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Home / BBNaija / List of Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) Season 5 Housemates – Names & Profile 2020
By 9tunez on July 19, 2020
After the long wait, Big Brother Naija (BBnaija) season 5 finally commences today 19th July 2020 and a lot have people have been searching for the names of BBnaija season 5 housemates. Trust me 9tunez Media got you covered. Below is the list of the complete 20 housemates in BBNaija this season.
Names And Profile Of BBNaija 2020 Housemates
1. OZO BBNaija 2020 (Male)
The full name of the first contestant is Ozoemena Chukwu who’s is called Ozo for short. He is a young consultant and entrepreneur. He is 27 years old and hails for Imo State. His biggest achievement is working for a UEFA Federation in Europe. He also possesses an urban clothing line. When he is less busy with consulting and managing his clothing line, he spends the rest of his time analyzing sports mainly football or watching tv shows and documentaries.
Few Questions and Answers from Ozo.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? Learning to stay without loud music.
What are your words to live by? No boundaries with an ounce of hope.
What is your biggest achievement? Working for a UEFA Federation. It was a job I took great pride in and enjoyed doing.
2. VEE BBNaija 2020 (Female)
Vee whose real name is Victoria Adeyele and 23 years of age is a Lagos based musician. She was born and raised in the United Kingdom, London, and later moved to Lagos Nigerian about a year ago to pursue her musical career of which she is already making great strides.
Few Questions and Answers from Vee.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? Definitely sleeping for hours on end.
What are your words to live by? Live every day like it is your last.
What is your biggest achievement? Performing at the Palmwine Music Festival last year.
3. PRINCE BBNaija 2020 (Male)
Nelson Enwerem Prince who was born in 1996 (24 years old) is a successful entrepreneur and he hails from Abia State. He is a jack-of-all-trades and he’s incredibly a master of all and a few of his portfolio includes fashion design, modelling, interior decoration among others. He is a lover of sports and he likes reading about ancient religions and African history. He graduated from the University of Calabar where he studied pure physics and currently living in Lagos.
Few Questions and Answers from Prince.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? Trading forex.
What are your words to live by? A good name is better than riches.
What’s your biggest achievement? Winning Mr. Nigeria and competing in the Mr. World competition. It earned me great respect in my village and honor amongst the elders.
4. LILO BBNaija 2020 (Female)
On the number 4 spot, we have Lilo whose real names is Boluwatife Aderogba. She is 23 years of age and a hails from Lagos State. She is also an entrepreneur and she describes herself as “a product of God’s grace”.
Few Questions and Answers from Lilo.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? I learnt how to sew.
What are your words to live by? Trust in God.
What is your biggest achievement? Starting my own brand.
5. PRAISE BBNaija 2020 (Male)
Praise Nelson is a 28-year-old dancer from Enugu. Not new to fame or competing, he was a winner at the K-Pop World Festival, South Korea 2015 and won third place at a national Dance Competition in 2010. He is also a fitness and personal trainer and a certified Latin ballroom expert.
Few Questions and Answers from Praise.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? Making more time to read.
What are your words to live by? Never stop striving for the best life can offer, it can only get better.
What’s your biggest achievement? Winning Korean Pop World Festival Changwon in 2015.
6. DORATHY BBNaija 2020 (Female)
Dorathy Bachor is a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos. She believes she is the only one who should make you smile. Her sassiness will definitely prove to be an asset in Biggie’s house.
Few Questions and Answers from Dorathy.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? I can sleep for more than four hours. I also discovered the ability to adjust to a new environment quickly.
What are your words to live by? Never let anyone see that they get to you.
What’s your biggest achievement? SHOPFORME – the biggest procurement company in Nigeria … Amen.
7. Brighto BBNaija 2020 (Male)
Ezekiel Bright “Brighto” Osemudiame is a 29-year-old sailor from Edo State. Brighto, as he is fondly called, is the youngest of six kids. He holds a degree in Marine Engineering from Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt with several other professional certifications. He also had a stint in the aviation sector. He considers himself an avid entertainment lover and a people’s person.
Few Questions and Answers from Brighto.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? I learnt to pray more and the ability to tell what time it is without looking at a watch.
What are your words to live by? Life is too short, try as much as possible to make yourself happy and also make everyone around you happy.
What’s your biggest achievement? I gained a scholarship to study abroad; I also got my third engineer license including other professional certificates
8. Ka3na BBNaija 2020 (Female)
Kate “Ka3na” Jones (26) is an entrepreneur from Rivers, Nigeria. She describes herself as a strong woman who wants more from life. Her dream is to be famous and own the biggest luxury fashion brand in the world. She also believes she will make the perfect Housemate because she is ready to do all it takes to compete and win Big Brother Naija season 5.
Few Questions and Answers from Ka3na.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during lockdown? The new habit I learned was sleeping naked and reading the bible.
What are your words to live by? Do everything for the life you want and live every day for the life you love.
What is your biggest achievement? My several properties and my daughter.
9. Eric BBNaija 2020 (Male)
Eric Akhigbe (24) is a final year student at the University of Lagos and hails from Edo State. The bodybuilder is a confident hunk who takes pride in his 1.95m height. He describes himself as a fun, competitive sports and fitness enthusiast who enjoys winning. In addition, Eric also describes himself as a shy person who takes his time to unveil his wild side.
Few Questions and Answers from Eric.
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? Listening to my thoughts more carefully and analysing them deeply.
What are your words to live by? Thank God for Life – #TGFL.
What is your biggest achievement? Helping over 100 people achieve their fitness goals.
10. Erica BBNaija 2020 (Female)
Ngozi “Erica” Nlewedim (26) is an actress and commercial model from London, England. Erica is the name she goes by and she returned to Lagos after studying screen acting at the Met Film School in London.
Few Questions and Answers from Erica
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? I started reading motivational books and watching real estate sales videos on YouTube.
What are the words you live by? At the end of your life be satisfied because you have achieved all your goals, touched so many lives, and loved greatly.
What is your greatest achievement? Graduating from film school in London, producing my first short film with a team in Birmingham, and being in the movie, Hire a Woman.
11. Kiddwaya BBNaija 2020 (Male)
Terseer Kiddwaya (27) is self-employed and comes from Benue State. Being a Big Brother Naija season 5 Housemate has Kiddwaya anticipating a better and crazier 2020. He describes himself as confident, good looking, ambitious, a daredevil who is highly motivated. It is no surprise then that “bringing back the fun into the House” is what he won’t compromise on this season.
Few Questions and Answers from Kiddwaya
What new habit or skill did you acquire during the lockdown? I can go a long time without no phone or TV.
What are your words to live by? You never know when your time is up, so you might as well go for it.
What is your biggest achievement? Getting into health and fitness has been my biggest achievement. I used to be quite chubby, so I transformed my body and I have been consistent ever since.
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The BBC finds that new homes are ‘crumbling due to weak mortar’
This month, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show has revealed that hundreds of new properties have been built using weak mortar that does not meet recommended industry standards.
There are reports of homes with the fault on at least 13 estates in the UK and the issue with weak mortar has come to light just a few months after we highlighted the problems that were being caused by a nationwide brick shortage.
According to the BBC:
“The full extent of the industry-wide problem is hard to measure as some homeowners have been asked to sign gagging orders to claim compensation. The industry says mortar performance is a complex issue and can be affected by a number of factors.”
One of the affected homes was owned by Vincent Fascione, 70. He told the BBC that he was watching football on TV one evening in 2016 when he heard a loud cracking noise from the external walls of his house.
The next morning, he found a sand-like substance all over his front path and driveway. Photographs and video from the time appear to show growing cracks in the mortar holding his bricks together.
Mr Fascione, from Coatbridge outside Glasgow, bought his semi-detached property in 2012 for £112,500.
As reported by the BBC, under NHBC guidelines, mortar in most areas of the UK should be made of one part cement to 5.5 parts sand. In severe weather areas such as Coatbridge, there should be even more cement in the mix to make it stronger and more durable.
Following the BBC report, another pensioner spoke to the Daily Mail, sharing his fears that his new new-build home could crumble, leaving his children with ‘nothing to inherit’ due to issues with sub-standard concrete.
According to the newspaper:
“Gareth Cooper, 75, purchased the £1million home in Woodford Garden Village, Greater Manchester, in 2016 with wife Carole, 76, who suffers from Alzheimer’s and needs 24/7 care.”
“He bought the brand new property with the view to letting his two children, William and Sue, and four grandchildren inherit it in the future.”
“But after employing an independent builder to install a personnel door in the detached garage, bricks ‘just fell away and crumbled’, according to the pensioner.”
Some construction experts blame the switch to a new type of factory mixed mortar for the issues. An NHBC representative responded to the BBC report, saying: “We work with builders to help them improve the construction quality of the homes they build. However, it is the builder who is ultimately responsible for the quality of the new homes they build.”
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Category: Equality of Access
EXCLUSIVE: Accessibility under threat due to increase in driver only trains and unstaffed stations
New research from the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) indicates a significant withdrawal of rail accessibility since the beginning of lockdown in March. It compiles detailed information on 2556 stations to provide a complete staffing profile; demonstrating the impact of station destaffing and driver-only trains on accessibility.
The data shows that up to 54% of stations are completely unstaffed, with as few as 12% staffed at all times. Most shockingly of all, the ‘toxic combination’ of driver-only trains and unstaffed stations could now be preventing accessibility at up to 16.8% of Britain’s stations (up from 12.1% of stations in February.)
Reductions in assistance capability at stations, DPTAC May 2020 – DOWNLOAD HERE.
According to the data, Govia Thameslink Railway is by far the worst offender for the combination of driver only trains and unstaffed stations. In February, this prevented assistance capability at 126 locations. By May this figure had increased to 215 due to the removal of ontrain staff as well as ticket office closures/reductions.
According to May’s figures, train operators are running unstaffed trains through unstaffed stations at 430 locations: GTR (215), Southeastern (73), Greater Anglia (58), Great Western Railway (32), Chiltern (26), c2c (23), Heathrow Express (3), and Stobart Rail (1).
Our Freedom of Information request to DPTAC
This data was released to us after an FOI request to DPTAC, the Department for Transport’s statutory advisors on accessibility. DPTAC has consistently raised strong objections to the ‘toxic combination’ of driver only trains and unstaffed stations since the beginning of the Southern Rail guards dispute of 2016. The ‘urgent’ and ‘unmet’ need for detailed data on staffing was the headline demand of each of their submissions to the Williams Rail Review, so the release of this information is sure to be highly controversial within the Department for Transport.
In May, the Chair of DPTAC defended their data collection to Rupert Furness, Head of Active and Accessible Travel at the DfT. To view the email, click here.
Another email chain confirms that the Department for Transport has sought legal advice on driver-only trains and unstaffed stations, after warnings from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To view the document, click here.
Urgent Action Now Required
DPTAC’s research shows that the staffing model on Britain’s railway is not fit for purpose. In particular, it demonstrates the discriminatory effect of driver-only trains and how rapidly they can affect accessibility when there are reductions to the already low levels of station staffing.
With Govia Thameslink Railway once again firmly in the frame for withdrawing assistance capability at stations, it is vital that the Go Ahead Group and the DfT’s Peter Wilkinson are asked to respond to this data at the Transport Select Committee on Wednesday. They were the architects of the removal of guards on GTR, and it’s now clear that this is having a regressive effect on equality of access.
With further cuts to railway staffing being rumoured, we will be calling on the Transport Select Committee and Office of Rail and Road to ensure that this data continues to be published regularly, as the best way to monitor what on-the-ground changes are being made to stafffing. Train operators must already provide this information under the ORR’s new Assisted Travel Policy, so it should require few resources to collate the information in a transparent and centralised manner. This has been a headline demand from DPTAC to the DfT for years, and they have made clear that accurate, up-to-date data is the only possible basis for a ‘whole system’ overview of railway accessibility.
For further information on DPTAC’s demands for data and accessibility see their January 2019 and May 2019 submissions to the Williams Rail Review.
For a background of our FOI requests to DPTAC, click here.
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Author abcommutersPosted on November 16, 2020 November 21, 2020 Categories Community, Equality of Access, NewsLeave a comment on EXCLUSIVE: Accessibility under threat due to increase in driver only trains and unstaffed stations
Government forced to release Steer report on disabled access and driver only operation
In a major victory for our campaign, the government has just been forced to release the controversial Steer report on driver only operation (DOO) and disabled access. We had been pursuing this report through freedom of information requests to the Department for Transport since the summer, but without success. However, a copy was sent to Lilian Greenwood last month and – in one of her final acts as Chair of the Transport Select Committee – she has now published it on the Committee’s website.
With this decisive action, Lilian has ensured that the Steer report has been revealed before the general election ‘purdah’ period kicks in, which is a victory for campaigners – and an unexpected embarrassment for both the government and the rail industry.
A ‘wholly inadequate’ report – approach with ‘extreme caution’
We knew that the content of the Steer report would be controversial because of this damning letter from the Disabled Person’s Transport Committee (DPTAC), the DfT’s statutory advisors on accessibility. The letter urges ministers to approach the report with ‘extreme caution’, warning that it is ‘wholly inadequate’ in providing mitigations for the ‘toxic combination’ of driver only trains and unstaffed stations. Both the DPTAC letter and an accompanying email question whether the DfT and train operating companies are meeting their legal duties under the Equality Act.
As documents from DPTAC demonstrate, there is an ‘urgent and unmet need for research’ relating to disabled access, staffing levels and modes of operation. And it’s been three years since the Transport Select Committee first requested an equality impact assessment on the issue. The unacceptable delay to research in this area is in our view due to two reasons: 1) the absence of staff cannot be mitigated by any other means except staff – therefore it is logically impossible to create a report showing that DOO can be introduced without regressing disabled access by normalising pre-booking instead of asserting the right to spontaneous travel. 2) The fragmented industry structure and constrained contractual relationships create a toxic mix where research and policy is developed not in the public interest, but dominated by train operating companies (via the Rail Delivery Group) in the interests of profit.
The Steer report is supposed to give clear guidance on the mitigations required to assist and protect disabled passengers when there are no staff on the train or station. However, it drastically fails to meet that objective, and in fact demonstrates that no mitigation is possible – and therefore that a full staffing model is the only solution. The report reads precisely as if it was strung together from a desired conclusion, and its release is undoubtedly highly embarrassing for its authors, the government and the rail industry.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is now treating access to transport as a priority issue and has established a fund to support legal challenges. Equality law firm Fry Law has even been sending out cameras to assist disabled passengers in capturing evidence for the inevitable legal cases to come. In a situation where unstaffed trains are calling at unstaffed stations about 10% of the time (according to DPTAC’s estimate), it can only be a matter of time before we see new legal precedents set in this area.
DOWNLOAD THE STEER REPORT HERE
For the rest of Lilian Greenwood’s correspondence on this topic, click here and here.
Important links on disabled access and destaffing:
2018 DTAC documents
2019 DPTAC documents
DPTAC’s submission to the Williams Rail Review
A history of our exposes on disabled access and driver only operation
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Author abcommutersPosted on November 5, 2019 November 21, 2020 Categories Community, Equality of Access, NewsLeave a comment on Government forced to release Steer report on disabled access and driver only operation
The fundamental right to travel: DPTAC gives us the ONLY advice we can trust on accessibility
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) are statutory advisors to the Department for Transport on accessibility, making them the best possible source for an expert opinion with a front row seat on policy issues. We have previously published dozens of documents detailing their opposition to driver only operation and station destaffing; in which they cite their concerns about the potential Equality and Human Rights Committee legal action on this issue.
With this in mind, we believe that the Office of Rail and Road’s new ‘Accessible Travel Policy’ contains a regulatory hole around accessibility. Their new guidance to train companies aims to reduce the advance booking period from twenty-four to two hours by 2022, but includes no obligation to spontaneous ‘turn up and go’ travel. The ORR says that staffing issues are not part of its remit, but in view of their own duty under section 149 of the Equality Act, we asked them to comment. Unfortunately, they informed us that they would only be reconsidering this issue if government, the Williams Review or ‘other regulators’ took decisions in this policy area.
But, all is not lost. In the ORR’s July submission to the Williams Review, they place a strong emphasis on the need for a whole system approach to accessibility, based on clear criteria for both funding and staffing. And the ORR has made a very clear recommendation that this ‘whole system approach’ should be led by DPTAC.
Why are the DPTAC documents so important?
DPTAC’s May 2019 submission to the Williams Review provides exactly this outline of a ‘whole system’ approach. With the ORR’s backing, it is now undoubtedly the most important document on accessibility in the entire Williams Review:
DPTAC recommends a ‘paradigm shift’ in which accessibility becomes a ‘fundamental’ part of the industry, rather then just an ‘add on’. Their May submission to the Williams Review includes a damning analysis of rail industry culture and structure; and calls for a ‘whole system’ approach that embeds accessibility ‘into the heart of what the rail industry does’. DPTAC also argues that rail vehicle accessibility legislation (TSI/RVAR) has provided a ‘relatively strong baseline’, and that there is now a strong case for new regulation with compliance deadlines for station accessibility. This would form part of a long-term funding strategy that could see the timeline to ‘full accessibility’ reduce from 100 to 40 years.
DPTAC’s May submission to the Williams Review is an essential report for all transport and disability rights campaigners and we ask for your help to spread it widely. It is important to remember that the government has set Williams’s remit to be ‘fiscally neutral’ – so it will take a great deal of campaigning and/or legal actions to get these demands over the line.
The ONLY quantified overview of rail accessibility?
The biggest theme emerging from the latest DPTAC documents is the ‘urgent’ and ‘unmet’ need for research, and the ‘dearth of detailed data’ on staffing levels in particular. They make clear that the problem is endemic, with ‘no agreed approach to quantifying the accessibility of the rail network’ and in many areas ‘a lack of quantified data on specific aspects of network accessibility.’ The state of transparency around accessibility research remains a matter of serious concern to us, with the DfT still refusing to publish the ‘wholly inadequate’ Steer report on modes of train operation following our request for an internal review of their FOI decision.
The above statistics are taken from pages 2 to 3 of DPTAC’s submission to the Williams Review and are drawn almost entirely from the 2015 report ‘On Track for 2020’. This report is considered by DPTAC to be a ‘unique’ overview – and the most up-to-date source of quantified data on rail accessibility. And yet, this report was withheld until June 2017 by the Rail Delivery Group, when we published a copy and forced its official release.
Another important point to make is that the ORR will have gone forward with the publication of their new Accessible Travel Policy (ATP) based in part on the very same Steer research on ‘modes of train operation’ that DPTAC has stated is ‘wholly inadequate’ and should only be approached with ‘extreme caution’. Earlier this week, campaigner Doug Paulley succeeded in getting the ATP sent back to the ORR for a ‘rethink’ after threatening a judicial review over the accessibility of rail replacement buses – so is there scope to go further in other areas of the guidance too? We think it’s time to question whether the ORR is using the full extent of its regulatory powers – especially in regard to the changing landscape of railway staffing.
Other essential DPTAC documents:
DPTAC’s reponse to the DfT’s PAYG consultation goes into further detail about the need for a new staffing model at a time of technological change (April 2019): download here.
DPTAC’s initial submission to the Williams Rail Review goes into detail about the ‘urgent’ and ‘unmet’ need for research (January 2019): download here.
Read the full story of the Steer report controversy here.
Read DPTAC’s letter to Ministers about driver only operation and destaffing here.
Read DPTAC’s email chain containing urgent questions to Ministers concerning driver only operation and the Equality Act here.
Write to us at contact@abcommuters.com
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Author abcommutersPosted on September 5, 2019 November 21, 2020 Categories Community, Equality of Access, Judicial Review, NewsLeave a comment on The fundamental right to travel: DPTAC gives us the ONLY advice we can trust on accessibility
Exposed AGAIN! Disabled Access cover up at the Department for Transport
It’s been exactly one year since we published documents from the Disabled Person’s Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), revealing years of cover ups inside the Department for Transport concerning driver only operation (DOO). A month ago, we repeated our FOI request and can reveal that the situation around DOO and disabled access is now at breaking point.
The latest documents show that since April this year, DPTAC has been in open rebellion against the DfT due to a ‘wholly inadequate’ piece of research: ‘Effects of modes of train operation on passengers with disabilities’ by the consultants Steer. The very existence of this report has so far been concealed from the Transport Select Committee and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, as well as the disability charities involved in the DfT’s ‘Inclusive Transport’ campaign.
The Steer Report – ‘Effects of modes of train operation on passengers with disabilities.’
In an outspoken letter sent to ministers on 2nd May this year, DPTAC states: ‘our headline advice is that the results of this work should be used with extreme caution […] our advice is that the research and Guidance Note fall very considerably short of articulating measures that mitigate the potentially very negative consequences of driver-only operation, when combined with unstaffed stations; a toxic combination for many disabled people that excludes them from using the rail network.’
In the letter, DPTAC challenges the legality of the DfT and train operating companies’ plans for DOO, questioning whether the running of unstaffed trains through unstaffed stations is consistent with the Department’s duties under the Equality Act 2010. The full letter to ministers can be viewed here:
DPTAC’s Letter to Ministers dated 9th April, sent 2nd May.
After Andrew Jones’ appearance at the Transport Select Committee on 8th May, DPTAC scheduled an urgent meeting with ministers and sent ahead a list of demanding questions, also concerning the legality of plans for DOO:
June 2019 emails – DPTAC arrange meeting with Transport Ministers and send urgent questions in advance.
The emails show that the meeting took place on 18th June 2019, but we have no further knowledge of DPTAC’s discussion with the rail ministers, and the Steer report itself remains held back under FOI (a decision we intend to challenge).
The DPTAC documents prove us right in our ongoing pursuit of a report by the consultants Steer (formerly Steer Davies Gleave). We had previously understood a 2013 Steer report to be the foundation of the entire DOO project, meaning that this new discovery of a piece of 2018 research is part of a six year history that has so far evaded all Parliamentary scrutiny. The following key documents demonstrate that the 2018 Steer report ‘Effects of modes of train operation on passengers with disabilities’ is yet a further stage in a process of policy development that’s been going on for years within the closed circle of the DfT, Rail Delivery Group and train operating companies.
Key documents: DPTAC’s Letter to Ministers dated 9th April, sent 2nd May * June 2019 emails – DPTAC arrange meeting with Transport Ministers and send urgent questions in advance * DPTAC’s second submission to the Williams Review – Working towards a fully accessible railway, 8th May * DPTAC’s response to the PAYG consultation, submitted 30th April 2019
Key correspondence: Email chain Dec 2018 to May 2019 – covering delays to Steer report, and delays to DPTAC’s letter to ministers * May 2019 – DPTAC discusses dispatch of letter to ministers and second submission to Williams review * June 2019 emails – DfT and DPTAC discuss confidentiality re the Steer report
The Steer Report on DOO – Timeline of Events
This blog continues with a timeline of the 2018 Steer report and a full download list of the documents in chronological order. We then provide a fuller background of the history of Steer’s research on DOO, and explain our concerns about the influence of train operating companies on the formation of policy. We conclude with an urgent list of requests to the Transport Select Committee.
The Steer Report on DOO – Timeline of Documents:
July – September 2018: The following documents show DPTAC meeting with Steer on 30th July, shortly after our 2018 exposé. In September, they are given the ‘final’ draft of the Steer report and provide their feedback.
July 2018 – DPTAC emails show a meeting took place with Steer on 30th July * DPTAC emails August 2018 – reaction to the ABC expose * DPTAC Main Meeting minutes – 20th Sep 2018 * September 2018 – DPTAC receives a copy of the Steer report on DOO and responds to first version * DPTAC’s response to version 1 of the Steer report – 24th September 2018 * Peter Wilkinson’s letter to DPTAC – 5th October 2018
September 2018 – March 2019: From September, DPTAC provides feedback on at least one further ‘iteration’ of the Steer report (called version 2 in the timeline above). There is then a long delay while the next version of the document is prepared by Steer and the Rail Delivery Group, with involvement from train operating companies.
DfT and DPTAC Rail Sub-Group Meeting minutes – 12th Oct 2018 * DfT and DPTAC Main Meeting minutes – 7th Dec 2018 * DfT and DPTAC Rail Sub-Group Meeting minutes – 12th Feb 2019 * DPTAC response to the ORR consultation on Improving Assisted Travel – 18th Jan 2019 * DPTAC’s initial response to the Williams Rail Review – 18th Jan 2019
March – May 2019: DPTAC receives the ‘final’ copy of the report on 6th March and responds by writing a strongly worded letter to ministers on 9th April. The letter is delayed by civil servants until 2nd May, when the Chair of DPTAC sends it directly to Andrew Jones ahead of his Transport Select Committee appearance. In the meantime, DPTAC responds to the DfT’s PAYG consultation, placing a strong emphasis on the need for an adequate staffing model amid the extension of smartcard technologies.
Email chain Dec 2018 to May 2019 – covering delays to Steer report, and delays to DPTAC’s letter to ministers * DPTAC’s Letter to Ministers dated 9th April, sent 2nd May * April 2019 emails – DPTAC submit their response to the PAYG consultation * DPTAC’s response to the PAYG consultation, submitted 30th April 2019
May – June 2019: On 8th May, the day of Andrew Jones’ Transport Select Committee appearance, DPTAC submits a powerful second submission to the Williams Rail Review. Emails over the following month show DPTAC scheduling a meeting with ministers for 18th June, and sending ahead a list of demanding questions concerning the legality of driver only operation.
May 2019 – DPTAC discusses dispatch of letter to ministers and second submission to Williams review * DPTAC’s second submission to the Williams Review – Working towards a fully accessible railway, 8th May * June 2019 emails – DPTAC arrange meeting with Transport Ministers and send urgent questions in advance * June 2019 emails – DfT and DPTAC discuss confidentiality re the Steer report
Background – the 2013 Steer Report
Since August 2017, we have been pursuing a 2013 Steer report known as “Driver only operation – passenger”, which we believe forms the basis of the entire DOO project. We first drew attention to the existence of this report with our publication of a 2014 email from Michael Woods of the Rail Safey and Standards Board (RSSB). However, the Steer report has been held back by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), who are not subject to freedom of information legislation. After we broke the story two years ago, the RDG refused to release the report under FOI, giving the following comment to press:
“In 2011, an independent report into making the railway more efficient recommended that driver only operated trains should be the default option across the network. Following this, a more detailed report was commissioned to investigate the financial implications of different ways of enacting this recommendation. As a public service which spends taxpayers’ money to better connect the country, it is only right that we look at ways to make our services more efficient but it is entirely normal that such analysis remains confidential. Where it is being introduced, careful consideration is being given to ensure that a second member of staff, not necessarily a guard, is available wherever appropriate to assist passengers.”
After three years of industrial action and with a looming legal threat against the government from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, there is little need to emphasise the public interest value of the 2013 Steer report. After FOI requests to the DfT, DPTAC, RSSB and the ORR we have discovered that the document is held only by the Rail Delivery Group. This means that the Association of Train Operating Companies has complete control and ownership over a document that we know has been foundational to policy. The fact that this document has been held back by the Rail Delivery Group for six years also provides the rail industry’s most urgent example of the need for FOI legislation to be extended to private contractors.
To date – the 2018 Steer Report
Our FOI request to DPTAC has revealed the existence of a 2018 Steer report on DOO, ‘Effects of modes of operation on passengers with disabilities’. Although we have been able to publish DPTAC’s damning verdict on its contents, the report itself has been withheld under section 22 (1) of the FOI Act – namely that the report is already ‘planned for publication’ by the Department for Transport.
However, it’s clear in the correspondence that ministers are deciding whether to publish, not when. An email from May 30th, where a DFT civil servant chastises a member of DPTAC for referring to the report at an ORR event, states that: ‘Ministers haven’t yet decided whether to share’ and ‘while some of the TOCs at the meeting today might have been aware when you raised it, the disability groups and EHRC definitely wouldn’t be.’
The DPTAC email correspondence shows the 2018 Steer Report passing through at least three ‘iterations’, a process managed by the Rail Delivery Group in collaboration with consultants Steer – and in which they have sought feedback from train operating companies ‘to ensure recommendations are feasible’. The following excerpts from February 2018 further demonstrate this unhealthy dynamic:
From DPTAC meeting minutes – 12th Feb 2019:
Our requests to the Transport Select Committee:
(1) At his 8th May update to the Transport Select Committee, the Rail Minister Andrew Jones maintained that driver only operation is ‘not policy’. This is no more than an issue of semantics, relating to a behind-the-scenes legal wrangle over who holds the Public Sector Equality Duty in franchise contracts. The documents we’ve published today show that this legal discussion is already going on behind the scenes at the DfT, who are undoubtedly preparing for a legal challenge from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. We call on the Transport Select Committee to seek sight of any legal advice provided to the Department, which could potentially influence changes to legislation following the Williams Review and is therefore in urgent need of oversight.
In particular, please note:
Points 2.6 and 2.7 of the DfT and DPTAC Rail Sub-Group Meeting minutes – 12th Oct 2018:
The following paragraph from a DfT civil servant sent to a member of DPTAC on 30th December 2018. You can view the full correspondence here: Email chain Dec 2018 to May 2019 – covering delays to Steer report, and delays to DPTAC’s letter to ministers
(2) We call on the Transport Select Committee to demand all ‘iterations’ of the Steer report(s) on driver only operation since 2013, and to question the Rail Delivery Group thoroughly on the report’s six year history. We will continue to request the 2018 Steer Report under FOI, but our primary concern is that documents are being withheld from the Transport Select Committee, meaning there can be no proper scrutiny of Departmental policy.
(3) We call on the Transport Select Committee to undertake an investigation into transparency and research standards at the DfT. Railway policy has been developed behind closed doors for up to a decade, and it is outrageous that this ‘research’ process appears to have been dominated by the Rail Delivery Group, the majority of whose members are train operating companies. The economic cost of conducting research in this way (without any parliamentary oversight or passenger/staff consultation) has been enormous, and yet the TSC hasn’t even been allowed to view the business case for DOO (which we also believe to be contained within the 2013 Steer report).
If you combine the economic impact of the industrial dispute, potential legal action from the EHRC, and the probable inadequacy and quick obsolescence of DOO technology; it is clear that – far from being an abstract concern – standards of research and transparency are a matter requiring urgent Parliamentary oversight.
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International Women’s Day Protest – Keep The Guard On The Train!
This International Women’s Day, it’s time to demand that the Department for Transport finally listens to passenger concerns about safety, security and access. We’ll be meeting at Great Minster House at midday on Friday 8th March to deliver an 85,000-strong petition to “Keep The Guard On The Train” and we hope that you can join us!
All are welcome, and we are particularly keen to celebrate the women who have done so much to defend against the government-driven attempt to remove guards from trains. Special guests will include; Beth Granter, who began the petition for women’s safety on the railways; Ann Bates OBE, who has campaigned alongside ABC for three years on disabled access; and Michelle Rodgers, the recently elected President of the RMT union and the first woman in its history to hold this position.
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Why International Women’s Day?
Over the past ten years, sexual offenses on the railways have gone up a staggering 167%, and violent crime has risen by 47%, according to recent figures from the British Transport Police (BTP). In the period 2017-2018, these categories of crime are up 16% and 26% respectively. In the case of sexual offenses, the BTP believes that there are many more crimes of this type that go unreported.
All vulnerable passengers deserve the peace of mind of knowing there will be a safety critical, guaranteed guard on every train, not to mention the deterrent factor in an era of rising crime. In rural areas, including Southern Rail, Northern Rail and South Western Railway, there are long gaps between stops and largely unstaffed stations – so the suggestion to destaff these networks should never have even been up for debate.
Despite this context – and a three-year long industrial dispute on the matter – passengers in England have never been consulted on the issue of driver only trains. During our campaign on the matter, we have dug up multiple documents emphasising concerns around safety and disabled access, but our concerns have been ignored. With the Equality and Human Rights Commission recently stating that they are likely to take action over the roll back of disabled access associated with DOO, we’ll be appealing directly to the DfT and the Williams Rail Review to return to the vision of a fully staffed railway, accessible to all.
Join us to demand a guaranteed and safety critical member of staff on every train – no excuses!
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The ORR responds to the stalemate over DOO and disabled access:
We have long called for a staffing guarantee to ensure that disabled and vulnerable passengers are able to get equal access to the rail network. Last month, we published our biggest expose yet on the issue – showing that the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee have also been arguing for a guarantee of staffing levels within the Department for Transport since the time of the first RMT strikes in April 2016.
With RMT industrial action continuing on South Western this weekend, and in light of reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commisssion is taking an interest in DOO and potential Equality Act breaches; we asked the Office of Rail and Road to explain their position on the current stalemate over train staffing.
Stephanie Tobyn, Deputy Director for Consumers at the ORR, has regularly engaged with us on the issue since the beginning of the year and has now sent us a response explaining the ORR’s responsibilties and powers in relation to disabled access, as well as their current and upcoming work in this area.
Full statement from Stephanie Tobyn of the ORR:
“Our consumer role and responsibilities originate in the Condition 5 of the passenger and stations licences (the model passenger licence here). Any intervention that we might make in this area is subject to the specific terms of this licence condition. We consider all issues on their own merits and in common with other regulators we cannot prejudge the circumstances in which we would choose any particular course of action.
Train and station operators are required by these operating licences to establish and comply with a disabled people’s protection policy (DPPP). This sets out the arrangements and assistance that an operator will provide to protect the interests of disabled people using its services and to facilitate such use. We approve these policies and monitor compliance with them.
Where there is evidence to suggest that an operator is not achieving good outcomes for passengers in respect of its DPPP obligations, we will discuss this with the operator concerned. We may then carry out more regular monitoring of that operator. This might include requiring additional information, carrying out an audit, or using our existing power within the licence to require an operator to conduct a review of its DPPP and report its findings, potentially leading to changes to existing DPPPs or practice. Ultimately, if an operator does not comply with its licence obligation, we may then follow our Economic Enforcement Policy which you can find here.
In respect of when ORR can step in could I take this opportunity to clarify that, in accordance with our Economic Enforcement Policy, we will intervene should we identify serious or systemic failings. What constitutes a systemic breach will depend on the nature and seriousness of the failures and on the progress of the licence holder to rectify the situation proactively.
In addition, ORR enforces the requirements of the Persons of Reduced Mobility Technical Specification for Interoperability (PRM TSI) and Rail Vehicles Accessibility Regulations (RVAR 2010), which set out the standards to which new trains must comply. You can find out more information about this on our website. Enforcement in this area would follow our Health and Safety Compliance and Enforcement Policy Statement, also on our website here.
As you know we have published a significant amount of research in this area and we are currently reviewing the area of DPPPs. We are expecting to consult further in the Autumn and do not rule out doing further research in this area. DPTAC and DfT have been involved in this work already and we look forward to further input and discussion with them going forward.
In relation to the areas that DPTAC has raised in correspondence, where assistance has been booked in advance we expect that assistance to be delivered by train and station operators. For turn up and go or spontaneous travel the requirement is to provide assistance to disabled passengers who arrive at a station and require assistance to allow them to travel, where reasonably practicable.
Every request for assistance should be based on an assessment of passenger needs, station facilities and staff availability (both train and station) and there is not a one size fits all approach. We expect operators to be able to provide assistance to passengers in a variety of different scenarios. This will require an accurate understanding and assessment of the needs of the passenger, station accessibility, station staffing times, train staffing levels and unexpected accessibility issues such as a lift being out of order.
Therefore, we would expect operators to consider a variety of means to provide passengers with assistance including, for example, the use of alternative accessible transport, such as an accessible taxi (this service being provided free of charge to the passenger) and the ability to use staff flexibly to ensure that assistance can be delivered either by on-board staff, station staff or mobile staff where such working practices are routinely operated or can be accommodated to provide the assistance required.”
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Author abcommutersPosted on August 31, 2018 August 31, 2018 Categories Community, Equality of Access, NewsLeave a comment on The ORR responds to the stalemate over DOO and disabled access:
Exposed: Disabled access cover up at the Department for Transport
Our latest set of FOI requests to the DfT has exposed years of controversy within the Department itself. The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) has been protesting the roll out of driver only operation since April 2016, calling DOO policies ‘toxic’ and ‘illegal’.
Earlier today, the Department for Transport published their new “Inclusive Transport Strategy” – the outcome of the Accessibility Action Plan consultation that began in August 2017. The timing of this publication, on the day before the RMT strike on South Western Railway, speaks volumes about their intention to deflect from their own role in removing the guaranteed guard from the train; especially at a time when the disabled access argument has already been won in the eyes of the public.
But we’ve got news for the DfT – they’re not going to get away with it this time. After campaigning on this issue for two years, and releasing a number of leaked documents concerning disabled access cover ups around DOO, we finally have all we need to show that they have been willing to turn back the clock on disabled access in order to break the RMT union on the issue of the ‘Guard Guarantee’ and ‘exceptional circumstances’.
New documents prove that DPTAC has been protesting DOO since April 2016
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) advises the government on transport legislation, regulations and guidance and on the transport needs of disabled people, ensuring disabled people have the same access to transport as everyone else.
We are now able to share copies of the advice they have been giving to the DfT including: strong opposition to the use of DOO across muliple rail franchises; a warning letter about ‘toxic’ and ‘illegal’ DOO policies sent to Peter Wilkinson in April 2016; DPTAC’s real thoughts about the AAP consultation; and the minutes of a meeting with Rail Minister Nusrat Ghani in May 2018, where she defends the government’s position on DOO.
Download the key documents relating to DOO and disabled access here:
DPTAC’s response to the Accessibility Action Plan consultation
DPTAC’s warning letter to Peter Wilkinson, April 2016
DPTAC’s response to the SE Franchise consultation, May 2017
DPTAC’s response to the GW Franchise consultation, Feb 2018
DPTAC May 2018 meeting with Nus Ghani, Rail Minister
Letter to ABC from Keith Richards Chair of DPTAC
We also include the minutes of all DPTAC meetings since 2016, which cover a wide range of discussion on accessibility issues:
DPTAC January 2016 meeting DPTAC July 2016 meeting DPTAC November 2016 meeting DPTAC February 2017 meeting DPTAC May 2017 meeting DPTAC November 2017 Induction Event DPTAC January 2018 meeting DPTAC May 2018 meeting
DPTAC’s criticism of the draft Accessibility Action Plan (AAP)
The AAP formed the basis of today’s DfT “Inclusive Transport Strategy“, which omits any discussion of driver only operation and therefore has clearly ignored DPTAC’s advice on this issue. DPTAC’s response to the Accessibility Action Plan consultation protests the omission of driver only operation in relation to franchise contracts, while the minutes of the DPTAC January 2018 meeting establish that the consultation had generated 288 responses on the issue of DOO out of a total of 1000 (pg.7). Despite expert advice and strong passenger sentiment, this topic is absent from the DfT’s strategy document today.
DPTAC’s response to the AAP
“The draft Accessibility Action Plan (AAP) pulls together a summary of DfT work on accessibility issues. There is something of a dichotomy between the aspirational and visionary tone and content of the Ministerial introduction which we very much welcome, and the rather less ambitious tone and content of the rest of the draft AAP.
Although the Ministerial introduction states: “This draft action plan sets out our proposed strategy to address the gaps in existing provision of transport services which serve as a barrier to people with disabilities”, the plan does not clearly set out a robust strategy for the short, medium and long term, nor does it articulate an appropriately structured and detailed gap analysis” (pg.2)
“One key issue that is missing from the AAP consultation concerns the level of staffing on the rail network and the role of the franchising (DfT) and licensing (ORR) processes in that….Our advice is that, trains without a member of customer service staff, combined with unstaffed stations make it impossible to reduce the need to pre-book, and create a ‘toxic’ combination for many disabled people that excludes them from using rail.” (pg.17)
2. DPTAC’s warning letter to Peter Wilkinson, April 2016
In the month that RMT industrial action began on Southern Rail, DPTAC wrote to Peter Wilkinson to warn him that any policy involving the running of unstaffed trains to unstaffed stations would be “illegal”:
“We question how older and disabled people, and particularly those who suffer from acute anxiety and mental health issues, can travel when there are effectively no customer service staff on the train or on the station. On this point we know that the toxic combination of driver-only operated trains and unstaffed stations fails to deliver a service that meets the needs of many disabled passengers. As a result DPTAC is seeking a guarantee that such policies cannot undermine the fundamental principle of accessibility – which would in any event be illegal.” (pg.2)
3. DPTAC’s response to the SE Franchise consultation, May 2017
“DPTAC believes that the franchise process can and must be used to ensure that the right level of staffing is provided by the train operator for all passengers, particularly for those who may need assistance. It is not sufficient for the process to ‘encourage bidders to suggest ways to increase the availability of staff’. Accessibility can only be improved for users and non-users if the franchise agreement stipulates that adequate staff at station, and on train are available to meet customers’ needs at all points of the journey and at all times that the service is operating.
It is the combination of driver only trains (with no other on-board staff) and unstaffed stations that leads to an inconsistent and poor service to many disabled people, and serves to exclude many disabled people who do not currently uses rail services as they do not have the confidence to do so under the perception that their needs will fail to be met.
While it is well understood that it is a legal as well as social responsibility of Government and the train operator to deliver accessible services, it is unfortunate that under the important heading of ‘Social Responsibility’ the emphasis is on delivering ‘safe, secure and sustainable transport’ with no mention of accessibility and inclusion. Safety and accessibility are, in many respects one and the same, and both are underpinned by legal requirements that both requirements will be fulfilled. This franchise process should therefore require steps to be taken to deliver accessible services and not serve to legitimise the operation of services that combine trains with no staff available to assist passengers during a journey, and address the issue of how disabled customers’ needs will be addressed at unstaffed stations.” (pg.4)
4. DPTAC’s response to the GW Franchise consultation, Feb 2018
“In terms of journey times more generally, we caution against the excessive reduction of station dwell times, and would like to see sufficient time allowed for passengers to board and alight, including assisted passengers. For example, the Committed Obligation included in the recent South Western Franchise Agreement to reduce dwell times to 30 seconds at most stations would seem to work against extending journey opportunities for disabled passengers. This is not sufficient for the deployment of a platform-train ramp, and may not be sufficient for those passengers needing other assistance or who simply need a little more time – likely to become increasingly an issue due to an ageing population.” (pg. 4 – 5)
“We do not believe it is sufficient solely to expect the franchisee to develop proposals for improving accessibility at stations, given the substantial barriers to access for disabled passengers known to exist on this franchise. We would encourage DfT to specify within the Invitation to Tender and Franchise Agreement significant improvements to train and station services.
In particular, we suggest that it is made a Franchise Committed Obligation to provide staff either on stations, or on-board trains (but never neither) – to provide information, reassurance and assistance to passengers, including the provision of boarding and alighting assistance. We welcome the proposals to provide additional staff at 15 stations, but this does not address fully our concerns regarding staff availability.
At present, there are 29 GWR unstaffed / part-staffed stations which are nevertheless served by Driver Only Operated (DOO) trains with no regular on-board staff available. These include e.g.: Bedwyn, Henley-on-Thames, and Hungerford – all well-used stations with step-free access to all platforms, but no means for assisted passengers to board and alight unless a member of staff is sent to the station (which requires advance notice, and sufficient spare staff which may not be the case). This practice results arguably in substantial disadvantage for disabled passengers (as defined in the Equality Act 2020), and is wholly inconsistent with the proposed Franchise Objective of ‘an excellent and continually improving service for all passengers’. Without the capability to travel on a spontaneous basis, and on the same terms as other passengers, disabled people, and wider society, cannot benefit fully from the multi-billion pound investment currently being made across the franchise. Given the size of the investment, and the e.g. external health and employment benefits of an inclusive service, for some disabled people it may seem as if the ship is being sunk for a ha’penny worth of tar.
It is also relevant that the Elizabeth Line will be offering a ‘turn-up-and-go’ assistance service at all times trains are running. This will bring the inadequacy of GWR’s assistance capability sharply into focus, especially at e.g. Thames Valley branch lines feeding directly into the Elizabeth Line.
Going forward DPTAC would caution against any proposals to reduce the guaranteed presence of existing on-train staff – which may have a significant impact on the ability and confidence of disabled people to use GWR services.” (pg.6 – 7)
5. DPTAC May 2018 meeting with Nus Ghani, Rail Minister
“Matthew Smith asked (staffing on rail) “On the issue of Driver Only trains, operators cannot provide a reliable Assisted Travel service, or otherwise support many of the needs of disabled people, when running unstaffed trains to unstaffed stations. This is also relevant to many other passengers not within DPTAC’s remit, for example unaccompanied children. DPTAC’s concerns are part of wider passenger concerns about the availability of staff.
The ongoing staffing changes are being implemented by train operators in order to fulfil DfT Franchise Agreements which permit, encourage or mandate the extension of Driver Only operation. The origin of this is the McNulty report from 2011 (‘Realising the potential of rail in Great Britain’) which argued that the ‘default position’ should be DOO, and a second member of on-train staff should only be provided where there is a ‘commercial, technical or other imperative‘.
Does the Minister agree that the accessibility of the rail network to disabled people is that ‘other imperative‘, and that DfT should ensure that Franchise Agreements require on-train staff to be provided wherever trains run to unstaffed or part-staffed stations?
In response the Minister said –
DOO/DCO were not new and have operated without significant impact since the 1980s. She did not consider that DOO on more of the network, alongside other measures to improve access more generally, would have a significant impact.
The Minister noted DPTAC’s advice and its concerns and that this is an issue at which the Department’s view does not follow that of DPTAC’s concerns.
DPTAC noted that the impact of the combination of DOO and unstaffed stations has not been properly considered and that its advice to the Department is that such an evaluation is needed urgently.” (pg.3 – 4)
6. Letter to ABC from Keith Richards Chair of DPTAC
In response to our FOI requests on the issues of DOO, dwell times and staffing, the Chair of DPTAC sent a covering letter explaining DPTAC’s position on these matters:
“By way of a summary of DPTAC’s advice to the Department on these issues, it is that we are very concerned that the ability of train operating companies to provide assisted travel to disabled passengers is primarily influenced by staffing levels on board trains and on stations. We believe that the combination of driver-only operated trains and unstaffed stations fails to deliver a service that meets the needs of an increasing number of disabled passengers. As a result DPTAC has advised the DfT to urgently research this area to gather evidence of whether the way franchise holders operate their franchised services are delivering accessible rail services, or are delivering a lower level of service than other rail users receive, are excluding disabled people completely.”
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Author abcommutersPosted on July 25, 2018 July 25, 2018 Categories Equality of Access, NewsTags Chris Grayling, Department for Transport, Disabled Access, Discrimination, Equality Act, Govia, Govia Thameslink Railway, Great Western Railway, Nusrat Ghani, Peter Wilkinson, RMT union, SoutheasternLeave a comment on Exposed: Disabled access cover up at the Department for Transport
First Class Controversy on GTR – a Boon for the DfT?
A First Class controversy involving Mark Boon (GTR’s Head of Network Operations) went viral on Wednesday and has since found its way into every national newspaper.
As ever, we encourage people not to get caught up in the personal stuff but to actively call the media’s attention to the far bigger scandal underneath – GTR’s management contract with the DfT. The reason that Mark Boon’s attitude hit home for so many is because its the perfect metaphor for a company that functions as a proxy to the Department, and with complete impunity:
So, if we’re talking farce (while also trying to make a serious political point) there is nowhere better to go next than the story behind the First Class declassification last month….
Alistair Burt’s Announcement – A Comedy of Errors
The #RailPlan2020 timetable collapsed on May 20th, and passengers on the GTR network have suffered a ‘turn up and hope’ timetable ever since. Conditions have been overcrowded, unpredictable, dangerous and hot – the effect this has had on those with disabilities and health conditions cannot be overstated.
And yet, despite this unprecedented rail crisis, and the clear health, safety and equality issues for passengers, it took over five weeks for First Class declassification to be agreed.
The news was announced by Alistair Burt MP at 6:30 pm on the 28th June:
Unfortunately for Alistair, his moment of triumphant announcement was overshadowed by the fact that this came as a complete surprise to GTR’s social media team. Here they are on the first day of declassification, still unaware:
And here’s GTR’s social media report from the morning of the 29th, the day that First Class declassification should have begun:
Who makes the call on First Class?
As with most things GTR, this was a DfT decision – note this extract from Jo Johnson’s announcement letter on the 28th June, linked below:
First Class announcement letter from Jo Johnson 28.06.18.
Questions for the Department for Transport:
Why take over five weeks to declassify? This meant inflicting an unnecessary level of overcrowding on passengers, in the context of an unprecedented timetable collapse and a UK heatwave.
Why has the Department failed to prioritise the health, safety and equality aspects of the overcrowding on GTR – this excludes passengers with a wide range of disabilities and health conditions from rail travel.
Last year, Chris Grayling stated his ‘absolute commitment’ to ending First Class on overcrowded commuter routes. Can this commitment be sincere when there has been such delay and resistance to declassifying even at the time of an emergency?
We are expecting to see a reduction in off-peak services in the new ‘interim’ timetable. Why can’t First Class declassification apply all day, and across all ‘train brands’ – all of which belong to the same company?
Why is First Class declassification ending on 15th July rather than staying in place until things have fully stabilised and passengers can travel without excessive overcrowding?
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Author abcommutersPosted on July 13, 2018 Categories Community, Equality of Access, NewsTags Department for Transport, First Class, Govia Thameslink RailwayLeave a comment on First Class Controversy on GTR – a Boon for the DfT?
London Bridge tonight: DPAC and ABC protest GTR disabled access policies
We’ll be joining Disabled People Against the Cuts for a ‘People’s Picket’ at London Bridge station (Shard entrance) from 5 – 6pm tonight. RSVP here.
The controversial staff training guide released on Friday has sent a shockwave through our communities. It has never been more important to stand in solidarity with disabled people and everyone who will be affected either now or in the future by this insitutionalised breach of the Equality Act.
We have now been granted permission by the BTP, and hope that we will be welcoming several MPs at the protest. Please join us tonight and stand in solidarity with all passengers affected by #Rail2020.
#KeepTheGuardOnTheTrain
The GTR staff training guide that the RMT released on Friday was even more shocking than we feared. It also showed that the company has now begun a ‘call ahead’ policy when boarding passengers, which has led to members of our groups being refused boarding even though the train was sitting right in front of them at the station.
The removal of a guaranteed guard from the train creates a loophole that we believe will only lead to further, institutionalised breaches of the Equality Act. With the ‘call ahead’ policy, it is now clear that this will have an equivalent effect on pre-booked and ‘turn up and go’ passengers, so the myth that pre-booking will be a solution under DOO is disproven.
Removing a wheelchair user from their chosen form of transport because of the company’s inability to staff the network adequately is blatant discrimination. We do not consider taxis a reasonable adjustment, especially with the extended waiting times at unstaffed/rural stations. It is only a matter of time before this Equality Act breach is confronted in court – and that’s not our opinion, but the verdict of a 2-year buried Rail Delivery Group report on the matter.
We believe the current industrial dispute could be solved easily with the simple guarantee of a second member of staff. This is clearly the precedent on which all future staffing plans will be based, and the easiest way to ensure the principles of the Equality Act are met. There can be no justification for an endless taxpayer-funded dispute that aims to break a trade union at the expense of disabled people’s rights.
We have little faith in current consultations involving the DfT and the RDG, who have already shown themselves to be deliberately evading this issue. There is no sense in professing to take disabled access seriously when on the other hand, you are trying to remove an important staffing precedent from workers and passengers alike.
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Author abcommutersPosted on May 21, 2018 May 27, 2018 Categories Community, Equality of Access, NewsTags Department for Transport, Disabled Access, Discrimination, Equality Act, Govia Thameslink Railway, Southern RailLeave a comment on London Bridge tonight: DPAC and ABC protest GTR disabled access policies
EXCLUSIVE: full copy of GTR’s staff training document, which discriminates against disabled passengers
Further to the RMT’s announcement this morning about GTR’s latest disabled access policy, we are now able to provide a copy of the full document: Pit Stop GTR
Having studied the ‘Pit Stop’ staff training document in full, we would like to emphasise that Southern Rail’s public comments today on the issue have been extremely misleading. Here’s what they have said on Twitter so far:
We strongly object to their claim that the staff training document has been ‘taken out of context’, and now present the three main areas where it discriminates against, humiliates, and even potentially endangers passengers.
Pit Stop: Key principles for managing station dwell times
Pit Stop GTR applies to all four brands of Govia Thameslink Railway and focuses on cutting down dwell times at stations. From the very first page, the document clearly spells out the ‘key principles and priorities’ of dispatch: Safety, Speed, Efficiency and Professionalism. Nowhere is the principle of equality of access even referred to in what is clearly a core training document for staff.
Pages 3 – 5 on ‘Right Time Start’ and the 20, 30, 40 dispatch process are nothing new – these kind of management initiatives have been around for at least 20 years. To be clear: there is nothing wrong with the rail industry working on improving dwell times – but there is everything wrong with a policy that priorities this to the exclusion of basic human rights – and completely ignores the context of destaffing and the removal of the onboard staff guarantee. This document shows a ruthless disregard for the welfare of a wide range of vulnerable passengers, solely for the sake of efficiency.
Now more than ever, we urge all disability rights campaigners to demand the full and transparent publication of all research on dwell times. This call should be made urgently to the Department for Transport and include the lobbying of the Rail Delivery Group for the immediate release of the #SDGreport.
Pit Stop: a GTR staff training document proving the rollback of disabled access
This document proves the argument we have been making for two years: that the removal of a guaranteed guard from the train creates a loophole that will inevitably lead to institutionalised breaches of the Equality Act. With the ‘call ahead’ policy described below, it also shows that this will have an equal effect on pre-booked or ‘turn up and go’ passengers. Indeed, there is no mention of booking or turn up and go on this document: so the myth that pre-booking will ensure successful journeys under DOO is dispelled.
Removing a wheelchair user from their chosen form of transport because of the company’s inability to staff the network adequately is blatant discrimination. We do not consider taxis a reasonable adjustment, especially with the extended waiting times at unstaffed rural stations. It is only a matter of time before this Equality Act breach is confronted in court – and that’s not our opinion, but the verdict of the 2-year buried Rail Delivery Group report on the matter.
Here are the three main points that we believe discrimate against, humiliate, and potentially endanger vulnerable passengers:
1. The document proves that GTR has begun a ‘call ahead’ policy
Two months ago, we went to the press over a number of incidents where wheelchair users were refused boarding, despite having booked ahead. Despite our co-founder’s protestations, GTR denied there was any such policy:
Today, we can say definitively that what we claimed to be a new policy from GTR is indeed the case. The process of contacting the destination station to ensure staff are available is spelt out in detail on page 8:
This can only be the result of the removal of the guaranteed second staff member from GTR trains; the central argument of the RMT industrial dispute. It is no longer the case that a guaranteed guard will stay with the train and thus be primarily responsible for the disabled person’s boarding and alighting. This again proves the main point of the buried Rail Delivery Group report: ‘the Conductor is the best line of assistance for older and disabled people’.
2. GTR guidance sacrifices equality for dwell times
The issue of dwell times is something that we have been able to find little information on, and we are still pursuing the buried #SDGreport, in the suspicion that it focuses on passenger behaviour around this issue. Page 7 is the perhaps the most damning page in the ‘Pit Stop’ document, as it implies that equality of access is not even a consideration to GTR:
It is also troubling that the presence of an ‘onboard supervisor’ is not assumed here, and the process seems to refer only to station staff’s role in the process.
3. GTR’s policy on moving sick passengers could humiliate them and even endanger their health
Particularly cruel is the language around passengers taken ill on trains. Anyone with First Aid training will see immediately that GTR’s miniscule list of contraindications to moving passengers is insensitive and potentially dangerous. To remove someone who has just suffered a grand mal seizure and possibly soiled themselves onto a freezing platform when they are disorientated, with no medical presence or advice, would be unforgivable.
For a full history of our campaign against GTR’s rollback of disabled access, see this resource.
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Acon Digital Releases Extract:Dialogue — Noise Reduction for Dialogue based on Deep Learning
Oslo, December 10th, 2020 — Acon Digital has released Extract:Dialogue, a plug-in that separates dialogue from common types of background noise such as wind, rustle, traffic, hum, clicks and pops. The algorithm works in real time and is based on a neural network trained on thousands of high-quality voice recordings and an equally extensive set of common noise sources. This extensive training enables the artificial intelligence to automatically distinguish dialogue from noise without user interaction, which makes Extract:Dialogue extremely easy to use.
Despite the fully automatic noise reduction, the plug-in interface does offer simple controls to adjust the sensitivity of the noise detection and the maximum noise attenuation. The sensitivity can also be adjusted independently in up to three frequency bands. The Maximum attenuation control is very handy when the goal is to reduce the noise without removing it completely. All the plug-in parameters are fully automatable.
Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue is available for both Windows (PC) and macOS (Macintosh). Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available for Windows and the version for macOS is 64 bit. The plug-in formats VST, VST3, AAX Native / AudioSuite and Audio Units (macOS only) are supported.
Extract:Dialogue was released today and is available in the Acon Digital Store for $99.90 USD. The upcoming version 7.3 of Acoustica Premium Edition will include Extract:Dialogue and owners of the Premium Edition can download and authorize Extract:Dialogue with their Acoustica Premium Edition 7.x license key.
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June 29, 2016 August 19, 2016 by Stratbase ADR Institute
Philippines urged: Set tone on sea row
By Jaime Laude
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government and its new political leadership have been urged to stand firm on their position once they obtain a favorable ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in a maritime case Manila filed against China.
Private think tank Stratbase ADR Institute said the Philippines should immediately set the tone of what is to be followed by all countries with claims in the West Philippine Sea or South China Sea.
“The Philippines should continue to advocate the adherence by all states, including China, to the terms of the ruling and all claimants should avoid any activity that could worsen tensions in the region,” Stratbase ADR Institute president Dindo Manhit said in yesterday’s forum on the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
Manhit said the next administration could pursue its claim in the West Philippine Sea while still improving the country’s economic relationship with Beijing.
“Developing a credible defense posture in the region should be seen as a complement to the strategic deterrence provided by the US and partnerships with Japan and Australia,” he said.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior analyst Lisa Sharland said the EDCA does not only underscore American involvement in the region, but also serves as a reminder of the value of other partnerships for the Philippines.
“Australia and the Philippines will work together to develop architecture supportive of security stability and cooperation. They will form confidence-building measures to minimize the risk of conflict in the region,” Sharland said.
The arbitral decision will serve as a test for the Duterte administration, not only on the international rule of law, but also on diplomacy and communication. – With Victor Martin
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Timberman: The Process of Developing a Hit Game with Pawel Kitajewski from Digital Melody
by Steve Young | Jul 30, 2014
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Coming up I have the creator of Timberman and he talks about how he came up with the idea and how you balance between frustrating and addicting. Also, listen to his tip on the 3 elements that allow Timberman to really take off.
Pawel Kitajewski is the creator of Timberman.
How Timberman came to life
While he was watching a video in YouTube of someone playing Flappy Bird, he found it as addicting and hypnotic and it got him thinking to create the same simple situation which can be made as an animation. Upon pondering what made the Flappy Bird a success, he realized that it was mostly because of the mechanics and the simplicity which gave it the old school feeling of the game. So he thought that his creation should be the same, it has to be something easy like a pizza boy, a delivery man or maybe alumber jack chopping down a tree.
After creating the animation using adobe after effect, he sent it to developer who turned it into a game within 2 – 3 days. In the next three weeks, they upgraded the graphics and game play but struck to the basic illustrations. They tested the waters by showing it off in the bar counter at a birthday party. It was an instant hit.
Balancing frustration and addiction
In the previous versions of Timberman, there was this illusion that the branches are very high over Timeberman’s head. It was annoying because you get the feeling that he will survive since you get an extra space over the character’s head. But when you tap, he actually gets hit in the head because it wasn’t a high as you thought. Pawel’s team removed this frustration by changing the pixel distance, decreasing the position of the branch by two pixels. Making this one change made it playable and contributed to the good gaming experience.
Three elements which drove Timberman’s popularity
To spread the word about Timberman, Pawel’s team also tried contacting editors to get press but it got very depressing when they got no response after tons of communications sent. So they started going to gaming exhibitions, exchanged business cards there and presented their game to review editors and other developers. This created connections and they started to build relationships which brought a change as people now personally know them and they now responded to emails.
They have also taken advantage of social media through Twitter to share game scores. Every time you hit the Game Over screen, an option to share it to your followers will appear and when it is posted as a tweet, a link to the game is also present so other people can download it.
Another strategy they have employed is the use of Facebook wherein the gamer can unlock one character by liking their Facebook fan page. This drove their sites to have 300k fans and it is still growing today.
What is the #1 thing you’d like the listener to walk away with from this interview?
Simple ideas that can be realized in a short period of time are pretty cool because you can test and publish them in a short period of time. If you are doing good, great. If it is not, you can simply move on. This way you can create more apps, and the bigger number of apps you have, the greater probability of success.
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Kart’s Racing World for PC and MAC
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Diaries of Lt Col Aubrey Dallas Percival Hodges
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb809-hodges
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Archives
GB 809 Hodges
Hodges | Aubrey Dallas Percival | 1861-1946 | Lieutenant Colonel | tropical public health physician
Photocopied diaries of Hodges during his research into sleeping sickness in Uganda.
Born 1861; educated Epsom College and London Hospital; Assistant Resident Medical Officer, South-East Fever Hospital, New Cross, London; House Physician, House Surgeon and Resident Accoucheur, London Hospital; Medical Officer in charge Sleeping Sickness Extended Investigation; Principal Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate, 1908-1918; Lt Col Commanding Uganda Medical Service and Assistant Director of Medical Services for Uganda, 1914-1918; Fellow Royal Institute of Public Health; Fellow Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; died 1946. Publications: Observations relating to the transmission of Sleeping Sickness in Uganda; the distribution and bionomics of Glossina palpalis; and to clearing measures and Progress Report on the Uganda Sleeping Sickness Camps from December, 1906, to November 30th, 1908 (Royal Society, Sleeping Sickness Bureau, London, 1909).
This collection is open for consultation. Please contact the Archivist to arrange an appointment. All researchers must complete and sign a user registration form which signifies their agreement to abide by the archive rules. All researchers are required to provide proof of identity bearing your signature (for example, a passport or debit card) when registering. Please see website for further information at www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives
Deposited by the family of Col Hodges in 1981.
Compiled by Erika Gwynett and Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Who's Who. Revised by Victoria Killick, LSHTM Archvist, August 2004.
A detailed computer catalogue is available for use in the Archives and the on-line archive catalogue will be available at www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives from 2005
Alternative Form Available
Copies of the diaries also held at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford University
Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist
The family of Colonel Hodges have retained the original diaries.
Hodges Aubrey Dallas Percival 1861-1946 tropical public health physician Lieutenant Colonel
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Arizona Rainbow Wood
Petrified Wood Ranch History
Mining Operations
Lapidary Showcase
Bud Greer opened up the ranch for surface collecting to rock clubs and individuals in the 1950’s, with campsites and barbecue pits for the overnight guests. As with most of the ranches east and west of the national park, most all of the petrified wood on the surface was collected over the next 30-40 years, leaving only the largest logs, moveable only by heavy equipment. And even some of those were sold by enterprising locals.
One such individual was Marlin Maxwell, who had homesteaded a site on what was the old NZ Ranch property, just south of our ranch. Mr. Maxwell had become known as the local go-to guy for buying larger loads of petrified wood from the surrounding ranches, as this was his main source of income. He knew the land and knew the ranch managers, allowing him the access needed. Mr Maxwell sold numerous loads of petrified wood logs from the ranch to the handful of commercial cutting operations in the country, as is evident by their stories and collections.
More recent digging on the ranch occurred in 2003-2004, mainly on the lower sections: 31, 32, 33, and 34. Smaller equipment was used such as backhoes, with a maximum digging depth of 10-15 ft. According to the diggers’ own stories, the pits they eventually abandoned and filled-in had numerous large logs showing in the bottom. This supports similar findings on another ranch where the digging pits keep on yielding logs as far down as they currently have dug. A bottomless pit of petrified wood logs.
As there most likely is no known deposit pattern in the formation yielding these magnificent logs, a generally accepted picture of where the logs are located has developed through the following information gathering methods:
Past diggings
Study of general geology of area
Drilling intercepts from potash exploration companies
Surface deposits or remnants thereof
Our conclusion is that the Chinle Formation has petrified wood from the surface as far down as 800 ft. The logs are randomly grouped together, yet single logs are also found regularly. It is common to find 5-10 logs or more together, as if they were deposited a long time ago by some natural event which concentrated them into groupings. They almost exclusively are horizontal to today’s surface.
The petrified wood logs range in color and quality. With the ranch is situated on the Puerco Ridge area, which is known to be a top producer of colorful logs, as can be observed if one follows the Puerco Ridge westwards into the national park area, where the area called Rainbow Fields is located. Further west, on the sections adjacent to the parks western edge, is Jim Gray’s digging operation, where a treasure-trove of petrified wood has been mined over the last 20-30 years.
The ranch produces both rainbow wood as well as milky wood, which has various colors floating in a milky white center or background. It also has blackwood, another form of the connifer pine that was the prevalent tree in this Triassic forest, as well as Woodworthia and Schildaria varieties.
Along with abundant petrified wood, half a dozen fossil sites have been explored, with agatized bone and skulls from phytosaurs, desmatosuchus, and other unidentified Triassic reptiles.
Scroll down to see the categories of petrified wood that come from the ranch or view our Lapidary Showcase to see examples of finished petrified wood products.
Landscape Logs
White Landscape Logs
Rainbow Tumble
Tumble by the Barrel
Polished Stumps
Table Tops in Crates
©2020 Arizona Rainbow Wood
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Lifesaving Poems: Chrissy Williams’s ‘The Burning of the Houses’
Anthony Wilson January 7, 2015 June 29, 2017 Chrissy Williams, Happenstance, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, Writing
The Burning Of The Houses
Tottenham is on fire and I work in an arts centre
where the sky is blue and I can hear birdsong
from a sound installation of birds
cooing outside my office window.
This is London. Hackney is on fire now
and Jamie is looking up from his desk.
He stops working. He tweets that he can see
people smashing up a bus. He says there is a car
being soaked in petrol. He asks if there is someone
in that car. He tells us that car has been set alight.
This is London. Croydon is on fire now
and Anna is Facebooking furiously from Manchester
calling everyone bastards for doing this.
I am watching the BBC and reading Twitter
licking between #LondonRiot and my friends.
Sometimes you can be proud of your friends.
I remember when Bianca came to stay
and we got tickets to watch The Night
James Brown Saved Boston in the QEH.
People are getting hurt. Television isn’t going
to save us. But it’s okay now, some of my friends
are linking to videos of kittens which must mean
everyone is fine. This is London. It is on fire.
I go to bed while it is burning. I wake up
and parts of it are still burning.
Chrissy Williams
from Flying into the Bear (Happenstance, 2013)
It is good to see a young poet tackling a topic of such heavyweight, political interest as the London riots. In its slightly offhand diction and demotic-heavy reporting of the caged minute, it appears to be doing nothing of the kind. I also like this in a poem.
‘I am not going to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty’, the poem wants to tell us, and then proceeds to do exactly that.
Look at that first sentence. ‘Tottenham is on fire and I work in an arts centre/ where the sky is blue and I can hear birdsong/ from a sound installation of birds/ cooing outside my office window’ (my italics). Look how long it runs, all made possible by the choice of that ‘and’ in the first line. Thus the facts of Tottenham being on fire and the speaker working in an arts centre are put on an equal footing right from the off, presented without commentary, the two ‘spaces’ of riot and art juxtaposed, if not merged completely.
This reminds me of what Seamus Heaney talked about in the opening essay of The Government of the Tongue, ‘The Interesting Case of Nero, Chekhov’s Cognac and a Knocker’, where he highlighted of the conflict between ‘song and suffering’. His context of course was the Troubles in Belfast, telling the story of the pressure he and his friend the singer David Hammond felt not to make a recording of music and poetry on a night when bombs were going off mere streets away. The context, tone and idiom could not be more different, but I have no doubt Chrissy Williams shares exactly the same awareness of that tension in her own material.
The arts centre is described with the prepositional ‘where’: ‘where I can hear birdsong and the sky is blue’. Things are upside down. The indoors has become the outdoors, the world outside brought inescapably to the interior. We may not be safe. Later the poem will tell us ‘it’s okay now’, but really we knew this already, because of the ‘birdsong/ from a sound installation of birds/ cooing’. Which is more ‘real’, the sound-installation birds cooing outside the office window or the tweets about ‘people smashing up a bus’? The poem seems to argue that they are as significant as each other: videos of kittens are as much a signifier of ‘normality’ as ‘furiously’ using Facebook to post opinion about events hundreds of miles away.
‘Playfulness’ is an overused word to describe poems which have such sudden shifts of tone, place and idea, and where seriousness runs the risk of masking itself with references to Facebook (as a verb) and Twitter. But in this poem, and for this poet, it really is what she is up to. At its heart the poem is not so much about burning houses and cars, but the way we look at culture, from cooing birdsong installations, to James Brown concerts, to using the right hashtag so that your looking can be looked at by others. It is not enough to look any more, it is what your looking looks like and who it is seen by.
This is what makes the reference to James Brown so poignant. The notes at the back of Flying Into The Bear tell us that the singer was responsible for halting the Boston riots of 1968 with a single gig. But in the poem this is presented as memory of travel to a place of high culture to observe a performance of popular culture that in memory has become loaded with political significance : ‘I remember when Bianca came to stay/ and we got tickets to watch The Night/ James Brown Saved Boston in the QEH.’
In its refusal to make judgements (look at the deliciously neutral ‘Sometimes you can be proud of your friends’) and overt lack of trust in a single narrative to describe an event of real, not poetic, suffering, the poem can properly be called postmodern.
I think Chrissy Williams is the future.
With thanks to Chrissy Williams
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2014, Boston Riots, Boston Riots 1968, Chrissy Williams, Flying Into The Bear, Happenstance Press, James Brown, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, London Riots, London Riots Poems, London Riots Poetry, Nell Nelson, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Postmodern poetry, Postmodernism, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, The Burning of the Houses, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry
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jazzcookie says:
Anthony – a wonderful poem and a terrific lesson you have appended to it. If you are right, and I hope you are, that Chrissy Williams is the future, we have much to look forward to.
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A Mach-uniform preconditioner for incomp...
A Mach-uniform preconditioner for incompressible and subsonic flows
Bas O., TUNCER İ. H. , Kaynak U.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS, cilt.74, ss.100-112, 2014 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Doi Numarası: 10.1002/fld.3841
Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS
In this study, a novel Mach-uniform preconditioning method is developed for the solution of Euler equations at low subsonic and incompressible flow conditions. In contrast to the methods developed earlier in which the conservation of mass equation is preconditioned, in the present method, the conservation of energy equation is preconditioned, which enforces the divergence free constraint on the velocity field even at the limiting case of incompressible, zero Mach number flows. Despite most preconditioners, the proposed Mach-uniform preconditioning method does not have a singularity point at zero Mach number. The preconditioned system of equations preserves the strong conservation form of Euler equations for compressible flows and recovers the artificial compressibility equations in the case of zero Mach number. A two-dimensional Euler solver is developed for validation and performance evaluation of the present formulation for a wide range of Mach number flows. The validation cases studied show the convergence acceleration, stability, and accuracy of the present Mach-uniform preconditioner in comparison to the non-preconditioned compressible flow solutions. The convergence acceleration obtained with the present formulation is similar to those of the well-known preconditioned system of equations for low subsonic flows and to those of the artificial compressibility method for incompressible flows. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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What determines the gender of a neologism?
February 10, 2011 6:34 AM Subscribe
In languages where nouns have a gender, how is the gender determined for neologisms or loanwords?
The Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications has a recent example:
"An article about the influx of English words into the German language made the new German term "Afterparty" masculine, when in fact it should have been feminine, thus "eine Afterparty", not "ein Afterparty" (Leaks change German language, 2 February, page 22)."
Who, what, or how was it determined that "Afterparty" is feminine?
posted by roofus to Writing & Language (24 answers total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
Like the rest of the language: it's arbitrary. Other than sexually-differentiated animals, nothing has a real "gender" to speak of, but languages that use declension assign genders to them anyway. There's no real rhyme or reason. I mean, in German, why is "dog" masculine, "cat" feminine, and "little girl" neutral?
posted by valkyryn at 6:37 AM on February 10, 2011
In Russian, from what I remember, it comes down to what things sound like. Computer is masculine, because it's easy to decline like a masculine noun, but metro is neuter, for the same reason, and words like taxi (which looks like a plural) are undeclinable. My introductory Russian grammar book is a few miles away, but I can fill in more tonight if no one else has.
posted by SMPA at 6:44 AM on February 10, 2011
What determines the gender of nouns depends on the language, and really comes down to patterns rather than rules. For example, in French, there's a pattern that words ending in "-age" are generally masculine, although there are exceptions (such as "la cage"). In German, one of the patterns is simply that loan words are pretty much automatically feminine.
posted by baf at 6:52 AM on February 10, 2011
SMPA is right with regards to Russian. In Russian, and probably several other Slavic languages, it probably has to do with how the word ends and which structures the noun best fits with.
In Russian, most nouns that end with a consonant are masculine.
Most nouns that end with a vowel are feminine.
Most nouns that are neutral end with an "o" or "ye" sound and are indeclinable, though many follow the masculine rules for declension.
Internet, which is an English word, is borrowed in Russian and is a masculine noun because it ends with a consonant and can easily decline as a masculine noun as it fit the appropriate grammatical structures for masculine nouns. I can't, at the moment, think of a borrowed word that in Russian has become feminine, but I'm sure some exist.
posted by zizzle at 6:57 AM on February 10, 2011
,,die Party" is already a loanword from English in German. Much like other Germanic languages, English included, the declension/pluralization of nouns in German is determined by the root word, which in this case is ,,die Party," hence ,,die Afterparty."
,,die Party" can be used interchangeably with ,,die Fete," which is itself a loanword from French.
posted by Es ist Zeit, dass es Zeit wird! at 7:02 AM on February 10, 2011
In Italian, the great, great, great majority of loan words are masculine and that is because the great majority of loan words end in a consonant and/or are neutral in their language of origin (English, mostly, which doesn't gender its nouns). Italian, which doesn't have a neutral gender, defaults to masculine. Nouns that are gendered female in the language of origin generally retain their gender in the switch to Italian, for example la toilette, from the French, but they tend to be few and far between.
The exception seems to be words that have an Italian equivalent which is feminine (e-mail, for example, codes feminine, la mail probably because it translates to la posta). Then again, the web is il web, despite the fact that its translation la rete is feminine. There is no hard and fast rule, unfortunately.
So, when in doubt, loan words default to masculine, the rest are exceptions and have to be learned along the way.
posted by lydhre at 7:10 AM on February 10, 2011
If I had to ascribe a gender to "afterparty" in Russian, I would judge it to be feminine. The word "metro" is neutral.
The only thing I can add to what people already said is that as a long time expat of Russia I sometimes give wrong gender to the nouns that entered russian language after I've left the country. So once the word crosses over some sort of unofficial consensus happens among the speakers as to which gender is the correct one. Since I'm isolated from that group I do in fact get it wrong from time to time. Just an example of how fluid language really is.
posted by Shusha at 7:11 AM on February 10, 2011
baf: "In German, one of the patterns is simply that loan words are pretty much automatically feminine."
Really? The politics of that statement are awesome.
posted by mkultra at 7:15 AM on February 10, 2011
Like the rest of the language: it's arbitrary.... I mean, in German, why is "dog" masculine, "cat" feminine, and "little girl" neutral?
Well, funny thing that. In German mädchen ("little girl") is neuter because all German diminutives in -chen are neuter.
I mean, okay, it's arbitrary that German follows that pattern and not some other one. ("Why are all diminutives in -chen neuter?" "Dunno." "I mean, who made that rule?" "Dunno.") But because there is a pattern, that means that the assignment of genders to individual words isn't arbitrary.
So if you wanted to coin a brand-new German diminutive noun by adding -chen to something, you couldn't just up and decide to make your new noun masculine. There's an existing pattern in the language that you'd have to follow, and the existing pattern says it would need to be neuter.
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:16 AM on February 10, 2011
In German, one of the patterns is simply that loan words are pretty much automatically feminine.
I'm not so sure. Quite a few of the internationale Wörter that most people encounter on a daily basis: das Internet, das Handy (mobile phone), das Notebook, das Ipod, das Iphone, das MacBook, das Programm, das App, das Auto, etc are neuter.
Some nouns are made to fit certain grammatical gender rules in German. Most nouns that end in -er are masculine, so der Computer, der Browser, etc.
I assume that the word ,,die Party" is feminine, because it approximates the word ,,die Fete" in its meaning and ,,die Partei" (political party) in its form.
it's arbitrary that German follows that pattern and not some other one.
The language evolved that way, but I think arbitrary is still a good way to describe how it arrived there. The difference between a highly evolved language like English and a pretty rigid language like German is natural vs. grammatical gender of nouns.
In English, a woman is female because she is biologically female. In German a girl is das Mädchen, because the diminutive form of die Magd is created by adding -chen and an umlaut to the stem vowel and hence das Mädchen.
In Icelandic it comes down to sound, usually. It's not arbitrary at all. For instance, yen is neuter in Icelandic because words ending -en are neuter. Nouns are usually adapted to the declension system, scone, for instance, became skonsa, which is feminine since words that end in -a are feminine. Words which don't fit neatly into the system, like party, are usually neuter. Sometimes people put the same words into different genders. Coke, which became kók, is declined in the feminine by some (words ending -ók are generally feminine) but most people consider it a neuter noun.
posted by Kattullus at 8:29 AM on February 10, 2011
In Urdu, it seems quite arbitrary, although sometimes you can figure out a connection with a related word that is already in the vocabulary. I was just talking about this the other day with my family when we were using the word 'market' in Urdu. I've usually heard it used as a feminine noun in Urdu, and there doesn't seem to be a logical reason for it. 'bazaar' (yes, the same word that is used in English) is masculine, but 'dukaan' (shop) is feminine. So perhaps 'market' became feminine because it was a multitude of shops?
Arbitrary.
posted by bardophile at 8:40 AM on February 10, 2011
I asked my German professor this question a few years ago and he said people "just know" what gender new words should be. His feeling was that unrecognized deep structures govern the process and that on balance native speakers will tend to assign the same gender to an unfamiliar noun. I don't know I'd there's research to back that up...
posted by gerryblog at 8:43 AM on February 10, 2011
In Greek, if the foreign word actually has a Greek equivalent the gender usually carries over. This happens a lot with technical/computer stuff where there is an actual Greek term, but nobody uses it because it's unwieldy or contrived and the loan word becomes a drop-in replacement. Other than that it's pretty random, with the neutral being somewhat more common.
posted by Dr Dracator at 9:55 AM on February 10, 2011
In Spanish it sometimes comes down to the gender of related or translated words in Spanish. So, most people say 'la Internet' because 'net' translates as 'red', which is female. But there's no hard rule, and in fact some people might say 'el internet'. It's just customary, and changes from country to country.
posted by signal at 10:46 AM on February 10, 2011
> In Russian, most nouns that end with a consonant are masculine.
This begs the question. If a word is borrowed with a consonantal ending, of course it is masculine, but it can equally well be given a feminine ending when it is borrowed, and there is frequently a competition before the language settles on one; this is true, for instance, of фильм(а) 'film,' шланг(а) 'hose,' зал(а) 'hall,' клавиш(а) '(piano) key,' etc. (there are a whole bunch of them listed on page 105 of The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century by Bernard Comrie, Gerald Stone, and Maria Polinsky). Some words have neuter endings but can be used as either masculine or neuter (e.g., радио 'radio,' and famously кофе 'coffee,' the basis of a great Georgian joke), and of course words ending in a soft sign can be either masculine or feminine and have often varied between them (e.g., ферзь '[chess] queen'). It's all very complicated!
Bottom line: it's arbitrary.
posted by languagehat at 11:18 AM on February 10, 2011 [1 favorite]
languagehat: the basis of a great Georgian joke
Don't just leave us hanging here. The joke may be untranslatable, but it's worth sharing all the same.
posted by Kattullus at 11:24 AM on February 10, 2011
Es ist Zeit, dass es Zeit wird!: "The difference between a highly evolved language like English and a pretty rigid language like German is natural vs. grammatical gender of nouns. "
I'm not sure where you get this concept of a "highly evolved" or "rigid" language, but it's a false distinction. English and German are differently evolved, to be sure, but I don't think you could say that one or the other is more highly evolved.
In particular, it's not that English has a more 'natural' gender system for its nouns; it flat-out doesn't have grammatical gender. You can say that a woman is feminine, but in English to say that the word 'woman' is feminine has no meaning.
posted by FlyingMonkey at 3:37 PM on February 10, 2011 [2 favorites]
I think my posting wasn't clear enough.
Modern English does not have grammatical gender—it of course had it as Eald Englisc. English does have natural gender: woman, she; man, he. This is largely divided between entities for whom the gender is known (animate vs. inanimate). You can look at pronoun-antecedent agreement for evidence of this as well, if you like.
German has grammatical gender and to an extent in colloquial speech, natural gender: das Mädchen, es—it is extremely common to refer to a girl as sie.
posted by Es ist Zeit, dass es Zeit wird! at 6:02 PM on February 10, 2011
I agree. What’s the joke?
> Don't just leave us hanging here. The joke may be untranslatable, but it's worth sharing all the same.
Ordinarily, I'd say "Wisecracks don't help people find answers," but this is one of those rare occasions when a joke is actually relevant to the question. So (with the warning that finding this joke funny probably requires knowing Russian; also, you need to know that Georgians stereotypically speak broken Russian, getting genders wrong and not palatalizing consonants):
A Georgian goes up to the counter and asks for "один кофе" (odin kofe, 'one coffee,' using the masculine form of 'one'). The woman behind the counter is (like most Russians with any education) a raging prescriptivist, who seethes over the fact that so many people think кофе is a neuter noun because of its ending and say одно кофе (using the neuter form, odno). She is thrilled that this fellow knows the correct gender, and compliments him effusively as she pours his cup. He then says "и один булочка" (i odin bulochka, 'and one bun,' again using the masculine form of 'one' but this time with the glaringly feminine noun булочка, proving that he simply uses один with every noun).
posted by languagehat at 7:49 AM on February 11, 2011 [6 favorites]
And here's a discussion of кофе from Comrie et al. (pp. 109-10):
All the deficiencies of the neuter group notwithstanding, at least one word, and a very common one, has almost completed its shift from masculine to neuter; it is the word кофе 'coffee'. Borrowed from English or from Dutch (koffie) in the beginning of the eighteenth century, the word originally had the form кофий or кофей, which allowed one to identify it as a masculine noun, by analogy with other nouns in -й. The form in -й is commonly found in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century language; SAR (1806-22) lists only the form кофей. The analogy with чай 'tea' was probably a contributing factor that added to the stability of кофей (кофий) in nineteenth-century language; the two words were sometimes juxtaposed in folklore (чаю-кофию). The form кофе, the rise of which is due to pronunciation reduction of the unstressed final segment, is cited as primary in SRJa (1895-1927); the word кофей (кофий) is explained by reference to кофе. In SSRLJa (1948-65), кофей (кофий) is still cited but as prostorečno [nonstandard colloquial]; other dictionaries (e.g. Ožegov (1972)) do not even mention it. The spread of the form кофе, which resembles other nouns in the neuter, created a conflict between the form and the earlier masculine gender of the word. As an attempt to resolve the conflict, кофе was increasingly used as a neuter noun in spoken Russian. Normative handbooks, however, were very slow and reluctant in acknowledging this change and stubbornly insisted on the masculine; the first mention of neuter, as a permissible variant alongside with masculine, occurs in the Academy Grammar (Русская грамматика 1980: i. 469); see also Zaliznjak (1980) and Borunova et al. (1983).
posted by languagehat at 7:24 AM on February 12, 2011
das Ipod
iPod is masculine in German. Probably because [MP3]-Player is masculine. Similarly, you get neuter with iPhone and MacBook because of Telefon and Buch.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 1:05 PM on February 12, 2011
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Serena Williams, CoCo Gauff, Taylor Townsend and More Bring Black Girl Magic to U.S. Open
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(From left) Cori Gauff, Taylor Townsend, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and Madison Keys. (Photos: Getty Images)
As the US Open rages on, there’s plenty of Black Girl Magic to be had. Tennis stars Cori “Coco” Gauff, Taylor Townsend, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and Madison Keys have all shown their athletic prowess on the court. Sloane Stephens and two-time Open champion Venus Williams were knocked out in the 1st and 2nd round, respectively.
Here are the remaining Black girls spreading their magic at the US Open.
She keeps moving ➡️@CocoGauff defeats Babos in a 3-set thriller to set up a R3 match against Naomi Osaka!#USOpen pic.twitter.com/gJ6C5za4v0
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 30, 2019
Cori Gauff has already taken the tennis world by storm after beating idol Venus Williams at Wimbledon earlier this summer. But as a 15-year-old competing in the Open, she just set the record for youngest woman to reach round 3 since 1996. During her match against Hungarian Tímea Babos, she hit serves that topped out at 118 mph, beating her opponent 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Next, the phenom will take on world no. 1 Naomi Osaka Saturday.
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She’s the first American woman to knock off the reigning Wimbledon champ at the @USOpen since Serena in 2008. pic.twitter.com/rC641HE7lt
— espnW (@espnW) August 29, 2019
A junior Australian Open titleholder, Taylor Townsend, 23, had high expectations as a world top-ranked junior. But once she went pro she fell in the rankings. By the end of 2014, she dropped to No. 102 and was at No. 304 by the end of 2015. She’s now mounting a comeback, and at the U.S. Open, no less. She defeated No. 4 seed Simona Halep of Romania 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(4), becoming the first woman to upset a reigning Wimbledon champion since Serena Williams did 11 years ago.
While playing Halep, Townsend came to the net 106 times (and secured 60 percent of those points) compared to her opponent approaching just 10 times. Townsend’s win against Halep is also her first win in 11 tries against a top-10 player. This after she had to fight through three qualifying rounds to make her fifth Open appearance.
Next, Townsend will take on another Romanian Sorana Cîrstea in the third round Saturday.
She’s done it!
Dropping just five points in the third, @serenawilliams closes out compatriot McNally 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to earn a spot in R3.#USOpen pic.twitter.com/Wl9VvW09Rr
Serena Williams, 37, is still fiercely on her quest to nab a history-making 24th Grand Slam title. The superstar beat Cat McNally 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in the second round after she made a comeback following her 7-5 loss in the first set against the 17-year-old American. Williams managed to win the second and third sets easily in beating an opponent who is 21 years her junior.
Williams will play Czech player Karolina Muchova Friday.
As the stars watched on, @Naomi_Osaka_ made her way into R3…
Catch the best bits 👇 pic.twitter.com/kWz7nVO7Vt
No. 1 seed and defending champion Naomi Osaka, 21, secured a 6-3, 6-4 win over Polish tennis player Magda Linette in round 2 at the Open Thursday after a previous season that saw her land titles at Indian Wells in 2018 in addition to her titles at the U.S. and Australian Opens over this past year. She also shockingly dumped WTA Coach of the year Sascha Bajin and failed to reach the final round of a tournament. But now Osaka is ready and raring to go, according to what she told CBS News.
“One of the biggest things I’ve learned over the summer is … just to keep getting back up. Believe in yourself and have fun,” said the athlete, who is set to play American Coco Gauff in the third round Saturday.
All smiles for @Madison_Keys!
She's into R3 of the @usopen with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Lin Zhu.#TeamUSATennis pic.twitter.com/leOIW38BsA
— USTA (@usta) August 28, 2019
Earning her eighth straight win, Madison Keys, 24, defeated Chinese player Zhu Lin 6-4, 6-1. The win comes after Keys beat Russian Sventlana Kuznetsova in the Western & Southern Open and makes it her longest winning streak since 2016 when she won her second career title at the Birmingham Classic and headed to the fourth round at Wimbledon. Between then and her new tournament victory, Keys made it to the finals at the U.S.Open in 2017 where she lost to compatriot Slone Stephens.
Keys is set to play fellow American Sofia Kenin in the third round today, August 30.
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The new Forest School sessions will mean that eligible children can now do a full day at pre-school on Fridays until 3.15pm, with the option to have a school dinner.
Pre-school Leader, Caroline Hunter said: “We are delighted to be offering Forest School in conjunction with our friends at Bamford Primary. Connecting with nature and learning about the environment is something we’re passionate about, Forest School provides the perfect opportunity for the children to explore and learn about the outdoors, while building their confidence and independence in preparation for big school.”
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Review: Tees Maar Khan / Toonpur Ka Superrhero
CANDY CON
What was meant to be a lighthearted caper sinks like a ton of lead. Plus, technically accomplished pabulum for poppets.
DEC 26, 2010 – IN THE IMPROBABLE EVENT that a case is made for Farah Khan as an auteur, her leitmotif would be the assumption of another identity. In Main Hoon Na, her first and finest film, an army officer assumes the identity of a college student. In Om Shanti Om, her middling follow-up, a young actress assumes the identity of an older star. Now, in Tees Maar Khan, a conman named Tabrez (Akshay Kumar) assumes the identity of a filmmaker in order to make away with a consignment of antiques. And looking at this shapeless, graceless, charmless, rhythmless mess, you could be forgiven for wondering if the director herself hasn’t assumed another identity, trading her brashly (and confidently) witty self for someone so unsure of her instincts, so desperate for a hit, that the soundtrack practically creaks and groans with the exertions. Farah Khan used to be effortlessly fun. Now she’s holding a gun to our head and demanding that we laugh. The difference is dismaying.
Almost all the good gags announce themselves in the first few minutes – the cheerfully bizarre opening-credits number that plays like a James Bond titles sequence set in a sac of amniotic fluid; the thieves, competitors to Tabrez (aka Tees Maar Khan), with delectably demented modus operandi that I won’t spoil for you; the announcement of Tabrez’s pregnant (and movie-mad) mother when her water breaks. (“Tanki phat gayi,” she wails in front of her black-and-white television set, watching a scene from a 1970s potboiler where a fully filled water tank explodes.) A little later, Katrina Kaif (as Anya, Tabrez’s bubble-headed starlet-girlfriend) makes her entry in the well-shot, well-scored Sheela ki jawani song sequence, brandishing a belly button that seems to have a life of its own – and as the curtains come down on this number, you might just as well leave. The film, hereupon, sinks faster than an iceberg-struck passenger liner in the mid-Atlantic.
A lot of failed entertainers give us the sense that fun was had at least at the scripting stage – that heads were thrown back, thighs were slapped, sides were split – and we tell ourselves that none of this translated to the execution. But with Tees Maar Khan, there isn’t any sense of enjoyment even in the writing phase, unless you imagine hoots and fist pumps for such high-school-level gags as the one where an airplane carrying a wanted criminal is named Con Air. Ha ha! The rest of the film unfolds as a procession of dreadful dialogue, endlessly repeated, and unfunny in-jokes – a reference to the long-gestating Mr. India sequel, or the sledgehammer poke-in-the-ribs about an Oscar-hungry Bollywood star (played by Akshaye Khanna, whose presence in a film, for a while now, has sadly turned into a surefire signifier that it’s going to be a stinker). For a story supposedly structured around a train heist, there are alarming shifts in tone, like a segue into sentiment with Tabrez’s growing affection for a band of villagers terrorised by a headless ghost on a horse. Free-associative nonsense, in theory, is as valid a way of making movies as any, but when the filmmaker’s instincts are unsound, it becomes plain nonsense. Tees Maar Khan is simultaneously frantic and flat, like a hasty gulp from bottle of beer that’s been left uncorked for months.
When a regular-sized movie dies on us, we shrug our shoulders and walk into the sunlight. But when something that cost the GDP of small nation is so lazily written and so atrociously performed, there is a sense of outrage – as part of the disappointed audience, yes, but also on behalf of the great numbers of struggling filmmakers who’d be grateful for just the wardrobe budget of Tees Maar Khan. And perhaps those of us who delighted in Main Hoon Na, who enjoyed its knowing and deliberate invocation of the silly seventies, are upset that someone we counted on as a surefire cure for the blues has herself turned out to be the cause of a minor bout of depression. Imagine my plight, for instance, if this film is a financial success and inspires a few dozen clones that I have to drag myself to, all in the name of duty! Suffocated by the air of self-congratulation, the mind wandered and wondered, among other things, about this director’s fascination with the number three. (Her third outing. She’s the real-life mother of triplets and her production company bears the name Three’s Company. The hero is attended to by three sidekicks, and when the scene shifts to the village, we are introduced to three epicene extras… See what a devil’s workshop a critic’s idle mind becomes?)
Farah Khan’s signature moment would seem to be the generous closing-credits party she orchestrates for her cast and crew – but there’s a moment in the film that’s monumentally more significant. Tabrez decides he’s going to throw himself an Eid celebration. It’s long past Eid, but he doesn’t care because every day, for him, is a festival. He picks up the phone and dials the number of Salman Khan, who, of course, he’s so intimate with that he uses the nickname of Sallu. The latter arrives, makes the festivities more festive, and leaves. And looking at Tabrez here, you wonder if that’s Farah Khan herself. Every film she makes, she throws herself a celebration. With her dizzying array of intimate insider-contacts, she has to barely pick up the phone and stars descend on her sets in twinkling droves. Perhaps she’s the real Tees Maar Khan, the conwoman who’s just made off with a couple of precious hours of our lives – and after making us pay for this privilege.
IF THE GENIALLY LOOPY Asterix characters acquired pan-Indian accents and wandered onto the sets of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the result might be something like Kireet Khurana’s Toonpur Ka Superrhero. Aditya (Ajay Devgn, cast opposite real-life wife Kajol, who plays his on-screen wife as well) is an action star kidnapped by the cartoon residents of Toonpur in order to decimate the resident villains. The intent, apparently, is manic mayhem hewn to video-game rules, but the result is… Well, is there any point carping about a mix of animation and live action aimed squarely at kids? But surely even films seeking to occupy children can strive to be more than just the blandly competent (and brightly coloured) fare that plays routinely on kiddie channels on television – pabulum for poppets! I suppose the one time I cracked a smile was when the Cacofonix character – a Bappi Lahiri look-alike – loses a blingy necklace and wails, “Chain bina chain kahan re.” The well-placed PJ can enhance any experience – well, almost.
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19 Responses “Review: Tees Maar Khan / Toonpur Ka Superrhero” →
Rakesh
Is there such a thing called “Screenplay by Spouse Syndrome” ? Farah Khan lets her hubby Shirish Kunder write one movie of hers and what a “train wreck” it turns out to be… Abbas Tyrewala lets his wife Pakhi write Jhoota Hi Sahi and loses all his credibility.. even Mani Ratnam makes a Raavan with screenplay by Suhasini.. Iruvar had only dialogues by her… Kiran Rao’s Dhobi Ghat is coming up very soon too.. 🙂
Saw TMK yesterday and
‘those of us who delighted in Main Hoon Na, who enjoyed its knowing and deliberate invocation of the silly seventies, are upset that someone we counted on as a surefire cure for the blues has herself turned out to be the cause of a minor bout of depression’ – that was me! TMK proves that there can be something like ‘too much farce’ and over-spoofing. It happened with Golmaal3, which worked for me, but it might not work for everyone.
On second thoughts, I was wondering if the two movies I enjoyed this year (among others) were Dabangg and Band Baajaa Baaraat, felt good to see because of the thought and planning that had gone into authenticating the environment that it was filmed – the village, the houses, Delhi, the accents, the mustaches, etc. Even a supposed masala flick like Dabangg had the hero’s house that looked like it was built there, and the extras looking like ‘normal’ people. Sadly, Farah Khan seems not to have that much time to research it, what with being a mom, anchor, judge and then again a director. Even OSO sets were unreal, but maybe the audience overlooked them as it was a ‘movie inside a movie’ so should look like that.
Sadly, your apprehension about the movie ultimately becoming a hit might become true. And then, we will have more copy-cats…sigh!!!
chandrika anand
thanks for t m k review saved my time and money!
Not sure why Kamal still does inspired movies. He has good talent to make his own movies or many true fans are all really wrong in the assumption.
— when something that cost the GDP of small nation — Is it that costly? What with most of the scenes being shot in Malshej Ghat & studios, I don’t think its a big budget flick.
Your’re spot on in your final analysis, the movie was made only to con the audience.
My take – http://wp.me/pae11-6k
Man, when was the last time you wrote such a scathing piece?!
Rakesh: “Screenplay by Spouse Syndrome” — simply fantastic observation 🙂 I didn’t know Abbas’s wife wrote JHS. I thought he wrote it himself. Yet to see it.
Apu: Actually I didn’t mind the lack of authenticity. That’s not really important here. What bugged me endlessly was that I’d signed up for a Farah Khan film and I was left with an Akshay Kumar comedy. I really have very little patience with the latter.
BR, I was not too worried about the lack of authenticity immediately. It had not worried me too much in Golmaal 3, and it was an equally brain dead movie. But I guess I got restless by the over-simplification, over-dumbing down, over…well, I am limited by my vocab. And then, I realized that even the “background” or peripherals are not interesting, hence the comment. In case of Dabangg or BBB, my attention was also engaged by the surroundings, so it felt more like a “complete” movie experience. I am sure I am making a bad job of explaining myself, but TMK was such a letdown for masala lovers like myself!
“Chain bina chain kahan re.” : Fantastic.
“With her dizzying array of intimate insider-contacts, she has to barely pick up the phone and stars descend on her sets in twinkling droves.”
If that was the case Farah could have easily got good review written as well. Why did she not do it?
Thanks for the fantastic review Brangan. What a disppoitment!! unless it accidently becomes successful (I hope not), The entire industry would curse Farah for stealing the most important release date of the year and delivering such a big mess. For one atleast i am happy that one thing is quite clear now: Dabangg is undoubtedly now the best Hindi film of the year. Munni will definitely get an edge over sheela because of the film’s success, even though the latter must have been shot better i guess.
Some say its because it does not have her two times lucky mascot SRK but i disagree. All the flaws of the film appear to be more from technical aspects than performances. The ending statement was ultimate in your review- Since the news that farah is making a movie with Akshay came, even I was at the minimum hoping that this particular Akshay movie should be better than his other disaster comedies. Sadly that has apparently not happened. Thanks for saving my money.
Most Akshay Kumar comedies are significantly funnier than this.
Anurag: Xmas is the most important release date of the year? I thought it was Deepavali!
Oh man, that was a brutal review – a blizzard prevented me from going to the theater but it seems like it was the Almighty sending a message ! Maybe I’ll still go and see it just for the heck of it.
Rakesh – that is an excellent observation – ‘Dhobi Ghat’ might work as Kiran Rao has directed it too (as opposed to just screenplay in the other cases).
Bade – I think Anuraag was probably referring to last 2 decembers with ‘Ghajini’ and ‘3 Idiots’ (you can even add ‘Tare Zameen Par’ to that), but prior to that Diwali was the biggest release day, IMO.
Aditya Pant
It wasn’t till the time Amir Khan made it into one by delivering hits in the last 3 years 🙂
Someone gave us free tickets to TMK, and I know that paying for it would have hurt much more. We did sit through, but it was fairly unfunny and quite tedious by the time it got over. The ‘joined-at -the-hip guys were not funny at all:(
my only hope is that people tire of this akshay brand of comedy (just as kabhi alvida na kehna was the death knell for the shah rukh senti melodrama). is that a vain hope? i thought chandni chowk wd do that for him. and this guy apparently is asking for 5-6mm dollars to play dawood in ekta kapoor’s movie! all the best to them. i dont live in india but was there on holiday last 3 weeks and i was hard pressed to find one promo that had one interesting or witty line – if that was teh case, i can imagine how the movie wd have been like. i always envied a film reviewer’s job (you are simply brilliant) but after drivel like this, feel quite a bit of sympathy for you!!
mty
surprsied that you didn’t (hear about or) notice that this Kunder spouse has lifted TMK’s plot from Peter Sellers’ “After the Fox”.
I have come to the conclusion that the Akshay Kumar meme may be the strongest of them all- at least the Farah Khan meme is powerless before it. I mean, I think even if K. Asif rose from the dead and remade Mughale Azam with Akshay Kumar , that movie would turn out to be an “AKSHAY KUMAR COMEDY” , such is the resonance and harmony of the Akshay Kumar meme with other memes of the stratosphere and forces of nature in general.
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Welcome to St Albert the Great Catholic Primary School
At St. Albert the Great Catholic Primary School, we work hard to promote our Catholic values and ethos; making everyone feel valued and part of our school family. We are very proud of our Catholic nature and how this is reflected in the excellent attitude our children have towards their learning. Our Catholic ethos is enhanced by the close links we have developed with the parish of Our Lady, Queen of all Creation Church.
Our school is situated in a beautiful new building, surrounded by extensive grounds that include a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), a woodland area and pond called ‘The Spinney’ with provision for Forest School. At St Albert’s we are passionate about supporting our children to become lifelong, resilient, independent and creative learners. We have a focus on Building Learning Power which is complemented by our use of Philosophy for Children (P4C) and provision for Forest School. Both the staff and children are very proud of our fully inclusive school and we work hard to celebrate children’s achievements. We are very fortunate that we have supportive parents and governors and we are keen to develop these partnerships further.
St Albert the Great Catholic Primary School adopts a number of strategies and activities in raising the attainment and progression of disadvantaged children. These include 1:1 tuition, peer to peer support, precision intervention groups, and termly provision mapping for all children at risk of not making expected progress.
This web site has been designed to give you a feel for our school. It is not a substitute for personal contact and visits are always welcome. Our teachers know that close relationships with parents help us to reach a better understanding of the children. You can contact me by sending me an email to admin@albertthegreat.herts.sch.uk
Mrs K Little
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Behind the Cover: Up-close and lethal
By Gina Harkins on December 18, 2012 Behind the Cover
Marines who serve as advisers in Afghanistan are getting new training to help combat insider attacks, and it involves using their pistols to shoot body-shaped targets at point-blank range.
This week’s issue of Marine Corps Times looked at the defensive marksmanship training that advisers tasked with mentoring Afghan troops are receiving as part of their pre-deployment workup. It’s a direct result of the concerns of the operating forces downrange, and it’s specifically for the Marines who spend months training Afghan troops — often relying on them for security as they serve in remote areas far away from other coalition forces.
Recent reports show a promising lull in so-called green-on-blue incidents with November being the first month in 2012 with no attacks, a trend that continued into the first few weeks of December. And the best defense against insider attacks is good mentoring and relationship-building, training officials say.
But still this year, more than 50 coalition forces were gunned down by Afghan troops — or insurgents posing as them. So the Marine Corps is preparing teams at the highest risk of an inside-the-wire attack to respond, and it means training in an office set-up on a range with no gear, armed with just their pistols.
As combat in Afghanistan winds down, Marines will be called to different parts of the world as the Corps shifts back to its expeditionary roots. This could mean missions in places with anti-American factions or terrorist activity. And when countries are experiencing major transitions, like that in Afghanistan, it’s not always clear which side people are on.
The threat of insider attacks could continue as Marines work with members of less experienced militaries that don’t screen and vet recruits as well as they should. This training prepares Marines for what they should do in that moment it becomes clear that they are under attack.
This week’s issue also looks at new housing allowance rates, the Corps’ effort to clear up promotion backlogs for officers and a look at what they got wrong on the new Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller monument.
Read the full story on the defensive marksmanship training on Marine Corps Times PRIME here.
Gina Harkins
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Happenings: Pieter Hugo at Yossi Milo Gallery
Conveyor Editor-At-Large, Elizabeth Bick, explores Pieter Hugo’s seductive yet challenging work, Permanent Error, on display at Yossi Milo from September 8th through October 29th. Earlier this year, Prestel Press published a book of the work under the same title.
In his most recent project, Permanent Error, Pieter Hugo takes photographs of a technological wasteland that sits just outside of a small Ghanaian town called Agbogbloshie. The land is filled with digital debris of all kinds, including motherboards, cell phones, video games, and wiring. All of the technology is sent to Ghana broken or obsolete as a “donation” from companies and organizations in the United States and Europe.
The depicted post-apocalyptic landscapes are inhabited by people who wander across the wasteland, sifting through mercury, PVC, and lead, looking for material to burn and sell as scrap. According to Frederica Angelucci, who wrote the essays for Hugo’s recent book on the project, “The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: ‘For this place, we have no name’.”
The exhibition of the work at Yossi Milo creates a visually charged window into another world. Typical of Hugo’s installations, life size or larger-scaled works sit in pristine white frames, dramatically contrasting the subject matter.
Standing before the series, it is difficult to fathom how exactly these images of inhumane living conditions fit into a gallery setting. The stunning photographs surface potentially unfamiliar environmental issues, yet, the works are being sold as commodities. We return to this question: is turning a painful situation into a set of aesthetically seductive photographs the most effective way to represent such a message to an audience? “There is no idyllic seasonal harvest in this vast dump of discarded technology,” Angelucci writes, “there is no chanting, no sign of festive gatherings at the end of a long day.” Likewise, perhaps there is no idyllic way to depict this wasteland.
In the world of documentary photography and photojournalism, the jury is still out. Earlier this year, at the Photographic Universe Conference in New York City, photographer Andrea Geyer and professor Susie Linfield attempted to deconstruct the uncomfortable relationship between tragedy and representation. Click the links below to learn more about the conference and Geyer and Linfields discussion.
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December 11, 2015 — Co-op
A Co-op Helping Hand in the Floods this Week
Richard Pennycook our Group Chief Executive writes this piece in recognition of colleagues who went the extra mile for their communities during Storm Desmond.
“Just six years ago I was talking to my parents who were in their upstairs room, whilst down below was a large lake. Cockermouth, their home town, was completely inundated and everyone said it was a “one in a hundred years” event. Six years on, and Cumbria has been hammered again.
At Denton Street in Carlisle store manager Joanne Nicholson and her team delivered baby food, formula milk and nappies to the local rescue centre. At the Cumwhinton Road store Kate Gibson and her colleagues donated tea, coffee, milk, bread and soup to those sheltering in the community centre.
The same neighbourliness was shown by Katie Chandler at the Morton store. As the crisis took hold Katie was determined that her store had proper staffing even as she watched the flood water coming through her own front and back door. Eventually, Katie’s house was flooded with 5ft of water.
Ryan Roberts, a young supervisor from Cockermouth store, opened the shop at 6am on Sunday morning and used social media to tell local residents, and all the rescue services, that a hot drink and a warm room was available for anyone who wished to call in. Ryan also took drinks, biscuits and soup round to the Cockermouth rescue centre.
There were many colleagues across Cumbria who could not get home on Saturday evening or to work on Sunday morning. However, apart from Appleby and Grasmere where power cuts and flooding made it impossible, all of our stores across the county were open for business.
Co-op colleagues Andrew Martin and Ian Peacock, were stranded in our Appleby store for 32 hours after the nearby River Eden burst its banks. They’d started moving stock upstairs until the water became a torrent through the middle of the store. They were rescued on Sunday morning. Photo credit: Rex features
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For those caught up in the worst of storm Desmond, thoughts soon turned to where they would live, how they would get to work and if their businesses could recover.
Our General Insurance Head of Claims, Jonathan Guy, was in Cumbria from early Sunday morning visiting customers to ensure that insurance was at the bottom of their list of worries. Jonathan met with 20 customers spending about an hour with each of them. We soon had a team of Loss Adjusters on the ground too.
Meanwhile, we put a call out to colleagues to help staff the phones at the call centre in Manchester as soon we realised how busy it would become. We had a fantastic response.
It’s at times like this that we can show our commitment to the local communities that we serve. I want to thank all of those colleagues, in particular in Cumbria, Lancashire and at our support centres in Manchester, for demonstrating what being Co-op means when it really matters.”
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I was in Cockermouth for the brilliant Woolfest earlier this year. Its a lovely town and people are so friendly and helpful. We saw the mark on the wall in the High Street showing the height of the last flood. Little did we know there would be another one so soon. It is great that the Coop has been there to help. The people on the ground have done a great job and the community has worked together. What a wonderful example of cooperation.
I totally agree Ian – co-operation always emerges as the natural response of communities to the challenges they face.
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What made the Lexus LFA Nürburgring edition so special?
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The Lexus LFA Nürburgring edition is the ultimate and most sought-after iteration of our iconic supercar, which occupied just one-tenth of the LFA’s total production run.
News of the development of this strictly limited version was published nine months before series production commenced in December 2010. But more than that, its media reveal took place before the pre-production LFA secured its third class-winning outing at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring race in May 2010 – an event that underlined its right to be named after the revered German track.
LFA Nürburgring: development
The unique challenges presented by the Nürburgring Nordschleife’s 12.9-mile loop and 73 corners had been instrumental in the development of the Lexus LFA. Chief engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi revealed that in the lead-up to its launch, Lexus had conducted rigorous development tests at the Nürburgring every spring and summer since 2004. It was no doubt in these sessions that chief test-driver Hiromu Naruse accumulated more seat-time around the Nordschleife than any other Japanese driver at that time.
So while the standard Lexus LFA could be described as a road-legal supercar with Nürburgring-honed track capabilities, the LFA Nürburgring edition retained the car’s core character but was reverse-oriented and can therefore be viewed as a Nürburgring-prepared supercar with road capabilities.
LFA Nürburgring: specifications
The enhanced prowess of the LFA Nürburgring edition around the track was largely as a result of improved aerodynamic enhancements that significantly increased downforce at high speed, which was essential for peak performance. The same carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) material that was so instrumental in the construction of the LFA was used in the forming of attractive but highly functional aerodynamic components.
These included a larger front chin spoiler that created a sharper division between the air being directed under and over the car. Its upward curvature into corner winglets not only generated downforce to improve grip and steering feel across the front axle but helped to channel the air more cleanly down the sides of the vehicle. Canards enhanced these functions in the same way that a bi-plane generates more lift and greater manuverability than a monoplane aircraft.
Meanwhile, at the back of the car, the standard retractable spoiler was replaced with a fixed, high-level GT-style wing that balanced the front/rear downforce, adding weight the driven wheels.
In addition to being equipped with Bridgestone Potenza RE070 extreme performance road tyres and lightweight mesh-style forged alloy wheels, the LFA Nürburgring edition was set 10mm lower through the fitment of sport-tuned suspension, which reduced drag and generated downforce through natural ground effect. Nevertheless, this relatively small measure was not enough to overcome the additional drag of the aerodynamic enhancements combined.
So in order to maintain the LFA’s outright performance statistics, maximum power was increased to 563bhp to achieve the same 201mph top speed, while the gear shift time was decreased to just 0.15 seconds so the car could still hit 62mph from rest in just 3.7 seconds.
While the choice of exterior colour was almost limitless for standard Lexus LFA buyers, those specifying the Nürburgring package were limited to four colour options: matt black, black, white or orange. These were complimented by a choice of three interior colour schemes: black and red, black and purple, and all-black. Whatever the visual combination, all Nürburgring editions featured a CFRP centre console and door cards, while the CFRP bucket seats were trimmed in slip-resistant Alcantara rather than leather.
LFA Nürburgring: proof of concept
Before being handed the keys, new LFA customers specifying the Nürburgring package were offered individual instruction on the Nordschleife by one of the circuit’s chief instructors, and also received a complimentary one-year pass for Nordschleife driving. There is no record of how many buyers accepted this invitation but the temptation must have been there to try and match LFA test driver Akira Iida’s warp speed lap time of 7:14.64 (see in-car video footage below).
When that exhilaratingly fast lap was set in August 2011, almost seven years after the first LFA prototype lapped the Nordschleife, it represented the fastest recorded time for a road-legal production car. And what made it all the more impressive was that the orange LFA Nürburgring was completely standard, right down to its OE specification tyres, which, as you can see below, weren’t always in contact with the ground.
Construction of the Lexus LFA Nürburgring edition began in January 2012, the second full year of LFA production, and was strictly limited to just 50 examples within the planned 500-unit global run.
As it turned out, the final Lexus LFA (above) was built on 14 December 2012 – a car that was doubly memorable as it was also the final Nürburgring edition. Presented in the tasteful monochromatic formula of white paintwork and all-black interior, this significant piece of Lexus history was adorned with a simple plaque that identified it as #500.
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“I would have loved it as a gift when I was a teenage rebel … “
Jon Lockwood, Peace News
Don’t dress like a protester
Over 700 Continental and United pilots demonstrate in front of the New York Stock Exchange, September, 2011. Their sharp pilot uniforms and military marching pattern are a far cry from the standard protester stereotype.
Contributed by Andrew Boyd
“Dress like a Republican so you can talk like an anarchist.”
Colman McCarthy
In Sum
If you look like a stereotypical protester, it’s easy for people to write you off. If you look like someone who doesn’t usually hit the streets (the guy next door or an airline pilot in full uniform), people can more easily identify with you. Therefore, don’t dress like a protester.
People don’t care about protesters. Oh, there go those silly protesters again. What are they protesting this time? Look: the police are hitting them over the head! Well, they must have done something to deserve it.
It’s not quite that bad, but you get the idea. Based on what they see in the media, folks get a fairly fixed idea of what “protesters” look like — and the stereotype doesn’t usually lend itself to immediate sympathy for your cause. If you’re planning a mass street action and want to reach out to people who may not already agree with you, think about how you can undermine their stereotypes about “protesters” see PRINCIPLE: Use others’ prejudices against them. Remember: protest is what you are doing; it is not your identity see THEORY: Political identity paradox.
If you want schoolteachers, seniors and office workers to get angry that a cop is hitting you over the head, dress like you’re on your way over to their house for Sunday dinner. Make it easy for them to imagine themselves, or their kids, in your position.
Consider the aura conveyed by what you wear, whether that’s the civility and seriousness of civil rights marchers in suit and tie or the calculated absurdity of “Billionaires” in tuxedos. In all ten years that Billionaires for Bush see CASE protested in the streets, including in the midst of some running street battles with police, never did a single one of us get arrested. It undoubtedly helped that most of us were white, but it also helped that most of us were wearing tuxedos. In New York, we had a one-liner: “New York’s Finest would never arrest New York’s finest dressed.” And it was true. They never did. Of course, the action you’re involved in may not afford the luxury of tuxedos, or generally leave you a lot of room to not dress like a protester. It may require protective gear: bandannas or gas masks to protect from tear gas; heavy clothing or even shields to protect yourself from billy clubs and rubber bullets. Even then, creativity can show the human and beautiful side of dissent. At the Battle in Seattle, many blockades were works of art, and many blockaders were creatively costumed. Or consider the Masquerade Project in New York, decorating gas masks with multicolored sequins and feathers, or the Tute Bianche in Italy or the Prêt à Révolter collective in Spain, or the “Book Bloc” in the UK, all of which wore creative yet protective protest gear into battle, thereby subverting the official media narrative that protesters are violent, scary and (worst of all!) humorless.
Often the most effective protests are those that don’t look like protests. Perhaps to be effective — to quote a character in Peter Carey’s novel The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith — “you will have to make yourself into something beyond anyone’s capacity to imagine you.”
A long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change, Andrew led the decade-long satirical media campaign “Billionaires for Bush” and co-founded the Other 98%. He's the author of a couple books: Daily Afflictions, Life’s Little Deconstruction Book, and the forthcoming I Want a Better Catastrophe: Hope, Hopelessness and Climate Reality. Unable to come up with with his own lifelong ambition, he’s been cribbing from Milan Kundera: “to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.” You can find him at andrewboyd.com.
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Horror as 10,000 bees attack woman, 72, leaving her completely covered in stings
An elderly woman was left completely covered in stings after a horror attack by a swarm of bees.
The 72-year-old is now recovering after her entire body, mainly her face, was attacked by thousands of the flying insects in Brazil.
Footage showed her with hundreds of the venom-filled stingers covering her face and dozens of dead African bees stuck to her hair.
She had to be treated at hospital with anti-venom drugs following the terrifying ordeal on Wednesday.
Two other women who were with her at the time, aged 65 and 71, were also heavily stung in Britânia, in the state of Goiás.
They were rescued by two police officers, who braved the bees to help and were also badly injured.
The three elderly women were fishing in the Tigrinho River, close to a bridge, when they apparently disturbed the bees which had settled on one of the columns.
They said they had not noticed them before beginning to fish.
But within minutes they were attacked and engulfed in a cloud of angry honey bees, which numbered well above 10,000.
They were under siege for around 10 minutes as they tried to fend off the venomous insects and fight for their lives.
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Motorists driving past on a nearby road alerted police to the nightmare scene.
Sergeant Valdivino de Oliveira, who helped save the victims, said: “By the time we arrived one of the women had already fainted.
“She didn’t have any more strength to fight. She had been bitten all over her body, but her head and face were the most affected.”
He told Brazilian media he didn’t have time to put on protection gear before wading into the swarm with colleague Sergeant Willian Costa Silva.
The brave police officers risked their lives to pull the women to safety.
He said: “The bees completely surrounded the women. So we drove as close as we could to them, stopped and rushed to push them into our vehicle.”
The windows were left open to give the bees an escape route, but many remained inside the police car and continued to attack.
At the hospital shocked medics shook multiple dead bees from the victim’s ponytail, which were pictured lying on the floor.
Sgt Silva was also filmed looking in pain as he received an antidote in an outstretched arm.
Two of the elderly victims have been discharged while the officers were also released within 24 hours.
Although the elderly woman in the video remains in hospital, her health is reportedly stable.
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Home Sports Vanessa Bryant Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Vanessa Bryant Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
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Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, is suing the owner of the helicopter that crashed last month, killing her husband and 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
Kobe Bryant, Gianna and seven others died when the helicopter they were in crashed in fog on January 26.
In the lawsuit, Vanessa Bryant says the pilot was negligent for flying in such poor weather.
The lawsuit was filed shortly before a memorial service held in Los Angeles.
It says that Island Express Helicopters and the pilot, Ara George Zobayan, had a “duty to use that degree of care that an ordinarily careful and prudent pilot would use under the same or similar circumstances”.
The lawsuit alleges that the pilot – who died in the crash – did not assess weather data before taking off.
It also says the pilot did not abort the flight despite the treacherous conditions.
Island Express Helicopters authorized the flight “with full knowledge that the subject helicopter was flying into unsafe weather conditions”, the complaint says.
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Vanessa Bryant is seeking undisclosed compensatory and punitive damages.
The company has suspended operations.
The aircraft – a Sikorsky S-76B – went down into a hillside outside the city of Calabasas.
Conditions were foggy when the flight took off, and local police had grounded their helicopters due to the poor weather.
The pilot asked air traffic controllers for a special clearance, known as Special Visual Flight Rules, to fly in less than optimal weather, said NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy, who went to the crash scene to collect evidence.
The helicopter, she added, circled in the air for 12 minutes before being given the clearance. The pilot then asked controllers for “flight following”, an assistance given to helicopters to avoid collisions, but was told the craft was too low to be picked up by radar.
Minutes later, the pilot said he was “climbing to avoid a cloud layer”, she added. The helicopter climbed and began a left descending turn, according to radar data, before communication was lost. All those on board were killed.
Kobe and Gianna Bryant were remembered in a “Celebration of Life” memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 24.
Beyoncé opened the service with her 2013 hit XO, which she said was one of Kobe Bryant’s favorite songs.
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Bryant’s former teammate Shaquille O’Neal were among those attending.
The Staples Center was Kobe Bryant’s home arena for much of his 20-season career with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaking at the event, Vanessa Bryant said of her husband: “He was mine. He was my everything,” and called her daughter Gianna an “amazingly sweet and gentle soul” whose smile took up her entire face.
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Bezansons in North America
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Beatrice Viola Bezanson1
F, #20961, b. 8 August 1907
Father* Alonzo Caleb Bezanson1 b. 1 Dec 1855, d. 7 May 1912
Mother* Bertha Mader1 b. Aug 1868, d. 1 Aug 1949
Robert Soper
Relationship 3rd great-granddaughter of Jean George Bezanson
Beatrice Viola Bezanson was born on 8 August 1907 at Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.2,3 She married Robert Soper on 22 September 1937 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was 30.4,1
Census Summary
Census, Residence
Census 1911 Beatrice Viola Bezanson appeared on the census of 1911 in the household of Alonzo Caleb Bezanson and Bertha Mader at Lower Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.3
Census 1921 Beatrice Viola Bezanson appeared on the census of 1921 in the household of George Alonzo Bezanson and Bertha Mader at Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.5
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[S1] Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, 102.
[S12] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Birth Registrations", Bezanson, Beatrice Viola; Registration Year: 1907; Page: 99000833; a delayed entry recorded 11 October 1954.
[S5] 1911 Canadian Census; Rose Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Family: 56; Page: 5; Lines: 14-22.
[S13] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Marriage Registrations", Bezanson, Beatrice; Soper, Robert M; Registration Year: 1937; Book: 87; Page: 977.
[S5] 1921 Canadian Census; Lunenburg (Municipality), Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 46; Page: 15; Lines: 10-14.
Albert Leo Bezanson1,2
M, #20963, b. 6 April 1909, d. 2 June 1936
Relationship 3rd great-grandson of Jean George Bezanson
Albert Leo Bezanson was born on 6 April 1909 at Lower Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.1,2 He was a fisherman.3 He died on 2 June 1936 at Lower Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, at age 27. The informant on his death certificate was Bertha Mader.3,2 The cause of death was acute alcoholism.3 Albert Leo Bezanson was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.4
Census 1911 Albert Leo Bezanson appeared on the census of 1911 in the household of Alonzo Caleb Bezanson and Bertha Mader at Lower Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.5
Census 1921 Albert Leo Bezanson appeared on the census of 1921 in the household of George Alonzo Bezanson and Bertha Mader at Kingsburg, Nova Scotia.6
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[S12] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Birth Registrations", Bezanson, Albert Leo; Year: 1909; Page: 54500538;- Number: 54500539.
[S14] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Death Registrations", Bezanson, Albert; Registration Year: 1936; Book: 161; Page: 919.
[S611] George Newbury, "Lakeview Cemetery, Kingsburg, Nova Scotia", "BEZANSON Albert L. Apr 6, 1909 - June 2, 1936, Hibbert F. Apr 1, 1914 - May 12, 1929 Lost At Sea."
Foster Young1
Father* James Edward Young1 d. 11 Feb 1923
Mother* Zipporah Catherine Bezanson1 b. 27 Oct 1858
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Wilbert Young1
Tracey Young1
Herbert Young1
James Young1
Hibbert Young1
Elias Young1
Lila Young1
William Murphy Jr.
Lila Young married William Murphy Jr..1
Lydia Young1
Ethel Bezanson1
F, #20976, b. 1895, d. 1988
Father* Edward James Bezanson1 b. 19 Jun 1870
Mother* Mary Emma Sullivan1 b. 1873, d. 11 Feb 1896
William Hiltz
Elizabeth Emma Hiltz1 b. 6 Mar 1915, d. 1 Mar 1969
Edward Hiltz1 b. c 1916, d. c 1986
Ethel Bezanson was also known as Laura E. Bezanson.2 She was born in 1895.1 She married William Hiltz on 20 January 1913 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.3,1 Ethel Bezanson died in 1988.1
Census 1901 Ethel Bezanson appeared on the census of 1901 in the household of Mary Romans at Halifax, Nova Scotia.2
Census 1921 Ethel Bezanson appeared on the census of 1921 at 202 Brumond Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with Edward Hiltz, Elizabeth Emma Hiltz and Mary Bezanson.4
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[S470] Kris Hewitt, "Halifax District, Nova Scotia Census, 1901: Halifax City", Ward=3, Division=2, Page=14, Entry=37-41, Family=135, Film=T-6451, but names and birth dates for the people in the household do not match exactly, so it is possible this is not the right family or, more likely, some of the dates are not correct on one or the other of the various sources.
[S13] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Marriage Registrations", Bezanson, Ethel D; Hiltz, William [C?]; Registration Year: 1913; Book: 1821; Page: 173; Number: 25.
[S5] 1921 Canadian Census; Halifax (City), Halifax, Nova Scotia; Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 44; Page: 17; Lines: 45-48.
James Andrew Bezanson1
M, #20977, b. 1 July 1893, d. 10 October 1958
Reference: Bezansons from Nova Scotia ID # 320.1
Florence E. Bouchie b. 30 Jun 1904, d. 30 Sep 1992
Edward Bezanson5 b. c 1931, d. 2 Sep 1931
Donald Alfred Bezanson+6 b. 27 May 1933, d. 18 Mar 2004
Kenneth Murray Bezanson+7 b. 25 Oct 1937, d. 12 Nov 1989
James Andrew Bezanson was also known as James Alfred Bezanson.2 He was born on 1 July 1893.1 He volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 12 April 1918 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was described as 5ft 3½in tall with brown eyes and brown hair. His application was approved on 12 April 1915.3 He served in the military in World War I in the Princess Louise Fusiliers. He was wounded in the leg on 11 October 1918 at Germany.1 He was discharged on 1 August 1919.1 He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.1 He was a stevedore.1 He was employed by the Public Works Commission at Halifax.1 He married Florence E. Bouchie on 17 June 1932 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was 38. She was 27.2,1 James Andrew Bezanson died on 10 October 1958 at age 65.1
Census 1901 James Andrew Bezanson appeared on the census of 1901 in the household of Mary Romans at Halifax, Nova Scotia.4
[S13] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Marriage Registrations", Bezanson, James Alfred; Bouchie, Florence Eva; Registration Year: 1932; Book: 66; Page: 362.
[S808] Library and Archives Canada, "Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918", Bezanson, James Andrew; Attestation; Date: 12 April 1918.
[S1] Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, 188, 244.
Elizabeth Emma Hiltz1
F, #20979, b. 6 March 1915, d. 1 March 1969
Father* William Hiltz1
Mother* Ethel Bezanson1 b. 1895, d. 1988
Arnold Wheaton
Relationship 4th great-granddaughter of Jean George Bezanson
Elizabeth Emma Hiltz was born on 6 March 1915.1 She married Arnold Wheaton.1 Elizabeth Emma Hiltz died on 1 March 1969 at age 53.1 She was buried in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.1
Census 1921 Elizabeth Emma Hiltz appeared on the census of 1921 in the household of Ethel Bezanson at 202 Brumond Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.2
Lived Elizabeth Emma Hiltz and Arnold Wheaton lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.1
Please note that while I have incorporated evidence discovered by many other researchers, any mistakes or omissions are my responsibility. The source(s) supporting the assertions made here vary in quality from very good to good-faith guesses.
Copyright © 2020 by John Cardinal. All rights reserved.
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(height). Levitical city in Benjamin, noted as scene of the massacre of the priests (1 Sam. 21:1; 22:19-231Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? (1 Samuel 21:1)
19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. 20And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. 21And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests. 22And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house. 23Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard. (1 Samuel 22:19‑23); Neh. 11:3232And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, (Nehemiah 11:32)).
City in the tribe of Benjamin, in which Ahimelech the priest dwelt with the tabernacle of the Lord. It was visited by David when he fled from Saul, and he and his followers ate the hallowed bread. David said it “is in a manner common” (Compare Matt. 12:3-43But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? (Matthew 12:3‑4)). The priest also gave him the sword of Goliath. Through the treachery of Doeg, this led to the death of Ahimelech, his father’s house, and all the inhabitants of the city of Nob (1 Sam. 21:1-91Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? 2And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. 3Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. 4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. 5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 6So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. 7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. 8And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. 9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me. (1 Samuel 21:1‑9); 1 Sam. 22:9-199Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. 11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. 12And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord. 13And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thine house? 15Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. 16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. 17And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. (1 Samuel 22:9‑19); Neh. 11:3232And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, (Nehemiah 11:32); Isa. 10:3232As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. (Isaiah 10:32)). Not identified.
nobe
the same as 5108; fruit; Nob, a place in Palestine
fruit: empty: or possibly same as Nebo
Sublimity; height; prophecy; fruit:―a place in Palestine, 1 Sam. 22:11. {Sublimitas}
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Houses behind the dunes at Midway Beach on the Jersey Shore © Cara Byington/TNC
A Hurricane Sandy Story
This is a story of nature’s defense against nature’s strength, and it plays out behind the sprawling sand dunes that separate the neighboring Jersey Shore communities of Midway Beach and South Seaside Park from the sea.
Coastal Wetlands Prevented $625M in Property Damage During Hurricane Sandy By Siddharth Narayan, Mike Beck
Natural Infrastructure: It’s Not an Oxymoron By Cara Cannon Byington
Why Do Coastal Communities Invest in Nature? It’s Not Science. By Matthew L. Miller
Or as Dominick Solazzo, who has spent most of his life on the Jersey Shore and lives in Midway Beach year-round, puts it more succinctly, “This is a story about the dunes that stood up to Sandy.”
Lucky for me, Solazzo, the President of Midway Beach Condo Association and dune beach administrator, is the perfect person tell it. After all, he’s as much a part of the story — and nearly as much a force of nature — as the sand dunes he has championed for so many years.
Sandy, of course, is more widely known as Hurricane (or Superstorm) Sandy, but up and down the East Coast from Delaware to Maine, the storm goes by one name. Kind of like Cher or Elvis. Everyone here knows what Sandy was, and even now, five years after the storm ripped into the Jersey Shore in October 2012, the memories can still be vivid and haunting.
To me, the images from Seaside Heights, only a few miles north of Solazzo’s home remain the eeriest testimonies to Sandy’s power. The remains of town’s iconic Jet Star rollercoaster — its twisted metal skeleton overcome by waves — seems especially emblematic of all that was lost or changed forever by the storm.
Aerial views of damage from Hurricane Sandy taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard, Oct. 30, 2012. The Seaside Heights’ Jet Star roller coaster was left stranded in the ocean after Casino Pier was destroyed by the storm. © Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/U.S. Air Force/New Jersey National Guard
I ask Solazzo, one of the first residents to return to the island after Sandy, about Seaside Heights and he just shakes his head. The scale of the destruction he saw as he made his way down to Midway Beach was difficult to comprehend. There were houses, and sometimes even just half a house, swept off foundations and disappeared into the sea. There were torn up roads, downed power lines, smashed bulkheads, boardwalks, and piers.
And sand, sand was everywhere.
The Dunes that Saved Them
“It was just devastation,” says Solazzo. “Devastation all the way to South Seaside Park and Midway Beach, but when I got there, it was as if there had been bubble over the [community]. We had no significant damage, just some wind damage, couple of lost shingles, sheds blown over, powerlines down but no physical damage to any of the homes here from the storm surge. It was remarkable.”
Of course, it was the dunes that saved them. That was clear to Solazzo and other members of the community immediately. “The only logical explanation for why we weren’t like everywhere else,” he says, “was because we had a dune system that was able to protect us from that ocean surge.”
Still, while the violence of the storm may not have shown itself in the destruction of their homes, their dunes were a much different story. A quick survey revealed how much sand and vegetation Sandy scoured away from dunes that had – before the storm – been 25 feet tall and 125-feet wide. It was a sobering glimpse of the power of the storm surge the dunes had absorbed and deflected from the homes behind them.
Roofs of some Midway Beach homes just visible above the dune crest. © Cara Byington/TNC
If members of the community had once privately lamented the loss of ocean views as the dunes grew over the years, they don’t anymore. “Sandy really was the turning point about the choice between having dunes and having ocean views,” says Solazzo. “Now, post-Sandy, it’s a different understanding. The community is totally engaged and is totally bought into the idea that these dunes are the lifeline of our existence on a barrier island.”
Dunes = Nature’s Defenses (aka “Green Infrastructure”)
There’s a lot of science that shows the value of nature for reducing risk to life and property. For the last several years, the Conservancy has been at the forefront of research efforts to quantify not only the social and environmental benefits of healthy coastal habitats – dunes, coastal wetlands, maritime forests, mangroves – but also their economic value as a natural defense against storms and floods. (Similar work is ongoing to quantify the risk reduction values of freshwater habitats – like forests and floodplains.)
Most recently, a peer-reviewed paper by Conservancy scientist Mike Beck and colleagues from the engineering and insurance sectors showed that coastal wetlands — like those at the Conservancy’s South Cape May Preserve at the southern tip of the Jersey Shore — prevented more than $625 Million (U.S.) in direct property damages during Hurricane Sandy. Like the dunes at Midway Beach, wetlands help absorb water from storm surges and rain.
According to the study, published in Science Reports, New Jersey’s coastal wetlands alone accounted for $425M of the savings.
“The values of healthy coastal habitats become more clear every day,” says Nate Woiwode, the director of the Naturally Resilient Communities Partnership for the Conservancy, “and in this time of climate change, viable, cost-effective ways to reduce risk from storms and flooding and help communities become healthier and more resilient are only becoming more urgent.”
The stories of Midway Beach and South Seaside Park are instructive because they are such a clear example of the way nature’s strength in one area (in this case, sand dunes) provides defense against nature’s strength in another (storm surge).
“Dunes are nature’s first line of defense against erosion and flooding from storms, storm surge, and extreme high tides,” says David Rouse, managing director of research and advisory services at the American Planning Association, and member of the Naturally Resilient Communities Partnership. “They’re not the only line of protection, certainly, but they really help a lot in protecting inland development.”
As Dominick Solazzo and the residents of Midway Beach and South Seaside Park can attest, which is why they set about rebuilding their dunes as quickly as possible. “We got the dune fencing up immediately after Sandy,” Solazzo says, “and started getting our sand back from day one.”
Now five years on, the dunes have regained their height and breadth, and the community is waiting on the results of an engineering study to determine how much volume they have. The answers will help determine their dune management strategies over the winter.
Dominick Solazzo surveying the dunes he has tended for more than a decade. Midway Beach, NJ © Cara Byington/TNC
In the years since Sandy, Solazzo has hosted people – planners, elected officials, homeowners — from coastal communities all over the U.S., who come to see the dunes that saved Midway Beach and South Seaside Park. And while Sandy is – in a way – the antagonist of this story, Solazzo stresses that the dunes here have value far beyond being a hedge against disaster.
“They’re incredibly important for storms, absolutely,” he says. “But they’re also important coastal habitat for migratory birds, and for other animals like foxes and rabbits. And they help keep sand in place and our beach healthy.”
Solazzo has been championing and tending these dunes for more than a decade, coordinating dune fencing and sea grass plantings, monitoring them for erosion or damage. Even as Sandy was bearing down on the Jersey Shore in 2012, he had confidence in the dunes because they’d already stood up to years of annual Nor’Easters, those fierce winter storms that come to the Jersey Shore in much greater numbers than storms of Sandy’s strength.
“There’s no question, we’re on an island,” he says. “The ocean will rise and fall, and storms will come and go. But there’s a short history of remembrance of coastal storms because of buying in and out of the community. So, it’s my job to remind people that Sandy did happen before, it just had a different name. And Sandy will happen again.”
Dominick Solazzo and his community do their best every day to make sure their homes and the dunes that shelter them are ready for all the storms to come.
Tags: Ecosystem Services, Nature-based Solutions, Valuing Nature
Cara Cannon Byington is a science writer for The Nature Conservancy covering the work of Conservancy scientists and partners, including the NatureNet Fellows for Cool Green Science. A misplaced Floridian living in Maryland, she is especially fond of any story assignment involving boats and islands, and when not working, can be found hiking, kayaking or traveling with her family and friends. More from Cara
By Sandra Burton | Reply
When will we ever learn…..Mother nature is the “go to” solution for so many of our catastrophies and extreme weather events. The earth will always do what’s beneficial and natural to sustain her lifeforms and “green infastructure” over millions and millions of years…….it’s all right there, all we have to do is watch and learn.
By Diana Lamantia | Reply
As a Sandy Survivor I totally agree.
By Pete Ott | Reply
Then why does the Army Corps want to make these dunes lower?
There standard for seaside is only 22 feet?
By Bonnie Delaney | Reply
Hi Cara, Dominick does not live on Long Beach Island. Long Beach Island is on the south side of the Barnegat Inlet. Please check your map and correct your story.
By Cara Byington | Reply
Hi Bonnie — thanks for the correction. I fixed the story and apologize for the error.
By Saved By Sand Dunes | Together.Stronger. | Reply
[…] There’s a lot of science that shows the value of nature for reducing risk to life and property. For the last several years, the Conservancy has been at the forefront of research efforts to quantify not only the social and environmental benefits of healthy coastal habitats – dunes, coastal wetlands, maritime forests, mangroves – but also their economic value as a natural defense against storms and floods. View Link […]
By Yvonne Hansen | Reply
Recently I learned that sand is becoming hard to find. Is this due to sand more structures being built with a major ingredient of concrete? Enlighten, please.
Hi Yvonne, Thank you for the question! It’s true that sand is becoming scarce. This article from The Conversation gives a good overview of the problem: http://theconversation.com/the-world-is-facing-a-global-sand-crisis-83557
By Janet Q. Festinger | Reply
If we don’t impede nature, things seem to survive. Overbuilding has caused damage to our environment.
We must be vigilant and not be tempted by money to harm our future.
By Dr. ROGER R. LOCANDRO, PROFESSOR OF ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES-RUTGERS UN. | Reply
DOMINIC WAS ONE OF MY STUDENS IN THE ECOLOGY OF NEW JERSRY AND THE ALASKA FIELD STUDIES.
I CAN STILL SEE HIM WITH A CLASS, STANDING ON THE BOARD WALK IN SEASIDE PARK DISCUSSING THE BENEFITS OF DUNES AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND THE ULTIMATE PROTECTION OF A COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE. WE ARE PROUD OF THE FACT THAT HE TOOK A SIMPLE CONCEPT AND APPLIED IT IN A MEANINGFULL, EFFECTIVE WAY TO A NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN ON MIDWAY BEACH AREA. SEASIDE PARK IS THE ONLY OTHER MUNICIPALITY WITH A SIMILAR MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT ALSO EFFECTIVELY SERVES TO PROTECT A TOWN. I BELIEVE SEASIDEPARK MAYOR PETERSON WAS PRESENT AT THAT PRESENTATION.
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF A STUDENT TAKING A CONCEPT FROM A FIELD ECOLOGY CLASS AND ESSENTIALY SAVING A LARGE COMMUNITY FROM THE DISTRUCTIVE FORCES OF NATURE.
WE ARE SUPER PROUD OF DOMINIC AND HOPE THAT HE HAS SET AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHER SHORE COMMUNITIES TO ADOPT SIMILAR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGENT PROCEEDURES.
By John Kaufman | Reply
You the man Dominick
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Patents and Copyright
I was making sure I has something right: that binary executables are copyrighted works derivative of their source code; because it occurred to me that it might actually not be true after reading the US copyright office's description of video game copyright as only applying to the text and pictorial content - basically that a game is copyright on the art(s) data files alone. This lead me down a rabbit hole that ended up here.
And that got me thinking, could we fix the FUBAR patent situation with copyright. I know it's heresy to say so, but copyright might actually work out as a good idea (because what we've got with patents and crap sure as Hell isn't sustainable or sensible with big companies fighting with patent portfolios that make for a dangerously close to criminal oligopoly in any tech hardware adjacent marketplace).
If we describe how something complex is done (with many different potential implementations) as expression but block patents (what needs to get done, cookbook), as the EU does for software*, but consider the creation of such a complex process to be a derivative work that encapsulates the expression in the building then we might be getting somewhere.
Are two derivative works that are the same but can be shown to be independently derived from different source works a copyright conflict? Could we make them not? Use copyright as a chain of derivation with more force applied to the sanctity of the non-derivatives? Basically you would have copyright on an executable as derivation of your source code but an independently created binary which shares too much common machine code to be safe from copyright infringement claim from an expressively different source (we already have to measure this to see if one source file is a derivation of another) would not cause a conflict. It would provide an interesting case for decompilation of that binary, creating a derivative work of both source files (which traditionally requires someone to derive from two distinct sources, unless I'm missing something obvious).
So how does this apply to the world of patent-fuck (assuming we're going to blow them out of the water for complex machines)? Intel don't have patents on x86 or anything like that any more. They have a process for making their CPUs, a hugely complex design process for working out transistor layouts from their requirements using expressive (but often highly automated - we're talking machines that build machines** here) design that ends up with billions of transistors on a die in an exact configuration. Because of the copyright on their complex machine*** then the CPUs that come out of it are likely a derivative expression of that creativity and so if you built your own fab and started making clone CPUs like Intel's then they would be works duplicated without permission. If you independently designed a non-derivative process for working out transistor positions to make your own x86 CPU then even if the final transistor placements has overlap with an Intel CPU you would only need to show the non-derivative nature of your process of design to show it wasn't infringement. AMD don't need any permission/patents to make a CPU as long as they're not stealing Intel's design software/workflow or blindly duplicating transistor layouts with no design of their own (you can't steal my source code or copy my executable).
Of course, you have to consider the potentially derivative work for containing that expression (complexity) found in the original work. I can write a massive, unique program to write Hello World but the binary is unlikely to have copyright protection as derivative as the compile/optimisation process strips the expression from the original (unless it doesn't - think Rube Goldberg machine type situation, those things could get to the point of being expressive art in themselves and so could a complex enough Hello World as long as the optimisation wasn't able to strip it out). And we've already got (in the world I just built in my head) this protection from coincidental derivation to a common point from differing ancestors to prevent it being a really big problem.
Your drugs (assuming complex molecules etc) are copyrighted derivatives by the process you went through to discover and develop them that cannot just be ripped off by someone copying the molecules but if they're naturally occurring or can be developed without just copying your work then that's cool. Obviously that leads to the issue of copyright terms and how we'd need to build up copyright term lengths for a whole host of new things to get us closer to patent terms in those fields. It's a whole minefield but we already live in a world when a drug patent can evergreened by changes like patenting the other handedness of the molecule or changing the damn tablet colour/shape so we're already SNAFU; it's hard to think we can make things worse!
Is this a perfect idea? Hell no. I've only thought about it for 30 minutes and I'm sure there would be work to make it in any way sane. But I think the EU software world, where if you take the EXE I created and duplicate it and sell it as your own then I'm actually protected, but I can't protect the ideas of what it does**** from someone independently creating the same thing (or as a tiny fragment of functionality inside my copyrighted source code) is a good model. As long as the process is complex (non-trivial) and expressive (non-obvious and many routes to functionality) then the thing it builds (as long as that maintains the complexity) is a derivative expression of that crafting/translation process. We just have to make sure we acknowledge that our claim to expressivity says that the derived copyright is not exclusive as many different expressions can give rise to the same derived work and this can't block a second (distinct) original work being created and having a valid derived work.
I kinda started this though process imagining two short stories which are clearly copyrighted works and yet talk about something very similar (or even the same event or identical high-level plotline) and using Google Translate on them (a totally automated process). The rough translations that result should obviously retain copyright as derivative works that maintain much of the expression of the originals but may (somewhat unlikely, not impossible) well share more commonality***** due to the weakness of computer translation to simplify somewhat and try to make something readable from the translation process. Compiling is a translation process which optimises and strips some expression (but not enough for us to worry about the derived work being necessarily non-copyright, the granularity of expression is still there in the details over a large program). That's basically how I justified not even thinking about stripping executable copyright, it seems to make perfect sense, and rather considered implementing the same thing into the meat-space of complex hardware. Also I have no idea how the originally linked article worries about ReactOS as if the functionality is so small as to be necessarily identical by functionality constraint then there was (probably) no copyrightable work in the source code and (certainly) the derived binary at that point. Two novels may share some sentences but it isn't a copyright issue, we already have a long history of working out what constitutes plagiarism and copyright infringement of expressive works to rely on to work out any edge cases.
* Is ScummVM only legal in the US because Lucas failed to patent the functionality of the engine (and possibly because anyone who writes software thinks software patents are scum and hugely damaging to the industry so internally campaign against them)?
** As someone who has spend a decent amount of time writing code that writes code, I can also see my hand in the code that my code writes as long as it is of sufficient complexity to be copyright if it was to by from my own keyboard then I see no reason to block it because it is one step removed from my keyboard as I wrote the code that wrote the code. Typically we create code without enough expression as code generated by code is often saving us doing something non-expressive/boring by automation. That is not always true.
*** Split being - functional so no copyright: 'make an x86 cpu with these constraints...'; expressive source code equivalent: design software etc that is interacted with and tweaked to actually do the design; derivative potentially-expressive binary equivalent: final layout of transistors on that CPU.
**** 'Make a camera on-screen that looks as if it comes from a human eye's perspective or film camera and allows movement of the player-character'; 'Take a binary data stream encoded with MPEG compression and decode it to the visible data it encodes', 'Count the number of transitions of shadow volume to camera position to work out if an object is in shadow'.
***** Even whole blocks may be totally identical now potentially baring the names of people and objects - and we already know switching up var names isn't transformative to strip copyright for fair use so has a danger of being considered NOP work and so making them identical.
So, what am I not considering here? Couldn't this actually work to get us out of this patent quagmire? We're already in a mess (and the US is in a real mess with software patents) so why not try and unify us under copyright to prevent blind duplication but allow parallel development and independent creation. I'm not sure if we need to worry about retaining patents for things too simple to be complex enough to be expressive, because if it's that simple and there is only one right way to implement the functionality then do you really need a stick to beat anyone else who tries to do what you just happened to patent first?
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Little sympathy for victims of snow emergencies
Bob Collins December 14, 2016, 9:38 AM Dec 14, 2016
With the seasons first big snowfall behind us, the “steamed because I got towed” season is well underway.
In Mankato, 332 cars were towed during the snow emergency on Monday, overflowing the impound lot that usually handles an average of about 150 towed cars when it snows.
It’s a moneymaker, too. The city charges $25 for the parking violation and $107.88 for the impound charge, 50 percent more than two years ago, the Mankato Free Press says. That’s about a $50,000 infusion — sorry, cash only — into the towing economy from six inches of snow.
Part of the problem is that the city is a college town and the kids don’t know the rules. The other is that avoiding a town tow requires people to pay attention to news on a Sunday. Who pays attention to the news on Sunday?
And Council member Jason Mattick wondered if the day of the week was the problem. The snow emergency was announced early Sunday morning, warning people that ticketing and towing would begin at 10 p.m.
“Not that it’s your fault, but I think a lot of people were just in a Sunday lull — Vikings or whatever,” Mattick said. “So it caught a lot of people off-guard. It’s unfortunate.”
Finally, Reeves said he noticed towing of some vehicles that city streets department officials might have let slide in previous years. The vehicles were those that had been parked on streets where plows had already made a pass or two. In the past, those cases might have been forgiven with towing focused on cars that had been parked throughout the snowstorm and were surrounded by unplowed snow.
Hentges agreed that some people mistakenly believe they can resume parking on a street once they deem it’s been plowed “curb to curb.” That’s the rule in some cities and was once the rule in Mankato, but the restrictions were simplified to prohibit parking until the snow emergency ends.
“We did have a few people confused on that,” he said. “But that’s been the case the last three years.”
Next year, the city plans to inform landlords when there’s a snow emergency, hoping they’ll pass it on to the renters.
The situation was much the same in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune reports today. Hundreds of cars got towed.
According to anecdotes in the paper, snow emergency rules are particularly confusing for people who just moved here.
Minneapolis ordinances govern winter street parking before, during and after heavy snowfalls, or when snow has accumulated from smaller snowfalls, so that plowing crews can clear more than 1,000 miles of city streets.
Ryan Helgerson said he paid $183 to get his wife’s car out of the impound lot. They’d followed the Day 2 snow emergency rules in Powderhorn Park after getting a text message alert, he said, but didn’t find out about Day 3 rules until it was too late.
Eric Muchow and Darren Nelson, both of St. Paul, were taken by surprise Tuesday when they parked for a few hours in northeast Minneapolis.
“It’s confusing. The parking restrictions ended already in St. Paul,” said Muchow, who described a fruitless attempt to chase down the tow truck on foot. “I didn’t even consider Minneapolis.”
The issue fairly unites us, according to the article’s comments section, where condemnation of liberals, millennials, and transplants is near unanimous.
Tributes of @CityMinneapolis: Many will perish to the bowels of the Impound lot. May the odds be ever in you favor. #Mpls #SnowEmergency2016 pic.twitter.com/UEcr8aTwcl
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Spotlight | The seemingly unstoppable boom in indie publishing & The Republic of Consciousness Prize
Indie Publishing vs. Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing
With commissioning editors at mainstream publishers increasingly under the corporate cosh, any literary submissions calculated to sell less than 5000 copies are turned down regardless, which leaves the field open for independent publishers to come in and have a go at the roulette table imagining winners that might come their way.
An experienced commissioning editor may be able to spot high-quality writing and know their target readership, but s/he is no less a gambler than anyone else playing the publishing game. Their gut instinct counts for little in the corporate boardroom nowadays, even though the way in which advances are calculated is an inexact science, and tales of legendary rejections make for juicy water-cooler chat. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was rejected 12 times before being picked up; Gone with the Wind got the thumbs down 32 times; Under the Frog 22 times; Dune 20 times; and The Tale of Peter Rabbit was rejected so many times it was self-published.
Smaller publishers generally avoid formulaic writing for the genre market, provide greater personalised support, and – as opposed to a vanity press – do not ask the author for money. Added to which crowdfunding has become a more than viable option, not only to raise funds, but to develop a community of readers ahead of publication (Peirene Now! No. 3, Shatila Stories was recently successfully funded with 327 backers pledging £13,350 via Kickstarter). Best not confuse authors self-publishing their own books only – generally via a digital platform such as Amazon or Kobo – with indie publishers; the term indie authors would be more accurate.
According to a recent report in The Guardian, “Independent publishers have unleashed a boom in sales,” and “turnover across the Arts Council England-funded portfolio surged above its budget by almost £100,000 this year, reaching £277,930.”
Visibility remains an issue. As I wrote in February 2016 when BookBlast® first began its celebration of independent publishing, “SO MUCH is published! How can avid book readers, students on publishing courses, Media researchers and stumble-upon book browsers find the good stuff amidst the avalanche of words available online and piled high on bookshop tables? To separate the wheat from the chaff is becoming ever more essential. The need for well-informed curated recommendations is growing and growing . . .” The range of books being published by small presses is broad and the quality extremely high.
One form of advertisement which plays a vital role in the overcrowded marketplace is the literary award. In the US, the Best Translated Book Awards set up by Chad Post via Three Percent, the University of Rochester’s translation-centric website, flags up the all-important contribution independent publishers make to maintaining a high quality diversity of voices in literary publishing.
The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
In the UK, the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is now in its second year, with The Times Literary Supplement as the prize’s official media partner for the first time. Its founder, author Neil Griffiths, believes that the best innovative fiction is coming from small presses, since “they enable stories, characters and experimentation not found anywhere else in British publishing.”
An exclusive BookBlast interview with Neil Griffiths can be read here – His magnificent, addictive magnum opus, As a God Might Be, is the perfect Christmas read.
Writer and occasional reviewer, James Tookey, who works with Neil Griffiths, answered five questions about the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses:
How many judges read the books submitted; are they writers, or journalists, or publishers themselves?
We tried something a bit different with the judges this year; we had twelve of them! We had four booksellers, from bookshops in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London & Manchester; and then a number of reviewers and readers, from Goodreads reviewers to a TLS contributor. All of the judges are people who we knew to be serious reader of small presses, and we wanted to have a large pool of opinions and ideas.
What are the criteria; and what genres?
Basic criteria is a work of literary fiction, published in the calendar year, by an independent press with less than five full-time employees. We throw in English-language and translated works, novels and single-author short story collections, all into the same pot. No genre restrictions, apart from the basic idea that what we’re looking is books that represent the best of “hard-core literary fiction and gorgeous prose”.
How big is the pool of publishers the books are shortlisted from?
We had dozens of submissions; this is a remarkable time from small presses in the UK and we’re delighted that so many of them submitted. There may be some fabulous small presses who didn’t hear our call – we hope our partnership with the TLS, our media partner, will amplify our call so that next year there are even more submissions.
Did anything leap out at you while reading and assessing; what stood out for you?
I’m not a judge this year, just a lowly administrator. However, I have gleaned from the judges that it was remarkably strong field. I ask the judges to give me a list of their favourite books, and of the twelve lists I received, there were ten separate books at number one. Only two books received two first place votes (no telling, I’m afraid). Every book on our longlist has fierce supporters among our judges. We’re having a meeting to finalise our shortlist in the new year, and I predict a wonderful debate. I just hope we can all remain civil.
How diverse is the longlist; and where are the publishers based?
The thirteen publishers represent London, Sheffield, Hebden Bridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Norwich, Stroud, Cromer and Dublin. It’s 2017, and you can live outside the M25 and still be part of the conversation. The books and authors represent all sorts of writings and writers, and it’s important to note that being diverse isn’t difficult. The best writing comes from all over the place, and it’s just about keeping your eyes and ears open. Small presses have a better record on representation than bigger publishers, and we simply took their lead.
The Longlist
Aaaargh! Press | Playing Possum by Kevin Davey | “Kevin Davey’s stupendous brain-teaser of a novel – his first, following a career in teaching and journalism – offers a stream of reflections on the life, work, thought, and mythology of TS Eliot,” New Statesman
And Other Stories | Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell | “In her extraordinary debut, Patty Yumi Cottrell gives her 32-year-old narrator Helen Moran the impossible job of figuring out why someone kills themselves . . . a highly unorthodox detective story that forces a young woman to revisit her past,” Irish Times
Bluemoose Books | The Gallows Pole by Ben Myers | “He grapples with poverty, injustice and human suffering. His writing packs a visceral punch and is not for the faint-hearted. His descriptions of beatings and murders are to be relished — fan that I am of Richard Allen and Quentin Tarantino — and are beautifully rendered in poetic, unrelenting, muscular prose bringing alive acts of savage desperation,” The BookBlast® Diary
An exclusive BookBlast® interview with Ben Myers can be read here –
An exclusive BookBlast® interview with Kevin Duffy from Bluemoose Books can be read here –
CB Editions | An Overcoat by Jack Robinson | “H.B. is Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, the author of The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black; ‘Jack Robinson’ is a pen name of Charles Boyle, the founder of CB Editions. Stendhal described his own fiction as a kind of super-realism: that of the mirror along a road, reflecting sometimes sky, sometimes puddles. In An Overcoat, the mirrors face each other, and the images go off into infinity,” The Guardian
Charco Press | Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, tr. Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff | “Rural France is the backdrop for this stark tale, translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff, of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood. Rural France is the backdrop for this stark tale, translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff, of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood . . . There’s a touch of David Lynch to the best moments,” The Guardian
Dostoevsky Wannabe | Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner | “Though only eighty pages along there is so much behind almost each sentence, even each symbol, that this is the sort of novella about which whole theses could be written – and indeed Waidner has written her own based around the book, in particularly explaining her new idea of transliteracy, combining the avant-garde (she acknowledges Ali Smith as pretty much the only mainstream novelist in the field) and the notions of gender identity and fluidity,” amazon.co.uk
Fitzcarraldo Editions | Compass by Mathias Enard, tr. Charlotte Mandell | “Compass, in its relentlessly discursive impressiveness, embodies an uncompromising vision of the novel as relatively static political and cultural essay – at least until the final few pages, when, miraculously, real-time events intrude upon Franz’s reverie, and the book concludes with a surprisingly upbeat, if not sentimental, flourish,” The Guardian
Les Fugitives | Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefevbre, tr. Sophie Lewis | “A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin’s cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. The inner monologue of a woman haunted by German composer Arnold Schoenberg’s portrait, following a complex romantic encounter with an American-German pianist-composer in Berlin. As the irresistible, impossible narrator flies home she unpicks her social failures while the pianist reaches towards a musical self-portrait with all the resonance of Schoenberg’s passionate, chilling blue,” reviewbookshop.co.uk
An exclusive BookBlast® interview with Cécile Menon from Les Fugitives, can be read here –
Galley Beggar Press | We that are Young by Preti Taneja | “Thanks to publishing’s conservatism, fiction set in modern India can too easily be pigeonholed: post-colonial, Raj-nostalgic, focused on slum dwellers or a globetrotting elite. We That Are Young, the doorstop debut novel from Preti Taneja, a Warwick academic and human rights activist, ignores and subverts these stereotypes by turns. A recasting of King Lear in today’s Delhi, the family at its centre consists of ageing patriarch Devraj, head of the multi-tentacled India Company, his daughters Gargi, Radha and Sita, right-hand man Ranjit and his son Jeet,” The Guardian
An exclusive BookBlast® interview with Sam Jordison from Galley Beggar Press can be read here –
Influx Press | Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams | “The conflict between reaching out and curling up is what absorbs the characters of Attrib. and other stories, an elegant debut collection from the young writer Eley Williams . . . [She] has crafted her fictions to be miniature and sparky, concentrating on the implacability of details, no matter how small or brief,” The Guardian
Little Island Press | Darker with the Lights on by David Hayden | “Darker With The Lights On, by David Hayden, is a collection of twenty short stories written in captivating, modernist prose. The language is lyrical, in places magical, the plot progression often surreal. There is a dreamlike quality to many of the tales which explore loneliness and reactions to lived experience. The agitation in the telling adds intensity to even the mundane,” Jackie Law #neverimitate
Salt Publishing | In the Absence of Absalon by Simon Okotie | “The whole book is largely a matter of qualifications, of trying, in tightened and tightening circles, to get to the essence of what it is to be alive in a contemporary city. And of course it is also a joke about the very nature of the detective’s search for clues. For here everything is of equal significance: that is, immensely significant on its own terms, and yet, when placed against the wider backdrop, of absolutely no relevance whatsoever,” The Guardian
An exclusive BookBlast interview with Jen Hamilton-Emery from Salt Publishing can be read here –
Tramp Press | The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo | “Although it is set in postwar Scandinavia, Arja Kajermo’s debut novel, The Iron Age, could as easily be the story of a poverty-stricken family in 20th-century Ireland. There are former soldiers turned disgruntled father figures, a la John McGahern, the displaced people of Hugo Hamilton’s novels and the ‘ordinary miserable childhoods’ of Frank McCourt’s – although a vicious minus-30 climate makes the rain-sodden streets of Limerick a virtual paradise in comparison,” Irish Times
The Republic of Consciousness shortlist will be announced at Waterstone’s, Manchester, on 15 February, 2018.
For readers who want to know more about independent publishers, Mslexia’s Indie Press Guide covers nearly 600 independent literary presses and journals operating right now in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
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Maldives to co-champion action on coastal fisheries for Commonwealth
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Maldives has stepped forward to co-champion the Commonwealth Blue Charter Action Group on sustainable coastal fisheries alongside the current champion country, Kiribati.
The country made the announcement at a virtual seminar, hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat.
As a new co-champion, Maldives will work with Kiribati, as well as the other members of the action group, to develop strategies on the sustainable use of coastal marine resources across the Commonwealth, covering a third of the world’s national waters.
Resilient fisheries
Nearly 90 per cent of the world’s fisheries have been fully exploited, depleted, or are in a state of collapse, signalling a threat to food security, fishing-dependent livelihoods and marine ecosystem.
Research has found that if the world’s fisheries were sustainably managed, they could provide six times more food than current levels while creating more than 12 million new jobs.
Against this backdrop, the purpose is to ramp up coordinated action and advocacy for a resilient coastal fisheries industry, which benefits both the present and future generations in the face of threats like climate change and overfishing.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said: “We are delighted that Maldives, a large ocean state, will co-champion our Action Group on sustainable governance of fisheries, which has long been the bedrock of the Maldivian economy.
“Their announcement signifies Maldives’ strong commitment to modernising the fisheries sector in a smart, sustainable and responsible way, which works for the people, economy and the ocean.
“This is the primary mandate of our Commonwealth Blue Charter, which brings together our member countries to co-operate and collaborate on national strategies to address shared issues affecting the health and sustainable use of our ocean, while building a global momentum for more ambitious ocean action.”
Ocean sustainability
The fisheries industry is of particular significance for the Commonwealth, particularly for its 24 small island states, including Maldives, which depend heavily on the ocean for sustenance.
Maldives’ Minister of State for Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture Hassan Rasheed said: “As the Commonwealth’s newest member, we remain steadfast in our shared goal of securing the ocean bounty for future generations.
“Fisheries are an integral part of Maldivian identity. The work being done under the Blue Charter is critical, especially for countries like ours, which is extremely dependent on the ocean for fisheries, food security, employment and foreign income.
“We are proud to co-champion the Action Group on sustainable coastal fisheries and take part in an endeavour that contributes towards ocean sustainability at a global level.”
The Blue Charter was agreed by Commonwealth heads of government in April 2018, as a vehicle to drive active co-operation on ocean governance and sustainability.
As of January 2021, 15 countries have stepped forward as ‘champions’ of 10 action groups, each focusing on a different ocean issue, from marine pollution to climate change. Forty-four countries have joined one or more of the 10 action groups.
Common benefits for all
Kiribati’s Secretary for the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource Development, Dr Agnes Yeeting said: “As a champion, Kiribati looks forward to working with interested members to ensure all activities are supported to address issues encountered by coastal fisheries for a common benefit of all.
“Kiribati cannot progress on sustainable coastal fisheries alone but counts on collaborative efforts from members. Therefore, Kiribati is delighted to have Maldives on board for this common goal.”
The Action Group on Sustainable Coastal Fisheries encourages better stewardship of coastal marine resources through sharing of best practices, promoting sustainable management, and mobilising funding for joint initiatives to develop improved fisheries solutions.
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Dozens of Rs also vote against resolutions acknowledging man-made climate change, gun violence awareness, transgender day of remembrance...
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The question, as always, is what is *wrong* with these people, and also who in hell votes for them? In this case, dozens of Virginia House Republicans voted against resolutions that you’d think would be absolutely no-brainers: 1) HJ136, “Express[ing] the sense of the General Assembly in recognizing that global warming caused by human activity that increases emissions of greenhouse gases has resulted in a climate and ecological emergency”; 2) HJ10, “Designat[ing] June 1, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Virginia”; 3) HJ85, “Designates November 20, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Transgender Day of Remembrance in Virginia”; and 4) HJ91, “Affirm[ing] the state’s commitment to diversity and safeguarding the civil rights and dignity of all Virginians.”
On HJ91, check out the absurd discussion, after House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert (R) proposes an amendment to, basically, strike any language referring to specific groups (e.g., ” New Americans, Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ Americans, Americans with disabilities, and other racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities”). Because, supposedly, mentioning these groups is divisive or some such bullshit. Needless to say, Gilbert’s assinine amendment was roundly rejected, except by a few dozen of his hard-right Republican colleagues. And they wonder they they keep losing elections in increasingly diverse places like Virginia? Duh.
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December 26, 2019 by Ferdinand Mehlinger
Though many Virginia Tech students were too busy tossing school supplies into a duffle bag and taping down boxes full of textbooks to notice, August of 2016 initiated the first phase of a major marketing project across campus. In fact, the university unveiled its third edition of the university logo at 11:05 a.m. today — Do you notice something missing?
According to Melanie Schramm, director of marketing, this logo’s subtle but auspicious detail is what ultimately will allow the university to better communicate the true message from Virginia Tech to the world. Schramm and Tracy Vosburgh, associate senior vice president for university relations, hope that the “Invent the Future” campaign will continue to exist as another timepiece in a vintage Hokie collection.
“I think it did the heavy lifting for Virginia Tech … and then it was overtime that you started to see that it (broke) down and not everybody sees themselves in it and people are beginning to create their own idea of what they thought Virginia Tech might better look or sound or feel like, and that is predictable if you don’t change,” Vosburgh said.
The new university mark is a structure of symbolism, down to the letter. Michael Stowe, director of media relations, points to the “T” as a representation of disciplinary strength as well as ability to work across disciplines. The arms of the “V” represent real-world application of knowledge and the spirit of Ut Prosim. The shape and openness of the lettering highlight Virginia Tech’s inclusive community that thrives at the intersection of academic disciplines.
“Interestingly enough, just the way that VT was redrawn gave us the ability to show a softness that didn’t exist with the flying VT. An intersection, a pathway, an openness, all of those things sort of came to life,” Schramm said.
However, that’s not to say that there is not other meaning that can be found within the new logo.
“Everybody sees something different in this, and I am not going to tell people what they should or shouldn’t see in it … We showed it to somebody who happens to be an engineer, he sees the square root in there,” Vosburgh said.
The use of Chicago maroon and burnt orange in the university logo as well as a custom-made sans serif font are two significant details that have yet to be executed on other campus logos.
“We are not taking something sacred apart; we are optimizing it because we are a force for positive change.”
In conjunction with these changes, the team of visionaries made sure that unique identifiers of Virginia Tech such as Hokie Stone or the campus colors were left untouched in the branding project.
Last spring, seven focus groups of roughly 10 students each were conducted to produce qualitative data and assure the university that it was moving in the right direction. Mood boards with possible color palettes and photographics were brought in as well as scripted questionnaires to account for free think and a structure that is suitable for a research-testable environment.
“My feeling was … probably I would find people in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences that wouldn’t see themselves inside ‘Invent (the Future)’ and I was imagining places where our campus would say, ‘I don’t see ‘Invent the Future’ representing me,” Vosburgh said. “What we found interestingly enough is that there are areas of the university where inventing actually is a part of everyday mission and drill and purpose, (and) they disconnect with the word ‘invent’ because what they want to do is be seen as innovators.”
Vosburgh says that entrepreneurs also felt alienated by the word “invent” when loosely translated to mean pre-market or pre-moving to have an impact. This dialogue limited entrepreneurs to the benchwork of ideas as opposed to the application in everyday life.
After a week and a half of these focus groups, the discovery phase yielded pieces of insight of which to work off. Some examples of inspiration included bits like “VT-shaped,” “raw Hokie DNA” and “driven to serve.”
Mark Owczarski, assistant vice president for university relations, says that a good brand refresh uses a three-step process of discovering unique traits, defining strategies and launching with a discrete but powerful finish.
“I’ve been involved in one (brand refresh) here, ‘Invent the Future,’ and then I have been involved in one at Syracuse which frankly bombed,” Owczarski said. “The reason that it bombed is because people skipped the discovery, they skipped the research and they skipped the testing, and they went right to a logo or a mark, and they are like, ‘here it is.’ Within 24 to 36 months it was never to be seen again, so it really requires the work of a thousand people to talk to. You test, and you retest and you retest again to make sure that you’re lining up and it’s the way you do it. You can’t rush it.”
Since analyzing the findings from Gallup testing and focus groups, Schramm has concluded that Virginia Tech’s brand is not currently delivering on brand promise. In other words, students feel that what Virginia Tech is commercializing is not accurate. Pointed feedback also suggested that storytelling through marketing shows room for improvement.
Not so surprisingly, Virginia Tech’s preliminary data scored off the charts for one key component — school spirit.
“While Gallup showed us that we weren’t delivering on our brand promise, it also showed kind of an intimidating factor as a marketer — our affinity is very strong, probably the strongest I think of anyone in higher education, so lots of passion, but that affinity score also gives us a lot of hope because if you dial the knobs just so, you are going to hit a homerun with brand and you are going to have a fan base that’s going to carry that message forward,” Schramm said.
Schramm and her teammates hope to finish rolling out the university’s brand refresh by the end of this fall semester. Change is difficult, but Schramm hopes that the students of Virginia Tech will be excited to re-energize Virginia Tech’s image.
“I think by the end of these conversations people realize we come in peace,” Schramm said. “We are not taking something sacred apart; we are optimizing it because we are a force for positive change. We are going to do this and it’s going to be great.”
For more information on the university’s upcoming events, students, faculty and community members are invited to attend President Sands’ State of the University Address this Friday, Sept. 29, in the Street and Davis Performance Hall of the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre at Moss Arts Center.
Free T-shirts with the new university logo will be given to students on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 11 a.m. on the Drillfield (first-come, first-served basis).
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December 4, 2011 · 10:24 AM
Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line
Whatever was said and done in the Georgia locker room at halftime yesterday, Mark Richt needs to gather that all together, crumple it into a little ball, douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and bury the ashes at sea. Boy, what a letdown.
My question from watching that game isn’t whether Georgia had to play perfectly to beat an excellent LSU team – Georgia, after all, was winning 10-0 mid-second quarter despite two brutal whiffs on touchdown passes by King and Mitchell – but whether Georgia’s best effort of the year would have been enough to pull off the upset.
We’ll never know, of course, but that halftime lead, the only one which LSU has faced the entire season, suggests it would have at least been a close call. That it never came to that in the end I think boiled down to three key spots in the game:
Georgia’s second series of the second quarter. I don’t know if was the result of the Dawgs’ worst field position of the game up to that point, lack of faith in the receivers after numerous drops, a desire to shorten the first half or complete faith in what Grantham’s defense was doing, but Bobo’s play selection was a disaster. Two Crowell runs that were easily stuffed for little gain and a slow developing pass play which resulted in a huge sack put Georgia back at its own three for a punt. Up until then, Bobo had been aggressive, calling for passes on first down frequently; if he didn’t have Chavis back on his heels, he at least had him guessing. The only first down Georgia gained over the rest of the first half was via a personal foul penalty and the Dawgs wouldn’t get their next one until the waning moments of the third quarter with the game already out of hand.
Touchdown, Tyrann Mathieu. This, of course, was Georgia’s immediate reward for Bobo’s play calls. Given its special teams struggles over the season, punting to Mathieu with Butler standing on the end line was a risky proposition to begin with, but with the way the Dawgs’ defense was playing, ignoring the lower risk strategy of a kick towards the sidelines was unnecessary. It was Russian roulette and the gun went off in Georgia’s face. It didn’t cost Georgia the lead, but you could sense the energy and confidence sliding back to LSU’s side of the stadium in the aftermath.
The Murray fumble. Statistically speaking, Aaron Murray is going to enjoy a better career at Georgia than David Greene, but Greene is still my gold standard for Georgia quarterbacks of the Richt era simply because he learned early on about playing within himself and not trying to do too much. That’s a lesson Murray hasn’t learned yet (to be fair, it’s one that Shockley and Stafford struggled with, too). You can’t help but love his competitiveness but that desire to make something happen when everyone around him isn’t gets him in trouble,and such was the case on the opening series of the second half. Not only was it a huge momentum shift at the worst possible time, but it also served to throw the defense’s mindset, which had been rock solid in the first half, completely out of sync. Ten minutes later, the game was over.
I’m not in the mood to bore you with my usual series of bullet points. Instead, I’ll leave you with some of my feelings walking out of the Dome.
It’s been a good year for Georgia football. Richt has righted the ship. This team proved in the first half that it deserved to be in the SECCG. And the loss, while certainly disappointing, can serve to be a platform for better days.
There are plenty of lessons to be learned. Some are pretty obvious: the running game needs shoring up with better (and more reliable) personnel, depth is a high priority on the offensive line and special teams personnel also needs upgrading (huge difference in speed between LSU’s coverage teams and Georgia’s). That’s all fixable with continued success on the recruiting front. And strength and conditioning, while improved, still has a ways to go.
But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is about attitude. This team learned how to compete again. Now it needs to learn how to finish. It’s good enough to take off a play or two and still whip Georgia Tech. And it can survive losing its cool against an improving Vanderbilt team. But not giving your best 100% of the time against a beast like LSU… well, that gets you beat by 32 points. If Georgia’s players and coaches want to return the program to the élite status it enjoyed a few years ago, that’s the biggest thing they need to absorb from yesterday’s loss.
If I’m Greg McGarity, that’s the discussion I’m having with my head football coach in the upcoming weeks. After mentioning how much I enjoyed watching the defense’s play in the first half, of course.
197 responses to “Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line”
UGAfoo
The hardest part for me to stomach was how it seemed like we just laid down and quit. Maybe that was a result of losing faith in the offense after CMB seemed to go conservative in the second quarter combined with a reenergized LSU team.
After a spectacular first half, the defense was a let down in the second half as well. Even after Murray fumble I thought we would be able to stuff them for a FG.
I knew we had to play a perfect game. The fumble, two INTs, dropped passes, and horrific punt coverage put an end to our SECC hopes.
CTG doesn’t get paid enough.
BTW, Senator you were 100% correct about VT. My apologies.
I don’t think the defense quit so much as completely lost its focus. You can’t get away with that against a team as good as LSU.
Dboy
And seemed to tire out. I saw limping, hands on hips and slow motion movements of an exhausted group. S&C could be better but I think the fatal flaw in the entire game was our lack of quality depth across the board. They simply wore us down.
This, of course. More than play calling which did not meet our standards (Although I have never understood exactly what those are…plays that work are good calls, plays that don’t, whatever the reason are bad calls.)
LSU played at least 10 or 12 defensive linemen during the game. We played five.
But, of course, Mike Bobo should be fired because of our lack of depth on the defensive line.
Ah Scorpio you have stumbled upon the quintessential standard for criticizing an offensive coordinator: if a play works it is a good call, if it does not work it is a bad call. Go over and read the in-game posts at dawgsports sometimes it is hilarious in how much it verifies that view point. If we throw a deep pass on first down and it works, it goes something like this: “Yesssssssssssss! Go Tavarres Go!”; “Touchdown baaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyy!” no one says, “boy what a bad call, but I’ll take the TD”. If it does not work its more like this…”First and bomb, great call Bobo, chump.”; “Why not try and establish a ground game there so we don’t have second and long” blah, blah, blah.
Why did UGA lose the SEC Championship Game? To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the refs stupid.” When LSU needed help the refs gave it to ’em. That and not enough depth, none at RB.
The offense had regressed back to the point of leaving the D out to dry which had been kept to a minimum since the second game. That and LSU is relentless and deep.
LSU’s relentlessness comes from the depth. One team could stand up to its offense not moving the ball for half the game and the other could not. And that’s why Alabama and LSU are better than everyone else in the country.
gatorhater27
Geez, I thought oversigning didn’t give a competitive advantage. Strange that the two biggest oversigners are the top 2 teams in the country.
No one ever said it didn’t give an advantage. Insider trading gives an advantage and like oversigning it is wrong.
Insider trading is illegal. Oversigning is not.
Bingo. Imagine an NFL team with 10 more guys on the roster than their opponent. They would dominate also. Unfortunately “oversigning” is not agaist the rules.
No but it is ethically wrong. I should’ve been more clear.
Which brings it around to the point: If oversigning is legal and you don’t do it then you are at a disadvantage against teams that do (read: LSU and Bama).
Not to confuse the issue or anything, but I thought Ole Miss was the most egregious oversigner in the league…which puts a different perspective on the argument for damn sure.
Hackerdog
And we aren’t deep. Crowell wasn’t. healthy. Behind him, we have two backs under 180lbs. And the better of those two couldn’t play in the second half.
Our starting five offensive linemen had to go against a group of defensive linemen that were kept fresh throughout the game by substitution.
We need more linemen, more running backs, and more special teams athletes.
H-Town Dawg
That’s what it’s all about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!
Tyronn Mathieu was recruited, but not offered, by Bama and Tennessee. When he wasn’t LSU picked him up as an afterthought. There is more luck involved in recruiting than anyone wants to recognize.
As an outsider, I agree with you–the U.Ga. defense seemed to lose its focus and its confidence. LSU’s entire team seemed to sharpen its focus and confidence. I think the Dogs played hard and didn’t quit.
Red Blackman
I agree, for the most part.
Now, for the truth as I see it……
You can place Georgia’s offensive woes on attrition and poor coaching from a former assistant. I am sorry but Carlton Thomas, Richard Samuel and Brandon Harton are not SEC caliber tailbacks. The dismissal of Meshaun Ealey and Dontavious Jackson coupled with the ignorance of Caleb King put Georgia in a huge hole from a depth standpoint.
The offensive line coaching and talent evaluation under Stacy Searles was a complete joke. We have been reduced to four guards and a center for an offensive line. I’m pretty sure that given the time, Will Friend will return the Georgia offensive line into an elite pro style offensive line.
All in all I am pleased with the progress this year. We need some depth at running back and OT. As it stands right now, we have no elite offensive tackles on the roster. For the style of offense we run, that is a huge problem. Thank you, Stacy Searles.
As for the defense, all I can say is ….Wow. Nice game fellas.
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Yea. Thanks Red. And thanks go to Bluto who put up more material than possible to follow and comment on Fri..
Not sour grapes, but LS Lieux held like they were in love with our receivers after the ball was in the air while the refs stared at and did not call it. Did anyone notice that IGA receivers only looked questioning toward the refs using their hands, but no hanky-snatching drivel mimicry. That affected our O as much as dropped passes. Jus’ sayin’.
They still will be fun to watch in the bowl. It will be interesting to watch the recruiting and follow the summer prep after the Spring Game. Go Dawgs! and thanks for picking it up last summer. Knowing we are better than our record, the insertion of Rome and Drew next year and the buildup to next season will capture our interest and , I imagine , will make for good blog-cheering and discussion.
G Marmalard
No sour grapes but . . . Does anybody else feel like bama and lsu have about 25% more players than the rest of us. Is this the fruit of oversigning? And if so why don’t we get on board ? Seriously. Do u think guys prima dona when they know there are 3 more just as good and somebody has to go? I feel like ga got beat by a roster yesterday. Not scheme not execution by lsu, just a huge army of athletes with endless reinforcements.
Take away the extra players and we still get beat…that’s a good team. But we handle discipline differently, recruiting differently, graduation rates differently, etc. They do it their way to win. We do it our way because it’s right. When the standards aren’t the same, don’t expect fair and equal outcomes.
Please don’t go all GT on us and start making excuses.
Do you think that Richt wouldn’t dismiss a player engaged in a parking lot stomping/beating? He dismissed Mettenberger for playing grab-ass before Murray had established himself as the starter.
I disagree. We have over 100 guys on the roster, same as most other teams. We’ve got to build depth and strength.
Look at Mike Gilliard. The only reason he got to start and play early on was because of injuries. Turns out he was pretty good. We’ve got other guys like him on the sidelines. We just need to continue to evaluate them and develop them. We’ll get there.
Right on, AusDawg85.
Oversigning is the elephant in the room regarding quality depth, imo. I still don’t want UGA to go down that path by exploiting recruits and players, but the NCAA/SEC offices need to curtail this practice by setting standards that must be adhered to. I recommend allowing everyone to oversign by 2-3 to allow for attrition AND allow them to keep those extra signees of they are able to keep everyone eligible. This isn’t a whine, but we may have the same number of players with a uni, but we are way below the “real” scholly numbers, and we were in August/September.
The game was won by LSU last night for two reasons: 1) OL could not block well enough even if we had every running back on hand for the last two years and, 2) our ST coverage and blocking is totally unacceptable. Everyone can stretch and try to blame Bobo for a paly call here or there (what team couldn’t after the fact), but the coaches did not lose this game. UGA had a chance, we squandered it. Even this close to a emotional game where we went from the mountain top to the pits, I still like the direction we are heading.
Attaboy, Mac! Let’s hold the fan line in keeping with what we ask of our team.
As usual, spot on Senator. I’m too dazed as well to dwell on deep analysis at this point. Scratching my head about CMB’s decisions and lack of depth in key positions were fatal flaws in both games at the Dome.
It’s been a very good season…better than most expected, and showed promise for the future. But I hope both the AD and HC are truly able to see the situation for what it is, and commit to further improvement. To sit back now and just recruit “5 stars” thinking that’s all that is missing would be tragic.
baltimore dawg
so you do blame bobo. . . .
The way the team prepares and shows up for the bowl game will show how much things have been turned around. Showing up each day for practice with a sense of urgency and playing the game with passion will truly demonstrate that things are back on track. I believe (hope) they are, but the next month will be a critical time for both the staff and the future of this particular set of returning players.
Rusdawg
They need to approach the bowl game as if it was a season opener. This will be the opening salvo of the 2012 season. We’re done with 2011. Everything from today forward is about 2012.
No. Please don’t treat it like the season opener.
The Original Cynical in Athens
3 plays in the game:
1. The blocks in the back on the punt return. Yes, it was stupid to punt the ball right to the guy, but if the refs do their job, we go into the half up at least 10-0.
2. The Murray fumble. You summed it up perfectly, Senator. All Murray has to do is not f*ck it up. A punt was a win in that game. And then he f*cked it up by trying to be a hero again.
3. The horse collar on Cornelius Washington. Pretty much summed up the 2nd half. We finally made a great play to stop them and it ends up being one of their better offensive plays of the night.
I still have no idea what happened. Strangest game I have ever seen. Only thing I can compare it to is that ’96 or ’97 UK basketball team with Mercer, Delk, Walker, etc, when you were playing even with them for 8 minutes and look up and your suddenly down by 10 without them or you really doing anything of note.
The result of the game was why i had been hoping all year that Scu would have to be the recipient of that beatdown last night. Everything good that happened throughout the season must now be called into question. Murray once again pissed his pants in an important game. The dropsies came out for the first time this season. Bobo rolled over and freaked out as soon as the going got tough. This team would have been a lot better off not playing in this game, beating up on some mediocre Big 10 team in a bowl game and going into next year riding high. Now, all of the warts that had been hidden for 10 weeks are fully exposed again and we have to wonder if they will somehow gain the mental fortitude to overcome them next year?
Yeah, trying to run up-field on a closing pocket to pick up big first down on a critical second half opening drive is “f*ck(ing) it up by trying to be a hero” and the 14pts of dropped passes, along with other drops, were sign that he “once again pissed his pants in an important game.” Great analysis.
Gary Danielson made one decent point all night. At one point when Murray took off he yelled, “just slide.” The kid just needs to learn that with a defense as good as UGA’s, a punt it not a bad thing.
As soon as we lost the field position battle, we lost the game. LSU completed 5 passes. They had two drives of over 36 yards, both of which were late in the game. Murray has to learn to understand the concept of time and place within the framework of the game being played. Last night was a battle of attrition, and failed to grasp the importance of field position.
Agreed, but if he slides there < 2yds shy of the sticks then people in the stands and on the boards are talking about a lack of heart and unwillingness to lay it on the line in an SECCG. Trying to "be a hero" would be throwing into triple coverage or be Fran Tarkenton and scrambling 30yds deep only to get sacked. Murray, with his mistakes yesterday, was NOT the problem and he hardly "pissed his pants" or "fucked it up."
Agree, Murray did not piss his pants. That’s just silly and more than a little unfair to a kid who always leaves it all on the field.
You and the Mayor are the same person or at least friends.
No. I disclaim any and all responsibility. I also do not think Murray did anything but try his guts out.
“Trying to be a hero” suggests a level of ego to Murray that I don’t think is a fair characterization. To me, the kid’s been a consummate team player. He just tried to do too much there. You hope he learns from it.
Murray did what he was supposed to – he tried to get the first down. He just fumbled. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try to run the ball occasionally, it means he should try to fumble less.
How the hell do you “try to fumble less”? Shit happens from a cognitive sense of not trying? You were correct to begin with, “He just fumbled.” End of story.
Zdawg
Is there a ‘Best of Les Miles halftime speeches’ available? Might be a good stocking stuffer for coach. Just sayin’…
At the end of the game he said that he had no halftime speech. They just reminded everyone to do what they always do; – play hard and win.
Get a running game that you can count on and the rest will take care of itself. Once their d-line took away the run in the second quarter it was over and nothing grantham, richt or bobo could say or do was going to change the outcome. I just hope that IC gets it together mentally and physically and that he and Marshall can carry the load in 2012. If so we’ll be playing in this game next year.
Good and succintly analytic post, Derek. No need for us to nitpick players or coaches.
Depth, depth, depth. I understand the attitude part you reference, but that game was about quality, ready to play depth. If I’m McGarity I asking Richt how they plan to better manage the number of players on the team. I’m all for the feel good story of walkons being awarded scholarships, and that will continue as players do stupid things to get shown the door, but it’s clear to me that the roster is too thin and has too many kids that should be playing FCS instead of SEC football. Part of that is the coaches had to play with what was dealt by poor evaluation, coaching and behavior, but Richt has to find a way to bring balance in numbers back to the squad.
+1. When guys don’t have it like it or not CMR has to show ’em the door. They are taking up a scholarship and a spot on the 85 list that should go to someone else. Roster management. That is the bottom line.
Duuuh. What do you think he did this year?
I think he awarded a bunch of schollys to kids that are probably great students, do more than what is asked and weren’t good enough physically to be offered SEC scholarships.
I support Richt, but he and McGarity need to get a strategy together to eliminate the inability to fill a full roster with true scholarship players and not walk-ons that were awarded scholarships because the staff failed to get a full complement of players. It won’t eliminate the King’s and Ealey’s from fucking the numbers, but you can’t sign 20 when you need 25.
I also understand how productive the 2011 recruiting class has been and the staff did a good job putting it together. I’ll also note that it’s sad that they felt the need to call it a “Dream Team”. Richt is coaching in a state where every year could bring a “Dream Team” like haul. What made it highlighted was that Richt certainly didn’t have any “Dream Team” classes the previous three years and his rep in recruits homes have been hurt by the product on the field and his job status. Recruiting and roster management are huge if you intend to compete in this conference and our guy has to get better at it.
The ATH
Maybe that’s a negative, but maybe not. The last time we really “finished strong” after avoiding the sec champ was ’07. That team wasnt very hungry coming in number one.
I agree. If the coaches can use the whipping we took yesterday as a teachable moment throughout the offseason, we’re better off going 11-3 than 11-2, because now they know just how high the bar for a MNC is, and that the 10-game streak was nice, but there’s still more work to be done.
Good thought, (the other one). You realize those initials spell “too” as in “me too”, don’t you?
Senator, you’re right on about that series being the pivotal point in the game. That series was followed by 3 more just like it, even into the 3rd quarter. Bobo stalled, and the crap hit the fan.
If you think I’m pinning the loss on Bobo, you’re overstating my point.
I know you’re not on the new OC train like I have been for the past four years, I’m just amazed that you admit how crucial it was when we nutted up on that series.
Do you recognize that there may be a direct correlation between play calling changing all of the sudden during a game, and Murray going all bankers mid game?
Both Bobo and Murray were dealing with an offensive line physically challenged all night, running backs who had trouble hitting the holes faster than LSU’s linebackers closed them and receivers who couldn’t hold on to passes to save their lives.
I really doubt Murray was thinking to himself on that third down play, “I gotta do something here… Bobo’s playcalling is killing us.” He was just a kid in a pressure situation trying to make a play to help his team. It blew up. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake. That’s all I recognize.
I bet Murray wondered why he was handing it off up the gut on 1st and 2nd down for the 4th possession in a row, only to have Crowell/Thomas run into a wall. There are ways to neutralize D-lines, and off tackle dives and draws on 1st and 2nd down are not them.
“There are ways to neutralize D-lines”? How closely were you watching the game? It wasn’t just LSU’s d-line that was an issue. Those linebackers were obscenely fast closing down the gaps. It was clear that Georgia’s running backs weren’t prepared for that. Although to be fair, until you play against them, I’m not sure how you could be prepared.
Ok, let me change my post to “neutralize fronts”. Either way, same point. Please understand that I think LSU was a better team than the Dawgs. But, I don’t want that to be the case in a few years. I want what is best for this team, and in my (I’m a virtual nobody, but a loyal alum/fan none-the-less) opinion, Bobo ain’t it! Bobo makes top dollar, and we have proven (Grantham) that top dollar can get you a whole lot more if you pick wisely.
Rocketdawg
Bobo does not in fact make “top dollar” by OC standards (I think his salary was somewhere in the $200-250,000 range). Regardless of that fact there was nothing Bobo could do last night, the line couldn’t block after the first few series, our RB’s didn’t hit what small holes were there before they closed, and nobody was getting open against those DB’s. In order to “neutralize” aggresive defenses one would normally run screens and draws, in the case of last night the two bubble screens we ran (and a swing pass to Carlton Thomas) lost yardage, while the draws were losing yardage after the D linemen were shedding their blocks and gobbling up our guys behind the line of scrimmage. Bobo was calling the game safe in order to prevent the “big mistake” which would let LSU back in the game and unfortunately that happened anyway. There was really no other option to turn to, they were squatting on our short routes with safety help over the top. We lost to one of the best defenses in recent memory, with all the youth we have on our offense there is no shame in that.
The receivers sure looked open to me before the play calling took a dive. Some of you are failing to realize that the crap hit the fan AFTER our play calling changed drastically.
P.S. Bobo will make almost $400,000 this year after bonuses. That ranks him in the top 10% of OC’s in the nation. Go look it up if you don’t believe me.
Maybe you should try and walk on if you think that you could hit those receivers last night. They may have looked “open” but they weren’t, that is what zone coverage looks like. I saw a front 7 for LSU whipping our OLine and zone coverage to take away the outs and slants with safety help over the top.
I was a walk on on the UGA baseball team back in 1998, then I got my hand amputated in a wreck. I’m not nearly as accurate with the one that’s left.
According to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts-database.htm
He was around 40th out of 907 for 2010, but he got a decent raise this year and about 5-10 that were above him got head coaching jobs.
That’s all assistants mind you, not just OC’s. I’m sure the Senator knows a better database to look that up. I’ve got a crying 6 month old, so I gotta get off this thing! Peace out Dawg fans!
“Peace out” yourself, Andy. You have serious flaws in your reasoning and your anti-Bobo rant. We put that crap to bed on here or perhaps you haven’t kept up very well. Your criticisms are over the top and you ignore the arguments that settled that in most fans minds a couple of months ago. Since you chose to ignore the good analytical input on here that righted the fan’s minds concerning Bobo, we should just ignore you. Everything you say in “MM QBing” can be said about any and all O coaches in D-1 ball and every college out there. Go fly your specious kite where someone who gives a damn might listen.
How’s the weight loss coming? It might get better if you dump your load of shit somewhere else.
Agree 100% about the first series of the second half. No way we should have started with dive plays. That set the wrong tone, and the Murray’s fumble really hurt.
OKDawg
I think the series in the second quarter where the game shifted and backed UGA up for the punt coincided with 1. LSU realizing we had no running game and turning up the heat on Murray and 2. Our offensive line (with no depth for rotation) beginning to spring leaks. Throw in what you mentioned, Senator, re: drops by our receivers and our defense playing lights out, and I don’t skewer Bobo for playing it more conservative at that point (backed up on our end of the field). Kicking to Mathieu with a short field was the more critical tactical error in my opinion.
Two series prior to the second quarter series bobo supposedly screwed up on:
1st-10, LSU44 3:19 C. Thomas rushed to the right for 1 yard gain
2nd-9, LSU43 3:12 C. Thomas rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain
Last first down prior to bobo supposedly screwing up:
1st-10, UGA39 12:10 A. Murray sacked by K. Adams
Clearly running it on the next series was dumb.
Bobo wasn’t willing to give up on play action. That meant he had to call some runs to try to keep Chavis and the LSU defense honest.
Bobo wasnt going to give up on play action because he wanted Murray to be alive for his junior year.
Bobo wasn’t giving up on play action because he typically runs it 20+ times per game. To the point that rushes start to smile!
*rushers
Dawg 39
LSU had little success running the ball in the first half. They had to keep trying it to keep our D honest. Then their longest run is finally one straght up the gut. To not keep trying to develop the ground game would be stupid for both teams. Murray would have been killed. Bobo called a good game. Very similar to the one called by the Tigers. Bobo will be the QB coach & the OC for the next few years. Nobody with any real input wants to change that. Give it a break, people.
+infinity
For those who settle for mediocrity. And, I’m a semi Richtophile as Sports & Grits would say. I just feel sorry for his inability to fire people. It’s his best and worst trait I suppose.
I actually strongly disagree with you here.
I hope you don’t think I’m being unreasonable, but I don’t think LSU “had to keep trying it to keep our D honest.” LSU had to keep running the ball because that’s all they could do. They didn’t have another option. I think the deep passes they attempted were an effort “to keep our D honest.” They ran it over and over and over because they had no other choice. They found ways to make that work and once they found what was working they kept doing it.
They threw those deep passes so that we couldn’t just load up the box and sell out to stop the run the whole game. But they only threw 13 passes the entire game. They ran it because that’s what they do and that’s what they’re built to do. Murray wasn’t getting killed when we ran for like 34 yards in the first half and carved up LSU’s secondary passing the ball on short routes. Did Bobo call a similar game to the LSU OC? No, he didn’t. They found out they were having limited success running up the middle and tried running it outside. When that worked, they kept on doing it. We were having success on short passing routes and started running it up the middle into a loaded box. When that didn’t work, we continued to do it. We wasted downs and then threw Aaron to the wolves on 3rd and long. That was bad play-calling. After the first quarter, we shut down what was working (like in the Auburn game last year) and stopped being aggressive. From then on, we never gave ourselves a chance.
Adam, amen brother.
Will Trane
Red Blackman gets the whole picture. It all starts on the offensive line. The current interior line is not a good run blocking squad. They seem slow of the line and do not get their pads down. That being said, there is not one RB on the squad who can hit a gap and break out. Not one. Now the line can push with Samuel and Malcome. The most important player in the game is the Frosh RB for LSU, Hilliard. He is a load with speed. Yo i could tell the Dawgs D wanted nothing to do with him. I’m puzzled how over the past 3-5 years CMR has not learned what a former Auburn coach told hime one time. To win big in the SEC you had better have a solid, consistent running game. Running teams are just more physical and disciplined in a big game.
I’m back where I was last season. Think the Dawgs need a QB/RB position coach. Murray has played a lot, I mean alot of snaps, but his progression, technique, and maturity is not where it should be, and I’m not sure he can get it there. For me there is even an off field differnece between him and Mason. Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Will Friend and Coach T have their work cut out for them for the bowl and the off-season. Let’s see how this line can improve by bowl time. I’d recruit linemen hard along with some SEC caliber RB [hint, Lattimore, Richardson, Hilliard].
To watch that game and think our real problem is at qb is to be a total idiot. Sorry to be rude, but that is just stupid. You don’t understand football; quit trying.
See my post below Mark only does what Bobby Bowden taught him, he is still after 11 years looking for his Warwick Dunn. We recruit midgets at running back not for a change of pace but for our running backs. None of our RB’s would be on Alabama or LSU’s 3 deep and that includes IC. We are not a power team Alabama and LSU are power teams. We are a multiple offense that if everything goes well can be effective but we are not going to line up and power the ball against good defenses period.
Yeah that is why Bama recruited IC so hard last year, so he could sit on the bench….
Lots of guys look like world beaters in high school and many work out in college but some don’t. Jasper Sanks is probably our best example. We need a running back who doesn’t get put on his ass trying to pass block and, for sure, one who can keep his mouth shut and not cost us penalty yardage when it looks like we might be getting something started on offense.
You are totally right about OL problems. We have a mediocre, albeit enormous OL, that has no depth at all.
I am not sure why you’re thinkin Mason is better than Murray. Murray set the season record for TD’s after losing the best receiver ever to play for GA to the NFL, without a decent RB, and throwing to a bunch of freshman, all whille running for his life most of the season. Mason has thrown a couple of balls in mop up duty. I’ve said this before about QB’s and Richt. He’s coached 2 Heisman winners and the winningest QB in the history of college FB (until McCoy broke his record for wins). I am betting Mason is not better than Murray. And that’s why Mason is not starting and may transfer after this season.
Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Based on what, pray tell? Garbage time performances?
Herschel Blogger
he must look mature when they cut to shots of him standing near Richt.
to be pissed at Aaron after that game, and this season as a whole, is just wrong.
I am not pissed at Aaron, but before you anoint him, at least be honest and say that he lost a fumble and threw two picks. That’s three times HE gave the ball back to LSU. Don’t pin the whole loss on our line or our RBs.
But you’re ready to anoint Mason?
An awful lot of quarterbacks threw INTs against that LSU team. With time in the pocket, Murray is among the best.
We won’t since there is plenty of blame to go sround on this non-NFL team we have fielded this year. If you think that our O linemen are great(and I love all that they have tried to accomplish this season) take a look at the film in the last of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th when we were sending Malcolm up the middle . The left guard was blocking, Jones and Zander had started a push next to him, when #22 LSU came under and flipped a 300+ lb player backwards and off the line then dove left to help stop the play. What should have been a big hole got plugged by an undersize player blocking correctly by getting under the UGA lineman’s pads.
Yeah, we were tired, but it was an incorrect block on our part, no fault of others in the backfield nor the rest of the line where the play was going.
Stop the fault-finding on individual players for individual plays because, point is, there is plentyof nitpicking fault-finding to go around. And there is plenty of good fight as well. Don’t start this dumb rant that was picked apart and put to bed before. The players have owned up before and said they didn’t perform the plays as Bobo had taught and called. It is just ignorant to call this bullshit up again and watch recruits say that they hear it and go elsewhere. What in four hells are you trying to accomplish?
The fact of the matter is the Dawgs dropped 2 sure TD passes that coupled with the White TD and the “no way in hell” that should have been a punt return TD (a block in the back coupled with tossing the ball away before the goal line) would have made it 21-0 at halftime and a completely different game all together. After all the screw ups the Dawgs got down on themselves and the defensive letdowns began.
This. Who knows what happens after that but if we simply catch the passes that hit us in the hands the game is totally different. If the defense lost any focus it was because they watched as good a half of defense that anyone can play go to waste to dropped passes. If we go up 21 the defense fights and claws all the way to the end. Not sure if we win but I really love our chances at that point.
Here’s hoping OSU is in the title game over Bama just to piss of the Paul Finebaum nutbags.
We were who we thought we were. I wrote on a blog “dawgsports” I think that I saw this game as another SCU type game. We gave it away. The drops, the fumble, the special teams play, etc same as the SCU game. Richt, God love him, only knows what Bobby Bowden taught him and Bobby never had to worry about anything but kickers. FSU’s walk-ons were fast enough for the ACC. Until he changes his hard head about Special Teams we had better score a lot of points to make up for them.
LSU was who they have been the whole year. They have no offense until their depth wears you out. They have 4 count them 4 SEC RB’s that could start for us or anybody else except for the other power Alabama. The D played there a$$es off but could not withstand the fresh legs in the second half. As long as UF and UGA don’t over sign we are screwed, it just remains to be seen if Steve can over sign enough to control the East. UA and LSU have the West and the SECCG locked up for the foreseeable future.
I just hope that there are some good OL guys that want to play ASAP but OL is the one position that takes time to build and I don’t see
us going the JUCO route on it.
“We gave it away”? You must be joking. That was *nothing* like the SC game. Yesterday’s game was like the cliche movie scene in which a 5’2″ 100lb. loser punches the schoolyard bully in the face, maybe draws a drop of blood, and then proceeds to get pummeled mercilessly. We gave nothing away. Nothing.
Huh?! Two dropped passes in the end zone and three turnovers isn’t giving anything away?!
Wow, they had 235 yards, 95 of which came on ONE drive, yet end up with 42 points and you don’t see the parallel? The turnovers and STs blunders changed that game from a possible “last drive” game…and that is before we dropped all the passes (including the two for TDs.) We didn’t dominate the WHOLE game like we did SC, but we gave them the short fields and cheap scores.
+1. Was it 28 points off turnovers and long punt returns? I lost count.
Play calling. Called 85 plays to their 45+. They get 42 points…21 in one quarter. We get 10 off 85 snaps. That is just damn puzzling. And Bobo had said they wanted to run more plays this season. Well, he sure got that against LSU, but it did not help the scoreboard. Bobo is the most unproductive OC in the D1 football. Never put anyone in motion to get them to the edge, create space, slow the rush, gas the LSU D line and LBs to the outside.
LSU is good, but when you only get 237 yards of offense, 45+ snaps,have less than quarter of time than UGA, no first downs thru 2 quarters, and only 10 yards of rushing…how good are these guys? Not good enough for me to say they are the best yet. More so when UGA could have had 21 points and that lead going into the 2nd half. Have that with a running game and the SECCG belongs to the Dawgs. Plus, I’m amazed how many missed honey boys fumble through the end zone. I told my grandson he did not score because the ball did not cross the line. Now why did it take so long for the coaches, TV, announcers, and every freaking body else not to see that.
Frankly, I’m for moving the game out of Atlanta and the Dome. Shame a faciltiy is as bad as this hosts a SEC championship game. Metor Atlanta does not deserve to host the game anymore. Move the game back into the conference, not an ACC site. I’d been for playing it in Baton Rouge or the home field of the highest rank team of the divison champs. CMR has better success outside the Dome.
Let’s see we were 2 drops from quadrupling bama’s output over four quarters and OT in one quarter and you blame bobo’s play calling and …. The building???? WTF!?!
Let’s move the SECCG to Jacksonville!
or at least rotate it between the Dome and Jacksonville! Oh, the sheer logic of it all!
WTF is wrong with the Dome? WTF is wrong with metro Atlanta? Whatever dude. Why would you give the best team even more of an advantage?
Your lack of logic is shocking.
Is it just me or does it seem that all of a sudden the “2-personality fans” are showing up again? It’s like their negative presonalities don’t want to understand what has already been resolved and now they chip in as if they have been laying in wait.
Loved the defense in the first half, what a bunch of warriors! We lost, but I like the direction the team is going in and I hope McGarity somehow lets the recruits know that Richt will still be here for years to come. Gotta get this next class signed, the Dream Team has already made an impact, need to get another stellar class.
Call me crazy but we may look back on this season and this game as exactly what our program needed when we needed it. The season to make the program and fans believe again and the game as a reality check as to what we still need to do to go from good to elite. Does it suck to watch one of arguably the best college teams ever just come back and embarass you? yes. But it does not diminsh the path we took to get here. This team has the ingredients to be great again and I am doubtful they will lay an egg in the bowl game or “quit”. Starting 0-2 then relling off 10 straight shows moxie, talent, and most of all fight and resolve regardless of how your schedule is perceived. There’s work to be done for sure but to state this year was an abberation is an insult to a team full of damn good dawgs.
+1 This is why I will never get the reasoning that is wishing uSC was playing in the SECCG instead of UGA.
Good for you, Charlotte. Spot on.
S.E. Dawg
I think it’s going to be hard to finish as you say while other schools oversign and we do not. When a school as LSU has quality depth three and four deep, that makes it tough. We don’t have that and it shows and makes it difficult to compete on their level. I know, beating a dead horse but it is what it is.
^True dat!
I saw a really young team yesterday. My biggest disappointment is that the score wasn’t as indicative of the effort that I thought our guys put up. We really were playing four offensive guards yesterday, and we have to do something about consistency in our RB position. If we can do that we definitely have a bright season ahead next year.
Funny, I saw an incomplete team yesterday. Guards playing tackle, lack of RBs, and not enough depth on the O-line and D-line.
Honestly, I´m VERY happy we played this game. For one, we dominated the best team in the country for 30 minutes. The coaches had a winning game plan. We couldn´t execute it for 60 minutes against a team with a 6-deep of 1st-rounders at every position, but did you see that defense? And those open receivers? There´s plenty to build on there.
More importantly, our young team was able experience elite competition. Nothing increases focus and motivation like getting your whatchamacallit handed to you. This game, and the reality check it provided, will be bugging our players and coaches throughout the off-season. To me, that´s a good thing.
And I´ll say it again: it´s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! Auf geht´s Bulldoggen!
I understand Mason gets mop-up play. But his performance in the fourth quarter was good. I think he sees the field better, gets the ball out quicker, and is as accurate. We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues. But I can not put any reliance on an OC decision making and judgment based on his play selection in the first few series in the 3rd quarter. That was an embarrassment. If you do not think so, then consult the 18 rankings in the polls. Bobo and McClendon are some of the most tenured coaches on staff. Granted the O numbers improved, but when you look at Murray’s performance against Carolina, Boise, LSU, Kentucky…well, I am all in with Ben Dukes.
But let’s discuss the play book. When LSU went man up on the WR and TE well, that sealed Bobo. They could not get downfield and the line could not hold their DL and LB out. They killed the timing on pass plays. That is why they started to the shorter routes. Now do you not think going in [game plan] you expect that from Chavis. Georgia’s receivers go get the ball, b ut LSU out played them for most of them. But Murray has had 2 full seasons to develop. How many will it take him? Because under the current scheme and coaching it will not go forward. Murray had numbers against Auburn and Tech. Hell Alabama passed at will on Auburn. And anybody can throw on Tech. Those games were not accomplishments. The running game. heck most of us have gave up on that….none for 3 seaons. Martinez was an issue on D and it took CMR 3 years to get around to that change but only after pressure. No, the LSU game was a game not only to win but to show recruits you have an OC and RB coach to move up your
play. Did not happen. Wait on Friend to see what another year produces, .
We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues.
No. We don’t know any such thing. G-day play doesn’t mean shit. And Richt said that Murray was his number one all along.
Jeebus, Will, you put more weight on meaningless playing time than anyone else who comments here.
I usually think that your posts are scattershot, but that you make a lot of good points. But your fixation on Murray in this comment thread is absurd. When was Murray second string to Mett? I don’t recall ever seeing any indication of that in the offseason, regular season or G-day game. I’m sorry, but if Mason was better than Murray, he would be starting. There has never been a time in Richt’s tenure when he consistently started the less capable of two quarterbacks. But, as always, the guy on the bench looks better (even if the starter is likely to be All-SEC, apparently).
Will, before last season started, I had that argument with Hale and it amounted to “stop the posturing for Murray to start and let good ole competition decide it with Mett”. Unfortunately, Mett did himself in and noone influenced the outcome except Mett. That is long gone water under the bridge. Whether one is better on the playing field than the other will probably be measured next year when Mett is the QB for LSU.
Not to say that Murray is a darn good QB is disingenuous at this point. Add a great heart, Bulldog courage , leadership and a quality person and we have our Dawg of Dawgs who can take a lick and keep on…. . He has shown resolve when we needed it, great skill when throwing to Freshmen in their first year of SEC play and attitude galore. So is he a few ticks shy of perfection and did we propose that he would stack even higher his Soph year? Yeah. You seem to forget last year when he ran down the sideline and dove in the endzone and fearlessly endured the dizzying hits in the Auburn and other games. Give me this indestructable man all last year, this year and for the future. He will work on the things you feel leaves him shy of perfection and the Second Coming (and he already is half qualified there by birth). Patience with him has been well earned. Let’s try to line up with him and go after “their” ass. That’s the least he deserves.
No one wants to be the super QB that can and will lead us to a NC than Murray. To compare with other QBs-in-waiting is folly. We don’t know if they could take the licks or fail entirely where he has already proven himself. We need to quit worrying whether QB#2 or #3 will not wait patiently for their perceived chance. If they do or don’t wait has nothing to do with Murray and his abilities. As I remember he came in as a 5-star vs Mason as a 3-star. Hell, we have another 4 or 5-star waiting in the wings (LeMay). Do you wish to put Mason above him? Mason will do what he has to do for his future and whatever he chooses, I have no argument. But to compare him with Murray at this point is a no-brainer and I sure hope Mason stays to duke it out next year.
“Hell, Alabama passed at will on Auburn.” A flea-flicker and a misdirection TE throwback are trick and constraint plays. By definition, they´re the opposite of passing “at will.” The same applies to 3- to 5-yard TE out routes and RB screens.
Normaltown Mike
I don’t recall but did LSU have any self-inflicted wounds yesterday?
I really don’t recall anything. Maybe a personal foul?
It’s hard to beat the best team in the country when you throw a pick 6, fumble on the 20, can’t run the ball and can’t cover a punt (albeit against an amazing return guy).
We fell to 0-2 when turnovers and poor special teams coverage hand the other team 4 TDs or more.
Hard fought game and UGA gave their best shot. The miscues and drops have got to be frustrating, though.
Unrelated, though, what is the whole story behind Grantham’s lip thing at the second half? Tracy said hip had a bloody lip but the shots of him looked like he was wearing Lady Gaga lipstick in the second half….wtf
I noticed that too. But I had the sound turned (as usual) so I don’t know what was said.
cousin eddie
Hard to blame the coaches or the players they got wore out by a deeper team So did a few other teams this year). The game plan to start was pefection but as the game wore on it played into LSUs hands and with the depth they have due to oversigning and lack of attrition. I know I have been critical of IC but was glad to see him give it a go with a bum ankle. The oline played hard to begin with but that Dline has given everyone fits all year.
Give Grantham’s agent a call and do what it takes to keep him happy.
Bobo ‘s future should be decided by someone that knows more about football than me. Sometimes he looks good and sometimes, well not so much.
Ga Girl in DC
At the top of my Christmas list for UGA is an OC who is the offensive equivalent to Todd Grantham. I think Richt’s loyal-to-a-fault history makes it unlikely that I’ll get my wish, but I can still dream.
That is a shameful post if you are a Dawg fan. Your separation on quality is based on what?Backing the general line of the bullshiters?
Ga Girl, just to fill you in…if you dislike Bobo, you cannot be a Dawg fan. It’s a rule. Balls said so. It’s all bullshit too, even if you’ve posted valid arguments. Wait, never mind, nothing is valid if it doesn’t concur with Balls’ own opinion. He’ll just curse at you and call you names on his computer. You know, the way grown-ups debate.
UGA was beaten by a better team. That is the game in a nutshell. LSU did not expect the passing attack but they caught on and dropped their safeties back. They have probably the best D backfield in college football and lots of depth on D, so Bobo saw fewer hats in the box and tried to get the running game going. When you can’t run the ball and you are in the shadow of your own goalpost and all those ballhawks back there are licking their chops and waiting for you to throw you are in trouble. To me UGa’s biggest areas to improve are special teams, Rbs and O line. Then depth on the D line. LBs and DBs seem set.
Bobo did not drop the balls throw to him,he did what any person with good sense would do. He went to another rout when at least two maybe three touchdowns were left on the ground with drop problem. The game plan had nothing wrong with it. The youth and nerve problems and etc will have to wait. The bigger problem we have now is driving from the back seat and gripes with every breath. We need to appreciate this years efforts instead of crying all the time. It gets old and hurts the program.
DCityDawg
A few simple thoughts.
1- Coaches should have never punted to Tyrone. Kick it out of bounds. There’s 14 points we gave away.
2- Murray’s meltdowns continue, missed several wide open receivers (I counted 10), and threw in 2 intereceptions and a fumble. This is getting old, and I am tired of watching a great team unravel because of Murray’s boneheaded plays and decision and inaccurate throws.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Is this a planned invasion from Dawg Vent? The blog, not you Dawg Vent.
Wow really 10 WIDE OPEN receivers…..dude there haven’t been 10 wide open receivers against LSU all YEAR, much less last night.
Bobo had no back up plan in case Crowell couldn’t go.
Like Branden Smith. Or Malcome.
Terrible preparation.
Did you miss the first quarter?
We should have either gone with Malcome or Smith at running back, the whole game, maybe both. It was our only shot. We were not prepared. Thomas and Crowell did nothing. Had to have a better plan than that. Bobo’s plan seemed to be pass every play, Chavis adjusted to that after the first quarter, and we nevber scored again. Did you watch the 2nd-4th quarters? Who made better adjustments? Wasn’t Bobo. It’s not who has the best first half. It’s who makes the best adjustments and who has the best game plan and backup game plan. Along with Murray’s inability to execute passes to wide open receivers, and punting the ball all game to a Heisman candidate, we deserved to lose.
I smell a troll.
Did Bobo? Why did he call two completely different games?
Senator, gotta squabble with you on point #3.
You know what Murray’s fumble reminded me of? Greene’s fumble in Baton Rouge on 9/20/03. Greene was outstanding, but also fallible.
They beat us, but we beat us, too.
1. No reason why a program like Georgia shouldn’t have more depth on the o-line, year in and year out – sorry, I just don’t get it. We’re acting like it’s a fact of nature or the result of a lottery or something that we don’t have more o-linemen ready to go.
2. I don’t know how much you pin on the o-line and depth, but the fact is that Murray gave it away three times yesterday. A lot of players may not look ready for prime time, but you put them on the field and they make it happen. I am a huge A. Murray fan, I really am, but I think it’s time to let Mason take every third or fourth series.
3. I’m not a Bobo hater, but after the creative, inventive first quarter, we went back to throw the bomb and run the draw what seemed like every single play. I’m not sure we tried to throw a 10 or 15 yard pass in the 2nd quarter. Maybe he dialed them up and they were covered, but I was heartsick every time I saw #1 in the game as the lone back in in the backfield. I do not understand not bringing in Tree and Figgins to lead the way in a power I running game at that point.
Here’s the deal – we keep saying “Once we found out we couldn’t run on them” or “after our o-line got gassed” – to let Bobo off the hook, as though these are surprises. The whole point of having an OC is so he can evaluate where our team’s strengths can be stressed and our weaknesses can be minimized vs our opponent. It may be that there was no way to beat LSU yesterday, but handing Crowell the ball so he could stand in the backfield waiting to get hit (rinse, repeat, x 50) is not really dialing it up, is it? I have given Bobo credit for calling a great game in the first quarter, but he kept doing the same thing over and over in the 2nd quarter, with predictable results. In fairness, we dropped a lot of passes, but you have to keep working.
4. Not sure I’ve seen anyone mention this, but I believe our D really fell apart when LSU started running the option. I thought that was as big a factor as the stupid punt returns. We had no answer for that.
How many times did Bobo say in a post game interview “Well we took our foot off the gas because the defense was playing so great.”
What a lazy piece of shit.
The defense giving 110% doesn’t mean the offense can give 20%.
Not only is that a stupid plan, but it is a level of laziness and complacency that rots the whole team.
Mike Bobo is a cancer. He absolutely must go.
Im right there with you Muck. Its so disheartening when intelligent fans like Senator take up for a guy like Bobo that won’t go balls out like Grantham.
Who’s a “balls out” OC in your mind?
Spurrier & Sean Payton come to mind immediately. Spurrier goes with what he’s dealt better than them all. He even knows when its the RIGHT time to go conservative. Of course no one is perfect. Id have to do some major research to find who fits the mold that UGA could coral.
Andy, if Richt can hire either one of them, I’ll be the first one to cheer him on.
Since you’re on record as wanting Bobo gone, how ’bout giving me a realistic replacement of somebody who’s “balls on”.
You’ve called me out. How long do I have to research? I love so many spread guys, but it scares me to go all spread in the SEC. I love our current scheme of pro set base with spread undertones. I’ll put up a post on my blog this week of my wife, work, and the youngin’s don’t get in the way. They always come first!
I hear you on having a life. 😉
Richt’s not gonna go spread. And to be honest with you, I’m not convinced you can win the current version of the SEC running the spread unless you’ve got a freak at QB. There are way too many dominant defensive teams.
Holgerson’s offense threw for 460+ on LSU. 533 yards of offense.
West Virginia has a bad defense and they lost by 26.
But… that included 4 turnovers to none.
WVU punted, LSU scored. WVU gets a good 3rd and long conversion, but fumbles and LSU gets the ball. WVU forces them to punt. WVU gets a good drive going and throws a pick and LSU scores. Then WVU drives down and scores down 13-7. Looking good and LSU hits a deep pass (one of their few all year) and goes up 20-7. Then a pick returned to the 1 and it’s soon 27-7 LSU. WVU’s Offense makes some good adjustments and comes out and scores twice. Now it’s 27-21. About to be a game… 99 KO return for a TD. 34-21 WVU gets the ball and a TO on downs early in the 4th on 4th and 3. LSU gets the ball back and scores 40-21. WVU driving… fumbles and LSU goes down and scores again. 47-21.
Actually kind of similar to our game except that WVU continued to have success. Killed themselves on offensive mistakes and ST errors. But Holgerson’s offense was moving the ball on LSU. without stupid turnovers, they likely would’ve kept on scoring. we had our stupid turnovers… but we had long since given up on scoring.
i think there are other offenses that would be plenty successful in the SEC.
If they ever reduce the SEC regular season to one game, you have a valid point.
I just think that people don’t know at this point. I wonder what a school like Florida/Bama/LSU/Georgia would do with a good DC, a good recruiting coordinator and Mike Leach. The SEC schools have the best players and best position coaches/coordinators. But the quirky offensive guys haven’t often been given a fair shake in the SEC. Al Borges and Tony Franklin are NOT Dana Holgerson or Mike Leach IMO (as far as talent, innovation, etc.) They’re not even Kevin Sumlin.
Just like the argument that the Air Raid (and similar offenses) could never succeed in the NFL… I really wonder. Maybe if they were given a few years and some serious talent, they could. West Virginia is going to keep getting better, but they won’t be in the position to consistently compete with the SEC elite because it’s WVU. They won’t have the players. They won’t have the defensive staff. If Florida runs Muschamp out on a rail in 3 years and they hire Holgerson and a competent defensive staff, who knows what will happen? Those guys have never been in that position because the general thinking has always been “it won’t work.” People said that about Urban’s system. Maybe Urban had to have Mullen and Tebow to make things work. Maybe he’s going to OSU because Braxton Miller is there and he’ll leave in 3 years when Braxton finishes up.
I see your point about the one game thing, but… I’m not sure that means that those other systems *couldn’t* be successful. We’ve only ever even seen those systems played by lesser teams against the SEC elite in games like the WVU/LSU game this year or in BCS games. If Leach were going to a big school (and maybe he will be in a few years), maybe we’d have a better idea. The highest I can remember these guys being is at Kentucky (Mumme/Leach), or Leach being the OC at Oklahoma in Stoops’s first year. Have they gone and failed somewhere else at a big time school?
Did people think Spurrier’s offensive philosophy wouldn’t work when he went to Florida? I’m not old enough to know, honestly. Did people say that SEC defenses were too physical and too good for his offense to succeed throwing the ball all over the place? That’s an honest question, not a rhetorical or sarcastic one.
But, even with all that… I’m not saying we have to switch schemes. I’m actually not even on the side that Bobo is terrible at his job. I just think that there’s a pretty good chance that we could hire someone better and that UGA should have the best coordinators we can possibly. The defensive staff seems to be much better at their jobs than the offensive staff is currently. And I don’t see how we can justify that. Again, I’m not blaming Bobo entirely or anything. I just think that we could do better.
Do you honestly think that if Richt went after a new OC the same way he went after a new DC (and staff) that we wouldn’t improve on offense?
I also think that Chad Morris coming from Tulsa to Clemson had a huge impact on their success this season. They made a change and it made a big difference.
Adam’s right. CMR should go after an NFL coach to be OC. You said above that you want a name and here it is–Bill Musgrave, QB coach of the Falcons.
No longer. I think he’s reunited with Matt Schaub as the Texans’ OC.
Musgrave is the OC of the struggling Minnesota Vikings.
Though it is his first year and he has a rookie QB, so it’s hard to say much about him.
But I wasn’t sure if you meant that as mocking me or not, Mayor. I know I may be rambling to some degree, but I’m trying to be pretty reasonable.
If Bobo is as inept as you say and he clearly needs to go, it would seem as though you could readily produce any number of better candidates. Candidates who are not active NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl or an active SEC head coach who has won a MNC.
Yes, and I hear you on being called out with no good reply. “Fix it before you break it ” might be a good motto for you Andy.
Richt should be able to land either one of those guys. Also, if Grantham lands another gig this off-season, let’s hire Bill Belichick as our new DC.
I will not be happy unless we hire Vince Lombardi as our QB coach.
I apologize to all I have offended by not having good replies like the two above (Chicago Dawg and Spence).
If we don’t get Ditka I am not making my Hartman fund contribution. I just won’t stand for sub standard coaching. Maybe Joe Gibbs is available…..
Turner Gill and Mike Sherman, should they not get HC offers, would be proven guys-I think you go after a guy with a resume if you pull the plug on Bobo
Here’s the best I’ve got for now: http://theugablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/curious-case-of-bobo.html
Andy, with all due respect, the kind of guy you want for OC isn’t the kind of guy Richt would hire.
I refuse to believe that, though it may very well be true, because I love Richt so damned much.
That’s McGarity’s job to find.
It isn’t my job to find an awesome OC.
I didn’t have to know the perfect replacement back when I knew Martinez needed to be fired. I was on this very blog saying it for years while defenders said it was fine. Its no different now with Bobo than it was then with Martinez.
The worst counter argument of all is “if he’s so bad, who do we replace him with.”
How the heck is that my job to know? I have my own job and life. I watch the Bulldogs and I watch maybe 15 or 20 other college games a year. I don’t watch 200. That’s McGarity and his staff’s job.
So let me get this straight…..you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobo sucks. I mean his awful and an affront to football loving people everywhere, but yet you can’t name one guy to replace him. If you can’t name one replacement on what are you basing the criteria for which you use to judge Bobo’s performance?
I’ll hang up and listen….
If he’s anything like most of us, his family and job get in the way of memorizing potential OC candidates names. Most of my spare football reading and watching time is given to all things Dawgs. I do watch hundreds of high school, college, and NFL games each year, but shockingly I don’t know but a handful of OC’s by name. Most of them would be impossible to get, so give me a day or two to write piece on potential candidates. Then you can call me names all you want! Like Neal Boortz always says, “if I had a dollar for every time I heard ‘you’re an idiot’…..”
My point is that both of you (hmmmm….maybe it’s just you posting under two names) seem to have this raging hatred for Bobo but you offer no alternative. You can’t even say why type of offensive philosophy you would replace him with. If you can offer a viable and realistic (realistic being the key word) but I am betting you can’t. Look I was all over Bobo the past two seasons for his playcalling and inability to adjust to what the defense was giving him, this year starting with the S.Carolina game he has turned the corner. I think that every game since (to include last night) has had a solid offensive game plan. The execution has been lacking in some areas but the plan has been solid. When you have a patch work Offensive line and zero depth at the RB position it kind of limits what you can call and where on the field you can call it. There are going to be some head scratching calls but there are for every OC in every game. There were a few in the Falcons game today and I don’t hear anyone calling for him to be fired. Statistics are the only way to compare Bobo’s performance to everyone else’s and based on that I would say he is doing a good job. Before you or someone else trots out the “he pads his stats against the crappy teams” I am using only SEC numbers and guess what…..all the OC’s pad their stats against crappy teams. Why the hell do you think Tebow played into the 4th quarter in blowouts? Stat padding to win the Heisman.
Newsflash: Bobo is just as responsible for execution as he is for the gameplan.
* He’s responsible for our shitty Oline.
* He’s responsible for our shitty run game.
* He’s responsible for our joke tailback situation over the last 5 years.
* He’s responsible for our offense choking and giving away craploads of turnovers and TAINTS (Touchdown After INTerception) in big games.
==> He is responsible for every single aspect and facet of our offense.
Why is it somehow necessary for me to know the replacement in order to be aware that Bobo is doing a shit job?
Our offense sucks. We pad our stats against sucky teams. We disappear in big games. That’s what I see right in front of me as I watch our team.
I don’t live and breathe college football. I don’t want 200 games a year and scout new OC talent from other teams. That’s Greg McGarity and CMR’s job.
Your family doesn’t seem to get in the way of the time spent blathering on blogs and watching hundreds of highschool, college, and NFL games.
Sure they do, otherwise it’d be 1000’s.
How in the hell is it my job to find a replacement?
I can’t cook, but I know if the food in front of me tastes like shit.
I’m sorry but I’m not the AD. Its not my job to find a good OC. But as a fan and a donor I can sure as hell tell when our OC sucks ass.
/apology for profanity
Bad analogy. You’re not a cook here, you’re a food critic. And how are we supposed to judge your ability to assess Bobo’s value without the context of knowing whom you believe is a competent OC?
I’m curious where you got that quote from. This is the only thing I could find:
“We pretty much called everything we had on our sheet,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Not saying you didn’t hear it, but that’s a pretty different sentiment from what else he said.
Let me translate that for you: “I called all the situational plays that were listed on my predictable call sheet, after I went conservative because Grantham’s D was playing lights out.”
So you’re saying that’s what Muckbeast heard, rather than what Bobo said?
I was just being a smart A.
Let’s stay on this. It is one thing to have an opinion, but if someone is attributing quotes that are made up just to support that opinion that is a real issue for the credibility of the blog for you Senator. I may have made some different calls during the game,, perhaps used different personnel packages, but I saw nothing that indicated the offense backed off. And if Bobo said something that dumb in a game we never led confortably, then maybe he does need to go…I just don’t believe it in the context it was quoted. Our problem was lack of OL blocking, period, and it has been for years.
Senator, I was paraphrasing what he’s said in like 10 different interviews throughout the season.
Ah now the omnicient Muckbeast can read minds too.
I argue with muckbeast on here quite often (though sometimes it’s all internalized and I resist the temptation to actually post about it), but Bobo has said in post-game interviews that he slowed down the offense because the defense was playing so well and he didn’t want to risk us making a mistake on offense.
That has, many times, explicitly been his plan this year.
I do see how “don’t screw this up for the defense” is different from “stop scoring and hope the defense wins it” in theory. But in practice… they sure do look a lot alike.
Just a quick hypothetical: if the offense were scoring quite a bit, and the defense (as I said hypothetically) could choose between playing hard and trying to keep the other team from scoring or just let them burn 5 minutes and kick a FG every time they had the ball… would it be ok for them to just let the other team kick those field goals? Or would we still want them to try to force turnovers and get stops? If the defense’s goal was to simply limit mistakes and not do something that could cost us the game ASSUMING the offense continued to play lights out, would we be happy with the defense?
The offense has relied on the defense to help us win close games by not letting the other team score a single point in the second half while the offense has been useless for long stretches. How is that fair? That kind of game turns into a blowout win for teams who produce on both sides of the ball.
Read minds?
Bobo is the one who said it. I’m sorry that I don’t have the exact quote, but everyone here who has been following the season knows what I am talking about.
He’s given that same excuse after countless games when he shut off the offense in the 2nd or 3rd quarter like a lazy assclown.
Junkyard Dawg '00
Just like you know that your gay a$$ hovercard is shit, but you fail to replace it? In all due respect Muckbeast, you and Andy’s argument about this is as compelling as a two year old child’s attempt to speak on the subject. You both can’t name a single coordinator that you’d rather have, you both ignore the stats that prove Bobo is one of the better OC’s in the conference (which is an NFL talent rich defensive conference), and Bobo is a disciple of coach Richt and, as such, runs the offense under the philosophy of Richt. So, honestly, just enjoy the turnaround this year for what it was and send in your donation and ticket money next month and if you don’t contribute any money then maybe it wouldn’t hurt you two to shut up and let the big boys handle it.
I dont typically argue using stats because of instances like throwing 5TDs in a quarter against New Mexico State. There is a place for them in some instances. I could give you 10 names off of the top of my head Id rather have as OC, but I would rather research and give readers real candidates, not pipe dreams. I told you the two best in the game in my opinion, Spurrier and Payton. Now, if you really want to hear my legitimate candidates, Ill put them on UGABlog.com within the week.
BanjoEarl
When Malcome averaged over 7 yards a carry, and the other guys were at about 1 or 2 yards per carry, why didn’t we try that earlier in the game?
Did you see who was on the field when Malcome did most of his damage?
Yeah. LSU defensive players.
Even LSU has a 3rd string (and walkons) and honestly at the end of a blowout like that why would you not have them out there.
C’mon, Mayor, you can do better than that.
The comments about how UGA has not recruited depth at OL are simply wrong. Yes, we lack depth there, however it is not because we have not signed big uglies.
2007 – We signed 8 offensive linemen (they would be seniors if they redshirted). Bean, Boling, Ben Harden, Scott Haverkamp, Chris LIttle, Tanner Strickland, Sturdivant, and Vince Vance (JUCO).
2008 – 4 OL signed. Cordy, AJ Harmon, Ben Jones, and Jonathen Owens.
2009 – 4 OL. Chris Burnette, Kwame Geathers, Dallas Lee and Austin Long
2010 – 3 OL – Brent Benedict, Gates, Kolton Houston
2011 – 6 OL. Watts Dantzler, Zach DeBell, Hunter Long, Nathan Theus, Xavier Ward
That’s a total of 25. In that time, LSU signed 4, 6, 4, 2, and 4 for a total of 20. UGA signed 25% more OL in the past five years than LSU.
Bama signed 2, 3, 7, 3 and 4 in those years (19).
The thinness of UGA’s offensive line is not because of lack of recruiting numbers. Perhaps it is talent evaluation, development, bad luck, or some combination thereof. It is NOT because of over signing.
Hopefully those that signed last year will be ready to play significantly next year along with John Theus.
Got to figure out how to win like LSU.
In 2nd half we should have:
1- made this a field position battle
2- run the ball and punt it high
3- rely on defense
4- rely on special teams
5- not turn the ball over
And Santa Claus with his reindeer making up the rest of this wish list.
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Short- and long-term transfer of urethral catheterization skills from simulation training to performance on patients
Tobias Todsen1,
Mikael V Henriksen1,
Charles B Kromann1,
Lars Konge1,
Jesper Eldrup2 &
Charlotte Ringsted1
BMC Medical Education volume 13, Article number: 29 (2013) Cite this article
Inexperienced interns are responsible for most iatrogenic complications after urethral catheterization (UC). Although training on simulators is common, little is known about the transfer of learned skills to real clinical practice. This study aimed to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of UC simulated skills training on performance on real patients and to examine whether watching a video of the procedure immediately before assessment enhanced clinical performance.
This was an experimental study of the effect of a UC simulation-based skills course on medical students’ short-term (after one week) and long-term (after six weeks) performance. The additional effect of video instruction before performance testing on real patients was studied in a randomized trial. Sixty-four students participated in the study, which was preceded by a pilot study investigating the validity aspects of a UC assessment form.
The pilot study demonstrated sufficient inter-rater reliability, intra-class correlation coefficient 0.86, and a significant ability to discriminate between trainee performances when using the assessment form, p= 0.001. In the main study, more than 90% of students demonstrated an acceptable performance or better when tested on real patients. There was no significant difference in the total score between the one-week and the six-week groups when tested on real patients and no significant difference between the video and the control groups.
Medical students demonstrated good transfer of UC skills learned in the skills lab to real clinical situations up to six weeks after training. Simulated UC training should be the standard for all medical school curricula to reduce avoidable complications. However, this study did not demonstrate that an instructional video, as a supplement to simulated skills training, improved clinical UC performance.
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN:ISRCTN90745002
Urethral catheterization (UC) is frequently performed on hospitalized patients, which makes it a core skill for any physician [1, 2]. However, the procedure is associated with risks such as iatrogenic infection, false passage, paraphimosis, urethral strictures, and urethral trauma [3–6]. Previous research has shown that inexperienced interns are responsible for most iatrogenic complications [6]. The majority of complications can be prevented using the proper UC technique, and for patient safety, only well-trained personnel are recommended to perform UC [7]. However, interns believe they receive inadequate training [6] and there is currently no standard for adequate training [8].
Training procedural skills (such as UC) in simulation laboratories is common in many medical schools, yet skills training consumes considerable faculty teaching time and economic resources. One study demonstrated good results from UC skills training when assessed on a mannequin immediately after training [9]. However, little is known about the effect of simulation training in basic clinical skills on clinical performance [10]. A major concern with procedural skills training in a simulated setting is retention and transfer of the learned skills to real practice [11]. To transfer a skill successfully, students must learn to adjust their performance to the variety of conditions in real clinical situations [12, 13]. Few studies have shown that simulation training improves participants’ performance on real patients [14, 15], and no studies have investigated UC performance.
One barrier to retention and transfer of skills learned in simulation is the time it may take before a student has the opportunity to apply the skill in a clinical setting. As a result, long-term learning and patient safety may be threatened. However, to enhanced performance, students and junior doctors might watch an instructional video as a booster before performing clinical procedures [16]. An instructional video combined with simulation-based skills training has been shown to have good results on learning tested in simulated environments [17–21]. Despite this, there is no research on the effect of video instruction used in clinical settings immediately before procedural skills performance.
This study aimed to investigate the short-term and long-term effects of simulated UC skills training on performance on real patients and the effect of watching an instructional video of the UC procedure immediately before the first clinical performance.
This experimental study included a main study of the short- and long-term effects of simulated UC skills training and the effect of additional video instruction. The study was preceded by a pilot study pilot study that investigated reliability and sensitivity of a UC assessment form for discriminating trainees' level of training.
Pilot study
An experienced urologist, a UC skills teacher, and an educational researcher developed the assessment form (Figure 1), which was based on an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) checklist previously used to assess UC skills [9] to which items concerning communication skills and patient safety were added (item number 1, 2, 13, 14 and 15). The assessment form had 15 items, each scored on a scale of 0–4, with 4 indicating the best performance. In addition, the form included an overall performance assessment rubric with five categories: poor, unacceptable, acceptable, good, and excellent.
The assessment form in UC.
Twenty-eight fourth-year medical students participated in the pilot study. All of the students had completed a simulated UC skills course two to four months earlier. Fifteen of the participants had never performed a UC on a patient (labelled: novices). Thirteen participants had performed UC on a patient at least once during their clinical clerkship (labelled: advanced beginners). All participants were videotaped while performing a UC on a male mannequin. An actor was sitting behind the mannequin’s lower body, acting as a patient with a need for UC. The students were told to act like the mannequin was a real patient and to communicate appropriately with the patient. Two experienced urology nurses assessed the students’ video-recorded performances independent of each other and blinded to the students’ previous UC experience. Before the pilot test the raters participated in a 90-min rater training session in which they assessed different test videos of UC performance and discussed their ratings until they reached consensus.
The inter-rater reliability of the assessments was explored by the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), single measures, consistency definition. The ability to discriminate between performance improvements was evaluated by comparing the mean score from the novices with the mean score from the advanced beginners using independent samples t-test.
Main study
Seventy-six medical students were enrolled in the main study between August 2010 and March 2011 (Figure 2). The participants were a volunteer sample of third-year medical students. All students were invited by email to participate in the study and were included on a first come, first served basis. Students with previous clinical experience in performing UC were excluded. All participants received a simulated skills training course covering the essential knowledge and skills needed to perform a UC. The course was highly standardized and conducted in a skills laboratory associated with the medical school. An experienced student teacher taught the students in groups of no more than six people. After a theoretical introduction, the skill was demonstrated and all students were allowed to practice once on a mannequin with feedback from the teacher. Immediately after the UC course, the students were post-tested using a scenario with a male mannequin like the one in the pilot study. Their performances were videotaped and assessed by a blinded rater, a physician who formerly taught UC in the skills lab.
Flow diagram of the study.
Participants were scheduled to perform a UC on a patient from a urological department (transfer test) either one week or six weeks after completing the course. They were instructed not to practice UC skills during the delay. All patients wore urethral catheters permanently and had their urethral catheter changed at the hospital every two to three months. Patients with former UC difficulties or with mentally illness were excluded from the study. The Danish National Committee on Biomedical Research Ethics approved the study and verbal and written informed consent was obtained from the patients and medical students involved.
Twelve of the 76 students enrolled in the study dropped out after the skills course, most because their patients did not show up at the appointment time. Thirty-one participants were tested one week after the course (one-week group) during autumn 2010, and 33 were tested six weeks after the course (six-week group) during spring 2011. When the participants arrived at the hospital for the transfer test, they were located to a private room and randomized to a video group or a control group by a research fellow. All randomization sequences and tables were generated using http://www.random.org. The video group watched a five-minute video instruction of UC, while the control group did not get any preparation before the test. The video illustrated a physician performing UC on a real patient with a voice-over explaining the difficult steps. Afterwards, each participant performed a UC on a patient, and the procedure was assessed by direct observation by one of the two experienced urology nurses who participated in the pilot study. The nurses were blinded regarding randomization, and the participants’ performances were scored using the assessment form from the pilot study.
An independent samples t-test was used for comparison between groups and a paired sample t-test was used for comparison within groups. Differences were considered statistically significant when the p value was < 0.05. The effect size (ES) was estimated using Cohen’s d, with 0.2 representing a small ES, 0.5 a medium ES, and 0.8 a large ES [22]. The statistical analysis was performed using a statistical software package (PASW, version 18.0; SPSS Inc; Chicago IL).
The inter-rater reliability was high, ICC = 0.86. The advanced beginners scored mean 42.1 points (SD=8.8), which were significantly higher than the novices’ 29.6 points (SD=8.0), p=0.001, Table 1.
Table 1 Demographics and total test score (average from two raters) of the medical students’ performance of UC in the pilot study
All groups showed clinical significant effect from the UC skills course measured immediately after the course in the simulation setting (posttest) and after one or six weeks in clinical setting on real patients (transfer test). There was no significant difference in the total score between the posttest and the transfer test or between the one-week and the six-weeks groups (Table 2). Furthermore no significant differences were found between the control and video groups. Tested on real patients, 90.3% and 90.9% of the medical students in the control and video groups respectively demonstrated acceptable or better performance in the overall assessment scores.
Table 2 Medical students’ performance of UC skills immediately after a simulation course (posttest in simulation setting) and after one week or six weeks (transfer tests on real patients)
The pilot study produced two sources of validity evidence including sufficient reliability [23] and distinguished between novices’ and advanced beginners’ performance with the use of the assessment form. The high ICC is attributed to the thorough rater training and the rather clear standards for performance. Hence, we suggest that the two sources of validity evidence supported our use of one rater for each assessment in the main study.
The results of the immediate posttest were similar to other studies [9], demonstrating that medical students benefited from the simulated skills training, with mean scores around 45 out of 60 possible. Medical students demonstrated poor performance of UC before participating in the simulation course [9], and participants in the study were likely to perform alike in a pretest. Consequently, we are confident in assuming that the students’ performance levels can be attributed to an effect of the UC skills course.
There was no difference in the mean score between the posttest and the transfer test, demonstrating that skills learned in simulation training were transferable to performance on real patients. More than 90% of the medical students demonstrated acceptable UC performance or better in the overall assessment scores on their first UC performance on a patient. We interpreted this as adequate performance after UC simulator training of novices. However, about 10% of the students still performed unacceptable UC and, therefore, we cannot recommend unsupervised clinical performance after completion of simulation training. For patient safety, initial UC simulation training should be incorporated into all medical school curricula. Barsuk et al. found a reduction in iatrogenic complications after implementation of simulated skills training in insertion of a central venous catheter [14]. This result may apply as well to other basic skills that interns are expected to perform independently. However, future studies on the effect of skills training on quality of care and patient safety are needed.
We found no significant difference between the group who watched the instructional video before performing UC on a real patient (video) and the control group. Previous studies reported ambiguous results. Some studies demonstrated a good effect of learning clinical skills from video instructions [16–21], while few others did not find any substantial effect [24, 25]. Both groups in this study underwent simulation UC training and a posttest prior to the video randomization. The students in the control group received high ratings in the transfer test, and additional instructions might have been redundant. Due to ethical concerns, comparison to a group with no prior training was not feasible. Another reason that the video instruction showed no significant effect could be that the video group did not access the video freely, but were allowed to watch only once. Other studies showed that self-regulated control over instructions, including moving back and forth in the video, could enhance learning [26–28]. Furthermore, an effect size of 0.4 from the video intervention in the six-week group might indicate that a larger sample size could have resulted in a significant effect. Studies on how, why, and in which formats video instructions might contribute to learning skills are warranted and necessary.
UC:
Urethral catheterization.
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/29/prepub
The authors thank research nurses Helle Pedersen and Inger Marie Thiele, Urology Department, Frederiksberg Hospital, for their great work with administration of the patients and testing the participants. We also thank Kim Thestrup Foss for assistance with teaching the participants.
The study was funded in part by a grant from University of Copenhagen and The Capital Region of Denmark.
Centre for Clinical Education, University of Copenhagen and The Capital Region of Denmark, Rigshospitalet Afsnit 5404, Teilumbygningen,Blegdamsvej 9, Copenhagen Ø, DK-2100, Denmark
Tobias Todsen, Mikael V Henriksen, Charles B Kromann, Lars Konge & Charlotte Ringsted
Urology Department, Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen and The Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Jesper Eldrup
Tobias Todsen
Mikael V Henriksen
Charles B Kromann
Lars Konge
Charlotte Ringsted
Correspondence to Tobias Todsen.
TT, LK, and CR participated in the design and the statistical analysis of the pilot study. TT, MJH, JE, CBK, and CR participated in the design of the main study. TT, MJH, and JE acquired the data and CBK made the interpretation. TT and CBK performed the statistical analysis of the main study. TT and LK have been involved in drafting the manuscript with CR as supervisor. All authors have critically read and revised the manuscript and all authors have approved the final manuscript.
Todsen, T., Henriksen, M.V., Kromann, C.B. et al. Short- and long-term transfer of urethral catheterization skills from simulation training to performance on patients. BMC Med Educ 13, 29 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-13-29
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17th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2018): medical genomics
Analyzing the 3D chromatin organization coordinating with gene expression regulation in B-cell lymphoma
Luis Augusto Eijy Nagai1,
Sung-Joon Park2 &
Kenta Nakai ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8721-88831,2
Eukaryotes compact chromosomes densely and non-randomly, forming three-dimensional structures. Alterations of the chromatin structures are often associated with diseases. In particular, aggressive cancer development from the disruption of the humoral immune system presents abnormal gene regulation which is accompanied by chromatin reorganizations. How the chromatin structures orchestrate the gene expression regulation is still poorly understood. Herein, we focus on chromatin dynamics in normal and abnormal B cell lymphocytes, and investigate its functional impact on the regulation of gene expression.
We conducted an integrative analysis using publicly available multi-omics data that include Hi-C, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments with normal B cells, lymphoma and ES cells. We processed and re-analyzed the data exhaustively and combined different scales of genome structures with transcriptomic and epigenetic features.
We found that the chromatin organizations are highly preserved among the cells. 5.2% of genes at the specific repressive compartment in normal pro-B cells were switched to the permissive compartment in lymphoma along with increased gene expression. The genes are involved in B-cell related biological processes. Remarkably, the boundaries of topologically associating domains were not enriched by CTCF motif, but significantly enriched with Prdm1 motif that is known to be the key factor of B-cell dysfunction in aggressive lymphoma.
This study shows evidence of a complex relationship between chromatin reorganization and gene regulation. However, an unknown mechanism may exist to restrict the structural and functional changes of genomic regions and cognate genes in a specific manner. Our findings suggest the presence of an intricate crosstalk between the higher-order chromatin structure and cancer development.
To define three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structures in eukaryotic nuclei, Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) sequencing technologies, such as the genome-wide 3C version (Hi-C), have emerged as a promising strategy and revealed that the 3D structures non-randomly compacted have functional roles for gene expression [1,2,3,4,5]. For example, in B cells (B lymphocytes), the nuclear lamina interacting directly and indirectly with the DNA and chromatin are disrupted during early lymphocyte development [6]. Another study [7] combining 3D fluorescence in situ and Hi-C analysis has shown that particular genome-wide structural transformations, such as the switching of chromatin compartments, are strongly linked with changes in transcription signatures in B cell development. In addition, the recent advancement in 3C technologies enables the identification of sub-compartment regions associated with B-cell fate determination [8].
B cells are central in the humoral immune system, and abnormal gene regulation in the cells is highly associated with cancer development [9]. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, one of the most common type of cancer in B cells, represents 30–40% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Genetic translocations on the chromosome structure deregulate B Cell CLL/Lymphoma 6 (Bcl6) gene in germinal-center response in mice giving rise to different types of lymphoma [10]. Moreover, a recent study [11] using gene expression profiling revealed that PRDM1/BLIMP-1, a master regulator of plasma-cell differentiation, is inactivated in lymphoma where loss of genetic expression correlates with tumor cell proliferation.
Here, we sought to identify the chromatin dynamics involved in the gene regulation of B-cell lymphoma. We combined different scales of genome structures from Hi-C of published data [2, 7, 12] with gene expression profiles (RNA-seq) of mice. We observed that the higher-order chromatin organizations characterized as compartments and topologically associating domains (TADs) are highly conserved among cells. Moreover, these compartments switch from repressive to permissive in pro-B cells and lymphoma and exhibit increased gene expression levels in comparison with ES cells. However, the switch of the repressive compartment in B cell to the permissive in lymphoma (~ 5.2% of the genes) have portrayed overall fluctuation of gene expression level regardless of the compartment dynamics. Interestingly, TAD boundaries are enriched with Prdm1 motif, suggesting a possibility of coordination between the higher-order of chromatin structures and cancer development.
RNA-seq datasets were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): (i) GSM2698041 and GSM2698042 for mouse embryonic stem cells (ES cells), cell type 129S4/SvJae, sex not informed, from total RNAs; (ii) GSM1897405, GSM1897406, and GSM1897407 for normal B cells in mice, cell type C57BL/6 pro-B cell, pool of male and female individuals, from total RNAs; (iii) GSM2072416 and GSM2072417 for mouse B-cell lymphoma from strain B10.H-2aH-4 bp/Wts CH12.LX immortalized cell line, female, from total RNAs. Hi-C data were downloaded from GEO: (i) GSM862720 and GSM862721 for mouse ES cells, cell type 129S4/SvJae, HindIII restriction enzyme, male, from genomic DNAs; (ii) GSM987818 for mouse pro-B cells, sex not informed, C57bl/6, HindIII restriction enzyme, from genomic DNAs; (iii) GSE63525 for mouse B-cell lymphoma, CH12-LX immortalized cell line, MboI restriction enzyme, sex not informed, from genomic DNAs. The detailed information on quality controls and mapping ratios can be found in Additional file 1: Tables S1-S4
RNA-seq data analysis
Firstly, sequencing reads were trimmed by Trimmomatic 0.36 (with the parameters: ILLUMINACLIP:TruSeq3-SE.fa:2:30:10 LEADING:3 TRAILING:3 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:15 MINLEN:36) [13]. The processed reads were aligned to mm10 cDNA and counted by Salmon [14] (with the parameters salmon quant -i < mm10 cdna> − l A). Gene abundances were obtained from transcripts by R/Bioconductor package tximport [15]. The detailed information is in Additional file 1: Tables S1 and S2.
Hi-C data analysis
Hi-C matrix
Paired-end Hi-C reads were trimmed by Trimmomatic (ILLUMINACLIP:TruSeq3-PE.fa:2:30:10 LEADING:3 TRAILING:3 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:15 MINLEN:25) and were mapped separately to mm10 by BWA-mem [16]. In order to consider chimeric reads, we performed BWA-mem with a gap extension penalty and clipping at 5′ and 3′ ends (−A 1 -B 4 -E 50 -L 0 -T 25 -t 10), which allows the aligner to divide chimeric reads and to map the two parts of the read separately. HiCExplorer 2.0 [17] built Hi-C matrices with read counts over the bins of unequal size considering restriction sites; HindIII (AAGCTT) for pro-B cell and ES cell, and MboI (GATC) for B cell lymphoma. Briefly, the values of rows and columns in a Hi-C matrix stand frequencies that any two bins were connected by any pairs of processed read. This process discards non-uniquely mapped reads, lower mapping score reads, duplicated, re-ligation and dangling ends. To avoid amplification biases, low count bins and higher outliers were filtered out by setting a threshold on bimodal distribution. Hi-C replicates of each sample were merged as recommended by the HiCExplorer manual. To avoid the sex dependent bias, we removed chromosome Y from Hi-C merged matrices. Then, iterative correction was performed as described in Imakaev et al. [18]. The detailed information can be found from Additional file 1: Tables S3 and S4.
Compartment identification and TAD calling
HOMER [19] performed the principal component analysis (PCA) on normalized interaction matrices and integrated H3K36me3 peaks to assign positive values to A compartment and negative values to B compartment. We downloaded ChIP-seq BED files from ENCODE [20]: ENCSR000CGR for ES cells, ENCSR000CFY for B cells, and ENCSR000CFL for B-cell lymphoma. To identify TADs, we ran the program “hicFindTADs” of HiCExplorer; it first transforms the Hi-C contact matrix into a z-score matrix considering all contacts at the same genomic distance. Then, separation scores are computed for different values of window, and low scores are indicative of TAD boundaries. To compare submatrix values, Wilcoxon rank-sum test was applied, and the p-values were corrected by Bonferroni method. The boundaries with adjusted p < 0.01 were reported.
Bioinformatics analysis
Classification of mouse genes per compartment
To avoid redundancy in counting and assigning to both compartments, we considered only transcription start site (TSS) positions of genes. By using the program “intersect” in bedtools [21] with the parameter “-wo -F 1.0”, we prepared genes whose TSSs were overlapped with either A or B compartments.
Gene ontology enrichment analysis
We conducted gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis using DAVID [22]. We first compartmentalized the genome described above and prepared gene sets that were located in different compartments in a pair of cells. We analyzed GO biological process terms for each gene set. We used 0.05, 0.01 as the thresholds for P-values and EASE score, respectively. We listed additional GO terms in supplementary files using Bonferroni correction with the threshold 0.05 (Additional file 1: Table S6-S9).
Calculating normalized scores
We normalized the scores for compartments per samples; for each chromosome in a sample, A or B compartment count is divided by the total number of compartments in the respective chromosome, and is divided by the respective chromosome size. We also normalized the scores for TADs in the same manner.
Motif enrichment analysis
We used the program HOMER [19] to perform the motif enrichment analysis on TAD-boundary sequences. We used 20 Kb (kilo base) upstream and downstream DNA sequences of a TAD boundary. Significant sequence motifs (p < 0.01) found by HOMER were reported.
Highly conserved folding patterns on chromatin compartment domains
Eukaryotic genomes are composed of sets of loci that are more likely to interact with one another than expected by random conformation of a chromosome. These sets show a plaid pattern that classify each genomic locus into either A or B compartments [23]. Interaction maps from Hi-C data can provide information in multiple levels of genome organization hierarchy [24]. The first level to examine chromatin interactions is the compartment domain. To examine the 3D chromatin folding dynamics in B cell and lymphoma, we prepared public Hi-C data of pro-B cells [7], B-cell lymphoma [12], and ES cells [2]. Then, we performed PCA analysis with higher resolution (100 Kb) on the mouse genome.
Overall, our analysis classified the genome into ~ 1.48 Gb of B compartment and ~ 1.1 Gb of A compartment in pro-B cells. The A and B compartments contained 14,600 and 4900 genes, respectively. To compare the folding patterns among the cells, we compared the A and B coordinates as described previously in [25] (Fig. 1a). We found that 89 and 88% of the genomic coordinates, in pro-B cell and lymphoma respectively, remained in the same compartment or stable status as compared to the ES cell (both in A or both in B) [26] (Fig. 1b). Furthermore, we found a higher similarity (91.6%) between pro-B cell and lymphoma compartment coordinates. These results are consistent with the observation in a study that shows 90.7% of the compartments are conserved in pre-pro-B and pro-B mice cells [25]. A previous study with human cells also found a similarity degree of 64% among ES cells and four derived lineage compartments [26]. While in another study conducted across 21 human cells and tissues, researchers observed 40.4% of conservation in the compartments [27]. These results suggest that our analysis achieves satisfactory chromatin organization structures by finding very similar chromatin compartment domains between pro-B cell and lymphoma using heterogeneous data resources.
a Representation of our integrative analysis. First, we obtained the first principal component (PC1) values from Hi-C chromatin maps and assigned each gene to active (A compartment) or inactive (B compartment) in each cell. Next, we included gene expression levels to the matrix profiles. Compartment classification of each gene in two cell types categorized four compartment switch groups (i.e., stable A, A to B, B to A, and stable B). Stable regions have the same compartments in two different cells. Finally, we obtained the overall gene expression levels on the groups. b Chromatin organization characterization at compartment level in ES cells, pro-B cells, and Lymphoma. Each graph represents the compartment landscape; blue is for A and red is for B. The inner layer represents the percentage of genomic sequences within A or B compartments; middle layer represents the ratio of A and B compartments; outer layer represents the percentage of genes contained in each compartment
Extensive reorganization of the mouse genomic compartments and the impact on gene expression levels
It has been known that compartment reorganizations are associated with the disruption of normal gene expression program leading to breast cancer [28]. In order to investigate whether this phenomenon is also observed in mouse B cell-derived lymphoma, we identified chromatin compartments, at 100 Kb resolution, from normalized chromatin interaction matrices and obtained gene expression values from RNA-seq data. We examined switch regions between compartments across the cells (Fig. 1a-b). Within the regions, we found genes related to B-cell development functions, B-cell lymphoma and early embryonic stages. For example, Ebf1 that is an important regulator for B cell fate [25] and IgHa that has a potential role in lymphoma development [29] changed the compartment states from inactive B compartment in ES cells to active A compartment both in pro-B cell and lymphoma with increased gene expression changes. Bcas1 also shows evidence of coordination in early activation of restricted transcription in ES cells [30]. In contrast, Myc that is associated with translocations and gene amplifications in B-cell lymphoma [31] was changed from inactive compartment in ES cells to active compartment in lymphoma without changing the expression level. Hdac9, which is a chromatin-modifying enzyme functioning in early stages of B-cell development [32], showed B-to-A compartment activation with the positive correlation of expression level in pro-B cells but the negative correlation of expression level in lymphoma.
To investigate the influence of chromatin compartmentalization frequency in chromosomes, we calculated a normalization score by dividing the sum of compartments in each chromosome by its chromosome size. As expected, the distribution of compartments throughout the genome was much more similar between pro-B cells and lymphoma than between those cells and ES cells (Additional file 2: Figure S1). The genes located in B compartment in ES cells switching to A compartment both in pro-B cells and lymphoma tend to show increased gene expression levels, whereas the genes positioned in A-to-B compartment change show the opposite tendency (Fig. 2a-c). The tendency was not observed from B-to-A change in pro-B cells to lymphoma. This suggests that the overall tendency of gene expression in compartment changes is not absolute as only a part of genes are affected by the compartment changes, and the other part may receive influence of other factors not covered by our approach [26, 28]. Since the limited number of genes were contained in the B-to-A compartment activations (Fig. 2d-f), we further compared the gene expression levels of switching-genes with those of random genes located in stable regions (Additional file 2: Figure S2). To analyze functional enrichments, we selected all the genes that were involved in B-to-A compartment change. The genes in pro-B cells and lymphoma were enriched for similar GO terms related to B cell function, such as natural killer cell activation involved in immune response, humoral immune response, B cell proliferation, and immune response process (Fig. 3 and Additional file 1: Table S6 and S7). After discarding 846 genes common in the cells (Fig. 4a), we found that genes in pro-B cells were enriched with immune response terms including negative regulation of viral entry into host cell and proteolysis (Fig. 4b and Additional file 1: Table S8). Meanwhile, genes in lymphoma were enriched with sensory perception of chemical stimulus, V(D)J recombination, and negative regulation of T cell apoptotic process (Fig. 4c and Additional file 1: Table S9).
Profile of gene expression in compartment reorganization comparing ES cells, pro-B cells and lymphoma. Values represent the expression level of genes identified in the respective regions (log10 of TPM values + 1). The panels (a-c) show the tendency of genes having higher RNA abundance when located at active A compartment rather than inactive B compartment. Although B compartment is extensively reported as inactive compartment, it still contains genes with higher levels of RNA molecules. a ES cells and pro-B cells comparison. b ES cells and lymphoma comparison. c Pro-B cells and lymphoma comparison. The plots (d-f) represent the ratio of each comparison with the number of genes in each group
Enriched GO biological process terms in set of genes from compartment reorganization. a Results from set of all genes in switching compartment region from B (ES cells) to A (pro-B cells). b Results from set of all genes in switching compartment region from B (ES cells) to A (B-cell lymphoma)
a Venn diagram showing the distribution of genes in B-to-A compartment changes. b GO term enrichment in the genes unique in switching compartment region from B (ES cells) to A (Pro-B cells). c GO term enrichment in the genes unique in switching compartment region from B (ES cells) to A (B-cell lymphoma)
Our results support the evidence of intricate relationship between differential chromosomal structure changes and gene expression. Interestingly, the genes that switched from B compartment in ES cells to A compartment in both pro-B cells and lymphoma were identified to be strongly related to B-cell biological processes, although not completely represented by our gene sets. Thus, by using chromatin organization coordinates, we can provide meaningful insights to clarify the functions of specific genes. In addition, in general, the compartment changes correspond to changes in gene expression levels, indicating that A and B compartments might be involved in the orchestration of gene regulation.
Influence of topologically associating domains on compartment reorganization
We next examined the sub-compartment structures known as TADs [2], organizing dense and contiguous self-interacting regions. Although TADs tend to be conserved across different types of cells, chromatin interactions vary from cells to cells [26]. Here we raise the question about the possibility that TADs contribute to the gene expression programs in pro-B cells and lymphoma.
At 40 Kb resolution, our TAD calling classified the genome structures into similar numbers; 2829 in lymphoma, 2807 TADs in pro-B cells, and 2808 in ES cells. Interestingly, the majority of TADs identified in a cell was conserved in another cell; by applying the approach described previously [33], we identified > 70% overlapped TADs in a pair of samples, resulting in 2348 (83.6% of total TADs) in lymphoma and ES cells, 2319 (82.6%) in pro-B cell and ES cells, 2235 (79%) in lymphoma and pro-B cell (Fig. 5a). These observations suggest that chromosomes retain their physical conformation within the nucleus. In all samples, TADs were largely identified from chromosome 7. Lymphoma formed a notably larger number though in smaller sizes of TADs in chromosome 14, and smaller number of TADs in chromosome X (Additional file 2: Figure S3). A previous study has attributed the smaller sizes of TADs in prostate cancer to the establishment of shorter distances within TAD boundaries [34]. This observation suggests that the similar mechanism in lymphoma may access different genomic loci by different interactions from distinct TAD formations. Herein, we have identified 301 unique TADs in pro-B cell, 191 in ES cell, and 198 in lymphoma (Fig. 5b), in which the ratio of unique TADs in pro-B cells is similar to those found in a previous study; 65 unique out of 787 TADs identified in pro-B cell [25].
a Chromatin organization at TAD level in ES cells, Pro-B cells, and Lymphoma. TADs were classified per compartment, in which, A compartments are in blue, B compartments in red, and TADs between two compartments are in green. The degree of similarity is shown by the arrow between two cell types (b) An example of the 3D chromatin structures including unique TADs (blue square) and conserved regions (red square) among cell types. The heatmaps represent TADs per cell type; compartments are represented by the PC1 values, which the positive values indicate the A compartment, and negative values represent the B compartment. c Distribution of the overall ranges of switching compartment regions and TAD sizes
In order to investigate whether TADs present any relationship to compartment changes, we have compared TAD coordinates and switching regions. Surprisingly, a great number of TADs were included in the 100-Kb-switching regions (Fig. 5b and c). For example, 662 (23.6%) pro-B cell TADs were identified within switching regions between ES cell and pro-B cell, 486 (17.3%) lymphoma TADs were identified between ES cell and lymphoma, and 306 (10.8%) lymphoma TADs were found within switching regions between pro-B cell and lymphoma. This suggests that 10–20% of the overall TADs, ranging at about ~ 100 Kb, are located in regions of dynamic change of interactions.
TAD boundaries suggest gene regulation function in cancer
Recent studies have revealed that TADs associate with CTCF and cohesin [35] by forming relative conserved structures across cell types [36] to bring enhancers and specific genes closer [12]. Also, it has been observed that the disruption of TAD boundaries promotes gene expression leading to a physical malformation in mice [37], suggesting the importance of CTCF in TAD boundaries. On the other hand, only 15% of CTCF motifs are located at TAD boundaries in mammals and 85% reside inside TADs [38]. This scattered disposition points out that whereas CTCF can afford flexible adjustment to the chromatin conformation, the 3D chromatin organization is more likely to be influenced by a fine orchestration of cell-specific regulatory program. We then asked whether TAD boundaries of normal and cancer cells would exhibit CTCF enrichment [17, 39, 40], and whether genes located at the boundaries would exhibit any variation in gene expression levels when compared to those located at within-TAD regions.
We observed CTCF and BORIS motifs from the TAD boundaries in ES cells (p < 0.01). We also found HRE (p < 0.01) and Meis Homeobox 1 enrichments (p = 0.001), which are known to play important roles in normal mouse development [11]. The TAD boundaries in pro-B cell were enriched with Nanog and PRDM1 motifs (p = 0.01). Interestingly, the coding gene of Prdm1 that is associated with various cancer developments [11, 37,38,39, 41,42,43] exhibited the high expression level only in lymphoma (Additional file 2: Figure S4), even though all samples included PRDM1 in A compartment (Additional file 1: Table S5) enriched in TAD boundaries (Fig. 6a). We could not profile the CTCF motif enrichment in neither lymphoma nor pro-B cells.
(a) Motifs identified at the TAD boundaries. (b) Comparison of gene expression values based on the chromatin structure disposition of TADs. Values are normalized gene expression values (TPM) represented in log10
Next, we categorized genes based on their proximity to TAD boundaries. Remarkably, genes located around TAD boundaries (<40Kb) showed significantly higher gene expression levels (p < 0.0001) in all samples (Fig. 6b). This has also been observed in a high-resolution experiment in fruit flies [17]. Overall, although TADs are highly conserved between cell types and are often delimited by CTCF motifs, our results show the relationship of TAD boundaries with cancer-related transcription factors rather than with CTCF.
Recent studies have revealed that the eukaryotic genome is divided into chromatin compartments and boundary-limited functional units known as TADs. This genomic architecture inside the cell nucleus exhibits conserved folding patterns across species and cell types. The current model proposes that CTCF may guide the chromatin folding to form intradomains inside compartments [44]. The chromatin-folding dynamics coordinates with transcriptional changes, but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here, we used publicly available libraries of Hi-C paired-end sequences from three different resources to compare general chromatin structures. To quantify the chromatin structures, we designed a method coupled with the approach described by Hi-C developers [23], which is non-sensitive to compartment identification at higher resolution analyses [45]. Overall, we identified among samples similar numbers of compartments and TADs per chromosome which suggests a strong identifiability of chromatin folding. In addition, we observed several 100–200 kilobases compartments, which supports recent studies that report kilo-base-sized compartments [46, 47].
Our analysis revealed the genomic regions that switch compartment status in the context of cells: 8.4% between pro-B cell and lymphoma, 11% between pro-B cells and ES cell, and 12% between lymphoma and ES cell. These regions included specific genes: 1091 genes in pro-B cells, 1378 genes in lymphoma. These genes were located in compartments that switch from inactive/silenced to active/transcribed status. The functional annotation analysis revealed that the genes possess B-cell specific functions. Most importantly, not all genes identified in the chromatin reorganization regions had the gene expression levels coordinating with compartment dynamics. For example, Bcl6 and Bcl11a, which are marker genes for lymphoma, showed higher gene expression levels in ES cells, even though located in B compartment in ES cells. This suggests that more research is needed to understand the exact mechanism of the process.
Collectively, our results show that the majority of TADs among pro-B cells, lymphoma and ES cells are highly conserved yet exhibiting some identity as previously reported [48], whereas specific genomic regions are involved in the structural reorganization. We observed CTCF motifs enriched only at TAD boundaries in ES cells, which is consistent with a previous report [44]. However, we demonstrated that the DNA sequences at TAD boundaries are not always related to CTCF. The enrichment of PRMD1 motif found in this study encourages further effort to investigate the association of cancer-related motifs with TAD structures.
Our results show that the majority of TADs among pro-B cells, lymphoma and ES cells are highly conserved, whereas specific genomic regions are involved in the compartment change. In particular, the switching compartment regions are followed by a subtle gene expression increased between pro-B cell and lymphoma when compared to ES cell. We concluded that an unknown mechanism may exist to restrict the structural and functional changes of genomic regions and cognate genes in a specific manner.
3C:
Chromosome conformation capture
3D:
CTCF:
CCCTC-binding factor
ES cell:
Embryonic stem cell
Hi-C:
An extension of 3C
PCA:
Principal component analysis
TAD:
Topologically associating domain
TPM:
Transcripts per million
TSS:
Transcription start site
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LAEN acknowledges the support of the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT). Computational resource was supported by Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo.
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant number 17 K00397. Publication costs are funded by the same grant.
All of the data used were downloaded from public data sources. The processed results are available either as supplementary data or upon request.
This article has been published as part of BMC Medical Genomics Volume 11 Supplement 7, 2018: Selected articles from the 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2018): medical genomics. The full contents of the supplement are available online at https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-11-supplement-7.
Department of Computational Biology and Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
Luis Augusto Eijy Nagai & Kenta Nakai
Human Genome Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
Sung-Joon Park & Kenta Nakai
Luis Augusto Eijy Nagai
Sung-Joon Park
Kenta Nakai
LAEN and KN designed the study. LAEN prepared the data and performed all analyses. LAEN, SJP and KN drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Kenta Nakai.
This file includes: detailed information from data used, including statistical information of reads and mapping process in RNA-seq and Hi-C analysis (Table S1-S4), gene expression values from heatmap in Additional file 2: Figure S4 (Table S5), gene ontology analysis detailed results (Table S6-S9). (XLSX 85 kb)
This file includes: a distribution of normalized compartment scores per chromosome (Figure S1), gene expression profile of switching regions including random genes from stable regions (Figure S2), distribution of normalized topologically associating domain scores per chromosome (Figure S3), and heatmap of set of genes known to be involved in B-cell fate and B-cell lymphoma (Figure S4). (PPTX 11246 kb)
Nagai, L.A.E., Park, SJ. & Nakai, K. Analyzing the 3D chromatin organization coordinating with gene expression regulation in B-cell lymphoma. BMC Med Genomics 11, 127 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-018-0437-8
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At first they were delighted when the Enochville Swallows came from behind and won the game. The team had struggled all season. It felt good to cheer. A decisive victory on the following day was even more surprising.
They finished the season with eleven straight wins. This unexpected turnaround kept everyone talking all winter, basking in the warmth of new heroes. Photos appeared in bars and diners.
The following April, Mayor Davis threw out the first pitch and the Swallows won again! After four more victories, demand for tickets soared and there weren’t enough seats to accommodate the newly-minted fans. That was when the mayor lobbied successfully for eminent domain and the destruction of the nearby Walton apartments. The wrecking ball threw up clouds of dust; the additional grandstand beyond the outfield ensured that everyone could view the action.
How did Jerry Mercer make that incredible flying catch in the ninth? What accounted for Felix Romero’s uncanny curveball in his two consecutive perfect games? Who could explain Bobby Sheets, the light-hitting second baseman, stepping up to the plate and jacking a tie-breaking home run that sailed over the astonished faces in the new grandstand before landing in Walter Schmidt’s vegetable garden and bouncing over his hedge and splashing in Rose Kindley’s birdbath? The ball was brought back to Billy for an autograph and charitably auctioned off at a price to pay the city’s operational budget for schools, police, and fire department. Mayor Davis held a press conference and announced, “We shall abolish all taxes.”
On the Fourth of July, the Swallows were still undefeated, the longest winning streak ever. Families put out blankets on the grass to watch the fireworks show, recalling with incredulous laughter the previous season when Felix Romero had blown a game by walking in a batter with the bases loaded, or when the team had squandered a six-run lead and Bobby Sheets took a called third strike for the final out, whereupon he ducked his eyes amid the boos and slouched dejectedly off the field. A few people, though, claimed that he’d ripped off his helmet in disgust and dashed it to the ground, cursing the umpire. People enjoyed disputing different versions of that debacle.
But this season offered no such controversy: it was unstinting victory, game after game. One night near the end of July, the Swallows fell behind by nine runs in the first three innings, and it appeared the streak would end. Spectators leaned in closer, their throats going dry. The air was sticky, expectant, still.
Then gale winds descended upon Enochville, a thunderstorm with sheets of rain. Lightning struck the scoreboard and the roof of the concession stand got blown off. It was a wash-out.
The next day, skies were blue, the air pure. Wise folks who’d saved their rainchecks redeemed them that afternoon at a make-up contest where, starting afresh, the Swallows won. That evening they went on to take the regularly-scheduled game, to sweep the double-header.
By August, it was easy to spot empty rows in the grandstands. Ticket prices dropped, though the team’s record was still unblemished. In local bars a new fashion emerged for blindfold billiards. Conversations turned to cooking shows and dialectical materialism. Business was generally down as many patrons traveled to watering holes in other towns.
When school resumed in September, local teachers succumbed to pressure from Mayor Davis to organize field trips to the ballpark to watch the undefeated Swallows, whose example offered pupils lessons about life and success. These outings also helped to fill the empty seats. Kids grumbled that the games lasted an eternity, and numerous parents wrote them false notes of excuse in order to relieve them of this burden. People were sick of baseball.
Charles Holdefer
Charles Holdefer is an American writer currently based in Brussels. His work has appeared previously in the Burningword Literary Journal, as well as the New England Review, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. His most recent book is AGITPROP FOR BEDTIME (stories).
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IMF urges countries to continue strong fiscal, monetary support
Andrea Shalal
January 14, 2021, 12:26 p.m. ·2 min read
FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen in Washington
By Andrea Shalal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund is urging countries to continue strong fiscal and monetary efforts to support their economies given continued uncertainty about the risks posed by a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and new variants.
"The global economy is at a critical juncture," IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters in an online briefing. "There remains a great deal of uncertainty ... and the prospect for a still very difficult period ahead with infection surges and people continuing to suffer."
Rice said the IMF would release an updated global economic forecast on Jan. 26 that would reflect recent developments, including development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and fresh stimulus measures in the United States and Japan.
In October, the Fund forecast a 4.4% global GDP contraction for 2020, followed by a rebound to growth of 5.2% for 2021.
More than 92.22 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus globally and nearly 2 million have died, according to a Reuters tally.
IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath last week said economic stimulus measures in the United States and Japan would help to power a recovery in their economies in the second half of this year, and suggested possible upgrades were in the offing.
But Rice underscored the need to continue unprecedented fiscal and monetary efforts to support economic recoveries.
It was "certainly no time to let up on our efforts," Rice said, calling for continued strong monetary and fiscal measures.
U.S. economic stimulus approved at the end of 2020 - and reports of more funding to come - were encouraging, he said.
Rice also condemned the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol last week by U.S. President Donald Trump's supporters.
"These events underscore the importance of peaceful and civil discourse, and the need to nurture and protect strong and independent institutions," Rice said.
In Japan, Rice said the Fund was forecasting a gradual recovery in 2021, with some upside relative to its last projection of 2.3% growth, given strong growth in the third quarter and a third stimulus package announced in December.
"We expect the recovery to pick up in the second quarter, supported by pent-up demand and restored business confidence, along with support from fiscal and monetary policies," he said, without providing details of any new forecast.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Assuring Security and Trust in Cyberspace (7/17/00)
ASSURING SECURITY AND TRUST IN CYBERSPACE
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, in a speech today at the
National Press Club,
proposed important new measures to assure the security and trust of
Americans in cyberspace. His speech emphasized the themes of updating law
enforcement authorities for the Internet age, harmonizing the rules that
apply to different technologies such as telephones and e-mail, and
balancing important values. He proposed legislation that would give law
enforcement important new tools to pursue criminals through cyberspace
while also boosting citizens? fundamental rights to privacy in the
electronic age. Mr. Podesta also announced new rules that will update
encryption export controls.
A FRAMEWORK FOR SECURITY AND TRUST IN CYBERSPACE
* Private sector leadership. As emphasized at the White House Cyber
Security Summit in February, the private sector, which owns and operates
most of the computers that Americans rely upon, has the responsibility to
lead in computer and network security.
* Government as a model citizen. The federal government will continue
to make itself a model for information security and privacy practices.
* Public-private partnership. The federal government will continue
to work in partnership with the private sector to build security and trust
in online activities, as set forth in the National Plan for Information
Systems Protection issued earlier this year.
* Preserving fundamental values, even as technology changes. These
values include protecting public safety, privacy and civil liberties;
improving the quality of life for all Americans, such as through the
promotion of electronic commerce and elimination of the digital divide; and
furthering the educational and free speech potential of the Internet.
UPDATING TELEPHONE-ERA LAWS FOR THE INTERNET AGE
In certain specific instances, laws written for the telephone era will
need to be updated for the Internet age. Key provisions of the legislation:
* Modernize outdated telephone-era language. Current law uses
outmoded terms such as "phone lines" and hardware "devices." The proposed
legislation would apply to other forms of electronic communication and
apply equally to hardware and software.
* Harmonize the standards for intercepting electronic, wire, and cable
communications. Current law has widely varying rules for when law
enforcement can intercept a communication, depending on whether an
individual uses e-mail, a phone call, or a cable modem. The proposal would
raise the legal standard for intercepting e-mails to the longstanding and
strict rules that apply to intercepting telephone calls. For the first
time, court orders authorizing interceptions of e-mails could be applied
for only after high-level approval and only for serious crimes. Violations
of these rules would lead to suppression of evidence in court. At the same
time, the rules that apply to the growing use of cable modems would also be
harmonized to the telephone standard, while preserving the current,
especially strict rules limiting government access to cable television
viewing records.
* Create a balanced updating for "trap and trace" orders. "Trap and
trace" orders allow law enforcement to identify who is calling or using an
electronic means to contact an individual. The proposal would allow law
enforcement to respond more effectively to computer attacks by stating that
only one such order is needed to trace a call or Internet session back to
its source through multiple carriers. (Just as today, such an order could
not be used to intercept the contents of communications protected by the
wiretap statute.) Tracing would be permitted without prior approval by a
court in an emergency, such as when a computer system is actually under
attack. On the other hand, to assure that such orders are issued only when
appropriate, federal and state judges for the first time would
independently review the factual basis for issuing such orders.
* Strengthen the computer hacking law. The Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act should be strengthened to take account of the full range of damages
caused by computer attacks. Multiple small attacks should also be treated
as one large attack. To match the punishment to the crime, mandatory jail
time should be eliminated for less serious attacks. Violations of the Act
could result in civil or criminal forfeiture.
* Improve sanctions against illegal wiretapping. The proposal would
increase penalties for violations of wiretapping laws. Illegally
intercepted communications could be used in court, but only to prove the
guilt or innocence of a person accused of illegal wiretapping activity.
* Juvenile offenders. For serious computer attacks, federal
prosecutors should have jurisdiction over juvenile offenders. In such
cases, offenders would still be treated as juveniles.
UPDATING ENCRYPTION EXPORT POLICY
Today, the Administration is updating its policy for encryption exports to
the European Union and other key trading partners to assure continued
competitiveness of U.S. industry in international markets.
*License exception. Under the new policy, U.S. companies can export
under license exception (i.e., without a license) any encryption product to
any end user in the 15 nations of the European Union as well as Australia,
Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Japan, New Zealand and
Switzerland. Previous distinctions between government and non-government
end users are removed for these countries. Further, U.S. exporters will be
permitted to ship their products to these nations immediately after
submitting a commodity classification request to the Department of
Commerce, instead of waiting for a completed technical review or incurring
a 30-day delay.
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Hands Across Canberra CEO Peter Gordon and Zango managing director Ben Faulks. Photo: Region Media.
Zango turns purple for a good cause
Local property platform Zango is harnessing the power of community and painting the town purple for a good cause.
Zango, participating agencies and agents will be dressed in purple at open homes and rental inspections on Saturday 10 October in support of World Homeless Day.
As part of the platform’s ‘A Good Cause’ initiative, Zango will match participating agent donations of $10 for every open home or rental inspection held on Saturday, to show support to the Canberra community through Hands Across Canberra.
“We all know that Canberra is a great place to live and work, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people who are doing it tough,” said Zango managing director Ben Faulks.
“Supporting homelessness is the natural place for Zango to activate our efforts on making an impact in the Canberra community.
“And as a locally owned and operated business, we are looking forward to expanding our partnership with Hands Across Canberra to improve the lives of more Canberrans.”
Hands Across Canberra works with more than 250 local community organisations and aims to “embed a culture of giving” by helping Canberrans give to local charities. The partnership will see a Canberra-wide local network comprising Zango, agents, agencies and Hands Across Canberra coming together for ‘A Good Cause’.
Hands Across Canberra CEO Peter Gordon said the organisation is “delighted to be partnering with Zango to promote the cause and to encourage people to be generous locally”.
“It might surprise Canberrans that many people don’t actually have a place to live. There will be 2,000 people homeless in Canberra tonight,” he said.
“Connecting people looking for somewhere to actually live and a great cause like homelessness is perfect.”
World Homeless Day is held annually on 10 October and aims to draw attention to the issue on a local level, providing opportunities for the community to get involved in responding to homelessness.
Brumbies meet the Bemboka and Broulee locals
The icing on the cake: get baking for RSPCA Cupcake Day
Have you heard? GIVIT donation: Seeds
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Silvi Concrete
Title of Position: Operations Intern
Through a combination of growth and acquisitions, the Silvi Group Companies Silvi have together become one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of concrete products in the Northeast, U.S. Today, the Silvi Group Companies manufacture concrete at multiple locations and supply those plants with materials from its internal mining operations and a deep-water port facility. The operations summer internship will consist of a rotation between 3 main concrete plant locations, including a rotation at our ready mix headquarters.
Position Essential Functions Responsibilities
Operations Internship
Assist in the day to day production responsibilities of ready mix concrete including batching concrete, chemical ad mixtures, quality control, aggregate evaluation, field visits to our client construction sites, maintenance of machinery and equipment and other duties as assigned.
Enrollment or achievement of a collegiate program preferably in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, General Engineering, Mining Engineering, Concrete Management/Science, Construction Management, or Materials Science required.
Ability to work a rotating schedule as per operational need of typically 10-12 hour days and some Saturdays.
In a typical work setting, people in this job:
Lift 50 pounds regularly and up to 100 pounds on occasion.
Use one or two hands to grasp, move, or assemble objects
Stand for long periods of time.
Kneel, stoop, crouch, bend, stretch, twist or crawl.
Hear sounds and recognize the difference between them.
See details of objects that are less than a few feet away.
See differences between colors, shades, and brightness.
No smoking is permitted on or within company property, including inside trucks, buildings, or anywhere on the premises.
The Silvi Group Companies do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
About Silvi Concrete
The Silvi Group has been helping companies, contractors, and homeowners build a better future since 1947. Proudly serving New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania, we provide a wide variety of vertically integrated products and services, including ready mix concrete, sand, stone, cement supplies, port facilities, and real estate options for construction industry businesses.
The Silvi Group is made up of our four divisions: Silvi Concrete, Riverside Cement, Gibraltar Stone, and Sahara Sand.
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Queen Nation Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach Tickets
Queen Nation
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Five Must-See Natural Wonders to Visit on Your Next Aussie Getaway
Explore the picturesque beaches, rainforests and national parks that Australia is famous for.
By Jasmine Crittenden and Emma Joyce
Of the official seven natural wonders in the world, Australia has one: the Great Barrier Reef. But there are loads of others that haven't made the formal ranking. Next time you're planning a holiday, consider turning it into an adventure and tick off one of these gems — from stepping on the pristine white shores of the biggest sand island in the world to scaling the highest peak in the country. We've scoped out five spots around Australia that boast spectacular natural sights.
From pristine beaches and bountiful wine regions to alpine hideaways and bustling country towns, Australia has a wealth of places to explore at any time of year. We've partnered with Tourism Australia to help you plan your road trips, weekend detours and summer getaways so that when you're ready to hit the road you can Holiday Here This Year.
Some of the places mentioned below may be operating differently due to COVID-19 restrictions. Please check the relevant websites before making any plans.
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K'GARI (FRASER ISLAND), QUEENSLAND
Welcome to the biggest sand island in the world — its 184,000 hectares are made of sands of 72 colours. If your weekend dreams are made of beaches, beaches and more beaches, then World Heritage-listed K'gari (Fraser Island) is the place to go. Spend your weekend lazing about in a four-star eco resort, complete with a day spa and pool, or pack your tent and go wild. If you're feeling especially adventurous, there's also the K'gari (Fraser Island) Great Walk — a 90-kilometre adventure that'll take you via crystal clear inland lakes, across sand dunes and through lush rainforests. It'll take around six to eight days to complete.
Tourism Australia
NITMILUK GORGE, NORTHERN TERRITORY
Nitmiluk means 'cicada place' in the language of the Jawoyn and Dagomen peoples, who have maintained cultural connections to the area also known as Katherine Gorge for thousands of years. There are 13 separate gorges that make up Nitmiluk Gorge, and its sandstone rock reaches heights of up to 70 metres in some parts. One of the most spectacular sights in the national park is when the rock appears to change colour as sunlight hits the cliff face, and you can take tours at dawn and sunset to capture the moment. Nitmiluk Tours (which is a 100-percent Indigenous owned and operated tour company) run comfortable, 12-person trips on intimate cruise boats. If you prefer to explore the area via helicopter, canoe or on foot, you can do that, too. You'll find the entrance to Nitmiluk National Park 30 kilometres northeast of Katherine.
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KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK, NEW SOUTH WALES
Kosciuszko National Park's claim to fame is Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak in mainland Australia. While a climb to its summit is mandatory, there are plenty more adventures on offer, too. During winter, you can conquer the Crackenback Supertrail — the longest downhill run in Australia — on your skis or snowboard and take a dip in a piping-hot thermal pool at Yarrangobilly Caves. Come summer, explore stunning glacial lakes, spectacular wildflower meadows and magical snow gum forests on foot or by mountain bike.
NINETY MILE BEACH, VICTORIA
Along the southeast coast of Victoria runs Ninety Mile Beach. The 151-kilometre (or 94-mile) stretch of golden sand is the second longest beach in Australia, behind Coorong in South Australia (which is a whopping 222 kilometres). Ninety Mile separates the Bass Strait from Gippsland Lakes, so you can spend your getaway hopping from wild surf to dreamy still water. In between sunbaking, swimming, surfing and fishing, take a wander through the coastal villages of Woodside Beach, Seaspray, Loch Sport and Lakes Entrance.
WINEGLASS BAY AND THE HAZARDS, TASMANIA
This world-famous bay gets its name from its perfect curves and crystal-clear waters. You'll find it on Tasmania's east coast within Freycinet National Park and not far from the Hazards — pink granite mountains that rise dramatically from the water. To see both in one fell swoop, catch a scenic flight. Alternatively, follow the steep, three-kilometre hike to Wineglass Bay Lookout and then, if you have the stamina, continue along the Hazards Beach Circuit. There's also a bunch of luxe stays that offer panoramic views, so you can see everything without leaving your bed.
Whether you're planning to travel for a couple of nights or a couple of weeks, Holiday Here This Year and you'll be supporting Australian businesses while you explore the best of our country's diverse landscapes and attractions.
Top image: Nitmiluk Gorge via Tourism Australia.
Published on May 29, 2020 by Jasmine Crittenden
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Your March Content and Training Guide
Hello Autumn, as we heading into the colder months we also head into the last month of the Financial Year for many businesses. So alongside your celebration days you can provide ideas and resources to businesses to help them plan for FY21.
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Adapted by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand
Wicked Jack is meaner than a rattlesnake. One day, Saint Peter visits him in the Great Dismal Swamp, and Jack is nicer than usual. To reward him, Saint Peter grants him three wishes. True to his nature, Jack comes up with three mean things that will happen to anyone who comes his way. When the Devil pays a visit and is the victim of one of Jack’s wishes, the result is Jack’s being turned away at the gates of both Heaven and Hell. To this day, he’s still wandering around Dismal Swamp! Some say this folktale explains the origin of jack-o-lanterns. Author Wooldridge “dug around’ to find as many retellings of this Appalachian folktale as she could find. Her adaptation is based on three different versions.
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“From the first page, readers are sure to realize that this is one of those great spooky-funny books where they’re laughing too hard to ever be really scared…..Surefire child appeal.” – School Library Journal (Starred Review)
“Hillenbrand’s imaginative mixed-media paintings (with smudges of coal) have thin, robust lines, angular figures, subtle colors, and a distinctive style. A folktale adaptation that works.” – Julie Corsaro, Booklist
“In Wooldridge’s adaptation of this well-known folktale, Wicked Jack practices meanness on strangers instead of treating them right. The story offers an explanation for the mysterious light you see dancing around in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. Hillenbrand’s pencil and oil pastel illustrations greatly heighten the humor. – The Horn Book, Inc.
“Narrated with a breezy Southern twang, this pleasingly tart picture book by a first-time author tells of a man so mean that even the Devil is afraid of him. Hillenbrand captures the slapstick humor of this feisty read-aloud with great verve in his finely wrought illustrations, Intelligent and fun, with a moral thrown in for good measure.” – Publisher’s Weekly
Published by Holiday House, 1995
Reading level: Ages 4 – 8
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Emilia Clarke gets pooped on by a bird in first trailer for Paul Feig’s Last Christmas: Watch
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Paul Feig has a hearty holiday treat for everyone this year. The Bridesmaids director returns on November 8th with Last Christmas. Starring Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding, the film takes its name from the late George Michael and features his music.
Today, Universal has dropped the first trailer, which gives us a little more insight on to the actual story. Clarke stars as Kate, a cynical woman who works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Things are so bad … birds are even pooping on her.
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Carbon Nanotube Electrical Properties
Our group has been active in studying transport and scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes for many years. Here we present a short overview of this research.
Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical molecules ~1 nm in diameter and 1-100 microns in length. They are constituted of carbon atoms only, and can essentially be thought of as a layer of graphite rolled-up into a cylinder. Most of these tubular fullerene molecules, discovered in 1991, consist of multiple shells, where many tubes are arranged in a coaxial fashion. In 1993 single-wall nanotubes were discovered which – because of their simple and well-defined structure – serve as the model systems for theoretical calculations and key experiments.
The discovery of carbon nanotubes prompted a large interest in the electronic and mechanical properties of these novel one-dimensional materials. Band-structure calculations show that the conductive properties of nanotubes depend strongly on the tube diameter as well as on the helicity of the hexagonal carbon lattice along the tube. For example, a slight change in the pitch of the helicity can transform the tube from a metal into a large-gap semiconductor! Nanotubes exhibit unique quantum-wire properties, which derive from their nm diameter in combination with the special electronic structure of graphite. In a nanotube, the component of momentum along the circumference of the tube is quantized due to periodic boundary conditions. For one specific class of tubes, viz., the so-called ‘armchair’ (n,n) tubes, the lowest one-dimensional sub-band results in only one pair of one-dimensional gapless modes of propagation parallel to the tube axis. As a result, armchair nanotubes are prototype one-dimensional quantum wires exhibiting metallic conduction.
A molecular quantum wire:
single-walled carbon nanotubes
suspended over two nano-sized
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
image of a single carbon nanotube
showing the hexagonal lattice of the carbon atoms.
Nanotubes as molecular quantum wires
At Delft, we obtained the first transport results on individual single-walled carbon nanotubes. These were grown by the Smalley group at Rice University. We demonstrated that it is possible to deposit individual nanotube molecules on nano-fabricated electrodes. At low temperatures step-like current-voltage characteristics are obtained that indicate single-electron transport with Coulomb blockade and resonant tunnelling through single molecular orbitals. In Coulomb blockade, transport is blocked at low bias since the capacitance of the nanotube is so small that adding a single electron requires a charging energy that is larger than the thermal energy.
Conductance at zero bias voltage could be restored by tuning the electrostatic potential of the nanotube with a gate Voltage. Quite remarkably, the nanotubes appear to behave as coherent quantum wires. Electron-transport spectroscopy was carried out at mK temperatures. The density of states of the molecule appears to consist of well-separated discrete electron states. Their ~0.4 meV energy separation corresponds to estimates for a one-dimensional ‘particle-in-a-box’ where the 3 micron long nanotube constitutes the electron box. Electrical conduction through these discrete electron states occurs quantum coherently over remarkably long distance (microns).
Electric structure from STM spectroscopy
With a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) we can image the nanotubes with atomic resolution, and observe the chiral winding of the hexagons along the tube. The STM can also be used to obtain spectroscopic information, i.e., measure the electronic density of states of the nanotube. We have found that nanotube spectra fall into two classes: metallic and semi-conducting. These data provided the first experimental verification of the predicted band structure. In particular, the measured band gaps were in quantitative agreement with the calculations. Basically, these results show that nanotubes can be either metals or semiconductors depending on small variations in the chiral winding angle or diameter.
3-D rendering of STM image of carbon nanotube Measured band gaps of semi-conducting (left) and metallic nanotubes. The graph shows calculated band gaps
Cutting nanotubes by STM
The STM can also be used as a nano technology tool. By applying a voltage pulse to the STM tip the nanotube can be cut. The images below show a nanotube before and after the cutting:
Imaging individual electronic electronic wave functions in nanotubes
A short nanotube resembles the textbook model of a particle in a one-dimensional box. We have used the STM to image the discrete wave functions on the surface of the nanotube. Regions of high density of states correspond to the crests of the standing wave.
STM map of a wave function. The white lines represent the hexagonal atomic lattice, clearly demonstrating that the electronic wave functions have a different periodicity than that of the atomic lattice. The wave function can be understood by considering the electronic structure of a graphite sheet.
Artist’s rendition of carbon nanotubes and superimposed electronic wave functions
Intra-molecular junctions
The ultimate device miniaturization would be to use single molecules as active elements – a concept that has been around since the ’70s. Experimental realization of the idea has proven difficult, but the interest has been revived with the advent of carbon nanotubes. Intra-molecular nanotube devices have been proposed by, for example, introducing a pentagon and a heptagon into the hexagonal carbon lattice. In this way, two tube segments with different atomic and electronic structures can be seamlessly fused together to create intra-molecular metal-metal, metal-semiconductor, or semiconductor-semiconductor junctions that are only a few atoms in cross section. These junctions can be envisioned as building blocks for future molecular electronics based entirely on carbon. Since inclusion of a pentagon into a nanotube causes a positive curvature while a heptagon leads to a negative curvature, such junctions generally manifest themselves as a sharp kink. Despite extensive theoretical proposals, experimental signature of these intra-molecular junctions has remained elusive. Our group has shown for the first time unambiguous evidence that such junctions are indeed possible. Specifically, we have identified several nanotubes exhibiting sharp kinks and performed direct electrical transport measurements across the kinks.
We find that a metal-semiconductor kink junction behaves like a molecular diode. Much like a conventional rectifying diode it has non-linear transport characteristics that are strongly asymmetric with respect to bias polarity. In the case of a metal-metal kink junction, the conductance appears to be strongly suppressed and it displays an intriguing power-law dependence on temperature and applied voltage that holds even at room temperature. The power-law behaviour shows that nanotubes are a so-called Luttinger liquid, an exotic correlated electronic state that is uniquely formed in one-dimensional conductors due to electron-electron interactions. Our results on these record-small molecular nanotube junctions emphasize the need to consider screening and electron interactions when designing and modelling molecular devices.
A perspective view of a carbon nanotube kink junction (blue) between two electrodes (yellow)on an insulating substrate SiO2 (green).
Model of a nanotube kink junction. Note the 5- and 7-ring that are highlighted in orange. The tube segment at the top can for example be metallic whereas the bottom segment is semiconducting.
Single-molecule transistors at room temperature
We have fabricated a single-molecule transistor that operates at room temperature. This three-terminal device consists of an individual semi-conducting nanotube on two metal nano electrodes with the substrate as a gate electrode.
We have also fabricated a room-temperature single-electron transistor. The small “quantum dot” forming the active element of this transistor was fabricated by introducing sharp bends in the nanotube (similar to the buckles created in a drinking straw) using an atomic force microscope.
Carbon nanotube logic
We have also fabricated logic circuits based on individual carbon nanotube molecules. This was made possible by a new nanotube transistor layout using an aluminum gate that yields a high gain (>10) and a large on-off ratio (>100,000). We demonstrated the possibility of constructing digital logic elements by implementing an inverter, a logical NOR, a static random-access memory (SRAM) cell, and an ac ring oscillator. All these single-molecule digital logic circuits are found to operate with excellent characteristics at room temperature. While single nanotube transitors were reported before (both by our group in 1998, and by others somewhat later), the new breakthrough is that such transistors now have been coupled on a chip to perform this wide variety of logic circuits. This provides a very important step towards molecular electronics. Related to this subject there has also been an effort our group on DNA-mediated assembly of nanotube-based devices.
Growing suspended nanotubes
Freestanding carbon nanotubes can be grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) across predefined trenches. The trenches are lithographically fabricated in SiO2 and then Pt is deposited over the entire sample to serve as the conducting substrate for STM. We then pattern Fe:Mo catalyst particles from which the nanotubes grow across the trenches. This sample preparation procedure gives a layout of known positions where nanotubes can be found crossing trenches. On the right is an AFM topography image of the resulting sample showing several nanotubes crossing the trenches. We have made samples with a range of trench widths up to 200 nm.
Coulomb blockade spectroscopy
We have performed spatially resolved scanning tunnelling spectroscopy on the suspended carbon nanotubes. All of the nanotubes show a Coulomb staircase behaviour over the trench. About 25 % of the nanotubes only show this after being cut by a voltage pulse from the tip. The Coulomb staircase arises because of tunnel barriers formed between the tip and the nanotube and the nanotube and the Pt substrate. Examples of the differential conductance as a function of sample voltage for both metallic and semi-conducting nanotubes are shown below. Both graphs show the nanotube density of states with a series of sharp spikes superimposed. These are due to the Coulomb staircase and they are due to the addition or removal of single electrons from the nanotube.
The image on the right shows spectroscopy as a function of position along a suspended nanotube near the edge of a trench. Near the center of the trench there is a well-defined series of sharp spikes from the Coulomb staircase. The spacing of these spikes gives the energy needed to add an electron to the nanotube which is approximately inversely proportional to the capacitance between the tip and nanotube. As the tip moves closer to the edge of the trench, the spacing of the peaks grows larger. This indicates that the tip-nanotube capacitance is decreasing. This is expected because more of the field lines from the tip end on the Pt substrate as the tip moves closer to the edge of the trench, thereby reducing the capacitance.
Phenon assisted tunneling
We have also observed phonon assisted tunneling into the nanotube. This manifests itself as additional side-peaks on the Coulomb blockade peaks. The graph on the right shows the effect of increasing the current. At low current, the Coulomb peaks appear in groups of four indicating two spin-degenerate bands in the nanotube. As the current is increased, additional peaks appear on both sides of these peaks due to phonon-assisted tunnelling. By measuring the energy of the phonon peak as a function of nanotube diameter, we are able to assign the origin of the phonon mode as the radial breathing mode. The image at the bottom is an artistic rendering of the nanotube vibrating over a trench with a STM tip above. We are furthermore able to observe side-peaks due to both phonon emission (Stokes) and absorption (Anti-Stokes). The observation of an absorption peak is unusual because the energy of the phonon mode is about 40 kT meaning the thermal population is very small. The reason the absorption peak is visible is that the current through the nanotube leaves it in a vibrationally excited state whose energy is reabsorbed by subsequent tunnelling electrons. This implies that absorption is only possible at high current, when a second electron tunnels before the nanotube has had time to relax. This allows us to measure a quality factor for the radial breathing mode phonon of about 20,000.
Gate electrode
We have incorporated a gate electrode into our sample design, allowing three-terminal tunnelling spectroscopy of the suspended nanotubes. These samples have an additional layer of Si3N4above the SiO2, which we use to create an overhang that isolates the substrate from the bottom of the trenches.The gate electrode is then formed by Pt deposition in the bottom of the trenches.Having the gate electrode allows us to map out the entire Coulomb diamond plot as a function of both substrate and gate voltage. An example of one such plot is shown on the right.The red diamond regions have zero current due to Coulomb blockade.From the size of the diamonds and the slopes of the lines, we are able to extract the capacitance between the nanotube and the substrate, tip and gate.
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Home » World News » Florida data researcher, who was fired from health department, shares video of officers searching her home with guns drawn. Police say the department of health filed a complaint.
Florida data researcher, who was fired from health department, shares video of officers searching her home with guns drawn. Police say the department of health filed a complaint.
Rebekah Jones, a former Florida health department employee who was fired in May, posted a video of Florida state police with a search warrant entering her home with guns drawn.
Jones said she was fired for refusing to fudge COVID-19 numbers and she has been running her own dashboard since June called the Florida Community Coronavirus Dashboard.
On Monday evening, Jones posted footage of the incident on Twitter, saying "There will be no update today," and stating that guns were pointed at her, her husband, and her children.
In the statement, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said that the search warrant was issued for Jones' Tallahassee home, "after receiving a complaint from the Department of Health regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system."
Florida data researcher Rebekah Jones shared a video on Twitter of what she said were Florida state police officers entering and searching her house with guns drawn.
Jones, a former Florida health department employee, developed the state's coronavirus dashboard. She was fired in May and alleges it was because she refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen." At the time, DeSantis' office claimed that Jones was fired because she made executive decisions to modify the Department's COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from scientists or her supervisors.
In June, Jones launched a new portal, the Florida Community Coronavirus Dashboard, which pulls data from the Florida Health Department, state hospitals and helps locate COVID-19 testing facilities.
Alongside the video, posted around 5 p.m. local time, Jones tweeted, "There will be no update today. At 8:30 a.m. this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech. They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint. They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids."
In the video, officers walk into her home and shout for her husband to come downstairs as they tell Jones to wait outside. Officers can be seen with their guns drawn as they enter and search, pointing them in the direction of Jones and her family.
Jones also alleged that her hardware and tech used for the dashboard were seized, saying on Twitter, "They took my phone and the computer I use every day to post the case numbers in Florida, and school cases for the entire country. They took evidence of corruption at the state level. They claimed it was about a security breach."
Jones did not respond to Insider's request for comment.
In a statement sent to Insider, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said that the FDLE issued a search warrant after allegations that an unauthorized message was sent to members of Florida's State Emergency Response Team. The search warrant, also shared with Insider, was issued on December 3.
Florida's State Emergency Response Team coordinates Florida's public health messaging and response, and the message sent to them allegedly said "speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don't have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it's too late."
In the statement, Plessinger said that the search warrant was issued for Jones' Tallahassee home, and FDLE began an investigation on November 10, 2020 "after receiving a complaint from the Department of Health regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system, which is part of an emergency alert system, to be used for emergencies only. Agents believe someone at the residence on Centerville Court illegally accessed the system."
Plessinger added, "When agents arrived, they knocked on the door and called Ms. Jones in an attempt to minimize disruption to the family. Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents. After several attempts and verbal notifications that law enforcement officers were there to serve a legal search warrant, Ms. Jones eventually came to the door and allowed agents to enter. Ms. Jones's family was upstairs when agents made entry into the home."
The Florida Department of Health referred to the ongoing FDLE investigation. The office of Gov. Ron DeSantis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Cereplast’s Bio-Based Resins to be Distributed by Chase Plastics
Agreement Expands the Company’s Distribution to North American Plastics Processors
Hawthorne, Calif. – July 15, 2009 – Cereplast, Inc. (OTC BB: CERP), developer of proprietary bio-based
sustainable plastics, today announced a new strategic partnership with Chase Plastics to distribute
Cereplast’s bio-based resins in North America. This agreement signals Cereplast’s long-term commitment
to broadening the supply of its bio-based resins to North American plastics processors. The strategic
partnership with Chase Plastics is another indication of the rapid rate of growth of the market for
Cereplast’s bio-based resins, as well as the company’s ability to supply a major channel of distribution.
Chase Plastics is one of North America’s fastest growing, full-service specialty engineering thermoplastic
distributors, serving plastic processors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America.
Chase Plastics delivers specialty, engineering and commodity thermoplastics in a wide variety of
compounds encompassing every thermoplastic. Chase operates more than 20 warehouses throughout
North America capable of carrying and stocking Cereplast’s bio-based resins available for next day shipping.
Plastics processors purchasing Cereplast’s bio-based resins will benefit from the many advantages that
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About Cereplast, Inc.
Cereplast, Inc. (OTCBB:CERP) designs and develops proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics which
are used as substitutes for petroleum-based plastics in all major converting processes – such as injection
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automotive, consumer electronics and packaging. Learn more at www.cereplast.com
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Chase Plastics distributes more than 4,500 varieties of specialty and engineering thermoplastics from
the industry’s leading manufacturers and global suppliers. In addition, Chase delivers engineering
expertise and blending, repacking, inventory management, third-party storage capabilities and logistics
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Chase Plastics is redefining plastics distribution with an approach to business that puts customer needs
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founded by Kevin and Carole Chase who serve as the company’s president and vice president,
Find more information at www.chaseplastics.wpengine.com
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Mississippi defensive back Deane Leonard (24) is pursued by Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath (4) after recovering a fumble during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) runs into the end zone with a 48-yard touchdown pass reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers (2) passes while Kameron Jones (58) blocks a Mississippi player during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) runs past Mississippi State safety Landon Guidry (35) into the end zone with a 48-yard touchdown pass reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) passes against Mississippi State during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi players hoist the Egg Bowl trophy as they celebrate a win over Mississippi State in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. The (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi players hoist the Egg Bowl trophy as they celebrate a win over Mississippi State in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) is lifted in the end zone by a teammate as he celebrates his 8-yard touchdown run during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) follows his blockers as he rushes for a 8-yard touchdown as Mississippi State linebacker Erroll Thompson (40) comes up to defend during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) follows his blockers as he rushes for an 8-yard touchdown during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi defensive backs A.J. Finley (21) and Tylan Knight (4) knock away the end-zone pass to Mississippi State wide receiver Jaden Walley (31) during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath (4) hauls in a pass in front of Mississippi defensive back Jalen Jordan (2) during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi State wide receiver Austin Williams (85) lunges past Mississippi defenders to catch a 7-yard touchdown pass during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi wide receiver Elijah Moore (8) catches a pass in front of Mississippi State safety Collin Duncan during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) looks for running room as Mississippi State defenders pursue during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath runs with a reception for a first down during the second half of the team's NCAA college football game against Mississippi, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) is tackled by Mississippi State linebacker Nathaniel Watson (14) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath (4) reaches for a tipped pass as Mississippi defensive back Deane Leonard (24) defends during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral throws a pass against Mississippi State during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) evades a sack by Mississippi State defensive end Jack Harris (15) during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) is pursued by Mississippi State defenders as he runs for short yardage during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi defensive back Deane Leonard (24) is pursued by Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath after recovering a fumble during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi defensive backs Jakorey Hawkins (23) and A.J. Finley (21) try to intercept a pass intended for Mississippi State wide receiver JaVonta Payton (0) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond, right, runs past Mississippi State safety Landon Guidry (35) into the end zone with a 48-yard touchdown pass reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) and coach Lane Kiffin talk before the team's NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 31-24. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Trump Slams All Jews Who Vote For Democrats As 'Disloyal' Or Dumb
Donald Trump indulged in an anti-Semitic trope to slam two U.S. Representatives and all Jews voting for Democrats.
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He just couldn't resist the temptation to insert those right wing talking points into the debate.
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Martin O'Malley's lame campaign themes echo right wing tropes. With "friends" like that, who needs enemies?
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Why is RuPay a finer Conduit?
by Ayushi Sahu
In order to bring a healthy whirl to the former system of payments, the Government of India, setup the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The NCPI gave birth to a new card scheme called RuPay to reduce the cost and at the same time to promote cashless payments.
Hard cash or bank notes have been abandoned with lately with the coming up of ‘Soft Currency’ in the market. Reasons for this switch have been numerous but what could be more interesting is how the money of the country can drain by its citizens switching to cards like MasterCard, Visa or Amex.
To understand how using these plastic cards could be a trouble we have to understand how their system actually works. Suppose Mr. A having an account in a bank named XYZ, is trying to pay Mr. B who has an account in a bank named PQR. If Mr. A uses cards like Mastercard or visa, these are international payment gateways working as a mediator between the two banks. Since the transactions are international, they simply have an account with any bank across the world hence they, along with forwarding the amount, take their overly-priced commission. Consequently, you pay the brokerage to such gateways and cause heavy damage to the economy of the country in the longer run. Also, when a bank in public or private sector issues a card, it has to pay additional charges along with transaction charges, further draining the funds of the country.
In order to bring a healthy whirl, the government of India, to reduce the cost and at the same time to promote cashless payments, setup National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The corporation then gave birth to a new card system and named it the RuPay card. With no doubts the government has succeeded in setting up a domestic card scheme which would not only compete with the others in the market but also other merits.
RuPay is a Indian company and our own domestic payment gateway system. Since there is no international entity involved and the transaction is also within India this results in faster transaction along with far lesser processing charges. That’s a win-win for both the parties including the bank. The most important factor is that the client’s data would not be stored with any international company. RuPay card can be utilized almost everywhere in India and is accepted in e-commerce too. RuPay cards were issued to all Jandhan account holders which was in itself a bold step taken by Indian government.
Since the tie up has been done with Discover and Dinersclub it can be used internationally too but only in those places where Discover and Dinersclub cards are accepted. To promote Rupay cards we get many lucrative offers like cash back etc if we fill fuel, pay bill, book tickets etc. One can approach any bank, submit simple KYC information, open an easy savings account and obtain a RuPay Debit Card. Further existing visa or master card can be returned and the bank may be asked to issue a Rupay card. The best still is to open a Jandhan account. Henceforth, a recourse to endorsing RuPay further as a card system can be endorsed.
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7 Disney Parties We Wish We Were Invited To
By Savannah Salazar
Well, well. In honor of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil flying into theaters this Friday, we pay homage to one of the more iconic Maleficent moments. We’ve all been dazzled by the magic of Disney films but even more by the soirées and celebrations throughout. In fact, in the words of Maleficent, a Disney party is “quite a glittering…
Which Disney School Would You Rule?
By Courtney Potter
“School days, school days… dear old golden rule days.” Yes, it’s back-to-school for students across the country—who are already prepping for big projects, big tests, and big sports games a-plenty. But imagine, if you will, what it might be like to attend a Disney high school or college… y’know, the kind of place (from a favorite…
Enroll in Your Favorite Disney School with These School ID Photo Frames
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Are you in training to become the best scarer in all of Monstropolis? Was your parent a famous Disney hero? Are you the teenage girl who can save the world? Don’t worry, we’ve got your school ID ready for you! Go back to school the Disney way with these photo frames representing some of our favorite institutions of Disney education: Auradon Prep…
Are You Celebrating National Hat Day with One of These Disney Hats?
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January 15, 2017 is National Hat Day, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a Disney flair! There are so many hats to try on, but don’t worry, because D23 has picked out our favorites in honor of the special day!
Chewbacca Cap
If you want to show off your intergalactic swagger, this baseball cap featuring a fuzzy Chewbacca…
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23 Favorite Pixar Supporting Characters
Buzz and Woody. Dory. Merida. Joy and Sadness. They’re some of the most iconic characters in Disney•Pixar (not to mention animation) history, and they’re known the world over. As we celebrate the amazing 30-year history of Pixar Animation Studios, we thought we’d take a moment to praise some of our favorite supporting characters from Pixar’s 16 feature…
ABC Family’s “13 Nights of Halloween” Schedule for October 2015
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Second to umpteen rides through Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland Resort, nothing puts us in the Halloween spirit better than grabbing a handful (or six) of candy corn and curling up on the couch to watch our favorite frightening films. For the 17th year, our friends at ABC Family have gathered a smattering of our most…
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SSCE: WAEC to punish cheating students, supervisors, schools
The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has disclosed that students involved in examination malpractices would be barred from taking the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, henceforth.
This was made public by WAEC’s Examination Committee after its 70th Meeting, on Monday.
A statement by the committee also vowed to blacklist supervisors involved in malpractices.
The committee, which is the highest decision-making organ of the council, said those affected would be banned for some years.
The committee also threatened to sanction schools involved in examination malpractice.
“In addition, some candidates will also suffer other sanctions such as barring them from sitting for the Council’s examination for a certain number of years, some schools will be derecognised for a specified number of years or have their recognition completely withdrawn, some supervisors that were found wanting in the discharge of their examination duties will be formally reported to their employers and blacklisted,” the statement reads partly.
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COVID-19: Parents told not to send children to schools
The Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Wednesday asked students of the institution to remain at home till further notice.
The institution’s Acting Registrar, Clarkson Ehigiator in a statement, said the directive was in line with Edo government decision to suspend schools resumption till further notice, NAN reports.
Ehigiator said students earlier expected to resume academic activities are not to be seen in the halls of residence on Jan. 30 nor be present physically on Feb.1.
He said while management awaited a new directive from the government, the University of Benin acknowledged the sacrifices made by students and their parents during the most challenging period.
“The University of Benin as a Federal Institution, located in Benin City, must adhere to all directives of the Edo state government.
”The governor of the state announced the postponement of Schools resumption from Jan. 18, 2021 which will be reviewed on Feb.1.
“The Academic calendar remains unchanged as online classes will fully commence.
“The University’s Management is committed to ensuring the provision of quality education to our own dear students without compromising on our collective safety.
”Management also recognises that students are eager to return to school for their academic activities, all things possible are being done to actualise that objective as the interest of the students remains paramount,” Ehigiator said.
FEC approves new retirement age for teachers
Fikayo Olowolagba
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday approved a bill extending the retirement age for teachers in Nigeria from 60 years to 65 years.
FEC presided by President Muhammadu Buhari, approved the bill; Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers Bill, 2021 and sent to the National Assembly for its consideration and approval.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made this known to State House correspondents after the meeting.
The retirement age of teachers will move from 60 years to 65 while the years of service will also move from 35 to 40 if the bill is approved by the National Assembly.
Adamu said the bill would give legal backing to new measures by the current administration to enhance the teaching profession in the country.
The minister also listed the introduction of bursary award, special rural posting allowances and other measures as some highlights of the bill.
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EPL: Abramovich considering former Chelsea striker as possible replacement for Lampard
Don Silas
Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich is considering the club’s former striker, Andriy Shevchenko, as a potential replacement for Frank Lampard if he decides to sack the under-pressure manager.
Le10 Sport reports that Shevchenko’s name is on Abramovich’s shortlist of managers who could replace Lampard.
Abramovich, who is a big fan of Shevchenko, has been keeping a very close eye on his progress as a manager, with the Ukrainian one of several options being explored in preparation for the possibility of Lampard being sacked.
The Israeli-Russian businessman knows Shevchenko very well and has been in touch with the 44-year-old since he left Chelsea in the 2007/08 season to re-join AC Milan on loan.
Shevchenko was often spotted in Abramovich’s box at Stamford Bridge, while his teenage son, Kristian, plays for Chelsea’s academy.
He is currently the manager of the Ukraine national team.
Shevchenko recently guided the team to Euro 2020 qualification in an unbeaten campaign that saw them finish ahead of current holders, Portugal.
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EPL: Mourinho takes decision on bringing Real Madrid centre-back to Tottenham
Tottenham boss, Jose Mourinho, has finally ruled out any possibility of bringing Real Madrid centre-back, Eder Militao to Spurs this January transfer window.
Mourinho doesn’t think Militao is the answer to his quest to sign a new centre-back, according to transfer expert Duncan Castles.
Militao, 23, has been linked with a move to Tottenham after starting just one La Liga match so far this season for Zinedine Zidane’s side.
The Brazilian joined Madrid for £27million from Porto but hasn’t been able to break into Zidane’s first team ahead of Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane.
“My understanding is that, although Eder Militao is available, again a product of the COVID-19 situation where Real Madrid would like to offload a player on high salary who has barely been used this season, while they would be ready to offload him, they value the player at €50million, are looking, ideally to sell, but more realistically a loan with an option to buy,” Castles said on the Transfer Window podcast.
“Mourinho, I understand, doesn’t feel that Militao fits the profile of a player that Tottenham need, i.e. he does not see him as the player who would come in and overhaul the defence, be a leader in the defence, and take the team onto a different level.
“So then, if that deal were to be done by the club, I think it would be very much a compromise rather than the ideal scenario for Tottenham.
“Therefore I think you can regard this as pretty unlikely to happen in this [transfer] window,” he added.
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Fastnet Rock Colt Wins G2 Stutt Stakes
Group I placed last season at two, exciting colt Glenfiddich (3c Fastnet Rock x Nothin But a Dream, by First Defence) claimed his first Black Type victory at Moonee Valley on Friday night when scoring a cavalier win in the Group II MVRC Stutt Stakes (1600m).
Transferred to Peter Moody at the end of last season, Glenfiddich resumed from a spell in the Group I MRC Memsie Stakes over 1400m at WFA and acquitted himself well to finish a close third to Behemoth.
Given the strength of that form, he was sent out favourite on Friday night and under a confident ride from Luke Nolen controlled the race and powered clear to win by two lengths in a dominant display.
Peter Moody was full of confidence when Glenfiddich returned to scale.
“He’s a very exciting colt. After we win the Guineas (Caulfield) we might come back here for the Cox Plate,” said an effervescent Moody.
“The only thing I’d be scared of is wet weather as he has too good an action for soft ground.
“As soon as he walked into the stable I knew he was quality. He’s the right horse for the Guineas.”
A $200,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Edinburgh Park draft for Griffiths Racing/Peter Ford T'bred, Glenfiddich runs for a big syndicate headed by his breeder Ian Smith.
He has the overall record of two wins and four placings from 11 starts earning over $400,000 with the promise of a lot more to come.
Glenfiddich is the second winner from Nothin But a Dream (USA), a grand-daughter of US stakes-winner Adarling, who has achieved a lot of success in Australia through another grand-daughter in Mica’s Pride, the dam of Group I stars Criterion and Comin’ Through.
Glenfiddich is the 160th stakes-winner for Coolmore’s champion sire Fastnet Rock who stands this spring at a fee of $165,000.
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Next Stop: $500,000! Surrey Train Conductor Keeps Riding the Tracks after Winning Daily Grand Prize
A train conductor from Surrey is riding the tracks with an additional half a million dollars to his name after matching all five numbers in the October 21, 2019 Daily Grand draw to win the secondary prize of $25,000 a year for life.
Even after winning big on Daily Grand and opting for the lump sum payment of $500,000, Nelson Botelho doesn’t plan to give up the job he loves.
“I get to spend my day working with trains, doing what I love,” says Botelho. “Winning a half million dollars certainly makes it easier to pursue ‘Freedom 55’, though.”
Botelho says it took a few days after the draw to realize he had a winning ticket in his wallet.
“It was in my wallet for four days. I only remembered to check my ticket on the BCLC Lotto! App just before I went to bed… needless to say, I didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.”
As for what comes next, Botelho says the $500,000 prize will help pay off his mortgage and leave enough for a trip to Portugal with his family.
“I’ve always dreamed of being able to take my kids to the town that my parents grew up in.”
Say ‘Yes’ to the Extra for the chance to win up to $500,000. Extra is available with Daily Grand, Lotto 6/49, Lotto Max, and BC/49 at any BCLC lottery retailer or at PlayNow.com. Players can now check their lottery tickets anytime, anywhere on iOS or Android devices. Learn more about the BCLC Lotto! App here.
Did you know that B.C. lottery players have redeemed more than $7.4 million in prize winning Daily Grand tickets so far in 2019? Anyone can win, and #youcouldbenext! Watch some amazing lottery winner stories at www.playnow.com/lottery/winners/you-could-be-next/
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Verda Alexander Wants You to See Into Your Design Future
May 31, 2016 IIDA HQ Leave a comment
A former fine artist and landscape architect turned co-founder and principal of her own design firm, Verda Alexander, IIDA, started Studio O+A with her partner and big dreams. Twenty-five years later, she and Primo Orpilla, FIIDA, count Facebook, Uber, AOL, Yelp, and Samsung to name a few, among their clients. The powerhouse duo and their San Francisco-based design firm, which was named a 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award winner for interior design, are innovators in the field of workplace design, known for their signature open-office plans that have now become de rigueur.
We’re honored – and proud – to announce that Studio O+A has taken on the task of designing the IIDA space at this year’s NeoCon tradeshow. Called “IIDA Effect/Affect,” the booth explores how a designed space evolves as people move through it and make their mark on the built environment by leaving and taking business cards and fortunes about their design future. We spoke with Verda about the space – from the project’s inspiration and challenges, to what IIDA means to her.
“When Cheryl [Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP, Executive Vice President and CEO of IIDA] approached me with it, I was like, ‘Yes, this is awesome!’” said Verda. For Verda, designing showrooms and pop-ups allow her to tap into her artistic background, experiment, and get creative. “What I love about designing showrooms is that they’re up for three or four weeks and you’re really trying to tell a manufacturer’s story. You have a lot of leeway in how you do that because it’s temporary and it’s short term.”
During Studio O+A’s meeting with IIDA, Cheryl knew that the booth would have to tie back to the idea of “the IIDA effect,” the impact that IIDA members have through the spaces they design and the people around them.
“Cheryl kept mentioning this made-you-look moment,” said Verda. “That made us think of an Instagrammable moment.”
Sketch of the 2016 IIDA booth at NeoCon (courtesy of Studio O+A).
The Frenzy That is NeoCon
Anyone who’s been to NeoCon knows that there’s never a calm moment. The line to get on the elevators that take you to four floors of exhibitors and showrooms is already a force to be reckoned with. Studio O+A knew that they’re biggest challenge was creating a space people would actually want to spend time in… especially one that is a hallway.
“We definitely looked at this project as an art installation. It’s a hallway space with an escalator and elevator and small nook,” said Verda. The Studio O+A team decided to create something that stood out visually from a distance but also would work close up using multiple levels of interaction. They thought about what IIDA meant to them and the industry, and the concept of give and take was born. “We have the organization that supports us, but we are also members of this organization. It’s a mutual beneficial umbrella that we’re all under. Giving something back, but also an opportunity to give.”
Celebrating IIDA
Typically at tradeshows such as NeoCon, in order to brand your space, a sign with the company logo at the front of the booth suffices. But that wasn’t the strategy Verda and her team had in mind when faced with this project. Instead, several thousand cards will be displayed in the booth to view or take away. The IIDA logo will be printed on these cards 2,000 times making the logo visible, but not so blatantly obvious. Other cards will have a special IIDA lapel pin or a variation on a mantra or design fortune. The intent is that the cards are memorable enough that visitors will want to stick one in their pockets.
“For me, IIDA is our community – it’s our network. It’s our organization and it’s what brings everybody together. Let’s celebrate IIDA, but let’s be confident enough in our message or our corporate image that we can be playful with it,” said Verda. “Somebody might not look that close or might not see the IIDA logo, but then they’re going to wonder who did that, what is that? This idea of investigating and discovering in a different way is what we’re going to push.”
Experience IIDA Effect/Affect at NeoCon. Located by Starbucks on the first floor of the Merchandise Mart, the space is guaranteed to make you pause and find your design fortune. See you in Chicago!
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Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
123. Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the amount of money paid to farmers in County Donegal in each of the past three years under cattle, sheep and equine headage, ewe and cattle premia, beef cow and suckler cow and extensification and slaughter premia; and the EU Commission's proposals in relation to these payments in the 1996 prices package. [6809/96]
Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry (Mr. Yates): The amounts of money paid to farmers in County Donegal under 1993, 1994 and 1995 headage and premia schemes are as follows:
Amount Paid 1993 Schemes
£m £m £m
Cattle Headage 5.602 5.002 4.957
Equine Headage 0.046 0.027 0.020
Sheep Headage 4.214 3.735 3.728
Goat Headage 0.002 0.001 0.001
Suckler Cow Premium 3.427 4.710 5.544
Special Beef Premium 2.048 3.107 4.105
Slaughter Premium 0.453 0.524 0.683
Extensification Premium 1.776 2.122 To be paid April to June 1996
Ewe Premium 11.684 10.030 11.612
Total 29.252 28.258 30.650
[1447] The European Commission's proposals on the premium arrangements in the context of the 1996/97 prices package are as follows:
(i)withdrawal of the second instalment of the special beef premium for bulls and its replacement by a single premium at 14 per cent above the premium for steers;
(ii)reduction in the trigger for qualification for the deseasonalisation slaughter premium from 40 per cent to 38 per cent based on total steer slaughterings on the island of Ireland. In addition, when the trigger is no longer met, member states would have the option of maintaining the premium at 60 per cent of its current rate, which would be financed by way of a reduction in the second instalment of the special beef premium. Discussion on all elements of the 1996/97 prices proposals is ongoing in the Council and I am seeking to secure the best possible outcome.
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The Importance Of Agni-V To India’s Security
The fourth Agni-V test is scheduled to be conducted during the month of February 2016. This will be the second canister launch. Agni-V will be ready for induction after few more tests – especially...
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HAL Rudra :- India indigenously designed Attack Helicopter
The HAL Rudra also known as ALH-WSI is an armed version of HAL Dhruv. Rudra is equipped with Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) and Thermal Imaging Sights Interface, a 20 mm turret gun, 70 mm rocket pods,...
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Sukhoi Su-35:- The One Fighter Plane America’s Military Doesn’t Want to Fight
The Sukhoi Su-35 is a designation for two separate, heavily upgraded derivatives of the Su-27 ‘Flanker’ jet plane. They are single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable multirole fighters, designed by Sukhoi. The first variant was designed during the...
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Shaheen-3 missile will be able not only strike on Indian’s Andaman and Nicobar island but also pakistan another enemy Israel+-
Shaheen-III is a land-based surface-to-surface medium range ballistic missile.Development began after developed India’s Agni-III missile. Shaheen-3 was successfully tested on 9 March 2015 with 2750 km (1700 mi) range– a range of up to 1700mi,...
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Astra Missile:- A force Multiplier for Indian Airforce
Astra is an active radar homing beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) developed by the De fence Research and Development Organization, India. Astra is designed to be capable of engaging targets at varying range and altitudes...
Reviewing The Chinese J 10-B Fleet
The J 10 started off as a Chinese attempt at reverse engineering a Pakistan bought US F-16. However it ended up being a modification of Israel’s Lavi multi role fighter, Lavi program was cancelled...
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TAPI:- A Hope for Energy Starved India
The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and...
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February BoE Meeting: Three Things You Should Know
The Bank of England’s (BoE) monetary policy meeting held on Thursday was the first this year. As widely expected the central bank held back from making changes to interest rates or to the bank’s asset purchases.
The central bank also released its quarterly inflation report.
Here are five key takeaways from the Bank of England’s meeting yesterday.
1. BoE leaves monetary policy unchanged
The Bank of England monetary policy committee (MPC) voted at its meeting on Thursday to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.25%, while keeping the asset purchase program steady at GBP435 billion. This was widely expected by economists. The BoE’s monetary policy statement continued to reflect the central bank’s neutral stance on interest rates, despite evidence of an uptick in inflation over the past few months.
Implied Future Inflation Rates (Source: BoE)
The central bank has also communicated its tolerance to inflation overshooting the 2% target rate, although some MPC members said that they will tolerate only a “little room” for inflation to overshoot its limits. This could possibly mean that if inflation continues to rise above 2% there will be some dissenters along the way who are likely to vote in favor of a rate hike or at the very least call for an end to the BoE’s asset purchase program.
2. BoE Raises Growth Forecasts for 2017
The central bank’s MPC gave an upgraded view of the economy for 2017, raising growth forecasts from 1.4% to 2.0% including lifting its growth projections for 2018 and 2019. Growth is expected to slow to 1.8% in 2018 and then fall to 1.6% by 2019, according to the estimates.
Output growth and bank staff’s projections (Source: BoE)
However, the central bank left inflation forecasts unchanged expecting inflation to run above 2% until 2020. The British pound is down 20% since the pre-Brexit levels but managed to bounce off the lows. The central bank expects the exchange rate weakness to propel inflation higher and expects an overshoot to as much as 2.7%.
The BoE lowered its estimates on the unemployment rate which it expects can be sustained without generating any wage pressures that could push inflation higher to around 5%. Policy makers are however doubtful on how quickly the economy will grow without prompting a rate hike.
“The more time that passed without a noticeable reduction in economic growth, the more difficult it would become to tolerate the extent of the inflation overshoot,” the MPC members said.
3. What can prompt the BoE to change interest rates?
BoE officials gave some details on what could cause a shift from the current neutral stance.
To the upside, warranting a rate hike, the BoE highlighted that if wage growth picks up more than anticipated, it could tighten monetary policy. So far, the central bank is expecting that the additional slack in the labor market will compensate for any wage rises which could limit the inflation pressures that come as a result of the British pound’s exchange rate.
While upgrading its view on consumer spending and housing investment, the central bank expects spending to slow on account of higher prices, which could eat into the disposable incomes. The central bank said that if spending growth shows signs of slowing more abruptly than expected, there was scope for loosening monetary policy further.
It is hard to foresee further rate cuts from the central bank as the BoE governor Mark Carney had previously ruled out negative interest rates and said he did not prefer zero-percent interest rates either.
The BoE’s monetary policy decision showed that the central bank will remain on the sidelines at least until U.K. Prime Minister will trigger the Article 50 to begin negotiations with the EU. PM Theresa May got the go ahead by British MP’s this week, who voted with a majority for the Prime minister to go ahead with triggering Article 50.
The move was prompt after the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled earlier in January that the Parliament must put the Article 50 to a vote. This quickly led to the British government quickly tabling the bill within a few days of the verdict.
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THE MOTORING MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN
by Petrol Mum September 17, 2018
Charli Robinson is an original member of Hi5, an Australian children’s musical group and television series of the same name. She is now presenter on Channel 9’s Getaway travel program and she is a self-confessed rev-head who spent her childhood watching V8s at the Bathurst 1000 with her father and sister.
For as long as Dianne Bortoletto remembers, she’s loved the sound of fast cars. She’s worked in motorsport for 20 years, starting her career in London in a top 20 PR agency working on the Orange Arrows F1 account before returning to Australia as Media & PR Manager for WRC Rally Australia. Di currently works with Rally WA, Targa West and Targa South West in Perth where she is based.
Jasmine Abel is a freelance photographer, content creator and social media manager and she created Stay Driven to inspire and motivate others to get out there and drive, and to chase their dreams. Jasmine believes as long as you stay motivated, your dreams are achievable so never give up and most importantly stay driven. Along with photography, her interest in cars began at a young age however, it wasn’t until she bought her first car (an R34 Nissan Skyline) back in 2012, that she really delved into the whole car scene and became addicted!
Barb Cook is an avid motorcyclist of over 30 years. Currently riding a Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom and is one of the founding members of AuStrom, Australia’s national V-Strom Riding group. Barb is founder of Bikers for Autism Australia, Editor in Chief of Spectrum Women Magazine, and author/editor of the book Spectrum Women, dedicated to the empowerment of autistic women.
Amy Nelmes Bissett is a freelance features writer and her work has featured in Marie Claire, Collective Hub, Cosmopolitan and Refinery 29. When she’s not manically typing to deadline, Amy can be found weaving through the New Zealand countryside on yet another road trip, eyeing up Land Cruisers and enjoying some serious off-roading. You can follow her journey at @amynelmesbissett
Rachelle Wilson is our girl on the ground at the grassroots level of motorsport. Rachelle competes in circuit racing events and is on the Board of Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC). Rachelle also actively advocates for increasing female participation in motorsport and is the Program Director of the Women’s Motorsport Development Program, which takes the intimidation out of motorsport for women.
Patricia Mottram’s first car was an MG TD and she has owned and raced MGs, ancient and modern, since then. Patricia and her husband David are keen travellers, as well as being car enthusiasts, and they like to get off the beaten track. They have travelled across Africa, Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal and of course China.
Heather Lewis is a Forensic Scientist, professional motorcycle rider, women’s off-road ambassador, photographer, and adventure seeker. She worked for BMW Motorrad, USA influencing women to get out and ride. Heather continues to enjoy getting out and pushing herself to try new things. Most recently being the 2017 Rebelle Rally as a competitor alongside her Driving Partner Jenn Zipp Richmond.
Beth Lily Georgiou is an electric vehicle and motorsport operations specialist from the United Kingdom. She is a passionate adventure, driver, who frequently enjoys taking electric cars to their limits. Beth is an active advocate for electric vehicles & motorsport, solar & renewable energy, a plant-based diet, animals and ocean awareness. Follow her on Twitter @FoxGeorgiou
Popi Bowman has loved cars all of her life – she played with Hot Wheels as a kid and always asked her dad to “drive like a teenager.” In her 20s she worked for Motor Trend magazine, when she also owned her true love: a 1967 Cadillac convertible. More recently she was Editor for Audi and Volkswagen’s Canadian magazines, and Senior Producer for one of Canada’s top automotive websites. Follow her on Twitter @PopiBowman.
Jacki has been a part of the motorsport world for ten years, in everything from public relations and journalism, to social media and production. Having lived and travelled internationally, she can be found in a range of paddocks, from Formula 1, to WEC, V8 Supercars, to IMSA, and everything in between.
Hannnah Gordon has over ten years of experience tinkering with the finest engines in the world being a car mechanic, restorer and car builder. She loves the smell of octane, the noise of a V12 and a short shift gearbox whilst mixing with the old school classic car groups. Hannah also writes about cars and film YouTube reviews, catch her on Twitter @Femalemechanic1.
Vicky is a driven businesswoman who has a unique perspective in the world of motoring. With a love of cars, driving, motorsport and the motoring community she hopes that writing about her adventures will help inspire women to get involved and share her passion.
Megan Cantle hasn’t been involved with motorsport her whole life, but it has certainly become her obsession in recent years. Megan lives and breathe all things motorsport, especially F1 and rallycross and she’s working towards her ultimate goal – working as media or PR in the F1 paddock.
Helen aka Petrol Mum has founded Driven Women Magazine. Helen’s love of cars started with her father and grandfather’s vintage car collecting and continues today through a shared passion with her husband and children.
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1 edition of Songs of praise 18th June 2000 6.30pm found in the catalog.
Songs of praise 18th June 2000 6.30pm
Chillington Methodist Church 150th anniversary : Bible Christian hymnbook.
Published 2000 by Chillington Methodist Church in [Chillington .
Contributions Chillington Methodist Church., British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Night to Shine. Night to Shine is a prom night experience, centered on God’s love, for people with special needs ages 16 and older. On one night, February 7, , churches from around the world will host Night to Shine for thousands of guests. Locally, the main event will be held at Home Church, and Campbell UMC is joining in to provide the space for the parents’ meal. June Wind Gap Fire Co. Carnival Wind Gap Fire Company Carnival hosted by Wind Gap Fire Company Carnival will be held J 28, & 29 from 5 PM – 11 PM South Lehigh and East 3rd St, Wind Gap. June 29 Bus Trip to Memorial PAHS Class of Scholarship Fund hosting a Trip to New York Memorial Museum and little Italy Saturday. It is a great privilege honoring Ed Roberson as the recipient of the Jackson Prize for This is an extraordinary time to be awarding this significant prize in poetry, a momentous time in our recent history, a time of panic, fear, uncertainty and inner turmoil, and devastating tragedy where people are separated from one another, cannot even touch or bury loved ones, and yet are bound. We can't read an 18th century book like an 18th century person, although fools and ignoramuses, of course, are of an innocence in any period. I'm by no means saying that we're obliged to enjoy the writings of the past, but we are obliged to consider context before announcing that a given writer is good or bad.
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Songs of praise 18th June 2000 6.30pm Download PDF EPUB FB2
Songs Of Praise. In the evening over people attended our final celebrations of the Dedication and Open weekend with a "Songs of Praise" and recognition of local preacher Danks. Our minister Revd.
Hilary Howarth opened the service and Revd. Jennifer McKenzie gave the address. The hymns, which had been chosen by the congregation were. In the opening pages of his little book How To Walk Into Church, Tony Payne describes the common experience: I suppose it must have happened upwards of times by now.
I exit the car, usually with a wife and various kids in tow, and amble in the front door, tossing off a quick greeting to whomever is handing out the folded sheets of paper /5(38). Layng Martine, Jr. grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was educated at Mount Hermon School, Denison University, and Columbia University.
After a stint on Madison Avenue writing ads and a disastrous fling as a restaurant owner Layng and his wife Linda moved to Nashville where Layng could pursue his dream of writing songs and where they.
and Songs of Praise There will be a Songs of Praise and Gift Day celebration at St. Bartholomew’s, Batheal-ton on Sunday 4th June at pm.
If you have a favourite hymn you would like to be included please let me know. We don’t have many services in the evening and it is a. Sunday Classic - Songs of Praise C ome and sing some well-known hymns, hear people's stories behind their favourite music and then join us for Tea and Cake.
Held at pm on the third Sunday of the month in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Sunday 18th June @ am. Come and celebrate. Father’s Day. with us at our All Age Service. Sunday 11th June @ am “Serving God Together” “you are a chosen people, a royal. priesthood, a holy nation, a people.
belonging to God, that you may declare. the praises of Him who called you out. of darkness into His wonderful light.
FRIDAY 10th June pm NOAH’S STORY OX in the Church Centre. Join us for children’s songs, a story and prayers with an activity for the children followed by drinks and biscuits – tea and coffee and time for a chat for the grownups. SATURDAY, 11th June 12pm - 3pm CLAVERDON SCHOOL FETE.
Stalls, games, competitions, food. Contact. Welcome to the Triangle Community Methodist Church, we’re glad you’re here. If you’re new to our church family, a few things to make you feel at home amongst us: Evening Service: pm (2nd Sunday of Each Month) Read more. Friday 15th December - Alfreton New Life Church hosts Carols at Costa, High St, Alfreton 7pm.
A mixture of fun and festive, traditional and modern. Saturday 16th December - Carols and Bible Readings hosted by Holmebrook Valley Community Church at the Family Centre off Wardgate Way pm Sunday 17th December - Family celebrations of the birth of Jesus in Chesterfield, Stretton & Alfreton at The Briddy Choir June 18 Trinity Sunday Swyre a.m.
Matins July 9 Trinity 3 Burton Bradstock Marquee July 30 Trinity 6 Swyre p.m. Songs of Praise Sept. 24 Harvest Shipton Gorge a.m. Oct. 29 Bible Sunday Long Bredy 11 a.m. Matins Dec. 3 Advent Sunday Puncknowle p.m. Carols Dec.
17 Advent 4 Litton Cheney p.m. Carols. Friday 14 June- Sunday 16th June at mulitple venues throughout Falmouth Cornwall UK. Shanty singing takes place over the three days. There are 39 groups across 20 venues. As well as guesting on Weekend Wogan on 29 June to promote his new album, You Raise Me Up, John will also appear on the following TV shows: Monday, 30 June: This Morning, ITV ampm Wednesday, 2 July: The One Show, BBC1 pmpm.
The Praise Reporter • May Kelly Price, the Daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Price and Evangelist Claudia Price is the 2nd of three children born and raised in Queens, NY.
Join Newspeak House in warmly welcoming his wife Carol Gall for a special guest lecture celebrating John’s work and their life together.
Carol Gall married Dr Gall in and for many years worked in his medical office. Together they taught parenting classes and jointly authoring Hit by a Low-Flying Goose a book about their experiences.
She. Holland - June 3rd International David Bowie fan club 'The Voyeur', in co-operation with Sony Music Holland and Plato Leiden, are holding a 'Heathen' listening session on Monday June 3rd, from until hours at Plato Leiden, VrouwensteegLeiden.
The Great Big Read Aloud EventOn Tuesday 4th June parent/carers of year 1 and year 2 children are invited to a very special Read Aloud event will be from 3pm-4pm and is themed around cooking with activities such as book mark making, recipe book making, read a. Bertelsmann Acquires Full Ownership of Penguin Random House.
18 December Gütersloh, New York, London, Decem – Bertelsmann is acquiring the remaining percent stake in Penguin Random House from the British media company Pearson, making it the sole owner of the book publishing group.
Bertelsmann to become sole owner of the. THE SNOWMAN (ANIMATED CHILDREN'S FILM). Channel 4 animated film directed by Diane Jackson, wordless except for the featured song, 'Walking in the Air', music and lyrics by Howard Blake who also composed, orchestrated and conducted the score.
Oscar nomination, best short film; BAFTA best children's programme; Bafta TV nomination - best graphics; Grand Prix Tampere International Short. The Songs of Bird Wearing Safety Gear, Plug-In Editions, Winnipeg, Canada () Sophie will read from the book at the private view on Thursday 18th June.
_____ Fifty Sha des of Earl Grey Tea. 4th March- 16 th June Private Thursday 2 April, pm. Saturday April 18th – INEC, Killarney – on sale now. Friday/Saturday June 6th/ 7th – The Waterfront, Belfast – on sale November 6th Thursday June 11th – Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen – on sale November 6th Friday June 12th – Dungannon Leisure Centre – on sale November 6th.
book about the founding of facebook, called the "the accidental billionaires," and then an haven't with ron ron chernow. his latest book is about george washington. following that in about one hour and 45 minutes or so we will be joined by war correspondent david axe, his book "war is boring," chronicals his wars in somalia and other countries.
david axe works in iraq and afghanistan. we then. David Gizara, Thursday Night Jazz host on KLCC FM, Eugene, Oregon, will be doing his annual special radio show of Joni Mitchell songs covered by mostly jazz artists.
This year's show will feature covers of Joni's "Blue" album and can be heard on Thursday, June 18th. Dear Friends in Christ, We are experiencing an extraordinary time. The Coronavirus disease (COVID), now a pandemic, has captured headlines, cancelled conferences and professional sporting events, disrupted travel plans, closed schools and colleges, relocated workers to home, and infected and killed thousands of people across the world, with cases reported in the U.S.
and here in on: Church Avenue Ben Avon, PA, United States. SNL is Finally Back: Sunday June 28th, @ pm. The last few weeks have been different with Sunday Night Services at 1st Hillsville. We have had Vacation Bible School, Fathers Day, Revival and several others things but SNL is finally back this Sunday Night.
pm Songs of Praise Boxing Day Big Sing recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Aled Jones with Russell Watson, Hayley Westenra, Howard Goodall's Enchanted Voices pm Nigel Slater's Christmas Suppers pm Countryfile includes Weather for the Week Ahead pm Antiques Roadshow pm EastEnders.
Sunday, 16th December, pmpm, Leper Chapel, Barnwell, Carol Service map Wednesday, 19th December, pmpm, Landbeach Community Society Christmas Celebration This will be a mix of carol singing and the band playing some seasonal music.
Saturday 11 June at 2 pm. - do not forget!. Further details from Lucy or Ian if you have missed earlier advertisements.
Annual Festival of Talents: A happy afternoon with a varied programme: piano & poetry, trumpet & tales of Suffolk, songs & solos plus, of course, the ever popular Offton Song. More verses and more fun. Minutes of St Cuthbert's. Parish Pastoral Council.
8 th May Present: fr Ben Earl, Cliona Kear, Gil Bolton, John Urquhart, John Marsland, Michael Laing, David. We love Stornoway.
Niall O’Gallagher is the first Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu/ Glasgow’s City Gaelic Poet Laureate, an appointment which runs until 31 st October and is part of the Merchant City Festival’s Gaelic Literature and Song Trail. Bard Baile Ghlaschu is a municipal role with a city profile and the Bard will be in post during the Royal National Mòd in October This beer was brewed with Hill Country well water, barley, wheat and hops and fermented with our mixed culture.
After barrel aging, we then added 2, pounds of peaches and allowed it to referment for about a month. We bottled and kegged in June and let the beer naturally condition in its vessel.
The peaches used for this year’s Fēn Táo are. June 18th, - Souljahs - Pittsburg City Park 17th & Railroad Ave. June 18th, a.m p.m. entertainment, dance contest, hoop contest, food: Los Angeles: June 18 & 19, - Black Arts Los Angeles - Juneteenth Heritage Festival two days of family funam- 6pm daily.
Philoptochos—March 18th Goya– April 1st Sunday School—April 8th Pre-Sanctified Begins at PM, Except for March 4th at 6PM Meal to Follow THURSDAY, JUNE 5, at the Plandome Country Club.
Mario Harris can be contacted at or [email protected] Additional information will be coming soon. Bringing the Word in Songs of Joy at Mary Fite’s Tuesday Night “Word Time” bible study, hosted by Dave & Judy Vinsant, Riverside, California. January 12th Morning Praise & Worship Music with Ron Perry at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Vista, California.
January 12th, PM. In Dyer’s book co-authored with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, “Innovation Capital: How to Compete – and Win – Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders” (Harvard Business Review Press, June ), he interviews today’s most innovative CEOs to identify how they.
Good Morning, I am getting married next fall and really want to book Hit-N-Run for my wedding. I am revolving the date around whatever works for you:o) If you are not available either day, can you give me some dates, any Saturday from mid September through the end of October that you would be free.
ARCHIVE -- American Entertainment News - U.S. Entertainment Newswire - Film, Books, Music, TV, Radio, Cable, Arts, entertainment news briefs, articles, events, celebrities, premieres. On Jthe Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.
The Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on J in Independence Square. Elsewhere in previous editions of the Link, you may have read that Willisham was holding its Open Gardens event on 7 June as well. Please note that Willisham has agreed to delay their event to the following day Sunday 8 June, and Offton Church will combine with Willisham at Willisham Church in a Songs of Praise Service on 8 June in place of the.
Plaça de la Catedral, +34 42 71 89, Open 10am–pm, April–June; 10am–pm, July–August; 10am–pm, September–October; 10am–pm, November–March. Admission is 7 EUR ($ USD). Dress respectfully, as it is a place of worship. Tour the Arab Baths. These preserved public baths were built in Cafe Aroma Jazz Festival, 6pm North Circle Idyllwild, California more info.
Tues 11th and Weds 12th June: Northampton Derngate: pm and pm: Thurs 13th and Fri 14th June: Croydon Fairfield Hall: pm and pm: Sat 15th June: Bournemouth International Conf.
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The Brady Kids Share Their Favorite ‘Brady Bunch’ Episodes On ‘Watch What Happens Live’
by Lauren Novak
All six stars from The Brady Bunch and A Very Brady Renovation appeared on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live recently. They answered a ton of questions, including sharing their favorite Brady Bunch episodes and more.
Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Eve Plumb (Jan), Susan Olsen (Cindy), Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) reunited once again on the talk show to talk about their lives during the filming of The Brady Bunch.
The Brady siblings answer juicy questions about the show and life after
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Christopher’s reality show came up too. He filmed My Fair Brady with ex-wife Adrianne Curry. Susan admits that she watched it and “loved it.” Barry, however, didn’t quite understand it. All he could say was, “Why?” Christopher said, “Well, that’s the question everyone asks all the time.”
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Andy also asked them if they would live together in the newly renovated Brady house, for a reality show like Big Brother. Susan and Barry were on board, but the rest of the siblings quickly said no. Christopher said he would for maybe one night. That would certainly make for a very entertaining reality show!
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The siblings also revealed which stars almost got their famous roles. Susan said that Jodie Foster was almost Cindy and Mike said that Gene Hackman almost took his role as Bobby. They also shared their favorite Brady Bunch episodes to film. Of course, Maureen said it was the one with the nose. She even recreated the scene during the filming of A Very Brady Renovation.
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Eve said “probably Hawaii,” while the others agreed. Barry said two words, “Johnny Bravo.” The Johnny Bravo episode was about Greg becoming a rock star named, you guessed it, Johnny Bravo. However, Greg let his new fame get to his head. Which led to another question.
Andy asked which star of the show let fame get to their heads in real life. They all agreed none of them did while filming, but Barry did later on in life. He actually agreed. Watch the full interview below:
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Contents / Release notes / APM agent release notes / PHP agent release notes
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
This release marks the start of a brand new series of PHP agent releases. This represents many months of performance tuning, stability improvements and additional new features. All existing users are highly encouraged to upgrade to the latest agent. There are many changes in this version, the most interesting of which are listed below. All users who are upgrading from a previous release are encouraged to read the upgrade notes document to fully understand some of the impacts of upgrading.
Highlights of this release include:
Drastic memory usage reduction. The agent overhead is down from approximately 35% to just 4%.
Significantly less stack space used (down from 40K per PHP function call to just 84 bytes). This affects users with deeply recursive functions.
License keys are now set in the INI file and not the daemon configuration file, and they are settable on a per-directory or per-virtual host basis. This very frequently requested feature will allow multi-tenant sites to use different keys for each tenant.
The New Relic daemon can now be started automatically by the agent. For upgrade customers it will still be started the way it always was with the init scripts, but you can now change that by configuring the daemon in your INI file. Please see this page on daemon startup modes for details.
Several bugs related to auto-RUM (Real User Monitoring) have been fixed, including a fix for non-standard HTML (where the head element is at the end of the document).
The agent startup "banner" now contains much more useful information that can be included in the initial dialog with support, and will short-circuit the typical "what OS and PHP version are you using exactly?" preamble to getting a ticket resolved.
The agent and daemon no longer use a UNIX-domain socket for their communications. Now a standard TCP socket (port 33142 by default) is used, which makes deploying in a chroot environment a lot easier.
The RPM and Debian packages have been split into three separate packages: the agent, the daemon and common scripts between the two. This was primarily done so that the agent was in its own package, and on 64-bit systems the agent package now only contains the 64-bit agent. This means that 64-bit users do not have to install the entire 32-bit runtime just to install the PHP agent. The 32-bit agent can always be installed alongside the 64-bit one.
The phpinfo() output has been changed to more clearly distinguish between global and per-directory settings. It now also correctly displays the per-directory value if the script was invoked from within a directory that changed default values.
The newrelic.transaction_tracer.top100 setting has been renamed to newrelic.transaction_tracer.detail.
You can now arbitrarily begin and end transactions (for example, at the beginning and end of each job queue unit of work). This is done using the new newrelic_end_transaction and newrelic_start_transaction API calls.
The daemon has been considerably simplified and uses fewer locks, thus reducing the potential for entering a "spin" state.
Many other improvements to speed and stability.
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Making believable visuals in Unity
Understanding post-processing
Indoor and local lighting
Post-processes are rendering effects that are based on an existing rendered Scene. Effects in post-processing are usually dependent on the Scene view, or layered on top of the rendered Scene before generating the final render. The clear advantage of this feature is the instant visual feedback and dramatic improvement to the Scene, without the need to alter existing content.
You don’t need to use all of the post-processing features to create believable Scenes. However, its capability to enhance a Scene further is certainly worth the time it takes to understand the system. This section helps you decide which post-processing effects are right for your situation, and helps you avoid the pitfalls that can come with these advanced features:
Ambient occlusion (AO)n
Screen Space Reflection
High intensity color
Chromatic Aberration, Grain and Vignette
For an in-depth overview on post-processing, see the Post-processing documentation.
When rasterizing a 3D polygon into a 2D screen with limited resolution, the final pixels show an aliasing effect (like steps on the edges of objects). There are different solutions for anti-aliasing techniques in real-time 3D, such as supersampling, multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA), fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA), spatial anti-aliasing (SMAA) and temporal anti-aliasing (TXAA). Currently, the most popular techniques are FXAA and TXAA, due to their effectiveness and relatively high performance. For example, the following image from the sample Scene compares FXAA and TXAA:
FXAA does a good job of fixing some of the glaring aliasing effects, but TXAA takes it a step further and performs a much better job in the tram rails.
FXAA is pure post-processing anti-aliasing. In simple terms, It captures the rasterized Scene, analyzes the edges, and runs an algorithm on top of the existing image to smooth it out. It is straightforward, doesn’t have any complex dependencies, and it’s fast.
TXAA is a lot more complex. It uses jittering and the previous frame as additional data to blend into the current frame. It also uses motion vectors to predict which pixels to reject or accept to render the final frame. The idea is to increase the effective resolution of a frame with more data, without the need to render the Scene larger than its final resolution (as is usually the case in supersampling). The benefit is clearly a much smoother anti-aliasing, similar to the quality given by supersampling, but without the major performance impact.
Like everything in real-time rendering, there’s always a trade-off. TXAA requires motion vectors to function, and has a larger performance impact when compared to FXAA. TXAA’s complex nature of predicting the final image can cause some unintended artifacts for fast-moving GameObjects, and texture blurriness across the Scene, which might not be suitable for some applications.
Ambient occlusion (AO)
Ambient occlusion post-processing is an approximation of ambient occlusion based on screen space data, mainly depth. For this reason, it is usually called Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO). As explained in Enable post-processing, SSAO can give better fidelity when shading ambient lighting, especially for dynamic GameObjects that often don’t have any occlusion interaction between static Scenes and dynamic Scenes.
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion - Debug View
While in general SSAO helps a Scene’s ambient shading, it can cause too much occlusion. Using per-object baked ambient occlusion from an offline 3D modelling application with additional ambient occlusion from light baking makes SSAO a third layer of ambient occlusion.
Make sure you keep the final output in mind when setting up SSAO, and try to find a balance with the other ambient occlusion solutions.
Adding too much ambient occlusion can cause open areas to be very dark
Like SSAO, Screen Space Reflection uses the current Scene view to approximate reflections via ray tracing. To get believable results, it is almost always a good idea to enable this feature. It adds a highly accurate reflection that complements the normal cube map captured reflection. However, enabling this feature does restrict rendering to deferred rendering only, and has a performance impact. Another downside of SSR is that anything not on the screen does not generate reflection hits, and therefore can cause a missing reflection effect at the edges of the screen.
The Depth of Field effect can give the cinematic feel of a large sensor camera. It can also be used to change the scale perception of a Scene (much like how a tilt-shift camera lens gives a miniature effect). For example, the following image is a real-life photograph, made to look like a miniature by applying a Depth of Field effect:
A subtle motion blur can make blending the transition of one frame to another more believable. However, you need to take care in your application to reduce the risk of motion sickness. This is especially true if there is a massive difference in Scene translation, which is typically found in first-person or third-person cameras. For example, a wide-angle view where the player can swing their camera really fast from left to right looks jittery and give a stop motion look without motion blur, even if it is rendering at 60FPS. The following image shows a running motion blur at a Shutter angle of 180 degrees:
A full 360-degree shutter angle gives you a full frame duration trail. Anything less means less trail. With that in mind, if you are aiming for a stop-motion look, then disable motion blur.
Bloom and emissive
In real life, bloom is a lens artifact where light beams aren’t focused properly. It usually occurs on lower-quality camera lenses, or some special effects glow camera filter. Bloom gives a hazy soft image, as shown here (Threshold Gamma set to 0):
Or you can use Bloom to differentiate elements of high intensity or bright light, as shown here:
Over-using these features can backfire. You can see this happen in the first sample in the above image; there are lots of high intensity pixels, and the threshold of the intensity starts to bloom very early.
When you select the value of the threshold, consider the specific values of your emissive surfaces, the lighting setup for the Scene, and whether you have enabled eye adaptation.
You can handle high intensity color values using a tonemapper, which processes a linear HDR buffer of input data and renders it back out to the designated color space for final output. This is similar to how a camera works. In Unity post-processing, there are two types of tonemapper: Neutral and ACES (Academy Color Encoding System (Wikipedia)). At first glance, the difference between the two is in the default contrast of the tonemapper. However, the main difference between the two is that you can adjust Neutral to be similar in contrast to ACES. In the image below, the two examples are almost identical (where the Neutral settings are: Black In 0.02, White In 10, Black Out –0.04, White Out 10, White Level 5.3 and White Clip 10):
The main difference you need to take into account is how the two tonemappers handle high intensity color values, such as colored light or emissive effects from explosion effects or fire. The following image shows how an ACES tonemapper normalizes high intensity color differently to the Neutral tonemapper:
Chromatic Aberration, Grain and Vignette are post-process effects that simulate artifacts from real-life camera systems. To use them properly, it is good to understand how each of these occur in real cameras:
Chromatic Aberration (CA) is a dispersion of color that appears on an image if the lens of a camera fails to focus all color to the same convergent point. This is usually found in a poorly calibrated or lower quality lens. While this can sometimes add a sense of realism to a digital Scene, this also means your virtual camera is directed to convey a low quality lens.
Grain seen in the final image of a real photograph or cinema is usually a sign of an insufficient quantity of useful light entering the sensor, such as a dark scene or a high ISO camera sensor/film translating to noise. You can use this effect to simulate camera limitations, to make a pristine 3D-rendered Scene feel more believable. However, too much noise in a Scene can distract the viewer with a false sense of motion, and affect the contrast of the final rendered image.
Vignette is similar to the CA effect; it adds artifacts where a lens could not give consistent light coverage from the center to the edge of the sensor/film of a camera. You can use this effect to give some sense of focus for a central point of a Scene. However, if you use this effect too much, you can make a Scene look like it was processed by an amateur post-editor.
The key takeaway from these post-processing fundamentals is that you should practice and develop an understanding of each effect, so that you can effectively use the features with a sense of purpose, and weigh the visual benefit of each additional effect against overall Scene performance.
For advice on additional post-processing features, see documentation on:
Color Grading (other than tonemapper)
Post Processing package
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User groups as producers in participatory afforestation strategies
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by Cernea, Michael M.
Published 1989 by World Bank in Washington, D.C .
Forests and forestry -- Social aspects.,
Reforestation -- Citizen participation.,
Forest policy.,
Social forestry programs.,
Statement Michael M. Cernea.
Series World Bank discussion papers,, 70
LC Classifications SD387.S55 C47 1989
Pagination 80 p. ;
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The GC 100 tracked the stock market performance of these companies during the past three years, comparing the results against a broad market benchmark, the FTSE® All World. The data for total returns is as follows:
GC 100 rose 26.4% during past 1 year; FTSE® All World rose 22.1%
GC 100 rose 19.0% during past 2 years; FTSE® All World rose 17.7%
“While the performance of the GC 100 should not be seen as clear evidence of a causal relationship between a commitment to corporate sustainability practices and stock performance, there appears to be an exciting correlation,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director the UN Global Compact. “Moreover, the results may also reflect the fact that sustainability performance is a factor that is receiving increasing interest from investors.”
The GC 100 marries corporate performance on environmental and social issues with a requirement of basic profitability. Kell added, “Sustainability performance should not be looked at in isolation so we included a requirement of basic financial good health. Both factors are often taken as proxies for the quality of management, which can be an important determinant of investment returns.”
“We are very pleased to see the results of this new research. The performance of the GC 100 Index over the past two years is particularly notable,” said Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainalytics. “Portfolios containing companies that exhibit enhanced extra-financial risk management characteristics have the potential to perform better over time. We developed the GC 100 to test that hypothesis and these initial results are positive.”
Sustainalytics carried out the research in constructing the GC 100, using a proprietary methodology that takes into consideration a range of indicators based on the Global Compact’s ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environmental stewardship, and anti-corruption. In creating the index, Sustainalytics only evaluated those Global Compact signatories that are currently covered in its research universe – 713 companies in total. (The Global Compact today includes almost 8000 corporate signatories, of which approximately 1000 are publicly traded companies.)
“It is important to stress that we are not saying that these 100 companies are the best performers in the Global Compact,” said Mr Kell. “The Global Compact has many thousands of companies that are doing excellent sustainability work. We merely wanted to experiment with the link between sustainability polices and stock-market performance. And the initial results are very encouraging.”
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Eligibility for the Index:
Companies are eligible for the GC 100 if they or their parent company have been Global Compact signatories for a minimum of one year, are publicly listed, and fall within the research universe of Sustainalytics, which provided the research for the index. As well, they must pass a financial screen that requires positive pre-tax earning on average for the 3 years preceding the index annual review. In the case that a company is already a constituent of the index, it will only be removed if there are two consecutive years of negative 3-year average earnings figures.
Constituent Selection Process:
The constituents of the GC 100 are reviewed on an annual basis in September.
Constituents are chosen for the Index with the dual goal of having a sector representation (free-float market cap weights) within a range of the key, well-known global indexes; and to choose companies that have strong practices and performance in adhering to the principles of the UN Global Compact around management of human rights, labour rights, the environment and anti-corruption. Among the indicators used in the selection of the constituents were the company’s level of reporting in relations to the Global Compact’s required annual Communication on Progress and whether or not the company’s chief executive submitted its required annual letter of support for the UN Global Compact and its principles.
As part of the index annual review, there may be changes in the constituents to better align the sector representation of the GC 100 with global indexes or to replace some constituents due to changes in company practices or performance with respect to implementation of the Global Compact principles.
Disclaimer: The GC 100 was in no way produced, endorsed or supported by FTSE or its licensors.
About Sustainalytics
Sustainalytics is an award-winning, independent provider of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and analysis, and responsible investment services. With more than 20 years of experience, Sustainalytics offers a variety of solutions to investors implementing socially responsible and responsible investment strategies. The firm has more than 120 staff members, including more than 70 analysts with a variety of multidisciplinary and industry expertise. In 2012, Sustainalytics was voted Best RI Analysis firm by Thomson Reuters Extel Awards. www.sustainalytics.com
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I am Claris Nadini, a MasterCard Scholar who is an energetic, self-motivated, young leader in Second Year at Ashesi University, Ghana, studying Mechanical Engineering. At Ashesi University, I am part of the Entertainment Committee under student leadership. I currently serve as the founder and chair of Badili Zone Organization, that is targeting to achieve high quality education in marginalized areas. I was selected into the Millennium Fellowship as a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2019. It is an opportunity presented by The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) with the aim of elevating undergraduate students’ leadership. I did my A-levels in Maths, Physics and Further Maths at African Science Academy (ASA), Ghana, which is a new, girls-only Advanced Level school for maths and science. I am passionate about politics and believes that there is a future for African Governance and world leadership in general, hence my motivation to join Kenyan governance in the future. I love dancing, watching comedy, reading, socializing, and coding.
Badili Zone Organization is a registered CBO in Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Embakasi South constituency, Nairobi, Kenya. Badili is a Kiswahili word meaning change. The Badili Zone Organization’s vision and mission is what we call the “Beyond Zero” (It’s beyond zero because zero number of students will not be able to access high-quality education, and we are aiming to eradicate even the idea of being comfortable with not obtaining high-quality education while living in the slum).
Mukuru Kwa Reuben community has more than 18 schools but only two have almost adequately equipped libraries that the rest of the schools do not have access to. That leaves us with the main question, what happens to the rest of the other schools? Where do they access their learning materials? Are they enough? Are they of good quality? This is a big challenge because a lot of students from my community do not have access to adequate learning materials, guidance, and mentorship that will enable them to be educated, goal-driven young leaders.
As Badili Zone, are targeting to provide sustainable solutions that will ensure that students from the slums will have access to adequate learning materials, guidance and mentorship that will enable them to be educated goal-driven young leaders while accessing financial support to further their education. We believe that quality education should not only be a right on governmental books, but also in action and should be easily accessed by everyone regardless.
A community that upholds education, empowers and mentors every student in their academic journey with the aim of nurturing a generation of leaders who are goal driven young individuals.
To provide sustainable solutions that will improve education standards in the slums by providing adequate learning materials, guidance and mentorship to students while working collaboratively with partners.
Our goal is to Build learning centres in the slums.
Mentor and nurture the next generation through coaching them into well-equipped young leaders.
Self-Motivation.
Honesty.
Caring Community.
Commitment.
Togetherness.
Badili Zone Organization has 5 major pillars that all contribute to the achievement of the main goal;
a} Reading Spots
We have a reading spot for a safe, peaceful and comfortable learning environment, where the students will access required learning materials
b) Financial Support
We will be financially supporting needy but bright students throughout their high school life under a unique program that seeks to partner with different stakeholders such as Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (J.K.F).
c) Mentorship
We work closely with volunteers from various Universities who volunteer during mentorship sessions, which we currently do three times a month in different schools.
d) Guiding and Counselling
Some of our beneficiaries have gone through traumatic situations, therefore, we ensure mental health and peace of mind for efficiency in their general performance.
e) Sanitary Towels
Our library spots will be distribution spots for the sanitary towels for the girls from our target area.
The organization is fully run by volunteers. Our main objective is focused in transforming communities in the slums through fostering education. We believe through acquired knowledge individuals can make informed decisions that can ameliorate their lives.
Working with partners and the community of Mukuru we were able to secure a structure, equip it and launch a community library on the 10th August 2019. The library is currently actively being used by the community. Some of our supporters/partners include Reading Spots(our major supporter), Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, Red Cross-University of Nairobi, HOPE Worldwide Kenya, Muungano wa Wanavijiji, Isuzu East Africa, Akili Dada, Ruben FM, General Electric, and the local community members and leaders such as the Education Officer and the Chief to mention but a few.
The idea of having a community library that can be used by every student/teacher is unique because it is not only able to reach a larger population of students, but also ensures that no one is marginalized with basis of their background when it comes to accessibility of high quality education.
We have two major sustainability plans. We buy branded t-shirts with our logos at Ksh 500 (approximately $5) and sell each at Ksh 1000 (approximately $10) and the money goes directly to ensuring that we have been able to incur any costs that comes with the management of the community library. The students who use the library also have a weekly registration fee of Ksh 30 (approximately $0.3) which goes directly to maintaining the library and all that it contains.
On impact measurement, for the library, we have a logbook that contain statistics on the users’ names, contact, age, time spent, school attended, as well as check the performance of our beneficiaries, both students and schools. For the mentorship we look at student social performance through decisions made and their interaction with society. Guidance and counselling and provision of sanitary towels are supplements of maximum participation of students in schools, to be measured by analysing student attendance records kept by schools. In general, we also take note of people’s feedback about what we are doing and do interviews and also share questionnaires to our direct and indirect beneficiaries to understand their views. Through these vigorous methods, we will be able to collect the data and make correctly informed analysis on how much impact we are making in the community.
My email address; oyungaclaris@gmail.com
Badili Zone email address; info@badilizone.org
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How Do Exoskeleton Suits Help People With Paralysis Stand and Walk Again?
While exoskeleton suits have been gaining notoriety in the industrial and manufacturing space to help workers perform repetitive movements without injury, they can also take the form of clinical robotics for rehabilitation. Paraplegics who have been told they will never walk again are staring that diagnosis in the face and resolving to get up out of their wheelchairs with the help of an exoskeleton suit.
Wearable robotic exoskeletons and bionic suits are giving patients with paraplegia, as well as patients who have experienced stroke and brain injury, new hope. Years of research into practical real-world applications are now coming to fruition as these exosuits are being used in more and more rehab facilities.
While some exoskeletons have long been used as an assistive device for those with paralysis, providing 100 percent of the power needed to walk, breakthroughs such as EksoNR by Ekso Bionics is one of the first rehab tools physical therapists can use to challenge their patients to make progress. It requires active participation, which is known to drive brain plasticity. This is the first exoskeleton FDA-cleared for acquired brain injury (ABI).
EksoNR does this by promoting proper posture and a natural gait, so that therapists may focus on treatment. It’s an ideal solution for patients who have experienced ABI and stroke who are just beginning to walk, thanks to its high, rigid back and various progressive modes. It not only improves patient gait speed, it improves functional balance and walking distance outside of the device.
But even more than that, these suits are prolonging life. When patients are up and moving, rather than inactive in a bed or wheelchair, they’re being active, improving their overall health and enhancing their quality of life – not just for themselves but for their kids, spouses, and other family members.
Bionic exoskeleton suits represent another step – quite literally — for robotics and wearable technology that can help paraplegics and other mobility challenged patients now and in the future.
How We’re Making Strides at Ekso Bionics
Ekso Bionics is a leader in the manufacture and application of exoskeleton suits for rehabilitation. In fact, we develop disruptive clinical robotics to address the loss of cognition and mobility, helping thousands of patients take more than 130 million steps thanks to technologies like EksoNR.
EksoNR, designed to assist patients in standing and walking during rehabilitation, aids clinicians in providing the necessary support to a patient’s legs. In turn, this device promotes correct movement patterns through all steps of recovery, challenging patients as they progress towards their goal of standing and walking again. In essence, these suits re-teach the brain and muscles how to properly walk again.
In a similar fashion, EksoUE assists a patient’s affected shoulder and arm throughout clinical rehabilitation. This was engineered for patients who suffer from upper extremity weakness or paralysis so they can recover endurance, strength, and range of motion.
We can only speak for ourselves here at Ekso, but here’s what our EksoNR technology offers:
Data Capture: Session-specific walking times, distances, and symmetry data are saved to a secure, cloud-based dashboard for analytics.
Posture Support: Bearing their own weight with proper postural alignment, patients can maximize treatment time.
Clinician Control: Modify assistance levels and specify training targets in real-time for each leg based on patient goals and feedback.
SmartAssist Software: Customized motor support for varying impairment levels in both swing and stance walking phases, from patient-initiated movement to full assistance.
Adaptive Gait Training: Sensors and software monitor and regulate leg movement to reduce compensatory gait patterns.
Pre-Ambulatory Tools: PreGait is a suite of programs to help patients weight shift, balance, squat, and step in place prior to walking.
Contact Ekso Bionics
Ekso is the most widely-studied exoskeleton for rehabilitation, with more than 1,800 patients participating in more than 100 investigator-led clinical studies. Learn how Ekso Bionics enhances patient experiences and functional outcomes across all levels of care. Contact us at 510-984-1761.
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Elmord looks at licenses: MPL 2.0
2019-04-30 15:30 -0300. Tags: comp, copyright, hel, fenius, in-english
In the previous post, I analyzed the LGPLv3 in the context of looking for a license for the Hel standard libraries. In this post, I'm going to analyze the Mozilla Public License 2.0, or MPL for short. The MPL is not as well known as other free software licenses, but it's an interesting license, so it's worth taking a look at it.
Wikipedia actually has a pretty good summary of the license, and Mozilla has an FAQ about it, but here we go.
[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.]
File-level copyleft
The most interesting aspect of the MPL is that it applies copyleft at the file level. Section 1 defines "Covered Software" as:
[…] Source Code Form to which the initial Contributor has attached the notice in Exhibit A, the Executable Form of such Source Code Form, and Modifications of such Source Code Form, in each case including portions thereof.
and "Larger Work" as:
[…] a work that combines Covered Software with other material, in a separate file or files, that is not Covered Software.
Section 3.3 allows distributing a Larger Work under terms of your choice, provided that the distribution of the Covered Software follow the requirements of the license.
In other words, the boundary between software covered by the MPL and other software is defined at the file level, and the license allows distributing a combination of MPL and non-MPL code under another license, provided that the MPL parts still remain under the MPL. Modified versions of the MPL-covered parts, if distributed, must be available in source-code form, but this requirement does not apply to files that were not originally part of the MPL-covered software.
One consequence of this is that one might take a library under the MPL, put all substantial changes in separate files, and release the resulting code in object form, but not the source code for the new files. Contrast this with the LGPL, which has terms specifically to prevent additions to the library from being 'isolated' from the LGPL by distributing them as part of the application rather than the library: as we have seen in the previous post, Section 2 of the LGPL requires that the library does not depend on functions and data provided by the application, unless you switch to the GPL (thus requiring the application to be GPL-compatible too).
Executables need not be under the MPL
Section 3.2(a) allows distributing the code in executable form, provided that the source code for the Covered Software is available, and recipients of the executable are informed how they can obtain it "by reasonable means in a timely manner, at a charge no more than the cost of distribution to the recipient".
Section 3.2(b) states that the executable may be distributed under the MPL or under different terms, provided that the new terms do not limit the access to the source code form of the Covered Software (i.e., the files originally under the MPL).
This means the MPL imposes no restrictions on static linking, other than that the MPL-covered source code remains available, and you tell users how to get it.
(L)GPL compatibility
Section 1 defines "Secondary License" as one of the GPLv2, the LGPLv2.1, the AGPLv3, or any later versions of those licenses.
Section 3.3 provides that if the software is distributed as part of a Larger Work which combines MPL-covered software and software under any of the Secondary Licenses, the MPL allows the MPL-covered software to be additionally distributed under the terms of that Secondary License.
An important point here is the "additionally" part: the Covered Software is to be distributed under the *GPL license in addition to the MPL, i.e., the resulting code is effectively dual-licensed. Recipients of the larger work may, at their option, choose to redistribute the originally MPL-covered part of the work under either the MPL or the Secondary License(s).
This provision makes the MPL GPL-compatible: you can incorporate MPL-covered code in GPL projects.
The author of an MPL-covered work can opt out of GPL compatibility by adding a specific note saying the code is "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" (Exhibit B).
Section 2.1(b) ensures that all contributors automatically grant a license for any patents they may hold to use, modify, distribute, etc., the covered software. Section 11 of GPLv3 has similar terms.
Section 2.3 is very careful to state that each constributor grants all and only those patents necessary for use, distribution, etc., of the their contributor version. It does not cover, for example, licenses for code a contributor has removed from their contributor version; or for infringements caused by further modification of the software by third parties (GPLv3 also has similar wording).
Section 2.3 also explicitly states that the license does not grant rights in trademarks or logos. This makes sense in light of Mozilla's fierce hold onto its trademarks and logos, which in the past led to the rebranding of Firefox as Iceweasel in Debian until an agreement was reached between Debian and Mozilla.
Like the Apache License, The MPL has a patent retaliation clause (Section 5.2): it states that if a patent holder sues someone alleging that the Covered Software infringes a patent of theirs, they lose the rights granted by the license to use the Covered Software. This is meant to discourage recepients of the software from suing the authors for patent infringement.
MPL is a weak copyleft license, providing a middle ground between the liberal MIT/BSD/Apache licenses and the *GPL licenses. It makes it really easy to incorporate the code into larger works, regardless of whether this is done via static or dynamic linking. On the other hand, the fact that it does not automatically extend to other files within the same project makes it easy to extend a library without releasing the relevant additions as free software.
I might use the MPL in the future for libraries in situations where the most convienient way to use the library is to just copy the damn files into your codebase (e.g., portable Scheme code). For larger libraries and projects where I want to ensure contributions remain free, I'm not so sure.
I would like a license that's midway between the MPL and the LGPL, allowing generation of statically-linked executables distributable under different licenses like the MPL, but with the boundary between the copylefted and non-copylefted parts defined more like the LGPL (though I'm sure the devil is in the details when crafting a license like this). If you know some license with terms closer to this, please mention it in the comments.
So far the interwebs have pointed me to:
The 0mq license, which is the LGPLv3 with an exception allowing the distribution of executables under any terms. However, the exception "relieves you of any obligations under sections 4 and 5 of this license, and section 6 of the GNU General Public License", which seems to imply you don't have to distribute the source code for modifications at all if you use a modified version of the library in your executable. That's even weaker than the MPL.
(As a side note, it also states that "[i]f you modify this library, you must extend this exception to your version of the library", which I would interpret as a "further restriction" under Section 7 of GPLv3, which therefore can be removed. The 0mq project itself is moving to the MPL, according to their website.)
The wxWindows license, which seems to effect a similar weakening of the LGPL copyleft (see above).
Addendum [2]
The MPL states:
1.10. “Modifications”
means any of the following:
any file in Source Code Form that results from an addition to, deletion from, or modification of the contents of Covered Software; or
any new file in Source Code Form that contains any Covered Software.
A possible solution would be to use a license exactly like the MPL, except with an extra item like:
any new file in Source Code Form that other Modifications in senses (a) or (b) depend on.
The exact wording (to pin down the meaning of "depend on") would have to be figured out.
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proaxis, 2020-09-17 22:49:25 +0200 #
I also think a viral library version of MPL would be the perfect copyleft compromise. In your Addendum [2] instead of "depend on", I think "explicitly access" would be better. That way the Covered Software needs to explicitly access the new file in order for it to be considered a Modification. I'm pretty sure this would cover the case where functions in the Covered Software get passed data or functions from other files. Those functions or data would not be considered Modifications because they are not explicitly accessed, they are accessed through a function parameter which could be anything.
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Program Title Xploration Outer Space (24.1)
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xploration Outer Space will take viewers on incredible journeys through space that will both entertain and educate. Ever wonder what it would be like to live in space or on a different planet? Watch our Host Emily Calandrelli will perform every day responsibilities while floating in zero gravity. Explore the challenges that come along with living on a different planet as our she lives like an astronaut in a Mars-like habitat. We will have episodes on space robotics, commercial space tourism, asteroids, and our search for life, among many others. When appropriate, the host will highlight NASA related programs and internships for young students that are relevant to the content we have shown. This series objective is to increase and expand the interest of children in the field of STEM education.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xploration Awesome Planet will inspire and educate anyone interested in earth sciences. Our host, Philippe Cousteau, the grandson of legendary Jacques Cousteau, brings boundless energy to every location we visit. From magnificent mountains to violent volcanoes, this program takes an in-depth look at the unique and distinct features on planet Earth. We not only visit gigantic glaciers and behold their beauty but also discover why they formed, and how they shaped our landscape. Geological experts share their wisdom with Philippe, as we strive to understand places on the earth, inside the earth, and above the earth. This series objective is to increase and expand the interest of children in the field of STEM education.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. The Outdoorsman Adventure is an adventure series whose goal it is to inform, educate and entertain the public by showcasing the OUTDOOR LIFESTYLE educating them regarding important industry and political issues, and helping to preserve our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xploration DIY Sci will inspire and educate audiences of all ages. Host, science educator, and leader in the field of professional educational training, Steve Spangler, encourages the discovery of scientific concepts through experiments viewers can do at home. With a fun, relaxed attitude, Steve will take viewers through step-by-step demonstrations of do-it-yourself experiments that amaze, but which also relate back to solid principles of science. This series objective is to increase and expand the interest of children in the field of STEM education.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Aqua Kids is designed for children ages 8-12, and educates young people about the diversity of marine animals around the world, emphasizing the importance of preserving their habitats.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xploration Earth 2050 is a series produced with the intention of increasing and expanding the interest of children in the field of STEM education. What will the world look like in 2050? Where will advancements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics lead us? Xploration Earth 2050 strives to answer these questions and more with scientists, inventors, doctors, science fiction writers, and creative thinkers. Viewers will be taken on an educational adventure as the show tackles future challenges in everything from transportation to health care to the environment.
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. "Reino Animal" [Animal Atlas] is an educational program that travels the globe to meet every kind of animal imaginable, from the familiar to the astounding. Each episode takes young viewers on a journey through the animal kingdom to learn about the lives, histories, and varying adaptations that allow animals to survive and thrive in the wild. The series strives to present a wide variety of information in a number of interactive and poignant sequences to make knowledge of the animal kingdom both simpler and easier to remember. It's through this engaging information and rich visual content that allows viewers to better understand and appreciate the animal world around them.
Program Title Xploration Weird But True (24.1)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xporation Weird But True will inspire and educate audiences of all ages. This series, produced in partnership with National Geographic Kids, is hosted by the brother-sister team of Charlie and Kirby Engleman. Charlie is an Ecologist and Kirby is an Artist, and they are both National Geographic Junior Explorers. They share a common curiosity to explore and understand the science behind the world and its wildlife. Charlie and Kirby inspire teens to question the HOW and WHY behind the way our world works, and encourage them to discover answers to their most curious questions. This series objective is to increase and expand the interest of children in the field of STEM education.
Program Title Xploration Nature Knows Best (24.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Thursday 8:00am
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Xploration Nature Knows Best will inspire and educate audiences of all ages. Host and marine biologist, Danni Washington, exudes energy as she relates how technology all around us was inspired by nature and how modern innovations are continuing with this practice. This series will introduce biologists, who are studying the behavior patterns of ants; architects, who design "living buildings"; and roboticists, who are making their designs bigger, stronger, and faster based on animals. This series will help kids to understand and how getting outside and taking a look around can help them make the next great discovery! This program objective is to increase and expand the interest of children in the field of STEM education.
Name of children's programming liaison Dave German
Address 1550 W. Interstate 20
State TX
Email Address dgerman@kpejtv.com
Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3. After due review of internal station records and documentation provided to us by program suppliers, the licensee hereby certifies that the station fully complied with the FCC's commercial limits in children's programs, as specified at 47 C.F.R. Section 73.670, with respect to all programs specifically designed for children ages twelve (12) and under. In addition to the educational or informational programs listed in this report, the station broadcast the following programs specifically designed for children ages twelve (12) and under that were not "educational or informational": none.
Program Title Xploration Earth 2050 (24.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Monday-Saturday 7:00am
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At the PIT: New (Very Funny) Plays Shakespeare Should Have Written
Don’t miss the “As You Will” troupe at the People’s Improv Theatre. It starts with a suggestion from the audience: A title of a play Shakespeare didn’t write. Then the roller coaster starts, and you’re on a 45-minute impromptu dialog, much of it in iambic pentameter, that miraculously becomes a complete play. As the actors point out, their play, completely improvised, “Is being performed for the first and very last time anywhere.”
The three improv artists, David Brummer, Gerorge Hider, and Conor D. Mullen are experienced actors, who met while students at Skidmore. They energetically bring new Shakespeare works to life with bawdy humor and gymnastic wordplay, injecting the performance with hysterical “Historical Footnotes” that savage academics, Shakespeare, and themselves, equally. This is not Brit Lit 101. As the troupe’s website proclaims, “The players of As You Will invite you to a show where we will bring to life all the plays and poetry the immortal bard would have written if he hadn’t gone and died.”
We caught up with the show this past Sunday, when the group played A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nightmare to a full house howling with laughter and cheering the actors on. Don’t miss the troupe when it returns in its new regular spot at 7PM on the first Sunday of each month.
Whether you are an Improv fan, a fan of Shakespeare (you don’t have to be), or just love a great laugh and a terrific way to spend Sunday evening with a date or friends, this is a sure-fire bet. Check out the other PITS offerings too. The crowd gathered in the bar Sunday night waiting for a range of shows was huge and fun.
AS YOU WILL
At 7PM the First Sunday of Each Month
The People’s Improv Theatre (The PIT)
123 East 24th Street (between Park Ave South and Lexington Avenue)
www.thepit-nyc.com
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The Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park was established in April 2001 as part of a larger tree-planting effort that supported projects across the Baltimore region. Designer Renee van der Stelt, project coordinator for UMBC’s Fine Arts Gallery, now the…
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Military Communications Market projected to reach $40.6 billion by 2025, with a remarkable CAGR of 4.0%
iCrowdNewswire Jan 14, 2021 3:00 AM ET
According to a new market research report “Military Communications Market by Communication Type (Airborne, Air-Ground, Underwater, Ground-Based), Component (Military Satcom Systems, Military Radio Systems, Military Security Systems), Application, End-User, and Region – Global Forecast to 2025″, published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Military Communications market size to grow from USD 33.4 billion in 2020 to USD 40.6 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.0% during the forecast period. The key factors driving the growth of the military communications market include the rising security concerns and the procurement of military communication solutions due to an increase in disputes among different countries across the world.
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The world has witnessed several pandemics, yet nothing has come close to the current global pandemic. The COVID-19 began as a regional virus but quickly spread all over the world. The United Kingdom, France, and Germany account for up to 50% of overall European spending on defense. Due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis on overall budgets, these countries are likely to implement cuts to their military expenditure in the near term, bringing down the overall European average. The effect will be relatively long-lasting, and their combined defense spend in 2031 will be around USD 25 billion, less than initially expected. Several countries and their armies are making sure that soldiers supporting local and state governments fight against COVID-19 are equipped with the latest situational awareness and communication systems.
The airborne communication segment to hold a larger market size during the forecast period
The communication type segment comprises airborne, air-ground, underwater, ground-based, and shipborne communications. The airborne communication segment is expected to hold a larger market share during the forecast period. The key trend contributing to this market growth is the increased focus and investment to enhance the capabilities of air forces. Several countries, such as the US, the UK, Russia, Israel, India, Japan, Singapore, and China, have increased their spending to strengthen their air forces, which is expected to enhance the expenditure on airborne communications. The underwater communications segment is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
The military SATCOM systems segment to hold the largest market size during the forecast period
The military communications market by component has been segmented into military SATCOM systems, military radio system, military security system, and communication management system. Among components, the military SATCOM systems segment is expected to hold the largest share of the military communications market. Most of the technologically advanced countries rely on SATCOM communications due to broader coverage, easy installation, security, and location independence. With the advent of SDR, the military radio systems segment is projected to grow at a decent pace. Security concerns are expected to boost the adoption of military security systems, thus driving the growth of the military security systems segment.
The command and control segment to hold the largest market size during the forecast period
The military communications market by applications has been segmented into command and control, routine operations, situational awareness, and others. The command and control segment is estimated to account for the largest share of the military communications market due to the need for integrated and interoperable capabilities to establish proper control over military operations.
The air forces segment to hold the largest market size during the forecast period
The military communications market by end users has been segmented into land forces, naval forces, and air forces. Among end users, the air forces segment is projected to grow at the fastest rate, whereas the land forces segment is expected to be the major contributor to the market.
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North America to hold the largest market size during the forecast period
The military communications market has been segmented into five regions: North America, Europe, APAC, MEA, and Latin America. North America is projected to hold the largest market size during the forecast period due to the increasing technological advancements in the region. APAC is expected to witness the highest growth rate during the forecast period. It is also expected to be the fastest-growing region in the military communications market.
Major vendors in the global military communications market include ASELSAN (Turkey), BAE Systems (UK), Lockheed Martin (US), Northrop Grumman (US), Raytheon (US), Cobham (UK), Elbit Systems (Israel), General Dynamics (US), Harris Corporation (US), Thales (France), Viasat (US), Inmarsat (UK), Iridium (US), Systematic (Denmark), Leonardo (Italy), Israel Aerospace Industries (Israel), Rheinmetall (Germany), Rolta (India), Rufus Lab (US), Vantage Robotics (US), CRON Systems (UK), Fortem Technologies (US), Airspace Systems (US), Citadel Defense (US).
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Category: interactive romance
Black Closet (Hanako Games)
Black Closet is a dating sim/resource-juggling sim from Hanako Games (Long Live the Queen, Date/Warp, and numerous others). In it, you are Elsa Jackson, the student council president at St. Claudine’s, an all-female Catholic boarding school. (I hadn’t heard of St. Claudine before this game, but it was satisfying to look her up and discover that the authors seem to have picked her with some intention. Claudine Thevenet was interested in schooling for girls and also founded an institution to support female authors. It seems she was also, less happily, a sufferer of lifelong PTSD after seeing her two brothers executed in front of her.)
Catholic or not, the school still features quite a bit of romance between its students. Your task is to get through the year and graduate – which will require you to investigate and resolve assorted conspiracies, crises, and personal misunderstandings in the student body.
The other members of the student council are therefore both your dating pool (if you choose to date, which is not mandatory) and your tool for solving problems, as you’re assigning girls to intervene where their skills make them most suitable.
This by itself gives the game quite a different flavor from the lonely and ridiculously hard Long Live the Queen. This time, you are not alone. You don’t have to make yourself into a singular repository of all virtues. Not everything falls to you to deal with. Conversely, there are some paths of action that will alienate one or more of your team members so that they are less available (or, worse, leave entirely).
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Author Emily ShortPosted on January 4, 2016 January 4, 2016 Categories interactive fiction, interactive romance, Reviews, visual novelsTags black closet, hanako games14 Comments on Black Closet (Hanako Games)
Regency Games: Regency Love, Marrying Mr Darcy, Regency Solitaire, Fitzwilliam Darcy’s Dance Challenge
Regency Love is an iOS game set in a pseudo-Austen town; it is in the same general territory as a dating sim or visual novel, but with a structure that also owes something to roleplaying games.
The core interaction loop is that the player can select a place from the map of Darlington, their town; the place may yield one or more possible activities. The activities can either be quizzes about Regency life (how long should you properly mourn a sister? how much did muslin cost?) or social interaction scenes that are primarily dialogue-driven. From time to time, there’s an opportunity to do another quiz-like activity, a game of hangman in which you’re trying to fill in a missing word from a famous quotation, mostly from Austen. Doing quizzes and hangman gains you motivation points which you can spend to raise your skill in one of six “accomplishments” — drawing, needlework, reading, dancing, riding, music (harp and pianoforte and singing are not distinguished). Some of the social activities depend on you having a certain accomplishment level in a certain area before they will unlock. Other social events depend on what has already happened.
Using a map to pick the next little story you want to participate in also reminded me a bit of StoryNexus, though whether the underlying engine relies on anything like quality-based narrative, I have no idea.
Before the game began I evidently paid NO attention to my governess.
I was never a great enthusiast for the quizzes and stats part of this game. The questions refer to information from Austen that is not provided internally, so you either already know the answers or you have to guess. There aren’t enough hangman sentences and quizzes to last the whole game, either, so you’ll see the same things repeat over and over again before you’re done. Meanwhile, your accomplishments are necessary enough that you can’t ignore this part of the system, but there’s not enough variety to what the stats do to make it an interesting choice which one you raise next. Somewhere between halfway and three quarters of the way through play I had maxed out all my accomplishments and could now afford to ignore the whole quiz-and-hangman ecosystem, which was a relief.
Based on your behavior, the game also tracks character traits, reflecting whether you’re witty, dutiful, etc. It displays what your traits are, but I never worked out exactly what was moving the dials. What I said in conversation must come into it, but I didn’t know which dialogue did what. Nor did I ever figure out how it mattered. Some events were plainly closed to people with less than 12 Needleworking, but I never saw an explicit flag that excluded people who weren’t witty. So the character trait system may have been doing important things, but it was opaque enough that eventually I started to ignore it.
What does that leave? Talking. Lots and lots of talking. I like talking games! This one made some slightly peculiar choices, though.
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Author Emily ShortPosted on September 23, 2015 September 23, 2015 Categories board games, commercial IF, Conversation modeling, interactive fiction, interactive romance, mobile platforms, quality-based narrative, Reviews, tabletop gamesTags card games, erika svanoe, fitzwilliam darcy's dance challenge, grey alien, marrying mr darcy, regency love, regency solitaire, squinky, tea for three12 Comments on Regency Games: Regency Love, Marrying Mr Darcy, Regency Solitaire, Fitzwilliam Darcy’s Dance Challenge
Games about Community: Ohmygod Are You Alright? (Anna Anthropy), Hana Feels (Gavin Inglis), Tusks (Mitch Alexander)
Ohmygod Are You Alright? is a flash-augmented Twine piece by Anna Anthropy about the experience of being hit by a car and the recovery process afterward. The details of physical pain and the dehumanization of the hospital are unpleasant enough, though I suppose they could have been even worse.
But the game’s most lasting and unresolved pain pertains to how Anna feels about her community: lonely, cut off from support, no longer enjoying the energy and communal celebration of her earlier time with Twine. She touches on this in the ruleset for A Wish for Something Better, but Ohmygod goes into it more deeply. She mentions feeling surprised by the forlorn hope that being hit by a car will make people pay attention again. There’s wistfulness, too, about having been at the forefront of a movement that now contains a lot of other practitioners.
If games are not great at NPCs and individual relationships, they’re often downright terrible on communal responsibility and community formation, but Ohmygod made me think about two other games I’ve played recently that touch on the function of community in our lives.
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Author Emily ShortPosted on September 16, 2015 September 22, 2015 Categories game lists, interactive fiction, interactive romance, Reviews, visual novel15 Comments on Games about Community: Ohmygod Are You Alright? (Anna Anthropy), Hana Feels (Gavin Inglis), Tusks (Mitch Alexander)
Long Live the Queen (Hanako Games)
I’m not exactly getting to this one in a timely fashion. Long Live the Queen is a visual novel/sim that has been out for a couple of years now, and people have been telling me to play it, and I’ve just been somewhat overwhelmed by how hard it is to get through. But now I have managed to win (once) and die (a lot of times), which is supposedly the correct proportion for this game.
The premise is that you are 14-year-old Elodie, the princess of a kingdom faced with internal and external strife, and you have to live through the 40 weeks until you turn 15 and are crowned. Every week you choose two subjects to study from a bewildering array (everything from Accounting to Divination, Elegance to Archery). Every weekend, you pick a weekend activity that affects your mood, which in turn affects your aptitude for different subjects. And each weekend you also face certain specialized story choices, which follow a consistent schedule. Winning is largely about learning which challenges are going to come up when and which skills you’ll need to have in order to overcome them, and training accordingly.
Quite a bit has already been written about LLtQ: about how hard it is, about how it compares with Princess Maker and Varicella. I want to talk about the cruelty stat.
This sounds like it’s going to be spoilery, but it’s really only mildly so: there are so many moving parts in this game that even a detailed analysis can leave a lot still to be uncovered.
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Author Emily ShortPosted on July 21, 2015 July 21, 2015 Categories interactive romance, Reviews, visual novelTags morality6 Comments on Long Live the Queen (Hanako Games)
The Secret Language of Desire (Megan Heyward)
The Secret Language of Desire is an iPad app, enhanced with images and music and sound effects, which tells the story of a woman’s erotic awakening through a series of 27 short vignettes. It is available via iTunes, and will also be shown at the upcoming ELO conference in Bergen.
It’s fully linear: there are no branches in the story, no hypertext links to dig into. Unlike in PRY, there’s very little hidden information to tease out of the interactions, either. In one case, there’s something to uncover that explains the meaning of an intentionally vague and referential bit of text, though I was pretty sure what I was going to find there. This is the exception rather than the rule.
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Author Emily ShortPosted on July 19, 2015 August 16, 2015 Categories interactive erotica, interactive fiction, interactive romance, mobile platforms, narrative of objectsTags haptics, interactive erotica2 Comments on The Secret Language of Desire (Megan Heyward)
Hollywood Visionary (Aaron Reed, Choice of Games)
Hollywood Visionary is a game by Aaron Reed, published by Choice of Games. And before I say a lot more about it, I need to put up a big disclaimer, because a) I beta-tested the game; b) I am currently under contract to Choice of Games for a project of my own. For those reasons, I hadn’t been planning to write up the game at all. However, since its release I’ve found myself thinking a lot about a couple of things that it does. I’d like to write about those, just so long as you know how I relate to the project and that this doesn’t qualify as a disinterested review.
So. Hollywood Visionary is a game about artistic vision and realization in the context of both complicated personal loyalties and a tough political climate. It’s the 1950s, McCarthyism is in full swing, and you’re trying to find enough money and enough talent to put together the project of your dreams while at the same time avoiding any unfavorable attention.
To make the artistic aspect interesting, Visionary allows for a degree of combinatorial invention that most Choice of Games pieces don’t really attempt: you can combine genres, figure out how many leads you’re going to have and of what genders, give your movie its own title. You can also hire unknown or celebrity historical figures to direct and star in it — bring on Alfred Hitchcock, if you can afford him. The result captures some of the generative humor of Game Dev Story, but within a much more narrative setting.
At one point I set up to make a black & white racy religious fantasy set in a convent, featuring a nun at odds with forces beyond her control. I was picturing this as a Joan of Arc story that sexualized her religious passion. I didn’t really have a way to express the Joan of Arc concept within the game, but I had been allowed to pick enough details that they shaped how I imagined all the filming and decisions afterward.
Aaron’s mentioned that he’s gotten a lot of messages from people telling him about the different movies they created within Hollywood Visionary — a clear sign, I think, that there’s enough freedom in these choices to let people feel some creative ownership over their movie concepts. Which is a pretty cool thing for a game like this to achieve.
Now the more spoilery bit.
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Author Emily ShortPosted on July 2, 2015 July 2, 2015 Categories CYOA, interactive romance, non-review3 Comments on Hollywood Visionary (Aaron Reed, Choice of Games)
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Superfinals of the Russian Championship begin
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8/23/2018 – On August 24th the Superfinals of the Russian Championship will begin in Satka. The Superfinals feature an open tournament and a tournament for women. Both are 12-player round-robin tournaments and both have a strong line-up. In the open tournament Ian Nepomniachtchi is the number one seed, and in the women's tournament it's Alexandra Kosteniuk. | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili
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Russian Championship Superfinals to start in Satka on August 24th
The Superfinals of 71st Russian men's championship and 68th Russian women's championship will take place from 24th August till 6th September 2018 in Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast. The venue is Magnezit Palace of Culture.
The organizers are the Russian Chess Federation, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, Government of Chelyabinsk Oblast, and Magnezit Group. The competition is also supported by Renault Russia Company, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), and PhosAgro. Logistics partner of the Russian Chess Federation is Russian Post.
The tournament is a part of the Chess in Museums program, carried out by the RCF together with Timchenko Foundation since 2012.
Line-up (Men)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2768)
Dmitry Jakovenko (2748)
Nikita Vitiugov (2730)
Dmitry Andreikin (2710)
Vladimir Fedoseev (2707)
Evgeny Tomashevsky (2702)
Daniil Dubov (2691)
Ernesto Inarkiev (2690)
Denis Khismatullin (2634)
Mikhail Kobalia (2619)
Alexey Sarana (2613)
Grigoriy Oparin (2609)
Line-up (Women)
Alexandra Kosteniuk (2559)
Aleksandra Goryachkina (2535)
Valentina Gunina (2528)
Natalija Pogonina (2469)
Olga Girya (2462)
Anastasia Bodnaruk (2449)
Alina Kashlinskaya (2440)
Alisa Galliamova (2424)
Polina Shuvalova (2413)
Oksana Gritsayeva (2391)
Anastasiya Protopopova (2332)
Elena Tomilova (2332)
The total prize fund is 9,000,000 roubles (about 117,000 Euros). Besides, the winners of both men's and women's tournaments will also receive a special prize – bright and stylish city crossover Renault Kaptur.
The tournaments are round-robin events with 11 rounds. The match days: August 25-30 and September 1-5. Free day - August 31. The rounds start at 1 p.m. (Moscow time), the final 11th round begins at 11 a.m. (Moscow time).
During the Superfinals, the exhibition of the Soviet and Russian painter, a representative of the “Severe Style” Geliy Korzhev (1925-2012) will be opened in Magnezit Palace of Culture. The exposition called Painting’s Way. Geliy Korzhev will include sketches and graphics from the archive of the artist's family. The sketches and graphics were made by Korzhev during the work on his key paintings on historical, biblical and other series from 1953 till 2012.
On August 31st, grandmasters will give simuls to young chess players. All chess events running under Chess in Museums project feature a special social program for a rest day, which primarily aims at children. Master-classes and simultaneous exhibitions give chess fans a chance to meet their heroes in person, test their own chess ability, and sometimes even defeat a renowned grandmaster.
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Policies needed to boost agricultural land market
A failure to improve the agricultural land market has discouraged the private sector to invest in the sector, experts have said.
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Hanoi (VNA) - A failure to improve the agricultural land market has discouraged the private sector to invest in the sector, experts have said.
Vice Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy of Agricultural and Rural Development (IPSARD) Hoang Vu Quang said the prevailing problem with the country’s agriculture sector was that farmers often owned small land lots instead of large-scale fields.
Speaking at a workshop on measures to develop the agricultural land market last week in Hanoi, Quang said 26 percent of Vietnamese farmers had less than 2ha of arable land, of which 63 percent owned less than 0.5ha.
The Government had recently attempted to adjust its land policy towards allowing large-scale land accumulation to help create concentrated production areas and attract the private sector to invest in agriculture, he said, but things “did not work out as expected”.
“We can only increase our competitiveness once we address the land accumulation puzzle,” Quang said.
But according to Nguyen Van Ton from the Department of Agriculture – Rural Affairs under the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, Vietnam’s farmland market was still young and lacked much-needed transparency to attract investors.
“Some administrative regulations are not in favour of promoting the agricultural land market,” he said.
Dau An Tuan, Director of the Department of Legal Affairs under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), told the workshop that up to 31 percent of agricultural businesses in a survey said that paperwork was the biggest challenge for them.
Nguyen Trung Kien from IPSARD said that the Government could consider learning lessons from Japan and China to develop the farmland market.
Japan, for example, set up the Farmland Intermediary Administration Organisation (FIAO) in 2014. It mainly acts as a middle-man, renting land from farmers and redistricting small farms to form larger plots and lend to the large-scale farms and enterprises.
“The Government’s role in that organisation is crucial. The Japanese government supports the FIAO by a range of policies like levying a high tax on abandoned land, revoking unclaimed lots and offering financial aid for commercial farms and firms to rent the land,” he said.
China, meanwhile, established the first Land Transfer Service Centre (LTSC) in 2010 to acquire land and provide information on the demand and supply of the rental land market, Kien said. The Chinese government guarantees preferential loans for big farms and businesses to rent land or to build irrigation infrastructure and other facilities.
Meanwhile, Quang from IPSARD suggested the government should create a smooth legal corridor for the agricultural land market and have support policies in terms of credit or labour. It should build an effective and transparent land management system, he added./.
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Officially launched at an 'Exhibition on Emblematic Species' in Beijing organized by the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco and the Monaco Embassy to China, the campaign will use social and traditional media to dissuade people from buying any more ivory and to raise awareness about the plight of Africa's elephants and international efforts to protect them.
The campaign will also build public support for the government's decision to phase out the domestic ivory trade, which was confirmed by President Xi Jinping in September 2015 during his visit to Washington. The US has already imposed an almost total ban on its domestic ivory market after new regulations came into force on July 6th.
"China and the US have demonstrated remarkable leadership by deciding to close their domestic ivory markets, a critical factor for the future of elephants,” said Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International. “WWF and TRAFFIC's campaign comes at a key moment to build support for the swift implementation of the ban in China as time is a critical to saving Africa's elephants.”
The campaign will call on people to make a public commitment to stop buying ivory and encourage them to spread the word so that millions of people pledge never to buy ivory again. In particular, people will be urged to link their index fingers to show their commitment to protecting elephants and passing the message on, as Vice President of the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco and representatives of Embassy of Monaco to China, WWF and TRAFFIC did at the official launch.
"This campaign will build on the innovative work that TRAFFIC and WWF have already been doing in China to change consumer behaviour and reduce demand for ivory,” said Dr Lin Li, WWF-China, Executive Director of Programmes. “The Tibetan antelope was saved from a similar poaching crisis with support from local government, the public and the international community. We are expecting the same joint effort will contribute to saving the elephant. WWF and Traffic are expecting and calling for ban on commercial trade on ivory to be issued and implemented within two years.”
“TRAFFIC has partnered with the government and private sector, including Alibaba, Tencent, the courier and tourism companies to tackle the illegal ivory trade, as well as worked to promote sustainable alternatives to ivory,” said Zhou Fei, Head of TRAFFIC China Programme. “Now it’s time to build mass public support to say no to ivory trade.”
The campaign comes less than three months before the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) CoP17 in Johannesburg when Parties, including China, will discuss a range of issues relating to elephants. The Chinese government is expected to publish its timetable before the end of this year to close its domestic ivory trade.
Campaign website in Chinese: http://www.wwfchina.org/ivory
Sun He, WWF China, Communications Manager, Tel: 86 10 68093331, Email: hsun@wwfchina.org
Sammi Li, TRAFFIC China, Communications Officer, Sammi Li, Tel: 86 10 68093732, Email: xiaojia.li@traffic.org
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HNP - The Hanoi People’s Committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the World Bank in Vietnam held the Vietnam Logistics Forum (VLF) 2020 on November 26 in Hanoi.
Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the forum.
The event saw the attendance of Politburo member, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee and Head of the city delegation of National Assembly deputies Vuong Dinh Hue; member of the Party Central Committee (PCC), Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung; PCC member, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh; Acting Country Director for the World Bank in Vietnam Stefanie Stallmeister, leaders of Hanoi authorities, and more than 400 transport and logistics businesses.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh highlighted the important role of the Vietnam Logistics Forum 2020 as the global supply chains have been disrupted under the COVID-19 pandemic impacts.
He stated that in the first ten months of the year, Vietnam's import-export turnover hit US$439 billion, a year on year increase of 2.62%. Of the figure, export turnover reached US$229.7 billion, up 4.7%.
The results proved Vietnam's economic vitality, he stressed.
The implementation of free trade agreements in the coming time would also increase pressure on domestic manufacturing and service industries, including logistics, Mr. Anh noted, asking for stronger measures to improve competitiveness and meet integration requirements.
The forums is expected to offer the opportunity for logistics businesses, associations and experts to discuss with Vietnamese ministries and agencies on ideas and measures to reduce logistics costs and improve competitiveness in the context of international economic integration.
Addressing the event, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue said that the forum is under a cooperation program between Hanoi authorities and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
According to him, in 2020, Hanoi's industrial production index is estimated to increases by 4.7%; total goods retail sales is estimated to surge over 10%; GRDP is estimated to attain a growth rate of over 4%; and tax collection for State budget is expected to reach more than VND280 trillion.
The Hanoi Party chief said that the over the past eight years, the forum has become a prestigious event gathering logistics firms, experts and associations.
Entitled “Reduce logistics cost, strengthen competitiveness in the context of international economic integration”, this year’s holding is consistent with the development orientation of the logistics service industry of Vietnam and Hanoi, said Hue.
Hanoi targets to become a major trade hub of the country and Southeast Asia by 2025, the Party official stated, adding the municipal authorities has taken various measures to attract investment in developing commercial and service facilities, including logistic infrastructure.
In a bid to fulfill the goals, Secretary Vuong Dinh Hue pointed out seven proposals in the forum, including enhancing regulatory work of public administration agencies, simplifying administrative procedures, building modern facilities, promoting start-up activities, encouraging firms to strengthen technology application in logistics, and others.
He also requested the Government to authorize the business of customs agents so as to professionalize customs clearance services, save costs for firms, affirming that Hanoi is ready to coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to test this model in the city.
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Mobile network experts get connected through FibreSpeed
A mobile phone network specialist that had struggled with poor internet service has been handed a wireless solution by a FIBRESPEED service partner.
Mobile systems experts Comvergent had suffered poor web speeds due to its semi-rural location in the village of Bretton, near Chester.
But a 10 Mbit/s wireless connection set up by FIBRESPEED service partner Carrier Wales has got the Comvergent team talking, helping them continue their work in rolling out the new 4G mobile phone network across the UK.
Comvergent’s Chief Operating Officer Paul Garston said the wireless connection to the FIBRESPEED network provides a service “crucial to our business”.
Paul said: “Our office is located in a converted barn in a semi-rural location, and the distance to the nearest phone exchange meant that our internet connection was inadequate for the needs of our business.
“The connection provided by Carrier Wales has really helped us. We were struggling to get 2 Mbit/s before, but it’s significantly faster now.
“In what we do, we have a lot of staff who work on-site across the country, and so providing them with the data packages they need is really crucial to our business, and something we need a quality internet connection for.”
Comvergent is one of more than 185 businesses in North Wales to benefit from FIBRESPEED. Four months on from its installation, the wireless link has solved Comvergent’s internet connection problems, and Paul said that the cost-effective service would also help the company get conversation flowing through Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, allowing business calls to be made over the internet.
“We had a look at what services were available, but installing a fibre straight to our office was cost prohibitive,” Paul said.
“FIBRESPEED offered a cost-effective solution to our problems.
“We were also looking at upgrading our existing in-house phones to an IP system, which means we could start using VoIP services. It’s a service Carrier Wales has helped us to install, and is a tool that’s becoming really important to businesses.”
Carrier Wales’ Senior Account Manager Nikki Owen said the service partner was proud to help Comvergent develop its business tools.
“It has been a pleasure working with Comvergent to enable them to have high speed internet access,” Nikki said.
“This will enable them to expand their business even further and we look forward in being a strategic partner for the future.
“Our service has also enabled them to utilise cloud based services provided by ourselves.
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Share this Story: S&P 500 erases losses for the year as markets climb on reopening optimism
S&P 500 erases losses for the year as markets climb on reopening optimism
'I wouldn’t be betting against equities at this point'
Rita Nazareth and Claire Ballentine
Jun 08, 2020 • June 8, 2020 • 2 minute read
Traders wearing masks work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Photo by Reuters/Brendan McDermid
U.S. stocks climbed, with the S&P 500 erasing its losses for 2020, as easing lockdowns bolstered economic optimism. The dollar fell.
The equity benchmark extended a rally from this year’s lows to more than 40 per cent, rising to a 15-week high. Occidental Petroleum Corp. surged after Bloomberg News reported the company is reviewing options for its Middle Eastern assets. The Nasdaq 100 rose to a record high, and Boeing Co. led gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The dollar had its longest slide in almost a decade, while Treasuries advanced. Oil sank after Saudi Arabia said it wouldn’t continue its additional, deeper output curbs after June.
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Traders pushed up the value of U.S. equities as many parts of the country came out of the shutdowns that brought the world’s largest economy to a standstill. To Citigroup’s strategists including Tobias Levkovich, positioning may be overly extended, and investors may not be factoring all the potential risks. Meanwhile, Stan Druckenmiller — who last month warned about owning stocks — said on Monday that he now believes he was “far too cautious” during the current market rally.
“As long as the data is improving and the market has the tailwind of liquidity at it’s back, it’s probably going to continue to rise,” said Ed Campbell, portfolio manager and managing director at QMA. “I wouldn’t be betting against equities at this point.”
The dollar fell for an eighth straight day, down to the level before the coronavirus crisis sparked a rush to haven assets. Where it goes from here mostly depends on the Federal Reserve, which will probably welcome all signs of recovery in its statement at the conclusion of this week’s meeting. But policy makers may be wary of an unruly increase in borrowing costs that could add to strains on businesses and households, and raise the price tag of the government’s rescue efforts.
These are some of the main moves in markets:
The S&P 500 Index climbed 1.2% to 3,232.39 as of 4 p.m. New York time.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index fell 0.3%.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index increased 1.2%.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.6%.
The euro was little changed at $1.1296.
The Japanese yen appreciated 1.1% to 108.37 per dollar.
The yield on 10-year Treasuries decreased two basis points to 0.87%.
Germany’s 10-year yield decreased four basis points to -0.32%.
Britain’s 10-year yield declined two basis points to 0.334%.
The Bloomberg Commodity Index decreased 0.1%.
West Texas Intermediate crude decreased 3.3% to $38.23 a barrel.
Gold surged 1.4% to $1,706.30 an ounce.
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A lot of ink has already been spilled over the unique character of 2020, a year that defied all of our expectations to deliver the best and the worst plot twists of our lives. And while it may be that we're living through a period in history that will be "super cool to read about," we woke up every day eager to read anything but the latest presidential Twitter rant or another lukewarm media condemnation of Far-right violence. At times reading felt impossible, at other times it felt like all we had.
So what books were we getting lost in between Zoom calls or stuffing into care packages for quarantined loved ones? With the world outside feeling strangely like fiction, we found ourselves both living and reading in the liminal space between nonfiction and fantasy. The books we embraced, from works of futurism to activist social science, contributed to a vision of our lives beyond carceralism, white supremacy, and ecological crisis.
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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
It's not often we are able to read about history as it’s taking place, but that's what Roy has done in Azadi; providing us up to the minute commentary on world events… Arundhati Roy's Azadi is a collection of essays and speeches describing India's recent descent into totalitarianism that speaks to the heart and the mind. Intelligent and thoughtful and written with empathy, it brings the reality of the situation home in way few other writers can.
—Richard Marcus, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Deb Unferth's hilarious, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens…
—Jenny Offill, author of Weather: A Novel
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
This is the collection that so many of us have been waiting for, capturing the knowledge generated by grassroots experiments undertaken by bold, imaginative activists working to respond to and prevent violence. We will be using this as a reference book for building community responses to harm and violence for decades to come.
—Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
This is the novel I've been waiting for. This is the novel we've all been waiting for. Everything's different now, with Black Sun. Different and better. Stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best fantasy out there. There's Martin, there's Jemisin, and now there's Roanhorse.
—Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians
Conjure Women
Conjure Women is a beautifully written novel that explores bondage and freedom through the lives of vividly drawn women who will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. Afia Atakora is a writer of extraordinary talent and depth, and this spellbinding debut is a must-read.
—Anissa Gray, author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy
These accounts and reflections are stupendous. They empower us with evidence of something we already know, from somewhere deep: that we have the power to govern ourselves and our communities… In this book, we can study our chosen history, learn from and with our extended ideological family, admire the fierceness of the people’s imagination in the face of the State’s repression.
—Marieke Bivar, Fifth Estate Magazine
Empire of Wild
Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it. The book feels like now, and we need more stories from Native communities to feel that way. She knows this community and this community will know she knows it when they read her, but it will resonate with so many more. Cherie Dimaline is a voice that feels both inevitable and necessary.
—Tommy Orange, author of There There
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
In Defense of Looting is a clear and damning indictment of the origins and evolution of property rights, race, and policing in the United States. Ultimately, Osterweil demands we not only overcome the respectability politics animating our desire for 'peaceful protests,' but that we ambitiously work to abolish the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire.
—Zoé Samudzi, coauthor of As Black As Resistance
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
A variety of Two-Spirit/queer Indigenous authors explore events during or after an apocalypse. Most of the stories share a sensibility rooted in the fact that for all Indigenous people, but for Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous people especially, there has already been a vast apocalypse… These stories are a welcome breath of fresh air in the often hyperindividualist, survivalist subgenre of postapocalyptic fiction, and are essential reading for anyone committed to the possibilities of sf as a means to create new and different futures.
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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
This work is personal, political, and practical. Lama Rod Owens is wildly generous in letting us see him wrestle his way through his own pain, rage, and arousal. He weaves us from his own story to ours, from his Blackness, gayness, his prophetic nature, to our collective need to feel, harness, and express anger. And then every other page offers practices, practical guidance on how to be in right relationship to anger, to understand the power and wholeness of rage. What a gift!
—adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Prison by Any Other Name sounds an alarm about the extension of the prison through ‘alternative to incarceration’ projects. It demonstrates that these ‘alternatives’ continue the work of imprisonment in different ways. It also points us towards a way out of criminalization. The book is an important addition to the new canon of work focused on mass criminalization in the U.S. READ. THIS. BOOK.
—Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This Til We Free Us
Punching the Air
Stories, at their best, will break something old in you or build something new. Remarkably, Punching The Air does both. Zoboi and Salaam have created nothing short of a masterwork of humanity, with lyrical arms big enough to cradle the oppressed, and metaphoric teeth sharp enough to chomp on the bitter bones of racism. This is more than a story. This is a necessary exploration of anger, and a radical reflection of love, which ultimately makes for an honest depiction of what it means to be young and Black in America.”
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Fantastic Four 2 was the planned sequel to Fantastic Four, which was originally set to be released July 9, 2017, but has since been cancelled.
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Before Fantastic Four began filming, 20th Century Fox announced plans for a sequel with a scheduled release date of July 14, 2017.[1] Fox the Fox then rescheduled the release for June 2, 2017, with War for the Planet of the Apes taking its place on the July 14, 2017, slot.[2] It chan It changed the release date again to June 9, 2017, to be two weeks after Star Wars: The Last Jedi's initial scheduled release date of May 26, 2017.[3]
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After the film flopped at the box office, the sequel was cancelled. However, if a sequel were to be released, it would be filmed on a bigger budget, with the same cast but a new director. The film would also have a lot of humor and plenty of action when the superhero team discover that Doom had made a deal with Galactus to destroy Earth. On August 23, 2016, Actors Miles Teller and Kate Mara had expressed interest in starring in the sequel, while screenwriter Simon Kinberg is hoping to get the project made. In September 2015, Tommy Wiseau has expressed enthusiasm in directing a sequel, having personal admiration for the film.
In November 2015, the sequel was removed from Fox's release schedule.[4] In May 2016, Kinberg reaffirmed his intent to make another Fantastic Four film with the same cast.[5] Later that month, Toby Kebbell stated he had no interest in reprising his role as Dr. Doom if a sequel were to happen.[6] Both Miles Teller and Kate Mara said that they were open to returning for a sequel.[7] On February 24, 2017, when asked by Collider whether they would make another Fantastic Four movie, Kinberg stated "I have no idea. I think the truth is we would not do another Fantastic Four movie until it was ready to be made. One of the lessons we learned on that movie is we want to make sure to get it 100% right, because we will not get another chance with the fans".[8] On March 1, 2017, Kebbell told Hey U Guys that he would like to portrayed Doom again only if Marvel buys the rights.[9][10] Stan Lee (co-creator of the Fantastic Four) also expressed interest in the Fantastic Four, as well as the X-Men, returning to Marvel Studios stating, "We should have all of our characters under Marvel. Remind me on my way home to do something about that. We'll do our best."[11] However, Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, has stated that there is no plans in having the Fantastic Four into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for now.[12][13]
In June 2017, Bleeding Cool reports 20th Century Fox has Seth Grahame-Smith working on a new treatment for the reboot that be a kid-friendly movie that's similar in concept to The Incredibles and that the new story will be told through the eyes of Mister Fantastic's and the Invisible Woman's children, Franklin and Valeria Richards.[14] While promoting his new film Kingsman: The Golden Circle, director Matthew Vaughn has talked about directing a reboot of the film on apologize to everyone for the last film.[15]
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STEAM rises during Farmington Founders Festival
August 28, 2017 admin Downtown, Farmington, Featured
More than a month has passed since the Greater Farmington Founders Festival, and one thing seems certain: People have differing opinions about how it went.
Organized by the Greater Farmington Area Chamber, the event brought music, food vendors, activities for kids and teens, and a little controversy to downtown Farmington. Events were also held at Shiawassee Park.
Chamber Director Mary Martin, who was hired last November, jumped into the planning process by meeting with committees in December. She said the STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math) theme reflected what’s happening in the community, such as the opening of the Farmington Public Schools STEAM Academy in the former Dunckel Middle School on 12 Mile Road.
The Hackbots drew attention on Farmington Road with their robotics display.
New activities included two days of “STEAM Heat” in Shiawassee Park with the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum and a Mad Science show on the State Street stage. Martin said a booth on Farmington Road showcasing the Hackbots, a Farmington Public Schools robotics team, was also a big hit.
“The kids were just drawn to that,” she said. “They loved it… Seeing how those were accepted, I was really happy about that.”
The popularity of a Friday “Light the Night” display of hot air balloons in Shiawassee Park “caught everybody by surprise,” Martin said. Hundreds of people showed up to watch the balloons, even though they never left the ground.
Hot air balloons light up the night and drew hundreds of people to Shiawassee Park.
But the event wasn’t without controversy. One business owner was particularly vocal on social media with complaints about the closing of Farmington Road, which restricted access to his business.
Martin said the decision was made to carve out a space for kids who were “too old for bounce houses” and activities in Shiawassee Park. The State Street stage hosted shows from morning through late afternoon; some booths, several inflatables, and a climbing wall filled in the area south of State.
Activities for older children occupied Farmington Road during Founders Festival.
One perpetual complaint in recent years has centered around the “Crafters Marketplace,” formerly located on Farmington Road and moved this year to Riley Park and Market Place, the street on the park’s west side. Crafters and artists displayed their wares but seemed outnumbered by commercial vendors, like home improvement and home-based businesses.
Farmington Voice reader Kristen O’Dea pointed out a conflict that may limit the Festival’s ability to draw more creatives.
“In my opinion, Farmington won’t be in a position to compete for crafters/artists if (the Festival is) held the same weekend as the Ann Arbor Art Fair,” she said. Also held the third weekend in July, that event draws hundreds of artists from around the country.
Lesa Ferencz, also a Voice reader, said the Crafters Marketplace usually brings her family out for the daytime part of the festival. This year, they “browsed very little, bought nothing.”
“We don’t give the commercial, informational, and carnival-type booths any of our attention,” she said. “The layout felt very disjointed to me which left the daytime activities feeling empty and frustrating. Our faith in the craft booth part of the festival has been slim to none for a very long time.”
“We shopped at Bead Bohemia, Sunflour Bakehaus, and Dagwood’s while we were in town for the festival,” she added.
Martin said she has considered adding something like a Maker Faire next year.
“If we did that with the STEAM stuff, that would be great branding for us,” she said.
Financially, the Festival brought in about 5.5 percent more in revenues over last year. What stood out most in her first year, Martin said, was the community, the volunteers (including many Chamber members), attending a “heart-warming” Miss Farmington pageant, and the success of the first-ever Color Run, which preceded Saturday’s parade.
“Those are the kinds of things I can look back on and say, that was so much fun, and the community embraced them,” she said.
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Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars is a competitive soccer/driving game and is the predecessor to the highly popular online game, Rocket League. Released over 10 years ago on the PlayStation 3, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars offers an intense yet and slightly aloof multiplayer experience that was far ahead of its time. Playing as your selected battle-car, you'll engage in fierce competition on a variety of arenas, attempting to out-score your opponents in a classic game of soccer. There's a variety of modes, various unlockables, and plenty of gameplay nuance to learn, offering hours of wacky fun.
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A Porky Prime Cut, Anticipation, Bethan Peters, Delta 5, George Peckham, Julz Sale, Kelvin Knight, lacquer-cutting, Matching Tie and Handkerchief, Monty Python, Ros Allen
Among the great secret delights of punk-era 45-rpm records are the inscriptions etched into the runout grooves of the records. Sometimes there are only serial numbers and record-company codes. But many of them contain mysterious cipheric words, adulatory opinions about the music on the disc, and messages meant for one single unknown individual and no one else.
It was John Farrell who alerted me to one of the most important inner-groove inscriptions: “A Porky Prime Cut.” Any record that featured this caption was guaranteed to be GREAT!
And right now, I am playing a 45 that is has been bestowed with the “A Porky Prime Cut” approbation on both sides. It is by Delta 5 on the Rough Trade record label. Delta 5 is a girl-dominated punk band from Leeds in England. This is their second single. In addition to the “Porky” inscriptions, the inner groove on the A side says “Where’s the goat?” and on the B side, “And the kids!” These comments are probably a private joke between Porky and one single solitary other person.
Like Gang of Four, Delta 5 had the musical acumen to punch up the band by using two bass players. The group on this record is singer Julz Sale, Ros Allen on bass and vocals, Bethan Peters as the second bass player, and Kelvin Knight on drums. The production is spare, the guitar is dry without distortion, the vocals bump around in a small boxy room.
The song, “Anticipation,” begins with a thudding solo bass groove. The other instruments join one at a time: complementary thumps from second bass, driving drums, dissonant guitar, and the two girl vocalists singing in a working-class British accent whose enunciation is not always discernible. The words appear to be about how the expectations we bring to a looked-for event are always more pleasurable than the event itself. After deciphering the writing on the record sleeve, I have determined that the lyrics go something like this:
Days of your youth
Days of your dreams
O-Whoa!
Days and nights that might have been
Dreams reality has stolen
Anticipation is so much better
Time that was spent
In pleasant practices
No mood you realize
Made in advance
Those things that might have been
Are left to others
The music is freewheeling and oblique and the musicianship has that sloppy-tight wildness that threatens to collapse but always hits the beat spot on. The angst in their songs is usually personal, directed at such disappointments as a false friend or the violation of one’s privacy. But every song is grounded in the economic wretchedness that debilitated their home town of Leeds and all other British factory towns in the late 1970s.
We did not know it at the time, but “Porky” was George Peckham, a British lacquer-cutting and mastering engineer. The manufacturing of a phonograph record begins with a cutting machine that transforms the electronic signals of a musical tape into spiral grooves on a disc which is coated with a nail-polish-like substance called lacquer. The lacquer grooves are coated with layers of such metals as silver and nickel. The metal is peeled away resulting in a disc which is a mirror of the lacquer disc. Rather than sunken grooves, it consists of raised ridges. This negative impression of the record will be used at almost 200 degrees under tons of pressure to melt and press hunks of vinyl into magical black discs of music.
Peckham was primarily at the lacquer cutting end of the process. Many great records were mastered by Peckham, including those of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis. In fact, the “Porky Prime Cut” blessing was not reserved only for punk records. It appears for example on some of George Harrison’s singles. It was Peckham who mastered Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief album, which is a three-sided disc. One side is a single spiral groove and the other has two parallel running spirals. You would never know if your needle would select the “side” starting with “The Background to History” or the one beginning with “Minister for Overseas Development (aka Mrs. Niggerbaiter explodes).”
Delta 5, “Anticipation,” No publisher (No licensing) (1980). From: Delta 5, Anticipation b/w You (45 rpm single), Rough Trade Records, RT 041 (1980). Sleeve design – Jon helped by Ralph.
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2002-11-15: Two Thousand Years Later
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by The Comment Golem » November 15th, 2002, 3:00 am
Discussion thread for Two Thousand Years Later.
New posts about this page or the commentary track version of this page should happen in this thread, but if you're curious the original discussion thread for this comic happened over on the Kyhm Forums. You can read it here.
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2012-04-09: [CT] Two Thousand Years Later
by The Comment Golem » April 9th, 2012, 9:00 pm
Discussion thread for [CT] Two Thousand Years Later
Re: 2012-04-09: [CT] Two Thousand Years Later
by Ori Klein » April 10th, 2012, 3:30 pm
Kurma(k), Poe. How could you forget?
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by taltamir » April 10th, 2012, 9:37 pm
honestly, I also found it funny.
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Re: 2002-11-15: Two Thousand Years Later
by Forrest » September 14th, 2014, 4:34 pm
I know it's super too late to comment on this, but I really kinda liked the way the old version of this page actually said, on the page not just in the HTML title, "Two Thousand Years Later". At least I think I remember it saying that. (And the first page didn't have "two thousand years ago" on it, either). It made a very emotional transition from young, hopeful, scared Sarine, to "two thousand years later", an apparently cold heartless killing machine.
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by Imp-Chan » September 14th, 2014, 5:38 pm
The prologue does not appear in the final version of the story. The content from it does appear, just not at the very beginning of the book, it's mixed in later. That's why the pages are lettered differently. The bit with Sarine and Darren appears at the start of the new Chapter Two (which bears no relation to the old Chapter Two) and does not say anything about present day because there's nothing to indicate it might be anything else with the new placement in the story, while the flashback with pregnant Sarine is at the start of the new Chapter 6 (which is also wholly unrelated to the original Chapter Six), and does indicate that it takes place in the past.
Basically, the scenes from the first two volumes of the story got seriously scrambled because we were trying to focus on a single strong story thread. Now the first volume reads like this:
Chapter One: Meji picks her quest and sets out. More or less the same as the original Chapter One, just with more art and better spaced dialogue.
Chapter Two: Sarine kills Darren in the bar. Meji arrives in Saus, meets and rescues Chris, and decides to get the hell out of town. Obviously, this is not the original Chapter Two. Again, more pages, better lettering.
Chapter Three: Meji wanders in the woods and meets Jon. At the very end of the chapter, a hooded stranger appears from the darkness and apologetically beats up a priest. More pages, better lettering. That's gonna be a theme, so I'll stop saying it now.
Chapter Four: Jon awakens Meji with early morning gunfire and they walk to Emerylon. Meanwhile in Eastern Veracia, Sara beats up a bunch of guys with guns.
Chapter Five: Meji tries to sneak into the Heretic Knowledge Vault and it goes about as well as expected. She meets Ian, and he sets fire to things. At the end of the chapter, Jon meets with the Gewehr Wraiths and emerges from his meeting straight into the Arsonist Errant Fan Club.
Chapter Six: Sarine's flashback of her pregnancy and the flashback of her husband's death run together in one big sucker punch of tragedy. She emerges from her reverie to continue asking questions in Saus. Back in Emerylon, Meji and Ian sneak out of the city and Jon catches up with them in time to prove he has an excellent understanding of how Meji's mind works.
Chapter Seven: Our trio plus Ellis wander in the woods talking to each other, and when they camp we get to hear a whole lot of mythology that sounds irrelevant but isn't. At the very end of the chapter Sarine hunts down a thug in Saus.
Chapter Eight: Meji and Ian bond, Jon shoots Ellis, they try to decipher the book a bit, and then Meji takes a bath. Come morning, our merry band of criminals gets back on the road. I really wanted the bit with Sarine hunting down the thug to be at the end of this chapter instead so it could be a stinger for the whole volume, but it didn't fit. C'est la vie.
So, as you can see, all the same content is there, it's just in a much more focused order. We wanted to avoid the original problem where the first three chapters were about three different characters with no idea of how they intersected, and instead give the story a solid touching-off point which new readers would be hooked by. The first page of the story in the revised edition is, approximately, this one, though actually it is not that page at all and is brand new art with only the start of that dialogue and a bit of sarcastic captioning. Because I took one look at the speech bubble dominance on that page and ran screaming from the room until I could figure out how to break up the dialogue to a sane level. Of course, then I changed the book dimensions, so actually I have to redo the lettering and page layouts yet again for that bit of the story.
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by Graybeard » September 14th, 2014, 6:33 pm
Thanks for that dump.
I didn't realize until I went back and looked at this page again, that the town where Sarine wiped out Derren Felmel had acquired a name -- "Bardus Sopora." Wikification coming up. Incidentally, I am not making any changes to the wiki at this time to map the original sequence of comics comprehensively onto the new one. That probably should be done at some point, but best to wait until some of the dust settles.
Also incidentally, if any other people, places or things have acquired names in the reboot that I don't know about, please drop me a line. I haven't done much on the wiki for ages, for the simple and obvious reason that there hasn't been much to do. However, it's still there, and will be updated as more little tidbits like this crop up.
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I'd say he has FW figured out. Start him in LE next season, and quick move to SA by mid year, with a cup of coffe at Portland. Knock on wood, and all goes well and stuff.
Your really jumping the gun, SA is more challenging than Portland imo given the park discrepancies. Start him at LE if he does well promote him to SA at all star break let him finish the year there and maybe fight for a roster spot in 2012
my boy keeps doing it with the SO's I know he isn't young for the league but still pretty impressive... 3 IP, 0's accross the board except for 6 So's, on season 18 IP, 31 So's
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is matt clark considered a prospect?
he hit his 22nd HR, drove in his 84th run and is hitting .274
131 K's probably scare people, considering he only has 37 walks, but is the power real?
Originally posted by whyamiafan? View Post
No doubt the power is real considering he is doing it with about half his games in SA, SO's though I think is way too many to be considered a real prospect, jmo
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You know, when you almost completely rewite what I posted I don't think I am completely "jumping the gun."
Salazar 2-4, hr
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Chicken Friars is rating Padres top 100 prospects here is what they have so far
number 100 Chris Stewart, catcher
Name: Chris Stewart
Position: Catcher
DOB: 2/19/82
2010 Level(s): Portland (AAA)
We kick off the Chicken Friars Top 100 Padres Prospects with the oldest player who will appear on the list, 28-year-old Triple-A catcher Chris Stewart, who’s seen a bit of time with the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, and Chicago White Sox in past years.
Stewart has been in a time-share behind the plate with Dusty Ryan in Portland, but has outperformed Ryan this season.
The catcher’s calling card is his fantastic arm, as he’s gunned down 42% of opposing basestealers this year. He consistently throws out over 40%.
Tall for a catcher at 6′4″, Stewart used to have some issues with passed balls, most notably an embarrassing game with the Yankees where he had trouble handling Phil Hughes and was promptly sent down for the immortal Chad Moeller. He’s cleaned that area of his game up, though, and has just allowed one ball past him this season. He’s cut his passed balls five straight years after allowing 23 in 2005.
Offensively, Stewart’s biggest strength is his ability to put the ball in play–he’s whiffed just 12% of the time this year and has a nice 34/26 K/BB. He’s mainly a singles hitter but will occasionally rip the ball, as he’s hit seven balls out of the park and has 13 doubles and two triples. Stewart lacks leverage in his swing, so he doesn’t get consistent pop despite his large frame. The lack of strikeouts somewhat compensates for that.
At 28, Stewart pretty much is what he is–a tremendous defensive catcher who doesn’t embarrass himself at the plate, but isn’t an offensive asset either. You could certainly do worse at the backup catcher spot, but the Padres currently have two clearly better options in the majors in Nick Hundley and Yorvit Torrealba, the latter of whom is essentially an upgraded version of Stewart. It’s important to have a guy like Stewart around so you don’t wind up with a roster black hole if one of the two MLB catchers goes down. He’s probably around replacement level, and maybe a bit better, particularly if you slot him in largely against lefties, who he’s hit at a .303/.347/.494 clip this year. There’s nothing wrong with that, especially at the game’s thinnest position.
The Chicken Friars 2010 San Diego Padres Top 100 Prospects List
Number 99 Jean Corpas, RHP
Name: Jean Corpas
Position: Pitcher (RH Swingman)
DOB: 3/9/91
2010 Level(s): DSL Padres (Rookie)
Not to be confused with teammate Juan Corpas (MiLB.com made this mistake early in the year, crediting Jean for starting 2/5 of the team’s games), Jean Corpas has put together a nice little year as the ace for the DSL Padres. He isn’t the top pitching prospect on the team (at least, not according to these rankings), a solid 2.98 ERA showing is nothing to sneeze at.
Corpas throws strikes with a fastball that sits around 90 mph, and he also chucks a slider and changeup. The Panamanian righthander has walked just 15 batters in 60 1/3 innings this season.
There are several issues with Corpas at this point, which is why he’s so far down on the list. For one, at age 19, he still hasn’t even played US ball yet, so even if he progresses one level per year, he wouldn’t be hitting Fort Wayne until age 22. Secondly, he’s whiffed just 41 batters in 60 1/3 frames, so he’s not really a strikeout guy even in the lowest of minor leagues. He’s going to need to retain his strikeout rate all the way up the ladder, because if it falls, he’ll be vulnerable to being hit around.
Plenty of DSL wonders flop in stateside ball, so Corpas is going to need to prove himself in America before he really can start moving up this list–and that goes for the majority of the DSL team as a whole. With his lack of present strikeout ability, I have to wonder if he’ll ultimately become a durable reliever at some point. Hopefully, the 2011 season will shed more light on what the Padres really have here, and what direction to take with Corpas in the future.
Number 98. Xavier Esquivel, RHP
Name: Xavier Esquivel
Position: Pitcher (RH Reliever)
2010 Level(s): Eugene (Short-season-A)
The Padres’ 34th-round selection in the 2010 MLB Draft, Esquivel is a stocky reliever out of Loyola Marymount who’s turned in a nice performance in the Northwest League, with a 26/7 K/BB in 30 2/3 innings.
The 21-year-old has a tenacious demeanor and comes right after hitters with a fastball around 90 mph. Esquivel throws a curveball to righties and his changeup sees a lot of action against lefties. He’s unafraid to challenge hitters and comes right after them, which is a nice attribute to have–without top-notch stuff, you sure can’t afford to walk many.
Esquivel is just 5′10″, so he doesn’t get great downward plane on his fastball, leading to lots of fly balls. That makes homers something of an issue, as he struggled with them in college and has been just average at preventing them in pro ball (small sample alert!).
While he has struck out 23 righties in 18 1/3 innings against them, he’s only whiffed three lefties in 12 1/3. He’s made up for that somewhat by walking just one lefty as opposed to six righties, but it doesn’t look like that changeup is getting swings and misses. If Northwest League hitters can consistently hit your changeup, chances are hitters in the California and Texas Leagues will be able to square it up just fine later on. Improving the pitch will be essential to Esquivel’s career aspirations.
For now, Esquivel shows promise as a strike-thrower who can punch out righties by the bushel. His tendency to always be in the zone, though, could hurt him (with the homers), so it will be key for him to refine his command and the changeup. He’s a longshot right now, but Esquivel has some positive attributes and is one of the better late-round picks in the Padres’ 2010 draft class.
I wouldn't categorize the 100th best player in the Padres system as a "prospect."
Can we skip to #15?
I'd definitely be interested in #25, but definitely not #27.
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Dayspring of Youth
You are reading the book:
Written by: M
THE great teachers frequently delivered their messages to meet the needs of the people of their day and not the future generations. When entering our secondary system we learn that the prophets addressed distinct classes of people who often represented certain organisations.
If we read our history carefully we shall learn that the people who brought light to their world were fostered under the protective wings of elemental Egypt. Solon who gave Greece its great laws, Moses the Lawgiver, Apolonius of Tyana the great magician, and Jesus who sought to fulfil the Solonic laws and organise the oppressed castes, all received their instruction from Egypt, guardian of Nature’s laws.
The foundations of Egypt’s great period were based on elemental laws that sprang from a remote Neptunian activity the Egyptians called Amenti. From this consciousness the Egyptian’s Innermost built up Its lower sheaths as we to-day are building up, under the manifestation of the Sun, our lower sheaths.
In the past, Egypt reached a degree of development that will take us several centuries to attain, and the Yogi reverences and aspires to its golden age, and often contacts the atomic centres within him that unites him to this great civilisation and ancient wisdom.
As Egypt worked under the aegis of the higher counterpart of the moon—known to Astrologers as Neptune—and therefore being exceedingly elemental, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, aware of the deficiency of the Sun’s positive nature in his people, endeavoured to re-establish sun worship in its purity; but in this he failed, for the elemental wave-length of the Egyptian consciousness was far stronger.
When the student travels in the inner spheres and visits Egypt he enters an elemental realm, and in initiation he is often brought in touch with these elemental gods who directed Egypt’s higher attainments. These gods are terrible to behold, especially Horus, and on his forearm he wears massive golden rings. When he gives one to an Initiate, as he did to Moses, he becomes a people’s leader.
The characteristics of this Neptunian-Amentian consciousness gives one the power to penetrate deeply into any problem, solve it, then cast it out of one’s consciousness. This is a power many business men possess.
The depths of the Neptunian consciousness are far greater than we can know, and as we enter its activity it gives us a powerful current that helps us quickly to complete a thing without any apparent effort. It has a healing effect upon those who suffer mentally, if they can contact its consciousness, also repair and seek to re-establish those souls who have lost contact with their directing purpose. An employer possessing this consciousness would know the possibilities of his workers, and would never place square pegs in round holes.
Within the Egyptian soul and atmosphere were opposition atoms of the Secret Enemy that would have imprisoned the Egyptian mind as they imprison the mind of to-day in this world of illusion. To escape this dark period that the great Initiates of Egypt knew was coming, they embalmed the bodies of their dead and thus protected their atoms from the destructive force of man’s thought. This shielded them until the out-pouring of the new hierarchal cosmic energy—the Dayspring of Youth, that they called the coming forth by Day—released them.
This did not mean that their mental bodies lay in a comatose state; for these evolved through Amenti, and arose from the depths of their Neptunian consciousness to become enlightened and purified beyond human conception.
In our inward journeys we have seen these Egyptian souls , though minute, in their myriads; for out of the body a soul is a shining atomic substance about the size of a thumb. They emanate a powerful mental atmosphere, and constantly ask us when we will give them the signal for the release of their Ka’s from their tombs, which would give them complete freedom of movement.
We are told that when a great Initiate returns to Egypt the mental pressure of these millions will be evoked, and will flock to his banner and shield him with their atmosphere from the destructive forces that will shortly appear at a great crisis in the world.
Many students have within them their old Amentian consciousness, and the Master atom within his Silver Shield will sometimes link them to this. They will then learn about destructive as well as constructive phenomena by the use of sounds and colour and the formation of sentences that will call into activity the elemental nature about them.
There are certain schools on Earth that use the dark side of this Amentian magic. The one nearest to Europe is in the Balkan regions and is a disturbing factor in the world’s atmosphere. There is also another school, but constructive, as far North as the edge of the Mongolian desert. I am only speaking about the great schools of these forces, for the world is full of men trying to disturb Nature’s laws, and these lesser schools are not so important, as they deal with ceremonial magic and do not know much about the deeper side of these good and evil forces.
There is an Amentian school of white magic, using Nature’s determinative energy, in Asia where resides a great Being called the “King of the North,” though the real title should be the “King of the Northern Latitudes.” Ossendowski, the traveller, has written about this Being, whom he called the “King of the World,” in his book Beasts, Men, and Gods.
The entrance to this secret place is guarded by a great elemental whose mental pressure and glance is enough to terrorise the untrained mind; but the Yogi can enter this subterranean place if his passport is correct.
Amenti was the submerged Neptunian sphere where the Egyptians and Greeks were to perform heroic deeds in order to regain their inheritance known as the Dayspring of Youth. The Greeks called this Hades; but this was not, as some people think, a mythological hell, but a region wherein they gained certain defined ranges of experience.
This descent into Amenti-Hades is symbolised by the story of Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres—Nature going into this world. And when Hermes-Mercury was sent to guide her back, this meant that the Lords of the Mind assisted Proserpine—the Daughter of Nature—to return in the Spring—the Dayspring of Youth.
Though this myth has been taught us to symbolise the return of Spring to the Earth, in the deeper occult schools it symbolised the return from a remote voyage of experience of these Amenti-Hades souls into this new age.
The Dayspring of Youth is also symbolised by the Egyptians as the time of deliverance of those atoms preserved to this age by the mummified bodies in Egypt. This means that the Ka’s of these bodies—or astral entities—will be delivered from their period of seclusion and work to assist humanity to regain its severance from the lower animal nature within them.
These atoms were prevented from returning to their natural elements, and are held prisoners until this new hierarchal energy releases them. We are told that in some remote day those atoms that cannot be freed from the illusion world will also attain their deliverance.
Many people have pondered over the mystery of the Sphinx. The defaced image we see is the physical symbol of a great elemental Being of a hierarchal order. It is the sole guardian of ancient periods of Nature’s elemental wisdom, and within a finer atmosphere there is a secret temple where instruction is given to those who have attained to Nature’s consciousness; though here it is not easy for the student to enter the College or stand before the Sphinx. If he only passed the barrier he would have to be free from evil and respect this science.
When the student demands admittance he is measured regarding his fitness by a Warden. In occult terms this means that the spinal column is measured, and if the Warden or Tyler permits him he will then enter a new world of development.
In this College of the Sphinx the Tyler is seated on a cube-like throne. He was a great Initiate Pharaoh who taught his Egyptian disciples elemental magic. This Initiate remains behind until the last magician of his cycle has attained to his level of consciousness.
This Tyler’s arms are crossed, holding his sceptre and flail or scourge of Justice, and is the real administrator of this hidden science of Nature’s determinative energy. Should he admit us to this College, he will challenge us and give us, if worthy, the power to overcome any opposition any guardian may have against us as we pass into higher levels.
The ancient Masons were acquainted with this College, and came under its administration, and their names were inscribed upon its scroll.
In this College the student will be united to his own wisdom experience of elemental Nature.
The Temple of the Sphinx is the repository of Masonry in its purest form, and the Chinese Masons have attained to a singular purity of its expression.
Here is a note that should be of interest to the Masons. In ancient Egyptian Masonry it was the elemental Tyler who examined the aspirant regarding his elemental fitness, besides those others who examined his physical and moral fitness. It is this lack of Nature’s support and wisdom that modern Masonry seeks, for to-day no Brother Mason is aware of being challenged by an elemental Tyler. Yet, in every true Lodge one stands at the entrance, and a Mason, initiated when out of his body in sleep, knows of Nature’s place in his ritual.
All the secrets of Masonry are found within man, not without; when Solomon’s Temple was built it was erected by the alliance of Nature’s finer forces with man and symbolised the human body.
The great elemental Sphinx is Nature’s Advocate, and its energy is only intermittently brought into humanity’s atmosphere; for as we have been working under the Solar forces, she will not take us under her direction until we contact our elemental Advocate and the Dayspring of Youth sends its consciousness into us.
As above, so below. As we have written elsewhere, we cannot contact our own elemental Advocate until we bring our Master atom into our Silver Shield.
In our practice we have built up our Silver Shield and provided a temple for the Master atom of the mind. This Master atom is like a pendulum, swinging intermittently from the Solar atmosphere to the Lunar: for we have within us an alternating current that carries the Master atom backwards and forwards. This current opens and shuts out different centres, and because of this we have often to wait patiently for the opening of a certain centre from whence we wish to gain information. But if at times it is necessary to quickly obtain information from a closed centre we can approach the Wardens, for each centre has two Wardens—one of the sun and the other of the moon—and if we are deemed worthy we are passed through.
From the Egyptian records we are constantly referred to the attainments of the great Initiate Jesus; for when He came to Egypt after his return from distant lands one of the initiated took down His words and from these hidden books we receive a great deal of information. Though this will probably be challenged, yet these records are preserved intact, and in some future day the archaeologist’s spade will reveal them.
The records used by the religious sects to the work of Jesus are but fragments of His teachings. In the Egyptian soil are the real records. When they are revealed we shall learn how man can be illusioned by a religion that is but the fragment of an Initiate’s great work—how a religion can become partly destructive by those who hold it sacred when it is incomplete.
Within us are those Elder atoms who have recorded the teachings of the great Initiates, and the student reverences them; for they work obediently to natural law, and reveal their possessions to those alone who respect their authority. Thus the student can contact within himself the essence of any Initiate’s teachings whose cloak once protected him in past lives. But only when he has attained his own central system will the fullness of an Initiate’s teachings be revealed.
There are several places in Egypt where records relating to Atlantean history are hidden: also those dealing with America after Atlantis, and the coming of a great Initiate to the Red Indians on the Eastern coast; who taught them agriculture and gave them an alphabet, leaving two books that are still in the possession of an initiated Indian.
The Indians at that period possessed a code of morals and social laws undreamed of by those who came after, and in the future, when the Red Indian has established himself within his own territory, they will be brought to light. In those days these Indians were living simply, without destroying animal life unnecessarily. They cultivated the soil and the tribes lived in harmony. But a little later a foreign people swarmed in from the Caribbean Sea and forced them to take up arms, and ultimately severed the tribes from their previous unity.
In the future, America will have to bear its karma regarding its treatment of these people, and they will increase until they will be powerful enough to demand their own provinces and hold them. Then the American Federation of States will reach to the Arctic Ocean, and these people will extend their territories Northwards and live at peace with their neighbours. For the great Initiate will shield them and return them to their inheritance.
Yogis are often instrumental in holding a force in check that is destructive to others, and in the College of the Sphinx they will remember how this is done.
When the student bathes in the atmosphere of this elemental Sphinx, he remembers the time when he was androgynous and was conscious of his elemental and physical nature. In this manner he regains his knowledge of elemental law.
In Egypt’s early days the hierarchal energy of Nature entered its civilisation and prospered its development. Afterwards a small body of disciples of the Sun-God’s Initiates, whom to-day we call the Great Atlantean, blessed them with his Shekinah and this now rests upon the shoulders of a small group of men who have preserved intact the instruction that is to be used in the Dayspring of Youth. The well-being of Egypt lies in the hands of a group of impersonal men and women.
Over the altar of their hidden temple hovers a pulsating monadic substance that symbolises the Illuminate Crown of Victory. This Monad has often left its altar, and once it moved itself to Glastonbury in England, during the age of sun worship. But opposing forces later disintegrated it, and it returned to its original shape and place high above the altar of its ancient sanctuary.
In the remote past, the Egyptian priests came to Glastonbury at the Spring Equinox; as also many of the initiated from Greece, Rome, and the surrounding countries. At the moment of the solstice, when the hierarchal earth-current entered the earth, the High priest of its cult delivered the oracle for the coming year, and the initiated returned with their messages to their countries. During the Autumn Equinox this current passes through Tibet.
To-day this monadic substance pulsates to the great theurgic rhythm of the universal consciousness. We believe there will come a time when this Monad will return to Glastonbury, be enshrined there in a temple dedicated to the Sun. For it was foretold that it would move Westward, following the path of the Sun.
In a remote place in America there is a Teraphim that contains an imprisoned atomic atmosphere that predicts the future prosperity of the great American Federation of States. These future states, extending North to the Arctic Ocean, will be under the care and observation of the Great Atlantean Initiate. There will be a division of territories best adapted for the many races to enter their fruitful inheritance, who will work in harmony and union for the betterment of its poorest individual.
America’s future prosperity will depend upon its response to this new cosmic energy now pouring over several sections, and if we aspire to the intelligence within its several rays we shall become part of its manifestation. So that everyone will in some degree be able to acquire a directing impulse. For the Atlantean has been for some time planting into the subsoil of this commonwealth those atoms that will give the younger generations the new impulse—that consciousness that will unite them to Nature’s law, so that they will instinctively obey it regardless of outside conditions. We see that scientific minds will also work under this new energy.
Each person has an individual atmosphere, and in all occult work we have to be guided by our own intelligence; for as we awaken into the energy of the Dayspring of Youth we are also individualised as persons and will have no strong affinity to other minds. This the student will observe in his relationship to others. We receive their ideas and give forth our own; but we do not possess their intelligence, neither do they possess ours as formerly: we become foreign to their atmosphere. This separation will cause many students some difficulty, at first, in understanding other people easily; for the world of the past with its decayed influences no longer stimulates them. All old thoughts, conceptions, and ideals have passed away; the mind is nourished upon the foods of a new age. The student becomes as a child entering a new world of experience, and is protected by those powers he has awakened.
Moral standards differ in every country, and we cannot judge them until we know what standards we have attained to within ourselves.
The Great Initiate, under whose care the West area is being developed, does not tell us what should do, but implants into our mind-atmosphere those atoms that will instruct us about our future welfare. And in our efforts to recover our high standards of living, we also find in this substance love and appreciation of our faulty efforts. As far as we know, we are never commanded to do this or that unless it is to save life.
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Free Ukraine Now
Stopping US-NATO takeover of Ukraine and Russia
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Poroshenko cuts Germany trip amid fighting in Eastern Ukraine – his political ploy →
Kiev launches major offensive against DPR (Biden’s final instructions?); heavy DPR losses, very major losses for Kiev; Poroshenko’s game.
From Fort Russ
By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ – translated by J. Arnoldski –
Since Fort Russ readers rather well know the situation prevailing in Donbass, I’ll take the liberty of refraining from regurgitating facts and details. Instead, I dedicate today’s commentary to two unfolding events in and around Donbass. I base my commentary on media sources, social networks in the DPR and Ukraine, and on insider information I receive from Donetsk – Dr. Eduard Popov
The military situation in the Donetsk People’s Republic
Battles have not quieted down since January 29th. The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ tactic of gradually seizing neutral territories (“creeping offensive”) appears to have highly infatuated Ukrainian officers and patriots in the rear and is now taking on a life of its own. The result has been that the Ukrainians have convinced themselves that Donbass forces are weak and therefore decided to undertake a massive offensive. This is a fatal mistake.
According to reports from sources in the DPR, the republic’s army has suffered heavy losses. Alexander Zhuchkovsky has reported dozens of killed. But the UAF and neo-Nazis’ losses are several times higher. Today, the DPR’s intelligence services intercepted and published a secret report by the ATO headquarters for President Poroshenko. The total number of casualties among the UAF over the past two days of firefights is estimated at 78 dead and several dozen wounded. Let me draw your attention to the fact that we are talking about the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers that have been recovered and taken to the morgue in nearby and far-off cities. The number of bodies that weren’t recovered from the battlefield while under artillery fire, the number of bodies completely destroyed by the explosion of military vehicles (tanks, volley artillery, etc.), and the number of wounded still in hospitals – these figures remain unknown. The real figures of the irreversible losses of the UAF over the past two days of fighting are probably no less than 100 men.
As Zhuchkovsky and DPR fighters themselves have reported, the Ukrainians have been surprised by the stiff resistance put up by the republic’s forces. Hitherto, the DPR army had heartbreakingly refused to respond “eye for an eye” to the UAF’s provocative fire. On January 29th and 30th, however, Donbass’ artillery finally put in heart and soul and laid down a “whirlwind of fire” (Zhuchkovsky’s expression) on Ukrainian positions.
The general result: although the situation in the combat zone is complex and fraught with escalation and large losses, overall it is going well for the Donbass republics.
Thus, political conflict in Ukraine moves to the fore.
Poroshenko’s gamble
As Ukraine’s military adventure fails, Poroshenko is starting to playing a diplomatic gamble. Poroshenko’s efforts on January 31st fit into this formula. First, he urgently interrupted his visit to Germany and meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Then he called to convene the Tripartite Commission (the “Normandy Four” minus Russia). The Ukrainian foreign ministry today issued a statement which routinely accused Russia of escalating the conflict in Donbass. Without a doubt, soon will follow a Ukrainian appeal to the UN and other international organizations.
But I’m not going to talk about the stupidity of such speculations. Even Ukrainian officers admit that the offensive was undertaken by the Ukrainian side. Russia does not benefit (especially not now) from an escalation of the situation in Donbass. The only beneficiary is the ruling Ukrainian regime.
According to his press service’s official statement, Poroshenko was forced to urgently return to Ukraine to address the “humanitarian situation” in Avdeevka which, let us note, occurred as a result of none other than the Ukrainian army’s adventurous actions on Poroshenko’s orders.
The situation in Avdeevka and the massive losses that the Ukrainian army is incurring nevertheless give the Ukrainian president an occasion to play the role of the victim and cry to the world (the West) to punish the offender (Russia). If the UAF had not met such tough resistance on its attack and if the offensive had gone deep into the republics of Donbass, then Poroshenko would simply conjure another formula justifying Ukraine and blaming Russia. To be more precise, such a formula has long since been hatched and is waiting its turn.
The main actor for whom this whole bloody spectacle is being played is US President Donald Trump. We’ve already repeatedly written for Fort Russ on how Poroshenko is attempting to provoke a war in Donbass in order to prevent normal dialogue between the US and Russia. Allow us to recall the content of one of our articles, in which my sources in the DPR’s military circles forewarned that they expect a massive UAF offensive just before or immediately after Trump’s inauguration.
Poroshenko’s regime is practically at a stalemate on both the international and domestic political fronts. Before the new team of American diplomats appointed by Trump starts working and Trump’s new European policy principles swing into action, Poroshenko will try to win over the American president. His method? By literally producing the fait accompli of “pro-American” Ukraine (in reality, pro-liberal and “pro-democratic”) needing support in Donbass. The Americans call this trick “wag the dog.”
Donald Trump has barely had time to settle into the office of US President, yet his name has already started to bear fruit in Donbass. I believe that the consequences of this factor will be devastating – if not for Ukraine, then for the ruling Poroshenko regime.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/01/the-trump-effect-in-donbass-poroshenko.html
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Batman: Arkham Knight E3 Trailer: Delayed to 2015, Gotham Looks Gorgeous
Jon Ledford
While it may have had its release date pushed back, Batman: Arkham Knight has stolen the show at E3 2014 with its new, Batmobile-filled trailer.
We were a little bit skeptical as to how the Batmobile would play in Batman: Arkham Knight, and we're glad to see that Rocksteady Games has completely delivered in terms of how well it plays. This E3 trailer starts off with Bruce Wayne putting on his newest, mechanized costume in what is presumably a high-rise in Gotham that the billionaire playboy owns. After changing, metal shutters around the room started rising, revealing the room's windows and indicating a high level of security as Bruce changed into his iconic suit.
Once Batman jumped from his penthouse balcony, we realized just how significantly bigger Gotham is compared to Arkham City. Based on the travelling Batman did throughout the trailer, this felt like a border-free version of Gotham we have never seen before. The amount of detail throughout the city was incredible. And things only got more amazing when Batman stepped into the behemoth Batmobile and started tearing up the streets.
Batman: Arkham Knight originally had a scheduled release date of Oct. 14. Unfortunately, Rocksteady has decided to push Batman's next-gen debut back to sometime in 2015. While this is is rather disheartening, we will be keeping our eyes to the skies, waiting for the Bat-Signal to announce when Arkham Knight will come out for Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4. The PS4 version of the game will have exclusive access to the Scarecrow Nightmare Mission. Pre-ordering Arkham Knight now, regardless of console, will let you play as the Joker's former squeeze, Harley Quinn.
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Residential (R) Zones - R-17
The purposes of the Foggy Bottom Residential House R-17 zone are to:
Enhance the residential character of the area by maintaining existing low-scale residential uses, human scale streetscape, and historic character;
Enhance the human-scale streetscape by maintaining the public space in front of the buildings as landscaped green spaces and limiting future curb cuts;
Require a scale of development consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; and the characteristics of the low scale residential townhouse neighborhood that formed the basis on which the area was designated a historic district;
Protect the integrity of the historic district, its small scale, and open spaces; require compatibility of any development with the purposes of the Historic Landmark and Historic District Protection Act of 1978, and preclude demolitions or partial demolitions that would lead to an increase in height and floor area ratio inappropriate to the area;
Preserve areas planned as open backyards and alleyways that provide the only access to historic alley dwellings, and to protect the light, air, and privacy that they provide; and
Encourage greater use of public transportation through use of the nearby Metrorail Station, so as to protect the narrow residential streets and alleys from the deleterious effects of disruptive excessive traffic.
The R-17 is intended to permit single dwelling unit attached rowhouses on small lots
Height (ft.) /
Stories 1, 2 Minimum Lot Width (ft.) Minimum Lot Area Lot Occupancy Front Setback Rear Yard (ft.) Side Yard (ft.)3 Pervious Surface (min.) Zoning Regulation Reference
R-17 40 40 (detached) 4,000 (detached) 60% (attached) A front setback shall be provided within the range of existing front setbacks of all residential buildings, on the same side of the street in the block where the building is proposed. 20 No less than 5 ft, if provided 20% Subtitle D, Chapter 10
30 (semi-detached) 3,000 (semi-detached)
3 20 (attached) 2,000 (attached) 40% (all other structures)
16 (IZ attached) 1,600 (IZ attached)
Use Permissions Parking Inclusionary Zoning
Subtitle U, Chapter 2 Subtitle C, Chapter 7 Subtitle C, Chapter 10
R- Use Group C
1 Institutional buildings or structures may be erected to a height not exceeding 90 ft., not including the penthouse, provided that the building or structure shall be removed from all lot lines of its lot a distance of not less than 1 ft. for each foot of height in excess of that authorized in the zone in which it is located.
2 The maximum permitted height of a penthouse, except as permitted in Subtitle D and as prohibited on the roof of a detached dwelling, semi-detached dwelling, rowhouse, or flat in Subtitle C § 1500.4, shall be 12 ft. and 1 story. A non-residential building constructed pursuant to Subtitle D § 1003.2 shall be permitted a mechanical penthouse to a maximum height of 18 ft. 6 in.
3 In the R-17 zone, when a single dwelling unit, flat, or multiple dwelling is erected that does not share a common division wall with an existing building or a building being constructed together with the new building, it shall have a side yard on each resulting free-standing side. For a building with a side yard less than 8 ft. wide, an extension or addition may be made to the building; provided, that the width of the existing side yard shall not be decreased; and provided further, that the width of the existing side yard shall be a minimum of 5 ft.
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You can no longer fight China in multiplayer. (Also Blizzard)
April 25th, 2020 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
I’m aware this news is stale as heck, but that doesn’t mean I can’t share my opinion on it. So, I shall opine away. That’s the word, right? Opine? One sec… okay I checked the dictionary and that is correct.
Basically, in case you didn’t know this, China’s internet is very censorious. It will block anything that is inconvenient to those in power. And Winnie the Pooh apparently. Xi Jinping really hates that guy. In fact, it’s actually common knowledge that if someone from China is in any sort of messaging thread, forum, or chat group; you can get their internet instantly shut off by mentioning:
1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS 天安門大屠殺 JUNE FOURTH INCIDENT 六四事件 DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT 八九民運
Shit, now nobody in China can read this rant. Oh well. China cut off or online multiplayer for some of biggest games because unfortunate information about the CCP keeps popping up and they just can’t have that. Animal Crossing is has already been cut on the chopping block, but they plan on more, they are just getting started. They can still play the multiplayer games sure, they’re just playing only against others in their country. Or so I’m led to believe.
This isn’t even a CHINA BAD article. This is actually a GET F*CKED BLIZZARD article. If you dig back a while, publisher Blizzard bent over backwards to appease China when several incidents occurred that made them look really bad. TenCent, a Chinese entertainment company, owns a sizable chunk of Blizzard. So, whenever it came down to them appeasing the company, they would bend the knee every time.
And that’s the crux of this opinion.
Are you f*cking happy now Blizzard? You have shown numerous times that you are completely out of touch with your fan base and tried to make up for it by announcing a bunch of games people are anticipating. Dropping Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 is not gonna make your many controversies go away.
Now, the country you so desperately tried to pander to is about to hurt your bottom line. I guarantee this will have a negative impact on user activity in your games. Now, I know you won’t really FEEL the difference because you’re a soulless organization who sold off their dignity a long time ago. But deep down, after all the epic screw-ups you committed, your day of reckoning has finally arrived. Okay, yeah that was a week ago. This is your week of reckoning!
I implore Blizzard fans, I know you love their games. Gamer boycotts are virtually useless and lead to nothing. Just pay more attention to what they are doing. You always have to vote with your wallet. Decide if that freaking loot box is worth it, considering all they’ve done. Hold off on your pre-orders until you know the game isn’t broken. Because their new games will ship broken. I guarantee it. They cared too much about China, only for China to turn on a dime and stop caring about Blizzard. Nice one. Come @ me in the comments.
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Limited edition Diablo 3 Switch Console Announced
October 16th, 2018 by Vega Montanez
Diablo goes mobile!
Officially announced as a GameStop exclusive, the Nintendo switch is getting another custom look. This time inspired by Diablo 3, anyone looking to purchase a switch has a hellish design choice.
The bundle will include the Eternal Collection of the full game, coming with all of its additional content and a carrying case. If that’s not enough, the console and dock will come in a limited edition look. Check out the video below.
https://youtu.be/SIS6Enm3-Zc
Diablo 3 and the Diablo 3 Switch Bundle will be available November 2nd. And of course, the Ganondorf armor set will also come with the deal. Relax, it’s all in there.
Let us know in the comments, What do you think of the custom look?
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Lucky Gamer Recap 2/4/18
February 5th, 2018 by Vega Montanez
Controllers, Clouds, Counterstrike, and Cole Train
Good news and bad news. Comparisons of titanic forces. And all the power money could buy if money could buy power. That’s what this week looks like for the gamers who can use a little good feeling. Last week brought us interesting rumors around power moves and saddening, yet exciting delay announcements. Here are the reason you should feel like a Lucky Gamer:
1. Microsoft buys more clouds and enters the rumor mill.
Microsoft is undeniably the most financially capable of the big three video game console makers. Sony’s a company shifted their focus to Playstation a few years back to help keep the entire company afloat. Nintendo, on the other hand, really only makes video games so they are stable but not as much cash flow available. That’s why the rumor that Microsoft is considering buying EA, Valve, & PUBG corp. is incredibly believable. And with none of those three having responded to comment after nearly a week (at the time of this writing) boy oh boy what might we be in for. On the factual side of business, it’s business as usual. The super company just acquired PlayFab, a backend cloud based service provider. The goal is to have PlayFab work as an extension tool to build on Azure, the current cloud. Look at you go Microsoft, look at you go.
2. Waiting for Redemption better be worth it.
Who am I kidding, of course it will be worth it. It’s Red Dead Redemption, and even though i’m not the biggest fan, I have to admit I am among those looking forward to this adventure. With that said, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Red Dead Redemption 2 has been delayed to October 26th. Watch out Ubisoft, Rockstar is coming hard. Not much was said about what cause the delay but it doesn’t really matter. The fact is they gave us a solid release date, that could change, and that makes me way more comfortable with the delay then anything else they could have said. You know, other than “We tested it and felt like our horse mechanics just weren’t as fun as Dynasty Warriors, so back to the drawing board.” Also they released new screenshots of gorgeous sunsets. And horses.
3. Unlike Sonic, Mario is doing pretty well.
This battle of icons has been raging for as long as the video game industry has been booming. It’s like Jay-Z v Nas. Yankees v Red Sox. Trump v Everything that makes sense for a president to do. So of course Mario got word of all the things Sonic has been up to and decided to 10 up him. Sonic got a TV series, Mario partnered with Illumination Entertainment to make a movie. A whole feature length film. That’s how you go big but there’s more. Mario Kart tour was announced for mobile which is set to release sometime before March 2019. Boom headshot! Well not exactly. See in the midst of all these upcoming plans Nintendo also took the time to humbly brag that the Nintendo Switch has outsold the Wii U lifetime sales in less than 10 months. With the best selling game being, you probably guessed it, Super Mario Odyssey. Damn Mario straight killing the game. It’s also the fastest selling console in the history of consoles though, so no big deal.
4. Enter new Dualshock 4 Controllers.
This is the most exciting news for me! As a playstation controller connoisseur, there is no way I was going to miss an opportunity to make a big deal over the new PS4 dual shock 4 remote colors. Midnight Blue (which actually happens to legitimately be my favorite color) and Steel Black. They look absolutely gorgeous. Both controls will be available in March for the standard price of $64.99. And this announcement comes hot on the heels of a sneaker partnership announcement too! Damn it Sony, I am a starving artist. You need to show some damn consideration for the little guys cause now I gotta come short with the rent so I can get one of each control and the Playstation sneakers. Oh well, totally worth it.
5. Yea I used this pun last week but, let’s Switch the topic.
If you’re the type of gamer who has been patiently waiting to be charged more money for a service you’ve kind of already been using, then boy is this the box for you. Nintendo announced that the Switch’s online service will be launching in September of this year. No other information was really given so it’s safe to say the previous statements apply. It will most likely run you $19.99 and give access to a Classic Games Selection and eShop discounts, much like the competition. Also, although announced by Microsoft, the Nintendo Switch is getting some rather unique content. The Switch version of Minecraft saw the addition of the Xbox characters pack. This means you’ll be able to play as Master Chief, Cole Train, Banjo, and many more on a Nintendo console. Does this mean we are getting closer to a future where Gamestop employees no longer have to say “Mario is not on Xbox”? The update also includes the Moana character pack featuring characters from the Disney movie.
6. Diablo creator announces new game while Counter Strike creator gets in trouble.
The good news. David Brevik, the creator of gaming classic Diablo, has announced he’s finished a new game which is already in closed beta. The new game, title “It Lurks Below”, mixes elements from Minecraft, Terraria, and Brevik’s original work Diablo. If all goes according to plan, “It Lurks Below” should launch later this year on Steam. This is also Brevik’s first major project since 2013 and he mad it on his own as a one man team. The bad news. Jesse Cliffe, co-creator of Counter-Strike, has been suspended by Valve following his arrest on charges of sexual exploitation of a child. It is important to reserve judgment as details are still emerging around these allegations. We can only hope, as gamers, that this gets resolved in an honest matter and none of it is true.
7. Gaming goes South by SouthWest
SXSW Gaming is headed to Austin, TX March 15th through March 17th. It’s been a little while since gaming has taken part in the SXSW festivities but it’s exciting to see it making it’s return. The video game industry is booming and it really shows with events like this popping up all over the world all year around. This year the SXSW Gaming will feature eSports, indies, VR, AAA, and Mobile, which pretty much is all of gaming. Including gaming in this world of music, film, and art is just another example of the built up appreciation of video games. Hardcode gamers rejoice, a new day is coming.
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Book review: “Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics”
Another great book from the publishers at Greg Kofford books. The term apologetics is unfamiliar to some, but it is basically defined as an attempt to defend religious claims. Even if you haven’t heard of apologetics, Mormonism at its core requires some form of engagement with it. At its core, Mormonism, like Christianity as a whole, makes certain historical claims, such as the translation of the Book of Mormon, the First Vision, and the that the man called Jesus was the son of God. The authors of these essays give different perspectives on the role that scholarly apologetics should play. I will give a 1-2 sentence summary of each essay, as well as some of my favorite quotes from each of the articles.
Critical Foundations of Mormon Apologetics
A good introduction to terms in apologetics, and a brief history of how apologetic approaches have changed in Mormonism over time. Two important splits that are discussed throughout the rest of the book: negative/positive apologetics (defenses against critic’s arguments, versus building arguments for Mormonism’s truth claims) and evidentialism/fideism (seeking evidence for truth claims versus a belief that a “leap of faith” will always be necessary and unavoidable).
“For a disciple of Jesus Christ, academic scholarship is a form of worship. It is actually another dimension of consecration. Hence, one who seeks to be a disciple-scholar will take both scholarship and discipleship seriously; and, likewise gospel covenants.”
A Brief Defense of Apologetics:
Apologetics is necessary and inevitable; anyone with an opinion to defend is engaging in apologetics.
C. S. Lewis: To be ignorant and simple now—not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground—would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defence but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
(I’m unaware of anybody who claims that religious belief derives purely from reason; for that matter, I’m confident that unbelief doesn’t either.)
Boundary Maintenance that Pushes Boundaries: Scriptural and Theological Insights for Apologetics:
A really interesting observation, that apologetics, rather than maintaining the doctrinal status quo, pushes believers into exploring different interpretations of their faith. It asks us to be actively engaged in our faith, coming with questions, and be willing to change our beliefs as necessary.
The author looks at a few examples too that perhaps would make members uncomfortable. The concept of authorial bias in Nephi’s account of his brothers (Nephi was using his writings as a propoganda tool). Finding Heavenly Mother in the book of Mormon’s Tree of Life account is another interesting one. Also, the idea of King Josiah’s religious forms being a form of apostasy.
“Apologetics is, by definition, a defense of already held beliefs and points of view. As such, it is easy to see apologetics as an obstacle to new understandings of scriptural texts and theological concepts. This can and does happen, and some may even argue that defending a viewpoint inherently obscures or prevents new points of view from being considered.”
“Defending certain tenents of Latter-day Saint belief involves reinterpretations of scripture and doctrine—and that whatever the merits of any specific reinterpretation may be, this transformative effect is a net positive. Apologetics is at its best not when it is merely defending or providing supportive evidence, but when it can get Latter-day Saints to rethink their understanding of scriptural narratives and teachings, even as it defends certain fundamental premises.”
“Apologetic approaches like this give weight to a theological concept—that the Bible is not perfect and contains errors—that often feels hollow within typical Mormon approaches. They also serve to illustrate to Latter-day Saints that critically approaching the composition of scripture need not be something to fear. Seeing multiple, and even contending points of view within scripture is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can bolster faith as it provides better context for the Book of Mormon and improves understanding of how the Book of Mormon relates to different traditions within the Old Testament.”
“They help readers humanize scriptural characters, and thus better relate to the stories being told within the LDS canon. When readers have been engaging theses texts since childhood, the stories can begin to feel stale, but ancient paradigms can bring in fresh perspectives that help bring the stories to life.”
I Think, Therefore I Defend
Some critics of apologetics argue that Mormons cannot present unbiased scholarship, because of their beliefs. Ash argues that there is no such thing as an unbiased observer. We all are going to use arguments to defend our understanding of the world and how it works.
“Both are vexed about defensive apologetic approaches which take on war-like mentalities that are more interested in defeating “the enemy” than in coming to the truth. Likewise, both are concerned about affirmative apologetic approaches that are based on shoddy scholarship, bad science, or faulty logic. No scholar (believer or critic) is right all the time. Arguments must be engaged on an individual basis.”
“While it is certainly commendable and worthwhile to pursue assumption-free scholarship, unfortunately it’s not something we humans are capable of doing very well. The more we know about the brain, for instance, the more we learn that apologetics is an unavoidable part of our human nature thanks to our evolutionary heritage.”
“There is no scholarship without an agenda; there is no such thing as simply following the evidence to its logical conclusions.”
“In the face of contrary evidence, all scholars invent hypotheses that will preserve the paradigm to which they are committed, unless extra-scientific forces prompt them to convert to a different paradigm. All scholars assign the greatest relevance to those facts for which their paradigm accounts; facts they cannot explain, they set aside as problems for which solutions will later have to be found. As Kuhn says, scholarship is “a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by” one’s paradigm. This is as true for orthodox scholars as it is for revisionists.”
“Study after study demonstrates that we are all apologists for our personal worldviews and that holding worldviews doesn’t vitiate scholarly discourse. At times, all people seek data for an interpretation rather than an interpretation for the data.”
A Wall Between Church and Academy
The author argues that there should be two separate efforts in scholarship surrounding Mormonism: the devotional directed towards members (apologetics), and the scholarly directed towards the academy (Mormon studies). “Forced integration leads to unnecessary complications, turf wars, and general unpleasantness.”
“Jefferson’s “wall” is notorious for protecting the government from religion, but to Jefferson it was just as important for the preservation and development of religious belief itself. He believed that the merging of the two spheres, religion and government, had led to one half of the “world [becoming] fools, and the other half hypocrites,” due to conflicting allegiances and ceaseless in-fighting. Only in the free marketplace of religious belief, where a clear demarcation of duties and obligations is instilled, could religion actually flourish.”
“Freed from the expectations to satisfy both camps, authors can be more pious to their various audiences, whether academic, public, or apologetic.”
Mormon Apologetics and Mormon Studies: Truth, History, and Love
A look into the strength and weaknesses of the field of Mormon studies. The author acknowledges that it is possible and good to look at Mormonism from an outsider’s perspective, complete with scholarly methodologies. But he also points out many of the weaknesses and hypocrisies of the academy– including the idea that they are fair and compassionate, while apologists are mean-spirited and defensive; the lack of acknowledgment of their own biases; and their evasion of actual truth for something they vaguely call History.
“Mormon Studies, for its part, is a domain within the more general area of “religious studies” that applies to Mormon scripture, history, belief, and practice. It thus involves looking at Mormon things from the outside—or, let us say, not necessarily from the inside—and employs frames of reference used by academics who study religious things.”
“It is important to note that, in this example, I have very deliberately stepped outside of Mormonism in order to enrich my understanding of Truth, which remains a Mormon understanding. This is what it means to think: to prove all things and to hold fast to that which is good. To be sure, my understanding of my own Mormonism is never complete and final, so it is to be expected—it is to be hoped—that my reflections on Aristotle will enrich, and therefore will modify, my understanding of the religious essentials that I remain committed to. Of course, in the abstract, there is the possibility that I will become so enamored of Aristotle’s philosophy that I will embrace it in such a way as to require my leaving Mormonism behind. But this possibility is indeed abstract for me, because I have tested the Mormon Truth over many years by study and by faith, have received many witnesses, both intellectual and spiritual, and have, moreover, made covenants that define and ground my life—none of which are conditional on anything to do with Aristotle.”
“But the oft-overlooked problem is that the academic disciplines that supply our alternative frameworks have reductive and imperialist tendencies: historians tend to reduce Truth to or replace Truth by History, sociologists by Society, etc. And professors and other professionals get paid (in money and prestige) to impose their frameworks and to publish the results to the applause of others who have an interest in those frameworks.”
“Academic disciplines tend to hide their distinctive frames of reference behind a façade of neutral “methodology.” This is why, I would suggest, Mormon engagements with other bodies of thought that involve frank and straightforward Truth-claims—Aristotle or Hegel, Mohammed or Martin Luther—are surer sources of spiritual and intellectual enrichment than “methodological” exercises in the hidden or disguised frameworks of the contemporary specialized disciplines.”
“But are we to imagine that, unlike the mere “apologist,” the “secular” student of Mormonism wakes up every morning ready to cast all inherited and habitual elements of his worldview aside and to start afresh to discover the meaning of life—including his own scholarly activity—with not the slightest prejudice in favor of, say, what he has already been doing, what people expect him to do, what others praise and pay him to do, etc.? That seems a lot to ask. But if the apologist is blamed for not demonstrating awareness in every moment of his writing of the potential that the Church is false, would it be too much to ask that every practitioner of secular Mormon Studies similarly demonstrates openness to the possibility that the LDS Church is true?”
“Whereas apologetics is thought to be proud and mean, Mormon Studies is supposed to be compassionate, empathetic, humble, and nice. The connection between science and compassion, I note in passing, is not clear. In any case, it should first be noted that the soundness of a defense of any opinion is not determined by matters of style or tone, but by reasoning and evidence.”
Neal A. Maxwell: “This new irreligious imperialism,” he wrote, “seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions. Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive. Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as untrendy and unenlightened.”
The Intellectual Cultures of Mormonism: Faith, Reason, and the Apologetic Enterprise
An account of some of the recent tensions in Mormonism surrounding faith and reason, including how general authorities lost control of the Mormon narrative in the age of the internet, and the re-direction of the Maxwell Institute in recent years, trying to be more in line with mainstream scholarship. He argues that ultimately, faith takes the upper hand in Mormonism with this quote from President Lee: “The revelations of God,” he declared, “are the standards by which we measure all learning, and if anything squares not with the revelations, then we may be certain it is not truth.”
Billy Sunday: “When the consensus of scholarship says one thing and the Word of God another, the consensus of scholarship can go plumb to hell for all I care.”
Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff: “Sometimes suffering is a trial. May it not also be that sometimes the nonrationality of one’s conviction that God exists is a trial, to be endured?” The implications here are profound. If faith claims can always trump evidence and argument, then apologetic dialogue runs the risk of being a pretense.
The Role of Women in Apologetics
An awesome look at how women have contributed to Mormon apologetics, from Mormon wives defending polygamy back in the day, to pioneering the Mormon voice on the Internet with publications like Meridian.
Avoiding Collateral Damage: Creating a Woman-Friendly Mormon Apologetics
The author puts forth criteria in how to avoid friendly fire in regards to women when making apologetic arguments: (1) what happens when we invert genders?, (2) does the argument reflect what we know about heaven as well as earth? (3) Are we strictly scrutinizing beliefs that conform with our culture? and (4) are we honoring the paradoxes at the core of Mormon belief?
“Further, the Mormon tendency to develop theology from policy—not the other way around—amplifies the potential for damage to occur if we are inventing reasons for a policy and then those reasons become our theology.”
Elder Oaks: “It’s not the pattern of the Lord to give reasons. We can put reasons to commandments. When we do we’re on our own. Some people put reasons to [the ban] and they turned out to be spectacularly wrong. There is a lesson in that. . . . The lesson I’ve drawn from that, I decided a long time ago that I had faith in the command and I had no faith in the reasons that had been suggested for it. . . . I’m referring to reasons given by general authorities and reasons elaborated upon [those reasons] by others. The whole set of reasons seemed to me to be unnecessary risk taking. . . . Let’s [not] make the mistake that’s been made in the past, here and in other areas, trying to put reasons to revelation. The reasons turn out to be man-made to a great extent. The revelations are what we sustain as the will of the Lord and that’s where safety lies.”
“The paradoxes of Mormon history and theology must be defended with at least as much vigor as the status quo. There is an inherent danger related to the enterprise of apologetics: it privileges the status quo and reifies it. To the extent that our discussions focus on apologetics rather than theology, we become more concerned with fossilizing the current historical moment than we are with continuing the ongoing work of the restoration. Apologetics by its nature tends toward dismissing the strands of tradition that do not mesh well with current practice. Therefore, apologetics can inhibit the ongoing nature of the restoration if we are not careful to acknowledge the various strands of Mormonism.”
“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona Givens explores the concept of a Heavenly Mother and how that changes our perspective of the divine, as well as the centrality of the Relief Society to Joseph Smith’s theology. Fascinating! Explores how Joseph Smith believed he was restoring something from the primitive Church (women were church leaders in the New Testament), and that they were meant to have a priestly role.
Kathleen Flake: “Joseph Smith was the Henry Ford of revelation. He wanted every home to have one, and the revelation he had in mind was the revelation he’d had, which was seeing God.”
Richard Bushman: “Smith did not attempt to monopolize the prophetic office. It was as if he intended to reduce his own role and infuse the church bureaucracy with his charismatic powers.”
Lamanites, Apologetics, and Tensions in Mormon Anthropology
The author uses the Nephite/Lamanite tension and examines how it can be used to interpret scholar/layman and faithful/critical writers. I didn’t like this one as much, too much jargon (indexicality? seriously?)
Conceptual Confusion and the Building of Stumbling Blocks of Faith
Argues that apologists actually create stumbling blocks to believers by giving legitimacy to the idea that faith is entirely at the mercy of reason; faith cannot exist unless reason has a say first. He argues that even if it were proven that the Book of Mormon were a product of the 19th century, faith can adjust and live on.
“Thus, I argue that rather than defending any religious claims, apologetics actually establishes or affirms the false criterion by which those religious beliefs may be unfortunately lost. In other words, instead of tearing down potential stumbling blocks to faith, Mormon apologetics actually and unknowingly engages in building and establishing those blocks—blocks that may be tripped upon by others who have accepted the conceptual confusion.”
D. Z. Phillips: “Apologetics is guilty of friendly fire when it says more than it knows.”4
“They are joining hands with the critics they are opposing in their misguided understanding that religious claims stand or fall on secular historical, philosophical, or scientific argumentation.”
“Second, regardless of whether or not any particular work of secular scholarship in defense of religious claims withstands the rigorous debates of time, it wrongly establishes secular scholarship in general as an ever-present potential defeater for religious belief. Religious claims thus survive at the mercy of scholarship, and apologists must stand ready to defend them against any and all new threats.”
““Moreover, most would agree—I certainly would—that it is impossible, using empirical methods, to prove the divine.” However, he later adds, “It’s the duty of the apologist . . . to clear the ground in order to make it possible for the seed to grow. Faith is still necessary. . . . Apologetics is simply a useful tool that . . . helps to preserve an environment that permits such faith to take root and flourish.”
“Far from avoiding the conceptual problem inherent to apologetics, this nuance actually exacerbates the apologetic building of stumbling blocks of faith. This is because not only does such rhetoric imply that secular argumentation has something to say about particular religious claims, it implies that religious claims are only possible or may only be permitted if certain secular claims are in fact true.”
“But isn’t an assertion about the Book of Mormon’s historicity an assertion about its being the word of God? While the traditional understanding of the miraculous coming forth of the Book of Mormon may seem to imply as much, a closer examination reveals that such a line of thinking still falls into the same confusion. If Joseph Smith’s translation of the buried Nephite record had revealed that the plates of gold consisted of a daily log of Mormon’s grocery lists and losing lottery ticket numbers (or some other mundane record), few testimonies would be given of the Book of Mormon, and it would have hardly ever gained any traction as containing the word of God.”
“When a Mormon gets up in a testimony meeting and says, “I know that the Book of Mormon is true,” she is not referring to the historicity of the scriptures, but rather she is testifying about the role that the Book of Mormon plays in her life.”
D. Z. Phillips: “I do not think Jesus is saying, “Peter, flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but of course, others may have come to this conclusion by those means.” It is not as though, although Peter reached the conclusions by means of what is revealed to him, philosophers may come along later . . . and reach the same conclusion by other means, for example probability theory. Jesus is saying that the kind of confession Peter makes can only be arrived at by God working in us.”
“I am not proposing a religious fideism whereby religious claims are outside the realm of reason or immune from criticism altogether. Religious claims such as Jesus being the Son of God, the Book of Mormon being the word of God, and Joseph Smith being a prophet of God are of a different kind and participate in a different language game from scholarship that has its own rules and measures.”
Shifting Intellectual and Religious Paradigms: One Apologist’s Journey into Critical Study
The author describes his journey of faith, and how he had to adjust his perspective on faith after pursuing a graduate degree in biblical criticism. The main takeaway is the realization that scripture is simultaneously of both human and divine origin. That humans contributed to it doesn’t take away from its religious value.
“At this point in my life, I have come to believe that a critical approach to scripture is, in fact, an essential part of a spiritual journey. This perhaps explains my concern with contemporary apologetics, meaning an active attempt to defend a specific religious paradigm or belief system. As religious people, I do not think we should strive to force scripture (or our understanding of LDS doctrine or history for that matter) to match our expectations, whatever they may be. I don’t believe that coercing our history and our scriptural texts to fit our traditional beliefs constitutes an act of faith. In fact, from my perspective, doing so is just the opposite.”
“Apologetics assumes that we have the answers. Instead of allowing critical thinking to shape our relationship and understanding with divinity, apologetic defense may simply disguise a fear that God and the universe are much more complex than we would like to believe.”
David F. Holland: “The Book of Mormon itself reinforces the message that when heavenly light mixes with human messengers, God’s treasure is to be found in earthly vessels. It repeatedly warns its readers not to discard the things of God because of the flaws of men (Morm. 9:31). . . . The notion that later generations may improve upon the scriptural text—even be “wiser” than its inspired authors—brings the Book of Mormon closer to the most radical elements of America’s emerging culture of biblical criticism than to its long tradition of biblical conservatism.”
“From start to finish, the Book of Mormon presents readers with a fascinating paradox. On the one hand, the book itself is a miracle and is defined by Joseph Smith as “the most correct” book ever written, since a person can “get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” And yet, Book of Mormon authors constantly refer to the text’s inherent weakness. It is as if the Book of Mormon personifies John’s New Testament depiction of the Word of God, which is both divine and made flesh.”
“There is therefore no such thing as the pure, unadulterated word of God. It is always both human and divine, and this point seems to be one that the Book of Mormon itself practically begs its readers to recognize.”
“As a critical student of the Bible and Mormonism, I’m not entirely opposed to apologetics. But I am opposed to academic apologetics. Simply put, I do not believe that the tools of scholarship can be used to establish the validity of religious experiences.”
“The historian seeks to uncover the most likely things that occurred in the past. By definition, a miracle is the most unlikely thing to occur—that’s what makes it a miracle. If historians are trying to uncover what is most likely to have happened in the past, and a miracle is the most unlikely thing to have occurred, historians can never take seriously such miraculous things as golden plates or resurrection. These things may be true, but they are beyond the ability of a historian to address. They are matters of religious belief.”
“Despite its religious merits, scripture should not be seen as an infallible manual to divinity. Instead, scripture is the textual result of a human effort to reflect the divine. Though inevitably flawed by mortal hands, that endeavor can inspire meaningful spiritual growth. This is true even when a reader encounters a construct in holy writ that she rejects, since that problematic paradigm has caused the reader to define her own spiritual conviction in opposition to the one held by the author. Scripture is not a manual. It is a springboard to enlightenment.”
Toward a New Vision of Apologetics
One of my personal favorite in the series. The author argues that rather than creating space so that believers can feel comfortable in their faith, an apologist’s task should actually be just the opposite: to clearly define where belief must enter the equation by peeling away poor logic and showing just how radical our belief must be.
“Although one sometimes hears it said that apologists attempt to prove the truth of the Restoration, I see little of that actually on offer in apologetic literature. The vast majority of apologists—even apologists who are bad at what they do—recognize that their intellectual defenses of Mormonism can only go so far, that there remains after every argument a certain leap to be made with one’s heart.”
“In other words, what distinguishes differing accounts of what ideally constitutes apologetics is the different ways in which they conceive of the indirect manner in which reason makes for the possibility of revelation. What are the varieties of indirect relationships one might conceive between the constraints of reason and the convictions of the heart, as these operate in apologetics? And which of these varieties provides us with apologetics in the most proper sense?”
“What needs calling into question, it seems to me, is the very idea that the Restoration needs or even wants favorable conditions for the development of genuine conviction regarding its truth. The apostle Paul said that “it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (1 Cor. 1:21), arguing that God intervenes in the world by erecting a barrier against belief. The Restoration, like the Gospel it revitalizes and announces anew, is meant to present a kind of scandal or a stumbling block to the world. Whatever makes belief easier makes belief weaker, suggesting that what faith requires amounts to less and less. Paradoxically, the more reason does to create favorable conditions for the development of conviction, the less forceful and passionate conviction will usually be when revelation has its way. Thus the constant temptation that attends apologetics, its all-too-natural tendency against which it must ideally work, is precisely to minimize the scandalous nature of the Restoration by attempting to create favorable conditions for developing spiritual conviction. But as Marion says in the same essay cited above, the task of apologetics is paradoxically “to reinforce the difficulty” of decision in favor of truth.”
“What I mean to suggest is that all such apologetic work must aim (in Marion’s words once more) at “settling as quickly and as well as possible the theoretical debate” only so as to “indicate the place where the decision of the will must intervene, so that the will might know what it must, without avoidance, accept or refuse, and above all that the will might know the One whom it must repudiate or confess.””
“In other words, I have little to criticize in the usual methods employed in apologetics, described above. I mean rather to critique the aim with which apologists tend to use those methods. The point of clearing away bad arguments and false representations is, ideally, to bring into real clarity what faith in the Restoration requires, not to undercut the credibility of the critics. The point of constructing rational arguments for the truth of Mormonism’s faith claims is to reveal the coherence and richness of faith in the Restoration, not to predispose people to actual conviction regarding its truth. Apologetics achieves its ideal when it wears itself out in making the stakes of the Restoration fully clear. That ideal can only be compromised where one works only or primarily to make conditions for developing conviction favorable.”
“Where, instead, one attempts to lessen the burden of belief, to veil the scandal of faith, to widen the road that leads to eternal life, or to remove the stumbling block divinely placed in our paths, one compromises the apologetic task. Apologetics should not resolve crises of faith but provoke them, helping those who stumble to recognize that they are likely stumbling for the first time in their lives on the real because of the robust faith to which conviction would commit them. Apologetics fails when it instead attempts to solve doubts too quickly. Apologetics ideally poses a problem—the central and only problem, that of whether and how God has intervened in history to accomplish a divine work—rather than answers questions. Apologetics ideally seeks, in fact, to reveal that our reasonable questions are usually asked in an attempt to avoid this one problem.”
“My own experience has been that the Spirit brings conviction to my heart more powerfully and more lastingly when I encounter the depth of the Restoration, not when I find just that there are reasons to be suspicious about Mormonism’s critics or reasons to think Mormonism’s claims are rationally defensible. An apologetics fully worthy of the Restoration must be at least as profound as the Restoration itself, and that depth can be investigated rationally.”
Apologetics as Theological Praxis
Argues that the tone of apologetics is, indeed, important, and must be done with gentleness and meekness. Otherwise we are being hypocritical and don’t understand the nature of our message. Understanding others is much more important than defending abstract truths.
“The result of this systematic theology is a web of interdependent beliefs supported by a handful of core propositions that provide the context or framework within which these interdependent beliefs become coherent. As a result, when any belief within the system—and especially a core or essential belief—is called into question, the entire system or worldview may seem threatened. Thus, Saints who have encountered a challenge to their beliefs seek out apologetics as a means not only to answer a given question, but also to reestablish harmony among a broader set of beliefs.”
“It is my contention that Latter-day Saints can do better by augmenting past efforts with a pastoral mindset well-suited for contemporary criticism, questions, and concerns.”
“I will argue that religious apologetics must be approached as a devotional act—an act not necessarily intended to “rescue” those who question, but rather as an expression of our inner convictions and commitments. Additionally, I will propose that contemporary apologetics should be both formulated and expressed with an awareness of the pastoral theology which motivates all Christian ideals of friendship, empathy, and compassion.”
“The apologetic enterprise, above anything else, must be carried out with gentleness and reverence so that any defense or explanation of our inner hope is carried out or presented in such a way as to clearly demonstrate Christian devotion. Presented otherwise, the apologetic explanation becomes self-defeating and self-contradictory, revealing that our chosen words betray our claimed inner conviction. If we attempt to defend our faith in a way inconsistent with its very foundation, we are better off remaining silent.”
“Broadly speaking, pastoral theology asserts two primary truths: suffering exists and all Saints are called to act as the agents of God’s love in alleviating that suffering. Such a theology cannot be bogged down by dogma, policy, tradition, or authority. Its claims are motivated by, but completely independent of, other LDS doctrines. No belief in or agreement on any abstract idea or assertion is requisite to feed the hungry or comfort the sick.”
“There is a well-known traditional Zen Buddhist story wherein a student asks his master: “What is enlightenment?” The master replied: “When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep.” Pastoral care is just as simple. When you meet the hungry, feed. And when you encounter the sick or afflicted, provide comfort. If we find ourselves giving greater allegiance to abstract ideas or organizational practices more than to those we are called to serve, we have fundamentally misunderstood the beautiful simplicity of pastoral theology and the pastoral approach to apologetics.”
“As modern Mormons we may find ourselves falling into the trap of searching for a “correct” understanding of the Gospel in an abstract sense—as if our abstract beliefs or notions are of some great importance in themselves. In truth, we best come to know God and the Gospel through our collective and individual practice of religious ideals: by imitating and following Christ.”
“In the pastoral role, if we “win” an apologetic argument through the use of methods that serve to divide or separate us from our fellow Saints—even if this is not our intention—we have served up stones, where bread was required.”
“There are significant challenges to LDS truth-claims, and we ignore the reality of these problems at our own peril. Even if we have personally come to some sort of resolution on a given question, it is unreasonable to expect others to simply accept our view or interpretation. Therefore, it is very important to acknowledge the legitimacy of both the questions themselves and the motivations behind asking such questions. We must allow others the opportunity—as we have allowed ourselves—to work out their own interpretations and draw their own conclusions.”
apologetics, Book Review, books, faith and reason, latter-day saint, LDS, Mormon studies, religious studies
A mighty change of heart part IV: Responding in love to the beggar’s petition
Book review: “Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes”
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