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Dashiell Bennett is the former editor of The Wire. | Mandate, Santorum's Catholic Problem, and Madonna's 'MDNA'
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
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Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 20 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.
Top Stories: Georgetown professor Randy Barnett is the lawyer most responsible for pushing the idea that the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional. Elite private schools mine parents' data for non-stop fundraising efforts.
Politics: Despite being Catholic himself, Rick Santorum has lost the Catholic vote in almost every state he's run in.
New York: Gentrification finally comes to the South Bronx.
Science: James Cameron says says the landscape he found at the bottom of the ocean was "a very lunar, very desolate place." Amalie Noether was called the most "significant" and "creative" female mathematician of all time, by Albert Einstein, and is probably the best mathematician you've never heard of.
World: Tunisia says its new constitution will not mention Islamic law as a source of legislation.
U.S.: Teenagers with A.D.H.D. struggle to earn their driver's license.
Art: A re-discovered Cezanne watercolor will be auctioned off for around $15 million to $20 million.
Music: A review of Madonna's new album,"a bipolar collection that pumps out effervescent electronic pop before making way for a contentious personal agenda."
TV: The FX network has carved a niche reaching out to the valuable young male demographic with "risky, breakthrough and even occasionally offensive material."
Real Estate: Some apartment seekers in the competitive New York market write personal "love" letters to sellers hoping to sway their decision.
Books: The New Republic is a comic novel about terrorism that was actually written in 1998, but not published until this year for various (somewhat obvious) reasons.
Obituaries: Boxing writer Bert Sugar saw it all.
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The FFC Women's Basketball League is designed to provide a competitive women's league in the Stark area. Based on<|fim_middle|> unique time of fellowship, each participant is introduced to the claims of Christ and is encouraged to share with each other during post-game huddles how Christ is impacting their lives.
Some playing experience is preferred.
Registrations for 2018 Fall league are available online at the website and in the church brochure racks.
No refund will be given to any player who withdraws on or after the first week of games. An exception may be granted at the discretion of the staff due to medical reasons only. Further, no refund will be given to any player removed from the league during the course of the season for disciplinary reasons. | FFC's "All Out Sports" concepts, the League is composed of women 18 and older and is intended to provide competition in a warm and friendly fashion. During this | 36 |
In this book, the methodology of dynamical systems theory is applied to investigate the physics of the global ocean circulation. Topics include the dynamics of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean, the stability of the thermohaline circulation and the El Ni¤o/Southern Oscillation phenomenon in the Tropical Pacific. On the other hand, the book also deals with the numerical methods for applying bifurcation analysis on large dimensional dynamical systems, with thousands or more degrees of freedom, which arise through discretization of ocean models. The novel approach in understanding the phenomena of climate variability is through a systematic analysis within a hierarchy of models using these techniques. In this way, a nice overview is obtained of the relations between the results of the different models within the hierarchy. Mechanistic description of the physics of the results is provided and, where possible, links with<|fim_middle|> meteorology, oceanography, and related fields who are interested in tackling fundamental problems in dynamical oceanography and climate dynamics. | results of state-of-the-art models and observations are sought. The reader is expected to have a background in basic incompressible fluid dynamics and applied mathematics, although the level of the text is mixed and sometimes quite introductory. Each chapter is rather self-contained and many details of derivations are provided. The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in | 69 |
Keys in the City pianos unveiled in downtown Charlotte
Posted by Travis Silvas | Aug 4, 2017 | Charlotte | 0 |
The momentum being created around economic vitality in downtown Charlotte is becoming more visible, and much more colorful. The city's newest placemaking initiative — Keys in the City — was unveiled Wednesday, Aug. 2 at Courthouse Square where one of two painted pianos was set out for public use.
The project was completed<|fim_middle|> reside at Courthouse Square, and the other will be located in front of Windwalker, at 125 S. Cochran Avenue. Both are open for public use, and will be covered with a tarp each evening and in the event of inclement weather.
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Bob Trezise, LEAP CEO, said ENGAGE is a program that fosters community pride and involvement in local partnerships.
"I honestly cannot think of a better place to kick off our ENGAGE program other than here in Charlotte," he said during the Aug. 2 unveiling. "I've often times said while here in Charlotte that you are too hard on yourselves. There is no community in the three-county area that is even remotely as organized and together as you are. I always knew the benefits were coming."
Togetherness was on display throughout the Keys in the City project, which has been in the works for the past two years. Local partners included Windwalker Underground Gallery, Hayes Green Beach Memorial Hospital, Can Do!, CharlotteRising, Courthouse Square Association, Capital Area Blues Society, Crosswalk Teen Center, Two Men and a Truck, the City of Charlotte, Gale Briggs, Inc., Kathy Geiger and family, Deeanna Denio, Michelle Henry, and Keys in the Cities Lansing/East Lansing.
"This project gave us all an opportunity to gather a group of our youth and provide them with a chance to get actively engaged and personally invested in our city," said Kalli Dempsey, of Windwalker Underground Gallery. "I like to think projects like this give them fond memories and will bring them back home later on."
Tresize said it is important not to underestimate the psychological impact projects like this have on economic development.
"We want people to feel good," Trezise said. "If someone is driving by here, and they are contemplating moving, or investing or where their next choice is going to be, it might just tip the scale in your favor … I would not underestimate a little, beautifully painted piano."
Dillon Rush, CharlotteRising director, said projects like Keys in the City and ENGAGE help move Charlotte one step closer to being extraordinary.
"CharlotteRising's mission is to cultivate a vibrant and enduring downtown, and among others, at the very core of that mission is placemaking," Rush said.
Larry Grudt, Keys in the City director, said he started the program as a way to provide cool art installations in the Lansing area. He said he quickly found that the pianos help build community.
"People see these pianos in town, whether people are playing them or not, and it will make a statement about your community," Grudt said. "It's inviting, it's welcoming, it's enjoyable and it's very friendly."
Charlotte Mayor Tim Lewis said Keys in the City represents another step forward for Charlotte.
"When we start physically changing downtown, whether it be with storefronts, pianos, maybe some traffic relief, people are going to see Charlotte in whole a new way. We're not trying to be the fanciest group on the block, but we are going to be the best."
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Alt-J open for Soundhalo app, lets you instantly buy gig footage
A new Android app means you'll never have to hold up your phone and record grubby bootleg footage again -- or go to a gig for that matter.
Nick Hide
May 17, 2013 5:55 AM PDT
Soundhalo is a new Android app that means you'll never have to hold up your phone and record grubby bootleg footage again -- or go to a gig for that matter.
The app, which is currently in beta but readily available on the Google Play store, launched last night at a gig by Mercury Prize-winning acoustic jazz-dubsteppers alt-J.
The pitch is simple, the tech and context much less so. In theory, as soon as a band have finished playing a song it's available to buy on the Soundhalo app, with professional video and audio straight from the mixing deck.
The quality of the videos from the alt-J gig is really classy, and if you're a huge fan of the band they're probably worth the £1 each Soundhalo is charging. The whole 16-track set is £6, and the files are DRM-free M4V/MP4s that you can download on your computer as well as your phone. That's not bad if you're a completist, or couldn't get hold of tickets -- you needn't have been to the gig to buy them, obviously. It might just be an introductory offer, however, as the company won't say whether that'll be the set price for every gig.
Naturally it has all the social gubbins everyone seems to build in nowadays, so you can share tracks with Soundhalo-using friends and boast on Twitter about how you can be seen in the crowd, boxed off your minky on wobbly eggs.
It's not without problems. Firstly, you have to log in with Facebook to use it, which opens the 'what am I really sharing here?' can of worms, and but<|fim_middle|> on something like this? Is it better than waving your phone in the air like you just don't care (about the person behind you)? Dive headfirst into the comments moshpit, or crowdsurf over to our Facebook page.
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Discuss: Alt-J open for Soundhalo app, lets you instantly buy gig footage | ts you up against Facebook's unreliable authentication system (I needed three texts from the thing to make it work).
To be fair, it didn't put anything on my profile, but it did email my associated email address telling me I'd registered "to be a part of the evolution of live music", which struck me as presumptious. I'd expect an email if I'd registered with an email address, but I've only logged in with Facebook.
Secondly, and more importantly for the future of the service, it has to sign up each band individually, and have an engineer produce all the files.
"The Soundhalo production team take video and audio feeds directly from the venue," the startup explains, "and utilising the fastest broadcast connectivity, delivers those files to the Soundhalo studio where mixing, mastering and grading take place by the expert ears and eyes of world class mastering engineers."
That doesn't sound like it will 'scale', in industry parlance -- there are a huge number of gigs around the world every day, and the chance of your gig being on this app would seem to be slim, at least at first. If it were sufficiently successful to attract the backing of a major label, that might change.
Nevertheless, it's pretty cool that it's even possible to buy live footage so quickly, and if you're a fan of live albums it could be a major winner. "I think the future of music and technology as an artist," enthuses alt-J's Gus Unger-Hamilton, "and looking at how artists and fans interact, is really exciting."
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Hello ... Hello ... my old friends ... It's great to see you once again! It was a case of it being so good that I had to see it twice as Jasper Carrott, Bev Bevan and Co. arrived in Dudley on Thursday 16th October with their Stand Up & Rock!<|fim_middle|>rott comic capers coupled with another fantastic musical journey through Sixties and Seventies classics.
ELO Beatles Forever [ELOBF] recommends Stand Up & Rock! to those enlightened folks who enjoy the music of ELO, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move, The Idle Race, 'Brum Beat', The Beatles and related artistes. | show more or less halfway through its highly successful sell-out national theatre tour. Dudley Town Hall was filled to capacity as the lifelong friends were joined by Trevor Burton [The Move], Geoff Turton [The Rockin' Berries], Joy Strachan-Brain [Quill], Phil Tree, Abby Brant and Musical Director Tony Kelsey for another evening of Car | 73 |
Extremely Loud &<|fim_middle|> of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity, who are all survivors in their own ways. Ultimately, Oskar's journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: love.
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, James Gandolfini, Jeffrey Wright, Joseph McKenna, Max Von Sydow | Incredibly Close
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Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close tells the story of one young boy's journey from heartbreaking loss to the healing power of self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the tragic events of September 11.
Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey—an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs | 144 |
<|fim_middle|> street. The rich structure of the houses, which is still largely preserved today, creates a particularly picturesque, self-contained area, which stands under monument protection as an ensemble. The eleven preserved historic buildings of this street are also listed as individual monuments under monument protection. More recently are the main administration of the E.ON energy group as well as an urban nursery (No. 14) and a student residence (No. 16).
The proximity to the Königsplatz made the street an address for the upscale bourgeoisie. Joseph Schülein (1854-1938), lived there until his move to Schloss Kaltenberg (No. 7). His son-in-law, the Jewish surgeon Alfred Haas, operated a private clinic (No. 17 and 19). The publisher Fritz Gerlich (1883-1934) lived until his imprisonment and assassination, in house No. 21.
During the period of National Socialism, the Nazi horse racing organization Kuratorium für das Braune Band von Deutschland located in house No. 7. In House No. 11 a so-called Judenhaus was established.
Several institutions have or have had their seat in the street, such as the former Royal College of Art, today the Palaeontological State Collection with the Palaeontological Museum (No. 10), and the Isar Amperwerke, today E.ON.
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The short street was built in 1897 in the course of the planned development of Maxvorstadt and forms part of the large right-angled street system of this district. It leads from Brienner Straße in the north-east direction to Gabelsbergerstraße. At about the half way point, it curves.
History
The houses of the street were built between 1899 and 1906 mostly designed by the architect Leonhard Romeis (1854-1904). In his design, he cited various architectural periods, keeping in mind the taste of late historicism, to give the impression of a grown | 198 |
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She Lost Her Memory – 15 Years Later, She Remembers Her Long-Lost Son's Name
Joel Balsam
Heartwarming stories like the one portrayed in the Oscar-winning film Lion aren't just reserved for Hollywood movies.
Rama Devi Chowdhary experienced her own storybook reunion story in India when she reunited with her son after 15 years apart.
She struggled with mental illness
Chowdhary was living in Kolkata with her husband and seven-year-old son when she decided to leave for the capital, Delhi. According to Hindustan Times, she had "differences" with her husband and also wanted to pursue her career as a criminal lawyer.
Soon, she worked her way up to a job at India's Supreme Court, but when a judge learned she had symptoms of schizophrenia, police removed her from her job. Chowdhary was sent to a medical research facility where she was treated for nine months.
A long road to recovery
Chowdhary spent the next two years in a government shelter before joining a home for disenfranchised women run by a non-governmental organization called Rahab Center For Hope. While there, she thrived.
"She would keep herself busy reading and writing," said Eunice Stephen, the NGO's founder. "There was tremendous improvement in her condition."
As Chowdhary improved, she couldn't help but think of the son she left in Kolkata. The only problem was, she didn't know how to find him. In fact, she didn't even remember his name.
An improbable flashback
Then, one day, it hit her all of a sudden. She was flooded with memories and remembered her son's name: Mitrajit.
So Chowdhary and Stephen worked together to locate him. One idea was to look for him on Facebook, but Mitrajit Chowdhary is a popular name in India and a bunch of profiles showed up. They messaged all the profiles anyway.
"Hello, do you have a relative called Rama Devi Chowdh<|fim_middle|> seeing where it takes you next.
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Amazingly, Chowdhary's son Mitrajit replied:
"I stared at the screen for the initial few seconds… it was finally happening…my mother had finally reached out, as I always believed she would one day… Without wasting time, I typed 'yes.'"
Mitrajit Chowdhary
Reunited at last
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After chatting via Messenger and video call, Mitrajit – who is now a 22-year-old HR executive living in Visakhapatnam – went to Delhi to meet his mom.
"As I had a closer look, I saw the same childhood face…the only difference is that a beard covers it now," Chowdhary said.
Mitrajit said the meeting was something he'd always dreamed of. "I was a kid when she left… it was a lot to deal with. All my dad had been able to tell me was that she had gone for her career and that she might return one day."
"I had no idea what happened to my mother. There was no source to trace her. I would sit by the beach and think about her..about not having a complete family…but something in me always told me that this will change…she will return one day."
Now that they're together, Chowdhary has quickly jumped into her role as a mom.
"She is already acting like a typical mum, stuffing me with food all the time," Mitrajit said.
Patience will take you far
Stories like this might be rare, but they're reminders that whatever the situation – whether it's figuring out what to do in your career or reuniting with a loved one – sometimes things work out just fine with a little faith.
When Chowdhary took to Facebook to find her son, she knew it was a long shot. But she was determined to get back into contact with him. If you're ever faced with a situation that seems insurmountable, just focus on taking the next step and | 418 |
This chalk portrait of Sir George Gilbert Scott by G. Richmond appeared on the flyleaf of his autobiographical work Personal and Professional Recollections in 1879.
The leader of the Gothic architectural revival Sir Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) joined the Library in 1873. He was knighted in 1872 and styled himself Sir Gilbert Scott<|fim_middle|> son, George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-1897) both appear in the Victorian membership records of the Library. George Gilbert Scott Jr joined in 1872 and introduced his father (who was knighted in 1872 and President of RIBA 1873-76) to membership in 1873. Sir George Gilbert Scott's Personal and Professional Recollections, edited by his son, appeared in 1879: one of the first autobiographies of an architect to be published.
While Sir George Gilbert Scott was an acclaimed Victorian architect, who ran one of the largest architectural practices in Europe, he was not without critics – several of whom are also to be found among the membership records of the Library. The Rev W.J.L. Loftie, the architect J.J. Stevenson and one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, William Morris, all articulated a growing unease about architectural restoration, which John Ruskin condemned as a lie declining a RIBA gold medal during Scott's presidency.
George Gilbert Scott Jr struggled throughout his life with mental health issues and alcoholism. He was confined to Bethlehem Hospital in 1883 and spent several years in and out of hospital. He died of cirrhosis of the liver and heart disease in1897. He was living at the time in his father's famous secular creation: the Midland Grand Hotel (now renamed the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel). While his professional life was less prolific than his father, his own son, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) an influential 20th century architect, considered that "Grandfather was the successful practical man, and a phenomenal scholar in Gothic precedent, but Father was the artist".
Neither Sir George Gilbert Scott nor his son lived long enough to see the unveiling of the London Library's Victorian steel grilled book stacks, circulating hall or spacious 50 ft long Reading Room in 1898. These Victorian spaces however remain at the heart of the Library's activities today. Architectural heritage is easy to spot, it connects our physical environment and our daily lives to the past. Betjeman was right about the Midland Grand Hotel which was given Grade 1 listing in 1967. The Victorian Back Stacks of the London Library are also a listed structure, like the Midland Grand Hotel they too exert a powerful burst of Victorian Gothic in the hustle and bustle of 21st century London Library life.
[i] John Betjeman, London's Historic Railway Stations. London: John Murray, 1972.
[ii] Simon Bradley, St Pancras Station. London, Profile Books, 2007.
[iii] Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England. London: 2 South. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1983. | . He was introduced to the Library by his son, George Gilbert Scott Jr.
George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-1897) an architect and scholar joined the Library in 1872. He was introduced by fellow member, architect Thomas Garner.
This portrait of William Morris by George Frederick Watts appears in The Life of William Morris by J.W. Mackail published in 1899.
In the third instalment of her series on The London Library and The Victorians, Helen O'Neill, our Archive, Heritage & Development Librarian, takes a look at the links between The London Library and a distinguished architectural dynasty founded by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the leading proponent of the Gothic Revival.
The hotel was the creation of Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the founder of a dynasty of architects which continues today and which stretches from The Midland Hotel "the grandest single monument of the Gothic Revival in Britain"[ii] to the power stations at Battersea "one of the first examples in England of frankly contemporary industrial architecture"[iii] and Bankside (now Tate Modern) taking in the Albert Memorial, Waterloo Bridge, the red telephone box and a staggering number of churches and cathedrals en route.
Sir George Gilbert Scott and his | 267 |
You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Can Acquiring New Customers Be Predictable & Profitable?
The Alchemists tried Lotion & Potions, Spells & Incantations trying to transform Lead into Gold.
<|fim_middle|> your products and services?
So if they want to… Earn more money… or Get an ideal job…or Launch a business... Their secret desire is to Feel Successful. I can do this which boost their confidence.
What is the core dominate emotion they have right now?
You see, anyone who buys anything is looking for a transformation. We have a goal. Something we're trying to achieve. So we have things in our life we don't like, that we're trying to move away from.
What will they have after the purchase? How will the purchase transform their lives?
When we get excited about a purchase, it's because there's something we don't have that we want, and we believe the product will give us the thing we're missing. Or there's something we do have but don't want, and our purchase will help us get rid of it.
Your product is a vehicle to get them from point a to Point B Before to After.
You should be describing your end result your market wants to achieve.
Your customers want outcomes (results), not products.
In other words, are you talking about your products or are you talking about your customers?
People care about. Where I'm before & I want t get to the after.
What would that perfect transformation be, so your copy needs to show them what it feels & looks like to get their desired result.
If you're talking before to after you are relevant.
Just think about your prospect pretend you haven't even considered of your products or services.
If you can do & Stop talking about your product bust instead talk about this transformation, you'll be relevant.
So to put in plain English… Are you talking about your Products or are you talking about your Customers?
You must learn to speak to their desired end result.
We don't just want to build the products we want to build we want to create products that take our customers from Before to After State.
Just like the Alchemist of the past, you can convert Leads into Paying Customers (Gold) like a machine – This first stage of making this happen.
Do You Need Help Creating Your Before & After Grids or With Your Digital Marketing? | There has been much debate in the sales and marketing world whether selling can be automated and predictable. Turning a Lead (a Prospect) into Gold (a Customer) is regarded as the Holy Grail for growing companies.
So I guess you're wondering how to create this Sales & Marketing Alchemy?
1 Whom Does Your Business Serve?
How does it change people?
2 What Value does your Business Deliver?
What happens if they don't get your product or service?
3 How does your business articulate the valve to your audience?
To correctly answer the question of whether selling is an art or a science, one must first understand that the foundation of selling is influence. The activities that a sales person engages in (such as pre-call planning, discovering prospect needs, presenting product or service and closing the sale) are done for the purpose of more capably influencing prospects. Influence is essential to selling because information alone will rarely persuade a person to act. What moves people is not merely information, but how that information is presented. This is supported by hundreds of scientific studies that have conclusively proven that a person's perception and interpretation of a persuasive message is shaped by how that message is conveyed.
The process of persuasion is governed by psychological laws, which means that similar procedures can produce similar results over a wide range of situations.
Ok lets assume you have a Great Product.
What's The Core Buying Emotion?
How does your prospect want to feel about their problem/ situation?
Our aim as marketers is to craft a message showing your prospects how your product or services can give them what they desire.
So we want to take their desires and turn it into demand for your product or service.
Our Deeper emotional benefits drive us.
So you need to look at your audience and understand which of these applies to your market as it relates to your product or service.
Check out the 2 lists of psychological drivers. You could call them emotions, desires, feelings. These are the internal forces that, when they reach a certain level of awareness, drive action.
This is more than just offering superficial benefits.
So someone might want to have a beautiful garden, but their real reason is they want to stand out in the community or make their neighbours jealous for having the best garden in the street.
So do you which applies to your prospects which relates to | 464 |
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"Working with Angela has been life-changing. Her approach to personal health and wellness is broad, knowledgeable, and creative. Her welcoming, compassionate, and positive personality put you at ease immediately. She is honest and authentic. Angela is respectful of the goals and objectives you set for yourself and gently holds you accountable for taking action towards achieving or reframing those goals. She is an excellent listener. I highly recommend Angela as a Health and Wellness Coach."
"Angela is genuinely interested in making people the best they can be. She wants to make a difference through education, love and support. Her passion for a healthy life radiates from her as she takes time to explain her dietary choices to anyone who asks.
She helped me work through some thought processes that were holding me back or stifling my progress. Throughout our sessions, she held me accountable for my progress. The biggest change I've noticed since beginning the program has been awareness of my relationships with others and how they affect my overall health, choices that I make, and the need to have boundaries. I have also learned self-forgiveness.
I would recommend working with Angela to anyone who is on an exploratory path to be a better version of themselves. Her coaching goes beyond diet and exercise... she encompasses the whole you!"
"My top 3 goals when I began the program were to run a half marathon, grow my relationship with my<|fim_middle|> ability to communicate with challenging people and that has made my stress level more manageable.
Angela is a great listener who allowed me to work on aspects of my life that were important to me. She is effective, helpful, and with her goal oriented personality kept me focused on my goals.
I would recommend her to anyone looking to improve their lives personally or professionally."
"Angela was able to help me work towards my goals by pushing me out of my comfort zone: 'if you want to see big changes you have to make big changes.' She supported my goals and made suggestions on how to meet them. She was positive and motivating each and every time I talked to her. She listened and let me work through feelings/frustrations. And she was a great wealth of knowledge and resources.
The biggest tangible change I have noticed since beginning the program has been the realization I choose my attitude daily. I exude a new calm, a new ability to stay unaffected by other's moods or things that would normally trigger me. I've discovered the REALLY nurturing things in life aren't food… they are family and friends and spontaneity and enjoying the moment and living in the moment and being with the ones that I love. I feel stronger both physically, spiritually, and mentally.
- I learned about myself when it came to food and my choices.
- I have changed my relationship with food.
- I have learned to crowd out bad foods by eating healthier options first.
- I choose things that make me happy in place of food and use things that make me happy to incorporate into my workouts. | maturing children, and more effectively manage my stress at work.
With the help of Angela, I created a diet and exercise plan, committed to a weekly family meal that we prepared and enjoyed together, and created coping mechanisms for stress.
My biggest change and measurable outcome was the successful completion of a half marathon! I have also had a significant overall change in my | 72 |
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Deep Love Quotes For Her
Everyone wants to experience deep love once in their lifetime. If you are that lucky someone who has it, keep it alive by using our deep love quotes.
by Awaisha Inayat
Estimated 9 min read Updated January 16, 2023
What is deep love? Does it really exist?
Do these questions sound similar to you? You might be even wondering does deep love ever happen. If you have been struggling in relationships so far then you probably have these questions.
Ask yourself a few questions. How deep is your love in the bond? Do you love her like there is no end to it? Do you want to express your deepest feelings of love and affection to her?
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Once you experience the true kind of love, there will be positive changes in your life. Your relationship will continue to grow along the way and your love will deepen.
This change leads people to make their relationship mature in search of the connection they were always looking for to grow into a new deeper level of love.
However, it is not something that's easy to hold on to. Nevertheless, deep love is something that you can definitely find and cherish in life.
Deep love is not exactly the same for everyone out there, so don't get caught up in comparing your relationship to someone else's. However, below are some indicators to determine if you are deeply in love:
Accepting her shortcomings: When your relationship first started, you were most likely blinded to the shortcomings that she had. As your relationship has matured, you are able to see those shortcomings. However, you still accept her just the way she is.
Share everything: When you experience a deeper connection with someone, you want to share every part of your life. You tell her the events of your day because you want to be as much a part of her life as you want her to be yours.
Share your secrets: When you truly love her, you begin to trust her with your biggest secrets, things you wouldn't tell just anyone. It means that you have reached a new level of comfort by confiding in her.
Presence of comfort: Your meet-ups don't have to be grandiose. When your love and relationship mature, you don't care quite as much about where you are, just as long as you're spending time together. You might find that you're perfectly happy just sitting next to her on a couch.
Sense of protection for her: When there is a deep connection, you want to protect her. You hate to see her hurting and want to help make her life easier.
Complete honesty: Healthy relationships are not built on lies. When you love her, you will not want to break her trust and will be completely honest with her.
One of the most successful ways to keep the excitement and love in your relationship alive is to frequently say how much you love them.
However, we often get stuck because we don't have the right words to express ourselves or have any clue as to how to share our deepest affectionate feelings.
Nevertheless, the quotes below contain just the right words to express your deep love for that special and significant person in your life.
The following deep love quotations will be a love-filled arrow to her heart. You will definitely put a smile on her face by expressing yourself along the same lines. She will feel lucky to have you in her life.
"There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love."
"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
"I need you like a heart needs a beat."
"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."
Angelita Lim
"I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you."
"I have tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it's still I love you."
Zelda Fitzgerald
"I lover her and it is the beginning of everything."
"I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you."
Charles de Leusse
"Love was made for me and you."
"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking about you."
"Till I loved I never lived."
Emily Dickson
"Maybe I don't know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I was loved by you."
"Love recognises no barriers."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only with what you are expecting to give-which is everything."
Katherine Hepburn
"Real love doesn't mean you at your best. It meets you in your mess."
"Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear."
Jesica Katoff
"You must love in such a<|fim_middle|>id painted blind."
"We are most alive when we are in love."
"You always gain by giving love."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
"Reason is powerless in the expression of love."
The quotations above will make you a happier man after you express your deep feelings to her. The words will not only melt her heart but will also keep the spark alive in the relationship.
She will look forward to being as deep in love with you as you are. As a result, the bond will be stronger and more mature.
These quotes are your allies. When it seems like you have forgotten your words and have lost your focus, just think of these quotes and you will be back on track to expressing yourself.
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
"Love is a great beautifier."
The feelings you have for her are selfless. It's realizing there is someone out there and you don't think twice about caring for her. It is as if caring for them is as involuntary as breathing.
Such deep love is often unexplainable. When you do find that person in your life finally, you will then be able to differentiate deep love from other kinds of love.
"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
William Shakespear
"I never want to stop making memories with you."
Pierre Jeanty
"I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together."
A. R. Asher
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
"You are nothing short of my everything."
"We need not think alike to love alike."
Francis David
"I like you very much. Just as you are."
Bridget Jones
"Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."
"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your loved was all I ever dreamed."
Valerie Lombardo
"You are the closest to heaven, that I'll ever be."
"My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness."
Andre Breton
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
David Viscott
"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you."
"You call it madness, but I call it love."
Don Byas
"When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul."
"Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day."
Justin Wetch
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
Barbara De Angelis
"Whenever you come closer to me, I feel better and that is because every touch of yours takes me to paradise. You have indeed changed my life in no small way."
It is a heartwarming concept how her differences complement yours. Generally, differences tear people apart, but in this case, differences between the two of you bring you closer.
Deep love allows you to remember the past and how hard it might've been. It reminds you to feel grateful for what you have now. Deep love makes you feel lucky for finding it, just as the quotations below express:
"Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical."
"My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
Ibn Abbad
"I'm much more me when I'm with you."
"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement."
"You are my sun, my moon and all my stars."
"I will never be perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be."
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tau
"Everything I do, I do it for you."
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
"If you love to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to love with you."
A. A. Milne
"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
Katharine Lee Bates
"Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you, you know. Maybe you just need one person."
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."
"Age doesn't perfect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."
"I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect."
"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
"Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"There first time in my entire life that my head agreed with my heart's decision was on the day I first set my eyes on you."
Your passions, dreams, hopes, desires, and innermost thoughts are aligned with hers. You know it is meant to be and you mean the world to each other.
Your deepest feelings for her will last forever, as the quotations below reflect:
"Love loves to love love."
"Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you."
"I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day."
"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will."
Elaine Davis
"My heart is, and always will be, yours."
"I've fallen in love many times… always with you."
"I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end."
"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."
Leo Christopher
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."
"Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
Rosemonde Gerard
"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
"We can only learn to love by loving."
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
"It is love that makes the impossible possible."
Indian Proverb
"To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."
"We sometimes fight and cry, but we also make things right and bright when we tell each other these three beautiful words: I love you."
"A simple I love you from you to me is worth more than all the wealth in this world."
Deep love is about being incredibly weird with her. You realize that you both cannot be that weird in front of anyone else.
It could be slow dancing in the kitchen for absolutely no reason. It is about laughing so hard you lose your breath. It's just the spell that you are caught in with her.
"All that you are is all that I'll ever need."
"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night."
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
"You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning."
"You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because really is finally better than your dreams."
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."
"A life lived in love will never be dull."
"When I connect the dots, they always lead to you."
Perry Poetry
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
"You had me at hello."
Jerry Maguire
"Love is friendship on fire."
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
Erich Segal
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Community Supported Agriculture consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
In a traditional CSA model…
Members share the risks and benefits of food production with the farmer.
Members buy a share of the farm's production before each growing season.
In return, they receive regular distributions of the farm's bounty throughout the season.
The farmer receives advance working capital, gains financial security, earns better crop prices, and benefits from the direct marketing plan.
"Current business models for CSAs are diverse and innovative. Producers have adapted the CSA model to fit a variety of emerging direct marketing opportunities, including:
Institutional health and wellness programs;
Multi-farm systems to increase scale and scope;
Season extension technologies; and
Incorporating value-added products, offering flexible shares, and flexible electronic purchasing and other e-commerce marketing tools."
T. Woods, M. Ernst, and D. Tropp. Community Supported Agriculture – New Models for Changing Markets. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, April 2017. Web: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/CSANewModelsforChangingMarketsb.pdf
https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
AgMap
http://agmap.psu.edu/
Search the Business category for the term Community Supported Agriculture or use the Advanced Search to find a local CSA.
Wilson College, Robyn Van En Center, CSA Farm Database
http://www2.wilson.edu/CsaSearch/
Search State and regional farm directories
Local Food Directories. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service.
Includes directories of farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSAs, and food hubs.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/food-directories
Local Food Directories. ATTRA - The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/local_food/search.php
What is Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture – New Models for Changing Markets. Timothy Woods, Matthew Ernst, and Debra Tropp. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service. April 2017.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/CSANewModelsforChangingMarketsb.pdf
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Kathleen M. Kelley, Lynn F. Kime and Jayson K. Harper. Penn State Extension. 2014.
https://extension.psu.edu/community-supported-agriculture-csa
Community Supported Agriculture: An Introduction. Biodynamic Association.
https://www.biodynamics.com/content/community-supported-agriculture-introduction-csa
Community Supported Agriculture. From: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture
Defining Community Supported Agriculture. An excerpt from "Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide". U.S. Department of Agriculture, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC). 1993.
https://pubs.nal.usda.gov/defining-community-supported-agriculture
Decision Tools. University of Kentucky. Center for Crop Diversification.
http://www.uky.edu/ccd/tools
A Farmer's Guide to Marketing through Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs). Megan L. Bruch and Matthew D. Ernst. University of Tennessee. Institute of Agriculture. December 2010.
https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/documents/pb1797.pdf
Understanding Community Supported Agriculture. Mary Holz-Clause. Iowa State University. Reviewed August 2009.
https://www.agmrc.org/business-development/operating-a-business/direct-marketing/articles/understanding-community-supported-agriculture/
What is Community Supported Agriculture? M.E. Swisher, Rose Koenig, Jennifer Gove and James Sterns. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agriculture, Extension Service. Revised June 2006. Reviewed July 2012.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/cd019
Community Supported Agriculture. University of California Small Farm Program. November/December 1993. An excerpt from Eric Gibson's Sell What You Sow! The Grower's Guide to Successful Produce Marketing. (Auburn, CA: New World Publishing, 1994)
http://sfp.ucdavis.edu/pubs/SFNews/archives/93111/
"The History of Community Supported Agriculture, Part I: Community Farms in the 21st Century: Poised for Another Wave of Growth?" (2004) NewFarm.
https://www.newfarm.org/features/0104/csa-history/part1.shtml
"The History of Community Supported Agriculture, Part II: CSA's World of Possibilities." (2004) NewFarm.
http://www.newfarm.org/features/0204/csa2/part2.shtml
"Eating for Your Community: A Report from the Founder of Community Supported Agriculture," by Robyn Van En. (1995) In Context, Fall 1995, p, 29.
https://www.context.org/iclib/ic42/vanen/
"History of Community Supported Agriculture," Unit 3.1 In Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors. (2016) Center for Agroecology Sustainable Food Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/publications/Teaching-Direct-Marketing/units-1-9.html
It's Not Just About Vegetables. 1986. A video documentary of Indian Line Farm, one of the first Community Supported Agriculture projects in North America. Produced by Mickey Friedman and John MacGruer. Great Barrington, MA: Downtown Productions, 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXvk9k-hmlk
Data collected in 2015 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that 7,398 farms in the United States sold products directly to consumers through a community supported agriculture (CSA) arrangement. CSA's accounted for $226 million (or 7 percent) of the $3 billion in direct-to-consumer sales by farms.
See: Direct Farm Sales of Food. Results of the 2015 Local Food Marketing Practices Survey. December 2016.
See: 2015 Local Food Marketing Practices Survey
Data collected in 2012 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that 12,617 farms in the United States reported marketing products through a community supported agriculture (CSA) arrangement, a .5 percent increase over the 12,549 farms marketing through CSAs in 2007. Information by state also is available.
Table 43. Selected Practices: 2012. In 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data. p. 558. (2014) U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
See the column titled, "Marketed products through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) (farms)" to find the number of farms that answered yes to the question, "At any time during 2012, did this operation market products through a community supported agriculture (CSA) arrangement?"
See also: 2012 Census of Agriculture Highlights: Farmers Marketing
See also: 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture Publications
Unraveling the CSA Number Conundrum. McFadden, Steven. The Call of the Land. Blog. January 9, 2012.
https://thecalloftheland.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/unraveling-the-csa-number-conundrum/
2009 Survey of Community Supported Agriculture Producers. (July 2009) Cooperative Extension Service, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. Analysis of survey findings on the business and marketing practices of 205 CSA farms in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
http://www.uky.edu/ccd/sites/www.uky.edu.ccd/files/2009csasurvey.pdf
CSA 2001: An Evolving Platform for Ecological and Economical Agricultural Marketing and Production. (2005) University of Massachusetts. Analysis and update of previous surveys, with emphasis on the U.S. Northeast.
http://api.ning.com/files/3FyohVhrK-m5eIn2G2jfkF2vpDUXaYlfQtSpRUvy4u2WE1tMaovZ673Tnfo*fd8T3ysBa9ncJb4Z81pTNEIQUaoTvYJIe6Qs/NESAWGCSA2001.pdf
CSA Across the Nation: Findings from the 1999 CSA Survey. (2003) Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Provides the first comprehensive portrait of the CSA movement in the US. Findings from a 1999 national "census" survey show commonalities and diversity among CSA farms.
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/csaacross.pdf
Community Supported Agriculture Entering the 21st Century: Results from the 2001 National Survey. (undated) D. Less, A. Bevis, G.W. Stevenson, J. Hendrickson, and K. Ruhf. Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presents the results of a 2001 survey of 300 Community Supported Agriculture farms in 43 U.S. states. Continues the 1999 survey as described in the report CSA Across the Nation: Findings from the 1999 CSA Survey, above.
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/csa_survey_01.pdf
Community Supported Agriculture in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Results of a Shareholder Survey and Farmer Interviews. (2004) L. Oberholtzer. Future Harvest-CASA. Research from the Small Farm Success Project.
https://www.scribd.com/document/7806331/community-supported-agriculture-in-the-mid-atlantic-region
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in the Midwest United States: A Regional Characterization. (2005) Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1151&context=leopold_pubspapers
Community Supported Agriculture on the Central Coast: The CSA Member Experience. (2003) Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), University of California.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wh3z9jg
Marketing Your Organic Products. In Final Results of the 4th National Organic Farmers Survey: Sustaining Organic Farms in a Changing Organic Marketplace. p. 48-51. (2004) Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF). Survey conducted in 2002.
https://ofrf.org/sites/ofrf.org/files/docs/pdf/4thsurvey_results.pdf
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Additional Information for Farmers
"Community Supported Agriculture," Unit 3.0 In Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors 2nd Edition. (2015) Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/publications/Teaching-Direct-Marketing/index.html
CSA project reports from the SARE database of funded projects.
https://projects.sare.org/search-projects/ 1. Select "Advanced Keyword" Search Option, check "CSA" in the Economic/Marketing category, then select Search. Or, 2. Select "Advanced Keyword" Search Option, select Phrase Search, enter the search string Community Supported Agriculture, then select Search.
Farmers Markets and Direct-to-Consumer Marketing.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/farmers-markets-and-direct-consumer-marketing
Guide to Financing the Community Supported Farm. Ways for Farms to Acquire Capital Within Communities. University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Vermont Extension. 2012. 62 p. Describes alternative financial arrangements and basic legal issues to consider for community supported farm development.
http://www.uvm.edu/newfarmer/business/finance-guide/Guide%20to%20Financing%20the%20Community%20Supported%20Farm_March2012.pdf
Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook. (Revised 2010)
https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/SARE-Project-Products/Northeast-SARE-Project-Products/Local-Harvest
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE). SARE resources include Marketing Strategies for Farmers and Ranchers; and Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses.
https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center
CSA Resources for Farmers. (updated 2011) U.S. Department of Agriculture, AFSIC. List of selected books, articles, videos and web links focusing on the business of CSA farming.
https://pubs.nal.usda.gov/csa-resources-farmers
Eating Local: A Matter of Integrity, by John Ikerd. (2005) University of Missouri.
http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/papers/Alabama-Eat%20Local.htm
Dietary Guidance. USDA, Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library.
https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dietary-guidance-0
Local Food Systems. U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center.
https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/local-food-systems
Community Food Systems. U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, Food and Nutrition Information Center. Links to dozens of publications, programs and Web sites.
https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/community-food-systems
Farmer's Markets. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service. Includes a state-by-state directory.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-directories/farmersmarkets
Food Circles Networking Project. Connecting Farmers, Consumers, and Communities. University of Missouri.
https://foodcircles.missouri.edu/
Food Security Learning Center. World Hunger Year (WHY)
https://whyhunger.org/category/articles/welcome-to-the-food-security-learning-center/
Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues. (May 2010) S. Martinez, M. Hand, M. DaPra, S. Pollack, K. Ralston, et. al. USDA. Economic Research Service. "'This overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems."
https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46395
Local and Regional Food Systems. (2015) ATTRA. National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/local_food/
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture supports three major programs that offer sustainable agriculture information and assistance. Whether you are a farmer, an educator or a researcher seeking more information about sustainable agriculture in general, about a specific crop, or help with a specific problem, these programs can help. Contact information for each program and a description of each program's area of specialization are provided below.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
Provides grant opportunities; maintains diverse portfolio of research projects; synthesizes research results and on-farm experiences to develop books, introductory bulletins and educator guides.
See: What is Sustainable Agriculture?
https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/SARE-Program-Materials/National-Program-Materials/What-is-Sustainable-Agriculture
ATTRA - The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, a program of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
National information service answers questions about specific farming practices and innovative marketing approaches, including organic production.
https://attra.ncat.org/
https://attra.ncat.org/fundamental/
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC)
Collects, organizes and distributes information on alternative agriculture and provides high-level searching and reference services from the National Agricultural Library's vast collection and world-wide databases.
https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic
See: Sustainable Agriculture: Definitions and Terms. (1999)
https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/sustainable-agriculture-definitions-and-terms
Archived AFSIC resources on Community Supported Agriculture include:
1993 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. 1993
CSA Resources for Farmers. 2011
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In his remarks, Kavanaugh signaled he wanted to put the acrimony of the confirmation process behind him.
He said the confirmation process, while it had tested him, had not changed him – as a judge, or in his approach to life.
"My approach to judging remains the same. A good judge must be an umpire, a neutral and impartial decider who favors no litigant or policy," he said. | News.com) – Overseeing the swearing-in of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday evening, President Trump apologized "on behalf of our nation" to him and his family for the ordeal they had gone through during the confirmation process.
"I would like to begin tonight's proceedings differently than perhaps any other event of such magnitude," Trump said at the start of a solemn but also celebratory ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote Saturday, after a drawn-out process marred by allegations of a sexual assault 36 years ago, at a time he and his accuser were in high school. He strongly denied that accusation, and others that emerged during the ugly partisan battle.
Trump singled out for thanks Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – who won cheers and a standing ovation, to which Trump quipped "I think that's the biggest hand he's ever received" – Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and the other ten Republicans on the committee by name.
Watched by an audience including every sitting Supreme Court justice, Trump stood behind Kavanaugh's wife Ashley and daughters Liza and Margaret as Kavanaugh, 53, was sworn in by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, 82, whose seat | 264 |
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Amid the Rubble, Syrian Cities Seek a Postwar Normalcy
Syria's civil war obliterated their neighborhoods. Now, as Assad's government tightens its control, the challenge is to rebuild.
A boy walks in front of a former school and mosque in the Sukkari neighborhood of south Aleppo. The mosque is being rebuilt while most of the surrounding buildings remain in ruins.
By Caelainn Hogan
Photographs by Sebastián Liste
This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.
A wedding at Riga Palace in Aleppo is the first celebration at the hotel in four years, a sign of normal life returning to the city. During the nearly four-year siege, the hotel's owner, Nawras Riga, and 45 employees lived at the hotel, near the front line of the fighting.
On the third floor of a crumbling building, a pink sunset glowed through the clear plastic sheet covering a gaping hole in the wall. Sixty-year-old Amira Garman sat in a powder blue cardigan on a swinging bench beneath a gold-fringed yellow canopy. A broken chandelier with a single bulb doused the little room in shaky light. Through the makeshift window she looked down at Al Yarmouk school across the street, its playground now littered with bullet casings and an improvised cannon.
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Garman's family had lived on the top floor, now a maze of caved-in walls and rubble. "I want to be in my home," she said. They took shelter in this room, one of only two occupied in the building. On their street, shops reopened among the debris; people bustled along with eyes to the ground. As fighting continued elsewhere, a fragile normalcy was returning to Aleppo. But<|fim_middle|> traveled 10 hours by bus from their home in opposition-held Idlib, once a 45-minute trip.
At the public park nearby, photos of pro-government fighters, considered martyrs, were nailed to olive trees—a reminder of Assad's hold on the area. Young men practiced parkour on the grass, cheering on each daring flip. Women sat alone smoking on benches, eyes distant, while pimpled teenagers sipped espressos. In a fancy restaurant nearby, a family threw a lavish baptism celebration. At the Citadel of Aleppo—once occupied by the Syrian Army and still rumored to be used as a military base by Russian allies who have backed Assad's government—a 14-year-old in a pink jacket was visiting for the first time since the war began. "It's so beautiful, but the damaged part is so sad," Maryam said. She had a scar above her eye from shrapnel and was now learning Russian in school. "We hope that Syria will be better again."
During the ongoing Syrian civil war, the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs was the epicenter of fighting. Today this part of the city is nearly abandoned as few families have returned to rebuild their homes. Slowly, steps are being taken to restore the neighborhood and attract residents back to the area.
Among half-collapsed buildings, shop shutters were freshly painted in the colors of Syria's flag—seemingly a mark of protection. A thin 12-year-old, Ahmad Samman cycled past the few intact balconies where laundry hung. His father disappeared during the war. Ahmad was back in school but worked in a barbershop to help his family. Those returning were tasked with rebuilding the area without electricity or water. At night the loneliness of the families there sank in.
Near the international airport in east Aleppo's Karm al Jazmati neighborhood, workers build a road to replace one that was destroyed.
On the city's outskirts, displaced families sheltered in warehouses. "Everything is so expensive now," said Ayasha Khalil, 16. "We have no home."
Back in Kallaseh, Garman's adult son worked to rebuild the family's home. Garman hoped more families would return, but the wounds are still fresh. | the immense task of rebuilding loomed.
Their neighborhood of Kallaseh, in obliterated east Aleppo, had been surrounded by the Syrian Army after the government's months-long siege to reclaim the city from pro-democracy rebels and others opposed to President Bashar al Assad's regime. Once Syria's largest city, Aleppo had been home to nearly four million people, but hundreds of thousands fled. Across Syria millions more have done so during the brutal seven-year war. More than 400,000 have been killed, and the United Nations has accused Assad's forces of using chemical weapons to kill scores of people in several towns.
A boy plays with a soccer ball in front of a gazebo at Aleppo's public park, where families and friends gather to enjoy open-air activities. The park intersects the Queiq River and is a dividing line between east and west Aleppo. Much of east Aleppo was destroyed during Syria's ongoing civil war.
Garman and her family fled to the countryside about three years ago. "We were robbed by the armed group," her husband, Saleh, said, referring to anti-government fighters, many of whom were once his neighbors. Saleh was imprisoned for a year after opposition forces found a picture of the former president, Assad's father, in the family's home. In December 2016 the army reclaimed parts of the city. A year later about 300,000 residents had returned. Many men who return must complete military service.
On a Friday afternoon in Saadallah al Jabiri Square, families ate cotton candy and clambered over giant, multicolored letters spelling out "I ♥ ALEPPO," installed last year for World Tourism Day. Visitors from around the globe used to flock here. A ripped banner on a damaged building read: "Aleppo is your city and needs you to defend her." The square, desolate during the war, buzzed with life. A group of guys chatting about soccer had come from Damascus to study architecture and was traversing the city with maps, plotting its reconstruction. Rayyan Aloulou, 18, took photos with her mother, who had | 439 |
Errors doom Gator baseball in loss to FSU
By Pat DooleyStaff writer
On a perfect night for baseball, Florida played a very imperfect game Tuesday against Florida State.
JACKSONVILLE — On a perfect night for baseball, Florida played a very imperfect game Tuesday against Florida State.
As a sellout crowd of 9,276 watched, Florida committed a season-high five errors that led to five unearned runs for the Seminoles and managed only six hits in a 7-2 loss to FSU. FSU takes a 2-1 lead in the Traveling Rivalry Series (the first two games were in Tampa and Gainesville) with the finale set for April 13 in Tallahassee.
"Games like this against<|fim_middle|> couldn't advance past third. FSU took the lead in the fifth on an error by Preston Tucker at first base after Tapley's two-out double.
"That's a play Preston usually makes," O'Sullivan said. "Even if he knocks it down, they don't score."
An error by third baseman Maddox in the seventh was followed by a double by Florida State's James Ramsey, who later scored on a sacrifice fly.
Florida had its chances to rally but couldn't get the big hit. With two on and two out in the seventh, Tucker's deep fly ball died in the big Triple A ball park and was corralled by Tyler Holt in center. Holt also chased down Josh Adams' line drive in left center with a runner on second in the fifth.
The Gators also struck out 10 times in the game against a pair of Seminole pitchers.
"We had some bad swings out of the zone," said Maddox. "We just have to put it behind us and get ready for this weekend." | a rival have a lot to do with momentum," said Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan. "We could never get the momentum on our side. It's hard for me to put my finger on it. We've played great defense all year."
Florida had committed only 15 errors in 23 games heading into Tuesday night's game, but got things off to a bad start when rightfielder Kamm Washington misplayed Stuart Tapley's pop fly. Tapley later scored the first unearned run of the game.
It kept getting worse.
While Florida's bats were quieted for the most part, FSU kept taking advantage of Gator miscues. An unearned run in the fifth gave the Seminoles a lead they would not relinquish. Two unearned runs in the seventh gave FSU some breathing room and Tapley iced the victory with a two-run homer in the ninth after, you guessed it, another Florida error.
"That's uncalled for," said second baseman Josh Adams of the mistakes made by the Gators. "I take it personally because I'm one of the older guys out there. You won't see that again."
Florida, now 18-6 on the season, returns home for a weekend series against Vanderbilt starting on Friday night. FSU is now 20-4.
"As painful as it is, we have to turn around and get ready for a big series this weekend," O'Sullivan said. "It's really frustrating. Some of our older guys have just got to start playing better, It's as simple as that."
FSU scored first in the top of the second against starter Jeff Barfield, who only pitched to nine batters. Devon Travis' RBI single gave the Seminoles a 1-0 lead, but in the bottom of the inning it was erased when Thompson ripped a line-drive homer just inside the right field foul pole with Kamm Washingon aboard.
That lead lasted only two batters as FSU tied the game off reliever Justin Poovey on Stephen Cardullo' single.
Florida missed out on a chance to score in the bottom of the fourth when Austin Maddox doubled to lead off the inning and | 447 |
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Robert S. Levin<|fim_middle|> be married. You sure you're married?
The guard (Laughs): Pretty funny, Chico.
Chico! Now Mama recognizes him as one of the Marx Brothers. Her eyes grow misty telling him about Gable and the hat. He nods understanding, uses the security guard's phone to make a call that results in a studio pass for us; is briefly our tour guide before halting a tram full of costumed extras heading for distant locations in the vastness of the MGM back lot, and instructs the driver to drop us off close as possible to Gable's set. As the tram starts down the street, he returns my wave and blows Mama a kiss.
A cowboy directed Mama to an oversized trailer outside a soundstage. Gable, dressed in cowboy garb, was relaxing in a director's chair, laughing it up with a pair of stagehands. Mama gasped at the sight of him, took a deep breath, and waited with as much patience as she could muster until the stagehands left and Gable resumed studying his script. Commanding me to stay by her side, she marched the most direct line to Gable and stood staring, silent, hesitant to interrupt him. Finally, he looked up. He saw Mama first, but the smile was for both of us.
"I got something for you," Mama said at last.
"I don't suppose it's the little fellow here." He leaned forward, picked me up, and sat me on his knees.
Mama offered Gable the hat box and launched an explanation.
Gable carefully removed the velour Stetson and held it delicately in his large hands. He studied its contours and smoothed the Stetson knowingly with the backs of his fingers. He tried it on and expressed delight at the perfect fit.
"I have to have a look," he said. He took me into his arms, stood, and urged Mama to follow us up the stairs into his dressing room trailer.
He didn't have to ask Mama twice.
In front of the vanity mirror, he tried the hat at various angles, studying the effect of each position, commenting as the tilt went forward and back, the angle left and right. Finally, he passed judgment. "It's going to be one of my favorites," Gable said.
They talked while I wandered the trailer. When it was time for him to head back to work, he first found two photographs to autograph. After signing one to Mama, he wondered about inscribing the other to my dad.
"That's all right," Mama said. "You can do it again for me." Gable gave her a curious look. "It's in case I lose one."
He broke out what I came to call the Gable grin. "Then please thank your husband, and give him this from me," he said. He gave Mama a hug and a handshake. "And this, Helen, is for you," Gable said. He pushed back the Stetson, took Mama in his arms and kissed her gently on the lips.
That began my infatuation with the movies and, when I was a pre-teen, chasing after autographs.
I was much older, a newspaper guy with the Riverside Press-Enterprise who covered the major studio sneak previews that occurred regularly in town, the year Gable showed up for his Paramount picture, But Not for Me, and got a standing ovation when he entered the theater.
He and his wife Kay settled in the row directly behind my wife, Sandra, and me. I couldn't bring myself to turn and ask him if he remembered Mama and the velour Stetson. Too many years had passed.
Maybe I should have.
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4 responses to "Robert S. Levinson: Clark Gable, Mama, and the Velour Stetson"
What an amazing story! It reads like fiction. I was fascinated. I see why your writing is so successful.
That's a great story, Bob. Makes me love Gable even more.
What a great story! As a Marx Brothers fan I loved to hear about Chico's part in it. I always look forward to your tales about Hollywood. As you know my favorite was the one about the Garden of Allah…
I'm glad your mother's wish came true. I doubt something like that could happen today–security's probably too tight. | son: Clark Gable, Mama, and the Velour Stetson
Robert S. Levinson, who wrote "Little Miss Somebody" in our July/August issue, has been entertaining AHMM readers since 2003. Drawing on his years working in the entertainment industry, Bob infuses his stories and novels with the creative energy of Hollywood, and its destructive currents. His latest novel, The Evil Deeds We Do, is a thriller centered around the music industry in L.A. Here he writes about the source of his fascination with Hollywood.
Hello, my name is Bob.
I'm a show business junkie.
Most of the stories I've had the good fortune to see published in AHMM and elsewhere have somehow dealt with some form or other of show business, set frequently, albeit not exclusively, in the "Golden Age of Movies," an era when MGM boasted that its talent menu offered "More Stars Than There Are in the Heavens" and justified the claim with Garbo, Gable, Tracy, Harlow, Shearer, Powell, Loy, Crawford, Beery, Dressler, Turner, Taylor, Lamarr, Rooney, Garland, the Marx Brothers, and even a couple Barrymores.
I begin this memory voyage back in time with MGM, not studios like Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Fox, RKO, or Columbia, because it was MGM where and when I believe my love affair took root, all thanks due my mother.
She was barely out of her teens then, a devoted Gable fan, who decided one day she had to meet the King, her screen idol. First, though, there was a little obstacle to overcome. The family was in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Gable was three thousand miles away in Culver City.
Mama's solution: We had to move west. My father, a hat maker, had no objection. Gable? Gable was competition for his wife's affection only in her wildest imagination. Besides, Dad was anxious to escape to a new life with the family far from the Brownsville friends he'd grown up with, many of whom had graduated to Murder, Inc.
En route to Los Angeles, Dad found work making hats in Dallas, where he hand-formed a one-of-a-kind velour Stetson for Gable, who (long-arm of coincidence) he'd read somewhere loved and collected hats. Once settled in L.A., with three-year-old Bobby in one hand, an oversized hat box in the other, Mama set off by bus and trolley for Culver City, where the scene at the entrance to the MGM lot went something like this:
Mama: I'm here to see Clark Gable.
Security guard: Is he expecting you?
Mama: (Displays the hat box) No, but I have a hat for him. It's a surprise gift.
Security guard: Sorry, missy. If you're not expected by Mr. Gable, I can't allow you in.
Man (Approaching): Aren't you pretty. You got pretty violet eyes, you know? Is he your little brother?
Mama: He's my son. My Bobby.
Man: Son? You don't look old enough to | 659 |
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Fashion in China needs to move upmarket (China)
There is no question that rising demand for luxury goods will soon make China one of the world's most valuable markets for the fashion sector. But what is uncertain is whether the local industry will transform itself in time to capture some of the spoils, or whether foreign labels will continue to dominate. In order for local fashion brands to become world leaders in their own right, they will need to evolve from merely copying foreign<|fim_middle|> needed here to help develop a deep underlying ecosystem.
These are all important lessons, but the reality is that they need to be adapted to local dynamics. Europe may be considered a diverse continent, but from a fashion perspective it's more homogenous than heterogeneous. The key fashion hotspots and retail areas are deeply understood, major urban markets and demographics change little each year, and disposable incomes are relatively comparable across key markets.
By contrast, China is unchartered territory. Growth is not just limited to the tier-one cities, but across the second, third and fourth tiers too. It is simply not feasible to fully understand the nuances of this huge and constantly changing retail environment. All this makes brand expansion far more challenging here.
Stephane Girod is a research fellow, Accenture Institute for High Performance; Raymond Lau and Wilson Lam are directors of retail with Accenture Greater China. | trends, to creating original Chinese fashion and a vibrant underlying industry.
The prize is significant. Local spending on luxury goods, including fashion, is forecast to increase from $10 billion in 2009 to $27 billion by 2015, or one-fifth of global demand. The brands that currently dominate the high-end market are noticeably foreign: Dior, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and Armani. Even rivals that are pitched at more of a middle-market overseas, such as Zara or H&M, are highly coveted here.
This is a risk. As local incomes continue to rise, upwardly mobile young professionals will increasingly aspire to the high-end. Those that capture their spending will also gain a far higher margin business. But right now, it is the foreign brands that are best placed to succeed here. By contrast, Chinese brands dominate the mass-market, competing on price, rather than on sophistication and allure.
Making this step up the value chain is crucial, but will not be easy. Designer goods from Italy and France carry immediate cachet, whereas the "Made in China" label has become a global synonym for low-cost. This has helped propel China's growth as the world's workshop, but it is essentially toxic for fashion buyers seeking social status.
To adapt, aspiring Chinese luxury brands and retailers could do worse than look to France for inspiration in terms of how the French industry has been developed. Five specific lessons stand out:
1. Aim for the high end. The French fashion industry got its name and legitimacy by long dominating the high end. It understands that fashion relies on several key rules: provide the best quality, an aura of exclusiveness and unparalleled customer service. Starting as early as the 17th century, it has sought to institutionalize this - from brand protection for its haute couture label, through to grands couturiers who define the season's trends in compliance with strict criteria. Although French fashion spans all segments of the market, it is particularly noted in the high end. In essence, haute couture acts as the research engine of the world's fashion industry. By not prioritizing this within China, local designers are missing the ability to build a world-class reputation.
2. Find financial backers willing to take a long-term view. Fashion trends may switch even more rapidly than the change of seasons that they follow, but success in the industry requires a long view. Deep-pocketed angel investors backed both Chanel and Hermes for decades as they evolved. This is crucial for allowing up-and-coming young designers the time to develop into future stars. This is especially relevant for rapidly growing small and midsize local fashion brands, most of which are either self-funded or privately owned. These owners need to consider taking a longer view, reinvesting their profits into developing design talent for the future.
3. Be willing to open up to foreign investors. Local brands should not veer away from foreign direct investment, but recognize that this can be a crucial part of the development of the broader fashion industry. The creation of the Shang Xia brand in 2010, with the backing of Hermes, is a useful example. Although some have decried its foreign backing, the reality is that its designs are based on local materials and crafts, done in collaboration with Chinese artisans. Over time, this will provide the necessary foundation for currently unknown names to develop and launch their own ventures. Local brands need to be willing more willing to reach out to foreign investors: less so for their capital, but more for their design talent and operational expertise.
4. Import and export top fashion talent. All major innovation hubs rely on a diverse mix of cultures and nationalities to succeed. The local fashion industry needs to recognize this. Designers ought to be encouraged to spend time abroad, soaking up ideas, developing expertise and infusing Chinese design into other places, while foreigners should be welcomed here, too. Japan's Issey Miyake and Kenzo both cut their teeth in Paris before developing their own brands. Not only did Japan's fashion industry benefit as a result, but so did France's, not least by incorporating their breakthrough ideas around minimalism and textile innovation.
5. Help create a deeper and wider ecosystem to support the industry. Every industry relies on a diverse ecosystem to succeed, and fashion is no different. Close cooperation is needed between companies, the media, the government and other stakeholders. Elle, Marie-Claire and Fashion TV, among others, all help to promote the allure of French design and fashion weeks, while government helps with tax incentives, intellectual property protections, design schools and broader industry marketing. Even fashion houses collaborate, via professional associations, such as the prestigious Comite Colbert, to help organize promotional events and exchange best practices. All this is | 968 |
New Hampshire NASCAR testing to be open to fans The public is invited to attend the NASCAR open testing sessions at New Hampshire International Speedway scheduled to be held from Monday, April 23 through Wednesday, April 25. The sessions will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. The Main Grandstand will be open free of charge for fans to watch as these teams dial-in their cars for the upcoming season at "The Magic Mile". NASCAR Busch Series drivers Joe Bessey and Ryan Newman are among those expected to test for the CVS/pharmacy 200 Presented by Bayer scheduled for Saturday, May 12. Brad Leighton, 2000 Busch North Series Champion and Lincoln Electric/ARCO Welding Supply NHIS Track Champion, will lead the Busch North Series contingent testing in preparation for the CVS/pharmacy 125 Presented by Bayer also scheduled for Saturday, May 12. Tracy Gordon, Mike Johnson, Kelly Moore, Mike Olsen, Dale Quarterley, and Dale Shaw will be among those on hand looking for the right combination to challenge Leighton in May.
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Miami Winston Cup tickets go on sale Reserved seats for the November 9-11 Pennzoil 400 weekend, the return of NASCAR Winston Cup Series and NASCAR Busch Series racing to Homestead-Miami Speedway, will go on sale to the public for the first time on Monday, April 23, at 9 a.m. The November 9-11 weekend features the Pennzoil 400 for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series on Sunday, and Saturday's Miami 300, the NASCAR Busch Series season finale. Friday's events include practice and qualifying for both the Pennzoil 400 and Miami 300. To order the best available reserved seats, call (305) 230-RACE, visit the Speedway's official web site, www.homesteadmiamispeedway.com, or Ticketmaster Ticket Centers.
David Poole announced as Sigma Marketing Director Sigma Autosport announced Tuesday that Motorsports Marketing executive David Poole will join the team as Vice President of Marketing and Development, a newly-created position with the team. Poole will direct the marketing, sponsorship and business-development activities of one of CART's newest teams.
Team Owner Tom Wieringa said, "David's role will be crucial in the future development of Sigma. We have a strong foundation both technically and as a brand, and now we are looking to building on that foundation over the next year. David is perfect for the job." Poole joins the new Sigma team after more than a decade of progressive experience spanning Formula One, CART and NASCAR marketing programs. Most recently he was Marketing Manager of the Kmart Motorsports Program where he oversaw that company's CART and NASCAR effort. Prior to that position, Poole was Marketing Division Manager for Yamazen Inc., the U.S.-subsidiary of Yamazen Corporation, the world's largest machine tool distributor. In that position Poole initiated and managed the successful 5-year Yamazen sponsorship of Newman-Haas Racing. This program integrated the sponsorship-involvement into all phases of Yamazen's sales, marketing and promotional programs. The sponsorship was a central theme in all U.S. corporate activities, a first for the normally staid machine-tool industry. Managing Director Paul Cherry said, "Sigma is pleased, indeed, to have David on the team. His understanding and experience comes from both the corporate sponsor-side and the team-side of the desk. This is the type of modern marketing background which is crucial in order to grow in the new global world of CART." Vice President of Marketing & Development David Poole said, "The chance to join a new team at this level of competition is rare, and I thank Tom Wieringa and Paul Cherry for the opportunity. Sigma has turned heads this season and have made a strong statement. Performance on track and in early marketing efforts have been excellent. "Motorsport is a serious business and my focus will be to provide a marketing platform second to none for all of Sigma's commercial partners. Winning and losing on-the-track is part of the excitement of racing, however, we have to provide constant victory off-the-track for all of our marketing programs."
Special National Anthem to greet Texas winner When the winner of the Firestone Firehawk 600 presented by Pioneer steps to the podium at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, April 29, it will be music to his ears - thanks to the Texas Wind Symphony. The Fort Worth-based group will perform the national anthem of the winning driver live at the speedway during the medal ceremony. "We are prepared to give the race winner a proper Olympic style sendoff," symphony artistic director and conductor Ray C. Lichtenwalter said. "The most difficult task has been to locate the sheet music for the various anthems, but we have accomplished that and are ready to go." The group will perform the United States national anthem in pre-race ceremonies and then be ready to play the American anthem or one of 11 other countries' national anthems for the Victory Lane ceremony. In addition to the U.S. anthem, the symphony will be set to honor a winner from Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain or Sweden. "Having the Texas Wind Symphony here to play the winner's national anthem adds just another special touch to this race," speedway vice president and general manager Eddie Gossage said. "The elegance and style the symphony brings to the race festivities compliment the international atmosphere of a CART event." The Texas Wind Symphony will feature a 35-piece ensemble on race day at the speedway. The group is in its 14th season and plays a seven concert series at Bass Performance Hall each year. In addition, the symphony has performed throughout the Southwest as well internationally. In 1996, the Texas Wind Symphony received the Sudler Award, the most prestigious North American honor given a concert band.
Lights: Dan Wheldon talks about Long Beach Long Beach is always one of my favorite races of the year. Last year was the first time I had ever raced at Long Beach, and it was certainly one race that I couldn't wait to return to – AND WIN! However, my actual race result this year was not the result I ultimately wanted but, nonetheless, it was certainly more encouraging than the previous race in Mexico. Finishing second is never great, but at least I showed everybody out there that I and my number 1 PacWest Lights/Gemstar Communications car will be a force to be reckoned with in 2001. Long Beach is always a busy race for sponsorship commitments and this year I did something different and, in my opinion, very rewarding. I went on a hospital visit for 'Racing for Kids' – one of the sponsors of e on Friday went very well for me. It was one of those sessions where, although we didn't end up the fastest overall, I knew the car was capable of being there. We knew that for Friday's qualifying session it was important to be up at the front, because the forecast for Saturday was rain. The qualifying session on Friday was cut short at the end and, again, I had the feeling that the car was better than the position of third in which I finished the session. The question of running high or low down-force played on everyone's minds all weekend, so it was interesting to me that the pole sitter was on high down-force, while nearly everybody else was on low! Saturday turned out to be exactly what we expected, wet. The weather forecast was rain on and off throughout the day, but it was very likely to be dry on Sunday. Bearing the forecast in mind, we opted not to run any laps in the morning practice session. We also decided that if it was still wet for the second ques me raise my game. I had a perfect start and on the run down to the first corner I managed to draw alongside my team-mate, and carry enough momentum around the outside of him to sweep into the lead going into the first corner. He had opted for the high down-force setup for the race, and I had stuck with the low and most of the other cars did the same. The next 30 laps I was not really challenged at all, however, I was being pushed. My lead was about one second and, at that point in the race, I became slightly distracted by a small gearbox problem that caused me to make a few mistakes. This allowed the second place driver to close up behind me and, on lap 34, he got a run on me and overtook me at the end of the front straight. After that, I never really got quite close enough to try and re-take the position. So, in my second CART Dayton Indy Lights race, I finished second. Overall the result at Long Beach was not too bad. Now I am really anxious to get to the the next race.
Lauda confirms Burti out after 2001 Jaguar's Niki Lauda has confirmed that Luciano Burti will not be driving for the team in 2002 and that Eddie Irvine will be partnered by current Jaguar test driver Pedro de la Rosa. Burti said: "The team informed me about this in San Marino, but to be honest, it has not been a big surprise and I have pretty much known it already. The fact is that I have always been, and will always be, grateful to Jaguar Racing for giving me the opportunity to prove myself in F1." "It is a great chance for me and if I do well for the rest of the season, my future will be dictated by no one else but me. I still have 13 races to prove myself and that is exactly how I see the rest of the season – as a great opportunity." Given the relative lack of performance by the Jaguar team, Burti's chances to impress another team for next year are slim.
Team Penske prepares for Texas How does Marlboro Team Penske prepare to race at a new and unique track like the Texas Motor Speedway? Preparation for the inaugural CART event, the Firestone Firehawk 600 (April 29), at the Texas Motor Speedway began last season with wind tunnel testing to simulate conditions at the track. Data from last season's Michigan 500 and Marlboro 500 was also analyzed. The aerodynamics package used for the Texas race will be very similar to that used at the California and Michigan Speedways given speeds are expected to be closer to those found at these 2.0-mile super speedways than other 1.5-mile ovals. The key difference, however, is that the turns at Texas Motor Speedway are banked steeper than those at California Speedway. The corner pitch angle at Texas is 24° -- 60% steeper than California's pitch angle of 15°. "The uniqueness of Texas Motor Speedway revolves around horsepower, banking and drag as opposed to other ovals where downforce and handling are the prevailing factors," said Tom German, Race Engineer for the #1 2001 Marlboro Honda Reynard driven by current CART FedEx Series Champion, Gil de Ferran. The Team will analyze data obtained during driver Helio Castroneves' test in Texas this February. Team engineers have taken the data acquired through the telemetry readings and run computer simulations to prepare for the 600 km (375 miles) race. Marlboro Team Penske engineers are also able to look at the surface of the track through computer simulations to determine how the shocks of the car must be modified to run successfully at the new venue. "Given the sophisticated simulation programs and data extrapolation, preparation for the inaugural race at Texas Motor Speedway will actually be fairly similar to preparing for an event at a circuit where we have already raced," noted German. The race at the Texas Motor Speedway will be the first oval race of the 2001 CART season after two road/street circuits in Monterrey, Mexico and Long Beach, CA. A trio of oval races at Nazareth (May 6), Japan (May 19), and Milwaukee (June 3) follow the Texas event. To prepare, the Team will utilize data from several sources. The previous year's race at each venue will be reviewed in conjunction with data from ovals run later last season, which reflects progress made throughout the year. Marlboro Team Penske will be using a new aerodynamics package at Nazareth and data from that event will be used for both Japan and Milwaukee.
CART Teams combine knowledge for success Multi-car teams working together to reach victory lane is an integral part of the CART FedEx Championship Series. This cooperation may well produce a driver standing on the victory podium Sunday, April 29 when CART's stars tackle Texas Motor Speedway in the Firestone Firehawk 600, presented by Pioneer. A total of 28 cars are expected to take the green flag in the inaugural CART event at the 1.5-mile superspeedway. The grid will be composed of 11 two-car efforts and six single-car entities although two of the "single-car" teams have direct ties with multi-car operations. The concept of teamwork will be even more significant on Friday, April 27 as the first official practice sessions are staged. Only a few CART drivers have tested at the highest-banked speedway on the 21-race schedule, making the sharing of data gathered during the practices critical for success in the race. Adrian Fernandez, last season's CART FedEx Championship Series runner-up and a new car owner, realizes the importance that a multi-car operation can have. "We were planning on running just one car this season but then we had the opportunity for Shinji (Nakano) to join our team," said Fernandez. "Having the input of two drivers and two engineers is a huge advantage during race weekends. This allows us to prepare a better race setup for both cars." Both winners in early-season CART FedEx races at Monterrey and Long Beach were from multi-car operations, Cristiano da Matta of the Texaco Havoline Newman/Haas Racing team and Helio Castroneves of Marlboro Team Penske.
Texas forced to ban motorized ATV's For safety reasons, Texas Motor Speedway officials will not allow campers to bring ATVs, dirt bikes, golf carts and the like to the speedway beginning with the April 29 Firestone Firehawk 600 presented by Pioneer. "Because of abuse by some, we can no longer allow our campers to bring such vehicles onto the grounds," said speedway general manager Eddie Gossage. "I have talked with dozens of our regular campers who have voiced their concerns over the growing vehicle problem. Ironically, many of those with concerns have golf carts or scooters themselves, but they see there is a real problem for those who don't act responsibly and they have supported this decision." Speedway officials are trying to reach all campers in advance of the April 29 CART FedEx Championship Series event to notify them of the policy. Campers that show up with ATVs, dirt bikes, golf carts and the like must allow speedway officials to impound the vehicle in a secure, fenced lot before entering the campgrounds. Approximately 40,000 fans camped on the speedway property for the Harrah's 500 earlier this month. While fewer campers are expected for the Firestone Firehawk 600 presented by Pioneer, speedway officials are implementing the policy immediately for safety and consistency reasons. In addition to offering free tram service around the entire 1,500-acre facility, Texas Motor Speedway also provides free shuttles exclusively for the campgrounds. In addition, Texas Alliance Raceway Ministries (TxARM) offers free shuttles to handicapped and elderly fans.
Michael Andretti (#39 Team Motorola): son of open-wheel racing legend Mario Andretti*opened "Race Rock", an international chain of race-themed restaurants, with fellow racing personalities Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, and John Force*has a $1.2 million motor home that he and his family use for race weeks*his helmet design is taken from that of his father's old helmet, only Michael has added the American flag on the bottom.
Cristiano da Matta (#6 NewmanHaas Racing): enjoys playing the guitar and is starting a band with fellow competitors Kenny Brack and Patrick Carpentier*father, Toninho, was an 11-time Brazilian touring car champion.
Gil de Ferran (#1 Marlboro Team Penske): The defending CART champion hails from Brazil*his wife's family owns a publishing company in the United Kingdom that produces, Motoring News, a leading motor sports journal*came to the United Sates as a high school exchange student for one semester. He lived on a farm with a family in Mt. Hope, Wis., where he milked cows after school.
Dario Franchitti (#27 Team KOOL Green): Born and raised in Scotland, he is an avid fan of James Bond movies and fellow Scotsman Sean Connery*a Ferrari aficionado and collector*enjoys working out, riding mountain bikes, snow skiing, and took up golf when he joined Team KOOL Green in 1998.
Christian Fittipaldi (#11 NewmanHaas Racing): nephew of racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi*was chosen as Cosmopolitan Magazine's "Single Guy of the Month", for May, 1998*was chosen as honorary Olympic torch runner in 1996 and carried the flame, bound for Atlanta, in Orlando, Fla*raises cattle in Brazil with his father where the duo manage 6,000 head of cattle*can communicate in five languages-English, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Paul Tracy (#26 Team KOOL Green): owns and maintains an eclectic fleet of vehicles, including three Ron Simms Harley Davidson motorcycles, two mountain bikes, a dirt bike, a 40-foot Skater boat that can reach speeds of 125 mph, and a pair of Paul Tracy model 125cc shifter karts*self-confessed video game junkie who owns three PlayStations*alternative rock music fan with his favorite band being Metallica.
Unfortunately, ride-buying continues in IRL too In this article on Speednet, it sounds like ride-buying is still rampant in the IRL, primarily due to lack of sponsors and the costs being higher than some may think - Hemelgarn Racing is one of the teams which has a spare car -- actually, it has two -- for the right driver. The other teams are Simon, Kelley, Bradley, Menard, Dreyer & Reinbold and Walker. "It's going to take someone with money," said Lee Kunzman, Hemelgarn's team manager. "I'm not going to go through the effort for practice."
Albers to test for Minardi It was today confirmed by European Minardi F1 that Christijan Albers will join the team when it tests at the Mugello circuit, near Florence, this coming week. The 22-year-old Dutch driver comes with impressive credentials, having won the German Formula Three Championship in 1999, followed by a successful season of competition in the FIA International F3000 Championship with European Formula Racing in 2000. This year, he is a member of the official Mercedes squad participating in the DTM (German Touring Car Championship). "We have known Christijan for several years and rate him highly as a talented young racing driver," comments European Minardi F1 Team Principal, Paul Stoddart. "Now that the Formula One teams are back in Europe, our testing program can begin in earnest. We have a considerable amount of work to get through as quickly as possible, so we asked Christijan to help us out on Wednesday. Needless to say, he didn't have to be asked twice!" Albers will join regular European Minardi F1 drivers, Tarso Marques and Fernando Alonso, at Mugello as work begins in earnest on unlocking the full potential of the team's neat PS01<|fim_middle|> page that take you to the latest 2001 scanner frequencies.
4/13/01 AJ Foyt enters Robbie Gordon in Indy 500 AJ Foyt has entered a car for former NASCAR and CART driver Robbie Gordon in this years Indy 500. That makes brings close to half the entries being current or former CART drivers. Gordon came within one lap of winning the Indy 500 in 1999, running out of gas on the last lap in one of John Menard's cars.
4/13/01 Minassian tests wall at Indy, Castroneves fastest Target Ganassi driver Nicolas Minassian got his first taste of hitting a concrete wall at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today when his engine seized and he hit the front stretch wall coming out of the 4th turn. Minassian was wearing a HANS Device. He was taken to the hospital for x-rays but everything turned out OK. He complained of a slight sore neck. Minassian was at Indy for rookie orientation. Meanwhile Helio Castroneves turned in the fastest laps of the day at nearly 220 MPH. Rookie practice continues Saturday, and then Michael Andretti moves in Sunday and Monday.
4/13/01 Jonny Kane to test Arrows F1 car Jonny Kane has a busy week ahead when he will be testing for both MG Lola and Orange Arrows. This is an exciting time for the young Ulsterman with many new driving experiences and opportunities. Jonny will travel to Albacete on Sunday to test for three days with MG in preparation for their return to Le Mans in June. Jonny has signed with MG to race at the prestigious Le Mans race and is looking forward to his first test in the new MG Lola LMP675. "I've been getting pretty restless lately after a much longer winter break than I'm used to, so it will be great to get back on a circuit. The MG had a successful test earlier this week and I can't wait to experience it for myself. Endurance racing is a new challenge for me but one that I'm really looking forward to. The initial running seems to have gone well and the driver line-up is very strong so I'm extremely positive about our performance." Kane will then travel onward to Vairano to test with Orange Arrows on Thursday and Friday. Kane had an unexpected test with the Formula One team last week when their contracted drivers were unavailable and is delighted to be given the opportunity to go on a second test so soon. "It was fantastic to get the chance to get back in an F1 car and work with such a professional group of people. I was really impressed by the way the team worked through their program, and hopefully the aero work we did will be beneficial for the rest of the season. I'm looking forward to having another run next week and I'm only too happy to fill in any time in the future if the opportunity arises."
Lower HP? Food for Thought UPDATE As a follow-up to our previous warning - CART lowered the boost from 40" to 37" this year. That took about 50 HP out of the cars (down to about 850 HP) and lowered the torque. That was enough to make it almost impossible to pass at both Mexico and Long Beach as the braking zones got a bit shorter and the torque out of the corners was lower. Just wait and see what happens if the engines are reduced to 750 HP. If CART wants to increase passing on road and street circuits, give them 1,000 HP. That should make the terminal velocity plenty high, the braking zones longer, and passing a bit easier. Put another way, if you race 25 HP lawn tractors the braking zones will be 6 inches long and no one will ever pass. The IRL engine solution will not work for CART. If CART really feels compelled to adopt a normally aspirated engine, than do it with a 2 orifice system. Big orifice for road and street circuits making 900 HP and small orifice for big ovals making 700 HP. From what we are told, the engine will be essentially identical and the HP and Torque curve the same for both, the difference being the small orifice engine curve flattens out sooner. This is the system the IRL should have adopted to control speeds. It would have then given CART an avenue to adopt the same engine specs but with a different size orifice. The rev limited, fixed bore spec engine the IRL has mandated is wrong for CART, and that's really too bad because the IRL had the chance to do something that could have worked for both series, but chose to ignore the advice of Toyota and Ford. Now you know why CART has not been willing to adopt an engine similar to the IRL. It does not work for them. 4/10/01 There are some folks in the CART community who think the engines should be lowered to 700 to 750 HP as that is where it was back in 1995 when the racing was pretty good. What they fail to realize is that the cars/teams/drivers are more equal now than back then, when it was easier for a fast guy to overtake a slower car/driver. In fact lowering the HP is going to make overtaking even worse. With lower terminal velocity, the straight speeds will be lower hence the braking zones will be much shorter. On the street and road circuits, that's where the passing is done. Lowering the HP to 700 to 750 and shortening the braking zones may eliminate overtaking altogether unless a driver misses a shift. We like Ford's idea of a sharp edged orifice for the big ovals where you want HP reduced. They claim it won't require an entirely different engine design, just a different sized orifice for the big ovals, and maybe none at all everywhere else.
4/12/01 CART FANatics wanted Texas Motor Speedway is looking for a few good race fans who are real CART fanatics. The CART FANatics contest will give 28 lucky winners, who will each be paired with one of the drivers, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend the CART FedEx Championship Series Firestone Firehawk 600, presented by Pioneer, as well as participate in the pre-race activities with their selected driver. We think this will be a really unique way to involve our fans," said speedway general manager Eddie Gossage. "We're very excited to have this great international series and we know that these twenty-eight lucky fans will be even more enthused than we are." Each winner will receive two seats in the new Victory Lane Club for the race, as well as two Motorola Radio Shack Qualifying Day tickets, a pre-race garage tour, a FedEx goody bag and a ride in the Transporter Parade on April 25 from Cowboys Arlington to the speedway. Winners will each be paired with a driver by randomly selecting one of 28 sealed FedEx boxes prior to the Transporter Parade. The fan who is paired with the winning driver will also attend the post-race Champagne Toast in The Speedway Club and receive a one-year Speedway Club membership. Entry forms for the CART FANatics contest are available at the speedway ticket office through April 23 during regular ticket office hours. The winners will be selected by random drawing and notified by April 25. Winner's names will also be posted on the speedway website at www.texasmotorspeedway.com.
Dr. Bohannon reverses decision on Earnhardt accident Dr. Bohannon, the physician who said a faulty seat belt might have been responsible for Dale Earnhardt's death at the Daytona 500 admits that he was quick in blaming the restraint system. "I was trying to answer the questions the media and the public had to the best of my ability and I think I speculated more than I should have," Dr. Steve Bohannon told The News-Journal of Daytona Beach on Wednesday. "Sometimes you should just say it's too early to speculate." Bohannon, the director of emergency medical services at Daytona International Speedway, withdrew his assumption after a court-appointed medical expert said restraint failure didn't play a role in Earnhardt's death Feb. 18. Dr. Barry Myers, a Duke University professor who made his report public earlier this week after looking at Earnhardt's autopsy photos late last month, is "more qualified to determine the cause of death," Bohannon said. Myers' report was the culmination of an agreement between the Orlando Sentinel and Dale Earnhardt's widow, Teresa. Five days after the crash, Bohannon raised the theory of a faulty seat belt system as a possible reason why the seven-time Winston Cup champion died. At the time, Bohannon was the only doctor to see the racer's autopsy photos.
4/12/01 Freestyle Motocross Show in conjunction with CART race at TMS X Games freestyle motocross stars will gather at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track Saturday night, April 28 for the Young Chevrolet AirMX Challenge, presented by KZPS. The freestyle riders will present a complete program that will include a variety of aerial moves and tricks. Leading riders seen at the X Games and the Gravity Games will be seeking the top prize of $10,000 from the $54,000 purse. Current AirMX Challenge point leader, Clifford Adoptante, the "Flyin' Hawaiian," will lead the talented group into the competition. Adoptante won the first AirMX Challenge event at Winston-Salem, N.C. and captured one of the two nights of jumping last month in Tucson, Ariz. Other leading freestyle artists expected are Oklahoman cowboy Kenny Bartram, Kris Rourke, Jeff Tilton, Trevor Vines and the Metal Mulisha's Brian Deegan and Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg. A total of 20 riders will compete in two rounds of 1.5-minute routines over the course that will include 1,400 cubic yards of dirt and three giant steel ramp jumps. The top five riders after the two rounds will compete for the $10,000 prize. Also part of the program will be the popular "Step Up" competition, a motorcycle high jump that features riders more than 35 feet in the air. Gates for the Challenge will open at 6:00 p.m. with the competition kicking off at 7:30 p.m. Alcoholic beverages will be sold during the evening at the Dirt Track which will prevent spectators from bringing their own alcohol into the facility due to state law. The Challenge will be in conjunction with the Firestone Firehawk 600, presented by Pioneer, CART FedEx Championship Series weekend.
4/12/01 Da Matta to appear on RaceWeek Sunday Texaco/Havoline/Kmart driver Cristiano da Matta will appear on SpeedVision's show "RaceWeek" on Sunday, April 15 at 7:30 PM ET to discuss his lead in the CART FedEx Championship Series as well as his new relationship with Newman/Haas Racing. The show will reair at 11:30 ET. Da Matta and Kmart Toyota driver Christian Fittipaldi head to Round 3 of 21 on April 29 with the running of the inaugural Firestone Firehawk 600 at Texas Motor Speedway. Fittipaldi is the reigning CART oval track winner after driving to victory in the 500-mile Marlboro 500 CART season-finale at the California Speedway in Oct. 2000. Da Matta has two top-two finishes in the first two events since joining Newman/Haas Racing, which has won two of the past three events in CART as well as finished second in the other.
4/12/01 CART comments on ISL counterclaim Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (NYSE: MPH) today commented on the counterclaim filed by ISL Worldwide. The counterclaim was filed in the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland, State of Michigan, as a part of the Answer, Affirmative Defenses, Counterclaim and Setoff in the case filed by the Company against ISL Worldwide. It seeks damages in excess of $150 million, plus punitive damages in an unspecified amount, interest and attorneys fees. Deborah M. Schneider, Vice President of Legal Affairs, stated that the Company believes the allegations to be without merit and that the Company intends to vigorously pursue its case against, and defend against the claims made by, ISL Worldwide. CART filed a complaint in Oakland (Mich.) County Circuit Court on February 28, 2001seeking compensatory and consequential damages in excess of $100 million against ISL Marketing AG, which had served as CART's exclusive worldwide marketing agent since 1998. In the suit, CART alleges fraudulent inducement; breach of the agreement; and failure by ISL to pay more than $6 million due to CART with respect to its 2000 guarantee.
4/12/01 Carpentier awaits medical clearance Team Player's driver Patrick Carpentier, who is back from Indianapolis following the operation on his left wrist performed by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Terry Trammell last Tuesday, fully expects to compete in the next race in the CART series, although he is still awaiting medical clearance. "The surgery, which lasted two hours and a quarter, was a complete success, but with nine new screws and two metal plates in my wrist, it seems like I'm coming back from the hardware store instead of the clinic," explained Carpentier with his customary wit. "Even though Dr. Trammell didn't want to confirm right away that I would be able to race in Texas, he told me that he would be very surprised if I had to miss the race." In an effort to speed up the healing process, the Canadian driver will undergo treatments in a hyperbaric chamber over the next few days. Carpentier will test his wrist driving his kart in Las Vegas during the week prior to the April 29 race in Texas. He will then be re-examined by Dr. Trammell. "I'm still lucky in my misfortune because it's not a fracture that takes a long time to heal," explained Carpentier, whose car came into contact with that of Max Papis on the 54th lap of last Sunday's race in Long Beach. "I don't want to come back too soon but, ironically, my wrist is definitely more solid now than it was before the accident. That's why I don't foresee any problem.
4/12/01 What's overlooked in CART A reader from Ireland writes - With all the talk about engines and the IRL, people are overlooking some key facts about CART. At this time we should be toasting CART's ( or Manufacturers) success, and congratulating it (them) on producing the most even and competitive form of top-class motorsport in the world! All that seems to be mentioned these days is attendance, Indy, Engine formula....No one actually mentioned the fact that during the Long Beach GP, just how equal all the cars were. The top ten were running nose-to-tail during the middle and with the vast majority of the field (top 15) on the lead lap!!! (similar for Mexico). OK LB and the street courses are difficult to overtake on but no one seemed to be holding the pack up and creating a traffic jam behind them ( Compare with F1). Such a level of competition didn't happen overnight. CART has changed a lot since its pre split days. CART lost a lot of its "Weakest Links", there are few disadvantaged teams out there Ford, Honda, Toyota, Reynard and Lola supply competitive equipment. If anything, it's going to be the best year of CART racing in its 23 year history. One thing for sure, no other racing series in the world provides such levels of competitiveness. Even F3000 with its identical cars, doesn't even have the competitiveness CART has. Just a comment on the Engines, while I'm nowhere near being an expert, the surprising stat is that the current 2.65 liter Turbos are 23 years old!!! For all the IRL ideals of cost-effective machinery, their engines have undergone 3 different specifications since its birth (1996). Every 3 years a completely new engine has to be provided. How long before they ditch the 2003 spec? F1 can't do anything about its engines, they get more powerful every year, and in 1997 the FIA narrowed the chassis and introduced grooved tires.
4/12/01 Gil de Ferran says IRL's 650 HP not enough In a recent visit to Texas Motor Speedway, Gil de Ferran had this to say to AutoRacing1 "Let me tell you what my thoughts are. I have very specific thoughts about that. I like the fact that our cars have 900 horsepower. I think it makes them difficult to drive. I think it makes them challenging, and makes them selective. Not everybody can pedal 900 horsepower either around a speedway or around a street circuit. To put that down on the ground requires skill, more skill than it does putting 600 horsepower down on the ground. So making the cars fast and powerful, in way, it's attractive to me because it makes them more difficult. And the more difficult it is to me, the better. So I think whatever they do, I don't care if they go turbo engines, V-10s, V-8s, V-whatever, to me the important thing is that the cars remain difficult and challenging to drive."
4/12/01 Panasonic to sponsor Scott Dixon The PacWest group has picked up Panasonic as a sponsor on Scott Dixon's car. PacWest has formed an alliance with Swift Engineering and its owner, Hiro Matsushita, whereby Swift and PacWest share wind tunnel and other data, in exchange for PacWest picking up the Panasonic sponsorship..
4/12/01 IRL's new star Sam Hornish Jr. a CART grad Did you know that Sam Hornish competed in CART the 3rd rung of CART's ladder system, the Toyota Atlantic Series, in 1999. He won one race and had one fastest lap that year. The Toyota Atlantic series is a good place for young drivers to hone their skills. The road race and oval skills Sam learned in CART in 1999 is serving him well in the IRL where he has suddenly become that series new hot shoe.
4/12/01 TMS offers CART race ticket deals Texas Motor Speedway is offering a package deal for the April 29th CART race. The Nabisco Family Four Pack includes four grandstand tickets, four hot dogs, four soft drinks and four Nabisco snacks for $79.99, a savings of more than $120. Race fans may also obtain free Motorola Radio Shack Qualifying Day tickets for April 28 at 165 area Radio Shack outlets.
4/12/01 F3000: Lola wins new chassis contract Lola has beat Italian rival Dallara to win the contract to build the new Formula 3000 chassis. The series will continue to use three liter V8 engines from Zytek and Avon tires. Despite moves to bring the category in line with F1 by introducing grooved tires, the cars will be sticking with entirely slick rubber, but with a new and revised compound.
NASCAR rescinds penalty on Andretti team On April 11, 2001, the National Stock Car Racing Commission heard and considered the appeal of Petty Enterprises. The appeal pertained to a $20,000 penalty issued by NASCAR to Greg Steadman, crew chief of the #43 car following the March 25, 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. In addition to other matters arising from the appeal hearing, the commission considered the issue of non-conformance to rules specifications at the conclusion of a race based on a claim of racing conditions or racing contact. In most cases, a claim of racing conditions or racing contact is not sufficient to reduce or rescind a penalty in the eyes of the Commission. The Commission notes that non-conformance to specifications at the conclusion of a race may occur by design so as to gain an advantage. The Commission recognizes and reaffirms that, per Section 8-7 of the Rule Book, NASCAR Officials have the flexibility to exercise discretion in matters pertaining to racing conditions or racing contact and to evaluate each claim on a case-by-case basis. The commission feels strongly that, unless it can be determined that the non-conformance was directly attributable to racing conditions and to no other plausible explanation, a penalty would have been correct. However, during the appeal hearing the Appellant made a persuasive argument that the only plausible explanation for the height variance at the conclusion of the race was the cracked chassis welds resulting from the conditions of the race. It is extremely unlikely that a cracked chassis would have occurred by design. Further testimony indicated that the resulting height variance did not provide a significant competitive advantage over other competitors. Therefore, it is a unanimous decision of the National Stock Car Racing Commission that the penalty is hereby rescinded.
4/11/01 Atlantics: Ryley & Cosmo make debut in Long Beach Grant Ryley and Guy Cosmo both made their CART Toyota Atlantic Championship debuts this weekend at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, as part of the World Speed Motorsports Toyota Atlantic team. Ryley clearly established himself as a leading contender to challenge for this year's championship, while Cosmo continued to impress with every consecutive lap in an Atlantic car. For Ryley, who will compete in the entire 12-race 2001 CART Toyota Atlantic season for World Speed Motorsports in the #14 Northwest SpeedWerx/Cupertino Electric/Velocity Ventures/Del Monaco Specialty Foods Swift, it was a bittersweet weekend as he qualified fifth and ran near the top of the charts throughout practice and qualifying. While lining up for the start of the race, Ryley's gearbox locked into first gear when part of a fractured reverse gear lodged itself in the transmission. Unfortunately, Ryley's race was over before it had started. "It was really a mixed weekend," said Ryley, of Saratoga, California. "The team did a super job and, overall, we feel very encouraged about everything. Qualifying was great and up until the race, we were going faster in every session. We definitely could have been in the top three, but sometimes that's just the way it goes in this sport. The gearbox was just one of those fluke things that happens once in a million laps. But, it's behind us now so we'll focus on the next race at Nazareth." Cosmo, who drove the #15 Martini Sunglasses/Ironclad Gloves/World Speed Motorsports Swift for a one-off ride at Long Beach, equally impressed in only his second day and first race appearance in an Atlantic car. While he set his 12th starting position in the first qualifying session, Cosmo took the field by surprise by setting the third fastest time in the rain-soaked second session. However, because of the wet conditions, the times from the dry, faster first qualifying session determined the final starting grid. In the race, Cosmo quickly began moving through the field, avoiding a first-turn melee and finishing ninth overall to score his first-ever Atlantic championship points. "I had an absolute blast this weekend," said Cosmo, of Long Island, New York. "Considering we were on a pretty steep learning curve, I'm very happy with how things turned out. I had only been in an Atlantic car for one day of testing before this race, so every lap brought more speed, comfort and familiarity. With more laps, I'm certain that we would have finished higher but, for me, it was a very successful weekend. I really owe this to Chuck West for providing me with this opportunity, and I hope to run some more races this year with the World Speed team." "Grant and Guy both did outstanding jobs this weekend," said West, team owner. "It's unfortunate that Grant's race had to end the way it did, but I think we showed that we have what it takes to challenge for the championship. Guy also had an impressive debut and considering he had virtually no time in an Atlantic car really demonstrates his talent and potential. I hope we can put the pieces in place to run Guy some more this year. In the meantime, we'll focus on Nazareth and do what we need to do to keep Grant up front." ESPN2 will broadcast the Long Beach round on Sunday, April 15th at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, with an encore presentation scheduled for Wednesday, April 18th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. The 12-race 2001 CART Toyota Atlantic Championship season continues on May 6 in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, as part of the Bosch Spark Plug CART FedEx Championship weekend.
4/11/01 Jim Russell continues S.T.A.R.T. scholarships Last November, kart racers Phil Carlson, Dominic DeJacomo and Robbie Mott, won the grand prize of a fully funded scholarship to the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School at the Horstman HPV Pro Invitational. Today, Carlson and Mott are in the top five in the USAC Formula Russell Championship series, and all are on their way to becoming professional formula car drivers, thanks to the Series to Advance American Racing Talent, S.T.A.A.R.T. "The relationship with the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School has provided our young kart racers with the skills they need to perform at the next level in their careers," said Marvin Justus, vice president of Horstman Manufacturing. Justus created S.T.A.A.R.T three years ago to give kart racers a national event that would allow them to showcase their talents in a series where the driver and his or her ability to set up their chassis was the determining factor in a race. The Jim Russell school became a partner in the program in 1999 providing two courses and four races to each of the top three drivers of the Pro Invitational. "We are excited about at how well these drivers are doing in the series this year," said Kjell Kallman, Russell's director of sales and marketing. "The Jim Russell school has always been very supportive of racers who come up through the ranks of karting and we are proud to continue our relationship with this outstanding program." Jim Russell will provide S.T.A.A.R.T with three scholarship packages that provide a step up into formula car racing. Top karting drivers who participate in the HPV spec motor class in WKA, IKF, and KART will be invited to the Pro Invitational at the North American Championships on November 2 - 4 in Charlotte, NC. The top three drivers in the main event will all receive the coveted prize package valued at over $11,000.00 per driver of a Techniques of Racing Course, Advanced Racing Course and sponsorship to compete in four USAC Formula Russell races from Jim Russell and Horstman Manufacturing. Previous graduates of the S.T.A.A.R.T program include Landon Yee, third place in the 2000 USAC Formula Russell Championship; Cory Turner, third place in the 2000 Russell/USAC Triple Crown Pro Series; David Mayhew, last year's winner of the STAART US F2000 ride at Road America. Mayhew and Turner are returning to the Triple Crown this year.
4/11/01 Herbert lands LeMans drive with Audi In addition to testing for the CART Sigma team next month with an eye toward landing a ride in a second team entry in time for this years two European races, former Le Mans 24 Hours winner Johnny Herbert will return to the French endurance classic this summer. He will race one of Audi's all-conquering R8s. The 36-year-old Englishman will replace ALMS regular Dorsey Schroeder in the Champion Motorsports team, lining up alongside Ralf Kelleners and Didier Theys.
"Most important event of the year"
The US-equivalent to Formula 1, the the CART-Series, which will celebrate it's premiere on Lausitzring on September 15th, wants to strengthen it's presence in Europe and eventually host a second race on the new track.
The first race in England follows seven days later. "We plan to hold more than those two events in Europe," Joseph F. Heitzler, president of the owner holding announced in Long Beach.
The race in the Lausitz-region, the 16th of 21 races this season, is, according to Heitzler, "the most important event this year, because we are coming to Europe for the first time."
That is why the president, whose position is comparable with that of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, wants to get an on location personal impression of the, Eurospeedway, which opened in 2000, later this month.
Two races a season in Germany?
The guest comes with the suggestion in his luggage, not to leave it with one race on German soil. "We could hold two races on the Eurospeedway Lausitz, one at the beginning and one at the end of the season," said Heitzler. So far, 30 000 tickets were sold for the race called "German 500" on Lausitzring on September 15th. The organizers expect at least twice as many visitors.
Earlier today - We had a hard time translating from German to English, but the best we could make out of an article that appeared in the German publication Sport 1 is that CART might consider more than one race in Germany. The same article says that about 30,000 tickets have been old so far, but when we spoke to the promoter at Long Beach this weekend he told us over 50,000. They will need to make a big push to fill the 120,000 seat stadium. | chassis. "It was my birthday yesterday, and this is the best present I could have," says Albers. "I am very excited at the prospect of helping European Minardi at this test. I know many of the people on the team already from my time with them in Formula 3000. For sure, it will be a huge challenge to get to grips with the performance of a current Formula One car and hopefully provide some useful feedback to the engineers, but it's a challenge I can't wait to take on."
Food for thought One of the main reasons given as to why the IRL was created was to provide more opportunities to young American drivers. CART, it was said, was comprised of too many ride-buying foreign drivers (although this myth was dispelled in this article). However, since its inception, a significant percentage of every starting grid for an IRL race has been foreign. And that does not look like it will be ending anytime soon. Six of this years ten rookies who passed their Indy rookie test are foreign born, pretty much dispelling the myth that the IRL is all about providing opportunity for young American short-track drivers. 13 of the total 38 drivers entered are foreign born. We, however, see nothing wrong with foreign drivers. Our motto - may the best man (or women) win. It's just ashamed that so much had to be made of the foreign drivers in CART, as if they were a bad thing. Certainly CART could use a few more American drivers, if, and only if, they can get the job done. We would have missed out on the opportunity to witness the great talent of a Juan Montoya, or a Jacques Villeneuve, had CART been a all-Yankees club.
Castroneves is just the medicine CART needs This picture, taken by Michael Gonyea, shows just why Helio Castroneves is one of CART's most liked drivers. As you can see, just like Alex Zanardi before him, it does not matter that Castroneves is not an American, if you are colorful, a great driver, and treat the fans with respect, they will become loyal fans whether you are American, Brazilian, etc. Like any other sport, the fans come to watch the best driver/athlete win.
Target Ganassi's Junqueira tops speed charts at Indy Target Chip Ganassi Racing, the defending champions of the Indianapolis 500, returned to the historic 2.5-mile oval this weekend to participate in the annual rookie orientation program. Drivers Bruno Junqueira and Nicolas Minassian completed all phases of the program on Friday morning, allowing them to focus on race and qualifying setups. Junqueira and Minassian are attempting to duplicate the performance of Juan Montoya last year, who took the checkered flag in his first-ever race at the Indy 500. Junqueira, driving the No. 44 Target G-Force/Oldsmobile turned the fastest lap of the two-day session on Saturday morning with a lap of 219.978 mph. Junqueira was happy with the team's performance at the legendary oval. "I am happy about our performance today," Junqueira said. "This test was very good for both me and the team. We were able to do some long runs today and get a feel for how the car reacts as the fuel load goes down. I am still learning how to drive this very difficult oval, but every lap that I make I feel more and more comfortable. On the fast lap that we made, I was flat out for three of the four corners, but the wind caused me to have to lift a little bit in turn two." Nicolas Minassian was involved in an accident on Friday morning when his car had a mechanical failure, causing the rear wheels to lock. The car made contact with the front stretch wall at a speed of over 210 mph. Minassian was transported to Methodist hospital where all of the precautionary tests were negative. He was released from the hospital on Friday afternoon, but did not return to the wheel of the No. 33 Target G-Force/Oldsmobile. Minassian only recorded 21 laps, but still tallied the fourth fastest lap of the two-day session with a speed of 216.085. He was disappointed not to be able to continue testing. "Before the accident, we were having a very good testing session. The car was very fast and easy to drive. In only 20 laps, we turned a lap of over 216 mph. I am very disappointed that we made contact with the wall and ended our testing session. The doctors cleared me to drive, but I was still experiencing some soreness in my neck. So we felt that it was best to just get some rest and be 100% when we come back here to test next week. I really love driving around this place, even though I had the mechanical problem. I am disappointed to not be able to drive any more this weekend, but it is best that I just take it easy and not push it." Team Target Managing Director Mike Hull was happy the results of the testing session. "This was a successful test for us. Despite the mechanical problem leading to the accident that Nicolas had on Friday, overall we are happy with the results. Bruno was able to run a lap of almost 220 mph, and collect over 450 miles of track time. That will be invaluable when we come back here in May to race. I am very impressed with the performance of both Bruno and Nicolas. They did a great job on a track that is very difficult to drive." Team Target will now prepare for the third round of the CART FedEx Championship Series to be held on April 29 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.
DRIVEN webcast tonight TONIGHT (Monday, April 16, 2001) is the Hollywood Premiere of the CART/Sylvester Stallone film entitled "Driven." Warner Brothers will be having a LIVE Webcast of the Red Carpet Arrivals of the Stars, Drivers, and Celebs.....so check it out! It is scheduled to be held TONIGHT at 9:30 PM Eastern time/ 6:30 PM PT. Go to: www.what-drives-you.com and the link should come up in a 'pop-up-box' on its own once you are at the first page.
CART Transporter Parade planned for Texas 600 Fans can get up-close-and-personal with the Champ cars of CART FedEx Championship Series Champion Gil de Ferran, Adrian Fernandez, Michael Andretti, Dario Franchitti and others at the Transporter Parade, Wednesday, April 25, from 7:00-11:00 a.m. at Cowboys Arlington. The haulers of the teams competing in the Firestone Firehawk 600, presented by Pioneer, will display the race cars for fans all morning in the parking lot of Cowboys Arlington and then load up for the 11:00 a.m. parade start to the speedway. In addition to the team CART team haulers, the rigs of the Dayton Indy Lights Series, engine manufacturers and others will participate in the parade. It is anticipated that as many as 75 transporters, led by official speedway pace cars, will make the journey to the speedway that morning. There will be prizes and special giveaways during the Transporter Parade event. Winners of the speedway's CART FANatics contest will each randomly select the driver they'll be paired with for the April 29 race. In addition, the CART FANatics winners will participate in the Transporter Parade by riding along in the hauler of their selected CART driver.
4/16/01 Seen at Imola Among the many people seen at Imola was CART team owner Roger Penske. . No word on what Roger was up to, but it's safe to say there's always something new to be learned in the F1 paddock that can possibly be used back in CART. Of course Penske does still have partial ownership of Ilmor, the manufacturer that builds the Mercedes engines in the McLarens. Maybe Roger was talking to some engine manufacturers about building CART engines, or developing a common engine platform for CART and F1. Wishful thinking we suppose.
Andretti's Indy test pushed back until next week Michael Andretti was supposed to test his IRL car at the Indy Speedway yesterday and today. Instead that test has been pushed back until next week for undisclosed reasons. In other testi3ng news, Helio Castroneves had a big slide between turns 1 and 2 on Saturday but was able to keep the car off the wall.
4/15/01 More on Americans in Europe [Source Speedvision] In addition to the report below, here are some more details on the Americans in Europe -Paul Edwards, Alex Gurney, Jeffery Jones, Patrick Long, Derek Hill, and Danica Patrick. Derek Hill did not finish is this weekend F3000 race after he was an innocent victim in a crash. At Snetterton, England Paul Edwards became the first American to earn a podium finish in nine years when he took third in Race Two. Edwards, who started 10th, attempted a bold maneuver around the outside line at the first corner, but it failed to pay off and cost him a couple of positions. He was unable to find a way past Alan Docking Racing teammate Priaulx and eventually finished 12th. Fellow Americans Jeffrey Jones and Alex Gurney placed 14th and 15th, respectively. Race Two was held on a drying track after a brief shower rolled across the Norfolk countryside a half-hour before the Formula 3 cars took up their grid positions. That spelled bad news for Edwards, who started from the pole" but on the wetter inside half of the track. Sure enough, those on the outside of the grid made better getaways, so Edwards was relegated to third by the first corner. Priaulx, a former British Hillclimb Champion, sped away to take the victory, his first in Formula 3 and the first for team owner Docking since American Elton Julian led the way home at Thruxton in 1992. Julian's triumphant day also represented the last time an American had started from the pole in a British Formula 3 race. Edwards, who had gambled on softening the rear of his car in anticipation of another rain shower, was unable to hang onto the two leaders as the hoped-for precipitation failed to materialize and the track surface continued to dry slowly. He nevertheless was able to hold onto third place in the face of a determined challenge from the consistent Hayes, who now has finished in the top four in each of the four races held to date. "It wasn't as wet as we thought," related Edwards, "so the back end [of the car] was falling over in the corners. It's disappointing when you feel you could have won, but at least we learned something. It was good to get my first podium finish. I qualified ahead of [the vastly more experienced] Andy [Priaulx] in both races, and although I finished behind him both times, I know I'm right there [in terms of speed] and I think my turn is going to come fairly soon." Gurney finished 12th in Race Two, while Jones took 16th. Davies and Hayes are now tied for the championship lead on 49 points, followed by Priaulx (43) and Bruni (37). Aussie James Courtney, who claimed two sixth-place finishes for Jaguar Racing, lies fourth on 36 points ahead of Sato (26) and Edwards (24). The accompanying British Formula Ford Zetec Championship race was red-flagged to an early conclusion by a sudden, heavy rain shower, which saw slick-shod cars spinning en masse. Due to the fact that 50pct of the scheduled distance had been completed, it was not restarted. Sweden's Richard Goransson took his second win in a row for the factory Van Diemen squad, which is based at Snetterton. Countryman Alex Danielsson claimed an excellent second in his Vector. American Patrick Long was making excellent progress, having moved up from 15th to ninth when the race was concluded after just six laps. Danica Patrick didn't fare so well, classified only 27th after a spin.
CART's Bruno Junqueira tops all Indy rookies Bruno Junqueira posted the fastest time of the two-day Rookie Orientation Program at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway April 13-14. Junqueira, a Target/Chip Ganassi Racing driver, recorded the fastest lap of the two-day test on Saturday morning with a lap of 40.9132 seconds, 219.978 mph, beating Helio Castroneves' lap of 41.0202 seconds, 219.877 mph also turned on Saturday. "I am happy about our performance today," said Junqueira. "This test was very good for both me and the team. We were able to do some long runs today and get a feel for how the car reacts as the fuel load goes down." Other drivers who completed their tests were: Nicolas Minassian (Target/Chip Ganassi Racing), Brandon Erwin (McCormack Motorsports), Junqueira (Target/Chip Ganassi Racing), Shigeaki Hattori (Vertex-Cunningham), Didier André (Galles Racing), Felipe Giaffone (Treadway-Hubbard Racing) and Jon Herb (Tri Star Motorsports).
MTV to air Driven movie special At 9:00 PM on April 21st MTV will air a special called "Fast and Famous" which will feature driver profiles, clips from Driven, and Pro Celebrity highlights from Long Beach. MTV's Brian McFadden was seen in the Ganassi garage on Friday at Long Beach interviewing various cast members from Driven.
4/15/01 American is Europe UPDATE Paul Edwards finished 3rd in the 2nd race, after starting from pole. He spun his wheels on a wet track at the start, fell to 3rd and could never recover. Gurney did not figure in either race. 4/14/01 - American youngster Paul Edwards grabbed the pole position for the second British F3 race tomorrow at Snetterton. Edwards won the pole in damp cold conditions. He will start 10th in the first race. Another Californian, Alex Gurney, son of Dan Gurney, will start 7th in the 2nd race.
If Audi goes to F1, CART might be better served adopting 3.0 Liter NA engine We hear Audi is set to make this year their last in the LeMans series. Their all-conquering R8's have nothing else to prove after coming in 1-2-3 place last year, & well expected to sweep the podium again this year! We believe both Ford & Porsche did the same after their respectively prototypes dominated the series in the earlier years. After that, Audi is said to be very serious in competing in the same motorsport as their German-rivals (BMW & Mercedes). Its well rumored that they will be entering F1 as an engine supplier or complete team (like Toyota/Ferrari) in the very near future. Not a question of if, but when so the rumor goes. That being said, if Audi does go to F1, that means Ferrari, Mercedes, Jaguar, BMW, Audi, Renault, Honda and Toyota will be building 3.0 liter normally aspirated engines. If CART decided to adopt the 3.0 liter formula one standard, rather than the 3.5 liter low-tech IRL standard, one has to wonder how many of those manufactures might be willing to use a Methanol version of the same engine in CART, sort of like selling a customer version much like Ferrari is doing with the Prost team this year. Of course the engines would be significantly different, with some cost measures instituted, and beefed up to last 500 miles in the big races. However, we could foresee a parallel design effort with some sharing of technology between the two. The question CART has to answer is do they want to stay unique (Turbos), step down to a low-tech IRL type engine, or step up to a higher tech 3.0 liter F1 type engine. Since the IRL spec does not work for CART, and given CART has a desire to play in the international market, one has to wonder if some sort of compromise could not be reached with the manufacturers to get F1 and CART to adopt identical engine rules that met the two half way. Wishful thinking.
Simpson says belts were cut by Medic The maker of the seat belt used in Dale Earnhardt's car said a fan has come forward with video showing Earnhardt being cut from the seat belt. Bill Simpson, founder and chairman of Simpson Performance Products, told ESPN radio that a fan sent him a video of the crash that killed Earnhardt in the Daytona 500. "Since this whole thing has surfaced and since NASCAR did their press conference, there's a spectator that has come forward with videotape and it clearly shows an EMT getting into the car with a knife -- and that's what it looked like to me -- like it had been cut," Simpson said. "I have a copy of it now and it's out being enhanced at the moment."
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Ashley Joannou
Aug. 29, 2016 2:29 a.m.
The Department of Community Services announced last week it will spend up to $717,000 on diversion credits to help cover the costs of sending recyclables like cardboard, milk cartons, or tin to Outside processors.
That's up from last fiscal year when the budget was set at about $600,000. About $500,000 of that ended up being spent that year, the department said.
The amount the government pays to cover non-refundable recyclables varies from item to item.
The city's budget for diversion credits is $150,000 a year. Diversion rates are negotiated every year.
Dwayne Muckosky, director of community operations at the Department of Community Services, said the budget went up this year because the government expects more recyclables are going to be processed. The department has also increased the amount of money it's willing to pay per tonne for some items, he said.
"They (recycling companies) just, quite frankly, need support. The returns that they get for the materials that they ship out are just very low now in comparison to a few years ago."
The market for junk plastic, for example, has become so bad that often the processors can't find a buyer that will pay anything he said. Instead processors have to pay a fee to have the plastic taken away.
Joy Snyder, executive director of Raven Recycling, said she is grateful for this year's increase.
"Over the year the commodity prices fell and shipping increased because of the American dollar, so they did a cost of living adjustment," she said. "That was very much appreciated."
The increases will be retroactive to April 1. Raven Recycling gets a $100,000 lump sum from the Yukon government at the beginning of every quarter. At the end of the year the government pays the rest of what the company is owed.
On top of the increase in diversion credits the Yukon government is increasing the processing fees paid on refundable beverage containers by 20 per cent. That works out to an increase about $90,000 a year between the two processors, the department said. Deposits paid by consumers will not increase.
This is the first time fees have been increased since Raven Recycling started in 1992, Snyder said.
Snyder said the increase in diversion credits doesn't dramatically change the organization's precarious financial position.
When a mandatory curbside recycling program was cancelled by the City of Whitehorse earlier this year, representatives for Raven Recycling said its business model would likely have to change.
Fluctuating commodity prices combined with the fact diversion rates have to be negotiated every year means the organization doesn't have a consistent funding source, Snyder has said. That makes it difficult to plan ahead or fix aging infrastructure.
Raven has yet to decide on any changes to its operations, Snyder said today.
They're keen to work with the private sector to bring more recyclables to Raven as a way of increasing its economy of scale, she said.
"We're looking for more tonnage, we're keen to work with the private sector. But there will be some operational changes and I don't know what those are yet."
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In this January file photo, construction is under way on the Wynn Boston Harbor casino on the shoreline of the Mystic River. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
When it comes to real estate, the old phrase "location, location, location" still applies.
And for many, there's no better real estate than along the water. That includes along the Mystic River in Everett.
That's where workers for the planned Wynn casino are transforming what had been home to industrial chemical plants into a glittering, 27-floor Las Vegas-style casino.
But as the tower rises — it's now up to five floors — focus is on the ground and along the water when it comes to mitigating the effects of climate change.
"The irony is ... in the early 1800s, this site actually was owned by the family that owned the Union Oyster House. And this is where they would dig oysters for the restaurant," said Jamie Fay, the co-founder and president of the environmental consulting firm Fort Point Associates. "The water was so clean and so good at that point in time, they would dig oysters and bring them over by boat."
Fay has been in the industry for 40 years, working on projects like the Big Dig, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and, now, the Wynn Boston Harbor casino.
That name — Boston Harbor — tells you what you need to know about the Wynn site and climate change. It's along a tidal part of the Mystic River, which means that sea level rise or storm surge that affects the harbor also affects the casino's waterfront.
A scaled model of the planned Wynn casino in Everett (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
A Casino On A 'Pedestal'
So to prepare for that, Wynn is transforming the shoreline, using nature as a defense mechanism.
"We were actually able to convince Wynn to give up some land and to pull the existing shoreline, the existing fill out of the harbor, bring the shoreline back," Fay said. "Restore it, replant it," he added. "Create a whole new salt marsh environment at the end here, and then above the salt marsh, create ... a coastal bank."
All of that to make a gradual incline from the water to where the casino will stand.
Bob DeSalvio, president of Wynn Boston Harbor, explained: "Instead of having that sort of constant pounding that you get with a traditional bulkhead ... the concept of the living shoreline is to create much more ease for the water to come up and find its natural point and then go back down to its more natural level."
That accomplishes two things. First, it creates a natural waterfront — something that's been largely extinct in Everett for generations — and something that won't disrupt operations if it gets flooded.
"At the end of the day there, you'd probably have some landscape damage, maybe some damage to the harborwalk, but the [casino] building would be pretty much left untouched," DeSalvio said.
Second, the gradual incline disguises more a dramatic elevation increase as you get closer to the casino itself.
"From a visual perspective, you won't even really know that we raised that building, because it's all been sort of cleverly hidden," DeSalvio said.
Workers install the "pedestal" that the first floor of the Wynn Boston Harbor casino will sit on -- 11 feet above the ground -- to prevent flooding. (Courtesy Wynn)
To hide that, DeSalvio said the ground level will actually be the first level of a basement parking garage with the actual casino, as he says, on a pedestal above it — above the 500-year flood mark.
"So, we're at nine feet above sea level," DeSalvio said, "the first level of the garage is plus <|fim_middle|> as well, like elevating certain parts of the first floor to direct water away from key areas.
"Pushing away from certain areas and knowing that you're not going to be able to stop it all," Leary said. "So, how do you relieve it and give it a path to go if this happens? With minimal disruption to the building when it happens."
Leary said as science around climate change has improved, the conversation has shifted from whether to protect against rising seas to how much — be it the 100-, 500- or even 1,000-year flood level.
"You're looking at the life cycle of your building," he said. "Someone like Wynn — that is a long term hold, he's looking much further out. We're typically looking at the hundred [year] — is the baseline — and then we're ramping up from there."
Wynn officials said they're proud of the environmental work they're doing — restoring part of the Mystic River, cleaning up acres of land that just a few years ago were contaminated by chemical waste.
But there's also a monetary angle. The $2.4 billion Wynn project, which is set to open in June 2019, is the largest single-phase development in Massachusetts history.
As the consultant Fay said, protecting against the effects of climate change is good for business.
"This is a waterfront site," he said. "We know for a fact that sea levels are going to rise. We may not know how much and how fast, but we know it's happening.
"This is a really huge investment of dollars and they want to make sure that they were fully taking into account the potential for future sea level rise in building this project."
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On top of elevating the building, the construction plan also calls for installing utilities on the third floor. Heating, air conditioning and electrical utilities could be knocked out by flooding if they were closer to the ground.
And if power goes out, the building will be able to generate most of its electricity needs through a combination of rooftop solar, generators and other sources.
It's not just Wynn that's taking this sort of action.
Angus Leary, the Northeast president and general manager for the construction firm Suffolk, said developers are increasingly planning for the effects of climate change.
"It is real now, all right?" Leary said. "There was a period of time where people were saying, 'Is it real? Is it really gonna happen?' That's over."
He added: "Now we're really looking at, what are those impacts, projecting out 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 100 years? And then, what can we do now to prevent issues that far out?"
Suffolk is building the Wynn casino in Everett, but has already built a number of other waterfront properties, including a new complex for Partners HealthCare just across the Mystic River in Somerville's Assembly Row.
Leary said a lot of the same steps were used there, such as raising utilities above the flood level. But he said other tactics were employed | 303 |
It was a glorious day, the conditions were perfect, and the smell of just cut grass filled the air. The foursome walked up to the tee box at the short but challenging par 4 hole. They were a mixed bag of talent and skill, expertise, and experience. They agreed to put money on the first ball and the final score of each hole. They also agreed to stick tightly to the rules. The only caveat was that they would all play from the "championship" tees.
Bill's shot took off like a cannon shot. It also curved right like a banana. While it went far, it would have gone much farther had it not gone straight into a grove of spruce trees.
Janet hadn't mentioned that she played on the gold team in college. Her ball took off smoothly and followed straight down the fairway. It took a couple of bounces and was in perfect position for her next shot.
Kathy's ball barely left the ground, but it stayed in the air just long enough to clear the early water. She was impressed that it went forward at all and smiled as she left the tee.
Joe's ball popped off his 5 iron and flew gracefully over the water. It landed smack dab in the middle of the fairway with nothing between him and the flag.
With Janet more than <|fim_middle|> kept them more focused and motivated to perform. Kathy was even inspired by her experience and Joe's generous gift of lessons to make time to visit the course every each Saturday morning. She often brought other newbies and did her best to duplicate the experience. Janet decided to make more time to keep her game in shape and Joe played every Wednesday with the same group that came up through the ranks with him. | 90 yards beyond Joe and Kathy and with Bill in then trees, she easily won the first ball of the hole. They recorded her winnings and took their next shots.
Kathy went first. She assessed the hole and her skill and pulled out her putter. They all laughed as she walked up to her ball and whacked in down the fairway. It rolled for quite a while before settling 120 yards away. Pleased with this result she smiled.
Joe went next. He took out his 5 iron again and delivered the same stiff stroke. The ball lifted beautifully and flew straight as an arrow the exact distance as before. He was now within a pitching wedge of the pin.
Bill took his penalty and dropped a new ball in the short rough. He was determined to get to the small green and make up his lost stroke. He swung hard through the rough and his ball flew into the deep bunker to the left of the green and buried itself.
Janet smiled and used her pitching wedge to put her ball about 8 feet from Joe's. They each offered Kathy some quick advice as they strolled toward their balls. Bill stomped ahead to look for his ball in the sand.
Kathy once again hits first, once again using her putter. Her ball stopped about 50 yards short of the green but remained in the short fairway grass. Bill slapped down at his ball and found the bunker on the other side of the hole. Janet dropped a nice floater about 12 feet from the hole and Joe followed with a shot that slowly rolled within 2 feet.
The group gave Joe the hole and waited while Kathy and Bill got onto the green. In the end, Bill was able to match Kathy and Janet two-putted to finish a stroke behind Joe.
Each person played to their strengths and was impacted by their weaknesses. The steady achiever lost the first stroke but won the hole. The guy with the most potential took significant risks and, this time didn't end up getting the big rewards. The practiced CEO performed well and graciously accepted that there are times when second place is just fine. The newbie enjoyed the stroll and took in enough information to be better the next time.
Over the next 17 holes Bill one the first shot on several. He also won a few holes overall by taking advantage of his long game. Kathy even won a hole on a miraculous hole in one on a Par 3. Joe and Janet went back and forth for the next few hours with Janet coming out ahead on the final hole. In the end, Janet won the most money, which she immediately donated as a retirement gift to Joe. Joe did well and used some of his winnings to pay for a set of lessons for Kathy. Bill took the day as a learning experience. By the end of the round, he was driving the ball 20 yards shorter than usual, but doing do far more accurately.
While none of them knew when the next time they would play together, each would admit later that the competition made the day more engaging, the company shared made the day more enjoyable, and the money on the line | 636 |
7 Ways to Bond With Preborn Baby
New research supports what mothers have long believed, that babies in the womb hear what's going on outside. Even more intriguing, there is evidence that babies may share in their mothers' emotions. For centuries many cultures have believed that some sort of emotional network operated between mother and baby, and for this reason admonished mothers to keep their minds and bodies pure during pregnancy. In the past twenty-five years the new field of prenatal psychology has sprung up. Using new technology, prenatal psychologists have used various windows to the womb and have found much that is credible about these superstitions. When mother is happy, baby is happy; when mother is anxious, baby is too.
1. Understand what preborn babies may hear. Concert-going mothers report their preborn babies jump at the sudden sound of drums. In fact, from at least the 23rd week on, a preborn baby's hearing is developed enough to enable him to respond to outside noise. Prenatal researchers believe that from at least six months of pregnancy onward the preborn baby is aware of and influenced by what's going on in the outside world. (From the 28th week on, the cortex of the brain is developed enough for thinking, which is actually one of the reasons 28- week-old premature babies can often survive.) Babies seem agitated by rock music, kicking violently when they hear it and are calmed by classical music. Even the five-month-old fetus has been found to have discriminating musical ears. In one study, kicking babies calmed to the sounds of Vivaldi but became agitated in response to Beethoven.
2. Know that sound may stimulate a six-month old fetus. Studies also show that a six-month-old fetus can move his body to the rhythm of his mother's speech. Perhaps most astounding, preborn babies can be taught when to kick. Researchers stimulated babies to kick by making a loud noise. After these babies were used to kicking with the noise, the researchers placed a vibrator on mother's abdomen immediately following the noise. Soon these smart little babies learned to kick in response to only the vibration. In other words, they learned to associate the noise with the sensation.
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3. Understand what your preborn baby may sense. Not only can a preborn baby react to sound<|fim_middle|> emotional life while pregnant and the later personality of her child. Is an anxious mother more likely to produce an anxious baby? Studies relating maternal attitudes to the emotional development of the offspring do indeed reveal a tendency for anxious mothers to produce anxious babies. They also show that mothers who resented being pregnant and felt no attachment to their babies were more likely to have children who had emotional problems. Mothers with less anxious pregnancies, whose babies were wanted and loved, tended to have emotionally healthy children. While studies suggest that the short-term emotional upsets and quickly resolved anxieties that occur in all pregnancies do not harm the baby emotionally, major emotional disturbances and unresolved stresses throughout the pregnancy, may lead to emotionally troubled children. Extreme maternal distress even poses a risk of hurting baby physically, as it has been linked with increased risk of prematurity and low birth weight.
6. Understand the stress-hormone link. What could cause this fascinating correlation between maternal thoughts and fetal personality development? Certainly, mother's emotions don't cross the placenta, but her hormones do. Researchers believe that a stressed mother produces an abundance of stress hormones called catecholamines, which have been shown to, in turn, affect emotions. When catecholamines are taken from frightened animals and injected into other animals, the recipients act frightened as well. Scientists theorize that these chemical stressors cross the placenta and "frighten" the developing nervous system. If it happens often enough, the fetus actually gets used to feeling chronically stressed. His system is prepared to overreact to stimuli. Babies who are born with an already overcharged and possibly disturbed nervous system show more emotional disturbances and gastrointestinal upsets, which will earn this baby the label "colicky."
7. Grow a healthy baby. Responsibility for the physical and emotional health of a baby is a heavy burden to place on a pregnant mother already worried about keeping her baby safe from a confusing world. Not only must she abstain from polluted foods and try to avoid polluted air, now she must guard against polluted thoughts! Relax! Take reasonable measures to rid your life of tension, take time to rest and revel in positive emotions, but understand that there is reason to be concerned only about emotional problems that are serious and last throughout the pregnancy. Do whatever you can to be sure your baby gets the best emotional start. Remember that emotions, positive or negative, are more intense during pregnancy. Resolve stresses quickly, in a positive fashion; seek professional help if necessary. Talk to, sing to, and share affectionate thoughts with your baby. If nothing else, it will make your pregnancy nicer for you.
September 3, 2013 November 26, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears | , he or she can perceive different tastes and sights. Add sweetener to the amniotic fluid and the fetal gourmet doubles his rate of swallowing; add a sour substance and baby slows his swallowing. Even as early as the fourth month baby frowns, squints, and grimaces in response to experimentally produced outside stimuli. At five months the fetus can startle in response to a light blinking at mother's abdomen.
4. Understand what your preborn baby may think. Can a fetus form attitudes about life even before birth? Prenatal psychologists claim yes. If so, do a pregnant mother's thoughts influence the emotional life of her preborn baby? Prenatal researchers believe that there is indeed some connection between what a mother thinks and how her baby feels, and that from six months on a preborn baby can share mother's emotions via the hormones associated with them.
5. Consider the long-term effects of your emotional life. One of the most controversial areas of prenatal research is the study of correlations between a mother's | 208 |
Meet Athena: a tiny house that perfectly blends together design and functionality to create a comfortable home in just 220-sq-ft!
Athena is a custom-build, designed and created by Swiss-based company, Woody Way. The home was built using using eco-friendly materials in 95% of the house. Its exterior features red<|fim_middle|>, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Upstairs, via storage stairs, is the home's loft bedroom and a second loft area with catamaran netting!
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C3 | Thu <|fim_middle|> at work. He currently mostly programs in Python. In his spare time he is an award-winning home-brewer and is currently working on a science-fiction rock-opera.
There are now several earth observation satellites in orbit around our fair planet, beaming down huge volumes of gorgeous imagery every day. Digital Earth Australia (DEA) is a platform managed by Geoscience Australia (GA) to make this imagery of Australia available to government, industry and researchers for easy use. At the heart of DEA is the Open Data Cube, an open source Python platform for working with Earth Observation data. Data 61 has been working with GA to develop open source web services and clients to make this rich source of data accessible to both expert users and non-technical people who just like to look at cool satellite images in the comfort of their own home. | 24 Jan | 3:50 p.m.–4:35 p.m.
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Jon Hall to leave Masthaven
Masthaven deputy CEO and chief commercial officer Jon Hall is to leave the lender at the end of March.
Hall (pictured) has been at Masthaven for six years and was part of the leadership team that built it from the initial idea to its current state.
The lender said Hall would continue to work alongside the senior leadership team to achieve the bank's objectives and ensure a smooth transition to his successors.
Hall said he felt it was the right time for a new challenge.
"It has been an absolute pleasure to work at Masthaven and I'm honoured to have been involved in its journey to not only becoming a well<|fim_middle|>odge appoints head of mortgage origination, BDM and underwriters
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"The past six years have been a period of continuous change and development and I'm proud to have led the team in achieving such a big milestone.
"While this has not been an easy decision to make, I feel 2021 is the right time for myself to take on a new challenge. I look forward to seeing what the future holds for the bank as it continues to grow and evolve."
Hall follows Masthaven founder Andrew Bloom who stepped down from his position as chief executive of the bank at the end of April. Bloom was replaced as CEO by Leigh Bartlett.
'Indelible mark'
Bartlett said Hall had made an "indelible mark" on the business and he wished him every success for the future.
"I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to Jon for his huge contribution over the last six years," he said.
"He has played a significant role in the successful launch and growth of the bank, applying his depth of industry expertise and insight.
"The bank has grown from strength to strength under Jon's leadership and he leaves it with a clear plan and secure foundations for its continued growth."
Interim chairman Ashley Machin added: "At the end of 2019, Jon expressed to the board his potential desire over the medium term to seek a new challenge in his career outside of Masthaven.
"We're sincerely grateful for his openness about his future plans, and for being clear in wanting to stay until early 2021 in order to complete a number of key initiatives.
"At a personal level, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jon for the huge commitment he has shown to both myself and the bank since informing us of his plans last year, and before then as well."
Hall spoke to Specialist Lending Solutions in early 2019 about how he saw the specialist lending market and Masthaven's offering developing.
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A More-More is about a bright and clear sea and happy kids under the sun. The East, West, North and South sing this song with the performer. Oceans and countries together with our young boy, Egor Zheshko, sing that life is cool and amazing.
"If I could, I would like to save the whole world from disease and disaster! I so want people to enjoy their work, to feel happy when they do something new, to love each other. Why is this so hard?"
Egor Zheshko (12) was born in Minsk on Christmas Eve 1999. He became a talented musician at a very young age. Following his mom, he gladly sang lullabies and folk songs, but when he was asked to perform a children's song in public, he refused: "singing is not a man's job". His interests at the time were building combat units of soldiers, collect toy guns and sail pirate ships.
After a recommendation by his teacher Egor finally joined a pop-vocal studio, organized by the art group "Belarusians" in the music production center "Golden Voice." Last year he was one step from victory at the national selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, where he was praised for his talent and led him to a lot of competitions and concerts.
Friendly and open, Egor likes computer, chess and checkers, playing the piano and reading books. His favourite artists are Luciano Pavarotti, Joe Dassin and Patricia Kaas! He dreams to become a professional singer and to bring people the idea that the world is amazing and we all have try to make it better! Well… this is a real man's job, but for now it's just the dream of a 12-year-old boy!
А море, а море, а море… Припев: А море, а море, а море-море, море-море, море-море, море-море миа, да-да-да! А море, а море, а море-море, море-мор<|fim_middle|>-yeah! Oh sea, oh sea, oh sea-sea, sea-sea, sea – we are so happy!
All the oceans Seas and countries Sing with me this song! Because the live is amazing and the sun is bright, And turns cool the planet.
Other kids In this world And new rules in life. And more "papper"… And the heart beats And higher sound overtones!
chorus: Oh sea, oh sea, oh sea-sea, sea-sea, sea-sea, sea-sea mia, Yeah-yeah-yeah! Oh sea, oh sea, oh sea-sea, sea-sea, sea – we are so happy!
And North snowy, And South serene, East languorous and west starry… Together with me Sing this sing And the voice sounds masterly!
Egor Zheshko on stage at the HMH in Amsterdam during Belarus' second rehearsal.
Powered by: http://www.junioreurovision.tv Egor Zheshko will represent Belarus at the 2012 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Amsterdam with the song A More - More.
Egor Zheshko from Belarus made his first rehearsal today at the HMH Arena in Amsterdam.
Egor Zheshko breaks the ice! | е, море – мы счастливые такие!
Все океаны, Моря и страны Со мною поют песню эту! Ведь жизнь прекрасна, и солнце ясно, И вертится круто планета.
Другие дети На белом свете, И новые в жизни законы. Все больше «перца»… И бьется сердце, И выше звучат обертоны!
И север снежный, И юг безмятежный, Восток томный и запад звездный… Со мною вместе Поют эту песню, И голос звучит виртуозно!
Oh sea, oh sea, oh sea-sea, sea-sea, sea-sea, sea-sea mia, Yeah-yeah | 183 |
Second funnel arrives as work on policy bills nears completion.
Senate gives final passage to workers compensation reform legislation and the bill is headed to Governor Branstad.
Legislation to enforce the statewide minimum wage is also heading to the Governor.
Governor Branstad submits revised budget for FY18 to reflect $191 million reduction in revenue estimate (as required by state law).
Senate Republicans provided all 29 votes in favor of<|fim_middle|>2 school aid spending increase of $40 million was approved by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Branstad nearly two months ago, the revised budget means there will need to be $26 million in CUTS to the remainder of the state budget in the coming fiscal year to make it balance.
Secured Senator Anderson and Representative Cownie to make announcements in their respective Chambers regarding the CBI Legislative Reception, which was held this week on March 29.
Personally delivered invitations to the CBI Legislative Reception to every member of the House and Senate Commerce and Ways and Means committees (with the remainder distributed through the legislature's mail system to all other members).
Met with and briefed the CBI Board this week on the current happenings in the Iowa General Assembly.
Participated in a CBI/LOT panel discussion to discuss CBI's role in the legislative process and to encourage young bankers to get involved in the process.
Hosted a CBI/LOT delegation in the Governor's Formal Office for the signing of the annual proclamation making April "Community Banking Month" in Iowa. | HF 518, a package of significant reforms in the state's workers compensation system, on Monday night. As no amendments to the bill were approved, the measure now heads to the desk of Governor Branstad and he will most definitely sign it, as the measure was one of his highest 2017 Session priorities.
Proponents hailed its passage as the first significant reform of the system in nearly a century and as necessary, given the state's move over the last 10 years from having some of the nation's lowest cost workers compensation costs to the middle of the pack.
The bill was be signed Thursday at 4:50 pm in the Governor's formal office.
The Iowa Senate approved HF 295 early this week and cleared the last legislative hurdle necessary to enforce a statewide minimum wage level. The bill preempts local governments from setting a minimum wage that is different from that set in state law (four Iowa counties had taken such an action over the last year).
HF 295 also prevents local governments from enacting ordinances at odds with state law on consumer merchandise (think NYC proposed ban on big sodas) and packaging materials (think efforts to ban use of Styrofoam take home boxes used by restaurants). This was signed by Governor Branstad on March 30.
Amid softening state revenue growth and a March 14 revenue estimate from the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) that reduced expected revenue for FY18 by $191 million, Governor Branstad provided the General Assembly with a revised budget recommendation. Iowa's state budget law requires the Governor to submit a revised budget if the March REC estimate is LOWER than the December estimate (and he must do so within 14 days of the release of the March estimate).
House and Senate leaders have been waiting for these recommendations prior to making public their own set of budget targets for FY18. Those legislative budget targets are likely to be announced at some point Thursday or Monday.
The Governor's new budget calls for just a $24 million increase in state general fund spending for FY 18 (above FY17), which is an increase of only 0.33% (essentially, he is calling for a flat budget). Given the fact that a K-1 | 464 |
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The World Health Organisation has declared that the recent cluster of microcephaly cases and other<|fim_middle|> and to take appropriate measures to reduce exposure to mosquito bites. This advice is particularly relevant to women who are or are intending to become pregnant; to people with severe or chronic medical conditions or medical conditions which weaken the immune system. Public Health England and the National Travel Health Network and Centre are advising pregnant women to consider avoiding travel to countries with ongoing Zika virus outbreaks. Pregnant students concerned that travel cancellation may impact on their course work should discuss this in the first instance with their departmental supervisor or college adviser. The University will always support any reasonable adjustments to ensure students are not disadvantaged because of pregnancy. | neurological disorders reported in Brazil constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
These cases are attributed to the Zika virus which is known to circulate in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. South and Central American countries are currently experiencing outbreaks. University staff and students travelling to affected areas are advised to take the necessary precautions, but Public Health England stresses that any public health risk to the wider population in England is negligible, as the mosquito that transmits the virus is not found in the UK.
Zika is not harmful in most cases but may pose a particular threat to pregnant women because of the possible risk of microcephaly, a birth defect. In the vast majority of cases the virus is spread by bites from the Aedes mosquito, though there have also been cases of maternal transmission to a foetus and one case of sexual transmission. The incubation period is thought to be a few days. Symptoms are usually mild, last 2-7 days, and can include fever, a skin rash and conjunctivitis. There is currently no specific treatment or vaccine.
No restrictions on travel to and from countries with Zika transmission have been imposed. Travellers to these areas are encouraged to seek advice about ongoing outbreaks from their GP/Practice Nurse/travel clinic before departure | 254 |
The new, self-organizing workplace
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More than 20 years ago, I joined an internet startup that had some unconventional ideas about the workplace that deserve revisiting as offices begin to reopen across the U.S.
The company had no requirements for employees to come into the office. Even people who lived within a comfortable commuting distance could work remotely full-time if they wanted. Most showed up no more than a couple of days per week; there were no set hours, either. Job expectations were defined by outcomes which, for people in my group, had little to do with the time of day. There was also no vacation policy. Employees were free to take as many days off as they wanted because no one was counting.
Over time I came to appreciate the brilliance of this lackadaisical approach to management. My task was to hire 50 people in less than 18 months on a tight budget during the lowest unemployment levels in 30 years. I discovered that there were pockets of outstanding people who were being completely ignored by the labor market.
One was young mothers. Many had family responsibilities that made a 9-to-5 schedule difficult or impossible to keep, particularly for those who lived more than an hour away. About one-quarter of the people I hired during that time fell into this category. Most were more than willing to trade salary for flexibility, and they were some of the most dedicated and capable people I've ever worked with.
Another was people who had to make the life choice to settle far away from major metropolitan areas. Not all relished the gig economy, and they were happy to trade some upside on income for a job that promised a steady paycheck and benefits without sacrificing their sanctuaries in the woods.
I also discovered something counterintuitive about vacation time: When people were given complete discretion, they took less time off. The policy also avoided a problem I had wrestled with at my previous company, where many long-term employees were forced to fulfill vacation quotas late in the year and leave us shorthanded.
All in all, I learned that the more flexibility people were given the more responsibly they behaved. I hired more than 100 people in six years at that company and had to discipline or fire exactly two for abusing workplace liberty.
The end of hierarchy?
I'm telling this story now because, as workplaces reopen, business leaders will face the question of how to manage a workforce that resists rigidity. Now is a good time to revisit our assumptions about hierarchies and the industrial-age thinking that demands workers be at their machines at set times to be productive.
Hierarchies may be on their way to becoming obsolete, at least in some scenarios. In a recent speech at the Adobe Summit, author Malcolm Gladwell contrasted Martin Luther King's 1963 Birmingham campaign to last year's Black Lives Matter protests.
King's orchestrated initiative took months of preparation and involved training hundreds of people in the tactics of civil disobedience. King was the leader, both figuratively and literally. The times demanded it.
BLM, in contrast, had no leaders. It came together spontaneously across more than 500 cities propelled by social media, following in the footsteps of the similarly leaderless Arab Spring movement of a decade earlier.
One could debate the effectiveness of either approach, but there's no question that the network model is currently ascendant. Gladwell notes that when he was a child, the ultimate authority of information was the encyclopedia, an aggregation of knowledge from a small group of domain experts assembled through a highly regimented process.
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Does this mean the network model will ultimately displace hierarchies? Both have their place. Unconferences haven't rendered structured events obsolete, and a military campaign fought without clear lines of authority would be a disaster. Chains of command are sometimes necessary.
But the effectiveness of self-organized networks in certain scenarios can't be denied. Generation Z, or those people born between 1997 in 2012, will soon become the largest U. S. consumer population and a force to be reckoned with in the workplace. This generation has grown up with the expectation that communications will be horizontal and organizing principles driven by consensus rather than fiat. Many companies will struggle to adapt to those expectations, but they will fail to do so at their peril.
Technology to enable self-governed networks is proliferation. Applications like Asana, Wrike, Slack, and Monday enable teams of people to govern projects collaboratively without any top-down leadership. Software developers have been pioneers in this area with the agile DevOps methodology giving birth to tools like Jira for self-governing workflows.
One of the more interesting startups I've seen in this area is Legion, a company that makes software that employers and their hourly workers can use to optimize schedules that accommodate the needs of both groups.
Networks might just be a better way for businesses to manage their knowledge workers. It wasn't until a couple of years into my previous job that I realized that the flexible workplace policy benefited the company as much as its people. Trading salary for flexibility reduced the cost of labor, including the overhead of monitoring employee comings and goings. It was, to use a cliché from another decade, a win-win.
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Labourism - a historical straightjacket for the working class
No-one can build on sand. If a party which truly represents the political interests of the working class is to emerge, it will have to be built on a clear assessment of what the Labour Party is today, what it was yesterday and why its critics among the Labour Left have failed time and again to make any real impact on the political scene.
For nearly a century the Labour Party has totally dominated working class politics in this country. For 80 years of that time, ever since World War I, the Labour leadership sought consistently to use its control over the working class through the trade-unions as a bargaining chip to win the "privilege" of managing the affairs of British capital in government.
Throughout this period, there was never even any question of the bourgeoisie being prepared to grant any reforms in exchange. By the time the Labour Party had won enough weight to be of any use to capital, the British bourgeoisie had already gone past the peak of its ascendancy. It was an ageing class whose profits were threatened from abroad by competitors who were younger and considerably more dynamic. When subsequently Labour got into government as a result of a general election, it was always with the agreement of the capitalist class. Each time, the bourgeoisie's aim was to win a spell of social peace, not in order to facilitate a massive expansion of their operations, but rather to see them through one crisis or another and protect their profits by stepping up the exploitation of the working class. The British bourgeoisie could still afford to reward the Labour Party bureaucrats and their associates by offering them positions in the state apparatus, but it could no longer afford real reforms that would benefit the working class itself - at least not without jeopardising their own class domination. In that sense, the Labour Party came too late in history to play the role of a real reformist party.
The idea of a different social organisation which would put an end to private profit and social injustice - the socialist idea - had been the common motivation of many of the activists who were instrumental in the fight for an independent party of the working class before the Labour Party came into being. Very soon, however, the straightjacket of Labour's policies turned this very idea on its head, reducing social change to what was presented as the "best possible deal for the working class" - i.e. a Labour government with a sprinkling of Labour Party and trade-union nominees in the various institutions, committees and quangos whose function it is to take care of the interests of the capitalist class.
These policies did not go unchallenged. Right from the early days of the Labour Party, many uprisings of the working class came to reassert the need for social change - from the trade-union explosion which initiated the drive for an independent workers' party before the turn of the century to the unofficial strike wave of World War I or the 1926 General strike. But once workers had expressed their aspirations and tested their collective strength, they were left with no other perspective than that of Labour's "parliamentary cretinism", to use the phrase coined by Friedrich Engels about some of Labour's forerunners. On every one of these occasions, the lack of a clear political perspective next to the old traps and deadends offered by Labour, left the working class disarmed and, ultimately, resulted in its defeat.
The cost of these repeated defeats was high for the British working class. From the national unity government of World War I to that of World War II, from the crisis governments of the Great Depression to the social contract governments of the 1970s, the Labour leadership was able to get the working class to submit, albeit unwillingly, to the needs of the capitalists. From crisis to crisis the British bourgeoisie owed its survival, or at least its success in squeezing more sweat out of workers, to the noose tied by the Labour leadership around the neck of the working class.
The only real challenge against Labourism over this long period, came from outside the ranks of the Labour Party, when, for a few decades, the Communist Party raised the red flag of social revolution. But even then, the courage and dedication of the CP's working class activists was unable to make up for the degeneracy of their leadership under Stalin's influence. They failed to shake or even to weaken significantly the grip of the Labour bureaucracy on the working class.
What then of the socialist currents which had been instrumental in setting up the Labour Party and were always prominent within its ranks ever since? Why were the activists of these currents - what has been known over the past decades as the Labour Left - unable to alter Labour's policies, let alone counter the Labour bureaucracy's quasi-monopoly over the working class, by offering a determined class perspective to workers? No-one aiming to challenge the policy of the Labour Party in today's crisis, especially once it is back in government, can afford not to provide a clear answer to this question.
From the unsocialist roots of the Labour Party...
Contrary to a recurring myth spread by the Labour Left - which Scargill endorses enthusiastically in his advocacy of a return to Labour's historical roots - the original aims of the Labour Party had nothing to do with socialism.
The union leaders themselves were, in most cases, suspicious of political ideas. If their sympathy went to anyone, it was more often to the Liberals than to the socialists. And it was only the way in which they were repeatedly let down by their Liberal partners which convinced some of them of the need to have their own spokesmen in Parliament and therefore, to stand union-backed independent candidates in parliamentary elections.
The move to set up the Labour Party was not even aimed initially at creating a political organisation as such, in any case certainly not one which could become a fighting instrument for those workers who wanted to reshape society. The Labour Party came to existence merely as a Parliamentary party in the Commons, in order to accommodate the 29 union-backed MPs who were elected in the 1906 general election. Even at that stage many, if not most trade-union leaders remained loyal to the Liberals and were hostile to the setting up of a party which would appear clearly as a direct competitor of the Liberal Party. It was only the need to organise more effectively the collection of funds for the election campaigns of union-backed MPs and to provide a mechanism for the union machineries to control their MPs, which prompted the development of national structures for the Labour Party outside Parliament. Even then the primary role assigned to the new party remained that of promoting "legislation in the direct interests of Labour", no less but no more.
This does not mean of course that socialists played no part in the setting up of the Labour Party. The idea of "a Labour Party with an independent class programme" had been first advocated by Friedrich Engels himself, back in the 1880s. Already, in the mid-19th Century, Marx and Engels had put great effort into trying to bring the most prominent union leaders into the First International on the basis of a clear socialist programme. Their aim had been to establish socialist ideas on a solid and clear working class basis. And such was still the function assigned by Engels to the future Labour party - that of a socialist voice for the trade-union movement which would transform the petty-bourgeois dominated socialist current into a working class movement and, hopefully, put an end to the eternal squabbles between socialist factions.
In the end, far from being such a socialist voice, the Labour Party emerged as a mere election machinery which offered little space if any at all to socialist ideas but proved very effective at drowning socialist activists in the routine and in the compromises of parliamentary politics. What it did offer, though, at least for the next twenty- five years, was an instrument which the socialist current could have used to respond to a series of crisis situations by putting forward a class perspective in front of the large layer of workers who identified with the Labour Party. But this did not happen. Though the socialist current always represented a sizeable force in the Labour Party throughout that period, it never had the political will to stand up against the Labour machinery and by-pass its hierarchy in order to address itself directly to the working class at critical times when it would have been vital.
... To the birth of the Labour Left
What was the state of the socialist current then? It was a shambles. By 1893, when the drive to build the Labour Party really got off the ground, it was more or less divided into three main warring tendencies.
The oldest among these, Hyndman's Social-Democratic Federation, was described by Engels in a letter to the German socialist Adolf Sorge in the following terms: "Anglo-Saxon sectarianism prevails in the labour movement, too. The SDF... has managed to transform our theory into the rigid dogma of an orthodox sect; it is narrow-minded, exclusive and thanks to Hyndman has a thoroughly rotten tradition in international politics." Indeed, the SDF was a strange mixture of middle-class moralism and socialism. For instance, the SDF's response to the attempts by socialists like Thorne, Burns and Mann to use the opportunity of the 1889 strike wave to build new unions was that this was "a lowering of the flag, a departure from active propaganda, a waste of energy". The idea, which was central to the tradition established by Marx and Engels, that socialist ideas should become a weapon for the working class through the class struggle was totally alien to the SDF's middle-class moralism and, in fact, to all the British socialist currents.
Next to the SDF came the Independent Labour Party. Set up in 1893 as a loose confederation of socialist clubs, it was another kind of mixture. It had a small but sizeable working class base among young skilled workers who had been politicised by the strike wave of the late 1880s. But it was dominated by the white-collar and professional layers. Its initiators were former SDF members who had objected for all kinds of reasons, good and bad, to the tight discipline imposed by Hyndman on his organisation. The most radical among its leading figures retained the moralistic approach of the SDF and saw their task as being solely propagandistic, like Robert Blatchford who argued that "The best way to realise socialism is to make socialists... Give us a socialist people and socialism will accomplish itself." This pedagogical approach left a free hand to the dominant parliamentarian trend among the ILP's leadership which manifested itself right from its founding conference by opposing successfully the inclusion of the word "socialism" in the name of the new party for fear of... repelling potential voters. This electoralist orientation attracted like-minded individuals, people like Ramsay MacDonald, an election agent who found himself at odds with the establishment of the Liberal Party and was to become the ILP's best-known and most-hated figure. As to Keir Hardie, today certainly the most celebrated figure of the Labour Left tradition, Engels described him in the same letter to Sorge, as a "supercunning Scot whose demagogic tricks are not to be trusted one minute... This man is the greatest obstacle at present. He appears in Parliament only in demagogic occasions, in order to cut a figure with phrases about the unemployed - without getting anything done."
Finally, there was the Fabian Society. It was not a political organisation as such, but rather a political club bringing together famous intellectuals who claimed to stand for socialism. Significantly they steered clear of all the initial attempts at setting up a socialist organisation distinct from the mainstream parliamentary parties. Instead they preferred to brush shoulders with the well-established Liberal politicians. Engels described the Fabians to his friend Kautsky as "a clique of bourgeois "socialists" of diverse calibers, from careerists to sentimental socialists and philanthropists, united only by their fear of the threatening rule of the workers and doing all in their power to spike this danger by making their own leadership secure, the leadership exercised by the "educated"... The means employed by the Fabian Society are just the same as those of the corrupt parliamentary politicians: money, intrigue, careerism. That is English careerism, according to which it is self- understood that every political party pays its agents in some way or other or rewards them with posts. These people are immersed up to their necks in the intrigues of the Liberal Party, hold Liberal Party jobs, as for instance Sydney Webb who is in general a genuine English politician. These gentry do everything that the workers have to be warned against."
Such were the socialist currents which co-operated with the union machineries in the run-up to the launch of the Labour Party. And, judging from Engels' assessment - and Engels, at the time, was certainly by far the most experienced socialist activist in Britain - all of them had already drifted away, in one way or another, from the socialist programme.
The SDF was to pull out of the project at an early stage, objecting to its parliamentary orientation. But while being outside the Labour Party when it was launched, the SDF remained in its orbit and ten years later, it was to affiliate to the Labour Party under the name of the British Socialist Party (BSP).
The ILP and the Fabians remained, therefore, the main socialist currents inside the Labour Party. Their role in the early days was quite significant since, for instance, the majority of the Labour MPs elected in 1906 came out of their ranks. On the other hand, their relatively small numbers could not match the weight of the trade unions. But nor were most of the leading socialist figures particularly keen to assert their ideas and programme too forcefully.
In Parliament, the socialist MPs stuck to the union bureaucracy's alliance with the Liberals by supporting them in government - they preferred to face the anger of the socialist grassroots than the prospect of losing their seats at the next election! And at the Labour Party's 1908 conference, the most prominent socialist figures joined ranks with the union bureaucrats to oppose the writing of socialist principles into the constitution of the Party - even though a resolution passed by the conference had endorsed these same principles.
The following year, at the ILP's conference, the party's heavyweights, including Keir Hardie and MacDonald, threatened to resign unless the conference condemned the refusal of Victor Grayson, the ILP's MP for Colne Valley, to take the Labour whip in the Commons. Never mind the fact that Grayson's motives had been to use the parliamentary platform in order to expose the policy of the Liberal government against the unemployed, something which the Labour whip opposed, in accordance with the Lib-Lab alliance. But for the leadership of the ILP, parliamentary combinations and manoeuvres were already more important than the interests of the working class. As Lenin was to write a few years later, "it is quite justly said that this party is "independent" only of socialism but very dependent indeed on Liberalism".
The reasoning behind these compromises was simple - rather maintain good harmony with the Labour Party hierarchy at the cost of some concessions, than take the risk of going back to the wilderness outside the ranks of the party, losing the positions gained in Parliament and the regular funding provided by the unions. Such reasoning could, and indeed did, justify anything, including the worst abandonments. Since the starting point was that there was no future for socialist ideas outside the Labour Party, there was almost no limit to what the socialists would be prepared to swallow from their partners in the Labour hierarchy. This timorous and opportunistic attitude was to remain the trademark of what has since become the Labour Left.
Facing the first imperialist war
Eight years after the launching of the Labour Party, the working class movement was faced with an acute crisis throughout Europe, with the outbreak of World War I. The same working class leaders who had voted enthusiastically, at the recent conference of the Socialist International, an appeal which said "Workers stand together for peace! Down with war! Down with class rule!", were now closing ranks behind their respective capitalist classes and endorsing the most jingoistic policies.
The Labour Party was no exception. Its opposition to the war lasted for exactly three days after its outbreak. Then the TUC and Labour machinery joined the war effort. From 1915, Arthur Henderson, a former union official and Liberal MP who was now chairman of Labour's parliamentary party, joined the government. The following year, he became one of the five ministers in the War Cabinet, while other Labour Party figures joined the government in minor positions.
What was the response of the Labour Left? True, in 1914, in protest against the party's support for the war, MacDonald resigned his position as chairman of the parliamentary party, leaving his seat to Henderson. Of the seven MPs who were members of the ILP, five opposed the Labour Party's support of the war effort, although no disciplinary action was ever taken by the ILP against the two who did not. Of the main leaders of the ILP, Snowden was already well-known for his consistent and vocal condemnation of strike action during the four years of industrial unrest which had preceded the war. He was certainly not going to encourage British workers to use their class weapons in order to oppose the war effort! As to MacDonald's own opposition to the war, it had nothing to do with internationalism or working class interest for that matter. From 1914 until the end of the war, the main thrust of his activity was focused on running a pressure group called the "Union for Democratic Control" which aimed at regrouping politicians - mostly from the Liberal Party - around the demand that the Foreign Office should be made more accountable to Parliament. But when it came to formulating his attitude to Labour's participation in government, and therefore in the war effort, his line was that "the mind of peace" should be maintained in wartime and that "whatever our views maybe of the origins of the war, we must go through with it" - meaning that there was no reason for Labour to waste the first opportunity it had to sit on the government bench. On the whole, MacDonald's critique of Britain's participation in the war was that it had not been properly decided by elected politicians!
The ILP rank-and-file, by contrast, took their opposition to the war to heart. They were the driving force behind the "No conscription Fellowship" and hundreds of them ended up in jail for that reason. But their outlook did not go beyond that of pacifism. When opposition to the war effort broke out into an explosion of strikes in the war industries, allowing hundreds of thousands of workers to measure their collective strength in the largest unofficial unrest ever seen in the country, the socialist Left of the Labour Party was of little use to them. The leading figures of the strike wave were often members of the smaller British Socialist Party, which had just affiliated to the Labour Party, and of the Socialist Labour Party, which was completely outside of it. But none of the leading figures of the ILP, the only socialists who were in a position to use the Labour Party as a platform, were ever seen trying to use it to provide the workers' mass rebellion with a political perspective - ironically, their abstention was due to their fear of losing the benefit of this platform! But what was the point of having such a platform in the first place, if they stopped short of using it when it could have been decisive?
Not that the British working class had reached the point where it was bidding for power, as was the Russian working class in 1917. But it had certainly reached the point where it was able to see that those responsible for the war were the same capitalists whose greed they had fought so bitterly already during the four years of industrial unrest before the war, and that the future depended not on speeches in the Commons but on the social balance of forces in society and, in particular, on the intervention of the working class battalions on the political scene. There was, possibly, a unique opportunity to drive a decisive wedge between the mobilised working class and its self-proclaimed political and union leaders who were, by that time, sitting comfortably in government committees, helping the bosses to squeeze more sweat and more blood out of the working class. There was, possibly, the opportunity to build a genuine mass working-class party "with an independent class programme", as Engels had argued two decades before, that is, in the conditions of the time, a revolutionary socialist programme. The Labour Left chose to ignore this opportunity. It was already much too integrated in the institutions of capitalist society, through the structures of the Labour Party, to be willing to jeopardise its cosy position.
The heyday of the Labour Left
The end of the war was marked, once again, by a coincidence of factors which could have made possible the realisation of Engels' objective. Many workers had accounts to settle with the Labour Party leadership because of its support for the war. A layer of working class activists had developed the independent shop-stewards organisation and behind it tens of thousands of workers went through the experience of large-scale strikes which had been run from beginning to end against the active opposition of the union machineries. Finally there was the immense hope raised by the proletarian revolution of October 1917 in Russia. The chances for the socialist programme to root itself in the British working class had never been so promising.
The Labour Party machinery was well aware of the potential threat to its control over the working class. Under the pretext of "reconstructing" the Labour Party, they embarked in a series of pre-emptive moves primarily aimed at protecting the Labour Party from the growing influence of socialist ideas and working class militants. The rules for electing Labour's National Committee were changed. The NEC was now elected by the whole conference which meant that the union bureaucracy, who wielded a large block vote, effectively controlled who would be on the NEC at the expense of the ILP. MacDonald's response on behalf of the ILP, had been to say that "if a split were to come owing to the opressive use of the block vote of some of the larger unions, I would do what I could to form a new Labour combination for political purposes." Had Scargill been around in those days, would he have still favoured the union block-vote... at the expense of socialist ideas or joined the ILP in threatening a split? One wonders...
The following year, the Labour leadership made another pre-emptive move against the ILP by allowing individuals to join the Labour Party through new local branches which would be in effect in competition with the ILP's local branches. The new branches were given representation through five reserved seats on the NEC while four additional seats were reserved for women. Fenner Brockway, later a prominent ILP leader, recalls:
"...in 1918 the individual sections of the Labour Party were established and in many parts of the country they entered into competition with the ILP. Many in the ILP wished to challenge the effort of the Labour party to build up an individual membership; this view was held vigorously in areas like Scotland, Bradford and Norwich, where the ILP was strong and where for all practical purposes it served as the individual membership of the Labour Party."
In addition, through the adoption of a new constitution full of socialist-sounding language, the post-war modernisers made their own adaptation to the spirit of the times. This was mostly the work of the Sidney Webb, who by then, as his wife Beatrice boasted, was seen as "the intellectual leader of the Labour party". The famous "Clause 4", in particular, provided the Labour constitution with new left clothes. But it was rather like the Big Bad Wolf disguising himself as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. It was certainly aimed at swallowing up the innocent. It was vague enough to be interpreted as offering a half-way station to those attracted by the Russian Revolution, while at the same time not departing from the gradualist, anti-marxism of the Webbs. Symbolically, the special conference which was held in June 1918 to endorse the new constitution invited Kerensky, the reformist leader of the pro-capitalist Russian Provisional government overthrown by the October revolution, to address the delegates.
Meanwhile unrest was growing again in the working class in reaction to the war, especially after the huge loss of life in the Western Front in the closing months, and the drastic food shortages caused by German submarine patrols obstructing the Channel. This mood was sustained throughout the period of the wartime Coalition Government, until their resignation in October 1922. There were continual waves of strikes in the coalfields, on the Clyde, and in other industrial areas.
Arthur Horner, later a founder member of the Communist Party, recalls: "At a later stage in the Post-war struggle, Mardy gained the title of "little Moscow"... you could say that the whole Welsh coalfield and most industrial areas of Britain were 'Red'. There was bitterness and anger at the mounting evidence that the pledges given during the war were going to be broken."
In fact Horner himself, a product of the socialist agitation in the Welsh coalfield before the war, had been a member of the ILP and chairman of the Miners' Unofficial Reform Movement. He had smuggled himself over to Ireland to enlist in Connolly's Irish Citizens' Army after the crushing of the 1916 Easter Rising. He had opposed the war on Marxist, not pacifist grounds, and was eventually caught during a visit home, and sentenced to six months hard labour in Wormwood Scrubs. He was by no means exceptional amongst a significant layer of workers, politicised by the war.
By 1920, as Horner recalls, the resistance amongst workers against Britain's intervention in Russia, started gathering momentum: "We held meetings in every part of the coalfields in support of the campaign, appealing all the time to the men not to be induced to join the interventionist forces. We found plenty of support, not only from those who supported us<|fim_middle|> genuine radicalised energy and enthusiasm had been wasted due to the inconsistencies of a handful of reformist leaders who had for a while only toyed with radical ideas and radical rhetoric for their own purposes.
Another war, another betrayal
History does not repeat itself and the political situation created by World War II was not comparable to that of World War I. There was no revolutionary upsurge anywhere in the world, as there had been in Russia in 1917. Nor had the last years of the war seen the emergence of a relatively structured movement of opposition to the war in the working class, as had been the case with the unofficial shop-stewards movement from 1916 onwards. The political opportunities opened by the end of the war were, therefore, certainly more limited this time round.
But there were some opportunities. For instance in the early months of 1944: in February, 100,000 miners went on unofficial strike in South-Wales, soon followed by another 80,000 in Yorkshire; then, in late March, 50,000 engineering apprentices came out on strike throughout the North, forcing Bevin to give up his plans to use young workers to reduce the shortage of miners by forcing them to go down the pits. Later that year, a campaign against the wartime anti-strike laws attracted unusually large audiences in working class towns. There may have been no sign of an imminent class uprising, but there were definite signs of a growing militancy and politicisation in the working class, and of a determination to settle accounts with those who were responsible for yet another mass slaughter.
What had the ILP and Labour Left done to prepare for such developments? The Labour Left, for one thing, or rather what little was left of it, was largely influenced by the Communist Party and had been behind the war effort all the way. The ILP, on the other hand, had buried itself in the same mixture of passivity and pacifism as during the previous war. Admittedly the ILP's membership had shrunk considerably. But it still retained in its ranks four MPs and some of the most prestigious names of the socialist movement. Anyway, its membership could not have been smaller than that of the tiny Workers' International League, the Trotskyist group whose leaders were arrested and tried by the courts for the role they played in helping the apprentices to organise their strike. If, apart from the occasional fiery speeches by Maxton and others, the ILP did not have a higher profile during the wartime period, it was the result of the same political choices which had led to its pathetic decline in the late 30s.
But no sooner was the war over and the prospect of a Labour government back on the agenda, than the Left outside and inside the Labour Party sprang back into life... to offer their unconditional support to the Labour leadership while tapping the aspiration for change among the population.
A majority of the ILP's leading figures were now regretting bitterly not to be in a position to run as Labour candidates. They immediately approached the Labour leadership to apply for re-affiliation. They were told to get their house in order first, which they did obligingly by expelling from their ranks a number of "troublemakers", including most of the ILP's organisation in Tyneside which was accused of having worked with the Trotskyists in helping to build up the 1944 apprentices' strike. The ILP even made the additional gesture of standing only five candidates in the general election and, of course, calling unreservedly for a Labour vote elsewhere. To no avail. The Labour leadership did not budge and the ILP's aspiring politicians remained in the wilderness. Not for long, in fact, as most of them soon returned individually into the fold of the Labour Party, where they were eventually allowed to make a respectable career. Having had no policies the ILP now had no leaders - it ceased to play any political role.
Meanwhile, in Wales, Aneurin Bevan, then probably the most respected figure of the Labour Left, described the coming election as "a real struggle for power... between Big Business and the People" and the key to the victory was, of course, to vote Labour into office. In Barrow-in- Furness, another Labour Left candidate went even further, arguing quite rightly that "only a complete socialist transformation of society can solve the economic problems of our time", but then stating shamelessly about the coming Labour government that "a socialist government, with the firm backing of the common people, will introduce socialist measures that would pave the way for a new classless society from which poverty and insecurity will be forever banished". With such an enthusiastic backing from its own Left, Herbert Morrison, the wartime Home minister in the coalition government, could afford some resounding demagogy like in this statement made on the BBC: "If the nation has to give marching orders to big business, the nation must give them... Big business has got to toe the line of public need - and the phrase is - got to".
The Labour Party had spent six years in government doing the dirty job of the British bourgeoisie, sending one part of the working class to the killing fields of the war while turning the screw of capitalist exploitation on the other. But that was still not enough for the Labour Left. In their frenzy to prove their servility to the Labour Party hierarchy and earn its favours, they had to resort to lies which, coming after six years of suffering and deprivation for the working class, were as blatant as they were abject.
In the end, however, as a political current, the Labour Left did not even benefit from their cowardice. In most respects, they did not survive the 1945 Labour government, or rather came out of this period as a different kind of current, which had lost any real links with the working class, and therefore any chance of having ever any real weight on the political scene.
The great myth
This "socialist government" whose election was supposed to represent "a real struggle for power between Big Business and the People" for the Labour Left, has remained to-date, for every current in the Labour Party, whether on the left or on the right, including for Arthur Scargill, the example of what wonders the ballot box can achieve for the working class. And yet, the 1945 government turned out to be the most repressive and oppressive Labour government ever.
We will not go back here over the real significance of the so-called "achievements" of the Attlee government - the nationalisations, the setting up of the Health Service, the welfare state, etc.. - except to say that these constituted the logical continuation of the wartime economy and that such plans had been discussed and agreed long before, in the capitalist circles that mattered. Had Churchill been prime minister, instead of Atlee, these plans would have been implemented anyway, and possibly more thoroughly because the Tories would not have had the same fears of upsetting the capitalist class that Labour had. On the other hand, had Churchill been in the driving seat, the working class might not had felt their hands tied, as they were by the union machineries, and unable to oppose the most unacceptable aspects of these plans, in particular the colossal handouts to the British bourgeoisie which they involved, and the institutionalised chronic poverty which was "awarded" to the unemployed and the aged under the welfare state.
But there were many other aspects in the Attlee government's policies which only a Labour government, with the help of the union bureaucracy, could hope to impose on the working class. For instance the continuation of the wartime army mobilisation in peace time, well into the 50s. What for? To defeat some totalitarian regime abroad? No, to smash the popular uprising led by the Greek Communist Party or to occupy the Iranian oil fields for the benefit of British shareholders; or to crush the nationalist movements in the Middle-East, in Burmah, in Malaysia and, finally, in Korea! And what of the food rationing which was enforced in Britain until 1954, well after it had ceased even in Germany, not to mention the drastic pressure on workers' wages which was maintained throughout the lifetime of this government, under the well-known slogan of "winning the peace".
Someone had to pay for the defence of the imperialist interests of the British bourgeoisie abroad and for the compensation paid to the shareholders of the nationalised industries so that they could invest in the emerging markets of the time. The Labour Party made sure that the working class paid the bill and no-one else. Those workers who stood up against this vicious austerity, had to confront not just the bosses and the state, but also the whole spectrum of politicians and the trade-union machineries. Many of them had to face the army too - the Attlee government sent the army against fourteen strikes in less than six years, far more than any subsequent government. And, in the last years of the regime, when the Labour Party chose to use for its own purpose, the red-baiting campaign launched in the US by senator McCarthy, its main target, once again, was those militant activists who had not given up the fight in the ranks of the working class.
Yes, if anything, the postwar Labour government was one of the most reactionary seen in Britain this century, certainly the most reactionary compared to the aspirations of the working class when it came into office. But did the Labour Left stand up, even verbally against its policies? No. It kept in the safe waters of idle quarrels over the government's foreign policies and its relationship with the two emerging blocks. But when, in February 1947, coal rationing was introduced, the Labour Left attacked Attlee for being too soft on workers, with Harold Laski writing in the Daily Herald, that "we cannot waste thousands of workers upon pools and dog-racing and midweek football... Let us face it quite frankly, we cannot have two world wars in one generation and expect not to have a hard time" - but the capitalist class could, of course! It was over this issue that the most prominent Left faction of this period came to existence. The "Keep Left" group included such people as Michael Foot, Ian Mikardo, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, etc.., all of whom were to reach the front bench of subsequent Labour governments, within only a few weeks in the case of Wilson. The main "action" of this group was to issue a pamphlet arguing that the only way out of the crisis for Britain was to increase its exports to 65% above their pre-war level, and that to reach such a level, workers' energy to work harder had to be mobilised through the restoration of the wartime joint production committees - the same committees through which the union bureaucracy had imposed military discipline on the working class during the war. The only response of the Labour Left to the plundering of the economy by the bourgeoisie was to militarise the working class!
Of course, there was Bevan's spectacular resignation from the government, followed by that of Harold Wilson and another leftwinger, in 1951, in protest against the imposition of prescription charges in the NHS. Undoubtedly this gesture won them some credit. But was it a coincidence if it came at a time when everyone knew that the days of the Labour government were counted? Politicians have always very good at rocking the boat when it was already sinking. For all his charisma, Nye Bevan was no exception.
The Left shadow of the Labour Party
By 1951, the Labour bureaucracy reached a degree of integration in the state machinery which was unprecedented. Through its participation in the myriads of committees and institutions which make up the fabric of central and local government, it had acquired a social weight which gave it a significant degree of independence from the grassroots - from the Labour and union membership but also, thanks to the two-party system, from the working class electorate who did not have any other credible party to vote for. This independence was not even significantly weakened by Labour's terms in opposition, not even by the sixteen years of continuous Tory government since 1979, as has been demonstrated in the most graphic way, over the past decade, by the right- wing shift in the Labour Party and trade unions. Of course, the low level of militancy and politicisation of the past decade in the working class has only contributed in strengthening the bureaucrats' independence.
These changes are the main reasons why after the war the Labour Left never regained the potential weight it had enjoyed until the 30s. On the one hand it was risky for politicians to stake their careers on expressing the militant and social aspirations of the working class as long as these aspirations did not represent a significant force in the class stuggle. On the other hand there was little incentive for the Labour hierarchy to allow such aspirations to have a voice in the Labour Party since their own social weight did not depend on the active support of the working class nor did their chances to return to office.
The shift to the right of these last years in the Labour Party, which has become more blatant under Tony Blair but was started long before under Kinnock, is only another illustration of the same phenomenon. It reflects the voluntary adaptation of the Labour Party machinery to a situation in which a decade of very low levels of militancy has made the bourgeoisie less willing to tolerate the slightest reference to the aspirations of the working class. And the Labour bureaucrats are willing to oblige, even if it means upsetting some minor union leaders, like Scargill, but also others on the right-wing of the union establishment, whose weight in the Party is bound to be weakened by this shift.
As to the Labour Left, we will not, go through its rather dull history since 1951. Let us just say that it was only a pale shadow of what it had been in the past. Its activity was primarily focused on issues which could not really affect the policies of the Labour leadership, let alone the balance of forces between classes in society, like nuclear disarmament, women's rights, etc.. Even in the early 80s when it regained some strength for a short period of time, after the "Winter of Discontent" and the 1979 general election, the Labour Left remained cut off from the working class, concentrating on tokenistic gestures rather than the real issue of the day - which was, and is still now, the need for the working class to resist the profit drive of the bourgeoisie and to stage an effective counter-offensive.
The leading figures of the Left - the Foot's of the 50s and 60s or the Skinner's and Benn's of the 80s - have been mere shadows compared to such predecessors as Maxton. They were capable of making speeches but not of attracting the interest and support in the working class that the ILP did in the 1930s. And not being prepared to look for ways of building such support, not being even concerned by their failure to have it, the Labour Left was confined to doing little more than posturing, providing a left image for the Labour Party when it was useful to the hierarchy and its unconditional backing when it was demanded.
The crisis and the working class
This is why, by contrast, the militant language used by Scargill and the SLP may sound new to the milieu of disgruntled Labour activists and supporters to whom it is addressed and could create some illusions.
But in fact the whole rhetoric used by Scargill leaves no doubt as to his political choices. His harking back to the mythical "good old days" of a Labour Party which really represented the aspirations of the working class; his idealisation of the positive role of the union block-vote and of Clause 4; his frequent references to the need for social change without ever spelling out how this changes are to be achieved; all this is nothing but a refurbished version of the old myths which the Labour Left has always used to justify its abdication in front of the Labour leadership's policies.
The experience of the ILP's split in 1932, has shown the consequences of using a radical language while abiding by the rules of parliamentary politics in a period of crisis. It has also shown that being outside the Labour Party did not prevent the ILP from sticking to the Labour Left tradition. And yet the ILP of 1932 had a lot more assets in its hands than today's SLP - both in terms of the quality and experience of its leading activists, and, of course, in terms of its influence among the working class.
Once again we cannot say today what the SLP will be tomorrow, what forces it will have gained from the ranks of the Labour Party and the unions, and what fresh forces it will be able to attract from the ranks of the working class. Scargill seems to be saying now that he does not expect major reinforcements for the SLP before Labour gets in government. He seems to be thinking as well that he will then be able to attract a significant layer of union activists. We do not know whether his calculation will prove to be correct.
But the more forces the SLP manages to attract, the more hopes it creates, the more damaging its policies could turn out to be for the working class, if they remain what they are at the moment.
To confront the crisis that has been building up for over twenty years and the offensive of the capitalist class which has already affected the lives of a large section of the working class of this country, the working class needs effective weapons to arm itself and weld its ranks. It needs to understand without any ambiguity that its chances to win future battles will depend entirely on its capacity to confront not just the bosses and their politicians in government, including those of the Labour Party, but also to confront the bureaucratic machineries of the unions. Being suspicious about the union leaders is one thing, and most workers are, but being prepared morally and politically to organise against them if need be is quite another. Not only does it need convincing, it also requires going through a series of experiences, maybe on a small scale but not necessarily, in which real attempts are made in that direction and lessons are learnt, possibly at the cost of a number of partial defeats. This is precisely one of the primary tasks that a party aiming at representing the political interests of the working class would have to set itself.
But so far, and not unexpectedly, Scargill has carefully dodged this issue. He launches a party which has nothing to say about the policy of the union leadership, that of yesterday, of today, let alone of tomorrow. And the odds are that the SLP will keep silent on this, if only because Scargill himself, together with a number of his associates among the initiators of the SLP, are seasoned union bureaucrats whose outlook is not fundamentally different from that of the rest of the union bureaucracy.
On a broader level, the illusion that the working class could begin to regain some of the ground lost in the crisis, without engaging in a major confrontation involving not just one but many sections of workers joining ranks in a political battle in the streets and the factories, could be deadly. The capitalist class could, under serious pressure, give in on wage demands, even on a large scale, because its profits have been very high for a number of years now. But to go further than that, and this is what beginning to regain some of the ground lost would mean, would require demanding a lot more.
How could the working class begin, for instance, to impose a significant reduction in the mass unemployment which has been the rule for twenty years now in this country? There are not all that many possibilities: one is to impose the effective banning of further job cuts, at least in those companies which are making a profit; another is to impose the creation of new jobs paid by the bosses and the sharing of the workload between all workers without loss of pay for anyone; yet another is to impose that the dozens of billions of state funds which are used every year to subsidise private profits through all sorts of channels, should be used by the state to create jobs where they are needed, in the public services, to build good affordable housing and transport, etc.. Whichever way is chosen, it means a drastic reduction in the present and future profits of the capitalists. It even means more than that. Who is to decide for instance which company should be allowed to cut jobs, which should be ordered to create jobs and how many? Functionaries, accountants, union leaders, the bosses themselves? Who among them can be trusted? To be effective this would actually require the direct control of the companies' finances by the workers themselves. All this only to implement the minimum emergency measures needed to stop the growth of unemployment! It is a tall order, but not an impossible one.
Even if one was to assume naively that a government could have the political will to implement such measures, how would they be able to impose them on the capitalist class? They would not. This is why, armed with the wishful thinking of the SLP's programme, and its reliance on the reforms that a mysterious "socialist" government would implement using its magic wand to impose its law on the capitalist class, the working class can only go down the road of defeat.
No, the bourgeoisie would not give in on such vital issues, unless it was faced with a mobilisation of the working class so massive and a balance of class forces in society so unfavourable, that it felt it had no choice but to comply.
This would not necessarily mean a revolution, at that point, but it would certainly mean a social uprising by a working class which is both determined and armed with a clear consciousness of its aims, that of imposing its control over the capitalist system - and that means armed with the revolutionary programme of a party which has decided once and for all that the only way forward for the working class is indeed that of the revolution. | ideologically but also from ex-servicemen who knew war at first hand and were determined not to be involved in a quarrel with which they had no concern. Finally the movement grew so powerful that the Labour and Trade Union leadership had to give it recognition, and when the London dockers refused to load arms for the Interventionist forces in Poland, the Government had to give way."
How did the ILP react to this situation? They could have chosen to break with the Labour Party and thrown their weight behind the building of the new Communist Party, which was launched in 1920, just as the majority of the BSP did, together with a sizeable minority of the ILP. With such forces, against the background of the Russian revolution and the growing industrial unrest in Britain, the launching of the CP could have signalled the renewal of the socialist programme in the working class. Instead, at the 1922 conference of the Labour Party, MacDonald who was in the leadership of the ILP, chose rather to attack the new Communist Party, declaring that the attempts of the CP to affiliate to the Labour Party were only aimed at stabbing Labour in the back, and recommended refusing them entry. He made common cause with the LP chair, who described communists as "the intellectual slaves of the Asiatic mind". This seems to have attracted little if any protest on the part of the ILP, who were later to endorse MacDonald once more as Labour Party leader.
When the Coalition government finally collapsed in October 1922, amid industrial unrest and rising unemployment, the ILP chose to use this opportunity not to build on this militancy, but to regain the favours of the Labour Party hierarchy, in order to get their own MPs into Parliament. So they put their back into campaigning for a Labour victory, promising that this was the best way to get the nationalisation of mines and industry that workers aspired to. This fitted their radical reformist approach - that the Labour Party itself was to be the vehicle for socialism, through getting into government. In working class Glasgow, where Labour won 10 out of 15 seats, all of those elected were members of the ILP. Altogether, Labour won 162 seats, 30 of which were occupied by Scottish MPs.
James Maxton, the Glasgow MP, was by now becoming one of the leading lights in the ILP. He was famous for his "revolutionary socialist" rhetoric and had the credit of having spent a year in jail during the war for sedition, plus an association with the Red Clydesiders, having shared many a platform with the Communist, William Gallagher. It was he and the other Clydeside MPs who gave MacDonald his first real opportunity to show his colours as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. In a speech in the Commons, Maxton accused the Tories of murdering children when they withdrew milk and food supplies and free hospital accomodation as part of their economic policy. He and three others were suspended from the Commons, while MacDonald and the front bench opposition MP's abstained on the vote. The LP leadership then held its own "court martial" of the so- called "Clydeside wreckers" who refused to apologise and so remained expelled from Parliament. Maxton and the ILP used this pretext to organise meetings and demonstrations up and down the country, in endorsement of their actions in disrupting parliament, which actually resulted in thousands joining the ILP - but also the Labour Party by the same token.
The ILP turns to the left.... in words
From the early 1920's, because it was more visible, the ILP was able to make more rapid gains than the fledgling Communist Party out of the politicisation of the working class due to the intractable struggles taking place in this period. This allowed the ILP to establish itself as a national organisation with full time organisers on relatively generous salaries. Clifford Allen, elected Treasurer of the ILP in 1922, had moved the ILP into palatial headquarters in Westminster.
Allen of course, was no radical. In fact as he explained to Brockway after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1920, he thought Lenin's methods far too drastic. "Our task," he said, "is to make the fundamental change to Socialism as speedily as and thoroughly as it has been done in Russia, but by the method of persuasion rather than force. We must state the case for Socialism so convincingly that all people of intelligence and goodwill will turn to it."
He changed the name of the paper from "Labour Leader" to "New Leader", turning it into a glossy review, with a "Nature Notes" feature, artistic woodcuts and theoretical and literary features. His target was clearly not the ordinary worker, but the middle-class intellectual.
Between 1923 and 1924 the number of ILP branches rose from 637 to 1,028. As Brockway, by then Party secretary, recalls: "The Labour Party was rising to the crest of its strength and wealthy careerists buzzed around us, anxious to be adopted as candidates, proffering contributions in the hope of securing rewards after the manner of the old parties."
But the ILP could have several tricks in its bag. While they were trying to woo the middle-class, their recruitment came from the working class. This was reflected in the radical language used in the 1923 Party progamme, "Socialism in our Time", which was designed to attract the newly radicalised workers. It laid down a minimum living income for all, requiring industries to pay this within a specified period, nationalisation of the banks, land, mining, electrical generation and distribution, and transport. Any industry that refused to pay the minimum wage would be taken over by the state, or be provided with a subsidy in return for proportional public control. But who was to enforce this radical programme? They did not say. By inference, it was to be carried out by the Labour Party itself, once in government, of course.
While MacDonald refused to accept such a programme - the title "Socialism in our Time" probably being enough on its own to put him off, the ILP quite happily supported his leadership of the Parliamentary Labour Party when it took office in 1924. The working class was given its first opportunity to judge the efficacy of a Labour Government. Arthur Horner recalls: "At that time the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) had called a strike against wage cuts and worsened conditions for the Loco men demanded by the National Wages Board. The National Union of Railmen had accepted the cuts and the new Government quickly showed its hand by dubbing the strike "unofficial" although it was called by a union affiliated to the Labour Party. Mr JR Clynes declared that in its approach to strikes, the Government would act as a "national" and not a "class" Government. When the dockers struck, Ernest Bevin declared "I wish it had been a Tory Government. We would not have been so frightened by their threats." So much for the virtues attributed by the ILP to a Labour government!
Only after the fall of MacDonald's government did Maxton dare to put up any challenge against him. In October 1925, MacDonald was taken off the editorship of the "Socialist Review" and by Easter 1926, Maxton was elected National Chairman of the ILP with the largest majority ever. Ironically this was seen as the triumph of "real socialism" against gradualism, typified by MacDonald... But how was Maxton's "real socialism" different? As Maxton said in accepting the ILP leadership: "It is the place of the ILP to lay stress on the mind and will of man as the determining factor in bringing about a change in social and economic affairs, and to work for and propagate socialism with speed but without catastrophe." But, of course, that "determining factor" was however subordinated to achieving a Labour majority in Parliament.
This was a vague, humanist formulation, making out the ILP to be the good socialist conscience of the Labour Party, and most certainly not its militant wing. More importantly, it was vague enough for anyone to understand in it what he wished to understand. Beyond the ILP's radical sounding programme, this was as far as Maxton, the so-called "red Clydesider", was prepared to go in criticising the fundamental objectives of the Labour Party. But significantly, this "redness" never prevented the ILP from allowing MacDonald to retain his membership, for instance.
The General Strike, another missed opportunity
By 1926 the ILP was in the hands of the so-called "left". The big salaries for officials were stopped and the New Leader temporarily discontinued. Then came the General Strike, and an unprecedented opportunity for a radical organisation to play a leading role in the class struggle.
On Mayday 1926 the miners were finally to be locked out. The government had been negotiating all the time with the members of the General Council of the TUC and quite rightly did not believe that the Trade Union leaders wanted a general strike on their hands. So when the print workers working on the Daily Mail refused to print an editorial against the miners, the Government broke off negotiations with the TUC in order to call its bluff.
Thus began the famous 9-day Strike. While the Communist-led Minority Movement had been attempting, against the opposition of the official leadership of the TUC, to prepare councils of action since the end of March, this was successful only on a limited scale. Their catastrophic strategy - inspired by Stalin's foreign policy and expressed in their slogan "all power to the General Council", left workers without any lead, at least from the CP.
But what did the ILP do? Maxton led the Scottish Labour Representatives back to Glasgow to organise the workers for struggle. He however made it clear to them that they should on no account take part in riots. He returned to London after a week to issue a manifesto in support of the miners which said: "The National Council calls on its 1,100 branches to place themselves unreservedly at the disposal of the miners and the Trade Union Movement in the biggest struggle in which British Labour has ever been engaged."
Yes, the ILP put themselves passively at the disposal of TUC and even took on the editorship and production of the TUC official newspaper during the strike. For this purpose, Fenner Brockway was selected and sent up to Manchester to get on with it. Then on the 12th May he was told to expect to do a special edition. He relates that he could not at first believe the message they got about the calling off of the strike. Nevertheless he produced the required copy, and the paper was distributed. Of the anger resulting he said later, hypocritically: "It looked like the end of the strike might be the beginning of the revolution." Yet the assessment he gave was simply that the TUC had been "misled" by the government. There was certainly no inclination on the part of the ILP to provide a lead for this "revolution" Brockway felt might be on the way.
Yet, in the face of the betrayal of the working class by the left union leaders, who had been wooed by the CP, what would have been needed at this crucial moment was an independent class perspective. Many workers, even when the strike was called off, stayed out on strike. Indeed in some areas, the strike even grew after it was called off, and the miners remained on strike for another year. The ILP certainly had the physical means at its disposal to at least attempt to provide an alternative perspective through the "councils of action" which had been set up in many areas of the country both during the strike and in its immediate aftermath. They chose not to do anything. Thus did yet another opportunity for the working class to score a victory against the system end in defeat and demoralisation. And the ILP had its own hand in this defeat, even if it was less conspicuous than that of the TUC.
Towards the split
In 1928, the Labour Party's new programme, "Labour and the Nation", reflected the defeat of the working class with a marked shift to the right by putting nationalisation in the background. As Snowden explained it: "We are going to get our socialism largely through a public corporation controlled in the interests of the publiic by the best experts and businessmen." Any resemblance with Blair's "partnership" with private business is, of course, not fortuitous at all..
The 1929 election brought back another joint Labour-Liberal government led by MacDonald, who spelt out his plans saying that "the Labour Government would show the country, notwithstanding Mr Winston Churchill, that it knew how to govern."
The Party conference had endorsed a pledge to "take every step in its power to ensure that the provision for unemployment is humane and adequate, and will meet the additional costs by State grants so that they fall neither on the workers contributions nor on the cost of production." But all the Labour Government did was to slightly increase the allowance to dependents but not to unemployed men. Nor did it remove the "Not genuinely seeking work" clause. This led the ILP to table in Parliament their own minimal demands which were, in fact, no more than the LP's pre-election promises.
Already by 1930, Maxton had been under attack from ILP MP's like Shinwell for voting and speaking against the Labour government. But he still narrowly maintained the support of the majority of members in the ILP. He was re-elected ILP leader at the annual conference in 1930 in Birmingham and his position in voting against the government was endorsed, but only 17 of the 140 MPs who were members of the ILP agreed to implement this decision.
When the next Labour conference took place, the ILP could still not find a more credible policy than to call on government to introduce a "bold socialist programme" and stand up to the capitalist parties! But it stopped short of exposing clearly the anti-working class nature of Labour's policies.
Finally there was a clash in the government over the implementation of cuts which would have resulted in 300,000 unemployed losing their benefits, MacDonald called a snap election, forming a National coalition with the Tories, the Liberals and a minority of Labour MPs. The union machinery took over full control of the Labour Party to tighten its ranks against the attraction exercised on the Labour machinery by MacDonald's "National" Labour. But at the same time, they turned against the left to prevent it from taking advantage of the situation. ILP candidates failed to get Labour's endorsement in the election and only three ILP MPs were elected.
At its next conference, the ILP was split over what attitude it should take. A section was in favour of leaving immediately and affiliating to the Communist International. Finally a majority voted to stay within the Labour Party provided that the liberty to express ILP policy could be secured. But when it turned out that this was not the case, a special ILP conference was held in July 1932 in Bradford and disaffiliation was voted with a 62% majority.
Brockway, while claiming that the ILP had its roots in the working class, complained that union activists who were members of the ILP "were frequently not permitted to take part in any political discussion in a trade union branch, they were removed from official positions which they held, and they had to resign their delegations to Trade and Labour Councils." For the first time ILP activists were experiencing the same treatment by the union bureaucracy that CP activists had endured for years. The difference was that the CP members held their ground whereas the ILP had not prepared its membership for such a dramatic change and many left the ILP as a result of these pressures.
Between reformism and the revolution
The ILP was frought with disagreements within its own ranks. In retrospect, Brockway says of these times: "In the course of this inner struggle the ILP experimented in many directions, at one time approaching the Communist International and at another moving towards the Trotskyist position, at one stage attaching its hope to united fronts and at another reverting to purism, at one period going all out to prepare for soviets and at another recognising again the value of Parliament.... Since 1932 the Party has been a crucible of the change from reformism to revolutionism. Into that crucible every idea, every tactic, has been thrown and has worked itself out; it has been a microcosm of all the conflicts of theory and practice which have stirred so deeply the world movement."
Of course the ILP was no more the potential crucible for revolution than the Stalinist Communist Party was. But certainly there were many influences both domestically and internationally which affected these developments. For one thing, by the time Hitler was elected in Germany, a layer of activists began to reject Labour's parliamentary road and to see the need to fight the rise of fascism by revolutionary means. This radicalisation provided a new boost both for the CP and for the ILP.
It was at this juncture, that Trotsky described the ILP as being half-way between parliamentarianism and revolution. Of course he was speaking about the membership, not the leadership, who had long ago made their choices. They had chosen to break away from the LP in order to capitalise on a trend in the working class, in the absence of the possibility of short term gains being made by staying inside. They hoped to win some influence. And indeed they did attract radicalised workers, but remained noticeably absent on the domestic political scene. They pulled away from the influence of Trotsky who they found too radical, only to be caught in the nets of the Stalinists.
It was Harry Pollitt of the CP who had suggested the coming together of the ILP and CP on an equal basis. "The CP has failed to build a mass revolutionary party. So has the ILP. Together we can do it." Then the 1933 conference of the ILP voted narrowly to instruct the National Council of the Party to "ascertain in what way the ILP may assist the work of the Communist International".
After a series of long detailed correspondence with the Communist International, however, the next annual conference rejected a resolution in favour of sympathetic affiliation. Despite this, ILP Chairman, Brockway, said "we slipped into a united front with the CP, however, without considered attention." He was "persuaded" by Pollitt to co-operate with the CP in various campaigns, hunger marches, and the general agitation around benefit cuts, rent disputes and unofficial strikes.
Yet this again caused a division in the ranks of the ILP, which was exacerbated when Stalin signed a Trade Agreement with Germany - while CP leaders were jailed by Hitler's regime and CP members were shot or put in camps. When Russia joined the League of Nations and began negotiations for a political and military alliance with the French Government, Brockway used Lenin's description of the League as a "Thieves' kitchen" to distance the ILP from the CP. His argument was undoubtedly tainted with a dose of hypocrisy and anti- communism. But his purpose was to use the genuine doubts which existed among the ILP's ranks about Stalinism.
Then came the Moscow trials. Brockway argued: "Stalin may make a purge of his critics; but this trial has been a bad day's work for Soviet Russia. Putting the most favourable impression upon it, it leaves in the mind a picture of antagonisms and repressions which are far from the free, happy and united society which socialists everywhere hoped was being built in Russia". However, this did not prevent the ILP from rejoining a united front with the CP in the so-called "Unity Campaign" of 1936-7.
The idea behind this was to get the ILP and CP accepted as affiliates of the Labour Party. In this campaign, they were joined by the Socialist League, a left grouping which was still inside the Labour Party, led by Sir Stafford Cripps. This campaign actually struck a chord amongst many members and the public at large. Tens of thousands apparently signed "pledge cards" in favour of unity of the left. The manipulations of the Stalinists soon resulted in the liquidation of the Socialist League however and when the Moscow trials continued and news came through of the repression organised by the Communist International against the POUM, the ILP's sister organisation in Spain, the "Unity Campaign" disintegrated.
At the end of this period, on the eve of the war, the membership of the ILP had fallen to an all-time low. The wavering of its leadership and the absence of any clear perspective for the organisation, had demoralised many who had believed in the ILP's radical language. Many others, in particular in its youth organisation, had gone over to the CP which seemed, at least, to know what they wanted. Another significant section had simply rejoined the Labour Party, feeling that since by then Labour was in opposition, they would at least be more effective in opposing the austerity policy of the Tory government. A wealth of | 4,389 |
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Why Is Arkham So Full?: The Truth About Insanity Defense in Criminal Law
I've been watching a show called Gotham recently. I'm a comic book nerd, like seeing strong women of color characters, and have a soft spot for any Law & Order type shows. One thing that makes the show quite unbearable at times is their portrayal of mental illness. They trick you by having protagonist Jim Gordon question the mass incarceration of the mentally ill at Arkham, but once he's there as a security guard he's more than happy to demean and manipulate the mentally ill as much as all the other neuro-normative, as in those without mental illnesses, characters. The mentally ill people incarcerated there are a collection of stereotypes, from the manchild to the flamboyant gay man. And of course one strange thing about the show, and about the Batman universe in general, is just how full Arkham is. Arkham pretty much has served as the de facto prison for most of Batman's villains, even for those are supposedly "sane" like the Penguin or Black Mask.
In the real world, insanity defense are fairly rare, as demonstrated by the high rate of mentally ill persons in US prisons. Only 1 in 100 defendants even raise an insanity defense and the chance of the defense being successful is less than one percent. The misconception that it is more prominent stems from both the general fear and stigma around mentally ill people and the use of insanity defenses in highly publicized serial killer cases like Jeffrey Dahmer (thinking I might do a whole post about serial killers at some point if there's any interest). Of course the state, and the capitalists it represents, have a very vested interest in incarcerating people with mental illness rather than having them treated at an in-patient facility (though in-patient facilities have their own problems, often associated with a general lack of funding by the state and a focus on diagnostic treatment rather than working with patients cooperatively). People with mental illnesses range<|fim_middle|> to inform a juror's choice on an issue explicitly about mental illness? With the publishing of the Model Penal Code in 1962, the American Law Institute sought to reinforce the certainty necessary for capitalist law, and insanity defenses were no exception. Model Penal Code section 4.01(1) adopts a version of the Irresistible Impulse test: that the defendant lacks substantial capacity to know criminality or conform their conduct to requirements of the law. Other criminal codes go further, such as the New York Penal Law which essentially revives the M'Naghten Test.
An actionable insanity defense that is not fatal in fact could be a means of questioning the purported morality and purpose of the criminal law. Remember that not all defenses are created by statute: the use of the "battered woman syndrome" defense, which faced major opposition when first used by defense lawyers who had gone outside of the defenses outlined by statute, is now practiced across the country. Similarly we need new defenses for people with mental illnesses that are not restricted by the prejudiced and exploitative definitions of capitalist law.
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Follow Habeas Quaestus on WordPress.com | from being disruptive to completely incompatible with a capitalist economy. 80% of mentally ill people are unemployed. The alienation and need for sublimination with in a capitalist economy is something that many of the mentally ill people simply cannot do or tolerate. But unlike their neuro-normative fellows, they are poor candidates to make up what Engels refers to as "an unemployed reserve army of workers." Most of this "reserve army" is sustained by what Engels refers to as huckstering but what we now call hustling. Such hustling, whether in drug, piracy, or sex work, is incredibly mentally strenuous work. Which is not to say that mentally ill people do not engage in such work, but rather that it is not nearly as feasible for them to sustain themselves on it, and as Engels wrote, it reduces their options to begging.
Getting back to the insanity defense. Fun fact: most insanity defenses (decided by the states and one federal form) are based on a test from the 1500's called the M'Naghten Test. This test is pretty simple: did the offender, with a defect of reason or disease of the mind, understand the difference between right and wrong? It would be laughable if it weren't so blithely out of touch with both modern science and organizing done by mentally ill people for their rights. But wait, it gets much worse. Because this test could have gone the way of other 16th century institutions like serfdom.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Charles Cogswell Doe, had a problem. Defendant was being charged with murder in the commission of a robbery (note that this was before felony murder rules had been established in many places like NH). Defendant had what at the time was called dipsomania, what we would now call alcoholism. The judge established a new test: that insanity defenses could be applied in cases where the crime was a product of mental defect or disease. Whether or not that was the case would be left up to the jury in their role as the triers of fact. Despite the problematic language, this was a huge step forward from the ludicrously high standard of the M'Naghten Test. And it was in 1870. It is generally referred to as the Durham/Product Test.
Having an insanity defense that could actually work was troublesome to capitalist lawmakers for another reason than the desire of warehousing an untenable population of unemployment. Guilt is a crucial aspect of the criminal legal system. Insanity defenses are "excuse defenses," defenses that find a person normally guilty of the crime not guilty. Their existence has a basis in the representation-reinforcement school of thought: if you do not excuse certain defendants who are extremely sympathetic to the working class, it could both cause dissent to the government and reveal that the purpose of the criminal law is not as moral or socially responsible as it purports. Writes Evgeny Pashukanis:
Guilt… is the basis for the gradation of punishment – a new, if you wish, ideal or psychological element, which is combined with the material element (the injury) and the objective element (the act) – in order to provide a joint basis for determining the ratio of punishment…bourgeois jurisprudence ensures that the transaction with the criminal is in accordance with all rules of the art, i.e. that each may be convinced, and may verify that the payment is justly set (public judicial proceedings), that the criminal may bargain freely (adversary process), and that in so doing he may use the services of an experienced judicial expert (admission of the defence) etc. Briefly, the state conducts its relationship to the criminal within the framework of a bona fide commercial transaction in which there are, ostensibly, guarantees of criminal procedure.
So critiques were put forth against the Durham/Product Test that it puts too much emphasis on mental health experts. We have in this critique an interesting contradiction: on the one hand, it is legitimate to wish to avoid too much emphasis on the ambiguity that is witness experts (a topic for a later date I'm sure), but on the other hand, who else has the credentials | 863 |
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"I knew it would be a tough match"
Date: 3/15/2019 10:27 AM
Published by : Thomas Davin
The French player, Lucas Corvee, fights<|fim_middle|> us on Instagram and YouTube! | his way into the quarterfinals of the YONEX Swiss Open 2019, after defeating Lin You Hsien from Chinese Taipei.
Lin You Hsien rapidly took a 7-2 lead in the first game, but the French managed to come back and win 21-19. In a very close and intense second game, Lin You Hsien took the second one 23-21, but Corvee took the deciding game (21-5) and won.
"I knew it would be a tough match. I had some opportunities to close the match in two sets, but I guess he played better than me the last three or four points in the second set", Corvee said after the match.
"I had to stay focus in the beginning of the third set. I feel good, physically, so I managed to play maybe a bit faster than him at the end", he added.
Corvee succeed in Basel, as he has reached the semi-finals of the YONEX Swiss Open last year.
"I am really happy to play another quarterfinal here. I love playing here", he said.
Watch the interview with Corvee after reaching the quarterfinal in Basel here
In the quarterfinals, the French will face Sai Praneeth Bhamidipati from India who qualified for the quarterfinals with a victory against Sameer Verma, who won the Swiss Open in 2018.
Together with Marc Cajouw, Corvee is the only European player in the Men's Singles draw in Basel who defeated Parupalli Kashyap in two games (21-15, 21-16).
A new challenge is upon the Dutch who is facing Shi Yuqi, the current world number two, in the quarterfinals of the BWF World Tour 300 tournament
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A movie theater has been at this location since 1913 and named "The Queen" since 1914. It was originally located in the three-story Stoddard Hotel built here in 1889.* The Schulman family purchased the theater business in 1926 and the building in 1938. It was replaced by a modern structure with steel framework, air conditioning and indirect lighting designed by Pettigrew and Worley of Dallas. The tall, white façade was topped with a revolving, neon-lit crown. It reopened on Nov. 21, 1939 and continued for over 30 years. Vacant and in disrepair, the building was purchased by the Downtown Bryan Association in 2010 and restoration began. The Queen is the only example of Streamline Moderne architecture on Main Street.
*Editor's Note: The Stoddard Hotel was built in 1884; it was renamed "The Exchange Hotel" in 1889.
Two Bryan attorneys, M.J. Beale and B.K. Davis, donated four acres of land at this site in April, 1874 for the purpose of establishing the Reliance Baptist Church, School and Cemetery. The Community was originally called Little Georgia, taking its name from the State of origin of an early 1850s wagon train of settlers. More families from the southeastern United States arrived in the 1870s escaping economic hardships following the Civil War by emigrating to Texas. David Lloyd of Mississippi changed the community name to Reliance in 1873 with the organization of the Reliance Baptist Church<|fim_middle|>oh community maintained a cooperative relationship, often helping each other with planting, harvesting, barn building, and other activities. In 1883, to coordinate assistance efforts and group purchases of farm supplies, they formed the Slavonic Agricultural and Benevolent Society, which still exists in reorganized form as the Shiloh Club. The community later was completely encompassed by the City of College Station. Mrs. William G. Rector deeded land at this site to the local Methodist Church in 1870 for use as a community cemetery. The property later was acquired by the City of College Station, which established a larger city cemetery around the original Shiloh Graveyard. Although little remains of the Shiloh community, this cemetery serves as a reminder of a once-thriving settlement.
2604 Texas Avenue at College Station Cemetery, College Station.
This parish traces its origin to Episcopal services held in nearby Millican in 1864. A yellow fever epidemic in the Millican area prompted the relocation of the Saint Andrew's Mission to Bryan in 1867. A parish was formed that year and led by The Rev. Robert Jope. The original church structure, located near this site, was consecrated by Bishop Alexander Gregg in 1868. The Rev. Randolph Ray held the first service in a new church building at this location in 1914. In 1992 Saint Andrew's celebrated 125 years of service and participation in a variety of community programs and activities.
217 W. 26th St., Bryan.
Corner of Preston and 26th Streets, Bryan. | .
W.H. (Uncle Billy) Morgan established a cotton gin and general store in 1873 and also served as postmaster. In the late 19th century, Reliance included a general store, post office, gristmill, cotton gin, school, church and community center. As intensive cotton farming eroded the soil, area farms transformed into extensive cattle ranches. By the 21st century the church and cemetery remained historic fixtures in an area transitioning to rural residential development.
The cemetery is sited among century-old post oak, elm and hackberry trees. The earliest marked grave dates to 1881, although several older undated graves are believed to exist here. Community members made additional donations of land in 1951 and 1995, nearly doubling the original size of the church and cemetery property. The cemetery property is held jointly by the Reliance Baptist Church and the Reliance Cemetery Association, which governs the operation and maintenance of the historical burial grounds.
German immigrant Adam Royder (d. 1894) donated one acre of land here for school purposes in 1891. A one-room schoolhouse was constructed where area students received instruction through the seventh grade. The Rock Prairie Missionary Baptist Church was organized in the schoolhouse in 1900, and church services were subsequently held there, as well. The Rock Prairie School was discontinued in 1919 after it was consolidated with the nearby Shiloh School, but the schoolhouse continued to serve area Baptists as a house of worship.
2405 Old Rock Prairie Rd., College Station.
Settled in the 1860s by Czech, German, and Polish immigrants, the Shiloh community was an area of large family farms. In addition to homes and farms, the settlement at one time boasted a community center, a two-room school, a vineyard, a mill, and a blacksmith shop. The families of Shil | 412 |
The Little Tikes™ Company was founded in 1969 and is still headquartered in Hudson, OH. Discover The Little Tikes™ Company's Story.
Founder, Tom Murdough, introduces The Little Tikes™ Company to the toy industry.
First Little Tikes™ Catalog launched to retailers all across the US in color.
One of our first foot to floor ride-ons, Ollie encapsulates active play and is a true icon from the 1970s.
New logo is introduced with a soft rounded design to reflect our commitment to safe and fun toys for growing children.
The Big Dumper truck is introduced and allowed little boys everywhere to enjoy pinpoint dumping accuracy with the addition of a lever and construction sized bin.
Introduced the ground breaking, multi-functional, Efficiency Kitchen complete with micro-wave oven, range, refrigerator, and sink allowing little tikes everywhere to understand their world better through imaginative play.
Popular and iconic, the Turtle Sandbox reinvented outdoor sandboxes from the traditional wooden sandbox. Now parents can move the fun wherever they want.
Cozy Coupe® Car is designed by former Chrysler designer, Jim Mariol. The very first Cozy Coupe® Car was born in Hudson, Ohio to the proud parents at The Little Tikes™ Company. Rolling off the assembly line weighing 19lbs., 12oz and measuring 32.23" tall, the Cozy Coupe® Car began its long journey of giving little ones the ride of their lives!
Toll Free Number introduced for customer inquiries. Our phone number is now molded into every product as a statement of our quality and commitment to parents.
First outdoor picnic table to go from wood to plastic. This iconic play table can be found entertaining children in backyards all across the globe.
During a period of decline for the toy industry as a whole, Little Tikes™ sales increased by 28 percent to $23.1 million, which was followed by an astounding 73 percent rise to $42.9 million in 1983. It was clear that Little Tikes™ toys were more than just a passing fad.
Poppy Penguin introduced as "A handy toy toter that's also a friend."
Rubbermaid™ purchases Little Tikes™ for continued growth that would be necessary for expanding into new markets. With new capital from Rubbermaid™ and a brand new manufacturing plant and headquarters in Hudson, Ohio, Little Tikes™ was set to begin an intensive expansion of its product line and distribution. First toy company to mold their Toll Free Number into all their toys (still used today).
Little Tikes™ first consumer catalog is mailed out in the Fall/Winter of 1985. Little Tikes™ Canada is established allowing better reach to our neighbors up North. Little Tikes™ Company offers a revolutionary way to provide childcare to employees and the local community with 1st ever daycare in their corporate office in Hudson, OH. On campus day care facilities allow first hand research into the needs and wants of concerned parents and growing toddlers. Little Tikes™ Corporate Headquarters opens its doors in Hudson, Ohio. Making it the largest rotational molding plant in the world. A staple product throughout the years, The Jumbo Hide 'N Slide, is launched in the Spring of 1985.
Little Tikes™ launches their at home product line for baby and toddlers. The high chair was one of many products inspired by innovation to make day to day care taking much easier for parents.
Activity Gym provides an all in one play environment for a new take on outdoor play. Making it the first outdoor play set to be constructed without any use of standard hardware.
Sport Coupe debuted in the Spring Toy Catalog with a two page center fold to show its sleek, innovative front wheel drive with quick action, and rear steering.
Introduced the 1st handheld plastic truck line with plastic molding, soft rubber tires, easy operation, and free moving parts, all built with Little Tikes™ superior quality. Country Cottage reinvents how we play outdoors once again with its realistic design of modern homes in America. Fall of 1989 Little Tikes™ introduces 1st Plastic Doll House with miniatures of our most popular toys including a Cozy Coupe® Car, Turtle Sandbox, and Party Kitchen.
The Cozy Coupe® Car is named the Best-selling car in<|fim_middle|> Outdoor Play this Summer '15!
The Little Tikes™ Company was founded in 1969 in Hudson, OH. The company is a multi-national manufacturer and marketer of high- quality, innovative children's products. Little Tikes™ pioneered rotational molding in the manufacturing of children's products. Little Tikes™ emulates brand loyalty through durable, safe, and imaginative active play. We are known for our playhouses, ride-ons, sports, sandboxes, climbers, slides, role-play, creative arts, infant, preschool and juvenile furniture. Little Tikes™ was the first toy company to offer an 800# to consumers for customer service. In fact our 800# and website are molded into every product. Little tikes™ was the first toy company to offer an on-site childcare center for employees' children and serve as a test center during product development. | America.
The Little Tikes™ Playground is an epitome of outdoor play with 4 levels of groundbreaking fun and widely desired colors.
A huge first for Little Tikes™, the Easy Score Basketball Set adjusted to growing toddlers.
Little Tikes™ teams up with IBM™ to produce the Young Explorer™ for use with their KidSmart program. Equipped with award-winning educational software to help children learn and explore concepts in math, science and language. The computer centers can also help children learn important socialization skills such as working together and sharing.
Cozy Coupe® Car is redesigned for a more sturdy and enjoyable ride. Significantly altering the look from the original slimmer roof poles.
The DiscoverSounds™ product line is introduced combining electronic sounds with fundamental cognitive play.
Little Tikes™ Outdoor Swing Sets revolutionize how swing sets are built and designed.
The Cozy Coupe® Car is still king of the road. Over 10 million Cozy Coupe® Cars have been sold all over the world!
Isaac Larian adds Little Tikes™ to the MGAE family.
Happy 30th! The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Cozy Coupe® Car for 30 years of stellar service. Cozy Coupe® Car gets a face lift: Cartoon eyes and smile added. Cup holders for parents and children added. Several new versions were produced: Princess Edition, Tikes Patrol™, Ride and Rescue™ Fire Truck, Classic Pickup Truck, Cozy Coupe® Cab. Cozy Coupe® Car is inducted into The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum and takes its place next to other historically significant automobiles. Cozy Coupe® Car is the #1 selling car in America for both toddlers and adults.
Isaac Larian celebrates with original founder Tom Murdough at the Hudson, OH plant to commemorate 40 years of Little Tikes™ play.
The Cozy Truck™ is introduced and wins Top 10 best toys. Little Tikes™ is a proud sponsor of the Tour De Turtles in partnership with the Sea Turtles Conservancy to help raise awareness about worldwide threats to sea turtles and encourage positive stewardship of ocean and costal habitats.
The Cook n Grow™ Kitchen is introduced, first kitchen to expand and actually "grow" with child as they develop.
If you stacked the more than 10 million Cozy Coupe® Cars that have been manufactured since 1979, they would reach 5,682 miles high! This would be approximately 24,000 times the height of the Empire State Building in New York City.
Little Tikes Fish 'n Splash Water Table and Sizzle 'n Serve Grill™ win Toy Insider's award for | 544 |
On The Radar: The Lathums
by Sarah Thomas
July 22nd 2020 at 3:00PM
The Lathums might have began life as an assignment at Pemberton's The Music Projects College in 2018, but now the top marks are coming from fans. After releasing two EPs in 2019, they sold out a headline tour in a day, bagged support slots with the likes of Blossoms, DMA's and Paul Weller and then signed a deal with Island. All aged just 20, singer Alex Moore, guitarist Scott Concepcion, bassist Johnny Cunliffe and drummer Ryan Durrans must be responsible for one of the few 'school' projects to end up in the Top 20, which is where The Memories We Make – a collation of their first two EPs – landed earlier this month, reaching No.14 in the UK album charts.
"It's quite weird really, I'm not up to scratch with charts but obviously it's a big thing isn't it?" asks Moore down the line from Liverpool's Parr Street Studios where he's working on the band's debut album with producers Chris Taylor and James Skelly (the latter also frontman of The Coral). Moore says the Wigan-born band have managed to take their rapid success in their stride, insisting the four-piece are "just normal people doing what we love". Yet, with offers for collaborations already piling up, Moore admits he's eager for more. "I feel quite excited by it, the fact that we can impact so many different people from different places, it's quite a humbling feeling," he notes.
You might be speculating how a young band has torn through the cornerstones of indie success so soon, and while Moore argues it's just down to "making a big racket", it seems The Charlatans' Tim Burgess was something of a catalyst. After hearing The Lathums' sprawling track The Great Escape, Burgess shared their video to his legion of Twitter followers before asking if they could fill a spot on his stage at 2019's Kendal Calling.
The fact that we can impact so many people from different places is humbling
Alex Moore, The Lathums
They've since garnered over four million Spotify streams for their anthemic choruses and guitar-laden belters, but it's the band's vintage qualities that truly have hooked fans. The LP edition of The Memories We Make reached No.2 in the vinyl chart, accounting for the majority of their album sales, while the video for their first single with Island, All My Life, was filmed entirely on a Super 8 camera. "I've always liked old fashioned things," explains Moore, who cites Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline among his influences. "The fashion sense and the music, music was a lot better back in the day."
The singer grew up surrounded by music, recalling vivid memories of his mother singing Motown around the house, which encouraged him to sing when he was "dead young". The Lathums' collective influence though is that fab perennial The Beatles. "I got into them from Scott. He has these musical fads where he just becomes completely obsessed by someone," explains Moore. "I already knew<|fim_middle|> now is to spread positivity in the world through his lyrics, and The Beatles are the reason behind that goal. "They made really positive differences in society, they gave people a different perception of things, and they united people who would've otherwise never even spoken to each other. I want to make positive differences too," he declares. While he doesn't see himself as a political artist, Moore has sung about everything from the French Revolution to Generation Z and is sure the band's new songs will "ruffle a few feathers".
If all this can happen in two short years, The Lathums are determined not to let up in 2021 when they'll have a full debut album and, hopefully, gigs again. "I want to be one step closer to taking over the world," Moore smiles of their future plans. "I just want to spread our message as far as humanly possible, that's my goal." The Lathums really are top of their class.
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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
We are currently not hosting visitors to our summit or<|fim_middle|> sites have to the indigenous peoples of Chile.
CTIO is operated by the NSF's NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).
Visit the CTIO website | base facilities.
From the first observations in 1965, Cerro Tololo, located in Chile, has served as the principal platform for U.S. astronomical investigation of the southern skies.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a program of the NOIRLab, is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located approximately 500 km (310 miles) north of Santiago, and 80 km (50 miles) to the east of La Serena, Chile, at an altitude of 2200 meters (7200 feet).
CTIO operates the 4.0-meter Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo which features the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a high-performance, wide-field CCD imager built to carry out the Dark Energy Survey (DES) (a US Department of Energy Office of Science-led project). It also operates the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope on the adjacent Cerro Pachón (a partnership between Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações Brazil, NOIRLab, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michigan State University). The Cerro Tololo 1.5-meter and 0.9-meter telescopes are being operated by the SMARTS Consortium with support from CTIO. Cerro Tololo also hosts 11 tenant observatories and research projects, operating more than 20 telescopes, providing a platform for access to the southern hemisphere for US and worldwide scientific research.
Daytime guided tours of the facilities on Cerro Tololo are available on Saturdays all year round.
The astronomical community is honored to have the opportunity to conduct astronomical research on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón in Chile. NOIRLab recognizes and acknowledges the cultural role and reverence that these | 377 |
It's amazing what Sonlight has<|fim_middle|> for learning is only one piece; our children have learned to show compassion, empathy and to fight injustice in the name of the cross. We are so blessed to have Sonlight leading the way through our high school years."
Here, Mia (14) and Seth (12) look at the inner design of a mushroom while studying Kingdom Fungi in Apologia Biology. They are studying HBL 100 in their ninth year homeschooling with Sonlight.
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Apologia Advanced Chemistry | done for our family! Though each child is studying his own Core, none ever wants to miss a good story or an exciting lesson, intended for them or not! This is especially true whenever our Sonlight Ultra Microscope is in use! Apologia Biology is definitely more exciting with an up close look at God's creation. Who could resist? Even a five year old "princess" takes time out to have a look! "Love To Learn" ---they really do!
"Sonlight has given us the freedom to explore, be creative and accommodate different interests among our four boys," writes Lisa W of Minnesota City, MN. "Jonah's favorite subject is science. We took a little field trip to a nearby lake to collect water for a biology experiment then looked at the different jars of water under a microscope to see the specimens growing with the different mediums. The process of investigating and discovering is inspiring for Jonah, especially in science. We've been using Sonlight for twelve years and have enjoyed every minute of it." This year, 15-year-old Jonah studies Core 100 as he also dives into Science 250, Apologia Biology.
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(dpa) - Six Australian climbers were believed to be trapped in poor weather Friday on New Zealand's Southern Alps after setting off an emergency beacon, officials said.
A helicopter with a specialist alpine rescue team was standing by in the village at the foot of 3,745-metre Mount Cook and awaiting a break in the weather to take off, a Rescue Coordination Centre spokesman said.
Officials ruled out sending a ground party into the mountains because of the risk of aval<|fim_middle|> Council to urge all ski tourers and climbers to avoid the area because of the certainty of avalanches, The Press newspaper reported on its website. | anches.
The emergency beacon was triggered late Thursday. The spokesman said it was not confirmed to come from the Australian party, but they were the only people who had notified their intention to climb in the region with the Department of Conservation at Mount Cook village.
They were believed to be attempting a traverse of the Sealy Range, which rises to 2,637-metres in the Mount Cook National Park.
Conditions in the area were described as extreme, with gale-force winds and an estimated 1.5 metres of new snow, prompting the Mountain Safety | 113 |
Sometimes it is the wee details that matter. For years I had made do with various old safety helmets when cutting wood and strimming. However, last year when buying a new chainsaw I decided it also made sense to buy a new helmet kit. Buying replacement ear defenders and a visor, for one of my existing helmets, would have been more expensive than buying a whole new kit. I chose the Stihl Expert Helmet Set .
The Expert Helmet Set came with a steel mesh visor mounted on a three position ratchet, a decent set of ear defenders and cooling slots in the crown of the helmet. The whole lot cost less than<|fim_middle|> environment. The Stihl Expert Helmet has been a good value purchase.
At the time of purchase the product seemed to be called the Stihl Extreme Helmet Set. I'm not sure if Stihl changed the product name or if it was a specific version.
Posted by: fitheach March 10, 2018, 1:47 p.m. | £50, which seemed a reasonable price. The thing that was a real revelation to me was the adjustable headband which is done using a large rubber wheel at the rear of the helmet.
Just slip the helmet on, postion correctly and then tighten the headband by rotating the rubber wheel. The helmet then stays in the correct position even when the visor is half open (which changes the centre of balance). Removing the helmet just requires slackening the adjuster and off it comes. It couldn't be easier. All my previous helmets had headbands that adjusted using double rows of teeth, and what a faff they were. The spacing of the teeth invariably seemed to have the helmet either too loose or too tight, and every time you had a haircut they had to be adjusted. I just wish I had bought a helmet with this type of adjustment system earlier.
Overall, I am very happy with the helmet and even after a year's worth of use nothing has broken or fallen off. The steel mesh visor works well and the ratchet is strong enough to hold it in the half open and fully open positions. The ear defenders cut out most of the chainsaw noise without completely isolating you from your | 244 |
Drink Coffee and live longer - Study
Scientists say drinking coffee can leave you living longer (source<|fim_middle|>995, it involved AARP members aged 50 to 71.
People who already had heart disease, a stroke or cancer weren't included. Neither were those at diet extremes - too many or too few calories per day.
Of the 402,260 participants, about 42,000 drank no coffee. About 15,000 drank six cups or more a day. Most people had two or three.
By 2008, about 52,000 of them had died. Compared with those who drank no coffee, men who had two or three cups a day were 10 per cent less likely to die at any age. For women, it was 13 per cent.
Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk a little: 6 per cent in men and 5 per cent in women. The strongest effect was in women who had four or five cups a day - a 16 per cent lower risk of death.
SOURCE: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/drink-coffee-live-longer-study-20120517-1ys0s.html#ixzz1vCVW71Ak | Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby, TheAge).
Scientists have this week announced that drinking coffee are more likely to live longer compared to those who dont drink coffee.
The study involved 400,000 people, which is the largest study ever conducted on this issue.
''Our study suggests that's really not the case,'' said lead researcher Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute.
'There may actually be a modest benefit of coffee drinking.'' No one knows why. Coffee contains a thousand things that can affect health, from helpful antioxidants to tiny amounts of substances linked to cancer.
caffeine, which is a widely studied subject, wasnt a focus in this study's results.
It was initially thought that coffee drinkers were more likely to die at any given time, but coffee drinkers in general tended to smoke, drink alcohol more often, consume more red meat and be less active when it comes to exercise, when compared to that of non-coffee-drinkers.
Once researchers took those things into account, a clear pattern emerged: each cup of coffee per day nudged up the chances of living longer.
The study was done by the National Institutes of Health and AARP, an organisation that advocates for people 50 years and older.The results are published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
The study doesn't prove coffee makes people live longer, only that the two seem related.Beginning in 1 | 286 |
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The glory which shows itself to us at the opening of the Gospel by John, is both entitled and described there very simply. It is called "the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father," and borne by one who is described as "full of grace and truth."
And that Gospel is the journey of that glory in this evil world of ours, and a display of the work which it was always at, so to speak. Upon whatever scene the Son of the Father there enters, He is seen to shine in that glory which brought life and peace to sinners.
Other instances of this character show themselves in the Lord's public ministry through that Gospel, down to the end of the twelfth chapter, where that ministry closes. And so, when we see him afterwards in secret with his own (John 13-17), it is still "the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father" that is shining before us; his discourse to them is full of the Father - how he had come from the Father to reveal Him to them - how the Comforter would soon come to make that revelation effectual to their souls - how he was going away to get mansions for them in the Father's house, and that he would return to take them there. So full is this glory still of its own proper light and power, and so diligent about its due and appointed work.
Such, I judge, to be the glory that is seen in the Gospel by John - such its journey across this world, such the spoils it gathered, and such its end and home.
And having thus learnt the lesson of the former glory, they were prepared for the lesson of this second glory. Such is the holy order of the soul in getting the knowledge of God and of His ways. Such divine knowledge is from glory to glory, from one revelation to another. And being instructed in the glory of "the only begotten of the Father," the saints may well stand before this glory of "the Prince of the kings of the earth," of Him who is coming forth as "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the Almighty." If the bosom have comforted us, may I say, the throne may now elevate us - if we stand in grace, we may learn judgment.
Accordingly, this book gives us the actings of the throne of God. There are judgments - voices and thunders, seals, trumpets and vials - all ordered by the power of the throne which judges right, and which is preparing for the righteous kingdom, at the time of which, the heavenly seed of God, in embodied glory, descends as the golden city or the Lamb's wife.
Christ will look at the Bride with delight, when thus manifested in glorious beauty as the Golden or Holy City. But still it is herself that will be His chiefest object. The heart well and always knows this, when there is true and pure affection. And we have the expression of this on the return of the Prodigal. (Luke 15) For the Father had fallen on himself in secret, and then brought him forth and presented him in the house, clothed in beauty and honour. But his heart had been the most deeply touched at the beginning. For, as another has said, "glory is but the consequence of love, and the source is always the sweeter. The favour out of which a benefit flows is dearer than the benefit itself."
The opening of this wondrous Book gives us its title and character. "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him." For it will be found, I judge, to be a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in such characters of glory and power as He derives from God, or a revelation of Him in the exercise of judicial authority. And, as two exercises of judicial authority awaited Him after He had ascended to God, so, accordingly, this Book has two parts.
Revelation 1 - 3. These chapters give us the first part. The Lord is here exercising judgment in the church, or among the lights of the sanctuary. This is called "the things which are."
Revelation 4 - 22. These chapters give us the second part. The Lord is here exercising judgment in the earth (first by agencies, and then personally), and thus preparing it for His kingdom. This is called "the things which shall be hereafter."
This is the general order of the Book. It also contains both a preface and a conclusion.
In the preface, we first learn that this wondrous Book deals with "the word of God," and "the testimony of Jesus Christ;" that is, God's counsels made known by Jesus Christ. Then we are told the manner in which Jesus Christ ministers this testimony to the churches; and blessing is then pronounced on him who acts righteously by this Book, by either reading or hearing it, and by keeping the things which are written in it. After this, the Seven Churches in Asia are called to listen; and, after a benediction on them, the Lord Jesus Christ is announced as the One who is about to come "with clouds," or in the solemnities of judgment (Dan. 7:13; Matt. 24:30; Matt. 26:64), a coming quite according to the judicial character of the Book, and which is to make the kindreds of the earth wail because of Him, and them which pierced Him, to see Him to their confusion.
But in the midst of such an announcement of the Lord as even this, the saints have two happy utterances put into their lips. On His being here revealed as "the faithful witness, the first-begotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth," they praise Him as the One who had loved them; and again, when His coming in the clouds, as for judgment, is announced, they invite His glory with full confidence still, and say, "Even so, come." For they have thoroughly learnt that they may have boldness even in a day of judgment. (1 John 4:17.) Then, when these utterances of the saints pass by, the Lord reveals himself as the "First and the Last," a title which he frequently takes in this Book, the very title, too, that he so constantly assumes when judging the idols of Babylon in Isaiah (see Isa. 40-48); all this still assuring us, that He is now about to speak in judgment again.
In the mouth, indeed, of every witness here, we learn that this Book is a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ which God, not the Father, gives him, or in judgment, not in grace. But this is only here at the close of the volume of the New Testament; for we may observe, that the Lord has ever sought, so to speak, to publish His name in grace, before He does so in judgment. In one way or other He will and must make Himself known, for that is His glory; but he seeks the rather to be known in goodness than in judgment, if men will hear.
We have this variously illustrated. To Egypt, for instance, the Lord made himself known in Joseph, the witness of His goodness; for by Joseph He filled Egypt's storehouses with all kinds of wealth. But Egypt forgot Joseph, A king arose there, who persecuted Joseph's people, and said of his God, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey Him?" Then the Lord had to publish His name in that land in judgment, saying to the king, "In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord, behold I will smite with the rod." He was now to be made known not in Joseph, but in plagues. So in Israel afterwards. The Lord Jesus was offered to them as "the chief corner stone," the "sure foundation," the One in whom they should find salvation and strength. But being rejected as such, He was to be revealed to them as "the head stone of the corner," in the power and judgment of an exalted stone, which was to fall and grind to powder.
And this is the difference between the Gospel and the Revelation by John. The Gospel publishes the name of the Lord in grace, the Revelation in judgment; the one flows from the Father, the other from God.
Now, according to all this, when we pass the preface, and get into the body of the Book, it is the Lord, the Son of Man, in the place of judgment that we see. (See Rev. 1:9-20.) For these verses introduce the first scene which the Book discloses. John sees the Lord, as Son of Man, prepared to judge the sanctuary. He does not show Himself to John as the Priest at the Golden Altar, with his censer and burning incense, but at the Candlestick with the Golden Snuffers; as though He were inquiring (and that for the last time), whether or not the Lamps of the Sanctuary would burn worthy of the place, or whether He should not be compelled soon to remove them. It is the Son of Man with garments down to the foot, and golden girdle about His loins, with head and hair white as wool, eyes of flame, feet of brass, and voice as of many waters in His hand holding the seven stars, and in His mouth the two-edged sword, and walking in the brightness and power of the midday sun, among the Seven Candlesticks. All this was an expression of judgment, judgment of the House of God. John shall hear himself personally and individually addressed with the wonted words of God's sweet love to us, "Fear not;" but still this is a vision that may well make the stoutest of the children of men to fall as dead.
It is to be observed, for the comfort of our souls, that, in restoring the heart of John to full ease in the presence of the glory, the Lord does not remind him of their intimacy in the days of his flesh; how he had lain in His bosom, how he had been with Him on the holy mount and in the garden, and how he had committed His mother to His special care - but He simply says, "I am He that liveth and was dead." For our title to confidence before God, our ability to face the glory, and to stand before it at ease and in liberty, rests not at all on any special grace which may be in us, or on any personal privilege conferred, or any peculiar place or excellence, but only and altogether on the preciousness of the blood of the Lamb, or on the death and resurrection of Jesus, which is the common property (as through boundless grace we may call it) of all believers.
The place in which the Lord is thus seen by John was not his natural place. He had been raised from the dead, and was now ascended into heaven, there to dwell for an age as Mediator between God and men, the Advocate with the Father, and the Lord too, the Son over His own house, the Head over all things to the Church. He had received gifts for men, and was dispensing apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists from His glory, for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body here, as Lord to, and of, the Church. But his place and action here are not the necessary attributes even of this his lordship. As, though Moses was king in Jeshurun, it was not natural to him in that character to call on Levi to draw the sword and slay the thousands of the people. Jesus the Lord is here seen on the earth, and arrayed in judgment and vengeance. For he had been disturbed. It was like his action in the days of Babel or Sodom. He had either to go down and see if things were according to the cry that had gone up, or to go down to confound and to scatter. (Gen. 11, 18) It was also like the God of Israel afterwards, who, while on the Mount with his servant Moses, giving him the shadows of Christ, "the shadows of good things to come," occupied there as it were with that which naturally was his in the riches of his goodness, is disturbed by Israel's apostasy at the foot of the Mount, and has to tell Moses to go down, and visit the people who were corrupting themselves there. (Ex. 32)* So here; the priest was to be in his temple in the heavens, waiting daily (as we may speak), in his natural grace, on the defiled feet of his saints, or giving the gifts still, that he might both feed and trim the candlesticks. The Lord was on high, Head over all things to the Church, ordering every<|fim_middle|> Judah" is seen in the person of "the Lamb that was slain." His blood was His title. His blood made Him the purchaser of the inheritance; He is now its redeemer, as the prevailing Lion of Judah. And, consequently, as the Lamb, He is the spring and fountain of all the resulting glories of the kingdom. Extensive virtues of the blood of Jesus! It has been the object of faith - the ground of worship - the title of security - the bond of covenants - from the beginning. By it Abel was an accepted worshipper, and even Adam himself a believing reconciled sinner. By it Abraham had the covenant of promise made with him. By it the people of the Lord dwelt safe while the sword of judgment passed over. By it the veil of the temple was rent - all distance between God and sinners removed. By it the trumpet of the jubilee might give forth its gladdening note; for on the day of atonement they were to sound it. But why say more about it, than, again, on this beautiful fifth chapter to observe, that, by it the saints, already redeemed from earth and seated in heaven, now look to return as kings over the earth, in the train and honour of that slain Lamb whose blood, but whose blood only, has all this prevalency in it.
Thus, there is no blessing or dignity, nothing of either grace or glory, which this blood cannot command for us poor sinners; but there is no other price for anything, no other ground or title for blessing but itself. It does every thing, and does it all alone. Adam lost both himself and his estate; he became a sinner in his own person, and also an exile from Eden. But the blood of Jesus, God's Lamb that was slain, restores all - ""Thou hast redeemed us;" and again, "We shall reign on [over] the earth."
In Israel, there was the ordinance of redeeming the inheritance, as well as the heir or person. (Lev. 25) If either an Israelite or his possession had been sold, it was both his kinsman's duty and right to ransom him and it. Now Jesus has approved Himself our kinsman in both ways. The Son of God became the Son of Man, and thus showed his kinsman-nature. He died to purchase us and our inheritance by blood, and thus showed his kinsman-love. And in this Book of the Revelation we get, Him, I judge, perfecting His acts as such kinsman, and redeeming our inheritance out of the bands of its corruptors. The kinsman in Israel had a title to redeem the inheritance; but then he had to do it on condition of discharging the debt that was on it. Jesus has paid a full and more than adequate value, as is here owned; for the book or title to the redeemed possession passes into His hand. But the usurper of the inheritance is still to be removed; the enemies to be made the kinsman's footstool; and, whether the action be that of God or that of the Lamb Himself, the character of the action is equally clear and certain. The action is the redemption of the inheritance, flowing from the Lamb's acknowledged title. The book taken by the Lamb is His title-deed. He has already been the Purchaser of the inheritance, He is now to be the Redeemer. And that this is not a book of instructions to John as the Prophet of the Church, or any thing but this title-deed that concerns the Church's inheritance of the earth, appears to me from several considerations.
1. Because it lay in the hand of God Almighty, the Creator of all things, before the Lamb receives it.
2. Because it is taken by Him, as the Lamb slain, and as the Lion of Judah, characters of purchase and strength.
3. Because, on the taking of it, the Church sings in prospect of her dominion over the earth - the angels who had been previously ministers of power in the earth, then transfer all to the Lamb - and creation ends her groans in praises.
These witnesses establish, in my mind, the character of the Book which the Lamb takes. And the Book of the Revelation is in concord with this. It is the history of the redemption of the inheritance. I mean, of course, the second part of it, after the third chapter. It occupies the same place in the history of the acts of the Lord in the New Testament, as the Book of Joshua does of the acts of the Lord in the Old. It records the manner of redeeming the inheritance, as that did. And without His acts, as recorded in Joshua, the Lord's ways, in old times, would have been imperfect. He had redeemed the heir out of Egypt by the hand of Moses; educated and trained him in the wilderness; and thus prepared him for rest in Canaan. But He had still to redeem Canaan out of the hand of the Amorite; and this act of His is recorded in Joshua. Then, but not till then, the Lord went through the whole course of His mercy and strength. And so without this Book of the Revelation, the record of the Lord's acts would, in like manner, have been incomplete. The Gospels and the Epistles tell us, like the books of Moses, of the redemption of the heir and of his education in the wilderness of this present evil world; but now it is this closing book of the Revelation that tells us of the redemption of the inheritance; and thus it properly closes and completes the perfect acts of the Lord in behalf of the Church of God.
And let me further observe upon the ordinance of the Jubilee under the law, that if no kinsman were found able or willing to redeem the inheritance, it returned to the heir in the Jubilee. The Lord of Israel thus kept in His own hand the means of restoring all things. He acted as Lord of the soil; and said, the land was His. (See Lev. 25:23.) He created, as it were, a tenancy for forty-nine years, and after the traffic of the occupiers had disturbed every thing, in the fiftieth year He returned to the land, and then settled it anew on His family, according to His own mind.
*I might here observe, that sacrifices may be allowed among the Jews in the kingdom, to keep in memory the blood of the Lamb which was the price, or the purchase of the kingdom. For then the system will be glory enjoyed and grace remembered; as now it is grace enjoyed and glory expected. The Jubilee Trumpet, sounded on the day of Atonement, witnessed that that happy season was debtor to the blood of Jesus, the great purchaser of every blessing.
But "the day of vengeance" is united with "the year of the redeemed." (Isa. 63:4; Isa. 34:8; Isa. 61:2.) And, accordingly, the redemption of the inheritance is conducted by judgments, or vengeance on the enemies of the heir of it, its usurpers, and corrupters; and, therefore, from henceforth, in this book, until the inheritance is redeemed, until the kingdom is brought in, it is judgment that is taking its course. (Rev. 6-19) It is Joshua's or David's sword again. It may be seals that are opened, trumpets blown, vials emptied; but all is judgment on the enemy, preparing the inheritance for the Lamb and the Church; all is action for the redeeming of it, and bringing it into the hand of Him into whose hand the title-deed of it, as we have seen it, has already passed.
Thus it is henceforth a Book of judgments, as it has been hitherto; only, judgments in another sphere and for another end; not of the candlesticks, but of the earth and its corrupters. Judgment had begun at the house of God, and now ends with those who would not obey the Gospel. One enemy may appear after another, the Beast and the False Prophet, the Dragon and the great Whore, or the kings of the earth, but it is only that each, in his season, may meet the judgment of the Lord. So there may be sorrow after sorrow. The woman may have to fly into the wilderness, the remnant of her seed to feel the rage of the Dragon, those who refuse to take the mark of the Beast to know and exercise the patience of the saints, and the two witnesses to lie slain in the street of the great city, but all this sorrow is only leading on to the rest of the kingdom, or to the descent of the golden city. The inheritance is thus redeemed by judgment out of the hand of its usurpers, and then the righteous nation that have kept the truth enter, and the Lamb takes the throne.
But in all this action, I judge the Church has no place, but that the saints have been taken to meet their Lord in the air, as I have already suggested, before it begins. This scene is one of judgment, and they have been removed, like Enoch, to another altogether; and I would now suggest a few reasons on which I ground this conclusion, as I did before, for my conclusion on the character of the sealed Book.
1. The saints are seen round the throne in heaven, as I have already noticed, in the fourth chapter, and throughout the Book onward from that, they are never seen but there - and this leads me to judge that the Church has been removed from the earth at some untold moment between the times of the third and fourth chapters, as I have already said.
2. At the opening of this action (Rev. 6), the same signs are given, as had before been given by the Lord Himself to His Christian-Jewish Remnant (Matt. 24), respecting the end of the world; and as in all that prophecy, the Church is not contemplated, so she is not contemplated here, but that it is the faithful Jewish election who are engaged in the action, as they only are considered in that prophecy of Matt. 24.
*Judgments on the enemy, and tribulations of the righteous, go on co-temporaneously in this Book.
4. Besides - the saints are to judge the world, as well as to reign in the kingdom.
From such considerations, I do conclude, that the Church is not mixed up in the scene which now lies before us. They have been taken into their more immediate inheritance, which is in heaven (1 Peter 1:4), before these judgments on the corrupters of the earth, the mystic Amorites of Canaan, begin. But I do not particularly notice these chapters. Indeed I do not believe that we are competent to speak of them with authority. We may draw much warning and exhortation from them which we should lay deeply to heart, in order that we may stand in any evil day that may arise (as arise it may) to try and sift us. But of the scenes themselves, I would not speak with authority. The Lord in them is clad with zeal as a cloak; but the end is "redemption." For, however gloomy the way may be, this is the end of it, the end that we reach in this Book. The action was the judgment of the corrupters of the earth; and the result is, the holy occupation of it by the Lord and His saints. The wars of our Joshua end in victory and the kingdom. (Rev. 20:1-6.) "I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given unto them." Of course, if I speak of the action of the Lord Jesus in this Book being like that of Joshua, I am quite aware that He Himself is not personally manifested in the exercise of judging the nations, till Rev. 19. But from Rev. 6 the judicial visitation of the earth had been going on, though till Rev. 19 Jesus was hidden. It is this judicial character which leads me to liken the Book to Joshua - these judgments leading, like the wars of that Book, to the possession of the earth by the true Inheritor. And in Egypt there were judgments, first from a hidden, and then a manifested, God. All the plagues were poured out while as yet the Lord was hidden, using the hand of Aaron in the ashes of a furnace, or the rod of Moses. But at the destruction of the firstborn, He Himself went through the land; and, at the overthrow of the nation at the Red Sea, He looked through the cloud. And so in this Book. The Lamb is hidden first, and then manifested; but His hand and His power, whether hidden or manifested, are dealing out not grace and gifts, but chastenings and judgments.
But before I hasten to the result of all this action I would further observe, that in the progress of the action itself, we see, I believe, the deliverance of Jewish remnants from amid the corruption and judgment. Some of them suffer for righteousness even unto death, and they ascend to heaven to take their place before the throne; and some are hid in God's city of refuge through the judgment, sealed or measured for final security, and for a place on the earth or footstool. But in both ways, they are separated from the corruptions and the judgments around them, and, like Rahab, are safe in the Lord, whom they own in the midst of the apostate nation. And I also see, in the progress of this action, the occasional joy of the family in heaven. (See 5, 7, 9, 14, 15, 19.) Heaven, surely, is a place of continuous joy. There the saints hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the Lamb feeds and refreshes them for ever. But still they may be sensible of seasons and occasions of rapture. And this appears to be intimated to us in these passages. The joy of the heavenly family and their songs are, every now and then, awakened afresh, when some new display of grace, or some new prospect of glory, opens before them. Just as with the heavenly hosts before - for, when the foundations of the earth were laid, they sang together anew, and, still louder than before, shouted for joy.
Thus much I will observe on the action of these chapters, but particularly of their contents I would not speak. We gather great moral principles and warnings from them, which we can abundantly use; but I doubt that details are intended to be spoken confidently of, till the time comes. Of them, therefore, I would not speak.
Passing, then, beyond Revelation 18, we first listen to a song over the fall and judgment of the Woman, and then praise is heard at the immediate prospect of the marriage of the Lamb and of the kingdom. For the Wife has now made herself ready (Rev. 19), by which expression, I understand this, - that the saints, or redeemed, have till now been in heaven, as children of the Father's house; but that now, they are embodied to shine together in the glories of the golden city, which is the Lamb's wife. (Rev. 21:9.) He has now presented her to Himself a glorious Church. (Eph. 5.) The saints are now ready to be manifested in the Son's kingdom, as they had till now been hidden, as children, in the Father's house. The manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ then takes place after this marriage in heaven. And in this manifestation, we see Him putting on all the glories he had acquired previously (just to compare human things with divine), as on great public occasions we see persons of distinction arraying themselves with all their honours suitable to the moment. These displayed glories of our blessed Lord are the names He bears; and they are various, being, as I have said, the glories He has already acquired, or such as now belong to Him. And they are, also, here brought forth in the order of time in which they had been earned.
1. "He was called Faithful and True." This honour he acquired by his ministry while on earth, in all things then approving himself faithful to him who had appointed him, and thus earning this title of the Faithful and True.
2. "A name written, which no man knew but himself." This honour he entered into when, having ended his faithful and true service here, he ascended the .heavens, and was both glorified with the glory which he had with the Father before the world was, and became the Head of the Church, the First-born of that family who have also names which none know but they who receive them.
4. "A name written. King of kings, and Lord of lords." This is the last honour he bears. This he will acquire and put on when, having finished the judgments as the Word of God, he will sit down in the peaceful and complete honours of his kingdom, all nations owning him Lord, all royal powers and thrones bowing to his supremacy.
Thus, his names or honours are here unrolled in due order before us. He appears with many crowns. It is a great occasion, the re-appearing of that Man whom the world had refused - his second advent: and how changed! At his first coming, he disrobed himself; for he was coming in grace, coming for sin. But now he arrays himself as fully as he then emptied himself; for he is coming in glory. At his first appearing, he had no name, no reputation (see Phil. 2); now he has every name, every expression of dignity and praise in heaven and earth. It was only "Jesus" then, the name both of contempt and salvation, yea, of contempt because of salvation, for our salvation was purchased by his shame and death. But now it is a name above every name.
Such is the preparation for the taking of the kingdom or the inheritance. It is as the sword of David first, and then the throne of Solomon, as we read here "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4.) The shout in heaven was now realized on earth: "The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!"
But there is progress in this work of judgment which thus attends the second advent.
*As another has observed, the inheritor and the inheritance will then both have risen in character. The second man, or the glorified body, will exceed the first man, or the earthly body; and so, the new heavens and the new earth will exceed in glory and joy the Paradise of Creation.
Of all this our Prophet is given a passing sight, and then he is called up to another vision. He had before seen the Bride prepared in heaven (Rev. 19); and now, he is called to see her descend out of heaven (Rev. 21:2); and by and bye, he will be called, in order to see herself as descended. (Rev. 21:9.) But now, while descending, and he is looking at her, a voice accompanies the descent, saying: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away."
This voice interprets the results of the descending city. This voice is as if a friend, in the secret of it, were to explain to us the meaning of a procession that might be passing before us. "Behold!" it says to John, calling his attention; and then it shows him the descending city as the witness that God was now restoring Himself to man, - "The tabernacle of God is with men," and thus, that all their sorrow should cease. But this result might not be in all its fulness at once, or during the thousand years; but the descent of the city, now at the opening of that kingdom, was the pledge of all this restoration of God to man, and of the consequent ceasing of sorrow, and death, and tears. And so, this friendly voice now interprets it. The former things were now passing away, that state of things in which God and man had been separated, and during which, accordingly, there had been lamentation, and weeping, and death.
The Lord from the throne then verifies all this voice from heaven, and adds His own word: "Behold I make all things new." And when he had thus spoken, he addresses John, giving him to know, that when this came to pass, all would be done; adding, moreover, such warnings and encouragements as may be listened to by all from that moment to the end, being delivered by the Lord in the consciousness of the solemn sanction which the end imparts to all things, - as it is written, "Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end."
One of these angels, who had carried the seven last Plagues, is John's conductor now; and in his presence he measures the city; and that being the sign of security (Rev. 11:1, 2), he thereby gives us a pledge, that there is no agency of destruction against it.
The Church, as the candlestick, may be shattered; but as the Lamb's wife, she shall live; and this golden city is this Bride of the Lamb, the Church of God now manifested in her perfectness. She has length, and breadth, and height equal, with twelve foundations, and twelve gates, her wall great and high, and her street of pure gold. Various all this, but all shining and costly, expressing her to be the one that is perfect in holy beauty. And she is not only thus perfect in herself, but she has her dignities as well as her beauty. She is the habitation of the glory of God, the place of the throne, a sanctuary too, as well as a palace, having a presence within her, which makes the whole scene a temple. Thus is she the suited dwelling-place of kings and priests; and being thus in herself the beautiful one, and bearing with her this honour of the royal priesthood, all that goes forth from her, or enters into her, or dwells there, is according to these things. Light is shed from her, that the nations may walk therein; water from the river of life flows from her, bearing leaves with it, that the nations may be healed thereby; and all that goes in is purity; and all who dwell within are in joy and dignity, having no need of candle or even light of the sun, being also in the conscious dignity of their everlasting kingdom; and nothing must touch such a habitation of holiness, and gladness, and glory, but the very honour of the kings of the earth. They may bring up their glory and honour unto it, but nothing less than that can approach it.
The features of this holy city, here delineated, become so many tests (as we may observe, for it is profitable for our souls) whereby to try the condition of our own hearts towards heaven, and to ask ourselves, Is it the heaven of God that we indeed desire? Thus this place is stable, it has foundations. Are we satisfied with it for ever, or would we fain, in the waywardness of the affections, still have change? This place is a sanctuary, or place of constant worship and communion. Is that according to the heaven which we desire? It is the region of light from the lamb. Are our souls even now delighting and basking in that element, or do we love the light, and wisdom, and beauty of men? It is the place of holy government, where all is peace. Do we love purity now; and are the workings of unclean nature an offence and sorrow to us? And, it is a bosom of rich and generous benevolence, for it is ever giving forth what it has, its light, its leaves, and its waters, for the refreshing and strengthening of others. Are our hearts cultivating like affections? Are we desiring and watching, that we live not for ourselves, but in the enlarged charities of the Gospel which thus will exercise themselves to perfection in that happy place?
The answer of our souls to these things will show the measure of our present sympathy, in spirit, with this heaven here revealed to us. And, thus, this divine description of the holy Jerusalem becomes not merely food for the hopes of the saint, but trial of the heart of the saint, that we may be guided both happily and safely onward. And we may surely say, this is indeed a heaven of holy happiness, a heaven worthy of God its builder.
All is thus pure and shining within and around her, and she yields forth streams of light and life that all may be gladdened and blest by her. This is the manifestation of the Church. In this present dispensation, the Church is but forming, like Eve for Adam, but when the time of the kingdom comes, and Adam awakes, then will his Eve be presented to him, the associate of his joy and kingdom, the saints will be shown all fitly framed together, the Church presented to Himself, a glorious Church without spot, as here, in the place of blessing and government. Surely all this is beautiful, as is every thing of our God, in its season. The incarnation and ministry of the Lord had been the manifestation of the Father and the Son - the present age is the manifestation of the Holy Ghost - and the age that we look for, and into which this vision of the golden city introduces us, will be the manifestation of the Church. For all is perfection in the ways of God's wisdom, as in the ways of His love. - He tells out to us one secret after another, bringing each in due season out of His treasures. "Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!"
But this only as we pass on. I was tracing the character of that holy city which has now been disclosed to us, and observing that every thing in it told us that it was the symbol of the Church in her perfectness and manifestation in glory, or the saints in their dominion and honour. And I would again, as connected with this, recur to the difference between the gospel and the revelation by John. The gospel closes by taking the children to the Father's house, or hiding them in heaven. (John 21:22.) The revelation, by leading them down from heaven into the place of dominion over the earth, or manifesting them as the golden city. It is not the mansions in the Father's house which, at the end of the revelation, we look into, but the place of the sanctuary, and the palace, the residence of the kings and priests unto God and his Christ. It is not the children in their home, but the saints in their glory whom we see.
And all this is in full character. For the Gospel by John had been, throughout, training the children for the Father; but this revelation by him had been getting the inheritance and glory ready for the saints. It is a further stage in the history of the heavenly family. It is not that they have left the joy of the mansions in the Father's house, which the Lord has now gone to prepare for them (John 14:2); but they are to receive the glory of the inheritance in addition; and that is what is here, in figure, presented to us.
And this day of the descent of the golden city is the promised day of power, the day for the shutting up of the influence of hell upon the earth, for the binding of Satan in the pit, and for the opening of the influence of heaven upon the earth by this descent of the city of God, and (as we may say in a larger sense) by the setting up of that mystic ladder on which the angels of God are to pass from heaven to earth, and back to heaven again. And the throne of God, seen in this city, has a new attribute. At the beginning, it was the throne of God; and the Lamb only came up to it, to take the Book from the hand of him who sat there. But now, the Lamb has ascended it. It is now "the throne of God and the Lamb." The Lamb has now got up to the hill of the Lord, and is now standing in the holy place.
The action of this Book was preparing the throne for the Lamb. It was not that of the Son on high preparing mansions in heaven for the children, but it was, the Lord on high (or God in the supreme place, for him) coming forth in the power of one judgment after another, to make His enemies His footstool; and then to erect His kingdom, and lead His saints into it. And accordingly, the kingdom is here displayed, as I have observed, in all its holy order and righteous authority. It is the Golden City we get, the symbol of righteousness and power united in government - the Church with the enthroned Lamb descending out of heaven, to take association with the earth, ruling it and yet blessing it, presiding over it in righteousness, and yet dispensing to it the water of life and the light of the glory, of the very fountains of which she had now become the scene and the dwelling-place.
Here we first listen to the angel, who had attended John, attesting the full truth of all that has passed; and then, we listen to the Lord pledging His speedy coming, and a blessing (as in the preface) on those who should righteously use this Book. We then find that the hearing and seeing of these excellent things so wrought for a moment on the mind of John, that be falls down and worships the angel, as he had done before. (Rev. 19:10.) But on both these occasions he had been receiving some overwhelming vision. In chap. 19 he had just seen the marriage of the Lamb in heaven, and now the golden city in her glory and beauty; and his engaged and overpowered affections, awakened by such visions (as with the Queen of Sheba on seeing King Solomon), must account to us for these worshippings of the angel. But the angel rebukes him, as Peter did Cornelius in such a case; and then instructs him in one particular touching this Book, which is strikingly different from the instructions given to the Jewish prophet on a like occasion. (Dan. 8:26; Dan. 12:4-9.) Daniel had seen and heard wonders, but was told to seal them, till the time of the end, because the vision was yet to be for many days; but here our prophet is told to publish these things which he had seen and heard, because the time did not wait, but was at hand.* This marks the mind of the Spirit so differently in the Jewish prophet, and in John, who was standing in our dispensation addressing the saints. And, according to this, the Lord at once again breaks in with an announcement of His speedy coming, and that, too, with the rewards of righteousness, revealing Himself again, as He had done at the beginning, in His supreme place, as "the Alpha and Omega."
*Isaiah is also told to bind up the testimony, because the Messiah was still waiting (Isa. 8:16, 17). Such reason and such action are not found or given here to John.
After this, the attending angel returns to His own proper theme, promising a blessing in righteousness on those who obey, and setting aside all the workers of evil. For this is the theme of the Book, a book which does not say, "Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered," but pronounces blessing on the righteous, and doom on all evil-doers. For it is not a Book of ministering grace, but of executing righteousness - it is not sympathies or consolations that we find in it, but judgments, as we have been seeing throughout. It is the place of Ezekiel which the Lord fills here, as it was that of Jeremiah which He had occupied in the gospel. In the gospel or in His ministry, through the cities and villages of the land, He was the sorrowing, sympathising prophet; so that some said, "It is Jeremias;" but here He stands, the Son of Man, like Ezekiel, in the place of judgment, in the Spirit, saying, "He that heareth, let him hear, and He that forbeareth let him forbear" - "he that is filthy let him be filthy still, and he that is holy let him be holy still." There was no tear on the eye of Ezekiel, though divers of waters ran down the cheeks of Jeremiah. All is so perfect in its time. The Lord knew the sympathies of the one, as He walked in the land and saw the moral ruins of Zion, and He can now know the righteousness of the other, as He stands above all that defiled ruin, and apart from it all in judgment.
After this, the Lord reveals Himself as "the Bright and Morning Star." The Church then invites Him to come, and invites others, who would "hear," to join her in this; and then those who were "athirst," having some affections towards her Lord just stirred, to come up to the full measure of her desire; and lastly, through the largeness of her heart, "whosoever would," in whatsoever mind or state they might be, to come and drink of the living waters with her.* Thus was her soul divinely moved upward and around her. But this was an interruption of the more orderly progress of the Book (like Rev. 1:6) on Jesus being revealed. But we should be prepared for such interruptions. We should not expect that the Lord could be revealed, without the Church being moved, as in these places. Praise must fill her, if His grace be revealed, as there (1:6) - desire must move her, if His person or glory be revealed, as here. And we should all, beloved, be cultivating that longing of heart after Him, that will lead us to take a ready part in such raptures of the Spirit in the Bride as these.
*In the action of this wondrous Book, times had been measured out by months and years. And on this I would say, that is a further proof of the Jewish or earthly character of the action - for Daniel and John are the only two prophets who thus compute time, and Daniel was clearly Jewish. Paul never talks of months and years; for the end of the Church's course on earth does not depend on them.
But still this was an interruption; and, therefore, when it passes; the Lord resumes the more proper theme of the Book, and threatens plagues to him who unrighteously adds to it, and loss of life and glory to him who unrighteously takes from it. This, however, must not be allowed to close all. "Surely I come quickly" is heard again - words which had now broken forth from the Lord three times during this conclusion. For His heart was fuller of that than of any thought, and He would fill ours with it also. All was either to yield to that, or issue in it. Judgment must be executed; but judgment is His strange work. Affliction of the righteous must be gone through, but He never willingly afflicts. All is imperfect till Jesus appear. His own heart is upon this, and this is the last thought that He would leave upon ours. And the saint responds, "Come, Lord Jesus" - that the Lord may know, that this is His people's desire and point of hope, as it is His.
Here, Jesus the Lord, and His ministering angel close their testimony. The apostle, then, in his turn, takes his leave of the saints, saying, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all." In the love of the Spirit He commends them to that which is their only provision for the way, till the journey be ended. Till He come, come when He may, bringing His glory with Him, they must stand in His grace. For the Lord gives both, and grace leads to glory. The wilderness is now proving that, He has riches and stores of the one for us, and Canaan will, by and bye, prove that He has riches and stores of the other for all who love Him in this thankless and evil world. | thing for her blessing and profit. But, now, the corrupters again at the foot of the mount have disturbed Him, and He comes down again to see if indeed it be according to the cry of it, and if so, to confound and to scatter again.
*The glory in the cloud guided the Camp - but when the Camp sinned, the glory was disturbed, and looked forth to judge.
Another character of judgment had gone on previously. I mean, the judgment of the churches within their own borders; the Lord, as the Priest, being then still in heaven. Thus Corinth had been judged. "For this cause many are sick and weakly among you, and many sleep." This was the chastening of the Lord of the Church. (1 Cor. 11:32.) But here, it is the Son of Man descended to the earth (the place for Jesus as Son of Man) with a threat to remove, and not with grace to correct and purify. The difference between these judgments appears to be the same as the judgments on Uzzah or Shelomith's son by the hand of the Lord and His congregation, and the judgment of Jerusalem by the hand of the Gentile. The first class of judgments was for correction and purity of the house of God, and for the keeping of the people still at home. The second was for their removal out of His sight. Delay there was, in thus bringing the Destroyer of the Gentiles on his way against God's city. Prophet after prophet had risen early and warned the people, and Jeremiah had wept and prayed and preached, even after Nebuchadnezzar had sat down at the gates. But when he entered, he entered with a new character of judgment. It was for the removal of Jerusalem; as here, the Son of Man has come (after the like delay and patience), but it is for the removal of the candlesticks if they repent not.
This I judge to be the place in the history of the Church which we reach here. This place and action of the Lord do not naturally, so to speak, suit him as the priest. But the Church's corrupt state puts him into it. Just as His coming in the latter day with vengeance on the world, and on His apostate Israel, is not His natural coming. At first He came offering peace and the kingdom. His heavenly heralds said, "Peace on earth!" But the unbelief of Israel, and the confederacy of Jews and Gentiles, which prevailed to cast Him out from the earth, has so changed His course, that He is now to return to the rebellious citizens in the power of "a day of vengeance." But that is His unnatural course, "His strange work," as Scripture calls it. Israel's and the earth's sin alone account for it. Just as here, the corruption of the Church changes the place and action of the Lord; and, instead of seeing Him with the towel and the water in the heavenly temple, or with His hands filled with gifts to give out from the glory on high, we see Him arrayed in judgment, taking to Him His righteous power to remove the candlestick if it repent not.
And the sight of Him in such a character overwhelms even John. It must - it could not but do so. For this is the Lord marking iniquities; and before Him, in such a place, who could stand? It is not the Lord talking with His own, as a travelling friend, or as a happy guest, or as a gracious Master, as once He did when He rose from the dead. But it is the Lord, awakened by sin at the foot of the hill, coming down to see if all were even according to the cry that had gone up. And who could stand when He was thus angry?
Isaiah, in his day, saw Him in such a place. The doors and posts were shaken, and the house filled with smoke, for the Lord was about to put judgment on the house that was called by His name; and the prophet, seeing himself in that house, trembles and learns his uncleanness. And the Lord restores him, as here He restores John; though, like the Prophet of Israel, John falls as dead. But the Lord, by the seraphim and the coal from the altar, taking away his iniquity restores Isaiah; as here, the revelation of Him who was dead and is alive again, and alive too for evermore; restores John for that carries the restoring virtue with it, The death and resurrection of Jesus gives the sinner his full confidence; taking the sentence of death from him, to lay it on One able to bear it. And so, from this time forth, let John (our brother) be called through this book to what visions and judgments he may, he is not again disturbed. He is twice overwhelmed, it is true; but it is by the holy delights of visions of joy and glory, and not by the storms and lightning of judgment. And, according to such an introduction as this, we find our Lord in the following scene. (Rev. 2, 3.) It is the Lord in "the house of God," challenging the churches to answer for them selves. He had before set them in blessing, and now He looks for fruit. It is as though he had heard a report of their unfaithfulness, and was now saying to them, "How is this that I hear of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward." He had already communicated with them through the Apostles; but now He does through the Angels. Paul had addressed them as in the pastoral grace of Christ; John now addresses them as from the judicial authority of Christ. The Apostle had fed them and disciplined them as in the place of dependence; but now these epistles challenge them as in the place of responsibility.
These seven Churches are the places of this judgment. There were, it is true, other congregations of the Lord at the time; but the seven are enough to exhibit the judgment - for seven is completeness. So some of them may be found, by this judgment or visitation, in a better condition than others; but still the Son of man sees the whole thing different from what it ought to be: one was not judged in the other, but each was responsible for itself; and thus some maintained their purity longer than others. But still the whole tone of this visitation bears with it a notice of what the end speedily was to be, as in our day we see it; for Philadelphia and Smyrna are now as fully removed candlesticks as Sardis or Pergamos.
These challenges of the Churches by the Son of Man lead us to see that all was nearly over, that there was but a step between such rebukes and their removal. And surely we do not, in our day, need to be told of the disturbance which has taken place in the "House of God." We learn that Adam lost Eden; and the present groans of creation tell us so. We learn, that Israel lost Canaan; and their present wanderings over the earth tell us so. And how do we see the sanctuary? Are we not witnesses to ourselves, that we have been no more able to hold the blessing which was ours, than Adam could hold Eden, or Israel, Canaan. The candlestick that was set for the rebuking of all else as darkness, and for being itself the embodied and well-ordered light of the world, is not now at Ephesus or Sardis, or anywhere else.
We may try our ways, most surely, by all that is here said to the Churches; but this does not amount to the Son of Man owning us as His only light in our place. And our first duty, therefore, both in grace and wisdom, is, to be humbled because of this; for, though we may have much, in fragments, that belongs to the candlestick, yet all that does not give us the standing and privilege of the candlestick, entitling us to set aside as darkness, and as not of the sanctuary, all that is not of ourselves.
When our fidelity to the Lord became the question, we were found wanting, as any other steward. This book will, at the end, show us that the question of the Lord's fidelity to us will be answered in the other way. For as the Lamb's wife, the Church will then be found to survive all the judgments, though here, at the beginning, she could not, as the candlestick, stand the righteous challenge of the Lord. And this is man; and this is God always. Shame and ruin mark our end; honour and peace and everlasting truth and love, the end of the Lord.
And in this shame and ruin, I believe our three chapters end. The perfect order of the seven lights of the house of God is gone, and gone too, not to be restored and, according to this, the prophet is at once called to see other things and other places, to witness other scenes (but still a scene of judgment, as we shall find), not that of the priestly Son of Man in his temple, but that of God and the Lamb in the earth. But this judgment is delayed till all the foreknown family have come in. For "God's long-suffering is salvation" (2 Peter 3:15). "The fulness of the Gentiles" must come in, and all be brought to the knowledge of the Son of God (Rom. 11:25); and, therefore, before we are led, in our prophet, to behold this second scene of judgment, or the judgment of the earth, we are given, I believe, a sight of the Church (now gathering from all nations) in Heaven, under the symbols of the living creatures and crowned elders round the throne; so that the ascension of the saints into the air had taken place at some untold moment, between the times of our 3rd and 4th chapters.
* Something like the difference between Ps. 23 and 24.
Here, then, when taken into vision of heavenly things, it is the throne of God, with its due attendants, and not the Father's house with the children, that we see. It is the throne of God Almighty, Creator, and Ruler of all things; around which is, therefore, thrown the holy pledge of the earth's covenanted security; and it is the place, too, from which the subsequent action of the book, or the judgment of the earth, flows; and, therefore, lightnings, and thunders, and voices (the symbols of those judgments) issue from it.
The thrones, crowns, and white raiment, strongly intimate that these elders symbolize the redeemed. And the living creatures do the same, only in another aspect.* And the giving forth the same object, under different symbols and in different aspects, was common in the shadows of the law, to the style and language of which this Revelation by John so much conforms itself. For instance, the same person stands before us in the sanctuary of old, expressed under different aspects in the symbols of the Golden Altar, the Golden Table, and the Golden Candlestick.
*Some judge that the elders symbolize Old Testament saints. Be it so. I am not disposed to contend with such a thought.
But, as to this wondrous subject of the Living Creatures or the Cherubim, I would observe a little more particularly.
1. Thus: They were seen at the gate of Eden, with a flaming sword; because then the Lord was expressing His own unrepenting righteousness, driving the sinner out of His place.
3. Thus, also, they are seen with unfolded wing under the God of Israel (Ezek. 1-10); because then the Lord of Israel was about to leave His sanctuary, the apostasy of His people having disturbed His rest in Jerusalem. And they are there, also, seen reaching out their hands to take fire to cast over the city; for there the Lord had commanded the judgment for its sins.
4. Thus, also, as here, they are seen round the throne, still attending on it, to celebrate the praise of Him who sits there, and do His will and learn His mind; still, therefore, reflecting His mind and ways.
But, in this last place of the Cherubim, we observe a distinction of great importance. Hitherto, or in the first three instances, they were angelic, because the law had been ordained by angels (Gal. 3:19); with delight the angels inquired into the mysteries of Christ (1 Peter 1:12); and the angels waited on the Lord of Israel. (Isa. 6:2.) But the Cherubim, or attendants on the throne, have now become human; because "the world to come" is to be made subject to man, and not to angels (Heb. 2:5), and this throne, in Rev. 4, is the throne of judgment preparing the earth for the kingdom, and which is by and bye (with new and changed attributes) to preside over "the world to come."
*There was something like this order of living creatures and crowned elders in Israel; I mean, in the way in which the ark was attended. The Priests and the Levites surrounded the ark in a nearer and smaller circle, and then the Twelve Tribes (on each side three) encompassed it in a larger and more distant circle or square. Thus the one had more intimacy with it than the other; as here, the order of living creatures, elders, and angelic hosts around the throne (see Num. 1 - 4) is preserved and exhibited.
And there is another distinction touching these Cherubim or living creatures, which I must notice. In Ezekiel, they are accompanied by wheels, but here with crowned and enthroned elders. In the Prophet, one spirit animates them and the wheels. As here, they sing in holy concert with the elders, and with them ever act as with one mind. But still, it is significant, that there, their companions are wheels; while here, they are crowned and seated elders. For, in those days of Ezekiel, the throne, whose purpose they express, was about to remove itself from the sanctuary, and wheels were suited to it; but in the day anticipated by this vision, the throne is at rest, with the Church, in her royal and priestly glories, around it, and crowned and seated elders are suited to it.
And, indeed, it is much to be observed, though it may draw us aside for a moment, that it is the Father who is now preparing a Sabbath for Himself, and not simply God the Creator. The Seventh Day was the Creator's Sabbath; the kingdom will be the Father's. The Creator had engaged His energy of old, and His works were the reflection of His eternal power and godhead. All was then good in His sight. In all He delighted, and by all He was glorified. But in the Sabbath of the kingdom, He will survey richer and deeper reflections of Himself. All His excellencies will be displayed; the work of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, of our God in His grace and salvation, will then be the fairer and fuller witness of Him, than the heavens and the earth of old. And if all things in the Creation of old were needed to give Him His full glory and satisfaction then; so, in the Father's kingdom, all of us, beloved, must yield our contribution. We may be little, a small unit, in the account of redemption; but we contribute to the survey of the great Redeemer's work. Then let us not doubt our place in that system; but, by faith, take it as simply as any flower in Eden would have blossomed, to its great Creator's delight and praise. Grace is planting the second garden; and we are there not to our own glory, but to His, who works as much to His own praise and delight, and as much alone, in Redemption, as He did in Creation.
But, this only by the way.
Such as I have said, I judge to be the throne, with its attributes and attendants. It is the throne of the Creator and Upholder of all things, from which are to go forth the judgments which are to clear the earth of its corrupters and destroyers.
The earth has evidently now become the object of attention in heaven. The whole of this chapter, as well as the following one, indicates this; and very strikingly so, the feature of the rainbow round the throne - because the rainbow is the symbol of that covenant which God has made with the earth, the pledge to it that it shall abide before Him.
But this being so, the earth and its history and destinies now becoming the immediate object of thought and concern in heaven, it would seem, even from this alone, that the Church or heavenly people from among the Gentiles,* must previously have been gathered in and taken home, as I have already suggested. Because, until that is done, the earth is not the object of attention in heaven. The bringing in of the elect, who are to be conformed to the image of the Son, and to share his heavenly joy and throne, is the object that forms and orders the concern of heaven now. There is general providence here, no doubt - but earth is not the great animating object in heaven, but the gathering of sinners out of it, the washing of their feet daily when thus gathered, and the filling up of the number of those heirs of salvation. But now when we have reached Rev. 4, and when we look in at the door opened in heaven, we find the earth directly and immediately awakening thought and action there, and (as we might from this expect), the Church already there. For when "the fulness of the Gentiles" shall come in, Israel will be thought of again; when the heavens are filled, the earth will be the scene of divine attention, and finally of divine husbandry and preparation again.
*Old Testament saints will ascend at the same time, for they are children of the resurrection.
*See Ps. 24. A hill is the symbol of government. See Ps. 2:6; Isa. 2:2.
The earth and its fulness is the Lord's by this title of creation here celebrated, and owned in that 24th Psalm. But it was His pleasure of old to set His image over those works of His hand. Adam was given dominion, but Adam lost his place and forfeited his kingdom. Who, then, shall reassume the dignity, and again ascend the hill of the Lord? Who is he whom the Lord God can reinstate in Adam's forfeited lordship? That now becomes the question; and, accordingly, it is raised in the 5th chapter, immediately after the exhibition of the supreme throne in the 4th. And the answer to it from every region is this, "The Lamb that was slain, the Lion of the tribe of Judah." He who sat on the throne gives that answer, by letting the book pass from his hand into the hand of the Lamb. The seven Spirits are seen as centered in the Lamb, intimating that the administration of the kingdom is now to be lodged in His hand. The living creatures and elders join in giving this glory to Him, by singing their song of gladness in the prospect of the earth being soon the scene of their glory. The hosts of angels join in giving it, by now willingly transferring all strength and glory and faculty for dominion, into the hand of the Lamb. The angels now empty themselves. In previous dispensations they had been the ministers of power; as one of them says, "I stand in the presence of God." The law was ordained by angels; they were all ministering spirits. The prophet's servant saw the mountain filled with chariots and horses. It was an angel that went through Egypt; and an angel that stood over Jerusalem with a drawn sword. Angels accompanied the Lord in his visit to Abraham, and revealed and executed God's purpose towards Lot in Sodom. The chariots of God were twenty thousand - even thousands of angels. But now they empty themselves and lay their honours at the feet of the Lamb, and ascribe all that was once theirs executively to the Lamb. But they might easily do this; for a greater than they, even the Lamb Himself, the Lord of angels, had shown them the way to this self-emptying. He had been in the form of God, thinking it not robbery to be equal with God, but He made Himself of no reputation; He emptied Himself; He laid aside His glory, and took on Him another form altogether. So that angels, His creatures, may well follow Him. And then, finally, every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and such as are in the sea, in their order and measure, join in giving it, by uniting the name of the Lamb with that of the Creator and Lord and they all at once feel, as though their groans were already turned into praises; for, as soon as Adam fell, creation was sensitive of the curse, and became a prisoner of hope (Rom. 8:22); but now that the Lamb takes the book, she becomes equally sensitive of deliverance, and glories in the liberty of the children of God - of course by anticipation, as the Church had just anticipated their reign. Thus is this question settled in heaven. The title of the Lamb to take dominion in the earth is owned and verified in the very place, where alone all power and dominion or office could righteously be had, the presence of the throne in heaven, for "power belongeth to God." Messiah owns that in the 62nd Psalm; and here He again owns it by taking the book out of His hand; for that is an action which confesses, on the part of the Lamb, that powers are ordained of God, that the Lord of heaven is the fountain of office.
Thus it is from heaven and from the Ancient of days, that the Son of Man takes dominion; or the nobleman receives his kingdom. (Dan. 7; Luke 19) Jesus would not take power from the god of this world (Matt. 4:9); nor would He take it from the heated desire of the people. (John 6:15.) He waits to take it (for there alone it could be righteously received) from the hand of the God of heaven and earth, from whom Adam of old received it. And, as the Lamb here owned God on the throne to be the source of power, so God on the throne owns the Lamb to be His ordinance of power. This action of taking the book has this concord of sweet sounds in it; for the Lamb goes up to receive it, and the Lord allows it to pass from His hand. God's glory as supreme and only potentate is thus vindicated, and he commits power in the earth again to the hand of man, as fully sanctioning it there, and all the exercise of it, as of old He did in Adam, delighting again in this other image and likeness of Himself. And this governs all the subsequent action of this wondrous book; for the title of the kingdom being thus approved in the due place and form, it only remains to clothe that title with possession. The inheritance is the Lamb's by purchase of blood. That blood sealed Him as the fully obedient one, and, therefore, God could thus highly exalt Him (Phil. 3); and that blood has also reconciled all things in heaven and earth (Col. 1); and the inheritance being, therefore, thus purchased, be has now only to redeem it - as we read "the redemption of the purchased possession." His blood, as the Lamb slain, had given Him title to it; His strength, as the Lion of Judah, must now give Him possession of it.
The extended virtue of this same precious blood of Jesus is here blessedly declared. It had already redeemed the saints out of all nations and kindreds, and seated them in heaven, as kings and priests unto God but it is now also owned as giving the Lamb, who shed it, title to the inheritance, and, consequently, title to lead these His redeemed people into their reign over the earth. It had already redeemed them from the world, and now would soon seat them in dominion over the world.
For it is by His blood the Lamb here prevails to take the book, or the title to the inheritance. The "Lion of the tribe of | 5,148 |
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CEO Lori Steele-Contorer, a former technology fund manager who started Everyone Counts in 2004, told me just over a year ago that the company had raised more than $15.3 million in previous years. So the latest financing deal brings total funding to more than $35 million for the company, which has grown to about 60 employees.
Tom Tullie, who joined Everyone Counts 10 months ago as executive chairman, said today the new round will enable the company to expand its sales and marketing operation and accelerate the federal certification of the company's eLect Quad Audit voting system.
Tully, who was previously the CEO of San Diego-based EcoATM (the mobile device recycling company acquired by Outerwall for $350 million in 2013), said he led the effort to raise capital for Everyone Counts shortly after joining the company last December.
Everyone Counts closed on the $4 million in equity funding at the beginning of the year, and on the debt financing more recently, Tullie said. The company provides three distinct Web-based products: software used for voter registration; software used for polling place management, and electoral management software. While some states might buy the software for the U.S. presidential election in just over a year, Tullie said he's expecting that Everyone Counts will get more orders immediately following the national election in November, 2016.
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2022 Americans in the EU
The language of communication and cooperation
Long ago, learning a second (and third) language as a teenager sparked my interest in international travel, which – after experiencing that travel – inspired me to study International Relations. This eventually led to my academic career and to the Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs award, so it seems apropos to return to these roots here. I spent the last four months in three countries – Italy, Romania, and Croatia – studying intergovernmental organizations and regional cooperation in Southeastern Europe. The remarkable proliferation and persistence of regional organizations linking governments from the Balkans and beyond since the fall of communism<|fim_middle|> and Eastern Europe. Today, English is understood by more people than any other single language in the EU, even if it is the first language of only 1%. [1]
In the smaller international organizations I studied, English is the only official and working language, even if it is not the first language of any of its core members. There is no translation provided; staff and member state representatives, as well as those who attend meetings, workshops, and seminars are normally expected to be fluent in English. This is not necessarily a problem. Croatians, for example, start to learn English in 1st grade (I had to wait until 8th for a second language). The prevalence of English language films, television shows, music, and social media certainly helps with language learning, and in countries where one's native language may not be spoken widely beyond their borders, learning other languages may well be seen as a necessity.
Despite the prevalence of English at many international organizations, it is not the only language you will regularly hear, nor the only useful language to know. Even in cases where all meetings are in English, staff naturally revert to the native language of those present in hallway discussions, coffee breaks, and other informal conversations. In the case of Southeast European subregional organizations, speakers who in a previous time shared the Serbo-Croatian language still tend to gather as a language group, even if they may be speaking mutually intelligible Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian, while those from Albania, Greece, or Turkey more often gather with their compatriots or alternatively with each other, using English as their common second language. Likewise for other languages. We are still both connected and divided by language.
I was consistently reminded of this in my Fulbright travels as well. Upon arrival at my dorm in Bucharest, for example, knowing French (well enough) got me much needed information and assistance from the researcher I met across the hall from the DRC who spoke little English. Nonetheless, I found myself more often communicating with the hallmates I later met from Cameroon and Italy, for whom English was our common language. When all meeting as a group, our Cameroonian colleague usually provided English-French interpreting. Subsequently, it was only when I bothered to read the fine print on my milk and orange juice containers in Romania(n) that I learned I should consume (actually, should have consumed) these items in 2-3 days at most, unlike our products in the US that last much longer. Ignoring the local language could be dangerous! Knowing a bit of German meanwhile certainly helped navigate the washing machines in multiple countries (which, by the way, have incredibly long cycles when compared to the US!)
University professors I met sometimes taught courses in English and often share and publish their research in English. The University of Bucharest Faculty of Political Science offers its degrees in three languages – Romanian, English, or French. In navigating my way around town in all three countries and at my host international organizations and universities, most people I met switched effortlessly to English to communicate with foreigners like me and I could easily rely on English most of the time. Yet, whenever I could converse with someone in their own language, understand their discussion, or read something otherwise unintelligible in my non-native language, even if something as simple as a street sign or a posted message, I always felt like I'd unlocked some hidden code. Having studied Italian, Romanian, and French as well as two Slavic languages – despite not being nearly fluent in these languages today – surely enhanced my Fulbright experience. In my past travels, I fondly remember that learning some Chinese characters gave me access to some of the most amazing Szechuan dishes at a local joint in Chengdu, China rather than being confined to the restaurants with English menus specifically catering to tourists. Even in places where English menus are readily available, being able to understand some of the local language always feels like a more authentic experience providing a better understanding of the local culture, including the food! Sdrukli, ćevapčići, fritule, kremšnita, kuhano vino, salata de vinete . . . none of these sound quite correct (or nearly as good) in translation.
Access to knowledge and people is largely determined by language, whether you are a student, scholar, government, or otherwise. (Misinformation and disinformation also rely on a common language to readily spread). Google Translate and similar apps have recently become a useful tool for travelers, but work much better as a supplement than as a good replacement for language skills. Without translators and/or common languages of communication, there would be no intergovernmental organizations and limited international cooperation. A common language (whether native or borrowed) certainly does not prevent disputes or even war between countries, but it is essential for communication, and thereby goes a long way towards reducing misunderstandings and confrontation. English has become an important facilitator of transnational communication and cooperation and in many ways is becoming the lingua franca of international organizations. At the same time, speaking a language other than your native tongue gives you access to more intercultural (and practical) knowledge and understanding, different experiences, and communication with more people than you otherwise would enjoy.
[1] Dave Keating, "Despite Brexit, English Remains the EU's Most Spoken Language by Far," Forbes, 6 Feb. 2020; Anna Codrea-Rado," European parliament has 24 official languages, but MEPs prefer English," The Guardian, 21 May 2014.
Melanie H. Ram received a 2022-2023 Fulbright Schuman European Union Affairs award and studied sub-regional organizations and regional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. She was hosted by the Central European Initiative in Italy, RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation in Croatia, the University of Zagreb, and the University of Bucharest and conducted archival research and elite interviews while engaging with local scholars and students. Dr. Ram earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University in Washington, DC and is currently a professor of International Relations at California State University, Fresno.
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← The Amherst playlists | seemed an understudied but important phenomenon. These organizations emerged despite – and in many ways because of – the wars of the 1990s and their members' Euro-Atlantic integration goals. In both my research and travels, I noticed how language can be both a bridge builder and a barrier. Languages dictate who we speak with, who we listen to, and where we get our information. A common language is a sine qua non for communication and cooperation across borders, whether for individuals, businesses, or governments.
Large international organizations like the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Union (EU) have more than one official language – the UN and OSCE have six, the EU 24 – and they have a band of translators and interpreters to enable official multilingual communication in meetings and translation of documents. This can be costly and time-consuming, but supports national identity, helps keep small languages alive, and keeps skilled linguists employed. Working and "procedural" languages, however, may be fewer. For example, EU bodies like the European Commission and European Parliament use English as their main language of communication, Brexit notwithstanding. This was not always the case and emerged in no small part due to the EU's enlargement to Central | 263 |
If a Clint Eastwood "sighting" is important to you, this is the place you will have the most luck. Try coming to the piano bar late in the evening and you may be treated to hearing this talented musician join in with bar patrons. If not, you will at least meet some of the locals who frequent the bar and love to sing , drink and talk.
Clint bought the ranch in 1986, rescuing it from an impending fate as a condominium development.
The Mission Ranch has a rich history. In the 1850's William Curtis bought the property for $300.00 and it became one of the first of the early California dairies. Century-old eucalyptus trees greet your arrival. You can see them here towering over The Bunkhouse which is the oldest structure on the Ranch and is now one of the unique buildings where guests can stay.
The Farmhouse is one of my favorite structures. Look at the upper story. That was once the main building. It was raised and the first floor and wonderful porch were added in 1896.
Honeymoon Cottage has these inviting rocking chairs.
When Clint renovated the buildings he sought out the best craftsman who could replicate moldings, door frames, and hardware to match the original style.
Fireplaces, the piano bar, comfortable seating and great food greet you. Bill and I split the Prime Rib. We also love to go to the Jazz Brunch on Sundays and sit outside for that view.
This<|fim_middle|> all time favorite star of all times. | year the sheep were about ready to lamb and everyone was excited about it.
More guest buildings are nestled among the trees and gardens.
The Inn now consists of 31 hotel rooms located within ten buildings on the property where the barns were once used for hay and milking.
This property is also home of the Mission Ranch Tennis and Fitness Club which guests can use during their stay.
Once again a lovely posting!
This is one place I have not visited and is now on my list for next time I visit…LOL!
I only wish I could create a garden landscape like that one. It's the climate there…perfect for those cottage garden type plants.
Thanks again for giving me a little sunshine and an ocean view!
Everything looks so fresh and green!
Wow. His beautiful place looks like Heaven to me. My hope is to be able to afford to be able to be there. The bonus would be able to meet Clint, my | 189 |
Hanover ranked among healthiest communities in the U.S.
U.S. News and World Report has ranked Hanover County as among the 100 healthiest communities in the nation for 2022. Hanover ranks #76 on the list. Life expectancy for Hanover residents was calculated at 79.6 years, higher than the national median, and the smoking rate in Hanover (15.6%) was substantially lower than the national median of 20%. Only 6.7% of Hanoverians had no health insurance, compared with the national median<|fim_middle|> Wednesday. The Board's proclamation honors "the countless contributions made by African Americans to our county, state and nation" and noted that "Juneteenth marks the celebration of not just a moment in the past but also a renewed shared commitment to uniting as Americans to ensure equality and opportunity are a reality for all Americans, in the present and the future." From left to right are John A. Budesky, County Administrator; Chickahominy District Supervisor Angela Kelly-Wiecek; Hanover NAACP president Pat Hunter-Jordan; Ashland District Supervisor Faye O. Prichard; and Peggy Lavinder. | of 11%. Here are more details.
Public Utilities wins state award
Hanover's Department of Public Utilities has received the 2022 Gold Award for Excellence in Water Treatment Plant Performance from the Office of Drinking Water of the Virginia Department of Health. Doug Meyer of VDH presented the award Wednesday during the Board of Supervisors meeting. Meyer said the plant had been recognized 18 times in 18 years for its performance. "The consumers of Hanover that you represent, and I serve have been blessed with excellent water for 18 years," he told the Board. Pictured from left to right are Meyer; Public Utilities Chief of Operations and Maintenance Dave VanGelder; Superintendent for the Doswell Water Treatment Plant Jonathan England; Board of Supervisors Chair Angela Kelly-Wiecek; and Director of Public Utilities Steven P. Herzog.
Board recognizes Juneteenth holiday
The Hanover Board of Supervisors recognized the new Juneteenth holiday at their meeting on | 199 |
Around here, we name our homes.
This weekend, we moved to a new place. We made a trip over there the night before we moved in, with the express purpose<|fim_middle|>!
Seeing these pictures, reminded me of how cute you are! We should have another blogger picnic before you start school again!
Aw congrats, now I want to name our house!
so cute! the treehouse looks bright and spacious! love it!
When we moved in next door we named out house The Breadbasket. It sounded warm and cozy and was the place we lived when we were getting smarter, kind of like The Breadbasket of ancient societies. I am finding out all these funny things that other married people do and we thought we were the only ones!
We have never named our houses, but we do have fond memories of each of them. Our newlywed place was this tiny studio the size of our current living room, it was awesome. The second was in the US, the place where our first daughter was born. The third was where my parents came to visit the US for the first time, for my MA graduation. The fourth was where our second baby was born... and now we're here in our fifth place.
Life is full of beautiful places and memories. :) Thank you for helping me reminisce.
Brooke this looks awesome! Once you're in we need a skype date!!!!
it looks amazing!!! I can't wait to see more of it!
i have never named a home, but we totally name our cars lol. so excited for you and your new place! | of deciding what we would call it. (Also, it was that or keep packing, so, yeah.) We felt the carpet beneath our bare feet, we snapped these pictures, we laid on the hardwood floor, we tested the sound of the doorbell.
And then we looked out the window. A few gigantic old trees are outside, and from our vantage point on the third floor, we could see the tops of the branches and leaves. Coming from a basement apartment, where the only thing you can see is the top of the small shrubbery by the sidewalk, we felt like we were flying.
And so we decided our new home will be the treehouse.
So welcome to the treehouse!
I have a feeling this will be an awesome home for us.
Maybe I'll take more pictures if I ever get these boxes unpacked.
Does anyone else name their homes?
We name our cars. Never have named a house though. But we are moving in a new one in four weeks. I'll let you know if we come up with a name for it. :-) Looks like a nice place Brooke.
I have never named a home... oh wait! our house is sometimes called the yellow dellow. Of course it is yellow. And we name our cars too ^^ But it looks like a great place | 265 |
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Internal design ensures that water is exposed to maximum surface area of sand for outstanding filtration performance and efficient backwashing.
Attractive almond color blends with any outdoor décor.
what size flter do I need for a 30,000 gallon in ground pool? will the Pentair sand dollar 60 work efficiently ?
Hi, The efficiency of the filter all depends on the flow rate of your pump. The SD40 has a max flow rate of 40 gpm and the SD60's flow rate is 60. You will have to calculate the flow rate of your pump to determine what size filter you will need. You can use | 326 |
I've been buying books from amazon on my phone for a decent length of time now. But only just downloaded the amazon iPhone app. As my previous amazon experiences on my phone have been seamless, I expected as much from the app. I was not disappointed.
But they have a nice extra. Called Amazon Remembers. You take a<|fim_middle|> internet for your phone. No doubt they'll get a higher share of my wallet. | photo (of anything) with your iPhone and click submit on your phone screen. Then the nice folk in Amazon scurry off and see if they can find it for you in their store. When they do, they'll send you an email - so you can buy it from them. They'll also post your photo with a link to the product on your amazon.co.uk homepage. Nice eh.
I tried it with a book cover. And it worked fine. As you'd expect with a book I guess. I also took a snap of the front of a Samsung netbook. And they found this too. I'm impressed.
It's a wonderful example of making an app that thinks intelligently about the customer circumstances - and not just a replication of the | 151 |
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As far as accessibility goes, if you use a wheelchair or ECV, you are able to ride this ride. You do, however, have to transfer from your chair into the tea cup. The only age requirement relates to the general rule of all Disney parks: children under the age of 7 years must be accompanied by someone who is 14 years or older. Other than that, there are no major restrictions to ride this ride. All are welcome to enjoy the whimsical magic of the tea cups.
Early morning: The ride opens at 9:00 a.m. and stays open until 10:00 p.m. Because of this, the early morning (9:00 a.m. to approximately 10:30 a.m.) sees the shortest wait times. If you get to this ride right when it opens, your wait will be around 5 minutes.
Late morning: From 10:30 a.m. to around 11:30, there will be a slight surge in wait times. Instead of 5 minutes, you'll be waiting roughly 10 minutes. In the grand scheme of the day, this is a wonderful wait time.
Afternoon: For any ride at any park, 12:00 p.m. to around 3:00 p.m. sees the longest lines. That's the nature of the Disney beast. The afternoon has the biggest crowds hands down. The Mad Tea Party is no exception. The wait time never gets unbearable, but it does see a big jump in minutes around this time.
Evening: The evening mirrors the wait times of the late morning. There's a dip in wait times from around 30-40 minutes to about 20-10 minutes. If you've got a bit of time to spare before a food reservation, you can fit in one more spin on the tea cups.
Night: Like the early morning, the wait time for this ride around closing is about 5 minutes long.
Based on these rough wait times, you should be able to fit a spin or two into your schedule. If you've already planned your trip out to the limit, you may want to adjust your schedule to fit this ride into your agenda. It truly is a ride you and your family won't want to miss out on.
Yes! The Mad Tea Party ride does have a FastPass+ option. If you're unsure of what FastPass+ is, it's essentially Disney's solution to cut down on wait times. You are given a chance to skip out on lines or extremely reduce your wait time at any of the four parks. You are able to choose three rides to FastPass+ when at each of the parks. You cannot park hop and choose three tickets from different parks, but you are able to use all three at one park any day of the week. This is a great feature for the popular rides at the parks. However, for the Mad Tea Party this is not necessary.
The wait times for this ride are never so severely long that you would need to use a FastPass+ ticket. Disney gives you three FastPass+ tickets to use at one park on any given day. Using that logic, it doesn't make sense to use a limited ticket supply on a ride that lasts 5 minutes and only requires you to wait for about 10 minutes on average. Save your FastPass+ Magic Kingdom tickets for rides that have over an hour wait times. Of these, the longest wait times are It's A Small World, Peter Pan's Flight, and Splash Mountain. You're better off using your FastPass+ tickets on one of these rides rather than on the Mad Tea Party.
Mad Tea Party: Is it worth it?
Overall, this ride is an essential part of your trip to Disney World. Not only is Magic Kingdom the best Disney park for kids, which is where this ride resides, it is a part of the iconic group of timeless Disney attractions. For years, the Mad Tea Party has been one of Disney's most cherished rides and that's for good reason. It's customizable and it's a one-of-a-kind experience that you and your family will remember for ages.
If you're worried about the level of thrill involved, you are able to keep the spinning to a minimum. Yes, the whole ride does move a little bit, but nowhere near as much as a typical thrill ride. Because of this, it's safe and fun for all ages and for everyone who wants to feel young at heart, which is what Disney is all about. | World. All the planning and traveling has come to an end and you can finally enjoy your vacation. If you're the type of family to plan your trip down to the minute, then you probably have your schedule all planned out for each day you're at Disney. But you'll still have some moments in the day unoccupied, most likely. These moments are perfect for fitting in a few extra rides. One of the rides you should consider adding to your schedule is the Mad Tea Party ride at Magic Kingdom.
Out of all the rides at Magic Kingdom, this one is probably one of the most iconic—and for good reason. In this article, you learn all the details you need to know about the Mad Tea Party ride and why you should add it to your Disney World schedule.
What is the Mad Tea Party?
One of the most iconic images of Disney World is the eccentrically colored spinning tea cups of the Mad Tea Party. Anyone who has been to Disney knows that the Mad Tea Party is a must-visit for anyone's vacation. But what exactly is it and how does it work?
Based on the 1951 film Alice in Wonderland, this ride features 18 tea cups that seat up to five riders. The idea is that you are taking part in the Mad Hatter's tea party by spinning around in tea cups. You truly feel a part of the wonderful world of Wonderland while on this ride. The colors and overall vibe of the attraction sends a message to the rider that this ride focuses its attention on fun, whimsy, and excitement.
If you are unfamiliar with the Alice in Wonderland film, you don't necessarily need to watch the movie to understand the attraction. However, to really appreciate the beauty and whimsical nature of the ride you should try to watch the film if you can. You will have such a larger appreciation for this ride if you have an understanding of the world of Wonderland.
Like a lot of rides at Disney, the Mad Tea Party relies on the participation of the rider. If you've ever been to any of the parks and been on an interactive ride, you know how these work. Similar to Buzz Lightyear's Space Station Spin or Test Track, what you get out of the Mad Tea Party is what you put into it. If you prefer a slow spin, you're able to do that.
Or, if you are more of a thrill seeker, you can spin so fast you can't walk straight when you exit your tea cup. To do this, you control your speed with a circular table-like spinner in the center of your tea cup. You spin your cup based on the speed at which you turn the spinner. You are entirely in control of your experience on this ride. That's what makes this ride so enjoyable. It's an entirely individualized experience.
The limits for this ride are minimal. All heights and ages are welcome to participate in this ride. Because the experience is so customizable, the thrill level depends entirely on what you and your family are willing to handle. Children love this ride for several reasons, but a big one is that they can control how fast their tea cup goes. Of course, there are some individuals who may not enjoy this type of experience and that is entirely valid.
If you are someone who gets motion sickness easily, or if you are prone to whiplash, it may be best to sit out this one. Even if you are going relatively slow, it can still cause some jarring motions. The platform the cups rest on does move independently from the spinning of your own cup, which adds to the thrill factor slightly. Though, if you are going slow, it doesn't whip you around | 740 |
NextExpert Witness Directory vs<|fim_middle|> not always apparent. Case scenarios and case studies are an excellent way for those looking for higher knowledge to apply a specialty to specific factual situations. These case scenarios can be linked to an Expert's or Consultant's website or made readily available to anyone looking to retain him for his services.
Caveat: All writings are discoverable and can be used in depositions and in court. If an Expert understands his area of expertise, then there should be no problem with this, however, remember to be consistent and factually correct.
*Though the number of Google results may change daily, the article's appearance remains No.1. | . Expert Witness Broker – Where's the Value?
For Expert Witnesses and Consultants, there is great value in writing articles and books. For many, books, peer-review articles and papers are a natural progression in the acquisition of knowledge. It may be something new for others who have already acquired a great deal of information on a certain subject. In any case, publications are solid evidence of an Expert's knowledge in his field of expertise. As such, including a list of publications on an Expert's Curriculum Vitae is an excellent way to increase credibility.
In addition to credibility, publications help to garner attention. Many attorneys rely on the Internet to find articles or papers on subjects specific to their cases. If an Expert's name is attached to the article, it follows that the attorney has found her Expert Witness for the case. For example, if an attorney is doing a Google search on mold and he uses the search terms "mold exposure experts", Expert Witness, Dr. Joseph H. Guth's, article, "Mold Exposures Need Better Medical Responses," appears No. 1 out of 4,540,000 results (link from Experts.com)*. In a search using the phrase "motor vehicle experts," Experts.com member, Dr. Irving Ojalvo's, article, "Optimizing Your Use of Motor Vehicle Experts," is No. 1 out of 6,230,000 results.
Although one may hold himself out as an Expert Witness or Consultant, the depth of his knowledge is | 311 |
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ Greek Credit School: Nefeli, Toronto's Greek Community theatre group turns 20!
Nefeli, Toronto's Greek Community theatre group turns 20!
Το έργο ανεβαίνει από το θέατρο Νεφέλη της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Τορόντο που φέτος συμπληρώνει 20 χρόνια πολιτιστικής δράσης στην παροικία μας, με την καθοδήγηση της δημιουργικής καλλιτεχνικής διευθύντριάς του Νάνσυς Αθανασοπούλου-Μυλωνά.
This production is a showcase of our youth of the Diaspora who still dream about the Greece of beauty, democracy, history, philosophy, her marble monuments, the ancient footprints left behind for us to follow, her Mediterranean sun, her divine climate, her mesmerizing sea, her haunting mountains and the indomitable Greek spirit of those heroes that fought for her and our freedom.
Romantic as it may seem and during a time when Greece is once again undergoing economic hardships, Nefeli will take us on a journey where the "Xenakia" can voice their passion and pathos for Mother Greece and prove once more that the Greeks of the Diaspora have not failed in passing on the pride of being Greek. With the exuberance that marks a carefree spirited youth, the excitement and most of all the pride of being Greek, the youngsters of Nefeli promise a production to remember. Challenged to<|fim_middle|>ism and are eager to begin their own chapter in the Diaspora's history book. | leave a mark on the new centenary of the Community, they understand their commitment to the legacy of Hellen | 22 |
Most of us understand the concept that when we talk about the church we are not just speaking of physical locations made up of sticks and stones and building material. We know that when God speaks of His church He is speaking of the organism and a body that functions under the headship and authority of Christ. The city of God and Zion are the same way. Yes there is a natural Jerusalem and Mount Zion, but it is much more than a physical location; it is a spiritual location. Many of us have become so earthly minded that we only see Jerusalem in a natural context. We fail to fully comprehend that this city is comprised of His people and that King Jesus is<|fim_middle|> | upon its throne, ruling out of mount Zion. Mount Zion was in the older part of the natural city of Jerusalem. It was a citadel, a high place and a fortress. It included Mount Moriah where the temple was built. God has used Jerusalem and Zion as a metaphor throughout His word to speak of the spiritual city of His holy habitation.
Hebrews 11:8-10 says, "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God." God founded this city of salvation in Abraham. It was there that God sent Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Genesis 22:2 says, "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." It was Mount Moriah where Solomon built the temple. "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. (2 Chronicles 3:1)" It was in Jerusalem that God fulfilled His promise of salvation because it became again the place of the sacrifice of God's only begotten Son when Jesus gave His life for our sins. And finally we see Jerusalem, not the old natural city, but the New Jerusalem which is from above, as being the completion of God's salvation at Christ's return. Revelations 21:2 tells us, "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." This is Lord's church, His Bride, His holy habitation and dwelling. You and I are a part of that now as Christ indwells us. The Word speaks to this heavenly Jerusalem in Hebrews 12:22-24, "But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel." This Jerusalem is a spiritual city and assembly whose builder and maker is God. The natural has been the type and shadow to reveal the real. | 625 |
<|fim_middle|> injured you? | I do a lot of dog training in Fairhaven MA.
There is a very good reason for all the dog training I do in Fairhaven Massachusetts.
Capeway Veterinary Hospital sends me a lot of clients for which I am extremely grateful.
I'm grateful because it helps my business but also because I love doing dog training in Fairhaven Mass.
One client I helped recently was a big German Shepherd with a leash walking problem. This was one strong dog. When he pulled on leash you had to hang on or you were going for a ride.
We started working with the German Shepherd at Fort Phoniex which is a great place to train a dog.
Leash walking is a tricky command to teach. There are two parts to it. The first part is teaching the dog where you want them to be – at your side. The second part is stopping the dog from pulling.
There are many different training tools to choose from with leash walking. Choke collars, prong collars, electronic collars, head halters and harnesses are your choices.
Which one is best is a huge debate among dog trainers. The best place to start with your dog is by rewarding your dog for what you want them to do. In this case we want the dog to walk at our side with no tension in the leash.
Its important to understand the principle of opposition reflex. If you pull back on the leash you'll notice the dog often pulls harder. This is opposition reflex. You apply pressure and your dog applies counter-pressure.
Step one is avoiding this reflex. You start by rewarding your dog for walking at your side. Once your dog understands where they are supposed to walk you can take the next step.
The next step requires your dog learning that pulling is unacceptable.
Most dogs can learn to walk on leash without pulling in a few sessions.
Does your dog pull so hard it feels like your shoulder is going to be ripped off?
Has your dog ever pulled you over or | 394 |
More than 28 tons of<|fim_middle|>'s Food Trust blockchain went live last year, with Walmart participating. | mandarin oranges, or 3,000 cartons with approximately orangey treats 108,000 fruit, were delivered ahead of Chinese New Year celebration on 5 February.
The main shipping document, the bill of lading, was recorded on a blockchain.
This document serves as a proof of ownership of goods, as a receipt of goods and a contract of the shipment, and normally it's mailed to all parties involved in the shipment, including banks supplying trade financing.
IBM created an electronic bill of lading, or e-BL, which helped reduce and speed up administrative processes "to just one second" as the document flow is automated, the company claims — while the standard paper-based procedure takes five to seven days.
"By using the e-BL, we have seen how the entire shipment process can be simplified and made more transparent with considerable cost savings", Tay Khiam Back, the chairman and CEO of fruit importer Hupco, said in a press release.
What this all proved was that a blockchain-based electronic system can cut operating costs like electricity used for refrigerated cargo containers while they wait for collection at the port, storage costs and other expenses, IBM said.
It also made for a better handling of information, providing a traceable and tamper-proof storage of records for the maritime shipment industry, where document fraud accounts for 40 per cent of all fraud.
IBM | 284 |
Чернушка степная или чернушка африканка (Proterebia afra) — вид дневных бабочек из семейства бархатниц в составе монотипического рода Proterebia Roos et Arnscheid, 1980.
Этимология названия
Afra (латинский) — африканка, темнокожая жительница Африки; название отражает окраску бабочки.
Описание
Размах крыльев — 40-49 мм. Верхняя сторона крыльев самцов и самок серо-коричневая или бурая, с осветленной вершиной переднего крыла. Булава усиков резко отделенная, сплющенная. У корня переднего крыла вздута одна жилка. Вдоль внешнего края обоих крыльев тянется умеренно развита ржаво-рыжая перевязка с черными глазками. Жилки нижней стороны задних крыльев светлые.
Ареал
Хорватия, Северо-западная Греция, Турция, степная полоса России до юга Западной Сиби<|fim_middle|> hyrcana (Staudinger, 1901)
Proterebia afra pyramus de Louker & Dils, 1987
Proterebia afra zyxuta (Fruhstorfer, 1918)
Охрана
Занесён в Красную книгу Украины. Подвид Proterebia afra hyrcana включен в Красную книгу Армении.
Литература
Львовский А. Л., Моргун Д. В. Булавоусые чешуекрылые Восточной Европы. — М.: Товарищество науч. изд. КМК, 2007. — 442, [1] с., [4] л. ил.: ил. — (Определители по флоре и фауне России; вып. 8).
Червона книга України. Тваринний світ / І.А. Акімов. — К.: «Глобалконсалтинг», 2009. — 624 с. — ISBN 978-966-97059-0-7.
Ссылки
Proterebia afra (Fabricius, 1787) — Чернушка африканка
Примечания
Бархатницы
Насекомые Европы
Животные, описанные в 1787 году
Монотипические роды чешуекрылых | ри, горы Крыма (ошибочно приводится для степей восточной и равнинной части Крымского полуострова, где вид не отмечался на протяжении последнего столетия и, видимо, вымер. ), Северо-западный и Восточный Казахстан, Закавказье, Копетдаг (Туркмения).
Встречается в степной зоне юга и юго-востока европейской части России (от Северного Придонья до Южного Урала). Локально встречается в Башкирии. Широко распространен в степях и полупустынях Уральской и Атырауской областей Казахстана.
Немногочисленные находки в степях на юге Украины — в Одесской, Николаевской и Херсонской областях датируются XIX в., и там вид видимо вымер ещё к началу ХХ в.
В основной части ареала данный вид населяет сухие злаковые степи, заросшие кустарником южные экспозиции холмов, остепненные участки. В Северо-западном Казахстане встречается на злаковых участках в засоленных полупустынях, а также злаково-разнотравных экспозициях на меловых обнажениях. В горной части Крыма обитает на «яйлах» на высоте около 900—1250 м над уровнем моря. На Большом Кавказе встречается на высотах до 1000 м над уровнем моря. В горах Талыша населяет высоты от 1600 до 1800 м.
Биология
За год развивается одно поколение. Время лёта с середины апреля до конца мая. Бабочки часто сидят в густых сухих злаковых зарослях, на песчаных участках дорог. Самцы наиболее активны утром, быстро летают над травянистой растительностью. В пасмурную погоду бабочки обычно сидят в злаковой растительности, полураскрыв крылья.
Яйца рассеиваются самкой над злаковыми консорциями. Гусеница питается на типчаке (Festuca valesiaca) или овсянице. Зимует куколка.
Подвиды
Proterebia afra bardines (Fruhstorfer, 1918)
Proterebia afra crimea (Sheljuzhko, 1929)
Proterebia afra fidena (Fruhstorfer, 1918)
Proterebia afra | 704 |
Christians have worshipped God in Ashton-on-Mersey for hundreds of years. A settlement is mentioned in the Domesday Book and there are also indications of a Saxon Chapel. In 1304 the parish of St.Martin's was founded.
Towards the end of the 19th Century there was a growing realisation of the need of a second church to serve Ashton on Mersey. The decision to build St.Mary Magdalene was a bold and courageous step. It was even more remarkable since there was a heavy financial burden of rebuilding and equipping the schools in the village at the same time. On top of that the population had not yet arrived! There is evidence that the fields around the church were used for growing rhubarb. St.Mary's was originally know as 'The Church in the fields'. Our predecessors were building for the future.
Ashton on Mersey and Sale were about to witness a huge population growth served by the Bridgewater Canal, the Roman Road (Washway Road A56) and Flora the first engine on the Altrincham to Manchester railway line (now the Metro line).
Since St.Mary's was founded in 1874, the church has never stood still; the ministry and worship have been constantly enhanced and extended. The vision, 'To be a growing church' is in our spiritual DNA.
The churches impact on the community has been obvious through the work of the church schools; All Saints Mission Hall in Somerset Place; a Nursing Home in St.Mary's Road (which later moved to Sandiway Road) and local almshouses. Over the years, the church also employed a community nurse and other full time staff to serve the locality.
In 1968 the Church Hall was built and was of huge benefit to church and community.
More recently the Church Centre has proved to be the catalyst for growth in the life of the church. Many community groups use the building and we use the buildings to invite people to join our activities and worship.
Sale West Community Church was established by a number of local churches of different denominations in 1971 as people were being relocated to the Sale West estate from central Manchester. St Mary's first provided a full-time worker for the church in <|fim_middle|> more formal links were developed in 2001. The church has continued to flourish in recent years and now has about 100 members. | 1974 and | 5 |
Data-driven simulation and cha...
Data-driven simulation and characterisation of gold nanoparticle melting
Claudio Zeni, Kevin Rossi, Theodore Pavloudis, Joseph Kioseoglou, Stefano de Gironcoli, Richard Palmer , Francesca Balet<|fim_middle|>4143, MaX MAterials design at the eXascale Centre of Excellence). F.B. acknowledges the financial support offered by the Royal Society under project number RG120207 and DIPC for supporting her visiting professorship. We are grateful to the UK Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub for computational resources, partially funded by EPSRC (EP/P020194/1 and EP/T022213/1), our membership of the Materials Chemistry Consortium, funded by EPSRC (EP/R029431), the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre (CSCS) (project 'sm54') and to the Supercomputing Wales project, partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) via the Welsh Government.
Metastability of the atomic structures of size-selected gold nanoparticles
by: Richard Palmer
Sintering of Passivated Gold Nanoparticles under the Electron Beam
Dialkyl Sulfides: Novel Passivating Agents for Gold Nanoparticles
HREELS studies of gold nanoparticles with dialkyl sulphide ligands
Tailoring Gold Nanoparticle Characteristics and the Impact on Aqueous-Phase Oxidation of Glycerol | to
Nature Communications, Volume: 12, Issue: 1
Swansea University Author: Richard Palmer
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41467-021-26199-7
The simulation and analysis of the thermal stability of nanoparticles, a stepping stone towards their application in technological devices, require fast and accurate force fields, in conjunction with effective characterisation methods.In this work, we develop efficient, transferable, and interpretab...
Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
The simulation and analysis of the thermal stability of nanoparticles, a stepping stone towards their application in technological devices, require fast and accurate force fields, in conjunction with effective characterisation methods.In this work, we develop efficient, transferable, and interpretable machine learning force fields for gold nanoparticles based on data gathered from Density Functional Theory calculations.We use them to investigate the thermodynamic stability of gold nanoparticles of different sizes (1 to 6 nm), containing up to 6266 atoms, concerning a solid-liquid phase change through molecular dynamics simulations.We predict nanoparticle melting temperatures in good agreement with available experimental data.Furthermore, we characterize the solid-liquid phase change mechanism employing an unsupervised learning scheme to categorize local atomic environments.We thus provide a data-driven definition of liquid atomic arrangements in the inner and surface regions of a nanoparticle and employ it to show that melting initiates at the outer layers.
C.Z. acknowledges funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Centre for Doctoral Training Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Non-Equilibrium Systems (CANES, Grant No. EP/L015854/1) and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant No. 824143, MaX 'MAterials design at the eXascale' Centre of Excellence). K.R. has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Grant Agreement No. 890414). S.d.G. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant No. 82 | 546 |
Ruthless B-to-B Marketing
Using Ratings and Reviews Sites as a New B2B Marketing Channel
Credit: Pixabay by Tumisu
By Ruth P. Stevens
A new mechanism has emerged to help B2B buyers who are searching online for products and solutions: Ratings and reviews sites, where searchers can find out what their peers are saying about prospective products and suppliers, and compare product features head-to-head. Just as consumers use Yelp and TripAdvisor, business buyers can check out G2Crowd, TrustRadius, Clutch.co, Capterra, and others.
These sites work best in fragmented markets, where it can be hard to stand out among the many competitors. No surprise, in the B2B world, it's software where the bulk of the activity lies. But other categories are being served as well, like business services, and more are likely to come.
The value to buyers from these sites is obvious: Peer reviews are highly prized in the purchase decision process, not only for validating the claims of the seller, but for showing evidence of the product's relevance to the buyer's own industry.
They also point out otherwise unseen flaws. "The stakes are high in B2B," says Vinay Bhagat, founder and CEO of TrustRadius. "Tech buyers need the whole truth before buying." Think of the consequences that might accrue if, despite due diligence, you install HR software that produces a critical error, he points out.
On the seller side, it's a mixed bag. Clearly, B2B sellers want to be found, and praised publicly by their fans. Chris Jeffers, founder of VisitorTrack, says his product's strong reviews have resulted in inquiries from prospects, saying things like "I saw you on G2Crowd, and I'm calling because your reviews are better than the others I was looking at."
The reviews also serve as mini-case studies and testimonials covering a variety of industries and applications that would have taken sellers enormous effort to assemble on their own. Injecting the voice of the customer into the selling process is a boon.
But bad reviews can be a challenge and are the nightmare of PR people everywhere. Review site managers make extra effort to validate reviewers, to ensure that the reviewer really uses the product, and if anonymous, is a real business person.
Wondering about the business model of these comparison sites? Most offer free listings to sellers, and free viewing of the ratings and reviews to all. They make their money from enhanced listings, from advertising, and from a mixture of marketing services, like data on visitors looking at reviews in the seller's category. Many also offer support services, to help increase the number of customer reviews. Pricing ranges from hundreds to thousands of dollars a month.
Since their emergence in the early 2000s, these sites are becoming increasingly influential in the B2B buying and selling process. Users will write reviews whether the supplier likes it or not. So, sellers do well to jump in and proactively manage the channel to their advantage. Here's how to get the most value from this new resource:
Get in the game. Buyers are searching there. Your competitors are there. You need to be there, too. "Overcome your fear of loss of control," says Mike Beares, founder of Clutch.
Encourage your customers to leave reviews. "It's a best practice to ask customers for a review just after a successful service call," advises Tim Handorf, co-founder and president of G2Crowd.
Test your way into the various upgrades and marketing services the site has to offer. Some are especially innovative, like offering data on companies that are reading reviews of your competitors. G2Crowd will produce an infographic for you based on pull quotes gathered from your reviews.
Look into the site's policies and practices in calculating rankings and authenticating reviews. TrustRadius, for example, rejects about 15% of reviews submitted. Also make sure you are comfortable with the methods they use to encourage users to post reviews. Site owners understand that trust is essential to their business models.
"Embrace the transparency," says G2Crowd's Handorf. Recognize that your product may not be right for everyone. Respond to any negative comments with empathy, in an authentic voice<|fim_middle|> More Leads | .
Consider these sites a customer service tool, which can surface unexpressed problems that you can solve proactively. Vinay Bhagat of TrustRadius suggests then asking the customer for a fresh review once the problem has been resolved.
The reviews are also useful to product managers, to evaluate the popularity of various features, and uncover use cases you hadn't thought of before. According to Bhagat, some sellers data-mine the reviews to measure sentiment, and gain insight into customer needs.
Use the software reviews sites to support your own martech or business services purchasing.
This new channel is here to stay. It's up to us business marketers to get the benefit.
A version of this article appeared in Biznology, the digital marketing blog.
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Ruth P. Stevens consults on customer acquisition and retention, and teaches marketing at companies and business schools around the world. She is past chair of the DMA Business-to-Business Council, and past president of the Direct Marketing Club of New York. Ruth was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Marketing by Crain's BtoB magazine, and one of 20 Women to Watch by the Sales Lead Management Association. She is the author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers, and Trade Show and Event Marketing. Ruth serves as a director of Edmund Optics, Inc. She has held senior marketing positions at Time Warner, Ziff-Davis, and IBM and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Ruth is a guest blogger at Biznology, the digital marketing blog. Email Ruth at ruth@ruthstevens.com, follow her on Twitter at @RuthPStevens, or visit her website, www.ruthstevens.com.
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U.S. Coast Guard Renews Partnership with Palantir to Fight COVID-19
Press Releases Cloud, Government, Medical, Palantir, Software, Technology
DENVER, May 5,<|fim_middle|> vaccine distribution and inventory tracking, and centralized field reporting.
About Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is a software company that builds enterprise data platforms for use by organizations with complex and sensitive data environments. From building safer cars and planes, to discovering new drugs and combating terrorism, Palantir helps customers across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors transform the way they use their data. Additional information is available at https://www.palantir.com. | 2021 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR) today announced the U.S. Coast Guard has extended its commitment to use Palantir's software to help it respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Coast Guard has been using Palantir's software since April 2020 as the data management, analytics, and operations tool for its response to the pandemic. This contract renewal has a base value of $6.25 million and a potential total amount of $11.25 million for nine months.
Palantir's software enables centralized collaboration of workspaces across the country, offering real-time visibility into critical data for Coast Guard members anywhere, across ranks, to make informed and risk-based decisions. The Coast Guard will continue to use Palantir to create a common operating picture and help determine resource allocation, including vaccines, to best respond to the pandemic and enhance readiness.
The Coast Guard announced on April 21 that it had fully vaccinated over 50% of its members since its vaccination campaign began only four months ago.
"Palantir is proud to help enhance Coast Guard readiness, and keep their staff and families safe. We look forward to continuing to provide the Coast Guard with the very best technology to help them ensure our Nation's maritime safety and security," said Doug Philippone, Palantir's Global Defense Lead.
Palantir has played a key role in mitigating the global COVID-19 pandemic, supporting more than 100 organizations in their response to the pandemic, including across the U.S. government and military. At the Coast Guard, Palantir's software has enabled operational management of the pandemic response, including collaborative logistics planning, | 357 |
Downtown gallerist Jeffrey Deitch has made a career of making contemporary art accessible -- at times almost theme-park-ish. Recently, his Deitch Projects spaces have hosted spectacles as diverse as the Citizens Band's cabaret act (with Hollywood honeys like Maggie Gyllenhaal and<|fim_middle|> Network. Those without satellite TV will just have to visit the gallery. Bec Stupak (aka Honeygun Labs), one of the contestants, has already shown there, and Deitch says he's planning to exhibit work by another contestant, Abigail DeVille, soon. As for any thoughts of television devaluing the cultural and monetary value of the art, the gallerist disagrees. "The generation of artists since the '80s boom really understood that communication of their art was very important," he says. "Part of that communication incorporates an artist's image. This is one medium that works well to communicate that image. But there are many different mediums, and we focus on artists who cross disciplines. We're all about an expanded view of art. Whether you're a musician, dancer, painter, journalist -- there are many more platforms to work as an artist today." | Zooey Deschanel on the mike) and "One More Thing," an installation by West Coast artist Barry McGee, which included animatronic graffiti artists and a pile of tagged vans and a crashed car. But only so many people can view a gallery show during the day. So, in an effort to spread the word, Deitch (pictured above, middle) is bringing his artists to television. Artstar is a reality-TV show -- part Project Runway, part American Idol -- in which a slew of artists compete for a spot on the gallerist's team of eight (pictured above); that team then collaborates on a final project. The usual drama, personality clashes and temperamental judges are involved. Art critic David Rimanelli in particular makes Simon Cowell look like a Care Bear. "For many people, what goes on at a gallery is a mystery," Deitch says. "This is an attempt to show what goes on behind the scenes."
The show will premiere at 9 p.m. on June 1 on Gallery HD, a high-definition channel available on the Dish | 222 |
Released 1982 · consists of 8 releases.
Popeye must win<|fim_middle|> pinball machine based on the Popeye cartoon.
Popeye: Rush for Spinach | the love of Olive Oyl in three different scenarios while avoiding the nasty Bluto. His main weapon against this relentless brute are the cans of spinach that appear at the beginning of each screen.
First release date 1982
Platform Commodore 64 , Nintendo Entertainment System , Atari 8-bit , Atari 2600 , ColecoVision , TI-99/4A , Intellivision , Odyssey 2 , Atari 5200 , Arcade
Developer Nintendo R&D1
Publisher Nintendo , Parker Brothers , Atari
Theme Comedy , Comic Book
Franchises Popeye
Popeye must catch hearts, musical notes, or letter from the word "HELP" that his girlfriend Olive Oyl, who is located at the top of the screen, is tossing down. These items slowly floating items descend to the bottom of the screen and eventually 'break' unless Popeye can collect them.
Popeye's nemesis, Bluto, pursues him throughout each of the repeating three stages. The Sea Hag also appears to hurl bottles, etc. at our hero. Sweet Pea and Wimpy also make appearances but only serve to provide opportunities to score more points.
The three stages consist of the dock level, the street level, and the ship level. Difficulty increases each time the player completes the set of stages. Controls consist of an 8-way joystick and a 'punch' button.
History & Design
Popeye was released by Nintendo in 1982. Its cabinet is the same design as the earlier more recognizable Donkey Kong and the later Donkey Kong Jr. cabinets. A cocktail table version was also released. The game was designed by Genyo Takeda and a young upstart designer named Shigeru Miyamoto. The Popeye characters were originally going to be used for Donkey Kong, but Nintendo decided to go with an original character creation that evolved into the iconic Mario. The CPU was a Z80 Chip running at 4MHz. Sound was produced using a AY8910 chip running at 2MHz.
THE DOCK STAGE - Popeye must catch 24 hearts that Olive Oyl tosses down one at a time. The HUD displays how many hearts the player has collected. If a heart reaches the bottom of the screen, the player will lose a life if he doesn't retrieve the breaking heart after about 10 seconds.
Bluto chases Popeye throughout the stage. There are two ways he can be temporarily disposed of. One is by punching the signature can of spinach that will periodically appear on the sides of the screen. Once the can is punched, Popeye gets stong and turns red for about 10 seconds and has the ability to punch Bluto, sending him bouncing across the screen and into the sea. Catching hearts while in this 'red mode' will also net double points. The player will get 3000 points knocking out Bluto but he will shortly climb back out and continue his pursuit. The second way he can be incapacitated is by hitting a punching bag that dislodges a bucket. If timed right, the bucket will fall on Bluto's head giving the player 2000 points and some time to grabs some more hearts before he eventually pulls the bucket off.
Both Bluto and the Sea Hag like to throw bottles at Popeye. These bottles can be broken by punching them. Bluto throws his bottles in groups of four and the Sea Hag will periodically show up on the side of the screen, throw one and disappear. Sometimes there will will be one on each side and they'll simultaneously throw a bottle, attempting to 'sandwich' Popeye between them is he isn't fast enough with his punches. Bluto can also jump up to a higher level or reach down to a lower level to knock Popeye out. Players should take caution when passing Bluto directly above or below him.
THE STREET STAGE - This stage is similar to the first but features a different level layout and Olive throws musical notes instead of hearts. There is also a seesaw located in the lower left corner that, if timed right, allows Popeye to be launched in the air, thanks to Wimpy standing on the other end. Once in the air, Popeye can touch Sweet Pea for a point bonus who is floating above with a balloon.
THE SHIP STAGE - The final stage features similar gameplay with two different features. One is there is a sliding platform at the top. Second each time Popeye catches one of the H-E-L-P letters that Olive tosses him, a ladder step will appear. Once enough letters are caught and the ladder is completed, Popeye can climb up and rescue Olive. The Sea Hag's pet vulture will also come out on the left side of the screen. Popeye can punch it continuously for points.
Once Popeye rescues Olive, players are treated to a short intermission where Popeye's theme song is played while his face appears on the screen, blowing his signature "toot, toot" on his pipe. Players are then returned to the first stage again with increased difficulty. The Sea Hag now send bouncing skulls at Popeye, which are more difficult to punch. They will also fall down from an above level and knock him on the head if he is walking directly below.
Popeye was ported to several popular home consoles in subsequent years. The first of these was to Nintendo's very own Famicom, being one of the fledgling console's three launch titles in its home territory on July 15, 1983.
Other ports, including the Atari 2600 and 5200, Intellivision, Colecovision, and Odyssey2 were handled by Parker Brothers. These released over the course of late 1983 and 1984. Ports to computer systems included the Texas Instruments TI-99, Atari XL, and Commodore 64. Eventually, Popeye came full circle and released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the US and Europe in 1986. A mobile phone version was also released in 2008.
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Platform Nintendo Entertainment System
Region Japan
Release date July 15, 1983
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Popeye is an adventure game for multiple British home computers.
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A Popeye game published by the infamous company Sabec. It purports to be an update on the classic arcade game from Nintendo, but is only marginally similar.
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Japan-exclusive game released in 1990 for the Game Boy. Prequel to "Popeye 2".
Popeye 2
2D Action platformer released for the Game Boy. It was developed by Copya System and published first in Japan in 1991 by Sigma Enterprises. Activision published the game in North America in 1993, and in Europe in 1994.
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It brings such a mix of emotions between the people who hear those words. Some are filled with joy and gratitude for the strong men in their lives who make them<|fim_middle|> my life.
This is my Father's Day story from someone who grew up without an earthly dad.
I was five years old when He became real to me. I was eleven years old when I experienced His voice in the most true way I ever had. I was fourteen years old when I experienced His unconditional love and grace, even when I turned away. And now I'm twenty years old and I look back at these specific moments, but I also look back and see every moment, every year, in between and how faithful He was.
He was there with me when I took my first steps. He was there when I memorized my first Bible verse. He cheered when I wrote "the end" on my very first book. He smiled when I recited His words onstage in front of hundreds of people. And all along the journey of my life He has wooed me and drawn me closer to His heart. He has spoken truth, love, and light into my life since before I gave my first cry. He has protected, He has guided, He has held me every moment I have walked.
And because He didn't want eternity without me, He died to keep me.
So He did for you too.
You see, the same Father who has given me such an amazing story to celebrate today, has given it to you too! Whether you have an earthly father or not, your Heavenly Father is calling to you.
He wants to be your perfect Father. He wants you to be His child. His masterpiece.
He is our Father. He created us to be His children. With a love greater than any love on earth, He has loved you. With a song sweeter than any heard on earth, He has sung over you. With a joy greater than any known on earth, He has rejoiced over you.
So whatever Father's Day means to you right now, know this...you have the greatest Father ever. And He is crazy about you. You are His girl. Rejoice.
Yes, amen! Thank you for commenting, Martha Joy! Love you! Hope you're doing well! | proud as their hero. Some are filled with hurt and loss for the men in their lives who weren't what they needed them to be.
I'm not here to talk about what fathers could do better or about why the role of a father is important.
Nope, instead I'm here to tell you about the Father who changed | 66 |
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Bethpage Black Golf Course Scorecard, as of the date of last review
Other East Coast Golf Course Reviews: Bethpage Red Gold Course Review | Bulle Rock 1757 Golf Club Review | TPC Sawgrass | Reunion Golf Course
Bethpage Black Golf Course Summary: The scorecard above is "only" the white tees as no non-scratch golfer should ever attempt anything more than those<|fim_middle|> shot is relatively straight, but the fairway is cut very tight; there is also OB far right. The second shot, however, is way uphill to a green with deep bunkers in front, one to the left and steep hills all around. If the drive does not find the fairway, there is as close to a 0% shot of hitting the green as any hole on earth.
Bethpage Black Hole 16: Another long and mean par four, this one has a downhill tee shot but the player needs to hit it a long way and straight to leave a decent chance at hitting the green, which has bunkers on both sides.
Bethpage Black Hole 17: The final par three is unusual in that the tee box sits in an unassuming and open area of the course with very little around it. Not short, and slightly uphill, the green is also not that deep, but is very wide. Thus, a high, long, soft shot is required to find the putting surface and avoid the myriad of sand surrounding.
Bethpage Black Hole 18: The final hole is the shortest par four on the back nine and has an elevated tee box and elevated green; in between is a fairway that tightens the farther the drive goes between large bunkers, but, all things told, it's a cake walk compared to all the other holes on this nine.
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Bethpage Black on Wikipedia | Golf Digest Ranking of Bethpage Black Golf Course
Breaking Eighty's Review of Bathpage Black | tees, which are hard enough. The Black is famous for hosting the US Open as well as other events and it is a beast. The front nine is actually more picturesque and enjoyable, with some scoring possible, but the back nine is one brutal hole after another that attempts to beat the golfer into submission, and most of the time succeeds. The course features some trees along the way, but it is really the long grasses and bunkers that make the path treacherous to follow. The best golf holes are reviewed below:
Bethpage Black Hole 1: If the golfer is nervous, this tee will add to that as it is right under the clubhouse staging area and plenty of eyes are on you. The hole itself foreshadows what is to come from the elevated tee box. The fairway is tight, trees can cause trouble, the rough looks thick and the green is narrow with sand nearby.
Bethpage Black Hole 2: This dogleg left par four is fairly short, but tight. Hitting the uphill green is much easier from the fairway and the huge bunkers right and left of the green really need to be avoided to make par or better.
Bethpage Black Hole 4: This outstanding par five is short, but does not feel that way. The drive has to avoid the large bunker complex to the left and the second shot is one of the best in golf. Technically, a big drive could actually let the golfer go for the green in two but it will likely be a blind shot to the elevated green fronted by bunkers and with a steep slope down behind. Alternatively, the normal second shot still has to clear the brilliant cross bunkers. The farther right and in distance one goes, generally, the better the angle for the third into the green, but leaving the shot in the cross-bunker would spell absolute disaster.
Bethpage Black Hole 5: This famous dogleg right par four has a fairway that slides between the massive bunker to the right and the tree lined hillside left. Biting off more of the dogleg leaves a much better angle to yet another elevated green with bunkers providing protection.
Bethpage Black Hole 6: This par four has a relatively flat drive that needs to find its way around or over the bunker on the left while avoiding the one right as well. A bomb could catch the downslope and leave a wedge approach but most shots will be played from mid-range, downhill to a green that is mostly surrounded by bunkers.
Bethpage Black Hole 7: Even the "boring" hole on the front nine still has a very pretty drive over the long grasses. However, this is the best chance to score as the fairway is generous and the hole is relatively flat with as little trouble as one will find on this course.
Bethpage Black Hole 8: This par three is much more dangerous than it appears on television; it is downhill and the fronting lake is actually very close to the putting surface even though it is 10 yards short; this is because the front edge of the green rolls back down a shaved grass area with very little hope of the ball stopping; there is also a tier about two thirds of the way back on this hole, making it much more difficult than it seems on the screen.
Bethpage Black Hole 12: After two tough par fours to open the back nine, it gets worse with the very long, dogleg left par four 12th. The player needs to carry the bunker on the left, preferably with a slight draw to hit the very narrow and angled fairway beyond. This can give them hope to wiggle a shot onto the green that sits between two large bunkers, and also that has some strong undulations due to a tier in its middle.
Bethpage Black Hole 14: Seemingly benign, this short par three actually is that as long as the player finds the green. However, missing right is down a hill, left is in a bunker, long is in a collection area and short is in a deep bunker with limited opportunity to not hit it over the shallow green. Long story short...hit the green.
Bethpage Black Hole 15: In a course full of nasty par fours, this one takes the cake. The tee | 874 |
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No one ever says their cold came at the perfect time, but mine did. After traveling for the holidays, I arrived back in L.A. excited to see my friends, but also sort of ready to hibernate... and then bam! I got a cold! Perfect timing! I had a few days to unpack and get my life back in order, answer emails, then hibernate. It was the type of cold where I felt fatigued, but not so miserable that I couldn't enjoy watching shows, playing board games, and doing a whole lot of nothing—the perfect antidote to packed family time, and break before a chaotic month. January plans, so far, include... jury duty, gum surgery, and three weekend trips (!). Here's to starting 2020 with a bang!
I resisted subscribing to the new Apple streaming service—did I really need to pay $5 a month for even more shows?—but the first episode of The Morning Show hooked me, and it took less than a week for me to binge the entire first season. In it, Jennifer Aniston plays a seasoned anchor on a popular morning show after her co-anchor has been fired for sexual misconduct. In a series of twists, a fiery correspondent, played by Reese Witherspoon, is plucked out of West Virginia to be her new co-host. The show feels a bit like a juicy exposé behind the sugary-sweet world of morning shows, while addressing sexual assault and #MeToo. And it doesn't shy away from references to The Today Show (the accused even has a Matt Lauer-esque button at his desk to close the door, and Aniston's announcement of the misconduct is eerily similar to Savannah Guthrie's, though the comparison has been denied). It's smart and poignant, and Billy Crudup's laugh-out-loud funny character, as the chaos-chasing head of the TV division of a network, is among my favorite characters on a show ever.
You could read Nick Hornby's State of the Union in the time it would take you to go to one therapy session—and in fact, I recommend you do. Each chapter of the short novel captures the ten or so minutes before a married couple heads into therapy, filling in the ellipsis through hilarious and relatable dialogue, with shorthand that captures the decades they spent as a couple. (Though I haven't watched it, it's also a show now on Sundance! If, you know, you happen to have another $10 to spend on another streaming service... I had to draw the line somewhere.)
Although I wasn't aware of the band Hot Chip, this music video made me fall in love with them. The video for Hungry Child, about a couple<|fim_middle|>-looking shows at the Geffen. I created a three-show package (Man of God, The Enigmatist, and Macbeth) but if you prefer to go to just one or two, there are great deals on Goldstar.
2. Try not to purchase things online you may return—a lot of returns end up in landfills.
3. The best board games of 2019! (Pro tip: I almost bought the top game Wingspan on Amazon for $100, until I went to a board game store in L.A., and they told me it's normally $20. The makers just didn't expect the demand and are planning on restocking early this year! Wait for the price drop ;)
4. Consider your ears.
5. That rule about taking 10,000 steps a day? Totally arbitrary.
6. My mom sent me this link with the subject line, "READ THIS. HILARIOUS!"
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Plus, a brilliant use for garlic skins. | who literally can't stop hearing the same song on repeat, is worth watching all the way through. It's such a smart, creative video!
After struggling to find candles that are made with high-quality essential oils, a friend of mine set out to create his own (!). He spent the past year working with essential oil developers and researching candle making to create this kit, which he then packaged and made available for purchase online after realizing how many of his friends wanted one (hi, hello 👋). I initially bought a few as gifts to support his new business, but then ended up keeping one for myself. It was a bit messy (because I'm messy), but fun! I mixed the eucalyptus with the lavender scent which I'm hoarding to light in the new year, once I tire of pine-scented everything.
It took me longer than it should have to finally watch the A24 film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and when I finally sat down to it over the holidays, I loved it even more than I thought it would. Based in part on Director Joe Talbot's childhood best friend Jimmie Fails (who plays the lead), the film follows two best friends' (re)adoption of a Victorian house in a historically black, now very white, part of San Francisco. It's a beautifully shot (almost Wes Anderson-y), and an equal-parts charming, funny, and poignant take on legacy and the impact of gentrification in San Francisco.
1. If you live in L.A., consider this my reminder to you to purchase theater tickets for 2020. There are some really great | 335 |
One of the most important resources a dairy can develop to enhance and grow employee communications<|fim_middle|> postpone them.
How do you begin developing a handbook? Below are some resources that can assist you in developing your employee handbook.
After your employee handbook is developed, it is recommended to review the handbook at least annually. The annual review process ensures that is stated in the handbook is actually happening on the dairy. And there may be some sections or policies that are no longer relevant.
Taking the time to develop this communication tool will save time and money in the long run. | and retain employees is an employee handbook. A handbook can be as simple as the job description, lists of benefits including paid time off, medical insurance, expectations of each employee and the employees hourly wage. And an employee handbook can go into much greater detail such as the goal and mission of the dairy, the policies, dress code, safety, employee training and more. It is best to have more detail than not enough. Keep in mind as you develop your handbook, the more details and depth of the handbook, the greater the communication tool for employees. The handbook is one of the first communication building tools for new and existing employees. It leaves everything in black and white instead of having a gray area. It is also a tool for equal treatment of employees.
Improve the image of the farm business by conveying that employees are important and that the farm employer has carefully thought out employee policies.
Help assure that all employees are treated fairly and consistently.
Encourage employers to face important decisions about employee policies rather than continuing to | 202 |
Spending the day with family and friends<|fim_middle|> This is also a good time to assign those "jobs" mentioned above.
Enroll your child (and yourself!) in a boating safety course. Most states provide this service free of charge through the Department of Natural Resources. These courses are essential to learning the basics of safe and responsible boating. Contact your state's DNR for a list of upcoming courses in your area.
Boating can be an enjoyable and memorable activity for a family to enjoy together. Following these tips and suggestions promises to keep everyone safe and boating for years to come! | hanging out on the water can be one of the most enjoyable ways to pass time. If you have children, include them in the fun! The prospect of boating with children doesn't have to be intimidating, as long as a few precautions are taken first.
It's not a bad idea for everyone on the boat to wear a life jacket, but for the children, it should not be optional. The life jacket should fit snug and have a collar that will turn your child face up should they fall into the water. The jacket should be adjusted to fit close to the child's body and not ride up above their chin. You might even consider choosing a life vest with a crotch strap to keep it from doing so. Have them practice wearing the life jacket so your child will be comfortable with it in and out of the water. For more information about life jackets, Visit USCGBoating.org.
When you involve your children in the boating preparations, they feel a sense of responsibility. Assigning "jobs" to the kids in your party can do double-duty when it comes to the day's plans. They feel involved and important and you have some helpers! Let one be the "safety inspector" that checks for all the necessary equipment such as a fire extinguisher, life vests, and first-aid kit. Assign another child the job of "equipment master". This person keeps all the gear stowed and out of the way, which teaches the importance of being tidy in a small area and ensures a safe and accident-free day on the water. These are just a few of the possibilities for job assignments. Get creative and get the kids involved!
It might sound a bit strange, but hold a safety meeting before leaving the dock. Go over the "rules" with the kids. Let them know there is no running and they should be seated when the boat is in motion. Also stress the importance of keeping the life vest on at all times. Go over hand signals that are used while tubing or skiing. BoatUS is a great source for hand signals. | 415 |
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Good news for frequent users of Huron Church Road.
The $5.5-million reconstruction project on Huron Church Road between Malden Road and Dorchester Road will reach its completion this<|fim_middle|>City officials say even though the work is taking a little longer than expected, the project was on budget. | weekend.
City officials say by Saturday, July 6, traffic will be flowing in both directions, with two lanes reopened both northbound and southbound.
Repeated rain events through the spring delayed the final touches on cross street intersections within the project area.
Side street access on the west side of Huron Church will remain closed until approximately July 12 for work on traffic signals.
Interim pedestrian crossings that were put in place during construction will remain until completion, at which point regular signalized operations will resume.
Access to businesses along Huron Church will be maintained through the final stages of the project. Roads and commercial driveways on the east side will be open to right turns in and right turns out.
The three-month construction project included infrastructure upgrades to water mains, street lighting and traffic signals.
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Lee Man lift first ever trophy after tight Sapling Cup final
By Christie Leung
A remarkable late header by captain Fran Gonzalez crowned Lee Man as the 2019 Sapling Cup champions, making it the club's first ever silverware since its establishment in 2017, despite Yuen Long overcoming a two-goal deficit to take the game into extra time.
While no club has ever won the Sapling Cup twice, either team this year would have been new winners for the 4th edition of the tournament. It would have also meant the first<|fim_middle|> Although it was initially recorded as an own goal by his marker Wong Yim-kwan, it was later corrected as the debut goal of the 19-year-old forward. Cleiton later forced a flying save from Yuen Ho-chun after a freekick, while Stefan Pereira, Michael N'dri and Cheng Siu-kwan all could not capitalise on a counter. However, with a minute remaining in regular time, substitute Law Chun-ting at the far post sent home Chan Pak-hang's cross to level things up for Yuen Long.
As the rain finally stopped and the sky brightened up for extra time, the waterlogged pitch also started to improve. Both sides slowed things down a bit following the fast-paced final 15 minutes, however, Lee Man almost took the lead when Michael N'dri dribbled past Chan Ka-ho, who came out of his box following a miscommunication with Wang Ruei. But N'dri was once again denied by the woodwork.
The turning point of the match came with five minutes remaining, when Kessi was shown a controversial straight red for elbowing an opponent while preparing for a free kick. With an extra man, the Bees found their winner through their captain Fran Gonzalez, who brilliantly headed home a corner to make it 3-2. That also marked the defender's sixth goal of the tournament, making him the top scorer of the Sapling Cup.
Yuen Long's captain Fabio Lopes had another two chances in the dying minutes, but both went over the crossbar.
Lee Man also went down to 10 men when Yu Wai-lim received the marching orders, being booked twice within three minutes. However, the scoreline remained at 3-2 for Lee Man, crowning them as the 2019 Sapling Cup champions.
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Home: Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground | ever season trophy achieved by their head coaches Kenneth Kwok or Chan Hiu-ming. In their previous league meetings this season, Yuen Long never lost to Lee Man, collecting an away win and a home draw.
A fairly close first half saw chances on both ends, forcing saves from the goalkeepers. Yuen Long was more dangerous overall and Jean Moser came closest when he was found by Kessi's through ball, but his attempt could not get past Yuen Ho-chun. On the other end, Michael N'dri also saw his volley collected by Chan Ka-ho.
As rain started to pour heavily during half time, the pitch got slippery and the second half soon transformed into a different game. The deadlock was eventually broken by Serhii Shapoval, after Stefan Pereira's low pass travelled past three defenders in the 61st minute. Pereira soon had another chance to double the lead, but his one-on-one shot was denied by Chan Ka-ho. While the Tangerines searched for an equaliser, their attacks opened up space at the back for quick counter-attacks from the Bees. In the 75th minute, Cheng Siu-kwan found Michael N'dri at the far post, who saw his header hitting the post and onto Wong Yim-kwan. Although his first attempt was blocked by Wang Ruei, he netted his first ever professional goal on the rebound.
The district team responded by gearing up and just one minute later Lee Oi-hin scored from close range to pull one back for Yuen Long, following a cross from Fabio Lopes. | 331 |
WASHINGTON - The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) announces a webinar Delta Checks in Action: An Essential Quality Improvement Tool which takes place on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 2:00pm US Eastern. The webinar will last 60 minutes.
Delta checks have a pivotal role to play in the quality improvement process by comparing current laboratory results to previous results. If there is a discrepancy between the results it could be due to sample error, analytical error or a change in the patient's condition. Whatever the case, the delta check is an essential tool in identifying the issue, prompting further action and ensuring quality results. Many pre-analytical issues cannot be detected by traditional quality control methods, which could lead to the<|fim_middle|> discrepant results, but also to assist in diagnosis. | reporting of erroneous results and without the delta check a significant change in a patient's result would not be flagged. The expert speaker for the webinar is Joely Straseski, PhD, MS, MT (ASCP), Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Co-Medical Director at the Automated Core Laboratory in Salt Lake City, UT. During the webinar, Dr. Straseski will discuss methods to customize delta check limits for the laboratory, how to identify sources of pre-analytical, analytical and biological variation and how they may affect laboratory results, methods to investigate discrepant laboratory results, and the clinical implications of reporting discrepant results. She will also discuss how laboratories are not only using delta checks to identify | 153 |
• Howard returns to the lineup: First baseman Ryan Howard was back in the lineup Saturday against the Arizona Diamondbacks after being benched the previous three games.
Howard's benching has been deemed a mental break by the Phillies, though Sandberg originally described the decision as one that would allow him to get an extended look at Darin Ruf and help the team win games. Even amid his struggles, Sandberg still had Howard batting fourth Saturday.
"He's a guy who drives in runs. It's where I like him," Sandberg said. "I anticipate him having a clean hit and being fresh and having some quality at-bats going forward."
Howard entered Friday's game hitting .<|fim_middle|> Meghan Montemurro at mmontemurro@delawareonline.com and follow on Twitter at @M_Montemurro. | 156 with a .270 on-base percentage in July. He hasn't hit a home run at Citizens Bank Park since June 1, a span on 44 games.
• Sandberg praises Maddux: With his former Chicago Cubs teammate Greg Maddux getting inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, Sandberg fondly recalled their time together.
Sandberg, who played with Maddux on the Cubs from 1986-92, said when he saw Maddux throw a fastball inside to Dave Parker in one of Maddux's first big league starts, he knew the right hander would be a special pitcher.
"I said, wow, this guy busted big Dave Parker inside and then made him look bad the rest of the at-bat," Sandberg said. "I saw right then he had a knack for pitching and he was fearless."
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Canada's first esports stadium to open in Vancouver
by Tarah Bleier
Vancouver-based Myesports Ventures Ltd. announced today via press release that it plans to open Canada's first esports stadium in 20<|fim_middle|> maybe other provinces could see the same thing happen. If you want to check out more information on the Gaming Stadium, head on over to its official site here.
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Rashidat Jimoh | 19. "The Gaming Stadium," a first-of-its-kind esports stadium for the area, will be built in Richmond, British Columbia.
The aim of this venture is to provide a community-driven location for players of all ages and skill levels who will be able to watch and participate year-round. If you live in Vancouver or anywhere in Canada, it sounds worth a trip next year just to check this out.
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"Today is an exciting day for me and the entire team at The Gaming Stadium. We have been working hard to get this off the ground," said CEO Dan Cybak. "Our team is made up of people who have been organizing and participating in tournaments in this city for years. We have built a group that covers all aspects of esports. This facility is truly built by gamers for gamers."
Their focus will not solely be on the pros – they want to harvest tomorrow's talent and are utilizing the space to do that. It's also exciting for Canadian esports fans to have their very own stadium.
"We are focused on more than top-level players or hosting major events. We are aiming to cultivate the next great gamers as we will be holding leagues for all skill levels while also offering coaching for those who want to take their skills to the next level," said COO Matthew Low. "We are going to be the Little League, Junior League and Major League home of all things esports in Vancouver."
Large main gaming stage
Seats up to 250
Gaming area with over 40 setups
Casual area for players to drop in
Broadcasting studio
Food and beverage offerings
This sounds amazing and if it works well in Vancouver, | 357 |
<|fim_middle|> rally for higher wages | Officers wrangle an emu in West Salem, and the feathers were flying!
Officers faced off with a bird that is 6 feet tall, 85 pounds and has vertical leap of 7 feet!
Posted: May 5, 2021 6:51 PM
Updated: May 5, 2021 7:56 PM
by Martha Koloski
WEST SALEM, Wis. (WKBT) Most of us don't necessarily love going to the dentist, but for one La Crosse area woman it was a very entertaining experience Wednesday afternoon.
Kirsten Gamoke saw something running past the window as she sat in the dentist chair at Allen Dental in West Salem.
It was an officer chasing after a very large bird — an emu!
La Crosse County sheriff's deputies and the West Salem police department responded when it was reported an emu was on the loose.
This was no small task. An emu is about 6 feet tall, weighs 85 pounds and can run 30 miles per hour.
But one La Crosse County deputy managed to wrangle this one and, with the help of the Coulee Region Humane Society, returned it to its owner.
Officers confirmed that no handcuffs were used, but they did put a jacket over the big bird's head to try to keep it calm.
The emu's owner said it had escaped from its pen earlier in the day and had traveled about 8 miles before being captured.
It turns out this emu is named "Marilyn" (as in Marilyn Monroe) and is just 14 months old.
The owner says she's doing fine although Marilyn suffered a couple of minor rope burns.
The owners are busy adding another 2 feet to the height of Marilyn's pen to prevent another "feather-flying" incident in the future.
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"Well hang on, that's sort of not right" : family and staff perspectives on 'Cultures of Respect' in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disability.
This study explored how families of adults with intellectual disability who use supported accommodation services and staff understand the concepts of rights, respect, dignity and abuse, and what they look like in practice.
The overall aim of this research was to contribute to improving the quality of life and dignity of people living in shared supported accommodation who are subject to restrictive practices.
This paper examined the utility of the Behavior Support Plan Quality Evaluation Guide II (BSP-QE II) which is used when working with adults with an intellectual disability. It argues that BSP-QE II is an effective tool.
This paper examines the relationships between<|fim_middle|>-mother relationships.
This study investigated the presence and extent of governmental policies and guidelines underpinning disaster management in schools in Australia with respect to meeting needs of vulnerable students with disabilities.
This literature review integrates the core literature on Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and its systemic implementation in organisations.
Presents an annotated bibliography of research on the implementation of Positive Behaviour Support commissioned by the Western Australian Disability Commission.
This study determines support needs in typically developing children. | ageing, caring and intellectual disability. The article describes how dominant discourses associated with eugenics, institutional care and motherhood shape caring and daughter | 29 |
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Rye midfielder named CIS second-team all-star
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By Josh Beneteau
Ryerson men's soccer midfielder Martin Dabrowski was named a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) second-team all-star Wednesday night.
The fourth-year business management student dressed in 11 and appeared in 13 of Ryerson's 16 games this season.
He picked up one goal in the playoffs; the game winner in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) quarterfinal against UOIT.
"It''s a great accomplishment and I'm proud with the year that I had individually," Dabrowski said. "But I would trade any individual award for the chance to be in the<|fim_middle|> weekend in Prince Edward Island.
Dabrowski was one of six Rams named OUA all-stars. Goalkeeper Christian Maraldo, strikers Marko Miketic and Viktor Anastasov, and Dabrowksi were named first-team all-stars. Defenders Josh Kohn and Kyle Stewart were named to the OUA second-team. | national tournament."
The men's soccer team lost last Saturday in the OUA final four semi-final to the McMaster Mauraders. In the process, they missed a chance to qualify for the CIS national championship which is being held this | 45 |
Small Farmers Create Jobs. Here's<|fim_middle|> program awarded $3.6 million in three years to 367 farmers, created 4,100 new jobs, and had an economic impact of more than $733 million.
Why does it work? We believe it's because farmers know their business, know their communities, and have a lot at stake. They already have equipment, buildings, land, and expertise that they can re-purpose. And there's another benefit for rural economies: family farmers don't pick up and move overseas.
The farmers in our program demonstrate that a little assistance can have a big impact. So when it comes down to evaluating the importance of local and regional food systems and the programs that support them, we think jobs are a great place to start. If you want to have a big impact on the economies of rural communities, it's hard to find a better bet than a family farmer.
So next time your local elected representatives start to talk about tax breaks for an incoming multinational or big box store, suggest to them they may want to start looking closer to home. The real job creators live next door—and they are probably driving a John Deere.
Research shows that small investments in local food systems can reap incredible returns, creating jobs and building resilient communities.
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Yesterday I referenced the incredible job creating potential of local foods, using it as a starting point to rant against the nonsense accusations of elitism that are often leveled at the locavore foodie crowd. Those musings went off on some tangents, covering everything from anti-Volt distortions to the tax dodging, job killing mischief of the true elite. But that opening observation is worth a post in itself—because investing in local food really does create an awful lot of jobs.
We already know that investing in farmers' markets creates thousands of jobs, but a blog post over at RAFI-USA [Disclosure: RAFI are a one-time client of mine] reminds us that other types of investment and support for small family farmers can pay extraordinary dividends for the wider community.
Through its Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund (a program that helps tobacco farmers transition to sustainable, diversified agriculture) RAFI has been making small grants—averaging $10,000—to family farmers who are modeling new ways of making a living off their land.
And researchers at University of North Carolina at Greensboro have shown that each grant created an average of 11 new jobs; each dollar spent resulted in $205 new dollars of economic activity in the state within one year; and, in total, the | 264 |
Car paint scratches are not only unsightly, but will drive down the resale value of your vehicle. Neglecting to undertake scratch removal or a chip repair on your car's paintwork can also lead to chronic and escalating rust problems – meaning you could needlessly incur extra, but avoidable, costs in the future.
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Many of the ChipsAway network offer a mobile paint scratch removal and car paint repair service, whilst some operate from fixed-base Car Care Centres. Many of our Centres also offer a collect and return service or courtesy car option.
Booking with ChipsAway will help you save time and avoid the hassle of finding a suitable appointment to fit around. Whether you're at home, work, or even away on holiday, ChipsAway car scratch repair specialists will go the extra mile to make sure our service is centred around you.
During the process, colour matching is undertaken to the manufacturer's original code specification. Therefore, instead of an expensive paint repair across a whole panel, our ChipsAway professionals only need to paint the damaged area.
So whether you need one single car scratch removal, or multiple scuffs repaired and removed, the work can be undertaken in a relatively short amount of time, restoring your car paintwork to pristine quality.
ChipsAway are also specialists in Minor Dents, Alloy Wheel Repair, Bumper Scuffs and Supagard Paint Protection.
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Typically, a ChipsAway car scratch repair will take just a few hours to complete, at a fraction of the cost of using a traditional body shop. Furthermore, all repairs undertaken by ChipsAway | 77 |
Our story began over 30 years ago with a single workshop, nested among the majestic marble mountains of Carrara, Italy. Throughout the decades, our traditional family firm evolved into an innovative, global natural stone supplier, but our values remained simple – quality, dedication and passion are present in everything we do.
At Stal<|fim_middle|> can meet international standards and tight deadlines every time without compromising traditional Italian craftsmanship.
Praised by a wide range of customers, including members of royal families in Qatar and Dubai, we have a rock-solid confidence in our ability to take on any project: from modest to monumental.
We thrive on discussing new project and will be delighted to advise you no commitment. Don't hesitate to get in touch with one of our stone experts today. | gi, we believe in materials and relationships built to last. As highest quality, natural stones will last a lifetime, we don't hesitate to dedicate the time necessary to assist our clients. Offering personalized solutions that meet the budget, we're looking beyond mere practicalities, seeking to bring clients ingenious and unconventional ideas and contribute to the creation process. Whether it's subtle a stone finish to set the stage for other features, or a dramatic "showrunner" stone to act as a focal point of the project, we've learned that skilfully selected stones have a unique power to bring architecture to life.
Our genuine appreciation for natural stones and utmost dedication to every single client can be measured with our diverse portfolio of complex and sophisticated projects such as hotels, residential housing, shopping malls and airports.
With a demanding clientele spanning four continents, we perfected our delivery process to ensure we | 173 |
While they may not be our favourite items, most people find bathroom scales a handy way to keep track of their weight. Traditional mechanical scales are perfectly adequate for this purpose, but they are no longer the only choice on the market. Anyone looking to invest in a new set of scales now has many other options available to them.
Scales fall into three broad categories: mechanical, digital, and smart scales (often referred to as body fat analyser scales).
Mechanical scales are traditional scales with a needle and dial display. They require no batteries, and usually have both imperial (stones and pounds) and metric (kilograms) units on their display. Plastic versions can be found very cheaply, with more expensive metal designs also available.
They'll need to be set manually to zero, and aren't as<|fim_middle|> the foot pads you may get inaccurate readings.
Make sure your scales are suitable for where they'll be used, also. As they're commonly kept in the bathroom, it's worth making sure that your scales are resistant to humidity. | accurate as the other types of scales, but can be a good option for someone who just wants to keep a casual eye on their weight.
Digital scales are far more accurate than mechanical scales, often displaying fractions of pounds or decimal points of kilograms, and automatically zero themselves every time they're turned on.
Their displays are generally much easier to read than mechanical scales, and in addition many models have the ability to store users' details in their memory, enabling everyone in the household to keep track of their weight more easily. You will also be able to choose whether to have the display in metric or imperial units.
Smart scales offer a whole range of different functions, and can run from £15 up to £200. The body fat analyser works by sending a mild electric pulse through the body (this is perfectly safe, but not recommended for use by individuals with internal electronic devices such as pacemakers or who are pregnant). The electrical current moves more slowly through fatty tissue, more quickly through lean, and gives the reading in terms of body fat percentage.
Some models with also tell you your lean body mass, body water percentage, BMI, and even bone density. For accuracy, you'll need to enter details such as your height and gender, which can be stored as a user profile.
More advanced smart scales, such as the Garmin and Fitbit models, also offer WiFi integration with the relevant smart phone apps, and can be used to track progress in fitness programs.
Above all other features, good scales should be sturdy and easy to use – no one wants to have to replace them on a regular basis. With the wide range of scales available, you'll certainly be able to find ones that will suit your intended usage, but also consider where they'll fit and who'll be using them. Small scales with a tiny display are no good if you can't see the numbers, and if you can't step fully on | 386 |
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Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD., is a leader in research<|fim_middle|> at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of over 60 academic papers on medical decision making. She is CEO of CureMyWay, an international health consulting firm whose clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Samsung. She lives in Jerusalem.
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Engineering and Applied Science Advisory Council
To advise, guide and facilitate the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University; to excel and lead in educating engineers, researching, developing and disseminating existing and new engineering know-how; and to enable the<|fim_middle|> consist of the Chair, the Vice-Chair, the Past Chair, the Dean and an Associate Dean. The Chair of the Advisory Council shall be Chair of the Executive Committee.
5. The Advisory Council may delegate its responsibilities to the Executive Committee but any recommendations made by the latter shall be subject to ratification by the Council.
6. The Council shall meet at least once annually at the call of the Chair to consider matters brought before it by the Dean or other members of the Council.
7. The Council shall be concerned with any matters related to the interface of the Faculty with the industrial community and the private sector, including but not limited to:
a) review of plans for new developments;
b) exchange of scientific and engineering information;
c) professional development of faculty members;
d) professional development programs for industry;
e) research and development activity;
f) cooperative engineering education;
g) participation of practicing engineers as teachers in University programs;
h) transfer of research outcomes to industry (including product development and commercialization);
i) evaluation of program content as it relates to the future demands of the profession;
j) educational and market research related to recruitment and retention of undergraduate and graduate students and to evaluation of programs by former students;
k) funding plans for excellence;
l) employment opportunities for engineering graduates.
8. The Dean shall present to the Advisory Council a written annual report highlighting the accomplishments of the Faculty, and plans for future development.
9. The Chair of the Council shall present to the Dean a written annual report of the activities and recommendations of the Council. A copy of the report will be sent to the President and the Faculty Council of Engineering and Applied Science.
10. The membership and duties and responsibilities of the Advisory Council shall be reviewed by the Council at regular intervals.
1 Industry includes government departments and agencies, and professional engineering organizations as well as private industry.
2 It is understood that the Dean will consult with members of the Faculty and members of the Advisory
3 Within the last 10 years at the time initially appointed.
4 Engineering and Applied Science Advisory Council.
| Last Updated: Dec 4, 2018 | Faculty to achieve recognition as an Aengine@ in the economies of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canada.
1. The Memorial University of Newfoundland Engineering and Applied Science Council is constituted by the University President for the purpose of advising the Faculty Council. It is intended that the Advisory Council provide an independent voice on the direction of Faculty.
2. The Council shall consist of members appointed by the President as follows:
a) At least twelve (12) industry1 and private sector representatives on the basis of four-year staggered terms as recommended by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science2.
b) Two (2) recent graduates3, one male and one female, on the basis of four-year staggered terms as recommended by members of EASAC4.
c) Ten (13) members ex-officio:
Past Chair of the Council (1)
Vice-President (Academic) (1)
Dean of the Faculty (1)
Associate Deans of the Faculty (2)
Discipline Chairs (4)
Program Manager B Engineering Cooperative Education (1)
President of C-CORE
Director General of IMD
President and CEO of Genesis
3. The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Council shall each be appointed for a three-year term by the President of Memorial University of Newfoundland.
4. The Advisory Council may establish an Executive Committee with membership to | 273 |
Seeing the Homeless
By NYO Staff • 04/08/02 12:00am
It's hard to believe, but there are more homeless people in New York<|fim_middle|> California's Homeless Crisis Grew Obscenely Out of Control | today than there were in the 1980's-a time that many New Yorkers associate with armies of poor people living in cardboard boxes or sprawled on the sidewalk. In the 1990's, the city was as prosperous as it has ever been, and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's quality-of-life campaign seemed to banish aggressive panhandlers and homeless drug abusers from the streets. But now it's clear that while the homeless population disappeared, it did not go away.
Today in New York, more than 13,000 children are homeless. A recent story in The New York Times Magazine noted that about 32,000 people used the city's homeless shelters in February, and that number would have been higher still if February hadn't been so mild. That's a 23 percent increase from 2001, and it's well above the 28,737 people who used the shelters in 1987.
The difference is not just the numbers, but the kind of people who are forced to rely on the government for emergency housing. Fewer single people are homeless today; families account for 75 percent of 2002's homeless population.
That's a terrible statistic, all the more shocking because so many of us have given little thought to the homeless ever since Mr. Giuliani made life on the streets even less comfortable than it had been. Mr. Giuliani cracked down on the proverbial squeegee men and those who made begging a contact sport, while the economy over which he presided no doubt helped many homeless people find jobs and stability. But now we're reminded that the lives of thousands of New York children remain a hellish, Dickensian journey through the city's shelter system: post-midnight shuttles to shelters designed for discomfort, and rude awakenings before dawn.
All of this should serve to remind us of two unpleasant but undeniable truths. Homeless people are still with us, even if they no longer seem so ubiquitous. And most of them are not adult male panhandlers, but children born into struggling families.
Making their lives easier is no small task, but first we have to acknowledge that they exist, and they are suffering.
Lori Berenson: A New Yorker in Prison
Lori Berenson could be the daughter of any well-educated, well-meaning New York City parents. Raised by two college professors, she lived in Manhattan, took violin lessons at age 8, and went on to attend the La Guardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became interested in political science, particularly as it related to Latin America. She took time off from college to live in El Salvador and wrote long, colorful letters home describing the people and the culture. In short, she was like many young, idealistic women and men in New York, who have the benefit of supportive parents and an education that allows them to explore their intellectual passions. But as the world knows, Ms. Berenson's passions led her to become entangled in some way with rebels in Peru, which led to her arrest in 1995 and her current sentence of 20 years in a Peruvian prison cell. Even if she was in fact guilty of helping the rebels try to take over that country's Congress, her sentence is far too harsh. She is surely no threat to Peru's future. The U.S. government needs to do more to press for her release.
During his recent trip to Peru, President George Bush didn't bother to ask for clemency for Ms. Berenson, and the Peruvian government has declared the matter closed. But were Ms. Berenson anyone else-say, a conservative 32-year-old American instead of a liberal 32-year-old American-is there any doubt that Mr. Bush would have raised hell to win her release? Why is the President suddenly so shy about waving the American flag?
At the most, Lori Berenson is guilty of terrible misjudgment, of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. She's already suffered for over six years in prison, much of that time in bitterly cold, unheated concrete cells, with inadequate medical treatment and isolation from other prisoners, not to mention her own family.
An international commission is reviewing Ms. Berenson's case, but without strong American backup, it's doubtful the Peruvian government will take action. In the meantime, in the absence of any leadership or compassion from President Bush, New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton and Governor George Pataki must apply public pressure to the White House, and do all they can to make sure that a daughter of New York comes home.
TV Is Toxic for Teens
Is TV bad for you? Reports about television's negative effects on young minds are often viewed with skepticism, since the authors of such reports have tended to be affiliated with this or that right-wing organization with a moralistic agenda. But that's not the case with a remarkable new study, just published in the journal Science, which has found that teenagers and young adults who watch more than one hour of television a day are more likely to commit violent crimes. What is particularly striking is that it didn't matter if the content of the programs was violent-watching any TV for seven hours a week or more led to a greater likelihood that a young adult would indulge in criminal and aggressive behavior.
This is no fly-by-night study: The researchers, led by Dr. Jeffrey Johnson of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, have been watching the children and adolescents for 17 years. They came upon the TV data almost by accident-the focus of their research was how parental neglect, low income and family stress affect one's long-term mental health.
While there exists a fairly reliable body of data suggesting that young children suffer negative affects from violent TV shows, this is the first study showing that the character of teens and young adults is still malleable enough to be corrupted by TV viewing. It's no secret that American adolescents spend more time in front of a TV than in conversation with a parent or even in school, especially in this era of two working parents. And when the parents do get home, the whole family often gathers around the TV, with the parents rationalizing this lazy behavior by saying it's something they're doing "as a family." But the new research suggests that television is as harmful as alcohol, cigarettes and even drugs, and that the country's parents and programmers are unwittingly creating a new criminal class of violent young adults.
Just as the federal government has a responsibility to regulate or outlaw cigarettes, booze and narcotics, it must find a way to limit the violent content of television programming. Meanwhile, parents need to wake up and take responsibility for keeping their kids and teens mentally healthy by keeping them away from television.
Filed Under: Politics, News & Politics, Editorials, Lori Berenson
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Ominous Ruin - Official Website
Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Label: Willowtip Records
Genre: Brutal, Death, Technical
1. Ritual
2. Attuned To The Chasm
3. Deception
4. Chrysalis Of Flesh
5. A Feast For Shadows
6. Labyrinthine Torment
7. Consumed
8. Simulacra
9. Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone by Ominous Ruin
Review by Nathan on January 18, 2021.
You have no idea how long I have been waiting for an album like this.<|fim_middle|> adds a wonderful extra component, and Mitch Yoesle is no slouch - check out 'Simulacra' for a real showcase of what this guy can do. Even outside of that song, there are many times where I'm saying "holy hell this guy is amazing, how is not more known" to myself, and I gotta say they pick the right moments to let him take center stage. It's not on every track, but it's enough that its presence is felt.
Really, that's kind of a theme for the album - every musician has me saying "why are these guys not more known". Whether it's the choppy, varied vocals that have the speed to keep up with the riffs and occasionally verge on Archspire territory or the creative, ever-changing drumwork that never lets up on the intensity but still feels big and spacious, there is talent oozing out of every pore of this. The ridiculous musical prowess present combined with songs that jam all the best features of those abilities into songs that don't take two or three listens to fully grasp, but still have more than enough going on in them for some serious reply value. There's more than enough variety, with some songs even verging on the longer side and adding more vacuous atmospheres without losing that salad-shooter, "crazy riffs that are catchy for two seconds until the next riff obliterates them" feel.
Ominous Ruin is the punch in the gut that tech-death needs right now. Most of the genre right now is focused on dizzying dissonance a la Imperial Triumphant or more atmospherically-inclined virtuosity like Fallujah and Myth of I, and it's making for a critical shortage of big, brutal riffs and sick sweeps - tech death the way Deeds of Flesh always imagined it.
Rating: 8.7 out of 10 | If there's one trend that I desperately wish lasted longer, it's mid-2000s California tech death. For a few short years it felt like there was something in the water that made the ability to sweep pick remarkably easy (in addition to making later-era Death make sense), and Deeds of Flesh spearheading Unique Leader helped to bring bands like Decrepit Birth, Odious Mortem and Severed Savior into the forefront of death metal. Those three bands released albums in the mid 2000s that have a certain boundless energy to them, a freedom that could only be harnessed back when "technical death metal" was more of a buzzword than an actual codified subgenre.
Diminishing Between Worlds, Cryptic Implosion, and Servile Insurrection and a couple others all came out of that region and time period, and even as more and more guitarists with absurd technical capabilities begin to pop up and those three bands either added extra elements to the template in their later work (or just split up in the case of Severed Savior), that short little while when the style was the hot topic birthed a few albums that absolutely smoked in a very different way. Because tech-death as a whole shifted to incorporating more progressive, ambient elements to balance out the hyperspeed spider fingers, the Californian style fell out of favor a bit. The modern bands that did carry the tech torch such as Archspire, Wormhole and First Fragment took things in a more slam-infused and/or neoclassical direction. But then, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone drops and suddenly it's 2007 all over again and I'm getting absolutely dicked by tapping riffs nonstop.
This album is a great example of execution over innovation. Ominous Ruin are very representative of the region and scene they come out of - there's half a dozen bands in their area alone that are in the same sonic ballpark as them. However, because the performances from every single musician are on point, the lack of originality does not in any way affect the quality of the end result. They did tweak the formula a bit - the polished bass tone is something that was more a part of tech-death after Beyond Creation came on the scene, but it | 465 |
We have just passed the summer equinox and had the longest day of<|fim_middle|> to the natural world and can bask in the light that illuminates our inner and outer world. | the year. We are enjoying the fullness of summer. What does that mean and what are supposed to do with this season of light?
It is a time to connect socially with many family gatherings, weddings and parties scheduled during the warmer weather. For those that suffer from SAD, seasonal affective disorder, it is a relief to bask in the sun's warm glow.
As George Gershwin wrote, "Summertime and the living is easy." This is also a time to enjoy the fruits of our labor and take time to rest and relax. The literal fresh fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, etc. are ripening and bring their rich color and flavor to our tables.
Summer is prime time to vacation and enjoy a book, go for a hike in the woods or nap in a hammock.
There is another way to think about the summer season. It can relate to Joseph Campbell work about the hero's journey. It talks about mythic heroes and also has ways of relating to our life's journey to become our own hero.
This journey begins by leaving home. This first step correlates with the season of fall. Then the hero goes through an ordeal where he/she gains insight or wisdom. This part is associated with winter. Then the hero returns home, in the spring and shares this hard-fought wisdom with his/her community. The season of summer is about that fallow time where the hero enjoys those fruits of his/her accomplishments and rests.
So, as the end of summer approaches you can begin to feel restless. Time to get back to school or get the Seahawks season underway. Enough with this idleness already! This is the "Call to adventure" which compels you to start taking action and begin a journey of self discovery.
The challenge is not to hold onto the diversions of the summer. And there is a kind of grief in seeing the summer season depart. As the days shorten it is important to remember that the warmth of the sun will be back. Time to recall the travel, friends and fun times. The goal for us is about balance and living in the moment: Taking in the glory of a summer morning where the air is cool and on the edge of heat, to enjoy the tantalizing experience of jumping into a cool lake on a sunny day and seeking out the pleasures of a good book in the cool shade beneath a leafy tree.
We live in a work driven culture which means we are driven to continually do. We can take the time to have the experience of immersing ourselves in the natural world to find a new way of connecting to ourselves. We can allow ourselves to "be" and revel in the softness and ease summer can provide.
By living in better balance between being and doing you can find more of that place of peace and calm we all desire. Summer as a metaphor of the good season. A season where we are more connected | 583 |
December 7, 2020 10:25am PT
TV Ratings: Dolly Parton Christmas Special Draws Over 6 Million Viewers to CBS
By Will Thorne
Courtesy of CBS
CBS had "A Holly Dolly Christmas" with Dolly Parton last night.
The singer's holiday special delivered around 6.2 million viewers and a 0.7 average rating among adults 18-49, a decent result for the network, especially considering it was up against "Sunday Night Football." Later on, "NCIS: Los Angeles" scored a 0.4 rating and around 4.2 million viewers.
A tight, yet not particularly thrilling game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos delivered a 3.8 rating and just over 14 million total viewers for NBC. Those figures are subject to adjustment later in the day once more accurate measurement become available. The game itself ended in a 22-16 victory for the defending Super Bowl champions.
Over on ABC, "Supermarket Sweep" led the way with a 0.6 rating and 2.8 million total viewers, even on last week. Fellow game shows "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" with Jimmy Kimmel and "Card Sharks" with Joel McHale both ticked up from their previous episodes. The former scored a 0.5 rating and 2.9 million viewers, the latter a 0.3 and 1.8 million. "America's Funniest Home Videos" kicked off Sunday night with a 0.6 and 4.7 million viewers.
Fox<|fim_middle|>2021 PMC. All rights reserved. | was led by "Family Guy," which scored highest in its Animation Domination lineup at a 0.6 rating and 1.4 million viewers. "The Simpsons" and "Bob's Burgers" both delivered a 0.5 rating (the former draw 1.6 million viewers, the latter 1.2 million). "Bless the Harts" scored lowest once again with a 0.4 and 1.1 million viewers.
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Univision and Telemundo both averaged a 0.3 rating across the night and around 900,000 viewers each.
"Pandora," "Local" and "The Outpost" all came in at a 0.1 rating for the CW.
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'Mad' Max Gradel Points Bamba to Home Comforts at Elland Road – by Rob Atkinson
Striking success – Gradel scores his second for Leeds against QPR
By common consent, one vital ingredient missing from the Leeds United recipe over recent years has been a class act on the wing. Somebody exciting, with the gift of pace and the trickery to go past people as if they were not there. Somebody with a goal or two in him; someone to terrify the opposition. Such a man was and is Mad Maxi Gradel, a raw talent when he was foolishly discarded by Leicester City, but a talent that blossomed – and how – at Elland Road.
Now, even after a few years away from Leeds, Mad Max is demonstrating that he still has deep feelings for the club where he strutted his stuff briefly, but to such effect. The Ivorian international, it's been revealed, texted his countryman Sol Bamba – another former Leicester man – and recommended the Leeds move to the huge defender. "He text me two days ago and said he'd heard about my move and he was happy," said Bamba. "He said I will love it here. He said the fans will be good with me if I do the business. He told me all the good things about the club and that gives me even more positive things about the club. He said only good things. I'm happy to be here and I cannot wait to get started."
Could such enthusiasm for our beloved Leeds hold out any hope that we may yet see Gradel himself back in a United shirt? Maxi's return to LS11 has been mooted many a time and oft, but for various reasons it's never quite happened up to press. That's surely not to say that the player wouldn't be up for it, though. The feeling during Maxi's too-brief time at Leeds was that he formed a strong attachment to the club and to the fans. This was despite his occasional red-mist moments – notably of course the one that so nearly upset United's promotion clincher at home to Bristol Rovers back in 2010. Leeds fans have always been partial to the presence of a certifiable nutter in the team – but it's probable that tolerance would have snapped had Gradel's insane reaction and sending-off cost his team dear that day. Happily, as we know, it all came right – and Max survived to demonstrate that he was a force in the Championship during Leeds' first season back, when we briefly threatened to charge through the second tier and into the top flight at the first time of asking.
Sadly, the executive management of the club was deeply flawed at that time, and a succession of managers found themselves hamstrung by the dodgy policies of the bearded menace in the boardroom. Gradel was one casualty of a bizarre transfer ethos which seemed to identify any player with real potential to take the club forward as a priority sale item. We lost a lot of good players, and the best we have done since, really, is tread water in the Championship – nowhere near good enough for a club like Leeds.
Now, current crises notwithstanding, there may be a glimmer of light at the end of a long tunnel – certainly as far as player recruitment goes. The club has managed to secure the services of some genuinely exciting players, without (so far) revisiting the past – although there have always been calls for the likes of Beckford, Snoddy and even Howson to return and fulfil their destiny at Elland Road. The Cellino policy (when he has been allowed to get on with his running of the club) has been to seek out good prospects at the right price, supplementing the signings with an injection of talent from the youth and development squads. Against this background, the re-signing of Gradel would buck the trend somewhat – then again, trends are there to be bucked.
The difference with Gradel is that you feel he needs to be at a club where he's loved and believed in; he seemed a player who would give of his best most reliably with a vociferous crowd behind him to light the blue touch paper. For this reason above all, the feeling at Life, Leeds United, the Universe & Everything is that – if there is just one past player Leeds should be looking at re-engaging, then Mad Max Gradel is that man. His ability and pace out wide – something still notably absent in this group – could open up new dimensions for the likes of Sharp, Antenucci, even Doukara and – as we fondly remember – he had a hell of a finish on him as and when he got a sight of the target. His goals against Notts Forest in a pulsating victory at Elland Road (the one where TV commentators tried to excuse a two-footed challenge by a Florist player to claim he shouldn't have been sent off) will stay long in the memory. The feeling was that Max loved Leeds and that Leeds loved Max – why shouldn't such a reciprocal passion be re-ignited?
Allowing for whatever may yet happen in the remainder of this window, a move for Gradel could kick-start a survival push this season. It's a season that few really expected to bring concrete rewards – although you had hopes. But even as part of a rescue mission for a squad that could challenge more confidently next time around, the addition of Max would be an exciting and potentially productive development. As far as this blog is concerned, he would be the top choice should Leeds after all look to bring back just one old favourite.
Maxi for Leeds – yes please. Let's have a bit of Gradel madness for the rest of this turbulent season.
Posted in Football, Leeds United
Tagged Embargo, Ken Bates, Leeds United, Massimo Cellino, Max Gradel, Neil Redfearn, St. Etienne, transfer window
Cantona Kung Fu Anniversary Evokes Memories of Eric's English Bow – by Rob Atkinson
Look back in anger: Eric enters the fray
One notable landmark this weekend was the 20th anniversary, yesterday, of Eric Cantona's infamous kung-fu kick at Selhurst Park – the original and definitive case, it has been said, of the shit hitting the fan. It took me straight back, not to that martial arts debacle, but over two years earlier to February 8th, 1992 and a Leeds United match I'd attended in the hopes of seeing us make another stride towards becoming champions of England. The venue was Boundary Park, Oldham and the occasion was the day that enfant terrible Cantona made his bow in Football League, Division One.
It was a day of significance for Leeds United and, in a broader sense, for English football as a whole. Cantona would shine briefly and fitfully at Leeds, winning an authentic League Championship medal with United before going on to collect several pale imitations on the wrong side of the Pennines. But on that day of his début, all of the triumphs and controversies of his English career lay unsuspected in the future. Despite the clamorous press attention – and the spectacle of the excited French hacks and cameramen clustering around the United bench was highly unusual, to say the least – this was an inauspicious start for the mercurial Frenchman. Leeds lost 2-0 to a goal in each half from an Oldham side that usually gave us problems. We witnessed proceedings glumly from the open end behind the goal and Cantona's introduction as a second-half sub for Steve Hodge did not greatly influence the scrappy nature of the game.
Eric the Champ
It says a lot that one of my clearest memories from that game is not of Eric's bow, but of a lethally noisome fart released by somebody in the tightly-packed mass of Leeds fans. It was a minor masterpiece, rank and ripe – it made you think of condemned cheese stacked in a neglected pig-pen, and it<|fim_middle|> made for each other, but not in a particularly good way. They naturally set about "imagifying" him as is always their wont, intent on marketing him to their credulous and glory-hungry fans as "moody and magnifique". So we got the trademark stubble and the turned-up collar – but Eric's behaviour also changed, markedly for the worse, accumulating a flurry of red and yellow cards in stark contrast to his time with Leeds – and culminating in that notorious "kung-fu" incident. But even that wasn't the worst of it, not from a Leeds United point of view.
Whilst I acknowledge the Man U truism that club and player had matching conceit and arrogance such that they belonged together, I still feel that Leeds let Eric go far too cheaply – a huge and unforgivable mistake. Man U were desperate for a striker at the time and had done their best to prise David Hirst from Sheffield Wednesday. They'd been prepared to go to £5m for him, and it's to Wednesday's credit that they told Taggart where to stick his money. But really, that offer should have set the benchmark; Leeds United should have opened negotiations at £5 million and seen what happened from there. They'd have paid up, or gone elsewhere. Either would have been preferable to what actually happened, for in letting Cantona go to Man U on the cheap, Leeds provided a catalyst for the sickening era of Devonian dominance that followed. That's a terrible, terrible thing for any club to have on its conscience.
Twenty-three years on, that dominance seems finally to be at an end. Cantona actually lasted only four years or so in England, departing the scene with some proper silver and plenty of fools' gold. He has since made a career of sorts in films and adverts, having considerably less impact than United's other footballer-turned-movie star, Vinnie Jones. It all seems such a terribly long time ago now, and for far too much of the period in between the game was in thrall to a choleric Glaswegian who bullied his way, aided initially by his talismanic Eric le Dieu, to far too much success for the liking of any real football fan. Strange to think, it all started on that blustery and smelly afternoon in Oldham, when we were all innocently wondering if this new foreign star could salvage a point for us, and maybe even help us win the last proper League Championship. At least, in the final analysis of that last pre-Murdoch season, it all came right in the end.
The verdict of history on the Cantona move from Leeds, to what is now seen as his spiritual home, has to be that it was the ultimate betrayal of supporters by their club. Leeds United and the men behind the deal were derelict in their duty towards passionately involved fans, both for sanctioning the move in the first place and for failing to extort a far higher price from a club desperately searching for some devil up front. It was a crass piece of business that showed a want of empathy with fans, a lack of the vision that separates devotees from mere functionaries and businessmen.
A few years later, United refused to sell Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink to a rival English club and held out for a six-fold profit in Spanish doubloons into the bargain. That was more like it, surely. Had Leeds United chosen to up the ante when Man U came a-calling at the Champions' door, it's doubtful that the path of history would have been altered much, if at all. But at least we might have salvaged some precious self-respect from the whole sorry situation – and we'd have been better-placed to laugh at the beginning of the end that night when Eric sailed studs-first into the crowd. Just imagine – if he'd done that whilst at Leeds…
Tagged enfant terrible, Eric Cantona, France, Hollywood, Kung-fu, Leeds United, Manchester United F.C.
The Top Three Leeds United Transfer Rumours Ever – by Rob Atkinson
Well, another transfer window is flapping wide open in LS11 just as it is in less crisis-torn football outposts and, embargo notwithstanding, a couple of Serie A fringe performers have breezed into Elland Road and signed for Leeds. Possibly there are more to come, maybe an outgoing or two as well. It's certainly different, in a good way too, from some of the depressingly inert United transfer markets of the unlamented Bates era – but it hardly compares with the wheeling and dealing we did in more halcyon days. And, if anything, some of the rumours that never came to fruition down the years were more exciting and entertaining than certain signings that actually did happen (take a bow, Messrs. Sharpe & Brolin).
There have been so many players linked with transfers to Leeds United over our chequered history and, in the nature of these things, only a small proportion ever actually pulled on the famous white shirt. Of those who never arrived, it would probably be easy to name at least two world-class International sides comprising players who were rumoured to be signing for United, but missed out on that pinnacle of honours and finished their careers tragically unfulfilled – apart from the odd cartload of silverware. The likes of Tomáš Skuhravý, Rainer Bonhof, Peter Shilton, Trevor Francis and even Dean Saunders have all, at one time or another, been tipped as Leeds United players, only to remain trapped in dreadful anonymity at the likes of Liverpool, Bayern Munich or Nottingham Forest. Here – in time-honoured reverse order – are my top three exciting but unrealised rumours – you may well have candidates of your own, so please feel free to comment.
3. Duncan Ferguson
In 1994, it really did look as though this one might happen. The wonderfully talented if ever so slightly thuggish Scottish striker, looking to move south to England from then mighty Rangers FC, seemed nailed-on for a transfer to Leeds in the region of £4million, but ended up at Everton where he prospered before moving on to Newcastle. Ferguson had a bit of a "reputation" on and off the field as a nutter – in fact he did time in Barlinnie for over-generous use of that nut in a dispute with Raith Rovers defender John McStay. A little prone to over-exuberance when he'd had a drop or two (he was known as Drunken Ferguson or alternatively Duncan Disorderly) he had previous convictions for nutting a policeman and punching and kicking a supporter on crutches. Nice.
2. Peter Beardsley
This was one of those "definitely happening, mark my words and get your money on it" rumours that you'd have so loved to be true. Beardsley was a wonderful player, class, poise and jinking speed all rolled into one dynamite package of energy and skill. I'd first noticed him in rather abbreviated TV highlights of a Cup game he played for Carlisle United, when he stood out as the real deal among a load of dross. After a spell in Vancouver, he moved briefly to Man U – but the other thing about Beardsley was that he was such a nice, modest guy – not really the type of player for the Theatre of Hollow Myths at all. Leeds could have signed him whilst he was at Vancouver – Peter Lorimer recommended that they do just that – but we couldn't raise the cash (some things never change). Beardsley made his name at Newcastle, in the same side as a veteran Kevin Keegan and emerging Chris Waddle. From there, a big money move to Liverpool, and it was whilst unaccountably out of favour at Anfield that the Leeds rumour surfaced again – he was buying a house locally, he'd been seen at Elland Road – there really did seem to be something in it. Sadly, Beardsley was The One Who Got Away – Twice. A great shame, as any club would have been improved by the addition of Beardsley, a phenomenal talent you could have built a team around.
1. Diego Maradona
Surely the craziest rumour ever, bar none. In 1987, Leeds had just missed out, under Billy Bremner, on an FA Cup Final and promotion to the top flight in the first-ever play-offs. We were doomed to a hangover season in 87-88 and the fans' mood and expectations were dulled. Then sensational whispers emerged that managing director Bill Fotherby, a larger-than-life used-car-salesman of a bloke, had managed to persuade the agent of Diego Armando Maradona to enter into talks with Leeds United over the proposed signing of the Argentine superstar. This was only just a year after Maradona had just about single-handedly (geddit?) won the World Cup for the Argies, and his stock could hardly have been higher on the global football scene. Strangely, he had very nearly signed for Sheffield United as a youngster, and for a measly £250,000 at that. The Blunts got Alejandro Sabella instead, who actually did end up briefly at Elland Road. But Maradona was different – astoundingly different to just about anyone else – people compared him favourably to Pele. He was even compared – unfavourably, and by the ever modest and unassuming George Best himself – to self-proclaimed greatest player ever, G. Best. It was a signing that was never going to happen, and surely the Number One Daft Rumour of all time.
It's tempting to wonder how the history of Leeds United might have differed if we'd signed Trevor Francis and Peter Shilton in 1974, or Peter Beardsley in 1990, or even the "Hand of God" himself in 1987. The story of any major club is littered with "what ifs" and this certainly applies to our beloved Leeds. Of course our sights are set lower these days – although we're now roughly about where we were in '87 when an enterprising director started that Diego rumour, with a view to putting us back on the map.
Perhaps somebody in the Elland Road corridors of power will try to get the excitement going this time around with an audacious loan-with-a-view-to-permanent swoop for the undeniably promising prospect Lionel Messi? Watch this space…
Tagged Argentina, Beardsley, Duncan Ferguson, Everton FC, Leeds United, Liverpool FC, Maradona, Newcastle United, Rangers FC, transfers, UK Football
All in Good Leeds Fun: a Short "Man U Joke" Compendium – by Rob Atkinson
Too much serious stuff is bad for a blog. So let's have some good, healthy anti-scum humour:
A Leeds United fan was digging at the bottom of his garden, and he unearths an old green bottle. As it's very dirty from being in the ground, and because it looks old and possibly valuable, he gets a rag and starts to rub it clean. All of a sudden, there's a big cloud of smoke from the neck of the bottle, and out pops this great big Genie.
"Greetings!" says the Genie. "As you have summoned me, I must grant you three wishes."
"Great!" says the Leeds fan. "Can I make my wishes now?"
"You may," says the Genie, "But be warned: anything you wish for, every Man Utd fan in the world will receive, but twofold. So if you wish for a million pounds, every Man U fan gets 2 million, if you ask for a mansion, they all get two mansions, and so on."
"Hmmmm," says the Leeds fan. "Well, that's a bit of a downer, but what the heck – I'm not petty. If I'm getting three wishes, I don't care if they all get double."
"Very well," says the Genie. "Make your first wish!"
"I wish for £10 million in my bank account." says the Leeds fan.
"Granted!!" says the Genie. "But remember, that means every Man U fan gets £20 million."
"That's OK, good luck to them," the Leeds fan smiles. "My second wish is for a 25 bedroom mansion in 40 acres of parkland with a lake with an island in it, and all furnished with no regard for expense."
"Your wish is granted," says the Genie, "But remember…"
"I know, I know – all the scummers get two mansions, that's fine!" says the Leeds fan. "Can I make my third and final wish?"
"You may," says the Genie. "Just remember the 'Double' rule."
"I've remembered," says the Leeds United fan. "For my third wish, I would like to donate a kidney."
A Leeds-supporting white van driver used to amuse himself by running over every man u fan he would see strutting down the side of the road, dressed in their hideous red colours. He would swerve to hit them and there would be a loud "THUMP" and then he would swerve back onto the road.
One day, as the driver was driving along, he saw a priest hitch-hiking. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the van over. He asked the Priest, "Where are you going, Father?"
"I'm going to say mass at St. Joseph's church, about two miles down the road," replied the priest.
"No problem Father! I'll give you a lift. Climb in!"
The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the van continued down the road. Suddenly the driver saw a man u fan walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. But, just in time, he remembered the bloody priest, so at the last minute he swerved back to the road, narrowly missing the man.
However, even though he was certain he'd missed the glory-hunting specimen, he still heard a loud "THUD". Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn't see anything he turned to the priest and said, "I'm sorry Father, I almost hit that man u fan, just swerved to miss him!"
"Never fear, my son," replied the priest. "I got the bugger with the door…"
Q: What has Old Trafford on a Saturday afternoon at 4:45 pm got in common with Wormwood Scrubs Prison?
A: They are both full of cockneys trying to get out.
A man u fan dies on match day and goes to heaven in his man u shirt. He knocks on the old pearly gates and out walks St. Peter wearing a Leeds United top.
"Hello mate," says St. Peter, "I'm sorry, no man u fans in heaven."
"What?" exclaims the man, astonished.
"You heard, no man u fans."
"But, but, but….. I've been a good man," replies the aghast man u supporter.
"Oh really," says St. Peter. "What have you done, then?"
"Well," said the guy, "Three weeks before I died, I gave £10 to the starving children in Africa."
"Oh," says St. Peter. "Anything else?"
"Well, two weeks before I died, I also gave £10 to the homeless."
"Hmmm. Anything else?"
"Yeah. A week before I died I gave another £10 to the Albanian orphans."
"Okay," said St. Peter, "You wait here a minute while I have a word with the governor."
Ten minutes pass before St. Peter returns. He looks the bloke in the eye and says, "I've had a word with God – actually, He lets me call him Don. Anyway, He agrees with me. Here's your thirty quid back – now bugger off."
Top tip for Manchester United fans: don't waste money on expensive new kits every season. Simply strap an inflatable penis to your forehead, and everyone will immediately know which team you support…
Please feel free to contribute your own anti-scum jokes in the comments to this article. Times are hard and friends are few – it's our solemn duty to laugh at the scum.
DOH!!!!
Tagged bottle, genie, Humour, joke, kidney, Leeds United, Manchester United | also had you sincerely worrying for the perpetrator's health. "Christ, fetch the medics!" a plaintive voice was heard to demand, drawing nods of sympathy from fellow sufferers whose eyes were watering as their nostrils tried to run away. To cause that kind of stench on an open terrace in blustery Lancastrian conditions was a notable feat. No slouch in that field of endeavour myself, I could only shake my head in awe and wonderment. I would have been rightly proud of that one.
That Cantona's entry into English football should be marked by the memory of a fart seems somehow appropriate now. Mention his name to any Leeds fan, and their nose will wrinkle with involuntary disgust; it's as if the ghost of that legendary flatulent outburst is still summoned by the memory of Eric's bitter-sweet time with Leeds.
Eric was not, after all, a taste instantly acquired. Thinking back, the English press were not initially that impressed at all. They would refer to him as "Contonaah", emphasising his relative obscurity outside of France, and I remember one radio summariser reporting on his contribution in a 1-1 draw at Everton: "He doesn't seem to jump his height or pull his weight," he mused, blissfully ignorant that he was referring to a man who was but one cut-price transfer away from becoming a press hack's icon, compulsorily revered. But he was well on his way already to cult status at Elland Road – when he abruptly departed in the most horrific circumstances imaginable.
That infamous transfer has been done to death as various hacks linger lovingly over alleged details of phone calls between Elland Road and the Theatre of Hollow Myths. My own take on it is that Eric and the Pride of Devon were | 363 |
Commercial Real Estate Vacancies Rising During Pandemic
WBUR | By Adrian Ma
Imagine you own some commercial real estate in your city's main business or shopping district. And say you rent to a business that's having trouble paying that rent, which means you have trouble paying the mortgage. Whether you make the decision to<|fim_middle|> we recording now?
MA: Yeah. Is that OK?
BERTHELETTE: Yeah.
MA: Berthelette is a researcher at Newmark, a company that buys and sells commercial real estate. And she's been working in this area for a while, so she's been able to see it change.
BERTHELETTE: Downtown Boston really came into its own over the last few years. And prior to the pandemic, we had the strongest fundamentals this market really has ever seen.
MA: Companies were moving in. Vacancies were near historic lows. And rents were up. The neighborhood had a vibe.
BERTHELETTE: It's the hustle and bustle. It's the people that work downtown. It's lunch meetings and, you know, industry events and meeting up with friends that work at other companies.
MA: Yeah, well, not so much anymore. Several months into the pandemic, vacancies are up. Many companies are moving or trying to sublet their space. And according to her estimates, downtown office buildings are only about 6% full.
So if it's about 6% now, where would it usually be?
BERTHELETTE: Well, it's hard to say because we weren't really measuring that.
MA: Because in normal times, a company buying an office building might wonder, how big is it? Or what are the amenities? Not, is anyone going to show up? But that's exactly the question being asked not just by companies that own offices, but those that own restaurant, retail and entertainment space. And even if you don't buy or sell or lease commercial real estate, there's a reason this should matter to you.
JOE PEEK: I think we probably haven't seen the worst of the bankruptcies and the business failures yet.
MA: Joe Peek is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He says the chain reaction starts like this.
PEEK: So these businesses fail, and they default on their loans. So now banks have a problem.
MA: Banks see the market getting riskier. So they're a little pickier about who they lend to. He points to a recent survey by the Fed where over 60% of loan officers said they've tightened their lending standards.
That's a lot, it seems like. I mean...
PEEK: Yeah.
MA: The last time you get that kind of spike is back in 2008.
PEEK: Right, the financial crisis because, again, do I want to lend to you right now on a real estate deal? Probably not because I'd be afraid that you're not going to be able to make the payments.
MA: The problem is, credit for a market is sort of like oil for an engine. You know, it sort of lubricates the economy. If commercial landlords can't get loans, they're less able to cut deals with tenants and help them get through the pandemic. That will lead to more business failures which will make banks tighten up even more. Peek says the longer this cycle continues, the harder it'll be for the economy to get back on its feet. For NPR News, I'm Adrian Ma in Boston.
(SOUNDBITE OF WHITNEY'S "RED MOON") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | evict or get a bank loan, what happens next has consequences for the rest of the economy. WBUR's Adrian Ma explains.
ADRIAN MA, BYLINE: Take a walk through Boston's financial district in the middle of the day, through the canyon of glass and concrete office towers, and you're likely to hear a slightly unnerving sound - near silence. Minus a construction crew here and there, the streets are eerily quiet.
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"Miss Rymer" was a beloved teacher at Timmins High and Vocational School for many years. Also an accomplished artist, her paintings were treasured by many. I recall a number of years ago<|fim_middle|> physical education with Miss Gallagher, trigonometry with Mr. Runnalls and biology with Miss Smythe. Will Tanner was the principal. My fourth-year credits in Latin and English were sufficient to graduate so I didn't take those subjects.
"Basketball was the main sport for girls and the senior team competed against Cochrane, Kirkland Lake and Noranda. To our dismay, the Kirkland Lake girls wore smart tunics and blouses in their school colours while we had to play in those awful blue 'romper' suits worn for all gym classes. Travel to and from our games was by T&NO trains, not buses. We were billeted in our host players' homes and they in ours for return games. Our little gym, known as the 'dungeon' was only large enough for one row of chairs on one side for the fans.
"Football games were played on empty lots somewhere near First Avenue and Balsam Street, with the crowd standing on either side of the field. Hockey games were held in the arena where the current Canada Post building now stands. We also used that arena for public skating.
"Every high school had Army Cadets. The annual TH&VS Cadet Review was preceded by drills in the school yard, with girls hanging out the windows to watch whenever possible.
"Report cards were scary things! Every student's mark in every subject was listed on a long sheet of paper and placed in order of merit. Privacy of information? The opposite! These lists also included the number of times late and the number of days absent. Everyone could compare achievements (or otherwise!). These pages were signed by the parents and returned to the school. We learned our final results, our marks in every subject and whether we passed or failed the year, from articles in the Porcupine Advance and The Daily Press.
"When our last year of school ended, there was a graduation ceremony. Girls dressed in white blouses and dark skirts. The Lamp of Learning was passed to a representative of next year's Fifth Form. Speeches were made and awards presented. Was there a dance? I don't remember.
"Just a few years later, many classmates and fellow students as well as staff members of Timmins High joined the Armed Forces. Many did not return, but we remember them and the many happy days at Timmins High and Vocational School."
Besides her precise memories of her school days, "Miss Rymer" (I could never call her Evelyn in person), led a fascinating life after completing those years in high school. In 1940, she moved to Nobel, Ont., to build bombs for the war effort. She continued her education, hitchhiked across Europe, then returned to Timmins and began teaching at TH&VS in 1957, retiring in 1982.
She possessed an adventurous, inquisitive mind and a thirst for knowledge. I know of no others who have boarded icebreakers to visit both the north and south poles, or visit most of Europe, Nepal, Peru, China and Russia – always with her sketchbook in hand. Nora Evelyn Rymer passed away in Timmins on May 14, 2016. What a remarkable, interesting woman. I was lucky to have known her.
That's my view from Over the Hill. | , when I sent out an appeal for postcards to be sent to our Canadian Armed Forces, Evelyn did fantastic watercolour paintings on hers. I hope the soldiers who received them, realized how precious they were.
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At my request several years ago, Evelyn wrote me a letter describing her own school days at TH&VS, before she became a teacher and vice-principal of that institution.
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"When my family moved to Timmins in 1937, I was in Fifth Form and we lived on Tamarack Street. There were no school or town buses, so it was a 20-minute walk along Pine Street, with a time-check at Halperin's Jewellery Store window, down Third to Maple, then Kirby to Preston. There was no cafeteria at the school so with an hour and a half for lunch, we walked home and back for afternoon classes.
"That year, the school was too small for the number of students, so the chemistry class with Miss Quinn started at 8 a.m. We also had history with Miss McNamara, French with Miss Bradley, | 276 |
\section{Introduction}
The presence of dark matter in the Universe is well-established and contributes significantly to structures ranging from galaxies to superclusters. Less understood is the distribution and evolution of dark matter correlated with galaxies over larger volumes beyond the galaxy virial radius. The WMAP cosmic microwave background (CMB) result for $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.27\pm 0.03$ \citep{2011ApJS..192...18K} is over twice that derived from N-body model fits to lensing studies of the inner mass profile of luminous galaxies together with cosmic luminosity density \citep{2012ApJ...746...38M}. This is not surprising, since about half the dark matter (DM) is expected<|fim_middle|> (WL) is the only direct probe that can both measure the mass profile associated with galaxies over a wide range of radii crossing the virialization and turnaround scales and does not require assumptions about the dynamical state or baryon content of the system in question. WL is an inherently statistical technique: many galaxies are required. The dimensionless shear signal ranges from less than 0.1\% (large-scale structure) to 1\% (galaxies) to 10\% (clusters of galaxies). The WL signal from foreground DM halos lensing more distant galaxies is commonly known as ``galaxy-galaxy lensing'' (GGL) and is measured by cross-correlating the positions of foreground DM halos (as traced by their resident galaxies) with the lensing-induced shear of background galaxies.
Most GGL results in the literature focus on the inner parts of the DM halo mass profile inside the virial radius, which is dominated by contributions from individual halos. Observations of luminosity scaling of the halo mass have been reported by \citet{2005ApJ...635...73H}, \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M}, \citet{2006A&A...455..441K}, and \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V}. Recent studies have also tackled the problem of redshift evolution of halo mass \citep{2010ApJ...716.1579L,2012ApJ...744..159L}. However, the study of GGL outside the virial radius is difficult from both observational and theoretical standpoints. In observations, residual systematics can masquerade as the lensing signal on large scales \citep{2005MNRAS.361.1287M}. On the theory side, we need detailed N-body simulations and ray-tracing studies or comprehensive statistical methods to interpret the signal \citep[e.g.][]{2005MNRAS.362.1451M,2008MNRAS.388....2H,2012ApJ...746...38M}.
With five 4 square degree deep fields imaged in BVRz$^{\prime}$, the Deep Lens Survey offers the possibility of measuring galaxy-mass correlations tomographically over a wide range of projected radii well beyond the halo virial radius, and over a useful range of redshift. In this paper, we investigate how the average galaxy-mass correlation over a wide range of radii varies with luminosity and redshift up to $z$=0.75. We show the first observational evidence for growth of projected galaxy-mass correlations on 10 Mpc scales. Section 2 briefly describes the formalism for weak lensing; Section 3 describes the data with particular attention to the measurement of both image shapes and photometric redshifts; Section 4 describes our investigation of photometric redshift error propagation; we present the results in Section 5 and compare them with previous observations and simulations; and we discuss and summarize our results in Section 6. The Appendix contains further details of systematics tests and correlation matrices. Throughout, we assume a $\Lambda CDM$ universe with $H=70$ km Mpc$^{-1} $s$^{-1}$, $\Omega_{M}=0.27$, and $\Omega_{\Lambda}=0.73$. Distances are given in units of comoving Mpc.
\section{Formalism}
\subsection{Gravitational Lensing}
The projected mass overdensity of a lens is related to the induced shear of source galaxies through
\begin{equation}
\gamma_{T}\Sigma_{\rm crit} = \bar{\Sigma}(<R)-\bar{\Sigma}(R) ~~ \equiv \Delta\Sigma
\end{equation}
where R is the transverse separation between lens and source on the sky, and $\gamma_{T}$ is the tangential shear azimuthally averaged over an annulus with radius R centered at the lens. $\Delta\Sigma$ is the mean excess projected surface density, which is defined as the difference between the average surface density within radius R, $\bar{\Sigma}(<R)$, and the projected surface density at that radius $\bar{\Sigma}(R)$ \citep{1991ApJ...370....1M}. In this paper, we refer to $\Delta \Sigma$ as a probe of galaxy-mass correlations, not to be confused with the 3D galaxy-mass correlation function $\xi_{gm}$. $\Delta \Sigma$ and $\xi_{gm}$ are related in the following way:
\begin{eqnarray}
\Sigma(R) &=& \int \bar{\rho} \xi_{gm}(\sqrt{R^{2}+\chi^{2}})d\chi \\
\bar{\Sigma} &=& \frac{2}{R^{2}}\int_{0}^{R} \Sigma(R^{\prime})R^{\prime}dR^{\prime}
\end{eqnarray}
$\bar{\rho}$ is the mean matter density, and $\chi$ is the line of sight distance.
The critical surface density $\Sigma_{\rm crit}$ is defined as:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:sigcriteq}
\Sigma_{\rm crit} \equiv \frac{c^{2}}{4\pi G}\frac{D_{S}}{D_{L}D_{LS}(1+z_{L})^{2}}
\end{equation}
where D$_{L}$, D$_{S}$, and D$_{LS}$ are the angular diameter distances to the lens, source, and between lens and source. We will notate lens and source redshifts as z$_{L}$ and z$_{S}$, respectively. The factor of $(1+z_{L})^{2}$ arises from our use of comoving coordinates. This choice is motivated by the relatively long baseline in lens redshift and radial separation scales that we investigate in this paper.
If we correct for the systematic effects introduced in the observing process and assume that gravitational lensing is the only phenomenon systematically distorting the shapes of the observed background galaxies around the position of foreground galaxies in the weak limit where both shear $\gamma$ and convergence $\kappa=\Sigma/\Sigma_{\rm crit}$ are much smaller than 1, $\gamma_{T}$ is related to the observed ellipticity $e_{T}$ via:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:obsell}
e_{T} = \gamma_{T}+e_{T}^{\rm int}
\end{equation}
where e$_{T}$ is the ellipticity component perpendicular to the line transversely connecting the lens and source and e$_{T}^{int}$ is the intrinsic ellipticity. Note that the definition of ellipticity used here is $e=(a-b)/(a+b)$ where $a$ and $b$ are the semimajor and semiminor axes, respectively. When averaging over an ensemble of randomly oriented source galaxies, the $\langle$e$_{T}^{int}\rangle$ term drops out, leaving:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:sh_def}
\langle \gamma_{T} \rangle = \langle e_{T} \rangle
\end{equation}
While Equation~\ref{eq:obsell} is only valid in the limit e$_{T}^{int}\ll 1$, we account for this by normalizing to simulations as described in Section~\ref{shapes}.
Our estimator for the differential surface mass density for stacked lens galaxies is a lensing signal-to-noise variance weighted average summed over lens-source pairs \citep{2004AJ....127.2544S,2008MNRAS.386..781M}:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dsig_calc}
\widetilde{\Delta \Sigma} &=& \frac{\sum_{i}^{N_{\rm lens}}\sum_{j}^{N_{\rm src}}\tilde{w}_{j,i} \gamma_{T}^{j,i}\tilde{\Sigma}_{{\rm crit},j,i}}{\sum_{i}^{N_{\rm lens}}\sum_{j}^{N_{\rm src}}\tilde{w}_{j,i}} \\
\tilde{w}_{j,i} &=& \frac{1}{\tilde{\Sigma}_{{\rm crit},j,i}^{2}(\sigma_{\rm SN}^{2}+\sigma_{e}^{2})}
\end{eqnarray}
where weights $\widetilde{w_{j,i}}$ depend on angular diameter distances (see Equation~\ref{eq:sigcriteq}), the shape noise $\sigma_\textrm{SN}$, and the ellipticity measurement error $\sigma_e$. The shape noise is the rms ellipticity per component for the source sample. In practice, we measure $\widetilde{\Delta \Sigma}$ for each lens-source pair and bin the values by the projected comoving separation between the lens and source. The relationship between the estimated differential surface mass density $\widetilde{\Delta \Sigma}$ and the true quantity $\Delta \Sigma$ is investigated using simulations in Section~\ref{photozsim}, and for the rest of the paper the tilde is dropped.
\subsection{Halo Mass Profiles}
The mass density profiles of dark matter halos are commonly modeled using Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) functions, which were motivated by dark matter simulations \citep{1996ApJ...462..563N}.
\begin{equation}\label{eq:density_nfw}
\rho_{\rm NFW}(r) = \frac{\bar{\delta}\rho_{c}(z)}{(\frac{r}{r_{s}})(1+\frac{r}{r_{s}})^{2}}
\end{equation}
where $$\bar{\delta}=\frac{200 c^{3}}{3(\ln (1+c)+\frac{c}{1+c})}$$ is a characteristic density, $\rho_{c}(z)$ is the critical density at redshift z, and $r_{s}$ is the mass scale radius. The concentration $c={r_{200}}/{r_{s}}$, and $r_{200}$ is the radius at which the mean enclosed mass density of the halo equals $200 \times \rho_{c}$. M$_{200}$ is the mass enclosed within $r_{200}$, and we use the terms ``M$_{200}$'' and ``halo mass'' (M$_{\rm halo}$) interchangeably, and we note the specific cases where M$_{\rm halo}$ means something other than M$_{200}$.
We obtain the surface mass density profile $\Sigma_{\rm NFW} (R)$ by integrating the three-dimensional density over the line of sight. A second integration yields the mean surface mass density inside the projected radius: $\Sigma_{\rm NFW}(\leq R)$. The expressions for these quantities can be found in \citet{1996A&A...313..697B,2000ApJ...534...34W,2003MNRAS.339..387Y}.
The enclosed mass, radial scale, and concentration are degenerate. To reduce the degeneracy, we fix the concentration using the relation found in \citet{2008MNRAS.390L..64D} based on N-body simulations using the WMAP 5 cosmology \citep{2009ApJS..180..330K}, effectively turning the NFW model into a single parameter profile.
\begin{equation}
c(M_{\rm 200},z) = 5.71(\frac{M_{\rm 200}}{2\times10^{12}h^{-1}M_{\odot}})^{-0.084}(1+z)^{-0.47}
\end{equation}
In this work, we do not fit a full halo model, which can be used to isolate contributions from individual halos, satellite halos, and neighboring halos as is done in, e.g. \citet{2005MNRAS.362.1451M} and \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V}. As it is a useful tool for interpretation purposes, we investigate the halo model as a fitting function in future work and simply comment on how its use might impact our results in this work.
\section{Data}
The Deep Lens Survey (DLS) consists of $\sim$100 nights of BVRz$^{\prime}$ imaging in five widely separated fields DLS F1-F5, each subtending 4 square degrees of the sky \citep{2002SPIE.4836...73W}. Each field is composed of nine ``subfields,'' each subtending an area (40$^{\prime}$ x 40$^{\prime}$) slightly larger than the camera field of view and covered with dithers of $\sim$200''. F1 and F2 were observed by Mosaic-1 \citep{1998SPIE.3355..577M} at the NOAO/KPNO 4-m Mayall Telescope, and F3-F5 were observed by Mosaic-2 at the NOAO/CTIO 4-m Blanco Telescope. The DLS was designed to go deep enough at high S/N to yield good photometric redshifts and to measure galaxy shapes at low surface brightness, while being wide enough to average over sample variance and to contain enough galaxies to minimize shot noise in precision studies of mass. The observing strategy was tuned specifically for lensing studies: imaging in the R band only when the seeing was 0.9'' or better. The effective exposure time in the R band is 18,000s, and the effective exposure time in the other three bands is 12,000s. We performed internal photometric calibration using the $\ddot{u}bercal$ method \citep[][]{2008ApJ...674.1217P,2011arXiv1111.2058W} and external calibration using \citet{1992AJ....104..340L} standard stars and SDSS \citep{2000AJ....120.1579Y,2011arXiv1111.2058W}. Details of the photometric stacking procedure can be found in the DLS technical summary paper (Wittman et al., in prep). We created object catalogs using SExtractor in dual-image mode using the R-band image for detections \citep{1996A&AS..117..393B}. All magnitudes in this paper are SExtractor MAG$\_$AUTO (henceforth referred to as $m_{R}$) calibrated to the Vega system and have been corrected for galactic extinction using the reddening maps of \citet{1998ApJ...500..525S} and for point spread function (PSF) variation using the ColorPro algorithm of \citet{2006AJ....132..926C}. To convert the R band magnitude to the AB system, one must add 0.20.\footnote[1]{See http://dls.physics.ucdavis.edu/calib/vegaab.html} The survey is 50\% complete for object recovery to m$_{R}=26$, m$_{B,V}=25.5$, and m$_{z}=24.5$ where the subscripts B, V, and z refer to the B, V, and z bands, respectively. After conservative quality and S/N cuts described below, we utilize a subset of $\sim$800,000 galaxies. The analysis processes for shear and photometric redshift measurement are described in Sections~\ref{shapes} and \ref{photozsec} below.
\subsection{\label{shapes}Shapes}
In order to correct the observed ellipticities to the intrinsic ellipticities in Equation \ref{eq:sh_def}, we must account for contributions from instrumental and atmospheric effects. As in \citet{2007PASP..119.1403J}, we use an interpolation of principal components characterizing star ellipticities and sizes measured on individual exposures to produce a PSF model for the co-add image. To summarize the procedure, we select high S/N isolated stars using an iterative algorithm based on half-light radius vs magnitude, measure principal components (eigen-PSF) and coefficients (amplitude along the eigen-PSF), fit 3rd order polynomials to the spatial variation of the coefficients, and generate an effective PSF model after interpolating or stacking the PSF models for the individual exposures. Twenty principal components or eigen-PSFs per exposure can robustly reproduce the observed variation of the PSF ellipticity and size ($<$99\% of the variance) within each CCD. We measure galaxy semi-major and semi-minor axes in the co-add image by fitting elliptical Gaussians convolved with the PSF model using methodology as in \citet{2002AJ....123..583B}. Galaxies for which this fit converges poorly are not used in the output catalog of ellipticities. This {\it Stack-Fit} measurement method has been tested on simulations of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope \citep[LSST;][]{2011PASP..123..596J}, and full details are given in \citep{JeeShear2012}. The difference from the procedure described in \citep{2011PASP..123..596J} is that the images are matched to the DLS: the simulated shear maps are convolved with spatially varying PSFs similar to what is found in the DLS , down-sampled to the DLS pixel scale, and have noise added to match the DLS depth. In summary, since the derived shear is increasingly underestimated with increasing noise, a S/N or magnitude-dependent calibration factor is necessary to recover the true shear from the measured shear. The true shear $\gamma^{\rm true}$ can be related to the observed shear $\gamma^{\rm obs}$ using both a multiplicative component, $m_{\gamma}$ and an additive component C via $\gamma^{\rm true} = m_{\gamma}\gamma^{\rm obs} + $C. Based on the above image simulations, the multiplicative calibration factor $m_{\gamma}$ can be parameterized by:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:shcalib}
m_{\gamma} = 6 \times 10^{-4}(m_{R}-20)^{3.26}+1.036
\end{equation}
The additive calibration factor C is negligible, as it is 10\% of the statistical error on all radial scales relevant to this work. In this analysis, we use source galaxies with 22$<$m$_{R}$$<$24.5, corresponding to 1.04$<$$m_{\gamma}$$<$1.12. Additionally, we require that the semi-minor axis be greater than 0.4 pixels to eliminate very small galaxies that might suffer from pixellation effects, $\sigma_{e}<0.3$, and STATUS=1, where STATUS is the convergence indicator for the minimization routine used for fitting the elliptical Gaussians, MPFIT \citep{2009ASPC..411..251M}. For our data, shape shot noise $\sigma_\textrm{SN} \sim 0.3$ (see Equation~\ref{eq:dsig_calc}).
Given the position of a foreground lens, the tangential and 45$^{\circ}$-rotated ellipticity components are calculated from the semi-major and semi-minor ellipticity components e$_{1}$ and e$_{2}$ as follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
e_{t} &=& -e_{1}\cos 2\theta - e_{2}\sin 2\theta \\
e_{x} &=& e_{1}\sin 2\theta - e_{2}\cos 2\theta
\end{eqnarray}
where $\theta = \arctan(({y_{\rm source}-y_{\rm lens}})/({x_{\rm source}-x_{\rm lens}}))$. (x$_{\rm lens}$, y$_{\rm lens}$) and (x$_{\rm source}$, y$_{\rm source}$) are the coordinates of the lens and source, respectively.
The average 45$^{\circ}$-rotated ellipticity component is calculated as a systematic test as it is expected to be consistent with zero at all radial scales. Two additional checks for systematics include measuring the lensing signal of stars and the lensing signal of source galaxies around random locations in the catalog. The results of these systematics checks, all consistent with a null result, are shown along with the mean galaxy-galaxy lensing signal for all galaxy lenses in the redshift range 0.35 $<$ $z$ $<$ 0.55 and absolute magnitude range -22 $<$ M$_{R}$ $<$ -19 in Figure~\ref{F:meansys}.
\subsection{\label{photozsec}Photometric Redshifts}
We compute photometric redshifts (photo-z) by fitting the four-band photometry to a set of galaxy templates to determine both redshift and galaxy type. This is done with the publicly available Bayesian Photometric Redshift code \citep[BPZ;][]{2000ApJ...536..571B}. The code utilizes a Bayesian prior for the probability of the redshift given the type and magnitude. Instead of using the default BPZ magnitude prior which treats galaxies with R$<$20 identically and is based on a small number of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North \citep[HDFN;][]{1996AJ....112.1335W}, we fit new parameterized priors following the prescription in \citet{2000ApJ...536..571B}. For R$<$21, we calibrate the prior with spectroscopically confirmed galaxies in the Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey \citep[SHELS;][]{2005ApJ...635L.125G}, which is complete to R=20.7. For fainter galaxies, we fit to the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey \citep[VVDS;][]{2005A&A...439..845L}, which consists of more than 11,000 spectra from 17.5$<$i$_{\rm AB}<$24.0. While the possibility remains that there is a population of galaxies systematically missing from our magnitude complete training sets that could introduce a bias in the calculated prior, we only broadly fit for three galaxy classes (Elliptical, Spiral, and Starburst) and use a parameterized N(z), which mitigates small missing populations. The resulting prior is qualitatively very similar to the HDFN prior but is based on almost 100 times as many spectroscopic redshifts and has a more sophisticated description for R$<$20. We empirically adjust the six standard CWW+SB \citep{1980ApJS...43..393C,1996ApJ...467...38K} templates using the photometry of galaxies with known spectroscopic redshifts (spec-z) in SHELS, and we employ the resulting templates to determine photo-z and K-corrections to $z=0$. In Figure~\ref{F:zspecvszphot}, we show a number density plot of spec-z vs photo-z for 10,000 galaxies in the southern field F5, which has overlap with the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey \citep[PRIMUS; ][]{2011ApJ...741....8C}. The quoted 100\% sampling range is R$<$22.8, the 30\% sampling range is 22.8$<$R$<$23.3, and the redshift precision is $\sigma_{spec-z}=0.005(1+z_{true-z})$ due to the low spectral resolution of the instrument.
The root-mean-square $\sigma_{\rm z,rms}$ of the difference between the observed redshift and the true redshift of a galaxy at each redshift bin is defined as:
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm z,rms}^2 = {\left\langle \Bigg( \frac{z_{\rm obs}-z_{\rm true}}{1+z_{\rm true}}\Bigg)^{2} \right\rangle}
\end{equation}
After outlier rejection, the DLS photo-z scatter $\sigma_{photo-z}=0.06(1+z_{spec-z})$, and about 4\% of the galaxies have photo-z outside of $0.2(1+z)$ (catastrophic outliers). Further details can be found in Schmidt \& Thorman (2012, in prep.).
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig1.eps}
\caption{\label{F:zspecvszphot} Density plot of spectroscopic z vs photometric z. The photo-z are scattered about the black solid line that represents the spec-z=photo-z relation with $\sigma_{photo-z}=0.06(1+z_{spec-z})$. Regions where there is notable bias include galaxies at spec-z$\sim$0.1 that are scattered to larger photo-z and galaxies at 0.3$<$spec-z$<$0.5 that are assigned to photo-z$\sim$0.25. This plot shows that we must be careful with photo-z$<$0.3 and take relatively wide vertical photo-z slices in our analysis of at least 0.2.}
\end{figure}
BPZ reports both a redshift probability density function (PDF) and a one point summary statistic z$_{B}$, the peak of the PDF. The PDF is the posterior distribution given the data, in a Bayesian sense, marginalized over template type and apparent magnitude. In this work, we use z$_{B}$ when calculating Equation~\ref{eq:sigcriteq}. We also use z$_{B}$ in order to calculate absolute magnitudes and rest-frame luminosities for the lens galaxies, differentiate the lens sample from the source sample, and weight the galaxies by the lensing kernel. We use the terms z$_{B}$ and photo-z interchangeably for the remainder of the paper.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig2.eps}
\caption{\label{F:zvsM} Photo-z vs absolute R magnitude for redshift and magnitude selected lenses. The black contours indicate the number density, with levels given by logarithmically spaced bins from 1 to 14,000. The dashed blue lines correspond to the faint apparent magnitude cutoff ${\rm m}_{R,{\rm max}}=24$ and the bright apparent magnitude cutoff ${\rm m}_{R, {\rm min}}=18$. The black rectangles show the cuts we use in Section~\ref{zevolsect} when we make comparisons between redshift shells, labeled z1-3.}
\end{figure}
Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts} lists the redshift and magnitude selections applied to create lens and source samples. All source galaxies have $m_{R}<24.5$. This conservative faint cut-off corresponds to the peak of the apparent magnitude number counts for the joint catalog containing galaxies with both shapes and photo-zs. After further conservative cuts in photo-z and magnitude described in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts} as well as data quality and S/N cuts, the trimmed source catalogs used in this analysis contains between 225,580 and 506,241 galaxies. The corresponding luminosity-binned lens sample contains 436,943 galaxies. We plot number density contours for photo-z vs absolute R magnitude in Figure~\ref{F:zvsM} for the redshift range 0.1$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.8 and 18$<$m$_{R}<$24. The three black squares indicate the volume-complete lens samples that we later compare in Section~\ref{zevolsect}.
To check our lens and source selections using z$_{B}$, we show in Figure~\ref{F:z1z2pofz} the arbitrarily normalized summed $p(z)$ from BPZ for foreground lenses selected in a fixed absolute magnitude range
-19$<$M$_{R}$$<$-22 and split into redshift shells of 0.15$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.35, 0.35$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.55, and 0.55$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.75 and for background source samples selected such that their peak p(z) occurs at more than 0.3 higher redshift than the peak in the source sample (see Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts} for the specific cuts).
The resulting summed $p(z)$ show lens distributions that are generally well-separated from the source distribution. We consider the effects of photo-z inaccuracy including the residual systematic errors due to the $\sim$4\% outliers on the lensing analysis in Section~\ref{photozsim}.
\begin{table}[t]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lccccccc}
\hline
Ref &z$_{-}$ &z$_{+}$ &M$_{R,-}$ &M$_{R,+}$ &m$_{R,-}$ &m$_{R,+}$ &N$_{gal}$\\
\hline
L1 & 0.35 & 0.75 & -24 & -22 &18 &24 &38,505\\
L2 & 0.35 & 0.75 & -22 & -20 &18 &24 &178,227\\
L3 & 0.35 & 0.75 & -20 & -18 &18 &24 &220,211\\
SL & 0.75 & 1.5 & n & n &22&24.5 &225,580\\
z1 & 0.15 & 0.35 & -22 & -19 &18 &24 &61,527\\
z2 & 0.35 & 0.55 & -22 & -19 & 18 &24 &124,744\\
z3 & 0.55 & 0.75 & -22 & -19 & 18 & 24 &188,908\\
Sz1 &0.65 & 1.5 &n &n &22 &24.5 &506,241\\
Sz2 & 0.75 & 1.5 &n &n &22 &24.5 &402,339\\
Sz3 &0.95 & 1.5 &n &n &22 &24.5 &225,580\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Summary of the cuts applied to select the lenses L1-L3, z1-z3 and the corresponding sources SL and Sz1-Sz3. "-" means minimum and "+" means maximum. "n": no threshold imposed.}
\label{tab:lens_src_cuts}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig3.eps}
\caption{\label{F:z1z2pofz} The summed normalized likelihood function p(z) from BPZ for redshift and magnitude selected sets of lenses and sources. The cuts applied to create the lens and source samples are described in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts}.
The lens and source samples are generally well-separated. However, there are non-negligible overlaps between the z2 lenses and sources and between the z1 lenses and z2 lenses. We address the effect of these overlaps on our analysis using mock catalogs, and angular cross-correlations within the observational data, and discuss our findings in Section~\ref{photozsim}.
}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Star/Galaxy Separation}
For star/galaxy separation, we apply two cuts. At bright magnitudes, stars are easily distinguishable from galaxies in a size vs magnitude diagram. We use SExtractor FLUX\_RADIUS as our measure of size, and cut out objects with FLUX\_RADIUS$<$2.4 pixels with m$_{R}<$19. The pixel size is 0.257 arcseconds. At fainter magnitudes, the star and galaxy loci overlap on the size vs magnitude diagram, so we employ a cut which involves all three second central moments of the PSF and the object. For each object, we determine the total $\chi^2$ for the hypothesis that it is a point source, using the three second moments of the object and of the PSF at that location. We then cut on $\chi_{tot}^2>5$ to eliminate most faint stars. This procedure was shown to result in $\sim 0.4\%$ stellar contamination in spectroscopic targets for m$_{R}<22.5$ \citep{2011arXiv1110.4391D}. At fainter magnitudes, the number density of galaxies overwhelms that of stars while the efficiency of the $\chi^2$ cut should not diminish (although a larger fraction of galaxies might be cut). Using stellar population models from \citet{2003A&A...409..523R} and DLS coordinates to estimate star counts and typical galaxy counts from the literature,\footnote[2]{See http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/$\sim$nm/pubhtml/counts/counts.html} we estimate the stellar contamination to be $<0.2\%$ for m$_{R}\sim 24$. The shape cuts described in Section~\ref{shapes} further reduce this stellar contamination.
\section{Photometric Redshift Error Analysis}
Photo-z errors can affect the amplitude of the galaxy-mass correlation in several ways, which we can separate into those related to errors in lens galaxy photo-z ($z_{L}$) and those related to errors in source galaxy photo-z ($z_{S}$). First consider errors in lens photo-z. Error in $z_{L}$ will smear the signal in projected comoving radius due to error in the conversion from an angular distance to a comoving distance. Especially for sources close to the lens redshift there will also be an error in $\Delta \Sigma$ due to an error in $\Sigma_{\rm crit}$ (see Equation~\ref{eq:dsig_calc}). In the case that $z_{L} > z_{S}$, the signal will be diluted by ``source'' galaxies which are in reality foreground objects. There is an additional issue that the errors in $z_{L} $ propagate to errors in absolute magnitude M$_{R}$. As found by e.g. \citet{2005ApJ...635...73H}, the net effect (due to the shape of the galaxy number counts) is that intrinsically fainter galaxies are more often upscattered into brighter luminosity bins, causing a dilution in the observed signal. Now consider errors in source photo-z. For a source galaxy that is behind a lens galaxy an error on a source redshift will create a bias in $\Delta \Sigma$ due to an error on $\Sigma_{\rm crit}$. An error in a source redshift such that $z_{S} < z_{L}$ will create a signal dilution because this "source" galaxy is now a foreground object. The net correction is a mix of all these effects, and the mix changes with galaxy and lens samples. For further discussion see Figure 8 of \citet{2010ApJ...709...97L} and Section 7 of \citet{2012MNRAS.420.3240N}.
We undertake a galaxy-galaxy lensing Monte Carlo simulation, creating mock lens and source catalogs representing DLS-sized fields of 4 deg$^{2}$ to understand how photo-z scatter, photo-z catastrophic outliers, and lens/source sample selection affect the accuracy of the projected galaxy-mass correlation measurement. We also compute angular cross-correlation between the lens and source samples to investigate the purity of these samples.
\subsection{\label{photozsim} Signal Recovery Simulations}
We calculate the ratio of observed (with scattered redshifts) lensing signal to input lensing signal $\Delta \Sigma (R)_{\rm scatt} / \Delta \Sigma (R)_{\rm input}$ for each of the three lens sample redshift cases. For the mock source galaxies we draw random x and y positions for simulated source galaxies, and we draw redshifts and intrinsic ellipticities in a Monte Carlo fashion from distributions consistent with the data. We draw the intrinsic ellipticity components along the major and minor axes from Gaussians with width 0.3 and centered at 0. The summed observed p(z) for sources (as shown in Figure~\ref{F:z1z2pofz}) is a broadened approximation for the true dN/dz of the sources since this distribution already includes observational effects such as photo-z errors and is broader than the underlying distribution. To simulate the native distribution of galaxies in redshift for each galaxy population, we find that distribution p0(z) which when convolved with the known $\sigma_z$ photo-z errors gives the observed summed p(z) for that population. We draw redshifts from the summed intrinsic p0(z) distribution of the sources.
For the mock lens galaxies, we fix the x, y, and luminosity of the simulated lens galaxies to the values measured from the observed catalogs. That is, each simulated lens galaxy has a one-to-one counterpart in the real catalog (e.g. that of F5) from which it inherits x and y coordinates in pixels and luminosity. These mock lens galaxies thus inherit the angular clustering that is present in the observed sample of lens galaxies. As with the sources, we draw redshifts for the lenses from an estimate of the intrinsic summed p0(z) of the lenses which when convolved with the photo-z error yields the observed p(z) as shown in Figure~\ref{F:z1z2pofz}. We also take into account any redshift overlap between the lenses and sources and among the z1, z2, and z3 lens bins. To convert the lens luminosities to halo masses consistent with the data, we fit NFW profiles to the inner 300 kpc of the lensing signal in each luminosity bin and fit a power law to the mean luminosity vs halo mass as shown below in Figure~\ref{F:ML_PL}. The best fit mass-luminosity relation is:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dls_ML}
M_{200} = 1.46 \times 10^{3} M_{\odot} ~ \langle L / L_{\odot}\rangle^{0.89}
\end{eqnarray}
To mitigate edge effects, we pad the boundaries of each simulated mass field with an additional degree on each side. That is, the lens galaxies are distributed over a total area of 16 deg$^{2}$ for each of the five fields.
Using NFW mass profiles for the lens halos, we calculate the expected shear for each lens-source pair given the physical separation and lens $M_{200}$.
For each source galaxy $i$, we use the weak lens approximation in calculating the total applied shear due to all lens galaxies $\gamma_{T,i}=\sum_{j}^{N_{\rm lens}}\gamma_{j}$. The observed ellipticity is then given as in Equation~\ref{eq:obsell}. The resulting mock lens and source catalogs have the selection effects of our observations, and is a starting point from which to test how photo-z errors such as scatter, photo-z bias, and catastrophic outliers affect the galaxy-mass correlations reconstructed from the lensing analysis via the corresponding errors in the distance ratios. To examine this, we assign ``observed redshifts'' by applying photo-z errors similar to those measured from the observational data. We obtain the observed redshifts by drawing from a Gaussian centered at the assigned true redshift with width given by a value describing the photo-z scatter (see Section~\ref{photozsec}). We use a photo-z scatter of $\sigma_{\rm z,rms}$=0.06(1+z). We also introduce catastrophic outliers by switching the redshifts of a random 4\% of the galaxies with random redshifts.
After determining the absolute magnitudes corresponding to the scattered redshifts, we re-select lenses and sources using these new ``observed'' redshifts and absolute magnitudes and measure $\Delta \Sigma (R)_{\rm scatter}$ as in Equation~\ref{eq:dsig_calc}.
At very large angular separation there is no mechanism that can cause a spatial dependence of the ratio $\Delta \Sigma (R)_{\rm scatt} / \Delta \Sigma (R)_{\rm input}$, and we fit a constant over 1-10 Mpc radius. We repeat this entire simulation for various levels of photo-z error and find that the recovery ratio for each lens redshift sample decreases with photo-z error.
The best fits for this recovery ratio for 0.06(1+z) scatter are 0.81, 0.85, and 0.90 for L1, L2, and L3, respectively and 0.94, 0.83, and 0.74 for z1, z2, and z3, respectively. In the analysis in Section 7.3 we correct for this systematic error.
\subsection{Angular Cross-Correlations}
Do the summed p($z$) distributions for our lens and source samples represent the true distributions? While the distributions of PRIMUS spec-z, DLS photo-z, and p(z) are consistent out to the limit of the spectroscopy at $z \sim 1$, it is important to investigate consistency for our entire source and lens sample galaxies in other ways. As a test of source and lens sample purity we calculate angular cross-correlations ${\rm w}_{12}(\theta)$ between these samples. We find that the ratios between the auto and cross correlations of these samples is less than 0.1, consistent with the overlap of the p($z_{\rm 1,2}$) tails and the known photo-z outlier rates. The amplitude of ${\rm w}_{12}(\theta)$ never rises above 0.01. The residual sample impurity results in a slight decrease in signal-to-noise ratio, but is small enough that we do not make any additional corrections in this analysis.
\section{Results}
We measure the cross-correlation between the lens galaxies and the associated total projected mass distribution which is in the foreground of the source galaxies. The DM halo in which the galaxy is resident, as well as all other projected mass correlated with the galaxy, contribute to this weak lens signal.
We bin the shear signal in logarithmic bins by projected comoving radii and convert to a projected differential surface mass density following Equation~\ref{eq:dsig_calc}. Errors are calculated via jackknife resampling where the jackknife components are one ninth of a field size. Over the 5 fields, this yields a total of 45 jackknife subsamples. These data permit an analysis of the distribution of mass associated with foreground galaxies over a wide range of projected physical scales, and its correlation with galaxy luminosity and redshift.
\subsection{\label{lumsect}Galaxy-Mass Correlation vs Luminosity}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig4.eps}
\caption{\label{F:lum} Galaxy-mass correlation (expressed as a mass overdensity around lens galaxies) vs radius and luminosity. The surface mass overdensity for three bins of lens absolute luminosity as a function of radial separation is shown. All galaxies have 0.35$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.75. Red squares show L1, green triangles show L2, blue circles show L3, and the NFW halo model fits to the inner 300 kpc are overplotted as dashed lines. Correction factors from photo-z errors, as discussed in Section~\ref{photozsim}, have been applied. L2 and L3 data points are slightly horizontally offset for clarity. On small radial scales, the profiles scale with luminosity such that the brighter lensing galaxies have higher galaxy-mass correlation. On large radial scales, the profiles flatten, indicating additional mass contributions from neighboring halos. The shape of these radial profiles and trends with luminosity are similar to the theoretical prediction shown in Figure 8 of \citet{2008MNRAS.388....2H}.}
\end{figure}
We divide the lenses into three ranges of absolute magnitude for a fixed range of 0.35$<$z$_{B}$$<$0.75 and measure the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal for each lens galaxy luminosity sample. The properties of these samples are summarized in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts}. After dividing the signal by the correction factors due to photo-z errors discussed in Section~\ref{photozsim} (0.81, 0.85, and 0.90 for L1, L2, and L3, respectively), the results are shown in Figure~\ref{F:lum} along with NFW profiles fit to the inner 300 kpc of each $\Delta \Sigma(R)$. These fits take into account the full covariance matrices estimated from the data (see the Appendix for details about how the covariance matrix is calculated), although this inclusion does not have a significant effect due to our focus on small radial scales. The signals scale with average luminosity with higher surface mass overdensities corresponding to brighter average luminosities. As expected, intrinsically more luminous galaxies have higher mass profiles inside their virial radii than low luminosity galaxies.
As shown in Figure~\ref{F:lum}, on scales larger than $\sim 0.3$ Mpc all three signals flatten, and converge on 10 Mpc scales to a narrow range of mass overdensity. This is because at large radii the galaxy-mass correlation reflects the mass auto-correlation modulo the galaxy bias, as discussed in \citet{2008MNRAS.388....2H}. \citet{2008MNRAS.388....2H} use the Millenium simulation to examine the cross correlation between halo centers and mass, showing a dependence on galaxy mass (or luminosity) similar in profile shape to our results (their Figure 8). The strong luminosity dependence of $\Delta \Sigma$ at R$<$1 Mpc and weak luminosity dependence at R$>$1Mpc have also been found in the simulations of \citet{2004ApJ...614..533T} and the observations of \citet{2004AJ....127.2544S}. The behavior of the galaxy-mass correlation at large radii has also been recently examined by \citet{2012ApJ...746...38M} in a $1024^3$ particle N-body CDM simulation.
\subsection{\label{massvslum}Mass vs Luminosity}
From the best fit NFW profiles, we obtain values for M$_{200}$ for each luminosity bin. It is worth noting that the NFW is not a good fit to the $\Delta \Sigma$ profiles beyond a few hundred kpc. In particular, the L3 sample likely contains a non-negligible fraction of satellite galaxies, and preliminary work fitting a full halo model indicates M$_{200}$ for this luminosity bin is overestimated by $\sim$20\%.
As pointed out in \citet{2004ApJ...614..533T}, the best fit NFW mass generally falls between the mean and median mass for a broad halo mass distribution. The conversion from the best fit NFW mass to the mean mass is an upwards correction that depends on the scatter in the mass-luminosity relation, which is higher at the bright end where the halo mass distribution is broader. To determine this correction, we follow the procedure described in \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V}. We adopt a conditional probability function for the halo mass given a luminosity of the form:
\begin{equation}
P(m_{\rm halo} | l) \propto \exp \left( -\frac{(m_{\rm halo} - m_{\rm halo, cent})^{2}}{2\sigma^{2}_{m_{\rm halo}}} \right)
\end{equation}
where $l = \log(L)$, $m_{\rm halo} = \log(M_{\rm halo})$, and $\sigma^{2}_{m_{\rm halo}}$ is the scatter in $m_{\rm halo}$. For a given best fit NFW mass and a $\sigma_{m_{\rm halo}}$ from work on satellite kinematics in SDSS by \citet{2011ApJ...741...19M} (their Figure 4 produces values from 0.35 to 0.45 for our mean luminosities), we then convolve the conditional probability function with the mass function from \citet{2008ApJ...688..709T} and draw 1000 masses from the resulting distribution. We calculate and average the NFW $\Delta \Sigma (R)$ profiles for this ensemble of masses and compare the best fit NFW M$_{200}$ to $\langle M_{200}\rangle$. We obtain conversion factors of 3.8 (L1), 3.1 (L2), and 2.5 (L3) and multiply our best fit NFW M$_{200}$ by these numbers to obtain $\langle M_{200}\rangle$.
We plot $\langle M_{200} \rangle$ vs the mean luminosity of each bin in Figure~\ref{F:ML_PL} along with a simple power law fit (Equation~\ref{eq:dls_ML}). In Figure~\ref{F:ML_PL}, our mean luminosities are converted to the AB system. Since the mean redshifts of the three luminosity bins decrease slightly with decreasing luminosity, we also scale the DLS masses to the mean redshift of L1 (z$=$0.59) for the sake of consistency. The mean redshifts of L2 and L3 are 0.58 and 0.51, which corresponds to multiplication factors of 1.01 and 1.10 based on our M$_{200}$ definition which depends on redshift through $\rho_{\rm crit}$. We perform the power law fit primarily for use in the Monte Carlo simulations described in Section~\ref{photozsim}. We also show results for early-type (ET) and late-type (LT) galaxies at low redshift from \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} and \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V}. However, there are several caveats to consider before making a comparison. First, \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} use a different mass definition (180$\bar{\rho}$ instead of our 200$\rho_{c}$), so our masses should be adjusted upwards by $\sim$30\% for a more direct comparison. In Figure~\ref{F:ML_PL}, we plot the \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} masses after dividing by 1.3 to make the qualitative comparison. Second, the DLS points are at a redshift of 0.59, and we have not yet included corrections for passive evolution. If we adopt a passive evolution correction from \citet{2003AJ....125.2348B} of $1.6(z-0.1)$ for galaxies that are best fit with elliptical templates (e.g. BPZ T\_B$<$1.5), K-correct to $z=0.1$, and calculate the distance modulus with $h=1.0$ as in \citet{2005MNRAS.361.1287M}, our mean luminosities decrease by $\sim$30\%. Third, we have not split our lens samples by type, so the DLS masses include both ET and LT galaxies. Finally, the conversion factors we applied to obtain the conversions from best fit NFW M$_{200}$ to $\langle M_{200}\rangle$ are based on our adopted $\sigma_{m_{\rm halo}}$ from \citet{2011ApJ...741...19M} whose results are limited to z$\sim$0 central galaxies. The true $\sigma_{m_{\rm halo}}$ for our higher redshift central and satellite galaxies might be somewhat different, ultimately changing our interpretation of $\langle M_{200} \rangle$.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig5.eps}
\caption{\label{F:ML_PL} The mean luminosity vs mean halo mass for the three luminosity bins described in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts}. Halo masses calculated by fitting the NFW profile to the inner 300 kpc are shown as black stars and then using the conversion factors described in Section~\ref{massvslum} to obtain mean masses. The dashed red line shows a power law fit to the mean masses. The power law given by Equation~\ref{eq:dls_ML} is used in the Monte Carlo simulations discussed in Section~\ref{photozsim} to convert lens luminosities to halo masses. For comparison purposes, previous results are also plotted, although note that different methodologies are used. \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} results at $\langle z\rangle\sim$0.1 are shown as blue triangles for late-types (LT) and thin magenta diamonds for early-types (ET). Note that we have divided the data points from \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} by 1.3 to correct for different mass definitions. \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V} results at $\langle z\rangle\sim$0.1 are shown as cyan filled circles for late-types and yellow squares for early-types. The errors on the SDSS results are 2-$\sigma$. The DLS results agree well with those in the literature after making adjustments for mass definitions and passive luminosity evolution as discussed in the text.}
\end{figure}
\subsection{\label{zevolsect}Galaxy-Mass Correlation vs Redshift}
We next divide the lenses into three ranges of redshift for a fixed range of absolute magnitude -22$<$M$_{R}<$-19 and measure the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal for each redshift sample. This range of absolute magnitude was chosen such that the samples could be as volume complete as possible (see Figure~\ref{F:zvsM}) while still allowing a reasonable S/N. The properties of these samples are summarized in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts}, and the results are shown in Figure~\ref{F:gglz1z2L123} after applying the corrections for photo-z errors found in Section~\ref{photozsim}: 0.94 (z1), 0.83 (z2), and 0.74 (z3). The bins at large separations are correlated, and we discuss how we calculate the covariance matrices in the Appendix and show the normalized covariance matrices in Figure~\ref{F:corrmatrix}. At radii less than a few hundred kpc, all three signals have similar amplitudes, indicating that the mass range corresponding to the luminosity selection is consistent across redshift shells. However, there is a noticeable trend at larger radii where the amplitude of $\Delta \Sigma$ increases with decreasing redshift. Both before and after applying the recovery corrections from Section~\ref{photozsim}, there is a trend.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{fig6.eps}
\caption{\label{F:gglz1z2L123} Redshift dependence on all scales for a single wide range of luminosities -22$<$M$_{R}<$-19. We compare the galaxy-mass correlation vs radius for three lens redshift shells, which have properties described in Table~\ref{tab:lens_src_cuts}. These signals include corrections for photo-z errors that were derived from mock catalogs as discussed in Section~\ref{photozsim}. z1 is shown in black, z2 in magenta, and z3 in cyan. The z2 and z3 points are slightly horizontally offset for clarity. On small radial scales, the three samples reflect signals consistent with a similar mass. However, on larger scales, there is a trend where higher $\Delta \Sigma$ corresponds to lower mean redshift.}
\end{figure}
\section{Discussion}
We have presented projected galaxy-mass correlations measured using galaxy-galaxy lensing over a wide baseline in radius, luminosity, and redshift. On small radial scales, these signals probe the individual DM halos in which galaxies reside. On larger radial scales, these signals are sensitive to correlated large-scale structure and neighboring DM halos. We have focused on two lines of investigation: fixing the redshift range and varying the mean rest-frame luminosity and conversely, fixing the luminosity range to a volume-complete sample and varying the mean redshift.
For fixed redshift and varied luminosity, we find the well-established scaling of the halo mass with luminosity: intrinsically brighter galaxies are also more massive. In Figure~\ref{F:ML_PL}, we show a comparison of our results for the M$_{halo}$-L relation at z$\sim$0.6 with those of \citet{2006MNRAS.368..715M} and \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V} at z$\sim$0.1. After corrections for differing mass definitions and passive luminosity evolution, we find reasonable agreement with the literature results.
On larger radial scales, the shape of the galaxy-mass correlations and their dependence on galaxy luminosity look quite similar to the simulation results of \citet{2008MNRAS.388....2H}. There are currently few lensing observations of galaxies over wide ranges of luminosity and redshift at radii greater than a few Mpc. We can qualitatively compare our results shown in Figure~\ref{F:lum} with four observations at lower redshift. Using shear measurements around z$\sim$0.1 SDSS galaxies, \citet{2004AJ....127.2544S} found trends with luminosity that are similar to the higher redshift findings presented here; however, they fit power laws to their shear and galaxy-mass correlations and did not see significant deviation from power laws at large scales. We can also compare qualitatively to \citet{2010Natur.464..256R}, who measure shear around luminous red galaxies (LRG) in SDSS out to large radii and model it with a halo model. Their LRG mass overdensity at z=0.3 is consistent with our low redshift z1 and z2 samples at 10 Mpc. \citet{2011arXiv1107.4093V} study galaxies in RCS2 with spectroscopic redshifts from SDSS, limiting the lens redshifts to z$\sim$0.1. Their Figure 8 shows halo model fits to the lensing signal out to 10 Mpc, which is consistent with the signal we measure. In these previous studies, the lens galaxies are closest in mass to our L1 sample, but are generally more massive. Finally, \citet{2012arXiv1207.1120M} show results for $\Delta \Sigma$ for three redshift bins out to z$\sim$0.5. However, a direct comparison is difficult because they probe much more massive and more highly biased galaxies (i.e. LRGs).
Most interestingly, our galaxy-galaxy lensing data allows an investigation of the redshift evolution of the projected galaxy-mass correlation on 10 Mpc scales at fixed lens galaxy luminosity. We find evidence for growth over time of the galaxy-mass correlations on large scales from z$=$0.65 to z$=$0.2 as shown in Figure~\ref{F:gglz1z2L123}.
Interpretation of this result in terms of evolution of bias and growth of LSS mass structure with cosmic time requires additional information. The overall effect as a function of lens sample redshift depends on both LSS growth and galaxy bias as a function of mass and type, and an additional probe such as the lens galaxy clustering signal is necessary to disentangle the growth and bias. We will combine this two-point auto and cross-correlation information for each of the three lens samples with the galaxy-mass correlations reported here in a joint analysis in future work.
\section{Acknowledgments}
We thank Ian Dell'Antonio, Paul Thorman, and Russell Ryan for help with data reduction, Lloyd Knox, Jeff Newman, Michael Schneider, and Catherine Heymans for useful discussions, Andrew Bradshaw for efforts on the shape measurement, and Perry Gee for technical support. We thank the anonymous reviewer for their helpful suggestions. This research was funded in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-07ER41505, NSF AST-1108893, UC Davis, and the TABASGO Foundation. AC acknowledges support from the European Research Council under the EC FP7 grant number 240185. CM acknowledges support from NSF grant AST-1009514.
Funding for the Deep Lens Survey has been provided by Lucent Technologies and NSF grants AST 04-41072 and AST 01-34753. Observations were obtained at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and Kitt Peak National Observatory. CTIO and KPNO are divisions of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
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S&S design #1899
8′ 9″ / 2.7 m
3,400 lb / 1,542 kg (Iron)
42 gal / 158 l
18 gal / 70 l
From BlueWaterBoats:
Penned as Sparkman and Stephens design #1899 by Olin Stephens, the SHE 31 introduced in 1969 has enjoyed popularity in the UK and Europe. Though originally intended as a half ton IOR racing thoroughbred, this boat often nicknamed a "baby Swan", has gone on to be adapted for cruising in a myriad of derivative models. Known for her speed, close winded performance, and absolutely beautiful lines this racer/cruiser is often compared the Contessa 32.
The unusual SHE name comes from the initials of South Hants Engineering, a UK light engineering firm founded in 1947 that branched out with a marine division. Headed up by two brothers, Derek and Simon Fitzgerald armed with an enthusiasm for sailing, the SHE line of yachts flourished from the late sixties to the mid seventies producing solely Sparkman and Stephens designs from the cramped SHE 27, the SHE 31 which was the most popular, the SHE 32, and the SHE 36 which was without a doubt the best boat in the line up.
The division ultimately succumbed to the financial climate of the late seventies and competition from cheaper, faster and roomier French imports. The company continues today as SH Enterprises but no longer produces boats.
The SHE 31 moulds were bought by Laird Adams Engineering who developed the design with increased headroom and a new, more practical interior. These boats sold under the name Delta 94. Also there were a few examples that were home-built by enthusiastic amateurs.
The design, optimised for racing, was the beneficiary of Olin's latest thinking in the same era of the legendary S&S 34 and Swan 36 both introduced 2 years earlier in 1967. He was a master of designing yachts to take maximum advantage of IOR rules for ocean racing.
Typical of these designs the SHE 31 has pinched bow and tail sections and a tumblehome amidships, reminiscent of much larger yachts. Her sharp bow profile gives her a good bite on tacks, and a swept back fin keel carefully faired into the hull with 3400 lbs of lead in results in a balanced feeling and stability in nearly all sea conditions. Notable is the skeg rudder pushed far aft and the propellor on a P bracket forward allowing better reversing.
There is accommodation for five but belowdecks it's reasonably cramped with very little headroom, especially in the forecabin. The interior finish was restrained, modern and perhaps a little austere and betraying the use of ply.
Many variants were produced, we'll summarise these below.
SHE 9.5 Traveller
South Hants Engineering responded to public demand for a cruising model by producing the 9.5 Traveller, a version with more lavish accommodations;. It had a new deck, coachroof providing better cruising accommodations, higher topsides and increased headroom. Most owners will refer to their Traveller simply as a SHE. They are relatively rare.
Performance was still good and many examples will have been raced hard and spent long lives on exposed moorings rather than snug in marinas. Despite this, most have stood up well to the action, reflecting the high quality of build.
Delta 94/95
This particular boat caused quite a stir when she was unveiled to the yachting world at Southampton Boat Show in 1977. Produced by Laird Adams Engineering in the late senventies, the Delta 94 (also called the Delta 95) is a later version with the same hull, but with slightly more freeboard to produce more interior headroom, and a revised interior layout. Only 17 of them were produced.
IW 31
Simultaneously with the South Hamp Engineering yachts, Swedish builder I.W. Varvet on the island of Orust, an island which traces its roots back to the time of Viking ships, produced a large number of yachts. Over 350 boats were produced starting around 1968 in three revisions.
MK I (1968 – 1972): Small stern, 'dinette' layout.
MK II (1972 – 1980): Larger stern, new deck, revised wood trim.
MK III (1980 – 1985): Aluminium toe rail (instead of Teak), glass hatch, | 1,044 |
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