Rush Street and Penn National.
This makes signing up more"local heroes", the operators with a strong presence in a single state, the core focus.
And in his view going for these deals is going to be much easier. Nylén believes the DraftKings-SBTech deal has "weakened" a key competitor, which in turn can work for Kambi's benefit.
This shouldn't be viewed as a way of talking up its future prospects at the expense of another, however – Nylén points out that he has first-hand experience of how "restricting" it can be to be part of a major operator.
Kindred past
This, of course, refers to Kambi's beginnings as a subsidiary of Kindred Group, the operator formerly known as Unibet.
"We founded Kambi in 2010 and at this time we had a clear picture of how to be successful, which was by becoming an independent company," he explains. "That didn't happen until 2014, and it was quite a different experience when we became a stand-alone company.
"It became easier to gain that high level of trust required to be a true partner."
Suppliers have access to important, sensitive data, he says, and partners will be wary of providing this to what is essentially an arm of a competitor. Furthermore, suppliers that derive the majority of revenue from a single client could be viewed as being led by what that dominant partner wants or needs.
"Therefore, being an independent company creates a much better focus, and makes you able to take decisions that are good for your whole partner network and Kambi as a company, rather than the operator that owns you," Nylén says.
He points out that many major decisions taken since Kambi split from Kindred, such as its entry to the US, and targeting land-based clients to take them online, were only possible due to its independence from the operator.
Cost concerns
What remains to be seen is what happens next. The prospectus published by Diamond Eagle earlier in January confirmed what the industry already knew – that DraftKings will indeed drop Kambi as its sportsbook provider.
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Last year my mother moved to the South of France; In a mad mid-life revelation she shipped off the dog, opened her Melbourne house to an artist-in-residence, and settled in a provincial town named Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Saint Remy is seeped in history; a home to creatives, Monaco royals and untiring agriculturalists. Its landscape and architecture have remained untouched for centuries and its locally cultivated food (cheese, truffles and foie gras) is at the heart of French cuisine.
Now I knew that my mother missed me terribly, so like the dutiful daughter that I am, I packed my bags twice that year, visiting in the height of Summer and the midst of Winter – the things we do for family! Dear reader, if you are ever travelling through the South of France (or in the thick of your own life transition) be sure to visit Saint Remy and its surrounds. Below are some hints and suggestions to aid your journey through this restorative countryside. Part 2 of this article looks at where to find art and history.
Saint Remy Cemetery: When Germany invaded France in 1940, German troops settled in Saint Remy, occupying such buildings as Château Roussan. Legend has it, that the Provincial arm of the French Resistance would meet in the dead of night in the Saint Remy Cemetery to plot their retaliation. The cemetery is vast, with ancient tombs and has a view of the Alpilles. And despite the age of the graves, they remain lovingly preserved and adorned in fresh flowers. It's a reminder of how important family and history are to the French, and it's incredibly moving to see a decorated tomb for a person who died over 100 years ago.
Glanum:<|fim_middle|> Ancient Roman city. Glanum, which wasn't excavated until 1921, was a flourishing town from the 1st century BCE – 3rd Century CE that was known for its sacred spring, bath houses and religious temples. If you take a walk around the surrounding Alpilles, be sure to keep one eye on the ground, as it's not unheard of for a hiker to stumble upon an ancient coin or cup. Just don't alert the authorities, as technically it's a 'treasure of the state'.
Van Gogh Asylum: An absolute highlight of Saint Remy is the Saint-Paul Asylum, where Van Gogh resided for the last year of his life. The asylum, which is still a functioning mental institution, was built in an 11th century monastery. The building is both beautiful and haunting, and visitors can see Van Gogh's bedroom, which has been restored to its original condition. Be sure to finish your tour of the asylum by taking the Van Gogh Trail; a 2km walk from the asylum to the centre of town that is dotted with copies of Van Gogh's work, where each are believed to have been painted.
Château La Coste: Aside from the Van Gogh Asylum, the art in Saint Remy can be a tad kitsch, so I would recommend heading a little further a field to experience some truly remarkable modern art. Take the day to visit Château La Coste, a vineyard with restaurant, sprawling grounds and awe-inspiring contemporary sculptures. I would recommend first having lunch at the restaurant, which uses fresh ingredients from the kitchen garden; then perusing the bookshop for theory and art based literature; and then finally roaming the grounds and surrounding forest, seeking out the impressive collection of sculptures, some hidden, and some of which encourage interaction with the art. Château La Coste truly excites the imagination.
Les Carrières de Lumières: Only a 15-minute drive from Saint Remy is Les Baux, a picturesque village carved into a cliff side. This town is definitely worth a visit, but Les Baux's main attraction lies underground in its dank dark cavernous limestone quarries. The quarries are home to a seasonally-changing light show that illuminates the cave from floor to ceiling, via a state-of-the-art projector and surround-sound audio. Art, both static and kinetic, is beamed onto the walls of the cave with corresponding music, creating an intense sensory experience. | Saint Remy was built on the outskirts of Glanum, an | 14 |
Did anyone else see the UFO<|fim_middle|> no beam, so presumably it wasn't a searchlight. Maybe the mass itself was rotating and burning on just one side - if so, suggesting debris or a comet. But I've seen comets before and they didn't look like this thing, or appear to be as low flying. It was visible for perhaps 20 seconds.
Could it have been the last remnants of the annual Perseid meteor shower? It peaked on August 12-13 but some 'shooting stars' can be seen before and after the main shower. I know nothing about astronomy, btw, just what I read on the web following some comments on the Courier website. | travelling roughly west-east across HB tonight at 21.45? I'm not suggesting this was aliens but it was certainly unlike anything I've seen before in the night sky.
It was a fast-moving light travelling in a straight line and made no noise that I was aware of. It definitely wasn't a helicopter and was moving too fast to be an airliner. (There was actually an airliner nearby to compare it with.) The light was also completely different - larger and more a blurred orange, so maybe it was debris or a comet burning up.
After a few seconds I was able to see the object - a squarish mass - and the light started to rotate round it. That was the oddest thing - quite creepy to watch. I then lost sight of it. There was | 161 |
Jordan DuHammell Buck: 223-Inch Maryland Monster
Craig Holt - June 14, 2016
Serious deer hunters know Maryland has the soil nutrients and herd genetics to produce magnum whitetails. Most of these giants have come from the fertile Eastern Shore portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, where lush agricultural fields, coastal marshes and diverse inland woods have long supported a healthy deer population.
Kevin Miller's 194-inch typical state record was shot near an alfalfa field in this region a little over a decade ago, and many other great whitetails have been harvested there as well.
Of the 26 points on this great rack, the one that draws the most attention is the 10 7/8-inch drop tine corkscrewing down off the right main beam. Photo by Charlie Prickett
But while the rest of Maryland has produced fewer monsters, they really can come from anywhere. And so, not too many veteran whitetail hunters in the Old Line State were shocked when Jordan DuHamell broke the non-typical archery record with a giant from one of those "other" counties in 2013. He was bowhunting in Cecil County, way up in the state's northeast corner, when he arrowed the 26-point giant on Dec. 27.
Jordan took his trophy near where the Susquehanna River empties into the upper end of Chesapeake Bay. Cecil County is little more than a long bow shot from the hunter's home in sprawling Newark, Delaware. The area is less intensively farmed than are some of the better-known deer counties farther south, but otherwise it has a lot going for it as whitetail habitat.
"Cecil County is just north of Kent County, where Kevin Miller killed his record buck," points out Charlie Prickett. He's a friend of both hunters and a pro staffer for the Blitz TV show.
"I guess I'm good luck for deer hunters," Charlie laughs, "because Jordan has hunted on my property a lot. He's like a little brother to me, and he killed the biggest deer to date at my farm, a 140-class 8-pointer on opening day of (the 2013) shotgun season."
Although Jordan lives across the line in Delaware, he works in Elkton, Maryland, for a company called Innovative Cutting. When he went afield on the day of the kill, he was carrying a Hoyt Carbon Element compound bow, even though the second segment of muzzleloader season already had been open for nearly a week.
Through the Season
Maryland has several segments to its deer season, starting with archery in early September, then muzzleloader, firearms and muzzleloader again. Archery hunters can hunt during any firearms season but must wear adequate fluorescent orange at those times, same as if they were carrying a gun. Why was Jordan toting his bow when he could have taken a smokepole instead? There's a simple answer to that question.
"I'd cleaned up my muzzleloader and didn't feel like taking it down and reloading it. I'd rather hunt with a bow anyway," notes the young sportsman, who's been a bowhunter since the age of 13. "I've killed maybe 15 deer, most with a bow."
Going into the 2013 season, Jordan knew a big buck was living somewhere in the 15-acre swath of creek bottom at the center of his boss' farm near the town of Fair Hill. That's the last town a traveler passes through on Md. Route 472 before entering Pennsylvania.
"It's horse country," Jordan points out. "My boss' property has big hay fields they use to feed horses." Back in 2010, Jordan's trail camera had detected a large 8-pointer in one of those fields. The hunter says he believes those images were of the buck that three years later would walk in front of his stand two days after Christmas 201<|fim_middle|> arrow into his lungs, roughly a minute elapsed — though it seemed a lot longer. So the 45-minute wait to start down from the tree most likely felt like an eternity. But that's how long Jordan forced himself to wait before checking for sign.
"I walked over to where he'd been standing when I shot, started looking and found my first arrow," he says. "It was covered in blood, and there was a good blood trail leading away from the spot." Jordan followed and soon found the buck lying dead in a briar patch. It took the bowhunter a bit of work to pull the deer out where he could get a better look. And when he did, he immediately saw antler points sprouting in all directions.
The sight stunned Jordan, as he'd had no idea the deer was anywhere near that big. The happy archer immediately opened his phone and texted Charles a short but memorable message: "I've killed a monster."
Jordan wanted to get the buck loaded and home before all light was gone, so he hustled to the Gator he'd ridden part of the way to his stand. Although the deer weighed well over 200 pounds on the hoof, Jordan was so charged up he lifted the beast into the UTV by himself.
Maryland archers have shot some huge whitetails over the years, but this post-rut giant beats all of the rest. Photo by Mike Moore
"Two guys loading hay saw me with the deer and came over and took some pictures," Jordan recalls. Charlie drove to the DuHamell residence the next day and snapped several more photos of his friend with the giant buck.
Robert A. "Bob" Newton III, a measurer for Boone and Crockett, Pope & Young and the Maryland Trophy Deer Contest, worked with P&Y scorer Mike Travis to tape the buck's headgear following the mandatory 60-day drying period. Even after 12 7/8 inches of deductions on the basic 5x5 frame, the wide, massive 26-pointer netted 223 3/8 inches.
The nine abnormal points on the right antler account for 39 4/8 inches, including a 10 7/8-inch drop tine underneath the G-3 tine. The left antler's seven abnormals measure 17 3/8 inches for a whopping 57 1/8 total non-typical inches.
In Maryland's archery rankings, this spectacular buck has supplanted the 220 2/8-incher Yates Claggett shot on Nov. 5, 1995, in Prince George County. (That county lies to the west side of Chesapeake Bay but also has many farms.) Jordan's giant also ranks fifth among non-typicals taken in Maryland by bow or gun.
It's always interesting to look back on a successful hunt and try to determine what made the difference the day everything came together. In Jordan's case, it all began with the opportunity to hunt. He actually had fewer days to hunt during the 2013 season than in the past, because his family had grown. But he caught a break the day he arrowed the state record.
"I have a daughter and son who are preschoolers," the hunter explains. "My wife usually works evenings. But she was off that night, so I was able to go hunting. I'm sure glad it worked out that way." So is Charlie Prickett. He revels in what his good friend was able to achieve with a bow during a season in which virtually everyone else was carrying a muzzleloader. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," Charlie claims.
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"We never got pictures of him after (2010), but we'd see a big buck at long distances in some of the fields," Jordan says. "You could tell he had a big mainframe and a few sticker points, but he was too far away to tell much more than that."
Jordan's workplace isn't far at all from the property he hunts. "Once I was driving back from there and a big buck ran across the road in front of my vehicle, but off a neighbor's property," he remembers. "I don't know that it was this buck, but I had never seen one with a bigger set of antlers." While talking with Jordan by phone last Dec. 27, Charlie told him it might be a fortuitous time to get his climbing stand and shinny up a tree.
"When the buck reached a spot 35 yards from the tree stand, the bowhunter made a grunting sound with his mouth. The huge deer stopped. "I put my 30-yard pin right behind his left front leg and touched my release," Jordan says.
"He's in kind of a tough situation," Charlie notes, "because his boss lets a lot of people hunt that farm, and Jordan never knew who else might be there. But I knew he was getting off work early, so I told him to go get in a stand."
The spot he chose was "exactly on a creek bottom near an old cattle fence," Jordan says. "Deer came from other properties around there and would walk down that creek bottom, then feed in the hay fields. The creek bottom is kind of a funnel."
A field adjacent to the trail-heavy bottom where Jordan decided to set up had been planted in cool-season grass. "It was all greened up and pulled in a lot of deer," he says.
To make the spot even more attractive to local deer, that afternoon Jordan placed a canister of Buck Bomb on a nearby tree limb. He'd previously dropped a Lucky Buck mineral block on the ground within bow range of his ambush site, hoping to draw something close. (Baiting is legal on private land in the state.)
"This was near the end of the secondary rut in Maryland," he says. "It didn't have much longer to run."Jordan had hunted the spot the previous week. Despite not having seen any deer on that hunt, he'd left his climber at the base of the tree after descending. So when he got back there at around 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 27, all he had to do was ratchet himself up the tree again.
"About 3:15 p.m. two does came out (of the bottom)," Jordan says. "I'd already made up my mind I was going to shoot a doe if nothing else came along. They took their time and worked their way toward me slowly."
The female deer meandered toward the mineral lick, taking about 25 minutes to close the distance. "One of them was about to get in range, and I was just getting ready to pull back my bowstring when I saw the buck coming down an old fence line," Jordan remembers.
At first, the bowhunter didn't fully appreciate the size of the buck's headgear. "I knew he had a good set of antlers on his head," Jordan says. "They seemed to have a lot of mass. But he also had his head on the ground, and I was watching him trail those does all the way."
When the buck reached a spot 35 yards from the tree stand, the bowhunter made a grunting sound with his mouth. The huge deer stopped. "I put my 30-yard sight pin right behind his left front leg and touched my release," Jordan says.
The Hoyt launched a Carbon Express Maxima Red arrow and three-blade Grim Reaper broadhead toward the deer's side. It hit with a thwack almost exactly where Jordan had aimed.
"He took five steps, then dropped to the ground," the bowhunter remembers. "Then he stood up."
Now Jordan didn't know for sure just how well the buck had been hit. The hit had sounded solid, but the hunter wasn't aware his arrow had passed completely through the buck's body cavity: a double-lung shot. To be on the safe side, Jordan quickly went back into action. The second arrow penetrated a few inches into the deer's shoulder blade.
"I watched him stagger maybe 75 or 80 yards, and he disappeared over a little knoll in the field," Jordan says. "I looked at my watch, and it was 3:45 p.m." Jordan figures that from the time he spotted the monster buck until he put an | 974 |
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Wilkes, George. PROPOSAL FOR A NATIONAL RAIL-ROAD TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING A SHORT ROUTE TO OREGON AND THE INDIES. N.Y., Adee, Printer, 1847. 24pp. Folding map (untitled folding map of the works (position of American between the oceans) 22.3 x 26cm., boundary lines colored in yellow and green, printed on blue paper. Original printed grey wrappers, fine copy laid in half morocco slipcase. Fourth and best edition with the map. Presentation copy from the author at bottom of wrapper title. The map depicts the route for world trade in red. Howes W419: "One of the earliest transcontinental agitations; framed while California was still a Mexican province, and Oregon terminus was planned. Wagner-Camp-Becker 119:2 note. Bancroft in his "History of Oregon" states: "This scheme was for a free national road to be supported | 855 |
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\section{Introduction}
AI algorithms are being increasingly used for decision making within scenarios with social and political consequences (e.g., benefit eligibility, recidivism) as opposed to traditional automation scenarios (e.g., handwriting recognition). This has rightly spurred recent interest in {\it Ethical AI}. The broad umbrella of ethical AI or responsible AI~\cite{dignum2019responsible} involves considerations such as fairness~\cite{chouldechova2020snapshot}, interpretability\footnote{Interpret<|fim_middle|>it intersectionality}~\cite{carastathis2014concept}, whereas that in the second condition would require exclusion of AI-terminology such as {\it bayesian inference}~\cite{ghosal2017fundamentals}.
\noindent{\bf IFF and Current Solutions:} IFF requires interpretability that is distinctly different from interpretability in the sense it is used in current Fair ML literature. Within our focus area of unsupervised learning, interpretability is dominated by rule-learning where features for rules are drawn from the data~\cite{balachandran2012interpretable} or auxiliary features~\cite{sambaturu2020efficient} such as tags. While these enable human-understandable descriptions of the outcomes, they do not satisfy the IFF requirement of explaining the fairness. Recent work on fair representation learning~\cite{he2020geometric} has posited that fairness-based re-engineered versions of original features may be considered interpretable as long as they remain attached to the semantic labels (e.g., {\it maths marks}, {\it annual income}) associated with features. However, IFF requires that the {\it re-engineering process be interpretable on the basis of fairness values}; for example, if the re-engineering transforms annual income for an individual from {\it \$40k} to {\it \$35k} prior to further downstream processing, IFF requires that this transformation be explained as a fallout of a reasonable fairness-seeking process. We haven't come across Fair ML work that may be argued to be conformant to IFF.
\noindent{\bf IFF-aligned AI:} IFF is construed, much like AFR, as a set of guiding principles, and is not prescriptive as to {\it how} conformance may be achieved. By way of an illustrative example, a feature re-engineering method that {\it corrects the dimensions of achievement of socially discriminated demographics (e.g., backward castes) upward} may be acceptable by reasonable people as a fallout of a process targeting demographic parity, as long as the re-engineering process is interpretable. This is similar in spirit to differentiated age and attempt limits as enforced in India's affirmative action process\footnote{\scriptsize e.g., \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil\_Services\_Examination_(India)\#Age}}.
\noindent{\bf Why IFF?} As indicated in the motivation, IFF has the potential to deepen user confidence and trust in fairness-seeking algorithms through explicitly illustrating the conformance to fairness. A detailed treatment of the various aspects of the two IFF principles is not feasible due to space constraints.
\section{Fairness and Interpretations}
\noindent{\bf Motivation:} Consider using fair AI {\it along with} state-of-the-art approaches for interpretability that explain the outcomes using data or auxiliary information (not the IFF fairness interpretability). The absence of a connection between the two may lead to a dissonance between their outputs, especially for fair AI that operationalizes notions of group fairness. The fairness-agnostic search for user-friendly explanations could lead to manifestly unimpressive explanations. For example, the membership of an individual within a group could be motivated by demographic fairness considerations, but an explanation referring to a sensitive attribute such as ethnicity may be unacceptable, since that may be perceived as demeaning individuality. On the other hand, excluding sensitive attributes from the realm of explanations may lead to lower quality (thus, unacceptable) explanations. Either of the above could undermine user's trust in the AI, given recent research linking trust and explanation quality~\cite{kunkel2019let}.
\noindent{\bf Fairness and Interpretations:} Towards addressing the above conundrum, we propose a layered paradigm, called {\it Fairness and Interpretations} (F\&I). {\it First}, we propose that an AI system be constrained to conform to \underline{both}: (i) fairness, in accordance with the fairness values it targets, and (ii) reasonable interpretability, i.e., be able to provide reasonable explanations for its decisions. This rules out fair AI that is not reasonably interpretable, and vice versa. There could be several ways of characterizing reasonableness in explanations. One way would be to characterize reasonableness as individual fairness; in other words, the space of reasonable explanations may be characterized as being a space where the associated outcomes are {\it smooth}. Others ways could be to choose explanation paradigms (of which there are many~\cite{binns2018s}) that enhance user's perception of system fairness (an empirical study appears at~\cite{dodge2019explaining}). {\it Second}, for scenarios where both fairness and reasonable interpretability are hard to satisfy together (as could be the case where the data has high degrees of bias), we propose that the user be informed that no interpretable explanation can be supplied for the decision, and that the result be accompanied by {\it fairness explanations} as outlined in IFF. Thus, an F\&I-compliant AI is one that adheres to {\it fairness} (as designed for), and provides either {\it reasonable decision interpretability} or {\it only fairness explanations}. Additionally, the two F\&I principles are ordered lexically; unless there is a good reason that the first principle cannot be satisfied, the second does not come into play. The appeals process for such a system needs to be cognizant of whether the decision was accompanied by {\it reasonable explanations} or just {\it fairness explanations}; a higher appeal rate for the latter may be expected and planned for.
\noindent{\bf Why F\&I?} F\&I is intended as a paradigm that will meaningfully bring both {\it fairness} and {\it interpretability} together without artifacts of one dampening the other. While a detailed analysis of F\&I consequences is infeasible here due to space, F\&I-aligned AI is expected to be able to fuse normative and user-oriented aspects towards enhancing ethical AI. F\&I is well-aligned with and intends to further operationalization of the {\it right to explanations} enshrined within GDPR~\cite{selbst2018meaningful} recommendations of the European Union.
\noindent{\bf Technical Challenges:} In contrast to IFF, F\&I lies in a technically pristine space and entails crisp technical challenges. First, the notion of {\it reasonable explanations} needs to be technically instantiated, and computational approaches to determine reasonableness effectively and efficiently needs to be developed. Second, the twin constraints (fairness and reasonable explanations) would need to be achieved together, requiring novel multi-criteria optimization methods. Third, a decision procedure to determine when to fall back to IFF explanations needs to be developed. While these may sound simple to state, domain-specific nuances would entail different domain-specific technical pathways for achieving F\&I.
\section{Concluding Notes}
We considered the distinctions between fairness and interpretability, and outlined two principles-based frameworks that entail technical challenges where fairness and interpretability can meaningfully work together. We hope that these will contribute to deepening the scholarly debate towards enhancing ethical AI in meaningful ways.
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| ability, as we use in this paper, is quite related to, and often interchangeable with the notion of explainability.}~\cite{molnar2020interpretable}, privacy~\cite{mohassel2017secureml} and trustworthiness~\cite{toreini2020relationship}. Of these, fairness and interpretability are arguably the two considerations that have been explored quite heavily. Certain pairs of considerations, such as interpretability and trustworthiness, may be seen as apparently synergistic. There is much less understanding of how technological efforts across other pairs of considerations, such as fairness and interpretability as we consider here, can work together.
\noindent{\bf Our Contributions:} In this position paper, we first discuss the conceptual distinctions between fairness and interpretability as it applies to AI/ML. Next, we propose two frontiers of AI research in which efforts towards fairness and interpretability can be meaningfully blended towards advancing ethical AI in unique and novel ways. Where appropriate, we will use example scenarios from unsupervised data-driven AI to illustrate the arguments. This is motivated partly by the fact that unsupervised learning is relatively less explored within ethical AI, making it malleable to fresh thought leads.
\section{Fairness \& Interpretability: Distinctions}
Fairness and Interpretability have largely been, within scholarly literature, seen as two distinct and different frontiers under the broader {\it Ethical AI} umbrella. The distinctions may be characterized under various dimensions as we discuss below.
{\it First}, the family of fairness principles~\cite{narayanan2018translation} are normative values that relate to the politics of AI-driven decision making~\cite{wong2019democratizing}. On the other hand, interpretability considers user's ability to understand decisions, and lies at the interface between humans and AI. In other words, technological efforts towards deepening fairness would benefit from better grounding on political philosophy, whereas interpretability would have an analogous relationship with behavioral sciences. In fact, much interpretable and explainable AI work has appeared within HCI-related computing avenues. {\it Second}, there is a tension between fairness and accuracy (or any other utilitarian metric, say, efficiency), and similarly, there is a tension between interpretability and accuracy. However, these tensions are in {\it different directions}, as recently outlined in~\cite{kleinberg2019simplicity}. The authors illustrate that a simple and interpretable model can be strictly improved on both fairness and accuracy by making it more complex (thus reducing interpretability). In other words, there exists a tension between fairness and interpretability. {\it Third}, a system that produces interpretable results enhances user's trust in the AI in ways that a fair AI may not (at least, in the short-term). This means that interpretability is arguably likely to be more {\it 'popular'}, and thus would be prioritized over fairness by the private sector which is where most AI is developed. {\it Fourth}, interpretability can be assessed at the level of individual decisions made by the AI, whereas fairness assessments need to go much beyond analyzing individual decisions. Fairness assessment often involves a normative evaluation of the process and/or the distribution of decisions made. {\it Fifth}, there is a distinct contrast between the subjectivity of fairness and interpretability. Fairness is subjective at a normative level, and the subjectivity is often grounded in political positions; supporters of {\it individual fairness} are likely to be to the right of {\it group fairness}, within the left-right political spectrum. On the other hand, interpretability is often highly subjective in {\it politically neutral} ways; the same result or explanation may be regarded as less interpretable by one user, whereas it could be rated as more interpretable by another. This implies that interpretability is amenable to personalization (potentially through data-driven A/B testing, when user feedback is available) at a much more extensive level than fairness is. {\it Lastly}, it may be argued that different application domains of AI have different priorities between interpretability and fairness. Interpretability may be considered very important in fields involving high-bandwidth human-technology interaction such as robotics and HCI. On the other hand, fairness may be of prime importance in societally relevant applications such as automation of applicant screening for jobs, policing and automated decision making on benefit and healthcare eligibility.
The distinctions discussed above do not just apply to fairness vs. interpretability. While other theories from ethical philosophy share many features with fairness as discussed above, dimensions such as privacy, trustworthiness and transparency share several characteristics with interpretability.
\section{Frontiers of Synergy}
We develop two frontiers of synergy for technical efforts towards interpretability and fairness. Specifically, the directions we outline require that technological building blocks situated within either of the two (interpretability and fairness) work together to achieve meaningful advances within ethical AI. We neither target nor accomplish a conceptual unification of the concepts of interpretability and fairness.
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\section{Interpretability for Fairness}
\noindent{\bf Motivation:} Consider a decision that is output by a system that is purportedly {\it 'fair'}. How can somebody at the receiving end of a decision from such a system be sure that it is fair, according to the notion of fairness used in the system? This question may be instantiated based on the specific notion of fairness used, as follows. For a system that claims to use Rawlsian fairness, how can we ascertain that the present outcome is reasonable to ensure that the system functions in a way that is most advantageous to the least diadvantaged (Ref. {\it difference principle}~\cite{rawls1971theory}). Or in the case of {\it demographic parity} as fairness, how can one be sure that the decision is a natural fallout of a process that is designed to achieve parity across sensitive groups. Particularly, users are likely to ask these questions when they find themselves at the receiving end of what they perceive as a {\it bad} decision (e.g., denial of welfare support). In the best interests of explainability and in making sure that {\it fairness is perceived to be ensured} (alluding to the 1924 quote above), we (i) ought to answer these {\it 'how is this fair?'} questions, and (ii) do so without reference to other decisions for other specific individuals (for privacy).
\noindent{\bf Background:} Having motivated that some sort of fairness explanations are necessary, we now consider ethical theories in the space. {\it Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR)}~\cite{daniels2008accountability} is an ethical framework designed for healthcare scenarios, in particular, when fairness is to be accounted for in scenarios involving allocation of scarce healthcare resources. Of particular interest to us is AFR's {\it relevance} condition that suggests that decisions are explained by appealing to rationales that are reasonable enough to be accepted by {\it fair-minded} people who are disposed to finding justifiable terms of co-operation. Badano~\cite{badano2018if} generalizes this to require acceptance by {\it each} reasonable person (aka {\it full acceptability}), which implicitly requires that those subject to most adverse decisions also be convinced. Recently, Wong~\cite{wong2019democratizing} has argued that AFR could provide directions towards addressing the political dimensions of algorithmic fairness.
\noindent{\bf Interpretability for Fairness:} We propose a novel framework, {\it Interpretability for Fairness} (IFF), drawing inspiration from AFR. IFF blends AFR with the {\it design for values} (Ref.~\cite{dignum2019responsible} Sec 4.4) approach to formulate a set of principles targeted at using interpretability as a pathway to enhance acceptability of fair AI. The two IFF principles are:
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\item {\it Fairness Publicity Condition:} The fairness value(s) that are sought to be achieved by the AI system must be laid out clearly in layman-friendly language as comprehensively as possible. If a trade-off between values is intended (as often sought, such as a balance between utilitarianism and demographic parity fairness), the relative importance between the values in the mix should be exemplified.
\item {\it Values to Decision Interpretability Condition:} The system should strive to produce a layman-friendly and simple interpretation of each decision substantiating how it relates to the mix of values embodied in the system, as outlined in the publicity condition. This interpretation should be acceptable to any reasonable person who is disposed to finding mutually justifiable terms of co-operation.
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\noindent These principles are intended to be meaningful to a data scientist equipped with a reasonable understanding of the nuances and social aspects of the domain in which the AI is being designed to operate in, as opposed to abstract ones that pose a {\it 'translation'} challenge. In particular, IFF is at a lower level of abstraction due to instantiating accountability as interpretability and reasonableness as fairness-oriented reasonableness. IFF also keeps process governance aspects (e.g., appeals as in AFR) out of its scope and is focused on the technical design of the AI. While the first IFF condition draws from the analogous condition in AFR, the second condition is inspired by the {\it 'design for values'}~\cite{aldewereld2015design} maxim on linking values to concrete software functionalities. The second condition requires {\it fairness interpretability}, or explaining a decision based on the fairness values and any trade-offs with non-fairness values used in the system. We note here that the layman-friendliness requirement in the first condition entails exclusion of socio-technical terms such as {\it structural discrimination}~\cite{pincus1999individual} and {\ | 2,171 |
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The safety of our children is of prime importance! All teachers, leaders, and workers are subject to a mandatory application process. This includes screening and background checks, references, interviews, and pastoral approval. Everyone involved in children's ministry is also given required training and must demonstrate a genuine love for children, as well as a strong dedication to Jesus Christ. Our kids deserve our best!
We welcome you and your children at Gateway Assembly! We would love to get to know them and the opportunity to minister to them and teach God's Word in a loving, caring way in a fun and safe environment! | we do at Gateway Assembly of God. Your children are very important to us! It's a wonderful privilege and blessing to be able to lead children to know Jesus and live for Him! What a joy it is to see our children know and respond to the love of God as displayed in the lives of those who faithfully minister to them. We love our kids, and we have something for every child, from birth through seventh grade.
Our nursery and toddlers ministry is in an age-specific classroom and designed with the individual child in mind. This ministry is available for all of our services. Our desire is to care for each child in a safe and loving environment. Toddler ministry includes age-level Bible stories as well as supervised play time and interaction with adults and other children. All of our teachers and workers are screened and trained to provide a safe, godly, and loving place for babies and toddlers.
"Kids on the Way" is our children's church program on Sunday mornings. The ministry is geared toward Pre-K to 6th grade, with our older children having the opportunity to become junior helpers through a leadership program. In children's church, the kids experience lively and sincere worship, interactive and illustrated Bible lessons, science lessons that relate to God's Word, crafts, and other fun activities. They learn about missions and the principles of giving to bless others and share the Good News of Jesus Christ! Kids on the Way brings the Bible message in a fun and relevant way that draws kid's attention and leads them to follow Jesus!
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I'm a sucker for all black. There is not a time I go shopping and don't purchase at least one black item. It's a habit I've been trying to rid myself of for a while now. "Orange is The New Black,' right? So let's go with that! I live for a good jumpsuit so in the Spirit of "Orange being The New Black," in my wardrobe, what better to wear than an Orange Jumpsuit.
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Cardigans are a fall wardrobe must have. They add great style to any look. I paired my jumpsuit with cognac cardigan, which is also in the earth tone family. I took advantage of wearing my favorite caged booties before it gets too cold.
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The program begins with a humorous look at how fish play "hide and seek" in the underwater game of survival. Students are chosen from the audience to become fish in the underwater game of "hide and seek". The four "fish" hide and the audience (the "school of fish") sees the different ways that fish hide underwater. After this amusing demonstration, we show the high-tech Aqua Lung® SCUBA equipment<|fim_middle|> eels, and sharks!
After the multi-image presentation, if time allows, at the end of the presentation a brief time is set aside for your students' questions and answers. | we use to explore the underwater world of the Caribbean Sea, including our awesome underwater scooters!
After the demonstrations, undersea explorers, Wayne and Karen Brown, then take your students on their exciting tour of the Caribbean Sea's underwater world via a fascinating high-definition, digital multi-image presentation.
Our expedition begins on the island of Curaçao, in the Caribbean Sea, where the book, The Cay, originates. From Curaçao your students join us as we board the expedition boat and meet the captain and divemaster. Using their imaginations, and our beautiful under- water photography, your students jump in the water and find out what it would be like to accompany the Browns on their expedition scuba dive. Your students follow the Browns as they zoom around the coral reef on their underwater scooters and discover the incredible variety in this underwater world. Your students discover the funny and fascinating ways fish play "hide and seek".
As they explore the undersea environment, your students meet some interesting inhabitants, from the smallest to the largest and from the most docile to the most dangerous. Students discover how these marine creatures are adapted for survival in the undersea environment. The symbiotic relationships between different creatures are revealed. They learn how fishes protect themselves from predators and how some fishes search for food. Near the end of our dive we come face-to-face with some of the so-called "dangerous" marine animals such as stingrays, barracuda, moray | 297 |
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White Denim's album 'Fits' hit stores in the United States this week, along with a reissue of their previous album, 'Exposion.' The stateside releases have been a long time coming for the popular Austin band, as the albums have been available overseas for several months.
A year ago, guitarist/singer James Petralli, drummer Joshua Block and bassist Steve Terebecki were riding a steady wave of hype, making high-profile appearances at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Europe's iconic Glastonbury Festival. But despite critical acclaim, 'Exposion' was only available in a very limited capacity, as a distribution deal with Austin's Transmission Entertainment didn't work out as they had hoped.
The band moved on, content with a UK release of 'Fits' in June on Full Time Hobby, which had put out their previous two albums across the pond. With support from BBC radio, the band was already experiencing popularity there unmatched by their small but enthusiastic fan base in the states. 'With the way that the release went last year, we had kind of resigned ourselves to being a UK band, and we were all really happy with that.'
There's a good chance they'll be more than just a 'UK band' after more people hear 'Fits,' which was picked up for release in the U.S. by Downtown Music, home to Art Brut and Mos Def, among others. It's an explosive collection of songs that showcases the band at its best, shifting effortlessly between rock, punk, funk and even some jazz. On pumped-up numbers 'Say What You Want' and 'I Start To Run,' Petralli plays the psychedelic hard rock singer role, speedily growling over Terebecki's bass. By the time we get to<|fim_middle|> go amazing,' he says. 'We certainly learned a lot, and one of the biggest things that we learned was how to keep our expectations under control.' | 'Paint Yourself' and 'I'd Have It Just the Way We Were,' he's in soul singer mode, with a falsetto croon. The three members seem so comfortable genre-jumping that it's not hard to imagine them knocking out a great album in whatever style pleased them.
Despite the momentum of the new record and a national tour with another Austin band, Brazos, kicking off this weekend at Mohawk, Petralli isn't holding his breath. 'We tried to do a lot of things on our own terms, and it didn't | 112 |
Вулканізм (; ) — сукупність явищ, пов'язаних з утворенням та переміщенням магм у глибинах Землі та їх виверженням з надр на поверхню суші або дно морів і океанів у вигляді лав, пірокластичного матеріалу і вулканічних газів.
Загальна характеристика
При вулканічній діяльності в земних глибинах утворюються магматичні вогнища і канали, гірські породи навколо яких можуть змінюватися під впливом високої температури і хімічних впливів магми. На земній поверхні виникають вулканічні конуси (див. вулкани), вулканічні куполи, кальдери, лавові потоки, пемзові покривала, ґейзери, гарячі джерела і т. д.
В процесі вулканізму в атмосферу виділяється велика кількість вулканічних газів, які служать основою для формування атмосфери та гідросфери. Розрізняють платформний, геосинклінальний і орогенний вулканізм, а також наземний і підводний вулканізм. Найінтенсивніший вулканізм в нашу епоху виявляється в серединно-океанічних хребтах, в острівних дугах, рифтових долинах і молодих складчастих гірничих ланцюгах на континентах. З вулканізмом пов'язане утворення численних і нерідко великих родовищ металічних (руди золота, срібла, міді, стибію, арсену і т.і.) і неметалічних (сірка, алуніт, борати, буд. матеріали та ін.) корисних копалин.
Вулканізм — могутній планетарний процес; вулкани, кальдери, лавові потоки і поля виявлені також на Місяці, Марсі, Меркурії, Венері і супутнику Юпітера Іо. Вулканічна активність Іо — одна з найбільших в Сонячній системі (близько 8 діючих вулканів). Швидкість викиду вулканічної речовини на Іо досягає 1000 м/с (на Землі, наприклад у Етни, вона не перевищує 51 м/с).
Вулкан, геологічне утворення, що виникає над каналами і тріщинами в земній корі, якими на поверхню викидаються лава, попіл, гарячі гази, пари води й уламки гірських порід. Звичайно мають конічну форму, з воронкоподібним заглибленням на вершині, називаним кратером. Вулкани підрозділяють на діючі, заснулі та погаслі. Деякі вулкани, наприклад, Стромболі і Везувій в Італії, вивергаються з вибухом, несучи великі руйнування, інші ж, наприклад, на Гаваях, «тихі»: лава просто піднімається кратером і переливається через край.
Вулкан, як складова частина вулканізму
Вулкан — це ім'я бога вогню у древньому Римі міфічного підземного коваля. У древніх греків цей бог називався Гефестом. Місцем знаходження його вважали Ліпарські острови, де, як гадали знаходилась підземна кузня Гефеста-Вулкана, з якої час від часу чулися удари, виверження розплавленої лави. На цих островах стародавні люди розміщували вхід до підземного царства — знаходження душ померлих. Вогняні гори, які приносили страшні біди сильно впливали на уяву перших людей.
Але з погляду вулканології, вулкан — це є гора, яка утворилася виверженням суміші газів, пари, попелу і розплавленого каміння (лави). На вершині цієї гори (конуса) знаходиться чашоподібне заглиблення — кратер. Він може бути різних розмірів. Кратер, який розміщений на найвищій частині конуса, називають центральним, але деякі вулкани мають ще один, або кілька менших кратерів, що знаходяться на його схилах, називають паразитичними.
Вулкани розташовані на всіх материках (крім Австралії) і океанах. Здебільшого вони формуються в слабких точках земної кори, де виливаються великі потоки магми. Магма піднімається до поверхні і утворює вулкан, пробивши отвір в товщі плити. Застигаючи, вона опускається вглиб, а з часом піднімається знову. Незважаючи на постійне перміщення плит, «гарячі точки» в мантії завжди залишаються на одному місці. Тому над ними за мільйони років замість одних вулканів з'являються інші. Саме так, з ланцюга вулканів утворилися, і досі формуються Гавайськї острови в Тихому океані.
Виверження вулканів і його наслідки
Основною і найгрізнішою силою вулкана є його виверження. Виверження — природне явище, яке виражається в тому, що магма, разом з газами, які є в ній, проривається з глибоких частин Землі на поверхню. Його компонентом є магма (грец. «тісто», «каша») — маса розплавленої кам'яної породи, яка розташована на великій глибині і насичена газами. Магма, яка вилившись на поверхню втратила багато газів називається лавою. Лава це також кристалічна гірська порода, яка містить багато силікатних сполук, якщо кількість кремнезему (SiO2) в ній велика (75 % ріолітова лава), то утворюється в'язка, мало текуча маса, але коли SiO2 мало (38 %, базальтова лава), то витікає річка і дуже текуча лава.
Виверження вулканів залежить від багатьох чинників, а саме: він геологічної будови району, порід з яких складається район, на якій глибині знаходиться вулканічне вогнище і який склад магми. Часто під час горотворення, в земній корі утворюються складки, виникають розколини, якими магма піднімається вгору. І головну роль у цьому підняття відіграє величезний тиск, що його створює земна кора. Натискаючи на магму, земна кора змушує її підійматися розколинами вверх на поверхню землі. Але водночас діють і гази, які містяться в ній. Вони, намагаючись піднятися розколинами вгору, виштовхують і магму. З її підійманням тиск земної кори зменшується, тому потім магма стає більш плинною і виливається на поверхню. Вулканічним виверженням часто передують потужні вибухи. При цьому викидається велика кількість вулканічного попелу, — легкого дрібного порошку сірого кольору, який роздроблений в пил з осколків старої, і дрібніших частинок рідкої лави, викинуті з вулкана струменями газу (деколи він, змішуючись з атмосферними опадами чи водами розплавлених снігових масивів або льодовиків, утворює грязеві потоки); вулканічного піску, — невеличких кусків лави, розміром з горошину; лапІлей-уламків, як волоський горіх. Великі уламки, що іноді досягають у величині двоповерхового будинку, називаються вулканічними бомбами. Одна з бомб, викинута італійським вулкном Вулкано, важила близько 70 т, об'ємом 25 м³. Ці викиди іноді покривають землю на тисяч<|fim_middle|>орові туфи. Вони є чудовим маткріалом для скульптур та будівельних споруд.
Вулкани виступать також у ролі джерела геотермальної енергії. Багаті геотермальними ресурсами Японські та Філіпінські дуги, а також Східно-Тихоокеанський пояс. В західній частині Пн. Америки гарячі джерела зв'язані зі згаслими вулканами. В гірських місцевостях західних штатів США відомо понад 1200 груп гарячих джерел. Їх зона простягається через штати Каліфорнія, Невада, Орегон, Айдахо, Вайомінг, Монтана. Цю енергію використовують для опалення та постачання гарячої води.
В останні 50 років по всій Землі почали використовувати вулканогенні води для виробництва геотермальної електроенергії.
На вулканічній парі працюють геотермальні електростанції в Японії (Хатима-мантай, Мацугава, Онікоба, Отаке), в Новій Зеландії (Вайракі), в Мексиці (Пате), в Ісландії (біля влкн. Дафла), в США (Каліфорнія південніше озера Солтон-СІ); декілька станцій функціонують в районі Італійського вулкана Монте-Аміата (тут також з пари видобувають сірку).
Вулканізм на інших планетах
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Методи геоморфологічних досліджень: навч. посібник / Галина Байрак. — Львів : ЛНУ імені Івана Франка, 2018. — 292 с. ISBN 978-617-10-0440-5.
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Магматизм | і км².
Також перед виверженнями проходять вулканічні землетруси, які зв'язані із зародженням і рухом рідкої або в'язкої магми та з вибухами газів у кратері вулкана. Їхні вогнища завжди локалізовані в невеликому просторі, поблизу магматичного вогнища і вихідного каналу вулкана. На відміну від тектонічних, ці землетруси завжди проходять великими серіями, відображаючи процес поступовим зростання тиску в магмі вогнищі і вихідному каналі. Зазвичай вулканічні землетруси слабші тектонічних тому, що їхні вогнища лежать на менших глибинах і джерело, яке викликає їх знаходиться на невеликому просторі земної кори.
Класифікація вивержень
У світі через розмаїття і неоднаковість вивержень виникла потреба в її класифікації. І першою характеристикою вулкана є належність його до певного типу вивержень, тобто як він вивергається. Найголовнішими типами є: вулканічний, плініанський, стромболійський, пеленський, гавайський і тріщинний.
Перший тип — вулканічний (назва походить від влкн. Вулкано), відрізняється в'язкою магмою, яка часто закупорює жерло, не даючи виходу газам, і вони накопичуються під таким високим тиском, що час від часу відбуваються потужні вибухи. Виверження цього типу нетривалі — від декількох хвилин до кількох годин, але відновлюються кожні кілька днів чи тижнів протягом декількох місяців. Висота, на яку викидається вулканічні продукти досягає 20 м.
Другий тип — плініанський (назва походить від імені римського вченого Плінія Старшого, який помер при виверженні Везувію в 79 р. н. е.) Цей тип вважається найбільш вибухонебезпечим, до нього відноситься знамените виверження Везувію в 79 р.н. е., яке похоронило під шаром попелу міста Помпеї та Геркуланум. Надзвичайно в'язка магма часто закупорює вихід газам, що призводить до пізнішого вибуху і утворенню кальдер (іспан. «киплячий котел»), в кращому випадку, до знищення цілого вулкана, в гіршому (як це було з вулканом Кракатау в 1883 p.). Вулканічні продукти викидаються на висоту до 50 км і покривають велику площу; об'єм викидів — від 0,1 до 50 км³.
Третій тип — стромболійський (від влкн. Стромболі), характеризується безперервною еруптивною (вибуховою) діяль-ністю протягом кількох місяців і навіть років, висота еруптивного стовпа (вивержених матеріалів) до 10 км. Магма рідка, газів і вулканічних бомб багато, попелу мало.
Ще одним типом є пелейський (від влкн. Мон-Пеле). Характеризується дуже в'язкою магмою, яка твердіє до виходу з жерла, утворенням лавових куполів і викидом «вогненних хмар» (суміші розпечених газів і попелу).
Гавайський тип вважають найспокійнішим. Дуже рідка лава спокійно витікає, твердих продуктів і попелу мало, а схили конуса до 10°.
Тріщинні виверження виявляють у вилитті лави з системи тріщин з пізнішим утворенням вулкана.
Другим за чим класифікують виверження вулкана є: масштаб (об'єм вивержених продуктів), склад виверженого матеріалу, динаміка.
Масштаб виверження вулкана поділяється на 5 класів: І клас — об'єм вивержених матеріалів понад 100 км³, II клас від 10 до 100 км³, III — від 1 до 10 км³, IV — від 0,1 до 1 км³, останній V клас виверженого матеріалу менше 0,1 км³.
Склад вулканічних продуктів у різних вулканах також різний. За кількістю кремнезему можна визначити рідка лава чи в'язка. За вмістом в газах водяної пари, СО2, сірки Н2, можна дізнатися внаслідок, яких процесів вони утворилися. Динаміку виверження розрізняють ефузивну, — якщо виверження в основному проходить вилиттям лави; екструзивне характеризується вижаттям лавових куполів; експлозивне, де головну роль відіграють вибухи та комплексне — суміш всіх вище названих характерів вивержень.
Фаза (стадія) вулканічної діяльності
Визначає стан діючого вулкана. Розрізняють дві основні Ф.в.д.:
везувіальну — стан виверження і
сольфатарну — стан спокою, коли діють тільки кратерні фумароли.
Син. — стадія вулканічної діяльності.
Окремі моменти безперервного виверження називають фазами виверження вулкана, а серії вивержень з якими-небудь загальними ознаками, а також тривалі паузи всередині циклу — стадіями або етапами вулканічного циклу.
Вулканічна небезпека
Оскільки вулканічна діяльність не підвладна людині, вона може чинити їй шкоду і забирати людські життя. З 1600 р. в результаті наслідків від вивержень (землетрусів, цунамі, селів, хвороби, голоду) померло 300 000 людей. Характер небезпеки залежить від дії різних факторів. Лавові потоки знищують будівлі, перекривають дороги, с/г землі на багато років виключають з користування, попіл може збиратися на дахах будівель і призвести до обвалу, вулканічні гази отруюють поверхню або утворюють кислотні дощі.
І тому щоб звести людські жертви до мінімуму виникла потреба в прогнозуванні. Для прогнозу вивержень складають карти вулканічної небезпеки з показом розповсюдження продуктів минулих вивержень, ведеться моніторинг їх провісників. Таким провісником є слабкі вулканічні землетруси. Зазвичай їх частота не перевищує 10 за добу, але перед самим виверженням їх кількість зростає до кількох сотень. Деякі вулкани перед виверженням, ніби «дихають»: піднімаються, надуваються і потім опускаються, — це в результаті зміни тиску магми всередині. Тому й змінюється кут нахилу його поверхні (нахиломіром можна визначити нахил 1 мм на 0,5 км). За його зміною на поверхні вулкана Асама в Японії, вчені передбачили початок виверження на цілий місяць. Також незадовго до пробудження вулкана можна спостерігати розширення або звуження кратеру. Ці зміни вимірюються лазером і радіохвилями. Сьогодні використовують дані магнітного поля та спостереження за тваринами.
Ці засоби використовують щоб взнати приблизну дату виверження, але точний час поки що ми не в змозі визначити, крім того у цих процесах є ще багато таємниць.
Інші види вулканічної діяльності
Вулканічна діяльність не закінчується на виверженні вулканів, вона проявляється в інших процесах на Землі.
Яскравим прикладом може бути діяльність гейзерів. Вони отримали свою назву від діючого джерела-фонтана «Великий Гейзер». Гейзер — це гаряче джерело, в якому проходить виверження окропу. Спочатку вода збирається десь в підземній порожнині, нагрівається від магми до температури кипіння і вибухає. Причиною вибуху води є те, що вона нагрівається знизу, на поверхні температура ще не досягла 100 °C, а на дні вже має 120 — 125 °C. Внизу вода не закипає тому, що перебуває під великим тиском стовпа води, який знаходиться вище. Але вода на глибині нагрівається все більше і нарешті починає кипіти. Маси парів, що виникають при цьому, з силою викидають поверхневий шар води, утворюється фонтан. Ці виверження тривають не більше 1-2 хв. Потім вода повністю зникає з ями, але скоро вона знову наповниться нею. Одні гейзери працюють через кожні 30-40 хв., інші — раз на добу.
Часто вулкани, які вважалися сплячими, проявляють свою активність. В кратері і поблизу нього, з тріщин, просочуються струмені парифумароли, насичені різними газами. Деколи вони дуже сильно свистять, а деколи виділяються ледь замітно, виносячи з собою різні тверді речовини, які покривають ґрунт біля виходів струменів.
Ще одним видом вулканічної діяльності є гарячі джерела. Вони здебільшого знаходяться у вулканічних областях (біля гейзерів) і утворюються тоді, коли гази і пара виділяються з магми (а вона знаходиться глибоко під землею), проходячи вверх нагрівають землю і змішуючись з підземними водами, переходять в гарячу воду, яка розчиняє різні речовини. Потім вона виходить на поверхню у вигляді гарячих мінеральних джерел, які можуть послужити людині для різноманітних цілей (лікувальна, видобувна тощо).
Значно меншими копіями справжніх вулканів є так звані сопухи або грязеві вулкани. Це невисокі (до 3 м) конусоподібні гори зі зрізаним верхом. На плоскій вершині сопухи міститься кратер. Він наповнений сірою, липкою грязюкою, з якої весь час виділяються пухирці газу.
Процес виверження грязьових вулканів нагадує справжнє виверження. З кратера сопух виділяється великий об'єм газів, переважно вуглеводню. Іноді цей газ самозапалюється і піднімається стовп полум'я. Закінчується виверження виділенням в'язкої грязі. Виверження грязьових вулканів залежить від нагромадження газів, що має місце там, де є родовища нафти. В Україні місцем знаходження сопух є Керченський півострів, що робить його перспективним для видобутку «чорного золота».
Підземні пожежі. Деякі люди відносять їх до вулканічної діяльності, але насправді це є псевдовулканічне явище. Воно має місце там де ґрунт сильно нагрівається завдяки різним тепловим реакціям, горінню на глибині землі. Горіння відбувається тоді, коли у порожнинах гірських порід є багато сірчаного іскришу-мінералу піриту, що окиснюється при доступі повітря і води, виділяючи велику кількість тепла. Коли поруч з такими порожнинами знаходиться кам'яне вугілля або горючі сланці, вони загоряються і виникає підземна пожежа.
Інші види вулканічної діяльності на Землі дуже поширені, але вони ніколи не досягнуть таких велетенських розмірів, як вулканізм, що живиться внутрішніми силами Землі.
Типи вулканічних апаратів
щитоподібні (щитові) вулкани. Утворюються внаслідок багаторазових викидів рідкої лави, яка тривалий час випливає з центрального жерла та бічних кратерів вулкана. Лава рівномірно розтікається на багато кілометрів; поступово з цих нашарувань формується широкий «щит» з пологими краями. Приклад — вулкан Мауна-Лоа на Гаваях;
шлакові конуси. Під час виверження вулканів великі фрагменти пористих шлаків нагромаджуються навколо кратера шарами у формі конуса, а дрібні фрагменти формують біля підніжжя похилі схили; з кожним виверженням вулкан стає все вищим. Це найпоширеніший тип вулканів на суші;
стратовулкани або «шаруваті вулкани». Періодично вивергають лаву та пірокластичні речовини — суміш гарячого газу, попелу та розпечених каменів; тому відклади на конусі (гострому, з увігнутими схилами) чергуються. Приклади — Етна, Везувій, Фудзіяма;
купольні вулкани. Утворюються, коли в'язка гранітна магма, піднімаючись з надр вулкана, не може стекти по схилах і застигає вгорі, утворюючи купол. Вона закупорює його жерло як пробка, яку з часом вибивають накопичені під куполом гази. Приклад — Сент-Хеленс на північному заході США;
складні (змішані) вулкани .
Сила і катастрофічність наслідків виверження
Оцінюють за індексом VEI (volcanic explosive index). Він ґрунтується на оцінці висоти та кількості попелу, який викинуто в повітря. Виділяють вісім класів сили експлозії:
0 класу — невибухові виверження;
І класу — об'єм вивержених продуктів покриває площу 0,0001-0,00001 км3;
ІІ — 0,001-0,01 км3;
ІІІ — 0,01-0,1 км3;
ІV — 0,1-1 км3;
V — 1-10 км3;
VІ — 10-100 км3;
VІІ — 100—1000 км3;
VІІІ класу — понад 1000 км3, хмара піднімається на висоту 25 км, мегавиверження.
За історію людства VІІІ класу вивержень не відбувалось, останнє було 72 тис. років тому на о. Суматра (Тоба), об'єм пірокластичного матеріалу становив 2800 км3. Виверження Ейяфьятлайокудля (Ісландія) 2010 р. мало індекс VEI = 3 .
Продукти вулканічної діяльності
Продукти вулканічної діяльності бувають різними. Рідинні продукти вивержень представлені лавою. Лава, на відміну від магми, майже не вміщує газів, бо останні залишають її в момент виходу на земну поверхню.
Газоподібні продукти вивержень складаються в основному з водяної пари та різних газів (H2S, SO2, CO, HCl, H, O, N, Cl, F та ін.). Температура їх є досить високою. За найбільш високих температур (>1800С) газові струмені мають назву фумарол, за середніх (180–1000С) – сольфатар, а нижче 1000С – мофетів. Вміст пари води у продуктах дегазації лави сягає 60–90 % від загального обсягу флюїду.
Тверді продукти вивержень складаються з уламків гірських порід, що заповнювали жерло вулкана перед виверженням. У момент виверження ці уламки, а також розпилені маси лави викидаються на земну поверхню. Уламки порід і шматки затверділої лави сягають в окремих випадках 20–30 м у діаметрі, але основний їх розмір – 5–10 см. Шматки лави величиною 5–10 см і більше мають назву вулканічних бомб, а менших розмірів (1–5 см) – лапілей (камінців). Ще менші частки називають вулканічним піском, а найменші – вулканічним попелом. Такий попіл являє собою пил сірого кольору, що складається з мікроскопічно малих часток вулканічного скла.
Чим твердішими є продукти виверження – тим більшою є висота, на яку вони викидаються в атмосферу, і тим на більшій відстані від місця виверження вони потрапляють на земну поверхню.
Гірські породи, що утворилися внаслідок випадіння та ущільнення твердих продуктів виверження, мають назву пірокластичних.
Позитивні наслідки вулканізму
Земна кора, гідросфера і атмосфера утворилися протягом мільярдів років з продуктів вулканічної діяльності. Після кожного великого виверження на десятки і сотні кілометрів падає вулканічний попіл, який містить майже всі потрібні для росту рослин поживні речовини, формуючи легкі повітрені і водопроникні ґрунти. Добре зволожені і легко оброблювані землі з попелом, як правило дають високі врожаї різноманітних фруктів, злакових культур і кави.
Вулкани стають джерелом родовищ багатьох мінералів. Наприклад, вулканізм Східно-Африканського рифту знаменитий високим вмістом в лаві, парі і мінеральних водах карбонату натрію (соди). Серед мінералів, утворення яких пов'язано з діяльністю вулканів, особливе значення для хімічної промисловості мають сірка, борна кислота, кіновар і нашатир.
Вулканічні лави можуть використовуються в будівельній промисловості, зокрема, пемза. Найвідомішим родовищем пемзи є Монте-Пелато на острові Ліпарі (Італія). Вона утворюється з моногенних скловатних порід, дуже насичених крешеземом. Вона використовується в будівельній справі, як тепло-, звуко- і електроізоляційний матеріал для виготовлення легкого пемзобетону, а також як абразивний матеріал для поліровки і шліфування.
Вулканічні туфи, утворені матеріалом, який викидується при вибухових вулканічних виверженнях. Вони мають багато цінних якостей: висока пористість, низька тепло- і звукопровідність, м'ягкість, в результаті якої туф легко піддається механічній обробці. Особливо знамениті вірменські, різноколь | 7,195 |
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Discussion in 'Golf' started by Don Wassall, Jan 9, 2<|fim_middle|>2, the most lopsided score going into the final day in either President's Cup or Ryder Cup history. It takes 15 1/2 to win, so the Americans only have to win 1 point in tomorrow's 12 head-to-head match play duels to prevail.
The U.S. has too much star power and is too deep. The two highest ranked internationals, Hideki Matsuyama and Jason Day, were both well off their A-games going into the competition and that hasn't changed. Si Woo Kim, who won The Players back in May, has been pretty bad since. The Oriental domination of women's golf is nowhere close to being duplicated in the men's game. South Africans Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace have been the two best players on the internationals. Aussie Marc Leishman has become a world class player this year and has played well, but fellow Aussie Adam Scott hasn't been near his top form.
BTW, Tiger Woods is one of Steve Stricker's assistant captains. He's sucked it up and is participating in an enthusiastic way even though it must be thoroughly humiliating for him to be there as a has-been while Phil Mickelson is there playing and still kicking ass at the age of 47. I almost feel bad for him, being relegated to a role usually performed by former PGA stalwarts in their 50s and 60s.
Don Wassall said: ↑
I agree. I don't think you'll see the Oriental domination any time soon in the men's game. Not with how popular the PGA tour is. Also, there are a lot of great young white players continuously coming up.
I think the Americans wrap it up fairly quickly tomorrow. It's been great seeing Mickelson playing so well at age 47. I just saw today that he's now the all time President's Cup leader in matches won with 25, surpassing Tiger Woods' 24 victories. His streak of making every international team since 1994 is one of the most consistent and impressive streaks in sports. It's tough to play at that high of a level for so long. He played a lot better in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, nearly playing his way back into the Top 30, so I'm hoping he's got at least one more win in him next season.
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I'm looking forward to the Masters as well, and will probably get the thread for it started today sometime. Unfortunately, ESPN still has the first two rounds on Thursday and Friday, which means they'll undoubtedly be talking about Woods. I've already been seeing some stuff on Woods' 1997 win. I'm looking forward to seeing the Arnold Palmer tributes throughout the week. CBS usually has a "special" on before their Sunday coverage starts. I haven't seen anything on it this year, so forgive me if something has come out, but I'm guessing it will be on Arnold Palmer in some way. I'm hoping one of the big name players starts off strong, which would help to push Woods completely out of the conversation.
It'll be interesting to see how The Masters plays out. Dustin Johnson is coming in on fire, whereas a lot of the other big names haven't exactly been tearing it up the last couple of weeks. For instance, McIlroy didn't make it out of the the group play at the WGC, Jordan Spieth didn't get out of group play at the WGC, and missed the cut this week. Stenson, Reed, and Adam Scott all missed the cut this week as well. Jason Day will probably play, but his status is up in the air as well. Fowler is the only "big name" golfer that's played halfways decent this week in Houston. I'm guessing most of these guys are looking ahead to Augusta, though.
Jack Lambert, Apr 2, 2017
The amazing Bernhard Langer won his 8th major on the Champions Tour last weekend, tying Jack Nicklaus's mark. At 59, Langer is still a great golfer, good enough to still be competitive on the PGA Tour when he plays events like The Masters.
Don Wassall, May 22, 2017
Dustin Johnson outduels Jordan Spieth and wins the Northern Trust Open in the first playoff hole with the rest of the field well behind, the first of four weeks of FedEx Cup playoffs. Both men traded spectacular clutch shots down the stretch and in the playoff, though omega male announcers "Sir" Nick Faldo and Ian Baker-Finch made sure to keep the superlatives to about 5% of what they would have been had Tiger Woods been involved. Jim Nantz as always did his fair-minded best.
Don Wassall, Aug 27, 2017
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I'm glad to see Dustin Johnson back in the win column and the great play from Jordan Spieth, including a couple recent wins.
Van_Slyke_CF, Aug 27, 2017
Justin Thomas is about to win the second leg of the four week FedEx Cup playoffs. He outdueled Jordan Spieth and Aussie Marc Lieshman.
Dustin Johnson won the first playoff tournament last week. Thomas is currently first in the FedEx Cup playoff standings, followed by Spieth and Johnson. It's still wide open with two more weeks of playoffs to go.
Thomas now has five wins this season, including of course the British Open. It's pretty heady stuff to win five times on the PGA Tour. Fantastic year for him, but Spieth and Johnson are right behind him. They have been the "Big Three" in golf in 2017, with Japanese Hideki Matsuyama a bit behind them. No one else has been close.
Don Wassall, Sep 4, 2017
Lost in all the uproar surrounding the NFL, Justin Thomas topped off a tremendous year by winning the FedEx Cup. He finished second in the Tour Championship on Sunday, the last event of the four weeks of playoffs, which clinched the FedEx Cup and the $10 million that comes with it.
So he ended his 2017 season with 5 wins, a major, and the FedEx Cup. And he's all of 24 years old, the same age as his good friend Jordan Spieth.
The President's Cup starts on Thursday, the last big golf competition of the year, at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, close to the NYC skyline. The U.S. has dominated this event, but that only means the international team will be determined to reverse the trend. Steve Stricker is the U.S. team captain, and he made it quite clear none of the American players will be kneeling when the national anthem is played, as if anyone expected otherwise from golfers, who exemplify class and dignity.
Don Wassall, Sep 26, 2017
Being as it's already late in the competition, I figured I'd just post my President's Cup thoughts here. The United States team, led by young guns Spieth and Thomas, has just been completely dominate in this competition. The Internationals have only won one full match, and halved three more. The Americans have a chance to clinch the cup today if they're able to sweep the afternoon four-ball session. Nearly everybody on the American team has been playing great. In addition to Spieth and Thomas, Patrick Reed has been playing awesome with Jordan. 47-year old Phil Mickelson has been playing great as well with Kevin Kisner. The duo went 2-0-1 in the team session. Spieth and Reed are currently at that mark as well, and have the chance to go 3-0-1.
The United States team is looking unstoppable; I'm looking forward to seeing if this dominance will help the U.S. reclaim the Ryder Cup in Europe next year. They've got great chemistry, and the right mix of great young players and good veterans to provide leadership.
Jack Lambert, Sep 30, 2017
Jack Lambert said: ↑
My thoughts exactly, hoping the Ryder Cup win last year followed by this rout in the President's Cup will propel the U.S. to win the Ryder Cup in France next year. Winning on the "road" is always tougher, but the Americans are really coming together with the great mix you mentioned.
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But, but, but...how is that even possible without the "anointed one" playing for them?
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When multiplying a binomial times a binomial, each term of the first binomial must be multiplied by each term of the second binomial. Like terms are then combined.
When multiplying two binomials, four multiplications must take place. These multiplications can occur in any order, as long as each of the first two terms is multiplied by each of the second two terms.
There are numerous ways to set up the multiplication of two binomials. The two basic formats, horizontal line-up and vertical line-up, are similar to what we saw in adding and subtracting polynomials. Let's investigate the simple product (x + 2)(x + 4) with a variety of set-ups.
• Start<|fim_middle|>ials times binomials.
Did you see the distributive property at work in this first set-up?
The first distributive property (right to left) application treats the (x + 4) as one term.
The second distributive application (left to right) is applied twice.
• Line up the binomials (or any polynomials) as you would for multiplying large numerical values.
• Following the pattern of number multiplication, start with the right-hand term of the bottom binomial (+4). Multiply this value times both terms of the top binomial.
• Now move to the left-hand term of the bottom binomial (x). Multiply this value times both terms of the top binomial. Line up like terms as you write the answer.
• Place one binomial at the top of the 2x2 grid (for binomials).
• Place the other binomial on the left side of the grid.
• Combine like terms in the interior of the grid.
Notice that the x-terms lie on the diagonal of the grid.
The size of the grid can be adjusted to work with binomials, trinomials or other polynomials.
The next set-up works ONLY with binomials times binomials. While you may find this method helpful, you must remember that this method will not work in any other situations. For example, to multiply a binomial times a trinomial you will need to use one of the three more "universal" distributive methods stated above.
• Multiply First Outer Inner Last.
• Remember that this method has limited usage (binomials only).
This process is actually just a naming system for the distributive property as it relates to binomials (only). It creates the four needed multiplications.
This set up of Algebra tiles gives you a "visual" demonstration of multiplying a binomial (x - 2) times a binomial (x + 3).
The red tiles represent negative values. The positive (purple) and negative (red) x-tiles cancel one another when reading the answer inside the grid. See more about Algebra Tiles. | with the first term of the first binomial (the blue x).
• Distribute (multiply) this term times EACH of the terms in the second binomial (x + 4).
• Then take the second term in the first binomial (including its sign: +2) and distribute (multiply) this term times EACH of the terms in the second binomial (x + 4).
• Add the results, combining like terms when needed.
• This method will work with all polynomials, not just binom | 105 |
7 Greenpeace Activists Charged With Felonies in Anti-Drilling Protest
Posted on May 30, 2010 by reed
Port Fourchon, Louisiana, Greenpeace activists at the ship "Harvey Explorer" send a message to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: " Salazar Ban Arctic Drilling" as part of the protest. The activists used oil from the spill to paint the message "Arctic Next?" on the bridge of the ship, which is scheduled to depart for Alaska for drilling operations in July.
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York
Yesterday, Greenpeace activists staged a protest to highlight the fact that even now, as federal authorities are helpless to stop millions of gallons oil from gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore drilling is scheduled to continue in Alaskan waters. Seven Greenpeace members boarded the very ship that's heading north in July to oversee drilling operations, and wrote 'Arctic Next' on the<|fim_middle|> Arctic waters will be opened to offshore drilling.
Responding to the arrests, Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford gave the following statement:
"Charging these activists with felonies is a disproportionate response to the peaceful protest that took place today at Port Fourchon. It is outrageous that prosecutors would confront peaceful protestors with such a heavy hand while not a single BP executive has been charged for the devastation they have wrought on the gulf of Mexico and the people and animals that depend on it. Charge BP, not Greenpeace activists.
The man has a point — to me, these arrests illustrate an absurd contrast: a negligent, reckless company has done untold damage to the environment, wrecked numerous livelihoods and is responsible for the deaths of 11 people. But Greenpeace activists who write slogans on boats have to go to jail.
Besides that, the activists' message is an important one to consider: despite all Obama's talk of a moratorium on offshore drilling, permits are still being issued, or are in line to be issued soon. Unless Salazar forbids it, the ship the activists wrote on will be overseeing exploratory drilling off the Alaskan coast in two months. I hope the Greenpeace protest will help bring this to light — and underscores what a mistake this would be right now.
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All seven have been slapped with the felony charges of Unauthorized Entry of a Critical Infrastructure and Unauthorized Entry of an Inhabited Dwelling. The protest was staged to coincide with the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's visit to Louisiana's oil-impacted region to assess the damage. Salazar has said he will decide by this Friday whether or not the Alaskan | 92 |
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Written by Jessica Sidman
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Wines from Georgia (the country) are starting to gain more recognition—a DC Whole Foods recently created a dedicated section for them. And restaurants like Compass Rose have helped popularize khachapuri, Georgian breads with butter and cheese. But beyond that, Georgian food is still pretty foreign to most Washingtonians.
Forthcoming Shaw restaurant Supra—meaning "feast" in Georgian—is looking to change that.
Owner Jonathan Nelms, a partner at Baker McKenzie law firm, is not Georgian, but he's had a lifelong connection to the country. Growing up in central Florida, Nelms befriended a Soviet-Georgian exchange student who came to his high school in 1989. Then in the last year of the Soviet Union, Nelms went to what's now northern Russia, where he remembers everyone talking about Georgia being their favorite place. "In my mind, it was like this mythical land far away," he says.
Years later, Nelms moved to Moscow through his work as a lawyer focused on high-risk business transactions. During that three-year stint, the fluent Russian speaker finally made it to Georgia a few times and often frequented Georgian restaurants in Moscow. When he returned to the U.S., he and his wife/co-owner Laura Nelms found themselves missing the food. Eventually, it inspired them to open their first restaurant.
Georgian cuisine shares some similarities with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, but the country's relative mountainous isolation means it's also quite unique. You'll find kebabs with sour plum sauce or a chili paste, but also a lot of vegetable dishes. Walnuts and pomegranates play prominently in the food, as do spices and herbs like tarragon, coriander, dried marigold petals, and blue fenugreek. "There's several dishes where you smell this, and you're like, 'Oh that's Georgian food,'" Nelms says of the blue fenugreek.
Nelms has brought on Malkhaz Maisashvili, a former chef of the Embassy of Georgia who's most recently been working in New York, to lead the kitchen. Nelms had unknowingly tried Maisashvili's food in 2011 in Tbilisi, where he was one of the executive chefs of a well-known restaurant group specializing in Georgian cuisine. In recent years, when word got out that Nelms was looking to open a Georgian restaurant, it seemed everyone he met was pointing him in Maisashvili's direction.
Maisashvili will serve traditional staples as well as regional specialties and more modern interpretations of dishes. Yes, there will be khachapuri—at least three to five varieties. "It's almost like pizza, you can do a lot of stuff with it," Nelms says. Nearly all have cheese, but in some regions the savory breads might include beet greens or meat. Some versions are canoe-shaped and open-faced, like a Turkish pide, while others are round and stuffed. The restaurant will also have a traditional Georgian oven, similar to a tandoor, for fresh breads.
Another must-know dish: khinkali, which are similar to broth-filled Chinese soup dumplings. You hold them by a small nob of dough on top, take a little bite, sip out the hot liquid, then eat the whole thing. Georgians traditionally put the nobs on your plate to count how many they've eaten.
Vegetable-heavy small plates and stew-like entrees will round out the menu. One of Georgia's most popular dishes is chakapuli, a stew with lamb or veal, white wine, tarragon, and sour plum sauce.
The wine list will focus almost exclusively on Georgian varieties, with 20 to 30 different bottles to start. The most traditional is amber wine—white wine that's been oxidized with the grape skins so it takes on an amber color. "It's more tannin. It's a very earthy flavor and very different from a normal Western-palate white wine," Nelms says.
Supra will also serve chacha, a Georgian brandy, as well cocktails that incorporate flavors from the country—even if "the 8,000-year drinking tradition of Georgia doesn't have a lot of cocktails," Nelms says. There will be at least one Georgian beer too.
The look of the space will be clean and modern with a big open kitchen. Puffy Georgian sheep hats that shepherds wear in the mountains will be on display, along with a collage depicting Georgian horsemen and an image of a traditional supra tablecloth.
The restaurant is slated to open in early fall.
Supra. 1205 11th St., NW.
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The future is exciting. Especially if we live in the technological future of a smart city. Exactly, what is a smart city? What will such a city look like in 2020 and beyond? Smart cities aren't prevalent yet, but here's a preview of how intelligent a smart city could become.
A smart city's goal is to<|fim_middle|> technologies are among the most seriously researched smart city technologies. Vehicle connected technologies currently available are only a portion of what is being developed for the future. The expertise for autonomous cars, connected cars, and advanced driver assistance systems overlap.
Connected vehicles are vehicles that communicate with other cars on the road, known as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), roadside infrastructure, known as vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and the Cloud (V2C}. This technology can be used to improve vehicle safety, and improve vehicle efficiency and commute times.
The jump in quality from 4G to 5G will be gigantic and more momentous than the jump from 3G to 4G. The next-gen network will transport larger amounts of data at high speed with low latency. While 5G will offer vast improvements to the smartphone, it is unquestionably essential to the future of autonomous vehicles.
For autonomous vehicles to succeed, a seamless mobile experience is a must so that vehicles can remain continuously connected while driving. The undertaking will be to design IT architecture between the edge and cloud, while allowing for localized technology to accommodate different locals.
The introduction of 5G will lead to new and unanticipated technology trends. Artificial Intelligence will be used to analyze the large amount of data generated by autonomous vehicles and the urban infrastructure that supports them, including smart road signs and traffic lights.
Seamless connectivity would allow new trends such as live streaming of content to vehicles. We might likewise envision the establishment of in-vehicle Augmented Reality (AR) experiences where computer graphics are projected over the passengers' real-world view.
The people will get access to many advanced amenities such as excellent transportation, electricity through a smart grid, advanced applications, up-to-the-minute expertise to transform how city government works and many other solutions. | enrich the lives of its residents and the environment. The city needs to manage the resources in an urban scape that's both sustainable and inexpensive.
The smart city of the future will be a complex, interconnected network of autonomous vehicles, smart buildings and data-driven infrastructure. It will bring the Internet of Things to life on an impressive scale.
Smart cities start with smart buildings, which use automated processes to automatically control the building's operations, which include heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, and security. A smart building uses sensors, actuators and microchips to collect data and manage it by concurring to a business' functions and amenities. This arrangement supports owners, operators and facility managers to develop asset reliability and performance by reducing energy use, optimizing space usage and minimizing the environmental effect.
Smart office buildings, health care facilities, hospitals, educational facilities, stadiums along with other kinds of smart buildings exist around the world. Navigant Research estimates that smart building technology will produce global revenue of $8.5 billion in 2020.
Making a building smart starts by connecting basic systems such as lighting, power, water, pumps, heating, fire alarms and chiller plants with sensors and control systems. Even elevators, access systems and window shading can be included in the system.
Creating a building as a smart building is advantageous to both the owner and the tenants working in the building. These advantages range from energy savings to productivity increases. They can also improve building operations, reinforce sustainability efforts, and improve decision-making.
The optimal building automation system learns when it should bring the air conditioning system online for a particular zone in the building, along with electrical loads that are grouped into categories from critical to high priority to non-essential. Building managers also profit from the data they collect as well as control proficiency so that they can fine-tune processes to lower energy and maintenance costs.
The Smart Building approach cuts out the experts and middlemen. A building manager can measure whether his/her actions is good for the occupants and use real data response to demonstrate that it does or doesn't.
Younger employees would consider quitting a job because of the lack of technology in their office. The concept of a smart office is vague, but many smart building technologies certainly fit into the occupant demands. This includes improved connectivity among systems, occupant control of some operational systems, and data analytics solutions to forecast failures and equipment problems.
The very definition of urban infrastructure is changing from mere physical assets to embrace data and technology. Data aids city officials to plan and operate more efficiently. Data is now available through the digitization of government and private sector records and the abundance of cheap sensors along with the growing capabilities to store, integrate, and analyze all of that data. Cities and their corporate partners need people who are trained to translate the data into tangible benefits for urban dwellers.
The best way for a city to make certain that an analytics pilot project leads to additional innovation is to concentrate the initial efforts on areas of importance that address high-priority issues and produce significant, visible results. Front-line employees will not use new tools if they do not meet their needs and do not fit into their methods.
As IoT technology becomes more utilized in everyday objects that we use, and these products communicate with one another, a more complete set of big data can be reviewed. Several possible uses for big data include city water systems that can be monitored and measured by sensors to determine if there are leaks or blockages that will influence water pressure and flow. Professionals can detect water contamination so that they can correct the situation. Data scientists can also figure out how to improve the economy, crime and healthcare by understanding patterns from the data gathered by IoT.
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James McAvoy has attached himself to star in director Wim Wenders' film Submergence. Based on the book by J.M. Ledgard, it's a romantic thriller about two lovers "immersed in life-or-death situations and separated by thousands of miles, who find solace in the memories of their intense romance the previous Christmas after a chance encounter on an Atlantic coast beach." It follows James Moore, who has survived captivity by jihadist fighters in Somalia, and his love Danielle Flinders, who is exploring the depths of the ocean. The book will be adapted by Erin Dignam.
The book was ranked second in New York magazine's The Best Ten Books of 2013 and also named to the New York Times' list of 100 Notable Books of 2013.
The film will be produced by Cameron Lamb through Lila 9th Productions, while Paris-based Backup Media will finance. They are eyeing a late-March production start and plan to shoot in Europe and Africa. UTA Independent Film Group packaged the film and will be representing the U.S. sale.
McAvoy, of course, next stars as Victor Von Frankenstein in Fox's Victor Frankenstein and recently wrapped production on the studio's X-Men: Apocalypse. He is filming M. Night Shyamalan's Split and then will segue to the spy thriller The Coldest City opposite Charlize Theron.
Wenders (Wings Of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club) is just wrapping production on The Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez.
McAvoy is repped by UTA, United Agents and Sloane, Offer. Wenders is repped by WME.
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Writing the Christmas story I'm sharing today, I thought about the ways memory shapes and defines our experiences of people and events. If memory shapes our perceptions of others, then our actions shape their perceptions as well. Asking questions about memory forces us to ask how we want to be remembered and, in a deeper sense, what kind of life we want to lead.
I spent a long time obsessing over what to write. Being joined by four amazing writers—friends whose work I admire—upped the ante, I'll admit. One night, as I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, I remembered the doll my aunts had given me one Christmas. The gate open, I spent much of the night reliving Christmas Eve celebrations at my grandmother's house. As often happens, writing put random memories into perspective, and I realized it wasn't the doll, or the gift, that mattered, but that my aunts had seen me. Being seen, connection—aren't those the gifts we all really want?
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a nun.
From the first through sixth grades, I attended the St. Stanislaus parish school across the street from our church. Bordered by the church and rectory at front, the Catholic graveyard to the left, the convent with its towering woods to our back, our tiny school felt safe and secure.
The faculty was comprised mostly of nuns, who swept through the halls in their flowing black habits, with an authority granted by God. I admired the sisters, romanticized the purity of their marriage to Christ. If entering the convent was a sacrifice, it was also the ultimate good.
My third-grade teacher, Sister Marie Patrice, had a beautiful face framed by a starched white wimple, an easy smile, sparkling eyes. I loved her and wanted very much to be like her.
Maybe one or both aunts asked about my dreams for the future. Somehow, they knew.
Until I was a teenager and my family moved to Massachusetts, six hours north, we spent every Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house. Like most Italian families, we ate fish—pasta with clam sauce, smelts, a dried salt cod we called baccalá, and others I've long since forgotten.
My aunts, Josie and Gilda, lived with my grandmother. The eldest of my father's four siblings, Aunt Jo had been a second mom to my dad, having left school early to care for him so their mother could work. Small and dark, constantly smiling, Aunt<|fim_middle|> the knowing and being known, the connection. The nun doll we cherish. | Jo was a cheerful bundle of unconditional love. A teacher, the first in our family to graduate college, Aunt Jill was a thinker; she watched over the family, encouraging us to work hard, to succeed, to reach for our dreams. Neither aunt ever married, and they loved their nieces and nephews as if we were their own.
While the rest of us lived in row houses or twins, my grandmother and aunts lived in a single house with a big lawn—my grandfather's dream house, I've been told—a magical place that had seen its share of hardship and grief, but, in my memory, stands out as happy and light.
Driving up to the house on Christmas Eve, you'd see, on their lighted side porch, a life-sized nativity scene. For a Catholic-school girl, the nativity was the heart and soul of the holiday season. In class, we'd decorated shoeboxes to serve as a barn. Throughout Advent, I'd recorded each good deed I'd done on a strip of paper, laid the paper in my box. By Christmas, I'd made a soft, warm bed for baby Jesus. The nativity scene brought humanity to my blossoming faith.
Christmas in my memory was white. The snow would flurry as we pulled into the drive. It might amount to only an inch, but it was enough to light the way for Santa and his reindeer.
I'm second to right, in a furry white sweater and black pants. Marie is at the far left; her sister is in the red dress, fourth from the right, two down from me.
You'd walk in the door, all crinkly in your new Christmas dress, into Aunt Jo's waiting arms. From downstairs wafted the sound of your cousins, laughing and shouting, and from the small second kitchen in the basement swirled the pleasant tang of garlic and tomatoes and fish.
We'd carry our coats to a bedroom, and race down the stairs to join in the fun.
On the record player, Peggy Marsh was singing, I Will Follow Him. Aunt Jill was singing along with her—she sang in St. Stan's choir, after all. There isn't an ocean too deep… One of the female cousins might have joined in. Or a mountain too high it can keep…keep me away.
Dinner sped by. Always the same: All that work and five minutes to eat. Then we girls—it was only ever the women back then—were at the sink, helping the adults wash and dry dishes.
After dishes came dessert—platters of cookies: beautifully decorated sugar cutouts and butterballs, thumbprints filled with jelly dusted in sugar, Italian waffles, anise-flavored biscotti. My grandmother made Struffoli, honey balls shaped like a tree. Maybe there was a cheesecake, and there were bowls of fruits and nuts if you were too stuffed for anything more. Then us kids were off: playing school, scaring each other in the utility room, goofing around behind the bar.
Later, bells would jingle and we'd dash upstairs, to the windows and doors, search the night sky for a sneak-peek at Santa. Some years Santa came to visit the kids, and some years an older cousin, our parents' age, would stop by with his accordion, and we'd sing holiday songs.
Every year us kids put on a Christmas play for the grownups. I'd love to say I enjoyed it, but my cousin Marie, the eldest, took charge, and I hated how bossy she was. Of course, you'd have to be to write an annual play, assign parts, plan costumes, direct ten fidgety kids through practice each week—starting Thanksgiving Day—corral us when it was time to put on the play.
Every year, without fail, Marie gave her little sister the lead, while I'd be stuck playing Mary's husband, Joseph, or, worse, a boring shepherd with no lines. The slight made me sulky.
I must have been an angel that year. You can see how excited I am. I'm on the right, with the long sheet draped over the floor. Marie is holding the script. Her little sister is in front of her.
Thinking back, I remember auditioning—we actually auditioned! Knowing—stupid me—even as I sang whatever song she'd assigned, I wouldn't be picked. I can't say which cut deeper, my shame for having a horrible voice, or anger over the injustice. The audition was a sham! The parts had already been cast! For once, I thought, moping, just once, why couldn't I be the star?
Marie is in back, in the black and white flowered dress, her sister is the blonde in the red dress; I'm in a purple dress with a white Peter Pan collar.
Funny how memory works. Telling the story, I remember the play being fun.
The grownups enjoyed it (or pretended they had) and, Aunt Jo and Aunt Jill more than anyone, fussed as much over the voiceless supporting actors as they did over the adorable star.
After the play, it was time to open our gifts. Gifts have never been an important part of Christmas for me. Selfishly, I love giving gifts, but not so much the receiving.
The adults exchanged small joke gifts while we played or after we'd gone to bed, so it was only the kids—a gift for each from our grandmother and a gift from Aunt Jo and Aunt Jill.
Aunt Jo was always behind the camera, snapping pictures, so Aunt Jill must have handed out gifts. We took turns opening, from youngest to eldest, I imagine. When my turn came, Aunt Jill handed me a box, and I cradled it in my arms, wondering what could possibly be inside.
I still have the doll—my very own Sister Patrice. I don't know where they found it, my aunts, if they saw the wonder in my eyes, or leaning in for a kiss, heard the thump of my heart.
It's these small things, the loving gestures, the connections, the gifts of ourselves, I love about Christmas. As an adult, in the rush and the hubbub, I sometimes overlook the things that matter most: bake cookies none really wants to eat rather than sit by the fire with my husband. Spend weeks obsessing over gifts when I could be visiting a friend. Or work myself into a tizzy preparing the house for the arrival of our kids when all they really want is for me to relax.
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Click here to login Synthetic dogs now used in veterinary education
By Christy Corp-Minamiji
Photo by Dr. Tony Johnson
The synthetic canine model designed by SynDaver Labs is intended to replace live animals and animal cadavers in veterinary surgical training. The company exhibited the dog in January at a conference by the North American Veterinary Community.
A new way to teach veterinary students to perform basic surgeries could eliminate the need to practice on live animals and cadavers.
Whether synthetic animal models are an adequate alternative to real patients is up for debate.
SynDaver Labs, makers of synthetic human cadavers and tissues used to train physicians and in crash testing, released last year a canine model that's now replaced the cadavers and live animals used by veterinary students at the University of Florida and Texas A&M University.
Veterinary medical students often learn to perform basic surgeries on live animals, typically sourced from local animal shelters. Patients are euthanized at the end of the procedures while still under anesthesia.
These terminal surgeries are a source of controversy. Since the 1980s, activists and students have questioned the ethics and necessity of sacrificing animals for teaching purposes. Growing concerns regarding the ethics of terminal surgeries have led schools to seek alternative teaching methods such as computer models and animal cadavers. However, books and computers, while providing step-wise instruction, cannot mimic the tactile experience of performing surgery or simulate the emotional pressure.
The use of cadavers — adopted by UF and other programs as a way to avoid sacrificing animals — also has limitations. Dr. Tony Johnson, an emergency and critical care specialist and consultant for the Veterinary Information Network, an online community for the profession, explained it this way: "Teaching a lab for veterinarians using defrosted cadavers is not only squishy ethics and esthetically unpleasant, [cadavers don't] handle like living tissue."
Learning to handle living tissue as a student is important given that new veterinarians can be expected to perform unsupervised surgeries on their first day in practice. Seeking to preserve the learning experience without sacrificing animals, UF academicians turned to SynDaver, based in Tampa, Florida. Drs. Stanley Kim and Brad Case approached the company to make an animal model that would reduce the experience gulf between performing procedures on teaching cadavers and live patients.
"We developed a list of things we wanted to be able to do with the unit," Kim said. "SynDaver took that list and came up with a prototype."
The resulting prototype allows students to perform exploratory surgeries and common abdominal procedures, including ovariohysterectomies and surgeries on the stomach, intestine and bladder.
SynDaver released the surgical canine in 2016 with the technology licensed to UF. Kim and Case are license-holders.
Shaking up the learning experience
Not all veterinarians are sold on the idea of learning critical surgical skills on a fake animal. A SynDaver press release in June 2016 provoked lively discussion on VIN message boards, where some veterinarians expressed doubts that clients would have a high level of confidence in new graduates trained solely or mostly on SynDaver models.
Other VIN members reflected on the ethical conundrum many students face, having to practice on and euthanize animals via terminal surgeries in order to learn how to save patients.
Dr. Laura Schurr, a 2015 graduate of Kansas State University, reflected on her surgical training in the VIN discussion: "We did two procedures in junior surgery, stood and watched a couple surgeries in surgical rotations (and if you were lucky got to suture a few things up and act as a human retractor). So I think this product could be beneficial to learn procedures, especially for visual learners who need to see or do it over read a book.
"But nothing teaches you like an actively bleeding patient on your own table," she stressed.
According to SynDaver, its canine replicas can do just that. Each dog model is made from a proprietary mixture of water, salts and fibers that allow it to bleed and be customized to mimic multiple diseases and conditions, providing students with experience in real-world pathologies. SynDaver lists 30 procedure options for the surgical canine and is working on organ modules for conditions such as pyometra and diaphragmatic hernia, according to Dr. David Danielson, the company's vice president of veterinary technology.
"We focused initially on the procedures I call my nightmares [such as a ruptured spleen that can cause a patient to bleed to death]," he said. "Now we are focusing on pathologies for advanced learning, such as teaching surgical residents."
Veterinarians emphasize that surgery does not always follow a textbook; a surgeon must learn to navigate complications. In live-animal surgery classes, students can't count on experiencing complications with a dog that bleeds excessively or an ovarian stump that slips. In cadaver-based labs, excessive hemorrhaging is nonexistent.
But SynDaver canines can simulate real-life surgical complications, Danielson said. He described a surgery class at UF, where the SynDaver canines have been in use since 2016. After students performed a routine spay, Danielson said the professor had them turn around while a proctor cut and dropped the ovarian stump, forcing the students to find and ligate it while the dog hemorrhaged.
Once a surgery is completed, the module can be reset. "[The organs] have different areas of interface; they are all replaceable," Danielson explained. For example, he said, after a student completes a spay on a synthetic dog, the instructor can insert a new reproductive tract and fasten the skin plate. Other organs can be reused. "You can do multiple biopsies on one liver lobe," he explained.
For neophyte surgeons, the realization that one is directly responsible for the life or death of a fellow creature can be a psychological hurdle. When asked how students respond to the skinless, furless dogs and whether the bleeding of a synthetic model accurately mimics the stress of operating on a pet, Danielson said the students he's observed take it seriously. "They were respectful. Some of them were nervous," he said.
Kim isn't entirely convinced that SynDaver teaching models, while "vastly superior" to thawed cadavers, can replace the experience students have training on live animals. "Regardless, [what] we do know is that surgical training using live animals is becoming very difficult to justify, and simulation technology is only getting better," he said.
Close, but not quite
Johnson, the VIN consultant, examined a SynDaver canine model during a recent veterinary conference and compared its synthetic tissues to those of an actual patient. "The fat feels like fat, muscle feels like muscle, ligaments feel like ligaments," he said, noting that the SynDaver dogs were "slightly more rubbery" than living tissue and a little less compliant.
"It's about 80 percent normal versus a defrosted cadaver, which is about 40 percent normal," he estimated.
There are other more significant differences. A condition not yet replicated in Syndaver's canine model is laryngospasm, the involuntary muscular contraction of vocal folds, restricting air flow into the lungs and posing an obstacle to intubation.
The technology exists to replicate laryngospasms and other movements such as breathing, swallowing and intestinal motion in the canine model. Making it a reality requires funding, Danielson said. "We would like to be able to mimic the motions of a dog under anesthesia or that has been hit by a car," he said, noting that UF and several other institutions have requested a dog that can emulate an animal in an emergency situation.
Cost is a hurdle for veterinary programs looking to implement the use of synthetic surgical animals. SynDaver's surgical canine with all organs costs $28,500. As the unit experiences wear, SynDaver offers a refurbishment package for $3,500 that includes a brand new set of organs. There also is a $15,000 abdomen module; pathological organs can be purchased separately.
"The surgical canine itself would last forever if treated appropriately," Danielson said, but organs often must be replaced after repeated uses. "We do offer a yearly refurbishment package where the dog is returned to us. Any damage to the core canine is repaired and any upgrades are included in the<|fim_middle|> are under way. A 2016 crowdfunding campaign to further develop SynDaver's veterinary models fell short of its goal, but Danielson says the company is working with other organizations in the hopes of funding new species models and refining its existing canine model.
In an online invitation to potential investors, SynDaver Labs states that it "builds the world's most sophisticated synthetic human and animal bodies" for customers in medical and veterinary medicine.
"The company has also developed a surgical canine model that is now permanently in use at the University of Florida, Texas A&M and several other schools, where it has completely replaced the use of both live dogs and canine cadavers in surgical education programs!" the website states. "The company is already working on additional animal models including cat, horse and rabbit."
SynDaver aims to go public with a stock market launch planned for 2020. Right now, $50,000 is the minimum investment. | refurbished dog. In essence you get a new dog complete with a total set of new organs."
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Twenty years after opening his first restaurant, Frank Schultz plans to spice up his THG empire by converting some Tavern locations into the Mexican-inspired Otra Vez.
The man worshipping at the altar of alter is Frank Schultz of Tavern Hospitality Group (THG), the owner of all those Taverns, the acclaimed Colorado sports bar/restaurants that have stood the test of time. In recent years, THG has made the move to environments that appeal to a wider variety of moods. For example, THG operates Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a whiskey bar in the Union Station North neighborhood, and The Soiled Dove Underground restaurant/nightclub below the Tavern location in Lowry.
The newest establishment is Otra Vez (español for "again"), a high-energy Mexican bar/restaurant that opened in March 2017 on Downtown Denver's 16th St. Mall. Plans now call for converting the Tech Center and some other Tavern properties into Otra Vez locations.
"The Tavern concept has been running for a long time—the first location opened in 1999," the extroverted Schultz recently reflected. "I'm proud of what we've done. What was important at the Tavern was creating consistency—if you're at the Tech Center location or Lowry or Uptown, you know what chicken wings you're going to get, how many TVs will be carrying sports. But the concept isn't uncommon—anyone can do it operationally.
Schultz worked on Otra Vez for two years, going to other markets to conduct research and get ideas. He got input from a few select millennials and his home-office THG team for quality and organization. He brought in a designer from Austin to recreate that bar scene's unique vibe.
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There are also inventive takes on salads and the classic burrito and enchilada favorites. For a snack, get some skin in the game with the crunchy Otra Vez Chicharrones—pork belly that's braised and then fried to a crisp, tricked out with white cheddar cheese, avocado salsa verde, pico de gallo and chipotle lime crema.
The festive élan carries over to the beverage program, which features a wide lineup of tequilas and mezcals (over 200—best to try them in a flight instead of all at once) and a range of specialty beers and wines. Flaming handcrafted cocktails served in giant skull glasses can be shared as a group (Cocteles Para el Grupo, to be precise).
The lively décor adds to the character of Otra Vez. A 20-foot floor-to-ceiling bar connects to the street-side patio. Eclectic decorations weave Mexican- inspired cultural elements from the past and present, the art and paintings on the walls highlighted by imaginative lighting and red accents. On the second level, the stylish Mezcal Lounge overlooks the main floor. The upbeat background music playlist is custom-programmed, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, a DJ plays Latin music to ramp up the fun and loud conversation.
The vibrant experience is elevated by warm and knowledgeable servers—during a recent lunch stop, MacKenzie and the kitchen nailed the goal 12 minutes from ordering to table delivery— and the bartenders sure know their stuff.
All told, Otra Vez might rank as Schultz and THG's most impressive achievement.
"The margins are tough," Schultz admitted. "You have to do volume in any place unless you're the chef-owner with eight tables. You've got a different user today, with a different kind of thinking— marijuana changed things with a millennial smoking a vape pen, or taking an edible and not drinking as much (but eating more), or staying home. With the passage of Amendment 70, Colorado's tipped minimum wage has increased. And every restaurant has to deal with the labor pool— we fired a bartender for drinking behind the bar and he was working next door the following day.
He may as well start writing his commencement speech. | the Tavern model: Otra Vez does a great burger. The Chorizo Shrimp Burger is a juicy house-made patty combining beef and chorizo, topped with brightly-hued achiote shrimp, lettuce, tomato and a blend of Quesillo and pepper jack cheeses, drizzled with a habanero aioli and stacked on a jalapeño cheddar bun. It's got a potent kick, complemented by a side of chile lime fries.
The sopas (soups) include a comforting Pozole Rojo (a stew with massive chunks of pork, guajillo chiles and hominy, garnished with radish and lettuce) and Otra Vez Green Chili (a top-notch entry in the competitive marketplace of Hatch green chiles, pork and cheddar cheese). You'll need multiple visits to run the gamut of Street Tacos, done in the Puebla tradition (try the pork belly or | 194 |
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From lessons 1 to 8, we have worked on chord building, scales, notes etc. and we have given you the tools to play any piano tune (including the melody), both from chords and notes. We also tried to focus on developing your ear. This lesson attempts to open the world of harmonization. It is one thing to know what possible chords one can play in a song (based on the tritones – Lesson 8) or how to play all the possible chords, but it is another skill to know what chord to play when. This is not a skill that can be developed overnight. It comes with a lot of exposure to music, a lot of playing an instrument, and a well developed ear.
We want to open some doors on harmonization in such a way that you can apply it in the songs you play. We also just touched on two songs, but there are thousands of songs where you can apply the same principles.
Let's introduce you to a few harmonic tendencies. The first one, we have introduced already (Lesson 8).
This means that chords often progress as indicated on this circle. Can you remember "Battle Ends and Down Goes Charles' Father"? (Lesson 6). Well, this is essentially the same, just in another application. Lets take the key of G major. What will the three basic majors and three basic minors be? G, C and D. See where they lie on the circle of fifths relative to G. The related minors will be Em, Am and Bm. See where they lie on the circle of fifths relative to G. If you move to another key everything will be in the same relationship.
E.g. in the key of C, the three basic majors and minors will be one position anticlockwise. This is another way of determining which chords to use in a certain key, and how.
Notice that in the<|fim_middle|> hope that there was something in these lessons for everyone – from the new piano player to the more advanced one. You are welcome to contact me if you have any "query about" this. I also give chord building seminars for churches and congregations. | above progression, the B is the third harmony, but in this case it is a major. You often get that the third harmony becomes a major, followed by the next minor in the circle of fifths. In the above example, the circle of fifths is broken by a related minor.
See the next example of a Jazz chord progression in G major. Play it in 3/4 time (waltz).
It starts with a G major, followed by its related minor. It then starts with a sequence in the circle of fifths, starting with the F#m, right through to the Ab major.
It is then broken by an F9/A, followed by another line on the circle of fifths, back to the G.
Both versions contain the same chords, but building it on a continuous baseline, brings a stronger line into the harmony.
Try to delay the fifth harmony. Rather try to play the related minors or move anti-clockwise in the circle of fifths.
Here, the A is only played right at the end for a short while after the Asus. Note how the Asus chord anticipates the A.
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SayNow helps musicians call their fans
Sometimes simple systems work the best and SayNow might be one of those cases. The service, still in private beta, is targeting musicians on MySpace who want to exchange voice messages with their fans. They can record voice messages, SMS alerts are sent when new messages are available and fans can leave messages in response after listening to a recording from the musician they are following.
Of course this model could be applied to any one-to-many form of communication in a mobile enabled context where vocal intonation and ease of use are important. Though easy to use, SayNow is less simple than it might appear and is a possible acquisition target for a larger company interested in integrating voice recognition, SMS and a compelling consumer experience. I like the service as it stands though too and can imagine it being successful without being acquired. Good functionality, clear demand and viable business model.
The eight person team behind SayNow is based in Palo Alto and has gone through one undisclosed round of funding.
SayNow is billed as a more personal way to communicate with your fan base, voice being more personal than text, while still protecting privacy by mediating between two sides of a phone number exchange. Though the system is still in private beta, beta testers and my own initial exploration of the system make it clear that SayNow has been put together very professionally. For such a seemingly lightweight use, this is an application that's had some time invested in its development.
Voice recognition and an ajax web interface that responds to your phone activity give the system a great feel. To see a SayNow MySpace widget in action, check out featured artist AM Kidd's MySpace page. Among the featured artists using SayNow are several with tens of thousands of friends on their MySpace acount. I think this is service<|fim_middle|> Kagan for pointing us to this one. | is going to be met with a definite demand in the social media market. It's not a cool technology looking for a market.
The long term revenue model appears to be wrapping phone messages in advertising; something I expect will be quite viable if the service catches on. I don't think that people will mind hearing a company name and one line of advertising before or after their message – in exchange for communicating with an admired musician.
Before I used SayNow to send a few messages, I wasn't excited by the idea. After trying it out, taking a look at the team behind it and thinking about the business model, though – I'm convinced that this is a startup that could go somewhere.
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Walter Francis Murphy, Jr. (November 21, 1929 – April 2<|fim_middle|> Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War
United States Marine Corps colonels
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
Deaths from cancer in South Carolina | 0, 2010) was an American political scientist and writer.
Early life and education
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Murphy won a Distinguished Service Cross and was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1950 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1957.
Career
Murphy taught government at the United States Naval Academy before returning to graduate school. After earning his PhD, he spent a year as a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He held the position of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, a chair whose first occupant was Woodrow Wilson. As a professor, he was undergraduate thesis advisor for Samuel Alito. His professional writing, consisting mostly of non-fiction works on political science, included Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order; he has also written three popular novels, including The Vicar of Christ.
Personal life
Murphy died of cancer at age 80. Murphy's name was on the "Selectee List".
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Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)
Numbering: Issue 23.A, Idea: Outliers & Outsiders (Part Nineteen)
Individual Publication Date: July 15, 2020
Rick Rosner and I conduct a conversational series entitled Ask A Genius on a variety of subjects through In-Sight Publishing on the personal and professional website for Rick. This series with Erik and Christian build in this idea. Erik Haereid earned a score at 185, on the N-VRA80. He is an expert in Actuarial Sciences. Christian Sorensen earned a score at 185+, i.e., at least 186, on the WAIS-R. He is an expert in philosophy. Both scores on a standard deviation of 15. A sigma of ~5.67 for Erik – a general intelligence rarity of 1 in 136,975,305 – and a sigma of ~5.67+ for Christian – a general intelligence rarity of more than 1 in 136,975,305, at least 1 in 202,496,482. Neither splitting hairs nor a competition here; we agreed to a discussion, hopefully, for the edification of the audience here. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population. This amounts to a joint interview or conversation with Christian Sorensen, Erik Haereid, and myself.
Keywords: Christian Sorensen, Erik Haereid, language, paradox, philosophy, reality.
Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)[1],[2]*
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citation style listing after the interview.*
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, we've covered some of the more foundational concepts for philosophy setting forth some of the foundations for the ideas in a lot of other fields of interest and research, etc. I want to focus more on paradox here. Are there others forms of -dox given a different prefix than para- providing a novel or, at least intriguing notion of the logically surface inexplicable or apparently nonsensical while containing some deeper truth about the nature of reality? Christian, you focused on "deep meaning and the effect it causes are logical"; Erik, you honed in on the 'perceptually unexplained…logical self-contradiction' that invites further critical examination. Also on this idea of paradox, is this a unified sense of inviting further critical examination to come to the deeper logical consistency and meaning?
Christian Sorensen: On purpose of the idea of paradox, I think that within syllogistically thinking, although it is possible to make a distinction between logical validity and truth, an imprecision regarding the latter, appears evidently when it's understood as an indicator of internal consistency, within propositional reasoning. In turn, if the truth is associated to the consistence of its meaning, then I will conclude that what occurs, is what I am going to denominate as a linguistic break. Meaning in relation to reasoning, in my opinion, necessarily refers to the language and to its structure, and therefore, to an intrinsic and invariable fact, which I will name as the barrier of meaning, since internally splits the symbolic character of language, by not allowing the existence of any communication within the symbol as such, nor between the symbols among them, when they make up a linguistic chain. Consequently along the reasoning process, if it is not possible strictly speaking, to find out any sort of unity of meaning, which necessarily leads to a degree of inconsistency, then it would not be plausible to relate logic with truth, in no sense and regardless of the matter of the judgment.
Erik Haereid: Orthodox, maybe, in the sense that one is a true believer (It's not novel, though). Paradoxes are true beyond its rational discrepancy. It's based on intuition, feelings, multiple meanings, semantics. One could maybe say that an orthodox is sure about what he or she believes in, although the belief is irrational; not yet proven rationally. God may exist, but the only way to know is through irrational channels, like emotional divine experiences. So, rationally we don't know. Maybe God exists. Irrationally many knows that God exists. You could replace "God" by any unproved phenomena.
To your other question: This must be linked to our continuous search for truth, i.e. the search for a logical reality. This is our mind map. We project sensory experiences and categorize it based on different patterns and our reason, and all this reveals itself as what we know as "thoughts". But the mind is only a projection; our map of reality. Our goal is to improve this map, as in an eternal and continuous process. This process will never end as a mind map, and this is my assumption, because it will never be able to contain the power of definition; what started it all. Since the mind map is rational per se, it will not be able to imagine an irrational beginning (for example, that we do not grasp black holes in the Universe; it literally becomes a mental black hole). And since the beginning is necessarily irrational (my assumption), we will never be able to understand everything in the sense that we can imagine it. A possible and logical explanation for an imaginary end is thus that our (common, collective) consciousness culminates towards zero as we approach a rational explanation of everything; to understand everything is the same as to understand nothing. Sense is thus only a journey, a tool, as part of a wider and different sense; beyond. The more we understand the less we need to be conscious, since consciousness is an aid to understand and not a goal in itself (my premise). What is then the point with human rationality? We don't know. It's inside the black hole; the well of irrationality including unrevealed rationality. Evolving is a drive, and paradoxes are among the motivating phenomena.
In this sense, we cannot understand everything until we understand nothing. And this is in itself a paradox.
In this light, we can regard paradoxes as small hints about our common final outcome, and thus about what we are able to understand and not; a kind of "god's" hints. And perhaps this is the answer, and so that the exploration of paradoxes must be about the boundary cases between the rational and the irrational, on the boundary between before and just after the beginning, and before and just after the end. We will never be able to understand paradoxes as anything else than just this, and thus they create a profound respect, not for what we do not know, but for what we can never know.
Jacobsen: On the possible and the impossible, in a binary or Aristotelian system of thinking, the idea of that which can exist and that which cannot exist become the only two states, while in more pluralistic logics the gradations of existence mean degrees of certainty in terms of existence with existence and non<|fim_middle|> was an activist, freelance journalist and arranged 'Sykkeldagen i Oslo' twice (1989 and 1990) as well as environmental issues lectures. He also wrote some crime short stories in A-Magasinet (Aftenposten (one of the main newspapers in Norway), the same paper where he earned his runner up (second place) in a nationwide writing contest in 1985. He also wrote several articles in different newspapers, magazines and so on in the 1980s and early 1990s.
He earned an M.Sc. degree in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences in 1991, and worked as an actuary novice/actuary from 1987 to 1995 in several Norwegian Insurance companies. He was the Academic Director (1998-2000) of insurance at the BI Norwegian Business School (1998-2000), Manager (1997-1998) of business insurance, life insurance, and pensions and formerly Actuary (1996-1997) at Nordea in Oslo Area, Norway, a self-employed Actuary Consultant (1996-1997), an Insurance Broker (1995-1996) at Assurance Centeret, Actuary (1991-1995) at Alfa Livsforsikring, novice Actuary (1987-1990) at UNI Forsikring.
In 1989 he worked in a project in Dallas with a Texas computer company for a month incorporating a Norwegian pension product into a data system. Erik is specialized in life insurance and pensions, both private and business insurances. From 1991 to 1995 he was a main part of developing new life insurance saving products adapted to bank business (Sparebanken NOR), and he developed the mathematics behind the premiums and premium reserves.
He has industry experience in accounting, insurance, and insurance as a broker. He writes in his IQ-blog the online newspaper Nettavisen. He has personal interests among other things in history, philosophy and social psychology.
In 1995, he moved to Aalborg in Denmark because of a Danish girl he met. He worked as an insurance broker for one year, and took advantage of this experience later when he developed his own consultant company.
In Aalborg, he taught himself some programming (Visual Basic), and developed an insurance calculation software program which he sold to a Norwegian Insurance Company. After moving to Oslo with his girlfriend, he was hired as consultant by the same company to a project that lasted one year.
After this, he became the Manager of business insurance in the insurance company Norske Liv. At that time he had developed and nurtured his idea of establishing an actuarial consulting company, and he did this after some years on a full-time basis with his actuarial colleague. In the beginning, the company was small. He had to gain money, and worked for almost two years as an Academic Director of insurance at the BI Norwegian Business School.
Then the consultant company started to grow, and he quitted BI and used his full time in NIA (Nordic Insurance Administration). This was in 1998/99, and he has been there since.
NIA provides actuarial consulting services within the pension and life insurance area, especially towards the business market. They was one of the leading actuarial consulting companies in Norway through many years when Defined Benefit Pension Plans were on its peak and companies needed evaluations and calculations concerning their pension schemes and accountings. With the less complex, and cheaper, Defined Contribution Pension Plans entering Norway the last 10-15 years, the need of actuaries is less concerning business pension schemes.
Erik's book from 2011, Benektelse og Verdighet, contains some thoughts about our superficial, often discriminating societies, where the virtue seems to be egocentrism without thoughts about the whole. Empathy is lacking, and existential division into "us" and "them" is a mental challenge with major consequences. One of the obstacles is when people with power – mind, scientific, money, political, popularity – defend this kind of mind as "necessary" and "survival of the fittest" without understanding that such thoughts make the democracies much more volatile and threatened. When people do not understand the genesis of extreme violence like school killings, suicide or sociopathy, asking "how can this happen?" repeatedly, one can wonder how smart man really is. The responsibility is not limited to let's say the parents. The responsibility is everyone's. The day we can survive, mentally, being honest about our lives and existence, we will take huge leaps into the future of mankind.
[2] Individual Publication Date: July 15, 2020: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two; Full Issue Publication Date: September 1, 2020: https://in-sightjournal.com/insight-issues/.
Appendix II: Citation Style Listing
American Medical Association (AMA): Jacobsen S. Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two) [Online].July 2020; 23(A). Available from: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
American Psychological Association (APA, 6th Edition, 2010): Jacobsen, S.D. (2020, July 15). Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two). Retrieved from http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
Brazilian National Standards (ABNT): JACOBSEN, S. Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two). In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 23.A, July. 2020. <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two>.
Chicago/Turabian, Author-Date (16th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott. 2020. "Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 23.A. http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
Chicago/Turabian, Humanities (16th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott "Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 23.A (July 2020). http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
Harvard: Jacobsen, S. 2020, 'Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 23.A. Available from: <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two>.
Harvard, Australian: Jacobsen, S. 2020, 'Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 23.A., http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
Modern Language Association (MLA, 7th Edition, 2009): Scott D. Jacobsen. "Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 23.A (2020):July. 2020. Web. <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two>.
Vancouver/ICMJE: Jacobsen S. Ask Two Geniuses: Conversation with Christian Sorensen and Erik Haereid on Paradox, Thinking About the World, Substantive Reality Statements, and Other Options (Part Two)v [Internet]. (2020, June 23(A). Available from: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/haereid-sorensen-two.
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Conversation with Christopher Harding on Royal Houses, Genius, Leonardo da Vinci, Test Ceiling Issues, Philosophy, Meaning, and Quantum Physics: Founder, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (1) January 8, 2021 | -existence or the possible and the impossible as degrees of the possible and degrees of the impossible or an interpretive sense, i.e., the possible or the impossible in particular contexts or interpretations of the status of the possible and impossible. What form of thinking – binary or multinary – seems to best reflect the nature of the real world?
Sorensen: I think that the thought that best reflects the nature of the real world, is dialectic, since in my opinion, duality and contraposition are its best represented properties. In this way, binary as counterpart, in terms of being or not being, and of possibility or impossibility, doesn't captures the fact which regards to the becoming of the real. In other words, that the latest is not completely encrypted, neither in one or the other, but rather in the coexistence of both. Therefore when a certain thing is being, there is something in it, that at the same time is ceasing to be, to the extent that if the former is occurring, due to a condition of possibility, then the latest, will occur graces to a contrary condition, who will prevent its being, by withdrawing part of it.
Haereid: It's quite obvious that the multinary form of thinking reflects the real world best. But I would say both. Every possible way of establishing rationality in mind is proper. We calculate degrees of certainty all the time, all life, intuitively. Developing these procedures into conscious rational methods, e.g. math, statistics, is a part of being aware of these our internal traits, and enhance them. To calculate possibilities for events and entities are one way of getting closer to a rational experienced truth, like in weather forecast. The mind map is getting better. But this does not exclude the 1/0's; possible or not. In my view, defining something as impossible is focusing on what we see as possible. We are not able to implement everything at the same time.
Jacobsen: Following from the aforementioned question, would this make existence and non-existence, the potential and the actual, determinate or more indeterminate in terms of statements one can make about them? In that, the world would be statistical, rather than not, in terms of the substantive statements one can make about reality.
Sorensen: Since from my point of view, reality would be intrinsically contradictory and conflicted… The aforementioned could lead to an ultimate consequence, which implies that reality in some way and degree is respectively ungraspable and unreal. Therefore it's presumable that the real as such, it's going to be probabilistic but not statistical, since there will always be a part, respecting to its existence, of which in either sense, nothing could be pronounced at all.
Haereid: Reality is what we experience it as; sense, perceive, feel, think. Thoughts are maps, and in a deductive and inductive approach to understand the world rationally, it reduces the gap between thoughts (approximations of reality) and reality using rational tools (like statistics). But this mental creation could be, and probably are, only a small bit of reality. Experiencing something that fits our thought map is not the same as revealing reality as it is. Making qualified assumptions, based on statistics or some other tools, is part of our inborn mental capacity. The world we reveal in the sense of being conscious, is statistical. The world we don't know yet, or never will get to know, is not statistical. If we think something could happen, calculate a probability between 0 and 1 to measure degrees of possible occurrences, its still just a thought; a map over reality. It could lead us to bits of reality, but not define it. To reveal the deterministic bits of reality, the rational part of it, does not prove that some parts of reality is not irrational or indeterministic. It's like science and falsification; you can prove rationality or rational truth forever without knowing if there is one black swan among all the white ones. It's like being imprisoned in a house without windows and never see anything else than what's inside that house. We are all rational beings, and we live in that house. We assume that there is a world outside, but no one can tell if its rational or irrational, if its deterministic or not.
Jacobsen: Does 1 plus 1 always equal 2? If so, why? If not, why not?
Sorensen: No, since sometimes 1 plus 1 equals 1, if it's known how to count to 3.
Haereid: I stick with the arithmetic one. 1+1=2 given a set of rules and axioms; annihilation, symmetry and the Peano axiom. It means that you can show it mathematically using some basic principles. For instance, 1 is 0 and one unit, defined "one" or "1". The next unit is 1 and another unit, and that we define as "2" or "two". And so on. Through some obvious rules about how numbers behave in an addition (annihilation and symmetry), we gain 1+1=2.
Jacobsen: Any other options than determinism and indeterminism?
Sorensen: Yes, pseudo-indeterminism.
Haereid: What does it mean that everything is predetermined? That someone / something has decided that (my assumption). The formulas must have a beginning. And for them to have a beginning, they must be created by a power of definition. The defining power is necessarily irrational; outside the explicable and predictable. If this can be explained, then it will always have an inexplicable start, no matter where we start the process of understanding it all.
If we claim that "there is no start", no creator of it all, then this is irrational, and thus beyond our comprehension. For us to be able to understand it all, there must be a start or something beyond (my assumption). But for it to be a start, it must be a start that we cannot fathom. Every comprehensible beginning is always a continuation of something we do not understand.
This explanatory model necessarily consists of both an indeterministic start and a wholly or partly deterministic continuation. All the things we then do not understand can be possible to understand, i.e. deterministic but not yet understood by us, or they can be impossible to understand, i.e. a component of the irrational and indeterministic beginning.
Reality in this mindset becomes a mixture of deterministic and indeterministic as long as we cannot understand it rationally. It is one thing to claim that God exists, quite another to say that you believe in God. The first is wrong because we do not know, the second is right because you know.
Appendix I: Footnotes
[1] Christian Sorensen is a Philosopher that comes from Belgium. What identifies him the most and above all is simplicity, for everything is better with "vanilla flavour." Perhaps, for this reason, his intellectual passion is criticism and irony, in the sense of trying to reveal what "hides behind the mask," and give birth to the true. For him, ignorance and knowledge never "cross paths." What he likes the most in his leisure time, is to go for a walk with his wife.
Erik Haereid has been a member of Mensa since 2013, and is among the top scorers on several of the most credible IQ-tests in the unstandardized HRT-environment. He is listed in the World Genius Directory. He is also a member of several other high IQ Societies.
Erik, born in 1963, grew up in Oslo, Norway, in a middle class home at Grefsen nearby the forest, and started early running and cross country skiing. After finishing schools he studied mathematics, statistics and actuarial science at the University of Oslo. One of his first glimpses of math-skills appeared after he got a perfect score as the only student on a five hour math exam in high school.
He did his military duty in His Majesty The King's Guard (Drilltroppen)).
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January 13, 2021 | Tagged: Development Economics, Munir Squires, Patrick Francois
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Economic researchers at the University of British Columbia are experimenting with an idea that they believe could bring more financial opportunity to poor people in developing countries. In a first-of-its-kind field experiment, they have combined peer-to-peer<|fim_middle|> or modified.
Dr. Francois and Dr. Squires said further work is needed to quantify the economic welfare effect of e-ROSCAs, but also said that their analysis suggests e-ROSCAs may offer a significant cost savings relative to face-to-face ROSCAs. Mobile money organizations could also play a substantial banking-type role if e-ROSCAs were established among its customers. | (P2P) banking and lending practices with mobile money networks for users to borrow and save money from one another electronically.
For their study, Dr. Patrick Francois and Dr. Munir Squires set up and ran electronic rotating savings and credit associations, or e-ROSCAs – via text messaging – in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Since both ROSCAs and mobile money are so widespread, if e-ROSCAs were to become feasible, then they would markedly extend borrowing and savings possibilities to many of the world's bankless poor," wrote the researchers, whose study was published this month in the journal Science Advances.
ROSCAs, a form of P2P banking and lending, sees members meet regularly and contribute money to a group pot. Members then take turns being the sole recipient of the collective pot.
With help from local shopkeepers, the researchers created almost 100 anonymous four-person e-ROSCAS in the city of Lubumbashi. Over the course of four days, the UBC economists found that the participants paid their correct daily contributions 88 per cent of the time and a majority of participants made all of their payments. The e-ROSCAs also generated loans at zero interest.
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Previous research on ROSCAs, which typically happen in-person, has indicated that members are compliant due in part to close monitoring, member selection, and the social pressure from face-to-face contact. But the researchers' experiment shows that an electronic version can still work effectively even when these conditions are absent | 316 |
Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown To Visit Jakarta
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Brown to Participate in the Jr. NBA Indonesia National Training Camp to Assist with the Selection of the 2018 Jr. NBA Indonesia All-Stars –
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JAKARTA, June 27, 2018 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics will travel to Jakarta to participate in the Jr. NBA Indonesia National Training Camp from July 27-29.
The National Training Camp, staged at the Cilandak Sport Center from July 27-28 and Pluit Village Mall on July 29, is the culmination of the 2018 Jr. NBA Indonesia presented by Frisian Flag program that will feature the top 100 boys and girls participating in advanced fundamental skills training and exhibition games. At the end of the National Training Camp, eight boys and eight girls will be named as the 2018 Jr. NBA Indonesia All-Stars. Together with their counterparts from Southeast Asia, the 2018 Jr. NBA Indonesia All-Stars will travel to Shanghai in October to attend NBA China Games 2018 featuring the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Mavericks.
The 100 National Training Camp finalists will be selected from the upcoming selection camp in Jakarta on July 21. Registration for the selection camp is available at www.jrnba.asia/indonesia.
"I understand the NBA has invested heavily into the growth of basketball in Indonesia," said Brown. "I look forward to seeing firsthand how global the game has become and to train with some of the most promising young athletes Indonesia has to offer."
"We believe that through the Jr. NBA platform and Frisian Flag's 'Drink.Move.BeStrong' message, we can encourage youth to adopt sport and incorporate milk into their daily lives and foster a generation of healthier Indonesians," said Andrew F. Saputro, Corporate Affairs Director of Frisian Flag Indonesia. "Meeting a professional athlete of Jaylen Brown's caliber will help inspire Jr. NBA participants as they will see up-close how discipline, hard work and healthy lifestyle can lead to success."
Brown was selected 3rd overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2016 NBA Draft and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2017. Brown averaged 14.5 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1 steal per game this season and helped lead the Boston Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Jr. NBA, the league's global youth basketball participation program for boys and girls, teaches the fundamental skills as well as the core values of the game at the grassroots level in an effort to help grow and improve the youth basketball experience for players, coaches and parents. During the 2017-18 season, the NBA will reach more than 26 million youth in 71 countries through a variety of camps, clinics, skills challenges, league play and outreach events.
For more information, visit www.jrnba.asia/indonesia and follow the Jr, NBA on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jrnbaindonesia. Fans can purchase NBA merchandise through NBAStore.co.id, the official online NBA Store in Indonesia. For all things NBA, visit www.nba.com and "Friend" the NBA's official account<|fim_middle|> spend an hour a day on outdoor exercise. The regional campaign offers a host of activities including the distribution of free milk cartons to schools, a dedicated health and nutrition education program and Jr. NBA camps.
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The NBA is a global sports and media business built around four professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, the Women's National Basketball Association, the NBA G League and the NBA 2K League, set to launch in May 2018. The NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on six continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2017-18 season featured 108 international players from a record 42 countries and territories. NBA Digital's assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 1.5 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.
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Every day Royal FrieslandCampina provides millions of consumers all over the world with food that is rich in valuable nutrients. With annual revenue of 11.3 billion euros, FrieslandCampina is one of the world largest dairy companies, supplying consumer and professional products, as well as ingredients and half-finished products to manufacturers of infant & toddler nutrition, the food industry and the pharmaceutical sector around the world. FrieslandCampina has offices in 32 countries and almost 22,049 employees, and its products are available in more than 100 countries. The Company is fully owned by Zuivelcoöperatie FrieslandCampina U.A, with 19,006 member dairy farmers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium—making it one of the world's largest dairy cooperatives. For more information please visit: www.frieslandcampina.com. For more information, please visit www.frieslandcampina.com.
About Frisian Flag Indonesia
PT Frisian Flag Indonesia (FFI) is the leading dairy based nutrition company that produces and distributes Frisian Flag, also known locally as Susu Bendera. Frisian Flag Indonesia has been providing nutrition for Indonesian families since 1922. For more than 95 years in Indonesia, Frisian Flag has remained committed to helping Indonesian children achieve their potential through products with the best in available nutrition.
As part of FrieslandCampina, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the world headquartered in Holland, FFI draws on its global experience as well as long-term partnership with local dairy farmers to continue to bring the goodness of milk to consumers. FFI operates production facilities in Pasar Rebo and Ciracas in East Jakarta for a product portfolio range of liquid & powdered milk, as well as sweetened condensed milk. The brands include Frisian Flag, Omela and Friso.
For more information, please visit www.frisianflag.com.
About Drink.Move.BeStrong
Drink.Move.BeStrong is Southeast Asia's first integrated activation and advocacy campaign which aims to cultivate an active and healthy lifestyle among children through play, sports and proper nutrition. This campaign is founded on upon the findings of FrieslandCampina's South East Asia Nutrition Study (SEANUTS) on nutrition in four countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam –to acquire an understanding of the nutritional status and dietary intake of children from 6 months to 12 years of age. This multi-stakeholder, multi-channel campaign encourages children across the region to drink one glass of milk a day and | 780 |
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