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Festival Profile
Festival President
From the Artistic Director
Blue Nile Film and Television Academy
The Ethiopian Filmmakers Association
Film Entry
Submission rules and requirements
Film Entry Form
Partners / Contributors
Sponsor CNIFF
Sound workshop with Michel K. Tsagli and Alioune Mbow
November 9th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ALLIANCE FRANCAIS
CNIFF's master class picks one of the essential elements of film; sound, for this year's workshop. The acclaimed sound engineers Michel K. Tsagli and Alioune Mbow will be giving a workshop for sound technicians and editors on the fundamental elements of sound.
Michel K. Tsagli was born in 1968 in Dakar (Senegal). He left his native Senegal at age 15 to join his family in France. Tsagli graduated school in Paris where he studied computer engineering. But soon after he made a drastic move pursuing a music career. For ten years Tsagli played guitar in both Paris and than New York where he moved permanently in 1992. In New York he enrolled into NYU and studied sound production. Tsagli worked on various projects including documentaries, commercials, feature films, reality television and fashion. Among Tsagli's film projects are feature film entitled "The Athlete", the life story of the Ethiopian born Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila. (filmed in Ethiopia ) as well as a documentary " Ghana 50th Independence " shot on locations in Ghana and Togo, a film that explored Marcus Garvey's influence on Ghana's first elected president, Kwame Krumah. One of Tsagli's recent projects TEY (directed by the prominent French/Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis) is a critically acclaimed production which participated in competition at Berlinale 2012 and since then won numerous awards. Besides the professional base in NY Tsagli also co-founded CINEGAL FILMS in his native Dakar (Senegal), the company which specializes in sound production, music scores, sound design and is successfully migrating between American, European and African film industries. Michel Tsagli work have been featured on Lifetime, HBO, VH1, Speed Channel and Canal +.
In addition to his native Wolof, Tsagli is fluent in English and French.
Alioune Mbow has worked on various productions as a sound engineer, assistant sound engineer and boom operator. His most recent project, TEY (directed by the prominent French/Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis) is a critically acclaimed production which participated in competition at Berlinale 2012 and since then won numerous awards. Amongst many other feature length, short films and documentaries, he has also worked on Kenu (Le Canon), Relentless, Ramata, Teranga Blues and Ezra (2007), which was the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars.
He has worked in several countries in Africa and Europe for BBC Television, France 2, BTBF and TV5.
Distribution: co-production workshop with Alla Verlotsky
November 8th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ EMPRESS TAITU HOTEL
Founder and president of the New York based programming and distribution company Alla Verlotsky will share her vast experience in distribution and co-production supported with best international practices.
Alla Verlotsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She moved to the United States in 1991. After working as the freelance curator in 1999 she created Seagull Films, New York based company that provides quality programming and distribution for art, independent and innovative cinema, both classic and contemporary. Ms. Verlotsky holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Moscow State University, and a bachelor's degree in Central Asian and African film study from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography, VGIK. In addition to her work at Seagull Films Ms. Verlotsky was a curator of the NY Jewish Film Festival, NY Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.
Ms. Verlotsky was an associate producer for Russian Ark, the award-winning film by internationally acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov and is currently producing a feature documentary "Red Fantasies" by the Academy Award Winning Special Effects Artists Robert Skotak. She serves as the advisor to numerous international film initiatives & film festivals and is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, English.
www.seagullfilms.com
Film Critique Round Table with Donald Dewale Omope
November 8th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
We are pleased to announce the special film critique round table with Donald Dewale Omope. The workshop focuses on the fundamental elements of film critique plus the use of new media in African cinema.
Don Dewale Omope is a Film Critic and Editor of the popular African film publication, African Screens Magazine. A ground breaking and unique magazine of its kind, African screens celebrates the African sense of self through cinema. It fills a gap in the market for a rich discourse that brings together a plurality of views, contextualizing African films. With the use of articles, video interviews, photography as well as great design, African Screens brings a different approach to experiencing the African cinematic experience online. Prior to working as a film critic, Don worked in television for many years and still currently does as a producer/Director. Trained at the BBC, Don went on to work as Africa producer for Sir David Frost at Aljazeera News, Don left to set up his own production company Boombox television and produced the award wining television show Afrika Rising, which air in 47 African countries. Don was subsequently appointed as an arts columnist for Nigeria's largest circulating newspaper the National Mirror in recognition of his depth of thought and analysis of African popular art. Following his deep interests in narratives and visual aesthetics Don is an avid photographer. His pictures have been published in over 15 countries and he was short listed for the International Photo Africa awards in 2010. Don's images are celebrated for its strong narratives and profound impact and his works have been published in some of the biggest newspapers in the world. Don is a member of the British Film Institute's committee on African cinema and speaks regularly at numerous international events on African films. Don has worked as a critic and member of award jury at many African film festivals around the world. Don graduated with a first class degree in film and television production from Westminster University, and was awarded the AHRC scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in Art journalism at Goldsmith College. www.donomope.com
Script writing workshop with Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
We are pleased to announce the script writing workshop with Dwayne Johnson-Cochran.
Dwayne Johnson-Cochran is a director, writer, producer, educator and journalist living in Los Angeles. He has written and is producing 'THE BOOK OF THE YEAR', Angela Bassett's directorial debut to be co-produced by Bassett Vance Productions and T.D. Jakes in 2012; wrote and will direct 'BIBI' to be produced by three-time Oscar-nominated director Sergei Bodrov (MONGOL) in 2012 and co-wrote 'MARIA' with Sergei Bodrov, to be produced by AR FILMSin 2012.
Mr. Johnson-Cochran wrote, directed and produced 'SIDE BY SIDE', a film about the dynamic 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone, West Africa executive produced by former Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright. In postproduction are the documentaries 'THE STORY OF A VILLAGE' about a small village in Kona, a small district in Sierra Leone, West Africa starring actress/producer Regina King; BE KNOWN, a film on Chicago jazz innovator Kahil El Zabar. His feature film LOVE AND ACTION IN CHICAGO (currently in rotation on HBO) features Kathleen Turner, Courtney B.Vance, Jason Alexander, Regina King and Ed Asner. 'MY TRIBE IS LOST,' a film script sold to Steven Spielberg is in development at DreamWorks. Mr. Johnson-Cochran co-created the television series MINOR ADJUSTMENTS for NBC and was a staff writer on the series ANGEL STREET, produced by John Wells for CBS.Mr. Johnson-Cochran also wrote FREDERICK DOUGLASS, a teleplay for TurnerNetwork Television andSLAM THE NIGHT, a teleplay for Fox Television Movies.
Born in Chicago, Mr. Johnson-Cochran earned a B.S. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Master's Program for filmmaking, is active in many community and civic-based organizations. A lover of music, tennis, baseball and cycling, Johnson-Cochran returns to Chicago often to make films and see family and friends.
Masterclass on Documentary Filmmaking with Henry Corra
November 10th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ALLIANCE FRANCAIS
An award winning documentary filmmaker, veteran of independent American cinema, Henry Corra's mentorship gets an international spin. He has just completed a series of very successful masterclasses given to art and film students in Russia called "LIVING CINEMA: I am a performance artist trapped in the body of a documentary filmmaker." Using illustrations of his work, he opens up lively and inspiring discussions about process, motive, method, the importance of not knowing, failing beautifully, necessary crisis, taking EVERYTHING personally, and creating a permission bubble for yourself as a working artist. We are excited to offer this masterclass at the Colours of the Nile IFF 2012.
Henry Corra is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker. His work is influenced by cinéma vérité filmmakers David and Albert Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter) whom he collaborated with from 1981-1994. Since 1994, Corra has had a thriving production company. He draws on the talents of some of New York's most innovative and original filmmakers, editors, artists, musicians and designers.
Corra's films (such as George, Same Sex America, Frames) have been exhibited worldwide in theatrical venues in New York City, San Francisco, Paris and Berlin and in broadcast venues including HBO, Showtime, LOGO, CBS, PBS, VH1, ARTE andChannel 4. His works have also been exhibited in museum and cultural venues including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Louvre (Paris) and the National Gallery of Art(Washington, DC), as well as the Pacific Film Archives in San Francisco.
He's created episodic TV projects (such as "True Life: I'm Ex-Amish") for broadcasters including MTV, VH1, Bravo and the Sundance Channel and he's been singled out as one of their foremost directors of ʻreal-people' commercials in America, creating compelling broadcast/web content for brands as diverse as Mercedes Benz, Mastercard & Wal-mart. Corra's latest feature documentary, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, supported by the Sundance Institute and co-produced by NY based Louverture Films (Black Power Mixtape, Bamako), had its World Premiere at Silverdocs in June 2010. Michael Atkinson of The Boston Phoenix wrote, "An investigative doc brimming with cultural resonance and historical savvy, Henry Corra's film has a hold of a pungent story – that of the titular black Texan fella who vanished in Vietnam 40 years ago."
Currently Corra is finishing Farewell to Hollywood, expected to premiere Spring 2013.
Production workshop with François d'Artemare
November 9th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE
We are pleased to announce the production workshop with François d'Artmare.
François d'Artemare established the Portuguese film company Filmes do Tejo in 1996, presenting a library of more then 70 titles, such as ARENA, by João Salaviza - Palme d'Or for Short Film and films by Manoel de Oliveira and Flora Gomes. In 2001 he established Les Films de l'Après-Midi in Paris and coproduced films from all over the world, like Snow by Aida Begić and The Hero by Zeze Gamboa (World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize at Sundance FF).
Apply to CNIFF Workshops
To apply for the workshops please e-mail a one page motivation letter and resume to:
or send them by mail to:
Colours of the Nile International Film festival
P.O.Box 25576 Code 100
Please mention the workshop you would like to apply for.
All workshops are free of charge! Please note that participants are expected to cover their travel expenses including their stay in Addis Ababa. The festival will facilitate booking of accommodations and provide transportation in Addis Ababa. We are also happy to write a letter of recommendation to you to apply for funding from relevant institutions in your country.
Addis Ababa Guide
EthioCinema
Copyright © 2022 Colours of the Nile. All Rights Reserved.
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Bananas are finicky creatures. Our experience in the Ross household is that bananas go from green to brown practically overnight. We received a banana holder for Christmas, which helps somewhat with the rapid bruising and over-ripening, but I still find myself with brown bananas by the end of each week.
Does anyone else have this situation going on in their kitchen?
Tired of baking the exact same banana bread week after week, I did some investigating and found these delicious recipes!
1. Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
2. Mix the buttermilk, egg, butter and bananas in another bowl.
3. Mix the wet and dry ingredients making sure to not over mix.
4. Heat a pan and melt a touch of butter in it.
We Santa Feans have been so blessed this season (knock on wood) to not have any fires in our area of the National Forest. We've had more rain and moisture this year than previous years, and the wilderness is so lush and green right now, with wild flowers in bloom and colorful, tiny butterflies fluttering about. I took Kua on a run up to Puerto Nambe yesterday, a clearing in the woods on the way to Santa Fe Baldy. It was such a beautiful day!
I've been a little MIA lately. I just got back from a week-long vacation to the East Coast, where I soaked up some sun at Virginia Beach, laughed with my mom and sister over Sangria and Chardonnay, and read a whole stack of good books. I love the landscape, mountains, and (non-humid) weather in Santa Fe, but I yearn for water! It was so wonderful to spend a whole vacation enjoying the Atlantic Ocean, the Charles River and bays in Boston, and the Saco River in New Hampshire.
My mom, sister and I enjoy paddle boarding in Rudee's Inlet. We tried some paddle board-style yoga, which is way more challenging than it looks!
In Boston, my sister and I spent a morning at Walden Pond. It was so perfect! I recently re-read Thoreau's book, and it was amazing to see the real place. We visited the foundation of Thoreau's house, and enjoyed a run around the lake and swimming in the warm water.
Happy Independence Day! I have many fond memories of 4th of Julys past -- watching fireworks from my deck, listening to the Mraz Bros band play music at Grand View Lodge, walking in parades with my cheerleading squad, running the local 5 mile race with my mom, and hanging out with my fellow drum corps friends after a full day of marching parades when I was in Blue Stars.
Working in a hospital, 4th of July is just another Friday (although with a slightly higher rate of Trauma Stats), so I didn't get to golf and day drink like the rest of my household, but I am looking forward to grilling at a friend's house tonight!
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Ares was the god of war, and son of Zeus and Hera. He represented the raw violence and untamed acts that occured in wartime, in contrast to Athena, who was a symbol of tactical strategy and military planning.
He was disliked by both his parents. Whenever Ares appeared in a myth, he was depicted as a violent personality, who faced humiliation through his defeats more than once. In the Iliad, it is mentioned that Zeus hated him more than anyone else; Ares was also on the losing side of the Trojan War, favouring the Trojans. He was the lover of his sister, Aphrodite, who was married to Hephaestus. When the latter found out about the affair, he devised a plan and managed to humiliate both of them. The union of Ares and Aphrodite resulted in the birth of eight children, including Eros, god of love.
There were few temples attributed to Ares in Ancient Greece. Sacrifices would usually be made to him when an army would march to war; Spartans would make sacrifices to Enyalius, another lesser god and son of Ares and Enyo. However, the name was also used as a byname for Ares.
When Ares went to war, he was followed by his companions, Deimos (terror) and Phobos (fear), who were the product of his union with Aphrodite. Eris, goddess of discord and sister of Deimos and Phobos, often accompanied them in war.
Aris Is also called Mars, Ares.
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ACS (American Chemical Society) style guide including examples of author-date references (in-text citations) and bibliographic references. Created by Trinity College Library.
APSA (American Political Science Association) style guide with examples of parenthetical author-date citations (in-text citations and reference lists, The examples come from the APSA Style Manual for Political Science, revised August 2006. Created by Trinity College Library.
ASA (American Sociological Association) citation style guide (5th edition) from Purdue OWL. Includes details about manuscript writing style, formatting in-text citations and references.
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On April 15, 2005, the Hagley Museum and Library will sponsor a symposium on utopian visions at world's fairs and international expositions. These mammoth festivals have been sites for many groups and individuals to present utopian perspectives on the modern world. Inventors, reformers, manufacturers, private associations, and governments have used the facilities and publicity of the fairs to present their responses to contemporary problems, promising new visions for human experience and expanded opportunities for enjoying life. We invite papers that discuss the use of material culture, especially technology and consumer goods, to exhibit and represent utopian visions, as well as proposals concerning ideas that were introduced at the fairs for promoting scientific, industrial and human development. Proposals may focus on any World's Fair held in North America, beginning with the Centennial Exposition of 1876. The symposium is being held in conjunction with an exhibition at Hagley on world's fairs and international expositions. Proposals are due by November 1, 2004 and should be sent to Dr. Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, email [email protected], fax 302-655-3188. Support may be available for travel to the conference by presenters.
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package event
//
type Phase int
const (
CapturingPhase Phase = iota
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func (phase Phase) String() string {
switch phase {
case CapturingPhase:
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case TargetPhase:
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case BubblingPhase:
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This custom gazebo transformed a nice backyard into a showcase backyard. Its the centerpiece of a yard nearly every homeowner would love to own. Gazebos are a specialty deck that add an open room for relaxation, hot tubs, BBQs, whatever the heart might desire.
We installed a layer of tongue and groove cedar and then a layer of ¾ sheathing, to prevent leaving exposed roofing nails, before the roofing materials. Installing a layer of sheathing on top of tongue and groove to prevent exposed nails is a technique utilized by many of the better custom log home builders.
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According to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), one of the key components of a school counseling program is the delivery of structured lessons that are designed to provide all students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate for their developmental level.
This school-based mental health program focuses on prevention through education by teaching students to identify symptoms of depression, suicidality, and self-injury in themselves and their peers. The curriculum is aimed to teach students that suicide is not a normal response to stress, but rather a preventable tragedy that often occurs as a result of untreated depression.
View a video that teaches them to recognize signs of depression and suicide in themselves and others.
Complete a screening tool to assess for signs of depression. The screening tool is not meant to be diagnostic but aimed to indicate the presence of symptoms consistent with depression.
Learn an easy-to-remember acronym, ACT(Acknowledge, Care, Tell). Students are taught certain steps to take if they encounter a situation that requires help from a trusted adult.
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MI-MIX3
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 Launched at the Palace Museum with Magnetic Sliding-screen
Oct 25, 2018, 17:50pm 2018/10/25 17:54:12 Gabriel Li
Xiaomi officially launched its new flagship phone— the Mi MiX 3 at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Oct. 25. The total shipment was expected to reach 100 million by the end of October, completing the phone's annual goal of 2018 in advance.
The phone echoed "the combination of tech and art", theme of the launch event, with selling points such as magnetic sliding-screen, flagship dual-lens cameras and the ceramic bodies.
Xiaomi MI MIX 3 "the combination of tech and art" (Source: Xiaomi )
Mi MIX 3 achieves a screen-to-body ratio of 93.4 percent, one step further compared with the "three-side bezel-less" screen of Mi MIX 2. The magnet is made up of neodymium, with a life expectancy of over 300,000 times.
SEE ALSO: Xiaomi Released Full-screen Mix 2 for at least 3,299 yuan
MIX 3 Smartphone has a screen-to-body ratio of 93.4 percent
It is equipped with a 12Mp + 12M rear-facing and 24MP+2MP front-facing dual-lens cameras, which largely elevate its selfie-taking capabilities. Its rear camera supports optical zoom and four-axis Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), and is capable of 960fps slow-motion video. On the whole, its phototaking capabilities score an alarming 108 in the DxO ratings, which ranks the third in the world.
MI MIX3 rear cameras
In terms of industrial design, Mi MIX 3 comes in Onyx Black, Jade Green and Sapphire Blue, with a unique Palace Museum edition. The special edition is jointly designed by Xiaomi and the Palace Museum, which is known as the largest treasure house for ancient artworks. The special edition also has a pattern of an ancient mythical beast on its back.
Xiaomi MIX3 in Onyx Black
Xiaomi MIX 3 in Jade Green
Xiaomi MIX 3 in Sapphire Blue
Xiaomi Mix 3 Special Edition
The phone has four storage options, 6GB RAM + 128GB storage: 3299 yuan ($474.87); 8GB RAM + 128GB storage 3599 yuan ($517.93); 8GB RAM + 256GB storage: 3999 yuan ($575.50). The Palace Museum edition comes with 10GB RAM and 256GB storage, and is priced at 4999 yuan ($719.41).
Xiaomi MIX3 for sale price
The phone will be up for pre-sale starting from 6 p.m. tonight, and will be officially on sales both offline and online starting from November. 1. The Palace Museum edition is expected to come by the end of November.
Tags full screen | MI MIX3 | Xiaomi
Redmi Note 5: a 1000 yuan full-screen smartphone with AI camera
Xiaomi held 12 conferences last year and released 10 mobile phones, each accompanied by heated discussion.
Gadgets Mar 17 May 6, 2018
Ifanr
Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Debut: 6.9-Inch Screen with 5,400mAh Battery
Xiaomi's Mi Max 3 (model no. M1804E4T), will be released at Xiaomi's next launch event after attaining its network license from Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Gadgets Jun 21 June 22, 2018
Xiaomi Confirms the Launch Date of "Big" Mi Max 3, Expected to be Priced at $255
Xiaomi said it will launch its Mi Max 3 on July 19, and the new phone will have "big screen and bigger battery."
Gadgets Jul 13 July 13, 2018
Luka Zhang
Xiaomi's Mi 8 Explorer Edition Available For Purchase Soon
Full phone specifications of Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer were unveiled on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently.
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Commercial, House, Music
Afrojack & Imanbek – Hey Baby (feat. Gia Koka)
By Pol Torà
Dutch living legend Afrojack has teamed up with the young upcoming Kazakh DJ and producer Imanbek to present their brand new track together 'Hey Baby', which also features vocals from Polish singer Gia Koka. It is available now on all platforms via Sony Music's One Seven Music and Effective Records.
Afrojack has been always been kind to support and team up with the new generation of artists that are rapidly making a name for themselves in the scene. From collaborating on 'Turn Up The Speakers' with a back then super young and fast-rising Martin Garrix to becoming the CEO of his own talent agency LDH Europe. Now, Afrojack decided to collaborate with Inmanbek, a 19-year-old producer from Kazakhstan that gained recognition this year after dropping a massive remix for SAINt JHN's track 'Roses' that went viral and ranked up the charts from all over the world, amassing a staggering amount of almost 870 million only in Spotify streams.
'Hey Baby' follows up Imanbek's signature sound on the drop complemented by Afrojack's energetic catchy vibes that result once again in a brutal club-friendly radio hit. Gia's vocals give that commercial soft sound accompanying and singing along on top of the drop as well as being used as vocal chops to add some movement. This is yet another great track that adds up to Afrojack's previous releases like 'Hot', '1234', 'Hydra' and 'All Night' among many others.
Listen to Afrojack & Imanbek new track 'Hey Baby' (feat. Gia Koka) below:
Image Credit: Rukes.com
Tags: Afrojack, Gia Koka, Hey Baby, Imanbek
About the Author / Pol Torà
Born and raised in Barcelona (Spain), Pol's passion for dance music has brought him to London (UK), where he combines his role at We Rave You with his job as Account Manager at Festicket. Favourite genres: Emotional progressive house, future bass and electro pop.
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Two killed, over 60 hurt as cops, protesters clash in Kotkapura
Two men were killed and more than 60 injured in clashes between police and Sikh protesters in Kotkapura on Wednesday over the recent desecration of a 'bir' of Guru Granth Sahib.
Sachin Sharma
An injured policeman during the protests following desecration of a 'bir'.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT Photo)
Later in the day, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal ordered a judicial inquiry by a high court judge to probe the desecration incident and its aftermath, besides assuring Punjabis that exemplary punishment would be awarded to perpetrators of the "dastardly act". Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal announced Rs 1-crore reward to any person giving information leading to the arrest of those who committed the act of sacrilege.
The protesters, led by fringe radical outfits, are demanding the arrest of those responsible for tearing off more than 100 pages of the Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari village, 15km from Kotkapura in Faridkot district, on Monday. These pages were torn allegedly from a 'bir' that was stolen from a nearby village, Burj Jawahar Singh Wala, in June.
The protests come amid the uproar over the recent pardon granted by the Akal Takht to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, with former Takht Damdama Sahib jathedar Balwant Singh Nandgarh suggesting the alleged involvement of dera followers in the desecration. The dera, however, has categorically denied any role in the incident and also condemned it.
On Wednesday morning, police opened fire at protesters at Behbal Kalan village, 10km from Faridkot, in which Kishan Singh, 45, of nearby Niami Wala village and Gurjit Singh, 20, of nearby Sarawan village were killed.
Earlier in the day, 62 persons, including 35 policemen, were injured in a bloody clash between cops and Sikh protesters in Kotkapura town. The police used lathis and water cannons to disperse protesters, even as the latter attacked cops with kirpans and torched police vehicles. The police were able to control the situation after the two-hour-long clash that also left Bathinda inspector general of police (IGP) Jitendra Jain injured.
Stir spreads
Starting from Bargari village on Monday, the protest has spread to Kotkapura, Moga and Faridkot in the past two days following mobilisation through audio and video messages on the social media and announcements in village gurdwaras. Several roads leading to Bathinda and Faridkot have been blocked by protesters who are sitting on roads outside villages.
On Tuesday, a violent clash between cops and protesters at Buttar Kalan village in Moga district had left 19 people injured.
The Sant Samaj has called for a bandh in Malwa districts (Faridkot, Moga, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Bathinda and Barnala) on Thursday over the desecration and its fallout.
"The desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is a deep-rooted conspiracy aimed at inciting communal tension and destabilising the hard-won peace in Punjab. I humbly urge all of you to maintain restraint in this hour of crisis."
- Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab chief minister
"CM Parkash Singh Badal has virtually lost control over things and the state is drifting towards anarchy. Badal should better quit if he is not able to maintain control over things."
-Capt Amarinder Singh, Congress deputy leader in LS
"The situation at Kotkapura was not handled in a professional manner by the police. There was no need for using force to disperse people who were protesting in a peaceful manner."
-Giani Gurbachan Singh, Akal Takht jathedar
"We strongly condemn the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib. Those who have done it are sinners of the highest order."
-Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, Dera Sacha Sauda chief
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This weekend's weather has left us not wanting to leave bed. So naturally, this week's Monday Pins post is all about cozy, coastal bedrooms. Get those pin buttons ready because we've gathered five pin worthy photos that deserve to be posted on your boards! If you missed your opportunity to stay in bed all weekend we hope these pins will help.
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Let's start the week with the right vibes. That's right, we're talking coastal vibes. We've gathered a few photos that will ease you into this week's madness and help you enjoy the rest of your Monday. Each picture we've grabbed should transport you into a coastal haven that is worthy of pinning and sharing on your Pinterest boards. So get those pin buttons ready ladies and gentlemen, because we've got a few pinable photos that we want to share with you. Scroll down, enjoy and get ready for the rest of this week.
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If you flip your way through the latest issue of Country Living you'll spot the Noir Venice Bed! This bed frame has a simple shape and design. It comes with a built in headboard and also has four, tall posts. These posts help fill the vertical space in the room and give it a full look. If you're interested in bringing the Noir Venice Bed into your bedroom you can shop for it here!
Spring brings us good weather, lots of sun and beautiful flowers. We're not the only ones that want that sunshine! Flowers are in full force during the spring season and provide us another accessory to decorate our homes with. They can literally bring life into your home this spring with all their bright pedal colors and lush green leaves. Take advantage of them and use them to bring a fresh smell into the bedroom or as something fun to dress up the kitchen counters with.
If you're looking to bring some flowers into the home this spring you're going to need a vase or two. This is where we get to have even more fun. There are so many different vase options that come in every shape and size imaginable! It makes hunting down the perfect one so exciting! You can make a statement with a large vase that plays home to a beautiful arrangement of flowers or go with small vase that hosts a few lovely flowers. The combinations are endless and up to your imagination! So get creative with your arrangements and really bring spring into your home!
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David Marc by Sestini & Corti, Rome – Italy
SGS offices by Johnson Chou, Toronto – Canada
Moncler collections at Milan Fashion Week, Milan – Italy
Simone Rocha and Craig Green were among designers tasked with redesigning Moncler's signature down jacket for its new Genius project, launched at this year's Milan Fashion Week. On the opening night of the city's fashion week, 20 February 2018, the clothing brand Moncler invited visitors to a huge Milanese hangar. Rooms inside were each dedicated to one of eight collections making up the Moncler's Genius initiative, which is described by the brand as a "hub of exceptional minds operating in unison while simultaneously cultivating their singularity". Moncler tasked each of the eight collaborators, which included London-based designers Simone Rocha and Craig Green, with reinterpreting its down jacket.
They were instructed to keep its function in mind, ensuring that the design would still perform as a warm coat. "Each project has the classic Moncler down jacket as the main playground, stands on its own, and all of them unanimously converging on the item," said the brand. "Keeping function at the core and approaching the duvet as an object, unique experiments ensue." Each collaboration came with a corresponding number and mission statement. The first collection, named Moncler 1, saw Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli design with the "pure essence" of Moncler in mind.
Doing so, he stripped back the duvet jacket – creating minimal garments in elongated silhouettes, which he based on his previous couture collections. Moncler 2 looked to the brand's heritage. Described as a "homage to its year of birth", the Moncler 1952 garments are based on the brand's classic designs – but in bold colours with enlarged logos. Moncler 3 was based on Grenoble – a city at the front of the French Alps where Moncler began. While made from mix-and-match printed fabrics, the coats are designed as technical wear for mountain climbing and trekking.
To create the fourth collection, Moncler teamed up with fashion designer Simone Rocha, who created voluminous silhouettes based on photographs of Victorian climbers in petticoats. Menswear designer Craig Green was behind Moncler 5. The designer aimed to abstract the body through his collection, which he created in monochrome fabrics. Black fabric was also used exclusively by designer Kei Ninomiya, who transformed the brand's down jacket into a series of modular elements to create Moncler 6. Hiroshi Fujiwara's Moncler 7 looked to streetwear subcultures, while Los Angeles label Palm Angels emblazoned Moncler 8 with bold lettering.
By creating these eight diffusion collections, Moncler hopes to better-appeal to the "uniqueness of the consumer". "Letting creativity run riot strengthens the uniqueness of Moncler," said the brand. "It allows the product to speak by itself as it takes different shapes according to the concept of each project." "The uniqueness of all the projects mirrors the uniqueness of the consumers."
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/22/moncler-genius-project-craig-green-simone-rocha-milan-fashion-week/
TAGS: brand | collections | exhibit | fashion design | garments | Milan Fashion Week
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Great Students Inspire: Thomas Hardy Exam Resource
Posted on May 14, 2014 by Kate O'Connor
A class of fifth formers at the King's School Canterbury (the alma mater of Christopher Marlowe) were preparing for their GCSE exam, and decided there was no need to keep their close analysis of Thomas Hardy close to their chests.
At thedimofdawn.com (a title taken from a line in Hardy's poem "At the Word Farewell"), they have put together a Creative Commons website that provides insight and analysis about most of the Thomas Hardy poems covered by the exam syllabus, along with additional biographical titbits and themes. The hope is that other students will join in the discussion, and that the website will become a repository for debate about and analysis of the poems by students from around the world who want to express their ideas and help other students to revise.
Poems analysed include:
At The Word "Farewell"
Drummer Hodge
During Wind and Rain
I Look Into My Glass
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
No Buyers: A Street Scene
The Convergence of the Twain
The Darkling Thrush
The Going
The Pine Planters
Visitors also can vote on their favourite of the Hardy poems covered by the syllabus.
Please feel free to visit thedimofdawn.com and join in the discussion!
For other great Hardy resources, check out the Thomas Hardy Society's commentaries on poems for students or the Great Writers Inspire Hardy author page.
Posted in resource, writer | Tagged Hardy | 1 Comment
Brave New Worlds before Huxley and Orwell
Posted on August 28, 2013 by summerinspire
In this guest blog, Dr Oliver Tearle, a lecturer at the University of Loughborough and founder of the Interesting Literature blog (also on Twitter @InterestingLit), examines the history of dystopian literature.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun 'dystopia' (defined as 'an imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible') first turns up in print in 1952, and 'dystopian' (in the word's most common sense, namely 'of or pertaining to a dystopia') not until a decade later. But the first citation for the word 'dystopian' in the sense of 'one who advocates or describes a dystopia' comes from a speech made in the House of Commons by the Victorian philosopher, John Stuart Mill in 1868. 'Dystopian', then, was a Victorian coinage. But recently the noun 'dystopia' has been traced back to 1747 where it is spelled 'dustopia' but is used in clear contrast to 'utopia'. In short, the whole history of dystopias and the dystopian is still being unravelled and explored. This is particularly true of dystopian literature.
Dystopian fiction has perhaps never been more popular than it is today. In the last decade books and films such as The Hunger Games, The Road, and V for Vendetta have enjoyed huge success, while twentieth-century classics like Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid's Tale are regularly set as GCSE and A-Level texts in UK schools. Based on this, it would be easy to think that the subgenre of dystopian fiction was less than a century old. But as the word's complex history reveals, dystopia had entered literature long before Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were writing.
Dystopias are the opposite of utopias – if utopian fiction imagines the best possible world, then dystopian fiction presents us with the worst-case scenario. All literary utopias can be traced back to 1516 and Thomas More's work of that name, which coined the word 'utopia' as a Greek pun meaning both 'good place' (eu-topos) and 'no place' (u-topos). But it was in the nineteenth century that utopian literature arose as a popular literary form for novelists. Perhaps inevitably, not everyone embraced the optimism which utopian fiction promised: could you build an ideal world, as set out by More in his Utopia? Thus arose dystopian fiction as an alternative – and, to its adherents and practitioners, an altogether more realistic – branch of speculative literature.
Commentators sometimes simplify this development by saying that, whilst the nineteenth century was dominated by utopian visions of a better future, the twentieth century replaced these overly optimistic will-o'-the-wisps with dystopian versions of a society in the grip of state control and curtailment of individual freedoms. But this is too simple. Although it's true that the later nineteenth century gave rise to bestselling utopian classics such as Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which predicted garden city planning and credit cards, and William Morris's News from Nowhere(1890), there was a chorus of more pessimistic voices being raised by this time. One such voice belonged to Ignatius Donnelly, an American writer whose novel Caesar's Column, published the same year as Morris's utopian romance, sold 250,000 copies. And Morris's novel itself was in part a response to such dystopian, or partly dystopian, works as Richard Jefferies' After London (1885) and Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872).
Indeed, Erewhon was an important development in speculative fiction. It appeared the same year as a landmark in realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch, and although Erewhon is a work of fantasy rather than realism, the two novels actually share a number of key themes: scientific and technological progress; attitudes to banking and finance; and the role of religion in society. And, like Middlemarch, Butler's novel weighs up both sides of the issues he discusses and seldom passes explicit judgments on them. Although this novel is often described as utopian fiction, Butler gently satirises every aspect of the utopian world he describes, a world which the narrator accesses after travelling into the outback in New Zealand. In this world – called Erewhon, which is almost 'nowhere' (as in utopia, or no-place) backwards – machines have been abolished because they were evolving too quickly and, the Erewhonian people feared, would one day supersede human beings as the dominant force in the world. Although Erewhon is not an out-and-out dystopian novel, others which followed it offered a more starkly negative view of human progress.
It has been claimed that dystopian fiction properly began with Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel, and that it only really rose up towards the middle of the twentieth century with such works as Brave New World and 1984. But the genre had a rich life prior to this, encompassing not only Erewhon but novels such as Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882), Walter Besant's The Revolt of Man (1882), and Margaret Oliphant's short story 'The Land of Darkness' (1887), which is set in a hell modelled on Dante's Infernobut very much shaped by nineteenth-century developments in technology, industry, and urbanisation. Orwell acknowledged the influence of such earlier works as Erewhon and The Iron Heel on his own work, while Oliphant's story has been described as being closer to Orwell than to Dante.
Perhaps the most curious of all the nineteenth-century forerunners to the modern dystopian novel is that by Anthony Trollope (caricature, left). Published in 1882, the year of his death, The Fixed Period is set in the year 1980 on the fictional island republic of Britannula. The narrator, the unsubtly named John Neverbend, is president of the island and is trying to pass a bill which will enforce compulsory euthanasia for everyone upon reaching the age of 67. David Lodge recently championed this neglected novel in a piece for The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/14/david-lodge-rereading-anthony-trollope.
In fact, novelists better known for writing more realist works of fiction often contributed to this burgeoning genre. E. M. Forster, celebrated for novels like Howards End and A Passage to India, wrote a short story in 1909 titled 'The Machine Stops', set in a dystopian future world in which technology has become the all-powerful force in society, as Butler in Erewhon feared it would. This bleak cautionary tale predicts such modern phenomena as the internet, videoconferencing, and instant messaging. It is a work of fiction but, like Orwell's 1984, also carries the ring of prophecy.
At its core, dystopian fiction engages with some of the key cultural, moral, and scientific questions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many of which we are still asking today: the role of science in the modern world, the moral responsibility we have when developing science and technology, attitudes to euthanasia, humanity's responsibility for the environment, the distribution of wealth, and the role of religion in a secular society. Dystopian works written over a hundred years ago show our own society reflected back to us – we see our world eerily foreshadowed, and already being warned against.
I've recently become interested in recovering this lost, or at least semi-forgotten, tradition, in an attempt to redress the common assumption that dystopian fiction only really began in the early to mid-twentieth century. This endeavour goes hand-in-hand with another online enterprise, my blog Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness, which I founded in 2012 as an attempt to find – and communicate – the obscure and neglected aspects of literary history. And dystopian fiction abounds in such assumptions and misconceptions which belie the more interesting complexity of the genre's formation: for instance, the terms 'thought crime' and 'thought police', both made popular by George Orwell in 1984, actually predated his novel and are first found in books from 1934 about Japanese politics. What Orwell set down in the late 1940s was already in the air before, but to a greater and more specific degree than we had perhaps realised. As ever, other writers had got there first. But the most important thing to address about dystopian literature is the little-known and little-studied prehistory of the genre, a prehistory that involves classic Victorian realist novelists such as Trollope and George Eliot, science-fiction pioneers like H. G. Wells, and important twentieth-century writers such as E. M. Forster. And although they are often bleak warnings about a future society, the society we have inherited, they are nevertheless a joy to discover, and to read.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dystopia, Huxley, InterestingLit, More, Oliver Tearle, Orwell, Trollope, utopia, utopian literature, writers | 13 Comments
For the (Literary) Detective in you!
So it's Monday again and everyone needs a little lift! So we thought we would offer you a light-hearted challenge to kick start your week… who famously praised Shakespeare's work in the passage below? Extra brownie points for those who can name the text that it originates from too. Good luck!
If you too agree with the quote above and are looking for your dose of Shakespeare this month, then check out 'Henry VI: Three Plays' soon to be performed at the Oxford Playhouse by the Globe Theatre on Tour. Also, exciting news for subscribers of our recent podcast series, 'Challenging the Canon': we will soon be adding an interview with Professor Tiffany Stern on 'Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?' Watch this space!
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A Medieval Mystery: Who Was the Pearl-poet?
In this guest blog, Hannah Ryley, an Oxford DPhil student, explores the anonymity of authorship in the Middle Ages.
In the British Library there is a medieval manuscript with the shelfmark Cotton Nero A.x. Dull though this shelfmark may sound, this manuscript is at the heart of a mysterious case of unknown authorship of four Middle English poems. The manuscript itself as a whole is very interesting and you can freely browse some digital images, of twelve colourfully illustrated pages, and try to decipher the handwritten texts it contains, here: http://gawain.ucalgary.ca/ Moreover, we can learn a great deal from this particular case about the difficulties surrounding the identification of authors in the medieval period more broadly, as we will shortly see.
Within this manuscript are found the poems Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and, perhaps most well-known today – largely thanks to a popular modern-language version of the story by Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.[1] Although the manuscript was physically handwritten by a scribe, and decorated by an illustrator (known as a 'limner' in the Middle Ages), both of whom were probably professionals hired for the task, neither of these people are likely to have been the author of the poems. However, because of similarities in dialect, style, and theme it is thought that a single author – distinct from the scribe or illustrator – was responsible for composing all four poems.
Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness are all narrative poems concerned with moral questions and religious doctrine. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romance, in which Sir Gawain, a loyal knight of King Arthur's court, takes up the challenge of a beheading game suggested by a stranger, the Green Knight. All four poems can be interpreted as being deeply involved with discussions about Christianity, although there are many other themes and symbols at play in the poems. Stylistically, the use of alliteration and alliterative verse form links these poems, with the poet also using the 'bob and wheel' in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The bob and wheel is an ingenious poetic device; the 'bob' is a short line that links the 'wheel' (a rhyming refrain) to the main alliterative verse. If these poems were indeed written by one person, the author wrote in the late fourteenth-century in Middle English, and the dialect of the four works has been more specifically associated with the North-West Midlands.[2]
Although this poet is without a doubt a 'great writer you should know', what is tricky is that he (or perhaps even she) has never been fully identified. Anniina Jokinen plainly states: "Nothing conclusive is known of the author's identity or biography."[3] This is quite typical of many medieval authors, about whom records simply have not survived, or where they have survived, are often incomplete or ambiguous. As a result, scholars have often debated – and occasionally conjectured wildly – about the real individuals who may have written various seminal works of medieval English literature. A number of names have been put forward as the authors of the four poems found in Cotton Nero A.x, including 'Hugo Massey', 'John Massey', and 'Richard Newton'. However, none of these proposed authors have ever been widely accepted.[4] Yet this mysterious, unsolved case of obscure authorship is not unique; we still do not know the full biographical details of many other authors of medieval literary masterpieces. We will have to be content to refer to this magnificent writer as simply the 'Pearl-poet' or the 'Gawain-poet', as he has come to be known, and let his poetry speak for itself.
[1] Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, (Faber & Faber, 2009).
[2] H. N. Duggan, 'Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect' in A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, eds., (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp.221-243 (at 240-242).
[3] Anniina Jokinen, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Luminarium, 28 Jan 2010, accessed 9 Aug 2013, <http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawainintro.htm>
[4] Malcolm Andrew, 'Theories of Authorship' in A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, eds., (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp.23-34 (28-31).
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Get Wilde
Posted on August 9, 2013 by summerinspire
Bored on your commute home? You're in fine company. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote, "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." You can actually read Wilde's Life and Confessions as a free eBook here, and see how sensational he really was, or if he was just living by his maxim: "Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art." But if your eyes are already tired and strained, you can court controversy by listening to a great podcast by Sophie Duncan on Wilde's women.
In other news, our new site is going live very very soon! We've given it a whole new face, updated all the researchers and authors, and catalogued hundreds of new resources. Make sure you check in soon: follow us on Twitter or Facebook to get more frequent updates.
We've also added some stellar content, already available on Oxford University's Podcasting site: the new mini-series, "Challenging the Canon", is now available to download or stream. It's been really popular so far (which is why it's first on the homepage!)… and did we mention, like all our other resources, it's free? If you've ever wanted to satisfy your inner 11-year-old and ask, "yes, but why is Dickens worth studying?" or "why is Shakespeare such a big deal?" then try listening to the answers of academic experts who have devoted their careers to exploring a Great Writer.
Speaking of great writers, we're all about Shakespeare in Oxford. If you didn't manage to get your fix with Oxford Shakespeare Company's The Merry Wives of Windsor, then check out OUDS's production of The Comedy of Errors at the University Church – finishing tomorrow!
Finally, launch yourself into the breach this September with Creation Theatre's Henry V, in the dramatic setting of the Oxford Castle. Now, away, you mouldy rogue, away! (2 Henry IV (2.4.117))
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #greatwriters, Challenging the Canon, commute, Dickens, Great Writers, Oscar Wilde, oxford, podcast, Shakespeare | Leave a comment
A Magical Summer in Rhyme
Posted on July 17, 2013 by swilkin26
Make the most of the wonderful weather we have been having recently by going on the Oxford Poetry Walk! Enjoy a 70 minute tour around the city with a selection of literary favourites such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde to act as your companions. If you are more of a theatre buff then check out the Globe Theatre on Tour's production of 'The Taming of the Shrew' currently being shown at the Bodleian Old Schools Quadrangle. If that doesn't give you your literary fix then there is the Oxford Shakespeare Company's adaptation of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' hosted in the atmospheric gardens of Wadham College.
In other walks of literary life, things seems to be getting all rather supernatural. This week Potter mastermind J.K Rowling was revealed as using the pen name Robert Galbraith to publicise her new crime novel 'The Cuckoo's Calling'. To add to the excitement, it came out that this newsworthy detail was uncovered by one of our very own professors here at Oxford, Professor Peter Millican.
Additionally, the Bodleian Library's enchanting exhibition 'Magical Books' is well underway showcasing works from the legends of Children's' Fantasy literature e.g. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien.
For more interesting titbits of literary news, follow Great Writers Inspire on Twitter and Facebook.
Jane in July!
Posted on July 12, 2013 by summerinspire
To round off our week of Austen, we thought we'd let you know about the Oxford Theatre Guild's production of Pride and Prejudice, on tonight at Trinity College! All the Oxford Janeites out there should get down to Trinity's velvety lawns for 7.30pm. Here's a sneak peak: In other Austen news, the Guardian's John Mullen challenged Oxford's Dr. Paula Byrne by calling Austen's style "unflinchingly satirical" (if you missed the Telegraph's original article, you can read it here). What do you think? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/11/jane-austen-fiction-not-anaesthetic
If you're still unsure, you can listen to Professor Kathryn Sutherland talk a bit more about Austen on one of the University's free podcasts! http://writersinspire.org/author/jane-austen
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Byrne, Jane Austen, oxford, play, Trinity College | Leave a comment
This project is creating a website dedicated to the theme "Great Writers inspire – learning from the past". On the site you will be able to find freely available content related to individual authors and literary themes. We are using this blog to let you follow the progress of the project and explore the material as it is being made available. Feel free to send us your comments and suggestions! Want to be inspired? Explore the podcasts on the Great Writers Inspire podcast page.
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The master of arts in interdisciplinary studies (MAIS) with a concentration in women and gender studies promotes advanced scholarship that transcends traditional boundaries. Students combine required coursework in women and gender studies with courses in a discipline of interest such as history, English, sociology, anthropology, conflict analysis and resolution, or the arts. The program accommodates both full-time and part-time students.
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College Board President and CEO David Coleman and "Bloomberg EDU" Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival.
When it comes to the state of student testing in the US, College Board President and CEO David Coleman said, "We are building an iron wall of inequality today into the next century." At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, Coleman, whose organization develops and administers standardized tests, such as the SAT, PSAT, and Advanced Placement exams, is also the architect of the hotly debated Common Core. He discussed testing students as a measure of college preparedness, the issues of inequality and discrimination in the classroom, and the state of the US public education system.
Read below for highlights from Coleman's conversation with "Bloomberg EDU" Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams.
In the clip above, Coleman explains how he's addressing criticisms that high-priced college test prep courses lead to unfair test results for those who cannot afford it. "People who defend assessment always like to say it finds diamonds in the rough, but guess what, it doesn't alone," he said.
"When we worry, perhaps rightly, that assessment can discriminate, let's remember that there's another thing that we know ... that can discriminate more, which is adults," he said. In the clip above, Coleman describes an example of what happened when one school district stopped relying on teacher recommendations for determining which students would take Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams, and instead relied on high PSAT data.
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You are here: Home › Talk of AutoZone Park sale premature: Pontius
Talk of AutoZone Park sale premature: Pontius
By Kevin Reichard on March 21, 2012 in Minor-League Baseball, News
Talk of selling AutoZone Park to the city of Memphis was premature, as the Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation is exploring several liquidation options, according to treasurer John Pontius.
Two weeks ago the news broke that the city was reviewing a proposal to buy the home of the Memphis Redbirds (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League). Pontuis says that while accurate, the account was a little premature: a sale of the ballpark to the city is but one of several scenarios being considered by the foundation and its lenders. One alternative scenario: that both the ballpark and the team will be sold to the same buyer.
From Memphis Flyer:
There's always been a desire — both from the foundation's standpoint and the city's — to make sure we concluded the final chapter of the Redbirds' financial story that gave it new, positive, long-term life for the city. That's what we've been working on for a few years. We're closer to a conclusion, a recapitalization, a sale, or something that repositions the Redbirds for a prosperous future in Memphis. But it's premature to speculate on which of those options will come about, and when….
There are two primary assets of the Redbirds Foundation. They could be sold separately or together, and it really depends on the buyer. Would a franchise owner want to own the ballpark too, or be a tenant in the ballpark? We're deep in the throes of understanding the options, but we're not [at a point of sale] yet.
The challenge, he added, was to put together a deal that satisfies a potential buyer and the holder of the foundation bonds: no doubt investor Fundamental Advisors would need to take a haircut on any deal, so the real issue may be how close a haircut. However, that's the risk that the likes of a Fundamental Advisors — which specializes in distressed properties — takes.
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Jarvis Cocker is a British musician, actor and presenter. Formerly frontman of Pulp, Cocker has since presented a BBC Radio 6 Music called Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service and is now touring with his new musical project 'JARV IS…'. Cocker's new book This Book is a Song will be published by Jonathan Cape in Autumn 2019.
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A confidential report releaed by WikiLeaks into the dumping of toxic waste along the Ivory Coast, has seen an extraordinary gag order served on the UK media. The order gags the press from reporting a parliamentry question and answer.
In effect, the communication between parliament and the people has been muzzled.
The Ivory Coast dumping mentioned, by multi-national oil and commodities trader Trafigura, is possibly the most culpable environmental disaster since thousands were killed in the Bhopal chemical spill.
What this gags order aims at is preventing the mention of Trafigura and Minton in the same context. The Minton report was released by WikiLeaks on September 14, 2009. Despite this and some rock solid work by Guardian investigations editor David Leigh and other journalists on the boader Trafigura contamination, the Minton report released by WikiLeaks was not named in the UK press, nor were its contents report. Why? Because of the earlier secret 11 September 2009 media injuction against the report, as referred to by Paul Farrelly MP. To-date the UK public has been kept in the dark about the Minton report and its contents. Paul Farrelly's question is an attempt to take on the suppression issue. In the process it connected the Minton report on WikiLeaks to Trafigura, something the UK media has been secretly ordered not to do.
Statements made in parliament, including those of Paul Farrelly MP, traditionally enjoy an absolute exemption from molestation by the regular judiciary. Parliament does not, insomuch as it believes itself to be an expression of the national will, subordinate itself to any other court.
Knowing this, lawyers for Trafigura, Carter-Ruck, told the Guardian that the order covered reporting of Paul Farrelly MP's questions. That Carter Ruck felt this claim was makable is a bold and dangerous move towards the total privatization of censorship. Is a multi-billion pound commodities trader a truer expression of the national will than the House of Commons? The question is no longer rhetorical.
The Commons' gag and the September 11 gag are not the only issues. The London Independent has removed from its site, without explanation, its September 17 investigative article on the issue "Toxic shame: Thousands injured in African city". As for other papers, no one has any idea, because it is the habit now in the UK to secretly remove articles from newspaper archives and their indexes.
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Cell. 2012 May 25;149(5):1060-72. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.042.
Dixon SJ1, Lemberg KM, Lamprecht MR, Skouta R, Zaitsev EM, Gleason CE, Patel DN, Bauer AJ, Cantley AM, Yang WS, Morrison B 3rd, Stockwell BR.
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, Northwest Corner Building, MC 4846, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Nonapoptotic forms of cell death may facilitate the selective elimination of some tumor cells or be activated in specific pathological states. The oncogenic RAS-selective lethal small molecule erastin triggers a unique iron-dependent form of nonapoptotic cell death that we term ferroptosis. Ferroptosis is dependent upon intracellular iron, but not other metals, and is morphologically, biochemically, and genetically distinct from apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy. We identify the small molecule ferrostatin-1 as a potent inhibitor of ferroptosis in cancer cells and glutamate-induced cell death in organotypic rat brain slices, suggesting similarities between these two processes. Indeed, erastin, like glutamate, inhibits cystine uptake by the cystine/glutamate antiporter (system x(c)(-)), creating a void in the antioxidant defenses of the cell and ultimately leading to iron-dependent, oxidative death. Thus, activation of ferroptosis results in the nonapoptotic destruction of certain cancer cells, whereas inhibition of this process may protect organisms from neurodegeneration.
(A) Visualization of HT-1080 cell viability over time +/− erastin (Era, 10 µM) and deferoxamine (DFO, 100 µM). (B,C) Cytosolic and lipid ROS production assessed over time (2,4 and 6 hrs) by flow cytometry using H2DCFDA and C11-BODIPY. (D) Mitochondrial ROS assessed in HT-1080 cells treated for 6 hrs with erastin+/−DFO, as above, or with rotenone (250 nM)+/−DFO. In (A–D) representative data from one of four experiments is shown. (E) Erastin-induced death in 143B ρ0 and ρ+ cells. (F) mtDNA-encoded transcript levels in ρ0 and ρ+ cells. Results in (E) and (F) are mean+/−SD from one of three representative experiments.
(A) Transmission electron microscopy of BJeLR cells treated with DMSO (10 hrs), erastin (37 µM, 10 hrs), staurosporine (STS, 0.75 µM, 8 hrs), H2O2 (16 mM, 1 hr) and rapamycin (Rap, 100 nM, 24 hr). Single white arrowheads: shrunken mitochondria; paired white arrowheads: chromatin condensation; black arrowheads: cytoplasmic and organelle swelling, plasma membrane rupture; black arrow: formation of double-membrane vesicles. A minimum of 10 cells per treatment condition were examined. (B) Normalized ATP levels in HT-1080 and BJeLR cells treated as in (A) with the indicated compounds. Representative data (mean+/−SD) from one of three independent experiments is shown. (C) Modulatory profiling of known small molecule cell death inhibitors in HT-1080, BJ-eLR and Calu-1 cells treated with erastin (10 µM, 24 hrs). (D) Effect of inhibitors on H2DCFDA-sensitive ROS production in HT-1080 cells treated for 4 hours. (E) Modulatory profiling of ciclopirox olamine (CPX), DFO, ebselen (Ebs), trolox (Tlx), U0126 and CHX on oxidative and non-oxidative lethal agents.
(A) Outline of the MitoCarta shRNA screen and confirmation pipeline. (B,C) Six high confidence genes required for erastin-induced ferroptosis. (B) Viability of HT-1080 cells infected with shRNAs for 72 hours and treated with erastin (10 µM, 24 hrs). (C) mRNA levels for hairpins shown in (B) determined using RT-qPCR. Data in (B) and (C) are mean+/−SD from one of three experiments. (D,E) Effect of shRNA-mediated silencing of high-confidence genes using the best hairpin identified by mRNA silencing efficiency in (C) on cell viability. (E) Viability of various cell lines treated with a lethal dose of erastin (indicated in brackets) for 24 hours. (E) Viability of HT-1080 cells treated with various death-inducing or cytostatic compounds. For (D) and (E) % rescue was computed relative to each shRNA alone+DMSO. (F) Cartoon outline of glutamine (Gln) metabolism. Red box indicates mitochondria. (G) Images of HT-1080 cells treated with aminooxyacetic acid (AOA) +/− dimethyl alphaketoglutarate (DMK) +/− erastin.
(A) Structure of ferrostatin-1 (Fer-1). (B) Effect of resynthesized Fer-1 (0.5 µM) on the lethality of various compounds in HT-1080 cells. (C) Effect of Fer-1 and U0126 on ERK phosphorylation in HT-1080 cells. (D) Effect of DFO, CHX, trolox (Tlx) and Fer-1 on HT-1080 cell proliferation over 48 hours as assessed by Vi-Cell. (E) Effect of Fer-1 (0.5 µM) on erastin (10 µM)-induced ROS production in HT-1080 cells (4 hr treatment). (F) Cell-free antioxidant potential monitored by changes is the absorbance at 517 nm of the stable radical DPPH. (G) Dose-response relationship for inhibition of erastin (10 µM, 24 hrs)-induced death in HT-1080 cells by Fer-1 and analogs. (H) Correlation between predicted partition coefficient (log P) and the ability of various Fer-1 analogs to prevent erastin-induced death. (I) Dose-response relationship for inhibition of erastin (10 µM, 24 hrs)-induced death by various antioxidants. (J) Plot of predicted partition coefficient (log P) and ability of various antioxidants to prevent erastin-induced death. Data in (B), (D), (F), (G) and (J) represents mean+/−SD from one of three representative experiments.
(A) Cartoon outline of hippocampal slice procedure. (B) Bright-field and fluorescent images of PI staining of treated hippocampal slices. Slices were treated with glutamate (5 mM, 3 hrs) +/− Fer-1 (2 µM), CPX (5 µM) or MK-801 (10 µM). Representative images from 1 one 6 slices per condition are shown. (C–E) Quantification of the effects depicted in (B). Data were analyzed using a two-way ANOVA (brain region × drug treatment) followed by Bonferroni post-tests. *: P < .05, **: P < .01, ***: P < .001.
(A) Modulatory profile of HT-1080 cells treated with different lethal compounds and inhibitors. (B) Cartoon depicting the composition and function of system L and system xc−. Cys: cystine, NAA: neutral amino acids. (C) SLC7A11 mRNA levels in compound (6 hrs)-treated HT-1080 cells determined by RT-qPCR. (D,E) Effect of silencing SLC7A11 using siRNA on erastin (10 µM, 8 hrs)-induced death (D) and mRNA levels (E) in HT-1080 cells. (F) Na+-independent [14C]-cystine uptake by HT-1080 cells in response to various drugs. (G) Identification of SLC7A5 as the lone target identified by erastin affinity purification in both BJeH and BJeLR cells. (H) Metabolic profiling of system L and non-system L substrate amino acid levels in erastin-treated Jurkat cells. (I) Effect of L-glutamic acid (L-Glu, 12.5 mM) and Dphenylalanine (D-Phe, 12.5 mM) on erastin-induced death in HT-1080 cells.
(A) Outline of NOX pathway. Inhibitors are shown in green. (B) Effect of NOX pathway inhibitors on erastin-induced death in Calu-1 and HT-1080 cells. GKT: GKT137831. (C,D) Effect of shRNA silencing of the PPP enzymes glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (PGD) on viability of erastin (2.5 µM)-treated Calu-1 cells. Infection with shRNA targeting VDAC2 was used as a positive control. Relative mRNA levels in (D) were assessed by qPCR following shRNA knockdown. Data in (B), (C) and (D) represents mean+/−SD. (E) Model of ferroptosis pathway. The core ferroptotic lethal mechanism is highlighted in blue.
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HomeTravel Planning2022 Destinations: The Coolest Dozen
December 18, 2021 airtravel360 Travel Planning 0
It is that time of year to look to NEXT year.
We attempt to forecast which cities will be at the top of everyone's flight search history, where the most exciting hotel openings will happen and which countries will emerge from the periphery to be the hottest new destinations for intrepid travelers.
But for the last two years, this has felt like an increasingly challenging task. Sure, we can see where airlines are doubling down on service and where popular hotel brands are breaking ground. But after so many false starts and squashed travel plans, I think we all know that divining the future — particularly in the travel industry — is more art and inspiration than science.
Travelers are eager to return to their favorite destinations and discover new ones, but the ongoing pandemic has made it more difficult than ever to plan anything.
Still, we keep our sights set on what's next, because sometimes that's all you can do: Keep looking ahead. As another challenging year comes to a close, these are the destinations we're most excited about — the ones that fill us with optimism and give us all something to anticipate.
Few destinations in the U.S. have made a comeback quite like New York City. So many people speculated that it might have met its untimely end during the prolonged pandemic when Broadway temporarily closed its curtains and some of the city's most iconic hotels and restaurants shuttered.
But simply step onto a subway platform and you'll immediately feel that the city's energetic pace is back. Despite its extended shutdown, the city is eager to welcome tourists from across the globe. If you haven't been to New York City since the onset of the pandemic, you'll find a spate of new attractions, including a mind-bending new observation deck in midtown Manhattan and a park comprised of concrete platforms that look like lily pads floating above the Hudson River.
There are also a number of hotel openings on the horizon that will make Manhattan the most talked-about borough in the city. In addition to the long-awaited Aman New York, The Ritz-Carlton is taking reservations for its second Gotham location in the NoMad neighborhood starting in May 2022.
For travelers craving wide-open spaces within the continental U.S., there are few better places to visit in 2022 than the Cowboy State, which is famous for its world-class skiing, freewheeling Old West culture and stunning national parks.
In 2022, Yellowstone — the country's first national park — will celebrate its 150th anniversary with indigenous art exhibitions, free tours on the park's iconic yellow buses and other events and activities. Plus, domestic airlines have been doubling down on Wyoming and other national park gateways since 2020, making it easier than ever for travelers to reach this destination.
No matter where you're traveling in Wyoming, you'll want to book accommodations far in advance. In addition to classic park lodging, such as the Old Faithful Inn, and luxury hotels, like the relatively new Cloudveil, an Autograph Collection property, travelers can consider a luxe chalet from onefinestay, which expanded to the mountain town of Jackson Hole this ski season.
The southernmost continent is an inhospitable, wintry desert. Getting there has never been a particularly easy task, but with the reopening of borders in South America, it's possible once again for travelers to visit and, in many cases, check off their final continent.
The Antarctic travel season, which kicks off during the austral summer, is just resuming and will continue into early 2022. There's only a fraction of the number of usual vessels calling on Antarctica this season, but more than ever will come here next season, meaning travelers will see even more wild, undisturbed scenery and wildlife.
Though coronavirus protocols continue to complicate travel, many people may find an expedition cruise here takes some of the guesswork out of that. Not to mention, travelers don't need to be too worried about coming into contact with the virus in this uninhabited stretch of ice and rock.
Debut cruise line Atlas Ocean Voyages is chartering an A330 to get travelers directly from Orlando to Ushuaia, Argentina, where its first vessel, World Navigator, embarks. Travelers who sail with Silversea have the option to fly directly to King George Island on Antarctic Airways this season. Or, cruisers could sail on Lindblad Expeditions' new National Geographic Endurance, which can be booked with World of Hyatt points instead of cash.
When United announced it would fly to five new European destinations in 2022, the airline's senior vice president of international network and alliance, Patrick Quayle, said the expansion was about connecting travelers with "new, unexpected places." Among them, the fjords of Norway via Bergen (BGO), to which the airline will start flying from its Newark (EWR) hub starting May 20.
Both first-time and returning travelers will have new places to stay throughout Norway, including Sommerro, a reborn Art Deco landmark in Oslo that will boast 231 rooms and residences and the capital's first year-round rooftop pool. There are also reports that the long-awaited Svart hotel in the Arctic Circle will welcome its first guests next year.
Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Fans of Dubai and Abu Dhabi should set their sights on the northernmost emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, which is home to its own array of superlative attractions and five-star hotels, including the forthcoming Anantara Mina Al Arab Ras Al Khaimah with overwater villas and an InterContinental slated to open in February.
Once there, travelers can enjoy a spate of over-the-top diversions, such as record-breaking fireworks shows and the world's longest zip line, which whisks travelers down 1.76 miles of the tallest peak in the United Arab Emirates at heart-thumping speeds.
Florida continues to be a top destination for travelers, and in 2022, Orlando will be at the center of this attention.
Disney's 50th-anniversary celebrations continue into the new year with an exciting lineup of new attractions, events and developments, including the launch of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. This highly anticipated immersive hotel experience will be complemented by the opening of Disney Vacation Club resort studios at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
Disney enthusiasts can also look forward to the opening of the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind attraction and enhanced technology throughout the parks with "Hey, Disney!" and MagicBand+.
Increased airlift from a number of major airlines will also make it particularly easy — and far more comfortable — to fly to Orlando in 2022. Even international airlines are getting in on the action: Aer Lingus has launched nonstop transatlantic flights from Orlando (MCO) to Manchester, England (MAN).
You don't have to be flying to Disney World to get excited about traveling to this city in Central Florida. By the end of 2022, the high-speed rail company Brightline is expecting to finish its connection between Orlando and Miami.
Luxury travelers have plenty of reasons to plan a visit to Montenegro next year. This small Balkan country with a thread of beaches along the Adriatic Sea is a great alternative for travelers seeking a crowd-free version of Croatia. Check out One&Only Portonovi (the brand's first resort in Europe), which opened in May 2021, and Aman's new sister brand, Janu, which will debut at Sveti Stefan in 2022.
Travelers who want to visit destinations before an influx of tourists should travel here soon, as a luxury hotel with residences, Fairmont Smokva Bay Resort, is also in development for early 2023.
Want to explore the region? Book a flight on the country's new national airline, Air Montenegro, which just launched this year. Flights are available between Montenegro and Serbia, Germany, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
United Airlines began its thrice-weekly, year-round service to Accra, Ghana (ACC), from Washington, D.C. (IAD) in May, making it easier for travelers to visit this nation in West Africa.
Ghana is an awe-inspiring gateway for travelers eager to return to the continent thanks, in part, to it being at the center of the heritage travel movement. Every visitor should consider a pilgrimage to ominous Cape Coast Castle, overlooking the Atlantic, to see the so-called "Door of No Return" where many enslaved Africans were forced onto ships bound for the Americas.
These days, the country's capital, Accra, is home to one of Africa's liveliest music scenes, with numerous clubs and other venues hosting concerts by up-and-coming artists. You don't have to venture far for some of the continent's best surfing, either, at Kokrobite beach.
You can even explore some of Africa's lesser-known (and therefore far less crowded) national parks and reserves encompassing everything from grasslands and woodlands to lush rainforests teeming with monkeys and crisscrossed by canopy footbridges.
With so much uncertainty still clouding the travel landscape, many adventurers are seeking solace in familiar, long-loved destinations such as Italy, which is one of the most booked destinations in Europe for next year.
Even frequent visitors may be lured by major hotel openings from some of the top brands, including the intimate 65-room Rosewood Porto Cervo on the island of Sardinia. In Rome, IHG is transforming an early 20th-century property on the Via Veneto into an InterContinental. The capital city will also welcome outposts from Bvlgari, Six Senses and Edition Hotels in 2022.
Travelers might even be able to catch a flight on the nation's new flag carrier, ITA Airways, which takes the place of the now-defunct Alitalia. It will welcome a fleet of new Airbuses in 2022 and is focusing on connecting the East Coast of the U.S. to Milan and Rome.
For years now, Mexico has landed on TPG's list of hottest upcoming destinations. Though it may not be surprising or new, it's a destination that continues to evolve. Throughout the pandemic, Mexico has been consistently welcoming to tourists: Unlike so many nations around the world, it never shut its borders to visitors.
As a result, it's really no surprise that Viator found that, compared to 2019, bookings for hot spots on both coasts (such as Tulum and Cabo San Lucas) have increased by double digits.
In 2022, a new round of fresh hotels and resorts from a number of our favorite brands will welcome travelers for the first time, including Amanvari on Baja's East Cape, the Waldorf Astoria Cancun and the Hilton Tulum All-Inclusive Resort. An Edition hotel is also slated to open in the popular Riviera Maya resort development.
When Canada finally reopened to American tourists, the excitement was palpable — and that wave of energy will continue into 2022. Consider a stay at the forthcoming Ace Hotel in the city's Fashion District or the W in Yorkville, which is expected to open this spring.
Toronto will also be at the center of Canada's cruising comeback, which won't start until April 2022. At this time, the first eastern Canada cruise on the schedule from a major line, Viking, is a 12-night voyage from New York to Toronto embarking on April 18, 2022. By April, it will have been about two years since cruise ships called on Toronto.
In a time of so much uncertainty, it's impossible to say when tourism to Australia will return to something resembling normal. After all, the nation has attempted to reopen in fits and starts, and is still only allowing citizens, residents and their family members to visit without quarantine.
But the decision to relax entry restrictions on Nov. 1 is an important signal that the return of tourism to Australia could be on the horizon. There will be so much to experience when the time comes, particularly with regard to high-end places to stay from the major hotel brands.
Next year, the W brand will return to Sydney, and a Kimpton crowned with a rooftop bar will open in the city as well. In Melbourne, a Ritz-Carlton is expected to open in the West Side Place development. And for travelers who want to splurge with cash, a 169-room Langham will welcome guests to the country's Gold Coast. After years of anticipation, The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, is officially opening its doors in a historic building in the heart of Hobart as well.
Travelers who are already thinking about how they'll get to Australia should consider flying with United Airlines and Virgin Australia, as both airlines just announced plans to launch a codeshare partnership in 2022.
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He and his group of buddies are really cool in this game. They helped me out a lot and now I can play Gears pretty well. They also go out of their way to make sure the teams are fair and even, matching skills that is. I had the most fun chilling with them on Gears than any other time. It would be cool if we could all go join up with them.
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Agile Tracking Solutions delivers high performance, tailor-made GPS fleet tracking solutions for any fleet. Their GPS tracking platform is hardware independent. They are passionate about delivering exceptionable value and customer service.
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Accelerated Treatment for Anxiety: Core Concepts with Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
Reid Wilson, Ph.D., sums up the fundamentals of tackling the most common condition confronting psychotherapists. In this lively new video, combining a live presentation with an accompanying case demonstration, he illustrates the core concepts of his groundbreaking technique and paradoxical twist in exposure therapy.
NIMH Strategic Plan for Research
NIMH is pleased to announce the release of the NIMH Strategic Plan for Research, available in print and online. This plan is a commitment to accelerate the pace of scientific progress by generating research that will have the greatest public health impact and continue to fuel the transformation of mental healthcare.
Resilience: An update
PTSD Research Quarterly
Understanding why some trauma-exposed individuals develop PTSD, while most do not, has spurred research on resilience. A common thread throughout all definitions of resilience is that it is "the process of adapting to and bouncing back from adversity." This Research Quarterly provides an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the current literature on resilience. As we learn more about resilience we can look forward to the development of increasingly effective strategies to help people negotiate and potentially grow from stress and adversity.
A multivariate twin study of trait mindfulness, depressive symptoms and anxiety sensitivity
The aim of this study was to examine the role of genetic and environmental factors in trait mindfulness, and its genetic and environmental overlap with depressive symptoms and anxiety sensitivity.
Daily stressors, past depression and metabolic responses to high-fat meals: A novel path to obesity
Depression and stress promote obesity. This study addressed the impact of daily stressors and a history of major depressive disorder (MDD) on obesity-related metabolic responses to high-fat meals.
How tomorrow's algorithms will help treat post-traumatic stress disorder
Let's say a 33-year-old woman is admitted to an emergency room after being in a car accident. The accident was violent and scary, but other than a mild concussion and some bruises and lacerations, she appears to be okay, physically. But once she's been examined and bandaged, once her vital signs have been confirmed to sit in the normal ranges, another, trickier question pops up: Is she likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder? Here's where current medical science falters a little bit.
Why we need to be talking about postpartum depression in dads
Although studies estimate that as many as one in 10 fathers suffers from postpartum depression, many dads go overlooked and untreated because such little research has been done on the issue. A new study, however, shows that dads' "baby blues" can affect their ability to parent and cause anxiety and behavioral issues in toddlers. Researchers from Northwestern University looked at 199 couples during the first six weeks after their child was born and again after 45 months, when their babies had grown into toddlers.
Childhood trauma linked to early psychosis later in life
Research showing that patients with early psychosis report high rates of childhood trauma has important implications for clinicians, a University of Queensland psychologist has found. More than three-quarters of early psychosis patients reported exposure to childhood trauma, including one or a combination of emotional, physical or sexual abuse or physical neglect.
Anxiety can contribute to bad decisions
If you consider yourself an anxious person, beware. Your anxiety may be standing in the way of your success. A recent study from the University of California Berkeley revealed that anxiety-prone individuals are more likely to make poor decisions, especially high-stakes decisions that involved a high level of uncertainty, such as starting a business, or hiring or firing someone.
Thin air, high altitudes cause depression in female rats
In a novel study, University of Utah researchers have shown that hypobaric hypoxia (the reduced oxygen experienced at high altitude) can lead to depression. In the March edition of High Altitude Medicine and Biology online, the researchers show that female rats exposed to high-altitude conditions, both simulated and real, exhibit increased depression-like behavior. Male rats, interestingly, showed no signs of depression in the same conditions.
How your brain deletes trauma
Our brains actually aren't able to absorb infinite amounts of information — new research has revealed that memories operate on something closer to a one-in, one-out policy. The process of recall causes people to lose other memories, meaning that our attempts to remember certain things lead to the forgetting of others. The UK study is the first of its kind to test our "forgetting" mechanism, monitoring the changes that occur when we try to remember new things.
Roseroot extract may be beneficial for treating major depressive disorder
Rhodiola rosea, or roseroot, may be a beneficial treatment option for major depressive disorder, according to results of a study in the journal Phytomedicine. The proof of concept trial study is the first randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, comparison trial of oral R. rosea extract versus the conventional antidepressant therapy sertraline for mild to moderate major depressive disorder.
Vitamin D levels may predict depression
Low serum levels of vitamin D are associated with clinically significant symptoms of depression in otherwise healthy individuals, new research shows. Making a series of assessments of healthy women during a one-month period, investigators found that more than one-third of participants had depressive symptoms, that almost half had vitamin D insufficiency and that depressive symptoms were predicted by vitamin D levels.
Study: High-fat diets can lead to depression
Obesity, heart disease and other physical afflictions may not be the only negative impacts of consuming fatty foods. According to a recent study on mice, high-fat foods could be affecting behavior, increasing the risk of depression and related psychological disorders. The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, suggests that a high-fat diet alters the mix of bacteria in the gut known as the gut microbiome.
Study links air pollution as risk factor for anxiety
research into new questions about links between mental health and air quality has found an association between levels of anxiety and levels of fine particulate air pollution. A second paper in the same issue of The BMJ answers more established questions about links with stroke, too. Using information from the large amounts of data collecting in the 2004 Nurses' Health Study, the researchers looked back for a link to anxiety from an estimate of exposure to air pollution among the 71,271 women.
Study adds evidence on link between PTSD, heart disease
In a study of more than 8,000 veterans living in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, those with post-traumatic stress disorder had a nearly 50 percent greater risk of developing heart failure over about a seven-year follow-up period, compared with their non-PTSD peers. The findings appear in the April 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
Psychiatrists have finally discovered how to better treat depression
A new study published the journal Translational Psychiatry may shed light on the nature of two of the most common types of depression and could help dramatically improve the accuracy of drug prescription. These two forms of depression are linked to two chemical imbalances: serotonin deficiency and lack of noradrenaline.
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Home/Digital Humanities
The digital humanities at Stanford sit at the crossroads of computer science and the humanities. Since the 1980's, a wide range of computational tools have enabled humanities scholars to conduct research at a scale once thought impossible. Digital humanities foster collaboration and traverse disciplines and methodological orientations, with projects to digitize archival materials for posterity, to map the exchange and transmission of ideas in history, and to study the evolution of common words over the centuries.
At Stanford, current digital humanities projects implement tools such as 3-D mapping, algorithmic literary analysis, advanced visualization techniques, and digitization of textual corpora in non-Latin languages. Researchers experiment and interact with source materials in ways that yield new findings, while also building community and sharing information.
Stanford scholars harness new technologies through an array of digital humanities initiatives:
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
CESTA is an internationally renowned digital humanities center located in Wallenberg Hall on Stanford's campus. There, humanities scholars collaborate with qualified professional staff in an open research space that brings together interdisciplinary research teams made up of seasoned researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars who collaborate on projects with the necessary software and hardware tools. CESTA also offers opportunities for fellows and affiliates of the Stanford Humanities Center to pursue digital humanities projects, to participate in workshops and training sessions, and to publish the results of their work online.
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The Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR)
CIDR is a team of humanists and social scientists within Stanford University Libraries who promote digital scholarship by developing new tools and methods and integrating technology and information resources. Their expertise in data discovery, data creation, data management, and analytical tools supports the generation and dissemination of new knowledge. CIDR enables digital research and teaching to encourage and inspire innovative scholarship throughout the University.
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The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
CCRMA is a multi-disciplinary facility housed on Stanford's campus in the Knoll where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA collaborates across such disciplines as music, electrical engineering, computer science, art, and drama. The center offers academic courses, seminars, small interest group meetings, summer workshops, and colloquia. Concerts featuring computer-generated music also occur several times each year.
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The Digital Humanities Focal Group (DHFG)
Part of Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), DHFG promotes digital research on underrepresented literatures and cultures to counteract the English-language dominance of much work in the field. Through lectures, workshops, curriculum, and the development of digital humanities research projects, DHFG promotes faculty and graduate research in the digital humanities— especially those eligible for grant-funded opportunities. Faculty and graduate students share work in progress, discuss the state of the field, and identify important research that should be shared within the DLCL and related academic communities.
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Project Bravo. New 109meter long superyacht from Oceano.
Oceanco's 109m/357ft 'Project Bravo' was launched on 17 November 2018. Bravo is a prime example of Oceanco's new wave of forward-thinking yachts. With her naval architecture by Lateral Naval Architects, exterior design and layout by Nuvolari Lenard and interior by Reymond Langton Design, Bravo is unlike any preceding Oceanco. She is the first Oceanco to utilize its innovative LIFE (Lengthened, Innovative, Fuel-efficient, Eco-friendly) design. LIFE revolves around intelligent naval architecture that leverages a number of fundamental principles, which create a harmonious balance between weight, power, technical areas and luxury interior on board.
James Roy, director of Lateral Naval Architects comments, "The LIFE design's use of advanced hybrid propulsion incorporating significant battery capability, combined with a single tier engine room allows novel use of space to deliver areas of outstanding luxury accommodation."
Bravo embodies Oceanco's expertise in building large complex yachts, whereby project management proficiency played an integral part in Bravo's success. "A bespoke project of such magnitude and splendor will always present interesting challenges and opportunities" says owner's representative, Burgess. "With Project Bravo we created a truly spectacular yacht whose excellence is a clear reflection of the commitment of a dynamic and professional project team."
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Augustin Ayala Martinez started working as a cleaner for the municipality in Pimentel in Peru, but shortly after decided to follow his passion: gardening. A colleague encouraged and helped him to make the transition 40 years ago. Since then, he has been working as the gardener and landscape designer at Parque de Quiñones, Pimentel's Plaza de Armas.
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Teaching children to be mindful of the waste they create is one of the first steps in developing environmental values and behaviours for future sustainability.
This week, Cleanaway's kNOw Waste™ Education Program was delivered to local children by Cleanaway in partnership with Moree Plains Shire Council.
Students from Gwydir Day Care and Preschool, Aussie Kids Moree, Moree Christian School, and Boggabilla Central School participated in the BinWise workshop within the kNOw Waste Education Program.
Council's Acting Waste Manager Tahra Sayers explained kNOw waste™ Education Program is aimed at teaching children about sustainable waste management practices and encouraging them share this knowledge at home.
"We hope children who participated in the program will share their learning experiences with their family, relatives and friends, and together we can ensure a cleaner, greener environment for us and future generations," said Mrs Sayers.
The kNOw Waste™ Education Program supports key learning outcomes in science and technology and Human Society and its Environment.
Further kNOw waste™ sessions have been scheduled for June during Storytime at the Moree Community Library and Mungindi Library.
It also demonstrates Council's commitment to reduce the amount of waste going into landfills by helping the community to recycle papers, plastics and metals, problem wastes, and in general, help individuals lead a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Regardless of your income level or economic standing purchasing a house is a pretty big deal. You're likely going to spend more money on the house than you would even think about splurging on another item because you're hoping that you're making an investment that will pay off both now and in the future. Although you have probably already contracted with a real estate agent and are being assisted throughout the home buying process, you also need to think about the legal aspect of the deal. Hiring a real estate attorney can be highly beneficial, and the following information will help you see why it is an essential move that you need to look into.
If you buy a house without conducting a title check, you could be signing up for much more than just a piece of property. The importance of having a clean title simply cannot be stressed enough. Failing to do your due diligence in regards to this critical piece of the property buying puzzle might just turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes you've ever made.
You just never know if there are possibly one or more liens against the title of the house that you are looking to purchase. Liens can come from so many different parties, including contractors who may have done work on the house and were never paid or even debtors who were granted a judgment against the former homeowners because of an unpaid debt. Once you sign for the house and take ownership of it any liens on the title could also then become your responsibility.
That's why it is so vital for you to hire a real estate attorney before you purchase a piece of property. Let them perform a thorough check against the title of the house you want to make sure it's clean.
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Teacher denies sex with schoolboy, claiming she is too short for the sex position
By Dorothy G. Bender Last updated Dec 3, 2021
Kandice Barber, 35, is accused of sexual activity with a student (Photo: Hyde News & Pictures Ltd / PA)
A married teacher claims that she could not have had sex with a student because she is too short for the position in question.
Kandice Barber, 35, is accused of committing a sexual act on the unnamed 15-year-old boy and having sex with him while standing.
Amersham court heard she was previously convicted in a trial in September last year for sending a video to the boy, showing her pleasuring herself while on a bed surrounded by toys sexual intercourse and sexually communicating with the complainant.
The complainant, who is now 18, appeared via video link, claims he also met Barber for sexual activity on three occasions.
Nadia Chbat, defending Barber, asked him about an alleged sexual incident while he was standing: "You accept that she is quite short, she is only about five feet, right? So you were taller than her back then, were you? You didn't even think she could reach your shoulders back then, did you?
During re-examination by prosecutor Richard Milne, the boy said he had "crouched down" and bent his knees to get around the height difference.
Kandice Barber denies the offenses (Photo: Hyde News & Pictures Ltd)
The boy couldn't name the specific dates when the sexual activity took place, but he said it was from October 11, 2018 and just before mid-term, with two of the meetings he did. said it took place before and after her 16th birthday.
On one occasion, he said that Barber drove them to the side of a busy main road and parked so the boy could do a sex act on him, before they got out of the car and she gave him a blowjob in a wooded area while he was lying down. on the ground.
The court heard that before informing its principal of the allegations, the schoolboy threatened to "ruin" the teacher's life if he could not reconnect with her, promising that she would lose her family.
Ms Chbat, cross-examining the boy, said: "You, I suggest, had become obsessed with Mrs Barber, haven't you? You, I suggest, wanted more contact with her again.
"The threat, I suggest, is 'If you don't talk to me, watch what happens, you will lose your job and your family.'
"The phone calls of March 10, 2018, I suggest, are you and her arguing on the phone. She would tell you to leave her alone and you would talk to each other and threaten to tell the police about your communication. She hung up on you.
"I suggest the communication was threatening, that if she didn't get back in touch with you, you would ruin her life," the defense lawyer said.
Ms Chbat added that her client said that no sexual activity had taken place and that it was all lies, which the complainant denied via the video link.
Barber, from Wendover in Buckinghamshire, denies three counts of causing or instigating a child under 16 to engage in sex.
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Created on 2018-05-26 23:14 by terry.reedy, last changed 2018-10-14 00:41 by terry.reedy. This issue is now closed.
On my Win 10 system with a 2560 x 1440 27" monitor, the text is noticeably sharper, some colors are brighter, and some characters are better formed. The main effect seems to be from properly lining up vertical and horizontal lines with the pixels. Lines that are supposed to be 1 or 2 pixels wide are just that, instead of bleeding over onto additional rows or columns.
By comparing IDLE's shell with Windows consoles with the same font and text, both for Command Prompt and Python x.y consoles, I determined that the Windows consoles have DPI awareness on. The text is longer with it off and some character shapes, such as for 2 and 3, don't match, whereas text length and shape matches perfectly with it on.
At least some other apps also have DPO awareness on. With the patch, the Open and Save As dialogs opened opened by from IDLE, via the tkinter/tk function, match those opened by Firefox. Without the patch, not.
I like the improvement and with 3.7.0rc1 delayed, would like to get it in now. My question for you Windows experts is 1. Is the above exactly the right thing? and 2. Should it be unconditional, or is there a possible downside? Do consoles always have DPI awareness, or is it conditional on the monitor?
I will make a PR as soon as I post this and get an issue number.
I changed the bare except: to 'except AttributeError:'. If ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness exists, can calling it with True ever fail?
I'm not a Windows expert, but looking that the API description the patch is not entirely correct.
The API takes an integer with 3 valid values, the patch effectively passes the value 1 (which means the application claims to be DPI aware, but won't scale itself when the DPI changes for some reason).
The API can fail, but that shouldn't cause an exception as ctypes won't automaticly convert error return values to exceptions.
P.S. The pull request seems to contain an unrelated change as well.
Does Tcl/Tk have a function for this, and/or should we expose this as a function in Tkinter? Do other platforms (macOS, X/Wayland) have similar functions?
Perhaps the argument should be 2 for supporting multi-display configuration. Currently I can't do this, but will test this recipe with Hi-DPI monitor and multiple displays after 1-2 weeks.
Ronald: I agree that an int should be passed. I understand your ctype comment as saying that an attribute error before making the call should be the only possible exception.
I should have explained the 'unrelated change' to the one entry box. With the default size of 20, it no longer fits properly after the change. Adding an explicit size was the easiest fix for something that is only present for test and demonstration purposes. A better fix, which is not needed for this issue, would probably be to add a 'expand=True' or something, somewhere else.
I checked all the other panes on the settings dialog and the other major dialog boxes and found no problems.
Zack: I had the same question. Now that I know that IDLE as a tk app *can* look 'sharp', the current fuzzyness is annoying. I would not be surprised if it contributes to some of the negative opinions about IDLE.
is that is can mess up spacing on current windows. But to me, it definitely should be available.
I don't know if other systems have such a setting, or any need for such. I will ask an someone who uses IDLE both in Windows and Ubuntu on the same machine to compare.
Serhiy: I have a space monitor and I believe my graphics card will allow me to attach one, so I may give it a try.
means. It appears that making one call before any tkinter calls is the right thing to do if any call is to be made.
The call does not appear to be available on Windows 7 or 8.0.
Eryk Sun commented on the PR.
The correct value to pass is the one that best describes what the app does. I believe that 0 is wrong and 1 more likely than 2.
Three people describe fuzzy tk text as a well-known problem, fixed by SetProcessDpiAwareness(1).
https://wiki.tcl.tk/8484 tk has a scaling function that gets and sets a scaling factor, dpi/72 = pixels per printer point. "The initial value for the scaling factor is set when the application starts, based on properties of the installed monitor." This also suggests to me also that default 0 for awareness is wrong value. Users (apps) can changes this, but I see no suggestion that monitor changes are tracked.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/mt748620(v=vs.85).aspx gives the syntax for adding dpiAwareness to the Windows manifest.
As reported on #26698, which was originally opened as an IDLE issue, but which I turned into a tkinter issue, one can also sharpen text buy opening python(w).exe properties, Compatibility tab, clicking [Change high DPI settings], and then checking Override high DPI scaling behavior while leaving the default 'Application'. The effect is the same as 'SetProcessDpiAwareness (1)' -- or (2) if monitor is not changed.
Eric, thanks for the additional reference. From Window's viewpoint, Python, not IDLE, is the application. IDLE is just input data. I should not touch Python's manifest, and changing it would have to consider other possible gui module input data.
This page says it applies only to Win10 desktop. The page for SetProcessDpiAwareness says it applies to 8.1+. That still excludes Vista and Win7, but is better than just Win10.
So maybe add the dpiAware and dpiAwareness settings to the manifest for just Windows' pythonw.exe and leave the python.exe console interpreter alone? I'm going to guess that the pythonw.exe manifest already has some settings related to its unique status that align with this.
I'm okay to add it to the manifest for both in 3.8, along with a What's New entry.
High DPI screens are very common though, and adding it to existing releases won't allow existing apps or frameworks to account for the change. I don't want non-DPI aware apps to suddenly become unreadably small with a minor runtime update. Backporting Python-specific docs is fine.
Steve, I would like to add the SetProcessDpiAwareness(1) call to IDLE tomorrow, for 3.7.0 and 3.6.6. Do I need to make it an avoidable option? Can it hurt people on some machines? It seems to me that if tk is doing dpi scaling, then it should always be correct to tell Windows that it is doing so.
If you want to add it to the winapi module rather than use ctypes that's fine too.
Thanks everyone for the help. I think this is the right patch, but as with many IDLE patches, it is hard to be sure until it is in use. At least there is no question here of tk Windows-Linux-MacOS differences. I checked that the Win 7 buildbots are OK with the PR.
Serhiy: My interpretation of the tk scaling doc is that 1, not 2, is the right argument. But we can test to be sure. I meant 'spare monitor', not 'space monitor'. But I need to find one with a substantially different DPI.
Steve: changing the binaries' manifests is a separate issue, not limited to IDLE or even tkinter. And 3.8 enhancements do nothing for IDLE on 3.6 and 3.7. Ditto for a new WinAPI.
Reopening, temporarily, to add change requested by Eryk Sun after the merge.
Since there should be time before .rcs are cut, I changed the idlelib NEWS.txt entry to mention color changes, based on editing with the change in place.
I can't test on multiple monitors, but I tested on a single HiDPI monitor. With 1 it looks much better than with 0. With 2 it looks the same as with 1 on HiDPI, but doesn't scale well after changing the resolution of the display. I suppose there are the same problems on multi-monitor configuration. Thus the value 1 is the correct one.
ctypes is optional. It would be better to catch an ImportError from importing it.
pass # The ctypes-using fix is not essential.
But, in what sense is ctypes optional *on Windows* more than most other modules? I don't see anything in the ctypes doc. It is normal to depend on stdlib modules being present and not wrap imports.
Steve: does the Windows installer have an option to omit ctypes? I don't remember one.
Anyone: do you know of any CPython Windows distributions that we care about that omit ctypes?
1. This is a theoretical concern that does not justify adding noise to the code.
2. This is a real concern, but so rare that the fix can be deferred to 3.6.7 and 3.7.1.
3. This is likely common enough that we should ask Ned to cherry-pick the patch into 3.6.6 and 3.7.1.
I just ran the 3.7.0rc1 installer and here is no option to omit ctypes.
There's no option to omit ctypes, though I am aware of some custom builds of Python that exclude it. I don't think you need to worry about those being used for IDLE (but of course the general policy of the stdlib not relying on ctypes remains).
I don't know whether this is a theoretical or a real concern, but I think this fix can wait for 3.7.1.
Ping? Do we want to get this in for 3.7.1 and 3.6.7?
There is still no rush as guarding the ctypes import on Windows builds that can run IDLE may never be needed. But I grepped the stdlib .py code and uuid is the only .py module that imports ctypes, and all are directly or indirectly guarded in the code or test_uuid. So I moved the import inside the existing try block and added ImportError to those caught.
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PEOPLE THAT PISS ME OFF: THE "CONCERNED CITIZEN"
July 31, 2011 / Bink Seavey / ARTICLES
My former neighbor is a concerned citizen; typically, a middle aged, middle class–male or female–white person with a slew of insecurities stemming from an unfulfilling existence brought about by a succession of poor decisions. Or perhaps a micro penis. The concerned citizen has no shame, and will stop at nothing to assure the masses, or at least, the neighborhood that they're concerned with what everyone else is doing. "Get off my property!", "I'm calling the cops!", "My taxes paid for this damn park!" are the common phrases in the concerned citizen's vocabulary, but they can be hard to spot since they come in all varieties.
There are several types of concerned citizens, like the guy who could have been the star quarterback, but he drank a little too much one night and raw romped his ex, Cathy the catholic pin cushion, who shat out an eighteen year investment with a ROI of "fuck you, I can do whatever I want." Twenty or so years down the road, he's separated from his wife, living in a shit hole off of MLK Blvd. and managing Barry's Burger Joint when he's not drunk on MD 20/20 and lathering his dysfunctional wet noodle. He's a "Get off my property!" concerned citizen.
Then there are the typical old hags, like Cathy, who married her high school sweetheart after he knocked her up. She quickly settled into a life of underachievement in Middle America and started making babies. Cathy pooped out four more turds for offspring, before realizing the only thing her husband was good for is a pay check and load of life every now and again. So she kicked him out of his own house, but since she's a woman of faith, refuses to officially divorce him. Her hobbies include mixing her children's prescriptions with various boxed wines, and yelling, "I'm calling the cops!" at other people's children.
Regardless of the roads they take, all concerned citizens arrive at the same intersection, of insanity and idiocy. They are driven by self-interest and a deluded sense of what the world should be, fueled by their own insecurities and short comings. They're not afraid to share these ideas in lame and despicable ways, like calling the cops on five year olds for pissing where humans have pissed for centuries, or yelling at anyone who seems to be enjoying their day. No booze in the park. No skating on sidewalks. No loud music. No late shows. No fun.
And reasoning with these people is out of the question. The brain of the concerned citizen operates in mysterious ways, often acting on impulses before they're processed in the pre-frontal cortex–the simulator of the brain. These defective balls of grey matter aren't hard-wired for bargaining, logical thinking, or, really, much thinking outside personal gratification. And, unfortunately, they turn perfectly able bodies into little more than restless chimpanzees. Restless chimpanzees with cars, houses, boats and firearms.
It's best to avoid confrontations with the concerned citizen, but if must indulge yourself, heckle from a safe distance and leave as soon as you see a cell phone. Maybe you can piss in their bushes later, but for now, go home, sit your ass down and bitch about it on the internet. The police will be on their way shortly.
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Original Illustration: Mikey Giurato
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In my years of reading humorous articles, skateboarders tend to have the best way with words. I don't know what it is, but I consider them some of the best. Great job.
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God dealing with these "concerned citizens" fucking suck. Can't they let me smoke my blunt in the park in peace?!
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"my life sucks so all of your lives should suck too!!"
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SAN DIEGO: One killed in freeway crash
By North County Times wire services
SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old woman was killed and three otherpeople were seriously injured when the car they were riding incrashed off a South Bay connector ramp and caught fire earlyMonday, authorities said.
The fatality at the westbound state Route 54 ramp to northboundInterstate 805 was reported shortly after 2 a.m., according to theCalifornia Highway Patrol.
The woman was a passenger in a 2000 Honda Civic that wasspeeding and swerving, according to the San Diego County MedicalExaminer's Office. The CHP reported that the three seriouslyinjured parties were also passengers.
According to the Medical Examiner's Office, the Civic veered offthe ramp and struck a large Eucalyptus tree, then slowly caughtfire.
Firefighters pulled the woman from the burning car andpronounced her dead shortly after. The woman's name was withheldpending notification of family.
The ramp was closed until about 5:45 a.m.
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Intellectual Property Cases in India
Written by Avani Yadav
This article talks about meaning of intellectual property and also gives information about important intellectual property cases.
Intellectual Property Meaning
Property is corporal property and incorporeal property or tangible property and intangible property. Intellectual property meaning is a right pervading some material object. Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. The intangible products of a man's brain are as valuable as his land, building, goods, money, belongings etc. it is quite different from real property or a formal property. In fiction, it is a property. Therefore called as intellectual property. The rights relating to the intellectual property however recognized by law as the subject matter of rights of various intangible or immaterial products is human intelligence, skills and labor. In short intellectual property is basically a creation of intellect or relates to intellect. Intellectual property rights are legal rights which govern the use of creations of the human mind and work.
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) thus granted to the creators of IP, and include trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. Artistic works including music and literature, as well as discoveries, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, and designs can all protected as intellectual property.
Here are some some Intellectual Property cases which are as follows:-
Intellectual Property cases
Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Supreme Court of India AIR 2004 SC 3540
This is a very famous and landmark case where the Supreme Court of India decided on the issue of domain name protection for the first time in its history. This was the case wherein the apex court declared that the Indian Trade Marks Act, 1999 was applicable to the regulation of domain names as well.
Satyam Infoway (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) had registered several domain names pertaining to its business: sifynet.com, sifymall.com, sifyrealestate.com, in the year 1999. It held that the word "Sify" was a combination of elements of its corporate name "Satyam Infoway" and was a term that had garnered substantial goodwill in the market. Meanwhile, Sifynet Solutions (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) had started using the word "Siffy" as part of the domain names under which it carried on internet marketing (namely siffynet.com and siffynet.net). It claims to have registered the same in the year 2001.
Subsequently the appellant filed a suit in City Civil Court, Bangalore seeking an injunction against the respondent. The appellant held that the respondent had registered the similar sounding domain names intentionally in order to carry out their business transactions under the goodwill and brand name of the former. And that it would create a confusion in the minds of the public who would think that the services of Sifynet belongs to Satyam Infoway. The respondent contended that unlike a trade mark, the registration of a domain name did not confer an intellectual property right in the name.
The court ruled in favor of the appellant and granted the injunction in their favor. It held that the appellant was the prior user of the word 'Sify' as a result of which it enjoyed immense popularity and goodwill in relation to internet and other computer related services. Thereby, if the respondent is allowed to further continue with the use of the domain names it would in all likelihood create confusion in the minds of the public. And that it may in all possibility affect the business of the appellant.
Thereafter, the respondents appealed to the Karnataka High Court. The Court stated that respondent had already invested a considerably high amount of sum in developing a customer base for its business and it would consequently suffer immense hardship and irreparable injury if the court ruled in the appellant's favor. Further it held that the business which the parties engaged in were different and therefore there was no likelihood of any confusion in the minds of the public.
Not satisfied with the decision given by the Karnataka High Court, the appellants went for an appeal before the Supreme Court of India. The case was decided by a division bench comprising Justices Ruma Pal and P. Venkatarama Reddi. It set aside the decision of the High Court and ruled in favor of the appellants. It held that though no there was no law in India which explicitly deals with the domain names, it falls within the ambit of the Trade Marks Act. Then it further observed that a domain name enjoyed all features of a trademark. Accordingly it ruled that if the respondent was allowed to further continue using the domain names it would in all likelihood create a confusion in the minds of the general public. A user could be diverted to the website containing the unauthorized domain name. And upon his arrival at the website, if he does not find the goods or services associated with the mark, he might think that the legitimate owner was misrepresenting the claims. This would result in the loss for the legitimate owner, thereby affecting his goodwill and brand name.
Thus the apex court granted an injunction in favor of the appellants, thereby restraining the respondents from further using the domain names in their business transactions.
DM entertainment v Baby Gift House and ors. [MANU/DE/2043/2010]
Daler Mehndi, the most famous pop star hailing from Punjab has created a niche audience and is immensely popular amongst Punjabi-pop music lovers. The appellant company was incorporated in 1996 to manage the artist's escalating career. The crux of the case is that the defendants had prolific businesses in selling miniature toys of Daler Mehndi and majorly cashed on to his popularity. Majorly aggrieved, the plaintiff company filed for permanent injunction from infringing the artist's right of publicity and false endorsement leading to passing off.
The plaintiff company had been assigned all the rights, titles and interests in the personality of the artist along with the Trademark, Daler Mehndi. It was contended by the plaintiff that the unauthorized or unlicensed use of or any part of the reputation of the artist, with respect to goods or services of any manner will lead to make an impression on the public that the goods or services are associated with the singer. And hence, it was submitted that such a use would lead to passing off. It was further averred by the plaintiff that such use was done for commercial exploitation without adequate permission from the person or any other authorized by him, shall constitute infringement of the person's right to publicity.
Section 29 of the Trademark Act-1999 (hereinafter the Act) lays down the aspects of infringement of trademark. It elucidates that a when a person is using, in course of trade any mark, which is identical or deceptively similar to a registered mark and which he is not entitled or licensed to use shall be deemed to infringe onto the rights of the person who has the lawful right over the mark.
The Act does not give a specific description of passing off as a result it has been derived through judicial precedents drawn from common law. Put simply , passing off would occur when the mark is not only being used deceptively similar to the mark of another but it is being used to create confusion in the minds of the consumer that results in the damage or loss of business for the person or company who/which is the lawful owner of the trademark.
Character merchandising is an area of law which is unexplored in India. The first case that dealt with this was Star India Private Limited v Leo Burnett India (Pvt.) Ltd. The courts in India in these earlier cases, had not dealt with publicity rights. In this case the Court did so quite emphatically. The court meted out a compensatory amount to the tune of Rs. 1,00,000 to the Plaintiff. The intent of the judiciary is clear.
The Coca-Cola Company Vs. Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd [Manu/DE/2698/2009]
The Delhi High Court held that if the threat of infringement exists, then this court would certainly have jurisdiction to entertain the suit.
It was also held that the exporting of goods from a country is to be considered as sale within the country from where the goods are exported and the same amounts to infringement of trademark.
In the present matter, the defendant, Bisleri by a master agreement, had sold and assigned the trademark MAAZA including formulation rights, know-how, intellectual property rights, goodwill etc for India only with respect to a mango fruit drink known as MAAZA to Coca-Cola.
In 2008, the defendant filed an application for registration of the trade mark MAAZA in Turkey started exporting fruit drink under the trademark MAAZA. The defendant sent a legal notice repudiating the agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant, leading to the present case. The plaintiff, the Coca Cola Company also claimed permanent injunction and damages for infringement of trademark and passing off.
It was held by the court that the intention to use the trademark besides direct or indirect use of the trademark was sufficient to give jurisdiction to the court to decide on the issue. The court finally granted an interim injunction against the defendant (Bisleri) from using the trademark MAAZA in India as well as for export market, which was held to be infringement of trade mark.
John Richard Brady & Others. v. Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd, Delhi High Court AIR 1987 Delhi 372
This is a case concerning the legal principle of copyright infringement involving trade secrets and engineering. John Richard Brady (hereinafter referred to as Brady) was a Mechanical Engineer from the U.S and also the President and Managing Director of Fometa Overseas S.A. Castellana, Madrid, Spain. He conceived the idea of growing fresh green grass used as basic food for livestock in a compact unit capable of producing grass throughout the year irrespective of external climatic conditions. Thereafter in 1972 he developed the original Fodder Production Unit (hereinafter referred to as the FPU). After carrying out extensive research and experiments, he invented an improved Fodder Production Unit. He applied for grant of patent in India in relation to the FPU and his patent application was pending. Brady was the owner of copyright in the drawings of the FPU and was entitled to the exclusive right of publishing and reproducing the drawings whether two dimensionally or three dimensionally as he considered apt.
For these purposes Brady set up two companies in India: Fometa (India) Machine Private Ltd, a joint venture company and Sanjeevani Fodder Production Private Ltd. Accordingly he along with the members of the two companies decided that a phased programme should be adopted to manufacture the FPU in India for both domestic and export sales. For the manufacture of the FPU, the he sought quotations from Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd for the supply of thermal panels manufactured by it. The panels required were of highly specialized type and order. And to enable the company to manufacture the components of the FPU precisely, all the technical material, detailed know how, drawings and specifications concerning the FPU were passed on them under the express condition that it must maintain strict confidentiality regarding all the information given. Later, Brady discovered the inability of the company to supply the required thermal panels and cancelled all the orders given to them. It was alleged that Managing Director along with other representatives of the company made several visits to Goa where Brady's FPU was in operation in order to acquire the working know how and technology of the FPU. Some of these visits were without the knowledge of Brady who was later informed about them by his employees. Thereafter in November, 1985 he came to know that Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd was developing their own FPU by falsely representing that the innovation concerning the FPU was originated from them. The company described the Machine produced by them as 'pushti'. And a suit was filed in the Delhi High Court by Brady seeking for an injunction which would restrain Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd from manufacturing and selling machines that were substantial imitation and reproduction of the drawings of the former's FPU or from using in any other manner whatsoever the know-how, specifications, drawings and other technical information about the FPU disclosed to them by the former.
Brady contended that the Machine produced by the company was entirely based upon disclosures made them formerly and that they committed breach of confidence reposed in them. They wrongfully converted and misappropriated the know how information, drawings, designs, and specifications disclosed to them under strict confidentiality and have also infringed the his copyright by making the Machine in three dimensional form. He further contended that the Machine produced by the company was an inferior version of his own FPU. He claimed claim jurisdiction of this court to entertain and try the suit under Section 62(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957 on the ground that he has been carrying on his business along with the two companies he set, for profit and gain at Delhi and that the Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd have also been circulating pamphlets of the infringing Machine and offering it for sale at Delhi.
However, Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd contended that they have neither infringed copyright of Brady nor are they liable for breach of any confidence reposed on them. They denied that the technical Drawings of the FPU are artistic work, but they did not didn't oppose the fact that Brady was the owner of the copyrights in the Drawings. They further contended that there were other firms making such Machines in the international market for a long time, namely, LAND SAVERS and SOMERSET ZERO GRASS U.K. and DHANY A, India. And that the FPU was based on the long known theory of Hydroponic System. Hence they completely denied that Brady gave them any Drawings or technical material or know how concerning the FPU. They further questioned the territorial jurisdiction of this Court on the ground that Brady did not actually reside in Delhi nor does he carry on any business in Delhi and that they themselves do not reside or work in Delhi.
The case was decided by a Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising of Justice A B Saharya. He ruled that unless Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd was restrained by injunction, irreparable injury and loss would be caused to Brady and his establishments by the former if they continue to manufacture and sell their Machine. Further he laid down that it was in the interest of justice to restrain the company from using the know-how, specifications, drawings and other technical information regarding Brady's FPU entrusted to them under express condition of strict confidentiality.
Thus, the court restrained the Chemical Process Equipment Pvt. Ltd from manufacturing and selling machines that were substantial imitation and reproduction of the drawings of Brady's FPU or from using in any other manner whatsoever the know-how, specifications, drawings and other technical information about the FPU disclosed to them by Brady.
Colgate Palmolive Co. Ltd & Another. vs. Mr. Patel & Others., Delhi High Court 2005 PTC (31) 583
This is a case relating to the legal principle of infringement of a trademark. It was decided by a Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising of Justice M Mudgal.
Colgate Palmolive Co. Limited (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs) is a company that has been manufacturing and marketing dental products in India under the well-known trademark 'COLGATE' since 1937. The company undoubtedly is also an international leader in the trade of tooth paste and other dental related products. The plaintiffs registered their trademark in India in the year 1954. Since then they have always marketed their products in red cartons which had the word COLGATE inscribed in white on it. They used a particular font for printing the trademark on the cartons. Further they had even registered their label relating to colors in India in the year 1959. From then on they have been exclusively enjoying the ownership rights over the trademark 'COLGATE' and also the label containing the red and white colors inscribed on it.
In the year 2003 the plaintiffs came to know that Mr. Patel and his company(hereinafter referred to as the defendants) were using the plaintiff's COLGATE trade dress in the packaging of their products with relation to the layout and color combination of the cartons. The defendants used the word 'AJANTA' printed in white color in a red background in their cartons. Subsequently the plaintiffs filed a suit before the Delhi High Court seeking a permanent injunction against the defendants, thereby restraining them from using the trade dress that was similar in layout and appearance even though the names printed on the cartons were different. They contended that the defendants had infringed their trademark and copyrights. And further that they were indulging in unfair competition by trying to sell their products using the brand name of trademark COLGATE.
On the other hand, the defendants contended that there was nothing distinctive in the color combination of the plaintiff's container and that the plaintiff could not have a trademark in color combination. Further they claimed that the red and white label was common to the toothpaste trade.
The Honorable Judge observed that essential feature of the plaintiffs' mark was COLGATE inscribed in white color on a red background and not merely red and white color combination alone. He held that the printing of the word 'AJANTA' on the defendants' cartons in white color on a red background does not give rise to any infringement of the plaintiffs' trade dress. Also affirmed the contention of the defendants that red was a basic color and the red & white color combination is common to the tooth paste trade in the domestic as well as the international market. Hence there cannot be any monopolization of the same by any party. However, he finally held that the defendants were liable for trying to sell their products using the brand name of COLGATE since there was sufficient resemblance between the plaintiffs' and the defendants' product. Further the court ruled that if the defendant alters the packaging there would not arise any question of infringement of the copyright and trademark of the plaintiff. Accordingly the court ordered them to substitute gold for white color in the description of 'AJANTA' in their cartons.
Thus, the injunction application was disposed of by the court and the defendants were permitted to market their products provided they made the required alterations in their packaging of the products.
Bajaj Auto Limited Vs. TVS Motor Company Limited JT 2009 (12) SC 103
This case involved the controversy regarding the unauthorized application of the patent of the DTSi technology. The case became very vital regarding not only the financial stakes of the parties but also regarding the application of the doctrine of pith and marrow also termed as Doctrine of Equivalents.
This case was filed before the Madras High Court in 2007. The plaintiffs (Bajaj Auto Ltd), along with the state of Maharashtra alleged the defendants (T.V.S. Motor Company Ltd.) of infringement of the patents of the plaintiffs, which apprehended the invention of the technology of advanced internal combustion engine. The case engaged the questions of patent infringement by the defendant and the damages for the same. Furthermore, the case threw light upon the argument regarding justification of the risks issued by the defendant of the same case.
The plaintiffs sought remedy of permanent injunction for obstructing the defendants from using the technology or invention prescribed in the patents of the plaintiffs; and for obstructing them from marketing, selling offering for sale or exporting 2/3 wheelers (including the proposed 125cc TVS FLAME motorcycle) that consisted of the disputed internal combustion engine or product that infringed the patent. Damages for infringement of the patent were also claimed by the Plaintiffs.
The Supreme Court of India by this landmark judgement directed all the courts in India for speedy trial and disposal of intellectual property related cases. In this two-year-old dispute involving two companies, which had been locked in a patent dispute over the use of a twin-spark plug engine technology, the Supreme Court observed that suits relating to the matters of patents, trademarks and copyrights are pending for years and years and litigation is mainly fought between the parties about the temporary injunction. The Supreme Court directed that hearing in the intellectual property matters should proceed on day to day basis and the final judgment should be given normally within four months from the date of the filing of the suit. The Supreme Court further directed to all the courts and tribunals in the country to punctually and faithfully carry out the aforesaid orders.
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Metalock is an enhanced screen locker for the X11 windowing system.
It is best described as similar to the program slock, (and in fact, it is based on it) except that it has background image support, and several other features.
It is designed to be used with a background screen daemon, such as xidle.
It is written in C, and is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
Why write another screen locker, when xscreensaver already exists? I don't like the lock dialog in that program! (I don't like flat colors/like images, and there were some missing features in that program) Additionally, it is a very large program with complex code.
I have been frustrated with the visual limitations of the xscreensaver lock dialog for over a decade, in fact. I simply decided one weekend in early 2012 to address the problem, and it turned out to be trivial to write a similar program starting from the very simple and didactic code of slock. Such is the world of open source / free software, where many issues are resolved immediately, but there is always something that never gets fixed, no matter how many users dislike the status quo.
The author of xscreensaver presents a compelling argument which emphasizes his priority of security/reliability over toolkit support. I agree with the vast majority of what he says, except that I disagree on the importance of the lock dialog appearance. Since it is something that I see fairly often, I would like to have a lock dialog that is visually pleasing.
I believe that with a little work, metalock can be brought to that standard of reliability without being hideously ugly. Metalock is a very small program, and is unlikely to get particularly large in the near future.
Current features include:
Support for pixmap (image) xpm background and login box.
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Wow! You really look prettier after the DEL surgery! Congrats!
Your friends must have said so too? Was any of them not able to recognise you?
How much did you pay for the surgery + medicine etc?
Thanks babyangel11! They are able to recognise me and but all said that i look very different due to my bigger eyes.
Right now, i cannot wait to start on the application of scar removal cream to reduce the appearance of the mini scar on my eyelids..
Wow! The rates are cheap n good results too!
How long is the mini scar on your eyelid? It should be very short, right?
The scar is about 0.5cm.. I can easily cover it with concealer so not really visible..
Dr Chen told me that after one month, swelling will go down by 70-80%... Now it's a month post surgery and the swelling has gone by down 80%.. I can start using the scar removal cream tonight.. Once swelling goes down totally, crease will decrease in height too.. Many people who don't know me cannot tell that i went for surgery.. hahaha..
hi everybody. i am noe in taiwan and i did my rhino with dr kao ytd.
The operation was done in less than two hours. I shaved a bump n got a tip plasty.
after i was wheeled out i rest for abt 30min nmake my way to ng ning to res.my nose kept bleeding n while i was slpingwith my head elevated blood was flowing down..my nose looks very swollen n tall now..waiting for the swelling to subside.
Thanks for sharing trilogytwist! Wishing you the best in the recovery stages!
As soon as you can, if you would, please tell us about your experience and interactions with Dr. Kao and if you could please share some b/a photos!!
Oh Dear,hope u will have a speedy recovery, do monitor bleeding.. Sec day should be much better.All the best to ur result ya!
trilogytwist wrote: hi everybody. i am noe in taiwan and i did my rhino with dr kao ytd.
thank u all for the well wishes. my bleeding today is minimal and my gauze and splint is full of blood n my dried blood in my nose as well. i do not dare to clean my nose as today is only the second day. Nose feels super stuffy.
i am flying off next Friday and i hope i can deswell until i am able to face the public!
Will you be sharing some pics in a few days?
am notbsure whether i will be comfortable sharing picture of my nose.
till now i am beginning to regret gg for this surgery.maybe because i am alone and looking in the mirror is depressing.
wondering why did i go thru all this....zzzz.
Did my surgery on friday night and gg for a follow up with dr kao on tue.at tri hospital..
cannot even think of stepping out my room nt to say gg all the way to another hospital.
my nose is all bloody n i havr no instruction on hw to clean my nose!!!
trilogytwist wrote: am notbsure whether i will be comfortable sharing picture of my nose.
although I've never done rhinoplasty before, cant give u advice on how to take care of your nose, I did p.s alone before and I understand how you are feeling.
Please relax, calm down, and dont keep looking at the mirror.
You may be alone at the moment but your friends and family are all waiting for you back in Singapore.
Watch tv, read magazines whatever..just keep yourself occupied.
Keep telling yourself it will all be fine.
Felt exactly the same too. I was scared and worried the first few weeks after my nose surgery.
which surgeon did you go to?
And what procedures did you do?
but can you tell us in detail about your experience with dr kao?
5 days passed. How's your recovery progress?
I'm planning to have my eyelids and nose surgery done in Taiwan. Problem is, I'm considering 2 different doctors at the same time.
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Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident at a house in Colley End Park in Paignton after the victim returned home from shopping at around 11am on Wednesday August 16.
DC Dixie Dean said: "Two unknown men called at the door of the victim ten minutes after he had returned home from being out shopping.
"The men advised that they believed he had a roof leak as they had been working at a neighbouring property when they spotted the leak and that a roof tile may have slipped onto the victim's roof blocking the gutter causing the water to back up into his bathroom.
"One of the men took the victim up to his bathroom and left him there whilst they went out into his back garden in order to look up at his roof. After about ten minutes the victim realised that the two men had not made their way into his back garden and made his way downstairs to his front lounge and noticed that £500 cash had been taken from his wallet on the coffee table.
"The two men are described as white, in their mid-20s with short dark hair. One man was of a larger build with a tanned complexion. The other man was wearing a white top which had some wording in bold letters on the reverse with the word 'Valley' on it.
"No vehicles were seen and the victim's neighbours had not had any builders working for them. We believe the suspects specifically targeted the victim after spotting him walking home and followed him either on foot or in a vehicle.
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Various connectors have been used for smaller devices such as PDAs, mobile phones or digital cameras. These include the now-deprecated (but standardized) Mini-A and the currently standard Mini-B, Micro-A, and Micro-B connectors. The Mini-A and Mini-B plugs are approximately 3 by 7 mm.
The micro-USB plugs have a similar width but approximately half the thickness, enabling their integration into thinner portable devices. The micro-A connector is 6.85 by 1.8 mm with a maximum overmold size of 11.7 by 8.5 mm. The micro-B connector is 6.85 by 1.8 mm with a maximum overmold size of 10.6 by 8.5 mm.
The Micro-USB connector was announced by the USB-IF on January 4, 2007. The Mini-A connector and the Mini-AB receptacle connector were deprecated on May 23, 2007. As of February 2009, many currently available devices and cables still use Mini plugs, but the newer Micro connectors are being widely adopted and as of December 2010, the Micro connectors are the most widely used. The thinner micro connectors are intended to replace the Mini plugs in new devices including smartphones and personal digital assistants. The Micro plug design is rated for at least 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles which is significantly more than the Mini plug design. The Universal Serial Bus Micro-USB Cables and Connectors Specification details the mechanical characteristics of Micro-A plugs, Micro-AB receptacles, and Micro-B plugs and receptacles, along with a Standard-A receptacle to Micro-A plug adapter.
The cellular phone carrier group, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) in 2007 have endorsed Micro-USB as the standard connector for data and power on mobile devices. These include various types of battery chargers, allowing Micro-USB to be the single external cable link needed by some devices.
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Share your expertise with an audience of over 350 professionals, students and digital health leaders.
Apps for Health, one of Ontario's premier information-sharing, networking and recruiting event for the global digital health industry, is seeking speakers to share new initiatives, new technology and discuss the latest trends and best practices in digital health at the April 28 conference.
· Patient Engagement, including virtual patient communities, engagement design and outreach, health literacy and patient education design and other related.
· Big Data, including uses of unstructured clinical data, clinical references and publications, genomic data, web and social data and other related topics.
· Global mHealth including mHealth at scale, mHealth in low resource countries, wearable devices and quantified self, connected home health, machine to machine communication and other related topics.
Healthcare practitioners, IT professionals and entrepreneurs are invited to respond to the call by completing the online application, available at http://apps4health.ca/index.php/schedule/call_for_speakers/.
Speaker opportunities are available on one of our 12 panels and speakers may apply for solo presentations or for group presentations.
Space is limited, so please submit your application by February 5, 2016. All speakers will receive two complimentary conference registrations.
Apps for Health will be held in Hamilton, Ontario on April 28, 2016. The conference is organized by Mohawk College's mHealth and eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC – www.mohawkmedic.org) attracts over 350 attendees each year, bringing together clinicians, IT professionals, policy makers, researchers and educators.
To learn more about Apps for Health visit www.apps4health.ca. Email questions to appsforhealth@mohawkcollege.ca.
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NEW YORK; March 31, 2008 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will begin accepting applications for its annual Community College Scholarship program tomorrow, April 1. Up to 10 scholarships of $5,000 each will be awarded in June to graduates of community colleges and other two-year programs seeking a bachelor's degree in business or high technology at a four-year institution. The scholarships will be applicable for study during the 2008-2009 school year and will be renewable for up to one year or until a bachelor's degree is earned.
Each student will receive a $5,000 scholarship for the coming school year and will be eligible for an additional $5,000 for another year or until they earn a bachelor's degree.
Applications and detailed information on the scholarship program, including eligibility requirements, can be attained at Accenture Community College Scholarship. To enter the site, use Sponsor ID: 9916 and Security Code: Accenture08. Applications must be received by May 1, 2008.
Accenture launched the scholarship program last year to encourage graduates of community colleges to continue their education and to show its commitment to strengthening education in the United States and building a more competitive U.S. workforce. This year, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Scholarship & Recognition Programs (SRP) will provide design and management services for the Community College Scholarship program. Utilizing the ETS core competencies in assessment and research, SRP provides scholarship program support for corporations, foundations, labor unions and other fraternal and philanthropic organizations.
Be seeking degrees and careers in the high technology and business fields.
U.S. Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Ranking Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said, "California has a robust community college system that provides young people with great opportunities for entering the higher education system. I am excited that the business community is stepping up to encourage students to use community college as a stepping stone to achieve a bachelor's degree. Meeting the challenges of the 21st century will require Americans to be more educated than ever before. Community colleges are integral to America's ability to ensure that everyone who wants a higher education can get one. On that basis, I applaud Accenture's scholarship program."
To receive more information about Accenture Community College Scholarship please contact ETS Scholarship & Recognition Programs e-mail srp-csr@ets.org or call 609-771-7878.
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'Cabbage Subzi' is a delicious way to make the everyone to eat cabbage. According to Wikipedia, cabbage has beta-carotene, Vitamin C, and Fiber.
It also adds "cabbage is a source of indole-3-carbinol, a chemical that boosts DNA repair in cells and appears to block the growth of cancer cells." So, it is a best practice to include cabbage in our diet very often. This cabbage sabzi is the best combo for roti / chapathi.
You may also check other perfect sides dishes like Paneer Mutter Masala, Parota Chalna, bitter guard stir fry where parota chalna is the street food served as a spicy side dish for parottas.
'Cabbage Subzi' is a delicious way to make the everyone to eat cabbage. According to Wikipedia, cabbage has beta-carotene, Vitamin C, and Fiber.
Shred cabbage, onion, tomato, ginger, garlic.
Add oil to the pan followed by fennel seeds and fry till it becomes golden brown.
Add onion, tomatoes followed by ginger garlic till it becomes thick pulp.
Now add salt, turmeric powder, chili powder, dhania powder, and garam masala powder. Mix them well to get the cabbage coated with masalas. Cover the pan with the lid and simmer the flame. By stirring occasionally cook it till cabbage becomes soft and tender.
Serve the Cabbage Subzi hot with roti..
Do not forget to check out the basic recipe for making Roties, here in PepperBowl.
1. Add green peas and grated carrots if you are looking for little variation.
2. And few drops of lemon juice to add the little zing to the recipe.
Serve it with roti, parathas along with a chili powder drizzled a cup of curd.
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package org.keycloak.models.map.user;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.UUID;
public class MapUserEntity extends AbstractUserEntity<UUID> {
public static final Comparator<MapUserEntity> COMPARE_BY_USERNAME = Comparator.comparing(MapUserEntity::getUsername, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
protected MapUserEntity() {
super();
}
public MapUserEntity(UUID id, String realmId) {
super(id, realmId);
}
}
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News: Marine Fenders
Evaluation of Wave Disturbance Study Results
The design of a port is primarily aimed to provide suitable berthing conditions for the ships. Each ship or craft, depending on its size and
Planning Study for the new cargo port in Naxos Island - Conceptual Design
CNWAY and its Associates have successfully completed the Planning Study for the new Cargo Port in Naxos Island as well as the Conceptual Design of
Small Port Facilities in Karystos - Evia Island
CNWAY and its Associates have successfully completed the study of a small port in Karystos of Evia Island on behalf of the firm "Blue Farm
Marine Fenders provide the necessary interface between the berthing ship and the berth structure and therefore the principal function of the fender is to transform the impact load from the berthing ship into reactions, which both the ship and berth structure can safely sustain (Carl A. Thoressen).
Photo1: Pneumatic marine fenders in use for cruise ship berthing at Rhodes cruise terminal (Rhodes Island - 2012)
Marine fenders typically operate as a group of single units where the type, location and density of their installation or deployment depends on several factors including their technical specifications, berth structure, ship type, etc. (see Photo 1).
The basic function of the marine fenders is to manage the excess kinetic energy of the ship during the approach or berthing operation preventing damage to occur in both the ship and the berth. In case of elastomeric fenders the excess kinetic energy is stored within the elastic elements, which are deformed by developing a counter parallel (to the motion of the ship) reaction force, which results in slowing down the vessel and keeping it to a safe distance from the quay.
The effectiveness of the fender system depends on the following three basic parameters:
The correct system design (selection of suitable fender types and optimum arrangement),
System operation according to the manufacture specifications,
Regular inspection and system maintenance.
The fendering system design is a specialized study which is sometimes omitted or incorrectly performed with the result that money is wasted for the supply of systems which are often unsuitable for the intended use (See photos 2.3 and 4).
Photo 2. V type fender system (Buckling type) with contact plate which does not correspond to the intended needs of the berthed vessel, resulting in the need to suspend used vehicle tires on the contact plate to reduce system rigidity (Port of Sοuda, Adrias Pier – Crete Island - 2011)
Photo 3. As above
Photo 4. Improper selection and installation of fender type resulting in an inefficient operation of the system and the failure of its anchoring (Port of Poros Island - 2014)
Photo 5. Installation of two different V- type fenders in short distance with different technical specifications and controversial operation efficiency (Port of Rhodes Island - 2012)
The successful design of a fender system should follow the following basic steps (PIANC 2002):
Determination of system requirements,
Determination of operating characteristics,
Assessment of the berth type where the system will be installed,
Assessment of design parameters,
Calculation of impact energy which will be received by the fender system (either during berthing or loading and unloading operations),
Appropriate system selection, according to the total energy absorption requirements and system design criteria,
Assessment of the reaction force and the associated frictional forces between fender and vessel,
Berthing vessel resistance capacity check to reaction force generated by the selected fender system.
The correct calculation of the design impact energy is particularly important because the selection of a suitable fender system will be based on that, while generally the principle «the Bigger the Better» does not apply. In fact the fender which has greater energy absorption than that required considering the design ship and the conditions of impact is more rigid developing greater reaction force and exerting inevitably greater pressure on the contact surface with the ship. These fenders require the application of a "larger impact force" to operate which may ultimately cause permanent deformation to the ships metal surfaces if the reaction force is greater than that of metal surface strength. Therefore, instead the impact energy being absorbed and converted to manageable reaction force solely by the fenders, in the case of a "harder" fender that greater force will deform the metallic surface of the vessel as well, causing damage to it.
On the other hand the under sizing of a fender system will cause its failure with adverse consequences to the berth and the vessel.
In many Greek ports improvised questionable quality and efficiency fender systems are used (see fig. 6 and 7) without specifications. In photo 7 a fender system made by used rubber tires can be seen suspended from a quay wall that has experienced damage from its insufficient operation.
Photo 6. Suspended used rubber track tires as marine fenders in a quay wall (Port of Naxos Island - 2010)
Photo 7. Old tires of vehicles with a chain suspended from a vertical quay wall that has experienced damage from its insufficient operation (Port of Souda, Crete Island - 2011)
Finally, equally important is the annual inspection of the fender system for damage. The inspection should be performed by experienced engineers so as to maintain the system in working condition and within the design specifications. In order to prolong the useful life of a system, any damage must be repaired according to product specifications and without altering its functional characteristics.
Photo 8. In the photo is shown a V type fender with contact panel and shear chains with failed anchor system after ship collision (Port of Souda, Crete Island- 2011)
Marine fenders are considered standard equipment for a berth and their effective operation can prevent significant damage to ships and infrastructure. The maintenance cost savings for a marine facility equipped with a well-functioning fendering system is significant and exceeds the purchase, installation and maintenance cost, provided of course that the system design is supported by a comprehensive study.
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☰ Contents
Policy Questions
Where is Europe headed towards in 2050? What is the role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)? What is the role of import dependency in Europe? What will the role of electrification be in the transport sector? What is the future of hydrogen in the EU? What are the costs and gains of current policies?
As part of the PARIS REINFORCE research project, a regional workshop took place on November 21, 2019, in Brussels, Belgium For the co-production of research underpinning new climate policy in Europe. Stakeholders were invited based on their displayed participation or interest in previous European climate policy events, resulting in a sample of over 800 invitations. During the workshop, high-level staff of the EC directorates-general (DGs) for energy, climate and research, ministries and climate-related governmental bodies from EU Member States, international organisations, business representatives, and scientists participated.
The consultation, along with an open crowd-sourcing process carried out via an online polling platform 24 h before the event, resulted in a list of 22 topics, which were broken down into 3 thematic groups.
57 individuals attended the workshop physically, although the event was also livestreamed to allow as large and diversified an audience as possible.
Given the range of proposed questions, participants were given the option to vote (via sli.do1) on and prioritise which questions they would be most interested in discussing. After topic selection, the floor was open for discussion between chairs and audience. Chairs spent 1–2 min introducing the discussion on each topic, and then stakeholders were able to raise any points or questions they had over the proposed research areas. Following the discussion, sli.do voting again allowed stakeholders to vote according to how relevant they see it for the project to follow up on and conduct research in each topic. The process is illustrated below.
Use the arrows to see the process step by step
Where is Europe headed towards in 2050?
From 1990 to 2015, annual CO2 emissions in the EU have decreased an average of 0.9% per year.
Between 2020 and 2030, models project a reduction of CO2 emissions reaching in 2030 -33% to -45% of CO2 emissions compared to 1990.
GHG emissions reduction in 2030 will range between −39% and −51%, compared to 1990 levels.
These figures are insufficient to comply with the new EU Green Deal objective of a 55% GHG reduction target.
These figures show the EU will reach the former −40% milestone, but not yet the new EU Green Deal objective of a 55% GHG reduction target.
In 2050, the median EU CO2 emissions are about 2.1 Gt, with a broad range of about 1.0–2.35 Gt, representing a CO2 emissions drop of −43% to −76% compared to 1990.
Total CO2 emissions
(in the EU across models until 2050)
The chart will present the total CO2 emissions from energy in the EU across models until 2050.
PR_CurPol_CP: Current policies evolving with GDP per capita growth (E3ME, GCAM, Gemini-E3, ICES, MUSE, TIAM)
PR_CurPol_EI: Current policies evolving with 2020-2030 GDP reduction rate (42)
PR_NDC_CP: NDCs evolving with GDP per capita growth (EU-TIMES, NEMESIS)
Variability between models comes from the different mitigation options available, key technologies (e.g. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)), markets and national policies.
When looking into sectors, PR's EU model ensemble results indicate that:
Energy supply is the largest contributor of emissions cuts between 2020 and 2050 in almost all models (with an average of 47%).
On the contrary, median decarbonisation rates in industry (42%), buildings (30%) and transport (32%) differ significantly across models, with industrial CO2 emissions displaying the largest variability.
The two sector-specific models, FORECAST (buildings and industry) and ALADIN (transport) show significant emissions cuts in their sectors, compared to other models.
Energy CO2 emissions
(by sector)
Use the scrollbar bellow to change the timeframe of the chart
The chart will present the energy CO2 emissions by sector in the EU across models for 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Different columns in the same time period represent different models and their results for the CO2 emissions.
What is the role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)?
In the policy domain and among specific technologies used in modelling scenarios, CCS is considered a possible option for reducing CO2 emissions, particularly from hard-to-decarbonise sectors, like heavy industries and energy transformation.
However, there are still important barriers, that hinder the large-scale development of these technologies. As seen in the following graph, global, drastic emissions reduction currently depend significantly on these technologies mainly post-2040, although to different extents for each model.
On average, contribution of Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in these models represents approximately 50% of captured CO2 in 2030 and 56% in 2050.
CO2 captured by CCS
Please select among the available models.
E3ME EU-TIMES GCAM MUSE NEMESIS TIAM Gemini-E3
The chart will present the CO2 captured by CCS by sector for 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Limited role of the technology in GEMINI-E3 and NEMESIS reflecting limited decarbonisation resulting from current policy efforts and GEMINI-E3 due to less detailed representation of the technology in power generation).
E3ME and EU-TIMES show a lower rate of CCS penetration in electricity generation.
Global, technology-rich models TIAM, GCAM and MUSE deliver high capture rates.
Different and more ambitious policy efforts may completely change the role of CCS in the longer run.
CCS is a critical factor and game-changing enabler of the deep decarbonisation foreseen, but it becomes so only upon hitting high decarbonisation levels (40–60%).
against CO2 reduction levels
(since 1990, based on European Environmental Agency, 2019)
The chart will present the CO2 captured by CCS against CO2 reduction levels (since 1990, based on European Environmental Agency, 2019).
Our results justify stakeholders' concerns over the potential failure of CCS as a game changer in the EU energy system. We see that, without setting in motion actions to deliver on the EU's increased climate ambitions, as reflected in its December 2020 NDC and broader mid-century vision for climate neutrality, CCS deployment is critical to achieving deep emissions cuts and eventually nearing climate targets. Our results should be interpreted alongside the adopted scenario framework; different policy efforts may completely change the role of CCS even in the longer run.
What is the role of import dependency in Europe?
Currently the EU is a net importer of fossil fuels, but reducing emissions and a transition to renewables will allow the EU to become less reliant on import dependency.
Some Member States have acknowledged the importance of improving energy efficiency, reducing overall gross inland consumption while also targeting more ambitious policies toward increasing domestic renewables.
Imported fuels
(until 2050)
Please select among the available imported fuels.
Coal Gas Oil
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The chart will present the imported fuels until 2050 under current policy efforts.
A reduction in coal and oil imports is also expected in 2050, but model results differ regarding the future of gas imports. Gas imports increase in EU-TIMES and GEMINI-E3, while in TIAM tends to reduce in the long run but retain some important role in the transition.
Import dependency
(in relation to CO2 emissions reduction levels)
The chart will present the import dependency in relation to CO2 emissions reduction levels (since 1990, based on European Environmental Agency, 2019).
In TIAM, import dependency decreases in time, in line with the higher decarbonisation efforts compared to the other two models, thereby attesting to future low-carbon energy systems relying less and less on imports, substituted primarily by energy savings and domestic energy resources.
What will the role of electrification be in the transport sector?
EU transport sector electrification
The chart will present the EU transport sector electrification in relation to CO2 emissions reduction levels (since 1990, based on European Environmental Agency, 2019.
All models illustrate increasing electrification through decarbonization, though at differing rates.
Sectoral models, delving deeper into the energy system, indicate that a 39% decrease in CO2 emissions is expected compared to 1990 values due to the electrification in the transport sector.
Both in Europe and globally, the transport sector plays a critical role in transition.
Global transport emissions have been increasing, making up a quarter of direct CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. In the EU, although transport emissions have stabilised after steady growth until 2007, they still make up 29.6% of total direct CO2 emissions from fuel combustion.
Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered a valuable option to reduce direct emissions and energy intensity of road mode, and their deployment is steeply growing.
(in final energy consumption until 2050)
The chart will present the EU transport sector electrification in final energy consumption in 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Different columns in the same time period represent different models and their results for energy consumption in the transport sector.
What is the future of hydrogen in the EU?
In a low-carbon future, hydrogen is generally expected to grow in order to sustain the decarbonisation of hard-to-electrify demand sectors, like heavy-duty transportation, navigation, aviation, and energy-intensive industries, or used for energy storage sustaining the uptake of large renewable energy shares (RES) in the power sector.
Hydrogen can be produced through a variety of processes and its manufacturing can be energy-intensive and associated with a wide range of emissions, depending on the technology used.
Generally hydrogen production can be divided into fossils based or renewables based.
Brown hydrogen is produced via coal gasification, grey hydrogen is from natural gas, blue hydrogen uses CCS technologies for the greenhouse gases produced via grey hydrogen and green hydrogen production uses renewable energy.
For a more detailed analysis on Hydrogen Production see the European Commission's communication.
Hydrogen production capacities
(by fuel type)
The chart will present the hydrogen production capacities by fuel type foreseen by three IAMS in 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Different columns in the same time period represent different models and their results for hydrogen production.
Most hydrogen production in 2030 is expected to be grey. By 2050, models show conversion to blue hydrogen, underpinning the increase of natural gas in the energy system with reliance on CCS technologies.
These findings indicate that current policies are not enough to drive a complete change from grey to green hydrogen in EU by 2050.
Hydrogen/ electricity comparison
(in final transport and industry demand)
The chart will present he hydrogen production compared to electricity in final industry demand.
Different columns in the same time period represent different models and their results for hydrogen/ electricity comparison in industry demand.
In industry, future scenarios based on current policies also indicate that the share of hydrogen in total final energy demand is negligible in comparison to the role of electricity, estimated at around 1% of total sector consumption in 2030 and 3.5% in 2050.
The chart will present he hydrogen production compared to electricity in final transport.
Different columns in the same time period represent different models and their results for hydrogen/ electricity comparison in transport demand.
In transport, only TIAM shows important hydrogen deployment, delivering 7% of total consumption in 2030 and 17% in 2050. In all other models, hydrogen remains a niche technology achieving in 2050 an average of 0.7% of consumption.
What are the costs and gains of current policies?
Extrapolating into the future
GDP projections are different across model results due to model characteristics and logic.
The two global computable general equilibrium (CGE) models (GEMINI-E3 and ICES) show negative GDP impacts of current policy efforts, relative to their no policy scenario.
The two macroeconometric models, on the other hand, display different behaviour: NEMESIS shows negligible GDP impacts, while E3ME projects positive impacts on GDP.
Both NEMESIS and E3ME models reveal positive impact of a long-term projection of current policy efforts on total employment.
Despite differences in the levels of investments overall, top-down macroeconomic models (GEMINI-E3, NEMESIS, E3ME) show moderate changes between 2020 and 2050. On the other hand, the technology-richer models (EU-TIMES, GCAM) project an acceleration of European investments in the power sector from 2020 to 2050, with both models showcasing a 2.5-fold increase.
The I2AM PARIS platform has been developed within the framework of the PARIS REINFORCE project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 820846.
The platform is further supported by the H2020 projects NDC ASPECTS and ENCLUDE and the Horizon Europe projects IAM COMPACT and DIAMOND, under grant agreements No. 101003866, 101022791, 101056306, and 101081179 respectively.
The content of this page is for information purposes only. The European Commission and CINEA do not accept responsibility for any use made of the information contained therein.
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Keep hackers out of business wired networks and wireless networks in Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills, with ABComputer Repair's comprehensive computer security. Our team of certified computer repair technicians will implement an affordable computer security solution for your business. Businesses need to secure their data in Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills. You and your clients personal information maybe at risk to many types of internet attacks. Call us and learn how to secure your businesses data today.
Malicious hackers attacked Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) India online retail store on Sunday evening, publishing obscured screenshots that appeared to contain personal user information.
A Chinese hacker group known as "Evil Shadow Team" took responsibility for the breach, posting a message on Microsoft's website stating that the "unsafe system will be baptized." In what seemed to be a warning against Microsoft's unencrypted user information, the group posted screenshots of what appeared to be partially obscured user information, including login IDs and passwords.
The group apparently found that information in plain-text, as opposed to encrypted files.
The hackers refrained from publishing any screen shots that fully gave away user information, but Microsoft and Quasar Media, the Indian company that runs the retail site, advised users that they should change their log-on immediately. Keep hackers out of business wired networks and wireless networks in Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills, with ABComputer Repair's comprehensive computer security. Our team of certified computer repair technicians will implement an affordable computer security solution for your business.
As of Tuesday morning in the U.S., the breached site was still down. Microsoft did not respond to our requests for comment.
Microsoft joins a growing group of large companies that have been forced to deal with recent security breaches from relatively small, under-the-radar groups of hackers.
"When the CIA and FBI networks are compromised at will, it should surprise no one that a company like Microsoft could have an isolated part of its sprawling network compromised," Larry Walsh, president of the 2112 Group, told TechNewsWorld..
Powerful networks and international government agencies are seeing a rise in cyberattacks in response to unpopular decisions, such as the U.S. government's recent crackdown on sites such as Megaupload and illegal file-sharing. Networks have been compromised by groups such as Anonymous, which state they're using hacktivism to spread a political or social message. Keep hackers out of business wired networks and wireless networks in Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills, with ABComputer Repair's comprehensive computer security. Our team of certified computer repair technicians will implement an affordable computer security solution for your business.
In addition to attacks in protest or the promotion of causes, though, retail and e-commerce sites have been taking more hits lately as well.
The hacking group LulzSec got into Sony's (NYSE: SNE) systems last summer, obtaining users' personal information such as e-mail addresses, birthdates and passwords. The incident wreaked havoc with Sony's online services for weeks while it scrambled to plug the holes.
"While some hacking methods are questionable and in fact illegal, they do reveal the insecurity of our digital world," said Walsh.
Taking the necessary precautions to avoid that insecurity is an absolute necessity in today's climate, according to Mike Lloyd, CTO of RedSeal Networks.
"To prevent this, likely targets need to use automation to understand weaknesses; today, it's all too easy for those who feel like it is to use their own automation tools to deface, degrade or even destroy online infrastructure," said Lloyd.
Although Microsoft's U.S. security policies might have included encrypting data, a site run by a company on an entirely different continent might not adhere to the same policy.
The growing threat of cyberattacks and increasingly vulnerable commerce sites need to serve as a warning to consumers about thinking twice before sending highly personal data online.
"The important thing to remember in all of this is there's no such thing as 100 percent secure. Every site is vulnerable, just as your home is vulnerable to burglary. You can lock your windows and doors; you can even have an alarm system. But if someone wants into your house and they are determined, they will find a way in. It's the same with every website and online application," said Walsh.Keep hackers out of business wired networks and wireless networks in Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Agoura Hills, with ABComputer Repair's comprehensive computer security. Our team of certified computer repair technicians will implement an affordable computer security solution for your business.
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Hackteria is a highly interdisciplinary multicultural group of artists, hackers and scientists who work and share their knowledge on DIY biology, generic lab infrastructure and garage science. Following the 6 day Retreat in L'ARC, Romainmotier - the second annual international HackteriaLab - Hackteria invites the public to participate in two days of workshops, presentations and discussions around various aspects of art and science practice. This weekend program will serve to conclude, communicate and reflect on the work and developments which have come about through our collaborative experiments over the last week.
Entrance free to all events. No advance inscription necessary for workshops, places will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Workshop activities are suitable for all age groups. Kids definitely welcome.
Display of objects, artefacts, prototypes and systems made during the HackteriaLab in Romainmotier.
DIY Video Microscopy day 1. Conversion of USB webcams into video microscopes.
Julian 'Togar' Abraham from Indonesia (Muhammad Hidayat) is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher.
Brian Degger is an interdisciplinary biologist and creative from Australia based in Newcastle .
Antti Tenetz is a visual artist. His works are at the crossroads of media - bio and urban arts, Sci/Art, nature, documentary and interactive spaces.
Monica Bello Bugallo is artistic director of VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards founded in 1999 by Fundacion Telefonica (Madrid, Spain).
Andy Gracie, London -1967, is an artist working between various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practice.
From Ethics of Collaboration to Workshopology. Chaired by Yashas Shetty (IN) with various HackteriaLab participants.
Yashas Shetty is an artist and composer based in Bangalore, India. He is currently an artist in residence at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore and faculty at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems.
Ivan Henriques is a Brazilian artist and independent researcher working in multimedia and site-specific installations.
Aurelio Lucchesi (CH) During the last two years, he has been developing small games and an audio synthesis tool (called ES/executable sound). He is broadly interested, in new media culture, people doing free-form technology and nature.
Sachiko Hirosue works as a researcher at the interface of biomaterials and lymphatic physiology in the Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Artist working with DIY scientific practice focussed on the interface between the organic and the synthetic.
Currently an Artist in Residence and faculty at the Centre For Experimental Media Arts at Srishti in Bangalore and an artist in residence the National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore. His practice explores working between various disciplines including installation, sound, software and biotechnology.
Has a Phd in molecular biology and is beginning to explore the hybrid territory offered by arts and science practice. Currently collaborates with Maja Smerkar on the creation of a communication portal between humans and rats.
An intermedia artist from Ljubljana with an MA at the New Media and Video Department of the Fine Art Academy in Ljubljana. Her main interest is based at the fenomenology of perception which she first started researching through space by composing live video among various collaborations in performative sound/visual projects with other artists.
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Recently graduated from Bergen national academy of the arts and has been working on his own projects, with other peoples art, and also as a gallery technician. He is currently working on a project that stages a 20,000 year race between 2 mountains.
Is equal parts artist and naturalist. His works are at the crossroads of media-,bio- and urban arts, Sci/Art, nature, documentary, installations and EcoArt. Tenetz has contributed multimedia and documentaries to science exhibitions ranging in subject from arctic reindeer herders to glacial movements. The work he is doing about the wild nature goes far beyond all the usual clichés and the "green-hype" movement.
Works as a researcher at the institut für neuroinformatik , i do performances with the projectorband kunstundmusikmitdemtageslichtprojektor , with derstrudel i teach workshops at the edge of science and art and i create installations that are self-sustained habitats with autonomous robots .
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Her daily activities are at EPFL, making nanoparticles for vaccine applications and thinking about lymphatic drainage, always inspired by microorganisms - a bit of chemistry, a bit of molecular biology, a bit of pharmaceutical formulations, imaging, cell and animal work.
and the internet of things .
Has been working for the last few years in art/science from a curatorial perspective. I was at certain point very involved in the bioart scene, setting up several events in collaboration with university, cultural centres, etc. She is currently artistic director of VIDA (www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida) . Previously she spent almost 3 years running the educational programme of Laboral in Gijón-Spain (www.laboralcentrodearte.org ).
Since 1981he has been working in the fields of art, nature and environment, which some today call ECOART. His work involves concepts of cross-disciplinary ecological arts and talking about ongoing architectural sculpture projects ?Self-decomposing Laboratories for cleaning-up PCB contaminated soil by Oyster mushrooms", developed since 1994.
Is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher. Since 2006 he has been an active member of HONF. Through his involvement with HONF Abraham gained new ideas and experiences about how art, the environment, science and technology relate to one another - providing new tools to educate and engage both him and the society into a wiser, richer and more independent living being in a world of creation and annihilation.
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During the last two years, he has been developing small games and an audio synthesis tool (called ES/executable sound), bedroom style, among other minor projects. He is broadly interested, in new media culture, people doing free-form technology and nature.
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Is involved in various projects at the interface of science & technology and culture/society. With his backround as a material scientist, and scientific research in the field of BioInterfaces, Micro- and Nanosystems for tissue culture and biosensors, he has already been involved in interdisciplinary projects, bringing together people from biology and engineering, developing research devices, so simple that even biologists can use them.
In the past few years he has been developing new ways of communication with other living organisms in his works. He is a visual artist graduated in sculpture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and finally concluded my MA in ArtScience Interfaculty in the Netherlands last month.
Is a scientist, with a PhD in biotechnology. He has been involved in a lot of art science collaborationsand is also part of the antipodean art/science/technology diaspora, growing up in Adelaide, a city with a Mediterranean climate and a supprisingly active arts scene.
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Missing Niobrara Woman Alive, Now In Police Custody
A Niobrara woman missing since Sept. 25 has been found alive.
Boyd County Sheriff Chuck Wrede confirmed Thursday night that 37-year old Amy Heiser has been arrested and is now in custody of law enforcement. More details on the arrest will be released Friday.
A press release issued shortly after disappearance stated that the sheriff's office located her black 2000 GMC Yukon Denali at the public landing of Sunshine Bottom on the Missouri River on September 26 at approximately 12:30 p.m. Heiser was not found near the vehicle, but the sheriff's office says that items obtained in the vehicle lead authorities to believe she may have gone into the river.
The Boyd County Sheriff's Office then contacted numerous other agencies to assist in the search for Heiser, including the Nebraska State Patrol, who lists Heiser as a missing person with an active search out to locate her.
Thousands of man hours, hundreds of people and more than a dozen agencies joined the search to locate Heiser. Air patrol units and water units also assisted in the search of the area from the Sunshine Bottom public landing northeast of Lynch to an area near Verdel in northwestern Knox County.
Authorities had been looking for Heiser for more than a month. She was set to appear in Holt County District Court on September 29 on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
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Posted on 2015-03-03 by perryadmin
Are We Spending More or Less on Kids?
It's stated frequently, the statistical factoid (statoid? statisticoid? hmmm.) that per-pupil spending in Brookline Schools has fallen during the enrollment boom, i.e. between 2006 and now. We've added kids, so of course, we are spending less on each kid. We've cut to the bone. We're already underfunding our schools. Only the maximum extent possible override (MEPO) will retain your property value or keep our schools excellent.
And looking at the data, yes, we're spending less. But on what?
Less on interest payments for building the New Lincoln School in 1990 (Brookline's first override ever after prop 2 1/2) and renovating the High School in 1995 (Brookline's second override ever).
Less on health care because Brookline joined the GIC, saving us a bunch.
Less on out-of-district special education placements by providing equivalent services at less cost in-district.
But not less on School Budgets or teachers or kids. The Brookline School Budgets keeps going up. In fact, we'll see that from 2006 to 2014:
Enrollment in Brookline Public Schools went up 21% from 6014 to 7288 kids;
The Brookline School Budget increased 41.7%, from $60M to $85M;
The Brookline School Budget increased 4.48% per year on average.
Per-pupil the School Budget is doing just fine, too, thank you very much, having increased 17%, from $10,046 to $11,751;
Yes, even inflation-adjusted per-pupil spending is just around 0% (-0.67%) over the last 8 years.
I guess we do love our kids here in Brookline.
Let's dig into the data.
Types of Spending
What kind of spending are folks talking about when they say we are spending less?
Per-pupil average spending including the CIP
Hmm…that sounds a little wonk-ish. Per-pupil means you're going to do an average anyways. Let's mention that averages are often misleading, especially when there is a skew in the distribution, i.e. the level of spending on the special needs population skews the average "per-pupil spending" quite a bit. But let's stay with it.
Why do folks point to that? The argument is easy – each new child in school means our fixed dollars are spread thinner per pupil. It is also trying to build a subtle connection between spending and "spending on kids". That is an important distinction which we'll tease apart below.
And what about the "including the CIP" bit. Recall the CIP is the Town's "Capital Improvement Plan". The Town pays interest when it borrows money to build buildings, including School buildings. But there are a good number of other costs the Town pays on behalf of Schools beyond just the CIP. They are all factored into that "including CIP" bit.
So overall that is an …. interesting but hard to understand metric.
Who says Per-Pupil Spending is Down
First written history of it seems to be from the Override Study Committee's Schools Program Task Force, which had the executive summary item:
Average per pupil inflation-adjusted spending (including CIP) has in fact declined since the 2008 override. Spending was $17.4k per student in FY06, $17.9k per student in FY09 (increased following the override), and $16.9k per student in FY14.
And that position justifies the minority position for a large override – we're falling behind in how much we spend on our schools.
That leaves out a bit of important nuance. Let's look at the data at the Massachusetts Department of Education and the Brookline School Departments Budget.
Department of Education Data
Before we go to the source, let's get familiar with the Mass Dept. of Ed report for Brookline on spending for 2010 / 2011, the year when folks say things really went down hill for our spending.
Function 2010 2011
Total Exp Per Pupil Total Exp Per Pupil
Administration $4,740,885 $725 $5,012,395 $750
Instructional Leadership $7,077,144 $1,082 $7,626,542 $1,141
Classroom and Specialist Teachers $41,626,534 $6,362 $42,039,477 $6,292
Other Teaching Services $10,936,364 $1,672 $11,249,982 $1,684
Professional Development $1,617,351 $247 $1,909,144 $286
Instructional Materials, Equipment and Technology $2,498,293 $382 $3,179,712 $476
Guidance, Counseling and Testing $3,668,930 $561 $3,642,439 $545
Pupil Services $4,799,039 $733 $5,249,669 $786
Operations and Maintenance $9,467,236 $1,447 $9,655,472 $1,445
Insurance, Retirement Programs and Other $18,410,963 $2,814 $16,489,499 $2,468
Payments To Out-Of-District Schools $8,138,531 $119,509 $5,952,865 $70,952
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $112,981,270 $17,090 $112,007,196 $16,556
Which which items did we spend less money on between 2010 and 2011. The things I colored red in the table above:
Insurance/Retirements – almost $2M dollars. Good results from Brookline joining the state's GIC insurance pool.
Special Education (SPED) Payments to Out-of-District Schools – slightly more than $2M. This amount is highly variable from year to year based on the kids in the system. The per-pupil costs on those out-of-district placements went from $110,000 to $71,000, with the state average for that per-pupil out-of-district cost being… $20,000. At least we're on par with Newton in this metric.
What things did Brookline Schools spend more money on? Well, almost everything else.
Public School of Brookline Budgets
There are some good nuggets in the budgets that the Public Schools of Brookline publish.
[Aside: It seems that the PSB does not go back and publish "final" budgets, just leaving the previous "preliminary" available.]
Let's look at pages 317, 319, and 322 of the Superintendent's Preliminary 2014 Budget (beware 24MB pdf) to get some data on spending from the Schools and the Towns contribution.
Here are screen shots of the PDFs of those pages, starting with page 322, which is all about…per-pupil spending! Yeah, we found the source.
So the Per-Pupil Spending, using the somewhat complicated methodology described therein, does show a dip from 2010 to 2011 from $17,090 to $16,556. It does mention it includes costs carried by the Town of Brookline spent in support of schools.
Let's look at page 316 of that document showing net school spending, which shows a high level break out of the "School Department Budget" and "Town Spending on Behalf of Schools":
As the School Budget points out, the Town contributes to the Schools by paying for things like: school administration, utilities like oil & natural gas for the schools, maintenance of school grounds and buildings, insurance for retired and active employees, pension benefits for employees, principal and interest on loans for school building projects.
We find a detailed breakout of what categories the Town spends money on behalf of the Schools on Page 319.
Let's pull out some of that data from those various sources. And let's also join that with yearly student enrollment data from the DOE so we can get at per-pupil values for those spends. And for good measure, let's do some inflation adjustments using the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The full table of data used to make these graphs is available at the bottom of this article.
Student enrollment over time and the yearly growth. Yes, it is definitely positive over time.
Brookline Public School Enrollment over time
Here is the Public School of Brookline Budget per year, not including what the Town pays. The line in the graph shows the year-over-year change. Note the jump in 2009, which came from the 2008 passed in to add Elementary World Language and lengthening the school day by 20 minutes.
Absolute Brookline Public School Budget.
What has happened to the Town contribution over time?
Absolute dollars Town Contribution to Brookline Schools
Now let's look at both those values on a per-pupil basis, starting with the School Budget. The School Budget per-pupil growth is positive year-over-year. That means the Schools are spending at least the same per-pupil over time.
Brookline School Dept. Budget Per-Pupil
Now let's look at the Town share of spending on schools per-pupil. Almost neutral except for a big drop in 2011, the year we stopped paying debt payments for Lawrence and the High School.
Brookline Town Share of School Spending Per-Pupil
Finally, what about the comment that per-pupil inflation adjusted spending has gone down? A quick detour to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for an inflation calculator and let's run the per-pupil School Budget dollars through that to give us that:
Per-pupil School Budget inflation adjusted
The large increase in all those School Budget numbers in 2009 is due to the 2008 Override. The negative year-over-year change in 2011 was due to the items we talked about above: retiring debt from New Lincoln School and also joining the GIC insurance.
Back to the question at the top – are we spending more or less on our kids? That's kind of the wrong question. Are we spending more or less on the things that affect our kids education?
From 2006 to 2014, we had:
A 21% increase in enrollment from 6014 to 7288 from Pre-K to 12th grade;
A school budget increase of 41.8%.
Yes, that includes a previous override. But that's because we increased spending on schools.
A 17% school budget increase per-pupil over that time.
a hair below 0% change in per-pupil inflation adjusted change in the school budget since 2006.
Are our kids worse off because we we finished paying off debt and saved a bundle on health insurance? Absolutely not. If the metric you use for "average per-pupil spending" goes down when those two costs go down, then you've got a really stupid metric. And that, folks, is what the "average per pupil (including CIP)" metric is when justifying why the next override should be the Maximum Extent Override Possible (MEPO).
A "debt exclusion", by definition, is a temporary (albeit long ~ 20 – 25 years) measure. It goes away when the project is paid off. But more importantly, there should be zero surprise factor that the debt is retiring. As in – you can forecast it and build a budget around it. Thanks New Lincoln School and High School renovation, we're glad you're off the books.
The Town stopped spending $5M dollars. Did we spend less on teachers? No. Did we have to let go of librarian assistants because of this "reduction"? No. Did we have to increase user fees in Town? No. Did we have to reduce services to kids because we were "spending less money" on debt service? No.
Table combining data from the Dept of Education site, the Brookline School Budget, and the Bureau of Labor statistics:
Brookline School Spending By Year
Enrollment Pre-K to 12 6014 6142 6168 6321 6472 6627 6875 7112 7288
Yearly % Change 2.13% 0.42% 2.48% 2.39% 2.39% 3.74% 3.45% 2.47%
School Department Budget $60,414,544 $62,916,637 $64,786,212 $70,987,572 $72,515,419 $75,346,929 $78,443,875 $82,086,987 $85,643,933
Inflation Adjusted School Dept Budget $71,152,170 $72,046,830 $71,445,050 $78,562,930 $78,958,860 $79,531,010 $81,121,270 $83,663,190 $85,643,933
Yearly % Change 1.26% -0.84% 9.96% 0.50% 0.72% 2.00% 3.13% 2.37%
Per-pupil School Budget $10,046 $10,244 $10,504 $11,230 $11,204 $11,370 $11,410 $11,542 $11,751
Yearly % Change 1.97% 2.54% 6.92% -0.23% 1.47% 0.35% 1.16% 1.81%
Inflation Adjusted Per-pupil School Budget $11,831 $11,730 $11,583 $12,429 $12,200 $12,001 $11,799 $11,764 $11,751
Yearly % Change -0.85% -1.25% 7.30% -1.84% -1.63% -1.68% -0.30% -0.10%
Town Spending on Behalf of Schools $26,824,273 $27,188,868 $30,136,626 $31,937,918 $33,264,116 $29,765,693 $31,829,842 $33,362,664 $35,306,932
Yearly % Change 1.36% 10.84% 5.98% 4.15% -10.52% 6.93% 4.82% 5.83%
Per-pupil Town Spending $4,460.30 $4,426.71 $4,885.96 $5,052.67 $5,139.70 $4,491.58 $4,629.80 $4,691.04 $4,844.53
Yearly % Change -0.75% 10.37% 3.41% 1.72% -12.61% 3.08% 1.32% 3.27%
* MEPO = "Maximum Extent Possible Override" , an homage to the BSPACE report findings that several expansions should be done to the "maximum extent possible".
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Ram Pam
There is a flutter, the heart skips a beat and the sensation travels downwards towards the stomach, a tingle rushing across, as butterflies make a home and begin to dance. We know this feeling all too well - this is a new love. In Ram Pam, we find a girl in the throes of such a love, a love that our girl wants to shout from the rooftops to anyone who will listen - with earnestness, she declares the state of her heart to Baba Bhatti, a man who has decided to be a mentor and friend to her restless condition.
At Coke Studio, it is Zoe Viccaji's voice that embodies the character of this girl. She tells Baba Bhatti of a newfound love that is making her heart go, "bam bam," and, "taara ra ram pam pam". The song's lyrics are lined with the slightest hint of melancholy. The object of her affections is not present, yet continues to occupy her thoughts obsessively. As she implores her love not to cause her sorrow or forget her, our girl declares that the loneliness caused by his absence has taken over her nights. Plagued by incessant dreams of her love, she tells Baba Jee that she belongs now completely to her dholna, that in her attempts to be with him, she could even court death for him. Her life now begins and ends with him: "tum pih shuru, tum pih khatum," she calls out to her absentee beloved.
Stepping in to console his young mentee is Baba Bhatti, in the form of vocalist Shahab Hussain. For Shahab, this is his first time on the mainstage as a featured artist on Coke Studio. With his wisdom and foresight, Shahab's fictional, "najoomi" Baba recognizes the sincerity in Zoe's affections and promises to be her friend as she pursues her beloved. In this way, the girl finds a humsaya in Baba Bhatti and the two sing together in what becomes a fun, upbeat duet between two members of the Coke Studio family.
Ram Pam is the creation of Sahir Ali Bagga, a songwriter known for his versatility with the theme of love, presenting it in soulful ballads, Punjabi bhangra duets and, now, quirky Urdu banter. "Sometimes in romance, you can be funny too, right?" says Bagga. "You can be happy, but you don't have to be dancing around like crazy, you can just be chilled out and funny with it," he explains the thought process behind Ram Pam. For Bagga, the lyrics came straight from a sentiment, from a mood of merriment and innocence that he decided to pen down, and the poetry made its way to Coke Studio's mainstage in Zoe and Shahab's voices.
When asked to give the song's protagonist her voice, Zoe was drawn to it because of its happy, playful vibe and mix of genres. "It's a pop song ... and goes into a jazz section. Because I come from a jazz background, and that's the kind of music I really love ... I get to show my jazz chops. Then it goes into a very Eastern section, so it's really a mix of different genres [and] that's essentially what pop is." Mixing these genres was also challenging for the singer, a challenge that only added to the fun of the song, "Murkis (eastern singing technique) don't come naturally to me so it's been really fun to see how I can play with them and merge them with [contemporary] styles."
Shahab happens to be an old friend of Zoe's so, for the two, this was a duet they fell into with ease. "Shahab and I go way back. We used to write songs together, like 7 years ago. I was really happy to find out that he was doing the part with me," says Zoe. The chemistry between the artists is important, Shahab explains, because of the unusual, quirky nature of the relationship between the characters of the song: "That relationships needs to show [in the performance]. We've tried our best to show our connection, through our words, our singing and also our actions."
For Shahab, while performing with an old friend was a welcome leap onto the mainstage, the nerves still existed while preparing: "It was a transition, going from a chorus of four people to standing, just me, next to the artist. Everyone is treating me like an artist and trying to buck me up. Everything is happening around me, I'm not working around the artist, everyone is working around me." As he starts performing however, Shahab's nervousness falls away, and the thrill of the performance takes over: "My hands started moving along to the song, I seemed to grow four extra hands," he laughs, "From inside, I think I felt the same because when I stand at the backing vocalists' space, I'm giving it my 100%, I'm singing from my heart, I'm like that 5-year-old kid who is singing with all he's got, and I felt the same on the mainstage."
The production experience behind this song is one of friendship and collaboration, in the end turning out to be as fun as the song's lyrics, a collective experience between colleagues and friends who have worked together, on and outside of Coke Studio. Shahab's fellow house band members tease and encourage him during the recording. Coke Studio resident Rachel Viccaji chimes in as Zoe rehearses, telling her sister to be less nervous, sharing inside jokes. "It's like coming back home," Zoe says of the experience, "It was a lot of fun, especially with the band because [they] were very upbeat. Everyone was laughing, interacting, there was good energy, so I had a really great time."
Ultimately, Ram Pam is a light-hearted take on romance, a reminder that, maybe, love need not always be a serious or tragic business, and much like the protagonist of the song needs a friendly ear to hear her plight, at the end of the day, we all need our friends in times of angst, excitement and silliness. Ram Pam is a song that invites listeners to participate in the fun that was had during the experience of creating it.
Read About Zoe Viccaji
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Army vs Marines? The Army wins by a long shot when it comes to varying professional opportunities, both full- and part-time but the Marines are still a viable option for someone looking for part-time service. The Marine Reserve Forces have approximately 38,500 personnel in it.
The Marine Corps members are called marines, not soldiers, and they typically have to go through much more intense basic training than those in the Army do, creating a reputation for being some of the toughest and most highly trained fighters.
U.S. Navy SEALs are an elite unit, more exclusive and harder to be admitted to than the U.S. Marines.
The Army is the largest branch among the United States Armed Forces, and the Marine Corps is one of the smallest. While the Army has significantly more troops than the Marines, their counterpart possesses a more diverse aviation arm due to the Marine's relationship with the Navy.
Driven by an innate desire to answer our Nation's call, an unwavering commitment to emerge victorious, and a collective purpose that defines our unbreakable bond, Marines win the battles in front of them with an inner fight running through them.
By transitioning to the Army National Guard, Marines can continue their service and take advantage of the flexibility and other benefits the Guard offers its Soldiers. The Guard needs experienced warriors. And the skills and experience you earned in the Marines can transfer easily to the Army National Guard.
The Army and the Marine Corps have the same pay. All of the branches of the U.S. military use the same pay structure based on years of service and pay grade.
Marines aren't called soldiers because they aren't in the Army. Each branch of the military has its own mission, training, history, uniform, and esprit de corps.
The Marines' mission is unique among the services. Marines serve on U.S. Navy ships, protect naval bases, guard U.S. embassies and provide an ever-ready quick strike force to protect U.S. interests anywhere in the world.
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Three such words are "gyrenes," "jarheads," and "grunts." Their times of origin and usage differ somewhat, but each has the same role in the Marine Corps culture. They have become a source of pride for all Marines. ties to the U.S. Navy, Marines interacted with sailors more and more.
No, a Marine can not become a Navy SEAL.
For an individual to become a Navy SEAL, they must first be an enlisted member of the Navy.
Do Marines and Army Work Together? Yes, joint operations between multiple branches of the military are an important aspect of keeping Americans safe. Despite the difference between Army and Marine personnel, their work can still overlap, and, when combined, their training and capabilities can complement each other.
While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $121,500 and as low as $11,500, the majority of salaries within the Marine Corps jobs category currently range between $37,500 (25th percentile) to $73,500 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $103,500 annually across the United States.
Marines are not soldiers, though they have been referred to as "soldiers of the sea" in past recruiting posters. In the U.S., people not in the Army are not soldiers, especially so for Marines — who will strongly protest being painted with that brush.
In the U.S. military, a service member's individual pay grade and years of service are the factors that determine basic pay. In other words, enlisted or military officer salary are equivalent whether you're in the Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy or Coast Guard.
1 United States Marine Corps.
2 United States Army.
3 British Army.
4 French Foreign Legion.
5 United States Navy.
6 Australian Army.
7 United States Air Force.
8 Canadian Army.
There are 5 main branches in the military: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Usually, the Army has the most members responsible for land-based operations. As such, they are most likely to see combat.
The Marine Corps experienced the highest fatality rates per 100,000 for all causes (122.5), unintentional injury (77.1), suicide (14.0), and homicide (7.4) of all the services. The Army had the highest disease and illness-related fatality rate (20.2 per 100,000) of all the services.
Those in the Marine Corps Reserve are trained in combat and can be mobilized for active duty in time of war, national emergency, or contingency operations.
But there is much more training required to ensure they become combat trained and ready to join the ranks of Marines in our Operating Forces. This is the training newly minted Marines must overcome to fight and win the battles of today and into the future for our Nation.
Did you ever wonder why the Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy? Historically, marines serve as a navy's ground troops. In fact, the word "marine" is the French word for sea, which may be why the French military historically called English troops — who all had to arrive by sea — "marines."
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When you sign you will serve 4 yrs of active duty. You then have a choice to re-enlist or get out of the Marine Corps. This is called the end of active service, however you are still obligated to serve 4 years in the inactive ready reserve.
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Tablets, iPads, and Slates - Oh My!
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Interest is very strong right now with using the current array of tablet computers in the classroom – both with the use of Apple's iPad and, to a lesser degree, Android-based tablets. Many educators say they are finding success with these devices in the classroom, and we decided that it's time to find out for ourselves.
About mid-February, using funds from a grant from the Seven Trees Foundation, two Apple iPads and two Samsung Galaxy Tab computers were placed in the hands of our third and fourth grade teachers, Mrs. Quigley, Mr. Leary, Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Bender. The only instructions were to use them as they wished, and to pass along these instructions (and encouragements) to their students. We also provided a list of "functions" that we expected they could do or try with these devices, hoping that they would find these functions useful, and would then report back how well they performed.
During this evaluation time, the Tech team visited with the teachers on several occasions to answer questions, and provide tips and help as needed. At the end of the "pilot" period, the teachers participated in a feedback session to share their thoughts with the technology department and the lower school division head.
As expected, the tablet devices had all the attributes we had heard about – that also make them easy-to-use in a lower school classroom setting: light-weight, intuitive, long battery life – and they were fun and entertaining. They made good research tools, were good for reading e-books and were good for playing educational games. The Samsung had some minor advantages over the iPad, and the iPad had some minor advantages over the Samsung. Deficiencies were also noted – including the lack of anything that was acceptable as a substitute for MS Office, problems saving files and knowing where they were located at a later time, difficulty in collaboration, and problems printing.
Overall, the iPads and Galaxy tablets are fun and useful machines, but they are not regarded as useful enough for third and fourth grades to replace the need for more traditional laptop, netbook, and desktop computers. Having said that – we'll keep our eyes and ears open, and look forward to running more tests and trials in the coming 20012-13 academic year to see how the technology – and our opinion on them – has changed.
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Banjo music is often associated with Americana, bluegrass, folk, and country music, but the instrument has its roots in Africa as African American slaves in America created the banjo based on similar African instruments. Although we're most familiar with the fast, upbeat sound of banjo loops and dueling banjos found in Western banjo music, the banjo can also produce haunting, sad, melancholy sounds. The sharp, arpeggiated plucking of banjo stock production music can add a sense of flurries or action to your next video production. Banjo background music evokes that "down home" feeling, so add it any time you want to create a happy, nostalgic feeling. Search by specific mood, genres, and instruments to filter your search.
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Lowell's Sponsors Trailapalooza
August 6, 2010 April 8, 2016 Rob Morris 1 Comment Community
In its early days, Lexington was built along the Middle Fork of South Elkhorn Creek, which was eventually known as Town Fork or, more commonly today, Town Branch. Lexington's early streets were oriented along the banks of this stream.
If you don't remember a stream in downtown Lexington, you're not alone. Much of what was Town Branch is now buried under present-day Vine Street. Running underground along Vine Street and under the Lexington Center, Town Branch re-emerges in the Cox Street parking lot, and meanders along Manchester Street and Leestown Road. This area includes some of Lexington's most historic sites, such as McConnell Springs.
Town Branch Trail, Inc. has been leading the efforts to build a greenway and urban trail along this historic corridor. Town Branch Trail recently completed its second phase of construction, with nearly two miles of completed trail for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Lowell's is pleased to support these efforts. We think that initiatives like Town Branch Trail are an important part of making Lexington even more attractive and livable. So we are one of the sponsors of Trailapalooza, a festival along Town Branch Trail on Sunday, August 15th from 1 to 5 PM.
The Big Maracas and the inimitable March Madness Marching Band will be entertaining. And PRESTO, the People-Powered Pianobike (which we are pleased to keep here at Lowell's), will be there as well. On top of that, we'll have games and prizes, too.
Trailapalooza promises to be great fun for all ages. Lowell's encourages our friends and customers to come celebrate and support Town Branch Trail at Trailapalooza on August 15th.
Visit Trailapalooza to get all of the details.
Lowell's Wins 2010 Readers' Choice Award
August 2, 2010 April 8, 2016 Rob Morris 1 Comment Awards
Lowell's is honored to win our third consecutive Readers' Choice Award for "Favorite Auto Repair Place" in voting submitted by Lexington Herald-Leader readers.
Lowell's won the voting even when matched up against other finalists (our good friends at Auto Tech and S&S Tire) who service all brands or who have multiple locations around the region.
We are grateful to our loyal customers for voting for us. We are especially grateful to our very talented employees who earn this award through their thoughtful hard work and excellent service every day.
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LITTLE BIRD SERIES TO BE COLLECTED INTO HARDCOVER EDITION AVAILABLE THIS NOVEMBER
The bestselling, critically acclaimed miniseries by Ian Bertram (House of Penance) and Darcy Van Poelgeest—Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope—will be collected, in its entirety, into a hardcover edition and available from Image Comics this November.
In the world of Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope, North America has been devastated by three decades of war as the American Empire expands under an ultra-nationalist, theocratic government. But from the ashes of defeat rises Little Bird, a 12-year old girl who sets out to reignite the Canadian Resistance and discover her own identity in a world on fire.
Bertram first burst onto the scene with his haunting, macabre collaboration with Peter J. Tomasi on House of Penance, the eerie, unsettling comic series about the Winchester haunted house. He brings a similarly intricate inking style to the pages of Little Bird.
With the same limitless scope as a new East of West or Saga—and the drama and surrealism of Akira—Little Bird follows a young resistance fighter in a science-fiction style reminiscent of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.
Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope hardcover edition (ISBN 978-1534313453, Diamond Code AUG190079) collects all five issues of the miniseries and will be available in comic shops on Wednesday, November 20 and in bookstores on Tuesday, November 26. It can be pre-ordered with your local comic shop or on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, IndieBound, and Indigo.
The digital edition of Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.
Select praise for Little Bird:
"It. Is. Amazing." —Patton Oswalt
"Packed with rich ideas and executed with precision and passion. It's a comic that could be a cool movie in the future, but it succeeds because the creative team values the things that make comic books a unique form of storytelling." —The Onion's AV Club
"We'll accept any excuse for more of Bertram's horror-tinged Otomo-esque aesthetic." —Paste Magazine
"Little Bird is nothing short of a masterpiece...once you read this thing you'll see what we mean." —Nerdist
"Powerful and thought-provoking...clever and well-rounded and the art is lovely in a surrealistic way. I highly recommend this series." —Impulse Gamer
"Dark, surreal, and addictive." —Comic Book Resources
ABOUT DARCY VAN POELGEEST
Darcy Van Poelgeest is a multi-award winning writer and director living in Vancouver, B.C. His film work has screened internationally at festivals, broadcast on TV, shown in galleries, and become a best seller on iTunes. His debut comic series Little Bird released through Image Comics and Glènat Editions in the spring of 2019.
ABOUT IAN BERTRAM
Ian Bertram is an artist living and working in New York. By combining a love of storytelling with precise, meditative mark making, he creates mystical, grotesque, and primal portraits of the strange. He has published with Marvel, DC, Image Comics, and Dark Horse Comics. He has shown work in New York, Sri Lanka, and Paris.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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Global regularity for a model of Navier-Stokes equations with logarithmic sub-dissipation
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Mathematical modeling of a discontinuous solution of the generalized Poisson-Nernst-Planck problem in a two-phase medium
February 2018, 11(1): 137-177. doi: 10.3934/krm.2018008
The derivation of the linear Boltzmann equation from a Rayleigh gas particle model
Karsten Matthies 1,, , George Stone 1, and Florian Theil 2,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
* Corresponding author: Karsten Matthies
Received March 2016 Revised March 2017 Published August 2017
A linear Boltzmann equation is derived in the Boltzmann-Grad scaling for the deterministic dynamics of many interacting particles with random initial data. We study a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with background particles, which do not interact among each other. In the Boltzmann-Grad scaling, we derive the validity of a linear Boltzmann equation for arbitrary long times under moderate assumptions on higher moments of the initial distributions of the tagged particle and the possibly non-equilibrium distribution of the background. The convergence of the empiric dynamics to the Boltzmann dynamics is shown using Kolmogorov equations for associated probability measures on collision histories.
Keywords: Derivation, Boltzmann equation, semigroups, Rayleigh gas.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 82C40; Secondary: 35Q20, 37L05, 60K35, 76P05, 82C22.
Citation: Karsten Matthies, George Stone, Florian Theil. The derivation of the linear Boltzmann equation from a Rayleigh gas particle model. Kinetic & Related Models, 2018, 11 (1) : 137-177. doi: 10.3934/krm.2018008
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Police said the accident and subsequent fire and explosion injured between 60 and 70 people, some with severe burns.
MILAN – A tanker truck carrying a highly flammable gas exploded Monday after rear-ending a stopped truck on a crowded highway near the northern Italian city of Bologna. At least two people were killed and up to 70 injured. Part of the raised expressway collapsed in the fireball.
Many people had evacuated the area, because of the thick black smoke, but also while firefighters checked to see if buildings where windows had been blown out were safe to enter.
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PSS Sleman vs Persipura Prediction 07.12.2021
PSS Sleman vs Persipura prediction and betting tips ahead of this Indonesia Liga 1 clash on Tuesday.
Indonesia Liga 1 December 07 9:15
PSS Sleman
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Persipura
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PSIS Semarang vs PSS Sleman
Persita vs PSS Sleman
PSS Sleman vs Bhayangkara
PSM vs PSS Sleman
PSS Sleman vs PS TNI
Borneo vs PSS Sleman
Persipura vs Bhayangkara
PSM vs Persipura
Persipura vs PS TNI
Borneo vs Persipura
Persipura vs Bali United
Persib vs Persipura
PSS SLEMAN OR DRAW Double Chance @1.25 Bet Won FT: 1 - 1
PSS Sleman will welcome Persipura to for a matchday 16 fixture in Indonesia Liga 1. The last meeting on 19th September 2019 ended in a 1-1 draw. Both sides have met two times in the most recent seasons. PSS Sleman has won 0 matches, and Persipura failed to win on every occasion. Recent outings average 2.00 goals, while both teams score 100% of the time.
PSS Sleman's latest fixture against PSIS Semarang ended in an away 2-1 win. PSS Sleman was very effective while counter-attacking. In the end, it was enough to make the difference between the two teams. PSS Sleman scored in both halves in the 16th and 66th minute.
Persipura's recent game against Bhayangkara ended in a home 0-2 loss. Mutiara Hitam (Black Pearl) had plenty of possession, but not so much in the final third of the pitch.
Since the start of the season, PSS Sleman is more dominant at home. They have four wins out of 10 games on home soil. Although PSS Sleman is among the most solid home teams in the league, they are far from perfect. Their defence is not as good as expected with just 10% home clean sheets.
Persipura has picked up 9 points from the previous six league games. It is quite intriguing that they prefer playing on the road. Persipura has collected 1.00 points on average per away game, compared to 0.82 at home. To improve results, they have to be more compact in defence. Persipura kept a clean sheet in just 0% of their visits.
It is hard to choose a favourite in this one. Both teams look evenly-matched and have their strengths. I am not willing to take a risk and prefer a double chance bet. My prediction is PSS Sleman or Draw.
Both teams struggle in defence and concede on regular occasions. PSS Sleman failed to keep a clean sheet in 10% of home games, while Persipura conceded in 0% of away games. On average, both teams score in 64% of PSS Sleman's home and Persipura's away games. My prediction is Both Teams to Score: Yes.
PSS Sleman vs Persipura Betting Tips
PSS Sleman vs Persipura Head to Head
Average stats between PSS Sleman and Persipura in most recent 2 outings in the Indonesia Liga 1.
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Results and Table Indonesia Liga 1 Form Half Goals Corners Cards
Average stats between PSS Sleman and Persipura across current season. Calculated from PSS Sleman's Home stats and Persipura's Away stats.
PSIS Semarang
Persita
PS TNI
Persik Kediri
Madura United
Persija
Persela
1 Bhayangkara 20 /13-4-3/ 43
2 Arema 20 /11-8-1/ 41
3 Persib 20 /12-4-4/ 40
4 Persebaya Surabaya 20 /12-3-5/ 39
5 Bali United 20 /11-5-4/ 38
6 PSIS Semarang 20 /8-7-5/ 31
7 Borneo 20 /8-6-6/ 30
8 Persija 20 /7-8-5/ 29
9 PSS Sleman 20 /6-7-7/ 25
10 Persita 20 /7-4-9/ 25
11 PSM 20 /5-9-6/ 24
12 PS TNI 20 /5-8-7/ 23
13 Madura United 20 /5-7-8/ 22
14 Persik Kediri 20 /4-7-9/ 19
15 Persipura 20 /4-6-10/ 18
16 Barito Putera 20 /4-4-12/ 16
17 Persela 20 /3-7-10/ 16
18 Persiraja Banda Aceh 20 /1-4-15/ 7
Indonesia Liga 1 Form
Coming into this game, PSS Sleman has picked up 8 points from the last 5 games, both home and away. That's 1.6 points per game on average. BTTS has landed in an intriguing 3 of those games. PSS Sleman has scored 7 times in the last 5 fixtures.
PSS Sleman has enjoyed playing at home recently, with the side currently unbeaten in 2 games.
PSS Sleman will be looking to keep up the momentum today against Persipura, having lost just 1 game from the last 5. They have won 2 and drawn 2
Things have not been going that well in front of goal for PSS Sleman recently, with the side failing to score in 2 of the last 5 games. Will the manager change his tactics today, or throw in another forward?
In the last 5 matches for PSS Sleman, 3 of those games has ended with both teams scoring. This season 10 matches (67% of all matches) involving PSS Sleman has seen BTTS landing.
Coming into this game, Persipura has picked up 4 points from the last 5 games, both home and away. That's 0.8 points per game on average. BTTS has landed in just 2 of those games. Persipura has scored 3 times in the last 5 fixtures.
Things have not been going that well in front of goal for Persipura recently, with the side failing to score in 3 of the last 5 games. Will the manager change his tactics today, or throw in another forward?
Persipura has fired blanks in 8 games this season. That's 53% of games where they have not been able to find the back of the net. Do they need a new forward? In the last 5 games, they have scored just 3 goals.
Just 2 of the last 5 games for Persipura has ended with both teams scoring. They have won 1 of those 5 games. Overall, BTTS has landed in 7/15 games for Persipura this season.
PSS SlemanIndonesia Liga 1, Place: 9 / 18
Fouls 0.00 / 0.00 0.00 0.00
PersipuraIndonesia Liga 1, Place: 15 / 18
Scored in Both 10% / 17% 0 % 22 %
PSS Sleman vs Persipura Odds
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Utah activists rally for immigration reform
By: Caroline Connolly
SALT LAKE CITY -- While Washington remains silent on a decision, the call for immigration reform is getting louder in Utah.
Shouts of, "yes we can" came from the Latino community of Salt Lake City, who were rallying for change Friday night.
"There's a lot of people who really deserve the chance to become a part of this country," said Edith Fernandez, one of dozens who attended.
Fernandez moved to the United State from Mexico City with her husband in 1997. She now has two children, who were both born in Salt Lake, but she still lives here on work permits.
"I have to go reapply, and I don't know: I just play it by ear, you know, by ear," Fernandez said.
The path to citizenship continues to remain unclear for people, like Fernandez, as lawmakers continue to disagree on immigration legislation.
"We've lived the worst of it in terms of a lot of the rhetoric that has happened over the last four of five years," said Tony Yapias of Proyecto Latino de Utah.
On Wednesday, House democrats put pressure on republicans and unveiled their own bill for reform, which is nearly identical to the one the Senate passed in June. It includes a pathway to citizenship plan for the 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally, language that has not seen support from lawmakers in the past.
"Our immigration system is broken. It needs to be fixed," Yapias said.
But even if the proposal goes nowhere, those rallying Friday remained optimistic about their future in the U.S.
"It`s time for a change, and it's time to give a lot of people a chance," Fernandez said.
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Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon: Which Late Night Talk Show Host Has the Higher Net Worth?
Julia Mullaney
The late-night talk show game has been seriously ramped up by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. Both of these hilarious guys have fan bases that overlap, but there are also people who tend to pick favorites. Although they have each found plenty of success, we can't help but wonder: Which of these hosts has the higher net worth?
Jimmy Kimmel (left) and Jimmy Fallon | Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Both men have built similar careers
Kimmel and Fallon essentially have the same job: They're both late-night talk show hosts who get paid to make us laugh by making light of current events and other hilarious endeavors. Kimmel hosts Jimmy Kimmel Live! While Fallon hosts The Tonight Show. Both have branched out to make appearances in movies or television shows beyond their own show, and the two appear to get along well. "My only complaint about Jimmy Fallon is the first name: Jimmy," Kimmel once said in an interview. "People get us mixed up all the time." Besides the beef about the same name, the two actually get along well.
Jimmy Kimmel net worth: $45 million
Kimmel's career started before he was even out of high school. He had a position on a radio show that aired on University of Nevada at Las Vegas' radio station. He hopped around several radio stations before getting involved with Comedy Central in the late 1990s. Working with the channel was what eventually drove him toward his own late-night talk show. In January 2003, Kimmel was given his own show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! (though it isn't actually aired live anymore). The show faced a few scandals now and then, including when it was briefly pulled from the air in 2004 after a comment Kimmel made during the NBA championship. However, Kimmel has mostly remained in society's good graces and is a widely respected comedian. His impressive career has built him an estimated net worth of around $45 million.
Jimmy Fallon net worth: $45 million
Fallon knew from a young age that he wanted to pursue comedy full time. He dropped out of college in 1995 to move to Los Angeles, where he instantly started booking shows. In 1998, Fallon landed a role on Saturday Night Live, and he was featured on the show up until 2004. He tried to break into the movie scene in the 2000s, and was the starring role in "Fever Pitch" alongside Drew Barrymore. However, he fared better in the comedy world, so he stuck to it. In 2009, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon made its debut, and Fallon was the host up until 2014, when he then took a job as the host of The Tonight Show (the show was formerly hosted by Jay Leno). Fallon, like Kimmel, has become a widely respected comedian and has a net worth that's estimated to be very similar to Kimmel's at $45 million.
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The two men have always been friendly.
Despite the similar net worth, Fallon has a higher salary
Although Kimmel and Fallon have similar careers and similar net worths, Fallon actually has the higher salary. According to CNBC, Fallon makes an estimated $16 million annually from his late show, while Kimmel makes an estimated $15 million. Kimmel tied with Stephen Colbert, while all three men edged out Conan O'Brien, who makes an estimated $12 million.
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Home Editorials of Interest Taipei Times Tsai must defend nation's integrity
Tsai must defend nation's integrity
Tuesday, 09 January 2018 06:52 Taipei Times Editorial Editorials of Interest - Taipei Times
Military might and diplomatic influence are two important political tools through which a nation demonstrates its power within the international system and shows its determination to safeguard its interests.
It is sad to see Taiwan's weakness in those two fields as demonstrated by the President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) administration's reaction to recent developments in the Taiwan Strait.
Beijing on Thursday last week unilaterally announced that it was opening the M503 and other connecting routes to northbound commercial flights.
Given that M503 runs almost parallel to the median line of the Strait and is only 7.8km from it, Beijing no doubt has a military and strategic agenda that serves its political objectives.
China's one-sided action not only contravenes the 2015 cross-strait agreement that opened the M503 route to southbound commercial traffic, but blatantly changes the "status quo" in the Strait.
One day after the announcement, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, accompanied by other warships, sailed southwest along the Strait's median line and left Taiwan's air defense identification zone later that evening.
While China's saber-rattling at Taiwan is nothing new, the latest move, in addition to the increased frequency of Chinese military aircraft circling Taiwan's international airspace, suggests that Beijing is taking advantage of what it perceives as a weak Tsai government.
The Tsai government's responses to various acts of harassment from China tells not only Taiwanese but also Beijing that it is at its wits' end.
Tsai has since Friday convened two national security meetings and Mainland Affairs Council Minister Katharine Chang (張小月) has lodged a protest against China over the route's opening.
Tsai also tweeted that "Recent unilateral actions by #China — including M503 flight route & increased military exercises — are destabilizing & should be avoided. #Taiwan will continue to safeguard the status quo. We call on all parties to do the same."
However, such reactions have no deterrent effect and most of the international community remain unaware of China's bullying of Taiwan.
The government should hold international news conferences and make the severity of the situation known to the world. It should voice the nation's concerns and warn the international community of the threat China poses to peace and stability in the Strait.
If the government remains quiet, how can it expect other nations to support Taiwan?
At a news conference on Dec. 29, Tsai spoke of her determination "to foster an indigenous defense industry and defend Taiwan's democracy," adding that her administration would make reasonable annual increases in military spending.
While Tsai's words were encouraging, budget figures tell a different story. The Executive Yuan has reduced the Ministry of National Defense's budget for fiscal 2018 from NT$3.9 billion to NT$3.27 billion (US$132.1 million to US$110.8 million), comprising 1.84 percent of GDP, down from the previous year's 1.86 percent and lower than the budget allocated during former president Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration.
American Institute in Taiwan Chairman James Moriarty in October last year urged Tsai to heed US concerns about Taiwan's defense budget.
While Taiwan should avoid an unnecessary arms race, an adequate and reasonable defense budget is called for, as it tells the public, as well as the world, that Taiwan is taking its defense seriously.
Tsai can speak softly if she wants to, but as the head of state, she must demonstrate a tough attitude that asserts the nation's integrity — acting weak will only encourage China to continue its harassment of Taiwan.
A handout photo provided by the Office of the President of Taiwan on 12 July 2016 shows an aerial photograph of Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba Island in the South China Sea on March 23, 2016.
Taiwan yesterday refused to accept a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands,which included a statement that Taiwan-controlled Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) in the Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島) is a "rock," saying the verdict has severely infringed on Taiwan's rights over the South China Sea island and its surrounding waters.
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Q: In usb C to audio jack systems, is the DAC in the dongle or in the host? I'd like to design my usb-c audio preamp, but that would be possible only if the analog audio comes directly from the phone, so that my piece of hardware can take the power supply from the usb-c and spit out an amplified version of that signal
I looked around the internet and found a lot of contrasting information.
Do the dongles receive a digital stream and convert it to analog audio, or are the dongles just a mechanical conversion between connectors and the dac is in the system (typically a phone)?
What is the industry standard practice? What does the USB-IF say about audio via usb-c? How an host can recognize when an analog output is required?
A: It depends. There are a few different ways to send audio over USB-C.
The first way is the same way USB to Audio dongles work right now: The dongle is an actual USB device itself, one that supports one of the USB Audio profiles. This is a DAC that appears on a USB bus as an audio device, and will work just as readily on a desktop or any other device with USB-C and an OS that supports it.
So, in this case, the DAC is very much in the dongle itself. It's more like a USB 'sound card', and will often be a little bulkier and more expensive.
However, for most phones with a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle, the DAC is in the host device, meaning that the signals going out of the USB-C port and into the dongle are, in fact, analog ones. They're the exact same signals that get sent through any other 3.5mm headphone jack, and generated in the exact same way, by some kind of DAC inside the device with the USB C port. So in most cases, yes, the dongle is merely an electrical/mechanical connection that is adapting a USB-C port to a 3.5mm audio jack directly.
It would not make much sense to use a dongle that had an entire DAC and USB audio profile chipset inside it, as this would incur a good deal of cost, consume more power, and be physically bulkier. If the device is a phone, then it already must have a DAC of some kind or it would be unable to drive the speaker that lets you hear the person on the other end of a phone call. These usually come in the form of single chip solutions and will include multiple input and output channels, so this can be done effectively for free.
I do not know why, but there seems to be a ton of misinformation regarding this online which it sounds like you've likewise encountered. What I see most often is something along the lines of 'USB-C is digital audio only' or 'USB-C doesn't have any audio pins'.
...and neither statement is true, at least according to the USB-IF, the only body who has any authority on the matter.
Or just download the official PDF (warning, 20MB .zip) and scroll down to page 213, there is a whole section on it.
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Duncan Cameron: 'Happy campaigner' Trudeau makes it Black Monday for the NDP
Duncan Cameron | On the campaign trail, the personality contrast between Trudeau and the two other main leaders was enough to push the new prime minister ahead.
A Liberal victory may improve fortunes of First Nation communities across Canada
Krystalline Kraus | The voter turnout for this election has been the highest we've seen since 1993, with more than 17 million Canadians casting a ballot, hoping to improve their fortunes with a change of power in Ottawa.
The Liberal 'Red Tide' promises politics as usual
J. Baglow | When the euphoria and the schadenfreude wear off, what has really changed since yesterday?
Prime Minister-Designate Justin Trudeau has many promises to keep
Karl Nerenberg | Progressive voters who gave Trudeau his majority will have to be vigilant and let the new Liberal government know they expect it to keep its promises, starting with electoral reform.
Democracy isn't just about politics; it's about all of us
David Suzuki | Canadians sent a loud and clear message that they want to live in an open, progressive country that promotes diversity, social justice, environmental protection and respect for First Peoples.
This election may prove there's a limit to Canada's regard for the NDP
Gerry Caplan | Many Canadians seemed somewhere between reconciled to and delighted with the prospect of an NDP government. Then they weren't.
Young people: Vote like a geezer and change Canada's future
Armine Yalnizyan | An eleventh-hour message to voters aged 18–30: in this election, you've got the power.
Brent Patterson | The 2011 election's low voter turnout only benefited the Conservatives. Let's ensure those numbers are much higher this election.
The federal election can change the lives of Indigenous peoples
Krystalline Kraus | Ours is a sad history where members of Indigenous communities across Canada weren't even allowed to vote in Canada until the 1960s.
Why I'm doing all I can to make sure our Nation members vote
Ken Watts | Ken Watts, vice president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, tells us why he is urging the members of his community to vote in this election.
Harperism is finally facing the end, and just in time
Ralph Surette | It's election day and, at last, hope that what has to happen if this country is to recapture its integrity is actually about to happen.
No matter what happens on election day, the climate can't wait
The Canadian Youth Delegation to COP21 | The government might be different after October 19, but, when it comes to climate action, we can't assume that anything will change.
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Bad Static explore sweet-and-sour duality on "Cherry Cyanide" EP
Hey, did you know you can get poisoned and maybe even die from eating too many cherry pits? Well neither did I, that is, until hearing the new Bad Static EP Cherry Cyanide released today. Because, as hinted at in the title, cherry pits contain a chemical that once ingested gets converted into the toxic compound hydrogen cyanide. The more you know!
But this EP isn't a science lesson, instead it taps into the longstanding status of cherries as a metaphoric device. So it makes sense Cherry Cyanide is a concept album (erm, concept EP) based around the notion that some things (or even people) in life may be sweet on the outside but then turn out to be not-so-sweet on the inside if not downright toxic. Take the EP's eponymous opening song, for instance, which starts with a familiar three-chord major-key progression that sounds like the band's about to launch into a fun-loving cover version of "Louie Louie" or "Wild Thing" or "Walking on Sunshine."
But then there's a sudden shift when the drums kick in alongside a low-key menacing minor-key descending guitar riff, and lyrics about how you'll soon be "foaming at the mouth / oh there is no doubt / my cherry cyanide / will make you wanna die." Meaning when the chorus returns to those major chords from before with entreaties to "Kiss me! Kiss me!" and "Drink me! Drink me!" you may have second thoughts given what you've learned about cherry pit consumption and the consequences of fatal kisses even though the "bittersweet ending" is still tempting and it's this seductive-yet-dangerous vibe that the song really captures. The more you know!
Fake I.D. / Bad Girls In Love (1980) by The Anemic Boyfriends
And speaking of surface prettiness/inner menace it's fitting the Cherry Cyanide press release namechecks bands like the Runaways and the lesser-known Anemic Boyfriends as influences–the latter being an underage Anchorage-based early '80s punk rock trio (!) led by one "Louise Disease" whose über-bratty, sneering leering delivery is appropriate to her moniker–because here are two bands who used surface prettiness to get a foot in the door in order to kick your teeth in with their take-no-prisoners 'tude and music, a strategy used by many female rock musicians past and present to fight the frequent sexism of rock audiences and the music industry (except for "emerging artist music blogs" which are hardly part of the "industry" and always enlightened!) plus either way it's pretty cool to be a glamorous savage no matter your gender.
The next song "Ectoplasm Nightmares" continues this theme of inner/outer duality–except the narrative perspective is switched to that of the victim–with lyrics about being possessed by an outside presence, i.e., "feeling haunted by people from your past and going to drastic measures to try and forget." Bad Static put this across musically by starting off with a plodding beat and doomy Sabbath-y sorta riff before kicking into a driving double-time rhythm with lyrical pleas for demonic exorcism and warnings of crumbling sanity before lead singer Nicol Maciejewska (whose vocals up to this point alternate between sedated and sneering) tops off the song with a growling "you're making me go insaaaaane!" and a burst of crazy-kookoo-train manic laughter as the music disintegrates behind her.
The third-and-final song "Reanimation" is inspired by necromancy with "little whispers building up inside…calling you from the gra-a-a-ave" and here again the narrative perspective changes, but this time switching to the entity or entities haunting the narrator in the previous song, which is a neat way to put across the loss of a grounded, singular perspective that's inherent to some forms of mental illness (and to modern art natch) which is another theme of the song and again the music nails the vibe cuz I've got scenes from Evil Dead playing in my head when this plays.
And this one's the most Runaways-esque of the bunch with its throbbing power chords and stuttering vocal delivery (from "ch-ch-cherry bomb" to "I've been calling you from the gra-a-a-ave") and one can only hope that the galvanizing musical presentation here by Nicol (vox, rhythm guitar) Kelsie (backing vox, bass) Mario (lead guitar, production) and Demetrio (drums, percussion) and the not-so-subliminal mantra of "reanimate me!" don't lead to an epidemic of children playing with dead things despite the PSA message contained in the opening lyric. (Jason Lee)
Bad Static
Lil Woo "Lanor"
Lil Woo (aka Andre Allen Jr) has released a tender and hopeful new single called "Lanor". This is the latest in a series of single the talented emcee released in 2021, and it finds him enlisting the help of the award-winning vocalist Alita Moses.
"Lanor" is produced by DreProducedit and is accompanied by a video from Ninety5 Directed.
Lil Woo
Caleb Taylor "Let Go!"
Vocalist and Producer Caleb Taylor has released his latest single, "Let Go!". This past year has been Taylor's most prolific with the release of several beat collections and a series of fantastic singles.
Caleb Taylor
Seasonal record roundup: The Heart Attack-Acks drop a "Love Bomb" and an Xmas banger
Love Bomb by The Heart Attack-Acks
On "Love Bomb," the debut single by The Heart Attack-Acks, the Queens-based duo of Candice and Cody bring an energy and dynamism to the disco-new-wave number that the world hasn't witnessed since Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley danced around awkwardly in front of a car repair shop circa 1983—a car repair shop that just happened to employ a small crew of line-dancing mechanics plus a couple crop-top-wearing-popping-and-locking breakdancers—and by the way this is the second song called "Love Bomb" to be reviewed on this blog in the past several months so please no confused letters to the editor!
And if this seems like a pretty random comparison to draw just check out the Heart Attack-Acks press photo above and tell me there's not a downtown-guy-uptown-girl dynamic at work there–except since they're from Queens it means Cody must live in Glendale, or maybe Ridgewood, whereas Candice must live up in fancy-pants Astoria Heights. And oh yeah there's the matter of the band's name too.
As far as "Love Bomb" goes, well, it doesn't sound a whole heckuva lot like "Movin' Out" that's true. But it's clearly indebted to the music Billy J. was likely vibing to that same year (1977) on nights when he'd put on the ol' Groucho Marx disguise and drive from Long Island to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to hit the 2001 Odyssey discotheque with Tony and the boys. And also on nights when he'd drive into Manhattan to hear some next phase new wave down on the Bowery. Which is all just a way of saying that "Love Bomb" is a twitchily danceable mutant punky-disco-party-tune. And since there's nothing more inherently New Yawk in musical terms than a twitchily danceable mutant punky-disco-party-tune it's really quite a smart career on the part of T.H.A.A. to pay homage to their hometown musical heritage right out of the gate.
Not to mention "Love Bomb" is a great kiss off song and that's very NYC too—but one that's not so much about "creeps in the street" (see above) as it's about the creeps we all carry around in our pocket these days, like pick-up-artist wannabees who bombard potential victims with digital bum crumbs of approval and affection until suddenly withdrawing if-and-when the conquest is achieved ("first off, you blow up my phone / but in a month, you'll leave me all alone").
But the song's narrator is clearly too astute to fall for such cheap tactics (unlike over at @thedelimag where we gladly accept transactional praise!) and instead turns the tables on her love bomber ("so in the meantime, I'll take what you can give / train you like you'd do me, if I gave in") which is clever (love bomber, bomb thyself!) and also clever because the majestically-adenoidal NYC-accented call-and-response overdubs make for a nice callback to classic empowered '60s girl group anthems except updated for the iPhone Generation.
No Sleigh Bells Tonight by The Heart Attack-Acks
And speaking of updating, the Heart Attack-Acks also have a new Christmas single out called "No Sleigh Bells Tonight" and yes I know I know Christmas is over already but hey you're well within your rights to play Christmas music up 'til New Year's Day at least just like people keep their trees for that long so why not. And the song itself will get you back in that Santa spirit from the moment it hits you with a Motown-style bass line and some sleigh bells too in the intro (see what they did there!) soon going on to evoke a Phil Spector Christmas Album kinda vibe (peep that "Be My Baby" beat!) while lyrically dispensing with all this "Birth of the Messiah" business and instead rightfully focusing on the true meaning of Christmas just as God intended, which involves a mixture of devastating bone-chilling loneliness, forlorn romantic pining, and, quite possibly, murder (ok I'm inferring the latter, but Phil Spector!) all set to a jaunty sleigh-worthy beat. (Jason Lee)
The Heart Attack-Acks
La Armada "La Fé No Abasta"
Hardcore punk group La Armada has released visuals for the fifth single, "La Fé No Abasta", from their forthcoming album Anti-Colonial Vol. 2 which is due out on February 11th via their own label Mal De Ojo Records.
For the video the group enlisted the expertise of Director Jamezz Hampton to bring to life the song that bluntly paints a picture of a world with out hope and faith.
La Fé No Abasta by La Armada
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Archeparchy of Pittsburgh > Byzantine Catholic Faith > THE VENERATION OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ACCORDING TO THE BYZANTINE TRADITION
THE VENERATION OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ACCORDING TO THE BYZANTINE TRADITION
In the Byzantine Rite St. John the Baptist is venerated above all other Saints and right below the Angels. Of course, we do not include the Blessed Mother of God, the Theotokos, who being " more honorable than the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim," enjoys a unique veneration (hyperdulia) over and above all the Angels and Saints.
The greatness and the veneration of St. John the Baptist, who at the time of his conception the Archangel Gabriel prophesied would be " great in the sight of the Lord" (Lk. 1 :14), is based on :
1) the direct testimony of Christ, 2) his austere ascetical life, and 3) his testimony of blood in defense of divine rights.
1. St. John the Baptist was sent by God " in the power of Elijah" (Mt. 17:9-13) to prepare the people for the coming of the promised Messiah (Mal. 3:1). In his role as God's messenger (in Greek-angel) he was expected to point out to the people their Redeemer, the " Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world" (In. 1 :29).
He also was to baptize Jesus Christ in the Jordan River, initiating our Lord in His messianic mission (Mt. 3:13-15).
In this way the Baptist was the last of the Prophets (Mt. 11 :13), uniting by his mission the Old and New Testaments. He was also the Precursor (Forerunner) of Christ. Since he baptized Jesus, he was surnamed the Baptist. As the messenger (angel) of God he was to announce the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven in the person of Jesus Christ. Rightly then, our Lord testified of St. John the Baptist: " I tell you that of all the children born of women there is no one greater than John" (Lk. 7:28) .
To these words of exaltation St. Theodore Studite (d. 826) adds: " Is there need for us to extol John the Baptist when he was so highly extolled by Christ Himself, Who is the Truth and the Eternal Word of God?" (cf. P.G. 99, 748).
2. The second reason for St. John's early veneration was his innocent and austere life in the desert, for which he was hailed by the Fathers as an " earthly angel in human body" (St. Sophronius, P.G. 87, 3340).
Filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb (Lk. 1 :15), st. John the Baptist spent all the years of his youth in the desert, preparing himself with fasting and prayer for his unique mission.
When he appeared in the Jordan region to preach penance, he was clothed in a garment of camel 's hair (Mt. 3:1-6), which was the traditional garb of the Prophets.
John came out from his solitude as a " voice crying in the desert" (In. 1 :23), preaching moral reform in preparation for the advent of the Messiah:
" Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand" (Mt. 3:2). He gathered a group of disciples and, having initiated them into the ascetical life, he taught them how to pray. In this way st. John the Baptist was an inspiration to the Desert Fathers, who considered him as their Founder and true model of the eremitical life. To quote once more St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, St. John the Baptist "went into the desert to imitate not men but the angels" (cf. P.G. 87, 3352) .
The Desert Fathers, imbued with this great admiration, were the first to promote the veneration of the Baptist among the people of the East as well as the West.
3. The early veneration of St. John the Baptist was also enhanced by the repeated recovery of his relics, which were glorified by God with numerous miracles.
The popularity of the Baptist was testified to not only by all the Evangelists, but also by a contemporary Jewish historian, Joseph Flavius, who, around 90 A.D., recorded that on account of the Baptist's popularity King Herod Antipas feared an uprising of the people. He continued:
" Herod ordered to kill this John, surnamed the Baptist, although he was a just man and had encouraged the Jewish people to a virtuous life as they kept coming to him to be baptized. He exhorted them to be just toward each other, and devoted to God" (ct. Jewish Antiquities VIII, 5). After st. John's beheading, the disciples took his body and, according to oral tradition, they buried it in the Samaritan town of Sebaste, outside of Herod's jurisdiction (cf. St. Jerome, PL 25, 1156). Soon the Baptist's tomb became a great attraction for pilgrims, since God glorified His faithful servant with many miracles. This was the reason why Emperor Constantine the Great (d. 337 A.D.) ordered a magnificent basilica to be built over John's tomb in Sebaste.
Unfortunately, in a futile effort to restore paganism, Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363) burnt the venerable relics and dispersed their ashes in the wind (cf. Theodoret, P.G. 82, 1092). Nevertheless, the grave of St. John the Baptist continued to be venerated until the final defeat of the Crusaders in the 12th century.
According to another pious tradition, Venerable Johanna, the wife of Herod's steward Chuza (Lk. 8:3), took the head of St. John the Baptist and buried it on the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem.
Almost 300 years later, the venerable head was found for the first time (confirmed by a miracle), and transferred to Emessa, Syria. After some time the heretics took possession of John's head and concealed it in some monastery. In 453 A.D. it was discovered for the second time in the Arian monastery of Spelaion, near Emessa, and solemnly transferred to Constantinople.
During the iconoclast repressions (the eighth century) , the venerable relic was taken by some monks and hidden in Comana, the Province of Pontus, where St. John Chrysostom died (d. 407).
During the reign of Emperor Michael III, in 857, it was discovered for the third time and once again solemnly brought back to Constantinople, where it was deposited in the church of the imperial palace.
St. John's head finally disappeared during the Fourth Crusade (1204 A.D.) , when it was taken by crusaders to the West. At the present time several churches in Western Europe claim its possession.
It would be hard to prove which of them is authentic.
The veneration of St. John the Baptist is very ancient and became widespread in the East and the West from the early centuries. In the Byzantine Rite every Tuesday is dedicated to his memory, with some special commemorative days:
1) On January 7th-THE SYNAXIS OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, the most ancient feast in commemoration of him who " baptized Our Lord in the Jordan River."
2) On February 24th-THE FIRST AND THE SECOND FINDING OF THE VENERABLE HEAD, in commemoration of the first discovery of the precious relic in Jerusalem and then, for the second time, in Spelaion, near Emessa. It was on February 24, 457, that the venerable head of the Baptist was solemnly transferred to Constantiniple and deposited in the church of Prodromos (Precursor) for publ ic veneration.
3) On May 25th-THE THIRD FINDING OF THE VENERABLE HEAD is observed, since it was on May 25, 857, that the precious relic was solemnly translated from Comana back to Constantinople.
4) On June 24th we celebrate the feast of THE NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, which was introduced at the end of the fourth century.
5) Also since the fourth centu ry we celebrate the feast of THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST on August 29th, the anniversary of the dedication of his church in Sebaste. The Byzantine Church, in commemoration of John's beheading, prescribes a fast on that day.
6) On September 23rd-THE CONCEPTION OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST is commemorated, on account of the special intervention of God in his birth (Lk. 1 :5-25) . The Roman Church discontinued this commemoration by the end of the 15th century.
The liturgical veneration of St. John the Baptist in the Byzantine Rite received its definite form by the ninth century. There are some ancient sticheras in honor of the Baptist, perhaps from as early as the end of the fourth century. But, the main glorifiers of St. John were the famous Byzantine hymnographers of the eighth century: St. Germanus of Constantinople (d. 733), St. Andrew of Crete (d. 740), and St. John Damascene (d. 749) . Two ninth century hymnographers, the holy nun Cassia and the holy monks of Stud ion, also contributed to the Baptist's litu rgical veneration.
The most famous ecomium in honor of St. John the Baptist belongs to St. Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 638). which supplied the hymnographers with some lofty expressions (cf. P.G. 87, 3321f.).
Here the panegyric of St. Andrew of Crete, delivered on the feast of the Beheading (cf. P.G. 97, 1109f.), should also be mentioned as well as two eulogies of St. Theodore Studite (d. 826)-one for John's Nativity, and another for his Beheading (cf. P.G. 99, 747f.) .
There are some earlier eulogies of St. John the Baptist, starting with that of St. John Chrysostom (d. 407) , and continuing with those of some famous orators like Antipater of Bostra (d. ca. 458) or Basil of Seleucia (d. 459) . All the Fathers were convinced that " to praise the Baptist meant to praise Jesus, for he gave a moving witness to Our Savior!"
TROPARION FOR THE NATIVITY (Tone 4)
o prophet and forerunner of Christ's coming , we who devJtedly honor you are unable to fittingIv extol you, for through your glorious and noble birth, your mother's childlessness was ended, your father's tongue was released, and the incarnation of the Son of God was proclaimed to the world.
STICHERA FOR THE BEHEADING (Lilia)
How shall we call you, 0 Prophet? Perhaps Angel? Or Apostle? Or maybe Martyr? An Angel, since you lived as though being bodyless ; an Apostle, for you have preached to the people ; and a Martyr, since you were beheaded for the sake of Christ. Pray, therefore, to Him for the salvation of our souls. (St. Germanus, d. 733).
TRIBUTE TO ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
" Generally speaking, men are praised by other men, but St. John the Baptist was praised by Christ, the Eternal God and the Truth, saying : 'Of all the children born of women a greater than John the Baptist has never been seen' (Mt. 11 :11). Since he was praised by the autho rity of the Eternal Word of God, I will ask you :-Is he yet in need of our praises?" (St. Theodore Studite, P.G. 99, 749).
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On 17 May 1791, King Christian the Seventh gave his permission to smallholder Peter Andresen to run a brickworks at Nybøl Nor. Already the owner of a small farm at the place, Peter Andresen was therefore the first brick maker in the Petersen family. Today, the brickworks is run by Christian A. Petersen and his daughters, respectively the seventh and eighth generation in a direct line.
The 6.5 km² large Nybøl Nor was then, as now, ideal for brickwork industry. The coastline of the cove had rich glacial clay deposits and the cove had a direct navigable connection to Flensborg Fjord. Back in the 1700s, several brickworks were lying side by side. With about 50 brickworks, the concentration was then the largest in Northern Europe. Today, six brickworks remain.
From being a local brickworks founded more than 220 years ago, Petersen Tegl has developed into a highly specialised company with global exports. Developments have been achieved - and still are - in cooperation with architects from all over the world.
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NS-Capture Theory
The Key Concepts
The Theories
The Proofs
Predictions of NS-Capture
How to Use the Website
Analogy: "You can't go down the up escalator!"
Rich Levinson
In science, it is generally useful to come up with easy-to-understand analogies, or metaphors that relate to the subject being discussed.
In this context what we are trying to do is come up with an analogy that helps us understand the problems with:
the existing theory of pulsars (which we refer to as the NS-Creation Theory (neutron star creation theory))
and why these problems force us to consider:
a new theory of pulsars (which we refer to as the NS-Capture Theory (neutron star capture theory))
The analogy can be summarized as follows:
Isolated pulsars found in the midst of supernova remnants are found to be spinning rather fast but also slowing down:
so we can consider this state of affairs as the neutron star pulsar being on the "down escalator", i.e. slowing down (spinning down).
Pulsars found in binary systems are found to be spinning rather slow but also spinning faster:
so we can consider this state of affairs as the neutron star pulsar being on the "up escalator". i.e. speeding up (spinning up).
So we can consider:
slow, spinning-up binary pulsars as being on an "up escalator"
(where the presence of the binary companion can be considered to be an "up escalator" as far as the neutron star is concerned)
fast, spinning-down isolated pulsars as being on a "down escalator"
(where the absence of any companion (i.e. being isolated) can be considered to be a "down escalator"
The problem uncovered by this state of affairs has to do with how a pulsar is "created".
NS-Creation theory claims that a pulsar is created as a result of a supernova explosion, i.e. an isolated star explodes and the corresponding implosion creates a neutron star in a fast spinning state, albeit, slowing down from the moment of its birth.
Since there really can't plausibly be two completely different ways to create a neutron star, NS-Creation theory must apply also to the creation of the neutron stars found in binary systems, i.e. the slow spinning up neutron star pulsars found in binary systems.
Therefore, the only plausible way to create a neutron star in a binary system using NS-Creation theory is to assert that the binary system originally consisted of two more or less normal stars (there are billions of normal binary star systems in the Milky Way galaxy), and that one of those normal stars experienced a supernova explosion which transformed the previously normal star into a neutron star pulsar, thus transforming binary system from being a system containing two normal stars into a system containing one normal star plus on neutron star pulsar.
This is where the basic problem with NS-Creation theory becomes somewhat obvious:
NS-Creation theory produces a fast spinning neutron star pulsar as one member of a binary system with a normal star companion.
Unfortunately for NS-Creation theory, this fast-spinning pulsar finds itself on an "up-escalator", which will cause it to spin faster and faster.
Therefore NS-Creation theory has failed because by being a fast pulsar that is spinning up, there is no way for the pulsar to get into the state that pulsars in binary systems are generally found: i.e. slow-spinning
i.e. there is no way for a fast spinning pulsar in a binary system to slow down to become a slow-spinning pulsar, because it is born on an "up escalator" and cannot possibly slow down.
The above logic shows that NS-Creation theory leads to a self-contradiction, and that logic compels us to find a new explanation for the creation of pulsars that begin their life in a slow-spinning state.
The result of this logic is the assertion of the NS-Capture Theory that is what all the discussion on this web site is about.
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"The Binary X-Ray Pulsar Guy"
Supernova Explosions (SNE) Explained
What is X-ray Astronomy?
What is a pulsar?
Pulsars-Explained
Pulsars (index)
Giant Stars and NS-Capture Theory
SuperGiant -> SuperNova
Binary Pulsars: What they really are
Binary Pulsars Don't Slow Down
What are the Be Stars?
Be X-Ray Binaries
Classification of the Pulsars
How NS-Capture Theory explains the P/P-dot diagram
P/P-dot Evidence for NS-Capture
Cen X-3: The Pulsar Spin Contradiction
Her X-1 (Hercules X-1)
Millisecond Pulsars
The Be X-ray Binary General Data
List of References for Be X-ray Binary Data Collections
The Be X-ray Binary Spin Orbit Data
What about the Double Pulsar?
Theory Overview
NS-Capture Basic Theory
NS-Capture Theory – Explained
NS Capture Theory (index)
Simple explanation of theory
NS-Capture vs NS-Creation
Population problems with NS-Creation
The Critical Theoretical Choice
Analogies: Automobiles, propellers, muffins
Properties of the NS-Capture Theory
Proof of the Neutron Star Capture Theory
Logical Proof of the NS-Capture Theory
Definitive Empirical Proof of NS-Capture
Empirical Proof: Population Analysis
Analytical Proof of the NS-Capture Theory
Pre-Diagrammatic Proof of NS-Capture
Diagrammatic Proof of NS-Capture
NS-Capture and the Empirical Spin-up Process
How to Disprove the NS-Capture Theory
What does an isolated neutron star look like?
What does an active galactic nucleus look like along with its surrounding galaxy (AGN)?
Could an isolated neutron star look like an AGN?
What predictions did NS-Capture Theory make about the X-ray Background in 1974?
What predictions did NS-Capture make about the existence of the class of Be X-Ray Binaries?
What about PSR B1259 -63?
What about black holes?
NS-Capture Theory predicted the existence of dark matter in 1974
NS-Capture Theory predicted that a supermassive black hole exists in the center of the Milky Way in 1974
NS-Capture Theory predicted the constant galactic rotation curve in 1974.
What is the model of galactic evolution predicted by NS-Capture Theory?
Calculate Number of NS's in Galaxy
NS-Capture Explanation of SNEs
Calculating an Impact Parameter
Simulation of NS-Capture Theory
NS-Capture Simulation: Part 2
Misc Diagrams
Diagram of NS-Creation vs NS-Capture
Full Diagram
NS Capture vs NS Creation Diagrams
Diagram of NS Creation & NS Capture
Full Creation Process
NS-Capture vs NS-Creation Diagrams 2
The Necessity of NS Capture
Alternate Diagrams: MSP's
Misc Pages
Origin of "Rock 'n Roll"
Simulation of the NS-Capture Theory
How binary x-ray pulsars introduce a whole new way of thinking about neutron stars, supernova explosions, all other pulsars and the dark matter in the Milky Way galaxy.
How to use the Secret of the Pulsars website
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Tired of Boring Jack-O-Lanterns? Spice UP Your Home With a Crayon Melt Pumpkin This Fall!
Although it is hard to believe, Halloween is just over 2 weeks away! Decorating for autumn and Halloween can be so much fun. However, the same old DIY fall decor can get a little boring. This year, why not spice things up a bit with with a rainbow crayon pumpkin!
My very favorite Youtuber, Joey Graceffa, and his pal Tiffany dedicated a video specifically on the 411 on how to create a rainbow pumpkin by melting crayons with a hair dryer! The process to making a decorated crayon pumpkin is simple but a little messy (probably messier than traditional pumpkin painting)! Read on to find more.
Newspaper or some sort of floor cover/wall cover (this is optional, but if you are doing this project inside you will definitely want to cover your floor and the walls around you).
Begin by peeling the wrappers of the crayons you plan to use. You can use whatever colored crayons you want, just keep in mind the colors will bleed together and may create undesirable colors.
Glue the crayons around the top of the pumpkin. You can either break the crayons in half or into smaller pieces as you glue them.
Once the glued on crayons have dried on, turn on your hairdryer and start melting those crayons!
Move the hairdryer around the pumpkin and watch the crayons melt!
Allow the wax to dry, and your pumpkin will be all ready to go!
Happy rainbow crayon pumpkin decorating!
If you live along the upper east coast of the United States, you are probably preparing for the impending snow storm that is expected to hit sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Hopefully at this point you have all the food and supplies you might need during the storm. Snowstorms like this one are good excuses to spend your weekend relaxing at home. You can get cozy in your warmest pajamas and heat up a nice cup of coffee or tea and enjoy the snow day (or days!) Although snow storms can be relaxing or romantic, they can also make some people feel bored and even a little stir-crazy. To deal with those feelings of boredom, why not do some fun, cheap crafts that will preoccupy you and your family while the flakes fly! We even have some fun and easy ideas for DIY crafts for kids.
Have your children create edible snowmen out of marshmallows. This project works best with jumbo sized marshmallows. You can use chocolate chips, mini M&Ms, or food coloring to make eyes and pretzel sticks or spaghetti noodles for arms. Microwave your snowman for a few seconds to make an ooey gooey treat.
Make a beautiful decoration for your front door from pine cones, paint, glitter, ribbon, hot glue, and plastic snowflakes. Paint white paint down over your pine cones. Before the paint dries, sprinkle white or silver glitter over the pine cones. At one end of each pine cone, tie or hot glue ribbon (it looks best with white ribbon) to the base of the pine cone. Attach a piece of ribbon to your small plastic snow flakes. Once your pine cones have dried, tie the ribbons from each pine cone and plastic snow flake together in a knot. Hang this lovely winter decoration from your door!
Put food coloring in spray bottles with water and have your children create beautiful works of art out in the snow.
Create detailed paper snowflakes by folding white paper into a square. Make numerous cuts into your paper with scissors to create a beautiful snowflake that can be hung from your ceiling or windows!
Your children might enjoy these FREE printable coloring pages for kids. These pages are winter weather themed, but there are other types of coloring pages as well.
Create your own easy winter wreath with a foam hoop, tulle (in white, blue, and/or silver), small plastic snow flakes, and small color coordinating colored balls (Christmas balls work well). Cut strips of tulle that are all the same length. Then, tie them tightly around the foam hoop. Alternate colors as you tie the tulle around the hoop. Continue tying the tulle until you have it completely encircling the hoop. Then, hot glue the snowflakes and Christmas balls around the perimeter of the hoop. Voila, you have a beautiful winter wreath!
Indoor picnic ideas are also great for snowy days. You can let your children help you plan and prepare the food. Get a nice picnic blanket out and feast on your tasty indoor picnic meal while you watch the snow fall.
Have a safe and enjoyable snow day (or multiple snowy days if you live in the mid Atlantic region too)!
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The history of universities almost always begins with a collection of wise individuals who fund the foundation of an institution to ensure that learning can occur freely and benefit the community.
The HTET Founders' Fund Fund invited 100 individuals, businesses and organisations with the foresight to understand the value that a new university will bring to Herefordshire, to make a minimum donation of £5,000 to realise the vision of a university in Hereford. The Fund enabled the Herefordshire Tertiary Education Trust to retain the breadth of professional expertise required to launch a unique university that will support the revitalisation of Herefordshire, drive educational aspiration in the county, and help our businesses and young people be ready for the challenges of the 21st Century.
The Founders' Fund is now closed. Thank you to our current Founders who have made the development of NMiTE possible.
British Cassis – Whittern Farms Ltd.
Impact Print & Design Ltd.
Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd.
H Weston & Sons Ltd.
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The great purge: Hindutvas Cultural Revolution
Ganesh Devy
Two apparently unrelated yet deeply interconnected events of July invite serious reflection. One belongs to an unending story of crime, the other a not-so-interesting bureaucratic muddle. One will continue to fetch headlines for long and the other will survive, if it does at all, in footnotes for researchers. Yet, both are of a piece in a larger plot threatening our republic. One is a murder story, the other is a sordid saga of a genocide of a kind.
Throughout the month of July, reports of arrests of the suspects in the Gauri Lankesh murder featured in the news. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Karnataka government deserves praise for getting closer to cracking the conspiracy behind the murder of several intellectuals. Those involved in the Gauri Lankesh murder are believed to have had a hand in killing Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi. Press reports tell us that many others are on the hit list. Some reports say that the list has some 50 names. The SIT will be able to ascertain or deny this.
As a result of the recovery of the list of to be murdered writers and thinkers, some 15 writers in Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra had to be provided special security. In recent weeks, I have met several writers and thinkers who have had to move around with these security men accompanying them.
The whole sequence of murders and their fallout sends a clear signal to writers, journalists and thinkers: do not speak or write anything that will critique the Hindutva forces and the government that tacitly supports them.
It is another thing that many writers and journalists still show the courage to speak up when it is necessary to do so.
Yet, the atmosphere of intimidation and fear is pervasive. Earlier this week, the Goa assembly witnessed a on the threats made to writers. While Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar assured the legislature that security was being provided to the writers, he avoided answering why the organisation issuing the threat, which is located in Goa and is clearly named by the investigating agencies in Maharashtra and Karnataka is not being banned or restricted. And, therein lies the rub. Several times, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that violence and mob-lynching will not be tolerated. That is admirable. The only difficulty is, every time an assault takes place, it is the victim that is placed in the dock. The perpetrators continue to roam all over, unhindered, free. I now turn to the relatively less eye-catching event of July 2018. The Census of India 2011 data related to languages was released by the Census office. With all its tables and charts, it looks perfectly harmless. But, scratch the surface and you find that it is heavily doctored. It tells us that in 2011, our countrymen stated a total of 19,569 raw returns (read, non-doctored claims). Out of these, close to 17,000 were outright rejected and another 1,474 were dumped because not enough scholarly corroboration for them exists. Only 1,369, or roughly 6% of the total claims, were admitted as classified mother tongues. Rather than placing them as languages, they were grouped under 121 headings. These 121 were declared as languages of India.
One may ask, but how does this matter? It matters because the data for Hindi has been bolstered shown at 52 crore-plus people by adding to its core figure of speakers, the speakers of nearly 50 other languages
These include Bhojpuri, claimed by over five crore people, and many languages in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Bihar, claimed by close to a total of six crore people. At the same time, 17 of the 22 scheduled languages are reported by the Census as showing a downward trend in their rate of growth in comparison to the growth in the previous decade.
The architecture of the presentation of the language census data has at its foundation the principle of exclusion.The exclusion is imposed on the languages that the people of India have claimed in the census exercise as being their languages. To use a term from the medical sciences, this act amounts to imposing an involuntary aphasia on citizens. In this instance, the numbers on whom it is imposed run into crores of people. And that is no small matter.
Since our Constitution gives us the fundamental and non-negotiable right to free expression, and since it not only accepts but encourages the idea of a multilingual India, is there not something profoundly unconstitutional in writers and thinkers or in wilfully suppressing peoples languages? The UNESCO brief for language rights describes denial of mother tongues or any wilful concealment of a mother tongue by the member-states as equivalent to genocide A strong word, indeed, but necessary, the UNESCO thinks.
Quite ironically, the justification for both actions is drawn from a common source; and that is, a deeply flawed idea of nationalism. It holds that anyone critical of the current regime is an enemy of India, an anti-national trying to spread disaffection towards the State, or in simpler words, seditious.
With respect to languages, the argument says that if we have a large multiplicity of languages,
it may result in disintegration of our national territory. Love for the nation and its integrity are, of course, of prime importance. But a nation becomes great by the thought and knowledge it produces, by nurturing freedom of the mind and by the fearlessness of its citizens. States that consciously encourage creating societies that are incapable or cannot critique the system generate what in ancient Latin is described as hegemony. And, governments that become intolerant of differences of opinion become heavy with hubris. Hubris and hegemony produce a pervasive mediocrity. Excessively proud rulers, intellectual mediocrity and lynch-mobs form a combine that threatens speech and forces civilisations to close their minds.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/main-article/great-purge-686689.html
Courtesy: Deccan Herald
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Rise from your knees; cease your mindless murmurs to a god who does not exist or, at best, does not care; and accept the world as it actually is. There is learning to do, there are discoveries to be made and there is knowledge to win. The blackness has not yet fully lifted, but we can only strive for greater illumination when we clutch science as, as Carl Sagan might have said, our candle in the dark.
— Dan Ferrisi
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"Keep your Marxist hands off Gritty": WSJ writer fumes over allegations that a furry mascot is antifa
By Rex Santus Oct 8, 2018
Gritty, the bright orange, furry, 7-foot creature of Philadelphian origin, is no longer a simple mascot for a hockey team: Antifa activists have co-opted him as their own. In fact, they so effectively claimed Gritty as a working-class, leftist icon that the Wall Street Journal was forced to publish an anguished op-ed Monday demanding that these people keep their "Marxist hands off Gritty."
"The same leftists who want statues of Thomas Jefferson removed are now petitioning for Gritty to replace Mayor Frank Rizzo on a downtown mural," Jillian Kay Melchior said in the Wall Street Journal op-ed.
"Gritty belongs to Philadelphia, not to far-left activists. Still, in an era when everything from Nike and the NFL to your local restaurant is a political battlefield, this development is as predictable as it is sad," she said. "Not only can't we have nice things; we can't even have silly, creepy things."
Leftist activists immediately latched on to Gritty after the Philadelphia Flyers introduced him as their new mascot in late September. The socialist magazine Jacobin, for example, tweeted on Sept. 26 that "Gritty is a worker."
An anti-capitalist Gritty parody account sprouted up on Twitter on Oct. 2, and it has already amassed thousands of followers.
The Daily Beast reported last week that Gritty is an "anti-fascist now, and there's nothing you can do about it." But it's more than just a joke on the internet. When Donald Trump visited Philadelphia last week, protesters showed up carrying signs that showed Gritty waving an antifa flag and wearing anarchist imagery.
"Gritty is a symbol of Philadelphia," Philadelphia-based group The Liberation Project told the Daily Beast. "It's not that he's an anti-fascist character; it's that he's representative of the people, and the people of Philadelphia are grittily anti-fascist."
And in a twist that may become even more troubling to op-ed writers at the Wall Street Journal, the Twitter love for Gritty has taken on a distinctly romantic edge, with some even calling for sexy Gritty Halloween costumes.
Is NOTHING sacred?
Cover image: PHILADELPHIA, PA - SEPTEMBER 27: New Flyers mascot Gritty entertains fans during the Preseason game between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers on September 27, 2018 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Kyle Ross/Icon Sportswire via AP Images.
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Sarah Grey Bio, Parents, Boyfriend
Sarah Grey was born on 19 May as per her bio...the young age of 22...height of 5 feet 8 inches...with a weight of 54 kgs...Of Canadian nationality...embraces an ethnicity of...her on-screen parents...less girly and more like a tomboy...important occasions together...is interested in singing...hiding her secret boyfriend or...to reveal her dating status...
Sarah Grey is an actress known for her role in TV shows like Bates Motel, where she plays the role of young Norma Bates.
Her appearance in other shows like Legends of Tomorrow, Almost Human and the 2018 Netflix show, The Order has won her a lot of adoration from her fans. Her portrayal of Alyssa, the female lead, in The Order is exemplary!
Sarah Grey Bio: Age, Parents
Sarah Grey was born in Nanaimo, Canada on 19 May 1996. Of Canadian nationality, she has not revealed her ethnicity yet. When she was young, Sarah was less girly and more like a tomboy- she was a climber and used to climb walls and trees!
The actress is very close to her mother and her sister Allison Grey, who is a photographer, hairstylist, and makeup artist. She regularly posts pictures with her family, which shows that she shares a special bond with them.
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Sarah Grey spends quality time with her family on 28 August 2016 (Photo: Sarah Grey's Instagram)
Sarah Grey's popularity is only increasing and today she has become an important person in the industry. However, she still has not forgotten her parents and their contributions in her life. She regularly visits them and even goes on trips and celebrates important occasions together.
Sarah is not only close to her biological parents but is also very close to her on-screen parents. Her on-screen father Jack Wagner is constantly featured in her Instagram and Twitter posts, which shows that she likes to have a good bond with all of her coworkers.
At the young age of 22, Sarah stands at a tall height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) and maintains her weight of 54 kgs (119 lbs). Her body is of ideal shape, and her good looks and demeanor just compliment her body. No wonder many men are already going crazy about her!
An interesting fact about the actress- she believes music is the best therapy and is interested in singing.
Is The Actress Dating A Boyfriend?
Sarah is a very private person and does not like to reveal much information about her love life. Sarah is very active on social media, but her Twitter and Instagram posts rarely involve any men that can be suspected of being her boyfriend.
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Even in the past, Sarah Grey's name has not been associated with any men. Either she is very good at hiding her secret boyfriend, or she has not been involved in any of the serious relationships until now. But, she is only 22 right now, so the latter one seems more plausible.
It seems like Sarah is currently focusing on her career and is not dating anyone. If she finds any man with whom she wants to share a relationship with, she will undoubtedly introduce him to her fans.
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Amber Waves is a 4 x 6 set of 9 individual stamps.
Beautiful wheat stalks and pretty borders are simply waiting for ink and cardstock.
Create stunning Thanksgiving cards as well as gorgeous thank you cards throughout the year.
For a fun design element glue burlap threads over the tops of the wheat image.
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Navigating Uncertainty in Inflation Markets: The European Case
Eurostat's recent revision of the HICPxT index could have two potentially wide-reaching effects for euro area inflation-linked bonds (ILB) investors.
inflation, europe, real return
By Lorenzo Pagani April 2019
Navigating Uncertainty in Inflation Markets: The UK Case
Investors in UK inflation-linked bonds are facing two critical sources of structural uncertainty: Brexit-induced volatility and questions about the deeply entrenched (yet problematic) Retail Price Index (RPI).
inflation, uk, macro & markets, real return
By Lorenzo Pagani March 2019
January 2016 January '16
https://global.pimco.com/en-gbl/69bt818v7vjm
Inflation, Growth and Politics Will Guide Central Banks' Hands in Europe in 2016
We expect the result will be alternating periods of stability and volatility.
By Mike Amey, Andrew Bosomworth, Lorenzo Pagani January 2016
September 2015 September '15
https://global.pimco.com/en-gbl/ldtm50dm2ws
Has Europe Turned a Corner?
We expect above-trend real growth in the eurozone over the cyclical horizon, but challenges remain to achieve longer-term inflation targets.
inflation, central bank, bank of england, european central bank
By Mike Amey, Andrew Bosomworth, Lorenzo Pagani September 2015
https://global.pimco.com/en-gbl/5xdsxzxtwy5f
Can ECB Policy Heal Europe's Ills?
We expect the eurozone to benefit from a number of cyclical tailwinds that will likely see above-trend growth and help to reverse the decline in core inflation.
By Mike Amey, Andrew Bosomworth, Lorenzo Pagani March 2015
Lorenzo Pagani
Head of European Government Bond Portfolio Management
Dr. Pagani is a managing director and portfolio manager in the Munich office and head of the European rates desk. He is a member of the global bond and global real return portfolio management teams. Additionally, he is a member of the European Portfolio Committee, the Counterparty Risk Committee and the Best Execution Committee. He also serves as head of talent management for portfolio management outside of the U.S. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2004, he was with the nuclear engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and with Procter & Gamble in Italy. He has 16 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT. He graduated from the Financial Technology Option program of MIT/Sloan Business School and holds a joint master of science degree from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy and the Ecole Centrale de Paris in France.
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Together, we can work it out with Mediation.
I want to help you get through your divorce or the breakup of your relationship.
I am a family law attorney who has worked with divorcing families for almost 35 years.
There is nothing pleasant about getting a divorce or breaking up with your significant other. It can be very difficult. Are you feeling anger, hurt, pain, guilt, shame, or sadness? You are not alone.
So, how can you, who are going through one of the worst experiences of your life, be expected to make decisions that will affect you for the rest of your life? You are at your worst when you need to be at your best.
I can help. I will explain the legal issues that you and your significant other need to talk about… And, I can help you talk about them in a safe, respectful environment. This doesn't mean that mediation won't be free from emotions, but wouldn't you rather meet with your significant other in a private conference room than in a courtroom? Couples that work out their own agreements emerge with fewer scars than those who fight tooth and nail. They save time, they save money, and most importantly, they are able to remain civil to each other.
What if you and your significant other are getting along, in spite of the decision to separate? I can help you by giving you legal information to make certain all of your legal issues are being addressed.
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Is it a must-win for Slippery Rock?
I think it is. Even if Hillsdale loses next week to Indy;they are in with their win today.
Yea, A one loss Kutztown gets in over a two loss SRU. An SRU win makes it interesting. WCU and SRU in and Ktuz out?
Crazy to think a 1-loss PSAC team could be left out.
The playoffs have started for Slimey. There is no luxury for a loss now.
A lot depends on the Gmac games, and who loses the Post New haven game. Its very possible that both Hillsdale and Tiffin lose next week. If Rock wins, Hillsdale loses and new haven loses, I think the Psac gets 3 teams in. THough Edinboro is not a gimme for KU.
Tiffin loses again they may be out, too.
If Edinboro can't figure out it's passing attack they'll nudge Kutztown toward the playoffs. The teams are too similar statistically speaking for Edinboro's offense to be as one dimensional as it was against IUP.
I would say 4 teams have already locked their playoff participatation. Notre Dame, West Chester, New Haven, Post. Hillsdale is probably the only team that may get with 2 losses. I think the only way the Psac gets 3 teams is if Findlay beats Tiffin.
Opens the door for a 9-2 Ohio Dominican.
Maybe. They took an SOS anchor yesterday. Another one next week.
You may have Shepherd, ODU, IUP and Fairmont all with 2 losses. The math can sort it from there.
Unless the both get in the rankings this week; they have no chance.
The loser of Post/New Haven will fail only to 6th or 7th depending on other results. The NE-10 is getting 2 teams in.
Its possible that no 2 loss teams get in. Rock, WCU, KU, New haven, Post NDC Tiffin, and even Hillsdale could have 1 or 0 losses.
and 6 of those teams are average squads!
That's what sitting in the back of my mind. SR1 has - if I counted correctly - eight teams with no more than one loss.
That never seems to matter come selection time.
I know this. This is why this region won't have a chance in the final 4.
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Friday is traditionally a far busier day than Thursday at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard, and so it proved this year with crowds flocking to the paddocks and race routes.
The 70th Anniversary celebrations for Porsche continued with a display at the front of the house of cars, music and fireworks.
It wasn't the only display centring on the house on Friday. Renowned trials bike rider Dougie Lampkin put on a show on the roof of the house. Back on terra firma, the Borg-Warner Trophy – an impressive 1.6-metre tall trophy awarded to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 – made an appearance on the front steps. It's the first time the trophy has been to Europe, and only the second time it has left the USA, in 82 years.
There was lots of action on the hillclimb too, with F1 cars from past and present taking part for the first time this year.
Some of the contenders for Sunday's timed runs were putting down early markers too. Andy Reid driving the BAC Mono headed the time sheets, followed by Peter Dumbreck in the electric NIO EP9.
Slightly slower were two autonomous efforts. A classic Mustang converted by Siemens took a gentle drive up the hill, along with the completely unmanned Roborace car.
The Bonhams auction saw action of a different kind. An Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato that has been in one owner's collection for 47 years sold for £10m, while a BMW 507 owned from new by John Surtees sold at £3.8m.
It's been an eventful day, as you can see from the gallery below.
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H. D. Macleod and the Origins of the Theory of Finance in Economic Development
H. D. Macleod and the Origins of the Theory of Finance in Economic Development Skaggs, Neil T. 2003-09-01 00:00:00 History of Political Economy 35:3 (2003) before 1870.3 With few (but important) exceptions the period between 1870 and 1914 was no different. The modern literature on the relationship between financial development and economic growth and development is rooted in research conducted during the 1950s and 1960s. Much of this work was applied analysis done by policy advisers employed by international agencies (e.g., the study of the Colombian economy directed by Lauchlin Currie [1950]). Some research by academic economists specializing in problems of economic development touched on financial issues (e.g., Gerschenkron 1962), and Raymond Goldsmith's collections of empirical data on financial variables (e.g., 1955, 1969) provided fodder for theorizing. However, the modern academic literature stems largely from the work of such monetary economists as Edward S. Shaw and his student John G. Gurley (e.g., Gurley and Shaw 1955; Shaw 1964). Shaw (1908–1994) was drawn to analyze the monetary problems of developing economies both by his personal approach to monetary theory and, later, by his dissatisfaction with the orthodox Keynesian and monetarist views that dominated the field.4 Having failed to obtain acceptance of his ideas as applied to the monetary systems of developed economies, Shaw turned to the analysis of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png History of Political Economy Duke University Press http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/h-d-macleod-and-the-origins-of-the-theory-of-finance-in-economic-SbLFo2UXS0
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History of Political Economy 35:3 (2003) before 1870.3 With few (but important) exceptions the period between 1870 and 1914 was no different. The modern literature on the relationship between financial development and economic growth and development is rooted in research conducted during the 1950s and 1960s. Much of this work was applied analysis done by policy advisers employed by international agencies (e.g., the study of the Colombian economy directed by Lauchlin Currie [1950]). Some research by academic economists specializing in problems of economic development touched on financial issues (e.g., Gerschenkron 1962), and Raymond Goldsmith's collections of empirical data on financial variables (e.g., 1955, 1969) provided fodder for theorizing. However, the modern academic literature stems largely from the work of such monetary economists as Edward S. Shaw and his student John G. Gurley (e.g., Gurley and Shaw 1955; Shaw 1964). Shaw (1908–1994) was drawn to analyze the monetary problems of developing economies both by his personal approach to monetary theory and, later, by his dissatisfaction with the orthodox Keynesian and monetarist views that dominated the field.4 Having failed to obtain acceptance of his ideas as applied to the monetary systems of developed economies, Shaw turned to the analysis of
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CA Ct. App.
SANTANTONIO v. WESTINGHOUSE BROADCASTING COMPANY INC
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Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 7, California.
Gerald SANTANTONIO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WESTINGHOUSE BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.
No. B070149.
Decided: May 25, 1994
Inman, Weisz & Steinberg, Drew E. Pomerance and Hali E. Ziff, Beverly Hills, for plaintiff and appellant. Hill, Farrer & Burrill, Kyle D. Brown, Jack R. White and Ronald W. Novotny, Los Angeles, for defendants and respondents.
Plaintiff and appellant, Gerald Santantonio ("Santantonio"), appeals from an award of costs against him in the sum of $96,883.12, following his unsuccessful suit against defendants and respondents.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SYNOPSIS
Santantonio and two other plaintiffs, Gerald A. Velona ("Velona") and Joseph R. Cochrane ("Cochrane"), were former account executives employed by Los Angeles radio station KFWB, owned by defendant and respondent Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. ("WBC"). Santantonio and Velona claimed that they were terminated by KFWB because of their age. Cochrane claimed that age discrimination forced him to leave KFWB for another job which did not pay as well. Plaintiffs also sued WBC's parent corporation, Westinghouse Electric, Inc. and two managerial employees of KFWB, Jack Hutchison ("Hutchison") and Joanne Cunha ("Cunha"). Cunha was dismissed as a defendant at the start of the trial.
On September 6, 1991, defendants served on plaintiffs' counsel an "offer to compromise," pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 998 1 as follows:
"Pursuant to C.C.P. § 998, defendants Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., Westinghouse Electric, Inc., Jack Hutchison, and Joanne Cunha hereby offer that plaintiffs Gerard Velona, Joseph Cochrane, and Jerry Santantonio take judgment against them in the following amounts:
"1. That plaintiff Velona take judgment against defendants in the amount of $100,000, exclusive of taxable costs incurred to the date of judgment;
"2. That plaintiff Cochrane take judgment against defendants in the amount of $100,000, exclusive of taxable costs incurred to the date of judgment; and
"3. That plaintiff Santantonio take judgment against defendants in the amount of $100,000, exclusive of taxable costs incurred to the date of judgment.
"Pursuant to C.C.P. § 998(b), this offer shall remain open for a period of thirty (30) days, during which time plaintiffs may file a proof of acceptance of the judgment and the court may enter judgment accordingly."
It is undisputed that the offer to compromise was rejected by plaintiffs.
Following a lengthy jury trial, the trial judge granted a motion for directed verdict in favor of Westinghouse Electric, Inc. On February 13, 1992, the jury then returned verdicts in favor of WBC and Hutchison as to the claims of Santantonio and Velona. The jury also returned a verdict in favor of WBC on Cochrane's claim against it, but found in favor of Cochrane on his claim against defendant Hutchison. The jury awarded Cochrane past economic damages in the sum of $85,000 and emotional distress damages in the sum of $100,000. The trial judge then awarded Cochrane an additional sum of $68,844 for future economic losses.2
In post-trial proceedings, Cochrane was also awarded costs in the sum of $3,220.60 and attorney's fees of $176,962, for a total judgment of $434,026.60. Additionally, the trial court granted Cochrane's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict against WBC, thereby making WBC jointly and severally liable for the damages awarded against Hutchison. On April 23, 1992, the judgment was amended to reflect the aforementioned post-trial rulings.
On February 28, 1992, defendants filed a memorandum of costs claiming $365,948.21 as recoverable costs against all of the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs moved to strike and tax defendants' memorandum of costs. Before the hearing on plaintiffs' motion to strike and tax costs, Velona filed a petition in bankruptcy and the trial court granted Cochrane's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict against WBC. In view of these developments before the hearing, defendants conceded that an allocation of costs only against Santantonio was being sought.
On May 20, 1992, the court made an order reflecting rulings on various pending post-trial motions and issues, including the matter of costs. At the request of Santantonio's counsel, a further order was made on June 1, 1992, to clarify certain parts of the May 20 order. As a result of the May 20 and June 1 orders, defendants were awarded costs against Santantonio in the sum of $96,883.12, consisting of the following:
Regarding the expert fees and support costs allowed under section 998, the court explained its reasons as follows:
"The recovery of expert witness fees depends first on whether the CCP 998 offer was valid. Court finds that it was. There existed a sufficient joint interest here in that all defendants were sued jointly on all causes of action. Further, the court relied on a commonality in determining plaintiff's successful motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The amount of the offer was also reasonable based on the substantial evidence of poor performance documented by defendants.
"The question of the reasonableness of the amounts claimed remains. Defendants claim that Mr. Welch is the leading figure in the industry and that his firm was not retained until shortly before trial and that all the preparation and staff time was necessary and reasonable. Court will accept that the status of the two expert witnesses is sufficient enough to justify their fees. Therefore, fees for Mr. Welch are allowed in the amount of $47,162.50 and fees for Mr. Ward are allowed in the amount of $40,668.75. One-third of that amount is payable by Mr. Santantonio; to wit, $29,277.08. However, they seem to have hired some very high-priced talent to perform tasks which require skills that do not appear that awesome. For purposes of allowing staff fees, economists will be reimbursed at $75.00 per hour, programmers at $75.00 per hour, research assistants at $60.00 per hour, data entry clerks at $12.00 per hour and photocopy people at $8.00 per hour. If the calculations are correct, those allowable costs for staff time amount to $179,629.75, one-third of which is $59,867.58."
APPELLANT'S CONTENTIONS
Santantonio attacks the judgment on the ground that the trial court improperly awarded costs under section 998 and, in any event, abused its discretion as to the particular items and amounts which were allowed. As hereinafter discussed, there is no merit to these contentions.
DISCUSSIONA. DEFENDANTS' SECTION 998 OFFER WAS VALID.
Santantonio's principal contention is that the trial court should not have awarded any costs under section 998, on the ground that defendants' offer to compromise was not valid.3 In summary, Santantonio states three basic reasons for his contention: (1) the offer only provided for acceptance by plaintiffs jointly; (2) it was made jointly by defendants who are not united in interest; and (3) it was not intended to be a realistic offer to each plaintiff, but rather to provide a basis to shift litigation costs to plaintiffs under the guise of expert fees.
1. The Section 998 Offer Did Not Require Acceptance By All Plaintiffs. In Any Event, This Issue Has Been Raised For The First Time On Appeal And Should Not Be Considered.
Santantonio correctly points out that under interpretative decisions, a section 998 offer ("998 offer") made to multiple parties is valid only if it is expressly apportioned among them and not conditioned on acceptance by all of them. (See, e.g., Randles v. Lowry (1970) 4 Cal.App.3d 68, 74, 84 Cal.Rptr. 321; Meissner v. Paulson (1989) 212 Cal.App.3d 785, 791, 260 Cal.Rptr. 826; Hutchins v. Waters (1975) 51 Cal.App.3d 69, 73, 123 Cal.Rptr. 819; Taing v. Johnson Scaffolding Co. (1992) 9 Cal.App.4th 579, 586, 11 Cal.Rptr.2d 820.) A single, lump sum offer to multiple plaintiffs which requires them to agree to apportionment among themselves is not valid. (Randles v. Lowry, supra, 4 Cal.App.3d at p. 74, 84 Cal.Rptr. 321.) Likewise, a lump sum offer by a plaintiff to multiple defendants may be invalid for the same reasons. (Taing v. Johnson Scaffolding Co., supra, 9 Cal.App.4th at p. 586, 11 Cal.Rptr.2d 820.)
The instant case does not involve a lump sum or unapportioned offer. Rather, since defendants expressly offered $100,000 to each plaintiff, the plaintiffs did not have to agree among themselves as to how the offer would be apportioned. Santantonio concedes as much, but argues that this case is like Hutchins.
In Hutchins, two plaintiffs sued one defendant for damages arising out of an automobile accident. The defendant made a 998 offer to both plaintiffs for an aggregate sum which was expressly apportioned between the two of them. But the offer also expressly provided that neither plaintiff could accept unless the other also accepted. The court held that the offer was invalid because section 998 does not contemplate that kind of "conditional settlement offer" to two plaintiffs "to become effective only if accepted by both." (Emphasis deleted.) (Hutchins v. Waters, supra, 51 Cal.App.3d at p. 73, 123 Cal.Rptr. 819.)
The offer made by defendants in this case is distinguishable from the one made in Hutchins. Nothing in defendants' offer specifically stated that the $100,000 offered to Santantonio, individually and by name, could be accepted by him only if the other two plaintiffs accepted their offers. We discern that Santantonio is really suggesting that the offer made in this case should now be judicially construed as impliedly imposing a condition that all three plaintiffs were required to accept, since the offer did not expressly provide that the plaintiffs could accept separately. We decline the invitation to imply such a condition.
Initially, it should be noted that the record on appeal does not reveal that this issue was raised in the trial court. In his moving papers in the trial court, the only grounds asserted by Santantonio for his claim that the 998 offer was invalid were that "there was no unity of interest between defendants Westinghouse Electric and Westinghouse Broadcasting and thus no possible joint or respondeat superior liability," and "the § 998 offers to plaintiffs were invalid because they were not reasonable or good faith offers." The record reveals that those two points only were urged by Santantonio's trial counsel during oral argument on Santantonio's motion to tax costs. Having failed to raise the issue in the trial court, the issue was waived, and we will not consider it for the first time on appeal. (Evers v. Cornelson (1984) 163 Cal.App.3d 310, 315, 209 Cal.Rptr. 497.)
Secondly, Santantonio has cited no case which supports his present interpretation of defendants' offer, and we note that such an interpretation would not serve the policy of section 998. The purpose of the statute is to encourage settlements, and it "achieves its aim by punishing a party who fails to accept a reasonable offer from the other party." (Original emphasis.) (Elrod v. Oregon Cummins Diesel, Inc. (1987) 195 Cal.App.3d 692, 698–699, 241 Cal.Rptr. 108.) A reasonable inference from the record is that Santantonio rejected the offer by defendants because he and his counsel considered it to be far too low, and not because they thought he was precluded from accepting unless the other two plaintiffs also agreed to take $100,000. We note that Santantonio reiterates all of the reasons why he did not consider the $100,000 offer to him to be reasonable. The comments of his counsel during oral argument in the trial court reflect similar reiterations.
Accordingly, we infer that Santantonio is attempting to avoid the cost shifting purpose behind section 998 based on a claimed procedural defect devised by his appellate counsel for the first time on appeal. If the statutory purpose behind section 998 is to be served in this case, we cannot permit Santantonio to avoid the consequences of his decision by claiming now that the offer ought to be construed as one which he could not have accepted anyway. Such a construction would be strained, and we decline to do so.
2. It Was Proper For Defendants To Make A Joint Offer.
Santantonio next contends, as he did below, that defendants' offer was invalid because it was jointly made. He asserts that a joint offer by multiple defendants is not permissible "unless the Defendants' interests are identical and indivisible, referred to in the case law as unity of interest." Based on that view of the law, he concludes the defendants' joint offer was rendered invalid because defendant Westinghouse Electric was granted a directed verdict on the ground that it had no joint or respondeat superior liability.
Santantonio is mistaken. The case of Hurlbut v. Sonora Community Hospital (1989) 207 Cal.App.3d 388, 254 Cal.Rptr. 840, cited by Santantonio, involved a suit by parents and a child against a hospital for injuries resulting from the hospital's alleged negligent failure to perform a timely caesarean section procedure. The plaintiffs' joint 998 offer to the defendant was held to be invalid pursuant to the following reasoning:
"Unlike the cases sanctioning a plaintiff's joint offer to multiple defendants where they are held to be jointly and severally liable for the total judgment [citations], plaintiffs' interests were not identical. There was no single, indivisible injury to evaluate for settlement purposes." (Id., at p. 410, 254 Cal.Rptr. 840.)
In the instant case, each plaintiff did claim to have suffered a single, indivisible injury, for which the defendants were alleged to be jointly and severally liable. Hence, the case of Brown v. Nolan (1979) 98 Cal.App.3d 445, 159 Cal.Rptr. 469, cited by the court in Hurlbut, is much more like the instant case and the court's rationale is apposite. In Brown, a joint offer by two defendants to a plaintiff was held to be valid under section 998 under the following reasoning:
"The parties to this appeal agree that in this action a single plaintiff sued two defendants on a theory of joint and several liability. 'Contributory wrongdoers, whether joint tortfeasors or concurrent or successive tortfeasors, are ordinarily jointly and severally liable for the entire damage. [Citations.] [¶] Hence, when they are joined in an action it is improper to apportion compensatory damages among them; judgment for the full amount should be rendered against each.' [Citation.] When the facts of this case are viewed within the context of these general principles it becomes clear that the offer in issue was one contemplated by section 998.
"Plaintiff's argument that if section 998 is strictly construed it cannot be read as providing for joint offers because it speaks in the singular ('any party may serve an offer․ If an offer made by a defendant ․ [Italics added.].') is not persuasive. Where, as here, defendants are sued upon a theory of joint and several liability, each is potentially liable for the full amount of any judgment. Therefore, the offer of compromise in question is properly read as an offer by each defendant to plaintiff that judgment in the amount of $12,500 may be taken against each one of them, jointly and severally. Thus, the statute's speaking in the singular makes perfect sense when it is applied to defendants sued on such a theory. The trial court erred in holding that section 998 was inapplicable." (Emphasis added and deleted.) (Fns. omitted.) (Id., 98 Cal.App.3d at p. 451, 159 Cal.Rptr. 469.)
To the same effect see Winston Square Homeowner's Assn. v. Centex West, Inc. (1989) 213 Cal.App.3d 282, 294, 261 Cal.Rptr. 605, where the court upheld a joint 998 offer as follows:
"Joint offers by more than one defendant fall within the provisions of section 998 when defendants are united in interest and are sued on a theory of joint and several liability. [Citations.] Here, all defendants were not united in interest. Nevertheless, the application of section 998 appears appropriate in this case. Though the joint offer did not break down the offer as to particular areas of damage or defendants, Wilsey & Ham received a judgment in its favor. Wilsey & Ham was an absolute prevailing party—it was completely absolved of any liability. As Wilsey & Ham contends, the subsequent settlement between plaintiff and the other defendants on issues other than drainage was irrelevant as far as Wilsey & Ham was concerned." (Fn. omitted.)
Thus, Santantonio misconstrues the application of the cited cases when he suggests that defendants' 998 offer was rendered invalid when Westinghouse Electric ultimately avoided liability through a directed verdict. Santantonio has not included the pleadings in the appellate record. However, by judicial notice under Evidence Code section 452, subdivision (d), it is seen that all of the defendants, including Westinghouse Electric, were sued on the theory that they were jointly and severally liable for the alleged age discrimination asserted by all of the plaintiffs, and defendants filed a joint answer to the complaint. Hence, this case is governed by the rationale of Brown.4
3. The Offer Was Reasonable.
As a last attack on the validity of defendants' 998 offer, Santantonio argues that it was not reasonable. Santantonio misconstrues the law.
a. Defendants' offer was prima facie reasonable. Santantonio has the burden of showing an abuse of discretion by the trial court on appeal.
It is true that the courts have held that a good faith requirement must be read into section 998. In Wear v. Calderon (1981) 121 Cal.App.3d 818, 175 Cal.Rptr. 566, an offer of only one dollar by a defendant in a personal injury action was held not to serve the purpose of the statute because there was no chance the plaintiff would accept such a nominal offer to settle the case. Similarly, in Pineda v. Los Angeles Turf Club, Inc. (1980) 112 Cal.App.3d 53, 62–63, 169 Cal.Rptr. 66, both the trial court and court of appeal held that a settlement offer of $2,500 made by a defendant was so disproportionate to plaintiff's demand of $10,000,000 that it was unreasonable to expect that it would be accepted. The court of appeal held it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial judge to have denied defendant's claim for expert fees under 998, even though the defendant was absolved of liability by the jury. (Id., at p. 63, 169 Cal.Rptr. 66.)
Based on like reasoning, in Elrod v. Oregon Cummins Diesel, Inc., supra, 195 Cal.App.3d 692, 241 Cal.Rptr. 108, a $15,001 offer by one of several defendants in a case where the plaintiff's personal injury damages ultimately were determined to be in excess of $1,000,000 was found to be an invalid "token" by the trial court, and that determination was upheld by the Court of Appeal. In so doing, however, the Court of Appeal acknowledged the following rules which are relevant to the instant case as well:
"It is the general rule that where a party shows a prima facie entitlement to costs, the burden is on an objector to prove the costs should be disallowed. [Citations.] Where, as here, the offeror obtains a judgment more favorable than its offer, the judgment constitutes prima facie evidence showing the offer was reasonable and the offeror is eligible for costs as specified in section 998. The burden is therefore properly on plaintiff, as offeree, to prove otherwise.
"Finally, whether a section 998 offer was reasonable and made in good faith is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court." (Id., at p. 700, 241 Cal.Rptr. 108.)
In Elrod, facts very different from the instant case led both the trial court and Court of Appeal to conclude that the offer was not good enough to qualify as a reasonable one. The plaintiff had been rendered a paraplegic in a trucking accident. The jury ultimately determined his damage to be $1,183,350, but also determined that he was 60 percent at fault. The defendant who made the $15,001 settlement offer was found to be 10 percent liable. However, the plaintiff's damages ultimately were required to be reduced by a $500,000 settlement received from other defendants and by $137,504 received as worker's compensation benefits. As a result of these fortuitous offsets, the net recovery against the defendant who made the $15,001 offer turned out to be zero. In view of those facts, the Court of Appeal held—"In this case, no abuse of discretion has been shown. The trial court could conclude plaintiff carried his burden of proving that, at the time the offer was made, it was not a reasonable prediction of the amount Cummins would have to pay plaintiff following a trial." (Id., at p. 700, 241 Cal.Rptr. 108.)
In the instant case, the shoe is on the other foot on appeal. Here, the trial judge who heard all of the evidence and presumably was in the best position to evaluate defendants' $100,000 offer to Santantonio concluded that it was reasonable. The court's ruling expressly states: "The amount of the offer was also reasonable based on the substantial evidence of poor performance documented by defendants." Indeed, it is significant that in this case, Santantonio's failure to obtain a judgment more favorable than the defendants' offer did not result from fortuitous offsets like those in Elrod. Rather, it was the result of a complete defense verdict against him on the issue of liability. For that reason alone, the offer must be regarded as prima facie reasonable.
b. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that defendants' offer was reasonable.
We find no merit to Santantonio's arguments as to why defendants' $100,000 offer was not a realistic one at the time it was made. Santantonio's brief states: "To Mr. Santantonio, the Defendants made an entirely unreasonable offer [because they offered him] less than one-ninth of his projected economic losses." But the mere fact that Santantonio claimed projected economic losses of over $900,000 does not mean that defendants' $100,000 offer was unreasonable or unrealistic. Defendants contended that they had no liability to Santantonio at all, and the jury ultimately agreed. Moreover, defendants contended that the damage estimates by plaintiffs' expert were greatly excessive, especially in Santantonio's case.
Defendants' expert economist, Michael Ward, testified that he estimated Santantonio's past economic losses to be between $120,624 and $198,959, depending upon whether it took Santantonio one year or two years to obtain another job in radio or television sales. Based on his survey of available jobs in the industry, Dr. Ward testified that there was no good reason why Santantonio should not have been able to get another sales job within one to two years after being terminated by KFWB.
Dr. Ward further testified that he estimated Santantonio's projected future economic losses to be no more than another $79,674 to $87,273. Dr. Ward explained that the projected future losses were attributable to Santantonio's loss of pension benefits at KFWB and the slight differential in pay he might have on another job based on the average salary for account executives in the industry, projected out to the time of his expected retirement under Department of Labor tables. Thus, Dr. Ward's highest estimate of the combined past and projected future economic losses for Santantonio amounted to $286,232. Defendants offered to settle for approximately 35 percent of that, even though they strongly believed (as the jury found) that they had no liability at all.
Santantonio also seeks to justify his rejection of the $100,000 settlement offer because defendants offered the same amount to Cochrane, even though Cochrane's claimed economic losses were only one-third as much as Santantonio's, and Cochrane then recovered more than four times the offer. Santantonio argues: "There could be any of a hundred reasons why the jury did not find for Mr. Santantonio, none of which have anything to do with the value of his claim." Any evaluation of Santantonio's claim, however, would prudently take into account the possible reasons why a jury might find defendants were not liable for any claimed age discrimination against him. A complete transcript of the record has not been provided to this appellate court, but a reasonable inference is that there were indeed very good reasons why the jury found against him and Velona, but in favor of Cochrane. Poor performance on the part of Santantonio and Velona is evident from Judge Leahy's statement that "the substantial evidence of poor performance documented by defendants" supported his ruling that defendants' $100,000 offer to Santantonio was reasonable.
c. Santantonio's claim that defendants attempted to trick plaintiffs with their section 998 offer is non-meritorious.
Santantonio maintains defendants attempted to "trick Plaintiffs by their 998 Offer," and he was unaware when he rejected it that defendants would use it as a "ploy" to "shift the bulk of their litigation costs" to him. He says he would have considered the offer differently if he had thought rejection would expose him to such exorbitant amounts for defendants' expert fees.
Santantonio overlooks the fact that section 998 expressly allows a party to shift part of his or her litigation costs to the other side when the statutory conditions are met; and those costs may, in the court's discretion, include expert fees. Experienced litigation counsel know that expert fees can be very substantial, depending on the nature of issues litigated. We assume Santantonio's trial counsel competently explained this exposure to him at the time defendants' 998 offer was evaluated and rejected. Santantonio's complaints about the nature and amount of the expert fees ultimately allowed by the trial court are not relevant to the issue of whether the 998 offer was valid. Those complaints go only to the separate question, which we discuss later, of whether the court below abused its discretion in determining what should properly be allowed under section 998, given the fact that Santantonio did not obtain a more favorable judgment than what was offered to him.
Santantonio mistakenly relies on Elrod in support of his argument that he should now be relieved of the statutory consequences of his rejection of defendants' 998 offer because he misjudged how much exposure he might have for defendants' costs. The argument is out of context. The Elrod court's discussion about viewing the reasonableness of an offer in the light of what the offeree knows or does not know at the time the offer is made has reference to facts bearing on the evaluation of the offeree's own claim. The discussion did not involve an evaluation of what the cost exposure might be if the offer were to be rejected. This is made clear when the language quoted in Santantonio's brief is placed back in proper context:
"If the offer is found reasonable by the first test, it must then satisfy a second test: whether defendant's information was known or reasonably should have been known to plaintiff. This second test is necessary because the section 998 mechanism works only where the offeree has reason to know the offer is a reasonable one. If the offeree has no reason to know the offer is reasonable, then the offeree cannot be expected to accept the offer.
"Thus, suppose defendant's files contain 'dynamite' information likely to insulate it from liability. However, the information is subject to a privilege and is not discoverable by plaintiff. Defendant intends to waive the privilege and use the information at trial. Defendant makes a low offer premised on its exclusive knowledge; an objective appraisal of other circumstances, including defendant's likely liability for damages, would indicate the offer is patently unreasonable. Unless defendant communicates its exclusive knowledge to plaintiff with its offer, the offer is not reasonable and does not qualify as a valid section 998 offer. Since defendant knew or reasonably should have known plaintiff lacked information necessary to evaluate the offer, defendant did not make the offer in good faith for purposes of section 998.
"However, we emphasize the reasonableness of defendant's offer does not depend on information actually known to plaintiff but rather on information that was known or reasonably should have been known. The latter standard is an objective one: would a reasonable person have discovered the information? A contrary conclusion would make defendant's good faith incongruously depend on plaintiff's subjective knowledge and would reward plaintiffs who are dilatory in pursuing discovery. Thus, if a defendant makes a low offer shortly before trial based upon potent evidence likely to insulate defendant from liability, and if the evidence was reasonably available to plaintiff, defendant's offer may qualify as a valid section 998 offer even though plaintiff did not in fact know of the information because he failed to investigate or pursue discovery." (Emphasis added.) (Elrod v. Oregon Cummins Diesel, Inc., supra, 195 Cal.App.3d at pp. 699–700, 241 Cal.Rptr. 108.)
There is nothing in the record to suggest that the facts which defendants believed would prove that they had not terminated Santantonio because of his age were not as well known to him as they were to defendants. But Santantonio consciously disputed defendants' reasons by taking the matter to trial, thereby making it necessary for defendants to engage experts to help prove their case. Under section 998, defendants are entitled to recover a share of those costs from Santantonio, and nothing in Elrod provides him with a legitimate excuse for failing to properly evaluate his statutory exposure.
B. THE TRIAL COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DETERMINING WHAT COSTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED.
Santantonio repeatedly asserts that the trial court improperly allowed the expert fees as a recoverable cost under section 998, because (a) they were not actual expert fees; (b) they were not reasonably necessary in the defense of defendants' case; and (c) they were not sufficiently described in defendants' cost memorandum.
Santantonio does not dispute that the trial court's determination on these issues can be reversed only for an abuse of discretion. The governing rule is set forth in Evers v. Cornelson, supra, 163 Cal.App.3d 310, 314–315, 209 Cal.Rptr. 497, as follows:
"Defendant complains that certain items of costs awarded by the trial court were exorbitant and, therefore, unreasonable and the only evidence presented to support these costs was the hearsay declarations of plaintiff's counsel. On the issue of whether the costs were exorbitant and unreasonable, the courts have consistently held that where a trial court has been vested with discretion to perform an act, and it so acts, its actions can only be set aside for an abuse of discretion. [Citations.] As this court stated in Huber, Hunt & Nichols, Inc. v. Moore (1977) 67 Cal.App.3d 278, 315 [136 Cal.Rptr. 603]: 'The trial court has discretion under Code of Civil Procedure section 998 to allow a prevailing party (as defined in the section) a reasonable sum to cover the costs of the services of expert witnesses. [Citation.] The trial court was in a far better position, having heard the entire case and observed the demeanor of witnesses, to exercise this discretion and determine what was a reasonable amount and what was reasonably necessary.' As in the Moore case, we should not substitute our judgment over the judgment of the trial court in the absence of a clear showing of an abuse of discretion. Here, there has been no such showing on the issues of what was a reasonable amount and what was reasonably necessary.
"As to defendant's attack on plaintiff's proof of her costs, generally, '[i]f items on their face appear to be proper charges, the verified memorandum of costs is prima facie evidence of their propriety, placing the burden of proof on the party attacking them.' " (Emphasis added.)
To the same effect, see Balfour, Guthrie & Co. v. Gourmet Farms (1980) 108 Cal.App.3d 181, 192, 166 Cal.Rptr. 422; Stiles v. Estate of Ryan, supra, 173 Cal.App.3d 1057, 1066, 219 Cal.Rptr. 647.)
Here, the trial judge was justified in concluding that the amounts awarded as expert fees were in fact for expert services and that those services were reasonably necessary to defendants' case. Santantonio's arguments to the contrary appear to rest primarily on references to a few selected items described in the bills of Welch Associates. However, the most reliable evidence of what services were performed is the actual trial testimony of Finis Welch and Michael Ward, which Santantonio largely ignores.
The record reflects that Dr. Welch, the founder of Welch Associates, is an economist specializing in statistics and labor economics. His testimony focused on various issues concerning the liability side of plaintiffs' claims of age discrimination. Defendants contended that Santantonio and Velona were terminated and that Cochrane had been threatened with possible termination because they all failed to meet certain specific performance goals for account executives set by KFWB's management. In particular, beginning in 1987, KFWB required each account executive to meet a specific annual budget for new business production as a condition of continued employment.
Although we are not provided with a complete reporter's transcript of the trial it is undisputed in the briefs on appeal that throughout the trial plaintiffs made numerous charges to the effect that their alleged poor performance was a subterfuge for age discrimination. Some of their claims included the following: that there was no business justification for management's decision to require account executives to meet specific goals for new business production to keep their jobs; that the new business budgets established for plaintiffs were more burdensome than those set for other account executives; that management engaged in numerous acts to favor other account executives and make it impossible for plaintiffs to achieve their new business budgets; and that management even skewed the records to make it appear that plaintiffs performed poorly in comparison with other account executives, when plaintiffs actually were performing better than others who were not terminated or threatened with termination.
Dr. Welch was engaged by defendants to examine all of these contentions and to express his opinions concerning them as an economist. His testimony was supported by some 34 exhibits, consisting of charts and graphs prepared under his direction. As a sampling, he testified that there was a legitimate business need for KFWB's rigorous insistence upon the production of new business as a condition for retaining one's job as an account executive; there was no pattern of age discrimination in the setting of new business budgets for plaintiffs and other account executives, and plaintiffs' budgets were not more burdensome than others; plaintiffs, including Santantonio, performed poorly in relation to the goals set for them; at the time he was discharged on April 13, 1989, Santantonio ranked last in new business production and he had been below his budget and on a steady decline since August of 1987; and there was no disparate treatment of plaintiffs, nor any pattern of age discrimination in how management dealt with other account executives who failed to meet their performance goals.
Dr. Ward also was an economist and was employed by Welch Associates. He was engaged primarily to estimate the amount of economic loss that might have been suffered by plaintiffs by reason of their leaving KFWB. His testimony was needed to counter the testimony of plaintiffs' own damage expert, Dr. Joyce Pickersgill, and the testimony of Santantonio and Velona as to why they could not get comparable employment to mitigate their claimed damages. Dr. Ward's preparation included conducting a survey of available jobs for experienced sales people in radio and television in Los Angeles and the average salary paid for such available jobs.
From the foregoing summary of testimony by Drs. Welch and Ward, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the services of Drs. Welch and Ward were expert witness services and that those services were reasonably necessary for presentation of defendants' case. Santantonio's argument that some of the preparation, and some of the testimony, could have been provided through defendants' own staff, is not compelling. We conclude that it was reasonable for defendants to have Drs. Welch and Ward independently develop and analyze the evidence relied upon for their expert opinions with the aid of their own staff economists and other support personnel and then present such evidence through their trial testimony and the illustrative exhibits prepared under their direction.5
Lastly, Santantonio argues without merit that costs allowed under section 998 must be limited to the actual time consumed in examination in court. The reference to Government Code section 68092.5 in section 998, subdivision (h) is interpreted to mean that any fees charged for trial time must not exceed the expert's normal rate. Costs recoverable under section 998, subdivision (c) expressly include "a reasonable sum to cover costs of the services of expert witnesses, ․ reasonably necessary in either, or both, the preparation or trial of the case by the defendant." (Emphasis added.)
In Evers v. Cornelson, supra, 163 Cal.App.3d 310, 317, 209 Cal.Rptr. 497, the court expressly held that section 998 does indeed cover trial preparation by an expert.
"It appears reasonable to expect an expert witness who is going to testify at trial to prepare to be able to assist the jury on difficult issues. The more prepared the expert witness is, the more help he will be. The question is really whether the amount of time spent by [the expert] in preparing for trial was reasonable. The trial court found that this preparation was reasonably necessary and that the total cost was a reasonable amount. Again, absent a showing by defendant of an abuse of discretion, the trial court's findings will not be disturbed on appeal. [Citations.]" (Ibid.)
The court in Evers went on to further hold that section 998 also covers the cost of experts who aid in the preparation of the case for trial, even if they do not actually testify. (Id., at p. 317, 209 Cal.Rptr. 497.) The court observed: "Since the statute does not specify precisely the services for which costs are recoverable, the determination of allowable costs is largely within the trial court's discretion." (Id., at pp. 317–318, 209 Cal.Rptr. 497.)
Based on these principles, we conclude that the trial judge acted within his discretion when he allowed not only the amounts charged by Drs. Welch and Ward for their own preparation and trial time, but also a portion of their separately itemized charges for staff economists and other skilled employees who helped them in that preparation.
C. THE COURT'S ALLOCATION OF ONE–THIRD OF THE TOTAL COSTS TO APPELLANT WAS NOT EXCESSIVE.
Santantonio contends he should not have to bear one-third of the costs simply because there were three plaintiffs. He concedes that the allocation of defendants' costs among the plaintiffs was a matter for the trial court's discretion, but he argues that the court abused its discretion.6
Santantonio makes the following statement in his brief in support of his argument that the trial court abused its discretion: "Substantial evidence supports a far different conclusion; that Defendants did not believe that Mr. Santantonio would prevail, and instead concentrated their efforts on defending against the other Plaintiffs, especially Mr. Cochrane." The statement is devoid of any reference to the record before this court. As noted previously, we have not been presented with a complete reporter's transcript on appeal. We assume that if the record supports the argument then Santantonio surely would have perfected the relevant portion of the record on appeal. But we are presented with a record which demonstrates what the defendants said on the subject by examining their memorandum of costs filed in the trial court. The memorandum contains the following:
"The $100,000 offer made to each of the three plaintiffs in this case was entirely reasonable and proper under the circumstances. The offer was consistent with offers made to the plaintiffs in mandatory settlement conferences before the court, and with the defendants' realistic exposure in terms of economic losses to each of the three plaintiffs. In this regard, although plaintiff Santantonio alleges that his economist projected economic losses in excess of $900,000, the projection did not take into account either Santantonio's nonexistent efforts to mitigate his damages or his alleged stellar reputation in the industry which would presumably have enabled him to find other work in the broadcasting field had he attempted to do so. Defendants' offer also took into account the common overriding defense to the action based on all the plaintiffs' subpar work performance, in addition to the relatively small possibility of an award of emotional distress or punitive damages to any of them. The $100,000 offer to each of the plaintiffs was therefore justified, particularly in view of the strength of the company's defenses and the similarity of the fact patterns to all three cases."
Thus, from what we can discern from the record provided to this court and contrary to Santantonio's argument, the fact that defendants considered their $100,000 offer to be reasonable in part because they believed his $900,000 claim of economic loss was overstated, does not logically compel the conclusion that they concentrated their efforts on defending against the claims of the other two plaintiffs. The record is clear that the defendants placed exactly the same $100,000 value on the claims of Velona and Cochrane.
Lastly, Santantonio argues that it is a matter of simple arithmetic that he should have the lowest prorata portion of defendants' recoverable costs, because he was offered the lowest percentage of his claimed economic losses. The argument presents an obvious non sequitur when we review the record and find that the $100,000 offered to each plaintiff represented a smaller percentage of Santantonio's claim than that of the claims of the other two plaintiffs since Santantonio's claimed economic losses were the greatest. The record is highly suggestive that, if anything, Santantonio had the largest claim and that he would be the focus of intense defense efforts, since defendants had more to lose if he prevailed.
To reiterate, the trial judge was in the best position to allocate a fair share of the recoverable costs to Santantonio. The court concluded that one-third of the total costs ultimately found to be allowable (after various reductions) was a reasonable allocation. Santantonio has not demonstrated that the allocation by the trial judge was an abuse of discretion.7
The judgment is affirmed. Costs of appeal are awarded to respondents.
I respectfully dissent for two reasons. First, in my view the trial court erred in shifting any costs since the Code of Civil Procedure section 998 1 offer was not unconditional as required by that statute. Second, assuming it were appropriate to shift some costs, the court erred in failing to take account of appellant's means in setting the amount of the award.
I. THE OFFER WAS A JOINT OFFER CONDITIONAL ON ACCEPTANCE BY ALL PLAINTIFFS AND THUS INVALID UNDER SECTION 998.
In my view the section 998 offer in this case was conditional and its rejection therefore cannot serve to shift the costs of defendant's expert witnesses to appellant. The offer was conditional because it required acceptance by all three plaintiffs. As such, it is not effective to shift costs under Hutchins v. Waters (1975) 51 Cal.App.3d 69, 73, 123 Cal.Rptr. 819 and Meissner v. Paulson (1989) 212 Cal.App.3d 785, 791, 260 Cal.Rptr. 826.
My first problem is with the fact respondent did not serve a separate 998 offer on each of the three plaintiffs. Instead it combined the three offers in a single joint document and served it on the attorney who happened to be representing all plaintiffs.
Hutchins dictates before a party can claim the benefits of cost shifting, it must be shown that party "served an unconditional offer in writing upon any other party to the action, or to each of several other parties to the actions." In my view, this language clearly requires that in multi-plaintiff litigation the defendant must serve a separate offer on each individual plaintiff, even if all plaintiffs happen to be represented by the same attorney. Not only is this requirement compelled by the language of the statute, but it serves important policies. This rule is the only way to ensure each offer is individual to a given plaintiff and can be accepted by that plaintiff even if the others reject their offers. Furthermore, it is the best way of avoiding any ambiguity whether each of these offers is unconditional and not dependent upon acceptance by all parties. Indeed the instant case is a good example of what happens when the offer is a combined offer to several parties.
A still more fundamental objection, however, is the nature of the offer embodied in this single document. At many critical places, the offer is written in the plural and the conjunctive. Indeed it is not only a tenable but a most reasonable inference the document sets forth a joint offer to all three plaintiffs and that all three plaintiffs had to accept the offer. The only instance where the offer does not speak in the plural is where it apportions the total amount among the plaintiffs, setting it at $100,000 to each plaintiff.
When read in context the offer to compromise looks clearly conditional. For example, in its most critical passages, the document states defendants "hereby offer that plaintiffs ․ take judgment against them in the following amounts" and "plaintiffs may file a proof of acceptance." The proper inference is the offer must be accepted by all three plaintiffs. This inference is reinforced by other portions of the document. The first reference to the plaintiffs is to all three, Mr. Velona, Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Santantonio. The numbered paragraphs apportioning the 998 offer at $100,000 each are also stated in the conjunctive. The only other reference to the plaintiffs or to any of them is collective, stating the "Plaintiffs" [plural] "may file a proof of acceptance" [singular]. The plaintiffs had to act together to accept the 998 offer rendering it conditional and, therefore, invalid for purposes of assessing costs against any of the plaintiffs under Hutchins.
The majority is prepared to dismiss this entire argument because "the record on appeal does not reveal that this issue was raised in the trial court." (Maj. opn. at p. 490.) However, the interpretation of an integrated instrument or writing is a question of law, as is the interpretation of a statute. (9 Witkin, Cal.Procedure, Appeal § 242 (3d ed., 1985); Parsons v. Bristol Development Co. (1965) 62 Cal.2d 861, 865, 44 Cal.Rptr. 767, 402 P.2d 839; Matter of Estate of Butler (1988) 205 Cal.App.3d 311, 317, 252 Cal.Rptr. 210.) Accordingly, whether the section 998 offer was valid on its face may be reviewed de novo in this court. Extrinsic evidence would have been irrelevant if tendered in the trial court. Consequently, any failure to raise this particular issue below does not deprive this court of any information required to properly interpret the document presenting this section 998 offer.
II. THIS AWARD AND LIKE 998 AWARDS THREATEN TO DISTORT LITIGATION INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOR UNLESS SCALED IN SIZE TO THE COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF THE COMPETING LITIGANTS.
Even if I agreed it was appropriate to shift some costs to appellant pursuant to section 998, I would reverse and remand for reappraisal of the amount of the costs which properly could be shifted. In my view, the trial court erred in failing to assess appellant's economic resources and to include that factor in its calculation of the cost award. Unless trial courts include this factor in setting the costs to be shifted under section 998, they will distort settlement incentives and unduly discourage individual litigants from pursuing reasonable courses of action in the courts.
There is no doubt cost shifting performs a major purpose in the section 998 process. It gives the party receiving the offer an added incentive to behave reasonably. Reasonable behavior means accepting a reasonably generous offer. But it also means rejecting an unreasonably stingy one. To encourage reasonable behavior, therefore, the amount of the costs which may shift also must be reasonable. Not just reasonable in absolute terms, but reasonable in comparison with the resources of the offeree. If modest income litigants are required to risk the imposition of $100,000 in costs if they reject a section 998 offer, they will feel compelled to accept any such offer, even if it is far below what they have a reasonable prospect of winning at trial. Particularly if the opposing party is a large institution, as it was here, the average person can't afford to gamble. It is like going to a casino and entering a no limit game against the "house" with only one week's paycheck in the bank.2
The courts have recognized the need to adjust cost assessments to the parties' means in other contexts. For example, this court in In re Marriage of Norton (1988) 206 Cal.App.3d 53, 253 Cal.Rptr. 354, held family courts are required to determine the parties' comparative financial resources before shifting legal fees from one to the other, even when the reason for the shift is to encourage the parties to behave reasonably during the litigation. In Norton, the trial court found the wife had behaved unreasonably during settlement negotiations with her husband and in other proceedings before the court. A then newly enacted provision, Civil Code section 4370.5, authorized family court judges to require spouses who had behaved unreasonably to pay the legal fees their other spouses incurred as a result. Using this law, the court shifted a part of the husband's legal fees to the wife, but only after being careful to determine the parties were of equal means.
This court affirmed the shift of legal fees from the husband to the wife. But we took care to emphasize we would have reversed if the trial judge had not ascertained the wife's economic situation before placing this burden on her. We held this was a requirement, despite the fact Civil Code section 4370.5 at that time failed to mention anything about the respective needs or financial resources of the competing litigants.3 As we explained:
"The purpose of Civil Code section 4370.5 is to encourage reasonable litigation and settlement behavior in marriage dissolution proceedings. The purpose is not to cause undue hardship nor to discourage parties from pursuing meritorious actions. Therefore, the other party may not be entitled to an award of all fees and costs he or she expended in the proceedings."
"Less affluent parties, typically wives, may be unduly discouraged from vigorously prosecuting legitimate claims and defenses if they face the prospect of having to pay substantial cost and fee awards to the other side. This problem will be compounded if there is a gross disparity of resources. The other side will not feel the same inhibitions since this wealthier party will not find it nearly so hard to pay any award the court may impose for its litigation behavior. This creates an imbalance in the incentives to behave appropriately during settlement negotiations and litigation. Economic analysis suggests the less affluent party will behave too timidly during litigation and accept unfavorable settlement terms when facing a party who is less concerned about the possible economic disincentives of taking a hard line. (See Covenant Mutual Ins. Co. v. Young (1986) 179 Cal.App.3d 318, 325–327 [225 Cal.Rptr. 861], and authorities cited therein.)" (In re Marriage of Norton, supra, 206 Cal.App.3d 53, 59–60, 253 Cal.Rptr. 354.)
In a pair of recent decisions, appellate courts also have recognized trial courts must take account of a party's economic status before imposing other litigation costs on them. Both of these cases arose when trial courts ordered discovery matters to be heard by "private judges" pursuant to sections 639 and 645.1. As is typical in such "references," the court ordered the parties to divide the private judge's fees for performing this task.
In the first case, Solorzano v. Superior Court (1993) 18 Cal.App.4th 603, 22 Cal.Rptr.2d 401, one of the parties was indigent. The appellate court reversed the order, holding the indigent party could not be compelled to pay these fees because of the state's in forma pauperis provisions. The second case, McDonald v. Superior Court (1994) 22 Cal.App.4th 364, 27 Cal.Rptr.2d 310, involved a person of modest means rather than an indigent. In an opinion which resonates in this case, the court emphasized cost assessments cannot be used to discourage middle class citizens from having effective resort to the courts either.
"As stated in Solorzano in discussing in forma pauperis plaintiffs:
" 'Fees of $200 to $300 per hour charged by privately compensated discovery referees allow affluent litigants to avoid discovery compliance by pricing enforcement of legitimate discovery demands beyond the means of indigent plaintiffs. This advantage based on wealth flows directly from the trial court's order imposing equal division of fees between indigent plaintiffs and an adverse litigant of far superior financial means.' (Citation omitted.)
" 'The same policy considerations apply where one party has financial resources far superior to an opposing party who, while not proceeding in forma pauperis, has clearly limited financial means.' " (McDonald v. Superior Court, supra, 22 Cal.App.4th 364, 369, 27 Cal.Rptr.2d 310.)
Just as trial courts must avoid imposing unreasonable discovery costs on modest income litigants they must avoid shifting other types of unreasonable litigation costs to those same litigants if the litigation process is to be fair and to produce just results.4 In order to properly balance litigation incentives to produce fair and reasonable settlements under section 998, the amount of the fees shifted must be scaled to be proportionate to the comparative financial resources of the competing parties. The prospect of a $100,000 cost shift may represent a reasonable incentive to accept a section 998 settlement offer if the offeree has ample resources. For persons of only modest means, however, that $100,000 will loom as a terrifying threat, one calculated to distort their decision-making and force them to cave in to unreasonably low section 998 offers.5 Since the trial court made no inquiry into appellant's financial status, we do not know for sure whether $100,000 was a reasonable disincentive for someone like appellant or whether the amount of this cost shift must be scaled back in order to avoid irrational and unfair results in this and future litigation. (On the other hand, we do know one of the other three plaintiffs in this case had to declare bankruptcy, presumably in whole or in part because of the threatened assessment of the $100,000 in costs.)
Civil Code section 4370.5 construed in Norton and sections 639 and 645.1 construed in Solorzano and McDonald expressly allow the trial court discretion in imposing fees, costs, or other expenses on litigants. In both instances, appellate courts have held trial courts abuse this discretion if they fail to take account of the adverse impact substantial cost shifts visit on the average citizen who is trying to use the courts. Similarly, section 998 confers discretion on trial courts in deciding whether and how much of expert witness fees and pre-offer costs an unsuccessful litigant must pay. That section provides: "[T]he court, in its discretion, may require the plaintiff to pay the defendant's costs from the date of filing of the complaint and a reasonable sum to cover costs of the services of expert witnesses, ․ actually incurred and reasonably necessary in either, or both, the preparation or trial of the case․" (§ 998(c), italics added.)
The bulk of the costs the trial court shifted to appellant in this case consisted of expert witness fees.6 Under the terms of 998, the trial court had discretion to refuse to shift these fees at all. Moreover, since the amount shifted for this purpose is to be "a reasonable sum" the trial court also had discretion to reduce this element of the cost award to a sum below what respondents reasonably paid for expert witness services. Construing comparable laws, Norton, Solorzano, and McDonald held it was proper, indeed essential, that trial courts in exercising their discretion determine how the proposed cost shifting would affect the litigant who would be paying those costs not just whether the costs were otherwise reasonable in amount.
What this court said in 1986 about Civil Code section 4370.5 applies with equal force to section 998. "Nothing in the language of section 4370.5 [nor of section 998] suggests it is designed to encourage unfair settlements or inappropriately timid litigation behavior. Indeed it is entirely consistent with [either of these code sections] for trial courts to take account of the comparative wealth of the competing litigants and the effect of wealth disparities on litigation behavior when they fashion any fee and cost awards they may impose pursuant to [these sections]. What is a reasonable award for one party ․ may be unreasonable if imposed on the other. For, unless trial courts 'scale' any such awards to the comparative wealth of the parties they may discourage the economically weaker party from filing actions she or he should and from pursuing those actions with the vigor they deserve." (In re Marriage of Norton, supra, 206 Cal.App.3d 53, 60, 253 Cal.Rptr. 354.) 7
Since section 998 so clearly allows trial courts discretion to take account of these considerations implicating fairness and litigation behavior when deciding cost shifting awards, I find it unnecessary to discuss a statute not now before us, one which mandated substantial cost shifting against unsuccessful litigants. Suffice it to say, in my view such a law would raise grave constitutional issues. For reasons discussed above and at greater length in Covenant Mutual, supra, and Norton, supra, there is great danger such a provision would deny the average citizen the access to the courts which due process and equal protection of the laws guarantee. It would make California's regular civil courts the exclusive province of litigants with the resources to play a high stakes game of litigation poker.
There is another reason we should be especially careful to ensure cost shifting under section 998 is not permitted in amounts which might discourage plaintiffs from filing and vigorously pursuing litigation of the type involved in this case. Appellant and his fellow plaintiffs brought this case under civil rights statutes designed to enforce government policies against age discrimination. Allowing section 998 cost shifting in amounts which distort settlement incentives is counterproductive to the governmental purpose of encouraging what typically are modest income individuals to pursue private relief under these laws. By sanctioning such cost shifting, courts discourage those same modest income individuals from seeking relief and thereby from enforcing those important public policies against discrimination.
To sum up, I would reverse this cost shifting award outright based on the fact it was the product of a conditional section 998 offer which required or appeared to require the acquiescence of all three plaintiffs. But assuming the section 998 offer were proper, I would reverse and remand for a determination whether the amount of that award was proper. I would instruct the trial court to reconsider that question in light of its impact on litigation between average Californians of modest income and economically powerful institutions or individuals.
1. Unless otherwise stated, all statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure.
2. The issues regarding damages were bifurcated. The issue of plaintiffs' "past economic damages" (lost compensation and benefits up to the time of trial), if any, was submitted to the jury. The issue of whether a plaintiff could also recover projected "future economic losses" was reserved for decision by the court.
3. This contention by Santantonio necessarily involves only the costs awarded for "expert fees" claimed in item 7(c) of defendants' memorandum of costs. Costs were also awarded against Santantonio under items 1(a) and (b), 3, 7(a) and 10 of defendants' memorandum in the aggregate amount of $7,471.74. Those costs are allowable under section 1033.5 irrespective of whether defendants' section 998 offer was valid.
4. It is reasonable to assume that Santantonio has apparently misunderstood the meaning of the words "unity of interest" used in some of the authorities cited herein. It does not mean that there must be a "unity of interest" between a parent corporation and a subsidiary corporation in an alter ego sense. Nor does it mean that the claimed basis for joint and several liability must be sustained or conceded to support the validity of a defendants' joint offer. Rather, it simply means what was being discussed in Brown, i.e., that the defendants were sued on a theory of joint and several liability. Here, it was claimed that Westinghouse Electric and WBC were, in essence, joint employers of the plaintiffs. It would be a strained result to hold that defendants' joint 998 offer was rendered invalid simply because plaintiffs failed to sustain their claim that Westinghouse Electric was in fact an employer.
5. We find unpersuasive Santantonio's contention that he should not have to pay $3,345.76, or one-third of the cost of the experts' exhibits, because they were "merely illustrative and of little value." The trial judge was in the best position to judge their value. The costs are recoverable under Balfour,Guthrie&Co.v.GourmetFarms,supra, 108Cal.App.3d181,192,166Cal.Rptr.422.
6. We note the inconsistency of the argument with the position taken by his trial counsel in plaintiffs' motion to tax costs. When trial counsel filed his moving papers concluding that defendants were seeking to recover two-thirds of their recoverable costs from Santantonio, he argued that Santantonio should only have to bear 50 percent of any costs awarded under section 998 and one-third of any costs awarded under section 1033.5. In fact, however, defendants' memorandum in opposition to plaintiffs' motion to tax costs asked that only one-third of all of the claimed costs be awarded against Santantonio.
7. In reading the dissent, paragraph II gives us considerable concern. Section 998 already permits the trial court, via exercise of discretion, to consider a party's ability to pay costs. No matter how well intended, to judicially graft such a requirement on the statute itself, goes beyond mere statutory interpretation and improperly invades the province of the legislature.
1. All statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure unless otherwise indicated.
2. In Covenant Mutual v. Young (1986) 179 Cal.App.3d 318, 326–328, 225 Cal.Rptr. 861, this court discussed some of these economic incentives in a different context, a one way fee-shifting statute. The basic principles, however, remain the same. The average individual considering litigation or involved in litigation is "risk aversive," indeed cannot afford to be anything else. Institutional litigants and other "repeat players," on the other hand, can afford to be "risk neutral" and indeed against individuals often can adopt a "risk preference" strategy. This means the average individual, when confronted with a litigation choice which carries a risk that costs will be shifted should that individual lose, will accept an unreasonably unfavorable offer in order to avoid that risk.Even if the "expected value" (damages sought X probability of obtaining those damages) of a case is $200,000 or more individual litigants might well feel compelled to accept an offer of $100,000 or less just because they are risk averse and unwilling and unable to accept the risk of having to pay $100,000 in expert witness fees to the other side if they lose. Indeed for many individuals of modest means the risk they might be required to pay the other side $100,000 in costs should they lose will dissuade them from filing a case in the first place. As one economic analyst observed, "given risk aversion and the diminishing marginal utility of income and wealth, the threat of having to pay the other side's fees can loom so large in the mind of a person without considerable disposable assets that it deters the pursuit of even a fairly promising and substantial claim or defense." (Rowe, Predicting the Effects of Attorney Fee Shifting (1984) 47 Law & Contemp.Probs. 139, 153.)Even if they do embark on the litigation modest income litigants may well feel compelled to drop the case when that cost-shifting possibility appears during the course of the proceedings. Lacking the resources to absorb this kind of financial burden, they would feel compelled to accept a nominal sum, or nothing. It is as if in the final hand of a poker game with everything in the pot the "house" suddenly raises the ante to an amount most players can't afford. No one would regard that as fair. In the world of litigation, it is not only unfair. It leads to unjust and economically unjustified settlements.
3. Subsequent to our decision in Norton, the Legislature amended Civil Code section 4370.5 to include express language requiring courts to ascertain the parties' respective means before setting the direction and amount of any fee shifting under that code section.
4. Notably, the McDonald court held it was unfair to impose costs of a few hundred or at most a few thousand dollars on modest income litigants. In the instant case, we are considering the effect of imposing $100,000 or more in costs on this same class of litigants. Obviously, the concerns which led the McDonald court to prohibit discovery references when modest income litigants are involved, apply with much greater force to massive cost shifting awards granted pursuant to section 998.
5. There is empirical support for this proposition in a study of the English version of California's section 998 procedure, which in that country is called the "payment into court" system. As is true under section 998, a plaintiff must obtain a judgment more favorable than the defendant's statutory offer or suffer the consequence. In England, however, that means paying the defendant's reasonable legal fees as well as costs. The study revealed that out of a sample of 664 personal injury cases studied in four cities, 41 percent involved a payment into court. In fully 90 percent of those cases the plaintiff accepted the "payment in" money the defendant tendered. In virtually all the remaining 10 percent, however, the cases where plaintiffs had the courage to refuse the "payment in" and went to trial, they received damages larger than the amount paid in. This led the author of the study to conclude many of those who had accepted the "payment in" also would have won more at trial than the figure they settled for, but decided against trial because they could not afford to risk the possibility of having to pay the defendant's fees and costs. (Zander (June 25, 1975) Costs of Litigation—A Study of the Queen's Bench Division, Law Society's Gazette 680; Zander, Is the English Payment–Into–Court Rule Worth Copying? (1976) 40 Rabels Zeitschrift 750.) This study is discussed in Cappelletti and Garth (ed.) Access to Justice: Emerging Issues and Perspectives (1979) pages 44–46, 54–56.
6. Since I consider the two alternative grounds argued in this dissent more than sufficient to justify reversal of this cost award, I do not discuss yet a further reason for reducing the expert witness component of the award. A substantial percentage of that award represents payments to nonexperts who compiled and analyzed data respondents' experts used in preparing and giving their testimony. It is not at all clear to me these payments to nonexperts fall within the statutory definition of "costs of the services of expert witnesses" entitled to recompense under section 998.
7. In footnote 7 of the majority opinion, it is conceded the trial court had discretion "to consider a party's ability to pay costs." This footnote, however, then suggests it somehow is beyond the role of the appellate judiciary to require trial courts to consider this factor when exercising their discretion to set the amount of cost awards under section 998. If so, this court exceeded its role in Norton as did the courts which decided Solorzano and McDonald. As discussed above, in all three of these cases the appellate courts imposed a requirement trial courts consider this factor when exercising their discretion, even though it was not explicitly mentioned in the statutes at issue in those cases. I suspect there are literally thousands of appellate opinions, some of them written by my Division Seven colleagues, spelling out factors which trial courts are expected to consider when exercising their discretion under various statutes, even though those factors are not mentioned explicitly in the statutes themselves. Indeed this is one of the primary functions of the appellate courts.
FRED WOODS, Associate Justice.
LILLIE, P.J., concurs.
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Q: Progressive Company: Do you need Active Directory for a 100 person company? We are a progressive company (about 100 employees) and would like to hear other's input.
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Why would one need Active Directory?
A: You don't need it — you never did, there were always other ways — but you will find that Active Directory is exceptionally helpful at keeping 100 workstations operational, efficient, and working together. You will also find there are some things you do need, such as dns and dhcp services, that Active Directory makes very easy.
Once you're up past about 50 machines, your name resolution and dhcp services aren't going to live on a consumer level cable modem any more. You're gonna need a old-school server of some kind to handle this. Active Directory can do that for you. Of course, so could OS X server, CentOS, or a few other free linux alternatives.
What Active Directory is really good at for a Windows shop that the alternatives don't do yet is that, as an administrator, when you join your computers to the domain a random person off the street can't just walk up and log in to one of your employees machines. There's a certain amount of real security there. This isn't a whole lot out of the box, as there are tools that can trivially reset passwords, but if you're willing to go with whole-disk encryption, which AD can enforce, you can get there. At the same time, as an administrator you can walk up to any machine you're responsible and log in with an account that will grant you administrator privileges on the machine. Your users will be able to log in to any computer you control (including the brand new one you just gave them because they broke their old one) and easily find their old files. If you want to restrict the users to only their assigned computer, that's easy to do also.
As the company grows, this kind of segmentation will become more important. Most data breaches are inside jobs, and one of the functions of IT that is important is to help prevent this kind of leak.
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{
"redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaStackExchange"
}
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Q: Filtering nested arrays and selecting specific properties using az cli JMESPath I am trying to query a response from the following az command:
az provider operation show --namespace Microsoft.KeyVault
I want to query all operations that relate to secrets to be able to build a custom role for a RBAC enabled key vault. This is a short excerpt from the entire response:
{
"displayName": "Microsoft Key Vault",
"id": "/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/providerOperations/Microsoft.KeyVault",
"name": "Microsoft.KeyVault",
"operations": [
{
"description": "Registers a subscription",
"displayName": "Register Subscription",
"isDataAction": false,
"name": "Microsoft.KeyVault/register/action",
"origin": null,
"properties": null
},
{
"description": "Unregisters a subscription",
"displayName": "Unregister Subscription",
"isDataAction": false,
"name": "Microsoft.KeyVault/unregister/action",
"origin": null,
"properties": null
}
],
"resourceTypes": [
{
"displayName": "Secret",
"name": "vaults/secrets",
"operations": [
{
"description": "View the properties of a secret, but not its value.",
"displayName": "Read Secret Properties",
"isDataAction": false,
"name": "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/read",
"origin": null,
"properties": null
},
{
"description": "Creates a new secret or updates the value of an existing secret.",
"displayName": "Write Secret",
"isDataAction": false,
"name": "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/write",
"origin": null,
"properties": null
}
]
}
],
"type": "Microsoft.Authorization/providerOperations"
}
I would like to extract the description as well as the name from the object in the array resourceTypes where resourceTypes.name=="vaults/secrets".
I am trying to build this gradually, but I am stuck on even filtering out this object. This is where I'm at, and I've derived this from the JMESPath documentation on filtering arrays:
az provider operation show --namespace Microsoft.KeyVault --query "[?resourceTypes.name=='vaults/secrets']"
This is just empty however.
The end result I am after is a tabular output with the description and name from each operation within the operations array.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A: The issue in your current query is that doing [] would assume you address an array at the root of your JSON, when what you have at the root of your JSON is a map:
{
"resourceTypes": [
{
"name": "vaults/secrets",
}
]
}
So, the beginning of the query to address your JSON should rather be
resourceTypes[?name == 'vaults/secrets']
While your query would work on a JSON looking like:
[
{
"resourceTypes": {
"name": "vaults/secrets",
}
}
]
From there on, you need to query the operations array, so operations[] and do a multiselect hash to trim down the map to the fields you are looking for.
We end with the query:
resourceTypes[?name == 'vaults/secrets']
.operations[]
.{
description: description,
name: name
}
And, lastly, to format it in table, you can use the table output format of the Azure client.
We end up with the line:
az provider operation show \
--namespace Microsoft.KeyVault \
--query "resourceTypes[?name == 'vaults/secrets']
.operations[]
.{
description: description,
name: name
}" \
--out table
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"redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaStackExchange"
}
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"redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaC4"
}
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