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Rev. Jamie Johnson, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security has formerly said on a right-wing talk radio that the black community is responsible for turning America's major cities into "slums" and claimed that Islam's only impact on society was "oil and dead bodies,".
Johnson, the head of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships also supported the Jews who became wealthy through hard work and slammed African Americans for laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity which turned the cities into slums.
On Thursday, in the wake of a CNN report that resurfaced racist and Islamophobic comments Johnson made on the radio, he resigned as the head of DHS's Center and offered an apology in a statement to CNN.
Johnson regretted the manner in which he expressed those thoughts in the past, and claimed that they do not represent his views personally or professionally.
Johnson added: "I have and will continue to work with leaders and members of all faiths as we jointly look to strengthen our safety and security as an interfaith community. Having witnessed leaders from the entire faith spectrum work to empower their communities I now see things much differently,"
After Johnson's resignation, acting DHS press secretary Tyler Houlton said in a statement: "His comments made prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security clearly do not reflect the values of DHS and the administration,".
Earlier, an adviser to HS's chief of staff, Katharine Gorka wrote that Islam is devoted to "religious genocide,".
Previously, Johnson was a fixture in grassroots Republican politics in Iowa, serving as a GOP state committeeman and working for Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and Donald Trump in the state. In 2008, on Accent Radio Network, Johnson said he believed black people were anti-Semitic out of jealousy of the success of Jewish people.
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Founded in 1825, Calvados Boulard is a family business which has been transferred from generation to generation. Thanks to the hard work and the enthusiasm of his descendents, the small business founded in the early 19th century by Pierre-Auguste Boulard has become an internationally renowned name. And you can visit the Boulard Distillery to discover how its fine Calvados Boulard is produced. From the apple to the barrel, each and every step of the production of Calvados Boulard will hold no secret for you.
Small-scale traditional production of Livarot and Pont l'Evêque cheeses. Located in Normandy, in the heart of the Pays d'Auge, the Domaine de Saint-Hippolyte offers you a warm welcome to its 70-hectare verdant setting.
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Located within the family farm, discover life at the farm and the Pays d'Auge's fine landscapes via a range of walking routes. And on your return back to the farm, enjoy some of the Pays d'Auge's excellent specialities, prepared with care by Mme Langin M. and Mme Langin are looking forward to welcoming youâ?¦
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Results compiled Baldo Villegas with assistance from Mary Louise Jones and Pennie Chwalowski
Class 10: Queen of the Show: Moonstone by Bob & Iva Miller
Class 10: King of the Show: Diana, Princess of Wales by Doug Hall
Class 10: Princess of the Show: Brigadoon by Dena Wagner
Court of Honor: Brandy by Marianne Sievers
Court of Honor: Desert Storm by Dena Wagner
Court of Honor: Gemini by Doug Hall
Court of Honor: Honor by Jeff & Marjorie Sals
Court of Honor: Loving Son by Duane & Melody Carlson
Court of Honor: Princess Diana by Duane & Melody Carlso
Court of Honor: Red Devil by Dena Wagner
Court of Honor: Vanilla Perfume by Colleen Gallagher
Class 30: Miniature Queen: Irresistible by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 30: Miniature King: Miss Flippins by Dena Wagner
Class 30: Miniature Princess: Rookie by Duane & Melody Carlson
Court of Honor: Fairhope by Colleen Gallagher
Court of Honor: Luis Desamero by Sunee Webb
Court of Honor: Pucker Up by Baldo Villegas
Court of Honor: Sweet Melody by Duane & Melody Carlson
Court of Honor: X-Rated by Colleen Gallagher
Class 11: Garden Decorative HT/GR: Yves Piaget by Marianne Sievers
Class 12: HT or GR Spray: Gemini by Doug Hall
Class 13: Fully Open HT/GR: Suffolk by Doug Hall
Class 14: Single HT/GR: Colette Clemente by Doug Hall
Class 20: Floribunda One Bloom per Stem: Glad Tiddings by Baldo Villegas
Class 21: Floribunda Spray: Blueberry Hill by Dena Wagner
Class 22: 3 FL Sprays (3 Varieties): Lady of the Dawn, Poulson's Pearl and Priscilla Burton by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 23: Single Floribunda: Not Awarded
Class 24: Polyantha Spray: Heinrich Karsch by Marianne Sievers
Class 31: Mini-Flora, one bloom per stem: Cachet by Baldo Villegas
Class 32: Miniature Spray: Amy Grant by Colleen Gallagher
Class 33: Single Miniature: My Sunshine by Michelle Flicht-McDonough
Class 33: Single Miniature Spray: Roller Coaster by Colleen Gallagher
Class 34: Fully Open Miniature: Klima by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 40: Genesis Rose: Rosa xanthina by Bill and Muriel Humenick
Class 41: Old Garden Rose -- Dowager Queen: Tuscany Superb by Michelle Flicht-McDonough
Class 42: Old Garden Rose -- Victorian Rose: Irene Watts by D. Weber
Class 43: Three OGR Stems: William Lobb by Michelle Flicht-McDonough
Class 44: Classic Shrub: Robusta by Doug Hall
Class 45: Modern Shrub: Flutterbye by Mike Devencenzi
Class 46: Three Stems English Type: Mary Rose by Colleen Gallagher
Class 47: Large Flowered Climber: Altissimo by Cindy Nalepa-Nelson
Class 50: Shi Un by Anthony Abordo
Class 60-65: Fourth of July by Leonore Abordo
Class 80: Most Fragrant Rose: Fragrant Cloud by Sue Richter
Class 81: Cycle of Bloom: Myabi by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 82: Three HT/GR (One Variety): Lanvin by Dena Wagner
Class 83: Artist's Palette: Sunsprite, Summer Fashion, Pleasure, Interama & French Lace by Mary Louise Jones
Class 84: Three Award of Excellence Miniatures: Jean Kenneally , Hot Tamale and Old Glory by Adena Kalal
Class 85: Rainbow of Miniatures: Black Jade, Herbie, Holy Toledo, Y2K,and Loving Touch by Florence Pratt
Class 86: Container-Grown Miniature: Figurine by Florence Pratt
Class 87: Rose Bouquet: Barbra Streisand, Secret, Just joey, Brigadoon, Sheer Bliss, Gift of Life, Vanilla Perfume, Touch of Class, and Louise Estes by Colleen Gallagher
Class 88: Miniature Bouquet: Luis Desamero by Sunee Webb
Class 89: Trailing Rose: Playboy by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 90: English Box: Gemini & Diana, Princess of Wales by Colleen Gallagher
Class 91: OGR English Box: Rose de Rescht by Bill & Muriel Humenick
Class 92: Miniature English Box: Olympic Gold by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 93: Rose in a Bowl: Kardinal by Betty Ann Cassina
Class 94: OGR Rose in a Bowl: Baronne Prevost by Sue Richter
Class 95: Miniature Rose in a Bowl: Irresistible by Duane & Melody Carlson
Class 96: Tin Can Derby: Michelle Flicht-McDonough with mixed bouquet of leftover roses
Class 100-104: Betty Boop Spray by Jerry Crumine
Best of Show: Spain - Betty by Cassina with Tequila Sunrise & Ring of Fire roses
Best of Sacramento Rose Society Members: U.S.A - by Pennie Chwalowski with Dublin, Headliner & Marijke Koopman roses
Class 1: Romantic Italian Villas - Athena Thompson with America roses
Class 2: U.S.A - by Pennie Chwalowski with Dublin, Headliner & Marijke Koopman roses
Class 3: French Perfume - Ruth Partridge with Sparrieshoop
Class 4: New Zealand - Helen Tashima
Class 5: Tahiti - Connie Thomas with America, Gold Medal & Playboy roses. BRONZE ARS CERTIFICATE; ARTIST AWARD
Class 6: Spain - Betty by Cassina with Tequila Sunrise & Ring of Fire roses
Class 7: Japan - Louise Watts with Brandy roses
Class 8: Saudi Arabia - Jeneane Wilsey with Black Knight, New Day, Sutter's Gold & Mr. Lincoln roses - GOLD ARS CERTIFICATE; DUCHESS OF ARRANGEMENTS
Class 9: Lovely British Isles - Betty Ann Cassina with Flower Girl roses. COURT OF ETIQUETTE AWARD
Class 10: Chile - Sunee Webb with Rio Samba & Gold Medal roses. SILVER ARS CERTIFICATE; ROYALTY AWARD
Class 11: Green & Lush Iceland - Marie LeDonne. MINI ARTIST AWARD
Class 12: Desert Roses in Morrocco - Adena Kalal with Rainbow's End, Millie Walters, Hota Tamale, & Glowing Amber MINI GOLD ARS CERTIFICATE
Class 13: Canada - Sunee Webb with Iceberg, Gourmet Popcorn & Irresistible roses
Class 14: Mexico - No entries
Class 15: Exquisite China - Earl Parsons with Allspice - Best of Judges
Iva & Bob Miller with Moonstone the Hybrid Tea rose that won Queen of Show
Doug Hall receivng his trophy for his King of Show entry with Diane, Princess of Wales, a Hybrid Tea.
Dena Wagner receiving her trophy for her Princess of Show entry with Brigadoon, a Hybrid Tea rose.
Baldo Villegas accepting a trophy for his winning entry of Glad Tiddings, one bloom per stem Floribunda.
Colleen Gallagher was also a big winner at the rose show. She had some awesome blooms, bouquet, and even arrangements. This is one talented lady.
Duane & Melody Carlson had the most winning entries in the show. After about half dozen trophies, I stopped counting.
Michelle Flicht-McDonough had several winning entries in the show.
Muriel Humenick accepting one of her trophies from Adena.
Pam Johnson a novice exhibitor that won seven blue ribbons at the rose show on her first try. Good job!
Rosco Devencenzi accepting the winning trophy for his brother Mike.
Betty Ann Cassina won best of show with one of her arrangements
Adena Kalal won with a beautiful mini arrangement
Janene drove all the way from Colusa, CA to enter her winning arrangements
Sunnee Webb with her winning arrangement
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Crazy Dottie, a single petaled rose named after one of our long time members, Dottie Michelis. It is a very colorful rose in our Sacramento area rose gardens.
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What does it mean to set healthy boundaries?
Think of boundaries as rules and principles you live by when you say what you will or won't do or allow in your life. Life can't exist without boundaries, even with your nearest and dearest like your kids, partners, parents and so on…..
If you have difficulty saying no, override your needs to please others,bothered by someone who is demanding, controlling, criticizing, pushy, abusive, invasive, pleading, or even smothering you with kindness, allowing or enduring unwanted touch, it's your responsibility to speak up. Everyone has experienced boundary violations and this is why this topic is important for all of us
Healthy boundaries are meant to help us find safety. It outlines where our mental, emotional, physical space ends, and where another person's may begin.
When we have healthy boundaries, we take responsibility for our needs, thoughts, and feelings, and we allow others to have their own needs, thoughts, and feelings, without taking responsibility or needing to somehow change them. When we honour our boundaries, we set limits, and take adult responsibility for our experiences.
Why should you care about healthy boundaries?
Setting boundaries is essential if we want to be both physically and emotionally healthy. Strong boundaries help maintain balance, self-respect and allow us to be interdependent in intimate relationships and life in general. A lack of boundaries is like leaving the door to your home wide open, anyone, including welcome and un-welcome guests can walk in without hesitation. Having rigid boundaries leads to loneliness and isolation and is akin to living in a fortress with no opening in sight.
Types of personal boundaries:
(1)Physical boundaries
Physical boundaries can include your body, your home, your work space, your purse or wallet etc.
These are the literal lines we draw when it comes to our physical interaction with others.
This could be about physically touching someone (a hug, hand shake, physical proximity when talking, etc.).
But also about the rules we have when spending time with someone (where, how long, and what to do or not do). It could be us determining if and how we will share our physical body and presence with others.
Examples: "It is not ok with me that you treat me this way", "I am not ok being around you if you are going to behave this way", or " I do not feel comfortable sitting this close."
(2)Spiritual Boundaries
Can we allow others to have their chosen spiritual life (or lack thereof), without feeling the need to change them, convince them of their wrongness, be aggressive, force, manipulate or judge them to see things differently?
When spiritual boundaries are weak or non existence it is so easy to engage with people or a person and get into an argument that you cannot win, or even be persuaded or manipulated into their belief system that may not be best for you. To have good spiritual boundaries you won't need to be manipulated into a belief. You will learn more about it and decide whether this is something important to you.
Protecting your spiritual beliefs can be simply deciding who you talk to about your beliefs and spiritual practices how you allow others to interact with you regarding your/their beliefs.
The spiritual boundaries we set for ourselves begins with our core values. These core values create who we are and what we do on a daily basis. Our true identity is built by what we decide we are going to believe over a lifetime. These central beliefs shape our choices in jobs, fun and even our mate.
(3)Emotional Boundaries-
These areas of boundaries protect our feelings. Our emotional boundaries include how we allow others to treat us, whether our emotions are respected & honoured, and how we treat others in return. This area of boundaries is also about protecting how others talk to us individually (name calling/put downs).
Healthy emotional boundaries serve two very good purposes. They keep us from imposing our emotions on other people, dumping endlessly on anyone who will listen to us (and then regretting it later). Emotional boundaries help us handle our feelings in appropriate ways.
Emotional boundaries also keep us from taking on the emotions of others who are spewing their emotional garbage… It also what protect us from being manipulated by others through guilt and shame and fear. They help us not take on responsibility for someone else's emotions.
(4)Mental Boundaries
This defines our thoughts and opinions allowing us to choose what we think about and to stop ourselves from thinking about other things. Additionally, as we form opinions, we have freedom in how we analyse a situation, what information we integrate into this assessment, and what our resulting opinion will be. Regardless of whether or not someone agrees with our opinion, it is ours to have and creates a distinction between us and someone else in our lives. Maintaining your own opinion or value about something is one of the components that make you a unique and distinct person. These boundaries also enable us to reject thoughts and opinions being forced on us that are contrary to our belief system.
When you are talking to another person with intact mental boundaries, you can share opinions back and forth and have great discussions. No one feels forced to agree with the other person. No one is told their ideas are silly or stupid. However, there are forceful people who are not content to simply share ideas, or have a meeting of the minds. Instead, they (overtly or covertly) demand that you agree with them. They don't even like it if you "agree to disagree."
(5)Sexual boundaries
Sexual boundaries include boundaries about your sexuality, body, who touches you intimately (or how they touch you), comments that are sexual in nature, what your level of comfortability is with sexual behaviours, and how comfortable you feel touching others. Sometimes we tend to think of sexual boundary violations as simply being coerced into sexual behaviours against our will. While this is one aspect of a sexual boundary being violated, other examples include: someone making sexual innuendos or comments that feel inappropriate, uncomfortable, or disrespectful; sexual glances or having someone look at you in a sexual way that feels uncomfortable; being sexualized or objectified in the workplace or by a friend or stranger; having a working relationship with a professional (doctor, therapist, or health care professional) who uses the intimate nature of the professional relationship to lure a client into a sexual relationship, having a sexual partner coerce you into sexual acts that you feel uncomfortable with; or receiving sexual emails, text messages or phone calls that are inappropriate and suggestive sexually. These are only a few of the many ways our boundaries can be violated sexually.
Food for thought
"Good fences make good neighbours." Frost's poem Mending Wall
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Glutathione is a peptide composed of three amino acids i.e. cysteine, glutamine and glycine. It is a water soluble potent reducing agent with a low molecular weight that exists in abundance as a thiol. It is also an antioxidant.
Glutathione plays a very important role in the body's detoxification. This makes it very fundamental to fungi, plants and animals. It catalyses glutathione S transferases(GST) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) therefore eliminating the reactive peroxides and the toxic electrophilic molecules.
Additionally, it is very important in various cellular reactions. It is crucial to RNA and DNA nucleotide reduction and it regulates gene and protein expression in the body. It is also responsible for some exchange reactions like converting thiols to disulfides.
Glutathione exists intracellularly either in its reduced state as glutathione or its oxidised state of glutathione disulphide. The ratio of reduced-glutathione to that of oxidised glutathione disulphide is very important in cell survival so this process is always monitored and highly regulated in the body.
A glutathione deficiency in an individual puts their cells at a high risk of oxidative damages. A deficiency of glutathione can be caused by many conditions. Some include; Cancer, Cystic fibrosis, HIV, ageing and neurodegenerative disorders.
During some clinical trials of glutathione medication on male fertility, injections of 600 mg glutathione were administered on specific subjects daily. This treatment demonstrated a positive effect on sperm- mobility, kinetic parameters of computerised analysis showed an increase in the percentage of forward mobility and sperm morphology.
Evaluations of administration of glutathione in Parkinson's disease. Subjects were randomly administered with 1400 mg of glutathione or a placebo administration, 3 times in a week, for four weeks. The resulting data suggested a weak symptomatic effect but this has not been evaluated in larger studies.
Studies on the effects of glutathione on cutaneous microcirculation, arterial circulations and pain free walking in patients with peripheral obstructive arterial diseases concluded that glutathione can prolong and improve microcirculatory parameters and extend a pain free walking distance.
Through aerobic metabolism, the administration of glutathione can suppress muscle fatigue that is triggered by prolonged exercise.
Glutathione is one of the bodies essential molecules. It is required for detoxification. It performs its functions by aiding in the relocation of harmful and destructive oxygen-containing molecules from the body system. As the body performs its routine functions, excess oxygen-containing molecules which are very reactive are produced. These reactive molecules include peroxides and superoxide anions which contain an unpaired O2 electron. Since these molecules are too reactive, they can bind to other molecules in the body and inhibit their actions, because of this, they are excessively toxic to the cell and the whole body.
The human-body has a natural system of four enzymes that scavenge for and metabolise all reactive-oxygen species in the body. This host of enzymes include;
– Glutathione peroxidase. This enzyme detoxifies peroxides in conjunction with glutathione which donates an electron in this reaction to produce glutathione disulphide as its end product.
– Glutathione reductase. This enzyme acts as a catalyst in the reduction of glutathione disulphide to produce two glutathione molecules.
– Catalase. This is another enzyme which is a catalyst and it also takes part in detoxification.
– Superoxide dismutase. This enzyme takes part in the detoxification and relocation of superoxide species.
Glutathione is available the brain in very minute quantities. For this reason, tissue damage and oxidative stress can occur at greater rates in the brain when compared to tissues in other parts of the body. Oxidative-stress in the brain can result in the development of disease conditions like Parkinson's disease which is characterised by impaired motor and cognitive functions and neurodegeneration. During the metabolism of dopamine in the brain, peroxides and other reactive-oxygen species are produced. The removal of these harmful oxygen molecules from the brain can suppress the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
The levels of glutathione between the cells of the liver increase with an increase in the detoxification processes. A molecular breakdown or an insufficient synthesis of glutathione can impair the function of the liver. If the reactive-oxygen species are not terminated in time, they can lead to cell destruction and cell death which may cause liver cirrhosis.
For some time now, there has been speculation surrounding the relationship between an organism's age and the production of reactive-oxygen species in their bodies. The natural system of selection and mechanisms of all organisms enables them to reproduce before they die. After reproduction, cell damage may occur with time which eventually leads to their death.
Some of the natural detoxification molecules that contribute to the protection of the body against the reactive oxygen molecules include; water-soluble radical scavengers like ascorbate,GSH or urate, It also includes lipid soluble scavengers, α-tocopherol, flavonoids γ-tocopherol,carotenoids, ubiquinol. The redundancy co-operation between this group of defence pathways illustrate just how crucial protecting the body against reactive oxygen species is to an organism's survival.
This medication should be administered intramuscularly via injections. Taking this medication in sufficient amounts is known to be rather safe, but it should be administered cautiously in individuals with milk protein allergies and people who have recently received an organ transplant. Since not much studies have been done and concluded on its effects on pregnancy, lactation and infants, it is best to stay on the safer side and avoid it completely.
This medication has minimum side effects. Some cases of reduced zinc levels in the body have been reported with prolonged extended use.
You should store this medicine in a refrigerator at 35 F to 46F (2 C – 8 C). Keep all medicine away from the reach of children and make sure you throw away any remaining medicine that has surpassed its expiry date.
Glutathione Injections are prescribed for: Protecting the body from oxidative stress, free radicals, detoxification and liver health
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - The Dark Ranger (DLC)
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is probably the greatest computer game based on the Lord of the Rings franchize. In this Action RPG, you play as ranger named Talion. While chasing after orcs after they kill his wife and family, Talion is mortally wounded, only to be saved by Celebrimbor, an Elven Lord who has a connection to the One Ring.
You gain supernatural powers and wage a one-man war against the forces of Sauron. You will not be alone forever, though. With time, you will be able to recruit yourself an army from the orcs you defeat in battle, using the ground-breaking Nemesis system.
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- Single-player
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- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5850
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text: So we decided to sell my books at Woolmers Maker's Market (Tasmania) before Christmas – We got copies of my books sent from America, we bought a fold up table, directors chairs, a tent, display stands and Sue made a table cloth. The weather had been sunny in the mid twenties for a month, beautiful weather in fact. We put up the tent as a practice run, it was like trying to get a newly born horse to stand up and then the wind blew up and blew it away it was a piece of crap good for nothing. Then,two days before the market it started to rain and kept raining. I couldn't take my books to a market and sit in the rain and try to sell them, to my relief the market was cancelled! Anyone want to buy a book? No it's all good I will be taking the books to a Maker's Market after Christmas, as long as it doesn't rain, and I am going to the Bay of Fires Arts Festival where I will take a writing studio and sell my books at their Arts Market. Wish me luck!


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Reviewed by Lesley Coffin
Eric Heisserer's screenwriting roots to date have primarily been in the horror genre, including the remakes of The Thing and A Nighmare on Elm Street, the 5th Final Destination, and this year's sleeper hit Lights Out. But for some time his dream project was a humanistic sci-fi drama based on the short story by Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life. Arrival is just that project and after a long incubation period with Heisserer, it's living up to its name, with high praise and year end awards consideration. Feature one of a Amy Adam's best performances as a interpreter asked to translate alien language, Heisserer and director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario) have delivered a timely, thoughtful, and surprisingly emotional story about the need for human connection and communication. As part of our Contenders series of interviews, I spoke with Eric about his wonderfully layers screenplay.
I've read a little about your determination to get this movie made. What was the process of getting it into production?
It was a labor of love for me, I think I told my representatives that if I could get just one more film made, it would be this one. But when we brought it to 21 Laps (production company), they read it and loved it. But it took a number of years to get it made. I carried a dog eared copy of the short story collection around for years. And when I did the bottle water tour, when you meet with producers about potential projects. They would ask if I knew of any properties I'd want to adapt. And this would always be the one to come up. I spoke passionately about Story of Your Life, but I always knew it would be a long shot. I'd never worked on a story like this and to work on something considered prestige sci-fi would be a hard sell. It has a lot of cerebral elements and emotional undercurrents. But it's also not a franchise film or invasion film. That made it a difficult sell. But I found producers that understood the passion I had for it and helped me pitch my heart out, but every studio said no. I came home, couldn't let go of it, and decided to write it on spec. And thankfully, Ted gave me the option for a year.
I was so excited to hear Amy Adams was your first choice for the role, because this is exactly the kind of role I love to see her play, and this is one of my favorite performances from her. What made you think of her for the role of Louise?
She was my first and probably only choice for the part. As an actress, when she's on screen, it's like I can see what the character's thinking. She projects so much through subtext. And I knew this would be the kind of role that demanded that specific talent. I was just so lucky when we got her on board, I just love her in this.
Arrival and Lights Out both have female protagonists, both deal with mothers and daughters, and feature women suffering through grief. Did you think about what draws you to those types of female characters and there similarities?
They definitely connected, although I of course wrote Arrival first. I guess I would say I've been trying to write a character that can hold a candle to my wife. That's the kind of persona I like to see on screen, so I just keep trying. She'll kill me if she knows that, it's probably going to embarrass her, but I'll be honest and say she's a huge inspiration.
This is a very different film for the director Denis Villeneuve. Seeing his other films, what were your initial feelings about him taking on your screenplay?
I'd seen Incendies and Prisoners. And I immediately knew he was a skilled director who can set the perfect tone and atmosphere. But what made nervous was, I didn't see anything optimistic or hopeful about the human condition in his work. His other films were designed that way, so it was an appropriate. But our film was designed to have a far more optimistic view of the world. And I just didn't know if he'd embrace that, but I was so grateful that he did. And he told me, that spirit was a big part of what drew him to this script.
Did you collaborate on a final script before filming?
We collaborated a lot, but the bones of the script didn't really change at all. The changes we made had to do with adapting to our budget and changing some plot points in order to distance ourselves a bit from Interstellar. There were some plot points early on that felt close to that film, which had just come out. But the biggest thing he added was to show more of the process. He loves process and showing people doing their work. And he really embraced showing as much of that as possible. So he wanted to show the types of showers trucks would go through at the camp and steps of getting in and out of the suits. The paper work and booster shots they'd need, all that stuff he loved showing, and I love researching and writing that. Those are the things which help with immersion.
I saw Arrival the night after the first Presidential debate, so I had my eyes open to the timeliness of the story. And found myself looking at the film almost as a call for people to calm down, be civil, and start talking and listening to each other. What real world issues and ideas would you like people to bring with them into the theater?
I had no idea the film would be this timely. I don't think I'd want it to be this timely. But I've been passionate about the need to strengthen our communication bridges for a while. Internationally but also between different cultures within the same nation. So often, we become our own worst enemies. And if we are ever gifted first contact, I would hope humanity would find a way to come together in ways we haven't before.
There's are two documentaries I thought of when watching, Into Eternity (about nuclear waste storage) and The Visit (about preparing for an alien visit), because the film really makes you question how humankind would be perceived by another species. Did you think about what the alien's point of view would be?
We must seem very like a very paranoid and reactionary culture. At first, I wanted to avoid that, because it can seem like a trope in a movie. So I was very conscious about going to that well too quickly. And yet, every time I tried to avoid, it felt like I was avoiding an innate side of our culture. There was a recent news story about three white men planning to set fire to a mosque, and that story had shades of something that happens in this film. So ignoring that would have been wrong. So I just had to embrace it. And acknowledge the fact that the longer the ships hoovered over people and the government refused to share information, the more paranoid and fearful society will become. That's when people come to their own, uninformed conclusions, and it will be the wrong ones.
And you also have the split at the camp between the academics, who believe in study and patient observation, and military men who have been trained to take action and defend. So that seems like it provided a lot of the tension between the characters in the film.
Definitely. But in research you'll certainly find a lot of men like Forrest Whitaker's character, who are career military and see the potential value in having both. People who wanted the academics to provide the solution, and not have to take aggressive military action. Those are exactly the types of men and women we want in power within the military because they've been through war and seen enough to know, it would be better to work themselves out of job if that means peaceful resolution. And when you have to bring a team together, he's the type of guy within the military you want in charge. The type that will defend the value of academics to the government. There's a whole movie going on that the audience never sees of him constantly having to defend them to the paranoid government.
But I wouldn't call the film cynical about the government, they simply don't know the right way to act, domestically or internationally. Because the film is set in the US, we see the details of how they're responding. Were you at all concerned about how other countries were going to be portrayed, considering the shorter screen time they recieve and concern about international stereotypes?
I was, and continue to be nervous about that. There were some story elements that dictated specific reactions from specific nations. But the director and I both asked for assistance from international interpreters and looked into how countries are set up to deal with crisis. Sometimes the stereotype goes completely against the real reactions they would have. And sometimes the stereotype is somewhat accurate. I don't believe the China government is warlike or aggressive as they might be stereotyped as, but I do believe that rather than go through the challenge of teaching a new species Mandarin or using a tool that breaks things down easily by wins or defeat, they might use that tool.
How did you come up with the visual idea behind the langue? I understand you developed the written language before Denis was involved.
I talked about it with Ted Chiang, who had some ideas I tried to incorporate. And then I tried to describe it in writing. But that didn't make a lot of sense. And while having dinner with my wife, I said how dissatisfied I was trying to describe it in the script, and she asked, what does it look like? I drew it on a napkin, and she told me to just put it in the script. So I left white space in the word document and when I turned it into a PDF, would add the image. The circular symbols in the film are close to what I had in the script. I really wanted to focus primarily on this idea of non-linear language, and a circle was the best way to express that.
Being a graphic novelist, do you feel your background plays into how you write visually for the screen?
Definitely. But even more than that, the little directing I've done has helped me become a better cinematic writer. It's kept me from pulling some tricks as a writer that ultimately wouldn't have helped the big picture. It's made me far more aware of writing something that if I were to read that as an actor or director, I would have no idea what the writer wanted me to do. I don't want an angry call from a director asking me to explain myself.
The film has a little narration, but not a lot and I didn't notice a lot of reflective narration, telling the audience how the character's feeling. Was there more narration or did you intentionally keep it on the minimal side?
Over narration is a huge pet peeve of mine. And if it's just a description of how they should be feeling, that always strikes me as a lazy crutch. I like to write in something for the actor to be doing with their hands, so they can use their body language and physical behavior to express something about the character in an indirect manner. And even then, those might just be suggestions for the actors, because really skilled actors already know how to get to the subtext of the scene. The moment we got Amy, I went back through the script and removed any narration I felt would feel like training wheels.
Lesley Coffin: Is editor and founder of Movies, Film, Cinema. A writer with a masters degree from NYU's Gallatin School in biographical studies and star theory. She wrote the biography on Lew Ayres (Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector) and Hitchcock's Casting (Hitchcock's Stars). Lesley currently freelances as a critic and interviewer for a number of sites, including regular contributions to The Interrobang, Pink Pen, and Young Folks, and previously wrote for The Mary Sue and Filmoria. (Twitter handle @filmbiographer, website lesleycoffin.com)


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Worlds in CollusionTempos range from 68 to 175 bpm during the course of the CD's 60 selections. However, World Groove is all too brief - it offers only 36 minutes of material. Also, the documentation lists only the track number and the selection's tempo in bpm. Track titles, file lengths, and descriptions of the instruments and musical styles would be helpful.
Nonetheless, I was immediately drawn to Track 2, an inspiring and energetic 21-bar groove reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's best work. I couldn't place the track's geographical origins, but it has a talking-drum foundation, with a high-pitched drum driving the rhythm, and a brief vocal line at the beginning. Track 4 is similar but with a deep tomlike drum pushing the beat.
Track 5 cooks at 147 bpm. It begins with a clay drum playing a syncopated, 16th-note groove joined later by an ensemble of low, loose-skinned drums. Track 7 continues in a similar way, with churning, call-and-response tribal drumming. Track 14 is equally appealing, with multiple hand drums and a didgeridoo in the mix.
Tracks 23 through 26 are infused with the flavors of India, emphasizing tabla and sitar. Jumping to tracks 38 through 40 finds slower rhythms (with less percussion) that invite listeners to join in with their own grooves. Track 50 beckoned me with its 6/8 rhythm and two accompanying flutes, as did Track 51, which features a gamelan-like melody line; an insistent ensemble of wooden percussion; and sweet, haunting vocals.
World ViewBesides poor documentation and brevity, my only other complaint about World Groove is that the pitched instruments are inseparable from the percussion. The pitched elements should be separate tracks so I am not painted into a harmonic and melodic corner.
Nevertheless, World Groove's outstanding tracks are intriguing, and I find myself wanting more - a lot more. A single, short CD isn't nearly enough. But as a bassist who performs regularly with a loop-based band, I'm excited by the world of possibilities the disc suggests.


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Fall hasn't quite hit our city yet so this is my perspective on this week's challenge.
My quest to become at one with my camera.
The Weekly Photo Challenge has just been announced as "Fall" . I suppose it's appropriate since today is the first day of fall except that it's 29 degrees here and the leaves have not yet changed into the beautiful fall colours. Normally this would be a fairly easy challenge but I may have to be creative with one!
I took this picture of a beautiful historic home in our neighbourhood last night just before sunset. You can see the setting sun in the upper windows and I thought it would be a good image to practice HDR. Although it was taken without a tripod, I don't think it came out too badly. I would love some feedback positive or negative 🙂
Yesterday we took a day trip to Waterton Lakes National Park. It's the last official long weekend of summer so we wanted to make the most of the weather as it was a beautiful day and 27 degrees. It's a great place to hike so we decided to hike up to Bertha Falls and then down to Bertha Lake. It was exhausting in the heat but it's so beautiful there that its well worth it.


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Wi-Fi on the metro was promised before the end of the year, but now delays mean it won't be available till 2017. Some subway stations already have Wi-Fi signal, but the proposal is to install cables that will give passengers signal in the tunnels as well.
Last year, Prague transport management promised, in cooperation with the Czech mobile operators, to put special, conductive signal cables along the tunnels. The section between the stations Roztyly and Muzeum was supposed to be in operation already.
Director of the Transport Department, Martin Gillar, said: "Before the end of the year we do not have time. We are in talks with mobile operators about the conditions under which we allow them to set the radiating cables in the subway tunnels. You should understand that any technology in the subway carries special security requirements."
High-speed internet Prague metro only works in new stations from Dejvická to Nemocnice Motol.


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Are Open Educational Resources Cultural Colonisation?
Presentation about the cultural message in Open Educational Resources
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Patrick McAndrew
20 October 2009
The content from an organisation (such as The Open University in the UK) does carry cultural overloadb and this could be seen as negative aspect. However it also demonstrates how OER can act to communicate ideas as well as culture. Providing those involved see themselves contributing as part of a larger community and look for opportunities coming in then individual voices in materials have a role. Considering the user viewpoint and the options implied by openness that people *may* take advantage of gives a route forward and avoids cultutal worries as a barrier.
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Comment 1 by Gráinne Conole
Gráinne Conole
1:49pm 20 October 2009 Permalink
Hi interesting presentation Patrick - I think the issue of cultural biaise is an important one. ALL resources, tools etc are culturally loaded in some way. For example tools like word and excel were originally developed for a Business context not education and that carries with it some issues. For example one could argue the cut and paste facility of word is counter to encouraging deep relfective learning. There was a good presentation about this at Ascilite a few years back will see if I can dig out.
Comment 2 by Gill Clough
Gill Clough
2:46pm 20 October 2009 Permalink
Wish I'd heard the presentation, but the slides alone are quite thought provoking. The extracts of "institutional discourse" gave me the impression that they aimed to open up the academic portals to those who might not otherwise gain access - allowing them to "join the club" in a sense, with all the cultural overtones that that implies. I'm wondering if OEDs differ in that despite incorporating the cultural imperatives embedded in their original design, they may still be re-engineered and repurposed by those who perhaps want to use them to set up their own learning club.
Comment 3 by Patrick McAndrew
Patrick McAndrew
8:43pm 25 October 2009 Permalink
The quotes from the academic portals where extracted and analysed by Andreia Santos - there is more in her paper on JIME (I will add the academic reference). It does show that there is a rather mixed message between seeking to help and seeking to gain from being able to have a route for contacting so many people. You are quite right Gill that it is the very openness of OER that means that the approach can be adopted and adapted by others so it is not so much cultural colonisation as cultural communication.
Comment 4 by Giota Alevizou
Giota Alevizou
8:45pm 28 October 2009 Permalink
Yes Patrick, I aggree the idea of enculturation or cultural appropriation is defenitely worth fleshing out more and worth investigating more.
Some examples that three of my interviewees gave me point to the fact that access to reliable, high quality OPEN content is still percieved very important in low income countries. Cultural biases/imperialism are addressed if:
- support is provided for bottom up and situated/community based-learning;
- if more recognition and incentives are offered to academic/teaching stuff to support such movements (certainly this relates to TESSA) in order to upload their own content and initiatives portals that have achieved global reach;
- if more adaptable cultural and technical interfaces are developed/'translated' to cater for low tech infrastructures or local craftmanship & (in)formal learning cultures.
There's a political issue that I feel has to do with the interdiscoursive relations of OERs gaining outreach and OER coming from developing countries as a way to 'showcase' knowledge to the world alongside being self-sufficient and sustainable. In which case it opens up a world of implications for relevance, interoperability, repurposing for collective intelligence and knowledge building.
There are tensions also regarding internal tensions within cultures from Commonwealth countries and provision for accommodating educational traditions/learning cultures of minorities or marginalised groups. Anyway, there's a wealth of literature for community media/media for development that has some links to OER contexts, or interesting to investigate best practices there. I will try to dig out some relevant references. <!--EndFragment-->
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This is some stuff I recently got at yard sales or thrift shops. A huge wood candle stand I plan to redo that in some way, any ideas? The frame will turn into a chalkboard. Other items, door knobs, finials, sheet music, potato masher and the old Christmas lights were free from a thrift store, I had seen something to do with these but I can't remember, If anyone has any ideas let me know!
Here is another project I did last year, claw foot bathtub legs and a wood board I got at a public sale. I needed a small table to put the TV on and it worked out perfectly.
An old window frame no glass and a quilted pillow case found at a goodwill store, I added a shelf and pegs. I started this project a while ago, before I blogged and I didn't take any before pictues. I still want to add something to this and will have more about it in a later post.
When first saw these type of cake plates being made the instructions said to get a ceramic drill bit and to drill holes in the plate. I did not want to do that so I thought of a way to add the beads. My solution was to glue a hook from my sewing supplies and then I could just loop the beads onto it. So you can take it off to wash it!


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This webinar tells the story of how the Razorback Greenway was conceived, designed, funded, and implemented— a case study with multiple innovative and enabling solutions.
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Cost (RECORDING):$19 for members (Trail Professional level or higher)
Note:Closed Captioning is available for this webinar.
Northwest Arkansas is an emerging metropolitan area in the American Heartland with over a half-million inhabitants. It is the location of a major university; a national agricultural and food-processing center; the global headquarters of Walmart and home of the Walton Family Foundation. Six cities make up the 40-mile long corridor extending from Fayetteville on the south the Bentonville and Lake Bella Vista on the north.
In 2010, The Walton Family Foundation assembled a group of some of the nation's most seasoned trail, greenway, and bicycle experts to look at green infrastructure in Northwest Arkansas and recommend how to optimize the livability of this region. The Walton's posed the question of how to make this region a major attractor of the "best and brightest" to come here and stay. A leading recommendation was to create a major regional greenway running over 40 miles from one end of the urban corridor to the other. In 2011 work began implementing the Razorback Greenway. (Serendipitously, Fayetteville, led by Matt Mihalevich was well along in creating a portion of the greenway in that city.)
Key Learning Points
1. How to envision and build backing for a regional greenway
2. Effective funding through a public/private partnership (securing philanthropic and public match monies)
3. Strategic and catalytic project phasing
4. Building an effective organizational structure to manage multiple jurisdictions and partners to build the greenway quickly
5. Managing effective public process to address stakeholder concerns and build support and awareness
6. Effectively addressing complex design and planning challenges including application of NACTO tools such as on-street buffered "cycle-tracks"
7. Securing multiple rights-of-way along a 40-mile corridor including rail-with-trail
8. Addressing design challenges and aesthetics to create a world-class greenway with Innovative solutions and attractive components
9. Innovative engagement of city crews to build a greenway
10. Effectively leveraging the greenway to transform languishing urban places and garnering significant economic benefits
Jeff Olson, architect and planner, Alta Planning + Design
Author of The Third Mode, and an architect and planner with Alta Planning + Design, has been involved in greenways, open space, active living and alternative transportation projects for more than 20 years. He has had a diverse career with experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
His unique vision and leadership ability are important assets to projects ranging from regional planning to site specific projects and programs. He is an avid bicyclist and skier who has the perspective of a parent with three young children.
Jeff launched his recent book called The Third Mode: Towards a Green Societyat a webinar hosted by American trails. See news release about "The Third Mode"...
Contact: [email protected]
Chuck Flink, President, Greenways Incorporated
Chuck Flink, FASLA, is President of Greenways Incorporated of Durham, North Carolina. Chuck is widely regarded as one of America's leading greenway planners, having completed comprehensive greenway, trail, and open space plans for more than 235 communities within 36 States. He has also been a consultant to clients in Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Japan, and St. Croix, USVI. Chuck is a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows, and is the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Design at North Carolina State University.
Chuck coauthored Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development, in partnership with Bob Searns. This book received a 1994 Merit Award in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and is cited by the American Planning Association as "the best single reference" on greenway development. Chuck also coauthored Trails for the Twenty First Century, also with Bob Searns. Both books have been translated into Chinese and are used as textbooks at Peking University in Beijing and Shenzhen.
Chuck graduated Cum Laude in 1982 from North Carolina State University's College of Design. He served three terms as Chair of the Board of American Trails, and five terms as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the East Coast Greenway Alliance.
Contact: [email protected]
Matt Mihalevich, Trails Coordinator, City of Fayetteville, Arkansas
Matt Mihalevich is a professional landscape architect and has been the Trails Coordinator for the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas over the past eleven years. Matt is responsible for all aspects of the development of the trail system including; planning, funding, design, property acquisition, construction management, maintenance and public encouragement.
Most recently, Matt has been involved in the development of the 37 mile long Razorback Regional Greenway which now connects Northwest Arkansas from south Fayetteville to north Bentonville. Fayetteville boasts an expansive and much adored trail system with over 40 miles of shared-use paved trails.
In addition to work in Fayetteville, Matt also serves as the Chairman of the Northwest Arkansas Active Transportation Committee and assists with the ongoing development of trails and bikeways throughout the region.
Contact: [email protected]
Robert Searns, founding owner, Robert Searns & Associates
Bob Searns is the founding owner of The Greenway Team, a planning and development firm based in Denver, CO that has specialized for three decades in greenways, trails, and conservation. He was Project Director of Denver's Platte River Greenway, one of the nation's benchmark urban trail projects, and produced 10,000 Trees, an eight-mile river corridor restoration project involving 3,000 volunteers. He has authored a greenways and trails plan for the 43-square-mile area west of Denver International Airport, as well as trail and greenway projects across the nation including Chicago, Dallas, Memphis, Louisville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Portland.
Bob was a development consultant for the Grand Canyon Greenway, a precedent-setting 72-mile system of multi-use trails along the canyon rim. Bob has conducted workshops throughout North America, China and Europe. He co-authored Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design, and Development (published in the U.S. and. China), Trails for the 21st Century, and contributed to Greenways, The Beginning of an International Movement. He has served as Chair of the American Trails Board of Directors and written numerous articles and editorials for theAmerican Trails Magazine.
Contact: [email protected]
American Trails Homepage
American Trails "Resources & Library" webpage
Razorback Regional Greenway – Northwest Arkansas
Alta Planning + Design
The Greenway Team
Greenways Incorporated
City of Fayetteville, Arkansas – Trails and Greenways
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Evangelical Groups Claim IRS Practicing 'Viewpoint Discrimination'
Even before the ink was dry on the Treasury Department Inspector General's report on the IRS, Franklin Graham, son of evangelical icon Billy Graham, wrote a letter to President Obama, demanding that the president "take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America's history—repressive government rule."
Graham contended he was in possession of proof of this dire scenario: Last year, he says, the IRS conducted an audit of two tax-exempt organizations he runs, Samaritan's Purse and The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. To Graham, this is no coincidence. "[P]rofiling by the IRS," he lectured the president, "was not limited to conservative organizations; indeed, it extended to religious charities—Jewish and Christian—as well."
Since Graham's letter hit the pages of Politico on Tuesday, a number of religious right organizations and individuals have claimed that the IRS targeted them for audits, held up their tax-exempt applications, or subjected them to intrusive questioning, all of which they claim amounts to orchestrated anti-Christian bias.
In Graham's case, though, the IRS was doing exactly what it is supposed to do. His ministries, both 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations, are barred from attempting to influence the outcome of elections, the precise activity for which Graham admits the agency audited them.
Graham's situation is "quite a different kettle of fish" than the IRS review of the Tea Party 501(c)(4) applications, said Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Unlike 501(c)(4) organizations, which are allowed to devote less than 50% of their activities to influencing political campaigns, there is an absolute ban on electoral campaign activity by 501(c)(3) organizations.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, for example, has advised its followers to support only "candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel." That, along with the elder Graham's promise to Mitt Romney to "do all I can to help you," were attempts to influence the outcome of the election, said Boston.
Boston said he was actually "surprised" to read Graham's claim that the IRS had audited his ministries "because we have reported a number of houses of worship for clearer cases of politicking," with no apparent action by the IRS.
If a 501(c)(3) organization engages in politicking, said Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program at People for the American Way, "it is incumbent upon the IRS to do these investigations." It has to "ask these questions," but it "can't single out a particular group because of their political views, ideology, or religious beliefs." Any audit of the Graham group alone "doesn't prove anything" about IRS bias against conservative groups, said Baker.
Observers on both sides of church-state separation issues say such investigations stalled after a 2009 federal court ruling ordering the agency to promulgate regulations under a statute that requires audits of churches be authorized by an "appropriate high-level Treasury official." The IRS reportedly suspended all church audits until the adoption of rules to comply with the court ruling.
Opponents of the rule against church electioneering hope to provoke the IRS into conducting audits in order to generate a case to mount a Constitutional challenge to the rule.
Greg Scott, Senior Director of Media Relations at the Alliance Defending Freedom, the religious-right group that organizes Pulpit Freedom Sunday, during which pastors flaunt the rule in their pulpits, said that one church, Warroad Community Church in Warroad, Minnesota, "was investigated briefly, but [the] file was closed due to what the IRS called a 'procedural issue.'"
"Otherwise," Scott said, "crickets."
That would suggest that, contrary to claims that the IRS is "targeting" Christian groups, it has been hamstrung from investigating cases due to a bureaucratic failure to promulgate a rule required by the court ruling.
Graham, said Boston, seems to be "deliberately trying to confuse the issue to get play in the media."
A number of religious-right organizations have jumped on the Graham bandwagon, claiming anti-Christian repression. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family who, after his retirement, launched a new radio program, maintains that the IRS asked inappropriate questions of his Family Talk Action as it applied for 501(c)(4) status. In a statement, Dobson claimed that an IRS employee told his lawyer she didn't think the exemption would be granted because the group is "not educational"; it presented only one view, sounded like a "partisan right-wing group," and was "political" because it "criticized President Obama, who was a candidate." Dobson claims this is "viewpoint discrimination."


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On November 29, 2017 WorkSafeBC presented a Pre-Drilling Season Update in Ft St John. Chemscape attended and I wanted to share some key points from this meeting. The Upstream Oil and Gas Industry in BC currently has 1,891 employers. Oil and Gas has the lowest injury rate of all classification Business Units in BC but they have one of the highest short term disability duration. Tragically, there has been 13 work-related deaths in the past 5 years.
A main message from WorkSafeBC was that exposure to hazardous chemicals remains a major risk for workers. Although injuries are down year over year drilling related work remains the highest risk for injury. Inspection reports and prevention orders have been increasing year over year. In 2018, 95 Targeted Inspections occurred – 25 Occupational Exposure focused inspections.
In 2018, WorkSafeBC has an initiative in Oil and Gas to reduce the serious injury and fatality rate by implementing risk reduction tactics. WorkSafeBC predicts occupational disease claims and deaths to surpass the rates of injuries in the upcoming years.
Exposure Control Plan's will continue to be a compliance focus for them in 2018 in Oil and Gas with a risk assessment of potential hazardous exposures including hydrocarbon based drilling fluids, aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene etc.), NORMS, Silica (new asbestos), Diesel exhaust. There are emerging concerns on welding fumes migrating through respiratory system/circulatory system and lodging in major organs as well as Ultra Violet Rays from the Sun as 1 in 3 new cancer diagnoses in Canada is now a skin cancer.
Some other Field issues which were addressed in the meeting include:
- Proper respirator use and fit testing, being clean shaven. (OHSR 8.40(1-2)
- Annual Hearing testing of workers (OHSR 7.8)
- Immediate Reporting of Reportable Incidents
- Having adequate Confined Space Entry Procedures: ability to identify all confined spaces by a Qualified Person; ability to conduct a proper hazard assessment of the CS's by a Qualified Person; Failure to develop proper CSE prior to entry by a QP; Proper testing and monitoring of the atmosphere in the CS (before and during entry); Adequate continuous ventilation of the confined space, Proper supervision of confined space entry, adequate training of workers, Supervisors and persons conducting the CS assessments; and having ECP's for hazardous products in the CS.
- Tank cleaning safety concerns: having adequate grounding and bonding, adequately monitoring for hazardous atmospheres during cleaning, Vac trucks being equipped with rated hoses, valves and fittings; adequate training of all involved workers in regards to hazard assessments, proper SWP, use of equipment; having an ECP for exposure monitoring; having proper or appropriate PPE; disclosing and monitoring tank cleaning by parties commissioning the work.
- Issues related to recent fire & explosion at well site due to vapor overflow at de-gasser.
Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in receiving the full report with all the field issues and concerns which WorkSafeBC encouraged all attendees at the meeting to share with their network.
A chemical management system can help address many of these issues. If you are challenged with this or developing Exposure Control Plans, Chemscape can help.


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Lisa from The Novel Approach is here again to share her treasures on Booyah Books.
It's so good to be back after taking some personal time off in August, in which I didn't get a whole lot of reading done, but what I managed did offer some really great entertainment. Comedy, drama, first love, mystery, romance - both contemporary and historical - will round out this combo edition of the Booyah. Here are some of the great reads that really grabbed my attention over the past two months:
Historical (World War II) - Short Story:
This is what Aleksandr Voinov has done in Skybound. He has created an image with words that is bleak but at the same time filled with hope among the fear of death. It is a picture painted of victory in the certainty of defeat, where a kiss can give you the wings to fly and surrendering doesn't mean losing but gaining the promise of a future that might otherwise have been lost.
The year is 1945 and the Second World War is gasping its final breaths. It is a place and time when Felix and Baldur discover there is something more worth fighting and living for than their country's directives. Skybound was an entirely new experience for me. I've read stories from the American side of the war, from the British, but this is the first time I've read a story set on the German side, which illustrated to me how easy it is to forget that in battle, regardless of what side a man is on, the casualties are still altogether human ones.
Skybound is an example of the perfect short story: spare because that was the mood and tone of the time in which it takes place, sedate yet filled with a sense of urgency that translates into a raw and undeniable longing to be somewhere, anywhere, as long as it's on the winning side of life.
I've read a lot of Aleksandr Voinov's work and I have to say that this story is at the top of my very tall heap of favorites.
Buy Skybound HERE.
Young Adult Contemporary:
Ari Mendoza narrates this story, the story of a fifteen year old loner who meets Dante Quintana in the summer of 1987 and is suddenly not so lonely anymore, though he still feels very much alone with his anger and frustration. This is the story of a boy on the verge of evolution and the slow and sometimes painful discovery that being ashamed of how he feels doesn't make those feelings inevitably shameful.
I'm going to confess I selected this book for it's title and cover. I loved this book for all its many truths and loved that Benjamin Alire Sáenz wrote it in such a way that it felt as though it might have been autobiographical in its realism yet felt universal to each and every person who's ever struggled while navigating their way through those teenage years, when knowing yourself really was as impossible as knowing all the secrets of the universe.
Buy Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe HERE.
Contemporary Romance/Mystery:
Hemmi Sparks is one of Finn's privileged students at a tony prep school in Smithfield, who, it appears, might be in some danger from a fan who's been creeping on Hemmi's celebrity father. Enter Max, who has been hired to make like Hemmi's shadow at school, and what you get is a fair amount of friction between two men that seem determined to be little more than the thorns in each other's sides. That is, if they could keep their hands and lips to themselves long enough to discover there's something more going on between them than just sex and conflict.
There's also much more going on at Dalton Prep High School than a celebrity stalker, and it soon becomes evident that the threat to Hemmingway Sparks may be a home-grown kind of danger that's targeted at someone other than just Hemmi. It's a danger that will drive the typically unshakable Max Douglas to distraction, and is a danger that's so impossible for Finn to imagine that he makes the near-fatal error of underestimating the power of crazy. But, as they say, that's show biz.
Men of Smithfield: Max and Finn is dependably good entertainment from L.B. Gregg. 99% of the fun of this author's books is the witty banter, the comedic internal dialogue of her first person narrators, the frequently hysterical situations her characters find themselves in (everyone knows the toaster is the kitchen's bravest small appliance, after all), not to mention the sizzling sexual chemistry between her heroes. The other 1% is just everything else a great read can and should be, and those are the things that make me burn through her books, while, at the same time, wishing they'd never end.
Buy Men of Smithfield: Max and Finn HERE.
Contemporary Comedy:
Subsurdity is a block-party sitcom where the morality is policed by Melinda Gold and her mother, a harpy of an old woman whose only redeeming feature is the comedic gas-mine of her chronic fart problem. Eric Arvin skewers the illusion of the perfect suburban neighborhood with a voyeur's eye view of exactly what goes on behind closed doors on Jasper Lane, where Cassie Bloom holds court and hosts gay porn parties, where out of work husband and expectant father, Steve Jones, becomes a gay-for-pay porn star—and suddenly keeping-up-with-the-Joneses takes on a whole new meaning. It's the place Gayhound the homosexual dog calls home; where "Better Homes & Gardens" meets "Murder Most Likely"; where "good Christian" is an oxymoron of biblical proportions that threatens to strangle the very life out of seventeen-year-old Patrick Gold; where nothing spells humiliation like your tongue stud getting stuck in the UPS guy's Prince Albert—for all your neighbors to witness—and where, amidst all the absurdity, a lovely little romance blooms between Rick Cooper and James Tucker. That is, if James can find the strength to come out of the closet.
Folks, Subsurdity ain't your mama's daytime soap opera, that's for sure. It takes the monochromatic suburban life and transforms it into an in-living-color satire where the characters put the "fun" in dys-fun-ctional, and I'd gladly turn off my Kindle and tune into that fun, if only to gawk and wonder why my life is such an utter snooze.
Buy Subsurdity: Vignettes From Jasper Lane HERE.
Contemporary Drama:
There are some books that you know are going to be emotionally eloquent before you ever read the first sentence. Amy Lane's Mourning Heaven is one of those books. It is a story that is articulate in a way only the best dramatic stories can be, tugging at the heart while also burrowing into the conscience, and giving the reader the ammunition to soldier through it because s/he knows that the long-suffering souls of its characters will be redeemed in the end by the strength and healing that can only be found in the kind of love that is patient and kind and dares to hope and persevere.
Mourning Heaven is the story of Bodi Kovacs, Michael Hickman and his cousin Peter Armbruster, three young men who are irrevocably bonded by love, guilt, anger, and the crushing grief of losing someone long before he was ever stolen by death.
It is the story of a boy who was idolized and beloved, a boy so full of spirit and courage and conviction that Peter believed he could never approach the bar of perfection Michael had set so high, when, in truth, Peter did the most important thing far better than Michael ever did—Peter loved Bodi with a passion so strong that when Bodi fell to pieces, felt shattered beyond all hope of salvation, it was Peter who was there to put Bodi together again and show him that loving and living sometimes means embracing the power of truth and thriving on the freedom that comes from relinquishing your heart to the one who will reassemble its remains into something new.
If you haven't already, you can buy Mourning Heaven HERE.
And that does it for another month of Booyah Books! Until next time, happy reading!


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This morning, a few minutes from home, we saw this:
"Now there's something you don't see every day", I thought. But then I looked around and saw the general public completely unfazed and I realised that, in Japan, perhaps it is.
EDIT: In an even more surreal encounter, on Monday I saw two sumo wrestlers get into a lift at our local shopping mall. I wonder whether 10 persons or less still applies?


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With the version update to 17.60.1 and 2018.12 abylonsoft has donated various adjustments and optimizations of the program interface and functions to its programs. For example, a hexagonal window with program name shows the start of the programs or the settings dialog can no longer open without admin rights. In addition, some unused or problematic functions have been removed.
Between July and Novermber 2018 abylonsoft has published some version updates 17.30.x. Here an excerpt of the innovations:
With exception of the software apps abylonsoft has published all programs in the version 15.90.1. Beside small optimizations and error corrections the program windows and dialogs were optically ürevised. Thereby all control elements moved as far as possible into the upper area. In the head bar on the left side there is the menu behind the familiar three bars. On the right side, frequently used buttons are displayed, such as for closing and minimizing the window or for switching to administrator mode.
Additionally 2 versions of our software products will be offered in the future. The functional range is identical for both setups, but one version is optimized for Windows up to 7 and the other version from Windows 8. The reasons and the corresponding download links will be published shortly on the homepage.
In the manual we show 7 tips around the registration of the software products of abylonsoft. It shows how to check if an update is available and how to perform the installation and registration. Additionally it is described how the coupon code for a discounted update can be determined and how much discount is possible depending on the software product and version.


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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Web Innovators Group | WebInno19
If you are interested in previewing the latest innovations on the Internet and mobile devices, check out the next gathering of the Web Innovators Group.
This 19th installment (WebInno19) will feature the following presentations (sign in to your LinkedIn account on a separate tab, then click the "in" icon below to reveal your LinkedIn contacts at each company):
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- Givvy | the first comprehensive charitable giving management solution; track both online and offline donations; compare how you donate to others in your network; receive systematic recommendations based on your giving behavior.
- Brring | develops services and technologies allowing you to customize your communications: customize your ringback tones; form and join calling groups; connect with friends through social networking applications such as Facebook.
- Pixily | a simple, intuitive and one of a kind service that helps you aggregate, organize, find and share your paper and digital documents online.
Side Dishes
- Tune Rooms | record your music, upload and collaborate
- Peopleahead | a career advancement website
- JobVent | inside information about the jobs and employers we love and hate
- VendorCity | connects your company with the best vendors that service your area
- Openvote | a Facebook application designed to find out what your campus is thinking
- RunKeeper | allows you to track your runs and map and view progress in your running history
Monday, September 15, 2008, 6:30 pm
Registration is FREE and the networking could prove invaluable! Check out the Attendee List of several hundred pre-registrants to determine if this networking event is right for you.
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Karl Schulmeister – the forgotten spy who aided Napoleon's triumphs
Posted in Espionage, Famous battles, Historical articles, History, War on Friday, 18 May 2012
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This edited article about Karl Schulmeister originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 707 published on 2 August 1975.
All his life, Karl Schulmeister had wanted to work for the great Napoleon. Now, in the great hall at Strasbourg, where the Emperor had agreed to interview him, it seemed to Schulmeister that his big chance had come at last.
Napoleon addressed him curtly. "Where are your references?"
"Sire, I have no recommendations but my own."
"You may go. We have no work for men without references." Without another word, Napoleon rose and retired behind a screen, indicating that the interview was over.
But Schulmeister did not go. Instead, he made a few alterations to his dress and puckered up his face. In a moment the Emperor returned and, thinking that Schulmeister had gone and that here was a fresh recruit, demanded, "Who are you?"
"I am Karl Schulmeister," replied the candidate. "You interviewed me a moment ago. Now that I have demonstrated my ability to change my personality completely, perhaps you could find me a job in your service."
Napoleon, we are told, was thunderstruck by the deception which was so good he was completely fooled. At any rate, he immediately gave Schulmeister a job. And before the year was out the man with the double identity was Napoleon's chief of police in Vienna.
One of his first assignments was to carry a letter from a French minister to a French spy in the Austrian army. Schulmeister decided to disguise himself as a German jewel-merchant, but once in the Austrian lines he was arrested and searched. When the letter was found on him he was sentenced to be shot at dawn the next day.
Six soldiers were guarding him, and when wine was brought for them to drink, Schulmeister doped each glass with opium, which he had hidden on him. As the guards fell into a stupor, he put on one of the Austrian uniforms. Then he went straight to the person to whom the letter was intended to be delivered, and recited it from memory. His mission accomplished, he got out of the Austrian camp and returned to the French lines.
On the day at Strasbourg, on which Napoleon had hired Schulmeister, the French Emperor had made one of the best decisions of his career. For Karl Schulmeister, he was later to admit, was worth a whole division of the French army to him. And as a double spy Schulmeister has had few, if any, equals for daring in the story of espionage.
The skill of acting, at which Schulmeister was so brilliant and which had got him his new job, was to save his life on many occasions during his spying career. At the Battle of Wagram, he was followed into a house where he had taken refuge by a group of Austrian soldiers on his trail. As the Austrians burst into the house they were confronted by a barber coming downstairs with soap, towels, razors and other barbering equipment in his hands.
"We are chasing a spy," they shouted. "Have you seen him?"
"A man just ran upstairs," replied the barber.
Like bloodhounds, the soldiers stormed up the stairs while Schulmeister, the barber, made a rapid getaway.
Another time, when he was surrounded by the Austrian police, he changed his guise and walked right through their cordon, bowing to right and left. The police allowed him to pass because he bore no resemblance to the man for whom they were looking.
On yet another occasion, he paid a million francs to an Austrian general so that he could take the general's place at a council of war. The council was presided over by the Austrian Emperor who, like the other generals, failed to spot the intruder. And the entire proceedings of the Council were reported back by Schulmeister to Napoleon.
But the master spy's greatest coup came when he presented himself to Marshal Mack, commander of the Austrian-Hungarian army, in Vienna.
"I am a Hungarian nobleman," he told Mack. "I have been living in France for many years, and now the French have banished me because they suspect me of being an Austrian spy. I would like to avenge myself on them by really becoming an Austrian spy. Could you use my services?"
Mack, who was no fool but, at 53, an experienced commander, was impressed with the "nobleman." He obtained a commission in the Austrian army for Schulmeister, made him a member of the best military clubs in Vienna, and then appointed him chief of intelligence on his personal staff.
Then Schulmeister pulled the trick that has made him the model for double agents for nearly two centuries.
One day he entered Marshal Mack's office with a French newspaper in his hand. "We have just had news that the French are about to revolt against the tyrant Napoleon," he declared. "As a result, most of the French army is being withdrawn from the Austrian border in order to deal with the expected uprising in France."
Schulmeister spread out the French newspaper before the Marshal. "This was smuggled out of France. You will see from the reports in it that civil strife is spreading all over France. These reports confirm the information from our spies. France is about to be rent by civil war."
A gleam came into Mack's eyes. "Then this is the time to attack!" he exclaimed. "When the French are at their weakest."
What Mack did not know was that the French newspaper was a fake, deliberately printed for this coup, and that his Director of Intelligence was a Napoleonic spy who expected that Mack's reaction would be to attack, and who was about to send news of that attack to Napoleon.
Confidently, Mack advanced with 30,000 of his troops to Ulm, in south-west Germany, where he expected to find only the remnants of the withdrawn French army. Instead, he was surrounded by the pick of Napoleon's Grand Army, much more powerful in men and arms than the Austrians, and, realising that he had marched into a trap, he was forced to surrender.
Schulmeister, who had travelled to Ulm with Mack's Austrian soldiers, allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the French. Then, having reported to Napoleon, he contrived to make a "daring escape" and returned to Vienna, where he took up his job again as Director of Austrian Intelligence, still unsuspected of being a French spy.
From Vienna, Schulmeister kept up a continuous stream of information on Austrian movements to the French, which was certainly a contributory reason for the Austrians' next overwhelming defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz. But a month before that conflict, the first rumours about Schulmeister's loyalty were beginning to circulate in Vienna.
Suddenly, an order went out for his arrest and interrogation, but once again Schulmeister was miraculously saved by events. This time, the French general Murat swooped with his army on Vienna, and the threat to the Napoleonic spy chief vanished.
Later in the Austrian capital, he met a French officer who wrote about Schulmeister:
"I was curious to see this man, of whom I had heard a thousand marvellous tales. He inspired the Viennese with as much terror as an army corps. His physique is in keeping with his reputation. He has a bright eye, a piercing glance, his countenance is stern and resolute, his gestures are abrupt, and his voice is sonorous and strong. He is of middle height but very sturdy . . . of a full-blooded temperament. He has a perfect knowledge of Austrian affairs and his portraits of its leading personalities are masterly. On his brow there are deep scars, which prove that he has not run away from dangerous situations. He is generous too: he is bringing up two orphans whom he has adopted."
Karl Louis Schulmeister was a clergyman's son. He was born in Alsace and his first career was as a smuggler on the Rhine. Some years after that he became captain and adjutant to the French General Savary and, with only 13 hussars to aid him, he captured, in 1806, the Austrian town of Wismar.
Schulmeister became first a civil police chief, then a military police chief with the title of Commissary-General. After that he was promoted to Director of the French Secret Service, a position in which he made himself a fortune with the blessing of Napoleon.
Schulmeister served his master loyally. He was repeatedly in battle and once, at the Battle of Friedland, seriously injured by a shrapnel bullet. Indeed, he was "worth an army division". Nevertheless, Napoleon refused to grant him the honour he coveted, the Legion of Honour, France's highest decoration. He could have money and possessions as much as he liked, but to Napoleon the Legion of Honour was for gentlemen, and no one could call a spy a gentleman!
When Napoleon married the daughter of the Austrian Emperor, it was clear that his chief of spies, who had held the Austrians in his espionage grip for so long, might be an embarrassment to him. Sensibly, Schulmeister retired to live on his fortune, coming out again only to support his master during Napoleon's final break for power – the "Hundred Days" before the Battle of Waterloo. For that last burst of loyalty, the retired spy was arrested by the Prussian police and seemed certain this time to hang. No firm reason has ever been advanced for his release. Probably, as usual, he paid a huge ransom for his freedom.
In his retirement, Schulmeister had returned to his first career of smuggling. Now, free again, he made the mistake of turning to something he knew nothing about, Stock Exchange speculating. Within a few years he had lost nearly all his money. His last years were spent selling tobacco from a street stall in Strasbourg. At his home in that city, he was surrounded by beautiful cats, the strange passion of an old and impoverished master spy.


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