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Always Remember: Native History Affects Tribes Today
Many events throughout time are milestones in history yet anything but positive for Native American tribes. This video, "Always Remember," developed by the Herbert Brothers, speaks to the roots of the strained relationship between the 1,000+ Native American tribes and the United States.
In their desire to tell a story unknown to most Americans, yet central to the indigenous people in this country, the Herbert Brothers mark a few significant points in time:
- 1823 – The law disregards tribal sovereignty. In Johnson v. Macintosh, the first in the infamous Marshall Trilogy, the Supreme Court ruled that Indian tribes could not convey land to private parties without the approval of the federal government. At the time, the federal government's interpretation was that tribes were not set up as sovereign nations.
- 1824 – The BIA is born. Secretary of War John C. Calhoun created the BIA without authority of Congress and appointed Thomas L. McKenny as superintendent.
- 1830 – Indian lands are imperiled. The Indian Removal Act was passed and authorized President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with tribes to give up their land in the east for land in the west. These negotiations, which were not really negotiations at all, resulted in forced removal of tribes from east to west.
- 1831-1832 – The Marshall Trilogy takes more. In the second and third parts of the Marshall Trilogy (The Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, and Worcester v. Georgia), the Supreme Court ruled states cannot negotiate a treaty with the tribes – that tribes are sovereign and only the federal government can sign a treaty – and that state laws did not extend into Indian country because they were incompatible with the treaties, the Constitution and laws giving effect to the treaties. This gave the U.S. all the power needed to control the treaties and the tribes, and by the end of 1831, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs was placed under the department of the Secretary of War.
- 1831-1838 – Many trails of tears ensue. Individual states ignored legislation meant to protect the tribes from illegal maneuvering to usurp the land they occupied and had occupied for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. And this occurred all over the United States as a result of the damaging precedents set by the Marshall lawsuits.
- 1926: The failure of U.S. Indian policy is clear. It has been studied, reported and long recognized that the current day poverty among Native Americans is a result of the foregoing laws and policies toward the tribes. But, it wasn't until 1926 that Secretary of Interior Herman Work recognized U.S. Indian policy had been a failure and commissioned a study on Indian conditions and the effectiveness of the federal administration.
- 1928: Indian policy evaluation changes little. The Merriam Report (real title "The Problem of Indian Administration") opens with this statement: "An overwhelming majority of the Indians are poor, even extremely poor. And, they are not adjusted to the economic and social system of the dominant white culture." It took 857 pages to tell any person that the Indian policy was not working.
The Merriam Report was the most comprehensive (and only) study to date about the effectiveness of U.S. Indian policy, yet the same issues affect tribes today. Issues like suicide and poverty are affecting over a million Native Americans at this very moment – a direct result of decades of failed policies and generations of mistreatment toward the tribes.
All the while, tribes have continued to be good citizens, to proudly serve as Code Talkers and veterans, and to maintain the highest rate of military service of any ethnic group in the U.S.
So, as we recognize this Veterans Day, and these points in history, we also urge you as the video does to remember does to remember Native Americans. It is important also to remember that the past, even the distant past, is directly linked to what is happening for the tribes today.
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It is unforgivable, inexcusable and shameful the way the U.S. government has mistreated Native Americans for over 200 years. The actions that have been, time and time again, unconstitutional as well as morally and ethically wrong. This Veterans Day, and every day, remember how Native Americans and other minorities have repeatedly gone above and beyond in their duty to and service to this country. They deserve our respect and gratitude. Help in any way you can.
I had a conversation with a "non native" who said that she didn't think she should feel guilty for the genocide perpetrated by her ancestors. My reply was: Do you vote? She said "of course". I then told her that if she votes, then she contributes to the genocide. As long as government representatives that are elected to office continue to take land, resources and allow inherent racism to exist in government policies, then the genocide will continue……
I'm very proud of my heritage from my great grandmother who was from a tribe in Delaware, because I wouldn't have a great background or been born. people should remember that they were the first here in this country and had respect for this country.
The Genocide continues across Turtle Island, with the majority of atrocities now happening at Standing Rock, ND
These videos need to be shown in schools.
It is unfathomable how the many departments and persons within this government continue to both ignore and/or persecute family and descendants of these Tribes, our original citizenry, and on their sacred land. Eighteen months of a torrid Presidential Campaign; I did not hear Native American affairs mentioned once.
Now is the time to rewrite elementary-, midde-, high school text books and curriculum. My school years in the '50s-60's lacked education of the truth, and as an elementary school teacher, 40 years later, I was teaching the same things I had learned! As I educated myself, I passed on info to the fifth graders, in a neutral matter-of-fact way and never did they side with the governing forces. They were appalled. It went against all morals and values they had learned in their 10 years of upbringing. Info is so accessible nowadays; hopefully local units can once again determine the course, if core curriculum goes to the wayside.
i am proud of my indian hertiage and i agree this should be taught in the school systems
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
A Gingham Tunic
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- ann said...
this looks terrific Di. The floral facing and bindings are a lovely touch. Tablecloth ? Pshaw, no table ever looked so good. If the bit of orange marking bothers you (as you say no one will notice) you could do some contrasting hand stitching as a design element to cover it. I'm impressed. It looks like you could wear this dressed up or down. Congrats of a fabulous finish.
- April 30, 2017 at 6:41 PM
- Run Quilt Knit Write said...
It looks fantastic Di and I absolutely love the facing! I think I'll have to get hold of this pattern and try it out too! You look wonderful by the way - lovely Southern California glow not like all of us washed out white post-winter Europeans!!
- May 1, 2017 at 12:06 AM
- Dianne Neale said...
A tabule cloth😂😂😂.Not at all!!! Really suits you and I love the floral binding.
- May 1, 2017 at 2:21 AM
- Lisa C said...
The floral facings make my heart go pitter patter. Do you follow Goodbye Valentino? I seem to remember she's short waisted also. I think your tunic is lovely!
- May 1, 2017 at 5:23 AM
- Poppyprint said...
What a super cute tunic!! I just love the facings. I finally got my nerve up and made a tunic last week, too! Still need to get some photos. I bought the Ola tunic pattern from Tessuti in Sydney. Although I tried on their sampkexand they assured me it was a size small, I panicked and made the medium because I haven't been a small in anything since I was 8 years old. So? It's too big. I can absolutely wear it but I'll make the small next time. The measurements on the pattern sizes were miles off my measurements. That's my pet peeve - I've never found a pattern where the measurements make any sense for my body!
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It could be awhile until we see Mark Sanchez again.
The Jets quarterback has been ruled out for Sunday's opener against Tampa Bay and is also expected to miss Week 2 at the very least, according to the New York Post.
Sanchez injured his throwing shoulder last month after being inserted late in a preseason game against the New York Giants. He's listed as day-to-day.
"I'm not going to get into the rehab process," Sanchez said Monday. "Just know that it's getting better every day."
Sanchez hasn't thrown yet due to "a fear he could do further damage to the shoulder and possibly miss the rest of the season," the Post reported.
Rookie Geno Smith will get the starting nod for Week 1 against the Buccaneers.
"If my chance is Sunday, I'm going to go out there with the intent to lead my team to victory and that's just the way it is," Smith said.
The Jets made an insurance move on Monday when they signed veteran quarterback Brady Quinn.
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After seeing Justice League Dark I wasn't surprised why the movie was chosen to hit videos instead of theaters. Magic is yet to find its place in the DC universe, even though Doctor Strange has achieved that so effortlessly without lifting a finger in Marvel. That too with a gargantuan theatrical venture. Justice League Dark only picks pace during its visceral ending where a good climax lurks, otherwise it stretches owing to its jaded plot and exhausting conversations.
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I was introduced to the world of Constantine by the Keanu Reeves movie first. I had heard about him before but with that infamous heroic act of his, a benchmark was set. Despite countless comics of the mouthy occult detective doing the rounds, the TV series was yet another area that had piqued my interest. Matt Ryan was a perfect pick but the story-line and the gravitas took a backseat there. He is badass! End of discussion. But the fact that DC always comes with flaky stories to bolster him, that's what bothers me.
Even though Justice League Dark tried to show him in a cool heroic light, they tried to aggrandize him with that Justice League tag. As a result we have the World's Greatest Detective Batman in the front-line. But given how he didn't have a good plot to bite on, Batsy is left administering grim "Hmmmmm…." remarks which was supposed to be funny, but ends up becoming very irritating.
We get to see Etrigan the Demon origins here which was a good story per se. To cater its multiple plots Justice League Dark tried to run the Etrigan-Jason Blood plot parallel against the cardinal Ritchie Simpson and Felix Faust plot. It was good nevertheless and helped in giving the story a good side plot to bank on.
Theme of Justice League Dark
The main story starts off really well when humans all across the world begin to fall under the clutches of an incantation that forces upon them visions turning everyone into monsters. Justice League intervenes and tries to insinuate magic involvement which Batsy refuses to accept. At home, Deadman tries to overpower Batman, fails of course, but implies him to meet John Constantine.
To grab hold of him, Batman meets Zatanna only to find Constantine holed up in the House of Mystery. That's where a team is formed to investigate the face behind all those mysterious worldly magical happenings. The team keeps expanding with the inclusion of Jason Blood who is looking for his Dreamstone, another subplot where we are told about Destiny a sinister magician's fate.
It is up to the newly formed team then to find the root cause of the main problem, figure out and tackle paranormal and mystical inhibitions that come along their way and of course to win the occult war which the JL is incapable of winning by themselves.
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The Inevitable History
John Constantine is a notorious exorcist. Wherever he goes he has a history with someone. So to detour the story every time we are forced to go past a conversation where John doesn't back down, and someone else is forced to intervene. We can see that happening with literally every character in the movie. At one point it becomes really exhausting.
All that magic puts Batman in really awkward shoes. You can't help but feel sorry for him. Writers try really hard to still show him in a light that doesn't degrade his awesomeness. At times they succeed, but really there are some instances that are downright vexing. Like how could a mortal like Bat sense the shrouds spirits of death around and say "Boo!" to them? And you can't help but shake your head when they respond to that too. Batsy scares death! Newsflash!
The Final Verdict
If it weren't for the final twist the movie carried nothing, and I mean nothing. There are conversations that bore you to death and magical fights that feel akin to a childish hocus-pocus. Apart from the out of the world feel that is hard to put a perspective to, Justice League Dark runs only because it had a curious flicker of a plot for its culmination point. That's it.
Screenplay isn't exciting either. At times made good by droll Constantine remarks, but that's about it. You can still watch it if you are big Batsy fan and smirk at the thought of him playing second fiddle to a story that wasn't his to run. Constantine fans are going to rejoice to find him do cool stuff, and own the show. Because primarily it is a Constantine movie and not what its misleading title says.
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Winningen on the Mosel / Moselle river, by Koblenz / Coblence on the Rhine river
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Mosel / Moselle river festival Winningen
The Mosel / Moselle river festival in Winningen near Koblenz / Coblence is the biggest vine dresser festival on the below Mosel / Moselle river and has its fixed place in the Winningen event schedule since decades. With its long tradition, it's also known as the one of the oldest wine festivals in Germany. The ten-day folk festival starts on the last Friday in August and ends on Sunday in the following week. More than thousands of visitors from near and far are attracted to it yearly. The organizer is the tourism club of Winningen. As the absolute hightlight, one of the biggest fireworks on the Moselle river awaits the visitors on the last day with the event "The Moselle river in fire magic" ("Die Mosel in Feuerzauber").
The main show place of the Mosel / Moselle river festival is the wine yard court, where the so-called wine witch fountain is. On it you'll find a figure of the "wine witch". This Winningen figure goes back to a woman called Kathrin, who made justice to the wine and therefore received the name "wine witch" from her husband. Thus Winningen doesn't only have a wine queen, but also since over 70 years a wine witch. The festive coronation of the wine queen with its princesses and the proclamation of the wine witch belong to the glittering lights of the Mosel / Moselle river festival every year.
At numerous wine booths and wine dresser alcoves and in the witch cellar the guests can enjoy the different kinds of wines of the Winningen vineyards "Weinhex" ("Wine witch"), "Domgarten" ("Cathedral garden"), "Bruckstuck" ("Bridge piece"), "Hamm", "Rottgen" and "Uhlen". Regional, ribald German food is offered here also. Eating and drinking is only done in traditional old tin dishes. An elaborate and varied program doesn't allow any boredom to get to the guests.
The Winningen Mosel / Moselle river festival will be opened on Friday through the chairman of the tourism club of Winningen, the mayor, the wine queen and the wine witch. Entertainment and dance enjoyment is cared for on the individual days through different bands and wind ochestras. On several days laity actors and actresses play theater pieces. A lot of program points also take place on the weekdays - for example, a morning pint boat cruise on the Moselle river and a wine market in the August-Horch-Halle (a hall), where over 150 wines of all predicate grades and different tastes as well as vine dresser sparkling wines are offered. The coronation of the wine queen and the proclamation of the wine witch in the August-Horch-Halle (a hall) also take place in this week. The first Saturday is all in the token of the vine dresser parade. The festive parade with boys and girls in old tradtional costumes as well as the wine queen and wine witch is accompanied by the drummer and piper corps of Winningen.
The crowning conclusion of the Moselle river festival on the second Sunday builds a giant firework under the motto "The Moselle river in fire magic" ("Die Mosel in Feuerzauber"). A firework display starts at 6:30 p.m. from the passenger boat from Koblenz / Coblence. The round boat cruise leads on a stretch from about 12 km past the mighty fortress Ehrenbreitstein over the Rhine river, the Deutsches Eck (German corner) in Koblenz / Coblence, where Moselle river and Rhine river meet, at the Moselle river barrier near the old town Koblenz, the districts Koblenz / Coblence- Metternich, Koblenz / Coblence-Moselweiss, Koblenz / Coblence-Guls and Koblenz / Coblence-Lay to Winningen. Music and dancing tune in to the splendid spectacle. After the fireworks, the boat parade cruise sets into movement again and arrives after a 12 km long return trip at about 11:15 p.m. back in Koblenz / Coblence.
The firework display "The Moselle river in fire magic" ("Die Mosel im Feuerzauber") will become an unforgettable experience. A magical, beautiful atmosphere spreads out, when in front of the Mosel / Moselle river mountains, a wonderful scenery of pictures develop, which the exploding fireworks draw in the night sky and light up the Mosel / Moselle river gorge in such brightness, that a bengal illumination such as in the events of the "Rhine river in flames" / "Rhine river aflame" won't be missed. But the firework doesn't only offer something for the eyes, but also for the ears, because the already loud bangs of the firecrackers are even louder in the Mosl / Moselle river gorge. The firework display takes about 15 to 20 minutes.
You can reach Winningen with the car, coming from Koblenz / Coblence, over the left side of the freeway B 416 which runs along the Mosel / Moselle river and coming from Cochem over the freeway B 49 and B 416. At arrival over the highway A 61 (Koln / Cologne-Ludwigshafen) you take the freeway exit Koblenz / Coblence- Metternich. With a train station on the stretch of Koblenz / Coblence-Trier, Winningen also has good train connections.
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Most rescue dogs commit some time in foster care, exactly where additional observations can be produced. The bill particularly will not let dog auctions anywhere in Ohio nor can any individual come in to the state to auction dogs. We only adopt out dogs that have been spayed or neutered to ensure that no dog adopted from Home At Final will be used for breeding. They also go soon after stray and abandoned dogs and take them to the rescue centers where they are cared for and cleaned up. The vets take a appear the dogs producing sure they do not have any negative diseases such as rabies. If the dog is capable to move try to encourage him to come to you by utilizing a piece of meat or a dog treat.
This guarantees that every Blue adoption has the greatest opportunity of success for each the dog and the adopting loved ones. For instance your dog might suffer from a disease that needs to be taken care of quickly – veterinary charges are at times extremely higher. You can find rescue groups that only deal with particular breed ( for instance: Groups for Labrador or Groups for German Sheppard).
Nevertheless, as I'm sure you know, CT scans aren't inexpensive and at present her bill presently stands at £700. Primarily based in Ottawa, Ontario, Ottawa Dog Rescue (also identified as -Town Dog Rescue) is a soon-to-be-registered non-profit organization that is committed to saving the lives of dogs in need. A rescue consist of a group that aids to rescue dogs that have been mistreated or that are homeless. You can acquire a lot of individual satisfaction by adopting your next pet by means of an animal rescue organization. BlueDogs Rescue is also a featured charity for the Austin Marathon and participates in the 26 Miles for 26 Charities system, with nearby runners raising funds to assistance BlueDog animal rescue efforts.
I wanted to highlight the Mill Dog Rescue Network she started in an work to let those that weren't conscious of it be aware of it. All Dog Rescue is proud to be a recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Animal Coalition via the I Am Animal Friendly" license program! Distrust any dog shelter or rescue group that willingly accepts your income without acquiring a feel for who you are. As quickly as the abuse is reported they function quickly to get the dog out of the dog out of that home. There are thousands of rescue groups devoted to a certain breed of dog or cat, too! All of our rescue dogs are offered with temporary foster house care until we uncover them effectively-matched and carefully screened forever houses.
Her rescue operation includes the cost of all the dog pens, dog carriers, dog beds and dog crates talked about above as nicely as veterinary care, toys and food. You should full an application, which will aid us establish if the dog you are interested in is a good match for you. She came property with us following CT scans and all sorts at the vets, in a desperate bid to locate out what was causing her to be so skinny and weak. That said you can be certain that by adopting a dog from Rescue Group you will get considerably a lot more information from the foster home than from the Shelter staff. Blue Dog Rescue and other local animal welfare organizations demonstrate that Austin has a heart as big as Texas itself.


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Turnaround strategies in #F1
March 1, 2013
One of the fascinations of Formula 1, from a business strategy perspective, is how the same organisation suddenly shifts from being nowhere to a championship contender and equally how a championship contender suddenly ends up nowhere.
The obvious explanation for many is that it is simply all about money, the more money you have the better car you produce and the better driver you recruit so inevitably you will win more races. Not so. If it was all about money why didn't Toyota's huge investment in an F1 operation allow them to win a single race, even though today some of the top-teams are still making use of their wind tunnel in Cologne? If it was all about money then Renault would not have won their world championships in 2005 and 2006 and the team that was BAR and then Honda would surely have achieved more success on the track before they became Brawn in 2009?
Of course money is a key part of the equation. I remember former Jaguar Racing boss, Tony Purnell, describing Formula 1 as a 'celebration of unfairness', you can see his point, the richest teams have the most resource to get sponsors and performance on the track, and when they do well they get even more revenue from the distributed media royalties via Formula One Management, the more you have the more you can get. But that's what makes it fascinating when the underdog does pull through. When Williams produced their FW07 car back in 1980 they were running on a shoestring and only could afford one week in the wind tunnel at Imperial College to try out Patrick Head's ground-effect design, and yet they produced a better car than the all-dominant Lotus and went on to become world champions. When Dietrich Mateschitz bought Jaguar Racing for a 'nominal sum' (and all the debts as well – so in reality a bit more than £1) most could not see how he would turnaround a team that had showed potential as Stewart Grand Prix, but had become a corporate political football for various groups of Ford's management to fight over and ultimately destroy, and yet today we all see them as the obvious favourites for the championship.
Today many argue that the technology is so tightly regulated and the focus so much on continuous improvement, rather than innovation, that we will not see the kind of turnarounds that we have seen in the past. I'm more optimistic, there is a huge wealth of engineering talent in F1 and it is not just about the superstars drawing the seven figure salaries, there's a lot of creativity out there and maybe this year we could get a few surprises that show that at the end of the day performance in F1 isn't just about money.
The importance of data: #F1 Power units for 2014
February 21, 2013
Luca Marmorini, Ferrari's Head of Engines, has been quoted in Autosport.com as saying that it is important that Ferrari have a second (ie in addition to Sauber) customer for their 2014 power unit – note the term 'power unit' as effectively these are engine + energy recovery systems, so the simple term 'engine' no longer seems to do it justice.
The reason for this concern is that their current second customer Toro Rosso have recently announced that they will be shifting to a Renault power unit in 2014, which makes sense organizationally as they are co-owned by Dietrich Mateschitz of Red Bull with Red Bull Racing, so presumably they can share more data during development and racing and therefore improve the performance of both teams. However Toro Rosso's location in Faenza makes Maranello the ideal partner from a logistical point of view as they are literally a few kilometres down the road. Location matters in F1, otherwise we wouldn't have Motorsport Valley in the UK, and so the proximity between the power unit supplier and customer cannot be ignored. For this reason, Marmorini hopes that all is not lost with Toro Rosso and that they may review their decision to go to Renault, as he says on the Autosport site: "I don't know if Toro Rosso will be with us next year. We are still working very well with them now. They're an important contribution to Ferrari engine development, but I also think we are giving them a competitive engine."
A key factor in this is data. Derek Gardner, the now sadly departed designer of the six wheel Tyrrell, told me that a key problem that they had with the six wheeler was the speed of development of the front tyres, which were far smaller than the standard F1 front tyre that Goodyear supplied to all the other teams. As a consequence they were getting far less data on the performance of the tyre – as it was only fitted to two cars and so were unable to develop it as fast as the other which had feedback from twenty four cars (there were 13 teams racing back in 1976). Data therefore is everything if you want to improve performance.
So currently it seems (and things could still move around a fair bit) that if Toro Rosso move to Renault then Renault will be the leading supplier with power units in five teams: Red Bull Racing; Toro Rosso; Lotus; Williams and Caterham. Mercedes will be supplying power units to three teams: their works team plus McLaren and Force India. Ferrari will be supplying two teams – themselves and Sauber. It seems very unlikely that Cosworth, who currently supply Marussia, will be in the frame for 2014 (but never say never) and so who knows, we may see Ferrari supplying the power unit for Marussia, which will make an interesting dynamic in their race with Caterham to tenth place.
Reflections from Oz 2011 and lessons from Bahrain 2010
March 29, 2011
So with things now underway for the 2011 season do we now have a clear picture has to how the season will pan out? If we take the lessons from Bahrain in 2010 then the answer has to be no. As you may recall the Bahrain 2010 race was pretty boring and suggested that all the changes for that year hadn't really worked, but what we ended up with was one of the most exciting F1 seasons ever. So Australia was not the most exciting race, a number of teams (RBR and McLaren) appeared to be continuing their 2010 form, a number of teams seemed to have fallen back (Mercedes and Williams), whereas some had moved forwards (Renault aka Lotus Genii), the Pirelli tyres seemed to be a lot more durable than anyone had anticipated, Sergio Perez looks like being the new find of the year and Martin Brundle got things off to a good start in his role as BBC ubercommentator.
The key lesson from Bahrain 2010 seemed to be that one race is never sufficient to pick up on trends through the season. Back in 2009 everyone was writing off KERS (particularly strong advocates BMW discarded their system), but Ferrari and McLaren got theirs to really deliver as the season developed, so there's no reason to believe that this won't be the case in 2011. The thing that the teams need is feedback to understand what is working and what isn't and they will now be absorbing all the lessons from the first Grand Prix of the year to put into the second, and the third.. and so on.
So the main lesson is let's give it a few more races before we jump to any conclusions.
A Lotus Renault will be on the grid in 2011, no matter what the outcome of the legal battles
December 3, 2010
Apologies for the gap, but hopefully this is a return to a more regular posting pattern on the blog.
I've been watching the machinations around Team Lotus, Group Lotus and Renault with some interest, and although there seems to be some way to go (and presumably a lot of legal fees and a few trips to court) before we know which Lotus will be on the grid, we can be pretty sure that there will be a Lotus Renault of some description in 2011.
It is now clear that Renault's strategy in F1 is to go in exactly the opposite direction to Mercedes, who have moved from being an engine supplier to a full constructor with the acquisition of Brawn GP at the end of 2009. Renault however are in the process of moving from being a full constructor to an engine supplier, having sold a significant proportion of their F1 team to Genii Capital, also at the end of 2009, it looks like they will continue this exit strategy and focus on purely supplying engines. After all, in partnership with Red Bull, they are the world champion engine supplier this year, their first since 2006. So as Renault withdraw as a constructor who will take their place in the Enstone based operation? Well, one scenario is that Group Lotus – with their new CEO, ex-Ferrari man Dany Bahar, and new ambitions: a full range of product concepts from the new Esprit due in 2013, to the four door, Lotus Eterne which looks to take on competitors such as the Porsche Panamera – will invest in the F1 team and create the new Lotus Renault F1 operation. Of course there is one problem to this scenario and that is the existence of Tony Fernandes' Team Lotus who were the most successful of the new teams in 2010. Team Lotus is a separate legal entity to Group Lotus and continued to race in F1, following Lotus founder Colin Chapman's death in 1982, until 1994 when they went into administration and the company, including the name and branding, were purchased by David Hunt, brother of F1 world champion, James Hunt. Hunt having recently sold the company to Fernandes' F1 operation.
For 2011 Team Lotus have switched engine suppliers from Northampton based Cosworth Racing to the French manufactured Renault Sport power unit which proved so successful in the Red Bull chassis (and was also able to hold off Alonso's Ferrari at the Abu Dhabi grand prix in the Renault chassis). Interestingly the new arrangement also includes gearbox and hydraulics from Red Bull Technology, so in effect the Team Lotus car of 2011 will be the same powertrain as the Red Bull. So whatever the outcome of the Lotus wars, we should still see a Lotus Renault of some kind on the grid in 2011, whichever one it is, it will be interesting to see how it compares to the Red Bull.
Renault, Raikkonen, Red Bull and Bob Bell
October 9, 2010
The great thing about Formula 1 is that you can connect together so many different stories into theories, some rather far fetched others a lot less so. Two interesting sagas at the moment (apart from the Japanese Grand Prix qualifying) are the spat between Renault and Kimi Raikkonen, and the continuing development of Team Lotus (assuming they are called so in 2011) who are now going down a Red Bull route with Renault engines and the Red Bull gearbox.
First the Raikkonen story, F1 is always full of stories of possible driver deals, these are a great demonstration of Game Theory and remind me of my sadly, recently departed colleague, Stephen Regan. Steve was a superb teacher of the theory, and I always enjoyed hearing him work through the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' if I got the chance. In the F1 context the two players are normally the driver's management and the teams. Stories of possible links and negotiations are stimulated by either the driver's management who are suggesting a rumour about their driver and Team B in order to force the hand of Team A, who they are really focusing on. Similarly they can also be started by Team A who are negotiating the renewal of a contract with Driver C, and leak or announce that they are in talks with Driver D, in order to force Driver C to agree to their terms. Of course the real issue is who is bluffing and who isn't. One interpretation of the Raikkonen situation is that his management are renegotiating his contract with the Citreon rally team and so suggested that he may be going back to F1 and the Renault team. The other scenario is that Renault are negotiating terms with their Russian driver Vitaly Petrov and so the Raikkonen story is to put pressure on Petrov's management. Of course there is a further game going on and that is the game between the teams and their sponsors, for a team to be linked with a big name like Raikkonen when they are trying to close a deal with a sponsor is often very helpful. This wasn't lost on the Times' Kevin Eason who noted that following the Raikkonen episode, Renault announced a sponsorship deal with Flagman Vodka for the last four races of 2010, Kimi, of course, being well known for the odd tipple of the clear stuff.
The other interesting story is that Team Lotus will now use both Renault engines and a Red Bull gearbox for 2011, effectively creating a second Red Bull drivetrain, in the same way that Force India use the McLaren gearbox/engine package. The gearbox is important, not just for providing the gears, but also as the rearmost major component it has significant impact on the aerodynamics. As Red Bull's Adrian Newey is regarded as the best aerodynamic brains in F1, you could infer that he has and will continue to design the most aerodynamic gearbox! The departure of Bob Bell from Renault also suggests that he may resurface at Team Lotus with his former colleague Mike Gascoyne. Although Gascoyne is the Technical Director and Tony Fernandes the Team Principal, Fernandes has rather too many other plates spinning to provide the long term focus needed to be Team Principal, so we could see Fernandes moving to Chariman, Mike Gascoyne moving to Team Principal and Bell taking over as Technical Director, let's see what happens.
What's in a name? Why some of the F1 teams may be renaming themselves
September 6, 2010
The commercial rights for Formula 1 are held by Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Group which is owned by CVC Capital Partners. I've heard on the grapevine that the new Concorde Agreement (the one that all the teams are currently focusing on to carry on from 2013) is likely to stipulate that any team using the terms Formula 1 or F1 in their name will be required to pay a licensing fee to FOG. A quick review of the full names of the teams on the official F1 site shows that this could effect 'Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team', 'Renault F1 Team', 'Force India F1 Team', 'BMW (yes it's still there!) Sauber F1 Team' and 'HRT F1 Team'. The implications are that if a team wants to avoid paying significant sums to FOG then they may need to come up with a new name before 2013.
All of this suggests (as previously blogged) a tightening up of FOG's position on the rights to use and promote the F1 brand and use the paddock area, for example the team's having to remove their tractor units from the paddock if they had decals of brands which had not paid to be advertised in the paddock. Perhaps I need to look at renaming my blog?
Renault team sold
December 11, 2009
The BBC have announced that Renault F1 has been sold, with Renault continuing to have a 25% stake in the team. The team will race as Renault F1 in 2010. No details on who has bought them as yet. Currently at Williams F1 running a programme on business lessons from F1 with a delegation from Abu Dhabi, it's very foggy here! Will update over the weekend.


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"Stare," wrote Walker Evans, the canonical 20th-century photographer. "It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare; pry; listen; eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
The British photographer Paul Graham, among Evans's most consequential heirs, does a lot of staring and also waiting as he roams the streets of New York, where he has lived since 2002, or the industrial pockets of suburban America, anticipating some wisp of an instant worth shooting, one to remind us we are all residing on the same planet, all of us in our own skins.
"I spend time going to thrift stores looking for clothes," Mr. Graham once told a packed theater audience of students about how he approaches picture-making, explaining the hours he might loiter in a strip mall waiting for something ordinary to happen. "Boredom is part of my work. I accept it and embrace it." He was describing the off-handed concentration with which he looks at the normal flow of everyday activity and documents it in narrative sequences.
His photographs fall into the tradition of social documentation epitomized by Evans in the 1930s and also Robert Frank in the 1950s, but Mr. Graham presents his work, both on the wall and on the page, in a way that places it firmly on 21st-century conceptual art-making soil. His current retrospective at Pier 24, an internationally regarded private museum of photography in San Francisco, is called "The Whiteness of the Whale" (through Feb. 29), and includes three bodies of work that constitute an informal American trilogy: "American Night" (1998-2002); "A Shimmer of Possibility" (2004-06); and "The Present" (2009-11). The catalog has been published by Michael Mack.
"When you look at his work on the surface, it seems to be about quiet moments," Chris McCall, director of Pier 24, said. Looking deeper, he added, other themes emerge, including Mr. Graham's regard for an entire underclass of individuals often erased from the public image of American society. "It's work that challenges the way we see this culture."
At 59, Mr. Graham, with smart black-rim glasses, a thick tangle of black hair spilling over his forehead and a three-day stubble, seems catapulted out of time— as if from the modish Bloomsbury set of the 1920s— to the modern, casually furnished West Village loft he shares with his partner, Senami D'Almeida, and their infant son, Marlow.
"It's a live-work studio building," the artist said recently, sitting on a vintage Italian leather sofa in the center of his loft, and adding, "only artists live here. Robert Smithson once lived downstairs." Although a sixth-floor walk-up, the climb is a small price to pay to live in the fashionable shadow of the new Whitney Museum of American Art; the workout may account for his wiry frame and youthful manner.
Afternoon light spilled in from a bank of windows as he described his routine. "A good day is one where I've overcome my procrastination, actually gotten out the door to shoot, weather cooperating." He can get lost answering emails, surfing the Internet, grazing for new camera equipment. Pointing to the monitor at his desk, he leveled a modest bombshell with his tidy British accent. "I build my own computers," he said. "It's not that hard. You order the components— the motherboards, the memories, the graphics cards." He finds it very satisfying, "like servicing your own car."
Given the 14 bodies of work Mr. Graham has produced over the last 30 years, his claims to distraction are more akin to Zen koans about diligence and rigor: "Sometimes I have to kill a couple of weeks doing other things, appearing to be very lazy while I'm actually finding my way through a problem."
This is the first time Pier 24 has given the entire museum over to the work of an individual photographer, a distinction, according to Mr. McCall, that signifies Mr. Graham's standing. "This work, specifically, is dealing with social issues that are seriously relevant in America at this moment," he said by telephone. While Mr. McCall cited racism and economic disparity among them, he emphasized the formal aspects of the three series as well: "Paul is also exploring, at a really high level, the medium itself."
Mr. Graham had in mind what the French refer to as the "social fracture" while making "American Night," on his first travels in America. The title alludes to the Truffaut film, "Day for Night," a filmmaking term for creating nighttime scenes by underexposing footage shot in broad daylight. "American Night" consists of two sets of pictures: Half are bleached-out images of postindustrial areas, often with lone African-Americans on the street, which Mr. Graham intentionally overexposed so that the outlines of buildings, streets, and figures are barely visible — the precise point he is making about an entire strata of the American social landscape. He sets these images against richly saturated color photographs of crisp tract houses in suburban California, often with a late-model car parked in the driveway.
Mr. Graham grew up in a new housing development northeast of London, Harlow Newtown, with similar homes. "I personally have a sort of childhood yearning for houses like that," he said. "I'm sure many of the people in the overexposed pictures would love to live in one of those houses," adding that they deserve to live as comfortably.
In 2009 he won the prestigious Börse Prize, and, in 2012, the Hasselblad Award — the highest international honor for a photographer. In 2009, his series, "A Shimmer of Possibility," was shown at the Museum of Modern Art. Susan Kismaric, the former senior curator who organized that exhibition, noted the rarity at the time of his use of multiple images in narrative sequences. The everyday moments he captured "are, after all, how we spend most of our time, mindlessly active or lost in thought — they provide what appears to be the undercurrent of our existence," she said. "Paul's work is innovative, inventive and freshly imagined, while rooted in photography's magic, that is, its ability to transform the mundane into a picture with resonance."
In 2004 while shooting "A Shimmer of Possibility" he checked into a roadside motel in Pittsburgh and heard a lawn mower. He considered the Sisyphean task ahead for the man mowing so large a field, and then noticed his shirt — a riff on the American flag, which prompted him to make some pictures. "Why is everyone addicted to prepackaged spectacular moments, as if that's all that's worth photographing?" Mr. Graham said. "There is so much more to the flow of life all around us that isn't revolving around perfect page-one moments."
At Pier 24, the lawn mower appears on the wall in multiple time frames, the print sizes varied for rhythm, their height from the floor staggered for cadence. The sequence echoes a musical score. Mr. McCall refers to them as "clustered moments or sputtering pieces of time."
In "The Present," diptychs or triptychs show splintered views of a single spot — a street corner, a building entrance — in which Mr. Graham stood stationary as people moved in and out of his frame. They are studies of time, place and motion, what he calls "filmic haikus." These life-size pictures are hung low, as if the sidewalk has met the gallery floor and the viewer.
Mr. Graham presents his work as an equivalent of the way we experience the world: "You walk down the street and glance at someone askew," he said. "You avert your gaze to their hands; you look back to their face; you can't hold their gaze for too long, so you stare into the road in front of them, looking up, down, left, right."
Like those of most photographers today, Mr. Graham's computer is a virtual studio. Pictures can be enlarged, minimized and moved around on the screen, which was not possible looking at exposures in a linear fashion during the long epoch of the contact sheet.
He is hands-on at every stage, including the wall-size exhibition prints he makes during several weeklong stints throughout the year. He has access to a wide-format printer for his own printing — up to 64 inches to 80 inches — but emphasizes that his images are not altered or manipulated; what you see is what he photographed.
Mr. Graham described his attempt, while making pictures, to "realize and then illuminate a modest moment of our lives." He is not looking for anything so much as entering a zone that the photographer Henry Wessel referred to as "soft eyes — when you are outside your mind and your eyes are ahead of your thoughts." Mr. Graham is alert to "someone sitting at the bus stop, or someone smoking a cigarette," he said. "You know, some moment of quiet beauty that arrived into your life and was humbling, really."
Call it that dumb, just-being-there quality or a second glimpse of the "it-ness" of those moments, perhaps a clarity of the kind evoked in the metaphors in imagist poetry: "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens," wrote William Carlos Williams. So much, indeed.


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Hidden Bias Fuels Workplace Bullying
Have you ever looked around your office and noticed if the managers are primarily men? Are the clerical workers predominantly women? What's the nonwhite to white ratio of employees? These observations go unnoticed in the day-to-day work environment, but addressing these issues is the only way to lead to change.
What is Hidden Bias?
Today, racism, sexism and/or homophobia are not typically as vocally apparent or present. Instead, hidden biases are what dominate the workplace. This type of discrimination appears in the unconscious level based on upbringing, identity, culture, and mass media and it shapes the way you view people and how you behave towards them.
Having hidden biases does not make you a bad person, since everyone has them. It's uncomfortable to acknowledge this, but recognizing the lens you look through helps you step away and notice how you treat people that are different from you. These differences could include a number of characteristics, such as:
- height and weight,
- introversion and extroversion,
- marital status,
- disability status,
- foreign accents,
- hobbies and extracurricular activities,
- sexual identity,
- gender identity and
- expression, race, ethnicity, and many others.
Hidden Bias Can Lead to a Tough Work Environment
But how do these hidden biases lead to a non-diverse work environment? Well, think about the hiring process. In interviews, one of the main objectives is for the two people to connect and see whether they would be a good fit in the company. This "connection" though is most easily achieved when discussing similarities. This could be that they attended the same university, are from the same hometown, or their kids play the same sport. This connection makes the person to appear like they would be a good cultural fit, because the HR employee fits in the company well. But with this phenomenon consistently occurring, and people recruiting similar people, the company becomes very homogeneous.
Another element in this issue occurs even before the interview. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that resumes with "white-sounding" names receive 50% more callbacks than those with "black-sounding" names. This could be an intentional decision decided by whoever is doing the hiring. This also could be as simple as the HR person who is making the calls is Caucasian and is uncomfortable with pronouncing unfamiliar names, so they gravitate toward easily pronounced names. Whatever reason, there needs to be a way of eliminating this issue. Many companies are conducting "blind" reviews of resumes by removing them of any identifying information, like name and gender.
Most recruiters and HR managers are taught to avoid acting differently around people based on obvious traits like gender or age. But these hidden biases are harder to recognize. Does a married man makes him appear more stable? Does the applicant speak with a Southern accent, making her appear not very smart? Is she a single mother, making her appear unreliable? These unconscious observations based what society and mass media have dictated are a big cause in not having diversity in the workplace.
Harvard performed IAT tests (take them here) that showed that certain words like "men" and "career" are closely related. Also, 75% of the participants, including some black individuals, displayed an implicit preference of white people over black people. It also showed that people prefer thin people over overweight people, heterosexuals over homosexuals, and young over old people. People make snap judgments based on these biases without even realizing and it is hurting the workplace.
Workplace Bullying
Having these kinds of biases, and not having diversity in the workplace, can unfortunately lead to workplace bullying. Things like constantly being interrupted in meetings, all your opinions being shot down, and people gossipping about you are all examples that create a hostile work environment for the employee.
But why is this a result of hidden bias? Because people are uncomfortable when they experience people who are different from them. They use the societal norms that they are taught and unconsciously label anyone different from them as strange.
In fact, a study at Stanford looked at people who are transgender in the workplace to look at their experiences before and after transitioning. The transmen all had similar experiences. When they identified as women, people constantly asked them to defend their opinions. They were interrupted in meetings, and asked if their boyfriends helped them solve the tough math problems. When they identified as men, however, people (who didn't know they had transitioned) suddenly started respecting them more. They were "taking charge" instead of "aggressive," they were not interrupted in meetings anymore, and they were shown a lot more respect.
It's hard to believe that even today, such biased actions and bullying occurs in the workplace. It's our job as a corporate environment to not sit along the sidelines. By acknowledging our differences and limitations, we can begin to work towards a more diverse, welcoming workplace environment.
Need Help with Hidden Bias and Workplace Bullying?
As expert on workplace bullying, Tim can help your organization put an end to this issue. Contact Tim or call 330-730-3424 to ask him to present his Tim's Talk, 8 Effective Measurements to Stop Workplace Bullying, to your corporation, organization or church.


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Redemption (Short Story)
Fantasy | Adult
Huddled in the shadows, Jae watches while one of the Mé'Draak brands his cellmate as a slave before viciously dragging him from the room. Feeling the weight of the metal collar around his neck, Jae is left alone to contemplate his own fate. Will the afternoon session finally Break him? Will it kill him? Or will he end up like the boy, a helpless pawn neither living nor dead?
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No, he'd receive no help from his parents. They'd sold him just as they'd sell all ten of his sisters. He was dead to them. He would never be free.
Silevethiel (The Vaelinel Trilogy #1)
Fantasy | Young Adult
Following her father's murder, Princess Irewen Donríel is betrayed and left for dead in the forests of Mistwood. Rescued by the elf prince, Laegon Elendell, Irewen awakes an exile with no home, no country, and no people. But as the horrific memories of murder and betrayal return, she realizes the nightmare is only beginning.
The world of Vaelinel is failing—its fate bound to her in ways no one fully understands. A mysterious elven prophecy may provide her with some answers, but continuously hunted and fighting for her life, Irewen quickly learns that unearthing the truth will be more difficult than she ever imagined. Can she accept Laegon's love and the friendship of the Wood Elves, or will she stand alone against the terrifying evil now threatening to destroy the entire world?
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A voice penetrated Irewen's deep sleep.
Her father said only one word, her name, but he was so desperate in his calling that she was immediately pulled from her slumber. She woke, searching in vain for the man she knew wouldn't be there, couldn't be there. Sorrow filled her heart anew when he didn't answer her silent plea. But amidst the all too familiar grief, there flowered a warm bubble of joy.
She had heard his voice, and she had not forgotten.
Fun Fact about Silevethiel (The Vaelinel Trilogy #1):
A few people have commented that they don't understand why Silevethiel is the title of the book and focus of the cover when she isn't the main character. It's true, she isn't, but that makes her no less important. She's mysterious. We don't actually meet her until about half-way through the book, but she's an essential figure in the lives of the Elves as well as the main character. So much depends on her. Without her, the fate of Irewen, the Elves, and the world of Vaelinel would be much different.
The Lost Heir (The Dragonath Chronicles #1)
Fantasy | Adult
Always a meticulous planner, Darrak Hunter leads a typically straightforward and dull life until his dreams unexpectedly become plagued with visions of a peculiar and distant world. Waking up to a brilliant purple sun looming ominously in the sky, Darrak is met by a mysterious violet-eyed sorcerer who whisks him away from the struggling Earth. Thrown into the clutches of a foreign world where magic is reality and not all is as it seems, Darrak embarks on a journey where he is forced to come to terms with his past and do what he can to shape the future. Accompanied by a talented swordswoman, a prince, and a beautiful young sorceress, he must overcome cunning plots of treachery and betrayal to discover the strength to stand against a destructive black magic and an enemy who is a master at deception.
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"The two dragons symbolize the warrior's inner battle and personal struggle to keep their lust for power under restraint. With the correct decisions and the right amount of discipline, the warrior will use their sword only to do good. However, with the slightest deviation, their greed for power will take dominion over their actions. Once the evil dragon is unleashed, it can never again be caged."
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Andi O'Connor is the award winning author of the fantasy series The Dragonath Chronicles, The Vaelinel Trilogy, and The Legacy of Ilvania. Andi's first YA novel,Silevethiel, was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2013. Her short story Redemption, is a Kindle Book Review, 2014 Kindle Book Awards Semifinalist. Andi is a member of the National Writers Association and the Boston Chapter of the Women's National Book Association. She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and four dogs.
When did you start writing?
I began writing in 2003 as something fun to do in my spare time. The manuscript would go untouched for months, and there were many times where I'd have to re-read the entire thing because I forgot what I'd written. I didn't become serious with my writing until the summer of 2011. My mom died in the spring, and I wanted to finish The Lost Heir in her memory. Since then I've become addicted to writing and it's all I do!
What inspires your writing?
This may sound rather cliche, but my writing is inspired by everything! What I love about Fantasy is that even though it's entirely make-believe, it's real. You may think I'm completely nuts, but I'm not, I promise! Part of what draws people into Fantasy and what makes it so relatable is that it is so steeped in reality. There's real emotions, real issues, real struggles, real dilemmas. Fantasy is unique in that I can let my imagination and creativity take me anywhere. I have no limitations other than the confines of the world I create. But reality has a large impact on my writing, and because of that I find inspiration everywhere. I've touched topics such as rape, abortion, religion, equality, defying stereotypes, female empowerment, and epidemics...to name a few. And my inspiration will only continue to grow.
What is the best part about being a writer?
The best part of being a writer is touching other people with something I created. Inspiring others and making them think or consider things they might not have is such a wonderful feeling. Taking readers to other worlds and letting them feel like they're with the characters and experiencing the events themselves is truly a wondrous ability.
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I'm extremely passionate about the empowerment of women, and it's something I include in some form or another in all my writing. In The Lost Heir, the main warrior sworn to protect Darrak is a female. But Andillrian isn't the typical female warrior commonly seen in Fantasy. She's shines because of her abilities, not because she's wearing 'armour' that amounts to a string bikini and shows off her large breasts, tiny waist, and round butt. She doesn't have to disguise herself as a man in order to fight. She's respected and revered because of who she is and the skills she brings to the table.
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I fell in love completely with the beautiful and boho balconies on Instagram and Pinterest. I always looking forward to the air warming up and finally being able to fully enjoy our outdoor space but I was also inspired now to create a similar space for us. It is a great feeling to think of our balcony as an extension of our home and as if we entered another lovely and creative room to enjoy our morning coffee. Here are a few items that will instantly transform your balcony into a summer nook.
Rugs will instantly make the balcony feel more homely. I placed a cream patterned outdoor rug on the outdoor space as we step out to the balcony from our kitchen. When hunting for outdoor rugs make sure to get one that is out of polypropylene or bamboo – they will work well on rainy days as well.
There can't be a balcony without any forms of greenery in there. I opted for some blue and purple flowers such as lavender and the rest of the space I kept it for herbs and other vegetables. I love growing our own tomato and chilli. For the herbs I created a decorative plant wall that is a huge trend this season. Head over to my youtube channel to watch the tutorial for that.
Some chairs, puffs or hammocks will make your balcony look like your outdoor living room. Seating is a real essential for creating your nook. So get some comfortable chairs to cosy up with a book on those sunny days.
For nighttime atmosphere add some candle lanterns to your outdoor space. It will serve you well on summer evenings but it is also a great decoration piece for daytime as well.


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The artists Tacita Dean and Mary Frank might not make the most obvious pair, but they share space — and explore it — in a portmanteau program at Film Forum. Ms. Dean's latest film experiment, "JG," traces time in stark outlines with desolate landscapes, triptychs and some dazzling cutout techniques, all of which are followed by "Visions of Mary Frank," a comradely portrait of that sculptor by the musician and documentarian John Cohen.
Ostensibly the companion piece to Mr. Cohen's film, "JG" plants itself indelibly on the screen with views of Utah and California moonscapes that seem to span the ages. Shot in 35 millimeter, Ms. Dean's 26-minute piece often displays three, shuffling inset images at once (including, at points, various vistas and a prehistoric-seeming armadillo). But its signature flourish is its dynamic pastiches, fashioned through stencils and multiple exposures: images embedded within the frame in spiral or coinlike cutouts, like holes and lines scored onto the screen.
The effect recalls one of Ms. Dean's reference points, Robert Smithson's Great Salt Lake artwork, "Spiral Jetty," which can feel like a curve drawn onto a watery backdrop. During the film, we also hear excerpts from the writings and correspondence of the author J. G. Ballard — the source of the intimately terse title — as well as of Smithson (all read by Jim Broadbent). Slowly but surely, the film pulls you in, thanks to the spiral motif, the rhythm of the edits and the quotation from a 1960 Ballard short story that itself features an organic artwork.
In a gallery setting, "JG" has been shown on continuous loop, but here it has an end and nicely leads into the story of Ms. Frank and her gesturally informed art. Weathered and beautiful, she speaks with disarming grace and vividness about her sculpture and drawing, in her studio and home. Mr. Cohen describes her primitive figures and vision as reflecting the "omens and obstacles" of the world, though her own characterizations of their contours and inspirations hit home better. (Of drawing birds, she asks simply, how could you not?)
"Visions" (which swirls with diverse music) also tries to spotlight its subject in a crowded history. Marrying young to the photographer Robert Frank, the London-born Ms. Frank came up in a male-dominated 1950s New York art scene (though, for her part, she says she didn't let her two children hold her back). We get a sweet but telling glimpse of her with her current husband, the musicologist Leo Treitler, who clearly has his own opinions about her work.
There's a loose, bohemian quality to Mr. Cohen's sketch of a film that makes it a curious match to the rigor of the British-born Ms. Dean's intertextual, gallery-ready piece. But it evokes a rhyming of themes and of visual movement more than a clash of sensibilities.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A late-blooming activist who helped secure a moratorium in South Africa against fracking has won a prominent U.S. environmental activism prize in California, where the debate over the oil and gas extraction technique is only heating up.
Jonathan Deal, a 54-year-old photographer and landowner in the Karoo region of South Africa, said he had to battle against the plans of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to use hydraulic fracturing in the region and secured a country-wide fracking moratorium that was lifted in September.
Despite having no previous experience in activism, or the oil and gas industry, Deal said in an interview he would keep challenging Shell to demonstrate its methods were safe.
"The onus is on the industry to prove that their plans and their technology are a benefit to the world and that it's a benign technology," said Deal, chairman of Treasure Karoo Action Group. "The onus is not on me to prove that it's dangerous. If they want to change the status quo, they've got to prove that it's a good change."
While Deal said his Karoo property was run entirely by solar power, he accepted that fossil fuels played an important part of his lifestyle. His argument was against drilling deeper in areas short of water, or environmentally sensitive areas such as the Arctic.
"What I'm kicking against is extreme extraction and extreme energy," he said. "They're going after extreme energy when there are viable alternatives close by that happen to be owned by somebody else."
Deal will collect his prize from the Goldman Environmental Foundation at a ceremony in San Francisco on Monday night, along with five other prize-winners from different parts of the world.
Deal said his biggest challenge was a shortage of time and money, so he hoped to use the $150,000 prize to build ties with other activists. He will travel to Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas and West Virginia - all states where fracking takes place - while in the country.
Deal arrived in California as the state looks at how to regulate fracking in the massive Monterey shale and just days after a federal judge challenged the way the U.S. government awarded leases for shale acreage in the state.
He has also landed in the backyard of Chevron Corp (CVX.N), an oil company with headquarters just east of San Francisco, which said in December it would explore the Karoo basin along with Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd (FO.V).
The other Goldman prize winners for 2013 are Azzam Alwash, who has sought to restore marshes in Iraq; Rossano Ercolini for work on waste disposal in Italy; Aleta Baun for her challenges of the mining industry in Indoesia; Kimberly Wasserman, who campaigned against dirty U.S. coal plants; and Nohra Padilla for work on recycling trash in Colombia.
The prize, created in 1990 by Richard and Rhoda Goldman to encourage environmental protection, has been awarded to activists in more than 80 countries. The 1991 winner for Africa, Wangari Maathai, went on to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco. Editing by Andre Grenon)


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As of January 2018, the unemployment rate in Memphis was at 3.8 percent. Despite this improvement from recent years, many Memphians are still looking for work. In the interim, though, many of these people may be seeking unemployment benefits. These benefits exist to assist workers who, through no fault of their own, have lost their jobs. These are temporary benefits designed to tide the individual over until he or she can find new work.
- You must be unemployed through no fault of your own. In some cases, you do not have to be completely unemployed if your hours have been cut or if you have found part-time work.
- Your employer must have been covered by unemployment insurance and you must have earned qualifying wages in the base period.
- You must be physically able to work when you file your first claim.
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Sojourna wrote:Okay I am not sure what to make of this. Really. I decided to try "really" hard and despite the ridiculous recipe I bought the spell. I farmed for the treasure cards and all 50 sunstones. However dispite my best efforts, I have yet to see an amber.So here I am, all dressed up and ready to go but no car to been seen. Find a car and its out of gas. And thats where I am now with this craftable spell out of gas. I am sure there are people who will post things about "how they did it and it was bang-zip" sure ok. But I am not really writing this for them. Nor do I wish to debate MY FEELINGS about this subject. Because even if I wanted to craft this spell the rare and few times it drops would require that I spend all my time and potions and/or refills planting. So but that gets old fast. This made more sense when KI made them craft only spells but NOW they can be bought (well sorta if you dont mind the whole one-armed bandit effect) why make amber so hard to get.
Its not fun at all. So that said I will leave my recipe in tact until I find out that either amber isnt as rare (recommended) or you changed the recipe to make it eith dump amber of make it easier to get.
I was going to spend some crowns and get but after all I had to do to get this far. I am would be spitting on that to pay now. So what do I do? Nothing. I will take a break for a few months if, or when I get back then I will entertain the idea of remaining depending on whats new.If like I thought you have nothing to offer but another way to make use spend crowns in order to progress, I am out.
This is MY decision I am not interested if you arent in agreement with me (other members who can't help but be contrary) I am making this statement as a member who has enjoyed the game for years and has a right to tell this company whats wrong.
I think you are jumping the shark here and no matter how many new pets and additions or gear you offer if you, then force us to throw money at you until we can get a spell (packs) or make one that is craftable which requires an unreasonable amount of time and money to do so. It doesnt take a genius to figure this out. Its because too expansive for the kids and the crowd of BEGGARS in Wizard City are constant.
This is all a great deal different from when I began to play and it doesnt console me that other online games are equally as or more egregious. The object of the game isnt to be the least smarmy but to be the best. To give people their money's worth.
I am not sure what this is for others but this is entertainment for me. I budget it into my entertainment budget. But this lately has felt like work.
And I am not paying for a subscribtion, and spending crowns, to be bored. I get working for the crafted spell makes it special and making it hard, gives it a status. Making it impossible, is a mistake. So far the only people I know who have it are people who are die hard wizards. They spend more time online than off and can meet your standards of time needed to acheive the goal. But who makes spells for those people. And if they were that hard to get why are they better spells? Let be real I have better spells that were easier to acquire.
Ok I have rambled on long enough I said what I said and I meant it. Sorry its going down like that but I am never the last one to leave the party, but when I leave - it pretty much over.Hope you guys get back on track but it not. Thanks for the memories.
gillpill1985 wrote:I am very confused, was your post asking where to get amber? Or was it some kind of venting frustration thing. Anyway red bell peppers give amber. And no they are not crown shop seeds.
Snowyandspots wrote:Ah roster your sense of sarcasm ceases to amaze me. Bravo just bravo. And your two genus friends will have to being paying a 5 dollar possessing fee too because it seems people just love to swear and now the parents are so upset they need to start charging even more money. Yea amber is starting to make me go nuts that's why I just farm it. 2 minutes if my day down the drain raising those kp that I get from drops. :P P.S. I am glad your on a roll with your collection of whiskers. :P I will be cheering you on from the side lines.
Sojourna wrote:Ronster lets agree that we dont care for each other. So do me a favor mind your business. I was sending and open letter to KI you are smart enough to know this. Still just in case you werent I added IN THE POST a few lines asking you (if not by name) to spare me your oppinion.The truth is you are an unnecessary addition. You think your are smarter than the average bear and you go out of your way to show it, even when your posts have the very opposite effect on its readers. I dont think you are smart I think you are loud mouth and a know it all and AGAIN as I have said in several posts - go away. Period stop bothering me and dont bother to get your MB bully pack to help you make yet another point no one has asked for and I in specific asked you not give.Go away. Is that too hard to understand Mr. Cantholdhistongue?
Snowyandspots wrote:Sojourna wrote:Ronster lets agree that we dont care for each other. So do me a favor mind your business. I was sending and open letter to KI you are smart enough to know this. Still just in case you werent I added IN THE POST a few lines asking you (if not by name) to spare me your oppinion.The truth is you are an unnecessary addition. You think your are smarter than the average bear and you go out of your way to show it, even when your posts have the very opposite effect on its readers. I dont think you are smart I think you are loud mouth and a know it all and AGAIN as I have said in several posts - go away. Period stop bothering me and dont bother to get your MB bully pack to help you make yet another point no one has asked for and I in specific asked you not give.Go away. Is that too hard to understand Mr. Cantholdhistongue?Hmmm seems you just contradicted yourself there. You say I don't think your smart, but right after you state he is a know it all. Lol well done. I don't see why you are flipping out on him he is just teasing you. I haven't seen any posts about how amber is a good thing. The only good thing about it is you can craft the spell and games for free, it just takes a lot of work. Also he had a good point if you don't like the game you can just leave. Since in the end it is just a game, plenty of things out there besides this game.So hope you all have a good time playing.Btw anyone who is wondering about my name it is the name of my two geckos. :D
Sojourna wrote:I may not have been clear, being a "knowitall" does that mean that you are smart, in fact when someone calls you that they are saying YOU think your are smart and no one else. As far as the teasing, I am too old to be teased, thank you very much. And by the way you dont "tease" total strangers, no is that young that they dont know this much about life. Not that I think that was his intention at all. But you are entitled to your take on all this. I just dont agree and dont really wish to explain why to you or anyone else. Ronster (if he read the message) will understand because this has been going on for a bit.
Let me be clear, When I come here I read a few posts and if I can help I do. If agree or not with a topic I say so I try to do so without attacking the poster, most times sucessfully. I make it clear when I post that this is my oppinion. So when I post you are free to chime in on any subject but if your point is to talk to me, I quite frankly am not interested in discussing my oppinions about a game I pay to play with someone who is doing the same. I dont want to be told that while I may like or dislike something that I am wrong for posting it because they disagree. That is not a conversation its a fight and a sure way to end a topic.
So since there are plenty of topics and post here I am specifically asking Ronster (and his crew) to play that game somewhere else. If you HAVE to have an oppinion on EVERYTHING and you have to be right every time, then do that - somewhere else.
This would not be a problem if I were the only one who said this but I know I am not. I read a lot here and this guy is a troll. Too often is rude behavior tolerated on the internet people say things online they would never dream of saying in person. They talk too people as if they are in the postion to humiliate if they say of do differently. That is the action of a typical bully. Here's the thing I am not child to be be bullied nor was I ever the type who could be as a child. You can tell that by the way one carries themselves and how they react. Ronster WANTS be to be hot and bother by his antics. You want me (or so it seems) to accept his behavior as light. Psst, I am unamused nor will I ever be or pretend to be. So if Ronster want to say do or "tease" anyone he is welcome to do so, but they moment he plays those games with me on the board i will call him out for what he is.
Any more questions?
open33 wrote:Ronster55If you don't understand that teasing other person is rude that is too bad for you. Would you tease your parents? If yes you probably know what response you will get. In general been rude is not only to say something rude its much more.I said once that i don't see any benefit of these spell that is why i don't really do it. I not going to copy the same idea to all the topics in this forum.I want to ask you don't put words in my mouth. 1. Where did I say that I going or trying to craft spells?22. You say: "You are so cool now because you tell me no one cares about me" - this is what happened when you don't even bother to read response correctly. I said that no one cares about your achievements that you bragging about.3. You say: "you two are victimizing me and telling me I am wrong for expressing my opinion." I don't know about other people but i never said that. You can express you opinion but not to push it so hard to people as you do and tease others by bragging of how many amber you have and say it was easy. You the first person i saw in this forum who boast his achievements that much.One more little request: Even though there are some or many people that do not agree with you it doesn't mean you need to shout. Caps on and bold font doesn't make your response better.Oh when you said "I never said it was easy." That was a good one
lionheart999 wrote:I'm gonna side with Ronster55 here.
Ronster55 wrote:*rolls eyes* I am done with you two. You keep calling me rude and a bully. I havent said anything rude. I never said it was easy. I never said it was hard either. Just time consuming. Sojourna, as much as I hate to tell you, you act like an immature child.
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Interview with former 180Solutions employeeBy Justin Mann
In one of the most interesting interviews I have read in a long time, we get a bit of an inside scoop on how spyware/adware companies view themselves in an interview with a former 180Solutions employee. A software engineer that helped developed the software that 180Solutions distributes through various mediums tells all, from how the company pressured their employees to install the software on their home computers and how many in the lower ranks strongly disagreed with the way management dictated the companies policies. The most interesting tidbit to me was how when asked about future goals for the company, no other options other than continuing to develop adware was even considered.
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- She can could (or "..she has been able to..") write Hiraganas and can communicate well, like an adult, from the time she was four years old. Although, she has did not learned Hiragana officially. (, but needless to say, she has learned Hiragana from our daily life lives.)
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なんども手紙をやりとりしたexchange letters many times
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Abralia veranyi (Rüppell 1844)
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Abralia veranyi is a species of squid in the family Enoploteuthidae. Common names include the eye-flash squid, Verany's enope squid and the midwater squid. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It undergoes a daily vertical migration from deep waters to near the surface.
The midwater squid is a small species with a mantle length of about 4 centimetres (1.6 in). It has a fin, four pairs of arms and two long tentacles. The tips of the arms bear four rows of suckers and there are three hooks on the club of each tentacle. The male has the fourth arm on the left modified into a hectocotylus. This is used to store spermatophores and transfer them into the mantle of the female during mating.[3] The underside of the squid bears about 550 light-producing organs called photophores. These are arranged in transverse rows each consisting of 4 to 6 large ones with many small ones in between. There are two large and three medium-sized photophores below each of the large eyes.[4][5]
This species was first described from the Mediterranean Sea but is also found across much of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. The range extends from France and the West African coast to the Bear Seamount off New England, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Sargasso Sea and northern Brazil. It has been found at depths of 700 to 800 metres (2,300 to 2,600 ft) in the daytime but only 20 to 60 metres (66 to 197 ft) at night.[5]
In 1921, a resident of Funchal, Madeira, Senor de Noronha, gave an count of what is believed to be the first recording of the species from the Atlantic Ocean: [3]
The cephalopod in question has been captured by myself in the sheltered quay of this city of Funchal, called the Quay of Pontinha, during the months of July, August, and September. Almost every year one may capture them in this harbor during the night where they approach the steps of debarcation, following the lighting of the electric lamps of the above mentioned steps. With a certain alacrity one may catch them with the aid of a little wire basket, because these animals come almost to the surface of the water, being distinguishable by the brilliancy of a bluish phosphorescence which they cause to gleam from their eyes.
The midwater squid remains at great depths where no light penetrates during the day, in order to avoid predators. However, it must rise to near the surface at night to feed on the small invertebrates that constitute its prey.[4]
The midwater squid has photophores on its underside. It is thought that their purpose is to make the squid less visible as a dark silhouette when viewed from below in dim light. The bioluminescence produced provides counter-illumination, a form of camouflage, which helps to break up the squid's outline.[6] The squid monitors the temperature of the water as a guide to regulating the emission spectra of the light it needs to emit to closely mimic the scintillating surface of the sea. In cold seas it mimics the blueish colour that sunlight produces at these depths and in warmer water, greener, moonlight colours are produced.[4]
- ^ Barratt, I. & Allcock, L. (2014). "Abralia veranyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ Gofas, Serge (2010). "Abralia veranyi (Rüppell, 1844)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ a b A note on the occurrence and habits of a luminous squid Abralia veranyi at Madeira S. Stillman Berry. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ a b c Counterillumination Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ a b Abralia veranyi (Ruppell 1844) The Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ^ Midwater Squid, Abralia veranyi Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
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This species occurs over a wide geographic area in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Tsuchiya 2009). Its range includes the northern Sargasso Sea, Bahama Islands and northern Brazil, and stretches from France and the west coast of Africa to Angola in the east Atlantic (Tsuchiya 2009). The type locality is off Italy in the Mediterranean Sea (Young et al. 1998).
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This species appears to undergo diel vertical migrations in the Atlantic, as juveniles have been collected between 700 and 800 m during the day and between 20 and 60 m in depth at night, and appears to be associated with distant-neritic waters (Tsuchiya 2009). It is abundant off northwest Africa where it inhabits slope waters between 200 and 400 m in depth (Laptikhovsky 1999). This species is preyed upon by a range of marine mammals and finfish including the blackmouth catshark, Galeus melastomus. Enoploteuthids generally occur in mid-depths in the ocean and occasionally over the continental shelf (Norman 2003). Females lack nidamental glands but have enlarged oviducal glands which are used to produce strings of a jelly-like substance into which the eggs are laid individually (Norman 2003). Ovarian oocyte diameter averaged 0.8 to 0.85 mm in eleven maturing and mature females with mantle lengths ranging from 37 to 43 mm taken off the northwest coast of Africa (Laptikhovsky 1999). The total number of oocytes in the ovaries of the same eleven individuals ranged from 10,000 to 26,000 (Laptikhovsky 1999). Its oocyte length frequency distribution suggests they may spawn intermittently in this region (Laptikhovsky 1999). The average diameter and total number of oocytes was estimated to be 1.01 mm and 26,584 in 24 female specimens (26 to 47 mm in mantle length) from the Aegean Sea (Salman and Laptikhovsky 2005).
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Depth range based on 191 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 153 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 16 - 2587
Temperature range (°C): 3.021 - 25.874
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.366 - 36.840
Salinity (PPS): 34.176 - 37.543
Oxygen (ml/l): 2.280 - 6.225
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.063 - 2.402
Silicate (umol/l): 0.774 - 25.922
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Depth range (m): 16 - 2587
Temperature range (°C): 3.021 - 25.874
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.366 - 36.840
Salinity (PPS): 34.176 - 37.543
Oxygen (ml/l): 2.280 - 6.225
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.063 - 2.402
Silicate (umol/l): 0.774 - 25.922
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There is 1 barcode sequence available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is the sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
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Species With Barcodes: 1
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This morning I was gushing on Twitter about my wonderful Mother's Day (since the girls will not be with me next Sunday we celebrated a week early). Well, I should have waited an hour more before posting! It went like this…
About a week ago I was asked what my favourite brunch would be and notes were made, then I was told in no uncertain terms that I HAD to stay in bed that day until called. So far so good. First Daughter baked yesterday a mouth-watering apple cake and tasks for Sunday morning were distributed amongst the kitchen crew, namely Sexy Hubby, First Daughter and Second Daughter. Still good.
This morning I enjoyed being lazy in bed while everybody else was busy and Sexy Hubby kindly brought me a cup of tea telling me that "they were getting there slowly but surely". Finally, First and Second Daughters burst into the bedroom to drag me into our dining room.
Let me tell you, it was worth the wait! As you can see on these pictures, I got my beloved scrambled eggs complete with chives, smoked salmon and fried mushrooms, tomatoes and spring onions, followed by the heavenly moist and tasty apple cake and a glass of Prosecco. Simply scrumptious! Lovely presents were given to me, some self-made, some bought, I was truly touched by all the efforts to make this a special day.
And then… it all went wrong because of a mindless fight about a "Twilight" postcard and a "New Moon" poster. Suggestion was made to colour copy both so there would be two sets, but since each of them wanted to have both originals, the fight then escalated into ugliness and the planned outing to a Flammkuchen Day on a farm finally set off with half its original party.
First and Second Daughters have since come to me to apologize together without any prompting, we shared a long cuddle and everybody can go to sleep at peace tonight. This was just to say, really, that a day which started in a perfect way can sometimes take an unexpected and unpleasant turn, but a happy ending is always possible, even when you least count on it… And everybody who knows me can tell you that I do LOVE a happy ending and can get pretty upset with movies or books featuring a sad one. Yes, I am still not over the fact that Harrison Ford had to leave Kelly McGillis in "Witness", and this was in 1985… Having shared that embarrassing piece of information with you, I am now going to join Sexy Hubby for a glass of red wine and a film – hopefully it will be a "feel good" one!