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Sarah Geronimo and Matteo Guidicelli at their August 30 virtual concert for Landers Superstore's anniversary.
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Matteo Guidicelli shares dream for Sarah Geronimo, Mommy Divine's family
Jan Milo Severo (Philstar.com) - December 3, 2020 - 7:54pm
MANILA, Philippines — Kapamilya actor Matteo Guidicelli admitted that his wedding with "Popstar Royalty" Sarah Geronimo would have been complete with the attendance of Sarah's family.
In his recent interview with Toni Gonzaga for her YouTube channel, Matteo said it will come in God’s time.
“Of course, that would have completed my wife’s dream. In God’s time… in time… to be positive, things will heal, things will be better," Matteo said.
When asked by Toni if he saw him and his family having dinner with Sarah her family, Matteo said he imagined that all the time.
“Oh, my gosh, I imagine it all the time. I imagine it all the time. Not just for me but, obviously, of course, primarily for my wife. But also for my family, my parents. I believe our parents raised us up and worked so hard for us that, one day, they could marry a woman and man, and two families combined, di ba? Having a drink together and pasta together,” he said.
“I think that’s our family’s dream. One day, one day it will happen. Seriously, when I see Sarah happy, when I see Sarah independent, when I see Sarah enjoying, laughing, talagang [it] completes me ba. When the day comes and everything is united, I think she should be the happiest and most complete person. One day."
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Formation of the geomagnetic field
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I´m quite new to physics (from a biology background) and am hoping someone can give me a quick explanation of what causes the earth to have a magnetic field. I have read about the dynamo theory but am finding it difficult to visualise or is it as simple as moving currents make an electric field?
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We do not know what causes the earth to have an magnetic field. We only have hypotheses about that, which are supported by observations.
I'll try to elaborate more later today - priorities.
Xnn
The earths core is made of a combination of liquid and solid metal. The liquid portion moves due to convection and the earths rotation. This movement produces electrical currents which in turn produce the magnetic field.
We know that the earths magnet field is not produced like a conventional magnet since conventional magnets loose their strength at the high temperatures found inside the earth. Also, the movement of the liquid metal varies over time, as does the strength of the earths magnetic field.
There are also electrical currents produced in the upper reaches of the atmosphere that induce a level of magnetism. These fields are also influenced by storms on the sun.
A magnetic field is directly related with moving electrical charges according to the Lorentz law.
Hence the dynamo hypothesis due to Earth rotation has reigned for a long time, rotating earth driving magnetism, but that could not explain the numerous magnetic pole reversals and Earth magnetic excursions.
Gary Glatzmaier succeeded in modelling an Earth core model in which the Earth magnetic field is assumed to be the resultant of several counter rotating convection cells, which basically tend to cancel each other out. Turbulent variation in those convection cells would explain why the Earth magnetic field can suddenly collapse and or reverse in polarity, just due to changes in the balance of the counter rotating convection cells in the outer core.
However it still remains an hypothesis, since there is no way to test it from a prediction
Xnn said:
The self dynamo mechanism is hypothesized to create both the geomagnetic field and the solar field. In both cases recent observations are becoming increasingly difficult for the self dynamo theory to explain.
In the case of the earth recent observations indicate the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly is drifting west at 0.3 degree/year. The South Atlantic magnetic anomaly is a region of the planet's core that is attempting to change magnetic polarity. The question is how can core processes that are 10^5 times slower create an organized reversal pattern on the surface that is moving at 0.3 degree/year.
Another observation that is peculiar is that the geomagnetic field appears to varying intensity with a cyclic of 30 kyr and 100 kry. (i.e. It is not changing random.) As 100 kyr and 30kyr cycles are similar to orbital cycles, some researchers have searched for a mechanism whereby orbital changes somehow affects the planet's core.
Temporal Variations of Strength and Location of the South Atlantic Anomaly as Measured by RXTE
The evolution of the particle background at an altitude of approx. 540km during the time interval between 1996 and 2007 is studied using the particle monitor of the High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment on board NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. A special emphasis of this study is the location and strength of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). The size and strength of the SAA are anti-correlated with the 10.7 cm radio ux of the Sun, which leads the SAA strength by approx. 1 year re-ecting variations in solar heating of the upper atmosphere. The location of the SAA is also found to drift westwards with an average drift rate of about 0.3 degrees/yr following the drift of the geomagnetic field configuration. Superimposed to this drift rate are irregularities, where the SAA suddenly moves eastwards and where furthermore the speed of the drift changes. The most prominent of these irregularities is found in the second quarter of 2003 and another event took place in 1999. We suggest that these events are previously unrecognized manifestations of the geomagnetic jerks of the Earth's magnetic field.
From archeomagnetic data Pinto et al. (1992) have shown that the SAMA (South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly) has been slowly drifting westwards for at least 1400 years. This long-term drifting was recently confirmed by Mandea et al. (2007), using data calculated via the GUFM model (Jackson et al., 2000) and the CHAOS model (model from the satellites CHAMP, Orsted and SAC-C, Olsen et al., 2006).
Is the geodynamo process intrinsically unstable?
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/416/
Recent palaeomagnetic studies suggest that excursions of the geomagnetic field, during which the intensity drops suddenly by a factor of 5 to 10 and the local direction changes dramatically, are more common than previously expected. The `normal' state of the geomagnetic field, dominated by an axial dipole, seems to be interrupted every 30kyr to 100 kyr; it may not therefore be as stable as we thought.
Recent studies suggest that the Earth's magnetic field has fallen dramatically in magnitude and changed direction repeatedly since the last reversal 700 kyr ago (Langereis et al. 1997; Lund et al. 1998). These important results paint a rather different picture of the long-term behaviour of the field from the conventional one of a steady dipole reversing at random intervals: instead, the field appears to spend up to 20 per cent of its time in a weak, non-dipole state (Lund et al. 1998).
This picture summary provides some historical information concerning geomagnetic theory.
http://www.scostep.ucar.edu/comics/books/ste_geomag_e.pdf [Broken]
Saul said:
Actually, the drift rate of the South Atlantic Anomaly is very close to the rotation differential between the Earth's core and its surface, estimated to be between 0.3 and 0.5 degrees per year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_rotation
The earth of course rotates counterclockwise. The earth’s core also rotates counterclockwise with a rotation speed that is roughly 0.4 degrees faster than the crust.
If the South Atlantic Anomaly was created by core based activities it seems the South Atlantic Anomaly would be moving to the east as the core moves ahead of the crust.
The South Atlantic Anomaly is however moving to the west and has been moving to the west for the last 1400 years.
Magnetic field anomalies also move to the the west.
Something is puzzling here.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050825_earthcore.html
Earth's Core Rotates Faster than Surface, Study Confirms,
By analyzing the minute changes in travel times and wave shapes for each doublet, the researchers concluded that the Earth's inner core is rotating faster than its surface by about 0.3-0.5 degrees per year.
I understand that the SAA cycles every 12 hours too.
So, there is an aspect of it that involves the Sun.
Choragos
You're assuming one current loop yielding an approximate dipole, which is not the case (though close enough for everyday use). There's a complex mix of them, so it's not too surprising that the movement you describe isn't as you think it should be. What do you mean by "magnetic field anomalies also move to the west"? To what anomalies are you referring? (I'm a crustal geophysicist so the discussion of whole-earth processes is slightly out of my area of expertise)
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Ceballos fires Arsenal into FA Cup semi-final
Sunday, June 28, 2020 7:15 pm | Football | 0 Comment(s)
Ceballos being congratulated by a team mate for the winner
Substitute Daniel Ceballos fired Arsenal into the FA Cup semi-finals with a stoppage-time goal that sealed a 2-1 win over Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on Sunday.
Arsenal, record 13-times winners of the trophy, went ahead after 23 minutes when Chris Basham fouled Alexandre Lacazette in the penalty area, and Pepe rattled home the spot-kick.
Arsenal struggled in the second half as Sheffield United fired long balls into the penalty area aimed at the head of striker Oliver McBurnie.
United keeper Dean Henderson almost scored with a wind-assisted kick that bounced and narrowly cleared the Arsenal crossbar, to the relief of his opposite number Emiliano Martinez.
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With their defence under pressure, Arsenal lost David Luiz to injury and the game looked to be heading for extra time when David McGoldrick equalised in the 87th minute, hooking home a volley after the visitors failed to clear a corner
But Ceballos popped up to slot home the winner and lift Arsenal, who are ninth in the Premier League table, one place below Sheffield United.
“Today, we didn’t give up even when they got the equaliser because you have to prepare for the extra time anyway; we believed until the end and we got rewarded,” Arsenal defender, Shkodran Mustafi, told reporters.
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Update on Canada C3 Expedition Award: August 25 An Epic Journey to Celebrate Canada and Connect Canadians
The Polar Prince will arrive in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut on August 26.
Update: August 25 | Background Information | QSL card update
Canada C3 Expedition update: August 25, 2017
The Polar Prince is currently midway through the famed Northwest Passage and is due to arrive in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut tomorrow on Saturday, August 26.
As the ship traversed the most northern leg of the expedition at latitude 74.6 degrees, CG3EXP daytime beacon receptions at times were achieved only by stations such as Bob, VE3YX, Don, VE8JY and northern stations Gerry, VE8GER and Ron, VE8TEA.
Rich, VE3KI, had noted in an email exchange that HF propagation should improve with a decrease in the K-Index. Such was the case in the August 24-25 period as shown in the following Planetary K-index chart provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index.
Planetary K-index chart provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John, VE3CXL, is in contact with the National Resources Canada Geomagnetic Laboratory (https://geomag.nrcan.gc.ca/lab/default-en.php) who have expressed a keen interest in the HF Propagation data from CG3EXP. An invitation to the Ottawa Laboratory has been extended for late September.
Barrie, VE3BSB, with technical assistance from Jeff, VE3EFF, has assembled a QRP-Labs Kit receiver and a Raspberry Pi3 running WSJT-X. This small fun-to-build package is receiving CG3EXP 30 metre beacons.
John Scott, VE1JS, RAC Awards Manager, and TCA columnist Robert Mazur, VA3ROM, are finalizing the design of the certificate which is based on current spectacular imagery of the Polar Prince in Arctic waters.
You can watch the live camera feed from the Polar Prince at: https://canadac3.ca/en/expedition/live-feed/
Note: at the time of posting the live camera feed was not working.
As shown below, the location and frequencies for the WSPR, CG3EXP, may be viewed online at: https://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map
WSPRnet for the Polar Prince CG3EXP as of August 25
Below is the online route map as of August 25 that is produced from the position reports provided by the network Amateur Radio receivers (see https://www.qrp-labs.com/c3.html).
The Polar Prince tracking map on August 25
Note: The following is some background information about the Canada C3 Expedition. If you need additional information please contact Canada C3 organizer Barrie Crampton, VE3BSB, at
or Alan Griffin, RAC MarCom Director at
The CG3EXP Radio beacon
Amateur Radio operators around the world have been following the CG3EXP Radio beacon that we were privileged to have installed on the Polar Prince. This small very low power radio unit, connected to a wire antenna atop the Polar Prince, transmits a position report every 20 minutes and has been picked up on all continents except Asia and Antarctica. The greatest distance from the ship was reported by a radio operator in Australia a distance of 18,850 kilometres
The total number of reports of signal receptions now total over 301,000.
The Canada C3 Expedition is being publicized and regularly updated by the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) on its website and by associated international organizations.
As an incentive to the Amateur Radio operators to know about the Canada C3 Expedition and to learn more about our County’s coastlines, RAC has introduced a point-based awards program for those operators that submit their tracking reports at the end of the voyage.
The purpose of the award is to track the voyage of the Polar Prince as she travels from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage and to study radio propagation in the Arctic regions of Canada. The Polar Prince has a radio on board which transmits her progress using the WSPR mode. The special event call sign CG3EXP is being used on the 40, 30 and 20 metre bands.
Note: WSPR (pronounced "whisper") stands for "Weak Signal Propagation Reporter". It is a computer program used for weak-signal radio communication between Amateur Radio operators. Additional information is provided below.
Stations will listen for WSPR signals from CG3EXP and record the 6-character Maidenhead Grid Square transmitted and the location of the ship at the time of the reception.
In addition, an attractive confirmation card (QSL card; see below) can be provided to operators that acknowledge their individual receptions of the tracking beacon.
The location and frequencies for the WSPR, CG3EXP, may be viewed online at: https://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map
Some helpful links are listed below:
WSPR net map (use the Polar Prince radio call sign CG3EXP):
https://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map
Tracking map:
https://www.qrp-labs.com/c3.html
News release announcing Canada c3 Expedition:
https://www.rac.ca/a-whisper-for-canada-c3/
Canada C3 Expedition Award webpage:
https://www.rac.ca/operating/rac-awards/canada-c3-expedition-award/
QSL Card Information
TCA columnist Robert Mazur, VA3ROM, has volunteered to be the CG3EXP eQSL Manager. Robert has designed an attractive eQSL card which is available via the online eQSL service or on request via direct email sent to:
. For more information please see the text provided by Robert below.
To join the stations that are using WSPR to track the Canada C3 Expedition during its voyage, you only need a standard SSB HF receiver, an inexpensive ($10) USB sound adapter and a PC running the WSPR 2.0 software. You can download the software from https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr.html.
We particularly need more northern stations to join the project.
Chip Chapman, VA3KGB, has refined the CG3EXP Award logging spreadsheet and we have posted an updated version on the Canada C3 Expedition Award webpage at https://www.rac.ca/operating/rac-awards/canada-c3-expedition-award/
eQSL Instructions
Robert Mazur, VA3ROM, has volunteered to be the CG3EXP eQSL Manager. He has designed an attractive e-QSL which is available via the online eQSL service or on request via direct email sent to:
Robert has provided the following simple instructions:
A) If you have an eQSL.cc account, please send your report to CG3EXP as per the usual method (eQSL.cc users know how to do this). eQSL accounts are free for the basic version which is sufficient for most casual users.
B) If you don't have an eQSL.cc account (most non-Amateurs do not), please send your report via email to
. I will accept either a screen capture of the WSPR or WJST-X decoding programs showing the CG3EXP decoded beacon (attached to the email) or a regular text report with the beacon details listed from either of those two programs. The subject line can be “CG3EXP QSL Request”, but I'm not particular since the account is only used for CG3EXP QSLs and I'll go through all received emails to see what they are requesting.
C) You can also submit the same report using both methods since the direct email QSL has the complete front (which I personalized) and back of the QSL card with the CG3EXP WSPR C3 Expedition details. CG3EXP has eQSL.cc "AG" (authenticity guaranteed) so eQSL users can count those towards the various eQSL eAwards.
73, Robert Mazur, VA3ROM
A Canada 150 Signature project, Canada C3 is a 150-day expedition (June 1 to October 28) from Toronto, Ontario to Victoria, British Columbia via the Northwest Passage. It will bring awareness to Canada’s coastline and inspire a deeper understanding of Canada’s coastline our land, our peoples and our country.
Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director
rac.ca
720 Belfast Road, #217
Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5
613-244-4367, 1- 877-273-8304
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Let's face it: People are gross. The world is gross. Life is gross. Ugh, go wash your hands.
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The Worst Offenses by Black Licorice
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Updated June 23, 2020 847 votes 194 voters 5.8k views11 items
Licorice is disgusting. A lot of things have been ruined by the flavor of black licorice, and even more things have been ruined by its repugnant smell. Say you're enjoying a nice whole thing of candy beans, and suddenly, the skin around your jaws recoils as though it's been poked with poison. The culprit: a black licorice flavored Jelly Belly that sneaked in uninvited among all the other normal delicious flavors. I don't even know why they exist, honestly. This isn't Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, where everything is a risk of a prank. Is there anything worse than getting a box of Good & Plenty in your trick-or-treat plastic pumpkin? I'd rather get pennies. Wet pennies.
Licorice (or "liquorice," gag) flavor comes from the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a truly abhorrent legume native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. Though it is not officially related to anise or fennel, those things still taste like it, and they are the reason absinthe tastes bad (though I still like it OK). For that reason, absinthe is on this list, even though it doesn't technically contain licorice. Sue me. Moreover, because of some unshakable lie that the smell of Good & Plentys is some sort of aphrodisiac, all sorts of perfumeries have come out with black licorice scented cologne that singes the nostrils and makes the skin crawl. Desperate guys will buy anything.
Listen. All I'm saying is that the licorice-scented scratch-n-sniff features of a picture of a nasty old witch for a reason. It's because the stench of it will ruin any child's day. If you hate a kid, set him up with the black Mr. Sketch marker and a shot of the "salt liquorice vodka" Finnish people pretend to like. He'll never bother you again.
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Jared Kushner may have benefited from Trump White House scheme to sell nuke plants to Saudis: House Dem report
Jared Kushner appears on CNN with Van Jones/Screenshot
A new report issued by House Democrats this week claims that key Trump administration appointees overrode the objections of top national security officials and attorneys to promote the sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia -- and these sales could have directly benefited Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Per the Washington Post, the report, which was issued on Tuesday by House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), claims that top national security officials including former national security adviser H.R. McMaster warned the administration against plans to sell nuclear power plants to the Saudis.
These national officials called for a halt to such sales in 2017 and cited "potential conflicts of interest, national security risks and legal hurdles."
Despite this, however, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and other Trump appointees continued to push the sales of nuclear power to the Saudis.
Of particular interest in the report is the revelation that the Saudi nuke sales could have benefited Kushner, whose family in 2017 was desperate to secure investment capital at a troubled property in Manhattan.
"The Cummings report notes that one of the power plant manufacturers that could benefit from a nuclear deal, Westinghouse Electric, is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, the company that provided financial relief to the family of Jared Kushner," the Post writes. "Brookfield Asset Management took a 99-year lease on the family’s deeply indebted New York City property at 666 Fifth Avenue."
Capitol invaders believed themselves to be 'The Storm' prophesied by QAnon: reporter
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The Best Man
Song of Solomon: "12 Years a Slave" and "The Best Man Holiday"
By Mike Schulz
It's impossible to imagine any viewer of director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave not haunted for hours, if not days or weeks, by its potent, frequently horrific imagery. Be it the protracted sight of protagonist Solomon Northrup hanging from a tree, his wiggling toes barely touching the dirt, or the early shot of Northrup caged in a Washington, D.C., prison with the camera slowly tilting upward to implicate Capitol Hill in his (and all slaves') ordeal, McQueen continually delivers wrenching visual representations to match this already-wrenching tale. Yet if pressed for the one image that I find lingering above all others in this magnificent, devastating film, it would simply be the face of Chiwetel Ejiofor, who, in one unbroken take near the finale, almost seems to encapsulate hundreds of years of injustice in one anguished stare.
Moral Combat: "The Best Man," at the District Theatre through November 18
By Thom White
After 12 years in the television-news business, I spent my first Election Day in more than a decade not covering the elections, but rather seeing a play about a bid for the presidency and the decision of whether to use personal attacks on opponents. And while watching the District Theatre's The Best Man, directed by Bryan Tank, I wondered if the point being made in this political morality play - that the business of politics is on a downward moral spiral - is one that needs to be made. Don't we, as a nation, already know that dirty politics are wrong, and doesn't this make the message of playwright Gore Vidal's 1960 work dated? A day later, though, I read an article about personal attacks and dishonesty continuing to be a part of political campaigns because these tactics work, and so Vidal's play, for better or worse, appears relevant after all.
"The Brothers" Bring Welcome Relief: Also, "Someone Like You"
The Brothers, the comedy-drama debut from writer-director Gary Hardwick, is a good-and-bad movie in which the good parts far surpass the bad, and that alone makes it one of the finer movies of the year.
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REVELATION READINGS
THOMAS MIDDLETON'S
A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE
Monday, January 18, 7:30 pm
Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher Street
Directed by Craig Baldwin
featuring Bill Buell, Grant Chapman, Drew Cortese, David Greenspan, Don Guillory, William Jackson Harper, Daniel K. Isaac, Antoinette LaVecchia, Christina Pumariega, Lee Sellars, James Seol, Mirirai Sithole, David Ryan Smith, Stephen Spinella, Rasha Zamamiri, and more
"Who seem most crafty prove oft times most fools."
How far would you go to get out of debt? This twisted comedy follows the appropriately named Witgood in his uproarious quest to lie, cheat and hustle his way back into the black.
Broke, abandoned by his family, and in debt to his eyeballs, Witgood has nothing to rely on but his wit and his only two allies, a barkeep and a harlot. Thankfully, he has a plan! Middleton's hilarious Jacobean city comedy is a rip-roaringly relevant tale of one scoundrel's personal financial crisis and his one wild chance to get back at his creditors.
The OBIE Award-Winning Revelation Readings series provides a unique opportunity to hear rarely-produced classic plays performed by many of the finest actors in New York.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a Londoner, and many of his plays revolve around the city. Along with Ben Jonson and George Chapman, he is the playwright most associated with city comedy, with A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A Mad World My Masters, and The Roaring Girl all classics of the genre (as is tonight’s play, A Trick to Catch the Old One). But Middleton’s dramatic oeuvre extends beyond this genre--indeed he may lay claim to being the most versatile playwrights of the era, writing tragicomedies, civic pageants, court masques, and perhaps most famously a series of tragedies including Women Beware Women, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and The Changeling. Unlike Samuel Rowley, his collaborator on The Changeling, he does not seem to have been an actor, but he was a frequent play reviser. The surviving texts of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure all have amendments made by Middleton. Middleton was also a satirist: his depictions of London types mock their money-grabbing ways, as is evident in A Trick to Catch the Old One. His notorious A Game at Chess responded to anti-Spanish sentiment in the 1620s, when James I sought to set up a Spanish match for his son, Charles, only to back down due to intense public reaction--which the play both captured and fomented. Middleton’s ability to court outrage here and elsewhere may well have led to the lack of posthumous recognition, altered only recently thanks to Oxford’s major collected edition of his works and to major productions of his work (by, among others, Red Bull Theater).
ABOUT THE PLAY
A Trick to Catch the Old One (c.1605) revolves around Theodorus Witgood, a Leicestershire prodigal who has mortgaged his lands to his uncle Lucre, a greedy London merchant. In revenge, Witgood and his mistress Jane devise a plot whereby she poses as a wealthy widow visiting London. When “Widow Meddler” is pursued by Lucre’s great rival Hoard, Lucre promises to return Witgood his lands so that he can be a suitable match.
First written for Paul’s but also performed at Blackfriar’s, the play is an example of a city comedy and bears a resemblance to other plays of the genre (Middleton redeployed the “fake heiress” plot in A Chaste Maid). Middleton seems particularly interested here in tensions between the city and the country, between land-based economies and the new mercantilism of London. If anything, the play seems to side with the former (old money) over the latter (new money), by showing the lengths to which London merchants will go to acquire land-based wealth. And while prominent quickwits in other city comedies are often city types, Witgood (whose full name means “wit is God’s gift”) is a man from the counties who has to navigate London’s economy to re-acquire his property.
Middleton also satirizes the many levels of London’s credit culture. Witgood’s creditors proffer him more advances when they believe that his fortunes may improve through marriage, only to recall their debts when “the widow” weds Hoard. Hoard in turn believes (or credits) Witgood’s prior claim of betrothal, and then agrees to pay him off if he’ll tear up his pre-contract (as a result of which Witgood is able to pay off his creditors). For Middleton, then, credit here revolves not just around money and debt but belief and gullibility. A Trick to Catch the Old One points to the many ways that London’s credit culture is open to trickery, abuse, and to “good wits.”
GAVIN HOLLIS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Bill Buell
Grant Chapman
Drew Cortese
David Greenspan
Don Guillory
William Jackson Harper
Daniel K Isaac
Antoinette LaVecchia
Christina Pumariega
Lee Sellars
James Seol
Mirirai Sithole
David Ryan Smith
Rasha Zamamiri
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PS2J 301 News – The Boy Who Cired YouTube
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Point-and-click adventure game following Anna as she attempts to escape an evil witch and save her dying grandfather by solving puzzles, collecting items, and talking to characters throughout the game
Action-adventure sandbox game by Rockstar following three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency and powerful crime figures
It quickly became the highest selling entertainment product in history, earning $1B in its first three days, and still consistently sits on Steam’s list of most popular games
So popular that it’s singlehandedly taken down the Epic Games Store website, even causing issues with the Epic Games launcher and Fortnite
As of recording the site is still down
Utah’s joined the contact tracing game with their new Healthy Together app, aimed at letting people know if they’ve come into contact with someone later diagnosed with COVID-19
Unfortunately they decided not to use Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification API, and instead opted for a less private GPS and Bluetooth option
According to the Utah state website, they opted to use their own framework because they say Bluetooth alone “gives a less accurate picture” than the combination of Bluetooth and GPS
I can get how the extra location information could assist in identifying transmission areas, but at the end of the day this is a government app that logs not only who you’re in contact with but also everywhere you go
It’s also another case of needing to have the app open and active at all times on a iPhone in order to fully function, which can not only affect battery performance but also the overall longevity of your device
At the moment about 45,000 people have signed up for Healthy Together, amounting to about 2% of the state’s population, and some estimates have shown that in order to be effective the apps will need to be used by 60%.
Hopefully once the more secure and efficient apps come onto the market we’ll start to see the numbers rise
We’re seeing another dark side to the wild west that is exposure notification- spam and phishing attacks
Police in Maine are warning cell phone users of a text message scam in which people are sending things like
“Someone who came into contact with you tested positive or has shown symptoms for COVID-19 & recommends you self-isolate/get tested. More at <link>”
These are not official messages and are doing nothing but spread panic and, depending on where the link is pointed, could give hackers a way in to get your personal information
The Better Business Bureau has also said that scammers are targeting seniors with messages posing as the US Department of Health and telling them they need to take a mandatory online COVID-19 test to receive their recently approved government stimulus payment
It’s tough to say exactly how to tell the scam messages from real ones, but one giveaway is if you aren’t running a contact tracing app then the government has no way to identify that you’ve been exposed, never mind text you about it
Once tracing apps start using the Apple/Google exposure notification features I think we’ll be in much better shape, as you’ll see proper system notifications from trusted government apps rather than a hodgepodge of whatever your area has put together themselves
Epic Games has unveiled the new Unreal Engine 5, and it’s very pretty
Unreal Engine is a game engine used by the developers of a lot of high-profile games from Yoshi’s Crafted World to the Batman: Arkham titles and Final Fantasy VII Remake
The new engine focuses on photorealism on par with movie CG and live-action video, and there’s a very pretty demo video online of it running on developer PS5 hardware
The coolest thing is that it’s not just for next-gen- the engine will support current consoles, computers, and even iOS and Android
As part of the same announcement Epic has also changed how its royalties work regarding use of the engine, retroactively taking 5% of sales only after a game has earned its first $1M in sales. And that 5% is waived for games published on the Epic Games Store
On top of that, any Oculus-exclusive games made with Unreal don’t start paying until they hit $5M in sales
So you can get access to triple-A game development tools for free and only start paying royalties if your game is a big success. Pretty solid deal!
Wink, a company that makes a smart home hub that links different smart home devices together, has decided to switch from a purchase model to subscriptions and completely screw over their current users
Previously Wink would work like most other smart home devices, you buy it once, set it up, and it works with no additional costs
Now, 5 years in, they’ve decided that hardware sales don’t cover their costs and you need to pay $5/month to continue using hardware you own
Even if you don’t use their cloud services, your access to the app, voice control, API, and automations all get deactivated if you don’t pay their ransom
Part of their justification is that they don’t make any extra money by selling your information, like other platforms might, but that’s less of a bonus and more of an essential feature
In response to backlash they went from a one-week notice period to two weeks, allowing an extra 7 days before users start being charged the monthly fee
I could see it if they introduced new devices reliant on a subscription, or maybe if they had a buy-back program for people that don’t want to subscribe and therefore no longer have any use for the product, but nothing like that has been announced
This seems like a fairly customer-hostile move, and I’ll be surprised if Wink manages to move forward without introducing something to justify the added cost
Apple has started reopening its retail stores and some of the safety measures it’s taking may violate EU privacy rules
One of the measures Apple’s taking to protect everyone includes temperature checks before customers are allowed to enter, using a non-contact forehead thermometer
However a data protection agency in Germany is concerned those checks violate EU privacy and data protection rules and has launched a probe, according to Bloomberg Law
Assuming they’re not storing the data or linking it to people in any way, I’m guessing this won’t amount to anything. It sounds comparable to nightclubs checking ID before allowing people to enter
New Paper Mario on Switch!
Coming out July 17th!
Nintendo’s page is letting you know you can pre-order it now
If you pre-order it will install the data now
And at midnight for on the 17th you can play the game
A beautiful paper world to unfold
The devious King Olly has transformed Princess Peach into origami, uprooted her castle and sealed it shut with magical paper streamers.
Join Mario and his new companion Olivia on a comedic adventure that will take you to the far corners of a papercraft world
With the help of Olivia’s paper-folding powers, use the far-reaching 1,000 Fold Arms and other paper transformations to save those imprisoned by the Origami King’s henchmen, and help restore peace to the world.
Face off against the Origami King and his army of paper invaders, team up with some extraordinary companions and master magical powers on your quest to save the world.
Journey across the land – from scorching deserts to sailing the high seas – and recruit a revolving cast of wacky travel buddies, as you seek to sever these sinister streamers and save your paper pals from being turned into one of the Folded Soldiers!
Repair the damage done by the Folded Soldiers and rescue Toads trapped in all manner of wacky scrapes!
Put a stop to King Olly’s plans by engaging in battles which will put both your tactical thinking and puzzle solving skills to the test – against his origami army, as well as humongous bosses under his command!
From what I could tell from the video and screen shots
Paper Mario is teamed up with the origami Olivia for special powers
One featured has him with extended origami arms
It looks like the arms will be using joycon motions to work
Like pulling a cardboard tab along a perforated edge
It also looks like all the paper denizens are teamed up with Mario
Enemies pictured behind him facing the origami threat
Bowser looks like he got folded down to just his face to diminish his power
Game play looks very familiar
Traversing crafted 3D enviroments
RPG combat with bonuses for timing
Might have an over-world where travel is done not to scale
And it looks like some things are 3D papermache
Perhaps its different from the 2D paper but weaker than Origami?
The ending has a silly clip of Paper Mario with a giant papermache Samus helmet
He is running back and forth making a fist pretending his arm is a blaster
The scene also has a papermache DK head, adding more questions to how Paper Mario ties into the Nintendo franchises
The latest rumours for the expected over-ear AirPods Studio look very interesting with technology expected for head/neck detection (similar to ear detection in AirPods that pauses your media when you take one out), and automatic left-right side assignment
Analysts say that instead of having a specific left or right speaker, the headphones will detect which way they’re being worn and adjust accordingly
They’re expected to retail for about $349 USD
A remastered version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 was announced this week in text messages from the man himself
Apparently Tony has a text message service you can sign up for to receive messages from him throughout the year, and he took to it to announce that every skating level from the two PlayStation 1 games would return, along with every pro skater in the original games, and the custom skate park feature from Pro Skater 5
Activision says it will be coming to the Xbox One, PS4, and PC (via Epic Games) this September for $40 USD, $60 CAD
To promote learning from home, Ubisoft is making their Discovery Tour series completely free for anyone with a Uplay account
Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece and DT: Ancient Egypt are versions of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and AC: Origins that strip out the combat in favour of education
You can explore multiple regions, learn about daily life in the period, and hear about myths, legends, and philosophies of the cultures
In an effort to get around Trump’s ban on American companies from doing business with them, Huawei is re-releasing old phones that still support Google apps
Apparently the ban has worked is that any devices launched before the ban, and even some slightly afterward, can still be sold with Google apps installed
Since then though it’s been expected that Huawei will have a 20% drop is sales this year, and that may only be the initial impact as the Google-enabled Huawei phones become de-supported and fall off the market
So Huawei’s solution is to release “New Edition” versions of last year’s phones- new software and more memory, but otherwise the exact same phone
These can’t really take the place of their flagship line of devices, but it’s something they can put out there and see if people will buy, at least
Thank you to Breanne, for being so kind and helpful!
PS2J 244 News – Bad Newsroom
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Early access 2017, released 2018
No holds barred open world survival game with some controversial pieces like sliders for boobs and dicks, and the ability to own slaves
Sci-fi action RPG that’s the spiritual successor the Lords of the Fallen, which is a viking love-letter to the Soulsborne franchise
Technomancer
A sci-fi action RPG set on a Mars colony but this one is more story- and choice-driven, being compared to mid-2000’s BioWare games but without the polish or storytelling finesse
Outcast – Second Contact
2017 remake of the 1999 adventure game of the year and cult classic, Outcast
Third or first person open world shooter where you play an ex Navy SEAL stranded on an alien world trying to get home
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tactical shooter where you can take control of friendly units like drones, tanks, and aircraft to out-maneuver and take down the enemy
Critically acclaimed first and third person shooter based in the Star Wars universe, with a campaign retelling portions of the main story from the perspective of a veteran Stormtrooper and really fun multiplayer
It also includes a Risk-style Galactic Conquest mode that seems pretty slick
Gorgeous, well-written supernatural mystery graphic adventure where you play a teenage girl exploring the mysteries of a local island
We saw this offered by Twitch back in October, and before that on Xbox One in September 2017
It’s not a game, but it is handy- they’re giving away up to a year of Nintendo Switch Online
If you’re a Twitch Prime subscriber you can get three months of NSO for free, then 60 days after you redeem that you can grab another 9 months.
Best part, if you’re already a subscriber the time just stacks on to your current subscription
One thing to note- redeeming the offer will turn on automatic renewal, so if you don’t want to pay for NSO after the free time is up you’ll want to disable that in your Nintendo eShop account settings
Top story of the week, it’s time to pick up your copy of No Man’s Sky on PS4 before prices go back up!
Though the digital edition is still full price, many have seen discs offered for $10-20
And why do you care? Because existing owners on PS4 and PC are getting free VR support this summer as part of the Beyond update
This is something that people immediately looked for when it first released in 2016, and the fact that it’s coming now, for free, is pretty amazing
Apparently this won’t just be a VR mode, and the studio is billing it as the “entire game brought to life in virtual reality”
They’ve also mentioned that multiplayer will be supported with both VR and nonVR players together
Looking at the trailer they’re supporting full motion controls even while piloting your ship or exocraft
This is gonna be good
Apple’s Show Time event was this week, and here are some of the highlights for what we’ll see from them this year
They’re getting their own credit card, working with MasterCard and Goldman Sachs, with some interesting security features and underwhelming rewards
The physical card is laser-etched titanium with no visible numbers
If you want to buy stuff online you’ll need to get the card info from the Wallet app, which has a dynamic number for each device you own that you can regenerate on-demand
The physical card seems to be mainly a backup if you need swipe or chip-and-pin instead of tap
On the rewards side of things, they’re offering fairly average cash back rewards while pushing to keep those rewards inside the Apple ecosystem
And it also has some built-in analytics to help you see how you’re spending your money, with a neat feature using machine learning to translate those weird merchant names you see on your credit card statement into actual businesses
Apple News+ is folding in a bunch of news and magazine subscriptions to a single app for $10/month, which isn’t bad all said and done if you read magazines
Apparently the content will be specifically formatted for the app, instead of just PDF magazine pages displayed on your phone
Apple Arcade is an interesting one- for a subscription price that they haven’t announced yet, you get access to a bunch of new and exclusive games that can be played on- or offline on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
Seems to basically be Apple’s answer to the Xbox Game Pass
And then there’s Apple TV Channels and TV+
Channels seems to be like if you sliced up Netflix and purchased specific bits and pieces, looking to bring things like HBO and other streaming services traditionally locked behind cable subscriptions to the internet at large
Channels will be on not only Apple hardware, but also some smart TV’s, Roku, and Amazon devices
And then TV+ is where they’re hosting their fancy new content which we heard a bit about but didn’t see any trailers or much detail at all. The presentation seemed mostly to be “Look, Steven Spielberg! And Jason Momoa! And Oprah! Wow!”
Facebook… did a good thing?
They’ve announced that their terms of service will be updated next week with a new anti-hate rule
Specifically, this means anything falling under white nationalism or white separatism will be banned from the platform
Apparently the reason it’s taken them this long is because it wanted to leave room for national pride, but there’s no reason you can’t be proud of your country without being hateful about it
With the new ban, Facebook also says that when users search for terms connected to white supremacy on its platforms, they’ll be redirected to Life After Hate- a non-profit organization founded by former members of hate organizations offering crisis intervention, education, support, and outreach to former or current members of similar groups
They didn’t go into details on exactly what the search terms are, and whether searching for hateful memes or talk show hosts would trigger things the way using nazi search terms would
But don’t worry if Facebook doing something in the right direction confuses you, they also did a dumb thing to balance it out
Facebook has posted an article called “Keeping Passwords Secure”, in which they fess up to keeping passwords for hundreds of millions of users stored in plain text, dating all the way back to 2012
They were accessible by over 20,000 employees, not to mention people getting access through possibly nefarious means
At this point Facebook says no abuse seems to have happened, but really how would they know for sure
watchOS 5.2 released this week, bringing ECG support to Hong Kong and many parts of the EU
Still no word on a Canadian release
A crisp new trailer for Borderlands 3 dropped this week, and it looks as fun as ever
Fingers crossed they recapture the magic of the main series after the slightly-off release of the Pre-Sequel
Apparently Nintendo is working on two new Switch models, working on a two-pronged approach
According to the Wall Street Journal, one will have some sort of enhanced capabilities, while the other will be a cheaper option removing things like the fancy vibration feature to become a successor to the 3DS
In a delicious bit of karma, AT&T’s “5G E” service, which has drawn a lot of fire for not actually being 5G, has apparently tested out to actually be, on average, slightly slower than their competitors 4G networks
I’m not sure how this will affect Sprint’s lawsuit over the false advertising, but I’d like to think some lawyers just got very happy
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves will be back in Bill and Ted 3: Face the Music
The announcement video is some pure Bill and Ted nostalgia with the actors jumping right back into their roles as the Wyld Stallyns and thanking fans for their support
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It’s an free app that sets up a workout regimen to get you to 100 pushups in 6 weeks, with paid options for other things like situps or pullups
I’ve gone from 33 pushups across 5 reps to 94 in about 5 weeks
It does ramp up a little aggressively, so I’ve had to repeat workouts before moving on (technically I’m partway through week 4), but it’s been good with not a lot of time commitment
It’s also been nice having it keep track of the numbers for me, since I don’t really feel different and then I see I’ve about tripled what I could do a month and a half ago
(Movie) Meeting his girlfriends family gets awkward when they take for granted that they can just use him for his looks.
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Special General Meeting
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DIA brown bag lunch session – Communicating our move to 45 Pipitea St
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Network Christmas Drinks - 12 December
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The tooth fairy talks tough - 3 November 2017
Network lunchtime seminar • Friday 3 November• 12noon to 1pm• MSD Auditorium (room 1.1 Kakapo)• Level 1, Aurora Centre, 56 The Terrace In a busy world, asking parents to complete one more task, on a twice-daily basis, can be a stretch. It’s a reality that thousands of Kiwi kids every year have their teeth extracted because of decay. And oral health remains one of the top causes of childhood hospitalisation. So to do something abou...
Effective Messaging with MessageHouse
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How to Build Relationships with Māori and Pacific Peoples
What: CulturePRO Where: Ōrākei Marae in Auckland When: 24 & 25 August 2017 Businesses and organisations wanting to build relationships and collaborate with Māori and Pacific peoples should register now for the CulturePRO Masterclass in Auckland next month. Convened by the Brown Pages, CulturePRO will enable guest speakers and participants to discuss cultural engagement challenges and opportunities in a safe, collaborative environment. Topics include: • Pacific engagement in the health ...
Listening to the voices of children at Oranga Tamariki
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Election guidance for government communicators: 27 June 1 – 2pm
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Network lunchtime seminar - Influencing in a Nomophobic Era
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Vacancy at Health Promotion Agency
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Seminar: 5.30pm, 20 September – Debating Our Flag – Challenging Conversations in a Changing Media Environment
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Defending the family
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Carrie Prejean Fights Back: Sues Miss California USA Officials
(Big Hollywood) - RANCHO SANTA FE, CA - Carrie Prejean's attorney, Charles S. LiMandri announced today that the former Miss California USA is filing a complaint in the Superior Court of California against Miss California USA officials Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, and publicist Roger Neal. The complaint cites damages to Miss Prejean including libel, public disclosure of private facts, religious discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
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Pension Wars Will Be Fought at City Hall
Sacramento may have adjourned, sending legislators home for a while, but that doesn’t signal the end of the move for retirement and pension reform. In fact, according to this opinion article by Steve Greenhut, their adjournment may mean little to a movement that will find its greatest traction in city and county halls.
Greenhut looks at San Francisco, where dueling reform measures are on the ballot, one that he considers a genuine reform effort and one without the same teeth.
However, in San Francisco, there are two practical and passable measures that would reform some pensions. That’s two more than Sacramento had this year.
Greenhut asserts that this means that any city can make more progress than our Capitol did, and if reforms can pass in San Francisco, they could pass everywhere.
From CalWatchdog.org:
Breathe a deep sigh of relief now that state legislators have headed home. As Judge Gideon Tucker (and also attributed to Mark Twain) exclaimed, “No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” You are safer now than you were a little over a week ago.
The real issues of reform now shift from the weird world of Sacramento to California’s cities and counties. Even legislators in the craziest of them – San Francisco obviously comes to mind – are more likely to pass needed reforms than those in the state Capitol, where interest-group politics trumps everything else.
Even though Stanford University research pins California’s public-employee pension debt at up to an unfathomable half-trillion dollars, no pension reform measure of substance passed the Legislature. Such crucial bills are nonstarters there, although the Democratic leadership did issue a press release promising unspecific pension reform. This says pension reform is such a hot topic that even its enemies need to pretend to support it.
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Home :: Charms of China :: Travel & Tourism :: Olympic Architecture, Beijing 2008
Author: Ma Guoxin;
Publisher: China Architecture and Building Press
Without a doubt the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not only attract worldwide attention for the sporting contests, but also for the architectural settings and arenas. The exemplary and prestigious stadiums will remain of interest long after the games are over.
Olympic Architecture, Beijing 2008 is a comprehensive survey of all the venues for the 29th Olympic Games. It provides detailed insights into the specialized stadium architecture with an abundance of visual material such as bird's-eye views, illustrations of details, plans/elevations/sections, and rendering drawings.
Part One of the volume is an overview written by Ma Guoxin, architectural master and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Part Two gives descriptions of the individual Olympic venues, including 15 newly-built ones (e.g. the Main Olympic Project - Bird's Nest by Herzog & De Meuron, and the National Aquatics Center - Water Cube by the China Construction Design International (Shenzhen) of CSCEC, PTW Architects, Australia, and Arup Australasia), 14 reconstructed buildings (e.g. Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Workers' Stadium) and 6 temporary structures (e.g. Olympic Green Hockey Field, Wukesong Baseball Field).
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Celebrating His Win, Timothée Chamlamet Dabbed
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Timothée Chalamet Won Everyone's Heart When He Dabbed After Winning This Award
Sarah Midkiff
Last night, Timothée Chalamet celebrated winning best male lead for his role in Call Me By Your Name at the Independent Spirit Film Awards. Overcome with excitement, the rising star showed his appreciation by dabbing.
Chalamet has been a crowd favorite since his breakout roles in two of 2017's most beloved films, Call Me By Your Name and Ladybird. He has captured the affections and award nominations of the world over with his enthusiastic and unaffected interviews, his genuine fanboying over our favorite celebrities, and the fact that he is just so very talented. Consider us charmed.
At the Independent Spirit Film Awards, Chalamet was once again a prominent fixture. Co-hosts Nick Kroll and John Mulaney called the actor out for his fashion choices which included an oversized white shirt with an embroidered logo over the front pocket. "Timothée, thanks for taking a break from the gas station," teased Kroll. Chalamet was also spotted FaceTiming his CMBYN co-star, Armie Hammer, who was home sick with the flu.
As he approached the stage to accept the award for Best Male Lead, overcome with appreciation for the recognition, Chalamet did a cheeky dab, because how else do you celebrate with all eyes and cameras on you in 2018?
Let's take a moment to appreciate that the announcer mentioned his high school rap persona, Little Timmy Tim, in his walk-up introduction. Not letting an opportune moment for a joke go to waste, Chalamet broke out the oldest speech technique in the book – starting with a definition. "Gasoline, or petrol, is a transparent petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel...I'm just kidding," he joked in response to Kroll's earlier comment. "I'm trying to really savor this moment," he adds. As he should. He has already won two Dorian awards, a Gotham award, a Hollywood Film award, as well as a slew of critics choice and film festival awards.
He is a front-runner and favorite for best actor at the Oscars,so with any luck, we will get to see another charming and endearing acceptance speech later today.
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Three & Out – GLAC, Independents, Northwestern
In the final installment of “Three & Out” the RSN takes a look at the GLAC, along with EC Central and some “Quick Snaps” of the Northwestern Conference and other Independent teams.
1st Down: After five years of guiding the Pioneers, Dave Verta is no longer the head coach at Clark as he takes over as the school’s athletic director. Verta had the highest winning percentage of any coach in school history and the third most wins. With Tim Gault taking over the program, will we see a continuation of what Coach Verta built or will it be starting from scratch for Clark?
2nd Down: Not only are the Pioneers going to have to adjust to playing under a new coach, but they are also facing a post-season change as they move up to Class 4A. In previous season in Class 3A, Clark was usually the second best team in the sectional behind Andrean, but now they’ll be competing with cross-town rival Morton, Hobart and Griffith for a sectional title, making the post-season trail even tougher.
3rd Down: Gault better have his new team ready in a hurry because of the second straight season, the “Battle of 119th Street” rivalry game against Whiting will take place in the first week of the season. Clark didn’t look very good in last year’s 23-0 drubbing at the hands of the Oilers, but nothing will endear Gault to the Pioneer faithful more than beating the arch-rivals in his first game as coach.
Gavit
1st Down: Even though they finished with a 3-8 mark, the Gavit Gladiators may have overachieved in 2011. With a significant amount of freshman and sophomores receiving playing time and with little to no depth to speak of, the trio of victories ties Gavit’s high win mark since the 2004 season.
2nd Down: Just like the Pioneers, Gavit is going to be under the direction of a new coach as Robert Robinson takes over the program. Robinson, who already has earned a fair share of success at a Hammond school (22-11 in three years at Hammond High), was on the Gladiator staff last season, so there shouldn’t be too big of an adjustment.
3rd Down: This Gavit program hasn’t had a winning season since 2003, and don’t be surprised if that below .500 trend continues in 2011. There are winnable games on their schedule (Calumet, SB Riley, Roosevelt, Delphi, Hammond High), and maybe that experience that the youngsters earned last year will pay off, but we’ll believe that Gavit is on the rise once they start racking up those “W’s”.
Hammond High
1st Down: Another Hammond school, another new coach. For the Wildcats, it’ll be former Bishop Noll head coach Eric Schreiber taking over in a surprise departure after one year of leading Michigan City. Along with Schreiber come his Griffith roots, meaning that triple option ball is coming to Hammond High. Will it work in just one off-season? Just by looking at his one year at Michigan City the answer is: probably not. This could be a rebuilding situation that takes time to come to fruition.
2nd Down: Following three straight winning seasons (all under Robert Robinson), Hammond High fell on hard times last year in Dedrick Dewalt’s lone campaign as coach with a 3-8 record, with the only wins coming against Bowman, Roosevelt & Lew Wallace. This is a Wildcat team we saw compete with some schools outside of Gary, none the less in their own city. The new coaching staff has to hope last year was just an aberration and that the ‘Cats still have enough talent to be in that 5-8 win range season when its all said and done.
3rd Down: Not to keep harping on the point, but the success of Hammond High is going to heavily rely on how quickly the team picks up Schreiber’s option based attack. If the team finds a nice mixture of athleticism on the outside by spreading teams out and then running the option along with the occasional inside power running with the fullback, this offense might be able to put up some points. If they are counting on going double tight-end and primarily running within the tackles, they could be in trouble.
1st Down: Yay for stability! Morton is the only Hammond public school with their head coach returning as Roy Richards comes back for his 13th year leading the Governors. Clearly the best program in the city, Richards’ teams have captured three straight conference titles, but more importantly, two consecutive sectional championships. Advancing to Regionals in 2009 and Semi-State in 2010, can the Govs keep moving forward this year and head to Indy?
2nd Down: While I’d never count a Roy Richards team out, the Govs have a lot of talented players to replace. DJ Griffin, Jerry Watson, Andrew Glidewell, Kayln Aaron, Jaborie Rucks, Esker Peoples & Darius Taylor were all impact players (some more than others) for Morton last year and leave big shoes to fill. I’m sure the Morton faithful on the message board are going to tell me all about the new guys coming in and how great they are going to be, but until we see them perform at the same levels of the guys above on Friday nights, it’ll still be a question mark.
3rd Down: The graduation losses aren’t the only Indy roadblock for Morton. The playoff road got tougher with realignment. Morton is clearly the favorite in the sectional (this is where Griffith fans get mad), but a potential matchup against Mishawaka or Lowell looms in the Regional and following that a (very probable) rematch against FW Dwenger in the semi-state (yes, I know Dwenger lost a lot of key players, but they are a private 4A school in Fort Wayne. They get talent). If it seems like I’m bashing Morton…I’m not. In fact, I have high expectations for Morton this year – graduation losses or not, but advancing further in the post-season than they have in the past two years is going to be difficult.
EC Central
1st Down: Settling some of the coaching turmoil that has plagued EC Central in recent years, former Valparaiso University head man Stacy Adams lead the Cardinals to a .500 season (their first since 2007) in his first year on the job. EC won three out of their final four before being handily defeated by Valpo in the first round of the post-season, but that’s something they don’t have to worry about anymore…
2nd Down: Because of realignment, EC finds themselves out of Class 5A and in to 4A. In fact the Cardinals are the largest 4A school in the state of Indiana. Maybe this will give EC and advantage and maybe not, but this is a school that hasn’t won a post-season game since 2000, so any sign of playoff optimism is welcomed.
3rd Down: While EC may not be a favorite to make playoff noise, they could come out of the regular season with an impressive mark. There are only a couple of games on the EC schedule that you could say are “unwinnable”, but in the remaining seven, a Cardinal victory couldn’t be considered an upset by any means. Dropping Andrean and picking up Roosevelt and also adding Boone Grove in place of Central Noble helps the schedule. Who knows? Maybe EC can ride the wave of regular season momentum in to the post-season.
QUICK SNAPS
Boone Grove: Welcome to the big time Boone Grove! The Wolves play their first full varsity schedule this season after games against LaPorte LaLumiere and South Newton were played in conjunction with a JV schedule in 2010. First up to welcome the Wolves? Wheeler. Ouch.
Bowman: The Eagles have a new coach in 2011 with Rob Gross taking over for Andre Kelly. Luckily Gross still has Dylon Collins on the roster. The big play back will rack up the yards as he leads Bowman’s offense, but will it result in wins?
Lew Wallace: The Hornets haven’t won multiple games since 2005 and haven’t had a winning season since 1995. To say Lew Wallace has fallen on tough times might be an understatement. Plus, we’re only a few weeks away from the start of the season, and Wallace also still has two holes in their schedule. This team has a long way to go to.
Roosevelt: A combined two wins over the past three seasons has the Panthers in dire straights. With Lew Wallace, Gary Lighthouse and Boone Grove all on the schedule, maybe Roosevelt breaks out of their slump a little bit. Maybe.
West Side: West Side welcomes in their third coach in the program’s history as Jason Johnson takes over for Alex Pratt who was a victim of education budget cuts that are running rampant throughout the state. Pratt brought optimism at West Side as the team went 11-10 with a sectional championship appearance during his tenure. Johnson, a former Cougar himself, has a chance to continue what Pratt started as West Side looks to take control as Gary’s dominant gridiron team. Early reports say numbers are good for summer practice.
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Stay logged on to Regionsports.com in the upcoming weeks before the season as we release our team previews!
FOOTBALL: Three & Out – GSSC
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Floor Plans & Gallery
Community Site Plan
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Interview with Dr. Gary Waters
As we are approaching the final steps before introducing future Spires residents to their new home, we are in the midst of preparing for the activities that will be available on site. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Gary Waters, who is the liaison between The Spires and Berry College, to discuss The Spires’ future activities and their current progress.
Dr. Waters noted that there have been ongoing productive conversations between Berry College and The Spires in regards to the shared space at Berry for future residents. A clear agreement has been established about creating a woodworking shop accessible to both Spires residents and Berry students. There are two, possibly three, locations that are currently under consideration and the final decision will be based on factors related to access, cost, and facilitating the interactions between Spires residents and Berry students.
“The woodworking shop is expected to be open close to June of 2020, when The Spires itself will be opening, and will be equipped to meet the level that skilled woodworkers would expect,” Waters stated. A question that has been raised is whether future residents can donate equipment to the woodworking shop- and the answer is a definite yes. Dr. Gary Waters spoke to this by stating that future residents can donate any equipment they may have at any point in time as a way to provide for the shop and the college. The space for this equipment to be stored has already been identified.
Additionally, Berry College is moving ahead on the creation of Pickleball Courts for future residents. Currently, the two tennis courts closest to The Spires location are being converted into four new pickleball courts, all of which Spires residents will have full access to. Waters noted that these courts will be ready in the near future.
Berry College is also beginning to study options for providing lake access to future residents. It is expected that there will be a dock and non-motorized boating allowed within the lake. Due to safety and insurance considerations, final plans have not yet been completed. The uncertainty is currently situated in whether or not this will be a floating dock, and if boats will be allowed on site.
Dr. Waters ended the conversation by stating that the college is enthusiastically supportive of these initiatives and will be working towards implementing them in ways that provide the greatest benefit to the residents, while still being mindful of health and safety concerns. If you have any additional questions, concerns, or recommendations please contact Dr. Gary Waters at gwaters@berry.edu
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Spotify adds more subscribers as music streaming gets back on track
By Supantha Mukherjee, Kenneth Li
STOCKHOLM/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spotify added more subscribers than expected in the third quarter and forecast strong growth in the current quarter as the music streaming service expands into more markets.
A screen displays the company logo and trading info for Spotify on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
The company, hit at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic by a drop in commuting when many users tune into its services, said on Thursday all regions had now fully recovered.
However its shares, which have more than doubled over the past year, slipped in pre-market trade as the company trimmed to top end of its fourth-quarter revenue forecast range.
With more than double the number of subscribers of nearest rival Apple Music, Spotify Technology SA has been expanding rapidly in markets across Europe and most recently in Russia, after launching in India and the Middle East last year.
“We’re definitely looking a lot more at accelerating launching in many more markets faster based on all the success we’ve had with both Russia and in India,” CEO Daniel Ek told Reuters.
Spotify said global listening hours had surpassed pre-pandemic levels as users tune into more music and podcasts.
Premium subscribers, which account for most of its revenue, rose 27% to 144 million in the third quarter from a year earlier. Analysts on average were expecting 142.5 million paid subscribers, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Spotify expects 150-154 million total premium subscribers in the fourth quarter, versus analysts’ forecast of 151.5 million.
It credited the rise in subscribers to its recent launch in new markets such as Russia, which it deemed the “most successful new market launch” to date.
The company, which earns from paid subscriptions and by showing ads to non-paying users, saw its advertising business return to growth after it was hit by the pandemic earlier this year. Executives said ad growth would accelerate this quarter.
Third-quarter revenue rose 14% to 1.98 billion euros ($2.34 billion). Analysts were expecting 2 billion euros.
Excluding foreign exchange rate moves, Spotify said its quarterly revenue was “slightly better than expected”.
It reported a net loss attributable to the company of 101 million euros, or 58 euro cents per share, versus a profit of 241 million euros, or 36 euros cents, a year earlier, when it benefitted from one-off gains.
Spotify lowered the top end of its revenue guidance range for the fourth quarter to 2.2 billion euros from 2.25 billion. Adjusting for currency effects, the company said the mid-point of the range was now higher than previous expectations.
Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm and Kenneth Li in New York; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Mark Potter
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Canada's TMX buys ICE's Trayport energy trading platform
By Alastair Sharp
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Stock Exchange owner TMX Group Ltd X.TO said on Friday it will buy Trayport, a London-based energy trading software firm, from Intercontinental Exchange Inc ICE.N for C$931 million ($723 million) for more global exposure and the recurring revenue.
As part of the deal, TMX will sell Natural Gas Exchange Inc (NGX) and Shorcan Energy Brokers Inc to ICE and pay the remaining C$592 million value of the deal in cash.
“It’s on point with their strategy. It improves the revenue mix” for TMX, said National Bank Financial analyst Jaeme Gloyn, who estimates Trayport will add 6 percent to its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the first 12 months after the deal closes.
TMX shares were last up 1.5 percent at C$67.51, while ICE was down 0.3 percent at $65.38.
“This is a much stronger, more stable business than NGX, which is based on trading contracts,” Gloyn said, adding that Trayport enjoyed mostly recurring revenue from a loyal group of customers, particularly in Europe.
TMX is broadly seeking to expand its business outside of North America and create higher-value services out of the vast amount of data it generates.
It had sought to use blockchain technology to speed up and simplify trading on NGX.
ICE, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said in July it would sell Trayport after losing an appeal to overturn a decision by Britain’s competition watchdog that asked for a divestment to preserve competition in the utility derivatives trading industry.
The regulator contended that traders, brokers, exchanges and clearing houses that compete with ICE in the trading and clearing of European utilities derivatives depend on the Trayport platform to carry out these transactions effectively.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the sale of Trayport to TMX Group.
Earlier this year, TMX sold its information services business TMX Atrium to ICE, and on Friday TMX said the two companies had agreed to explore greater collaboration.
TMX said National Bank of Canada is providing a loan of C$650 million to fund the deal.
Barclays is acting as financial adviser to TMX Group.
Reporting by Alastair Sharp in Toronto and John Benny in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza and Jeffrey Benkoe
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38 Oxley: Now A Smear on Singapore’s History
Image credit: Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook Page
Ten years ago, the words “38 Oxley Road” carried with it the weight of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s early PAP work and political legacy.
Today, as the Lee siblings continue to trade blows and hurl accusations over Facebook, the skies grow increasingly darker around the late Prime Minister’s residence. So much so that soon, 38 Oxley Road might cease to hold any positive cultural value.
But did it really mean much to us in the first place?
Tucked away in a wealthy enclave off Orchard Road, it’s not a house that most Singaporeans would chance upon. Unlike icons like the National Gallery, the Esplanade or Changi Airport, most of us have no reason at all to be on Oxley Road.
The house isn’t Marina Bay Sands, and doesn’t define Singapore’s landscape. It’s not instantly recognisable, and Singaporeans who make the special hike to pay it a visit can only admire its gates and guard posts.
Most of us have only heard of the house or seen the widely publicised images of its spartan living room. But without having encountered or experienced the house, can we then truly value and miss it?
Historically, 38 Oxley Road will always be known as Lee Kuan Yew’s residence. The older generation also remembers this as the place where members of the PAP old guard, like Goh Keng Swee and S Rajaratnam, met with Lee Kuan Yew to make crucial government decisions on the future of Singapore.
Unfortunately, this has changed with Dr Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang’s accusations of their elder brother PM Lee Hsien Loong’s abuses of power.
While Singaporeans might always remember Lee Kuan Yew for the political maverick he was, the house he left behind will now forever be seen as ground zero of where Lee Hsien Loong’s legitimacy was questioned by not just anyone, but the rest of his own father’s children.
More importantly, as the past few days have seen this house shaken from its pedestal, so has Singaporeans’ belief in their country’s incorruptibility.
Past General Elections have always unearthed whispers of conflicts of interest, but nothing has ever been proven. Now that the other Lees are the ones making the allegations, should we finally be paying attention?
When I now think of 38 Oxley Road, I think of the events that unfolded last Wednesday night at 2am. I think of how Singapore’s most ‘esteemed’ family bickered and strove to out-manoeuvre each other as its citizens and the rest of the world munched on their metaphorical popcorn.
Yes, perhaps the government may eventually have its way with what becomes of the house. We might even live to see some sort of amicable resolution.
But my memory of it is already tainted. I now see 38 Oxley Road not only as Lee Kuan Yew’s house, but also the house where the Lee family fell apart.
So no matter what transpires on the 3rd of July, it appears that Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang would have gotten what they originally wanted – to drag the house and its “secret committee” through the mud, so that there would be no choice but to demolish it to preserve the legacy of the ruling party.
And if the “secret committee” decides to preserve the house, would it then have the kind political capital that Lee Hsien Loong’s siblings had suggested that it would have?
Rachel Lau Staff writer
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3 Hearts Blu-ray Review
Actors: Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Studio: Cohen Media Group
3 Hearts is a tragic romance that is approached stylistically as more of a thriller by filmmaker Benoit Jacquot (Farewell My Queen), with highly charged performances and an ominous score by Bruno Coulais. There is no real danger to the health or safety of these characters, yet we feel that their very lives are at stake with the gravity of their romantic passions looming over each decision. Melodrama takes the main stage for much of this narrative, though it is a film which ultimately depends upon the moments of romance as the glue that holds together the series of unlikely coincidences that follow.
After finishing a business trip to provincial France one evening, Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) misses his train back to Paris and finds himself wandering the lonely streets when he runs into Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Drawn to each other immediately as kindred spirits, Marc and Sylvie walk the streets getting to know each other like a heavy-handed tribute to Before Sunrise. Their romantic relationship doesn’t develop, as Sylvie is still struggling to end an unsatisfying relationship, but the pair plan on meeting again in Paris the next day. Having never exchanged names or numbers, their future together is dependent upon this meeting, which is predictably thwarted due to a minor medical issue. Despite the deep connection each feels for each other, they are forced to move on with their lives.
Sylvie patches things up with her boyfriend, moving with him to the United States and leaving her sister, Sophie (Chiara Mastroianni), to run the family antique business that was left to them by their mother (Catherine Deneuve). When this business runs into a series of tax problems, Marc steps in to help and begins a romantic relationship with Sophie, unaware of who her sister is. Eventually this relationship leads to marriage, at which point Sylvie returns home to meet her new brother-in-law. Rather than admit their previous connection, the two remain silent about knowing each other, until they are drawn back to each other in secret.
Jacquot gets so much right in 3 Hearts, it is that much more devastating when the film begins to fall apart. Although the passionate draw of love is perfectly captured by Gainsbourg and Poelvoorde while the other relationship in the triangle is safer and more logical, some of the character choices seem thinly developed. Though Sylvie restrained from even kissing Marc while still in a poor relationship with her boyfriend, she doesn’t hesitate to stab her own sister in the back years later. Meanwhile Marc’s emotional dilemma is primarily showcased through his inexplicable medical issues, which mostly seem to resemble panic attacks, but he becomes less sympathetic when he discovers who Sophie is and decides to marry her anyway. Even more devastating is the sense that the narrative backs itself into a corner, with nowhere but an ambiguous ending to leave the audience with. I did not mind the ambiguity of the ending, but a few odd sequences with a sudden narrator appearing momentarily show the real weakness within the script. What began as a strong, albeit improbable premise, suddenly feels uncertain and incomplete by the third act of the film.
The Blu-ray release includes an interview with the director as well as a theatrical trailer. Nothing in this film truly needs a high definition presentation, though the somewhat overdone soundtrack is certainly enhanced by the DTS-HD Master Audio.
Entertainment Value: 6/10
Quality of Filmmaking: 6.5/10
Historical Significance: 4/10
Special Features: 3.5/10
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CNN.com: Susan B. Anthony List signs up for RNC Chairman debate
This article was originally posted on CNN.com on December 7, 2010.
Susan B. Anthony List signs up for RNC Chairman debate
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – A pro-life women’s group and an anti-tax group will cosponsor a debate among candidates in the race for the next Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman.
The Susan B. Anthony List announced on Tuesday that it will co-host the January debate with Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) in order to question the candidates on their pro-life priorities.
“It is critical that the next RNC chairman sincerely recognize the electoral power of the pro-life movement, can articulate its message, and is prepared to advance its priorities,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
ATR President Grover Norquist also encouraged Republican activists for visit RNCdebate.org to submit and vote on their own questions for the debate.
“The actual vote for RNC Chairman will be made by the 168 members of the Committee, but the impact will be felt by all,” Norquist said. “Therefore, every activist should play a role in questioning the candidates and communicating with RNC members who cast votes…just like lobbying your Congressman and Senators.”
The embattled current chairman, Michael Steele, has not announced his plans, but faces an already crowded field of challengers if he does run for reelection.
Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus officially announced his candidacy for the post on Monday. Others pursuing bids include Michigan Committeeman Saul Anuzis, former Missouri GOP Chairwoman Ann Wagner, former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, former RNC Political Director Gentry Collins, former Bush administration official Maria Cino and Connecticut GOP Chairman Chris Healy. Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has said he will not challenge Steele if the chairman decides to seek another term, but he is keeping his name in the mix.
RNC members will meet in mid-January to elect their next chairman.
–CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby contributed to this report
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Grinding Principle and Method of Raymond Mill
Summary：The main part of the material grinding of Raymond mill occurs on the cylinder of horizontal low-speed rotation. While the material is crushed and ground by impact, the material itself at the feeding end and the discharging end has a poor material surface height
The main part of the material grinding of Raymond mill occurs on the cylinder of horizontal low-speed rotation. While the material is crushed and ground by impact, the material itself at the feeding end and the discharging end has a poor material surface height, which makes the material flow slowly from the feeding end to the discharging end and completes the grinding operation. When the cylinder is driven by the transmission device to rotate, the grinding body is attached to the lining surface of the inner wall of the Raymond mill barrel to rotate with it due to inertial centrifugal force, and is brought to a certain height and then falls freely by gravity. At this time, the abrasive body will crush the material in the cylinder. At the same time, the abrasive body in the rotating Raymond mill will not only rise and fall, but also produce sliding and rolling, resulting in the abrasive effect between the abrasive body, lining plate and the abrasive material to make the material fine.
Obviously, when the Raymond mill is in normal operation, the motion state of the grinding body has a great influence on the grinding effect of the material. The abrasive body which can be brought to a higher place by Raymond mill and fallen like a projectile has a strong impact crushing ability to materials because of its high kinetic energy; it can not be brought to a higher place by Raymond mill and slides down with materials, so it has a strong grinding ability to materials. The motion state of the grinding body in a Raymond mill is usually related to the speed of the mill, the amount of material in the mill and the quality of the grinding body. When the cylinder has different rotational speeds, the grinding body will have three kinds of motion states:
1. When the cylinder speed is moderate, the abrasive body is raised to a certain height and thrown down, showing a "throwing motion state". At this time, the abrasive body has a greater impact and grinding effect on the material, and the grinding effect is better.
2. When the cylinder speed is too low, the abrasive body can not be brought to a higher height. The abrasive body and material will slide down because of the gravity action, showing a "dumping motion state", which has little impact on the material and almost only plays a role in abrasion, so the grinding effect is not good and the production capacity is reduced.
3. When the cylinder speed is too high, because the inertial centrifugal force is greater than the gravity of the grinding body itself, the grinding body and material are attached to the inner wall of the cylinder and rotate together with the cylinder without falling, showing a "circumferential motion state". The abrasive body has no impact and abrasive effect on the material.
In the cylinder of Raymond mill, the less the number of grinding body is loaded and the higher the rotational speed of the cylinder, the smaller the rolling and sliding of the grinding body and the smaller the grinding effect on the material. When the number of abrasives is large, the abrasives distributed near the center of the cylinder cross section are not enough to form projectile motion. It produces more rolling and sliding, which results in the fine grinding of materials. Therefore, when grinding materials with larger or harder particle size, the average size of the grinding body is larger and the quantity of filling is less, so as to ensure that the grinding body has sufficient projection landing height and strengthen the impact crushing effect. On the contrary, when grinding small or easy-to-grind materials, the average size of the grinding body can be smaller, but the amount of filling should be more, which will strengthen the grinding effect.
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Hyper Connected Gun Safe
By Jacqueline Maddison on October 27, 2013
Futurist Mark B. Barron believes he has the solution for the Gun issues in America. A safety advocate for over 30 years and a resident of Bel Air California, Mark has invented and brought to market such safety products as the S-1 GARD for transit buses (which was featured on CNN Headline News), the MDZ Shield for school buses, and the Chemo Cap, his alopecia-preventing cooling cap for cancer patients. He recently announced his patented on-demand delivery service, Consumeron, whose incorporation of mobile telepresence essentially allows consumers to shop remotely, getting anything, from anywhere, anytime.
Now Barron is developing what he calls the new Hyperconnected Gun Safe which is designed to curb the nation’s gun violence epidemic by encouraging responsible gun ownership, while giving law enforcement a way to more easily enforce existing gun laws. While Barron favors gun control, he is also a pragmatist, explaining “the Second Amendment isn’t going anywhere. So we have to shift the focus from gun restrictions to putting the burden of responsibility on gun owners. The more guns people have, the more responsibility they have to have.”
His Hyperconnected Gun Safe is an affordable, mounted, armed, internet-connected gun clip which gun owners can secure and keep tabs on their firearms, from any location and it looks like this:
Each gun is assigned by serial number to a holder, whose electronic sensor lets the system know when that gun has been removed
Features interior and exterior cameras, which can stream to a secure website
If the safe is broken into, owner is alerted via SMS, email, etc., with make & model of missing firearm, and video of theft
Can remind owner when gun has been removed for a set period of time
Will make law enforcement firearm tracking databases more efficient
Mark B. Barron, Futurist
Photo credit: Antonio Montani
Underscoring the need for such technology is the unfortunate reality that developments in the gun safety realm have been eschewed for decades by gun manufacturers. These innovations have mostly involved “smart guns,” trigger-identification systems that prevent a gun from being fired by anyone other than its authorized user, using RFID chips, fingerprints, personalized grip patterns, and the oldest iteration, magnets. However, whereas in other industries, such as the auto industry, lawsuits and regulations have forced makers to improve products’ safety, gun makers have been exempt.
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So Barron’s aim is to work around them, as he did with the S-1 GARD and MDZ Shield. After finding institutionalized complacency in the bus OEM industry, he took his products to the transit agencies and school districts who find themselves responsible for injuries or deaths caused by the rear-wheel rollovers these safety products aim to mitigate. With decades in the safety business, Barron knows the best way to enact reforms, and he believes that for gun safety, he once again has an effective solution.
Barron’s Proposed Gun Safe Legislation is quite simple: If a person is found with an unregistered firearm in their possession or not reporting a missing firearm, they will be sentenced to 1 year of highway clean up and wear a jumpsuit with what crime they have committed on the back during the highway clean up.
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Mark B. Barron is determined to see his vision come to life and has met with Piers Morgan from CNN to see that his new gun safe is shown on CNN for the world to see and how everyone can use it for their own safety. It is estimated that there are guns in half the homes in the United States. Although most of these guns are purchased for safety reasons, a firearm at home is much more likely to injure or kill a family member or friend rather than an intruder. Weapon storage is crucial, and if a gun is stored properly, it can make the difference between life and death. Tragedies occur on a daily basis involving unlocked firearms that are easily accessible to anyone including young children. Gun safety begins with you, the adult: be responsible or pay the consequences.
Mark B. Barron and Piers Morgan at a Gun Safety Event in Beverly Hills
Barron is a big fan of CNN and Piers Morgan and was in New York at the Carlyle Hotel to support Piers’ new book Shooting Straight: Guns, God, Gays and George Clooney. He was also in New York to discuss his new Hyperconnected Gun Safe with prominent gun safety advocates such as Morgan. Other attendees included luminaries such as Matt Lauer, Barbara Walters, Donald Trump, Charlie Rose, and Tony Bennett, as well as Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Jeff Zucker, Fareed Zakaria and many more.
Shooting Straight provides a heartfelt account of Morgan’s extraordinary new life and his continuing love affair with America. Shocking, funny, and incisive, it proves once again why Piers Morgan has taken the world by storm and undeniably why he is one of the most talked-about, controversial figures in the media today.
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‘Heroic’ songbirds rescue each other
Photo: Seychelles warbler (Martijn Hammers / UG)
We already know that some animals, including dolphins and ants, rescue animals of the same species from dangerous situations. Dutch researchers have now discovered that ‘heroic behaviour’ also occurs in wild birds. Martijn Hammers (GELIFES, University of Groningen) and Lyanne Brouwer (Australian National University and Netherlands Institute for Ecology NIOO) found evidence of this while studying the Seychelles warbler. Their findings have been published in the first week of April 2017 in the online edition of the journal Behaviour. The research was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
The Seychelles warbler is a small songbird with a highly social brooding system, in which not only the parents, but also brothers, sisters and even grandparents help to raise the fledglings. The lack of natural predators on the Seychelles allows these warblers to live to a relatively old age compared with most other small birds. The oldest known bird of this species lived to the age of 19. Long-term studies of Seychelles warblers have already provided new information about the evolution of their social behaviour.
Sticky seeds
Birds on the island of Cousin in the Indian Ocean sometimes become entangled in the sticky seeds of the pisonia tree, also known as the ‘bird-catcher tree’. The seeds become entangled in the feathers of the birds’ wings, rendering them unable to fly and forage for food. This is often fatal.
Martijn Hammers and Lyanne Brouwer discovered that Seychelles warblers rescue family members by helping them to remove the sticky seeds. They do this by pecking and tugging at the seeds with their beaks, with no regard for their own safety.
Rescue behaviour
Follow-up observations of the birds that had been rescued in this way after seeds had become attached to their wing feathers revealed that all the seeds had been removed. Martijn Hammers: ‘This rescue behaviour is a unique example of social behaviour. The rescuer must not only see that a group member is in danger, but must also recognize the cause of that danger and take the right course of action to neutralize it. In addition, the rescuer must try to avoid the same danger while carrying out its rescue operation. The fact that animals rescue animals of the same species from dangerous situations could be an indication of empathy, but more research is needed to exclude other explanations.’
Family success
When a Seychelles warbler rescues one of its own, this not only benefits the victim, but also the individual carrying out the rescue operation. Saving a group member increases the chances of the bird’s family group remaining intact and its ultimate chances of success. Hammers: ‘We expect to find this type of behaviour in other wild animals, particularly animals that live in family groups. The birds could also behave in this way in the hope that the favour will be returned if they find themselves in the same situation.’
Spreading seeds
The advantage of sticky seeds is that once they stick to the birds’ feathers, they can be spread to other islands. Furthermore, if a bird flies to another island and dies, the seeds have a greater chance of germinating because the dead bird serves as a source of nourishment. Although it is largely seabirds that fall foul of pisonia tree seeds, the seeds can also get stuck in the feathers of endangered songbirds, such as the Seychelles warbler.
The article Rescue behaviour in a social bird: removal of sticky ‘bird-catcher tree’ seeds by group members was published online this week by the journal Behaviour.
Authors: Martijn Hammers, researcher at the University of Groningen, GELIFES department; Lyanne Brouwer, researcher at the Australian National University and the Netherlands Institute for Ecology NIOO.
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Pick the best running partner to help you go faster, farther, and more often.
By Louise Jarvis
Timothy Archibald
A decade ago three children stood between 37-year-old Jennifer Lonneman and her last marathon. Training solo near her home in a Cincinnati suburb, she couldn't seem to go faster than 10 minutes per mile and wondered if a little company might help. So she started running with a small group. "Every little push, every person who was faster became the invisible rope pulling me along," says Lonneman. A year later she ran a marathon in 3:53. "My partners keep me running smart."
Sports psychologists have known that athletes perform better in groups than alone since possibly the first study of social facilitation among cyclists was published in 1898. Simply put, this study shows athletes will exceed their expectations or personal bests when performing with a group or in front of a group, says Steve Portenga, Ph.D., the University of Denver's director of sports psychology.
"You're more focused, and less distracted by pain when others are watching or running with you," says Portenga, who is also the sports psychologist for USA Track & Field. "The key is to find someone who keeps you focused on your goal."
All runners can benefit from group training. Less experienced striders may find that the accountability a partner provides is what they need to commit to a 5 a.m. run. More motivated runners prize buddies for helping them add miles and shave minutes. To maximize the advantages of this crucial alliance, keep a few principles in mind.
PICK WISELY
Finding others who run isn't hard—strike up a conversation with a runner you frequently see at the park, ask a colleague if you can tag along on his lunchtime workout, or search the listings at a social site like dailymile.com. Finding someone you want to run with again and again is a little trickier. Be prepared to ask—and answer—direct questions about training schedules, as well as short-and long-term goals, says Portenga. (See "For Better...or Worse," below.) You want to know up front if you have common expectations and a similar workout ethic. Do at least two trial runs before you commit to more. You'll know pretty quickly if the other person is positive and reliable.
MAKE PACE A PRIORITY
The big-picture goal doesn't have to be the same for each runner as long as an aspect of the training is shared. For instance, a runner training for a 5-K could do track work with someone signed up for a 10-K, while a 10-K racer and a marathoner could pair up for short runs, as long as they agree about their preferred pace beforehand. "Pace is even more important than compatibility," says Barbara Walker, Ph.D., a sports psychologist and founder of the consulting firm the Center for Human Performance in Cincinnati. "You aren't going to be happy if you don't run your pace, if you feel too fast or too slow for the group."
AVOID "FRIENDLY" COMPETITIONS
"When you get too competitive, you lose sight of your training program and you deviate from what's ideal for you," says Portenga. "In the end, it can sabotage your performance. If you're going to make a competition out of practice, then you should compete with only yourself." A better use of that time together, he says, may be to help each other through plateaus and work on checking off incremental goals. This is one area where veterans pair well with newbies: Running with a beginner can counter the culture of toughness that can take over between two experienced runners of equal ability. And practiced runners can help newbies stick with it.
COMPARTMENTALIZE
The bond between running partners is unique: It lacks the shifting dynamics of a typical friendship, the baggage of family, and the professional distance of co-workers. "It's like being in therapy," says Lonneman. "The act of running somehow allows the words to flow easily. We share things on our runs that I might not even tell my closest girlfriend. What else are you going to talk about over 20 miles?"
Walker says that maintaining clear boundaries in her running relationships has been essential to her success as a marathon runner and triathlete. "My running partners and I have an agreement that what's said on the trail stays on the trail," she says. "If we're out to dinner, I don't want conversation crossover."
Biochemistry may be what makes these highly compartmentalized relationships so fulfilling. "Your endorphins are flowing, so your guard is down," Walker says. "Cortisol is low, so stress is low. It's this parallel relationship where you aren't even facing each other. There's a rhythm; it's a meditative state."
FEEL better: Training partners can help get you to the starting line, but to be ready for racing solo, run alone once a week to practice pushing yourself.
For Better. . . or Worse
To avoid a Felix and Oscar situation, communication is key
ESTABLISH EXPECTATIONS
Before your first run, discuss your schedules (including duration of workouts and ideal pace) as well as training goals (targeting a race, building endurance). Your answers don't have to match perfectly, but this information will help you plan joint workouts to benefit you both.
DETERMINE COMPATIBILITY
"Similarly competitive runners tend to partner well, even if their training goals differ," says Steve Portenga. Ask potential partners (and yourself): On a scale of 1 to 5, how competitive are you? It's also wise to discuss how each of you will react if the other has to cancel a workout or arrives late.
Scheduling conflicts, injuries, or differing rates of improvement can undermine the goals of both runners. If that's the case, be honest and move on. More awkward are the personality issues that can take you out of your zone. These are best dispatched with a polite, but definitive exit.
73% OF RUNNER'S WORLD READERS USUALLY RUN ALONE, JUST 7% RUN WITH A FRIEND, AND 5% RUN WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS.
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New role too good to ignore
RMPP Action Network programme project manager Brendon Patchett.
The role of project manager for the Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Network programme was too good to ignore, says Brendon Patchett.
“What attracted me was the opportunity to be involved with a well-resourced and focused programme that would make a difference for the agricultural sector,” he said.
Patchett grew up on a small Marlborough farm and has years of experience in the rural sector and IT, which has included developing and rolling out the RMPP Action Network programme.
He first worked as a livestock drafter in Marlborough and North Canterbury, then gained a BCom from Lincoln University, followed by 14 years in IT.
In 2014 he returned to the rural sector in IT, in a business development role with livestock data management firm Agtrac. There he encountered RMPP and the network programme, which he joined last year.
The network is made up of small groups of seven to nine farming businesses; farmers work together with other like-minded farmers and rural professionals to identify ways to improve the performance of their business.
Groups are facilitated by rural professionals and $4000 per participating farm business is available to pay for facilitation support and to bring in relevant subject matter expertise.
RMPP began rolling out the Action Network in late 2017 and 950 farmers are now involved, with 150 regionally spread groups; 89 groups have submitted their plans and have started receiving funding. The goal is to engage with 2550 farmers and to set up 300 groups.
“The network is underpinned by research,” Patchett says. “That informed the development of the model and was tested via a farmer pilot programme.
“The network takes a small group approach with farmers learning from other farmers, supported by other relevant knowledge and expertise.
“This helps farmers increase their confidence to act and make positive changes to their farm business, leading to increased productivity and profitability.”
He says a common focus, structured approaches and the kick-start funding for each business are key.
“Strong facilitation is critical to successfully run groups: 350 rural professionals have been trained to be facilitators, with 74 already approved and working with groups.”
Patchett will lead the design, development and roll-out of the network.
“There’s strong momentum within the network now. We’re seeing an increase in the number of farmer groups registering. There’s also increased understanding and awareness about the network, including how it can be applied in ways that enable farmers to navigate challenges or investigate ideas.”
Backers of the RMPP include Ministry for Primary Industries, Beef + Lamb NZ, six meat companies and two banks.
What is RMPP?
RMPP IS a seven-year Primary Growth Partnership programme working to help the red meat sector increase productivity and profitability.
It has ten funders: Ministry for Primary Industries, ANZ, Alliance, ANZCO, Beef + Lamb NZ, Blue Sky Meats, Greenlea Premier Meats, Progressive Meats, Rabobank and Silver Fern Farms.
RMPP works with farmers and sector businesses to develop, test and introduce information and technology.
www.actionnetwork.co.nz
The power of good facilitation
“Without a facilitator, we would just have done that farmer thing and sat round, shuffled our feet and waited for someone else to say something,” says Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Group member Reece Cleland.
Staying ahead of the game
High-performing farmers are front-footing challenges facing the sheep and beef sector and adapting their businesses, according to new research by the Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP).
Strategic planning a key focus for action group member
Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Group member Charlie Riddell says while there have been good lessons from the subject matter experts, he has learned just as much from other members of the group.
RMPP Action Network Programme extended
The Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Network programme has been extended until early next year.
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Hampi: Written in Stone
Aniruddha Dhamorikar November 08, 2015
The rotund rock formations can take the form of the most bizarre shapes when viewed through a layer of hot air rising from the sandy gravel on the banks of Tungabhadra. We stood at the northern bank of the river, on an island called Virupapuragadde, awaiting the ferry that would take us to the ruins of the capital of the Vijayanagara Kingdom, Hampi. It was hot, and Laxmi, the sacred elephant of the Virupaksha temple, was being bathed by her mahout as a horde of tourists photographed her from all sides. Under a stony pillared mandapa built five hundred years ago on the bank of the river sat women who offered their hair in grief, as an honour to the departed.
On the eastern side of the bank children jumped into the river from boulders resembling elephant humps, and played in the quieter regions of the rive as River Terns glided overhead, scouring the waters for fish.
The Tungabhadra River and the landscape of Hampi
A day earlier, we arrived on the northern shore of Tungabhadra through banana and sugarcane crops planted on rich black soils surrounded by giant ochre rocks that piled high one upon the other in some places, and which in the evening sunlight turned to gold. These golden rocks are the hallmark of Hampi, on which mankind has written in stone its rich cultural and natural history.
Hampi is an ancient city dating to 1 or 2 century AD, but its cultural glory was at its peak during early 1300s when the Vijayanagara city was formed by the Sangama brothers with Hampi as its capital (Vasudevan and Muralidhar, 2015). The cultural height of this city was at its peak during the era of King Krishna Devaraya, who ruled the Vijayanagara Kingdom for two decades; some consider his reign as the epitome of the glory of the empire when many wars were won, and history written in stone.
The fertile plains of Hampi amidst the ocher stone hills; the dwelling place of the Monkey King
Even more ancient is its association with Ramayana, where the north of Hampi is the location of the Monkey Kingdom Kishkindha, ruled by Sugriva, and the Anjandari Parvata, the speculated birthplace of Lord Hanumana. It is said that this area formed the southern edge of the ancient Dandaka forest that extended from the Vindhyan Range of mountains to the River Tungabhadra where Rama and Sita wandered in exile. Within this forest lay the Dandaka Kingdom, said to be reined by Rakshasas, the demons, whose king, Ravana, abducted Sita. Lord Rama had come to the Kishkindha Kingdom in search of Sita, where he received assistance from Hanuman. [Source] [Much of this is inconclusive, as many records have no accounts of the Dandaka forest touching the River Tungabhadra as far as the Kishkindha Kingdom in Hampi].
The history of this place therefore speaks volumes – from the mythology of the (Valmiki) Ramayana written in 5 to 1 BCE [Source] when the ancient Indian forests of Dandaka existed, to the empire of Vijayanagara (1300 to 1400 AD) known for its taming of elephants and trade with foreign empires, to the present day (2015 CE) when we look back and marvel at all that existed. Perhaps the only link between these three extended time periods could be explained by the flora and fauna described in them: who were the rakshasa, the narsimha, the vanara, the yali, the makara, and if all of these are mythical, do they symbolise anything that ever lived? Was there a kingdom of monkeys, did the Bear King live here, was this land once home to the tigers, did wild elephants ever roam these lands?
The Prasanna Virupaksha temple, the abode of the bats
The reek of guano inside the 14th century Prasanna Virupaksha temple was strong. Only a moment earlier, we asked our guide Vikram that we wanted to see bats – and as we came to a stop alongside this temple, he said this is exactly where you’ll find them! This ancient temple, now popularly called the Underground Vishnu temple, shares its architectural intricacies with many other temples around: stone pillared with many aisles, and a corridor that leads deep inside into darkness. Much of the temple was filled with ankle-deep water, and although its waters reflected the dark roof of the temple, we thought it would be filled with the guano ever since bats had colonized it. But we had to see who dwells inside this holy temple after the idol was taken away.
In the back of the temple there is a small opening which takes you to the middle passage, which further leads inside into the garhbagriha cloaked in utter darkness. And in and out of it fly the silent-winged, broad eared bats – the Schneider’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros speoris). These small, insect-hunting bats found only in India and Sri Lanka, are common inhabitants of the temples of Hampi, and are perhaps the oldest residents of this temple today.
The Schneider's Leaf-nosed Bat prefer rock shelters over forests - an important ecosystem for these mammals is Hampi
We are not sure how many inhabit the city of Hampi, or for how long they’ve been around; in fact most visitors remain oblivious to their presence, or feel disgusted at the smell and sight of them – but they’re not parasites damaging what our ancestors built – they are eating insects such as mosquitoes – thousands and millions of them every night – and keeping their numbers in check. The ones that lived in the natural caves of Hampi much before it rose to become a city, and in manmade stone walls chiselled out of stone, are missing from the records, but still clinging onto those very same stones.
No bats are carved on Hampi’s stones, but its walls have several stories to tell: tales of tiger and leopard hunts, taming of horses, camels, and elephants, and creatures that sadly today exist only in stone in this ancient city.
View from Anjandri Parvata; the river Tungabhadra bisects Hampi into two historically significant parts
We climbed the Anjanadri Parvata in dizzying noon heat, and gazed upon the idol of Lord Hanumana which appeared a lot like an infant moorti of the lord – and then stood at the edge of the hill to look upon the southern landscape. The horizon was spilled with boulders of every shape and size, forming either blunt or pointed hilltops, their skin tanned bronze by the sun. The Tungabhadra formed a wide bed of lush green plantations hugging from all sides: rice, banana, sugarcane, coconut; and she occupied only a fraction of her once vast fertile plains as she steadily carried herself towards east. The Virupaksha temple, a tall grandeur and the main complex of Hampi, is barely visible in the vast landscape. It is here that culture and nature converged, and led to an everlasting impression on mankind.
It was a masterpiece of unnatural beauty and splendour, sterile yet fertile, empty yet occupied, Martian yet Earthly. It is said that the rocks of Hampi are the bare bones of our planet visible to the naked eye, giant granite monoliths that crumbled as they aged under forces of sun, water and wind [Source].
The wall of Hazara Ramachandra temple depicts soldiers practicing, and horses and elephants training for war
Hampi is as beautiful up close as it is from a hilltop, its pillars and its walls that form giant temples are carved with stories of a forgotten past. The Hazara Ramachandra temple, so called because of the depictions of relief sculptures of Rama in the Ramayana narrative (Vasudevan and Muralidhar, 2015), depicts series of several stories: of warriors practicing, of horses being tamed and presented to the king, and elephants pulled, rode upon, and trained for war. The depiction of taming of animals such as horses, which were brought in from Persia, are worthy of note, but more worthy are the depictions of the domestication of elephants.
An elephant in chains; a method still in use to break down wild elephants during the taming process
I did not come across records of where the Vijayanagara Kingdom acquired elephants – were they around when the kingdom was in its prime? Or were they captured from the Western Ghats that are not too far from Hampi? The only reference to elephants is that of King Devaraya II, who was titled Gajaventegara, the hunter of elephants. Kuntar (2012) states that he was an expert at hunting elephants, however Chopra, Ravindran and Subramanian (2003), as quoted in Wikipedia, said that it could also mean a metaphor for his “victories against enemies who were as strong as elephants” [Source].
We can only speculate whether wild elephants existed around this landscape or not – the historical range of Asiatic Elephants however suggests that they did, and could have been the source population of domestic elephants as well. They fought wars, transported rocks and kings, and pulled chariots. No wild elephants roam these lands anymore; Lakshmi is probably the only domestic elephant that lives here in the Virupaksha temple. The closest range of wild elephants today lies towards the west, in the Uttara Kannada district.
The most intriguing sculptures besides the mythical beasts are that of hunts: men wearing turbans sitting on the backs of elephants or horses hunting tigers and leopards with spears. This depiction of tigers, horses, and elephants all together are unlikely to be borrowed arts, they were probably inspired by first-hand experiences of hunters in the countryside of Hampi.
The hunt of the tiger
An interesting rock art on Mahanavami dibba is that of a male tiger attacking a domestic elephant, with a man standing under the elephant stabbing the tiger’s stomach, and another man on a horse, probably a king or a prince, spearing the tiger on its shoulders. It is unclear if it was a staged artwork or the depiction of an actual hunt narrated by a hunter, but there are several relics showing men on elephants or horses hunting large cats that could only mean tigers.
The hunt of the leopard
We came across another such artwork where two men are in a forest on foot, one with a spear, and one with a a spear stabbing a cat that perhaps represents a leopard. And of these three giants – the elephant, tiger, and leopard – of an era gone by, only leopards seem to have remained amidst Hampi’s rocks. Steve, who runs Bobby “One Love” Guest House and Restaurant, saw a leopard a few months ago towards the north of the Virupapuragadde sitting amongst rocks, and watched him dissolve into the stony blanket as soon as he was spotted.
Hunting was apparently common in the Vijayanagara Kingdom, tigers and leopards were hunted for sport with spears, and deer were hunted for food. Walls of ancient temples tell stories of hunters with bows and arrows hunting deer. A series depicting hunting is preserved well on one of the sides of the Mahanavami dibba. Carved on the bottom slab of the wall, it shows (from left to right), a hunter with a bow and arrow shooting a chital, two people carrying the shikar on a pole, and another party attacking another herd of chital.
Domestic animals, the elephants, horses, and camels being trained; and the wild: the tiger and the deer being hunted
Men hunting deer are a common feature of stone art, we saw a depiction of what appears to be a pig (most likely a wild boar) cowering from a hunter as a herd of chital dashes into the forests. The hunter however appears to have killed a deer just above the boar. I wondered why they would show a boar in a hunt scene, for it is considered holy. The boar depicted on the royal emblem of the Vijayanagara Kingdom stands for Lord Vishnu’s third avatar Varaha – a boar – who pulled the earth out of the water when Hiranyakasha hid it deep under the ocean.
A carving depicting a hunt in the woods: deer, boar, and probably a canid running through a forest
The most iconic of all stone-carved temples is the Vitthala temple, standing alone in its own temple complex with an intricately carved stone chariot being pulled by two elephants resting in front of it. We explored this complex as the October sun baked the ground beneath our feet, and dust settled on our skin.
A nondescript, idol-less temple in the Vitthala complex: dark sanctum sanctorum are an ideal roosting site of bats
We walked towards the northern door of the Vitthala temple where an old Plumeria tree stands, and towards the southern end of the complex is an empty temple with a flat roof. Inside it was complete darkness, and a small roost of another species of bat, the Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat (Rhinopoma hardwickii) dwelt here.
The Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat, another resident of Hampi's temples
A rather small species with large eyes and a peculiar mouse-like tail, these insectivorous bats occupy similar niches as the Schneider’s Leaf-nosed bats. The temple they roost in is seldom visited by tourists, this deep and dark space is their sanctum sanctorum.
Many of these temples are adopted abodes of wildlife. Amidst the clamour of wars in the mid 1500s, an Italian visitor Caesar Freedericci is quoted by Kuntar (2012) as remarking, “the town had become desolute [sic] and buildings in it had become hide-outs for wild animals”. This is perhaps the only reference to the wildlife that existed during the time of the Vijayanagara Kingdom.
On our way back to Bobby “one love”, we saw a flock of ruby-red Red Avadavats mixed with the dark-browns of Scaly-breasted Munias pecking the ripe heads of rice. In the morning, was saw a Red-vented Bulbul fledgling being looked after by its parents, a mother Baya Weaver dehusking rice and feeding the white grain to her fledgling, and Silverbills, Bee-eaters, Kingfishers and Drongos hunting among the stone hills. A number of rock agamas, a lizard that lives only on rocks, chased one another among large boulders. Were these some of the only remaining resilient species that now called Hampi home?
A mother Baya Weaver feeds her hatchling with ripe rice
Vikram, our guide during our stay at Hampi, informed us that only recently a leopard was captured and moved away from the locality by the Forest Department because it was a potential danger to people. The only signs we saw of leopards were the nail collars worn around the neck of pet dogs. Sloth bears, although now uncommon, have been spotted by people, snakes such as cobras, vipers and sand boas are also commonly found around Hampi. Other species of bats such as the Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus), Indian pipistrelle (Pipistrellus coromandra), and Leschenault’s rosuette (Rousettus leschenaulti), are recorded from Hampi.
The fingers that chiselled these rocks, which have preserved parts of their kingdom for eternity, perhaps overlooked these common forms of wildlife which, I think, they thought would linger on long after the era of the kings had ended. Perhaps their cultural value was negligible; perhaps they were far too common to be worthy of being carved in stone.
A fish carved on an otherwise plain wall near the elephant stable
This life today is hidden under the extravagance of Hampi’s tourism that has rerouted and reformed and reshaped Hampi’s relationship with nature. And we’re increasingly seeing a shifting of the baseline of the ecology of Hampi: from the time when elephants and tigers roamed these lands, to today, where they can only be admired in stone. My thoughts kept going back to how things would have been then.
Hampi forms an excellent example of what is called the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Described first by Pauly (1995) for the natural fish stocks, Pauly wrote;
“This syndrome has arisen because each generation of fisheries scientists accepts as a baseline the stock size and species composition that occurred at the beginning of their careers, and uses this to evaluate changes. When the next generation starts its career, the stocks have further declined, but it is the stocks at that time that serve as a new baseline. The result onbiously is a gradual shift of the baseline, a gradual accommodation of the creeping disappearance of resource species, and inappropriate reference points [...] for identifying targets for rehabilitation measures.”
We reminisce Hampi’s manmade past, with no reflection on what has been lost ecologically. Our awe tilts more towards the economic history of the region, with little or no consideration for its ecological history. This kind of Shifting Baseline Syndrome that we suffer from is aptly classified as “generational amnesia, where knowledge extinction occurs because younger generations are not aware of past biological conditions” by Papworth, Rist, Coas, and Milner-Gulland (2008) in their beautiful study Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation.
Lord Krishna dancing on Kaliya, a cobra (a dark morph of the Indian Cobra?) that was taught a lesson for troubling people
The current conservation measures of Hampi lie in the mitigation of man-animal conflict with the scant wildlife that still clings to its rocks – leopards, sloth bears, wild boars, snakes. This does not translate into bringing the lost glory of Hampi back – its rocks now lie empty for most parts – no longer do they feel the warm soles of mammals resting on them like they once used to.
The scrub forest habitat of Daroji Bear Sanctuary
Over 30 kilometers from Hampi is the Daroji Bear Sanctuary (see management plan here), a small, 82.72 sq. km. wide sanctuary carved out of rocks and stones. It is particularly famous for its conservation of sloth bears. Most of these bears are rescues, which are fed with jaggery, bananas, honey, and other sweets daily. Two men, one armed with a stick and another with a vessel climb up the flat platform-like boulders and spread the sweet brew onto the rocks daily. The man with a stick in hand is in-charge of making enough noise to inform any prowling bears of their presence. As the day progresses, bears, mongoose, peacocks, spurfowls, and wild boars come out to cherish this free treat that they’re feeding on since Daroji came into existence in 1994.
Daroji is a scrub forest with relatively good tree cover compared to the heartland of Hampi. Leopards take shelter in this protected area as well, perhaps feeding on the resident bonnet macaque and southern plains langur. Although most of its sloth bear population is habituated to the free diet provided by humans, there are several wild individuals that rarely ever wander out during the hot afternoon hours.
I find Hampi and Daroji to be two peaks of the same mountain. They share the exact same habitat, are thinly populated, and can hold a large population of wildlife – not only of sloth bears and leopards, but also, perhaps, of tigers if not elephants.
A lone, plump sloth bear feeding on the Karadikallu gudda
The conservation choices of Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary are peculiar, they are a combination of ex situ conservation measures (artificial feeding) in an in situ conservation model (in their natural habitat), a rare method that works well for bears whose populations are decreasing throughout their distribution range. From an ecological point-of-view, Daroji is a highly unstable colony of sloth bears, since bears are solitary animals and converge only when food is abundantly available.
How does this relate to the Shifting Baseline Syndrome?
Shri Jambunatha temple is located a little farther from Hampi, about 5 km from the city of Hospete, on a hill called Jambhunathanahalli. Jambhunatha is the King of Bears, the son of Brahma, and is depicted as a sloth bear (read the history on Wikipedia). Jabhunathanhalli literally means the dwelling place of the King of the Bears.
Daroji Bear Sanctuary was perceived to be a place for the conservation of sloth bears with several measures undertaken to give them a safe haven and reduce anthropogenic pressure upon the protected area. The historical link of the surviving, or rather thriving, populations of sloth bears with that of the 15th century temple of Jambhunatha, or with the hill upon which the King of Bears dwelt, is hard to overlook. Perhaps it was deemed that sloth bears needed protection because the King of Bears dwelt here, or perhaps the ancient civilization dubbed this hill so because many bears already dwelt in that region.
Modernization of agriculture, loss and defragmentation of habitats are major causes of the loss of biodiversity
What, then, of the tiger that was hunted for sport; or that of the elephant trained for labour? What of the Great Indian Bustard that were recorded in this region until recently but are now locally extinct [Source], and are critically endangered and on the verge of extinction solely because of man’s activities?
The Peninsular Rock Agama, Psammophilus dorsalis; one of the resilient ones of Hampi
We have now reduced the biodiversity of Hampi to only those animals that can eke out a living in a human dominated landscape. Walking through the ancient temples of Hampi, we feel a strong presence of men roaming through those empty stone-walled temples over 500 years ago. But if you look a little closer, Hampi’s history offers glimpses of its natural riches too, which will remain written in stone for another several hundred years for everyone to see the glorious years of yore now but a memory.
The sunset over Hampi's horizon is always spectacular, as spectacular as it was a hundred or a thousand years ago
We sat on the shoulder of a rock in the evening sun wondering if we could spot something as we scanned the large hills glowing in gold around us – would a leopard be peering at us, or a family of bears patiently watching us from a cave – but all we heard was a group of visitors singing in unison to the setting sun.
Vasudevan, C. S.; Muralidhar, Melukote N. (2015). Hampi world heritage area. Itagi Nagaraja Prakashana
Kuntar, Mohan. (2012). A glimpse of Hampi. Sri Venkatrshwars Toys Centre Hampi
Pauly, Daniel. (1995). Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries. TREE. 10(10). pp. 430
Papworth, S. K.; Rist, J.; Coad, L.; and Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2008). Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation. Conservation Letters. 2(2009). pp. 93–100
Kiran, M. N. (n.a.). Management plan for Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary 2011-12 to 2015-16. Karnataka Forest Department
Baskaran, Theodore. (2015). In the land of bears. Frontline. Retrieved from: http://www.frontline.in/environment/wild-life/in-the-land-of-bears/article7809510.ece
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Archana December 5, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Wow! 'Looked' at Hampi from the ecological point of view for the first time. Thought provoking post.
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By Steve McLean | www.samaritanmag.com
Pharrell Williams' new Black Ambition, a non-profit initiative that aims to provide a bridge to success for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who are launching companies, is nearing its application deadline, Feb. 18.
Semi-finalists will be announced and peer circles will begin in April. Finalists will be announced and mentorship will begin in June.
“Recent events and tragedies have illustrated the always existent stark divisions in the American experience, and while entrepreneurship has long been a tenet of the American dream, marginalized people have faced long-standing barriers to success,” said Williams, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer and entrepreneur, in a press statement.
“With Black Ambition, the goal is to help strengthen the pipeline of talented entrepreneurs and close the opportunity and wealth gaps derived from limited access to capital and resources.”
According to The Black Ambition website, if Black and Latinx people were supported to succeed as entrepreneurs at the same rate as white people, the United States could add 1.1 million new businesses and 9 million new jobs to the economy.
Black Ambition will involve two prize competitions, The Black Ambition HBCU Prize and The Black Ambition Prize, which will culminate in one event next July.
In partnership with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), The Black Ambition HBCU Prize will offer prizes and mentorship for current and former students at HBCUs as they develop seed or early-stage ideas and launch companies in technology, design, healthcare, and consumer products and services.
The grand prize winner will receive up to a U.S.$250,000 prize. At least nine additional teams will receive smaller prizes.
Teams must include at least one current HBCU undergraduate or graduate student (full-time or part-time), one recent alumni within two years of graduation, or one former student within two years of attending the institution who is a member of the founding team. This HBCU-affiliated individual must identify as Black/African/African American and/or Hispanic/Latino/Latinx.
The Black Ambition Prize will find, support and seed early-stage companies in tech, design, healthcare, and consumer products and services. Ventures must have at least one founder or co-founder that identifies as Black/African/African American and/or Hispanic/Latino/Latinx.
The grand prize winner will receive up to a $1 million (USD) prize. At least nine additional teams will receive smaller prizes. A member of the company’s founding team must have a senior role to qualify.
Independent application reviewers will score eligible applications on the strength of their idea, with the strongest applicants advancing to next July’s event, where they’ll make presentations to judges and investors.
In addition to financial awards, entrepreneurs involved with Black Ambition will receive mentorship and feedback as well as access to peer networks, expert connections, online resources and information about business resources.
Semi-finalists will also receive cohort-based mentorship. Finalists will receive personal mentorship, opportunities for media exposure and introductions to venture capitalists, angel investors and accelerator partners.
Black Ambition’s long-term vision is for inclusive entrepreneurship to be the new normal. It will be led by an advisory team led by Williams, with support from The Bridgespan Group, a global non-profit organization that advises mission-driven organizations, non-profits, philanthropists and impact investors.
Artist, designer and philanthropist Virgil Abloh is involved with the initiative and contributed the Black Ambition logo and identity concept design.
Black Ambition is supported by funds from Adidas, Chanel, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation, Tony’s Chocolonely, Visa Foundation, the Ron Conway-founded SV Angel and Jonah Peretti.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a charity established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, with an investment of 99 percent of their wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime. It was founded in 2015 to leverage technology, community-driven solutions and collaboration to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges and build a more inclusive, just and healthy future for everyone.
The Rockefeller Foundation advances new frontiers of science, data, and innovation to solve global challenges related to health, food, power and economic mobility. It’s focused on building collaborative relationships with partners and grantees and seeks to inspire and foster the well-being of humanity by identifying and accelerating breakthrough solutions, ideas and conversations.
The Visa Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Visa, works with charitable organizations to support underserved people and communities. Its central focus is helping low-income, financially underserved micro and small enterprises around the world. It also supports broader community needs as well as humanitarian responses in times of crisis.
Mattel has released a limited-edition UNO Artiste: Nina Chanel Abney set in partnership with Black Ambition, while Tony’s Chocolonely is making a Black Ambition chocolate bar. A portion of the proceeds from both products will benefit the non-profit initiative.
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Motivated Multitasking: How the Brain Keeps Tabs on Two Tasks at Once
New research shows that rather than being totally devoted to one goal at a time, the human brain can distribute two goals to different hemispheres to keep them both in mind--if it perceives a worthy reward for doing so
By Katherine Harmon on April 15, 2010
The human brain is considered to be pretty quick, but it lacks many of qualities of a super-efficient computer. For instance, we have trouble switching between tasks and cannot seem to actually do more than one thing at a time. So despite the increasing options—and demands—to multitask, our brains seem to have trouble keeping tabs on many activities at once.
A new study, however, illustrates how the brain can simultaneously keep track of two separate goals, even while it is busy performing a task related to one of the aims, hinting that the mind might be better at multitasking than previously thought.
"This is the first time we observe in the brain concurrent representations of distinct rewards," Etienne Koechlin, director of the cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) in Paris and coauthor of the new study, wrote in an email to ScientificAmerican.com.
For the study, 32 right-handed subjects were asked to match letters while their brain activity was recorded with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Subjects were motivated by a monetary reward they would receive based on how many letters they matched without error. During this baseline test, both hemispheres of the brain's medial frontal cortex (which is involved in motivation) appeared active. However, when the researchers introduced a second task, where the subjects had to match like uppercase letters in addition to matching like lowercase letters with separately accruing reward tallies, Koechlin and his coauthor Sylvain Charron (of the same institution) found that the subjects' brains divided the two reward-based goals between the two sides of the region. The results were published online April 15 in Science.
The area of the brain that was highly active in the observed multitasking behavior, the frontopolar cortex (which organizes pending goals while the brain completes another task), is "especially well developed" in humans, Koechlin says. It helps organize tasks and the order in which their components should be completed (as highlighted by patients who have damaged this part of the brain and are especially poor at multitasking, he notes). This area's lesser development in other primate species leads Koechlin to think that the ability to hold more than one goal in mind at once might be unique to our species.
The new work does not, however, show that the brain can actually execute two distinct tasks, such as letter matching, at precisely the same time, Paul Dux a psychology lecturer at the University of Queensland in St. Lucia, Australia, noted in an email to ScientificAmerican.com. The data reveal that though separate goals might be running concurrently in the brain, "there are still large dual-task costs" when people have to switch between two tasks making for "non-efficient multitasking," cautioned Dux, who was not involved in the new research but has also studied attention in the brain. (Some commonplace activities, such as driving and talking on a cell phone frequently go hand-in-hand, but the brain is likely switching its main focus quickly between the two activities, perhaps a reason the pairing has been so dangerous.)
Although the letter-matching tasks were simple, Koechlin says that the same hemisphere split would also likely be observed in subjects performing more complex tasks. "Task complexity itself does not prevent from dual-tasking," he explains. "People should be able to switch back and forth between two complex tasks (by postponing one while executing the other one), provided that the incentive of pursuing each task is large enough." If one of the tasks sparks too many unrelated thoughts, however, "your frontal lobes should lose track of one task," he notes (perhaps providing more evidence for the hazards of distracted driving).
Within the results of Koechlin's work is an explanation for why people tend to prefer binary options, such as yes-or-no questions and if-then statements. "This finding further suggests that the frontal function cannot keep track of more than two goals/tasks at the same time," Koechlin explains. "Humans have problems deciding between more than two alternatives…. A possible explanation is that they cannot keep in mind and switch back and forth between three or more alternatives."
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Dr. YAN, Aixin
School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BSc (Shanxi); PhD (Peking)
KBSB 7S01
Biological Sciences Laboratory Course
Microbial Physiology and Biotechnology
Clinical Microbiology and Applied Immunology
Microbial Stress Responses
Host-pathogen Interface
Genomics and Transcriptomes
Origin and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and combating strategies
Biofilm formation and dual control of biofilm and antibiotic resistance
CRISPR-Cas in genomic manipulation and antimicrobial resistance
Bacterial Physiology and Virulence at the Host-Pathogen Interface
PhD students:
Mr. XU, Zeling (BSc Zhejiang University)
Ms. XIA, Tingying (BSc Zhejiang University of Technology; Msc Fudan University)
Mr. WANG, Pengchao (BSc University of Science and Technology of China)
Ms. LI, Yanran (BSc, Sun Yat-sen University)
Ms. TIAN, Mengdan (BSc, Wuhan University)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Publications and News
Congratulations to Mr. XU Zeling for being awarded the J.G. Phillips Memorial Scholarship 2016
Congratulations to Mr. LAI Yong for the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant for the EMBO Synthetic Biology in Action, , June 8-20, 2015, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Congratulations to Miss GAO Xiang for the Travel award of the 112th General Meeting of American Society of Microbiology (ASM), June 16-19, 2012, San Francisco, USA
Congratulations to Miss SHAN Yue for the Travel Award of the 2011 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, August 2-7, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Congratulations to Miss XIAO Min Feng for the Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship on the Multi-drug Efflux Systems Gordon Research Conference, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 2011
Congratulations to Summer Research Fellowship, Mr LUK Chak Hon, Faculty of Science, HKU, 2012
Congratulations to Best Oral Presentation Award, Undergraduate Research Colloquium Presentation 2012-2013, Mr LUK Chak Hon, Faculty of Science, HKU, 2012
Congratulations to Overseas Research Fellowship, Mr. LEUNG Man Him, Sammy, Faculty of Science, HKU, 2011
Congratulations to Summer Research Fellowship, Miss LIU Jun Yan, Faculty of Science, HKU, 2010
Congratulations to Miss LAM Yuen Man for winning the First prize for Undergraduate Research Colloquium Presentation, , Faculty of Science, HKU, 2009
2014-2016 Visiting Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan,
2013 Young Investigator's Award, Hong Kong Society of Immunology,
2013 Best Oral Presentation Award, The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Society of Immunology
2011 Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Young Scientist Award, "7th European Workshop on Bacterial Respiratory Chains", Backagården, Höör,, Lund, Sweden,
2010 HKU Overseas Fellowship Award
2007 Traveling Award for the 11th EMBO-FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on "Molecular and Cellular Biology of Membranes", Corsica, France.
2004 Traveling Award for the US-Japan Glyco 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
2004 Traveling Award of the IUBMB/ASBMB 2004 meeting, Boston, MA, USA,
2001 Excellent graduate student of Peking University, 2001.
2000 Excellent Young Scientist Award in the Peptide Field bestowed by the 6th Chinese International Peptide Symposium (CPS), Mount Huang, China.
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Implementation and Analysis of Dutch-style Sealed-bid Auctions - Computational vs Unconditional Security
Topics: Security Frameworks, Architectures and Protocols; Cryptographic Algorithms; Security Architecture and Design Analysis; Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Authors: Sriram Krishnamachari 1 , Mehrdad Nojoumian 1 and Kemal Akkaya 2
Affiliations: 1 Southern Illinois University, United States , 2 Florida International University, United States
Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005258501060113
Proceedings of ICISSP 2015, ISBN: 978-989-758-081-9
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Designing a sealed-bid auction protocol is a challenging problem in the field of applied cryptography. In the last couple of decades, numerous protocols have been proposed in the literature where each one has its own property in terms of the security model, communication and computation complexities. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no study to implement and compare a similar class of sealed-bid auction protocols. This paper therefore implements and evaluates five different Dutch-style sealed-bid auction protocols, of which three protocols are computationally secure and two protocols are unconditionally secure. It mainly focuses on the computational cost of the initialization and verification phases of these privacy-preserving protocols.
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DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE DATA-INTENSIVE SERVICE COMPOSITION
Topics: System Integration; Web Services and Web Engineering; Distributed and Parallel Applications; Network Systems, Proxies and Servers
Authors: Onyeka Ezenwoye 1 , Salome Busi 1 and S. Masoud Sadjadi 2
Affiliations: 1 South Dakota State University, United States , 2 Florida International University, United States
Proceedings of WEBIST 2010, ISBN: 978-989-674-025-2
The distributed nature of services poses significant challenges to building robust service-based applications. A major aspect of this challenge is finding a model of service integration that promotes ease of dynamic reconfiguration, in response to internal and external stimuli. Centralized models of composition are not conducive for data-intensive applications such as those in the scientific domain. Decentralized compositions are more complicated to manage especially since no service has a global view of the interaction. In this paper we identify the requirements for dynamic reconfiguration of data-intensive composite services. A hybrid composition model that combines the attributes of centralization and decentralization is proposed. We argue that this model promotes dynamic reconfiguration of data-intensive service compositions.
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TRAP/BPEL - A Framework for Dynamic Adaptation of Composite Services
Topics: System Integration; Web Services and Web Engineering
Authors: Onyeka Ezenwoye and S. Masoud Sadjadi
Affiliation: School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, United States
Proceedings of WEBIST 2007, ISBN: 978-972-8865-77-1
TRAP/BPEL is a framework that adds autonomic behavior into existing BPEL processes automatically and transparently. We define an autonomic BPEL process as a composite Web service that is capable of responding to changes in its execution environment (e.g., a failure in a partner Web service). Unlike other approaches, TRAP/BPEL does not require any manual modifications to the original code of the BPEL processes and there is no need to extend the BPEL language nor its BPEL engine. In this paper, we describe the details of the TRAP/BPEL framework and use a case study to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.
COLLABORATION SECURITY FOR MODERN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Topics: Security Information Systems Architectures; Data Protection; Security through Collaboration; Mobile Code & Agent Security
Authors: Richard Whittaker , Gonzalo Argote-Garcia , Peter J. Clarke and Raimund K. Ege
Affiliation: Florida International University, United States
Proceedings of SECRYPT 2006/ICETE, ISBN: 978-972-8865-63-4
One of the main approaches to accessing heterogeneous data is via the use of a mediation framework. The current problem with mediation systems is that they are viewed as black boxes from the perspective of their clients. As clients enter their data, they are unable to control the access to their data from entities within the mediation system. In this paper we present a solution in the form of a security framework, named Collaboration Security Framework that addresses the needs of all entities, i.e. external clients, mediators or data sources, to have autonomy in applying security policies during collaboration. As a result all entities participating in a collaboration have control over the access to their data by applying local, global and collaboration channel security rules, which can be changed at runtime and that are security model independent.
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ENABLING ROBUSTNESS IN EXISTING BPEL PROCESSES
Proceedings of ICEIS 2006, ISBN: 978-972-8865-41-2
Web services are increasingly being used to expose applications over the Internet. To promote efficiency and the reuse of software, these Web services are being integrated both within enterprises and across enterprises, creating higher function services. BPEL is a workflow language that can be used to facilitate this integration. Unfortunately, the autonomous nature of Web services leaves BPEL processes susceptible to the failures of their constituent services. In this paper, we present a systematic approach to making existing BPEL processes more fault tolerant by monitoring the involved Web services at runtime, and by replacing delinquent Web services. To show the feasibility of our approach, we developed a prototype implementation that generates more robust BPEL processes from existing ones automatically. The use of the prototype is demonstrated using an existing Loan Approval BPEL process.
OBJECT ID DISTRIBUTION AND ENCODING IN THE SEMANTIC BINARY ENGINE
Topic: Distributed Database Applications Object-Oriented Database Systems
Authors: Naphtali Rishe 1 , Armando Barreto 1 , Maxim Chekmasov 1 , Dmitry Vasilevsky 1 , Scott Graham 1 , Sonal Sood 1 and Ouri Wolfson 2
Affiliations: 1 Florida International University, United States , 2 University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Proceedings of ICEIS 2005, ISBN: 972-8865-19-8
The semantic binary engine is a database management system built on the principles of the Semantic Binary Data Model (Rishe, 1992). A semantic binary database is a set of facts about objects. Objects belong to categories, are connected by relations, and may have attributes. The concept of an object is at the core of the data model and it is crucial to have efficient algorithms that allow the semantic binary engine to store, retrieve, modify and delete information about objects in the semantic database. In this paper, we discuss the concept of object IDs for object identification and methods for object ID distribution and encoding in the database. Several encoding schemes and their respective efficiencies are discussed: Truncated Identical encoding, End Flag encoding, and Length First encoding.
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REDUCING RISK IN THE ENTERPRISE - Proposal for a Hybrid Audit Expert System
Topics: Applications of Expert Systems; Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic; Case-Based Reasoning Systems
Authors: Susan Clemmons and Kenneth Henry
This paper theorizes the use of a hybrid expert system to support a complete audit of financial statements for an enterprise. The expert system proposed would support the audit process by using two types of artificial intelligence technologies: case-based reasoning and fuzzy logic technologies. The case base and automated reasoning recommendations would give the auditing firm another insight on the audit. Unlike previous audit expert systems, this system is intended to focus broadly on an enterprise’s entire financial statement audit process; it combines a case based knowledge representation with fuzzy logic processing. The attempt at capturing a wide domain is necessary to support organizational decision-making. Focusing on narrow decision points within an audit process limits the users and usefulness of the system.
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SEMANTIC DATABASE ENGINE DESIGN
Affiliations: 1 Florida International University, High Performance Database Research center, United States , 2 University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
New types of data processing applications are no longer satisfied with the capabilities offered by the relational data model. One example of this phenomenon is the growing use of the Internet as a source of data. The data on the Internet is inherently non-relational. As a result, demand developed for database management systems natively built on advanced data models. The semantic binary data model (Rishe, 1992), satisfies the criteria for the models required for today’s applications by providing the ability to build rich schemas with arbitrarily flexible relationships between objects. In this paper, we discuss a new design for a semantic database management system which is based on the semantic binary data model. Our challenge was to design and implement a database engine which, while being native to the model, is reasonably efficient on a wide variety of industrial applications, and which surpasses relational systems in performance and flexibility on those applications that require non-relational modelling. Special attention is given to multi-platform support by the semantic database engine.
STORAGE TYPES IN THE SEMANTIC BINARY DATABASE ENGINE
Authors: Naphtali Rishe 1 , Malek Adjouadi 1 , Maxim Chekmasov 1 , Dmitry Vasilevsky 1 , Scott Graham 1 , Dayanara Hernandez 1 and Ouri Wolfson 2
Modern database engines support a wide variety of data types. Native support for all of the types is desirable and convenient for the database application developer, as it allows application data to be stored in the database without further conversion. However, support for each data type adds complexity to the database engine code. To achieve a compromise between convenience and complexity, the semantic binary database engine is designed to support only the binary data type in its kernel. Other data types are supported in the user-level environment by add-on modules. This solution allows us to keep the database kernel small and ensures the stability and robustness of the database engine as a whole. By providing extra database tools, it also allows application designers to get database-wide support for additional data types.
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Scott: Underfunding Colleges is depriving Scottish Economy
Commenting as the Scottish Funding Council published its indicative funding allocations for the further and higher education sectors for the upcoming academic year, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Tavish Scott MSP said:
“We wanted to put £93 million into colleges across Scotland. We wanted to restore funding levels to those of 2010. The SNP-Green budget does neither. The results of these cuts are obvious - 150,000 fewer students in college today compared to when the SNP came to power in 2007.
“Underfunding our colleges is depriving the Scottish economy of skilled staff. If these cuts continue Scotland’s much vaunted education system will deteriorate further under the SNP.”
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Cooke Inc. purchase of Omega Protein finalized
Cliff White
Cooke Inc.’s USD 500 million (EUR 428 million) purchase of Omega Protein was finalized after stockholders of the Texas-based fish oil and fishmeal producer approved the deal in a special meeting on 19 December.
Cooke Inc., the parent company of Canadian seafood firm Cooke Aquaculture, first announced the acquisition in October.
“The acquisition of Omega Protein will help further diversify the supply side of our business and supports our strategy of responsible growth as a leader in seafood production,” Cooke Inc. CEO Glenn Cooke said. “We are bringing together two innovative fishery teams with a passion for delivering superior products, service, and value to our customers in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner.”
Omega Protein is a nutritional product company that develops, produces and delivers highly-refined specialty oils, specialty protein products, nutraceuticals, foods, dietary supplements, and animal feeds.
Omega Protein Corporation is a nutritional product company and a leading integrated provider of specialty oils and specialty protein products. The company operates seven manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and 30 vessels harvesting menhaden in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Following the transaction’s finalization, Omega Protein’s fleet will be operated by Alpha VesselCo Holdings, Inc.
Under terms of the transaction, Cooke acquired all outstanding shares of Omega Protein, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol OME, for USD 22.00 (EUR 18.81) per share in cash. The transaction price represented a premium of 32.5 percent over Omega Protein’s closing share price of USD 16.60 (EUR 14.21) on 5 October, 2017.
Glenn Cooke said in a press release that his company found Omega Protein an attractive acquisition target because it of its animal feed ingredients, which he said are on track to receive Marine Stewardship Council sustainability certification.
“[They] are an important component in Cooke Aquaculture’s production of healthy Atlantic salmon, making this acquisition a strategic move that greatly enhances Cooke’s vertical integration,” Cooke said.
The Cooke family of companies includes global aquaculture divisions under Cooke Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Cooke Aquaculture Inc. as well as a Canadian aquaculture division operated by its affiliate, Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. The company also includes seafood divisions under Cooke Seafood USA, Inc. and Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Cooke Aquaculture Inc. has salmon farming operations in Atlantic Canada, the United States (in Maine and Washington), Chile, and Scotland as well as seabass and seabream farming operations in Spain. Its aquaculture operations include land-based juvenile production, marine farms, processing and distribution facilities, and the company also has a global sales and marketing team as well as a full value chain service and supply sector.
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Grocery e-commerce surge to continue, despite drop in August
Christine Blank
Kroger, Walmart, Target, Albertsons, and other major U.S. grocery chains are experiencing record e-commerce grocery sales. And while total grocery e-commerce sales declined in August, analysts expect stronger future growth.
U.S. grocery delivery and pickup sales for August totaled USD 5.7 billion (EUR 4.8 billion), down from their peak in June, according to the August 2020 Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey.
However, Americans are buying a larger volume of groceries online and ordering more frequently, the research firms found.
The average order value for online grocery pickup and delivery increased to a record high of USD 95 (EUR 80), a surge of 32 percent compared to last August. Plus, active online grocery shoppers placed 1.6 online orders per month compared to one per month in August 2019.
Around 37.5 million, or 29 percent of all U.S. households, are considered monthly active users of online grocery pickup and delivery services in August 2020 compared to 16.1 million a year ago – a 133 percent increase.
In addition, shoppers’ intent to make a repeat purchase in the next month with the last service used reached 75 percent.
“This level of repeat intent is a significant improvement from June, highlighting how improved retail conditions are leading to stronger shopping experiences,” Brick Meets Click/Mercatus said in a post on its website. “Many have been anticipating there would be a drop from peak COVID sales for grocery delivery and pickup at some point. Now that we have seen the expected adjustment in total sales, we have a better idea of what the market will look like going forward. We see a large base of committed shoppers, which shows signs that the online grocery pickup and delivery market is substantial and can be expected to strengthen.”
Major retailers are reaping the benefits of Americans’ increased affinity for buying grocery online and utilizing pickup and delivery services.
For example, Kroger’s e-commerce sales soared 127 percent in its second fiscal quarter.
Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said he believes that the trend towards consumers cooking at home more, which has fueled the surge in both in-store and online sales, will continue well into the future.
"So everything that we can see, it's something that will be a long-term trend because people have, one, learned how to cook and, two, found they really enjoy it,” McMullen said on CNBC’s Closing Bell. “And the other thing that's special, is when families eat as a family, they stay together. The kids don't get into as much trouble.”
Amazon is also committed to future e-commerce growth, saying it will hire 100,000 full-time and part-time workers in the U.S. and Canada to meet heightened demand.
The Giant Co. also plans to hire 4,000 new employees, Supermarket News reported.
Grocery stores are also noting higher food prices, which rose 4.1 percent in August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI). Fueling the increase over the past year are the meat, poultry, fish, and eggs categories, which rose 7.1 percent since August 2019, Supermarket News reported.
In other retail news, Walmart will open a Hissho Sushi and Craft Beer Bar inside one of its stores in Rogers, Arkansas. The concept features sushi made by trained sushi chefs, as well as hot appetizers and craft beer.
And in Aldi U.S.’s Fan Favorites 2020 survey, shoppers said the retailer’s seafood brand has the best shrimp. Aldi’s Fremont Fish Market Medium EZ Peel Raw Shrimp won the Fan Favorite vote for best seafood product.
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© City of Shenzen / The first driverless E-bus in Pingshan in the city of Shenzen
Putting Electric Logistics Vehicles to Work in Shenzhen
In 2020, national and subnational governments have been forced to reassess livability for all of their residents. A significant and growing contributor to the disproportionate effects of air pollution and global greenhouse gas emissions are the vehicles that deliver goods and freight in our urban areas.
Globally, light- and medium-duty freight vehicles account for nearly half of overall road freight CO2 emissions and around 4% of global CO2 emissions. In 2015 the exhaust from diesel vehicles, which are often used for freight transport, resulted in an estimated 181,000 premature deaths around the world. The consequences of not addressing the health impacts of air pollution are growing even more severe, with new research showing that air pollution may increase susceptibility to COVID-19.
In this report series—Putting Electric Logistics Vehicles to Work in Shenzhen—we provide a reference point and a goal post for governments looking to reduce the health and climate impacts of freight transport in their communities. We do so by diving deeply into how Shenzhen, a metropolis in Southern China, has electrified logistics vehicles and where it can make changes to accelerate that transition.
A key focus of this research is on the utilization of electric logistics vehicles (ELVs), a concept that measures the degree to which these vehicles are used for their intended application. This is a major factor in determining whether or not ELVs can replace their dirtier, gasoline counterparts. We examine the policies, charging infrastructure deployment, technology, and market development advances critical to achieving the utilization necessary for ELVs to be the vehicle of choice for urban freight.
Our report series consists of the following reports, each of which contains specific insights based on the experience and lessons drawn from Shenzhen:
Summary Volume: Charting a Path to Fully Electrifying Goods and Logistics Delivery
Background Volume: Setting the Stage for Full Utilization of ELVs in Shenzhen
Policy Volume: Utilization Subsidies as a Lever to Accelerate the ELV Market
Infrastructure Volume: Enabling ELV Utilization through Well-Planned Charger Deployment
Vehicle Quality Volume: Identifying Pain Points in ELV performance That Reduce Utilization
Business Model Volume: Improving Utilization of ELVs through Innovations in Business and Ownership Models
While every city and nation has specific circumstances, the analysis, in particular in the Summary Volume, has significant relevance to global leaders. This includes state and city governments, logistics delivery and retail goods industries, and the financial sector.
The key insights from our work include:
Full logistics electrification is possible. Shenzhen’s experience shows that a rapid transition to the use of EVs in urban logistics is feasible and, with the proper policy framework, vehicle operators will rapidly electrify.
Policy must evolve as logistics electrification progresses. As the low-hanging fruit of logistics electrification is picked, policy makers must be prepared to pivot towards harder use cases. Doing so will change how cities approach vehicle incentivization and infrastructure deployment. Being able to dynamically adjust policy to the needs of distinct market segments as they electrify is critical to success.
Growing an ELV fleet is a necessary but insufficient condition for logistics electrification. Policy makers often set EV targets in terms of share of sales or share of fleet. Getting EVs into the hands of operators is the first step in full logistics electrification but not the only step. Cities must also ensure that ELVs are able to displace the use of fossil fuel vehicles.
Encourage innovation and entrepreneurialism in the supporting ecosystem. ELVs present the market with new challenges and opportunities and enabling the market to meet those challenges is key to the success of logistics electrification. Cities can support innovation in multiple ways, including engaging with industry to support innovative pilots that support proof-of-concept for new approaches to logistics electrification.
We hope that global leaders can take Shenzhen’s experience with logistics vehicle electrification and use it to accelerate electrification in their own communities.
After filling out the form below, click on a specific volume to download
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Unable to program a remote control to operate a Sony DVD/VCR combination deck.
Sony DVD/VCR combination decks have a Command Mode setting that allows the user to change the IR frequency that the unit accepts. This feature allows up to three units to be in the same room and be controlled separately by remote control. If the remote control and player are set to different Command Modes, the DVD/VCR combination unit will not respond to the remote control. For example, operation will not work if the remote control is designed to operate using the Command Mode 1 frequency and the DVD/VCR combination is set to Command Mode 3.
If the remote control does not operate the DVD/VCR combination after programming for each code listed in the remote control user manual, change the Command Mode in the menu of the DVD/VCR combination unit and try programming again.
IMPORTANT: Using a remote control other than the one provided with the DVD/VCR combination deck may not provide full functionality.
NOTE: The procedure to change the Command Mode setting varies by model. Refer to the instruction manual provided with the DVD/VCR combination unit. Manuals are posted on your model support page.
Can the remote control be programmed to operate a DVD/VCR or DVD/Receiver combo unit?
A universal remote control or infrared (IR) blaster does not operate a Sony DVD/VCR combo.
The DVD deck does not turn on when using the remote control.
Unable to set up or program components on the remote control.
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Visitors Guide: Sooke to Port Renfrew
More than 46 per cent of Vancouver Island residents reported worsening health during COVID-19 in a province-wide survey released Dec. 4. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Islanders’ mental health takes heavy hit under COVID-19: survey results
COVID-19 SPEAK survey collected results from nearly 400,000 B.C. residents
Victoria News Staff
A B.C.-wide survey on people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed what many Island residents already knew – mental health has taken a significant hit.
Data from the May 2020 survey was released on Friday (Dec. 4) and showed that 46 per cent of Islanders reported worsening mental health as a result of the pandemic.
Younger populations were especially hard hit with 54 per cent of people between the ages of 18 and 29, 53 per cent of people aged 30 to 39, and 50 per cent of people aged 40 to 49 experiencing deteriorating mental health. Only 29 per cent of people aged 80 and over reported the same.
READ ALSO: COVID-19 has depressed mental health of Canadian youth
Numbers were also higher for women, households with children and people with lower incomes.
The data also showed mental health was the most likely to have worsened for people who identified as West Asian/Arab at 55 per cent, followed by Latin American/Hispanic at 52 per cent and white at 46 per cent.
An even greater number of respondents said they found thoughts about the pandemic consuming, with 59 per cent of Islanders reporting thinking about COVID-19 much of the time. Again, this number was higher for women at 64 per cent while 53 per cent of men reported feeling this way.
A third of people said they felt in control, while 22 per cent said they felt helpless. The percent of those feeling in control was significantly lower for people who identified at West Asian/Arab at 17 per cent. Respondents who identified as Black led those feeling helpless at 32 per cent, followed by South Asian at 30 per cent and West Asian/Arab at 28 per cent.
Financial stress and reduced social connections also weighed heavy on Islanders.
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Nearly 38 per cent of respondents expressed stress about their future financial situation and 29 per cent about their current one. Younger populations, households with children and people with lower incomes reported especially high financial stress.
More than 42 per cent of Islanders reported they were connecting with their family less and 62 per cent said they were connecting with their friends less.
Despite it all, the data shows that COVID-19 may have brought Islanders together. Nearly 67 per cent of respondents said they felt a strong sense of community belonging.
Across the province, 394,382 people responded to the survey. Results were weighted using 2016 Canadian Census data by geography for age, sex, educational level and ethnicity to account for differences in sample demographics and ensure the sample was as representative as possible.
A complete breakdown of the province-wide results can be found on the B.C. COVID-19 SPEAKS Survey dashboard.
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What Is Polished Concrete?
-A mechanical process by which a diamon abrasive medium and a penetrating surface hardner refine the surface of the slab to a desired "Polish" or shine. In doing so phiscaly shine the surface of the concrete.
Why choose to polish your concrete floor?
- Reduced maintenance cost
- Won't trap moisture or "White Out"
- Dramatically improves surface abrasion resistance, wont dust.
- No waxing or topical sealer required
- Long life span
- Variety of color and design.
- Minimal down time to install.
- Great for new or old concrete
- Low Cost instilation
-Aesthetics
People typically compare polished concretes cost and its appearance to other materials. Knowing polished concrete is a viable, economical and long-lasting option; the next most important question is what does it look like? Polished concrete is described as shiny, beautiful and striking with many finish options. By smoothing and exposing the aggregate in the concrete, polishing provides a design that has a natural stone appeal and appears expensive and elegant.
Its important when choosing polished concrete to also understand that polishing can expose some of the concretes imperfections. Some of these imperfections may include cracks already existing in the floor, uncovering different types of concrete in places or uneven concrete. The imperfections can be improved, but will be reflected in the final product. Some people call this organic where you see the natural qualities of the concrete. You can see areas of coarser aggregate and unevenness of veins and aggregate. This is often one of the most appealing characteristics for people who want a natural and still functional look.
-Ambient Lighting Increases
The high light reflectivity of polished concrete is another important benefit, especially for office buildings, hotels, restaurants, and other public facilities that want to project a bright, clean, professional image. Polishing can give concrete a higher degree of shine, similar to polished marble or granite,
-Environmentally Friendly
Polished concrete contains no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) which makes it an environmentally friendly surface. There are no coatings applied, such as epoxies, urethanes, or waxes.
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Turbos Turn Up the Heat with Challenging Materials
A new breed of turbochargers constructed of super tough alloys operates at higher temperatures and rotational speeds than ever before, resulting in greatly increased output in a smaller package for gas and diesel engines alike.
The Key Role of Force Measurement in Composites
Composite materials have clear benefits for manufactured parts in aerospace, medical, automotive applications and many other industries. Ensuring the highest part accuracy is critical. Force measurement and material testing are essential processes for product designers and manufacturers to gain insightful data to create high-quality composite components.
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Although laser welding is a well-established manufacturing solution, many sheetmetal fabricators have been hesitant to implement the process at their shop.
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I’m among the first to dive into the latest manufacturing innovations and see how they can improve our customers’ operations. Yet, I’m also among the first to advise them to pause and ensure that the fundamentals of their manufacturing processes are in place before adding something new into the complex mix of functionality and desired outcomes.
Fiber Lasers Continue to Gain Market Share in Material Processing Applications
The first kilowatt-class fiber laser for material processing was introduced by IPG Photonics in early 2002. Since that time, the adoption of fiber lasers for production applications has grown at a rapid rate. Today, fiber lasers are becoming the choice for most major production laser applications as well as converting traditional welding and cutting processes to fiber laser technologies.
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Orientation minus
Stabilized minus
(A;A) 2.6 introversion; depression resistant; impaired motor skills learning; somewhat quicker mental decline in Alzheimer patients
(A;G) 2.6 Slightly increased risk for ADHD or depression; somewhat quicker mental decline in Alzheimer patients
(G;G) 0 common/normal
Reference GRCh38 38.1/142
Position 27658369
Gene BDNF, BDNF-AS
is a snp
is mentioned by
dbSNP rs6265
dbSNP (classic) rs6265
ClinGen rs6265
ebi rs6265
HLI rs6265
Exac rs6265
Gnomad rs6265
Varsome rs6265
LitVar rs6265
Map rs6265
PheGenI rs6265
Biobank rs6265
1000 genomes rs6265
hgdp rs6265
ensembl rs6265
geneview rs6265
scholar rs6265
google rs6265
pharmgkb rs6265
gwascentral rs6265
openSNP rs6265
23andMe rs6265
23andMe all rs6265
SNPshot rs6265
SNPdbe rs6265
MSV3d rs6265
GWAS Ctlg rs6265
GMAF 0.2287
Max Magnitude 2.6
(A;A) (A;G) (G;G)
rs6265, also known as Val66Met, is a SNP in brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF gene. The more common G allele encodes the Val, while the A allele encodes Met.
The A allele may also be protective against depression when subjected to repeated defeat [PMID 17956738] g2b2mh blog
On a driving-based motor learning task subjects with this genotype showed greater error during short-term learning and poorer retention over 4 days, relative to subjects without the polymorphism. The presence of this BDNF polymorphism is associated with differences in brain motor system function, altered short-term plasticity, and greater error in short-term motor learning. [PMID 19745020 ]
A 2017 study of 1,000 Alzheimer's disease patients, a third of whom were rs6265(A) carriers, concluded that over the ~7 year study such carriers lost memory and thinking skills somewhat more rapidly than non-carriers.10.1212/WNL.0000000000003980
Wired discusses the research as does 23andMe blog.
[PMID 25288136 ] Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption. [PMID 20042999 ] Met/A allele associated with introversion
[PMID 17293537 ] Alzheimer's disease risk for non ApoE4 carriers is affected by the heterozygous form of rs6265, as well as the diplotypes of rs6265, rs11030104, and rs2049045.
[PMID 18600033] Depressed patients who had (GA or AA) appeared to show a significantly increased risk of suicidal behaviour
[PMID 19209189 ] In 2 studies of British women, rs6265(A;A) women had a lower body mass index than rs6265(G) allele carriers, with the difference being -0.57-0.911 kg/m(2), depending on the study.
[PMID 19388013] BDNF, relative preference, and reward circuitry responses to emotional communication
GWAS snp
[PMID 19079260]
Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity
Risk Allele
P-val
4.58 [3.07-6.09] % SD
[PMID 19461660] No association between the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and panic disorder in Japanese population
[PMID 19530966] Development of a new genotyping assay for detection of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism using melting-curve analysis
[PMID 19603419] Meta-analysis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor p.Val66Met in adult ADHD in four European populations
[PMID 20943059] Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and intellectual disability: a study of association with brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms
[PMID 15940292] A common variant of the latrophilin 3 gene, LPHN3, confers susceptibility to ADHD and predicts effectiveness of stimulant medication
[PMID 18286632] Association study of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and LIN-7 homolog (LIN-7) genes with adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
OMIM 113505
Desc BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BDNF
Related also
[PMID 19699537] Family-based association study between brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and major depressive disorder of Chinese descent
[PMID 19925205] Ebbinghaus Revisited: Influences of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism on Backward Serial Recall Are Modulated by Human Aging
[PMID 20033742] Genetic association of the interaction between the BDNF and GSK3B genes and major depressive disorder in a Chinese population
[PMID 19895626] The effect of BDNF gene variants on asthma in German children
[PMID 20087404 ] Genetic variants in the BDNF gene and therapeutic response to risperidone in schizophrenia patients: a pharmacogenetic study
[PMID 20147969] Non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with blood pressure and hypertension
[PMID 20418890 ] Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior
[PMID 20682308] The combined effects of the BDNF and GSK3B genes modulate the relationship between negative life events and major depressive disorder
[PMID 20456319] Association of polymorphisms in the BDNF, DRD1 and DRD3 genes with tobacco smoking in schizophrenia
[PMID 20702703 ] The Role of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism for the Synchronization of Error-Specific Neural Networks
[PMID 20959432] BDNF and CGRP interaction: Implications in migraine susceptibility
[PMID 20966902 ] Genome-Wide Association Study of Anthropometric Traits and Evidence of Interactions With Age and Study Year in Filipino Women
[PMID 21188787] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms: influence on treatment response phenotypes of major depressive disorder
[PMID 20843981 ] Associations of six single nucleotide polymorphisms in obesity-related genes with BMI and risk of obesity in Chinese children
[PMID 21300947] The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism and Prediction of Neural Risk for Alzheimer Disease
Variant 0002
[PMID 21723144] Genetic variation in BDNF is associated with allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis in an ethnic Chinese population in Singapore
[PMID 21796141] Computed tomography analysis of the association between the SH2B1 rs7498665 single-nucleotide polymorphism and visceral fat area
[PMID 21527513] Influence of physical inactivity on associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms and genetic predisposition to childhood obesity
[PMID 21889574] Association analysis between the Val66Met polymorphism in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene and treatment response to venlafaxine XR in generalized anxiety disorder
[PMID 21980924 ] BDNF Val66Met and Cognition: All, None, or Some? A Meta-Analysis of the Genetic Association
[PMID 22033217] Interaction between BDNF Val66Met and childhood stressful life events is associated to affective memory bias in men but not women
[PMID 22085476] Evidence of associations between bipolar disorder and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene
[PMID 22127997] No association of brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism with anorexia nervosa in Japanese
[PMID 22173577] Recapitulation of the Association of the Val66Met Polymorphism of BDNF Gene With BMI in Koreans
[PMID 22188054 ] Polymorphisms in the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Gene Influence Memory and Processing Speed One Month After Brain Injury
[PMID 22194877 ] Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Expression Is Regulated by MicroRNAs miR-26a and miR-26b Allele-Specific Binding
[PMID 21641949] Functional variants of the genes involved in neurodevelopment and susceptibility to schizophrenia in an Armenian population
[PMID 21880305] The brain-derived neurotrophic factor is associated with alcohol dependence-related depression and antidepressant response
[PMID 22548711] Association of BDNF Gene Polymorphism with Bipolar Disorders in Han Chinese Population
[PMID 22719849 ] Impact of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism on Cortical Thickness and Voxel-Based Morphometry in Healthy Chinese Young Adults
[PMID 22766130 ] BDNF Val66Met and spontaneous dyskinesias in non-clinical psychosis
ClinVar
Rs6265(A;A)
Rs6265(G;G)
Memory impairment Obsessive-compulsive disorder Anorexia nervosa 2 Bulimia nervosa 2 Bipolar affective disorder Parkinson disease not specified
BDNF-AS BDNF
CLNDBN
Memory impairment, susceptibility to Obsessive-compulsive disorder, protection against Anorexia nervosa 2 Bulimia nervosa 2 Bipolar affective disorder, susceptibility to Parkinson disease not specified
HGVS
NC_000011.9:g.27679916C>T
CLNSRC
OMIM Allelic Variant
CLNACC
RCV000019267.3, RCV000019268.2, RCV000019269.3, RCV000019270.3, RCV000019271.3, RCV000019272.3, RCV000155463.2,
[PMID 12836135 ] Sequence variants of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene are strongly associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
[PMID 15457498] Mutation screen of the brain derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF): identification of several genetic variants and association studies in patients with obesity, eating disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
[PMID 16005437] Evidence for a relationship between genetic variants at the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) locus and major depression.
[PMID 16497333] No association between the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and mood status in a non-clinical community sample of 7389 older adults.
[PMID 16631352] No association between the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and schizophrenia in a Japanese population.
[PMID 16741941] Transmission distortion of BDNF variants to bipolar disorder type I patients from a South American population isolate.
[PMID 16962786] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor does not influence age at neurologic onset of Huntington's disease.
[PMID 17096834 ] No association between polymorphisms in the BDNF gene and age at onset in Huntington disease.
[PMID 17135278 ] Cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes implicated in a nicotine dependence association study targeting 348 candidate genes with 3713 SNPs.
[PMID 17196936] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and risk of schizophrenia: an association study and meta-analysis.
[PMID 17212826 ] TAMGeS: a Three-array Method for Genotyping of SNPs by a dual-colour approach.
[PMID 17219016] No evidence for preferential transmission of common valine allele of the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) in ADHD.
[PMID 17417060] Meta-analysis reveals no association of the Val66Met polymorphism of brain-derived neurotrophic factor with either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
[PMID 17483451 ] Gene-gene interaction associated with neural reward sensitivity.
[PMID 17503330 ] A generalized combinatorial approach for detecting gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions with application to nicotine dependence.
[PMID 17602759] Immune cell BDNF secretion is associated with white matter volume in multiple sclerosis.
[PMID 17632285 ] The brain-derived neurotrophic factor rs6265 (Val66Met) polymorphism and depression in Mexican-Americans.
[PMID 17656372] Preservation of gray matter volume in multiple sclerosis patients with the Met allele of the rs6265 (Val66Met) SNP of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
[PMID 17657167] Lack of association between the BDNF gene Val66Met polymorphism and Alzheimer disease in a Chinese Han population.
[PMID 17894414 ] BDNF Val66Met variant and age of onset in schizophrenia.
[PMID 17918236] Association study of the brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) gene in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
[PMID 18205169] Genetic association study of BDNF in depression: finding from two cohort studies and a meta-analysis.
[PMID 18478177] Investigation of the functional brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene variant Val66MET in migraine.
[PMID 18534558 ] Gene-gene interactions among CHRNA4, CHRNB2, BDNF, and NTRK2 in nicotine dependence.
[PMID 18565990 ] Systematic biological prioritization after a genome-wide association study: an application to nicotine dependence.
[PMID 18698231 ] Polymorphisms affecting gene transcription and mRNA processing in pharmacogenetic candidate genes: detection through allelic expression imbalance in human target tissues.
[PMID 18704161 ] Genetic variation in an individual human exome.
[PMID 18776599 ] Susceptibility genes for gentamicin-induced vestibular dysfunction.
[PMID 18813964 ] Alzheimer's disease risk variants show association with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta.
[PMID 18830724 ] Assessment of Alzheimer's disease case-control associations using family-based methods.
[PMID 18852698] Meta-analysis of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in major depressive disorder: effects of gender and ethnicity.
[PMID 18957941 ] Genome-wide association scan for five major dimensions of personality.
[PMID 19018231 ] Evidence of association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and bipolar disorder.
[PMID 19018715] Association studies of the BDNF and the NTRK2 gene polymorphisms with prophylactic lithium response in bipolar patients.
[PMID 19236730] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor ( BDNF) gene: no major impact on antidepressant treatment response.
[PMID 19258022 ] Now or Later? An fMRI study of the effects of endogenous opioid blockade on a decision-making network.
[PMID 19295238] Association analysis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms in asthmatic families.
[PMID 19330778] Positive association between the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene and bipolar disorder in the Han Chinese population.
[PMID 19336781 ] Molecular differentiation of schizoaffective disorder from schizophrenia using BDNF haplotypes.
[PMID 19359258 ] Cohort profile: risk patterns and processes for psychopathology emerging during adolescence: the ROOTS project.
[PMID 19412541 ] Cerebrospinal fluid concentration of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cognitive function in non-demented subjects.
[PMID 19424874] Effect of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on digital working memory and spatial localization in a healthy Chinese Han population.
[PMID 19478790 ] The role of obesity-associated loci identified in genome-wide association studies in the determination of pediatric BMI.
[PMID 19582215 ] Association study between BDNF gene polymorphisms and autism by three-dimensional gel-based microarray.
[PMID 19582565 ] Association of COMT (Val158Met) and BDNF (Val66Met) gene polymorphisms with anxiety, ADHD and tics in children with autism spectrum disorder.
[PMID 19721723 ] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: role in depression and suicide.
[PMID 19721846 ] Candidate genes involved in neural plasticity and the risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis of 8 common variants.
[PMID 19844571 ] Variants in doublecortin- and calmodulin kinase like 1, a gene up-regulated by BDNF, are associated with memory and general cognitive abilities.
[PMID 19940176 ] Functional variation of the dopamine D2 receptor gene is associated with emotional control as well as brain activity and connectivity during emotion processing in humans.
[PMID 19953912] [An association study of brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphism in bipolar disorders].
[PMID 20004415] Serotonergic functioning as measured by the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials is related to a haplotype in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene.
[PMID 20008943 ] Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms with suicidal events in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA) study.
[PMID 20014955] Gene-gene interactions of the brain-derived neurotrophic-factor and neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor 2 genes in geriatric depression.
[PMID 20016225] Association of brain-derived neurotrophic factor genetic Val66Met polymorphism with severity of depression, efficacy of fluoxetine and its side effects in Chinese major depressive patients.
[PMID 20127379 ] From monogenic to polygenic obesity: recent advances.
[PMID 20172611] Stressful life events and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene in bipolar disorder.
[PMID 20191112 ] The Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa: Current Findings and Future Perspectives.
[PMID 20226536] Variations in FKBP5 and BDNF genes are suggestively associated with depression in a Swedish population-based cohort.
[PMID 20400928 ] Genotyping the BDNF rs6265 (val66met) polymorphism by one-step amplified refractory mutation system PCR.
[PMID 20426150] Extending genetic linkage analysis to diffusion tensor images to map single gene effects on brain fiber architecture.
[PMID 20478698] Effect of Met66 allele of the BDNF rs6265 SNP on regional gray matter volumes in patients with multiple sclerosis: A voxel-based morphometry study.
[PMID 20482942] Fine-mapping of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene supports an association of the Val66Met polymorphism with episodic memory.
[PMID 20493546 ] BDNF polymorphism rs6265 and hippocampal structure and memory performance in healthy control subjects.
[PMID 20574532 ] Intermediate phenotypes identify divergent pathways to Alzheimer's disease.
[PMID 20712903 ] Obesity and diabetes genes are associated with being born small for gestational age: results from the Auckland Birthweight Collaborative study.
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[PMID 21103954] Association between C-281A and val66met functional polymorphisms of BDNF gene and risk of recurrent major depressive disorder in Polish population.
[PMID 21167606] The role of BDNF genetic polymorphisms in bipolar disorder with psychiatric comorbidities.
[PMID 21172166 ] Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response.
[PMID 21215389] The CREB1-BDNF-NTRK2 pathway in depression: multiple gene-cognition-environment interactions.
[PMID 21305693] Age at onset of psychotic disorder: cannabis, BDNF Val66Met, and sex-specific models of gene-environment interaction.
[PMID 21458533] Polymorphisms of brain-derived neurotrophic factor associated with heroin dependence.
[PMID 21491204] Candidate-gene approach in posttraumatic stress disorder after urban violence: association analysis of the genes encoding serotonin transporter, dopamine transporter, and BDNF.
[PMID 21509595 ] Association of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism with magnetic resonance spectroscopic markers in the human hippocampus: in vivo evidence for effects on the glutamate system.
[PMID 21577214] BDNF Val66Met genotype modulates the effect of childhood adversity on subgenual anterior cingulate cortex volume in healthy subjects.
[PMID 21640793] Association between Val66Met polymorphism of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) gene and a deficiency of colour vision in alcohol-dependent male patients.
[PMID 21695421 ] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene: a gender-specific role in cognitive function during normal cognitive aging of the MEMO-Study?
[PMID 21745335 ] 5-HTTLPR and BDNF Val66Met polymorphisms moderate effects of stress on rumination.
[PMID 21875455] The brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene in suicidal behaviour: a meta-analysis.
[PMID 21898033 ] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms, neurotransmitter levels, and depressive symptoms in an elderly population.
[PMID 21931317 ] BDNF function as a potential mediator of bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder comorbidity.
[PMID 21956459] Association study of brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms and body weight change in schizophrenic patients under long-term atypical antipsychotic treatment.
[PMID 21996278] Genetic epistasis between the brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and the 5-HTT promoter polymorphism moderates the susceptibility to depressive disorders after childhood abuse.
[PMID 22008662] The association of the alpha-5 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene with different aspects of smoking behavior.
[PMID 22094229] Influence of BDNF variants on diagnosis and response to treatment in patients with major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
[PMID 22179955 ] Genetic predictors of weight loss and weight regain after intensive lifestyle modification, metformin treatment, or standard care in the Diabetes Prevention Program.
[PMID 22585743] Reduced fractional anisotropy in the uncinate fasciculus in patients with major depression carrying the met-allele of the Val66Met brain-derived neurotrophic factor genotype.
[PMID 22609366] Neurotrophic Tyrosine Kinase Polymorphism Impacts White Matter Connections in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder.
[PMID 22610920 ] The brain-derived neurotrophic-factor (BDNF) val66met polymorphism is associated with geriatric depression: a meta-analysis.
[PMID 22642961] The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene variants in antipsychotic response and antipsychotic-induced weight gain.
[PMID 22965830] No influence of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) polymorphisms on treatment response in a naturalistic sample of patients with major depression
[PMID 22615781 ] Candidate gene-based association study of antipsychotic-induced movement disorders in long-stay psychiatric patients: a prospective study
[PMID 23170235 ] BDNF Val66Met polymorphism interacts with sex to influence bimanual motor control in healthy humans
[PMID 23269345] BDNF Val66Met homozygosity does not influence plasma BDNF levels in healthy human subjects
[PMID 23341118] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and early life adversity affect hippocampal volume
[PMID 22910404] Genetic association study of the P300 endophenotype in schizophrenia
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[PMID 23487199] BDNF val66met Polymorphism Is Associated With Age at Onset and Intensity of Symptoms of Paranoid Schizophrenia in a Polish Population
[PMID 23628854 ] FTO predicts weight regain in the Look AHEAD clinical trial
[PMID 23712400 ] SNP rs6265 Regulates Protein Phosphorylation and Osteoblast Differentiation and Influences BMD in Humans
[PMID 23923080 ] Association of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene G196A rs6265 polymorphisms and the cognitive function and clinical symptoms of schizophrenia
[PMID 23424664 ] Study of 11 BMI-associated loci identified in GWAS for associations with central obesity in the Chinese children
[PMID 23999029] Association study between BDNF gene variants and Mexican patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
[PMID 23433505 ] Genetic variation in BDNF is associated with antipsychotic treatment resistance in patients with schizophrenia
[PMID 24198753 ] Toward a unified biological hypothesis for the BDNF Val66Met-associated memory deficits in humans: a model of impaired dendritic mRNA trafficking
[PMID 24269186] An obesity genetic risk score is associated with metabolic syndrome in Chinese children
[PMID 24399714] BDNF rs 6265 polymorphism and COMT rs 4680 polymorphism in deficit schizophrenia in Polish sample
[PMID 24567226] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: its impact upon neuroplasticity and neuroplasticity inducing transcranial brain stimulation protocols
[PMID 23408508 ] Obesity-susceptibility loci and the tails of the pediatric BMI distribution
[PMID 22813992] Effect of BDNF val(66)met polymorphism on declarative memory and its neural substrate: a meta-analysis.
[PMID 22844024 ] Interaction between the BDNF gene Val/66/Met polymorphism and morning cortisol levels as a predictor of depression in adult women.
[PMID 22846907] Analysis of four genes involved in the neurodevelopment shows association of rs4307059 polymorphism in the cadherin 9/10 region with completed suicide.
[PMID 22989210 ] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor genotype is associated with brain gray and white matter tissue volumes recovery in abstinent alcohol-dependent individuals.
[PMID 23023098] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and alcohol-related phenotypes.
[PMID 23062292 ] The brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism moderates early deprivation effects on attention problems.
[PMID 23137999 ] The role of BDNF, NTRK2 gene and their interaction in development of treatment-resistant depression: data from multicenter, prospective, longitudinal clinic practice.
[PMID 23184535 ] No association of genetic variants in BDNF with major depression: a meta- and gene-based analysis.
[PMID 23303061 ] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor serum levels and genotype: association with depression during interferon-alpha treatment.
[PMID 23461616] Association between brain-derived neurothropic factor variants and asthma in Chinese Han children.
[PMID 23643991] Lack of association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and body mass index change over time in healthy adults.
[PMID 23733030] Pharmacogenetics in major depression: a comprehensive meta-analysis.
[PMID 23832605] Association of BDNF gene polymorphisms with schizophrenia and clinical symptoms in a Chinese population.
[PMID 24863266] Val66Met polymorphism in the BDNF gene in children with bronchial asthma
[PMID 24993285] BDNF SNPs Are Implicated in Comorbid Alcohol Dependence in Schizophrenia But Not in Alcohol-Dependent Patients Without Schizophrenia
[PMID 25044977 ] BDNF Val66Met genotype interacts with childhood adversity and influences the formation of hippocampal subfields
[PMID 25052186] Combined effects of the BDNF rs6265 (Val66Met) polymorphism and environment risk factors on psoriasis vulgaris
[PMID 25324022] Brain‑derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms are associated with coronary artery disease‑related depression and antidepressant response
[PMID 25383981 ] Association of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene Val66Met Polymorphism with Primary Dysmenorrhea
[PMID 25492288] [Impact of obesity-related gene polymorphism on risk of obesity and metabolic disorder in childhood]
[PMID 25649076] A functional brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene variant increases the risk of moderate-to-severe allergic rhinitis
[PMID 25650137] BDNF Val66Met and reward-related brain function in adolescents: Role for early alcohol consumption
[PMID 25660313] Meta-analysis of six genes (BDNF, DRD1, DRD3, DRD4, GRIN2B and MAOA) involved in neuroplasticity and the risk for alcohol dependence
[PMID 25670953 ] Evidence for Association between the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene and Panic Disorder: A Novel Haplotype Analysis
[PMID 25681004] Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurocognitive deficits in people with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis
[PMID 25762803 ] Circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor concentrations and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the community
[PMID 24461776] No significant association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene rs6265 and cognitive function in Japanese patients with schizophrenia
[PMID 25950609] Association Between BDNF Gene Polymorphisms and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Korean Children
[PMID 25956254] BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and hippocampal volume in neuropsychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis
[PMID 24733169 ] Association of rs6265 and rs2030324 polymorphisms in brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene with Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis
[PMID 26115627] Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the BDNF gene and suicide in the Slovenian sample
[PMID 26117067] BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in patterns of neural activation in individuals with MDD and healthy controls
[PMID 26175754 ] DNA methylation and single nucleotide variants in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genes are associated with anxiety/depression in older women
[PMID 26326364] The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with improved performance on a visual-auditory working memory task in varsity athletes
[PMID 26401760] BDNF (Val66Met) genetic polymorphism is associated with vulnerability for methamphetamine dependence
[PMID 26432032 ] Interaction between BDNF rs6265 Met allele and low family cohesion is associated with smaller left hippocampal volume in pediatric bipolar disorder
[PMID 26445699 ] Genetic association of the transcription of neuroplasticity-related genes and variation in stress-coping style
[PMID 26739449 ] Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor is Related to Platelet Reactivity but not to Genetic Polymorphisms within BDNF Encoding Gene in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
[PMID 26889735 ] BDNF rs6265 methylation and genotype interact on risk for schizophrenia.
[PMID 27103528] Association of genetic risk factors with cognitive decline: the PATH through life project.
[PMID 27647760] The relationship between polymorphisms of BDNFOS and BDNF genes and heroin addiction in the Han Chinese population.
[PMID 28387675] DNA Methylation and Tag SNPs of the BDNF Gene in Conversion of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment into Alzheimer's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study.
[PMID 28413930 ] Relationship of Genetic Variants With Procedural Pain, Anxiety, and Distress in Children.
[PMID 28498887 ] Sex Differences in Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Related to Neurotrophin Gene Polymorphisms: The Cache County Memory Study.
[PMID 28755387 ] BDNF Genotype is Associated with Hippocampal Volume in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
[PMID 29052254] Genetic polymorphisms associated with smoking behaviour predict the risk of surgery in patients with Crohn's disease.
[PMID 29191473 ] Dopamine receptors and BDNF-haplotypes predict dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease.
[PMID 30375508 ] Effects of BDNF Val66Met genotype and schizophrenia familial risk on a neural functional network for cognitive control in humans.
[PMID 30519954] BDNF rs6265 (Val66Met) Polymorphism as a Risk Factor for Blepharospasm.
[PMID 31132388] Investigating the contribution of NPSR1, IL-6 and BDNF polymorphisms to depressive and anxiety symptoms in hemodialysis patients.
[PMID 30129980] The association between polymorphism of the BDNF gene and cigarette smoking in the Iranian population.
[PMID 31787925 ] BDNF Val66Met Genetic Polymorphism Results in Poor Recovery Following Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in a Mouse Model and Treatment With AAV-BDNF Improves Outcomes.
[PMID 32351633 ] An Analysis of Five TrkB Gene Polymorphisms in Schizophrenia and the Interaction of Its Haplotype with rs6265 BDNF Gene Polymorphism.
[PMID 32776402] Role of rs6265 BDNF polymorphisms and post-stroke dysphagia recovery-A prospective cohort study.
[PMID 33007373] Differential promoter methylation and G-712A polymorphism of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in post-traumatic stress disorder patients of Li and Han populations in Hainan province.
[PMID 33384622 ] BDNF Gene's Role in Schizophrenia: From Risk Allele to Methylation Implications.
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You are here: Home / Mobile / How to Record and Email a Voice Memo from the iPhone 5
How to Record and Email a Voice Memo from the iPhone 5
February 17, 2013 By Matt
Your iPhone 5 has some helpful utilities installed, by default, that you may not have noticed or thought you had a use for. We have previously discussed the timer utility that is found in the Clock app, but there is also a Voice Memos app that can be pretty useful. It is especially helpful if you have a thought that you need to remember, but it might be too long to type quickly, or you might be in a situation where typing is difficult. Luckily the Voice Memos app on the iPhone 5 will record whatever you say into it, then give you the option of emailing the audio file when you are finished.
Recording An Audio Message on the iPhone 5
Fortunately the voice memo that you record is saved once you create it, so you do not need to worry about sharing it immediately after it has been created. For example, you could record something while you are walking down the street or exercising, then follow the steps needed to email the audio file once you get the chance. By default, the Voice Memos app on the iPhone 5 is stored in the Utilities folder, so the tutorial below will proceed with the assumption that it is still located there, as well as assume that you have set up an email account on your phone. So read below to learn how to record and email a voice memo.
Step 1: Tap the Utilities folder.
Open the Utilities folder
Step 2: Select the Voice Memos option.
Select the Voice Memos app
Step 3: Tap the red Record button at the bottom-left corner of the screen, then record your message.
Press the Record button
Step 4: Press the Stop button at the bottom-right corner of the screen when you have finished recording the message.
Press the Stop button when you are finished
Step 5: Press the Menu button at the bottom-right corner of the screen (it was previously the Stop button) to display your list of recorded voice memos.
Press the Menu button to view your voice memos
Step 6: Select the voice memo that you want to email.
Select the voice memos you want to send
Step 7: Touch the Share button at the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Touch the Share button
Step 8: Touch the Email option.
Select the Email option
Step 9: Enter the email address of your intended recipient into the To field, enter a subject, then tap the Send button at the top-right corner of the screen.
The voice memos are created as .m4a files. If you are sending them to yourself, you can play them on a computer with iTunes.
Are you looking for a voice recording option that doesn’t involve your phone? Amazon has a number of good, affordable voice recorders that you can purchase and use to record audio memos for yourself.
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Nate Expectations
Part of Nate
By Tim Federle
Unabridged Compact Disk
“The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it’s like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton
“An exceptional swan song for a beloved character.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Third time’s a charm! Nate Foster returns home to Jankburg, Pennsylvania, to face his biggest challenge yet—high school—in this final novel in the Lambda Literary Award–winning Nate trilogy, which The New York Times calls “inspired and inspiring.”
When the news hits that E.T.: The Musical wasn’t nominated for a single Tony Award—not one!—the show closes, leaving Nate both out of luck and out of a job. And while Nate’s cast mates are eager to move on (the boy he understudies already landed a role on a TV show!), Nate knows it’s back to square one, also known as Jankburg, Pennsylvania. Where horror (read: high school) awaits.
Desperate to turn his life from flop to fabulous, Nate takes on a huge freshman English project with his BFF, Libby: he’s going to make a musical out of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. (What could possibly go…right?) But when Nate’s New York crush ghosts him, and his grades start to slip, he finds the only thing harder than being on Broadway is being a freshman — especially when you’ve got a secret you’re desperate to sing out about.
This magical conclusion to Tim Federle’s beloved Nate series is a love letter to theater kids young and not-so-young—and for anyone who ever wondered if they could truly go home again. Especially when doing so means facing everything you thought you’d left behind.
Photograph (c) 2018 by Justin Patterson
Tim Federle
Tim Federle is “a prolific scribe whose breezy wit isn’t bound to a single genre” (Huffington Post). Tim’s award-winning novels include The New York Times Notable Books The Great American Whatever and the Nate series—which Lin-Manuel Miranda called “a wonderful evocation of what it’s like to be a theater kid.” Tim cowrote both the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting, and the Golden Globe and Oscar–nominated Best Animated Feature Ferdinand, starring John Cena and Kate McKinnon. A native of San Francisco who grew up in Pittsburgh, Tim now divides his time between New York and the internet (@TimFederle).
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (September 18, 2018)
Children's Fiction > LGBT
Children's Fiction > Social Situations > Homosexuality
Children's Fiction > Performing Arts > Theater & Musicals
An exceptional swan song for a beloved character.
– Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
If you know the difference between a cast album and a soundtrack, this is the book for you!
– Booklist Online
ALA Notable Children's Recording
Amazing Audiobooks for YA
Nate Expectations (pdf)
Book Cover Image (jpg): Nate Expectations
Author Photo (jpg): Tim Federle
More books from this author: Tim Federle
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The River Burns
By Trevor Ferguson
Canadian Origin Trade Paperback
Canadian Origin eBook
Now in paperback, The River Burns is the newest critically acclaimed novel from Trevor Ferguson, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers.
The River Burns tells the story of a small town in crisis, the mistakes people make, and the courage it takes to heal a community after a horrific act of destruction.
Wakefield is a small town where a unique collection of longstanding citizens has lived mostly in harmony, accepting of each other’s foibles. But underneath the picture perfect exterior a battle rages between those who wish to preserve the historic single-lane covered bridge across the river, and the loggers who want it replaced with a modern alternative. As the days pass with no change in the dispute, tensions begin to boil over, friends turn against one another, and the town seethes with potential violence.
Family man and second-generation logger Denny O’Farrell has been leading the charge to modernize the bridge. When the bureaucratic route fails to produce results, Denny and his friends need a new plan of action. But local police officer Ryan O’Farrell, Denny’s brother, is very worried about exactly how much Denny and friends are willing to risk in order to win the war. Swept up into the dispute, lawyer Raine Tara-Anne Cogshill, a newcomer hiding from her big-city past, hasn’t bargained on getting caught up in a summer of violence.
The River Burns – Reading Group Guide & Author Questions
1. If you were a citizen of Wakefield, which side of the bridge debate would you support and why? Use examples from the text.
2. The River Burns is told from multiple perspectives, which character do you most identify with and why?
3. “After his wife’s passing [Alex] foresaw a choice. Permit the care and labor that she invested in her gardens over their lifetime together go to seed, and probably go to seed himself, or pick up a gardening spade and dig in. He dug in.” (pg. 30) What does this passage say about Alex O’Farrell’s personality? How would you describe Alex’s relationship to nature?
4. Both Tara Cogshill and Jake Withers are outsiders to Wakefield. How do these two people handle entering such a tight knit, albeit, conflicted community? How do each challenge the traditional roles (gender and otherwise) expected in Wakefield?
5. “Ryan O’Farrell was of two minds coming away from the house . . . He wondered if his brother possessed the same ability, to conceal what fomented inside him, to make it seem as though nothing was going on when really all hell was breaking loose.” (pg. 146) How do the characters in the novel reconcile their true selves with their roles in their community?
6. “The bridge goes to the very soul of this town.” The panel nodded to these comments, something that Denny mentioned but Tara was noticing for the first time herself, and it was Denny who chose to comment. “It’s a bridge McCracked, it’s not a religion.” (pg. 167) Despite differing opinions, in what ways is the bridge integral to the community, history, and daily life of both the loggers and the tree huggers?
7. The “us vs. them” mentality of Wakefield is strong, and prevents the loggers and the tree huggers from accepting each other’s point of view. Discuss how this attitude affects the outcome of the story.
8. Discuss the role of baseball in the community. How does it affect the interaction of individuals and groups?
9. What does the timing of Mrs. McCracken’s death signify within the narrative? How does her death affect the outcome of the story and the purpose of the characters?
10. Was Denny justified in his actions? What lessons did Denny learn? Did he redeem himself in the end?
© R. A. Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson is the author of seven novels under his own name and another three under his pseudonym, John Farrow. One of his novels became a feature film, The Timekeeper. Four of his plays have been produced, including an off-Broadway engagement and one seen by more than 22,000 patrons in a single run. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University and lives with his wife in Hudson, Quebec.
Publisher: Touchstone (April 7, 2015)
Fiction > General
“The River Burns is both vintage Trevor Ferguson and an expansion of his big talent. It has story galore and drama aplenty, along with heart and soul enough to surprise even his oldest admirers.”
– Charles Foran, author of Mordecai: The Life & Times
“Perfect for a day trip to the Eastern Townships or a picnic by the St. Lawrence, The River Burns makes for a fast and tasty read.”
– Montreal Review of Books
“Ferguson keeps you guessing almost to the very end of his fast-paced tale…A well-crafted portrait of a small town, its eccentric inhabitants, and the rebirth of a bridge.”
– Quill & Quire
“Ferguson has done a super job in recreating Wakefield and populating it with a gang of believable characters trying to grapple with serious issues involving the environment, family life, and community spirit.”
– Ottawa Citizen
“Quite moving…The fraternal rivalry and love binding the O’Farrell brothers is especially compelling.”
– National Post
Book Cover Image (jpg): The River Burns
Canadian Origin Trade Paperback 9781476726380
Author Photo (jpg): Trevor Ferguson
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Sirona Capital eyes opportunities in Fremantle turnaround
18th July 2013.
Investment Group Sirona Capital plans to expand its property footprint in Fremantle beyond the $300 million Kings Square redevelopment and position itself to benefit from the long-awaited commercial rejuvenation of the port city.
It's understood the 30,000-square metre office component of the Kings Square venture has attracted strong interest from prospective government tenants, and Sirona managing director Matthew McNeilly said he believed new office accommodation would play a significant role in the "turnaround story" for the port city.
Mr McNeilly said Fremantle was an attractive suburban office alternative in the current economic environment, with many businesses examining alternatives to costly CBD space.
"Fremantle offers a lot of amenity, it's a turnaround story but it really just needs a tidy-up and some investment because there really hasn't been any investment since the America's Cup," he said.
"We believe what we are doing with Kings Square will be a catalyst for that turnaround story."
Sirona finalised a deal with the City of Fremantle in April to develop a suite of new civic facilities on the Kings Square site, as well as office accommodation and 12,500sqm of retail property.
If it can lock down an anchor tenant for the office component, Sirona could start construction as soon as 2014 ahead of a planned completion in 2016.
The group is keen to identify future office sites as well as apartment and hospitality opportunities in Fremantle, and is already running the ruler over a boutique hotel site on Pakenham Street through new venture Westbridge Property Group.
Westbridge formalises Sirona's longstanding relationship with property developer Luke Saraceni, who is focused on rebuilding his property empire after it was decimated by the fall-out from his involvement in the Raine Square development in the CBD.
Sirona was unwilling to discuss the finer details of the partnership except to say it was a joint venture that would make the most of Mr Saraceni's experience as a developer and Sirona's financial firepower.
Sirona no longer has an exclusive funding arrangement with US investment manager Mt Kellett Capital and its $7 billion private equity fund, but Mr McNeilly said the access and availability of debt for property projects had improved significantly during the past year.
"Most of the capital we have sourced for real estate projects has been local capital, family office-style investment, but where we have larger projects we have been able to tap into our global network of private equity," Mr McNeilly said.
"And what we have seen in the last 12 months is ... the banks are lending to real estate again and debt is what makes it (real estate) happen; it's not just an equity game, it requires the banks to play in the space."
Sirona has four projects through its Westbridge connection, including an industrial land parcel in Canning Vale, a 90-hectare rural holding north of Perth, a new hotel proposal for the Perth CBD and an office-apartment scheme for a Murray Street site abutting Shafto Lane.
Westbridge has put up two separate proposals for the Murray Street site, a straight office development and an alternative scheme, under which the property would support an apartment project.
The office proposal pits Westbridge against a number of competing office schemes mooted for the city and takes Mr Saraceni back to within blocks of the Raine Square project.
Georgiou Capital has put up the 21,000sqm Milligan Square proposal, which incorporates a I5-storey office tower with a boutique hotel on the corner of Milligan and Murray streets.
There is also a long-standing office proposal for the Old Melbourne, while the latest development proposal for the long-vacant Emu Brewery site includes a dedicated office tower.
Sirona said it was still analysing which proposal would best suit the Murray Street site, with the decision ultimately depending on the strength of the office market as compared to demand for apartments.
A slowdown in mining investment has hit many of the city's mining services industries hard and brought a lot of project space on to the market in the first half of this calendar year.
In addition to this space, construction is about to start at several new office towers, including the four towers at Kings Square in the City Link and the second tower at Brookfield Place, all of which will add to the CBD's office supply and push up the vacancy rate.
Mr Saraceni's Westbridge projects will run in tandem with Sirona's own development book, which includes Kings Square Fremantle and the large lot industrial estate Northern Gateway in Bullsbrook.
Despite the uncertain global outlook, Mr McNealy said Sirona remained focused on its four key property investment areas - large-lot industrial, suburban office, apartments and hotels.
He said local and international investor appetite for Australian projects remained high but global sentiment was one of the biggest liabilities for the group's business model.
"If global sentiment were to turn negative again that might have some impact on the availability of capital ... if there was some type of second round credit crisis that would see our banks reassess their position," Mr McNeilly said.
"There's no doubt these are more uncertain times than they were 12 months ago and unemployment will rise and we are adjusting our settings to think about how that will impact what we currently have on the go and what we will invest in the future.
"I think we will be a bit more cautious but there are very good opportunities in this city given the way it has grown and the way we think it will continue to grow and that's really just a population story."
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Home / Football / Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte end feud: Chelsea boss makes HUGE admission
Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte end feud: Chelsea boss makes HUGE admission
JOSE MOURINHO and Antonio Conte ended their long-running feud at Old Trafford yesterday on an afternoon which left the Chelsea manager admitting his team is struggling to finish in the top four this season.
The 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford, secured by goals from Romelu Lukaku and Jesse Lingard, left the defending Premier League champions out of the top four and their manager criticising his team for their lack of experience and maturity.
But at least the meeting between Chelsea managers past and present saw an end to their long-running dispute as they warmly shook hands before and after the game.
Mourinho said: “The handshake doesn’t need any words. I think that’s what me and Antonio want to show to everyone. And the handshake before and after the match is an example that everything in football you have to move on and you have to respect each other.
“Mourinho and Conte are not two ordinary people in football, we have a history and an image and we have to be happy with that.”
Conte also confirmed he was happy to make a public show of two giants of the game making peace not war.
“I think that you wanted to see the shaking hands and we did at least. Stop. It’s over,” he said.
The Chelsea boss had more pressing matters after a seventh defeat of the league campaign left the Blues in a bitter fight with United, Spurs and Liverpool for the three Champions League places behind Manchester City.
“Of course we are disappointed,” he said. “We must be disappointed after the start we had, a team today who had every chance to get three points towards a place in the Champions League.
“But again we are talking about another defeat and we must be disappointed because when you have this type of situation you have to manage the game better and you must be able with experience and maturity to get three points. But instead another time we are talking about a loss and you must be very disappointed with this.
“This could be our position to miss out. I’m repeating the same thing many many times – in this league to find a place in Champions League is not simple. It is not easy because in this country it is the only championship where you can find six teams at the start to fight for four places.”
Source: www.express.co.uk
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Maersk Line joins New York Shipping Exchange - innovator of the first digital freight contract
Maersk Line has joined the New York Shipping Exchange (NYSEX) – the innovator of the first digital forward freight contract for global container shippin...
James Henderson
Maersk Line has joined the New York Shipping Exchange (NYSEX) – the innovator of the first digital forward freight contract for global container shipping – as a founding member.
It means that after less than nine months, it has added six of the world’s leading ocean carriers as members.
Maersk Line joins Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, MOL, OOCL, and COSCO as carrier members of the exchange, representing a combined 52% of the global capacity (source: Alphaliner).
NYSHEX provides the global shipping industry with a simplified and standardized digital freight contract, and is compliant with all U.S. regulations as well as the Federal Maritime Commission's contract filing requirements.
“We are very pleased to have Maersk Line join NYSHEX as a founding member,” said Gordon Downes, CEO of NYSHEX.
“Maersk Line has been a pioneer of many digital initiatives, and we are delighted to be working together in digitizing the freight contracting process, as well as improving shipment reliability. With each additional carrier that joins the exchange, our members benefit from more offerings and services to choose from.”
The member carriers on NYSHEX now represent all three major alliances: 2M, Ocean Alliance, and THE Alliance, providing shippers with a broad array of services to choose from.
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Peter Hildebrandt, Head of Revenue Management for Maersk Line and future industry representative on the NYSHEX Member Council, said: “Our investment in NYSHEX is another example of our commitment to be a key player in the industry's digital transformation. This platform will help us expand the range of digital products and services to ultimately enhance the customer experience.”
Speaking to the importance of addressing the issues of over-bookings and rollings in the shipping industry, Omar Shamsie, President of Maersk Line North America added: “The time is now to create a more collaborative environment for all participants in the ocean transportation industry.
“That is why we're excited to begin piloting NYSHEX's processes and technology in North America starting March 2018 to increase visibility and certainty for shippers which we hope will result in a better end-to-end experience for our customers.”
With the NYSHEX platform, Maersk Line will offer a product for customers who want to agree and control their costs upfront and receive a commitment from the carrier for the transport of their shipment. Maersk Line will begin piloting in its transpacific export agriculture market (exports from the U.S. to Asia), as of March 2018.
Buyers of container shipping services: shippers and NVOCCs, use NYSHEX at no cost. Ocean carriers pay a transaction fee of $5/TEU.
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Austin medics respond to multiple calls of K2 overdoses Sunday
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Austin-Travis County EMS has taken two men to Dell Seton Medical Center for K2 overdoses, the second incident today at the same location involving multiple people needing medical care after taking the synthetic drug, authorities said.
Both incidents, the first at roughly 11:30 a.m. and another about an hour later, happened beneath the Interstate 35 overpass, in the 700 block of the service road. Medics evaluated nine people at the scene, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
"This is not a new issue for us," ATCEMS Commander Mike Benavides said. "Some present as unconscious, some with seizures, some people with agitation and aggression. That’s the major problem with K2, it seems to impact everybody differently."
Benavides said ATCEMS will continue to monitor the situation.
"It’s an epidemic in our community," Benavides said. "We’re monitoring it closely."
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The city of San Marcos recently broke ground on the new Public Service Center on Clovis Barker Road, which will provide a streamlined and centralized location for public utilities, transportation operations, fleet operations and infrastructure services for the community.
The complex will house nearly 250 city employees, including staff from the water, wastewater, electric, traffic, transit, general services, transportation, stormwater, facility maintenance and conservation teams.
The building will integrate sustainable design features including 500-kilowatt solar energy panels on two buildings, four 18,000-gallon rainwater capture cisterns, high recycled content building materials and low-flow plumbing fixtures.
Total design-construction costs for the facility are estimated at $44 million and are being funded through certificates of obligation. Companies designing and building the facility are Hunt Companies, Lawrence Group, Flintco LLC and Jacobs Project Management Co.
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St. David’s CareNow Urgent Care centers are offering $20 sports physicals through Aug. 31 at 13 locations in the Austin area.
For the 2020-2021 school year, any participant in athletics or marching band who has not previously completed a sports physical and been cleared will be required to receive a sports physical prior to any University Interscholastic League activities. Students should bring all necessary forms with them, and students must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian if younger than 18. Glasses or contacts must be brought in for a sports physical.
CareNow discounted physicals apply to students in grades K-12.
Sports physical examinations are often required for participation in school sports, but requirements may vary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For a list of requirements and locations: CareNow.com.
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Nonprofits in the Elgin community have until noon Sept. 8 to submit funding applications at City Hall, 310 N. Main St.
The city accepts funding requests for projects or programs that are likely to have an impact on the quality of life of a significant number of people in the Elgin community, address issues or problems that the city as a governmental agency does not currently address, propose practical ways to address community issues and problems, stimulate others to participate in addressing community problems, are cooperative efforts, minimize or eliminate duplication of services and are sustainable over time.
For more information: elgintx.com/640/Non-Profits-Grant.
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Hines Ward epitomized what being a Steelers player is all about. He played with heart and emotion, with intelligence and fierceness, and with a love for the game that showed through the ever-present smile on his face.
Ward played 14 seasons for the Steelers after being selected in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, the 92nd player overall. He played on two Super Bowl teams and was the MVP of Super Bowl XL, helping lead the Steelers to a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks, which included a 43-yard touchdown reception from Antwan Randle El.
Ward shattered the Steelers all-time reception record during his time, finishing his career with 1,000 receptions, which ranks first in the storied history of a team that already has two Hall of Fame receivers in John Stallworth and Lynn Swann. His 12,083 career receiving yards also ranks first in franchise history, as do his 85 receiving touchdowns.
His versatility was always on display with his blocking ability a shining example of that. Ward, a member of the Steelers Hall of Honor, never shied away from laying a hit on a defender to help his teammates gain extra yards, oftentimes getting under the skin of opponents not always expecting the hit, or the smile on his face after he delivered the hit.h
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Important Policies and Expectations
Selecting an Academic Program
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Stony Brook University General Degree Requirements
Note: The Degree Works degree audit, accessible through the SOLAR (Student OnLine Access to Records) System, is a computer-generated report indicating each student's progress toward fulfilling degree requirements. The degree audit is an official evaluation of a student's progress toward University Degree Requirements. The degree audit is also designed to be a helpful advisory tool to review Major/Minor requirements. The successful completion of Major (and Minor, if applicable) requirements are ultimately determined by a departmental representative.
The conferral of a degree is conditional upon satisfactory completion of all current degree and instructional requirements at the time of such award and compliance with University procedures and regulations, including the resolution of any outstanding charges of fees or misconduct.
Credit Hour Requirement
Bachelor of Arts degree: Completion of at least 120 credit hours of passing work.
Bachelor of Science degree: Completion of at least 120 credit hours of passing work.
Bachelor of Engineering degree: Completion of at least 128 credit hours of passing work.
Restrictions on the number of credits that may be counted toward graduation requirements are stated under "Limits on Course Credits and Grading Options" section of this Bulletin. Among the kinds of courses with restrictions are independent study, activity-related courses, and developmental and repeated courses.
Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirement
State education guidelines require students to complete a minimum number of credits in the liberal arts and sciences. Stony Brook degree requirements are structured so that students satisfy this requirement by completing the other requirements for the degree.
Residence Requirement
After the 57th credit, at least 36 credits must be earned in Stony Brook courses.
1. Special restrictions apply to students earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Refer to the section "Additional Requirements/Restrictions for the B.E. Degree" below for details.
2. Credits earned in overseas academic programs may count towards residency under the following circumstances:
SBU sponsored programs led by SBU faculty offering existing SBU coursework count towards residency.
SBU sponsored programs at SBU partner universities overseas (for which students register for FSY 249) may be counted toward residency, pending approval from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Programs sponsored by SUNY institutions other than SBU (for which students register for FSY 249) may be counted toward residency, pending approval from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Programs sponsored by entities outside the SUNY system do not count toward residency.
3. Credits earned in National Student Exchange programs do not count toward residency.
Grade Point Average (g.p.a.) Requirement
A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.00 is required for all academic work at Stony Brook. (Note: Grades from other institutions are not included in the Stony Brook g.p.a.)
Major Requirement
Each candidate for a degree must satisfy the requirements of a declared major. Major requirements are detailed in the Approved Majors, Minors, and Programs section of this Bulletin. Students are required to declare a major upon earning 45 credits.
Upper-Division Credit Requirement
Each candidate must earn at least 39 credits in upper-division courses (numbered 300 and higher).
Some of these upper-division credits may be earned through courses transferred from other colleges and individually evaluated at Stony Brook as upper division. See "Transfer Credit Policies" in the Academic Policies and Regulations section.
If a student completes a lower-division course at Stony Brook that exempts the student from an upper-division course, the student may not receive upper-division credit toward the university upper-division requirement for completing the lower-division course.
All students must complete General education requirements by completing either the Diversified Education Curriculum or the Stony Brook Curriculum, as defined below.
The following groups of students will complete the general education requirements as defined by the Stony Brook Curriculum, commonly referred to as SBC.
Freshmen who matriculate in the Fall of 2014 or later
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All students matriculating at SUNY Korea
Students who rematriculate in the Fall of 2014 or later
Students who are not in the above groups will complete the D.E.C. D.E.C. requirements for each student are published in the Bulletin that was current as of the first semester of matriculation (or rematriculation).
Entry Skills and Diversified Education Curriculum
Candidates for degrees in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and the School of Journalism must have satisfied Entry Skill 1: Basic Mathematics Competence; Entry Skill 2: Basic Writing Competence; Entry Skill 3: Elementary Foreign Language Proficiency; Entry Skill 4: American History Competence; and the Diversified Education Curriculum for these students detailed in this Bulletin.
Candidates for degrees in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, and Information Systems, Technological Systems Management, and candidates for the Bachelor of Engineering degree must have satisfied Entry Skill 1: Basic Mathematics Competence; Entry Skill 2: Basic Writing Competence; and the Diversified Education Curriculum for these students detailed in this Bulletin.
General Education Requirements: Stony Brook Curriculum
The Stony Brook Curriculum includes both breadth and depth of study (provided by both the SBC learning objectives and the major requirements), as well as ensuring skills necessary for life-long learning. The SBC categories and learning objectives are described in detail in a designated section of this Bulletin.
D.E.C. Upper-Division Writing Requirement/SBC Write Effectively within One’s Discipline (WRTD)
All bachelor's degree candidates must satisfy a writing requirement established in their major discipline. Individual programs and departments appraise the writing of students in their major according to their standards of acceptable communication in their disciplines.
For students following the Diversified Education Curriculum, the specific form of the requirement for each major is listed under each department. Students with more than one major should consult with the program director in each major in order to determine the appropriate upper division writing requirement(s) for graduation.
For students following the Stony Brook Curriculum, the SBC objective ‘Writing Effectively within One’s Discipline’ (WRTD) fulfills the upper division writing requirement.
Additional Requirements/Restrictions for the B.E. Degree
At least seven engineering courses (those with the designator BME, ESE, ESG, ESM, or MEC) and/or approved technical elective courses must be completed in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook. For the majors in biomedical, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, at least five of the seven courses must be offered by the department of the student's major.
The following courses may not be used to meet this requirement: ESE 211, 314, and 324; ESG 217, 312, and 316; MEC 200, 316 and 317; and ESE, ESG, BME, and MEC 300, 440, and 441. BME, ESE, ESG, and MEC 440 and 441 must be taken at Stony Brook.
Students in majors leading to the B.E. degree must complete a defined number of technical elective courses in their major. A copy of technical elective requirements and the current list of approved technical elective courses for each engineering major are available in the relevant engineering department.
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Photographers from Martin Parr to Alec Soth have lent their culinary expertise to a not-for-profit initiative.
By Lucy Davies 30 June 2010 • 19:00 pm
Graduting students from the BA in Photography at University College Falmouth have produced and illustrated a book of recipes gathered from well-known photographers.
The recipes range from mouthwatering: Quince served with clotted cream (Vanessa Winship); Lamb shank tagine (Simon Roberts; spice-rubbed chicken (Richard Misrach) to old-fashioned: Beans on Toast (Martin Parr); Sardines on Toast (Phil Toledano), to decidedly absurd: Grannie's gruel (Steven Tynan) and Cookle Stew (Joachim Schmid).
Some reveal more than a little about the photographer's lifestyle. The aforementioned Cookle Stew for example, where the chef is instructed to "make a list of everything you find in your firdge. Feed the list to a search engine. Follow the instructions from the first recipe" aligns perfectly with Schimd's fondness for all things found. Susan Lipper wins the prize though, for her recipe for Microwaved baked potato: "Microwave on high for 10 minutes, slice in two, add other ingredients. Suggestion to go with the above: Bombay Sapphire Gin".
The book - Say Cheese! - is designed to support a fund for the graduating students - and is published by TRACE, an artist-led, not-for-profit curation and publishing initiative. Established by Sian Bonnell in 1999 and run from her home in Weymouth, TRACE is about to relaunch in Cornwall this autumn.
TRACE was set up to promote projects and events that combine new visual work, writing and sound and as a project for artists to test out new thinking and ideas. Since 2002 talks and seminars have been held for each TRACE exhibition given by invited curators and writers from national galleries and museums including the V&A, the Photographers Gallery in London and Ffotogallery in Cardiff. TRACE is planning to it's first exhibition in the new venue this october with the work of photographer Simon Roberts.
Books can be purchased for £9.99 by emailing trace33@btinternet.com, with 'Say Cheese?' in the subject field.
To see a slideshow of the works produced by the students to illustrate the book, please click here.
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Ants – those minuscule creatures you see everywhere. There are about 14,000 species of these crawling six-legged creatures, all skillfully and triumphantly having survived without much unobtrusiveness to humans, through the years all over the world, except for Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, some parts of Polynesia and a few remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. If one were to weigh all the ants all over the world combinedly, their weight would be an eye-popping comparable number to that of the entire human population in the world! Zoom in to take a closer look at these insects. Know all about ants!
Fascinating Facts About Army Ants
Mosquitoes bite. Dragonflies, praying mantises and wasps do too. These are some predatory and carnivorous members of the insect world. But did you know of an ant species, that like some insect army, marches continuously in search of prey, then attacks it in a huge crawling swarm? Intrigued? Scroll below to learn about the army ant.
The hardworking ant and the lazy grasshopper story has designated the ant, as a diligent, sincere and earnest food gatherer, who is part of a colony and lives in an anthill. Nature’s average Joe. But even an average Joe can turn into a superhero. And amongst the different ant species, the army ant is one super aggressive, super hungry and superbly deadly ant. Army ants are also known as legionary ants or driver ants. This is a sub-species of the main ant family, Formicidae and in turn, has at least 150 sub-species, located in different countries around the globe. They are mostly found in hot, humid, tropical regions such as the forests of Central and South America, Africa and some Asian countries.
Facts About Army Ants
The various points of the army ant species are listed based on various areas of their life-cycle.
Ants have ant hills and nests. But army ants live life on the move. They are the only ant species to not build a place of dwelling. They are mobile and on the move for nearly their entire existence. These insects are mobile during the day and stationary during the night but some army ant sub-species are nocturnal in nature.
Army ants do rest at night but not in a conventional nest made into the soil. Rather they band together to form a living nest. Each ant will hold onto the others legs and form a linked chain or ball structure. This is known as a bivouac.
When the larvae ants start to transform into cocoons, the marching colony comes to a halt. For the next 2-3 weeks, the queen is pampered and fed exclusively because she will soon give birth and needs the sustenance. She lays her eggs and soon the larvae will break out of their cocoons. Then the ants go on the move again. This break to feed the queen is the only time the army ants get to stop marching.
These ants like other ant species, follow an internal hierarchy or social order. There is the soldier ant or the military man, the Rambo, if you will of the army ant colony. This ant is impressively equipped with long, sickle-shaped mandibles or jaws, designed to tear, slice and cut at prey. Such a pair of molars are nearly half the ant’s size. Long legs and a long, narrow body complete the soldier ant. His main job is to hunt, kill and bring back food in little chunks. These deadly ants are dark brown or golden brown in color.
The worker ant or drone ant is designed to work. Such ants are male and female and are equipped with stingers. They also possess large tarsal hooks on their feet, used for hooking into each other to form a bivouac. Sort of like a tow truck hooking into a car.
The head honcho is, of course, the queen. Her job is to lay the eggs, her female workers will aid the eggs in hatching and take care of the larvae. In a bivouac, the queen is the innermost member, well protected along with her young and eggs. Surrounding her are the younger female workers, then the older female workers. Slight noise or tremor and the soldier ants will spring into action to defend the bivouac.
The impressive numeric strength of the army ants is due to their queen’s very fertile and overactive womb. A fertilized queen lays at least 30,000 eggs per day during the birthing period. So on average, an army ant colony will consist of 300,000 – 700,000 members.
Hunting For Food
Army ants are not your conventional “foraging and gathering food” ants. They are aggressive and very active carnivorous insects. Army ants are very alike to Vikings in terms of their battle strategies. They attack as a force, en masse, like a huge swarming horde, surrounding their prey quickly to tear, bite and kill. They will climb on top of the prey and bite at it with force, in an effort to get it to stop moving.
These ants are keen strategists, different species have different attacking methods. One way is to swarm or overcome the prey like a tidal wave, swarming into an area, filling it completely and killing everything in its path. Another way is to attack in small groups or raids, one from the front, one from the back… one minute nothing, next minute, millions of little groups are attacking you. This technique also works in scouting out for food, as different groups can cover a large area in a short time. They leave behind chemical trails for the other parties to follow.
Army ants may have teeth but they consume only liquids. So they use their jaws to tear off and bite into flesh, make it small little chunks and scurry off with the chunks to feed the queen and the larvae. They eat by injecting venom into the flesh chunk, liquidizing it with the acid of the venom. The worker ants have to feed the soldier ants along with the queen and the larvae. Army ants are so vicious in their job to make chunks out of prey, that they often focus on any part of the prey that is handy, leaving the organs intact, so the prey is steadily eaten alive.
What can army ants eat? A shorter answer is what they can’t eat. Humans and large animals like cows, horses, sheep and goats are not considered prey but if the horde is extremely large and if the animal is close to the ground, army ants can attack such large animals or at least bite and wound. These ants are unpredictable in a feeding frenzy. They can eat up to 100,000 animals a day. Depending on the species and their habitat, their prey list may vary. Some species take to the trees and attack birds, tree insects, snakes and nests. Some ants stay close to the leafy floor of the forest, attacking anything unfortunate enough to pass by. These ants will also destroy other ants hills and nests and steal from wasps nests too.
Army ants may have impressive numbers, very large machete-like devouring jaws and a very voracious appetite, making them a formidable predatory force but their one weakness is that they are blind. So how do they hunt, chase and feed on prey? By noticing and feeling movement on the ground. When the prey runs, the ant can feel the earth’s tremors and runs towards the source of the tremors. The more the prey runs, the faster the ant will find it. Sit still and it may have a chance.
Where there’s a will, there is a way and Nature demonstrates this very aptly. The army ant is a deadly but blind predator and the stick insect avoids such a hunting force, by keeping perfectly still and letting the ant army march harmlessly over it. Armored beetles do the same. The attack of an army ant colony can rouse and send insects fleeing, so animals like monkeys and birds such as wrens, thrushes and antbirds, wait on the sidelines to pick off any escaping prey. It’s a win-win situation and this is a type of symbiotic relationship called commensalism.
The above army ants facts highlight an oft-ignored fact about Nature itself: even the tiniest creature has a mighty bite and is not afraid to use it.
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Digital Technology Vital To Promote Education: AJK President
November 16, 2020 November 16, 2020 Maimoona Tahir 0 Comments
AJK President has said the use of digital technology has become inevitable to bring about a revolution in education sector.
By Umer Jamshaid
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the dream of development and prosperity of the liberated territory cannot materialize until and unless the education system in the state is restructured in accordance with modern technology.
“It is essential to making education being imparted to the new generation job market-oriented and the curriculum compatible to the emerging trends in the world,” the president said while addressing a function held here on Saturday to unveil a gigantic education program under the auspices of international education technology company “Coded Minds”.
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He said that the use of digital technology has become inevitable to bring about a revolution in the education sector, while technologies like artificial intelligence, internet of things, robotics, blockchain and cloud computing are now in the hands of the youth.
The President, however, stressed the use of these new technologies for the promotion of education and other positive purposes. He maintained that the concept of public-private partnership is very charming, but it is easy to implement it.
Various surveys related to education reveal that Azad Kashmir with 88 percent score is far ahead of the remaining areas of Pakistan in terms of enrolment, registration, gender equality and learning but our educational infrastructure is weak and fragile, he added.
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While appreciating the efforts of founder president of Coded Minds Omar Farooqui, the AJK president said that introduction of education technology in 14 countries by a son of Kashmir Omar Farooq and Amina Khaishgi is a matter of great pride for us, and now they want to work for the promotion of education in Azad Kashmir, and we would extend forthright cooperation to them in this regard.
Speaking on the occasion, founding President of Coded Minds and Chief Operating Officer of the company for South Asia Chapter Amina Khaishgi said that in order to turn Azad Kashmir into a valley of learning and knowledge, her company has decided to launch a program to impart education in accordance with the requirements of the 21st century with the support of modern technology.
We would introduce a system under which the students will not depend much on books and classroom lectures and they would rapidly learn through project-based activities, she said adding that 100 per cent literacy and re-enrolment of 24,000 schoolchildren in Azad Kashmir is the goal that we would achieve in next couple of years.
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On this, the occasion, Vice-Chancellor AJK University, Prof Dr Kalim Abbasi said that socio-economic development is not possible without education. At present more than 6,000 educational institutions besides a university or a sub-campus of the university in all district are functioning in Azad Kashmir. However, he said that imparting training to 40,000 teachers is a big challenge for us which can be met with cooperation and assistance of the organizations like Coded Minds.
Originally published at urdupoint
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2021 LaGrange Classic Course Information
Pre-race staging will be at Lowden Park on Washington Street, centrally located in Weaverville. There is plenty of parking around the park. Racers will leave Lowden Park and parade through Historic Downtown to the race start, a distance of 1.3 miles. Families may ride with their racer in the parade only at their own risk. Parking at the start is limited, but there is parking a short distance away at Trinity High School, Alps View High School or at Trinity County Office of Education.
All courses are on public trails, which will remain open to trail users during the race. Please keep alert for walkers. There will be aid stations on the courses to offer drinks and encouragement. First Aid stations will also be set up on the courses. Be aware - on every course expect sections of tight single track that will make passing problematic. Be courteous to your fellow racers! Course marshals will be on the race course to help with directions and emergencies. On the race routes, you will ride through conifer forests and oak woodlands, on historic mining ditches and challenging single track trails. We made every effort to avoid forest roads. The course will be well signed but you must pay attention as all four race courses overlap. The Weaver Basin Trail System was the location of the very successful World Endurance Mountain Bike Organization (WEMBO) 24 Hour Solo World Championships in 2015. So expect an exciting ride!
Register online at Bikereg.com
Check out our new pricing schedule for this year including discounts for early registration!
Up to two weeks before race
Two Weeks Prior
Novice course only
(must be accompanied by a non-racing adult)
The fee entitles you to participate in the race and the opportunity to receive a swag bag of goodies while supplies last. No refunds. On-site registration will be available on Friday, June 11th, from 4 pm until 7 pm only.
On-site late registration is available on race day from 7:00 am until 8:30am for an additional $10.
No registration after 8:30am!
Please be there on time or we start without you!
Trinity Bike Park: Pump Track Time Trials
The Trinity Bike Park Pump Track will be the venue for the Pump Track Time Trials, on Saturday afternoon following the LaGrange Classic Race Awards Ceremony. These will be timed races for anyone who wants to participate, including a scooter category. Riders, one at a time, will race through the pump track twice. Medals will be presented to the fastest riders of each age group. Registration will be on Saturday, the day of the race, at the TTA Information Booth in the park. There is no registration fee but participants or guardians must sign an acknowledgement of risk form before riders will be allowed on the track. Helmets are required, protective clothing recommended. Come have fun!
Also, enjoy our newly constructed Skills Track, bike over features, rocks and logs. Great Fun for everyone.
2021 Elite Course
Longest course - added climbing - serious racers
Distance: 30 miles (92% singletrack)
Starting elevation: 2,000'
Trailforks
2021 Sport Course
Experienced riders
Elevation gain: 4,159’
Starting elevation: 2,000’
Trailforks
Topo map
2021 Intermediate Course
Recreational & newer riders
New This Year!
2021 Novice Course
Beginners, Families and Kids
Parade of racers begins at Lowden Park on Washington Street.
All activities are at Lowden Park.
Friday, June 11th
4:00 – 7:00 pm Race registration, check-in, and packet pickup
4:00 – 10:00 pm Camper check-in, setup
8:00 – 9:45 pm Bonfire in the park. NEW!
10:00 pm Begin Quiet Hours in the Park
7:00 – 8:30 am Check-in, packet pickup and Late Registration
8:30 – REGISTRATION CLOSES
8:45 – 9:00 am Mandatory Race Meeting at the Park!
9:00 – 9:30 am Rider Procession Parade from Park to Race Start
9:30 am RACE START! Elite & Sport Riders
9:40 am RACE START! Intermediate & Novice Riders (Novice riders at the back of the group)
11:00 – 5:00 pm Park Festivities, Food & Drink Vendors
12:00 – 1:00 pm Live Music
1:00 ish pm - Awards ceremony and prize giveaway
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Live Music (background music to follow)
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Bike Games NEW!
5:00 pm- 7:00 pm Pump Track Time Trials at the Bike Park
7:00 – 10:00 pm Park Night Activities NEW!
10:00 pm - Begin Quiet Hours in the Park
Sunday, June 13th
6:30 am – Noon - Camp Breakdown and Camper Check out
10:00 am – Noon - Weaver Basin Trail Guided Group Ride NEW!
Local Events - TBA
Interested in Becoming a 2021 Race Sponsor?
Last year's sponsors gave us positive feedback! The race was a great success for the riders and our community. If you are looking to renew your sponsorship, or considering sponsoring the race for the first time here are some benefits to consider:
Support a beloved race that brings riders and spectators from around the country to our community.
All proceeds of the race will go to help build the Trinity Bike Park. Phase One, the pump track, is a huge success, but it is just the beginning.
Donate items to the swag bags, which in turn promote your products.
You may receive publicity on our website, in our advertising, and around the community.
(*Amount of publicity determined by level of sponsorship)
Sponsor the 2020 LaGrange Classic
Sponsorship agreement & levels
Other Ways to be Involved...
Here are a few ways you can help;
Help out on one of the trail maintenance days before the race. Look for trail days that we are hosting or supporting on our Website or Facebook page in the coming months. Sign up here and note you want to work on trail maintenance.
Sign up to be a race volunteer. We will need help before the race, setting up, cleaning up, and during the race at the park and on the course. Sign up here and note you want to be a volunteer.
Are you a photographer? We will be coordinating photographers during the race. Sign up here and note that you want to be a photographer.
Spread the word! Follow us on Facebook@TrinityTrailAlliance or Instagram@TrinityTrailAlliance where you can share the love for our event.
We are looking for vendors and participants for the race day celebration in the park. This year will be bigger and better than before. Contact us for more information.
For more information or to volunteer, please contact Trinity Trail Alliance.
Where is Weaverville?
Weaverville is located on Highway 299 approximately 45 minutes west of Redding, CA and approximately 2 hours east of Arcata, CA. This historic mining town offers full service grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants, a variety of lodging options, shops, galleries, movie theater and museums. Lowden Park on Washington Street, has a children's playground, pool, restrooms, camping and picnic areas. For more information on Weaverville and Trinity County go to
weavervilleca.org or www.visittrinity.com
Check out the trails with this APP or explore more of our TRAILS in person, including the Trinity Lakeshore Trail.
Staying and Playing Here?
Camping will be available at Lowden Park on June 5 and 6. There are 9 'first come - first served' RV sites available, with electric and water hook-ups, but no sewer at $17.00 per night. Tent camping is unlimited at the park for $11.50 per night. Camping check-in will be June 5th from 4:00 to 10:00pm and also on race day. Quiet time in the park begins at 10:00 pm. Check-out time on Sunday will be noon.
Group camping is also available at nearby East Weaver Campground (about 5-10 minutes away) through arrangements with the Weaverville Ranger District office in Weaverville, 530-623-2121, or at www.recreation.gov. Please go to www.visittrinity.com or weavervilleca.org for more information about the area.
There is a variety of lodging possibilities in the area. You will find resorts, cabins, motels, and vacation homes throughout the county, including in the north around Trinity Lake.
For motels, bed & breakfasts, and other lodging options, see visittrinity.com/lodging
Also, look for house rentals on AirBnB or VBRO.
Nearby are the beautiful Trinity Alps, noted for amazing wilderness hiking trails and camping; the Trinity River, a white water rafting and fishing Mecca; and Trinity Lake, Ruth Lake, and Lewiston Lake, serene venues for camping, boating and fishing. Find more to do at https://visittrinity.com/explore/
A list of restaurants is provided at visittrinity.com/food-wine-restaurants
Thank you to our 2020 Sponsors:
Trinity Trail Alliance
P.O. Box 1637, Weaverville, CA 96093
For more information, please contact us at: trinitytrailalliance@gmail.com
Looking for 2019 Race Info? 2019 Full Race Results
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Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible State or local Agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information is also available in languages other than English.
To file a complaint alleging discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html , or at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provided in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.
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Hedd Wyn Statue, Trawsfynydd: Address, Hedd Wyn Statue Reviews: 4.5/5
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Hedd Wyn Statue
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maggie1966 wrote a review Sep. 2020
Barry, United Kingdom1,235 contributions132 helpful votes
Set in village
Monument isn't at Cartref Hedd Wyn but set in village across the valley... Next to Tabernacle Church.
923Dan wrote a review Aug. 2020
Swindon, United Kingdom2,318 contributions503 helpful votes
Small weathered local statue in the heart of Trawsfynydd
Stopped off whilst in Trawsfynydd to admire the statue of local Hedd Wyn in the heart of the village, just by the main Village Hall. Not a great deal to see but worth a look if you are driving through.
lovetrav_9 wrote a review Jun. 2019
Old Colwyn, United Kingdom962 contributions368 helpful votes
Hedd Wyn is a famous son of Trawsfynydd
Hedd Wyn’s statue is in the centre of the lovely friendly village of Trawsfynydd and I have stopped and reflected there countless times. He was named Ellis Humphrey Evans and took the bardic name of Hedd Wyn meaning Blessed Peace; doubly sad that he should have lost his life in war. He was killed on the first day of the battle of Paschendaele in 1917 at the age of 30, but his poetry lives on. In the same year, he was posthumously awarded the Bard’s Chair at the Welsh National Eisteddfod and is renowned for his poetry.…
Jac Hughes wrote a review Apr. 2019
Trawsfynydd, United Kingdom14 contributions1 helpful vote
Being a ‘hogyn Traws’ (Traws lad) i love going for a walk sometimes to the statue to see Hedd Wyn, it’s a reminder of times gone by. Apparently I’m distantly related to Hedd Wyn (although everyone in Traws technically is) but in the film it shows him as a big drinker and a bit of a womaniser so it would actually make sense. Jac the Lad…
Date of experience: April 2019
Jilly2903 wrote a review Nov. 2018
Llan Ffestiniog, United Kingdom1,845 contributions624 helpful votes
Blessed Peace
On a recent sunny Sunday morning, me and Hubby enjoyed a short walk around the village of Traws(fynydd). In the centre of the village (opposite the Health Centre) we saw a bronze statue of Hedd Wyn. His real name was Ellis Humphrey Evans (1887-1917). He was born in a terraced cottage further along the main street. He and his family moved to Yr Ysgwrn (listed separately on T.A.) which is about a mile away on the other side of the A470. He worked as a shepherd on his family's hill farm until June 1917 when he reluctantly (he was a Christian pacifist) joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. During World War 1, he wrote a poem in Welsh called Yr Arwr (The Hero) and submitted it to the National Eisteddfod competition in Birkenhead. On 31st July 1917 at the age of 30, he was killed in action in Flanders in the first few hours on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. He is buried at the Artillery Wood Cemetary in Belgium. Six weeks later in August 1917 his poem won him the highest honour (the chair) at the National Eisteddfod. Because it was a posthumous award, the chair was draped in a black shroud...very sad. The statue was created by English Sculptor Leonard Stanford Merrifield (1880-1943) and was unveiled in 1923 by the mother of Hedd Wyn = his pen-name which actually translates to Blessed Peace. It shows him humbly dressed in shepherd's clothing holding a crook in his left hand. There are explanatory slate plaques at the base. When we visited, there was a recently laid poppy wreath. On Sunday, 11.11.2018 to commemorate the Armitice centenary, a large scale portrait of his face was drawn in the sand on Colwyn Bay beach....it was gradually washed away as the tide came in.…
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Olyphant Church Emerges from Ashes of Tragedy
This past Saturday September 17th could just as have easily occurred on March 4th because it represents in the minds and lives of the local community no less of a “Triumph of Orthodoxy.”
Saturday marked a celebration several years in the making when the holy altar at All Saints Church was re-consecrated by His Grace Bishop Tikhon, after having been destroyed by a fire in 2006. The fire took not only the altar area but also damaged almost all of the Holy Icons which adorned the walls of the parish.
This was possible do to the efforts of the faithful at All Saints and specifically the hard work of Fr. David Cowan (STOTS Alumnus 2007)and his wife Matushka Tamara. Their tireless efforts guided the community in Olyphant through one of the most difficult things a parish can ever face.
The banquet following the event was a festive one filled with people celebrating like only a true family could at the end of a long and hard fought journey. Our thoughts and prayers are with them during this time of renewal and may God continue to bless and allow this very literal “Trial by Fire” to continue to be a source of strength and vitality in their parish community.
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ESR-Reit posts 11% drop in Q2 DPU
Grace Leong
Business Correspondent
Jul 13, 2017, 10:45 am SGT
http://str.sg/4Rhi
SINGAPORE - ESR-Reit, formerly Cambridge Industrial Trust, reported on Thursday (July 13) an 11.3 per cent drop in distribution per unit (DPU) to 0.956 Singapore cents for the second quarter ended June 30.
For the quarter, gross revenue dipped 2.2 per cent to S$27.7 million from S$28.3 million a year ago.
Its net property income fell 9.2 per cent to S$19.2 million, mainly due to a loss of revenue during the conversion of properties from single-tenanted to multi-tenanted; an increase in property operating expenses and maintenance costs as a result of the conversions; and property divestments in full year 2016.
It also cited a one-off accrual of costs related to a fire at its Jurong East industrial building at 30 Toh Guan Road in May this year. The building's manager, ESR Funds Management(S) said the fire was mostly confined to the building's facade.
Mr Adrian Chui, chief executive and executive director of ESR Funds, noted: "Although challenging business conditions continue to bring about a slowdown in the industrial property market, we are establishing the foundation for ESR-Reit's next stage of development by employing a proactive asset and lease management strategy and exercising a prudent capital and risk management approach to our business."
The distribution payment date is August 31, with July 21 being the book closure date. As at 10.25am on Thursday, ESR-Reit units were 0.8 per cent or 0.5 cent lower at 59.5 Singapore cents.
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Rise in Zika cases: How doctors at Sims Drive clinic pieced puzzle together
GPs suspected an outbreak after discussing cases of patients showing similar symptoms
Dr Chi Wei Ming (left) and Dr Lim Chien Chuan and their colleagues are used to discussing cases with one another. It was this habit that helped uncover the outbreak in Singapore.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Aug 30, 2016, 5:00 am SGT
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The doctors were puzzled. One after another, patients were coming in with exactly the same symptoms: fever, rash and joint pain. In most cases, the symptoms were mild, but the sheer number of patients exhibiting them took the doctors by surprise.
Dr Lim Chien Chuan, one of three general practitioners at the Sims Drive Medical Clinic, said he and his colleagues noticed a sudden spike in patient numbers around the second week of August.
Little did they know it at that time, but they were seeing the first known local transmission of the Zika virus in Singapore.
This came to light a few days ago because the doctors from this clinic called the Ministry of Health (MOH) for help in dealing with an infectious disease they could not pin down.
Given the rise in numbers they were seeing, they had suspected an outbreak of some kind.
Prior to that, the clinic would have at most three patients a day with these symptoms. From around mid-August, it started to get as many as 10 a day.
"We take turns (running the clinic), so it was very difficult to notice a trend," Dr Lim said. But the doctors consulted one another and realised all were seeing more such cases.
These three doctors, along with another friend, had joined forces to set up this clinic and another clinic in Jurong some 16 years ago. They are used to discussing cases with one another.
It was this habit that helped uncover the outbreak in Singapore.
It started with a message from Dr Tan May Yen asking her two partners for help in diagnosing one of her patients. The doctors realised they were all seeing more patients with the same symptoms.
Dr Chi Wei Ming said they started testing patients who consented "because we were seeing more than usual and they had exactly the same symptoms".
For some patients, they did as many as four different tests: for dengue, chikungunya, measles and rubella. Results for some, such as chikungunya, a viral infection also spread by the Aedes mosquito, took several days.
Alarm bells started to ring when all the test results for all the patients were negative.
Even then, the doctors did not think that they were Zika infections because none of the patients had recent history of travel to countries with the disease, and there was no known local transmission of Zika.
They contacted MOH on the evening of Aug 22 to ask for help as they could not explain the rash of patients with identical symptoms.
The next day, MOH officials were at the clinic, offering free consultations at the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC).
When offered the free consultations, some patients refused, but about five agreed to go, though the doctors do not know if all of them went.
One who did was a Malaysian woman, 47, who became the first to be identified as having locally transmitted Zika. That was on Saturday.
On getting the news, Dr Chi said they were "glad to know what was wrong with the patients, but on the flipside, it meant that Zika is now in the community".
By noon yesterday, the clinic had sent five more patients, including some foreign construction workers, to the CDC.
Another clinic in Sims Drive also sent three female patients and one male patient to the CDC.
Dr Lim said that now that Zika has been identified as the cause, the protocol is very clear. "We need to take blood and urine samples and send both samples and the patient to the CDC."
They call every time a patient has these symptoms, and an ambulance is dispatched to the clinic to pick up the patient and the samples.
The mystery has been solved, but the battle has just begun.
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No drunk-tweeting and the 60-second rule: What we can all learn from official advice to MPs
A new report has been published telling politicians how to behave on Twitter - and it offers surprisingly universal advice.
The guidance was commissioned by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow in a bid to to steer MPs away from online gaffes, but contains relatable tips for anyone who's trigger-happy on Twitter.
Face-saving suggestions include imposing a "60-second rule," which means waiting for a minute after writing a tweet before posting it and "not tweeting while drunk."
"We now no longer live in a 24-hour news cycle, but in a 24-second news cycle, which is the length of time it takes to compose a tweet and for it to be retweeted," warns the report, which was published by The Sun on Sunday.
It follows a series of high-profile political Twitter bloopers, including Ed Balls infamously tweeting his own name in 2011 after apparently hitting the 'send' button when he was searching for tweets about himself.
While the average user may not have thousands of constituents hanging off their every tweet, there's always the chance that an employer, for example, could see that angry, drunken complaint about late trains or lack of mobile reception.
"Tweet about things normal people are interested in like music, sport, films and TV," said the report. "But make it genuine, don't fake an interest in your local football team or Coronation Street if that's not your thing."
Other Twitter tips for MPs that we could all learn from:
• Don’t constantly retweet praise because or sarcastically retweet tweets that criticise you. It is too aggrandising and pompous
• Hashtags improve engagement, but should be used sparingly
• Talk less than you listen
• Don’t favourite things to remind you to look at them in case they’re actually embarrassing
• Tell the truth, all the time
The guide was produced for Parliament by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations at no cost to the taxpayer.
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Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma - Monstera Minima
Rhaphidophora tetrasperma
Location, Water, Humidity & Fertilisation
Mosaic Virus (Symptoms, Causes & Actions Needed)
Origins, Temperature, Propagation, Repotting & Toxicity
For queries or questions, comment in the section below or send us a message via this link!
Top Tips & Info
Care Difficulty - Easy
Provide a bright, indirect location with the absence of prolonged exposure to the sun.
Near-continual soil moisture is key for consistent growth, allowing the top third to dry out in between waters.
Although average room humidity won't be too much of an issue, introduce a pebble tray to promote a reliable environment.
Fertilise fortnightly during the spring and summer months and monthly for the rest of the year using a houseplant-labelled feed.
Keep an eye out for Spider Mite that'll form webs on the under-leafs of the plant.
Repot biannually using a well-draining potting mix in spring; saturate the soil 24hrs before the action to reduce the risk of transplant shock. Scroll down to the 'Repotting' section to learn more about repotting a specimen that's attached to a moss pole.
Location & Light - 🔸🔸
A brightly lit spot away from the direct sunlight is best for quality growth. A sunny position that's too sharp will cause a 'washed out' appearance, along with spindly growth and a general decline in health. Locations that are too dark will cause the variegations to shallow, as well as an increased chance of mould developing on the soil.
The amount of light and current season of the year will directly govern the frequencies of waters per month. Specimens placed in darker areas must be kept on the drier side to life, whereas brighter locations will require more soil moisture to lubricate photosynthesis.
Water - 🔸🔸🔸
Although short-lived droughts won't necessarily hurt this species, consistent irrigations are mandatory for healthy growth. Allow the top third of the soil to dry in between waterings, or a few inches for specimens that are too large to lift. Never allow standing water to accumulate beneath its pot as root rot is a common issue among gardeners. Under-watering symptoms include stunted growth, crispy brown patches forming on the leaves, and wilting; these issues are commonly due to either too much light/heat or forgetfulness. Over-watering symptoms include yellowing lower leaves, leaf blotches in brown, yellow or black, wilting or rotting stems and roots. If the base of the stem is beginning to rot, take stem cuttings and propagate via water.
Humidity - 🔸🔸🔸
Create a humidity tray to provide a moist and stable environment for your plant. If the surrounding saturation is too low or the heat too high, its leaves may start to brown over and curl, especially in direct sunlight. Hose the foliage down from time to time to hydrate the leaves and keep the dust levels down.
Fertilisation - 🔸🔸
Supplement twice a month using a houseplant-labelled fertiliser. Never over-supplement a Rhaphidophora as its roots are pretty susceptible to burning, so keep this in mind when diluting concentrated alternatives. Reduce fertilisation to monthly during the autumn and winter months to replicate their dormancy period.
Common Issues with Rhaphidophora
Root rot is a common issue with specimens sat in too moist or waterlogged soil for long periods. Symptoms include rapidly yellowing leaves, stunted growth and a rotten brown base. Take the plant out of the pot and inspect health below the soil line. If the roots sport a yellow tinge, you're good to go, but if they're brown and mushy, action must be taken immediately. More information about addressing root rot can be found on this link.
Mould developing on the soil means two things - too little light and over-watering. Despite the harmlessness of the mould, it'll prove unsightly to most gardeners and is therefore removed once known. To remove, replace the top two inches of the soil for a fresh batch of houseplant-labelled compost. Either increase the amount of light received (no direct sunlight for the first few weeks to prevent environmental shock) or decrease the frequency of waters slightly. If the mould is accompanied by yellowing lower leaves, you may also have a case of root rot.
Spider Mite are small, near-transparent critters, that'll slowly suck out the chlorophyll out of the leaves. Have a check under the leaves, most notably along the midrib, for small webs and gritty yellow bumps. Click here to read our article about the eradicating Spider Mite, along with some extra tips that you may not find elsewhere!
Too low humidity can cause browning leaf tips with yellow halos. Although this won't kill your specimen, you may want to increase the local moisture to prevent the new growth from adopting these symptoms. Mist or rinse the foliage from time to time and create a humidity tray whilst the heaters are active to create a stable environment for your specimen.
Yellowing lower leaves (closest to soil) are a clear sign of over-watering, usually caused by too little light. Although they can do well in darker locations, the frequency of irrigations must be reduced to counteract the chance of root rot. People don't realise that a plant's root system needs access to oxygen too; when soil is watered, the air will travel upwards and out of the potting mix. A lack of accessible oxygen for the roots will cause them to subsequently breakdown over the oncoming days. Click on this link to learn more about root rot and how to address it, and always feel the pot's weight for confirmation (heaviness = good soil moisture, & vice versa).
The browning of the cataphyll shouldn't of be a concern, as it's a wholly natural process which affects all specimens across the world. Remove the brown section once it becomes dry and crispy, using a clean pair of scissors or peeling it back by hand.
Failed cuttings propagated via water - There are several reasons why the cuttings haven't rooted well, with the first being the time of year. Although Rhaphidophora are best propagated during the spring, cuttings will still root in the autumn or winter months, just albeit much slower.
The second reason could be the cultivation environment - is there enough light to read a newspaper? If not, improve the growing conditions by increasing the amount of indirect light, avoiding the threat of excessive direct sunlight.
Moreover, the size of the cutting will play a big part in its success; smaller specimens (3cm in length or less) won't root appropriately due to the lower amounts of stored energy.
The water must also be replaced weekly to ensure nasty pathogens cannot breed and decay on the cuttings. If the bottom of the stem is brown and mushy, discard immediately as the rot will spread onto unaffected specimens.
Maintaining too dry soil or over-exposure to the sun will also prove unsuccessful for those that haven't acclimatised to the drier environment. Although water-logging must be avoided at all costs, be sure to maintain moist soil throughout the rooting development (the initial six weeks months) to quicken the process of establishment. To escape falling in the trap of dehydration, wrap the cutting and its pot in a transparent bag for the first couple of weeks. As there'll be a poor root system to soak-up vital water, its leaves will be able to absorb the excess moisture trapped within the bag for hydration. For more help with propagation, be sure to send us an email or via DM on Instagram.
Mosaic Virus
Symptoms - This virus is most likely to attack Aroids like Monstera, Rhaphidophora and Philodendrons, causing small, yellow lesions or patterns to on the leaves. At first, symptoms look similar to a nutrient deficiency or over-exposure to the sunlight, but as conditions worsen, you'll eventually find colonies of deeper affected areas.
Typical lesions of Mosaic Virus.
Causes - The virus is usually pre-existent within the plant's cellular make-up, but some cases may arise from neighbouring plants. Other reasons include the multi-use of pruning scissors without being washed in between utilisation, re-using old potting mix, and pests that may spread from plant to plant, thus taking the virus with them.
Inspect and remove any seriously-affected areas with a clean pair of scissors. Be sure to thoroughly wash the utensil afterwards with hot soapy water to avert a spread.
Take the plant outside and perform a gentle hose-down. Although this won't directly remove the disease, it'll remove the thin layer of dust that will increase photosynthesis and therefore energy production. Repeat this step monthly.
Cast an eye over the plant for further development, removing any affected areas or fallen debris as you go.
Quarantine the specimen at least 50cm (almost 2ft) from other plants and try to segregate accessories (watering cans, etc.).
Unfortunately, there are no known products that can wholly remove this disease. It'll be highly unlikely to eradicate this problem, so keeping maintained control and regular feeds will help contain the disease.
Supplement using a nitrogen-based fertiliser ('houseplant'-labelled feed) to help the development of new, disease-free growth. This will help the production of photosynthesis that'll promote stored energy within the plant, thus giving it the best chance of survival. If you have a newly-purchased specimen, be sure to contact the store or grower to make them aware of the virus, as this is most likely affecting other customers.
Spider Mites are another key issue with Rhaphidophora, most likely to conjugate along the midrib & creases of the leaves.
Rhaphidophora is a genus of around one hundred species that originates from south-east Asia and Australasia. One of the more popular species, R. tetrasperma, has natural distributions around south Thailand to north Malaysia and was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1893. The word 'Rhaphidophora' could have Latin descent, referring to the 'needle-like' oxalates found in the plant's centre. The species' epithet, 'tetrasperma', refers to the four-sided seeds that are produced in the autumn months.
The genus is paraphyletic to Epipremnum, with R. tetrasperma being commonly confused with E. pinnatum due to their similar appearances.
A Distribution Map of Rhaphidophora tetrasperma
12° - 30°C (54° - 86°F)
H1b (Hardiness Zone 12) - Can be grown outdoors during the summer in a sheltered location with temperatures above 12℃ (54℉), but is fine to remain indoors, too. If you decide to bring this plant outdoors, don't allow it to endure any direct sunlight as it may result in sun-scorch and dehydration. Regularly keep an eye out for pests, especially when re-introducing it back indoors.
Up to 4m in height and 0.8m in width. The ultimate height will take between 5 - 10 years to achieve, with up to 40cm of growth put out each season. Those that naturally grow in the wild can reach heights of up to fifteen metres; however, with smaller root systems and less favourable growing conditions, they'll only grow to five metres, give or take.
Pruning & Maintenance
Remove yellow or dying leaves, and plant debris to encourage better-growing conditions. While pruning, always use clean scissors or shears to reduce the chance of bacterial and fungal diseases. Never cut through yellowed tissue as this may cause further damage in the likes of diseases or bacterial infections. Remember to make clean incisions as too-damaged wounds may shock the plant, causing weakened growth and a decline in health.
Although the aerial roots aren't exactly appealing, you mustn't remove them as this can stress the plant and potentially weaken it.
Via Seed or Stem Cuttings.
Stem Cuttings via Water - Easy
Choose the healthiest, most established vines that are wooded, but still juvenile enough to slightly bend. This propagation method can be taken from spring to summer, using between three to six leaves, with the vine being at least 12cm (4.7 inches) in length with two nodes (one for foliar development and the other for root growth). Although more nodes are fine, be sure only to submerge the bottom ones to avoid inappropriate rooting elsewhere, which will be more difficult when it's time for soil placement.
Cut directly below a node using a clean knife to reduce bacteria count. Remove the lower half of the leaves and place the vines into a container of lukewarm water. Be sure to submerge at least one node into the water, or else the root development will be hindered.
The leaves must stay above the waterline for the prevention of disease.
Replace the water weekly, using lukewarm water to avert shocking the cutting with cold temperatures.
Once the roots surpass 4cm (2 inches) in length, it's time to pot the cutting.
Choose a potting mix - as long as it has a well-draining nature, most soils are fine. Houseplant compost is best, but a multi-purpose compost with a splash of grit or perlite is acceptable, too.
Use a 5-inch pot that has suitable drainage holes - plastic or terracotta are both acceptable in this instance. Try not to over-pot the cuttings - blackleg occurs when the bottom wound becomes infected, typically caused by water-logging or a too-damaged wound. See the last image towards the bottom of the article.
Set the cutting into the compost, keeping the foliage above the soil line.
Avoid direct sunlight and offer proper humidity by placing the potted plants into a transparent plastic bag for the first couple of weeks.
Open the bag every two days for half an hour for the prevention of disease. After a month of being placed in soil, remove it from the bag and follow the care tips provided above.
Aerial root buds are a must-have for fast & successful stem cuttings. This image is of a Monstera adansonii - a close relative of the Rhaphidophora.
Stem Cuttings via Soil - Moderate
Choose the healthiest, most established vines that are wooded, but still juvenile enough to slightly bend. This propagation method can be taken all year round, using two nodes that already house aerial roots (image above). You should only have two nodes so that the lower one is for root development and the other for foliar growth. Remove the lower leaf so that each cutting only has one.
Cut directly below a node using a clean knife to reduce bacteria count. Remove the lower leaf and place the vine into a moist, well-draining potting mix. Houseplant compost is best as it'll include perlite for better air circulation within the soil.
Set the cutting into the compost, keeping the foliage above the soil line. Be sure to submerge the lower node into the soil wholly, or else root development will be hindered.
Provide a bright, indirect setting with adequate warmth and the avoidance of direct sunlight nearby radiators. Place the potted cutting into a transparent plastic bag for the first couple of weeks to lock in extra humidity so that the cutting doesn't dry out. Maintain moist, but not soggy soil throughout this process.
Open the bag every two days for half an hour for the prevention of disease. After a month of being placed in soil, remove the bag and follow the care tips provided above.
Rhaphidophora tetrasperma is part of the Araceæ family, meaning that they'll produce toxic flowers. Its inflorescences bare large similarities to Peace Lilies, with a modified leaf (spathe) circulating around the site of pollination (spadix). Despite its readiness to flower in the wild, those grown domestically will rarely flower due to the unfavoured growing conditions.
Repot biannually using a houseplant-labelled compost and the next sized pot with adequate drainage. Hydrate the plant 24hrs before the tinkering with the roots to prevent the risk of transplant shock. For those that are situated in a darker location, add a thin layer of small grit in the pot's base to improve drainage and downplay over-watering. Click here for a detailed step-by-step guide on transplantation, or via this link to learn about repotting with root rot.
If you're thinking of repotting a specimen that's growing up a moss pole, never remove the attached aerial roots as the disturbance could put further stress on the plant. Extend by purchasing another same-sized pole and pushing directly into the hollow hole in the original's top - its moss-like material may have to be cut off from the top to access the hollow centre. Get a long, sturdy stick that has a similar length to the two poles combined and place in the two's centre to support the weight. Always perform the repot BEFORE adding another pole, as it'll prove more challenging due to the weight distribution and overall balance. NEVER remove soil from the roots, or over-touch the root system, as this will cause transplant shock and possible death.
If you're still unsure of what to do, don't hesitate to send us an email or direct message to get our expert advice on transplantation.
Keep an eye out for mealybugs, spider mite, scale, thrips & whitefly that'll locate themselves in the cubbyholes and undersides of the leaves. Common diseases associated with Rhaphidophora are root rot, red leaf-spot, botrytis & southern blight - click here to learn more about these issues.
This plant is classified as poisonous due to varying concentrations of calcium oxalate crystals found around the plant's body. If parts of the plants are eaten, vomiting, nausea and a loss of appetite could occur. Consumption of large quantities must be dealt with quickly; acquire medical assistance for further information.
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Developing an open agri-food innovation platform to connect and share data
By Lilian Schaer - Ag Innovation
Vast amounts of data are being collected on Canada's farms through the advent of precision agriculture technology and the Internet of Things (IOT).
Many types of tools, equipment and devices gather data on everything from crop yields to how many steps an animal takes in a day. However, much of that data is underutilized because it's collected by systems that don't or can't communicate with each other.
The need for better decision-making on farms through better data use resulted in Ontario Precision Agri-Food (OPAF), a partnership of agricultural organizations led by Ontario Agri-Food Technologies (OAFT) that's developing an open agri-food innovation platform to connect and share data.
The goal, according to lead director Dr. Karen Hand of Precision Strategic Solutions, is getting data, wherever it exists (both data repositories in industry or government and data generated by countless sensors) so it can be used to help advance important food production issues like food safety, traceability and plant and animal disease surveillance.
For example, information about the prevalence and control of insect pests like cutworms that damage soybean crops lies with many different people and organizations, including university and government researchers, crop advisors, input suppliers and farmers.
"There is no single spot where all of the information about a particular pest can be accessed in a robust, science-based system and used in decision-making and that's where OPAF's platform will help," Hand says.
Pilot projects are underway with Ontario's grain, dairy and poultry producers to identify their needs in areas like crop protection, sustainability and food safety and how OPAF can provide data-driven solutions to benefit farmers.
"We sit down with farmers, advisors, associations, government and researchers to find out what data they have, where they exist and if we were able to connect them, what value or benefit that would offer participants - either specific to the commodity they are producing or on larger food-related issues such as food safety or impact on trade," she explains.
And OPAF's efforts are gaining global recognition. Earlier this year, Internet of Food and Farm 2020, a large project in the European Union exploring the potential of IOT technologies of European food and farming, recognized OPAF as one of three global projects to collaborate with.
"This is going to be changing the face of data enablement in Canada and contributing globally," says Tyler Whale of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies (OAFT). "We are creating a platform that is the base of something new, and although we are piloting this in Ontario, it will be available nationwide to those who want to use it."
OPAF partners include OAFT, University of Guelph, University of Waterloo, Niagara College, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Livestock Research Innovation Corporation, Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Farm Credit Canada, Ontario Agri-Business Association, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, and Golden Horseshoe Farm and Food Alliance.
This project was funded by Growing Forward 2, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The Agricultural Adaptation Council assists with GF2 delivery in Ontario.
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Neighborhood Thrives in 25th Year: Annual Report, May 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017
August 9, 2017 /0 Comments/in News /by SandAdmin
The River Hill Community Association celebrated a milestone during Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) when the neighborhood celebrated its 25th year on August 13, 2016. Although on the brink of tremendous change, Clarksville was still a semi-rural farming community in 1991. Woods, a game farm, and nursery were soon to be transformed into the Village of River Hill – a residential community of 2,096 homes, 6,752 residents (2010 census data), assorted amenities, and a commercial center. In 1991, the Board of Directors (RHBOD) responsible for running the Association was originally made up of representatives from Howard Research and Development, Columbia’s developer, and the Columbia Association. Today, the RHBOD is representative of the community’s residents and a steadily growing number of village residents are actively involved with the Association in a variety of volunteer capacities.
During FY17, Michael Cornell served as RHBOD Chairperson, assisted by Vice Chair Richard Thomas. Also serving on the RHBOD were: Robert Choi, Harjeet Singh Jandu, Mavourene Robinson, Jason Zagnit, and Liyan Zhang. Chao Wu completed the 2nd year of his term as the community’s Columbia Council Representative and ex officio RHBOD member. Jennifer Zhang served a second year as the Student Member on the Board. Day-to-day operations of the Association are handled by a paid staff.
Informing & Involving the Community
The Association uses the following tools to communicate with residents:
•The Villager, a monthly newsletter delivered to all properties by carriers, including many youths who live in the community. In FY17, the carriers were: Andrew Boullé, Brien Boullé, Sean Boullé, Garrett Donnelly, Trevor Donnelly, Erin Duncan, Luke Duncan, Sarah Gezewich, Hannah Gitelman, Lucas Gitelman, Jacob Hamet, Joshua Hernandez, Matt Hernandez, Kenzie Kleinberger, Melissa Kleinberger, Sarah Kleinberger, Maddie Lynott, Sydney Lynott, Woodie Lynott, Nitesh Parikh, Sara Sophia Masood, Sayyeed Mohammed, Caroline Siil, and Robby Windsor;
•The Association’s website: www.villageofriverhill.org;
•Facebook: www.Facebook.com/RiverHillCommunityAssociation;
•Constant Contact emails (sign up to receive the Association’s email updates by clicking on the link on the website homepage or text CLARETHALL to 22828); and
•Twitter: River Hill Community Assn @RHCAClarksville.
The Villager is the official publication of the Association, the prime method of communication with residents, and a major tool for enhancing connections with and between residents. The advertising revenue generated by The Villager is essential to its production and RHCA’s operating budget. In FY17, advertising revenue from The Villager declined by 5% when compared to FY16. The Villager also struggled for brand recognition. The Clarksville Neighbors and Living at the Hill advertising publications, which entered the local market in recent years, have confused both residents and advertisers. These publications have no connection to the Association. The revenue these magazines generate does not support Association operations or programs and services provided to River Hill residents.
Association staff, located at Claret Hall, are a resource for members of the community. Staff directs residents to the appropriate organizations when questions or issues arise that are outside their areas of responsibility. Visitors to the community center will find information on local events and area non-profits, Association Resale Packages, new resident Welcome Packets, copies of the Columbia Flier, CA Monthly, and more. The Association maintains service provider lists for: lawn mowing, babysitting, and snow shoveling.
The Association has a strong commitment to involving local youth. River Hill’s Teen Advisory Committee (TAC) is key to making many Association-sponsored, community building events a success. They help to plan and staff events including: Independence Day Parade, Health Fair, Haunted Hallows Eve, and Breakfast with Santa. This year the TAC organized the very successful Claret Hall Cook-off which raised donations for the Howard County Food Bank. In addition to being involved in these activities themselves, the TAC arranges for many other teens to volunteer, thus engaging even more members of the community. Jennifer Zhang chaired the TAC in FY17. The members of the TAC were: Yamini Ananth, Brien Boullé, Emily Chi, Amber Deng, Tobias Eegholm, Megan Rabe, Cindy Tian, Isabelle Zhan, and Andrew Zhang. RHCA continues to be the Chartering Organization for Boy Scout Troop 618 and Michael Cornell served as the Chartering Organization’s Representative.
The Association offered the following community building programs and events:
•Block Party Grants
•Cul de Sac Beautification Grants
•Food on the 15th Collection Drive (all year)
•Neighborhood Watch (all year)
•Pet-A-Palooza (May 2016)
•Flea Market (June 2016)
•How to Combat Mosquitos Workshop (June 2016)
•Coupon Clipping to benefit Military Families (June & July 2016)
•Independence Day Parade (July 2016)
•Prepare for Success School Supply Donation Site (July/August 2016)
•River Hill Pool Party (August 2016)
•River Hill 25th Birthday Celebration (September 2016)
•Health Fair (September 2016, in conjunction with the Coalition Halting Obesity in Children Everywhere)
•Neighborhood Yard Sales (September 2016)
•Shredding Event (October 2016)
•CA’s Teen Outreach Committee Toiletries Drive Donation Site (October/November 2016)
•Haunted Hallows Eve (October 2016, in conjunction with the River Hill Village Center Merchants and Kimco Realty)
•Volunteer Appreciation (November 2016)
•Breakfast with Santa (December 2016)
•River Hill Student Essay Contest (January 2017)
•Random Acts of Kindness Week (February 2017)
•School’s Out Bingo (February 2017)
•Master Gardener Seminars: Herb Gardening (January 2017) Pruning (February 2017), Native Plants (March 2017), Get Your Garden Ready for Spring (April 2017)
•Stream Clean-up Day (March 2017)
•Electronics Recycling (March 2017)
•River Hill History Presentation in Celebration of 25 Years (March 2017, in conjunction with the Columbia Archives)
•Columbia-Wide Searching for Spring Event (March 2017)
•Claret Hall Cook-Off (March 2017)
•Village Election Day (April 2017)
•Gallery of River Hill History & Memorabilia (April 2017)
Open Space and the Environment
The Columbia Association (CA) owns and is responsible for maintaining the open space in the village which has 14.25 miles of pathway and 24 tot lots. River Hill’s Watershed Advisory Committee (WAC) continues to be very active. Members are: Lauren Marcus (Chair), Bruce Eberle, Elisabeth Hoffman, Sari Chapman, Simone Smith, and Paul Lin (Student Representative). John McCoy, CA’s Watershed Manager, provides guidance to the Committee. In FY17, the WAC continued to focus on the environment, storm water runoff, erosion, and watershed quality in and around the village. The committee ran the annual Community Clean-up, offered E-Cycling to the community, and participated in the Independence Day Parade, Health Fair, Haunted Hallows Eve, and Explore River Hill on Foot events. Committee members worked with students at River Hill High School and Clarksville Middle School to install trees and native plants and conducted community “pull and plants” in the open space. At the end of FY17, the WAC was awarded a $7,820 grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. These grant funds will be used in FY18 to create a rain garden demonstration site in the village. Throughout the year, the WAC keeps the community informed about ways to improve the watershed via the “Tip of the Month” column in The Villager, WAC website www.villageofriverhill.org/watershed, and WAC Facebook page www.facebook.com/WatershedCommittee.
During the last year, the County undertook several large capital projects in the open space. Repairs and improvements to stormwater management facilities were made in the areas of Velvet Path, Golden Star Place, and Fairest Dream Lane. The County also conducted stormwater facility maintenance such as the work performed behind Wild Orange Gate and Hidden Waters Way.
Covenant Enforcement
River Hill residents serve on the Association’s Architectural Committee (AC) and Resident Architectural Committee (RAC) to ensure the covenant process runs smoothly and changes made to residential properties are in keeping with the community. During FY17, the following River Hill residents put in many hours on behalf of the community: Mohammad Saleem (AC Chair), Karen Jespersen (AC), Karen Smith (AC), Debbie Trapuzzano (AC) Ilona Mallon (AC), Syed Ahmad (RAC), Roy C. Brown II (RAC), Lacey Cohen (RAC Chair), Thomas D. Johnson (RAC), Gary Sauers (RAC), S. Jennifer Zhai (RAC). The RAC and AC reviewed 197 exterior alterations and in-home business applications in FY17. This represents a 0.5% increase from the number of applications reviewed in FY16. The AC is responsible for hearing and making decisions on all appeal requests. There was 1 appeal hearing in FY17. The AC also reviews all covenant enforcement actions reaching the 15-Day Violation Notice stage and evaluates the need for further action on the part of the Village Association and CA. To aid in maintaining property values and the aesthetics of the community, one goal is to have properties in compliance with the Covenants when homes go up for sale prior to transferring ownership. The Covenant Advisor is responsible for conducting the letter of compliance inspections and coordinating with the property owner, RAC, and AC as needed. The Association received 124 requests for letter of compliance inspections in FY17, a 10% increase in the number of requests over FY16. Of these properties, 39 were non-compliant on the first inspection and had to be reinspected to receive a letter of compliance. No properties were sold in noncompliance. One property sold with a contingent letter of compliance and has since been made compliant. The Association processed 112 complaints during FY17, a 60% increase over the number of complaints received in the prior year. Covenant complaints are processed by the Covenant Advisor on behalf of the AC. All other complaints are referred by staff to the appropriate departments within Howard County Government, CA, Kimco Realty (the owners of the Village Center) or the State Highway Administration. When a property owner does not resolve a covenant violation, the Association can proceed with further action. This action may include restricting residents from using CA facilities and programs, flagging CA’s assessment files to identify a covenant violation should the property transfer ownership, and/or proceeding with legal action. During FY17, no properties were referred by the Association to CA for further action. At the end of FY17 there were 2 active cases with the CA’s Architectural Resource Committee (ARC). These cases are expected to be closed shortly. From time to time, the Association incurs costs for legal fees associated with the operation of the Association and covenant enforcement.
Development-related matters continue to be a focus for the community. The Association’s Development Advisory Committee (DAC) monitored and reviewed development plans, attended meetings, and advised the RHBOD on a variety of matters. Harjeet Singh Jandu, Will McCullough, Tony Miceli, Jack Sacchetti, Mavourene Robinson (Chair), Cleveland Wilson, and Julie Wilson served on the DAC.
During FY17, the Association:
•Continued to monitor development plans for properties along Clarksville Pike and near the village;
•Testified before the Zoning Board regarding changes to the plans for the Simpson Oaks residential development;
•Provided feedback to the developer of the River Hill Square (former River Hill Garden Center property) project;
•Provided written input to the County’s Design Advisory Panel regarding the River Hill Square project;
•Advocated on behalf of residents to relocate a cell tower proposed on WR Grace property; and
•Submitted written input to the County regarding transportation priorities for FY18.
Under an agreement with CA, the Association manages Claret Hall and the Meeting Room. The Association is responsible for administering all facility rentals and ensuring that the buildings as well as furniture and fixtures are maintained and updated as needed. Both facilities are used by the Association for community meetings and events. In FY17, free usage of space was given to the following organizations: Pointers Run Piranhas Swim Team, Pheasant Ridge Rapids Swim Team, CA Aquatics, Girl Scout Troop 10318, and Boy Scout Troop 618. By renting space at both buildings, the Association generates revenue to fund operations, programs, and services. The Association maintains an online presence to promote the rental of the facilities: www.ClaretHall.org and www.Facebook.com/ClaretHallMD. During FY17, both buildings continued to be well utilized. Revenue from social, business, and class rentals increased 20% over the prior year. The following classes were offered at the facilities and provided an opportunity for members of the community to be active and to connect with one another: Adult Ballroom Dance, Chinese Wushu, Music Together, Tien Shan Kung Fu, Triathlean, Yoga, and Zumba. The Church of God and the Church of Christ leased space at Claret Hall for services and programs. The Association’s inability to secure a long-term tenant at the Meeting Room as anticipated and budgeted, did negatively impact the Association’s total lease and revenue income which in turn constrained some operating and capital expenditures.
We know that there will be more residential and commercial growth in the Clarksville/River Hill area in the coming years. As we move forward, enhancing the quality of life for River Hill residents will continue to be the Association’s priority.
Approved by the River Hill Board of Directors: July 17, 2017
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“Oh My God, What’s Happening?” Up Close and Personal With a Terry Richardson Model
By Elizabeth Kulze
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UPDATE: After this story went live, yet another model came forward. Read her story here.
Last week, we published a timeline detailing the perviest antics of Terry Richardson, the fashion photographer known for his smutty aesthetic and, most recently, persuading Miley Cryus to straddle a wrecking ball in the buff. Fresh allegations regarding his predatory professional behavior had surfaced a few days before, reigniting a standing controversy that’s been following the 48-year-old and his uninhibited penis for years. In the past, numerous subjects have come forward to detail the lensman’s degrading requests, and the revelations keep on coming.
Charlotte Waters was a 19-year-old art student the first and last time she modeled for Richardson, an experience she’s spent the past five years trying to forget. Last week, she posted an anonymous confession about the experience on Reddit, and after seeing our story, Waters decided to come forward for the first time—both to the public and the police.
Waters in 2009
“It’s hard not to look back at this stuff and see that I was a rapist’s dream, completely naive and trusting, but passive and shy on top of that,” she says. Waters had experience nude modeling for well-known artists like Richard Kern and Ron English, but nothing prepared her for what went down at Richardson’s Soho studio in March of 2009. An hour after she arrived, Richardson had run his tongue up and down her bare ass, demanded she squeeze his balls, and even jacked off into her eye.
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Waters is now 24 and working as a nurse’s assistant in L.A. Rehashing this episode has not been easy (“It’s disgusting and it makes me cringe,” she says), but for the sake of all the girls who may fall prey to Richardson in the future, she reached out to Vocativ to tell the whole story.
So why did you decide to come out about this now?
A few weeks ago, I started seeing a lot of articles about Richardson and his behavior that my friends were posting on Facebook. And I was like: “I know exactly what these people are talking about!” But the articles were all very vague and about rumors, so I wanted to say, “Hey, I’ve experienced this first hand. These aren’t just rumors.” But I wasn’t sure I wanted to come out about this very embarrassing thing I did, so I was just sitting on it for a while. And then I realized that what happened to me is something that has happened to other people and will likely continue to happen until his dick falls off, so I have to say something. I did it through Reddit because I could do it anonymously, and that seemed like a safe way to start.
How did you wind up nude modeling for Terry Richardson?
I was 19 and in art school when I decided that I wanted to start nude modeling on the side for money because I was in college and poor. I first started through Model Mayhem, and then I began working through various connections that I met through that. I was having a great time with it. I’ve always liked provocative art, so I think I was definitely an easy target in this situation because I went into it knowing that I was going to be nude. But I didn’t at all anticipate how far he was going to go.
I had seen some of his photographs online and in magazines and stuff, and I really liked his aesthetic. So one day I came across his website, and saw that you could submit a photo to model for him. I did and got an email back pretty quickly, which said, “Hey we would like to shoot you. Can you come in some time?” So we set up a time, and I went in, and that’s how I ended up there.
What was your experience with these kinds of shoots prior to meeting Richardson?
There was one amateur photographer that I worked with pretty regularly, and it was always really fun. He never touched me, not even to reposition me or anything. It actually felt really empowering. I also did “Shot By Kern” with Richard Kern. It was part of this ViceTV series, and that was totally cool. I was nude, and Richard Kern is known for provocative photos, but he didn’t even say anything creepy to me. I mean he’d tell me to do stuff like wiggle your ass for the camera, but he was always across the room. The power was balanced. I didn’t feel like he had control over me. And then I also modeled for Ron English, the painter, and that was also totally cool and fun, and I felt good doing it. All of my experiences with other photographers were perfectly professional.
Richard Kern shooting Waters for ViceTV
Did you have any concerns going into the shoot?
No, I didn’t. I honestly expected it to be just like any of the other times I had modeled nude. I put him on the same level as Richard Kern because they both do what could be considered pornographic photography. I didn’t know Terry Richardson’s reputation for being so directly involved in the photos and crossing all these boundaries.
OK, so walk us through it. What happened when you first arrived?
Around 4 o’clock, I went to his studio. He had his assistant there who was this older woman, probably 40 or 45ish. She had dark hair and a little bit of work done on her face. I think she may have had fake boobs. At first we all sat down at the kitchen table, and she said they were ordering food and asked if I wanted any, and I said no. And then she offered to make me tea. So I was sitting there drinking tea and talking to his assistant, and he was on his computer. After the food came, she had me sign the model release forms, which looked just like any other model release forms. They didn’t say anything about what he was going to do. (Update: See our story on Terry’s assistant and partner in perv, Leslie Lessin.)
The first thing he did was take a photo of me with my ID to prove I was over 18. And then we started shooting, and he reached out and put his hand on my face.
Did that throw up any red flags?
In the moment I didn’t feel like he was crossing a line. I mean at this point I still had my clothes on. I thought it was a little odd, but I didn’t think it was that crazy. I mean I was an open-minded 19-year-old, so I just thought, OK, whatever. I also had some trust in his aesthetic, so I thought he was just doing his thing. I felt like I should just go with his creative direction.
Waters was the model for this Ron English painting
At what point did he cross the line?
Well, he put his thumb in my mouth, which I also thought was weird, but I just let it go. And then he backed off and asked me to start undressing. I went in knowing I was going to have to do that, so at this point I’m still totally comfortable. He was having me take stuff off in stages and taking photos all along the way. He and his assistant were both complimenting a lot, which was a little different from what I had experienced before. During the other shoots people would say nice things now and then, but looking back it was obviously Richardson’s effort to make this little 19-year-old girl feel like she is this amazing, special person. So eventually all my clothes were off, and he’s still taking pictures. Then he comes over and asks me to hold the top of his jeans while he takes pictures pointing down. At this moment, things were starting to go in a direction that wasn’t good, but for some reason, I still had a lot of trust in whatever he told me to do, so I just did it. But then he had me unbutton his pants, and he took his penis out, and it was all completely downhill from there.
Why didn’t you just leave?
I felt like I was already in it to the point that I couldn’t get out, which sounds kind of crazy, but I had the mentality of 19-year-old. Even just talking about it makes me start to feel the way I felt then, which was just completely paralyzed and freaked out.
And then things got worse…
Right. Well his penis is out, and he starts taking pictures of me holding it. And then we moved over to a couch, and he had me pose on it with my back to him, and I literally felt him come over and start licking my ass. In my head I was like, Oh my God, what’s happening? He was just licking away, and his assistant came over and started taking pictures with this little point-and-shoot camera. After that he got on the couch with me, and it was just a bunch of back and forth between him directing me to do things to him and him doing stuff to me. At one point he even told me to squeeze his balls as hard as I possibly could, and I was like, Oh my God. But I still did it! Why did I do it?!
What was his demeanor like throughout the shoot?
I don’t know how to describe his personality. He wasn’t super personal or trying to get to know me or anything. He was just very upbeat and kind of goofy.
Besides squeezing his balls, what other things did he ask you to do to him?
He told me to perform oral sex on him. He started aggressively kissing me. I don’t even really remember what specific things were happening at that point, but he was directing everything. Like, “OK squeeze my balls,” “OK, put my dick in your mouth,” “OK, now kiss me.” It wasn’t intimate. He also straddled me and started jerking off on my face.
He told me to keep my eyes open super wide. His assistant was standing right there too, and his cum got in my eyes. This was actually his favorite moment. He got so excited. He kept telling me to keep my eyes open, and he grabbed his camera, and his assistant had her little point-and-shoot, and they were just taking all these pictures of it. Then they finally backed off and one of them got me a towel and told me to wipe myself off.
What was going through your head at this point?
I was just sitting on the couch, and I was very quiet. I was in shock and utter disbelief.
What were they doing?
I think they could tell that I was in shock. It seemed like they had done this a million times. Terry Richardson was standing across from the couch, and he asked, “So do you have a boyfriend?” This was the first personal question he asked me. I told him yes because I did have a boyfriend at the time, and he was like, “Oh wow, I’m so sorry! I always mean to ask that first.” He was smiling while he was saying this, too, and he looked over to his assistant and said, “Oh damn, I always mean to ask that first.” And then she was like, “Oh, we should have asked that!” It was a complete slap in the face. That’s the only way I can describe how that felt.
Did you just get up and leave at that point?
I just wanted to get out of there. I don’t really remember much after the shoot, but his assistant wanted to leave with me. We went down and got a cab, and she said she had to go somewhere in the same direction I was going and that she would pay for it. When we got in, she started trying to comfort me. She kept telling me that I was a really strong girl, and that I’m really cool, and that it’s so good that I can handle that sort of thing. Looking back it was obviously her attempt to make me feel like what I did was a good thing and what happened wasn’t bad. I was just sitting there quietly letting her talk to me, and then she got out about halfway on my way to Brooklyn.
How did the experience affect you?
That night I went home and told my roommate about it. I was completely shaken by it, but I was definitely taking responsibility for what happened. I blamed myself. I kept thinking, Uh, why did I get myself into that situation? And I also had a stomach infection that had been going on for a few days, so I felt pretty sick and kind of weak. Later that night I started dry heaving, and then I really started falling apart. I started freaking out and called my mom and my older sister. At the time I just thought it was just because I had been sick, but looking back, I realized that I was having a full-blown panic attack. I was sitting on the bathroom floor feeling like I was losing control of my body. My arms went numb, and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. So then my roommate called an ambulance, and I ended up in the emergency room, and my mom drove down from upstate to take me back home.
Did you ever hear from Richardson after that?
A week or two afterward I got missed call and voicemail, and it was from the assistant. She said something like “Hey, I hope you’re well. Terry really wants you to grow out your pubic hair, and we wanted to know if you can come on a trip with us up to this cabin. Three other girls your age will be there, and it will be a fun. We’ll take lots of pictures.” I did not call back. And after that voicemail, I just tried to block everything out.
Did this experience with Richardson have a long-term impact on you?
Well, I stopped nude modeling and left New York. And then I ended up moving out to L.A. It’s actually crazy to realize, at this point, how much that experience affected the path that my life took from then forward. In some ways it was good. I am happy where I am now. But then I felt guilty. I felt like an idiot. I chalked it up to all of the stupid choices I had made, and I decided to leave that part of my life in the past.
Did you ever tell your boyfriend about what happened?
I told him the next day when I was back home in upstate New York. I was really upset because I was feeling kind of guilty. I had never cheated on him. It was weird because it was like I was telling him that I kind of cheated on him, but it wasn’t my doing. I told him pretty much everything. All the details. His response was, “I want to find that guy and kill him.” Fortunately, we didn’t break up or anything.
A fully clothed Richard Kern shoots Waters for ViceTV
Did you ever tell your parents?
I did. I called my mom a couple of days ago when I decided that I wanted to come out with the story publicly. I had told her that Richardson was really creepy, but I never confessed all the details, so this time I just divulged everything. She was disgusted like any mother would be. She called me the next day, and said, “I want to throw acid in his eyes so he can’t take pictures anymore!” And I was like, “Well, he’d still have his penis, so I’m sure he’d get plenty of action out of that.”
Did you ever think about reporting the incident or pressing charges?
No, but when I did start talking about this in the past two weeks, my current boyfriend’s mother told me that she thought I should report it. I was always very hesitant about that because I know nothing can really be done. I never resisted. I never said no. But she convinced me that it would be good for me, for my own sense of empowerment, just to get it out there. So two days ago I did. I called the NYPD, and they connected me with a detective, and I prefaced everything by saying that I was just calling because I wanted the information to be out there so that more people will come forward, and that I don’t want to press charges or anything. Then I told him the story, and all he said was that is wasn’t a crime situation because I never said no. So Richardson’s off the hook. It kind of sucks.
What were you initially hoping to get out of doing a shoot with him? Did he pay you?
I did not get paid, which makes me feel even more disgusted. I feel dumb and embarrassed about that, but my thought at the time was that he was such a well-known photographer and his photos have been in magazines and he’s shot famous people, so he’s got to be good, and that will only be good for me to say that I had been photographed by someone like him. And I liked his style. I liked provocative art going into it, but there’s such a fine line. I mean, I like John Waters movies, and those are raunchy and provocative, but you never hear stories about him raping his actors.
What ever happened to the photos?
I’ve never seen them. And I don’t think he’s used them in anything. I’ve had a little bit of anxiety that they would come out because my boyfriend would definitely be upset, but I’m at a point now where I would just own it. I would tell people exactly what happened.
Does it make you angry when you see his work in magazines? He just shot that Lea Michelle cover for V and Kate Moss for the French magazine Lui.
It is frustrating to see that he gets away with what he does, and is still working and getting paid a ton of money. But if you haven’t experienced him first hand and all the negative things about him are just rumors from unknown, random people, then why wouldn’t you work with him? So I don’t put any blame on the celebrities that have been photographed by him because they have no way of knowing the truth. The one thing that does boggle my mind, though, is his shoot with Obama. I mean, he’s the president. I was a young naïve girl, so I think it’s pretty understandable that I didn’t do my research and know what I was getting into, but you’d think the president would have some sort of team that would tell him that Richardson is a photographer with a very bad reputation, and that it wouldn’t be a good idea. That really confuses me. But until people expose what’s he’s really like, how are his clients going to know?
Vocativ contacted Terry Richardson’s representatives to offer him an opportunity to comment. They did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls.
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SPRING 2013 MENSWEAR
Raf Simons Spring 2013 Menswear
By Tim Blanks
It's Raf Simons Week in Paris. In a few days, his first haute couture collection for Dior will follow the spring collection for his own label that he showed tonight. They may seem poles apart, but the impact of the Dior appointment was clear in Raf's menswear. Or at least, it was obvious that he'd gone back to reflect on his past by boarding that what-brought-me-to-here? train of thought that often follows on the heels of great good fortune. And what his reflection illuminated was how much of what looks current in men's fashion was proposed by Raf at one point or another since he started designing menswear in 1995. Shorts, for instance, have been a Simons staple. He's always combined classic tailoring and sportswear, and integrated art into his fashion. He's a grand colorist, and an aficionado of the masculine/feminine hybrid. But more than anything, he's been fashion's great apologist for the power and poignancy of youth.
Both were on parade here, the Green Velvet club classic on the soundtrack a reminder of the Antwerp nights kids like him never wanted to end, the bare legs and tangled hair tokens of the vulnerable self-consciousness that comes with a certain age. But if that was Raf's past, he was keen to explore how it could fuse with his future. And if it was physically impossible to fuse time, he would do it with gender.
In one of Kurt Cobain's most memorable portraits, he's wearing a floral dress. That grunge memory resurfaced in Raf's collection when he sealed the back of a pleated floral sundress to the front of a sober tailored coat. It was the most startling expression of the current of androgyny that pulsed through the show. Others: the shorts with their perverse little slit; the perforated tops that could have been Aertex mesh or broderie anglaise; the huge painted faces by L.A. artist Brian Calvin that decorated oversize tees, with their staring eyes. "I love eyes," the designer said. He loves a challenge too, because he feels challenges initiate communication. Hell, the conversation between the Dior woman and the Raf man has already started.
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Town Talk for November 6
The First Tee of Eagle County and the Can Do Multiple Sclerosis Foundation were the charity recipients of this fallâs Vail International Pro-Am. The event, featuring 25 of the top golf clubs in the U.S., was hosted by Country Club of the Rockies, Sonnenalp Golf Club and Adams Mountain Country Club. The winning team was from Country Club of the Rockies, consisting of Gary McCord, Bob Albritton, Jim King and Brad Anderson. In the picture, from left, are Steve Coyer, chairman of the Youth Foundation; Katie Santambrogio, marketing and event director of the Youth Foundation; Drew Fournier, director of the First Tee of Eagle County; Tom Apple, master professional at Country Club of the Rockies; Maren Lantzy, special events coordinator of the Can Do Multiple Sclerosis Foundation; and Kim Goodrich, director of development and communications of the Can Do Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
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Joy The Drummer
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From the stage to the television, magazine stands to the radio, Venzella Joy is crossing all mediums. In March of 2009, Joy was featured on MTV’s reality show competition, Making His Band, with Sean “Diddy” Combs where she worked alongside Combs and other industry veterans. From the city of Buffalo, to traveling the world on tour, independent artist and touring musician, Venzella Joy has been playing drums since the age of 10. Venzella Joy referenced her mother's words, "I see your dreams coming true," in her first single, Live released in 2014. Those dreams finally came true in February of 2014 when she became the drummer for Mrs. Beyonce’ Carter, and joined the all-female band for the...
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Penguin Depravity
Animals misbehave at times. Is "penguin depravity" as bad as "panda porn?" How about human sexual variations? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
The handwritten notebook of George Murray Levick, who was a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition, has just been discovered and put on display. In it, he describes his shock at the sexual shenanigans of the penguins he observed, such as a male attempting to have sex with a dead female.
In the Guardian, Robin McKie writes that "Levick blamed this ‘astonishing depravity’ on ‘hooligan males’ and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed."
Levick’s paper sheds new light on a species that has been called the bellwether of climate change. McKie quotes Douglas Russell, curator of birds at the London Natural History Museum (where the notebook is displayed) as saying, "The (penguins) need pack ice from which to dive to get fish. When that ice disappears, numbers may crash–and we will have a clear warning that things are getting bad.
"The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behavior, and seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behavior. His observations were, however, accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication."
In 1998, Whitley Strieber had never heard of climate change, but the Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all about it, which led to his bestselling book "Superstorm."
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Corroboree frogs released into Kosciusko National Park
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Researchers study how diet in captivity enhances survival of endangered species in wild
A University of Wollongong-led research team has released 115 southern corroboree frogs into a remote part of Kosciusko National Park.
Prior to the release there were, by some estimates, as few as 50 adult southern corroboree frogs left in the wild. Without human intervention, it is possible the critically endangered species will soon become extinct.
The UOW researchers are working with the Taronga Conservation Society, Zoos Victoria and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) on the project.
They are looking at whether frogs fed dietary carotenoids in captivity have improved rates of survival and reproduction once released into the wild. Carotenoids are the nutrient-rich plant pigments that give some fruits and vegetables their red, yellow and orange hues.
The released frogs were reared at UOW and provided a special diet of carotenoids.
Associate Professor Phillip Byrne and Dr Aimee Silla from UOW’s Evolution and Assisted Reproduction Laboratory are leading the project, teaming up with UOW carotenoid function expert Senior Professor Sharon Robinson, Taronga Zoo’s Herpetofauna department head Michael McFadden, DPIE’s Threatened Species Officer Dr David Hunter, and Deakin University’s Professor John Endler, a world leader in evolutionary biology.
“By manipulating diet we may be able to improve a frog’s prospects of survival and reproductive success once released back into the wild,” Professor Byrne said.
“In captivity, carotenoids improve colouration, exercise performance, the diversity of beneficial microbes on the skin, and recovery from hibernation, all of which should help their prospects of survival.”
Associate Professor Phillip Byrne, Dr Aimee Silla and Senior Professor Sharon Robinson in the lab with some of the southern corroboree frogs that were release to the wild. Pictures: Paul Jones, UOW
Frogs with brighter colours are likely to deter predators as the yellow in the corroboree frogs’ distinctive yellow-and-black patterning signals toxicity. Additionally, a greater diversity and abundance of skin microbes is believed to assist with disease resistance.
The team used a helicopter to access a secret location in a remote area of the national park, surrounded by impenetrable scrub. They released the frogs into several large (8m diameter) ring enclosures, custom-built by DPIE.
“The frogs were transported in large containers, then individually released so that their exploration behaviour could be video recorded and later quantified using sophisticated behavioural analysis software,” Professor Byrne said.
“We have previously shown that corroboree frogs have personality along the exploration axis, so we expect that some frogs will explore their new environment more rapidly than others.”
The survival and viability of frogs will be monitored every few months for the next few years. The researchers will also monitor whether the frogs are breeding successfully.
“Our team set up CCTV cameras to film the enclosures and identify individuals by their unique patterns. In addition, enclosures will be searched for frogs,” Professor Byrne said.
“During the summer breeding season males make nests in the moss and then remain with the eggs. Thus we can locate the males using their advertisement calls, then check their nests for eggs.”
If successful, the program could benefit endangered frog species worldwide.
“The concept of manipulating micronutrients in the captive diet to improve post-release survival and performance could be applied to threatened frog species worldwide,” Professor Byrne said.
The frogs being released into a secret location in Kosciusko National Park.
The NSW Environmental Trust, the Australian Research Council, and the University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health provided funding for this research.
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Homes England appoints House by Urban Splash on 228-home Grappenhall Woods development
Press release - 17 December 2020
Homes England has appointed House by Urban Splash to create 228 new homes at the Grappenhall Woods site in Warrington, extending the pair’s partnership in delivering homes using modern methods of construction (MMC).
House by Urban Splash will develop the site, which makes up the final phase of the Homes England Grappenhall Heys scheme, creating its already award winning, customisable homes, but also delivering new typologies to meet local market need.
Outline planning permission has already been granted for the project, with an online public consultation launching this week ahead of the detailed planning submission. In addition to the homes, the plans will show proposals for a central copse running through the neighbourhood, providing 2,800 sq m of green space and play areas.
The development will be the first place that House by Urban Splash homes have created in Warrington, Nathan Cornish from the company said: “We really are thrilled to have been selected by Homes England for this site where we plan to extend the existing neighbourhood, deliver more much needed homes, and bringing our innovative, modern housebuilding concept into new parts of the North West.
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“We really are excited about this site; it’s close to our head office in Manchester but it’s a very different market, that’s why we’re planning to bring a range of new house types here.
“We’ve already been successful in doing that in places like New Islington in Manchester, Port Loop in Birmingham, Irwell Riverside in Salford and Smith’s Dock in North Shields; adding Warrington to the mix will help us reach more homeowners who want to create their own home and live well by design.”
House by Urban Splash formed its partnership with Homes England and the world’s biggest Housebuilder Sekisui House in a £90m deal in 2019; it has since been appointed on new sites across the country including Inholm Northstowe in Cambridgeshire and Wirral Waters in Merseyside.
All of the factory built homes in the company’s portfolio are created using MMC to customer specifications; plans are sent to the company’s own factory in the East Midlands before being transported to site. Nathan Cornish concluded: “The approach greatly reduces build time and is a more sustainable solution to housebuilding. We can’t wait to give local people in Grappenhall more details and look forward to engaging with the local community in the coming weeks.”
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Malaria continues to be a critical world health problem resulting in 100-200 million clinical cases a year with over 0.5 million deaths, mainly children under the age of five. In the past decade the introduction of insecticide-treated bed nets and Artemisinin combination therapy have reversed the increase in mortality caused by the spread of chloroquine-resistant parasites and led to renewed hope for malaria eradication. Key to eradication efforts is the development of new strategies to control parasite transmission, which is the focus the Williamson lab.
The Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria is transmitted from person to person by a mosquito (Fig. 1). Parasites are introduced into the blood stream by the bite of an infected mosquito and then travel to the liver. After development in liver cells, parasites are re-released to the blood stream where they now invade red blood cells and replicate, producing 16-32 new parasites every two days. Instead of continuing to replicate, some parasites differentiate into either male or female gametocytes over the course of 12 days. Gametocytes, after being taken up in a blood meal by a mosquito, are stimulated to fertilize and begin a developmental cascade in the mosquito that leads to the production of sporozoites, which are infectious to humans. Sporozoites are stored in the salivary gland of a mosquito until release during another blood meal, initiating a new infection.
The complex life cycle allows the parasite to avoid many standard defenses used by the human immune system, but also provides multiple points for interventions. Ongoing projects in the Williamson lab are directed toward: 1) Malaria immunity/systems biology, 2) In vitro and in vivo molecular signaling of sexual differentiation, and 3) Identification of gametocytocidal drugs.
1) Malaria immunity/systems biology: The host specificity of P. falciparum makes direct investigation of the infection in humans critical to the development of effective interventions. Over 50 years ago human passive transfer experiments (Cohen et al. 61) clearly demonstrated a key role for naturally acquired antibodies that protect against malaria. However, reproducing this immunity by vaccination has proven difficult due to antigenic variation, genetic polymorphism, limited immunogenicity of recombinant proteins, and difficulties producing recombinant proteins with native conformation. Utilizing advances in high throughput sequencing and multi-dimensional data analysis we are taking a systems biology approach to understand the human response to repetitive challenges with P. falciparum infected-mosquitoes as happens in the field. Insights into the cellular and antibody responses and their association with clinical symptoms will be used to develop alternative vaccinology approaches to induce protective immunity. This strategy bypasses the use of recombinant antigens produced in heterologous organisms for screening and seeks to identify the protective responses that have evolved in the human host, including the initial innate response and the maturation of the Ig variable region following infection. Ultimately, Ig variable region sequences associated with protection will be generated recombinantly to confirm anti-P.falciparum activity. Target antigens will also be identified and used in conjunction with the insights gained into the early innate and cellular immune responses to develop vaccine strategies that mimic the protective human response.
2) In vitro and in vivo molecular signaling of sexual differentiation: For malaria to be transmitted from human to human via a mosquito, an intraerythrocytic parasite must undergo sexual differentiation into either a male or female gametocyte. We identified the first Plasmodium falciparum gene found to be required for gametocyte development, Pfgdv1 and the set of genes differentially expressed in early gametocytes (Pfge genes) (Eski et al 2012). Localization studies demonstrate that in parasites undergoing gametocytogenesis PfGDV1 is located at the nuclear periphery adjacent to the replication origin protein MCM2 and histone modifying enzyme PfSir2 (Fig.2). This location could suggest that Pfgdv1 plays a role regulating gene expression during early gametocytogenesis. Currently, proteins and nucleic acids associated with this Pfgdv1 are being identified by chromatin and protein immunoprecipitation, as well as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and will be tested for a role in the regulation of Pfge genes. Pfge gene function is also being evaluated by targeted gene disruption and other molecular techniques adapted for P. falciparum by our laboratory (Ikadai et al 2013, Eksi et al. 2011, Morahan et al 2011, López‑Barragán et al. 2011). Combining these approaches will begin to define mechanisms the parasite uses to initiate sexual differentiation and develop into mature gametocytes. Moreover, field studies are being initiated to evaluate sexual differentiation in vivo by expression profiling and to determine if genetic polymorphisms in the Pfgdv1-related transcriptome correlate with transmission rates (Joice, R et al.2013, 2014). Such molecular relationships will be used to develop genetic or expression signatures of high transmission capacity to direct future control malaria control efforts.
Fig. 2) Immunofluorescence assay of P. falciparum parasites expressing PfGDV1 tagged with GFP that have been probed with anti-PfMCM2 antibodies and DAPI DNA stain. The image includes two parasites: one in the focal plane (1) and one out of the focal plane (2). The hemozoin crystal in the food vacuole (H) is the dense structure in the bright field (BF) image.
3) Identification of gametocytocidal drugs: A sensitive, fluorescence-based, gametocytocidal assay has been developed in my laboratory to facilitate screening molecules for activity against sexual stage parasites (Tanaka and Williamson 2011). The miniaturization of this viability assay (Tanaka et al 2013) allowed the screening of more than 6000 bioactive compounds for gametocytocidal activity (Wei et al. 2014, Tanaka et al. 2014). Seven compounds had IC50s of <50 nM against late stage (III-V) P. falciparum gametocytes, including Torin 2 (IC50 = 8 nM). This compound is >1,000 times less effective against mammalian HepG2 cells and completely blocks P. berghei oocyst production in a mouse model of transmission. Interestingly, a closely related derivative, Torin 1, which has similar activity as Torin 2 against the mammalian target, mTOR, was 200 times less effective against gametocytes. This finding coupled with the lack of mTOR homologs in Plasmodium led us to hypothesize that the human and P. falciparum Torin 2 targets are distinct and that this difference will allow the development of an effective P. falciparum specific drug. Additional Torin 2 analogs are being developed by collaborators at the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) at NIH and this project has been selected by the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program at NCATS for further drug development efforts.
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Wales weather
Met Office upgrades Storm Dennis rain warning for Wales to rare red 'danger to life' status
After a night of further heavy rain, the Met Office is now warning 'extensive flooding' is likely
Lydia StephensSenior reporter
The Met Office has issued a red weather warning for heavy rain in parts of south Wales for Sunday morning.
While large parts of Wales are covered by an amber warning for rain, an area extending from Neath to Ebbw Vale is now covered by a new red warning, which forecasts that "communities could be completely cut off by floodwater, perhaps for several days".
This is the sixth weather warning issued for Wales this weekend, and the most severe.
The red warning was issued as Storm Dennis is expected to bring further heavy rain between 6.10am and 11am on Sunday morning.
The warning covers a large part of south Wales, including Merthyr Tydfil, the Gwent Valleys, Caerphilly, parts of Neath and Rhondda Cynon Taf, which suffered heavy flooding overnight.
This is the area covered by the warning:
A red weather warning has been issued for heavy rain in south Wales (Image: The Met Office)
Pontypridd town centre, which is under the red weather warning, suffered flooding overnight as the water levels on the River Taff overflowed.
The Met Office said the heavy rain will increase the likelihood of high impacts, such as a danger to life from fast flowing or deep floodwater, extensive flooding to homes and businesses being likely and collapsed or damaged buildings or bridges.
Road closures and bus and train service delays and cancellations are highly likely and driving conditions will be dangerous because of spray and flooding.
The Met Office also warns that communities could be completely cut off by floodwater for up to several days with warnings of loss of power and other essential services such as water, gas and mobile phone service.
Photos from across Wales after day one of Storm Dennis
Water gushes through family's garden as Storm Dennis hits
Meanwhile, a large part of Wales, stretching from the south to the north, will remain under an amber weather warning for heavy rain until 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
The rain is unlikely to stop there, as the whole of the country and large parts of England are covered by a yellow weather warning for very heavy rain until 9pm today.
A yellow weather warning for wind also covers all areas in Wales, which is in place until 12pm Sunday, while a third weather warning for wind is in place for a large part of the north Wales coast from 10am on Sunday until 12pm on Monday.
Natural Resources Wales has issued 76 flood warnings and two severe warnings - on the Neath at Aberdulais and the River Taff at Pontypridd - which also indicate a danger to life.
Meanwhile in Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, residents have been told by Gwent Police to evacuate their homes due to flooding and take shelter in nearby Abergavenny Leisure Centre.
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Thiem first since 1949 to win U.S. Open after ceding first two sets
By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press - Sunday, September 13, 2020
NEW YORK — A U.S. Open unlike any other finished unlike any other — with an unprecedented fifth-set tiebreaker as Dominic Thiem became the first man in 71 years to win the tournament final after dropping the opening two sets.
So close to defeat in a nearly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium — fans were banned because of the coronavirus pandemic — Thiem slowly but surely turned things around against a faltering Alexander Zverev and surged to a 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) victory at Flushing Meadows to earn his first Grand Slam title.
When a backhand from Zverev landed wide on the third championship point, a weary Thiem dropped to his back way behind the baseline and covered his face with his hands. When he arose, he was met by Zverev, who walked around the net to clasp hands, then embrace his friend and foe, two sights rarely seen in this era of social distancing.
Thiem then rested his head on the shoulder of the taller Zverev, a 23-year-old from Germany who himself came within two points of what would have been his first major triumph.
“I wish we could have two winners today,” Thiem said. “I think we both deserved it.”
The 27-year-old from Austria is the first man to win the American Grand Slam tournament after trailing 2-0 in sets in the final since Pancho Gonzalez did it against Ted Schroeder in 1949 at an event then known as the U.S. Championships and held in Forest Hills.
The event never had been settled by a fifth-set tiebreaker; no major tournament ever had until Novak Djokovic edged Roger Federer that way at Wimbledon in 2019.
“I wish you would have missed a little bit more so I could have held that trophy up,” Zverev said, choking up when he mentioned his parents, “but here I am, giving the runner’s-up speech.”
As Thiem stepped forward to pose for pictures with his shiny new bit of hardware, Zverev remained a few feet behind, one hand clutching his less-impressive silver tray, the other hand on a hip.
The proceedings took 4 hours, 2 minutes. And to think: After just 1 1/2 hours, Zverev was up by two sets and a break in the third at 2-1.
But Zverev, of all people, should have known what might have seemed at the time like an impossible hill to climb for Thiem was, indeed, achievable. After all, in Thursday’s semifinals, it was Zverev who trailed 2-0 in sets against Pablo Carreño Busta before coming back to win.
Thiem began the day 0-3 in Grand Slam finals, but always faced a member of the Big Three of men’s tennis in those others. This time, he was the favorite and came out jittery, but eventually worked his way out of that, while Zverev went from cool and confident to passive and pushed around.
The fifth set was just as back-and-forth as the other four, the mistakes rising with the tension and the history in the offing.
Thiem broke in the opening game when Zverev shanked a pair of forehands. Zverev broke right back — and pierced the silence with a rare cry of “Come on!” — when Thiem double-faulted.
Then it was Zverev’s turn to nose ahead, breaking for a 5-3 lead when Thiem sent a down-the-line backhand wide and leaned over, gasping for air.
But with a chance to serve out the biggest win of his nascent career, Zverev faltered, getting broken right back when he pushed a volley into the net.
That began a three-game run for Thiem, who broke to lead 6-5, earning his own chance to serve for it when Zverev netted a backhand, followed by a long forehand.
After having a trainer check on his right leg during the ensuing changeover, Thiem couldn’t seal the deal, either, and on they went to the tiebreaker.
While this was the No. 7-ranked Zverev’s first Slam final, this was the first one the No. 3-ranked Thiem was supposed to win, following losses to 12-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros in 2018 and 2019, then to eight-time Australian Open champion Djokovic at Melbourne Park this February — back before the pandemic upended the world and put tennis on a five-month hiatus.
Instead of wild applause and loud shouts greeting great exchanges, the soundtrack Sunday mainly came from outside the largest court in tennis, courtesy of roaring airplanes, rumbling trains, revving car engines, honking horns and wailing sirens. There was the occasional polite applause from the dozens of tournament workers allowed in the stands — and, deep into the match, yells from the players’ entourages.
But the louder crowd noise heard by TV viewers was fake, added by the broadcaster.
Unable to draw from support in what’s always been an electric environment, on an evening that felt more like a glorified practice session than a match with so much at stake, both men were sluggish at times, listless, even. The play was hardly perfect: They combined for 120 unforced errors to only 95 winners. In a curious parallel, Zverev balanced his 15 aces with 15 double-faults, and Thiem had eight in each category.
Normally, the U.S. Open closes each Grand Slam season, but what about 2020 has been normal?
“Strange times,” Thiem called it.
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wimbledon was canceled for the first time since World War II, while the French Open was postponed from its originally scheduled May start and now will begin in two weeks.
So the tennis world quickly shifts to European clay after an unusual two-tournament hard-court doubleheader in Flushing Meadows — which U.S. Tennis Association CEO Mike Dowse acknowledged Sunday seemed like “a crazy idea” at one point.
The U.S. Open was preceded at its site by the Western & Southern Open, which moved from Ohio to New York as part of a “controlled environment” to limit travel.
Another way in which this whole event was different: Federer, Nadal and Djokovic had won the preceding 13 major trophies. But Federer and Nadal didn’t enter the U.S. Open, while Djokovic was defaulted in the fourth round for accidentally hitting a line judge with a ball he smacked in anger after dropping a game.
Thiem — barely, just barely — was the one who took advantage of the chance to sneak into the club of champions.
“I want to congratulate Dominic on the first of many Grand Slam titles,” Zverev said. “I think this is not the only one.”
If that’s so, it is safe to say any others won’t be quite like this one.
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DA Sets Emergency Meet with Chicken Producers
28 June 2011, at 10:55am
PHILIPPINES - Concerned over high prices of chicken, the Department of Agriculture will hold an emergency meeting with chicken producers today (Tuesday) afternoon to discuss the matter.
DA Secretary Proceso Alcala said he wants to find out why chicken prices are high even if the normal "barometers" indicate chicken prices should be normal.
"We understood a slight increase in chicken prices due to increased demand caused by a recent fish kill. But now, demand for fish is going back to normal and so is demand for chicken. So prices of chicken should have gone back to normal," Mr Alcala said in an interview on dwIZ radio.
But he cited reports reaching him indicating some vendors sell chicken at P135 to P140 per kilo instead of the normal P130 per kilo.
"The reason for a price hike should have been low supply or high prices of feeds, or high demand. But our three barometers show prices should be normal. The only conclusion we can reach is that some people are trying to exploit the situation. And the DA's obligation is to protect consumers," Mr Alacala said.
According to GMA News, he said he has scheduled the emergency meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
He said he expects producers and vendors to explain the high prices of chicken.
If no satisfactory explanation can be given, he said he will be forced to allow the importation of chicken to bring down prices.
"I may be forced to allow the importation of chicken to boost supply and lessen the price of chicken in the market. I don't want to do this but I may have to, just to counter the overpricing," he said.
Mr Alcala also rejected the possibility that the damage caused by Tropical Storm Falcon (Meari) could have prompted an increase in chicken prices.
He said that of the P692 million damage to agriculture in 13 provinces, livestock suffered "only" P1 million.
Mr Alcala said today's meeting will also take up ways to ensure supply of meat for the holidays, at least up to January 2012.
He said he will call another meeting next week, this time with pork producers.
"Filipino growers can meet supply demands for chickens in 35 days, but hog growers need four to six months," Mr Alacala said.
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MPs Slam Handling of Egg Crisis, Say Food Safety Body has Failed
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by Rachel Ralte
25 August 2017, at 6:00am
NETHERLANDS - MPs have been highly critical of the way the Dutch food safety body NVWA has handled the growing contaminated egg scandal during a debate with ministers on Thursday afternoon.
According to DutchNews.nl, agriculture party spokesmen were recalled from holiday early to take part in the debate and used the occasion to slam the lack of communication and the slow speed at which the food body has reacted as the scandal unfolds.
In particular, they want to know why the NVWA failed to take action when tipped off that the Dutch company Chickfriend was using the banned chemical fipronil in a de-licing agent in November 2016.
The confusion surrounding the scandal became apparent on 1 August when the NVWA’s deputy chairman told a television programme that people should not eat eggs until more was known about the scale of the contamination.
That comment was condemned by farmers and the NVWA and later partially withdrawn.
"Confidence [in eggs] was damaged not improved by that statement," SGP parliamentarian Roelof Bisschop said during the debate.
Health minister Edith Schippers and junior economic affairs minister Martijn van Dam told MPs in a written briefing on Wednesday that the NVWA had actually received a second tip-off about about the use of fipronil by Chickfriend, the company at the heart of the health scare in the Netherlands.
It was not until Belgium informed the Netherlands that there was a problem with contaminated eggs in July that action was actually taken.
Mr van Dam told MPs that caution had been exercised about the tip-offs because Belgium was preparing to carry out a formal investigation. In addition, he said, the NVWA receives some 8,000 tip-offs a year which all have to be assessed individually.
Health minister Edith Schippers told MPs that she did not want a discussion about who is responsible for what.
"The responsibility is ours and we are not walking away from it," she said. Nevertheless, it would be an illusion to assume that the NVWA can prevent all problems, she said.
D66 parliamentarian Stientje van Veldhoven said farmers themselves are partly to blame. It is incomprehensible that not one farmer stepped in when a new little company appeared with a 'wonder' solution to successfully solve the louse problem, she said.
"If something is too good to be true, then it probably is," she said.
Mr van Dam said the scandal is a ‘painful and bitter lesson’ for poultry farmers. The direct damage to farmers is put at €33m, but impact on the entire food chain has estimated at €150m. So far, 258 poultry farms have been banned from selling eggs and meat.
The government has no plans to help farmers financially and a number are known to be preparing to sue the NVWA for its failings.
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Condo loft
1x4 bathroom
Forced air / gas heating, central air North exposure
Includes electric cooktop, microwave, washer, dryer, all electrical light fixtures and all window coverings not belonging to tenant
Main Living room 7.02 x 22.30 feet Laminate floor, large window, combined with den
Main Dining room 9.84 x 8.00 feet Laminate floor, large closet, open concept
Main Den 7.02 x 22.30 feet Laminate floor, large window, combined with living room
Main Bedroom 9.77 x 9.02 feet Laminate floor, pocket doors, French doors
The Bay Street Corridor is one of Toronto's most iconic neighbourhoods, steeped in rich history and now home to Toronto's financial heart. It's also one of the city's most walkable neighbourhoods, boasting a dense concentration of amenities.
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The Bay Street Corridor is one of Toronto's most iconic neighbourhoods, steeped in rich history and now home to Toronto's financial heart. It's also one of the city's most walkable neighbourhoods, boasting a dense concentration of amenities. Residents in this neighbourhood have instant access to international and gourmet cuisine, big box and specialty stores, groceries and convenience stores, bars and cafes, movie theatres, and much more. The area attracts many who work in the financial district, Discovery District, nearby hospitals, and Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.
Just north of the Graphic Arts Building is the hub of the city at Toronto City Hall. Nathan Phillips Square, Osgoode Hall, CF Eaton Centre, and Yonge-Dundas Square are mere blocks away. Catch a concert at Meridian Hall or take a leisurely stroll to the Harbourfront Centre in the summer months.
73 Richmond Street West boasts a perfect transit score, with Osgoode Station and Queen Station just a five-minute walk from home. The area is also rich with streetcar and bus options, including the 24-hour 501 Queen streetcar, 504 King streetcar, 503 Kingston Road streetcar, 6 Bay bus, and 97 Yonge bus.
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Orde Street Public School (GR. JK-08), 18 Orde Street.
Jarvis Collegiate Institute (GR. 09-12), 495 Jarvis Street.
Catholic Schools Catchment.
St. Michael Catholic School (GR. JK-08), 50 George Street South.
St. Michael's Choir School (GR. 03-12), 67 Bond Street.
St. Joseph College (GR. 09-12), 74 Wellesley Street West.
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Volunteer’s Audrey Evans (4) drives against Unaka’s Tara Whitehead (11).
Photos by Jim Beller
Volunteer’s Kendra Huff (1) drives for a basket against Unaka Saturday.
Volunteer’s Atlee Dean (3) draws a foul on Unaka’s Mailey Guy (42).
Volunteer’s Aliyah Crawley (23) scores inside against Unaka’s Mailey Guy (42).
Volunteer’s Kenady Knittel (12) squares up for a three attempt against Unaka Saturday.
Volunteer’s Veda Barton (14) scores in the paint against Unaka Saturday.
Volunteer’s Emily Wyatt (13) launches a three-point attempt against Unaka Saturday.
Volunteer’s Danielle Sizemore (20) shoots from downtown against Unaka Saturday.
Lady Falcons overcome slow start, Unaka rally
By Jim Beller Sports Editor
CHURCH HILL – Volunteer overcame a sluggish start – and Lyndie Ramsey – to escape with a 58-52 win over Unaka Saturday evening at the Falcons Nest.
Lady Falcons coach Tyrone Smith was so unhappy with the start, he kept the team for more than 30 minutes afterward for a stern pep talk.
“I just told them you can’t walk in the gym and think you’re going to win every game,” Smith said afterward. “You’ve got to go out there and play hard and compete. They came to play.
“That No. 10 (Ramsey) is a player. She played hard. We brought it together and we won the game, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to come play hard every day. That’s just what happens,” Smith said.
The Lady Falcons started each quarter slowly, including the first when they dropped behind 13-6. Fortunately for the Lady Falcons, they finished each period better than they started them.
Aliyah Crawley’s three-pointer with :27 remaining in the opening quarter closed the gap to 13-9 heading into the second.
A 5-2 start to the second pushed the Lady Rangers’ lead back to seven, 18-11. But the Lady Falcons – led by Atlee Dean’s 7-of-8 from the line, closed the half with a 15-4 run to lead, 26-22, at the break.
After Ramsey scored the first two baskets of the second half to tie it up, Volunteer increased the defensive intensity, led by ball-hawking defender Audrey Evans, to outscore the Lady Rangers, 15-9, the rest of the quarter.
“We picked the defense up in the second half better,” Smith said. “We should have come out that way in the beginning. We were flat defensively at the start.”
In the quarter, Veda Barton scored seven points, six in the paint, and Emily Wyatt added five, including a three-pointer.
“Veda Barton posted up real hard down low and got some buckets,” Smith said. “I’m trying to get my girls to look inside more. We’ve got some tall trees down there that can score.”
After Macy Ensor’s two free throws cut the Volunteer lead to 41-35 to start the fourth, Ramsey put on a one-player show to rally the Lady Rangers.
She outscored the Lady Falcons, 13-2, over the next 3:24 to put Unaka ahead, 48-43, with 3:19 to go. A drive by Evans and three-pointer by Kendra Huff tied the game at 48 with 2:24 to go.
Over the next two possessions, Ramsey put Unaka back in front with a pull-up jumper, only to see the lead go back to Volunteer, 51-50, on a three by Crawley. Ramsey responded with two free throws to put Unaka back in the lead, 52-51, with 1:47 to play.
But Crawley hit another three one minute later for a 54-52 Volunteer lead, and Evans hit both free throws on an intentional foul with :07 left to seal the victory, and Dean hit two more with :02 on the clock for the final margin, as the Lady Falcons escaped with the non-conference win.
“I’m glad we played like that today. I’d rather get all the rust out today and be ready to go next week, because we’ve got a long week next week,” Smith said. The Lady Falcons were scheduled to play Tennessee High Monday, Science Hill Tuesday, Sullivan Central Thursday and Cherokee Friday.
Ramsey led all scorers with 32, including 17 in the fourth quarter. Crawley led Volunteer with 14, including three of the Lady Falcons’ eight three-pointers. Dean scored 12, including 10 of 12 from the foul line. Evans and Barton had eight apiece.
“Having Aliyah back was good. She came back full force after being out. Everybody else played well and competed. I’m very happy about that. Now we’re back full force. We’re just going to get it rolling,” Smith said.
“It’s all going to come together at the end of the day. It’s crazy. It’s still early. It feels like we still haven’t really played. With this COVID thing going on, we lose a girl, we get a girl back, we lose a girl. So, it can kind of throw off the chemistry a little bit. But we stayed strong and got the win,” he said.
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Aliyah Crawley
Audrey Evans
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Les Miserables: Finding God in the theatre (part 2)
I found forgiveness while working with the very people I had grown up condemning
This blog continues “‘Les Miserables: Finding God in the theatre (Pt. 1).”
Experiencing Grace
MY OWN INDIFFERENCE to the problem of AIDS was brought to light when I performed in a reading of Larry Kramer’s play, The Normal Heart, here on our small island during the World Aids Day festivities.
Poster courtesy of Debut Art
The show tells the story of the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, told through the eyes of a reluctant activist who eventually throws his life into the cause of finding a cure.
I first found out about the opportunity when Dr. Stephen Floyd, the drama director at the high school where I teach, reached out to me at lunch. He was sitting beside me at the crowded table of teachers when he spoke.
“You might want to audition,” he suggested quietly. “I think they need men.”
They did. Except for the female doctor and the director, the cast was entirely male. Almost every actor was also gay. I was cast as the brother of the protagonist, the one who refuses to support his sibling — he cannot see the growing scope of the AIDS epidemic.
During one of the introductory exercises, I sat amidst the cast, growing more and more uncomfortable as I realized that all my peers in this cast had been very aware of the epidemic, with many of them actively fighting to raise public and governmental awareness throughout the 80s. It was an existential problem for them. They had watched friends around them sicken and die. They could have died.
And where was the evangelical church?
Nowhere helpful. In fact, many of the Christians with whom I had associated myself in that decade had ignored or actively resisted offering help.
The late Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. protests gay rights. The Westboro Baptist Church founder was a fierce critic of the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Getty Images
The most vocal screamed about God’s hatred for homosexuals, the damnation they deserved. And by saying nothing within the evangelical church, I was party to those statements. By Jesus’ own words, I stood condemned.
I had chosen the wrong side.
“I hated you.”
As the introductions continued around the circle, I made a crucial decision. When it was my turn, I took a deep breath.
“Like my character, I ignored this problem. In the 1980s, I was part of the fundamentalist, evangelical community that condemned gays, who showed no empathy at all for those dying of AIDS.”
I suppose I could have clarified that some in the evangelical community did show empathy and compassion. But that night, I couldn’t think of any.
The cast of The Normal Heart stands on stage just before the performance begins. The staged reading completed the four-day arts festival, which acknowledged and commemorated those lost to AIDS on Vashon Island WA. Courtesy of Peter Serko
My stomach tightened, and I flushed as I looked around me. Almost all of them had lost dear friends in the epidemic that had raged across our country, an epidemic that was invisible to me and my friends during my young adult years.
“You did a good job of casting me,” I said, turning to our director.
There were murmurs of support from my new friends. Some of them were surprised by my confession. None of them condemned me in return.
And at that moment, I sensed grace — the grace that I had failed to offer the gay community during the worst period of their history. In fact, I sensed forgiveness. I didn’t need to worry that they might find out what kind of person I was back then.
They knew the worst.
Now I could be honest with this group of friends, some new and some old. I didn’t have to hide who I was.
Several days after the reading, I ran into one of the audience members. He was a tall, thin man. I was talking to a friend at Minglement, a coffeehouse here on the island, and he approached me.
He complimented me on my performance. Then ironically, he added one stipulation.
“I hated you during the reading, though.”
Steven Denlinger performs across from island actor Chris Boscia in The Normal Heart at the Open Space for the Arts on Vashon Island on December 2, 2018. Courtesy of Peter Serko
I didn’t blame him. My character — are older brothers always this dense? — didn’t have any idea that his indifference is far worse than hate. Not until the end, when he and his brother find redemption in their relationship.
It was a powerful moment for me as I played it on stage.
Although I was just supposed to be acting, in reality, it felt as real for me as it was for the two brothers within that scene.
Another moment of grace.
A Perfect Analogy
Is it any wonder that so many have turned away from the church? And therefore, from a God promoted by such an organization?
Jean Valjean, the escaped convict in pre-revolutionary France, is a perfect analogy of the way a religious society treats those condemned by an unjust legal system. According to the gospel of Christ, Christians are commanded to give to those in need — with no judgment attached.
The story of Fantine within Les Miserables mirrors Valjean’s story: a young woman who struggles on the outskirts of polite society. Episode 2 of this mini-series has just been released on PBS. Photo courtesy of dailymail.co.uk
This is not the reaction Valjean gets. He is refused shelter by normal people. But he is taken in by a bishop. When Valjean flees in the dead of the night with his host’s silverware, he is arrested. But the bishop surprises him by telling the police the silverware was a gift. Then the bishop loads up Valjean’s arms with two more silver candlesticks.
But my friend, you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind
You forgot I gave these also
Would you leave the best behind?
There is no condemnation in the bishop’s actions. No judgment. Only empathy and kindness.
Listening to the music of this scene invariably brings me to tears.
Questioning my lack of Grace
Today, when I reflect back on my choices, I wonder. I see the way the characters in Les Miserables respond. I see the power of their choices. Why couldn’t I have responded with the same grace, the same lack of judgment, when my gay friends in the theatre told me their stories?
Why did I remain passive — silently buying the evangelical response that God was punishing the gay community with the AIDS epidemic?
I knew better.
I had seen God in a rogue bishop who lies to the French policemen in order to confront Valjean with the grace of Christ. I had seen the bishop lay claim to Valjean’s soul. Why could I not have understood then how to become a vehicle of grace in transforming the lives of those who find no grace within the evangelical church?
Why was this epidemic not an existential crisis for me, as well?
But at that point, I was still as blind as the rest of the evangelical community.
I was Inspector Javert.
Seeing the show a second time
I remember clearly the second time I went to see Les Miz. By then, I had the musical almost memorized, thanks to the cassette tapes I purchased and played on my Walkman. I often fell asleep in my dorm room at Richmond College, listening to it.
So when a friend came to see me in London, we decided to pay for good seats. This time, instead of sitting in the nosebleed section, I was sitting five seats from the front.
The themes of freedom and justice and poverty are lifted straight from the gospel message of Christ in Victor Hugo’s original novel Les Miserables. Photo courtesy of Evening Standard
I knew the story by then. I knew the music by heart. I knew what to expect.
But I couldn’t have been ready. Not for that. Not for the reality that I would begin crying during the scene with the bishop, unable to stop. To my surprise, my friend was also sobbing.
I’ve never had that experience while watching a show, before or since. Afterwards, my friend and I went out for burgers, and we talked about what we had experienced.
We didn’t understand how we — two young men still in college — could still be wiping tears over burgers and fries and chocolate milkshakes. We just knew we had seen a show we would never forget.
I knew at that point that I would not be returning to the strictures of the evangelical Christian world. I knew I didn’t agree with the sense of judgment that world offered those who disagreed.
I just knew I needed to find a faith that purveyed the Grace of Valjean rather than the Judgment of Javert.
Les Miserables as a Soul Teacher
IT IS FOR this reason that I consider the musical Les Miserables — written by Victor Hugo and adapted for the stage by the librettist Herbert Kretzmer — to be a Soul Teacher.
No other story or musical can still make me cry every time as I listen to it, literally 30 years later. Within this musical, I see the pure gospel of Christ at work. I find a reason to respond with openness and tolerance, rather than judgment and hatred towards those I don’t understand.
Today, as I look across a world where Grace is becoming more and more absent in the evangelical church, I long for congregations of faith where being right about correct doctrine takes a backseat to being right about how we respond to those who need our help — whether they be our gay brothers and sisters, or the homeless people increasingly crowding our streets, or illegal immigrants begging for shelter at our borders.
The westernmost edge of the U.S. border wall separating Tijuana from San Diego. Most undocumented immigrants in this country do not enter the U.S. at the southern border — data shows us that the majority are here after overstaying their visas. Caption and photo courtesy of Texas Public Radio
And so, back at my home church on Passion Sunday — as I looked into June’s open, vulnerable, trusting eyes — I placed a small piece of the broken bread in her hand, and I spoke the words that matter so much to a person of faith.
“The body of Christ.”I
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Dubicki: When Upzoning Becomes a Fool’s Errand
Ray Dubicki
A street of single family homes.
Yesterday’s report that Seattle’s housing prices rose 11.6% over where they were in November 2019 comes as zero surprise to anyone who has toyed with the idea of buying a house in the last year. Folks are hunkering down and fixing up. That extra room is an office and that kitchen got an upgrade, if you had them already. Without being tied to a workplace or a commute, white collar workers are finding that they can live where they want. Just as many people are making that home in the city as are departing to the suburbs. The housing market is as tight as it has been in the last 20 years.
Which means that Seattle is still in a housing crunch. On top of the existing statewide shortage estimated at 225,000 units, the region needs to build capacity for at least one and a half million new residents. Some projections put this deadline at 2050, but it’s going to be needed much sooner based on climate migration studies.
There are proposals for density under glamor names like “the 15-minute city” which many other places just call “the city.” Others develop wacky concepts that insist the incoming population needs to be focused into new “hub cities” in underdeveloped areas along I-5. Then there’s a concept many label as a simple solution to the affordability and supply problem: Upzoning. It is the go-to for many urbanists every time there is a report about unavailable housing. Or unaffordable housing. Or that the baseball team lost. Or just a random Tuesday. We love upzones.
That is a prime thing to keep in mind. There will be lawsuits. Instead of exemption, perhaps we talk blanket upzone EIS (like the ADU one), pro-forma application to individual actions, and a rocket docket to adjudicate.
— Ray Dubicki (@RayDubicki) May 22, 2019
I’m sure it was a SUPER insightful tweet when I wrote it.
The idea of upzoning is straightforward. If there is a density limit in the zoning code, turn it up a notch or two. That was the concept behind the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) law that Seattle passed in 2019. MHA identified areas in the city to increase floor area and the number of permitted stories in new buildings. In exchange, developers provided a certain number of affordable units (ranging from 3% to 11%) or paid a fee, each scaled to the intensity of the zoning capacity increase. The measure faced fierce opposition.
Upzoning is appealing because it reverses decades of apartment bans and cloistered McMansion development. But it has a giant problem beyond the political firestorm that often surrounds it. Upzoning without the accompaniment of deeper reforms reinforces the underlying failures of zoning.
First, we cannot escape the racist roots of zoning in the United States. As Richard Rothstein puts it in The Color of Law, “segregationist officials faced two distinct problems” in the early 20th century, “how to keep lower-income African Americans from living near middle-class whites and how to keep middle class African Americans from buying into white middle-class neighborhoods.” Zoning ordinances were developed to build homes that outpriced all lower classes. Applying that zoning preserved White neighborhoods and dumped unwanted uses in Black communities, undermining the potential wealth generation of home ownership.
This redlining map from 1936 concentrated communities of color in red and yellow areas while denying them access to loans for homes and business. (Map by Knoll Company)
This persisted until the Federal Government set up the Home Ownership Lending Corporation and simply excluded Blacks from qualifying for home loans. The HLOC maps of the 1930’s “redlined” non-White neighborhoods, later justifying highways and industrial areas to cut through them. Those old maps are so closely tied to our modern city that the redlined areas overlap where Covid cases are concentrated today.
Second, we make zoning carry too much weight today. Take this week’s decision by exiting Mayor Jenny Durkan to reduce the number of gas appliances in the city. Such a move is an objective victory. The city is using its authority over building codes to rein in the sources of carbon emissions. But the new rules exclude single-family homes and applies only to commercial or mixed-use projects. That means the gas appliance rule ends up being a zoning rule.
Over and over, we get these inadvertent zoning rules, simply by making them only apply to one type of building. MHA was primarily designated for multifamily homes. Design review is required for commercial and multifamily developments. Industrial areas get churned by being planned, scrutinized, and re-studied. Even the most needed housing for those surviving outside is subjected to zoning nonsense because it’s about the use of a building. While we could be using five-year-old emergency powers to build or lease thousands of units tomorrow, actually providing housing has been allowed to fall back on the polite bureaucratic sausage making of a zoning discussion. In Renton, hostile zoning to disperse those experiencing homelessness has advanced straight through farce to high art. This is what peak performance of suburban municipalities looks like.
All the while, single-family detached areas are largely exempt from these processes.
Zoning is not the only way we divide up the city, but it does so much more work than the other divisions we make. Neighborhood names change based on what a realtor wants to sell a house for. There are option schools and redistricting. Census tracts and zip codes move around with the population. Police precincts follow the perceived need for services. Only the land use code gets saddled with establishing the heights, setbacks, uses, exclusions, signage, parking, trash location, public outreach process, economic composition, access from public right-of-ways, in addition to protecting the “character,” setting the walkability, services, employment conditions, landscaping, and generally making a neighborhood a PLACE.
There is no way that a piece of legislation can do all of those things. Yet we expect zoning to pull it off. Most people don’t even understand zoning, but we let it dictate so much of our communities. More disastrously, we expect zoning to be successful in every part of the city for every activity in the city. When it fails—and it always fails—zoning reverts back to its original state of segregation by race and wealth.
So, let’s step back from upzoning for a little bit. Zoning will never be able to create enough new housing because it was never designed to. We need a deep understanding of all the places polluted by zoning’s exclusionary, racist history and the courage to rip it out by the roots. Until we get that done, we must put the polite spectacle of zoning decisions on the side and use every other tool to zealously pursue housing, housing, and more housing.
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Ray Dubicki is a stay-at-home dad and parent-on-call for taking care of general school and neighborhood tasks around Ballard. This lets him see how urbanism works (or doesn’t) during the hours most people are locked in their office. He is an attorney and urbanist by training, with soup-to-nuts planning experience from code enforcement to university development to writing zoning ordinances. He enjoys using PowerPoint, but only because it’s no longer a weekly obligation.
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WK December 24, 2020 At 8:42 am
The proforma flagellation over redlining/zoning is really a non-sequitur. Zoning was coopted as a tool for exclusion and therefore…blunting the impacts of zoning won’t create more inclusion? I have a big problem with the constant invocation of ‘Color of Law’ because it really just seems to fuel ‘anti-gentrification’ NIMBYism, which is every bit as pernicious as the white-bread suburban variety of NIMBYism. Ghosts of 1930’s FHA officials have never shown up at our local zoning meetings to oppose new construction; my neighbors do that.
Observe the comment about upzoning simply leading to larger yards or expensive new housing. This is simply an error of logic. The owners of single family homes sitting upon unused development rights have increased incentive to sell to a developer who will build more housing. The new housing will have higher rents only in as much as it gets built if the projected rents make it worth the cost, but this puts downward pressure on prices across the rest of the subject market. This can be hard to observe as the new development will be clustered in desirable areas. However, not building will certainly lead to increased prices. The would-be renters that can pay higher prices can afford to outbid those who cannot afford it, whether the housing supply is elastic and inelastic.
As was stated in an earlier comment, upzoning (or more accurately, more housing construction) will not by itself create an affordable housing utopia, but it is a precondition. I am a real estate investor and the concept of ‘barriers to entry’ is a crucial one in our evaluation. When a municipality restricts development or has little in the pipeline, that is a great sign that we will be able to raise rents. Wipe the smile off my monocled, claret-sipping face and push for more housing.
Jake Wegmann December 24, 2020 At 8:58 am
Superbly argued and well-written comment. Seriously. If you haven’t written on this topic in longform yet, I hope you’ll consider doing so. Your perspective as a real estate investor is especially valuable here.
stevebroache December 24, 2020 At 8:40 am
Where do the kids play? The amount of lot coverage calls for single-story houses to end, which probably means two-level dwellings, especially if lots are as small as described above (40’x 100′).
rdpence December 16, 2020 At 9:03 pm
Much of Seattle is platted in lots 40’x100′ which typically yield 8 houses per gross acre. Typical in older neighborhoods like Wallingford where I used to live.
It’s easy to double that to 16, too: we’re on one of those lots, but split in two. The original house is on 1,500 square feet, while ours (infill) is on 2,500. This isn’t allowed everywhere – only where there’s a certain number of nearby small lots-but it ought to be.
RossB December 10, 2020 At 9:44 pm
“Zoning will never be able to create enough new housing”
How would we know, since we’ve never tried? Despite everything that has gone on over the last fifty years, the only meaningful change to *most* of the privately owned land, and somewhere around 70% of the residential land is the end of redlining. That’s it. That was a while ago.
We have subdivisions, tear towns, new private shared driveways by the hundreds, if not thousands. But the zoning remains the same. As a result, we have more McMansions than ever.
Why not adopt something like Portland? Change the zoning rules for most of the city. Instead of million dollars houses in Lake City, we get row houses, or condos. They won’t be affordable for everyone, but housing was never affordable for everyone, any more than food is (or was) affordable for everyone. We will always need housing assistance for the poor, but if we change the zoning, we won’t need it for the middle class (and paying for it will be much, much cheaper).
Treasa Sweek December 10, 2020 At 10:49 am
I am reading something that says typical urban housing density is assumed to be 7 dwelling unit per acre. That seems _ridiculously_ low. Is it right?
AJ December 9, 2020 At 9:08 pm
Someone needs to tell the Mariners they need better pitching depth and more upzones. And they need to use the international draft to bring in some Passivhaus experience.
asdf2 December 9, 2020 At 8:10 pm
Regardless of whether upzoning is sufficient to get enough housing built, it is certainly a precondition. Otherwise, it is legally impossible for the city to ever have enough housing to meet demand. Which means what housing does exist will simply be bid up to higher and higher levels.
Daniel Thompson December 9, 2020 At 12:34 pm
Brave article on this blog, but very insightful. Some argue that although upzoning has not created anything remotely resembling affordable housing it has slowed the increase in housing costs, which is hardly a comfort with a one year increase of 11% in housing costs (although for other reasons high end rental rates in the most urban areas have declined around 14% during the pandemic).
Upzoning necessarily needs new construction to work as hoped in order to create more total units, but the rub there is new construction under new more stringent codes is always the least affordable, and when land is upzoned developers usually purchase the older and more affordable properties to demolish and rebuild under the upzone. As the author notes adding new green building codes on top only makes the new construction more expensive.
So upzoning can destroy more affordable housing than it creates, or existing homeowners just ignore the upzone rules, although they can allow new single family homes to have even less yard setbacks and vegetation, and allow a greater house to lot area ratio although no new housing is being created, just a larger house. (In Mercer Island’s new residential code each zone has a limit on the total size of the house no matter how large the lot is, and minimum lot sizes are quite large by regional standards, 8400 sf to 15,000 sf. This was called the mega-house provision, because often these mega houses combine lots and eliminate side yards).
Then there is the irony that rentals in areas formed due to redlining have the most affordable rentals today, but those homeowners realized much less appreciation than if they had purchased a home in a neighborhood that has increased in value more. One of the real risks today of upzoning is gentrification, which can displace historical communities of color when the prices rise. An argument can be made that upzoning and new construction have contributed to unaffordability rather than cured it.
For what it is worth I wish someone would look at the concentration of rental housing ownership in Seattle. In Seattle over 50% now rent, which is a very high percentage. More and more, large trusts or LLC’s are buying the properties and adding them to large rental housing pools. A real concern with Seattle’s recent residential code rewrite is eliminating the requirement that the owner of the property must live in one of the units on the property only incentivized more properties being purchased by these housing trusts to be used as rental housing and absentee landlord rentals.
Seattle faced this issue with Airbnb rentals. Airbnb rentals were more attractive to property owners because they had none of the landlord/tenant regulations or restrictions, Airbnb renters came with a rental history and rating system, there was little risk of eviction costs, and the revenue from just 12 days of Airbnb rentals exceeded the monthly rental from a full time tenant.
The problem of course was Airbnb rentals removed a lot of rental properties from the full time rental market, driving up rental rates.
So Seattle restricted the number of Airbnb rentals any one person or entity could own, to two I think, although one large property owner was grandfathered in due to the risk of litigation.
I would like to at least see a study on the concentration of rental properties in Seattle. It should be noted affordability is an issue region wide, and just about every area is experiencing greater price increases than population gain would suggest is normal. Some might be changes in working from home, or very low interest rates, or aging millennials, but recent populations gains have been around 1.3% for King Co. so I am not sure recent population growth can account for the steep prices in housing recently.
Again thanks for an article that dares to ask where is the affordable housing everyone was promised.
Even if upzoning were to have no significant positive impact on aggregate housing costs, ending exclusionary zoning – effectively an upzone of single family zones – is morally urgent to end the patterns of segregation with racially invidious effects it perpetuates:
“Within Seattle, White householders are slightly more likely to own their home than rent. However, householders of color, particularly Black householders and Hispanic householders, are less likely to own their home…. [W]ith some exceptions, persons of color disproportionately live in areas of the city with zoning for multifamily housing or “commercial” zoning (which allows a combination of multifamily housing and commercial uses). In Seattle, this housing is primarily located along, or otherwise in proximity to, major roadways….”
“Within a 200-meter radius of T-1 and T-2 roadways, roadways that carry an average annual gross tonnage of more than 4 million, the noise and air pollution impacts are most acute. Despite representing only 21% of Seattle land area and 19% of the total population, 40% of the miles of T-1 and T-2 roadways are in the areas with the highest population of our most affected classes. This means that people in protected classes are more likely to be living with exposure to acute noise and air pollution coming from high truck traffic roadways…”
(2017 City of Seattle and Seattle Housing Authority Joint Assessment of Fair Housing)
ALUVer December 9, 2020 At 8:28 am
Upzoning single family to allow 8 units with reduced setbacks and more lot coverage is not intended to make the city affordable or house 2 million over night. But it will give it a chance. The longer we wait, the worse it’ll get.
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New York worries after further rise in positivity rate
New cases of coronavirus continue to rise in New York, with a positivity rate now reaching 3.25%, a worrying increase for authorities in a city that has become a model of virus control after a record 23,800 deaths in the country. spring.
“For the first time in a long time, the daily positivity rate is above 3%, and this is a cause for real concern.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press briefing.
This increase comes as most public schools are due to reopen their doors this week for partly face-to-face teaching, and New York restaurants will, for the first time since March, be able to accommodate diners with limited capacity to 25%.
Mr. de Blasio had indicated this summer that a rate of 3% over seven days would cause the closure of establishments. As the increase in positivity is recent, this rate is currently 1.38%.
“We are at a turning point. We need to take new measures at this stage, stronger measures, and we will gradually strengthen them every day depending on the situation on the ground.“, he added.
Deployment of mobile screening sites
Six neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including neighborhoods with a large Orthodox Jewish population, and two in Queens are particularly affected, due to the Yom Kippur Jewish holidays, and New York health authorities are deploying mobile coronavirus testing sites there this week and provide for actions to remind the population of barrier gestures.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who keeps calling on New Yorkers not to let their guard down in the face of the virus, has pointed to a rebound in cases not only in New York but in some counties in the a large New York suburb, particularly in Rockland County, also with a large Orthodox population, where the positivity rate has even reached 30% in one neighborhood. “We have a problem of outbreaks, due to a lack of respect barrier gestures and wearing a mask “ did he declare.
He accused “local authorities“- and implicitly M. de Blasio – not to enforce the distancing instructions.”If we don’t control the outbreaks now, we will have generalized spread. We’re not there yet, that’s why I want people to wake up“added Mr. Cuomo.
The governor indicated that he would meet, virtually, officials of the Orthodox Jewish community and local elected officials from the areas concerned to remind them of the importance of following instructions.
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Team Effort Uses Popular Cartoons To Lure Kids to a New Web Site
By Sally BeattyStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Time Warner and AOL have already teamed up to get a toehold into kids' psyches, using Scooby-Doo and the Powerpuff Girls as bait.
The effort is a new Web site called Cartoon Orbit, which combines the power of cable television and the Internet into a new advertising and entertainment vehicle.
Kids who watch Time Warner's Cartoon Network are directed to the site by ads displaying AOL keywords telling them they can find out more about their favorite cartoon characters online. Once there, kids can submit points they have earned by watching Cartoon Network shows, solving puzzles or buying advertiser products, then redeem them for digital images of characters, which they can swap online like trading cards.
Kids can also create their own place on the site to store and trade their cartoon images. Cartoon Orbit offers images from Cartoon Network's trove of characters, including Hanna Barbera cartoons like Fred Flintstone, in addition to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
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Changing Evaluation Law Spurs Questions On Testing, Teacher Accountability
By Jeanie Lindsay • Mar 2, 2020
Shawanda Tyson has taken an active role in advocating for her son’s education needs, leading her to join forces with the group Stand For Children Indiana.
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Indiana’s state tests have changed half a dozen times for students in the past decade, and with so much on the line, teachers, schools – and families – are trying to keep up.
Shawanda Tyson found out her son had autism in 2012. She didn’t know what that meant for her or her son’s future, but she was determined to find out.
“I started researching and I said, ‘Oh, this can really get scary. This can really get messy,’” she says.
Tyson says she’s been active in her son’s education, but it hasn’t been easy. She’s had to leave work and sit with him in class – with testing always in mind.
“You know, my son is currently, right now, sweating, if you pass the test, if you don't pass it, he's going to summer school,” she says.
Tyson is sharing her concerns because many lawmakers are working to roll back a nearly decade-old policy for evaluating teachers; they want to let schools decide how much weight to give student test scores on performance evaluations. A bill in the General Assembly this year eliminates a piece of state law that says teacher evaluations must be “significantly informed” by student test data.
But Tyson says if teachers are doing their jobs well, kids should pass tests that align with what they’re supposed to teach.
“If they're centering their curriculum around this test, and the things that they're doing on the test, and the kids fail it, we have to have some accountability,” Tyson says.
That idea – holding teachers accountable – helped spur a national movement to tie test scores to teacher performance back in 2011. Policymakers wanted to boost student achievement and revamp teacher performance evaluations. But teachers argue using test scores in evaluations isn’t effective, can limit a teacher’s pay unfairly, and results in added stressors that can drive people away from the profession.
Many teachers don’t agree with frequent use of standardized testing at all. Right now, Indiana requires at least three state tests for students in elementary through high school. That’s not counting practice-tests or other test schedules set by individual schools or teachers.
And when you look at the data, improving teacher quality doesn’t always translate to students performing significantly better on tests. Of the more than 72,000 teachers in Indiana, fewer than 900 received low ratings last year – most of them received ratings of effective or highly effective. The same year, just more than one-third of kids in the state passed the new ILEARN test.
Indiana State Teachers Association President Keith Gambill says good teachers know the curriculum, but they also know things like how to direct kids around the classroom and how to navigate students' unique needs.
“You want to know that the educator in that classroom knows their content, but also knows their students,” Gambill says.
Besides, not all learners are built the same. Gambill compares testing to a foot race.
He says the finish line, the test, doesn’t consider where or how students start the hypothetical “race.” Things like what age they came to school, whether or not they went to preschool, and challenges in their home life.
“That's where we have veered off course – that we do not have a system that celebrates the great work that is happening with those that are making great improvement over where they started," he says. "Because we're so consumed with where are they at this one point in time.”
And that’s why supporters of efforts to decouple test scores from evaluations on a state level call it a huge win for schools and say it could help boost the pipeline of new teachers.
So what is the value of student test scores? Gambill says they should help guide teachers to tailor their instruction for students, but shouldn’t be used to penalize them. Test data also shows significant gaps in passing rates between high-income and white children compared to black and low-income kids, English learners, and special needs students.
House Education Committee Chairman Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis) says that’s why it’s important to avoid disregarding testing completely, since having that information can help target support.
“I truly believe that walking away from it totally kind of exposes kids, minorities, especially to everything's fine, let's just move forward,” he says.
And parents like Shawanda Tyson are worried about kids being left behind. She says if schools decouple student scores and teacher evaluations, they need to help parents better understand how teachers are held accountable to a student’s overall success.
“I would like for them to be more transparent. And to have a very open door policy when it comes to curriculum and showing what is being taught,” Tyson says.
So as policymakers and schools decide how to use tests and the data they provide about students, Tyson says it’s important to remember why educators are there in the first place: to help kids learn.
McCormick Sounds A Warning On State Of Education In Indiana
By Ella Abbott • Feb 26, 2020
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A parent advocacy group for Northwest Allen County Schools continued a series on education by bringing in state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick Tuesday night.
Governor Holcomb Signs Bill Delaying Penalties From New Indiana Exam
By Associated Press • Feb 12, 2020
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana schools and teachers won’t face any penalties from lower student scores on the state’s new ILEARN standardized exam under a proposal that's been signed into law.
The bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Eric Holcomb grants a two-year delay on schools receiving a lower A-F state rating based on scores from the 2019 or 2020 ILEARN exams.
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NEWS - Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Bisto Cupid Launch Date.
The Japanese developer Success has said to have plans to launch their Xbox simulation game Bristo Cupid on March 7, 2002 in Japan.
Once again here is another Japanese Xbox title that isn't expected to launch in US/UK/Canada, but we all wish that this title sells well in Japan because over the months Xbox has had numorous doubts about doing well in Japan. Hopefully those doubts will be put to rest next months as Xbox launches in Japan.
Stay tuned at Xboxaddict.com as we will have full coverage of the Japanese Xbox launch.
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Malcolm Turnbull, republican Prime Minister, is sworn in by an absent Abbott's knight
By Tony Wright
Updated September 15, 2015 — 3.19pm first published at 3.15pm
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The modern go-round of prime ministers in Australia has, unsurprisingly, raised a few eyebrows.
It's perfectly peculiar - five prime ministers in five years, four of them in a bit over the past two years! - but consider Tuesday, when things got positively freakish.
The latest Australian PM, Malcolm Turnbull, the country's best-known republican, was sworn in by the first knight of the royalist former PM, Tony Abbott.
General Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK, MC, couldn't even have a word to his champion about the vagaries and how they might best be handled. Mr Abbott decided not to turn up at all.
Malcolm Turnbull is sworn in as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Credit:Andrew Meares
Protocol suggests a prime minister on the way out drops by government house, Yarralumla, to deliver his resignation letter and perhaps have a small chat about better times over a cup of tea. Protocol is rather a thing where it involves the Queen's representative. Mr Abbott, something of a lifelong admirer of things regal and vice-regal, seemed an unusual truant. It wasn't that he had pressing alternatives to capture his time, surely?
He sent Sir Peter a note. We might only speculate about its contents, for vice regals never tell.
Still, it meant there were no awkward moments out at Yarralumla when Mr Turnbull arrived to be invested as the 29th prime minister. No unfortunate crossing of paths between victor and vanquished, no forced smiles, no too-hearty handshakes. No suppressed tears of one, or carefully clamped urges to whoop with joy of the other.
It was a brief occasion. All that is required to become a PM, after the whispering and the knife sharpening and the flash of the blade is done, is to read and sign an oath, swearing to serve the people of Australia.
Mr Turnbull at Government House with his daughter Daisy, wife Lucy and grandson Jack. Credit:Andrew Meares
Yes, and it's an oath of allegiance. And so here was Malcolm Turnbull, former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement (they couldn't, of course, call him president, at least not yet) swearing to deliver true allegiance to Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.
Sir Peter kept an appropriately straight face, as old soldiers do.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with his grandson Jack, wife Lucy, his daughter Daisy, son in law James Brown and parents-in-law Tom and Christine Hughes at Government House following his swearing in. Credit:Andrew Meares
Mr Turnbull's wife Lucy was there, next to Julie Bishop, serial deputy and deliverer of bad news to Mr Abbott and a nice parcel of votes for Mr Turnbull. The Turnbulls' daughter, Daisy, and son-in-law James Brown did their best to contain the excitement of grandson Master Jack Turnbull-Brown. Looking fondly on were Mr Turnbull's parents-in-law, Tom Hughes QC and wife Christine.
And in a minute or two, it was done, time for the ritual photos on the steps of Government House and for the Turnbulls to be whisked away, back past the hugely renovated Lodge, where Mr Abbott never got to live and where the Turnbulls, presumably, will get to camp out, leaving their fabulous lakeside penthouse until the go-round resumes as it inevitably will, some day, and to Parliament House for question time, a new Prime Minister at the dispatch boxes.
The prime ministerial car had arrived with everyday number plates, but while Mr Turnbull was swearing allegiance to the Queen, the driver had got out a screwdriver and replaced the plates with C1.
Mr Turnbull had waited a long time to be driven in a car bearing the C1 plates. He had arrived, and Mr Abbott, the 28th prime minister, was nowhere to be seen.
Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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News June 10, 2020
Christopher Columbus statue beheaded in Boston. Democratic mayor makes reference to 'historic meaning' of vandalism.
Statue will go into storage while officials determine if it will ever go back up
Image source: WBZ-TV video screenshot
After a Christopher Columbus statue was beheaded overnight in Boston, the city's Democratic mayor said Wednesday the statue will be placed in storage while conversations take place about the "historic meaning" of the vandalism — and whether or not the statue will ever go back up, WBZ-TV reported.
"This particular statue has been subject to repeated vandalism here in Boston, and given the conversations that we're certainly having right now in our city of Boston and throughout the country, we're also going to take time to assess the historic meaning of this action," Mayor Marty Walsh said, according to the station.
The statue in Christopher Columbus Park on Atlantic Avenue was surrounded by crime scene tape early Wednesday morning, WBZ said, adding that the head of the statue was on the ground next to the base.
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This head of the Columbus statue was cut off in 2006, the station said. And in 2015, red paint was poured on it while "Black Lives Matter!" was spray-painted on the statue's base.
Protesters ripped down a Columbus statue in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday night and tossed into a lake — and a local reporter said his photographer was attacked in process.
The Richmond-Times Dispatch reported no police presence at all during the vandalism and attack.
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*Photo credit Orlando City Soccer Club
Last night the grand unveiling of the MLS 25 primary and secondary jerseys took place at Radio City Hall in New York City. In total 26 kits were on show, with expansion sides Nashville and Inter Fort Lauderdale set to reveal their second kits in the near future (they each revealed one).
It's fair to say Lion's jerseys have split opinions over recent years. Overall, Orlando City efforts in terms of the away jerseys have been pretty poor so far. My personal favourite was the 2018-2019 strip. I have to say, however, I am a fan of this year's jersey. The purple sun is a nice touch, and compliments the white template very well. It's also very fitting, for a team from the sunshine state. That said I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't depict a purple lion's mane, as several of the leaks seemed to be suggesting. I was a little concerned the three stripes were going to look a bit tacky (they were always going to be included somewhere, this is Adidas after all).
The photos also show the new MLS numbering and lettering, which I think is tastefully done. It's a unique style without being too out there. I also love that the state outline icon is back. When you centrally contract a specific kit supplier to a whole league, there is always the chance that all the kits look a bit samey (ahem, the NFL). And whilst there is a standard template, touches like this ensure that each kit is at least a little unique. I'm also a big fan of the MLS logo being included in the shirt numbers (as below). Again, it's just something a little different (this coming from a Nottingham Forest fan-the EFL NEVER changes its numbering and lettering).
Overall, I'm a big fan of this kit. Now, if you'll excuse me, where did I leave my wallet?
Interview With Kate Howarth
Press Conference With NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird
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Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple, has passed away at the age of 56. He will be greatly missed. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
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Wow...I didn't think the "stepping down" announcement was good news, but I didn't expect this so quickly. An absolute giant of the tech era.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley.
"...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us."
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Here's to the crazy ones!
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The man who almost single handed brought science fiction to life! He changed the world more than most will ever appreciate!
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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http://www.apple.com/
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
Flags at the Apple campus
Just heard this on the radio on my way home. Shocking.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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He was a visionary and will be dearly missed. A modern day Thomas Edison and truly a magician.
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Wow, much sooner than I thought.
It's amazing, people will criticize you for "biting the hand that feeds you," while they're busy praising the hand that beats them.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert.
David Eichler
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RIP. His visions have changed the way we all interact with electronics... He will be missed...
South African in Taiwan
I was concerned when he stepped down but did not expect this. My wife just told me and I told her she was making a bad joke. He'll be missed.
A creative, useful lifetime. His biography is an inspiring and humbling story. He overcame many obstacles and provided happiness to millions of people.
panlives
ILife.
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"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Very sad. I remember when the Apple Macintosh was first released. I had just landed my first job as a software developer and I was blown away by it and how advanced it was compared to anything else developed for the consumer. The mouse interface, the graphical interface, everything about it was so forward thinking. (Yes, much was borrowed from the Xerox PARC project but it was still the first time to try and make this available to the general public.). From that first Macintosh to the Ipod, the IPhone, and the IPad, Jobs has made contributions to our culture that have changed the way people all over the world live and work. It's sad to think of the innovations we will probably never see that he would have brought to us in the future.
pabloinus
I remember the announcement for Lisa, what a man, Wozniak words remembering Jobs are beautiful... He will be in good company, Ford, Edison, Akio Morita, Wright brothers and few others
satellite23
And to think....on Tuesday, he was making a rave about the iPhone 4!
MagicSanta
Northern Nevada
Jobs was a trip. I remember him from the 70's and he was a dynamo. Interesting cat and a major figure in the high tech world.
Loyal user
"Jobs was a huge success overall. But th......uccess."
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
randirain
Those insane .ass. clowns, Westboro Church, are going to be protesting Steve Jobs funeral.
They tweeted it... from an iPhone.
Where's the uni-bomber when you need him?
Freak Prodigy
NYC & LA
I wish I could "like" that post Randi.
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Guess where you're not eating: "World's Best Restaurant" to close for two years
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Joe Tone | January 27, 2010 | 9:49am
El Bulli, the Spanish restaurant widely considered the best in the world, at least by people who have never eaten drunk at Jack in the Box at three in the morning, will close for two years starting in 2012 -- and may not ever return, chef Ferran Adria announced today. The Daily Mail and other outlets are reporting that Adria, the mad scientist behind El Bulli's 200-Euro-per-person dinner -- for which people make reservations a year in advance -- will spend the two years researching ways to make his food even more mind-fuckingly strange.
These are not going to be years of sabbatical. [They] will be devoted to thinking, planning and preparing the new format for subsequent years.
'During this time, all the know-how about elaborations, techniques and styles acquired after 30 years of creative research will be analysed, and the results of said work will be compiled in a comprehensive a thorough encyclopaedia.' El Bulli's dining room
'In 2014, we will serve food somehow. I don't know if it will be for one guest or 1,000.'
Gastronomic oddsmakers predict that if the restaurant does reopen, the food will actually eat the customers.
The announcement, made by a tearful Adria at a Madrid food fair, sent really tiny, artfully displayed shock-waves throughout the culinary community. Meanwhile, men across Europe told their wives, "And I was totally going to take you there in '12, too. What a shame."
Read more about Adria in this Esquire profile, which is one of the better pieces of food journalism you'll read. In your life. Do it.
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Since this gets asked about a lot, I decided to make a permanent thread that I can update and link to as needed. There is no "best headset". It's always a matter of price VS specs + features. I like to paint in broad strokes so I'll be listing the major technical differences between headsets but I won't be listing all the nitty gritty, "this HMD has 1.2% less SDE", "this HMD is 2 lumen brighter", etc. That stuff isn't really important, IMO, and if you disagree you can always do additional research. If you think I left out anything important, though, feel free to mention it.
This list may be overwhelming if you're looking to get into VR for the first time. My advice would be to choose the most important factor to you like price point, tracking system, highest res/FOV/whatever and begin there. Then put together a list of everything around that focal point and fine tune it based on details and features. Then finally look up some reviews of the handful of HMDs you have left to whittle it down to the final one.
[Company] [Product] (horizontal FOV, screen res, screen type, bundle MSRP) - description
Headsets are listed newest to oldest in their respective categories. Only "gaming" headsets will be listed that have 6dof and adequate processing power to run games like Beat Saber. Very low-end headsets and very high-end enterprise headsets will not be listed here.
Discrete Tracking
Headsets that use external equipment for tracking. Tracking is extremely precise. If you take your gaming seriously, especially if you're into competitive gaming, it's worth paying extra for.
Notes about Valve's Lighthouse tracking: Lighthouse tracking is currently the best tracking on the market, being nearly flawless so long as you set it up properly and have no reflections in your playspace. Any Lighthouse devices can be mixed and matched (e.g. you can buy a Vive bundle and then replace the controllers with Index controllers, upgrade to a Pimax HMD, etc) but keep in mind that while Lighthouse 2.0 tracked devices are backward compatible with 1.0 basestations, 1.0 tracked devices will not work with 2.0 basestations. The technical differences between 1.0 and 2.0 are fairly unimportant for consumers. 2.0 allows you to use more than 2 basestations for warehouse scale tracking, 1.0 has an "FOV" of 120° horiz & vert while 2.0 has an "FOV" of 160° horiz & 115° vert, and 1.0 has 2 motors, horiz & vert, while 2.0 has 1 motor, diagonal, which means less power consumption and wear & tear issues with 2.0 in the long run.
Valve Index (130° [estimated], 2*1440x1600, LCD, $1000) - Uses Lighthouse 2.0 tracking. Screens can operate at 80, 90, 120 or 144Hz as opposed to the typical 90Hz for PCVR headsets. You will probably need a 1080Ti or better to get good performance at 120 or 144Hz, however. Screens are angled slightly from each other to achieve a higher FOV and they have one of the highest pixel fill rates to essentially eliminate SDE. Instead of integrated headphones, this HMD has integrated speakers that sit away from your ears and direct sound into them. They're directional and immersive like headphones but you can't actually feel them. The sound quality is pretty good. There are adjustments for eye relief and physical IPD. As for the mysterious cavity in the front of the HMD, there are currently no plans for it. Valve simply left this as a space for future modability. The Index controllers are probably the most ambitious controllers on the market with dual analog sticks, finger tracking for all 5 fingers, grip sensors that gauge how hard you're squeezing the controllers, straps that allow you to fully release the controllers, etc. There is some controversy over an issue where the sticks can't be clicked while being pushed in a direction and whether or not they're even supposed to be able to do that in the first place. All in all, the Index is packed full of some of the best features available for VR, some of which aren't available in any other headset, and it's one of the best options for high-end VR right now. (Personal note: the FOV doesn't seem much, if any, higher than the Vive but I still haven't seen any tests to determine the actual FOV so I'm leaving the estimated value up for now.)
Pimax 5k+ (170°, 2*2560x1440, CLPL, $700 HMD + $300 [not final] for controllers + basestations) - See below.
Pimax 8k (170°, 2*3840x2160, CLPL, $900 HMD + $300 [not final] for controllers + basestations) - Uses Lighthouse 2.0 tracking. Visually, two of the best headsets available right now (note the "2*" before the resolutions, these HMDs contain one entire screen per eye). There are a lot of positive reviews but some complaints about build quality. The weight on these large HMDs is kept down by using thinner plastics than other HMDs. Note, no integrated headphones despite the high cost. The software is also a bit more hands-on than SteamVR, requiring some tweaking and tuning, but it does have a custom motion smoothing feature that I hear works very well. Performance costs are much higher at native res but you can render at lower resolutions if need be. The 5k+ recommends a GTX 1070 or better and the 8k recommends a GTX 1080Ti or better. Also note that Pimax is taking preorders for controllers + basestations at a $300 deposit but the final price is unknown so the full bundle price is likely higher.
HTC Vive Pro (110°, 2880x1600, AMOLED, $1100 for "Starter Kit" or $1400 for full Lighthouse 2.0 setup) - The HMD uses Lighthouse 2.0 tracking. The Starter Kit comes with Lighthouse 1.0 controllers and basestations while the $1400 bundle comes with all Lighthouse 2.0 equipment. This and the Vive are also the only headsets that currently have a native wireless option if you buy the adapter ($300). This is largely regarded as being too overpriced for what you get compared to the OG Vive or the Pimax. It's basically just a Vive + DAS and a resolution bump. The controllers do have a wear & tear issue with the trackpad but it usually takes quite a few months of heavy use to become apparent and Beat Saber doesn't even use the trackpad. The issue is also a DIY fix if you're the DIY type. It's recommended you buy from a retail seller and not HTC directly since some people have had issues with their customer support. Also, for $1100 you can just buy a Vive bundle + Vive Pro HMD and get an extra HMD over the Starter Kit, if you want to go this route.
HTC Vive (discontinued) (110°, 2160x1200, PenTile OLED, $500) - Uses Lighthouse 1.0 tracking. The first HMD to make use of Lighthouse tracking and currently the cheapest to use it which are the main selling points. This and the Vive Pro are also the only headsets that currently have a native wireless option if you buy the adapter ($300). The controllers do have a wear & tear issue with the trackpad but it usually takes quite a few months of heavy use to become apparent and Beat Saber doesn't even use the trackpad. The issue is also a DIY fix if you're the DIY type. It's recommended you buy from a retail seller and not HTC directly since some people have had issues with their customer support.
Oculus Rift (discontinued) (90°, 2160x1200, OLED, $350 for 2 sensor bundle + $60 for third sensor) - Uses Constellation tracking which use infrared-sensing webcams. Generally considered to have the best controllers at the time. A third sensor is highly recommended for 360 roomscale which isn't necessary for Beat Saber but is worth factoring in for other games. The setup is the messiest, with 3 sensors and the HMD all connected to the PC via USB. There is a minor issue with loose batteries causing tracking issues at high level play but it's easily fixed (threads recommend a #86 hardware spring be added to the battery compartment). Lastly, this is a Facebook-owned device. (See: "The Facebook Controversy" at the bottom of this post)
Inside-Out Tracking
Headsets that have depth-sensing cameras built into them which track the player moving about their playspace as well as the controllers. Tracking is less precise than discrete tracking, especially when controllers are out of view of the cameras, but it tends to be fine for casual use. Serious gamers will want to avoid inside-out, however. Also note that discrete tracking tends to use infrared while inside-out uses visible light for roomscale tracking which means inside-out tracking headsets have to be used in well-lit environments.
HTC Cosmos (?, ?, ?, ?) - This headset is primarily a PCVR headset but it can also be connected to "other devices" (most likely HTC smartphones) to act as a semi-standalone. This uses a new controller design very similar to Rift so it has better ergonomics than the Vive wands and hopefully doesn't have any other issues but reviews will have to come in first. It's recommended you buy from a retail seller and not HTC directly since some people have had issues with their customer support.
Acer ConceptD OJO (WMR) (?, 4320x2160, ?, $400) - Not yet released so I don't have a lot of info on it. A WMR headset with integrated headphones and higher specs than previous WMR headsets. It does still rely on 2 cameras and software IPD adjustment, though. Note that WMR requires Win10.
HP Reverb (WMR) (114° [not confirmed horizontal FOV], 2*2160x2160, LCD, $650) - Not yet released so I don't have a lot of info on it. A WMR headset with much higher specs than previous WMR headsets that was due out in April. I'll update this section when I know more. Note that WMR requires Win10.
Oculus Rift S ("slightly larger than 90°", 2560x1440, LCD, $400) - Uses Oculus Insight tracking with 5 cameras. One step forward and one step back (maybe two steps back if you care a lot about tracking). The optics have definately been improved over the Rift with a higher res panel and less SDE but tracking takes a huge hit. The tracking seems to be better than WMR headsets and the Rift when the controllers are in view of the cameras but it quickly loses tracking when occluded. In Beat Saber this can happen during songs with crossovers and I've also heard of issues with rifle poses so shooters suffer, as well. This is the best inside-out tracking currently available but it still has the same issues as WMR in the end. Also note that the FOV is barely improved over the Rift and so both HMDs have some of the lowest FOV out of all PCVR headsets. The tiny integrated speakers also sound terrible according to just about everyone and because of the halo headstrap design, it's not easy to wear full headphones with this. This HMD also has no physical IPD adjustment and it runs at 80Hz instead of the fairly standard 90Hz of most other PCVR HMDs. Lastly, this is a Facebook-owned device. (See: "The Facebook Controversy" at the bottom of this post)
Samsung Odyssey/Odyssey+ (WMR) (110°, 2880x1600, AMOLED, $430) - The Odysseys cost a bit more than typical WMR headsets but they come with a slight resolution bump, AMOLED screen, integrated headphones and physical IPD adjustment. The Odyssey+ is the same as the Odyssey on a technical level but it does have a number of improvements for comfort as well as anti-SDE technology that makes the image look much better. This is probably the best WMR headset if you can get it on sale around $300. Note that WMR requires Win10 and replacement controllers are very difficult to find.
Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) (95-110°, 2880x1440, LCD, ~$250-300) - The cheapest viable option available for PCVR at the time of this writing. WMR is a platform that's licensed to various companies and they have minor differences but are all pretty similar. This listing encompasses all WMR headsets that use the same basic template which are made by Acer, Lenovo, Dell and HP. The Lenovo Explorer is generally considered the slightly better of these options. All of these headsets use 2 cameras for tracking and they all have software IPD adjustment. Note that WMR requires Win10 and replacement controllers are very difficult to find.
Standalone Headsets
Headsets that don't require a VR-capable PC to run. These use inside-out tracking so they have all the pros and cons of the previous category as well as the "pro" of not needing a VR-capable PC and the "con" of not being able to run all PCVR games.
HTC Cosmos (sort of) - See "Inside-Out Tracking" section.
Oculus Quest (90°, 2880x1600, OLED, $400) - Uses Oculus Insight tracking with 4 cameras. This is the only real gaming standalone at the time of this writing so it's the only real choice if you don't have a VR-capable PC or PS4. It's also handy if you want a second HMD to take on the road or move around a lot without bringing a PC with you. This shares a lot of design elements with the Rift S: good optics, low FOV, inside-out tracking that works well when the controllers are in view of the cameras but quickly lose tracking when occluded and tiny integrated speakers. This HMD doesn't have a halo headstrap, though, so you can easily wear headphones with it. Beat Saber is available for the Quest and custom songs do work but it does not have crossbuy with the PC version so you'll have to buy a second copy. The DLC music packs are crossbuy, though, so you only have to buy each pack once. Lastly, this is a Facebook-owned device. (See: "The Facebook Controversy" at the bottom of this post)
There's not much of a decision to make between PCVR and console VR at the time of this writing but I'll list them just for the sake of comparisons. If you have a VR-capable PC then you're better off getting a PCVR headset. Console VR is a great introduction, well worth it if you don't have a VR-capable PC, but it's just not quite as good. Hopefully in the future this changes.
Nintendo Labo (?, 1280x720, LCD, ~$40-80 [non-bundle price]) - This is a toy, not a gaming headset, and doesn't really have a place on this list but I'm including it for the sake of comparison. Aside from being low fidelity, the Switch doesn't have any real tracking to speak of. The Joy-cons have internal PIDs much like a smartphone but this is not adequate for a gaming VR set up since they only technically provide 3dof. However, Nintendo being Nintendo, they came up with an innovative elephant Labo kit which allows the software to calculate 6dof based on the 3dof of the PID + the geometry of the elephant design. It's hackey but I hear it actually works alright, all things considered.
Sony PSVR (100°, 1920x1080, AMOLED, $350) - Uses recycled PSMove hardware for tracking and controllers which is it's biggest downside. The display is actually pretty good despite the lower resolution and horsepower compared to PCVR but the tracking only uses one compound webcam which means it can't do 360 roomscale and even front-facing can be troublesome, especially in small playspaces. For this reason, many of the games developed for it are seated + gamepad which is not the best way to experience VR. It's still worth getting if PCVR isn't an option, however.
The Facebook Controversy
I decided to make this it's own section instead of appending it to every Oculus device. If you don't care, ignore it, but plenty of people do care so it's important for first-time buyers to know. There are two major reasons a lot of people dislike Facebook's involvement in VR and they refuse to support Oculus since Facebook owns Oculus (full disclosure: I am one of those people but I've tried to avoid letting my bias tilt this write-up).
Exclusivity and the "Walled Garden" Approach to Games - Facebook is in favor of locking games to their own headsets despite the fact that PC is an open platform and there's no reason to turn headsets into console wars. It's like having games that only work on certain monitors. It doesn't benefit consumers, only hardware manufacturers. Furthermore, locking games to specific headsets means you won't be able to play those games in the future if you buy a different brand. Currently you can get around this by using a program called ReVive (it works on more headsets than just the Vive, btw) but there's nothing saying that ReVive will always be an option. Your games are locked inside the walled garden and you have to stay there to play them. This applies to anything you buy through the Oculus store.
Facebook's Track Record for Privacy and Misconduct - Facebook is a terrible company. Lots of companies do greedy things from time to time but Facebook is one of the worst offenders by a long shot. They've also allowed themselves to collect a lot of unnecessary data from Rift owners and share it with third party companies per the EULA. Granted, they haven't actually started collecting this data but because Rift owners have already agreed to it, they could switch it on at anytime without warning. There are plenty of articles regarding Facebook's misdeeds but I'll just post a few here:
Rift privacy policy
Breaking Apple's TOS to collect data from teens
Purposefully tricking children into spending their parent's money via "friendly-fraud-minor"
A History of privacy and content misconduct
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The Complete Roger Stone Timeline, Part II: The Coverup
(See also... Part I: The Campaign)
Part II: The Coverup
Jan. 6, 2017 The US government releases the unclassified version of an intelligence community report concluding that Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to sabotage the presidential election that was ordered by Putin and sought to help elect Trump.
Jan. 13, 2017 The Senate intelligence committee announces an investigation into Russian interference and any contacts with the Trump campaign.
Stranahan messages the GRU hackers through Twitter purportedly seeking an interview.
Sometime between this date and March 1, Corsi deletes from his computer all email correspondence that predated October 11, 2016, including Stone’s email from July 31 and Corsi's email to Malloch.
Jan. 25, 2017 The House intelligence committee announces its own investigation.
Feb. 18, 2017 Stone gives an interview to Russian propaganda outlet RT denying contact with Russian intelligence. Stone says he is in regular contact with Trump:
I have talked to him from time to time, but I consider these conversations to be private and privileged. And I’m not going to violate that trust by discussing them. I’ve been a friend of Donald Trump for 40 years, have great affection for him and his family, and frankly I’m just honored to have been a small part of the biggest upset in American political history.
Mar. 4, 2017 Stone tweets that he had a “perfectly legal back channel to Assange.”
Mar. 8, 2017 The Smoking Gun publishes an article claiming a source who says Stone exchanged private messages with Guccifer 2.0 during the campaign. Stone says he does not recall any private exchanges.
Mar. 20, 2017 FBI Director James Comey testifies to the House committee about Russian interference in the 2016 election and publicly confirms that there is an existing counterintelligence investigation into links to the Trump campaign.
I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts.
Stone is mentioned by name nineteen times during the hearing.
That evening, McClatchy reports that investigators are examining coordination between the Russians and far-right news sites, including Breitbart and InfoWars, as well as RT and Sputnik.
Mar. 22, 2017 Stranahan leaves Breitbart claiming he quit over being prohibited from covering the White House. Shortly after, the Atlantic reports that Stranahan will work for Sputnik:
I think the whole narrative trying to tie Trump to Russia is a huge problem.
Apr. 13, 2017 Stone tells The Washington Post that he is in regular contact with Trump.
We talk from time to time. We talk politics. Beyond that, I'm not going to characterize it because if I do then that indiscretion would most likely mean that those conversations would end.
Apr. 23, 2017 Stone tells an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival that he has regular contact with Trump.
Asked if he still advises Trump, Stone replies that he talks to Trump “from time to time”:
I certainly wouldn’t divulge the content of those conversations or they would end. The president needs to be able to get advice and not have it end up on the front page of The New York Times.
May 2017 The House committee requests that Stone testify and provide documents and material that might pertain to their investigation.
May 9, 2017 Trump fires Comey. CNN reports that a source (possibly Stone himself) says that Stone was among those who told Trump to fire Comey.
May 10, 2017 In the final message of his morning tweetstorm, Trump denies any contact with Stone.
The Roger Stone report on @CNN is false - Fake News. Have not spoken to Roger in a long time - had nothing to do with my decision.
A White House spokesperson contacts CNN to reiterate:
The President has not spoken to Roger Stone in many months and any reports suggesting otherwise are categorically untrue.
Trump meets privately with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office and discusses his decision to fire Comey:
I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.
May 11, 2017 Trump tells Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation:
And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.'
~May 12, 2017 The FBI opens a counterintelligence investigating into whether Trump is working on behalf of Russia against American interests.
May 22, 2017 Stone replies to the House committee, saying that he has no relevant documents.
May 31, 2017 Alex Jones announces that Stone will anchor a new nightly show on InfoWars.
July 14, 2017 Caputo testifies to the House committee and says he had no contacts with Russians during his time on the campaign. He does not mention Greenberg.
Sept. 7, 2017 Donald Trump Jr. testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Q. Do you know if any of the following people made any efforts to obtain Secretary Clinton's e-mails. [...] Roger Stone?
A. No idea.
Q. Did you ever have a conversation with Mr. Stone about e-mails or other information obtained as part of a cyber attack on the DNC or Mr. Podesta or about Hillary Clinton's e-mails?
A. I don't recall having a conversation with Roger Stone basically past the first week or two of our campaign.
Q. So that would have been in 2015?
A. Probably.
Q. June of 2015?
A. I didn't really deal with Roger too much.
Q. Who did deal with Roger?
A. I don't know if anyone did. I don't know that he had an actual role in our campaign.
Q. Did he communicate directly with your father?
A. I don't know.
Credico meets Assange in person at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Sept. 26, 2017 Stone testifies before the House committee. In his testimony he denies that Russia was involved in hacking the DNC and says that he didn’t know about the “source or actual content” of any WikiLeaks releases.
Asked if it's true that he has no emails about the hacked documents or discussions about Assange, Stone says he does not. Asked about his claim to have an intermediary with Assange, Stone describes his interactions with Credico without naming him. Stone also denies having contacted anyone within the Trump campaign about conversations with his intermediary.
During one exchange, Stone falsely and misleadingly claims only to have spoken with his intermediary telephonically:
Q: [H]ow did you communicate with the intermediary?
A: Over the phone.
Q: And did you have any other means of communicating with the intermediary?
Q: No text messages, no – none of the list, right?
Later during his testimony, Stone again falsely denies ever communicating with his intermediary in writing:
Q: So you never communicated with your intermediary in writing in any way?
Q: Never emailed him or texted him?
A: He’s not an email guy.
Q: So all your conversations with him were in person or over the phone.
A: Correct.
Notably, Stone and Credico exchange more than 30 text messages on this very day.
Sept. 27, 2017 Stone registers an internet domain for a legal defense fund.
Oct. 13, 2017 In a letter to the House committee, Stone identifies Credico by name as his intermediary.
Oct. 19, 2017 Stone emails Credico a portion of the letter he’d sent to the House committee, asking that Credico confirm untrue parts of his testimony. Credico declines, recommending Stone correct his testimony.
Oct. 29, 2017 Stone's Twitter account is permanently suspended.
November 2017 Credico is asked to testify before the House committee.
Nov. 19, 2017 Stone texts Credico:
'Stonewall it. Plead the fifth. Anything to save the plan' ... Richard Nixon.
This is a reference to Nixon's order to cover up the Watergate break-in.
Nov. 20, 2017 Credico declines the invitation to testify.
Nov. 21, 2017 Credico tells Stone that an attorney for the House committee threatened to subpoena him.
Stone replies:
That was the point at which your lawyers should have told them you would assert your 5th Amendment rights if compelled to appear.
Nov. 28, 2017 Credico is subpoenaed. Stone learns of the subpoena the same day.
Nov. 30, 2017 Stone asks Corsi to write publicly about Credico.
Corsi responds:
Are you sure you want to make something out of this now? Why not wait to see what [Credico] does? You may be defending yourself too much – raising new questions that will fuel new inquiries. This may be a time to say less, not more.
Stone responds that Credico “will take the 5th—but let’s hold a day.”
Dec. 1, 2017 Stone tells Credico to imitate Frank Pentangeli, a character from “The Godfather: Part II,” who refused to testify during a government investigation.
STONE: And if you turned over anything to the FBI you’re a fool.
CREDICO: You need to amend your testimony before I testify on the 15th.
STONE: If you testify you’re a fool. Because of tromp I could never get away with a certain my Fifth Amendment rights but you can. I guarantee you you are the one who gets indicted for perjury if you’re stupid enough to testify.
Dec. 6, 2017 Trump Jr. testifies to the House committee.
Dec. 12, 2017 Credico informs the House committee that he will assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if required to appear.
Dec. 24, 2017 Credico texts Stone encouraging him to change his story.
CREDICO: I met [Assange] for frst time this yea sept 7 . . . docs prove that. . . . You should be honest w fbi . . . there was no back channel . . . be honest.
STONE: I’m not talking to the FBI and if your smart you won’t either.
Fox News announces that Rosen suddenly left the network after an 18-year career, purportedly due to allegations of sexual harassment.
Jan. 6, 2018 Stone texts Credico:
I am working with others to get [Assange] a blanket pardon. It’s very real and very possible. Don’t fuck it up.
Thirty-five minutes later, Stone adds, “Something very big about to go down.”
Credico later claims that Stone says he was working with Napolitano on a plan in which Napolitano would float the idea on his Fox News show or directly to Trump. “He was trying to get me not to talk,” Credico contends. Stone confirms that he spoke to Napolitano about the issue, which Napolitano denies.
Jan. 16, 2018 Bannon testifies to the House committee but reportedly provides little information.
Feb. 15, 2018 Bannon again testifies to the House committee but reportedly invokes executive privilege to avoid discussing matters related to the presidential transition.
Feb. 22, 2018 Mueller's office interviews Nunberg.
Feb. 23, 2018 Gates pleads guilty to lying and conspiracy against the United States and is revealed to be cooperating with the investigation.
March 5, 2018 Nunberg goes on cable television and says he will not comply with a subpoena from Mueller's grand jury.
What they sent me was absolutely ridiculous. They wanted every e-mail I had with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon. Why should I hand them e-mails from November 1, 2015 [forward]?
I’m not going to cooperate when they . . . want me to come in to a grand jury, for them to insinuate that Roger Stone was colluding with Julian Assange. Roger is my mentor. Roger is like family to me. I’m not going to do it.
March 9, 2018 Nunberg testifies to Mueller's grand jury. Mueller obtains a probable cause search warrant to obtain the records of 5 AT&T phones.
March 10, 2018 Credico complains to Stone of financial troubles that his connection to Stone has caused him:
You cost me whatever relationship I had with Bill Samuels I have not heard from him in a month.
Stone responds that he “didn’t know Samuels let u go….u should have said something if u needed work.” Stone later offers to connect Credico with a job opportunity in Florida.
Credico later claims Stone also offered to help him pay his legal fees in what Credico believed was an effort to stop him from contradicting Stone:
He knew that I was upset. He wanted me to be quiet. He wanted me to go along with his narrative. He didn’t want me talking to the press and saying what I was saying.
March 28, 2018 FBI agents detain, interrogate and serve a search warrant on Malloch at Boston's Logan airport. He is questioned about his involvement in the Trump campaign, Stone and WikiLeaks, and served a subpoena to testify to Mueller's grand jury in April, which is later postponed.
Corsi is quickly alerted by Malloch and publicizes the news in an “emergency” broadcast on InfoWars.
March 29, 2018 Stone, appearing intoxicated, posts a threatening video:
This is Roger Stone. Sam Nunberg is a cocaine addict and any news organization that takes anything he said seriously is courting a serious lawsuit.
April 2, 2018 WSJ reports on Stone's August 4, 2016, email to Nunberg stating he "dined with Assange".
April 3, 2018 A right-wing conspiracy site publishes an unattributed essay that quotes Stone extensively, pushing back against the idea that he had any contact with Assange. The essay claims that Stone provided documents showing his general whereabouts on Aug. 1-4, 2016.
The pro-Trump Daily Caller publishes an "exclusive" article that describes some of the same documents.
April 7, 2018 Stone emails Credico, accusing him of serving as an informant.
You are the last person I would have thought would help the Deep State fuck Assange — wearing a fucking wire. Everyone is says u are wearing a wire for Mueller.
April 8, 2018 In an email to Stone, Credico said Stone’s public comments attacking him “crossed a line,” adding that he believed Stone had lied to the House Intelligence Committee.
Stone responds:
You got nothing [...] You did everything I said you did. [...] Did you really think you could shit all over me on MSNBC and I would do nothing[?]
Stone taunts Credico's left-leaning politics and struggles with substance abuse:
Do another rail!
[I] Just put $2,000 behind another ad on Facebook targeting progressives.
April 9, 2018 Credico and Stone exchange emails that read in part:
CREDICO: yiu invented yourself into the story. yiu played no role in 2016... all will come out.
STONE: I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die cock sucker.
STONE: You are a rat. A stoolie. You backstab your friends-run your mouth my lawyers are dying Rip you to shreds
Stone adds, “I’m going to take that dog away from you,” referring to Credico’s “therapy” dog, a Coton de Tulear named Bianca.
Not a fucking thing you can do about it either because you are a weak broke piece of shit.
He later releases a public video threatening the pet.
Other early-April emails include:
Everything I have said publicly about You has been complimentary – yet you continue to act like Nunberg.
Give Mueller my regards.
May 1, 2018 Caputo testifies to the Senate intelligence committee.
May 2, 2018 Mueller's office interviews Caputo and he is shown copies of the May 2016 texts to Stone about Greenberg.
May 3, 2018 CNBC reports that Mueller is focusing intensely on interactions between Gates and Stone, including at multiple dinners before and during the campaign.
May 7, 2018 Stone publicly attempts to downplay his contacts with Gates.
May 10, 2018 Mueller's office serves two grand jury subpoenas on long-time Stone associate Andrew Miller, who worked for Stone during the 2016 campaign. Miller agrees to give a voluntary interview on May 14.
May 11, 2018 Attorney Alicia Dearn contacts Mueller's office, saying she is "considering" representing Miller and that he no longer wished to meet on May 14.
May 14, 2018 Mueller attempts to contact Dearn to inquire about her representation of Miller.
May 16, 2018 Reuters reports that two subpoenas were served on Jason Sullivan, a social media expert who worked for Stone, late the previous week. One requests that Sullivan appear before a grand jury on May 18 and the other orders Sullivan to bring documents, objects and electronically stored information.
May 18, 2018 Miller fails to appear before the grand jury. An employee for Dearn says Dearn will contact Mueller's office on May 21.
Reuters reports that a subpoena was recently served on John Kakanis, who had worked as a driver, accountant and operative for Stone. Stone's Committee to Restore America's Greatness super PAC paid a company owned by Kakanis more than $130,000 for “voter fraud research and documentation” and “research services consulting.”
May 21, 2018 Credico writes to Stone:
You should have just been honest with the house Intel committee ... you’ve opened yourself up to perjury charges like an idiot.
Dearn fails to contact Mueller's office.
May 23, 2018 Mueller's office emails Dearn a second set of subpoenas on Miller demanding testimony on June 1. The date is eventually postponed to June 8.
May 27, 2018 Stone writes to Credico:
I'll still piss on your grave. You are exposed as a liar who wears women's underwear. You never discussed being interrogated by Schiff with Assange — caught in another lie. Any time. You and me. Your are a chickenshit coward but justice will find you soon.
June 1, 2018 Sullivan testifies to Mueller's grand jury. Sullivan says he worked for Stone’s Committee to Restore America’s Greatness super PAC during the final four months of the 2016 campaign, assisting with social media strategy namely around Twitter.
“Welcome To The Age of Weaponized Social Media,” said a strategy document Sullivan prepared for Stone that described a “system” he devised for creating Twitter “swarms” as “an army of sophisticated, hyper-targeted direct tweet automation systems driven by outcomes-based strategies derived from REAL-TIME actionable insights.”
June 11, 2018 After Miller fails to appear on June 8, Mueller's office twice requests an immediate response from Dearn. She responds the following day but continues to delay a substantive response.
June 15, 2018 Caputo amends his House testimony to acknowledge his contact with Greenberg.
June 17, 2018 WaPo publishes an article revealing the May 2016 meeting between Stone and Greenberg. In interviews prior to publication, Stone claims to WaPo that Greenberg had not revealed the information he claimed to possess and wanted Trump to pay $2 million for access.
Stone also provides a excerpt from a May 29, 2016, conversation with Caputo that he claims shows that nothing came of the meeting:
CAPUTO: How crazy is the Russian?
STONE: Wants big &$ for the info- waste of time
CAPUTO: The Russian way. Anything at all interesting?
STONE: No
Stone claims to WaPo that Greenberg was alone. Interviewed separately, Greenberg first denies meeting Stone, then acknowledges the contact but tells a conflicting version of events, including that he was with a Ukrainian friend who was the one who actually spoke to Stone. “Alexei talk to Mr. Stone, not me,” he wrote. He added that he believes Alexei has moved back to Ukraine and that they are not in contact.
In their WaPo interviews, Stone and Caputo each imply a groundless theory that Greenberg had been sent by the FBI to frame them and the Trump campaign. Stone posts an article pushing the entrapment theory, which is amplified across right-wing media:
If you read this report in the corporate media, they spin it as “more Russian connections” but no – it’s more anti-Trump informants using non-Russian names while trying to offer the campaign information, with the hope that they can later reveal their actual Russian background to create the illusion of the campaign’s “Russian collusion.”
It’s incredible.
June 18, 2018 A court orders Miller to appear before Mueller's grand jury on June 28.
Mid-June 2018 Calling Stone "a corned rat," Credico tells The Villager that he handed over his personal computer and cell phone to "a national magazine" (presumably Dan Friedman at Mother Jones).
Undated excerpts include:
You are a pathetic loser. Let's see who's around a year from now and who isn't cocksucker.
Why does your breath smell like Ari Melber's ass?
Barrett rots in hell and you shall soon join him. It's over! You lose!
Wayne Barrett was a veteran investigative journalist who passed away in 2017 after publishing an unflattering biography of Donald Trump the previous year.
June 28, 2018 Refusing to testify, Miller names new counsel, Paul Kamenar, who files a motion to quash the subpoenas on the grounds that Mueller's appointment violates the US constitution. The motion explicitly incorporates the arguments advanced by the financier of the Russian troll farm that Mueller is prosecuting separately.
Kamenar came to Miller via Caputo and is paid by a far-right legal group run by provocateur Peter Flaherty and funded largely by the Scaife Foundations.
July 13, 2018 Mueller reveals an indictment against 12 GRU officers for the 2016 hack of the DNC. The indictment lays out detailed accusations of the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 election and describes a litany of brazen Russian subterfuge operations meant to foment chaos in the months before Election Day.
July 16, 2018 After spending two hours in a room with only Vladimir Putin and a pair of interpreters, Trump stands next to Putin in Helsinki and publicly rejects the findings of his intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors:
I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be ... I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that president Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer.
I think that the probe is a disaster for our country. I think it’s kept us apart. It’s kept us separated. There was no collusion at all. Everybody knows it.
“No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant,” wrote Senator John McCain.
July 31, 2018 DC district court Chief Judge Howell denies Miller's motion and orders him to testify.
Aug. 1, 2018 Mueller's office interviews long-time Stone associate Kristin Davis, who did work for Stone during the 2016 campaign.
Aug. 10, 2018 Davis testifies to Mueller's grand jury. Judge Howell holds Miller in contempt for refusing to testify. Miller vows to appeal.
Aug. 28, 2018 Corsi is served a subpoena from Mueller's grand jury.
Sept. 6, 2018 Corsi is interviewed by Mueller's office. He admits that Stone asked him to get in touch with WikiLeaks about unreleased stolen documents, but tells the following lies:
That he declined the request from Stone and made clear to him that trying to contact WikiLeaks could be subject to investigation,
That Stone never asked him to have Malloch try to get in contact with WikiLeaks,
That he told Stone that they should just wait until WikiLeaks released any materials,
That after that initial request from Stone, he did not know what Stone did with respect to WikiLeaks,
That he never provided Stone with any information regarding Wikileaks, including what materials WikiLeaks possessed or what WikiLeaks might do with those materials.
Sept. 7, 2018 Credico testifies to Mueller's grand jury after being subpoenaed.
Sept. 14, 2018 Manafort pleads guilt to financial crimes and enters into a plea deal. He meets with Mueller's office at least nine times over the next few weeks.
Sept. 21, 2018 Corsi testifies to Mueller's grand jury after being subpoenaed.
Oct. 26, 2018 Manafort testifies to Mueller's grand jury.
Nov. 2, 2018 Manafort again testifies to Mueller's grand jury.
Corsi again testifies to Mueller's grand jury. He is reportedly pulled out of the proceedings after refusing answer questions truthfully.
Nov. 8, 2018 The DC Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments in Miller's subpoena challenge.
Nov. 15, 2018 Trump amplifies Corsi's recent public protests against the investigation:
The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
Nov. 26, 2018 Corsi publicly rejects a plea deal on one count of perjury and releases the draft statement of the offence provided by Mueller's office.
Dec. 18, 2018 Trump tweets about Stone:
“I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump.” Nice to know that some people still have “guts!”
Jan. 23, 2019 Calling him "Lyin' Jerry Corsi", Stone posts a letter from InfoWars to Corsi, informing Corsi that he will no longer be receiving $15,000/month in "salary continuation". Corsi supposedly became InfoWars' Washington bureau chief in early 2018, but each party involved has given conflicting accounts of the details.
Jan. 24, 2019 Corsi's stepson, Andrew Stettner, testifies to Mueller's grand jury after being subpoenaed.
Mueller's grand jury returns a seven count indictment against Stone: one count of Obstruction of Proceedings, five counts of False Statements and one count of Witness Tampering. The indictment against Stone is classified as "related" to the July 2018 indictment against the 12 GRU officers.
Jan. 25, 2019 Stone is arrested by FBI agents at his home in Florida. He later releases footage of the arrest to Trump-friendly Sinclair Broadcast Group in an effort to gain public sympathy.
Jan. 29, 2019 Stone is arraigned and pleads not guilty to all charges. He is released on a $250,000 signature bond.
Mueller's office informs Miller that his grand jury testimony is still necessary.
Jan. 31, 2019 Trump tells NYT he never spoke to Stone about WikiLeaks :
NYT: Speaking of former aides, we wanted to talk to you about Stone.
TRUMP: Sure, now you know Roger didn’t work for me in the campaign.
NYT: Initially and then he —
TRUMP: Well, yeah, but that was before I — you know, that was either early primary or before primary.
NYT: It was August or September [2015].
TRUMP: That was a long time. I will say this, I’ve always liked — I like Roger, he’s a character. But I like Roger. For a team of 29 people with AK27s, or whatever they were using, to charge a house like they did at 6:00 in the morning. I think that was a very sad thing for this country.
NYT: Did you ever talk to him about WikiLeaks? Because that seemed —
TRUMP: No.
NYT: You never had conversations with him.
TRUMP: No, I didn’t. I never did.
NYT: Did you ever tell him to — or other people to get in touch with them?
TRUMP: Never did.
TRUMP: He was not my consultant. But if you read the papers you know it’s like — the media, it’s like — but I’ve always liked him. He’s a character, and I’ll tell you what people respect what he said. Bearing false witness, etc. But yeah, people do respect what he said.
NYT: What he said about what?
TRUMP: Bear false witness. I will never testify against the president. He actually said at one time — you know he’s said it numerous times, but I heard him say it one time 'he’s done a great job, he’s a great president, and I will not, you know, lie in order to' — people respect that so much. They respect that.
Mueller's office files a motion to slow down the discovery process, noting that prosecutors intend to provide evidence "both voluminous and complex":
It is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information consisting of, among other things, FBI case reports, search warrant applications and results (e.g., Apple iCloud accounts and email accounts), bank and financial records, and the contents of numerous physical devices (e.g., cellular phones, computers, and hard drives). The communications contained in the iCloud accounts, email accounts, and physical devices span several years. The government also intends to produce to the defense the contents of physical devices recently seized from his home, apartment, and office. Those devices are currently undergoing a filter review by the FBI for potentially privileged communications.
Feb. 7, 2019 Corsi files a defamation suit against Stone.
Feb. 18, 2019 Stone posts a picture of the judge overseeing his case with threatening language, calling her assignment to the case "legal trickery" by "Deep State hitman Robert Mueller".
Feb. 27, 2019 Cohen testifies publicly that he overheard a conversation between Stone and Trump on July 18 or 19, 2016, about upcoming WikiLeaks releases.
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November 17, 2017 by Rob Lorei and filed under American History, Class, corporate tax rate, corportae tax rate, National Government, National Politics, News and Public Affairs, Taxes, Wages.
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Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. We’re going to talk about the GOP tax plan today- We’ll talk with a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.
Yesterday the House in Washington passed the Republican tax plan. Now it moves to the US Senate.
For weeks pro-tax plan ads have been running on television across the country. Here’s an ad that’s been running in Ohio.
Last night at a Senate hearing on the Republican tax bill there was this exchange between Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah.
We’re joined now by the national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee.
Cassie Smedile.
The Washington Post is reporting that:
“The tax bill Senate Republicans are championing would give large tax cuts to the rich while raising taxes on American families earning $10,000 to $75,000 over the next decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official nonpartisan analysts.
President Trump and Republican lawmakers have been heralding their bill as a win for hard-working Americans, but the JCT report casts doubt on that claim. Tax increases for households earning $10,000 to $30,000 would start in 2021 and grow sharply from there, JCT found. By 2027, most Americans earning $75,000 a year or less would be forced to pay more in taxes, while people earning more than $100,000 a year would continue to pay less. The report generated intense debate on Capitol Hill.
Most of the hit to poor and working-class Americans would come from the Senate Republicans’ push to insert a major health care change into the tax bill. Republicans are repealing the requirement that all Americans buy health insurance or face a penalty, a move that would lead to 13 million more uninsured Americans, the Congressional Budget Office has said. Many of those people earn modest incomes and currently receive tax credits and subsidies from the government to help them afford insurance. If the Senate GOP bill becomes law, premiums are expected to rise and millions would likely opt not to buy insurance anymore, meaning their tax breaks would go away, explained Thomas Barthold, head of the JCT.” Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/16/senate-tax-bill-cuts-taxes-of-wealthy-and-hikes-taxes-of-families-earning-under-75000-over-a-decade/?utm_term=.7c06c3101431
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On March 3, 2009, in Lanigan v. Huron Valley Hospital, Inc., No. 279799, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that its analysis of a lost opportunity medical malpractice claim was still governed by Fulton v. William Beaumont Hospital, 253 Mich. App. 70, 655 N.W. 2d 569 (2002), despite the Michigan Supreme Court's unanimous criticism of that decision.
Fulton interprets the sentence in Michigan's medical malpractice statute that provides, "[i]n an action alleging medical malpractice, the plaintiff cannot recover for loss of an opportunity to survive or an opportunity to achieve a better result unless the opportunity was greater than 50%." MCL ' 600.2912a(2). Fulton concluded that this language means that plaintiffs must demonstrate that their opportunity to survive, or for a better result, was reduced by more than 50% because of the alleged malpractice.
The Lanigan court noted that, in Stone v. Williamson, 482 Mich. 144, 753 N.W. 2d 106 (2008), all the justices of the Michigan Supreme Court expressed a belief that Fulton's analysis of lost opportunity claims was wrong. Nevertheless, the Lanigan court pointed out that the majority of the Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff's claim in Stone was not a lost opportunity claim, but rather a traditional medical malpractice claim, and that the Fulton analysis was not properly before the Supreme Court. Thus, the Lanigan court found that it was bound to apply Fulton to its review of summary disposition of a lost opportunity claim, regardless of whether it agreed with Fulton's analysis. Notably, the court did not state that it, in fact, disagreed with Fulton.
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Fox Acknowledges That ‘Fringe’ May Be Coming To An End
Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly is letting fans know that “Fringe” may be coming to end sooner rather than later. The culprit? Fox is losing money on the popular sci-fi series.
“Fringe has been a point of pride,” Reilly, a fan of the show began at the Television Critics Association event. “I share the passion for the show the fans have.”
“I love that Fox, after letting down genre fans over the years kept with Fringe. I love that fans stuck with it after it moved to Friday. It has vastly improved our Friday night.”
“The hesitation in my voice is that it’s an expensive show,” Reilly admitted. “We lose a lot of money on the show.”
“With that rating on that night it’s almost impossible for us to make money on it. We’re not in the business of losing money. We need to figure out if there’s a deal with the studio that will make sense or will this be it.”
“I’m not quietly doing the ‘soft cancel’ here,” he insisted. “Please don’t start the letter writing campaign. I can’t take it. I hope we get some credit with the fans for seeing through a great show.”
As of right now, Fox executives don’t plan on meeting with Warner Bros. until after the current season, so producers will have to hedge their bets on whether to make the final episode a season or series finale.
But it looks like the day has come, my fellow “Fringe” fans. It’s a somber day indeed.
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Central Bank Slashes Interest Rates amid Crisis
Lebanon’s central bank on Wednesday dramatically lowered interest rates on dollar and Lebanese pound deposits and loans — the latest measure to shore up the country’s banking system amid a burgeoning economic crisis.
Banque de Liban also announced that for the next six months it would pay 50% of the interest it owes banks on dollar deposits and deposit certificates in Lebanese pounds — a move that would also ease the demand on the dollar.
The decisions come as Lebanon, the world’s third most indebted country in terms of debt-to-GDP ratio, faces an unprecedented economic and political crisis amid nearly 50 days of nationwide protests.
The notice from Lebanon’s central bank said it has put a ceiling on interest rates, slashing them on dollar deposits and loans to 5% from as high as 14%.
The central bank’s decision applies to new deposits and ones renewed after Wednesday. Interest rates on Lebanese pound-denominated deposits would be set at 8.5%.
The decision alleviates the pressure on the banks after depositors rushed to withdraw their money and rising risk of defaulting loans amid a liquidity crunch.
Lebanese officials estimate that as much as $4 billion have been withdrawn from banks over the past weeks as the local currency loses nearly 40% of its value. The money remains in the country but reflects the deepening confidence crisis banks are facing.
Banks had closed for nearly two weeks at the start of protests in mid-October and there was a run on the banks when they reopened. Local banks then imposed capital control measures unseen before in the country known for its free-market economy, such as limiting withdrawals and transfers of money abroad.
The central bank’s decisions buy time until a new government is formed. International donors had pledged $11 billion to Lebanon’s troubled economy in 2018, long before the protests began. But the donors had called for major economic changes to release the loans and grants.
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Germany: US may have targeted Merkel's cellphone
Amid tensions with France because of NSA intelligence gathering techniques, Germany says US might have targeted Merkel's phone in 'serious breach of trust' if true. White House denies report
German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that US intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, and said that would be "a serious breach of trust" if confirmed, her government announced.
The White House denied that the US is listening in on Merkel's phone calls.
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The German government said it responded after receiving "information that the chancellor's cellphone may be monitored" by US intelligence. It wouldn't elaborate but German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has published material from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said its research triggered the response.
'A serious breach of trust' (Photo: Amanda Lucidon, EPA)
Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement the chancellor made clear to Obama in a phone call that "she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed ... as completely unacceptable."
Merkel said among close partners such as Germany and the US, "there must not be such surveillance of a head of government's communication," Seibert added. "That would be a serious breach of trust. Such practices must be stopped immediately."
Carney addresses wiretapping allegations (Video: Reuters)
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney denied the report and said Obama and Merkel spoke by phone on Wednesday.
"The United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," Carney said.
Carney added that the US is examining Germany's concerns as part of a review of how the US gathers intelligence. The White House has cited that review in responding to similar spying concerns from France and other US allies.
Merkel raised concerns over electronic eavesdropping issue when Obama visited Germany in June, has demanded answers from the US government and backed calls for greater European data protection. However, Wednesday's statement was much more sharply worded and appeared to reflect frustration over the answers provided so far by the US government.
Merkel called for US authorities to clarify the extent of surveillance in Germany and to provide answers to "questions that the German government asked months ago," Seibert said.
70.3 million French phones targeted
Overseas politicians are also using the threat to their citizens' privacy to drum up their numbers at the polls – or to distract attention from their own domestic problems. Some have even downplayed the matter to keep good relations with Washington.
After a Paris newspaper reported the NSA had swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, the French government called the US ambassador in for an explanation and put the issue of personal data protection on the agenda of the European Union summit that opens Thursday.
"Why are these practices, as they're reported – which remains to be clarified – unacceptable? First because they are taking place between partners, between allies, and then because they clearly are an affront to private life," Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French government spokeswoman, said Wednesday.
But the official French position – that friendly nations should not spy on each another – can't be taken literally, a former French foreign minister said.
"The magnitude of the eavesdropping is what shocked us," Bernard Kouchner said in a radio interview. "Let's be honest, we eavesdrop too. Everyone is listening to everyone else. But we don't have the same means as the United States, which makes us jealous."
The French government, which until this week had been largely silent in the face of widespread U.S. snooping on its territory, may have other reasons to speak out now. The furor over the NSA managed to draw media attention away from France's controversial expulsion of a Roma family at a time when French President Francois Hollande's popularity is at a historic low. Just 23 percent of French approve of the job he is doing, according to a recent poll.
In Germany, opposition politicians, the media and privacy activists have been vocal in their outrage over the U.S. eavesdropping. Up until now, Merkel had worked hard to contain the damage to US-German relations and refrained from saying anything bad about the Americans.
Merkel has said previously her country was "dependent" on cooperation with the American spy agencies – crediting an American tip as the reason that security services foiled an Islamic terror plot in 2007 that targeted US soldiers and citizens in Germany.
In Italy, major newspapers reported that a parliamentary committee was told the U.S. had intercepted phone calls, emails and text messages of Italians. Premier Enrico Letta raised the topic of spying during a visit Wednesday with Secretary of State John Kerry. A senior State Department official said Kerry made it clear the Obama administration's goal was to strike the right balance between security needs and privacy expectations.
Few countries have responded as angrily to US spying than Brazil. President Dilma Rousseff took the extremely rare diplomatic step of canceling a visit to Washington where she had been scheduled to receive a full state dinner this week.
Analysts say her anger is genuine, though also politically profitable, for Rousseff faces a competitive re-election campaign next year.
David Fleischer, a political scientist at the University of Brasilia, said since the Sept. 11 attacks Brazilian governments knew the Americans had stepped up spying efforts.
"But what the government did not know was that Dilma's office had been hacked as well," Fleischer said.
Information the NSA collected in Mexico appears to have largely focused on drug-fighting policies or government personnel trends. But the U.S. agency also allegedly spied on the emails of two Mexican presidents, Enrique Pena Nieto, the incumbent, and Felipe Calderon.
The Mexican government has reacted cautiously, calling the targeting of the presidents "unacceptable." Pena Nieto has demanded an investigation but hasn't cancelled any visits or contacts, a strategy that Mexico's opposition and some analysts see as weak.
"Other countries, like Brazil, have had responses that are much more resounding than our country," said Sen. Gabriela Cuevas of Mexico's conservative National Action Party.
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