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College Misery: Delicious Coincidence or just (VERY) Bad Karma?
Delicious Coincidence or just (VERY) Bad Karma?
Our quarter began on Monday and I assigned a prompt for the first day of class where the potential flakes needed to argue something based on a recent controversial topic in the news. As I skimmed through to gauge their writing, determining who's half-assing it (65%), who's truly earnest (5%), and who is pretending to play my game (30%), I came across one entry where the student's phrasing was VERY familiar to a phrase I'm very familiar with.
Why am I familiar with this phrase? I have a twitter account, and with some of my followers, we've formed bonds, sometimes-flirted, always-teased, and just become friends. I've been pretty good about keeping my identity a secret on there, not sharing too much about my irl self<|fim_middle|> but there was no evidence that it did happen. Nevertheless, we altered our procedures to make the scenario even less likely to occur.
It's different when the facts reported online can actually be verified and doing so is feasible. For instance, if the student or the student's online persona says that s/he plagiarized, the professor can check the student's work more carefully to find out if that's true. If the paper is plagiarized, it's not a matter of opinion: it is a verified fact.
When your student reported an alleged case of cheating, the student probably hadn't seen the actual work or witnessed the cheating while it was happening. And of course, a professor does not have to check a student's whole life story. On the other hand, a professor who gets a hint about a possibly plagiarized paper can just pay more attention to that particular paper and verify the facts.
What OHP said about "in character".
I wouldn't take anything on FB / Twitter at face value.
On such sites, does anybody ever claim to have worked hard at something? Much more likely to be blase about stuff like the quality of the projects, their effort, etc.
It is correct that an online report of wrongdoing is sufficient cause to investigate further. But till such investigation yields corroboration, then the reports are allegation, not fact.
In my example, the student who pseudonymously wrote about cheating had indeed witnessed none, but he could have just as easily claimed he himself had cheated or plaigiarised his own paper with equal truthfulness.
If this happened to me, it would freak me out to no end. For one thing, it could easily be he has somehow figured out your real-life identity. So, agreeing with the above: forget Twitter for the quarter, or as long as he is in your class. Certainly I wouldn't look at his "tweets" at all.
OMFG: I actually agree with Monica!
Indeed. I hadn't considered the discovering-malfeasance-after-the-fact angle, but it's a realistic possibility, and checking the feed after all but the very final grading is done is a sensible solution.
Unless you just don't have a copy, for instance because the work was done on paper and you have already returned it to the student without making a photocopy.
Yup. You never want the pseudonymous, online writings to be the only 'evidence'. | , but I have become fairly friendly with one individual, whom I shall call GrundyFlax68 (I used an online name generator to come up with that one). GrundyFlax68 always ends his Direct Messages with a brief phrase he's coined, the same phrase at the end of that assignment.
GrundyFlax68 and I have been "twitter friends" (no twitter crush for me) for three years now. GrundyFlax68 is my buddy, my pal, my backup, and the person I have vented to about my hoarding neighbor's habits, or to let him know the pomegranate tree he advised me to prune looks dead now. He has a wicked sense of humor, is hilarious online, and now, yes, you know where I'm going (there's no subtle buildup to this "big" reveal): GrundyFlax68 is a 23-year-old lanky guy with an unfortunate haircut who spent much of the class yesterday and today drawing a fake tribal tattoo on his arm with a Sharpie.
In order to be 90% sure of this, I asked the class today to "share" a little bit about their hobbies, talking about which of their hobbies or activities they think will be helpful in supporting their academic endeavors and which they think might become a problem for them when papers are due. He revealed that he spends a lot of time on twitter, but that his tweets are "more intellectual than you'd imagine." I blinked twice at that one because I don't contribute anything intellectual to twitter, nor would I characterize his posts as intellectual in any way. Words have been exchanged over varying interpretations of scenes from Disney movies, but that's as intellectual as it has gotten!
So... there's no question that I'm never revealing to him who I am. But it's going to make for an interesting quarter if he ends up staying in my class. I'm not sure if I should attempt to encourage him to switch sections before the Add/Drop date, or whether to just do what I had originally planned by being the consummate professional (but how?). Either way, it feels like both good and bad karma are trying to tell me something here.
Ever since creating an online persona, I have dreamed of this happening to me. Just once, I'd love for a colleague to say, offhand, "don't care more about their education than they do," or follow me on Twitter.
This could be a lot of fun and educational for you as the student and Twitter persona work their way through the semester. You could play a bit of sock puppetry by using your Twitter voice to backup what his professor said in class.
What would you do if he admitted on Twitter that he cheated?
I don't know! I'm still a little astounded that this has happened. I mean we're at a small (tiny!) SLAC in a remote area of the country! How likely is this to even happen? HOW?!!!!
I agree with Ben - this sounds fun. One thing we rarely get is an honest backchannel into what the students are really thinking about.
I wouldn't sockpuppet though; it might give the game away.
"Pretending to play my game" goes into my "why haven't I thought of putting it this way? " file.
As for GrundyFlax68, I'd love to hear Isabel Dalhousie (fictional applied moral philosopher) parse this situation. You've already lost him as a Twitter friend, and he's already used up the default goodwill (I hope) all students start with. It's not much different from overhearing a student with a distinctive voice badmouth you in the restroom, and staying in the stall until she leaves. Whatever he tweets is by definition public, so you're not violating his privacy by continuing to read his tweets.
Except. What if you later sought out ways to secretly overhear the restroom complainer. Wouldn't that be uncomfortably close to obsessive?
You have him at a disadvantage two ways. One, both of you tweet under pseudonyms, but you know his identity, and not the other way round. Two, you assign his grades, which tips the balance of power in your favor.
As fun as the semester could be, you are in ethically murky waters. But I don't know how you could recuse yourself (encourage him to switch sections) without putting your own pseudonymity at risk. The easiest solution would be to just stop following him on Twitter, which will also prevent him from messaging you directly.
I just don't buy this!
Tricky situation. The backchannel does sound tempting, but I agree with Proffie G that reading it presents something of an ethical quagmire, since he doesn't know your identity, and you have a good deal of power over him.
I don't know enough about the workings of twitter to understand all your options, but it seems to me that you need to avoid seeing any more of his tweets about the class, at least until the quarter is over, preferably without it looking to him like you're treating him, specifically, differently than your other twitter followers. Maybe there are other options of which I'm unaware, but it sounds to me like the easiest one would be to simply be too busy to pay attention to twitter this quarter. If that's not possible, then you'd need to find a way to filter him specifically, without his catching on that you're still actively interacting with others, which sounds tricky.
I suppose the other, bolder, and perhaps ultimately simpler option would be to out yourself to him, perhaps in a private message, and suggest that, if your suspicion about his identity is correct, you unfollow each other for the quarter. That would work only if there's no major downside to his knowing your irl identity (and/or other students/colleagues knowing your twitter identity, since you can't be sure he'll keep the secret, even if you ask him to). Maybe I'm missing something about how you became twitter friends that explains what seems like a pretty big coincidence, but the more I think about this, I really wonder if he doesn't know, or at least suspect, already, and maybe is even trying to let you know who he is by dropping hints in class and on twitter. If so, he could be anything from socially awkward (but perhaps quite technologically advanced) to something more alarming -- manipulative, stalkerish, or something along those lines. If so, then addressing the situation directly seems like the best way to defuse it -- but, once again, that depends on how badly you need to protect your twitter identity (and how much you need to use twitter for other purposes this quarter).
No chance of my revealing my identity to him. I work at a conservative Christian SLAC where any number of my tweets could lead to my losing my job because of (for example) my support for LGBT rights, or calling BS on certain Creationist beliefs, for starters. I would hate for him to know that and then remain in the class and use it against me to coerce me into giving a better grade. While he hasn't appeared to be that kind of person on twitter, irl he seems to be a different persona, just like I'm not the persona I am on twitter that I am irl.
This is just one of those "WHOA!" weird things, and while I know there are all kinds of warnings about posting things online that could get us fired, I've been careful to have a completely separate identity and not to use work equipment to tweet using that handle.
Would you start checking if he actually had some problems or gave you excuses that might not be true? How would you feel if he admitted to things like cheating or telling you lies and you found out too late to do anything about that? I realize that professors don't have time to find out what their students are doing online, but doing it when possible could actually be a good idea. If students don't want that to happen, they should just keep their online identity secret, have no such identity at all, or never post anything secret or objectionable.
Initially, I was really thrilled that you got the opportunity to monitor a student's tweets about you during the semester. Proffie G and others make good points about the ethical issues this raises. More practically, it would look bad (though it wouldn't be really wrong) if your student found out that you had been monitoring his social media.
It's a good idea to mute him for the term. After you submit your grades, scroll back through his Twitter feed and read about yourself!
It sounds like you've got a workable plan, as long as you can avoid the temptation to check his feed until after the quarter is over. It also sounds like the travel/off the grid excuse is a good choice for disappearing, since it also constitutes something of a red herring if he does suspect the twitter handle/irl identity connection. That excuse, plus less time on twitter in general for the quarter (which will also reduce the temptation to check his feed), sounds like a good plan.
The whole question of whether the SLAC could fire you for outside-of-work opinions expressed by a pseudonymous persona not easily connected to your real name/professional persona is a fascinating one, since some of the usual reasons associated with "conduct unbecoming" clauses (e.g. effect on the reputation of the institution) wouldn't apply, but some others (which I suspect would be more popular at a religious SLAC -- e.g. the idea that your actions and opinions say something about your overall moral worth) would. But, fascinating as the question may be, I wouldn't want to see you at the center of a test case litigated in the present legal/political climate.
What would happen if the student revealed some serious wrongdoing that you can simply not ignore, such as cheating, and you only found out after the semester is over? You would then have to choose between revealing your online identity and willingly ignoring serious wrongdoing by the student. If you got the hint during the semester, you could simply pretend that you noticed the problem yourself. If you miss it and then you find out after the semester, it may seem odd to say that you looked at the student's work for some reason after the student's grade is final.
If you are not willing to simply follow the student's tweets during the semester, you could avoid this scenario by checking his tweets once all the work is graded and the final grade is just about to be submitted. Because this is not necessarily practical, you could do it a little earlier.
I am not sure that things posted online "in character" are necessarily the views or opinions of the real-life person.
I was once on a panel that investigated an alleged case of cheating, which had been brought to our attention by a student who had read something on social media. It turned out to be a case of fiction inspired by events in real life, with a few real-life facts thrown in. The writer thought that the story, or one like it, "could have happened" and ran with the premise, | 2,278 |
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"They're a very good team," said UMass coach Fran O'Leary. "They've received votes, they're in and around the top 30 in the country, and our next two games are on the road against probably the best two teams in the conference. We played VCU, and then, Fordham and Rhode Island are probably the three best teams in the conference, so we're going to have our hands full. They've got an experienced team, return a lot of very good players, I think it'll be a great matchup. We want points on the road, we need points on the road, and the sooner the better."
The Minutemen enter the midweek matchup with a more balanced scoring attack than last year's iteration — DeAndrae Brown leads the way with six goals on the year, but Davis Smith and Jack Fulton are right on his heels having bagged four goals this season. Freshman James McPherson has struck twice for the Minutemen this fall, and Brandon Merklin and Jared McCleary each have a goal to their credit as well.
"It's great because you don't want to be relying on one guy hitting double-digits all the time," O'Leary said. "So it's nice that we've had goals from different players on the team, it's been a real positive for us."
"The goals are kind of spread out," Brown said. "I think it's more on our offense, we have a great attacking offense that's very versatile. I just happen to be on the end of a couple of them. There's a lot of chances in different areas, so there's a lot of chances for everyone to score in certain situations."
Despite only having started once all season — against Mason on Saturday — Brown's six goals leave him joint-second in the conference.
"He's terrific, DeAndrae's been fantastic," O'Leary said. "He's come into a starting role [on Saturday], he played practically every minute, he was a physical presence, the vast majority of his shots end up on target. He's scored six goals now with some limited playing time, but his play sort of demands more playing time and he's getting that now. He more often than not hits the target, even if he doesn't score he works the keeper, so we're very, very pleased with him."
Brown's exploits and the overall spreading of the wealth have also taken the goalscoring pressure off of Smith, who led the team and was second in the A-10 in goals in 2017. Though he isn't pumping in goals at the rate he did last fall, Smith has still been an impact player in the center of the park.
"[Smith]'s been fantastic," said O'Leary of his towering sophomore. "He's come into the midfield, he had a dominant performance against George Mason, he's always looking to get in the box. There'll be more goals from Davis before the season's over."
The Minutemen head to Kingston with a boost of confidence from Saturday's win, with the first points of the season finally out of the way.
"It was three points that we definitely needed," Smith said. "We understood the importance coming in, we took it very seriously, and those three points were a big first step but we've still got a long way to go."
The A-10 season is only three games deep but the Minutemen find themselves in ninth place, on the outside looking in at the conference tournament picture. UMass is far from out of it with 15 points left to play for, but O'Leary and his men need a solid run of form over the final five games to secure a tournament berth and, ideally, a home game in the first round.
"It's good to get the first win, but we need a few more to get in [to the A-10 tournament]. Our guys, we've got to maintain the same urgency, the same commitment. We've played three games now and created a lot of opportunities, and now we want to go get a clean sheet sometime over these next two road games, get a shutout and take our chances, then we'll feel a lot better. Once we get through these two games, we'll have a real feel for where we are, because we're playing the cream of the crop in the league right now."
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They booked their spot in Sunday's grand final against the Livewired Lightning after downing the Valley Raptors by six wickets at Cahill Park, Gatton.
The Umbrellas sent the Raptors into bat, and it looked like a questionable move early, as openers Harry Wood (28 runs) and Bowan Conacher (21) extended their first-wicket partnership beyond 40.
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The beer was almost gone, summer was almost gone, and I was leaving in three days for college. I was leaving, and the moon was shining its silver light on our sorry excuse for a final Saturday night.
The kid giggled. They always did the first time they heard Sid fake-swear. At home, shouted curse words dominated the bulk of Sid's family interactions, so he'd come up with a huge repertoire of insults that didn't technically qualify as swears. It was a small act of rebellion that went largely unnoticed by his parents.
Kris Dinnison learned to read when she was five years old. She grew up reading books nobody else had read and listening to music nobody else had heard of and thinking she was weird, which she kind of was. She spent nearly two decades as a teacher and librarian while dreaming of becoming a writer. Now she lives and writes in Spokane, Washington. Her first novel, You and Me and Him, came out from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in July, 2015.
Sid and Leo are best friends who are standing on a precipice: one of them is about to move away; the other is going to stay behind. They've spent many a night in Sid's Pacer—driving around, sipping beer, playing "Truth or Dare" to help pass the time. They always choose "dare" because it's the riskier, more interesting choice.
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KD: I originally wrote the story for a benefit I did for Humanities Washington, an event called Bedtime Stories. The theme was "A Hard Day's Night." So I started thinking about what kind of evening would qualify. I started thinking about the nights I remembered as being both wonderful and also memorable. Most of them revolved around endings and beginnings: the night before I moved to California in high school, graduation night,<|fim_middle|> more modern take on their friendship.
PR: Did you ever consider having Sid react differently to Leo's big "reveal"?
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PR: And did you ever consider telling the story from Sid's point of view, instead of from Leo's? It struck me that it would be an excellent writing challenge: write another version of this same story, but from Sid's point of view.
KD: I did try it with Sid's POV, and I liked that angle. But I think I identified more with Leo. In most of my friendships, I feel like I'm the sidekick to my more charismatic, dynamic friends. Like Leo, I'm not wild or wacky or larger than life. At the same time, those friends spend time with me because of what I am, not because of what I'm not. I know I'm important to them; friendships like those are always symbiotic.
KD: Oh wow! Okay. This story is about authenticity. That was hard.
KD: I'm fast-drafting a new novel and revising one I've been working on for a little over a year. Revising is hard for me. It reminds me of all the things I don't know about writing. I'm always working on short stories as well.
KD: There are so many, and what feels like the most important advice changes depending on what I'm working on or struggling with. But probably the two best pieces of advice for me are from Neil Gaiman: "Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished." And from Anne Lamott: "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere." These two quotes have pushed me to finish things I would have abandoned in despair (including my debut novel!) and freed me to write terribly, since writing terribly is better than not writing at all. | the night before my wedding, events like that. And they almost all involved fun, kind of crazy stuff but also some big, deep discussions about life and the universe and the meaning of it all.
PR: When is this story? The first time I read it, I found myself wondering if we were in the 80s, or the 90s, or the oughts, or now. The more I wondered, the more I grew to like the fact that the story feels somewhat timeless. But when were you envisioning its taking place?
KD: I'm glad you feel that way! I was definitely inspired by my teenage self in the 1980s, but the conversation Sid and Leo have would have been really rare then. When I was in high school there were kids we thought might be gay, but I only knew one kid who was actually out. AIDS was new and people were scared in all kinds of unreasonable ways and I think people tended to come out when they were older, which is what a lot of my friends did. So when I wrote the story I thought of it being a | 228 |
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Cancer Experts Support Surgeon General's Melanoma Initiative
CINCINNATI—According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is the most common of all cancers, accounting for nearly half of all<|fim_middle|> and several states have banned indoor tanning for minors under the age of 18.
"There is no safe amount of indoor tanning, just is there is no safe number of cigarettes."
Jeffrey Sussman, MD, professor and surgical oncology division chief at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health surgical oncologist, says he hopes that community members will take this warning seriously.
"Fifty years ago, the surgeon general warned that tobacco can cause cancer, and almost everyone accepts this as fact, even if many unfortunately continue to smoke," he says. "Hopefully, people will learn the dangers of tanning beds and UV radiation exposure more quickly than the dangers of tobacco to stop or reduce their risk for skin cancer development.
"We are seeing more young patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s with melanoma who use tanning beds. In addition to preventing cancer by avoiding harmful UV rays, people will benefit with younger looking skin. Melanoma, a cancer that even at a few millimeters thick, can spread and kill."
To schedule an appointment with UC Health Surgical Oncology, call (513) 584-8900; to schedule an appointment with UC Health Dermatology, call (513) 475-7630.
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Metastatic Brain Tumor Treatment Could Be on the Horizon With SapC-DOPS Use | cancers in the United States.
On Tuesday, the U.S. surgeon general—an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati residency program in dermatology—issued a call to action to prevent the disease, calling it a major public health problem that requires immediate action; as a result, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set five goals for communities to decrease the risk of skin cancer, including providing shade at parks, schools and other public spaces and reducing indoor tanning.
UC Cancer Institute skin cancer experts support this initiative, as they see the detriment caused by the sun every day.
Specifically, Adam Ingraffea, MD, who is also a clinical assistant professor and associate program director in UC's department of dermatology and UC Health dermatologist, says tanning beds are particularly dangerous. He says he sees an ever-increasing number of young women with skin cancer who have a history of indoor tanning.
"A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) states that the number of skin cancer cases due to tanning is higher than the number of lung cancer cases due to smoking," he says. "In the U.S. alone, 419,254 cases of skin cancer can be attributed to indoor tanning. Out of this number, 6,199 are melanoma cases, the most dangerous type of skin cancer.
He says many countries around the world | 289 |
Dakotasuchus (meaning "Dakota [Sandstone] crocodile") is a genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils have been recovered from the Cenomanian-age Upper Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone of Kansas. The type specimen was found in an iron-cemented sandstone concretion near Salina. This concretion was broken into two large pieces; more of the specimen was probably present originally, but by the time it was found only the torso and short portions of the neck and tail remained. Twenty pairs of bony scutes ran down the mid<|fim_middle|> Dakotasuchus to Goniopholididae in 1988. In 2017, fossils of Dakotasuchus kingi which consisted of a coracoid, scutes, a dorsal vertebrate and postcranial bones were found in Utah, specifically in the Cedar Mountain Formation's Mussentuchit Member.
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Late Cretaceous reptiles of North America
Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of North America
Taxa named by Maurice Mehl
Fossil taxa described in 1941
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera | line of the back. The vertebrae lacked the procoelous articulation (concave anterior and convex posterior faces) of more derived crocodyliforms. Dakotasuchus had short broad shoulder blades, suggesting it had stout powerful forelimbs and perhaps terrestrial habits. M. G. Mehl, who described the genus, estimated the length of the type individual when complete to have been . The type species is D. kingi, named for Professor King, a former dean of Kansas Wesleyan University. Mehl did not classify his new genus to a more inclusive group than Mesosuchia (a paraphyletic group replaced by Mesoeucrocodylia). Robert Carroll assigned | 143 |
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Your License Purchase Supports Conservation. Annual hunting licenses on sale now. Did you know 100% of license fees go to conservation? Check out the combo packages if you enjoy both fishing and hunting. Then buy your license online or at your favorite retailer. | with your official Cabela's hunting equipment. Be prepared for your next big buck or trophy tom with Cabela's huge selection of hunting accessories, including archery equipment, game calls, hunting optics and more.
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Mayer Brown Sinks Coffee-mate Class Action
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Illegal and dangerous.
That's how plaintiffs in a would-be class action described the coffee creamer Coffee-mate, made by Nestlé USA Inc.
On Tuesday, lawyers from Mayer Brown led by partners Carmine Zarlenga and Dale Giali got the suit dismissed with prejudice.
The Weston firm sued Nestle in San Francisco federal court in April 2015, alleging that Coffee-mate contains unhealthy partially hydrogenated oil, even though it claims to have "0g trans fat."
"The trans fat creamers were worth less than what plaintiff paid for them. Indeed, Coffee-mate is not fit for human consumption and has a value of $0," wrote Gregory Weston on behalf of California resident Troy Backus, asserting violations of California's Unfair Competition Law.
Weston has carved out a specialty suing companies over trans fat, winning a settlement with Quaker Oats Co. in 2014 to remove artificial trans fat from Quaker Chewy Bars, Oatmeal to Go Bars and Instant Oatmeal. The 2004 Harvard Law grad (who started his career at the plaintiffs firm now known as Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd) has also gone after Cup Noodles and margarine makers.
But he struck out with Coffee-mate when U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney tossed all nine causes of action.
The reason? Preemption.
In June 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule that requires food makers to quit using partially hydrogenated oil as of June 18, 2018. The three-year compliance period is designed to minimize market disruption and let companies use up their existing product inventories.
"Nestlé argues that Backus's suit, which 'seeks to make it immediately unlawful to market or sell' in California any food product containing [partially hydrogenated oil], conflicts with the FDA's regulatory scheme," Chesney wrote. "The court…agrees."
As for the "0g trans fat" labelling claims, the Mayer Brown lawyers successfully argued that's expressly preempted by the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act.
The law instructs food makers in the nutrition facts box to say a product has no trans fat if it has less than 0.5 grams. And no one disputes that Coffee-mate products at issue contain less than 0.5 gram of trans fat.
The question was whether the red-and-white "0g Trans Fat" logo on Coffee-mate's main label, outside the nutrition facts box, was improper.
"To date, the Ninth Circuit, albeit in an unpublished decision, as well as three district courts in this district, have found labeling claims that are essentially indistinguishable from the labeling claims here at issue were preempted," Chesney found. The judges all found it was important to maintain consistency between what's in the nutrition facts box (which is spelled out by the law) and what's on the rest of the label to avoid consumer confusion.
The nutrition content claim "is neither false nor misleading under federal law," Chesney found.
In addition to Mayer Brown partners Zarlenga and Giali, associates Andrea Weiss and Elizabeth Crepps worked on the case.
Reprinted with permission from the March 10, 2016 edition of The Litigation Daily © 201 | 691 |
In December 2012, in Chisinau, took place the first Awards Edition of Moldova Eco-Energetica. More than 65 applications participated to this very important contest in the period between 1st of July – 20th September 2012 and all these applications were reviewed by experts for deciding the big winners.
Moldova Eco-Energetica is the most important and<|fim_middle|>, ministers, academia and civil society, representatives of international organizations, a total of more than 300 people interested in the future of renewable energy in Moldova.
Moldova Eco Energetica is organised by the Agency for Energy Efficiency and the Ministry of Economy on the initiative of Moldova Energy and Biomass Project. The whole event is financed by the European Union and co-financed and implemented by UNDP.
This year Moldova Eco-Energetica has 11 winners: individuals, public institutions as well as individuals were declared the "Champions of the Eco-Energy Sector of Republic of Moldova". | also the largest initiative in Moldova regarding the renewable energy. The Awards Ceremony was attended by a large number of officials, ambassadors | 25 |
When language affects cognition and when it does not: an analysis of grammatical gender and classification.
Maria D. Sera, Chryle Elieff, James Forbes, Melissa Clark Burch, Wanda Rodríguez, Diane Poulin Dubois
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The focus of this work was on the relation between grammatical gender and categorization. In one set of studies, monolingual English-, Spanish-, French-, and German-speaking children and adults assigned male and female voices to inanimate objects. Results from Spanish and French speakers indicated effects of grammatical gender on classification; results from German speakers did not. A connectionist model simulated the contradicting findings. The connectionist networks were also used to investigate which aspect of grammatical gender was responsible for the different pattern of findings. The predictions from the connectionist simulations were supported by the results from an artificial language-learning task. The results from this work demonstrate how connectionist networks can be used to identify the differences between languages that affect categorization.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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Sera, M. D., Elieff, C., Forbes, J., Burch, M. C., Rodríguez, W., & Dubois, D. P. (2002). When language affects cognition and when it does not: an analysis of grammatical gender and classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(3), 377-397.
When language affects cognition and when it does not : an analysis of grammatical gender and classification. / Sera, Maria D.; Elieff, Chryle; Forbes, James; Burch, Melissa Clark; Rodríguez, Wanda; Dubois, Diane Poulin.
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 131, No. 3, 01.09.2002, p. 377-397.
Sera, MD, Elieff, C, Forbes, J, Burch, MC, Rodríguez, W & Dubois, DP 2002, 'When language affects cognition and when it does not: an analysis of grammatical gender and classification.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 131, no. 3, pp. 377-397.
Sera MD, Elieff C, Forbes J, Burch MC, Rodríguez W, Dubois DP. When language affects cognition and when it does not:<|fim_middle|>. The predictions from the connectionist simulations were supported by the results from an artificial language-learning task. The results from this work demonstrate how connectionist networks can be used to identify the differences between languages that affect categorization.
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JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | an analysis of grammatical gender and classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2002 Sep 1;131(3):377-397.
Sera, Maria D. ; Elieff, Chryle ; Forbes, James ; Burch, Melissa Clark ; Rodríguez, Wanda ; Dubois, Diane Poulin. / When language affects cognition and when it does not : an analysis of grammatical gender and classification. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2002 ; Vol. 131, No. 3. pp. 377-397.
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Atop an observation<|fim_middle|> in Sunday's Globe West about a turtle conservation project in Concord misstated the area of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. It covers more than 3,800 acres. | tower at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, biologist Bryan Windmiller dials a radio frequency into a receiver. He holds an antenna above his head and moves it slowly from side to side, listening for a telltale beep.
Lying dormant beneath the ice are some two dozen Blanding's turtles, each fitted with a transmitter so researchers can track them.
This turtle was head-started by students at the Ephraim Curtis Middle School in Sudbury. Bryan Windmiller
For the past decade, Windmiller has overseen the Great Meadows Blanding's Turtle Conservation Project, an effort to boost the reptile's population. The effort involves assessing the local habitat, protecting nesting females, giving hatchlings a head start at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham and schools in several area communities, including Concord, Carlisle, and Sudbury, and then monitoring the juvenile turtles after they are returned to the wild.
Under watch this winter at Great Meadows, a sprawling wetlands preserve that covers 250 acres between Billerica and Wayland, are 11 juvenile turtles and 14 adult females that have been fitted with the small monitoring devices.
"We track the turtles in winter for two reasons," said Windmiller, a Concord resident and head of the nonprofit Grassroots Wildlife Conservation Inc. "To find out where they overwinter, which is a distinct part of their overall habitat requirements, and to help us locate the turtles efficiently in early spring, when we need to catch many of the head-started turtles for new radios."
Listed by the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife as a threatened species, Blanding's turtles face a gantlet of challenges — from loss of habitat and the risk of being crushed by automobiles to the growing numbers of raccoons and skunks, which dine on turtle eggs.
Great Meadows has the state's third-largest population of Blanding's turtles, behind the Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge in Devens and the Upper Parker River area around Georgetown.
But Great Meadows refuge's turtle cohort has declined sharply since 1971, from an estimated 135 adults and older juveniles to around 60 now.
The primary goal of Windmiller's conservation project is to help the population recover to at least the level of the 1970s.
The transmitters are glued onto the turtle's carapace, the top part of its protective shell, and are about the size of a nickel, only thicker, for juvenile turtles, and slightly bigger than a AA battery for adults.
"There she is, she's over that way," said Windmiller, pointing to the frozen remains of a cattail swamp, as he picked up turtle No. 3300's radio signal.
Windmiller said turtle 3300 was first marked in the 1980s, and is at least in her 50s.
"She's around my age," he quipped. "And she's got an interesting story."
Turtle 3300 became sick a few years ago with an upper respiratory-tract disease caused by the Mycoplasma bacteria that is marked by wheezing, nasal discharge, and eye infections, Windmiller explained. Despite being treated at the Wildlife Clinic at the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, she lost vision in one eye.
There are several Blanding's turtles at Great Meadows in their 60s, Windmiller said. The oldest known Blanding's turtle is a 73-year-old specimen in Minnesota.
Wearing snowshoes, Windmiller slowly made his way through the deep snow and a tangle of cattails, buttonbush, and swamp rose to reach the ice. As he held the antenna aloft, the signal faded in and out. This is typical in winter, he said, as the cold water reduces the signal strength of the battery-powered transmitters.
Windmiller said turtles that are brumating — the reptilian version of hibernation — spend the winter underwater, and look for well-hidden places, like root mats. They can still move about under the ice, but their bodies pretty much shut down, with very low metabolism.
Oxygen diffuses from the water into a turtle's bloodstream through blood vessels in its mouth and cloaca, a multipurpose opening at the base of the tail used for excretion and reproduction.
Still, winter is a dangerous time for turtles, explained Windmiller. They can run out of oxygen under the ice and drown, a phenomenon called "winter kill," especially in shallow water where there may be many organisms, such as fish and aquatic insects, competing for the limited supply available in the crowded space.
As Windmiller walked, the radio signal got stronger. "I think she's right about here," he said, stopping next to a small tree protruding from the ice.
He knelt down and pulled a notebook from his backpack, for recording a GPS reading of the turtle's location and taking notes on nearby vegetation.
Bryan Windmiller used this radio tracking device that to find the turtles. Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe.
Each turtle is radio-tracked one time over the winter. During warm weather, researchers capture turtles three times, measuring and weighing them, taking notes on their health, and changing transmitter batteries when needed.
Another reason for radio-tracking turtles is to follow adult females to their nesting sites in spring. Some will nest in agricultural areas, like corn fields, but about two-thirds of the Great Meadows turtles nest in people's yards.
"They tend to pick the warmest spot to dig their nests," said Windmiller, "such as an open patch of garden or lawn next to asphalt or a sidewalk, because they retain heat and increase hatching success.
"Sometimes we knock on doors at 9 or 10 at night when we've found a turtle nesting in someone's yard, and ask, 'Do you mind if we hang out?' Most people are pretty engaged in helping turtles, even moving their flowers so we can put a cage around the nest."
Windmiller said the members of his conservation project put hardware-cloth screening over nests early in the season to keep out raccoons and skunks.
Eggs used to hatch in mid-September, but with warmer summers in recent years, they are now hatching in late August and early September.
Another result of hotter summers is more female hatchlings, researchers say.
Blanding's, as well as many other turtle species, undergo temperature-dependent sex determination, where warmer nest temperatures tend to produce female offspring, and cooler temperatures produce males.
After finding a turtle buried under the ice and snow, Bryan Windmiller marked down its GPS coordinates in a book.Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe
Windmiller said participants in the conservation project put screening around nests in August to protect the hatchlings and allow them to be collected for head-starting. Scarcely larger than a quarter, the tiny turtles may eventually grow as large as 10 inches long and weigh up to 3 pounds.
John Berkholtz, the senior keeper at the Stone Zoo, has been assisting the Blanding's conservation project since 2006. Berkholtz said in an e-mail that about 10 turtles a year are given a head start at the zoo, where hatchlings from the wild are raised in a captive setting for nine months, then released.
"Head-starting increases survivorship in two major ways," Berkholtz explained. "The increase in size . . . at release makes them too big to be easy prey for predators such as herons, bullfrogs, and raccoons. Also, they are better able to withstand changeable environmental conditions such as heat and dry conditions, and are able to locate water and food sources, especially in preparation for hibernation."
"Mink and otters kill some of the released head starts," Windmiller said, "and some drown. But overall, the head-start turtles have an 80 to 90 percent survival rate. Head-starting increases the survival rate about 20 times over wild hatchlings."
Windmiller said the US Fish and Wildlife Service typically allows him to keep 50 hatchlings for head-starting, and the remainder are turned loose.
After recording the data for turtle 3300, Windmiller headed off across the open ice, following the signal of a head-started Blanding's turtle that was released last fall.
Don Lyman is a freelance science writer and adjunct instructor in the biology department at Merrimack College. He can be reached at lymand@merrimack.edu.
Correction: Because of an editing error, an article | 1,794 |
Much to be Proud Of!
Our final Proud Assembly for this year surpassed even our high expectations as so many children spoke out so confidently and so passionately on such a wide variety of their hobbies and interests.
On the artistic side we had Ayah (4C), Ben (6E) Ferne (5F) and Clementine (5E) who wowed us with the variety of art work they presented. Isabel (6F<|fim_middle|> awards and shared a powerpoint of this year's work in both Art and D.T.
Congratulations to all who took part. I am sure you have inspired others with your passion and determination to do well in your chosen pursuits. Thank you! | ) shared her special interest of decoupage and showed us proudly some of her own work.
Sports were represented by the two Bens and John (6E) with a power point and trophies that revealed the true extent of their commitment to Bahrain's U12's Rugby Club football team. Arianna and Osian (5E) gave us a brief overview of Karate and the meanings of the various belts, together with an exciting demonstration of their skills. Hannah (3D), Jamiela (5A) and Daisy (5E) spoke passionately about their horse-riding and showed us video clips of themselves in action, looking extremely confident on their horses. They also told us about the trophies and awards they have gained.
We were delighted also to hear from Nadine 4B, Tessa (5F) and Leah (5F) who presented very clearly on what it means to be part of the Brownies and recited for us the Brownie promise. We also asked all of the girls who are brownies to stand and we were amazed by just how many of our pupils currently participate. Jayden (4D) explained how hard work and perseverance in his LAMDA activities meant he has learnt to project his voice and become more confident.
Alejandra and Maya (5F) entertained us from the field of dance as did Katie (3E) who was very light on her feet with a display of Irish dancing. It would not have been a proud assembly without some musical talent being shared and we all loved Shannon's 4D piece on the violin as it seemed to come alive in her hands and the piano/violin duet of Aseel (5C) and Sulaf (6E) who were in great harmony together.
Mr Wilkins and Mrs Dales also gave out a number of golden brush and golden hammer | 377 |
As a friend and partner of the Edmonton Valley Zoo since 1988, the Valley Zoo Development Society is a registered charity and supports the Edmonton Valley Zoo in their education, conservation and sustainability efforts in our community. The Valley Zoo Development Society is proud to take a lead role in the stunning and sustainable transformation of our Zoo.
Click on the image above for a<|fim_middle|>, rabbits and a barn cat. Outdoors, a contact yard will provide the opportunity for guests to interact personally with a variety of species.
THE "ABOVE" ZONE – A BIRDS EYE VIEW… This complex zone will be completed in several phases and will be a highlight of Nature's Wild Backyard. The Above Zone lifts visitors into the realm of one the Edmonton Valley Zoo's most prominent life forms – trees. An elevated boardwalk provides views into mesh enclosed aviaries featuring gibbons, tamarins, anteaters, and a variety of birds. The boardwalk also connects visitors to both the holding building and the observation tower.
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN TWO WORLDS IN THE "BETWEEN" ZONE… The Between Zone immerses visitors in a riparian zone that celebrates the unique adaptations of animals who live both on land and in the water: capybaras, agoutis, beavers and a variety of waterfowl. The central feature of this zone focuses on submerging visitors in aquatic environments.
EXPLORE THE DEPTHS IN THE "UNDER" ZONE… The Under Zone focuses on the relationship between the animals that live below the earth and the predators that prowl above. The visitor experience will be shaped by a gradual descent into an underground space that offers eye to eye views with prairie dogs, burrowing owls, red foxes, naked mole rats, swift foxes and meerkats.
GET GROUNDED IN THE "ON" ZONE… An exciting, hands on adventure with the animals who live on ground level. Wallabies, emu and fallow deer roam these spaces. The deer and wallaby exhibits will have walk-through access for our guests, while the emu exhibit will feature parallel play opportunities that demonstrate the raw speed of these impressive birds.
THE YARD… The Yard is Nature`s Wild Backyard central free play space. It`s southern half is dedicated to unstructured free play and offers a space to stop and picnic or play tag. In the winter months, the lawn is converted to a backyard skating rink. | downloadable brochure detailing the phases of Nature's Wild Backyard and what you can do to help!
Our next showcase project is a nine million dollar capital campaign in support of the next phase of the Zoo's revitalization: Nature's Wild Backyard.
Children are naturally fascinated by the natural world, especially by animals. By providing them with a fun setting in which they can learn about global biodiversity, we can create lifelong ambassadors for the long term health of all species on our planet. The zones of Nature's Wild Backyard will allow children, and adults alike, to experience the world in the same manner as the animals that inhabit it: Above, Between, On, Under and Urban Farm.
RED PANDA EXHIBIT & VIP COURTYARD…The exhibit gives visitors a chance to get closer than ever to one of the Zoo's most popular animals. The holding building offers privileged views into an on-exhibit winter den while also providing generous and more private quarters for the pandas.
ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES IN THE URBAN FARM (COMPLETED SPRING 2019!) … The goal of the Urban Farm is to personally engage guests in the world of a working farm. For the majority of urban children, a visit to our zoo will be the only time they will ever have an experience on a farm. The Farm will include indoor and outdoor spaces for cows, sheep, turkeys, chicken, ponies, pigs, goats, guinea pigs | 297 |
Research leaders, organizations urge Senate Appropriations Committee to close the "Innovation Deficit"
Holly Korschun
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Leaders of the nation's major research agencies will jointly testify April 29th at the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington on the need for federal research investments to drive innovation and economic growth.
In support of that hearing, a group of 50 leading business, higher education, scientific and patient organizations offered written testimony to the committee urging them to make strong, sustained investments in research in order to close the "innovation deficit."
The coalition noted that lagging U.S. investments in research and higher education combined with the significant increase in such investment by other nations has created an innovation deficit,<|fim_middle|> Agency, Department of Defense (DARPA).
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"As the global innovation leader, we produce more discoveries and patents, and more technological and health advances, than any other nation," the organizations wrote. "Economists have made very clear that these science- and engineering-driven advances have fueled most of our nation's economic growth in the decades since World War II. Yet today, our leadership faces a serious challenge from other nations that are rapidly increasing their investments in these critical areas while our own spending lags."
Close the Innovation Deficit: www.innovationdeficit.org
"Long-term reductions in federal research funding, including sequestration, will have very serious long-term consequences for our national productivity and competitiveness as well as the lives of our patients," says David S. Stephens, MD, vice president for research in Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center and chair of the Department of Medicine in Emory University School of Medicine.
"Innovation in our laboratories has saved and improved countless lives as well as led to academic-industry partnerships, commercialized products and economic development. These opportunities and outcomes will slow considerably and we will lose significant momentum if strong federal levels of research funding are not sustained."
The witnesses at today's hearing will be: John P. Holdren, director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President of the United States; Ernest Moniz, secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); Francis S. Collins, director, National Institutes of Health (NIH); France A. Córdova, director, National Science Foundation (NSF); and Arati Prabhakar, director, Defense Advanced Research Projects | 334 |
This article is about the historical commercial center of the city of Eureka, California.
Eureka, California-Roughly, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Streets, between B and M Streets.
Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District) in Eureka, California, is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. This Historic district is a 350-acre (1.4 km2) area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian era. The core of the district runs the length of First, Second, and Third Streets, between "C" and "M" Streets and includes many types of architecture from the 1850s to the present. Though not officially within the district, the Carson Mansion, the undisputed Victorian jewel of the city and region, commands the highest elevation at the eastern edge of the district. Art venues, coffee shops, bed and breakfasts and inns, antique stores and shops, restaurants, museums and galleries, and public areas (complete with views of Humboldt Bay and its marinas) are among the highlights of this gem of the West Coast. Of particular note is the remarkable authenticity of the district simply because it did not suffer the ravages of extensive fires or redevelopment like many other historic commercial centers.
The city began as an 1850 settlement on the edge of Humboldt Bay where the district is today. Developers and settlers planned for Eureka to aid in the provision of miners working inland to the east. By 1865 the central core of what would become Eureka's "Old Town" was considered "a lively place for a small town, full of business and with plenty of money... the roads beyond Second street (the equivalent of "Main" Street) were covered with stumps from the (recently logged) Redwood forest and not yet open.
Old Town is the thriving, cultural heart of Eureka, California and the region. The area is an attraction for visitors and locals alike. Its placement on the California North Coast is indisputably beautiful. The area, often shrouded in fog and very definitely behind the Redwood Curtain, is very different from the rest of California. The vibrant art scene that has grown up there in the final decades of the 20th century led to the declaration that the city was one of the 100 best art towns in America. Among restaurants and inns, are multiple bed and breakfasts, including the award-winning Carter House Inn Restaurant 301, noted for repeatedly winning the "Grand Award" from Wine Spectator Magazine due<|fim_middle|>870s Store Front on Second Street.
The Carson Mansion as viewed from Humboldt Bay.
Second Empire Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall building with original commercial space on the first floor.
Humboldt Arts Council in mid-1800s (early) commercial brick building.
Victorian detailed Commercial Building. Now a popular local seafood restaurant.
Milton Carson Home: a wedding gift for the son of the early Lumber Baron, William Carson, who built the Carson Mansion, 1889.
Victorian fencing and gate to the side yard of the Milton Carson Home.
Original Commercial Building with "false" front on 2nd Street.
^ Villani, John (October 1998). The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America (3rd ed.). Berkeley, California: Avalon Travel Publishing. p. 256. ISBN 1-56261-405-3.
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The Clarke Historical Museum is located at the corner of 3rd and E Streets. The collection includes extensive representation of basketry of indigenous native cultures throughout the region and regional and cultural history, with focus on the Victorian era.
Blues By the Bay occurs in late summer on City of Eureka property below the Carson Mansion.
First Saturday Arts Alive! occurs each month in the Old Town and Downtown sections of Eureka. More than 80 local galleries and other shops display local art to the public. The open house event often features wine, non-alcoholic drinks, and hors d'oeuvres. Musicians, performers, jugglers, poets and fire dancers perform on street corners as well as in shops and galleries. The event often coincides with performances of the Eureka Symphony in the Arkley Performance Center in the refurbished "Old" State Theater Building. Children can be safely cared for in the Discovery Museum, while parents participate in the North State's largest ongoing community arts event.
Old Town Eureka has a street-fair Fourth of July celebration followed by fireworks over the bay.
1902 Illustration of City of Eureka. Old Town is the area of the city, primarily on the waterfront near the island on the left.
Victorian Commercial buildings on the south side of Second Street.
The Clarke Historical Museum, which was the Bank of Eureka. Renaissance style with Terra Cotta tile work covering the entire exterior, 1911.
The Buon Gusto (Eagle House) Hotel from the era when travel to Humboldt Bay was primarily by ship. Docks for ships from San Francisco were nearby this corner, which at one time had four of these hotels.
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The State of Educational Equity (and Inequity) in Schooling
November 26, 2018 Meghan Mangrum of the Chattanooga Times Free Press for EWA
More than six decades since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education that separate was far from equal in 1954, many U.S. children attend schools that are still separate and unequal.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a report noting just that. The 2018 report, which focused on funding disparities in public education, stated that segregation in schools by race and income level is widespread, and that "the education available to millions of Americans" is "profoundly unequal."
Social and Emotional Learning: From Theory to Practice
November 1, 2018 Jennifer Pignolet of The Commercial Appeal for EWA
At Hazel Wolf STEM K-8 School in Seattle, academics don't start on the first day of school.
"We haven't yet built community," teacher Tamara Alston said. "We haven't figured out how we work together."
How to Fund Your Dream Reporting Project
13 organizations will provide financial and editorial support to education journalists.
November 1, 2018 By Andrea Eger of the Tulsa World for EWAKristan Obeng, EWA
Editor's note: This story was updated August 23, 2021.
Here's some rare good financial news for education journalists: If you have an idea for an ambitious education-related story – and a realistic plan for executing it – a growing number of organizations will provide grants or other resources to support your reporting.
Representatives from several organizations, and some fellowship winners, shared tips and strategies for getting help to make reporting dreams a reality.
Homeboy Industries Offers Former Gang Members Job Training, a Second Chance
September 4, 2018 Shannon Gilchrist for EWA
<|fim_middle|> one of the hottest topics in higher education — especially in recent months, as clashes have turned violent and drawn the attention of President Donald Trump and the Justice Department.
Why Race and Equity Matter in Education Reporting
May 24, 2018 Nichole Dobo of The Hechinger Report for EWA
Education journalists must think more critically about the ways in which race, ethnicity and gender play into the stories they tell, a panel of experts said at the first keynote session at the Education Writers Association's national seminar in Los Angeles last week.
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Parkland Survivors and Other Youth Activists: 'You're Going to Listen to Us' on Gun Violence
EWA National Seminar puts spotlight on students
May 17, 2018 Madeline Will of Education Week for EWA
In an emotionally charged session at the Education Writers Association's national seminar, several student activists urged journalists to keep the national spotlight on gun violence and not let the shootings at a Florida high school and elsewhere be forgotten.
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EWA Announces Finalists for Reporting Awards
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The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 National Awards for Education Reporting and the Eddie Prize, recognizing the top education stories in online, print, and broadcast media across the country.
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P-12 Education's Big Stories to Follow in 2022
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How many days of instruction have students really lost amid the pandemic, and what's the impact? How are districts tracking and reporting COVID-19 infection rates among students and staff? Who's making sure the services districts invest in to help struggling students recover academically are high quality and grounded in research?
Martin Luther King Jr. Said, 'Education is a Battleground.' Reflecting on His Words
King's remarks on education continue to be relevant in 21st century America.
January 5, 2022 Kristan Obeng
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers in 1964, he spoke of education being a battleground in the freedom struggle.
"It was not fortuitous that education became embroiled in this conflict," King said. "Education is one of the vital tools the Negro needs in order to advance. And yet it has been denied him by devises of segregation and manipulations with quality."
Member Spotlight: How a Newbie Education Reporter Landed a Big Investigation
"Race shapes everything we write" says 2019 EWA Awards Investigative Finalist Annie Ma
January 4, 2022 Asia Allen
Annie Ma landed her first full-time staff reporting job – as an education reporter at the Charlotte Observer – in June 2019. Just four weeks later, a story broke that would lead her into an investigation that won her and another reporter finalist honors in that year's EWA Awards program.
New Year, New Higher Ed Stories
From continued COVID-19 fallout to federal higher ed policy shifts, it's a big year ahead for colleges and universities (EWA Radio Episode 284)
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This will be a momentous year for higher education – as colleges attempt to recover from COVID shutdowns, student loan bills come due again, and big changes come to admissions offices. What will college look like this year? How are institutions planning to spend billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds? And how bad a hit are overall enrollment numbers going to take in the third year of the pandemic?
How to Cover the Complex World of Child Care Funding
Learn about how child care programs braid funding together—and still struggle to survive.
January 3, 2022 Jackie Mader of The Hechinger Report for EWA
The fractured state of the child care industry has become especially clear during the coronavirus pandemic, as thousands of child care centers have closed permanently, and many more are struggling to find workers and survive economically.
Many of the issues facing these centers are related to the complexities of funding and lack of public investment in child care. It is expensive to provide, unaffordable for many families, and child care workers make such meager wages that many live in poverty, something that has led to an exodus of early educators during the pandemic. | If a Los Angeles gang member decides to seek a new start, he or she can walk through the front door of Homeboy Industries in West Los Angeles and its founder, "Father G," typically will come out of his office and welcome them with open arms.
Strength in Numbers: Schools Team Up to Focus on Student Improvement
Solving complex problems requires buy-in by campus leaders, experts say
August 23, 2018 Kathryn Baron for EWA
For decades, most efforts to improve opportunities for high-needs students have resembled snowflakes; they come down from above, are completely different from each other, complicate routines, and rarely stick.
However, experts gathered at EWA's annual conference in Los Angeles this year said at least one kind of reform has a good chance of making long-lasting gains: "school improvement networks."
Rethinking Student Discipline
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At a time when student discipline is the subject of increased attention and debate, education journalists often struggle with how to better understand and cover the issue. During this EWA session, speakers addressed flashpoint issues, including zero tolerance policies, racial disparities in disciplinary actions, and the rise of so-called "restorative justice" practices. Along the way, they explored – and debated – the best ways to balance competing concerns to ensure fairness, equity, and a safe and productive learning environment.
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College and the American Dream
August 22, 2018 Kevin Richert of Idaho Education News for EWA
Pace University is a medium-sized private college in New York with a sticker price of $66,000. California State University, Northridge serves more than three times as many students (41,000) and has a sticker price for Californians less than a third of Pace's ($21,000).
Data Visualization for Amateurs (and Experts)
August 3, 2018 Sharon Noguchi of Chalkbeat for EWA
Petrified by percentages? Or mesmerized by math?
No worries. Experts assembled for a recent Education Writers Association panel shared strategies to enlist data to tell your story, and how to convey it visually, with tips for math phobes and number nerds alike.
Data is simply a collection of structured stories, said Alvin Chang of Vox Media. Think of every row in a chart as a story, and every visual element as a sentence, he advised. Then ask: How is it better than a sentence? (If it's not, maybe it shouldn't be a chart.)
View Dana Chinn's Powerpoint presentation on data visualization.
Five Tips for Reporting on Infants and Toddlers
An award-winning journalist explains how, and why, to cover early childhood education
August 1, 2018 Lillian Mongeau of The Hechinger Report for EWA
If you think about education reporting as covering schools and the students who attend them, you might be scratching your head as to why infants and toddlers are newsworthy subjects. But if education reporting is really about covering learning, then children under age 4 are some of the best subjects you could imagine.
Understanding School Segregation Data
July 27, 2018 Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report for EWA
If you've been confused about what the data and research say about school segregation — whether it is growing or shrinking – you're not alone. Scholars argue over this, too.
Download Meredith Richards' tipsheet on school segregation
Covering LGBT Issues in the Classroom
Shifts seen in textbooks to reflect gay, lesbian historical figures
July 20, 2018 Beth Hawkins of The 74 for EWA
When the new academic year begins for California public schools, for the first time instructional materials will be available to ensure every K-12 classroom has access to accurate and unbiased depictions of the sexual orientation and gender identity of historical figures.
The FAIR Education Act – FAIR stands for Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful – requires history and social studies curriculum to include references to contributions by people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.
Education Research: Where to Find It and How to Evaluate It
July 19, 2018 Erin Richards
Researchers at Michigan State University and Teachers College, Columbia University, tackled an intriguing question in a 2016 study: How much influence were large, national donors having on local school board elections?
The study's abstract stated that large donor networks had "nationalized" local education politics in Los Angeles, Denver, New Orleans and Bridgeport, Conn.
Child Care 'Deserts': What Are They and Where Are They Located?
July 19, 2018 Caroline Bauman of Chalkbeat Tennessee for EWA
Early childhood education is rarely a beat education journalists can cover exclusively. But the need for quality coverage is great, especially as more and more state governments, private foundations, and districts zero in on early childhood education as a place for greater investment.
Experts weighed in on one issue in particular last month at the Education Writers Association's national conference: How can journalists cover communities that are "child care deserts?"
Covering Immigrant Students and Families in the Time of Trump
July 19, 2018 Aditi Malhotra of The Teacher Project for EWA
Covering immigrant students and their families – always challenging given legal and privacy concerns — has arguably never been more timely, as recent shifts in federal policy have thrust them into the national spotlight.
A panel of researchers and journalists offered advice on pressing issues, including: how reporters can explain the stakes of their stories to sources, whether undocumented students should be named, and how to discuss complicated immigration policy shifts in a clear and compelling way that draws in readers.
Experts offer advice on reliable pricing data sources
July 17, 2018 By Adam Tamburin of The Tennessean for EWA
Surveys indicate that the costs of college are now bigger worries for most applicants and families than the traditional anxieties about getting in.
It's not just because of the shockingly high prices, such as the private colleges sporting sticker prices (tuition, room, board, books and miscellaneous expenses) north of $70,000 a year. Families are obsessed with costs in part because of the surprising complexity and opacity of college prices.
How Personal Is 'Personalized' Learning?
July 13, 2018 Emmeline Zhao of The 74 for EWA
The media images illustrating students in "personalized learning" environments often look something like this: elementary-schoolers with headphones on, looking at tablets, or teenagers typing away on laptops.
But during a recent panel discussion, experts and educators sought to make one thing clear: Personalized learning is not about technology, and you don't need a lot of money to carry it out.
Careful Coverage of Campus Sexual Assaults Can Spark Reforms
Experts offer four strategies for reporting on Title IX complaints.
July 11, 2018 By Mikhail Zinshteyn of EdSource for EWA
Reporters are spending more and more time covering allegations of sexual assault on college campuses. A Nexis search finds more than 3,000 articles in U.S. newspapers in the last year using the terms "sexual assault," "alleged" and "campus."
Top Higher Ed Stories for the 2018-19 Academic Year
Politics is driving some of the hottest news stories on college campuses.
July 9, 2018 By Noel Gallagher of the Portland Press Herald for EWA
Some of the most pressing higher education stories for the next academic year will spring from the intersection of education and politics, predicts Scott Jaschik, the editor of Inside Higher Ed.
Jaschik reprised his always-popular rundown of the top higher education story ideas during the Education Writers Association's National Seminar in May.
How to Break News Using Social Media and Avoid 'Bots And Trolls
Journalists need to join the technological arms race against misinformation
July 6, 2018 By Mackenzie Mays of the Fresno Bee for EWA
The scariest moment of the 2018 Education Writers Association National Seminar came when Steve Myers, the editor of The Lens, demonstrated how to alter reality in less than thirty seconds.
He pulled up an unsuspecting person's tweet, and with a few clicks, made the text say something totally new. He only tinkered with the coding to change how the tweet appeared on his screen. (It went unchanged to the rest of the world.) But it was there long enough to take a screenshot.
Making a Diverse Teacher Workforce a Reality
July 3, 2018 Trisha Powell Crain of AL.com for EWA
Diversifying the teacher workforce — an issue of growing concern to education leaders and policymakers — is difficult to achieve because of leaks in the pipeline and after teachers of color reach the classroom, a panel of experts told reporters at a recent conference. The challenges start in teacher-prep programs and extend through certification, hiring, placement, retention and leadership, the speakers said at a recent Education Writers Association event.
Are Schools Ready for A.I. and the Future of Work?
July 2, 2018 Eric Gorski of Chalkbeat for EWA
At Rocky Hill School, a private day school in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, it's not unusual for education technology entrepreneurs to pop into the classroom or Skype in for a chat.
As it turns out, a captive audience of eight- and nine-year-olds can be useful in designing new products. Third-graders at the school had a hand in developing an award-winning plush duck that gives comfort to children undergoing chemotherapy, head of school James Tracy said.
What to Do When Your State Test Melts Down
June 28, 2018 Sarah Darville of Chalkbeat for EWA
It's hard to avoid writing about tests and test scores as an education reporter. Too often, though, the story gets done in a rush — with scores about to be released or already out in the world.
Marianne Perie, the director of the Center for Assessment and Accountability at the University of Kansas, urged reporters to take a step back at the Education Writers Association conference in May.
Beyond Protests: Better Ways to Cover Race Issues on Campus
Racial conflicts at colleges need deeper and more patient coverage.
June 26, 2018 By Adam Tamburin of the Tennessean for EWA
Protests over statues honoring Confederate soldiers; shouting matches at presentations by white nationalist speakers; student drives to strip buildings of names honoring racist officials.
Such dramatic campus racial conflicts and controversies justifiably attract attention from reporters and the public, according to a pair of veteran education journalists, a researcher, and a college administrator who spoke on a panel at the Education Writers Association's 2018 National Seminar.
How President Trump and the Republicans Are Changing Colleges
Impacts already being seen in admissions, student loans and for-profit colleges.
June 26, 2018 By Kaitlin Mulhere of Money magazine for EWA
Even though a long-delayed update to a major higher education law appears to be stalled in the U.S. Senate, Republican policies are starting to influence colleges around the country because of orders and actions taken by the administration of President Donald Trump, according to a recent panel of Washington insiders and higher education leaders.
Speaking at the Education Writers Association's 2018 National Seminar in May, the panelists highlighted three ways federal actions are affecting colleges around the country.
Adult College Students: The Undercovered 6.6 Million
35% of the college population are veterans, working parents and perpetual students like James Franco.
June 22, 2018 By Natalie Gross of the Military Times for EWAand Kim Clark, EWA
Adult learners, or college students aged 25 and older, are typically referred to as "nontraditional students," in contrast to their younger, "traditional" student peers.
But that's an oversimplification of "tradition." Adult students have long been an important part of the college student body – whether it was the World War II veterans who flooded campuses thanks to the GI Bill, or seemingly perennial students like James Franco.
Covering the New Reality of Adult Learners at College
The New Freshmen: Adult College Students
Hispanic, Latino, Latinx: How to Cover the Fastest-Growing Student Group
June 21, 2018 by Jason Gonzales of The Tennesseean for EWA
Hispanic students, who make up the second largest racial demographic in schools today, are entering college in record numbers. But they are also dropping out of college at a far higher rate than white students. That reality has important implications for our educational and economic systems and the reporters who cover them, according to a group of researchers and experts gathered at the 2018 Education Writers Association National Seminar.
Finances and Politics: Big Challenges for Public Universities
June 20, 2018 Ben WermundPolitico
Public university systems have weathered wave after wave of difficulties in recent years – from shrinking state funding streams to intense public scrutiny and criticism – and it's not likely to get easier anytime soon.
That's according to the leaders of the two public university systems in California, a state that has long led the way on higher education for the rest of the nation.
Data Literacy for Reporters: A Crash Course in Excel and More
June 19, 2018 Amy Kolb Noyes of Vermont Public Radio for EWA
Matthew Kauffman, an investigative reporter for the Hartford Courant, started a two-part, data literacy workshop for journalists with a question: "How many people got into journalism primarily because they were hoping to do more math?"
When zero hands went flying into the air, he was not surprised.
"There's just kind of a disconnect between what we do and numbers and math," Kauffman said. However, he argued it is more important than ever for reporters to get comfortable with math.
Click here to download Kauffman's tipsheet.
From Words to Action on Newsroom Diversity
June 15, 2018 Chandra Thomas Whitfield for EWA
"Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry." Those words, once so eloquently stated by award-winning journalist Gwen Ifill, capture the overarching message conveyed during a recent panel on diversity in the journalism workforce. The spirited talk was part of the Education Writers Association's 2018 National Seminar in Los Angeles.
Debunking the Myths Behind Student Loan Debt
June 14, 2018 Kim Clark and Adam TamburinEWA and The Tennessean
College and graduate school have gotten so expensive, and lenders have been so willing to allow borrowers to put off repayment (and let the interest compound), that a few dozen Americans have managed to amass more than $1 million in student loan debt.
Click here to download Dynarski's slides.
Understanding 'Janus:' The High Court Case That Could Shake Up Teachers' Unions
June 8, 2018 Dylan Peers McCoy for EWA
The U.S. Supreme Court is on the cusp of a decision that could reshape teachers' unions, putting new pressure on them to convince educators that paid membership is worthwhile.
At issue is a case over whether public employees, including teachers, who choose not to join unions can be required to pay agency fees. (Those fees typically cover the costs of collective bargaining.)
With States at the Wheel, What's Next for School Accountability?
Issues to watch under ESSA, from report cards to achievement gaps
June 6, 2018 Brian McVicar of the Grand Rapids Press for EWA
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act has put states back in the driver's seat on school accountability.
No longer must states abide by what many perceived as the one-size-fits all federal mandates associated with ESSA's predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act.
But what will this newfound freedom look like? And what should education reporters watch for to ensure states remain focused on closing achievement gaps and parents get an accurate and easy-to-grasp picture of school performance?
The Shifting Response to School Shootings
June 4, 2018 Annika Hammerschlag of the Naples Daily News for EWA
School safety experts recently weighed in on how states and school systems are — and should be — responding to the spate of campus shootings.
They also shared best practices for journalists when covering the issue of school shootings, including how to analyze school districts' prevention efforts, what stories to look for, and how to report on shootings while minimizing harm to mourning communities.
The May 16 panel came two days before yet another school shooting, this time at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, that led to 10 deaths.
Five Questions to Ask After Court's 'Janus' Ruling
Teachers' unions face uncertain future as decision looms
May 31, 2018 David Loewenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling soon that could potentially deal a major blow to the size and strength of teachers' unions.
The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31, pits public sector unions against employees who contend that requiring non-union workers to pay certain fees to the union violates their freedom of speech.
What's Behind the Spate of Teacher Strikes?
May 29, 2018 Ben Felder of The Oklahoman for EWA
As a growing number of teachers across the country hold strikes to advocate for better pay and increased education funding, new questions are arising about the power of teachers' unions, the role of social media, and what teachers are doing to continue their efforts beyond large-scale work demonstrations.
During a May 16 panel at the Education Writers Association's annual conference, speakers sought to contextualize the teacher actions, what they mean, and what's next.
What's Missing From Stories on Campus Free Speech?
May 25, 2018 Benjamin Wermund of Politico for EWA
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The 2009 Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards honored its<|fim_middle|> grain sorghum to the mix next year. Shook doesn't skimp on irrigation — last year was so dry, he kept the system running most of the season.
Sponsors of this year's awards include Arysta LifeScience, BASF, Bayer CropScience, Becker Underwood, EchoEminent Fungicide, Golden Peanut Company, John Deere, Helena, National Peanut Board, Senninger Irrigation, Sipcam Agro USA, Inc., Syngenta, Texas Peanut Producers Board, U.S. Borax, Southeast Farm Press, Southwest Farm Press and Delta Farm Press. | 10th class of winners during the recent Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla., and this year's contest garnered a record number of nominees from throughout the Peanut Belt, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Laboratory and advisor for the program.
The awards presentation was made at the 11th annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference held in Panama City.
Recipients of this year's awards include Southeast Region, T.E. Moye Jr., Newton, Ga.; Southwest Region, Weldon Shook, Gaines County, Texas; and Virginia-Carolinas Region, John Crumpler, Suffolk, Va.
Recalling that he was asked to advise the program and to come up with a nomination form for the contest more than 10 years ago, Lamb says, "It has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of this program — I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to be involved in it. I also want to thank the sponsors, without whom this program would not be possible," he says.
With the current farm bill, peanut producers know they must be good producers and must make good yields, he adds. "We have to be managers, and we have to keep our costs to a minimum. But this year really highlighted the fact that marketing our crop is equally important, and that's what made the difference this year," says Lamb.
Ron Smith, editor of Southwest Farm Press, says the Peanut Profitability Awards represent an opportunity to recognize the best peanut farmers in the world.
Sponsorship of the program has been the best ever this year, he says, and the corporate sponsors and others like the National Peanut Board, the Southern Peanut Farmers Federation and Texas Peanut Producers Board help to make the presentation of the awards possible.
Each of these year's winners brought a unique attribute to the program, says Lamb.
The Lower Southeast Region winner, T.E. Moye Jr., showed great perseverance this past year, averaging 4,600 to 4,700 pounds per acre from about 100 dryland acres that essentially were made with one good rainfall, says Lamb.
Moye, who has been growing peanuts for 29 years, looks at his yield goals and then figures out the least amount of inputs he can use to achieve those goals. He tries to gross $1,000 per acre on his farm, which means he doesn't skimp on the things he knows will make him money, including timely fungicide applications. He also is a big believer in holding onto equipment as long as possible, but keeping it well-maintained.
Looking ahead to challenges facing U.S. peanut producers, Moye says he considers the primary one being deciding which crop to grow. "We actually may have to lay some land out if we don't see the possibility of a profit from the start. We can't grow peanuts for $350 per ton. I think we'll have to change our decision-making process when it comes to which crops to grow," says Moye.
Virginia-Carolinas winner John Crumpler faces urban sprawl in the area in which he farms, says Lamb, and is faced with the challenge of producing more with fewer acres.
Crumpler is the reigning Virginia Peanut Yield Champion for 2009. Last year, he produced nearly 5,700 pounds of Champs and NC-V-11 Virginia-type peanuts per acre. Though yield and profitability don't always go hand-in-hand, in Crumpler's case they do. Yield is the name of the game in Virginia these days, he says.
With Weldon Shook of Texas, says Lamb, it's good to see some younger farmers who are coming in and doing well. "A lot of us who come to this meeting have a little bit less hair and a lot more grey hair each year. It's good to see some young blood coming in, and it's great to see a young farmer who incorporates his family into his farming operation," says Lamb.
Shook typically makes 5,000 pounds of peanuts per acre, and his best field in 2008 topped three tons. He says rotation is the key to making good peanuts year after year. He rotates with cotton, often uses a rye cover crop, goes four years between peanuts crops, and is looking at adding | 890 |
A Man Went Out With His Friends and Made a 1,000-Year-Old Discovery
Oct 31, 2022 Samantha Franco
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No one strikes gold twice, right? Wrong. A metal-detecting enthusiast made multiple historical discoveries over the course of two years while sweeping areas in Scotland. His second find, however, was one of the largest collections of Viking artifacts ever discovered in Scotland. Some controversy was unearthed with the artifacts as well.
The metal-detecting enthusiast almost didn't go that day
A metal detector is held over a<|fim_middle|> Galloway Hoard. It was put up for auction and the National Museum of Scotland purchased it. The entire collection had a market value between $630,000 and $1.2 million, but actually sold for over $2 million. It took three years for the museum to raise the funds to acquire the collection. They finally received it in 2017.
Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, Scotland law states that the finder of an artifact is the one who receives payment for the finding. This meant that McLennan had earned a hefty paycheck for his discovery that September day in 2014.
The church sued McLennan for part of the cash
Selection of objects from the Viking age Galloway Hoard. (Photo Credit: National Museums Scotland / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)
Following McLennan's acquisition of over $2 million, the Church of Scotland set out legal action against him. Supposedly, McLennan had claimed to share half of the earnings with the church. After being unable to reach him, the church ended up suing McLennan for what they believed they were entitled to from the value of the Galloway Hoard.
A church spokesperson said, "It can be confirmed the general trustees of the Church of Scotland have raised an action against Derek McLennan. As that is now a matter before the court it would be inappropriate for us to provide any further commentary at this time."
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Regardless of how the money is split the Galloway Hoard is one of the most significant discoveries of Viking artifacts found in Scotland and contributes immensely to our understanding of Viking history.
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Derek McLennan was a businessman turned metal detector enthusiast following his retirement from the workforce. When first took up metal detecting, he had some success in finding valuable items, including a collection of medieval coins he located near Twynholm in 2013. By September of 2014, he would discover his biggest find yet.
He first got permission from the Church of Scotland to scan a field under their ownership in a Dumfries and Galloway field. McLennan and his friends David Bartholomew and Mike Smith then began their metal-detecting search. Earlier in the day, McLennan was feeling under the weather and thought about calling the sweep off, but did not want to upset his pals so went through with their plans anyways.
It's a good thing he did.
When his metal detector pinged, he was shocked at what he found
Treasures from the Galloway Hoard are displayed for media at the National Museums of Scotland on October 26, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo Credit: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)
McLennan began sweeping the field and eventually, his detector pinged with the sound indicating there was something beneath the soil. He began to dig and eventually landed upon something silver nestled beneath the dirt. At first, McLennan thought he had stumbled on an old silver spoon, but as he brushed away more of the soil, he realized he had found something much more valuable.
He picked up the item "… and then I turned it over and wiped my thumb across it, and I saw the Saltire-type of design and knew instantly it was Viking." Following this, he said, "My senses exploded, I went into shock, endorphins flooded my system, and away I went stumbling towards my colleagues waving it in the air."
This was just the tip of the iceberg. As the men continued to dig, they realized that they'd found an entire treasure trove of Viking artifacts, including silver and gold ingots, brooches, and even an early Christian cross. Bartholomew described the cross. "It was poking out from under the pile of silver ingots and decorated arm-rings, with a finely wound silver chain still attached to it," he said.
Immediately, he called the Scottish Treasure Trove Unit, and they set up a perimeter around the area to begin a true excavation of the site. Altogether, they unearthed over 100 artifacts dating as far back as the 9th and 10th centuries.
The little silver jar held something valuable
Curator Dr. Martin Goldberg holds the 3D reconstruction of the lidded vessel from the Galloway Hoard, during a preview of the Galloway Hoard Exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Andrew Milligan / PA Images / Getty Images)
One of the artifacts they found was a small silver jar, complete with a lid and wrapped in tattered cloth. It is believed to be the only surviving jar of its kind with an intact lid. As it was sealed when the jar was found, archaeologists refrained from opening the jar right away in case there was something inside that could harm them in some way.
Instead, they took the artifact to a local hospital to conduct an x-ray in the hopes of learning what its contents were. When the x-ray was completed, they realized that the jar contained even more valuable artifacts, including Byzantine silks dating back to the fourth century.
The National Museum of Scotland purchased the hoard
Senior Curator at National Museums Scotland, Martin Goldberg, looking at objects from the Viking age Galloway Hoard. (Photo Credit: National Museums Scotland / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Alphonso's Chordia Brings TV Ad Analytics To Europe, UK First
SAN FRANCISCO — It is often said that, when it comes to advanced TV advertising, the UK has a lead through the Sky's AdSmart offering.
But, when it comes to insights in to advanced TV advertising, one company is now bringing capabilities to Europe that it says have existed in the US for years.
Alphonso's offering brings the ability to retarget consumers with ads on digital devices based on TV-viewing cues. It does that using audio content recognition build in to devices in its footprint, including smart TVs, mobile phones and set-top boxes. That underlying technology is now going global.
"What's starting to happen now is, beyond U.S., some of these integrations are rolling out in some of the European countries, and it is a phenomenal new dataset unleashed in that market," says Ashish Chordia, Alphonso CEO. "What was happening in the U.S. in 2014, 2015, is now going to happen in some of the European countries."
Alphonso last year launched Insights, an offering giving in to the airings, spend and exposure for US TV ads. It can tell you, for instance, where Amazon has been spending its money to advertise its Echo speaker's multi-room audio capability.
The global spread of the chips and tech that support Alphonso's content monitoring means Insights, too, can go global.
"We are starting out with the UK first," Chordia says. "We just released our Insights product in private beta couple of weeks ago for select set of partners. We anticipate that will be publicly available within the next 90 days.
"What that means is, for the first time in the history of United Kingdom, there will be a place where someone can go, insights-uk.alphonso.tv, and see every single ad that are on local broadcast or cable, whether they're running on Sky, or Channel 5, or Channel 6, or Channel 4.
"They're going to be able to see digital-quality insights, just like we do in the US now for UK ads available in UK."
If the idea that their TV could be listening or watching for their viewing habits, reporting it back to tech companies and advertisers, is enough to spook some viewers in parts of Europe, Chordia says his practice is above-board.
"Because Alphonso is on the consumer device, has a consumer touch point, we're actually in a much stronger position than most data companies, in that being able to collect the consent from the consumer in the right fashion," he says.
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Cyber Monday 2020: This probe thermometer is at an incredibly low price right now
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As most retailers are dropping big sales for Cyber Monday, there's no better time to snag heavily discounted, quality products for your friends and family as the gift-giving season starts. If you're shopping for someone who happens to be a precision-driven home cook or a grill master, then they may appreciate a meat thermometers like the ThermoWorks ChefAlarm or a Thermapen that can help monitor the temperature of the meats they're grilling or smoking.
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Regularly priced at $64, the ThermoWorks ChefAlarm probe thermometer has dropped its price to $51 for Cyber Monday. It's well worth it if you<|fim_middle|> or dabble in candymaking, you can dangle the probe over the side of the pot when heating milk or sugar, keeping your hands safely away from those dangerously hot temperatures.
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We ran a series of tests on probe thermometers, and found it really doesn't get much better than the ChefAlarm. In addition to being one of the most accurate probes in the group, it's also one of the few that you can calibrate. It has a nice backlight display that may appear to be a little crowded at first, but the "current temp" reading is the largest and easiest number to read. You can use it as a timer and adjust the alarm's volume, and it keeps track of the minimum and maximum readings. It even has a high- and low-temperature alarm, which I really appreciate as a cheesemaker. We especially love that it has a hinged, tilting screen for easy viewing on the countertop (it also has a magnet and a clip).
Hurry up and grab yours, as the sales will end tonight.
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The newest addition to the sale is the Thermapen MK4, which is at its lowest price we've seen. It also happens to be my personal favorite—I received one as a gift last year and I've been using it to help me temper chocoalate, check the doneness of steaks and roast lamb.
A probe thermometer is incredibly helpful when cooking large cuts of meat. It'll prevent you from overcooking your brisket, Sunday roast or pulled pork on the smoker by alerting you when the meat reaches the right temperature. And it can do so much more than that. If you're a cheesemaker | 195 |
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Scientists using light to imprint features onto polymer or plastic, print sub-wavelength features one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair. Watch the video…
Associate Professor Nick Fang's research led his team to disprove the established diffraction limit, proving for the first time that it is possible to print sub-wavelength features.
His discovery allows manufacturers to imprint finer features into items such as DVDs to significantly improve storage capabilities, or to probe the traffic of protein or DNA.
This microscope image shows a single unit of the structure developed by the team, called a stretch-dominated octet truss unit cell, made from a polymer using 3-D microstereolithography. Courtesy of the researchers
The geometric basis for such microstructures was determined more than a decade ago, Fang says, but it took years to transfer that mathematical understanding. He explains:
"To something we can print, using a digital projection — to convert this solid model on paper to something we can hold in our hand. The result was 'a pleasant surprise to us,' performing even better than anticipated.
We found that for a material as light and sparse as aerogel [a kind of glass foam], we see a mechanical stiffness that's comparable to that of solid rubber, and 400 times stronger than a counterpart of similar density. Such samples can easily withstand a load of more than 160,000 times their own weight."
A visualization shows a full array of the unit cells, which produces a material that is exceptionally light while also having exceptional strength and stiffness. Courtesy of Ryan Chen/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
So far, the researchers at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and polymer — and all showed the same properties of being stiff at light weight.
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"Built for Bills Fans" promotion announced
M&T Bank and the Buffalo Bills announced a new promotion called, "Built For Bills Fans," that begins Tuesday, November 18.
Three lucky fans will have an opportunity to meet Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman and to be on the sidelines for an up-close look at a Bills' practice. The contest is sponsored by M&T Bank in partnership with the Bills.
Bills fans can enter the contest by visiting the team's website, www.buffalobills.com, and looking for the Built For Bills Fans contest. Entries will be accepted between November 18 and November 25. Three winners will then be chosen at random.
Each winner will receive:
•An invitation to attend the Bills' November 29 practice, which is closed to the media and public.
•An opportunity to meet and be photographed with Brian Moorman.
•An autographed, life-size, Brian Moorman cardboard cutout.
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M&T Bank, founded in 1856, is one of the top 20 largest U.S. commercial bank holding companies, with approximately $66 billion in assets. M&T Bank operates more than 680 branches and 1,600 ATM's in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, | 104 |
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Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal --- involving newly discovered van Goghs --- that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power.
Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert; and a mysterious dealer named Rachmann all find themselves caught up in the astonishing discovery of 32 previously unknown paintings by Vincent van Gogh.
IN THE FULL LIGHT OF THE SUN explores the trio's complex relationships and motivations, their hopes, their vanities and their self-delusions --- for the paintings are fakes, and they are in their own ways complicit. Theirs is a cautionary tale about the aspirations of the new Germany and a generation determined to put the humiliations of the past behind them.
With her signature impeccable and evocative historical detail, Clare Clark has written a gripping novel about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions.
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LIAM HAYES [www.liamhayesandplush.com] Described by Uncut magazine as "One of the most charismatic and eccentric pop craftsmen of the past twenty years." Hayes has been making critically acclaimed records since the 90's. His first single "Three-Quarters Blind Eyes b/w Found a Little Baby" released under the moniker Plush, was cited by the NME as being "…one of those rare records – and incredibly rare debuts – that instantly seems a classic.." Although he emerged from the Chicago indie-rock scene, Hayes is often compared with artists such as Jimmy Webb, Brian Wilson, Laura Nyro and Harry Nilsson. Like some of the best folk-pop or soft soul from the 1960's and 1970's there is a timeless quality to his music.
In addition to records, Hayes has also appeared as himself, performing his songs in "High Fidelity" (1999) directed by Stephen Frears, and "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" (2013) directed by Roman Coppola; for which he also composed the score.
What's happening now: "Mirage Garage". Recorded on four track cassette. Released on cassette. | people who show up with a cassette mix tape of their own making will get a copy of Mirage Garage in exchange AND eligible to be selected to have part of their tape played before or after the performance.
"My last album "Slurrup" was supposed to be a new beginning, but it turned out to be an ending both personally and professionally. Between business problems, getting laid-up sick after an exhausting European junket, and my beloved dog of eighteen years dying amidst it all….. I was devastated. I decided to leave the freezing tundra of the Midwest to come out to sunny L.A. to try and catch a wave. I had a notion to move forward with some new songs; to do something different with some new musicians and to get a feel for the city. After riding L.A.'s buses and attempting to be a pedestrian, I ended up getting chased down the middle of the street by an unhinged drifter. This led me to buying a used, oil-burning SUV, which came with a great stereo, a surprise manufacturer's recall, and a diagnostic code that was nothing less than a death sentence. It had everything but directions to the scrap yard. Bewildered, I retreated to Luther Russell's little 4-track cassette garage studio in Pasadena and started laying down some of this new music merely for the fun of it. To my delight, what I heard played back didn't sound like some "lo-fi" exercise. Luther and I both realized that we weren't just cutting demos; there was a "real" record there. I named it "Mirage Garage". For me, the experience of making it felt like a respite from the grind of everything I had been going through (not to mention the oppressive nature of technology these days). Maybe listening to | 359 |
Iggy McGovern – Poet and Physicist
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"Light, rarely lightweight, McGovern's voice is very much his own – unaffectedly honest, instructive and entertaining" – Eamon Grennan, Irish Times
Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin; he has published three collections of poetry with Dedalus Press, The King of Suburbia (2005), Safe House (2010) and The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017). A Mystic Dream of 4, a sonnet sequence based on the life of the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, is published by Quaternia Press (2013). His awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary, the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry and the Hennessy Literary Award. He edited the anthology 20/12: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines, published in 2012 by Dedalus Press in association with Quaternia Press. His latest publication is Making Waves: a sonnet sequence based on the life of the physicist Erwin Schroedinger (Quaternia Press 2021).
'Proverbs for the Computer Age', read on Poetry Clips December 2020 https://www.johnhewittsociety.org/poetry_clips/iggy-mcgovern/
Astronomy and Poetry, Royal Irish Academy Discourse with Jocelyn Bell Burnell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCihxAMgVG8
Book Review: 'A Sonnet to Science' by Sam Illingworth. https://medium.com/scicomm-book-reviews/a-sonnet-to-science-scientists-and-their-poetry-3fe7f14f9547
'Reflections', a poem in celebration of the recognition of Birr Castle as a site of scientific interest by the European Physical Society, 20.09.19
'A Cyclist's Prayer' joint winner (with Catherine Ann Cullen) in the Adult section of the Joyce-Cycle Poetry Competition among poem-cards distributed during the 2019 Dublin St Patrick's Day Parade 17.03.19
'Airfixit', a 'political' poem published in Irish Times Ticket 26.01.19 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/poem-of-the-week-airfixit-1.3761242
'Rhymes & Reflections' part of Schroedinger@75 – The Future of Biology, 04.09.18 https://vimeo.com/290309573
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Advancing Localization One Click at a Time
Photo credit: USAID/India
by: Colleen Allen
Colleen Allen is the Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Management.
USAID Assistant Administrator Colleen Allen
Big things are happening these days at USAID's headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at our Missions around the world—and many of them have to do with localization.
Just two weeks ago, on October 19, the Agency launched our first-ever Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy, which encapsulates USAID's approach to engaging with local partners in the countries where we work. Sitting in the audience for that event, I was reminded of another important localization event, held one year ago today at Georgetown University.
In her speech entitled "A New Vision for Global Development," Administrator Samantha Power outlined her localization priorities and announced the launch of WorkwithUSAID.org—a free, global one-stop shop for partnership tools and resources.
The site, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, has changed the way organizations engage with the Agency.
WorkwithUSAID.org home page
The site lowers barriers to partnership for new and nontraditional partners by proactively offering tools and resources designed to be welcoming, approachable, and understandable. And it brings USAID together with both new and established partners to share knowledge and enhance transparency. Finally, it provides a common platform for raising visibility so that partnership can be about "what you know" not about "who<|fim_middle|>, and streamlined.
So, on this one-year anniversary of WorkwithUSAID.org, I am feeling encouraged by the progress we have made in fostering a shared localization mindset at USAID and taking real steps to work hand-in-hand with local partners to find solutions to the world's pressing development challenges. I look forward to the upcoming year and all the progress we will make now that both the policies, like the LCS Policy, and the tools, like WorkwithUSAID.org, are in place and gaining momentum. | you know."
Over the past year, the site's performance has been wonderful to watch:
More than 3,100 organizations from over 140 countries have registered in the Partner Directory, and more than 60 percent of these are local partners;
More than 2,000 organizations have taken the site's Pre-Engagement Assessment to help them understand their partnership readiness; and
More than 90 pieces of content have been shared on the News & Insights blog, ensuring a steady supply of fresh guidance and encouragement, from inspirational success stories to insightful Q&A-style interviews with USAID staff.
Even better, the WorkwithUSAID.org website is a key pillar of USAID's designation as a federal High-Impact Service Provider (HISP). The site's focus on the customer experience represents a new approach to engaging with the partner ecosystem and the public overall. I am proud of how, as a HISP, USAID is demonstrating its leadership among federal agencies in "doing business differently" in order to become more open, responsive | 215 |
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Bradley Thoroughbreds, Whispering Oaks Farm, Team Hanley, Madaket Stables, and Tim and Anna Cambron's She's A Julie had her work cut out for her in the stretch of Friday's Grade 1 La Troienne, but was able to run down the erratically-moving Secret Spice to win by about a half-length on the wire. Ridden by Ricardo Santana for trainer Steve Asmussen and sent off at 5-1 odds, the 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality covered 1 1/16 miles on Churchill Downs' fast main track in 1:43.58.
"I felt this would be the right spot for her," Asmussen said. "I got extremely nervous with all the rain this morning, with a sloppy track. It seemed like her sloppy track run last season caused the dip. But she's a Grade I-winning mare and deservedly so. I got concerned going into the second turn, it seemed that she had to wait for traffic a bit. | 235 |
On the afternoon of 3 April, the finals of the 2nd Shanghai Theatre Academy Chinese Classic Recital Contest was successfully held in the Duanjun Theater. The event<|fim_middle|> prize for Grandma's Stars; Mao Haipeng of BA Performance (Puppet) won the second prize for They; Yang Xinyi and Xiao Yao of BA Directing (Theatre, Film and TV) 2017 won the third prize for their joint piece Love Song of Youth". After the competition, the judges made detailed comments on all the contestants. | was sponsored by the Language and Writing Committee and the Academic Affairs Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and organized by the Student Teaching Information Center of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. After the collection of the pieces in the early stage and the selection in the preliminaries, ten pieces finally entered the finals. After the competition, Yuan Yujiao of BA Performance (Puppet) 2017 won the first | 82 |
Q: in which situation such a prepositions "until" and"by" could be interchangeable? This question comprehensively has been edited:Could you think of where or in which situation or condition--or which verbs-- such prepositions could mean the same thing or even interchangeable?
until
by
The documents need to be ready by next Friday.
Here "until" would have the same meaning.
UPDATED: So, you could see both the prepositions has been used with the same verb-- although the meaning of the sentence has been changed. My specific question is about the stative or dynamic verbs, since the preposition "by" could go just along together dynamic verb, and conversely the preposition"until" merely can go with "static" verbs.
Imagine that it takes some time to extend negotiations. Perhaps everybody needs to fill in many forms. There's a lot of administration to do, if you want to extend negotiations. Now look at this sentence:
They decided to extend the negotiations by July 1, 2015.
This sentence means that they decided to finish all the administration for the extension before July 1, 2015.
Now look at this sentence:
They decided to extend the negotiations until July 1, 2015.
This means that the minimum duration of the negotiations is from now to July 1, 2015. The negotiations will not finish till July 1, 2015.
Thanks in advance
A: Sentence 1
The documents need to be ready until Friday.
Some questions to help:
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*Are the documents ready now?: Yes!
*Do<|fim_middle|> ready now.
Hope this is helpful!
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*The documents need to be ready by next Friday. (Next Friday: documents should be ready at some point before this day. They are likely not ready now and should become ready by this date.)
If you insert until here, the sentence will change its meaning to one radically different. In civil engineering terms, there will be a 180-degree turn in meaning:
*The documents need to be ready until next Friday. (the documents should be in the ready condition until that date. After next Friday, they could assume a "non-ready" condition, it will be not important.)
You can use until and make a sentence approaching sentence 1 in meaning:
I'll wait until next Friday for the documents to be produced.
or
In the period starting now and lasting until next Friday, the documents should be fully prepared.
The document preparation period will last until next Friday.
or, in a somewhat wonky fashion,
Until next Friday is the period of time during which the preparation of the documents should be completed.
| the documents need to be ready tomorrow too? Yes!
*Do the documents need to be ready on next Saturday?: No! They only need to be ready from now to next Friday.
This sentence means that the documents are ready now. Their ready status needs to continue. After Friday, they don't need to be ready any more.
Sentence 2
The documents need to be ready by Friday.
Some questions to help:
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*Are the documents ready now?: No!
*Do the documents need to be ready tomorrow? No!
*When do the documents need to be ready? Before Friday!
This means the documents needs to be ready before Friday. The person speaking doesn't think the documents are | 140 |
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By Evita Caldwell • Jun 12, 2015
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On June 16, Cortango Orquesta, will host an album release concert for the release of their first album, Tandas. Founded by Cally Banham, the six-member band Cortango describes itself as a "dance band performing tango music with a symphonic twist."
"I started the group with the intent of creating an ideal experience for social dancing," Banham said. "We started by playing more traditional, steady tangos. [Now], we like to present some pieces that are concert-like in nature and also play for dancers."
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By Kelsey Proud • Sep 27, 2014
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We continue our live broadcasts of the St. Louis Symphony's 2014-2015 season this weekend, and you can be right there with us from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27.
On select Saturday evenings, St. Louis Public Radio broadcasts the Symphony's | 244 |
In 2007, Mark Adams was appointed Vice President Design for Opel/Vauxhall and has continued leaving his unique mark on the current sculptured look that has become synonymous with Opel.
His first project was the Insignia concept car (2003). Adams: "While working on the Insignia concept, we sowed the seeds for what was to become our new design philosophy. I came up with the motto 'Sculptural Artistry meets German Precision' in 2005."
...and the ADAM adds the fun factor.
Now comes the next phase: The seed for Opel Design 2.0 was planted in the Monza concept.
The LED projection technology and human-machine interface concepts will have been perfected in a few years.
Interviewed by Opel Post, Vice President of Design for Opel/Vauxhall, Mark Adams explains his design philosophy and how the Monza concept is taking its design execution to next level.
The windows run along the entire length of the exclusive office, coming together at the corner of building N50. At the spot where the wall juts out, miniature models of classic cars are lined up in a mock parade. Host Mark Adams is friendly, affable, and in a good mood. He invites us over to a low table surrounded by quintessential Knoll International wire frame chairs. Everything here breathes design. And that is what we came here to talk about.
Opel Post: Mark Adams, good design must be ahead of its time for people to appreciate it for years to come. How does this affect your work?
Mark Adams: I definitely agree. And I can think of some good examples among our cars, for example the current Corsa. When we launched it in 2006, it was a breath of fresh air compared to the competition. Even now after several years its looks have endured. To achieve this, it takes a strong design statement that goes beyond the customer's expectations. The Calibra and the Corsa B are examples from the past that has this same lasting impact. Right now the Insignia is an excellent case in point. It looks as good now as it did back when it was launched in 2008.
As the man behind Opel's looks, the Vice President Design for Opel/Vauxhall has managed to seamlessly forge sculptured design with German engineering.
What did you think of the Opel design when you joined the company in 2002?
The design department was being reorganized at the time. My position as Head of Opel/Vauxhall Exterior Design had been newly created with three key leadership positions – exterior, interior and advanced design. Before that, everything was designated as vehicle architectures. It was then divided into interior, exterior and advanced design. Work had just begun on the Vectra C. It was well made and solid looking, like the other cars I saw shortly after my arrival. But in my opinion, the cars lacked an emotional quality.
And so the Opel design language was given a name.
Not the design language, but rather the design philosophy. There is a difference. A lot of competitors back then had their own design language, but these ideas never lasted. I didn't want to have to get up every four or five years and say, 'Here's the new design language'. We wanted to create consistency. A design philosophy, from my perspective, is something sustainable and enduring. It could be valid for a hundred years. That's what I wanted to get across to my team. So I took specific models from Opel's history. I asked: 'Could the Opel GT from the 1960s be described as Sculptural Artistry meets German Precision in that timeframe?' The answer was yes, it could. And so it could validated into the future also. The Insignia was our first modern-day production car that carried these values. But it is also easy to imagine how cars could continue to follow this philosophy in 2060 and still be contemporary.
How long did it take for your team to internalize this philosophy?
It took about two years for everyone to let it sink in. These days I hardly ever see a sketch on the wall that doesn't reflect this thinking. The good thing is that our philosophy doesn't limit us. On the contrary, it gives us a great deal of creative freedom. It provides a frame work within which we can work, yet it doesn't restrict us. If we always designed<|fim_middle|> the proudest?
Oh, that's a tough question. It's like asking me to say which one of my three kids I love most (laughs). But if I had to choose the most significant, I would say the Insignia, Astra GTC and ADAM because they all stand for the key values of the brand. The Insignia brought in a premium aura by being the first in its class to offer high-quality features. The GTC stands for sportiness and the ADAM adds the fun factor. All of our current and future cars carry a combination of these three values. The Insignia, Astra GTC and ADAM have all helped the change peoples perception of the brand. I often hear: 'What? That's an Opel?' My hope is that the design of our cars will keep doing that, and in so doing, will help raise the profile of the brand further. | cars from different platforms in the same way and made them all identical, like Russian dolls, it wouldn't work at all. We have a very broad range of customers, which is why we need different cars each with its own individual personality. This frame work allows us to design this bandwidth of cars. We have carried on this philosophy with every new vehicle since the Insignia. It is currently reflected in our entire model range: The Astra, Meriva and Zafira Tourer all embody it. So do the cars that have expanded our portfolio – the Ampera, Mokka, ADAM and Cascada. For example, the ADAM is clearly an Opel, but it has a totally different personality from the Insignia.
Vice President Design for Opel/Vauxhall Mark Adams: " When you look at our cars, you get an instant emotional reaction. You think, 'Wow, what a great design!'".
And is this the philosophy you want to carry over into future generations of Opels?
Exactly. Now comes the next phase: The seed for Opel Design 2.0 was planted in the Monza concept, which will define the design of our production vehicles for the next eight to 10 years. It takes some of the well-known features we have etablished, but gives them a fresh, new interpretation, and executes them in a contemporary fashion.
How do you plan on transferring the character of a concept with gull-wing doors into a five-seat production vehicle with a roomy trunk?
The Monza may be a vision, but it's not that far removed. It's important for it to remain accessible to everyone within our organization, which is why we like to think in five to 10-year cycles. The next cycle will take us to Opel Design 3.0, which will integrate new trends and technologies while remaining consistent with our philosophy. If you compare the Insignia concept and the Monza concept, you can see the connection, the DNA link, yet you can also see that the Monza has moved things on.
What else does the Monza concept represent?
It is inspiring and visionary. It stands for outstanding efficiency and connectivity. I'm certain that the LED projection technology and human-machine interface concepts will have been perfected in a few years. Today, drivers use a touchscreen to communicate, but voice recognition will soon take over. This also contributes significantly to safety, since it allows drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. And Opel intends to be the leader in this field with our next generation of cars. Our focus is on making vehicles simple to use. The new central console of the Insignia is a step in this direction. The infotainment system of the ADAM is already commendable. Our high-speed mobile communications connection OnStar is a harbinger of things to come. Connectivity is a very important field for us. Broadly speaking, even though the exterior design is what everyone sees, the interior will take on a greater importance as you're inside the car 99 percent of the time.
Does Opel offer added value through design in comparison to its competitors?
Certainly. Our design philosophy plays an important role in the purchase decision. The head and the heart are both involved – we try to combine both. The beautiful sculpted design speaks to the heart, the emotional side. On the other side we have German engineering and the positive values it represents: technology, precision, structure, quality. When you look at our cars, you get an instant emotional reaction. You think, 'Wow, what a great design!' When you look again, you get a sense of the solid technological foundation. That's our unique selling point. We want to be the emotional German brand.
You were at GM in Warren for a year and came back in fall 2013. What do you think changed during that year?
Well, I wasn't really gone. I had meetings here and a lot of conference calls with Rüsselsheim. I have certainly been able to reinforce my internal GM network and key contacts while being in North America. And I was able to recalibrate my approach to Opel. Now, I have a more global perspective. These experiences will definitely help me guide and lead my team here.
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HomeEventsShakespearian Communities – an interdisciplinary celebration of Shakespeare's life, work & influence
Shakespearian Communities – an interdisciplinary celebration of Shakespeare's life, work & influence
Winston Churchill Avenue - Portsmouth
Date(s) - 14 April - 16 April
To mark the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Centre for Studies in Literature and the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth are holding a conference on 'Shakespearean Communities' celebrating Shakespeare's life, work and influence. A wealth of scholarship has explored Shakespeare and his contemporary world, where communities were being created, contested and redefined. The persecution of religious minorities, the discovery of the new world, the growing importance of the mercantile class and the spread of the printed text, tested and redrew ideas of community and fellowship. Subsequently, too, Shakespeare's work has provoked and created new communities of audience and performers in a variety of formats, from the stage to the text to the screen. Indeed, Shakespeare continues to provide different ways in which academics and theatre practitioners can work with communities. The conference organisers, from the English Literature and History Departments at Portsmouth, aim to bring together scholars working on various aspects of Shakespeare's – or Shakespearean – communities, to reassess the ways in which community helps us to think about/reassess the legacy of his work. Confirmed keynote speakers are Professor John Drakakis, Professor Russell Jackson and Dr Felicity Heal.
The conference is open<|fim_middle|>
• Artists and Illustrators of Shakespeare
• Acting Communities: Performers of Shakespeare, past & present | to scholars at all academic stages and those working from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (Literature, History, Adaptation, Film Studies and beyond). We also welcome theatre and visual art practitioners with an interest in 'Shakespearean Communities'.
The conference will address:
• Early Modern Theatrical Communities
• Local Communities in Shakespeare's England
• Religious Communities
• Legal communities
• National and/or ethnic communities
• Textual communities
• Communities of family and friendship
• Writing Communities: Shakespeare's influence & afterlives | 106 |
Black Diamond Equipment Ltd. was awarded the Pfeifferhorn – Conservation Leadership award by six leading Utah conservation and environmental organizations.
Black Diamond Equipment Ltd., a global leader in the climbing and freeride ski markets, was awarded the Pfeifferhorn – Conservation Leadership award by six leading Utah conservation and environmental organizations. These organizations include: Save Our Cany<|fim_middle|> of equipment for rock climbing, alpinism and freeride skiing. By consistently building innovative, standard-setting products and actively preserving the mountain environment, Black Diamond has assumed a leadership role in the international outdoor community. | ons, The Nature Conservancy, Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club, Wild Utah Project, Wasatch Mountain Club and the Great Salt Lake Audubon Society.
Metcalf accepted the award at last night's ceremony on behalf of Black Diamond Equipment. This recognition marks the first time a "for profit" business has been awarded with this honor. Under Peter's leadership, Black Diamond supports more than 25 organizations across the United States—both financially and by encouraging activism and providing on-the-ground support. Additionally, Metcalf has presented to both Houses of Congress in the past year, urging them to protect Utah's Wild Places. Most recently, Metcalf met with the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands on America's Redrock Wilderness Act.
The Pfeifferhorn - Conservation Leadership Award is awarded each year to the individual whom these organizations believe best served the public interest the preceding year. The recipient is a person who worked very hard and diligently to preserve and protect some aspect of the natural environment of the State of Utah. The award's name originated from one of the Salt Lake area's highest peaks, the Pfeifferhorn.
Winner of the Outside magazine 2009 Gear of the Year for the Justice Freeride Ski, Black Diamond Equipment Ltd. is an employee-owned manufacturer | 265 |
Wakayama & the Kii Peninsula
A Wakayama University conference on Overtourism – Tourism in Troubled Times – took me to Japan and, on the side, a little exploration of the Kii Peninsula. That's the finger of Japan pointing south from big city Osaka and cultural centre Kyoto, down to Cape Shionomisaki, the furthest south point on the island of Honshu.
▲ Of course COVID-19 has been an instant – short term at least – solution to the Overtourism problem. As I observed as I passed through the very empty Hong Kong Airport on my way to and from Japan. I donned my face mask<|fim_middle|>-drop falls in Japan.
▲ There are water basins for ritual hand washing and rinsing your mouth at all the temples. Drinking from this very attractive dragon-fed basin below the waterfalls also ensures you'll live a long life.
▲ At Nachi-Katsuura, the port and fish town near the temple, it's very clear tuna is the all important fish. There's a big tuna fish market on the waterfront.
◄ And tuna was very much on the plate when I dined at Matsu Sushi in Kushimoto, the village at Cape Shionomisaki. Although that's the tempura!
▲ Alex Kerr – the author of Lost Japan – was one of the speakers at the conference and he suggested Japan needed more sympathetically restored old buildings which, with the addition of modern facilities, could make wonderful hotels. That description certainly applied to the beautiful Hotel Nipponia where I stayed in Kushimoto.
▲ On the other hand Alex regretted the Japanese enthusiasm for signposting which disfigures many beautiful locations. Probably some of these signs tell you that you'd be enjoying a beautiful view of Cape Shionomisaki. If it wasn't for all the signs.
◄ Last October I'd visited Thursday Island in Australia's Torres Strait with its cemetery for Japanese pearl divers. I hadn't realized most of the divers in Torres Strait – and also in Broome in Western Australia – came from this region and in particular from the village of Kushimoto. Right by the cape there's a small pearl diving museum, much of it devoted to the divers who went to Thursday Island.
◄ Right outside the museum and overlooking the rocky cape is this pearl diving memorial, facing towards Thursday Island. I read an interesting booklet – Cape of Tides by John Lamb – on the cape's divers and their Australian connection, particularly to Thursday Island and Torres Strait. I like the story about the group of divers who came back to Japan rich men, not from their diving, but from a big syndicate win on the Melbourne Cup horse race.
In fact my Kii Peninsula travels started with a visit to the mountain-top temple town of Koyasan where I started with the climb up through the spookily atmospheric forest around the Oku-no-in cemetery with hundreds – thousands – of tombs, memorials, statues and shrines. You enter the cemetery across the Ichi-no-hashi bridge … ▼
▲ … and exit across the Gobyo-bashi bridge to the principal temple, the Gobyo. We were definitely in the mountains, it was snowing.
▲ … my peninsula travels ended with a visit to the Kadocho traditional soy sauce factory in Yuasa, dating from 1841, and a stop at Akizuno Garten with its old wooden school, these class portrait bas reliefs are a much nicer idea than some bland school photograph.
Kii Peninsula | , but there weren't too many people to worry about.
▲ The peninsula has two major attractions, some magnificent temples particularly the mountaintop Koyasan temple complex, and the Kumano Kodo walking trails leading to Kumano Hongū Taisha. This is the stairway leading up to the temple.
▲ Which also happens to be the official temple of Japan's national football team, so there's a collection of signed footballs in a showcase in the temple.
▲ There's a visitor centre which tells the story of the Kumano Kodo walking trails and the relationship with the Camino Santiago walking trails in Spain. Like that popular European walking route there are assorted starting point, this is a popular one from just behind the sub-shrine at Takijiri Oji, the stairway up into the forest looks very enticing!
▲ Yatagarasu, the three-legged crow, is the symbol of the Kumano temples and the Japan football team. You'll see plenty of them – well illustrations like this or even statues – around the region.
▲ Since the Chinese Year of the Rat had just rolled in there were plenty of them as well.
▲ The temples often seemed to involve long climbs like this one I'm ascending through a very picturesque forest, starting with passing between the Meoto-sugi 'husband & wife' cedar trees, on the way up to the Kumano-Nachi Taisha at Nachikatsuura.
▲ At the temple complex the Seiganto-ji Temple stands below the Nachi-no-Otaki Waterfall, at 133-metres the highest single | 323 |
Gannett Co. seems to have recognized that with the recent creation of its list of 'content priorities' to focus its editorial mission in the wake of numerous reductions of editorial resources and personnel. Gannett officials describe it as a way to "get our swagger back," but, more importantly, it gives the chain a road map to follow to keep it viable and potentially successful in maintaining current readers as well as in building new ones.
The priorities range from improving watchdog journalism to repositioning its print and web operations to building Sunday audiences and being community leaders. I particularly love the revelation that<|fim_middle|> other media. This is something every print organization needs to recognize, but I'd bet very few are willing to admit it.
Gannett's statements are no means a guarantee to success. There are a few shortcomings, such as developing new products and methods to deliver content to niche audiences (thats readers, not advertisers. Build readers, and advertisers will follow). But in an industry where there is no clear-cut model for reversing decades of customer decline, too many are sitting and waiting for someone else to come up with the answer.
At least the Gannett Co. has built itself a rudder to weather the storm and find safe port in calmer waters. | newspapers are no longer a breaking news medium, therefore focus should be on developing and building content that differentiates them from | 23 |
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Peabody Properties' The Moorings Receives Close to $478,000 in Utility Upgrades through LEAN Multifamily Program
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Gifts Collected Donated to Elizabeth Stone House in Boston For the fifth year, Peabody Properties, Inc., a Braintree-based, full-service real estate firm, hosted a holiday gift drive in partnership with the New England Affordable Housing Management Association (NEAHMA) to benefit the Elizabeth Stone House in Boston. The gifts were collected over a four week period…
Quincy Seniors Send Long-distance Valentines
A group of residents from The Moorings at Squantum Gardens – a 223-unit senior living community located in Marina Bay – recently celebrated Valentine's Day with sweet treats, hot chocolate and a festive arts and crafts project. In response to a call for submissions from the Ruckersville Elementary School in Virginia, the residents crafted special… | The Moorings
Braintree and Quincy, MA (January 28, 2022) – Full service real estate and property management firm Peabody Properties announces that The Moorings at Squantum Gardens in Quincy has completed near $478,000 in electrical and gas upgrades through funding from the Massachusetts LEAN Multifamily Program (www.leanmultifamily.org). Installation of $430,000 in gas upgrades was completed in June…
Peabody Properties' Christine DiBella Receives Accredited Residential Manager of the Year Award from the Institute for Real Estate Management
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Braintree and Quincy, MA (October 25, 2018) – Full-service real estate and property management firm Peabody Properties is proud to announce that Christine DiBella, Property Manager for The Moorings at Squantum Gardens in Quincy, Massachusetts, has been named the Accredited Residential Manager (ARM®) of the Year by the Institute for Real Estate Management (IREM). DiBella…
Peabody Properties' The Moorings at Squantum Gardens Winner of Quincy Readers Choice Award: #1 in Retirement Living Residence
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Braintree and Quincy, MA (July 11, 2018) – Peabody Properties is proud to announce that The Moorings at Squantum Gardens (a Peabody Properties community) received the number one award in the Retirement Living Residence category of the Quincy, MA Wicked Local Readers Choice Awards The year's edition marks the 23rd anniversary of the Readers Choice…
The Moorings at Squantum Gardens Celebrates 10 Years
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Quincy and Braintree, MA (September 27, 2017) – The Moorings at Squantum Gardens, an award-winning Quincy community managed by full-service real estate and property management firm Peabody Properties, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with residents, staff, and local officials, including Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, Representative Bruce Ayers, and Quincy City Councilors Noel DiBona and…
Peabody Properties' The Moorings at Squantum Gardens Winner of Readers Choice Award for Retirement Living Facility
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Braintree and Quincy, MA (August 2, 2017) – Peabody Properties is proud to announce that The Moorings at Squantum Gardens (a Peabody Properties community) received an Honorable Mention in the Retirement Living Facility category of the Wicked Local Readers Choice Awards. The year's edition marks the 22nd anniversary of the Readers Choice Awards, compiled by…
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Braintree, MA (October 27, 2016) – The 28th Annual New England Affordable Housing Management Association (NEAHMA) Fall Conference & Expo was recently held at The Lantana in Randolph, MA. In addition to a diverse number of workshops and a swearing-in ceremony for new designees, NEAHMA celebrated its best and brightest, honoring the special achievements of housing…
The Moorings at Squantum Gardens earns award for Exemplary Development for the Elderly
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Braintree, MA (October 11, 2016) – Full-service real estate firm Peabody Properties, Inc. today announced that The Moorings at Squantum Gardens, 420 E. Squantum Street, received an award for Regional "Exemplary Development for the Elderly" through The New England Affordable Housing Management Association (NEAHMA) Community of Quality (COQ). This award-winning Community of Quality property overlooks both Wollaston…
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Residents Make Valentines for Quincy Police and Fire Departments and Brewster Ambulance A group of residents from The Moorings at Squantum Gardens – a senior living community of 223 apartment homes located in Marina Bay – recently celebrated Valentine's Day with refreshments, sweet treats and | 870 |
One of the luminaries of the 2018 Cruisin' Country line-up in October is Troy Cassar-Daley, one of Australia's most popular country music performers and the creator of some of our greatest country songs. He joins John Williamson, and others, on the cruise and it was a real treat to be able to talk to him about it recently.
When you have so many albums and you have to put set lists together, of course not all songs are top of your mind – you have to go back and practise.
You're absolutely right. First of all, it just means you're getting old, when you've got a lot of records out, and second of all the set lists get harder. But next year will be a lot different, because I'm going out with a greatest hits set list. That's going to be a lot easier to pick because they have to be chart songs.
Do you like that, though, or do you feel like you're missing out on some of your favourites?
I like it for the fact that it's easy to put the set together. When I'm doing a touring set and I have to include maybe six songs from the new record and then I have to go through the old catalogue and work out which ones have been in the long yard for a while, which ones need to come out, which ones you really love to play. I don't think I do a show without doing 'River Boy' – I don't know why, I can't really leave that out. There's different ones – 'Born to Survive' – that people do ask for a lot but which can't be particularly fun to play. It's very, very hard to put them together but, honestly, this cruise it's going to be really easy to put this set together, because I look at this list of people and I just know there's going to be people jumping up on [other] people's shows – it's going to have that vibe – and I like that. I like the fact there are going to be cross-pollinations, because I go from John Williamson here to Graeme Connors, Gina Jeffreys, Sara Storer, Tania Kernaghan and Anne Kirkpatrick, James Blundell, Amber Lawrence, and that's just to start. And I've toured with Tania Kernaghan and Sara Storer and Anne Kirkpatrick. I've been on the road with Gina Jeffreys when I was twenty-four. She took me on the road as a solo act to introduce me to her crowd. So I've got big history with all these people, and I can't wait to see them let alone enjoy the company of some people on a cruise.
And when you do your Tamworth show, quite often you bring in other artists and there's that lovely sense of generosity from you as an artist, to say 'it's not just about me – the story of me is also all these people'. So I think this is just a continuation of your normal work.
It probably will be, but the Tamworth show really is about the building blocks of what makes country music what it is, and I think what it is, is that you have to remember that people help you, and no matter where you find yourself in your career, there always should be a hand out to give you a hand up to somewhere else or to do this or do that. I've had champions all throughout my life and I think that now that the baton's been past to me, now that I'm in my forties, I'm probably the different generation that needs to be dragging the younger ones through and putting them on show as well. It shouldn't be about me -people already know about me. I get more excited these days about introducing new talent to people.
I remember a while ago you had Luke Austen in your band and another young artist who were in their twenties, and I remember thinking that was such an interesting thing for you to do as an established artist, to bring these young guys in to be your rhythm section.
When I toured with Brian Young when I was in my twenties, Brian gave me a huge hand up with seeing my country. For the first time in my life I'd actually had a chance to see my country and then go out and make a living over nine months. It was an amazing experience. I then went back and did a documentary for SBS on Brian's tour, and Damien and Luke were in the band at that stage. Brian pulled me aside and said, 'When we get back on firm land, back to the cities where we all live, you know the biggest dream of those two kids is to be in your band?' And I said, 'You're kidding me? They're great players, those kids. I would have thought they would have had their own little bands to worry about.' He said, 'No – they really love and respect what you do.' Next minute I get their numbers and give them a call, and they said they'd love to. They moved up from Grafton to live in Brisbane to be in the band. I don't know how many years they were with me but it was a long, long time. Luke, obviously, got to a stage where he was making his own career and I had to let him go. I can't just keep him there because I wanted him to play bass! But it made me so proud – it was like a dad with a kid leaving home when he left the band, because I thought, This is so cool. He's now off doing his own thing, and that's what's important – and if you can be a little bit of a help in that process. And Damien, the drummer, was the same. He now lives with his two kids in Darwin, he drums in local bands, and all the experiences he gained from being in my band, he reckons, were so worth it because he not only has a day job that he enjoys but he also gets to play with some phenomenal artists up around Darwin. So if you can help these people on their way, like I've had the help, I think you're going all right.
Speaking of a band – when you're on the cruise, do you use the house band?
And the musicians in those bands in Tamworth play something like 25 shows throughout the festival, so they are match ready for something like this cruise.
They totally get it. My keyboard player, Vaughn Jones – I played with him the other night, we did a corporate gig and I said, 'I don't want to play any of my music for the crowd', and they said, 'Why not?' I said, 'I want to play some old covers for you so you can dance and it's all old, familiar stuff.' And they loved it. And Vaughn – who does 35 shows every Tamworth festival – said, 'That was like I was 16 again back in a covers band at some friend's wedding.' And that's the fine I think that you can have in music even when you've been in it a long time. You should change it up for your own sake, and also give people something they don't expect. And the people at the [corporate gig] danced their feet off and had such a time, and we were playing things like 'Dock of the Bay' and old Eagles songs and Creedence, and I just loved it. It brought out the child in me. And, you know, every now and then you've got to do that just to keep yourself sane.
Now this is the weird part: I got with Adam for those weekends because we wanted to do it for fun. We didn't get a chance to play any of those songs in our normal sets, and we said, 'How are we going to do this?' I said, 'Harvey, what we need to do is organise just a weekend of shows once every six months, just for us.' Unfortunately, Sophie, it wasn't for you [laughs]. It was so self-indulgent and people happened to enjoy it. Then one of the Sony people from Adam's record company said, 'You guys have got to make a record of this', because after every show we'd get all these requests: 'Is there a record?' 'Have you got a record coming?' We'd say, 'No – we're just doing this for fun!' We didn't want to make a record, we just wanted to get out and play with an incredible country band some old songs that inspired us. It was one of the best fun experiences of projects that I've done. Harvey and I still reminisce about how wild fun it is, and the laughter, and the amount of tunes we got to play with this incredible country band.
When you play on Cruisin' Country, do you work in some covers?
I think I'll have to. There's a few I really enjoy playing – especially from the Great Country Songbook. It sold about 85 000 [units] so a lot of people have the record. I'm going to definitely change it up and make sure it's different to what people might see on the road – which I always do anyway. I make sure I let Brendan know what the songs are with plenty of notice. But when I look through the line-up … I've got big history with a lot of these people. I came through in the same wave after James Blundell broke through. There was myself, there was Lee Kernghan and there was Gina Jeffreys. Gina and Anne Kirkpatrick and James were three of the people who really did set the country music world on fire, and they showed people that it wasn'tall about hay bales and everything else – it could be young, you know? It was an amazing time for our music, and I was very, very privileged to be a small part of that wave of people who came through. So there's going to be some cross-pollinations [on the cruise] and I hope people are ready for this. I want to make sure that there's some times that we can do some songs together that we used to do on the road. Tania Kernaghan comes to mind. Sara Storer comes to mind. Anne Kirkpatrick comes to mind, because I've done duets with them.
If I talk to them I'll mention that you're hankering for some duets.
Absolutely. And I haven't drunk for a little while – I've taken a bit of time off the grog because I was starting to feel like I was waking up every morning with a cloud over my head. I may break the drought on this cruise – it's in October so that'll be almost two years off the grog. So who knows – I might even have a couple of beers with some old friends. But this will be special, not only for the guests who come on board and hang out with us, but it will be special because there will be the artists who not only get a chance to catch up in Tamworth but they'll be on a cruise with some fantastic other artists as well to share the bill.
You are on a cruise with your fans and there's necessarily some interaction. I've seen how your audience interacts with you – how much your songs mean to them. In that kind of environment, do people come up to you and tell you that?
Oh yes. Like every other cruise people come along and say g'day. Adam Harvey said to me, 'If you get all the autographs done in the first couple of days, normally people are happy with that' – but he was lying through his teeth [laughs]. You've got to get through 2000-odd people on a cruise. So I signed feverishly to make sure I got everyone done so we could all relax. But it was still going on the seventh day – there were still autographs and photos to be had. But we don't lock ourselves in our room, I can tell you now. It's a lot of fun for the fans as much as it is for the artists. I'll have my boy with me – he's twenty now. Last time I was on a cruise with him, he was in the kids club. I don't<|fim_middle|> find out who you were musically – is that how it felt at the time?
All I can remember was is that it was very, very intimidating for me to be in a studio. I knew that the players were going to do a good job because I knew a lot of those fellas from Tamworth after visiting in my late teens and into my early twenties. I was only 20 years old, and I guess when you look at what you do at 20, you've got to start somewhere. I'd written these two songs – I'd played them in Star Maker, actually. Keith [Urban] had won Star Maker that year [laughs].
Bloody Keith, getting in the way of everyone's progress! [laughs] I'm still good mates with Keith and it's wonderful to be able to look at all these little tiny stepping stones and relate them to songs. Keith was more than ready to win Star Maker because he was so polished and so professional compared to the rest of us, but we all started there. Star Maker was a great learning curve for me to play original material in front of people. I was scared, I've got to say – I was worried about how it would all turn out. But it was a start. Now it's great to be able to look back and share these things with people too.
Each album of yours is different – no one could ever say you stagnate. What drives you as an artist and as a songwriter to keep changing?
Do you have a favourite place you go and eat sometimes?
And there are certain things on the menu that you know are going to be the same, and if they take them off you get very wild with them. Because I went through TAFE as a cook, I guess this analogy sort of fits me. I always feel that you have to serve up things that people expect, because there will be their favourites they always look for on the menu. Then you've always got to make sure you have a fresh selection of things. And that fresh selection means you have to push your limits a little bit, and I always try to do that. If I look at the last album, I don't want to repeat myself, but I also want to have a little bit of familiarity in there. I just love making music. At the moment I'm slanting into a blues direction with some country stuff as well, which I love, because people never get to see that side of me when I play. So there are some more rootsy, Americana-style things that I've been listening to that really have got my ears pricked up, saying, 'Wow, I like the sound of that.' I like the sound of someone like Chris Stapleton, who has a really basic sound, to me, and I think it would be lovely to make a record with a really basic sound without too much layering, which gives people a chance to hear another side, and play a lot more guitar. | know if they have a naughty kids club – because that's probably where he's going to get locked up now because he's twenty and he drinks and he does what he wants, and I think it's a heap of fun to take him away from his radio job that he does in Brisbane, for a time away with a lot of great, fun country music fans.
On the subject of Harvey lying through his teeth: I get the impression, from talking to other people, that he does that a lot.
[Laughs] It's a common trait. We've played some funny tricks on each other. One of them, we played this festival but I played the night before him and I told everyone to chant for 'The Gambler' until he played. Of course, he left 'The Gambler' till the last part of his set, but all the way through they're going, 'Gambler, Gambler, Gambler'. It got back that it was me, of course, and I was the worst in the world [laughs] and it was the funniest thing, because he said to me, 'I owe you one – you'd better watch your back'. And we've been great mates ever since. We were very, very good friends before The Great Country Songbookbut what it cemented with us was that our love of country music runs very, very deep. I couldn't get to do the number two with him because I was in the middle of writing another project and the book as well.
You've just released Lost & Found, which is 25 songs from your archives. Will you be working some of those into your set? I know they're B-sides and things like that.
I think I'm going to have to put a few in. Even at the shows we've just played – we did a bit outdoor show for the Commonwealth Games, and it was amazing, just the amount of people we found down the street who came along and had some fun with us, and they were asking for a couple of the songs from that. So I'm going to have to look at it. But it started out that I was just cleaning out my studio, which I call my shed, because I didn't know where anything was – it had become one of those hoarders' houses. Then I found this big box of tapes and CDs and DAT tapes and started to play them while I was cleaning up. I realised then that a lot of those songs aren't available for people to go and get or stream, so I decided I'd put them together. And the front cover is a beautiful little open road with these really nice autumn trees, and it's taken on Kingala Road at Halfway Creek, where I grew up. So to be able to incorporate a little bit of those memories of your upbringing with this sort of record is really, really important. Right back to the first vinyl I released up to the things I was doing as B-sides in Nashville, so you get a lot of different [things]. There will probably be a part 2, because I'm still finding tracks.
And that first vinyl you mentioned is probably 'Proud Young Man', your first single. When I was listening to it what struck me was how developed your sound was. There seemed to be no sense that you were still trying to | 680 |
The Persians
Cover image: leaf of a manuscript of the Assemblies of Hariri
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert Auletta
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Play Description
The first surviving play in the history of Western drama, THE PERSIANS represents a courageous act on the part of its author. The subject of Aeschylus's play was, in part, the conquering of the Persians by the Greeks, but he presented that event to his Greek audience not from their point of view, but from that of the defeated Persians. In this modern version of the play, Robert Auletta shifts the action of the play from Persia to the Iraq of the first Gulf War, and like Aeschylus, asks Americans to question and challenge their views of the enemy.
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Categories: The Plays, Classics Tags: Greek
"In Aeschylus' contrarian tragedy THE PERSIANS, the titular enemies of the author's native Greece are to be pitied more than censured after their bloody defeat at Greek hands … Robert Auletta's slickly poetic adaptation moves the action to the Gulf War, deftly shoehorning bloodcurdling descriptions of modern weaponry into the Persian laments and exchanging references to the Greeks for references to the United States. The chorus speaks of 'velocity bows and razor swords that can laser the heart out of a man's chest,' and much of its dialogue is a litany of exotic ordnance from recent wars in the Middle East. 'Have we taken too much?' asks the deposed Queen Atossa … as she contemplates what her country has done to deserve its fate. 'Have we gone beyond some unknown but sacred line?' She and her compatriots express remorse for their wrongs, in the process describing our own current state of affairs ('Is the power of what we own about to destroy us?') and emphasizing how much we might have in common with our enemies … THE PERSIANS' best moments are also its most horrifying, including an eloquent, metered blow-by-blow account of the effects of a 5,000-pound bomb on the human body. The bait-and-switch approach to<|fim_middle|> the Dionysia, the annual dramatic contest held in Athens. He is believed to have died circa 455 BCE.
Robert Auletta
Robert Auletta's plays have been produced at many theaters, including The Yale Repertory Theater, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, The American Repertory Theater, The Production Company, PS 122, Café La Mama, and the Westbank Downstairs Theater Bar, where many of his one acts were first performed. His play AMAZONS helped open The Market Theater in Cambridge, MA in 2000. Previous to that, his modern versions of Aeschylus's THE ORESTEIA and Molière's TARTUFFE, both directed by the French/Swiss director Francois Rochaix, were produced in the same city by the American Repertory Theater during their 1995/96 season. Two of his one acts, STOPS/VIRGINS, were awarded a Village Voice Obie for distinguished playwriting in 1983. His modern version of Sophocles' AJAX, directed by Peter Sellars in 1986, was performed in America at both the Kennedy Center and the La Jolla Playhouse, and to great acclaim in many theaters in Europe. It also received The Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award, and was filmed by Dutch television It has subsequently been shown at various film festivals in Greece. His Gulf War version of Aeschylus' THE PERSIANS, directed by Peter Sellars in 1993, received both controversy and acclaim in many productions both in America and abroad; causing a heated reaction at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. It was produced again in 2005 by the Scena Theater in Washington, D.C., with an entirely different reaction from the audience. It was first published by Sun and Moon Press and recently reprinted by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. They also printed a collection of his plays, and later his version of Georg Büchner's DANTON'S DEATH, directed by Robert Wilson at the Alley Theater in Houston TX, and later at the Berliner Ensemble. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a New York State Foundation Grant, and has been awarded residencies in various art colonies, including The MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, The Millay Colony, and Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. He taught at the Yale School of Drama for five years on various occasions, for thirteen summers at The Harvard Expository Writing Program, and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, and recently at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute. Since 2008 his short play RABBITS, which is published in PLAYS BY ROBERT AULETTA, has been enjoying another life as a twenty-minute film starring Jessica Hecht and Christopher McCann. For over seven years it has been seen all over the world, including in Russia and China, where it has played on occasion to over 100,000 viewers a week.
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Ensemble Reza have been one of the great West Sussex musical success stories in recent years.
They are back again for the 2018 Festival of Chichester, offering two concerts on the same day<|fim_middle|>8. | .
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"I think we are now in our fifth or sixth year," says Pavlos. "We have certainly been going for quite some time, and despite our busy lives and busy schedules with other things, we seem to be getting busier and busier. If we could make this our main way of earning our bread, then we definitely would! It has developed into something that is able to encompass so many different things.
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Rather than dipping a toe in as a colorist, you full out jumped into the world of coloring comics in a big fashion over the last few years. What was it that appealed to you about being a colorist, and how did you first start getting into it?
KF: I feel like I dipped my toe in…I started by working as a flatter and then as an assistant for Jordie Bellaire. While I was an assistant, I was still doing flats for a couple other people I had established relationships with at conventions and I worked very briefly doing flats for another colorist. Jordie and Declan helped me meet people online and at conventions and establish a coloring portfolio, which led to me to testing out for Boom and having my first jobs land there.
The second part of that question — what appealed to me? It's painting! I come from an illustration background and I've always been a better painter than line-artist. That's just how my brain works: shapes than line.
Everyone has a different path to getting into comics, but I'm really curious about how you first got the attention of publishers and creators. For me, I first saw your work on Twitter when you had colored some commissions that Sean Murphy had done, and I imagine I'm not the only one. What do you think has helped you the most in getting jobs and making a career as a colorist?
KF: Yeah! I was asking a lot of people (i.e.: Michael Walsh, Sean Murphy, Cameron Stewart, Tradd Moore, Gabriel Hardman, Chris Samnee, Declan Shalvey) if I could color their work to improve my skills coloring and to develop relationships and a portfolio. Everyone was incredibly nice and sent along AMAZING art! Multiversity and Comic Vine featured some of the pin- ups I colored on their websites too which was really awesome and I think definitely helped me gain exposure. I kept a tumblr (still do!) and updated it with every new pin-up and sequential page I'd color or book I'd work on and I would post the pictures to twitter as well! I of course ok'd everything with the artists before doing so. I'd also ask for critiques from the artists.
I think the tipping point for me getting jobs the most was having the people I colored reach out to other artists. I can honestly trace my short career in comics like a weird timeline of events that led to other events and so on. I think it's a lot of hard work and persistence, but it's a lot of right place right time and running with opportunities when they are presented to you. It also involves always meeting your deadlines and sacrificing sleep. Going to conventions I met a lot of people. C2E2 and NYCC in 2013 were the ones that I think affected my career the most. Getting to color Peter Panzerfaust was a big event for me. I was offered the book shortly after starting work for Boom (right after NYCC in 2013). The name of that book carries a lot of weight with it. When I would tell people I was working on it, they were either reading it or recognized the name and it garnered me some clout. The relationships I built with Tyler Jenkins and Kurtis Wiebe were also invaluable. I feel like those guys are brothers to me. It led to me working on an issue of Rat Queens and Neverboy (over at Dark Horse), which led to a lot of other opportunities I honestly can't believe have happened since.
I really like the story of how your career has come together.<|fim_middle|>. It's not a matter of creator owned or licensed characters because they can both be fulfilling in different ways. Getting to work on Batman '66 was a HUGE deal to me. I grew up watching re-runs of that show every day after school! And I already mentioned how crazy fulfilling Neverboy was to me. I was so emotional the day the colors for the final issue were approved. I also really like variety. I know I work on a lot of crime, noir, and horror comics, but I really enjoying working on all- ages and psychedelic content too!
As I said before, to a degree, many fans don't exactly know what colorists do. What's the one thing you'd like to see more people consider when they look at colorists and their contributions to the comics we love?
KF: I feel like colorists are the final piece to the puzzle in a creative team and I wish we had more recognition for our profession as a whole. I'd like people to look at the credits page every time they open up a comic and see just how many people are working to create one single issue. We are part of a team and the creative process.
I've always described colorists as icing on cupcakes – without us, you'd have a perfectly good muffin, but most people like cupcakes better. :)
Art from Batman '66 by Brett Schoonover. Art from Neverboy by Tyler Jenkins. Art from Death Head by Joanna Estep. All colors by Fitzpatrick.
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Off Panel #44: Maximum Hickman with Jonathan Hickman | It seems – at least to me – that a lot of how you started making contacts came the old fashioned way: by reaching out to people and making things happen. Obviously you're newer to comics, but if you could go back five years, what would you tell yourself then as advice on how to make this whole comics thing happen?
KF: Unfortunately five years ago, I was stuck thinking I should work making fabric designs for children's clothing. I had always wanted to work in comics. It's the reason why I went to design school to get a degree in illustration in the first place, but somehow I got deterred along the way. I wish I could tell myself that I should just passionately invest myself into the 1 thing I wanted to be doing, but I think I honestly needed the time living in Japan (doing a job that wasn't personally fulfilling to me) to hit that breaking point. I was either going to have the job I wanted or I was going to go on welfare trying. I think everyone sort of ends up digging deep to find the motivation they need to break into the industry and stay in it. It's like a weird hunger. ha. I know I've made it sound dramatic, but I quit a stable job that paid decent without knowing if I could have a career in comics. It was a calculated risk (I had saved up some money) though.
I think some people when they look at colorists, they just think, "oh, they're the people who make the comics I like not black and white." While that attitude has subsided in recent years, I don't the average comic fan knows really what a colorist does exactly and how they impact comics. To you, what is your primary role as not just a colorist but as a storyteller in your own right?
KF: Colorists have a lot of roles in the creative process! To those people who don't know much about coloring comics and are interested, I would say invest a little energy into doing a google search to see what Nathan Fairbairn has written about on his blog. Nathan's posted some amazing content about Pax Americana and Nameless and his process (which includes pictures). It's pretty great! If you are ever at a convention, go to a panel about coloring! My friend and fellow colorist Marissa Louise has been doing a great technical panel about coloring where a whole group of colorists all colored one page! We also talk about where we draw inspiration from, our technical set-ups, the classic RGB versus CMYK argument (CMYK for life, for the record) and answer any questions.
Going back to colorists roles — from a technical standpoint, you can see the differences in color spaces, changes of line color, texture, shadows, highlights, etc. From an emotional standpoint, colorists use color to trick your brain into feeling a certain mood. We all know certain colors evoke emotion (i.e.: red= anger, etc.). Color can also be used to bring focus to certain objects or people in panels (i.e: the girl in the red coat in Schindler's List). We can also use color to weave a story or to subliminally tell a story about a character. It's pretty common knowledge that villains and heroes wear certain colors as an example.
At this point, do you flat your own work or do you work with a flatter? Also, for those who aren't familiar with the concept, what is it that a flatter does?
KF: I do use a flatter and a flatting service! Flatters are AMAZING and make my coloring world go round. They cut down my time spent on a page significantly. I occasionally flat pages myself if I have time or if they are simple, but 95% of the time, my pages are going to my flatters.
A color flatter is someone who works with a finished inked page and fills it with flat color. The flatter selects objects in the page with a lasso or uses the pencil tool and then fills in the area with a solid, flat color. Some artists will be specific with what color palette they want with their flats, but most people I know just get weird colors back (ie: stop signs purple, orange grass, yellow skies, etc.). It's used as a separating tool for colorists to speed up their work.
Gif of Coloring Process from Death Head
You shared a sweet gif of your work in Death Head from Dark Horse Comics that shows a break down of how your work evolves during your coloring process, but can you walk us through what your approach is from beginning to end?
KF: Sure. At the beginning of new books, I read the script and talk to the team and spend most of my day looking at similar work that's been done before and seeing how I can take what has worked in the past, make it mine, and use it to my advantage and scrap what I don't like. I normally spend 3-5 hours on a palette for a new project. It's the hardest thing for me. A normal day is me waking up, drinking coffee and watching tv, while answering emails from the east coast people who've got a 3 hour advantage on me. I normally look over my calendar and see how many pages I have set up for the day and grab my pages from my flatters and prepare them to be color corrected (making all of the shapes on the page the correct mid-tone color I'm going to be using before I do shadows and highlights). Then I go in and add shadows, highlights, SFX, etc.
If it's a complicated book like Veda, I found I had to assembly line (no pun intended) the book to color correct all of the pages on one day (which includes fixing any flatting errors), and then start actually coloring the following days. I would do backgrounds all at one time, then the robots, then color veda, then color the gremlin, etc. down the line until I finished the whole batch of pages at 1 time. That's normally a bit of an exception unless I am painting backgrounds (like clouds or trees) on multiple pages and I don't want to switch my brush out. Surely this technical stuff must seem really tedious and boring. ha. Revisions come last and sometimes never. I hear feedback from editorial, the writers and the artists on the book for tweaks or things I missed/need changed.
I'm sure this varies from project to project, but how closely do you work with the line artist on any given book? Does it vary wildly, or do you find that creator-owned you see more communication with them than on books that are for-hire work?
KF: Totally varies. In an ideal world, we'd work closely with each other. Creator-owned through Image and Dark Horse is totally different than working for other companies. Image is driven purely by the creative team with no editorial unless an editor is hired on for the project. It's also up to the team to do marketing, which I find very stressful. So if you aren't in touch with each other, the project will fail. I like being very involved with the creative team to the point where I'm pretty sure I got close to annoying Shaun Simon texting him about when Neverboy should have white hair and cyan clothes because he transitions so much back and forth through the series. ha ha. I must have texted him questions at least 10 times it feels like.
Those are the type of projects that I legitimately get sad over when they end. I like having the open communication because I feel more like a team member and less of a freelancer. With that being said I don't want to discredit the other companies I've worked with! And I want to extend a huge kudos to Alex Segura over at Archie. He's an amazing editor and keeps everyone on the creative in the loop for projects! The communication is pretty open over there too!
You work on quite the mix of books, from occasional jobs at DC on Sensation Comics to creator-owned books to things like the Dark Circle books we've already talked about a bit. For you as an artist, though, do you try to focus on jobs that you're personally interested/invested in? Is that a major factor when you're considering jobs?
KF: It's definitely helps factor into what I'm working on sure! I'm still pretty early on in my career in comics though so I have taken on jobs strictly to pay bills, but with that being said, I've also worked on jobs for lower pay because I believed in the project and the people I was working with. Ideally I'd like to get to a place in my career where I'm working on projects that are all really really meaningful to me and I feel like that's been happening | 1,796 |
Marvin Sordell, Shaun McWilliams, Jack Bridge and Aaron Pierre, back from international<|fim_middle|> in a fast start to the second half, Hoskins having a shot blocked behind for a corner while Ricky Miller had a couple of off-target efforts for Vale with the game becoming a little stretched. Timi Elsnik and Dean Bowditch came on in a double change before a good ball in from Sordell just eluded Hoskins.
Tom Pope came on for Port Vale and John-Joe O'Toole replaced Hoskins as both sides made their third and final change and Vale's leading goalscorer Pope was to make an immediate impact, scoring from the penalty spot despite the best efforts of David Cornell. Referee Neil Hair made the penalty decision following a challenge from Charlie Goode inside the area, pointing to the spot despite the Cobblers defender's protestations.
Elsnik drew a comfortable save from Scott Brown and also had a shot blocked at close range in a couple of half chances for the Cobblers but they were unable to find an equaliser and it was Port Vale who claimed the three points. | duty with Grenada, all came into the side as boss Keith Curle made four changes for the clash against Port Vale.
It was a sunny spring afternoon at the PTS Academy Stadium with a good crowd in attendance for the club's Community Day.
The Cobblers started brightly and took the lead inside five minutes, a well-worked short corner and a tantalising cross in from Jack Bridge leading to a header blocked in the box before a deft close range finish from Sam Hoskins.
Tom Conlon had the first effort of note for Vale while Hoskins went close to a second from Ash Taylor's header back across goal and Bridge shot wide after a neat interchange with Marvin Sordell.
Ricky Miller just failed to connect with a ball across the six-yard box in a moment of danger for the Cobblers but soon after Vale were down to ten men, Leon Legge shown a straight red card for bringing down Andy Williams who was clear on goal.
Vale were however back on level terms before the break, David Worrall finding the bottom corner when one on one with David Cornell after embarking on a forward run from the half-way line.
There was action at both ends | 237 |
From the UK, Roland has heard about the heartbreaking tale of friendship from the disabled entrepreneur behind Hannah J Jewellery. Spanish windsurfing customisation brand In Your Face was proud to share their story of starting a successful business from almost nothing and, from Hungary, Rebel Grafikai Stúdió's dedication to getting a major job completed was, frankly, exhausting! More stories have come from Italy, Sweden, the<|fim_middle|> even halfway through! It's going to be very hard to choose a winner."
The Roland Heroes initiative is open to all Roland DG users, whether they use UV-curable, eco-solvent or dye-sublimation printers, vinyl cutters, integrated printer/cutters or engraving systems, brand new or workroom veterans. | Netherlands and more.
"We really are blown away by the entries we've already received for the Roland Hero Awards," says Gillian Montanaro, Head of Marketing, EMEA at Roland DG.
"Roland users are incredibly special and do extraordinary things – combining their innovation, enthusiasm and drive to get the absolute best results from their Roland equipment – but we weren't expecting such a wealth of amazing stories.
"Some have been really exciting, a couple genuinely tear-jerking, others simply jaw-dropping, discovering what Roland users achieve. It's been an emotional rollercoaster reading the entries – and we're not | 123 |
Geneva - The Geneva Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the cover design for the Swedish Days Kids' Brochure. Voters at the Chamber stated, "The decision was very difficult, so for the first time we will be having two different covers."
Hannah Janis, a fourth grader from Williamsburg Elementary School, submitted this design.
Hannah Janis, a fourth grader from Williamsburg Elementary School and Lucy Chrusciel, a fifth grader from Williamsburg Elementary School, will have their designs seen on the 2019 Swedish Days Kids' Brochure that is distributed to Geneva elementary schools. Swedish Days 2019 is June 18-23.
"What Swedish Days Means to Me" submittede by Lucy Chrusciel, a fifth grader from Williamsburg Elementary School.
Elementary children were asked to draw "What Swedish Days Means to Me". Again, hundreds of entries, including a great amount from Geneva Park District Kids' Zone Before/Afterschool program participants, were received this year, making the decision difficult.
Additionally, the Chamber will include pictures from other entries throughout the brochure, many from participants of the Kids' Zone program.
"We thank the Geneva Park District for their support and assistance<|fim_middle|> and in Geneva shops and restaurants in the coming months. | this year," stated the Geneva Chamber.
More information on Swedish Days Festival supported by Northwestern Medicine can be found at genevachamber.com/swedish_days.php | 31 |
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To celebrate National Science Week, the SUBLIME SCIENCE CABARET features Charlie Marshall & the Curious Minds, Rod Quantock, Alicia Sometimes, Sean M Whelan and Caresse Cranwell in a mix of music, video, poetry and stand up comedy that boldly goes where few shows have gone before to extol the wonders of the universe and our planet.
Renowned Melbourne poets Alicia Sometimes and Sean Whelan will present their arresting poetry of<|fim_middle|> himself.
Master of Ceremonies for the night will be Jonathan W Marshall, Senior Lecturer from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Sublime Science Cabaret is a celebration of science in two parts.
Act One 'Physics' extols the wonders of the universe and our planet, Act Two 'Ecology' is a plea to take better care of this pale blue dot we call home. | wonder, science and metaphysics.
Stand up comedy icon and environmental activist Rod Quantock will deliver his darkly satirical take on the history of the earth, science of climate change, and the ever increasing stupidity of political discourse in the face of impending ecological and economic disaster, and ecological campaigner and poet fron the Gold Coast Caresse Cranwell will perform her deeply moving ecophilosophical poems.
Melbourne singer, songwriter and science teacher Charlie Marshall has been described as an intriguing cross between Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and the BBC's Brian Cox. For this event he performs his new critically acclaimed scientific, ecological concept album Sublime with band The Curious Minds, accompanied by video projection and engaging science commentary on the songs by the man | 149 |
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At the last night's meeting, Herbert Motz and Gijs Verspyck, who knew Rob Valkhoff for the longest time, gave speeches to the memory of Rob.
Our meeting was completed by the discussion about the next Exiles' outing. The participants proposed a number of destinations. After a first voting (each attendee could vote for several destinations), a second voting for the first 3 destinations (only 1 vote per person) resulted in a ranking of preferences with Bulgaria being the most prefered. | Karl-Heinz Wäscher, Chairman of Chairmen, has sent the following report.
"32 Java Lavas in Exile met in Madeira's capital, Funchal, and stayed in the excellent Pestana Casino Park Hotel, designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer. We had wonderful hikes in the mountains of Madeira along the levadas, and good weather. A special event was the visit to the | 88 |
Gordon Ramsay and the BBC among TikTok's most popular accounts this year
The most-watched video of 2020 in the UK is a lion walking through a safari park
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TikTok has praised its users for "helping us get through a tough year" as the social media platform published a review of 2020.
As part of the review, known as the TikTok 100, the video-sharing app revealed the BBC, Manchester United and Harry Potter actor Tom Felton were among the fastest-growing accounts in the UK.
The most-watched video of 2020 in the UK, a lion walking through a safari park, has been liked more than 20 million times.
Meanwhile the biggest trend on the platform was blinding lights, which saw NHS workers and families dance to The Weeknd song Blinding Lights during the country's first lockdown.
This was followed by isolation games where TikTok users and Team GB sports people recreated Olympic sports in their homes and Ramsay reacts, the popular videos of chef Gordon Ramsay reacting to the food creations of other users.
Rich Waterworth, TikTok UK and EU general manager, said: "For many reasons, 2020 will be a year we will never forget.
"Across the UK, we've been faced with challenges we could have never predicted back in January, shaped by a tragic health crisis that has touched each and every one of us in different ways.
He added: "But throughout it all, there have been incredible moments of humanity and community and I've been humbled that TikTok has been home to so many of those moments, bringing people together even when we felt so far apart<|fim_middle|> to 2021, our mission remains the same - we'll continue to inspire creativity and bring joy to people all over the UK and to our 100 million monthly active users across Europe." | .
"As we approach the end of 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and recognise our community for helping us get through a tough year."
Mr Waterworth praised the diversity of the most watched videos, celebrating them as "a mixed bag of all the great and the good on TikTok".
"Topping the list is a lion parading through a safari, showing that cats - the king of cats in fact - still continues to be what people want to watch on the internet," he said.
"Our second most-watched UK video is a quarantine classic, with creators @BenandKexia spending hours creating a massive domino train in their home during lockdown."
He also highlighted how a number of celebrities had embraced the app for the first time.
"Celebs like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dua Lipa, Liam Payne and Ant and Dec have all brought their creativity and comedy to our platform this year, making the most of our creative effects and engaging with fans in unique and new ways," he said.
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"Whether it's duetting with fans, going behind the scenes, or sharing more about their personality through TikTok LIVEs, public figures across sports, music and the creative industries have embraced TikTok in 2020."
Mr Waterworth also praised the work of creators who used the platform to raise awareness about different subjects.
He commended users such as presenter Nikki Lilly and actor and comedian Michael Dapaah for their campaigning work on social issues.
"What's... surprised us this year is how much TikTok has come into its own as a platform for campaigning and change," Mr Waterworth said.
"Our TikTok 100 recognises creators like @Nikkililly, @cheethamswithdreams and @michaeldapaah- for their huge contribution in raising awareness about disabilities, equality and mental health.
"As we look forward | 415 |
Trends such as social networking are creating new demand for cloud, entertainment and mobile broadband services, and this is driving up the demand for power in telecommunication networks. Emerging 4G services are likely to exacerbate the demand for power as smartphones are used to generate and access higher-bandwidth content that is stored on networks and downloaded repeatedly.
In 2010/11, BT consumed approximately 0.7% of all the electricity used in the UK. This means that BT is one of the top ten power users in the country. Clearly, the telecoms industry is a substantial user of power but, until recently, this was not regarded as a major issue.
Although telecoms traffic is growing rapidly, the rate of growth is actually falling. Forecasts by GreenTouch suggest that the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of global wireline Internet traffic will<|fim_middle|> very substantial power and carbon reductions in spite of the expected 'data deluge'.
Green issues are firmly on the telecoms agenda And organisations such as Greentouch are helping prevent complacency by demonstrating just how much further there is to go.
Green issues are now firmly on the telecoms agenda. | decrease from approximately 45% in 2010 to 25% in 2020, while the CAGR for global mobile Internet traffic will decrease from approximately 170% in 2010 to 30% in 2020. However, the key point here is that a CAGR of 25%-30% is still a dramatic rate of growth, so traffic in 2020 will still be doubling every three years.
If no action is taken, the level of power required by telecoms networks is likely to grow rapidly. The expansion of many network nodes and data centres is already constrained by the availability of power rather than by the availability of space, so telecoms desperately needs to become 'greener'. This white paper considers whether it would be possible to halt – or even reverse – the demand for power from the telecoms industry, whilst simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint.
To begin with, it is important to identify those parts of the network where substantial amounts of power are dissipated. In a fixed network, the access layer normally accounts for more than half the total power consumed, with a high proportion of this power being used on the customer site. In a mobile network, the majority of power is consumed in the base stations.
Switching to low-carbon electricity. This does not reduce power consumption, but it does reduce the carbon associated with that power.
Replacing legacy equipment. The active equipment in a network (routers, switches, management systems etc) often has a working life of less than five years before a 'technology refresh' is required, and this provides an opportunity to replace legacy equipment with more efficient designs.
Turning off unused or under-used parts of the network. This approach has already been very effective in data centres, and similar concepts can sometimes be used in telecom networks.
Improving data centre design. Data centres form an important part of most telecoms networks, and the techniques for designing more efficient data centres have advanced rapidly in recent years.
Improving the design of telecoms equipment. Further improvements have been identified, and the potential power savings are very significant.
In recent years, the massive traffic growth on both fixed and mobile networks has forced network operators to look far more carefully at all aspects of their operations. Green issues are now firmly on the telecoms agenda, and organisations such as GreenTouch are helping to prevent any complacency by demonstrating just how much further there is to go. Identified improvements that have not yet been implemented are so significant that it should be possible to deliver | 519 |
Declining US profits signal inevitable recession: SocGen bear
Published Wed, Mar 26 20144:56 AM EDT Updated Wed, Mar 26 201411:08 AM EDT
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Albert Edwards, Societe Generale's uber-bearish strategist, has once again taken aim at<|fim_middle|> backdrop. Indeed it leaves the economy extremely vulnerable to adverse shocks," Edwards said.
One of these adverse shocks could be a Asian and EM (emerging market) currency devaluation releasing surplus capacity onto the West, and crushing pricing power further, according to Edwards. This topic has formed the backdrop of most of his research notes since August last year.
It's also not the first time that Edwards has made bearish predictions about the U.S. economy, warning about a downturn in productivity and profits at the end of 2013.
Back in September 2012, he said the U.S. had already entered a recession and it wouldn't be long before the equity market reacted. He also warned about the "ultimate" death cross for the —where the 50-month moving average falls below the 200-month moving average. However, since that call, the S&P 500 has risen nearly 40 percent. | economists bullish on the U.S. economy, highlighting a contraction in corporate profits that could leave the country exposed to external shocks and an "inevitable" recession.
Edwards said economists used "dodgy" metrics to gauge profit and pointed to the MSCI Operating Profits Indicator - as the one measure that investors should watch.
This indicator – which tracks trailing U.S. company profits for the last 12 months - highlights the rate of corporate growth and is favored by Edwards over any outright profit level, rate of profitability or profit margin level indicator.
(Read more: Albert Edwards: Emerging market rout to trigger global recession)
It's recent readings paint a gloomy picture ahead for the U.S. economy, according to Edwards. He said profits started declining in the fourth quarter, according to the MSCI definition, and that this was likely to lead to a slump in business investment.
"U.S. profits have begun to decline on a MSCI trailing basis," he said in research note released on Tuesday. "A decline in profits is inevitably followed by recession shortly thereafter, as investment, the most volatile of all GDP (gross domestic product) components, is cut."
Source: Data Stream
Edwards downplays other economic indicators for being too favorable and said any healthy rise in profits could be put attributed to company-specific write-downs made back in 2012.
He also criticized "pro-forma", or projected, earnings numbers as "artificially inflated" and designed at steering attention away from the "bad stuff". Edwards saw a growing gap between these pro-forma numbers and the MSCI reported profits indicator and said this was an indication that the quality of earnings was deteriorating.
(Read more: Albert Edwards: Markets face Freddy Krueger-like nightmare)
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"It will be extremely difficult for the U.S. economy to escape its Great Recession hangover with this poor profits | 392 |
Cook County Health to Hold "Community Supper" Event to Encourage Vaccinations
Cook County Health has partnered with Stop the Spread, C19 Coalition and Project N95 to host a "Community Supper" to encourage residents of South Suburban Cook County to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The event will be held at Cook County Health's mass vaccination site in Matteson, located at 4647 Promenade Way, on Saturday, July 17, from 10 am to 5 pm.
This event is a part of the C19 Coalition's "Sunday Supper" series, a nationwide effort that aims to bring a community experience to vaccinations and advance vaccine equity. Funds were raised through Shot for Shots and NBA Top Shot.
"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Cook County Health has understood the importance of creating partnerships and developing connections at a local level to meet people where they are," Cook County Health CEO Israel Rocha said. "We are grateful to Stop the Spread, C19 Coalition and Project N95 for working with us to create that communal feeling we all have missed and to reach out to individuals who remain unvaccinated, particularly as the delta variant takes hold."
The first 200 people who visit the site to get vaccinated will receive a free kit of personal protective equipment (PPE) and a free to-go meal supplied by D'Masti Catering, located in Blue Island. Any person who refers a friend to get vaccinated during the event will be entered in to win one of four $100 gift cards to Hidden Manna Café or Flamin Hotties Chili. Cook County Health has partnered with the Chicago Federation of Musicians to provide live entertainment.
"The Community Supper is an example of spreading ideas from one part of the country to another in a way that is locally tailored to help build trust in vaccines," said Sharon Knight, Executive Director of Stop the Spread. "We are delighted to team up with the C19 Coalition again and Cook County Health, a trusted community voice, to bring Sunday Supper to Cook County."
"I'm so proud of the incredible team and partners that have come together to help make this Community Supper on this coming Saturday," said Laura Mignott, the Sunday Supper project lead for C19 Coalition. "The goal of this event is to bring the vaccines to communities of color, fostering an event that brings people together, provides great food, PPE and dignity to the experience."
Vaccines are free, regardless of insurance or immigration status, and walks-ins are welcome.
All three vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson) are available at the Matteson site; Pfizer is the only vaccine approved for individuals age 12 and older. Individuals under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Cook County Health has distributed more than 870,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine through its mass vaccination sites, clinics, pop-up events and community partners.
More information can be found at myshotcookcounty.com.
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With support from the State of Illinois and Cook County, Cook County Health will be re-opening three mass COVID-19 vaccination sites. "By re-opening these key vaccination | 78 |
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The Dropping Pipettes are available with integrated bellows PE-LD for sampling and decanting infectious or toxic liquids. They are also available with integrated pipetting bulb PE-LD having a capacity of approximately 1.8 ml<|fim_middle|> and quickly. Up to now, the limit of viscosity ranged between 200-300 mPa*s, roughly equivalent to the viscosity of 86% glycerol at 20 °C.
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The Transferpette S piston-operated pipette provides maximum versatility and optimum quality over the entire volume range and is completely autoclavable at 121 °C (2 bar), acc. DIN EN 285. It features a large, central pipetting button and separate ejection function, short stroke of only 12.5 mm to reduce the risk of repetitive strain injury, and true one-handed operation for both right-and left-handers.
The Transferpette -8/-12 electronic multi-channel pipette fits the hand like a glove with its optimum design, layout of the controls and adjustable finger rest. Other features include large display, intuitive operation of all functions using four keys and ergonomically arranged ejection button with color code according to volume range.
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The AltoStar Detection completes the final part of the AltoStar Automation System AM 16 work flow with two units of the real-time PCR Cycler CFX96 Deep Well Real-Time Detection System-IVD (Bio-Rad). It offers sensitive detection for up to five targets and time-saving management via data import by using a barcode reader or via LIMS (AltoStar Connect Software).
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Everyone knows that Physical Education (PE) class is great for kids. It helps improve their physical fitness, increases their motor skill development, and encourages daily exercise. But, what about the hidden benefits? PE is much more than just exercise!
In fact, Dr. John Ratey, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, says, "Exercise is like Miracle-Gro for the brain." Including it in a<|fim_middle|> creates and releases serotonin which in turn helps alleviate stress, improves mood, and generally makes you feel better! Many students may only exercise in PE class, making this time even more important!
When students set goals and monitor their fitness along the way, they assume more responsibility for their own health. They also gain a strong sense of competence when they recognize improvements, so their motivation goes up. For instance, PE students often participate in jump roping. Having these students learn the fundamentals, and then increase their jump roping endurance by minute intervals can teach a student that setting reasonable goals can be achieved through perseverance and a little sweat!
The research and evidence are overwhelming, proving that kids who are active, are better students. Period. Check out these 15 studies conducted by universities such as Dartmouth and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Dartmouth study suggests that 12 minutes of exercise can actually improve reading comprehension!
Physical education is an integral part of the total education of every child from kindergarten through college. A high-quality physical education program is needed to increase physical competence, health-related fitness, motivation and enjoyment of physical activity for all students so that they can be physically active for a lifetime. | daily routine has repeatedly been shown to build brain cells and to improve academics. Elevating the heart rate can lift mood, beat stress, and sharpen intellect.
Unfortunately though, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says, "physical education is in decline across all world regions." In fact, in the United States, the average school's budget for PE is a meager $764 per year, according to the Society for Health and Physical Educators. Why is the budget so low when the benefits are so great?
In addition to providing great exercise and developing motor skills, here are 5 hidden benefits of PE!
Kids who have access to high-quality PE programs are taught life skills that can be used forever. Implementing good habits and conditioning early in life is a lot easier than "teaching an old dog new tricks." For example, think of a middle school student participating in a teaching unit based on the fundamentals of running. The student finds that over the course of a month, their mile time decreased by three minutes and they no longer needed to walk to take breaks. The student may become an avid walker or runner, inspired by running around a school track!
The team-building process enhances communication skills and the skills required to get along and cooperate with students of varying backgrounds and personalities. Additionally, physical education can be a major force in helping children to successfully socialize with others and provides an environment to learn positive people skills. Not every child has the opportunity to be on a team outside of school. So being on a volleyball or softball team during a PE class creates the opportunity to work together, cheer on teammates, and share the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat with classmates.
Student stress levels are at an all-time high. Involvement in sports, recreational activities, or other forms of physical fitness provide a proven method of stress relief and act as an outlet for releasing tension and anxiety. It is an established scientific fact that regular exercise | 396 |
Announcing Our New SVP and Head of Swoon Staffing, Sara Riggs
posted by Abby Glenn | January 23, 2023 January 17, 2023
We're honored to announce that Sara Riggs has been promoted from Vice President of Recruiting to Senior Vice President and Head of Swoon Staffing.
Sara has had quite the journey at Swoon, and we are so proud to see her rise through the ranks and accomplish everything she has set out to accomplish.
See what Sara had to say about the future of Swoon!
What excites you about the future of Swoon as a whole?
"The opportunity – there is so much opportunity at<|fim_middle|> new role?
"I'm excited to create even more collaboration between Sales and Recruiting. We need each other to be successful. It's a true partnership – a relationship and synergy that works best together and in lockstep. I'm excited and honored to take this partnership to the next level!"
The next few years will be the most exciting as we all work towards our goal of beating $1B in revenues, and Sara's leadership for Swoon Staffing will promote that growth and help us achieve our goal.
"Sara leads with sincere humility, a style of leadership that focuses on identifying with others to understand their point of view. She is approachable and genuinely inspires the team with clear direction and goals. She is an incredible mentor for all of us at Swoon as she can execute, implement, and make big things happen, all while keeping everything tremendously fun," Lori, President.
Announcing Swoon's New President, Lori Miller (Kalbfleisch) | Swoon, and it's yours for the taking. Our growth over the past 13 years has been tremendous, and this is just the tip of the iceberg."
What do you think makes Swoon so unique?
"The people – our Swooners are what make Swoon so special. There is so much inspirational collaboration, pride, intensity, motivation, strong leadership, and a strong desire to succeed."
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In addition to teaching in the Bachelor of Nursing (Collaborative) and Practical Nursing programs, Dr. Watkins has been actively involved in the Continuing Nursing studies programs offered at the CNS. Prior to assuming the role of director, she was the associate director of the Non-Degree Programs at the CNS. She is also a professional associate in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University where her primary responsibility is research on hereditary colorectal cancer. She continues to teach in graduate level programs.
During her career, Dr. Watkins has been an active volunteer in numerous professional and community organizations. In addition to being a member of multiple academic, provincial and national committees, she is an accreditation reviewer for the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing. She is a member of the Canadian Practical Nurse Registration Examination Committee and is actively involved in program approval of practical nursing programs outside of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Mr. Birmingham was recently appointed to the role of Operations Manager with the Centre for Nursing Studies in July of 2022.
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Prior to assuming his present role, Mr. Birmingham was Manager of Strategic Health Workforce Planning with the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, which focused largely on present and future staffing needs of health professionals within our province. Mr. Birmingham is a former graduate of Memorial University.
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The Garden Room is one of the ranch's original homestead bedrooms. Because of that, it blends old-world Victorian charm, inviting South<|fim_middle|> Not only that, it features a mix of antique furniture, luxury recliners, original works of art and authentic Navajo rugs. The bathroom hosts a large soaking tub with a separate walk-in shower. Most notably, it was updated in 2018, keeping what made this room so great that it made guest's come back again and again, and made it that much better. That's why it's so easy to slip into this room and call it home for one night or multiple weeks.
The Garden Room also has a wonderful back porch with french doors that open to the stunning gardens. it's so easy to take a stroll through the natural beauty that awaits just on the other side of your door. Because of such easy access, the gardens feel like your own personal oasis from the outside world. It's a magical place that invites you to slow down with a comforting drink and a good book. Therefore, come and breathe in that fresh mountain air that is unique to Southern Colorado. If you are someone who just wants some true peace and quiet, with access to the great Southwest and gardens in which to roam freely, the serenity of The Garden Room is where you want to be. This room sleeps two guests. | western hospitality, and an added modern twist. Therefore, the unique style truly tops off the Garden Room as one of our guest's favorite rooms. This cozy and inviting unit exudes classic luxury with a plush pillow top king bed and a romantic gas-burning fireplace. | 53 |
They helped us out with this, ' he said.
While the hit to the overall economy so far remains slight, economists foresee real damage if the shutdown drags into February or beyond. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that<|fim_middle|> us have a breakthrough here". | postponing this public relations event it totally appropriate. Some posted photos of their empty earnings statements on social media as a rallying cry to end the shutdown.
When Trump rhetorically backed off the wall and talked about "steel slats" - a fence - Democrats ignored it. They say they'll discuss border security once the government reopens.
Lawmakers struggled to find a way out of the shutdown Wednesday. "Welcome to life in the New Democratic Majority". Mr. Trump said Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip.
The White House has now invited another subset of the House, a group of bipartisan congressmen called the Problem Solvers Caucus, to a meeting with Mr Trump on Wednesday afternoon.
"And so if government workers don't go to work, then they reduce their output calculations accordingly".
The president, on a conference call with supporters, showed no signs of backing down. Dozens of federal employees and their representatives as well as activists gathered here on Tuesday to protest against the ongoing partial government shutdown, which is now the longest government closure in USA history. But if the shutdown extends into March funding will become uncertain.
Democratic leaders did not ask the Secret Service if the agency would be able to secure the State of the Union event before sending the letter, according to a senior Homeland Security official, who was not authorized to speak publicly. The email was sent on behalf of the President. "I'd like to see | 283 |
Guide for great family fun in Millville
William Sokolic
Motorcycles will take to the Thunderbolt Raceway at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville Saturday and Sunday, July 20 as part of the Championship Cup Series for beginners and experts.
Expect a big crowd.
Indeed, since it opened in 2008, the park has drawn new visitors to Millville.
"Visitors go to shops, galleries and restaurants downtown. We run into fans around town during a busy weekend," park spokesman Chris Banker said.
The park hosts hundreds of events each year for cars and motorcycles, Banker added. "In recent years, we've also developed our off-track schedule to include mud runs, car shows, concerts and more,'' he noted.
But Millville does not thrive on tracks alone.
The city long has attracted tourists with an emphasis on the arts, first with the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, then with the Glasstown Arts District downtown.
"If the track weren't here, that does not mean Millville has no place to visit," said Earl Sherrick, executive director of the Greater Millville Chamber of Commerce.
But the track is here; two actually. In addition to the Thunderbolt, there is the shorter Lightning Raceway. On occasion, the park will have a motorcycle event on one track and a car event on the other.
And the park opened Battlegrounds Paintball recently, a 10-acre area with equipment rentals and a number of playing fields. People can visit even if no races are scheduled, Banker said. In addition to the Finish Line Pub restaurant, the F1 Karting offers go-kart<|fim_middle|> three rooms with several exhibits that change monthly. A new exhibit opens on third Fridays, with a special reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Lance Balderson Solo Show opens Friday and runs through Aug. 9.
Balderson, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University School of Architecture, has developed a style of painting that incorporates layers of color with overlapping shapes and forms that reference his previous architectural career.
Prior to the district's creation, much of Millville's downtown was vacant. Manufacturing departed, Lods said. "The malls took away business. The city said 'We need a vision. How can we make ourselves different?' "
That vision was the Arts District, considered unique in South Jersey at the time. "There were a wealth of artists in this area."
The municipality purchased and rehabbed an old building which became the Riverfront. That led to a flurry of private and public-private investments, she said.
The famed Levoy Theatre sits in the middle of the district.
Two years into its rebirth, the theater has filled seats with shows in a wide variety of genres in music and stage, with big names and small.
A resident theater company puts on plays, Lods said. A screening of "Mrs. Doubtfire" will be held July 20. "Menopause, the Musical" plays July 23 and 24. "The King and I" is coming in August.
"There are shows almost every weekend and sometimes during the week," Lods noted.
Far afield from art or race cars, the Millville Army Air Field Museum is known for its World War II heritage as the nation's first defense airport, dedicated in 1941. It's the site where more than 10,000 service personnel, along with 1,500 pilots, received advanced training on the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-40 Warhawk fighter planes.
The museum, located in the original base headquarters building, displays large collections of WWII aviation artifacts, and contains a literary and video library.
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Upcoming events include the 24 Hours of LeMons, featuring clunkers, on Aug. 9 and 10. "It's a fun event where people dress up in costumes. Amateurs put together a race car and have some fun for two full days of races," added Banker.
Sept. 13 and 14 brings the AMA Pro Road Racing Kawasaki Devil's Showdown. The Vintage Racer Group puts vintage cars on the track instead of just displaying them Sept. 19 to 21.
Years before motorsports, Wheaton Village capitalized on Millville's historic past as a center for glass production.
"Wheaton Village was always known as a place for glass art, with live demonstrations," Sherrick said.
It evolved into Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, a locale for traditional hand-crafted arts including glass, woodcarvers, tinsmiths and ceramicists. The Wheaton centerpiece is the Museum of American Glass, which speaks to the history of glass making in the U.S. With more than 12,000 pieces, the museum has the most comprehensive exhibit of glass in the world, including the world's largest bottle. The collection dates as far back as 1739.
The second arts component, the Glasstown Arts District downtown, features 18 galleries and 40 boutiques and antiques stores, all within strolling distance of each other. There are plenty of eateries to choose from, as well with all stripes of food.
The district is six blocks long, said Marianne Lods, executive director of the Millville Development Corporation. Banners and flower baskets are everywhere. "It's very colorful. There are small private galleries, a ceramic school and gallery at Clay College (part of Cumberland Community College)."
The focal point is the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, which features | 388 |
Hulu Renews RUNAWAYS For Second Season
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Marvel and Hulu officially confirm that "Marvel's Runaways" will return for Season 2.
"We're thrilled about 'Runaways' Season 2. Our partnership with Josh [Schwartz] and Stephanie [Savage] and Hulu has been as exciting as the reaction to the show from our fans — both new and old!" said<|fim_middle|>: Interview With Chandler Kinney | Jeph Loeb, EVP and Head of Marvel Television.
"We're so privileged that Marvel and Brian K. Vaughan trusted us with Runaways," said producers and co-showrunners Schwartz and Savage. "We couldn't be more excited to continue telling this story. It's been a blast making the show with the cast and crew. We can't wait to see where we can take the story in Season 2 and to stay on the run."
Schwartz and Savage continued, "The conversations with the fans have been gratifying. We hear and see you. We appreciate your passion and hearing how much the show means to you. Beware the possibility of a dinosaur on the streets of Los Angeles…and earthquakes!"
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Fueling Up Before Flying
New airport terminal will elevate cuisine options for travelers.
Peter Reichard,
Rendering courtesy of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
A rendering of the Folse Market, one of the dining options coming to the Louis Armstrong Interntational Airport in late 2018.
If you play a word association game with the phrase "airport restaurant," you'd probably come up with words like "ripoff," "chain," "junk food" and "mediocre." You'd picture yourself sitting at a tiny table in a bustling, dissonant terminal, eating subpar and overpriced fast food.
This is strange. Frou<|fim_middle|> airlines are getting increasingly, er, economical when it comes to nourishing their passengers.
Given this situation, the merciful thing for an airline to do is allow their passengers to change planes in an attractive, comfortable place with good food to eat.
If the dream team of New Orleans restaurateurs assembled at the new terminal play this right, they could make MSY every traveler's favorite airport by turning the dreaded layover into an epicurean sojourn.
Restaurants Heading to MSY in 2018
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Brocato's
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Emeril's Table
Categories: Food, The Magazine | -frou merchandisers long ago realized they have immediate access to relatively well-heeled, captive audiences in airports. But travel the world, and you see that restaurants have not kept pace. As a result, Prada might be sandwiched between a Dunkin' Donuts and a Wingstop. Chanel might be down the way, just past Cinnabon and Panda Express.
Until recently, finding decent food even in New Orleans' own airport was tough.
Given that this is a world-renowned restaurant town, that borders on bizarre. In airports around the country, it's not unusual to find New Orleans-themed food. As far away as Bogota's lustrous new El Dorado airport, the nicest restaurant in the waiting area is a place called Orleans American Bistro. It may be your only chance to eat a po-boy in South America.
It must be said that, in recent years, the offerings at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport have improved significantly. For instance, Dooky Chase's occupies a prominent spot at the entrance to Concourse C, and there's a Ye Olde College Inn squirreled away in Concourse D.
Yet the new terminal, scheduled to open in late 2018, promises something grander: a de facto culinary amusement park. Among the expected offerings is a who's who of local restaurateurs.
John Besh will open another Johnny Sanchez location with fellow celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez and a Pizza Domenica with Besh protégé Alon Shaya.
John Blancher will keep the Ye Olde College Inn offshoot going in the new airport. Fellow Carrollton Avenue mainstay Angelo Brocato's will serve gelato and Italian cookies there as well. Neal Bodenheimer, the craft cocktail king, will help travelers take the edge off with a new location borrowing the name of his Freret Street bar, Cure.
Dooky Chase scion Edgar Chase IV will open Leah's Kitchen, drawing from his grandmother's recipe book. Chef John Folse, another dean of Louisiana cooking and co-owner of Restaurant R'evolution, will open Folse Market, serving casual fare. Young upstart Mike Gulotta of MoPho will expose world travelers to New Orleans' Vietnamese angle.
Not to be left out, Emeril Lagasse is planning a location called Emeril's Table. Susan Spicer, meanwhile, is adding a new spot under the banner of her Harrison Avenue restaurant, Mondo.
And, for those in a rush — or those who are fans of A Confederacy of Dunces — there will still be a Lucky Dog stand at the airport.
New Orleans' airport has long served as more of a destination airport than a major hub. If you're in New Orleans' airport, you're probably there because you want to be in New Orleans, or you're from New Orleans and you want to go somewhere else.
If you're in Atlanta's airport, by contrast, there's a decent chance you just want to go somewhere else, and not simply because you don't like Atlanta. Rather, it's a major hub. Tens of millions of people pass through each year. Millions are between planes, and they want something to eat. Many travelers might have hours to kill and so could take their meals at a leisurely pace. And as we all know, domestic | 677 |
<|fim_middle|>room …" was small, though with words. But another 13 years will pass, and Rumyanova will appear in the iconic film of Gaidai "12 chairs" (the wife of Father Fyodor).
Meanwhile, another famous master of the episode, Alexandra Danilova starred in the role of Vera Anatolyevna's employee in "The Bridegroom …" . In the film, Danilova appeared for a few seconds, but the viewer remembered her. After that, she will play in a hundred films, among which there will be outstanding ones.
The role of the young doctor in "The Bridegroom from the Other World" performed actress Klavdia Kozlenkova. The role of Gaidai was so small that it is hardly worth mentioning. And in the future Kozlenkova did not cross with him on one set.
Rimma Shorokhova – another actress from "The Bridegroom from the Other World". She performed in the role of Matveyeva, a pregnant visitor to KUKU. Unfortunately, after that Shorokhova's cinematic career in the USSR was over.
And Valentina Lanovaya, the sister of the famous Soviet actor Vasily Lanovoy played the wordless role of the young doctor.
Finally, another actress, starring in "The Bridegroom from the Other World," was 19 year-old Yulia Pashkovskaya, who flashed in a short episode. It's hard to say, how she received the role, however, having flashed in the episode, Pashkovsky will then become a very famous person.
The film "The Groom from the Other World" brought Gaidai a lot of grief, in fact, almost ditching his directorial career. Why? The fact is that the film turned out to be sharply sarcastic, caustic and evil ridiculing bureaucrats. But it was this satire and the minister of culture Mikhailov did not like it. With unconcealed annoyance, he said to Mikhail Romm: "Now we know what you are doing in your workshop!"
Romm's workshop was closed, and Mikhail Ilyich stopped appearing on Mosfilm for a while.
"The bridegroom from the other world" appeared on the country's screens in September 58, but the authorities ordered to make only 20 copies of the movie, to limit number of spectators. All this could not but affect the health of Gaidai himself.
Meanwhile, in 1959, he took up the production of the movie "Three times risen", which told about the heroic fate of the Volga Tugboat "Eaglet". Eight actresses played in this film. And one of them was Gaidai's wife Nina Grebeshkova, who played the role of the second plan. It was the role of Zoya Nikolaevna, the school's director. Noteworthy, it was her debut in the movies of her husband. And the debut was natural: after all, it was Gaidai's third film, and the audience understood and welcomed it.
Besides, by the end of the 50's, she was already quite a famous actress, who had behind her shoulders shooting in ten films. There could be more roles, but in 1958 Grebeshkova gave birth to Gaidai's daughter and spent some time with her at home. Therefore, the shooting in "Three times Risen" was her return to the big cinema after the birth.
All the women filmed by Gaidai:
10 movies –
Nina Grebeshkova ("Three times risen", "Caucasian captive", "Diamond hand", "12 chairs", "Can not be!", "For matches", "Sportloto-82", "Dangerous for life!", "Private detective, or Operation "Cooperation", "At Deribasovskaya excellent weather, or on Brighton Beach again rains");
6 movies –
Natalia Krachkovskaya ("12 chairs", "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession", "Can not be!", "Incognito from St. Petersburg", "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation "," At Deribasovskaya excellent weather, or On Brighton Beach again there are rains ");
Vera Ivleva ("For matches", "Sportloto-82", "Dangerous for life!", "Private detective, or Operation "Cooperation", "At Deribasovskaya excellent weather, or on the Brighton Beach again rains");
Muse Krepkogorskaya ("It can not be!", "Dangerous for life!", "Private detective, or Operation" Cooperation "," At Deribasovskaya excellent weather, or on Brighton Beach again rains ");
Maria Kravchunovskaya ("The Bridegroom from the Other World", "Three Times Risen", "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik");
Rina Zelenaya ("The Bridegroom from the Other World", "Operation" Y "and Other Adventures of Shurik", "12 Chairs");
Klara Rumyanova ("The Bridegroom from the Other World", "12 Chairs", "It Can not Be!");
Natalia Selezneva ("Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik", "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession", "It can not be!");
Zoya Fedorova ("The Bridegroom from the Other World", "Operation" Y "and Other Adventures of Shurik");
Elena (Lyalya) Volskaya ("Three times risen", "Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession");
Natalia Varley ("The Caucasian Captive", "12 chairs");
Nonna Mordyukova ("The Diamond Arm", "Incognito from St. Petersburg");
Nina Maslova ("Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession", "Dangerous for life!");
Larisa Eremina ("Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession", "It can not be!");
Nina Agapova ("12 chairs", "Private detective, or Operation" Cooperation ");
Zoya Vasilkova ("12 chairs", "Incognito from St. Petersburg");
Irina Murzaeva ("12 chairs", "Incognito from St. Petersburg");
Tatiana Kuznetsova ("It can not be!", "Incognito from St. Petersburg");
Tatiana Ignatova ("Incognito from St. Petersburg", "Sportloto-82").
Used sources:
magazines: "The Soviet Screen", "The Art of Cinema", "Seven Days", "The Caravan of Stories";
Internet site: kino-teatr.ru.
1940s Rina Zelyonaya
Alexandra Danilova
Anastasia Zueva
Beautiful Soviet actress Svetlana Svetlichaya and Yuri Nikulin in 'Diamond hand'
Caucasian captive Natalia Varley
Klara Rumyanova, Bridegroom from the Other World
Klarina Frolova
Klavdia Kozlyonkova
Leonid Gaidai, Nina Grebeshkova and Yuri Nikulin at a banquet on the occasion of the end of the shooting of the film 'The Diamond Arm', 1969
Lidiya Dranovskaya
Nina Grebeshkova in Can not be, (1975)
Poster 'The Bridegroom from the Other World'
Operation 'Y' and Other Adventures of Shurik. Actors Alexandr Demyanenko and Natalia Seleznyova
Rimma Shorokhova
Scene from The Bridegroom from the Other World, 1958
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Soviet film director Leonid Gaidai
Tatiana Guretskaya
Tatiana Kuznetsova. 'Can not be'. 1975
Unique actress Natalia Krachkovskaya
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Yulia Pashkovskaya, 1974
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Favorite women of Soviet director Leonid Gaidai
In the life of the great comedian Leonid Gaidai there were only three main women: mother, wife and daughter. However, in the cinematic life, there were more – about a hundred. These are the actresses who played in the films of Leonid Iovich. Unfortunately, today, almost no one remembers most of them, and this is unfair. Without them, without their talented play, there would not be a wonderful director Leonid Gaidai and his kind comedies that millions of people know and love. And although their characters are sometimes naive, awkward, or silly, we admire and enjoy their faultless game. Thanks to the wonderful charisma of these masters of comedy genre, we want to review these masterpieces again and again. Rina Zelenaya, Nina Grebeshkova, Natalia Selezneva, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Natalya Varley, Nonna Mordyukova and many others – Favorite women of Soviet director Leonid Gaidai.
Natalia Seleznyova, one of the Favorite women of Soviet director Leonid Gaidai
His career in the cinema Gaidai began immediately in two ways: as an assistant director and actor. It happened in 1954, when he was included in the Mosfilm project "Liana" directed by Boris Barnet. Gaidai was engaged in the selection of actors, and also performed one of the roles – a friend of the groom of the main character named Alexei. Apparently, it was he who acquainted Gaidai with Kyuna Ignatova, and two years later they met again on the same set. And this time Gaidai acted as the main director, and Ignatova was again the performer of the main role. It's about the film "Long Way", which became the directorial debut of Gaidai.
A new meeting between Gaidai and Ignatova could cause rumors of their romantic relations. However, if they were, it was rather platonic, considering that Gaidai really liked beautiful women. And Ignatova was just like that, and touched the heart of the director. He loved his wife very much, but considered her appearance quite ordinary, if not more.
"Nina, you must understand that you are ugly."
"Ah … How come?" Why did you marry me then? I must be the most beautiful for you. Especially since I have a new dress!
"You know, Nina, you must always be yourself." You have so much merit … "
So, Gaidai took Ignatova for the main role, to admire her from a distance.
The second was Ekaterina Mazurova, who played a small role as the mother of the main character.
After the completion of work on the film "Long Way" Gaidai attracted the attention of the master of Soviet cinema Mikhail Romm. He invited Gaidai to make a comedy. So, the film "The Bridegroom from the Other World", in fact, became his first comedy. By the way, it was a "female' film – it had 14 actresses and only seven men actors.
Comedy 'The Bridegroom from the Other World'. 1958
"Bridegroom from the Other World"
The role of Petukhov's bride Nina Pavlovna played the popular actress Vera Altaiskaya. Given the pronounced comedic talent of this actress, it seems strange that Gaidai never invited her to any of his further films after the "Bridegroom from the Other World". Perhaps, because she was the exclusive actress of storyteller Alexander Rou.
The role of Nina Pavlovna's mother played actress Rina Zelenaya. At the end of the 50's she was a very popular actress, not only cinematic, but also pop. The role of Zelenaya in the film "The Bridegroom from the Other World" was small and therefore not very noticeable. Gaidai will subsequently invite Zelenaya in two more films: "Operation Y" and other adventures of Shurik "(1965) and" 12 chairs "(1971).
One more actress, Anastasia Zueva played the role of the cashier Anna Mikhailovna Kuku in "The Bridegroom from the Other World". However, after this film Zuyeva did not work with Gaidai again. Why? Apparently, for the same reason as Vera Altaiskaya: both were talismans of another director – Alexander Rou.
And actress Maria Kravchunovskaya played the role of the cleaner aunt Poly in the "Bridegroom …". In 1950, Kravchunovskaya came to work at the Stanislavsky Theater, where Gaidai's assistants noticed her. During the filming of "The Bridegroom from the Other World", a creative rapprochement between the director and actress took place, which led to the fact that Gaidai began to invite Kravchunovskaya to subsequent films. In particular, she would play the role of a nurse in "Three times Risen" (1960), and in "Operation "Y"- grandmother Maria Ivanovna.
The role of head physician Elizaveta Vladimirovna in the medical institution was performed by the popular actress Zoya Fedorova. Gaidai invited Fedorova to his movie in the summer of 1957. Having played in Gaidai's movie once, Fedorova will not meet with him again. Unfortunately, the result of life of this popular actress will be tragic: she will be shot in her apartment on December 11, 1981.
Another episodic role in the film "The Bridegroom from the Other World" played actress Klarina Frolova – this is the woman's role in the queue at the hospital registry. Since then, Frolova will not appear in his films anymore. But she will take part in other films (including comedies), some of which will become very popular.
Also, one more actress played a small role of the employee in "The Bridegroom from the Other World. It was actress Tatiana Guretskaya.
And in another episodic role of a funny girl in the film played the star of Stalin cinema – Lidiya Dranovskaya.
In the role of a young registrar Klavochka starred Klara Rumyanova. The role of Rumyantova in "The Brideg | 1,407 |
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Where a lot of high-concept games start with big promises and end in scaled back disappointment, Evolve achieves exactly what it set out to do. Through an array of intelligent design choices, developer Turtle Rock Studios has created a smart, asymmetric, multiplayer monster-hunting game that plays unlike anything else. It's tactically deep, bursting with character, and once you get past its mildly obtrusive progression system, it offers a level of nuance rarely found in multiplayer shooters.
A core concept as novel as assuming control of a hulking behemoth and facing off against four player-controlled humanoids could easily have fallen into gimmick territory, if not for the thoughtful way that Hunt, Evolve's core mode, is structured. Having the monster start out relatively weak, only to feed and grow in power as the match progresses generates a lot of tension for both sides.
The monster needs to move quickly and carefully, balancing the need to put distance between itself and the hunters with the need to find food to level up. It's a high-stakes tightrope act that requires good map knowledge, and a strong grasp of the monster's surprising number of non-combat abilities like climbing, sneaking, and sniffing around. For as effectively as they exude an intimidating physical presence, playing the monster successfully requires patience and skill. Overpowering the hunters is really just your reward for outsmarting them, which makes ripping them to shreds as a max-level monster feel just as satisfying as it looks and sounds.
As the hunters, the continually interesting challenge is to find a cunning monster that doesn't want to be found amidst the sprawling and beautifully realized planet of Shear. Fresh tracks and startled birds are among the more obvious clues, but following them like a bread crumb trail is rarely enough. You need to reason out where the monster is headed, and make effective use of your team's amusing sci-fi gadgets. You might tag tempting wildlife with a tracking dart, so that when the monster eats it you can get a bead on its location, or pursue a monster with an unmanned drone to relay his position to your teammates. Since every second that passes without the monster in your crosshairs is another step closer to it becoming nigh-unstoppable, hunts are every bit as<|fim_middle|> rewarding multiplayer experience that packs both brains and brawn. | thrilling as they are nuanced.
Though it's hard to take it all in when you're embroiled in an intense monster fight, Evolve looks and sounds remarkably good. The ground rumbles deeply with Goliath's every step, and Kraken's Lightning Strikes light up the screen, sending Hunters tumbling in every which direction while startled wildlife scatter in fear. Each individual element is well executed, but combined as whole during a match's most pitched moments, the complete picture really is a sight to behold.
The true beauty of Evolve, though, is in the subtle details that flesh out its world, its characters, and its mechanics. Characters preen and pose on the title screen, emoting with a cartoonish flare that makes each one memorable. From playful pre-match banter to defiant mid-match monster-taunting, the plentiful voice overs are well written and delivered. Maggie in particular stands out with her fiery intensity and rich cultural history, which gets unpacked in pieces the more I played her – and after more than 20 hours played, I'm still catching bits I never heard before.
The real genius behind Evolve's gameplay is the way each character's abilities synergize, and how each has importance beyond its basic functionality. For instance, Val's tranq gun is primarily used to slow the monster's movement, but since it reveals the monster's position through walls, it allows Cabot to make better use of his structure-penetrating rail cannon. It can be tough to land a hit on a moving target with Hank's Orbital Strike, but once Abe tosses out a Stasis Grenade or two to lock the monster down, you can nail it with no problem. This leads to some rich decision-making at the character select screen, where team composition becomes incredibly important. Evolve is full of tactical possibility, and fortunately, the AI-controlled bots are good enough to test a lot of this stuff out when playing single-player.
Annoyingly, some of that possibility sits locked behind a progression system that, while not unreasonable, feels unnecessary. With all 12 hunters, three monsters, and all their perks unlocked, Evolve feels complete and fully fleshed out, but getting there can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple of weeks depending on how good you are and how frequently you play. This makes Evolve seem more limited than it actually is at first, which is a shame because once it's all opened up, it's anything but.
With the default Hunt mode being so central to Evolve's identity, it'd be easy to forget about the Nest, Rescue, and Defend match types, but I'm glad I didn't. They're more straightforward, objective-focused styles make for a nice change up, and they all provide new opportunities to apply your characters' skills and gadgets in different ways. Bucket's Sentry Turrets and Markov's Arc Mines take on a whole new importance in a mode like defend, and Lazarus' ability to bring colonists you're trying to rescue back to life effectively gives the team more time to get to them. Considering that Evolve's unique mechanics feel specifically crafted for Hunt, the fact that they work in equally interesting ways in the other modes was a pleasant surprise.
It's rare for a big multiplayer game like Evolve to feel so considered and intelligent. Everything – skills, mechanics, and design choices – seem to interlock in a way that's both natural and purposeful. That it's so mechanically rich and still conveys the raw energy and fun of duking it out with huge monsters and action-figure-esque hunters is a real design feat. Its progression system stifles it a bit early on, but regardless, Evolve is a deeply | 755 |
MIAMI -- The Marlins finalized the top of their organizational ladder on Monday, announcing the hiring of Chip Bowers as president of business operations.
Bowers joins the Marlins after serving the last five seasons as chief marketing officer for<|fim_middle|> I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and working diligently to deliver a championship-caliber experience of which South Florida can be proud."
With the Warriors, Bowers oversaw all marketing channels and brand development, corporate partnership sales and services efforts, and broadcasting.
In his tenure at Golden State, the Warriors were named the SportsBusiness Journal's Sports Team of the Year in 2014 and 2016.
Bowers recently was instrumental in the signing of significant new sponsorship agreements for the Warriors' new arena, the Chase Center, including naming rights.
The Marlins are in the process of finding a naming-rights partner for Marlins Park, which has not had a sponsorship name attached to it since opening in 2012.
Another prominent issue at the forefront for the organization is negotiating a new local television contract.
The Marlins agreement with Fox Sports Florida runs through 2020, and the team reportedly receives about $20 million a year.
Earlier in his career, Bowers has had ties to the state of Florida and has worked for an MLB club. Bowers has worked for the NBA's Orlando Magic, and has been a sales executive with the Padres. | the defending NBA-champion Golden State Warriors. He will report directly to Miami's chief executive officer, Derek Jeter.
"Our goal is to operate a first-class organization with first-class individuals," Jeter said in a statement. "Chip brings an immense breadth of experience, working in outstanding organizations which have achieved success both on and off the field or court of play. He is a proven leader who truly understands community and corporate partnership and client service."
The Marlins open Spring Training with pitchers and catchers' workouts on Wednesday, and Bowers rounds out the upper tier of the business side of the organization.
In early October, the group led by Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter purchased the Marlins from Jeffrey Loria. As part of the transition, new ownership didn't retain former team president David Samson.
Bowers' role essentially replaces Samson, although the responsibilities aren't entirely the same.
"I am honored and thrilled to be joining Bruce Sherman, Derek Jeter and the Miami Marlins organization," Bowers said in a statement. "This organization's leadership and commitment to building sustainable success, with a focus on re-engaging their corporate and community partners, made this a very easy decision. | 237 |
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US Sailing awards Hanson medals to sailors in three separate crew-overboards
Two sailing coaches, a photographer and a cruising couple were recently awarded medals by US Sailing for their heroic actions in three separate incidents involving the rescue of mariners who fell overboard last year.
Coaches Jim Roe and Ryan Miller were awarded Arthur B. Hanson rescue medals for aiding fellow coach Becky Mergenthaler who was tossed into Barnegat Bay when the<|fim_middle|> to help them in the recovery. Willis pulled the victim, who was wearing a PFD, out of the water and onto his boat. The victim had been in the cold, 58-degree water for five minutes and was showing symptoms of hypothermia. Willis took the victim to Santa Cruz Yacht Club to be treated. n
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The coaches were returning to Barnegat Light Yacht Club after a youth competition July 2, 2003. After falling overboard, Mergenthaler was knocked unconscious when the uncontrolled Whaler hit her twice. Mergenthaler was wearing a PFD. Fellow coaches Jim Roe and Ryan Miller, occupying a second coach boat, took quick action. When the renegade Whaler was on its third rotation approaching the victim, Roe intentionally drove his boat into the Whaler, forcing the Whaler to change direction. Miller quickly pulled the unconscious Mergenthaler out of the water. Another coach boat nearby alerted emergency services, and New Jersey State Marine Police and the U.S. Coast Guard quickly responded. Mergenthaler recovered completely.
The coaches were honored Jan. 13 at Spray Beach Yacht Club in Beach Haven, N.J.
In a separate incident, Kevin and Karen Kelly were cruising California's Joaquin River Aug. 12 in their 26-foot Clipper Marine when they noticed a disabled powerboat and a number of people in the water nearby.
Upon reaching the powerboat, the Kellys found a 9-year-old girl and two teenage boys in the water attempting to keep their uncle afloat. Only the girl and one of the boys were wearing PFDs. There were also people aboard the powerboat.
The victims did not speak English, but luckily the Kellys were able to give directions in the victims' native language. The teenage boys helped the young girl onto the Kellys' boat, then the Kellys helped lift the boys aboard. The Kellys also deployed a rope ladder, which the uncle grabbed.
The Kellys also gave the uncle a PFD. The victim's family managed to start the powerboat's engine and came along side the Kellys' boat. Using the powerboat's swim platform and a metal ladder, the uncle was able to climb back onto his powerboat, after having spent 30 minutes in the 60-degree water.
The Kellys were presented the Hanson award during US Sailing's National Sailing Programs Symposium in Oakland, Calif.
In the third incident, Eric Willis was photographing the One-Design series of Santa Cruz (Calif.) Yacht Club Sept. 20, 2003. Willis was on board a rigid inflatable boat when he noticed the crew of a Santa Cruz 27 attempting to rescue a man overboard. Unable to rescue the victim, the crew asked Willis | 527 |
I must confess that when the original version of Man of Grease came out in 2000, chronicling the story of Tony Koulakis and his greasy-spoon Cosmos diner in NDG, I never saw it. Last week Ezra Soiferman, the man behind the documentary, contacted me with news that a remastered version will premiere next Monday, December 5 (7 p.m) at CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre on Cote St. Catherine<|fim_middle|> actually be returning to Montreal from Calgary soon to reclaim his CHOM FM wakup show, makes a cameo appearance.
The diner opened in 1967.
The film covers Tony's first trip back home to Greece in 1999. He returned with his wife Erene (sadly now deceased). It was his first vacation in 32 years.
Tony is now retired and spends most days at home resting.
Niki and Nikos (Tony's two eldest kids) are running the diner and cooking. They alternate days running the place and each have a different (non-family) colleague serving the food while they cook at their dad's famous grill.
Tony's youngest son Johnny no longer works at the diner.
The Soifermans had a baby in 2009 and they have spent a lot of time with Lulu, now two years and two months old, doing family things. Previously Ezra had been at the Segal Centre for three years (2007-2010), where he created and ran CinemaSpace, the boutique screening room that thrives to this day.
The only question I have is why wasn't this turned into a reality television show 11 years ago?
Watch the film's trailer here.
Who will replace van der Heyden on CTV Montreal? | Road. Tickets are $8 (general) and $6 (seniors). With a score by Socalled (Josh Dolgin), this is the first time the movie is being released on DVD. It contains two hours of bonus features compiled by the film's editor and DVD designer, Mika Goodfriend.
Filmmaker Soiferman takes a loving look at Tony's one-of-a-kind eatery and its loyal patrons. I just finished watching the DVD and I must say I feel like I know Tony and his family personally. For one thing, it gave me a certain appetite for his mish mash and other amazing concoctions. Soiferman touches all of the bases in this film, showing Tony at work, home and during the return to his his birthplace, the mythical sun–drenched Greek island of Crete, for his first vacation in 32 years. The DVD extras include a great showing of the actual premiere of the film.
I laughed as one patron shared the news how Tony warned him that it was not healthy to eat at Cosmos three days a week. "So now I come once a week," he said.
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La finesse est une caractéristique aérodynamique définie comme le rapport entre la portance et la traînée.
Elle est parfois désignée par le terme de langue anglaise signifiant , c'est-à-dire rapport portance/traînée en français.
On peut aussi définir de manière équivalente la finesse comme le rapport des coefficients de portance et de traînée , à condition que ces deux coefficients soient rapportés à la même surface.
Définition
La finesse d'un aérodyne à voilure fixe est le rapport entre sa portance et sa traînée aérodynamique.
En vol plané (sans force de traction/propulsion) à vitesse vraie (vitesse de l'aéronef par rapport à la masse d'air dans laquelle il se déplace) constante, et donc à pente constante, elle est égale au rapport entre la distance horizontale parcourue et la hauteur de chute ou encore au rapport entre la vitesse horizontale et la vitesse verticale (taux de chute). Bien sûr, cette définition est à adapter suivant l'objet étudié : voile de bateau, profil de carène…
Pour un aérodyne donné, la finesse varie en fonction de l'incidence de l'aile. Cependant, comme le coefficient de portance varie aussi avec l'angle d'incidence, pour obtenir une portance équivalente au poids, il faut adapter la vitesse. C'est pourquoi la finesse varie avec la vitesse.
Dans le cas d'un planeur, la finesse varie en fonction de la vitesse sur trajectoire en suivant une courbe qu'on appelle la polaire des vitesses.
Cette courbe représente le taux de chute en fonction de la vitesse sur trajectoire (ou « vitesse indiquée »). Elle est croissante entre la valeur de la vitesse de décrochage jusqu'à la valeur de la vitesse correspondant au taux de chute minimal, puis décroissante au-delà.
À vitesse constante, la
Par exemple, une finesse de 7 correspond à un angle de plané de ~8.
Valeurs typiques
Les avions ont généralement des finesses comprises entre 8 et 20 : les avions de ligne ont des finesses comprises entre 16 et 18, l'Airbus A320 a une finesse de 17, le Boeing 747 de 17,7. Le Concorde avait une finesse de 4 au décollage, 12 à Mach 0,95 et 7,5 à Mach 2
Les derniers prototypes de « wingsuit » permettent d'atteindre une finesse de 3. Les parapentes modernes ont une finesse comprise entre 9 et 13. Les deltaplanes « souples » modernes ont une finesse comprise entre 14 et 16, et les deltaplanes « rigides » modernes ont une finesse comprise entre 18 et 22. Les planeurs de construction en bois et toile de 27 à 32 et les planeurs plastiques ont commencé à 30 et sont à plus de 60 actuellement.
Typiquement, sur un planeur moderne :
la vitesse de finesse maximale se situe entre 80 et selon le modèle et la charge alaire ;
la vitesse de taux de chute minimal est de l'ordre de et le taux de chute correspondant de l'ordre de 0,8 à ;
la vitesse de décrochage est de l'ordre de .
Un avion à propulsion humaine permettant de voler en pédalant a un meilleur rapport portance/traînée de 30.
Équivalence entre les définitions
Système : avion
Référentiel : terrestre supposé galiléen
Bilan des forces extérieures au système :
Portance perpendiculaire à la vitesse de déplacement de l'avion
Traînée opposée à la vitesse de déplacement de l'avion
Poids
D'après la deuxième loi de Newton on a :
On suppose que l'aéronef est en mouvement non accéléré et l'on a donc :
Soient Cz le coefficient de portance et Cx le coefficient de traînée. On note que le coefficient de portance est en première approximation proportionnel à l'angle d'incidence.
Cela se traduit donc en projetant sur chacun des axes par :
sur Ox :
sur Oz :
Et donc, pour un vol plané à vitesse vraie constante :
Et donc :
Pour un planeur, on pourra aisément écrire que (si est exprimé en radians). Cependant cela ne sera pas correct pour un wingsuit qu'on pourrait presque assimiler à un « fer à repasser ».
Finesse air et finesse sol
La finesse air d'un aéronef est donnée par rapport à la masse d'air dans laquelle il se déplace. C'est souvent celle que le constructeur annonce car elle est indépendante du vent.
La finesse sol, elle, est calculée par rapport au sol. C'est souvent la plus intéressante car c'est celle qui détermine si un parcours jusqu'à un but est possible ou non. Cette finesse doit tenir compte du déplacement de l'air (du vent) par rapport au sol.
Quand l'aéronef se déplace dans la direction et le sens du vent, la finesse sol augmente, et inversement s'il se déplace dans le sens inverse. Par vent fort de face, l'aéronef peut avoir une vitesse sol et une finesse sol faibles ou négatives, ce qui sera d'ailleurs souvent une raison suffisante pour annuler le vol.
La finesse air et la finesse sol sont égales lorsque l'air est calme et ne subit aucun mouvement vertical ni horizontal.
Calcul de la finesse maximale
Relation entre la traînée induite et la traînée parasite
On va montrer qu'un aéronef atteint sa finesse maximale lorsque la traînée induite est égale à la traînée parasite.
La traînée parasite causée par la résistance de l'air peut s'écrire sous la forme
où est le coefficient de traînée parasite et on a . Soit l'envergure de l'aile et sa corde moyenne (~ largeur moyenne de l'aile). est la pression dynamique.
On pose l'allongement de l'aile. On rappelle que
On note la masse volumique de l'air. On obtient :
La traînée induite s'exprime comme suit :
avec
où est la portance, est la vitesse de l'aéronef et est le coefficient d'Oswald. Cette dernière formule provient de la théorie des profils minces.
Lorsqu'un avion ou planeur est en vol, la traînée induite et la traînée parasite s'ajoutent et constituent la traînée totale :
avec
Pour ne pas alourdir les calculs avec des racines carrés dans la suite on exprimera non pas la finesse , mais la finesse au carré et on a alors :
On dérive par rapport à :
Pour que soit maximale il faut que ce qui revient ici à déterminer les racines d'un polynôme du second degré en .
On obtient donc que est atteinte quand c'est-à-dire :
et donc
Ce qui signifie que la traînée induite est égale à la traînée parasite.
Démonstration simplifiée pour un planeur
Tout ce qui suit appliqué aux planeurs a été présenté dans l'ouvrage de Frank Irving The Paths of Soaring Flight.
Dans les cours d'aérodynamique pour pilotes, il est souvent affirmé sans justification que la traînée induite est proportionnelle à 1/V et que la traînée parasite est proportionnelle à V. Dans ces conditions, la démonstration du théorème ci-dessus devient triviale qui est alors un simple corollaire des postulats énoncés ci-dessus. Dans ce qui suit, les postulats vont être démontrés et l'on va en conclure le théorème ci-dessus.
Les planeurs ont des angles de plané qui sont très petits et l'on peut donc supposer que
La traînée induite s'exprime comme suit :
La traînée parasite causée par la résistance de l'air peut s'écrire sous la forme
Lorsqu'un planeur est en vol, la traînée induite et la traînée parasite s'ajoutent et constituent la traînée totale R(V). La finesse d'un planeur sera optimale lorsque la traînée totale R(V) est minimale. On résout donc
l'équation
On définit et tels que et .
On peut écrire symboliquement :
Après avoir calculé la dérivée de R(V), on résout donc :
Et donc en multipliant la relation ci-dessus par V, on obtient :
ce qui signifie que la traînée induite est égale à la traînée parasite.
Vitesse optimale
On pose et . On a alors :
Le planeur atteindra sa finesse maximale en air calme lorsque la traînée induite sera égale à la traînée parasite, c'est-à-dire :
Détermination des coefficients de traînée et d'Oswald
Si l'on connaît la vitesse à laquelle la finesse maximale est connue, on peut en déduire le coefficient de traînée parasite et le coefficient d'Oswald.
Ces coefficients valent :
P est la charge alaire et λ est l'allongement de l'aile.
Calcul de la finesse maximale (d'un planeur)
Un planeur n'a pas de moteur ; il est « propulsé » par la composante sur trajectoire de son propre poids (voir le schéma ci-contre).
Soit f(V) la finesse du planeur défini par le rapport de la vitesse horizontale à la vitesse verticale. Soit l'angle de plané en radians. Comme est petit, on peut écrire que et donc que :
Quand le planeur est en équilibre, en mouvement non accéléré, on a :
De plus, la finesse maximale est une caractéristique de l'aéronef et est donc constante (tant que les caractéristiques de l'aéronef sont inchangées).
Dans ce qui suit, on démontre cette assertion qui ne semble pas évidente. On rappelle que lorsque la planeur atteint sa finesse maximale la traînée induite est égale à la traînée parasite. On obtient donc :
Et donc :
Et donc :
Comme annoncé ci-dessus, la finesse maximale ne dépend pas de la masse du planeur et ni de la densité de l'air environnant. Elle dépend uniquement de l'aérodynamisme du planeur et de sa géométrie (allongement) : la finesse maximale est une caractéristique de l'aéronef et<|fim_middle|> affirme que la finesse maximale est atteinte à ce qui fait que le modèle n'engendre une erreur que de moins de 2 %.
Donc, la vitesse horizontale de chute minimale sera.
En examinant la polaire des vitesses, on constate que la vitesse de chute minimum est à ce qui correspond donc à la formule ci-dessus.
Le taux de chute minimal est
Le constructeur affirme que le taux de chute minimal est .
On constate que dans le cas du planeur ASW-27, la théorie des profils minces peut représenter la polaire des vitesses et les caractéristiques du planeur à moins de 2 % près.
Autres domaines
Une voile est aussi un profil. La notion de finesse s'applique donc aussi à ce profil, mais de plusieurs façons. Voir finesse d'une voile de bateau.
Une hélice aquatique est composée de plusieurs pales, chacune ayant un profil. La définition de finesse est identique à la finesse aérodynamique, le fluide étant de l'eau.
Généralisation de la notion de finesse à tous les modes de transport
thumb|Mise à jour 2004 du diagramme de Gabrielli-von Karman donnant la finesse « totale » des différents modes de transport.
Plus généralement, la notion de finesse peut s'appliquer avantageusement à tous les modes de transport (de marchandise ou de passagers) pour permettre l'évaluation de leur rendement énergétique. En effet, le rendement de chaque véhicule est le quotient du poids de ce véhicule sur les forces de traînée qui le freinent (diagramme de Gabrielli-von Kármán ci-contre). En dressant ce diagramme, après avoir pris acte de l'impossibilité de mesurer la valeur que chaque homme accorde à la vitesse de ses déplacements, Karman et Gabrielli ont posé les fondations d'un système de mesure de l'économie des déplacements (de marchandise ou d'humains), ce système de mesure demeurant valide plus de 70 ans après sa création.
Pour un vélo, par exemple, dont le coefficient de résistance au roulement va de 0,0022 à 0,005, la finesse à basse vitesse ira de (soit 454) à 200 (si la traînée aérodynamique est négligée). Autre exemple : Pour une berline la traînée est la somme de sa traînée aérodynamique et de sa résistance au roulement). Le coefficient de résistance au roulement des meilleurs pneumatiques pour berlines s'abaisse jusqu'à 0,006. La finesse d'une telle berline en ville est donc plus faible que , soit 166.
Cependant, il suffit de pousser un tel véhicule pour constater que, malgré cette excellente finesse, la traînée de roulement est très forte (donc la perte d'énergie par roulement très forte également). Cela suffit à suggérer que la finesse ne soit plus définie comme le quotient du poids du véhicule sur sa force de traînée mais comme le quotient du poids de ses passagers sur la force de traînée que le déplacement suscite (la traînée du véhicule), soit pour deux passagers ( avec les bagages) dans l'exemple ci-dessus (c.-à-d. à basse vitesse) une finesse de simplement 33,3 (et 16,7 pour le conducteur seul).
Il manque donc au travail de collecte de données par Gabrielli et von Karman une évaluation efficace de l'énergie nécessaire pour déplacer le véhicule lui-même et de l'énergie nécessaire pour déplacer la charge utile. En effet, les deux auteurs n'ont pu recueillir la charge utile ni la vitesse de croisière des véhicules étudiés.
De fait, ce graphe n'accorde pas d'avantage à l'emport accru de fret ou de passagers en ceci qu'un véhicule mal conçu dont la structure serait trop lourde et qui, pour compenser ce surpoids, emporterait 10 passagers de moins (avec leur bagages) aurait la même finesse généralisée sur le graphe ci-contre qu'un véhicule mieux conçu et emportant 10 passagers de plus (sur ce point, le diagramme de la finesse commerciale, d'après Papanikolaou, pourrait constituer un progrès).
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Notes et références
Notes
Références
Bibliographie
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Aérodynamique appliquée à l'avion
Vol à voile | est donc constante. Ceci justifie a posteriori que la vitesse de chute du planeur augmentera en même temps que sa masse. Donc, lorsque les conditions aérologiques sont moins favorables, il est préférable de minimiser la masse du planeur pour minimiser la vitesse de chute et donc de ne pas ajouter d'eau dans les ailes ou, si l'on est déjà en vol, de vidanger les ailes.
De plus, plus est grand, plus sera petit. Donc, les planeurs ayant des grandes ailes, pour une surface alaire équivalente, aura un plus petit angle de plané et donc une plus grande finesse. Ceci est la raison pour laquelle certains planeurs de compétition en classe libre peuvent avoir jusqu'à d'envergure.
Effet de la masse sur la vitesse optimale
Cette section suppose que l'aéronef a une finesse suffisante pour que l'on puisse supposer que .
On considère un planeur de masse volant à sa vitesse de finesse maximale . Le poids du planeur est donné par . Pour simplifier la discussion, on suppose que . On a donc :
On considère maintenant le même planeur auquel on a ajouté de l'eau et qui a une masse et une vitesse de finesse maximale .
On a alors :
Donc,
Donc,
et donc :
.
On constate que la vitesse optimale varie donc comme la racine carrée de la masse du planeur.
En augmentant la masse, on augmente donc aussi la vitesse de finesse maximale mais la valeur de la finesse maximale elle reste constante. La finesse maximale étant indépendante de la masse de l'aéronef, ceci signifie que le même planeur auquel on ajoute de l'eau aura la même portée, mais volera plus vite pour maintenir la même portée. C'est pourquoi lorsque les conditions météorologiques sont très favorables (puissantes ascendances), les planeurs de compétition sont remplis d'eau dans les ailes.
Polaire des vitesses
La polaire des vitesses peut se mettre sous la forme :
où A et B sont des constantes à déterminer.
On évalue maintenant la vitesse de chute en fonction de la vitesse horizontale pour n'importe quelle vitesse. On a :
La polaire des vitesses exprime la vitesse de chute en fonction de la vitesse horizontale. Etant donné que est très petit, on a :
On peut donc considérer que . Donc,
Cette formule exprime la polaire des vitesses. On constate que pour grand, la finesse décroît comme le carré de la vitesse horizontale.
On notera que est la charge alaire qui est souvent exprimée en ou plus incorrectement en
. Si l'on appelle P cette charge alaire (qui est homogène à une pression), on obtient :
et donc :
Vitesse de chute à finesse maximale
On a :
Comme à finesse maximale, on obtient donc :
En substituant β, on obtient
On remplace Vf et donc,
On note que :
En substituant, on obtient :
Vitesse de chute minimum
En reprenant les notations ci-dessus, on a :
On appelle vitesse minimale la vitesse horizontale pour laquelle le taux de chute minimal est atteint. Elle est atteinte lorsque . On obtient donc :
Soit la vitesse à finesse maximale. Donc,
On obtient donc :
On a :
On a et donc
que l'on substitue et donc,
On substitue Vm et donc,
On substitue maintenant α et β et donc,
On obtient donc :
Le rapport entre la vitesse de chute minimale et la vitesse de chute à finesse maximale est :
On constate donc que la vitesse de chute minimale n'est que 12 % inférieure à la vitesse de chute à finesse maximale.
Application au planeur ASW 27
On considère le planeur Alexander Schleicher ASW 27.
Le constructeur affirme que son planeur a une finesse de 48.
Les chiffres officiels sont les suivants :
λ = 25 ;
e = 0,85 ;
b = ;
Cx,p = 0,0072 (ajusté pour satisfaire la finesse déclarée).
On obtient alors :
La masse à vide du planeur est 245 kilogrammes. On considère un pilote de masse 65 kilogrammes volant aux conditions normales de température et de pression. On a alors :
ρ = 1,225 ;
m = .
La vitesse à laquelle la finesse maximale est atteinte est
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We didn't know, either. There are lots of pretty sights here. Time to reformulate some of my old ideas.
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Had to look up the Blake and Miranda reference. Country singers, right? This morning, it looks like an egret/heron/pelican convention in the river outside our door. Must be 70 of them doing a bit of fishing.
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UK North Sea operators can deliver hundreds of millions more barrels of oil by ramping up their spending on well intervention, a petroleum engineer has said.
15/11/2018, 7:10 am Updated: 15/11/2018, 7:44 am
Glenn Brown, operations coordination manager at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).
But current investment levels are not high enough and too many good wells are offline, said Glenn Brown, operations coordination manager at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).
About 600 of the 2,700 active wells in the UK continental shelf (UKCS) are shut in, which means they are capable of producing but, for various reasons, are not.
That number is far too high for the OGA's liking, Mr Brown said in his keynote speech at the 24th European Well Intervention Conference in Aberdeen yesterday.
Mr Brown said those shut-in wells could yet contribute 900 million barrels of oil equivalent.
A large proportion of those barrels could be pumped out if operators devoted more resources to surveillance and well intervention, he said.
But well intervention rates on the UKCS are currently too low, at 14%.
Some £685m was spent on intervention and surveillance activities last year, but only £285m of the total was devoted to delivering more oil.
The plugging and abandonment of around 150 wells accounted for the remaining £400m.
Despite the apparent reluctance to splash the cash, Mr Brown said the business case for intervention was compelling.
That investment of £285m restored more than 40m barrels to the UKCS's production figures, which equates to highly competitive average unit cost of £6.48 per barrel.
Mr Brown said those barrels were "low hanging fruit" and urged operators to do more intervention work.
The North Sea's changing landscape, characterised by the entry of smaller companies to the operator community, could be a huge opportunity, he said.
Some 77% of the UKCS's development well stock is operated by just 12 companies, while the remaining 750 are divided between 60 other companies.
New entrants to the North Sea, many of whom are backed by private equity houses, are generally motivated by a desire to pump oil more efficiently from mature fields, delaying decommissioning.
The OGA will facilitate better connections between operators and suppliers and provide detailed information on the shut-in wells, Mr Brown said.
Mr Brown also said the OGA would be more stringent on consents for well suspensions, which will be limited in duration to two-years, in most cases.
The two-day well intervention conference is being held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
It was organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association.
Conference chairman Darren Paul, from Shell, said he was pleased that this year's exhibition was nearly sold out and encouraged delegates to share knowledge and learn lessons.
Well intervention is the process of using technology to maintain and mechanically alter wells which have been in production for some time in response to changing conditions.
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Unmukt Chand becomes first male Indian cricketer to sign Big Bash contract
Unmukt Chand has signed a historic deal with Big Bash League club Melbourne Renegades for the upcoming season. He ...
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Unmukt Chand has signed a historic deal with Big Bash League club Melbourne Renegades for the upcoming<|fim_middle|>'m very excited, it's great to be part of the Melbourne Renegades family," Unmukt told Melbourne Renegades. "I've always followed the Big Bash and it's a great opportunity for me to come and play some good cricket. I'm really looking forward to coming to Melbourne and to get going. I've always enjoyed playing in Australia. I haven't been to Melbourne before… I know for a fact there are lots of Indians in Melbourne, so it's going to be nice, and I hope the crowds turn up for games as well. "I've always wanted to play in leagues like these and it's great that now I have this opportunity to be representing the Renegades in the Big Bash, so for me it's big. I really look forward to contributing as much as I can on the field. I'll give it my best shot," he added.
The 28-year-old, who led India to the Under-19 World Cup title in 2012, has represented India A, apart from featuring in teams like Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. "He brings a wealth of cricket experience. To have a player joining our team who has represented three IPL teams and led his country at 'A' and Under 19 level is fantastic. As a batter, Unmukt is dynamic and can change games quickly. He has spent much of his career at the top of the order, but we believe he has the flexibility to fill a variety of roles as we need," David Saker, the Renegades coach, said of Chand's inclusion. At Renegades, he will be playing under the captaincy of his Aaron Finch. Shaun Marsh, James Pattinson and Kane Richardson are among international players in the Renegades' camp.
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Autumn's in the air
Posted on August 27, 2010 by houndblogger
The hounds with huntsman Lilla Mason on their Aug. 26 walk.
DID you catch a whiff of it this morning, too? The faint scent of autumn? The houndbloggers did. I love the smell of autumn. It reminds me that, no matter how miserably hot the summer, cooler weather–and hunt season–are right around the corner.
Cool temperatures also sharpen the hounds' senses. They're also fitter, and the puppies (Driver and the BA litter, all just over one year old), who have yet to join the pack out hunting, are getting clued in to the fact that there's a point to all this training they've had on summer walk. By the way, they seem to be asking now that the air is cooler and morning scents are stronger, what's that delicious smell?
"The challenge today is that it's cool and the ground's really moist," Iroquois huntsman Lilla Mason said. "The whips need to be on their toes to see if any of the hounds put their noses down. It wouldn't be such a big deal if a puppy puts his nose down, but if you get some of the older hounds putting their noses down, you better watch out."
A keen, fit pack of hounds plus cool air plus scent lines could equal chaos. The Iroquois hounds are keen, all right, but they were remarkably relaxed when the houndbloggers joined them on summer walk this morning. Their lessons about cattle also seem to be sticking. On Wednesday, Lilla brought 17 couple out for hound walk only to discover an entire herd of cattle had crowded up to the front of the field where she walks the hounds.
"Cattle were stretched everywhere," kennel manager Michael Edwards said. "Calves, mamas, bulls. Calves were running all over the pace, and these hounds were unbelievably good."
Everything, at this point, can provide a good lesson for hounds that are almost ready to hunt–especially for the puppies, who are nearing their debuts with the working pack this fall. When two young women accompanying the hound walk on horseback began chatting, Lilla pointed out that the extra voices–while not ideal in the hunt field–could be useful today.
"They'll have to get used to that in the hunt field," Lilla said of the hounds. "They have to learn to distinguish my voice from other chatter."
The hounds rushed into the pond, eager to play in the own waves and catch the biscuits Lilla threw to them. Paper, now an old hand at summer training, simply stood and waited for a biscuit to come his way.
"Toss a biscuit over here, please," says Paper.
"They're ready to hunt," Lilla said. "There's not much else I can teach them on hound walk. They've learned to stay behind when I need them to, they've learned to stay with me. We've hit lines on certain days and gotten them off those and settled back down again. You can see that they'll trot off and then turn around and check on where I am. I'm still carrying biscuits, but I'm not using them very much.
"They're really on schedule," she added. "Kind of ahead a schedule, really. We're still working on a few little things. For example, when I say 'Come behind,' Bangle and Bandstand still shoot ahead. It isn't a big deal, but I do need to fix those kinds of things. Out hunting, if I'm trotting toward a coop and say, 'Come behind,' if they get ahead I can't jump the coop. They might get hurt. So I need to keep working with them on that."
Lilla believes one reason the hounds stay so relaxed out walking even at this energizing time of year, is because the Iroquois kennel provides a lot of turnout. The hounds give themselves plenty of exercise in the 15-acre fenced paddock adjacent to their kennel, and even that has offered some unexpected training.
Three deer, Lilla explains, have taken to jumping into the hounds' turnout pen. That gives the hounds more opportunity to get used to –and ignore–deer and their scent, and it seems to be working, because the deer keep jumping in. That's a sign they don't feel threatened by the hounds, which means the hounds aren't pursuing them.
Pats all around from huntsman Lilla Mason and kennel manager Michael Edwards as the group pauses at Cormac's Elbow.
This seems a good time to get an update on Driver, whose first hound walk we remember so vividly! How has he progressed since June? There have been some surprises about this pupposaurus, Lilla tells us.
"He's doing well, but he's gotten shy a couple of times," she explained. "One time we had to walk by some work trucks, and he was shy about that. I hope that was just because he was exposed to a new thing where he normally walks and that the shyness is something he'll get over. But it's something for the whips to keep in the back of their minds when we start hunting, to make sure nothing happens to make him scared or that, if he gets scared, he doesn't get left behind, or something like that.
"That's what the summer is for, to file away little personality traits or issues that might surface later and cause a problem," she added.
Samson and Barman
This hound walk also marked the return of two much-loved English characters, Samson and Barman. Both haven been off in recent months due to health issues. Samson, whom you probably will remember very well as the opinionated traveler, had a tumor removed from his right hind leg back in February and looks to be back in good form. No doubt he'll be glad to get back to hunting! Last season, despite his imperious style at the airport, Samson turned out to be a surprisingly laid-back hound who also helped another import, Strawberry, figure out the new surroundings shortly after their arrival from England.
Red-and-white Samson
Barman was taken out of the hunting pack after having a seizure and is now doing very well on the anti-seizure medication phenobarbital. Fortunately, both phenobarbital and potassium bromide–the two treatments of choice for seizures in dogs–are both highly effective and relatively inexpensive.
Barman, one of the kennel's Big Men on Campus.
Phenobarbital is something the houndbloggers know a little bit about, thanks to our late king of the household and his successor, Felix and Harry. Felix had epilepsy, and Harry, too, has had seizures regularly; in both dogs, the seizures were controllable by one or the other medication at a very doable price.
We're very glad to see two of our most personable hounds, Samson and Barman, back at work!
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Like driving someone else's racecar
Posted on January 14, 2010 by houndblogger
Substituting for an injured huntsman means taking over a pack that has been trained by (and that has bonded with) someone else, and it takes more than just knowing how to blow the horn.
WHEN Iroquois huntsman Lilla Mason broke her ankle out hunting in November, she was lucky in one respect: she had an experienced huntsman to whom she could pass the horn. And that person, Iroquois joint-Master Jerry Miller, was someone who works with the hounds daily alongside her.
That mattered, because as we've seen, Lilla has put a lot of time and training into the hounds (Jerry has had an important role in that training too). Having someone who knows the hounds and the huntsman's style is vital to ensure the hounds' steadiness until Lilla returns.
"Unfortunately, I got hurt right after the opening day of the hunt season," Lilla said. "I've spent months since the last hunt season–from April to October–training the hounds and getting the pack exactly where I want them: responsive, together, controlled by voice. I've done that in the training style that Jerry has devised over the years, which is a kind, humane, quiet style. The reason it's such a relief to have Jerry hunting the hounds for me now is that I know he knows he is a substitute. He hunts the hounds in that quiet way, but he's also going to be very careful not to take the hounds over as his own, because I'll be back.
"The worst thing would be if someone were to come in and hunt them in a different way from the way I do and try to take the pack over. That would usurp all the work we've done, and when I came back, it would be much more difficult for me to finish the season in the manner which it began."
His years as Iroquois huntsman and his role as architect of the pack's training program has stood Jerry in good stead during the times he has subbed for Lilla out hunting and on hound walk. (Photo kindly given by Peggy Maness)
For Jerry, the prospect of taking over the Iroquois pack was more complicated than just accepting the horn and blowing it. A pack of hounds doesn't automatically respect a horn; they respect the person who has worked to forge a bond with them through training. In order to maintain the continuity of what is effectively Lilla's team, Jerry is careful to leave as little of his own imprint on them as he can.
"As much as I like them and would like to have these hounds be mine, that's like taking somebody's racecar and driving it as a substitute in the next three or four races," Jerry explained. "The first thing you need to do is not to wreck it. That's the worst thing you could do. You don't want to tear the transmission up and don't tear the motor up, either. Just take it around carefully, because you're not really the driver of that car. You'll take it out because people want to come out and see the race, but the idea is to race it fairly and competitively, but don't do any damage to it.
"The thing about a pack of hounds, and the reason you like your huntsman and Masters to have longevity, is because you breed the hounds not only for your country, but also for the way the huntsman hunts hounds," he continued. "You can read about this in all the literature, but you can ruin a pack of hounds in a week or two weeks. If someone else other than Lilla came in and tried to impose their own personality on those hounds through the way they discipline them or reinforce them, and especially if they try to push them around or bully them, these hounds react to that. Some hounds won't come back because they've gotten upset, and they'll just be unruly. And the longer they stay away, the more they learn bad habits."
Having temporarily turned her horn over to her back-up huntsman, jt-MFH Jerry Miller, regular Iroquois huntsman Lilla Mason wore a regular member's black coat when she returned to the hunt field for the first time since her injury.
This hunt season, we've seen two strong examples of how important a hound considers the bond with its huntsman to be. When Strawberry first arrived this fall from England, her confusion at finding a completely new huntsman was clear. Since her birth, Strawberry had only ever known one huntsman–the Cottesmore's Neil Coleman–and she was perplexed to find herself without her usual leader when she debuted under Lilla in November. Her first response was to head straight back to the hound trailer.
Similarly, when Jerry hunted the hounds for the first time after Lilla's injury, he had to endure the pack's initial skepticism about him, even though he knew them from training.
When he first blew the horn, the pack remained at the trailer, waiting for Lilla. Sure, that guy who walked with them in the summer had the horn now, but he wasn't their huntsman. Their huntsman was Lilla. And they would just wait for her to show up, thanks. It took Jerry some minutes to get the pack away from the trailer.
Hunting history is riddled with similar accounts of hounds who, once "joined up" with their regular huntsman, will only have eyes for him (or her). Consider the case of whipper-in Jean MacLean in her first attempt to walk out the Clear Creek Beagles when huntsman Buck Wiseman was out of town:
When Buck was away and needed her to walk the hounds out, she discovered that the young hounds she'd helped raise from puppyhood merrily packed up with her when she opened the kennel gate for morning exercise. But the older hounds that had been there before she arrived were so skeptical that they would sit just outside the kennel and refuse to come along with her. They were, she realized, waiting for Buck. To them, she wasn't the real deal, and no amount of biscuit-tossing could convince them to follow her.
Once the hounds finally moved off, Jerry still had his work cut out for him. One crucial element he had in his favor is his knowledge of the individual hounds and the philosophy under which they are trained.
Jerry Miller's role as back-up huntsman, he said, is to maintain the pack's steadiness and "not to do any damage" until Lilla can return
"A hound doesn't just react to a couple of toots on a horn," he said. "You have to know every individual hound. If you were going to play the piano and I took every third key away, that's going to make it harder for you to play. You have to know which hound is acting up, which hound you have to pick up, which one you have to set down."
Hunting hounds without imposing his own hunting style on them has required restraint from Jerry.
"He's hunted them slowly and very deliberately, waited for any hounds that are missing so that the pack doesn't get too spread out," said Lilla, who has been following the hunt in a car regularly while she's recovering. "It might be more fun for riders if he went out and hunted them the way he would if he were always the huntsman, but he's doing it this way so that the hounds will be better off when I come back.
"This helps me. If he had done things differently, it would have completely confused the hounds, because they'd have gotten used to a totally different style than mine, and I'd have to start over with them," she added. "The ultimate honor you can do another human being is to do something for them that you know is not going to make you look your best. He knew he wasn't going to look like a hotshot huntsman. He did it for the hound program."
Part of "Lilla's team," as portrayed by Peggy Maness
Mind you, it's taken some restraint from Lilla, too. While Jerry is hunting the hounds, she minimizes her contact with the hounds and rarely even speaks, in case the familiar sound of their regular huntsman's voice distracts them.
"The worst thing I could do while he's hunting is come out and be too loud, because pretty soon they're going to get around me and stop doing what he's asking them to do," she explained. "They have to be obedient to the person who has the horn."
"She has the golden thread with her hounds," Jerry acknowledges. "They know her personality, they know what she's doing and when she's upset. You can see it in them. When Lilla gets upset with a few of them, the others react to it, too. They just tighten up together and go on. But if someone new comes in and gets uptight with them, those hounds will just disappear. They'll decide they want to stay away from that person.
"And if a new person comes in and tries to be their best friend and keep them right next to his horse, that can be just as bad, because instead of working, the hounds will just trot along next to his horse like they were on a trail ride. So there's a fine line between discipline and reinforcement. I try to put them in, let them work the covert, then be on the other end to pick them up and go on to the next covert, without imposing on them.
"I have to maintain things. I have to make sure that everyone responds and that I don't get three or four hounds that decide they'll refuse to listen and go hunting on their own, that decide since Lilla's not out they don't have to listen to anybody."
It's a slower style of hunting, but it preserves the pack and their training in the near term while Lilla recovers.
For a glimpse of Lilla's relationship with the hounds, see how they gaze at her in this video taken from the huntsman's point of view on hound walk this summer:
There's a code of honor among huntsmen that holds the relationship between huntsman and hounds, that golden thread, as sacred. Jerry 's restraint in hunting "her" hounds is honoring that tradition, Lilla said. She has reciprocated, too, by wearing a black hunt coat–rather than her red huntsman's coat–when she returned to the hunt field for an hour (with her leg in a cast!) at her first hunt since the injury.
"What Jerry has done for me is the most honorable thing a retired huntsman can do for one who is active," Lilla said. "He's not out there for the sake of his own ego. He's not trying to look like the best huntsman in the world, and he knows he's not going to look like the best huntsman in the world doing it this way. But he knows they're not his hounds now; I trained them. And that's the way he looks at it: 'I'm just the substitute.'
"One huntsman would never<|fim_middle|> Whipper-in Jack Bevan pulled in as close to the airport entrance as he could, then unloaded them two at a time and, with Iroquois member Christopher Oakford, led them through the surprised crowd of travelers, right into the airport lobby, where the crates were waiting.
The hounds' arrival: country life comes to the world's second-busiest airport
The hounds all fit comfortably in their crates, which were equipped with water bowls and diaper pads (which a couple mistook for chew-toys, much as Paper did on his long drive from Florida to Kentucky last year!).
Two things surprise you when you travel with hounds. First, how well they adapt to the completely new experience, and, second, the reaction of passers-by, who are fascinated and charmed by the sight of these canine travelers. The hounds are excellent ambassadors for their breed and sport. Well behaved and beautiful, they thumped their tails cheerfully at everyone who stopped by to see them, from airport staff to pinstriped businessmen to parents with young children.
The hounds loaded into their travel crates at Heathrow without any fuss.
Anyone in the airport lobby who didn't see the four hounds in their travel crates soon heard them, thanks to Samson. While Hawkeye, Strawberry, and Structure all curled up immediately, watched the passing people for a while, and eventually just fell asleep, Samson decided early on that this was a day worth talking about. And he did.
Samson started barking at about 8:45 a.m., and he hardly missed a beat until we and the porters wheeled him off for a security check before loading him and his packmates on the plane at 11:15 a.m. He barked standing, he barked sitting, he barked lying down and between drinks of water. Only two things made him stop: interesting activity outside his crate (especially children stopping by to visit him) and a ride through the terminal on the wheeled trolley, so we suspect Samson, like most modern business travelers, was simply fed up with the wait! At least he didn't have to eat airline food.
The hounds drew curious crowds and made new friends at Heathrow. Okay, yes, Samson (just out of the picture to the right) was a little loud!
Coincidentally, one of the American Airlines representatives we met at Heathrow was a foxhunter herself. She was the daughter of a former whipper-in at Ireland's famous Scarteen Hunt, and she was delighted with this unexpected chance to say hello to some foxhounds again.
"Wow! They're beautiful--and big!" Many of the people who stopped by to ask about the foxhounds were surprised by their size and by their gentle dispositions.
The hounds have to be weighed before flying, and their crates have to be inspected both for humane and security reasons. They don't get sent through the same baggage scan that your carry-on does, but they get a special inspection and the same chemical testing that checked baggage goes through, which took place in a cargo- and baggage-handling area. Samson thought the security procedure was especially fascinating and watched that with such great interest he entirely forgot to bark.
Once the hounds and their travel crates passed inspection, they were on their way to the hold of the plane. When we took our seats on the plane about an hour later, we knew the hounds had been loaded, because, you guessed it, we could hear the faint sound of Samson's barking coming from somewhere under our seats! Fortunately, he quieted down very quickly, and probably slept most of the way back to the U.S.
Zzzzzzzzzzz ... Hawkeye (seen here), Strawberry, and Structure curled right up and went to sleep soon after arriving at Heathrow.
The unloading process at Chicago's O'Hare Airport was straightforward. The baggage handlers brought all four crates to the oversized baggage pick-up point in the customs area, where we met them after we passed through immigration. Needless to say, we had declared the four hounds on our landing cards! U.S. customs sent a public health official out to inspect the hounds and their veterinary paperwork, and then we were ushered through customs in fairly short order.
The hounds looked bright when we picked them up, and even Samson was pretty quiet. He barked a few times while we waited to get our own suitcases, but as soon as he got another fun ride on the trolley through customs, he quieted down, perfectly happy to watch the world rolling by again.
Outside, we met Iroquois joint-Master Jerry Miller, Hagan Miller, and kennel staff member Alan Foy. They had brought the hound truck, deeply bedded with clean straw and with buckets full of water, and they also had a second truck to drive us home and serve as a back-up in case the hound truck had any problems. Fortunately, the drive home to Lexington from Chicago was uneventful. The hounds had plenty of water, had a nice feed themselves when we stopped for dinner, and slept all the way to their new home at Iroquois.
MFH Jerry Miller, kennelman Alan Foy, and Hagan Miller met the hounds in Chicago with the specially equipped hound truck.
MFH Jerry Miller and kennelman Alan Foy load hounds into the hound truck for the ride home to Lexington.
The four new arrivals from Cottesmore will spend some time in quarantine at the Iroquois lower kennel before eventually joining the pack at the main kennel. It will be fun to follow their progress as they learn all about their new surroundings and new huntsman in the Bluegrass. Considering how talkative he was at the airport, we expect Samson will be happy to tell us his opinion of life in the States!
Posted in Hound's Life, Houndbloggers Abroad, hounds | Tagged Alan Foy, Chicago, Christopher Oakford, Cottesmore Hunt, Hagan Miller, Hawkeye, Heathrow, hound truck, Hound Welfare Fund, Iroquois Hunt, Jack Bevan, Jerry Miller, London, O'Hare, Paper, Samson, Scarteen Hunt, Strawberry, Structure, U.S. customs | 10 Replies | insert himself or do anything to possibly damage or interfere with another huntsman's relationship with his own hounds," she concluded. "Your relationship with your hounds is like a marriage, and you wouldn't step in between a huntsman and his hounds any more than you would step between husband and wife."
So how is Lilla's recovery coming? Very well, she says. She's started riding again, and she had that happy hour out with hounds just before Christmas.
"Since I got off crutches, it seems like every day there's been immense improvement," she said. "I've been riding, but I still have this inconvenient boot on my leg. I need to go see a welder and get a big stirrup made. I'm riding in a dressage saddle and in a controlled environment, and, with the weather we've had, nobody's riding outside anyway. So I'm very encouraged."
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Posted in Hound's Life, hounds, Hunting, Uncategorized | Tagged Buck Wiseman, Clear Creek Beagles, Cottesmore, foxhound fox hound, golden thread, hunting horn, huntsman, Iroquois Hunt, Jean MacLean, Jerry Miller, Lilla Mason, Neil Coleman, Strawberry, training hounds | 1 Reply
A Pupdate: pack manners, playmates, and the kennel staff's view of hound politics
Paper & Co. in a playful mood on Saturday afternoon
FOXHUNTING is on hiatus for now while the deer hunters are abroad in the countryside, and that gave us a chance to check in at the Iroquois kennels to see how the puppies are doing.
Paper, of course, has been out hunting now and is gradually maturing into an adult pack member. He's had important lessons all summer and fall, and now the real education starts on the hunt field. There, he has to confront new situations and work professionally with the hunting pack. I guess to put it in human terms, he's getting his university degree, and by next year he should be a full-time contributing member of the working world.
But what about our youngest puppies, Baffle's litter and Dragonfly's huge son Driver? They're still in elementary school, but the lessons they're learning now are critical to their future development.
These puppies were born in the spring, and for the last couple of months they've been getting their first exposure to working in a group, to pack manners, and to coming when called, Iroquois kennel manager Michael Edwards explained to us on Saturday.
Room to roam: all the hounds--puppies, current working pack members, and retirees--get plenty of free exercise in the two-acre field adjacent to the kennel
After breakfast each day, the 10 young puppies spend about three hours out in the kennel's two-acre exercise field, one of the best tools the Iroquois staff has for the young hounds' education.
"They stay out here while we're getting stuff done in the kennel, and they play and play," Michael said. "I try to get them out twice a day, once at the end of the day, too, so that they get four to five hours outside.
"Right now, the girls in this litter seem a little more rebellious than the boys," Michael said of Baffle's puppies. "The two bigger girls, Bangle and Bandstand, they'll be the ones that won't want to go in their kennel. But they're all very lovable and want attention all the time."
Assistant kennel manager Alan Foy (seen in the photo above with Baffle's puppies) has also been working with the youngsters to start developing their sense of pack identity and cooperation.
"Alan's been taking them out back here, just trying to teach them to stick together and respond when he calls them, and they've done really well at that," Michael said, adding that it's too early for most of the puppies to have learned their individual names yet. The kennel staff is trying to learn the puppies' names, too! Many of them look so similar it can be hard to distinguish them, with a few exceptions. Bagshot is the woolly male of the litter; Bashful and Banknote are easy to pick out because they are the two smallest; and Driver, well, he'll always stand out in a crowd due to his size and dark coloring.
Driver back in July.
Driver today with kennel manager Michael Edwards. A VERY big difference!
"Driver is the biggest baby out here," Michael said, meaning both the biggest baby and the biggest baby. Recently, Michael set a five-gallon bucket out in the kennel yard, spooking Driver.
"He would not come out here on this concrete while that bucket was sitting there," Michael said. "I had to get it and move it all the way out by the far gate before he would even come in here, and even then he came in looking at it real carefully. So we're going to do something we did that worked well with the ST litter (Stam, Stax, Star, Stanza, etc., born in 2007). We're going to put a windsock in their kennel, something that's moving all the time so they get used to it. It made a big difference with them."
In addition to their mini-houndwalks around the property, the puppies also have ventured farther afield with Iroquois joint-Master Jerry Miller and huntsman Lilla Mason. On those, they rode in the hound truck to the old point-to-point course, the same place the older hounds have their early summer walks and pond exercise. Like the older hounds, the puppies got to practice sticking together in a wide open space–their first formal exposure to that critical lesson in the company of the people who will actually hunt them someday.
"All that is important," Michael said, "because they're learning how to be a pack."
The hunt and kennel staff have found it's useful to start building the pack sense early with puppies.
"With the PA litter (including Panda, Parish, Parody, etc., born in 2005), Lilla and I would take them all through the area together," Michael said. "By the time we incorporated them into the pack, they already had an idea what was going on, so they just blended right in."
The puppies don't yet have the attention span of the older hounds, but already they are focusing on people when they are out on walk, said Alan.
Baffle's litter, shown here with Michael, seem all grown up at seven months of age, but their lessons are just beginning. "I'd say they're like teenagers now," kennel manager Michael Edwards says. "They're just kind of lanky, but they're getting well-balanced."
In the case of Baffle's puppies, it helps that they are part of a nine-hound litter–a ready-made pack, in a way. For Driver, a singleton, it was especially important that he learn group dynamics as early as possible.
"He lets the little girls chew on his ears," Alan said. "He's just a big, goofy puppy. But he's fit in really well. I agree with Michael that he's a little passive in the group, but I think it's because when we first mixed him in with the other puppies he was so much bigger than they were. Now, he's not quite as much bigger. Barwick and Backfire are getting pretty close to him in size. I think he knew he was bigger and couldn't play as rough."
"That all started when they were all at the lower kennel," Michael said. "He was so much bigger at first that I monitored him closely. If he would be rough, I'd kind of get on him about it and growl at him."
That lesson seems to have stuck. As Driver romped around with Baffle's puppies, he was a perfect gentleman with his smaller playmates.
"One of the reasons we wanted to get him in with a group early was because an only child can sometimes have some trouble integrating," Michael said. "When they're on their own too long, I think they don't get socialized with the pack. They don't learn pack manners and how to respect other hounds. That's why it was important to get Driver in with the other puppies as soon as we could, especially as big as he is. The longer we waited, the harder it would have been for him to understand that he is part of a pack."
Baffle's litter in April.
"They learn how to be hounds from each other," Alan said.
The next step, Michael said, is to start occasionally introducing older hounds to the puppies. Paper was one candidate, but evidently he felt pretty strongly that, having moved up with the big dogs in the pack, he was now too important to deal with the little kids anymore.
"He didn't want any part of those puppies," Michael said. "He jumped up on top of a bench and growled about it. I thought, being as young as he was, he'd adjust to it pretty quickly, but no, thank you. On the other hand, Panda went out there with them and loved it."
"She educated them," Alan said. "She didn't get aggressive with them, but she let them know when they went too far and she let them know she didn't want all of them piling on her at once. If they did that, she'd run away and hop up on the bench, and they couldn't get up there with her. Then she'd wait until they scattered. Then she'd jump down again and play with one or two of them until all of them would pile on her again. She trained them in her way, which was very gentle."
"Introducing older hounds to them out in that paddock is where I think they really start to learn about having manners toward other hounds," said Michael. "I think they learn a lot out here in this field with each other, just about how to be a pack. Look at these guys out here right now. They've been running and playing for almost an hour. They'll play to the point that somebody gets a little grumpy and growls, and then they'll stop. These guys will say, 'That's enough,' and it doesn't escalate. Then they'll play again."
"Nobody knows more about being a hound dog than a hound dog," Alan said. "We can let them know what's acceptable and what's not acceptable. But those hounds know even better how to tell each other what's acceptable and what isn't, and they know how to tell each other how far it can go before something becomes unacceptable. You'll see them do it on houndwalk. A puppy will go off from the group and do something goofy, and when they come back, and older hound will growl at them to chastise them. Glog is really good at chastising the younger hounds on houndwalk when they do something wrong. He gives them a little scolding, like he's saying, 'That's not how we act around here.'"
Paper (right) at play. Playing is an important part of learning.
While we were at the kennel, we checked in on the new English hounds, too. Cottesmore's Samson, Strawberry, Structure, and Hawkeye arrived about three weeks ago and are adjusting well, Michael and Alan report. Like the puppies, they are having to learn their place in a new pack, and Michael and Alan are working to figure out which clique within the pack works best for them.
"I think a lot of their ability to adjust easily has to do with Neil," Michael said, referring to the Cottesmore huntsman, Neil Coleman, who raised and hunted the four in England.
"Look at Samson over here," Michael said, pointing to the group just turned out in the two-acre field. "He's in there with all those males. They're all at the age where they're trying to show who's top dog: Paper, Gaelic, Hailstone. But Samson's the type you could probably stick him in any group and he'd adjust. Because he's not aggressive. That has a lot to do with the way Neil has raised them. And the others are the same way."
Cottesmore Samson, the red-and-white hound closest to Michael here, has settled in well. Michael and Alan report that he is easygoing and adaptable.
Structure, Hawkeye, and Strawberry are kenneled in a run with the SA litter that includes Sassoon, Savvy, and Saracen. "They're pretty easygoing, too," Michael said.
One of the most important jobs Michael and Alan do is figure out which group of hounds should be kenneled together. Getting the mix right requires some experimentation, but it's key to the hounds' physical and mental wellbeing; getting it wrong could result in dangerous friction in the kennel.
"When I brought the English hounds up from the lower kennel (near Michael's house, where they were quarantined before joining the rest of the pack at the upper kennel), I just started sticking them out in the field with different groups to see how they responded to each other. When they're outside together with a lot of room, they're more interested in what's going on around them than they are in each other, and you can keep an eye on them. I stuck them in with the SAs and never had any issues with them, so that looks like a good fit."
The process–the two-acre turnout paddock and essentially letting the hounds choose the clique they're most comfortable with–is unusual, as the English imports let Michael and Alan know.
"When we first turned them out, they all just stood at the gate looking at us like, 'What's going on?'" Michael recalled. "But after a few minutes, they sort of went, 'Hey, look at all this room! Let's run!'"
Once the hounds have chosen their own group of friends, how do you get each set to merge comfortably with the pack? "We turn different groups out together," Michael explained. "There are only a few groups that have a little trouble mixing closely, and you have to know all that, especially when you are loading them up in the trailer to take them to a meet. For instance, we can keep some hounds in the back of the hound truck instead of in the trailer if we need to."
It's also critical to know who the dominant dog is at any given time, Michael said. At the moment, it's Alvin.
"Stalker was the big dog before we retired him," Michael said. Stalker, one of our most beloved hounds, is now retired under the care of the Hound Welfare Fund. You can read his story here. But now that he's retired, he spends more time in the kennel office, where he can relax and keep warm, and suddenly he's a mellow retiree.
"Showing his dominance doesn't seem to concern him so much now," Michael said. "I guess he's old enough to realize he's got it made in there!"
Posted in Hound's Life, In the Kennel, Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Foy, Alvin, Backfire, Baffle, Baffle's puppies, Bagshot, Bandstand, Bangle, Banknote, Barwick, Bashful, Cottesmore, Dragonfly, Driver, fox hound, foxhound, Gaelic, Glog, Hailstone, Hawkeye, Hound Welfare Fund, houndwalk, Iroquois Hunt, Jerry Miller, kennel, kennel staff, Lilla Mason, Michael Edwards, Neil Coleman, PA litter, pack discipline, pack identity, Panda, Paper, Parish, Parody, PAs, puppies, Samson, Saracen, SAs, Sassoon, Savvy, ST litter, Stalker, Stam, Stanza, Star, Stax, Strawberry, Structure, STs, windsock | 4 Replies
Hound of the Day, Nov. 4: Strawberry
English import Strawberry made her debut at Iroquois on Nov. 4.
CALL it culture shock. Strawberry only arrived from England on Oct. 21, and the Nov. 4 meet from Boone Valley was her first day out with her new pack, the Iroquois hounds.
Strawberry and the three other Cottesmore hounds who came with her from England last month are now adjusting to a new kennel and staff, a new pack, new countryside to navigate, and new game to chase (coyote). Most importantly, they must learn to build a relationship with a new huntsman.
It's hard to overstate how close hounds feel to their huntsman. Working pack hounds are trained to focus entirely on the person who carries the horn, and, as we've seen during hound walk and training this summer, the huntsman's attention and approval is something hounds strive (and even compete) for. So to move from one pack to another isn't just a change of environment; it's like changing your whole family. Fortunately, hounds are highly adaptable animals. After a period of adjustment, they do figure their new lives out.
For Strawberry, that process got serious on Wednesday. Ever since she was born, she has known one huntsman: Cottesmore's Neil Coleman. And when she stepped out of the hound trailer at Boone Valley on Wednesday, it was only natural, as she scanned the unfamiliar countryside and sniffed the new smells, that Strawberry would be looking for one person: Neil.
Strawberry's former huntsman, the Cottesmore's Neil Coleman
"Until now, he's all she's known," said Iroquois huntsman Lilla Mason. "When she left the trailer, she looked around with a quizzical look on her face. She ran back to the trailer to Alan (Foy, kennel staff member). The rest of the hounds were going on."
But Samson, another Cottesmore import who was on his second trip out with the Iroquois pack this time, stayed back with her, too, as if trying to tell Strawberry, 'Hey, it's okay, it's still hunting, we have a new huntsman!'
Strawberry still looked skeptical, so Lilla turned and tossed her a biscuit. That helped, but Strawberry still wasn't fully convinced. Where, after all, was Neil?
Samson, imported from Cottesmore at the same time as Strawberry, provided encouragement
Iroquois has imported hounds before, and so everyone knows well how to make their transition as smooth as possible. As she rode with the hounds to the first covert, Lilla was keeping Strawberry and the other new English hounds out that day–Samson, Hawkeye, and Structure–very much in mind.
"I picked some pretty open places to go, because I had a feeling that they would be nervous, and I didn't want to go into a real dense covert to start with," she explained. "I didn't want them to get in there and not know where they were, not know the sound of my voice, not know the sound of my horn. So we went north where there's low grass."
Pack of hounds, sounds of horn, trotting to a covert–yes, it looks like hunting, Strawberry must have been thinking, but where is my huntsman? Where is his horse?
"She got back with the field, walked all through the horses, looking up at everyone," Lilla said. "And then she just sat down and started howling. She just didn't know what to do."
Hounds and huntsman develop a close bond. A change in huntsman can confuse a hound, but they also can adjust quickly to having a new leader.
"You can tell by looking at her that Strawberry is a wise old girl," Lilla added. "She just has that face. When you go visit her in the kennel, she'll come to you wagging her tail to say hello, and then she'll go gently sit down and watch everything. She's kind of above it all. She's very regal.
"But that day she had the most confused look on her face!"
Strawberry hung back from the pack at first, still, it seems, trying to figure out where her leader was.
"I tried to use my voice, but that didn't work as well as the horn," Lilla said. "I would blow the horn, and she'd come a little way. She'd get up with the horses in the field, then start looking around, then sit down and howl again. It was like she was thinking, 'I know I'm supposed to go to the horn, but it's not the right horn, and I don't see Neil, and something's not right about this.' But after the first hour or so, she started to get it. She wasn't going to be with Neil, there was a horn, and the horn meant the same thing as it did before. But it was gut-wrenching at the start. I could see she was so upset not to be with Neil, and she didn't understand my voice."
Hawkeye got into the swing of things quickly on his first day out with Iroquois on Wednesday
The other new Cottesmore hound debuting Wednesday, Hawkeye, had a similar moment of confusion but rapidly got on with the job. Structure and Samson debuted last week and also did well, but, again, they had to figure things out at first.
Structure also hunted Wednesday, her second time out with the Iroquois pack
"Structure wasn't as expressive about it as Strawberry was," Lilla said. "But she was confused and a little bit concerned. She was going to come, but she wasn't sure she was supposed to, that kind of thing."
Structure did get "thrown out" on her first day–not thrown out the way a baseball manager gets thrown out for yelling at the ump, but thrown out as in accidentally getting separated from the pack. "Then she spent the rest of the day looking for me," Lilla said. "It's just that she doesn't know yet where she is. The other hounds know the score, they know where the holes under fences are."
You might be interested to know that Samson, he of the mighty airport bark, has been quiet and professional so far! He, too, had an early moment of doubt. But as we saw Wednesday, he felt confident enough about the American style of hunting to encourage Strawberry to join up.
One thing everyone's noticed about these English hounds: boy, can they ever jump.
"A wire fence is no boundary to them," said Lilla. "They just sail right over it."
Those are between three and four feet tall, ladies and gentlemen.
Strawberry performed one of these stag-leaps on Wednesday. Having found herself well away from the pack, separated from them by a fence, and having decided that the horn was indeed a cousin of the one she knew in England, she took a bold decision.
"She knew she wasn't supposed to be off by herself," Lilla said, "and she knew she had to catch up with that horn somehow. So she just leaped right over the fence.
"When we got back to the trailers at the end of the day, I hopped off my horse before the hounds were all in the trailer, because I wanted to give Strawberry a big pat. She looked at me like, 'Okay, I get it now.'"
Which reminded Lilla of Neil again. On the trips she used to make herself to pick up hounds from the Cottesmore in England, the most difficult and wonderful part was the last moment at Cottesmore, when Neil would say his goodbyes to the hounds before helping Lilla load them up for the drive to the airport and flight to America.
Neil is a big, burly man, not necessarily the kind of guy you expect to crouch down and speak lovingly to a hound, stroke it under the chin and tell it goodbye, personally, one-on-one. But this is exactly what he did.
"That's why they love him," Lilla said. "Watching that, it makes you feel the great reponsibility to make these hounds happy, to do well by these gifts."
Strawberry and kennelman Michael Edwards share a dance: she really can jump!
Posted in Hound of the Day, Hound's Life, hounds | Tagged Alan Foy, Boone Valley, Cottesmore, coyote, fox hound, fox hunting, foxhound, foxhunting, Hawkeye, Lilla Mason, Michael Edwards, Neil Coleman, Samson, Strawberry, Structure | 2 Replies
It's a bird … it's a plane … it's hounds!
Posted on October 23, 2009 by houndblogger
On their way! A houndblogger and a porter wheel Strawberry away to be weighed before the hounds' flight from Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare
YOU wouldn't normally expect to find foxhounds at the world's second-busiest airport, but on Oct. 21 four of our canine friends arrived at Heathrow in London to board a flight to the United States.
The two dogs and two bitches started their journey at about 5 a.m. that morning at England's prestigious Cottesmore hunt, where whipper-in Jack Bevan loaded them into the hound truck for the drive to the city. It was a long day for hounds and houndbloggers alike (not to mention Jack, who had to face London traffic going to Heathrow and heading home again!), but the hounds arrived in good order and now are at Iroquois. They'll resume their careers as working pack hounds with the Iroquois Hunt, then retire for the rest of their natural lives in the care of the Hound Welfare Fund.
Here's how the day went. Cottesmore bitches Strawberry and Structure and dogs Samson and Hawkeye got to the airport at about 8 a.m., where the houndbloggers were busily assembling the extra-large traveling crates for them. | 5,488 |
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Alzheimer's disease affects more than 5 million Americans, and it currently cannot be prevented, cured, or slowed. The Walk to End Alzheimer's is a fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association, which provides care, support, research, and awareness and advocacy for those with Alzheimer's.
While the #SeniorSelfie campaign is a fun and easy way to support the Alzheimer's Association, SYNERGY HomeCare is also hoping to raise awareness for Alzheimer's. An early diagnosis can result in improved care and better quality of life for those living with Alzheimer's. Although there is still no cure, caregivers can try to do as much as possible to make sure the individual is happy and healthy for as long as possible.
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Caregiving tasks often fall to family members, and that can have a physical and emotional toll that over time can strain their relationship. In-home care providers can relieve some of the burden and can take care of the personal care and homemaking tasks so the family member can focus on being there for their loved one.
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To share your #SeniorSelfie visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/synergyhomecare. | the client's health and hygiene are not overlooked.
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I would like to share with you the following post by OpenOil, a consultancy, publishing house and training provider, specialized on open data products and services around natural resources. OpenOil and I have recently developed a financial model regarding Brazil's Libra oil field. The post below will provide you with more details about the Libra model. From my side, participating in this study has been a very interesting experience and has helped me to improve my skills with reference to financial modeling.
Brazil's Libra field has been the subject of intense public interest since the deal for it was announced in 2013. It is the flagship for the country's attempt to become a major global exporter. The massive field lies 250 km offshore in the pre-salt – under 2,000 m of water and another 5,000 m of rock, requiring mind boggling technology to locate, and produce out.
It was also the first, and still only, Production Sharing Contract (PSC) contract in Brazil, signed to encourage the majors to sink the enormous amounts of investment in needed – some $90 billion in the Libra field alone.
The project was conceived, signed and planned out before the price crash began in mid-2014. Since then, as Brent dropped from $100 per barrel to below $50 today. The consortium, which groups Petrobras, Shell<|fim_middle|> new phase, completed in a 5 day "sprint" last week here in Germany, takes it out to the world. Each of the coming batch has been co-developed with a partner. In a couple of cases, such as this one, by an individual consultant (watch Alessandro Bacci's explanation of why he did this, soon to be published), but mostly teams. Governments, civil society organisations, think tanks.
What is needed to make this happen is not just capacity building, but standard techniques. In this regard, I would like to thank F1F9 both for their leadership in the evolution of the FAST modeling standard, which is entirely open, but also their considerable pro bono support to this kick off project. It is these techniques which allow peer review and robustness, to escape from "cottage industry" models and black box results.
This is what has started to happen. Each model was extensively reviewed by the group of modelers at the sprint – the work of an eastern African finance ministry reviewed by an Indonesian NGO, that of a Calgary-based industry consultant by West African mining officials.
We look forward to your comments on each model, and invite anyone interested in taking this forward with us – as modelers, users, champions – to contact us. | , Total, CNPC and CNOOC, is still working on its program roll out.
This model shows Libra is unlikely to go forward in the form publicly discussed so far. It could be that a more incremental development plan is deployed – fewer wells producing less oil. It could be that the final investment decision is effectively suspended until oil moves above current prices. Even if the field could produce 10 billion barrels (the middle scenario), investors would need an oil price to average $54 per barrel, throughout the lifetime of the project, in real 2016 terms, to break even. And there is obviously all manner of technical, market and even political risk. It could be that the project never goes ahead at all.
Information is sketchy. But the assumptions – around costs, prices, scheduling, and the impact of Brazil's fiscal regime, have been checked against publicly available sources. We invite both the government and the consortium to contribute any further data they would like, to further refine the model (as Rio Tinto and Shell have in OpenOil's previous model releases).
The model is freely available on the Internet, as open data, for download and experimentation, and the user can change parameters and instantly see the change in results.
The Libra project page details the document set that go with the Excel spreadsheet, the processes used, the provenance of every piece of data and assumption.
It is the first of 10 such models OpenOil will be publishing in the next few weeks. All open and downloadable.
We welcome scrutiny – and criticism – because we see open financial modeling as the necessary next stage of transparency in the oil and mining industries. Each of the coming models address a clutch of analytical questions, because each project has its specificities. How much did that tax holiday cost the government, and what does investor profitability look like without it? Is there a tax gap between what the model predicts and what processes like EITI show have turned up? What do investor returns look like in the new low price environment? How much is that large government equity stake really worth once you take project finance into account? Will the project ever even go ahead (as in Libra), or, as in other cases, re-open? Is there any significant difference between prices the company reports it obtained ("actuals") and global benchmarks?
We believe modelling – at project level, grasping all the quirks and artefacts of the real world – is the new normal of transparency.
We've been working on open financial models in-house now for 30 months. But this | 521 |
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UK HealthCare, partnering with University of Kentucky colleges of Agriculture and Public Health and 40 community, equine and medical organizations, continues its five-year educational campaign, Saddle Up Safely, with the development of a horse-related injury brochure.
"As the official medical provider for the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games, we have a passion for serving the horse community, and are grateful to have so many partners that believe in the campaign's mission to raise awareness of horseback rider safety across the state and beyond," said Dr. Julia Martin, associate professor of Emergency Medicine at UK HealthCare.
In a survey by John Mayberry and colleagues, riders with <|fim_middle|> the chance of serious injury, and the less likely the riders are to use a helmet. | 50 hours or less of riding experience were found most likely to be injured. The study also recognized that the more advanced the rider, the greater | 29 |
On Saturday 13 June, we'll go to the iconic Herne Hill open air velodrome in South East London for a 2-hour taster session. For all of you who have been yearning to unleash your inner Bradley Wiggins, this may be the perfect occasion.
We'll gather at 15.30 sharp, to start at 1<|fim_middle|> another session.
As Herne Hill is an open-air track, the event may be postponed in case of heavy rainfall. We will inform you about this on the day. | 6.00 with a warm-up on fixed wheel bikes followed by some introductory remarks on how to ride on the track. Then we'll do a couple of group sessions on the track before ending in style with some races.
This event is open to everyone, from complete rookies to semi-professionals, male and female. You can bring your own pedals, foot gear and helmet or you can simply show up in trainers (helmets are available). Once geared up, a bike will be sized for each of the attendants and we're off to the track. It is highly recommended to wear long sleeves, gloves and to have shoulders covered. The whole event is overseen by one or more experienced coaches.
registration is limited to 15 people per session but in case of overwhelming interest we will try to book | 163 |
Q: If $A+B+C=0$, then prove that the value of the determinant is $0$. I'll state the question from my textbook below:
If $A+B+C=0$, the prove that $\begin{vmatrix}1 & \cos C & \cos B \\ \cos C & 1 & \cos A \\ \cos B & \cos A & 1 \end{vmatrix} = 0$.
This is how I tried solving the problem:
$LHS = \begin<|fim_middle|>2A+\cos^2B+\cos^2C =1+\cos^2A-\sin^2B+\cos^2C$$
$$=1+\cos(A+B)\cos(A-B)+\cos^2C$$
$$=1-\cos C\cos(A-B)+\cos^2C\text{ as }\cos(A+B)=\cos(\pi-C)=?$$
$$=1-\cos C[\cos(A-B)-\cos C]$$
$\cos(A-B)-\cos C=\cos(A-B)+\cos(A+B)=?$
| {vmatrix}1 & \cos C & \cos B \\ \cos C & 1 & \cos A \\ \cos B & \cos A & 1 \end{vmatrix}$
$= 1(1- \cos^2 A) - \cos C (\cos C - \cos A \cos B) + \cos B (\cos A \cos C - \cos B)$
$= 1 + 2 \cos A \cos B \cos C - (\cos^2 A +\cos^2 B + \cos^2 C)$
I don't know how to proceed further. I tried using the fact that $A+B+C=0$ but it didn't lead to anything I could solve. I don't know where is it supposed to be used.
Also, I read a solution to this problem somewhere in which the term $(\cos^2 A +\cos^2 B + \cos^2 C)$ was replaced by $1 + 2 \cos A \cos B \cos C$ as $A+B+C=0$. Are these two terms equal for the given condition? Also, is there a way to prove the statement without using this fact?
Any help would be appreciated.
A: When at least one of $A,B$ or $C$ is not an integer multiple of $\pi$, the vector $(\sin A,\sin B,\sin C)$ is nonzero. However, as $A+B+C=0$, the sum-of-angle formula implies that
$$
\pmatrix{1&\cos C&\cos B \\ \cos C&1&\cos A\\ \cos B&\cos A& 1}
\pmatrix{\sin A\\ \sin B\\ \sin C}
=0
$$
and hence the matrix is singular.
In case all of $A,B,C$ are integer multiples of $\pi$, you may complete the proof by a continuity argument, or by noticing that the matrix must have at least two identical rows, because up to a permutation, $(\cos A,\cos B,\cos C)$ is either $(1,1,1)$ or $(1,-1,-1)$.
A: It's worth noting that we are dealing with a Gram determinant of three unit vectors in $3$-space. This determinant is $0$ if and only if the vectors are linearly dependent, that is, lying in the same plane. The condition $A+B+C=0$ ensures this.
It is also worth noting that the determinant always equals
$$4 \sin s \sin(s-A) \sin (s-B) \sin (s-C)$$
where $s= \frac{A+B+C}{2}$, so we get a necessary and sufficient condition for the determinant to be $0$, as above.
A: If one of the angles, say $A=0$, then two rows become identical and the determinant becomes zero.
Else we multiply the rows in order by $\sin A, \sin B, \sin C$ and we get
\begin{vmatrix}\sin A & \sin A\cos C & \sin A\cos B \\ \sin B\cos C & \sin B & \sin B\cos A \\ \sin C\cos B & \sin C\cos A & \sin C \end{vmatrix}
Now with $R_1 \rightarrow R_1+R_2+R_3$ we see for instance that $$a_{11} = \sin A +\sin B \cos C+\sin C \cos B = \sin A+\sin (B+C) = \sin A - \sin A =0$$
i.e. the first row becomes null and hence the determinant equals zero.
A: Using Prove that $\cos (A + B)\cos (A - B) = {\cos ^2}A - {\sin ^2}B$,
$$\cos^ | 824 |
One thing I love about cruising is sunsets. When you're hopping from island to island, you get a chance to see lots of beautiful sunsets. I think they're a really special thing, especially since each one is unique. Sunrises are also that way, but my mom's the only one who sees them. The rest of us like to sleep in.
Another cool thing about sunsets is the green flash. When the top sliver of sun is just above the horizon, sometimes it will turn green for a fraction of<|fim_middle|> "safety" beautiful? | a second. The green flash can't be seen when the sun is setting on the land. At first, scientists thought it wasn't real, but they were proved wrong when someone managed to get recorded evidence of it. The green flash is caused by the atmosphere separating the colors of the sun. The very first time we tried to see the green flash on this trip, we were lucky and succeeded! However we haven't managed to see it again.
Here are some pictures of sunsets, sunrises, and beautiful clouds we have taken on our trip.
I enjoyed your article and was amazed at the sunset photos. The bright orange one at Norman Cay is my favorite!
As a salty Caribbean Soul who has lived and sailed in the islands, I wanted to tell you just how fortunate you are to have the experience that you are right now. Most folks these days have lost their ability to see or even appreciate the sights, sounds, smells & sensations you and Cash are taking in. Soak it all up! You will be forever grateful for the rest of your life!
Beautiful, Nicole! I left a comment on these before but the computer hates me so it didn't post. My favorite pictures are Bellhaven, Back River, and Jekyll Island. I love the reflections in the water and I think I prefer the ones with land or other boats in the background. Hmm, do you think my brain finds | 283 |
Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blasts Congress for keeping the ethanol party going in How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer?
When bipartisanship breaks out in Washington DC, check to make sure your wallet is still in your pocket. Every time you fill up your car this winter you are participating in the biggest taxpayer swindle in history. Forcing consumers to use domestically produced ethanol is one of the single biggest boondoggles ever committed by the corrupt brainless twits in Washington DC. Ethanol prices have soared 30% in the last year as the supplies of corn have plunged. Only a policy created in Washington DC could drive up the prices of gasoline and food, with the added benefits of costing the American taxpayer billions in tax subsidies and killing people in 3rd world countries.
Quinn's article contains plenty of data about why corn ethanol is a really bad idea, so I recommend you read the whole thing. For example, the United States is by far the largest corn exporter in the world, and there's a world-wide food crisis going on now, but farmers in the Midwest will devote 40% of their corn crop to<|fim_middle|>, diesel and coal emissions weren't bad enough, causing cancer, emphysema, asthma, other respiratory problems and now most recently linked to diabetes and autism - all epidemics - and causing crop yield losses measured in the billions of dollars annually - the precursors from ethanol such as elevated nitrous oxides and peroxyacetyl nitrates make for an even more virulent mix in the atmosphere.
Well before the adverse extreme weather from climate change destroys agriculture completely, we will have widespread famine and ecosystem collapse from the intolerable rising levels of background tropospheric ozone.
Well, I'm in Del Mar preparing to confront the Koch brothers in person this weekend at their conference in Rancho Mirage. We're starting to get some press!
So if I never comment here again, you will know they threw me into a dungeon.
@Bill Hicks: I was one of the few people who actually voted for John Anderson! His gas tax stand was one of the reasons.
There is also a connection of the fumes from ethanol fuel where they are more vapor toxic than regular oil as regular oil are subject to toxic removal when filtered. | making moonshine (graph above). Global food prices are soaring.
And because debilitating, destructive political corruption is as constant as the sunrise, I switched gears in early 2010. No longer would I write about the inadequacies and dangers of switching from gasoline to corn ethanol. I gave up. Let's face it, being right about these issues doesn't matter. It's ADM, Monsanto and the National Corn Growers association who run this particular show. South Dakota Senator and presidential hopeful John Thune received $493,600 from Agribusiness during his successful 2010 campaign.
How can the truth compete with that?
It's probably safer than eating some of that crap.
"A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health"
I remember 8-10 years ago on an episode of 'West Wing', the two candidates for President- Alan Alda and Jimmy Smits- went into the primary in Iowa to garner voters. Jimmy Smits came out for ethanol subsidies even though he admitted to an aide it was stupid. Alan Alda came out against the subsidies and was soundly rejected, although perceived as courageous. Things haven't changed much since then.
"They" definitely want a brain dead America, a populace who is incapable of thinking beyond the headlines. Many if not most Americans accept what they are told without question. I've made this comment elsewhere, 90% of Americans turn their brain off as soon as they hear the word "green." If someone said it is good for the environment, it must be. Corporations and businesses know this, and branded themselves as being "green" when their business by nature is harmful to the planet, which pretty much applies to any business, but that is too painful a reality for most American's to handle. Even towns are claiming to be green, while promoting growth, and as a result the consumption of more natural resources, often times very limited resources, and in some cases imaginary resources.
Viral e-mails circulate about huge oil deposits, they never give a thought to the cost of the gasoline produced from them, or the environmental impact.
The problem may simply be we are too overwhelmed to give thought to the details. After dealing with work and family, how much brain power is left to deal with everything else, on a global scale? Someone not too long ago told me information about the economy was nothing more than a merely a "distraction" of no consequence.
To go along with this, the presumption many make is, the "government" is looking out for and protecting us.
@John D - I remember when in the 1980 Presidential primaries, Republican John Anderson said while campaigning against Ronald Reagan that he would implement a 50 cent a gallon gasoline tax to curb consupmtion and make America less dependent on foreign oil. It was also considered a courageous stand--and it got him nowhere.
Bill Hicks: Very true, that is the problem with a democracy, people will only vote for those who tell them what they want to hear, which is the ultimate downfall of democracy.
Even worse, by all accounts (and there are suspiciously few - who will fund the research?) the emissions of burning ethanol are significantly WORSE for human and vegetative health. As if regular old ozone from gasoline | 677 |
In order for your to achieve excellent results while working as a retail sales associate, it is important that you get the necessary tips from the professionals in the field. This will eventually help you to outstand in your career and be competitive as well. There are tips that can help you to achieve your desired goal in retail sales.
The first thing to do when you<|fim_middle|> This approach can end up in greater sales which is what you are looking for as a retail sales associate. It is necessary as a retail sales associate to be able to notice a lot of details about a product.There is importance for you to have knowledge on how to strike a deal with every client. | are a retail sales associate is that you have to be friendly to the people you meet and talk to. The nature of one to be friendly is usually a very good and positive behavior when it comes to their job as a retail sales associate. Ensure that you deal with customers in such a way that they feel welcomed and appreciated. In order for you to sustain the clients to the business, you have to be positive and welcoming.
Another good thing that you need to know as a retail sales associate is that you have to be patient with your customers. This is because simply because you get to talk to the potential customers, it does not mean that they will buy what you are selling. This means that you have to have patience especially with customers who may take a lot of time to have their minds made up. In this prospect you can make a few suggestions to the clients in order to try and help them make the decision. Note that for the customers to buy, they need to be helped by an attendant that gives them the attention they require.
Ensure that you do not try selling a product which you do not have full knowledge about. Most of the clients usually want to be updated with the full information of a product before they buy it hence the importance of getting all the knowledge about what you are trying to sell. Make sure that you are able to convince your customers about the value of a product that you intend to sell to them. You can do this by letting your customer try out the product and have an experience of the product.
As a retail sales associate it is also very important for you to be honest in order to be competitive and outstanding in this field. You should never give false information regarding a product to your clients. It is also important that you be always thinking of products that you can suggest to your customers especially other products that can accompany the product they have just bought. | 376 |
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin | Community Spotlight | Sun Prairie, WI Real Estate
Monday, July 6, 2020 / by Ryan Huemmer
Sun Prairie is a vibrant and thriving community located just east of Madison. The city benefits from its proximity to the Madison and the University of Wisconsin. It has become known in the region for its excellent parks and recreation programs, historic downtown, its exceptional public school system and redevelopment of the community.
Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival is every 3rd full weekend of August each year. There are a wide variety of family activities, stage shows, musical entertainment, mini-golf, a craft show, specialty attractions and a parade on Thursday night. Nearly 80 tons of sweet corn are served on the grounds over the weekend. The event is held at Angell Park and near Angell Park Speedway. The race track has a 1/3 mile dirt race track and it has been run by the Sun Prairie Fire Department since 1903. Racing occurs every Sunday approximately Memorial Day until Labor Day. Angell Park Speedway is in the top ten of all dirt race tracks across the country and is known as the "Midwest's Finest Clay Oval".
Sun Prairie Ice Arena is right around the corner from the park and features two NHL-sized rinks available for hockey games, open skates, birthday parties and cooperate events. The business community is BOOMING with recent additions of a new movie theater, Target, Cabela's, Costco and tons of bars and restaurants.
The Sun Prairie School District has an exceptional reputation with offering some of the best programming and sport facilities. A recent referendum has has several new schools being built including the city's second high school, Sun Prairie West High School.
<|fim_middle|>. With over 250,000 sq ft of fitness and recreation offering all and everything you can imagine including childcare. As the second most populous city in Dane County after Madison, expect to have it all.
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On Saturday, May 12th firefighters at Rolleston Fire Brigade arranged an event that was designed to give back to their partners. The day was planned in recognition of the sacrifices firefighters' partners and their families make, and the support they give.
"We wanted to say thank you for the support they give us. It's not something we say enough but we truly appreciate all that partners do for our families, while we are out doing our thing," a spokesperson for the Brigade said.
The day started with everyone meeting at the Fire Station for a glass of bubbles and a chat about the plan<|fim_middle|> spit-roast (even cleaned-up afterwards too!) for the planned family evening.
It has been reported that this will be an annual event, and plans are already being talked about for next year. | for the day.
Then was there was a short trip down the road to arrive at Melton Estate. There the group was joined by Area Commander Dave Berry, before sitting down to enjoy a meal and some of the vineyard's finest.
Children were definitely not forgotten in the plans for the day and were entertained in 'daddy day care' back at the station. They were kept busy with a bouncy castle, card making, and guitar hero, as well as many other activities.
Once the partners were back at the Station, they were treated to more refreshments while the firefighters in the family prepared and cooked a | 124 |
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Kelly Disser and Michael Freitag from the NAI Hiffman industrial team and Peter Kenny from the Hiffman National project services provided key support to Maybach International Group LLC on their new 62,000-square-foot headquarters at 1384 Madeline Lane in Elgin, Ill.
The state-of-the-art building – including approximately <|fim_middle|> 90 and Randall Road. It is part of the burgeoning I-90/Northwest submarket, which had a 4.35% industrial vacancy rate and 1.25 million square feet of new industrial facilities under construction at mid-year 2022, according to NAI Hiffman research.
Read the full story at REjournals and the Elgin Courier-News
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© 2023 Hiffman | 47,000-square-foot warehouse and repair facilities and nearly 15,000 square feet of offices – will accommodate 50 to 60 on-site employees and 400 to 500 truck drivers. Its modern design features include 360-degree elevated views of the warehouse floor, 24-foot clear heights, 28 docks in cross-dock configuration, 10 grade-level drive-in door (drive-through configuration) docks, 57 car parking spaces, 206 trailer parking spaces and eight cab parking spaces. The reinforced roof can also support a future soccer field.
Currently located in Alsip, Illinois, the logistics company has enjoyed significant growth over the past two years as a result of the rise in e-commerce and boom in demand for trucking. "We are extremely excited for our new building and feel it will set us apart in a very tight labor market," said Bojan Delibasic, president and founder of Maybach International Group. "Our new headquarters represents the many years of hard work by all our employees, and we are excited to make it home for our team."
"We considered sites throughout the Chicago area," Disser said. "In the end, Elgin offered us the best combination of a great location for a logistics firm – near transit infrastructure and skilled labor – which was compatible with operational needs." Hiffman National provided consultation on the facility's design, construction timeline, and budgets.
"We're thrilled Maybach chose Elgin for its new headquarters," said Carol Gieski, president and chief executive officer of the Elgin Chamber of Commerce. "Maybach joins a growing number of logistics companies whose expansion or relocation in Elgin is creating quality jobs while strengthening the local tax base."
The site sits about 25 miles northwest of O'Hare International Airport and sits close to the four-way interchange at Interstate | 385 |
The word 'primitive' lends itself to a number of definitions but has a double meaning to the practitioners of quilting. Most obvious is its relation to appliqué, the age-old decorative stitching highlighted in our publications, and is then followed by its distinct link to preservation—passing down not only the mechanics of the art but the personal secrets of experience from quilters past.
We've often wondered about how techniques and histories of quilting are passed along, in addition to sharing our own, and relished the idea of discovering new dyed-in-the-wool techniques that we could only (maybe) discover if living multiple lives were possible.
In the spirit of discovery, we asked you, our readers, to share quilting advice you've acquired so that we could then share it with everyone else. So with new and old, anecdotal and general, here are some of our favorite gems.
Why we chose these: We love a good story, don't you? It takes us back to simpler times and simpler designs.
I grew up with utility quilts made from scraps, recycled fabrics, feed sacks, and muslin. Some were old favorite patterns; a few were meticulous works of art. I was always told to make a quilt to last and to please myself. Nobody I knew worried about technique or how skillful or artful they were. They just wanted warm bedding! So that is what guides me when I make a quilt. I am forever grateful that I have the luxury of choosing beautiful fabrics and notions....and I did not have to pick or process the cotton for the batting. Quilting is truly my act of joy!
I still remember making my new baby sister an embroidery duck bib that my mom taught me how to do..I was in 3rd grade. I was so proud of the process, and had to show my grandma because she herself was an embroiderer, and she turned it over and said..'you<|fim_middle|> project pop.
Method of stitching bias vines on appliqué quilt: cut bias 3/8 in, sew along marked line with close running stitch. Fold bias over and tuck under edge, sew this side with invisible stitch. You can make very narrow vines using this method, simply trim your bias after sewing first side. It's the Deborah Kemball method.
On needle-turn appliqué, such as Jan Patek and Linda Brannock BOM's done many years ago (through Country Threads) that came with printed instructions for each block—they said, "You don't need to be perfect or follow the appliqué pattern exactly as they did it. They said just relax and do it as it pleases you." As a beginner and self-taught quilter, it made quilting so much more enjoyable and less intimidating!
I learned how to buttonhole stitch going from left to right. Years later, I took a class and the teacher showed us that if we went from right to left, the thread would not tangle or twist. What a revelation!
Spending time on preparation is important. I use TV time to trace patterns onto freezer paper, cut out templates, iron templates onto wool, cut out appliqués and baste, fuse or staple. All can be done while 'watching' TV. Once several projects are prepped for stitching, I have something ready to work on even if it's only 15 minutes here and there.
You'll laugh, but the best stitching advice I've received is having proper back support and lighting! So basic, but so essential. The more comfortable you are, the more you get done, with no soreness of your back or eye strain.
Mark the slot on a spool of thread with a marking pen. This makes finding the slot to secure the end of the thread much easier. Because you see the slot when cutting your thread, it is very easy to secure the end and you never end up with a tangle, wasting yards of thread.
When I wind bobbins, I wind three or four. Then I always have one to ready to go when the bobbin runs out. I also wipe the lint out of the bobbin case and feed dogs when I change the bobbin. Always ready to sew.
To square up my quilt blocks or parts of quilts blocks as I go, before I try to assemble the quilt. What a nightmare when they are not uniform in size -- and just a little tiny bit of extra seam allowance makes a huge difference.
When doing embroidery or cross stitch, use a longer-than-usual thread length, knot the end and do a long basting stitch for 3 or 4 inches BEFORE the actual first stitch. When finished, clip knot and thread the ends onto your needle and bury it back through many stitches on the back. No hard lumps and keeps back neat. I love not having a bunch of knots on the back especially on thin fabrics.
Don't go cheap on rotary cutter blades! Get a good seam ripper!
Use a high quality needle. It makes all the difference, especially when going through flannel.
When machine piecing cottons, STARCH, STARCH, STARCH. Your piecing will be easier and your points perkier.
Slow down and enjoy the process!
Use Heat & Bond Lite to fuse down your wool pieces before stitching! No pins to deal with! | need to keep the back as neat as the front so all the strings don't show through and it lays flat, not every piece you make will have a backing'- I still remember being disappointed of the 'scolding', but I know now that it was a good lesson learned in case I would need to rip something out that I didn't like.
From my grandmother, I learned to include a little bit of red in any project because red makes it sparkle. Though many of her quilts were made from feed sacks or scraps from her girls' dresses, her quilts (and now mine) are something special. I love you in heaven, Grandma Ada. Each time I see the hint of red in our quilts it reminds me of you.
As proud thought leaders and advocates of information exchange, it's encouraging to find specific mentions of women in the space who we're also huge fans of.
Using a stapler to hold down my wool pieces until I get them stitched. I am working on Gathering of Friends by Rebekah L Smith from the Winter 2015 issue and had all the pieces perfectly placed and did not want to move them. Staples work great; are easy to remove and don't poke!
Judith Baker Montano's Elegant Stitches, it is my go-to reference when I need a special stitch to make a | 271 |
Pastoral Landscape
Richard Earlom
English, 1743–1822
After Claude Lorrain
French, 1604–1682
Etching and mezzotint
image: 8-1/8 x 7-3/8 in. (18.7 x 27 cm), plate: 8-1/8 x 10-1/8 in. (20.8 x 27 cm), sheet: 10-1/8 x 16 in. (25.7 x 41.6 cm)
In 1636, Claude Lorrain initiated a catalogue raisonné of sorts, drawing copies of his paintings in a bound volume that later became known as the Liber Veritatis. The album passed through several hands after Claude's death<|fim_middle|> the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, who in 1774 allowed the book of drawings to be borrowed by the well-known publisher John Boydell so that each could be engraved. The artist selected for the task was Richard Earlom, who elected to mimic the original pen and brown wash medium with etching and a selectively rocked mezzotint printed in a sepia-toned ink.
Although the inscription here indicates a January 1, 1776, publication date, this more likely indicates the date on which the plate was finished. Earlom engraved the entire 200 sheets of the Liber Veritatis over four years, from 1774 through 1777. Only then did Boydell publish them, as a complete set in two volumes.
Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, Transfer from The Pennsylvania State University Libraries Print Collection | , eventually finding its way to | 6 |
Avoid button-pushers. Don't be aggressive and provoke<|fim_middle|> – especially if you're the source of their anger. | an argument with sensitive issues, manipulate, or be rude. Discuss openly later at an appropriate time and place.
Compromise. Give a little. Take turns. Suggest ways you can both get what you want.
Don't match their hostility. You could start a nasty shouting match. Stop. Breathe. If they are shouting, speak calmly and with compassion and sincerity in response.
Be a good listener. Show empathy. React with kindness and understanding. Sometimes that's all your partner wants. Cut them some slack. Put yourself in their shoes.
Ask them what's really bothering them and how you can make it better. Hurt and anger can take on various disguises. Coax them to get at the root of the problem. Just asking may help.
Do something nice for them. Send them off for an afternoon to a spa or gym or for a little shopping therapy. Leave a love note on the mirror or fridge. Take the kids off their hands for the day or send them off to their grandparents for the weekend.
Spend time in a relaxing setting together. Go to a park, their favorite restaurant. Take in a romantic or funny movie at the theater.
Make yourself scarce – except for the big holiday dinner or other planned events. Stay out of their hair temporarily | 257 |
Dee Archer has a long rich history rooted in jazz, soul, blues & rock 'n' roll. Dee's mother, Billie Rogers, was a top jazz trumpet player who was most renowned for being the first woman to "cut it" in the all-male-dominated Big Band era of the 1940's. She played in the horn section of the Woody Herman's Orchestra, and later led her own all-male Big Band Orchestra. Dee's father, Jack Archer, was a championing, pioneer manager and agent to many of the most influential and famous jazz & rock 'n'<|fim_middle|> Nash & Young).
Copyright 2013. Dee Archer. All rights reserved. | roll artists of the 1950's and 60's, including Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington - and so many more. Dee is a soulful jazz & blues singer, songwriter and keyboardist best known for deeply touching the hearts and souls of her audiences with her passionate live performances. She has recorded and shared the stage with some of the most respected artists in blues & rock, including B.B. King, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker and Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, | 114 |
This video shares tips for how to tile a shower wall using subway tile. The<|fim_middle|> expansion and contraction joint at all changes of plane, e.g. walls. Furthermore, 1/16″ horseshoe shims were used to maintain consistent grout joints. | curbless shower had a window, so we have tips for how to handle that and for ensuring the tile stays consistently spaced.
The first step for tiling a shower wall is to plan the layout. We did extensive planning to determine how the subway tile would look at the shower pan, window, and ceiling.
Then we started the first row of tile by having a laser level at the top of the tile. Each tile was cut to the contour of the curbless shower pan where necessary. This ensures the tiles remain level with the laser.
It's critical to have a level first row of tile for shower walls. Thus, take time to plan the first row.
In addition, the first tile was centered on the main wall. Each successive course of tile was centered over the previous row to provide the classic subway tile pattern.
We left a 1/16″ to 1/8″ | 180 |
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Recreation therapy can be an important part of recommended inpatient addiction treatment programs. Under the guidance of certified therapists, rec therapy activities in Holtsville stimulate problem-solving capabilities, trust issues, and overcoming compulsive behavior.
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Holtsville, New York | that they do, they meet everyone with dignity and respect, and guide every individual along that path to achieving balance and wellness in their lives. YMCA Family Services provides substance abuse counseling and education for individuals and families who have been impacted by addiction.They offer individualized services to those who may be currently struggling or have struggled in the past with substance use.They also offer support services for the people whose lives have been affected by another individual's substance use. A number of the programs they offer are licensed by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).
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It is largely believed that there is no cure for Alcoholism. It must be treated on an ongoing basis. After rehab in Holtsville, the best thing you can do is find and use a reputable support group, such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
There are thousands of rehabilitation centers available in the US. In fact, the federal government provides a directory 1,1oo pages long. That's where Victory of Life is happy to assist. Our professionals in Holtsville help decide what locations and treatments are a good fit for you.
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Spas & Hotsprings | Karuizawa is a resort near Tokyo or Karuizawa.
The hot spring in the Shiotsubo Onsen Hotel is available to day-trippers as well as guests. With unique and refreshing baths such as the alkalescent carbonated onsen, it is effective for muscle pain, joint pain and recovery from fatigue.
From the burning leaves in autumn, to the peaceful serenity of white snow in winter, this hot spring boasts some<|fim_middle|>.
A day trip hot spring, with water coming directly from the source, without filtering. This hot spring has been loved by people since 1916 and is said to be an effective cure for a wealth of illnesses, from lower back pain to colds and recovery from fatigue. The building is simple, with architecture based on the theme of harmony and an image of "Shukuba" (a post town) at the entrance. | of the best displays of seasonal nature in Karuizawa. Relax in the different baths and allow the soft, clear, free-flowing water to wash over your body while listening to the distant chirps of birds in the distance | 46 |
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