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A great way to be involved with the activities and programs that benefit your child is by participating in the PTA.
Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, from August through June at 7:00 PM in the School Lounge Library. All parents and teachers are welcome to attend. Meetings typically last about 1 hour.
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Please help us meet our goal of 100% participation!
It is never too late to join the PTA and the yearly membership cost is only $10.00 per person.
Application envelopes are also available in the school office. | Elementary PTA invites you to join our PTA. As a member, you will have the opportunity to get involved in large or small ways at Ellerhorst Elementary, meet other parents, and vote on PTA related activities. Anyone can become a member upon payment of $10 dues to the Ellerhorst PTA. Larger (tax-deductible) donations are welcome and provide additional support. Ellerhorst Elementary encourages you to share PTA membership information with your whole family!
You can drop by any PTA meeting throughout the year and join the team!
Support your child by bringing parents and teachers together to promote the education, health, safety and well-being of Ellerhorst students. PTA provides volunteer hours and financial support for many school activities.
PTA coordinates room parents and classroom volunteers. PTA provides a stipend to each teacher for classroom supplies and teaching materials.
PTA publishes the Ellerhorst Rattler and organizes fun family events such as the Walk-a-thon, Holiday Hot Cocoa, Book Fair, Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest, Reflections Arts Program, the After-School programs, and much more | 234 |
My illustrations are a reflection of my inner child. I can remember drawing my own characterizations of animals since I was in Kindergarten. When I was in the first grade I won a poster contest about listening. I drew animals with big ears. When the teacher announced to the entire class that I had won, I heard a classmate say, "We all know her Dad drew it." I was horrified and heart broken. It's true my Dad can draw, but he didn't help me, not one bit. Already being fearfully shy, I didn't know how to express my distress over the comment and began crying right there in front of everyone. Over the years I have realized how precious our creative lives are to us. I try to express this vulnerability as well as beauty in my art. My intention as an artist and writer is to encourage people to express themselves creatively and become more resilient to criticism, especially that dreadful inner-critic.
How are you using your creative life? Do you feel like you have one? I'd like to reassure you right now that you do. When was the last time you engaged in a creative project just for the joy of it? Sometimes I feel like we put so much pressure on ourselves to create something amazing that we never even start. It's true there are a lot of amazing creations out there. The other side of this truth is that these things were created because a whole lot of other things (things that may not have been so great) were created first. So, take the pressure off yourself and create something for the pure joy of it. No expectations.<|fim_middle|> you for sharing! | Just joy.
Bonnie Kelso writes and illustrates books that celebrate diversity, creativity, and all the special qualities that make each of us unique.
Such a beautiful and inspiring story from your life. Thank | 40 |
FREMONT — Grab your 10-gallon hat and put on your cowboy boots.
The eighth annual Broncho Billy Film Festival, a celebration of Niles' silent film industry past, kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday in the Niles district.
Festivalgo<|fim_middle|> treated to a weekend of silent films accompanied by live pianists, lectures on the early movie industry and a re-creation of a nickelodeon show with live acts, organizers said.
The festival, with events alternating between Niles Hall and Niles Edison Theater, has grown every year since its inception in 1998, Cates said.
He is the former president of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, which is sponsoring the event.
Festival highlights include Diana Serra Cary, one of the last living silent film stars, and Dorothy DeBorba, who played the character of Echo in "The Little Rascals" series, both of whom will host silent films at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Lecturers at 11 a.m. Sunday will discuss the challenges of filmmaking in the early years and of restoring the early Charlie Chaplin shorts. | ers will be | 3 |
Mervyn Peake
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Seven original drawings for an edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner published in London by Chatto and Windus, 1943. India ink and wash, average size 22 × 15 cm. By kind permission of the Estate of Mervyn Peake.
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) made his illustrations of the Ancient Mariner in 1943, while recovering from a nervous breakdown. Although an experienced artist and teacher of art, he had been illustrating books for only three years. Ride-a-Cock-Horse and other Nursery Rhymes had been published 1940, and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark a year later. Early as it is, however, Peake's extraordinary depiction of the Ancient Mariner is his finest achievement as an illustrator, and it remains perhaps the darkest and most powerful of all artistic treatments of the poem.
Peake taught himself to illustrate by studying the work of past masters: Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, George Cruickshank, William Blake, Gustave Dorþ, Albrecht Dôrer and Francisco de Goya: 'I began to realise that these men had more than a good eye, a good hand, a good brain. These qualities were not enough. Nor was compassion. Nor irony. All this they must have, but above all things there must be the power to slide into another man's soul' (Klesse 2001, p. 123). He knew the Ancient Mariner intimately (he could quote large parts of it from memory), and drew out of its dreamlike narrative a series of strange, unsettling images. The quality he conveys most vividly is suffering: of the mariner, of the albatross, of the crew, and even of the astonishing child-woman who represents Life-in-Death (illustrated on p. 110). This last drawing was not published with the poem until 1978; 'The publishers thought that it would be unfair to the general public to have them buy the book and then come across a picture like that when turning the pages', Peake explained. 'It had to come out' (ibid., p. 121).
Dark, nightmarish, even terrifying, Peake's drawings nevertheless hint at the redemptive possibilities that Coleridge<|fim_middle|>. Lewis wrote with illuminating insight to Peake on 20 July 1959:
The Mariner himself (facing page 6) [here illustrated opposite] has just the triple character I have sometimes met in nightmares – that disquieting blend of the venerable, the pitiable and the frightful. But at the same time – thanks I suppose mainly to the position of the arms – the horrid representation is a graceful thing (I give no praise to picture or story which does not fulfil both demands. What the so-to-speak 'plot' requires representationally must co-incide with what the 'thing' requires in order to be a delightful object). And that of course explains (it took me a few minutes to see this) why you represent almost exclusively the terror. Thus while few things could be nastier (in what it represents) than the picture facing p.30 [here illustrated on p. 109] the composition of it has a harmonious tranquillity. The very lines which make the mariner a hideous and rigid man simultaneously make him a shape as charming as a beech-tree. (Gilmore and Johnson 1974, p. 46)
Unlike most artists, Peake does not illustrate the celebratory, optimistic world of the bride and the wedding party; but, even so, Lewis rightly points out the spiritual poise of his drawings.
Technically, the illustrations are a tour de force. Peake uses a fine cross-hatching style that is based upon his close understanding of pencil drawing. Indeed, in 1946 he published a short book on the subject, The Craft of the Lead Pencil. 'Line can be used in many ways', he wrote. 'It can be broken. It can stutter, flow or scribble. It is language.' And, he further observed, it had to be used with an awareness of rhythm: 'When [rhythm] infuses a drawing, one cannot point it out to someone who is dead to its hypnotic influence. It interwreathes itself through the very tissue of a drawing. Every line is its slave and follows the course of its serpentine motion. However writhes the snake the scales must follow' (Gilmore and Johnson 1974, p. 57).
The illustrations were first published by Chatto and Windus in 1943. This small volume clearly suffers from wartime austerity; the drawings are greatly reduced in size, and this reduction, together with the effect of printing on slightly coarse wartime paper, tends to thicken the lines and fill in the finer cross-hatched areas. Larger reproductions were published the following year in Poetry London, but the skill and subtlety of Peake's technique can only be fully appreciated in the orginal drawings, seven of which have survived. Subsequent to their publication Peake returned to these drawings and reworked them. He added lines in pen and ink, and removed others, either obscuring them with Chinese White or scratching them out with a razor-blade. In all cases, this enhanced the vividness and drama of the original penwork. He also applied a muddy-brown wash as a background tint. The first edition to do them justice was not published until 2005, by the Libanus Press.
Peake's 1962 poem, The Rime of the Flying Bomb, refers to the Ancient Mariner in both its form and tone, but has a moral intent absent from the earlier illustrations. It tells of a drunken, disillusioned sailor who finds an abandoned baby one night during the London Blitz, and subsequently finds some kind of moral strength in a ruined church. Like Coleridge's poem, it skilfully blends elements of the natural and supernatural. | imagines in the poem but never quite captures. His figures are stranded in an obscure, desolate world, but still retain an austere dignity and gracefulness, exciting our sympathy without ever becoming merely pitiable. C.S | 45 |
Sorry Kirk Herbstreit, damn near all of the college football bowl season is meaningless
Herbstreit is of the belief that college football players should play, even if the only point is to make other people money
Kirk Herbstreit, lover of college football.
A postseason is not an exhibition, it's a tournament to declare a champion — except in major college sports. Men's college basketball has the NIT, and college football there's bowl season. Both were more prestigious decades ago, but at least no one is harping about the sanctity of the NIT anymore. College football's bowl season, that's a different story.
The number of bowls have doubled over the last 25 years and might have tripled if the NCAA hadn't put a three-year moratorium on the creation of new ones from 2016-2019. Even Jimmy Kimmel has a<|fim_middle|> the people who run the bowl games, the television executives, they're in this for the money. In a world where it grows harder by the day to get people to watch live television, they know a good number of people will always watch football and that will bring in money from advertisers.
Tradition is not a good enough reason to justify anything, but what is traditional about the host of a late night talk show having a bowl game or dumping mayonnaise on a coach to try and get more people to spread Duke's on their turkey sandwich.
The players see all of this, and Ohio State wide receiver Chris Olave is supposed to risk injury and potentially cost himself millions of dollars if he slides in the draft to play in a New Year's Day exhibition game just because it happens to be the Rose Bowl?
All Olave would be doing by playing in that game is helping Ohio State, Utah, the Rose Bowl, Capital One, the Big Ten, the Pac 12, and Disney. He has put plenty of tape out there to show that he is one of the best players available in the 2022 NFL Draft, and can do nothing to improve that in a game that is, sorry Herbstreit, meaningless.
Postseasons are meant to declare a champion. That's what the College Football Playoff does now, that's what the major bowls did when he was a player. Anything else is just an exhibition and college football has been lining its pockets with those exhibitions for decades and will continue to do so. Fortunately, these days the players know this too, and have the choice not to let their bodies be used for a cash grab, special presentation. | bowl game now.
While ESPN tries to fill its entire programming calendar, from the Heisman Trophy presentation to Wild Card Weekend, with college football games, the players are seeing the naked greed and those whose time would be better spent focusing on their future NFL careers are electing not to play in these exhibitions.
It makes sense. If players are not on one of the four teams in the College Football Playoff that have a chance at a national championship, there is no reason to risk their professional futures by playing in a game that has no meaning. However, there are still people waving a fist in the air and shouting about the tradition of bowls not being respected by the modern college football player. One of those people is ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit.
He is of the belief that there is no such thing as a meaningless college football game. Herbstreit made this point during a talk with the media on Monday, and went too far yesterday on College Gameday when he flatly said, "I think this era of player just doesn't love football."
First, Desmond Howard, you don't get a pass on this. As soon as Herbstreit finished saying football, you jumped right in with "That's what I was about to say."
After Howard finished, Rece Davis gave Herbstreit an opportunity to walk back what he said because Davis is good at his job and knows that people shouldn't make sweeping indictments like that, especially on television. Herbstreit did clarify on camera (and by tweet later) that he meant some players don't love football.
Herbstreit is a great analyst, but this take was bad not just because at first he took out an entire generation of football players, but because he's still holding on to this feeling of traditional college football as a pure crispy autumn afternoon with children drinking Dr. Pepper and rooting for the name on the front instead of the name on the back.
This business of college sports has been laid bare for decades now. The administrators, | 407 |
Darleane Christian Hoffman (born November 8, 1926) is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley. In<|fim_middle|> her husband at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory where she began as a staff member in 1953. She became Division Leader of the Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry Division (Isotope and Nuclear Chemistry Division) in 1979. She left Los Alamos in 1984 to accept appointments as tenured professor in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Leader of the Heavy Element Nuclear & Radiochemistry Group at LBNL. Additionally, she helped found the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science at LLNL in 1991 and became its first Director, serving until 1996 when she "retired" to become Senior Advisor and Charter Director.
1983 – ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry, and she was the first woman to win the award.
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This page was last edited on 11 April 2019, at 10:48 (UTC). | acknowledgment of her many achievements, Discover Magazine recognized her in 2002 as one of the 50 most important women in science.
She was born as Darleane Christian on November 8, 1926 at home in the small town of Terril, Iowa, and is the daughter of Carl B. and Elverna Clute Christian. Her father was a mathematics teacher and superintendent of schools; her mother wrote and directed plays.
When she was a freshman in college at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), she took a required chemistry course taught by Nellie May Naylor, and decided to pursue further study in that field. She received her B. S. (1948) and Ph. D. (1951) degrees in chemistry (nuclear) from Iowa State University.
Darleane C. Hoffman was a chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a year and then joined | 192 |
The SMU-X Initiative is an experient<|fim_middle|> work that had real application.
Industry partners were also positive as they saw SMU-X as a way to bridge the gap between academia and industry, and they found it interesting to get fresh perspectives on issues that they faced. They thought that an additional benefit was that SMU-X courses acted like a guided internship and allowed students to experience a real work environment, but under the direct supervision of a faculty member. Companies also got to know potential hires better and vice versa, allowing for a better fit between employee and company. Faculty benefited from the experience as well. Many felt that working with industry partners and the rich data gained from the projects gave them research ideas and supported their research in other ways. | ial approach to learning that encourages students to step out of silos to collaborate in an interdiscplinary and hands-on way.
One of the founding principles of SMU is to provide a model of education that is innovative and relevant to the business community and to Singapore's economy. Since its founding in 2000, the university has strived to adhere to this principle through initiatives such as SMU-X. SMU-X was motivated by the desire to better prepare students for the economy of the 21st century, as the scale and complexity of the challenges faced by the world and today's graduates are unprecedented. Sometimes, solutions come not from a single field, but from collaboration between people who bring different perspectives, training, and experiences to bear.
Also, the student profile has changed. The SMU student today sees the need to connect across school boundaries, uses technology with ease, and wants the university to keep up with their learning on the go. More learning takes place out of the classroom today. A student on campus spends almost twice the amount of time working outside the classroom than in the classroom.
Universities are traditionally good at tackling problems that are deep but rarely look at problems that are broad. To bring about a change in mindset that is oriented towards breadth, SMU-X provides the platform and the infrastructure for faculty and students to work actively with the community and with research centres at the university. This is accomplished through the SMU-X pedagogy, as well as space that is designed specifically for it.
The SMU-X pedagogy is built on four principles: (1) experiential learning; (2) an interdisciplinary approach; (3) active mentoring; and iv) a tripartite learning loop for faculty, students, and industry partners. An SMU-X course is a structured 14-week course that combines academic theory with experiential learning. It involves the tackling of real unresolved issues that benefit from a interdisciplinary approach. We partner with industry, non-profit organizations, and government agencies in the development of course content and project outlines. Partners and faculty are also involved in mentoring students.
While students get the opportunity to apply theory to real world problems, faculty benefit from getting a better understanding of practical issues and concerns. Our partners also get the opportunity to glean fresh insights and advances in theory and methods that might be usefully applied to challenges that they face. Complementing SMU-X courses are spaces that support collaborative learning. These SMU- X facilities are equipped with technology to facilitate interactive discussions and presentations, are open 24/7, and have living spaces that allow students to fully immerse themselves in the problem they are tackling.
Students have commented that SMU-X courses are very challenging, given the fact that they had real clients to manage and expectations to live up to. Despite how intense and time-consuming these courses are, the overall feedback has been positive. Students appreciated that it made for a richer learning experience and also loved the fact that they were involved in | 607 |
From the beginning at James T. Davis, we have focused on our customers, letting their need for so much more than paint, grow our business. In 1936, James T. Davis Sr. founded the James<|fim_middle|> premier sources for both beautiful colors and reliable, quality paint products.
With this promise, we celebrate the opportunity to continue serving Central Virginia for another 75 years and beyond. | T. Davis brand with a single store in downtown Lynchburg. Later, in 1967, we built a paint manufacturing facility on Candler's Mountain Road. This expansion developed from a desire to produce the highest quality paints for the store to distribute. From the beginning, Mr. Davis and his family took pride in offering great service, excellent products and expert advice.
In 1980, we opened our James T. Davis Paint Center retail location. Homeowners, contractors, and automotive customers found the paints, stains, and supplies for any project within our inviting doors. Eventually, this location became a core part of our many offerings; an expanded storefront allows us the privilege of helping customers select the best product for their project.
Under their leadership, our brand has grown into one of the | 162 |
The popular software provider Yggdrasil has announced that they<|fim_middle|> are in Malta, and also has a couple of smaller offices in Poland and Gibraltar. They already managed to acquire gambling licences from the biggest authorities in the world including the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Malta and even Romania.
The supplier has had an incredible year so far, it formed partnerships with casino giants such as Bet365, was granted licences from key jurisdictions and even received numerous accolades.
Fredrik Elmqvis who is currently the CEO of Yggdrasil shared that Stockholm is the hometown of most of his employees, and the capital established itself as an internet gaming center for the last few years.
Earlier this week, the software company rolled out the latest addition to their slot machine section, called "Super Heroes". It is a mid-apocalyptic setting, with aliens threatening to destroy our planet, and superheroes rescuing everyone and bringing the player's experience to new heights. There are even special features, which boost the winnings and make the overall experience even more enjoyable. | will create a parent company in order to support the company's growth, they also aim to become a leader in the industry.
In addition a significant part of the developer's strategy is to expand their presence in Stockholm since it has a reputation of one of the best technology destinations in the world. The company stated earlier today that its plan starts with looking for professionals for the new graphic teams they are assembling in the beautiful Scandinavian city.
Yggdrasil currently specializes in creating and also providing of both desktop and mobile gambling games. It has been an independent entity since it was established. The company headquarters | 118 |
Ask the Expert: Why Can't I Get Muscle Definition?
By Jamie Ducharme·
Welcome to our Ask the Expert series, in which our panel of health experts answers your wellness questions. Here, trainer Parker Cote tells you how to get lean, defined muscles. Got a question of your own? Email [email protected].
Photo via istock.com/gpointstudio
To achieve lean and defined muscles, do I need a supplement or a shake after or before working out? I work out five days a week (HIIT, spinning, cardio and weights, yoga sculpt) but I am not able to get my body to be nicely defined. What should I be doing differently?—A.S., Boston
While it doesn't have to be in the form of a supplement or shake, you should be getting protein after a workout if you want to gain muscle, Cote says.
"When you're working out, the fibers in your muscles are ripping apart," he explains. "If you just go home and sit on the couch and maybe have dinner a few hours later, your muscles are screaming."
Giving them what they want—fast-digesting carbohydrates and protein—shortly after exercising helps you refuel, recover, and build more muscle. Liquids, like a whey protein shake or chocolate milk, can be a convenient and easily digestible way to get these nutrients, but solid food works, too. Bread and white rice are examples of fast-digesting carbs, while protein can be found in meats, dairy products, nuts and nut butters, tofu, and so on.
It's also smart to eat a meal incorporating slow-digesting carbs—think brown rice, whole grains, and sweet potatoes—and protein two to three hours before a workout, Cote adds. "You just want something that's going to give you good, clean energy for a workout," he says.
What you eat is only half the battle, though. Cote says it's also worth reevaluating what you do at the gym—namely prioritizing strength-training before cardio.
"Less is more sometimes," he says. "Me, personally, I don't do cardio more than three times a week."
To get that coveted, defined look, Cote recommends swapping one cardio workout per week for another day of resistance training, using either weights or your own bodyweight. If you are using weights, upping the pounds over time will also help build muscle.
"Periodization—increasing the resistance, or just changing the exercises around—could definitely help you improve," Cote says. "You have to switch it up."
About the Expert: Parker Cote is a personal trainer and the owner of Parker Cote Elite Fitness. As a fitness model, Parker has appeared on 24 magazine covers across the globe. He has also<|fim_middle|> featured in more than 250 magazines including Men's Health, Men's Fitness, GQ, Cosmopolitan, ESPN, and Maxim, and on the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda. He is a writer and fitness expert for Men's Fitness, and has written dozens of articles for major fitness publications worldwide.
He is passionate about teaching clients how to make fitness a fun part of their lives. His goal as a trainer is to help people experience the benefits of a fit and healthy lifestyle while maintaining balance in all aspects of life. He has certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the International Sports Sciences Association.
Got a question for our experts? Email [email protected].
Source URL: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2017/07/12/how-to-get-muscle-definition/ | been | 1 |
The Workabout Australia Website has a number of different listing sections where jobs and business opportunities can be listed.
The description below will enable you to correctly identify the most appropriate section for you.
Working Trail Advice: These are year long advertisements to assist<|fim_middle|> Tourism: This section has been established to bring employers in the Hospitality and Tourism sector in contact with suitably qualified and experienced staff.
Rural & Primary Industry: This section is to cater for Australia's vast and diverse rural & primary industries.
Transport & Storage: Australia's transport and storage industries have expanded considerably over recent years. It is hoped this section will assist both employers and experienced people.
To search for vacancies enter your search criteria or click on the relevant state on the map. | people wishing to plan a working trail. It tells when and where work is available and remains on the website all the time. The same vacancy could appear in other listing areas when they are available for referral.
Seasonal Vacancies: This section features current seasonal vacancies where employers are looking for enquiries. These positions are ready to be filled and where an immediate enquiry could lead to obtaining a position.
General Vacancies: This section features permanent vacancies that exist in any industry and in a specific location.
Trade's Trek: With the acute skill shortages that exist across Australia this section is to advise of trades and special skills jobs. This section also promotes vacancies where employers are keen to attract skilled people to an area or location for short term or contract work.
Business Opportunities: This section lists business opportunities and businesses for sale.
Hospitality & | 164 |
First Drive was started<|fim_middle|> afterwards. | in 2015 and is now run by David and Will. Both highly respected and highly qualified Instructors. The company was formed in Sidmouth and has expanded into Exeter and the surrounding areas.
First Drive has established itself as one of the leading schools in the area for its friendly approachable coaching backed up with strong qualifications.
With our high record of success for learner drivers we now training instructors to help you share our passion for a job we love.
Being a driving instructor is a rewarding and flexible career path that people from all backgrounds and previous circumstances choose to make.
Coaching people to achieve a life skill is a rewarding job. You get to choose when you work and can fit your work schedule around other commitments or family. You also choose how many hours you work so the sky is the limit for your earnings.
Become your own boss, run a business with your own personality, energy and ideas behind it.
First Drive Southwest is developing an exciting programme so that you can develop your own business and learn how to train and develop instructors to work for your business. This project will be available shortly, please get in contact for more information.
We offer 1:1 confidential standards check training. This can be used to develop your skills or act as a refresher.
I have been to other driving schools but not received the dedication and effort provided here.
Will was very professional and I could tell he was an expert driving instructor.
Will is an excellent instructor, currently preparing for my ADI part 2 and he's a great help. Nothing is too much trouble, he's very clear and supportive and makes things seem so much easier than first thought.
It's clear Will has a huge amount of knowledge when it comes to driving and everything that comes with it.
Felt the preparation we did and areas we covered left me well prepared for the test as well as being ready for what was to come | 382 |
Meeting Jody Scheckter: 1979 F1 Champion
Forty years ago, Jody Scheckter clinched the F1 World Championship for Ferrari. Here, he remembers making history for us
"It was a relief!" grins Jody Scheckter. He sealed his 1979 F1 World Championship win at Monza in Italy, leading his team-mate across the line and making history with an almost-perfect victory. But like many champions, Jody's first thought was simply satisfaction at having finally realised his dream with Ferrari. A year later, Scheckter bought his title-winning Ferrari 312 T4 racer. Today, it is housed in his collection at Laverstoke Park Farm, Scheckter's thriving organic farming business in Hampshire, England, the pride of his stable.
Life after F1 has been busy for Jody and he admits he's now trying to make time to enjoy it. When<|fim_middle|> he takes time to do so. "Driving for Ferrari was one thing, but winning for Ferrari was incredible. I'm an incredibly lucky guy".
312 F1 Car
Gilles Villeneuve
Ferrari 312 T4
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Scheckter | we meet, he pauses for a few moments, gazes at his car, and the memories come flooding back. "I had a fantastic time at Ferrari. I'd been speaking to them for several years, but finally signed in 1978 for the following two years.
People told me, 'Jody, you'll never get on at Ferrari', but I ignored them… and loved my time driving for the Scuderia". Racing teams tested a lot in those days, Jody explained. "For years, I'd driven for British teams. In England, you tested, and at lunchtime had some white bread and a few pickles, then carried on. In Italy, you tested… then had pasta, great food, conversations and laughter… but the afternoon lap times were always slower until 4pm!". Jody's team-mate at Ferrari was the legendary Gilles Villeneuve.
"Gilles and I got on great. We were good friends, respectful of one another.The press were always trying to get drivers to fight, but we said to one another, 'we're not going to bother with any of that nonsense', and had a super relationship". Both drivers lived in Monaco, and regularly travelled to Fiorano, Italy, for testing. Tales abound of Gilles' exuberant high-speed drives to Maranello and Jody was wise to it. "I only travelled with Gilles once, and I said to him, 'don't start doing any of that stuff', and he listened.
Scheckter in action on his Ferrari 312 T4, during his 1979 title-winning year Photo: Getty Images
Until we got about 10km from the factory, and then the slides and squeals started…" He pauses at the front of the car. "You know, my biggest success in racing was getting out alive. Ferrari built safe cars, but in those days it was bad. I was lucky. Winning the title made me very happy – that's why I wanted to drive for Ferrari, as I knew the team was fast." Jody's first victory for Ferrari came at the Spa Francorchamps race in Belgium, followed up with a classic win in Monaco, and he continued to tactically gather points during the summer of 1979. The title-winning race at Monza was a celebration.
The grandstands were packed and the Ferraris thrilled from the off by blasting into the lead. Jody's victory saw the circuit erupt with joy, and was even more fitting because it was Scuderia Ferrari's 300th race.Jody raced on the next year, then retired to go into business. His beautiful Laverstoke Park Farm complex has grown into an organic specialist: "We make the best buffalo mozzarella!". Our time is up. Jody stands, gazing fondly at his race-winning, title-winning Ferrari. "We still run it, for charity events and special shows.
Jody still owns and drives his title-winning Ferrari 312 T4 Photo: CarFest
The flat-12 engine revved to 12,000rpm and it sounds incredible – the best on the grid. By modern standards, it looks so simple, but it was quick, and a wonderful car to race. You could get it sideways – and I liked sliding cars". We wave goodbye to Jody, who departs for his next meeting with a smile and a cheery wave.
Forty years on, he remains as ambitious and driven as ever. His relief in 1979 is today a fond memory he can savour, and he ensures | 744 |
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I really don't know how anyone could see a similarity between the UK and the EU, beyond the word "union". One is a four-nation union that has been in some kind of union for many centuries, with all four nations sharing at least some common culture. The other is a 28 member continental superstate encompassing lots of different cultures, languages, territories, most of which have never been in union until the formation of the EEC.
The UK isn't even comparable to Yugoslavia, a much smaller superstate than the EU. Even Yugoslavia was unworkable. And even Czechoslovakia was too much for the nations involved. Throughout history, we see superstates fail. The UK isn't a superstate. It was when it was an empire, but now it's a mere country. Maybe the Scots view it differently, time will tell.
I don't have any emotional connection to the UK. See my location - England not UK. I consider myself more English than British. My British status is more formal than cultural. I'm English. That's not a choice, it's where I was born and have lived all my life. English is my nationality, if I have anything that can be considered an emotional connection it's that, and even that's tenuous because it's not like I'm a proud Englishman with a St George's Flag waving out my window. When it comes to football, I guess I am a proud Englishman... I definitely support the England football team in major tournaments, and I definitely share in the national embarrassment when our fans make fools of the nation.
I don't have a problem with England being a member of the UK because it's a logical union, at least with regards to England Scotland and Wales... one island landmass. I suppose I do have something of a moral issue with the Northern Ireland status... that's a colony, land taken from the Irish, but there's no easy solution to that one and it's not something that directly affects me so I keep my nose out of it. But the rest of the UK, so long as it's democratically acceptable to all parties, it's not a problem. If Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the union, England and Wales will remain in union, almost guaranteed. There are some nationalist Welsh who want independence, but they are very far from a democratic majority and I don't see that ever changing.
The EU for me is far more comparable to the Soviet Union than the UK. There are of course major differences... the Soviet Union was utterly dominated by Russia, with Moscow being the capital, while the EU is not dominated by one country, and odes not have one single capital, even though Germany does have more influence than any other member state. But the similarities are that both were huge unions made up from several distinct cultures, many of which have nothing in common except the fact they are in a union.
There's nothing wrong with working closely with your regional neighbours. There's nothing wrong with being friends. My problem with the EU was never the economic relationship... it was the political aspect of it. Unfortunately it proved to be the case that you couldn't have one without the other. That's a problem that Scotland are facing... is it worth being in an economic relationship with England at the cost of political integration? That's for them to decide.
I guess I don't have a problem with the UK because England dominates, which might sound selfish but it's probably more ignorance of the political problems of being a member of the UK. But I at least appreciate why Scotland has a serious decision to make, and it's why I would respect a democratic decision to leave.
Looking forward to when all the benefits start rolling in.
https://news.sky.com/story/bp-priori...snt-sf-twitter
I just think we should suspend judgment on Boris until we have all the facts through an inquiry, police investigation, and parliamentary commission.
I'd like to be called Lord Poopy His Most Gloriously Excellent.
Just out of curiosity, would you be opposed to relaxing immigration rules to allow EU drivers to return? 'Cause that would certainly help.
I never voted for Brexit to stop immigration. Having control of immigration is a subtle difference. Being a member state of the EU, we didn't have any choice but to accept migrants from within the EU (legal citizens of course). Now we do. I'm absolutely fine with us using that choice to accept migrants. And I'm fine with people who work here for long enough gaining citizenship. I'm also fine with us refusing to grant work VISAs to those who don't speak English. Does a lorry driver need to speak English? It definitely helps. I need to speak French if I want to work in France. I don't consider that an unreasonable expectation.
I voted for sovereignty, remember. I didn't vote to tell migrants to fuck off. Some people probably did, but that's not me, and it's not any Brexit voter I personally know.
I wonder how many of those lorry drivers who went back to the EU spoke English well enough to do their job; I'm guessing all of them or they wouldn't have been working here in the first place.
The current immigration policy is points-based, they have to earn 70 points to be eligible. They can earn 20 of those points if they're considered to be in a shortage occupation, but it's still mandatory they have a sponsor, an English certificate, and a "job at an appropriate skill level" (whatever that means).
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-for-employers
But, rather than be sensible and declare HGV drivers a shortage occupation, the gov't is kowtowing to anti-immigration zealots amongst their supporters who did vote Brexit to stop immigration. Seems a bit retarded imo.
I'm guessing all of them or they wouldn't have been working here in the first place.
Well, nearly all, I'm not disputing this.
Well on this we can agree. It's retarded because as best as I can tell, the vast majority of people who have any sort of problem with immigration tend to oppose Islamic immigration or uneducated migrants fleeing France by any means possible, not Polish lorry drivers who are here legally and are paying UK tax. Yes there are a small number of people who just don't like any kind of foreigner, but genuinely, this is a small demographic.
Not sure why Boris would feel the need to appease such people, it's not going to swing an election.
Our Churchill.
https://twitter.com/adbritton/status...56055399866373
If you listen closely, you can hear the audience cringing.
Fuel shortage. Gov't tells people not to panic buy. Naturally, everyone immediately goes to fill up their cars.
The good thing about fuel is it's not easy to stock up like bog roll. Once you've filled up, all you can do is top up, so you can't exasperate the problem after your initial fill up.
This will blow over pretty quickly.
On form today...
Exacerbate.
Yeah it's not like you can hoard fuel. But, if there's a) a shortage of fuel; and b) everyone fuels up sooner than they normally would, then that's not going to be a good situation.
I don't know literally every word in the English dictionary, I trusted the lack of red underline. I guess exasperated means open mouth shocked, now I think about it.
We've had fuel problems before, it's actually quite nice to have super quiet roads. And it cleans the air up a bit. I mean, we got through covid lockdowns, I suspect we'll get over this.
Did you watch that Lawrence vid? Even you might find that one amusing.
You can find any pattern you want to any level of precision you want, if you're prepared to ignore enough data.
I'm not so sure Brexit is to blame for the lorry driver shortage.
For clarity, there isn't a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK, we have hundreds of thousands of them (inc' me !!), but whether we choose to drive them is another matter. Poor pay, poor conditions, over-regulation etc etc, are the issues right now.
I'm a tanker driver but because they've removed our overtime bonus I'm gonna sit at home all day drinking cans watching the Ryder cup.
According to the RHA only 50% of HGV drivers are active.
That and huge delays to re-activate lapsed licences or test those who've been training. The work of Remainer civil servants, helping big business put pressure on Govt to allow cheap EU drivers to keep working here, guaranteeing wages and conditions stay low?
I've had one for yrs but hardly used it, and doubt I will again, I did try it the pay and conditions were abhorrent,the cheap labour dragged the standards/wages down, now that's all gone they need to raise their game a decent hgv driver should earn the same as a spark or plumber
Got my HGV... But no way am I doing that CPC thing. Stuff that.
yup had a licence gathering dust for years. CPC nonsense put me right off and less pay than when I did it briefly in the 90s!
So basically it's not a HGV driver shortage per se, it's a labour shortage because the working conditions have got so shit that they might as well just drive a van. And those worsening working conditions are directly related to membership of the EU... cheap labour coming from poorer areas, people who spend their wages in places where the cost of living is cheaper, and are therefore earning more relative income.
You can't blame the European workers for getting what work they can, but you can blame the economic model that drives down wages.
Without googling, exasperated is more like frustrated/agitated isn't it. My ex was 'murican and I corrected her spelling/grammar all the time, though for sure her vocabulary was wider.
I just googled it and we're both right. It means irritated. But it also means to "make worse", that is, it is a synonym of exacerbate. So my original usage of the word was fine.
The "open mouthed shocked" definition is a bit vague, but I was thinking along the lines of someone gasping out of shock, like if they were insulted. So... just about.
The Bean Counter
Reality is the HGV shortage is caused by a number of factors. COVID causing a shortage and backlog of tests, Brexit and COVID reducing the available labour, poor planning for Brexit that didn't address the likely immediate impact of Brexit, then throw in unattractive working conditions.
While £50k per year seems decent on face value for driving a lorry and not having a lot of stress or danger (£50k is more than 90% of the population earn), being away from home isn't great. But if your alternative is £20k then it's got to be worth considering. The real problem brewing is that the average age of a driver is 55. We needed a better plan for this five years ago.
I think £50k is a media number they like to throw around, but they're working 60+ hours a week and I still think it's the high end rather than average. But what do I know? Only what I can be arsed to read on Twitter.
Some parties are delighted with these problems. I don't think the "I told you so" crew are delighted, but those who actively want to rejoin the EU will be because it's ammunition for them. But if you scratch under the surface you see there's a lot more to it.
Seems like the Tories are going to relax their position on European HGV drivers, but that might not be the solution we all think it will be. Depends if they can earn more than in Europe, because if not, why bother? There's an EU-wide shortage of HGV drivers (same reasons... unfavourable working conditions and overregulation), so they're not going to be short of work.
What's HGV ?
HGV means heavy goods vehicle. £40k-£50k is the going rate.
Legal max in the UK is 90 hours over two weeks, which is rigidly enforced by logistics companies. BUT...that's the driving time. Speaking to somebody that works for DHL recently, their drivers start out at a depot from Nottingham at 4am and get to the depot in Suffolk a few hours later. They then sleep in their cabs until taking the lorry back in the evening. Not a great lifestyle, but plenty of people do it. The comparison I guess is going three months on, three months off on oil rigs or overseas infrastructure projects. They typically pay more than HGV.
Really? USA use acronyms like SUV and RV but not HGV? Oh turns out they just say LGV, large instead of heavy.
Google tells me the average salary for a HGV driver in the UK is £32,919
https://www.reed.co.uk/average-salar...-driver-salary
There are some jobs listed at £55k though
I was a hgv driver for 25 years and we was shat on from a great height. The Eastern Europe driver influx drove my job down from £220 per day to £80 per day. I walked away !!!Now I sit back laughing my fucking head off
Obviously these quotes are just tweets pulled up, but I don't find them<|fim_middle|>gh, freedom!"
I can say with some confidence the vaccine is ineffective because my vaxed housemate is currently isolating with confirmed covid.
Your anecdote with n=1 obviously trumps the reams of data from around the world that the vaccine is effective.
Like I said, I'm putting my trust in scientists. Just like I put my trust in engineers to build bridges I can walk or drive over without them collapsing. Just like I put my trust in my doctor when he prescribes me exercises for my bad back. This is no different to me.
And I have no idea what "medical privacy" even means. It sounds like a buzzword people made up to justify not taking a vaccine for some other reason.
Originally Posted by mojo
Here's the thing... vaccinated people are much more likely to let their guard down. They are more likely to spread the virus because they think they are immune. If I get so much as a runny nose, I'm isolating and testing. So you can use words like "ass" but I don't think that's fair. I am not going to spread the virus because I know I am not vaccinated and am taking more precautions.
If you choose not to get vaccinated, then no, you shouldn't be allowed inside public places.
Why? Who is the vaccine protecting? What you're saying here is a punishment for not protecting myself. If the vaccine is safe and effective, then vaccinated people shouldn't care if I am or am not vaccinated.
From what I'm reading, vaccinated people who get covid are significantly less likely to suffer from a fever. That's not a good thing. Fever is a natural defence to a virus... it increases body temperature so the body can better fight the virus. If I get covid, I want a fever.
The vaccine is free and widely available and your right to control your body is fine, but it comes with consequences.
If these consequences are limited to the time when the virus is actually rampant, fine. But if these consequences are for life, this isn't fine. A mostly vaccinated population should end the pandemic, if it doesn't this is clear evidence the vaccination is ineffective.
FFS, you already have many vaccines.
Yes, I do. Vaccines that were tested for many years before I had them.. And vaccines I do not have to prove I have had to go to a festival.
The stupid politicization of the vaccine in today's world is asinine.
Blind faith in government and pharma is asinine to me. You can dismiss that by referring to "science" instead, but if you're telling me that the science says the vaccine is effective, yet the vaccine is not ending the pandemic despite the vast majority of the population being vaccinated, then you should be questioning the science. Why aren't you? That seems political too.
but when your method of assitude puts other people's lives at risk, then no, you can't go into crowded, indoor spaces to spread a respiratory disease.
I'm not putting other people's lives at risk, no more than anyone else is. Vaccinated people can spread the virus too. Vaccinated people won't be taking the same precautions I will be because they think they won't spread the virus.
If I do get the virus, chances are very high that I got it off a vaccinated person. Did that person put my life at risk? Are they an ass?
If I ignore symptoms and carry on mixing with the general population, then yes I am being an ass. But I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing.
People are dying. If you don't care, fine.
Of course I care. I have not told anyone not to have the vaccine. I am not an antivaxer shouting on twitter.
Don't argue that it's moral to not care about people dying, though.
I'm saying it's immoral to socially exclude people who don't have the vaccine, at least long term. Yes the pandemic is ongoing, so curtailed liberties at this time is not something I have a problem with. But it's a problem if these restrictions continue after the pandemic is over. And, like I said previously, if the vaccine does not end the pandemic, it is ineffective.
If I were to invite you for dinner, would it be acceptable for me to demand you prove your AIDS status before letting you into my house?
Your health is none of my business. Your vaccination status is none of my business. These are private matters. I don't think I have any right to enquire into any aspect of your health. That's medical privacy.
Originally Posted by boost
I'm not disputing this, but neither am I blindly accepting it as fact.
Mutations should be a good thing, best I understand it. A virus is evolving because to be successful, it wants to be more contagious and less damaging to its host. The perfect virus is very easily transmitted between people, without being noticed at all.
I'm not a virologist though, and presumably neither is anyone else here.
That depends if you're planning to shag me or not.
If I'm about to have sex with someone should I not be allowed to ask them if they have an STD?
It's a communicable disease. I don't care about your so-called "privacy" if you're going to spew covid germs in my face, and I don't expect anyone to care about mine either.
You might cut yourself. AIDS isn't just an STD.
And no, I don't think it's all that appropriate to ask someone you're about to have sex with if they have an STD. Rather, you should be fucking people you trust enough to tell you unprompted.
I've asked a girl if she's on the pill, but never if she has an STD. That's really going to kill the moment.
I don't care about your so-called "privacy" if you're going to spew covid germs in my face
The problem with this is that you're basically assuming that unvaccinated = infected, while vaccinated = not infected. This is incredibly naive and only serves to support my claim that vaccinated people let their guard down.
A vaccinated person with their guard down is less risk to society than an unvaccinated person with their guard up. This is a respiratory disease. It spreads via spit you exhale as moisture in the air. That moisture is a gas. Gasses expand and dilute to fill the volume containing them. When outdoors, that's great. Plenty of room to expand into and dry out and die before getting to another person's lungs. In a closed room, we're all breathing the same air. The odds that spit from your lungs makes it into someone else's lungs is almost guaranteed.
You don't need physical contact, or blood contact. You only need to inhale an invisible amount of moisture.
That's why an unvaccinated person shouldn't be allowed in indoor spaces during a respiratory pandemic.
Not suffering from a fever means the infection you're experiencing is not threatening your life to the point where your body is willing to self-immolate in an effort to kill the virus before killing itself. Having a fever is not something you want. Having a fever means your body cannot fight the infection with anti-bodies and it has to resort to more extreme measures. Those measures can damage your own cells, can cause brain damage if the fever is too high for too long.
I agree, that if the pandemic ends and the vaccine requirement stays, that'd be wrong. It's purely hypothetical at this time.
COVID vaccines have been put to the general public and billions of people have received the vaccine. What greater "safety" trial can you cite from the history of vaccination? Sure, 2 years ago the vaccine was totally untested. But not anymore.
Your failure to look at what scientists and epidemiologists are saying about the effectiveness of the vaccine is on you. I agree that trusting politicians, the pharma companies, or the media to get this information is sketchy at best. There are real experts who, in the course of their professional licensing have sworn to "do no harm" talking, too. Please learn what they have to say and what THEY mean when they say the vaccine is effective. "Effective" doesn't mean 100% perfect. It means you're much safer with the vaccine than without it.
I have explained how being in a crowded indoor space is putting everyone there at risk. If you catch the disease from someone taking what measures they have been advised to take to prevent you getting sick, then no, you can't really blame them for a microscopic, invisible thing getting from them to you. However, if they're pissing and moaning about how your health and not being infected is beneath their sense of personal freedom, then yeah. Their bravado and idiocy has infected you with a potentially fatal disease and they claim it's their right to do that to you, then fuck them.
Again, I agree that if these restrictions persist after the virus is eradicated, then that would be a new problem to fight against. Right now, that is still a hypothetical. Right now, people are still dying to COVID. Right now, the experts in stopping this are saying to get a vaccine and practice social distancing and wear a mask when indoors. | any less worthy of trust then MSM articles.
Joining the EU created the problem, leaving the EU compounded it. Many people on the left have socialist views, yet when it comes to cheap labour their views are more right leaning than they care to admit. Cheap labour benefits the haulage companies, not the drivers.
You could argue that joining the EU created a lot of new jobs for HGV drivers. The free movement of labour ensured downward pressure on wages, which is good for making UK goods competitive. Obviously not great for drivers in the short term, but good for everybody else that works for those companies in the longer term.
What a lot of companies in the UK will now be doing is moving their production and distribution base into Europe to ease the current problems. That's not good for anybody in the UK. The company I work for saw this coming (increasing red tape, delays, tax implications) and already shifted a lot of fulfilment to mainland Europe, resulting in job losses at our distributors. But in other news, the job market in my profession is buoyant after nothing for 18 months. Really difficult to parse out what is covid downturn, covid bounceback, brexit and wider economic issues in all of this.
I suppose there's there's question in all of this of what's a fair wage for a lorry driver. Supply and demand obviously dictates, but being paid greater than 90% of the population seems like a bubble for relatively low skilled work. The reality at the moment though is you could advertise £150k pw for drivers once they get their licence and it wouldn't matter - they just can't get tested quickly enough.
Yeah, I'm a socialist but that doesn't mean I think a HGV driver should make more than I do after I went to university for 8 years while living on a pittance, and they trained for a few months and passed the "driving a big truck backwards" test. It's good that their wages will go up, because it's a shitty job. But that increase is not exactly a "Brexit benefit" the way the gov't is spinning it because the ones who end up paying for those higher wages are the consumers. Inflation is forecast to hit 4% next year and a lot of people aren't getting raises because of covid.
The real problem is that the shortage is greater here than anywhere, and that is only because of Brexit and all the EU drivers that fucked off and didnt come back. So yah the wages will have to go up and/or the gov't will have to do other things. They've just announced they made HGV drivers essential workers for the purposes of immigration, which might have some positive benefit. Whatever, things can't go on the way they are now because the reserves of everything are eventually going to run out and then we'll really be fucked.
Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
What a lot of companies in the UK will now be doing is moving their production and distribution base into Europe to ease the current problems.
Not all businesses have that option of course. The uni I work at is finding it hard to recruit enough students to make up for the ones who won't come from the EU anymore because of the hassle, so it's cutting some departments (not mine, thankfully, at least not yet).
This is how they attract workers.
https://twitter.com/MichaelLamberta/...13174798704641
Actually, not sure if that's real of not, but this is:
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Every petrol station near where I live out of fuel. Am seriously considering switching to a hybrid electric/sovereignty.
Hybrids are pointless. Fully EV = +EV.
Hybrids make sense if you're somewhere where electric charging points aren't common, but sovereignty is everywhere.
https://orynski.eu/20-reasons-why-th...ers-in-the-uk/
People thinking that electric means the end of panic queueing is quite funny. Fun fact - it takes a lot longer to charge a car than fill it with petrol. There's also far more petrol pumps that electric charging points.
Obviously you'll be fine if you can charge your car up from home... providing China doesn't turn off our nuclear power plants.
Fun fact - it takes a lot longer to charge a car than fill it with petrol.
Fun fact - most people have a source of electric fuel in their homes they can plug their car into overnight, what they don't have it is a petrol pump.
Sure everyone has plugs, how many people park on public roads though since they don't have private parking?
If you don't have that problem, you're good.
Extension cords exist. Unless you're parking more than 30 ft away from your house you can probably manage it.
Not saying it wouldn't be a huge pain and I wouldn't run out to buy electric if that was the situation I was in, but in the current circumstances I'd prefer to do that than drive around looking for a petrol station that actually had fuel.
The best part of this is the 33% of people who think the HGV driver shortage is the fault of the previous Labour gov't.
Labour was last in power 11 years ago, in 2010. That is one hell of a delayed effect.
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/s...11962055413762
I thought you needed a special outlet installed to charge electric cars. Like, they don't just plug into the standard mains outlet, you need a special outlet installed - presumably to handle higher voltages and/or currents than your standard wall outlet.
Granted, if you've purchased something that costs thousands of dollars, then the additional cost of hundreds to greatly enhance the utility of that big purchase seems like a no-brainer to me.
Originally Posted by poop
Extension cords exist.
You can't seriously think it will be ok to have extension cables running from houses to cars parked on the road? You might get away with it if you live on a quiet road and park right outside your house, but it will still be frowned upon, probably by curtain twitchers and traffic wardens. It'll be a tripping hazard for pedestrians.
mojo, I don't think it will be a standard plug like you get on your kettle but one should be able to buy an appropriate charger for home charging.
I thought you needed a special outlet installed to charge electric cars.
I read you can use a standard outlet but they take a lot longer, like 10 hours to charge. Should be fine tho if you're charging overnight.
You can't seriously think it will be ok to have extension cables running from houses to cars parked on the road? It'll be a tripping hazard for pedestrians.
£20 at workplace depot.
Yeah like people are going to buy one of those. And like a traffic warden won't be a dick and give you a ticket anyway.
You can plug an EV into a regular socket. Charge at about 10 miles per hour. The superchargers do 200 miles in 15 mines, but the best charger for home and office use is 50 per hour.
I've seen extension cables running from hotel rooms to cars. It's only a matter of time before hotels and offices are forced to provide charging points by demand and they will also be dotted along pavements. I'll be going EV when my diesel is knackered in a few years. You might not even be able to buy a combustion engine in the UK by 2025.
Wonder how many EU HGV drivers they're going to lure over here to work for 3 months and get kicked out on xmas eve? I'm guessing it's a number somewhere between zero and none.
Can't wait to hear about the next great idea they come up with to solve the problem.
You know this problem was completely manageable until the media told everyone not to panic buy, right? That was what triggered this. What do you suppose motivated the media to suggest people don't panic buy? I'm going to go out on a limb and say an anti-Brexit agenda.
Also if I were a European temp driver working in the UK, I'd want to fuck off back home for Christmas. Who wants to be stuck here instead of with the family in Poland?
Yeah, the media played a big part in it. But the shortages were real, they just got overhyped. And Boris telling people not to panic buy was the final trigger.
Why would they come here in the first place on a 3 month contract? They're in high demand everywhere.
Yes you're right, the UK is not the only place experiencing driver shortages.
And also, why indeed would they come here when we don't have the services to make their life on the road particularly pleasant?
What's interesting though is these problems are not new, they didn't suddenly emerge the day we left the EU. We've always had crap roadside services, mainland Europe was always a better place for HGV drivers to work. Even British drivers are happier when they're driving in Europe. There's been high demand across Europe for many years. So why did the European drivers come to work here in the first place?
So why did the European drivers come to work here in the first place?
Maybe they had family here, and were hoping to settle? Dunno. But they were here, and now they're gone, and offering them a short-term contract for the privelege of coming back is not going to work.
So that's another soon-to-be failed plan. Add that to the pile of failed solutions like pretending there isn't a problem, increasing the limit on hours, making the tests easier, and bringing in the Army.
It's going to be an interesting winter.
Our current gov't has a pattern of pretending problems don't exist, waiting until they get too big to ignore, and then acting surprised that the experts' predictions came true. It's true of the pandemic and it's true of the HGV shortage.
There's also the fact that they are politically tied to Brexit and so feel they have to deny it's causing any problems for the UK. A lot of people foresaw the shortage of labour in several domains and instead of getting in front of the problems years in advance the gov't just tried to whitewash everything, cross their fingers and hope for the best.
They are essentially turning a few significant but treatable problems into a series of long-term handicaps for the country.
It will indeed be an interesting winter, seeing as the government and media are doing everything they possibly can to fuck things up. Meanwhile, Labour are doing everything they can to make sure they don't accidentally win the next election.
This fuel crisis is not an accident, it is manufactured. Why? I don't know. Probably to stoke the Brexit debate, to make sure that the people are still bitterly divided. Maybe it's an attempt to get leave voters to reconsider their position, so they can try to get us back in the EU. Or maybe it's media noise while they bury shit like covid passport laws. Who knows? All I know is the people are collectively stupid and the media and government are taking full advantage.
There is no existing political party capable of running this country in the interests of the people. That's the state of British politics right now.
This seems about right.
Fuck me, someone just drop a bomb on us already.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19...pace-strategy/
I'm on the fence here for the simple reason I have absolutely no idea if there is a business case for space investment. It costs a lot of money to send things into orbit, but that means not many nations have that capability, which in turn means those who do send satellites into orbit can make money off them. Communications, GPS, space research, even secure data storage, I can immediately think of four potential markets.
If there's significant money to be made, to which the taxpayer benefits, then it's a great idea. If it's a huge waste of money, it's a terrible idea. Naturally I lean towards this just being a way to boost the taxpayer-funded income of military-grade corporations, but in pure business terms, there aren't many people qualified to know if it's economically feasible or not.
Here's a tin hat theory: The gov't knew there was going to be a fuel shortage sooner or later. With the complicity of the media, they encouraged people to panic buy so they could blame it on consumers. In the near future, they'll implement rationing to a greater or lesser extent. It won't be called "rationing", but it will amount to the same thing - stores only open during certain hours, limits on how much fuel you can purchase at once - all little things designed to get people to drive less and use less fuel.
There's no other explanation for telling people not to panic buy when there were just a few petrol stations that were shutting down temporarily. If the media had reported that and Boris had said nothing, no-one would have lost their shit and sat in a queue for hours to get petrol. It had to be deliberate.
It's also straight out of their covid playbook. Tell people not to go to the beach so everyone goes to the beach, the pandemic spreads, then they can blame all the deaths on the public. And it works because the public doesn't trust the gov't as far as they can throw them, so as soon as the gov't tells them not to do something, they'll do it.
But there isn't a fuel shortage. There's a driver shortage. There's plenty of fuel, so they're saying. Granted they could be lying, but that lie gets exposed very quickly because if there's a fuel shortage then this continues, while if there is not then it won't continue.
There's no other explanation...
There is if you're willing to accept that there might be an agenda to create havoc so it can be blamed on Brexit. Or perhaps there's another agenda, such as a good old fashioned distraction.
As much as government and media are filth and need to be held to account, that shouldn't mean the general public get a free pass to behave like idiots and then blame others. The public have to accept their share of responsibility, and in this case it's rather large. People should be capable of critical thinking, they should not just absorb whatever the media say. It's all very well saying people don't trust the government and media, but that doesn't stop people from doing exactly what the govt want us to do... panic, argue with each other about politics, blame each other for the failings of govt, turn a blind eye to corruption, while saying nothing about creeping fascism, or even go as far as to cheerlead it.
But there isn't a fuel shortage. There's a driver shortage.
I mean, you're splitting hairs here. The fuel doesn't do anyone any good if it's sitting in a depot somewhere instead of at the petrol stations. The driver shortage --> fuel shortage.
There is if you're willing to accept that there might be an agenda to create havoc so it can be blamed on Brexit.
Why would Boris want people to blame it on Brexit? He's the one who started the panic by telling people not to panic. No-one would have even thought about panic-buying fuel because a few stations ran out somewhere on the other side of the country.
Or perhaps there's another agenda, such as a good old fashioned distraction.
Whatever it was that happened that was worse than this, I'm sure we'd have heard about it.
As much as government and media are filth and need to be held to account, that shouldn't mean the general public get a free pass to behave like idiots and then blame others. The public have to accept their share of responsibility, and in this case it's rather large. People should be capable of critical thinking, they should not just absorb whatever the media say.
I think it was George Carlin who said "Think about how stupid the average person is, then consider that half the population is even dumber than that."
Also, there comes a point where it's no longer people being stupid but it's rational to panic-buy. If you need petrol to get to work next week and there's a queue outside every station, you're going to join the queue before it all runs out. Mass hysteria of a sort, it's contagious. Just needs a spark to get it all started. It's easy to look at it from a distance and go 'what a bunch of idiots', but really it's just a few idiots to start it and everyone else is actually being fairly sensible. If I had needed to use my car for commuting in the next week, I would have been one of those people queueing up.
Like I said before, this is a manageable driver shortage without the panic buying. It's not new, we've had this driver shortage for weeks if not months, and nobody noticed. It's only when people are told not to panic they panic. And Boris knows this.
Why would Boris want people to blame it on Brexit?
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they want us back in the EU without losing votes. Better for Tory voters to decide for themselves that it's not worth the hassle. But that is indeed a guess.
Covid passports. Search twitter for "Plan B".
Also, there comes a point where it's no longer people being stupid but it's rational to panic-buy.
Joining the queue isn't joining in the panic. Everyone who has a car needs fuel. Filling your tank when you use quarter of a tank a week is panic buying. And that is stupid, because you're stockpiling fuel that somebody else needs. That somebody could be a doctor trying to get to work. People know this when they fill up needlessly, but they just don't want to have to queue again next week, even though this will all have blown over by then.
Like I said before, this is a manageable driver shortage without the panic buying. It's not new, we've had this driver shortage for weeks if not months, and nobody noticed.
I think a few people might have noticed empty or half-empty shelves in their supermarkets.
Covid passports exist in most countries. If the gov't here thinks they need to manufacture a fuel crisis to sneak in covid passports then they must really think the population is full of nutters.
I thought we were talking about fuel?
Covid passports exist in most countries.
I guess you don't know what "Plan B" refers to. I'm not talking about international travel, we're looking at nightclubs and festivals. It's really interesting that they mention festivals in this plan, seeing as that isn't something to worry about until next May. We don't tend to have outdoor festivals in the UK during winter, for obvious reasons. So it's not like a temporary fix to a temporary problem, they see this as an ongoing solution, well into next year at the very least.
It looks to me like we're moving into medical apartheid. They intend to make life so miserable for the unvaccinated that the only solution is to vaccinate. This is despite the vaccine not actually stopping you getting the virus.
I'm guessing of course as to why they might want to create a distraction. It's just this "Plan B" bollocks happens to have been mentioned when everyone is too busy panic buying fuel to notice. Maybe I'm missing something else, maybe they have successfully buried some other news. This is not a new tactic, politicians have buried bad news during times of crisis since forever.
Sounds good to me. They've done this in France and Canada already, to name two. In either, you can't go to any inside public space like a restaurant or supermarket without a vax. Probably most places in Europe too I imagine.
Do you prefer we have the pandemic last a few more years and a lot more deaths?
Wasn't there an Imperial study recently that found the likelihood of catching covid and passing it on was lower when vaccinated? And that the impact when caught was also lower? The latter definitely chimes with what I've seen in friends, family and colleagues.
I'm not in favour of forced vaccination, and when the consequences of not vaccinating are social exclusion, then for all intents and purposes, it's forced.
We're talking about a vaccine that was rushed, which makes it experimental, and we're talking about a virus that is not dangerous to the vast majority of people. This is not plague territory. And the vaccine is not very effective. We can talk about what the statistics say, but not so long ago we were talking about how the media and govt aren't to be trusted. Why trust them when it comes to this? Fear, that's why. People are afraid, and fear is the perfect way to control people. Religion has done it for millennia.
I can say with some confidence the vaccine is ineffective because my vaxed housemate is currently isolating with confirmed covid. It was certainly ineffective for him. Sure, maybe he gets it worse without the vaccination, we can never know. And the lack of vaccination for me hasn't resulted in me getting the virus, despite the close contact. Yes I too am isolating and testing regularly. But I'm not in any hurry to vaccinate.
By saying you think that unvaccinated people should become socially excluded, not allowed to mingle with the masses, you're putting a huge amount of trust in government, media, and pharmaceutical companies. You're also stripping away the right of an individual to medical privacy.
How much faith do you have in such studies? Other sources imply that vaccinations cause mutations of the virus. There are plenty of claims that the vaccination causes medical problems. Naturally, there's a lot of disinformation doing the rounds so it's not like I just blindly believe what I read. But I apply that thought process to both sides. I don't blindly believe what the govt tell me either.
I have zero faith in pharmaceutical companies. This is huge business for them. We saw how much money disappeared with our failed "test and trace" programme. The level of corruption associated with this pandemic is astonishing. Yet people just lap up what they're told because fear.
I'm not keen on taking an experimental vaccine by means of social pressure that results in profit for pharma companies.
The amount of data verifying that the vaccine is one of the single most effective vaccines ever is astounding. The early release was rushed ahead of some safety trials, but at this point, we have the most widespread "safety" trial ever performed.
The vaccines are safe and effective. Literally all the data point to this.
If you choose not to get vaccinated, then no, you shouldn't be allowed inside public places. The vaccine is free and widely available and your right to control your body is fine, but it comes with consequences.
FFS, you already have many vaccines. Polio, dyptheria, tetanus, just to name a few. People vaccinate their babies because it saves lives. Even if you weren't vaccinated, that's a thing almost everyone does.
The stupid politicization of the vaccine in today's world is asinine. You're free to embrace doubt, but when you do so at the cost of any research into trusted sources (fuck the politicians and media), then you're being an ass. You're free to be an ass, but when your method of assitude puts other people's lives at risk, then no, you can't go into crowded, indoor spaces to spread a respiratory disease. Boo hoo.
But the bottom line is this.
People are dying. If you don't care, fine. Don't argue that it's moral to not care about people dying, though.
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How much faith do you have in such studies? Other sources imply that vaccinations cause mutations of the virus.
This is the way it's typically talked about, but to be perfectly accurate, the environmental pressures are not causing mutation, they're selecting for the fittest mutation for the given environment. Here's the thing though, any change in environment will cause selection pressures. For example, people gaining immunity by way of getting the virus and dodging death puts selection pressure on the virus.
The way that we stop new strains is via vaccination and social distancing/ppe. The more immunity and the less paths of transmission, the less circulation, the less chances a viable mutation catches fire.
You-- yes, you-- you're a cunt.
And the vaccine is not very effective.
We can talk about what the statistics say, but not so long ago we were talking about how the media and govt aren't to be trusted. Why trust them when it comes to this?
Because for once, what they're saying jibes with what the experts are saying.
And fwiw, a lot of the media isn't saying take the vaccine, they're saying "arrgg | 5,175 |
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Developed by: Doug Landis and Anna Fiedler, MSU Department of Entomology. I have noticed that multiflora rose begins leafing out before any other exotic invasive plants. – Sudbury's Homegrown Invasives Effort, As Things Always Change, the Nature of Nature Remains the Same, Small Native Shrubs to Replace Commonly Used Exotics, North American Prairie Species of New England, Urban Wilderness and the "High Line Problem". Multiflora rose is a Restricted Noxious Weed in Minnesota. Rosa multiflora is grown as an ornamental plant and also used as a rootstock for grafted ornamental rose cultivars. The serrate leaflets range in size from ½ inch to 2 inches long (Dirr, 1998; Dryer, 1996) and are ovate in shape with an acute or pointed tip (Dirr, 1998). Two varieties are accepted by the Flora of China:[4]. The rose rosette disease, a virus-like organism, has potential as an effective biocontrol agent for R. multiflora, although its use as a biological control agent has been opposed by the American Rose Society and by rosarians in general (Van Dreische et al., 2002). (1) High seed production and good seed viability. This downward flow of plant compounds helps facilitate the transport of foliar and stump applied herbicide to the roots during these months for more effective kill. RRD is mentioned in Part II, IPM Control Strategies for Exotic Invasive Plants. cold weather storage for better winter survival and spring growth). Funding support: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Lynn and Thelma MacCready Forest and Wildlife Endowment, MSU, and Hanes Trust of the Michigan Botani-cal Club. Rosa polyantha)[2] is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose,[3] baby rose,[3] Japanese rose,[3] many-flowered rose,[3] seven-sisters rose,[3] Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It can become so thick that it hinders movement of cattle in pastures. Potential biological control agents for multiflora rose include insects, pathogens (disease-causing organisms), and herbivor… This trait allows multiflora rose to produce more carbohydrate and other compounds in the leaves by way of photosynthesis and transport these products to the roots for storage (i.e. In eastern North America, Rosa multiflora is generally considered an invasive species, though it was originally introduced from Asia as a soil conservation measure, as a natural hedge to border grazing land, and to attract wildlife. Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) is a deciduous shrub with white flowers and red fruit. Munger (2002) suggests that in time, the chalcid wasp and Rose Rosette Disease (RRD) will overlap in range as combined bio-control agents working in concert to controlling this pestiferous exotic. It's the law. Do this at least every June and September. It can grow to 10 feet high or more, and is typically wider than it is tall. If some plants prove to be too difficult to remove by way of pulling or digging, you can cut them down to a one-inch stump and immediately apply a glyphosate herbicide to the freshly cut stump using a paint brush or sponge applicator. Part III: Landscape and Ecosystem Damage: A Brief Introduction. Multiflora Rose – Rosa Multiflora Conservation Practice Job Sheet NH-314 Multiflora Rose Multiflora rose was introduced to the East Coast of the U.S. from Japan in 1866 as rootstock for ornamental roses. 3. Facts. Munger (2002) recommends that for established or old thickets mowing or repeated cutting from three to six times per growing season for two to four years will control the spread of this plant and reduce its existence in the mown area. IPM Control Strategies for Multiflora Rose. perfect flowers). If multiflora rose has many stems and is quite large, it may take one to two years for complete kill after one foliar application because multiple stemmed specimens generally have a very large root system. It invades natural areas, pastures, and light gaps in forests. If you decide to mow established thickets, please be aware that multiflora rose seed has a seed bank of great longevity. It is. © 2020 Ecological Landscape Alliance. As stated in Part II, IPM Control Strategies for Exotic Invasive Plants, prevention is a cultural control of great value. Seed is dispersed by birds and other berry feeding animals, sometimes over great distances. (many-flowered). layering). Vegetative reproduction (i.e. (2) Vectors. 2 Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) Description Size and Shape: Multiflora rose is a multi-stemmed, woody, climbing/rambling shrub. berries) appear in August and persist into the winter months as clusters of round ¼ inch hips (Zheng et al 2006; Dirr, 1998). Multiflora Rose. Regulations: The importation, distribution, trade, and sale of multiflora rose have been banned in Massachusetts effective January 1, 2009 (Massachusetts Prohibited Plant List website, 2012). Foliar application transports the herbicide from the leaves to the roots. It can also grow as a climbing vine reaching heights of 25-30 ft. This species flowers from May through June and fruits [produces red colored berries (hips) containing seed] in August; fruits persist into the winter months (Zheng et al, 2006; Magee and Ahles, 2007; Munger, 2002). The Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora), also known as Japanese Rose is a native Asian rose that has become invasive in many parts of the United States and Canada. ex Murr. A crabapple tree shown in late March appears to be leafing out; however, the leaves are multiflora rose using the crabapple as scaffolding. Genus Rosa.Species: Rosa multiflora Thunb. Whatever the initial attraction, another side of the plant is discovered, and the gardener decides the relationship must end. Multiflora rose can be controlled but it takes considerable effort. Bruce also spearheads the effort to expand ELA's website content. RRD is a plant virus that causes the canes to undergo "witches broom" and the leaves exhibit a dark colored purple mosaic blotching, resulting in a slow death for multiflora rose (Amrine and Stasny, 1993). The impact of these agents can range from temporary cosmetic effects to death of the entire plant. Mechanical Controls: Pull, dig, mow, and cut. Multiflora rose is a large perennial shrub that forms dense stands of impenetrable thickets that can grow to 3o ft in diameter by 6-10 ft tall, which displaces native vegetation. Watch for his upcoming articles with information about individual invasive species. Rosa multiflora (syn. These are the months that carbohydrates and other plant compounds are being manufactured in the leaves by way of photosynthesis and are transported from the leaves to the roots for storage. Leaves emerge very early in the spring, earlier than most native plants, and this species holds onto its leaves a little longer in the fall than most native plants. The leaves are compound and each leaf is made up of an odd number of leaflets, with one leaflet at top and 3-4 pairs growing down the leaf stem. Domestic goats and sheep are used to control multiflora rose in agricultural situations (Munger, 2002). Spring or early summer cutting of multiflora rose will slow its growth, but may not inhibit flower, fruit, and seed production. If you can't hand-pull multiflora rose (be careful of the thorns! These alu exam pass with distinction personal computers are built to complete a few lots of tasks. the growth of other plants. Repeated cutting or mowing on a monthly cycle will be more effective at stunting the plant and inhibiting fruit and seed (berry) production. I met Rosa multiflora through his fragrance. [7] Patches of introduced multiflora rose in Pennsylvania are displaying symptoms of rose rosette disease, which can lead to decline and death. Multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, seven-sisters rose, rambler rose, multiflowered rose. If you cannot stump-applicate the hard to pull plants during the summer months, then you can instead cut the plant six to twelve inches from the ground before it starts to produce berries (seeds) in August. It is listed as a "Class B" noxious weed by the State of Pennsylvania, a designation that restricts sale and acknowledges a widespread infestation. ), then you can dig out the plant or pull it out with a Weed Wrench®. The red-to-green twigs may have numerous recurved thorns; other thornless specimens occur infrequently in the eastern United States. 5. This plant was introduced from … One multiflora rose plant may produce half million seeds each year. It should not be confused with Rosa rugosa, which is also known as "Japanese rose", or with polyantha roses which are garden cultivars derived from hybrids of R. multiflora. As you mow you will be increasing sunlight levels on the ground and contributing to the germination of seed bank seeds. Every time you cut the top off, you force the plant to sprout which reduces the root reserves and weakens the plant. I have used straight glyphosate concentration on freshly cut glossy buckthorn stumps and obtained a 98 to 100% kill from November through January. General Description: Multiflora rose is an exotic invasive perennial shrub native to China, Japan, and Korea (Zheng et al 2006; Dirr, 1998; Amrine and Stasny, 1993). Stump application is very effective during July, August, and up to mid-September. Multiflora rose tolerates a wide range of soil, moisture and light conditions. Multiflora rose was first brought to North America (USA) in 1866 from Japan as a hardy rootstock for ornamental rosebushes. For more information about multiflora rose visit: www.invasive.org. [8], Species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae, "Multiflora Rose, An Invasive But Nutritious Wild Edible", "Multiflora Rose: The Mixed Blessings of Rose Rosette Disease", United States National Agricultural Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosa_multiflora&oldid=987185879, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 November 2020, at 13:22. Female rose seed chalcids (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) lay eggs in the hips of multiflora rose plants and the developing larvae feed on the seeds disrupting seed maturation and development resulting in substantial seed mortality. Genus Rosa. In addition, the application of herbicides in July, August, and up to mid-September gives maximum chemical control. The flowers are produced in large corymbs, each flower small, 1.5–4 cm (5⁄8–1 5⁄8 in) diameter, white or pink, borne in early summer. Multiflora Rose Rosa multiflora Thunb. University of Wisconsin researcher, James Reinartz (1997), tested cold weather stump application using 25% concentration of glyphosate herbicide on glossy buckthorn and obtained 92 to 100% control. (3) Sexual reproduction breeding system. Scientific Name: Rosa multiflora . The mechanical control of cutting or mowing is also very effective during these months for the same reason. Foliar application of glyphosate works best on multi-stemmed plants or large multiflora rose plants that were repeatedly cut for many years without chemical control follow up or were not removed by digging. Allowing the stump to re-sprout during the summer months draws carbohydrate and other growth compounds from the roots and depletes some of the root energy making herbicide kill more effective. sprouting). Two natural biological controls include the rose rosette disease and the rose seed chalid (Megastigmus aculeastus var. However, the spread of this wasp is slow (Munger, 2002). All Rights Reserved. Back to Invasive Plant Photos and Information. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Rambler rose, also known as multiflora rose, is aptly named for its copious sprays of abundant white flowers borne on dense, arching branches. Quick facts. Photo courtesy of IPANE. soil erosion and create natural fences. Therefore, it only takes one multiflora rose to produce a colony of reproducing plants if left unchecked. Dense thickets of multiflora rose exclude other vegetation from establishing and may be detrimental to nesting of some native birds. Other names: Multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, seven-sisters rose, rambler rose, wild rose, multiflowered rose, Rosa multiflora Where did it come from? Therefore, you may be controlling this pest for a longer period of time than you had originally anticipated. Part II: IPM Control Strategies for Exotic Invasive Plants It was introduced to North America, where it is regarded as an invasive species. 6. Leaves are alternate, compound, divided into 5–11 leaflets (usually 7–9). Do not plant or encourage the planting of this species. Red fruits (i.e. Common Name: Multiflora rose Plant Taxonomy: Family Rosaceae. Multiflora rose has been a common topic of conversation among pasture-based livestock owners for as long as I can remember. The leaflets are nearly smooth on the upper surface and paler with short hairs on the underside. Evans (1983) also states that some highway departments encouraged the use of multiflora rose on highway median strips to reduce headlight glare from oncoming traffic and as a natural crash barrier to stop out-of-control cars because of this species' ability to form dense thickets quickly. Pruning and cutting back of the plant often leads to re-sprouting. Brought here from Asia, it was planted as wildlife food, and also as a living fence, due to its dense growth and sharp thorns. Invasive Traits: Multiflora Rose exhibits. Cultural Controls: Monitor or visually inspect your property for multiflora rose. Seeds stay viable in the soil bank for 10 to 20 years depending upon soil conditions (Munger, 2002). It can invade fields, forests, stream banks, some wetlands and many other habitats. Use a Weed Wrench on hard to pull plants, preferably before August. 7. Biological control is considered safe, permanent, and economical. 3. Multiflora rose is shade-tolerant. Cold weather stump application frees up time to control multiflora rose when there is no available time to do so during the summer months. Multiflora rose can develop into dense thickets if left unmanaged. The rose seed chalcid, Megastigmus aculeatus var. The targeted removal of multiflora rose often requires an aggressive technique, such as the full removal of the plant in addition to the root structure. It is native to eastern Asia, in China, Japan and Korea. Native to Japan, Korea, and eastern China, multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) was introduced into the United States in 1866 as rootstock for ornamental roses. In some regions the plant is classified as a noxious weed. It is a scrambling shrub climbing over other plants to a height of 3–5 m (9.8–16.4 ft), with stout stems with recurved prickles (sometimes absent). The hips do not split apart easily and need time to dry out to make the seeds available (Evans, 1983). Canes (stems) root at the tips and may reach heights of up to 10 feet. [5] In grazing areas, it is generally considered to be a serious pest, though it is considered excellent fodder for goats. Individuals contemplating using chemical control of multiflora rose in or near wetlands must use a wetland approved herbicide. Multiflora Rose--whose technical epithet of Rosa multiflora is an easy scientific name to remember--is so-called because it produces many flowers in a cluster. Native To: Eastern Asia (Amrine 2002) Date of U.S. Introduction: Late 1700s (Amrine 2002) Means of Introduction: Cultivated as an ornamental, for erosion control, and as a living fence (Amrine 2002) Managing Multiflora Rose Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) is an invasive shrub that can develop into impenetrable, thorny thickets. It … Rose family (Rosaceae) NATIVE RANGE Japan, Korea, and eastern China DESCRIPTION Multiflora rose is a thorny, perennial shrub with arching stems (canes), and leaves divided into five to eleven sharply toothed leaflets. Biological Control: There are no commercially available insects, mites or disease organisms yet found to be effective biological control agents. Individual Exotic Invasive Plant Fact Sheets: Bruce Wenning has university degrees in plant pathology and entomology and is an ELA Board member and regular contributor to the ELA Newsletter. It has alternately arranged, pinnately compound leaves with 7-9 leaflets. The edibility and medicinal uses of other species of roses is similar and some are even superior to Multiflora Rose, but Multiflora Rose is the most prolific in North America due to its invasive tendencies. T here comes a time in every gardener's life when she realizes that a plant she has admired is not all it seems to be. Introduced into the United States in the 1860s (Dryer, 1996), multiflora rose was used in the horticultural industry as readily available rose root stock for rose breeding programs and as an ornamental garden plant (Amrine and Stasny, 1993). After the taller stump has re-sprouted, cut it to one inch above the ground and immediately apply glyphosate herbicide to the freshly cut stump. Hand-pull what you physically are able before multiflora rose produces berries (seeds); preferably before August. For example, when you cut the top off any plant, the roots naturally respond by pushing up more top growth (sprouting), reducing the root reserves (carbohydrates and other growth compounds) and stressing the plant. White flowers appear from May through June (Symonds, 1963: Magee and Ahles, 2007; Zheng et al 2006) and are grouped or clustered as a corymb inflorescence (Zheng et al 2006). Early in the 1930's several conservation agencies promoted the use of multiflora rose for Like other shrubs with attractive flowers, multiflora rose persists in our landscape partly due to citizen unwillingness to remov… It can form very dense thickets that prevent . Because of their long, arching canes, single plants appear fountain-shaped. Educate your neighbors about what you are doing and why. Canes held to the ground for a long period of time can sprout roots and form a new plant (e.g. Common Name: Multiflora Rose . Regenerative Solutions for Resilient Landscapes, S.W.E.E.T. Properly identify multiflora rose. This Asian species was introduced from Japan to the eastern U.S. in the mid-1860s as rootstock for less-hardy ornamental roses. Multiflora rose, native to eastern Asia, is a highly invasive perennial shrub that can reach heights of 4- 15 feet. However, most seeds fall relatively close to the parent plant which is why this species grows as clumps or thickets. 2. Munger (2002) reports that individual plants may produce as many as 500,000 seeds per year. Roundup 'poison ivy killer' works very well. The leaves are 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long, compound, with 5–9 leaflets and feathered stipules. Multiflora rose is capable of forming a monoculture in all habitats, displacing native or beneficial plants. Multiflora rose is a large, dense shrub that has escaped from ornamental and conservation plantings to become a serious invasive plant problem across the eastern half of the U.S. ex Murr. It has the distinction of being among the first plants to be named to Pennsylvania's Noxious Weed List. Foliar application works best between July and mid-September. Interesting Facts: Multiflora rose is an invasive species. Multiflora rose is a medium-sized, thorny shrub with a spreading growth form, often forming thickets. 1. Chemical Controls: The best time for any control option is just before a plant flowers. sprouting) occurs when stems are cut or broken. Within just computing, a great cisco exam 640-802 input system is a peripheral (piece with regards to computer hardware equipment) used to offer you data as well as control symptoms to an facts … It crowds out grasses, forbs and trees. (4) Vegetative or asexual reproduction (i.e. In the 1930's, multiflora rose was promoted by the United States Soil Conservation Service for … During the 1960s, conservationists were warning others of the dangers of this plant to unmanaged natural areas. It was also planted as a living fence, for erosion control, and to provide food and cover for wildlife. Multiflora rose, in the rose family (Rosaceae), is a vigorous perennial shrub. Rosa multiflora multiflora rose This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in … Importation, transportation and sale of multiflora rose propagating parts is prohibited. (7) Shade/sun tolerance. Species: Rosa multiflora Thunb. Pull out easy-to-pull plants. 2. Cold weather stump application is especially useful on overgrown multiflora rose individuals or stands. The above suggested example may be modified to suit existing site conditions and the level of infestation. The leaves are alternate and compound (composed of five to eleven leaflets) (Dirr, 1998). Multiflora rose is a climbing and rambling shrub with single stem, or at times multiple stems, which can grow up to 10 to 15 feet or more in some situations. Educating others (e.g. More funding for researching and testing is desperately needed for these bio-control agents to prove the expectations desired by bio-control experts. (Native roses usually bear individual, unclustered flowers.) This species was introduced to North America as a rootstock for ornamental roses and also used for erosion control, living fence rows and wildlife habitat. Sprouting produces more reproductive stems which give way to more flowers, fruit, and seed than the original uncut or unbroken stems. Biological control agents are natural enemies that attack the target plant at various stages of growth. These fruits have a pleasantly sharp flavor and are strong sources of both essential fatty acids and vitamins. It is readily distinguished from American native roses by its large inflorescences, which bear multiple flowers and hips, often more than a dozen, while the American species bear only one or a few on a branch. The bark is dark brown with streaks of light brown or gray. 1. Suggested chemical control in March, April, May, and June is to cut the stump high (six to twelve inches) and let it sprout. Plant Taxonomy: Family Rosaceae. clients or neighbors) about the dangers of this pest is another cultural control of enormous value. Multiflora rose Rosa multiflora. In pastures, multiflora rose can form thickets that exclude livestock and reduce forage areas. It has escaped cultivation spreading into private and public lands, and as a result has been classified as a noxious weed in many states (Dryer, 1996; Symonds, 1963; Munger, 2002). Multiflora rose was imported from Eastern Asia in the late 1700s as an ornamental, in erosion control, and as a living fence. Multiflora rose is highly aggressive and readily colonizes old fields, A Suggested Multiflora Rose Example Using the IPM Procedure. Foliar application enters the leaves more easily during humid weather because the leaf cuticle / wax layer is thinner making the leaf more absorbent to the foliar – applied herbicide (Ware, 1996). Amrine and Stasny (1993) state that this bio-control combination may take decades before a noticeable decline in multiflora rose populations occur. There are virtually no effective predators feeding on or killing this plant. Multiflora rose, native to eastern Asia, is a highly invasive perennial shrub that can reach heights of 4- 15 feet. For additional information about exotic invasives, refer to Bruce's article: "Controlling Small Scale Infestations of Exotic Invasive Plant Species: Ecological and IPM Information for Landscapers and Homeowners.", Part I: The New Group of Pests Differs from Insects and Diseases Multiflora Rose Multifora rose is a Pennsyl-vania state listed noxious weed with nationwide distri-bution. It was originally imported to help prevent . (many-flowered). Breeding system is a monoecious condition whereby both male and female reproductive parts are consolidated into the same flower on the same plant (i.e. However, it frequently invades sunny spots which is why it is seen growing in open fields and pastures, along field edges, along roads and paths, in open woodlands, and in any other areas that are sunny. Multiflora Rose has alternate, odd-pinnate compound leaves with straight thorns on long branching stems. By the 1930s it was widely planted in the Midwest and northeastern states at the encouragement of the USDA, Soil Conservation Service for erosion control programs, wildlife habitat enhancement programs, and as a natural barrier to roaming farm animals (i.e. Rose hips of multiflora roses are edible for people as well as birds. Blooms May–June. As with other exotic invasive plants, multiflora rose was promoted for the wrong reasons while being planted widely throughout the Midwest, northeast, and elsewhere. Identification: Multiflora rose is a multi-stemmed, thorny, perennial shrub that grows up to 15' tall.The stems are green to red arching canes with stiff, curved thorns. Prior to being de-clared illegal to sell multiflora rose was a legitimate crop species in PA and the nation. It was introduced to North America, where it is regarded as an invasive species. Suggested chemical control during July, August, and up to mid-September is to cut multiflora rose down to one inch from the ground and immediately apply straight glyphosate herbicide to the freshly cut stump using a paint brush or sponge applicator. Rosa polyantha) is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, many-flowered rose, seven-sisters rose, Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It was also planted as a crash barrier in highway medians, as a means of providing erosion control, and as a source of food and cover for wildlife. nigroflavus). Multiflora rose can climb ten feet or more into the lower branches of trees. Both males and females exist. Multiflora rose is insect pollinated. The base of each leaf stalk bears a … He is a horticulturist at The Country Club, Brookline, MA where he continues his battle with exotic invasive plant species. Cold weather stump application (November through February; mean temperatures of 15.8 to 46.4 Fahrenheit (Reinartz, 1997) reduces the risk of contaminating non-target plants. Birds feed on the fruits and disperse its seeds widely -- especially the Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos). Therefore, wind transport is minimal (Evans, 1983). Each leaflet is broadly oval and toothed along the edge. 4. A month later, the multiflora rose has overtaken the flowering crab apple and exhibits green leaves. nigroflavus Hoffmeyer is a wasp native to Japan, but has become established in the United States as a naturalized beneficial insect. 4. However, many state conservation departments and agencies still encouraged interested people and organizations to plant multiflora rose to create a source of food for song birds and for wildlife cover for many kinds of animals including, but not limited to, cottontail rabbit (Sylviagus floridanus), bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), and pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) (Evans, 1983; Munger, 2002). Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) was originally introduced into the United States from east Asia in 1866 as rootstock for ornamental roses. Because land doesn't come with a manual. The branchlets or canes have paired (at times), stout, curved thorns or prickles (Zheng et al 2006; Dirr, 1998; Dryer, 1996). Regulations: The importation, distribution, trade, and sale of multiflora rose have been banned in Massachusetts effective January 1, 2009 (Massachusetts Prohibited Plant List website, 2012). Mature shrubs of up to 4 m wide and 3 m tall have been reported. (6) The timing of leaf out and of leaf loss. Since its introduction, it has spread aggressively across most of the eastern half of the United States and has become a serious threat to the degradation of a variety of riparian… Then cut the sprouted plant in July, August, or early September to one inch from the ground and stump-applicate with straight glyphosate herbicide. Get ecological news and event updates in your inbox. It should not be confused with Rosa rugosa, which is also known as "Japanese rose", or with polyantha roses which are garden cultivars derived from hybrids of R. multiflora. However, biocontrol programs are often unsuccessful, take a long time to implement, and produce inconsistent results. The first step to eradicating multiflora rose is to learn to identify it and educate others. Cold weather stump application works well for multiflora rose (Munger, 2002). 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Lisa<|fim_middle|> Great supplemental texts to most any fall themed storytime! | (@lmulvenna) says: I like to pull in poetry, which is nonfiction. Douglas Florian's poetry is great for tying into science. A lot of the Steve Jenkins' animal books can be used too when you do an animal story time. You can also sometimes pull in a picture book biography (hello, Johnny Appleseed!).
If you want to read nonfiction, then I treat it like other books. You want a beginning, a middle, and an end at a reading level that the kids will sit through and still pay attention. While you can skip a bit here and there, I probably wouldn't just talk about the pictures. At that point, I would be better off using the flannelboard.
Nonfiction is becoming more important as schools adopt the Common Core state State Standards. By 4th grade, the schools want the kids reading nonfiction 40% of the time. Plus, kids read fiction and nonfiction differently, which means that they have different reading levels for each. If you look at your story times as a way to promote early literacy and give skills that they need for school, then nonfiction should be pulled into your book rotation. It doesn't need to be an every program type of thing, but it does need to be there.
I LOVE including nonfiction books in storytime (and don't forget your book displays, too), but there are also ways to talk about nonfiction concepts while reading storybooks. For example, in books about animals you can talk about where the animals live or what the animals eat.
This one's on poetry. This one's on favorites from the rest of the nonfiction section.
Sue (@suelibchick) says: It depends on the book. There are some NF books that read like a picture book. I have done The Emperor's Egg in my preschool story time, and just not read the tiny little printed information on the page. Or I will skip a page, something like that. What I did do was draw a 4 foot tall penguin to show them the actual height of one when I got to that point in the book. After story time, I measured the kids against the penguin and drew a line like a growth chart so they could see how they measured up.
I love to work nonfiction in with my storytime! As to how much I read– it depends on the book.One of my favorite series to do is Looking Closely… by Frank Serafini. (I've actually done an entire Looking Closely… storytime.) I also love Actual Size and Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins, and Life Size Farm and Life Size Zoo, adapted to English by Kristen Earhart. I also like the From Start to Finish series published by 21st century books. I did a happy dance when the second series was published in a larger size that would work for storytime!
When I can't work it in with what I read, I do try to pull nonfiction titles for display, so they can be checked out afterwards.
Angela (@annavalley) says: If you count poetry and folk-tales (the 398.2 kind) as non-fiction, then YES!
I try to work in folk-tales, especially the Margaret Read MacDonald type stories, whenever possible. They are just good stories that kids might not hear otherwise. And I'll use a page or two of a poetry book if I find one that I really like (for example, Doulgas Florian's poetry books).And sometimes I use other non-fic, as others have stated. if I can find a good alligator book with loads of cool pictures I'll use it in a storytime with other crocodilian books. I may not read the whole thing, but I'll show pictures and maybe share the caption info. Those "Life-size" animal books are great to share.
Kim (@librarylady2u) says: I will echo everyone else and say that it depends on the book. I've used "Waiting for Wings" by Lois Ehlert and I will read it word for word. I've also used "Elephants Can Paint Too" by Katya Arnold. If it's a longer non-fiction book, I may paraphrase more and ask the kids to help me talk about what is happening on each page. I like the "Actual Size" series by Jenkins too.
Allison (@allofthelibrary) says: I like reading non fiction at storytime.
A Seed is Sleepy and A Rock is Lively are some of my favorites.
Shorter biographies are great. September 15 – October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, so we are doing a Diego Rivera themed storytime next week.
Truly excellent nonfiction storytime books are rare gems. They're out there, but I feel like they get lost in the shelves. There are several reasons this happens, and they are too numerous to mention here since no 2 libraries are alike. If you shelve them among the juvenile nonfiction collection, they're scattered among nonfiction books for 5th & 6th graders. I am very lucky to work in a library where the catalogers are top-notch. For the most part, the storytimeable nonfiction ends up in the picture book collection. But the problem remains that the nonfiction gets swallowed up in the vast sea of fiction picture books.
If I ran the library, I'd either shelve nonfiction read-alouds in their own section shelved by topic. Alternatively (and this is probably the easier decision) I'd add a spine label to indicate a picture book is nonfiction. Something like this.
However, I don't think either of these solutions this would fix the problem entirely for one important reason: I like to play a little fast & loose with the definition of nonfiction when it comes to storytime books. For example, one of my all-time favorite storytime books is Tillie Lays an Egg by Terry Golson. While this is a silly made-up story about a chicken who lays her eggs in funny places, the events were inspired by real-life chickens. I would call this a realistic fiction picture book or creative nonfiction. The story offers a snapshot of the author's day as the owner of a small chicken coop.While I see this as nonfiction-like, I would never expect a cataloger with no storytime experience to see this book the same way I do. And to be perfectly honest, I'd prefer to stay out of the cataloging process as much as possible. That leaves me with the imperfect, but reasonable solution to READ ALL THE BOOKS. The truth is, I think there is no substitute for knowing your collection. I have a short list of my favorites, but this is the tiny tip of the iceberg. One day, I will compile a true list, but for now it's all shut up in the leaky vault that is my noggin.
Here's a link to my shortlist.
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I've used all these methods and one thing I also do is incorporate my flannelboard. I've used this to great effect with Steve Jenkins and Cathryn Sill. I copy and laminate a selection of images from the book and pass them out to the kids. As we read the book, when they see their picture they come put it on the board. Of course, this only works with a fairly small group (I've never done it with more than about 25 kids).
I love to use non-fiction materials (for example, real videos of moose in Alaska via youtube as well as books) especially in the fall. There is a great new series by Cloverleaf books called Fall's Here. The design is very attractive with bright, colorful illustrations and an easy to follow format. The text is informative and easy to read aloud. | 1,634 |
Ingram leads Pelicans to 113-80 win over Thunder in Adams' return to OKC
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I AM IN OKLAHOMA NOW. ABOUT TO WAKE UP WITH THE SNOW TOMORROW. BRYAN: STEVEN ADAMS IS RETURNING. IT IS TOUGH. NOW HE IS WITH THE NEW ORLEANS PELICANS. IT WAS BITTERSWEET. IT WAS GOOD TO SEE HIM, BUT HE WASN'T ON THE THUNDER SIDELINE. WE'VES SEEN HIM DO THIS A MILLION TIMES. HE POWERS IT DOWN. HAD 14 POINTS AND 10 REBOUNDS. THE THUNDER HADN'T BEEN BLOWN OUT THIS SEASON. TONIGHT WAS THE FIRST TIME. ZION WILLIMASON 2 OF HIS 12 . THUNDER SCORED 33 POINTS IN THE SECOND HAL IN THE 4TH QUARTER. SEVENTH THE SCORELINE WAS UGLY. NEW ORLEANS WINS 113-80. SO WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER? 5 STRAIGHT GAMES ON THE ROAD. A TOUGH ROAD FOR OKC STARTING ON SATURDAY NIGHT AGAINST THE ORLANDO MAGIC. AND THEN IT'S THE MIAMI HE
Brandon Ingram had 20 points and seven rebounds before being ejected in the third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 113-80 on Thursday night.Eric Bledsoe added 17 points and Lonzo Ball had 16 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for New Orleans, which lost all four of its games last season to the Thunder. But in their first meeting this season, the Pelicans built an 11-point halftime lead and never were seriously threatened after that."Early in the year, we're trying to get better," New Orleans coach Stan Van Gundy said. "We've been struggling offensively so it was good to see the ball go in the basket. It was good to score some points. I thought our defense was pretty good overall. It was just a good night and we need to<|fim_middle|> scoring.
Steven Adams, in his first game against the Thunder after being traded during the offseason, had 14 points and 10 rebounds. Josh Hart added 12 points and 11 rebounds. | keep moving forward. The games come fast and furious here."Oklahoma City, which lost its third straight game — all at home — after winning its season opener at Charlotte, had won 10 of its 12 previous games on New Year's Eve. Al Horford led the Thunder with 17 points and six rebounds. The Pelicans led 77-67 with 3 minutes left in the third quarter when Bledsoe's arm caught Isaiah Roby across the face as Roby looked for a layup on a fast break. Officials ruled it a flagrant foul and ejected Ingram, but Roby missed both free throws and Oklahoma City came no closer than seven points the rest of the quarter.The Pelicans extended their lead to 85-73 entering the fourth quarter and continued pulling away, eventually leading by as many as 33 points while matching their season-high in scoring.Steven Adams, in his first game against the Thunder after being traded during the offseason, had 14 points and 10 rebounds. Josh Hart added 12 points and 11 rebounds.
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Brandon Ingram had 20 points and seven rebounds before being ejected in the third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 113-80 on Thursday night.
Eric Bledsoe added 17 points and Lonzo Ball had 16 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for New Orleans, which lost all four of its games last season to the Thunder. But in their first meeting this season, the Pelicans built an 11-point halftime lead and never were seriously threatened after that.
"Early in the year, we're trying to get better," New Orleans coach Stan Van Gundy said. "We've been struggling offensively so it was good to see the ball go in the basket. It was good to score some points. I thought our defense was pretty good overall. It was just a good night and we need to keep moving forward. The games come fast and furious here."
Oklahoma City, which lost its third straight game — all at home — after winning its season opener at Charlotte, had won 10 of its 12 previous games on New Year's Eve. Al Horford led the Thunder with 17 points and six rebounds.
The Pelicans led 77-67 with 3 minutes left in the third quarter when Bledsoe's arm caught Isaiah Roby across the face as Roby looked for a layup on a fast break. Officials ruled it a flagrant foul and ejected Ingram, but Roby missed both free throws and Oklahoma City came no closer than seven points the rest of the quarter.
The Pelicans extended their lead to 85-73 entering the fourth quarter and continued pulling away, eventually leading by as many as 33 points while matching their season-high in | 602 |
Every type of wheat has its own benefits and flavor profile, and some wheats can transform an ordinary baked good into your best creation yet! Soft white wheat is one of the most popular types available on the market today, and it has many versatile uses that make it an essential item in bakeries and kitchens around the world. Compared to harder wheats and red varieties, soft white wheat is best used for pastries like croissants, muffins, and cupcakes.
Soft white wheat has less protein and gluten than other wheats which makes it a poor choice for traditional breads. However, it does become flakier and softer when cooked,<|fim_middle|> which means that dieters can enjoy the wheat in small amounts without problems. However, the higher amount of calories means that any items made with this wheat should be enjoyed sporadically or in small amounts.
Red wheat is harder and coarser compared to soft white wheat, and it also features a higher protein and gluten profile. This makes it ideal for baking loaves of bread, crusts, and other crunchy classics. The taste of red wheat is also a bit stronger and slightly more bitter, and this means that you may have to add more sugar to a recipe to make it palatable.
On the other hand, soft white wheat will become flaky, soft, and naturally sweet upon baking. It's not ideal for bread on its own, but soft white wheat is the best of the bunch for pastries and breakfast items. If you're feeling creative, you can add a bit of each wheat to one another for an interesting blend of textures and flavors!
While this wheat won't rise enough to make a typical loaf of bread, you can sprinkle in some of the flour into another wheat to add its classically sweet flavor into the mix. Soft white wheat is highly versatile and easy to cook with, and it's no wonder that it's a staple for chefs everywhere around the world. So find a delicious recipe, grab a bag of soft white wheat, and enjoy a homemade savory treat today! | and this makes it a perfect choice for sweeter dishes. This guide will go over the essential nutritional facts about soft white wheat, how it compares to other wheats, and what you can use it for today!
Soft white wheat is often called "pastry flour" since it's the perfect choice for cakes, muffins, waffles, and other lovely treats. Since it has much less protein and gluten than other wheats, it's not a great choice for breads or low-carb diets. Aside from having more carbohydrates and less protein than harder or other colored wheats, the nutritional profile is generally the same across the board.
The above profile shows that soft white wheat is full of carbs, but that doesn't mean it's all bad! It's relatively low in sugar | 158 |
Meghan Markle Made a Surprise Appearance on the 'America's Got Talent' Final
Meghan Markle appeared on the America's Got Talent finale Wednesday night, delivering a video message in support of finalist Archie Williams.
Meghan Markle appeared on America's Got Talent (opens in new tab) Wednesday night, to support finalist Archie Williams.
Singer Williams was wrongfully incarcerated for 36 years for a crime he didn't commit.
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Meghan and Harry Made a Rare TV Appearance
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Meghan Markle Pays Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg | story and we've been cheering you on every week, and it's not just because we're partial to the name," Meghan said in a video message.
Well, this was unexpected! None other than Meghan, Duchess of Sussex herself appeared on the America's Got Talent finale Wednesday night, in a surprise video message in support of finalist Archie Williams. Williams, a singer, was wrongfully convicted in 1983 of a crime he didn't convict, and was finally released last year after 36 years on prison.
Meghan's video message, in which she referenced her son, Archie Harrison, was broadcast during last night's finale. "Hi Archie, I just wanted to let you know that we've been so moved by your story and we have been cheering you on every week, and it's not just because we're partial to the name," she said.
"So, a very special message to you—that I will probably be saying all of my life, but on this night it is specifically for you—Archie, we are proud of you, and we are rooting for you, and we can't wait to see what you do," she continued. "We're in your corner! Have a good night." While Williams didn't win the top prize (it went to poet Brandon Leake), having fans like the Sussexes is a pretty good sign for his future career!
No one, not even @Archieisfree, expected a special message from Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex! pic.twitter.com/qng1YTD0q9September 24, 2020
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Download or read book He Has Given Us the Kingdom written by Brenda Bell and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Jesus went to the Father, he gave instructions to his followers to repent and change their way of thinking, for the kingdom was at hand. This would result in a new way of thinking for them. Things were no longer going to work the way they had before. He instructed them in the good news that the kingdom had begun. He healed all kinds of sickness and diseases and taught them that they could be great in this kingdom that was coming from heaven to earth. He explained how it would start small and would grow throughout the earth in the same manner that yeast multiplies in bread making, and the world would not even see it happening. He gave them the authority and ordered them to take charge of this kingdom and called them "children of the kingdom." He gave them, and all who would hear about him through their teaching, the keys to function in this new kingdom and explained how this authority was activated by faith-filled words. He said the kingdom was like a man going into a far country and leaving his servants in charge and taught that they would be accountable for what they had accomplished when he returned. We are those people today. You will learn how this kingdom works, the authority of those in charge, and how to use your authority in the unseen realm.
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World Cup soccer and Team USA provide a not-so-normal Tuesday afternoon in Jackson
by Rick Cleveland July 3, 2019 May 10, 2021
Nursing student Larissa Wilks (right) and here friend Lindsey Bynum word their colors and cheered on Team USA. Credit: Rick Clevleand
This was an otherwise normal, July Tuesday afternoon in the Jackson area, meaning you could break a sweat walking out and cranking your car and then see the heat devils rise off the streets as you drove. It was the kind of day when you pray for rain or air conditioning or both.
It was air conditioning – and a cold beer or three – my brother and I found at a Buffalo Wild Wings out Lakeland Drive in Flowood. It was nearly 2 p.m. The parking lot was packed. I am told the scene was repeated in sports bars and taverns across the area.
Inside, the air conditioning was glorious and so was the festive atmosphere. Red, white and blue was everywhere. People of all ages waved little American flags. Some wore Team USA jerseys. Of the seemingly 200 TVs in the place all but three were tuned to World Cup Soccer. The others played Super Bowl reruns.
We took a table near the back, where a big, red Mississippi Soccer Association banner adorned the wall next to one of the 60-inch TVs. Four or five grown-ups were surrounded by many more kids and all eyes were on the TVs and the World Cup soccer match between the U.S. women and England across The Pond in Lyon, France. They were – and I mean this – INTO IT.
Early on, there was much concern because the U.S. team's star, Megan Rapinoe, she of the pink hair and outspoken views of President Trump, was on the sidelines. Later we were told Rapinoe, who had scored all four goals in the two immediately previous U.S. victories, had suffered a slight hamstring strain in the quarterfinal victory over host France.
Not to worry, Rapinoe's replacement, Christen Press, scored on a header in only the game's 10th minute to give the Americans a 1-0 lead and give the patrons reason to begin a chant: "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
During a pause I asked one of the restaurant's managers about the normal business on a Tuesday afternoon. "Nothing like this," Jesus Roman replied, smiling. "This is like a big football weekend." This was like the Super Bowl or an SEC football Saturday – only with more kids and without divided loyalties. There may have been someone present pulling for the British. If so, they hid it well.
This column should come with a disclaimer. I am nowhere near an expert on soccer. In my hometown of Hattiesburg in the '50s and '60s, we didn't play the sport and saw it played only once every few years on ABC's Wide World of Sports. Occasionally, we would see the Latin American exchange students at Southern Miss play a pickup game<|fim_middle|>figure> </div> <p>Inside, the air conditioning was glorious and so was the festive atmosphere. Red, white and blue was everywhere. People of all ages waved little American flags. Some wore Team USA jerseys. Of the seemingly 200 TVs in the place all but three were tuned to World Cup Soccer. The others played Super Bowl reruns.</p> <p>We took a table near the back, where a big, red Mississippi Soccer Association banner adorned the wall next to one of the 60-inch TVs. Four or five grown-ups were surrounded by many more kids and all eyes were on the TVs and the World Cup soccer match between the U.S. women and England across The Pond in Lyon, France. They were – and I mean this – <i>INTO IT</i>.</p> <p>Early on, there was much concern because the U.S. team's star, Megan Rapinoe, she of the pink hair and outspoken views of President Trump, was on the sidelines. Later we were told Rapinoe, who had scored all four goals in the two immediately previous U.S. victories, had suffered a slight hamstring strain in the quarterfinal victory over host France.</p> <p>Not to worry, Rapinoe's replacement, Christen Press, scored on a header in only the game's 10th minute to give the Americans a 1-0 lead and give the patrons reason to begin a chant: "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"</p> <p>During a pause I asked one of the restaurant's managers about the normal business on a Tuesday afternoon. "Nothing like this," Jesus Roman replied, smiling. "This is like a big football weekend." This was like the Super Bowl or an SEC football Saturday – only with more kids and without divided loyalties. There may have been someone present pulling for the British. If so, they hid it well.</p> <p>•••</p> <p>This column should come with a disclaimer. I am nowhere near an expert on soccer. In my hometown of Hattiesburg in the '50s and '60s, we didn't play the sport and saw it played only once every few years on ABC's Wide World of Sports. Occasionally, we would see the Latin American exchange students at Southern Miss play a pickup game on one of the intramural fields. Once, when I was 9 or 10, a soccer ball flew my way on the sidelines. Naturally, I tried to "head" it back toward the field. It nearly knocked me out.</p> <p>I have written about the sport infrequently over the years, covered a state championship high school match or two, and <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2018/07/15/world-cup-croatian-flags-fly-proudly-in-biloxi/">wrote from Biloxi on last year's men's World Cup final match</a> when France defeated Croatia, much to the dismay of a couple hundred Croatian-Americans at the Croatian-American Cultural Center.</p> <p>Gradually, over the years, I have come to at least comprehend the sport, including what constitutes "offsides." As surely everyone who watches, I am amazed by the speed and footwork of the men and women who play it at world-class level. Example: Early in the match Tuesday, Rose Lavell, who probably can eat with her feet, somehow dribbled the ball through the legs of a British defender, then went around her for a shot on goal that England's goalkeeper alertly stopped. I did not know such a marvelous move is called a "nutmeg." I am still learning.</p> <p>One facet that has irritated me about the sport is the rampant "flopping" – that is players faking falls and injuries, hoping to get a call from the referees. Tuesday, I even joined the cheers when one of England's players received a yellow card for an obvious flop. Good for soccer, good for the ref.</p> <p>•••</p> <p>Turns out, Kay Bouler, executive director of the Mississippi Soccer Association (MSA), was seated at the next table and able to answer some of my questions, while asking one herself: "Isn't this just great?" She said her organization will not miss a chance to promote the sport – at any level.</p> <p>"About 21,000," she answered when asked how many Mississippi kids play in MSA-sanctioned program and leagues.</p> <p>At another table nearby, nursing student Larissa Wilks, wearing her Team USA jersey, worked on her schoolwork intermittently while glancing up at the TV every time the crowd responded to a play. Near the match's conclusion, she wisely put aside the notebook and concentrated on the match.</p> <p>Ah, the match: England tied the score at 1-1 and then the U.S. regained the lead at 2-1. England appeared to tie the score at 2-2 but, after a replay, the goals was waved off for offsides. My brother called it before the replay. "She was offsides!" he hollered. "Show the replay!"</p> <p>She was indeed. My brother, Bobby: hunting, fishing, football and, now, soccer expert.</p> <p>The match's most important moment came in the 84th minute when England lined up for a penalty kick and U.S. goalie Alyssa Naeher, seizing the moment, dove to her right to smother the ball and protect the 2-1 lead.</p> <p>Chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!" began again.</p> <p>And the chants resumed when the game ended and the U.S. players rushed the field to swarm Naeher, the hero. It was wonderful theatre and terrific entertainment – for a brutally hot mid-Mississippi Tuesday afternoon.</p>
This <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org/2019/07/03/world-cup-soccer-and-team-usa-provide-a-not-so-normal-tuesday-afternoon-in-jackson/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org">Mississippi Today</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MT_square-thumb.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=365476&ga=UA-75003810-1" style="width:1px;height:1px;"> | on one of the intramural fields. Once, when I was 9 or 10, a soccer ball flew my way on the sidelines. Naturally, I tried to "head" it back toward the field. It nearly knocked me out.
I have written about the sport infrequently over the years, covered a state championship high school match or two, and wrote from Biloxi on last year's men's World Cup final match when France defeated Croatia, much to the dismay of a couple hundred Croatian-Americans at the Croatian-American Cultural Center.
Gradually, over the years, I have come to at least comprehend the sport, including what constitutes "offsides." As surely everyone who watches, I am amazed by the speed and footwork of the men and women who play it at world-class level. Example: Early in the match Tuesday, Rose Lavell, who probably can eat with her feet, somehow dribbled the ball through the legs of a British defender, then went around her for a shot on goal that England's goalkeeper alertly stopped. I did not know such a marvelous move is called a "nutmeg." I am still learning.
One facet that has irritated me about the sport is the rampant "flopping" – that is players faking falls and injuries, hoping to get a call from the referees. Tuesday, I even joined the cheers when one of England's players received a yellow card for an obvious flop. Good for soccer, good for the ref.
Turns out, Kay Bouler, executive director of the Mississippi Soccer Association (MSA), was seated at the next table and able to answer some of my questions, while asking one herself: "Isn't this just great?" She said her organization will not miss a chance to promote the sport – at any level.
"About 21,000," she answered when asked how many Mississippi kids play in MSA-sanctioned program and leagues.
At another table nearby, nursing student Larissa Wilks, wearing her Team USA jersey, worked on her schoolwork intermittently while glancing up at the TV every time the crowd responded to a play. Near the match's conclusion, she wisely put aside the notebook and concentrated on the match.
Ah, the match: England tied the score at 1-1 and then the U.S. regained the lead at 2-1. England appeared to tie the score at 2-2 but, after a replay, the goals was waved off for offsides. My brother called it before the replay. "She was offsides!" he hollered. "Show the replay!"
She was indeed. My brother, Bobby: hunting, fishing, football and, now, soccer expert.
The match's most important moment came in the 84th minute when England lined up for a penalty kick and U.S. goalie Alyssa Naeher, seizing the moment, dove to her right to smother the ball and protect the 2-1 lead.
Chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!" began again.
And the chants resumed when the game ended and the U.S. players rushed the field to swarm Naeher, the hero. It was wonderful theatre and terrific entertainment – for a brutally hot mid-Mississippi Tuesday afternoon.
<h1>World Cup soccer and Team USA provide a not-so-normal Tuesday afternoon in Jackson</h1> <p class="byline">by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today <br />July 3, 2019</p> <p>This was an otherwise normal, July Tuesday afternoon in the Jackson area, meaning you could break a sweat walking out and cranking your car and then see the heat devils rise off the streets as you drove. It was the kind of day when you pray for rain or air conditioning or both.</p> <p>It was air conditioning – and a cold beer or three – my brother and I found at a Buffalo Wild Wings out Lakeland Drive in Flowood. It was nearly 2 p.m. The parking lot was packed. I am told the scene was repeated in sports bars and taverns across the area.</p> <div id="attachment_202290" class="wp-block-image wp-caption"> <figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rick-team.jpg?ssl=1"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rick-team.jpg?resize=140%2C140&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-202290" height="140" width="140" /></a><figcaption>Rick Cleveland</figcaption></ | 1,001 |
Peter Grippe
American (1912–2002)
Peter Grippe (August 11, 1912 – October 18, 2002) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and painter. As a sculptor, he worked in bronze, terracotta, wire, plaster, and found objects. His "Monument to Hiroshima" series (1963) used found objects cast in bronze sculptures to evoke the chaotic humanity of the Japanese city after its incineration by atomic bomb. Other Grippe Surrealist sculptural works address less warlike themes, including that of city life. However, his expertise extended beyond sculpture to ink drawings, watercolor painting, and printmaking (intaglio). He joined and later directed Atelier 17, the intaglio studio founded in London and moved to New York at the beginning of World War II by its founder, Stanley William Hayter. Today, Grippe's 21 Etchings and Poems, a part of the permanent collection at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is available as part of the museum's virtual collection. Grippe, a member of the American Abstract Artists group, was born on August 11, 1912, in Buffalo, New York, and died on October 18, 2002<|fim_middle|> (award, "Charles M. Lea Award") Arts Commission of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1955 (award, "Boston Arts Festival Award", $200 first prize for sculpture). National Council for U.S. Art, 1955 (award, $1000 sculpture award). Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1957 (designed medallion for Creative Arts Award given by Brandeis University). Slosberg Gallery, Brandeis University. Waltham, Massachusetts (in co-operation with the Peridot Gallery, New York City). "Sculpture Drawings Prints by Peter Grippe," Monday, February 10, 1958 (sole exhibition opening).[12] Peridot Gallery. "Peter Grippe." April 14 to May 11, 1959 (sole exhibition). Nordness Gallery, New York, 1960 (sole exhibition). Nordness Gallery, New York. May 21 to June 8, 1963 (sole exhibition). Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture, New York, N.Y. (award, "Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture). American Academy, Rome, Italy, 1965 (group exhibition). Sculptors Guild, New York, N.Y., 1967 (group exhibition). Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1969 (group exhibition, "The New American Painting & Sculpture: The First Generation"). Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1969 (group exhibition, "Boston Now"). Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979 (group exhibition, "American Contemporary Sculpture"). Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980 (group exhibition, "The Figurative Tradition"). Parrish Museum, Southampton, N.Y., 1985, (group exhibition, "Painting & Sculpture in New York, 1936-1946"). Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, N.Y.. "Peter Grippe - Selections from the 30's and 40's: Sculpture, Paintings & Drawings." October 5–30, 1991 (sole exhibition). Allentown Art Museum, "Peter Grippe [...]." [start date] to [close date], 2010 (sole exhibition; also includes "21 Etchings and Poems" portfolio). Posthumous retrospective exhibition after Florence Grippe's gift of the artist's personal collection and papers to the Allentown Art Museum in 2009.
Peter Grippe (August 11, 1912 – October 18, 2002) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and painter. As a sculptor, he worked in bronze, terracotta, wire, plaster, and found objects. His "Monument to Hiroshima" series (1963) used found objects | , in Suffolk, New York. While primarily known as a sculptor working in bronze and clay, he created a portfolio of etchings by 21 artists (examples include Willem de Kooning, Jacques Lipchitz, and Peter Grippe himself) and 21 poets (including Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Merton) in a work entitled 21 Etchings and Poems. The collective work took three years to print and was published by New York's Morris Gallery in 1960. Grippe was educated at the Albright-Knox Art School (today the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy) and the Art Institute of Buffalo. He moved to New York in the 1930s, and his work reflects a move into the Cubist and Surrealist schools. According to Bob Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, "Moving away from simply realist depictions in public monuments, Grippe and his colleagues embraced Cubism with its openwork multidimensional view of the world and Surrealist imagery drawn from the subconscious thus bringing American sculpture into the modern era." As Grippe's artistic and academic career progressed, he taught at several higher education institutions, including Brandeis University, where he was named the first professor of sculpture. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of fine arts in 1964. A transcribed interview with Grippe is available at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. The interviewer, Dorothy Seckler, spoke with him in 1968. Grippe is also mentioned in a transcribed Smithsonian Institution interview in 2002 with Ruth Asawa in her San Francisco in which she discusses his technique and their associates during the period from 1946 to 1949. Seven years after Grippe's death, his widow, Florence, made a gift of his work, his personal collection of art, and his personal papers to the Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley (Pennsylvania). He had a gallery exhibition in the Susan Teller Gallery of New York in November 2010. Peter Grippe's career was marked by many exhibitions, awards, and other honors, noted in the following partial list listed chronologically with information from exhibition catalogues, primarily a retrospective catalogue published by the Sid Deutsch Gallery for a one-man exhibition in 1991. The catalogues are available to view at Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, Brooklyn, N.Y. Exhibitons & Awards Orrefors Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1942 (sole exhibition). Willard Gallery, New York, 1944, 1945, 1948 (multiple sole exhibitions). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1945 (group exhibition, "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Drawings & Watercolours"). Clay Club, New York, N.Y., 1946 (group exhibition, "Abstract & Non-Objective Sculpture"). Willard Gallery, New York, N.Y. "Peter Grippe Watercolors and Sculpture," October 8 to November 2, 1946 (sole exhibition). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1947 (prize, "Purchase Prize - First Annual Print Exhibition of Brooklyn Museum") Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1951 (group exhibition, "Abstract Painting & Sculpture in America"). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 1952 (award, "Contemporary Watercolors, Drawings & Prints Award", $500 print prize). Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1953 | 787 |
In The Pit Lane: Toto Wolff on the road to billionaire status
Garry Sloan
As the dust settles on the Lewis Hamilton contract pantomime it is worth remembering there was a delay in the resigning of Toto Wolff as team principal and CEO.
The three-year deal signed in December no doubt helped the Hamilton negotiations but what about Wolff's long-term future.
Wolff has become one of the most powerful individuals in F1 and is flying high but like Hamilton, he recently mused about the commitment required on a personal level citing 280 hotel nights and 1,000 hours of flying in a typical season.
Toto has proclaimed for several years that he will leave F1 at some point telling F1.com back in 2016: "From my fundamental set-up, I like challenges and I am not attracted by the glitz and exposure of F1 at all. Probably, on the contrary, it complicates my life because there's the risk that it sucks you in a bit, so I'm fighting that. One day, I will leave the sport and return to what I've done before and be a private equity person."
Toto is a petrolhead and racer with a relatively short career with the notable achievements of runner-up in the Austrian Rally Championship in 2006, and the top spot in the 24-hour race in Dubai.
In 2009, he also became a lap-record holder on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a Porsche RSR.
He decided to quit racing after following the rear end of fellow countryman Alexander Wurz and realising he was not at his level.
Wolff focused instead on his investment companies Marchfifteen and later Marchsixteen Investments which concentrated on IT companies.
Wolff came to understand the potential opportunities in motorsport with investments in Williams F1, German HWA AG, and BRR Rallye Racing.
This enabled him to fuse his racing passion with his business nous.
He also co-owned a sports management company with Mika Häkkinen managing amongst others one Valtteri Bottas.
Wolff rubs shoulders in the paddock with many billionaires and none more so than his friend Lawrence Stroll.
Wolff may harbour ambitions to join the billionaire's club if for no other reason to finance his 4-year-old son's future F1 career, after all the lad has the racing genes from both parents.
A few years ago, Bernie Ecclestone lambasted the new crop of team bosses saying,
"The trouble today is we are getting people whose intention is solely<|fim_middle|> at Daimler AG or indeed Stroll himself, either way, nice work if you can get it.
So, with a 3-year deal under his belt and looking to leave a formidable legacy with Mercedes domination in the hybrid era, substantial investments, and a happy family life for the time being all looks good in the world of Toto Wolff.
On a footnote: Toto showed his human side when he told the finding mastery podcast,
"When you have cameras pointed at you there is the danger of ego running away with you and you need to realize that. You need to be able to come back into your hotel room, look in the mirror, and say I've been a little bit of a dick today, that I got that one wrong."
An opinion piece by Garry Sloan author of "In the pit lane – F1 exposed" details at inthepitlane.com
Copyright ©2020 Garry Sloan
Red Bull: The most competitive option for both our teams
Horner: Red Bull have taken control of own destiny | to make money. Toto Wolff is probably the best example."
A bit rich (excuse the pun) coming from the man who ruthlessly exploited F1 to personally gain a multi-billion-dollar fortune.
So how is Toto doing on the potential billionaire status?
Well at 49 years old is already halfway there with his net worth estimated at between $450m to $580m.
Wolff no doubt has his eye on a bumper payday when INEOS founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe makes him an offer he can't refuse for his 33.3% stake in the Mercedes F1 or Lawrence Stroll comes calling with a bucket load of cash.
In the meantime, the money keeps on rolling in with his $20m investment back in October in Aston Martin now worth $38m – a paper profit of $18m in just eight weeks.
When Daimler announced a deal giving them a 20% shareholding in Aston Martin the share price doubled.
Analysts are sceptical about Aston Martin's future, but speculators are it seems not deterred.
Rumours persist (for the lawyers reading these are rumours and speculation, not accusations) that Wolff was privy to information prior to the Daimler announcement either through contacts | 261 |
Sewer fixes afoot at AHS
Julie Goldberg
News Staff Writer
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News Photo by Julie Goldberg Workers install a new sewer pipe and remove sod from the football field Monday at Wildcat Stadium. A sewer pipe was relocated to under the asphalt pad that surrounds the football field, while the sod is being removed for the installation of new turf.
ALPENA — The sewer pipe issue at Alpena High School's Wildcat Stadium is being resolved with the hope of being completed in the next couple of days, Alpena Public Schools Superintendent John VanWagoner said Monday.
VanWagoner said at Monday's district Board of Education Property Committee meeting that the project will cost about $73,000. Insurance is covering approximately<|fim_middle|> Wildcat Stadium is the removal of sod on the football field, which started Monday, VanWagoner said. He said that, by the end of the week, the field should be completely stripped of the sod and dirt and then grated for limestone and manufactured sand from LaFarge North America.
The district accepted more than $600,000 in large donations in May to install a new artificial turf field. The new field will be striped for football, soccer, and lacrosse.
VanWagoner said the new turf will be installed by AstroTurf the first week of August, just before practices start for soccer and football.
"We hope the field will be ready for practice," VanWagoner said. "It's all on track. There's no issues right now. Everything's definitely on budget, hopefully under budget at this point, so everything's going smooth right now."
Julie Goldberg can be reached at 989-358-5688 or jgoldberg@thealpenanews.com. Follow her on Twitter @jkgoldberg12.
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The district is paying for the new pipe and manholes. That is coming out of the district's cash on hand. Since the work was an emergency situation, board policy allowed VanWagoner to proceed with the bid process.
There was a 400-foot section of a sewer pipe running from the high school to M-32 that deteriorated at manholes under the field. That caused water and sand to leak in, clogging about three-fourths of the pipe. The sewer pipe has since been relocated to under an asphalt pad that surrounds the field.
Three new manholes are now along the asphalt pad, with two others at the ends of the new pipe. The manholes are accessible, VanWagoner said. And, if there is an issue, they can be resealed and won't disturb the playing surface, since they were rerouted.
"It should be in good shape," he said. "At the end, I'm glad we made the decision to replace all of them."
The district had Suez, the city's water and sewer contractor, come and check the pipe after it was laid out last week to make sure the work was properly done.
"They found no standing water in the pipes," VanWagoner said. "They were able to see every pipe joint to make sure they were all sealed. They said every pipe joint looked really good, so they said it was really one of the better jobs they had seen."
Another project underway at | 328 |
2011: District champion. Lindsey Harrison participated in the state competition as a freshman.
Leading returners: Tara Reed, Lindsey Harrison, Michaela Cooley.
Others to watch: Sarah Hurst, Brittany Katherman, Alexandria Matthews<|fim_middle|> watch: Bo Kelly (jr.), Ryland Spitzer (fr.).
Key losses: Taylor Murphy, Dillon Humphrey, Dalton Humphrey.
Notable: Mosley competes in District 2-2A with Leon, Chiles, Lincoln, Columbia (Lake City), Buchholz (Gainesville) and Gainesville.
Quotable: �Losing three key players from last year�s team we will need returners to fill the top three spots. The guys have worked hard and are ready for the challenge.� � Todd Harless. | , Anna McClintock, Abigail Youngblood.
Notable: Lindsey Harrison participated in the Emerald Coast Junior Golf Tour placing third in the spring tour and fifth in the summer tour � Liz Kasey is the assistant coach.
Others to watch: Mary Higby, So Yun Jung, Shiloh Keller, Savannah Marler, Lilly Mulligan, Shyamalee Ramaraj and Kaeleigh Starling.
Notable: The roster includes one junior, five sophomores and a freshman.
Notable: Hyland and Henry have been in the program for four years.
Quotable: �These girls could have a good chance to win the district as a team and one or two of them have a chance to win the district as individuals if they will work hard at it and play to their abilities.� � Mike Nethero.
2011: District 2-1A champion. Hudson Meeks was district medalist.
Key losses: Hudson Meeks (Florida State), Nick Frost (Florida), Erick Stein (Florida), Eric Ihaksi.
Leading returners: Sam McLane (so.), Daniel Fowler (jr.), Matthew Wyatt (sr.), Michael Lincoln (sr.), Sam Gramling (so.).
Head coach: Todd Harless, first season.
Leading returners: Reed Maddox (jr.), Josh Gainer (sr), Jeremy Senterfitt (so.).
Others to | 287 |
Just a couple of reminders for you today.
The Book Depository in the UK is now selling Australian books and The Simple Home is listed as a bestseller. So if you're living in the UK, Europe or the US, you'll be able to buy the book with free delivery. They have all my books. Here is the link for The Simple Home.
Also, the function at Rosetta's in Maleny to launch The Simple Home has been postponed till after the Easter holidays. If you've already made a booking, Anne will contact you soon about the new date.
Thanks for this information. I've just ordered my copy. It can go next to Down<|fim_middle|>, a padded envelope and now the corners of the book are damaged. We have never had this before with BD, so I really don't know why they chose this packaging this time...Well, the book arrived yesterday, so I'm going to enjoy it this weekend!
Thanks Rhonda. I'm going to buy your new book for myself from Book Depository for Mothers Day, in early May. Looking forward to it!
Yes, all have sold out. They'll be back as soon as the new shipment is there. | To Earth on my family room book shelf. You have a talent for writing and for living and for sharing your talents.
I'm so sorry that I haven't commented for a while but I have been very busy with a new puppy!
Today's post is so ironic as my copy of the Simple Home book has arrived on my doorstep this morning - YAY!!!
After having a very quick peek I am thrilled to see some of your delicious recipes inside - my family will be pleased!!
Thanks for the inspiration Rhonda and I'm glad that you are now home safe and sound.
Rhonda, I just finished your book, Down to Earth, and I loved it! What a well-written, high quality book. It's definitely worth the money!
Just ordered from Texas, can't wait till it gets here.
Thank you for the link, I have been struggling to find the book here in the UK.
Do you know if the hardcover version is coming to Canada. I do know I can get the Kobo version, but really like books. I have the hardcover version of Down to Earth and like it very much. Great job Rhonda.
The hardcover book will eventually be available through Amazon US but you can buy it now from the Book Depository with free world-wide postage.
Patti, traditionally, compost is made in three heaps. One heap is under construction, one is finished and decomposing and one is in use. If you can't do that, make one heap and use from the bottom as it matures.
I tried ordering your new book from the Book Depository, but it says that it's not available right now. Has it already sold out? I left my email address so that they could let me know when it is available again. Boo Hoo. Can't wait to get my copy here in North Carolina, USA.
Yes, I ordered from the Book Depository! It took about 3 weeks to arrive in the Netherlands. A late birthday gift for me and much anticipated! The packaging wasn't very good this time | 413 |
STARFALL went through extensive renovation in 2016 to provide rustic modern cabin feel with contemporary amenities such as EV CHARGING STATION. STARFALL is also HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE. Beautiful sunset and starlight awaits you!
Once you step inside the house, you will notice a very open & spacious kitchen-dining-living room area all connected under a high ceiling. There is a wood-burning fireplace where wood logs would be provided for you to enjoy the authentic feel and smell of wood and fire. The TV in the living room provides entertaining channels thru Dish Network. On the same level, you will find two bedrooms, one with a King bed, the other with a Queen bed. There is also a functional bathroom and a super-capacity washer<|fim_middle|>, the kitchen is not well stocked. It was difficult to cook there. But that's our only complaint.
The house was immaculate! Everything was perfect and clean. The location is amazing and close to so many points of interest. We will definitely be coming back again.
Unfortunately, because of the Ferguson Fire, we only stayed one night at Starfall. We chose to leave due to smoke in the area and views in the park being obstructed. Celia was wonderful keeping in touch with us to plan for any changes. Despite our change in plans, we LOVED the house! It has so much charm and had everything we could have possibly needed! I would recommend this home to anyone! | /dryer. Climbing up the spiral staircase, you will find a huge bathroom with a tub and shower. There are two twin beds in the loft area, with skylights where you can possibly fall sleep staring the stars in the sky!! And there is another bedroom with two twin beds with high ceiling, making the house to accommodate up to 8 people. There is also a huge deck off the living area that comes with a dining table/chairs along with BBQ Grill! Watching the beautiful sunset from the deck will make your trip so memorable. It also provides Satellite-based wifi, although we need to ask all the guests to use it for CHECKING EMAILS ONLY as data capacity is limited. The house was built and designed by an owner who loves Yosemite and wanted to provide a rustic modern style of vacation experience to the family and friends who enjoy nature and modern technology. Enjoy your stay and you will surely be able to make a wonderful life-long memory at "STARFALL".
Satellite Base Wifi for Emails Only!
Beautiful place, friendly staff. However | 213 |
Raith looked to build on last week's home win over Partick hosting Greenock Morton. However the Rovers lined up without Dave McGurn in goal – Ross Laidlaw making his senior debut. The Rovers had another debutant in right back Jason Thomson who's joined on loan from Hearts. Otherwise it was as you were for the home eleven. Morton<|fim_middle|> the attentions of two defenders. That's 4 in 3 games for the big striker.
Hill headed wide then Thomson again ran at the visitors. As the Rovers pushed on it was 3:0 in the 59th minute. Walker headed on Laidlaw's long kick and Baird had space to pick his spot shooting across the exposed McGinlay. Moments later the visitors keeper was again hung out to dry by his defence when Evans lost the ball cheaply having been closed down by Graham. Baird's one-two with Walker saw John blast the ball at goal, McGinlay did well to tip the powerful effort over.
The home side were playing well with their heads were up and Morton were struggling. Despite a couple of Morton changes Raith continued to threaten Graham, Baird and Davidson almost getting on the end of dangerous moves. In the 80th minute Morton won a corner, nothing came of it but it was their first opportunity of the second half. Things could have got worse for the remaining visiting support but Salmond judged Tidser's two handed shove on Casalinuovo not to merit action.
Ton saw a header from a free kick go wide before the Rovers wrapped it up. Jamie Walker was on by now and he avoided a lunging challenge before passing to Damion. The big man gave him a great ball back and Jamie slotted home easily to make it four. Three minutes later young Jamie was at it again he picked up the ball at the edge of the centre circle and ran forward before passing to Williamson who calmly picked his spot. Five nil.
Morton were hoping for the whistle and Weatherston was eluded by Jamie Walker and the big man cynically hauled him back and was rightly booked. As Allan Walker lined up the free kick near the corner flag the Rovers crowd chanted, "We want six!" The home support were disappointed – but probably not very disappointed – that the game ended only five nil.
This was a great performance meriting the result. Hill, Graham and Baird did well but there were no bad performances, the defence did particularly well shackling Morton's speedy front men. Ross Laidlaw will probably not have many easier games however his opposite number will not look back on the 90 minutes with much joy.
After 11 minutes the fans in the South Stand could see a double rainbow. After 6 points and 7 goals in 2 games at Starks Park there's no place like home.
Allan Moore spoke to Davie about an obviously disappointing result for his team.
The 50/50 winning ticket was picked by Michelle Fairful celebrating her 18th Birthday. Winning number was 30 06 09 and a healthy total of £425 was presented by Michelle to Vince Wallace from Kirkcaldy, pictured with Michelle and his son Liam Wallace.
A cheque for £1000 presented to Mario Caira by Michelle Fairful, Gordon Adamson and Ben Millar representing the Supporters club received from the sale of 2012 Calendars commissioned by the Supporters Club, designed and photographed by club photographer Tony Fimister with additional photographs by Jim Foy. | also had a young keeper, McGinlay, making only his second senior start.
After only 45 seconds Laidlaw was called into action diving full length to push a shot from O'Brien wide. A keeper will always look to get an early touch however Ross had to be alert when Bachirou's shot was not re-directed on target by McDonald. At the other end McGinlay dealt easily with a header. Twice in succession Ross had to take a curling effort then another shot – the big lad was making things look easy so far.
Morton were trying to use the pace of Campbell and McDonald and after the visitors early flurries the home support were pleased to see a bit of Raith pressure. In the 10th minute ex-Ton man Graham couldn't quite get the ball to sit for him in the box and the Rovers got some good possession. O'Brien chose to be more direct running up the middle but his shot from the edge of the box went a yard wide.
Jason Thomson had the first of a few foray's forward, perhaps enjoying being in a side more willing to play football than those he was with earlier this season. As both sides tried to get the upper hand and a heavy shower passed Tidser had a wayward effort from 24 yards. Young's cross was met by Campbell who's first time shot from 6 yards hit the side netting. Baird forced a save shooting on the angle then O'Brien again ran at the Raith defence before shooting wide. Ex-Par Young then had a go but wasn't close.
The wayward efforts from the Ton were punished when Brian Graham scored. Alan Walker's free kick into the 6 yard box and after a stramash big Brian put in from close range. Morton looked for an instant response but Tidser's free kick hit the wall. Hamill got into the box then another Morton free kick hit the wall. The last incident of the half saw Brian Graham thrown to the ground in the box but Salmond didn't penalise the overly vigorous defender.
The Rovers support would have wanted a good start to the second half – a goal in about 16 seconds was probably more than they expected. From centre the ball a long ball was half knocked out and Davidson dinked the ball forward. Baird got onto it and crossed well from the by-line to the back post where Graham scored between the legs of the keeper despite | 499 |
The warehouse manager was surprised to see Gov. Willem Guilder, director of the Merchants Colonial Trading Company, walk in in the middle<|fim_middle|> ships to our roster. And make sure the outgoing cargoes are logged properly..."
The warehouse manager tried to keep track of everything Guilder said, but frankly he was just glad he hadn't been napping when the governor walked in.
"And make sure you keep the schedules updated properly. The Lady of Madrice is back in service; I don't want her overlooked..."
The Lady of Madrice? Didn't that ship sink? thought the manager. Then again, the ol' Wench seemed to have nine lives.
"OK, do you have all that?"
The warehouse manager shook his head. "Yessir, gov'ner!"
"Very well, get to it" said Guilder as he turned to leave.
Just a little build for the MCTC and Guilder to purchase some extra ship levels.
That really is a good warehouse, this wall-technique looks fantastic!
I find the warehouse manager ressembles vaguely to Legostone's sigfig, are they related?
Very neat and detailed build, I like the fence used as window.
Neat little build Wolf! Good writing too.
Thanks! This is my second build using those cross-braced support pieces. Still exploring how i can use them.
Now that you mention it, they do look similar. But LS's Monezterrell dresses better. Also, that particular style of mustache is very popular in parts of Eslandian society.
Thanks. With such a small build, I wanted make sure I used interesting pieces. I was prepared to include more items in the warehouse, but it's a small build and really just meant to be a stage for the figs.
Thanks. The writing was fun. After I wrote that first line by the warehouse manager, it sounded like a cockney accent in my head, which of course was all wrong, so i had to mention it. And that just put me in the mood to write something fun. | of the afternoon.
"G'day, gov'nor. What brings you down dockside?"
The warehouse manager's accent sounded out of place to Guider, but he ignored it and pressed on with his business. "I'm here to make sure we have proper warehouse space allocated for the coming trade season. The winds are fair at this time, and our trade ships will be busy." Guilder looked around the warehouse and motioned with his walking stick. "That space over there will be needed. We've added | 104 |
FuKiTu Sewing | Lots of things I've started and some I've finished.
I've been sewing, but not updating! In fairness I've been doing a bunch of other things – like sewing a plush as hell black faux fur coat and then getting married in it. (I also wore a dress underneath).
Not visible in the pictures: a fine dusting of fluff on everything in my studio, including all my shelves because it floated everywhere. Not a bad effort for being thrown together in two nights before the wedding though.
I also finished off a single bed sized quilt for a commission. I hadn't tried this lattice pattern before and while I love the final result I think I would probably try a different construction technique in future. I do love the little aeroplane pattern on the backing though.
Plus when I was in Melbourne last I visited Making the Australian Quilt: 1800-1950 at the National Gallery of Victoria. I found it super fascinating and also got to demonstrate some good quilt-nerd facts to my date. I was particularly enamored with the Wagga quilts and some of the silk log cabins. As per usual, I found the crazy quilts boring and hideous, but I can respect the skill that goes into them.
I also really loved this red and white quilt which was made as a prize in a raffle? So much advice stitched into one item!
A gorgeous friend of mine, Robbie, is always immaculately dressed and because he is both generous and extremely well put together he allowed me to take a look at one of his (I think) most excellent pieces with the express purpose of purloining a small bit of his style for myself. It's a beautiful draped woollen cloak which he found in a second hand store in Tauranga and it's precisely the kind of gender-neutral drapery I have been lusting after for some time now. Taking inspiration from that I made some changes to make the design my own, including using a knit fabric so it would have a little more body and bounce to it and making it quite a lot longer because I have a fondness for dramatic swooping and set to work. I picked up heavy 100% Merino from The Fabric Store who are lovely and also about 10 minutes from my studio (convenient) and then, buoyed by my own successes in making a cape-cloak which I can also use to take a nap in naturally set to work taking selfies.
Anyway, I apparently underestimated the degree to which my pals (particularly on Twitter) also need an outfit for dramatic swooping and impromptu naps because this has far and away been my most successful selfie yet – I've had three orders come through. I look forward to making the look du jour for Wellington an elegant nap blankie, and with that in mind popped a listing up on Etsy right here if you would like one for yourself.
Other things I've been up to in the last few weeks include attending the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne last week. This is the second year I've gone and sadly I didn't have time to take quite as many photos as I would have liked this time around, but I did pick up some useful bits and pieces. I'm making a commissioned single bed size quilt in blues, blacks and whites and grabbed some nice fat quarters for that.
I also grabbed a rotating cutting board which I'm very excited about for squaring up blocks. While trying to be lazy/speedy the other day I ran over my knuckle with a rotary cutter because I was trying to cut sideways, so hopefully I can avoid more sewing injuries now I have it.
I also took a quick look around the exhibition side of things and was very taken with this (it has a rainbow gradient in it, I know you're all shocked.) It's called Dear Angela, made by Phil Thomas and is hand pieced and hand quilted.
I do have to say, since it would be kind of remiss not to mention this, that I would really appreciate it if the AQC declined to let exhibitors/vendors sell Golliwogs at the show. As far as I could see it was just one table, but boy they really went all out in terms of every possible textile craft in which one might want to make a super-racist children's toy. I kind of can't believe this is still seen as a remotely? Acceptable? Thing? in 2016 but apparently the AQC didn't think it was worth mentioning. Quilting in general seems to skew very white and towards an older demographic, which I think is a great shame, particularly given the histories of quilting within non-white cultures and communities (and in fairness there were some great vendors selling fabrics from Japan at the show, including Wabi-Sabi Designs so it's not like this was completely missing from the convention) . But y'know, maybe the community as a whole would be a bit more welcoming and open if the first thing you see upon entering a convention wasn't a whole table full of racist caricatures.
I have two (2) things to show off today! The first is a quilt which I made as a birthday gift for someone very dear to me. It's my first experiment with English paper piecing, as well as the first quilt which is (sort of, I guess) a wholecloth quilt. I've been fascinated by wholecloth quilts for ages now, and it might be something I experiment with more later this year. I'm keen to try out multiple layers of imagery in them in subtly different thread colours, because why would I start with something straightforward? That would be the easy way out.
But anyway, a few more progress pictures. I should also mention that the design was inspired by some of the quilts I've seen Modern Handcrafts make.
Arranging the hexagons and deciding on my fabric choices.
I sort of love how all the tiny safety pins look spread across the quilt – like a school of fish.
I think this might be as far as I go with paper-piecing. I'm still chipping away at the (very small) paper pieced block for the Sleigher quilt I started, uh, a year and a half ago. I love the lightness of this quilt though and the quilted lines were also my first experiment with using a disappearing fabric marker. It worker surprisingly well and has me thinking about whole cloth projects with more seriousness.
And the finished quilt, with a black and gold binding.
The other thing I've been making fast progress with has been the nesting quilt I showed some early progress on in my last post. I've around 2/3 of the way through sewing the initial four block portions, I think perhaps another few hours and the whole top should be complete. I like naming my quilts, and I'm still tossing around potential names for this series (this is 1 of 7). Part of me wants some kind of play on the ever smaller quilts, or something to do with the repetition and inversion of form and colour that will be apparent through the whole series.
Dwindling pile of single blocks.
The other development is that I finally got shelves for my studio! No more storing everything in a pile of plastic containers inching ever closer to my workbench. Left is all my fabric arrayed by colour, right is lengths suitable for backing or binding and a separate cube for each WiP.
So, for the better part of the last two years almost everything I've made has been chevrons. Different colours and sizes, sure, but chevrons as far as the eye can see. It looks like 2015-16's look du annual will be hexagons.
All the free motion quilting done, awkwardly piled over my worktable for trimming before the binding.
So far so good – although there was one casualty of this quilt (aside from my knees and wrists.) My poor little Brother BM-2600 gave up the ghost in a sad fashion part way through the free motion quilting. After probably an hour and a half of running it solidly at top speed it made a very sad noise, slowed to a crawl and started to smell lightly of overheating electrics. I ran it into the ground (I suspect I burned out the motor.) I bought a replacement from the same point in Brother's line: the GS2510. I've heard some people have issues with the longevity of Brother machines, but honestly I've never had an issue with their entry level mechanical ones: I used the 2600 for eight years and probably sewed on it for an average of 10-15 hours a week. I should confess I never took it for a proper service, figuring if it blew a gasket in a spectacular fashion I could just afford to spring for a new one and instead just aimed a can of compressed air at the bobbin-zone once in a while. All things considered, given it cost me something like $250 when I bought it I think I got a good deal of life out of it.
I also had a lovely haul arrive from Hawthorne Threads.
My plan for this is a drunkards path quilt, which should measure about 185cm x 185cm when complete.
However, when you trim the white L-shapes for this quilt you're left with a bunch of smaller quarter circles, which seem to suggest they ought to be in a complementary quilt which is slightly smaller.
And then of course, you'd trim the L shapes for THAT quilt and be left with slightly smaller again quarter circles. Needless to say I took to my high tech design wall.
Expect some delightful smaller and smaller drunkards paths until I get sick of following this weird little rabbit hole. I find the idea of recursive quilts echoing back and forth very very satisfying.
Something about the New Year is making me want to finish what I've started before I begin anything new. In my last post I showed off the coat I've finally finished after some eight months – today I have two more finishes, and one WiP I'm making good progress on.
First! The baby quilt I finished just before Christmas. I recently located the photos I took and then immediately lost among my extensive library of memory cards.
I love it: it's soft and lightly quilted and just right for a snuggly floor quilt for a baby.
Next up: I finished the French Braid quilt I started about four years ago. Finished! Done! (Also now listed on my Etsy) The odd thing about working on a quilt for this long is how much my tastes have changed. I still like this quilt, but I can't imagine I'd do anything with such a deliberate lack of intention or form to the colour arrangements? I find that I much prefer sewing with a strong sense of purpose and a clearly defined outcome now. With this though I cut the strips for the chevrons (chevrons are one thing that hasn't changed in my quilting) and then pulled them out more or less at random to sew together the blocks.
This next one is the early stages of quilting together a top I've had sitting aside since last May. It's the twin to the hexagon quilt I made last year: where that one went from a high density center to low density colour at the edges this does the opposite: I used the leftovers from the original to sew it. I'm doing a free motion quilting, same as before, but this time in a regular Gutermann thread, instead of the Sulky thread. Sulky thread gives an amazing finish and looks beautiful, but also broke anytime I changed speeds even slightly while quilting, meaning I had to rethread my machine about every 5-10 minutes through the whole 7+ hours of quilting.
The patterns not being completely matched is annoying me slightly, I have to admit but it was the most efficient way to use the leftover fabric. I've quilted one sixth of this so far, which took just over an hour – the combination of pulling such an enormous mass of fabric around my machine and the extra effort required for free motion quilting anyway completely annihilated my mid-back, so I might have to pace myself when it comes to finishing this off.
I'm waiting on a gigantic order from Hawthorne Threads too, but I've told myself I'm not allowed to cut into it until I finished up this hexagon. I'm looking for the perfect 6″ drunkards path template set too, which is a tougher thing than you might think (I suspect I'm going to go for the Marti Mitchell templates) so I can't cut into it until that arrives anyway. I'm excited to post my next project once it is underway though!
The coat I showed some progress on over the last few months is finally finished! I created it with the intention of it being kind of sculptural, cocoon like and not necessarily conforming to the shape of my body. Clothing as armour or exoskelton I suppose.
In the end I actually found this worked nicely as a flowing coat/cape too though.
And the ridiculously high collar/neckline is nice for hiding from the world.
The little baby quilt I made was well received – I got an adorable snap from my friend on Christmas day of his nephew giggling away on it. I'm contemplating buying a stack of half yards and complementary creams and whites to start work on some new large quilts too. I've told myself I can't begin them until I finally (finally) finish the binding on the brown and green chevron quilt that's been quietly waiting in my lounge for six months and done the quilting on the inverse twin of the hexagon rainbow gradient quilt I made last May.
I just caught up on my backlog of reading from December and reading through some of my favourite blog's 2015 recaps has been a pleasure. One particular highlight was this post from Jaybird Quilts. I love rainbow fabrics, I love colour gradients, I love jewel tones and chevrons and seeing her photos was like having some deep part of my psyche massaged.
I feel as though everyone I know is out at a Christmas Party –<|fim_middle|> to work with so I'll make do. I also have not one but TWO generous colleagues in Australia offering to show me how to crochet which I think I will enjoy. It looks a lot more portable than knitting (one needle, rather than 2 to 5).
Also! I realised I never did come through with my promise to show off the truly enormous rainbow quilt from a few years back. It lives on our bed now and our latest redecoration means it now matches the bedroom.
Finally, to make up for this fairly scant post have a truly hilarious author photo, courtesy of a friend of mine. My current portrait aesthetic seems to be 'austere' which is quite at odds from the saturated colour work I'm doing but never mind. | meanwhile, I'm having my own Christmas celebration, including catching up on a long overdue post. First things first. My new studio space! I moved in and sewed some luxe-as-hell pink velvet curtains.
In typical me-fashion I basically sketched the pattern onto the fabric and started cutting.
The tea cup and tennis ball are crucial parts of the sewing process. (If you roll around on a tennis ball for 5-10 minutes your mid-back might forgive you for kneeling on a wooden floor for an hour.) I'm still working on the coat, but this week I've been watching cheesy Christmas movies and teaching myself padstitching techniques as I shape the upper. Also, here's an in-progress shot of the button tab for the back and pinning the hair-canvas.
Also, I've started and very nearly finished a new quilt. This one has a time limit, so it'll be done before Christmas. You might remember the post I made about the beautiful fabrics from Western Samoa which I felt conflicted about using. I wound up using some of them to make a quilt for a friend's new nephew who has Samoan heritage: I felt that using them like this, in an exchange (I traded a quilt for one of his exceptionally beautiful paintings) was an appropriate way to make use of them.
And backlit after sewing up.
Updates pending! I'm determined to have some WIP finishes for 2015.
I have a finish and an almost finish to show you all today! First up: the teal chevrons.
This is the wideback I chose for the backing – colours were influenced by the request of the friend commissioning the quilt. I mostly pulled the fabrics from my stash, which was exciting – nice to use what I had on hand instead of ordering and waiting impatiently for fabrics to arrive.
Here's the finished product – the recipient was extremely happy which is always gratifying. Another commission is also almost complete – I'll be spending tomorrow sewing up the binding. I wrangled my Brother-2600 into free motion quilting which I'm quite proud of – it doesn't have droppable feeddogs, so I just turned the stitch length down to 0 and hoped. It worked very well in the end, although I need a higher quilting table because being hunched over the machine for five hours today means I spent a solid 10 minutes working the crunchier bits of my shoulders over with a tennis ball this evening.
I used a Gutermann Sulky 40 weight thread for the quilting. In general I liked it – I love the shimmery barely there quality of it, and how it ties all the colours together. I don't particularly love how it snaps as soon as I ramp up the speed on my machine (strangely only the top thread, not the bobbin thread) although that seemed to happen mostly in the first 30 seconds after I rethreaded the machine. I had a theory that maybe winding on a new bobbin was pulling at the thread and changing the tension, but winding the bobbins off a second reel of the same colour didn't repair the issue, so the only solution seems to be to sew slowly.
The inspiration for the colours and shape came from a shot on Instagram I saw of a colour theory talk being given at one of the major quilt conferences in the USA – someone had illustrated a colour wheel using a hexagon and immediately I was drawn to the geometrical possibilities. I chose a forest green for the backing fabric for this one and I'm happily back using the bamboo/cotton blend for the batting. Such a dense quilting pattern has given the quilt a satisfyingly heavy hand.
Well, not quite my first convention, but the first I've been to since I was in my teens. I made it to the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne last month and really enjoyed myself. It's held in the Royal Exhibition Building which I've often walked past and wanted to look around so this served a dual purpose of allowing me to finally get a bit of a tour.
The exhibition itself was split about evenly between vendors and the exhibition of competing quilts – I restrained myself from spending too much but got a new rotary cutter and a few fat quarters, plus a whoooole stack of pamphlets for machines for me to lust after.
The quilts I was most taken with in the exhibition were the wholecloth quilts and those which used a couple of very large blocks of colour and very fine and detailed quilting.
And this is a detail shot of Turkish Delight by Phillipa Thomas. I'm particularly fond of her use of silk as a construction fabric – as much as I love patterned cottons I've been interested in using other materials for some time (I think I posted a sample block of a chevron quilt pattern in dupioni silk a few years back) and it's exciting to see someone constructing a bed sized quilt out of silk.
I should also add that the posted information about sharing photos from the exhibition indicated it was allowed as long as appropriate credit was given to the makers – if anyone whose work is featured in this post would like the images removed please leave me a comment and I'll take them down immediately.
As for my own quilting, I've been working on a chevron commissioned quilt – it's close to done, actually. Some pictures of it in progress (I've been sewing it while visiting my Grandma).
Toasty warm in front of the fire.
George stayed home, but Pudding here helped with the all important basting process, making sure the fabric didn't move while I was pinning it.
Remember the rainbow gradient quilts I mentioned in my last post?
They're coming along nicely! One (at the top of this post) has already been spoken for (a pal saw my upload of it on Instagram and asked if she could dibs it).
The tops are all sewn together and they're just waiting on the batting arrive. I'm going back to cotton/bamboo batting I've raved about so much and I'm making the most of the luxury of space in my studio by ordering a whole roll of it. I can't wait. I also bought a proper quilting foot and I've figured out how to make my poor beleagued BM-2600 do free motion quilting, I hope. I'm planning a kind of spirograph inspired pattern with the quilting – riffing off the hexagonal shape of them. I've also got a custom commission in the works.
It's for a friend's mother who is a sportsmad Dundein-ite who apparently sits up until the wee small hours in the bitter cold to cheer for her teams and needs something to keep her warm as she does so. I pulled the fabrics for it from my stash this afternoon and I'll be cutting them tomorrow. I'm thinking something similar to the chevrons I did last year since it's still one of my favourite patterns and will come together quickly.
I took some snaps hastily on my tablet before posting it off so the first of these two photos is closest to the actual colour. It's only the second actual garment I've knitted; I usually stick to simpler things like scarves which have decidedly more margin for error. I only had to frog a couple of rows and those were mostly because I tried to knit while flying through turbulence. Learn from my mistakes. Turbulence is the universe telling you to just sit tight and enjoy another complimentary wine rather than trying to cable anything.
I have the gorgeous red cotton from a few months back coming together as a cabled hat right now – my first attempt at knitting in the round. So far I'm not the biggest fan of knitting in the round, it seems to go much slower than I'd like but the cotton is dreamy | 1,602 |
Dan Q: Returned to check on this and can't find it: I'm really too far away to be maintaining this one any more, so I'll leave the space free for somebody else to take if they want.
Less than two miles walk from the crossroads at Capel Dewi - which is reachable by bus from nearby Aberystwyth - or an easy drive or cycle away, this cache is nestled away on a quiet country lane: virtually<|fim_middle|> kite families make of it. If you're driving or cycling, be aware of the concealed entrances along the road: pay attention! UPDATED 6th September 2010: Difficulty has been increased to 2.5 stars in light of the numbers of DNFs: evidently it's not as simple as I first thought!
Pnpur vf n fznyy, oynpx gho, srjre guna svir zrgerf gb gur evtug bs gur cubar obk (nf ivrjrq sebz gur ebnq). | no traffic, except for the ocassional passing tractor! Limited on-road parking available just West of the cache, also down in Capel Dewi village.
This is a badge cache - it's aim is to trade pin badges with the people who visit it. It's been launched with 15 badges in it with a handful of different messages and images: bring a badge, take a badge! And don't forget to sign the logbook! If you come up the hill from Capel Dewi, keep an eye out for a field full of grey poles on your right - this strange-looking site is the Atmospheric Radar Array, associated with the Physics department at nearby Aberystwyth University. I've no idea what the local red | 149 |
Manchester United: Analysis
Manchester United should learn from the mistakes of the Los Angeles Lakers
The Reds should learn from the recent missteps of another glamorous franchise that has fallen on hard times
By Kevin Carpenter Jun 5, 2019, 10:00am BST
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Last week, ESPN's Baxter Holmes pulled back the curtains on the slow-motion car wreck that is the Los Angeles Lakers.<|fim_middle|> the promised land.
Do you think Manchester City fans are wringing their hands because Pep Guardiola and the club's Barca-bred execs are in charge? Or Liverpool with Jurgen Klopp? Does Sir Alex Ferguson's time in Manchester mean any less because he had no ties with the club when hired? Of course not. It's all about winning.
The Lakers, on the other hand, brought in ex-player Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant's former agent, Rob Pelinka, to run the whole show. Both members in good standing of the Lakers family. Neither the slightest bit qualified, though. And predictable results followed.
Hiring ex-players can work. Bayern Munich and Ajax (and others) prove that on a yearly basis. But only when those players are the best candidates for the job, regardless of any past affiliations. Both Manchester United and the L.A. Lakers possess the money and cache to employ the very best in the world. They just haven't been doing a very good job of it.
Trust the experts
Everything really started heading south at United when Ed Woodward reportedly overruled José Mourinho's transfer wishes last summer. No matter what anyone thinks of Mourinho, Woodward shouldn't be making any football decisions beyond managing the budget and sorting out the financial details with other clubs.
Even if you're of the opinion that Mourinho needed reining in, the whole situation looks likely to repeat this summer. After Anthony Martial fell out of favor with Solskjaer near the end of the season, there was talk that Ole was ready to cash in on the mercurial Frenchman. Unfortunately, according to reports, Martial happens to be one of Joel Glazer's favorite players. No dice on shipping him out. Another manager's opinion binned by the money men. This is not how a healthy club is run.
No surprise, but the same thing's happening in Los Angeles. ESPN's expose revealed that, last year, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka overrode the organization's scouts and front office during the NBA Draft. Even worse, Pelinka later claimed that the u-turn from selecting Omari Spellman came via some inside (and negative) information from Spellman's former teammate — and current Laker — Josh Hart. Once that facet of the story broke, Hart rushed to social media to deny everything. And these are the guys in charge of making the big decisions in L.A.?
Neither Johnson, Pelinka, nor Woodward have proven themselves evaluative savants to be usurping their self-appointed experts. Here's a crazy idea: Hire the best scouts and decision-makers and then get out of their way.
Both teams need to remember that their core mission isn't to prove everyone else wrong. It's to win. That's it. Some teams, no matter how big, need a reminder to get over themselves. The Lakers are learning this the hard way. There's still time for Manchester United, but improvement must start now.
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Manchester United 2-2 Aston Villa: Reds blow two-goal lead Draw at Villa Park, 2 points thrown away… | The storied NBA franchise, winners of sixteen league titles, has slowly deteriorated into an international punchline over the last decade. Subpar talent, baffling trades and signings, and dysfunction in the upper echelons of the organization. The trifecta of a losing team.
And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw parallels between the smoldering mess in L.A. and Manchester United's current malaise.
Ever since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013, United have missed the Champions League three times, cycled through managers with no overarching strategy, and now seem further from the Premier League summit than ever. The Reds need only glance across the Atlantic to see that no team is immune from failure.
Some good news: United haven't sunk nearly as far as the Lakers. They're only one season removed from a second place finish and a narrow defeat in the FA Cup final. Los Angeles can only dream of that kind of slump. Even the signing of LeBron James — akin to United stealing Lionel Messi away from Barcelona — couldn't arrest their slide. All it got them was another year out of the playoffs, a farcical trade attempt for Anthony Davis, and the shock resignation of head honcho Magic Johnson. The 2018/19 Lakers almost make the current drama surrounding Paul Pogba, David De Gea, and Alexis Sánchez seem quaint by comparison.
What can Manchester United learn from the Lakers' fall from grace? A lot.
Don't let the past — no matter how glorious — compromise the present
Everyone knows that a "proper" United side should attack, attack, attack. And that's fine ... to a point. An attacking philosophy and continual promotion of youth talent served the club well for decades and definitely still has a place in their future. But United cannot allow the blueprint for the last dynasty to dictate how the next one will be built.
Should the club just write off world-class managers like Diego Simeone, Antonio Conte, and Massimiliano Allegri because they don't set their teams up the right way? All three — and plenty of other "defensive" managers — have achieved a whole lot more recent success than United.
This club is known for something bigger than attacking football and youth players: winning. Ruthless winning. Relentless winning to the point that others grumble about how unfair it all is. That's the heart of Manchester United, not a style of play or youth policy. Great teams adapt and the Reds are in no position to close off avenues of improvement just because they don't mesh with how the club's been run in the past.
That's exactly what's befallen the Lakers. For being one of the largest sports organizations in the world, the Lakers pride themselves on operating as a family-run business. Nothing wrong with that. But whether it's the late Dr. Jerry Buss turning the team over to his kids, them filling the organization with friends and other confidantes, or sentimental moves like Kobe Bryant's final (and outrageous) contract, the verdict is in. It's not working.
While the rest of the sports world moves towards cold and calculating performance analysts straight out of Billions, the Lakers insist on thumbing their nose at rival orgs and going their own way. That's a path that Manchester United should not follow.
Empowering ex-players isn't always the answer
First things first: this is no attack on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Ole more than proved himself ready for a bigger job during his time at Molde and then quickly turned heads with a blistering start to managerial life at Old Trafford. Sure, the season ended on a sour note, but Solskjaer remains the least of United's problems.
But with persistent rumors that Ed Woodward hopes to name an ex-Red as Director of Football — or a group of former players as a transfer committee — the downside of this approach deserves consideration. For a club of Manchester United's size and clout, the only objective for any hire should be: "Is this the best person for the job?" Not how well they know the club or what past glories they experienced in a red shirt, but whether they're capable of leading United back to | 864 |
From Sutton Bay to China, Landscapes Unlimited's track record of elevating golf courses an impressive one.
Torrey Pines in San Diego. Augusta National, home to the Masters, in Georgia. And South Dakota's own private golf oasis on the Missouri River, Sutton Bay.
City Hall's pick for its next golf course manager, Landscapes Unlimited, is no stranger to the golf world, having worked on or with some of the most esteemed courses on the planet. And here in Sioux Falls, the company helped the city build Prairie Green Golf Course in the '90s, and more recently completed the renovation of Elmwood Golf Course.
But the Lincoln, Nebraska, company, which was founded as a golf course construction and irrigation firm, more recently began building a reputation as a financial rescuer of sorts for public and private golf courses struggling to keep budgets in the black. That's an expertise Sioux Falls officials hope will take the burden of providing public golf off the backs of taxpayers.
In 2015, the 400-member Winchester (Virginia) Country Club was at a crossroads: Close its doors for good or make dramatic changes. Like Sioux Falls, which budgets about $400,000 to keep municipal golf courses running each year, a century-old country club was dealing with years of budgets in the red.
Not ready to give up, the club's board of directors began searching for answers. It found them in Landscapes Unlimited, which today has bolstered membership by nearly 100 and has the Winchester Country Club out of financial dire straits.
It's stories like that that have catapulted Landscapes Unlimited's reputation as a leading golf-course manager in the country and world.
And now it has also brought them back to Sioux Falls, tapped by the city's selection committee, to run its three public golf courses for the next five years.
"In every way they were impressive," City Councilor Marshall Selberg said<|fim_middle|> Digest magazine, Sioux Falls couldn't have made a better pick, especially considering Sioux Falls is trying to up its golf game with more high-profile tournaments, a new hotel at Elmwood Golf Course and more golfers moving into the area with the city's population boom.
But managing golf courses wasn't always Landscapes Unlimited forte. Though founded in 1976, it was only about a decade ago it got into the third-party management business.
Until then, Lanscapes Unlimited was primarily just a golf course construction and irrigation company, continuously expanding its portfolio of courses. It helped the city of Sioux Falls construct the Prairie Green golf course 1991, and more recently it was in Sioux Falls while the city renovated Elmwood over a three-year period.
But when the golf course construction industry slowed in the late 1990s, Landscapes Unlimited founder Bill Kubly began acquiring and constructing golf courses of his own.
That country club has been joined by 87 other public and privately owned recreation facilities since then. Today, they're active portfolio includes more than 45 golf properties nationwide, as well as locations in Canada and China.
The course in China, Shanqin Bay on Hainin Island, was built and is operated by Landscapes Unlimited, and annually ranks in Golf Digest's Top 100 golf course list. This year it was ranked the 38th best golf course in the world.
That large footprint in both the construction and management side of the golf industry, Mattingly said, gives Landscapes Unlimited an economy of scale that benefits all of its clients. | this week after news broke Landscapes Unlimited was being recommended by City Hall to take over golf course operations here.
Selberg was one of six who vetted Landscapes Unlimited and four other firms vying for the city's golf contract, including local companies GreatLIFE and Dakota Golf Management, which has operated the public courses since the mid-1990s.
During the announcement, Selberg and other city officials involved in the selection process said all the candidates were strong, but the decision to go with Landscapes Unlimited was resounding.
"If they weren't the top (in every category), they were tied for it, everything from experience to the fee offer," Selberg said.
And if you ask industry insiders like Ron Whitten, a former Kansas golf course owner, a golf course architect, and an editor at Golf | 169 |
Spent most of yesterday at the new premises of Music Store Professional in Cologne, Germany. To say this place is HUGE would be barely scratching the surface of the gigantic immensity of the place. Even their elevator was bigger than some music stores I've been in. It took me three photographs from the far end of the car park to be able to capture all of it. As much as I love small local music stores – and I do, they are the backbone of our industry, and you should support them – I can't help but be impressed by the sheer amount of music gear under one roof that this place has.
They also have their own Internet TV channel, so I spent the afternoon being interviewed by their presenter Alex, who is a great guy that I really enjoy working with. We shot a couple of things about Studio One 2.0 and the new Audiobox VSL interfaces, one in German, one in English,<|fim_middle|> hopefully appear on their site soon. A nice visit, and a really impressive store.
Your mode of explaining everything in this article is genuinely pleasant, all be capable of effortlessly be aware of it, Thanks a lot. | that should | 2 |
My latest project. Planning to build a layout and use him for switching.
Go ahead, feel free to critique.
PS. I made it to this forum!
Well it's a cute little critter, you must be joking about making it motorized. You are arn't you?
No, it does pull on my little railway, however recent derailents have shot it down. I'll post pictures when it's back up and running. It rides slowly though.
I like it ! I had one thirty-five years ago. It was powered with a separate battery car.
The rails were like rack rails, and the wheels cogged too. It was like a cog railway - wouldnt pull a darn thing otherwise.
Here's some shots of a layout made entirely from Legos. These people are really nuts. They move it all over, and none of the structures are glued. It's all friction fir regular Legos. Very impressive.
Well, I'll be d....ed. Never seen anything like it. Is that a traveling show or what ?
Me neither, that city under the tent is a mind blower. Must be totally dedicated people to take that all apart and re assemble it. And the engines, side rods and all. Fantastic! thank's for posting the photos, amazing, who'd of believed it?
Yes it is a traveling show. And they are not sponsored by Lego. All that stuff they bought with their own money. I forget how much they have invested. Back in the city they have two Lego monorails running, and one of them has a camera in it broadcasting to a TV built into the layout. I should have taken more pictures. I was too busy trying to pick my jaw off the floor.
Way cool! Do you have more info or a website for their setup? I like the lego man on the balcony looking right at the camera in the bottom picture.
Way cool! Do you have more info or a website for their setup?
No unfortunately I do not.
Really like it also some of those people are amazing.
I feel like a kid in a candy store. That black leggo steamer is awesome, my eyes got wide when I saw that That is a beatiful mock Pittsburgh leggo set. You are never too old for leggos, eh? Russian, that leggo locomotive would be cool to see in person, nice job.
Thank you everyone who replied,<|fim_middle|> space shuttle on the transport. it had to have been 5 to 6 feet tall and super detailed.
anyway, back to these photos, i love em. and especially the giant lego dude stomping the streets next to the sky scraper. but, i gotta say it'll take a lot to be bette than the crashed space ship in the last one.
sorry about that, i apparently posted my last in the wrong thread.
oh, no i didn't there was just a second page that threw me off.
Those are pretty neat. I myself like to build lego trains. I haven't built any in quite awhile though. | quite a strong response!
...amazing, who'd of believed it?
It's a lot of work, but its possible, I once build a triple deck bus (double deck with an extra open deck) with a trailer from about 2000 pieces (I counted), so you figure out who's crazy here.
Thanks, it's actually a diesel, I don't know how to make steamers.
Unfortunately I had to remove the tracks to free up space on my table... So the loco lives as a museum poiece now.
Thus don't expect any Lego stuff from me anytime soon.
From what I can see, I'm not the only teenager still playin with Legos!!
i love seeing the lego displays. those dudes are some of the most creative people i have ever seen. i remember seeing one display that was the | 172 |
Subsonic Eye launch limited edition jewel case copies of 'Nature of Things'
Words by Brandon Raeburn on 28 December 2022
If you are a fan of Subsonic Eye who also happens to be an avid collector of physical albums, you are in luck.
On Tuesday (27 December), the Singaporean indie rock band took to their official social media pages to announce the launch of a limited edition version of their 2021 album Nature of Things.
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Released via Japanese indie pop record label Fastcut Records, it comes packaged in a jewel case and comprises a physical compact disc as well as access to unlimited streaming of Nature of Things through the Bandcamp app and high-quality downloads of the album's tracks in several formats, including MP3 and FLAC.
Containing memorable tracks such as 'Fruitcake', 'Cabin Fever', and 'Animinimism', the nine-track third full-length<|fim_middle|> to check out in Singapore this December
Mediacorp's Tamil reality singing competition 'Vasantham Star' returns in 2023
The 7 best albums and EPs from Singapore in 2022: featuring releases from Sezairi, Shye, motifs, and more | album from Subsonic Eye follows the quintet as they tell stories about a vanishing natural world and ruminate on the consequences of humanity's indulgence.
Limited edition copies of Nature of Things are now available from US$15 onwards via Subsonic Eye's official Bandcamp page.
Stream Nature of Things here:
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Rare Variants and the Genetics of Autism
Evan Eichler, Ph.D.Department of Genome Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington
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Over the last decade, tremendous advances in sequencing technology have allowed scientists to study the full spectrum of human genetic variation and its relationship to disorders associated with mental health. In this lecture, Evan Eichler will present his laboratory's recent work studying specific forms of both inherited and spor<|fim_middle|> emphasis on the genetic architecture of autism and neurodevelopmental delay. | adic mutations to identify new genes underlying autism and developmental delay. He will also discuss promising paths forward for understanding more complex genetic forms of these disorders.
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Eichler is a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He received his Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. After his postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined Case Western Reserve University in 1997 and the University of Washington in 2004. His research group provided the first genome-wide view of segmental duplications within human and primate genomes. He is a leader in identifying and sequencing normal and disease-causing structural variation in the human genome. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the evolution and mechanisms of recent gene duplication and its relationship to copy number variation and human disease with a specific | 212 |
Provides information for the administration of first aid and medical treatment for anyone who has been exposed to gaseous or liquid chlorine. In addition, this pamphlet provides information pertaining to the administration of medical evaluation programs, exposure assessment programs, and industrial hygiene practices for persons who may be potentially exposed to chlorine.
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Provides instructions and illustrates the use of<|fim_middle|> transport of VCM (a compressed liquefied flammable gas), it also considers guidance for vinyl chloride (the gaseous state of VCM), also known as chloroethylene or chloroethane. | Chlorine Institute Emergency Kit "B." Includes complete parts list. Depictions of commonly used optional devices were added to this edition and numerous editorial revisions were made. In addition, instructions on how to apply both the current and previous kit devices of Emergency Kit "B" are included.
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This pamphlet provides guidelines, recommended practices and other useful information for the safe handling of and emergency response to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) transported in rail tank cars and highway cargo tanks. It represents a compendium of Institute membership experience as of the date of publication. While this pamphlet is focused on the | 190 |
Through essays and images, this book tells of the different ways in which Mexico's past (the pre-Hispanic period, the conquest, the evangelization and the viceroyalty) was seen during the passionate, dramatic<|fim_middle|> and The Washington Post. | nineteenth century. It is a history peopled alike by the great figures of history and the humble heroes of historiography who were in charge of recovering the historical writings and documents of the country.
Enrique Krauze was born in Mexico City, Mexico on September 16, 1947. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. He is a documentary filmmaker, historian, and author. His works include a series of short biographies of Mexican leaders such as Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa and Porfirio Diaz, as well as the book Mexico: Biography of Power. He is the editor of a magazine called Letras Libres. He has written for several publications including the New York Times, The New Republic, Dissent, | 170 |
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INTERBORO PARTNERS SELECTED AS WINNER OF THE 2011 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM AT MoMA PS1 IN NEW YORK – stARTT SELECTED AS WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF XXI CENTURY ARTS (MAXXI) IN ROME
Interboro Partners' Holding Pattern and stARTT's WHATAMI to open in the Courtyards of MoMA PS1 and MAXXI in June
NEW YORK, February 16, 2011—The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome announce Interboro Partners (Brooklyn, NY, Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, and Georgeen Theodore), as the winner of the 12th annual<|fim_middle|>THE INDIAN NATIONAL TRUST FOR ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
PINO PASCALI BOOK, CURATED BY ANNA D'ELIA, PRESENTATION AT MACRO IN ROME | Young Architects Program in New York, and stARTT, (Rome, Italy, Simone Capra and Claudio Castaldo), as the winner of the first annual YAP_MAXXI Young Architects Program in Rome. Now in its 12th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year's winners to develop highly innovative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. For the first time, MoMA and MoMA PS1 are partnering with another institution, MAXXI in Rome, to create the first international edition of the Young Architects Program. Interboro Partners, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2011 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1's outdoor courtyard. stARTT has been chosen from among five European finalists to create an innovative event space in the MAXXI piazza. Both installations will open in June.
Interboro Partners' Holding Pattern brings an eclectic collection of objects including benches, mirrors, ping-pong tables, and floodlights, all disposed under a very elegant and taut canopy of rope strung from MoMA PS1's wall to the parapet across the courtyard. Creating an unobstructed space, the design incorporates for the first time the entire space of MoMA PS1's courtyard under a single grand structure, while creating an environment focusing on the audience as much as the Warm Up performance. A key component of the theme is recycling; objects in the space will be donated to the community at the conclusion of the summer. The designers met with local businesses and organizations including a taxi cab company, senior and day care centers, high schools, settlement houses, the local YMCA, library, and a greenmarket to determine what components of their installation could be used by those organizations following the Warm Up summer music series. Incorporating objects that can subsequently be used by these organizations is a means of strengthening MoMA PS1's ties to the local Long Island City community.
The other finalists for this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were FormlessFinder (New Haven, CT/Brooklyn, NY, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi), MASS Design Group (Boston, MA, Michael Murphy), Matter Architecture Practice (Brooklyn, NY, Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger), and IJP (London/Cambridge, MA, George L. Legendre). An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects as well as YAP_MAXXI's five finalists' proposed projects will be on view at MoMA over the summer. It will be organized by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Whitney May, Department Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
Mr. Bergdoll explains, "Simple materials that transform a space to create a kind of public living room and rec room are trademarks of this young Brooklyn firm. Interboro is interested in creating elegant and unpretentious spaces with common materials. Their work has both a modesty and a commitment quite at odds with the luxury and complex computer-generated form that has prevailed in the city in recent years. With a few gestures they transform parts of the city to achieve new temporary atmospheres and attract new participants."
Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large, adds, "MoMA PS1 is very excited about the innovative architecture of Interboro, which describes the famous MoMA PS1 courtyard as one architectural volume, especially since the YAP 2011 opening will coincide with the much anticipated opening of the new MoMA PS1 entrance kiosk by Andrew Berman Architects."
WHATAMI by stARTT is based on the manufacturing of an artificial archipelago-hill, generating smaller green areas in the garden and potentially outside the museum. The hill works as a garden, injecting "green" into the concrete plateau of the museum's outdoor space, allowing it to serve as a stage and/or parterre for concerts and other events, or as a space to rest and look at the museum itself. The artificial landscape will be punctuated by large "flowers" providing light, shadow, water, and sound. The materials proposed for the installation involve a two-fold recycling process, the supplying of the materials for the construction (straw, geo-textile, plastic) and the dismantling of the "hill" (turf, lighting).
Opened in May 2010, MAXXI was designed by Zaha Hadid and awarded Royal Institute of British Architect's (RIBA) Stirling Prize for architecture, and has already gained a place among the elite international contemporary art and architecture museums.
The other YAP_MAXXI finalists were Raffaella De Simone/Valentina Mandalari (Palermo); Ghigos Ideas (Lissone/Mi, Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete and Francesco Tosi); Asif Khan (London, United Kingdom); and Langarita Navarro Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain, María Langarita and Víctor Navarro).
Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator of Architecture at MAXXI, explains, "We're very happy with the results of this program for three main reasons. First, the collaboration with MoMA proved as effective and productive as we hoped, finally allowing us a surprising insight into the most recent research in terms of architecture, public space, and landscape. Second, we were able to discover an unexpected positive quality of answers by the Italian and European young (under 35) architects involved in the project, all proposing fascinating, innovative and well developed proposals. Third, we're delighted that we were able to choose a winning proposal which incorporates a MAXXI_specific approach to the issues of ecology, recycle, and public space."
YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM WEBSITE
A dedicated YAP International website will be launched prior to the June opening. The website will feature the selected proposals and designs from Interboro Partners, winner of YAP in New York, and stARTT, winner of YAP International in Rome. The website will also include an archive of past MoMA/MoMA PS1 finalists' and winners' proposals, interviews with the curators as well as installation videos.
For the Young Architects Program 2011 selection process, MoMA and MoMA PS1 invited outside experts in the field of architecture, including architects, curators, scholars, and magazine editors, to nominate the finalists from a pool of approximately 25 candidates that included both recent graduates and established architects experimenting with new styles or techniques. After reviewing the candidates, five finalists were selected to present proposals to a panel composed of Glenn D. Lowry, MoMA Director; Kathy Halbreich, MoMA Associate Director; Peter Reed, MoMA Senior Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs; Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design; Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large; Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1 Curator; Antoine Guerrero, MoMA PS1 Director of Operations and Exhibitions; and Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura. The five finalists and winner of the YAP_MAXXI program were selected by a panel composed of Pio Bald, President, Fondazione MAXXI; Margherita Guccione, Director, MAXXI Architettura; Anna Mattirolo, Director, MAXXI Arte; Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura; and Maristella Casciato, Associate Professor of History of Architecture, University of Bologna.
ABOUT INTERBORO PARTNERS
Formed in 2002 by four graduates of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Interboro Partners is a New York City-based office of architects, urban designers, and planners who work together to improve the urban environment with innovative, experimental design ideas. A winner of the AIA New York Chapter's "New Practices Award," the Architectural League's "Young Architects Award," and numerous ideas competitions, Interboro employs unconventional analytical techniques that inform creative, out-of-the-box proposals. At the heart of their philosophy is the idea that architecture's ability to act is tied to its own ability to recognize those that act on it. Their projects thus represent an ever expanding concept of what architecture is, of how it acts on the world, but also how it is acted upon by individuals, institutions, ideas, idealizations, and objects.
Interboro Partners' recent project include the installation of 100+ murals depicting community in America produced for the 2009 International Architecture Biennale as well as the design of a 38,000
SF sculpture park in lower Manhattan. Interboro has received many awards for its innovative projects, including the New Practices Award from the AIA New York Chapter and the Architectural League's Emerging Voices and Young Architects Awards. Interboro's work has been published and exhibited widely.
ABOUT stARTT
stARTT is the brainchild of Simone Capra and Claudio Castaldo and was founded in 2008 to investigate the processes of transformation involving architecture and the territory in general, tackling the reality of the Italian productive fabric. The start projects aim to articulate the relationship between landscape, city, infrastructure, and context.
This year marks the fourteenth summer that MoMA PS1 has hosted a combined architectural installation and music series in its outdoor galleries, though it is only the twelfth year of the Young Architects Program, which began in 2000. The inaugural project was an architecturally based installation in 1998 by an Austrian artist collective, Gelatin. In 1999, Philip Johnson's DJ Pavilion celebrated the historic affiliation of MoMA PS1 and MoMA. The previous winners of the Young Architects Program are SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli (2000), ROY (2001), William E. Massie (2002), Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT (2003), nARCHITECTS (2004), Xefirotarch (2005), OBRA (2006), Ball-Nogues (2007), WORKac (2008), MOS (2009), and Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (2010).
The 2011 Young Architects Program is sponsored by Bloomberg.
Additional funding is provided by Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation, Jeffrey and Michèle Klein, Agnes Gund, and The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
MoMA PS1: 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens
Hours: Noon–6:00 p.m. Thursday through Monday; closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Admission: Admission is a $10.00 suggested donation; $5.00 for students and senior citizens; free for MoMA members and MoMA admission ticket holders. The MoMA ticket must be presented at MoMA PS1 within thirty days of date on ticket and is not valid during Warm Up or other MoMA PS1 events or benefits. The public may call 718/784-2084 for additional information.
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New film looks at Wanstead and Woodford during the Second World War
Air Raid Wardens, Herongate Road, Aldersbrook
To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day on 8 May, a new online film exploring Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford during the Second World War has been released.
Researched, written and produced by Redbridge Museum staff, the film (watch below) looks at the outbreak of the war, evacuation of local children, the Home Front, the contribution of local industries, the damage caused to the local area by air raids, victory celebrations and the bittersweet aftermath of the war.
Victory in Europe – VE Day – was declared on 8 May<|fim_middle|> who risked their lives to protect our freedom and pay our respects to our Armed Forces community, past and present, by sharing two minutes silence on our doorsteps at 11am," added the Leader of Redbridge Council, Cllr Jas Athwal.
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"In our current challenging times it is poignant to commemorate the hardships of the wartime generation who fought so bravely for the freedoms we take for granted today. Redbridge Museum hopes the film will provide a unique insight into how the war affected the borough and will be both a valuable educational resource and a fitting tribute to local residents. We hope you enjoy the film and will share with friends and family," said Gareth Morley, Head of Culture & Libraries for Vision RCL which manages the museum.
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Edinburgh is a gloriously dignified city; Glasgow, a Victorian powerhouse. An excursion to St. Andrews is a pilgrimage for golf aficionados and numerous castles polka-dot the northeast. Its local products, customs, music, and traditional dress—from tartans and bagpipes to tweeds—travel all over the globe, but there's nothing like experiencing them firsthand.
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This sophisticated Victorian landmark hotel is surrounded by shops and restaurants. It's a 2-minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley train station, and a 13-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle.
Contemporary rooms have marble bathrooms, free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs. Suites add extra living space; some include a complimentary breakfast.
Dining options include a brasserie, a fine-dining restaurant, an elegant lounge serving afternoon tea, and 2 bars, 1 specializing in whiskies. A spa has an indoor pool, a gym, and a sauna, as well as steam rooms and beauty treatments
Inverlochy Castle
Built in 1863, this lavish castle hotel overlooking a private loch is 2 miles from the 13th-century Old Inverlochy Castle and a mile from the Ben Nevis Distillery.
Refined rooms are decorated in period style, and some have 4-poster or half-canopy beds. All have loch, mountain and/or garden views, flat-screen TVs, free Wi-Fi and DVD players, as well as posh en suite bathrooms, some with claw-foot tubs. Room service is available.
Full Scottish breakfast is included. There's an elegant Albert and Michel Roux restaurant, and a billiard room, plus gardens and lounges. Boat trips, golf and adventure sports can be arranged.
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Opened in 1924, this luxury spa and golf resort on an 850-acre estate is 20 miles from Stirling Castle.
Elegant rooms come with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs with DVD players, tea and coffeemaking facilities, and minifridges; some have fireplaces and/or balconies. Suites add sitting areas, and some have 2 bedrooms and/or 4-poster beds.
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SpringCT honoured with a Prestigious Leadership Award
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 6 (ANI/BusinessWire India): In recognition of its HR practices and communication excellence, Spring Computing Technologies recently won the BEST EMPLOYER BRAND 2022 Award at the World HRD Congress' Pune Leadership Awards.
Spring<|fim_middle|>, we developed HR practices that are bold and uncommon in the Indian IT industry. This has helped us groom technical experts and develop cutting-edge technology expertise in our focus areas. I am happy that our effort has been recognized today by a renowned global organization." | Computing Technologies offers technology leadership to product companies across the globe. Specializing in high-technology software development, SpringCT provides comprehensive services for new product development and product life cycle management.
SpringCT has a wealth of experience in a wide range of technologies for the development of products in their focus verticals of Collaboration, Digital Health, Enterprise Security and FinTech. This award is an accolade to SpringCT's core values of nurturing relationships and commitment to growth which empower its employees to break new grounds using emerging technologies.
Leadership Awards are given in several geographic regions as a build-up to the Global Employer Brands Awards conferred at the World HRD Congress every year. Times Ascent World HRD Congress is the largest HR event in the world, with over 1800 professionals across 133 countries in attendance this year.
SpringCT qualified on many parameters set by the Advisory Committee for this significant award, such as:
i) Translating and combining vision with action and HR Strategy, ii) cultivating competencies for the future to make the organization future-ready, iii) Talent development and management, recruitment strategies, iv) Employee benefits & recognition, diversity & inclusion, and v) Women empowerment vi) CSR initiatives.
Speaking on the occasion, Sheettal Deshpande, Operations Head of SpringCT said, "The fundamental values of SpringCT revolve around people, as they are the company's most important asset. Their growth and fulfilment define the satisfaction of the customers in terms of the best quality and timely deliveries. The Best Employer Award is the symbol of the conducive culture that is nurtured across the company. I feel that it is a continuous journey where we will keep taking efforts and steps that will benefit the entire team."
SpringCT CEO, Mohan Chaubal, also shared his excitement on receiving this recognition. He says, "In the 15 years since SpringCT was founded, one of our main objectives has been to create an environment that enables technical talent to reach world-class levels. While working towards this | 409 |
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Catatan Produksi Film Chappie (2015)
About the Production
In his films District 9 and Elysium, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp invited viewers to reimagine our world. In those films, Blomkamp combined pulsing action with a social conscience that made the films unforgettable. In his new film, Chappie, Blomkamp is at it again.
Set just a few years from now, the world is under the thumb of autonomous, robotic police droids, called Scouts. "They can't be reasoned with, they can't be negotiated with, they cannot be swayed," says Blomkamp.
With the entire city under the so-called "protection" of the police droids, in comes an entirely new creation – Chappie, the first robot that can think and feel for itself. Once a police droid, Chappie is stolen and put to entirely different purposes.
There are those, like Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman), see a thinking robot as the end of mankind – after all, when a machine can think, what does it need a human for? But others, like Chappie's creator, Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), see Chappie as a living, breathing, and entirely human form of life – and the last hope for humanity, even if he isn't human himself.
"The idea was to take something as unhuman as a robot – especially a police robot – and give him complete human characteristics, to the point that he becomes more emotional than the human characters," says Blomkamp. "That's the backbone of the irony of the movie – a police droid becomes sentient, and begins to display characteristics that are more moral, ethical, and conscientious than human beings tend to."
In the film, Blomkamp tells the story of a young, impressionable mind – the robot, Chappie – who falls in with the most unlikely of influences. "Chappie is quickly pulled into the seedy, crime-ridden underworld of Jo'burg, and he's raised by two parents – one good, and one bad," says Blomkamp. From here, Chappie is caught between powerful forces – and when those forces face off, an entire city hangs in the balance.
Simon Kinberg, who produces the film with Blomkamp, notes that Chappie fires on all cylinders because Blomkamp does what he does so well: the film combines the big ideas that obsess the filmmaker with an action-packed, highly entertaining story unlike any other. "He's made an action movie that is also a dramatic character story that is also an intellectual study about what it means to be human, what it means to have intelligence. The most important thing in the film is that the audience falls in love with Chappie, that their hearts break when Chappie is hurt and are excited when he is victorious. You root for this robot. The movie does a lot of different things in a way that only Neill can do."
"The film raises questions – when would a robot be considered human?" asks Sharlto Copley, who plays Chappie in the film. "Is it because they can paint, or like a certain kind of music? For humans, it would probably be if the machine had feelings – if we were connecting with a machine in the way that we connect with people. I think that's what would make most people call a machine 'alive' – if it experiences emotions in the same way as us."
The lead role of Chappie – a Scout who is given consciousness by artificial intelligence – is played by Sharlto Copley. Copley performed the role on camera, performing in each scene opposite the other characters. Not only did this allow Chappie to feel like a very real and authentic character, but it helped the other actors to bring their characters out to the fullest. Later, in post-production, Blomkamp worked with the wizards at the VFX facility Image Engine to bring Chappie to fruition, painting the robot Chappie over Copley's performance and creating the robot from Copley's movements. The way that Copley emoted in his scenes informed everything about the robot – from the way Chappie moves, or sits, or holds his head… even Chappie's ears.
In many films with CG characters, the filmmakers sometimes choose to film the scene with only the live-action actors as they perform against only a single point. That was never going to happen on Ch<|fim_middle|> hairstyling and tattoos are very much that. We tried to make the wardrobe subtle, so that it didn't interfere or become too much. In both cases, the tattoos were designed specifically for the characters."
Of course, the characters with the most unique look are Ninja and Yo-Landi. "Their look is established, and Neill specifically wanted them to be their personas. So, we engaged Gabby De Gersigny, who did the styling for all of their music videos. It was quite important to keep that styling within the feel that they've had."
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"Sharlto's performance is the thing that brings Chappie to life," Kinberg continues. "He is so human and sad, touching and vulnerable. You feel it in his body language and voice – everything takes its cue from Sharl. The way the robot's eyes move, the way its ears move, and certainly the way its body moves – all of that is dictated by Sharlto's performance."
Kinberg also says that having Copley performing the scenes helped all of the actors. "For the other actors, when you're interacting with a real person, it all feels more real, human, textured and grounded," he explains.
Copley says that in some ways, the role was like any other. "Neill said, 'You just play the role, and we put the robot on top,'" the actor explains. "The film should work with me in the grey suit – you should still be able to watch the film and be moved by it."
Copley notes that Chappie is unlike any role he's ever played before. "It was quite interesting for me, movement wise," he says. "I had to be very aware of every mannerism. The essence of Chappie is in how he moves and how he reacts – and not necessarily what he's saying."
Even though he would never be seen on film, Copley wore two pieces of costume attire to help get the character right. "I wore a chest plate, to keep my back and chest proportions the same as Chappie's," he notes. This allowed Copley to know what spaces he could fit in and how the robot would sit or stand in certain positions. In this way, when an actor grabs Chappie's shoulder or chest, the actor's hands are in the right place when Copley is replaced by Chappie in the computer.
But the chest plate wasn't all. "I wore a grey suit with tracking markers for the animators. It was skin tight, and skin tight clothing is not gangster," he says. Needing something that would help him feel like a gangster, Copley added a pair of shorts and a belt. "During the gangster scenes I would loosen my belt and drop the shorts half way down my backside. That was my trick, to transform from grey suit man into gangster Chappie. It helped create the right kind of gangster movements."
Copley says that the unconventional style of shooting and animating the film was a great benefit. "Animators will tell you there's a huge difference between animating something from scratch and working with what an actor has already done," he says. "It's a lot easier for them to create a moving character if the base performance is already there. Obviously, it's also a lot better for the other actors to have a grey suit actor actually on set that they can interact with."
"Chappie's animators are incredible," adds Copley. "They've managed to capture and translate every nuance of my performance. In addition, they had the challenge of trying to translate my facial movements onto Chappie, who has almost no face. They did an incredible job. I feel like they elevated what I gave them together we created some kind of unique being. "
Taking on the role of the film's villain, Vincent Moore, is Hugh Jackman. As an engineer who is very opposed to the idea of artificial intelligence, Vincent takes Chappie's advancement personally, as Simon Kinberg explains. "Vincent is a twisted, militaristic, aggressive, insecure, brilliant scientist who believes the world needs this massive weapon he's created," Kinberg says. "He's sacrificed everything for this program. He was a soldier, and to get what he wants, he takes some insane, extreme tactics. He'd light the city on fire to get what he wants."
"I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a character as Vincent Moore," says Jackman. "He's an Australian, so it was nice to use my own accent. The key to understanding Vincent is he will not lose. Even when the odds are against him, even when all the signs are pointing in another direction, that's when he fights harder. He feels what he is doing is so important, that he can't accept anybody else's direction or even the fact that anyone else can win."
Because he rarely plays a villainous role, Jackman relished the opportunity to play a realistic villain with a justifiable point of view. "The best villains don't think they're villains," he says. "He brings a genuine argument to the table, and he's convinced that what he's doing is right and necessary. What makes him a villain is his inability to lose. That trumps everything and he becomes very destructive, very angry and vengeful."
Kinberg, also a producer of the recent X-Men films, has worked with Jackman on four films. "He has that movie star magnetism," explains the producer. "He's had it since that first X-Men movie, I've seen it on stage. In this movie, he obviously still has that, but it's completely different, because he's playing the villain. I think Hugh was excited to be playing an Australian – there's a certain Australian archetype of the athletic bully, and he was definitely accessing that. This was a chance for him to play a whole different side of himself as a performer."
Vincent's opposite is Deon Wilson, Chappie's creator, played by Dev Patel. A young engineer developing artificial intelligence, he's in direct opposition to Jackman's Vincent. "Most of all, Vincent hates artificial intelligence," says Jackman. "He thinks that's humans playing God. He argues that crime is unpredictable, so it's a human issue, and it's vital for any weapon to be controlled by a human."
Deon represents the new wave of programmer, according to Blomkamp. "He has the spark of youth about him," says the writer-producer-director. "I wanted him to be a prodigy – an Oxford or MIT artificial intelligence research student that the company gets their hands on, but who quickly finds that the company's goals for him are very different from his own goals – and so all of his spare time goes to his own true love."
"Deon's real passion is in creating artificial intelligence – being a party to creating the next step in evolution – but I think it's also because he just wants a companion," says Kinberg. "He doesn't connect with too many people – he lives in his head and his computer. He falls in love – as a brother, a friend, and a mentor to Chappie."
Patel says that the character changed between the time he first read the script and shooting the scenes. "When I first read him, I completely related to his heart. I knew he was intensely passionate about artificial intelligence, but I was worried he might be too passive in some scenes. Then, I got to the set and I met Sharlto and NINJA and YO-LANDI. After meeting them, it was a natural reaction to give the character more of a backbone, to be more defensive and aggressive about his work."
What was it about NINJA and YO-LANDI? "I didn't really know of them before we started shooting; I'd heard whisperings about this crazy band from South Africa, Die Antwoord," he recalls. "They're absolutely fascinating; they play a version of themselves, which is great, because it's just truth. It's as raw and organic as possible. They bring themselves to this movie, and create this wild juxtaposition."
Acting opposite Copley, Patel watched as Copley created a wholly original character. "Sharlto is kind of like Deon – he's so crazy passionate that you get a bit overwhelmed when you meet him," he says. "Even though he was going to be a CG character, he was so expressive. His diction, his tone of voice, the character choices he made. Acting opposite him was quite easy. Sharlto is a lot older than me, but I was playing a father figure to him, which was strange. I think Deon genuinely cares about this robot; he wants it to succeed, and that's why he keeps going into Ninja and Yo-Landi's den."
Kinberg says that Patel was the first and, ultimately, only choice to play the role. "The reality of the world is that right now, a bunch of kids in garages are making the technology that will transform our world. So, when we started talking about casting Deon, everyone we even discussed was under the age of 30 – and for Neill, his first choice was Dev. Dev feels intelligent, but he also feels very sweet and human, open-faced, a little wounded. The audience can identify with that – not as a nerdy scientist, but what it's like to be lonely, to want a friend, to want to be acknowledged. In the end, I talked to Dev's agent, and I said, 'This is a call that very few agents get, but he's the only option for the part so he has to do it.'"
Overseeing these dueling programs in her company Tetra Vaal is CEO Michelle Bradley, played by Sigourney Weaver. "All she cares about is the bottom line," says Kinberg. "She doesn't really care about the technology, or even whether it's helping or hurting crime; she just wants to make as much money as possible. Neill may be making some commentary on CEOs there, but I think more than anything he finds it comical and absurd, the way she really just doesn't care."
How does Blomkamp feel about Weaver – one of his sci-fi heroines – performing in his movie? "I'm still surprised when I can get people who have crafted my own creative interests – my childhood, to some degree – to work on the films that I want to make," he says. "So, having her on set was quite bizarre but also very natural. She's very easy to communicate with and she's very talented. It was effortless, but then every once in a while I'd realize it was actually Ripley on set, and that was mind-blowing."
For Weaver, the feeling of respect is mutual. "He's one of those masterminds," she says. "He's comfortable with all of the technology – not only the classic science fiction technology, but what's really happening. He sent me links to robots that are being made now that are just amazing – you still think of that stuff as the future. He's also dazzling visually, but what I really love about working with him is that he's both relaxed and knows what he wants. That makes it easy for the actors – he guides you in the direction he needs you to go."
When Chappie is endowed with consciousness from Deon's new program, he falls into the most unlikely hands – NINJA and YO-LANDI VI$$ER. In the film, they are low-level gangsters looking for the score that will set them on the path to riches, but in real life, they are the rap-rave duo Die Antwoord, an act like no other. "They defy definition and explanation," says Kinberg. "You have to see them to fully understand what they're about, because they're so completely unique. They're a rap group, a cultural phenomenon, they're insane artist-performers."
In the movie, they are acting under their own names, but playing characters. "The characters of Ninja and Yo-Landi are former musicians who have been forced to turn to crime for survival," Kinberg explains. "They don't want to live this life, they want to get out of Johannesburg, but there are not many other choices for them."
For two novice actors playing characters under their own names, it's not surprising that the characters share key similarities with the actors' stage personae – but Kinberg says there are key differences as well. Of the characters, he says, "Ninja has a very strong, aggressive vibe about him, while Yo-Landi has a sweetness about her, but they're both badass people who are comfortable even in the scariest places in Johannesburg. In real life, NINJA and YO-LANDI have an intelligence – they have crafted a place for themselves in the world – while in the movie, they are victims of the world. They're less self-conscious and less in control of their destiny."
Of their characters, NINJA says, that in the movie, the robots are oppressive. "We're going, 'Damn these robots, they're everywhere,'" he says. "We can't do our thing, because these robots are taking over." That leads to the characters kidnapping a police droid – who becomes Chappie.
NINJA says that he and YO-LANDI wanted to be a part of the movie for the chance to work with Neill Blomkamp. "Neill is our favorite director in the world," says NINJA, "so when he asked us to be in Chappie, it was, like, complete freakout. And he asked us to star as ourselves, which is just a bit of a dream come true."
"The reason why we like District 9 so much is because nothing like that had ever come out of South Africa," says YO-LANDI. "Usually, South African movies are quite boring. This was super fresh, done properly, and it was Hollywood but all of its flavor was all about South Africa."
Blomkamp encouraged the stars to bring much of themselves to the parts. Not only did he let NINJA and YO-LANDI choose the guns they wanted – but to influence the colors as well. "We said, 'Can we paint our guns luminous pink and luminous yellow? Can we paint the bullets candy colors as well?'" Ninja relates. "He asked us what car we wanted, and I said, 'Can I get my car, except souped-up?' And Neill went and souped it."
The parts were created especially for the performers. What's the difference between the NINJA and YO-LANDI on stage as rappers, and the Ninja and Yo-Landi of the film? On stage, YO-LANDI says, "I usually have a more punk-style life and more of an attitude. For the movie, Neill kept pushing for a softer side of me, a more maternal side, not so punk, just soft towards Chappie and motherly. It was a little bit different and cool to explore that side – I wouldn't have thought of it. It's another side of YO-LANDI that I hadn't fully explored, and that was a cool, unexpected twist."
NINJA says that there it's a side that sometimes does come out in real life. "YO-LANDI's got this pit bull called Angel," he says. "When she speaks to Angel – 'oh, you're so cute' – she speaks in this high pitch. I said that she should speak to Chappie like that – she started to speak to the robot in that cute, high-pitched voice."
Creating Chappie and the Moose
Blomkamp's road to Chappie began more than 10 years ago. As a young director and visual effects artist, Blomkamp created a show reel of fake commercials that would show agents the kind of work he was capable of producing. "I was just messing around, and I designed that robot in 2003 in Lightwave," he explains. "It was influenced by a lot of Japanese influences and anime; I'm not as into anime and manga now, but I wanted the genesis of the entire film to remain true to what it was – this bizarre, weird, fake commercial. I wanted Chappie to be very much like that robot."
So, long before principal photography began, the filmmakers were deep into designing the look of Chappie on screen. The process fell to teams at two companies: Image Engine, where the visual effects were overseen by Visual Effects Supervisor Chris Harvey, and WETA Workshop, where the physical effects team was headed by WETA Specialty Props Effects Supervisor Joe Dunckley. Together, inspired by the robot that Blomkamp had designed 10 years earlier, they would design a robot that would function both in the computer and as a physical prop.
Two-and-a-half years before filming began, the filmmakers shot test footage in Johannesburg to show that their plan would work. With the proof of concept a success and the film greenlit, Image Engine and the team at WETA Workshop worked together, back and forth, refining and perfecting the design. "This was a different process for us," Harvey says. "On Elysium, everything was built at WETA and then came to Image Engine to create digitally. On this movie, Neill went with a different approach. Neill spent months working through original concept art with WETA, then sent that art to Image Engine as 2D sketches. From that artwork, we fully realized the characters in three dimensions. We were able to solve a lot of animation mechanics before the practical models were built; we were able to refine the design so that we knew he would actually work." From there, Image Engine shared the digital models with WETA Workshop, working back and forth to refine the design, so that the WETA team could build a practical model.
Dunckley says that Blomkamp's direction for the design of Chappie was to aim for reality. "He wanted it to be real – he didn't want it to be over-the-top in its functionality," he says. "He couldn't have laser beams pop out of nowhere. It had to be tough, but it also had to look like something a government could afford in a few years' time."
The design of the Moose as an overly large, overengineered robot proposed as a supposed alternative to the robot police Scouts followed the same back-and-forth process, even if the approach of the design was completely opposite. "The Moose is Neill's baby," says Dunckley. "We're very proud, because from an engineering standpoint, it works very well," Dunckley adds. "It looks beautiful, and it looks like it would work – it looks like it would come to life and attack you."
Blomkamp designed the Moose to be unrealistic. "It's satirical – it's what a defense company does with extremely expensive, inefficient, giant, cumbersome mechanics that they can charge taxpayers a very high rate to do. It was the most brash, overdesigned, crazy concept that I could come up with. And we realized it in the same way that visual effects were realized in the 60s, 70s, and 80s: model makers would kit-bash things together out of pre-designed pieces of real-life technology, and that's what I did, in the computer. From there, WETA Workshop and Image Engine refined it to the point that every toe joint and rotary device would actually be animatable, and WETA built a three-and-a-half-meter real version."
For a police force of 110 Scouts, WETA Workshop built 11 practical dummies. "We individualized them," says Dunkley. "They all have number plates, so we can swap out a number plate, or panels with different aging – we can show a Scout as brand-new or as five years old and needing maintenance. That's one of the tools we used so that the audience could identify Chappie – he's Scout 22, and he's had damage to an ear, which has been replaced by an orange test ear. It's easy to follow that orange ear through the compound."
Dunckley says that those ears aren't just identification markers – in their design, they give the animators the power to show what Chappie is feeling. "It's most obvious in the ears," he says. "Different positions show you different expressions."
As Chappie takes more damage through the film, the WETA Workshop team was able to change his look. "There are eight stages to Chappie," says Dunckley. "There are three Chappie skeletons and eight sets of panels representing each stage. Once he's got the damage to the chest, we removed external panels and replaced them with the next stage. He gets attacked, he gets burnt, he gets shot, shot some more, graffitied by Ninja and Yo-Landi, and on and on. A lot of work went into the physical development; the complication is that everything we shot on set with the dummy – the physical Chappie – had to relate back to the visual effects character and the continuity they had to follow, and we collaborated closely with Image Engine to identify each stage and go through a texture shooting process so that they could closely map each stage."
The practical Moose model also required similar thought. "The model is functional from a set perspective – even though it's so large, we could break it down and get it out of the set in 30 minutes," Dunckley continues. However, getting there, in the build of the practical model, was a complicated task. "Neill wanted the Moose to be in a threatening forward position pose, which actually throws it off-balance. So, we put a lot of weight into the legs, allowing us to center all of that weight in that forward momentum stance. It weighs about a ton – about a ton of Moose."
Despite coming from visual effects, Harvey says there are huge advantages to having practical models on the set – first being that the robot can actually appear on camera at times. "If the robot is inanimate in a shot – if he's off or if people are working on him – we don't have to add that," he says. In addition, the practical model can service as reference for a visual effects shot that will be added later. "We could light it and move it around with the cameras in place," he says. "There's a shot with Chappie in the rain; it was hugely helpful to bring the robot head out and watch how the rain hit and ran down and the lights reflected off of it; we were able to bring that back to the office and study it. It gives us a true visual representation of what it would look like if it had been there on that day."
For this film, Blomkamp returns to his home town of Johannesburg, the setting for his breakthrough film, District 9. "At first, I didn't want to set the film there, because District 9 was set there," he says. "We looked at setting it in America. But that didn't feel as unique to me. The themes of the movie tied into Johannesburg in quite a real way."
Sharlto Copley says that every aspect of the film is influenced by its setting. "Creatively, as an artist, Neill draws on his upbringing and experiences. That's what we're doing in this film – and certainly what I'm doing with this character. I'm drawing on people in the community. There are a million things in the film that are inspired by Johannesburg; it's a critical part of the film."
James Bitonti, the film's first assistant director and co-producer, says, "The film was written for Johannesburg, because that's a world that Neill really knows. When we started scouting locations, we saw some of the locations he was talking about – the den, the bridges – and we really got a feel for the city. It made the script stand out even more. So often, a script is written for an anonymous city, so to step off that plane and see some of the places Neill wrote into the script made the script that much better."
Jules Cook, the film's production designer, was responsible for the look of the film, working with set decorator Daniel Birt. "A large amount of this film was repurposing Joburg locations, some of which were a struggle to find," says Cook. "A lot of them were better than sets we could build."
For example, Ninja and Yo-Landi's den. "We initially looked for a house, and we saw a number of smaller locations. But Neill fell in love with a space that they could live in and do their own thing and hide out. And me, I'm a huge fan of abandoned spaces," says Cook. "The challenge was to make all of that work in their hideout, but still have it feel like their home. So, Ninja was able to help out – they put their own artwork and their style into it, the style that comes from their music videos. They made the space their own."
In decorating the den, Birt says that inspiration came from a mix of the NINJA and YO-LANDI of real life, and the Ninja and Yo-Landi characters written into the film. "I did a lot of research into them and their music videos – anything I could find on the net," says Birt. "And then, I tried to put my twist on making them different for the film, better suited to the script than everything they've done before. They already look cool because they always do – it's just a twist on what they've done before. You look at it on screen and you're thinking, 'What is going on with these people? What is this place?' If you don't already know who NINJA and YO-LANDI are before you see the movie, that set gives you a crash course pretty quickly."
Chappie's room within the den, Birt says, is a mix of his influences. "Chappie is learning from Deon, and he's learning from Ninja and Yo-Landi," he notes. "So the approach to dressing his room is to use what Chappie's learned. He's replicated the bed that Yo-Landi sleeps in, but in his own style with what he can find. The artwork, he's done a little family in chalk – replicating what Ninja's done on the walls."
For many locations, the production team relied on Blomkamp's personal knowledge of the city. "As we were looking for environments for Hippo's lair, Neill mentioned his home, and when we looked at it, it was the place he wanted to shoot," Cook recalls. "We turned this semi-derelict environment into a gang den, filling the pool with guns – we brought the whole space down. When Neill and his sister arrived there, I think they were a bit taken aback."
Another such location was the freeway chase and shootout. It turns out that many years ago, Blomkamp and Copley dreamed of shutting down that freeway to shoot a car chase – and on Chappie, that dream came true. "If you stick at something long enough, it begins to cycle back and work out," says Blomkamp. "When I was growing up here, the thought of shutting down a national highway so you can shoot a transit heist seemed like an impossible idea. Shooting on that particular highway makes it feel like a crime unique to Joburg, which is why we wanted to do it. It's an amazing feeling to have done it with this film."
One of Cook's goals was to contrast the Scouts and the Moose by putting them in very different environments. "We conceptualized it as a big space for the Moose and a small space for the Scouts," he explains – even though the Scouts are an up-and-running program and the Moose is only Vincent's pie-in-the-sky vision. "The Scout room is a functioning environment – they've got the contracts and are building the robots – while the Moose is pure R&D and he's trying to sell this thing. They're pouring money into this ludicrous monster. I suppose the two rooms reflect Vincent and Deon, in a way: Deon's space is more humble and up-and-running, and Vincent's is larger than life."
Cook was also responsible for designing the interface that would allow Vincent to operate the Moose. "Neill and I talked about how we would operate the Moose chair – how much would go through the neural helmet and how much would be physical. You could do the whole thing mentally, but it wouldn't necessarily work in the film – the audience needs to see him controlling it. So, we added joysticks and monitors that let others see what he's seeing through the helmet."
About the Stunts
For the stunt and action sequences, Blomkamp collaborated closely with stunt coordinator Grant Hulley, who served in a similar capacity on District 9. "Neill comes up with his concepts for the fight and action sequences, and then allows us to run with it," says Hulley. "He wants us to push it as far as we can."
Hulley says that Blomkamp's background in visual effects was a huge addition to the film – and not because the director would rely on visual effects. "The old adage of 'We'll fix it in post' didn't play on this film," says Hulley. "He knows what you can get in post and what it's better to get in camera. He wants it from the performers and the actors." A good example, Hulley says, is one particular bike flip. "There's a cool jump, some fire, a droid knocks the rider off and the bike goes spinning," he notes. "That could have been done in post, but instead, we put cables on the performer and on the bike itself, so that the stuntman comes off and the bike also goes spinning off. We did it in two takes, but we did it for real."
Because the film contains so much action – helicopters, flipping cars, not to mention actors in suits who would be replaced with CG characters – the stunt team had the art department build mini-sets to scale to help plan the complicated sequences.
Part of Hulley's work was working with a stunt double for Copley – that is, a stunt double for an actor who would be painted over by CG in the final film. "You'd think that part could be anybody, but it can't. Visual Effects keys off Sharlto and his movements – his character comes through with it. Our stunt double, Ian Stock, had to try to mimic Sharlto's movements. It's Sharlto's character that we're going to feel."
In fact, finding stunt doubles for all of the characters was a challenge. Stunt doubles have to be roughly the same size as the actors they are doubling – and have a haircut and tattoos that match. "The extreme haircuts on this show – Ninja, Yo-Landi, Yankie, Hippo – were a challenge," he points out, "Plus the tattoos. I don't even know how many tattoos NINJA has – I don't even know how you'd count. Every morning, our stunt double had to have all of those tattoos put on."
The film's opening sequence was perhaps the greatest challenge. "We had three helicopters, with droids and human police in two of them. Another chopper had the camera. We were working with decelerators, we had a pipe ramp for one of the vehicles, a lot of gunfire, bike gags – and then we had to bring the actors into it. And Brandon Auret, who plays Hippo, isn't wearing a shirt, so we had to find ways to hide pads to keep him safe – he had to jump through windows. And Ninja and Yo-Landi's van gets flipped – the effects guys put a cannon in there. There was a hell of a lot going on that week, and it all worked out well."
About the Costumes
Diana Cilliers, who previously collaborated with Blomkamp on District 9, oversaw the costume design. She says that despite the setting in the same city, the costume design came from a very different aesthetic in the two films. "In District 9, we had a very specific styling of downtown Johannesburg. On this film, Neill didn't necessarily want to do that again; we went with more of an east coast American gangster look." Cilliers also helped with dressing Chappie, collaborating with the props department as the gangsters give the robot chains and jewelry.
Deon, on the other hand, did have a specific look. "There's a specific part of Johannesburg, Kempton Park, where many people work in the defense industry," she says. "It's an old-fashioned styling – not really vintage, but definitely conservative, no flamboyance – a person tries to be invisible, in a way."
Vincent, too, has a wardrobe that comes from his character. "Neill described the character as Australian farming stock kind of guy, who also has a military background," Cilliers says. "Hugh was very game. We started off slightly more caricature, and we got to a place that was more real and absolutely a unique look for Hugh. His hairstyle is quote specific, as well as the shorts and the socks."
One way to show the way that costume can define a character is in the wardrobe differences between Yankie – part of the gangster trio with Ninja and Yo-Landi – and Hippo, the gangster boss. "We tried to give Yankie an LA gangster feeling – it was very specifically not South African. So, we researched that quite extensively and the three of us, Neill, Jose and I, collaborated on the final look, and Sarah Rubano, the make-up and hair department head, added some amazing tattoos. Hippo, on the other hand, is very South African, very Johannesburg, and Sarah's | 7,044 |
After the election on Monday, the right wing Progress Party (FrP) has got change to enter in the new government for the first time in its history. Before the election, FrP's two deputy leaders, Per Sandberg and Ketil Solvik Olsen demanded that Jensen must be finance minister in the government.<|fim_middle|> afraid of Jensen as finance minister. – She is not finance minister for a majority FRP government. Had she been there, I would have been more upset, says he.
Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg has said to VG that she will keep budgets within the guidelines. How the economy is affected by a new policy therefore depends on how big an impact FRP gets in the government.
Siv Jensen however did not comment on VG's poll. – I have no comment on any ministerial posts and positions. FRP is keen to implement most of its policies, Jensen writes in an e-mail to the newspaper. | But Norwegians are skeptical of the party leader Siv Jensen (44) as Finance Minister.
According to a poll by Norwegian daily VG, only one in four respondents believe FRP leader will work "well" or "very good" in the role of finance minister. 45.5 percent said they believe she will perform "bad" or "very poor", while almost 15 percent answered in the middle of the scale.
However, some economists think the rest of the government parties will keep her on the track.
– The government's overall policy will guide Jensen, if she becomes finance minister. Also the Ministry of Finance's powerful bureaucracy set clear guidelines, says Chief Economist at DNB Markets, Øystein Dørum. He also thinks that FRP will not be able to get approval for a sharp increase in oil spending as opposed to what the party promised before the elections. The three other parties are against more oil money spending in the budget, notes Dørum.
He states that fiscal policy must and will be based on the Government's overall policy. The Minister of Finance shall maintain integrity and must be able to fit into this policy with the rest of the government and the public.
Harald Magnus Andreassen, chief economist at Swedbank First Securities, is not either | 262 |
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Usually I write my feelings which every one feels in their life but never enjoyed or noticed, but now when they read my blogs they realized that they also felt the same in their life but they dint gave any importance to them. Now they started enjoyed their feelings and moment they encounter everyday and the most important thing is they share it with me and says "I also felt same like your so and so blog, if they write blog they will share this moment 1st". It's very good feeling when your small work affects other people's thoughts in a positive manner.
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Yesterday felt a little cooler than normal. So I tacked up the pony and<|fim_middle|> off property – probably stick closer to the road so her footing is more even. If nothing else, more bute today and icing.
Aw poor girl! Hopefully she feels right as rain soon! Charlie is sorta sore right now too tho I'm attributing it to mostly building new muscles and learning how to do new stuff. Or maybe he's budding some rain rot lol. Who knows! | got out to ride close to sunset.
She felt a little lazy in the beginning, just meandering at her walk and trot. Then when I asked her to pick up her trot, she did and we had some pretty nice trot work. I had rearranged the poles earlier, thinking of doing circles and trying to start the habit of counting strides and rating our pace. It worked most of the time, and had a few that weren't quite "in stride" but over all it felt okay. She reached for one, and I made sure to praise her for it and she slowed right down to a nice canter.
Then, she tripped. She tripped a front leg and a back, and I let her walk to see if she felt okay. She did for a bit, so we cantered a bit more. Then she was suddenly really stiff and hoppy. It was getting dusk, which she was petrified of at the other place due to the birds fluttering around madly in the trees, so I thought perhaps that was it. We rode for a bit longer, but after I got off I had my mom walk her for me so I could watch, and even though she'd felt fine for the beginning of the ride, I could definitely tell that she wasn't quite right. She was just a little stiff in her shoulders and she wasn't as swinging as she usually is in her back and hind end.
So I did a quick palpation test and sure enough she was sore – more over her left hip than right this time. But really, I swear mare. I like that for the most part she seems pretty indestructible, but damn I wish she'd overreact about things that bother her. She's so stoic about that stuff that many times I don't know where to start when she feels "weird". Because it is just "weird". Only 2 times has she ever been truly off where there is no doubt you can see it and know where the problem is.
So I gave her two grams of bute – which I am ecstatic that she ate because usually she gives me this look like "how dare you attempt to sneak that icky-ness into my food mother". But she slurped it up and even licked the pan clean. Pretty sure she got all of it! I also stuck some liniment on her legs and while she doesn't mind it on the front legs, she was not a fan of the hind legs.
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Wisconsin Highway 60 was among several roads damaged by heavy rains in June 2013. Photo by Richland County Emergency Management via the National Weather Service.
The Summer of 2013 began with floods, washouts, and landslides across the Driftless Area, destroying roadways and inundating homes in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. These events bring significant losses and make dramatic news, but they are not new. To the contrary, the Driftless Area's rugged landscape owes its very existence to millions of years of erosion by floodwater, and that erosion is an ongoing process. Widespread human construction, by contrast, is a recent development in this environment. The repeated rains and landslides of the last decade make clear that communities in the Driftless Area must plan their land use for the inevitable occurrence of further flooding and erosion.
The steep terrain of the Driftless Area increases the speed at which run-off collects into drainage channels, ordinarily an advantage, as it dries uplands quickly and prevents water from pooling into stagnant ponds and<|fim_middle|> elevation measurements in three ways. First, I defined a different color to mark each elevation level — rising from green lowlands to brown uplands. This is a cartographic technique known as "hypsometric tinting," and it serves to fill the map with color while making it easy to compare the height of distant locations at a glance. Second, I instructed GRASS to draw simulated shadows behind rises of elevation, creating a classic "shaded relief" map. This provides a three-dimensional illusion of the rise and fall of terrain. Finally, in addition to traditional relief shading, I also utilized GRASS to draw subtle "slope shading," making steeper areas appear slightly darker than flat areas. This outlines hillsides even at angles that standard shaded relief would miss.
When I had at last prepared each layer of the final map — state and county boundaries, water bodies, and three renderings of elevation — I used GIMP to stack the layers together. The resulting composite map was shown at the start of this article.
I still was not done. It was not enough merely to pan across the map on my computer screen — the only way to study the whole region in detail would be to order a large format print of the map. A print would need to be as polished and informative as possible, so I went back to the USGS for more data and used GRASS and GIMP to create a map of local glaciation (included in part one of the article) as well as a locator map based on the contiguous United States. I inset these additions onto the main map for added reference value in the final printed version. Finally, I embellished the map with photographs showing four seasons of Driftless Area natural scenery. I sent the design away to be printed, and in a few days, I had the map in my hands as a 24 by 36 inch poster.
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Robert H. Dott, Jr., and John W. Attig, Roadside Geology of Wisconsin, (Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2004), pp 119-128, 158.
David S Fullerton, Charles A. Bush, and Jean N. Pennel, "Surficial Deposits and Minerals in the Eastern and Central United States (East of 102 Degrees West Longitude)," U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investgation Series I-2789, (2004). [http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2789/]; Dott and Attig, pp 131-134.
James Theler and Robert F. Boszhardt, Twelve Millenia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003), pp 19-32; 58-68; Dott and Attig, pp 134, 166-179, 199-205.
Note: This article documents flooding that occurred in April 2011. As of May, Prairie du Chien is once more dry and green, and all the parks and historic sites mentioned below are now open for visitors.
The Father of the Waters is reenacting a familiar natural drama at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Swollen by spring rain and melted Minnesota snow, the Mississippi River will carry over 1.5 million gallons of water past town each second during the peak of the Flood of 2011. While the power of the river is awe inspiring, the latest flood is nothing new. At Prairie du Chien, the Mississippi is immersed in history.
Floodwater began to seep around the foundations of Fort Crawford on Monday, April 11, 2011.
The two-story blockhouse is a replica constructed in the 1930s. The fence surrounds an excavated stone "prison pit" from the fort that has filled with water.
On April 11, 2011, floodwater began to creep across the foundations of Fort Crawford, one of Prairie du Chien's most significant archaeological sites. Built in 1816, Fort Crawford was a federal military installation intended to secure control of the Upper Mississippi River for the United States. It was also situated on an island in the middle of a floodplain.
The river bank is here so low and flat, that by a swell which took place in the Mississippi the summer before we visited it, the water rose upon the prairie, and entered the parade, which it covered to the depth of three or four feet; it penetrated into all the officers' and soldiers' quarters, so as to render it necessary for the garrison to remove from the fort and encamp upon the neighboring heights, where they spent about a month. The waters having subsided, at the end of that time, they returned to their quarters; the old men about the village say that such an inundation may be expected every seven years.
Because I thought, hey, why not post more leaf photos?
⬑ I. Lost in the Leaves: Arts and Crafts Wallpaper has nothing on this.
⬑ III. Oaks in the Sky: Could I climb one to meet Jack and go looking for giant's gold?
⬑ II. A Golden Canopy: It's like discovering El Dorado.
I went for a walk this morning. It was -6° Fahrenheit. As I've stated before, I like the cold. Even so, I couldn't help but think back longingly to summer as I hurried down State Street, my fingers turning a rather pretty shade of blue. Summer was just a few months ago, but it seems as though it was a different world. We dressed differently, we spent our time differently, we saw entirely different scenes outside our doors. I took the photograph above on August 31. The pretty scene disguises a greater adventure, for to get that shot I had to hike a few miles, climb some tall rocks, and balance awkwardly with one foot on a steep slope, holding my camera overhead at just the right angle to cut past the weeds towards the lovely Asters you see. I realized later that these flowers were everywhere, and that I could have just taken a picture of them in someone's flowerbed — but summer wouldn't have been nearly as fun if I'd just stayed home.
The same thought applies to winter. It is easy on these frigid days of January to think back fondly to August, but I can't honestly say that winter is any less beautiful. Indeed, some places that are rather ugly in summer become quite aesthetic under a freshly fallen layer of snow. I could never spend winter hiding indoors waiting for the warm weather to return, because I would miss too much. Going through winter without admiring the ice and frost would be like passing the summer without appreciating flowers or thunderstorms. The joy of living in a place like Wisconsin is that we get to pass through all these remarkable worlds just by staying put. | bogs. During heavy rains, however, water collects more rapidly than some narrow channels can accommodate, leading to sudden flash floods that erode banks and scour new channels. In the meantime, the saturated hillsides — especially those with inadequate vegetation — lose strength and give way, leading to landslides. These are the very processes that created the jagged valleys and steep slopes of the Driftless Area, a landscape forged in unison with running water.
In 1962, the U.S. Congress authorized construction of a flood control dam on the Kickapoo River at La Farge, Wisconsin. The dam would protect La Farge and its downstream neighbors from the Kickapoo's devastating flash floods. It would also create a 1,780 acre reservoir — "Lake La Farge" — that proponents hoped would draw tourists in search of fishing, boating, and lakefront recreation. Over a hundred farmers and landowners were made to sell their real estate to the federal government beginning in 1969 to make way for the planned reservoir. Construction crews set to work rebuilding Wisconsin Highway 131 around the anticipated lake. In 1971, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke ground on an earthen dam at La Farge.
As work progressed, increased environmental scrutiny revealed problems. Studies showed that a dam would not only alter the local ecology and threaten endangered species in the Kickapoo Valley, but also take a severe toll on local water quality. The expense of maintaining the reservoir also raised concerns. In 1975, with the dam partially in place and half of the affected highway rebuilt, a failed cost-benefit analysis led the Corps of Engineers to halt the project. The cost had been $18 million, coupled with the destruction of the valley's farming community — an unambiguous example of poor foresight and government waste.
Though Lake La Farge was never filled, the incomplete dam and an abrupt corner in Highway 131 remain as visible reminders of the failed project. Likewise, the property acquired for the reservior remains largely vacant, though it at last found use in 2000 when it was transferred from the Corps of Engineers to the Ho-Chunk Nation and the State of Wisconsin for the creation of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. The lake that never was thus remains fixed on the mental map of many Kickapoo Valley residents.
I created the map above to define the extent of the planned lake more clearly. The map is based on elevation data I had downloaded from the USGS NED for my Driftless Area Map, and it simulates the area that would have been flooded if Lake La Farge had been filled to the proposed elevation of 840 feet above sea level. The base layer of the map is a mosaic of 2010 aerial imagery from the USDA National Agricultural Imagery Program. The map does not account for sediment deposition and other landscape changes that the dam could have wrought, but it offers a general picture of how "Lake La Farge" might have fit into the modern landscape.
Brad's History – From Brad Steinmetz, author of That Dam History: The Story of the La Farge Dam Project.
My home is the Driftless Area — a landscape of rugged hills and coulees that unfolds in steep contrast to the plains of the surrounding Midwest. I've long wanted a good map of the area's unique topography, but this desire has been hard to satisfy. The Driftless Area is flung across the borders of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, so no individual state map covers the whole region. Moreover, while there are a handful of maps out there centered on the Driftless Area, none that I've seen show quite what I want. There was just one solution: I would have to make a map of my own. I have no formal training in GIS or cartography, but maps have fascinated me since childhood, and there is no better excuse than ignorance for learning something new. It took some time, but at long last I've made the map I'd been looking for.
Limit of Glaciation around the Driftless Area during the Quaternary Ice Age. This map is based on U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-2789, "Surficial Deposits and Materials in the Eastern and Central United States," by David S. Fullerton, Charles A. Bush, and Jean N. Pennell (2004).
I wanted my map of the Driftless Area to reveal at a glance the shape of the natural landscape. Human development and labels were less important, as I can find road maps from Yahoo! and Google, and in any case, the cultural features of the Driftless Area tend to rise from their natural surroundings. River valleys such as the Mississippi and Wisconsin doubled as arteries of trade and transportation. Alluvial terraces became building sites for towns and cities like Winona, La Crosse, and Prairie du Chien. Stretches of highland like Military Ridge became thoroughfares linking upland settlements, and prominent features like the Blue Mounds and Trempealeau mountain have long served as landmarks for passersby. A map that makes these natural features visible will therefore expose the foundations of human geography in the region.
After deciding on an emphasis for my map, I needed to collect the geospatial data and software needed to make it. I was able to complete the map with public domain data from U.S. government agencies. To process this data, I relied exclusively on free open source software. GRASS (with GDAL and OCR) did the heavy work of rendering my data sources into graphical map layers, while Inkscape and GIMP aided me with further graphic editing and layer compositing — all on a GNU/Linux operating system.
Land elevation formed the basis for my map. I downloaded local elevation data from the National Elevation Dataset (NED) maintained by the United States Geological Survey. The NED is a raster or grid of elevation measurements spaced at every 1 arc second (1/360th of a degree, or approximately 30 meters) across the entire contiguous United States (other levels of detail, such as measurements at every 1/3 arc second, are also available). I used GRASS to map these | 1,301 |
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NB: I can't use %(REQUEST_URI}, because if the .htaccess lives at /foo/, a request for /foo/README.txt will result in a cache check for $CACHE_BASE/foo/README.txt, instead of $CACHE_BASE/README.txt as it should.
A: My Mod_rewrite is a little rusty but shouldn't you be able to use the RewriteBase directive to account for "/foo"
Or I think you could use a back reference something like this
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} foo/(.*)
RewriteCond "%{ENV:CACHE_BASE}/%1" -f
Or if I'm following it all correctly
Rewrite first to the cache, then check to see if you need to download it first.
Like so:
RewriteRule foo/(.*) "%{ENV:CACHE_BASE}/$1" [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule (.*) "download_and_cache.cgi?$1"
If you can using FallbackResource would make the above a little cleaner.
| URL-path from the RewriteCond in a .htaccess?
I'd like this because I'm trying make one subdirectory of my web server transparently proxy + cache requests to another server, and I'd like to write the .htaccess like this:
RewriteCond "%{ENV:CACHE_BASE}/%{URL_PATH}" -f
RewriteRule (.*) "%{ENV:CACHE_BASE}/$1" [L]
RewriteRule (.*) "download_and_cache.cgi?$1"
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Out today, the second novel in the new military science fiction series, written by JR Handley and set in the worlds of the Human Legion. Fortress Beta City is available now in Kindle and paperback editions.
Thirty-five years ago, Lance Scipio pulled most of Beta City into an emergency cryo-freeze.
He is woken to a catastrophically changed world.
2601AD. Tranquility-4 near the frontier of the White Knight Empire. Lance awakes to a world where unidentified Marines have raided his city, the enemy is occupying the unflooded portions, and oh by the way, the city is slowly dying. Lance must find a way<|fim_middle|> is free and exclusive to signed up Legionaries (you can enlist here). Or you can buy the paperback here. | for his Marines to survive.
The tasks ahead seem all but impossible – but Lance doesn't give up, he is a Marine! The end result will either be freedom or death.
The Sleeping Legion is a breakneck new sequence of military science fiction novels set in the worlds of the international bestselling series: 'The Human Legion'.
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The hero of the books is one Lance Scipio. He's young, but he's already had one grueling adventure as a Marine. You can read about this in the prequel novella: The Demons of Kor-Lir. The Kindle edition of this book | 188 |
La salchicha de Bolonia o salchicha de Bologna es un embutido estadounidense parecido a la mortadela italiana (realizada con salchicha de cerdo finamente picada y cubos de manteca de cerdo, originaria de la ciudad italiana de<|fim_middle|>ben el consumo de carne porcina.
Bolonia alemana - Conocida también como «bolonia al ajo», este embutido se distingue por el ajo que se añade a la receta. La bolonia en Alemania es conocida como Fleischwurst.
Bolonia de Lebanon - Nombrada así por el Condado de Lebanon en Pensilvania, es la variedad de embutido llamado «Pensilvania dutch». Se distingue por su sabor ahumado, además de por su aspecto oscuro y grueso, es una de las bolonias de sabor más intenso.
Véase también
Sándwich de Bolonia
Sándwich de tocino
Salchicha de Lincolnshire
Salchicha de Cumberland
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Ballpark's signature sandwich: Fried bologna
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Gastronomía de Estados Unidos | Bolonia). Comúnmente se le llama bolonia o bologna (pronunciado boloña). Las normas del gobierno de los Estados Unidos requieren que la bolonia americana sea de grano fino y sin pedazos visibles de grasa. La bolonia también puede hacerse de pollo, pavo, ternera o carne de cerdo.
Variedades
Bolonia - En general la bolonia es básicamente igual a la salchicha de «perro caliente», aunque más grande y en lonchas.
Bolonia de ternera - Es una versión realizada completamente con ternera. Por lo general, es de un color más rojo que su contraparte de carne mixta.
Bolonia Kosher o Halal - Típicamente elaborada solamente con ternera, pero a veces con pavo o cordero. Hecha para quienes profesen religiones como el judaísmo o el Islam que proscri | 200 |
ANOTHER SLAP DOWN OF "INVISIBLE-HAND' THEORIES
Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Washington Bureau (October 29), reviews a new book on economics that is causig a stir HERE
"New book slams economists, their theories and their<|fim_middle|>0s and certainly since the 1980s, economists have increasingly moved in this direction of making many good ideas and some not-good ideas into rules of thumb as a shortcut for thinking.
Q: You disagree with those who say the invisible hand got the U.S. economy back on track after the financial crisis. You think the stimulus program, while too small, helped reverse the steep economic decline of late 2008 and 2009. Why?
A: (The idea that) economies adjust with no help from the government, that wages, prices go down and people invest, that's what drove economic thinking in the Great Depression – it's just not true. The economy does not adjust itself. The economy is not one big invisible hand."
So far so good. Nothing like evidential criticism to expose the emptyness of the prevailing concensus on the so-called invisible-hand (though Krugman is quite defensive - he still believes in the myth of the "invsisible hand" being more than a metaphor for something other than what he thinks it is for.
Forecasting the future is hubris. Economists have enough problems with understanding the past; economics is not like physics which can predict the next lunar eclipse with impressive accuracy and the eclipses that will occur in the next hundred years or more. What they can't do is predict what will happen to you next Friday; they can predict, with wide margins of error, what might happen to you. Human behaviour is full of surprises; the predictable laws of physics are dull in comparison. Yet some economists think human behaviour is predictable and have theories of human behaviour that assume humans behave like the physics of atoms.
So hats off to Jeff Madrick! He's not fooled by the Emperor's new clothes cheer-leaders that dominate economics and award each other Nobel Prizes and hang on to the myths of the "invisible hand" that they falsely arttribute to Adam Smith.
Moreover this is the second incident of better sense this week undermining the prevailing 'certainties' of "an invisible-hand" 'miraculously' and 'beningly' running the economy.
I have no comments on the rest of Madrick's ideas.
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Jeff Madrick has a bone to pick with the economics profession, and that's putting it nicely. Consider the title of his new book: "Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World."
The book amounts to a broadside on modern economics and recently was critiqued by 2008 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose review appeared in The New York Times.
"Hardly any economists predicted the 2008 crisis – and the handful who did tended to be people who also predicted crises that didn't happen," Krugman noted, underscoring a central theme of the book – that the profession has a poor forecasting track record. "More significant, many and arguably most economists were claiming right up to the moment of collapse that nothing like this could even happen."
Madrick is a longtime writer on economic matters for Harper's magazine and a former New York Times columnist. He dropped by McClatchy's Washington Bureau recently to discuss his book. Here are some of his thoughts, edited into a question and answer format.
Q: You question economists' devotion to the famous "invisible hand," the notion that in a free market absent of government intervention buyers and sellers find an agreeable price and self-regulate the economy. Why?
A: This book is about how economics has been oversimplified and increasingly they take good ideas, the invisible hand, and oversimplify them, and make them rules of thumb.
Q: You cite raising the minimum wage as an example of that. Economists doggedly insist that because of the invisible hand, raising wages will reduce the demand for workers. Research raises doubts on this. What's your view?
A: That's an example of the abuse of a good idea turned into a rule of thumb. My argument is that since the 197 | 376 |
For some people, going to a festival, bar, or music venue might seem like a way to let loose and relax from the stress of everyday life. But for those who are more vulnerable, it can be far from that.
For women, LGBTQ+ people and people of colour, harassment at events can be common, intense and can induce lasting trauma, according to a group called PLURI.
Harassment<|fim_middle|> part of their job was simply answering people's questions about harassment.
"It's a relief for guys to talk about this … because it gives them clear guidelines. Often they feel liberated of some kind of pressure of being creepy," Thivierge said, recalling an instance at Île Soniq, where they had a helpful "dude-bro" conversation about harassment.
"From a feminist perspective we're aware that we're doing work to educate the oppressors about how they're oppressing, which I think a lot of feminists don't want to do," Pimm said. | at party events is hardly a new phenomenon. In June, the Conseil des Montréalaises released a survey that showed 56 per cent of women attending music festivals had reported being harassed — 37 per cent reported having been sexually assaulted. Many did not report these incidents when they occurred.
Thivierge, who uses they/them pronouns and studies social work at UQAM, founded PLURI one year ago with coworker Celeste Pimm. PLURI stands for Peace Love Unity Respect Initiative, and its main goal is to reduce harm on dance floors. It offers a protocol for promoters and club owners to employ to reduce instances of marginalization and harassment in their venues.
PLURI was born after Thivierge submitted an article to a zine on ethical partying, called rave ethics. The topic was how to flirt on dance floors without harassing someone, and it went viral.
"Then I thought, the material I wrote, I could give workshops on this," they said.
"I think it seems basic to us, but I also think it's very important to re-articulate things that people already kind of have a sense of but need to actively hear again," Pimm said.
Pimm and Thivierge invited women, trans people, people of colour and people from different music scenes to share their experiences in party spaces.
PLURI, a non-profit organization, conducts workshops for volunteers on bystander intervention.
"Often what stops bystanders from doing something is: 'I don't want to be intrusive, maybe that's weird' (but) the first step is to ask 'is this person bothering you?' " Thivierge said.
Party support volunteers are taught the six D's — detect, direct, distract, delegate, delay, dialogue – and they get into the venue free in exchange for keeping an eye out. Most of all, they are taught to think in a survivor-centric way.
PLURI is far from being the only group that is working to create safer spaces. Thivierge said the initiative is in contact with Good Night Out and Project Soundcheck, organizations that fight harassment; the Dandelion Initiative, which works with survivors of sexual assault; and Girl's Club, a queer femme collective that uses its brand as a visual symbol for solidarity.
After working with underground promoters, PLURI partnered with bigger festivals like MUTEK Montreal and Piknic Electronik.
Thivierge has also worked on the Hirondelles project, meant to address harassment at festivals like Osheaga and Île Soniq. A big | 516 |
Brewer Ties The Knot With Summit's 'Honeymoon' Ale
By John Lauritsen July 12, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Filed Under:John Lauritsen, Minnesota News, Summit Brewing Company
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — At Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, true love can be found in a bottle of beer — literally.
Summit released a beer called the "Honeymoon Saison," which debuted on tap at Grumpy's in Minneapolis Tuesday night and will come in bottles on July 25. It's part of Summit's unchained series, where a brewer gets a chance to craft and release their own beer for a limited time.
In this case, the honeymoon came before the wedding<|fim_middle|> beers)
• Tuesday, July 26: Groveland Tap, 6-8 p.m. ($.25 taps of the Silver Anniversary Ale)
• Thursday, July 28: Specials served at Sweeney's, 4-6 p.m.
• Friday, July 29: Beer Dinner celebrating Summit's 25th anniversary at Tracy's Saloon & Eatery, 7 p.m. (Pints will be on special in the bar as well).
John Lauritsen
John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the...More from John Lauritsen | . Brewer Sam Doniach knows it's tradition that a guy in love with a girl buys her an engagement ring, but he just decided to create a whole new line of beer to show his undying commitment.
"I did get her a ring. You still have to keep with the traditions," said Doniach.
"We always joked about maybe making our own beer for the wedding and this is just the best thing that could ever happen. He gets to make it for work, it's a big deal and it's a delicious beer. I'm really excited," said Doniach's fiancé, Camber Lubarski.
Doniach was the latest brewer from Summit who got the go-ahead to tie the knot with his own beer creation. So, he designed a summer, farmhouse ale with a French and Belgian twist. He added honey from Minnesota in honor of his upcoming honeymoon.
Now, he and his fiancé Camber have a story to tell the kids, grandchildren, and anyone who shows up at the bar.
"Not a lot of people get to brew their own beer that they get to serve at their own wedding. It's a really unique opportunity that was a fun thing for me to do," said Doniach.
However, as far as limited time only beers go, Summit is far from done.
This year is also Summit's 25th Anniversary. To celebrate, they will be releasing a new, but limited, version of the first beer they ever made, the Extra Pale Ale. It comes out July 25th and it will be dedicated to those who drink it.
"The Extra Pale Ale is the foundation for the beer. You are going to be the expert when you put that beer in your glass, not me," said Summit founder and owner, Mark Stutrud.
The Honeymoon Saison will be released in bottles the same day the Silver Anniversary Ale is introduced.
Both beers will be sold until supplies run out, and they predict that could be anywhere from 2 to 3 months.
Here are key dates for both the Honeymoon Saison and the Silver Anniversary Ale:
Honeymoon Saison:
• Tuesday, July 12: Grumpy's (Downtown Minneapolis), 5-7 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 13: Stub and Herb's, 4 p.m.
• Thursday, July 14: Haute Dish beer dinner, 4-7 p.m.
• Friday, July 15: Tiffany's Sports Lounge, 3-5 p.m.
• Friday, July 15: Fabulous Fern's, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
• Monday, July 25: Available in bottles at liquor stores
Silver Anniversary Ale:
• Monday, July 25: Mackenzie's, 5-7 p.m. (First 25 beers served are free and then $.25 taps till 7 p.m.)
• Monday, July 25: Liquor Lyle's, 7:30-9 p.m. ($.25 taps of the Silver Anniversary Ale and 2 for 1 deals on all other Summit | 647 |
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Barbera is a red wine grape found primarily in Italy 's Piedmont region. These grapes are characterized by a high level of acidity (meaning brightness and crispness), deep ruby color, full body, and low tannin levels; flavors are berrylike. It is the most successful grape variety in Italy '<|fim_middle|> is used in Champagne , Burgundy , Alsace , Germany , Italy , and California , where it can make terrific wines. When well made, Pinot Blanc is intense, concentrated and complex, with ripe pear, spice, citrus, and honey notes. It can age well, but is best early on while its fruit shines through. While some pinot blanc can be found interspersed with chardonnay in the vineyards of Burgundy , the grape is more renowned in Alsace . In North America , California boasts several top producers of pinot blanc, though the grape is not widely grown.
Semillon can make a wonderful late-harvest wine, and those wineries that focus on it can make well-balanced wines with complex fig, pear, tobacco and honey notes. When blended into Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon adds body, flavor and texture. When Sauvignon Blanc is added to Semillon, the latter gains fresh, grassy herbal notes.
The classic red grape of the northern Rhone Valley of France and also grown throughout southern France , syrah is also the leading grape of Australia (where it is known as shiraz ). The grape seems to grow well in a number of areas and is capable of rendering rich, complex, and distinctive wines, with pronounced pepper, spice, black cherry, tar, leather and roasted nut flavors, as well as a smooth, supple texture and ripe tannins. In the south of France , it finds its way into various blends, as in Chateauneuf-du-Pape and the better wines of the Languedoc-Roussillon. In the late 1980s and 1990s, California vintners also became increasingly fascinated by the grape which is now grown in many parts of California . The wine often has an unmistakable whiff of white pepper along with wild gamey, boysenberry flavors.
The Viognier grape is native to the Rhone Valley but is now being developed in France, US, Australia and even South America . It is well known to be a challenge to grow, requiring a cooler to develop the intense and concentrated flavors and fragrances it bears. In the early 1990s, more than thirty top California producers began making Viognier to much acclaim. The wine has an opulent, lush body and dramatic honeysuckle, white melon and jasmine flavors.
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Arguably the greatest of the black grapes, cabernet sauvignon is, along with merlot, the famous grape of Bordeaux, and is also grown in other renowned wine regions throughout the world including California, Washington state, Italy, Australia, and Chile. While it grows well in many countries, in specific appellations it is capable of rendering wines of uncommon depth, richness, concentration and longevity. Bordeaux has used the grape consistently since the 18th century, always blending it with Cabernet Franc, Merlot and sometimes a soupcon of Petite Verdot and Malbec. The Bordeaux model is built around not only the desire to craft complex wines, but also the need to ensure that different grape varieties ripen at different intervals and to give lesser wines color, tannin, or backbone.
Chardonnay is arguably today's most popular grape. Able to adapt to a variety of climates, the chardonnay grape exhibits green apple and citrus notes in cooler climates, and baked pineapple and tropical fruits in hotter climates. Chardonnay wines are typically dry with a medium to high acidity and a full body. Winemakers play a particularly important role in the style of a Chardonnay wine, which can range from clean, crisp bottlings, with a hint of varietal fruit, to rich, complex, oak-aged examples that need several years of bottle aging to fully display their character.
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Merlot is the red-wine success of the 1990s: its popularity has soared along with its acreage, and it seems wine lovers can't get enough of it. The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux, merlot, a red grape, is also grown in most of the same places as cabernet sauvignon. And in fact, the two are often blended. Because merlot in general has somewhat less tannin than cabernet sauvignon, it often feels softer on the palate. Its flavors often run to mocha and boysenberry.
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Archaeological evidence shows modern<|fim_middle|> Gilbert recruits top scholars to Vermont's monthly gatherings. | hunters were not the first to use decoys.
Some are delicately poised to sip a cool drink through their bills. Others coast along, heads held high, oblivious to their own beauty. All of them are graceful and elegant, though none of them are alive. They belong to a vast flock of decoys in the collection of Vermont's Shelburne Museum.
These waterfowl are a uniquely American folk art, and now they're about to get their home spiffed up. Visitors will see them all roosting together soon in the Dorset House, built in 1832 and moved to the museum's grounds in 1953, a year after the collection formed.
Architect, artist, and carver Joel Barber of New York City made the original gift of more than four hundred decoys. The collection now numbers nine hundred. An NEH grant is helping upgrade environmental controls, wiring, insulation, and exhibition spaces at Dorset House so that it can house nearly the entire collection. While the work is going on, part of the collection can be viewed in the museum's Stagecoach Inn.
Preservation expert at the Shelburne, Nancie Ravenel, credits Barber with leading the way in treating decoys as a uniquely American form of artwork. "He established them as such in his book Wild Fowl Decoys," she says in an e-mail, "by demonstrating that while decoys are found in many cultures, none has carved wild fowl in wood to the extent we have in North America for that purpose." Barber's book on decoys, published in 1934, has served as a voice of authority in the field.
The use of decoys in the United States reached its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when hunters used hundreds of them at a time to shoot large numbers of ducks, mostly broadbills, to satisfy the New York City restaurant and millinery markets. The 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act brought an end to such commercial practices.
Louis Rathnall, "Black Duck Decoys," 1941. Cork, wood, paint, glass, and metal, 6 7/8 x 6 3/4 x15 3/4 in (front), 5 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (back). Collection of Shelburne Museum, museum purchase, 1986. 1986-97.1-2.
Attributed to Sam Barnes, "Swan Decoy," ca. 1890. Wood, paint, and metal, 19 1/8 x 9 1/2 x 31/4 in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, gift of J. Watson, Jr., Harry H. and Samuel B. Webb, 19252-1924.
Swan decoys have been used as well, but not to attract other swans, which were rarely hunted. These decoys were called—and it's no canard—"confidence" birds, signaling to other wildfowl through the diversity of the winged population that it was a safe environs in which to land. Yeah, right.
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DRCs Ebola outbreak to be treated with experimental vaccine
Written by: Bronwen Watson
Since the official outbreak announcement by the WHO (World Health Organisation) earlier this month, many of the suspected cases, mostly identified in the Bikoro health zone, a market town close to Lake Tumba, and over 100km from the capital of Equateur Province, Mbandaka, have resulted in fatalities.
Rapid response efforts are already underway and all participating authorities including WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who recently visited the country, are doing all they can to ensure that the immediate crisis is contained and that those affected are provided with sufficient and effective medical care.
Eight other Ebola virus outbreaks have occurred in the DRC over the course of the past 40 years. Prior to the current outbreak (identified to be caused by the Zaire ebolavirus species), the last occurred in the Likati health zone in the Bas-Uele province, north of the country, last May (2017).
For the province of Equateur, this is the fourth outbreak, with the other incidences taking place in 1976, 1977 and 2014. The Bikoro health zone itself has not specifically experienced an outbreak, until now. The population of the town is estimated at over 163 000. The Equateur province has an estimated population of 2.5 million and around 284 registered health facilities. In Bikoro, there are 3 hospitals and 19 other health centres facilitating healthcare to the town. The functionality of these hospitals and healthcare centres, however, is limited and relies on international organisations to help maintain regular stock supplies.
Initially, reported outbreak cases were only identified in the more remote locations of the DRC but now one other has also been reported in Mbandaka. How far reaching actual infections may be in the country as a whole has not been entirely determined. On-the-ground teams are actively investigating this so as to gain a clearer sense of the extent of the confirmed outbreak, as well as to assess the risk of the disease spreading.
One concern with regard to the spread of this disease is the proximity of Bikoro health zone to the Congo River which places the Republic of the Congo and CAR (Central African Republic), as well as other neighbouring countries at risk of outbreaks. Neighbouring countries have been notified to remain alert.
Currently the WHO regards the DRC, as a nation, as most at risk, even though reported cases appear to be geographically limited. The nature of the disease and its transmission capability, as well as a lack of information at this stage regarding the extent of its spread necessitates the high-risk consideration. Other neighbouring regions are currently considered as being at moderate risk, and the international public at large at low risk (since no further cases have been reported outside of the affected towns at this stage). As such, no warnings are currently in place restricting travel and trade to the country.
What is Ebola virus disease (EVD)?
Considered a rare but deadly disease, Ebola virus disease (or EVD) was formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Symptoms that arise quickly become severe, with high fatality rates (especially if left untreated or incorrectly treated). Past outbreaks have seen death rates ranging up to 90%. (1)
The disease was first identified in 1976 in the village of Yambuku near the Ebola River in the DRC, as well as in a remote area of Sudan, the two outbreaks, and all subsequent occurrences have had a devastating effect on those who contracted it.
The exact origin of the Ebola virus is not specifically known. However, it is thought that this acute infectious disease first emerged from an animal source – possibly hosted by fruit bats (Pteropodidae) who live in the area. Other non-human primates, like chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas, are also known to be vulnerable to infection.
Infection is believed to be caused by one of five virus species. Four Ebola virus species are known to have infected human beings:
Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus)
Sudan ebolavirus (Sudan virus)
Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly known as Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus (Taï Forest virus)
Bundibugyo ebolavirus (Bundibugyo virus)
The Reston ebolavirus (Reston virus) has been identified as a disease-causing infection in non-human primates and pigs. (2)
Contact with the infected animal, carrying any species known to affect humans, is believed to be the mechanism for transmitting the virus between animal and human beings. Humans subsequently spread the virus among themselves. Contact with infected animals occurs during the butchering, cooking and eating processes. Transmission between humans is more typical through contact with bodily fluids – secretions like urine, saliva and semen, or even blood contact which enters the human body via the mucous membranes (nose, mouth or eyes) or broken skin. The virus can also be transmitted via sexual contact between human beings. Infected bodily fluids or even objects and surfaces (including clothing and bed linens) contaminated by these can transmit the disease if contact is made with them.
Symptoms include severe headache, fever, fatigue, muscle pain, body weakness, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, rash, bleeding (internal and external) or bruising that cannot be explained. Impaired function of the liver and kidneys can also develop. Once a person is exposed to the virus, symptoms begin to display within 2 and 21 days (most typically becoming noticeable within 8 to 10 days).
Once an infection is active within a community, everyone within a close range is highly vulnerable, especially family members, healthcare workers and anyone who has direct contact with an individual who has died from an infection (this included anyone handling the body during burial rituals) as levels of the virus remain high even after a person has died and can still be transmitted through contact.
What is the outbreak situation in the DRC so far?
Along with WHOs announcement on 8 May 2018, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo issued an outbreak declaration in the country, warning citizens of newly confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease EVD). At the time of announcement, only two suspected cases were officially confirmed via laboratory testing. An additional 7 cases have since been identified by the DRCs Ministry of Health. This number could rise in the days and weeks to come.
Healthcare workers initially raised the alarm, so to speak, when a number of patients began displaying the most common Ebola virus symptoms. Concern grew when some patients also displayed haemorrhagic indications of the disease (exhibiting internal and external bleeding and bruising). Many of the patients admitted for care appeared to have had contact with at least one other suspected case.
Samples were collected – 3 from the Ikoko-Impenge health facility (about 30km from Bikoro) and 2 from Bikoro – and sent to the capital of the DRC, Kinshasa for analysis. The analysis was conducted by the Institute National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) on 7 May 2018 and 2 samples were confirmed as Ebola virus the same day.
A total of 39 cases (including at least 3 healthcare workers) of confirmed and suspected (and probable) Ebola virus were reported between 4 April and 13 May 2018. Nineteen of these cases resulted in fatalities (49%). The number of new cases, however, appears to be rising – now standing at 42.
The majority of identified cases have been from the Bikoro health zone, along with several others in the Iboko and Wangata health zones. This week, the health minister, Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed that one case has been reported in the city of Mbandaka, sparking fears of an increase in potential new cases.
For the time being, at least 393 reported contacts have also been identified for follow-up in the event of further outbreaks due to probable exposure risk. (<|fim_middle|> Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited Bikoro in order to assess the nature of the active responses currently in place, as well as determine whether additional support is required. Dr Tedro was accompanied by the WHOs Regional Director for Africa (Dr Matshidiso Moeti), and Deputy Director-General, Emergency Preparedness and Response (Dr Peter Salama).
While visiting the country, Dr Tedros met the country's President, Mr Joseph Kabila and Dr Oly Ilunga Kalenga. A review of the steps implemented so far, as well as those necessary in the coming days and weeks and months were discussed.
"In Bikoro, I saw first-hand the efforts the national health authorities and all our partners are investing in rapidly establishing the key elements of Ebola containment," said Dr Tedros.
The Director-General also conveyed praise for how the country's authorities have swiftly handled the outbreak since it was identified, especially since many cases are not too far from urban centres with larger populations. Dr Tedro, congratulated the DRC's government leaders for how quickly a declaration was made, warning its citizens, and by extension the remainder of the world.
Further aid funding requirements have also been highlighted since the visit. The WHO estimates that international response funding to the value of US$ 18 million may be required for the next several months. The DFID (UK Department for International Development) and the Wellcome Trust in the UK have announced committed assistance in this regard. The Wellcome Trust has already committed £2 million to aid in any critical research requirements to enhance the operational response already underway.
The WHO along with the DRCs Ministry of Health and MSF are now in the process of providing experimental vaccination supplies to the outbreak areas. The vaccine is known as rVSV-ZEBOV (recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–Zaire Ebola virus) and has been involved in several clinical trials to date.
The experimental vaccine was developed by Canada's Public Health Agency and is a licensed product of Merck & Co. It is yet to be officially licensed for actual use, however. The vaccine does not contain the live Ebola virus at all. Instead it contains vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a harmless virus which is capable of encoding the Ebola virus surface protein and thereby replacing it in the body.
In 2017 SAGE (the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization) advised that if any further outbreaks occur before the vaccine is officially licensed for use, it should be deployed if all concerned parties agree and provide informed consent.
The Congolese government (DRC) has agreed to allow the WHO to begin importing the vaccine into the country so as to assist with current response efforts. All formal requirements that include the vaccine registration and import permits have been completed. Approval for the vaccine import was given by the WHOs national regulatory authorities and ethics committee
The WHO has a small stockpile of the vaccine which can be used. Merck & Co. have also agreed to supply the WHO with more as soon as possible so that the import agreement can be fulfilled. As of 16 May 2018, around 4 000 doses have reached the DRC for use.
All teams involved will work together to ensure that logistical constraints do not get in the way of being able to supply the vaccine to the affected areas so as not to delay the much-needed support.
The teams on the ground have been advised that the delivery strategy for vaccination will be by 'ring vaccination'. The strategy thus aims to protect individuals at all levels of exposure risk, particularly those in the high to moderate categories. Each risk category is considered to be 'a ring of eligible candidates'. All individuals who are considered at risk are eligible for vaccination – including those known to have been in contact with suspected or confirmed cases to date, as well as anyone else who has been in contact with them (contacts and contacts of contacts), as well as all healthcare and front-line personnel (both local and international) operating in the affected areas, and those living and working in areas of moderate risk.
All initial vaccinations will receive follow-up checks in the weeks and months to come, ensuring that the outbreak has been sufficiently contained. Vaccinated individuals can expect at least 6 health checks between 3 and 84 days after receiving the vaccination. Vaccinations will be freely available and offered in a voluntary capacity but are likely to be heavily encouraged. Vaccinated individuals will be advised of all possible immunisation side-effects which may be expected during the initial few days. These can include:
General malaise
Cold-like symptoms
Mild fever
Some swelling at the vaccination site may also occur.
Symptoms are likely to be transient and resolve within a matter of days. An allergic reaction may occur in rare instances.
All vaccinated individuals will be encouraged to take appropriate precautions so as to avoid exposure to the Ebola virus even though they have received immunisation. General hygiene practice and prevention information will be provided, and these practices encouraged.
In the meantime, until vaccination doses are administered, screening tests in the country's airports and other entry points are being conducted so as to ensure that any further cases that may place other areas at risk of infection exposure are not missed.
1. World Health Organization. May 2017. Frequently asked questions on Ebola virus disease: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/ [Accessed 14.05.2018]
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 14 March 2018. What is Ebola Virus Disease?: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/about.html [Accessed 14.05.2018]
3. World Health Organization. 14 May 2018. Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo: http://www.who.int/csr/don/14-may-2018-ebola-drc/en/ [Accessed 14.05.2018] | 3) Handling of the outbreak is currently being coordinated by the country's Ministry of Health, working closely with:
The WHO (the World Health Organization)
MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders)
WFP (The World Food Programme)
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
UNOCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
MONUSCO (The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
IOM (International Organization for Migration)
Africa CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and US CDC
The coordinated effort is helping to mobilise all healthcare teams conducting response operations in a similarly effective way as was done during last year's outbreak. A multidisciplinary team that coordinated efforts in a comprehensive way during the outbreak in 2017 certainly strengthened the ability to better contain the viral disease and facilitate surveillance investigations. A similar coordinated effort has been put into effect now with the hopes of being able to achieve the same result – rapid containment of the Ebola virus. The priority in all disease outbreak instances is to rapidly control suspected and confirmed disease cases and reduce any further loss of life.
As has been learned from past outbreaks, quick containment is reliant on timely alerts to authorities as soon as suspicion of infection with the disease surfaces within a medical set up, immediate and appropriate testing being conducted, public announcements being made once cases are verified, access to flexible funding being granted, assistance responses from local and international partners / organisations and the arrangement of supportive teams being swiftly implemented.
Since the initial cases of the latest outbreak were reported and confirmed, with more suspected, many of which believed to be probable based on the nature of symptoms and other proximity factors, the WHO released US$ 1 million from the organisation's Contingency Fund for Emergencies to initiate assistance efforts to the DRC for the next few months. The UN also supplied US$ 2 million from their Central Emergency Response Fund.
Response teams within the DRC are actively working to verify all related information on any cases reported to the health department. A coordinated approach is aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of the response effort within the affected towns and villages, and by extension the country at large.
Around 50 public health experts and personnel (which make up the rapid response teams), along with necessary supplies and equipment, have already been deployed by WHO to provide additional support to the DRCs local Ministry of Health who are already actively working to gain the upper hand on the outbreak in affected areas. The deployed rapid response teams are also providing technical and operational support so as to help coordinate efforts at every level needed. These teams consist of clinicians, epidemiologists, infection prevention and control experts, logisticians, risk communications experts and now, vaccination support individuals.
Teams are actively managing contact tracing surveillance (verifying new or potential cases), implementing treatment for existing cases (confirmed, probable and suspected), engaging with local communities in order to create extensive awareness about the outbreak, coordinating response efforts from all parties involved and ensuring that all burials are conducted safely and in a dignified manner.
The MSF has established a treatment centre in the Bikoro health zone, specifically for managing suspected and confirmed cases of the Ebola virus. Risk communication materials have also been provided and distributed by WHO in French and the Bantu language, Lingala, which is widely spoken throughout north-western DRC. These materials help to better educate the population regarding what to do if illness is suspected and how to go about preventing infection.
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has ensured that an air-bridge is now in place between the cities of Kinshasa and Mbandaka, and the more challenging to reach areas affected by the outbreak so that supplies, equipment and teams of experts can be airlifted and delivered quickly, ensuring that aid reaches where it needs to be as timeously as possible. Flights are currently running daily between Kinshasa and Mbandaka, and Mbanadaka and Bikororo
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I'm somewhat new to the area, but I've finally hopped on the Wat Dong Moon Lek bandwagon. The Thai noodle house is one of the<|fim_middle|> but certainly not for the lesbians. I forgot. | rarely-disputed mainstay gems nearby. Its humble enclave in that Silver Lake strip mall on Fountain Avenue exudes more personality than a n00b like me might ever expect from a noodle house on her initial visit.
The drawback to dining alone, no matter how peaceful the experience, is the lack of companions' dishes to scalp bites from.
My rad na kee mow (gravy boat drunken noodles) with tender slices of chicken was as delicious as it was beautiful. Those green beans were little bursts in the sea of gravy (yeah, that's a bubble in there), with an island of delicious, soft rice noodles even having a subtle pan-fried crisp.
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Aston on Clun is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of the Welsh Marches, and in the centre of the South Shropshire hills that were made famous by A.E. Housman in his collection of poems "A Shropshire Lad". It is part of Hopesay Parish and the beautiful village of Hopesay is just 2 miles away.
Aston on Clun has access to two railway stations, one at Broome (but with limited services) on the Heart of Wales Line, and one at Craven Arms which is 3 miles away on the main line with connections to Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Church Stretton
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Q: Determine the number of solutions of nonlinear system without solving. $x^2-y^2+2y=0$,
$2x+y^2-6=0$
I need to determine the number of solutions without solving it. There is a hint that a graph can help but I am still not sure how to go about this.
Thanks
A: If this question were being asked in a context where we could not make use of a graphing calculator or program, we might approach it in this way. The equations represent curves that are both conic sections. The first can be rearranged, after completing the square, into
$$ x^2 \ - \ y^2 \ + \ 2y \ = \ 0 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ x^2 \ - \ ( \ y^2 \ - \ 2y \ + \ 1 \ ) \ = \ 0 \ - \ 1 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ (y \ - \ 1)^2 \ - \ x^2 \ = \ 1 \ \ , $$
which is the equation of a "vertical<|fim_middle|>), and their intersection points and the hyperbola they lie on is in red.
A: Yes that is a good idea,this is how it will look.
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| " hyperbola with its center at $ \ ( 0, \ 1) \ $ . The second equation can be written as
$$ 2x \ + \ y^2 \ - \ 6 \ = \ 0 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ y^2 \ = \ -2x \ + \ 6 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ y^2 \ = \ -2 \ (x \ - \ 3) \ \ , $$
which represents a "horizontal" parabola which "opens to the left" and has its vertex at $ \ (3, \ 0) \ $ .
We can consider this from a purely geometrical point of view. The branches of the hyperbola are oriented so that they open "upward" and "downward" parallel to the $ \ y-$ axis (in fact, the $ \ y-$ axis is the symmetry axis); it is an "open" curve, so the branches extend infinitely. Likewise, the parabola is "open", with its "arms" extending infinitely "to the left".
If the vertex of the parabola lies to the left of the center of the hyperbola, it is likely that it will never intersect the hyperbola, since the parabola's "arms" become shallower and shallower in slope as they stretch away from the vertex, while the branches of the hyperbola approach the constant slopes of its asymptotes. On the other hand, in the situation we have with the vertex of the parabola to the right of the hyperbola's center, it is very likely that the arms of the parabola will cross both asymptotes of the hyperbola, twice for each arm, and thus will probably meet the hyperbola itself at four points. So it is reasonable that this system of equations has four solutions. (There are cases where there could be only two intersection points, but these must be carefully contrived.)
We need to be more analytical about this in order to better resolve the matter. Rather than work with the equation of the hyperbola itself, we will use the equations of its asymptotes, found from
$$ (y \ - \ 1)^2 \ - \ x^2 \ = \ 1 \ \ \rightarrow \ \ (y \ - \ 1)^2 \ - \ x^2 \ = \ 0 \ \ \text{ [in the limit] } $$
$$ \Rightarrow \ \ (y \ - \ 1)^2 \ = \ x^2 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ y \ - \ 1 \ = \ \pm x \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ y \ = \ 1 \ \pm \ x \ \ . $$
We will examine the intersection points of the parabola with these asymptotes by inserting their equations into that of the parabola, which produces two quadratic equations:
$$ ( \ 1 \ + \ x \ )^2 \ = \ -2x \ + \ 6 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ x^2 \ + \ 4x \ - \ 5 \ = \ 0 \ \ , $$
$$ ( \ 1 \ - \ x \ )^2 \ = \ -2x \ + \ 6 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ x^2 \ - \ 5 \ = \ 0 \ \ . $$
We do not have to solve these for values of $ \ x \ $ (although it is quite easy to do so): we only need note that both has positive discriminants, and thus each has two solutions for $ \ x \ $ . Hence, there are four intersection points between the parabola and the asymptotes of the hyperbola, making it at least very probable that the system of equations has four ordered-pair solutions. (Again, we could imagine a situation in which the parabola intersects the asymptotes, but just misses the hyperbola on one of its branches; this would again need to be delicately arranged.)
[It is readily found from the equations above that one of the asymptotes is intersected at $ \ x \ = \ \pm \sqrt{5} \ \approx \ \pm 2.24 \ $ , and the other at $ \ x \ = \ -5 \ $ and $ \ x \ = \ 1 \ $ . We see this in the graph below.]
It might also be mentioned that the intersection points of two conic sections also lie on a conic section. If we set the equations of our two curves equal to one another, we obtain
$$ x^2 \ - \ y^2 \ + \ 2y \ = \ 2x \ + \ y^2 \ - \ 6 \ \ \Rightarrow \ \ x^2 \ - \ 2x \ - \ 2y^2 \ + \ 2y \ = \ -6 $$
$$ \Rightarrow \ \ ( x^2 \ - \ 2x \ + \ 1) - \ 2 \ (y^2 \ - \ y \ + \ \frac{1}{4}) \ = \ -6 \ + \ 1 \ - \ \frac{1}{2} $$
$$ \Rightarrow \ \ 2 \ (y \ - \ \frac{1}{2})^2 \ - \ (x \ - \ 1)^2 \ = \ \frac{11}{2} \ \ , $$
which is a "vertical" hyperbola with center $ \ ( 1, \ \frac{1}{2}) \ $ . (We could use the properties of this equation to show that there are four solutions, but the effort involved gets close to what would be required to solve it outright.)
The graph below, which is based on the one Rnjai Lamba has posted, shows all of the curves we have discussed.
The parabola is marked in blue, the hyperbola in dark green (with its asymptotes in lighter green | 1,265 |
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Are We Hardwired to Want "Hype" Items?
Whether it's satiating the desires one holds near to their heart, like purchasing a new pair of shoes, or something less tangible, like glimpsing the latest Apple device, the call and response of consumer satisfaction isn't simply a symptom of consumerism. Instead, it's something that's hardwired into our brains, and has been since the time men and women first began roaming this planet.
In a contemporary context, professional finance writer and speaker Luke Landes ties this psychology theory to budgeting as well. According to him, physiological needs (including food, water, clothing and shelter) should be accounted for first in a person's budget. Next, safety needs like insurance, expenses related to your work, and utilities must be met. Then comes all the fun stuff. In a perfect world, Landes believes that a person with a sensible budget should spend 50% of their after-tax expenses on "needs," 30% on "wants," and 20% on "savings." That 30% "want" window is why an entity like Highsnobiety exists.
While consumerism is certainly alive and well in the 21st Century, there's evidence that people are starting to favor "access as opposed to ownership." As WIRED recently noted, juggernauts like Apple and Amazon have seen only modest gains in recent years thanks to the ease with which things can be obtained — like streaming films or renting textbooks — all of which have eliminated the need to buy.
For centuries, if a person wanted something, they either bought it, stole it, or borrowed it. Today, that is no longer the case. But how has this lessening of ownership affected humans on a physical level?
When a person obtains something they really want it releases dopamine in the brain, which is critical to a person's mental health, allowing for pleasure and satisfaction to manifest in a familiar warm feeling. Dopamine is chemically released when we experience something<|fim_middle|>. Notably, when the Kool-Aid was predictable the brain showed little increased activity. But the scans showed a high level of activity when the Kool-Aid was given at random.
Dr. Brian Knutson of Stanford is another individual examining how the brain delivers pleasure, and specifically what it is about certain items that causes those triggers. In Knutson's experiment subjects were rolled inside the scanner, where they could see a small video screen that displayed products available for purchase — everything from DVDs, to books, games and small electronic devices. "After a short interval the price of the product was displayed, and subjects could choose whether to make a purchase," the study examined. "The scanner was activated during three distinct times: product presentation, price display and decision." For some, when they looked at the price, the pleasure centers in the brain which release dopamine were often interrupted by the areas in the brain responsible for unpleasant emotions and the anticipation of loss. But, for other items, the higher price tags had no impact on the pleasure their bodies received from pondering a bold purchase.
While material possessions are often viewed as fleeting sources of happiness, the phenomenon of "hype" does have an underlying factor that may be overlooked by some researchers. The question of how a person will be able to purchase the items could potentially bridge the gap between the aforementioned Killingsworth study which relies on experience, with Dr. Bearns' study on anticipation. When combined, it's the perfect storm of perceived happiness for those willing to commit themselves to acquiring a hard-to-own item.
When it rains during a beach vacation, as Cornell doctoral candidate Amit Kumar said, "People will say, well, you know, we stayed in and we played board games and it was a great family bonding experience or something." That's the power of experience shining through.
Even if the experience was negative in the precise moment — like spending hours or even days waiting in line for a sneaker — it becomes positive after the fact with the benefit of retrospect. As we reported last year, when two of the people at the front of the line for the release of the Nike Dunk High Premium SB "Diamond" were asked to describe their 48-hour-plus ordeal to acquire the shoes, they said, "This sneaker right here is like having tickets to El Classico (Real Madrid vs. Barcelona) with seats in the first row behind the goal." Would they have felt so strongly had they simply been able to waltz into their local Foot Locker at 2pm and pick one up instantly? It's unlikely.
Dopamine has been referred to as "The Kim Kardashian" of neurotransmitters, due to the fact it's a much-buzzed about term in a variety of different fields. In fact, the same people who criticize purveyors of hype for their supposed lack of judgement or common sense should also have the spotlight turned on their own desires, even if they fall in line with more cultural norms like taking a vacation or buying a house. For some, it's all about the race. For others, it's all about the finish line. No matter where a person falls on that spectrum, we're all running towards something that's temporary. | new, exciting or challenging, and for many people, shopping is all those things wrapped up in one experience. If we take it a step further, when it comes to acquiring "hype" items like a pair of YEEZY sneakers or limited-edition offerings from Supreme — both of which embody the antithesis of Amazon and Netflix's streaming strategies — there's actually far more at play than simple ego. Here the dopamine rush is magnified several times, as the experience is both new and exciting (and very often challenging too).
As we know, the only way an item becomes truly "hyped up" is through anticipation. The more in-demand a product is, the harder it is to own. There are even new jobs being created like "professional line waiters" who are adding an extra wrinkle to the already billion dollar resale market.
Dr. Gregory Berns of Emory University in Atlanta has became one the field's leading researchers when it comes to explaining the physical effects that anticipation can have on the human body. In one study, patients reclined in an MRI scanner while a tube trickled drops of water or sweet Kool-Aid into their mouths. Sometimes the Kool-Aid drops were in a predictable pattern, while other studies used random drops | 256 |
Boxhead and Roundhead were created in 2005 as a reaction to a proliferation of sweet and cuddly children's picture books. Influenced by the works of Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, director Elliot Cowan envisioned a world where the protagonists were never quite safe, never quite comfortable and never sure what was hiding around the next corner –much like everyday life in the 21st Century. The first five of the original nine Boxhead & Roundhead shorts were animated in a dingy flat in London. Produced at the coffee table. The final four were done after Elliot moved to New York and the opportunity to create a feature rose. Keen to move forward with new ideas, dialogue and colour were added (the shorts are mostly silent and black and white) and a feature length story hatched. Director Elliot Cowan completed the majority of the work himself with help from talent culled<|fim_middle|> band The Gadflys offered their music catalogue and veteran production designer Neil Campbell Ross (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) produced a series of incredible images that gives the film a unique look. Throughout the production the most important thing was to maintain the relationship between the leads, BH & RH. It is very easy in animation to fall into a Ren and Stimpy styled friendship - a dumb one and an angry one. B&R needed to be more than that. A pair who have gone through hardship and adversity and who compliment each other in such a way that although they are distinct characters they need one another to survive. | from his classrooms at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Australian cult | 19 |
is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada, and also helps her husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects. Her poems have appeared in Free Lunch, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere, and has work included in the anthology, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Taylor's latest book, The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006), is winner of the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.
It's a 7-pound roast the kitchen girl is wrestling, with cheap forks that bend and a big dull knife, into a skillet that keeps sliding across the stovetop, and if she ever gets it browned and into a roasting pan and then the oven, she'll still have to listen to the old man swearing at the hired live-in who's trying to get him out of the recliner where he fouled himself again. 200 pounds is harder to handle than a bloody raw pork roast, even with forks and a dull knife, and they'll be eating this all week.
The rocking chair in<|fim_middle|> weeks ago to oatmeal the color of ashes and water filtered through the cold stones. Priests in dark robes recite the stations of loss while you, curly-headed rapscallion of ruffles and the harlequin disguise, must sit somber, memorizing each bone of faith. Close your eyes. Outside the window, day-lilies swell to bursting from the calendar of damp earth, blind maggots and dawn-light.
The prince of poets does his deathbed walk. In meter, soft, in meter. He sighs a slant-rhyme of the troubled spirit, gazing out upon a silent city. Moonlight silvers every roof. Below, the dreamers sleep such fearful images and deep. Which one sleeps without a flaw? A hair, a feather, a broken twig. Who rises before dawn, crumples the dark drafts in the iron grate and sets the spark?
Luncheon. The first course, red and glutinous on bone china, a dish I haven't smelled in years. Vinegar-tomato in a mold that holds like crinoline in a curtsy. It bites the nostrils as I lift it on my fork. So many imagined afternoons, my mother's fashion magazines, the swiss-dots and white organzas I never learned to float in, the scabby knees showed through. Speechless to find the words for sweet-talk, sour quivering on my tongue. | the cellar peels its paint. It hasn't rocked in a stegosaurus age, not since Aunt Mattie got lost in meditation, watching the little seed-pods ride their parachutes and whirligig rotors across a dandelion field that couldn't pay its taxes, and so got sold and parceled out for a burger joint that never closes. The cellar rocks itself at midnight, rocks on its dinosaur foundation, dreams of bones.
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As part of the 3- or 6-unit course, students will participate in an 18-day tour of China where they will study firsthand the nation's emergence as an economic superpower and the challenges it faces as it transitions from a closed,<|fim_middle|> Kong students will also have the option of attending Hong Kong Disney on their own. | communist economy to an open, market-oriented one. There are planned briefings, presentations, and visits to a wide variety of businesses, government agencies, universities and nongovernmental organizations. Although the primary focus will be on marketing and economic issues, time will also be devoted to the work of Christian charities in the country and points of cultural and historic interest.
In order to prepare for the tour, some readings and planning meetings will be required during the months leading up to the trip.
During the trip students will have an opportunity to interact with Chinese university students and enjoy a meal with them, and also to attend a state-sanctioned Three-Self church. Cultural visits include the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Shanghai Tower and the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in Chengdu. While in Hong | 165 |
Loomis custodian recognised by security<|fim_middle|> industry we work in. I was only doing my job." | industry
A Loomis custodian has received a special commendation by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) at the Association's annual luncheon, which took place on the 16th July.
The awards aim to acknowledge the outstanding courage, initiative and composure exhibited by cash-in-transit couriers in the face of exceptional, challenging or dangerous situations.
In all there were three Special Awards for Outstanding Service and one Special Commendation, presented by Commander Steve Rodhouse, Commander for Gang and Organised Crime for the Metropolitan Police.
Robert Gilmour of Loomis UK Ltd was amongst the six cash-in-transit couriers that were recognised.
James Kelly, Chief Executive of the BSIA, commented; "The hard work and invaluable contributions of cash-in-transit couriers can sometimes be overlooked, but it is extremely important to remember that they provide an essential public service, and as a result, can be faced with life-threatening situations.
"This year's award winners have all been confronted by extraordinary circumstances where their welfare has been compromised, yet remained calm and professional throughout the whole ordeal. They truly deserve their awards and we are so pleased to have people like them working within our industry."
Robert, who received the Special Commendation, was carrying out an ATM Replenishment Service on a machine situated inside a supermarket store. He was on his third walk into the store carrying a box that contained a large amount of cash when he was violently attacked by a robber wielding an axe who viciously struck him about the head, neck and upper body.
Despite his best efforts, the attacker was able to retrieve the box from Robert and run from the store.
However, luckily, the automatic doors at the store prevented the robber from making a quick getaway and Robert was able to grab hold of the attacker and the cash box. With the help of members of the public and a store guard, the attacker was overpowered and restrained until the Police arrived and made an arrest. Robert displayed enormous courage throughout the ordeal, helping to stop the robber from getting away, despite his own injuries.
Speaking modestly about his achievement Robert commented: "I am honoured to be put forward for this award. I do realise the risk that is out there when servicing the customers but this is the | 458 |
TRIUMPH: 'Live At Sweden Rock Festival' CD+DVD Trailer Available
July 10, 2012 0 Comment Triumph
The fans demanded it, and the fans finally got it. After 20 years apart, the long-awaited TRIUMPH reunion of vocalist/guitarist Rik Emmett, bassist/keyboardist Mike Levine, and vocalist/drummer Gil Moore took place at Sweden Rock Festival, on June 7, 2008. And now, the band is putting the finishing touches on the DVD of that historic performance.
Due on August 28, the "Live At Sweden Rock Festival" set consists of a DVD and CD (both featuring identical track listings), and features all of the TRIUMPH classics fans could hope for, including "When the Lights Go Down", "Lay It On the Line", "Never Surrender", "Magic Power" and "Fight The Good Fight". Additionally, there are several bonus features, including the on-site TRIUMPH press conference, a cool "behind-the-scenes" segment and a photo gallery.
"It's great to finally be able show the world TRIUMPH's reunion show at the Sweden Rock Festival," says Mike Levine. "It certainly is one of the most memorable performances of our entire career! And they said it would never happen…"
"Live At Sweden Rock Festival" will be released on the TML label, distributed by UMG in Canada and ADA in the U.S. The set will be made available throughout Europe on Frontiers Records.
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02. Lay It On The Line
03. Allied Forces
04. Never Surrender
05. I Live For The Weekend
06. Blinding Light Show
07<|fim_middle|>Never Surrender" and "Thunder Seven") and classic hits ("Fight the Good Fight", "Magic Power", "Lay It On The Line") solidified the group as one of rock's top concert attractions.
TRIUMPH pushed the limits of arena rock to the max with is legendary live shows and virtuoso playing. Add to it some of the most recognizable and celebrated radio classics, a vault full of gold and platinum sales awards for their ten studio albums and there you have one of the most successful rock acts of the 1970s/1980s.
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08. Magic Power
09. Rock And Roll Machine
10. Fight The Good Fight
A trailer for "Live At Sweden Rock Festival" can be seen below.
As one of the godfathers of prog metal and leading lights of arena rock, TRIUMPH formed in 1975, and built a large and loyal fanbase by the late '70s on the strength of their non-stop touring schedule throughout Canada and the USA and the success of their classic albums, "Rock Roll Machine" and "Just A Game".
But it was in the 1980s when TRIUMPH truly became a force to be reckoned with, as a string of gold/platinum-certified albums ("Progressions of Power", "Allied Forces", " | 165 |
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"Pep" is satisfied with the team showing good form
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was delighted with the team's form after the win over Brentford and led the Reds to 60 points
. spanish Just returned to the opening form, defeating "Little Phung" 2-0, making them 12 points behind the second-placed leader Liverpool, who have played less than two games to date
. They play aggressive and high-pressure. When we set up the game they dropped in to get deep. We have to play calmly and not make mistakes to get the results we want," Pep told ufabet Sport after the game
. We only allow one chance to get shot<|fim_middle|> was very happy with the perfrormance from his side, showing patience to make the breakthrough against Brentford.
"Every team is a tough competition but it's very impressive that we've had 60 points so far. We've been doing great so far."
Tagged with: Brenford, Football, Manchester City, News, Pep Guardiola, sport | . There were many corners, but we were calm. It was difficult when they went deep with 10 players in the box."
"Liverpool still have two games to play and we'll look at the gap. There are 14 games left and there are still plenty of points to play. "There are still a lot of difficult games like today."
Manchester City now have a 12 point advantage over second-placed Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title. With 14 games to go.
Guardiola pointed out that Jurgen Klopp's men have two games in hand but said he | 123 |
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Te Vaka is a group of ten musicians and dancers from Tokelau, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, and New Zealand brought together under the inspired leadership of Opetaia Foa'i. They have been wowing international audiences since 1997, presenting a rich, luscious mix of Polynesia's ancient culture to the modern world. In 2008 they won a total of 4 music industry awards – "Best Pacific Group" and "Best Pacific Album" in New Zealand and in the Australian Songwriters Association Awards they took first place in the "International songwriting category" and won "Best Live performance" of the night awarded by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia.
Te Vaka has performed in the USA and toured the UK, Europe & other parts of the world extensively over the last 13 years, performing in such prestigious venues as London's Royal Festival Hall and Ronnie Scott's nightclub. The group has headlined music festivals throughout Europe and been favourites at WOMAD festivals around the world including the WOMAD Festival in Seattle, USA. They are in demand for many important world events. They have performed at the Apec ministerial dinners and America's cup events in Auckland, the Commonwealth games in Melbourne, the Rugby World Cup in Paris and the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Opetaia Foa'i is the songwriter/ lead vocalist of the group. The inspiration for his music comes from his multi-cultural upbringing - half Tokelauan, half Tuvaluan, born in Samoa and bought up in a Tokelauan community in New Zealand. Opetaia's musical background spans both the traditional and the diverse influences of contemporary metropolitan culture. Described as "one of New Zealand's finest songwriters" and " a true son of the Pacific", he won the Senior Pacific Artist award in 2005 for his contribution to the Pacific Arts.
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"Te Vaka live in concert DVD" - Te Vaka | performed in more than 35 countries around the world and released five internationally acclaimed albums to date. The first released through ARC Music, a UK based record company, gained immediate worldwide acclaim and recognition for the group and was distributed to over 80 countries. The second album, released in 1999 through Warm Earth Records created an even bigger impact going to number one on world music charts and on mainstream radio. The third album, released in May 2002, was described as "Phenomenal" and gained the group a nomination in "Best Roots" category in the New Zealand music awards. The 4th album Tutuki , entered the European World Music Charts at no. 4 & the USA Global Rhythm top 10 chart at No. 3. It won a Tui for "Best Pacific Music Album" in the New Zealand music awards as well as Songwriting Awards in both the USA and Australia. The latest Te Vaka album Olatia, released in July 2007 has also achieved rave reviews both in New Zealand and internationally, entering the European World Music Chart at No. 4 and winning a "Tui" for "Best Pacific Album" in the 2008 Pacific Music Awards. Te Vaka has a very exciting future ahead of them with a new album set for release in September 2009 and a live show which is stunning audiences the world over "Te Vaka is an experience".
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Nissan News: Nissan Profit Plunges 99%; 12,500 Job Cuts Eminent
Drew Dowdell posted a topic in Nissan
Yesterday we reported that Nissan may be cutting up to 10,000 jobs.... we were short by about 2,500. Nissan Motor Company's CEO Hiroto Saikawa said "The results were really more negative than we expected" in a financial briefing at Nissan Headquarters. Operating profit was nearly wiped out, falling to just $14.8 million in the first fiscal quarter ending June 30th. Operating margin shrank from 4.0 percent last year to barely 0.1 percent this year. Global retail volume fell 6.0% to 1.23 million vehicles. On the back of these poor results. Nissan has annouced job cuts of up to 12,500 worldwide as part of a plan to revive the company. Of that, 6,400 job cuts are already underway with 1,420 jobs lost in the U.S. An additional 6,100 job cuts are planned over the next 4 years. Most of the job cuts will be at plants that are working below capacity. In the U.S., Nissan is trying to move away from fleet sales and focus on increasing retail sales, with the goal of boosting retail sales by 100,000 units. View full article
Nissan Profit Plunges 99%; 12,500 Job Cuts Eminent
Drew Dowdell posted an article in Nissan
Yesterday we reported that Nissan may be cutting up to 10,000 jobs.... we were short by about 2,500. Nissan Motor Company's CEO Hiroto Saikawa said "The results were really more negative than we expected" in a financial briefing at Nissan Headquarters. Operating profit was nearly wiped out, falling to just $14.8 million in the first fiscal quarter ending June 30th. Operating margin shrank from 4.0 percent last year to barely 0.1 percent this year. Global retail volume fell 6.0% to 1.23 million vehicles. On the back of these poor results. Nissan has annouced job cuts of up to 12,500 worldwide as part of a plan to revive the company. Of that, 6,400 job cuts are already underway with 1,420 jobs lost in the U.S. An additional 6,100 job cuts are planned over the next 4 years. Most of the job cuts will be at plants that are working below capacity. In the U.S., Nissan is trying to move away from fleet sales and focus on increasing retail sales, with the goal of boosting retail sales by 100,000 units.
Tesla Cuts Jobs Again
Drew Dowdell posted a topic in Tesla
Following a dismal fall in sales in the previous two quarters, Tesla has sacked several dozen employees in stores in Chicago, New York, and Tampa last week according to a report in Bloomberg. These cuts are the latest in a series of cuts to Tesla's retail staff that Tesla had announced earlier in the year. At first, Tesla had announced it would close most of its retail locations and moving to an entirely online retail model. They later changed course and dialed back the reductions with the caveat that some locations would still be closing. Tesla then raised the prices on the more expensive Model 3 trims Most of the cuts came from staff who hold the position of Inside Sales and their managers. Inside sales teams reach out to potential buyers and stimulate interest with test drives. View full article
Drew Dowdell posted an article in Tesla
Following a dismal fall in sales in the previous two quarters, Tesla has sacked several dozen employees in stores in Chicago, New York, and Tampa last week according to a report in Bloomberg. These cuts are the latest in a series of cuts to Tesla's retail staff that Tesla had announced earlier in the year. At first, Tesla had announced it would close most of its retail locations and moving to an entirely online retail model. They later changed course and dialed back the reductions with the caveat that some locations would still be closing. Tesla then raised the prices on the more expensive Model 3 trims Most of the cuts came from staff who hold the position of Inside Sales and their managers. Inside sales teams reach out to potential buyers and stimulate interest with test drives.
General Motors Announces Job Cuts and Plant Shutdowns in North America
William Maley posted an article in GM News
This morning, General Motors announced an overhaul of its operations in 2019 which will involve cutting more than 10,000 workers and possibly closing five plants by the end of the year. GM said the cuts should boost cash flow by six billion by the end of 2020. "The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future. We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra in a statement. The plants up for possible closure are, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Michigan - Home to Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Impala, and Chevrolet Volt. Lordstown Assembly in Ohio - Home to Chevrolet Cruze. Oshawa Assembly in Ontario, Canada - Home to Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala, and finishing production of last-generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Baltimore Operations in Maryland (Propulsion) Warren Transmission Operations in Michigan Hints of this announcement came out last night when reports from CTV and The Globe and Mail in Canada reported the closure of Oshawa. The plant closures also mean a number of models being dropped - including the LaCrosse, CT6, Impala, and Volt. The Cruze will be built in Mexico for other markets. It was expected GM was going to make some changes to address the underutilization of its plants. Dara from the Center for Automotive Research says GM represents 1 million of the 3.2 million units of underutilized capacity in the U.S. through October. This announcement comes on the eve of negotiations with the UAW next year and Unifor in 2020. The UAW has announced that it will challenge GM's decision "through every legal, contractual and collective bargaining avenue open to our membership." The announcement has brought pushback from politicians. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed "deep disappointment" with the decision. U.S. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio express frustration with the possible shutdown of Lordstown. One group not disappointed with the news is Wall Street. GM stock rose 6.18 percent to $38.00 per share at the time of this writing. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required), Bloomberg, Reuters, Twitter, General Motors General Motors Accelerates Transformation Transforming the global enterprise to advance the company's vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion Taking cost actions and optimizing capital expenditures to drive annual run-rate cash savings of approximately $6 billion by year-end 2020 DETROIT – General Motors (NYSE: GM) will accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the comprehensive strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, capitalize on the future of personal mobility and drive significant cost efficiencies. Today, GM is continuing to take proactive steps to improve overall business performance including the reorganization of its global product development staffs, the realignment of its manufacturing capacity and a reduction of salaried workforce. These actions are expected to increase annual adjusted automotive free cash flow by $6 billion by year-end 2020 on a run-rate basis. "The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success." Contributing to the cash savings of approximately $6 billion are cost reductions of $4.5 billion and a lower capital expenditure annual run rate of almost $1.5 billion. The actions include: Transforming product development – GM is evolving its global product development workforce and processes to drive world-class levels of engineering in advanced technologies, and to improve quality and speed to market. Resources allocated to electric and autonomous vehicle programs will double in the next two years. Additional actions include: Increasing high-quality component sharing across the portfolio, especially those not visible and perceptible to customers. Expanding the use of virtual tools to lower development time and costs. Integrating its vehicle and propulsion engineering teams. Compressing its global product development campuses. Optimizing product portfolio – GM has recently invested in newer, highly efficient vehicle architectures, especially in trucks, crossovers and SUVs. GM now intends to prioritize future vehicle investments in its next-generation battery-electric architectures. As the current vehicle portfolio is optimized, it is expected that more than 75 percent of GM's global sales volume will come from five vehicle architectures by early next decade. Increasing capacity utilization – In the past four years, GM has refocused capital and resources to support the growth<|fim_middle|> association SMMT, Land Rover saw sales decline 20 percent to 23,815 through March. Jaguar posted a larger 26 percent decline to 9.709. JLR is trying to change that as they get ready to launch the I-Pace EV later this year, and plans on introducing electrified variants of all of their models by 2020. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required), Autocar View full article
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Jaguar Land Rover Cut 1,000 Contract Jobs Due To Decline in Diesel Sales
William Maley posted an article in Jaguar
Jaguar Land Rover is making some cuts to their work staff. Today, the British automaker announced that it would not renew the contracts of 1,000 agency workers at its Solihull factory in the United Kingdom. According to Autocar, JLR is holding meetings with workers to discuss the changes. In a statement, JLR said the decision is due "continuing headwinds" that have forced the company to make "adjustments to production schedules and the number of agency staff". Those "continuing headwinds" are due to regulatory crackdown on diesel engines and higher taxes being placed on these models. This confirms news late last week about the automaker making cuts to their workforce. JLR also announced that it would be moving 360 workers from the Castle Bromwich to Solihull due to declining car sales. Bromwich is where the company produces most of Jaguar's lineup (F-Type, XE, XF, and XJ). Sales of diesel vehicles have been hit hard due to the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal. Jaguar Land Rover has been hit the hardest in their home country of the United Kingdom. 90 percent of Jaguar Land Rover models sold in the country are diesels, compared to 45 percent globally. According to industry association SMMT, Land Rover saw sales decline 20 percent to 23,815 through March. Jaguar posted a larger 26 percent decline to 9.709. JLR is trying to change that as they get ready to launch the I-Pace EV later this year, and plans on introducing electrified variants of all of their models by 2020. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required), Autocar
Industry News: The Big Fight For the Toyota-Mazda Plant
William Maley posted a topic in Industry News
Only a few weeks ago, Toyota and Mazda surprised everyone by announcing a new alliance. The two would collaborate on a number of projects including a $1.6 billion assembly plant, possibly bringing 4,000 new jobs. At the time, the two automakers haven't decided where the plant would go, which sent various states in a frenzy. A report from the Detroit Free Press has learned that the two have sent out a blind request for proposals from states in Midwest, mid-Atlantic and South. Sources tell the paper that the request was from an unidentified employer that was considering options for a new project known as 'Project Mitt'. State officials have sent preliminary proposals that include potential tax incentives, job training programs, and investments in infrastructure. Opportunities like this are very rare and states are pulling all of the stops out to land this plant. "You have to be able to punch the ticket. You have to be able to say you've got the workforce, you've got the land, you've got the transportation systems and rail spurs, community college and education and a place where people want to live," said Kristin Dziczek, director of industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research. "Once you've got all that, tax incentives come into play." We recommend checking out the Free Press' report as it lists the states in contention from Alabama to Texas with pros and cons. Source: Detroit Free Press View full article
The Big Fight For the Toyota-Mazda Plant
William Maley posted an article in Automotive Industry
Only a few weeks ago, Toyota and Mazda surprised everyone by announcing a new alliance. The two would collaborate on a number of projects including a $1.6 billion assembly plant, possibly bringing 4,000 new jobs. At the time, the two automakers haven't decided where the plant would go, which sent various states in a frenzy. A report from the Detroit Free Press has learned that the two have sent out a blind request for proposals from states in Midwest, mid-Atlantic and South. Sources tell the paper that the request was from an unidentified employer that was considering options for a new project known as 'Project Mitt'. State officials have sent preliminary proposals that include potential tax incentives, job training programs, and investments in infrastructure. Opportunities like this are very rare and states are pulling all of the stops out to land this plant. "You have to be able to punch the ticket. You have to be able to say you've got the workforce, you've got the land, you've got the transportation systems and rail spurs, community college and education and a place where people want to live," said Kristin Dziczek, director of industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research. "Once you've got all that, tax incentives come into play." We recommend checking out the Free Press' report as it lists the states in contention from Alabama to Texas with pros and cons. Source: Detroit Free Press
Rumorpile: Ford Could Cut 10 Percent of Global Workforce
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Ford isn't doing so well at the moment as profits and stock prices are tumbling downward. To try and reverse this trend, the blue oval is considering cutting 10 percent of its global workforce. Both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters have learned from their respective sources the cuts are part of a previously announced plan to slash costs by $3 billion. The cuts will mostly affect salaried employees, with Reuters reporting Ford will offer generous early retirement incentives. To give you an idea of how jobs are on the chopping block, Ford currently 200,000 employees. A cut of 10 percent means 20,000 people are out of a job. "Reducing costs and becoming as lean and efficient as possible also remain part of that work. We have not announced any new people efficiency actions, nor do we comment on speculation," Ford said in a statement. Source: Reuters, Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required)
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Ford News: Rumorpile: Ford Could Cut 10 Percent of Global Workforce
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Ford isn't doing so well at the moment as profits and stock prices are tumbling downward. To try and reverse this trend, the blue oval is considering cutting 10 percent of its global workforce. Both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters have learned from their respective sources the cuts are part of a previously announced plan to slash costs by $3 billion. The cuts will mostly affect salaried employees, with Reuters reporting Ford will offer generous early retirement incentives. To give you an idea of how jobs are on the chopping block, Ford currently 200,000 employees. A cut of 10 percent means 20,000 people are out of a job. "Reducing costs and becoming as lean and efficient as possible also remain part of that work. We have not announced any new people efficiency actions, nor do we comment on speculation," Ford said in a statement. Source: Reuters, Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required) View full article
Ford Plans On Cutting 1,400 Salaried Jobs in North America, Asia
A day after reports saying Ford was planning a significant layoff of its global workforce, the company has cleared the air on the cuts. In a statement issued today, Ford announced that it would be cutting 10 percent of its salaried employees in North America and Asia - roughly 1,400 employees. Ford says the cuts are needed to reduce costs as the company readies for a slowdown in sales and investing more into new technologies. "We remain focused on the three strategic priorities that will create value and drive profitable growth, which include fortifying the profit pillars in our core business, transforming traditionally underperforming areas of our core business and investing aggressively, but prudently, in emerging opportunities," the company said in a statement. According to Automotive News, Ford will offer workers voluntary early retirement and special separation packages to reach their goal. Two-thirds of the cuts will come from the North America region. As we reported yesterday, the job cuts are part of Ford's plans to cut costs by $3 billion. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required)
Ford News: Ford Plans On Cutting 1,400 Salaried Jobs in North America, Asia
A day after reports saying Ford was planning a significant layoff of its global workforce, the company has cleared the air on the cuts. In a statement issued today, Ford announced that it would be cutting 10 percent of its salaried employees in North America and Asia - roughly 1,400 employees. Ford says the cuts are needed to reduce costs as the company readies for a slowdown in sales and investing more into new technologies. "We remain focused on the three strategic priorities that will create value and drive profitable growth, which include fortifying the profit pillars in our core business, transforming traditionally underperforming areas of our core business and investing aggressively, but prudently, in emerging opportunities," the company said in a statement. According to Automotive News, Ford will offer workers voluntary early retirement and special separation packages to reach their goal. Two-thirds of the cuts will come from the North America region. As we reported yesterday, the job cuts are part of Ford's plans to cut costs by $3 billion. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required) View full article
General Motors To Invest $1 Billion For U.S. Manufacturing, Add 7,000 Jobs
This morning, General Motors announced that it would be investing $1 billion into their manufacturing operations in the U.S. The investment will go towards "new vehicle, advanced technology and component projects," that will create or retain 1,500 jobs. GM also announced that it would create at least 5,000 more jobs in the U.S. for various parts of their business, and insource the production of axles for their next-generation of full-size trucks to create 450 jobs. Announcements on where the investments will go will be announced at a later date. "As the U.S. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results for our owners. The U.S. is our home market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers, and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra in a statement. This news comes on the heels of comments made by President-elect Donald Trump on possibly imposing a 35 percent tariff on vehicles built in Mexico. According to NBC News, various General Motors officials stress these moves were months, and some years in the making. Source: General Motors, NBC News Press Release is on Page 2 GM Announces 7,000 U.S. Jobs, Builds Off Strong Track Record Investing Additional $1 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing Moves Axle Jobs to U.S. from Mexico More than 5,000 New Jobs in Key Growth Areas DETROIT – General Motors today announced that it will invest an additional $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing operations. These investments follow $2.9 billion announced in 2016 and more than $21 billion GM has invested in its U.S. operations since 2009. The new investments cover multiple new vehicle, advanced technology and component projects. A combination of 1,500 new and retained jobs are tied to the new investments. Details of individual projects will be announced throughout the year. The company also announced it will begin work on insourcing axle production for its next generation full-size pickup trucks, including work previously done in Mexico, to operations in Michigan, creating 450 U.S. jobs. "As the U.S. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results for our owners," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "The U.S. is our home market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers, and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value." GM's announcement is part of the company's increased focus on overall efficiency over the last four years. With a strategy to streamline and simplify its operations and grow its business, GM has created 25,000 jobs in the U.S. − approximately 19,000 engineering, IT and professional jobs and 6,000 hourly manufacturing jobs – and added nearly $3 billion in annual wages and benefits to the U.S. economy over that period. At the same time, GM reduced more than 15,000 positions outside the U.S., bringing most of those jobs to America. During that period, the company moved from 90 percent of its IT work being outsourced to an insourced U.S.-based model. "We will continue our commitment to driving a more efficient business," said Barra, "as shown by our insourcing of more than 6,000 IT jobs that were formerly outside the U.S., streamlining our engineering operations from seven to three, with the core engineering center being in Warren, Michigan, and building on our momentum at GM Financial and in advanced technologies. These moves, and others, are expected to result in more than 5,000 new jobs in the U.S. over the next few years." GM has also been facilitating its supplier base to do the same. The company has been executing a strategy to create supplier parks adjacent to its U.S. manufacturing sites (already accomplished at GM's Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas, Spring Hill Assembly Plant in Tennessee, Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana, and Lordstown Assembly Plant in Ohio), and will continue to expand this effort. Supplier parks locating near assembly plants result in significant savings from reduced transportation costs, higher quality communications and continuous improvement activities as suppliers are located closer to the final assembly location. In addition, GM is confirming that another supplier has committed to make components for GM's next-generation full size pick-up trucks in Michigan, moving 100 supplier jobs from Mexico to the U.S.
GM News: General Motors To Invest $1 Billion For U.S. Manufacturing, Add 7,000 Jobs
This morning, General Motors announced that it would be investing $1 billion into their manufacturing operations in the U.S. The investment will go towards "new vehicle, advanced technology and component projects," that will create or retain 1,500 jobs. GM also announced that it would create at least 5,000 more jobs in the U.S. for various parts of their business, and insource the production of axles for their next-generation of full-size trucks to create 450 jobs. Announcements on where the investments will go will be announced at a later date. "As the U.S. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results for our owners. The U.S. is our home market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers, and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra in a statement. This news comes on the heels of comments made by President-elect Donald Trump on possibly imposing a 35 percent tariff on vehicles built in Mexico. According to NBC News, various General Motors officials stress these moves were months, and some years in the making. Source: General Motors, NBC News Press Release is on Page 2 GM Announces 7,000 U.S. Jobs, Builds Off Strong Track Record Investing Additional $1 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing Moves Axle Jobs to U.S. from Mexico More than 5,000 New Jobs in Key Growth Areas DETROIT – General Motors today announced that it will invest an additional $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing operations. These investments follow $2.9 billion announced in 2016 and more than $21 billion GM has invested in its U.S. operations since 2009. The new investments cover multiple new vehicle, advanced technology and component projects. A combination of 1,500 new and retained jobs are tied to the new investments. Details of individual projects will be announced throughout the year. The company also announced it will begin work on insourcing axle production for its next generation full-size pickup trucks, including work previously done in Mexico, to operations in Michigan, creating 450 U.S. jobs. "As the U.S. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results for our owners," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "The U.S. is our home market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers, and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value." GM's announcement is part of the company's increased focus on overall efficiency over the last four years. With a strategy to streamline and simplify its operations and grow its business, GM has created 25,000 jobs in the U.S. − approximately 19,000 engineering, IT and professional jobs and 6,000 hourly manufacturing jobs – and added nearly $3 billion in annual wages and benefits to the U.S. economy over that period. At the same time, GM reduced more than 15,000 positions outside the U.S., bringing most of those jobs to America. During that period, the company moved from 90 percent of its IT work being outsourced to an insourced U.S.-based model. "We will continue our commitment to driving a more efficient business," said Barra, "as shown by our insourcing of more than 6,000 IT jobs that were formerly outside the U.S., streamlining our engineering operations from seven to three, with the core engineering center being in Warren, Michigan, and building on our momentum at GM Financial and in advanced technologies. These moves, and others, are expected to result in more than 5,000 new jobs in the U.S. over the next few years." GM has also been facilitating its supplier base to do the same. The company has been executing a strategy to create supplier parks adjacent to its U.S. manufacturing sites (already accomplished at GM's Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas, Spring Hill Assembly Plant in Tennessee, Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana, and Lordstown Assembly Plant in Ohio), and will continue to expand this effort. Supplier parks locating near assembly plants result in significant savings from reduced transportation costs, higher quality communications and continuous improvement activities as suppliers are located closer to the final assembly location. In addition, GM is confirming that another supplier has committed to make components for GM's next-generation full size pick-up trucks in Michigan, moving 100 supplier jobs from Mexico to the U.S. View full article
Jobs of the Future as Predicted by GM
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G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Jobs of the Future as Predicted by GM GM has posted a list with details of what this will entail of jobs in the auto industry by 2025. Quoting their media release: Electrical engineers – Battery, hybrid and plug-in vehicles are becoming mainstream. The internal combustion engine isn't going anywhere soon, but the industry is developing alternative ways to make a car move. Electrified vehicles are more powerful and achieve greater range, and as more customers try these alternatives, demand can only be expected to grow. Over the next 10 years, more engineers will be needed to explore and develop electrified vehicles. Analytics expert – Data is everywhere and can help diagnose what in a car needs attention before it becomes a problem and help pick the best route to a destination. With smart data, the car and the driver will work together for a more efficient future. Analysts will be needed to create algorithms to decipher how this data can best help drivers. Interaction designers - Operating all the technology in the car needs to be designed with an artistry that makes it easy to use. A driver can be going 60 mph on the freeway and the information and technology within the car needs to be accessed intuitively so the driver can keep his hands on the wheel. Web programmer – The car is not a smartphone or a tablet or whatever is going to come next, but it will be a platform that allows the next big thing to easily connect to the vehicle and its occupants. Software is playing an increasingly important role in the vehicle, and coders and developers are only going to be in more demand. Autonomous driving engineer – GM envisions a world without crashes and a key step toward that direction is the introduction of vehicle-to-vehicle technology on the 2017 Cadillac CTS that allows the car to "talk" to other cars that are equipped with V2V technology. After that will come Super Cruise, a semi-autonomous driving technology in the Cadillac CT6 range-topping luxury sedan. Within these fields there will be sensor experts, radar developers and all types of engineers needed to make these vehicles and those that follow them a reality. Customer care experts – It's not just about cars being made by car people who deliver them to the masses. With social media, direct interaction with companies big and small is direct and near instantaneous. Social care experts provide the listening ear and resolution to problems that can help make customers for life. Sustainability integration expert – Proof points of a sustainable business model can be seen throughout GM. Already, the company has 122 plants and facilities that send no garbage to landfills. A variety of other environmentally friendly programs – from using alternative energy sources like solar and wind – to just finding ways to use less of everything opens employment opportunities for people who understand the best ways to apply these goals to the business. Industrial engineer – Vehicles are mass-produced products. The best companies discover and apply the most efficient production techniques. The future for this position will challenge engineers to build complex vehicles in ways that are sustainable and efficient. 3D Printing engineer – The uses and capabilities of 3D printing in the development, design and engineering world are just beginning to be fully realized. A part mockup that once took weeks to create can now be printed in a matter of hours. Faster prototyping doesn't just save time; it can lead to more options to be tested and better end products. Alternative propulsion engineer – Diesels, battery electrics, fuel cells. There is no single answer to the future of propulsion. Refining and developing new ways for cars to move will also drive job creation.
Holden Cuts 500 Jobs Due To Strong Australian Dollar
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By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com April 9, 2013 Holden is cutting 500 jobs due to the strengthening Australian dollar, which has caused country's labor rates to be one of the highest in the world. "I can't control what central banks do. The value of the Australian dollar, and importantly the currency plays being made by other countries, mean that we are not competing on a level playing field," said Holden managing director, Mike Devereux yesterday. The Australian dollar has surged 83% when compared to the Japenese Yen since 2008. This has prompted an increase in Japenese imports into Australia. This is further compounded by the rise in costs of plants in Australia. Devereux said this makes the operation "one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive" in GM. The job cuts will take place in two facilities: Holden's Elizabeth plant, where the Commodore and Cruze are built, and Holden's Victorian product development facility. These new cuts come five months after Holden announced 170 jobs would be cut for similar reasons. Source: Bloomberg, Drive.com.au William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at william.maley@cheersandgears.com or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster. View full article
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By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com April 9, 2013 Holden is cutting 500 jobs due to the strengthening Australian dollar, which has caused country's labor rates to be one of the highest in the world. "I can't control what central banks do. The value of the Australian dollar, and importantly the currency plays being made by other countries, mean that we are not competing on a level playing field," said Holden managing director, Mike Devereux yesterday. The Australian dollar has surged 83% when compared to the Japenese Yen since 2008. This has prompted an increase in Japenese imports into Australia. This is further compounded by the rise in costs of plants in Australia. Devereux said this makes the operation "one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive" in GM. The job cuts will take place in two facilities: Holden's Elizabeth plant, where the Commodore and Cruze are built, and Holden's Victorian product development facility. These new cuts come five months after Holden announced 170 jobs would be cut for similar reasons. Source: Bloomberg, Drive.com.au William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at william.maley@cheersandgears.com or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.
Fisker Gets Slapped With A Federal Lawsuit
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By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com April 9, 2013 From the "it can't get any worse, can it?" file, Fisker has been smacked with a lawsuit by their former employees alleging the company violated the law when they were laid off. Last Friday, Fisker announced they would be laying off 75% of their employees (about 160 employees) as "a necessary strategic step to... maximize the value of Fisker's core assets," which is complicated way of saying 'we're trying to conserve as much cash as possible'. However, employees have sued Fisker in Federal court, stating the company violated the US Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) Act which says a company must give employees 60 days of notice of a termination. The suit also alleges Fisker failed to pay the employees the wages and other benefits they would have earned in the 60 days following the layoffs. Fisker's communications firm, Sitrick and Co said the company had no immediate comment concerning the suit. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required) William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at william.maley@cheersandgears.com or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.
Karma News: Fisker Gets Slapped With A Federal Lawsuit
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By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com April 9, 2013 From the "it can't get any worse, can it?" file, Fisker has been smacked with a lawsuit by their former employees alleging the company violated the law when they were laid off. Last Friday, Fisker announced they would be laying off 75% of their employees (about 160 employees) as "a necessary strategic step to... maximize the value of Fisker's core assets," which is complicated way of saying 'we're trying to conserve as much cash as possible'. However, employees have sued Fisker in Federal court, stating the company violated the US Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) Act which says a company must give employees 60 days of notice of a termination. The suit also alleges Fisker failed to pay the employees the wages and other benefits they would have earned in the 60 days following the layoffs. Fisker's communications firm, Sitrick and Co said the company had no immediate comment concerning the suit. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required) William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at william.maley@cheersandgears.com or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster. View full article
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Copyright © 2001 CheersandGears.com Powered by Invision Community | of its crossovers, SUVs and trucks, adding shifts and investing $6.6 billion in U.S. plants that have created or maintained 17,600 jobs. With changing customer preferences in the U.S. and in response to market-related volume declines in cars, future products will be allocated to fewer plants next year. Assembly plants that will be unallocated in 2019 include: Oshawa Assembly in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Detroit. Lordstown Assembly in Warren, Ohio. Propulsion plants that will be unallocated in 2019 include: Baltimore Operations in White Marsh, Maryland. Warren Transmission Operations in Warren, Michigan. In addition to the previously announced closure of the assembly plant in Gunsan, Korea, GM will cease the operations of two additional plants outside North America by the end of 2019. These manufacturing actions are expected to significantly increase capacity utilization. To further enhance business performance, GM will continue working to improve other manufacturing costs, productivity and the competitiveness of wages and benefits. Staffing transformation – The company is transforming its global workforce to ensure it has the right skill sets for today and the future, while driving efficiencies through the utilization of best-in-class tools. Actions are being taken to reduce salaried and salaried contract staff by 15 percent, which includes 25 percent fewer executives to streamline decision making. Barra added, "These actions will increase the long-term profit and cash generation potential of the company and improve resilience through the cycle." GM expects to fund the restructuring costs through a new credit facility that will further improve the company's strong liquidity position and enhance its financial flexibility. GM expects to record pre-tax charges of $3.0 billion to $3.8 billion related to these actions, including up to $1.8 billion of non-cash accelerated asset write-downs and pension charges, and up to $2.0 billion of employee-related and other cash-based expenses. The majority of these charges will be considered special for EBIT-adjusted, EPS diluted-adjusted and adjusted automotive free cash flow purposes. The majority of these charges will be incurred in the fourth quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019, with some additional costs incurred through the remainder of 2019.
GM News: General Motors Announces Job Cuts and Plant Shutdowns in North America
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This morning, General Motors announced an overhaul of its operations in 2019 which will involve cutting more than 10,000 workers and possibly closing five plants by the end of the year. GM said the cuts should boost cash flow by six billion by the end of 2020. "The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future. We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra in a statement. The plants up for possible closure are, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Michigan - Home to Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Impala, and Chevrolet Volt. Lordstown Assembly in Ohio - Home to Chevrolet Cruze. Oshawa Assembly in Ontario, Canada - Home to Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala, and finishing production of last-generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Baltimore Operations in Maryland (Propulsion) Warren Transmission Operations in Michigan Hints of this announcement came out last night when reports from CTV and The Globe and Mail in Canada reported the closure of Oshawa. The plant closures also mean a number of models being dropped - including the LaCrosse, CT6, Impala, and Volt. The Cruze will be built in Mexico for other markets. It was expected GM was going to make some changes to address the underutilization of its plants. Dara from the Center for Automotive Research says GM represents 1 million of the 3.2 million units of underutilized capacity in the U.S. through October. This announcement comes on the eve of negotiations with the UAW next year and Unifor in 2020. The UAW has announced that it will challenge GM's decision "through every legal, contractual and collective bargaining avenue open to our membership." The announcement has brought pushback from politicians. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed "deep disappointment" with the decision. U.S. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio express frustration with the possible shutdown of Lordstown. One group not disappointed with the news is Wall Street. GM stock rose 6.18 percent to $38.00 per share at the time of this writing. Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required), Bloomberg, Reuters, Twitter, General Motors General Motors Accelerates Transformation Transforming the global enterprise to advance the company's vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion Taking cost actions and optimizing capital expenditures to drive annual run-rate cash savings of approximately $6 billion by year-end 2020 DETROIT – General Motors (NYSE: GM) will accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the comprehensive strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, capitalize on the future of personal mobility and drive significant cost efficiencies. Today, GM is continuing to take proactive steps to improve overall business performance including the reorganization of its global product development staffs, the realignment of its manufacturing capacity and a reduction of salaried workforce. These actions are expected to increase annual adjusted automotive free cash flow by $6 billion by year-end 2020 on a run-rate basis. "The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success." Contributing to the cash savings of approximately $6 billion are cost reductions of $4.5 billion and a lower capital expenditure annual run rate of almost $1.5 billion. The actions include: Transforming product development – GM is evolving its global product development workforce and processes to drive world-class levels of engineering in advanced technologies, and to improve quality and speed to market. Resources allocated to electric and autonomous vehicle programs will double in the next two years. Additional actions include: Increasing high-quality component sharing across the portfolio, especially those not visible and perceptible to customers. Expanding the use of virtual tools to lower development time and costs. Integrating its vehicle and propulsion engineering teams. Compressing its global product development campuses. Optimizing product portfolio – GM has recently invested in newer, highly efficient vehicle architectures, especially in trucks, crossovers and SUVs. GM now intends to prioritize future vehicle investments in its next-generation battery-electric architectures. As the current vehicle portfolio is optimized, it is expected that more than 75 percent of GM's global sales volume will come from five vehicle architectures by early next decade. Increasing capacity utilization – In the past four years, GM has refocused capital and resources to support the growth of its crossovers, SUVs and trucks, adding shifts and investing $6.6 billion in U.S. plants that have created or maintained 17,600 jobs. With changing customer preferences in the U.S. and in response to market-related volume declines in cars, future products will be allocated to fewer plants next year. Assembly plants that will be unallocated in 2019 include: Oshawa Assembly in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Detroit. Lordstown Assembly in Warren, Ohio. Propulsion plants that will be unallocated in 2019 include: Baltimore Operations in White Marsh, Maryland. Warren Transmission Operations in Warren, Michigan. In addition to the previously announced closure of the assembly plant in Gunsan, Korea, GM will cease the operations of two additional plants outside North America by the end of 2019. These manufacturing actions are expected to significantly increase capacity utilization. To further enhance business performance, GM will continue working to improve other manufacturing costs, productivity and the competitiveness of wages and benefits. Staffing transformation – The company is transforming its global workforce to ensure it has the right skill sets for today and the future, while driving efficiencies through the utilization of best-in-class tools. Actions are being taken to reduce salaried and salaried contract staff by 15 percent, which includes 25 percent fewer executives to streamline decision making. Barra added, "These actions will increase the long-term profit and cash generation potential of the company and improve resilience through the cycle." GM expects to fund the restructuring costs through a new credit facility that will further improve the company's strong liquidity position and enhance its financial flexibility. GM expects to record pre-tax charges of $3.0 billion to $3.8 billion related to these actions, including up to $1.8 billion of non-cash accelerated asset write-downs and pension charges, and up to $2.0 billion of employee-related and other cash-based expenses. The majority of these charges will be considered special for EBIT-adjusted, EPS diluted-adjusted and adjusted automotive free cash flow purposes. The majority of these charges will be incurred in the fourth quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019, with some additional costs incurred through the remainder of 2019. View full article
Jaguar News: Jaguar Land Rover Cut 1,000 Contract Jobs Due To Decline in Diesel Sales
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Jaguar Land Rover is making some cuts to their work staff. Today, the British automaker announced that it would not renew the contracts of 1,000 agency workers at its Solihull factory in the United Kingdom. According to Autocar, JLR is holding meetings with workers to discuss the changes. In a statement, JLR said the decision is due "continuing headwinds" that have forced the company to make "adjustments to production schedules and the number of agency staff". Those "continuing headwinds" are due to regulatory crackdown on diesel engines and higher taxes being placed on these models. This confirms news late last week about the automaker making cuts to their workforce. JLR also announced that it would be moving 360 workers from the Castle Bromwich to Solihull due to declining car sales. Bromwich is where the company produces most of Jaguar's lineup (F-Type, XE, XF, and XJ). Sales of diesel vehicles have been hit hard due to the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal. Jaguar Land Rover has been hit the hardest in their home country of the United Kingdom. 90 percent of Jaguar Land Rover models sold in the country are diesels, compared to 45 percent globally. According to industry | 2,272 |
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Arrive in Jackson and transfer to your hotel. Hey, you are in the nicest town in the West. Jackson, located at the southern entrance to Grand Teton National Park, was<|fim_middle|> Follow the road to Mammoth Hot Springs, characterized by terrace-like formations created by limestone deposits. Well-marked trails allow the safe viewing of the formations at close range. Take US 89 and head north towards Livingston, an authentic Western town. There are some great loop roads outside of town, but it'll be hard to pull yourself away from the anachronism that is Livingston; the town is locked in the 1940's, yet a very sophisticated place. From here it's on to Bozeman, named after John Bozeman, who brought the first wagon train of pioneers to settle the Gallatin Valley. The trail he blazed became not only a highway for settlers and miners, but also a flash point between the American Indians and the settlers. Overnight.
From Bozeman you pick up SR 84, which will merge with SR 287. You ride through Beaverhead National Forest, which is part of the huge complex of national forests occupying most of western Montana. Glaciated peaks rise from broad valleys in the area to form some of Montana's most majestic ranges; the Anaconda, Bitterroot, Beaverhead, Flint Creek, Gravelly, Highland, Madison, Tobacco Root and Sapphire. Mountains in these ranges are among the loftiest in the state; more than 40 surpass 10,000 feet. At Twin Bridges you enter SR 41, your road into Dillon. Named for the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, Dillon is a focal point for five rich stock-raising valleys, including Big Hole, Grasshopper and Beaverhead. Overnight.
Today its off into the state of Idaho. From Dillon you take I-15 and ride through the southern part of Beaverhead National Forest. As you enter Idaho the road will elevate to 8,500 feet and you are in for a scenic ride along the Camas National Wildlife Refuge on your way to Idaho Falls. Although it lies miles from the silver and gold lodes, discovered in the region during the mid-1800s, Idaho Falls owes its formation to these riches. The settlement, originally called Taylor's Crossing, was established about 1860 along one of the few fording points on the upper Snake River. Overnight.
From Idaho Falls you pick up US 26 east and head back towards Wyoming. Your ride will take you through Caribou National Forest - noted for its rugged scenery marked by towering mountain ranges and beautiful valleys. You might want to cruise along Snake River, which provides many scenic vistas. At Swan Valley you enter SR 31, ride past Pine Creek Pass, and a few miles after Victor you are back in Wyoming. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Grand Teton National Park and return to Jackson. In Jackson it will be time to return your motorcycle and transfer back to your hotel. Overnight.
Today your trip will come to an end with your departure flight back home.
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I can't wait to see what next adventure Eagle Riders will share with me! | laid out in 1897 and cattle ranching took hold. A hundred years later, the mix of hardworking locals and affluent outsiders still typifies the town, though tourism and skiing have long supplanted ranching. Less than three percent of Teton County is privately owned; the rest is contained within Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the National Elk Refuge. Everything in Jackson centers around the town square marked by the famed Antler Arches. Overnight.
This morning you pick up your motorcycle at EagleRider's Jackson location and you are in for an unforgettable ride through the most magnificent scenery and wildlife in America. Jackson is on a scenic portion of US 89 and a great ride awaits you on the outskirts of town. You pick up US 89 and head for the Grand Tetons. The road here seems to be custom-designed with bikes in mind, in addition to seeing these most incredible peaks, you get to ride alpine runs, then pine-bordered roads and quick drops, where the valley floor opens and the road dives right into it. As you follow US 89 you get into Yellowstone National Park, which was established in 1872 as the world's first national park. Elevations in Yellowstone range from 5,314 ft. at the northern entrance in Gardiner to 11,358 ft. at Eagle Peak in the southeast. The most outstanding of Yellowstone's natural phenomena are the thousands of displays that compose the world's largest thermal basins. At the northern tip of Yellowstone Lake you enter US 14 and are on your way to Cody. You ride the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway, which was designated the most scenic 52 miles in America by President Theodore Roosevelt. Near Cody you find some of the state's most scenic areas, including Shoshone National Forest, Sunlight Basin, the Absaroka, and Beartooth Mountains and the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. You overnight in Cody.
Perhaps you would like to visit the Buffalo Bill Historical Center before you leave Cody this morning. Your road out of Cody is SR 120 until you hit SR 296. Back in Yellowstone National Park, which is less like a park than a country in itself; you might want to pick up "Yellowstone Today", a free newspaper available at visitors centers and at the entrance, which carries seasonal news and current information about park facilities and programs. You have all day to enjoy the beauty and peace of Yellowstone, the park has more wildlife than a hundred zoos and certainly fulfills every image you have formed about it. The road from Tower Junction to Canyon Junction over Dunraven Pass in the northeast corner is the first to close and last to open when snow hits. If it's open, it's a terrific route to take, soaking in the views as you climb rapidly 6,200 feet. You are on your way to Gardiner and cross into the mighty state of Montana - a state that needs no improvement! Overnight.
Gardiner is the northern entrance to Yellowstone National Park and is the only approach open all year. You have to check out "The Devil's Slide", an unusual rock formation 5 miles northwest on US 89, it's visible from the highway. Today, take your time to explore the northern part of Yellowstone. | 690 |
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If you were among the legions of The Princess Bride fans crushed when Cary Elwes postponed recent speaking engagements tied to the 1987 film and the book he wrote about his time on the set, take heart. You can spend even more time with the dashing Brit thanks to one reason he was otherwise occupied — the smart and sexy new Crackle original series The Art of More. • MORE: TCA: Scratch The Auction World's Seedy Underbelly In "The Art of More" More follows Army vet Graham Connor (Magic City's Christian Cooke), a go-getter Brooklynite who leverages a lifelong passion for art and […]
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Peerz Academy Peer2Peer Tutoring Platform
Building a Cloud-based, peer to peer tutoring platform that would enable a student in need of aid to reach out to qualified and vetted peers for help.
Peerz Academy first engaged cloudThing back in late 2018 to build a cloud-based, peer to peer tutoring platform that would enable a student in need of aid with a homework question or revision topic to reach out to qualified and vetted peers for help.
The platform would allow for students to upload images and text describing their question to the platform and then receive 1-2-1 help from a qualified mentor.
About Peerz Academy
Peerz Academy is a secure, online learning platform funded by the NCFE (National Council for Further Education) that allows verified mentors to deliver lesson content created by expert teachers as well as peer to peer help with specific questions or revision topics.
Their aim is to provide an effective and affordable alternative to expensive private tuition by combining the latest in Cloud Based and AI technology with high impact educational strategies.
Their mission statement is to transform learning by enabling peer to peer interaction in a safe and secure environment, enabling effective learning between peers.
The Discovery Phase
Once the Peerz Academy had engaged cloudThing we kicked off their project, as we do with all our customers, with a discovery phase led by one of our Solution Architects involving all key stakeholders.
The aim of the Discovery Process was to fully capture their requirements for the project, get a full scope of possible pain points and to understand the functions and operations the platform would need so we could successfully road map their ambitions within our proposed solution.
The goal was to build a peer-to-peer learning platform that would transform learning and disrupt the private tuition industry.
It needed to be a holistic learning app that would allow users to manage revision and seek help from verified mentors on a secure platform.
The app also needed to be monetised using a secure payment model similar to phone networks (pay as you go/subscription).
Building The Peerz Academy Platform
In its current form the Peerz Academy App was built on a hybrid system using both Microsoft Azure and Google Firebase which would allow for instant updates from the database when needed as well as easy to implement improvements in the future.
Originally specced out as wire frames, we progressed this to higher fidelity designs during the build process using React Native so Peerz Acadamey could more easily see all the individual components of the platform as and when they were created allowing for a much quicker feedback and improvement process.
The finished app has three different functions available to students with a back-end system for the vetting of mentors and processing of all app functions.
Peerz Academy Back-End Functionality – Private tutors, teachers and other students can all sign up to the platform to become a mentor.
Before signing up they need to agree to a vetting process that involves a DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service) to keep the users of the app safe. Once signed up the mentors then need to upload appropriate certification for the subjects they wish to mentor (and answer questions) on.
For instance, an English Literature A-Level student could upload their English Literature GCSE certificate which would allow them to answer GCSE level questions whilst a private tutor with an English Literature degree could upload their degree certificate which would allow them to answer GCSE and A-Level English literature questions.
Answering Specific Questions – The first function of the app allows a student to upload an image of the question they need answering (for a small fee which is split between the mentor and the Peerz academy).
The app then categorises this by subject and topic (i.e. mathematics then algebra) then level (i.e. GCSE/A-level).
Once categorised it will be sent to ten mentors ranked on a five-star system (based feedback from previous students) to answer. The first mentor to select the answer will be assigned to it with the student receiving a notification that a mentor is working on their answer.
If no one accepts the question within ten minutes, it will be sent to a further ten mentors with the next highest ranking and so on and so on.
1-2-1 Tuition – The app also allows for a student to request a thirty-minute tuition session<|fim_middle|> before the tuition session starts over the app.
The app provides audio and lesson recording for both parties with white board functionality if needed but as part of its security first build won't allow for video calls or sharing.
Feedback Requests – The final functionality of the app allows students to upload longer pieces such as essays or coursework to request feedback from mentors who will respond with a set of notes on the piece to improve it.
As mentioned, the app also contains a five-star rating system (similar to the one used for Uber drivers) that students can use to provide feedback on their mentors.
Part of the build process was to add functionality so that when new questions come in the mentors with the highest star rating would be sent the questions first so as to maintain the highest levels of accuracy and professionalism within the platform.
Further Plans For The Peerz Academy Platform
As part of our Continuous Improvement ethos, once the app was built, cloudThing continued to work with the Peerz Academy to add automation and intelligent functionality to the platform.
Once mentors had started to answer questions, Peerz were keen to utilise this data to automatically surface answers to previously asked questions.
Through a combination of Azure's pre-trained Cognitive Services and an in-house exploratory analysis process, we developed a system which scans all the questions which have been uploaded to the system, and extracts all the salient information as structured data, which is stored in a Cognitive Search index.
When a new question is asked, it's then scanned by the same system and used to query the search index to see if we already have a high quality answer to that exact question.
The system has been shown to retrieve exact answers with a precision of over 90% and to be extremely robust to edge cases like blurred images, handwritten questions, and questions with similar wordings.
Is there anything else you'd like us to know? | with a mentor.
Much like the process in answering questions, the student will upload what they need tuition with and this will be sent on to ten mentors. The mentor who accepts will then have ten minutes to prepare | 42 |
Extreme Fishing with Robson Green is a factual entertainment show broadcast on Channel 5. The<|fim_middle|> television series
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Fishing television series
Television series by Banijay | show sees actor and fishing enthusiast Robson Green travel around the world in search of the greatest fishing destinations. There have been five series to date. A spin-off series entitled Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge began airing on 9 April 2012, and a sequel series (Robson Green: Extreme Fisherman), is set to begin on 4 August 2014 on Quest. Extreme Fishing with Robson Green was re-launched for a one-off special episode on 12 February 2021 based in Leicester.
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Series 2
Series 3 - The World Tour: Part 1
Series 4 - The World Tour: Part 2
Series 5 - At the ends of the Earth
Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge
The spin-off series from Extreme Fishing with Robson Green is Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge where Green heads around the world taking on local fishing champions from that nation. The series started on 9 April 2012.
Robson Green: Extreme Fisherman
With the series moving from channel 5 to Quest, the title was changed to reflect that he is now one of the world's most experienced fishermen, rather than the mere amateur he was before. The series will be based on the same premise as its predecessors, and is produced by the same team. As-yet confirmed locations visited in the upcoming series are Borneo, Mongolia, Japan and the Solomon Islands
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The series is distributed on DVD by Acorn Media UK. Series 1, 2 and 3 are available.
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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ARTICLE ON FIRE ANTS
Two species of fire ants are found in Florida. Most notorious is Solenopsis invicta Buren, the red imported fire ant (RIFA), followed by the much less common S. geminata (Fabricius), the tropical or native fire ant. Other more common U.S. members of this genus include S. xyloni McCook, the southern fire ant; S. aurea Wheeler, found in western states; and S. richteri Forel, the black imported fire ant, confined to northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama.
RIFA is native to central South America. It is also established<|fim_middle|> the tip of the gaster to inject the stinger into the victim. Thus, fire ants both bite and sting, but only the sting is responsible for the pain and pustule (Goddard 1996).
Fire Ant Bites | in the U.S. and Australia (Queensland, near Brisbane - as of 2001) (Shattuck and Barnett 2005).
It has been reported in Antiqua and Babuda, Bahamas, the British and U.S. Virgin Inslands, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos Islands (ISSG 2006).
Populations in New Zealand and mainland China are either currently eradicated (N.Z.) or undergoing eradication (China) (ISSG 2006).
In the U.S., RIFA was first introduced from Brazil into either Mobile, Alabama, or Pensacola, Florida, between 1933 and 1945. However, the RIFA infests Puerto Rico, and all or part of many southern and western states from Maryland to southern California (Mobley and Redding 2005).
As of August 2008, the following U.S. states have established infestations: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The infestations in Maryland and Virginia are sparse and still not formally recognized on USDA maps. Small, localized populations exist in the San Francisco Bay area (David Williams, personal communication, 18 August 2008).
Originally, S. invicta was believed to be a red form of the black species S. saevissima richteri Forel. In 1972, Buren described the black imported fire ant to be a separate and distinct species, S. richteri Forel, and the RIFA was identified as S. invicta Buren (Hedges 1997). Literature dated earlier than 1972 referring to the biology and control of "S. saevissima richteri" almost exclusively refers to S. invicta (Ebeling 1975). Some literature found may contain the name S. wagneri, which refers to S. invicta (Shattuck et al. 1999).
The pedicel, or "waist" in the RIFA consists of two segments. Workers consist of many sizes (polymorphic) between 2.4 to 6 mm (1/8 to 1/4 in) (Hedges 1998). The mandible has four distinct teeth and the antennae are 10-segmented, ending in a two-segmented club. A sting is present at the tip of the gaster. Body color is usually red to brown in color with a black gaster (Hedges 1997).
Worker-lateral view
SEM - lateral view
SEM Propodeum
Mounds are built of soil and are seldom larger than 46 cm (18 in) in diameter. When a mound is disturbed, ants emerge aggressively to bite and sting the intruder. A white pustule usually appears the next day at the site of the sting (Cohen 1992).
It is important to distinguish between the RIFA and the native fire ant in order for appropriate control measures to be taken. Mounds of S. geminata will contain workers with square-shaped heads that are larger in proportion to the rest of their body. These workers collect and mill seeds for the colony (Drees 1997). Workers of S. invicta do not have workers with disproportionate head to body ratios.
Worker size range
Colony with brood
Mount in sandy soil
Biology and Life Cycle
The lifespan of RIFA workers depends on their size. Minor workers may live 30 to 60 days, media workers 60 to 90 days, major workers 90 to 180 days, and queens may live two to six years. Complete lifecycle from egg to adult takes between 22 and 38 days (Hedges 1997).
Mating flights are the primary means of colony propagation, secondarily, budding can occur in which a portion of a colony becomes an autonomous unit. After the colony reaches one year of age, reproductive alates are produced. Six to eight mating flights consisting of up to 4,500 alates each occur between the spring and fall (Vinson and Sorenson 1986). Mating flights usually occur midday on a warm (>74°F/24°C), sunny day following rain (Hedges 1997). Mating occurs during flight and the males die soon after mating with females. In the southern United States, as many as 97,000 queens may be produced per acre of infested land per year (Vinson and Sorenson 1986). Alates are often attracted to swimming pools where homeowners can find thousands of winged ants trapped on the water's surface (Hedges 1997).
After mating flights occur, it is common to find newly-mated queens clustered together under shelter. This clustering and the cooperation of the newly-mated queens aid in establishing a colony. However, as the colony grows all but one queen will be killed, except in the instance of multiple queen colonies (Vinson and Sorenson 1986).
Once the female alate has mated, she will rake her legs forward to snap her wings off at the basal suture and find a suitable spot to begin a new colony (Holldobler 1990). Often this spot is under rocks, leaves or in a small crack or crevice, such as at the edge of a sidewalk, driveway, or street. The queen will burrow into the soil to excavate a small chamber, which is sealed off to keep predators out. Within 24 hours of mating, the queen will have laid between 10 to 15 eggs, which will hatch in eight to 10 days. By the time the first group of eggs hatch, the queen will have laid from 75 to 125 more eggs. The larval stage typically lasts six to 12 days and the pupal stage for nine to 16 days. The newly-mated queen will stop laying eggs until the first batch of workers mature. This process takes from two weeks to one month. The queen will feed the first batch of young larvae oils regurgitated from her crop, trophic eggs or secretions from her salivary glands. The queen's wing muscles, which are no longer needed, break down to provide the nutrients for the young larvae (Vinson and Sorenson 1986).
The first group of workers to emerge are characteristically small due to the limitations in nutrients that the queen provides. These workers, termed "minims," burrow out of the chamber and begin foraging for food to feed the queen and new larvae. The minims also begin construction of the mound. Within one month, larger workers are being produced and the mound is growing in size. By six months the colony has reached several thousand workers and the mound can be seen in a field or lawn. Colonies of this size generally contain a few large workers (major workers), many medium sized workers (media workers), and a majority of small workers (minor workers). The three types of workers are all sterile females and serve to perform tasks necessary to maintain the colony. The queen is the single producer of eggs and is capable of producing as many as 1,500 eggs per day. Mature RIFA colonies may contain as many as 240,000 workers with a typical colony consisting of 80,000 workers (Vinson and Sorenson 1986).
The diet of foraging workers consists of dead animals, including insects, earthworms, and vertebrates. Workers also collect honeydew and will forage for sweets, proteins, and fats in homes. They are sometimes attracted to piles of dirty laundry. Larvae are fed only a liquid diet until they reach the third instar. When the larvae reach the fourth instar, they are able to digest solid foods. Worker ants will bring solid food rich in protein and deposit it in a depression in front of the mouth of the larvae. The larvae will secrete digestive enzymes that break down the solid food and regurgitate it back to worker ants. The queen is fed some of the digested protein to support egg production. As long as food is plentiful, egg production is at its maximum (Vinson and Sorenson 1986).
The sting of the RIFA possesses venom of an alkaloid nature, which exhibits potent necrotoxic activity. Approximately 95% of the venom is composed of these alkaloids, which are responsible for both the pain and white pustule that appears approximately one day after the sting occurs. The remainder of the venom contains an aqueous solution of proteins, peptides, and other small molecules that produce the allergic reaction in hypersensitive individuals. Worker fire ants will attach to the skin using their mandibles and will subsequently lower | 1,908 |
Beau's Brewing Releasing Good Time Session IPA
On April 2, 2019 At 1:00 pm
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VANKLEEK HILL, ON – Beau's Brewing has announced the launch of a new addition to its year-round line-up of beers.
Good Time Session IPA (4% abv, 25 IBU) is described as follows:
Good Time is certified organic, brewed with Nelson Sauvin and Centennial hops<|fim_middle|> release
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The Craft Brand Co. Releasing Mikkeller Peter, Pale and Mary Pale Ale in Ontario » | . Its approachable profile evokes gooseberries, pineapple, white wine, citrus, pine and a hint of funk. The recipe adds wheat and oats to barley malts to create a fuller mouthfeel than might otherwise be expected from a light ale.
Good Time will be officially launched on Thursday April 4th, and will be available in 473 ml cans at the Beau's retail store and select LCBO locations in Ontario. Distribution to retail stores in Quebec will follow in May.
Source & Photo: Beau's Brewing press | 107 |
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Intel all beat expectations and saw their stocks shoot up after hours.
The four companies have a combined market cap around $2 trillion.
All the recent criticism of big tech in Washington D.C. and the popular media doesn't seem to be hurting the companies' financial results.
Four tech giants reported earnings after the bell on Thursday, and all of them beat expectations and saw their stocks shoot up.
Amazon: EPS of 52 cents came in way ahead of expectations of 3 cents, and investors gave the company a pass on its razor-thin 0.8 percent profit margin, the lowest it's shown since September 2014. Total revenue was $43.8 billion, and Amazon Web Services, the company's pioneering cloud business, passed $4 billion in quarterly revenue and operating income of $1.17 billion. The stock soared more than 7 percent after hours.
Alphabet: EPS of $9.57 topped estimates of $8.33, sending the stock up around 3 percent after hours. Revenue was boosted by a surge in clicks on Google ads around the world, particularly in Asia. For all the company's talk about its new businesses like Pixel phones, and long-term investments (a.k.a. "Other Bets") like self-driving cars, nearly all of its revenue still comes from advertising -- $24.1 billion out of its total $27.8 billion, or 87 percent. In a<|fim_middle|>Intel: EPS of $1.01 beat expectations of 80 cents, and the main surprise was that revenue in its client computing group -- that is, mostly chips in PCs -- was flat instead of down. The stock was up about 1.5 percent.
Overall, these four companies have a combined market cap of close to $2 trillion. | call with CNBC, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat reiterated the company's theme of "products with AI [artificial intelligence] at their core," but the main function of that AI today seems to be optimizing ad revenue.
Microsoft: EPS of 84 cents (excluding certain items) beat estimates of 72 cents, and the company's various cloud businesses topped a $20 billion annualized run rate for the first time -- they're on track to book $20.4 billion this year even with no further growth. Digging into the company's report a little, most of its organic growth came from selling Office products (including the cloud-based Office 365) and server products and related cloud services (including Azure, its competitor to Amazon Web Services, which grew 90 percent in revenue from last year). The company was the first old-guard enterprise software company to commit to the cloud, and investors rewarded that vision by sending the stock up 4 percent after hours.
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Le<|fim_middle|> lesquels vinrent l'attaquer dans son repaire. En 1369, après s'être emparés du château, ils le démantelèrent et il ne semble pas qu'il ait jamais été reconstruit depuis lors.
À la fin du , le Rotenburg fait encore partie de la seigneurie de Bitche. Il est possible que le fief ait passé au début du , avec le Falkenstein, entre les mains des Hanau-Lichtenberg.
Le château pourrait avoir donné son nom à la famille Blick de Rothenburg, qui tenait plusieurs fiefs des sires de Bitche, et qui s'est éteinte en 1749.
Notes et références
Bibliographie
Château appelé Rothenberg ou Rodenberg, Vosges du Nord.
Château de Rothenbourg.
Château de Rothenbourg, sur chateauxfortsalsace.fr/
Vosges du Nord : Château de Rothenbourg, sur https://vosgesdunord.jimdofree.com/
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Liste des châteaux de la Moselle
Liens externes
Le château de Rothenbourg sur le site du Bitscherland
Château de Rothenbourg, sur le site des Vosges du Nord
. Château fort, château de Rothenburg], sur www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/
Philippsbourg
Rothenbourg
Rothenbourg, Chateau de | château de Rothenbourg se situe sur la commune de Philippsbourg, dans le département de la Moselle.
Géographie
Le château est situé sur la hauteur appelée Rothenberg ou Rodenberg, au nord du Falkenstein et du Helfenstein. Il domine la vallée du Rothenbach, ruisseau qui vient de l'Erbsenthal et qui alimente le Grafenweiher quelques kilomètres plus en aval. Situé à un peu plus de trois kilomètres à vol d'oiseau de Neunhoffen (Dambach, Bas-Rhin), c'est aussi le château le plus à l'est du département de la Moselle et de l'ancienne région Lorraine.
Toponymie
Anciennes mentions : Rothenburg (912) ; Rothemburg (1353) ; Rotenburg (1369) ; Retenburg (1698).
Histoire
Ce château aurait été bâti tout au début du , en , par Otbert ou Albert, trente-septième évêque de Strasbourg. Ayant appuyé les prétentions du roi Charles le Simple à l'héritage de Louis III, tandis que la ville de Strasbourg se prononçait pour celles de Conrad de Franconie, il se trouva ainsi en désaccord avec ses sujets. Pour vaincre leur résistance, il eut recours à l'excommunication, ce qui causa un soulèvement général devant lequel il dut fuir. Vers l'an 912-913, il se serait réfugié à la Rathburg, qui est peut-être Rothenburg, et y fut assassiné peu de temps après.
Rothenburg appartenait en partie, au , au Comte Walram de Deux-Ponts-Bitche qui le donna en fief, pour moitié, en 1353, à Gerhard Harnasch de Weisskirchen. Celui-ci, vraisemblablement un de ces Raubritter (chevaliers pillards) qui infestaient alors les confins de l'Alsace et de la Lorraine, eut maille à partir avec les bourgeois de Strasbourg, | 493 |
Student-Directed Play to Be Part of 2006 IWU Theatre Season
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Illinois Wesleyan University's School of Theatre Arts will present a student-directed play, bobrauschenbergamerica Sept. 21-23 at 8 p.m. in the E. Melba Johnson Kirkpatrick Laboratory Theatre, 304 E. Graham St., in Bloomington.
Directed by Charles Haugland, class of '07, the show also features a crew of all student designers including Nolan Kennedy, class of '07, as the lighting designer, Laura Woodley, class of '08, as the scenic designer, Taylar Kuzniar, class of '07, as the costume designer, and Dane White, class of '08, as the properties master.
The show, which is inspired by the art of Robert Rauschenberg, combines a variety of seemingly unrelated American images such as line dancing, chicken jokes and picnics to create the unique compilation of scenes. Written by Charles Mee, the production highlights characterization and small town America, exploring the idea that people must make up life as it goes along and nothing is preplanned.
Tickets for the show are $2<|fim_middle|> Dan Andruss (Allen), Tom Duncan (Carl), Andy Knight (Bob, the Pizza Boy), Kyle Blair (Phil).
Production Team: Charles Haugland (Director), Laura Woodley (Scenic Designer), Taylar Kuzniar (Costume Designer), Nolan Kennedy (Lighting Designer), Craig Landers (Sound Designer), Jesse Gaffney (Stage Manager), Melanie Waltman (Asst. Stage Manager), Rachel Kerner (Asst. Costume Designer), Eric Knight (Technical Director), Dane White (Property Master), Marshall Garrett (Master Electrician), Sarah Bordson (Publicity Coordinator), Diane Teng (Hair and Makeup Designer), Wardrobe Crew Head (Pam Wilcox).
Contact: Taylar Kuzniar, (309) 556-3181 | for general admittance, $1 for seniors (65+) and for students with a valid student I.D. For additional information or to order tickets, call the McPherson Theatre Box Office at (309) 556-3232.
Cast Members: Stephanie Grady (Bob's Mom), Loren Jones (Susan), Lauren Summers (Phil's Girl), Tim Dunn (Wilson), Andy Junk (Becker), | 89 |
Yukon Gold potatoes have a lovely yellow glow that brightens any potato recipe. With a creamy yet sturdy texture they work well for everything from mashed potatoes to potato salad.
I have to confess–I made a mistake today. As Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts would say, "Aaugh!" I forgot to add the shallots when I cooked this dish for the photos, so you won't see them in the picture. The flavor of the dish was still good, but I really missed the savory taste contributed by the shallots. You'll be happier, I think, if you don't make my mistake. You could add some garlic, too, if you like. I usually do.
You can dress up this dish a bit by using a spatula to shape the top into swirls or stripes. The surface puffs up as it bakes, and peaks or patterns will be enhanced as it browns.
You can also experiment with various kinds of cheese. Since black pepper isn't a local Whatcom County ingredient, I chose to use a jalapeno gouda cheese made by Pleasant Valley Dairy (Ferndale). Jalapenos grow easily in greenhouses here, and I've also grown them outside along a south-facing rock wall. They help add the peppery flavor I enjoy with many foods.
Bring 2 quarts of water to boil in a large pot. Add the chopped potatoes, and return to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 20-30 minutes until a fork pierces the center of the potato pieces easily. Remove from heat and drain off the water.
While the potatoes are cooking, heat one tablespoon of the butter in a small skillet. Add the chopped shallots and sauté until browned. Remove from heat.
In a bowl, mash the potatoes to the consistency you like (I like mine a just a little chunky), and add the remaining butter (4 Tbsp), milk, eggs, salt, and sautéed shallots. Whisk or stir thoroughly, and mix in 3/4 cup of the grated cheese, reserving 1/4 cup for the top of the casserole.
Put the mixture into a 2 or 2-1/2 quart Dutch oven or baking pan. Sprinkle the<|fim_middle|> 1/4 cup of grated cheese on top. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until top is lightly browned.
Serve with Seared Asparagus or a green salad with Yogurt, Chives and Sorrel Dressing. | remaining | 1 |
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