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Q: Consulta SQL en SQL SERVER 2017 Buen dia a todos
Requiero realizar la siguiente consulta:
Tengo el siguiente modelo relacional:
Hasta el momento solo he consultado la cantidad de barrios por localidad pero no he logrado contar la cantidad de habitantes supongo que en este caso seria por localidad.
SELECT
dbo.localidades.nombre_localidad AS Localidades,
COUNT(dbo.barrios.localidad) AS Numero_de_barrios
FROM localidades
JOIN barrios ON localidades.id_localidad = barrios.localidad
GROUP BY nombre_localidad;
Alguien me podria colaborar o darme una idea.
Muchas gracias.
A: SELECT
dbo.localidades.nombre_localidad AS Localidades,
COUNT(dbo.barrios.localidad) AS Numero_de_barrios,
COUNT(miembros.id_miembro) AS Numero_de_miembros
FROM localidades
JOIN barrios ON localidades.id_localidad = barrios.localidad
JOIN familias ON barrios.id_barrio= familia.barrio
JOIN miembros ON familia.id_familia = miembros.familia
GROUP BY nombre_localidad;
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US berates Syria at OPCW meeting on Syria chemical attack
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press
TOPSHOT - Syrians ride a motorcycle amid the destruction in a rebel-held neighbourhood in the rebel-held area of Daraa, in southern Syria, on April 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMAD ABAZEED (Photo credit should read MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Syrian authorities — "abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth" — still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday.
The strong comments by Kenneth D. Ward, the American ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, came amid ongoing diplomatic skirmishes over last week's deadly attack in Syria.
Ward used a hastily convened meeting of the organization's executive council to launch a withering verbal attack on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies in Moscow.
The meeting was called to discuss the April 4 attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun that killed nearly 90 people. The United States and other Western governments blame Assad's regime. Washington in retaliation launched missile strikes on a Syrian air base they say was the starting point for the chemical weapons attack, a move that ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Syria's ally Russia.
Russia and Syria claim the Khan Shaykhun victims were killed by toxic agents released from a rebel chemical arsenal hit by Syrian warplanes.
But Ward insisted it was a deliberate attack that amounted to "a direct affront to the Chemical Weapons Convention and, indeed, a direct affront to human decency, carried out by a State Party" to the OPCW, according to the text of his speech that was posted on the organization's website.
Syria joined the OPCW in 2013 under severe international pressure following a deadly chemical attack on a Damascus suburb. Assad's government told the organization it had a 1,300-ton stockpile of chemical weapons and chemicals used to make them. That stockpile was destroyed in an operation overseen by the Nobel Peace Prize winning-group OPCW, but ever since there have been questions about whether Assad had declared all his weapons.
"On April 4, the lifeless bodies of innocent victims, grotesquely contorted and twisted by the nerve agent sarin, tell the real story," Ward said. "Syria provided a grossly incomplete declaration to the OPCW of its chemical weapons program. It continues to possess and use chemical weapons."
He added that "this outrage is abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth and protect the Syrian regime" form consequences of using chemical weapons.
Britain's Ambassador, Sir Geoffrey Adams, told the meeting that U.K. scientists have analyzed samples from Khan Shaykhun and they "tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, or a sarin-like substance."
Earlier this week, Turkish doctors also said that test results conducted on victims confirmed that sarin gas was used.
The OPCW's Fact Finding Mission for Syria is conducting an investigation and is expected to report its findings in three weeks. The organization has not revealed any details, citing the need to preserve the integrity of the probe and the safety of OPCW staff.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that OPCW inspectors should visit both the Syrian air base, which the U.S. said served as a platform for the attack, and Khan Sheikhoun to get a full and objective picture.
He said Russia vetoed a draft U.N. resolution Wednesday because it failed to mention the need to inspect the area of the attack.
"We are deeply worried by our partners in the U.N. Security Council trying to evade an honest investigation into that episode," he said.
Lavrov said he emphasized the need for a wide-ranging OPCW probe during Wednesday's talks in Moscow with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, suggesting that Western nations, Russia and some regional powers could dispatch additional experts to join the investigation.
Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed.
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Class of 2018 Convocation
Make the Connection
By Amy Gutmann
Members of the Class of 2018: Welcome! Students transferring to Penn from other schools: Brilliant move! And I say this without any bias whatsoever… You come to us from across the country and around the world: From California to Massachusetts; From Texas to New York; And, of course, from the great state of Pennsylvania. You come from India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and many countries in between. You come from numerous cultures and walks of life. But no matter where you come from, know that you have arrived at the right place. We are thrilled you're here.
Tonight, we formally welcome you to your new home with a tradition called Convocation. "Convocation" is an ancient word. From Latin roots, it means an assemblage of people gathered for a special purpose. We convocate to make weighty decisions. We convocate to plan great ventures. And we convocate to model the hottest runway looks in academic fashion. And I do mean hot—these robes don't exactly breathe… But with your Convocation, you officially join one of the greatest assemblies in history.
You join centuries of Penn luminaries and visionaries; nation builders and Nobel Laureates; you join the likes of Benjamin Franklin and W.E.B. DuBois and six signers of the U.S. Constitution. And the special purpose that you now share with all Penn people—past, present, and future—is engagement. To engage what we know and what we do to create a better world. Engagement for good is our Penn purpose. In the past few days, you've been meeting new people and making new friends—some who will forever change your life. But the most fulfilling engagement you will do during your time at Penn will require you to reach beyond what's familiar to embrace what's new.
And I propose we start right now.
I want everyone to stand up. No, this is not a drill—go ahead and stretch your legs. Now, I want you to look around and greet somebody near you who you haven't met before. Shake hands, give a high-five, a fist bump, or whatever you'd like, and of course, a big smile. Come on now, no exceptions. Engage!
Ok, great! Please have a seat. I see a lot of smiles, and that's good. You just performed the most basic building block of our great calling. And what you're feeling right now is the natural result. Engagement begins quite simply. With a brush of humanity, an extended hand, a shared smile, we feel connection and empathy. We build from that. We learn new things and apply our talents and labors toward improving the lives around us. From there, our efforts spread to our communities, to our nations, and to the world.
Of course, a smile and a handshake are not enough to move the needle on many challenges, both great and small. To answer the really tough ones, you need broad knowledge and innovative resources. You need collaboration and access to diverse ideas. And that's what you'll find here at Penn. When he laid down the plan for this University, our founder Ben Franklin pictured a special kind of graduate. He knew that the graduates who would make a difference in the world would be those who knew a lot and knew how to put their knowledge to good use. He knew it because he lived it. A prolific inventor and revered statesman, he brought us the first lending library, the first volunteer fire department, the first hospital in the country, and of course, America's first university. So you could say engagement is in Penn's DNA. But when we talk about devoting our knowledge and talents to engagement, we shouldn't overlook an important part of the equation.
When you give of yourself, you get a lot in return. There's good evidence to show that those who engage in significant ways feel greater happiness and contentment. They're more connected to their communities. They have a greater sense of purpose. I discovered this for myself in one of my earliest jobs as a counselor at a sleep-away summer camp for disadvantaged children. Like almost all my campers, Dana's family was on assistance. She seemed unrelentingly sad and eventually told me she felt guilty because her mom worked three housecleaning jobs to support Dana's entire family. After I heard her story, I decided that building Dana's happiness and dispelling her guilt would be my primary goal that summer. Now, dispelling guilt does not come naturally to anyone who—like me—was raised well by a Jewish mother and father… Undeterred, I set out to prove to Dana that if she worked really hard to become camp leader in her age group, her mother would be even more proud. Dana engaged and achieved her goal. After camp ended, her mother wrote to me to say that Dana came home a much happier camper. To this day, I still count that summer with Dana among the most satisfying and edifying times of my life.
My life is infinitely more satisfying to the extent that I've devoted it to helping transform the lives of others. Just as your lives will be immensely more satisfying to the extent that you devote your knowledge and talents toward something larger than yourself. You've arrived at the perfect place to do exactly that. Penn is alive with opportunities to engage. Here, you can boldly embrace new and challenging ideas. Stretch beyond your course of study to draw from other disciplines. Take on original research with the best faculty in the world to answer some of the world's most pressing questions. Be joiners. Join with the Netter Center, Civic House, and Fox Leadership to enrich your education with dynamic service learning.
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Aerospace and defence giant Boeing has a been a collaborator, adviser and mentor to the start-ups over the last 13 weeks, and its venture capital group HorizonX was one of the potential investors at the presentations.
Under the program, Boeing worked closely with the companies to test new technologies, cross technical hurdles and challenge the status quo.
Director of Boeing's Phantom Works International Dr Shane Arnott said Boeing's $500,000 investment in Techstars Adelaide formed part of the company's distinct approach to advancing innovation in Australia.
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"While our traditional research partnerships continue to be a success, there are significant growth opportunities for Australia in terms of commercialisation. To that end, Boeing is expanding its development activities in Australia to convert that raw research into commercial capability.
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MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic presidential debates (all times local):
The Democratic presidential candidates have concluded the first 2020 debate emphasizing the promise of America.
The 10 candidates ended the night Wednesday by boiling down their stump speeches into answers that included why they were best positioned to beat President Donald Trump and how the primary is a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
Fighting poverty, combating climate change and the proper role of government were prominent features of the concluding comments of the first debate of the 2020 cycle.
Thursday will be the second night of debates. It, too, will feature 10 candidates, including front-runners former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will also appear.
The 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have given a range of answers about what they see as the greatest threat facing the U.S., including China, climate change and President Donald Trump.
The most common answer at Wednesday's debate was China, mentioned by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, ex-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) said Russia because the country "is trying to undermine our democracy."
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke said climate change. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who's made climate change the emphasis of his campaign, pointed instead to Trump.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said nuclear war, which also got a mention from Delaney. Klobuchar also said Iran.
The urgency with which to address changes in the world's climate has emerged as somewhat of a unifying topic at the first Democratic presidential debate.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called his state's progress on the issue the "gold standard." He said Wednesday that he's the only member of the massive Democratic field to make tackling the problem his top priority.
Asked how he'd win over voters worried about possible government overreach in climate-related restrictions, former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke pledged to help communities including the debate host city Miami, an area "on the front lines of climate change today."
Former Obama-era Cabinet secretary Julián Castro vowed a recommitment to the Paris Climate Accord, while former Maryland Rep. John Delaney noted he was alone in introducing a bipartisan carbon tax bill in Congress.
Elizabeth Warren's campaign trail refrain is that she has "a plan for it." That apparently extends to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who refused to hold a hearing for President Barack Obama's last Supreme Court nominee.
Warren was asked during Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate if she has a plan for dealing with the Kentucky Republican, who prides himself in blocking Democrats' legislative priorities.
She answered, "I do," drawing cheers from the audience.
The Massachusetts senator says energized Democrats have to "stay on the front lines," even after the 2020 presidential election is decided.
She says pressure must be applied both from activists on the outside and leaders on the inside "to make sure this Congress reflects the will of the people."
The Democratic presidential candidates are talking in very personal terms about gun violence and how to curb it.
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said at Wednesday's debate that he lives in a neighborhood where shootings are common. He supports gun licensing and says, "This is not about policy. This is personal."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says the toughest questions she's gotten on the campaign trail are from kids who ask how she'd keep them safe. Warren says the U.S. should "double-down" on research into what works to reduce gun violence.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) talked about raising a black son and trying to keep him safe, including from police.
Wednesday's debate is taking place in Miami, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the high school in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 17 people last year.
The second hour of the first Democratic presidential debate has been derailed by technical difficulties.
As debate moderators Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd took over Wednesday for the next round of the debate, the 10 candidates on stage were unable to hear the question Todd was trying to ask about the federal government's role in getting guns off the street.
Following back-and-forth confusion, Todd announced the debate would head to a commercial break.
It wasn't immediately clear what happened.
President Donald Trump tweeted that debate hosts NBC and MSNBC "should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate."
Trump is en route to Osaka, Japan, for the Group of 20 summit.
The first hour of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 cycle passed with hardly a mention of the man whom the 10 candidates on stage hope to face next November.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was first to utter President Donald Trump's name, saying a few minutes into the debate, that Trump "sits in the White House and gloats" while the economy isn't working for everyone.
She also briefly referenced him again as the debate headed into its second hour. Responding to a question about U.S. tensions with Iran, Klobuchar said, "I don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5 in the morning."
Other candidates invoked the president's name in making their arguments on immigration.
Trump was en route to Japan for the G-20 summit as the two-night event got underway. He has weighed in once so far on the debate, tweeting, "BORING!"
This item has been corrected to show that Klobuchar uttered Trump's name a few minutes into the debate, not 16 minutes into the debate.
Sen. Cory Booker is alone at the Democratic presidential debate in calling it a "mistake" to sign onto the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran.
The New Jersey senator was the only one of the 10 candidates on stage in Miami on Wednesday not to raise his hand when asked if he supported the deal. Under the agreement, Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium and submit to U.N. inspections in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Pressed to explain his rationale, Booker said as president he would "do the best I can to secure this country."
President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the accord in May 2018 and has imposed increasingly tough sanctions to pressure Iran into a better deal. The U.S. has threatened sanctions against countries that trade with Iran.
The Democratic presidential candidates are decrying the Trump administration's tough immigration policies, saying the president is to blame for the deaths of an immigrant father and his toddler daughter found lying face-down after drowning in the Rio Grande.
At Wednesday's debate, former Obama administration housing chief Julián Castro says a photo of the family "is heartbreaking" and "should piss us all off." He also attacked fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke for not supporting fully decriminalizing the act of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker spoke briefly in Spanish to further chastise Trump's policies, O'Rourke, a former congressman, took a question in Spanish and answered it, saying, "We are going to treat everyone with respect."
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) says the economy hasn't been hurt by immigrants. He says corporations are to blame.
Questions over private health insurance have provoked the first clash of the Democratic presidential debate.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke was explaining Wednesday why he supported a plan known as "Medicare for America" and not "Medicare for All," saying he wants people who are happy with their current health insurance plan to keep it.
When pressed if he wanted to fully replace private insurance, O'Rourke said: "No." That prompted New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) to jump in from across the stage, saying, "Private insurance is not working."
O'Rourke started to respond that people unhappy could choose Medicare, but de Blasio shot back, "Why are you defending private insurance?"
The debate over how to handle private health insurance is emerging as a dividing line in the first 2020 Democratic debate.
Only Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) raised their hands when asked if they would abolish private health insurance entirely in favor of a government-run plan.
Warren went on to note that she supports a "Medicare for All" plan proposed by fellow hopeful Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The issue opened into a debate among many of the 10 candidates on stage on the first of two back-to-back debate nights. De Blasio later interrupted Rep. Beto O'Rourke's answer on how he'd handle health insurance by declaring that the current system is "not working."
President Donald Trump is skipping the opening minutes of the first Democratic debate to greet service members at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Trump told troops as the debate was starting Wednesday: "I had my choice between you and them. And I chose you."
Air Force One is refueling at the air base as Trump travels to Osaka, Japan, for meetings with world leaders at the Group of 20 summit. Asked how his opposition will fare, Trump says, "I think they're all going to do very poorly."
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke showed off his fluent Spanish while answering his first question of the Democratic presidential debate.
O'Rourke said Wednesday in English at the debate in Miami that "this economy has got to work for everyone" and that, right now, it isn't. Then he switched to Spanish, saying in that language that "we need to include everyone" in a booming national economy.
O'Rourke, who hails from the Texas-Mexico border city of El Paso, spoke in Spanish at length, then switched back to English. He said the Trump administration has focused on helping the wealthy and large corporations over everyday Americans — echoing similar sentiments of the other Democrats on stage.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren started off the first Democratic presidential debate answering a question about her policy driven campaign and how it may affect what is seen as a good economy.
Warren said Wednesday: "Who is this economy really working for?" She says, "It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top."
The Massachusetts senator says the economy is working well for "giant oil companies" and those who want to invest in private prisons, but not for those struggling and Americans facing the effects of climate change.
The second question of the night went to Sen. Amy Klobuchar on her criticism of the concept of free college.
The first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential race is kicking off with a two-hour event featuring 10 candidates, including three senators, a mayor and several current or former members of Congress.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is center stage for Wednesday's debate in Miami because she leads the night's field in polling. She is flanked by former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. At the far ends are New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, who are polling at the bottom of the group.
The candidates will get right to it. NBC says they will be allowed to give closing statements but no openings.
Ten other candidates will meet Thursday for the second debate night.
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee is firing up the crowd at his party's first presidential primary debate — and previewing some lines of attack that candidates will use against President Donald Trump.
Tom Perez said Wednesday that the planet is under threat from unchecked climate change and that justice itself has been threatened under the current administration.
He says the Trump White House is nothing but a long trail of "broken promises" and corruption. There was long applause when Perez said immigrant children shouldn't be separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ten Democrats hoping to deny Trump a second term will kick off two nights of back-to-back debates shortly. They entered the stage and waved to the audience before the debate began.
John Hickenlooper's struggle to get noticed in the crowded presidential primary field was on full display when a staffer at the first Democratic debate mistook him for a member of the press.
The former Colorado governor was entering the Miami debate hall Wednesday when a security guard asked if he was there to pick up his media credentials.
A reporter for National Public Radio who witnessed the exchange tweeted that Hickenlooper responded: "I'm a candidate."
But Hickenlooper may have gotten the last laugh with a jab at President Donald Trump, who was a reality TV star before he entered politics.
Hickenlooper quipped on Twitter: "Last time, we elected the most famous candidate. Let's try something new."
Hickenlooper will join nine other candidates Thursday night for the second of two debates.
White House hopefuls in Miami for the Democratic debates are trekking to nearby Homestead, Florida, to visit a large migrant detention facility.
The stops are intended to draw attention to President Donald Trump's immigration policies, which have seen migrant children separated from their families. Homestead is about 40 miles southwest of Miami and is a spot where the U.S. is detaining migrant teens.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren visited the site Wednesday, with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar planning a stop later in the afternoon.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke is scheduled to visit the site on Thursday.
And on Friday, California Sen. Kamala Harris, former housing secretary Julian Castro, former U.S. Rep. John Delaney and Pete Buttigieg (BOO'-tuh-juhj), the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, all plan to visit.
Ten presidential candidates, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are set to meet on the debate stage for the first night of Democratic debates to offer their pitches to voters and attempt a breakout moment for their campaigns.
For many of the White House hopefuls, Wednesday's debate will be the highest-profile opportunity yet to offer their vision for the country.
Given the massive field, the debate will be split over two nights, with 10 other candidates — including former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — appearing Thursday.
Warren, the sole top-tier candidate at Wednesday's debate, will take center stage. But she could still face challenges. The other candidates aren't as well known and could use the moment to make an aggressive move to stand out.
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Small Business Gets Smart With Graphics
Wednesday Sep 19th 2007 by Gerry Blackwell
One small Florida marketing company taps the power of visual communications with SmartDraw, an effective, dead-simple graphics program that's suitable for any small business.
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. Michael Turner, CEO of Marketing Max, a nine-month-old marketing outsourcing firm based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a great believer in that, especially when it comes to communicating with his clients.
Turner knew the minute he saw SmartDraw, the template-based business graphics program from SmartDraw.com, that it was exactly what his fledgling firm needed – a huge improvement over Visio, the business graphics module in Microsoft Office that he had been using. And the new version, SmartDraw 2008, released earlier this month, is even better, he said.
Turner worked as the marketing manager at a dot-com for ten years and moonlighted helping young companies develop business plans. By December of last year, he was ready for a change, though, and ready to strike out on his own. He describes Marketing Max, which he launched in January, as "the marketing team down the hall that you've always wanted."
"We'll do anything from high-level marketing strategy to the design of a single direct mail or e-mail campaign," Turner said. "We pretty much cover the gamut when it comes to marketing and PR."
The company aims to fill a gap between big marketing and advertising firms on the one hand, and independent contractors on the other. Independent contractors are just that, he said – too hard to control. And the big firms are outrageously overpriced.
"You go to a meeting, sit through a presentation that's nothing more than buzz words and fluff. And then you get a bill for $200,000, and you can't figure out what it's for," Turner says. One senses he's speaking here from bitter experience.
Marketing Max, a virtual firm with four employees and a stable of 60 or 70 associates, all working out of home offices, claims to avoid both shortcomings. It's targeting mainly medium-size and small firms. They range from mom-and-pop lawn care companies to Sage Software, maker of the Act customer relationship management (CRM) product.
Communicating Visually
When Marketing Max communicates with clients, it does something fairly original. Rather than inundating them with long, wordy documents or boring them stiff with PowerPoint presentations – "the whole company is anti-PowerPoint," Turner said – it sends flow charts showing customers exactly what the firm will do for them.
When a new client comes onboard, the first step is typically a "strategy session," lasting anywhere up to two-and-a-half hours, in which the Marketing Max consultants learn about the company's business and objectives. Then they go away and develop a master marketing plan for the client.
"We use SmartDraw to make flow charts that describe the marketing plan," Turner explained. "[Clients] typically don't understand the marketing process. So this is a way to visually give them a snapshot of what we're going to do. 'This is how the process will work.'"
SmartDraw's many templates include flowcharts.
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Even if it's not developing an entire marketing plan, even if it's only designing an e-mail campaign, Marketing Max will generate a flow chart to show how it envisions the project progressing. It's partly a way to communicate with clients, partly a project plan.
With a simple e-mail campaign, the chart will show a box for each step and task in the process, starting perhaps with talking to a designer. It will show all the approval stages, and it will also present what-if scenarios. If the campaign realizes a return of 2 percent, this will happen next, if it bombs, this will happen.
"It's a visual means of communication," Turner said. According to him, it works. The flow charts help his clients understand the process more quickly and completely, and that means they call less frequently asking for explanations. Marketing Max is left to get on with the job.
The young firm uses SmartDraw internally as well. When developing a Web site for a client, for example, the team working on the project develops a map of the site and, in effect, the project. It includes boxes representing every element and link and every task related to creating them.
"Those charts end up being huge," Turner said. "They probably look messy to anybody else – with a lot of boxes and arrows all over them. We print them out on a giant printer and put them up on the wall so everybody knows who does what in the process. It really did change the way we work."
In addition to graphcs, you can also use SmartDraw to create business documents such as invoices.
Turner uses the color coding features in SmartDraw to identify site elements and tasks according to who is responsible for completing them – green for designers, pink for copy writers, blue for Web programmers. The color coding helps team members understand at a glance the order in which tasks must be completed. Copy writers don't start preparing text until the designer has designed the page, for example.
"It improves efficiency," he said. "And it's better than having Word documents [describing assignments] flying around left and right."
Better than Visio
Turner started off using Visio to create his charts and mind maps. It's the program he had used at his previous employer, but it was never really satisfactory.
"It's hard to explain," he said. "[Visio] just doesn't have a business feel to it. It has a very IT, technical, map-out-the-network sort of feel to it. When you have [design and writing] contractors using the tool, it has to be simple and intuitive. It has to be a little less complicated than Visio."
As soon as he downloaded and tried the SmartDraw demo version, Turner was sold. The program offers scores of customizable templates in 25 broad categories, including decision trees, flow charts, floor plans, Gantt charts, network designs and mind maps.
It automates much of the process of drawing graphics. You choose a template, then a theme – color scheme, text style, etc. – that is automatically applied to all elements in the template, and all elements that you add.
To create an event-driven process chain diagram, for example, you start with a sample diagram. The program presents a library of shapes – boxes, circles, symbols – representing different elements specific to that type of graphic. In this case, they include Event/Result, Function, Organization Unit, Input/output, Supporting System, and so on.
To add a new element, you select it from the library, displayed in a panel to the left of the main work area, then click in the work area where you want it to appear. To add a connector – curved, straight, stepped, etc. – click on the connector tool, select a style from the pull-down menu, then click and drag in the work area to make a line between two elements.
Improved Interface
About the only thing Turner and his team didn't like about SmartDraw when they started using it earlier in the summer was the user interface. It was slightly eccentric, with basic functions in unexpected places. It included no Windows-standard File menu, for example. It seemed awkward to people who were accustomed to Microsoft-style productivity applications.
Turner even mentioned to SmartDraw that he'd like to see the SmartDraw interface reflect those Microsoft norms. When the new version came out in September, his wish had been granted.
The SmartDraw interface now mimics almost exactly the new Fluent interface Microsoft developed for Office 2007. The Fluent interface replaces menu and tool bars and vertical text menus with a "ribbon" and tabbed panels that drop down and stretch across the screen, graphically depicting groups of functions. SmartDraw 2008 does the same.
While Marketing Max started off with no intention of using SmartDraw for "creative" graphics – the firm employs designers who create custom, from-scratch graphics for clients to use in ads etc. – Turner did discover one opportunity to do so.
Among its many templates, SmartDraw includes basic business forms such as invoices, sales receipts, business cards. Marketing Max now offers very small companies an "identity package" that includes logo, slogans and printed customized versions of the SmartDraw forms. For a lawn care firm, it might be a simple matter of adding a border of grass at the bottom of the form and the firm's newly-designed logo.
"We never thought of doing this until one of our designers was browsing through the [SmartDraw] templates and suggested it," Turner said. "I thought it was a fantastic idea. We already have a couple of orders."
If a graphics-oriented marketing firm uses SmartDraw for client communications, internal project planning and client services, it's a good bet this program could help just about any small company create its own business graphics.
Based in London, Canada, Gerry Blackwell has been writing about information technology and telecommunications for a variety of print and online publications since the 1980s.
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What is stopping India from shining again?
Since the turn of the 21st century, "India Shining" has been the slogan for the country. After growing at more than 8% in the decade ending before 2008, India has been fighting several challenges to revive growth following the financial crisis. After struggling both on the external and domestic front with high fiscal and current account deficits the country now seems to have overcome the worst.
The expectation of a stable government at the centre post the elections has driven the economy in recent times. There has been an upsurge in the flow of foreign funds into the domestic economy, pulling the rupee up against the dollar. With restriction on gold imports and a marginal rise in competitiveness the current account deficit has come down.
However the picture is not as rosy as it seems, the economy is weighed down by factors such as high inflation, low capital expansion and heavy reliance on imports of oil and gold. In the short term the strengthening rupee backed by inflow of foreign funds might be enough to lead the economy towards the growth trajectory but in the long run growth will come from reduction in oil and gas subsidies, regulatory reforms, improvement in the business environment and an increase in productivity in the economy(through increased private investment and capital expansion).
Several factors prevent India from reaching its potential levels. Some of them have been highlighted below.
Application of the Expectations hypothesis- Much needed reforms.
The expectations hypothesis states that investors take decisions based on their expectation of future outcome. Market prices don't move by the release of information that is well anticipated.
Given the current scenario, the foreign institutional investors in India have already factored in a Narendra Modi-led government at the centre this term and have pumped in money into the Indian markets in expectation of regulatory reforms and increased foreign direct investment limits. The net investment by FIIs in India has crossed over Rs 30,000 crores in the equity markets and about Rs 29,000 crores in the debt markets from the beginning of 2014. This inflow has driven the equity markets in the last couple of months. The FIIs, however, are merely betting on a stable and pro-business government at the centre and the inflow of funds is not backed by the increase in productivity in the economy.
One person alone cannot turn the economy around. Even if BJP succeeds in forming the government this year, any further increase in inflows from FIIs will only be possible if the government enacts reforms in the regulatory sector, improves the business environment and reduces the cap on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
And if this expectation does not materialise the stock market will experience a free-fall with the FIIs pulling out of the market leaving the rupee struggling at a life-time low. This would be accompanied by a fall in the investment grading of the country, as threatened by the rating agency Moody's. All this would be catastrophic for a country like India that is heavily dependent on foreign capital to support its economy and provide liquidity in the markets.
The current account deficit(CAD) is defined as the difference between total investment in the economy and total domestic savings. A large deficit in the current account can be devastating, as it leads to an increased dependence on foreign savings for financing domestic investment, making the economy vulnerable to external contingencies, depleting the value of the currency.
After struggling with 4.9% CAD in the first quarter of 2013-14 India's current account deficit has recently come down to a figure of 1.9% of GDP. Though it seems to be a relief for the economy, we need to go beyond just the numbers to evaluate the situation. The fall in the current account deficit has been led by the fall in imports and by the marginal rise in exports given the depreciation in the rupee. There has been a 75% fall in the gold imports in the last six months raising fears of an increase in gold smuggling following the imposition of restrictions. Another major factor responsible for the fall in the current account deficit is the fall in capital imports, which reflects the falling investor sentiments and business confidence. The fall in private investment by over 8% of the GDP in the last five years is also an indication of the weak business confidence among investors in India.
All the above facts point to one conclusion – the low current account deficit cannot be sustained over the long run if the export sector is not made more competitive and public savings don't pick up. The decrease should come from increased savings and not decreased investment. In order to achieve higher growth the country needs to focus on improving the investment climate and keep the rupee from appreciating further(if the results of the election lead to a high inflow of foreign funds).
India since long has been fighting high inflation rates given the supply-demand gap in food grains and the heavy reliance on imports for oil supply. Recently the inflation rate showed a downward trend when the WPI fell to a nine month low in February 2014. However this fall was short-lived and March again saw an increase in inflation to a three month high of 5.7% from 4.7% in February while the CPI rose to 8.31% from 8% in month before. This has been attributed to the rise in prices of fruits and vegetables.
There is one major concern for India from BJP, which is expected to form the next government and focus on reviving growth and shoring up investment. The traditional growth versus inflation trade-off remains. In order to support investment the interest rates would have to be pushed down which would add to the already high inflation in the economy.
Another factor that might affect inflation rates is the 60% probability of an El Nino which would lead to a below normal monsoon. Though past data reveals that the impact of low rains on the stock market may be insignificant, it is bound to impact retail inflation and the agricultural GDP. This may even result in a fall in the rural demand hurting the consumer goods industry.
Investor's concerns over India's economic growth were amplified after the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) contracted 1.9 per cent in February. This is the worst fall seen in the last nine-months and contrasts the estimates by economists who expected a modest growth in the industrial output.
While the mining and electricity sectors performed well, it was the low investment and consumer demand that slowed the production in the manufacturing sector and is appearing to put off the recovery in the economy. The slowdown was led by the sharp contraction in capital goods by 17.4 percent and consumer durables by 9.3 percent.
The temporarily increased demand for exports which had led to the recovery of the industrial sector also seems to have subsided as indicated by the fall in the India's merchandise export earnings. (as reported by DGCI&S).
The fall in industrial production will increase the supply-demand gap in the economy adding to inflationary pressures to the economy and dampen the chances of meeting its growth estimates.
In order to surpass the 5% growth rate India has to create a healthy investing environment through adequate regulatory and policy reforms in order to absorb the new entrants to the labor force. The export sector needs to pick up and the rupee needs to remain stable at its current level to further support the competitiveness of the sector. There is also a need to enhance public savings to meet the investment needs and reduce the dependence on foreign capital.
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The Future Is Bright with Invention Convention Michigan
May 27, 2022 Innovation Impact
On April 30, The Henry Ford was thrilled to welcome 150 student inventors from across the state to participate in the state finals of Invention Convention Michigan (ICM), the Michigan affiliate for Invention Convention Worldwide. The event marked the return of an in-person Invention Convention after two years of virtual programming.
Out of 1,290 young inventors who competed in regional STEM competitions across the state of Michigan, 150 were selected to participate in Invention Convention Michigan. / Photo by Purple Frog Photography
The atmosphere was electric as students in grades 3 through 12 presented their original inventions on the floor of Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation alongside some of the greatest innovations in American history. The young inventors were buzzing with nervous energy when it came time for judging, but once the pressure was off, they felt a rush of accomplishment and were free to explore the museum, garnering more inspirational energy for the year ahead.
Students pitch their inventions to volunteer judges and share their process, from identifying a problem to developing a solution and designing a prototype. / Photos by Purple Frog Photography
During their lunch break, students were given the opportunity to participate in the Innovation Passport Zone. Traveling from booth to booth around the plaza, inventors learned about some of ICM's sponsors—including Hagerty, Michigan Soybean Committee, and presenting sponsor Delta Dental of Michigan—and got their "passports stamped" for a chance to win a hefty grand prize of donations offered by the sponsors.
Students interact with representatives from Delta Dental of Michigan, Hagerty, and Michigan Soybean Committee in the Innovation Passport Zone. / Photos by Purple Frog Photography
After the scores had been tabulated, students gathered under the DC3 for the awards ceremony, which began with a special word from the president of The Henry Ford, Patricia Mooradian, and a keynote address by Kwane Watson, inventor of the mobile dental unit.
Students enjoyed interacting with Dazzle, mascot for Delta Dental of Michigan, and The Henry Ford's own Mike Moseley served as emcee for the event. / Photos by Purple Frog Photography
In all, over $3,500 in cash prizes was awarded to 21 of Michigan's student inventors. Of these, 13 students were selected to advance to the Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention U.S. Nationals taking place at The Henry Ford June 1-3. To watch a replay of the awards ceremony, click here.
Congratulations to these 21 student inventors, who were recognized with awards during the awards ceremony. / Photo by Purple Frog Photography
A special congratulations goes out to Meera R., who was the Grand Prize Winner, presented by Delta Dental of Michigan, as well as the winner of the Make the World Award, presented by Stanley Black & Decker; the Originality Award, presented by Hagerty; and the Safety Award, presented by Hitachi Astemo. Meera will also be among the 13 inventors selected to represent Michigan at U.S. Nationals in June. / Photo by Purple Frog Photography
It was wonderful to see the museum plaza filled with passionate and joyous students, along with proud families and educators. We look forward to experiencing the thrill of Invention Convention U.S. Nationals in a few weeks and want to congratulate all of our student inventors once again for all of their hard work.
Katie Dallos is Program Coordinator, Invention Convention Michigan, at The Henry Ford and Samantha Rhoads is inHub Marketing Specialist at The Henry Ford.
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Team Scandicapped: An Invention Convention Highlight
March 23, 2022 Innovation Impact
From left: Inventors Claire Kinnaman, Anna Gareau, and Cooper Dyson are Team Scandicapped, the winner of the President's Choice award at the 2019 Invention Convention U.S. Nationals. The team was led by Nancy Ernstes, Cobb County Schools K-12 InVenture, in Georgia. / Photo by Nick Hagen
Invention Convention Worldwide invites students to solve problems and invent through hands-on, real-world, project-based learning activities. In 2019, more than 100,000 K-12 inventors competed at the school level. Winners advanced to state competitions, hoping to be one of the 492 granted access to Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation for Invention Convention U.S. Nationals. A trio of young inventors and their invention, Scandicapped, won the competition's coveted 2019 President's Choice award from The Henry Ford's President and CEO Patricia Mooradian.
Scandicapped, invented by fifth-graders Anna Gareau, Claire Kinnaman, and Cooper Dyson, has a simple premise. Using an accessible parking sign fitted with LED lights and RFID technology found in pet microchips, drivers would be discouraged from illegally parking in reserved spaces.
According to the trio, it's an idea that came to life in their classroom at Cheatham Hill Elementary in Marietta, Georgia. First proposed by Anna, Scandicapped's inspiration is personal, a problem she identified within her own family, since her sister has hydrocephalus and uses a wheelchair. Her family's frustration in parking lots is constant, Anna said.
For five months, the three fifth-graders brainstormed after school to define the problem and outline their design solution and concepts—all under their teacher's guidance. Final iterations of Scandicapped allow a fitted solar-powered sign to read a chip embedded in a driver's placard or license plate. When the plate's chip is verified, the parking sign's LED lights glow green to indicate legal parking. When a car is parked illegally, the sign's LED lights glow red to alert drivers of their mistake. If ignored, the continued red flashes also alert the public and law enforcement of the infraction.
The team's research shows those infractions would get noticed. Within just 35 minutes of observing their elementary school's retrofitted accessible parking signs one school morning, nine violations occurred. "They were mostly younger, teenagers," said Claire. "They don't really know how much their actions can affect people." What's also interesting about their test, she added, was how half of drivers who did park illegally moved their vehicle when the prototype sign glowed red.
Team Scandicapped followed much of the protocol The Henry Ford has applied to its own innovation learning framework, Model i, when working on their ideation. Model i connects habits of innovators and actions of innovation to provide an interdisciplinary language and approach to learning. Habits such as empathy and collaboration, along with actions such as defining the problem, designing solutions, and optimizing through feedback and iteration, are within the framework. All of these practices and processes were a major reason why the Scandicapped inventors won the competition's President's Choice award. "I was shocked and amazed," said Cooper of the honor.
Leadership at The Henry Ford was equally amazed at the resourcefulness of Team Scandicapped. "The work of Cooper, Claire and Anna so closely embodies the mission of this great institution," said Patricia Mooradian, president and CEO of The Henry Ford, "reflecting on the fact that 10 percent of the population is disabled in some way and we have to do what we can to make the world more accessible to everyone."
Since 2019, the Invention Convention Worldwide program has grown to support 147,000 K-12 student inventors. To ensure the safety of students, their families, and everyone involved, the competition was hosted virtually in 2020 and 2021. After two years, Invention Convention Worldwide is excited to welcome students back to The Henry Ford June 1–3, 2022, for Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention U.S. Nationals 2022. We are looking forward to celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of these students this summer!
This post was adapted from an article by Susan Zweig in the January–May 2020 issue of The Henry Ford Magazine.
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Austin W. Curtis, Jr.: Black Scientist and Entrepreneur
March 9, 2022 Archive Insight
Austin W. Curtis (left) assisting George Washington Carver (right) during a lecture at Starr Commonwealth for Boys School, Albion, Michigan, 1939. / THF213740
Austin Wingate Curtis, Jr. (1911–2004) assisted George Washington Carver for nearly eight years (1935–1943). Biographers often measure Curtis by his association with Carver, the renowned Black scientist who spent his career at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). Mark D. Hersey described Curtis as "Carver's best-known assistant" in his 2011 biography of Carver, titled My Work Is That of Conservation (page 181).
Curtis might be Carver's best-known assistant, but his association with Carver accounted for only eight of Curtis's ninety-three years. After Carver's death, Curtis remained at Tuskegee until 1944 when the board decided not to retain him. He relocated to Detroit, Michigan, launched a business that emphasized his association with Carver, raised a family, pursued various business ventures, ran for political office, and added to The Henry Ford's collection documenting George W. Carver. The following provides a fuller picture of Austin Curtis.
Austin Wingate Curtis, Jr., was born July 28, 1911, in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Support for education ran deep in his family. His maternal great-grandfather, Samuel I. Cabell (1802–1865), owned the land that the state acquired to build the West Virginia Colored Institute (which became the West Virginia Collegiate Institute in the early 20th century and is now West Virginia State University). This was one of 17 Black land-grant institutions that the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890 partially funded by 1920.
Austin Curtis's mother, Dora Throne Brown (1875–1960), enrolled at West Virginia Colored Institute to train as a teacher. His father, Austin Wingate Curtis, Sr. (1872–1950), graduated in 1899 from the Black land-grant college in North Carolina (now North Carolina A&T State University at Greensboro). He began teaching agriculture at the West Virginia Institute that same year. He and Dora Brown married in 1905. They had two children, Alice Cabell Curtis (1908–2000) and Austin Wingate Curtis, Jr.
The Henry Ford has no photographs of the Curtis family, but the Library of Congress does. These provide a rare glimpse into rural Black culture during the period when more Black families owned land than at any other time in U.S. history (approximately 25 percent of Black farmers nationwide identified as landowners in the 1920 census).
A support system operated out of the Black land-grant colleges that linked farm families to information shared by experts trained in agriculture and domestic science. Tuskegee Institute's moveable school drew a lot of attention from the media, and might be the best-known example of the ways that experts reached farmers across the countryside, but it was one approach among many.
Training often focused on livestock, especially pigs.
Austin Curtis, Sr., agricultural expert, instructs George Cox, a 13-year-old 4-H club member and son of a "renter" or tenant farmer, in pork nutrition near the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (near Charleston). / Photograph by Lewis W. Hine, on assignment for the National Child Labor Committee, October 10, 1921, from the Library of Congress.
Austin Curtis, Sr., conveyed the latest information about swine management to young people organized through local 4-H clubs. His son, Austin Curtis, Jr., participated in these efforts, raising a sow and tending her piglets as part of his pig project. This work helped stabilize farm incomes, a critical step in farm solvency for owners and tenant farm families. Bulletins like "How to Raise Pigs With Little Money" (1915), by George Washington Carver, facilitated this type of instruction.
Austin Curtis, Jr., 10 years old, participated in the pig clubs that his father, Director of Agriculture at West Virginia Collegiate Institute, helped organize. / Photograph by Lewis W. Hine, on assignment for the National Child Labor Committee, October 10, 1921, from the Library of Congress.
Austin Curtis, Jr., grew up immersed in Black land-grant networks, but alternatives existed. Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950), who held the position of Dean at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute between 1920 and 1922, proved that working in a West Virginia coal mine could lead to higher education. Woodson became the second Black man to earn a doctoral degree at Harvard University in 1912. He founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History) in 1915 and launched the Journal of Negro History (now the Journal of African American History) in 1916 to encourage Black and white scholars to study Black history. Woodson also launched Negro History Week (now Black History Month) in 1926 to facilitate exchange.
Curtis's father took summer classes at Cornell University to remain current in livestock management. Ultimately, Curtis, Jr., selected Cornell University, too, and studied plant physiology there, earning his bachelor's degree in 1932. After graduation he returned to West Virginia and worked in a greenhouse, for a landscaping business, and drove a cab, before accepting a teaching position at his father's alma mater in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 1935 Curtis, Jr., accepted a fellowship funded by the General Education Board to serve as George Washington Carver's research assistant at Tuskegee Institute. He began work at Tuskegee in September 1935.
Tuskegee Institute football pennant, 1920–1950. / THF157606
As Austin Curtis, Jr., built his career as a chemist, he also pursued a personal life. While teaching at the A&T College in Greensboro, he met Belle Channing Tobias, head of biology at Bennett College for Women (now Bennett College). She was the daughter of Mary Pritchard and Channing Heggie Tobias, a minister, civil rights activist, and director of YMCA work among Black residents in New York City. The media reported on the Curtis-Tobias wedding as a society event held in St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York City, on June 15, 1936.
Postcard, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1930–1945. / Wikimedia Commons
Described as "brilliant," Tobias earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She studied zoology at Wellesley College and conducted research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She was on leave from her faculty position at Bennett College and enrolled in the doctoral program at Columbia University at the time of her marriage.
Austin and Belle Curtis planned to honeymoon in West Virginia and then drive to Tuskegee Institute. Tragically, Belle fell ill from kidney disease during the honeymoon, and died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on October 7, 1936, just four months after the wedding ("Death Claims Belle Tobias," New York Amsterdam News, October 10, 1936).
Work with Carver consumed Curtis after his wife's death. His loss coincided with the growth of chemurgy, a branch of chemistry dedicated to industrial uses of plant byproducts. Correspondence between Henry Ford and George W. Carver ensured that Carver (and Curtis) were well informed about industrialist Ford's investment in chemurgy. This drew increased attention to their work.
Somehow Curtis found time to court Tuskegee Institute art teacher Oreta Adams (1905–1991). Her parents, King P. Adams (1870–1944) and Sarah Bibb Adams (1870–1944), lived in Lawrence, Kansas. Her father was a janitor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and a member of the Black Masons, an organization which supported leadership and service within Black neighborhoods. Curtis and Adams married at Adams's parents' home, 318 Locust Street in Lawrence, on August 3, 1938.
The Chicago Defender reported that the couple spent a week in Lawrence, then traveled through Illinois on their way back to Tuskegee, where they both resumed their posts. Their Illinois destination, in addition to Chicago, was the University of Illinois. This land-grant university was noted for soybean research. It had soybean experts on faculty and staff, and research in soybean genetics and in soybean uses ongoing. ("Kansas Girl Marries Aide to Dr. Carver," Chicago Defender, August 13, 1938). Curtis also spent one summer working in the Soybean Laboratory in Greenfield Village. He stayed with his uncle, Cornelius S. Curtis, who lived in Detroit (Curtis Oral Interview, July 23, 1979, Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford, page 31–32).
Curtis: Carver's Support System
Curtis provided a lot of support to Carver over the years, including driving him to public engagements.
Between the death of Belle and his marriage to Oreta, Curtis drove Carver to Dearborn, Michigan. They participated in the third Dearborn Conference on Industry held in 1937. Curtis presented information on Carver's products, including peanut and sweet potato extracts, and on his own chemical work, including isolating pigments from wild plants and devising uses for oil extracted from magnolias ("Tuskegee Chemist in Address at Detroit," Chicago Defender, June 5, 1937).
Curtis and Carver also toured Greenfield Village. Carver described it as "one of the greatest educational projects I have ever seen" in a thank-you letter to Henry Ford, written on Dearborn Inn letterhead. One highlight was their interaction with Francis Jehl, a research assistant to Thomas Edison and an advisor on the lab reconstruction in Greenfield Village. On the drive back to Tuskegee, they stopped to visit the Curtis family in Institute, West Virginia ("Tuskegee Chemist in Address at Detroit," Chicago Defender, June 5, 1937).
Left to right: Austin W. Curtis, George Washington Carver, William Simonds, and Francis Jehl at Menlo Park Laboratory, Greenfield Village, 1937. / THF213745
One of the most important services Curtis provided involved promoting Carver's work at every opportunity. Sometimes this took the form of public speaking. During the ceremony that recognized Carver's 40 years of service to Tuskegee Institute, Curtis delivered a ten-minute overview of Carver's life and work, broadcast on WJDX radio ("To Unveil Bust of Dr. Carver June 2," Chicago Defender, May 22, 1937).
Curtis claimed to have started the Carver Museum (now part of the National Park Service's Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site) at Tuskegee. Installed on the third floor of the Institute's library building initially, it featured Carver's paintings, needlework, extracts, and other plant byproducts (Curtis Oral Interview, page 27). Carver toured Henry Ford through the museum during Ford's first of three visits to the Tuskegee campus in March 1938. The group inspected peanut oil, which Carver promoted as part of massage therapy for infantile paralysis ("Ford Visits Tuskegee; Talks on Science with Dr. Carver," Chicago Defender, March 19, 1938).
The museum received more attention as the relationship between Carver and Ford grew. In March 1941, during Ford's third trip to Tuskegee, the group dedicated a new George Washington Carver Museum. Curtis helped a Tuskegee student insert soy-based plastic composite material into concrete blocks as part of the ceremonies.
George Washington Carver, Clara Ford, and Henry Ford at dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941. / THF213788
Cultivating Carver's legacy took Curtis and Carver on the road regularly. Trips often consisted of multiple speaking engagements with Curtis assisting. Audiences ranged from children to peers equally invested in chemurgy research. The photo at the top of this post shows one of those appearances.
Curtis was never far from Carver, as photographs of Carver's entourage attest. Curtis drove Carver, assisted him as he became more infirm, and looked out for his well-being during two events hosted by Henry Ford. The first, in March 1940, focused on the dedication of the George Washington Carver Elementary School in Richmond Hill, Georgia. Then, in July 1942, the two traveled to Henry Ford's Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford) in Dearborn, Michigan, for the dedication of the Carver Nutrition Laboratory and the Carver Memorial (now the George Washington Carver Cabin) in Greenfield Village.
Curtis urged Carver to leave a legacy. This took the form of an endowment to carry on Carver's work. The media reported on formation of the George W. Carver Foundation during the 15th Negro History Week celebration, which occurred February 11–17, 1940 ("This Day in History," Chicago Tribune, February 14, 1946).
A gentleman's agreement of a sort apparently existed between Curtis and Carver. Curtis fully expected to continue Carver's work, and he informed Henry Ford of that fact in a January 1943 letter. Tuskegee president F.D. Patterson had other ideas. The two disagreed over royalties specified in a publishing contract, and the Tuskegee board terminated Curtis in April 1944 ("Aide to Dr. Carver Eased Out at Tuskegee," Atlanta Daily World, April 22, 1944). By that time, the book, George Washington Carver: An American Biography (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943), was selling well, and Carver's contract with the publisher had guaranteed Curtis a percentage of the royalties.
Curtis after Tuskegee
Curtis pivoted rapidly after his firing. He had to. His wife, Oreta, had just given birth to their first child, Kyra. He had relatives in Detroit, and his association with Henry Ford and awareness of chemurgy networks likely drew him to the city. He launched A.W. Curtis Laboratories to manufacture health care products and cooking oil derived from Carver's research. The Curtises' second child, daughter Synka, was born in Detroit in 1946.
Curtis Rubbing Oil, circa 1987, for fast relief of minor aches and pains of arthritis and rheumatism. The back of the bottle describes best uses and warnings for children. The active ingredients are listed as "Peanut Oil, Methyl Salicylate." / THF170781
Product marketing stressed Curtis' connection to Carver. A. W. Curtis Laboratories held the grand opening of its sales office on National Carver Day, January 4, 1947 (he had died on January 5, 1943). The Detroit Tribune advertisement included a photograph of Carver and Curtis at work together in their Tuskegee laboratory and the oft-quoted phrase attributed to Carver: "through [Curtis] I see an Extension of my Work." Curtis also arranged for Rackham Holt, author of George Washington Carver: An American Biography, to be available to sign books. To sweeten the prospects of a sales-office visit, Curtis offered three prizes for ticket holders, including one-half gallon of "our Peanut Cooking Oil" (January 4, 1947, page 8).
Austin Curtis, Jr., remained in touch with The Henry Ford, off and on, during his years in Detroit. He conducted an interview with Doug Bakken and Dave Click in 1979. Curtis visited Greenfield Village on August 17, 1982, to reminisce about the dedication ceremony that had occurred 40 years before.
Austin W. Curtis visiting the George Washington Carver Cabin in Greenfield Village, August 17, 1982. / THF287706
Curtis helped expand The Henry Ford's collection of Carver items by offering, in 1997, a microscope and typewriter used by Carver at Tuskegee. By then, Curtis was also reducing his involvement in his business. The Reverend Bennie L. Thayer, chairman of the board for Natural Health Options, Inc. acquired A.W. Curtis Laboratories in 1999, and the next year, Dr. E. Faye Williams purchased the company and manufacturing rights. Curtis died in Culver City, California, on November 5, 2004.
Notes about Sources
Much remains to learn about Curtis's life in Detroit. Consult the Austin W. Curtis Papers, 1896–1971, at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, for more.
Newspaper articles mentioned Curtis in coverage of Carver through the years they worked together (and beyond). Newspaper accounts of Curtis, Jr., provided leads to follow. These appeared in the Chicago Defender (Arnold De Mille, January 29, 1955) and the New York Amsterdam News (Julian Jingles, February 24, 1996, and Herb Boyd, October 9, 2014).
Ancestry.com confirmed genealogical details. Newspapers articles affirmed events (as referenced throughout the text).
Secondary sources documenting Curtis, Sr., and Jr. and West Virginia history include:
Askins, John. "Austin W. Curtis, Jr.: He Lives in Shadow of G. W. Carver," Biography News (May/June 1975), pg. 511.
"Austin Wingate Curtis [1872-1950]," History of the American Negro. West Virginia Edition. A. B. Caldwell, editor. Vol. 7. Atlanta, Georgia: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Company, 1923.
Moon, Elaine Latzman. "Austin W. Curtis, [Jr.,] D.S.C." in Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918–1967. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994, pp. 253-255.
Morgan, B.S., and J.F. Cork. "Beginning of West Virginia State University." History of Education in West Virginia. Charleston: Moses W. Donnally, 1893, pp. 189-94.
Turner, Ruby M. "The Life and Times of Dr. Austin Wingate Curtis, Jr.," Simpson College Archives, Indianola, Iowa.
Debra A. Reid is Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford. Saige Jedele and Sophia Kloc shared comments that improved this blog.
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Susan Frackelton: America's Most Underrated Ceramic Artist
When thinking about the celebrated figures in decorative arts history, one first thinks of individuals like Thomas Chippendale, Duncan Phyfe, and Gustav Stickley in furniture, Paul Revere and Tiffany and Company in silver, and Josiah Wedgwood in ceramics. All these prominent figures have something in common—they all are men. There are few celebrated female leaders in the decorative arts. This may be due to the scholarly focus on great men, to the detriment of women, until recent years.
Cover of Tried by Fire by Susan Frackelton, 1886. / THF627718
One of the most important and underrecognized women in decorative arts history was Susan Frackelton (1848–1932). She was a founder of the field of women's china painting in the 1870s and 1880s. She was also a catalyst in transforming that pastime into a profession with the evolution of china painting into art pottery in the 1890s. Unlike her more famous peers, Susan Frackelton earned her living and supported her family on the proceeds of her publishing, teaching, and collaborations with like-minded artists.
Susan Frackelton faced many challenges in her personal and professional life. In many ways, she was a trailblazer for the modern, independent woman. Only in recent years have her contributions been recognized. Like other major figures in the decorative arts, including Thomas Chippendale, she is best remembered for a publication, her 1886 Tried by Fire. In the introduction, she states, "If the rough road that I have traveled to success can be made smoother for those who follow, or may hereafter pass me in the race, my little book will have achieved the end which is desired."
Why Was China Painting a Means for Women's Liberation?
Many factors fueled the growth of amateur china painting in late-19th-century America. As America became wealthier after the Civil War, women of the middle and upper middle classes gained more leisure time for personal pursuits. China painting became a socially acceptable pastime for women because it allowed them to create decorative objects for the home. Further, the influence of the English Aesthetic movement and later the Arts and Crafts movement advocated that the creation of art should be reflected in the home. By the 1870s and 1880s, wealthy women were freer to leave the confines of the home through organizations that they set up to create and exhibit their work.
What Is China Painting?
Pitcher, 1890–1910, decorated by an amateur china painter. / THF176880
This pitcher is a good example of the work of an amateur china painter. The artist would take a "blank"—a piece of fired, undecorated, white porcelain, in this case a pitcher made by the English firm Haviland—and paint over the glaze. These blanks could be purchased in multiples at specialty stores. One of the most prominent of these was the Detroit-based L.B. King China Store. It was founded in 1849 and closed during the Great Depression, about 1932. According to a 1913 advertisement, the retailer sold hotel china, fine china dinnerware, cut glass, table glassware, lamps, shades, art pottery, china blanks, and artists materials. Elbert Hubbard, founder and proprietor of the Roycrofters, a reformist community of craft workers and artists that formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement, wrote enthusiastically about the products of the L.B King China Store: "The store is not only a store—it is an exposition, a school if you please, where the finest displays of hand and brain in the way of ceramics are shown." A woman seeking to learn about china painting could literally walk into the L.B. King Store and walk out with paints, blanks, and a manual like Frackelton's Tried by Fire and start painting her own china.
The pitcher above is part of a large group of serving pieces in our collection. Also in our collections is a full set of china decorated by a young woman and her friends who learned china painting at what is now Michigan State University. They decorated the dinnerware service in preparation for the young woman's wedding in 1911. According to family history, the young woman purchased the blanks at the L.B. King Store.
How Did China Painting Evolve in the Late 19th Century?
During the 1870s, Cincinnati was the center of American china painting. The movement was led by two wealthy women, Maria Longworth Nichols (1849–1932), who later founded the Rookwood Pottery, and her rival, Mary Louise McLaughlin (1847–1939). Both studied with European male ceramic artists who had made their way to Cincinnati. Both evolved from amateur status into extraordinary artists, who moved from painting over the glaze to learning how to throw and fire their own vessels, create designs, and formulate glazes for their vessels. This all occurred during the late 1870s, following a display of ceramic art at the Women's Pavilion of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Both sought to outdo each other in the formulations of glazes. It is generally believed McLaughlin was the first to learn the technique of underglaze decoration, although Nichols later claimed that she was the first to do so. Nichols' most important achievement was in creating the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati in 1880. It was essentially the first commercial art pottery company in America, and it led the way in the development of new techniques that were widely imitated by other firms. Rookwood and its competitors began to hire women to decorate ceramics, opening a new livelihood for women less well off than Nichols and McLaughlin.
Vase, 1902, decorated by Grace Young, Rookwood Pottery Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. / THF176709
Vase, 1917, decorated by Lenore Asbury at the Rookwood Pottery Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. / THF176918
Tile, 1910–1920, made by the Rookwood Pottery Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. / THF176941
Essentially, through the pastime of china painting, a new industry, art pottery, came into being by 1900. Under the influence of popular magazines like the Ladies' Home Journal and House Beautiful, Americans eagerly acquired art pottery. In fact, tastemakers like the young architect Frank Lloyd Wright filled his houses with art pottery. He considered it very much part of his total aesthetic. Through the first three decades of the 20th century, art pottery was considered a must in any well-furnished American home. It only fell out of fashion in the 1930s, when the Great Depression drastically altered lifestyles.
How Does Susan Frackelton's Story Fit into All of This?
Susan Stuart Goodrich Frackelton was a contemporary of both Maria Longworth Nichols and Mary Louise McLaughlin, born in 1848 like Maria Longworth Nichols, and just a year older than Mary Louise McLaughlin. Unlike either of these women, she came from a modest background. Her father was a brick maker in Milwaukee, and she was raised in a middle-class environment. Susan began her artistic career studying painting with the pioneer Wisconsin artist Henry Vianden. In 1869, she married Richard Frackelton and eventually raised three sons and a daughter.
Richard's business was importing English ceramics and glass and was relatively successful. Within a few years, however, the business began a sharp decline and Susan stepped in to help. She later said that she learned about American taste in ceramics and business while working with her husband. Concurrently, she began to experiment with china painting, applying her experience in painting with Henry Vianden. She was essentially self-taught, unlike her contemporaries in Cincinnati. Through publications, she was aware of what was going on in the field. She was also aware of the innovations of Mary Louise McLaughlin in glazes, and by the late 1870s was experimenting in underglaze painting herself.
Frackelton's contributions to china painting began in 1877, when she opened Frackelton's Decorating Works in Milwaukee. She trained young women in the art of china painting. By 1882 she opened a related business called Mrs. Frackelton's Keramic Studio for Under and Overglaze, where she sold her own work, wares made by her students, commercial china, and glassware, as well as painting supplies. Like Detroit's L.B. King store, she created a one-stop shop for young women interested in exploring china painting and, later, art pottery.
Title page, Tried by Fire, 1886. / THF627720
Frackelton made a national name for herself in 1886 with the publication of Tried by Fire. It differed from other manuals for china painters in that it was written by a teacher for beginning students. Frackelton's conversational style and advice on not expecting too much too soon appealed to readers and the book became a best seller, reprinted in two revised editions in 1892 and 1895. As a teacher, Frackelton had no equal in the world of art pottery. She advocated that both wealthy and poor women could enjoy the art of china painting: "Beauty is the birthright of the poor as well as the rich, and he lives best who most enjoys it."
Color plate from Tried by Fire, 1886. / THF627772
Pitcher, 1890–1910, decorated by an amateur china painter. Note that the botanical decoration on this pitcher is similar to the Tried by Fire color plates. / THF176879
Another major innovation was the development of a patented gas-fired kiln, first offered in the advertising section of Tried by Fire. By 1888 she was granted a second patent for a new and improved version.
Advertising section of Tried by Fire showing Frackelton's portable gas kiln. / THF627793
By 1890 Frackelton was a well-known figure and was noted for displaying her work in international exhibits. In 1893 she won eight awards for her work in a competition held at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition. Additionally, she became renowned for her work in a variety of ceramic media, especially for her blue and white salt-glazed stoneware. She also worked to create new and easier-to-use paints for decoration. She went so far as to organize the National League of Mineral Painters in 1892, an organization "aimed to foster a national school of ceramic art and provide a link between china painters throughout the country."
By the late 1890s, Frackelton's reputation was secure, as were her finances. In 1897 she divorced Richard Frackelton and moved to Chicago and spent much of her time lecturing and promoting ceramic art. She collaborated with several ceramic artists, including the now famous George Ohr, a unique artist who called himself "the mad potter of Biloxi." Together, they created several highly unusual pieces, now in the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
In her later years, Frackelton moved away from working in ceramics, preferring to return to painting and working as an illuminator of manuscripts. However, Frackelton's promotion of the ceramic arts made her one of the most admired female artists in America in the first decade of the 20th century. Susan Frackelton was a remarkable figure in American ceramics, justifiably earning her status as one of the prominent figures in the decorative arts and certainly in broadening the role of women in American society.
Charles Sable is Curator of Decorative Arts at The Henry Ford. Many thanks to Sophia Kloc for editorial preparation assistance with this post.
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Cast in Plaster: Isaac Hathaway and Sculpture as Black Biography
February 23, 2022 Think THF
Black sculptor Isaac Scott Hathaway (1872–1967) took issue with inadequate recognition of Black achievement. He dedicated his career to creating and marketing affordable plaster busts and other commemorative sculpture, literally putting Black activists, educators, ministers, and dozens of other individuals on a pedestal. These stood in stark contrast to lawn jockeys and other statuary that emphasized caricatures and stereotypes.
Plaster Plaque of George Washington Carver (1864?–1943) Cast by Isaac Scott Hathaway, 1945. / THF152082
Hathaway remembered visiting a Midwestern museum when he was nine years old (around 1881), with his father, Robert Elijah Hathaway (1842–1923). The young Hathaway wondered why museums did not include statues of Black people. His father explained that white people modeled their own, and that if Black Americans wanted to see sculptures of Black Americans, "we will have to grow our own sculptors."
This museum visit changed Hathaway's life, as he recalled in a 1939 Federal Writers' Project interview and in a 1958 article in the Negro History Bulletin. He studied art during the era of the New Negro, a movement of the 1890s to 1910s that emphasized African and Black American contributions to the arts, literature, and culture. He taught school, created sculpture, and distributed his plaster casts through the Afro Art Company, which he launched after he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1907.
Hathaway moved when opportunities to further ceramics education arose. He relocated to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, by 1915 to launch ceramics education at the Branch Normal College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff). He moved his company, renamed the Isaac Hathaway Art Company, to Pine Bluff at the same time. In 1937, he joined the faculty at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama, to introduce a ceramics curriculum there. In 1947, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to direct ceramics instruction at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University).
Plaster Cast of George Washington Carver's Hand, 1943. / THF34092
The Henry Ford has two of Hathaway's plaster casts. Hathaway gave them to Henry Ford in December 1945, explaining that he wanted Ford to have the small plaque (shown at the beginning of this post) and "a cast … made from the hand of the late Dr. George Washington Carver" (shown above). The plaque was one of three types of casts of Carver that Hathaway made. The others included a small bust (around one foot tall) and a heroic bust, visible in this photograph of the artist at work (courtesy of the Tuskegee University Archives).
Carver's hands attracted a lot of attention, long and strong and well-worn after years of physical labor. Based on Hathaway's description, it appears that he made the cast of Carver's hand after Carver died on January 5, 1943. Hathaway instructed students in techniques he used. Photographs show him instructing students in creating molds of their hands at Alabama Polytechnic University (now Auburn University) around 1947.
Hathaway's reputation earned him a commission in 1946 to design the Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar. This was the first coin designed by a Black American for the U.S. Mint, and the first coin minted that featured a Black American. You can read more about this in "Coining Liberty: The Challenge of Commemorating Black History."
Hathaway's plaster casts remind us of the importance of acknowledging Black accomplishments. Others followed his examples.
Benjamin Akines (c1904–?), a bricklayer and brick mason living in Jackson, Mississippi, knew of Henry Ford's interest in and respect for Carver's work. Akines gave Ford a bust of the Black scientist in 1941, four years before Hathaway sent his two casts to Ford.
Bust of George Washington Carver, circa 1941. / THF170783
Akines sent the plaster bust and a letter directly to Henry Ford: "Enclosed you will find a token (in the form of a bust) of one of whom I am told you esteem very highly … I trust this will mean a moment of happiness to you." Akines claimed that he "was divinely inspired to model," though he worked as a bricklayer. The back of the bust represents the work of a bricklayer, sculpted with a cut stone foundation with a laid brick pier. This brickwork was his signature, as Akines included bricks in other creative works. On November 10, 1931, he received a patent for an ornamental clock case in the form of a brick façade and sides (Patent Des. 85,507).
Bust of George Washington Carver, circa 1941, Cast by Benjamin Akines. / THF170784
Eager to share his efforts, Akines communicated his news to the Chicago Defender, the Black newspaper in the then second-largest U.S. city, Chicago, Illinois. It reported that "Akines, a bricklayer who indulges in sculpturing as a hobby," gave Ford a plaster cast of Carver, and that Ford's secretary and Carver himself acknowledged his generosity ("Bricklayer-Sculpturor [sic] is Lauded for Bust of Carver," July 12, 1941).
It is difficult to know whether others who cast busts of Carver influenced Akines' approach. For example, German-born Steffen Thomas (1906–1990) sculpted a clay model of Carver during a 1936 visit to Tuskegee. This was the model from which he cast the sculpture recognizing Carver's 40 years of service to Tuskegee. The gift received media coverage at the time Carver received it in 1937 and appeared prominently during the dedication of the Carver Museum in 1941, given its location on a plinth outside the museum.
George Washington Carver and Austin W. Curtis, Jr., at Tuskegee Institute with Sculpture by Steffen Thomas, circa 1938. / THF213732
These last two examples indicate more recent commemorations of Black historical figures. One represents a respectful but commercial venture, and the other an exceptional recognition.
Commemorative Bust of Rosa Parks (1913–2005), designed by Sarah's Attic, Inc., 1995. / THF98391
A popular Michigan-based figurine manufacturer, Sarah's Attic., Inc., released a limited-edition bust of rights activist Rosa Parks in 1995. Cast of synthetic resin and hand-painted, it was one of four "Faces of Courage" in the Black Heritage Collection. The others featured abolitionist Harriet Tubman, a Buffalo Soldier, and a Tuskegee Airman. The Rosa Parks bust was one of 9,898 made and distributed through a commercial contract, with Sarah's Attic holding the copyright and Rosa Parks holding the license.
Commemorative Bust of Detroit Lions Tight End Charlie Sanders (1946–2015), 2007. / THF165543
This cast metal bust of the Detroit Lions' legendary tight end Charlie Sanders exists because of his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall commissioned Tuck Langland, an artist and retired university educator, to cast Sanders. Langland first created a bust out of clay based on photographs and a visit with Sanders. That clay statue became the model for the cast bronze bust displayed in the Hall of Fame Gallery in Canton, Ohio, and the copy presented to Sanders (and later donated to The Henry Ford).
So many variables exist in the business of commemoration.
When Isaac Scott Hathaway created respectful sculptures of Black Americans, he challenged white exceptionalism. Who decided who received recognition? Hathaway. What criteria informed his decisions? He selected subjects he respected, but as an educator, he selected people with lessons to teach, and as a businessman, he selected subjects that would sell. Disagreements over selections can derail seemingly straightforward acknowledgment.
What form should the recognition take? Hathaway mass-produced inexpensive plaster casts. Others create one-of-a-kind sculpture or mass-produce limited-edition items. Other recognition in the form of a historical marker or a street sign can draw attention to places of significance and the people who lived there.
Recognition of Black accomplishments remains important—in fact, critical—to understanding the human experience.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "The New Negro and the Black Image: From Booker T. Washington to Alain Locke." Freedom's Story, TeacherServe©. National Humanities Center.
"The Hathaway Family: A Journey from Slavery to Civil Rights," a paper compiled by scholars Yvonne Giles, Reinette Jones, Henri Linton, Brian McDade, Quantia "Key" M. Fletcher, and Mark Wilson, based in materials at these institutions: Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; the Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum, Lexington, Kentucky; the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Tuskegee University Archives, Tuskegee, Alabama; the University Museum and Cultural Center, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. (n.d.).
"Isaac Scott Hathaway," a product of the Appalachian Teaching Project, Auburn University, and the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center (2012).
"Isaac Scott Hathaway: Artist and Teacher," Negro History Bulletin, vol. 21, no. 4 (January 1958), pp. 74, 78-81.
Perry, Rhussus L. Federal Writers' Project Interview of Isaac Hathaway. February 2, 1939. Folder 60, Coll. 03709, Federal Writers' Project papers, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Register, Heather. "Isaac Scott Hathaway (1872-1967)." Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
Zinkula, Jacob. "South Bend Artist Busts His Way into Football Hall of Fame." South Bend Tribune. 13 July 2015.
Debra A. Reid is Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford, and sends appreciation to Saige Jedele and Sophia Kloc for comments that strengthened this post.
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Model (i) Educator
February 4, 2022 Innovation Impact
Teacher and Model i practitioner Spencer Kiper.
For years, The Henry Ford has been committed to providing unique learning resources and experiences for educators, drawing on lessons from our past to inspire the next generation. At the core of these learning resources is Model i, a unique learning framework which provides an interdisciplinary language and approach for teaching innovation learning based on the Actions of Innovation and Habits of an Innovator.
When Spencer Kiper, a middle school teacher in Bossier City, Louisiana, traveled to Dearborn in 2017 to receive The Henry Ford's 2017 Teacher Innovator Award, Model i might have been in its infancy, but Kiper was hooked and put it into action in his classroom.
Designed to spark an innovative mindset, The Henry Ford's Model i framework promotes something even more fundamental: a sense of what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes. "Understanding the perspective of others, or the struggles or strifes of groups of people, that is something we don't spend a great deal of time doing in education," said Kiper, who was also the 2019 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year. "With Model i, this is the first thing you do. From the get-go, it inspires a very different kind of feel in the classroom."
Connecting schools to The Henry Ford's collections, Model i intrigued Kiper during his 2017 visit to The Henry Ford. He'd been looking for ways to fuel design-inspired thinking and problem-solving skills in his middle school STEM students—a framework that could generate fresh, insightful solutions and streamline coursework. At the time, Model i was in its early stages, much of its substance not yet finalized. That didn't deter Kiper from dropping basic Model i concepts into his classroom.
"One of the biggest hurdles I face as a teacher is overcoming that 'I can't do this because I'm not creative' mentality," said Kiper, who believes Model i is a roadmap back to creativity that hasn't been nurtured over time. "By starting with small problems, you allow students to ease their toe back into being creative and see little wins, little successes. And then you introduce them to the big problems. That's a pretty big dividend."
Spencer Kiper's Destination Imagination team constructed a working cardboard arcade to compete against teams from around the world at a recent Destination Imagination global final.
According to Phil Grumm, senior manager of learning services and on-site programs at The Henry Ford, educators like Kiper have become pseudo co-authors of the ever-evolving framework. "When you put Model i into the hands of an expert teacher and superuser like Spencer, he finds his own connections and relevance, and deploys it in creative and innovative ways we never intended nor anticipated."
For Kiper and his students, Model i was a natural fit with STEM on Screen, a film festival/mini invention convention Kiper had created to bring industry leaders to students to give real-world feedback on their world-enhancing innovations. It also found applications in his Campus 2 Campus Connection with Centenary College of Louisiana, which gave pre-med biology students the opportunity to strengthen empathy skills by mentoring Kiper's STEM class. "Studying our artifacts and stories shows us that empathy is a critical habit for innovators to practice and develop to not only solve relevant problems but identify them in the first place," said Grumm.
Kiper likes to praise Model i's focus on de-stigmatizing failure and explaining why mistakes must be baked into every creative process. Embedding failure into learning also makes teachers better prepared to teach, which is why Kiper, who was recently named instructional technologist for Caddo Parish, Louisiana, readily employs Model i in his teacher education courses. "As an ideological concept, it can be placed in any sort of educational context and see success," he said. "It's a fun and engaging way of learning that's going to stay with you for the long haul."
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This post was adapted from an article by Susan Zweig in the June–December 2020 issue of The Henry Ford Magazine.
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William Holmes McGuffey and His Popular Readers
January 12, 2022 Archive Insight
Portrait of William Holmes McGuffey reading a book, circa 1860. / THF110186
William Holmes McGuffey's Eclectic Readers were both successful and influential. Between 1836 (when the readers were first introduced) and 1850, seven million copies of them were sold. During the second half of the 1800s, they became the most widely circulated textbooks in the United States, influencing the outlooks and perspectives of such luminaries as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and the Wright brothers. How did the readers come to be, and why did they have such tremendous appeal?
A letter from President Taft to Henry Ford testifying about the importance of McGuffey Readers in his life, 1924. / THF96603
McGuffey's Influences
Many factors contributed to the creation and content of McGuffey's readers, including his heritage, family background, and experiences growing up.
William Holmes McGuffey's family was part of a group of immigrants to America who were often referred to as Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish). These people were Presbyterians from the Scottish Lowlands who had migrated to Ulster, in northern Ireland, over several centuries into the early 1700s. Religious restrictions and economic conditions had motivated members of this group to emigrate to America during the 1700s, and many of them settled in Pennsylvania—a colony that offered affordable land for settlement and the assurance of religious freedom. As land became increasingly unobtainable in the East, many Scots-Irish immigrants headed west and south to the edges of European settlement. In these scattered frontier communities, the Presbyterian Church remained a stabilizing force, and its tenets would become a major influence on the later McGuffey Readers.
The McGuffey family followed a similar pattern of migration to other Scots-Irish. William Holmes McGuffey's paternal grandparents, William ("Scotch Billy") and Ann McGuffey, landed in Philadelphia in 1774, then moved farther west to York County, where they purchased land for a small farm. In 1789, they moved again, to Washington County in western Pennsylvania—then considered the edge of the settlement or the western frontier. There, cheap land had recently become available to white settlers (see "William Holmes McGuffey's Birthplace" for more on this). William's maternal grandparents, Henry and Jane Holmes, had also moved to Washington County about this same time. Their farmstead, named Rural Grove, was close to the McGuffey place. This was undoubtedly how William's parents, Alexander McGuffey and Anna Holmes, met.
The McGuffey birthplace as it stands today in Greenfield Village. / THF1969
Alexander and Anna were married just before Christmas 1797. Their first home was the log house now in Greenfield Village. This house, situated on the Holmes farmstead, had likely been Henry and Jane Holmes's initial home before they constructed a larger frame house. Alexander and Anna's first three children were born here: Jane (1799), William Holmes (1800), and Henry (1802).
William's parents played a particularly significant role in young William's life. His restless father, Alexander, embodied the values of individualism, adventure, risk-taking, and making one's own way in the world. His mother, Anna—who was serious, pious, intelligent, and literate—enjoyed the stability of the Scots-Irish community in which they lived.
This 1870 Currier & Ives print of a settler's family and their log home gives an impression—albeit a romanticized one—of what living on the sparsely settled frontier might have been like. / THF200600
In 1802—only two years after William Holmes was born—Alexander's restlessness spurred the young family to move west into the Ohio Territory, to a sparsely settled area known at the time as the Connecticut Western Reserve. Here, the family settled on 160 wooded acres and established a small farm. Five more children were born there: Anna (1804), Catherine (1807), Elizabeth (1809), Asenath (1811), and Alexander Hamilton (1816). William spent his youth on this fairly isolated farmstead on the Ohio frontier.
At the time, the Ohio frontier was considered the edge of settlement—for white settlers, anyway. Although travelers and white settlers at the time described this area as a "howling wilderness" or the "solitary wilds," in fact Native Americans had inhabited the region for thousands of years. By the time Europeans (primarily French and British fur traders) arrived in the 1700s, several Native American tribes had recently moved into the area. These included the Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Seneca-Cayuga—who had all migrated or been forced to settle there during that time from other places in the north, east, south, and west.
A hand-cut silhouette of George Washington, created around the time of his presidency. / THF142004
The influx of American settlers into Ohio with the passage of the Land Ordinance Act (1785) and the Northwest Ordinance (1787) spurred the American government—which had never truly recognized Native rights of land ownership—to evict the Native Americans from these lands. In the 1780s, a series of treaties was attempted. When these proved essentially unsuccessful, a frustrated President Washington decided to use brute force instead. He commanded a successive series of military generals to drive the Native tribes out of Ohio. Eventually, General Anthony Wayne declared victory in 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. (William's father, Alexander, had been involved in this and previous battles in what became known as the Ohio Indian Wars of the 1790s.) The resulting Treaty of Greenville in 1795 pushed Ohio's Native tribes into a demarcated section of northwest Ohio, until they were forced out of Ohio completely in the early 1800s.
In 1795 (the same year as the Treaty of Greenville), Connecticut, which had been deeded the strip of land in northeast Ohio Territory known as the Western Reserve back in 1662, sold this land to a group of speculators. They surveyed the land, neatly dividing it into townships and then assigning land agents who sold individually marked lots to incoming white settlers. Within about ten years, Ohio essentially shifted from "Indian Country" to a territory rapidly filling up with white settlers. In 1803, Ohio became the 17th state admitted to the United States, though the Western Reserve area in northeastern Ohio remained fairly sparsely settled until after the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. Though only some of William Holmes McGuffey's neighbors were—like him—Scots-Irish Presbyterians from western Pennsylvania, many shared the similar experience of adapting to the Ohio frontier from more settled communities farther east.
McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic First Reader, 1848. / THF289925
As part of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, schooling and education had been encouraged, but the ordinance charter did not create a system for establishing or funding schools. The children of more well-to-do families paid tuition to attend private schools, called academies, where both boys and girls received rudimentary training in classics, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
While education was considered a high priority by New Englanders and Scots-Irish Presbyterians settling in Ohio, many farm families—especially those migrating to the area from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky—often lacked the money and inclination to ensure that their children received a formal education. In 1818, a traveler remarked that the schools in Ohio were very few in number and "wretched" in conditions.
William Holmes McGuffey received a better education than most children raised on the Ohio frontier. In his early years, his mother taught him basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she was always attempting to find ways for William to receive more education. She eventually succeeded in finding a school for him to attend in Youngstown, six miles away, run by Presbyterian minister Rev. William Wick, and William quickly developed a passion for learning. At the completion of his studies, Rev. Wick informed William that he had now received enough education to teach others and encouraged him to open a school. As a result, in September 1814, 14-year-old William McGuffey held his first "subscription school" at Calcutta, Ohio, for 48 students. His students, whose parents paid a fee for their instruction, brought their own books, with the Bible being the most common.
Two years later, and for the next four years, McGuffey attended the Old Stone Academy in Darlington, in western Pennsylvania. He then enrolled in Washington College, a Scots-Irish Presbyterian school located in Washington, Pennsylvania—ironically only a few miles from where he had been born. For the next six years, William alternated between working on his family's farm in Ohio, teaching school, and attending classes at Washington. As he tried to educate others in the scattered and isolated settlements of the western frontier, he got a true sense of how desperately children needed an easy, standardized way of learning to read and write.
McGuffey's Eclectic Second Reader, 1836. / THF289931
William completed his formal schooling at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a Presbyterian school, then taught there for the next 10 years (1826–36). By the 1830s, Ohio's population had grown tremendously, and many public schools were opening. McGuffey saw a great need for a system of standardized education, especially for children of immigrants and those living in the scattered settlements of the West (now the Midwest) and South. In the mid-1830s, Truman & Smith, a Cincinnati publishing company, invited him to prepare a new series of textbooks to be marketed in the Midwest.
McGuffey worked to make his Eclectic Readers interesting and accessible to children, based on his observations while he was a teacher. An important difference from the few earlier textbooks that existed in America was that these were purposefully developed as a series, with each reader intended to be progressively more difficult and challenging than the one preceding it. He completed his first and second readers in 1836 and the primer, third, and fourth readers in 1837. William's younger brother, Alexander, compiled the fifth reader in 1844 and the sixth in 1857.
Cover page of McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide; or Fifth Reader, 1853, owned by Bishop Milton Wright, father of Orville and Wilbur Wright. / THF250428
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers were called "eclectic" because they included stories, poems, essays, and speeches drawn from a variety of sources. The primer and the first two readers consisted mainly of brief, simple tales and lessons. The more advanced readers included excerpts from orations, scripture, and English literature.
When students completed a reader, they moved on to the next level. With time off for harvest and farm chores, rural pupils might get no further than the second reader before completing their education in their mid-teens, which would provide reading skills equal to about a third- or fourth-grade level today.
Inside pages and outside cover of McGuffey's New Second Eclectic Reader, 1865. / THF59806
The McGuffey Readers had a huge impact on American society, especially in the Midwest and South. The books not only taught youngsters to read; they were also often their primary source of information about history, philosophy, and science. For many schoolchildren, the excerpts in the readers from the works of authors like Shakespeare and Wordsworth were the closest they would get in their lifetimes to the Western world's great literature. The stories in the readers also helped establish common understandings, heroes, values, and even expressions among a wide group of Americans. For example, when President Theodore Roosevelt claimed that he did not wish to be a "Meddlesome Matty," everyone knew what he meant. He was referring to a character in McGuffey's fourth reader who snooped and meddled in other people's affairs.
The kind of practical morality that McGuffey advocated in these books was based on his own upbringing and Scots-Irish Presbyterian background. The ideal character traits that were emphasized in the readers—industry, thrift, temperance, kindness, virtue—all reflected Presbyterian values. As the series was updated in 1841, 1844, 1857, 1866, and 1879, the publishers gradually muted its overt religious messages. But they never lost McGuffey's original emphasis on moral instruction.
Over time, critics have attacked McGuffey's readers for such flaws as not addressing the injustices of slavery, referring to Native Americans as "savages," having anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic overtones, and reinforcing the traditional role of women as homemakers. McGuffey himself revised some of his text over successive editions. Still, the readers are of their place, their time, and the background and life experiences of their author.
Henry Ford and McGuffey's Readers
Henry Ford perusing a McGuffey reader inside the McGuffey Birthplace, Greenfield Village, 1940. / THF126110
Henry Ford was among the last generation of children to be educated by the McGuffey Readers. Ford considered McGuffey one of his great heroes because of his ability to spark young imaginations. He believed that the books were successful because they used a narrative approach that spoke to the time and place of readers like himself.
Henry Ford had this reader, originally published in 1885, reprinted in 1930 for use in his Edison Institute Schools. / THF288332
McGuffey Readers had a deep and lasting influence on Henry Ford. They were among the earliest objects reflecting the American experience that Henry Ford collected, beginning in the 1910s. Ford bought every copy that he could find—amassing, by the 1930s, a collection of 468 copies of 145 different editions. A strong believer in McGuffey's educational principles, Ford perpetuated these beliefs by founding the Edison Institute Schools. He even had the readers reprinted so that the children in the schools could use them.
Edison Institute schoolchildren exiting McGuffey School, 1937–40. / THF286354
Ford commemorated McGuffey's role in educational reform by rebuilding his birthplace in Greenfield Village and constructing a school out of barn logs from the original farmstead where McGuffey was born. William Holmes McGuffey School served as the second-grade classroom for the students attending Edison Institute Schools from 1934 until the school system was closed in 1969.
Donna R. Braden is Senior Curator and Curator of Public Life at The Henry Ford.
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Mentorship in Music: Waajeed of Underground Music Academy
December 21, 2021 Innovation Impact
Waajeed. / Photo by Bill Bowen
Waajeed has worn many hats in his musical career. Besides the stylish Borsalino he usually sports, he's been the DJ for rap group Slum Village, half of R&B duo Platinum Pied Pipers, an acclaimed producer of hip-hop and house music, and proprietor of his own label, Dirt Tech Reck. But it's his latest venture that feels closest to his heart: educator.
The 45-year-old Detroit native is now the director of the Underground Music Academy (UMA), a school set to launch in 2022 that will guide students through every step of tackling the music industry obstacle course. "You can learn how to make the music, put it out, publish it, own your company, and reap the benefits," he said of his vision for UMA. "A one-stop shop."
Photo by Bill Bowen
While Waajeed initially broke into music via hip-hop, UMA will, at least at first, focus on electronic dance music. Detroit is internationally renowned for techno, a form of electronic dance music first created in the Motor City in the mid-1980s by a group of young African American producers and DJs. But as the music exploded globally, particularly in Europe, techno became associated with a predominantly white audience. While Detroit's pioneers were busy abroad introducing the music to foreign markets, the number of new, young Black practitioners at home kept dwindling.
UMA's initial spark hit Waajeed a few years ago, when he was spending endless hours on planes and in airports, jetting to DJ gigs around the world. "On almost every flight I jumped on, I didn't see a lot of people that looked like me, and it didn't feel right," he said. "All of this energy that's being put into building Europe's connection to our music and our past and our history, and it's like, this needs to be happening in our own backyard. It was an awakening."
Waajeed performing at Brunch Electronik Lisboa in Portugal. / Photo courtesy Brunch in the Park
Waajeed spoke to Mike Banks, a founder of the fiercely independent techno collective Underground Resistance, about how best to communicate to younger Black listeners that this music, primarily associated with Germans and Brits for the last 30 years, is actually an African American art form. The genesis of UMA flowed from their discussions. Waajeed described Underground Resistance's credo of self-determination and mentorship as "a moral and business code that's been the landmark cornerstone for our community."
Another huge inspiration came from older musicians like Amp Fiddler, a keyboardist for Parliament-Funkadelic whose home in Detroit's Conant Gardens neighborhood was close to Waajeed's high school, Pershing. Whenever Waajeed and his friends (like future hip-hop producer J Dilla) skipped class, they'd end up in Fiddler's basement, where he taught the teens how to use instruments and recording gear. "It started with people like Amp," Waajeed said, "taking these disobedient kids in the neighborhood and giving us a shot in his basement, to trust us to come down there and use what felt like million-dollar equipment at the time, teaching us how to use those drum machines and keyboards. Amp put us in the position to be great at music."
After years in the making, Waajeed is hoping to welcome students to the physical space for his Underground Music Academy in 2022. It will be located on Detroit's East Grand Boulevard, near the internationally known Motown Museum. / Photo by Bill Bowen
Waajeed hopes UMA will institutionalize that same "each one teach one" tradition, not only with respect to music-making but also business and social acumen. "I heard stories about people who worked with Motown that would teach you what forks to use so you could sit down for a formal dinner, and that's what I'm more interested in," he said. "As much as being a beat maker is important, it's just as important to be a person who is adamant about your business: knowing how to handle yourself the first time you go on tour, or how to set up publishing companies and bank accounts for those companies. That's what we're trying to do, to make that instruction more available so you have no excuses to fail."
Until the physical space is ready to host students—scheduled for 2022, though the COVID-19 pandemic may alter that plan—UMA is concentrating on video tutorials that can be watched online, as well as fundraising, curriculum planning, and brainstorming about how best to reach the academy's future pupils.
Waajeed sits on the steps of the future Underground Music Academy in Detroit. / Photo by Bill Bowen
"The result of this is something that will happen in another generation from us. We just need to plant the seed so that this thing will grow and be something of substance five or ten years from now," Waajeed said. "I would be happy with a new generation of techno producers, but I would be happier with a new generation of producers creating something that has never been done before."
Mike Rubin is a writer living in Brooklyn. This post was adapted from "Where Can Sound Take Us?," an article in the June–December 2021 issue of The Henry Ford Magazine.
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Scotch Settlement School: A Community Christmas Celebration
December 20, 2021 Archive Insight
Scotch Settlement School in Greenfield Village. / Photo courtesy of Jeanine Miller
Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village offers an engaging look into the ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past. At Scotch Settlement School, the holiday vignette reflects the Christmas programs that took place in the thousands of one-room schoolhouses that once dotted the landscape of rural America.
Students and teacher pose outside their rural one-room school in Summerville, South Carolina, about 1903. / THF115900
The schoolhouse—often the only public building in the neighborhood—was a center of community life in rural areas. It was not only a place where children learned to read, write, and do arithmetic, but might also serve as a place to attend church services, go to Grange meetings, vote in elections, or listen to a debate.
Students dressed in patriotic costumes for a school program, pageant, or parade, about 1905. / THF700057
People in rural communities particularly looked forward to the programs put on by the students who attended these schools—local boys and girls who ranged in age from about seven to the mid-teens. School programs were often presented throughout the year for occasions such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays, Arbor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and eighth-grade graduation. People came from miles around to country schools to attend these events.
Handwritten Christmas program from Blair School, Webster County, Iowa, December 23, 1914. / THF700097, THF700098
Among the most anticipated events that took place at the schoolhouse was the Christmas program—it was a highlight of the rural winter social season. Preparations usually started right after Thanksgiving as students began learning poems and other recitations, rehearsing a play, or practicing songs. Every child was included. Students might have their first experience in public speaking or singing before an audience at these school programs.
Interior of Scotch Settlement School during Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village. / Photo courtesy of Jeanine Miller.
The schoolroom was often decorated for the occasion, sometimes with a Christmas tree. During the late 1800s, when the presence of Christmas trees was not yet a widespread tradition, many children saw their first Christmas tree at the school Christmas program. Presents like candy, nuts, fruit, or mittens—provided by parents or other members of the community—were often part of the event. Growing up in 1870s frontier Iowa, writer Hamlin Garland recalled the local minister bringing a Christmas tree to the schoolhouse one Christmas—a tree with few candles or shiny decorations, but one loaded with presents. Forty years later, Garland vividly remembered the bag of popcorn he received that day.
Teachers were often required to organize at least two programs a year. Teachers who put on unsuccessful programs might soon find themselves out of a teaching position. Teachers in rural schools usually came from a similar background to their students—often from the same farming community—so an observant teacher would have understood the kind of school program that would please students, parents, and the community.
Children at times performed in buildings so crowded that audience members had to stand along the edges of the classroom. Sometimes there wasn't room for everyone to squeeze in. To see their parents and so many other members of the community in the audience helped make these children aware that the adults in their lives valued their schoolwork. This encouraged many of the students to appreciate their opportunity for education—even if they didn't fully realize it until years later. Some children might even have been aware of how these programs contributed to a sense of community.
Postcard with the handwritten message, "Our school have [sic] a tree & exercises at the Church across from the schoolhouse & we all have a part in it," from 11-year-old Ivan Colman of Tuscola County, Michigan, December 1913. / THF146214
These simple Christmas programs—filled with recitations, songs, and modest gifts—created cherished lifelong memories for countless children.
Jeanine Head Miller is Curator of Domestic Life at The Henry Ford. Many thanks to Sophia Kloc, Office Administrator for Historical Resources at The Henry Ford, for editorial preparation assistance with this post.
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Seamstress for Social Justice
November 5, 2021 Think THF
Sara Trail oversees a workshop at a Memphis high school. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
In 2017, at age 22, Sara Trail launched the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA) to empower youth to advocate for social justice through textile making. Though she was notably young to found a nonprofit, she was not new to sewing. She took needle to cloth for the first time at age 4, under the guidance of her mother and grandmother, and quickly showed a propensity for it. Within a few years, she had gained mastery and could sew clothing, quilts, and upholstery. A wunderkind, by age 15, she had written a book for other kids, Sew with Sara, about how to sew and sell one's work, and licensed her own pattern and fabric collections.
She was, for all intents and purposes, content with her sewing practice. "I liked the freedom and independence it gave me," she recalled. "I liked the idea that I could make something that was going to last and that I could do something that a lot of other kids my age couldn't do."
And then her attitude—and self-expectation—changed profoundly in 2012, when Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager in Florida, was shot by a white man for no apparent reason other than he thought Martin looked suspicious. "I went from wanting to learn skills, make gifts, master something to knowing I needed to take the skills my mentors had given me and use them for a purpose," Trail said. She made a fabric portrait of Martin wearing the hoodie he had on the night he was shot, and that quilt became the seed of SJSA.
Sara Trail's handmade quilt, Rest in Power, commemorates the life of murdered Black teenager Trayvon Martin and marks her first experience combining her lifelong interest in sewing with social activism. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
Today, Trail describes the volunteer-run organization she founded as a 21st-century sewing circle that bridges social, racial, ethnic, generational, and geographic lines. The quilts begin in workshops in schools, community centers, and prisons across the United States. Participants, typically aged 12 and up, create art blocks to express their concerns, thoughts, and beliefs, gluing fabric in place if they are not inclined to sew.
Herstory, a 2018 SJSA community quilt, was created by students from the Alliance Gertz-Ressler High School in Los Angeles. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
The blocks are forwarded to volunteers around the world to finish the necessary stitching and join them together into a patchwork. Hundreds of SJSA quilts have gone on to be exhibited at quilt shows, museums, and galleries nationwide.
An SJSA embroidery volunteer sews along high school students during an embroidery workshop at the nonprofit Girls Garage in Berkeley, California. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
Trail often thinks back to the time in middle school when she was teaching sewing to kids in her neighborhood. "My class was $75 and my students were rich white kids. Low-income kids couldn't pay that much to learn how to make something they may or may not have even liked in the end or end up using. Through conversations, especially with my parents, I realized what a privilege it was to make."
SJSA students can proudly display their participation on their clothing. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
She now seeks to pass on that privilege, an understanding of the power that resides in our hands, to make textiles—and to make change.
This block, made by SJSA participant Autumn Roberts during a workshop on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, is a statement about culture and tribe. Her artist statement: "…I created this as an image of what had happened at the DAPL [Dakota Access Pipeline protest] camp. I shall be the change the reservation will wish to see. / Photo courtesy Social Justice Sewing Academy
"I want to make sewing accessible and equitable," Trail said. "I want to make quilts that matter."
Visit these links to learn more about the modern quilt movement and a quilt from our collection with a racial equity message. You can also check out all of our blog posts on quilts, and browse images of hundreds of quilts from our collections.
Melanie Falick is an independent writer, editor, and creative director. This post was adapted from "Keeping in Touch," an article in the June–December 2021 issue of The Henry Ford Magazine on Issuu.
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Five-time salivary gland cancer survivor faces life with a smile
BY Cynthia DeMarco
Kelly Mireles' smile is the facial feature most people notice when first meeting her. That alone is a minor miracle.
Kelly had most of her jawbone removed in March 2015 after a salivary gland cancer recurrence. Her mandible was rebuilt by MD Anderson surgeons in May 2016 using part of her fibula, a non-weight-bearing leg bone. Today, with the help of an oral prosthesis, Kelly is able to eat, speak and even smile again.
"I had a really hard time with it at first, and in some situations, I still feel a bit self-conscious," Kelly admits. "But even when I had scars and a brace on my face, I went out and did things. I tried not to let cancer affect who I was and what I wanted to do."
A salivary gland cancer diagnosis
Kelly first noticed a lump on the right side of her face in late 2008. She saw a dentist, an ENT and a chiropractor, who ruled out tooth and sinus problems, as well as TMJ. But they also offered her no other possible causes.
It took mentioning a twitching eye and a trembling lip to her gynecologist to finally get answers. "He sent me to an ENT oncologist, who did some scans," Kelly says. "Sure enough, there was a tumor."
Kelly was diagnosed with stage I adenocarcinoma on her right parotid gland — a rare oral cancer in the primary salivary gland — in October 2009. She had surgery near her home in San Antonio, followed by chemotherapy and radiation. But the cancer returned four more times over seven years, which required more surgeries, more chemotherapy and more radiation.
When the salivary gland cancer returned the last time in February 2016, her plastic surgeon had just moved to Houston and her ENT oncologist had stopped practicing. "I figured that was a sign we needed a different set of eyes looking at this," Kelly says.
Fourth recurrence leads to MD Anderson
Kelly called MD Anderson in March 2016 and made an appointment with Carol Lewis, M.D., Patrick Garvey, M.D., and the rest of her care team. They recommended surgery to remove more of Kelly's jawbone and create a new one using her fibula. After that, she'd receive concurrent chemotherapy and proton therapy.
"Doing chemo and proton therapy at the same time was the most brutal treatment I've ever experienced," Kelly says. "But I needed something aggressive because I couldn't keep doing this."
The surgery took place in May 2016, and Kelly began six weeks of daily treatments at the Proton Therapy Center. She also started taking low doses of the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, and she considers herself lucky that she didn't really lose her hair this time.
"It just thinned a little bit, and I never felt nauseous," she says.
Dealing with diet restrictions
The hardest part for Kelly has been learning what she can and can't eat.
"I have all my top teeth and two on the bottom in the very back, so I can still chew things, even without the prosthesis," she explains. "But I have a very dry mouth, so I always have to have water."
To avoid irritating her mouth and tongue, Kelly eats only very bland foods. Sauces, seasonings, chocolate, carbonated drinks and alcohol are things of the past.
"I love food, so it's been a challenge," she says. "And I'm a huge Italian food person, but I can't eat any of that. I can eat a steak if I cut it up small enough, but it's still a very limited diet."
Making peace with her 'new normal'
Today, Kelly has made peace with both her appearance and her dietary restrictions. She's had no evidence of disease for seven months, and she's grateful to have more time with her children.
"Honestly, it's a blessing I'm even here," she says. "With my type of cancer, statistics say I shouldn't have even survived the second round, much less the fifth, so I accept what I have."
Proton Therapy Treatment Chemotherapy Oral Cancer
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Honestly, it's a blessing I'm even here. | {
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G4. Owl with Drums. A painted plastic owl is meant to deter birds and mice from nesting among drums of transuranic waste contaminated with plutonium and other long-lived radioactive heavy elements. Nuclear weapons research, design, and development generated most waste stored here. Transuranic Waste Storage Dome, Building 48 East, Technical Area 54, Area G, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. 24 February 1994. | {
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Just a heads up on a few new jigs/techniques. In order to keep dust and such out of the box during final sanding and prep, I blew up a balloon while dangled in the box, then tied it off.
I am now using a recently completed neck shaping jig. It's just a vise mounted platform that allows me access to shave and shape the neck. | {
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Jen Itzenson
Jen Itzenson is a writer who lives in New York.
The Chronicles of a Lost New York
By Jen Itzenson
In 1962, when Kevin Walsh was six years old, all of the lampposts suddenly vanished from his block of Sixth Avenue in Bay Ridge. ...
The Experimental Geography of Trevor Paglen
Last May, Trevor Paglen, a 32-year-old artist and self-described "experimental geographer," flew to Kabul to photograph a CIA prison that does not officially exist.
Brooklyn's Agee
In 1939, the writer James Agee moved to Flatbush to work on a magazine article about Brooklyn. By then, Agee was an established figure in New York's literary left, and he was on assignment for Fortune, which at the time was one of the most liberal magazines in the country. | {
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theartsdesk Radio Show 32: a conversation with Matt Johnson of The The
A two-hour chat with leading post-punk artist on fighting skyscrapers, an East End childhood, Johnny Marr and laziness
by Peter CulshawSaturday, 06 November 2021
Matt Johnson: a 'Charming Man'
Peter Culshaw's occasional global music radio show returns with a two-hour conversation with one of the most innovative and enduring post-punk artists.
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Matt Johnson, under his nom de guerre The The emerged into the shiny 1980s with some music that has lasted more than most, notably with the album Soul Mining with its classic songs and mix of despair and euphoria.
With its warm lyrics and unusual-for-the-time sounds like accordion and melodica, his work was opposite to the "Cold Wave" of the time with its Numanesque synths and automaton chic. Other albums we discuss and play extracts from in the show are more culty albums like his debut filmic Burning Blue Soul and the more experimental Mind Bomb.
We discuss, among other things, the London post-punk era of the likes of Scritti Politti and This Heat, being brought up in the famous/notorious pub The Two Puddings, haunt of pop stars and gangsters, being an autodidact and leaving school at 15 to work in a Soho studio. He talks about filming in South America, his conservation work trying to stop eyesore skyscrapers in the East End, and his long collaborations with the likes of guitar hero Johnny Marr. Unlike Marr's earlier collaborator Morrissey, who also dealt with existential angst, despair and flashes of joy, Johnson actually is a Charming Man, very bright and engaging.
Johnson had a 15-year break from releasing music, but did set up a publishing company and wrote film music for his brother's films and worked on The Inertia Variations, based on poems by John Tottenham. But he's back, baby, with The Comeback Special – a live album recorded at the Albert Hall two days after his dad died, and a fine film directed by Tim Pope.
We discuss the London post-punk era of the likes of Scritti Politti and This Heat
The The, Digbeth Arena, Birmingham review - Matt Johnson takes his political pop back on the road
theartsdesk Radio Show 31 - special guest: TV soundtrack maestro Dominik Scherrer
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CVC is buying 52 pct of the Italian pharma group for 3 bln euros, a valuation 18 pct below the market price. A share rally following the death of patriarch Giovanni Recordati did not match growth prospects. Minority shareholders must now decide whether to hold out for more.
Ancient medicines are displayed in "St. Maria della Scala" pharmacy, known as a pharmacy of the Pope, in Rome, Italy May 26, 2018.
A consortium of investment funds led by CVC Capital Partners agreed on June 29 to buy 51.8 percent of Italian pharma group Recordati from family holding Fimei for an enterprise value of 3.03 billion euros.
The Recordati family will receive the equivalent of 750 million euros in the form of a deferred subordinated long-term debt security, and the rest in cash.
The transaction implies an equity value for the company of 5.86 billion euros, or 28 euros per share. The implied price is 18 percent below Recordati's closing price of 34 euros on June 29.
Under Italian law, the buyers are required to launch a mandatory tender offer for minority shareholders, also at 28 euros per share. The consortium said it expected Recordati would remain a publicly listed company.
In the event that the Italian FTSE MIB index falls by more than 20 percent before the deal closes, the cash offer to minority shareholders will be lowered, Recordati said.
Shares in Recordati were down 14.3 percent to 29.2 euros at 0830 GMT on July 2. | {
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Quote from: waldo on August 14, 2022, 12:38:24 pm
Andrew Coyne G&M Aug 12: Where would Poilievre take the Conservatives? Not to the far right, but the far out
Quote from: waldo on August 15, 2022, 11:26:52 am
David Moscrop WAPO Aug 8: It's Poilievre's Conservative Party. That's bad news for Canada.
Michael Harris The Tyee Aug 12: Pierre Poilievre Is a Symptom of the Conservatives' Sickness - The party remains under the Harperites' spell — or curse.
Since Harper's forced retreat from public life to ride the gravy train of right-wing political consulting, the party has gotten it emphatically wrong.
Despite three straight electoral losses, one under Harper, and two under the leadership of Harper mini-clones from his cabinet, the Conservatives are poised to select Pierre Poilievre on Sept. 10 as their next leader. Stay tuned for the fourth bellyflop in a row at the national polls.
The Conservatives are still the party of "Make Harperism Great Again." Instead of taking the rejections of 2015, 2019 and 2021 as signs of the urgent need to reconstruct a party that had grown authoritarian, undemocratic and out of touch, they have doubled down on the policies that have turned them into the perpetual opposition, including fossil fuel worship, environmental myopia, anti-democratic practices and dismissiveness towards Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Poilievre is more of a Harper protégé than Andrew Scheer or Erin O'Toole ever were.
But once Poilievre has to speak to a national audience, his messages — Trudeau-bashing, threatening to fire the governor of the Bank of Canada, and hailing cryptocurrency as the answer to inflation — will draw more laughs than votes.
Some people have said that once the Conservative leadership race wobbles to its anti-climactic end, Poilievre will merely "pivot" to a more centrist position to appeal to a wider audience. O'Toole tried that, after running on the right to win the top job, and no one believed him when he changed his spots.
And Poilievre is a Harper Conservative through and through. So rather than pivot, it is much more likely he will double down on the stuff that brings smiles to the faces of people who think vaccine mandates are a bad idea.
skippy states "it's time to stand up for fundamental Canadian values"! Yet somehow Poilievre has yet to actually stand up and describe his personal understanding of just what 'Canadian values'... are fundamental and how they're presently being undercut/compromised/threatened! Anyone, anyone, anyone...
Arrivecan app for one. Who the f**k is the PM to tell me whether or not I can leave the country.
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Bubbermiley
Keep away from the memes. They're feeding you incorrect information and you haven't the literacy to know better.
Quote from: Bubbermiley on August 18, 2022, 01:06:26 pm
You're a mouthpiece for the powerful.
Ottawa is making plans to expand the capabilities of its ArriveCAN app even as criticism continues to mount over the mandatory online data-entry system for travellers entering the country.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-arrivecan-criticisms-airports-wait-times-1.6548504
You still haven't realized it says nothing about you not being allowed to leave the country? How could your reading comprehension be that bad?
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Right, just coming back. Like that's any better. You're a tool for the government, that intrudes on people's rights. Congratulations, Putin would be proud.
Poor baby had to quarantine? Awww!
IT'S LITERALLY CALLED ARRIVECAN LOL!
Quote from: Black Dog on August 18, 2022, 02:01:59 pm
And? It literally infringes on people's rights. So f**king what you tool for government.
Quote from: Elon Shady on August 18, 2022, 02:04:16 pm
So needing it to enter the country as a Canadian citizen is somehow better. You're the biggest f**king tool I've ever seen in my life. Anything to infringe in people's rights huh.
It's funny that you can't tell the difference between people defending the app and people making fun of you for thinking something called ArriveCAN somehow prevents you from leaving the country when you've never even left your Cheeto and jizz-stained mattress in your basement.
Hey now, your mom loves my mattress! That's a low blow.
Aren't you like 50 years old at this point? | {
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Il campionato italiano di calcio di Eccellenza regionale 2010-2011 è stato il ventesimo organizzato in Italia. Rappresenta il sesto livello del calcio italiano.
Questo è il girone organizzato dal Comitato Regionale Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Stagione
Al campionato di Eccellenza del Friuli Venezia Giulia partecipano 17 squadre: 11 hanno mantenuto la categoria, una è stata retrocessa dalla Serie D (Manzanese), 4 sono state promosse dalla Promozione (Spal Cordovado, Gemonese, più Buttrio e Chions finaliste ai play-off) e una, l'A.S.D. Itala San Marco Gradisca, è stata iscritta in sovrannumero dopo la mancata iscrizione in Seconda Divisione.
Squadre partecipanti
Classifica finale
a fine campionato A.C.Monfalcone e A.R.Fincantieri si fondono nella U.F.M. (Unione Fincantieri Monfalcone)
Risultati
Tabellone
Spareggi
Play-off
Nell'Eccellenza Friuli V.G. non sono previsti i play-off per il secondo posto: la seconda classificata accede direttamente ai play-off nazionali
Play-out
dato che dalla Serie D retrocedono 2 squadre regionali (Kras e Torviscosa) e dovendo ritornare l'Eccellenza 2011-12 a 16 squadre quest'anno retrocedono direttamente le ultime 3 classificate mentre 13ª e 14ª disputano il play-out
Fase Regionale Coppa Italia Dilettanti
La coppa è stata vinta dal Fontanafredda che in finale ha battuto 2-1 la I.S.M. Gradisca.
Note
Bibliografia
Uomini e Gol Stagione 2010-11 di Nicola Binda e Roberto Cominoli - Edizioni uominiegol.com, Ramate di Casale Corte Cerro (VB) (ha pubblicato tutte le classifiche ufficiali dei campionati fino alla Promozione tratte da tutti i comunicati ufficiali regionali).
Collegamenti esterni
Friuli | {
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He seems to think that he is entitled to the power that comes from his ethnicity. Despite his own racist attitudes, he aims to depict himself as a progressive politician that demands..
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34 It would take a few days to assemble the army and the anti-education movement in united states essay travel from London to the west country, therefore initial defence was left to local militias. See a complete list of the characters in 1984 and in-depth analyses of Winston Smith, Julia, and OBrien. Joseph Satten, in collaboration with three colleagues, Karl Menninger, Irwin Rosen, and Martin Mayman, the article is chilling in its delineation of a criminally intentioned mind: In attempting to assess the criminal responsibility of murderers, the law tries to divide them (as it does all. It is revealed that an antique engraving on the wall of the rented room concealed a telescreen and that. Though some sources say it took eight blows, the official Tower of London website says it took five blows, 73 while Charles Spencer, in his book Blenheim, claims it was seven. According to Ruth Paine, Marina was worried about Lees mental state. I was shocked when I heard he had killed Kennedy. 43 Monmouth again denounced the king in Chard 44 and was the subject of a coronation in Taunton on, against the wishes of some of his republican supporters such as Wade. 77 Literary references edit The Monmouth Rebellion and the events surrounding it have formed the basis for several works of fiction. And I remember his voice cracked as he said this. His need to protest festered as he strove to gain recognition.
Sometime later, in a corridor at the Ministry of Truth, Winston sees the same woman trip and fall on her arm, which is in a sling. A man like Oswald needed a stage to show the world he was a true revolutionary. At one time during the final year of their lives together some members of the émigré community rescued Marina but she returned to her husband after a two week separation. | {
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Q: Querying with dbt from external source I have the following issue:
*
*I have an AWS S3 pipeline that on a daily basis a single json.gz files is spit.
*I wish to take that file with dbt and put it into snowflake (no snowpipe use atm)
I have managed to do this by creating a storage integration and I have manually created with my role (used for running dbt) a schema and assing usage on that schema. So far so good.
Then I read about this:
https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt-external-tables
Problem is that this is the only way this runs properly, I had to alter my dbt profiles.yml, set the default schema to be S3_MIXPANEL with default database RAW_DEV, run a different target and role on that with --target 'ingest_dev' parameter.
I keep thinking that there should be a more sophisticated solution, where I can create schema's and query metadata and use something like {{ source() }} so I can point my documentation somehow that this is an external source. This dbt-external-tables is not really well explained for my case here I think?
Please can anyone help me and share how to create schemas and query from external stages properly without changing default schema macro & dbtprofiles.yml each time?
I have succeeded to run the following code:
{{
config(
materialized ='incremental',
schema = generate_schema_name('S3_MIXPANEL')
)
}}
SELECT
metadata$filename as file_name,
to_date(SUBSTR(metadata$filename,16,10),'yyyy/mm/dd') as event_date,
$1 as payload,
CONVERT_TIMEZONE('Europe/London',TO_TIMESTAMP_tz($1:properties:mp_processing_time_ms::int / 1000)) as event_timestamp_converted,
CONVERT_TIMEZONE('Europe/London', current_timestamp) as ingested_at
from
@my_s3_stage
{% if is_incremental() %}
-- this filter will only be applied on an incremental run
WHERE event_date>(
SELECT
max(event_date)
FROM
{{ this }}
)
{% endif %}
{{ row_limit() }}
EDIT 22-06-20:
I have added the src_mixpanel.yml file in my models and ran the dbt command, however I had to also specify the data_types, so I added them too, then I apparently had to add the "macro" in my macros too (btw maybe a stupid question but I don't really know how to install your package, so I manually added all macros from yours into mine).
Now when I run this code:
dbt run-operation stage_external_sources
with
version: 2
sources:
- name: s3_mixpanel
database: RAW_DEV
tables:
- name: events
external:
location: '@my_s3_stage'
auto_refresh: false # depends on your S3 setup
partitions:
- name: event_date
expression: to_date(SUBSTR(metadata$filename,16,10),'yyyy/mm/dd')
data_type: date
- name: file_name
expression: metadata$filename
data_type: string
columns:
- name: properties
data_type: variant
I get an error:
Encountered an error while running operation: Compilation Error in macro stage_external_sources (macros/stage_external_sources.sql)
'dict object' has no attribute 'sources'
A: As the maintainer of the dbt-external-tables package, I'll share its opinionated view. The package believes that you should stage all external sources (S3 files) as external tables or with snowpipes first, in a process that includes as little confounding logic as possible. Then you can select from them, as sources, in dbt models, alongside all requisite business logic.
If my understanding is correct, you would stage your mixpanel data as below, in a file called (e.g.) models/staging/mixpanel/src_mixpanel.yml:
version: 2
sources:
- name: s3_mixpanel
database: raw_dev
tables:
- name: events
external:
location: '@my_s3_stage'
file_format: "( type = json )" # or a named file format
auto_refresh: false # depends on your S3 setup
partitions:
- name: event_date
expression: to_date(SUBSTR(metadata$filename,16,10),'yyyy/mm/dd')
columns:
- name: properties
data_type: variant
You would run this macro from the package to create the external table—and, after creation, to update its partition metadata if you don't have auto_refresh enabled (see Snowflake docs):
dbt run-operation stage_external_sources
You can then select from this source in an incremental model, like the one you have above. Now, event_date is a partition column on this external table, so filtering on it should enable Snowflake to prune files (though that's been inconsistent historically for dynamic, subquery-derived filters).
{{
config(
materialized ='incremental'
)
}}
SELECT
metadata$filename as file_name,
event_date,
value as payload,
properties:mp_processing_time_ms::int / 1000 as event_timestamp_converted,
CONVERT_TIMEZONE('Europe/London', current_timestamp) as modeled_at
from {{ source('s3_mixpanel', 'events' }}
{% if is_incremental() %}
-- this filter will only be applied on an incremental run
WHERE event_date >(
SELECT
max(event_date)
FROM
{{ this }}
)
{% endif %}
{{ row_limit() }}
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AMBER alert: check local media. LIC/242 GAU (MN) 2002 Red Kia Sportage.
Within minutes, Daisy Buenrostro calls 911 to report the car in her neighborhood, leading Minneapolis police to the abductor hiding 8-month-old Carlos Orozco in a basement nearby. Without Daisy's alert, little Carlos might still be missing.
Isn't Boulevard across the state?! She gets up, angry she'll be exhausted for her morning meeting. Days later, the missing teen is rescued in Idaho, reported by two horseback riders—who saw her on television, not through an alert.
Camp director Kathy Russotto and her counselors are busy with 29 young campers at the Sports World bubble dome in East Windsor, Conn. Russotto's phone rattles with a tornado warning. Within seconds, heavy rain begins. She whistles for the kids and pushes them toward the next building, yelling, "Get under the tables!" The dome starts to move as a counselor grabs a straggling 5-year-old. As Russotto leaves last, she hears a terrifying noise behind her. The dome is gone. Without the alert, the children might be gone, too.
Severe alert, watch for flash flooding until 12:30 AM.
The entire area on alert for rain? He's four floors up! He considers turning these things off.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is well aware of these actual success stories—and actual shortcomings. They've been tasked with helping to research and improve the situation. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) may have significant lifesaving potential. It's estimated that 60%-70% of U.S. citizens own a smartphone, and the numbers keep growing. And even when people tune out radio and television, they're glued to their smartphones. The WEA service may ultimately be the best method of reaching the most people. The impact can be life-changing—but not if people turn off the alerts.
Here's why people opt out: Messages often aren't relevant to those receiving them. For example, AMBER alerts can't glean tips from people who have been sound asleep for hours, and fires don't stop on a county's border. Such glitches even discourage proper authorities from using the system more widely.
Seeking researchers to make the service more relevant, the DHS in 2012 called for proposals that would address how wireless technology can be improved to generate more informative emergency alerts and how mobile devices can better filter alerts based on an individual's location and needs.
One of the researchers who submitted a proposal was Martin Griss, a software engineering expert and research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus (CMU-SV) who has expertise in both mobile technology and its use in disaster management. Hearing nothing back from the DHS, Griss assumed he wasn't selected. Perhaps it was just as well because he was planning to lessen his workload—to the delight of his wife, P'nina—so they could have more time to spend with their family and enjoy their retirement years.
Griss has had a busy career, including being CMU-SV director for four years—three longer than he says he intended. When he stepped down after the 2012-2013 academic year, he left behind a campus much different than the one he first encountered. From a solitary program that only served part-time students back then, CMU-SV today—part of the College of Engineering—now offers four graduate degrees, both full-time and part-time.
Easing into retirement for Griss was going according to plan until last November, when he opened an email. His 18-month proposal for nearly $1 million, written more than a year ago, had been accepted. Would it mean a change of plans for that reduced workload?
He's always been ready to upend plans to embark on a challenge, going back to his South African youth. He grew up in Johannesburg, loving math, science, and art. As college rolled around, he picked a pragmatic major—electrical engineering. His selection of a school wasn't quite as pragmatic. He chose Technion for its rigorous technical program. That part made sense. But it was located in Israel, and he only spoke limited, biblical Hebrew. No problem, he told the scholarship officer, he'd learn—and arriving for freshman year, he was well on the way. He soon witnessed a peculiar routine. The engineers were dismantling their dorm windows, laying them across tables to shine lights from underneath. Needing diagram copies and without a copy machine, they'd found another solution. Laying blueprints on the glass with sheets on top, they could trace copies. Painstaking and tedious work—and enough to convince Griss, with no hesitation, to switch to math and physics.
A few months later, he attended a student club with a friend. They spotted two girls. "You take the tall one, I'll take the short one," Griss whispered. The outgoing petite girl, P'nina, was interested in science and art, like him. The boys invited the girls out the next night and arrived at P'nina's home to pick them up. "He has very clever eyes!" P'nina's mother exclaimed of the young South African man who, amazingly, spoke to her in fluent Hebrew. P'nina agreed.
"That's how I made the transition to computer science," Griss says. "It kind of sucked me over to the dark side." He joined the faculty at the University of Utah and "got my own computer science degree by teaching all the courses." He also managed to squeeze in his artwork. The Grisses had come to Utah for a year but stayed nearly a decade.
In 1982, Griss took a yearlong sabbatical for a software engineering position in industry, at Hewlett Packard. Although he missed time with students, he so enjoyed product development that again, he scrapped his plans and stayed. "I was always a much more practical academic," he says. "It's exciting to make and build things." After two decades at HP, Griss retired in 2002. P'nina threw him a series of parties to celebrate. He'd have more time with family and artwork, at the time intricate silver jewelry.
Meanwhile, Carnegie Mellon was establishing a campus in Silicon Valley, offering an advanced degree in software engineering in the epicenter of high-tech business. The fledgling facility was located in NASA Research Park. The new director, aware of Griss' reputation in the software engineering community, asked him to help out. Intrigued, Griss agreed, but for "only a few hours a week." This turned to 10. Then 15. Then full-time again. Soon he was running the software engineering program. Then campus-wide education. Somehow, he still found time for his art—now metal sculpture, culled from salvaged scrap. The large creatures eventually adorned both home and campus. One 6-footer, affectionately dubbed The Beast, has become a permanent CMU-SV mascot that students playfully dress up for holidays.
When CMU-SV expanded its research effort in 2005, Griss, ever ready to break new ground, became director of research. Recognizing the potential of mobile communication, he established the Cylab Mobility Research Center in 2008, bringing in the first PhD students. The following year, they ran mobile computing workshops and received overwhelming interest in the topic of disaster response. Accordingly, Griss founded the Disaster Management Initiative, focused on ways technology could enable better response during critical situations, for example, disseminating information or locating survivors. Typically, Griss dove into the topic headlong, taking courses on ham radio operation, first aid, building evaluation, evacuation, and more. In the process, he became active in the ham radio community, and now holds an "extra class" license.
This hectic schedule, however, was anything but the retirement P'nina expected when he left HP, so Griss started planning another. Instead, in 2009, he was asked to become CMU-SV director and took another U-turn, albeit "only for a year." By 2012, his experiences in mobile technology and disaster response spurred him to write his DHS proposal, suggesting improvements to the WEA service.
The WEA service is a collaborative effort of government and industry groups, developed in response to a 2006 Congressional act. It was conceived to complement the existing Emergency Alert System, which we're all familiar with from radio and television–"beep … this is only a test." There are three types of messages: imminent threat alerts (including weather), AMBER alerts, and presidential alerts, and the maximum 90-character messages are accompanied by intentionally strong, recognizable signals and vibrations. WEAs, unlike ordinary texts, are sent to every phone in a targeted region, but because they use different technology, they aren't slowed by network congestion. All major wireless providers participate in the opt-out system in which all WEA-capable phones receive alerts by default unless owners reset their preferences.
Griss' research proposal would initially identify the primary issues, like those confusing messages and broad targets. Next it would develop technology—via a prototype app—to solve the problems. He's considered methods to filter the messages using phones themselves and improved cell-tower and broadcast technology. For example, users could input preferences directly or phones could determine them. A parent whose child attends school in the neighboring county could input that geographic preference and receive an alert regarding flooding there. Alternatively, the phone could recognize that the parent drives to that area every morning. In another example, if it was detected that a phone hadn't been moved for hours, suggesting the owner was asleep, an AMBER alert either wouldn't be sent to that phone or would be delayed for later alerting if still valid.
The proposal addressed the various DHS concerns, and subsequently Griss' workload—with P'nina's blessing—ramped up once again.
Heading the research team with Griss are Bob Iannucci, director of CMU-SV, and Hakan Erdogmus, CMU-SV professor of electrical and computer engineering. In total, it's a team of four faculty members, four doctoral students and six master's degree students. It was easy to recruit researchers, says Erdogmus, because "students are crazy about him." P'nina notes that throughout the years, some students have even named their children after him.
"Martin is super bright—one of those rare people with endless infectious energy and enthusiasm. It's difficult to keep up with him—he's even trying to get me involved in ham radio!" laughs Erdogmus, himself juggling teaching, curriculum development, and the project.
It's a project the team hopes will produce technology that will be in widespread use within the next few years—so that everyone can evacuate to safety during extreme weather and that more AMBER alerts can lead to happy endings.
Griss claims he'll cut back on his workload after this latest research ends. P'nina says nobody believes him. | {
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Hello and thanks for taking the time to look at my work. I hope you can see that I love what I do - which is all about the unique combination of the craft and the people. People like you who appreciate the value of great photography.
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We Now Know is a one-hour rapid-fire comedy chronicling the complete history of science, as told by one expert, and her assistant who is convinced that science is boring. Over the course of the play, she teaches her assistant about the highs and lows of human kind's struggle to make sense of the universe around them; from Pythagoras to Einstein, from Mayan numerology to Stephen Hawkings. By exploring the constant evolution of what "We Now Know", our intrepid hosts realize that the more we learn, the more there is yet to discover.Using whip-smart comedy, puppets, masks, physical theatre, original songs and audience participation, Monster Theatre will explore the discoveries, inventions and innovations of human kind since the dawn of time.Some of the more complex theories and ideas will be distilled to hilarious and accessible demonstrations, like sub-atomic particles explained with hula hoops, or the complex nature of light by using 'the wave'.While some of the more colourful figures from our scientific past will be presented using pop culture references, like Isaac Newton as played by Lady Gaga, or the story of Marie Currie as a mutant Zombie flick. By having both an 'expert' character and her comedic 'assistant', we are able to present the content factually, while still having someone whom the teen audience can relate to... and laugh at! It's history without the boring stuff.We Now Know shows that the greatest lesson from the History of Science is that the Future is more wonderful than we can possibly imagine, and serves to remind young audiences that the discoveries of tomorrow rest in their hands. This is what we now know, think of how much more there is to discover! | {
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Upgraded to latest firmware, now box reboots.
( Ferguson Ariva 102mini FULL HD ) is Compatible FRANSAT ?
Some menu screenshots form the Ferguson Arvia 102 Mini and 202E, pretty damn good!
Can Entertainment menu be customised? | {
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In my guild's operations I have a comical reputation for wanting to loot everything, and since I'm a bioanalyst on my main that includes hoovering up dead lobels and the like. I'm not alone though! We have a whole "team bioanalyst", but for some reason I still get most of the blame for slowing things down.
I seriously have so many screenshots of this scene, haha. Here's my Vanguard tank (far right) in a guild group.
There's a similar scene in Battle of Rishi, but unfortunately it's nowhere near as good as it's too zoomed out and goes on for too long, with the characters walking around and looking kind of confused for no reason. Still, I kept this one because it reminds me of an epic run where I (on my Juggernaut tank, second from the left) had roped a guildie on his newly dinged Operative into healing me through a random master mode. We got Battle of Rishi and it didn't go so well! I think I kept the poor guy up way past his bedtime as we wiped on the last boss over and over again... though we did get him down in the end.
The more things change, the more they stay the same: me and some guildies goofing off between pulls during an ops run. | {
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BirdWatching • News & Features • Conservation • Florida Grasshopper Sparrow reaches record low numbers; extinction looms
Florida Grasshopper Sparrow reaches record low numbers; extinction looms
Florida Grasshopper Sparrow. Photo by Neil Pearson/FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (Creative Commons)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are working to stave off the extinction of a small, ground-nesting songbird that has lived on the prairies of South and Central Florida for thousands of years. If current trends continue, Florida Grasshopper Sparrows could disappear from the landscape in two to three years.
In 2017, the subspecies reached a record low of about 75 wild birds — down from 1,000 birds in 2004. Trends suggest the population will be less than 40 wild birds in 2018. Only about 50 birds are being sustained in two captive populations. Restoring a self-sustaining wild population seems unlikely, the agency says, but groundbreaking scientific strides are underway in an effort to beat the odds.
"We still don't know exactly why the population is declining, but we are concerned disease is a big factor," said Larry Williams, the Florida state supervisor for Ecological Services. "Extinction is a real possibility, but we've got to try to save this species."
Extreme weather events are among the threats to the bird. It's unknown what impact Hurricane Irma had on the wild population because the storm occurred after the breeding season. However, an aviary where captive chicks were hatched lost power during the storm. Only hours before a backup generator would have failed, a service truck delivered 100 gallons of fuel to the facility, allowing the chicks to survive.
Scientific breakthroughs
Since 2012, FWS and its partners have invested more than $1 million into saving Florida Grasshopper Sparrows. Major scientific breakthroughs have occurred thanks to the funding:
captive breeding — Florida Grasshopper Sparrows were successfully bred in captivity for the first time ever;
habitat management — Refined timing of prescribed fire has lengthened the nesting season and boosted nesting success; and
predator management — Fences to exclude predators have raised nesting success from eight to 84 percent.
But in spite of those breakthroughs, sparrow numbers continue falling.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and Archbold Biological Station are leading monitoring efforts and establishing protective fences around nests to reduce predation and boost numbers. The White Oak Conservation Holdings and the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation (RSCF) — with strong support from the Service — have started two captive breeding facilities aimed at producing sparrows for release back into the wild.
Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, held by a researcher. Photo by Mary Peterson/USFWS
Over the last five years, private ranchers and land stewards, including Avon Park Air Force Range, Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, and Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, have been managing dry prairie to optimize habitat for the sparrows. "One of the private ranches has the second largest population of these sparrows in the wild," Williams said.
Partners are determined not to let the Grasshopper Sparrow meet the same fate as the Dusky Seaside Sparrow, which went extinct in captivity in 1987. The initial reasons for these species' declines are similar: loss and fragmentation of habitat, combined with suppression of fires needed to maintain habitat. Florida Grasshopper Sparrows are also impacted by red fire ants, which were introduced from Brazil around 1940.
"The Dusky Seaside Sparrow, which was unique to Florida, just like the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, was the last bird to go extinct in the continental United States," Williams noted. "No one wants to see that happen again."
And while these efforts are geared toward Florida Grasshopper Sparrows, Andrew Schumann, White Oak's avian collection manager, says what's being learned about the sparrows will be helpful with other species across the United States.
"The stuff we're finding out has implications for many different songbirds and other species. This isn't going to be the only species that declines and is reliant on a captive breeding and reintroduction program," he said. "Even if we do our absolute best to conserve the Florida Grasshopper Sparrows and it still goes extinct, what's next? Is it the Bachman's Sparrow? What we're learning now could make a difference."
Cause of decline unknown
Ultimately, Schumann believes that they'll find success with the captive breeding program because he's seen that these birds can "crank out chicks" in a captive setting. His overriding concern is that the cause of the rapid decline in the wild is still unknown. "We'll work out the kinks in the captive breeding program, but we're never going to succeed until and unless we find out why the population is declining," he said.
"The wild situation is desperate," said Paul Reillo, the RSCF's director. "Therefore, captive breeding, which is always a last resort, is where we should focus our efforts before we run out of time."
Captive breeding efforts were started in 2014 with FWS funding, but nobody had bred Florida Grasshopper Sparrows in captivity before, so species-specific techniques are being worked out.
The past year of captive breeding has been beset by losses to the captive population from diseases that may or may not be affecting the wild population.
"With captive breeding there are always challenges and the only way to work them out is by trial and error. Research has been initiated to determine the specific strains of the diseases, evaluate their presence in the wild population, and to find solutions," Williams said.
So far the partners have broken new ground by working out incubation settings, proper diet, and housing strategies to help encourage natural "wild" behavior. They've also identified and begun to treat for parasites.
Captive breeding programs have successfully rescued species from the brink of extinction — including the Peregrine Falcon, Puerto Rican Parrot, and black-footed ferret.
So, coupled with the fact that a recent look at genetics showed that the sparrows' current genetic diversity is similar to its historic genetic diversity, captive breeding shows real promise as the birds have a high reproductive potential. FWS is collaborating with scientists and other stakeholders to work out the techniques. Funding for all partners, however, is limited.
Last spring, the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida started a sparrow fund through the foundation's website for anyone to contribute to the survival and recovery of the bird.
As of mid-November, this fund had approximately $10,500. Contributions will support captive breeding by constructing more enclosures that mimic natural habitat and encourage natural behaviors of the sparrows, care of captive birds, preparations for releasing captive-bred birds back into the wild and mitigating threats such as predators and flooding.
From May 2016: Captive-bred Florida Grasshopper Sparrows make conservation history
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Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.
Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field.
I thought I would be in the gentle surroundings of my room at home but a strange, dark room greeted me; odd noises of pigeons cooing and taxis screeching and car horns blazing wildly in my ears.
As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit.
For a long time your body lies there while the pigeons mill about, cooing to one another.
Birds flew through the trees and cooed peacefully from the branches.
As she walked pass the table, the dove flew up to her shoulder, cooing in her ear.
You're never sure if the phone's ringing in the distance, someone is moving about in the flat upstairs or a pigeon is cooing outside the window.
It is peaceful - quiet now except for mourning doves cooing in a nearby mesquite.
Bluebells and 'lords and ladies' are poking up, and overhead early morning pigeons cooed gently in the trees or cruised the valley.
Most days she goes to the writer's room, a calm neutral space where doves coo outside.
In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
Though there was still a haze of darkness, he could hear the starting of the pigeons cooing.
He cradled the pigeon in his hands, listening to it coo gently before releasing it into the air.
Even as I tell people about our new garden, an image flashes up of friendly old men bending down over enormous cabbages, their pigeons softly cooing in the loft behind.
I say pigeon cooing because Joseph also likes the pigeons and his pigeon won a race last weekend.
I could hear the pigeons cooing overhead, a constant cacophony of noise that filtered down from the eighth floor.
White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
The doves are cooing and wooing and calling for love. | {
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Local schools 'Pass On Plastic'!
Last week three local schools were invited to Hillsborough to celebrate their participation in Sheffield Wednesday's #PassOnPlastic campaign.
Wharncliffe Side, Walkley and Hillsborough Primary Schools all attended the stadium – where the children were in for a treat…
The day kicked off with an opening show from local artist Ray Bubbles, who creates impressive and plastic-free bubbles of all shapes and sizes.
Following the display, schools were invited on to the pitch for a unique opportunity to have photos taken in front of the Kop and inside the net, a real privilege for the delighted school groups!
After the morning's entertainment, the schools were separated and the workshops began, running into the afternoon so the classes were able to participate in all the activities.
In one room, Ray demonstrated how the schoolchildren can make their own plastic-free bubbles!
Across the room, another group would be creating money banks from old plastic bottles – and rest assured, there were plenty of blue and white creations!
The third group were given a unique tour of Hillsborough, allowing for the youngsters to see behind the scenes of the stadium and walk down the tunnel.
Each school had the chance to take part in all three activities, providing a well-rounded day for all.
Premier League Co-Ordinator Isobel Dunn has led the #PassOnPlastic campaigns, engaging local schools with the club.
She said: "To round off our Pass On Plastic campaign for this academic year, the Sheffield Wednesday Community Programme invited all schools who have taken part in the pass on plastic workshops to a day at SWFC.
"The workshops have been very successful, and it's been great to see both the schools and the pupils take an interest in the project, making pledges to reduce single use plastic.
"SWFCCP are looking forward to continuing the work with SWFC to deliver this message and encourage more people to reduce their use of single-use plastics."
Sheffield Wednesday look forward to welcoming more community activities and workshops as part of our commitment to #PassOnPlastic next season.
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When a friend was looking to spruce up the posts of his treated lumber deck, he was looking for an easy, high-impact option that was both functional and eye-catching. So, I recommended the Deckorators® brand of metal post caps. Deckorators has some unique solar deck lighting options to choose from and the convertible solar post cap was the perfect choice.
For this particular deck lighting need, we went with a round copper post cap that sits atop the deck's 4x4 railing posts. The post cap is referred to as a convertible post cap because it provides a deck with ambient lighting at night, using either the solar cell (included) or a lit candle.
The top of the convertible post cap lifts off so you can set a candle inside. The smooth copper finish makes the deck and outdoor living space look more refined and the lighting is just what this deck area needed.
Common sizes and dimensions of deck and fence post caps? | {
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Q: how to insert a space in between horizontal unordered lists I am trying to make the top of my website. I need more spacing in between the logo and the name in the border. My CSS:
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
li {
float: left;
}
.list {
border-style: ridge;
border-color: green;
border-width: 25px;
}
I want more of a space between the image and the name, now it is about a centimeter or two apart.
A: Use 'margin' properties to create space around elements, outside of any defined borders. There are properties for setting the margin for each side of an element (margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, and margin-left).
Sample Code
div {
margin-top: 100px;
margin-bottom: 100px;
margin-right: 150px;
margin-left: 100px;
}
If you want to generate space around an element's content or inside of any defined borders, use 'padding'.
Sample Code
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
Refer the below link for more details.
https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_margin_sides
https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_lists_menu
A: You can always use margin-right and apply that to your logo. Remember, however, to not have it mess up your layout on smaller screens.
A: use
margin : 0 15px; (for side margin) or,
margin : 15px 0: ( for top and bottom margin)
but if you want the space between border and content use padding instead.
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Prior to joining Steinger, Iscoe & Greene, Faran A. Abbasi practiced with a local plaintiff's firm representing individuals and homeowners against insurance carriers, corporations, and negligent individuals. Faran was also previously a member of a nationwide insurance defense firm that defended personal injury and commercial general liability cases in the field of premises liability, motor vehicle accidents, negligent security, products liability, construction defects, and property damage. Faran's background in defending cases on behalf of corporations and insurance carriers allows a unique insight in to how claims are evaluated, which he now utilizes for the benefit of the injured people and families that he represents.
Faran is admitted to practice in all of Florida's State Courts and is also admitted to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Faran earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of South Florida where he also served as Student Body Vice-President for two terms. Faran earned his law degree from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law in 2013. Faran is a member of the Florida Bar, the Broward County Bar Association, and the Florida Justice Association.
Faran was born in Pakistan, moved to South Florida after his first birthday, and was raised in all three southern counties from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach. In his free time, Faran enjoys spending time and traveling with his wife, Crystal, and close friends. Faran is also a die hard Miami Heat and Miami Dolphins fan. Faran is also bilingual in Urdu and Hindi.
2013- Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law, J.D. | {
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Cooking Club Carved Pumpkins!
Last Friday, in preparations for jackolanterns decorating doorsteps this week, Cooking club cared pumpkins, and roasted the seeds for a delicious snack!
October 30, 2018 /by aarikan
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Home Visit Drive
Home visits are an opportunity to build a positive relationship between families and teachers. It creates a bond that improves communication, behavior in and out of the classroom, and subsequently boosts grades.
All good things come from a homevisit; contact your students' teachers to schedule one. Saturdays, just about any time, or week days 4:00 pm to 6:00pm
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Campus Beautification
The first Saturday of the month every month is for campus beautification!
Bring your gardeing gloves and join in with PTO as they beautify our corner of the world, Saturday, November 3rd from 9am to 12 pm
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Tiger Basketball tryouts are approaching soon!
Basketball T-Shirts are on sale at CustomInk. We need at least 75 orders to process.
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Freshman Parent Night!
We will have a freshmen parent night on Tuesday, November 6th at 6.00 pm in the South Cafeteria.
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Sophomore & Junior Parent Night!
We will have a sophomore and junior parent night on Thursday, November 8th at 6.00 pm in the South Cafeteria.
We will talk about high school graduation requirements, have a Naviance introduction, SAT-ACT preparation and course selection for upcoming year. We will serve Spaghetti from Olive Garden during the meeting. Please join us to meet with your student's college guidance counselor and learn more about your child's academic opportunities in our school.
Please RSVP for the dinner until Tuesday, November 6th with the link below;
2018 SOPHOMORE&JUNIOR PARENT NIGHT-RSVP
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Please see our updated HSI Parking Map. We have moved our student drivers to the back (West side) of the building to open up more available space for Parent Walk-Ups. Thank you for your cooperation in this very important safety aspect of our school.
HSI Fort Worth Administration
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Way to go HSI Cross-country Tigers!
The high school cross-country student-athletes competed in the District 11-3A Championships on 08/11/2018
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Do you want to play an instrument but don't know how? Would you like to have fun and make new friends all while learning a new way to enjoy music? Become the musician you always wanted to be by joining the Band Club! All Harmony students are invited to join. Students who have 1 or 2 years experience are welcome as well. Let's strive to build a NEW and FRESH band for everyone at Harmony to enjoy and show our school spirit! If you are interested in Band Club you can do 3 things:
come to the informational meeting on Friday August 31st at 5 pm.
Stop by room 128 and place you name on the Sign-Up roster
Speak with Mr. Hunter if you have any questions.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Help StuCo support the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research by buying a pink ribbon or painting a pinkie for $1, or buying a pink bracelet and getting a pink ribbon for $5. Look for StuCo representatives every Wednesday and Friday of October in the dismissal area.
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Open enrollment begins soon
The open enrollment period for new Harmony Public Schools students is approaching fast.
Open Enrollment for campuses statewide begins Nov. 1 and continues through Feb. 10 for students wishing to enroll for the Fall 2019 semester.
What is Harmony?
Harmony Public Schools is a system of exceptional PreK-12 college-preparatory charter schools in Texas, specializing inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
Harmony has 56 schools in communities across Texas, including Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso and in neighborhoods everywhere in between. Click here to find a campus near you.
What comes with a Harmony Public Schools education?
The Harmony Public Schools system is frequently recognized as one of the best school systems in Texas for its well-rounded curriculum with a special emphasis on STEM education.
In 2018, six of districts received 'A' ratings from the Texas Education Agency on its annual state accountability ratings. The TEA also found that all of Harmony's campuses earned a "Met Standard" rating in its 2018 STARR testing.
Harmony also has a 100 percent college acceptance rate system-wide among our graduating seniors.
What is our enrollment process?
Open enrollment for Harmony Public Schools statewide begins Nov. 1 and continues through Feb. 10. Our application and instructions for submission can be found online or at any of our campus offices. In the event the number of qualified applicants exceeds the maximum enrollment at any campus, a lottery is held at the end of February to fairly fill the available openings.
To find out more about our admissions process, including information about selection process and required application materials, please visit harmonytx.org/admissions.php
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Q: Why need drivers for both x server and the linux kernel? Can someone explain why two sets of drivers are needed, one in the Linux kernel and one in X?
I understand that the device drivers are in the kernel, but what is the role of those in the xserver?
Does wayland require such drivers to run?
A: Linux graphics support has been a heavily mutating thing for most of the life of the kernel. Initially, the kernel only talked to the graphics card for text mode purposes. Back then, X used its drivers to do everything, so it worked as a huge kernel-outside-the-kernel.
Later, with Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), some of the code for accelerated graphics features moved kernel-side (called Direct Rendering Manager, DRM — nothing to do with digital rights management) to provide a consistent, abstracted interface to 3D acceleration features.
Currently, you don't need to have a kernel-side DRM module loaded. But if you don't have one, chances are your X session will fall back to software-rendered 3D which is considerably slower and power-hungrier than hardware 3D. Running glxinfo will show info on this.
Wayland is a slightly different story. It sits between the kernel and client applications. With Wayland, the X server is another client application, displaying its root window as just another thing. Wayland takes on the duties of talking to the hardware (X talking to Wayland instead). Since the project is still heavily in development, there's no way to know where it'll end up, but the way I understand it is it still needs kernel support for 3D rendering.
It's obvious from the Wayland architecture diagrams, too: left is the current state of affairs for a modern X desktop, right is the proposed Wayland architecute. The Wayland compositor replaces the X Server as the thing that talks to the hardware, but it doesn't replace the kernel infrastructure — so you'd still need appropriate kernel support. In fact, given the aims of the project, more stuff should move to the kernel for even better abstraction. Wayland, like the X server, are still graphics hardware-dependent.
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Guide and Jargon Buster: Flexible Life Interest Trusts
Also known as Interest in Possession or IIP trusts… or in non-legal terms, a means of having your cake and eating it!
General definitions for Flexible Life interest Trusts
Capital: is the value, and is as opposed to income. The £200 in your bank account is the capital, and the 2p interest is the income.
Estate: what someone owns. For example a deceased's estate will include their house, their bank accounts, their shares and their belongings.
Testator: is someone that makes a Will. If Fred made his Will he is the testator. You may also see the term 'Testatrix', which is used when a woman makes a Will, however Testator is often used for both men and women.
Definitions relating to trusts are explained below.
What is a Trust?
Most people think of trusts as complicated legal arrangements - but they need not be. Trusts can be as simple or as complicated as you want.
A trust is simply the separation of legal and moral (often referred to in legal circles as 'equitable' or 'beneficial') ownership.
Take the following examples:
Fred gives Joe the sum of £5.00 and says that Joe can have it as a present. Joe legally owns the Fiver (he has it) and morally owns it (as Fred said he can keep it for his own benefit).
Contrast with:-
Fred gives Joe the sum of £5.00 and says – please take this and buy us both a Gin and Tonic (probably not enough to cover it but that's another subject). Again, Joe legally owns the Fiver (as he has it) but this time he doesn't morally own it - morally he holds it to buy a Gin and Tonic for himself and Fred. Fred has created a simple Trust over the Fiver.
Fred who created the Trust is called the – Settlor (he settled the Fiver into Trust for a G&T). If the trust is created by Will then the Settlor is known as the 'Testator'.)
Joe who holds the Fiver legally is called the – Trustee
Joe and Fred as the ultimate recipients of the G&T are the – Beneficiaries
The Trust Fund is the Fiver
The Terms of the Trust are – to go and buy a G&T for Fred and Joe.
There are a number of different trusts, the most common being Flexible Life Interest Trusts and Discretionary Trusts.
What is a Flexible Life Interest Trust?
A Flexible Life Interest Trust is a trust where the terms of the trust are:-
The trust fund is to be used so that 'A' can enjoy it for his/ her life ('A' is called the 'Life Tenant')
On 'A's death the trust fund goes to, say 'B' (or to 'B' and 'C' equally) ('B' is called the 'Remainderman')
The flexible element is that whilst 'A' is alive the Trustees can – at their discretion (i.e. if they think it is the right thing to do) do various things such as: - stop 'A' from enjoying the trust fund, or give capital of the Trust fund to 'A' or to 'B'.
The trust fund can just be a property or share in property, or it could be someone's entire estate.
What is the Benefit of a Flexible Life Interest Trust? – Why have one?
Consider the following scenario:-
Fred is a successful businessman with two children from a first marriage. Fred has re-married a young lady called Anna – as yet they have no children together. Fred travels a lot and is worried that if he were to die and have left everything to Anna by his Will she would enter into a new relationship and Fred's fortune would go to some unknown person and not to his own children. At the same time however, Fred wants to make sure that Anna is well looked after in the event of his death (or certainly whilst she remains widowed).
If, Fred were to make no Will or a Will leaving everything to Anna, then Anna would have Fred's wealth when he dies and could then pass it onto whoever she wanted. His children may never see any of it.
If, however, Fred made a Will which created a Life Interest Trust for Anna with Fred's children as ultimate beneficiaries, then Anna would have use of the monies during her life (or re-marriage) but she could not re-direct the monies herself – ultimately they would end up with Fred's children. If, following Fred's death Anna needed private medical care the Trustees could (with their flexible powers) decide that they will use capital from the Trust to pay for this. i.e. Fred can have his cake and eat it!
The above illustrates one of the benefits of a Life Interest Trust.
Other Advantages of such Trusts
Mitigation of Care Fees: If the trust is created by Will (which it most usually would be) and the survivor (Anna in the above example) has to go into residential care then any assets that are held in the trust are protected from being used to fund the Care Fees. Any income from the trust would be taken to pay for care but not the capital. The capital can however, at the trustees' discretion, be used to pay a top-up to ensure that the survivor can live out his or her life in the best possible way.
If the trust is created by Will and the Life Tenant is the spouse or civil partner of the Testator then the trust will have the full benefit of the Inheritance Tax (IHT) spouse exemption. This means that if the whole estate is left to the surviving spouse either wholly or partially on trust, no IHT will be payable on first death. Also, as the estate will (even though wholly or partly in trust) go to the surviving spouse then the so called IHT 'Nil Rate Band' (currently £325,000.00) of the first to die will be preserved and become available when the second one dies to reduce any charge to IHT.
Take the following example:
Fred and Anna have an estate worth £1,000,000.00. Fred dies and leave his estate on a Flexible Life Interest Trust to Anna. On his death no IHT will be due as all is spouse exempt. When Anna dies the NRB has gone up to £500,000.00. IHT will be charged as follows:-
Anna's estate £500,000
Fred's trust £500,000
Total = £1,000,000.
As Fred's NRB has been preserved both his and Anna's NRB can be deducted both at the rate when Anna died (i.e. 2 x £500,000.00) nothing chargeable to tax.
The same would have happened if Fred had left all to Anna without a trust but, as set out above, his estate would have been left exposed in other ways.
Given the above deferral of IHT it will be possible for the survivor to make gifts from the trust. If these are survived by 7 or more years they will fall outside the taxable estate of the survivor. Additionally, the trustees can make the gifts. This is valuable if the survivor loses mental capacity. An attorney (acting for a person who has lost mental capacity) would not be allowed to make such gifts without permission of the court. The trustees however could.
Any assets that are in trust are protected. So if the surviving spouse becomes frail or forgetful the trustees will be able to ensure that no-one can take advantage of the situation.
Are there any downsides?
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a Win-Win in life.
The main downsides are:
Having a trust always adds a layer of additional administration and hence potential costs. However, the trust only arises on death – not before then. Also if the trust is in relation to a property which is lived in by 'A' then there will be little, or no administration. In any event we consider that the administrative burden is far outweighed by the benefits of the trust.
The survivor is at the trustees' mercy as regards access to capital. This is true as the terms of the trust only allow the survivor access to the capital of the trust fund if this is agreed by the trustees. This should not be seen as a barrier to use of the trust but more to highlight the need to choose your trustees wisely – as the term suggests they should be 'trusted' to do the right thing.
For Capital Gains Tax (CGT) purposes, if the asset of the trust is a house lived in by the survivor then the Principal Private residence Exemption will still apply. As regards other assets the rate of tax, if gains were to arise would likely be higher for the trustees and the trustees only have half of an annual exemption. However, if all assets are kept until the death of the survivor all gains will be wiped out and no CGT would be payable.
For Inheritance Tax (IHT) purposes the value of the trust is added to the estate of the Life Tenant. The same would apply if the assets had been left to the life tenant without a trust. As explained above, provided the life tenant is the spouse the Nil Rate Band of the first to die will become transferable to the surviving spouse if a Life Interest Trust is used so in such cases the IHT position should be no different from an outright gift.
If the trust is over property can the survivor move/downsize?
Yes they can.
If the trust is over property can the survivor get an equity release?
Usually not, although the flexible element of the trust could make this possible, it would essentially involve ending the trust in favour of the survivor and that is not likely to be done by the trustees.
How can Glanvilles LLP help?
A Will is an important legal document and failure to prepare it properly can result in stressful and expensive problems.
Similarly, although trusts need not be complicated, they must be prepared correctly to avoid costs mistakes and problems.
For expert advice on writing Wills or Trusts, contact us at your local Glanvilles office and speak to one of our Private Client Team colleagues.
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—Freddy, Return of the Living Dead
A Zombie Apocalypse is no fun for anyone; even the zombies are incapable of feeling fun. It's especially hard for the Zombie Infectee; carelessly bitten by a zombie or infected with an early stage of The Virus, they're in for a slow and painful transformation into a monster that will kill or convert their friends and loved ones. The only way out is death, either by suicide or mercy kill, and any miracle cure or even Heroic Willpower is right out the window if you aren't a main character.
So what's a Zombie Infectee to do? Nothing. No, seriously. Any group trying to survive in this apocalyptic situation will always have at least one idiot Jerkass who gets bitten or scratched and refuses to face the truth (traumatic as it is) and tell anyone, knowing full well their silence will cost lives. They don't seek help because they know there is nothing for their condition but a bullet to the head. They tend not to take steps to make sure they at least don't endanger others once they die. A Heroic Sacrifice is the last thing on their mind, and trying the Vampire Refugee route is suicidal in most cases.
The Zombie Infectee is almost certainly (and rightfully) afraid their friends will kill them in cases where the protagonists have figured out that a bite or scratch will pass on The Virus. Fear of discovery means they live their now shortened lives terrified and in denial, and as a result they end up behaving irrationally because of it. Alternatively, they will desperately cling to the hope that they will be the person immune to The Virus, despite its 100% fatality and 100% conversion rate—in the most headstrong cases they may try to Resist the Beast.
At this point, the onus, unfortunately, is on the heroes to notice the erratic behavior (for a Zombie Apocalypse, anyway) and take the appropriate and necessary steps. Other people—friends, relatives, lovers—may also sink into denial and try to hinder the heroes from dispatching the walking liability before s/he becomes the walking dead. When they do turn, the Zombie Infectee will almost always infect or kill at least one unsuspecting victim (often the Zombie Advocate, for additional tragic irony), unleash the horde of zombies, destroy all the ammunition or find some other way to cause a really bad day for the remaining survivors.
Note: A few zombie works (movies, literature, etc.) have taken a third option, so to speak. If the point of infection is near the end of a limb (which it often is), that limb can then be removed, a literal Life or Limb Decision. The person may die due to shock and blood loss anyway, but at least he's not getting back up again to snack on your brains. Hopefully.
Obviously, much of this page talks about works in which a Zombie Infectee is kept a secret even from the audience, and thus learning the identity of one prior to experiencing the work would ruin a somewhat major twist. Beware of spoilers from here on.
See also And Then John Was a Zombie. Compare and contrast Secret Stab Wound and Mortal Wound Reveal. Most examples are also Secretly Dying.
Examples of Zombie Infectee include:
High School of the Dead has several of these. None so far have tried to hide it, and most of them get put down by the heroes or die by their own hand after expressing a firm desire to die rather than become one of 'them'. The first arc of the outbreak in particular features two infectees (Hisashi and the boy in Shizuka-sensei's office) who are Mercy Kill'd. It's probably happened a few times off camera, though, since we see that "they" have somehow gotten aboard Air Force One.
Happens unknowingly in Garth Ennis'... strange book Crossed. One member of the party is shot (the eponymous Crossed are intelligent, just psychotic), and seems to just be in shock. However, there's quite a Oh Crap moment when a scouting party witnesses a group of Crossed soaking bullets in their semen. Cue rampage.
Mostly averted in The Walking Dead. Most survivors are sufficiently paranoid and genre savvy to be on guard, and most infectees either decide to be left behind or take the "third option" described above. On the negative side, it has also been shown that the recently dead can and probably will rise as zombies even if they were not directly infected by another zombie. An interesting variation on the trope has occurred several times, when certain survivors remained in deep denial and refused to distance themselves from their fully infected loved ones.
The Graphic Novel Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection puts a spin on this trope. The novel is presented as the journal of a doctor who survives the early waves of mass infection. Over time he comes to suspect that a food additive put into the products of an enormous Mega Corp that supplies much of the world's processed food is the cause of the infection, and once the body absorbs a certain amount of said additive, the person begins going through stages of infection that lead into becoming a zombie. It's never shown one way or the other whether he's right, but if he is, everyone still alive is already infected, and every meal they scavenge puts them one step closer to turning...
The weird but excellent Zombie Apocalypse/House fic "The Rampant Disease" features an infectee House refusing to let his love interest kiss him because they know The Virus is spread through bodily fluids. (That the story also contains two of the more egregious instances of Die for Our Ship ever seen detracts slightly, but it's still a great story.)
There's a Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic called "Mistakes" where Mustang becomes an infectee after getting bitten on the wrist and refuses to admit what bit him. Despite admitting the truth eventually, Mustang averts the trope by being cured when his totally infected arm gets torn off by the Gate.
Happens to several characters during the DC Nation version of Blackest Night, most notably to Troia and Oliver Queen.
The Resident Evil movies have examples of good and bad Infectees. Notably, a recurring minor character from the second movie, Ethnic Scrappy L.J, is bitten in the third. What's infuriating about this example is that the movie is set well after the zombie plague has swept through the world, so he couldn't exactly plead ignorance; L.J. had likely seen the same thing happen dozens of times. And yet he keeps his infection a secret, even as he begins to sicken. Once he turns (which inconveniently happens during the big zombie attack), he almost kills The Chick while both are locked in a car, and then infects one of the likable main characters, who does the right thing and takes as many zombies with him as possible in a massive explosion.
Played with in the character of Shaun's mother in Shaun of the Dead. She waits until just before she dies to reveal she's been bitten, but not necessarily to save her life; rather, she wanted to keep the burden off Shaun for as long as possible, explaining: "I didn't want to be a bother."
Whereas Shaun's friend Ed, after being bitten, does a Heroic Sacrifice by staying to hold the zombies off while the others escape.
The "Sex Machine" (played by SFX guru Tom Savini) in From Dusk till Dawn hid his rapid vampirization for fear of being killed. Fortunately he was killed without much problem. Unfortunately he let all the other vampires in.
On the flipside, badass ex-preacher Jacob is open and frank about the fact that he's been bitten and doesn't have long, and was pretty emphatic in getting his kids to do him in when the same was happening to him.
Not that they do before he infects his son.
But he was a pudgy, adopted asian kid with little characterization, as opposed to Jacob's pretty biological daughter with the hots for George Clooney's character, so we don't care.
In the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead 2004, pregnant Luda gets bitten. Once her husband Andre discovers the bites turn the victim into a zombie, he sets his wife up in the maternity store, separate from the other survivors. Andre sinks so deeply in denial that he refuses to accept the truth, even when it's obvious The Virus has her; instead he becomes her twisted caretaker. Ironically, Luda doesn't kill anyone, because Andre restrained her when she went into labor (during which she died and reanimated). When Norma discovers zombie Luda, she shoots the undead new mother. Norma and Andre then exchange more gunfire, killing each other. Ana then arrives and shoots Luda's newborn zombie infant.
Additionally, Frank, once informed that the bites are going to turn him into a zombie, elects to be separated from the others, knowing he will be killed when he reanimates.
Subverted when Michael gets bitten and stays behind, knowing he can't accompany the rest of the survivors beyond this point. It's not quite a Heroic Sacrifice, but he at least displays consideration for the other survivors' safety. It is instead Ana, the woman Michael loves, who goes into denial, insisting she can help him because she's a nurse, even though she knows full well the consequences and wasn't able to do anything for any of the other infectees in their recent acquaintance.
In the original version, Roger is bitten and knows full well what is coming. He asks Peter to let him succumb, and then wait and see what happens as he is going to "try not to come back". It fails, and his is killed upon rising.
In Land of the Dead not a single infected person hides their status; if they are bitten they commit suicide or die fighting. However, the prize goes to Chollo, who is just about to abandon the city when he unexpectedly gets bitten. He's been on a zombie-killing team for years, so he knows what's coming. His right hand man asks if he wants to be shot or shoot himself. Chollo chooses neither, but instead goes back to Fiddler's Green, intending to take his flesh-eating revenge on his Corrupt Corporate Executive Bad Boss Kaufman.
Averted in Thirty Days of Night, when a widower not so slowly turning into a vampire asks to be killed not only to avoid becoming a murderer, but because he can't stand the thought of being immortal and never dying to see his family in heaven.
Further averted by sheriff Eben Ouleman willingly infecting himself, and then using Heroic Willpower to fight and kill the vampire leader. Sadly he sacrificed himself by waiting for the sun rather than risk losing his self control and becoming a monster.
Played straight however when a man hiding under a house slowly turns into a vampire before finding Eben and trying to kill him.
Several people in the Return of the Living Dead series keep their wits about them once infected. They even find ways to stave off the desire to eat flesh well into the transformation phase, so as to not be a danger to friends and loved ones. This, unfortunately, makes them rather attractive to the government.
Averted in Grindhouse: Planet Terror. Cherry is attacked by zombies who bite her leg off. After getting medical attention, she proves to be immune to the neurotoxic agent causing the zombies, as are most of the other leads. Others, not so lucky, are infected not through bites or scratches, but through the infected smearing bodily fluids on them. Ew.
Mostly avoided in Diary of the Dead. Everybody who gets infected has the wisdom to blow their brains out before they can rise. There were only two straight examples in the entire movie where characters rose after death.
The very beginning. Gordo gets bitten, and dies. His girlfriend is of course in shock, and claims he might not rise. The group doesn't believe her, but this is the beginning, so they aren't sure, and they leave her to grieve. He does eventually rise, but she reluctantly shoots him in the head instantly, before he cause any trouble.
Jerkass Ridley, who was in the horror movie at the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse they're blog-documenting, is seen early on partying with his girl. He invites the film crew to come join him because they're perfectly safe where he is. By the time Jason and company get to him, he's all alone and acting erratic, even for him. Only when Deborah convinces him to tell her where everybody else is does it become obvious that he's infected.
A third example comes from one of the video asides. A team of armed soldiers raid a house where a live family is storing their infected relatives. Over the family's protests, the soldiers open the room where they've been storing the zombies and shoot them, but the father's interference causes the sergeant to be bitten. Incensed, he deliberately shoots the living family members in the hearts so that they will "wake up dead."
While not a zombie plague, in Blade 2 one of the vampire strike team, Lighthammer, gets bit by one of the "super-vampires" and covers it up (suprisingly well considering he's one of the most underdressed members of the team), until he predictably turns and starts gobbling up the rest of his team.
Although not technically zombies, the 'Rage' victims in the 28 Days Later movies deliberately avert this trope; the virus infects and converts its victims within 30 seconds to a minute, thus preventing them from concealing their condition from those around them. It also ups the tension, as the non-infected have to deal with the victim immediately in order to save their own lives.
The first movie also offers a potential inversion; after butchering a number of infected, one of the characters discovers that he's somehow received a cut. As there's so much blood—both his and theirs—it's unclear as to whether he's actually been infected. This doesn't stop one of the other characters from instantly butchering him with a machete.
In another vampiric variation, Montoya in John Carpenter's Vampires also hides his own vampire bite. His subterfuge does not really matter, as he gets bitten again later in a less discreet place.
Quarantine involves a news crew and a group of firefighters locked into an apartment complex with a bunch of other people and a zombie infection. They store the infectees in the same room that most of the living people are congregated. Guess what happens?
Averted, then subverted in Zombieland. Little Rock appears all too willing to take the bullet to avoid being a danger to other survivors but it was just a con to let her and Wichita steal the guys' car and guns.
Played straight, however, with 406, but to be fair nobody knew about zombies or The Virus. She just thought some crazy homeless guy attacked her. Plus she only says he tried to bite her, not that he actually had.
As the title might suggest, this is the entire point of the movie Carriers. While you don't turn into a zombie, the plague's extreme contagiousness makes you just as much of a threat. After being infected, Bobby plays this trope painfully straight, until being abandoned with a little water and directions by her boyfriend. When he in turn is infected, he initially forces his companions to carry him, and then makes his brother shoot him when they try to escape, rather than leaving him to die a slow death.
This was why they needed to Shoot the Dog in Old Yeller: the title character became a Rabies Infectee.
Subverted very humorously in Dead Snow: One of the characters gets bitten on the arm. He knows what he has to do, so he slices off his arm with a chainsaw to stop the infection from spreading to the rest of the body. After a really painful looking scene and a sigh of relief, another Nazi zombie pops his head up from the snow and bites him on the crotch. He kills that zombie and looks back to the chainsaw in horror.
Amusingly averted in Flight of the Living Dead, when one of the protagonists gets munched on by a little old lady zombie. It looks like the story will go this way, as the character is a criminal out only for himself, but the aversion comes in when it turns out the biting zombie doesn't have her dentures in and didn't penetrate his skin.
World War Z makes these a larger threat than the living dead. A zombie is not particularly dangerous to anyone with a gun, but the infrastructure behind an army - zombie-hunting or otherwise - does not cope well with things like mass panic and refugee columns that contain an unknown number of infectees unaware of or unable to cope with the facts. (A bonus: imagine the rumor mill about immunities and cures.) Dogs can smell The Virus, and it freaks them out. In a controlled refugee situation, anybody a dog reacts badly to is taken aside as infected... often to the loud and increasingly histrionic protests of the infectee in question. Uncontrolled versions feature a lot of improvisation, but one option is to separate the zombies and the uninfected with a mass nerve gas attack.
The nerve gas attack "separates" the infectees out because while the gas kills everyone, only the infectees will stand back up... Ugh.
Arguably a case of Truth in Television: Some people in the Middle Ages would protect themselves from the Plague by finding a remote hideout and shooting anybody coming too close with a crossbow in order to avoid contact with potential infectees.
When the militaries of the world finally started clearing towns the most dangerous zombies were those that had been "kept" by their families. These Zeds were usually inside of closets or wardrobes in otherwise safe towns and could create a very nasty surprise for a soldier with slow reflexes.
Further, in an aversion, people could become infectees completely by accident or unfortunate happenstance; and would do the right thing. One soldier knew he had to be put down because someone shot a zombie. The bullet went through the zombie, then into the soldier, bringing the infection with it. in Russia this becomes the responsibility of army chaplains, one thing leads to another and the country ends up a theocratic empire.
Averted when one interviewee tells of a buddy who was bitten and turned into an instant emotional wreck, knowing full well he would have to be put down, making no attempt to avoid the reality but is simply unable to take it standing up. It turns out the biter was a Quisling, someone who lost their marbles on the face of the Zombie Apocalypse and acts like, but is not, a zombie. The victim breaks down crying in relief. Ironically, he nearly dies from a Staph infection from the bite.
There were rumours of cures, and immunity - mostly fueled by the Quislings, and the fact that it was possible to survive being bitten by one of those, but not by a real zombie. Early in the book, one of the interviewees - a guy who dealt in smuggling people across the borders, mostly by car - mentioned that he suspected a lot of outbreaks in other areas were caused by infected getting out of China through the smuggling routes he and people like him used and then going to ground in the ghettos in other countries. He mentions that he regrets letting them get through, on his watch, and that he believes that most of the infectees (and their families) were trying to get out and find a cure - not because they actually believed there was one, or because there was any rumour that one existed, but because they were desperate and clinging to any straw of hope they could find, that they wouldn't have to take that final option.
Of course the cure rumors weren't helped by the fact that the zombie virus did have a drop in number infected the first winter of the crisis, a corrupt businessman linked it to his placebo antivirus (it was just vitamin pills) which created a false sense of calm. In reality the drop was due to the colder weather making zombies in places like northern Europe freeze solid for a couple of months and by limited operations from military commandos to slow down the rate of infection. Unfortunately government budget restraints stopped the U.S. (and presumably most other nations) from starting a dedicated offensive until it was too late.
Near the end of Stephen King's short story Home Delivery, itself an homage to the films of George Romero, a member of a group of zombie hunters who help protect a small island community realizes he's having a fatal heart attack, and demands that his fellow hunters shoot him in the head (after he completes the Lord's Prayer) so that he doesn't rise immediately after he dies.
Head? No, that wasn't sure enough for him. He arranged for them to shoot him in all vital organs SIMULTANEOUSLY.
In George Romero's short story Anubis, plunging a knife into the brain of a dead person is part of the funerary rites---note that Romero revenants are not infected with a zombie "virus", it's just that the bite of a zombie is fatal, and everyone who dies rises.
In Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, like the above, all dead people are beheaded, because they all rise. Also, Charlotte Lucas is infected, marries Mr Collins just so she can have "a proper Christian beheading and burial", and slowly transforms into a zombie. This may be taken as symbolic of how, in the original, she threw away all hope of being truly happy so she could marry a fairly wealthy man and be secure - she's sort of the "living dead". Anyway, in Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, staggers around, speaking weirdly, eating disgustingly, and nearly having diarrhea in the corner of a parlor. It turns out that the reason she transforms so slowly is that Lady Catherine has been dosing her with a not-so-efficacious antidote which only prolonged her suffering.
Completely averted in the Newsflesh trilogy, because it's very easy to test if someone is infected. All the characters are trained not to go near anyone who's been out in the field until they've had a blood test, and all the characters who get infected (and discovered by the test) simply say their last words and let their teammates shoot them.
In Rebecca Brock's short story The Beautiful People found in the collection Abominations, a Paris Hilton-type celebutante discovers the hard way that one of her BF Fs, a certain strung-out redheaded actress, has been bitten and infected.
Beth in The Forest of Hands and Teeth suffers from a small wound at the hands of one of the Unforsaken. Her husband, Jed, knows about it and has troubles accepting the tragedy. He keeps it a secret from everyone but Mary, who promises to keep silent for the time. Beth's eventual death is a mercy kill.
There are many in Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?. They can't pretend for long, though, since the time between being infected and reanimating is fairly short.
In Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry, all the main characters have made it to the school which is under siege by zombies. To add insult to injury, the United States government forced them into a terrible deal to save the few uninfected survivors. The trio of heroes takes all the zombie infectees out to be terminated by the National Guard since it's the only way the government will refrain from fuel-air bombing the school and the surrounding town. And only then does one of the heroes reveal he got bitten in the battle to secure the school.
She Wolf of London has Ian bravely fighting against the encroaching Zombie tendencies. But the longer he goes, the more he's able to do little more than groan, "Hunnnngrrryyy...." piteously. Fortunately, this case of zombiism was a curse that could be reversed.
The Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars" averts this when one character touches the eponymous water and instantly tells the others to go on without him.
Amy plays this trope straight in "The Time of Angels". She doesn't really know what's happened to her until the Doctor figures it out, though the grit in her eye was a pretty big indicator something was wrong. She just had no way of knowing how bad it was until the Doctor worked it out himself.
Special Unit 2 has the main character Nick get infected by a werewolf bite. Needing to find the werewolves, he decides to let himself turn, but tells his partner to kill him if he looks like he's lost himself. At the end, he seems to lose control, but by this point they'd developed a cure bullet and shot him with it.
Community hilariously evokes the trope by having two people, one after the other, reveal themselves as being infectees, and protesting in slurred, growling speech (a symptom that announces the transformation is underway) that they thought they were "special" and could resist the bite through Heroic Willpower.
Both the British and the American versions of Being Human had the main werewolf character scratch and infect his girlfriend, who concealed it until after her first transformation because she wasn't convinced it would really happen. In the British version, Nina at least had the sense to lock herself up just in case, while in the American version, Nora destroyed her car and transformed just a stone's throw from her boyfriend and the vampire trying to kill him, so it all worked out surprisingly well.
Subverted in Dead Set. Angel is bitten but because none of the housemates are clear on how the virus works, they attempt to treat her. It doesn't work. Later, Alex is bitten and quietly hands her axe over to Riq to dispatch her quickly.
According to the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (and Warhammer 40000: Dark Heresy), some people who have been infected by Chaos go to steps to have their mutations excised or made less noticeable, out of hope that it'll stop them from mutating into Chaos beasts. It rarely, if ever, works, but they figure it's better than being burned at the stake by the witch hunters.
FYI: It is not.
The opening fiction to zombie RPG All Flesh Must Be Eaten records the personal log of a scientist who's been bitten by a zombie. Needless to say, it goes in the typical direction, ending with the doctor talking about how h-h-hungry he is...
One chapter-opening story is centered around a group of infectees, quarantined by the United States government (by the rules of the scenario it's based on, infectees rise when they die of anything after the infection hits). The narrator finds her husband has committed suicide, but refuses to report it to the guards - they were growing apart, and as she puts it, "Before I die, he's going to touch me. One last time."
Zombie Fluxx has a card whose flavor text says something to the effect of "Dude, kill me if I turn into one of those things", and essentially indicates that any cards you have representing human friends have now become Zombie Infectees (or outright Zombies) you have to kill when the opportunity arises.
Like in the Anubis example above, the Neo-Victorian zombie RPG Unhallowed Metropolis features different funerary rites for a world where the dead can easily rise as zombies. The lower classes get an immediate cremation, the middle classes usually have valued steel or bronze stakes that can be used to destroy the brain, and the upper classes can hire professional "Mourners" who are trained to watch a body for three days straight and decapitate it at the first sign that it's getting back up.
Project Zomboid: If you get bitten or scratched, you can become infected yourself, making it only a matter of time before you join the ranks of the undead. The raider who breaks into your house during the tutorial thinks your wife is infected, and will attempt to kill her.
In the MMORPG Urban Dead, some players, called zombie spies, go into survivor strongholds and then click the search button or attack until they die, then rise as a zombie and start biting everyone in site. however, accidental zombie infectees can be cured with a first aid kit, because the pandemic zombie virus is actually harmless, it's only the bewildering array of bacteria in a zombie's mouth that is a threat.
Meanwhile, Z-killers continue to attack other zombies, even after rising as zombies themselves, possibly representing those individuals whose Heroic Willpower allows them to use their monstrous powers for the good of the remaining survivors.
This was a pre-expansion event in World of Warcraft. To make it particularly perverse, it was extremely easy to get cured- NPC healers were stationed in every city- so the players who did this were basically just doing it for fun. And complaining when they got cleansed by well-meaning players.
But then It Got Worse, making this trope irrelevant, as the zombie attacks grew more frequent, the NPC healers fewer and further between, and the time between infection and full zombification shorter - from an initial 10 minutes, to five, to one minute - in the larger cities, this made it nearly impossible to reach a healer before becoming a zombie, even if you were trying.
Lets not forget the Jerkass players who intentionally killed the healers and made the game a living hell for any player who didn't feel like participating in the current world event. Blizzard pissed off a lot of players with that particular world event. They tried to fix it later by making the NPCs immortal, but by then the aforementioned speed of the infection pretty much made it worthless.
Change "Zombie" for "Werewolf" and the worgen player character qualifies. He gets bitten early in the starting zone, but doesn't tell anyone until it's too late and turns into a worgen at the worst possible moment.
Worgen bite: You were bitten by a worgen. The wound looks minor... maybe it'll go away with time?
One of the campaigns in Left 4 Dead features a saferoom inside a church. There is an occupant locked inside; having been attacked the last time he let someone else in, he refuses to unlock the doors until you prove that you're not infected—and attracts a massive horde of the Infected by setting off the church bell. If you remain close to the door, you hear him beginning to panic as he realizes that he himself is an infectee; at the end of the sequence he leaps out of the saferoom, fully turned, and attacks.
Don't forget the two helicopter pilots! They got bit while making rounds trying to save people, eventually forcing someone in the party to shoot the pilot.
Inverted in the Sacrifice DLC comic. Zoey's father is bitten in the initial stages of the zombie apocalypse, and she puts him down to prevent this from happening. 2 weeks later, she finds out that the gene for immunity is passed down from the father. Ouch.
Resident Evil - There are actually very few examples of this trope in the RE games, the most common being in Resident Evil Outbreak; an online iteration where dying players resurrect as zombies. Resident Evil 1 does, however, have a readable journal by one of the Umbrella scientists that degrades slowly as the infection spreads, culminating in an extremely short entry about eating dog food, and how it is good.
Resident Evil 4 does this, although Leon manages to survive long enough to find a cure for himself and Ashley. Their case is also a bit different because they were injected with parasite eggs, not a zombie virus.
Marvin Branagh stretched his death by zombie attack over three games. Chronologically, he is bitten during RE: Outbreak, File #2, he is seen unconscious but alive in Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, and ultimately turns into a zombie in Resident Evil 2. (Capcom likes prequels.)
Then again, Branagh didn't exactly try to hide it, even going so far as to kick your player character out of the room and lock the door in RE 2 to make sure he wouldn't hurt you when he turned. It doesn't work, but not through any fault of his.
It doesn't help that he doesn't tell you why he's kicking you out.
Dead Rising has a few survivors that have been bitten or injured by the Zombies. One will refuse to come with you unless you can prove to her that the virus is curable, and there's a Narm filled cutscene of a story character transforming into a zombie. Also, any NPC you escort that is killed by a zombie will rise as another zombie. Which can make it quite satisfying when you shoot the dumbass in the head for sticking his nose in the zombie fight. Frank West becomes a Zombie Infectee on the third day (that is, if you have been following the main quest).
Dead Rising 2 reveals that the zombie suppressant is now the super-expensive wonder drug Zombrex, manufactured by PhenoTrans. The player character's daughter is infected and dependent on the drug. This leaves Chuck to do increasingly dangerous things (including starring on the Deadly Game Terror is Reality) to get the money for her Zombrex.
In the Case West DLC, Frank himself shows up, shooting Zombrex into his neck.
In the Freeware Game Survivor: The Living Dead you have an infection meter. And there's nothing in-game that can cure it, only a few items you can unlock that reduce your infected level, which then begins climbing back up.
Your allies in Survival Crisis Z will get infected if they are bitten, and will turn if they aren't given medical treatment. Unlike the typical example, though, they seem to realize what's happening and will beg you or other allies to shoot them before they change. You can't actually do it, but at least they aren't trying to hide it from you.
They only turn if they're at critical health for an extended period of time (and possibly if they get killed outright). 1 Health pack solves that easily enough.
In the source-mod Zombie Panic Source, this can happen. Teams are divided between humans and zombies, with one zombie being the "carrier" that has a chance of infecting humans with a successful melee attack. Those infected are notified of their illness, and while some notify their teammates and head to an early grave, others slink to the back of the crowd and take most of their team with them.
This Dinosaur Comic.
Happens to Gwynn in Sluggy Freelance. Turns out the zombies were just messing with her about the whole infection thing, though.
Main characters from Weregeek played with this trope when they created Zombie Apocalypse Self-Insert Fic These Gooddamned Zombies. First it was subverted when Joel was bitten, took a gun and enter room full of zombies to fight with them, because he don't want to endanger his friends, and then we saw Sarah hiding the bitemarks. This was also subverted, because it was revealed she was zombie from the beginning and lure the rest into a trap.
By turns averted, defied, discussed and deconstructed in The Zombie Hunters. The Virus is contracted through exposure to any zombie bodily fluids through an orifice or wound, but only being bitten or vomited on causes imminent zombification. Those otherwise exposed are infected with a dormant form of The Virus. These "Infected" can live full, asymptomatic lives, but they remain contagious, able to spread the disease to others through their own bodily fluids, and doomed to reanimate after death. On the Island Military Base humanity's remnants inhabit, Infected are both segregated from and forbidden from romancing the uninfected. Infected are also required to wear identifying armbands and ID tags, pass through checkpoints, and obey curfews while among uninfected, and the unskilled are exploited as highly-expendable Disaster Scavengers.(The eponymous Zombie Hunters) All residents are tested regularly, and anyone who goes off-island has to pass through quarantine and decontamination. The only character who can survive being bitten is already a zombie.
The Those Aren't Muskets skit "Dealing with the guy who's clearly hiding a zombie bite" starts as Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It turns out that all but one of them are all concealing the same secret. Though they do still have the obnoxious one who's hiding the fact that he was also bitten by a vampire and a werewolf (and possibly a mummy?).
Quite a bunch of characters in Ruby Quest have some traits of this, but Filbert fits the trope the most, with his Madness Mantra of being "clean".
Parodied in this Collegehumor video.
Averted for most people in We're Alive as they usually turn rapidly. There was some discussion about possible "slow turners" that would play this straight but it hasn't happened yet onscreen.
Subverted with Saul. He was chained up for much of season 2 out of fears that he may have been infected but he got better.
Also defied by The Colony who force people to strip down and be checked for bite marks and wounds before entering.
The Secret Show had a zombie infection that was triggered by certain words when spoken. Oddly, the cure was also certain words when spoken. So people could prevent the infection if they were careful what they said. Unfortunately, the words that triggered the zombie infection were "yes" and "no" for a good part of the episode!
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! had a zombie infection caused by a Skeleton King floating eyeball. Locking gazes with the eyeball was all it took to become infected. Transformation was instantaneous, so the tension came from people desperately trying to avoid the eyeball's gaze, and running from those who had not been able to avoid looking. This eventually left Chiro the last man standing until the sun came up and killed the vector, which restored everyone to normal.
6teen's "Dude of the Living Dead", had this, when one of "the clones" was infected. Any other character infected was fully genre-savvy and would try to take out some zombies before they go and or make a heroic sacrifice. In one case, a completely pointless heroic sacrifice (think reaaaaly slow zombies).
Parodied in South Park Episode "Night of the Living Homeless" in which a character sitting on top of the community center receives a phone call, that he lost his house, and subsequently asks the other people around him to help him out with a little money, some... "change?", ending up in Randy putting him out of his misery.
Homer becomes one in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XX segment "28 D'ohs Later".
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The Santer Commission was the European Commission in office between 23 January 1995 and 15 March 1999. The administration was led by Jacques Santer (former Prime Minister of Luxembourg).
The body had 20 members and oversaw the introduction of the euro. It was cut short when the Commission became the first to resign en masse due to allegations of corruption. Some members continued under Manuel Marín until the Prodi Commission was appointed.
In 1994 Jacques Delors was due to step down from a successful tenure as President of the European Commission. However his federalist style was not to the liking of many national governments. Hence when the proposal of Jean-Luc Dehaene (the then-Prime Minister of Belgium) was presented, he was vetoed by the UK on the grounds he was too federalist. Jacques Santer, then-Prime Minister of Luxembourg, was seen as less federalist as his presidency had earlier proposed the pillar structure. Hence he was nominated and approved by the European Council on 15 July 1994.[1]
Hence he was seen as being the "second choice" which weakened his position, with the European Parliament approving him only by a narrow majority.[1] Santer himself admitted that he "was not the first choice – but to become Commission president was not my first choice either."[2] He did however flex his powers over the nominations for the other Commissioners. The President gained this power under the Maastricht Treaty that came into force the previous year. On 18 January 1995 he managed to get his Commission approved by Parliament by 416 votes to 103 (a larger majority than expected) and they were appointed by the Council on 23 January.[1]
The Santer Commission oversaw the development of the Treaty of Nice before it was signed in 2000, negotiations with those countries to join in 2004 and the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997.[3]
Notably it contributed to the development of the euro and issued a series of green papers based on Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy's work. The Commission also developed the euro currency symbol. The euro was established on 1999-01-01. The Commission also continued Delors' social agenda, pushed for more powers in that field including tackling unemployment and began proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.[1]
Santer, desiring a quotable slogan for his administration, stated his Commissions aim would be "to do less, but do it better" (a slogan adopted and adapted by many since). Although just a sound bite, it touched a chord for some thinking the Community needed a rest after the new treaties and the euro, even if the nature of the Community itself requires movements and new projects to keep it busy.[2] However, during 1998 the Commission began to lose authority due to management criticisms from the Parliament.[1]
Budget controversy
The community's budget for each year needs to be discharged by the Parliament following its report by the European Court of Auditors. It had only refused to do so once previously, in 1984.[4] Towards the end of 1998 the Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control initially refused to discharge the community's budget for 1996 over what it saw as the arrogance of the Commission in its refusal to answer questions relating to financial mismanagement.[5] Paul van Buitenen, a whistle-blower working in the Commission, had sent the Parliament a report alleging that widespread fraud and cover ups, stating: "I found strong indications that . . . auditors have been hindered in their investigations and that officials received instructions to obstruct the audit examinations . . . The commission is a closed culture and they want to keep it that way, and my objective is to open it up, to create more transparency and to put power where it belongs – and that's in the democratically-elected European Parliament." In response, the Commission suspended him on half pay for releasing details of an inquiry.[6][7]
However it eventually supported the discharge 14 to 13 on 11 December, recommending that the plenary support the discharge. It was taken to plenary for debate four days later however the assigned rapporteur publicly went against the Committee's official position and urged the plenary to reject the discharge motion. President Santer announced that the Commission would treat the vote of discharge as one of confidence. In a vote on 17 December 1998, the Parliament denied the discharge.[8]
In response, on the basis it was tantamount to a vote of no confidence, the President of PES, Pauline Green, announced she would put forward a motion of censure. However PES would vote against its own motion, as there is no method for a motion of confidence.[9] During this period, the Parliament took on an increased government-opposition dynamic, with PES as a party supporting the Commission and the EPP renouncing its support and acting as a de facto opposition party to the executive.[8] This is in part because the allegations centred on Édith Cresson and Manuel Marín, both from the Socialist party (PES). It was seen by some that it was an attempt by the People's party (EPP) to discredit PES ahead of the 1999 elections. This led to hesitation from the PES leadership, who were the largest group in Parliament, to support the allegations.[5] Motions tabled by the two groups outlined the differing stances the EPP favouring individual responsibility (just those whom the main allegations are against) and PES favouring an emphasis on collective responsibility (so EPP members such as the President, as well as PES members, would be forced to resign). The PES resolution also proposed establishing a committee of independent experts to investigate the allegations.[8]
Following negotiations, including national capitals pressuring their MEPs,[5] the Parliament met to vote on the resolutions on 14 January 1999. It accepted the PES resolution and turned down a censure motion 293 to 232. Hence the Committee of Independent Experts was set up with its members appointed by the political leaders in Parliament and the Commission to create a balance.[8] A number of high-profile figures[10] were appointed and President Santer agreed to "respond" to its findings.[5] The report was produced on 15 March 1999 and was presented to the Commission and Parliament. It largely cleared most members, aside from Cresson, but concluded that there was growing reluctance of the Commissioners to acknowledge responsibility and that "It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who had the slightest sense of responsibility."[8]
The entire Santer Commission resigned in response to the report
In response to the report, PES withdrew their support from the Commission[8] and joined the other groups stating that unless the Commission resigned of its own accord, it would be forced to do so.[11] So, on the night of 15 March, Santer announced the mass resignation of his Commission.[8] The morning following the resignation, against the recommendation of his advisors, Santer attacked the conclusions of Committee.[11] The report was seen to be even in criticising not only PES members but also the workings of the Commission itself. It also exposed the situation that neither Parliament, nor the President, could force the resignation of individual Commissioners as they could only be 'recalled' by national governments. Paris refused to recall Cresson,[5] who refused to resign of her own accord, which sparked the need for a mass resignation. Commissioner Mario Monti criticised this stating that "This Commission has collectively resigned, I believe, not because of collective responsibility but because certain members of it preferred not to take their own individual responsibilities."[11] Édith Cresson went before the European Court of Justice and, in July 2006, was found guilty but was not stripped of her pension.[12] Cresson today is largely held accountable for the fall of Santer, who went on to serve time as an MEP and never fully recovered, and the rest of his Commission.[2]
The immediate effect was that the politically weakened Commission was unable to react to the beginning of the Kosovo War and the close of the Agenda 2000 negotiations. The crisis had compounded the already reduced powers of the Commission in favour of the Parliament's legislative power, the Council's foreign policy role and the ECB's financial role. However the change with Parliament was the most profound, the previous permanent cooperation between the two bodies came to an end with the shift in power.[13]
It was hoped by the leaders in Parliament that such a political challenge would generate useful publicity ahead of the elections, with previous polls producing a low turn out with a perception of the body being powerless. In this respect the affair did generate extensive media attention with the Parliament now seeming 'dramatic'. The committee report also was written in an unusually accessible manner, filled with soundbites. Further more it also drew greater attention from the Council to a Parliament willing to exercise its powers. Hence when the Council came in to agree on a new president, it was clear that the candidate had to be acceptable to parliament.[5] The crisis also displayed the increasing party competition within the Parliament, leading to the development of a Parliamentary system between the executive and legislative branches. Indeed, it can be seen that the government-opposition dynamic of the two main parties in Parliament aggravated the development of the crisis and contributed to the downfall of the Commission.[8]
The Prodi Commission, which succeeded Marín's caretaker administration, announced a zero-tolerance approach to fraud. Following pressure from Parliament, the Commission quickly established OLAF, an anti-fraud office which replaced the Unit for the Co-ordination of Fraud Protection (UCLAF) established in 1988[14] and seen as having failed in its duty.[1] OLAF was established with more powers and to be more independent, especially in terms of investigation where they are formally autonomous from the Commission.[14] There were a few members who survived the Santer Commission to continue under Prodi: Franz Fischler, Erkki Liikanen, Mario Monti and Neil Kinnock. The latter was appointed to undertake institutional reform.[1]
The reappointment of some of these members showed that individual Commissioners still maintained their own reputations despite the massive loss of face of the institution as a whole, while Cresson would have never been able to have been reappointed. The Commission itself suffered from a loss of trust and reputation, only compounded by the post-Delors mood. Prodi had to deal with increased euroscepticism which helped bring down the Santer Commission. Since the end of the Delors era, pro-integrationism had given way with greater concern about the Commission's powers. By just 2000 the Council curbed the Commission's powers once more when they believed Prodi overstepped his remit.[13]
The Commission college had 20 members (two for the largest five member states, one each for the remainder) and included Commissioners from new member states Sweden, Finland and Austria. Had Norway not rejected EU membership in 1995, their Commissioner would have been Thorvald Stoltenberg who was proposed as Commissioner for Fisheries;[15]
Parties: [ 9 ] left (PES) – [ 2 ] centre (ELDR) – [ 7 ] right (EPP/ED/AEN) – [ 2 ] independent
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South Africa and the Lomé Convention João de Deus Pinheiro
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Relations with the European Parliament, Culture, Audiovisual Policy,
Relations with the European Parliament, Communication, Information, Openness,
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Spain PP
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The crisis of the Santer Commission". CVCE (Centre for European Studies). Retrieved 2013-05-04.
1 2 3 Meade, Geoff (January–February 2008). "Euroville". E!Sharp magazine. Encompass Publications: 63.
↑ "Discover the former Presidents: The Santer Commission". Europa (web portal). Retrieved 2007-08-23.
↑ "Budgetary control: 1996 discharge raises issue of confidence in the Commission". Europa (web portal). 1999. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Hoskyns, Catherine; Michael Newman (2000). Democratizing the European Union: Issues for the twenty-first Century (Perspectives on Democratization. Manchester University Press. pp. 106–7. ISBN 978-0-7190-5666-6.
↑ "EU chief: No fraud cover-up". BBC News. 7 January 1999. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
↑ Paul van Buitenen (2000). Blowing the Whistle: Fraud in the European Commission. Politicos Pub. ISBN 9781902301464.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ringer, Nils F. (February 2003). "The Santer Commission Resignation Crisis" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
↑ BBC Democracy Live: 14 January 1999: Crisis in the EU
↑ André Middelhoek (chair) Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Juan Antonio Carillo Salcedo, Pierre Lelong and Walter van Gerven
1 2 3 Harding, Gareth (18 March 1999). "Unfolding drama of the Commission's demise". European Voice. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
↑ "Court rules against ex-French PM". BBC News. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
1 2 Topan, Angelina (30 September 2002). "The resignation of the Santer-Commission: the impact of 'trust' and 'reputation'". European Integration online Papers. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
1 2 "EU Budget Fraud". politics.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
↑ "Division of portfolios in the new Commission". Europa (web portal). 29 October 1994. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
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The Sneetches and other DevTools
In which I try to distill some of my vapourware thoughts into fluid ideas on improving the guiding principle behind developer tools in browsers.
TL;DR: In the wonderful words of one of my colleagues: "There is no TL;DR – learn to Instapaper." Some things actually take time to read.
Part I – Pre(r)amble
When it comes to browser developer tools, Chrome and Firefox are currently in a sort of friendly arms race; each innovation from one drives new ideas for the other, and vice versa. This can only be a benefit to web developers everywhere.
This speed of innovation is also necessary in the face of the rapid development of new W3C specs for both CSS and JS. There are new CSS modules and JS APIs popping up all the time. Some of these require new thinking about how to interact with them in devtools. Firefox's new Web Audio API node inspector is a brilliant example of this.
A little while ago, Mozilla started using UserVoice to collect ideas for ways to improve Firefox's devtools, which spurred me to write this. I'd been thinking for a few months about ways of improving the devtools to cater for certain new(ish) features of CSS. Along the way I realised that there's a fundamental assumption in most devtools features that should be challenged.
So, rather than continue to have the ideas just rattling around my head and failing to be developed, it's time to subject them to a mass audience.
Part II – Contextual healing
There are two areas of devtools I use far more than the rest: element inspection and script debugging. While I sometimes have gripes with parts of the debugging section, my focus for this post is on element inspection and the computed styles panels.
In the beginning, there was text, and text was all. On first inspection, it makes sense that CSS rules that were written only in text are displayed only in text. But CSS is text that converts to graphical output. Surely we should be able to display individual CSS rules with graphical output in the "styles" panel as well.
Google's old mantra of "Content is king" was close to the truth, but in Maxwell Smart style, missed it by that much. My opinion is "Context is key*" *Kings are so old-fashioned these days. Besides, in chess it's the queens who have all the power.
This ties back to the oft-quoted principle of Bret Victor: "Creators need an immediate connection to what they're creating." But for me, "Context is key" isn't just about creators, it's a basic part of being human. How many conversations have you had that got confused and garbled because one of the participants didn't have enough context? Twitter, for example, is like a giant social experiment in how to interpret messages without context.
I used to find out breaking news on twitter, now I have to reverse engineer a bunch of jokes to know what's happening.
— Chris Hallbeck (@ChrisHallbeck) February 11, 2013
So if we work better with more context in human-to-human interactions, why should we expect any less from our tools?
Thankfully, I'm not alone in thinking this. For example, most browser devtools now show a little preview swatch next to colour values for CSS properties, often with a colour picker attached to it for easy selection of a new value.
Lea Verou upped the game with her work on Dabblet, which added a whole heap of contextual previews when hovering over different types of values. While Dabblet isn't an in-built browser tool, it still showed a way forward when interacting with CSS code.
The Firefox devtools team also has the ongoing "doorhangers" project. Doorhangers are the little preview popup panels that appear when hovering over colours, image URLs, 2D transforms, etc. What's been implemented so far is only a small chunk of their big list of plans, which I suggest you go and look at: https://gist.github.com/captainbrosset/6681978.
Let's also not forget the box model panel – the oldest example of providing a different rendering mode in devtools to better show the context of the properties involved.
The key thing about these examples is that they use vastly different rendered displays for different properties. Each display mode has been tailored for the type of property/value, thus giving far greater context than text alone ever could.
However, while all these examples are encouraging, I still feel like there's something big that's missing from the story.
Part III – Plain-bellied reads vs star-bellied writes
Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
Had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches
Had none upon thars.
Those stars weren't so big. They were really so small
You might think such a thing wouldn't matter at all.
— Dr. Seuss, "The Sneetches"
("The Sneetches" and all quotes listed here © Dr. Seuss Enterprises.)
When inspecting an element, you are able to view the CSS rules applied to it (the "Styles" or "Rules" panel) and the final computed values that the browser uses for rendering (the "Computed" panel). These are effectively the "write" and "read" modes for an element's style rules.
In "write" mode you can change any aspect of the element's style at any level of the cascade (other than user agent stylesheets). This is where the contextual helpers come in to play.
In "read" mode you can see the final values and change nothing. You can see which rules contributed to that value, and some of the little UI helpers might still be there (Firefox still shows the small colour swatch next to colour values), but that's it.
The read vs write paradigm is inherent in a lot of what devtools do. This includes features such as live CSS file editing; even with live updating previews while typing, it's still just a write operation – there's no reading of the final computed value.
It all reminds me of the classic Dr. Seuss story "The Sneetches" (one of my all-time favourites).
But, because they had stars, all the Star-Belly Sneetches
Would brag, "We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches."
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort
"We'll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!"
They never invited the Plain-Belly Sneetches.
They left them out cold, in the dark of the beaches.
They kept them away. Never let them come near.
And that's how they treated them year after year.
But wait, what's this strange interloper we see that dares break down the purely read or write boundaries? The Sylvester McMonkey McBean* of this particular story is something that's already been mentioned – the humble box model panel. *Let's ignore for a moment the fact that Sylvester McMonkey McBean was a con-man out to make a quick buck and bankrupt the Sneetches. Also, the fact that "The Sneetches" was an anti-racism allegory does not necessarily indicate that I am suggesting browser devtools are racist… OK, so this is perhaps a bit of a strained metaphor, but shush, I'm sticking with it anyway.
At first glance it just looks like another read-only view. Chrome even combines it with the list of computed styles in the same panel. You can hover over different parts of it and have the relevant parts of the page element also highlighted, but that's still read-only.
Where it breaks down the read/write divide is that the box model values for margin, padding, etc. can be edited directly. Just by clicking (or double-clicking, depending on the browser) on a computed value in the box model section, you enter an edit mode for that value. The usual controls for increment and decrement work (up/down, shift+up/down, etc.) and you can type new values.
Suddenly you are changing the computed values directly. The values are displayed in pixels, but you can enter in other units (%, em, rem) and it still works. As soon as you're done changing the value, the value switches back to the computed pixel value. The barrier has been broken. In fact, Firefox takes it one step further – if a metric (say, margin-top) was specified in a non-px unit (e.g. "1em"), clicking to edit the pixel-based computed value will display the original value and unit in edit mode.
All the rest of that day, on those wild screaming beaches,
The Fix-it-Up Chappie kept fixing up Sneetches.
Off again! On again!
In again! Out again!
Through the machines they raced round and about again,
Changing their stars every minute or two.
They kept paying money. They kept running through
Until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
Whether this one was that one… or that one was this one
Or which one was what one… or what one was who.
Having now identified one area of element interaction that combines reading and writing certain styles into one place, surely there are more lurking around?
As far as I can see, that's where it stops for core browser devtools*. *There's one experimental Firefox feature I will mention later, but it's still not in a stable release. There are no other element metrics that can simultaneously display computed values and allow changing the rules that affect them – all in a display mode that makes sense for the individual property.
Part IV – A new paradigm, I hope
Then, when every last cent
Of their money was spent,
The Fix-it-Up Chappie packed up
And he laughed as he drove
In his car up the beach,
"They never will learn.
No. You can't teach a Sneetch!"
In the near future, I'd like to see more devtools features break away from the purely text-based fortress. Context is key. At the very least I want more features to break out of the read OR write paradigm and start merging the two together. I've seen people play with Firefox's 2D transform doorhanger and instantly want to interact with it, only to be disappointed that they can't.* *Anecdotal evidence being the most scientific and pursuasive of arguments, obviously.
Rather than just say "Here's a vision I had – go build it," I will now present some ideas that I've thought of so far. Some I've already built as functional prototypes. Some are just thoughts rattling around in my head. All of them are visions of what devtools could be.
2D transforms
The first idea that sparked this whole line of thinking. Transforms can be complicated, especially when a matrix is involved.
Providing an abstract visual representation is the first step.* *What's shown here is something I roughly put together as a Chrome devtools extension many moons ago. When Firefox brought out their 2D transform preview a few weeks later, I found some validation for my ideas. It inspired me to keeping expanding on the idea until it became what you're reading now. It's a lot easier to understand a simple picture of a transformed element than it is to try to work out how "transform: rotate(37deg) skewY(-23deg) translateX(3em)" will look.
But this isn't enough – it's still a read-only mode. The key lies in merging read-mode and write-mode. First let's start with a plain, untransformed element, then scale and rotate it slightly.
That's a good start, but it doesn't go far enough for me. Interacting with an abstract representation is all well and good, but what if you want to play with the element itself?
That's better, but now I want to go back and edit a transform that's previously been applied. No problem, just click on the individual transform section and change it.
Keyframe-based animations
This one bugs me a lot. For transforms, even if the features above weren't implemented, there is at least a way to know what the element will do. For named animations there is nothing. You can see "animation: somename" in the computed styles panel and that's it. What does the "somename" animation actually do? No idea, sorry, you'll have to go digging through the raw CSS to find that out.
Computer-based animators have long been using animation timelines to display and edit their animations. Hell, that's where the term "keyframe animations" comes from. Why not start with an animation timeline for a CSS keyframe? (For what it's worth, I'm not claiming this as an original idea – certainly other people have suggested it as well.)
The percentages at the top are the keyframes defined for the animation. Vertical bars in the box for each CSS property indicate that the property has a value set for that keyframe.
The full CSS definition of the keyframes is below the timeline. The graphical and text modes are linked with two-way highlighting to provide better context about exactly which rules apply to what part of the animation.
However, the boxes for each property look rather blank. There's empty space just waiting to be filled. Each type of property (unit, colour, etc.) could have a different visualisation showing the change to the property's value of the duration of the animation.
Of course, in order to not make myself a hypocrite, it has to have a write mode as well. Here's what it looks like all put together:
This is but one possible solution for animations; there are many others. Paul Roget at Mozilla, for example, did a brilliant proof of concept that allowed user control over Firefox's internal timing clock, thus allowing you to pause or rewind CSS and JS animations together.
Of course, as is inevitable with this kind of rant, by the time I'd finished writing it and getting prototypes ready someone had already proven me wrong. It's worth highlighting the new feature that's just landed in Firefox Aurora for editing keyframe animations:
There are some aspects there that I haven't covered (such as changing the easing, and the transform visualisation is fantastic), but I still feel that being able to see at a glance the change in a property's value over time is valuable.* *This aspect of my proposal was heavily inspired by Bret Victor's "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction"
The same root problem, different solutions and approaches. This is a Good Thing. No one person has the perfect solution.
However, this is still just one feature of one browser. I want more of this across the board.
So far I've demonstrated specific details of just two particular areas of CSS, but that should be enough to get my point across.
The new experimental animation editor in Firefox is a great step towards a better class of browser devtools. Just think of how many other parts of CSS authoring / debugging / experimenting could be improved in the same way…
Flexbox is great, but remembering exactly what the relevant properties are (making sure that they're the right version of flexbox) and how they interact with each other is not something I remember easily.
We could have a proper visualisation of what the properties do (interactive, of course), and how the various flex items align with each other.
Colour gradients
Surely there are enough online gradient editors already that I don't have to explain the concept. There are discussions around a possible implementation for Firefox at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706102.
All my work on transforms focused on 2D only, for simplicity's sake. The concept could be extended to work with 3D transforms and involve perspective and perspective-origin properties.
Firefox has a devtools panel that shows which fonts are used by an element or page, with an interactive text preview. This is great, but what about other text options?
Why can't we see how the line-height and vertical-align properties interact with the x-height of a font? I've seen these cause lots of developer confusion before. What about word-break and word-wrap?
Other things I won't think of, but hopefully other people will
Again, no one person has all the answers. I'm sure other people can come up with far more creative solutions. I welcome it, in fact.
Part V – Future's so bright
Less whining, more defining
Writing long and vaguely ranty blog posts is all well and good, but it doesn't really put ideas in front of the people actually making browser tools.
To that end, I've found or raised the following feature requests for the things I've suggested here. I've only focused on Chrome and Firefox for now, as they currently have the greatest speed of development on their devtools.
2D transforms crbug.com/400708 UserVoice: 6258601
3D transforms crbug.com/400708 Bugzilla: 992217 &
UserVoice: 6258601
Keyframes crbug.com/266276 &
crbug.com/400710 UserVoice: 5789812
Flexbox crbug.com/398214 UserVoice: 6258609
Colour gradients crbug.com/399582 Bugzilla: 706102
Text metrics crbug.com/400714 UserVoice: 6258618
Browser vendors are always on the look-out for ways to make their developer tools better. If you have ideas for new devtools features, go create some issues too.
We* can and should demand more from our devtools. *By "we" I mean "web developers" in the general sense that anyone who plays in a browser's devtools is a developer for the web. I'm not advocating that we kill text modes completely and use purely graphical tools, as that just goes from one extreme to the other.
It is the combination of textual and graphical representation that presents the best way forward. Text for explicit declarations and fine-grained input; interactive graphics for getting better clarity of the output. As each representation updates the other at the same time, a greater understanding of the whole is gained.
This is far from a revolutionary idea, but it's one I really want to see implemented.
But McBean was quite wrong. I'm quite happy to say
That the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day,
The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches
And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars
And whether they had one, or not, upon thars.
This entry was posted in Development on August 4, 2014 by Gilmore.
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Tom August 14, 2014 at 6:47 pm
This is brilliant and definitely, definitely the way forward.
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The IWWF World Barefoot Council is seeking bids from Federations to host the 2018 Open/Junior/Senior World Barefoot Water Ski Championships.
The current policy of the WBC is for the event to be hosted over a maximum duration of seven (7) days.
Provide details of the expected budget to host the event. This will ensure the LOC is fully aware the probable cost for hosting a World Championships.
Include an Organizing Committee Structure proposed to be set-up to run the Championships.
Local experience and skills in organising similar events (National Championships) is an important factor that should be highlighted, as it conveys valuable information to the WBC, the ability of the LOC to host a World Championships.
Include any supporting letters relating to the bid from: Federal/State/Local Government, National Sport Organization and Barefoot Division, Sponsors, etc.
Detail confirmation of accepting the terms and conditions outlined in the IWWF Letter of Agreement and WBC List of Obligations for Hosting a World Championships (found in the WBC PPG), or where applicable, any exceptions that may be conditional to the bid.
The closing dates for submissions is 31 December 2015. | {
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"With the help of this grant, we are better equipped to invest in our employees and our infrastructure. And we are excited to grow our operations right here in Montgomery County ."- Tim Broadhead, Amsterdam Printing President.
Founded by Abraham Singer in 1898, Amsterdam Printing, now owned by Taylor Corporation, headquartered in Minnesota, has grown into one of the 15 largest promotional product companies in the United States.
With facilities in Amsterdam, Montgomery County and Queensbury, Warren County, today the company is a leader in bringing innovative promotional products to market to help businesses creatively promote their company and retain their customers by offering products ranging from personalized pens to calendars and t-shirts, and all types of promotional products.
With the help of the Montgomery County Business Development Center, Amsterdam Printing was able to secure a grant from New York State which will allow the company to increase their investments in both technology and equipment.
Today, Amsterdam Printing employs more than 500 people across the capital region, with some employees having over 50+ year careers with the company. With the aid of this grant, Amsterdam Printing will continue to grow and serve Montgomery County as a top employer in the area. | {
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Proyectos | Hotels | Isla de Lobos Hotel
The extension of Hotel Bahía Real will provide the 5-star luxury hotel with 121 new rooms with exclusive views of Isla de Lobos.
The project consists of an extension of Hotel Bahía Real, a five-star Luxury Hotel in Corralejo along the northern coast of Fuerteventura Island. It is located between a huge natural park of sand dunes and a beach with exclusive views of Isla de Lobos.
The extension provides the hotel with 121 new rooms, continuing along the coast of Hotel Bahía Real in a Y-shaped floor plan which allows all the rooms an exclusive view of the sea and direct access from the central communications zone and common services.
The new look of the complex will be of a more contemporary architecture that simultaneously integrates materials that are native to the island.
The hotel will take pleasure in a new restaurant with a terrace overlooking the sea and the sand dunes, a pool bar, and an open swimming pool protected from the wind with direct access to the beach and a solarium with a covered infinity pool.
The hotel complex aspires to achieve the sustainability certification of LEED Gold.
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Fuerteventura (Islas Canarias) - Spain
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Our headquarters is located in Madrid. In addition, we have offices in Seville, Mexico, Poland and the Netherlands.
Avenida del Arroyo del Santo 4, 28042 Madrid
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Neurological Complications of Anti-TNF Agents Are Rare, but Most Common With Infliximab
Anti–tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents, widely used in rheumatology and gastroenterology, carry some safety risks. While the risk of infection or malignancy are common concerns, neurological complications, while rare, are also possible.
Anti—tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agents, widely used in rheumatology and gastroenterology, carry some safety risks. While the risk of infection or malignancy are common concerns, neurological complications, while rare, are also possible.
During the fourth congress of the European Academy of Neurology, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 16 to 19, researchers reported on neurological complications with anti-TNF drugs in their 16 years of experience in a tertiary university hospital in Madrid, Spain.
The researchers performed a retrospective analysis of their center's neurology department from 2002 to 2007 and identified patients who had received the anti-TNF agents infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, and golimumab. They included in their analysis patients who had neurological issues while actively being treated with any of these agents.
In total, there were 15 episodes of neurological complications in 14 patients who were receiving treatment with infliximab, adalimumab, or golimumab to treat inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, psoriatic arthritis, or pyoderma gangrenosum. No patients being treated with etanercept reported neurological complications.
Nine of the patients who had complications were treated with infliximab, 6 were treated with adalimumab, and 1 was treated with golimumab.
In total:
9 patients had a transient ischemic attack or stroke
3 patients had demyelinating central nervous system disease
1 patient had cerebral venous thrombosis
3 patients had other neurological diagnoses
In 2 cases of stroke, 1 case of psychogenic neurological symptoms, and 1 case of headache, anti-TNF agents were deemed not to be the cause of complication
In 4 cases, patients discontinued anti-TNF treatment due to neurological complaints
The authors write that, in their experience, neurological complications of anti-TNF therapies are rare, but that they are most commonly reported with infliximab, and stroke is the most commonly reported complication; "A possible association with stroke of undetermined etiology should be assessed with prospective studies," say the researchers.
Gomez A, Nater E, Monreal S, et al. Neurological complications of antiTNF therapies: 16 years of tertiary university hospital experience. Presented at the European Academy of Neurology Congress, June 16-19, 2018; Lisbon, Portugal. Abstract EPR1130. https://ipp-ean18.netkey.at/index.php?p=recorddetail&rid=2dec48c7-efbe-4a30-aa16-a7c040870eb3&t=browsepresentations.
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Coronavirus In West Virginia: Positive COVID-19 test results at 1.93 %
by: John Lynch
Wheeling, W.Va (WTRF)- The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on May 19, 2020, there have been 78,301 laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 1,509 positive, 76,792 negative and 68 deaths.
CONFIRMED CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (7), Berkeley (219), Boone (9), Braxton (2), Brooke (3), Cabell (55), Calhoun (2), Clay (2), Fayette (38), Gilmer (8), Grant (6), Greenbrier (9), Hampshire (12), Hancock (12), Hardy (32), Harrison (35), Jackson (135), Jefferson (102), Kanawha (203), Lewis (5), Lincoln (5), Logan (15), Marion (48), Marshall (25), Mason (15), McDowell (6), Mercer (13), Mineral (29), Mingo (3), Monongalia (116), Monroe (6), Morgan (17), Nicholas (9), Ohio (37), Pendleton (5), Pleasants (2), Pocahontas (8), Preston (15), Putnam (29), Raleigh (12), Randolph (8), Ritchie (1), Roane (9), Summers (1), Taylor (8), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (6), Wayne (96), Wetzel (7), Wirt (4), Wood (48), Wyoming (3).
West Virginia Governor, Jim Justice, will provide his daily COVID-19 press briefing today at 12:30 PM.
You can watch the press briefing on the 7News Facebook page or on WTRF.com.
by Michelle Robertson, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 17, 2021
(NEXSTAR) - The more contagious COVID-19 variant first reported in the U.K. will likely become the predominant strain in the U.S. by March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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News | Oriel Fellow Dr Kathryn Murphy Curates Exhibition for Bodleian
Oriel Fellow Dr Kathryn Murphy Curates Exhibition for Bodleian
Dr Kathryn Murphy, Oriel's Fellow and Tutor in English and Fellow Librarian, has been curating a new exhibition at the Bodleian, with a team from the department of Psychiatry. Melancholy: A New Anatomy is on until 20th March 2022.
'Who is not a Foole, who is free from Melancholy?', asked Robert Burton, 400 years ago, and answered his own question: 'all the world is mad, is melancholy, dotes'. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is a compendious and labyrinthine study of this universal condition, which attempts to metabolise all relevant ancient and Renaissance scholarship on behalf of the reader. A new Bodleian exhibition, curated by Dr Kathryn Murphy and a team from the Department of Psychiatry, celebrates the Anatomy at 400, and explores the contemporary resonances of his sprawling investigation of the causes, symptoms, and cures of emotional distress. Burton was himself an early user and a donor to the Bodleian, and the exhibition uses the collections to show parallels and contrasts between early modern and contemporary cures for melancholy.
Melancholy was a medical matter for the Renaissance: a disease resulting from the excess of black bile, the substance melancholy, in the body. Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician who was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, described the Anatomy in 1909 as 'a medical treatise, the greatest indeed written by a layman'. But as a medical treatise, it is eccentric. If melancholy is the whole world's malady, then nothing is irrelevant, and the Anatomy exhibits the world-swallowing encyclopaedic ambition of the Renaissance. It includes a satirical preface in the persona of Democritus Junior, named in honour of the 'laughing philosopher' of the ancients; proliferating anecdotes; digressions on cosmology, geography, sex, tobacco, utopian government, and the miseries of scholars; and copious quotation from poets and playwrights. It was Burton's life's work: after its first publication, it went through five further editions, each expanding on the last, until the final, posthumous version of 1651 was 771 pages and over half a million words long.
Four hundred years have dramatically changed our ways of thinking and talking about the causes, symptoms, and cures of mental illness. Burton's understanding of the physiology of melancholy rested on the theory of the four humours, and on astrology; he included supernatural causes like witches and demonic possession, and cures like bloodletting, amulets, and precious stones. Yet this exhibition shows surprising ways in which Burton's capacious concepts of cure anticipate contemporary research into the conditions of mental wellness, and means of support in crisis. Burton represents an early modern understanding of the porousness of mental and physical phenomena which is currently explored in research into the connections between mental health and the gut. His emphasis on remedies which involve changes to sufferers' circumstances and activities – on diet, air, exercise, study, sleep, company, laughter, friends, and music – anticipate contemporary interest in social prescribing, lifestyle remedies, and cures other than the pharmaceutical.
The exhibition also recognizes in the Anatomy a forerunner for contemporary attention to the therapeutic potential of reading and writing. Burton himself susceptible to melancholy, and writing was a solace: 'I write of melancholy', he claimed, 'by being busy to avoid melancholy'. The Anatomy is a testament to personal experience, and a kind of self-cure. But since Burton could assume a universal susceptibility to melancholy, the reader, too, is implicated. He tells the reader that 'Thou thyself art the subject of the discourse'. You are encouraged to learn not only about melancholy, but about yourself, as you read. It is a personal and interpersonal book, offering the reader practical help, solace, and distraction.
The exhibition was planned before the pandemic, but the experiences of the last 18 months have only intensified its resonance. Burton's closing injunction to the reader is 'Be not solitary, be not idle'. In a time when we have all faced a lack of social contact, and some an enforced lack of activity, Burton's various methods for salving the anxieties of solitude and idleness are unexpectedly relevant: chief among them the absorbing, various, distracting experience of reading the book itself.
The exhibition runs until 20th March 2022 and more information can be found on the Bodleian's website: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/melancholy-new-anatomy#/
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Sen. Rose works with Illinois Farm Bureau to Protect Landowners Rights
State Sen. Chapin Rose and the Illinois Farm Bureau teamed up to add legal protections for homeowners and landowners when it comes to the planning and surveying for electric transmission lines on their property.
"This legislation is designed to provide better notification and more transparency during the entire process to landowners who are potentially involved in these projects," Rose said. "Obviously, when you 'flip a switch,' we all want the lights to turn on, but how the big power companies treat people when planning for the delivery of electric service is no less important."
Senate Bill 1726 requires a public utility seeking to construct a high-voltage electric service line or related project to have held at least two pre-filing public meetings to receive comments and concerns about the project in each county where the line could be located. Mailed notifications must go out to all land owners in the right of way, and the utility must provide a second notice to landowners if the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) approves the project before surveying can begin.
"By having better information and notification, these landowners will be able to get involved in the ICC's review of the proposed transmission lines, and their property rights would be better considered for the ICC's review process," Bill Bodine from the Illinois Farm Bureau said.
The legislation is now awaiting action in the House of Representatives.
"With numerous transmission line projects in the works across the state, it's imperative the rights of property owners are respected," Rose said. "I want to thank the Illinois Farm Bureau for their commitment to this issue and helping us draft this legislation. One recent transmission filing failed to properly notify property owners that they were even involved in the filing. That was wrong. Likewise, surveyors shouldn't be coming on your land as if the ICC had already ruled in the utilities' favor. People have a right to know exactly what is going on."
"By having better information, it will hopefully reduce the frustration from landowners because they will be able to better involve themselves in the ICC's review of a proposed electric line," Bodine said. "We really appreciate Senator Rose's work on this issue. He's put in long hours and talked to many people to make this legislation happen." | {
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I have a fast connection and am very interested in these. I could also provide a mirror.
Please let me know if they are still available.
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In late June, Continental AutoSports participated as a sponsor at the Autobahn Country Club & Collectors Car Garage event, hosted by Vertiport Chicago. Located at 1339 S Wood St, Vertiport is a full service helicopter facility that is home to tours, private charters, and more. The Vertiport facility includes a massive 30,000 sq ft hangar and more than 5 acres of tarmac, making it the perfect venue to host this event for car enthusiasts.
Attendees of this event enjoyed a night of conversation over appetizers and cocktails. A few helicopters were present for viewing, and we even witnessed a landing and takeoff. Also on display for the attendees were two of our cars. We brought out two of our newer vehicles including a pre-owned Ferrari 488 GTB and a new Ferrari GT4-C Lusso. The cars looked great at the event and gained plenty of attention over the course of the night.
This event, intended to bring together car collectors and enthusiasts from the Chicagoland area, included members of the Autobahn Country Club of Joliet, and the Collectors Car Garage Club of Chicago. Autobahn Country Club is a private race track in Joliet that hosts various driving events and allows club members daily access to their 3.56 mile circuit that can be divided into two configurations. Collectors Car Garage is a storage facility in downtown Chicago that handles members' cars and manages everything from wash & detailing, to service and restoration coordination. | {
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Be careful; Aluminium is a durable Scharfkantiges. Please use appropriate protective clothing, we accept no liability for damage or injuries.
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using namespace DAVA;
DAVA_TARC_TESTCLASS(SelectionModuleTest)
{
void SetFocus(QWidget * widget)
{
widget->clearFocus();
if (widget->isActiveWindow() == false)
{
QWidget* topLevel = widget;
while (topLevel->parent() != nullptr)
topLevel = topLevel->parentWidget();
qApp->setActiveWindow(widget);
}
widget->setFocus(Qt::MouseFocusReason);
}
void SkipUIFrames()
{
for (int32 i = 0; i < FRAME_SKIP; ++i)
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync());
}
void SetUpTest(bool autoSelectNewEntity)
{
GetAccessor()->GetGlobalContext()->GetData<GlobalSceneSettings>()->autoSelectNewEntity = autoSelectNewEntity;
InvokeOperation(CreateFirstSceneOperation.ID);
}
void TearDownTest()
{
InvokeOperation(DAVA::CloseAllScenesOperation.ID, false);
}
DAVA_TEST (SelectEntityTest)
{
SetUpTest(false);
SceneEditor2* scene = GetAccessor()->GetActiveContext()->GetData<SceneData>()->GetScene().Get();
ScopedPtr<Entity> node(new Entity());
scene->AddNode(node);
node->SetLocked(false);
Vector3 newPosition(25.0f, 25.0f, 0.0f);
Transform newTransform(newPosition);
TransformComponent* tc = node->GetComponent<TransformComponent>();
scene->Exec(std::unique_ptr<Command>(new TransformCommand(Selectable(node.get()), tc->GetLocalTransform(), newTransform)));
RenderWidget* renderWidget = GetContextManager()->GetRenderWidget();
auto stepMouseClick = [this, scene, renderWidget, node]()
{
Rect r(renderWidget->childrenRect().x(), renderWidget->childrenRect().y(), renderWidget->childrenRect().width(), renderWidget->childrenRect().height());
Camera* camera = scene->GetCurrentCamera();
Vector2 nodePos = camera->GetOnScreenPosition(node->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetWorldTransform().GetTranslation(), r);
QTest::mouseClick(GetRenderWidgetTestTarget(), Qt::LeftButton, Qt::KeyboardModifiers(), QPoint(nodePos.x, nodePos.y));
};
auto stepCheckSelection = [this, scene, node]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node.get()));
};
::testing::InSequence sequence;
SkipUIFrames();
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync())
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::SetFocus, this, renderWidget)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepMouseClick))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckSelection))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([node]() { node->SetLocked(true); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepMouseClick))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckSelection))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::TearDownTest, this)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Return());
}
DAVA_TEST (SelectionSomeEntityTest)
{
SetUpTest(false);
SceneEditor2* scene = GetAccessor()->GetActiveContext()->GetData<SceneData>()->GetScene().Get();
QWidget* widget = GetRenderWidgetTestTarget();
ScopedPtr<Entity> node1(new Entity());
ScopedPtr<Entity> node2(new Entity());
scene->AddNode(node1);
scene->AddNode(node2);
Rect viewport = scene->GetSystem<SceneCameraSystem>()->GetViewportRect();
Vector2 pos = scene->GetCurrentCamera()->GetOnScreenPosition(node1->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetWorldTransform().GetTranslation(), viewport);
TEST_VERIFY(viewport.PointInside(pos));
pos = scene->GetCurrentCamera()->GetOnScreenPosition(node2->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetWorldTransform().GetTranslation(), viewport);
TEST_VERIFY(viewport.PointInside(pos));
auto stepMouseMove = [this, widget, viewport]()
{
QPoint startPoint(widget->x() + viewport.x, widget->y() + viewport.y);
QPoint endPoint(startPoint.x() + viewport.dx, startPoint.y() + viewport.dy);
SelectByMouseRect(widget, startPoint, endPoint);
};
auto stepCheckSelection = [this, scene, node1, node2]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 2);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()));
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()));
};
::testing::InSequence sequence;
SkipUIFrames();
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync())
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::SetFocus, this, widget)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepMouseMove))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckSelection))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::TearDownTest, this)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Return());
}
DAVA_TEST (SelectionAfterRemoveTest)
{
SetUpTest(true);
SceneEditor2* scene = GetAccessor()->GetActiveContext()->GetData<SceneData>()->GetScene().Get();
RenderWidget* renderWidget = GetContextManager()->GetRenderWidget();
auto startTest = [this, scene]
{
ScopedPtr<Entity> node1(new Entity());
scene->AddNode(node1);
scene->Update(0.01f);
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()));
ScopedPtr<Entity> node2(new Entity());
scene->AddNode(node2);
scene->Update(0.01f);
selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()));
scene->RemoveNode(node2);
scene->Update(0.01f);
selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.IsEmpty());
};
::testing::InSequence sequence;
SkipUIFrames();
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync())
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::SetFocus, this, renderWidget)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(startTest))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::TearDownTest, this)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Return());
}
DAVA_TEST (SelectionSolidEntity)
{
SetUpTest(false);
SceneEditor2* scene = GetAccessor()->GetActiveContext()->GetData<SceneData>()->GetScene().Get();
QWidget* widget = GetRenderWidgetTestTarget();
ScopedPtr<Entity> node1(new Entity());
ScopedPtr<Entity> node2(new Entity());
ScopedPtr<Entity> node3(new Entity());
node1.get()->AddNode(node2);
node1.get()->AddNode(node3);
scene->AddNode(node1);
Rect viewport = scene->GetSystem<SceneCameraSystem>()->GetViewportRect();
auto stepSelectViewportByMouse = [this, scene, widget, viewport]()
{
QPoint startPoint(widget->x() + viewport.x, widget->y() + viewport.y);
QPoint endPoint(startPoint.x() + viewport.dx, startPoint.y() + viewport.dy);
SelectByMouseRect(widget, startPoint, endPoint);
};
auto stepClick = [this, scene, node3]
{
RenderWidget* renderWidget = GetContextManager()->GetRenderWidget();
Rect r(renderWidget->childrenRect().x(), renderWidget->childrenRect().y(), renderWidget->childrenRect().width(), renderWidget->childrenRect().height());
Vector2 nodePos = scene->GetCurrentCamera()->GetOnScreenPosition(node3->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetWorldTransform().GetTranslation(), r);
QTest::mouseClick(GetRenderWidgetTestTarget(), Qt::LeftButton, Qt::KeyboardModifiers(), QPoint(nodePos.x, nodePos.y));
};
auto stepMoveThirdEntity = [scene, node3]
{
Vector3 newPosition(15.0f, 15.0f, 0.0f);
Matrix4 newTransform = Matrix4::MakeTranslation(newPosition);
scene->Exec(std::unique_ptr<Command>(new TransformCommand(Selectable(node3.get()), node3->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetLocalTransform(), newTransform)));
};
auto stepClickNotInEntity = [this, scene, node1]
{
float32 scale = 2.f * GetAccessor()->GetGlobalContext()->GetData<GlobalSceneSettings>()->debugBoxScale;
Vector3 left = scene->GetCurrentCamera()->GetLeft();
Matrix4 sourceMatrix = node1->GetComponent<TransformComponent>()->GetWorldMatrix();
Vector3 offsetPoint = (scale * left) * sourceMatrix;
RenderWidget* renderWidget = GetContextManager()->GetRenderWidget();
Rect r(renderWidget->childrenRect().x(), renderWidget->childrenRect().y(), renderWidget->childrenRect().width(), renderWidget->childrenRect().height());
Vector2 pos = scene->GetCurrentCamera()->GetOnScreenPosition(offsetPoint, r);
QTest::mouseClick(GetRenderWidgetTestTarget(), Qt::LeftButton, Qt::KeyboardModifiers(), QPoint(pos.x, pos.y));
};
auto stepCheckEmptySelection = [this, scene, node1, node2, node3]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.IsEmpty());
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node3.get()) == false);
};
auto stepCheckRectSelectionWithSolidFalse = [this, scene, node1, node2, node3]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 3);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()));
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()));
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node3.get()));
};
auto stepCheckSelectionWithSolidTrue = [this, scene, node1, node2, node3]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()));
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node3.get()) == false);
};
auto stepCheckClickSelectionWithSolidFalse = [this, scene, node1, node2, node3]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node2.get()) == false);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node3.get()));
};
::testing::InSequence sequence;
SkipUIFrames();
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync())
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::SetFocus, this, widget)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([node1] { node1->SetSolid(false); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepClickNotInEntity))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckEmptySelection))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepMoveThirdEntity))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepSelectViewportByMouse))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckRectSelectionWithSolidFalse))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepClick))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckClickSelectionWithSolidFalse))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([node1] { node1->SetSolid(true); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepSelectViewportByMouse))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckSelectionWithSolidTrue))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepClick))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckSelectionWithSolidTrue))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::TearDownTest, this)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Return());
}
DAVA_TEST (SelectionByHotkey)
{
SetUpTest(true);
SceneEditor2* scene = GetAccessor()->GetActiveContext()->GetData<SceneData>()->GetScene().Get();
ScopedPtr<Entity> node1(new Entity());
scene->Exec(std::make_unique<EntityAddCommand>(node1, scene));
scene->Update(0.01f);
auto stepCheckUndo = [scene, node1]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.IsEmpty());
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()) == false);
};
auto stepCheckRedo = [scene, node1]()
{
SelectableGroup selectionGroup = scene->GetSystem<SelectionSystem>()->GetSelection();
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.GetSize() == 1);
TEST_VERIFY(selectionGroup.ContainsObject(node1.get()));
};
::testing::InSequence sequence;
SkipUIFrames();
EXPECT_CALL(*this, AfterWrappersSync())
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckRedo))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([scene]() { scene->Undo(); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckUndo))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([scene]() { scene->Redo(); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckRedo))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([this]() { QTest::keyClick(GetRenderWidgetTestTarget(), Qt::Key_Z, Qt::ControlModifier); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckUndo))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke([this]() { QTest::keyClick(GetRenderWidgetTestTarget(), Qt::Key_Z, Qt::ShiftModifier | Qt::ControlModifier); }))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(stepCheckRedo))
.WillOnce(::testing::Invoke(DAVA::Bind(&SelectionModuleTest::TearDownTest, this)))
.WillOnce(::testing::Return());
}
MOCK_METHOD0_VIRTUAL(AfterWrappersSync, void());
BEGIN_TESTED_MODULES()
DECLARE_TESTED_MODULE(ReflectionExtensionsModule)
DECLARE_TESTED_MODULE(Mock::ProjectManagerModule)
DECLARE_TESTED_MODULE(SceneManagerModule)
DECLARE_TESTED_MODULE(SelectionModule)
DECLARE_TESTED_MODULE(LaunchModule)
END_TESTED_MODULES()
}; | {
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FBI could conclude Kavanaugh probe tonight. TRANSCRIPT: 10/2/2018, All In w Chris Hayes
Guests: Nancy Gertner, Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Traister, Jelani Cobb, Michelle Goldberg, Josh Barro, Jesse Eisenger
Oct. 3, 2018, 12:00 AM UTC
Show: ALL IN with CHRIS HAYES Date: October 2, 2018 Guest: Nancy Gertner, Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Traister, Jelani Cobb, Michelle Goldberg, Josh Barro, Jesse Eisenger
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: -- in the first place and got him this far. You know who they are. That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. "ALL IN" with Chris Hayes starts right now.
CHRIS HAYES, MSNBC HOST: Tonight on at ALL IN.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: The Senate will vote on Judge Kavanaugh here on this floor this week.
HAYES: Republicans push to end the Kavanaugh investigation.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don`t think we should lie to Congress.
HAYES: As Christine Blasey Ford says the FBI has yet to interview her.
TRUMP: To me that would not be acceptable.
HAYES: Tonight, the new push for a fast boat and the latest on the Kavanaugh probe. Plus --
TRUMP: Well, I`d say that it`s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of.
TRUMP: Rebecca Traister on the anger about the anger over Kavanaugh and her new book Good And Mad. And bombshell reporting from the New York Times --
TRUMP: It`s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.
HAYES: Alleging outright tax fraud by the President and his family.
TRUMP: They borrowed very little money from my father.
HAYES: When ALL IN starts right now.
HAYES: Good evening from New York I`m Chris Hayes. We begin with breaking news on the investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Two sources familiar with the matter telling NBC News the FBI could wrap up its probe as early as tonight, more than two days before the Friday deadline. This as new evidence continues to come out refuting Kavanaugh sworn testimony. A letter written by Kavanaugh in 1983 published tonight by New York Times planning debauched Beach week vacation with his high school friends.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are running what amounts to a confidence game on their own members in a last-ditch ploy to drag Kavanaugh`s Supreme Court nomination over the finish line. Mitch McConnell threatening to hold a vote this week regardless of what the FBI`s investigation turns up and forced the remaining holdouts in his own caucus to go on the record with a final decision then face the consequences.
MCCONNELL: Here`s what they know Madam President, one thing for sure. The Senate will vote on Judge Kavanaugh here on this floor this week. Here on this floor this week.
HAYES: But McConnell it seems is bluffing. Right now he does not appear to have the votes to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. Under Senate rules for the Senate to vote on Friday, Kavanaugh`s nomination would have to clear procedural vote two days earlier and that would be tomorrow. And as of tonight, some of the key undecided senators still have concerns and are still looking for answers from the investigation.
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI (R), ALASKA: I have had a conversation with Mr. McGahn about the extent of what the FBI is doing. What I think we all need to do now is to wait and see exactly what comes back up. I don`t know what it`s going to be in it. I don`t know that anybody knows what`s going to be in it so I`m not going to speculate. I`m going to wait.
SEN. JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA: I was very troubled by the tone of the -- of the remarks. The interaction with the members was sharp and partisan and that concerns me. And I tell myself you`d give a little leeway because of what he`s been through. But on the other hand, we can`t have this on the court. We simply can`t.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If it turns out that Kavanaugh was lying about any --
SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D), WEST VIRGINIA: That finishes everything.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Does it?
MANCHIN: If they can corroborate that he`s lying, I think everyone should, Democrats, Republicans, even the President.
HAYES: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley told reporters today the FBI`s findings won`t be released to the public consistent with standard background check policy. They will be shared with the White House and all 100 members of the U.S. Senate. Sources tell NBC News the FBI currently has no plans to interview Dr. Christine Blasey Ford who last week described under oath her harrowing memories of being sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh in high school. He strongly denies her claim.
The Bureau has already completed interviews with three witnesses who allegedly either aided the attack or attended the party where it`s said to have taken place as well as a second woman Deborah Ramirez accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Lawyers for Ramirez say they gave the FBI names and contact info for more than 20 witnesses who may have corroborating information but the lawyers aren`t aware of the FBI contacting any of them.
Now, we don`t know whether the Bureau has pursued any of those leads. We also don`t know if they`re examining whether Kavanaugh may have perjured himself in his testimony last week with false accounts of his drinking habits or the lewd references on his yearbook page. Now we learned the FBI may not even be using all of its allotted time to investigate. NBC News reporting the inquiry could conclude as soon as tonight and according to McConnell Senators won`t be given much time to consider the findings.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How much time do you plan to give senators to read and digest the FBI findings before you hold a vote?
MCCONNELL: It shouldn`t take long. As interesting as this all is, I can`t imagine that any members who want to read it will not go over there and read it immediately.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you`re talking hours? A day?
MCCONNELL: They`ll read it as quickly as they can and but -- that`ll not be used as another reason for delay, I can tell you that.
HAYES: That may not sit well with lawmakers like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins who bumped into an A.P. reporter today on Capitol Hill. "Murkowski appears in no hurry even as McConnell pledges to move forward with Kavanaugh vote this week. He talked about a vote last week too, she told A.P. Collins riding with Murkowski on a set of Subway smiled and told Murkowski good answer.
For more on the FBI investigation and what happens next, I`m joined by MSNBC Contributor Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and Nancy Gertner former Federal Judge on the District Court of Massachusetts. And Nancy, let me start with you since you did serve as a federal judge. There`s two issues here. There`s the allegations of -- the allegation of sexual assault and of exposing himself to Deborah Ramirez. Now there`s the question of truthfulness more broadly. It seems that lots of things he said in that hearing room are simply not true and there`s more evidence coming out that that`s the case. How important is that for someone who`s going to -- who is a federal judge and wants to be in the Supreme Court?
NANCY GERTNER, FORMER FEDERAL JUDGE, DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS: Actually I think that there are three things one is the underlying acts, the second thing is representations about misrepresentations that he may have made during his testimony, but the third thing is something that I`ve written about and press a tribe wrote about the New York Times today which is his asset. I -- literally when I heard Judge Kavanaugh, I thought that I was -- I thought I was -- just listening on the radio and I thought he was -- he sounded like a talk-show host. He sounded so -- it was a screed.
I mean, it was so inappropriate for a judge. And I think that that raises questions about whether not just the actual partiality which we care about in a judge, but issues like the appearance of partiality. What`s it going to be like when Democrats, Clinton, you know, where any of the other people he attacked appear before him. So it`s really -- it`s not just the acts and the misrepresentation but also his affect and what he said. I`d never heard a judge speak like that before.
HAYES: Joyce, there`s some questions as well about the comprehensiveness of the FBI investigation right now. There`s this letter from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford`s lawyers to the FBI which I want to read you a portion and get your reaction. We sent you a series of e-mails and letters in which we identify witnesses and evidence that would likely assist the FBI in its investigation into Mr. Kavanaugh`s sexual assault of Dr. Ford and asked you to forward them to the Supervisory agent. Despite these efforts, we have received no response from anyone involved in this investigation and no response to our offer for Dr. Ford to be interviewed. What does that say if they haven`t actually talked to Dr. Ford?
JOYCE VANCE, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: You know, Senator McConnell likes to talk a lot about Democrats wanting to move the goalposts backwards, in essence, making it more difficult for Judge Kavanaugh. But what`s really happened here is the White House has kept the goal posts in the same place but moved the football a lot closer to them making it so very easy for Judge Kavanaugh to clear.
The reality is that the FBI works here for their client, the White House. The White House is constraining the FBI`s ability to do a background investigation and to follow up on natural leads in an unprecedented way and there won`t be any confidence in the integrity of this result when it comes forward not because the Bureau isn`t doing a good job but because they aren`t able to do things like re-interview Dr. Blasey Ford, re-interview Judge Kavanaugh. The process is not designed to produce confidence in the outcome.
HAYES: Nancy, there`s this letter that the New York Times published tonight, this 1983 letter in which young Brett Kavanaugh is organizing the logistics for the notorious beach week a high school bacchanal in Ocean City, Maryland on the beach. He says -- he signs it off as Bart O`Kavanaugh which seems a reference to a nickname for himself that appears in Mark Judge`s book and about what she was asked under oath. He says at one point it would probably be a good idea on Saturday 18th to warn the neighbors were loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us.
The argument being made by conservatives and supporters of Kavanaugh is this is ridiculous. This is absurd. The New York Times and the liberal media and the opponents of Kavanaugh are just trying to shame him over high school hijinks. And as a former federal judge who had to go through confirmation, what do you think of that argument?
GERTNER: Well, I mean, I think initially I was troubled by the notion that you know, things that happen to you in high school or college wouldn`t matter then. I thought back to the confirmation process that I went through. And we had to list every single person that we had ever lived with from the time we left our home, any illegal drugs that we`d ever experimented with, so there clearly was a sense that they were disqualifying answers and went all the way back, that this was a process like none other. Not like a you know, the ordinary job interview, not like a criminal case, not like all the other analogies that people are drawing, but there`s just another thing here which is the notion of timing.
We`re under a constraint of time. The FBI is, the Senate is, that was manufactured by Senator McConnell. When you think about the year in which Merrick Garland`s nomination didn`t even get a hearing, this is an artificial -- I mean this is really an artificial timing more -- that I`ve never seen before. I mean, I was -- my nomination took ten months. That`s about normal.
HAYES: Ten months?
GERTNER: This is -- ten months. That`s right. A Supreme Court nomination here that is essentially what was proposed in August and now they`re voting on it you know, after two months. This is extraordinary and suggests that it`s really a hollow exercise.
HAYES: Yes, do you feel that way about the timing as well, Joyce?
VANCE: I do. I think it`s just you know, completely artificial and manufactured. I had wondered this afternoon whether the FBI is sending either deliberately or perhaps just because of how little the White House has permitted them to do a message of their own with these stories that we`re hearing that they may complete their investigation as early as tonight rather than taking the full time until Friday further highlighting how artificial everything that we`re seeing is.
HAYES: All right, Joyce Vance and Nancy Gertner, great to have your insights. For more on the looming Kavanaugh vote, I`m joined by Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats. Your reaction to the news the FBI may be wrapping up as early as tonight or tomorrow and Mitch McConnell`s going to make you vote this week.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT: Well, I agree with your guests you just had on. I think it`s an outrage. Mitch McConnell had no problem keeping a seat vacant for ten months, and now he`s telling us that we need to shorten a thorough FBI investigation, not only regarding sexual assault issues but regarding the veracity, the honesty of Judge Kavanaugh and his testimony before Congress now and in years past.
I think what is very troubling is in years past when he was up for his judgeship, he said among other things that he never had access to information that was stolen by Republicans staffers from the Democratic staff of the Judiciary Committee. Recent e-mails suggest the very opposite. He suggests that he was not active as a member of the Bush administration in guiding through certain judges. It turns out that perhaps that is not the case. He suggests he really was not involved in discussing torture in the Bush Administration. It turns out that may not have been the case.
Then more recently he tells us that his drinking problem was not all that serious. He never blacked out. He was not a very heavy drinker. There is testimony that suggests that may not be as a case. So I think what we have got to do is let the FBI do its job. And I don`t know that they could do with that job in in in a week or in five days. And that McConnell wants to rush this thing through has everything to do with politics and very little to do with gaining the truth of the matter.
HAYES: The politics of this it seems to me and I`m curious to hear your thoughts is it seems to me he`s trying to call his own caucus on the carpet if there`s any quivering her or ambivalence he basically wants to make it as hard as possible and put as much pressure as possible on those wavering members.
SANDERS: Look, what are you saying to you know, Collins, and Murkowski, and Flake, it`s OK. You wanted this FBI investigation, here it is and now vote with us, end of discussion. And I think that is -- that is really an outrageous way to run the Senate and I think the American people no matter how they may feel about Kavanaugh want to get at the truth of the matter. You know, Dr. Ford and the other women who came forward a great personal risk to themselves. Their lives have been changed and altered in a way that will never be the same. And they came forward as credible people and they deserve a thorough investigation as to the allegations that they are making.
HAYES: What about that final point about temperament or partisanship that Nancy Gertner, former federal judge just made?
SANDERS: Well, you know, to be -- sad to say and I`m not a historian of the Supreme Court. That bothered me less. I knew from the very beginning and the reason why a day after Trump nominated Kavanaugh, I said I`m not going to vote for this guy because I know he is a right wing operative. He`s going to vote against the woman`s right to choose and overturn Roe versus Wade. He`s going to make it easier for billionaires to buy elections. He is going to be sympathetic the Republicans trying to suppress the vote making and harder for poor people or people of color to vote. He`s going to be supporting the Trump agenda on climate change and the wishes of the fossil fuel industry.
So the fact that he said hey, I`m a right-wing extremist, I`m for Trump, what`s your problem? That bothered be less because I kind of assumed that was the case. By the way, there was another issue that came out today, Chris, that I hope we can discuss today of some significance. And that is that Amazon announced that they were going to pay a $15.00 on minimum wage for 350,000 of their employees and I just want to congratulate the fight for 15 people, the hundreds of workers at Amazon who came forward and talked about how it is absurd that the richest person in the history of the world Jeff Bezos, was paying with people wages so low, they were really having a hard time getting by and many of them were forced to go on food stamps or other federal programs.
I just want to salute you congratulate the workers at Amazon for standing up, for fighting back and I want to applaud Jeff Bezos for doing the right thing and that is making sure that every worker there earns at least 15 bucks an hour. We`re going to take a hard look now at Walmart, at the fast food industry, McDonald`s, at the whole -- at the at the airline industry. We have a major crisis in this country that tens of millions of workers are working at wages you cannot live on. And Bezos did the right thing and I hope other corporations start following what he brought forth.
HAYES: That would be very interesting to see if they do. Senator Bernie Sanders, thank you so much for your time tonight.
SANDERS: Thank you, Chris.
HAYES: Ahead, incredible new reporting from the New York Times for what they say as the outright fraud Donald Trump used to amass his fortune. And next, the fierce organizing power of women challenging Brett Kavanaugh`s nomination. I`ll talk to Rebecca Traister on Trump, Kavanaugh and her new book detailing the political power of women`s anger. Trust me, you do not want to miss that interview in just two minutes.
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD, ACCUSER OF BRETT KAVANAUGH: I lean forward.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you. Thank you.
FORD: OK. Is this good? I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school. At this point, I will do my best to answer your questions and request some caffeine.
BRETT KAVANAUGH, NOMINEE, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit. This is a circus. What goes around comes around. \
HAYES: We got a start lesson last week on how gender roles and stereotypes play out in the country in a very high-profile situation. Well, Christine Blasey Ford tried to be accommodating laying out the painstaking details of her alleged sexual assault before an all-male Republican panel. Judge Kavanaugh was angry, confrontational, and openly defiant. The hearing became a kind of case study in who gets to be angry in our society and who doesn`t. In an incredible new book out today called Good And Mad, the revolutionary power of women`s anger, Writer Rebecca Traister has a lot to say about this very topic.
And joining me now is Rebecca Traister. Congratulations on the book. It is phenomenal. I love it and I felt very lucky to have read it before that hearing on Thursday which was just an object lesson in everything you write about in the book.
REBECCA TRAISTER, AUTHOR, GOOD AND MAD: Well, it`s funny that you said -- I`m glad that you say that. And it`s also -- I, of course, could never in a million years have predicted that this is where we`re going to be the week before this book got published, you know. I couldn`t have predicted that this is where we were going to be a month ago as far as the actual material reality at the cabinet hearings.
But one of the things I wanted to do with this book, I actually wanted it to be a tool because I think that there`s so much that we don`t -- that happens unconsciously in terms of how we hear women`s anger, how we -- how women modulate their own anger, how they temper it, how they -- how they change, how they speak or express themselves in order to fall into a very narrow window of acceptability. And I thought that especially with so much mass anger happening, you know, the anger of protesters, the anger of candidates, the anger of teacher strikers, the anger of McDonald`s workers who went on strike last week in response to sexual harassment. I think that there`s so much that we need to really think about the political consequence of women`s anger in a way that we`re not trained to.
And one of the reasons, one of the things I sought to do with this book was to sort of outline what some of these systems and ways of hearing and ways of expressing and ways of dismissing women`s anger are to help us be able to make better sense of the world. And so I would hope that that`s part of what it did in changing the way perhaps that you heard the hearings last week.
HAYES: Well, and partly because it was such an amazing counterpoint between the way that she was talking to the committee and Diane you know, trying to be helpful and accommodating and sort of quivering voice, and his rage, his rage on display. And I feel like you know, there`s two halves here. There`s the way that women`s anger is suppressed by the society as the book talks about the way it can be marshaled collectively for political action, but there`s also the role that male rage what is -- and that which we are getting the full display of last week.
TRAISTER: Right. Well the rage of the powerful whose power is being challenged or questioned in part by you know, a dissent to whether it`s voiced with anger or whether it stems from an angry movement like me to that give -- lays the groundwork for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to be able to come forward with the story to begin with. To have that power question, I mean, that was the openly admitted source of the rage.
HAYES: How dare you.
TRAISTER: I mean, Orrin Hatch said in two instances over the past few weeks, first when it was just the protestors about abortion and health care, when there were the women in the hearing in the original hearing rooms, and Orrin Hatch said we shouldn`t have to put up with this. And then he used that exact same language this week with regard to the accusers of Brett Kavanaugh. It`s the powerful men saying we shouldn`t have to put up with this. We shouldn`t have to you know, listen to, absorb it in any way have our power diminished by -- or ascent impeded by the angry dissent of these people who have less power than we do. That is very openly what they`re angry about.
HAYES: And there`s now -- you know I want to play what the President said today because the other half of this too is it like there`s a kind of backlash -- do backlash, would that make sense?
TRAISTER: The swirling backlash.
HAYES: Or the Ford -- the Ford lash I guess, of sort of threatened or challenged male power which we totally on display now and this is what the President had to say this morning about it being a scary type for men. Take a listen.
TRUMP: Well, I`d say that it`s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. This is a very, very -- it`s a very difficult time. What`s happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You could be somebody that was perfect your entire life and somebody could accuse you of something. It doesn`t necessarily have to be a woman as everybody say, but somebody could accuse you of something and you`re automatically guilty. But in this realm, you are truly guilty until proven innocent. That`s one of the very, very bad things that`s taking place right now.
HAYES: Ms. Traister, you`re response.
TRAISTER: Wow, he`s saying the quiet part loud.
HAYES: Yes, he did not leave the subtext meat on the bone for you.
TRAISTER: No. There we go. I think President Trump has really summed it up. The fear --
HAYES: (INAUDIBLE) about the book.
TRAISTER: I think that the idea that women might find curious voices that would challenge powerful men and the systems that have oppressed or subjugated them is very scary for powerful men. He said it. That`s what he`s saying.
HAYES: But they think -- what`s interesting to me too is they think there`s political upside, that powerful man is a subcategory of men and there`s a certain way in which the picture gives all men that kind of power.
TRAISTER: Right.
HAYES: They think that`s a politically winning argument. That`s not just the way he feels which it is. They think that`s a politically winning argument more broadly.
TRAISTER: But it has depending on how you view. For example the 2016 election, there is a very valid argument that it is a political argument. I mean, this is -- make America great again is a version of what he just said, right? The callbacks to the good old days, I mean, if you`ve watched you know, the clips of him talking about protesters being taken out and beaten. The idea that any kind of angry protest could be quashed with actual violence and you know --
HAYES: And now we can`t do that.
TRAISTER: And now we`re not allowed to do that anymore. It`s a very scary time for men. We`re not allowed to just do what we want to do and quash the complainants and have go away and proceed with our power. This is very scary for us. This is the message and it is being sent beyond the realms of the most powerful. It`s being sent to men. It`s being sent to white Americans. And this is -- and this is --
HAYES: And conservative women, I should say by the millions.
TRAISTER: It`s 53 percent of white women who voted for Donald Trump and who are very much at stake in some of this, right? Like pull it -- push, pull, which side are you going to be on. This is -- Donald Trump`s political career is rooted in birtherism which is in itself a sort of we have to delegitimize the president who came and took away a piece of power that had previously been reserved for white men. I mean, this is -- this is the roots of this and his compelling narrative for the nation. And it`s -- you know, right now it`s sort of circling on gender. He said, it`s not just women. Now, it`s not just women.
HAYES: Right. That`s right.
TRAISTER: Right. It`s anybody who hasn`t previously had a claim on the kinds of political economic, public power that powerful white men have with women, of white capitalist patriarchy.
HAYES: All those worthless shrubs that you can get $400 million from dad. Rebecca Traister, what a great pleasure to have you here. The book again, there are lots of books I will recommend. This is at the top of this list right now. It`s called Good And Mad. It`s out today. You absolutely want to read this book. And if you want to hear more from Rebecca, great news. She is the guest on the latest episode of our podcast Why Is This Happening. We get into a whole long discussion about this, about the book, about women`s anger, it`s really good. You can download it wherever you get your podcast. Thank you.
TRAISTER: Thank you so much.
HAYES: Still ahead, new reporting for The New York Times on the financial building blocks of Donald Trump`s fortune and the "outright fraud" they say is the heart of it. That story next.
TRUMP: It`s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. And, you know, I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. I came into Manhattan and I had to pay him back and I had to pay him back with interest.
HAYES: Small loan, small loan of a million dollars. Who`s not gotten that?
Donald Trump has often bragged about being a self-made man. But a new blockbuster New York Times story today chock full of never before seen reporting proves that is not true at all. In fact, the story accuses President Donald Trump and his family, including his father Fred Trump and his siblings, of decades long machinations to hide or disguise money from the government using schemes the paper describes as everything from legal loopholes to, quote, "outright fraud."
The exhaustive New York Times investigation is based on interviews and more than 100,000 pages of documents describing the Trump empire, reaching the conclusion the president, far from merely receiving a small loan of a million dollars "received the equivalent today," get this, "of at least $413 million from his father`s real estate empire starting when he was a toddler continuing to this day."
Not only does the piece put the line to the myth of Trump as a bootstrapping developer, it outlines a number of strategies, some of which the paper says appear to be illegal, used to reduce the family`s tax bills over the years, quote "the president`s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances. The Trump`s paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show" that`s a difference, just to be clear, of almost $500 million, half a billion dollars, money that should have belonged to the American people and the American public, but instead went to line the pockets of the Trump family and the Trump children, including the president.
Joining me now, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jessie Eisenger. He`s a senior writer at ProPublica, had a great piece on the IRS just yesterday in the New York Times.
It`s a hell of a story.
JESSE EISENGER, PROPUBLICA: It`s an amazing piece of reporting, absolutely.
HAYES: I mean, they have him dead to rights, that`s the thing. I mean, the thing that struck me is The New York Times does not say outright fraud without layers and layers of lawyers going through and green lighting that phrase.
EISENGER: Absolutely. I don`t think I`ve never gotten to.
HAYES: No, you never get to say outright fraud.
EISENGER: Yeah, why don`t I get the toys?
And it`s a very muscularly written piece. They call it outright fraud. They call lies, lies, which you don`t see in The New York Times. They call Donald Trump a con man. It is a piece that they felt very confident in writing and really sort of carried through with the muscular.
HAYES: And they have the documents. I mean, they have the documents that show how the family -- they`ve got the subsidiaries. They`ve got the receipts.
EISENGER: And they`ve got tax returns.
HAYES: They`ve got tax returns.
EISENGER: Now, to be clear, it`s Fred Trump`s tax returns, it`s not the golden brass ring of Donald Trump`s return, which we would love to see and which he never disclosed. But it`s Donald Trump -- I mean, it`s Fred Trump`s business and Fred Trump`s tax returns and then all the business relationships that they -- that we`ve never seen, the subsidiaries they had that they built to hide what they were doing.
HAYES: And some pretty blatant stuff -- I mean, just ways of essentially moving money from parents to children that you would have to declare as income that they hide from the IRS and rip the government off.
EISENGER: Yeah, I talked to a tax lawyer tonight who said that he was a little bit shocked at how crude all these machinations were. And he said, you know, maybe they couldn`t hire -- or maybe they were too cheap to hire good tax lawyers. But, you know, they just did very blatant stuff.
The main technique is -- which the IRS really should catch and the state tax authorities should catch is just lying about the value of the assets. And then when you`re transferring them, if you say they`re worth a lot less then you pay much lower taxes on it. That`s a kind of blatant, obvious fraud that really should be caught.
HAYES: By the way, this is lying on the underlying assets is a recurring theme in the Michael Cohen -- in some of the Michael Cohen charges, in the Paul Manafort charges and here. It`s a thing that never occurred to me that that`s a way to commit crime...
EISENGER: Well, where`s your imagination?
HAYES: Exactly. If you lie about the value of things, you can move things between different parties, you can get loans and all this. But it is fraud definitionally.
EISENGER: Yes, and it`s a classic thing that auditors should look at, the prosecutors should look at, that agents -- yes. But FBI should look at.
And now with real estate it`s not that hard. It`s not a stock where you get the value every day. But real estate buildings in Brooklyn, condos, are being sold every day. So you can get the valuations there, and you can approximate them. The IRS really should be able to -- beyond that.
HAYES: One of the things here is that it`s a family affair. It was a family affair back then. This is a guy who came up learning at the knee how to evade taxes, who`s got kids now who, lord knows what they`re doing, but also that The New York Times got these documents and sat with them for 18 months. It makes you wonder what it would look like if the president`s tax returns were in the hands of reporters.
EISENGER: It would be spectacular. I mean, we already know pieces of it. We know a lot about his business machinations that Donald Trump`s, that is, you know, like getting the loan from daddy to bail out the business, about misleading things they`ve said to the banks.
And, you know, he`s kept in the family, we broke a story, ProPublica, broke a story a year ago that he transferred apartments to his sons at artificially low prices.
HAYES: Which, again, the artificially low price keeps rearing its head and head. I should say that Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Fred Trump has been gone for nearly years. It`s sad to witness this misleading attack against the Trump family by the, of course, failing New York Times. Jesse Eisenger, thank you.
EISENGER: Thanks for having me.
HAYES: Still ahead, 35 days left to the midterms and Republicans are turning to some tried and true messages to try to hold onto power. We`ll talk about some of the worst political ads we`ve seen coming up.
Plus, the president gets demoted in tonight`s Thing One, Thing Two next.
HAYES: Thing One tonight, do you remember John Barron or John Miller, the Trump spokesman who would call up reporters and leak braggadocios information about The Donald in the 80s, but obviously were just Donald Trump himself pretending to be someone else.
TRUMP: He gets calling by everybody in the book in terms of women..
SUE CARSLWELL, PEOPLE: Like who?
TRUMP: Well, he gets called by a lot of people. They just call. they just call. Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with him.
HAYES: They just call. In 1984, Trump pretending to be John Barron, called up a reporter for Forbes magazine who was working on the magazine`s third annual ranking of America`s richest people. John Barron just wanted to share some really favorable information about Donald Trump`s financial situation.
JONATHAN GREENBERG, : I just thought that perhaps your tax papers says it`s been -- (inaudible) to Donald Trump?
TRUMP: Correct, correct, that`s correct.
GREENBERG: OK. And when you say, you know, in excess of 90 percent of the ownership...
TRUMP: I`d say in excess of 90. In fact, well, it`s really closer to even the ultimate, but in excess of 90 percent yes.
HAYES: Not only was that not John Barron, what he`s saying was not true, it was Trump lying to Forbes pretending to be someone else to get Donald Trump on the Forbes 400 list.
Now, Trump really cares about that list, which is why tomorrow could be a tough day for him. And that`s Thing Two in 60 seconds.
HAYES: Donald Trump clearly had ambitions to leave the White House more rich than when he got there. There`s, of course, the Trump International Hotel in Washington that opened his first year in office where Trump can make money off of anyone who comes to town and wants to please him. The president has also reportedly charged the government millions of dollars to rent office space in Trump Tower for the purpose of protecting him and more than $300,000 for golf cart rentals, which he charges the Secret Service when he goes to his club.
But he`s going to have to start renting shoes, too, because this plan is not working. Forbes is reporting that Donald Trump`s net worth has actually dropped from $4.5 billion in 2015 to $3.1 billion the last two years. 200 million of that apparently because of the effect of Trump`s presidency on his brand. For some reason, a lot of people are turned off by the Trump name now. I can`t imagine why.
Tomorrow, Forbes releases its latest Forbes 400 list and we don`t know exactly where Trump is on it. But we know last year he was number 248. Forbes says he`s dropped 138 spots this year, which, by our math, has him barely hanging on at number 386, not that Trump cares or anything.
TRUMP: I mean, Forbes just came out and they said I`m worth $4.5 billion or $5 billion. And they have no idea. Actually, they have no idea. It`s much more than that, but I won`t tell them.
KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Congress and the courts created this problem and congress alone can fix it. This administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border.
HAYES: The blatant lies from the Trump administration about its child separation policy are under a brand new spotlight tonight after the inspector general`s truly scathing report, the report obtained by The Washington Post portrays a policy that was flawed from the start. Quote, "each step of this manual process is vulnerable to human error," it says, "in describing the ways children were separated and cared for. Border Patrol does not provide preverbal children with wrist bracelets or other means of identification."
Even a claim made on June 23, three days after Trump signed an executive order halting the separations, the DHS had created a central database, was essentially deemed a lie by the inspector general. Quoting again, "the OIG team asked several ICE employees if they knew of such a database, and they did not."
So, today, with more than 130 children out of an initial 2,500 still in detention, still separated from their parents, it`s important to note that, quote, "at least 860 migrant children were left in border patrol holding cells longer than the 72-hour limit mandated by U.S. courts." Many of those children were put in chain link holding pens.
And back in June, under massive criticism for the separation policy, the Trump administration stressed illegal entry into the country.
NIELSEN: If an adult enters at a port of entry and claims asylum, they will not face prosecution for illegal entry. They have not committed a crime by coming to the port of entry.
HAYES: At the time our reporting suggested that was not true. And the inspector general report found, indeed, that Border Patrol, quote, "restricted the flow of asylum seekers at legal ports of entry" forcing people, then, to cross illegally, straight into the administration`s horrendous policy of separating children from their parents.
As of now, the United States Congress has had no sustained oversight hearings or investigations into this entire abomination.
HAYES: Do you remember when Republicans were playing to run in the midterms on tax cuts? Let`s check in and see how that`s going.
New York Republican Chris Collins, who was indicted in August on insider trading, charges has decided the fact that his Democratic challenger, Nate McMurray speaks fluent Korean -- McMurray`s wife is a naturalized citizen from South Korea -- justifies running this ad.
(SUBTITLES): Nate McMurray wants to be your next congressman. Worked to send jobs to China and Korea. Helped American companies hire foreign workers. Fewer jobs for us, more jobs for China and Korea. You can take Nate McMurray at his word.
HAYES: Not a lot about the tax cuts there.
By the way, those words at the bottom that are made to look like subtitles have nothing to do whatsoever with what McMurray was actually saying.
So, what about another indicted Republican? California`s Duncan Hunter Jr. Hunter is running an ad that his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Christian raised in San Diego, justifiably described as racist, xenophobic and rooted in lies.
ANNOUNCER: Ammar Campa-Najjar is working to infiltrate congress, using three different names to hide his family`s ties to terrorism. His grandfather masterminded the Munich Olympic massacre.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a well orchestrated plan.
ANNOUNCER: Ammar Campa-Najjar, a risk we can`t ignore.
HAYES: Yeah.
Then there is New York incumbent Republican John Faso, who has, to his great credit, not been indicted. The NRCC is defending Faso`s seat in the overwhelming white 19th district of New York with a spot attacking his Rhodes Scholar opponent, Antonio Delgado, by spotlighting Delgado`s brief career as a rapper 12 years ago.
ANTONIO DELGADO, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS, NEW YORK: Who I am? I`m Antonio Delgado.
I was raised to believe you`re supposed to love your neighbor.
HAYES: With me now to talk about what is going on here, Michelle Goldberg, columnist at the New York Times, Jelani Cobb, staff writer at The New Yorker and MSNBC contributor Josh Barro, columnist at New York Magazine.
I want to start with the Delgado one, because that -- we show you one little bit, there are five or six NRCC ads -- this is not the Faso campaign -- the National Republican -- they are all rapper Antonio Delgado, big city rapper, Antonio Delgado, Antonio Delgado in a hoodie. I don`t think it`s gotten enough attention. It is like -- this is the hands ad. This is one of the most racist, obviously racist ads I`ve seen.
JELANI COBB, NEW YORKER: Yeah, I was just going say that, but that`s in the tradition of the Jesse Helms hands ad.
HAYES: Which is about a -- you couldn`t get the job and you see a black man`s hands.
COBB: Right. Right. They had to give the job to an affirmative action hire and stoking that kind of resentment.
But the curious thing about this is that people are trying to replicate the Trump playbook so to speak, but Trump was able to get away with that against a very well define and not very well liked -- I will just say, very much loathed Democratic opponent. And so for the people who are maybe racist, but don`t like to think of themselves as racist, or people who will hold their nose and vote for someone who does something that`s borderline, this turns all those people off.
HAYES: Yeah, yeah.
COBB: And so you don`t know that you can get away with that in the absence of someone who is as polarizing as Hillary Clinton.
HAYES: Although, I`m also amazed at the way that he has moved the window of the acceptable such that the Delgado ads, which I should say have been in The New York Times, are not like a big national scandal.
JOSH BARRO, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: I think an interesting thing about this choice the NRCC made there, is that this is the third campaign in a row in New York`s 19th district where Republicans are able to run the play about this candidate who is not from this district.
HAYES: Totally.
BARRO: And it`s literally true in the case of Antonio Delgado. He moved from New Jersey not very long ago. And the two previous candidates, who are white, they ran sort of the normal this person is not from the district campaign. And they decided here that this is a more effective way to do that rather than being like, he lived in Montclair, New Jersey two years ago.
I assume generally when they put up an ad it`s because they`ve tested it and they`ve decided this is the thing that tests. But I would note, you know, last year the Virginia governor`s race, you had in the Pennsylvania 18th special election that the Democrats won, you had this shift where they sort of gave up on the tax message because they decided that wasn`t working and went with the sort of Trumpiest message possible, and still lost.
HAYES: It didn`t work.
BARRO: So, just because they think this is the thing they think that works the best for them, that doesn`t mean it`s a thing that works.
MICHELLE GOLDBERG, THE NEW YORK TIMES: First of all, I think it`s interesting kind of whose youthful high jinks we`ve decided matter here, right. I mean, to run these ads while simultaneously claiming that it`s out of line to go back and look at what Brett Kavanaugh did in college is pretty rich.
But also, this is -- in a way there is something honest about these ads in this is what the Republican Party is running on, right? Like, this is a battle whether America is going to be Obama`s America, a multicultural, forward thinking, multi-ethnic democracy or whether it`s going to be this brutally revanchist white patriarchy. That is what the midterm is about. And I guess to their credit they understand that.
HAYES: I`ve got say the Collins -- the McMurray-Collins one -- I mean, now, Collins has his back up against the wall. Of course, it`s no excuse at all. But he is desperate, right. But that ad is shocking also. I mean, the guy is just speaking Korean, because his wife is Korean. And it is literally, like, look at this menacing terrible dude who speaks a second language.
COBB: Well, I mean, remember John Kerry spoke that menacing language of French.
HAYES: That`s right. That`s right.
COBB: They got some mileage out of that. Of course it`s a very obviously different racial overtones to what`s happening with the Collins race.
But I do think that all of this traces back to, as they say, the cliche, the fish rots from the head, that Trump has normalized this, and he has allowed this. And we ask ourselves who we`ve become as a consequence of having this person in the White House.
This is not like an abstract philosophical question that we can kind of point by point by point look at the outrageous things that are happening because of him that people are emulating him. And the only I guess good point in this is people have not seemed to replicate the secret sauce on way it has been politically profitable.
HAYES: To Josh`s point earlier, right.
BARRO: I think the thing that`s jarring about this being in TV spots, though, is that the way Trump exploited these things focused so heavily on sort of rumor mills and conservative media outlets of varying degrees respectability and like Facebook memes.
HAYES: Yeah, it`s a great point.
BARRO: ...which Trump, you know, understood Facebook in a way that very few presidential candidates have.
These candidates, though, are sort of taking that type of content and sticking it on television in a much more traditional campaign modality. And so it looks kind of weird to actually see the thing that feels like it ought to be like a chain letter on somebody`s Facebook wall as an actual TV ad.
GOLDBERG: And one of the things about Facebook is the people who these ads are targeted to see them and nobody else does, so you kind of don`t even see...
HAYES: You don`t have to come out and like...
GOLDBERG: Right, so you don`t see what a disgusting campaign they`re running necessarily, where as this -- I mean, this basically shows all these candidates, they don`t really know how far they can go, right? I mean, Trump has opened the doors, and now everybody is kind of experimenting and trying to figure out what the limits.
HAYES: What the line is.
GOLDBERG: If there are any.
COBB: We should be mindful here that we`re actually nostalgic for the time when Republicans wanted plausible deniability with their racism. Like, we`ve now gone from the well, maybe it is, maybe it isn`t.
HAYES: Right, because there is a taboo embedded in that that has been taken away.
COBB: Right.
HAYES; And part of this, too -- to me, it`s such a sort of neat little circle, which is like the tax cuts created huge paydays for the donor class of the Republican Party. Voters don`t care about it. So what you do is you shake down the donor class who are feeling pretty fat from the tax cut to help your campaign by running ads about, you know, big city rapper X.
BARRO: Yeah, I think part of it also is a theory that they need to turn out the voter that Trump figured out how to turn out the first time.
HAYES: Right.
BARRO: You have relatively reliable Republican voters, more upscale suburban voters, who do care about things like tax cuts, judicial appointments. They may think that those are sorts of people who are going to turnout anyway. They`re really nervous that the people who had been nonvoters, who Trump managed to get out and vote, mostly non-college educated whites, that those people are not going to show up in the midterms. And I think part of the idea is that these are messages that are aimed at that group.
But again you know I mean looking back at some of those special elections, in the 2017 elections, I don`t think it`s clear that that theory is true.
HAYES: That ad, the RNCC Delgado ad, the other two are the local campaigns. But they should pull that ad, if you`re asking me.
Michelle Goldberg, Jelani Cobb, and Josh Barro, thanks for being with me tonight. That is All In for this evening.
The Rachel Maddow Show starts right now. Good evening, Rachel.
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Yet another TV star of comedy is coming to Great Yarmouth's famous St George's Theatre, as WCB Comedy host another hilarious night of stand up.
On Thursday, November 12, sharp-witted Londoner Nathan Caton comes to town to perform his outstanding brand of comedy.
Caton is a star of both TV and radio, most recently being seen on the panel show that is a must for all comedy fans, Mock the Week. He's also performed on Live At The Apollo, Russell Howard's Good News, and with his self-titled The Nathan Caton show on Comedy Central, and BBC Radio's Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing.
He is a multi-award winner, not only for his stand up work, but also his many comedy writing credits, and has completed four sell-out solo shows at the world famous Edinburgh Festival.
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McKinsey Stock As Saudis: Call Consultants For Economy Startups
State official firms such as McKinsey & Co., & Boston Consulting Group are in the final weeks of drawing up plans for the future of the country, at the Al Khozama Center, Economic Transformation, in the working hub of Saudi Arabia's.
Offices have been outfitted for government agencies at the Ministry of Economy, Planning has set up shop at the top of the building.
The Al Khozama Center in the heart of Riyadh, a new security checkpoint has been installed. A guard stops visitors to ask, "which ministry are you with?" Inside, the lobby is full of Saudis in traditional dress, expatriates in suits & ties, working on laptops, holding impromptu strategy, meetings on large leather sofas. Huge Arabic-language posters hang on the walls featuring buzzwords such as empowerment, ambition, change, rationalization, and sustainability.
The kingdom is bringing the consultants, just like a big company anxious to catch up with a changing world.
According to estimates from London-based Source Global Research, which tracks the management consulting industry, "Consultancies are set to earn 12% more in commissions in Saudi Arabia this year, the fastest growth among the world's largest advisory markets. At $1.3 billion, the Saudi fee pool in 2016 will probably be 60% higher than it was four years ago.
According to Jodi Davies, general manager of Source Global in the Middle East, "The focus is on Saudi like never before, the opportunities for consulting firms are huge. Consultants are working to transform an entire country."
Oil Crash
The desert kingdom is responding to a crash in oil prices, which it helped create by trying to squeeze out higher-cost producers before the plunge deepened on China's slump and Iran's emergence from sanctions.
According to Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment Co., "as recently as late 2014, oil traded at over $90 a barrel, now it's hovering around $35. The government of King Salman is cutting spending, delaying projects, tapping foreign reserves and issuing debt. as it takes on a budget deficit expected to reach about 17.8% of economic output this year."
The government's National Transformation Program will focus on ways to boost economic growth, create jobs, attract private investors and hold ministries more accountable according to people familiar with the plan. The strategy which could be due as soon as March follows measures unveiled last year to reduce subsidies and cut spending.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate has been with the firm for 18 years, the consultants at the Al Khozama Center was Gassan Al-Kibsi, a Yemeni national who leads McKinsey's local office and its work with the Saudi state.
McKinsey has won a larger share of contracts with ministries than some other firms. 'It's identifying opportunities to cut costs and boost revenue, and working with the Ministry of Economy and Planning on large-scale projects,' said the consultants, who asked not to be identified because the work is private.
According to McKinsey, "Saudi Arabia needs public and private investments of as much as $4 trillion to boost productivity and create jobs, and can't afford to wait for oil prices to recover."
BCG 'Flight of Consultants'
According to Joerg Hildebrandt, the Boston-based firm's managing partner for the Middle East,
"BCG's Saudi business is showing "healthy double-digit growth," and the company will hire more staff for the Riyadh office that opened in October." At PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Waddah Salah, the firm's Middle East consulting leader, says its Saudi office has taken on work for government ministries.
BCG is working with the country's Public Investment Fund to help start a state-owned mortgage firm, similar to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the U.S., to help develop a secondary market for home loans, people with knowledge of the plans.
According to Prince Mohammed, "the month of plans to raise domestic energy prices, privatize mining and tax cigarettes. Officials are also weighing plans to sell stakes in state-owned entities from hospitals to airports. Even Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world's largest oil company, known as Saudi Aramco, may be put on the block."
According to Ben Hughes, Dubai-based director of capital projects at Deloitte, "There has been a huge flight of consultants to Saudi Arabia" from Dubai, "looking at all aspects of the economy,"
Further, he said in his office, "This is against the backdrop of lower oil prices, increased military spending, and a new ruler."
Fee Competition
Further Hughes added, "The oil crash is causing a lot of "stress" in the market, particularly among contractors and the construction supply chain, resulting in work with those companies to streamline operations." as well "there's a lot more action around initial public offerings and privatization, like the possible Saudi Aramco offering."
According to Ben Hughes, "the only hitch, fees are very competitive, more so than in other parts of the Gulf Cooperation Council." given so many firms are pitching the government and Saudi companies, "it's a buyer's market. People are increasingly trying to undercut one another, and equally, clients recognize their advantage in this regard."
Globally, consulting fees grew 9 percent to $115 billion in 2014, the most recent period where figures are available from Source Global.
According to the researchers, "most of the consultant's growth came from the U.S., while the Middle East accounted for just 3 percent of the total."
According to Jonathan Woetzel, director of the McKinsey Global Institute, the research unit of the consultancy, "I wouldn't underestimate the historical significance of this transition, because of the demographic pressure and the ticking clock on oil prices, Saudi Arabia's change is being accelerated. A transition in the economic model that had been expected to take 10 or 20 years is now expected to happen in just 3 to 5 years."
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There is evidence that links protein supplementation with decreased renal, or kidney, function. The results of a research study reported by the "Harvard Gazette" looked at the effects of high-protein diets on renal function in women. The study found that participants who already had impaired kidney function were most affected by the high-protein diet, while women with healthy kidneys were not affected by increased protein intake. Although this study focused exclusively on women, men may be affected in a similar fashion.
The purpose of the kidneys is to filter your blood and remove waste from your system while essential nutrients are delivered to tissues and organs. Protein is filtered through the kidneys; too much of it may strain renal function. Older individuals or those with existing kidney problems should consult a doctor to determine whether protein shakes are right for them.
How long you consume protein supplements or shakes may play a role in how they affect your renal function. According to Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. of the Mayo Clinic, following a high-protein diet for up to 3 to 4 months at a time is generally safe for most adults. However, Zeratsky suggests that long-term protein supplementation, or increased protein intake in general, can cause or worsen liver and kidney function.
The recommended dietary allowance for protein is 10 to 35 percent of your total caloric intake, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you are a sedentary person, you don't need as much protein compared to a physically active individual. Your muscles have a greater need for protein when you exercise regularly. A typical protein shake contains 20 to 40 g of protein, which may put many people above their daily protein needs. According to the CDC, most Americans consume enough protein in their current diets and don't need additional protein supplementation.
The aforementioned study published in the "Harvard Gazette" indicated that there is a link between the type of protein and kidney function. According to the study, animal-based proteins, such as meat and eggs, caused the greatest strain on the kidneys. Plant-based and dairy proteins didn't affect the kidneys quite as much. This suggests that whey, soy or casein protein shakes may be a good choice when adding protein supplements to your daily regimen. Discuss the options with your doctor or dietitian before trying any protein supplement. | {
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Great overview - thank you, Amin. As a Middle Easterner, and former microfinance specialist in Egypt, I would like to suggest a couple other points. First, not everyone in MENA is Muslim, and if they are, there is a varying degree of religiosity that would lead to requirements to utilize islamic Finance resources. I question the nature of the relgiosity question itself, by the surveyers, and am curious about the methodology. In my research, I found that while many people wanted to "save face" when asked if they would prefer Islamic Finance over Western alternatives, in practice they did not really care. Moreover, tweaks to the application of Islamic Financing in some circumstances often were "under the table" ways of effectively turning an Islamic Finance product into a Western one, without the name association. Would be curious to hear more on this. Many thanks. | {
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Transitioning to the Glassboro of the Future. We will take advantage of the resources we have available to us – local materials, local farmers, local businesses, Rowan University , local craftsmen, and ordinary citizens to make Glassboro into a social, economic, agricultural and educational hub for South Jersey. Glassboro will be an example for all of South Jersey of how to transition to an ecologically sustainable future, while improving quality of life. | {
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The earliest recorded reference to domestic sheep in Canadian history is to the arrival of two wethers aboard DeMont's pioneer vessels at Port Mouton, Nova Scotia in May 1604. From that time on frequent importations of breeding stock built the Province's sheep and lamb population to 398,400 at the time of Confederation in 1867. More recent years have seen the sheep population fall to current levels. In 1991 the province reported having 31,670 sheep and lambs on 285 farms. The sale of lambs, sheep and wool generates about 0.5% of gross farm income in the Province.
Approximately 10% of the sheep in Nova Scotia are registered. In the past, the Oxford, Shropshire and Leicester breeds have been prominent. Currently Canadian livestock Records Corporation records show that annual registrations of Dorset and Suffolk breeds are approximately equal in numbers; followed by NC Cheviot and Clun Forest.
In recent years there have been two significant importations of breeding stock. In 1970 the late Dr Brian Nettleton supervised an importation from Scotland of some 1200 head. Most of these sheep were Scottish Blackface, but also NC Cheviot, Hexham Leicester, and Clun Forest. Then in 1975 and 1976, some 3000 head of N.C. Cheviot were imported to Cape Breton from Scotland by the Cape Breton development Corporation. There have also been some smaller importations by private individuals in more recent years. Remnants of these importations can still be found scattered throughout the Province.
There has also been valuable research into varied aspects of sheep production. In the past this work was centered at Agricultural Canada's Experimental Farm at Nappan and to a lesser extent at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro. Research related to sheep has been discontinued at Nappan, while work at the NSAC is expanding. Currently the focus is on evaluation of the Texel as a terminal sire breed and is under the direction of Dr H Farid.
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List of International Financial Services Awards, Banking Awards and Insurance Awards
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This is the world's best list of UK Financial Services Awards. It includes all the most credible UK Banking Awards and Insurance Awards such as The British Accountancy Awards, The Banking Technology Awards, The UK Pensions Awards, The British Mortgage Awards and The British Insurance Awards. Specific areas of finance are also represented, such as Fintech Awards, UK Broker Awards, MoneyAge Awards, Payments Awards, Wealth Management Awards and Crypto Awards.
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THE NEW auto plant of PSA Peugeot Citroën in the western Slovak town of Trnava produced its first 19 cars yesterday, all of the Peugeot 207 model.
This year the new plant plans to produce around 60,000 cars of this model, raising output next year to 240,000, the Pravda daily wrote.
At full production capacity in 2008, the Slovak Peugeot Citroën plant should produce 300,000 vehicles per year. | {
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Found throughout the asphalt walking trail are benches, water fountains, restrooms, BBQ grills, a playground, and a basketball court.
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From logos to brochures, websites to advertisements, MWW Designs has "No Set Style". Founded in 2006, we are a graphic design company that specializes in web/print design, media services, and full color printing.
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5 things: Employees fired over Black History Month menu
This and more are the things you missed for the week of Feb. 19.
Becky Schilling | Feb 23, 2018
Each Friday I compile a list that highlights five things you probably missed in the news that week and why you should care about them.
Here's your list for the week of Feb. 19:
1. Employees fired over Black History Month menu
It seems that this comes up every year, but another college is being called out for its Black History Month menu. The menu at New York University (NYU) consisted of barbecued ribs, corn bread, collard greens, and two beverages students would bring into question—Kool-Aid and watermelon-flavored water. Following student disappointment and questions, NYU's President Andrew Hamilton released a statement saying the menu, produced by the school's contractor Aramark, was "inexcusably insensitive." Hamilton said Aramark would work with student groups to produce such special menus in the future, something that was supposed to happen already. Because Aramark said the two employees who created the menu did not follow that procedure and instead planned the menu on their own, they were fired. Aramark said it would retrain its NYU employees.
Read more: Black History Month Menu at N.Y.U.: Kool-Aid, Watermelon and Controversy
2. LA schools gets settlement for cafeteria work
In what has become an extended—and costly—legal battle, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was awarded $855,000 from a Chicago-based company that had been contracted to help rebuild its cafeterias. That amount, however, is just a drop in the bucket: The district has so far won nearly $11 million in settlements and judgements, a number that the Los Angeles Times says could be reduced or increased as still-pending rulings are handed down and an upcoming trial is adjudicated.
The gist of the situation is that LAUSD wanted to address an issue common to many districts across the country: the building of fully functioning cafeterias that can better serve students in today's dining environment. To that end, the district in 2008 launched its $37 million Café L.A. project to modernize its cafeterias. In the first 18 months of the program, 64 cafeterias were transformed and reopened.
However, issues arose following a district audit that found that several companies had violated contracts "by overcharging for equipment and services, charging for unnecessary equipment that was never purchased and using different, less expensive materials than they had said they would," according to the Times.
The district sued and six years later, it's still in litigation. With this month's $855,000 ruling, LAUSD sees the amount it's won to date totaling $11 million.
Read more: L.A. Unified rushed to rebuild cafeterias, then fought for years to recoup excess costs
3. District drops out of NSLP
Back in 2012 following the release of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, we saw a number of districts dropping out of the National School Lunch program, citing increased challenges with the new regulations. It's been several years since we've heard of a new dropout, but that's exactly what the Wentzville School District in Missouri did this week. Wentzville administrators said the program was on target to lose nearly $100,000 this year due to federal mandates on items like whole grains and sodium.
Read more: Wentzville School District drops out of lunch program
4. Chef leaves fine dining for hospital
This video shares the story of a chef who moved from a five-star fine-dining restaurant to work for a children's hospital. This is hardly the first time this has happened recently, as a Michelin-starred chef recently joined New York's Northwell Health.
Read more: Talented Chef Leaves Fancy Restaurant for Hospital Cafeteria
5. Director fired for stealing gets probation
In a follow-up from an earlier five things column, Greg Lazzell, previously of the Danville school district, was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay back $22,800.22 in restitution to the district. Lazzell pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government property between $10,000 and $100,000 and one count of official misconduct. Lazzell was convicted of stealing money from the school lunch program.
Read more: Danville district's former food-service director gets probation for theft
Bonus: Iowa State debuts new, upscale sandwich concept
Contact Becky Schilling at [email protected].
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On the way to this race, a pal asked me what time I thought I'd run. I said that, all going well, with a fair wind (or none) and a pinch of good luck, the best I could hope for was around 2:52 – but that over 3:00 was entirely possible.
In short, I really hadn't a freaking clue.
In light of how things worked out on the day, I won't really complain.
Thirteen years ago I had the pleasure of lining up for the first ever Longford Marathon and tomorrow I'm hoping to repeat the process.
Since 2002 I've grown tremendously fond of this race. This is an event organised with the interests of the participants foremost in mind. It's not a fund-raiser, a private-profit-maker or a tourism gimmick; it's a marathon race. From the outset, the Longford organisers have had a single straightforward objective, that being, to put on the best race possible. Of course, no race is perfect and there have doubtless been some mistakes over the years but it's always been clear that the Longford race organisers will go to great lengths to cater for the athletes who show up year after year.
Keeping a race like this going year after year is of course no small achievement in itself. There was even a time when the race came under direct threat from some less well-motivated individuals. Through it all they kept their heads, even when some of our athletic leaders who should have known better were losing theirs. For this achievement alone they deserve great credit.
The sport of road racing has changed so much in the intervening years that it's difficult to imagine how exciting it was back in 2002 to have a new marathon on the calendar. Marathon races were rare and exotic animals at that stage and many marathon runners had to travel abroad if they wanted to to race regularly.
The Longford marathon organisers blazed a trail that others were soon to follow. Nowadays it seems that almost every medium-sized town in the country hosts a marathon annually. In breaking up the Dublin/Belfast marathon monopoly that had been in place up to that point, Longford did all Irish marathon runners a great service – and continues to do so – setting organisational standards that other races often fail to match.
In terms of my own targets for tomorrow, I'm hoping for a decent run. It'd be nice to get around the course a little faster than I did in 2002 (3:10) and even nicer to better my 2:57 from Portumna in June.
I'm hoping to run by feel rather than by the the watch. I'll set out at what feels right and see how long my luck holds.
Just standing at the start line will feel good, fourteen years on, and many miles, later. | {
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Have faith to live healthier, longer and better?
30 gifts for people who want to live healthier – based on Christian beliefs for health protection and healing
Health protection gifts are big business at the moment because of the global health crisis. So, can good health be enhanced simply by having more faith in one's beliefs? SEE our SHOP for Christian health gifts, Christian symbols for healing, and Christian symbols for health and wellbeing . . all based on various talismans and amulets for healing and protection . . as well as charms to wish good luck with respect to the role that luck might play in good health.
Is good health just a matter of good health practices?
Or: Is good health a matter of faith too? And: What part does good fortune play in all of this?
In other words, is good health a matter of good health practices, AND faith, with a measure of good luck thrown in too?
Christian health gifts?
The power of the mind to influence the body is well-known and, in particular, many Christians believe that God can heal sick people through the power of the Holy Spirit: (This is also sometimes called supernatural healing, divine healing, or miracle healing, among other things.) But, in all cases, an element of Faith is involved.
NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (which advances health by providing access to medical information online), notes that: Faith healing is a method of treating illnesses through the exercise of faith rather than (or, in addition to) medical methods.
Strong scientific evidence suggests that individuals who regularly participate in spiritual worship (or related activities) and who feel strongly that spirituality (or the presence of a higher being such as God) are sources of strength and comfort are, in general, healthier people: They possess greater healing capabilities than those who don't believe in such things. NCBI goes on to say that it is critical that physicians and health care providers listen to all aspects of their patients' lives because it can affect the decision-making process.
Christian symbols for health?
Religious convictions may affect not only health care, but healthcare decision-making too, and NCBI concludes that spirituality may be important in patient health and coping. An example of this is prayer, which many believe can improve health outcomes. In fact, more than three quarters of Americans believe that prayer can help to heal people. In a survey, a similar number of doctors said that they too believed in miraculous healings.
Christian symbols for healing?
So, how exactly do we use this information to help achieve better health protection . . especially in this topsy-turvy world of the 21st Century with its global pandemics and the like? And what role does luck or mere chance play in health?
When someone becomes ill they start to look around for reasons as to why this misfortune has occurred. Some may feel that their Gods are against them; others may think that it is simply bad luck – and that fate has dealt them a bad blow.
Has bad luck really played a part in their misfortune?
Christian symbols of protection?
Nobody knows for sure, but there are many who feel that a religious or lucky charm of some description could help them avoid the bad things in life . . whether that be in health matters, financial circumstances, their love life, success, or indeed in life in general, and many so-called lucky charms are based on symbols of protection (particularly those from Asia and the Far East), or on religious beliefs such as in the Christian faith.
If the truth be known, it is probably both faith AND luck that are relevant.
A Guardian Angel to watch over those who are dear to you, with the added benefit of passing on your good luck wishes
Jewellery with meaning:
We have curated a selection of gifts in our SHOP that might be suitable as a gift for health protection, particularly for people with spiritual beliefs (and especially those of the Christian faith) and some others from the point of view of Good Luck (since good luck can sometimes play a role in the sphere of health too:
Camino de Santiago bracelet – scallop shell bead on cork
Gifts for health protection?
Angels are thought to be spiritual beings who interact with people on earth at God's direction. The word "Angel" comes from the Greek 'Angelos' meaning "messenger." They are said to watch over us and protect us from harm.
Angel charm necklace – little guardian angel, with scallop shell
Guardian Angel spiritual necklace ~ for protection and guidance
Do Christian beliefs bolster good health? Many believe just so
St Christopher bracelet
St James cross cufflinks ~ Stay Safe and Healthy!
Cross of Faith ring – gift for strength of purpose
Travellers Cross bracelet to keep someone safe
Christian symbols for health and wellbeing
Cross of St James necklace in silver and red: A gift of faith to treasure for a lifetime, and encourage good health along life's Camino
Christian Cross ring – gift for faith, encouragement and support
Protection shield and cross dog tag for safekeeping – a gift of faith to say "Stay Healthy"
Other Christian symbols for healing and health protection
Scallop shell jewellery is worn as a symbol of faith, and the use of the scallop shell as a means of protection (or as a protective charm) dates back to the Middle Ages: It is the traditional emblem of St. James (James the Greater (one of the Twelve Apostles) and the patron saint of Spain and Portugal). Symbolically, the scallop shell is believed to signify the rebirth of a person, their resurrection, and the overcoming of problems.
Scallop shell earrings – a gift for hope – for a woman, young lady or teenage girl
Scallop shell and cross necklace – A unique piece of jewellery as a gift of faith
Do you want to encourage and support your friends or loved-ones as they walk life's camino and face its challenges?
A gift to wish someone well
Santiago scallop shell earrings ~ for hope
Elegant jewellery for life's Camino
Other symbolic gifts to wish good health
The anchor is a Christian symbol for hope and steadfastness. The source for this symbol is said to be Hebrews 6:19: "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast." Anchors are found in many inscriptions in the catacombs of Rome and they were also carved on old Christian gems.
Anchor earrings with butterfly
And Butterflies? Because the butterfly metamorphoses from a lowly caterpillar to a chrysalis and finally into a beautiful butterfly, it has a strong resurrection significance – a sign of New Beginnings . . a New Start.
A gift to celebrate a change in life, starting something new
Although it is widely believed that the meaning of clovers pre-dates Christianity – going back to a time when clovers were used as Celtic charms, the lucky clover has Christian significance too – especially in Ireland. The Celts once extended across Ireland and into much of Western Europe and the Celtic priests, the Druids, considered them a sign of good luck, allegedly protecting against evil spirits and warding off misfortune and ill-health. In Irish Christian tradition, the Shamrock (or 3-leaf clover) represents the Holy Trinity: One leaf for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. When a Shamrock has a fourth leaf, it represents God's Grace, and so encapsulates everything that a person could want.
Clover necklace – An enchanted gift to wish someone good luck especially for "New Beginnings"
Lucky four leaf clover stud earrings ~ rose gold, for protection and safekeeping
St Dunstan is said to have thwarted the Devil with a Horseshoe making it the perfect gift to wish good luck and protection from harm
Indalo (Indal Eccius – messenger of God) – for luck and protection and to pass on wishes of safekeeping
But overall, few symbols exist that are as widely recognised or hold as much meaning as the Cross. It is used worldwide to symbolise Christianity – and Faith in positive outcomes.
Christian Cross dog tag for safekeeping and health
Saint James cross Camino earrings – a unique gift to urge care and safety
Cross necklace to say Take Care – a gift of faith, sent with love
Safe jewellery – Shield cufflinks
St James cross earrings – a unique gift to urge care and safety
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And love? Possibly the greatest healer of all!
Send this Guardian Angel to watch over your friends and loved-ones – gifted with love
Jewellery gifts with meaning . . that'll be us!
Birthstones and Gemstone jewellery for luck
Gift to help achieve goals
Gifts to say or express what you feel
Gifts to wish Good Luck
Health Band bracelets and Gifts to wish Good health
Jewellery Gifts for an Occasion
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Wish safe travels – jewellery gifts and charms for protection
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Lenovo Z5 Pro GT features a slider display, 95 percent screen-to-body ratio and quad camera setup.
Lenovo in December last year announced its featured packed smartphone, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT in China. While this year's CES has brought some of the most amazing products from the tech hub, Lenovo took to the platform to yet again showcase its flagship specced smartphone. Among the several major highlights, the two prominent features of the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT is its processing hardware and massive 12 GB of RAM.
Notably, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT is one of the first devices to carry Qualcomm's latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 855 which is fabricated on a 7 nm process. Unlike several smartphones that blatantly adopted the notch-style display, the Lenovo phone offers a notch-free all-screen panel. The phone has a screen-to-body ratio of 95 percent. Interestingly, the Z5 Pro GT comes with a slider that pops the up the front camera quite similar to the one seen on Xiaomi Mi Mix 3.
In terms of other core specifications, the Z5 Pro GT features a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display panel from Samsung. On the camera front, the phone comes with a quad camera setup having two sensors up front and two sensors at the back. On the front, it sports a 16 MP + 8 MP set up while at the back has a 16 MP + 24 MP camera. In terms of software, Lenovo Z5 Pro GT runs the custom ZUI 10.0 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. The phone is powered by a 3,350mAh battery. If one recalls, the Z5 Pro GT was launched in China for a price starting at CNY 2,698 (roughly Rs 28,000).
Following the Lenovo Z2 Plus release in 2016, the Chinese OEM hasn't launched any flagship smartphone. But with the Z5 Pro GT Lenovo might regain its lost charm in the smartphone market. But while the Chinese smartphone maker is accessing its situation in the Indian smartphone market it remains to be seen whether Lenovo will bring this impressive smartphone to India. | {
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2018 Day 6 Edition News
ZTE BOUNCES BACK AT IFA WITH AGSHIP AXON 9
ranzhucleverdis September 5, 2018 0 Comments
New phone offers TV quality images in a mobile device
The chinese manufacturer is set to seize the 5G initiative with a product range that includes mobile, tablet and CPE devices.
ZTE is using IFA to launch its new flagship phone, the Axon 9, and also underline its credentials in 5G technology. The top of the range Axon 9 Pro is waterproof, has a 6.21-inch screen, impressive storage and a high resolution camera.
"But the real differentiator," said Jeff Yee, VP product marketing and strategy department at ZTE Global Mobile Devices, "is a tech called Axon Vision which effectively puts TV tech inside a phone for the first time outside China. It's like having 4K HDR TV in a mobile. It uses a secondary chip to enhance colours and smooth out video and games."
The phone is launching in Germany before rolling out across the rest of Europe and Asia. Like previous ZTE devices, it sits in a bracket that Yee calls "affordable premium".
"It's a very well-specified phone that comes in at a lower price than competitors like Apple and Samsung," Yee told IFA International.
In terms of marketing, the company has traditionally looked towards platforms like sports sponsorship but Yee expects more emphasis on influencers.
The Axon 9 is ZTE's first single screen phone upgrade for two years. Last year, the company focused instead on the Axon M, a phone that folded in half. Yee said this line of development is also important to ZTE as the mobile market prepares for the arrival of large flexible screens.
On the 5G front, ZTE showcased a phone and a tablet as well as indoor and outdoor CPE (customer- premises equipment) devices. ZTE has invested heavily in 5G over the last decade and expects the market to gain momentum in 2019.
"5G is a great opportunity for us to launch new products and gain new market share," said Yee. "It will create competition for anyone who currently owns the last mile into the home. We are already leaders in 5G and we know the network requirements of most major carriers around the world, so can expand aggressively."
2018 has been a challenging year for ZTE in the US, after a run in with regulators. However Yee said things are now back on track: "As of July 13, we settled with the US government and are now in the process of rebuilding trust with customers and partners. The good news is that our CEO has just said he expects us to be profitable again in Q3. What happened in the US won't happen again because we are focusing very heavily on ensuring compliance throughout the organisation".
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One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, has acquired North American rights to an as-yet-untitled book by CNN's Brian Stelter that will examine the relationship between Fox News and President Donald Trump, the publisher announced today.
The book will be published in 2020, according to Julia Cheiffetz, publisher of One Signal.
"You can't understand America right now without understanding the role of Fox News, and no one is better positioned to tell that story than Brian Stelter," said Cheiffetz in a statement.
Stelter's book, according to the publisher, will draw on "15 years of reporting, going back to Stelter's days running TVNewser starting in 2004," offering "a behind-the-scenes look at how a TV network and a White House have merged in unprecedented fashion."
Brian Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide and anchor of CNN's Sunday media-focused program Reliable Sources. He also reports for CNN Business, and prior to joining CNN in 2013 was a media reporter at The New York Times. His first book, 2013's Top of the Morning, is being used as source material for Apple's forthcoming drama about morning TV.
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'Gotta catch em all' Red Clay hosts successful Pokemon Go Community Day
By COLBY DENTON
Since 2016,the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm, and introduced old fans and new to the animated, super-owered creatures known as Pokemon interacting with them on …
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DESPITE A DOWNPOUR, a group of around 11-12 people came for the Red Clay historical tour and Pokemon Go Community Day at the park on June 8. In addition to the tour group, around 20 others came exclusively for the nine Poke-stops and three Pokemon gyms complete with lures present at Red Clay.
THE PROMOTIONAL image for Red Clay's Pokemon Go Community Day featured several fan favorites that could be caught along Red Clay's hiking trails and near its historical settlement.
A CURIOUS SLAKOTH finds its way into the tour group led by seasonal interpretive ranger Dominic Austin at Red Clay State Historic Park.
Posted Saturday, July 6, 2019 9:15 pm
Since 2016,the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm, and introduced old fans and new to the animated, super-owered creatures known as Pokemon interacting with them on their phone screen.
Some say it's a great method of getting people outside and active, and that couldn't be more true at Red Clay State Historic Park, which recently served as a "Safari Zone" for Pokemon Go Community Day.
Dominic Austin, the 22-year-old seasonal interpretive ranger at Red Clay, had the initial idea and pitched it to head ranger Erin Medley.
Austin grew up playing Pokemon, as many 90s kids did, and wanted to try and incorporate its fantastical world into the historical world of Red Clay.
"When Pokemon Go came out, I played it constantly. I took some breaks here and there; but once I started working at the park, I discovered the rangers play the game too [off the clock]," Austin said.
Having to come up with an idea to bring the public to the park for an event, Austin pitched Pokemon Go Community Day to Medley.
Overall, the park is ideal for Pokemon trainers, as there are nine Poke-stops and three Pokemon gyms there. Dropping lures on each spot also ensured those in attendance would "reel in" a heap of Pokemon.
Austin's normal duties — leading hikes and giving weapon and game demonstrations to visitors— went along well with the day's events. He got to take the eager Pokemon trainers around the park to a multitude of Poke-stops while informing them of Cherokee culture along the way.
The event took place June 8, and attracted around 11 to 12 people for the tour despite the torrential downpour that occurred that day.
Austin encountered 15 to 20 more people who didn't do the tour, but who were there to catch Pokemon.
It lasted three hours. It began with a tour by Austin and was followed by free roaming throughout the park to chase their favorite Pokemon.
According to a Pokemon Company Singapore press factsheet, as of March 2019, Pokemon Go downloads surpassed the one billion threshold, standing as testament to the continuing popularity of a game that skyrocketed in use originally, but was feared to have tapered off just as quickly.
In Pokemon, a trainer can carry no more than six Pokeballs, each containing one Pokemon.
When asked, Austin admitted he had a lineup of six favorites, which included Snorlax, Feraligatr, Blaziken, Ampharos, Metagross and Heracross.
"The weather dampened it a little bit, with storms off and on," he said. "We had enough of a turnout to justify doing it again, because the people who did it really had a great time."
The date for the next Pokemon Go Community Day will be announced through the game's app or its Twitter. Once it's announced, Red Clay will post about its upcoming event on the same day.
Austin said he believes Pokemon Go is so popular because it gets everyone's adventurous spirit out and makes people want to go out and explore.
There are currently five different regions from the series represented in the game, including Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Alola, each bringing its own unique Pokemon to trainers' fingertips.
He noted several people who weren't on the tour with him, but who came to simply catch Pokemon, were asking him questions about the Cherokee dwellings and other historical points of interest at the park, which was a good factor for Red Clay.
"If you like the game, there will be free lures. You'll also get to interact with others and maybe make new friends, plus you get to explore the park and learn about its complex history surrounding the Cherokee people," Austin said.
Pokemon Go can be downloaded from the iTunes store. What are you waiting for? Go catch 'em all.
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Title: AMERICAN TROOPS ACTING AS POLICE IN SERBIA, EXACTLY AS THE 1952 ILLUMINATI PLAN CALLED FOR!
Subtitle: American troops are now on the ground in Kosovo and surrounding areas of Serbia, and are acting as a police force. This is precisely the role envisioned in the 1952 Illuminati Plan to police all areas of the world after the New World Order was established.View map. Clinton is following the plans of the Conspiracy exactly!
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. Troops acting as cops on the beat: U.S. soldiers have become the de facto police in the lawless towns between the Macedonian border post and Pristina", Los Angeles Times, reprinted in The Providence Journal, Friday, June 18, 1999, p. A19.
"UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia -- The cavalry is taking charge in the 'wild, wild west' of southern Kosovo, with the U.S. Army and Marines securing the area and keeping the peace as devastated villages slowly come back to life ... Army Sgt. Alonzo Smith of Fayetteville, N.C., started his day dodging a hail of bullets 5 to 10 yards overhead. His unit got eight requests to check out suspected booby traps and mines. They disarmed a departing convoy of Serbian villagers ... They were taunted by a Serbian woman who said they had no business in the area ... They also encountered three members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who were guarding 50 wounded men they'd brought to a local hospital for treatment. The KLA rebels didn't surrender their arms until the following morning."
"The U.S. soldiers have become the defacto police in these lawless towns between the Macedonian border post and Pristina, capital of the Serbian province of Kosovo ... Much of the operation is seat-of-the-pants, as the guidelines for the troop's mission don't get into gritty details ... The 2,000 U.S. troops now on the ground in Kosovo have set up camp on a huge open field a few miles from Urosevac. They have been steadily securing surrounding towns and villages, where most buildings have been looted or destroyed."
"The U.S. forces search vehicles at several checkpoints along the main two-lane thoroughfare, confiscating any weapons they find. The other day, the troops took at least 116 guns from members of the KLA alone, according to Lt. Col. Robin Clifford, spokesman for KFOR, as the peacekeeping mission is known. 'We own the region from here to Pristina', said a soldier at the border post, where a U.S. flag flies, replacing the Serbian flag that refugees burned soon after NATO's multinational peacekeeping force rolled in last weekend."
The most shocking development in this entire "war" in Serbia is the precise way in which the 1952 Plan of the Illuminati to station American troops in the Balkans, Yugoslavia [of which Serbia was a part], Bulgaria, and Romania, has been fulfilled. We detail this 1952 Plan in detail in NEWS1270; if you have not read this article, please do so now, as it will give you a greater understanding of the news of this day and of this article.
This 1952 Plan foresaw that the world would be patrolled, in paramilitary, and police functions, by different troops drawn from different areas of the world. These troops would set up permanent checkpoints, and would stop anyone for any reason that passed through those checkpoints. American troops were given six areas of the world to patrol, of which the area here, as outlined in the above paragraph, was one. Read and re-read the account given about our activity in this News Brief, because this is exactly the way in which the American people will be treated by the foreign troops responsible for patrolling the United States after the New World Order has been established, and its Global Superman, Antichrist, has arisen and taken control.
After the planned simultaneous crises have occurred [Read following articles for more information -- NEWS1056, NEWS1057, and NEWS1074 for full details], the people will be so scared out of their wits they will enthusiastically accept the sudden and dramatic appearance of a spiritual superman, whom New Agers call Maitreya the Christ. He will be the Antichrist. In accordance with Scripture, this man will completely impress the peoples of the world with his supernatural abilities, especially his ability to produce "miracles".
All the leaders of the world will pledge their total support of him and his global "peace plan". When The Christ explains his "Peace Plan", his plan will include the 1952 plan to divide the world into the various regions set out in that plan [Read NEWS1270].
At that point, only American troops will be stationed in the Balkans, Yugoslavia [which includes Bosnia and Serbia], Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria. It will be highly interesting to see the scenario play out which will remove all NATO troops from this region and replace them totally with Americans. Obviously, the number of American troops will have to increase dramatically in this region, a situation which will be politically untenable with American voters, at least right now.
Therefore, I really expect more severe trouble brewing that might yet cause American ground forces to be beefed up dramatically. Perhaps we might see the situation where the call for a greatly beefed up force will be rejected by all members of NATO, except the United States. Perhaps President Clinton will have to pour in tens of thousands more troops into this region to quell the warfare from the Serbian Army, which is still unbloodied in battle. If the planned scenario calls for NATO countries to refuse to send troops, Clinton will have no "choice" but to order Americans into the battle.
At this point, we might even see the majority of American troops to be sent out of this country, including reservists and many National Guard units. Thus, when the planned simultaneous crises erupt, America might not have the military forces needed to restore, and keep, order. Thus, Clinton might be "forced" to call for foreign troops to enter our country to help restore order, fulfilling the words of Former National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, that the time would come when Americans would welcome foreign troops into cities like Los Angeles. Old Henry almost let the cat out of the bag with that statement, as this is the ultimate plan.
If this ever happens, then we Americans will suddenly be confronted with checkpoints all along our major highways and freeways. We have never, ever, in our 250-year history, seen this type of military control. I really believe most Americans will initially welcome such military control because they will have been so traumatized by the planned 13-weeks of crises. Of course, we will have been promised that we will get our freedoms back "just as soon as the crisis is over". The reality of it all is that the crisis will never be declared over and we will never get our freedoms back. We see this exact scenario in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, one of the most important New World Order planning documents of all time. Listen:
"4. WE ARE WOLVES -- The gentiles are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? .....
5. There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we shall keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties .....
6. It is not worthwhile to say anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting for this return of their liberties ....." [PROTOCOL 11 -- THE TOTALITARIAN STATE, paragraphs 4-6]
When you see the planned simultaneous crises breaking all over the world, you know the next step is for Clinton to announce that we must dissolve our Constitutional form of government in order to effectively battle against all these forces arrayed against us, you can bet your bottom dollar that his promises of a speedy return of liberties once the crises are over is an empty sham. Yet, a vast majority of the American people will not believe this scenario possible, but will fall into endless debates about other meaningless aspects of the crisis.
The time of the End will be very near.
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Home Entertainment Bret Harts Says "UFC is Better at Pro Wrestling"
Bret Harts Says "UFC is Better at Pro Wrestling"
Aaron Portier
Apr 23, 2016 at 9:48 AM PDT
Bret "The Hitman" Hart knows a few things about selling a fight.
It's in this understanding of the back-end of his profession—the work on the microphone, the planned movements, the stories, the "fake" stuff you so often hear about when talking professional wrestling—that his appreciation of reality manifests.
Nothing pleases "The Hitman" like bringing truth to fiction inside the squared circle, something he takes pride in having accomplished at the highest level throughout his career.
"I think I was really good at it. I brought out a lot of realism to my matches," Hart told FloCombat's Duane Finley during a recent Dreamwave wrestling event in La Salle, Ill. "I think that stands out today. As an example, if you watch Wresltlemania XIII, with Steve Austin in Chicago, it's like watching a UFC fight. Except no animals were harmed in the making of that movie."
As the UFC continues to sweep across the globe, Hart notices the same flamboyance more and more within the sport of mixed martial arts.
"I'll say it now, UFC does better pro wrestling than pro wrestling," Hart said. "The promos, the whole, [Jon] 'Bones' Jones and [Daniel] Cormier sitting in a chair. That's the gripping television that pro wrestling used to deliver."
Listening to Hart speak, you'll hear the words "art" and "beauty" pop up frequently when describing pro wrestling. Hart tried to shoot for something special with his matches. It was more than just wrestling, more than just entertainment.
Hart teetered between them, creating an immersive experience that weaved in and out of fiction. He transported viewers into a different world.
"I like to say wrestling is a lot more like figure skating than it is anything else," Hart said. "It takes two guys to tell a story with their bodies. And I was really good at taking a guy and making a story with him that was going to be the best story they ever made."
This idea, of bringing a five-sense experience to viewers, pops up organically in MMA. The action is real. The fighters are real. The UFC's slogan, "As real as it gets," might sound cheesy to some.
But when the elbows start flying, that truth becomes difficult to deny.
"I've met a lot of UFC guys that were big fans of my realistic style, and I appreciate that," Hart said. "I imagine that when they were kids growing up that maybe a lot of them watched me. And hopefully they were fans of mine rather than, say, Shawn Michaels or somebody else that [was] not so technical, so real."
Hart admits he sees himself in many of today's UFC fighters. He sees the raw passion and the love for combat. While he concedes much of what he did would have presented well within the context of today's MMA landscape, he also says he's quite alright with never stepping into the cage.
"I respect what the UFC people do," Hart said. "I'm so glad I didn't have to make a living punching one of my good friends up, you know, busting my knuckles on his face. I consider myself privileged that I got to make a living doing an art form, sort of a pretend version of that. I'm much happier knowing that I went 23 years and I never injured one wrestler in my career."
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Here we report the synthesis and characterization of ordered nanoporous carbon (with a 4.6 nm pore size) and SBA-15 (with a 5.3 nm pore size). The work describes the surface and textural properties of nanoporous molecular sieves, their wettability, and the melting behavior of D2O confined in the materials.
Sterczyńska, A., Śliwińska-Bartkowiak, M., Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, M., Deryło-Marczewska, A. Surface Properties of Synthesized Nanoporous Carbon and Silica Matrices. J. Vis. Exp. (145), e58395, doi:10.3791/58395 (2019).
In this work, we report the synthesis and characterization of ordered nanoporous carbon material (also called ordered mesoporous carbon material [OMC]) with a 4.6 nm pore size, and ordered silica porous matrix, SBA-15, with a 5.3 nm pore size. This work describes the surface properties of nanoporous molecular sieves, their wettability, and the melting behavior of D2O confined in the differently ordered porous materials with similar pore sizes. For this purpose, OMC and SBA-15 with highly ordered nanoporous structures are synthesized via impregnation of the silica matrix by applying a carbon precursor and by the sol-gel method, respectively. The porous structure of investigated systems is characterized by an N2 adsorption-desorption analysis at 77 K. To determine the electrochemical character of the surface of synthesized materials, potentiometric titration measurements are conducted; the obtained results for OMC shows a significant pHpzc shift toward the higher values of pH, relative to SBA-15. This suggests that investigated OMC has surface properties related to oxygen-based functional groups. To describe the surface properties of the materials, the contact angles of liquids penetrating the studied porous beds are also determined. The capillary rise method has confirmed the increased wettability of the silica walls relative to the carbon walls and an influence of the pore roughness on the fluid/wall interactions, which is much more pronounced for silica than for carbon mesopores. We have also studied the melting behavior of D2O confined in OMC and SBA-15 by applying the dielectric method. The results show that the depression of the melting temperature of D2O in the pores of OMC is about 15 K higher relative to the depression of the melting temperature in SBA-15 pores with a comparable 5 nm size. This is caused by the influence of adsorbate/adsorbent interactions of the studied matrices.
In 1992, ordered nanoporous silica materials were obtained for the first time, using an organic template; since then, a large number of publications related to different aspects of these structures, synthetic methods, the investigation of their properties, their modifications, and different applications have appeared in the literature1,2,3. The interest in SBA-15 nanoporous silica matrix4 is due to their unique quality: a high surface area, wide pores with a uniform pore size distribution, and good chemical and mechanical properties. Nanoporous silica materials with cylindrical pores, such as SBA-155, are often used as a porous matrix for catalysts as they are efficient catalysts in organic reactions6,7. The material can be synthesized with a wide range of methods that can influence their characteristics8,9,10. Therefore, it is crucial to optimize these methods for potential applications in many fields: electrochemical devices, nanotechnology, biology and medicine, drug delivery systems, or in adhesion and tribology. In the present study, two different types of nanoporous structures are presented, namely silica and carbon porous matrices. To compare their properties, the SBA-15 matrix is synthesized using the sol-gel method, and the ordered nanoporous carbon material is prepared by the impregnation of the resulting silica matrix with a carbon precursor.
Porous carbon materials are important in many appliances due to their high surface area and their unique and well-defined physicochemical properties6,11,12. Typical preparation results in materials with randomly distributed porosity and a disordered structure; there is also a limited possibility for the change of the general pore parameters, and thus, structures with relatively broad pore size distributions are obtained13. This possibility is broadened for nanoporous carbon materials with high surface areas and ordered systems of nanopores. More predicted geometry and more control of the physicochemical processes inside the pore space are important in many applications: as catalysts, separation media systems, advanced electronic materials, and nanoreactors in many scientific fields14,15.
To obtain the porous carbon replicas, the ordered silicates can act as a solid matrix to which carbon precursors are directly introduced. The method can be divided into several stages: the selection of ordered silica material; the deposition of a carbon precursor in a silica matrix; carbonization; then, the removal of the silica matrix. Many different types of carbonaceous materials can be obtained by this method, but not all nonporous materials have an ordered structure. An important element of the process is the selection of a suitable matrix whose nanopores must form a stable, three-dimensional structure16.
In this work, the influence of the type of pore walls on the surface properties of synthesized nanoporous matrices is investigated. The surface properties of OMC material are reflected by the surface properties of silica analog (SBA-15) of OMC. The textural and structural properties of both types of materials (OMC and SBA-15) are characterized by low-temperature N2 adsorption/desorption measurements (at 77 K), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX).
Low-temperature gas adsorption/desorption measurement is one of the most important techniques during the characterization of porous materials. Nitrogen gas is used as an adsorbate due to its high purity and the possibility to create a strong interaction with solid adsorbents. Important advantages of this technique are the user-friendly commercial equipment and relatively easy data-processing procedures. The determination of nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms is based on the accumulation of the adsorbate molecules on the surface of solid adsorbent at 77 K in a wide range of pressure (P/P0). The Barrett, Joyner, and Halenda (BJH) procedure for calculating the pore size distribution from experimental adsorption or desorption isotherms is applied. The most important assumptions of the BJH method include a planar surface and an even distribution of the adsorbate on the investigated surface. However, this theory is based on the Kelvin equation and it remains the most widely used manner for calculating the pore size distribution in the mesoporous range.
To evaluate the electrochemical character of the samples, a potentiometric titration method is applied. The surface chemistry of the material depends on the surface charge related to the presence of heteroatoms or functional groups on the surface. The surface properties are also investigated by contact angle analysis. The wettability inside the pores provides information about the adsorbate-adsorbent interactions. The influence of the wall roughness on the melting temperature of the water confined in both samples is studied with the dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) technique. Measurements of the dielectric constant allow the investigation of melting phenomena as the polarizability of the liquid and solid phases are different from each other. A change in the slope of the temperature dependence of the capacitance shows that melting occurs in the system.
Prepare 360 mL of 1.6 M HCl by adding 50 mL of HCl (36% - 38%) in a 500 mL round-bottom flask and, then, adding 310 mL of ultrapure water (resistivity of 18.2 MΩ·cm).
To that, add 10 g of PE 10500 polymer (6.500 g/mol).
Place the flask in an ultrasonic bath. Heat the solution to 35 °C and stir it until the solid polymer is completely dissolved, making a homogeneous mixture.
Add 10 g of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene to the flask and stir the content (at a stirring rate of 220 rpm) by maintaining it at 35 °C in the water bath.
After stirring for 30 min, add 34 g of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) to the flask. Add the TEOS slowly and dropwise with constant stirring. Ensure that it takes 10 min to add 34 g of TEOS.
Stir the solution mixture again for 20 h at the same temperature (35 °C).
Transfer the contents of the flask into a polytetrafluoroethylene cartridge and place it in an autoclave. Leave the solution for 24 h at 90 °C.
Filter the resulting precipitate, using a Büchner funnel, and wash it with distilled water, using at least 1 L.
Dry the obtained solid at room temperature and apply a thermal treatment to the sample at 500 °C, using a muffle furnace in an air atmosphere for 6 h.
Prepare impregnation solutions (IS1 and IS2) with appropriate proportions of water, 3 M sulfuric acid (VI), and sugar (glucose), where glucose plays the role of carbon precursor and sulfuric acid acts as catalyst.
CAUTION: Sulfuric acid is very toxic, it causes severe skin burns and eye damage.
Prepare IS1. For each gram of silica, mix 5 g of water, 0.14 g of 3 M sulfuric acid (VI), and 1.25 g of sugar.
Prepare IS2. For each gram of silica, mix 5 g of water, 0.08 g of 3 M sulfuric acid (VI), and 0.75 g of sugar.
Place the silica material (1 g) and the prepared solution IS1 of the carbon precursor and the catalyst in a 500 mL flask. Heat the mixture in a vacuum dryer at 100 °C for 6 h.
NOTE: In this step, use only IS1. IS2 should be applied in the next step.
Add the IS2 to the mixture in the vacuum dryer (to the solution with the partially carbonized carbon precursor). Heat the mixture again in the vacuum dryer at 160 °C for 12 h.
Transfer the obtained composite to a mortar for the fragmentation of the larger particles and a homogenization of the material.
Place the obtained product into the flow furnace and heat it to 700 °C (at a heating rate of 2.5 °C/min) and heat for 6 h at this temperature. Heat the material in a nitrogen atmosphere.
Allow the solution to cool before opening the furnace.
Prepare 100 mL of etching solution (ES). Mix 50 mL of 95% ethyl alcohol and 50 mL of water. Add 7 g of potassium hydroxide and stir until it is dissolved.
Place all obtained carbonized material (at least 1 g) in a 250 mL round-bottom flask and add 100 mL of ES.
Supply the system with a reflux condenser and magnetic stirrer and heat to a boil while stirring constantly. Boil the mixture for 1 h.
Transfer the obtained material to the Büchner funnel, wash it with at least 4 L of distilled water, and dry it.
Prepare 150 mL of 1.6 M HCl.
Dissolve 4 g of PE 6400 polymer (EO13PO70EO13) in 150 mL of acid solution in a round-bottom flask.
Place the flask in an ultrasonic bath. Heat the solution to 40 °C and stir it so that the polymer can dissolve (at least for 30 min).
Slowly add 8.5 g of TEOS to the flask, dropwise, with constant stirring. Stir the solution mixture for 24 h at the same temperature (40 °C).
Transfer the contents of the flask to a polytetrafluoroethylene cartridge. Leave the solution for 24 h in a 120 °C oven.
Filter the resulting precipitate, using a Büchner funnel, and wash it with distilled water (at least 1 L).
Dry the obtained solid at room temperature and calcine for 6 h at 600 ° C, using a muffle furnace in an air atmosphere.
Use an automatic sorption analyzer to obtain N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms at 77 K.
Use an appropriate glass tube for nitrogen sorption measurements. Before adding the porous sample to the glass tube, clean the tube in an ultrasonic washer and rinse it first with distilled water and, next, with anhydrous ethanol.
Heat the glass tube at 150 °C for 3 h and fill the tube with compressed nitrogen. Weigh the empty glass tube under the nitrogen conditions before the measurement to minimize the weight error.
Place the sample in the glass tube and weigh the total mass (the mass of the sample with the glass tube).
Prior to the measurements, degas the sample. Place the glass tube with the sample in the degassing port of the sorption analyzer. Apply the following process conditions: a pressure of at least 0.01 mmHg, a temperature of 423 K, and a duration of 24 h. In the degassing port, connect the sample to the vacuum and heat it to the set temperature (423 K). After degassing, fill the sample with nitrogen and transfer it to the analysis port.
Use the TEM microscope with the 120 kV (for SBA-15) and 200 kV (for the OMC material) accelerating voltages to collect the good quality TEM images.
For preparing a monodisperse film of the sample, disperse the sample (1 mg) in ethanol (1 mL). Perform the dispersion procedure in a microcentrifuge tube by placing it in an ultrasonic bath for 3 min.
Place two drops of the dispersion on a TEM copper grid using a micropipette. Transfer the TEM grid to the TEM microscope and start the TEM imaging.
Use a scanning electron microscope equipped with an X-ray detector to acquire an energy dispersive X-ray spectrum of the samples.
Apply an acceleration voltage of 15 kV to harvest the spectrum. Select the silicon as the optimization element for SBA-15 and the carbon for the OMC sample.
Use an automatic burette to perform the potentiometric titration experiment. Add the titrant in small and controlled portions (according to the titration software and procedure). Provide the smallest increment, at least 1 μL, by an automatic dosing intrument.
Disperse 0.1 g of the sample in 30 mL of an electrolyte solution (water solution of 0.1 M NaCl). Use the magnetic stirrer and isothermal conditions (293 ± 0.1 K) during the dispersion procedure.
Add 1 - 2 mL of titrant (0.1 M NaOH solution) to the suspension.
NOTE: Perform the addition in small aliquots (each to be about 0.05 mL). The automatic burette The procedure should provide at least a dozen experimental points in the pH range from 1 to 14.
Calculate the surface density of the charge Qs, using the following formula.
F = the Faraday number.
To determine the contact angle inside the pores of the studied samples, use the capillary rise method.
NOTE: This method is based on the measurement of the mass rise of the liquid, which is penetrating the porous bed, as the function of the time. The main assumption of this method is based on the fact that penetrating liquid is advancing into the porous column and that this column consists of intergranular capillaries with a certain average radius. Thus, every relation derived for single capillary is valid for the layer of the porous powder. In a single vertical capillary, the wetting liquid floats against the gravitational forces as a result of the difference of pressure between the liquid and the vapor in the pores (capillary pressure). In this meaning, the penetration of the liquid into the porous bed allows the determination of the dynamic advancing contact angle inside the pores.
Apply the modified Washburn's equation17,18, expressed as follows.
Using equation (2), estimate the values of the advancing contact angles inside the studied pores.
Prepare the force tensiometer. For powders, use a glass tube with a diameter of 3 mm and a ceramic sinter; for liquid, use a vessel with a diameter of 22 mm and a maximum volume of 10 mL.
Measure 0.017 g of the sample.
Start the computer program connected to the tensiometer. Put a vessel with the liquid on a motor-driven stage and suspend the glass tube with the sample on an electronic balance.
Start the motor and start approaching the liquid in the vessel with the sample at a low constant rate of 10 mm/min; set the immersion depth of the sample tube into the liquid equal to 1 mm.
From this moment, the dependence m2 = f(t) registers in the computer program.
Stop the experiment when the dependence m2 = f(t) starts to show the characteristic plateau.
Check for accuracy by repeating this procedure 3x - 5x.
To describe the melting behavior of confined water inside the studied porous matrices, perform the temperature measurements of electric capacitance C of the sample present in a parallel plate capacitor made of stainless steel19,20,21. To measure the capacitance C as the function of the temperature and the frequency of the applied cyclic electric field, use an impedance analyzer.
NOTE: The complex electric permittivity is defined as ε* = ε` + iε``, where ε` = C/C0 is the real, and ε`` = tgδ·ε` is an imaginary part of the permittivity, where C0 is the capacitance of the empty capacitor and tgδ are the dielectric losses.
Put the measured sample into the plate capacitor.
Select a frequency range from 100 Hz to 1 MHz and a temperature from 140 K to 305 K. Control the rate of temperature change with the temperature controller; set the temperature rate as equal to 0.8 K/min during the cooling and 0.6 K/min during the heating process.
To characterize the porous structure of the investigated samples of OMC and SBA-15, the N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms were recorded at 77 K. The experimental N2 gas adsorption-desorption isotherms characterizing the investigated systems, as well as the pore size distributions (PSD) obtained from the adsorption and desorption data, are presented in Figure 1A-D. The position of the inflection points on the sorption isotherms (Figure 1A, C) indicates the pressure at which the process of mesopore filling starts. This information is needed for the calculation of the mean pore size and the PSD (Figure 1B, D), according to the Kelvin equation.
Figure 2A-C presents the TEM images of the OMC. Figure 2D, E presents the TEM images of the SBA-15 sample. The obtained TEM micrographs were used for evaluating the quality of the synthesized materials and confirming the two-dimensional hexagonal structure. An interpretation of the TEM images allows an estimation of the pore sizes and a comparison of the values with the data obtained from sorption measurements (Figure 1).
Figure 3 shows the surface charge density distribution for carbon and silica material. The properties of surfaces and interfaces of supports and solid matrices have a crucial impact on the characteristics of investigated materials and on the physicochemical processes and phenomena on their surface or in their vicinity. An experimental investigation of the surface properties, such as surface charge densities, seems to be appropriate and valuable for investigating how surface properties (presence and types of functional groups) influence the investigated chemical and physical phenomena. In particular, the surface characteristics related to the surface chemistry of the carbon materials depend on the surface charge defined by heteroatoms (such as oxygen or nitrogen) and influence the wettability, adsorptive properties, electrochemical and catalytic features, and finally, acid-base and hydrophilic-hydrophobic behavior. An analysis of the point-of-zero charge position on the pH scale provides information about the system's acidity; the lower the pHpzc value, the more acidic the sample is.
Figure 4A, B shows typical TEM-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) spectra for the OMC sample illustrating the interaction of the incident electron beam with the sample, which generates the X-rays with energies characteristic of an atomic number of elements. TEM-EDS is a powerful tool for the determination of the chemical composition. Figure 4C shows the EDS results for SBA-15 material. The value of the energy of the characteristic radiation coming from the sample allows an identification of the elements contained in the studied sample, while the intensity (the height of the peaks in the spectrum) enables a qualitative analysis of its contents (Figure 4C).
Figure 5 depicts the results of the measurements of contact angles inside the nanopores of OMC (Figure 5A) and SBA-15 (Figure 5B), referenced to the wettabilities on smooth highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and glass substrates, respectively. An ideally smooth silica surface glass and HOPG graphite as a smooth graphite surface were used. The measured contact angles are shown as a function of the microscopic wetting parameter αw for both the smooth planar silica, the graphite surface, and the rough nanoporous materials. Values of αw for the liquids on these silica and graphite substrates (Figure 5A, B) can be found based on the following equation.
Δ = the distance between the separating layers in the substrate.
These values are taken from previously published literature22,23,24. The measurement of wettability allows the characterization of the adsorbate/adsorbent interactions. Together with the potentiometric titration and EDX analysis, the measurement of wettability provides a full description of the surface properties of a given sample. The lower the contact angle, the higher the wettability, which means that the interaction of the penetrating liquid molecule with the studied surface is stronger (Figure 5A, B).
f = is the fraction of the porous surface which is in direct contact with the liquid interface.
It is worth evaluating the roughness fractions f (equation 4) which acts as a correction factor for interpreting contact angle measurements for the liquid molecules with the sample surface in the pores.
Figure 7 presents the dielectric spectroscopy results for deuterated water confined in the studied samples of OMC (Figure 7A) and SBA-15 (Figure 7B). These illustrate the temperature dependences of electric capacity C for both samples (Figure 7A, B). In the solid state of the polar substance, their orientational polarization vanishes, and the dielectric constant ε is equal to n2, where n is the refractive index of the substance. The sharp increase visible in the C-T curves indicates the melting phase transitions occurring in the system. The temperature of the anomalous increase of the C-T function allows the determination of the melting point of both the bulk liquid and the melting point in the pores of the studied sample.
Figure 1: Experimental N2 adsorption/desorption isotherm plot at 77 K and porosity distributions by the Barrett, Joyner, and Halenda method (BJH)7,26,27. For (A and B) nanoporous carbon material and (C and D) silica SBA-15 material. The nitrogen isotherms show characteristic hysteresis loops, providing an information about the shape and pore size distributions of the studied pores. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 2: TEM images illustrating the ordered nanoporous channels structure. (A - C) TEM images of the nanoporous carbon along the (001) direction at various magnifications. (D - E) The structure of SBA-15. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 3: Potentiometric titration results for OMC and SBA-15 (pH dependence of the surface charge density). The surface charge density dependence of pH shows the differences in the electrochemical character of both materials; the pzc point provides information about the number of acid sites on the sample surface. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 4: Examples of TEM- EDS spectra and EDS analysis. (A and B) EDS spectra for the OMC sample, recorded from two different areas marked on the TEM image. (C) EDS spectra and quantitative analysis result of the SBA-15 sample. Quantitative results of an EDS analysis give information about the presence of elements in the functional groups responsible for the surface reactivity; this is a technique complementary to the potentiometric titration. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 5: Contact angles vs. the microscopic wetting parameter measured inside the porous matrices. (A) The nanoporous carbon (OMC) and (B) silica (SBA-15) matrix, referenced to as the contact angles vs. the microscopic wetting parameter function on smooth HOPG and glass substrates, respectively. The wettability inside the pores refers to the wettability on flat surfaces and provides some information about the influence of the pore roughness on adsorbate/adsorbent interactions. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 6: The roughness fractions f calculated from the Cassie-Baxter model vs. the microscopic wetting parameter. For (A) the nanoporous carbon (OMC) and (B) silica (SBA-15) matrix. An application of the Cassie-Baxter model of wettability allows the interpretation of contact angles on rough porous substrates. The f fractions calculated from this model describe the percentage of contributions of the porous wall which are in direct contact with the liquid surface. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 7: Temperature dependences of electric capacitance of D2O water confined inside the OMC and SBA-15 porous matrix. The (A) OMC and the (B) SBA-15 porous matrix. The interpretation of the C-T function allows the identification of the temperature of the phase transition of D2O in pores and in the bulk occurring in the studied system. An increase in C-T function lead to the increase in melting point for both bulk water and confined water inside the pores. The value of the melting point's shift in pores relative to the bulk is dependent on the host/guest molecular interactions. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Table 1: The values of textural parameters describing a porous structure of ordered nanoporous carbon and SBA-15 silica calculated from N2 sorption isotherms. aBET surface area calculated using experimental points at the relative pressure of (P/P0) 0.035 - 0.31, where P and P0 are denoted as the equilibrium and saturation pressure of nitrogen. bSurface area and pore volume of micropores calculated by the t-plot method with a fitted statistical thickness in the range from 3.56 to 4.86 Å. cTotal pore volume calculated by 0,0015468 x the amount of nitrogen adsorbed at P/P0 = 0.99. dHydraulic pore diameters calculated from the BET surface areas and pore volumes according to the equation: Dh = 4V/S. eThe pore diameter estimated from the PSD maximum of the nonlocal density functional theory (NLDFT). NLDFT calculations were performed using a nonnegative regularization of 0.001 and the cylindrical geometry of pores as a model of carbon porosity. fThe pore diameter estimated from the BJH method (the same results for adsorption and desorption data). *The lack of values of pore diameters of SBA-15 estimated from the NLDFT method.
The critical steps during the preparation of the ordered mesoporous carbon material include the preparation of the ordered mesoporous silica materials as the template with well-defined structural properties that affect the properties of the final materials and a tempering/carbonization step under a nitrogen atmosphere. The modification of the typical method of preparation of the mesoporous ordered silicates with cylindrical pores28 concerns the application of an untypical structure-directing agent that is PE10500 polymer, for the improvement of the structural properties of the material. The three-dimensional, interconnected, and stable porous structure of the template is necessary for the preparation of the mesoporous carbon materials. Moreover, a key disadvantage of the preparation is the essential requirement of the sample treatment for the template removal. The properties of chemicals used in this step can affect the carbon surface and its functionality. According to the presented strategy, the preparation of the negative replication of OMC is based on the ordered mesoporous solid template. The pore size control and symmetric ordering are simply determined using the silica template and are not associated with the interaction between the carbon precursor and the template. The potential of OMC for various electrochemical systems has been indicated in the literature29,30. The impregnation mechanism presented in this work is responsible for the facile process to precisely replicate the negative structure of the silica template. The nature of the hard template procedure ensures that the pyrolysis phenomena cause less damage to the regular and ordered structure. Moreover, this method allows an easier graphitization of the OMC materials formed within the solid template.
The experimental N2 adsorption/desorption isotherm (Figure 1A, C) was used to obtain preliminary information about the type and size of porosity. The nanoporous character of the material was clearly confirmed. A small increase in the quantity of nitrogen adsorbed in the initial stage of the process (in the range of relative pressure below 0.03) and its significant increase in the further range of relative pressure (especially in the range of mesopores) indicates the existence of a significant number of mesopores and the lack, or a very small number, of micropores. The adsorption-desorption isotherms obtained for this material are typical of type-IV (IUPAC classification31), which is a correct reflection of the carbon mesoporous channel system with a sharp capillary condensation stage at intermediate relative pressure (0.45 - 0.9 P/P0). The position of the capillary condensation step corresponds to the primary size of mesopores (about 4 - 5 nm). The investigated carbon sample exhibits also a high specific surface area (757 m2·g-1) and a significant pore volume (0.87 cm3·g-1).
The critical steps during nitrogen adsorption/desorption measurements are the very precise mass sample determination step and the sufficiently degas step. The measurement procedure was performed according to the appropriate guidelines. Despite the fact that the determination of the surface area and the pore size distribution is based on the physisorption measurements, the interpretation of the experimental isotherms is not always direct.
During the computation of the mesopores' size distribution, by application of the modified Kelvin equation (which is the basis of the theory), it is necessary to accept the assumption of the rigid pores of well-defined shape. Moreover, the range of validity of the Kelvin equation and the interpretation of hysteresis loops on the isotherms remain unresolved problems. The possibility of facilitation is related to the application of empirical methods of isotherm analysis (e.g.,the αs-method29,30,31,32,33,34). However, this manner requires the use of adsorption data obtained with nonporous reference materials.
Figure 1B, D presents the mesopores' size distributions of studied samples (PSD). The assumption of the BJH theory permitted the determination of the mesopores' size distribution. The PSD curve presented in Figure 1B suggests that the carbon sample contained mesopores of the sizes of 3.5 - 4 nm, whereas SBA-15 possessed pores with a diameter of about 5 nm (see Figure 1D). Interestingly, for the OMC sample, the maxima of the pore size distribution curves calculated from adsorption and desorption data are very similar. Such as accurate agreement between the results, in view of different mechanisms of adsorption and desorption phenomena, evidence a very ordered and uniform nature of the material. The textural properties determined from experimental isotherms are summarized in Table 1.
The properties of the pore network structure based on the physical adsorption/desorption analyses are fundamental to the characterization of nanopowders and nanomaterials. Nitrogen adsorption/desorption methods can be regarded as the first stage in the characterization of microporous and mesoporous solids. The method is, in general, applicable to samples of all classes of porous bodies or materials and allows an estimation of the porous structures on the basis of the shapes of isotherms and hysteresis loops directly from the experimental measurement. The nitrogen adsorption/desorption next to the other methods of porous structure determination (liquid intrusion35 and light, X-ray, and neutron scattering36,37 and microscopy32) is the most important and useful technique due to the wide applicability and mutual comparability of the results.
Nitrogen is a standard adsorptive gas molecule for pore characterization by gas adsorption method. It is possible to use other types of molecules (carbon dioxide, krypton, argon) for obtaining new information about the sample and for the characterization of microporous materials.
The TEM micrographs of investigated OMC and SBA-15 samples are presented in Figure 2. They confirmed a highly ordered system of mesopores, comprising of parallel and very similar porous channels and a carbon rod-shaped structure with the pore size ~11 nm (Figure 2A-C). TEM micrographs of OMC confirmed a hexagonal symmetry of the pores as a result of the inverse replica of the initial nanoporous silica precursor and a pore diameter between the rods of 4.0 nm. The SBA-15 sample shows the two-dimensional ordered hexagonal structure of the mesopores; the well-ordered structure of SBA-15 is observed in both projections, along with the nanoporous channels and perpendicular to them (Figure 2D, E). These observations are in good agreement with the values obtained from the experimental nitrogen sorption data (see Table 1). Transmission electron microscopy is able to provide images at a higher resolution than light microscopy due to the smaller de Broglie wavelength of the electrons. This enables us to capture the details thousands of times smaller than a resolvable object seen in a light microscopy. In this method, the image comes from the interaction of the electrons with the sample when the beam is transmitted throughout the specimen. Therefore, one of the limitations of the method is that the specimen should be an ultrathin film of less than 100 nm thick or a suspension applied on a grid. TEM can be improved on by a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). It should be possible by an addition of a system combined with suitable detectors, which will raster the beam across the sample to form the image.
The pH of the point-of-zero charge of OMC (i.e., the pH value below which the total surface of the carbon particles is positively charged) was found to be above pH = 10 (Figure 3). For comparison, the pH of the point-of-zero charge of the SBA-15 material is equal to about 4.5. Potentiometric titration results of SBA-15 material show a shift of pHpzc toward lower pH values, evidencing of the existence of some acid centers on the SBA-15 surface. The negatively charged sites increase the Van der Waals interactions between the adsorbent/adsorbate molecules in the SBA-15 matrix, improving the adsorptive properties of the silica matrix.
The critical steps during potentiometric titration measurement include the very precise addition of the titrant to the suspension and continuity of stirring. The potentiometric titration procedure was fully automated to ensure the most reliable results. Another important and unique step was the application of special software for controlling experimental conditions and calculations. The limitation of this method is the calibration step of the pH electrode and the need to ensure a stable atmosphere (for example, nitrogen) and temperature. Potentiometric titration can be categorized as an acid/base titration procedure. This technique requires measurements of the voltage change upon titrant addition steps. It provides an adaptable, affordable, and highly accurate technique to achieve high purity, which is essential in many fields, particularly in pharmaceuticals and functional material studies. In fact, there are a number of types of potentiometric titrations. There are, for instance, acid-base, redox, precipitation, and complexometric techniques. As potentiometric titrations can be realized automatically, it ensures greater capacity for sample characterization.
The pzc is determined as the intersection of the electrolyte titration curve and the titration curve recorded for carbon material, as well as the intersection of the surface charge density curve with the axis. The result suggests that investigated, ordered nanoporous carbon material has basic properties related to the presence of oxygen functional groups (-OH terminal groups of ketonic, pyronic ring, chromenic, and π-electron systems)38,39,40,41. The basic properties of the carbon surface can be a result of a thermal treatment that causes progressive destruction and removal of acidic oxygen functional groups (for example, carboxyls, lactones, and phenols) and, thus, enriches the carbon surface in basic functional groups42. The presence of these basic sites is a consequence of the simultaneous decrease in the number of acidic sites and a reduction of oxygen content associated directly with the acidity. The content of oxygen was verified by the TEM-EDS.
TEM-EDS spectra images of the OMC surface from two different areas of the sample are displayed in Figure 4A, B. Oxygen and silicon atoms from the OMC surface were detected despite the predominant amount of carbon. The atomic and weight percentage of the elements, presented as insets and obtained from different areas of the samples, are similar and indicate about 98% is composed of carbon and only slightly more than 1% of the composition is attributable to oxygen. EDS microanalysis may suggest that the basic character of the OMC surface is associated with very low number of oxygen-containing functional groups, which typically has acidic functionality. Moreover, the basic functional groups can be responsible for the growing of hydrophilicity of the carbon materials. An EDS spectrum of silica matrix confirms the main contribution of oxygen and silicon abundance in the SBA-15 (Figure 4C). EDX is one of the techniques that determine the atomic composition of the specimen. It does not give chemical information (e.g., oxidation state, chemical bonds), like an XPS method. For quantitative analysis, EDX is not suitable for light elements (e.g.,like oxygen) since it can only detect the presence of oxygen but cannot quantitate it. This method works only on the surface of thin layers (of a few microns or less) and is quite sensitive to the contamination in the specimen.
In Figure 5 A, B the results of contact angle measurements for several liquids on silica and carbon substrates are presented; we can see that the systems reveal a wide range of wettabilities. Two of the applied substrates are smooth and planar, namely the silica and carbon surfaces, while the others show roughness and contain mesopores. The measured contact angles are presented vs.the microscopic wetting parameter, αw. This parameter is the ratio between the liquid-pore wall intermolecular interactions to the interactions of two liquid molecules22,23,24. Therefore, it measures the wetting properties at the nano- and macroscales. The αw parameter is shown to be a monotonic function of the contact angle. According to the measurements, the values of contact angles for the surfaces with roughnessare higher than those for the smooth planar surfaces, irrespective of the type of studied liquids, including nonwetting andwell-wetting liquids.
These results suggest the Cassie-Baxter mechanism of wettability on nanorough surfaces of porous walls. Moreover, the contact angles measured for several liquids inside silica and carbon nanopores indicate better wettability of the silica walls than the carbon walls, and the influence of pore roughness on the fluid/wall interactions is more pronounced for silica than for carbon nanopores. The capillary rise method is used to determine the contact angles and wettability of small particles in the powders. For a flat solid substrate, many techniques, such as sessile drop method and Wilhelmy plate method, can be applied to contact angle measurements. The use of capillary rise method assumes the satisfaction of four conditions during the process (i.e., Washburn's equation is derived based on these four assumptions): (1) a constant laminar flow, (2) the absence of an external pressure, (3) negligible gravitational force, and (4) the liquid at the solid-liquid interface does not move. The hydrostatic pressure is much smaller than the capillary pressure; therefore, the capillary pressure causes the liquid to rise upward along the tube. The wettability studies of small particles should always take into account the accuracy and reproducibility of the results.
Tomeasure accurately the contact angle of small particles, the pressure increments and the hydrostatic effects should be taken into account in Washburn's equation to more accurately describe the relationship between the pressure increment and time.
In Figure 6A, B, we present the fraction f (describing the part of a porous surface which is in direct contact with the liquid interface), defined as f = (1 + cosθp) / (1 + cosθ). It takes values from the range of 0.73 (H2O) to 0.92 (OMCTS) for silica matrix and from the range of 0.82 (H2O) to 0.93 (OMCTS) for carbon matrix. Moreover, the fraction f increases monotonically with the increasing αw parameter, which confirms the Cassie-Baxter model of wetting on rough substrates.
These results, discussed within the framework of the Cassie-Baxter model, show that for nanosurfaces, the influence of microroughness significantly affects changes in the fluid-wall interactions.
To investigate the influence of the character of the porous surfaces on the confinement effects of D2O in SBA-15 and OMC matrices with a comparable pore size of 5 nm, the dielectric method was used. The results of the electric capacity of water placed in OMC and SBA-15 upon heating, as presented in Figure 7A and Figure 7B, respectively, indicate that the temperature dependence of capacitance C shows a sharp increase at T = 260 K, corresponding to the melting of adsorbed D2O inside the pores of SBA-15, and at T = 246.1 K, which refers to the melting of water adsorbed inside the pores of OMC. For both systems, we observe an increase in the C(T) function at T = 276.5 K, which is referred to the melting point of the bulk deuterated water. The observed signals are related to both the bulk and the confined liquid because the samples are studied as suspension in filled porous matrices with the liquid being in excess. Relative to that of the bulk, the melting temperature of D2O in SBA-15 pores is depressed by ΔT = Tm,pore− Tm,bulk =-16.5 K, while for OMC, ΔT = -30.4 K.
These results come from various structures of the pore wall. The melting temperature in the pores Tm,pore is dependent on two variables, namely the pore size H and the wettability parameter αw. For smaller αw values (αw < 1), the depression of Tm,pore is expected. If the pore width H is the same, then the change in the αw value of the system affects the change in Tm,pore. The results of the wettability in pores show that the αw value in both systems studied decreases due to the roughness effects relative to those of the smooth surface. The work of immersed wettability in pores We = γlcosθp is much less for D2O in OMC (We = 4,2432 [mN/m]) than in SBA-15 (We = 20,968 [mN/m]), which leads to a high depression of the melting point in this system, relative to that for D2O in the SBA-15 system.
The obtained results indicate an improvement in the adhesion effects on the porous silica wall, relative to those on the carbon wall. This method has some limitations when applied to the studied samples. One of them comes from the fact that the record of the C(T) function contains the signal from both the bulk liquid and the liquid confined in the pores. Therefore, the signal from the confined nonpolar liquid is weak, and it is difficult to determine the melting temperature. In the future, it is worth combining some additional methods along with it. (e.g., differential scanning calorimetry on a slow heating rate or centrifuging the sample to get concentrated sample without any liquid). Moreover, for the conductive samples, there is a need to use a polytetrafluoroethylene plate. An advantage of dielectric spectroscopy method is the fact that the method is used a lot, in many areas of research, such as glass transitions and time-scale molecular motions, where the time length is in the tens of femtoseconds to nanoseconds. Therefore, it is important to provide frequencies ranging from megahertz to terahertz. In cases such as decomposition of the obtained spectra or the interpretation and quantitative analysis of the results, the technique resembles more common spectroscopies. However, the dielectric method investigates the collective fluctuations of molecules with a permanent dipole moment (polar liquids). For example, infrared spectroscopy provides additional complementary information, although the sensitivity in the direction of collective modes may impede the interpretation of dielectric spectra.
The authors would like to thank the National Center of Science for providing financial support with grant no. DEC-2013/09/B/ST4/03711 and UMO-2016/22/ST4/00092. The authors are also grateful for the partial support from the Poland Operational Program Human Capital PO KL 4.1.1, as well as from the National Centre for Research and Development, under research grant no. PBS1/A9/13/2012. The authors are especially grateful for Prof. L. Hołysz from Interfacial Phenomena Division, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, for her kindness and enabling the measurements of the wettability in the SBA-15 nanopores.
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Get your head into The Conduit 2
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Skirmish battles in the ruined and cursed city of Mordheim.
First there was Necromunda, then there was this fantasy version of Games Workshop's tabletop skirmish combat system—Mordheim. A great boxed set with some spectacular card and plastic ruined buildings in it, the game looks fantastic when set up and, due to the small warband size, is easy to play and very cinematic. | {
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Q: How to create a console that act as a server? I am a computer science student working on my capstone project. My team is building a vehicle renting system. In this system, user can book and rent a car they like on a specific date range. We are trying to make a "server" that will auto send out notification/email to users days before their renting expired.
Currently, we are able to make it with JavaScript and PHP by setting a timeout function by querying the database every minutes to check for the upcoming expiry date. We kinda of think this is quite stupid because we will have to open a web page in a browser for this to work.
We get to know from our professor that we are able to create something like a "console" in a remote PC that at as a server that will do the job we want. But we have no idea how and our professor is not helping us too much since its a milestone project.
We build our project using JavaScript & PHP for our frontend & backend. While for our DB we are using MySQL.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jeff
A: Sounds like the professor meant a "console program" – as in, a program that you'd start through Terminal or Command Prompt, for example.
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Several popular PHP-based applications, such as Moodle or SimpleSAMLphp, indeed come with a few .php scripts specifically meant to be run through console, either manually for administrative tasks, or through cron for periodic jobs (such as notifications).
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package routes
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
"github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter"
"gopkg.in/unrolled/render.v1"
"github.com/dahernan/gopherscraper/elasticsearch"
"github.com/dahernan/gopherscraper/scraper"
)
var (
rnd *render.Render
)
func init() {
// TODO remove indentation
rnd = render.New(render.Options{IndentJSON: true})
//rnd = render.New(render.Options{})
}
func Render() *render.Render {
return rnd
}
type ErrJsonMarshalling struct {
nested error
}
func (e ErrJsonMarshalling) Error() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("Error Marshalling JSON body request with message '%v'", e.nested)
}
func RequestToJsonObject(req *http.Request, jsonDoc interface{}) error {
defer req.Body.Close()
decoder := json.NewDecoder(req.Body)
err := decoder.Decode(jsonDoc)
if err != nil {
return ErrJsonMarshalling{err}
}
return nil
}
func HandleHttpErrors(writer http.ResponseWriter, err error) {
msg := make(map[string]string)
msg["error"] = err.Error()
modelErr, ok := err.(elastic.ModelError)
if ok {
Render().JSON(writer, int(modelErr.StatusCode), msg)
return
}
_, ok = err.(ErrJsonMarshalling)
if ok {
Render().JSON(writer, http.StatusBadRequest, msg)
return
}
if err == scraper.ErrNoBaseSelector {
Render().JSON(writer, http.StatusBadRequest, msg)
return
}
if err == scraper.ErrJobNotFound {
Render().JSON(writer, http.StatusNotFound, msg)
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}
Render().JSON(writer, http.StatusInternalServerError, msg)
return
}
func RouterWrap(f func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request, httprouter.Params) {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, params httprouter.Params) {
f(w, req)
}
}
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It's always a good idea to have a variety of grains on hand. Wild rice is gluten free and is one of those underused foods that provide so much rich nutrition and helps to mix it up a little.
Wild rice is similar to brown rice but is not actually rice at all. It is a wild grain, is native to North America and traditionally known as "water grass". It has twice as much protein as regular brown rice and various other important nutrients and minerals. Energetically wild rice can be a helpful food for the wintertime due to its hearty nutrition.
Wild rice is also unique because it is still harvested wild and the plant maintains diversity in comparison to commercial cereal grains. Following is a quick wild rice salad recipe that you can feel free to modify by adding other vegetables.
1) Bring stock to boil, stir in wild rice reduce heat and simmer, covered 40-45 minutes or just until kernels puff open. Depending on the wild rice you purchase you may need a little less water. If you end up with extra water drain it off and use it for soup stock (its full of beneficial nutrients).
2) Uncover and fluff with a fork and simmer an additional five minutes. Drain off any excess liquid. | {
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Fear is the world's biggest de-motivator. All of us have suffered with the paralysis that fear brings. I am not talking about the healthy fear that keeps us from physical harm. I am talking about the irrational fear that keeps us from doing the things that we know we should. This fear keeps people in the same dead-end jobs, in the same unfulfilling relationships, in the same unhealthy financial state. We are afraid of being rejected, unloved, unwanted, hated, outcast, laughed at, etc. Everyone has these fears. We all want to be accepted and praised for who we are and what we do. We allow irrational fear to keep us from making decisions because we are afraid that the consequences will be too painful to bear. As a result, we do nothing. We are paralyzed in our irrational fear. When we are in this state of emotional paralysis, we cannot be effective in our relationships or our careers. We simply cannot give to others and contribute to society because our emotional "well" has gone dry.
Ask yourself right now: what am I afraid of doing? What is holding me back at this moment? What have I been putting on the "back burner" and why? Who do I need to call? Who do I need to connect with? Who needs my emotional support? What tasks have I been dreading? It is worth the introspection. If you are to conquer fear, you have to identify what feeds it and why you are holding yourself back. When you do this, you might just surprise yourself. Upon analysis you will probably see that the outcome of the thing that you fear is not quite as bad as you perceive it to be. Most fear is irrational and built-up in our minds to such a point that it causes us not to act.
-Get out a piece of paper and write down 3 things that you are putting off because of fear.
-List the worst possible outcome OF TAKING ACTION with the items on the list.
-List the worst possible outcome FOR NOT TAKING ACTION with the items on the list.
-Armed with the knowledge of the worst possible outcomes: Take action on the 3 items.
Do it now. Do it today. You not only will feel better emotionally, but also will have set yourself in the path of better decision making. Life won't simply happen to you anymore, YOU will control your destiny. | {
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Home Science Energy A geologist bets on a North Sea gusher that may never come.
A geologist bets on a North Sea gusher that may never come.
Source: DailyClimate
Oil and Money
By STANLEY REED
When many oil companies were hunkering down trying to save money, Robert Trice, a geologist, spent four months on a drilling rig in the rough waters west of Scotland's Shetland Islands. He wanted to make sure he was there to make quick cost-cutting decisions, and he could not wait to see the results.
"Getting early geological information is worth its weight in gold," he said in an interview.
The effort turned out to be worthwhile. A well, in an area called Lancaster, that Mr. Trice's company, Hurricane Energy, drilled on, produced oil at the very healthy rate of 15,000 barrels a day, suggesting the presence of very promising resources.
Mr. Trice was taking advantage of the sharp drop in costs of drilling to pursue his sometimes quixotic 12-year quest to prove that undiscovered troves of oil still lie in British waters — if you just know where to look.
Most oil below Britain's North Sea and elsewhere is found trapped between the grains of porous rock, like sandstone. Mr. Trice is, instead, drilling into granite formations almost three billion years old. Granite is crystalline and impermeable, but Mr. Trice is betting that myriad cracks or fractures in the rock contain large volumes of oil. These oil plays are known as "fractured basements" because the ancient rocks containing the oil are usually deep in the earth's crust.
People who know Mr. Trice often use the words "visionary" and "determined" to describe him. A former employee of Royal Dutch Shell, Mr. Trice has been working on his project since 2005, spending about $200 million. The effort has been long, and has brought criticism from some of his investors.
Mr. Trice estimates that there are 2.3 billion barrels of oil trapped in the rocks at Lancaster, of which more than a half million barrels can be extracted. If these estimates are correct, Lancaster would be larger than any oil field developed in British waters over the last decade.
"The scale of oil that is down there is very large compared to everywhere else in Europe, "said Kevin Swann, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultants.
If Mr. Trice is successful, he could also open a new way of thinking about exploring in European waters. Hurricane also made two other discoveries last year in areas called Halifax and Lincoln, adding to others made in previous years. The company has locked up five exploration licenses around the finds that could prove valuable.
"If we demonstrate that these rock types are viable in the U.K., then this is potentially the tip of the iceberg," said Mr. Trice, who owns 1.5 percent of Hurricane. "This is potentially billions of barrels."
Lancaster was discovered in 1974 by Shell, but only recently has technology advanced enough that an explorer like Mr. Trice can hope to accurately map the best fracture zones and then drill horizontally across them, tapping oil. Only a coterie of industry experts work on these formations.
"It is a specialist play, " said Roy Kelly, an executive at Kerogen Capital, a private equity fund that has invested more than $100 million in Hurricane, and a Hurricane board member. "You need specialists like Robert and his team."
Hurricane is a tiny company with only 15 employees, but it has been one of the most active drillers in Europe. Other companies have reduced their exploration budgets to cope with lower oil prices. Mr. Trice drilled four wells last year when only 14 exploration wells were drilled in British waters.
The west of the Shetland area is the frontier of the British petroleum industry. The fields of the North Sea, long one of the world's most prolific oil regions, are to the east and north of Scotland. With those resources depleted, operators have been moving west.
While explorers are excited about the west of Shetland because there has been much less drilling there than in the North Sea, remote locations and harsh weather mean that working in the area is expensive. The region has largely been the province of well-financed companies like BP, Chevron and Total rather than start-ups like Hurricane.
"It is an incredible story what Hurricane has achieved, " said Ian Linnett, head of equity services at RPS Energy, an independent consulting firm hired by Hurricane to assess the company's discoveries.
Mr. Linnett compared Hurricane's exploits to last year's shocking win by Leicester City of the Premier League, Britain's top soccer competition, a team that is usually outgunned by bigger, free-spending teams.
Small companies like Hurricane take risks to make breakthrough discoveries and then large companies buy stakes in the projects or take the small companies over, but although Hurricane has looked for partners to provide the billions of dollars that bringing its discoveries to market would eventually require, the big oil companies have declined to bite.
Analysts say that while fractured basements have produced oil over long periods in places including Vietnam and Egypt, they are unproven in Britain. These plays are also geologically complex and risky, and people in the industry say it is very difficult to evaluate how much oil they actually contain. Even though the test wells have been prolific for a short time, that performance does not guarantee that the field would function as well long term. One major worry is that the wells will suck in water from underlying aquifers into the fractures, complicating operations.
"Nobody has jumped in because the technical risks are too high at this early stage, " said Chris Cornelius, a British geologist and oil entrepreneur.
To win over skeptics, Mr. Trice is moving ahead with a major test of whether his theories work. He has lined up a floating production platform — essentially a ship's hull bristling with oil production equipment — and plans to produce from two wells, starting in 2019.
To pay for this project, Hurricane, which is listed on the London AIM small company exchange, raised more than $500 million this year. The stock price fell sharply before the fund-raising, angering some investors. In September, for instance, the Crystal Amber Fund, a major shareholder in Hurricane, wrote in its annual report that it was "baffled" that the company "chose not to discuss or consult" with the fund on the tactics it used in rounding up the money. Hurricane says the funds enabled it to "stay on track."
Despite such stumbles, Crystal Amber and other investors say that Hurricane's discoveries offer potential rewards. The question is whether Mr. Trice and his team can actually prove that their ideas work.
"I think there is generally a very positive view of Dr. Trice in terms of his geological prowess," said Sanjeev Bahl, an oil analyst at Edison, a market research firm. Hurricane's management has "less of a track record in funding large oil and gas development projects, " he said.
Mr. Trice says he is confident that the pilot project will make money:around $100 million a year if oil averages $50 a barrel. "There is some real money in this," he said. "It is not just a science experiment."
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