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Dead and Company – Citi Field: June 16, 2018
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Dead and<|fim_middle|> with the bone shaking boogie-thon and return of "The Other One".
"U.S. Blues" and "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" ended the night as Mayer, Orel and Weir all took a verse, as the drummers laid down their Bo Diddley beat for the crowd's long shuffle to the parking lots, LIRR and the city bound 7 trains, proving once again, "What a long strange trip it's been!"
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Manhattan Beat – The The, Owl City, & More! | Company returned to Citi Field with an 18-song performance of two sets in yet another rite of passage to summer. Starting off slowly and finding the groove on "Shakedown Street" and "Alabama Getaway", they quickly got the crowd pleasers out of the way. By the time they took on "The Music Never Stopped" and the set closer "Easy Answers", they were a well-oiled, rockin' machine firing on all cylinders.
Grateful Dead members — Bob Weir, drummers Billy Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, and bassist Oteil Burbridge — laid down the earthly beats and solid rhythms from the Deads cannon that keyboardist keyboardist Jeff Chimenti colored and guitarist John Mayer dosed with some delicate thunder out of his PRS guitars.
Singer-songwriter/guitarist Mayer bridged the generational divide of the Grateful Deads '60s era psychedelia and his own stylistically clean take on the blues. Taking on Garcia's riffage he breathed life into the fat mans spacey notes and melodic noodlings into a dynamic edge that was uniquely his, yet still Jerry's. Chimenti's tasty twinkling's on the keys filled in the gaps as the guitars and drums fused into one. It was, however, Mayer's fretboard work — under the tutelage of Weir — that really set this band on fire
He delicately fingerpicked his way through the quiet moments, then let it rip, pickin' hand over the louder numbers catching the wave of the bands dynamic, that push and pull of time and space that defined the best of the Grateful Dead.
The second set started out with a jazzy and rambling interpretation of Coltrane's "A Love Supreme", then caught fire on the jungle beats of "The Other One", the downright funky "Estimated Prophet", and "Althea" that Mayer sang. "Terrapin Station" started off slowly then built into cosmic showdown and back to the "A Love Supreme" theme during the space jam then onto the drums solo. Kreutzmann, Hart and bassist Oteil played their polyrhythm's off the cavernous stadiums echo chamber of concrete and steel that ended | 451 |
Blake Nation to return as head coach of MV DiamondDawgs
Posted by Travis Heiser | Dec 21, 2014 | Press Release | 0 |
Little Falls, New York – The Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs are please to announce that Blake Nation will return for his second season as head coach of the Dawgs. In his first season at the helm Coach Nation led the Dawgs to a 26-19 finish good for 2nd place in the Eastern Division and a playoff spot. The team advanced to the league semi-finals after defeating the Albany Dutchman and eventually lost to PGCBL Champion Amsterdam Mohawks.
DiamondDawgs owner Travis Heiser is excited to have Nation back as his skipper saying, "We had a great season last year and I was impressed how Blake was able get our guys to play hard day-in and day-out. The Dawgs were competitive in every aspect of the game and in every game and that is attributable to the work ethic that our coach instills. Clinching a playoff spot and winning our first round match-up against the Dutchman really excited this City and our fans and made us hungrier to keep reaching towards the top and bring a championship to the Mohawk Valley. I am thrilled that Blake will be leading this team in 2015."
Coach Nation is also very optimistic of 2015 saying, "As Travis began the recruiting process this year we spoke about the certain type of player we were looking for. Our recruiting efforts focused on players that give us speed and a solid on-base percentage. We also focused on putting a solid defense in the field and strike throwing pitchers with low walk totals and good velocity on the mound. The DiamondDawgs have succeeded in signing players with those attributes for the 2015 season. Last year<|fim_middle|> great place to be and combined with the fan support there is no other place I would rather be. I am happy to see many sponsors returning for the upcoming season as well and excited to see some new sponsors – our sponsors and fans is what makes baseball in the Mohawk Valley possible.
The Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs welcome back Coach Nation and look forward to 2015! Go Dawgs!
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NextHAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM TEAM OWNER | we led the league with 106 stolen bases and it's our goal to beat that total this coming season. We will have many new faces this year with a few returning members of the 2014 season coming back. These guys were big contributors to our success last year and we hope that these returning players will be examples of leadership and guidance to the new members of the team continuing the winning tradition of the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs. Returning players PGCBL All-Stars Colin Hawk and Lucas Godlewski will be key for us again as they both proved how valuable they are to our team. Mike Triller and Matt Pidich will also be returning in 2015 . Triller has had a great fall season at Clemson University as has Pidich with University of Pittsburgh . Both are looking to have a breakout season in 2015. Travis has built a team that we are confident will be able to compete for a 2015 PGCBL championship."
"I am extremely excited to return to the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs in 2015. The entire Mohawk Valley and the fans were awesome last year and I am looking forward to seeing many of the same faces in the upcoming season. The Mohawk Valley in the summer is a | 267 |
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Hitting the Ground Running
Whe n Tiare Marshall, a native Alaskan, moved to Texas with her now ex-husband in February 2011, she didn't know anyone. In November 2013, Ms. Marshall relocated from Dallas to Austin after her separation to begin a new life as a single parent. When the former stay-at-home mother made the brave decision to start a new life in Austin, she knew she had to choose the right path for herself and her young son.
Ms. Marshall has always been creative and fascinated with the hair and salon industry. With the<|fim_middle|> to explore the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program. Unfortunately, while she qualified, WIA funds had already been exhausted for that time period.
Not easily deterred, Denitrea worked toward her long-term goals and self-funded the prerequisite courses for a Radiology degree. However, pressing family obligations did not allow for a fast-tracked, rigorous academic load.
Two years later, after having completed the necessary prerequisites, Denitrea again inquired about the WIA program. At that time, she was enrolled in the Austin Community College Radiology program and had a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)! The stress and cost of caring for her family had made it hard to continue to paying for her education all alone. Fortunately, the stars aligned and Denitrea was able to successfully enroll in the WIA program.
"Walk into Workforce Solutions and just ask," said Denitrea Crittenden. "Let someone know your situation. No one can help unless you let them know what you're going through. Don't just wait and see. Discuss your short-term needs and long-term goals."
Despite additional hurdles along her twenty month path, Denitrea graduated with an Associates of Applied Science and earned a 3.4 GPA and a place in the honor society. While in school, the WIA program assisted Denitrea and her family with tuition, textbooks, uniforms, exam fees and crisis assistance.
Upon graduation, Denitrea worked with her Career Counselor JoAnn Rogerio and Career Facilitator James Helton to maximize her job search efforts and polish her resume. Three months after graduation, Denitrea found employment as a Radiologic Technologist for one of the region's leading hospital systems.
"One of the most helpful parts of the WIA program for me was knowing someone actually cared about my family and my success," Denitrea said. "JoAnn taking the time to pick up the phone was comforting."
This, however, was not the end goal for Denitrea. She is continuing her education by pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Radiologic Sciences.
"Single mothers need to understand your life doesn't need to stop with another outside life," she offers. "If you can take care of children, you can do anything!"
About the WIA Program
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program is a no-cost employment program designed to give job seekers the support and/or skills training they need to find a job. Specifically, WIA can provide:
Child care assistance while in training
Interview clothing and uniforms
Tools needed for your new job
Funding for basic skills and occupational training
For more information about the program and eligibility, please visit www.wfscapitalarea.com.
Workforce Solutions Capital Area is an equal opportunity employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available, upon request, to persons with disabilities. Relay Texas: 800.735.2989 (TDD) / 711 (Voice).
Tags: assistance, children, degree, employment, family, finding a job, goals, graduation, job search, resume, single parent, success story, unemployment, WIA, Workforce Investment Act, Workforce Solutions Capital Area | freedom to pursue her interests, she researched cosmetology schools and was accepted to Baldwin Beauty Schools in early 2014.
While in school, Ms. Marshall received childcare assistance from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), managed by Workforce Solutions Capital Area, and found an exceptional childcare facility that she and her son love. However, once she graduated in March 2015, she became ineligible for childcare assistance through CCDF.
"It was a really stressful time," Ms. Marshall said. "I didn't know how I could attend interviews without childcare."
Ms. Marshall received childcare assistance through Travis County Continuity of Care, also managed by Workforce Solutions, during a 90-day job search period. Through her tireless effort, she secured employment within 30 days!
"The hardest part was being unsure about my employment situation," Ms. Marshall said. "I would spend hours every day researching because I wanted to find a job that was right for both of us, not just any job."
Theresa Nealy, who enrolled Ms. Marshall in childcare assistance at Workforce Solutions, credited her for being ambitious and goal oriented. "It's wonderful to be of service to Ms. Marshall," Ms. Nealy said. "She is humble and pleasant. I'm glad to see how our services enabled her to pursue her career."
Ms. Marshall said the biggest challenge was balancing time with her son while going to school and job searching, but holding out for the career she loves was worth the effort and uncertainty. "I went through so much: being a stay-at-home mom to having to put myself out into the world of working and going to school and being away from my son. I had to really choose what was best for me and my son and make sure that both of us were happy and not settling."
Ms. Marshall encourages others to find their passions and turn them into careers. "Even if it seems really hard as a single parent, it's worth it to go through school and work toward a career," she said. "Never settle, because you deserve to be happy, and your kids really deserve to be happy as well. A stressful job can affect a whole family so I wanted to work towards the right one."
Ms. Marshall said that childcare assistance helped her hit the ground running in her pursuit of a career in cosmetology. "I really appreciate these programs [such as childcare assistance] because they help people get back on their feet. This past year I was able to achieve my dream career! My son and I will forever be grateful for this opportunity."
About Subsidized Child Care
Choosing child care is one of the most important decisions for a parent to make.
Workforce Solutions Capital Area Child Care Services provide subsidized childcare assistance to eligible low- to moderate-income families in Travis County.
For more information about the program and to determine eligibility, please visit http://www.wfscapitalarea.com/ChildcareServices/ForParents.aspx.
Tags: assistance, child care, children, education, employment, family, finding a job, goals, graduation, job search, single parent, success, success story, support, unemployed, unemployment, Workforce Solutions Capital Area
Realizing Help IS Available
One challenge, one hurdle can easily discourage a lot of people. Unlike those people, LaShannon Appleby accepts each challenge as being exactly that – a challenge. As a young mother of an infant child, LaShannon understands her decisions do not just affect her future.
After a tumultuous childhood as an at-risk youth in the foster care program, LaShannon moved to Austin after high school to pursue her education and a better life for herself and her daughter.
"I want my daughter to know that I've sacrificed it all," says LaShannon. "I don't want her to future to be my past."
Despite drive and determination, LaShannon was unable to find employment that could support her young family both financially and time-wise. Her first job at a gas station did not offer a regular schedule, making it impossible to utilize traditional child care. LaShannon had to resort to costly or often inconvenient baby-sitting requests.
In the fall of 2013, LaShannon enrolled in the Choices program and began working with her Career Counselor Susan Wondra.
"At the time of our intake, LaShannon was struggling to provide a comfortable life for her and her infant daughter," says Susan. "Although she has no family support and had a difficult time keeping her job with no assistance, LaShannon has always had an exceptionally good attitude and a smile on her face. She has more self-motivation and drive than the average individual and because she is so humble, she does not realize the successes she has made as a young mother."
Utilizing available child care services and transportation assistance, LaShannon was not only able to increase the number of available hours she could work but she also secured a new full-time job with a 50% increase in hourly pay!
"Without Ms. Wondra, my daughter and I could have been sleeping in my car," says LaShannon. "I want people to know they don't have to give up. There are a lot of resources in Texas. There is help. You are not alone."
About the Choices Program
For individuals receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Workforce Solutions Capital Area offers one-on-one job search assistance and support services through the Choices program. Choices is a no-cost employment program designed to give TANF recipients the assistance and support they need to find a job. Specifically, Choices can provide:
Referrals to other community services
Eligibility for the Choices program and TANF is determined by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). For more information about eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/Help/Financial/temporary-assistance.shtml.
Tags: assistance, children, Choices, employment, family, foster care, future, goals, single parent, success, success story, support, Workforce Solutions Capital Area
Short-term Needs and Long-term Goals
Denitrea Crittenden was a 27-year-old, single mother of two, receiving public assistance to care for her young family when she first came to Workforce Solutions Capital Area | 1,288 |
Don't miss out: ESTETICA's intimate chat with Redken's Sheri Doss!
There are many icons that represent a brand, but Sheri Doss stands out with one major word in mind: integrity. Her passion and trajectory in the beauty industry has her internationally known as the VP of Education for Redken Worldwide, keeping always her love for the Redken culture as well as a passion for future generations.
She shares with ESTETICA the essence of her passion through her journey within Redken, as well as all of the changes taking place within the brand and the education opportunities for the new generation of hairstylists looking to work with Redken. Sheri was born and raised in California and started working for Redken 21 years ago, as a Redken Artist. She pretty much rearranged her entire life to be part of the brand and loved doing it. And in 2008, she got offered an opportunity to head up the international training portion of the business and that led to she moving to New York...
You're a real Redken tribe member, having been involved in the business for 20 years, which is amazing. So how has the brand changed from 1995 to 2016?
"I think they make things classic after 20 years. I've been there a long time, and the brand has had a lot of evolution. When I first joined the brand so many years ago, from a product and innovation perspective, we weren't really cool. Where we were 'cool' was the education portion. There were so many other brands coming up in the industry that were cool, whereas if you told someone you worked with Redken the response would be 'Well, my grandma used to use Redken' (laughter) – that's terrible! But the great thing is<|fim_middle|> motto would be 'Seek first to understand.' So often, we hear something and jump to a conclusion before trying to understand what the is the thought process behind the thinking. It´s important to think about what they're saying, what they're doing, how they're feeling, and once we understand that, it usually helps us relate to the person better, so that we can better help them or whatever that might be."
Tell me how you manage work with Europe and Latin America Redken countries?
"Overall we have 42 countries outside of the U.S. where we distribute Redken in. That's through South Africa, Latin America, Europe and the South Pacific. We have plans for expansion in 2017, so that's super exciting. You know, I have an amazing team. That's the best thing that I can say. Whether it's here in the U.S. with Suzanne Sturm, I have Shawn Stearns who is our international VP of Training and Education, who works with each country's education manager to make sure that they have what they need to support them from an education perspective. Overall, it's more working with the global marketing department, as well as the zone directors to make sure that overall the strategy is the Redken education strategy from a holistic global level. And then I have a great team, they're the best in the industry."
Do you design all of the educational programs and guidelines from New York?
"Yep from New York! I have a team that's an education and development team that's led by Kathleen Maddie. Her responsibility as well as her team is to work with marketing to oversee the development of the pieces that support the launches, whether that be a technical guide, a step-by-step, etc. and then they simultaneously write all of the programs. So we have a foundational list of programs that we call our Pillar programs that are implemented in every country. It's the Redken specialist program, Redken authority program, and certifications. So those are consistent, and then each country – based on what their strategy is based on marketing and sales – then they will add to that what's best for their territory."
The next big appointment for Redken on a global basis is the Eurosymposium in Barcelona, can you convey a little bit what's going to happen there, such as who is going from the U.S.?
"Absolutely. We have an amazing team that's balanced and international. So years ago it would be that all the talent that could perform –let's say our Tier 4 talent that worked on a big stage, they were all in the U.S.– so when I was in a global role in 2010, I implemented a global mentorship program for Redken, and that was where we took people first that were tier 3's that were around the world, and within a year we grew their status to Tier 4 through trainings with Chris Baran. And now we have this great group of people that are in Europe as well. So the great news is that it's not just U.S. artists only coming and doing a show in Barcelona, it's this combination of our European artists as well as U.S. The way that that Symposium rolls out is it's Symposium on tour, which means it's a much smaller version than the 10,000-attendee version that we do here in Las Vegas. So that will kick off on Sunday evening with a grand opening in April 24, and between Monday and Tuesday there will be five rotation on the same stage of classrooms and its anything from hair color, to design, sprinkled with some business skills throughout."
Yesterday we saw many things that Redken has in store for 2016. If you had something to say about one that touches your heart, what would it be?
"I suppose what touches my heart the most for 2016 is the fact that we're building a new home for our members and our stylists, which is the Redken Exchange. It's been an iconic and award winning academy for years and to see it's closed down after 20 years it's very emotional, but then to know that it will open its arms in this area of New York that is next to fashion and garment industry and coming a little closer to that industry is probably what is most exciting for me!"
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Industry News! Redken announces Philip Foresto as New Brand Ambassador 24 February 2016
Redken is thrilled to announce Philip Foresto as a new Brand Ambassador. The New Orleans-based colorist is the owner of Salon III and boasts over 250K followers on Instagram, where he displays enviable highlighted hues, tousled waves, and demos of his work behind the chair and on stages around the world.
Redken launches the Styling Society: A Dedicated Collective to Styling and Finishing 24 February 2016
Redken just introduced its NEW! Styling Society, an exclusive styling collective currently comprised of Redken Artists and Educators.
Education is LIT at R+Co's Electric House! 24 February 2016
Leave it to Garren, Thom Priano and Howard McLaren to inject new life into hair education. Along with The Collective's Ashley Streicher, celebrity stylist Danielle Priano and special guests, R+Co's Electric House was anything but your typical hair show.
Romantic White by People Behind The Mirror 24 February 2016
Long hair is worn curled with a hint to the 80s. Soft layers ensure that the face is framed transparently. Soft and natural tones that stand out for their shine and clear tones. The fade-away technique gives you a natural course from roots to longer lenghts. | , in 1996 when we did our move to New York, right as I joined is when we were able to assume this Redken 5th Avenue identity, and that's the time we started to say 'the streets are our runway' and utilized the streets as inspiration. And I think that's when you started to see a real insurgence of 'cool' for Redken at the time. And then the interesting thing, especially now with so much social and everything online, I feel like things move so fast. Whereas before, trends might last longer or it would take longer to move out of a certain genre. Now, things happen so fast, we have to evolve ourselves so fast. Like anything we're doing today has nothing to do with where we need to be tomorrow. So I think for us as a brand, what's great is that we continue to reinvent ourselves."
What was a memorable turning point in your career, other than title changes?
"I think that for me, the best advice that I could give is to remain open and not remain fixated on a specific position. If I'm driving down the road, and only looking straight ahead and focusing on that end destination, I could miss the exit that has an amazing opportunity for me. And I don't think I've been fixated on one specific position, and so it's allowed me to be flexible with what I do. If you'd asked me 20 years ago if I would have been full-time for the brand, I would have told you "no", that I was going to be a high school math and English teacher, that I was going to go to college. If you'd asked me 10 years ago if I would be living in New York City, I would have said no. So it's really just a matter of being open and flexible. That would be my advice for somebody as it relates to how I've grown, you know for us at Redken we say that our vision is for every salon professional – and for me, it's everyone in the world – is to learn better so they can earn better but it's that live better that sets us apart. And so we believe that it's about working from the inside out. And so the amount of opportunities that have presented themselves to me over the past several years, where I could work on being the very best me possible outside of a skillset in an office behind a chair is amazing. And I find that I'm able to transform my own thoughts and work on things that are opportunities every day."
In an industry like this, that is traditionally dominated by men, I think the history of Redken has emerged with amazing women leadership, starting with Paula Kent, Kristin Firrell, Ann Mincey, you, and now Leslie Marino… do you see that learship affect the company throughout all of these decades?
"That's a great question, thank you so much. I think that we've had some great men as well (laughter) – I don't want to exclude Pat Parenty, he was an amazing leader for us as well. I do think there's something about Redken visually, that for me, as a woman, is very inspiring. So when I see the Redken woman in an ad, she's strong, she's bold, she's confident, she's sassy, she's fun, she's sparkly, she's all in black. It's something that's inspirational and aspirational. So I think if you were to line all those women up, there's a common denominator of confidence and passion and belief and heart. And I think that as a brand, I believe we attract those people to the brand. I do have an outside influence other than the industry that has been important to my life, and that's my mother. She's a huge influence and she's the one that really instilled that confidence in me. From a young age she taught me that you can change anything, quite nomadic herself, you can change any situation you want and you can do anything you possibly would want to do. So I think from quite an early age that was instilled in me."
I think another amazing thing from Redken is that the family is always growing; you've got –let's say– the classic ones, Sam Villa, Chris Baran, Kris Sorbie... and then you are always including new people and having the old ones inspire them.
"When it comes to Redken, first of all, I think it's that people buy people and then they buy products. And for us the brand is so strongly tied to the people that for me, changing someone out because a new stylist comes along and they have flashier hands and a better, more relevant-for-that-moment haircut, that doesn't do me any good. I'm about growing people from a relationship perspective, not from whoever is the next 'flash in the pan' perspective. So for me there are icons in the industry –Chris, Kris, and Sam–, they have a heart that is bigger than anybody, and their desire is to grow people, to transform lives through education, and as long as they're desiring to stay here is how long we'll want them around."
So Redken has this ongoing motto, 'learn better, earn better, live better'. What's your personal motto or favorite quote?
"I think for me my | 1,097 |
Gostisbehere Entering Season with 'Clean Slate,' Hoping to Help Flyers
Kevin Durso Published: January 6, 2021
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Before the Flyers officially reported for training camp,<|fim_middle|>behere said. "Obviously, I pay attention to it because it's my life and I've built a life here in Philly. Obviously, I am going to pay attention. It's definitely not the best when you hear your name in trade rumors, but nothing happened, and I am happy to be here and help my team do the best."
Through everything, the rumors, the injuries, the drop in playing time, Gostisbehere has felt the toll of it mentally. He has spent the offseason working on his own game, changed how he trained, and knowing he is completely healthy allows him to play more freely and not think about his condition or health as he is in the game.
"I've dealt through injuries a pretty good part of my career and obviously, when you sprinkle some trade rumors on top of that and not playing and you can't get in the line-up, it's definitely tough mentally," Gostisbehere said. "I think for myself, this break, not summer, I just worked on doing what is in my control. I can't control what is going to happen. I can't control where I am going to go. The only thing I can control is getting healthy and becoming the best player I can be.
"I switched it up training aspect wise. I did it for more of a body development and doing what I can do. I can't do things I used to do when I was younger, but I think for myself, I'm in a very good place mentally because I am healthy. That goes a long way with my play. I don't have to worry about certain movements on the ice where maybe it will hurt or not. I just worry about the game itself. When you're healthy, it's a lot easier on the mind when you're out there."
This training camp doesn't leave Gostisbehere with a lot of time to become one of the top six defensemen on the depth chart. Even with the retirement of Matt Niskanen, the addition of Erik Gustafsson – a player with a similar playing style to Gostisbehere – leaves the former Calder finalist on the outside looking in to start the season.
There's time for that to change and there will certainly be opportunities with so many games to be played in such a short time. Gostisbehere will need to be prepared and remain determined to show he can still help this team. It could be the last chance he has to be with them for the long haul.
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Filed Under: Alain Vigneault, Erik Gustafsson, Flyers, Matt Niskanen, Shayne Gostisbehere | defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere sat down with head coach Alain Vigneault to clear the air. Gostisbehere had once again slipped out of the top six, even down the stretch of the regular season and in the bubble during the playoffs.
Gostisbehere admitted he hasn't been healthy in quite some time and that even returning during the summer showed he wasn't where he wanted to be. In his conversation with Vigneault, he simply wanted to express that he was healthy and wanted to help the team win.
"We just had a good talk in the sense that it's a clean slate," Gostisbehere said. "For him and I, we talked out obviously last season. I went through a tough time with injuries and really couldn't be the player I wanted to be. I just told him I'm healthy and feel really good right now. This is the first time in a couple of years that I feel really good. I think it was a good talk, and like I said, it's a clean slate going into the season."
"I had a very good meeting with Shayne prior to camp. We both expressed ourselves. He's a very smart young man. He wants to play and wants to help this team win," Vigneault said. "He's going to get an opportunity. He's got to prove himself obviously. I think for the first time since I've been here, he's 100 percent healthy, which is real positive for him. He's coming in here with a real good attitude. Obviously, no exhibition games, but we're paying a lot of attention to the scrimmages. We've got that intersquad game on the 10th. We'll see what happens, how well he plays and how well he can help contribute to us winning some games."
There's a good chance Gostisbehere will get a chance to help this team and be another internal addition that didn't factor into the equation much in a successful season. Gostisbehere will still have to earn that place, but in a shortened season, rotating in fresh players will be important.
"Are we going to keep seven? Are we going to keep eight? What are we going to do with eighth or ninth? Are they going in the taxi squads or if they are younger players, are they better off going into the American League? Those are all the things that are going to go into our decision-making. At the end of the day, we're working on keeping the best seven eight guys that are here at camp for the start of the season," Vigneault said. "A lot of our drills we're able to evaluate forwards and Ds, but you're talking to me about defense right now, and in the scrimmages we are. We've got quite a few possibilities at our disposal right now. As the days go on, we're going to make some decisions and make the best ones for the team.
"Obviously this is a performance-based business. Ice time is earned and playing time is earned. Like I told the group the first day I met them, eight times this year we're playing four games in six nights. That's more than half our schedule. So there's no doubt in my mind we're going to need players. We're going to need our depth. I believe we have good depth in this organization on D and up front. We're going to monitor that. The fact that we're no different from any other team, no real exhibition games and meaningful games right from the start."
Gostisbehere has been the subject of trade rumors plenty of times before, and continues to be now. In a flat-cap world, it's difficult to trade any player with a salary like Gostisbehere's. He still has three years remaining on a deal with a cap hit of $4.5 million per season.
He has heard the rumors and is just determined to focus on what's in his control and getting an opportunity on the ice with this team.
"I'm getting pretty used to it now. It's been a couple of seasons now going," Gostis | 849 |
SF record store will close their doors Friday
They say it's the people that make the record stores, not the records. And at one particular record store, those people are Elba Clemente-Lambert and Joe Lambert. She's all about Latin and Reggae, he's all about jazz. Together, they've run the Creative Music Emporium off of Ocean Avenue for 26-and-a-half years.
"Our mission was to play music, expose people to music that you normally wouldn't hear, and we've stuck to that formula," said Joe Lambert.
"We started with an empty room<|fim_middle|> to us now are loyal customers that have been coming to us for years," said Clemente-Lambert. "But, there's not enough of them anymore."
Though they've held on longer than they ever thought possible, Creative Music Emporium will close on Friday.
"It's just a fight not worth fighting anymore," said Lambert.
The Lamberts have put every tape, record and CD on clearance. In a room adorned with pictures of local artists who sold some of their first CDs here, like Grammy nominee and jazz artist Wayne Wallace.
"You could always come here and feel like you were talking to someone who cared about the music and actually knew the music and had something invested in it," said Wallace.
But it's not all tears for the Lamberts. Though the doors are closing, Creative Music will live on as Joe and Elba follow the rest of the business and start selling their special breed of music online. | , one bin and two counters, and I thought we would never fill it up. And now we've run out of room," said Clemente-Lambert.
Even for 10 years after Apple sold the first iPod, the Lamberts have kept selling CDs, records and even cassettes to customers who say they like it that way.
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Featuring an exceptional cast of 38 dancers and musicians, An Anatomie is a spectacular visual poem about human beings' insatiable desire to get closer to things and a celebration of the theatre building itself. It explores our perception of the human form, the physical structure of the bodies we inhabit and the ways we attempt to see, define, contain, name and value them.
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Fay Pickersgill, new ambassador of Jamaica to China
Fay Pickersgill is the new ambassador of Jamaica to the People's Republic of China.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Arnold J Nicholson announced her appointment on Tuesday. She is expected to assume duties in the coming weeks.
"I believe that Mrs Pickersgill is uniquely qualified to serve as Jamaica's top diplomat in Beijing. In her lifetime of service, she has proven to be a strong administrator,<|fim_middle|> and interpersonal skills. I am confident that her particular brand of results-oriented and effective leadership will redound to the benefit of the strategic Jamaica-China relationship," Minister Nicholson said in a news release.
Pickersgill is currently a council member of both the International University of the Caribbean and the Confucius Institute at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and has been the president of the Jamaica-China Friendship Association since 2008.
She has been Jamaica's longest-serving director of tourism at the Jamaica Tourist Board, from 1994 to 2003, and served also as the founding executive director of the Tourism Action Plan Ltd (1988-1993), which later became the Tourism Product Development Company, the release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Pickersgill, who was conferred with the Order of Distinction (Commander Class) in 2001, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the tourism sector, holds a BSc in Economics and a MSc in Accounting from the University of the West Indies.
She will succeed Ralph Thomas, who was reassigned earlier this year as Jamaica's Head of Mission in Washington, DC.
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The resort's 3-bedroom beach houses offer over 2,500 sq ft of space and are a combination of the 2-bedroom beach houses and the 1-bedroom beach lofts, so are a great fit for families or groups of friends. Amenities include 2 master bedrooms with king bed, 1 guest bedroom with queen bed, air-conditioning, full gourmet kitchen (complete with refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, microwave and coffee-maker), lounge area with flat screen television, beach level and 1st floor private decks with ocean views, 3 full baths, vaulted ceilings, in-room safes, robes and local artwork. | maker, minibar, in-room safe, hair dryer, robes and a private balcony.
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US9859891B1 - Standard cell architecture for reduced parasitic resistance and improved datapath speed - Google Patents
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Dorav KUMAR
Venkatasubramanian Narayanan
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A MOS device may include a first logic component with a first input located on a second track and a first output located on the third track. The MOS device may include a second logic component with a second input located on the fourth track and a second output located on a fifth track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that is coupled to the first output on the third track. The MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that is coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
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The present disclosure relates generally to a standard cell architecture, and more particularly, to standard cell architecture for a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) device that reduces parasitic resistance and improves datapath speeds.
Standard cells of an integrated circuit implement digital logic. An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), such as a system-on-a-chip (SoC) device, may contain thousands to millions of standard cell devices. A typical MOS IC device includes a stack of sequentially formed layers. Each layer may be stacked or overlaid on a prior layer and patterned to form the shapes that define transistors (e.g., field effect transistors (FETs) and/or a fin-shaped FET (FinFET)) and connect the transistors into circuits.
As MOS IC devices are fabricated at smaller sizes, manufacturers are finding it more difficult to integrate larger amounts of standard cell devices on a single chip. For example, as the size of MOS IC devices are reduced, an increase in parasitic resistance may be caused by the reduction in the width and thickness of various layers of the MOS IC device. The increase in parasitic resistance may be responsible for a delay of standard cell output.
In addition, using conventional standard cell architecture, when two interconnects on two different metal layers (e.g., a higher metal layer and a lower metal layer) carrying different signals occupy the same track in a MOS IC device and are connected to two different standard cells having inputs and outputs on the same track, the interconnect on the lower metal layer may need to be routed around the track. Routing the interconnect around the track may be necessary because the interconnect on the lower metal layer may run into an input/output stack of the interconnect of the higher metal layer. The routing detour may cause a signal delay on the interconnect on the lower metal layer, and the accumulated signal delay of the interconnect on the lower metal layer may cause a decrease in datapath speed for the MOS IC device.
There is currently a need for a standard cell architecture that reduces the parasitic resistance of smaller MOS IC devices and enables interconnects carrying two different signals on a track to connect to input/output pins on the track without being routed around the track.
In an aspect of the disclosure, a MOS device may include a first logic component with a first input and a first output. In an aspect, the first input is located on a first track that extends in a first direction and a second track that extends in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In another aspect, the first output is located on the first track and a third track that extends in the second direction. The MOS device further includes a second logic component with a second input and a second output. In an aspect, the second input is located on the first track and a fourth track that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output is located on the first track and a fifth track that extends in the second direction. In a further aspect, the fourth track and the fifth track are between the second track and the third track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first output on the third track. In a further example, the MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. In an aspect, y is greater than x. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
In another aspect of the disclosure, a method of operation of a MOS IC includes propagating a first signal through a first logic component with a first input and a first output. In an aspect, the first input is located on a first track that extends in a first direction and a second track that extends in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In another aspect, the first output is located on the first track and a third track that extends in the second direction. The method further includes propagate a second signal through a second logic component with a second input and a second output. In an aspect, the second input is located on the first track and a fourth track that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output is located on the first track and a fifth track that extends in the second direction. In a further aspect, the fourth track and the fifth track are between the second track and the third track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first output on the third track. In a further example, the MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. In an aspect, y is greater than x. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a plan view of an example MOS IC device in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a plan view of an exemplary MOS IC device in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of an exemplary method.
The detailed description set forth below in connection with the appended drawings is intended as a description of various configurations and is not intended to represent the only configurations in which the concepts described herein may be practiced. The detailed description includes specific details for the purpose of providing a thorough understanding of various concepts. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these concepts may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well known structures and components are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring such concepts. Apparatuses and methods will be described in the following detailed description and may be illustrated in the accompanying drawings by various blocks, modules, components, circuits, steps, processes, algorithms, elements, etc.
MOS IC device standard cells may be designed up to the metal x (Mx) layer interconnect, where x≦3. One way to reduce the parasitic resistance of smaller MOS IC devices may be to design the standard cells up to a higher metal layer, such as an metal 5 (M5) layer interconnect or an metal 6 (M6) layer interconnect. By designing standard cells with higher metal layer interconnects, additional vias may also be included that connect the higher metal layer interconnects to lower metal layer interconnects. The additional metal layer interconnects and vias may provide additional parallel current paths that are able to reduce the overall parasitic resistance of the standard cell, as compared to a standard cell only designed up to the Mx layer interconnect.
In addition, using conventional standard cell architecture, when two interconnects on two different metal layer interconnects (e.g., a higher metal 9 (M9) layer and a lower metal 7 (M7) layer) carrying different signals occupy the same track in a MOS IC device and are connected to two different standard cells having inputs and outputs on the same track, the interconnect on the lower metal layer may need to be routed around the track. Routing the interconnect around the track may be necessary because the interconnect on the lower metal layer may run into an input/output stack of the interconnect of the higher metal layer. The routing detour may cause a signal delay on the interconnect on the lower metal layer, and the accumulated signal delay of the interconnect on the lower metal layer may cause a decrease in datapath speed for the MOS IC device, as discussed infra with respect to FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a plan view of an example MOS IC device 100 including a first standard cell 120 a and a second standard cell 120 b designed with metal layers up to M6 layer to reduce parasitic resistance as discussed supra. The first standard cell 120 a includes a first buffer 102 a, and the second standard cell 120 b includes a second buffer 102 b (e.g., a 2-bit buffer).
As further illustrated in FIG. 1, the first buffer 102 a includes a first input 104 a (e.g., a first input pin) and a first output 106 a (e.g., a first output pin). For example, the first input 104 a may be located on a first track (e.g., vertical track) that extends in a first direction and a second track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in a second direction. In an aspect, the first input 104 a may correspond to a first M6 layer interconnect. Furthermore, the first output 106 a may be located on the first track that extends in the first direction and a third track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the first output 106 a may correspond to a second M6 layer interconnect. As indicated in the top right corner of FIG. 1, the first direction is orthogonal to the second direction.
In addition, the second buffer 102 b includes a second input 104 b (e.g., a second input pin) and a second output 106 b (e.g., a second output pin). For example, the second input 104 b may be located on the first track that extends in the first direction and a fourth track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in the second direction. In one aspect, the second input 104 b may correspond to a first M8 layer interconnect. Furthermore, the second output 106 b may be located on the first track that extends in the first direction and a fifth track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output 106 b may correspond to a second M8 layer interconnect.
As also illustrated in FIG. 1, an M7 layer and an M9 layer both extend along the first track. For example, the M9 layer is formed above the M7 layer in a third direction as indicated in the top right corner of FIG. 1. Furthermore, the signals carried on each of M7 layer and M9 layer travel in the same direction as indicated on the left hand side of FIG. 1. Although the M9 layer extends over the entirety of the M7 layer, portions of the M9 layer are not shown in FIG. 1 so not to obscure the view of the M7 layer of the first input 104 a.
In the example MOS IC device 100, a first interconnect 108 a on the M7 layer may be coupled through a via to the first input 104 a (e.g., on an M6 layer) on the second track. In addition, a second interconnect 108 b may be connected through a via to the first output 106 a (e.g., on an M6 layer) on the fourth track with a routing detour from the first track. Still further, a third interconnect 110 a on the M9 layer may be coupled through a via to the second input 104 b (e.g., on an M8 layer) on the fifth track. In addition, a fourth interconnect 110 b on the M9 layer may be coupled through a via to the second output 106 b (e.g., on an M8 layer) on the third track.
However, because the stack that corresponds to the second input 104 b extends up to the M9 layer, the second interconnect 108 b is unable to connect to second standard cell 120 b without a routing detour from the first track. As discussed supra, the routing detour may cause a signal delay, and the accumulated signal delay of the routing detour may cause a decrease in datapath speed in the MOS IC device 100 illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary MOS IC device 200 including a standard cell 220 designed with metal layers up to M6/M8 layers to reduce parasitic resistance. The MOS IC device includes a first buffer 202 a and a second buffer 202 b (e.g., a 2-bit buffer). In an aspect, the exemplary MOS IC device 200 illustrated in FIG. 2 may not require a routing detour to connect the M7 layer interconnect to a buffer output.
In addition, the second buffer 202 b includes a second input 204 b (e.g., a second input pin) and a second output 206 b (e.g., a second output pin). For example, the second input 204 b may be located on the first track that extends in the first direction and a fourth track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in the second direction. In one aspect, the second input 204 b may correspond to a first M8 layer interconnect.
Furthermore, the second output 206 b may be located on the first track that extends in the first direction and a fifth track (e.g., horizontal track) that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output 206 b may correspond to a second M8 layer interconnect.
As also illustrated in FIG. 2, an M7 layer interconnect and an M9 layer interconnect both extend along the first track. For example, the M9 layer interconnect is formed above the M7 layer interconnect in a third direction as indicated in the top right corner of FIG. 2. Furthermore, the signals carried on each of M7 layer interconnect and M9 layer interconnect travel in the same direction as indicated on the left hand side of FIG. 2. Although the M9 layer interconnect extends over the entirety of the M7 layer interconnect, portions of the M9 layer interconnect are not shown in FIG. 2 so as not to obscure the view of the M7 layer interconnect of the first input 204 a and the first output 206 a.
In the exemplary MOS IC device 200, a first interconnect 208 a on the M7 layer may be coupled to the first input 204 a (e.g., the first M6 layer interconnect) on the second track. For example, the first interconnect 208 a may be coupled to the first input 204 a through a via that connects the first interconnect 208 a to the first input 204 a of the MOS IC device 200.
In addition, a second interconnect 208 b on the M7 layer may be coupled to the first output 206 a (e.g., the second M6 layer interconnect) on the third track. For example, second interconnect 208 b may be coupled to the first output 206 a through a via that connects the M7 layer to the first output 206 a of the MOS IC device 200.
Still further, a third interconnect 210 a on the M9 layer may be coupled to the second input 204 b (e.g., the first M8 layer interconnect) on the fourth track. For example, the third interconnect 210 a may be coupled to the second input 204 b through a via that connects the third interconnect 210 a to the second input 204 b of the MOS IC device 200.
In addition, a fourth interconnect 210 b on the M9 layer may be coupled to the second output 206 b (e.g., the second M8 layer interconnect) on the fifth track. For example, fourth interconnect 210 b may be coupled to the second output 206 b through a via that connects the fourth interconnect 210 b to the second output 206 b of the MOS IC device 200.
The first interconnect 208 a, the second interconnect 208 b, the third interconnect 210 a, and the fourth interconnect 210 b may be used as inter-cell routing between the standard cell 220 and another standard cell (not shown in FIG. 2). In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2, the standard cell 220 is a quadruple height cell with the four rows including the second through fifth track. It should be understood, that the aspects disclosed herein may also be applied to a single height cell, a double height cell, a triple height cell, or any other cell height without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
By orienting the first input 204 a, the second input 204 b, the first output 206 a, and the second output 206 b as shown in FIG. 2, the connection of the M9 layer interconnects in a stack to transistors of the MOS IC device 200 may not block the M7 layer interconnects from extending on the first track. Therefore, routing detours of the M7 layer interconnects may be avoided and datapath speeds may be improved in the MOS IC device 200 illustrated in FIG. 2.
FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary MOS IC device 300 including a standard cell 320 each designed with metal layers up to M6/M8 layers to reduce parasitic resistance. The MOS IC device 300 also includes a first buffer 302 a and a second buffer 302 b (e.g., a 2-bit buffer). In addition, the exemplary MOS IC device 300 illustrated in FIG. 3 may not require a routing detour to connect the M7 to a buffer output.
As also illustrated in FIG. 3, an M7 layer interconnect and an M9 layer interconnect both extend along the first track. For example, the M9 layer interconnect is formed above the M7 layer interconnect in a third direction as indicated in the top right corner of FIG. 3. Furthermore, the signals carried on each of M7 layer interconnect and M9 layer interconnect travel in opposite directions as indicated on the left hand side of FIG. 3. Although the M9 layer interconnect extends over the entirety of the M7 layer interconnect, portions of the M9 layer interconnect are not shown in FIG. 3 so as not to obscure the view of the M7 layer interconnects of the first input 304 a and the first output 306 a.
In addition, a second interconnect 308 b on the M7 layer may be coupled to the first output 306 a (e.g., the second M6 layer interconnect) on the third track. For example, the second interconnect 308 b may be coupled to the first output 306 a through a via that connects the second interconnect 308 b to the first output 306 a of the MOS IC device 300.
Still further, a third interconnect 310 a on the M9 layer may be coupled to the second input 304 b (e.g., the first M8 layer interconnect) on the fourth track. For example, the third interconnect 310 a may be coupled to the second input 304 b through a via that connects the third interconnect 310 a to the second input 304 b the MOS IC device 300.
In addition, a fourth interconnect 310 b on the M9 layer may be coupled to the second output 306 b (e.g., the second M8 layer interconnect) on the fifth track. For example, the fourth interconnect 310 b may be coupled to the second output 306 b through a via that connects the fourth interconnect 310 b to the second output 306 b of the MOS IC device 300.
FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary MOS IC device 400 with metal layers up to M5/M7 layers to reduce parasitic resistance. The MOS IC device 400 includes, for example, a first buffer 402 a and a second buffer 402 b (e.g., a 2-bit buffer). In addition, the exemplary MOS IC device 400 illustrated in FIG. 4 may not require a routing detour of an M6 layer interconnect from the first track the MOS IC device 400.
Although a 2-bit buffer system is illustrated in the exemplary MOS IC devices 200, 300, 400 of FIGS. 2-4, it should be understood that the aspects disclosed herein are not limited to a 2-bit buffer system. For example, the exemplary aspects disclosed herein may be applied to a buffer system that includes more than 2 buffers (e.g., 3-bit buffer, 4-bit buffer, etc.) without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary MOS IC device 500 in accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure. For example, the MOS IC device 500 may include a first standard cell 502 a, a second standard cell 502 b, and at least one other standard cell 502 c. Each of the first standard cell 502 a and the second standard cell 502 b include a first track, a second track, a third track, and a fourth track. Still further, the first standard cell 502 a includes a Vdd power rail 504 a and a Vss power rail 506, and the second standard cell 502 b includes the Vss power rail 506 and a Vdd power rail 504 b.
In order to efficiently use the tracks in the first standard cell 502 a, each of the 2-bit buffers 508 a, 508 b, 508 c, and 508 d may be staggered to include the greatest amount of 2-bit buffers in the MOS IC device 500 while operating within the spacing requirements for a standard cell.
Referring again to FIGS. 2-5, a MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500) includes a first logic component (202 a, 302 a, 402 a) with a first input (204 a, 304 a, 404 a) and a first output (206 a, 306 a, 406 a). In an aspect, the first input (204 a, 304 a, 404 a) is located on a first track that extends in a first direction and a second track that extends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. In another aspect, the first output (206 a, 306 a, 406 a) is located on the first track and a third track that extends in the second direction.
In another aspect of the disclosure, the MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500) includes a second logic component (202 b, 302 b, 402 b) with a second input (204 b, 304 b, 404 b) and a second output (206 b, 306 b, 406 b). In an aspect, the second input (204 b, 304 b, 404 b) is located on the first track and a fourth track that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output (206 b, 306 b, 406 b) is located on the first track and a fifth track that extends in the second direction. In a further aspect, the fourth track and the fifth track are between the second track and the third track (see FIGS. 2-4).
In a further aspect of the disclosure, the MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500) includes a first interconnect (208 a, 308 a, 408 a) on a metal x (Mx) layer (e.g., the M7 layer in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M6 layer interconnect in FIG. 4) that extends on the first track and that is coupled to the first input (204 a, 304 a, 404 a) on the second track.
In yet another aspect of the disclosure, the MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500) includes a second interconnect (208 b, 308 b, 408 b) on the Mx layer (e.g., the M7 layer in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M6 layer interconnect in FIG. 4) that extends on the first track and that is coupled to the first output (206 a, 306 a, 406 a) on the third track.
In still another aspect of the disclosure, the MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500) includes a third interconnect (210 a, 310 a, 410 a) on a metal y (My) layer (e.g., the M9 layer in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M8 layer in FIG. 4) that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second input (204 b, 304 b, 404 b) on the fourth track. For example, y (e.g., y=9 in FIGS. 2 and 3, and y=8 in FIG. 4) is greater than x (e.g., x=7 in FIGS. 2 and 3, and x=6 in FIG. 4).
Further still, the MOS device (200, 300, 400, 500)<|fim_middle|> readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other aspects. Thus, the claims are not intended to be limited to the aspects shown herein, but is to be accorded the full scope consistent with the language claims, wherein reference to an element in the singular is not intended to mean "one and only one" unless specifically so stated, but rather "one or more." The word "exemplary" is used herein to mean "serving as an example, instance, or illustration." Any aspect described herein as "exemplary" is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects." Unless specifically stated otherwise, the term "some" refers to one or more. Combinations such as "at least one of A, B, or C," "at least one of A, B, and C," and "A, B, C, or any combination thereof" include any combination of A, B, and/or C, and may include multiples of A, multiples of B, or multiples of C. Specifically, combinations such as "at least one of A, B, or C," "at least one of A, B, and C," and "A, B, C, or any combination thereof" may be A only, B only, C only, A and B, A and C, B and C, or A and B and C, where any such combinations may contain one or more member or members of A, B, or C. All structural and functional equivalents to the elements of the various aspects described throughout this disclosure that are known or later come to be known to those of ordinary skill in the art are expressly incorporated herein by reference and are intended to be encompassed by the claims. Moreover, nothing disclosed herein is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether such disclosure is explicitly recited in the claims. No claim element is to be construed as a means plus function unless the element is expressly recited using the phrase "means for."
1. A metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device, comprising:
a first logic component with a first input and a first output, the first input being located on a first track extending in a first direction and a second track extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first output being located on the first track and a third track extending in the second direction;
a second logic component with a second input and a second output, the second input being located on the first track and a fourth track extending in the second direction, the second output being located on the first track and a fifth track extending in the second direction, the fourth track and the fifth track being between the second track and the third track;
a first interconnect on a metal x (Mx) layer extending on the first track and coupled to the first input on the second track;
a second interconnect on the Mx layer extending on the first track and coupled to the first output on the third track;
a third interconnect on a metal y (My) layer extending on the first track and coupled to the second input on the fourth track, y being greater than x; and
a fourth interconnect on the My layer extending on the first track and coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
2. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first logic component and the second logic component are part of a standard cell in the MOS device.
3. The MOS device of claim 2, wherein the first interconnect, the second interconnect, the third interconnect, and the fourth interconnect are inter-cell routing between the standard cell and at least one other standard cell.
4. The MOS device of claim 2, wherein the standard cell is a quadruple height cell with four rows including a first row, a second row adjacent the first row, a third row adjacent the second row, and a fourth row adjacent the third row, the second track being in the first row, the third track being in the fourth row, the fourth track being in one of the second row or the third row, and the fifth track being in another one of the second row or the third row.
5. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first input corresponds to a first input pin, the first output corresponds to a first output pin, the second input corresponds to a second input pin, and the second output corresponds to a second output pin, and wherein:
the first input pin corresponds to a metal x-z1 (Mx-z1) layer interconnect, where z1≧1;
the first output pin corresponds to a metal x-z2 (Mx-z2) layer interconnect, where z2≧1;
the second input pin corresponds to a metal y-z3 (My-z3) layer interconnect, where z3≧1; and
the second output pin corresponds to a metal y-z4 (My-z4) layer interconnect, where z4≧1.
6. The MOS device of claim 5, wherein z1, z2, z3, and z4 are each equal to 1.
7. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein x is equal to 7 and y is equal to 9.
8. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the fifth track is between the fourth track and the third track, the first interconnect and the third interconnect overlap in a third direction, and the second interconnect and the fourth interconnect overlap in the third direction, the third direction being orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
9. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the fourth track is between the fifth track and the third track, the first interconnect and the fourth interconnect overlap in a third direction, and the second interconnect and the third interconnect overlap in the third direction, the third direction being orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
10. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first logic component is a first buffer, and the second logic component is a second buffer.
11. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first track is a vertical track, and wherein the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each horizontal tracks.
12. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first track is a horizontal track, and wherein the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each vertical tracks.
13. The MOS device of claim 1, wherein the first logic component and the second logic component are part of a first buffer positioned on the first track, the MOS device further comprising:
a second buffer positioned on a sixth track that is parallel to the first track, the second buffer being non-adjacent to the first buffer;
a third buffer positioned on a seventh track that is parallel to the first track, the third buffer being non-adjacent to the second buffer; and
a fourth buffer positioned on an eight track that is parallel to the first track, the fourth buffer being non-adjacent to the third buffer.
14. A method of operating a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device, the method comprising:
propagating a first signal through a first logic component with a first input and a first output, the first input being located on a first track extending in a first direction and a second track extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first output being located on the first track and a third track extending in the second direction;
propagating a second signal through a second logic component with a second input and a second output, the second input being located on the first track and a fourth track extending in the second direction, the second output being located on the first track and a fifth track extending in the second direction, the fourth track and the fifth track being between the second track and the third track, wherein the MOS IC device comprises:
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first logic component and the second logic component are part of a standard cell in the MOS device.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first interconnect, the second interconnect, the third interconnect, and the fourth interconnect are inter-cell routing between the standard cell and at least one other standard cell.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the standard cell is a quadruple height cell with four rows including a first row, a second row adjacent the first row, a third row adjacent the second row, and a fourth row adjacent the third row, the second track being in the first row, the third track being in the fourth row, the fourth track being in one of the second row or the third row, and the fifth track being in another one of the second row or the third row.
18. The method of claim 14, wherein the first input corresponds to a first input pin, the first output corresponds to a first output pin, the second input corresponds to a second input pin, and the second output corresponds to a second output pin, and wherein:
19. The method of claim 18, wherein z1, z2, z3, and z4 are each equal to 1.
20. The method of claim 14, wherein x is equal to 7 and y is equal to 9.
21. The method of claim 14, wherein the fifth track is between the fourth track and the third track, the first interconnect and the third interconnect overlap in a third direction, and the second interconnect and the fourth interconnect overlap in the third direction, the third direction being orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
22. The method of claim 14, wherein the fourth track is between the fifth track and the third track, the first interconnect and the fourth interconnect overlap in a third direction, and the second interconnect and the third interconnect overlap in the third direction, the third direction being orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
23. The method of claim 14, wherein the first logic component is a first buffer, and the second logic component is a second buffer.
24. The method of claim 14, wherein the first track is a vertical track, and wherein the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each horizontal tracks.
25. The method of claim 14, wherein the first track is a horizontal track, and wherein the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each vertical tracks.
26. The method of claim 14, wherein the first logic component and the second logic component are part of a first buffer positioned on the first track, the MOS device further comprising:
27. A metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device, comprising:
first means for propagating a first signal through a first logic component with a first input and a first output, the first input being located on a first track extending in a first direction and a second track extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first output being located on the first track and a third track extending in the second direction; and
second means for propagating a second signal through a second logic component with a second input and a second output, the second input being located on the first track and a fourth track extending in the second direction, the second output being located on the first track and a fifth track extending in the second direction, the fourth track and the fifth track being between the second track and the third track, wherein the MOS IC device further comprises:
28. The MOS device of claim 27, wherein the first logic component and the second logic component are part of a standard cell in the MOS device.
29. The MOS of claim 28, wherein the first interconnect, the second interconnect, the third interconnect, and the fourth interconnect are inter-cell routing between the standard cell and at least one other standard cell.
30. The MOS device of claim 27, wherein the first input corresponds to a first input pin, the first output corresponds to a first output pin, the second input corresponds to a second input pin, and the second output corresponds to a second output pin, and wherein:
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In an additional aspect, the first logic component (202 a, 302 a, 402 a) and the second logic component (202 b, 302 b, 402 b) are part of a standard cell (220, 320, 502 a) in the MOS device (200, 300, 500).
Still further, the first interconnect (208 a, 308 a, 408 a), the second interconnect (208 b, 308 b, 408 b), the third interconnect (210 a, 310 a, 410 a), and the fourth interconnect (210 b, 310 b, 410 b) are inter-cell routing between the standard cell (502 a) and at least one other standard cell (502 c).
Additionally, the standard cell (502 a) may be a quadruple height cell with four rows (see FIGS. 2-4) including a first row (see FIGS. 2-4), a second row (see FIGS. 2-4) adjacent the first row (see FIGS. 2-4), a third row adjacent the second row (see FIGS. 2-4), and a fourth row adjacent the third row (see FIGS. 2-4). For example, the second track (see FIGS. 2-4) is in the first row (see FIGS. 2-4). In an aspect, the third track (see FIGS. 2-4) is in the fourth row (see FIGS. 2-4). In another aspect, the fourth track (see FIGS. 2-4) is in one of the second row (see FIG. 2) or the third row (see FIGS. 3 and 4). In an additional aspect, the fifth track (see FIGS. 2-4) is in another one of the second row (see FIGS. 3 and 4) or the third row (see FIG. 2).
In a further aspect, the first input (204 a, 304 a, 404 a) corresponds to a first input pin (204 a, 304 a, 404 a). In another aspect, the first output (206 a, 306 a, 406 a) corresponds to a first output pin (206 a, 306 a, 406 a). In an additional aspect, the second input (204 b, 304 b, 404 b) corresponds to a second input pin (204 b, 304 b, 404 b). Further still, the second output (206 b, 306 b, 406 b) corresponds to a second output pin (206 b, 306 b, 406 b). In one example, the first input pin (204 a, 304 a, 404 a) corresponds to a metal x-z1 (Mx-z1) layer interconnect (e.g., the M7 layer interconnect in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M5 layer interconnect in FIG. 4). For example, z1≧1. In another aspect, the first output pin (206 a, 306 a, 406 a) corresponds to a metal x-z2 (Mx-z2) layer interconnect (e.g., the M8 layer interconnect in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M5 layer interconnect in FIG. 4). For example, z2≧1. In a further aspect, the second input pin (204 b, 304 b, 404 b) corresponds to a metal y-z3 (My-z3) layer interconnect (e.g., the M8 layer interconnect in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M7 layer interconnect in FIG. 4). For example, z3≧1. Further still, the second output pin (206 b, 306 b, 406 b) corresponds to a metal y-z4 (My-z4) layer interconnect (e.g., the M8 layer interconnect in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the M7 layer interconnect in FIG. 4). For example, z4≧1. In a further example, z1, z2, z3, and z4 are each equal to 1. When z1, z2, z3, and z4 are each equal to 1, then the input/output pins are located one metal layer below the aforementioned M6, M7, M8, M9 signal line interconnects. As such z is a number of metal layers below the M6, M7, M8, M9 signal line interconnects which the input/output pins are located.
In one example, the fifth track is between the fourth track and the third track (see FIG. 2). In another example, the first interconnect (208 a) and the third interconnect overlap (210 a) in a third direction. In a further example, the second interconnect (208 b) and the fourth interconnect (210 b) overlap in the third direction. For example, the third direction is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
In another example, the fourth track is between the fifth track and the third track (see FIGS. 3 and 4). In an aspect, the first interconnect (308 a, 408 a) and the fourth interconnect (310 b, 410 b) overlap in a third direction. In further aspect, the second interconnect (308 b, 408 b) and the third interconnect (310 a, 410 a) overlap in the third direction. For example, the third direction is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
In still a further aspect, the first logic component (202 a, 302 a, 402 a) is a first buffer (202 a, 302 a, 402 a). In another aspect, the second logic component (202 b, 302 b, 402 b) is a second buffer (202 b, 302 b, 402 b).
In another aspect, the first track is a vertical track (e.g., FIGS. 2 and 3). In a further aspect, the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each horizontal tracks (e.g., FIGS. 2 and 3).
In a further aspect, the first track is a horizontal track (e.g., FIG. 4). In an additional aspect, the second track, the third track, the fourth track, and the fifth track are each vertical tracks (e.g., FIG. 4).
In another aspect, the first logic component (202 a, 302 a, 402 a) and the second logic component (202 b, 302 b, 402 b) are part of a first buffer (508 a) positioned on the first track (track 1 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5). In addition, the MOS device (500) also includes a second buffer (508 b) positioned on a sixth track (e.g., track 2 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5) that is parallel to the first track (track 1 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5). For example, second buffer (508 b) is non-adjacent to the first buffer (508 a). In a further aspect, the MOS device (500) includes a third buffer (508 c) positioned on a seventh track (track 3 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5) that is parallel to the first track (track 1 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5. For example, the third buffer (508 c) is non-adjacent to the second buffer (508 b). In another aspect, the MOS device (500) includes a fourth buffer (508 d) positioned on an eight track (track 4 in the first standard cell 502 in FIG. 5) that is parallel to the first track (track 1 in the first standard cell 502 a in FIG. 5). For example, the fourth buffer (508 d) is non-adjacent to the third buffer (508 c).
FIG. 6 is a flow chart 600 of an exemplary method. The exemplary method is a method of operation of a MOS IC device. For example, the MOS device may be one of the MOS IC devices 200, 300, 400 illustrated in FIGS. 2-4.
At 602, a first signal is propagated through a first logic component with a first input and a first output. In an aspect, the first input is located on a first track that extends in a first direction and a second track that extends in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In another aspect, the first output is located on the first track and a third track that extends in the second direction.
At 604, a second signal is propagated through a second logic component with a second input and a second output. In an aspect, the second input is located on the first track and a fourth track that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output is located on the first track and a fifth track that extends in the second direction. In a further aspect, the fourth track and the fifth track are between the second track and the third track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first output on the third track. In a further example, the MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. In an aspect, y is greater than x. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
The MOS device further includes first means for propagating a signal through a first logic component with a first input and a first output. In an aspect, the first input is located on a first track that extends in a first direction and a second track that extends in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In another aspect, the first output is located on the first track and a third track that extends in the second direction.
The MOS device further includes second means for propagating a signal through a second logic component with a second input and a second output. In an aspect, the second input is located on the first track and a fourth track that extends in the second direction. In another aspect, the second output is located on the first track and a fifth track that extends in the second direction. In a further aspect, the fourth track and the fifth track are between the second track and the third track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the first output on the third track. In a further example, the MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. In an aspect, y is greater than x. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that extends on the first track and is coupled to the second output on the fifth track.
In addition, using conventional standard cell architecture, when two interconnects on two different metal layer interconnects (e.g., a higher M9 layer and a lower M7 layer) carrying different signals occupy the same track in a MOS IC device and are connected to two different standard cells having inputs and outputs on the same track, the interconnect on the lower metal layer may need to be routed around the track. Routing the interconnect around the track may be necessary because the interconnect on the lower metal layer may run into an input/output stack of the interconnect of the higher metal layer. The routing detour may cause a signal delay on the interconnect on the lower metal layer, and the accumulated signal delay of the interconnect on the lower metal layer may cause a decrease in datapath speed for the MOS IC device, as discussed supra with respect to FIG. 1.
The present disclosure provides a solution to the problem by providing a 2-bit buffer with input/output pins for a lower metal layer interconnect signal line (208 a, 208 b, 308 a, 308 b, 408 a, 408 b) on edges of a 2-bit buffer standard cell. Further, input/output pins of the higher metal layer interconnect signal line (210 a, 210 b, 310 a, 310 b, 410 a, 410 b) are located between the input/output pins of the lower metal layer interconnect signal line (208 a, 208 b, 308 a, 308 b, 408 a, 408 b). With the first input (204 a, 304 a, 404 a), the second input (204 b, 304 b, 404 b), the first output (206 a, 306 a, 406 a), and the second output (206 b, 306 b, 406 b) as shown in FIGS. 2-4, the connection of the higher metal layer interconnect signal line (210 a, 210 b, 310 a, 310 b, 410 a, 410 b) to the MOS IC device (200, 300, 400) may not block a connection of the lower metal layer interconnect signal line (208 a, 208 b, 308 a, 308 b, 408 a, 408 b) to the MOS IC device (200, 300, 400) on the first track. Therefore, routing detours of the lower metal layer interconnect signal lines (208 a, 208 b, 308 a, 308 b, 408 a, 408 b) may be avoided and datapath speeds may be improved in the MOS IC devices (200, 300, 400) illustrated in FIGS. 2-4.
It is understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the processes disclosed is an illustration of exemplary approaches. Based upon design preferences, it is understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the processes may be rearranged. Further, some steps may be combined or omitted. The accompanying method claims present elements of the various steps in a sample order, and are not meant to be limited to the specific order or hierarchy presented.
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In addition to confirming that filming should begin as early as next year, David Harbor also announced when he expects the fifth season to arrive on Netflix. " I think we will [tourner] next year. They finish writing it this year, and they have to prepare, so hopefully it will be this year. But I think that's the plan. It will therefore probably be released in mid-2024, based on our track record. ".
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We already know a lot about this fifth season. The plot is still set to be set in the town of Hawkins, but this final season is expected to be shorter than season 4. During an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub, the Duffer brothers revealed that while the season is always longer than the first, their intention is to keep it closer to the ten o'clock mark.
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July 5, 2022 by Dana Florian
One of the main stars of Stranger Things has already spilled the beans about the start of production on the show's fifth season, and has given some hints about the release window along the way.
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Zug/Zug, 7.02.2013 – Top Implantologen mit Auszeichnung präsentieren sich auf neuer Spitzen-Plattform. Neuestes Mitglied im Kreis der Besten ist Herr Dr. Frederic Hermann aus Zug/Schweiz.
Zug/Zug, 7th February 2013 – Certified top-implantologists present themselves on our new flagship platform. The latest member in our elite group is Dr. Frederic Hermann from Zug in Switzerland.
With Dr. Frederic Hermann, owner of the practice Team 15 in Zug, Switzerland, the Internet platform of Leading Implant Centers has won another high-quality member. With his<|fim_middle|> Radek Nitsch, initiators of the platform Leading Implant Centers. "With the collaboration of the national scientific associations and the international umbrella association we create a basis that provides orientation and offer a platform solely for those implantologists that invest in their abilities and provide input into the field of expertise," continue Palti and Nitsch. Furthermore, Leading Implant Centers understands itself to be a communication platform of its members for the patients. Participating implantologists and their practices will on the one hand be supported locally with public relations and marketing and on the other hand the global marketing activities will promote the image of certified implantologists in Germany as well as internationally. | award "Certified Experts in Implantology" issued by the German Association of Oral Implantology (DGOI), the top-class implantologist Dr. Frederic Hermann has proven that he is not only highly engaged for his own further education but also equally conscientious of the qualification requirements of future implantologists. Extensive practice experience as well as profound know-how and many years of experience on the latest scientific level, complimented by constant participation in advanced training and education, as well as further training and continuous education, are the requirements that an implantologist needs to repeatedly demonstrate in order to gain this award at first, but then also to earn it anew again and again.
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Il dolmen di Carapito I è un monumento archeologico che si trova nel territorio della freguesia di Carapito, nel comune di Aguiar da Beira nel Distretto di Guarda della Regione Beira Alta, in Portogallo.
Storia
La costruzione del dolmen risale al periodo megalitico, attorno al XXIX secolo a.C.. Dopo le prime esplorazioni in epoche recenti, si registrarono crolli all'inizio del XX secolo. L'archeologa Irisalva Moita visitò il sito nel 1955 e lo descrisse come in stato di rovina.
Descrizione
L'antichissimo manufatto si trova in ambiente campestre, ad occidente rispetto a Carapito. In origine faceva parte di un complesso che comprendeva altri due dolmen. Il Carapito I ha una struttura semplice e racchiude la camera centrale che ha una base poligonale con apertura che si rivolge a nord ovest. Le grandi lastre di pietra sono alte circa 3,5 metri. Nella seconda metà del XX secolo è stato oggetto di<|fim_middle|>ogallo | attenzione e di lavori di restauro.
Monumento nazionale
Il dolmen Carapito I, conosciuto anche come Casa da Moura, è stato classificato monumento nazionale del Portogallo il 21 dicembre 1974.
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Aurora borealis viewing from this wilderness lodge | CA-BLL301
View one of the most spectacular phenomenon on earth, the aurora borealis in the northern Canada
Viewable throughout the fall and winter, this location is among the best in the world for viewing the northern lights. Nothing can rival the experience of watching the aurora borealis. Awash in vibrant colors, these northern lights dance across the sky to speak to the moon in mystical voices.
<|fim_middle|> please every appetite. All dishes, from bread to desserts, are made on site. They also grow our own lettuce and other greens. Special dietary requirements can be met.
The lodge is a licensed facility, with a fully stocked bar and wine list. They maintain a selection of wines, beers, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Deposit and Taxes
Pricing does not include: 5.00% GST.
A 30% deposit is required to hold your reservation.
Balance of payment is due 45 days before trip commencement.
CANCELLATION POLICY & DETAILS
Deposit is refundable with at last 45 days notice minus a 10% administration fee.
If you cancel with 15-44 days notice, deposit and 50% of balance is non-refundable.
With less than 15 days notice of cancellation, the full cost is non-refundable. | Interpretive experience
Traditional Dene beadwork
Dried fish moose or caribou
Animal track identification
Open for Christmas and New Years for the most unique holiday experience you will ever have!
Travel to the last frontier of northern Canada, where your adventure will begin with a short ski-plane flight from Yellowknife to a secluded wilderness lodge. Let your senses come alive. You'll revel in natural surroundings and inhale the cleansing fragrance of spruce. You will feast your eyes on the northern vista in all its glory and drink in its beauty.
Aurora watchers and stargazers agree there are few better places to see the Aurora than from this lodge. From mid-August, when night skies turn a velvety black to mid-October when the lake begins to freeze, guests can be treated to late night shows of the northern lights. On calm nights the lake also reflects the sky, doubling the awe-inspiring images. Autumn is a great time to sit outside in comfort and just lean back and enjoy the show. Day activities during this time of year include fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and hiking.
Availability Aug - Apr
Duration 3 - 8 days
Departs From Yellowknife, NT
Please contact us for dates and prices by filling the form below.
Canoes (fall use)
Kayaks (fall use)
Boats (fall use)
Fishing gear (fall use)
Cross country skis (winter use)
Ice skates (winter use)
Ice fishing gear (winter use)
Snowshoes (winter use)
Suggested Clothing
Fleece or wool underclothes (winter)
Long underwear (winter)
Hat (winter)
Gloves (winter)
Bathing suit (winter)
Warm jacket (fall)
Rain gear (fall)
Hiking boots (fall)
Hat (fall)
Bathing suit (fall)
Long pants (fall)
Shorts (fall)
T-shirts (fall)
You can also send an email to info@adventures.com, or use the contact form here below.
Availability (2023):
All prices are in CAD dollars based on double occupancy.
Add 5% tax and 10% gratuities.
The fuel surcharge is $198 per person.
Winter season: December 21, 2022 - April 15, 2023
Fall season: August 15 - October 13, 2023
Christmas/New Years: December 21-January 2
4 days/3 nights: $2090
Lodge room or Cabin: $1980
January - April
Find out more details about the tour and its highlights
In the winter the adventure continues. The lodge itself is welcoming atop a rolling, snow-covered hill. Inside the main lodge, or in one of our cabins, a cozy wood fire offers warm comfort. Through the day, follow well-marked trails on skis, snowshoes or by snowmobile. Relax with your favorite beverage in the early evening before sitting down to a gourmet dinner prepared by our red seal chef. Later, on clear nights, the Aurora may dance overhead. Enjoy the lights from one of our decks, our hot tub, or snuggled under a duvet in your room. The lodge even offers Aurora Wake Up Service to catch the Northern lights at their best.
One may ask why not just stay in Yellowknife and view the aurora? To experience the northern lights to the fullest potential you have to get away from city lights and the "light glow" of any populated area. This lodge is fly in only -- there are no other camps or cabins within many miles -- you are in the true wilderness with no light obstructions to hinder your view of the aurora. The main lodge was designed with aurora viewing in mind. All bedrooms offer prime viewing as do the dining, lounge areas, Aurora room, decks, sauna deck, and hot tub. Come experience the northern lights playing directly over the Lodge in awesome multicolored displays. You'll have an exclusive, front-row seat for nature's own light show after dark.
This lodge lies below the Auroral oval, the enormous band of energy that circles the North Magnetic Pole. Here you are as close to the Aurora as any earthbound spectator ever gets. If the weather is clear, chances are good that you'll see the Aurora on almost any night between mid-August and mid-April.
Guide information:
Two interpretive tours of 2-hour duration are included in the price. Guides are available for an additional cost for snowmobiling tours.
The lodge will have a First Nations guide available full-time in the winter. As the package includes one-two hour of interpretive experience per day these might include, pending which of our First Nations guides hosts are available, snowshoeing and animal track identification, stories, and legends in the tipi, traditional Dene beadwork, learning how to make drums, dried fish moose or caribou.
Restrictions: Luggage restriction of 40 lbs per person.
Transportation: Trips originate and end in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The package includes floatplane transfers to and from Yellowknife.
Winter temperatures will average between 0 and -25 degrees Celsius. January is the coldest month but March can easily go above the freezing mark during the day.
Fall is usually warm and dry and daytime temperatures can average from 5 to 20 degrees Celsius but evenings can be cool.
Requirements: Fishing license if fishing. All packages are subject to a 10% gratuity.
Comments: Children under 14 receive 50% off the regular package price if sharing a room with an adult.
Winter new moon dates: January 21, February 20, March 21, 2023
Fall new moon dates: August 16, September 14, October 14, 2023
There are five large guest rooms on the second floor of the main lodge, with access to shared shower and washrooms (no private washrooms in the rooms). Lodge rooms are dressed with down duvets and feature huge windows with expansive views. There are ...)
There are five large guest rooms on the second floor of the main lodge, with access to shared shower and washrooms (no private washrooms in the rooms). Lodge rooms are dressed with down duvets and feature huge windows with expansive views. There are two viewing decks upstairs and an outdoor hot tub. The main floor serves as the lounge, with bar, dining room and library. The main floor also houses the kitchen and a small office, and his and hers showers and washrooms, shared with cabin guests. Unusually for such a remote facility, our washrooms not only have hot running water but also hotel-style toilets; you would hardly know they are the eco-friendly composting kind!
There are five log guest cabins to choose from - separated for privacy. Each has its own lake view, outside campfire pit and outdoor toilet close by. They all have electric lighting and power and feature a minimum of four beds with down duvets. Showers and bathrooms are a five-minute walk to the lodge. All cabins are heated by a woodstove. For those who like the easy life, but with the coziness of real fire, two of our cabins now have pellet stoves which make no demands on fire-lighting skills!
Some cabins have a private ensuite toilet facility and other cabins have access to the shared Aurora Comfort Station which is a heated toilet facility and wash basin with a skylight.
The lodge and all cabins enjoy free wireless internet access. They are all non-smoking.
This lodge prides itself on its environmentally sensitive footprint. There are solar panels, wireless Internet, two high-efficiency wood-burning stoves and a remarkable waterless composting toilet system called a Clivus Multrum.
All meals are included and gourmet meals are prepared fresh each day. Lodge food includes fresh baking, northern treats such as arctic char, caribou, muskox, lake trout, white fish, berry cake and bannock. The menus feature a tasty blend of Norther...)
All meals are included and gourmet meals are prepared fresh each day. Lodge food includes fresh baking, northern treats such as arctic char, caribou, muskox, lake trout, white fish, berry cake and bannock.
The menus feature a tasty blend of Northern gourmet favorites. The talented chef creates superb menus with fresh seasonal vegetables and a variety of fresh fish, beef, lamb and chicken to | 1,762 |
Digging Thucydides in Lisbon
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China's rise has led to pat citations of the Athenian historian, but one must truly study his work to understand it.
Miguel Monjardino
At the March 18 meeting of senior American and Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska, Yang Jiechi, director of China's Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, clarified his country's position: "The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength." Xi Jinping's sobering message to the Biden administration was that the United States can have peace or war. Amid the political fallout of Anchorage came a deluge of references to Thucydides, the Athenian general and historian who wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century B.C. "The Thucydides Moment?" asked the Nikkei Asia Review after the meeting. General Xu Qiliang, vice president of China's Central Military Commission and the country's top military officer, spoke about the "Thucydides trap." Indeed, such references have become almost mandatory since Harvard professor Graham Allison coined that expression a decade ago to warn about the dangers of a contest for supremacy between the U.S. and China.
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I feel for them. University shouldn't be like this. I've had to reconsider everything about the content and rhythm of education in the digital world, though two decades of work in television have proved helpful.
While Covid-19 cannot be compared to the plague that devastated Athens from 430–427 B.C., it has helped the class appreciate the power of Thucydides's description of a contagious-disease outbreak in the middle of a war. Among the many casualties of this plague were Athens's senior statesman Pericles, his sister, and his two sons. The class examined François-Nicolas Chifflart's Pericles at the Death Bed of His Son and Michiel Sweerts's Plague in an Ancient City and read his funeral oration to the sound of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. I asked: was Pericles, who devised a military strategy based on attrition against Sparta and its allies, responsible for the plague and its consequences? The students didn't reach a consensus. "The way I see it, the war with Sparta was inevitable," said one. "The plague was not something he could have predicted. Events surprised him. I don't think he is responsible for this." "I disagree," argued another. "I believe he is washing his hands of the responsibility here. This is not leadership. If I was at the assembly, I would trust him less after this."
Athens agonized over the decision, but eventually struck a defensive alliance with Corcyra (now Corfu). The Athenians believed that the island—with its privileged geopolitical position in the northwest and a powerful navy—would enhance Athens's security and help the city-state maintain a favorable balance of power with Sparta. Events then took a surprising turn. Instigated by Corinth, an ambitious and risk-taking city, revolution and a bloody civil war consumed Corcyra. Sparta and Athens intervened.
In his powerful account of these events, Thucydides gives his opinion about the drastic changes in values that the civil war brought about. It is essential reading for any political education; as the class read, Schubert's "Ständchen" D957 played in the background. "Why did Sparta withdraw its navy from Corcyra?" asked one perplexed student. "They were winning here. What's wrong with this Alkidas, the Spartan admiral?" "This is really shocking," said another. "I mean, fathers killing sons. And the Athenian admiral does nothing. He could have put an end to this horror. This looks like something that Sparta would do, not Athens." "Perhaps," said another, "but Corcyra's geopolitical location is really important for Athens. I believe this is about necessity in war. Just like the Spartans in Plataea. The Athenian fleet is there to deter more foreign interventions and give time to the popular party in Corcyra to turn the civil war in their favor." "Yes," observed one student, "but this is not what Athens had in mind when it accepted the alliance. Now they will have to commit more naval forces in the northwest." "What I find puzzling is how unstable Corcyra is politically," said another. "How can they be a good ally of the Athenians?"
War, as Thucydides reminded us, is a "violent school." Francisco Goya, the Spanish painter, knew this too. We discussed his masterpiece El tres de Mayo en Madrid, and some of his drawings and etchings currently in exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Civil strife and the powerful emotions that it elicits pose the greatest dangers to any society.
When our seminar drew to a close, we had covered plenty of ground. Our first deep dive into Thucydides's work, in February, was unsettling. "Do we have to know all this?" asked one student after reading the first paragraphs of the History of the Peloponnesian War and looking at the maps. "I never heard about many of these cities." "The political context is very confusing," observed the aide-de-camp of the class. "We don't live in Thucydides's time." Quite right. But there is something about the way Thucydides writes that progressively draws readers into his work, into the dark pit of a long and destructive war. By the end, students had chosen their sides in the war: some Athenians; others Spartans; a few believing that Corinth was right in challenging Athens and pressuring Sparta to step up in defense of its allies; others curious about Persia, the superpower of the time. (As far as I know, Corcyra has no supporters. "They are just like Hannah Montana," argued a student, tongue in cheek. "They want everything and don't understand that all of this happened because of them.") Thucydides became personal to them.
"I have a question," said a pro-Athenian student. "If Pericles was alive at the time, would he allow this level of violence in Corcyra? I was really shocked by this."
"What do you think?" I asked.
"I don't think so," he replied. "I doubt he would be so brutish. This is not his Athens. Something has changed."
Yes, up to a point. War happened. That changed everything. Athens was not the same after Pericles' death in 429 B.C., but the city had been an ambitious imperial democracy for decades. The Athenians always feared revolts by their allies. In his last speech, Pericles was blunt about it: empire was "like a tyranny—perhaps wrong to acquire it, but certainly dangerous to let it go."
Thucydides, an Athenian and senior military officer who witnessed the rise and fall of his extraordinary city, wrote to tell us that the world is difficult, ambiguous, and complex. Politics and strategy possess too many variables; a few are interdependent. To quote one of his paragraphs to try to explain current events—such as the competition between the U.S. and China—is not enough. The Athenian general wanted us to read his work and to argue with him. That's why I've looked forward to my conversations with the class of 2021 about The History of the Peloponnesian War. Many years from now, when their sons and daughters ask them what they read at university, the members of the last class of the century will be able to say, "I read Thucydides at the Catholic University."
Miguel Monjardino is a visiting professor of geopolitics and geostrategy at Portuguese Catholic University.
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Thucydides has been hosting the longest-running seminar in international politics, and the price of admission for those who want to enroll in it is simple: you have to read him. Since February, I've been doing just that with the class of 2021—I call the students, born in 2000, "the last class of the twentieth century"—of the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal, where I am a visiting professor. Laura Lisboa, a gifted student who graduated with distinction in physics at Instituto Superior Técnico and then switched to work in political science, is the teaching assistant.
Covid-19 has upended our lives. Since March 2020, I've been waiting out the pandemic in Angra do Heroísmo, a World | 208 |
Q: Are selectors in Objective-C just another way to send a message to an object? Are selectors in Objective-C just another way to send a message to an object? I really don't understand why or how to use them.
A: You can store selectors as variables,<|fim_middle|> to subclass a button every time you want it to call some of your own code. Instead, UIButton itself has a generic mechanism for dispatching to any code you choose. (Okay, technically, it's the superclass UIControl that's providing the dispatch mechanism.)
A: They aren't another way to send a message to an object, they're the only way. For example, in [myView setValue:@"foo"], setValue: is a selector. (Another, less convenient way of writing the same thing is objc_msgSend(myView, @selector(setValue:), @"foo").)
As Ian Henry says, you can use SEL values to choose a selector at runtime instead of compile time. This is a fundamental technique in Cocoa; user interfaces are generally connected to controllers using target/action bindings, where the target is an object and the action is a selector. Normally you set this up in a nib, but you can also do it in code:
[myButton setTarget:myController];
[myButton setAction:@selector(buttonClicked:)]; // Clicking the button will now call [myController buttonClick:myButton].
A: --From Apple Developer Library --
A selector is the name used to select a method to execute for an object, or the unique identifier that replaces the name when the source code is compiled. A selector by itself doesn't do anything. It simply identifies a method. The only thing that makes the selector method name different from a plain string is that the compiler makes sure that selectors are unique. What makes a selector useful is that (in conjunction with the runtime) it acts like a dynamic function pointer that, for a given name, automatically points to the implementation of a method appropriate for whichever class it's used with. Suppose you had a selector for the method run, and classes Dog, Athlete, and ComputerSimulation (each of which implemented a method run). The selector could be used with an instance of each of the classes to invoke its run method—even though the implementation might be different for each.
| and invoke them later or in a different context. For example you can tell an object to perform a selector at a particular time, or on a different thread. You can also choose which selector to perform based on data, which is how interface builder and core data do their thing.
A: At the most basic, yes, but you can change the message at runtime. For example:
SEL a = [selectorFactory getSelector];
[someOtherObject performSelector:a];
And then in selectorFactory.getSelector:
if(foo == 1)
return @selector(thisSelector);
else
return @selector(thatSelector);
Coming from C# or another similar language, you can use this to (loosely) simulate events much more easily than using NSNotifications. For example, you could make a button class with two ivars, target and selector, and have the button perform the selector on the target when it's clicked (for example).
There's a lot more to selectors than that, though. Read more about them here:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/objectivec/articles/ocSelectors.html
A: Selectors are usually used when you want to define a callback mechanism. The most common use case for selectors in Cocoa is with controls, such as buttons. A UIButton is very generic, and as such has no idea what should happen when the button is pressed. Before you can use one, you need to tell it what method should be run when the button is pressed. This is done as follows:
[myButton addTarget:self
action:@selector(myButtonWasPressed)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
- (void)myButtonWasPressed {
// Do something about it
}
Then, when the button is pressed, the button will call the selector on the target we passed it. With this mechanism, you don't need | 375 |
Kathy Gannon reports from the basement of<|fim_middle|>2. She will be the Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School for the fall semester, 2022. The views expressed here are her own.
Afghanistan's Media Crisis
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Available in: العربية, فارسی, پښتو | The Associated Press house in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a night of heavy bombing on October 26, 2001. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
Kathy Gannon: Courageous journalism is happening in Afghanistan. We can help.
By Kathy Gannon on August 11, 2022 8:23 AM EDT
Journalism in today's Afghanistan is certainly wounded, but it's far from dead. The evidence is produced daily, even hourly:
At a Kabul press conference given by ex-President Hamid Karzai in February, the room was full of journalists. At least 12 TV cameras and multimedia reporters jockeyed for position at the back of the room to record the former president's tongue-lashing of the U.S. administration after it took $3.5 billion dollars in Afghan foreign reserves and gave it to victims of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
When a powerful earthquake rumbled through Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province in June, killing more than 1,000 people—destroying houses, families, entire villages—Afghan TV cameras were there, sending images and information to viewers nationwide.
Also in June, Kelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the U.N. Refugee Agency, was in Afghanistan. I counted at least nine microphones pressing toward her. All but one or two belonged to Afghan news organizations.
In July, Afghan media reported on a conference of religious scholars in eastern Afghanistan demanding education for all girls, as well as events such as a visit of Pakistani clerics to Afghanistan seeking Taliban help to find a peaceful end to an insurgency being waged by Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan's border regions from bases in Afghanistan.
This is not journalism as it was before the Taliban took power last August, but it is journalism. It demands our respect and support. Sounding the death knell on journalism in Afghanistan is an insult to those tenacious Afghans who continue to report, edit, and broadcast under difficult conditions.
In my three decades working in Afghanistan, I've witnessed a lot of horrors — many of them committed by members of the previous, U.S.-allied administration. Associated militias of that administration carried out massacres when they ruled from 1992 to 1996. Their internecine fighting killed as many as 50,000 people, mostly civilians. I saw the bodies of women who were raped and scalped, and some of the thousands of children killed or maimed by booby traps left by warring mujahedeen groups. Yet the international community not only engaged with them, it partnered with them.
Today's reality is that the Taliban are in power, ruling over a deeply conservative country and governed by strict tribal traditions that for centuries have given women little to no freedom. Still, the Taliban has a Ministry of Information and Culture and some strong voices in leadership who seem ready to engage. (Even before the Taliban came to power, most journalists had current Deputy Information Minister Zabihullah Mujahid on speed dial.) It's not easy to be a journalist in Afghanistan—worse if you are a woman journalist—but it's not impossible.
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When they last ruled, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban banned television and photography, and there was only one government-controlled news agency doing any reporting. Then the country had just one computer, in southern Kandahar, and it was rarely, if ever, turned on. But this is not the Afghanistan of 1996. The internet is part of the fabric of the world now, and Afghans have become accustomed to having access to a significant number of television news channels, newspapers, and radio stations that did not exist before, as well as to social media networks—for all their flaws and falsehoods—that now flourish.
There is also resistance to the Taliban's clampdowns on freedom now, whereas there was no such resistance when they last ruled. In May, when Taliban spokespeople said women had to cover their faces, even on television, male presenters at Afghanistan's TOLONews all wore face masks for four days as a protest.
The number of women working at TOLONews is growing. Following the Taliban takeover last August, much of the staff of TOLO TV, which offered entertainment as well as news, fled the country. But TOLONews director Khpalwak Sapai stayed—and made it his job to hire women when their qualifications matched those of male candidates for the same position. Before the Taliban returned to power, TOLONews had 79 staff positions, of which 11 were for women, and 8 of those were journalists, owner Saad Mohseni told me. Today TOLONews has 78 positions, of which 21 are for women, all as journalists. The staffing is fluid, said Mohseni, but TOLONews has continued to hire women in greater numbers.
This is not to say that journalism is without cost. Sapai and two of his colleagues were detained in March over a report that the Taliban had banned all broadcasts of foreign drama series. Other journalists have been picked up and beaten for simply doing their job.
Yet every morning in Afghanistan journalists step out their door unsure what the day will bring, and ready to face it. One afternoon it might be a new edict curtailing women's freedom, another it's a thuggish intelligence agency—not unlike many other intelligence agencies around the world—making an arbitrary arrest. On still other days, if the journalist is a woman, she faces harassment for simply being a woman.
Journalists working in many parts of our increasingly polarized and angry world navigate similarly treacherous landscapes. Nevertheless, each day they step out their door. They show up at work and report as they can. They reaffirm each day what it means to be a journalist in a country ruled by a repressive regime that defines journalism as adherence to one version of the truth.
Kathy Gannon speaks with a high-ranking Taliban commander at a border post in Torkham, Afghanistan, on October 24, 2001. (Associated Press/Dmitriy Messins)
This is what Afghan journalists also do every day.
Looking back over the 20 years when the Taliban were out of power, the media industry grew at a remarkable pace. The proliferation of television news channels was rapid, and the number of young people who wanted to become journalists was inspiring. But the exodus of journalists that accompanied the collapse of Afghanistan's Western-backed government begs questions about the training that was provided, as well as the extent and quality of support that was developed over those two decades.
The basic principle of journalism is independence, yet in post-2001 Afghanistan, the expansion of the news industry became, to a certain degree, an extension of the U.S.-led coalition's mission. In this way, it was closely tied to both the new government and the international community that helped bring that government to power.
Some journalists were deeply critical of their Western-backed leaders and bravely told of the corruption that crippled progress, yet they also came to believe, consciously or not, that their survival was inexorably linked to the government's survival—that the job of journalism was possible under some governments and not others.
That view is mistaken. Afghan journalists are now needed more than ever, and they need help inside of Afghanistan. Some journalists have been threatened and they have feared for their lives, but the only answer can't be evacuation. You cannot evacuate every woman, every journalist. Evacuation, after all, is not the go-to strategy in any of the many other countries where journalists are under threat. Afghanistan, like other countries, needs journalists to speak truth to power.
It was easy to promote and nurture journalists in Afghanistan when the government and international community wanted journalism to flourish. Hundreds of millions of dollars flowed into the country toward that end. But now money is flowing out and help for journalists in Afghanistan is limited.
So what can be done? When the U.S.-led coalition was overseeing Afghanistan, journalists faced the threat of bombings and targeted killings—and not just by the Taliban. Reporters were outfitted with flak jackets, helmets, and given training in conflict reporting to help mitigate the dangers. Today the threats come from a repressive and rigid Taliban regime, and journalists need to be re-outfitted to mitigate the new dangers.
There are no quick fixes, which we in the West so often want, but we can begin to explore possibilities. Afghan journalists may be able to learn from others who work in similarly perilous situations, for instance. There are reporters the world over who know just how scary it is to work in repressive environments—and also know something about how best to navigate the dangers. They could be recruited and put in touch with journalists in Afghanistan. There would be language barriers, of course, but many talented translators are available, including in Afghanistan. And while circumstances are different the world over, the dangers journalists confront also have similarities. It would be wrong to underestimate the value of simple contact between journalists facing their own sets of troubles.
That's just one form of professional backing. A second approach could involve emotional support. A team of counselors could be made available to provide a friendly ear and a professional voice to offer a different type of guidance. And these professionals don't need to be outside of the country. Too often we in the West forget we have no monopoly on knowledge and talent. Afghanistan has a vast reservoir of skilled, smart people—some never left their country, not even for studies. Universities in Afghanistan have a proud history and have graduated talented professionals, even during the worst of times. There are doctors, psychologists, and professors who could perhaps work with trauma experts elsewhere, and in turn offer counseling to Afghan journalists when they need it, if they need it.
Lastly, journalism-advocacy groups should go into Afghanistan and establish offices there to better understand the landscape. They should talk to Taliban rulers—engage with them. No good will come from not talking to them.
Even in the best of cases, journalism is not easy. But without it we are hostage to lies. Truth dies, and rulers who seek to distort reality and repress individual freedoms—whoever and wherever they might be—win.
Kathy Gannon covered Afghanistan and Pakistan as a correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press for over three decades, from 1988 until May 202 | 2,261 |
Adolf von Harnack. Theologe, Historiker, Wissenschaftspolitiker.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2001. 448 S. gr.8 = Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 161. Geb. ¬ 46,00. ISBN 3-525-35477-0.
Adolf (von) Harnack founded this journal and to its pages contributed numerous weighty reviews. It is an honour to be welcoming here a good symposium of fifteen learned papers on various aspects of his complicated but distinguished life and work. These originated in a conference at Tegernsee in March 1998. Born at Dorpat in Livonia (7 May 1851) he died in Berlin in 1930, a Baltic outsider with an accent who, in Bernd Moeller's phrase, became a central figure in German intellectual life both in and outside Berlin. A prolific producer of books and papers, the bibliography of his writings by Friedrich Smend (1927) runs to over 1600 items. There must be extremely few today who have<|fim_middle|> friends at Tübingen were not asked) if he assented to Pastor Aeternus of Vatican I; this was to enforce denial and excommunication on a most learned man who would have remained in the church had he not been asked this question. The drama must have confirmed Harnack in the opinion that only Protestants of his own liberal stamp enjoyed real freedom for historical researches in Theology and Church History. That seemed evident from an embittered attack on Döllinger after his death in a Jesuit's biography of him; and the qualification 'liberal' was imposed by the illiberal Prussian Oberkirchenrat. Similarly he had unbounded admiration for Louis Duchesne, and felt very warmly towards Albert Ehrhard and F. X. Funk. He respected the learned Denifle (who died in June 1905 on the journey to Cambridge to receive an honorary doctorate) without liking his unfriendly picture of Luther. It is remarked that he would have enjoyed reading Lortz and Merkle. | read every one. If he had written less, he would have written better books. Yet his big books and monograph studies are still necessary.
Harnack's eminence is rooted not only in the volume and quality of his historical labours on patristic texts and problems but also in his Ritschlian vision of the way in which Christian thought is historically determined. His great works on the history of dogma, on the history and chronology of early Christian literature, and on the mission and expansion of Christianity (1924 edition), together with his Markion, remain indispensable for contemporary historians of the age; and the same is hardly less true of a series of works, minor in comparison, on the formation of the Pauline corpus, 1Clement, Justin's Dialogue, Tertullian, Cyprian, Clement of Alexandria and Origen. For the light thrown by Origen's exegesis on the problems of the contemporary churches of his time Harnack's collection of matter (1919) ranks high as a masterpiece. It is significant that his original plan for the Berlin Academy's GCS series was restricted to the first three Christian centuries. In this plan he received support from Mommsen and, less enthusiastically, from Wilamowitz who was sceptical of Harnack's control of Greek. Neither of these great scholars (also indispensable even today) were sympathetic to Christianity. Duchesne described Mommsen as 'like a rhinocerus in a vineyard'.
But Mommsen found Harnack more congenial than Wilamowitz. The story is here well treated by Stefan Rebenich.
Harnack's scholarly distinction brought him the friendship of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who overruled the Prussian church's aversion and veto to his proposed appointment as professor in Berlin but could never persuade the Oberkirchenrat to modify its position.
He remained a wounded man, hurt by this cold shoulder from the Lutheran church at such a high level of authority. More conservative church people felt a lasting reserve, undiminished by his best-selling lectures on the nature of Christianity which Alfred Loisy famously judged to give insufficient recognition to the faith of the community. Harnack was unmoved by the criticism (P. Gruson's French chapter deals with this). He valued the New Testament to a degree which he could not grant to the Old Testament, but offended church authority by treating New Testament texts less as testimony to the word of God than as priceless evidence for the critical historian of Christian beginnings. He received sympathy from Martin Rade and Troeltsch. From 1919 he met a critical voice in Karl Barth. Paradoxically some of his New Testament studies, often in the Sitzungsberichte of the Academy, judiciously evaluated here by Christoph Markschies, cannot be rated higher than speculative guesswork lacking in cogent argument, moreover he puzzled readers by moving unpredictably from historical radicalism to a not always justified conservatism, both positions being touched at times by improbability.
His relation to the Kaiser brought him elevation to the nobility (von) and presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, an office which he handed on to Max Planck whose name was eventually to be associated with the society in place of the fallen emperor. Both Harnack and Planck were masterful organisers and facilitators of research for others. Harnack was skilled in raising funds from commercial firms.
One of the most interesting papers in this volume is by Manfred Weitlauff and concerns Harnack's opinion of and attitude to Roman Catholic studies of the ancient church. For Catholic practice he felt no attraction: its sacramentality seemed close to magic, and the cult of the Blessed Virgin reminded him of gnostic ideas of a female power in heaven. But the great historian Döllinger was intrigued by his work and invited him to visit his house by Tegernsee. The friendship became lasting. Döllinger had the unhappy experience of being asked by his bishop (when Roman Catholic | 828 |
Ecologist Chris Hobbs was the recipient of a 2017 Collections & Research grant for graduate students in support of research in the Museum's collections. The award is used toward travel and lodging expenses for a student to visit DMNH to study our world-class collections and library. Eligible students must be enrolled in a graduate degree-granting program and pursuing collections-based research leading to publication. Chris visited DMNH in July and attended the American Malacological Society annual meeting as well as the DMNH collections. As part of the grant, he wrote the following blog post about his research.
I've been studying as a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University in England for the past three years, working on my topic of interest: conservation ecology. This post is a bit of an insight into my field of research, one which has taken me around the world!
I've always had a keen interest in ecology, understanding our natural environment and what we can do to protect it. When I was given the chance to work on the endangered freshwater snail, Segmentina nitida (the Shining Ramshorn Snail), I jumped at the opportunity. This species has suffered around an 80% decline in population size in the last 100 years, caused by land use changing from grazing land for livestock to intensive arable farmland, as well as changes in water chemistry caused by fertilizer run-off.
I soon found that the path to conservation of a species is frequently littered with pitfalls and dead-ends, such as finding an almost identical species with the minutest of differences (with samples averaging the 5mm mark!), to a complete unwillingness of the species to breed in laboratory conditions, regardless of mood lighting and serenading. It has so far taken a lot of effort and determination to carry on, but ultimately has been completely worth it, as you develop a deeper understanding and new knowledge of the species.
My current research project is looking at shape changes of the Shining Ramshorn Snail throughout its main habitat, Europe. This currently involves exploring the many mosquito-ridden swamps, fragrant ditches, and remote ponds of Europe for hours on end to find samples from as many countries as possible, to get as full a picture of similarities and differences in shape of the different populations. However, there is only so much travelling, so many contacts to make, and sampling to be done. This is why museum collections are such a valuable resource to myself and other researchers. They give people access to samples from countries that would otherwise be impossible to get to, or simply don't have the time to sample in.
Whilst applying to present at the American Malacological Society meeting in July, I was amazed to find out that Delaware Museum of Natural History actually had samples of Segmentina in their collection, and that they had some from regions and countries I'd been unable to find records or contacts in! I was awarded a research grant by DMNH to come and photograph the samples they had to add to my research. This allowed me to fill in gaps in my map of the shape of Segmentina throughout Europe. This allowed me to see if shape change was a gradual change through climate or location (East to West or North to South) or if there are stark differences between (and within) countries regardless of distance, indicating that there are local<|fim_middle|> species better, we have a greater chance to make a difference to it through successful conservation, and that makes it all worth it. | adaptions to habitat or water chemistry.
If we can observe the trends of a species with regards to habitat, we can see the massive implications for the conservation of a species. If a population is completely different in shape to another, it is likely to be adapted to a different condition. If this is the case, there could be issues in using this population to reintroduce it to another country, or increase the numbers in an existing population. The new individuals could completely die out because of differences in water chemistry, or habitat composition, or cause damage to existing populations, especially if they are too genetically distinct to reproduce effectively. If we can find populations of similar shape and, through further analysis, are genetically similar, then we have a greater chance of implementing a successful conservation plan for a species.
Conservation ecology is a fascinating subject with incredible opportunities to explore the biology of a species, as well as explore the world, and there is an amazing amount of work that needs to go into it. Ultimately however, if we can manage to understand the | 208 |
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Installation of the F-111 mural scaled painting.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is arguably one of the most demanding, daunting and complex spaces in which to view works of contemporary art. It is the cruel anvil on which many an art star has been hammered into submission. Rarely has an artist triumphed over the demands of that corkscrew space. It is a great relief at several levels, the result of a much later expansion and renovation that one may slide off the ramp into some semblance of normalcy in white cube galleries of a more conventional configuration. A singular exhibition that reformed those obstacles into a resonating positive was the brilliant Robert Wilson installation of Armani fashions. All too often, as a result of the rigors of the space, and its inflexible insistence that we proceed according to its dictates, we have emerged thinking less not more of the artist or theme in question.
The horrors of the Frank Lloyd Wright design (1957-1959) demand that we look at art his way. Now and forever. It entirely negates the possibility of a private meander. I prefer to view exhibitions while darting back and forth, dwelling here, rushing ahead, threading back. Not, as is the case in the New York based monument to Wright's eccentric ego, being pushed like ground meat through a casing of art sausage.
Accordingly, I rebel. For example, I always tour the Guggenheim Museum from the top down in reverse order of the installation by taking the elevator to the top level. Actually, you have to climb up a bit to start at the end. Then titubate down through the exhibition which I find more pleasant than slogging my way uphill.
In the case of viewing the current<|fim_middle|>. The other guys would nod off while I tried to engage Jim about his art. It was tricky. Mostly he preferred to be the foreman or boss of the crew and we were the men. The workers. Jim tended not to wax philosophical. Which is why I split my side laughing at the stupid pretentious art speak in the lengthy, pompous wall label at the Guggenheim next to his most famous piece, "F-111." It attributed to the artist all kinds of absurd notions. Jim may indeed have had some of those thoughts in his head, deep down, real deep down, but he never talked that way.
He preferred to speak of himself as a kind of art worker. A sign painter and straight kid from the Mid-West somewhere. Who came to the Big Apple and got a gig painting those huge billboards in Times Square. Until guys feel off the scaffolding. He told me vividly of the day a friend died and the foreman watched him fall, paused, went into the trailer and punched out his time card. Jim quit after that and turned the techniques of a commercial sign painter into becoming one of the founding members of the Pop generation. It was a brilliant move. But Jim, a simple, down to earth guy, a worker, conveyed to me some of the wonder and confusion of being an art star. He was a pretty straight family man with a wife, Mary Lou, who I met only once, and a kid. But he would talk about being caught up in the glitter of the international art world and its sordid temptations which he staunchly resisted. But it clearly intrigued him. And, he seemed curious and attentive to this kid, a worker, who insisted on asking all those tough and probing questions.
Behind that surface mask of the sign painter/ artist/ worker, Jim was really a profound thinker. He just covered it up pretty good. In the back seat of the car one time I found a journal of philosophy. So, I kindah outed him on that. I talked to him about psychedelic art, a term that had not yet been coined, and Eastern mysticism. He said that he had done some early Mandala paintings that I never saw.
That job came to an end. I wasn't a very good worker. And maybe I asked too many questions. But I have always loved the man and his work. It was one of the great experiences of my life to sit with him and sip Jack Daniels, or was it Jim Beam, yeah, probably Jim Beam, from tin cups after a day of hard labor.
So a lot of that emotion and nostalgia rushed through my mind, heart and guts as Astrid and I made our way down the ramp of a life lived. In some ways it was my story as much as it was his. Like running into the barbed wire, tumble weed sculpture with neon. There was a stack of barbed wire that he had chrome plated in the studio. I helped him twist it into the mass that became the sculpture. But I thought it was funny when the chrome plating all fell off as he wrestled with it. Later we dragged it up to the roof and Jim lowered it down to ground level with a rope. I was and am afraid of height. As I said, I wasn't a very good worker.
One of the pleasures of this show was its inclusion of the small collages he made to work up the murals. Several of the studies for "F-111" were a revelation. I had always wondered how the smiling kid ended up under the huge hair drier. And it was interesting to see that work reconfigured just as it had been at Castelli Gallery. I looked carefully to see if it had aged any.
It was wonderful once again to see the dolls wrapped in cellophane from a 1993 show at Castelli. That was a breakthrough that got him back on track from the dry period that preceded it when Rosenquist was making Rosenquists.
At the lower level of the spiral, the actual beginning of the show, I was surprised at how flat and crudely painted were those seminal Pop works from the early 1960s. They were the works that established his reputation but, in hindsight, the surfaces seem dull and matte compared to the sumptuous flash of the recent decade. Yes, I understand what he was doing, conflating high and low culture, sure, but it now seems heavy-handed. But, even then, there were terrific moments like, "(Untitled) Joan Crawford Says…" (1964). That woman, "no wire hangers," has always intrigued me as a wicked witch of Hollywood. And spaghetti which Jim always did great things with. Just like the ubiquitous enormous lipsticks in recent years. I missed not seeing the early, "Growth Plan," one of his few straight pictures. By that I mean unaltered or not manipulated. Jim usually likes to mix and match so there are very few straight appropriations. He has a thing about postmodern cubism.
Let me end with a disclaimer. To know the man is not to know the man. I know some things about the man but that's about it. Nor do I know the work better than someone who never met the artist. Perhaps, in that sense, I know Michelangelo better than I know Rosenquist. Because I have studied his life and work intensively. But I never met Michelangelo. And, I know more about him. Perhaps some day I will get down to Florida and spend some time with Jim sipping whiskey from a tin cup. I have so many more questions today. But I am not sure that I would get more answers. Oh well. | exhibition, "James Rosenquist: A Retrospective," through January 25, 2004, this had an unexpected benefit. It clearly emphasized that through a long and productive career, that started in the 1960s, the artist is now doing his very best work. The paintings of the past few years have never been richer or more brilliant in color, mastery of the brush, flickering trompe l'oeil trickery, fracture and layering of space, as well as, an intensity of pop culture iconography. These often epic-scaled murals, including several in those white cube, sidebar galleries, were just brilliant and stunning. If he is not among the elite of greatest artists of our time, a difficult and complex debate, he is surely on the short list of greatest living painters.
The slow, descending spiral through the nine circles of his career all too clearly reveal the bumps in the road, setbacks and fallow periods, triumphs and pitfalls of his private hell, and Faustian pact with greatness. Every major artist pays a price. There were glimpses of this when I was an apprentice to the sorcerer.
I knew of him, his work, before I knew him. My first glimpse came when Sam Hunter, the founding director of the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, during my senior year, in 1963, acquired, "Two 1959 People," as part of the prescient Gevirtz-Mnuchin Purchase Fund. It was an endowment of some 23 works for the then new museum. A couple of years ago, there was an anniversary of that museum when I had lunch with Sam and current director, Joe Ketner. At the gala opening of the Graham Gund designed Rose expansion it was great fun hooking up with Jim after all these years. That painting, which combined two faces, a slice of bread, a cartoon of a section of a row boat drawn in black line on red, a license plate with the number 0-0000 dated 1959 (no state), some wall paper design applied with a roller, and a fishing pole with line attached to the top edge, has held its own and accrued greatly in value. It was the fishing pole that got to me as an undergraduate. Over time, I have grown far less rigid about contemporary art.
Before we met, I wrote about another important work by Rosenquist for Arts Magazine. I was living in New York at the time but returned to Boston and viewed an important exhibition organized by Sue Thurman for the Institute of Contemporary Art. It was an ambitious project in which she rented the venerable Horticulture Hall to install the American selection from the World's Fair in Montreal in 1967. In that huge Buckminster Fuller dome, Rosenquist had created an enormous vertical, "Fire Slide," which created the notion that some giant was descending from heaven into that space.
During an Andy Warhol opening, I recall it was the silver pillows and cow wallpaper exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, my friend, Jim Jacobs, a Castelli employee, introduced me to Jim, who was wearing his famous paper suit, and asked if I would be interested in working for him. Having washed out of the graduate program of the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, and abandoning hope of a career in Egyptology, I was desperate for employment. During the months that followed, in 1967, until I got a full-time job as director of Spectrum Gallery, a coop on 57th Street, I worked part time in Jim's Broome Street studio, and helped build a stockade fence around his then being renovated home and studio in East Hampton.
The experience was more and less than I expected. Jim would work feverishly, night and day for a stretch of time, and then call me and a couple of other guys to come and clean up the studio. Nobody was ever around when he actually painted. But now and then there were multiple projects we worked on. One time, for example, he taught us how to make light socket attachments for some "chandeliers" he was mass-producing. Another time, a gang of us made stripe paintings for some medals he was going to display on a float in an anti war parade and demonstration. They all got destroyed.
There were long drives to East Hampton and time after work when Jim would feed the men, mostly burgers, and pass out tin cups for our daily ration of grog | 923 |
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The building work on Little Crifts Cottage began in the summer of 2015 and was finally completed, two years later, in the summer of 2017. Here's the story of the build, along with some of the photos that we have taken as we went along!
The site where Little Crifts Cottage now stands was home to an old corrugated iron barn, which had long since become so rotten and unsafe that we tried to avoid going in there for any longer than strictly necessary. It was quite surprising that it didn't blow down completely in the winter storms in 2014/2015! On a lovely summer's day, with some help from some good friends, we got the barn demolished and a few sheets of very rusty iron went away for recycling on the back of a lorry.
The cladding was full of holes.
With the old barn gone, we could get on with the groundworks for the new cottage. With the help of a mini digger and a small dumper truck, the very shallow concrete floor of the old barn was cleared away, allowing the site to be levelled and the footing trenches dug out. It was an important part of our eco-building plan that we minimised the amount of concrete being poured, and indeed only a 20cm layer was required in the base of our footing trenches.
Now the foundation blockwork was in, the foundation trenches had to be backfilled, something we did ourselves over the course of a weekend, using just (wo)man power and a couple of wheelbarrows. We were able to use all of the broken up concrete from the old barn floor in the backfill, avoiding the need for a skip to take waste materials off site for disposal. The block and beam floor construction limited our need for heavy lifting equipment and lifts the floor surface off the ground, providing an air gap and improving the building's insulation properties.
With the foundation work done and the floor structure complete, it was time to get the timber frame installed. In just 48 hours, the site went from a block-work slab, to a completed set of walls – really dramatic progress! At this stage in the process, timber frame construction looks like a little miracle, as a building springs into existence in front of your very eyes!
The erectors arrived on site.
The plans for the cottage include a large, open plan, full height living space. This meant that, unlike the bedrooms where pre-constructed A<|fim_middle|> have saved rather a lot of money!), but it was really important to us to build something interesting, using skilled craftsmen, which would be a credit and an asset to this beautiful location.
Now, the roof, windows and doors, as well as the waterproof panels wrapping the timber frame externally. We also started fitting the amazing space-age insulation to the interior walls, which should keep the cottage lovely and cool in summer, and toasty warm in winter (with the help of the underfloor heating, of course!).
The insulation and underfloor heating are a big part of the eco credentials of the cottage build – yes, all of those rolls of 'space blanket' had to be stapled up by hand, between the rafters!
It's when the plasterboard and floor screed went down that it's finally possible to get a real 'feeling' for the interior spaces. The lovely little 'hobbit' wood-burning stove was installed – much to the joy of the plastering team who seemed to keep 'discovering' fuel for it. I don't blame them, it kept the place lovely and toasty!
The decked veranda is a lovely feature of the cottage, and this was all Nigel's hard work – he did a lovely job!
While the builders were finishing the floors inside, Nigel was beavering away on the landscaping, completing yards of dry stone walling all around the cottage, as well as the decking and driveway work.
The kitchen fitters arrived, and we were able to do the last few bits of tiling indoors, and finished the walling and hedging at the back of the cottage. That just left the furnishing to do!
It's been a long two years, but the cottage is finally finished, signed off by Building Control, and furnished. We're delighted by the results! | -frames could be used, each roof truss had to be cut in, individually, on site, and the large king trusses were also created on site by our team of carpenters. Could we have done without this kind of detaling? Undoubtedly yes (and it would | 58 |
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This early elementary arrangement of We Three Kings by Sean Parsons uses jazz harmony in the teacher accompaniment to evoke a mysterious feel. The student part is composed using a simple dovetailing melody and is perfect for beginners.
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Dr. Sean Parsons is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator. Originally from Illinois, Sean holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Master's degree in Jazz Studies from DePaul University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois. Prior to his appointment at Ohio University where he teaches Jazz Studies and Music Theory, Sean has held faculty positions at Marshall University and Illinois Wesleyan University. He is in demand as a performer and clinician nationwide. Sean has shared the stage with many of the most notable musicians in jazz, including Clark Terry, James Moody, Aretha Franklin, Jon Faddis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Steve Turre, and Randy Brecker. Sean is also an elected member of the Athens School Board. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, twin children, three dogs, two horses, a parrot, and a collection of animals that his daughter continues to accumulate.
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Production of the Mazda 3 still continues.
Advantages: The Mazda 3 not only looks well, but it's good to drive too. Furthermore it spacious and well-built while the engines are willing performers.
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Pop-up cocktail bar,<|fim_middle|>ia, and another sprawling, heavy, and majestic collection of songs that "dives further into explorations of universal themes…life & death, earth & space, beauty & sorrow." It's a record to lose yourself in, a record that demands to be experienced in full, a record that's perfect for riding out the darkness before the dawn.
It's also something of a solo record. Keith D is once again the mastermind behind Arctic Sleep (he's joined here by drummer Nick Smalkowski), and it's his experiences that give Kindred Spirits its chilly grandeur. According to press materials:
Finding himself once again as a solo artist, Arctic Sleep founder Keith D wrote all of the music for the album with his closest & dearest friend by his side…a snowshoe cat named Yoda. Right when the music for the album had been completed, Yoda fell gravely ill and passed away. Crushed, Keith set to work writing the lyrics in bereavement. The result is "Kindred Spirits," a musical work intended to bring comfort and solace to anyone who has experienced loss, be it human or animal.
Heavy stuff, to be sure, but Kindred Spirits shoulders the weight beautifully. It's a lot to dive into (we've only just begun to scratch the surface), but if you're looking for a small taste, check out the video for opener "Meadows." It's a time-lapse video of the creation of the album cover, courtesy of illustrator Jennifer Weiler:
Kindred Spirits—which was funded by more than $8,000 on Kickstarter—is available on vinyl and CD now. And yes, the accompanying "Kindred Spirits Blend" coffee beans and coffee mug are also available.
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A: I don't have Visual Studio right now, but I think you an do that using a Where statement :
var staffNames = sql.Staff_Time_TBLs.Where(item => item.Section == "Level 1").Select(item => item.Staff_No).Distinct().ToList();
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The forensic use of bioinformation: ethical issues
Section 4 of 8 Ethical values and human rights
Chapter 1 What is bioinformation?
Chapter 2 Interpretation of bio-information
Ethical values and human rights
Chapter 4 Criminal investigation
Chapter 5 Bioinformation in court
Chapter 6 Expanding uses of the National DNA Database
Chapter 7 Governance and ethical oversight
Forensic use of bioinformation >
Guide the report >
It is the Government's duty to protect the public from crime. However, the Government also needs to protect certain ethical values, such as liberty, autonomy, privacy, informed consent and equality. Sometimes these obligations conflict and a balance must be struck.
The Council broadly endorses a rights-based approach, recognising the importance to human beings of respect for their individual liberty, autonomy and privacy, but also the need, in appropriate circumstances, to restrict these rights either in the general public interest or to protect the rights of others.
In recent years there has been a growing body of equality and human rights legislation, including the Human Rights Act 1998. This means that some human rights are now legally enforceable and must be protected.For example:
The right to respect for private and family life can only be interfered with for certain reasons, for example to prevent crime and protect of the rights and freedoms of others.
The right to a fair trial, together with the right to 'fair' treatment, embraces the principle that the prosecution must prove the guilt of the defendant beyond reasonable doubt.
The principle of 'proportionality' is at the heart of the recommendations in the report. This means that any interference with legally enforceable human rights must be justified<|fim_middle|> crime scene at an earlier date, or have a similar profile to the real criminal. This does not mean you will be charged, but being involved in a criminal investigation, and being tainted with suspicion, can be personally distressing.
The Database was originally intended to represent the criminal community and so people may feel that being on the Database implies that they are a criminal.
Sensitive genetic information can be obtained from DNA samples, such as family relationships or an unexpected result from the DNA sex test. The fact that the police, forensic science services and people carrying out research on the Database have access to people's DNA without their consent could be seen as an intrusion of personal privacy.
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About the working party | as being proportionate to the need to detect and prosecute offenders, and there must be evidence that the interference will be effective.
The 'no reason to fear if you are innocent' argument
The argument is sometimes put forward that innocent people have nothing to fear from being on the National DNA Database. However, this argument ignores several points:
If your DNA is on the Database, there is a chance you will be identified as a match or partial match to DNA found at a crime scene even if you are innocent. You may have been at the | 108 |
Hasher Bin Maktoum Al Maktoum Inaugurates the 20th edition of Dubai Derma
Over 14,500 Participants Explore the Latest Innovations Exhibited by More than 350 Exhibiting Companies Representing more than 500 International Brands The Value of the Dermatology and Cosmetic Industry is Worth Around 20 Billion Dirhams Dubai- United Arab Emirates, 6 July 2021: His Highness Sheikh Hasher Bin Maktoum Al Maktoum, Director […]
Home News & Press Releases Hasher Bin Maktoum Al Maktoum Inaugurates the 20th edition of Dubai Derma
Over 14,500 Participants Explore the Latest Innovations Exhibited by More than 350 Exhibiting Companies Representing more than 500 International Brands
The Value of the Dermatology and Cosmetic Industry is Worth Around 20 Billion Dirhams
Dubai- United Arab Emirates, 6 July 2021: His Highness Sheikh Hasher Bin Maktoum Al Maktoum, Director General of Dubai Department of Information officially inaugurated the 20th edition of Dubai World Dermatology and Laser Conference & Exhibition 'Dubai Derma', the leading event in the Middle East, Africa Market, and beyond, earlier today at the Dubai World Trade Center. The leading event is set to continue for three consecutive days, until July 8th, with the participation of top-tier doctors, specialists, experts and leading companies.
The opening ceremony began with a welcome speech delivered by Dr. Hassan Galadari, Head of Scientific Committee of Dubai Derma Conference, during which he highlighted the significance of holding 'Dubai Derma' physically this year in the UAE, followed by a speech from Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Fouzan, President of the Arab Academy of Dermatology & Aesthetics, during which he highlighted the support 'Dubai Derma' had always received from The Late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid, and recalled the support he had continuously extended towards the elevation of healthcare.
The opening ceremony was concluded with a speech from Dr. Riad Mashal Secretary General of Pan Arab League of Dermatological Societies, which highlighted the significance of this meeting and the exceptional opportunities it provides to doctors, experts and specialists to exchange information and share expertise.
Following the inauguration, His Highness Sheikh Hasher Bin Maktoum Al Maktoum toured the exhibition area and was accompanied by His Excellency Awadh Al Ketbi, Director-General of the Dubai Health Authority, Dr. Ibrahim Galadari, Professor of Dermatology, Conference Chairman of Dubai Derma, Dr. Abdul Salam Al Madani, Executive Chairman of Dubai Derma and Chairman of INDEX Holding, in addition to some of the most prominent names in the field, where he explored the latest technologies and services exhibited and showcased by the leading names in the field, who chose 'Dubai Derma' to showcase their brands, products and services.
Dr. Ibrahim Galadari, Professor of Dermatology, Conference Chairman of Dubai Derma said: "The Dermatology and Cosmetic surgery field is witnessing a rapid growth, and we're seeing new technologies and products emerge faster than seen in any other field. Additionally, the value of the Dermatology and Cosmetic industry is worth 20 Billion Dirhams, which cover cosmetic products, cosmetic machines and tools, and cosmetic surgery. Now, more than ever, it is essential for professionals to have a platform that facilitates the exchange of knowledge, and helps them conjoin as a community to enhance their expertise, and allow them to better cater to patients everywhere, and this is what Dubai Derma provides."
He added: "this year's scientific program was carefully put together to tackle all the key topics that have arisen in the light of COVID-19, and uncover and discuss effective and efficient treatment solutions, as well as discuss various approaches and techniques. Additionally, we are going to focus on the dermatology practice during COVID-19 and how we can improve the wellbeing of our patients, and will also discuss whether these skin diseases have increased or decreased during COVID-19."
He concluded: "The Dubai Derma conference will also cover topics related to major skin diseases,<|fim_middle|> Abdul Salam Al Madani, Executive Chairman of Dubai Derma and Chairman of INDEX Holding said: "Every year, we witness an astounding increase in the turnout of exhibitors, visitors, and participants of Dubai Derma, and it is evident that this event has become an indispensable meeting of the field's most prominent experts, brands and companies."
He added: "We are thrilled to be welcoming Dubai Derma's visitors back, and consider this a clear indication of the United Arab Emirates' leading position and substantial capabilities in hosting world-class events, while still implementing and maintaining the necessary precautions needed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of visitors and attendees."
He concluded: "This year, the exhibition will include more than 350 exhibiting companies representing more than 500 international brands, where over 14,500 doctors, specialists and experts will be able to explore and delve into the latest technologies and innovations in the field of Dermatology and Laser, and will get the opportunity to network and connect with colleagues from across the world."
From his side, Dr. Hassan Galadari, Head of Scientific Committee of Dubai Derma said: "People talk about the 'new normal' and how things are going to be moving forward. With a stellar number of speakers, cutting technology, and a focus on innovation that has become synonymous with Dubai, this edition of Dubai Derma is everything that has always been in the years prior. Attendees will rest assured that the quality of delivery of both live and virtual sessions will be top-notch. What's even better they will be exposed to more international speakers than at any one point in the past."
Furthermore, the first day of the conference discussed key topics in the field such as: Hyperpigmentation, Acne, Melasma, Chemical Peels, Hair loss, and more, through lectures delivered by some of the most prominent doctors and specialists from around the world.
Dubai Derma is supported by the Pan Arab League of Dermatology, Arab Academy of Dermatology & Aesthetics (AADA), and GCC League of Dermatologists and with the support of the Government of Dubai and Dubai Health Authority (DHA), and Dubai Business Events, Dubai Derma's destination partner. Furthermore, the event is also supported by the American Academy of Dermatology, Cosmetic Dermatology Society of India, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Egyptian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ESPRS), Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL), Pakistan Association of Dermatologists, and Sri Lanka College of Dermatologists.
Dubai Derma is annually organized by INDEX Conferences and Exhibitions, a member of INDEX Holding, in cooperation with the Arab Academy of Dermatology and Aesthetics (AADA). | as well as some of the basic skills in surgery, which will provide insights on how to preform basic surgery like stitching, and how to develop these skills to be able to perform different grafts or flaps for the surgery, in addition to focusing on providing insights into Laser, Fillers and Botox. Today, Dubai Derma is a considered to be a global scientific institution that has facilitated the exchange of knowledge and expertise for doctors from all over the world, through the educational courses and workshops it offers, which have greatly contributed over the years to refining the expertise of doctors and training them."
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The inaugural Effervescence sparkling wine festival was such a success last year that it will return bigger and better than ever in November.
Effervescence Tasmania 2015 will again celebrate Tasmania's emergence as a producer of some of the world's best sparkling wine – and this time around one of the world's leading chefs will be part of the celebrations.
Tetsuya Wakuda, of Sydney and Singapore fame and a great promoter of Tasmanian produce, will be guest chef for the official welcome dinner on Friday, November 13.
He will also join some of the country's best sparkling winemakers over the weekend and work with some of Tasmania's best seafood and cheese producers.
As was the case last year (when over 700 people attended), the sparkling producers featured at Effervescence Tasmania are by invitation only.
Josef Chromy Wines at Relbia will once again be the venue and star winemakers including Dr Andrew Pirie (Apogee), Ed Carr (House Of Arras), Louisa Rose (Jansz) and Loic Le Calvez (Clover Hill) will be in attendance along with Bruny Island Cheese and Huon Aquaculture, which will showcase its salmon caviar and salmon sashimi.
DJ Damien Goundrie will return for the Bubbles and Beats party.
New to Effervescence in 2015 is the "Go South" event scheduled for Sunday,<|fim_middle|> there is description about travelling and eating. | November 15. For those heading to Hobart and wanting to continue the celebrations, Frogmore Creek, Moorilla and Stefano Lubiana Wines will offer in-depth tasting experiences.
Guests will visit each winery, enjoy a tasting hosted by the winemakers followed by a sparkling lunch.
'We saw the opportunity for the South to host an event that showcases our brands in a unique way," says Amber Kemp of Stefano Lubiana.
"This is certainly the first time a sparkling tour has been designed where all the winemakers are on hand to showcase their wine and host an in-depth tasting experience."
The first stop is Frogmore Creek in the Coal River Valley where guests will meet senior winemaker Alain Rousseau; followed by a tasting and visit to Moorilla at Mona with winermaker Conor van der Reest and then off to Stefano Lubiana in the Derwent Valley to meet with owner and producer Steve Lubiana.
Daniel McMahon of Moorilla, who will co-host the tour, says 'This is the first time an event of this nature has been presented. It was an easy decision to do it as with Frogmore Creek and Stefano Lubiana as we all represent the highest quality in southern Tasmanian sparkling and have a long history in making effervescent wines'.
For information on dinners, breakfasts, public tastings and master classes, see: www.effervescencetasmania.com.
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Twenty women up for a challenge. Abseiling in Borrowdale at the end of march is always going to be a bit nippy. But warped up warm and full of beans they all got stuck in, well done ladies..
Stoney Croft Ghyll delivering the goods today, best level all year.
During the Half term i had a bunch of groups out doing different sessions but this young man put a lot of grown men to shame. Well done to the six year old Daniel.
I've so busy of late I've not been adding much to the site, good to be busy... A few weeks back i had the pleasure of spending the day in Esk gorge with a group of ladies on a hen do. The level was on the sporty side but the group did well. Hope to hear from them again.
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Discover Charms of 'Not the Best'
by Shun A.
Another Kiyomizu Temple
What seduces you in Japan? Cross-cultural experiences? Indeed, you can get to various postcard-perfect spots seen on glossy brochures or on the internet. Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto is a good example for foreign tourists to taste of Oriental culture. It's a site of World Heritage and probably one of the best spots when you visit in Kyoto. Of course, it is always crowded of visitors. But almost all of them never know there is another Kiyomizu Temple in Japan.
The other day, I visited Kiyomizu Temple at Yasugi City, Shimane prefecture with my wife. It was a holiday, we saw not a few worshipers there. Most worshipers are local residents who love peaceful atmosphere in the huge precincts of this temple. To tell the truth, I prefer to visit the temple on weekdays since I could have an illusion I took all space here to myself. As such, visitors are few in this historic site. What an incredible difference between two 'Kiyomizu Temples'!
The name of the temple is derived from 'pure water' streaming down from the mountainous area. Thus the origins of two temples are quite similar, and the history of 'Another Kiyomizu' is slightly older than the 'Famous Kiyomizu' history.
All visitors go up the long stone-steps to reach the main building of the temple which has 1,400 year's history. There are also a 3-story pagoda and other buildings. Some enthusiastic worshipers get
experiences of copying of a sutra or zen meditation. Anyway, you don't have to hurry up to see the temple for the next destination. Your time might be flying slowly here.
Kiyomizu Temple
Business hours everyday 9:00AM~4*00PM
Price admission free zen meditation 1,000JPY
Matsue Castle ~ meaning of being 'Not the Best'
Matsue Castle is one of the 5 National Treasures as a Japanese feudal castle. But the scale and the beauty are not the best among Japanese castles. I think the best is Himeji Castle in Hyogo prefecture in the aspect of architectural beauty. The charms of Matsue Castle are in the different and hidden aspects.
The castle was began to construct in 1605 and was completed for 5 years. That was about the times of the beginning of 250 years peace in Japanese history. The castle has never been used for battles and has survived after two crises of being destroyed. The first crisis was at the beginning of Meiji period in the 19th century. The castle was destined to be destroyed as an evil symbol of samurai age, however it was saved by the movement and donation of descendants of samurai and farmers at the last moment. The second crisis was in the World War Ⅱ. While most cities were destroyed by the American air raids, strangely enough, Matsue was excluded from the list of the target cities. There are interesting reasons in the background about it, but it's a too long story to talk here.
When you visit Matsue Castle, try to remind yourself of this miraculous history and find
the greatness of 400 years in scars of columns, for instance. Besides, the charm of Matsue Castle is that we can enjoy not only seeing the castle but finding other small sites connecting firmly to the castle. Try to walk along the road bordered by pine trees north of the castle. You may find a little museum, it might be a samurai residence in the past. You may find an old-looking house in the hidden corner, it might be a tea ceremony house which a feudal lord of Matsue Domain built.
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Concluding my vague words, I'll recommend an absolutely gratifying activity here.
That's Horikawa Sightseeing Boat. You can enjoy this 50-minute boat tour along the
moats of the castle with the wonderful scenery.
Matsue Castle
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Nageire-do has an unbelievable scene. It is in a cave of the steep cliff near the top of Mt. Mitoku (899m). How was this building constructed 1300 years ago? It has not been completely explained yet. Visitors who could reach there after 1 hour trek would surely get divine feelings.
Plan your trip to Kyoto with Shun A. | 0AM~4:00or6:00PM
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Deep San-in Culture Tour
San- in District (Tottori and Shimane prefectures) is rich with virgin nature, historic sites, newly established facilities and marine activities. This tour is designed for visitors who have interests in traditional Japanese culture in the countryside. My special recommendation is Adachi Museum and Matsue Castle.
Escape to Oki Islands (for 2 days)
Oki is an attractive destination for the tourists who are weary of crowds in large cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. There are slow life, many healing spots, virgin nature and marine activities. Among them, the breathtaking scenery at Kuniga Coast and the sightseeing boat are particular recommendations. Try to escape from the stereotyped tours of Japan.
Mt. Daisen~Mt. Fuji of Western Japan~ Trekking
Mt. Daisen is known as the Mt. Fuji of Western Japan. Daisen ranks as one of the three most beautiful summits in Japan. This tour is designed for visitors who want to enjoy a mountain trekking at a slow pace. The trail to the peak (1709m) is about 4km long and takes | 400 |
| Joe Biden to make first public Penn appearance of the year this Tuesday
Joe Biden to make first public Penn appearance of the year this Tuesday
By Max Cohen 02/18/19 4:25pm
Former Vice President Joe Biden will speak at Irvine Auditorium on Feb. 19.
Credit: Son Nguyen
Former Vice President and Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Joe Biden will speak on campus on Tuesday in a discussion with Penn President Amy Gutmann.
The discussion, which starts on 3:00 p.m. on Feb. 19, takes place in Irvine Auditorium and will run until 4:30 p.m.
Biden visited Penn's campus at least four times in 2018, most recently appearing at a voter registration event and a Perry World House colloquium in September. His conversation with Gutmann will mark his first public appearance of 2019 at Penn, coming amid speculation Biden will soon decide whether he is running for president in 2020.
The event was announced in an email sent from Gutmann's office to the Penn student body on Feb. 8, billed as "an engaging conversation" with the 47th Vice President of the United States.
How the Penn Biden Center<|fim_middle|> on Tuesday.
Although Biden is leading the early polls of the Democratic primary field, he has not announced his candidacy yet, even as numerous prominent politicians have declared their own.
As the wait for Biden to announce drags on, his fellow Penn professors have expressed doubts over his likelihood of running and his chances of winning.
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Tickets are now sold out and attendees must show a Penn ID and their ticket confirmation upon entry. Doors open at 2:00 p.m. | 56 |
Flashback Review: True Grit
December 17, 2010 / Dave Taylor / Dad at the Movies / 4 Comments
WIth the impending release of the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit (starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld), it seemed like a good time to go back and watch the original 1<|fim_middle|>John Wayne) to track him down and bring him back for justice. Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) tags along with his own motives: he's been promised a lucrative reward for bringing Chaney to justice for an earlier crime back in Texas.
The three of them make an unlikely band of bounty hunters, and when they find that Chaney has taken up with the Pepper gang (Robert Duvall in an early role), the situation gets considerably more tense: Chaney's a simpleton but Pepper is wily and well aware of the dangers and opportunities that the Indian territory presents. Also keep an eye out for Dennis Hopper as the gawky outlaw Moon.
What most appealed to me about True Grit was that the characters were believable and sympathetic, even as each wrestled with their own demons and limitations. In particular, Darby is a standout as the tough, logical and mature girl Mattie, who stands down ruffians and shows no fear, at least outward. It's also clear why Wayne won the Academy for Best Actor for his role in this film: he's brilliant as the rough, aggressive, antisocial Cogburn who gradually warms up to Mattie and becomes her champion on the quest for justice.
If you haven't seen the original True Grit, I'll recommend it to you: it's well worth a viewing, whether or not you're planning on seeing the Coen Brothers remake. Now to catch some of John Wayne's other works…
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Wow, I feel the same way about Wayne, and have yet to see one of his films, in its entirety. Your review may actually sway me to add a John Wayne flick, or two, to my Netflix queue! Thanks!
Try "The Searchers," in which Wayne plays a racist tracker whose seven-year mission to rescue a kidnapped white girl (a very young Natalie Wood) from Indians makes him confront his own demons. After shooting the film, John Ford remarked, "I didn't know he could act!" He's absolutely great in the film.
Paul Chaney says:
I am a devout John Wayne fan, so I was as drawn to True Grit as I was to any of his other films. Like you, Dave, I recommend to anyone planning on seeing the Coen Brother's version see the 1969 edition first. It will make for a richer experience and, I think, add context.
Cinema Dave says:
Glad you are finding value in John Wayne movies, better late than never!
The reason why John Wayne movies endure is because, despite the violence, there are so life affirming.
If one looks at the subtext of "The Shootist," it is the story of a dying man. In author Glendon Swarthout's novel, "The Shootist" is gloom and doom. With the Duke's involvement, "The Shootist" presents valuable life lessons to a new generation, symbolized by young Ronny Howard. | 969 True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell.
The wrinkle: I am not a fan of John Wayne and find that he played the same gruff bully in just about every film I've seen of his. Further, while I always think that I should like Westerns, with their stark morality and simplistic stories, I can't say it's one of my favorite genres. Still, I think that to appreciate a remake it's important to be familiar with the original work, and so I slipped the Academy Award winning film into the DVD player and pushed play.
To my surprise, I really liked the story, the actors, and the film.
True Grit is about teen Mattie Ross (an appealing, tough Kim Darby) who is determined to see justice for the murder of her father by ne'er do well ranch hand Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey). When the sheriff proves unwilling to venture into Indian territory to pursue him, she hires tough-as-nails marshall Rooster Cogburn ( | 216 |
<|fim_middle|> | While the Bradford Fair in Bradford, Vt., was in full swing, I spent the day for the Valley News photographing a group of 4-H teamsters with their working steers in the first of three qualifying events to go to the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass. Their attention to detail and intensity of the competition was very impressive! Follow this link to see the story and more photographs.
From top, Krystin Skoda, 17, of Randolph, Vt., applies hoof polish to Mike, an eight-month-old Holstein steer, while preparing for the working steer 4-H show at the Bradford Fair in Bradford, Vt.; Megan Taylor, 10, of East Randolph, Vt., encourages her Holstein steers Salt and Pepper to back a cart into a determined space in the competition. It was Taylor's first time showing her one-year-old steers at a fair and she was competing for the experience; From left, Steve and Terri Chamberlin, of Pomfret, Vt., and Deb Skoda, of Randolph, prepare paperwork for the competition. Terri Chamberlin and her father have been running the Green Mountain Teamsters working steer 4-H club since 1990; Joey Ferris, 11, of Northfield, Vt., is tested on his knowledge of working steers by judge Dan Fantoni, of Fairfax, Vt., during the Junior Division fitting and showing portion of the show. Ferris has been involved with working steers for three years; As Fantoni watches, Skoda encourages her young Holstein steer team of John and Mike to pull the stone boat; Analiese Morvan, 18, of Northfield, Vt., takes shelter from the sun in the shadow cast by her Dutch Belt steer team of Jim and Joe while waiting for results from the stone boat obstacle course. Morvan competed at "The Big E" last year as Vermont's sole teamster. | 403 |
Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever."
Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, to<|fim_middle|> my enemies.
Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter. I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation. The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you. The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
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Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
The officers shall say to the army: "Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it.
The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Lord," they replied. | iling for food to eat- for he grants sleep to those he loves. Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Say to him: 'Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young- a place near your altar, Lord Almighty, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
He said: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn22:3Hornhere symbolizes strength. of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior- from violent people you save me. "I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and have been saved from | 353 |
The canadian Jesse Somfay cut though with a twisted, big time sound. His second Traum<|fim_middle|> the dance floor. | release "We breathe the stars through each other" has a lot in common with James Holden and friends working on sounds, overtaking the whole track, killing minimal music for a second. But his tracks also reveal some of the past of minimal music and how things used to be. A throbbing, energetic flow emerges into a modern version of velvet underground's "White light white heat" - Jesse's tracks are digital feedback club music, a relentless, endless, cosmic avalanche, a wall of sound, but above all communication. On "This fragile addiction" we traverse an epic, drugged out, mental arc into a world full of nothing but warm, enveloping and shimmering sunlight. For its flipside "For one brief moment, i was there" a melancholy cloud of crisp and chilling melodies collide with shattered and stuttering percussion. Jesse brings together his favorite spacey indie rock sounds with the drive of electronic dance music to bring a completely unique and ecstatic experience to | 195 |
Catch The Groove's debut EP Smilin' In Paradise, is full of cherry-picked tracks that the band recorded to reflect all the high energy, sensual and soulful magic they're known for on stage. Guitarist/Producer, Nils wrote and produced their first single, "Shaken Not Stirred" - an infectious old school soul-jazz tune which features funky old school horns (creating a buoyant, classic Stevie Wonder-like vibe) and crisp, tight electric guitar.
Dig a little deeper and Catch The Groove turns on the candlelight for "When I See Your Smile", an elegant and atmospheric keyboard and passionate sax driven ballad with an easy crunching groove. "She's My Groove"<|fim_middle|> Nils, Oliver C Brown & Darryl Williams from their project: 'Smilin' in Paradise!' / 2017!!
This is Catch The Groove's "Bolero De Funk" / Smilin' in Paradise / 2017 Love this urban, Latin, funked up big band sound...bringing you their own tower of power!!!
Jacksonville, Florida based band - Catch The Groove was founded by guitarist Ellis White. The core lineup is featuring bassist John Baker, keyboardist Malik Graham and saxophonist/flutist Michael Stanley. New members are trumpeter Max Bednarchik, percussionist Elvyn Rodriguez and drummer Omar Torres.
The EP Smilin' In Paradise is their debut project. The first track Shaken Not Stirred was written and produced by Nils Jiptner. He is well known for his prolific work and outstanding nationwide reputation. The energetic piece has that certain powerful and energetic groove, we love by this great guitarist. Ellis White performs the guitar, while bassist Darryl Williams, and percussionist Oliver Brown have an appearance as guest musicians.
!! Our New EP available now on ITunes, Amazon & CDBaby !! | eases from a raw distorted percussive industrial vibe with dark toned moodiness into a bright blast of bass fired fusion. The groove intensive "Paradise" is a whimsical musical joy showcasing the powerhouse playing of each member with the flavor of the Islands and features alternating lead melody horn lines from Michael's sax and Max's Trumpet along with cool injections by White's guitar. Beginning life as an older piece "Bolero De Funk" is a lively, tight funk jam with Latin overtones – including a tasteful electric guitar solo.
Here's a smooth sailing comfy EP of grooves that are so fitting for that perennial smooth jazz aficionado who loves the sassy horns, nifty guitar riffs, and genuine soul of the music. The EP's entitled Smilin' in Paradise, and the collection of musicians here call themselves simply Catch the Groove. Renowned guitarist Nils, bassist Darryl Williams, and percussionist Oliver Brown all put in classy showings on track 1 to get this party started.
With plenty of predominant horn voicings and arrangements, the project literally speaks for itself loud and clear. The lead track "Shaken Not Stirred," a jazzy Nils-penned cut, kicks off this party with its foot-tappin', finger-poppin' persona, clean guitar lines from the beloved guitarist, and a catchy melody. It's followed by "She's My Groove," a thick, mid-tempo sax-driven number with plenty of outspoken bass lines and drum presence. Here too, you will witness a very infectious melody and good ol' lay-it-down-right funk.
The pace is slowed down to a sweet horn-laden soulful piece with "When I See Your Smile" that's heavy on the very vibe that runs the length of the jazz fan's spine.
Keeping that slow, soulful groove going strong, "Paradise" features the enticing piano/keys work of Tory Harris and Malik Graham along with those chatty horns that keep the conversation going throughout this album.
The EP closes with a funky jam that combines jazz, funk, R&B, and a touch of island flavor — all wrapped neatly and cleverly in a feel that just has to grab you by the ears.
Jacksonville, Florida based formation Catch The Groove was founded by guitarist Ellis White. The core lineup is featuring bassist John Baker, keyboardist Malik Graham and saxophonist/flutist Michael Stanley. New members are trumpeter Max Bednarchik, percussionist Elvyn Rodriguez and drummer Omar Torres.
The EP Smilin' In Paradise is their debut project. The first track Shaken Not Stirred was written and produced by Nils Jiptner. He is well known for his prolific work and outstanding nationwide reputation. The energetic piece has that certain powerful and energetic groove, we love by this great guitarist. Ellis White performs the guitar, while bassist Darryl Williams, and percussionist Oliver Brown have an appearance as guest musicians.
The characteristic and unique sound of the group shows in its impressive expression on the second tune She's My Groove. Driven by John Baker's signature bass, fine tuned by keyboardist Malik Graham, saxophonist Michael Stanley and trumpeter Max Bednarchik present a superb and sonic horn arrangement.
When I See Your Smile is based on this proven horn concept, but thrills the audience with a convincing and logically consistent melody. The aptly titled song Paradise combines all form of horn sounds melting into a perfect full-blooded smooth jazz. With Bolero De Funk the group spreads Latin flavor to their vibrant contemporary instrumental style.
What a fantastic way to finish out the year by announcing the newest 'artist group member' to our international jazz 'family'!!
Please join me in welcoming: Ellis White (founder, guitar), John Baker (bass), Malik Graham (keyboards), Mike Stanley (sax, flute), Max Bednarchik (trumpet), Elvyn Rodriguez (percussion) & Omar Torres (drums) aka Catch The Groove!!!
They're holding down the #45 spot on this week's America's Music Charts*** with "Shaken Not Stirred" featuring | 854 |
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Congratulations, Bob<|fim_middle|> Canada's Order of Hockey in Canada.
The OHL community thanks Bob for his long-time coverage and support of the Canadian Hockey League, and a career spent telling Canada's hockey stories to fans from coast-to-coast.
Ontario Hockey League Stories from August 11, 2020
Congratulations, Bob McKenzie - Soo Greyhounds
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August 11, 2020 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL) - Soo Greyhounds News Release
The Ontario Hockey League sends its congratulations to Bob McKenzie upon his semi-retirement from more than 40 years of professional work, much of that spent telling the game's top stories at TSN.
A native of Scarborough, Ont., McKenzie graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University in 1979 and worked as a sports reporter for The Sault Star, covering the OHL's Greyhounds early in his career. He also served as a broadcast voice on CHL Sunday Night Hockey during the 1980's and has told countless of the League's stories throughout his professional career, holding a prominent role covering the annual World Junior Hockey Championship tournament.
Bob has authored two best-selling books including Hockey Confidential: Inside Stories from Inside the Game, and Hockey Dad: True Confessions of a (Crazy?) Hockey Dad. He was inducted into the Whitby Sports Hall of Fame in 2017 and sits on selection committees for both the Hockey Hall of Fame and Hockey | 232 |
Dog Time
Fire Service Dog Goes Blind "Overnight"
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A dog working for West Midlands Fire Service has gone blind seemingly overnight, confusing his handler and dog dad Mat Dixon, reports BBC News.
10-year-old Kai worked as an Investigation Search Dog, but on Jan. 6 woke up "completely blind" after being "100% normal" just the previous evening. Dixon said that he felt something wasn't quite right after Kai first tripped over his bed, before then walking into a door.
Adapting Fast
Fortunately, the pup's fire service job has helped him adapt to his blindness. As an Investigation Search Dog, he's used to using his nose a lot. And "within minutes he was navigating around," said Dixon, who described himself as "amazed" at how his dog adapted.
At present, it's unknown as to why Kai has gone blind, but he continues to go for tests and check-ups. According to Dixon, "it could be sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome (SARDS), diabetes, a disease or neurological disease".
Dixon rescued the pup ten years ago, and trained him for the fire services. His job was to attend the site of a fire in the aftermath to sniff out whether anybody had committed arson, or used an accelerant.
"We always made sure he was safe at work and he had regular check-ups," said Dixon, who stressed that Kai's loss of sight was unrelated to his job. "If I wasn't happy about going in somewhere<|fim_middle|>'s still time for play too. Recently, despite going blind, he even found a tennis ball in some bushes. "He continues to amaze me," said Dixon.
Dixon has been active on Twitter, updating his followers on Kai's condition. You can keep up with the latest news on Kai here.
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With Kai getting older, Dixon explained that it was getting to the right time for him to retire anyway, so he can at least live out the rest of his years relaxing. But, of course, there | 56 |
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Speaking Their Language: UCLA Language Courses Use Online Voice Tools
By Linda L. Briggs
It's tough to master a new language without speaking it, of course. So it follows that language courses that incorporate speaking as much as possible can help students learn faster and better, and help professors better assess their progress.
To that end, the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA, part of UCLA's Center for World Languages, has been using a suite of communication tools that allows students to use online tools they're familiar with, such as e-mail, chat rooms, and discussion boards, with a voice component<|fim_middle|> with outside the production environment.
Wimba is especially strong when used by instructors as a tool to "enable the human touch to really carry through," Liu says, by increasing the frequency of instructor-student interactions and reducing the turn-around time of instructor response. Because language professors can use Wimba to listen to student utterances more than once, "they can give a good evaluation from several different aspects of the language," Liu says. "We found that this is really beneficial for oral exams," for example.
Instead of face-to-face oral exams of perhaps 10 minutes per student, instructors can record student responses and listen to them repeatedly to evaluate various aspects of the spoken language. After the exam, Liu explains, students "can go back, listen to the question prompts, listen to their answers, and listen to the feedback."
Overall, "the main things students like is…the repeatability, and the increased interaction with instructors," Liu says.
Wimba is a Web-based product; users need an Internet connection and a computer with a browser such as Apple Safari or Windows Internet Explorer, along with a version of the Java Runtime Environment. To record, a microphone is also required.
One basic use for Wimba is adding a voice component to e-mail. For example, a Wimba voice e-mail tool allows language students to write a standard text email in any language, or the sender can record a voice email and send it. The receiver can then play the audio message, and can reply via voice or text. The recording can be listened to repeatedly or shared with others, including the instructor.
The new Wimba Voice Tools 5.0 is sold as an annual subscription license based on a school's full-time enrollment; a typical annual license starts at $6,500.
Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
How Advanced Statistcal Analysis Can Benefit Academia | . The Center for Digital Humanities serves the humanities division at UCLA, which encompasses most of the language teaching and learning groups at the university.
The Web-based tools in use at the center, including the new Wimba Voice Tools 5.0, are from software developer Horizon Wimba. Wimba designs Web-based collaboration software for online education, language learning, and interactive communication.
UCLA has been using Wimba communication products for several years, according to Ted Liu, the foreign language IT coordinator for the center, including Voice E-mail, Voice Discussion Board, Voice Presentation, and Voice Authoring, as well as Wimba's Oral Assessment Builder.
"You can sum up most of the communications tools [from Wimba] as existing text tools that have been empowered by voice," Liu says. "The discussion board is just like a regular discussion board, [for example], but you have the option of listening and recording your voice."
Using the voice e-mail, voice discussion boards, and real-time voice chat room tools from Wimba, instructors and students can interact one-to-one or one-to-many. Instructors can also use the Wimba software for oral assessments, allowing them to listen more than once to a student's spoken reply to a test question. The oral assessment tool can also be used to give students extra speaking assignments, or to assess student improvement and give individual feedback.
Using a voice presentation tool included with Wimba Voice Tools, instructors can create online presentations by combining Web-based content with accompanying text and their own recorded voice message. Students, in turn, can post their own audio comments. With Wimba Voice Tools version 5.0, users can import and export common audio formats like WAV and MP3, allowing students to port audio files to an iPod or other MP3 player.
New tools created in Wimba can be linked to UCLA's course management system, WebCT Campus Edition, through WebCT's Add Page tool, Liu says, making the function appear as part of WebCT. In addition, Wimba can interact with WebCT through a PowerLink function that UCLA is now experimenting | 433 |
What does a top Wheaton orthodontist and a top Glen Ellyn oral surgeon have in common?
Recognize the CDS Senior Student Dental Student Award winners from 2007 in the upper right hand corner?
This award goes to the students who graduate at the top of their classes for both Southern Dental School and the University of Illinois Dental School. It just so happens that our area is blessed to have both of these gifted doctors. Dr. Danielle Bauer DDS, MS is an orthodontist in Wheaton<|fim_middle|> working on them. | at Bauer Orthodontics and Dr. Chad Drouin DMD is an oral surgeon in Glen Ellyn at Glen Ellyn Implant and Oral Surgery Center. Both doctors are currently in the process of becoming board certified in their respective fields.
This photo was "dug up" after a chance comment while discussing some mutual patients led to the realization that they both won the same award the same year and there was certainly a picture of the two of them together from the awards event. Small World!! It sure is nice to know our communities have the best and the brightest | 114 |
Governments around the world are faced with the challenge on how to meet a balanced spending budget amid the increasing recurrent expenditures. According to Mazurak (2013, p. 1), the actual cause of huge government debts is the fact that most governments tend to spend way above what they get each year. For instance, Mazurak (2013, p. 1), notes that the United States spends 1 trillion dollars more than it gets in revenue and tax collection. This has caused the country to hit the debt ceiling in the close of the 2012 prompting a fiscal cliff in the country. Several amendments on budget have been passed in Congress which are aimed are reducing the amount of expenditure that the government incurs. The research in this paper seeks to discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with setting a spending limit to a government. This is in light with the opposing views on government budgets and the reasons behind the overspending witnessed in several countries around the world and particularly in the United States.
The fiscal cliff debate in the United States has been ongoing for some time now with fears expressed over the country's plunge into recession. An interesting part in this debate is the relationship between the political and economic interests expressed in the debate from different factions. On the face of it all, the fears of a fiscal cliff emerged when the country's legislative body, the Congress, refused to raise the debt ceiling of the country beyond the limit if $16.4 trillion to allow the government to make more borrowing. Apparently, the government borrowing has hit the debt limit and needed the approval of the Congress to make further borrowing. The result was a series of legislations including spending cuts through sequestration and tax increase which ultimately impacts on the ability of the citizens to transact their businesses in almost all sectors of their lives.
According to Mazurak (2013, p. 1), putting a limit to what the government can spent annually is advantageous in several ways. One important aspect of this budgetary regulation is that there will be a regulation and authorization from the relevant bodies on the array of good that the can government purchases. Thus there will be proper and positive valuation of the goods to be acquired by the government by relevant bodies which are mandated with such regulatory powers. It is also possible for the government to be a little more careful with the allocation of revenues to different departments as a way of ensuring that each department can account fully to the resources allocated to them. As such, regulated spending will ensure that responsibility and accountability is placed on the people who are entrusted with the government's books of accounts and thus reduce the cases of corruption and embezzlement of public funds. The other reason is that Balanced Budget Amendment will ensure that the burden of opportunity cost is not passed to the future generation who on many instances have been forced to foot the bill for the careless expenditure witnessed in government departments. Equally, balanced spending will ensure that the government has priority areas where it wants to spend its money instead of the current ad hoc expenditures which sometimes are not justified in terms of their economic value to the government and the public.
The government should also consider the liberalization of markets and development on the global market as a careless expenditure is likely to destabilize economies of smaller countries. For instance, the bailing out of the companies during the financial crisis helped to reduce the effect and actually stop financial crisis in other country. An overspending by governments such as the federal government in the United States is likely to reverse the benefits of globalization in terms of free markets and ovement of goods from one region to the other. The last fifty years has witnessed a rapid increase in the level of interaction between countries from different continents. This has mostly been facilitated through improved communication facilities and advancement in technology. As such, the world has witnessed alignment in international strategies which are intended at expanding the business operations to a global level, facilitative global communication systems such as the internet and the satellite system, socioeconomic and political developments in all countries around the world. Globalization has had both positive and negative impacts on the economies of different countries around the world. Evidently, the positives outnumbers the negatives owing to the role that globalization plays in the integration and liberalization of markets across the world. This paper is a research proposal on the economic benefits that globalization has on the economies of individual countries.
Through balanced budgetary spending, the government can support the thriving of globalization which has led to improvement in the level of competitive positions and at the same time lowered the cost of doing business as companies diverse in the manufacture of different products and services. Globalization is responsible for diversification of resources and development and creation of new business opportunities in societies which were formerly closed to the international world. For instance, many countries in Africa are able to sufficiently meet the needs of its people through importation of finished products from the developed countries in Europe and Asia while companies in these continents are able to get raw materials from Africa to make those products. Globalization is thus responsible for easier movement of raw materials and finished products from one part of the world to the other. Moreover, globalization has allowed the concepts of liberalization of markets and free trade to flourish as countries come to agree on the opening up of their markets for mutual benefits through trading (Steinhauer, 2013, p. 1).
Furthermore, through balanced budget and regulated spending the government can support programs related with globalization which are responsible for lower and staple prices of goods as consumers can access a variety of products from different manufacturers across the world almost at the same time. Globalization thus gives the consumers a greater choice on the products and services that they need and in process helps to lower the costs of such products and services. For instance, similar products manufactured in China, Germany, Japan, and United States find their way into the African market and therefore the consumer has a wide variety of choices to make hence a greater bargaining power. Similarly, globalization has brought about diversification and expansion in export markets especially for manufacturers who are manufacturing on the local or domestic markets (De Aenlle, 2012, p. 2).
In addition, it is noted that globalization has facilitated the implementation of economies of scale in many countries across the world as manufacturers specialize and particular goods and services Globalization has also benefited the economies of both developed and developing countries around the world by increasing the standard of living for its citizens by improving infrastructure such as roads, health care, education, and social services<|fim_middle|> In conclusion, it is evident that balanced budget has both the advantages and disadvantages which need to be evaluated before full implementation to ensure that the programs which are depended on the federal grants of government subsidies are not adversely affected by the reduction in the amount allocated to them by the federal government. | , opening up their access to new markets through freer trades between partner countries and removal of trade barriers which can be problematic to homegrown industries. Globalization is also responsible for opening up of job opportunities and therefore reducing the levels of unemployment especially in poor countries where access to jobs can be challenging. This is sometimes facilitated through the influx of foreign companies in local markets and improvement in technologyy and education levels. It has also facilitated the automation and mechanization of products in sectors such as agriculture leading to not only quality and cheaper product but also high volume of production (Steinhauer, 2013, p. 2).
However, the disadvantage of implementing balanced budget measures is that it infringes on some of the Constitutional rights enjoyed by the government which means that there should be massive amendment in the Constitution which is sometimes costly and time consuming. In really sense, amendment to the federal government rights, for instance, to spend on particular projects are protected by the constitution and implementing them will contravene the provisions in the constitution. The other disadvantage is that some of the proposals for balanced budget in the government have loopholes which when not taken care might be devastating to the taxpayer. For instance, the enumerated prerogatives, non delegation doctrine and the 9th and 10th amendment gives the federal government powers to spend on anything or even interfere with the legislation provided the annual expenditure does not exceed the 20 % of the of the GDP. In addition, the government can easily falsify the estimates of the GDP in order to justify its higher spending and the legislature will not have control over such actions. In addition, balanced budget is disadvantageous because it gives legislatures much control power to regulate and spend large sums of money on programs which are in fact supposed to be done by local government. As such, the federal government is almost guaranteed of the minimum percentage regardless of the economic continues prevailing in the country at one particular time (Kurtz, 2012, p. 1).
According to Banaian (2012, p. 2), implementing a balanced budget spending will not definitely demolish the operations in the states because they have tax revenues other than those from the federal government. However, the impact is likely to be seen in the agencies and programs within the states which almost entirely depend on the allocations and grants from the federal government for their budgets. Spending cuts will therefore be felt in the states since agencies and programs depending on the government support will experience leaner budgets and reduced revenues. Among the programs which will be greatly affected by the fiscal cliff in the states are the discretionary programs such as child welfare services and substance abuse treatment for prisoners whose budgets are entirely depended on the federal grants for their operations. Local governments are likely to witness a reduction by several millions in the federal grants which they receive for discretionary programs.
Balanced budget is also likely to cause millions of job losses in states that support several programs with federal grants. This is because balanced budget will touch on grants that support essential programs like law enforcement, wildlife preservation, mental health, education and other public services within the states operation and thus leads to the loss of jobs tied to the programs. The education and health sectors would be hit hardest with the balanced budget spending. Other sectors which are going to be affected by balanced spending by the federal include agriculture, homeland security, and environmental protection programs because local governments would not have the money to support these programs when spending cuts and tax increases are implemented by the federal government (Nicholas & Paletta, 2013, p. 1). | 724 |
Amazon Opens Its Cashierless Store To The Public
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Amazon has officially opened its cashierless grocery store to the public after about a year of testing the concept with employees.
The technology used to power the store uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning algorithms to keep track of shoppers and charge them for their selected items. Shoppers must also download the Amazon Go app before entering the store. As soon as<|fim_middle|>Contact Lara O'Keefe at lara.okeefe@bisnow.com
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The store, which is near Amazon's Seattle headquarters, was initially slated to open in early 2017, but was postponed when the e-commerce behemoth ran into some technological difficulties. The system had issues detecting small details such as the difference between two types of yogurt or tracking groups of people rather than individuals, the Wall Street Journal reports.
While the store is cashier-free, there are still employees working to ensure operations are running smoothly and rules are being adhered to, such as checking that only those of age are purchasing alcoholic beverages, Recode reports.
Amazon has yet to announce expansion plans for its Amazon Go concept, but has confirmed the technology will not be introduced at its Whole Foods stores, according to WSJ.
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The Risley sculpture previously situated outside the old Eacham Shire Council<|fim_middle|>'s home town - Herberton.
Tom's many friends banded together to transport, repair, repaint and install the artwork on this site, which was chose by Tom himself.
This artwork remains the largest steel fabrication ever undertaken by Tom.
Its setting now complements its resonance with the shape of the hills and the vibrancy of outback colours. The sculpture engenders a questioning about what art is and can be. | building has been relocated to Jacks Road Herberton next to the Mining Museum
The sculpture interprets rolling hills, waterfalls and through it's colour, the outback.
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In 1980 the then Eacham Shire Council commissioned Tom Risley to design, fabricate and install a large public artwork outside the Council Chambers in Malanda.
The completed work, shaped to represent the interlocking hills of the Tablelands included a water feature. However when the Council changed Mayors the sculpture was removed, being blasted off with an oxy-torch. This created great concern in the Australian art world and also a large public protest against the removal, as the Sculpture was quite unique and an asset to the Shire. The work remained quite damaged in the Council depot for many years.
After amalgamation of the four Tableland Shires, permission was sought and granted from the Tablelands Regional Council - provided there was no cost to Council - to bring the Sculpture to Tom | 206 |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt plans to cut 8 percent of its workforce by the end of this year and reduce its spending on content development by 20 percent over the next three years, the company has announced.
The Boston-based publisher, education content-provider and technology company employs nearly 4,000 people, said CEO Jack Lynch, who shared that number in a New York-based event and webinar broadcast on Oct. 17.
The changes are part of its "ongoing strategic transformation to simplify [the company's] business model and accelerate growth," according to a filing earlier this month with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"This move should not be viewed as a sign of [HMH's] weakness, but really as a sign of their strength," he said, in that it signals the willingness of a long-standing publisher to make changes to be competitive in a market that increasingly relies on technology.
In the HMH presentation, Lynch discussed the acquisition of Waggle earlier this year, and the educational capabilities that the artificial intelligence platform presents for students.
The cost of streamlining operations will include $11 million to $13 million to pay for severance and other termination benefit costs, and another $1 million to $3 million to pay for consolidation of office space.
Lynch announced preliminary third-quarter results for HMH, which has seen a 25 percent increase in its extensions business, and a 50 percent increase in its core business.
Extensions include intervention, supplemental materials and the professional learning that goes with them, and Lynch said it's a $6 billion business, of which HMH has a 10 percent share.
Lynch touted his company's ability to deliver "great results" in the market, and credited the "nearly 4,000 purpose-driven people who work at HMH who have produced these results. The way they've produced [them] is every day they get up and are committed to delivering value and impact for the customers we serve."
In August, the company announced a boost in revenues and changed its strategic and technology leadership.
The company's final third-quarter earnings report will be released Oct. 31.
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Grass pollen is a common trigger for allergies -- and symptoms like runny or stuffy nose, itchy eyes, and cough. If you might be allergic to grasses, here's what you should know.
Grasses tend to start growing in the early spring. In the late spring and early summer<|fim_middle|> when kept short.
The only way to know if you really are allergic to grasses is to get tested. Once you find out what's triggering your allergies, you can better control your exposure.
Take steps to limit your exposure to grass pollen. Close windows on windy, summer days. Wear a mask when gardening.
It may seem drastic, but if you are sure that grasses in your yard are causing your symptoms, you could remove them. Replacing them with bunch grasses -- like perennial rye grass and tall fescue -- could help. These grasses don't flower and release pollen until they're 12 inches or taller. Other allergy safe options for your yard include ivy and Irish moss.
Both OTC and prescription medications can help ease or prevent allergy symptoms. Allergy shots are another option for reducing -- and sometimes ending -- grass allergies. | , they release pollen into the air. The wind can carry it for miles.
Grass pollen is fine and powdery. You may not see pollen in the air. But if you're allergic, your body may react even to small amounts.
You may be allergic to only one type of grass or to many.
What Makes Grass Pollen Allergy Worse?
Wind carries pollen in the air, especially when it's dry and sunny. When it's cold or damp, pollen counts are usually lower.
Most types of grass release pollen only when they grow tall. The pollen comes from a feathery flower that grows at the top. If you keep your lawn mowed, the grass is less likely to release pollen. However, some grasses, like Bermuda grass, can still release pollen | 159 |
The Sector 9 Puerto Rico is the universal longboard. It is perfect for someone in their early teens who is looking to just get started or for an individual in their late 40's who is looking to reacquaint themselves with the joys of longboard that they experienced in their teenage years.
The Puerto Rico's unique design makes it an extremely forgiving longboard. It is flexible and has a very wide wheelbase, which makes learning simple. The 31.75 inch bamboo deck is sturdy enough to support heavier weight, but is flexible enough to have just the right amount of give to make riding enjoyable.
The Puerto Rico represents the pinnacle of cruising setups. Being at more than 8.8 inches wide, the Puerto Rico gives the rider ample foot space. The deck has been designed with a slight camber. That means that the deck itself has a slight arch or that it arches up. This makes pushing the board a lot easier. A rider can cruise for longer periods of time while expending minimal effort.
The idea behind this board was to design something that would allow riders to have an extremely exciting and fun ride without putting too much strain on their feet. The flex of the board gives the rider the sensation that they are literally floating or surfing on the air.
The wheels are 69mm and have a durometer rating of 75a. This means that they are going to be soft, and they are going to be extremely smooth. While cruising on the street, the rider is not going to have to worry about small to medium-size cracks or little pieces of debris that are on the road.<|fim_middle|> stable and enjoyable experience.
This is a strong board. It can take a beating. Many users have commented that in addition to being extremely attractive, the bamboo construction stands up to relentless riding for years. It's clear grip really allows the artistry and beauty of the board to shine through.
Whether this is your first time stepping on a board, if you are an experienced rider who experiments with different boards, or if you are a veteran rider who has walked away from the sport but is looking for a board to help ease you back into it, the Sector 9 Puerto Rico is a board worth looking at. | The wheels will just cruise over these cracks as if they were not even there.
While this board's specialty is cruising, it can be used for a wide range of different styles of riding. For example, the deck lends itself to carving and dancing. And while the board itself is not specifically designed for downhill, riders should not be afraid to bomb a medium-size hill or two with this board.
Remember, the board itself is wide. That means that there is ample room to dance around on the board. Also, at 31.75 inches, the board is long. This means that while the rider is bombing down hills at a decent clip, the board is going to remain stable. There will be a little bit of flex in the ride, but overall, it is going to be a | 161 |
Tech-Led Progress Needed in Kenya: Report
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the launch of a report entitled " A Vision of a Smarter City: How Nairobi Can Lead the Way into a Prosperous and Sustainable Future that highlights transportation, energy and public safety as three critical areas to address in line with the growth of Nairobi's more economically empowered and mobile younger generation.
The first of its kind to be produced in Africa, the report draws on the views of leaders and experts from the public and private sectors, World Bank, UN-HABITAT and civil society organizations, says IBM. It was announced Wednesday, March 7.
The report outlines how Nairobi should turn to the latest technologies and global best practices to transform itself into a smarter and more efficient city as it strives to cope with an expanding population and become a major African business hub.
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"With increased urbanization and substantial economic opportunities, major African cities like Nairobi are coming under more pressure than ever to transform," said Tony Mwai, country general manager, IBM East Africa.
"For Nairobi to reach its full potential as a regional powerhouse, new technologies and approaches are required to modernize the city's systems and to make it a better place to live, work and do business."
Currently home to just over three million inhabitants, Nairobi's population is expected to soar to over five million by 2020 as migration to urban areas continues.
"Kenya is undergoing a simultaneous demographic and geographic transition," explains Wolfgang Fengler, the World Bank's lead economist in Kenya. "Today it is a rural country but by 2033, it will be an urban country with Nairobi receiving the greatest influx of new citizens."
According to IBM's Commuter Pain Survey, Nairobi citizens have the fourth most painful commute in the world. City officials estimate that traffic jams cost the economy over Sh50 million ($600,000) per day in lost productivity, fuel consumption and pollution.
City authorities are currently investing to improve Nairobi's roads and basic infrastructure. However, the report highlights that investment in the city's road network should not be the only strategy for addressing traffic congestion.
"Nairobi needs new transport alternatives urgently. It is increasingly obvious that Nairobi must move beyond the traditional model of just building roads to solve traffic problems. It needs a combination of physical infrastructure, new ways of thinking and new technologies," said Andre Dzikus, Urban Mobility Unit, UN-HAB<|fim_middle|> number of possible technological solutions to consider, including systems to better automate and improve traffic flow, micro chips embedded in driving licenses to record a driver's road history, priced road usage schemes and using mobile phone signal density to pinpoint and predict traffic jams.
"By working together with the private sector, the government can create cities that meet the needs of their citizens more efficiently," said Bitange Ndemo, Information Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information.
The IBM report also underlines Kenya's advantage in technology innovation as a way to address some of the challenges of urbanization. Cloud computing, mobile technologies and social media could all play a role, it says.
In the picture above: Tony Mwai, CGM IBM East Africa (left) and Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary, Kenyan Ministry of Information at the launch of the Nairobi Smarter Cities report.
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Europe's next commissioners
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THE rule of thumb for members of the European Commission is that they<|fim_middle|>
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How clams help keep Polish water clean | are politicians past their best. That is especially true for commissioners nominated by the big countries of the European Union, which see "Brussels" as a toytown or retirement home. There are always exceptions: Emma Bonino and Mario Monti, the two Italians in Jacques Santer's collapsed administration, both count still as rising stars. Sir Leon Brittan can leave Brussels for London with his head held high. And it would be cruel, perhaps, to suggest that the rule of thumb might apply to Romano Prodi, whom the Union's leaders invited this week to head the next commission. But the usual result is that a few able and ambitious actors in each commission, often from the smaller countries of Europe, must carry a large deadweight of indifferent colleagues.
Mr Santer's commission resigned in disgrace last week after an independent investigation found it guilty of tolerating "fraud, mismanagement or nepotism" in programmes under its collective control. But it was not noticeably any sleazier or dozier than many commissions before it: mainly, it was just badly led. This week its members were haunting their offices in varying states of confusion, waiting to be replaced. Some may have to serve in the guise of an "interim commission" for three or six months.
Calls for the commission's root-and-branch reform have been echoing around Europe. But the odds are that, when a new permanent commission is found, its members will be no more obviously capable or virtuous than the commissioners they replace. If anything, there are reasons to suspect that the average standard of the rank-and-file commissioner may even dip.
One simple reason is that the popularity and credibility of the commission as an institution, never high, are at their lowest ever. The publicity attending last week's report has left it perhaps the most reviled political institution in Europe west of Belgrade. A politician brave or foolish enough to accept appointment at this low ebb will be rewarded with the baffled sympathy of friends and the mockery of rivals.
Prospective commissioners have only to read the investigators' report to see that the problems of maladministration at the commission go wide and deep. Even a uniformly strong commission enjoying unflinching backing from all the EU's members (an improbable prospect) would need years to eradicate all the rackets and rigidities it would inherit. Powerful staff unions will fight tooth-and-nail against procedures to sack corrupt officials and to punish incompetent ones. New scandals will continue to emerge—for example, when the five independent investigators who scored so tellingly last week publish a second and more far-reaching report in September, as the European Parliament is asking them to do. The most virtuous of future commissioners will risk the taint of association with horrors to come.
European leaders have talked of a strong new president as the best way to pep up the commission and its workings. According to Tony Blair, the next boss will be "a real political heavyweight". Hence the EU leaders' surprisingly brisk and unanimous decision in Berlin this week that Mr Prodi fitted the bill.
The strength of the new president will not depend on his personality and political skills alone. The EU's latest treaty, agreed on in Amsterdam in 1997, will give him the right, first, to block candidates for the commission when they are nominated by governments and, second, to reshuffle their responsibilities once in office. He may also gain at a later stage the power to sack individual commissioners, if that idea makes its way on to the agenda of an EU constitutional conference set for next year.
Those will be big changes to the existing rules. So far, each commissioner has been virtually sovereign. Only, in extremis, the European Court of Justice or, in practice, home governments can withdraw a commissioner's mandate; but home governments have invariably treated their men and women in Brussels as national champions to be defended at any cost. When last week's crisis blew up, France refused to withdraw its commissioner, Edith Cresson, even when it was clear that the whole commission would otherwise fall. The next set of commissioners will have to tread more carefully. Cross the president, and your promised role of world-trade supremo may vanish in favour of a brief for pan-European rubbish-collection. Imagine what your home newspapers would say about that.
These new presidential powers should make the commission work better. There are only seven real jobs to be done within its ranks: the portfolios for trade, economics, the single market, enlargement, competition, farming, and the budget. Yet the Santer commission was obliged to invent work for 19 prima donnas. The EU's next constitutional conference is likely to propose a formal restructuring of the commission into a two-tier hierarchy. Until then, the trick for Mr Prodi will be to find his seven good candidates, put them into the seven real jobs, give them first call on staff, and tell the remaining dozen underlings to take plenty of holiday.
As for the commissioners in the top posts, they will find life more difficult than before. They will have to suffer the attentions of a parliament emboldened by its victory last week. European elections will return a new chamber on June 13th, but the new Euro-MPs will arrive keen to prove themselves no less adept than their predecessors in bringing the commission to heel. Commissioners will have to expect a rough and relentless ride. And they will have to explain and justify themselves as never before, because public opinion will be on the side of the parliament.
All in all, save for the post of president, any job in the next commission sounds like something of a mug's game. The money will still be good, but any politician with a respectable alternative might do well to give it a miss. However, politicians being what they are, 19 mugs will doubtless present themselves.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Europe's next commissioners"
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Netflix Throws Down the Gauntlet to Competitors with a Top 10 Listings Website
Τransparency is always welcome but, this<|fim_middle|> each production has been included in each Top 10 along with that number so, obviously, a film or show scoring impressively high views in just a week or two is extremely popular (like Red Notice is doing these past few days).
Does that "total hours viewed" number correspond to actual hours of content watching? Not necessarily: people have been known to fall asleep or, you know "Netflix and chill" *ahem* ten minutes into a movie without shutting down the TV after all. Does that number also correspond to an equal number of viewers as tickets do in movie theatres? Again, no: while many of us often watch Netflix's content alone, many more do so with one or more people on the same TV (so one "view" of a film might actually correspond to a whole family of viewers). Such are the fluid conditions of home entertainment, though, so we'll take the "total hours viewed" metric as the most useful one Netflix has offered so far.
Netflix putting out there its Top 10 most viewed films and TV shows is not about letting people know what's popular - that is done through the service's apps. It's a power move first and foremost. (Image: Netflix)
What these millions of hours of content watched, though, as listed on Netflix's website, are more than a way to highlight what consumers seem to be interested in. It is also a way to evaluate how successful the company's investment in various productions has been - it's no accident that most entries in those Top 10 lists are Netflix films or series after all - in the eyes of the company's investors. It's also a way to get an idea about Netflix's possible future plans regardless of what the media think of the company's efforts: you can safely bet, for instance, that Red Notice will get a sequel despite its low Rotten Tomatoes score. Subscribers loved it (92% audience score vs 35% critics score) so... yeah. Why not?
More than anything, though, Netflix getting so open all of a sudden about the performance of its productions - and making viewership data public as never before - is a power move. The company feels that it can release those numbers because they presumably are far higher than what its main competitors - Disney Plus, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock - can achieve at this point with their own content. Netflix's large user base, all 205 million of it, offers a clear advantage on that front. Its subscribers are also practically "trained" to watch most of the new films and TV shows the company offers every month, even if only because they have already watched everything else.
In essence, with numbers like the ones Red Notice is able to achieve (almost 150 million hours watched at the time of publication), Netflix seems to be throwing down the gauntlet to its competitors: "Will you release your numbers, then? I dare you". It will be interesting to see whether they - especially Disney - actually respond, no? | time, it's not just about that, is it?
Netflix decided to finally release some enlightening data about films and TV shows offered on its platform. Doing so when productions like Red Notice get consumers' attention can't be a coincidence, can it? (Image: Netflix)
The company behind the most popular digital entertainment service in the world, Netflix, made a lot of headlines by doing something that was both unexpected and long overdue: it revealed a website, available to everyone, that lists its currently most popular films and TV shows based on hard data (which the company will also be sharing from now on). It is a stark departure from the approach Netflix used to follow in the past, which was - at different times - secretive, opaque, PR-driven or all of the above. As such, this new approach is welcome. It also serves... other purposes.
The website is called "Top 10 on Netflix" and its title is, well, self-explanatory. It presents the ten most popular movies and TV shows available on the service at the moment globally while also offering each country's "Top 10" separately (the differences between those are probably worth a story on their own). English and foreign-language films and shows also get separate Top 10 listings, so... yeah, that is a lot of information to go through. What is even more important, though, is the data accompanying it: Netflix is putting out there a new metric, "total hours viewed" for each and every production it will be listing.
Army of Thieves has been viewed by at least 10 million people and is included in Netflix's global Top 10 for three weeks in a row. Would you have guessed if the company hadn't released that data? (Image: Netflix)
This is probably the most useful type of data Netflix has made publicly available so far. Instead of the ridiculous "unique views" metric per film or show (which considered two minutes of watched time as one "view") or the "views during the first month" or "views during the first 100 days" and other such nonsense, we now have a solid number we can compare different movies or series with. Netflix's website also displays the number of weeks | 454 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Marries Designer Melody Ehsani
The two tied the knot over the weekend!
By Alyssa Morin Oct 22, 2019 8:32 PMTags
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The wedding bells have rung!
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist, Flea, is officially off-the-market, y'all. The 57-year-old rock star, whose real name is Michael Balzary, married fashion designer, Melody Ehsani, over the weekend. While not many details have been shared about their big day, the bride and groom both took to Instagram to give fans a glimpse inside their wedding.
"This weekend I got to marry my best friend," the fashion mogul captioned her post, alongside a candid shot of her and Flea. "Surely, my best collaboration to date you're my whole heart."
Additionally, the Red Hot Chili Peppers musician gushed over his wife on the 'gram. "My life has changed forever and I am eternally humble and grateful," he wrote. "The person who sees all of me and knows who I am."
Because both Melody and Flea are known for their audacious style, they certainly brought their fashion A-game to their wedding.
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For the special occasion, the 57-year-old star donned a tailored lavender suit that he accessorized with a mint-colored bow-tie and vibrant sneakers that featured neon green trim. While it's hard to tell from the photo Melody shared on Instagram, Flea's sneakers could very well be the ones she recently designed in collaboration with Nike.
The two also had custom wedding bands from Loree Rodkin.
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Moreover, the jewelry designer most likely made her guests' jaws drop, because her bridal gown was a sight to see. Instead of opting for a typical ballgown, Melody donned a body-hugging long-sleeve gown that featured an enormous train.
The dress also appeared to be completely sheer (but she had a nude-colored garment underneath) and it was covered with intricate leaf-like embroidery and beading. She even wore<|fim_middle|> has been notoriously private about their relationship, their wedding comes nearly a month after they got engaged.
Congrats to Flea and Melody! | an equally stunning headpiece that matched the design of her bridal gown.
While the couple | 17 |
Jennifer Green, Burlington's Sustainability Coordinator, explained the connections between the electric grid, the city's sustainability goals, and the<|fim_middle|> care. But now I realize how important it is to care about these issues. After all, they affect us every day. | constant question of how to make progress while maintaining equity. Maura Collins, from VHFA, helped us grapple with the real cost-of-living in our lovely, expensive city. Rita Markley, Executive Director of COTS, invited us to imagine what would be like to be homeless in Burlington. And Erik Hoekstra, from Redstone, strolled with us through the Old North End, and challenged us to understand the potential, and inherent trade-offs, of urban development.
Maura Collins helps us understand how larger economic factors influence individuals' real-world choices.
Erik Hoekstra discusses neighborhoods, development, and city systems.
Jerry Greenfield made us laugh and lean in, as he regaled us with stories about the transformation of Ben & Jerry's from a gas station storefront to a global enterprise. Melinda Moulton put the changes on the Waterfront in historical and social context. And when we finally turned our attention to the food system, it was clear that students could see the dynamic interdependence of these systems in 3-D. Food, after all, is where it all comes together! Our conversation with partners from the Intervale Community Farm, City Market, and the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf helped us make immediate connections to transportation, housing, and the local economy – as well as the ever-present through line of equity and fairness.
The only thing better than fresh Intervale watermelon might be the company–and the setting!
I think my favorite part of the program is the fact that we are always out and about talking to community partners. I really like this because it is genuinely so much better than sitting in a classroom.
One of the most important things I have learned so far that has really helped me understand the Burlington community is how all of the systems we studied are really connected. At first, they seemed like separate things that we were studying, but especially after we looked at the food system, it started to make a lot more sense to me about what makes up a thriving community and how everything fits together.
In a typical high school class, the only one who reads a student's work, and who responds to a student's thinking, is the teacher. Students know this. It's a part of the game of school that everyone learns, at some point. Typically, the result is that the stakes are only ever as high as the teacher's grading criteria. And this is no "shade" on teachers (as our students might say); it's just how school works.
With the help of its setting, its approach, and its deep investment in collaborative relationships, Burlington City & Lake Semester is offering students something different. What is that game-changer? It's having an authentic audience.
City Councillors' questions opened up space for youth voice. Students' questions, in turn, were both informed and incisive.
Councillors and students each presented questions and replied, in turn. Thanks to a facilitator (as well as a diligent time-keeper–thank you, Faizo!), a generation of leaders shared a morning of challenging, respectful discourse with the next generation. The issues we unearthed were gray indeed, and the topics ranged from transportation planning and energy policy to racism and implicit bias. In the end, both groups shared deep gratitude for the opportunity to have engaged in this way–and everyone expressed a commitment to continue the conversation.
After the meeting, numerous side conversations between students and Councillors emerged organically.
I think it is important to connect our learning, to have community partners talk to us about what they are passionate about and be interested in us too.
The most important thing I've learned so far is that kids need to be informed. Especially as high schoolers, we benefit incredibly by understanding the way our city works, and the issues that come up.
I'll be honest. Kids back at the high school don't seem to | 786 |
Currently there are numerous facets of Planning and Development that are rather demanding. We all desire to own a house and endeavour to live an areas that are safe and pollution free. Nevertheless, we all want basic amenities but desire to have them accessible without impacting on our quiet suburban lifestyle. The structure of our cities and residential areas and how they interact is managed by planners.
It is the aim of Planning Consultants to work with property developers to smooth the journey through the planning and development system. They provide expert guidance to the developer to assist remove any design issues that may give rise to objections raised during the official planning and development review. It turns into a fine balancing act involving fashioning homes with a special identity whilst not transforming the overall character of a neighbourhood. There will often be a conflict of interests involving developer and planner. The developer desiring to maximize the number and size of houses whilst the planner wishes to lower the housing density and provide open spaces.
What factors are typically born in mind during planning<|fim_middle|> his client base to the neighbourhood - the bigger, the better - which will certainly speed up the selling process. All the above issues will raise the value of the property and increase its desirability. | and development?
Appearances - Any development must have a pleasing or neutral visual influence on its surroundings.
Safety - A neighbourhood has to be built to be as safe as possible from natural occurrences like flooding and to be as protected as feasible in the case of an earthquake.
Environmental factors - The development must bear in mind the local environment and its impact on it. Are there any existing environmental issues such as sound pollution or bad air quality.
It is crucial for all these aspects to be taken into consideration throughout planning and development, so as to, first of all, attract the property solicitors who will then intermediate the property sale. Convincing a solicitor is going to also result in bringing about | 138 |
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Dominique Cameron reviews Place & Memory
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How do we experience place for ourselves? What does it mean to us? Do our own memories become part of the collective consciousness accreted in the layers of storytelling laid down in a city's foundations?
These are some of the questions posed by the group of eight artists brought together by four mentors to explore various locations in Leeds. Through individual and collaborative research and methodologies, a body of work has emerged that seeks to find new ways of interpreting the notions of place and self.
The artists have produced work ranging from the documentary and the poetic to<|fim_middle|> the project for me. That through looking at place we can find new ways of talking about ourselves and our experiences, and the sharing of these narratives broadens all our lives in ways to suggest we are not alone.
Dominique Cameron is an artist and writer based in Dundee; click here to visit her website.
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Next Lectolalia (a romance) | personal stories and memories of place. The resultant book, Place & Memory, feels like an archive, a repository for self analysis, not just the observed. This is no visitors guide book to Leeds, and yet, never having been to Leeds I have an imprint in my head of these personal reflections which might act as a map. The artists have given me their own guide to this complicated and fragile space.
This transient sense of journey within environment is beautifully resolved through word and image. Word has been used as narrative, document, question and aesthetic. Each artist has constructed a world in which the viewer is being asked to enter and explore an anatomy of a different part of the city, offering an invitation to listen to the rhythms being played.
The imagery likewise leaves one with a sense of the sounds of place too. The photographs and film/video stills hover within the space between fact and fiction, that blurring of worlds where the edge to things can be found, a place where one can hear the chord structure. This is a place where the remembered is a record of those that have gone before, including ourselves and a thoughtful notation to describe who we might be now.
I feel honoured as always to be allowed access to people's stories. By sharing our stories we allow for new provocations, alternative paradigms to exist. As the artist and writer Suzanne Lacy says in her book Leaving Art: "…getting people to talk with each other, and as a result think or act differently, is a critical role for artists…" The stories shared here are never slight. They all share that willingness to engage with a discourse of transformation. As one of the artist writes: "I explored my place, only to find it was no longer the same. Then I realised it didn't matter – I was changing what this area means to me." I think it is this idea of change that underpins | 379 |
Students in their second year of our BA (Hons) Theatre Design course have recently taken part in an exciting collaborative project, in which they devised and performed a production of Russell Hoban's 'Soonchild' for groups of primary school children.
The students have worked on the realisation and performance of this piece with Red Earth Theatre. The Midlands-based company - an Arts Council England national portfolio organisation - was established by Wendy Rouse and Amanda Wilde in 1999, and has been touring innovative theatre for children and young people ever since.
Renowned for their commitment to inclusivity and communities, Red Earth Theatre regularly deliver performances in both English and sign language, aiming to use creative captioning and audio description to enhance access. Working with Red Earth Theatre therefore represented a significant opportunity for the students to embrace industry, and to learn about integrated theatre and inclusive techniques for storytelling.
Following a brief set by Red<|fim_middle|> term, the students have been working over a five-week period on interpreting elements of 'Soonchild', a mythological story by Russell Hoban, for Red Earth's Autumn 2019 show. This included weaving in songs specifically composed for the show by Derby-based folk trio Threaded. They explored the potential for visual imagery, including puppetry, in particular shadow puppetry, object theatre and playful captioning. Their hard work culminated in performances of their work and ideas to pupils from Mellor's School. | Earth Theatre earlier in the | 5 |
USF Ataxia Research Center Leads Clinical Trial of Possible Friedreich's Drug
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Published August 20, 2013 at 6:02 PM EDT
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Klasko is Leaving USF Health with No Regrets | Research Alliance (FARA) have hosted a pair of events in Tampa: a national symposium that brings together Friedreich ataxia experts from around the world, and a gala ball that raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for research.
While they're preparing for this year's events, there's a bit of extra pressure -- the USF Ataxia Research Center is also the lead site on a national study of a potent antioxidant treatment for the life-shortening, degenerative neuromuscular disorder.
Dr. Theresa Zesiewicz said Friedreich's ataxia normally strikes the very young.
"Typically, these are kids who all of a sudden have problems with running, it's a little bit difficult," she said. "Mom and dad carry the gene but neither one knows that they carry the gene, so it's a big surprise to the parents."
From there, Zesiewicz added, Friedreich's ataxia "progresses relentlessly to cause gait imbalance, talking difficulties, speech problems, hearing problems, and eventually causes diabetes in many cases, and also heart failure."
Currently, doctors use physical therapy to work on a patient's core strength and balance because there's no approved pharmaceutical treatment for Friedreich's. That may soon change, as USF is leading a national study of EPI-743.
The drug, developed by Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc., protects the mitochondria in nerve cells in the spinal cord that Friedreich's attacks.
"It's like an antioxidant, but an extremely strong antioxidant, much stronger than the CoQ10 or Vitamin E that you see in your drugstore, for example," Zesiewicz says.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and UCLA are the two other sites in the placebo-controlled study of EPI-743. Zesiewicz hopes that the drug might not be limited to just being the first real treatment for Friedreich's.
"It may have other implications for diseases like Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other neuro-degenerative diseases," she said.
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Natchez Hanson, 24, has been taking part in the trial for about eight months. She doesn't know if she's receiving the actual drug or a placebo, but is apparently seeing some benefits.
"I kind of feel like I'm the same, but people tell me that I'm standing better, I'm walking better, I sound better," Hanson said.
The Polk County math teacher, who was formally diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia at age 17, now uses a walker to get around.
"That just has opened so many doors," she said, with a smile, "considering that people mostly open the doors for me, but I mean, it carries all my stuff, I get front row parking!"
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Natchez Hanson hasn't let her Freidreich's ataxia stop her from seeing the world.
In September, for the third straight year, Hanson will speak at the USF-FARA symposium and share her rather upbeat story of living with the disease.
"Well you only have one life to live, and everyone has a burden to bear," Hanson said. "I always say either you laugh about it or you cry about it, and I'm done crying. I've moved on from that, so now I'm just trying to be as happy as I possibly can be." (Hear more from Hanson here.)
"Understanding A Cure: The Friedreich's Ataxia Scientific Symposium" will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5 at USF Health's Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in downtown Tampa. The event is free and open to the public (click here to RSVP) and will also be live-streamed by FARA.
Edison Pharmaceuticals Chairman/CEO, Dr. Guy Miller, will update the status of the EPI-743 clinical trial, while Dr. Mirella Dottori of the University of Melbourne, Australia, will talk about treating Friedreich's ataxia with stem cells.
Then on Saturday, Sept. 7, it's the 2013 FARA Energy Ball, a fund-raiser for USF and FARA that's being held at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa. Click here for ticket info.
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The Mule (2018) Review
Broke, alone and facing foreclosure on his business, 90-year-old horticulturist Earl Stone takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. His immediate success leads to easy money and a larger shipment that soon draws the attention of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. When Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on his conscience, he must decide whether to right those wrongs before law enforcement and cartel thugs catch up to him.
(USA)Director: Clint Eastwood
Featured song: Don't Let the Old Man In
The characters in this film are well- developed by both incredible acting and a well-written script. I almost forgot I was watching a film at certain points, because the characters completely came to life and made the story their own. Especially Clint Eastwood, it's easy to see that he put everything he had into his role in this film and it fully paid off.
There is a perfect balance between action, and lifelike events in this film. Keeping it from feeling unrealistic with too much action, or slow moving with not enough excitement. Because of this, the film feels very realistic, and as an audience member I fully understood how the film's protagonist accidentally stumbles into the drug business and stays in it.
I really enjoyed how this film took place in a modern world, while still holding onto some elements and characteristics of an old western film. I also really enjoyed how the protagonist of this film (Earl Stone) is a twisted kind of hero, and how as an audience member I both sympathized with him and grew frustrated with. My only complaint about this film is knowing it was Clint Eastwood's farewell to Hollywood.
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This film showcases the darker side of humanity. It allows audience members who have never been on a battle front a chance to experience the realistic horror and intense action. It allows us a look into a world not all of us are familiar with. That makes watching this film such a memorable experience.
I recommend everybody watch this film at least once in their life.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Film Review
Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), disturbed uncle (John Alexander), and homicidal brother (Raymond Massey), he realizes that his family is even crazier than he thought.
Release date: September 1, 1944 (USA)
Cinematography: Sol Polito
Adapted from: Arsenic and Old Lace
Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
If you have not seen this film… Go Watch It Now! This movie has been on my top 10 list of films for years now.
My favorite thing about this film is the plot structure. They based this film off on a play and that shows. This play follows the old style of comedy with dramatic irony. The audience is fully aware of what is going on in the movie, however a lot of the actors are left in the dark. Which leads to a lot of confusion among the characters within the film and adds to the comedic element for the audience.
Something I love about this film that I think more plays and films need to be inspired by is all the comedic timing and use of facial expressions. Cary Grant's facial expressions throughout this film makes for some of the best comedic moments. This is also something that is known to be one of Cary Grant's signature strengths.
The plot of this film is quick paced, and there are several stories lines going on all at the same time. Newly wed Mortimer Brewster is trying to leave on his honeymoon, his aunts are murdering elderly gentleman, his uncle thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, and his crazy brother Jonathon shows up on the run from the police. While the overall feel of the movie is left very light and comedic, the action within the play is insane and the audience gets to watch along on the journey.
I absolutely adore the acting in this film. Besides Cary Grant's amazing performance, everyone else does a fantastic job. There is not a bad acting performance in this entire film. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair as the two aunts is my favorite. These two women do not disappoint in this film, and their characterization is amazing. They are nothing short of being sweet elderly women in this film, which makes it even more of a comedic shock to find they have single-handedly poisoned and buried several men in their cellar.
Lastly, the camera work and lighting of this film are unique and appealing. Much like the play, this film takes place solely inside the Brewster's living room. While we see action take place in a few other locations, most of the film is set in one area of the house. However, the film does not get boring and as an audience member it's hard to notice that the camera has not left the one room. The camera work is very innovative and creative.
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Rear Window Film Review
The story of a recuperating news photographer who believes he has witnessed a murder. Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, he spends his time watching the occupants of neighbouring apartments through a telephoto lens and binoculars and becomes convinced that a murder has taken place.
Release date: August 4, 1954 (New York)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes
Featured song: Lisa
Awards: Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Rear Window is my favorite Alfred Hitchcock film and has been on my top 10 list of films for years. My favorite thing about this film is the set. The whole movie takes place from Jeff Jeffereies (James Stewart's) apartment. Throughout the movie the viewer looks into the lives of his neighbors through Jefferies window and into the neighbors' windows. All the shots spying on the neighbors are done from a point of view aspect. This is creative and different for movies made during the 50s. The camera shots get very creative. My favorite point of view shots is when Jefferies looks through his telephoto lense on his camera to get a closer look at the lives around him. As the camera cuts from Jeffereies looking out, to what he is seeing the audience sees the images on the screen as if they themselves were looking through a telephoto lense. In this way, the director has taken complete control of the audience and has manipulated how they will watch and perceive the film.
Another creative camera movement this film does an innovative and creative job of accomplishing is breaking the 180 degree rule. In film, we use the 180 degree rule when setting up camera shots. The 180 degree rule says that two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. Traditionally, if the 180 degree rule is broken it disrupts the scene and causes disorientation to the audience. However, there is a scene in this movie upon which the 180 rule is broken, causing no kind of distortion. In a scene between James Stewart and Grace Kelly, she crosses over the line and into the other side of the action. However, the way they pull it off there is no disorientation to the audience which is hard to do.
The acting in this film is totally on par. James Stewart never disappoints, and his acting in this film is extremely compelling. The acting of the neighbors though small roles, are done exceptionally well. Something that's important in this film is the disconnect between all the neighbors. Throughout the entire film, the viewer sees a world in which all of its characters are stuck inside their own worlds and never fully connect with each other. The only time the neighbors interact is when the death of a neighbor's dog brings them together. I really appreciated this element of the film because it felt a lot like real life. Typically, we are so stuck inside of our own lives we don't always notice the small details around us until a tragedy brings us all together.
The last thing I really enjoy about this film is the plot structure. This film flows so effortlessly, and it follows a well put together plot structure. It's the type of movie in which you forgot your watching a film. Every element of this film flows so effortlessly and ties together. perfectly it's easy to see that the creators of this film put a lot of time and effort into the films pre-production which paid off. | 12 Years A Slave (2013) Review
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he struggles continually to survive and maintain some of his dignity. Then in the 12th year of the disheartening ordeal, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Solomon's life forever.
(USA)Director: Steve McQueen
Producers: Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Bill Pohlad, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon MilchanScreenplay: Solomon Northup, John Ridley
12 Years A Slave gives a unique and amazing look into the life of a free black man who is trafficked into 12 years of slavery. Not only does the audience gain a deeper look into the horrific reality of slavery, but the film also gives a look into the massive problem of human trafficking. I found myself immediately sucked into the story-line of this film, and it kept my attention well throughout.
My favorite element of this film is by far the acting. Chiwetel Ejiofor's performance in this film is one of the best I have seen in a long time. Watching this film is such an emotional journey, and as an audience member I felt the characters emotions alongside him. Which goes to show what an amazing performance he put into this movie.
The other actors' performances were extraordinary as well, and I enjoyed how the film told more stories than just the principal character. There was much more depth in developing the other characters and story lines and this definitely added a lot to the film.
The ending of this film is extremely powerful, and I found it to be the perfect ending to such an incredibly developed film. Something I love about this film is that it is based on a true story, and there is nothing over dramatized in the plot. The whole film keeps a constant realistic feel, which makes its message that much more lifelike and powerful.
Lucas Hagar: The Influence of NArrative Storytelling on Documentaries
In a podcast with Film Riot, Lucas Harger talked in-depth about his filmmaking process as well as the creative cross between narrative film and documentary filmmaking. As a filmmaker, Lucas has been successful in crossing between editing both documentary and narrative stories to produce unique and creative content. According to Lucas, being able to create …
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Samuel L. Jackson: Career Reflection
In a recent article with IndieWire, Zack Sharf wrote about the impact shooting 'The Hateful Eight' had on Samuel L. Jackson. While receiving the Legend of Cinema Award at the 2020 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Jackson took the time to reflect on his professional career. Jackson states that his relationship with the cast members from …
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ava duvernay: tips on being an effective director
In a recent podcast with The Director's Guild, Ava Duvernay sat down to discuss her tips of the trade on being an effective director. Ava's biggest piece of advice is to know yourself as a director, including your limitations as a director. Knowing what you are and are not capable of creates a more effective …
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Set in the shadow of the most magical place on Earth, 6-year-old Moonee and her two best friends forge their own adventures, while Moonee's struggling mom and a kindhearted motel manager protect the kids from the harsh reality that surrounds them.
(USA)Director: Sean Baker
Budget: 2 million USD
A24 has produced some amazing films recently, which made me very excited to give this film a watch. I had heard such amazing things about it, and I was not left disappointed. The film was perfectly unified in its visual presentation. The color grading, camera work, set, costumes, etc. all blended in flawlessly with one another. The balance of comedy, drama, and realism was wonderfully suited. Although some people criticize the ending of the film, I found it to be the perfect wrap up to a story centered on the power of childhood innocence and imagination.
This film is heavy to watch. While the children in the film are often unaware of the dangers and reality around them, as an audience we are fully aware and that makes the film heartbreaking to watch at times. However, the audience watches the three protagonist children of this film battle their surroundings through imagination, which is touching and serves as a constant reminder that it's possible to make the most of a situation.
The acting in this film stood out to me. I know this was both Bria Vinate and Brooklyn's first film role, and they both did an incredible job. The close knit off screen relationship between the two was very apparent when watching the film. They appeared like a genuine mother and daughter duo, with a deep love and understanding between the two of them. William Dafoe did a phenomenal job as always, and his performance was chilling and heart-warming.
The ending of this film stuck with me as well. While some people are critical of its unrealistic and random ending, I thought it was perfectly accomplished. The entire film centers on the power of childhood innocence and the power of imagination. At the end of the film Moonee faces her harshest reality, and we as an audience member are experiencing it alongside her. The audience receives the chance to see things through Moonee's eyes and experience childhood imagination through the sudden and imaginative ending. Real like doesn't always have happy endings, and the only way the audience will receive their happy ending at the end of this film is if they escape to a place of unrealistic imagination.
Justin Baldoni: Meaningful storytelling
In a recent podcast with Film Riot, American actor, director, and filmmaker Justin Baldoni revealed his secrets to telling a meaningful story. The director discussed how his latest films were inspired by real-life and how he allows the story of those around him to motivate him creatively. Everybody has a story to tell, and so …
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by Cinematic Geekster October 28, 2020
julie taymor: the cross universe of film and theatre
In a recent podcast episode with The Treatment, Julie Taymor discussed her new movie "The Glories" and how she uses storytelling to externalize what characters are feeling on screen. Julie Taymor is a Tony Award-winning director of both theatre and film. Her goal as a creative is to master the fantastical elements of the film …
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In a recent podcast with the Director's Guild, Mimi Leder, an American director and producer, gave her best advice for keeping a healthy and productive film set. Mimi's key piece of advice was to treat everyone with the respect that they deserve, and to always show them your appreciation. She pointed out that the cast …
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by Cinematic Geekster October 14, 2020 October 11, 2020
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Review
After running away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, a man who has Down syndrome befriends an outlaw who becomes his coach and ally.
(USA)Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Budget: 6.2 million USD
Box office: 22.8 million
USDNominations: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film
This was a highly anticipated film for me, and I loved every second. This is a heartfelt story of a friendship that parallels the classic novels of Mark Twain. I was sucked into the world of the film seconds in, and I was sad when it was over. This film follows the bond between brothers and how far that love can carry you through life.
My favorite thing about the film was its lighthearted and inspirational feel. The movie is clearly not meant to be the most realistic, but its imaginative feel made the movie incredible to watch. The character development was also astounding, and I rooted for the two protagonists to live a life free of repercussions.
Peanut Butter Falcon has the perfect balance of suspense, comedy, and lifelike elements. This film was hilarious to watch at times, and often had me laughing at the screen. There were also times I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat, holding my breath in suspense. But overall this film reached down and grabbed a hold of my heart, truly touching me in every way emotionally possible.
The actors all did a phenomenal job in this film, and I loved every preference. Zach Gottsagen truly stole the show and held the film together. I know the writers of this film are close friends with Zach in genuine life, and they wrote this film for him to star in. Zach did definitely not disappoint, and he truly shined in his performance. Shia LaBeouf's performances was phenomenal, and the bond between the two actors was hard to miss.
While the ending of the film was not the most realistic, it fit in perfectly with the imaginative feel defined in the rest of the movie. The ending scene truly was the last piece to the puzzle and had me smiling from ear to ear.
This is a film I could definitely watch repeatedly without getting sick of it.
The Pianist (2002) Review
In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945," Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family during Operation Reinhard. From this time until the concentration camp prisoners are released, Szpilman hides in various locations among the ruins of Warsaw.
(USA)Director: Roman Polanski
Featured song: Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
I'm ashamed to say that it took me so long to a watch this film. The Pianist gives its audience an entirely fresh perspective of what Jews faced during the Holocaust. This film touched my soul uniquely. If you have not seen this film, do yourself a favor and go watch it!
Most movies with a Jewish protagonist during WWII showcase what life was like inside of the concentration camps. However, in this film the audience gains knowledge of what life in the Ghetto was like and what life looked like for the Jews that worked outside of Concentration Camps. I loved getting a new outlook on historically accurate events, especially since this film is based on a true story.
Szpilman in his hiding place
The film centers on Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist living in Poland. As his family is being loaded up on trains headed for Concentration Camps, a Jewish friend of Szpilman's who became a German Solder pulls him out of the crowd saving his life. The rest of the film follows Szpilman trying to survive in an empty ghetto, getting a construction job working for the Germans, and finally hiding out until the end of the war.
This is not a movie for those faint of heart. There is a reason they rate this film R. It's emotionally jarring and hard to watch at times. However, for that reason I think it's crucial for us to watch. The acting in this movie is beyond incredible. Adrien Brody, portrays the protagonist film, and his acting is one of the most believable performances I have seen in a very long time. Whatever emotion his character was feeling, I physically felt in my gut. In fact, there were several times I teared up alongside him. The acting along with the lifelike sets made me feel like I was watching a documentary on the actual family versus actors re-creating the historical events.
Szpilman wanders around an empty Jewish Ghetto after being separated from his entire family
I've heard people criticizing this film for having too slow of a pace. However, for me this just added to its realist feel. It felt like the film was occurring in real time, which added to its life like feel. I have nothing bad to say about this film. Have you seen this film? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below.
I would definitely watch this film again, and I highly recommend everyone watch it at least once in their lifetime. This film is available for streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime as of the time I am posting this.
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If you enjoy Holocaust centered films, check out my review on Life Is Beautiful. Another film centered on a Jewish family with a unique storyline and perspective.
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working with what you got: Advice from the creators of Faith Based
In a recent podcast with Film Riot, the creators of the film Faith Based (Vincent Masciale, Luke Barnett, and Tanner Thomason), gave constructive advice to filmmakers who think they need to wait till they make it into Hollywood to make their film. The filmmakers discussed how their original plan for the film was to shoot …
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by Cinematic Geekster October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020
Aaron Schneider's Directing advice from film Greyhound
In a recent podcast with Film Riot, Aaron Schneider discussed the things we were forced to learn while shooting Greyhound. Most of the films set was composed of green screens, which had its challenges. Schneider's main advice is to come up with a detailed and set plan when working with extensive green screens and technology …
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by Cinematic Geekster October 1, 2020
Humility and Confidence in Filmmaking- Quincy Ledbetter's advice
In a recent podcast episode with Film Riot, filmmaker Quincy Ledbetter discusses his first feature film with Paramount and how he got to where he is today. Ledbetter's key advice is that a filmmaker needs to find the perfect balance between confidence and humility. He went on to state that as a director it's okay …
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by Cinematic Geekster September 24, 2020 September 23, 2020
Life is Beautiful (1997) Film Review
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game.
(USA)Director: Roberto Benigni
Featured song: La vita è bella
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor
I have seen this film over five times now, and yet it remains in the list of my top ten favorite films. This film follows Guido, a Jewish Italian with a very whimsical and carefree attitude towards life. I like to consider this film being split into two acts- the first act follows Guido winning the girl and growing a family together and the second act follows Guido's family in a Nazi concentration camp.
My favorite thing about this film is that the audience watches it through the eyes of Guido's son in a way. Throughout their stay at the concentration camp, Guido makes it his goal to shield his son from the surrounding horrors. Therefore, Guido tells his son Joshua that it is all a game to win points, and that the first person to reach 1,000 points receives an actual tank. This allows Joshua to hold on to his childhood innocence, which is the strongest gift his father could give him.
Because of this, the audience is spared from seeing an excessive amount of the horrors going on in the camp. However, a lot of the horrors are suggested and as an audience member who knows the history of WWII and concentration camps, it's easy to be aware of what is really going on. Even though the son remains clueless to the reality of his situation.
This is such a wholesome and incredible film that will truly tug at your heartstrings. Watching the love Guido shows to his wife and son is inspirational and moving to watch. The only negative thing I have to say about this film is that it starts off a little slow. However, once you get past the first twenty minutes it's worth it. I love that this film takes on a different spin on telling a story about the Holocaust, and unlike most movies centered on concentration camps, it isn't extremely gut wrenching to watch.
If you have not seen this film, I highly suggest finding it and giving it a watch. This is the film that will leave a positive impact on you forever.
John Badham's advice on seducing the actor
In a recent podcast with Film Riot, John Badham gave constructive and well-thought out advice on how he as a director has learned to improve his work relationship with his actors. The key piece of advice that John gave is not to persuade the actor but to seduce them. He explained that all actors have …
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by Cinematic Geekster September 17, 2020
Judd Apatow: The Role of improvisation in FILMMAKING
In a recent podcast with the Director's Guild, Judd Apatow shared his advice for film directors. Judd had lots of brilliant advice to give, but the principal thing he kept reiterating was the important of improvisation in film-making. He expressed that throughout the entire film-making process he slowly allows the film to come to life. …
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by Cinematic Geekster September 9, 2020 September 7, 2020
Jim Cummings is an extremely unique director in the sense that he often heads up the distribution of his films and their production. In a recent Podcast with Film Riot, he explains to the listeners just how he goes about accomplishing this. To many filmmakers, the idea of overseeing the distribution of your own films …
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) Film Review
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Surrounded by the brutal realties of war, while searching for Ryan, each man embarks upon a personal journey and discovers their own strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
Release date: July 24, 1998 (USA)
Featured song: Hymn to the Fallen
Budget: 70 million USD
Awards: Academy Award for Best Cinematography
By far this is one of the best war movies of all time. It's hard and tear jerking to watch because of how accurate and life like the war scenes are. Something that really adds to the uncomfortable realistic feel of the film is the lack of music. It's hard to notice when first watching the movie because as an audience member you are so sucked into the action. But if you pay attention during any battle scene, there is absolutely no music playing in the background. In fact, music is used sparingly and only when it adds to the overall emotional impact on the audience. During the bloody war scenes all the audience hears are bullets shooting, men screaming, blood gushing, and orders being given. This makes the audience feel as if they themselves are on the front lines with all the actor's.
Another powerful element of this film is the camera work. The cinematography is innovative and creative. However, it's kept subtle to where you don't remember your watching a movie on a screen. It feels as if your watching war history in person. A lot of the camera angles are kept eye level, or close to the ground, which adds to this effect. There are very little bird eye shots or hero shots in this film. Which would have only lost the audience's personal connection into the film. This was a really impactful decision made by the | 4,467 |
Did you know that your mind has the ability to reduce your risks of a work-related accident in Boston or wherever you may work? It's true, according to a recent study from the University of Georgia. A newly-released study, "Perception and Work-Life Balance are Key Factors in Workplace Safety," concludes that when workers' perceive a positive safety climate, their risks for work-related injuries can decrease by more than 30 percent.
<|fim_middle|> compensation attorneys at the Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman, LLC. We are a law firm that is dedicated to fighting for the rights of injured employees in Natick, Boston, Norwood, Quincy, Foxborough and elsewhere throughout the Greater Boston Area. Call today to set up a free and confidential appointment at 1-877-617-5333. | According to SafetyCommunity.com, the perception of safety climate breaks down a worker's feelings toward the importance of safety in the workplace. We're not saying that if you just "think" you're safe then you're going to be. We're saying that actions taken by safety planners, manager and company owners can help to increase a worker's trust in a company's safety policies and can ultimately reduce their risks for a work accident.
"We've known for some time that certain occupations are more dangerous than others due to a variety of physical and other hazards," said Dave DeJoy, University of Georgia professor of health promotion and behavior.
In the last 2 decades, there have been a number of studies that have concluded that organizational and management factors play a critical work in the risks for work-related accidents. These actions oftentimes play a huge role in the risks for on-the-job injuries. Our Massachusetts injury lawyers understand that there needs to be organizational and management actions taken frequently to continue to ensure that workplaces are safe for everyone. You see, we can create safety controls and procedures, but if they're not continuously enforced and maintained, then that falls on management. To have a safe work environment for everyone, all parties need to work together at all times. Better team efforts toward safer workplaces help to increase workers' perception of safety and help to increase physical safety.
Another important factor in the recent study from the University of Georgia was the contributions of family-related issues to work-related accidents. The study did in fact find that workers who were dealing with family interference at the job had higher rates of injury.
DeJoy says that many like to think that family and work are two different things. We're finding out that's not always the case. Researchers are concluding that the balance, or unbalance, of work, family and life has the ability to affect your work, whether it is positive or negative.
Regardless of what factors may or may not be involved in a worker's personal life, it's important to provide them with the safest work conditions possible while they're on the job and earning a paycheck. It's a federal requirement for employers to do so. The concerns for injury deserve to, and have a legal right to be, a top focus of employers.
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Chris Collins (@RheumPearls) is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical School and<|fim_middle|> bureau for Exagen and Abbvie, Editorial board for RheumatologyNetwork.com.
Paul Sufka (@psufka) is a staff rheumatologist with HealthPartners Medical Group and Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN and an assistant program director for the University of Minnesota Department of Internal Medicine. He is interested in technology and social media in medicine, fitness, and knows at least seven different ways to brew coffee.
Disclosures: Co-founder of The Rheumatology Podcast.
Suleman Bhana (@DrBhana) is a rheumatologist currently working for a large multispecialty group in the Hudson Valley area of New York. He is a technology and gadget enthusiast, and passionate about the role of technology in improving healthcare. He enjoys his time with his wife and kids, in between practicing what he reads in "Family Handyman" magazine, playing his Gretsch guitar, and painting artwork.
Aruni Jayatilleke (@rheumed) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and Associate Program Director for the rheumatology fellowship program. She is interested in gaming and virtual learning environments in #meded and would love to work with anyone who knows Unity3D. She spends most of the rest of her time around and about Philly with her husband and 2 associated small humans.
Jonathan Hausmann (@hausmannMD) is a pediatric and adult rheumatology fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has an interest in autoinflammatory diseases and seen children and adults in specialty clinics; he also teaches patients and physicians about these rare illnesses in his blog. He participates in a Medical Education fellowship and is exploring the use of technology to improve learning. His interests include cycling, reading, and traveling with his wife to visit exotic vineyards.
Isabelle Amigues (@isa75012) is a native of France where she received her training as a medical doctor specializing in rheumatology. She pursued her training in New York City where she is completing a third year of rheumatology fellowship at the Columbia University. She has published a number of articles and made a number of presentations in the field of rheumatology and is very involved with professional organizations in her field, including serving as a member of the Fellow Subcommittee and on the ethics committee for the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). She is also interested in new ways to improve the education of patients and physicians; that is how she discovered #rheumJC. She has been involved with the #rheumJC team since 2015 and helps by reaching out to authors to encourage their participation. When she is not behind her screen or with patients, she enjoys spending time with her twins and has changed many diapers times two in the past year. | the Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director for the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. His interests include meded research and exploring the possibilities in medical education and social media. His is married with 2 girls and has a really really old cat named Mango.
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Why Marketers Need a Tag Management System
role in supporting marketing analytics solutions, integrating digital data, and serving as the foundational element in an organization's data layer."
A steady presence on most tag management shortlists, BrightTag (which has rebranded as Signal after completing its acquisition) is a notable vendor in the space, Jones and McCormick agree. Though it started out with just a basic tag management offering, the company has since augmented its enterprise solution with Fuse, a feature that collects and connects online and offline consumer information across devices and makes it actionable from a marketing perspective.
The tool can "sense when a visitor enters the Web site, apply a first-party cookie, and use pre-established rules to determine not only whether a visitor is a customer, but also who that customer is," Joe Stanhope, senior vice president of marketing at Signal, says. "Fuse can then use the predefined rules to initiate an action, such as sending that customer's data to the retargeting vendor, all in real time," he adds. This process is unlike the standard industry practice, which<|fim_middle|> three weeks to a few seconds.
With Fuse, Signal is extending its capabilities beyond the scope of just tag management, and into the realm of marketing, providing not only a single point of intersection for the various types of data that individual vendor tags collect, but also serving as a link between that data and marketing initiatives. In June, Signal announced that it would be developing Fuse further to create an open data platform that would make it even easier for users to share consumer behavior signals with all the other marketing partners in real time. Though the details are still being ironed out as this issue is going to press, Stanhope says that Signal's overall direction represents a pivot point for the tag management space.
"We're seeing a definite shift in tag management. It's moving further away from being a strictly IT or technology implementation tool, and towards a foundational element of marketing. Making data cohesive and actionable is something that marketers have historically struggled with, and they're seeing now that tag management can eliminate that headache for them by making data that used to just sit somewhere really usable and valuable," Stanhope adds.
But Signal isn't the only one making strides. Another frontrunner in the space, Tealium was among the first to harness the marketing potential that tag management solutions have to offer. In September 2013, the company introduced AudienceStream, which uses gamification to help marketers segment their most actionable audiences. The tool allows marketers to assign badges based on customizable criteria—such as how long a customer spends on a brand's Web site—and gives them the capability to distribute those segments to digital marketing solutions that will trigger real-time marketing actions based on behavior.
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Flash sale e-retailer Rue La La was an early adopter of the Fuse technology, and noticed a significant boost in conversion after implementing the solution. The company began working with Signal Fuse to re-engage dormant customers, and decided that the best approach would be to target those customers with relevant display ads. Executing the campaign, however, meant matching a customer's profile within Rue La La's CRM solution to that same customer's profile stored by the company's retargeting vendor—that's where Fuse came in. After the implementation was rolled out, Rue La La experienced a 10 percent increase in conversion among dormant customers, and saw its time-to-match drop from | 159 |
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80% of Gen Z workers say they've taken a nap on the job
As Americans continue to work from home due to the ongoing pandemic, employees have more freedom to do other things, like take naps. Though sleeping at work may seem irresponsible to some, a recent report shows that employees who consider themselves "nappers" were 18% more likely than non-nappers to say they had gotten a promotion in the past year.
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Biden uses tornado tragedy to push climate agenda, suggests storms are 'consequence of the warming' » | , and pillows, surveyed 1,000 Americans to investigate the napping habits of U.S. workers. The results showed a positive impact not just in people's everyday lives, but in the workplace as well.
The study, published in October of this year, found that napping at work was more common than not, with more than 2 in 3 respondents saying they have napped at work before. Gen Z'ers were most likely to admit taking workplace naps at 80%, compared to 70% of Millenials. People who consider themselves nappers took a quick snooze to help with things like productivity and creativity at work.
"For increasing productivity at work, people figured the ideal naptime was 20 to 30 minutes," the study said. "To feel more creative, respondents felt that 10 to 20 was plenty."
To maximize naps even more, combining coffee with a 20-minute snooze also made people more alert at work. Dubbed the "nappuccino" by management and behavioral expert Daniel Pink, this technique helps lessen the amount of adenosine, the chemical responsible for tiredness, in the body. "It's magic! When you wake up, you're immediately hit with that extra boost of caffeine," he told CNBC Make It. "But it can also be a restorative ritual that you can look forward to after working for a few hours."
According to the study, nappers were more likely to be in a managerial role and to have received a promotion in the last year than non-nappers. Fifty-five percent of nappers worked in a managerial role, compared to 41% of non-nappers. Fifty-three percent of nappers had also received promotions in the last year, compared to 35% of non-nappers.
Though nappers seem to have a better quality of life, non-nappers were likely to make more money. "People who didn't hit the hay during the day were twice as likely to find themselves making $100,000 or more on an annual basis," according to the report. Non-nappers also cited other issues with sleeping on the job, like grogginess, inability to sleep at night, and simply not having the time to take one.
The authors cited another article published by Sleep.org in March, which reported that 70% of Americans say they're regularly sleep-deprived, possibly explaining the need for an afternoon nap to get through the day. Due to this, many workers think that napping at work should be destigmatized.
"Rather than being scolded, many respondents think that napping should be integrated into the workplace," the study said. " Some suggested the introduction of a napping room, nap pods, a stipend for sleep aids, and even paid nap breaks. Others would simply appreciate if naps were encouraged or even just allowed when they're on the clock."
There were several sleep perks employees wanted to see, with 42% wanting designated nap rooms. 36% of respondents simply wanted permission to nap if needed, and 32% wanted a healthy nap culture in their offices.
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Q: Why is it "grandfather", but "great-uncle"? I know that there are six forms of this word, but "great-uncle" is most common ("great-aunt" has a similar graph). Why is this, if "grandfather" and "grandmother" are common?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=great+-+uncle%2Cgreat+uncle%2Cgrand+-+uncle%2Cgranduncle%2Cgreatuncle%2Cgrand+uncle&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
A: Both grand- and great- seem to be translating the French grand-, as in grand-oncle and so on. French uses grand- consistently for the upward direction, and petit- for the reverse, as in petit-fils (grandson). In Latin your great-uncle<|fim_middle|> should be my uncle's father. But that is my grandfather. So grand-uncle is confusing.
*grand- is reserved for the direct line of descent, so it feels wrong to use it for people who are off to the side
| is patruus magnus if he is on your father's side, and avunculus magnus on your mother's side; magnus, like French grand, can mean both "big" and "important". The root of our problem is that there are two ways to receive that into English: grand via Anglo-Norman graunt, Old French grant; and the Germanic great.
It seems that grandsire and grandam were the earliest English uses (appearing in the 13th century) which are pretty obviously based on the French. On the other hand, great-uncle and grand-uncle are both attested from the 15th century:
his grete Uncle H. Cardinal of England (Rolls of Parliament V.438, 1438)
his graunt oncle Henry cardinalle of Englande (Book of Noblesse, 1475)
These are both referring to the same person - Cardinal Henry Beaufort, the great-uncle of Henry VI.
In modern times I think most people are familiar with the "rule" that grand- means a difference of two generations, and repetitions of great- can be used for longer distances. This would suggest grand-uncle as the preferred form but in fact, as your chart shows, great-uncle is more common. Perhaps what is going on is that both words are possible English forms of grand-oncle, but for some reason grand-uncle does not feel appropriate, leaving the way clear for great-uncle to become standard. They are both used, and have a long history - but one is more popular. Pure speculation:
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*If my grandfather is my father's father, then my grand-uncle | 357 |
In the Metrics dialog box, there are many options<|fim_middle|>glare check box is checked.
By default, when running an Image simulation, DIVA will render the current view in Rhino. The "Saved Views Only" option allows you to run only the views you have saved under "Named Views" in Rhino. With either choice, remember to make sure they have a Perspective projection.
Image simulations automatically create a *.pic file which is effectively, an *.hdr (high-dynamic range) image. Unfortunately, these images cannot be opened by most photo previewers and NOT by Photoshop. In the wxfalsecolor window, you have the option to save the file that is generated as several file types, including a jpeg, but checking the "Generate .tiff" dialog box will save you the extra step of saving the image and will automatically generate and store the image as both a *.pic and *.tif in your results folder.
wxfalsecolor is a program developed by Thomas Bleicher and is automatically installed with DIVA. In order to use the Radiance IV option, you must have the Radiance Image Viewer installed on your computer.
The dimensions of your output image can be set here. Values are entered in pixels x pixels in the format: integer integer. For instance 640 x 480 would be entered as: 640 480.
Selecting this option will automatically clean up unnecessary files from the C:\DIVA\Temp\[RhinoFilename] directory. | which are common to two or more simulation types. Since these are common to several simulation types, we will review them all in one place (this page).
Make sure that you follow the conventions for specifying variables (e.g. "-ab", not "ab").
For quick tests, the Low preset is fine, but for good, reliable results the High Preset is recommended. The Medium setting can be a good option for simulations that could possibly run extremely long if set to "High". Since many Radiance simulations involve a stochastic process, re-running the exact same simulation can produce slightly different results each time. Higher resolution settings will reduce the variability in results, but at the expense of longer simulation times.
You can specify a number of different sky conditions for your scene as explained below. The most common options typically used are Sunny or Cloudy.
Sunny Sky: Uses the Radiance program gensky to model a CIE clear sky. This is a standard file defined by the International Commission on Lighting (CIE).
Cloudy Sky: Uses the Radiance program gensky to model a CIE overcast sky. This is a standard file defined by the International Commission on Lighting (CIE). It is bright near the zenith and rotationally invariant, meaning that it looks the same in all orientations. This is the reference sky for the daylight factor.
Custom Sky: In case you are interested in modeling a particular sky,for example when you have taking illuminance measurements of a space and you would like to model the space now under the same daylighting conditions. you can use the Perez sky model (Radiance program gendaylit) which requires as input date and time as well as measured direct and diffuse horizontal irradiances.
Clear sky without sun: Same as clear sky but without the solar disk. Some designers like using this theoretical (non physical) sky to distinguish between lighting contributions from the celestial hemisphere and from direct sunlight.
Uniform: Uses the Radiance program gensky to model a completely uniform sky.The underlying uniform sky model was used before the CIE overcast and other sky models were introduced.
The solar date and time are set by specifying month, day and hour in the format: mm dd hr (a single space between each entry). For instance: December 10 at 3:15pm would be: 12 10 15.25.
Solar Date and Time mean that the sun position is calculate taking the Equation of Time into account, and WITHOUT daylight savings time.
If selected any Rhino layer that is modeled as a dynamic shading systems such as a lowered venetian blind is excluded from all calculations except for climate-based metrics and electric lighting simulations.
To use a finer mesh resolution when running any of the Metrics, adjust the "Geometric Density" option. Values range between 0 and 100. "0" represents the crudest resolution of curves and complicated surfaces, where as "100" produces the most refined resolution.
DIVA Image simulations will only successfully run when the projection of the view you want to run is set to "Perspective Projection" in Rhino. If your view is set to an Orthographic Projection, an error will appear. To change the projection of your view in Rhino. Make sure that nothing is selected, and navigate to the "Properties" menu. Under "Viewport", there is an option which says "Projection". You can change the setting there.
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OKLAHOMA!, previously scheduled for Dec. 9 – 20, 2020, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. It will still be part of the 20-21 season. We are working diligently to reschedule OKLAHOMA! to come to Dallas. We will be in touch as soon as we have an update.
Over 75 years after Rodgers & Hammerstein reinvented the American musical, this is OKLAHOMA! as you've never seen or heard it before – reimagined for the 21st century.
Stripped down to reveal the darker psychological truths at its core, Daniel Fish's production tells a story of a community circling its<|fim_middle|> work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the kings of early musical drama." – Washington Post
"This vivid, stripped-down revival offers audiences a new vision of themselves. This Oklahoma! is a textbook illustration of how to revisit a classic while honoring it." -The New Yorker
This DSM presentation takes place at the Winspear Opera House.
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Photo Credit: Little Fang | wagons against an outsider, and the frontier life that shaped America. Upending the sunny romance of a farmer and a cowpoke, this OKLAHOMA! allows the classic musical – and our country – to be seen in a whole new light.
Funny and sexy, dark and jolting, "this is the OKLAHOMA! that was there all along." (New York Magazine) The Daily Beast says "Forget your traditional idea of Oklahoma! Daniel Fish's daring, brilliant, utterly absorbing re-interpretation is dark and different—brilliantly so."
Age Recommendation: Due to mature content in this production, it is recommended for children ages 12 and up.
This production contains fog, loud gunshot effects, moments of darkness, and violence.
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It goes into detail of the 1982 Lebanon war which was an invasion by the Israeli military and also the Sabra and Shatila massacre which Fisk was present at the day after it happened. The book covers the American, British, French and Italian intervention as Multinational Force in Lebanon and the evacuation of the PLO.
The book's title is taken from Khalil Gibran's eponymous poem, published in The Garden of the Prophet (1933).
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1. Cook the risotto: Heat 2 TBs olive oil in a large pot, then add onions and cook until fragrant and translucent. Add rice and briefly sautee, then add white wine and reduce. Slowly pour in ½ cup veggie stock and simmer with rice until absorbed. Continue adding stock by the ½ cup.
2. Meanwhile, lightly sautee the spinach with 1 TBs olive oil and garlic. Add half of the sorrel, season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. When the risotto is almost done and still a little broth-y, add optional butter and spinach/ sorrel mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Turn off heat and stir in the fresh sorrel. Garn | 186 |
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How Smart Are These New Zealand Birds?
by Risa Shimmura
In our day to day lives, we make decisions through the statistical, physical, and social information that we are given. Up until now, it was thought that only ape's do this. However, as it turns out, a certain species of bird from New Zealand can do the same.
New Zealand parrots called Keas turn out to have the same cognitive abilities to be able to do this. This shows the development of intelligence in animals throughout history.
Amalia Bastos, a doctoral candidate in comparative psychology at the University of Auckland, wanted to test if their intelligence stretched beyond this.
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The birds were taught that a black token always led to a tasty food pellet; whereas an orange one never did. The scientists placed two<|fim_middle|> like humans, have something called "domain general intelligence." This is the mental ability to integrate several kinds of information. Birds and humans last shared a common ancestor some 312 million years ago and have significantly different brain anatomies.
"If kea really do have these abilities, there's a good reason they evolved it," says a researcher. Animals with even basic statistical and predictive skills should be able to estimate amounts of food or the availability of mates. They end up with more offspring and evolutionary success.
If researchers find out how Keas have evolved to think in this way, it could tell scientists more about evolution. Perhaps also allowing them to make predictions for all six kingdoms.
Filed Under: Biology, Environment, Featured Blog, Year 1 YVR Session 2 | transparent jars containing a mix of tokens next to the keas; then removed a token with a closed hand. The birds picked hands dipped into jars that contained more black than orange tokens; even if the ratio was as close as 63 to 57.
Scientists report in today's issue of Nature Communications that the experiment "provides conclusive evidence" that keas are capable of "true statistical inference."
In another experiment, researchers showed the keas two jars that each contained an equal number of black and orange tokens. However, the experimenter only reached the tokens located above a solid barrier. Most keas correctly chose hands that had reached into the jar with the greatest ratio of black tokens above that divider. This shows that they based their predictions solely on physical information—the number and relative quantities of tokens above the barrier.
Kea (c) Aidan Wojitas, CC BY-SA 2.0
Integration of Social Information
Also, Keas were more likely to take tokens from a researcher who showed a bias for black tokens. This was shocking, as previously, only humans and chimpanzees were known to integrate this type of social information; to make predictions.
Data collected indicates that keas, | 244 |
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Will Grier was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 3, 1995. He is an American football quarterback for the NFL's Carolina Panthers. He played college football at the University of Florida, where he was a two-time All-American. As a freshman in 2014, Grier was the starting quarterback for the Gators.
Will Grier was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and played football at Davidson Day School. In his senior year, he was named the Gatorade Player of the Year for North Carolina after completing 178 of 290 passes for 3,585 yards and 45 touchdowns. He also rushed for 1,087 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Grier played college football at the University of Florida. As a freshman in 2014, he appeared in 12 games and completed 106 of 161 passes for 1,204 yards and 10 touchdowns. In 2015, Grier was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs. After sitting out the 2016 season, he transferred to West Virginia University.
In 2017, Grier's first season with the West Virginia Mountaineers, he led the team to an 8-4 record and threw for 3,490 yards and 34 touchdowns. He also rushed for four touchdowns. Grier declared for the 2019 NFL Draft after his junior season.
Will Grier is making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The Carolina Panthers quarterback was suspended for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing substances, the league announced Monday.
Grier, 25, will be eligible to return to the Panthers' active roster on Oct. 28<|fim_middle|> replacement. Wilson has hinted at retirement and has been involved in trade rumors, so Grier could find himself starting for one of the NFC's premier teams if everything falls into place.
Will Grier was a Heisman Trophy candidate during his senior season at Florida, when he completed 66.4 percent of his passes for 3,970 yards with 34 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also ran for eight touchdowns.
Grier's breakout season came as a junior in 2015, when he threw for 3,115 yards with 24 TDs and just five INTs while completing 65.8 percent of his passes. Grier was named the Associated Press' SEC Newcomer of the Year that season.
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"I sincerely apologize to my coaches, teammates and Panthers fans for this mistake," Grier said in a statement released by the team. "In no way was this intentional. I have passed over 60 drug tests in my career and nothing like this has ever happened."
Grier was drafted by the Panthers in the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft out of West Virginia.
Will Grier was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft. Grier played college football at the University of Florida. As a senior in 2018, he was the starter for the Florida Gators. Grier was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Will Grier was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Virginia, where he was a two-time All-Big 12 quarterback.
Grier started his NFL career with the Panthers, but was traded to the New England Patriots during the 2020 season. He has appeared in six NFL games, and has completed 61-of-111 passes for 714 yards, four touchdowns, and three interceptions.
Will Grier's NFL career began in 2019 when he was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the NFL Draft. He spent two seasons with the Panthers, serving as the team's backup quarterback, before being released in 2021. He was then signed by the New England Patriots, but was released before the start of the regular season.
Will Grier's future in the NFL is uncertain after an injury-plagued 2019 season. Grier was placed on injured reserve by the Carolina Panthers after suffering a broken bone in his left hand. He was originally drafted by the Panthers in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
Former Florida Gators quarterback Will Grier is one of the most polarizing athletes in recent memory. The once-heralded college football star and current NFL free agent has been inundated with questions surrounding his future in the league.
With a checkered past that includes a stint in rehab for drug use and a suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy, Grier's future in the NFL is very much up in the air. However, there are a few teams that could take a chance on the talented but troubled signal caller.
The Indianapolis Colts are in need of a backup quarterback after starter Andrew Luck retired suddenly before the start of the 2019 season. Grier would be an interesting option for the Colts, who have shown a willingness to take on talented players with off-field issues in the past.
The New England Patriots also have a history of signing players with baggage, and Grier would make sense as a backup to Tom Brady. Given Bill Belichick's success in developing quarterbacks, Grier could blossom into a solid starter if given the opportunity.
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On 13/09/2017 By bridgbIn PhD, The India Diaries, TravelsLeave a comment
There's been a lengthy break in play since my last post, I do apologise for keeping you in suspense. For those playing at home, the previous state of play was me sinking beers in an airport after being firmly asked to leave the district where I was conducting my research. The local passports officer was unsatisfied that my foreigner registration was from another location, so I needed to transfer. After confirming that the office would be open the next day, I made the two-hour journey to the nearest airport and got an evening flight to Hyderabad.
I landed late and slept badly. Clutching a wad of paperwork, I took an Uber to the FRRO where I had such fond memories. It was closed. Because of course it was.
"Tuesday," the security guard grunted.
"Not Monday?" I was optimistic, seeing as it was a public holiday, but the security guard had already lurched back to his desk by this stage.
So I sat in a hotel room for the weekend. Having previously exhausted most of Hyderabad's tourism activities, I watched movies and got food delivered all weekend, bingeing on curries and self-pity.
When Tuesday rolled around, I was bouncing off the wall to get to the FRRO. I was one of the first in line and spoke to the man in the waiting room as soon as I walked in. I remembered from last time that the waiting room's guardian was key to accessing the second office of the FRRO, which was where all the real stuff happened. I explained my situation as politely as possible and he grunted that I needed a<|fim_middle|> here – the inside of a police station, or a hospital, for that matter – but seeing as I was there on, hopefully, non-criminal matters, it would be quite interesting. We were escorted into a plain building with whitewashed walls and an air of superiority. No jail cells, just white tiles and white walls. We entered an office where a man behind a sad-looking desk flicked his wrist in our direction. Our local guides fell over themselves greeting him, "Good afternoon, sir. Thank you, sir."
My fellow FRRO victim, an American who was completing her exit proceedings, nudged me to sit down. Without looking up, Lord Almighty of the Wonky Desk, called, "Passport." I blinked, unsure as to who he was talking to but the American and our guides had sprung into action. He flicked through the paperwork and the passport, still not making eye contact.
"The date is wrong. When did you enter India?"
The American tripped over herself to explain but His Excellency held up his index finger.
"It's a simple question."
Crestfallen, the American answered with a specific date.
"You should have known better," he had turned to our guide at this point.
Our guide murmured some apologies and some more "sirs". The paperwork was thrust back towards him.
"Where is the transfer certificate? She is violating the terms of the visa without it."
My turn, I guessed. I opened my mouth but our guide gave me a look that was both a warning and a plea not to get us all into trouble. And then we were shown out. It took all of five minutes.
"Wait, what just happened?"
We were suddenly back outside, and I was completely thrown. The American, who'd apparently had a very positive experience, was almost skipping.
"Yeah, he's just like that. I had to get mine transferred from Delhi, hopefully they can do it without you having to go there."
Uhh, ok. Then we got back in the car and drove back. For an hour.
Following our guides advice, I dutifully mailed the university who helped me register in Hyderabad in the first place. They came straight back, said they would do their best, but it's a long weekend so they'd only get to it on Tuesday. Great. No problem!
Not great. Kind of a problem. The next day, I informed our guide of my emailings and he nodded, seemingly satisfied. Went up to work as per usual. But then there was a phone call. I heard my name. That is never good.
We had been summoned.
"Where is your transfer certificate?" the NGO woman-in-charge demanded.
I explained what I had told our guide, also her PA, that morning.
"We need it now."
She'd just been on the phone to His Imperial Majesty, and Tuesday was Not Good Enough™. Ok, sorry, I can try to call them?
"No, you have to leave. Today."
And that's the story of how the FRRO got me kicked out of an entire district of India.
So here I sit, sipping my first beer (ok, technically now I'm up to the second) since I arrived weeks ago. Nothing has driven me to drink, nothing has distracted me from my work, until now. I'm in need of a sympathetic ear beer. At the risk of cliché, I'm sitting at an airport bar, drowning my sorrows and planning my next move. Going to Hyderabad might be a retreat, but I hope it's going to be a strategically advantageous one. Tomorrow is a new day. The FRRO may have won this battle, but the war ain't over yet.
On 15/06/2017 By bridgbIn PhD, The India Diaries, Travels, Writing2 Comments
Fieldwork has begun and it has been quite a start. There was a pre-pre-dawn departure, a delayed flight, a sweaty, steaming sprint between terminals, and then eventually touching down. But then it was on to the next leg. Two flights and a three-hour drive through windy, hilly roads with nothing but coffee sloshing around in my stomach did not make for a happy camper.
So, when the friend of a friend who had been helping me asked if I wanted to come to his parent's place for dinner, my first instinct was to say no, thank you. I was tired and confused, and a little homesick already. Feeling completely out of my depth and in need of some decompression time. Fortunately, it struck me how rude it might have been to refuse the invitation so I accepted. Only after this I remembered my India survival technique. You have to say yes. Or at least shrug and go with "why not?".
Because, much like her auto drivers and tourist touts, India doesn't take no for an answer. She demands that you say yes. Obviously there are some fairly major caveats to this advice, I may be a solo female traveller in India but I'm not a complete idiot. It's maybe not the best idea to follow shady dudes down dark alleys because they asked you too. But new experiences, meeting new people, eating new things, they're kind of the reasons we travel in the first place. While India may be intimidating, so much so that the first instinct is to withdraw and regroup, that's not why I'm here.
So we piled into our local host's tiny Tata car and set off along the narrow mountain roads. The area was lush and green and stunning. The front seat were talking about how there had been elephants in the village two days early. The road curled around a tea factory and the air smelt like overbrewed tea.
As we pulled up in the village, there was a bit of a stereotypical moment. The car pulled up and we strangers got out. Two from the city, and me from somewhere else entirely. The men who were loading a truck with bags full of tea leaves stopped and stared. The children who had run up to the car initially hid behind each other and gaped. I pasted on my best goofy "hello" smile and followed our host up the hill.
We met his parents who smiled and welcomed us into their pristine home. It was warm inside, with the low ceilings and doorways trapping the heat in a way that was cosy, not smothering. Introductions were made complete with some broken English and completely butchered Tamil (mine obviously). "Come, we'll take our tea outside." It was hard to leave that toasty house that was just starting to smell like an amazing dinner spread. But it was worth it. The air outside was cold and crisp. We sat on plastic chairs and sipped on steaming hot, sweet chai. The village was on a steep slope, and this patio seemed to be on the main thoroughfare. This might not have been accidental, it turns out our host's father was the village headman. People were constantly stopping by to have a chat and gawp at the foreigner. Two of the braver children stood near enough to headbutt me but were too shy to say hello.
It was pretty magical. Sometimes in the chaos and the filth and the poverty and the frustration, it's easy to forget that India is indeed a special place. Bitch is manipulative. She makes you wait in ridiculous queues and tries to run you down with a trolley first, then a car, then a cow. She bakes you in steamy humidity then chills you with dry, dusty winds. She taunts you with images of delicious curries and rice, but then serves you a cheese sandwich. Still not sure how that happened.
Anyway, but then India turns in on and all is forgiven. It certainly was that night. After the long day of travel, I somehow ended up in a postcard of what fieldwork in India should look like. On a rooftop in a remote village, eating biscuits and drinking chai. The sun had long disappeared behind the mountains and the air smelt of cooking smoke and cows. "This might be what it's all about," I thought, as my host generous pushed the plate of biscuits towards me again. I declined though, gotta save room for that curry. | "no objections" letter from my university. Great. So off I went.
The letter from the university took a few days to organised. I was forever grateful when my local friend returned from his trip and took me for a beer. He very patiently listened and ordered multiple rounds of chilli paneer and beers as I ranted about the FRRO and how unfair and frustrating it all was. No-one was responding to emails, my phone calls were being brushed off, and I'd watched way too many episodes of Masterchef Australia by this point.
Finally, the university prevailed and sent me through the documentation. After spending almost an entire week waiting, I was prepared. I had documents of no objection from the university, I had two-sentence email from someone in the FRRO, I had copies of passports, visas, registration forms, letters of invitation, everything. The man at the front desk of my hotel had very politely let me print a few things from his computer that morning, I may have taken advantage of his kindness… Anyway, nothing was going to stop me at this point. I charged through the waiting room and accosted the man at the desk there, waving my stack of papers like a lunatic and pointing at every tick on the checklist. He waved me through to the second room and my second opponent. I took a slightly more deferential approach, sprinkling my explanations with 'Sirs'. He glanced through my paperwork, "Where's the invitation letter from your new institution in Chennai?"
What? "I'm not going to Chennai, and there's no new institution, just a short stay for research."
"You need a letter from the institution," and he swivelled his chair away.
Ok. I decided to go into the stairwell where I could discreetly decide if I was going to cry or not. Wait. The email. I raced back to the desk, brandishing my phone.
"But this email says that I only need documents from my university!"
The man gave a most impressive eyeroll. "Speak to my supervisor."
I was directed to a desk behind a window about two-metres away, but still the man tried to call ahead. The phone didn't work so he heaved himself up, seemingly with great effort, and walked over to explain to the supervisor why I was there.
Miracle of miracles, the supervisor seemed much more reasonable and, if not polite, at least civil, than any other FRRO person I had ever encountered.
"Miss, in order for us to issue a transfer certificate, we need your letter of acceptance for your new university in Chennai."
I explained, once again, that I was not transferring universities, just going to do PhD fieldwork.
"Oh," his brow furrowed, "how long will you be there for?"
"Maximum, another six weeks."
"Oh well, you only need a transfer certificate if you're away from more than eight weeks."
"I know," I tried not to laugh hysterically, "but the sir in the local office asked me to leave."
"No, that's incorrect. Have him call me if there are any problems."
And that was it. I was dismissed. I was right. I was victorious! Wait. Was I? I'd just wasted a week in Hyderabad, only to be told what I already knew. This fixed nothing!
I called my host NGO to seek some advice.
"I don't think that would go well," she said, brusquely, after I suggested that the local FRRO man should call Hyderabad.
I sighed, my initial impressions of the man aligned with that assessment. He didn't seem like the kind of person who like to be argued with, or proven wrong.
"Let me know what you want to do, bye!"
Great. I conferred with my research assistant. There were two options. Return to the district and do battle, potentially a suicide mission, or cut our losses and return after visiting the second site, after my Hyderabad registration had expired. I considered the options. Going back may serve to further antagonise the FRRO there, plus I only had another week before I was expected at my second site. I sighed, yet another tactical retreat.
So I got on the next flight back to Singapore, tail between my legs. I was right, I had every right to be there, but still, it was a hollow victory.
On 23/06/2017 23/06/2017 By bridgbIn PhD, The India Diaries, Travels, WritingLeave a comment
Beer tastes better when you've earned it. After a tough but fun sports session, or on a Friday after a long week at work, that first beer is extra sweet because you know you deserve it. On the flip side of that is the sympathy beers. They don't taste as good, but they dull the pain of loss or failure. Not in the drink-your-sorrows way, more of a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to lean on, even if you shouldn't really need it. Tough week at work but it's only Monday? Sorry, that's a sympathy beer. Fight with the spouse when you know you're wrong but too stubborn to admit? Sympathy beer. Let me tell you, the beer I'm drinking now is up there with the most sympathetic I've ever tasted.
Gather around friends, for this is not a drinking story, not yet anyway. Lend me your ears, and let me tell you a tale of our favourite government department. The one we love to hate. The FRRO! Boo, hiss. At this risk of being a one-trick pony-blog, here I am again.
My fieldwork has started, it's going well. I'm on the verge of getting stuck into interviews based on all the observation I've been doing. The juicy stuff. But my nemesis, the FRRO had other plans. If you remember, I did suspect I'd have to fight another battle in this war. The warning drums sounded yesterday, "You need to go to town, they want to see you." Ok, no problem, I'll head in first thing tomorrow morning. Town is an hour away, plus I need to take all my documents.
"No. They want to see you now. The car's here."
Right. Ok. So off we went. Winding up, down, and around steep peaks and valleys blanketed in clouds and tea plantations, the drive was absolutely beautiful. When we reached town, the brightly-coloured houses terraced their way down the hill, smoke puffing from their chimneys. The smell of tea was heavy in the air, it's roasting season. It really was an idyllic scene. But we accelerated straight through that, following the severe-looking signs that directed us to the "Police Superintendent".
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Let's start by getting one thing out of the way: I love short stories. For me, short stories are the epitome of how science fiction is best experienced, meaning that choosing one short story as my "favorite" is impossible. When Apex asked me to write about my favorite short story for their subscription drive, literally dozens of titles popped into my head. I hesitate to list them all, as I would be sure to omit many others. But let me make it clear: the short story I have selected to discuss is not necessarily my favorite, but it's definitely<|fim_middle|> with previous editor John Campbell, there was no way he could refuse. He supplied a story that made me think a lot when I was a kid, and still makes me think today.
"The Last Answer" (Analog, January 1980; reprinted in the collection The Winds of Change and Other Stories) tells the story of physicist Murray Templeton, an atheist who finds himself surprised to be selected for the afterlife by a being known only as the Voice. According to the Voice, any traditional concept humanity has of a supreme being and an afterlife of reward and punishment is untrue. The Voice merely selects those people it feels have the capacity for continued interesting thought, keeps them "alive" as an electromagnetic nexus, and encourages them to think. Templeton wishes to dispense with this existence, as it lacks true purpose, and he quickly jumps to the idea of deciding to ponder how to disrupt his own nexus. When the Voice tells him that it can easily reconstruct him, Templeton tells the Voice he will turn his thoughts to the question of how to destroy the Voice – and it turns out that is exactly what the Voice wants. The implication is that the Voice, having lived for eternity with no knowledge of its own beginning, wants to die, but has no way of killing itself. It hopes that one day one of the intelligences it keeps thinking will figure out its own dilemma, and manage to destroy its own existence.
Now, there's a lot in this story to make it worth discussing. The idea of an afterlife limited to thinking, or of an immortal being that wishes nothing more than to die, already exercises the imagination.
But the main reason I found this story so compelling was that I was sure Asimov had meant to connect it with an earlier short story of his, the one he always referred to as his favorite of all his stories. And it's actually my favorite of Asimov's stories as well.
To be obvious about it, the AC has, of course, become God.
The way I see it, the Voice of "The Last Answer" is the AC of "The Last Question." I suspect Asimov intended "The Last Answer" as a sequel, envisioning a future where the AC, having re-created the universe, now wants nothing more than oblivion but has no way to grant it to itself. The titles of the two stories implied this strongly – at least, to me. The idea that a universe existed before this one, and that God was a computer borne out of that universe, and then that computer now wants to die as its purpose was at an end … these are very heady ideas, especially for the teenager whom I was when I first came across them.
I was absolutely positive that the two stories were connected. But, even though I met Asimov on numerous occasions, sadly I never thought to ask him.
And to the best of my knowledge Asimov never specifically stated anywhere whether or not he intended this connection.
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And the reason for my selection is one that I expect will be entirely unexpected.
Isaac Asimov remains one of my favorite short story writers. In 1980, he was asked to provide a short story for the fiftieth anniversary of Analog, and given his relationship | 66 |
12:30 - 2:00 PM Potato Blossom Festival, Fort Fairfield, ME - Show cancelled.
Proceeds to benefit Caffe Lena. With Derek Kidd, Ed Mullen and Matt Carl. For more information, visit the Lightfoot Tribute Band web site. A sellout - thank you! Check back for pictures.
Proceeds to benefit Caffe Lena. With Derek Kidd, Ed Mullen and Matt Carl. For more information, visit the Lightfoot Tribute Band web site.Another packed audience and another great show.
3 to 5 PM Potato Blossom Festival, Fort Fairfield, ME - In the Food Court. Cathy will perform songs of the great singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, and Dan Fogelberg, and her favorite, Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
8 PM Pequot Library Auditorium<|fim_middle|>, NY - Cathy returns to Caffe Lena to do a solo gig.
If you are interested in booking Cathy, contact me - Valerie Magee - at the address on the Contacts page. | , 720 Pequot Avenue, Southport, CT - Cathy performs in a split bill with Saratoga singer/songwriter Michael Jerling. Cathy will perform songs of the great singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, and Dan Fogelberg, and her favorite, Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Michael performs his original songs - you'll find him witty and engaging, with a unique style and an amazing catalogue of original songs. He released his fifth CD just last year, and had one of his own songs included on the Smithsonian Folkways "Fast Folk" CDs, alongside of well known artists like Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Christine Lavin, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky. For directions click here. For info, e-mail Valerie Magee at webmaster@cathycowette.com.
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7:30 PM Medina Stone Farm, Medina, NY - Cathy will perform songs of the great singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, and Dan Fogelberg, with a special tribute to the great Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
7 PM Roselawn Centre, Port Colborne, ON - Cathy will perform a tribute to the great singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, and Dan Fogelberg, with a full second set of tunes from the great Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Country artist Debbie Bayshaw will open. Roselawn Centre phone number 905-834-7572. Read review.
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Renée Groeneveld is leading the Carlos Aguilar Match Race, the fifth and<|fim_middle|> to be able to control the boat in the prestarts today. I tried to remember what I've seen from my ordinary position, my crew guided me, and it all went way better than we expected" an obviously very relieved Danish skipper points out.
"We adapted to the boats in some exciting initial races, sorting things out. The later races were calmer, as we used our skills in boat handling execution," she comments.
"I definitely want to do more. It would be great to have an entire USVI team to compete in not only the Carlos Aguilar Match Race, but also in the WIM Series." | final event of the 2016 WIM Series, after the first day of round-robin.
The Dutch skipper controlled the shifty conditions in the Charlotte Amalie harbour of St. Thomas, posting five wins and no losses in Thursday's racing. American Stephanie Roble shares the runner-up position with Josefine Boel Rasmussen of Denmark.
"We got through the round-robin as anticipated, and it wasn't very hard to set a proper course. I think it was tougher for the sailors," says Principal Race Officer Darcy Cook, who solved the matter by laying two top marks, to give the race committee options.
"We made really good starts, especially in our important matches against Roble and Östling. Generally you just had to be patient out there, look around you and wait for the puffs to come," the overall leader comments.
"Anna then got back into the race on the second beat, and we rounded tip to tail at the mark. On the run we did a fake gybe to get her slow, and extended from there," Roble explains.
"We will climb the list, can't wait for tomorrow!"
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UCOR repairs water leak at Oak Ridge Research Reactor at ORNL
Posted at 12:24 pm December 18, 2015
Workers turn off the valves after draining of the pool was completed at the Oak Ridge Research Reactor at ORNL. (Photo by UCOR)
Workers have repaired a water leak at the Oak Ridge Research Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, officials said this week.
The completion of the work was announced by UCOR, a federal cleanup contractor and partnership between URS and CH2M Oak Ridge LLC.
The seep was detected in the reactor's pool in September 2014. While it did not pose any immediate dangers to workers or the environment, it prompted quick action by the U.S. Department of Energy, which oversees ORNL. DOE asked UCOR, its prime cleanup contractor, to develop and implement a solution to remedy the seep, a press release said. [Read more…]
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Radioactive components removed from former reactor at ORNL
Federal and contractor employees who worked on the project to remove irradiated components from a reactor pool gather to watch the transport of the shipment offsite for disposition. (Photo courtesy DOE Office of EM)
Water was found seeping from a pool at a former reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory one year ago, and in August, workers removed four irradiated components from the pool that produced about 96 percent of the radiation, federal officials said Thursday.
The four irradiated components weigh about <|fim_middle|> Department of Energy, UCOR, URS, URS Corporation, URS Decontamination and Decommissioning and Waste Management Strategic Business Group, URS Professional Solutions | 200 pounds each, said the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management, or EM.
Water was found seeping from the reactor pool at the Oak Ridge Research Reactor during a routine inspection in September 2014. The facility, also known as Building 3042, is one of hundreds of Manhattan Project and Cold War-ear structures across the Oak Ridge Reservation monitored by the Oak Ridge Office of EM.
Nuclear research had not been conducted at the facility since 1988, but it still contained the highly irradiated components from those operations. The leak was causing the pool to lose the water that served as a protective, shielding agent for the irradiated components, officials said. [Read more…]
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URS names new UCOR president, project manager
Posted at 1:41 am June 26, 2014
Ken Rueter
URS Corporation has named new leaders at UCOR in Oak Ridge and SRR at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Ken Rueter has been named president and project manager of UCOR, a partnership between URS and CH2M Oak Ridge LLC. The URS-led consortium is responsible for the cleanup of the U.S. Department of Energy's East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site, in Oak Ridge.
Rueter will become president and project manager on Aug. 1. He will replace Leo Sain, who will lead the URS Decontamination and Decommissioning and Waste Management Strategic Business Group, which is based in Oak Ridge.
"Ken's prior leadership in UCOR's successful deactivation and decommissioning of the K-25 facility will be invaluable as we continue the D&D of the K-27 and K-31 gaseous diffusion facilities," said Randall A. Wotring, president of federal services for URS. "I am confident he will build on the UCOR team's recent accomplishments as well as his previous experiences at the East Tennessee Technology Park to ensure we continue to make safe progress for our DOE client."
In a press release, URS said Rueter has 26 years of experience in the nuclear industry focusing on high-hazard nuclear operations, project management and integration, construction, and risk management. In his new assignment, he will be the senior executive for UCOR responsible for all deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) activities at the East Tennessee Technology Park. He was previously president and project manager of Savannah River Remediation LLC, or SRR, and prior to his role there, he was the chief operating officer for UCOR. [Read more…]
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Description: Age - 10, Height - 4' 6", Weight - 65 lbs, Eyes - Ocean Blue, Hair - Dark Brown, Frame - Childish.
History: Jessica Huffman (obviously not her birth name) was born to Clydrodria, an Atlantean female and cousin to Theseus, king of Atlantis, and Terrence Vasquez a normal human male. Clydrodria was a member of a subversive Atlantean messianic cult that believed that the rightful regent of Atlantis would one day be born of mixed parentage<|fim_middle|>) I consider the heat descriptor to be uncommon, so a minor vulnerability would only be 1 pp. You could use the other pp from above to make up for this, if you want.
I'd never allow that, so I think I'll leave it as is unless I just have to change it.
Actually you are incorrect. My super-sense is 2 PPs total cost (1 rank + Innate), so the drawback is perfectly legit.
I can change the descriptor to "Aquatic" if you like.
It is noted. That's what 2 PP/rank means. It is the very definition of 2 PP/rank. But I can spell it out if you like.
I think you're way off, but if you insist, I'll change it to . . .
Minor Vulnerability to Fire - 1 pt.
Minor Vulnerability to Plasma - 1 pt.
Is that better? It's less of a vulnerability for the same amount of points.
I will not approve this. I do not consider the power feat to be part of the power it is modifying.
That's what I'm looking for, since saying "Boost 6 (water powers)..." implies that it is all water powers, even though the cost is 2 pp/rank. "Boost 6 (Any water power...)" is a better way to state it.
"A power can have a total value in drawbacks equal to 1 point less than its total cost (so the power must cost at least 1 power point, regardless of how many drawbacks it has)." UP, 106.
The total cost is 2 PP. So it can have a total of 1 point of drawbacks (2-1=1). It does. It now costs 1 PP.
But if you just refuse to approve it, so be it.
:bat: <--- says, "Oh, don't be so obstinate."
Drop the drawback. Drop the innates (you never know when you may want to Boost them), and spend your extra PPs.
:monkey: <--- Likes extra PPs. See how happy he is?
I did some reading last night, and I found why I was confused about how the costing worked with powers. In Ultimate Power, it states that a power consists of effects, power feats, modifiers, and drawbacks. In the core book, the word "power" was used in the UP sense (for the entire thing) and in the same way as effect. I had thought that an effect's cost couldn't be reduced below 1, rather than an entire power. Therefore, the Super-Senses power is legal.
I also apologize for being rude. I did not intend to preclude you from getting sanctioned by other people, only to say that I was not going to sanction you then.
Barnum and I spoke the other night, and we would not allow a Drain or Nullify on Immunity and Super-Senses (the former because it opens up cans of worms that the system can't handle; the latter because it's almost always better simulated as Dazzle or Obscure). Since Current Control wouldn't be able to affect your Swimming if the Swimming were innate, it seems like you'd be better off removing Innate from it.
Okay, I dropped the innates and the drawbacks. | , overthrow the king, and return the throne of Atlantis to its rightful place as Ruler of Seven Seas. In fact, Clydrodria was "assisting" the prophecy along when she conceived Jessica.
When Theseus began trying to stamp out the cult, Clydrodria abandoned her daughter on the boat of Dr. and Mrs. Huffman (husband and wife scientists for ASTRO Labs) and went into hiding, believing that if her daughter was destined to be the savior of Atlantis, keeping her alive until she was old enough to rule was the highest priority. The Huffman's raised the girl until she turned eight. At the age of eight she was kidnapped and ended up as a sideshow in the Circ de Éternel (the details of that still have to be worked out once Barnum has the circus thread/s up and running).
:arrow: Droplet will not begin the game with Wealth or Equipment. That will come when she gets reunited with her adopted family and joins the kid hero team.
:arrow: Droplet can pull the water from the air, nearby pipes, etc. to fuel her boost. That is why the power fails when she is in extremely arid conditions (desert, sealed in an airtight room, etc.).
:arrow: Current Control is listed under Water Control in UP.
:arrow: Luck is used for stunting her water powers.
:arrow: The 2 PP version of Boost: "Boost can affect any trait suiting your descriptors, one at a time. If the subject does not have the targeted trait, he or she may gain it temporarily, at the GM's discretion."
I assume from the cost that the Detect Water is ranged. You may want to make this clear on your sheet.
Other than that, she looks good.
I'm fine with the history. Mechanically speaking, there are a few issues.
2) You can't have a Power Loss drawback on your Super-Senses. They are only 1 pp, and a -1 Power Loss drawback means that you're getting them for free. Overall, by removing the drawback and eliminating two of the "Innates", you're up 1 pp. If you don't want to be able to see with low-light vision on dry land, it can be modeled as a complication.
3) I don't think the "water" descriptor makes sense on your Atlantean template. Atlanteans live in the water, but that doesn't mean the source of their ability to live underwater is the water itself.
4) "Messianic Blood" should be noted as only affecting any one of your Water-descriptor powers at a time. This also means that if you use it to boost one of your water powers and then switch to an alternate power, the alternate power is not Boosted.
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Marriott Manila is securing its position to be the premiere meeting destination in the country, as it officially opens the Marriott Grand Ballroom – Philippines' largest ballroom, a first of its kind facility that will redefine Philippine MICE Industry (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions). This new architectural marvel offers a total of 8,000 square meters of function space with 28 versatile meeting space including 6 VIP sky boxes. A blank canvas perfect for small or large meetings, all types of celebrations and grand events from product launches to concerts. With the addition of the Marriott Grand Ballroom, the hotel offers a total of 10,000 square meters of function space, by far the biggest in the Philippine hotel industry.
The main ballroom boasts of 3,000 sq.m. of pillarless venue that can easily accommodate 4,000 guests for cocktails and 2,500 for banquet set-up. This massive venue can be subdivided into four sections and features state of the art technology, including the only ballroom that uses SkyFold Technology – vertical folding partitions that comes from the ceiling, and 176 Programmable Pillow Ceiling Lights that changes to 360 colors and can adjust the ceiling height from 12 meters to 10 meters for a more intimate gathering – another first in the Philippines. These hi-tech features can be operated at a push of a button. Also intended for an exhibition space, each segment of the ballroom features 9 utility boxes that provide event suppliers with data, internet, water and even drainage. There are also catwalks and high steel platform structure to give flexibility to design and easy access for lighting effects or hanging decorations. To cater to event attendees, there are 1,505 underground parking spaces across six basement levels. Truly, the Grand Ballroom is any event organizer or attendees' dream come true.
Set to be the country's most prestigious address for social events. With opulent space, incomparable state of the art technology, glamorous photo venue, elegant bridal suites with private gardens, versatile ceremonial halls, and impeccable service, the Marriott Grand Ballroom promises the perfect setting in making every moment unforgettable. Match it with comprehensive packages to suit the most extravagant affairs to intimate celebrations. Each celebration will be remembered for its unsurpassed grandeur and flawless execution. Any dream wedding fantasy can be turned into an unforgettable reality.
The abundant space of the Marriott Grand Ballroom was designed by international hospitality firm professionals Gettys Group. Overall concept of the design is "Bayanihan" a Filipino term for the community spirit – a representation of the Marriott Grand Ballroom as a source of local pride, a symbol of unity and celebration. Its modern and sleek design are accentuated with a touch of Filipino heritage which is evident with the lighted bamboo statement piece at the lobby, complemented with customized pieces by renowned Filipino furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue. More intricate details depict the local arts and cultures, inspired from indigenous colors and materials, even traditional dance showcasing spatial flow and movement. See these interpretations curved walls, slated wood ceilings, accent pieces and fabrics in different hues of brown and warm colors, tropical plant decors and curved wall inspirations.
The Marriott Grand Ballroom boasts of world class technology that will raise the standard in meetings and deliver unrivaled event experience.
Skyfold Technology, the Marriott Grand Ballroom has a truly sophisticated engineered designed Operable Wall System.
Professional High Steel Platform and Catwalk Structure is a Production Dream System. The Grand Ballroom has four sections with the same technology integrated in each section.
Lighting system specially designed to offer guests with multiple scenes at the touch of a button.
For an added touch of elegance, Marriott Manila commissioned Hongkong based Art Consultant and International Interior Decorator Anja Silling of Melange Interiors Ltd, to create a luxurious ambiance through modern art pieces. Among her other prestigious clients include several Marriott properties, such as The Ritz Carlton Hotel Moscow, Russia and the Marriott Vacation Club in Macau, China. And other International Luxury Hotel Projects, Luxury Residences, Corporate and Private Clients.
The Marriott Grand Ballroom house over a hundred pieces of modern art featuring a mix of local established Philippine artists and International artists as well as custom-made works from Melange Studio. All artworks reflect Philippine culture blended with Marriott International art concept that can be seen through statement pieces such as floral mood wall relief specially made by Melange, timeless works by Tony Twigg, an Australian artist with strong Filipino influences, art installations by Filipino sculptor Impy Pilapil, and Filipino contemporary artist Roberto Robles.
In addition to the function spaces, there are also 3 exciting dining hot spots.
Crema is an upscale gourmet coffee shop that offers a sophisticated ambiance perfect for short meetings, a quiet read or a quick break. Grab a cup of any of Crema's premium coffee creations or Felchin's hot chocolate and pair with its local signature, the macapuno egg tart. If you are opting for something cold, house blend smoothies and homemade yogurt are definitely a must try.
Mian, this modern Asian noodle bar offers refined and unique noodle dishes fired in an open kitchen. Whether you are looking for a traditional fare or with a twist of something new, stir-fried or soup, dine-in or take-out, Mian's menu offers a variety<|fim_middle|>/MarriotthotelManila, follow @marriottmanila on twitter and @manilamarriott on Instagram.
Marriott Hotel Manila stands as a centerpiece of the dynamic and exciting mixed-use development of Resorts World Manila, located directly opposite Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. A destination in itself, this 5 star property is poised to become the Philippines' most unique and comprehensive destination for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions.
The hotel currently offers 342 spacious guestrooms and suites and will open the West Wing in early 2016 adding an additional 228 luxuriously appointed rooms. Thoughtfully designed around the needs of today's modern traveler, each guestroom incorporates the latest technology and design. Premium Wi-fi capability, I-pod docks and oversized bathrooms appeal to most discerning guests. Mobile check-in and check-out, the finest linens and Thann Amenities add to the experience. Stunning views of Villamor Golf Course, the skylines of Makati Fort Bonifacio and sweeping views of the airport showcase our prime location. | of tempting selections to sink your chopsticks into, even include dumplings, rice bowls and desserts.
Allegro, an innovative deli that serves up a fresh approach on quick and delicious recipes on the go, take your pick with creative items such as maki sushi rolls, cheese tarts, dessert jars, gourmet salads and chilled sandwiches. Relish every bite with specially crafted beverages to go with every meal.
Breathe new life into meetings, milestones and events at the Marriott Grand Ballroom. For inquiries and bookings call (02) 9889999 or visit manilamarriott.com. To join the ongoing conversations, like Facebook.com | 135 |
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Mahama took car 'gift' from Burkinabe contractor
Mr. Djibril Kanazoe, does not dispute his friendship with Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama.<|fim_middle|> long as they are interacting with the public official in their public capacity it is grounds enough to question whether it is acceptable or not."
Mr. Batidam says the private sector, which " is the supply side of corruption," often has motives for which they want to give gifts to public officials.
"If the there are grounds to believe that or if it is common knowledge that the person bringing the gift has an interest that could have motivated the gift in the first place, then it is obvious that the receiver, public servant, be he president, [or] minister should exercise better judgment and say, 'I can't take this gift.'"
He said a gift to the President by a contractor "qualifies as a conflict of interest situation… The fact that there is a potential for people to believe that you are getting the contract because you are giving gifts, it's not something we can rule out."
A gift can be bribe
Explaining the concept of conflict of interest and gifts to public officials, a former Commissioner of CHRAJ, Justice Emile Short, says there is a thin line between a gift to a public officer and a bribe.
"Gifts can be given to public officers to influence them in the exercise of their duties," he tells me in an interview. "Even the guidelines issued by CHRAJ talk about accepted and prohibited gifts because that is one way in which people can bribe a public officer to influence the exercise of his or her functions."
As a Commissioner of CHRAJ, Justice Emile Short recalls he once ruled that a gift that was given to a public officer was a bribe: "The MD of Ghana Reinsurance Company had accepted $96,000 for changing the insurance broker of Ghana Airways. The public officer thought it was a gift; he had succeeded in getting a better deal for the Ghana Airways, but we held that it was a bribe. It wasn't a gift and it cannot be a gift," Justice Short says.
"If the gift is given with the intention of influencing the exercise of the public officers duty, then obviously, it is a bribe," Justice Emile Short emphasises. But whose duty is it to ascertain the motive for the gift? The various codes of conduct mentioned above and the CHRAJ Guidelines on Conflict of Interest place that responsibility on the public official.
According to Daniel Batidam, it is the duty of "all responsible public officials – ministers, appointees, senior public servants – to examine the motives for which gifts are brought to them. It would be unacceptable for me in a certain position to say that I do not understand or I didn't know that the gifts being brought are meant o influence me."
Justice Emile short says gifts and conflict of interest are a form of corruption. Daniel Batidam holds the same view.
"If conflict of interest is not corruption, what is corruption then? If you're in conflict of interest and also are found to have abused your office and yet you are not corrupt, what is corruption? We define corruption as an abuse of entrusted of power," he said.
Best Practices elsewhere
Daniel Batidam is of the view that if the fight against corruption can yield any meaningful results, then issues of gifts, conflict of interest and codes of conduct must be taken seriously. He says in advanced democracies, such standards and transparency have helped to minimise corruption.
Even though he cannot categorically tell if there is a transparent way of declaring gifts that are given to public officers in their public capacity, he says the problem dealing with prohibited gifts to public officials in Ghana is that such gifts are not given transparently.
In the United states, for instance, one can find all the accepted gifts given to the US Presidents and their spouses on their foreign on the website of the Protocol Gift Unit of the US Department of State.
The gifts, their estimated value and the reason why the Presidents or their spouses did not reject the gifts are declared and recorded.
In 2008, President John Agyekum Kufuor gave Gold necklace, earrings, and
bracelet set featuring symbols of Ghana to First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush when she and her husband visited Ghana. The gift was Recorded on 2/21/2008, and its estimated value was given as $2,000.00. The reason for accepting the gift was: "Non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government." Today, that gift can be found in George W. Bush Library and Museum in Dallax, Texas.
Can one find official gifts which Ghanaian Presidents and their spouses receive in their foreign trips?
Daniel Batidam says there ought to be a register of a sort to record them but he is not sure. For gifts from contractors and private individuals, he says there is no transparency in how they are given so it is difficult to track and assess them.
Can the President influence award of contracts?
In a recent interview with the BBC which President Mahama denied ever accepting a bribe, the President also said he had never involved himself or his office (the Presidency) directly in any public procurement deal. But a leaked letter in the controversial contract awarded to West Blue Limited seems to contradict this claim.
In the leaked letter, the Chief of Staff, on instructions of President John Mahama, ordered the Finance Ministry to take steps in appointing West Blue Company as a new company to operate a national single window at the country's ports.
The letter dated May 12, 2015, said: "In pursuant to his Excellency the President's decision you are directed to formally engage West Blue Ghana Ltd to undertake the following services;
1. Software implementation and support activities to GRA and related agencies for takeover of functions of DICs on 1 September, 2015.
"...You should take the necessary steps to secure the Public Procurement Approval in order to engage West Blue on Single Source basis," the letter said.
No need for proof or evidence
Justice Emile Short says in matters of conflict of interest, "it's not necessary to prove that the public officer's exercise of his or her duty or her duty or function has been influenced but if the conduct appears or has the potential to give that impression, then it also constitute conflict of interest."
Daniel Batidam, on the other hand, is of the view that if there is conflict of interest, there are still grounds to question how the a contractor won a contract even if the procurement procedure was followed.
"That is why the whole issue of examining contracts becomes a tricky thing. Sometimes those who win contracts, you go and they say we wanted the lowest [bidder] and we got the lowest. But what did it take, what did it cost to make that the lowest bidder. Sometimes it meant something that is hidden.
"Between the supply and the demand, the private sector and the public sector… contractors who bribe – well, let's say they give gifts that could amount to bribe – It's a very thin line. That's why some of us believe that the issue of bringing proof is impossible…because when they say bring proof and the proof is with the one you seek to or allege to be corrupt, that can be a herculean task."
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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There are two photographs in his Africa Motors office in the Le Zad suburb of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. On the wall to his left is the painting of his late father, El Hadj Oumarou Kanazoe. On the wall to his right is the photograph of him (Djibril Kanazoe) and President John Mahama, sitting on a couch and smiling. The two met in 2010.
When his father died in October 2011, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, then the Vice President of Ghana, sent a delegation to his village in Burkina Faso to mourn with him and also make a funeral donation. That delegation included a Minister of State, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo.
The renowned Burkinabe contractor does not shy away from talking about his closeness with Ghana's President. What upsets him and causes him to stop the interview and seize my voice recorder is what he says is the overly probing nature of the interview.
"Where it is going, it's too far for me," he says. "If you tell me we want to talk about this thing, we talk about it. We finish; you jump into another thing to trap me. I won't agree…This is a trap!" he yells, and descends to the ground floor to look for his press attaché.
The day is April 26, 2016. And the time is 2:00 PM in the Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. I'm here to investigate allegations that Mr. Djibril Kananzoe used undue influence to get contracts and paid bribes to some Ghanaian officials, allegations he denies. Djibril Kanazoe is the contractor who built the $650,000 Ghana Embassy fence wall in Burkina Faso.
He is also the only African contractor who won part of the contract on the Eastern Corridor Road Project, one of the biggest road projects ever to be undertaken in Ghana.
The $650,000 Ghana Embassy Fence wall contract
In September 2014, when officials of the Bank of Ghana appeared before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC), it emerged that an amount of $656, 246.48 had been spent on the construction of a fence wall over a parcel of land belonging to the Ghana Embassy in Burkina Faso. PAC ordered the Bank of Ghana to investigative what it termed the "outrageous" cost of the project.
When Joy News wrote to the Bank of Ghana in April this year to ascertain whether that probe was done, the Central Bank replied our letter, stating:
"We wish to indicate that our recall of proceedings of that day and subsequent reference to our records show that, the Bank of Ghana only acted as Bankers obeying the rightful and legal instructions of its customer, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to transfer the said amount to the designated beneficiary and debit its nominated account. Beyond this, the bank is not privy to any processes culminating in the spending of the amount in reference.
"We, therefore, recommend that you direct your request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which will be better positioned to give you all the circumstances of the transaction," the Bank of Ghana letter dated May 6, 2016, and signed by Alethea Godson-Amamoo for the Secretary, concluded.
When I asked why the Bank of Ghana did not tell the Public Accounts Committee that it could not undertake the investigation, a senior official at the Bank said the bank didn't want to embarrass the Committee. Telling them this, according to the source, would have created the impression that the Committee did not know where to direct the order for investigation.
A letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration on the matter and subsequent follow-ups did not yield any results.
But Djibril Kanazoe says the scope of work on the wall merits the amount that was voted for the project. He says the wall, which is about the size of a football pitch, was built with two layers of blocks with concrete in-between the blocks. "It is not an ordinary wall," he says.
Three sides of the wall are built with "blocks and concrete" while the side facing the main road is iron bars with pillars. There are two security posts at the two entrances too. The land is bare except two old "dawadawa" trees in the middle of the plot. Mr. Kanazoe says some part of the land was leveled with soil.
Allegations of Procurement Breaches
According to sources close to the project, the procurement process was breached to favour the eventual winner of the contract.
When asked how he got to know about the contract, Mr. Djibril Kanazoe said the Ghana Embassy in Ouagadougou wrote to his company to request price quotations for the project. He submitted the quotes and was selected.
Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso at the time of the project, Chief Dauda Mandiaya Bawumia, said he also wrote to two other contractors to submit quotations for the project, which he forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Ghana. The Ministry, he says, eventually settled on Mr. Kanazoe's company. He, however, does not remember the other two companies he wrote to for the quotation. Attempts to get that information from the Ministry have failed.
When asked about his alleged closeness with Mr. Dzibril Kanazoe, Ambassador Bawumia, admits the contractor has been his friend. "He was my friend, and he is still my friend," he emphasised. He said he was aware at the time of the contract that Djibril Kanazoe was also President Mahama's friend. He, however, denied allegations that he skewed the procurement process to favour Djibril Kanazoe.
A former Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority, Mr. Agyenim Boateng Agyei, says a contract of that nature did not qualify to be awarded through the procurement process that was used. He said any contract beyond GHc20,000 ought to be opened to competitive tendering.
According to him, if for any reason, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to award the contract through restricted tendering, it ought to have obtained approval from the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).
Joy News contacted the PPA to find out whether the Ministry obtained any approval for the said contract, but the authority declined to give any information. A senior official of the PPA said the Public Procurement Law did not name the media as part of the institutions to which it could disclose information on public procurements. The Foreign Affairs Ministry has not yet responded to our request for information on the contract.
Dodo Pepeso-Nkwanta road contract worth €25.9million
In 2012, Djibril Kanazoe won the contract to construct the 46-kilometre Dodo Pepeso-Nkwanta road. That road was completed and inaugurated in April this year by President John Mahama, who praised the Burkinabe contractor very highly.
"I also want to take the opportunity to thank Messrs Oumarou Kanazoe Contractors Limited of Burkina Faso for the very high quality of work they have done on this stretch of road. As I have said, perhaps, this is one of the best quality roads in Ghana today and I will urge the Minister of Road and Highways to bring other contractors to come and see so that they can emulate it in other parts of the country," President Mahama Mahama said on April 19, 2016, when he commissioned.
The Roads and Highways Minister, Inusah Fuseini, says due process was followed and that Kanazoe was the deserving winner of the contract.
GHc82 million sole sourcing contract
The Ministry of Roads and Highways is in the process of awarding Oumarou Kanazoe Construction Limited a contract worth GHc 82million on single source procurement basis.
The sector Minister, Inusah Fuseini, says the Burkinabe contractor is being handpicked for the 28-kilometre road project because of the quality of the road and the fact that he is near the project site. He said moving from Burkina Faso to the Hamile area will be easy for the contractor whose tools and equipment are in Burkina Faso.
Another reason Inusah Fuseini says Kanazoe is being considered for the project is the fact that he did Burkina Faso-Hamile stretch of the road and that he was familiar with the terrain.
According to Section 40, of the Public Procurement Law, the minister's reasons do not form part of the conditions that allow for the award of contracts through sole-sourcing. This raises more questions why this method is being used especially when the beneficiary is the contractor who gave President John Mahama a brand new Ford expedition.
The Ford Expedition "Gift" to President Mahama
There is evidence that the contractor gave a brand new Ford Expedition out (2010 model) as a "gift" to President John Mahama in 2012, the year he won the two contracts in Ghana.
After justifying the cost of the wall project and defending the process through which he secured the contracts, I ask Mr. Djibril Kanazoe: "There was this vehicle you gave in 2012 – that was a Ford Expedition – was it meant for the ambassador or it was meant for the President?"
"That one, I'm not aware of that one. I'm just aware of the wall," he denies.
"But you also gave a Ford Expedition car to the Ambassador, and I want to know
who it was intended for," I asked again.
"No, I did not give a Ford Expedition to the Ambassador," he says. "If you have a letter showing that I gave a car to the ambassador, show me."
I show him the letter. It is a Laissez-Passer dated October 29, 2012, and signed by the Head of Chancery at the Ghana Embassy in Burkina Faso, Maxwell Nyarko-Lartey, for the Head of Mission. The letter, which was addressed to the Divisional Commander of the Ghana Revenue Authority at the Paga Border, reads in full:
"I have been directed to inform you that the Ghana Mission in Ouagadougou is assisting with the Transportation of a gift donated to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana by Mr. Djibril Kanazoe, a
renowned Contractor in Burkina Faso.
"The said gift is a Ford Expedition with engine No. E173A1905101 and Chassis No. 1FMJUIJ58AEB748.
"I am to request the competent Ghanaian Boarder Authorities at the Paga Border to kindly assist with the passage of the said vehicle and those transporting it without any let or hindrance.
"I wish to take this opportunity on behalf of his Excellency the Ambassador to express the Mission's appreciation in anticipation of your kind cooperation."
When I read the letter to Djibril Kanazoe, he admits sending the vehicle to President John Mahama, but insists it was a gift, and not a bribe.
"Did you give a 'gift' to the President?" I asked for emphasis.
"Yes!" he answered. "This is the Ford Expedition I sent to the President in 2012 as a gift," he says pointing to the letter.
"What did the President do to deserve a gift," I ask.
"He is my friend." He stops the interview at a point I ask how he became friends with the President. When the recorder is off and as we argue on the interview, he reveals how he and President Mahama became friends. That part of the conversation is captured by a secret camera.
How the contractor and the President became friends
Djibril Kanazoe reveals that his friendship with President John Mahama started when he wanted a road contract in Ghana, but failed to win the bid.
"I have been going to Ghana since 2003. The people from Mechanical Llyod, somebody was my friend there. My friend helped me to set up this company [Africa Motors in Burkina Faso]. His name is Morkporkpor. My friend's friend is Mike Aidoo.
He is a contractor – Mikado. When we went there, he told me to come and do the roads in Ghana because he had seen the work I have done here [in Burkina Faso]," he told me.
"So we made the first tender. When we made the tender, we didn't win. One day he told me he know [sic] the Vice President [John Mahama] so let's go to salute [greet] him. We went to salute him and I show [sic] him what we does [sic] in Burkina Faso. And we became friends. We talk a lot! We talk a lot. One day my father died, he sent a delegation to my village to salute the family," he said.
Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso who selected Kanazoe's company for the fence wall project says the contractor is his friend.
He also said he was aware he was the President's friend. It is not clear how that friendship with the Vice President influenced his later bids for contracts in Ghana but there is evidence that he had at least two contracts in Ghana – the embassy fence wall and the Eastern Corridor road project. At the inauguration of the road he constructed, President John Mahama commended his company highly.
Tracking the Ford Expedition "gift" to the President
Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso at the time, Chief Dauda Mandiaya Bawumiah, accompanied the vehicle from Ouagadougou to Bolgatanga and handed it over to then Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo, to be sent to President Mahama in Accra. Chief Bawumia has confirmed this. "I believe he
would have handed it over to the President," he said.
Mr. Woyongo could be reached for comment but Djibril Kanazoe said President Mahama acknowledged receipt of the vehicle. "He called and said thank you very much," the contractor said.
Joy News investigation has revealed that the said Ford Expedition entered Ghana on October 29th, 2012, with one Quedraogo Cheik Mohammed as the importer. The Ford Expedition was declared as a "used" vehicle and cleared in Tema on 13th February, 2013, by Vision Logistics Limited, a private clearing agent. The Customs Declaration Number of the vehicle is given as 420130771843/0.
It is not clear why the vehicle was declared as a used vehicle. The giver of the gift as well as Ghana's ambassador who facilitated the transportation of the Ford Expedition to Ghana, said the vehicle was a brand new one. A source at the Customs Division of the GRA said sometimes goods are under-declared in order to reduce the value of import and the duty to be paid.
A duty of GHc23, 646.41 was paid on the vehicle. All other details of the vehicle, including receipt numbers, are captured except the registration details at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).
The person in whose name the vehicle was registered as well as the vehicle's registration number are not found in the system of the DVLA when Joy News checked.
According to highly placed sources within the DVLA and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, the absence of details meant that the vehicle had either not been registered, or that the registration details were deliberately deleted from the records of the DVLA.
No "responsible Leader" would accept such gift – Daniel Batidam
According to President John Mahama's code of ethics for ministers and political appointees, gifts that are to be accepted without any conditions should not exceed GHc200 or $50. Sources close to the vehicle say its value was over $100,000 or nearly.
Mr. Daniel Batidam, the Advisor on Governance at the Office of the President, is of the view that "the motivation for a gift is even more important than the quantum." He believes if motivation is to influence the public official, the quantum of the should not stop people from questioning the gift.
Mr. Batidam, an anti-corruption crusader who once headed the Ghana Integrity Initiative, also advises the President on corruption. He is the key person who speaks on corruption at the Presidency. I did not tell him I was investigating the conduct of the President.
I ask Mr. Daniel Batidam that if the President sought his advice on whether or not to accept a gift with the value of about $100,000 from a contractor who does business with the government, what his advice would be.
He smiles and replies, "Well, I'm sure you know that these are not situations that would occur in reality in terms of the kind of president we have."
"It's a hypothetical situation," I tell him.
"I think it's obvious. It's obvious that any leader, any president: not even a president, a minister; a responsible public servant would know that that situation could put him in a situation of not only conflict of interest but potentially being corrupted.
"And so I think it goes without saying that you cannot take gifts from sources that have the potential of influencing your decision making. It's not acceptable. I think a responsible leader, minister [or] senior public servant would not need to be advised on that."
Is the President's "gift" a bribe, conflict of interest or both?
Article 284 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana states, "A public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts or is likely to conflict with the performance of the functions of his office."
According to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Guidelines on Conflict of Interest, "A conflict of interest occurs when the promotion of the private interest of the public official results or is intended to result or appears to be or has the potential to result in the following: (a) an interference with the objective exercise of the person's duties; and (b) an improper benefit or an advantage by virtue of his/her position.
President John Mahama's "Code of Ethics for Ministers and Political Appointees" also states among other things that a conflict of interest "may arise if a Minister's family or personal friends might derive, or be perceived as deriving some personal, financial or other benefits from a decision or action by the Minister or the Government."
According to Daniel Batidam, all the provisions on conflict of interest by CHRAJ, the President's own code of Conduct and the Conduct of Public Officers' Bill 2013, are binding on the President.
"These minimum standards apply to all public officials at all levels, including the President. The President is the number one public official of the land, so anything that has to do with the conduct of public officials begins and ends with the President," he says.
On gifts, Section 21 (b) of Conduct of Public Officers' Bill 2013 states: "A public officer shall not accept a gift, a favour or an advantage, that has the potential to influence the proper discharge of the public officer's functions or judgment, from a person with whom the public officer comes into contact in relation to the public officer's functions."
President Mahama's Code of Ethics stipulates: "To avoid the creation or appearance of an obligation, gifts in cash or kind are not to be solicited or accepted from a commercial enterprise or any other organisation. An exception to this would be the acceptance of a presentation made during a visit to an organisation."
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