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$200 Could Get You Out Of A Classic Car Smog Check In California
Damon Lavrinc
Filed to:smog
A bill proposed in California would allow classic car owners to cut a check to the DMV for $200 to get out of the state's notoriously strict smog test. But naturally, it's a bit more complicated than just paying off the Golden State.
Any car in California built on or after 1976 has to undergo a smog test every two years (not so for pre-76 cars, which is one of the reasons my 1976 BMW 2002 is now living in Florida).
AB550 seeks to amend that law to allow vehicles 30 years or older to bypass the test, but only after a series of steps. Here's what the changes state:
44011.7. (a) The owner of a motor vehicle that is required to obtain a certificate of compliance pursuant to Section 44011 may elect to pay a smog abatement fee of two hundred dollars ($200) if the motor vehicle meets all of the following criteria:
(1) Is 30 or more model-years old.
(2) Was manufactured during or after the 1976 model-year.
(3) Fails a smog test required pursuant to this chapter.
(4) Fails a subsequent smog test after necessary repairs were made.
(b) Payment of the smog abatement fee established pursuant to this section shall be made to the Department of Motor Vehicles at the time of the registration of the motor vehicle.
(c) Fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by Section 44274.5.
It seems simple, but the obvious question is how the state would confirm how "necessary repairs were made." Does that mean ensuring the car is putting out the lowest possible amount of emissions or making drastic changes to the powertrain to get inline with the sniffer test? Or can you just pay off a mechanic to say that "necessary" repairs were made and it's still a rolling superfund site? There's really no clarification, which doesn't exactly bode well for the language's passage.
The bill was proposed by Assembly Member Marie Waldron, a Republican from Southern California's 75th district, and has the support of the SEMA Action Network. SEMA has attempted to do something similar in the past with a bill that would exempt all pre-1981 cars from emissions inspections in California. That failed, but maybe lining the pockets of the state with a couple of Benjamins means AB550 has a shot.
Contact the author at [email protected].
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"The Invisible Man" Returns
Universal continues to reboot its catalogue of 'famous monsters of filmland', with a new take on author H.G. Wells "The Invisible Man", targeting a March 13, 2020 release, to be written/directed by Leigh Whannell ("Upgrade") for producer Jason Blum, "..."rooted in horror, with no restrictions on budget, tone, or rating...":
Published in 1897, "The Invisible Man" of the title is 'Griffin', a scientist devoted to research into optics "...to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible..."
He successfully carries out the procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it...
...as his brain becomes fried by the drastic changes in his system.
Previous feature adaptations of Wells' public domain novel include "The Invisible Man" (1933) starring Claude Rains, "The Invisible Man Returns" (1940) starring Vincent Price...
...and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951) starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Invisible Man"...
Posted by Michael Stevens on Sunday, June 23, 2019
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The Week Ahead: Contrasting fortunes expected for Sainsbury's and Next
John-Paul Ford Rojas
Published: 6:00 AM March 15, 2015
Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's. - Credit: Archant
The impact of fierce price competition on the supermarket sector will be in the spotlight again this week when Sainsbury's posts its latest sales figures.
Sainsbury's is expected to reveal a fifth successive quarter of falling sales when it publishes a trading update on Tuesday, fuelling fears that its prospects have been dented by a resurgent Tesco.
Like-for-like sales were 1.7% down over the third quarter covering the key Christmas period though this was not as bad as had been feared.
However, chief executive Mike Coupe flagged at the time that the uncertain trading environment, amid food price deflation sparked by the supermarket price war, meant the decline was likely to worsen in the last three months of the financial year.
He indicated like-for-like sales were likely to be in line with the 2.1% decline posted in the first half.
The trading update comes a week after latest industry figures from Kantar Worldpanel showed total sales for Sainsbury's down 0.5% in the 12 weeks to March 1 compared with the same period in 2014, as industry leader Tesco showed signs of a turnaround with 1.1% growth.
Britain's big four grocers – also including Morrisons and US-owned Asda – are engaged in fierce competition as they scramble for market share which is being gnawed away by discounters Aldi and Lidl.
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Shore Capital analyst Clive Black said: "Of the three large quoted players we are most concerned about Sainsbury's. The group's trading momentum at a time when Tesco UK is recuperating has been a long-standing cause of concern to our minds."
Sainsbury's will report full-year profits in May for the first time under Mr Coupe since he succeeded Justin King, who stepped down last year following a successful decade in charge of the supermarket.
They are expected to show their first fall after nine years of growth, with City analysts expecting a 17% decline to £659 million.
Next reports full-year results on Thursday after forecasting at its latest trading update that pre-tax profits were set to rise 11.5% to £775m.
The fashion retailer upped guidance by £5m when it revealed in December that full-price sales in the run-up to Christmas had risen by 2.9%, though warning that it was "very cautious" about the year ahead.
Stores grew sales by just 0.5% from October 28 to December 24 but the overall performance was boosted by its Next Directory online and catalogue arm where they were ahead by 7.5%.
The group said it had gone into its end-of-season sale with "significantly more stock than last year".
It warned in October that it had been hit by the mild autumn weather, which resulted in it lowering profit expectations as it needed to offload goods at a discount.
Numis analyst Matthew Taylor said there was "limited scope for surprises" in the full-year numbers with the final result likely to reflect the performance of the remaining winter sale period.
He said: "The group may update on FY16 progress to date and continue to flag that its first half sales performance is likely to be sluggish against the extremely favourable weather trends over spring/summer 2014."
Next said in December that it was expecting full price sales growth in 2015/16 to be between 2.5% and 7.5%, with the first half expected to perform at the lower end of the range.
Last year's annual profit haul of £695m saw Next outperform rival Marks & Spencer for the first time ever. M&S's underlying pre-tax profit was £623m.
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War on Terror Mainstream Media and Propaganda
Hijacking 9/11
The following article is from AlterNet.org looking at how a docudrama called The Path to 9/11 , to be aired by ABC in the US about 9/11 is a combination of fact, fiction, and serves pro-Bush propaganda. You can see the original article at http://www.alternet.org/stories/41288/.
Sheldon Rampton
AlterNet.org
ABC's docudrama, The Path to 9/11, is a mix of fact, fantasy and deliberate distortion adding up to blatant pro-Bush propaganda.
The ABC television network is using the fifth anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to rewrite history. On September 10 and 11, ABC/Disney will broadcast The Path to 9/11 , a 6-hour, two-part docudrama written and produced by conservative filmmakers who place a lion's share of the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on alleged failures of the Clinton administration.
This is not the first time that Hollywood has used 9/11 as a pretext to air pro-Bush propaganda in the guise of a docudrama. On the second anniversary of the terrorist attack, the Showtime cable network broadcast DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, written by conservative Republican Lionel Chetwynd. Dubbed a reelection campaign movie by Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, the film starred actor Timothy Bottoms in the role of George W. Bush, depicting him as a leader of Churchillian stature who takes personal charge in the 9/11 aftermath while brushing off worries about his own safety with declarations such as, If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come on over and get me. I'll be home! In reality, as opposed to the bizarro world of docudrama, Bush's safety on 9/11 was guaranteed by hustling him off to an undisclosed location, while Cheney went into hiding for months.
What makes The Path to 9/11 somewhat different is its claim to be based on the report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission). Thomas Kean, the Republican co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, served as an advisor to the film, although Lee Hamilton, the commission's Democratic co-chair, did not. ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson is claiming that its miniseries is a public service that goes beyond mere entertainment. Some things you do for commerce and some things because they are the right thing to do, he told Variety magazine.
If the goal were simply to inform the public, however, ABC would have produced an actual documentary rather than a docudrama, which gives the producers license to distort facts whenever and however they wish, while also pretending that their work is somehow a re-enactment of reality.
The show's political slant is evident from the fact that Rush Limbaugh is talking up the movie, noting that its screenwriter, Cyrus Nowrasteh, is a personal friend. Several weeks prior to the broadcast, publicists sent out advance DVDs of the film to conservative bloggers, and screenings have been held for conservative pundits like U.S. News & World Report writer Michael Barone. Even relatively obscure right-wing blogs such as Patterico's Pontifications, written by Los Angeles County attorney Justin Levine, have been favored with advance screenings. Levine reciprocated by declaring that the film is free of political spin, politically correct whitewashing and partisan wrangling and one of the best made-for-televison movies seen in decades. ? The Clinton administration will likely go ballistic over this film. In its politically-spin-free way, Patterico pontificates, the film also lays out viscerally powerful arguments in favor of the Patriot Act and airport profiling.
When challenged to explain why the right-wing blogosphere is abuzz with praise for the film, director David Cunningham responded that we are also being accused of being a left wing movie that bashes Bush —a claim for which there is absolutely no evidence. I searched Technorati for mentions of the film and found 260 references, mostly from conservative websites, every single one of which had nothing but praise for the film. And although I found numerous examples of conservative pundits and bloggers who reported seeing pre-broadcast screenings, no leftist pundits or bloggers had been given a chance to see it (unless you count Salon.com's roundup of several 9/11-themed movies).
As further evidence of the filmmakers' fundamental dishonesty, Path to 9/11 had its own blog until recently, where screenwriter Nowrasteh attempted to explain away the right-wing blogobuzz about the film by saying, We can't control who writes what. It's clear, however, that they did carefully control who could see the film prior to broadcast. And in response to criticisms and questions posted in the comments section of their own blog, they airbrushed it out of existence Sunday afternoon, which is why my links above to the apologetics by Cunningham and Nowrasteh no longer work, although the Google cache to the original blog still exists. The Honest Truthiness
So what is it that conservatives love so much about this film? According to Barone, one gripping scene shows CIA agents surrounding bin Laden's encampments and then being called back when National Security Adviser Sandy Berger refuses to give a go-ahead for the operation. Conservative filmmaker Govindini Murty was also impressed by the same scene, writing a glowing review that was published both on her own blog and on Human Events, the national conservative weekly. She writes:
One astonishing sequence in The Path to 9/11 shows the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding Bin Laden's house in Afghanistan. They're on the verge of capturing Bin Laden, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to go ahead. They phone Clinton, but he and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of Bin Laden, for fear of political fall-out if the mission should go wrong and civilians are harmed. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger in essence tells the team in Afghanistan that if they want to capture Bin Laden, they'll have to go ahead and do it on their own without any official authorization. ? The episode is a perfect example of Clinton-era irresponsibility and incompetence.
The only problem with this perfect example , which Murty praises because it honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden, is that it didn't happen. In reality, it was CIA director George Tenet, not Berger, who called off the operation—which never got anywhere near surrounding Bin Laden's house in Afghanistan. According to the 9/11 commision report on which the movie is supposedly based,
Tenet told us that given the recommendation of his chief operations officers, he alone had decided to turn off the operation. He had simply informed Berger, who had not pushed back. Berger's recollection was similar. He said the plan was never presented to the White House for a decision.
The CIA's senior management clearly did not think the plan would work. Tenet's deputy director of operations wrote to Berger a few weeks later that the CIA assessed the tribals' ability to capture Bin Ladin and deliver him to U.S. officials as low.
In an interview with the far-right Front Page Magazine, Path to 9/11 screenwriter Nowrasteh said that the 9/11 report details the Clinton's administration's response—or lack of response—to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests. The worst example is the response to the October, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. COLE in Yemen where 17 American sailors were killed. There simply was no response. Nothing.
Again, the actual commission report described thing differently:
As evidence of al Qaeda's responsibility for the Cole attack came in during November 2000, National Security Advisor Samuel Berger asked the Pentagon to develop a plan for a sustained air campaign against the Taliban. Clarke developed a paper laying out a formal, specific ultimatum. But Clarke's plan apparently did not advance to formal consideration by the Small Group of principals. We have found no indication that the idea was briefed to the new administration or that Clarke passed his paper to them, although the same team of career officials spanned both administrations.
The commission's executive summary explains that by the time Al Qaeda was definitely identified as the party responsible for attacking the Cole, Clinton had left office, and it was Bush who declined to take action:
After the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, evidence accumulated that it had been launched by al Qaeda operatives, but without confirmation that Bin Ladin had given the order. The Taliban had earlier been warned that it would be held responsible for another Bin Ladin attack on the United States. The CIA described its findings as a preliminary judgment ; President Clinton and his chief advisers told us they were waiting for a conclusion before deciding whether to take military action. The military alternatives remained unappealing to them.
The transition to the new Bush administration in late 2000 and early 2001 took place with the Cole issue still pending. President George W. Bush and his chief advisers accepted that al Qaeda was responsible for the attack on the Cole, but did not like the options available for a response.
Bin Ladin's inference may well have been that attacks, at least at the level of the Cole, were risk free.
There is another political wrinkle to this that should be noted. The attack on the Cole occurred in October 2000, near the end of Clinton's presidency and at the peak of the election campaign between George W. Bush and Al Gore. A military strike under those circumstances, in the absence of clear evidence linking Al Qaeda to the Cole attack, would have been instantly denounced by Republicans as an election-season publicity stunt designed to benefit Gore. And it was the FBI and CIA that failed to provide the clear rationale that Clinton would have needed to justify such action. In Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies, he describes the handling of the Cole attack as follows:
The Yemeni government also dragged its feet in the investigation, leading to President Clinton's becoming personally involved. The U.S. government left the Yemenis in no doubt about the two alternative paths that Yemeni-American relations could take.
Meanwhile in Washington neither CIA nor FBI would state the obvious: al Qaeda did it. ? It was difficult to gain support for a retaliatory strike when neither FBI nor CIA would say that al Qaeda did it. ?
Clinton left office with bin Laden alive, but having authorized action to eliminate him and to step up the attacks on al Qaeda. He had defeated al Qaeda when it attempted to take over Bosnia by having its fighters dominate the defense of the breakaway state from Serbian attacks. He had seen earlier than anyone that terrorism would be the major new threat facing America, and therefore had greatly increased funding for counterterrorism and initiated homeland protection programs. He had put an end to Iraqi and Iranian terrorism against the United States by quickly acting against the intelligence services of each nation.
Because of the intensity of the political opposition that Clinton encountered, he had been heavily criticized for bombing al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, for engaging in Wag the Dog tactics to divert attention from a scandal about his personal life. For similar reasons, he could not fire the recalcitrant FBI director who had failed to fix the Bureau or to uncover terrorists in the United States. ?
When Clinton left office many people, including the incoming Bush administration, thought that he and his administration were overly obsessed with al Qaeda. ? Why was Clinton so worked up about al Qaeda and why did he talk to President-elect Bush about it and have Sandy Berger raise it with his successor as National Security Advisor, Condi Rice? In January 2001, the new administration really thought Clinton's recommendation that eliminating al Qaeda be one of their highest priorities, well, rather odd, like so many of the Clinton administration's actions, from their perspective.
William Rivers Pitt has written a detailed account of the initiatives initiated under Clinton to deal with Al Qaeda and the threat of terrorism. PBS has produced a documentary (not a docudrama) that offers fascinating insights into the life and career of John O'Neill, the counterterrorism expert who presciently warned about Al Qaeda prior to 9/11 and who is portrayed in The Path to 9/11 by actor Harvey Keitel. The New Yorker has also written a nuanced, detailed profile of O'Neill that avoids political spin.
If people want to understand the failures that led to 9/11, they should turn to these and other examples of actual journalism rather than the mix of fact, fantasy and deliberate distortion that ABC/Disney plans to broadcast on the fifth anniversary of America's deadliest terrorist attack.
For ABC counterterrorism analyst Richard Clarke's debunking of the movie go HERE.
Sheldon Rampton is the co-author, with John Stauber, of several books, including Weapons of Mass Deception and The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq, which will be published by Tarcher/Penguin in September.
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The War on Journalism
Pushing the Media Right
Where no news is good news
The media missed the story in Afghanistan
Are The Media Ready For A New War?
Patriotism and Censorship
Why does John Malkovich want to kill me?
Bush team enlists Madison Avenue in war on terror
Branding New and Improved Wars
Muslim-as-Apple-Pie Videos Are Greeted With Skepticism
Shredding the First Amendment
Is Office of Strategic Influence Gone?
Killed by friendly fire in US infowar
Whatever Happened to Homeland Security?
What the US papers don't say
The 'Prop-Agenda' At War
Pentagon Rolls Out Stealth PR
Hearts, Minds, and Dollars
Blair Using Fear and Spin for War on Terror
The Trouble with Bush's "Islamofascism"
"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?"
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As Others See U.S.—The "War on Terror"
The Statistical Invisibility of Islamist 'Terrorism' in Europe
Journalists Held in US Military Prisons
What US Lobbyists Do for Dictators
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Branding War
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"Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups" — Paul Krugman
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ActionSA's Mashaba blames ANC for poor voter turnout
Twitter/@Action4sa
Disappointed over poor voter turnout, ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is blaming the African National Congress (ANC) for the dismal voter showing at the polls.
He told Eyewitness News that there was a huge challenge in getting people to believe in the power of their individual actions.
Mashaba was reacting to news that by 5pm on Monday that only 8 million out of 26 million eligible South Africans had cast their vote in the local government elections.
He's contesting the local government elections for the first time with ActionSA, which was established last year, and he's hoping to be voted in as the mayor of Johannesburg, a position that he previously held while still a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).
Mashaba said that the voter turnout was a reflection of how the ANC had failed the country.
"About 20 years ago, I started saying to my wife every night when I would get home that I have a sense, and I'm not a prophet, that the ANC is determined to keep black people poor, uneducated and ignorant and we are paying the price. Voting in a democratic dispensation is one of the most powerful tools that any nation can use," Mashaba said.
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Home Video Games PC Games Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Save Game and Trainer
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Save Game and Trainer
As the name suggest the game is very complicated to understand as this game is puzzle/shooting/exploration type of game. You will have to complete the mission, explore the places and also action is also filled in this game. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is developed by Shadow Planet Productions and is distribute by Microsoft studios. Game play is really interesting as you will have to explore the places and also you have to fight the creatures which comes along the way of your mission and also there is many puzzle in this game to be explored and solved. You can upgrade your ship with the help of Alien technology.
As you solve the puzzle and fight with all bizarre creatures you will be advancing towards your mission which is centre of mysterious Shadow planet. To play this game you will need lot of time and so you can just save your game and play when you have ample of time, for that you will need to have save game file download for the game and it can be downloaded from the link provided below. With the help of save game file you can just save the game and resume it when you need to play this game.
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Tips lead Saddle Brook police to restaurant cellphone theft suspect
SADDLE BROOK, New Jersey -- Police in Bergen County, New Jersey have charged a woman in connection with a cellphone theft that was captured on camera.
Saddle Brook police said 37-year-old Myra Rodriguez, of Garfield, has been charged with theft of property and endangering the welfare of a minor.
Police said the surveillance video shows Rodriguez telling a young child to take the phone, which was dropped by another customer at the restaurant Sunday evening. The boy picks up the Samsung Galaxy 4 smartphone and run out.
See the video that was released here:
Following the media attention, police said the Rodriguez apparently mailed the cellphone to the police department on Thursday, but it has not yet arrived at the SBPD.
"We would like to thank the general public who provided us with several leads which led our detectives to identify the person responsible," said Chief Robert Kugler in a news release. "This reinforces the fact that our society, as a whole, knew it has an obligation to assist us in making sure she needed to be held accountable for her actions."
Rodriguez was served with a complaint and will be arraigned on the charges next Wednesday, January 13.
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Marcia Louise Draley, 67, of El Cajon, California, passed away peacefully the morning of Dec. 26, 2020 at Avocado Post Acute Care Center in El Cajon.
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Arlyn H. Meier, age 91 of Wheatland, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 at the Clarence Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Dec.18, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lowden with Rev. Daniel Redhage officiating. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until ser…
David M. Hull
David M. Hull, age 86 of Clinton, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 at his home, with his loving wife of 66 years, by his side. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 at Elvira Zion Lutheran Church. Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until the ser…
Joan Clapp
Joan Clapp, a lifelong resident of Lost Nation passed away Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Wheatland Manor. She was born June 7, 1929, in Waterloo, daughter of Edward and Marie (Smith) Mohl.
Joan Irene Lass
Joan Irene Lass, 89, of DeWitt, passed away Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, at Grand Haven in her home.
Carole Cooper
Carole Cooper, 89, formerly of Creston, passed away, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, at Westwing Place in DeWitt, from Covid-19.
Shirley Ann Mullen
Shirley Ann Mullen was born to Harold (Hap) and LeVerna Smith on Sept. 28, 1932. After testing positive for Covid-19, she died on Dec. 13, 2020.
Dr. Dan A. Roe
Dr. Dan A. Roe, 71, of DeWitt, died Monday morning, Dec. 14, 2020, at Westwing Place, DeWitt.
Zelma Mae Bradshaw
Zelma Mae Bradshaw, age 103 of Charlotte, passed away Friday Dec. 4, 2020 at her home. A private family visitation will be held 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 8 at the Pape Funeral Home, Clinton. Graveside services will be held at Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery in Lodi, California. Online co…
Thomas Michael Garrity
Thomas Michael Garrity, 65, passed away suddenly Monday, Oct. 26, 2020 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was born in DeWitt to the late Raymond and Catherine Garrity, on Sept. 9, 1955.
Mary Ann Seastrand
Mary Ann Seastrand, 85, of DeWitt, died Wednesday morning, Dec. 2, 2020, at home.
Myrna M. Cavanagh
Myrna M. Cavanagh, 87, of Maquoketa passed away on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020 at Crestridge Care Center in Maquoketa.
Fred Donovan
Fred Donovan, 70, of DeWitt, passed away Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at Genesis Medical Center-East Campus in Davenport, from complications of multiple myeloma.
Mary Ann Hahn
Mary Ann Hahn, 85, of Grand Mound, passed away Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, at Genesis Medical Center-East in Davenport.
Sharon M. Thomas
Sharon M. Thomas, age 58, of Charlotte, passed away Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 at Genesis East Medical Center in Davenport, due to complications from a COVID-19 infection. Cremation rites have been accorded. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date. The Pape Funeral Home is as…
Lucille B. Schroeder
Lucille B. Schroeder, 97, of DeWitt, died Wednesday morning, Nov. 25, 2020, at Crestridge Care Center, Maquoketa.
Verlyn Joseph Steines
Verlyn Joseph Steines, 85, of DeWitt, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Nov. 29, 2020, in his daughter's home in Calamus.
Todd Charles Cox
Todd Cox, 60, formerly of DeWitt, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 25, 2020, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City.
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Norma J. Weber
Norma J. Weber, 81, of Bernard, died peacefully at home on Nov. 16, 2020. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, attendance at the visitation and funeral mass is limited to immediate family only. A private family visitation was held on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 at the Reiff Funeral Home in Peosta. A priv…
Raymond Louis Hudlik
Raymond Louis Hudlik, 100, of rural Calamus, died peacefully, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at Maggie's House in DeWitt.
Adelheid (Heidi) McNeil
Adelheid (Heidi) McNeil, age 89, of rural Preston, passed away
Donald "Don" M. Mohr
Donald "Don" M. Mohr, 90, of Clinton (formerly of Elvira), passed away peacefully at the Alverno on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. A graveside service will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Clinton Lawn Cemetery. Lemke Funeral Homes assisted the family with arrangements.
Eileen JoAnn Laures
Eileen JoAnn Laures, 87, of DeWitt, peacefully passed away Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, at UnityPoint Health-Trinity Bettendorf.
Delbert A. Gilbert
Mr. Delbert A. Gilbert, 82, of rural Delmar, died early Tuesday morning, Oct. 27, 2020, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City.
Vanesa Corrine Barnes
Vanesa Corrine Barnes, 59, died Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, surrounded by loved ones at Mayo Clinic Hospital St. Marys.
Gary W. Burmeister
Gary W. Burmeister "Big G", 51, of Wheatland, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at Genesis Medical Center-East Campus, Davenport.
Gilbert Joseph Butt
Gilbert Joseph Butt, 59, of Charlotte, died peacefully Saturday afternoon, Nov. 7, 2020, surrounded by his siblings.
Sandra Ellis
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Ruth Ann Spain, 70, of DeWitt, died Friday afternoon, Oct. 23, 2020, at home.
Elmer John Hasenmiller, Jr.
Elmer John Hasenmiller, Jr., 93, of Grand Mound, passed away Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at Wheatland Manor, Wheatland.
Michael D. Moeller
Michael D. Moeller, 79, of Toronto, passed away on Oct. 27, 2020 at OSF St. Joseph's Hospital in Bloomington, Illinois. Visitation from 10-11 a.m. was held at Chapman Funeral Home in Clarence on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020 with a graveside service following at Rose Hill Cemetery in Toronto.
Marcellus W. Grell
Mr. Marcellus W. Grell, 88, of DeWitt, died Wednesday evening, October 21, 2020, at Maggie's House Assisted Living, DeWitt.
Nathalie Simon
Nathalie (Shaughnessy) Simon, 83, of DeWitt, passed away peacefully Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020 at Country Manor in Davenport.
Harold D. "Lonnie" Grimm
Harold D. "Lonnie" Grimm, 76, of Bettendorf, passed away on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 at his home.
Julie L. (Gluesing) Russell
Julie L. (Gluesing) Russell, 63, of Haysville, Kansas, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Wichita, with her family at her side, following a courageous battle with cancer and underlying health conditions.
Eleanor Jane Moeller
Eleanor Jane Moeller, 87, of Davenport, formerly of Walcott passed away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 at Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House. Visitation will be held 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 at Bentley Funeral Home, Durant. Private family services and burial with military rites will t…
Jennifer Jean Bender
Jennifer Jean Bender, 50, of Aliso Viejo, California, passed away September 28, 2020, in the comfort of her home with her mother and sister by her side. Per her wishes, cremation rites were accorded. A celebration of life will occur at a later date.
Diana Lassen
Diana Lassen, 72, of Clinton, passed away, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 at MercyOne – Clinton.
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Justin Curtis Ilg, 32, of Cedar Rapids passed away on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020 at St. Luke's Hospital after a two-and-a-half-year courageous battle with lung cancer. He was surrounded by his loving family. A visitation will be held on Oct. 22, 2020 from 4-8 p.m. at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral H…
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Disciplinary Notice
Results of enquiries (M Hammond, A Balding, M Fife, G Kelleway, M Appleby) heard by the Disciplinary Panel on Thursday 30 June
In Absence – Michael Hammond
The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) held an enquiry on 30 June 2016 to consider whether or not Micky Hammond, a licensed trainer, had committed a breach of Rule (C)17 of the Rules of Racing, in respect of his failure to notify the Racing Calendar Office, by noon 5 days before the horse's next run, that GRAN PARADISO (IRE) had been gelded.
Prior to the enquiry, Mr Hammond had agreed that the matter could be heard in his absence. Also, Mr Hammond and the BHA had agreed that they had no objection to the Panel members sitting.
Having considered the evidence, the Panel found Mr Hammond in breach of Rule (C)17 and fined him £200.
In Absence – Andrew Balding
The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) held an enquiry on 30 June 2016 to consider whether or not Andrew Balding, a licensed trainer, had committed a breach of Rule (C)17 of the Rules of Racing, in respect of his failure to notify the Racing Calendar Office, by noon 5 days before the horse's next run, that SHONGOLOLO (IRE) had been gelded.
Prior to the enquiry, Mr Balding had agreed that the matter could be heard in his absence. Also, Mr Balding and the BHA had agreed that they had no objection to the Panel members sitting.
Having considered the evidence, the Panel found Mr Balding in breach of Rule (C)17 and fined him £200.
In Absence – Marjorie Fife
The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) held an enquiry on 30 June 2016 to consider whether or not Mrs Marjorie Fife, a licensed trainer, had committed a breach of Rule (C)17 of the Rules of Racing, in respect of her failure to notify the Racing Calendar Office, by noon 5 days before the horse's next run, that TOLEDO had been gelded.
Prior to the enquiry, Mrs Fife had agreed that the matter could be heard in her absence. Also, Mrs Fife and the BHA had agreed that they had no objection to the Panel members sitting.
Having considered the evidence, the Panel found Mrs Fife in breach of Rule (C)17 and fined her £200.
In Absence – Gay Kelleway
The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) held an enquiry on 30 June 2016 to consider whether or not Miss Gay Kelleway, a licensed trainer, had committed a breach of Rule (C)17 of the Rules of Racing, in respect of her failure to notify the Racing Calendar Office, by noon 5 days before the horse's next run, that SID SWEENEY had been gelded.
Prior to the enquiry, Miss Kelleway had agreed that the matter could be heard in her absence. Also, Miss Kelleway and the BHA had agreed that they had no objection to the Panel members sitting.
Having considered the evidence, the Panel found Miss Kelleway in breach of Rule (C)17 and fined her £200.
In Absence – Michael Appleby
1. The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) held an enquiry on 30 June 2016 to consider whether or not Michael Appleby, a licensed trainer, had committed a breach of Rule (A)39 in respect of his ongoing record of breaches committed since 1 January 2016 relating to his failure to ensure that the correct sponsorship was carried by horses or worn by employees on the racecourse.
2. The Panel also considered whether or not Mr Appleby had committed a breach of Rule (E)18 of the Rules of Racing, in respect of the record of vaccinations in the passport of LULU THE ZULU (IRE), prior to the mare running in the Betway Handicap Stakes at Chester on 28 May 2016. The matter was referred to the Head Office of the BHA by the Chester Stewards, this being his fourth offence within the previous twelve months.
3. Prior to the enquiry, Mr Appleby had agreed that the matters could be heard in his absence. Also, Mr Appleby and the BHA had agreed that they had no objection to the Panel members sitting.
4. In respect of Rule (A)39, the Panel noted that Mr Appleby had received a number of letters warning him that failure to comply with the sponsorship guidelines constituted a breach of the Rules of Racing. Since the earlier warning letters four further cases had been referred. The Panel found Mr Appleby in breach of Rule (A)39 and fined him £450.
5. In respect of Rule (E)18, having considered the correspondence, including a statement from Mr Appleby's Veterinary Surgeon, the Panel accepted an admission from Mr Appleby that he was in breach of Rule (E)18.
6. Taking into account that this was Mr Appleby's fourth offence within the previous twelve months, the Panel imposed a fine of £1,000 upon him.
1. The Panel for the hearings was: William Barlow (Chair), Celina Carter, Edward Dorrell
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Home INTERNATIONAL Russian President Putin Meets Chinese Leaders
Russian President Putin Meets Chinese Leaders
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday emphasized economic ties with China and praised what he called Russia's "all-embracing and strategic partnership" with its neighbour, during a visit to Beijing that takes place against the background of a drop in trade and lingering mistrust.
Mr. Putin told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that ties were based firmly on common economic interests, a reference to Russian hopes for Chinese investment and purchases of its oil, gas and military exports.
"Our relations really have the character of an all-embracing and strategic partnership," Mr. Putin told Mr. Li at the start of their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing.
While Russia and China are linked by cooperation on the international stage, as well as in culture, education and other spheres, "in one way or another, everything has an economic base," Mr. Putin said.
Leaders from both countries have extolled the blossoming strategic partnership between the former communist rivals, despite a major decline in two-way trade and the failure to materialize of a slew of ambitious projects.
Observers attribute the slow progress to Beijing's hard-nosed bargaining position and the Kremlin's deep-seated suspicions about the growing might of China.
Mr. Putin later met Chinese President Xi Jinping, to whom he said the people of both countries had a strong desire to "strengthen, develop our relations."
The close personal relationship between Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi and their shared desire to counter perceived U.S. global domination appear to be the main driving forces behind Russia-China cooperation.
The renewed push to bolster relations with China came after the United States and the European Union imposed an array of crippling sanctions on Russia over its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014, cutting its access to world financial markets and blocking the transfer of modern technologies. Moscow was also purged from the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations.
In May 2014, Mr. Putin visited Beijing and presided over the signing of numerous deals, including a mammoth 30-year natural gas contract worth $400 billion, seeking to show the West that Russia still had viable options.
A later deal saw a branch of Chinese state-owned energy company CNPC buying a stake in a project to build a giant liquefied natural gas plant on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. Also in December, China's Sinopec bought a stake in Russia's Sibur energy company.
China has also promised to offer multibillion-dollar loans to help build a high-speed rail link between Moscow and the Volga River city of Kazan.
Other ambitious deals have been expected, but most of them have floundered amid Russia's economic uncertainty.
The sharp devaluation of the Russian currency under the double impact of low global oil prices and Western sanctions has been a key factor behind bilateral trade dropping from nearly $100 billion a year in 2014 to just over $60 billion last year. Energy resources account for two-thirds of Russian exports to China.
Moscow has also been unsettled by Beijing's ambitious Silk Road Economic Belt project, intended to encourage infrastructure development in formerly Soviet Central Asia, which Russia sees as its home turf. China has promised to coordinate the project with the Russia-dominated Eurasian Economic Union, but clearly has put an emphasis on bilateral deals with Kazakhstan and other members of the bloc.
The prospect of potential Chinese expansion long has worried residents of Russia's sparsely populated far eastern regions, especially over the Kremlin's decision to surrender significant slices of land along the 4,200-km (2,600-mile) border to China in a 2005 demarcation deal.
While ambitious hopes for closer economic cooperation haven't materialized, Russia and China have bolstered their military ties, which have included joint war games and contacts on missile defence. Russian weapons exports to China, which peaked in the 1990s and fell dramatically in the following decade, have received a new boost recently.
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New Amtrak Locomotives Advancing In Rigorous Testing Program
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PUEBLO, Colo. – The new Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) electric locomotives are now in a comprehensive and rigorous testing program, and are being put through the paces before entering Northeast service this fall.
Today, Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman, Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo and Siemens Rail Systems President Michael Cahill traveled to the U.S Department of Transportation (DOT) Transportation Technology Center (TTC) facility in Pueblo, Colo., to get an update on the testing program and to observe a testing demonstration.
"These locomotives are the new workhorses of the Amtrak fleet in the Northeast and they must meet our performance-based specifications and reliability needs so we can keep the region's people and economy moving," said Boardman.
Two locomotives are at the TTC facility to undergo a series of tests, including maximum speed runs, acceleration and braking, operating with Amtrak passenger coach cars attached and testing the overall performance capabilities of the locomotive. Engineers are also validating the on-board computer system and software, as well as evaluate ride quality by using instruments to measure things such as noise and wheel vibrations.
A variety of additional tests and validation exercises are being conducted as part of the commissioning process to ensure the locomotive is operating and performing as designed and that it is ready to provide reliable service for Amtrak passengers.
"Safety is our number one priority," said Szabo. "Today's testing regime demonstrates the extraordinary safety standards FRA requires manufacturers and railroads to meet whenbuilding passenger rail equipment. One in seven Americans lives along the Northeast Corridor and as demand for passenger rail service continues to grow across the country, we will continue to ensure that rail equipment is safe, reliable and efficient."
In addition to the robust testing regime at TTC, a third locomotive will run field tests on the Northeast and Keystone Corridors this summer and be used for training Amtrak locomotive engineers and mechanical crews. A fourth locomotive will be tested in a climate-controlled chamber to determine how well it performs in extreme heat and cold temperatures.
Amtrak selected Siemens to design and manufacture 70 next-generation, electric locomotives that will provide improved reliability, efficiency and mobility for intercity rail passengers traveling on the Northeast and Keystone Corridors. The new locomotives will replace existing locomotives in service for 25-35 years with an average of 3.5 million miles traveled.
Using Siemens' innovative and proven rail technology, the Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) locomotives are being assembled in Siemens' Sacramento, Calif., rail manufacturing plant powered by renewable energy, with parts built from its plants in Norwood, Ohio, Alpharetta, Ga., and Richland, Miss., and nearly 70 suppliers, representing more than 60 cities and 23 states. The first units being used in the testing program rolled off the assembly line in May.
"Siemens' innovations and proven technology are helping Amtrak and passenger rail operators throughout the U.S. tackle the challenge of keeping our economy moving. By providing modern equipment, like our Amtrak electric locomotives, new downtown streetcars and the next generation of light rail, Siemens is bringing enhanced safety and performance to transportation systems across the country," said Cahill. "We're proud to work together with Amtrak and bring our expertise to the table, delivering expanded transportation options for passengers."
The new locomotives will operate on Northeast Regional trains at speeds up to 125 mph on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) along the Washington – New York – Boston route and on Keystone Service trains at speeds up to 110 mph on the Keystone Corridor from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, Pa. In addition, the new locomotives will power all long-distance trains operating on the NEC.
The new locomotives are designed for easier maintenance, will improve energy efficiency by using a regenerative braking system that will feed energy back into the power grid and will enhance mobility for the people, businesses and economy of the entire Northeast region. They also meet the latest federal rail safety regulations.
Once the locomotives are commissioned in the fall, production of the remaining units will ramp up for monthly delivery through 2016. The new locomotives are part of a comprehensive Amtrak Fleet Strategy Plan to modernize and expand its equipment.
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is one of ten agencies that make up the U.S. Department of Transportation. FRA is the chief safety regulatory for all passenger and freight rail in the United States. The FRA also manages a portfolio of $18 billion in grants and loans, laying a solid foundation for long-term rail improvements. Our mission is to enable the safe, reliable and efficient movement of people and goods for a strong America, now and in the future.
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Spartans Advance to Sweet Sixteen
EAST LANSING, Mich. – All season long, head coach Damon Rensing has emphasized unity and the toughness of his 27 players, and the Spartans showed that on Sunday against the University of Louisville.
On a cold day with high winds, and a field that players could hardly get a good footing on, the Spartans found themselves locked in a tight game with the Cardinals.
The Spartans and Cardinals competed Sunday amid 20 degree temperatures and 10-15 mph winds at DeMartin Stadium.
"It was a tough one…both teams had to play in it and I think both teams played well in it," sophomore goalie Zach Bennett said. "It obviously made it pretty hard, but other than that I think it was just an NCAA game. Two top 20 teams in my opinion going at it and it is just ended the way we wanted."
From the opening kick-off, the Spartans came out aggressive by pressing with their forwards, which gave them multiple scoring opportunities in the first half, but it also opened up counter attacks for the Cardinals and forced them to knock the ball around.
"Overall, I thought defensively we did a good job. I thought they really didn't have a ton of good looks and I felt like we had a lot of possession," Louisville head coach Ken Lolla said. "Those things we do well. We limit chances and keep the ball and I thought we did both of those pretty well."
The ball movement by the Cardinals kept the Spartan defense on their toes and late in the first half, the defense got caught out of place, but redshirt junior Ryan Keener tracked back to the Spartans' 18-yard-box after making a play at the center circle.
In the process of making the play, Kenner re-injured his hamstring, but finished out the first half and was taken off one minute into the second half.
Junior, Ryan Keener, aggravates same hamstring that withheld the defender from the entire Big Ten Tournament Final Nov. 17.
The injury forced Rensing to move junior midfielder, Fatai Alashe, from midfield to center back.
"Fatai is a special player, not just athletically, but technically. He's got good composure," Rensing said. "One of the bad things about having all these injuries this year is you never put out your best team, but one of the good things is Fatai has played against Creighton, Marquette, some NCAA tournament teams, and he was very comfortable back there."
Both defense's were challenged in the second half as the Cardinals and the Spartans had plenty of goal scoring opportunities.
The Spartans had the best scoring opportunity in the second half during the 72nd minute, when senior Wesley Curtis got inside the Cardinals' 18-yard-box and found junior Kyle Rutz at the top of the six-yard-box.
Rutz was able to get a touch on it, but did not hit it hard enough as the Cardinal keeper, Ball Joachim made a great diving save to his left to keep the game scoreless.
"I think we created some good chances in the first and second half," redshirt junior Tim Kreutz said. "We didn't let down after that and…we just kept pushing forward after that for the goal."
For the seventh time this season, the Spartans were in a familiar place, overtime.
In the first overtime period, both teams had a few scoring chances, but could not capitalize, and both teams were still scoreless after the first five minute period.
A minute into the second overtime, the Spartans were awarded a free kick at the top of their half of the field.
Forward, Adam Montague, made his return after injuring his knee in mid-October against Akron. The junior missed seven games as the Spartans were without they're second leading-scorer.
Senior Kevin Cope stepped up to take the free kick and delivered the ball into the top half of the Cardinals' 18-yard-box.
Junior Adam Montague headed the ball towards the Cardinal net and found a wide-open Kreutz, who jumped up and headed it over Joachim and into the Cardinal goal.
"We knew we were good on set pieces and I just had a good feeling on that one," Kreutz said. "Thelen puts a good ball in and I don't know, Rutzy and Adam (Montague) both went up for it and when it went over my head, I kind of just stood there and waited for it to come back, and of course it came back to me and I don't know if I could be more open and I just directed it towards goal and luckily it went in."
The Spartans will next play Georgetown University (14-4-2) who defeated Old Dominion University 3-0 on Sunday.
"They are very good. They are the national runners up and they probably have two of the best forward combination in the country (with) Brandon Allen and Steve Neumann. Very well coached. Brian Wiese does a great job. Very technical team. I think it will be a great match and this is what you want for this time of year."
The Spartans will play at Georgetown University on Sunday, December 1 at 1 p.m in Washington D.C.
Brooks Laimbeer is a multimedia journalist for Impact Sports.
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Spartan defender Ryan Keener made an appearance on Monday's installment of Impact Sports' The Pact. Listen to his post-game comments and his predictions for the Spartans' match against the Hoyas here
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Obama's legacy: Still a work in progress?
James Bowen
Obama leaves office enjoying unusually high approval ratings while simultaneously fearing the wholesale destruction of his legacy.
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Published 19 Jan 2017 16:13 0 Comments
Barack Obama leaves office in the somewhat paradoxical position of enjoying unusually high approval ratings for a departing president, while also fearing the wholesale destruction of his legacy.
Many of Obama's most strident opponents have claimed that the election of Donald Trump was as much a repudiation of Obama's record as it was of the potential administration of Hillary Clinton. But can this really be the case when Trump himself will take office with a level of unpopularity that is not just unusual, but unprecedented in the modern era?
The most charitable reading of Trump's victory would credit a strategy that seemed ramshackle but was well-targeted to the somewhat democratically limited contours of the US Electoral College and Republican gerrymandering efforts. An alternative view would attribute the result directly to interference from Russian President Vladimir Putin and FBI Director James Comey.
Yet neither scenario will provide much solace to either the departing Obama, his broader political coalition, or those who have benefited from his eight years in power. At the front of these ranks we can reasonably include the millions who gained health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act, even if many didn't consider it a reason to vote for Hillary Clinton. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress seemed intent on dismantling it regardless of any changes in popular opinion, but the President-elect's recent pronouncements on offering 'health insurance for all' seem to have confused matters once again.
Obama's overall economic record also appears strong, with the recovery from the recession of 2008 now one of the longest on record (even if many of the new jobs this recovery created have been part-time, or in poorly paid professions). On the foreign policy front commentators might never reach a consensus on whether Obama was an overall positive or negative influence. What we can say is that, even with missteps such as a lack of a coherent strategy on Syria and the intervention in Libya, Obama offered a far more predictable worldview than his successor. There are now legitimate fears about the future of the US commitment to European integration and security, international trade and investment, the UN and multilateralism, and many other traditional pillars of the US role in the world. In the immediate term Trump may jeopardise Obama achievements such as the Iran nuclear deal, the normalisation of relations with Cuba, and the Paris climate change agreement.
It's clear Obama's legacy faces significant challenges. But should Trump prove a disastrous replacement, we should not discount the eventual vindication of his predecessor's political vision and a potential renaissance of some of its policies in the future.
After the dust settled on Trump's victory, Obama did indeed seem to position the result as part of the political ebb and flow and held firm in his belief in the eventual victory of a more liberal order at home and abroad. On fighting political division along racial and ethnic lines, for example, he said that his way 'may not always win the day in the short term, but I'm confident it'll win the day in the long term'.
The French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline once wrote that 'invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms'. Obama seems unlikely to leave the judgment of his record up to history alone. His last remaining days in office have been considerably active, putting in place whatever protections he can to guard against Trump's wrecking ball. This includes making another $500 million payment to an international fund designed to help poorer countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, scrapping regulations that might have been used to aid in registering Muslims in the US, working to protect funding for Republican-hated programs such as Planned Parenthood, and enacting bans on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.
Obama's enduring legacy will also include recent sanctions enacted on Russian officials in response to suspected Russian involvement in getting Trump elected. This has put the incoming president in the uncomfortable position of either keeping them in place - and thus tacitly agreeing they were warranted - or scrapping them, which would support perceptions he is currying Russia's favour.
Obama's decision to commute the sentence of WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning has also been welcomed by supporters of transparency and opponents of US foreign policy. While the decision may displease Trump's general-heavy cabinet, Manning and WikiLeaks have also enjoyed the support of some sectors of Trump's support base.
The 44th president's last press conference in office offered further evidence that his record and lasting public perception may not be solely in the hands of Trump and his regime. In contrast to his predecessor George W Bush, who did not enjoy the luxury of enduring popularity, Obama hinted at an ongoing active role in US public life. Highlighting several issues outside the normal realm of policy debate (including systematic discrimination, voter suppression, diminished press freedom, and persecution of migrants), he pledged to stand up for protecting America's 'core values'.
Trump, meanwhile, is also unlikely to let Obama slip quietly into the shadows, given that he has continued to drag up Clinton's name every time he needs to deflect criticism of his record during the transition period. Trump may be increasingly inclined to recall his predecessor's record to defend against criticism, possibly to a counterproductive result.
There seems to be a strong belief in a 'final' (or at least long-lasting) victory among many Trumpists. Trusted Trump advisor Steve Bannon has, for example, spoken of Republicans being able to rule for 50 years if they could bring in the black and Hispanic vote as well as broaden their white appeal. Obama and his supporters might, however, recognise this as unproductive hubris, particularly if they remember the departing President's early talk of heralding a moment when we 'began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless' and 'when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal'.
Obama's legacy was never going to be as grand as that, but it might just be more durable than expected.
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Macquarie's new CEO strikes a blow for asset management – and women
Published on: Thursday, July 26, 2018
The announcement on Thursday that Shemara Wikramanayake will replace Nicholas Moore as CEO of Macquarie Group in November is significant for two reasons.
The first is that it underlines the fact that Macquarie is now far more of an asset manager than an investment bank.
Wikramanayake has run the asset management unit, with A$495.1 billion under management, for a decade. In the 2018 financial year, Macquarie Asset Management accounted for 33% of group net profit, the biggest of the five constituent businesses at Macquarie; it is now among the top 50 asset managers in the world.
During Wikramanayake's tenure – she took over the business in 2008, but has been with Macquarie since 1987 – the whole bank has been reinvented, with 70% of profits now coming from what Moore calls annuity-style businesses (asset management, corporate and asset finance, banking) and only 30% from capital markets-facing businesses (Macquarie Capital, commodities and global markets).
That's how it's going to stay. Businesses such as asset management are predictable, robust and generate strong and diversified income streams. Her appointment simply cements it.
The other significance is that, even 10 years on from Gail Kelly taking the CEO job at Westpac, women are still rare at the chief executive level in Australian financial services.
Welcome addition
Wikramanayake, a woman of Sri Lankan heritage, is a welcome addition to the top table – and with Macquarie perhaps the country's ultimate meritocracy, there is nothing token about it.
Shemara
Wikramanayake,
Analysts are digesting the news and are generally pleased with it.
UBS states: "We hold her in very high regard and believe she has been fundamental in Macquarie's success."
Few expect notable changes to the way the bank is run, and indeed there is some commonality in approach: Wikramanayake is considered somewhat publicity-shy and modest. Moore, while not exactly shy, is certainly reserved and not given to bombast.
One lingering question comes from when the CEO role last changed hands in 2008. Then, Allan Moss handed over to Moore, in what history has judged as one of the most well-timed exits in history: within a year Moore was up to his neck in the global financial crisis and fending off rumours that the entire bank was going to go under. Moss was enjoying casual strolls around Sydney's Middle Harbour in retirement.
Moore deserves enormous credit for revamping the bank entirely and turning it into the powerhouse it is today. But is he, too, leaving at the top? Australian banks have never been so intensely scrutinized and as publicly reviled as they are today, while a rising interest-rate cycle will bring challenges.
Wikramanayake will not have it easy.
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Kelly Clarkson + Hoda Kotb's 'I've Loved You Since Forever' Hits No. 1 on iTunes
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Less than a day after debuting on The Today Show, Kelly Clarkson and Hoda Kotb's "I've Loved You Since Forever" has hit No. 1 on iTunes.
The soft-toned lullaby was written in conjunction with Kotb's new children's book of the same name, which she penned in honor of her her one-year old daughter Haley Joy. I've Loved You Since Forever, a picture book, has been described as, "a celebratory and poetic testament to the timeless love felt between parent and child."
Kotb is a noted fan of Clarkson's. Back in 2016, she and the singer both choked up during her performance of Hamilton's "It's Quiet Uptown" on The Today show.
"There is one person I know who has a voice that is in a class by itself," Kotb explained on Thursday (March 8) while unveiling the song.
I've Loved You Since Forever is currently on sale. Each download or stream of the accompanying track will be donated to Helpusadopt.org, which assists young couples with the cost of adoption.
Watch the world premiere of the track below.
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Source: Kelly Clarkson + Hoda Kotb's 'I've Loved You Since Forever' Hits No. 1 on iTunes
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Heyliger wants to acquire UTS St. Maarten
St. Maarten – Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Heyliger believes statements made in Curacao in reaction to a statement he made about United Telecommunications Services (UTS) should create impetus for the government here to acquire UTS St. Maarten. The minister laid out his position at the most recent Council of Ministers press briefing.
"I think it's a very important fact, and it strengthens the position that we have said before, that if the Curacao politicians decide to state that any proposal that has anything to do with St. Maarten, can be voted down because they have the numbers, then it goes to show you that St. Maarten should once again push forward that instead of UTS looking at buying Telem, that actually UTS should come over to St. Maarten," Heyliger said.
The deputy prime minister considers it very dangerous for the provision of telecommunications to be in the hands of the politicians in Curacao because it could lead to a reversal in the quality of products on offer or stagnation at the present level.
"This is something that we need to continue to monitor and continue to monitor the situation that we still don't have board members on the board of UTS, although we own shares in the company and I think again we will it official now to ask UTS for the same services that it has provided to the schools in Curacao to be able to provide that in St. Maarten and I will make that official request to the Director of UTS and I hope to get an official response and I hope the St. Maarten schools are treated with the same respect like those in Curacao," Heyliger said.
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Horror Short WORDS WITH KNIVES Slices Up Details And A Teaser Poster
Hey horror peeps! We got some news in on an upcoming horror short called WORDS WITH KNIVES and we have the details below and the teaser poster up top. This short also has Alien Bee's very own Kelsey Zukowski so show some love and support horror fans!
Emma has a loving family, caring boyfriend, and loyal best friend. One rumor might rip this all away from her though. She fights to hold on to her old life as one mean-spirited rumor becomes so real she can't find the light through the encompassing darkness. Emma tries to run from it, but it becomes so real and takes on a life of its own. She finds herself powerless to it and unable to distinguish rumor from reality. What if she can't escape it and hold on to her dwindling sanity?
Words Like Knives is a short dark drama written and starring Kelsey Zukowski and directed by Travis Legge. It also features Jeff Scaduto, Valerie Meachum, Myke Wilson, Melissa Revels, and Aley Kreinz. Shooting is scheduled for April 2012 in Rockford, IL.
Legge and Zukowski first worked together in March of 2011 on a Grindhouse trailer entitled, Monster Mash, which also starred Revels and Kitsie Duncan. Legge was a producer on the dark short, What They Say, which Zukowski wrote and acted in. The film was nominated for Best Short at The Chicago Horror Film Festival in September of 2011.
Legge has worked with the entire primary cast before, being well aware of their abilities and how they work best. Valerie Meachum appeared in Legge's twisted Christmas short, Holiday Carvings, as well as Legge's first feature film, Raymond Did It. Myke Wilson directed one of Travis' scripts, Event Invitation, which wrapped filming in October of 2011. Legge worked with Melissa Revels both in Monster Mash and Windershins along with a number of projects they have in the works.
"Words Like Knives deals with very disturbing material, but that's part of the point. I like tackling uncomfortable material. I find it far more interesting. It's a delicate balance between seeming exploitative and meaningfully bringing out the darker side of humanity. I'm thrilled with the team that has signed on for the project. Everyone involved really believes in what the film is trying to accomplish and will be a part in bringing this disquieting vision to life", Zukowski says.
Although, it tackles very taboo material it also deals with the universal themes of a rumor spinning out of control and how damaging idle gossip can be. It simply takes this to a more severe level and examines the possibility of the horrors that can be locked deep inside any one of us when pushed far enough.
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This article was published more than 1 year ago
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Amid turmoil, Washington Spirit routs Racing Louisville to move into NWSL playoff position
By Jake Lourim
October 9, 2021 at 10:41 p.m. EDT
Washington Spirit forward Ashley Hatch, right, celebrates her opening goal Saturday with teammate Ashley Sanchez. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
After the reckoning within the NWSL postponed all scheduled games last weekend before an emotional midweek return Wednesday, the Washington Spirit's match Saturday night fell a bit closer to routine — even if the upheaval inside the organization hung over Audi Field.
A sign reading "Sell The Team, Steve" was draped behind one goal, and another that read "BALDWIN OUT" hung at the other end, calling for managing partner Steve Baldwin to sell his stake in the team amid allegations of abuse within the franchise.
It's unclear if change at the top is coming, but the on-field product was impressive as the Spirit delivered a crisp performance in a critical 3-0 win over Racing Louisville.
The win put Washington (8-7-6) in playoff position. Louisville fell to 4-12-5.
The cloud hanging over the league, however, is taking a toll on the players.
"It's exhausting," Spirit goalie Aubrey Bledsoe said. "Across the league, though, every player has committed that we're going to do this work together. No one player or one team is going to shoulder the burden. So we're staying in solidarity across the league. But ultimately we're committed to making this league what it needs to be.
"I would love to get back to being a soccer player, first and foremost. It's a round-the-clock job right now, but we're not going to stop until we see some signs of change."
Forward Ashley Hatch, who scored twice, spoke afterward about what it's like explaining to new players about the team's previous culture under fired coach Richie Burke.
"That's a conversation we're trying to change," Hatch said. "We want there to be an NWSL where you don't have to explain to rookies or young players to prepare for an abusive coach or toxic environment. So I think that's why these conversations are so important."
The Spirit spent most of the first half on the attack, breaking through before allowing Louisville a shot. In the eighth minute, from near midfield, Trinity Rodman sent a ball bouncing toward the box that Racing's defense couldn't handle. Hatch ran on to the ball and fired it past goalkeeper Michelle Betos.
Rodman, who entered Saturday tied for the team lead in assists, and Hatch, the Spirit's leading scorer, connected again in the 80th minute from shorter range. With little urgency, Betos rolled a pass across the box to Sinclaire Miramontez. Rodman, who has developed a reputation as one of the team's fastest players, tore into the box and on to the ball, tapping a pass around Betos that Hatch finished for a 3-0 lead.
The goal was Hatch's ninth, moving her into a tie with OL Reign's Bethany Balcer for the league lead. Andi Sullivan scored Washington's second goal in the 52nd minute, after Kaleigh Riehl pushed Ashley Sanchez in the box.
The closest call on defense came when Louisville won a free kick in the 68th minute. Lauren Milliet slipped a shot through a gap in Washington's wall, but Bledsoe made a diving save.
The Spirit won the possession battle with 57 percent of the ball, completed 80 percent of its passes and outshot Louisville 20-11.
When the game began, the Spirit sat one point behind the Orlando Pride for the sixth and final playoff spot, with the competition only stiffening in the season's last three games. With a rout of the NWSL's ninth-place team, Washington moved past the Pride, which lost, 3-2, to Gotham FC on Saturday. The Spirit also passed the Houston Dash and North Carolina Courage, though both of those teams have played one fewer game. They play each other Sunday night.
Washington now finishes the season with games against the Courage on Wednesday, OL Reign next Sunday and the Dash on Oct. 31. All three of those teams would be in the playoffs if the season ended this weekend. The Spirit has seven points in the past three games after consecutive forfeits against the Reign and Portland Thorns because of coronavirus protocol violations.
Meanwhile, the players continue to call for Baldwin to sell his share of the team to co-owner Y. Michele Kang.
"Unfortunately, I don't think Steve is going to honor our demand or request," Bledsoe said. "He says that he puts the players first, but I don't know how he can do that when there's a chance that we would be moving. That is not at all what this team wants. We want to stay here in this city. It's a great city. They deserve a club."
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Groundbreaking Facts About The Most Brilliant Women In Science
Sammy Tran
For centuries, men dominated science, technology, engineering, and math (now known as STEM)–but that doesn't mean that women didn't make scientific history too. Did you ever wonder where the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity came from? Einstein himself credits a woman, Emmy Noether. Are you grateful for the wi-fi that lets you read Factinate? Thank Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood screen siren by day and secret tech innovator by night.
Noether and Lamarr, alongside well-known figures like the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, the astronaut Sally Ride, and the mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose incredible life was recently made into the movie Hidden Figures, are just some of the many amazing women who made scientific history.
Overcoming gender and race-based discrimination, lack of access to education and jobs, and disbelief about the credibility of their extraordinary findings, women in science are true (s)heroes. So, get out your calculator, prep your beaker, and sterilize your medical instruments: here are some brilliant facts about the fiercest women scientists.
Women in Science Facts
1. The Tragic Chemist
Marie Curie requires little introduction. The trailblazing scientist formed one-half of the Curie power couple, who went on to win the Nobel Prize for discovering radium. But Marie didn't stop there: in her widowhood, Curie won another Nobel prize, cementing herself in history as a role model for women in science.
Behind her scientific honors, however, lay a profound historical struggle. Marie's path to knowledge was fraught with starvation, sexism, war, love, and, yes, the occasional bedroom scandal. Raised in a time when higher education for women was not just taboo but often illegal, no one can accuse Marie Curie of enjoying an easy walk to the podium.
2. Running out of Faith
For a time, Marie Curie grew up in a multifaith Polish household: her mother Bronisława was a devout Catholic, while her father Wladyslaw Skłodowski was an atheist. After the heartbreaking sudden death of both her mother and oldest sibling Zofia from illnesses, everything changed for Marie. The future scientist gave up her mother's religion and turned towards agnosticism.
3. Science vs. Severance Package
Curie's father turned to desperate measures when the Russian government shut down labs in Polish schools. He actually stole lab equipment from his teaching job so that he could teach his children about science in secret. Eventually the school fired Mr. Curie for his radical political views. The family operated a boarding house to make ends meet. Anything for science in the Curie household!
4. Speak No Evil, Take No Offense
When the Royal Institution in London invited Marie and her husband to give a lecture on radioactivity, the Curies were delighted. But when Marie showed up to the 1903 speech, she realized the chilling truth. Women weren't actually allowed to speak at the Institution. Pierre did all the talking. Beware, reader, this is not the first time you'll encounter gender-based discrimination on this list.
5. Starving Scholar
School in Paris was not as charming as it sounds. As Marie studied physics, chemistry, and math at the University of Paris in 1891, she was so poor that she often fainted from hunger. Learning by day, tutoring by night, Marie barely made it out alive. She finally won her degree in physics in 1893.
6. In the Wings of Knowledge
While it wasn't financially easy for Marie and her sister to get an education, it was also legally dangerous. At the time, higher learning for women was actually illegal in Poland, so it goes without saying that the University of Warsaw didn't accept ladies. Instead, Marie and Bronisława got their scholastic head start in an illegal women's institution called the "Flying University"—so named because it was 'fly by night' and always changing locations to outrun the law.
7. Beat That
Most people remember Marie Curie as the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in 1903—a physics award that she shared with her husband, Pierre, for their work on radioactivity. Fewer people know that Curie actually won again for chemistry in 1911. To this day, Curie remains the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in separate science categories. Dang.
8. Welcome to the Love Shack
Marie and her husband partly completed their prize-winning experiments in an old shed behind a school. The old labs at work just couldn't house all the equipment that the Curies required to break down ore. The shack was….not great. It was not well ventilated and the roof leaked frequently. One visitor described the shed as "a cross between a stable and a potato shed." Hey, one person's creepy potato hut is another science couple's genius love shack.
9. The Silent Struggle
After her mother's death, Marie Curie experienced long struggles with mental illness. Although she graduated from a gymnasium school (a type of school with a strong emphasis on academic learning) with a gold medal in 1883, she collapsed from possible depression soon after and had to take a "gap year" of sorts.
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10. Travel-Sized Trauma
As tech gets more advanced, it also tends to get smaller (have you ever seen a picture of an early computer? They took up entire rooms!). Interested in advancing her work on radium, Curie invented mini X-ray machines. She wanted to assist French soldiers during World War I, and did so with style. Not only did she create the technology, she also learned to drive and helped wounded men herself at the Battle of Marne. The small X-rays became known as "petite Curies."
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11. Do Not Try This At Home
At the time of their investigations, Marie and Pierre Curie had no idea that radium was so hazardous to human health. (To be fair, they literally just discovered it). But their scientific brilliance had horrific side effects. Because Curie didn't know radium was dangerous, she literally walked around with bottles of the harmful substance in her pockets. At night, the couple basked in the whimsical, radioactive glow of their lab. Heck, Curie even used radium as a night light. Guys, do not do this.
Because of this longterm exposure, Curie's notebooks are still too radioactive to touch. It'll take 1500 years for them to become safe again. More tragically (and better known), Curie's familiarity with radium was both her greatest achievement and her final undoing. She died of aplastic anemia, brought on by radium exposure, in 1934.
12. The People's Element
Curie's legacy, however, lives on. A real one, she refused to claim intellectual property over her discovery of radium. Instead, she and Pierre made their research open to other scholars and producers. Even during the "Radium Boom" of the 1920s—when a single gram cost $100,000—Marie had zero regrets about her open-access approach to science. In her words, "Radium is an element, it belongs to the people." Preach, Marie.
13. Double Standards
Marie Curie lived life on the edge. From her scientific experiments to her bombastic personal life, no one could rein her in. In 1910 and 1911, Marie started an affair with Paul Langevin, a former student of her late husband. Unfortunately, Langevin was married (but estranged from his wife), so the media lambasted Marie as a homewrecker. Anti-Semitic tabloids even presented her as a foreign Jewish temptress.
14. Thanks, Einstein
The female scientist was at her lowest emotional point when Albert Einstein wrote her a very special letter. In his note, Einstein told Curie how much he admired her achievements. He also offered some good PR advice. Einstein told Curie not to "read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated." Einstein's advice did the trick. Curie brushed off the scandal and accepted her second Nobel Prize in Stockholm, like a boss.
Bonus Fact: Albert Einstein and Marie Curie were close friends for almost 25 years. In addition to attending those fancy smart people events, the pals also just liked to have fun and take their families together for hikes on the Swiss Alps. I want to see that road trip movie. Imagine the "Take my money" gif here, reader.
15. Maybe In Another Life, Marie Curie…
Long after Marie Curie ended her affair with Paul Langevin, her granddaughter and his grandson put things right. Even though their grandparents couldn't make it work, they could. Yup, the descendants tied the knot. And like their famous ancestors, Curie's granddaughter and Langevin's grandson were also scientists, nuclear physicists specifically. Nerd love forever.
16. Nerd Love
While Marie adored her husband Pierre, she enjoyed a powerful connection with another suitor. In her youth, Marie became star-crossed lovers with the future acclaimed mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. At the time, Marie worked as a governess in his parents' household, leading the duo to enter a scandalous inter-class romance.
While Marie and Kazimierz discussed marriage, Marie was too poor to be a good prospect for his family. The affair ended, with mutual pain. Even after Zorawski became an esteemed professor at Warsaw Polytechnic, Marie's now-elderly sweetheart would seat himself in front of her statue at the Radium Institution and stare wistfully. I'm not crying, it's just raining on my face.
17. The Enchantress of Numbers
Ada Lovelace is a 19th-century aristocrat who also just so happens to be one of history's first computer programmers. However, this gentlewoman genius came from a troubled lineage. As the daughter of the infamous Lord Byron, she entered scandal at the moment of her conception. Like Marie Curie, Lovelace struggled with dramatic life events, including scandalous affairs and gambling debts, even as she innovated computer programming.
18. Four Is a Crowd
What exactly is so bad about Lord Byron being your dad? Well, let's just say that he and Ada didn't get off to a good start. When Ada was just a few weeks old, Byron tried to evict his infant daughter for an utterly chilling reason. Using his legendary way with words, Byron told his wife Lady Annabella Byron that she and their daughter needed to leave ASAP. Sorry, ladies, but Byron has better things to do, like pursue a beautiful actress. After all, it's hard to get stage stars "in the mood" with your wife and crying baby in the house.
19. Who's Your Daddy?
But in the end, Byron left. He peaced out of England mere months after Lovelace's birth and died when she was eight. Father and daughter barely knew each other. At the very least, Byron seemed to regret his profoundly bad parenting. Mere moments before his death at the young age of 36, he allegedly cried out, "Oh, my poor dear child!—my dear Ada! My God, could I have seen her! Give her my blessing."
Despite his apparent sorrow, Lovelace's mom wasn't impressed. She didn't show Ada a picture of her father until Ada was 20 years old. All things considered, can you blame her?
20. Count Your Way to Mental Health
Lovelace owes her robust education in science and math to her own math prodigy mother, Lady Annabella Bryon. Oh, and the fact that her mother was horribly afraid of Ada inheriting her poetic father's "insanity." Lady Annabella figured that honest, non-romantic pursuits would keep her daughter on the straight and narrow. I guess this meant math, the least sexy subject known to humanity.
21. A Picture Says a Thousand Numbers
Evidently, Lady Annabella's distinctive parenting strategy paid off. Scholars now credit Lovelace with the first published algorithm ever programmed specifically for an early computer. Lovelace translated an Italian article that described Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, but because her extensive appended notes were three times longer than the actual article, Lovelace went down in history as the world's first computer programmer.
In regular people terms, you can thank Lovelace for reaction gifs. She was one of the first people to consider that computers could do more than just crunch numbers. In her mind, they might also digest writing, music, pictures, and even sound. Looks like dad's poetic side got into Lovelace's scientific brain after all…
22. The Family Jewels Are a Small Price to Pay for a Bit of Fun
You're never too smart for a gambling problem. Lovelace struggled to control herself at the horse tracks and once lost £3,200 pounds (a fortune in her time) on a single race. At one point things got so bad that the computer wiz sold her family diamonds just to keep afloat. At another low point, Lovelace tried to mush her love of losing money with her love of math. She teamed up with a bunch of con artists to develop a "predictor" for horse races. Evidently, it did not work.
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23. Down for the Count
Brains don't always equal brawn. Case in point: Lovelace spent much of her youth sick and disabled. Serious migraines affected her vision, and poor Ada was paralyzed from about age 14 to 16 after a terrible fight with measles. She had to walk with a crutch for years. However, this pain had a surprising bright side.
Because Lovelace struggled to move around freely, she started to study flight. The young scientist wrote a book called Flyology. Her work detailed the anatomy of different kinds of birds in all their varied size and glory.
24. Thanks for the Name Drop
At the age of 20, unconventional Ada made the conventional 19th-century move to marry respectably. In 1835, the young scholar wed William King-Noel, the Earl of Lovelace. He was 10 years her senior. In addition to several really fine manors, Lord Lovelace gave Ada the name by which she would be known to the public for centuries after.
25. She Loves Me Not
Ironically, Lovelace's "moral instructor" once encouraged her to cheat on her husband. In 1843, William Benjamin Carpenter educated Lovelace and her children. Carpenter himself was married, and tried to get Lovelace to at least confess to mutual feelings toward him. He argued that his own marital status would somehow prevent their conduct from being "unbecoming." Nice try, Willie. Lovelace quickly cut things off.
26. Not Quite a Lady
Though she grew up in luxury, Lovelace somehow missed the memo on female decorum. One gossip rag at the time described her as "the most coarse and vulgar woman in England." To be fair, her mad, bad, and dangerous father would have been proud to hear his little girl described so scandalously. On a less exciting note, Lovelace also wasn't the best dresser, despite how awesome she looks in the images below.
27. Burn After Kissing?
For Lovelace, rumors of infidelity were common (players gotta play?). Most notably, Lovelace apparently engaged in inappropriate relations with John Crosse, the son of one of her colleagues. No one knows for sure if they consummated their relationship, but after Lovelace died, Crosse destroyed all their correspondence as part of an ambiguous legal deal. Adding fuel to the fire, she even bequeathed Crosse all the heirlooms from her father.
28. Opium Haze
But Lovelace hid a terrible secret throughout her adult life. She battled a serious addiction to laudanum (an opium tincture) for her various ailments. If she didn't have laudanum, she experienced withdrawal symptoms such as extreme stress and itchy eyeballs. As soon as she could have some, the symptoms relaxed, and she went back to normal.
29. Extra Credit
When she was just 18 years old, Lovelace enjoyed a scandalous affair with her tutor, William Turner (Héloïse and Abelard, anybody?). They even schemed to ditch the books and elope together. Unfortunately, her beau's family recognized the infamous daughter of Lord Byron and squealed to her mom, Lady Byron.
30. The Family that Sticks Together Is Never Surprised
In 1841, Lady Byron informed Ada that she and her "cousin" Medora were actually much, much closer. They were half-siblings. To put it simply (and grossly), Lovelace's scandalous father maybe had an incestuous affair with his own half-sister. Look, I know Byron was interested in everyone, but at least keep it out the family, dude.
By our standards, Lovelace underacted to this incestuous revelation. She wrote to her mom, "I am not in the least astonished." But…how??
31. Honor Thy Father…in Everything
When confronted with her late father's alleged incest with his own half-sister (how many times will you read that?), Lovelace blamed one person and one person only: Medora's mother, Augusta Leigh. Lovelace wrote, "I fear she is more inherently wicked than he [Byron] ever was." Even smart people have double standards, I guess.
32. Some Things Can't Be Forgiven
When she was 36, Lovelace tragically perished of uterine cancer, but that day has gone down in history for an ever darker reason. Ada's husband William abandoned his wife's deathbed after a near-death confession. Historians suppose it was about her many infidelities, or the truth about her sister Medora. However, we may never know.
33. The Space Age's Hidden Figure
The 1950s was a time of opportunity and new frontiers, as all of America—and a good part of the rest of the world—turned their eyes to the moon, the stars, and beyond. But even as the US strove to break natural human boundaries, the Earth struggled to move past gendered and racial discrimination.
Katherine Johnson, a Black woman and one of NASA's mathematicians in the crucial early stages of the space program, had to break through both earthly and cosmic boundaries to fulfill her dreams and help get a man on the moon. The 2016 Hollywood blockbuster Hidden Figures already told some of her story, but there's still so much more to learn about this maverick woman.
34. A Gifted Child
Growing up in racially segregated West Virginia in the 1920s and '30s, Johnson showed an unusual talent for mathematics even as a child. Sadly, she didn't have an outlet for her natural skill. In fact, her county offered zero public schooling for Black children after grade eight. As a result, her parents had no choice: they had to send their daughter to high school in another county. Once she was in secondary school, though, Johnson flew through her classes. She even graduated at the ripe old age of 14.
35. Ahead of the Game
College followed the same pattern of advancement for Johnson. Entering West Virginia State, a historically black college, barely into her teen years, Johnson took no less than every single math course the school offered. Professors clamored to mentor her, including W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, who was only the third African American to receive a PhD in mathematics. In fact, Claytor designed special courses tailored specifically to Johnson.
She ended up graduating at 18, an age when most people are just entering college.
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36. Breaking Boundaries
Johnson's race already produced obstacles, but in 1939 her gender only made things worse. She dropped out of graduate school to raise a family with her first husband James Goble. After that, she taught but found it difficult to get a research position. In 1952, however, she heard from a family member that NACA, the predecessor to NASA, needed mathematicians to help calculate the numbers that would send men to space.
Johnson jumped at the chance. At first, NACA rejected her application—the positions were all full. But of course, the young woman knew how to persevere. She successfully reapplied in the next round and started work at Langley, Virginia in 1953. The sky was the limit—or so it seemed.
37. To the Moon and Back
Johnson's time at NASA is the most talked-about event in her biography and the most lauded, but it was riddled with hurdles. While at NASA, she worked with a pool of other female "computers" (women who crunched the numbers that NASA's white, male engineers decided they should crunch). Math is still gendered today as a largely male domain, and back then, NASA basically saw these female computers as glorified secretaries.
38. Computers in Skirts
Johnson called the women "computers who wore skirts," near-automated, well-behaved lady employees. But for Black women, things were even worse. State segregation laws were still in effect, and Johnson and her other Black colleagues had to eat, work, and relieve themselves in separate facilities from NASA's white employees.
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39. Finally
Despite this environment, Johnson kept her head down. She even said she "didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research. You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job." This laser focus soon would soon lead to sweet, sweet success.
One day, Johnson and another colleague received an exciting assignment. They would help the flight research team, which was made up entirely of men. Johnson worked studiously in the position, and her expertise in analytic geometry soon made her a permanent member of the team. As Johnson put it, "they forgot to return me to the pool."
40. The Great Divides
Johnson's humility is admirable but NASA did not simply "forget" to return her to the pool. She made herself absolutely indispensable because that's the only way to inch ahead in that environment. She recalls that women needed to be "assertive and aggressive" to receive any credit for their work. Indeed, women couldn't even put their names on reports.
One of Johnson's had to advocate heavily for her and then quit NASA entirely for Johnson to get credit on a report they co-wrote. Whatever Johnson did to advance, it was a continual struggle to not be forgotten or worse, ignored.
41. The Century of Johnson
But when John Glenn was about to become the first American man in orbit around the Earth, he remembered Johnson's brilliance. Glenn demanded that she personally check NASA's numbers before he even considered taking off. Despite the attempts to erase her contributions, Johnson more than made her mark at NASA, the world, and the moon.
Other than Glenn's space trip, Johnson worked on the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, helped the ill-fated Apollo 13 get back to Earth, and received the vaunted Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
42. Ready, Set, Soar
Speaking of women who helped us take flight, why should Amelia Earhart get all the credit? Lilian Bland—despite her last name—led an exciting life. Not content with just being a sport journalist, Bland was the first woman in American history to design and fly her own aircraft. We guess you could call her The Aviatress. Take that, Howard Hughes.
43. Miss Medicine
When she was only 26 years old, Dorothy Hodgkin discovered the structure of penicillin. That sounds kind of boring, but this was a HUGE deal. Hodgkin's discovery meant that scientists could super-charge the drug and make it fight powerful infection strains. If that weren't enough, she also discovered the structures of vitamin B1 and insulin. Simply put, disease beware. Hodgkin is coming for you.
44. It's the Little Things That Matter
Beulah Henry had a fun nickname. Society called her "Lady Edison" because of, you guessed it, her Edison-like record of invention. Henry held 49 patents and over 100 inventions to her name, including a can opener, a hair curler, and even a vacuum ice cream freezer. Lord knows I couldn't live without any of these precious items, so thank you, St. Beulah.
45. Grand Theft Science
If you can picture the iconic double-helix structure of DNA, thank Rosalind Franklin, who first captured "the secret of life" on film. Unfortunately, she suffered an utterly chilling crime. Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins hijacked Franklin's discovery. Wilkins stole Franklin's photograph, known as Photo 51. Wilkins then showed the picture to Watson. The three men—Watson, Crick, and Wilkins—won the 1958 Nobel Prize for their discovery, without even mentioning Franklin. Boo. BOO.
46. Don't Mess with This Doc
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker truly deserves a lush period drama adaptation. Not only did she work her way through medical school, Dr. Walker also acted as a spy in the Civil War, where she fought to end slavery. Walker crossed enemy lines to secretly care for soldiers imprisoned by Confederate Troops. When the South discovered her, she endured life (and injuries) as a prisoner of war.
For her bravery, she received the Medal of Honor in 1865. But since we never give women full credit, the commission revoked Dr. Walker's medal in 1917. However, the good doctor refused to give the medal back and wore it proudly until her death in 1919. Decades later, the commission realized their mistake and reinstated her medal in 1977. Uh, duh.
Bonus facts: Dr. Walker was also an abolitionist, a woman's suffrage activist, and did the lord's work by advocating for "dress reform." In other words, she worked hard so that women could stop squishing their organs with corsets and wear what they want (in Walker's case, pants). Ten for you, Dr. Walker. You go, Dr. Walker.
47. The Book of What?
For ages, scholars believed that the Trotula—a three-part medical text on women from the 11th century—must have a male author. As it turns out, Trota of Salerno was the pioneering author of the work. Scholars don't know very much about Miss Trota, except that she worked as a medieval OBGYN and deserves credit for her work.
48. Look to the Skies (So He Can Steal Your Success)
In 1925, Cecilia Payne wrote a paper about the stars, uncovering exactly what elements form them. A male reviewer read Payne's essay but rejected her work because it went against the day's predominant thought. Lo and behold (emphasis on "low"), this same male reviewer published a curious paper four years later. It used Payne's ideas and came to the exact same conclusions. Hmm…
49. The Mother of Planned Parenthood
Beginning her career as a nurse, Margaret Sanger became a prolific writer, women's health advocate, and political activist. She pioneered the term "birth control," opened the first birth control clinic, and founded the American Birth Control League in 1921. This League later became the organization we now know as Planned Parenthood.
Sanger also founded a birth control clinic with only female doctors (the first of its kind) and organized a Harlem clinic whose advisory council only included Black men and women.
50. Science For All
Marie Maynard Daly was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Chemistry. After her historic achievement, she worked at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and made important contributions to the science of hypertension and the human circulatory system. But Daly didn't believe science was only for labs. She also used her prominence to advocate for other African-American students by establishing a scholarship and developing programs to encourage enrolment.
51. Where Few Women Have Gone Before
After graduating from medical school and serving in the Peace Corps, Mae Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps. She became the first African-American woman to travel to space on the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 and was the first real-life astronaut to appear on Star Trek. Jemison remembers that day fondly, saying that she admired Nichelle Nichols (Uhura in the original series) and loved being be part of the show. Dreams do come true, kids.
52. Coming Home
Mary-Claire King's work as a geneticist has incredibly touching results. King used her knowledge to help Argentinian children reunite with their families after the civil war. She identified DNA links between orphaned and abandoned children and their relatives.
53. Cleopatra the Alchemist and the Philosopher's Stone
It might not be classified as science today, but Cleopatra the Alchemist was a foundational figure in 3rd-century science. Society considered her to be one of only four women who could produce the Philosopher's Stone. It's super impressive that she received this credit. I mean, the 3rd-century didn't exactly welcome women in science.
54. Team Work Makes the Dream Work
In 1985, Chinese-American immunologist and molecular biologist Flossie Wong-Staal and her colleagues cloned HIV-1. By making a map of HIV-1's genes, the team changed everything: doctors could now test for the virus. Devoted to HIV science, Dr. Wong-Staal made several significant discoveries over her long career. Her work famously helped researchers learn about the link between HIV and AIDS.
55. Evil Keneval, Eat Your Heart Out
Surely one of the coolest lady scientists ever, Beatrice Shilling raced motorcycles in the 1930s. An aeronautical engineer by training, she invented "Miss Shilling's orifice" (does that sound suggestive to anyone else?). The device was a small metal ring that prevented stalls in the carburetors of Rolls-Royce airplane engines, which were used in WWII fighter planes.
This allowed pilots to steeply ascend without fear their engines would stall and they would, you know, plummet to a fiery death. All the swoons for Miss Shilling.
56. Cite Your Sources
Emmy Noether devised a principle, now known as Noether's theorem, that was foundational to the field of quantum physics. Einstein based his famous calculations in part on Noether's theorem. He later said of her accomplishments, "It is really through her that I have become competent in the subject." Credit where credit is due, y'all.
57. Giving Back
Mary Jackson, one of NASA's "hidden figures," was an engineer at NACA, which became NASA in 1958. After 34 years at NASA, she held the highest engineering position available, but her legacy truly centers around another incredible achievement. Jackson worked passionately to advance the hiring and promotion of women at NASA.
She managed the NASA Office of Equal Opportunity, the Affirmative Action program, and the Federal Women's program.
58. Humanities VS Sciences
As an anthropologist and folklorist, Ruth Benedict seems like a weird person to be on this list, but her work was incredibly important for undermining racist pseudo-science. Benedict fought for cultural understanding and equality. She published pamphlets educating American troops against racist beliefs. Through her work, Benedict showed that many racist fallacies had no basis in scientific reality.
59. Victorian Period Jurassic Park
Mary Anning was a curious 11-year-old when she discovered her first fossil. What her brother dismissed as a crocodile turned out to be an Ichthyosaurus, an aquatic dinosaur. In her long career as a Victorian era fossil hunter, Anning taught herself anatomy, geology, paleontology, and scientific illustration. She also discovered hundreds of fossils from up to 200 million years ago.
60. Hedy Lamarr, The Mother of the Internet
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand there and look stupid."—Hedy Lamarr
That's not very nice, but if anyone had the right to say so, it was Hedy Lamarr. Combining brains and beauty, Lamarr was a glamorous movie star by day and the mastermind (mistressmind?) of a scientific revolution by night. With her collaborator, George Antheil, Lamarr developed the groundbreaking technology that led to wi-fi.
However, like so many of the women on this list, Lamarr struggled to have her achievements recognized, all while dealing with Hollywood's dramatic dark side.
61. Seeing the Future
Despite her Jewish heritage, Lamarr married a fascist in 1933 when she was just 19 years old. Friedrich "Fritz" Mandl, a munitions manufacturer, was one of the richest men in Austria. When the pair married, he demanded that Lamarr officially convert to Catholicism. And that's just the beginning of this man's trash-fire qualities.
Lamarr's husband was also intensely jealous. For example, Mandl travelled Europe, buying and destroying every copy of Ecstasy (a scandalous movie starring Lamarr) that he could find. But there was one silver lining: Mandl insisted that Lamarr accompany him to business meetings where she listened to scientists discuss cutting edge science.
62. A Clean Getaway
Eventually, Mandl's jealous, controlling behavior became too much for Lamarr, no matter how many nerd meetings she got to attend. When enough was enough, the actress fled Austria. Lamarr claims that she disguised herself as a maid and escaped to Paris, where she got a divorce. Other sources insist that Lamarr made an even more amazing escape. The story goes that Lamarr wore all of her expensive jewels to a dinner event, and then ran off into the night.
63. Can I Tell You a Secret?
When she wasn't escaping terrible men or starring in Hollywood hits, Lamarr worked on her scientific experiments, including an invention that would revolutionize communication technology. Inspired by the rolls used by player pianos, Lamarr and a collaborator, a composer named George Antheil, began working on something they called a "Secret Communication System."
64. Outsmarting the Enemy
Lamarr heard that the Navy had a major problem. Their radio-controlled torpedoes could be hacked by the enemy, then jammed and set off course. She believed that creating a signal that quickly hopped from one frequency to another would avoid such jamming. If the enemy could only hold onto the signal for a moment before it hopped onto a different frequency, maybe they could hack part of a message, but they could never ruin the whole thing.
This came to be known as frequency-hopping spread spectrum, and would later be used to developed all kinds of wireless communication technology. What modern day technology uses spread spectrum, you ask? Bluetooth, GPS, and wi-fi. Now that's a legacy.
65. The Patent
Lamarr and Antheil failed to actually produce a device that could effectively jump frequencies, but the idea was enough to secure a patent. In 1942, the US Patent Office granted "Hedy Kiesler Markey" Patent 2.292.387. However, Lamarr's patent was confiscated because of prejudice against Austrian immigrants, who were often considered to be enemy aliens. In the end, she didn't receive a penny for her incredible invention, even though it would be worth around $30 billion today.
66. Captain Marvellous
Frequency hopping wasn't Lamarr's only invention. She created an improved version of the spotlight and famously gave Howard Hughes tips on how to design his airplanes. Hughes, who Lamarr dated briefly (and unhappily–she called him her "worst lover"), gave her full access to his team of scientists and engineers for her own projects, but it was Lamarr's research into birds and fish that inspired her most important tip.
She showed Hughes that the fastest birds and the fastest fish shared certain shapes when they lunged and moved. At Lamarr's urging, Hughes made his planes less square and more streamlined, allowing them to go higher, further, faster.
67. Soda Stream, 1940s Edition
Hughes gave Lamarr two chemists to assist her with a project. In the end, she invented a tablet that turned water into carbonated drinks, taking special pride in a cube that transformed a regular cup of H2O into Coca Cola. The starlet found inspiration in stories from soldiers stationed overseas. They desperately missed home, so Lamarr figured out a way for them to taste America, even while abroad.
68. Nice to be Appreciated
Lamarr never won an Oscar. She was never even nominated. But she was the first woman to win "the Oscars of Inventing," the so-called Bulbie award, when she was honored at the 1997 Invention Convention. In 2014, Lamarr was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame.
69. Life in Plastic, Not Fantastic
While Lamarr lived long enough to see her innovation recognized, her film career had long since dried up and she became reclusive. One devastating reason for Lamarr's withdrawal was her faded beauty. Lamarr was once the world's most gorgeous woman (legends say that Disney animators based Snow White on her facial features) but after some botched plastic surgeries, she became slightly disfigured.
Even when Lamarr was under the knife, she needed to innovate. Her plastic surgeons described how Lamarr would come to them with ingenious ideas for lifting, cutting, and pulling skin so that she would appear more youthful. Apparently, surgeons still use some of her ideas to this day.
70. Sally Ride
In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman (and the youngest person) to go into outer space, mere decades after Star Trek introduced the idea to pop culture. With a PhD in physics from Stanford, an extensive career with NASA, and an inspirational personal life, Ride is truly a scientific (and social) icon.
71. In on the First Attempt
In 1978, NASA selected women for their astronaut training for the first time in the organization's existence. After reading an advertisement in the student newspaper at Stanford University, Ride put forward her own application. NASA chose her to be part of NASA Astronaut Group 8. History was about to be made.
72. Professional Relationship
In 1982, Ride married Steven Hawley, one of the other astronauts on NASA Astronaut Group 8 (Hawley would go into space two years after Ride made her first space voyage). But the couple was doomed to a heartbreaking end that would only make sense years too late. The couple finalized their divorce in 1987.
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73. Worst-Case Scenario
Ride said that during her times in space, there were thankfully no close calls or near disasters. She admitted, however, that launching was always thrilling and dramatic moment. Fair enough. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle known as Challenger broke apart less than two minutes into its tenth flight.
All seven of the people on board died during the disaster. At the time, Ride was eight months into training for her third ride into space.
74. When My Heart Stopped
The Challenger disaster devastated the American nation, but Ride took it even harder than most. Four of the deceased astronauts were in her class, meaning that she knew them closely for years before the disaster. Despite this closeness to the tragedy, Ride served on the investigation committee formed in the aftermath of the tragedy.
75. Showing Solidarity
Six months before the Challenger disaster, one of the engineers tried to warn the construction company that a terrible incident could happen. While the workplace promptly shunned its whistleblower, Roger Boisjoly, Ride publicly supported him. Tragically, she was the only one. Boisjoly later credited Ride with being the only person on his side.
76. Love of My Life
It wasn't until after Ride's death that she became the first LGBTQ+ woman to go into space. Ride was the long-term partner of university professor and writer Tam O'Shaughnessy. The women began their relationship in 1985 and remained together until Ride's death.
77. Meant to Be
Ride's relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy actually went back to Ride's early years playing tennis. The pair met while competing in tournaments and remained close for the rest of their lives, eventually becoming romantic partners. Interestingly, O'Shaughnessy was mentored by none other than tennis playing legend Billie Jean King, who was also one of Ride's childhood heroes, and a fellow lesbian icon.
78. In the Name of Science
In 2001, Ride and her partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, founded the company called Sally Ride Science. Based in San Diego, the company strives to encourage young people to pursue science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. It also runs several different programs which provide professional development to teachers and encourage students to pursue the sciences.
79. Wait, What?!
As many of you can sadly imagine, Ride endured some baffling questions from the media before going into space. Among the most ludicrous questions allegedly thrown her way were "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?" and "Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?" We'd like to say that the 1980s was a different time, but we still have a long way to go.
80. Honorable Mention
In the late 1980s, the LGBTQ+ community in the United States fought many battles for their civil rights, even as the AIDS crisis claimed so many lives. One project which emerged from this period was the Legacy Walk in Chicago. This outdoor public display is a celebration of the contributions that LGBTQ+ people made to world history. After Ride's orientation was revealed, she received proper mention. In 2014, Ride was inducted into the Legacy Walk.
81. One Small Laugh for Man, One Giant Leap Backwards for Womankind
Did you know that NASA held beauty pageants until the 1970s? Yup, and they weren't the only ones. Several science organizations—from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to the Lewis Space Center—held beauty competitions with colorful names such as "Miss NASA" (of course), "Miss Guided Missile" (okay, that's clever), and "Lunar Landing Festival Queen" (they're scientists, not poets).
Who didn't find it funny? Well, NASA pressured some women employees into participating. They didn't love the idea—but don't worry. They had the last laugh.
82. Too Manly to Take a Joke
In protest of the sexist "Miss NASA" competitions, a group of women swapped the ballots with joke slips where workers could vote for one of 45 male NASA employees for "King of the court" (or more demeaning, "Boy of the court"). Faced with a challenge from mysterious forces, the men bravely freaked the heck out and called security.
Nevertheless, the "results"—featuring cartoons of the winners themselves—were shared among workers the very next day. This shocked the men so deeply that they canceled the Miss NASA competition before it could ever launch again. Point, set, match. Now, where's that Men of NASA commemorative calendar?
83. The Lady With the Lamp
Florence Nightingale requires little introduction to anyone interested in medical history. The Victorian nurse's name is shorthand for first-class bedside care, but few people know that Nightingale's social reforms changed modern medicine both on and off the battlefield forever.
84. One of the Guy's Girls
When she was 18 years old, Nightingale began a lifelong friendship with the writer and intellectual, Mary Clarke. Although Clarke was 27 years older than Nightingale, age ain't nothin' but a number, baby. The women were great friends and Mary Clarke influenced young Nightingale with her masculine manners, eccentricity, and ambitious pursuits that, to anyone else, would be seen as "for the boys."
85. Not Today, Death
Though it's a horrific thought, rat faeces and rodents themselves weren't uncommon sights in Victorian war hospitals. Florence Nightingale, not super impressed with these terrifying conditions, deduced a then "radical" notion. Her wild idea? Lousy sanitation just might lead to death. Leading a brigade of 38 nurses, Nightingale led a cleanliness crusade.
Nightingale and her nurses overturned medical services during the 1850s Crimean War. Thanks to her reforms—and the work of the nurses—mortality rates in the hospital where she worked dropped from 40% to just 2%.
86. It's As Easy As Pie
You like pie charts? Thank Florence Nightingale for popularizing the use of the infographics in journals and print culture. Although she didn't invent the pie chart—they were first drawn in 1801, some 19 years before her birth—Nightingale adapted the diagrams for her public medical reports. In a famous 1858 document, she used the chart to display the varieties of war casualties. Like Marie Curie, Nightingale valued clear communication.
87. Her Majestic Fandom
Queen Victoria was a big-time Florence Nightingale groupie. She even sent the nurse a specially-made broach for her service. It came with a note that read, "It will be a very great satisfaction to me…to make the acquaintance of one who has set so bright an example to our sex." The pair met in 1856 and stayed pen pals for the rest of their lives.
88. The War at Home Will Save Lives
After the Crimean War, Nightingale brought her sanitation crusade home. In the early 1870s, she pushed for a policy that would make sure English buildings connected to main drainage systems. She asked a startling question: if soldiers got clean water and conditions, why not citizens? The proof of Nightingale's efforts lies in the numbers.
By 1935, when the ambitious legislation took effect, the national life expectancy shot up by approximately 20 years.
89. Pay It Forward, Flo
After becoming rich from a $250K prize, Nightingale donated all her cash to a noble cause. She helped build St. Thomas' Hospital, as well as the Nightingale Training School for Nurses.
90. Reading Pain-bow
Nightingale used basic English to write her medical books and reports. Paired with her use of readable infographics, she played an instrumental role in making health knowledge accessible, even for those with low-level literacy. Over her life, Nightingale wrote about 200 books, articles and pamphlets—and only some of these were related to medical professionalism. She also tried social writing, religious treatises, and even engaged with Roman mythology.
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91. RN of the Thinkpiece
Few people know that Florence Nightingale wrote "Cassandra," a Victorian feminist polemic that lambasted society for socializing women to be weak. She cites how her mother and sister fell into "lethargy," even with their good education. She also discloses her fears that she might become like the mythical Cassandra, a princess of Troy cursed with foresight that no one believes.
Nightingale totally would have gotten along with Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. She also hated social constraints that hurt women, focusing especially on clothing. Dr. Walker wrote about how voluminous skirts trapped bacteria. She wore pants under her own skirts and over time, just wore pants out in the open. Living the dream.
92. Good Living for All
Nightingale advocated for hunger relief and sex workers' health in India. In the 1860s, the British government tried to introduce a law that forced women sex workers to receive medical examinations by the state—with no mandatory testing for men, of course. Although she held generally anti-sex work views, Nightingale still fought against this discriminatory legislation. From her research, she saw it as unfair—and also just plain ineffective in preventing the spread of venerable disease.
In her formal analysis, she saw the bill as informed by a double standard that had little medical basis. Instead, she and other opponents of the bill saw health as determined by social factors like poverty and diet, rather than gender and purity. Nevertheless, she only succeeded in getting the bill's passing slowed down, not abolished.
93. Time for an Upgrade
Nightingale's family, especially her mother and sister, never supported her decision to go into nursing—though, to be fair, they were right to wish "better" for her, considering the time. In early Victorian England, nursing was not a great scene. It was full of alcoholism, low wages, and nurses sometimes made ends meet with sex work. These days, we credit Nightingale with bringing "respectability" to the once-scandalous profession.
94. Nursed to Death?
In 1861, Nightingale was accused of killing a statesman with cleanliness. Or rather, people whispered that her pressure for healthcare reform sent Sidney Herbert to an early grave…though his case of Bright's Disease certainly helped.
95. Partner in Arms
Despite her "implication" in his death, Sidney Herbert was good friends with Nightingale, whom he met on his honeymoon in Rome. He would be Secretary of War on two separate occasions, during which Nightingale served as a close political advisor.
96. Who Nurses the Nurse?
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One hundred years ago, spare parts for aircraft were difficult to find. There were few operational aircraft in Australia, and the new era of air travel was only just dawning around the world. So when Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith needed new engine components and a new propeller for their Vickers Vimy, in which they had become the first people to fly from England to Australia, they received an offer from Queensland Rail to manufacture the required parts at the Ipswich Railway Workshops. The required repairs resulted in a month of public engagements in Brisbane and further celebrations for the flight crew.
On 12 November 1919, pilots and brothers Ross and Keith Smith, with mechanics Wally Shiers and Jim Bennett, left Hounslow, near London, bound for Darwin in their Vickers Vimy bi-plane bomber, carrying the registration 'G.E.A.O.U', known as 'God 'Elp All Of Us.' The aircraft, with its two Rolls Royce Eagle Mark VIII engines, carried the crew 17,910 kilometres across France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia through difficult weather and landing conditions at an average speed of 137kph. They landed successfully in Darwin on 10 December and claimed the £10,000 prize awarded by the Commonwealth government as the first crew to fly from England to Darwin.
The Vickers Vimy and crew with visitors in Darwin, December 1919. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
Although they managed to complete the arduous flight from England to Australia in just 28 days, it took them almost twice as long to make their way from Darwin to Sydney. With the tired engines needing an overhaul but the wet season looming, the crew pushed on out of Darwin, hoping to reach Sydney in 5 days. However, after 11 days in hot conditions and with numerous running repairs, the damaged port-side propeller had split through and when leaving Charleville, there was a bang and a flash of fire out of the port-side engine and multiple parts were needed to repair it.
Offers of assistance came in from around the country. Famous overlander Francis Birtles said he could drive a new propeller and parts from Sydney. The Vickers Vimy crew sought spare parts around Australia, but could not secure what was necessary, knowing what they needed could be shipped from London. The Defence Department offered some of their aircraft so that the crew could complete their flight to Sydney and the other capital cities, leaving the Vickers Vimy behind. In the end, Ross Smith accepted the offer of assistance from James Walker Davidson, Commissioner for Railways, for new parts to be manufactured at the Ipswich Railway Workshops so that the Vimy could be repaired and complete its journey.
Damaged Vickers Vimy engine being loaded for rail transport to Ipswich. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
Vickers Vimy camp, awaiting repairs near Charleville. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
The damaged engine and propeller were loaded on to rail cars and they arrived, along with Ross and Keith Smith, and mechanic Jim Bennett in Ipswich on 2 January 1920. Chief Mechanical Engineer C F Pemberton took supervision of the engine and propeller when they arrived at the Ipswich Workshops. Accounts suggest that Jim Bennett stayed at the Workshops as he was never far from the engine. Sir Ross and Sir Keith stayed at Bellevue Homestead.
The Workshops staff set to work on their projects. They did not have patterns or drawings to work from for the propeller or the engine connecting rods, so they were required to make exact copies based on the existing parts in front of them. According to Workshops records, the Pattern Shop used "nine layers of Queensland maple, stuck together with hot animal glue" to make the new propeller. The alloy connecting rods were forged with the same attention to detail and the Workshops built a stand for the engine and propeller to be tested on.
The new propeller with Ipswich Railway Workshops Pattern Shop staff Guy Page, Clem Boyd, Frank Hazlewood, foreman J Millar, and Vickers Vimy crew mechanic Jim Bennet. Queensland Museum Network/Queensland Rail.
Pattern Maker Guy Page souvenired two pieces of timber from the damaged Vimy propeller and made them into straight edges, using them for his trade at the Workshops. H11250. Photos by Peter Waddington, Queensland Museum Network.
A valve inlet believed to have been souvenired from the damaged Rolls Royce engine during its time at the Ipswich Workshops for repairs. H295. Photo by Peter Waddington, Queensland Museum Network.
Another souvenir from the airmen's visit to Brisbane, a small block of Queensland Maple, signed on one side by Sir Keith Smith and on the other by Sir Ross Smith. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection H22425. Queensland Museum Network.
While the work was underway, Brisbane took its opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the crew. Sir Ross Smith's and Sir Keith Smith's public engagements included a dinner at Government House, a reception at Brisbane Town Hall with Mayor Alderman McMaster, luncheons with The Returned Soldiers' League and at the Queensland Club, dinner at the United Service Institution, and the presentation of an illuminated address by the King and Empire Alliance.
On 12 January, the aviators were entertained at a dinner held in their honour by the Queensland Section of the Australian Aero Club. As the Brisbane Courier described:
The distinguished aviators were entertained at a dinner at the Belle Vue Hotel last night by the Queensland Section of the Australian Aero Club, Mr J J Knight (president) occupying the chair. The table was appropriately decorated with the Australian Flying Corps' colours – royal blue, maroon, and light blue – streamers being suspended from a shield, with the motto 'Per ardua ad astra', to the ends of the table. Overhead was a line of triangular shields, with the names of all the stopping places along the line of route. A miniature Vickers Vimy aeroplane was electrically driven over the heads of the guests, and on arrival at the end where the Australian Arms were displayed was greeted by the band playing 'Australia Will Be There'. The table was decorated with crimson roses and candles softened with red, white and blue shades. The toasts honoured were 'The King', 'Our Guests' and 'Future Aviation in Australia'. A tribute was paid to the distinguished airmen by Major Macleod, O.B.E., Lieut. Bowden Fletcher, D.F.C., Major V D Bell, O.B.E., and the chairman, this being the first gathering of airmen to greet the aviators in Australia, a number of those present being comrades of the guests Sir Ross's and Sir Keith's speeches were particularly appropriate.
Signed menu for the Australian Aero Club, Queensland Section, dinner congratulating Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith, held at Hotel Belle Vue on 12 January 1920. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
Signed table decoration, representing one of the stops on the Vickers Vimy flight from the Australian Aero Club, Queensland Section, dinner congratulating Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith, held at Hotel Belle Vue on 12 January 1920. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
With the propeller and engine repairs complete, it was decided to hold a public test of the assembly at the Workshops on Saturday 31 January 1920, from 3:00pm. A special train was arranged to bring the public from Ipswich Station to the Workshops, and admission of sixpence (6d) was charged with proceeds going to the Ipswich Hospital and Ambulance Funds. It is estimated that a crowd of over 1000 people attended the engine test, as it was reported that 28 pounds, seven shillings, and threepence was raised in admission.
On what became known as 'the day of the big wind', the Queensland Times reported "Sergeant Bennett was seen making several adjustments adjacent to the engine. The object thereof was revealed a couple of seconds later when the propeller assumed a wonderfully increased rate of speed, which was accompanied by a dinning whir." The success of the engine repairs were proved in the running of the engine from most of the afternoon, with the crowd impressed by its loud roar and cyclonic wind blast.
Crowd gathered at the Ipswich Railway Workshops to view the engine testing, 31 January 1920. Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection, Queensland Museum Network.
Train ticket to view the engine testing at the Ipswich Railway Workshops, 31 January 1920. Queensland Museum Network.
The engine, propeller, and crew returned to Charleville by train and proceeded on their route to Sydney where more celebrations were held in their honour. Their unscheduled stops in Queensland had proved entertaining and interesting to the public in Brisbane and Ipswich, who had seen little of aviation at that time. One hundred years later, an average of 2,977 domestic aircraft and 729 international aircraft move through Brisbane Airport each week.
20 December, 2019 qldmuseum 1 Comment
It's hard not to look at the first trains used on the Queensland Railways as being toylike. Locomotives like 1865 built A10 No.6, proudly displayed at The Workshops Rail Museum are small and charming, but of course still heavy and hardly delicate. So it might come as a surprise to learn a train was blown off the tracks as if it were only a toy one stormy night in 1875.
A10 No. 3 stands next to a much younger colleague in 1914, demonstrating just how small early QR locomotives were (Image courtesy of Keith McDonald).
The train had left Toowoomba on January 25th and was due to arrive at Warwick at 7:45pm that night. But halfway through the journey, a storm broke across the railway's path. Closing windows proved no use, and there were two inches of water inside the carriages before too long. Suddenly, just outside Cambooya, a violent crash hurled passengers from their seats. The wind had scattered the train, tipping the wooden carriages onto their sides and smashing them to pieces. The locomotive was derailed but remained defiantly upright, potentially saving its crew from being badly burned by escaping steam or burning coal. Miraculously only one person was slightly injured. News was sent by horseback to Toowoomba with a rescue train arriving at 1:30am the next morning.
According to the Ipswich Observer, one passenger was heard to 'damn the narrow gauge most emphatically' upon returning to safety. Possibly a fair criticism of Queensland's smaller, lighter trains given the circumstances. The ill-fated train's guard that night – Charles Evans – later went on to be the Commissioner of the Queensland Railways in 1911. I can't imagine there are too many railway bosses out there today that can claim that level of hands-on experience!
David Hampton
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THE WHEELS ARE IN MOTION
13 November, 2019 qldmuseum 1 Comment
Many expressions we use today date back to the era of 'horse and cart' transport. Cars feature 21st century technology like sat-nav systems, but they also have reminders of travel in the 1800s. The dashboard was originally a timber or leather panel in front of a buggy which stopped mud from the 'dashing' horse flicking onto passengers. On rainy days buggy owners also rode with the hood up like modern convertibles.
Buggy drivers wore gloves when handling the leather reins to keep off leather oil and dust. These were stored in the glove box. What is too big for the glove box goes in the boot. The boot box on a coach was under the driver's seat, behind his boots. The boot is still for luggage, but is now at the back. The driver on a coach was in control, sitting up on the box seat. People still use the term to describe a position of power.
Horses and carriages were dark colours. Accidents occurred in towns at night if buggies did not have headlights and taillights. A bit of red glass in the back of coach lamps showed which way a vehicle was going, that is which way the horses head and tail were pointing. If an accident was likely the driver hoped the brake shoes stopped the wheels. Brake shoes were made from old shoes nailed to the brake block. The leather gripped the iron tyre.
And we still refer to the horsepower. And even the term car can be traced back to cart, carriage and the Roman words carrum or carrus, and the even earlier Celtic word karros, meaning cart or wagon.
Travel is central to our way of seeing the world. Consider the following expressions.
From the horse era we have…
In 'the box seat' driving the project
'Reining in' the troublemakers
Like the horse team we need to 'pull our weight' or we will be 'dragging the chain'
We won't 'put the cart before the horse'
We hope with a favoured project the 'wheels don't come off'
You can 'jump on the bandwagon' like everyone else
And after partying hard we might 'go on the wagon', but then hopefully not 'fall off the wagon'.
Bogged down in a sticky situation. A Cobb & Co coach on the banks of Mary Ann Creek, Yuleba – Surat road, 1011.
We don't want to be…
Bogged down
Caught in a rut
Pushing it up hill
Going downhill
Getting off track
Letting the grass grow under our feet
Facing a hard road ahead
Going round in circles
We do want to be…
Going forward not backward
On the straight and narrow
Chasing the light on the hill
Taking the road less travelled
Achieving the milestones
Facing new horizons
Moving up in the organisation
Climbing the corporate ladder
Have a career (but not downhill or into a truck!)
It's all gone wheels up. A capsized loaded wool wagon near Blackall. Image courtesy State Library of Queensland.
Life we say is a journey.
'You can't stop progress!'
We think in spatial and often linear metaphors, even if we are not physically moving anywhere. Western thought has been dominated by ideologies of 'progress' for centuries. There may be 'no going back now', 'the wheels are already in motion'.
Jeff Powell, Curator, Cobb+Co Museum
Discover the spark for science at Queensland Museum
17 September, 2018 qldmuseum
Young scientist don't have to wait any longer to wait to explore their curiosity at SparkLab, Sciencentre at Queensland Museum. The brand new interactive exhibition is now open to all those curious! The new multi-million dollar interactive gallery will allow visitors to unleash their inner scientist through 40 interactive exhibitions across three zones.
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Lagoon Creek Shearer's Strike Camp
19 May, 2017 qldmuseum
Written by Nicholas Hadnutt, Curator, Archaeology.
In the 1890's, work relations in Australia were a hot topic. Working conditions and wages were at an all-time low for shearers and they were preparing to fight for their rights. The Queensland wool industry was rapidly growing and shearers and pastoralists were seeking to define fair working conditions. Unfortunately, the opinions of the two groups as to what constituted reasonable working conditions were poles apart and conflict was looming. By 1890, shearers and other labourers began forming unions to better represent their rights, including a key requirement that pastoralists only employed union members. The pastoralists reacted by coming together nationally to create a shearing and labouring agreement of their own. The wealthy pastoralists were expecting a fight and were working together to defeat the union movement.
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Homebush turns 100
21 October, 2014 The Workshops Rail Museum
Written by: David Mewes, Curator, The Workshops Rail Museum
During my holidays in August 1968 I had the opportunity to see and hear the famed 610 mm gauge Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 steam locomotives used by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at their sugar mills in Queensland and Fiji. The last ten of these locomotives at that time worked in the Ingham District at the CSR Victoria and Macknade mills. The oldest was also the smallest, the Homebush, built in 1914. The remainder ranged in size and weight with the last built in 1953 being the largest and most powerful. Continue reading Homebush turns 100 →
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Billy Sheen and his C16
23 May, 2014 The Workshops Rail Museum 1 Comment
"Billy Sheen and his C16" was the title of a song recorded by Brisbane folk group The Moreton Bay Bushwhackers in 1959 as part of Queensland's Centenary celebrations. I often think of this song whenever I come across references to Queensland Railways' C16 Class locomotives, the prototype of which was designed and built here at the Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1903.
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The Daily Caller has published white supremacists, anti-Semites, and bigots. Here are the ones we know about.
Blog ››› May 2, 2019 11:09 AM EDT ››› MATT GERTZ
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This piece from September 5, 2018, has been updated to include an additional example.
A former deputy editor for The Daily Caller severed ties with the conservative news site in light of the revelation that he had also written for a white supremacist website under a pseudonym, The Atlantic's Rosie Gray reported Wednesday. Scott Greer, who stepped down from his editorial role earlier this year to write a book, said he would no longer contribute to the Caller after Gray presented him with evidence he had been "writing as 'Michael McGregor' for Radix, the online publication founded by the 'alt-right' leader Richard Spencer, who wants to turn America into a white ethno-state."
The difference between Greer's writing under his own name and at Radix appears to be one of degree, not of kind. At the Caller, Greer had defended the Confederate battle flag and referenced other white nationalist tropes, the Southern Policy Law Center reported last year in a piece documenting Greer's ties to white nationalists. And his book No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination was favorably reviewed by white nationalist websites. As "Michael McGregor" at Radix, Gray reported, Greer "expressed racist antiblack views and anti-Semitism" and "disparaged other groups including feminists, immigrants, Christian Zionists, and the pro-life movement."
The Caller's leadership is reportedly shocked at the news that the publication employed someone with ties to white nationalists. Just last month, Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll had defended Greer from such allegations. But in light of The Atlantic's reporting, the website's co-founder and publisher Neil Patel said in a statement to Gray: "We won't publish him, anyone in these circles, or anyone who thinks like them. People who associate with these losers have no business writing for our company."
But as Gray notes, the Greer story shows that "members of an underground white-nationalist scene—emboldened by the rise of Donald Trump during the 2016 election—were able to operate relatively undetected in conservative institutions." And the Caller has been ground zero for that phenomenon, publishing at least half a dozen writers with such ties over the last few years, in some cases cutting ties with the writer under scrutiny, in others ignoring the controversy. Notably, the Caller was co-founded by Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host whose show is beloved by neo-Nazis and white nationalists because he promotes their talking points against racial diversity and immigration and in favor of white anxiety.
Below are the writers with white nationalist sympathies and ties that we know about. Some were hiding in plain sight, publishing bigoted commentary at the Caller itself. But Greer's pseudonymous work for a white-supremacist website suggests there may be others who have yet to arise.
Brimelow wrote four op-eds for the Caller in 2017. He is a "zealous promoter of white-identity politics" whose anti-immigrant website VDare.com is "popular with the alt-right" and, by Brimelow's own admission, publishes white nationalist writers, according to The Washington Post. Brimelow was a guest at the home of Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's chief economic advisor, in August. His first piece for the Caller, in March 2017, defended Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) racist remark that "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."
Jason Kessler
The Caller contracted with Kessler in spring of 2017 "to contribute reportage," and he produced three pieces for the site. The Caller suspended its relationship with him in May 2017 after ProPublica reported that Kessler "is supportive of white supremacist groups" and had "praised fascist and racist organizations." Kessler subsequently organized the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA, which featured white supremacists and neo-Nazis. The site removed Kessler's author page and all his pieces shortly after Media Matters reached out for comment about his relationship with the site.
Ian Smith
Smith wrote dozens of op-ed pieces for the Caller between 2014 and 2017, many of which call for harsher restrictions on immigration. Following Trump's election, he joined the Department of Homeland Security, where he attended White House meetings on immigration policy, before resigning last month "after he was confronted about his ties to white nationalist groups." Smith had also written for National Review and The Hill "during the period he was in communication with white-supremacist groups," the Post reported.
In November 2017, the Caller published what it described as the "first installment in [a] new weekly column" from Yiannapoulos, a notorious troll who worked with the "alt-right" to smuggle white nationalist ideas into Breitbart.com articles. Following an outcry, Yiannopoulos and the Daily Caller's opinion editor, Robert Mariani, were fired.
Moses Apostaticus
In August 2016, the Caller published a piece by the pseudonymous writer Moses Apostaticus titled "The Alt-Right: Young White Men Sick of Being Hated," in which he criticized the idea that "white men being as proud of their race and identity as black men or white women is profoundly disturbing." He contributed more than 20 op-eds to the website over the next eight months, under headlines like "Go Home, Barry Soetoro" and "Donald Trump Is America's Julius Caesar." In May, Vox.com's Jane Coaston pointed out Apostaticus' history of anti-Semitic commentary.
The Caller published roughly 30 pieces from Mercer between December 2016 and November 2017. Her first piece, "The Curious Case of America's Waning Whites," argued that white birth rates are declining due in part to "systemic racial demonization" of poor whites. And her last, "Why Hatred of Whites is Here To Stay," pushed the myth that white South Africans are experiencing genocide. The SPLC previously reported on Mercer's writing for the Caller.
Ian Miles Cheong
A former Daily Caller contributor who last wrote for the site in May, Cheong "appeared on an alt-right podcast two months ago alongside hosts from the white supremacist podcast network The Right Stuff during which he told the hosts that he supported both nationalism and socialism," according to Right Wing Watch.
Dave Brooks (added 5/2/2019)
In April 2019, Daily Caller News Foundation managing editor Dave Brooks was fired after BuzzFeed's Rosie Gray inquired about email correspondence suggesting he had contacts with white nationalists. The emails show that after Breitbart fired Katie McHugh for bigoted tweets, Brooks asked her whether she would "have any interest in working for [white nationalist publication American Renaissance] if I talked to Richard?" and saying that "I also know [white nationalist] Jared Taylor has been looking for an investigative reporter." Brooks told Gray, "I am not friends, professionally or personally, with these people. I inquired on [McHugh's] behalf through people I knew, and I haven't spoken to any of them in years."
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Council of Europe actions to promote the rights and full inclusion of ageing people with disabilities
Angela Garabagiu
Keywords: ageing , disability
How to Cite: Garabagiu A. Council of Europe actions to promote the rights and full inclusion of ageing people with disabilities. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2009;9(5):None. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.386
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 22 June 2009 - ISSN 1568-4156
Council of Europe Report
Angela Garabagiu, Administrator, Integration of People with Disabilities Division Directorate General of Social Cohesion, Council of Europe, F - 67075 Strasbourg, France
Correspondence to: Angela Garabagiu, Integration of People with Disabilities Division Directorate General of Social Cohesion, Council of Europe, F - 67075 Strasbourg, France, Tel: +33 (03) 90 21 45 20, Fax: +33 (03) 88 41 27, E-mail: [email protected]@coe.int
Taking note of the current demographic situation in Europe, immediate action is required to improve the quality of life of ageing people with disabilities and older people who may develop disabilities as they age.
In International conventions and policies it is recognised that all human beings are of equal worth and that this should not be affected by the existence of a disability, regardless of its nature or its degree or by any other factor, such as ageing, nationality or income. People with disabilities and ageing people are citizens who have the same rights and duties and who should have the same opportunities as others to govern their own lives. The rights of people with disabilities are grounded in several human rights frameworks, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which entered into force on 3 May 2008. These frameworks are based on the universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction.
Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006–2015
On 5 April 2006, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Recommendation Rec (2006) 5 on the Council of Europe's "Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation in society of people with disabilities: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006–2015" [1]. The Recommendation is addressed to all 47 member states of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006–2015 promotes the paradigm shift from a health-related to a social and human rights-based approach to disability: from the patient to the citizen. It also promotes the essential concept that disabled people and their representatives need to be consulted as stakeholders in decision-making processes which affect their lives, from national policy design to more individual subjects.
The Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006–2015 has a broad scope, encompassing all key areas of the life of people with disabilities. These key areas are duly reflected in 15 action lines which set out key objectives and specific actions to be implemented by member states. The action lines are the core of the Action Plan. They cover the following areas:
No. 1: Participation in political and public life;
No. 2: Participation in cultural life;
No. 3: Information and communication;
No. 4: Education;
No. 5: Employment, vocational guidance and training;
No. 6: The built environment;
No. 7: Transport;
No. 8: Community living;
No. 9: Health care;
No. 10: Rehabilitation;
No. 11: Social protection;
No. 12: Legal protection;
No. 13: Protection against violence and abuse;
No. 14: Research and development; and
No. 15: Awareness raising.
Every action line stresses the need to ensure that rights of people with disabilities are secured and promoted by the member states through specific actions.
The Disability Action Plan refers to the human rights of particularly vulnerable groups of people with disabilities under its 'Cross-cutting aspects':
Within the European disabled population there are people with disabilities who face specific barriers or experience two-fold discrimination, e.g. children and young people with disabilities, women and girls with disabilities, people with disabilities in need of a high level of support, ageing people with disabilities and people with disabilities from minorities and migrant communities. They have a higher risk of exclusion and generally have lower levels of participation in society than other disabled people. These specific groups of people with disabilities require a horizontal response to ensure their inclusion in society.
The ageing of people with disabilities, particularly those requiring more intensive support due to the nature of their impairment, presents new challenges for societies across Europe. This includes support for individuals and for their families especially where elderly parents are the main carers. Innovative approaches are required to meet these challenges across a wide range of policy and service areas.
The findings of the Committee of Experts on ageing of people with disabilities and older people with disabilities
The Council of Europe Committee of Experts on ageing people with disabilities and older people with disabilities analysed the current situation in a number of European countries and produced a report and recommendations, covering a wide range of policy areas. The analysis focused on the following frameworks: legal (with special reference to promoting autonomy and independent life), financial (including rights and funding for services, and diversification of sources of finance), participatory (involvement at different stages in planning and implementation of policies, programmes and services), operational (covering a range of measures with an emphasis on innovation and good practice), and individual (including measures to prepare people for change and transition, needs assessment and service planning on an individual basis).
The findings of the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on ageing of people with disabilities and older people with disabilities have resulted in a report on 'Enhancing rights and inclusion of ageing people with disabilities and older people with disabilities: a European perspective', the initial draft of which was prepared and reviewed by Professor Brian Munday, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. The recommendations on 'Ageing and disability in the 21st century: sustainable frameworks to enable greater quality of life in an inclusive society' have been finalised by the Committee of Experts and have been submitted for adoption, together with the report, to the European co-ordination forum for the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006–2015 (CAHPAH)[1].
The term 'ageing people with disabilities and older people with disabilities' refers to two distinct but related groups of people that share certain characteristics but who are also different in some respects. The first group refers to people who grow older having experienced a disability for much of their lives, sometimes from birth. For the second group, disability is ordinarily experienced at a relatively advanced age, dementia being one example.
As one member of the Committee stressed, member states and NGOs should take account of the differences between people with disabilities who age, and elderly people affected by disability, when service provision is being put in place:
On one hand, elderly persons who become disabled may in general receive the same services as other elderly persons and remain in what was their own circle of family and friends (often their children).
The person, and his/her environment, must be provided with:
prevention to forestall 'disabling' developments in their situation (intellectual, motor and sensory, as well as psychological);
training of a specific nature, for example in communication: however, this training and these techniques must be adapted to extreme age: too late to learn Braille or sign language;
rehabilitation activities (e.g. groups to maintain the faculty of memory);
bodily but above all mental care to stimulate relational activity and especially activities for retaining and stimulating the capacities exercised in one's earlier occupational life.
On the other hand, an ageing person with a life-long disability often faces specific fractures:
decease of parents;
unsuitability of the services which he/she received through adult life: staff of the services assisting children or adults with disabilities are competent to ensure constant progress of the persons they assist, not to deal with situations of decline or end-of-life;
frequent impossibility of acceptance in the services and 'homes' for elderly persons (frequent rejection by the other elderly inmates).
These people must, therefore, be offered:
continuity of family-type or inclusive support;
access to specific services;
small accommodation units separate from but close to those of ageing relatives;
increased services, which should be placed on a mutual basis (and which usually cannot be delivered under the same conditions of personal independence as at an earlier age).
Finally, the diversity of disabilities must also be considered:
E.g.: mental disabilities cause great difficulty for family life or for inclusion in groups where disparate situations of disability intermingle;
Mental disabilities often require special stimulation if accelerated regression is to be avoided.
Building bridges between services provided to these groups of people is important. At the same time, however, the specific needs of each individual should be the primary reason for deciding on the type of services offered.
A sound legal basis for the establishment of rights and entitlements is of great importance in this field. Rights should be legally defined and enforceable. The United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a major policy instrument. It is important to note the difference between 'rights with immediate effect' and 'rights to be progressively introduced'.
Questions of equity in rights and entitlements arise in countries with a federal structure where regions may have high degrees of autonomy. Rights and entitlements may vary from one region to another, whereas in countries with centralised systems the same entitlements and standards of support for ageing and older people with disabilities should apply across the whole country. Sometimes complex questions arise as to what should be decided centrally for the whole country and what can be left for regional/local decisions. For example, it can seem unjust for there to be different legislation, requirements and standards of care services for elderly people with disabilities in residential and nursing care homes in different areas of a single country.
A crucial element in legislation in this field is to promote and ensure a variety of support measures for ageing and older people with disabilities, designed to enable them to live as independently as possible. For example, many countries have legislation to provide personal assistance and direct payments. The measures are closely related, providing finance as of right to individuals to purchase their own care and support arrangements.
Legislation to introduce an Ombudsman system in several countries has been important in providing a valuable means of redress and protection for social services users.
Findings from the project's questionnaire revealed familiar issues and dilemmas for member states: increasing budgetary constraints on social expenditure; competition between major services, such as health and social services; competition between services for different age groups e.g. between those for younger and older people. These issues and dilemmas point to the difficult question as to which rights are or should be absolute and which ones can reasonably be considered as conditional. The former have to be honoured and paid for by governments for all citizens concerned, whereas conditional rights are usually dependent upon decisions of affordability by the responsible authorities.
It is clear that governments are looking to diversify and extend sources of funding to meet the cost of implementing rights of ageing and older people with disabilities. Increasing longevity makes this ever more urgent. The report showed there to be a considerable variation in sources of funding, including state, regional/local government, not-for-profit organisations, international donors, lotteries—and individual users and their families.
The trend towards increasing 'co-payments' is noticeable. When governments' funding is under stress then funding for services and support may be targeted on the poorest and most vulnerable people, leaving others to pay a proportion or even all of the cost of a service.
People's participation in the planning, provision and evaluation of services that affect them has become a subject of major importance in Europe—particularly in the disability field. Paternalistic models of service provision are being replaced with more open, democratic relationships with users that encourage their active participation in the service relationship and process.
Changes are particularly evident in the field of disability with the emphasis on rights, independence and equality. Particular issues have been- and still are—tokenistic participation, and participation in the form of representation by able bodied persons (e.g. from NGOs) rather than direct involvement by persons with disabilities themselves. There is a hierarchy of participation, with user control of services as the pinnacle of real participation. The following are some of the most important points from the Committee's work:
The availability of easily accessible information is essential if ageing and older people are to participate effectively
Forms of participation must be suitable and adapted to the capabilities of people with different forms of disability
There are many examples across Europe of people with disabilities being involved in planning and decision-making processes at different levels, ranging from users involvement in residential care homes to participation at central government level
Participation by ageing and older people with disabilities in volunteer schemes is a particularly positive development (e.g. intergenerational solidarity projects)
Operational framework, including support services
Ageing and older people with disabilities are by no means always able to 'get on with their own lives' as they would like to do. They may find it difficult to pursue their rights and apply for services because of a lack of energy or reasons of language, sickness or shyness. At some point they will need access to good quality social support services suited to their specific needs. These services may be residential or home/community based and provided by governmental or non-governmental providers. Some aspects of these support services are highlighted
Quality assurance and quality management should be an essential feature of these services
Service users' rights should be clearly specified in charters that are constructed with full participation by users themselves
An independent advocacy service and an appeal system (e.g. an Ombudsman) should be available and easily accessible
Nevertheless, countries report that significant challenges remain to be addressed. These include: deep-seated attitudes of passivity by service users and paternalism of service providers; the need to recruit and retain sufficient numbers of properly trained staff; to ensure widespread rather than piecemeal availability of services across a country; need for closer cooperation and integration between services e.g. health and social services; and the availability of sufficient funding.
Rights, legislation, participation and social support services are frequently considered as relating to ageing and older people with disabilities as groups or collectives. But, in line with the personalisation agenda in social care, the Committee gathered information on how countries individualise support for the two groups of people with disabilities.
One approach is through the case/care management service model. A case manager—sometimes but not always a social worker—works collaboratively with an individual ageing or older person with a disability and his/her carers to assess their needs and form an agreed service plan. A package of services is put into place and its implementation monitored and periodically reviewed by service user and case manager. Services in a package may come from various sources with cost limits depending on the size of the case manager's budget. This type of individualised service has become quite prevalent in Europe.
Countries focus on the needs and personal circumstances of individuals through a range of prevention measures. These include visits by social support staff to individuals who are seen as being at risk e.g. because of bereavement. Visiting and befriending services—often carried out by volunteers—can be very important to the well being of individual older persons with disability who live alone. Prevention can also include either courses or direct work with individuals to help prepare them for major life changes such as leaving residential care to live in the community, or preparing for retirement.
The Recommendations on 'Ageing and disability in the 21st century: sustainable frameworks to enable greater quality of life in an inclusive society' are grouped under three headings. All refer specifically to ageing people with disabilities and older people with disabilities:
Promoting autonomy and an independent and active life;
Enhancing the quality of services;
Enhancing equal access to social services and legal protection.
Given the relevance of the provision of services aimed at improving the quality of life of ageing people and people with disabilities, several recommendations with regard to the quality of services are referred to in this section.
2.1. "It is essential that services of sufficient quality and quantity are provided;
2.6. The quality of services depends heavily upon a workforce of sufficient quantity, with a range of personnel trained to meet the competence requirements of their particular roles and tasks. Their consequent professionalism should then be recognised and properly remunerated;
2.9. Rights to good standards of services provided by all service providers should be defined and guaranteed in legislation, with means for redress clearly specified. Areas to be covered include: training and qualifications of staff; required standards in specific services; systems for monitoring and inspection; complaints systems;
2.10. Quality assurance and management systems and methods that take account of ethical considerations and professional standards are appropriate in this field and should be used in these services;
2.11. Quality holistic services give proper attention to more than physical needs. As appropriate they should respond to people's cultural, emotional, sexual and spiritual needs;
2.12. Quality is enhanced when services are individualised through means such as comprehensive individual action plans for each person with a disability."
To sum up, innovative approaches and co-ordinated action, which can respond to specific needs with the aim of enabling ageing people with disabilities to remain in their community to the greatest extent possible, are needed. This requires a careful assessment of individual needs and forward planning as well as the availability of adequate services.
Websites: http://www.coe.int; http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/themes/handicap/default_en.asp
Easy to read version of the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006–2015 available from http://www.coe.int/t/e/social_cohesion/soc-sp/integration/02_council_of_europe_disability_action_plan/Council_of_Europe_Disability_Action_Plan.asp#TopOfPage
Presentation slides from the 1st International Conference on Bridging Knowledge in Long Term Care and Support available from: http://www.bridgingknowledge.net/Presentations/SympA_Garabagiu.pdf
Council of Europe Recommendation Rec (2006) 5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006–2015. Council of Europe; 2006. Available from: http://www.coe.int/t/e/social_cohesion/soc-sp/Rec(2006)5%20Disability%20Action%20Plan.doc.
The report and recommendations mentioned in this paragraph are not yet published (May 2009), but can in time be found at the website of the Council of Europe: http://www.coe.int/
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Under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, the Southern Regional Assembly assumed a number of new functions - chief among these is the preparation and implementation of a Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) for the Southern Region.
The RSES sets out the strategic regional development framework for the Region. The primary aim of the RSES is to implement Project Ireland 2040 - the National Planning Framework, at the regional tier of Government and to support NPF policy for achieving balanced regional development.
The Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires that all City & County Development Plans and variations are consistent with the RSES and relevant national policy, with draft development plans or proposed variations to development plans referred by the relevant local authority to the Regional Assembly.
The Regional Assembly will then consider whether the draft is consistent with the RSES and can issue formal recommendations to the relevant local authority where necessary as to what amendments, in the opinion of the Regional Assembly, are required in order to ensure that the proposed variation to the development plan and its core strategy are so consistent.
The Assembly is a prescribed body under the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), which means that it must be consulted in relation to certain planning matters as specified in the Act.
The RSES and associated Environmental Reports are available here
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ENNERDALE CAPTURES THE HEART OF BRITONS (2017-05-05)
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By Terrance M. Booysen
Ever since the abolishment of South Africa's inhumane 'apartheid' system of racial segregation which ended in 1994, the effects of its almost irreversible social destruction are evident on a daily basis. No matter how a person wishes to describe the country's young democracy, South Africa remains a land of stark differences.
These differences are found within the 'have's and have nots', rich and poor, the educated and those who are not sufficiently educated or qualified to hold onto any form of decent work that will adequately sustain their families and communities. From a social sciences perspective; South Africa is not only beset by stubbornly high unemployment levels and crime, the country also has massive challenges in respect of 'child-headed homes' where young, parentless children live entirely on their own, or at best, under the supervision of an older sibling who themselves are minors. Woven into this toxic social environment -- which is exacerbated by an almost complete lack of funding -- is the dismal health situation which exists within these impoverished communities; HIV AIDS being just one of the many health issues needing to be addressed.
Twenty-three years into South Africa's democracy, the South African government has still not managed to deliver on all its promises to uplift the poorest of the poor. In many instances, the meagre social grants cannot do justice to an appalling situation, which is set to get worse as many corporates tighten their Corporate Social Investment ('CSI') budgets as a consequence of an ailing economy which has been intensified by the recent country downgrades to 'junk-status'. Quite expectedly, as monetary aid begins to dry up, impoverished communities bear the brunt of immense suffering, and so do their children.
As a part of CGF Research Institute's regular search to showcase registered small non-profit organisations (NPOs) who are involved in the care-giving of less privileged children in South Africa, we were introduced to Ilamula House, which is a culmination of the life-long dream of the late Winnie Mabaso. Despite all the gloom of South Africa's social challenges, Ilamula House was established through the Winnie Mabaso Foundation and provides a loving home for twenty two young girls, ranging from the ages of 2-16. These girls are either orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable or abused and have been referred to the home by the local social workers. For some of the girls, Ilamula House will be their 'forever home'. Others will live at Ilamula House temporarily until they are re-homed with extended families or adoptive homes. Either way, qualified social workers work tirelessly to ensure that the best interests of the children are observed.
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99 Words: Our Bright New World
on 07/18/13 in 99 Words, Erotic Fiction
It's not a cult. It's a joy center. People come here to revitalize their chakras and—
Ok, so it's a cult. But not a scary, murder kind, more like a free-love, hippie throwback kind.
At noon we drink tea and chant. By two p.m. there's all kinds of fucking happening in the Sun room while we explore our spiritual connections to each other. By three, when the endorphins have slowed down, we talk to each other and unravel our fears.
I came for the sex, but I stayed for the emotional connection—
Ok, maybe I stayed for the sex.
Something NEW, Something Slightly Less New
Not lame.
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Average reaction time
What Is the Average Human Reaction Time? - Reference
Beijing Olympic runners were measured for their reaction times, and the results concluded that male runners had an average reaction time of 166 milliseconds, or 0.166 of a second, while female runners had an average of 189 milliseconds, or 0.189 of a second The median reaction time is 273 milliseconds. The average reaction time is 284 milliseconds. See below for more information about input/display latency. It's interesting to see that the recorded reaction times have actually gotten slightly slower over the years, which is almost certainly due to changes in input / display technology The average reaction time for a visual stimulus is about 250 milliseconds. The average reaction time for an audio stimulus is about 170 miliseconds and for a touch stimulus 150 milliseconds. Is the average reaction time influenced by age? The average reaction time is indeed influenced by age De très nombreux exemples de phrases traduites contenant average reaction time - Dictionnaire français-anglais et moteur de recherche de traductions françaises
Reaction times vary greatly with situation and from person to person between about 0.7 to 3 seconds (sec or s) or more. Some accident reconstruction specialists use 1.5 seconds. A controlled study in 2000 (IEA2000_ABS51. pdf) found average driver reaction brake time to be 2.3 seconds Reaction time test. This test returns the average result of five reaction times - Click the start button and click stop when you receive the push stop message. - Clicking the stop button before receiving the message will result in a 2 second penalty. - Click start new game to begin 5 new trials. Start new game.
List of players ranked by indicator «Average reaction time» in play Press Reaction Average reaction time, by age and dominant hand. Girls. Age (years) Right-handed. Left-handed. Ambidextrous. seconds. 7 and younger. 0.53 Reaction Time. Test your visual reflexes. New. Sequence Memory. Remember an increasingly long pattern of button presses. New. Aim Trainer. How quickly can you hit all the targets? Number Memory. Remember the longest number you can. Verbal Memory . Keep as many words in short term memory as possible..
What is the average human reaction time? Most texts seem to suggest that a good reaction time is anywhere between ##0.25## seconds and ##0.35## seconds. Most texts seem to suggest that a good reaction time is anywhere between ##0.25## seconds and ##0.35## seconds. (Although mine is sadly probably much lower lol) Values of reaction time of adults can be possibly exchanged for a teenage, no significant differences between 15â€18 and 20â€30 age group have been found. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of the 10th International Scientific Conference Transbaltica 2017: Transportation Science and Technology. Keywords. Reaction time plays a big role in stopping distance and reacting to hazards on the road. The average driver has a reaction time of ¾ of a second to 1 second. If you're driving at 55 miles per hour, this covers about 61 feet of distance You can have a very average reaction time and still be really good based on info from your team and positioning yourself and your crosshair well. I got 150ms reaction time but that doesn't make me a godlike player in CS. There are so many other factors like gamesense and crosshair placement, along with aim that make a player great. Instead of focusing on your raw ability that you can't do. The average human reaction time is around 250ms and the world record is 120ms. Take the test to find out your reaction time!! Take the test to find out your reaction time!! Have you ever wondered how quick your brain can respond to new visual information
So, my reaction time is utterly terrible. To quote someone I was just in a game with Ozzy has the reaction time of a 5 year old child I almost never win gunfights because I just don't have the reaction speed to win. That and the fact that my aim is like what would happen if a monkey got given an uzi, it makes it almost impossible for me to win gunfights Activity feed. You haven't recorded any scores yet. Try a game Getting the best reaction time score ever of only 48 ms on average!!!Take the test at: https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime We surveyed 2,000 people aged 18 and above and asked them to play the game. We then plotted their reaction time against their age. Your predicted age is the age that most closely matches the age of people with your reaction time
© 2003 - 2021 Census at School | Recensement à l'école — Canada Dandelion Web Design TorontoWeb Design Toront Differences in average reaction time differing from the control test (test 1) range from as little as 4 milliseconds (test 2, test subject 2) to that of 67 milliseconds (test 4, test subject 3) (see table 1 and figure 1, 2 and 1.3). According to the averages of the percent increase in reaction time, the combined auditory and visual condition (test 4) had the greatest percentage increase within. first time: 228 average Trying harder next times: between 180 and 205 average 27 years old. 2016-01-26 03:03 #196 D I meant that there is this common misunderstanding that cs is so much based on reaction time that people couldnt compete after certain age. As you do get slower when you age, its gonna be a factor at some point, but I dont think there is a problem for older players to make.
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The average (median) reaction time is 215 milliseconds. wtf. hell no D: Tested on some Counter Strike player. He's getting below 190 consistently. He had one 168ms score just now. FML how do you do this Fun fact: AR11 (10+DT) is 300ms. The difference between 260ms and 180ms reaction time is literally 3x easier leniency on jumps. yeeeaaa
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There, however, is a decrease in reaction time for the age group of 60+, or more specifically, 60-69 and 70-79 years old. This created a slight inconsistency in the previously correlated data. As for specific numbers, the age group with the fastest time was the 4-13 age group with an average of 0.178 seconds. For the age groups of 14-2
Given that the average human reaction time is around 0.2 to 0.25 seconds, the round is over before most people can react. The reaction times of the best fast draw shooters is 0.145 seconds, which means that the gun is cocked, drawn, aimed (from the hip), and fired in just over 0.06 seconds. To establish a World Fast Draw Association record, a second shot must be fired in the same competition. © 2003 - 2020 Census at School | Recensement à l'école — Canada Dandelion Web Design TorontoWeb Design Toront Mental chronometry is the study of reaction time (RT; also referred to as response time) in perceptual-motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of mental operations.Mental chronometry is one of the core methodological paradigms of human experimental and cognitive psychology, but is also commonly analyzed in psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral. Reaction time to sounds and visual information is on average 0.13-0.18 s, without consideration of speed of sound. It is determined by genetic factors and age, and it changes during effort; for instance, its value decreases/improves during loading and it is impaired by fatigue. Simple reaction time (reaction to a certain stimulus) of an average individual is 0.16-0.2. It can be improved by training; however, even the best sprinters cannot go below 0.1 s. The 100 m sprint is one of the. The average reaction time of a healthy adult for a simple visual stimulus falls between 190 and 200 ms. This, however, can greatly vary from one individual to another and many factors can influence it. Main factors that can influence your reaction time • The types of stimuli • The complexity of the stimulus • The intensity of the stimulus • Your gender • Your age • Stress.
Average Reaction Time. The following table documents the average reaction time per hosting provider (ASN). To generated these statistics, URLhaus measures the time between when URLhaus sent the abuse complaint to the hosting provider and when the reported content goes offline. Please consider that the accuracy is +/- 1 hour. This statistic is useful if you want to compare hosting providers. Physics, 03.01.2021 03:00, nengliangli523 What is the average reaction time of peopl Test your reaction time at the start of a Formula 1 race. Click when you're ready to start the race, and then wait for the red lights outThe average reaction time of an F1 driver is approximately 0.2 secondsHow fast are you Through some simple math, they were able to discern that the average human reaction time of about 265 milliseconds equates to roughly 16 frames in a 60fps game. If you'd like to test your own reaction time to see how you compare to the rest of humanity, you can do so by following this link $\begingroup$ The average person who is not trained as a pilot. Its a bit dated but here is a paper published by the Navy on visual reaction time you can find. Keep in mind these are navy pilots, often considered the best of the best and in peek physical condition. Based on the publish year I would suspect all subjects were male as well. Here is another study by NATO on reaction times for.
There is an increase in reaction time for the subsequent age groups of 14-24, 25-35, 36-45, and 46-60 years old. There, however, is a decrease in reaction time for the age group of 60+, or more.. Reaction time is linked to performance in many sports and video games, and improving yours has many positive effects. A lack of sleep can have a huge effect on reflexes and split-second decision making. Sleep deprivation can make you as sluggish as a few alcoholic drinks, and getting 8 hours or more a night is recommended. Training your hand-eye coordination, playing sports, staying physically. Reaction time (RT) is the time that elapses between a person being presented with a stimulus and the person initiating a motor response to the stimulus. It is usually on the order of 200 ms. The processes that occur during this brief time enable the brain to perceive the surrounding environment, identify an object of interest, decide an action in response to the object, and issue a motor command to execute the movement. These processes span the domains of perception and movement.
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The average reaction time of human beings is around .215 seconds. This is determined by the amount of time it takes for people to react when given the proper signal to click. This is determined by the amount of time it takes for people to react when given the proper signal to click The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, 0.17 for an audio stimulus, and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus. Concise Handout for the Classroom This handout was designed by Virginia Johnson, a graduate student who adapted our experiment here to use as a teaching tool. This handout provides great instruction for the visual, tacticle, and audible experiments. User: When driving, the average reaction time is Weegy: When driving, the average reaction time is .75 seconds. |Score 1|jeifunk|Points 93041| User: Alcohol, or any other drug which reduces the supply of oxygen in the blood stream, can impair the sensitivity of the cones which in turn Weegy: Alcohol or any other drug which reduces the supply of oxygen in the bloodstream can impair the. Average reaction time: 237ms Rank: LEM Position: Entry, Lurker, Strat Caller. It all depends on what kind of teammates i'm playing with. I rather play as a Lurker thou as i'm pretty good at clutching but sometimes my friends are too scared to push into a site so yeah
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My reaction time was 200.8 ms on average after 5 clicks. I'm currently a low Master League level player. Very interested to see what other people will score and whether it has a direct link to the league they are in. How much does your innate reaction time contribute to your ability to play SC2. There's a bunch of other tests on the site too which I haven't gotten a chance to look at yet.
t=time taken. a=average acceleration. Proving, To prove the 1 st equation, 2. We know that the first kinematic equation is, Applying this to the 2 nd equation, How to use this to calculate reaction time. Because the ruler is dropped down, Calculation. To calculate the reaction time for each person we took 10 measurements from each person to get an accurate value. To get the most accurate value.
This is based on an average reaction time of 0.7 seconds when the car is travelling at 44 feet / second. Therefore if reaction times increase, stopping distances will do so also, with serious implications in an accident. It has been indicated by some research that low levels of alcohol consumption have very little effect on reaction time if attention could be focussed on a single objective.
I know I'm 24 now and that's old as hell as far as twitchyness is concerned, but I'm consistently getting reaction time of 700-550ms. I'm not sure I'm understand the stat correctly, because if I do a flat reaction test outside the program I averaged at 280 across multiple tests - below average but not cripplingly so. If that stat means time it took to go from one target to the next that.
The average reaction time was *206 sec. Following this the person was asked to count the number of ticks soundedbytoothed wheels driven at such arate as to produce about three distinct soundsper sec., arecord of these ticks being taken bymeans of anelectromagnet circuit to serve as a control over the accuracy of the count. It wasfound that this act of counting, even when prolonged from half to.
Reaction time is not the only factor of being a good gamer - remember to have fun. If you want to improve your overall performance with mental practice, best tips from pro players, choosing the right gear, and performance-enhancing methods you should check out our Ultimate Gamer Guide Ebook, which you can download for free! Categories Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, General Esport. Reaction time to touch is intermediate, at 155 msec (Robinson, 1934). Differences in reaction time between these types of stimuli persist whether the subject is asked to make a simple response or a complex response (Sanders, 1998, p. 114). Stimulus Intensity 1. Froeberg (1907) found that visual stimuli that are longer in duration elicit faster reaction times, and Wells (1913) got the same. Simple reaction time improves from childhood until the late 20s. After the late 20s, reaction times increase, but very slowly, until people reach their early fifties. As people reach their late sixties and seventies, reaction times increase markedly. Men and women differ in their reaction times. As might be expected, men are faster, but women make fewer errors during the learning phase. After. Average Rate of reaction. Now let us consider the following reaction to understand even more clearly. A → B . In this reaction a reactant A undergoes a chemical reaction to give a product B. It is a general convention to represent the concentration of any reactant or product as [reactant] or [product]. So the concentration of A can be represented as [A] and that of B as [B]. Let the time at. How do you calculate the reaction rate? Methods to measure the rate of reaction. The rate of reaction can be measured in two ways: (a) Average rate of reaction (b) Rate of reaction at a given time The average rate of reaction is the average value of the rate of reaction within a specified period of time.; Example: 0.2 g of a magnesium ribbon reacts completely with dilute hydrochloric acid in.
Many translated example sentences containing average reaction time - Spanish-English dictionary and search engine for Spanish translations is 0.2732 good for average reaction time? if not how can i improve it and what is the average Assuming the fastball is travelling at 95 mph, that translates to about 139.3 ft/second. The distance from the mound to home plate is 60.5 feet, so it takes about 0.43 seconds to travel that distance The average reaction time of a human is approximately between 0.2 s to 0.25 s. However, your reaction time is also affected by factors such as age, gender, intelligence, fatigue, and distraction. Procedure. Randomly pick a male or female student to perform this simple experiment. Ask them to extend their hand and hold out their thumb and forefinger. The 0 centimeter mark on the ruler should be. Reaction time though is a very complex concept as one must bear in mind that once an event or a trigger occurs at time ##t=0s##, the sensory organ (eye, ear, skin, etc) receives the impulse and it takes time for it to travel to the spinal reflex arc or to the brain, then back to the affector muscles which brings about the response. So a slow reaction time can indicate either a slow response of.
What is the average perception reaction time
Human reaction time to discrete independent stimuli changes within a broad range. For a simple reaction the average human reaction time in the most favorable cases is no less than 0.15 seconds (recognition of visual images is no less than 0.4 seconds). Human reaction time is one of the most important factors in occupational selection. It is. reaction time. Many experiments have been done to see how quickly a person can respond to a stimulus. For example, how much time passes between the moment a driver sees the brake lights of the car ahead come on, and the moment he slams on the brakes? Some of the results are curious: if you are right-handed, you can respond with your right hand about 3% faster than with your left - and. Average reaction time, by age. Age. Girls. Boys. All students. seconds. seconds. seconds. 8 or younger Usually, this state results when the forward reaction proceeds at 11.82 to 20.22 an hour and the average hourly rate was reported as 15.53 an hour. Certain special industry driving jobs such as oilfield services like produced from the formula using an average coefficient of friction μ of 0.7, and a perception - reaction time of 1.5 seconds ON EXPECTANCY AND AVERAGE REACTION TIME ON EXPECTANCY AND AVERAGE REACTION TIME THOMAS, EWART A. C. 1970-02-01 00:00:00 The notion of expectancy has often been used in explanations of the relationship between foreperiod variability and simple reaction time. Two interpretations of the notion are distinguished: one is that expectancy or expectancy level is a moment in time, and the other is that.
Reaction Time (RTI) Reaction Time provides assessments of motor and mental response speeds, as well as measures of movement time, reaction time, response accuracy and impulsivity. Administration time. 3 minutes. Task format. The participant must select and hold a button at the bottom of the screen. Circles are presented above (one for the. I have above average reaction time, but it feels like every enemy sees me first. Close. 47. Posted by 18 days ago. I have above average reaction time, but it feels like every enemy sees me first. It's not even prefire half the time, just feels like every enemy just knows the moment I am anywhere. They never miss, always react, it's uncanny. I don't make noise, I slow walk, still just die.
★ Average driver reaction time: Add an external link to your content for free. Search: Academic disciplines Business Concepts Crime Culture Economy Education Energy Events Food and drink Geography Government Health Human behavior Humanities Knowledge Law Life Mind Objects Organizations People Philosophy Society Sports Universe World Arts Lists Glossaries Zephyrometer The Zephyrometer is a. t=time taken. a=average acceleration. Proving, To prove the 1 st equation, 2 We know that the first kinematic equation is, Applying this to the 2 nd equation, How to use this to calculate reaction time. Because the ruler is dropped down, Calculation. To calculate the reaction time for each person we took 10 measurements from each person to get an accurate value. To get the most accurate value. 26 thoughts on average reaction time Jay says: November 7, 2008 at 9:19 am .181 which they describe as fast. Apparently I'm easily startled! joe t says: November 7, 2008 at 9:34 am .24. Joel Diaz says: November 7, 2008 at 10:44 am .193 Maybe this will give me an advantage on the four-square courts in Nashville during the NYWC. patrick says: November 7, 2008 at 11:53 am .239. Reaction time measurement is an indirect index of processing capability of central nervous system. Reaction time measurement helps in determining sensory motor association and performance of an individual.2 It determines the alertness of a person because how quickly a person responds to a stimulus depends on his reaction time. Various factors influencing human reaction time are age, sex, left.
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★ Human reaction time average: Add an external link to your content for free. Free and no ads no need to download or install. Pino - logical board game which is based on tactics and strategy. In general this is a remix of chess, checkers and corners. The game develops imagination, concentration, teaches how to solve tasks, plan their own actions and of course to think logically. It does not. Most texts seem to suggest that a good reaction time is anywhere between 0.25 seconds and 0.35 seconds. Most texts seem to suggest that a good reaction time is anywhere between 0.25 seconds and 0.35 seconds. (Although mine is sadly probably much lower lol). Reaction time though is a very complex concept as one must bear in mind that once an event or a trigger occurs at time t=0s, the sensory organ (eye, ear, skin, etc) receives the impulse and it takes time for it to travel to the spinal.
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The average reaction time is 0.156 (standard deviation 0.026), compared to 0.145 for 1997-2003 (std dev 0.022). While the final was the slowest since 1983, the start reaction times were still pretty fly. The difference of 0.011 in the average could be partly attributed to having truncation errors in the 1997. Hence the closeness of the average reaction time suggests there hasn't been any material slowing down in the start process due to the new false start rules
During the reaction time testing, visual stimuli were given for eighteen times and average reaction time was taken as the final reaction time. Results: The study shows that table tennis players had faster reaction time than healthy controls. On multivariate analysis, it was found that TT players had 74.121 sec (95% CI 98.8 and 49.4 sec) faster reaction time compared to non-TT players of same.
As the rate is changing throughout the reaction, we are calculating the average rate over a given time period. For example, the graph below could be used to calculate the average rate over any.
What is the average reaction time of the average person? Asked by Wiki User. 3 4 5. Answer. Top Answer. Wiki User Answered . 2009-05-02 06:38:16 2009-05-02 06:38:16. This is a good question and I.
ant hand. Then the participants were briefed with the objectives and procedure of the study. Sixty-nine of the participants (32 males and 37 females) were involved in the visual and auditory stimuli tests, and the remaining 25 participants (11 males and 14 females) were in the tactile stimuli test. For each test, the par ticipants.
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Tobin and Fackler [Ref. 3] found the average human reaction time for 17 police officers to mentally justify firing their pistols during a simple decision-making scenario of 0.211 seconds. The same officers in a complex scenario took 0.895 seconds. This time is the Reaction time only, or the mental time to get to the point of sending a signal to press the trigger. Tobin and Fackler [Ref. 4. Average length cm cm cm cm Reaction time sec sec sec sec To calculate the average length, use the formula length = (trial 1 + trial 2 + trial 3) 3 To calculate the reaction time, use the formula: time = length / 490 (Note: this formula takes length in units of cm and gives time in units of seconds) (non-graphing calculator buttons
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First try: average 193ms. Used to get average of 150-160ms before in aim400kg.ru press reaction game
24 Data Analysis Average Reaction time RT and accuracy were computed separately from CS computer a at University of Florid
sults lend support to the hypothesis that average reaction time and errors of recognition are not related to stimulus uncertainty, while response uncertainty is constant.. ---·-.. - --';-, _ _:. -· . ·-. Introduction The present experiment is prjmaxily concerned with the functional relationship of choice reaction time aid the information content of a stimulus display. Since the exper.
The data showed that younger people had the fastest reaction time, which was the 13-14 year old group with a average of 124.5 ms. In second place, was the 20 year old group, which had an average of 125.5 ms. Not far behind was 6-8 year olds with a score of 133 ms. 43-47 year olds averaged a time of 145 ms. In last place the 72-78 age group had.
Choice reaction time task in which participants respond differentially to two stimuli by pressing one key for event A and a separate key for event B; The Implicit Association Test, a subset of choice reaction time tasks, in which 4 types of stimuli are categorized using 2 keys. Central reation time (aka abbreviated reaction time or reduced reation time) is the portion of reaction time left.
Reaction Time. Reaction time corresponds to the interval between the appearance of the stimulus and the answer provided by the participants, response accuracy corresponds to the proportion of correct answers in a given time window, and lapses of attention correspond to the appearance of stimuli with no answer given by the participants
Results: The results show that the mean visual reaction time is around 331 milliseconds as compared to the mean auditory reaction time of around 284 milliseconds. Conclusion: This shows that the auditory reaction time is faster than the visual reaction time. And also males have faster reaction times when compared to females for both auditory as well as visual stimuli
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Your reaction time. Normally 0.5-2 seconds. 45-54 year-olds have the best reaction time in traffic. 18-24 year-olds and those over 60 have the same reaction time in traffic. Young people have sharper senses but older people have more experience
(1 point) The average reaction time was approximately 0.1972 seconds with a standard deviation of 0.045993043 seconds. The standard deviation indicates the uncertainty. 9. Your lab TA makes a wager with you. She holds a $100 bill between your thumb and.
This entry considers reaction time as a measure in animal cognition and behavior experiments. It addresses issues of interpretation, historical use of RTs, design, and analysis
Simple reaction time: It is not what it used to be IRWIN W. SILVERMAN Bowling Green State University This article calls attention to the large amount of evidence indicating that simple visual reaction time (RT) has increased. To show that RT has increased, the RTs obtained by young adults in 14 studies published from 1941 on were compared with the RTs obtained by young adults in a study. Test your reaction time. Training: You can run this again and again to try and improve your reaction time. Note: Outliers are values that lie outside the typical range. It is fair to exclude those values as, for example, you may have been distracted How to Improve Reaction Time With Lifestyle Changes. Unlike reflexes, which aren't processed by the brain, reaction time can be strengthened and improved through lifestyle changes. Cognitive exercises, meditation and mindfulness, and nutritional supplements are all factors that can boost reaction time in a safe and healthy way. Cognitive Exercises . First and foremost, increasing reaction. Look at most relevant Average Reaction Time apps. Average Reaction Time found at uSnap!, Buttons Deluxe etc. Check the best results Perception/Reaction times (PRT) to can be critical in certain auto accident lawsuits. Whether it be a pedestrian, tractor trailer, car or motorcycle; time and distance calculations can tell the story. There are experts who deal with perception and reaction times. A human response to something auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli can be timed. While 1.5 seconds is often used as a benchmark in.
What is the average human reaction time
The lesson begins by introducing the key term, reaction time, and teaching students that the average reaction time is 0.2 seconds. Moving forwards, a step by step guide is used to show the students how to take the value for distance travelled by a ruler in the drop test and use the equations of motion and change in velocity equation to calculate the reaction time. There is a large mathematical. If you try to find your reaction time under different conditions as indicated above, you will need to record an uncertainty in your results. The standard deviation (see Appendix 4) is a good measure of uncertainty to use here. Report. The report turned in can be very simple. Just list the data (the distance the ruler dropped), calculate an average drop time, and then calculate the implied. In an earlier part, we discussed reaction time, and indicated that it is measured from the green light switch closure until the front tires leave the starting line. That is technically correct. However, if your local track's clocks indicate a perfect light as .500, the reaction time is measured from the closing of the switch for the last yellow light until the front tires leave the starting.
Reaction Time (in seconds) for Baseball Pitches by Speed and Distance Related. Equivalent Baseball Pitch Speeds. Updates. 8/14/2008 account for speed reduction from mound to plate Hitters have roughly 0.40 seconds reaction time (typically) to: determine the type of pitch; determine if it's a strike or a ball; determine the speed of the pitched bal the average reaction time of a NHL hockey goaltender. what is the avg time it take for them to react to a shot not using sports science as and example, like is their reaction time .203 or .15 This can slow driver reaction time and inhibit safe driving in dangerous situations. It's also possible that pain or stiffness in muscles or joints could make it difficult to react quickly during emergencies. A combination of treating the cause and changing driving habits can help you be successful at safe driving. DID YOU KNOW? The average driver makes about 20 major decisions during each. Hello world! October 22, 2018. 0. Published by at December 12, 202
In the world of boxing, reaction time is everything.Without question, it plays a key role in effective offense and defense in the ring. Which is why the greatest boxers the sport has ever seen are also known to have incredible reaction time; never failing to fascinate fans around the world with their incredible counter-striking skills or their uncanny ability to evade swarms of punches Reaction time is the time taken for a person to respond to a stimulus. For example if you touch something very cold, there is a slight delay between you touching it and moving your hand away, because it takes time for the information to travel from your hand, to your brain where it is processed and then a response started. You can test reaction time using just a ruler! If you like this.
March 2018 Average reaction time was 340ms Healthy sleepers group (7-8 hours of sleep 25 adults Average reaction time was 250ms Average reaction time was 254ms Average reaction time was 252ms As we can see the reaction time (in milliseconds) for the sleep deprived group took significantly longer overall and increased in reaction time as each day progressed. On the other hand the healthy Sleepers. Reaction time and speed are highly genetical and can not be improved much.. 10-20% is the average i believe. But it's not just kennys reaction time that makes him so good, it's more his insane accuracy in his flicks and his muscle memory. He knows exactly how much he has to move his mouse to hit his shot, which is imo more impressive than his reaction time. Besides, tests online are not 100%.
Case Study: Reaction Time of Children According to Age
AP Biology: Reaction Time Lab Introduction: A meter stick can be held perpendicular to the floor, dropped, and a student can catch it to determine how far it falls before the student reacts.The slower the reaction on the part of the student, the farther the meter stick will fall. The student can convert distance into times and measure reaction time Reaction time plays an important role in situations of immediate response like 100m Olympic race and applying break in speeding car to name a few. In this miniProject, we create a reaction time meter that lets us measure reaction time for visual, audio and touch stimuli. Let's get started. Add Tip Ask Question Comment Download. Step 1: Video. Some things are better explained in an article like.
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NA Standing Committee prepares for upcoming thematic meeting
VNA Monday, 22/11/2021 20:02
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee during its fifth sitting on November 22 reviewed the second session of the 15th legislature and gave opinions on the preparations for a thematic meeting in December and the third session of the 15th NA
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Hanoi (VNA) - The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee during its fifth sitting on November 22 reviewed the second session of the 15th legislature and gave opinions on the preparations for a thematic meeting in December and the third session of the 15th NA.
Secretary General of the NA and Chairman of the NA Office Bui Van Cuong said regarding the thematic meeting slated for next month, the NA is to consider a bill amending and supplementing some articles of 10 laws; a project to construct the eastern part of the North-South expressway for the 2021-25 period; and a pilot programme to separate land clearance and re-settlement from investment projects.
It will also scrutinise a draft resolution on piloting some specific mechanisms and policies for the development of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho; a project to build fiscal and monetary mechanisms and policies for timely implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme.
The NA Secretary General proposed holding the meeting via videoconference. He also suggested the NA's irregular meeting should be held for 4-5 days in early January 2022.
The legislators are to work for 18 days during the third session of the 15th NA, which is scheduled for late May 2022. They will spend most of the duration on lawmaking work and about two and a half days on the question and answer session.
Online sessions may be held in case the COVID-19 pandemic remains rampant.
In his concluding remarks, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue urged the NA Standing Committee to start giving opinions on the third session.
He underlined that the thematic meeting next month will only address urgent, precipitate and essential matters and the organisation of an irregular one depends on preparation work./.
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QUIET ODD #12 _ Musings
Alejandro Cesarco & Călin Man / reVoltaire
with an introduction by n.b.k. Video Forum curator Silke Wittig
5.3.2017 / 19.00 / ODD
In 2017, ODD makes its first attempt at a fully curated program. Exhibitions and performances, work groups and public debates – all gather under the banner of privacy, a term we set out to understand and re-signify. Alongside an annual program of residencies and exhibitions, the long-term series QUIET ODD continues in 2017. It is produced in partnership with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the Czech Centre in Bucharest, featuring a monthly selection of Romanian and international artist films relevant for our subject matter.
Founded in 1971 as an artists and cultural producers initiative, the Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein with over 1,600 works of video art is the oldest and one of the biggest collection of video art in Germany that has constantly been expanding since its founding. The focal points of the collection are Fluxus, feminist video, historical and contemporary video art of Berlin, as well as approaches reflecting on the media. Key works dating back to the early phase of video art are represented on an equal footing with contemporary productions. In addition, over the last few years, a particular emphasis on art from Eastern Europe has developed.
The first video that will be screened at QUIET ODD is Alejandro Cesarco's Musings (2013, 15:35), which was co-produced by the n.b.k. Video-Forum. The work retells a series of anecdotes regarding premonitions, fate, dreams, and other types of messages that are the generative source for creative work. The selected stories also have in common that the resulting creative works have very much to do with death and mortality. Musings proposes to triangulate the ideas of inspiration, influence and inheritance.
Alongside it, the Romanian artist whose work we present is Călin Man aka reVoltaire, member of the well-know moving image group Kinema Ikon in Arad. His film 5 ready media files by Vasile Cârlova (2012, 11:27) is part of a project initiated by Ion Dumitrescu and Ștefan Tiron, based on unused soundtrack by Rodion and rare footage from various family, city and group scenes by reVoltaire and Zsiga Ioan, dedicated to the fabulous poet Vasile Cârlova.
Curator Silke Wittig will introduce the session and present her selection for this year's program.
QUIET ODD in 2017 functions as a collaboration between ODD, the Czech Centre in Bucharest and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Part of P R I V A T E L Y.
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Dr David Coates
WA State Gov - Department Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions
David Coates is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Program Leader for the Flora Conservation and Herbarium Program and responsible for coordinating and facilitating research in flora conservation and plant systematics in the Department of Parks and Wildlife in Western Australia.
Program activities cover ecological and genetic studies, recovery of rare and threatened plant species especially translocations and reintroductions, seed banking, taxonomy and systematics of the Western Australian flora and research aimed at the amelioration of threatening processes such as Phytophthora dieback, habitat fragmentation and climate change.
Included in the Program are the Western Australian Herbarium and the Threatened Flora Seed Centre. David's research interests cover conservation biology, conservation genetics, restoration genetics and evolutionary biology. He is adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.
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Jonathan Rea 'by far the best rider ever from Northern Ireland'
Kawasaki rider Jonathan Rea is on the cusp of retaining the World Superbike title.
Kyle White
Published: 06:00 Friday 14 October 2016
Jeremy McWilliams says Jonathan Rea stands on the brink of achieving the greatest feat in the history of Northern Ireland motorcycle racing by clinching back-to-back World Superbike titles this weekend.
Kawasaki star Rea became Ulster's first world champion in the sport since road racers Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid in 1986 when he sealed the crown at Jerez in Spain last year.
The 29-year-old will repeat the feat at the same venue this weekend if he manages to outscore team-mate Tom Sykes by two points – an accomplishment former Grand Prix winner McWilliams says will outshine anything previously achieved by any other racer from the country.
"What can you say about Jonathan Rea? He's by far the best ever rider to come out of our wee country – there's no doubt about that. His determination and drive is incredible and he told me he is absolutely determined to do whatever he can to wrap it up this weekend," McWilliams told the News Letter.
"He's not the sort to just sit back and let it come to him and he'll go out there to try and get the job done. In terms of winning the world title for the second time, I think it ranks above anything that anybody from this country has ever achieved on two wheels in our sport. To follow up last year's incredible season and do it all again would just be absolutely remarkable."
Rea, who is also set to become the first rider to win successive World Superbike titles since Blackburn legend Carl Fogarty in 1999, produced a performance in Germany last month that perfectly encapsulated his single-mindedness to swing the championship race firmly back in his favour.
After crashing out in the opening race, the Larne man – who now resides in the Isle of Man – conceded 20 points to Sykes, who finished as the runner-up behind Chaz Davies.
Undeterred, Rea came out fighting in the second race, grasping the nettle in atrocious conditions to secure a commanding victory, with Yorkshireman Sykes falling victim to the conditions on the opening lap.
It was a pivotal moment in the championship that left the reigning world champion's former mentor McWilliams on the edge of his seat.
"At Lausitzring, that race could have gone completely the other way but looking at his resilience, to be able to bounce back as he did in race two was incredible.
"We were all watching from the edge of our seats but he took the bull by the horns rather than settling for easy points and he restored his lead again. He's just a terrific rider who deserves to win another world title," McWilliams said.
"We can talk about where he could be in his career and all the ifs and buts, though I have no doubt he's a rider we'd be talking about in MotoGP the same way we are talking about him now in World Superbikes, if things had fallen into place for him.
"I believe Jonathan is one of those very few riders who could definitely have made the change to MotoGP and been able to adapt to that style of racing. Nobody can take anything away from his achievements and he's definitely one of a kind," added the Glengormley man.
"I think he will go on to win many more world championships if he stays at Kawasaki because he has a very grounded approach to racing. Jonathan has a great family life with great people around him and everything in his mind is just right at the moment."
Practice gets underway at Jerez on Friday with Superpole on Saturday morning from 9.30am. The first race takes place at 12 noon on Saturday with race two at the same time on Sunday.
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HomeInstrumentationsString quartetString Quartet No. 6 IV. Allegro and Largo
String Quartet No. 6 IV. Allegro and Largo
By: Sabra Lindgren
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Sabra Lindgren
Lindgren Music Publishing
String Quartet No. 6 has 4 movements: I. Adagio, II. Allegro, III. Allegretto, and IV. Allegro and Largo. Suggested fingerings are written in the violin scores.
Allegro Giocoso for String Orchestra, String Trio No. 1 in A, III. Adagio Dream, String Quartet No. 7 III. Minueto Presto ma non troppo, String Quartet No. 9 IV. Allegretto, Allegro, String Quartet No. 7 IV. Finale Allegretto, String Quartet No. 6 III. Allegretto, String Quartet No. 6 I. Adagio, String Trio No. 1 in A, I. Moderato and Allegro, String Quartet No. 2 in G minor IV. Moderato, String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, I. Largo-Moderato, String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, II. Larghetto-Andante, Adagio-Andante, String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, III. Largo-Allegro-Larghetto, String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, IV. Moderato, String Trio No. 1 in A, II. Andante, String Trio No. 1 in A, IV. Allegro, String Quartet No. 2 in G minor I. Allegro, String Quartet No. 3 in D III. Moderato, String Quartet No. 3 in D IV. Lesto, String Quartet No. 4 in Bb I. Largo, String Quartet No. 4 in Bb II. Allegretto, String Quartet No. 4 in Bb III. Moderato, String Quartet No. 4 in Bb IV. Allegro, String Quartet No. 5 II. Adagio, String Quartet No. 5 I. Moderato, String Quartet No. 5 III. Andante, String Quartet No. 5 IV. Allegro, String Quartet No. 6 II. Allegro, Harmonic Tango Arr. for String Quartet, String Quartet No. 8 I. Allegro Adagio, String Quartet No. 8 IV. Adagio Allegro, String Quartet No. 8 III. Minuet and Scherzo and String Quartet No. 8 II. Largo
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Fosset's Search Team Dismisses Sir Branson's Google Map Quest
Both Reuters and the Associated Press have reported that Sir Richard Branson, fellow adventurer and friend of Steve Fossett, was negotiating with Google to obtain satellite photos that may have indicated Fossett's heading when he disappeared. Yet the lead team in the search effort dismissed these well-intended efforts. Major Cynthia Ryan from Nevada's Civil Air […]
Both Reuters and the Associated Press have reported that Sir Richard Branson, fellow adventurer and friend of Steve Fossett, was negotiating with Google to obtain satellite photos that may have indicated Fossett's heading when he disappeared. Yet the lead team in the search effort dismissed these well-intended efforts. Major Cynthia Ryan from Nevada's Civil Air Patrol, who is leading the search, told us that the federal government had already provided satellite photos that are not currently available to the general public. "Look, we've got more than your average Google maps coming into play here," she said, though it was not clear at this writing which agency provided them. In addition, Major John Kirkland from Utah's Civil Air Patrol, which has assisted in the search, reported that his division had supplied two aircraft with advanced imagery technology. Cameras capable of collecting hyperspectral and panchromatic images work in 40 color bands and can identify pixel clusters that don't belong to the scene. Airplanes using infrared detection have been searching at night. And boats with sonar have been trolling nearby Walker Lake, one possible area where Fossett may have gone down.
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Shades Of Red Hair – 40 Mind-Blowing Ideas To Bright Up Your Life
Shades of red hair are the most impressive and bright! While blondes and brunettes are arguing who looks showier and more beautiful, redheads are simply enjoying life. They don't need to participate in absurd discussions. With such a bright hair color, they are just divine! Fiery reds and deep burgundy hues can be recommended for women of any age. Besides, different varieties of red hair color flatter not only girls with very fair skin tone. The present day palette of red hair hues is so versatile that many women can find their unique red, auburn and chestnut shades.
#24: Caramel Blonde As An Alternative
Here is one of the most versatile hair hues for girls and women who like to experiment with looks in different styles. It's not actually red, but we can't classify it as a cool blonde shade either. Cara's long locks shine in the sun, revealing the warm caramel tints. If you are not ready to go red, but want to approach this hue, caramel is a perfect alternative.
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New horizons: Konica Minolta opens worldwide Digital Manufacturing Hub
Opening Digital Manufacturing Hub
Langenhagen,
With the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 and data handling, digitalisation has now reached manufacturing companies, too. To help and support customers through this development and transformation process as a trusted partner, Konica Minolta has today opened its Digital Manufacturing Hub in Darmstadt, Germany, which acts as the global headquarters of its newly created Digital Manufacturing Business Unit.
Opening the new Digital Manufacturing Hub marks the start of Konica Minolta expanding its renowned and reliable IT services and complete solutions for optimising document-heavy business processes in the B2B sector. These will be supplemented by expertise in sensor systems and visualisation technology, fields in which Konica Minolta has many years of experience.
By expanding into this new business area, we aim to develop and implement solutions for the digital transformation process both for and together with Konica Minolta's customers.
Yuji Ichimura, President, Industrial Optical System Business Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc.
Konica Minolta will bring in a number of collaborative partners to do this. The focus will be on visualisation in all its facets, in order to reveal optimisation potential and enable it to be unlocked.
Guests at the opening ceremony were treated not only to lectures by qualified specialists (from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, for example) but also to a discussion forum and live demonstrations of the first solutions.
The global Head of the Digital Manufacturing Business Unit is Johannes Bischof, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland. He will be supported by Steve Rommel, in his new role as Head of the Digital Manufacturing Hub in Darmstadt. Thanks to the time he spent working at international manufacturing companies, as well as in research and development, Rommel will bring a wealth of experience from a wide range of sectors to the Hub.
An important milestone
For Konica Minolta, establishing this new Business Unit is a further important milestone on the timeline of our company's very successful history. We will pool our expertise and innovative prowess into our Digital Manufacturing Hub in order to develop pioneering solutions for manufacturing companies. We are confident that Darmstadt will prove to be the perfect choice for this.
Johannes Bischof, President, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Konica Minolta enables its clients to champion the digital era: with its unique imaging expertise and data processing capabilities, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers and solves issues faced by society. As a provider of comprehensive IT services, Konica Minolta delivers consultancy and services to optimise business processes with workflow automation and implements solutions in the field of IT infrastructure and IT security as well as cloud environments. According to IDC, Konica Minolta is a "Major Player in Workflow Services Hardcopy in the Western European market" (2016). Being a strong partner for the production and industrial printing market, Konica Minolta offers business consulting, state-of-the-art technology and software and, in 2016, was the production printing market leader for the ninth consecutive year (InfoSource). The hardware portfolio covers light and mid production as well as industrial printing machines. Konica Minolta Marketing Services provides value added services that intelligently link print and digital marketing in an effective and efficient way. In the healthcare sector, Konica Minolta drives digitalisation of clinical workflows and offers a broad range of next-level diagnostic solutions. Through its Business Innovation Centre in London and four R&D laboratories in Europe, Konica Minolta brings innovation forward by collaborating with its customers as well as academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With over 9,700 employees (as of March 2017), Konica Minolta Europe earned net sales of over EUR 2.4 billion in financial year 2016/17.
For more information, please visit http://newsroom.konicaminolta.eu/ and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter @KonicaMinoltaEU.
Melanie Olbrich
Expert Corporate Communications
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How do prostaglandins induce labor?
Prostaglandins promote cervical ripening and encourage the onset of labour by acting on cervical collagen so as to encourage the cervix to soften and stretch in preparation for childbirth. Prostaglandins may also stimulate uterine contractions.
What do prostaglandins do in labor?
Prostaglandins are produced naturally by the body during the process of labour. Their role is to prepare the cervix and to help open the cervix in response to contractions.
What are the 7 Cardinal mechanism of labour?
The fetus negotiates the birth canal and rotational movements are necessary for descent. Anglo-American literature lists 7 cardinal movements, namely engagement, descent, flexion, internal rotation, extension, external rotation, and expulsion.
What are the mechanisms of labor?
The mechanisms of labor, also known as the cardinal movements, involve changes in the position of the fetus's head during its passage in labor. These are described in relation to a vertex presentation.
How do prostaglandins cause uterine contraction?
Prostaglandins and Reproduction During your period, prostaglandins trigger muscles in your uterus to contract. These contractions help expel the uterus lining. Higher levels of prostaglandins can cause more severe menstrual cramps, and severe contractions may constrict the blood vessels around the uterus.
How are prostaglandins administered?
PGE2 is administered vaginally as a suppository, gel, or insert.
What does prostaglandins do to cervix?
When pregnant women go into labor, prostaglandins help cause the cervix to dilate and contractions to occur. Your doctor may use prostaglandins to induce labor if it's decided that you should give birth before labor naturally occurs.
What is the main function of prostaglandins?
The prostaglandins are a group of lipids made at sites of tissue damage or infection that are involved in dealing with injury and illness. They control processes such as inflammation, blood flow, the formation of blood clots and the induction of labour.
What are the 6 cardinal movements of labor?
Anglo-American literature lists 7 cardinal movements, namely engagement, descent, flexion, internal rotation, extension, external rotation, and expulsion.
What is labour and mechanism of labour?
Normal labour involves the widest diameter of the fetus successfully negotiating the widest diameter of the bony pelvis of the mother via the most efficient route. The mechanism of labour covers the passive movement the fetus undergoes in order to negotiate through the maternal bony pelvis.
What are the 4 P's of labor?
A: Many factors come into play to determine how long a labor will last. Basically labor length is influenced by the Six P's: passage, passenger, power, position, psyche or perception and parity.
How are ring opening reactions of epoxides performed?
The nonenzymatic ring-opening reactions of epoxides provide a nice overview of many of the concepts we have seen already in this chapter. Ring-opening reactions can proceed by either S N 2 or S N 1 mechanisms, depending on the nature of the epoxide and on the reaction conditions.
How to make hydrogen peroxide by epoxidation?
Bubbling SO 2 F 2 gas into a solution of olefin, 30% aqueous hydrogen peroxide, and 2 M aqueous potassium carbonate in 1,4-dioxane at room temperature for 1 h provides the corresponding epoxides in good to excellent yields.
What is the function of squalene epoxidase in humans?
Squalene epoxidase catalyzes the first oxygenation step in sterol biosynthesis and is thought to be one of the rate-limiting enzymes in this pathway. In humans, squalene epoxidase is encoded by the SQLE gene.
What happens when epoxide undergoes solvolysis in methanol?
If the epoxide is asymmetric, the structure of the product will vary according to which mechanism dominates. When an asymmetric epoxide undergoes solvolysis in basic methanol, ring-opening occurs by an S N 2 mechanism, and the less substituted carbon is the site of nucleophilic attack, leading to what we will refer to as product B:
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Baby Wild Films is a top documenter of live events in the Pacific Northwest. Michael Harris started directing and producing video productions for The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre in 1992, shooting principal photography for over 50 live shows and working with the company and its New York partners on Broadway-bound hits such as the multiple Tony Award-winning "Hairspray" by John Waters (including "Outstanding Musical"), Adam Sandler's "The Wedding Singer: The Musical," nominated in 2006 for five Tony Awards, and another production from acclaimed Broadway producer Margo Lion, the musical version of Stephen Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can." Michael was also tapped to work with Mel Brooks to document his $21 million Seattle pre-Broadway run of "Young Frankenstein," at that time the most expensive production in the history of musical theatre.
Michael's team also shot and edited last year's Seattle introduction of "Memphis," and that video has been credited by the producers for helping them land a theatre on Broadway – a run of good fortune that led to a 2010 Tony Award for "Outstanding Musical." The energy and dynamic production aspects of live theatre are often considered uncapturable by television cameras, but after two decades doing it, many times with just one crack at a final orchestra rehearsal, Michael and his team have mastered the craft. In 2007 Michael's television and musical theatre worlds collided when he turned the annual 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards into the extraordinary half-hour television special, 5TH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL AWARDS!, which went on to garner an Emmy Award nomination in the category of "Outstanding Coverage of a Live Event (Other than Sports or News)." He produced HSMA specials again in 2008, 2009 and 2010, earning Emmy nominations each year in the same category.
Michael's live production credentials also include breaking network news, music and sports. He's been a top-shelf producer of "live shots" and events for such clients as ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, MTV/VH1 and Yahoo!, and his Monday Night Football Pre-Game and Post-Game Show for Seattle's CW affiliate were the highest-rated broadcasts in the station's 55-year history. Michael's over 25 years experience in broadcast television and his A-list network-level crews ensure that nothing gets lost when shows go live.
LIVE! SELECTS
Principal Video ("B-Roll") from no-stop final orchestra rehearsals, reviewed intensively by directors in those last few critical days before Opening Night and used by the marketing teams to promote the productions. No stops for video crew, either – we're required to get it in one take, sometimes without even an opportunity to preview the shows. We're seeing it for the first time. Two-to-three hours of footage then is taken to the shop and edited into 10 minutes or less of highlights, delivered that evening. Show biz...
Clients below include The 5th Avenue Theatre, Mel Brooks, Margo Lion, Adam Sandler, John Waters and Dreamworks.
"Young Frankenstein"
Client: Mel Brooks and The Paramount Theatre. Mel's baby! Baby Wild Films was entrusted with producing, shooting and editing the Seattle pre-Broadway run of the $21 million musical version of Brooks' iconic movie, which went on to garner four Tony Award nominations. Up to that point, "Young Frankenstein" stood as the most expensive production in Broadway history. Stars Roger Bart and Megan Mullally. Musical directed by Susan Stroman. Shot in front of the first live audience, with just one chance for the video crew to capture the performance. Two cameras: Tom Speer and Chris Bell. Location sound production and post-production by Michael Harris.
"Memphis"
Client: The 5th Avenue Theatre. Baby Wild Films was entrusted to produce, shoot and edit the principal marketing footage for the Seattle pre-Broadway run of musical that went on to win the 2011 Tony Award for "Best Musical." This footage is credited for securing a Broadway engagement for this production. One camera: Kevin Ely. Produced and edited by Michael Harris. Location sound production and post-production by Michael Harris.
"Hairspray"
Client: Margo Lion, John Waters and The 5th Avenue Theatre. Baby Wild Films was entrusted to produce, shoot and edit the principal marketing footage for the Seattle pre-Broadway run of this musical that went on to win eight Tony Awards, including "Best Musical." One camera: Kevin Ely. Produced and edited by Michael Harris. Location sound production and post-production by Michael Harris.
"Catch Me if You Can"
Client: Dreamworks, Margo Lion and The 5th Avenue Theatre. Baby Wild Films produced, shot and edited this principal marketing footage for the Seattle pre-Broadway run of the musical version of Stephen Spielberg's hit movie. This was shot in front of a live audience - one shot at getting it right! Two cameras: Tom Speer and Kevin Ely. Produced and edited by Michael Harris. Location sound production and post-production by Michael Harris.
"The Wedding Singer: The Musical Comedy"
Client: Margo Lion, Adam Sandler and The 5th Avenue Theatre. Baby Wild Films produced, shot and edited the Seattle pre-Broadway run of the musical version of Adam Sandler's hit movie, which went on to garner five Tony Award nominations. No-stop final orchestra rehearsal shot by two cameras - Kevin Ely and Tom Speer. Sound production and post-production by Michael Harris.
"High School Musical Awards!" (2007) (2008) (2009) (2010)
Long before "Glee" and "High School Musical," Michael Harris was turning out exhilarating half-hour specials culled from the annual statewide High School Musical Awards Show presented by The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre. What began as an assignment to produce "thank you" videos for the sponsor, Wells Fargo, became some of the most compelling half-hours airing on local television. With just two cameras and a tiny budget , Michael and veteran photojournalists Tom Speer and Kevin Ely literally capture lightning in a bottle - it's at times hilarious, often heartwarming, and absolutely powered by the singular energy of 2,300 screaming high school students and extraordinary, in-the-moment, Broadway-quality performances. All four specials earned Emmy Award nominations in the coveted category of "Outstanding Coverage of a Live Event (Non-Sports or News)," and even though none of them took home the Emmy, as they say at the HSMAs, all were winners!
Monday Night Football Pre-Game and Post-Game Show (CW11 Seattle)
Michael Harris was Producer/Director of a crew of 23 on CW11's (CBS Stations Group) live regional Pre-Game and Post-Game Show broadcasts of Monday Night Football, co-hosted by KING TV's Lisa Gangel and Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon. The shows, which also featured Grammy Award-winning recording artist Sir Mix-a-Lot, were the highest-rated programs in the 55-year history of the station.
ABC News Good Morning America: "Shopping Mall Shooting Near Portland, OR"
BREAKING NEWS / For this dramatic report on ABC News Good Morning America, Producer/Video Journalist Michael Harris was asked to rush from Seattle to Clackamas, Oregon, south of Portland, to join a large West Coast Bureau contingent covering a mass shooting in a shopping mall full of Christmas shoppers. A masked 22-year-old had just killed two and critically injured another before turning the gun on himself. Over 10,000 shoppers had to be evacuated and at times rescued from the terror by true heroes, including a young Macy's employee whom Michael booked and brought to the GMA set for an exclusive live interview, reuniting him with the first customer he saved from the mall. It was a beautiful moment in an otherwise horrific day, one in which Michael also talked to a husband whose wife just hours before had a rifle pointed in her face, only to have the weapon jam, saving her life. Of course, just days after this tragedy in Oregon, the country lost 26 people, including 20 children, in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
ABC News Good Morning America / "Four Officers Gunned Down" BREAKING NEWS / The following is a live report from the scene of a horrendous crime near Tacoma, Washington, where four police officers were gunned down in cold blood while in a coffee shop. The gunman was still in the immediate area on the loose while Michael, correspondent Neal Karlinsky and the other ABC News producers were doing their live shot for Good Morning America. The crew had to be protected by a contingent of officers, guns drawn, while search helicopters hovered overhead.
Michael Harris was hired by Yahoo! and flown down to its global headquarters in Sunnyvale, California each week to produce original content for the company's platforms, which reach an estimated 621 million unique users a month. As part of a four-person "Digital Media Bureau," Michael was a "one-man band," producing, shooting, writing, editing and doing voice work for Yahoo!, with assignments taking him to Taiwan, the Tech Crunch Conference in New York City, the Cellular Technology Association (CTIA) Conference in San Francisco, and the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards in Nashville. He also enterprised an extraordinary content relationship with his other client, ABC News, creating and then producing, writing, shooting and editing "Yahoo! Trends With Pamela Woon," a three-minute segment seen every Friday on ABC World News Now. That relationship grew into a highly publicized content partnership between the two companies in October 2011, with ABC News announcing that within a year its unique users grew 170 percent, making the Yahoo!-ABC alliance now the world's #1 online news source. By the end of Michael's contract, "Yahoo! Trends With Pamela Woon" was seen on 383 stations each week, reaching (per Cision) over 9.2 million people.
The following are live reports from the Country Music Association Awards (CMAs) in Nashville, TN November 10-11. 2010, seen on ABC World News Now and all Yahoo! platforms.
Yahoo! Trends With Pamela Woon / ABC World News Now 11-11-10
Yahoo! Live From the CMAs 11/10/2010
Yahoo! Live From the CMAs 11/10/2010 "What Users Want to Know Most About You?"
Yahoo! Live From the CMAs 11/10/2010 "High Notes & Yahoos"
"The Madhouse Project: A Night Out for A Cure"
Baby Wiild Films donated its services on behalf of "A Night Out for A Cure," the annual auction fundraiser in Seattle, WA held by the non-profit Madhouse Project benefiting the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. With almost no budget, no walk-throughs, no sound person and NO LIGHT (!!), we managed to capture the essence of the evening and some wonderful moments, including an inspiring talk by the Guest of Honor, Dr. Kimberly Allison, cancer doctor and cancer patient. The evening raised about $200,000 for SCCA.
Regional Emmy Awards
"Outstanding Documentary/Current Issues" for Orcas in the Balance
"Outstanding Public Affairs Special" for iSi Se Puede! Connecting Farmworker Communities
"Outstanding Writer/PSA or Promo" for Make a Call, For the Wild
"Outstanding Public Affairs Segment" for Cry of the Orca (Fisher Communications)
"Outstanding Children & Youth Series or Special" for Baby Wild Films Presents: The Killer Whale People
"Outstanding Writer/Program" for THE INLAND SEA With Jean-Michel Cousteau: Where Have All the Orcas Gone?
"Outstanding Editor/Program" for THE INLAND SEA With Jean-Michel Cousteau: Where Have All the Orcas Gone?
"Outstanding Writer/PSA or Promo" for What Kids Really Eat (for KOMO 4 News/ABC Seattle)
"Outstanding Advanced Media" for Dairyman Blues
Forty-five Emmy nominations in 15 different categories since 1989, including as Producer, Writer, Editor, Live Events Director, Photographer, On-Air Host and Composer.
Regional Emmys/Nominations for Baby Wild Films
"Outstanding On-Air Host or Moderator" to Billy Frank Jr. for THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr. / "Outstanding Public Affairs Special" to Victoria Garcia for iSi Se Puede! Connecting Farmworker Communities
Numerous Regional Emmy Award nominations for Baby Wild Films production crew, including three for Kevin Ely for "Outstanding Photography/Program" (The Kenney Creek Eagles, iSi Se Puede! Connecting Farmworker Communities and THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.), one for Kirk Miller for "Outstanding Photography/ Program" (THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.), and two for Tim Truman for "Outstanding Original Composition" (Baby Wild Films Presents: Sea Otters, The Old Men of the Sea and THE INLAND SEA With Jean-Michel Cousteau: A Puget Sound Fish Story).
National and International Awards and Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine" for Heartbreak & Heroes, an ABC News 20/20 Special Documentary Presentation
Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Open Design" for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Open Design" for The Year in Sports (Syndicated Special)
CableAce Nomination for "Best Children and Youth Series, Educational" for PopSci for Kids (Discovery Kids and Discovery Kids Latin America)
Telly Award for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
Telly Award for America's Passions (Syndicated Special)
Telly Award for The Holidays, Eddie Bauer Style (Seven-Million-Piece Direct Mail Video)
Telly Award for Heroes for the Earth (Syndicated Special)
Telly Award for Sound Encounters: Living With the Killer Whales (Syndicated Special)
Communication Arts Award for "Outstanding Open Design" for PopSci for Kids (Discovery Kids and Discovery Kids Latin America)
International Monitor Award for "Outstanding Producing Team" for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
International Monitor Award for "Outstanding Editing Team" for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
International Monitor Award for "Outstanding Writing Team" for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
Broadcast Design Association (BDA) Award - Silver Award for "Outstanding Open & Graphics Package" for Popular Science With Dean Stockwell (Discovery Communications/The Learning Channel)
Broadcast Design Association (BDA) Award - Silver Award for "Outstanding Open & Graphics Package" for The Year in Sports (Syndicated Special)
Clinical Legal Education Association Award of Excellence
Michael Harris was a co-recipient with Michael Robinson-Dorn and the Kathy & Steve Berman Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Washington for the prestigious National Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award of Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project, for their combined efforts to provide legal assistance and help photo-document the successful campaign of 187 tribes in Native Alaska to push the State and the U.S. Government to call on Exxon to pay up in Prince William Sound. The resulting film was Michael's critically acclaimed feature-length documentary, THE 3RD TRUSTEE: Native Alaska & The Big Spill, repackaged as the premiere special of THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.
"High School Musical Awards!" (2007)
"Monday Night Football Pre-Game and Post-Game Show" (CW11 Seattle)
"The Wedding Singer"
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Pollak: Mark Meadows' Lawsuit Could End the January 6 Committee
Joel B. Pollak December 9, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized
Mark Meadows turned the tables on the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on Wednesday, filling a lawsuit in federal district court in D.C. that argues the committee is unconstitutional and in violation of House rules.
CNN and other establishment media outlets played the lawsuit as a last-ditch effort by a man desperate to avoid a subpoena — or desperate to appease his former boss, Donald Trump.
Yet the lawsuit is a serious threat to the existence of the committee.
The lawsuit makes some familiar arguments, such as that the committee is violating the Constitution's separation of powers by encroaching on executive privilege. Former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon, who is being prosecuted by the supposedly apolitical Department of Justice for contempt of Congress, is making the same case against his subpoena in federal court.
But Meadows goes further, pointing out that the January 6 committee violates the terms of its own enabling resolution.
The resolution, H. Res. 503, provides that the committee "shall" consist of 13 members, five of which "shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader."
But the committee only has nine members, seven of whom are Democrats, and only two of whom are hand-picked anti-Trump Republicans. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected the five members chosen by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D-CA), an unprecedented step to ensure a one-sided inquiry.
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 19: U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, speaks during a committee business meeting as vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) looks on at Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee voted to hold former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with the committee's subpoena. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Furthermore, Meadows's lawsuit points out that while the chair of the committee can order subpoenas, that authority is not absolute. H. Res. 503 requires the chair of the committee to consult with the ranking member before issuing a subpoena for a deposition. But the committee has no ranking Republican member, which could make the committee's subpoenas invalid.
If Meadows's lawsuit is successful, he could not only block his own subpoena, but could see the entire committee declared invalid. Pelosi and the Democrats would have to start over — this time, obeying the rules, with five Republican members.
And Meadows drove home the point by naming every member of the committee as a defendant, not just Pelosi and the committee as a whole.
Each of the members — including the two Republicans, who are posing as defenders of the rule of law — is going to have to answer, and explain why they are participating in a Star Chamber that violates not only the principles of the Constitution, but the explicit rules authorized by the House Democrats in a supposed effort to protect democracy.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Nigeria: January 16, 2000
WAR ALERT IN WEST AFRICA: The dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula appears ready to heat up once again. France, allied to Cameroon, is building a new air base at Gargura, near the peninsula. Nigeria put its own Air Force on alert, as well as the 1st Nigerian Armored Division; they were ordered to be ready for combat operations by 1 Feb. The Bakassi Peninsula is in fact not a peninsula but a series of small islands and salt marshes extending into the Atlantic. When Germany and Britain defined the Nigerian-Cameroonian border in the 1800s, they did not define who got the Peninsula, which both countries now claim. Britain had agreed to cede the area to the German colony of Cameroon in 1913, but World War I broke out before the deal was signed. A similar 1975 agreement would have given the peninsula to Cameroon for remaining neutral in the Nigerian civil war, but this had not been ratified when the Nigerian military staged the 1975 coup and renounced the deal. --Stephen V Cole
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The longest non-stop commercial flight
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A sixteen hour, non-stop flight from LAX to Singapore? Well, the creature comforts on board are numerous, even for economy. Is anyone here a KrisFlyer?
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/app/saa?dynamic=PressReleases/NTE_0104.html
SIA Takes Delivery Of Its First Ultra Long-Haul Aircraft - The SIA A345LeaderShip
Singapore Airlines (SIA) ushered in 2004 with the arrival of its first ultra long-haul aircraft – the SIA A345LeaderShip – at Singapore Changi Airport today.
The SIA A345LeaderShip will offer the longest non-stop commercial service in the world when it commences operations between Singapore and Los Angeles on 3 February 2004.
"Today is a significant moment for SIA and for international aviation. It marks the beginning of a new long-haul travel experience – one that sets new standards for non-stop travel by offering greater convenience, space, comfort and time-savings for the business traveller and strengthens our Changi hub, " said Michael Tan, SIA's Senior Executive Vice-President (Commercial).
The non-stop service to Los Angeles will take 16 hours and the return service from Los Angeles, 18 and a half hours. This is a savings of one and a half to two hours in flying time compared with SIA's current one-stop flights.
With the launch of the A345LeaderShip Singapore-Los Angeles service, SIA will operate a daily non-stop flight between Singapore and Los Angeles. A similar daily service from Singapore to New York will follow in the middle of 2004, which will take 18 hours in each direction, reducing travel time from New York to Singapore by two hours and from Singapore to New York, by six hours.
SIA's A345LeaderShip will feature the world's first long-haul all premium configuration with just 181 seats in a spacious two-class configuration comprising an enhanced Raffles (business) Class and a new Executive Economy Class.
The A345LeaderShip Raffles Class will feature 64 of SIA's latest lie-flat SpaceBed in a 2-2-2 layout, and with a larger seat pitch of 64".
The SpaceBed offers a bed width of 26" and a length of 78", as well as an adjustable headrest, leg-rest and lumbar support. The 10.4" personal video monitor will enable customers to enjoy SIA's comprehensive in-flight entertainment in style. And an AC power supply outlet and DVD port at every seat will expand the customer's in-flight activity options.
The A345Leadership Executive Economy Class, designed in a very spacious 2-3-2 configuration, will offer the industry's widest economy class seats at 20". The seats also come with a larger personal monitor at 9", and a laptop power supply.
Designed to keep globetrotters comfortable throughout the unprecedented 16 to 18 and a half-hour flight between Singapore and Los Angeles, the Executive Economy seats feature an expanded seat pitch of 37", a seat-back recline of 8", a leather adjustable headrest, and extended leg and foot rests. AC power supply outlets are also available in the seats, enabling customers to power their laptops throughout the flight.
Both new cabins feature specially designed areas for passengers to socialize and stretch their legs.
The A345LeaderShip is the first new aircraft type to join the SIA fleet since 1997, when the Airline took delivery of its first Boeing 777. SIA placed its order for 10 A340-500s in 1998 with five on firm order and five on option. The order was worth US$2.2 billion, including the cost of spares and spare engines. The A345 will be powered by four Rolls Royce Trent 553 engines.
As at 1 January 2004, SIA's operating fleet consisted of 82 aircraft comprising 30 B747s, 51 B777s and 1 A345.
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Culture / IN BRIEF / Jordan Candler / September 21, 2017
Oregon Democrats Cheer Taxpayer-Subsidized Death
The Left is happy to provide "free" abortions for all of Oregon's residents. Not just happy — jubilant.
"In such a divided country, it is rare to see that much joy on the faces of government officials," Gary Bauer observes, referring to the above image. "What do you think these politicians are celebrating? A solution to homelessness? No. Lower taxes? Not a chance. New business development? Nope." Disturbingly, what the picture manifests is the Democrat jubilation at Monday's signing ceremony for HB 3391.
In addition to mandating that insurers cover the abortion expenses of Oregon's entire citizenry, this despicable piece of legislation — enacted into law last month by Democrat Gov. Kate Brown — also creates a $500,000 pool from which abortion-seeking illegal immigrants can scrounge. It's an unprecedented step in the Left's obsession with expanding abortion "rights," so don't be surprised to see other blue states follow.
Sadly, these aren't the first and only Democrats to celebrate such grotesque abortion practices. Two years ago, Planned Parenthood officials were caught fantasizing over how to spend the money they were collecting through fetal harvesting. Planned Parenthood Medical Directors' Council president Dr. Mary Gatter spelled out her atrocious motivation for her illegal actions: "I want a Lamborghini."
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains medical director Dr. Savita Ginde remarked, "I think a per-item thing works a little better just because we can see how much [money] we can get out of it." These and other distressing remarks and activity, revealed through Center for Medical Progress undercover videos, show Planned Parenthood workers not just nonchalant about the idea but even jovial as they swoon over the financial windfall.
Some prominent Democrat politicians have tried to say that, though they are "pro-choice," abortion is a tough topic. But deep down, they don't really feel that way. Just look at the reactions of Oregon Democrats and Planned Parenthood officials. Having indifferent feelings about — or, worse yet, willingly paying for — a child's death is no laughing matter. Oregon and Planned Parenthood show just how far down the dark path abortion will take you. And it will only get worse.
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To Reduce Spending On Prisons, Justice Wants To Speed Up Release Dates : The Two-Way Justice wants to Congress to rethink release rules for well-behaved inmates.
To Reduce Spending On Prisons, Justice Wants To Speed Up Release Dates
July 23, 20122:48 PM ET
In a theme playing out all over the country, Justice Department officials are proposing new ways to put the brakes on massive prison expenditures that have been eating up a bigger portion of their flat-lined annual budget.
Speaking at the summer conference of the National District Attorneys Association, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer called on Congress to pass two proposals that would speed up the release dates for well-behaved inmates. The first plan would allow prisoners who take part in educational programs proven to reduce recidivism rates to earn up to two months a year in extra credit toward the completion of their sentence. The second would allow prisoners to collect an extra seven days a year of good time credit, from the current 47 days to a new ceiling of 54 days.
Breuer also submitted a new report to the U.S. Sentencing Commission today that argues the historically low violent crime rates are under threat from budget cutbacks "unless reforms are instituted to make our public safety expenditures smarter and more productive."
The overcrowded federal prison system currently houses about 218,000 inmates, and states and county jails hold another 2 million more.
"A criminal justice system that spends disproportionately on prisons, at the expense of policing, prosecutions, and recidivism-reducing programs, is unlikely to be maximizing public safety," Breuer said, according to the text of his speech.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) Film Review
Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray
"Biopics are seldom so well mannered" | Photo: 20th Century Fox
A return to the post WWII social mores is an exercise in repressed authoritarianism. Up tight is too cool an expression to describe this debilitating disease. When discussing the emotional damage of boarding school, added to post traumatic stress after WWI, and you have Alan Milne, played here by Domhnall Gleeson like a block of wood in a film that celebrates the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Christopher Robin (Will Tilston better than promising in his premier role) is an only child. They call him Billy Moon and he calls his dad Blue. There must be a reason for this but it doesn't matter because you're not told. Mummy is Daphne (Aussie Margot Robbie) who likes to prune the roses in a cocktail dress and complain about A.A's lack of communication skills. She craves attention. She's one of those flutter-flutter-flatter-flatter posh tots who are all froth on top and ice under.
The story of how Winnie makes it onto the page and where his pals come from, Tigger and Eyeore and all that lot, is a slow process. Milne has wartime flashbacks that knock him sideways. Billy Moon is starved of love until Olive (the ever wondrous Kelly Macdonald) is hired as his nanny. Daphne departs to the glitter and glitz of London while Blue and Billy Moon are left on the edge of Ashdown Forest, Sussex, where they live.
Milne is a popular playwright, Punch contributor and poet. Children's books are what he does when he's not writing The Red House Mystery, or The Man In The Bowler Hat. Irony of ironies, Billy Moon's bear books, illustrated by Alan's friend E H Shepard outsells everything he has ever done - and he did a lot.
The film works best when it explores the damaging aspects of fame as well as the importance of a woman like Olive in Billy Moon's life. Once he is deported to public school and Olive is given her marching orders Winnie and the 100 acre wood feel like part of another life. For Christopher/Billy what matters now is survival.
Biopics are seldom so well mannered.
"I will not let him see me blubbing," Daphne exclaims for fear that her husband might equate tears with weakness.
In The Stiff Upper Lip Club, off St James's, they will be raising a glass to Christopher, Alan and jolly old Pooh.
Single malt, no doubt, with a splash of soda.
Reviewed on: 27 Sep 2017
A look at the life of author AA Milne and his most popular creation, Winnie-the-Pooh
Director: Simon Curtis
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Simon Vaughan
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Macdonald, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Stephen Campbell Moore, Geraldine Somerville, Nico Mirallegro, Alex Lawther, Richard McCabe, Honey Holmes, Simon Williams, Shaun Dingwall, Richard Dixon, Jason Matthewson
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Physical Strength and Chess Expertise
11/7/2003 – How can humans hope to hold their ground in their uphill struggle against chess computers? Play shorter matches, stop sacrificing material, and don't fear the Sicilian Defense, says statistician Jeff Sonas, who also questions the high computer ratings on the Swedish SSDF list. Here is his evidence.
PART III – What does the future hold for grandmasters against computers?
In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at some historical evidence suggesting that right now the top human grandmasters and the top chess computers are extremely closely-matched. Further, there is no compelling evidence to indicate that computers are soon going to pull ahead of the top humans.
With the Kasparov-Deep Blue matches so far in the past, it must come as a big surprise to many people that computers have not yet surpassed the top grandmasters. Although computers are obviously getting stronger due to hardware and software improvements, humans have also improved their play against computers, faster than expected.
What does the future hold for grandmasters against computers? It all depends upon which group can improve faster, relative to the other. "Improvement" would typically suggest that a player is adding something positive to their play. However, remember that it could also mean that a player is removing something negative from their play. Either one constitutes "improvement".
I can think of three main categories where grandmasters and/or computers could improve:
Physical strength
Chess expertise
Playing style against specific opposition
Let's go through those three categories and see how they apply to computer improvement against humans, as well as human improvement against computers.
1. Physical strength
Clearly, improving the hardware will allow a chess computer program to play objectively stronger. Faster-executing programs can evaluate deeper, or more accurately, in the same amount of "thinking" time. From examining the past several years of the SSDF (Swedish Computer Chess Association) computer list, we can say that hardware leaps of 80 points have happened approximately every two years. This would suggest that computer hardware is providing an annual increase of 40 points of strength.
However, it is important to remember chess columnist Mig Greengard's quote: "The computer doesn't really play chess. It plays another game that looks like chess but has its own rules." When two computers are playing each other, if one can search 17 moves deep and the other can only search 15-16 moves deep, then the first computer has a big advantage because it sees everything the second computer sees, and then some. That's why it is conceivable that computers are gaining 40 points a year against older computers, from searching depth alone. Against humans, however, a search 17 moves deep vs. a search 15 moves deep is not as relevant, because the human isn't thinking nearly so far ahead anyway.
Of course, it is difficult for humans to improve their physical strength when playing computers. However, there is still a very effective way to "improve" their success, and that is to remove a negative factor which has hindered grandmasters' performance: the lengthy match. You can see here that computers do progressively better against humans, as a one-on-one match progresses:
This is likely due to the effect of physical and mental fatigue upon the human, as the match continues. In a match between two humans, the fatigue would mostly balance out as the match progressed, since both humans would get tired. But obviously the computer does not get tired or discouraged. It is also possible that this effect is related to humans using up their opening novelties at the start of a match, or some other factor, but fatigue seems likely to be the real culprit.
I should also point out that you don't see this effect in Swiss or round-robin tournaments that have both computer and human participants. Computers do about the same against humans, whether in the start, middle, or end of a tournament, so there seems to be something particularly draining for the humans about a one-on-one match against a computer.
2. Chess expertise
Certainly, upgraded software will play objectively stronger chess, even on the same hardware. Improved chess knowledge, better opening books, better endgame tablebases, better search techniques, and better utilization of hardware will all enable superior moves to be found in the same amount of thinking time. How can we express this in terms of rating points? Well, in Part I we looked at how the SSDF ratings of the top-ranked computers have progressed over time. Let's review that graph once again:
However, remember that this only applies to games between computers. In the same way that hardware upgrades probably don't give the full 40-point annual improvement against humans, it seems likely that software upgrades also don't provide an additional 30-point annual improvement against humans. Surely some of those 30 points of software upgrades will come from improvements to a program's opening library. Since the older programs are commercially available, it is fairly straightforward to play thousands of games against older software and to identify holes in the opening books of those older programs. This will allow new software to dominate older software, but against humans, the improvements to the opening book (while useful) probably won't translate to a full 30-point annual improvement.
With a 40-point annual improvement due to hardware upgrades, and a 30-point annual improvement due to software upgrades, that would normally suggest that computers are getting stronger at a rate of 70 Elo points a year, relative to humans. This is clearly not happening. If the SSDF list is indeed over-estimating the true rate of improvement of computer programs, what would we expect to see? Over time, the ratings of the top programs would drift higher and higher, until they got so ridiculously high that some sort of correction would need to be applied to reflect the true strength of the computer programs.
This is exactly what happened a few years ago, and that explains the curious downturn of the SSDF graph in mid-2000. This is what Thoralf Karlsson, SSDF chairman, had to say in August 2000:
The SSDF rating list provides information about the relative strength of chess programs, when tested in the way SSDF does, but does not necessarily say which Elo-rating a certain program would achieve after having played hundreds of tournament games against human players. How good or bad the individual correlation between SSDF- and ELO-ratings is, will most likely never be established. So many games against humans will never be played.
Apart from establishing relative ratings, we have had the ambition that the general level of the list would be fairly realistic, compared to human ratings. From our start in 1984 we have used tournament games against Swedish chess players to calibrate the list. At some points we have discarded older games, believing that human chess players with time have become better to exploit the weaknesses of chess programs. Until the latest rating list the level of the list has been unchanged from summer 1991, and was based on 337 tournament games against Swedish players between 1987 and 1991. Regrettably it has not been possible for us to play any more games for many years now.
For some time we had the general impression that the level of the list was rather OK. But during the latest years it has become more and more obvious that the best programs on the latest hardware don't get as high Elo-ratings as our list could be interpreted to predict. If this is due to differences between Swedish- and Elo-ratings, to the "human learning effect", to some kind of "spreading effect" in a computer-computer list or a combination of these and perhaps other factors, we don't know.
It is difficult to find a perfect solution, but we have chosen to correlate the level of the list to the results of tournament games between computers and Elo-rated humans, played during the latest years. For us it has been very convenient to use Chris Carson's compilation of such games. Calculations based on these games indicate that the level of the list is about 100 points too high. So from now on we have lowered the list with 100 points!
To summarize, before the correction, in early 2000, the SSDF ratings were still accurate in how they ranked computers against each other, but the actual rating numbers were too high, across the board. Those numbers ultimately were coming from a few hundred games played against Swedish players in 1987-1991. And it was becoming too much of a stretch to extrapolate forward from games played by the top Mephisto and Fidelity computers, on 68020 processors against lower-rated humans, a dozen years in the past. For one thing, there was no allowance for the fact that human players had gotten objectively stronger, or had learned to play better against computers, since 1991.
So, at that point, about 100 games were analyzed from events between humans and computers in 1997-2000. The humans in those games had an average FIDE rating below 2400; the only two events against really strong humans were Junior at Dortmund 2000, and Fritz at the Dutch Championships in 2000. Thoralf Karlsson also had to make some assumptions about the impact of different hardware, since the hardware used by Junior and Fritz in those events (for example) was different from that used by the SSDF. The conclusion from all of this analysis was that all SSDF ratings should be reduced by 100 points. There have been no further corrections since then.
However, I believe that the same kind of upward drift has continued in the three-plus years since August 2000. It is true that today's top computers would dominate the top computers from three years ago, leading to a 200-point difference on the SSDF list. However, I don't see that it necessarily means that today's top computers would play 200 points better against top grandmasters.
For one thing, computers were doing unusually well against humans, exactly in that time frame. If you remember the performance rating graph from Part II a couple weeks ago, top computers had a performance rating (against humans) of 2444 between 1995 and 1997, and then it shot up 200 points (to 2647) between 1998 and 2000. But the improvement didn't continue at that rate; the performance rating of computers against humans only went up by a total of 62 points between the 1998-2000 range and the 2001-2003 range. And as I tried to prove in Part II, even that improvement only came from computers becoming more dominant against the lower-rated humans; humans rated 2550+ are just as successful against computers today as they were five years ago.
Since the SSDF list is calibrated against human-computer results from 1997-2000, and more than 80% of those humans were rated below 2550 anyway, I think it is a mistake to look at the 2800+ SSDF ratings of the top programs and to conclude that those top programs will dominate today's top grandmasters. The battle is not over yet.
In Part IV Jeff Sonas examines playing style and the question of whether it is possible to "tune" computers to play especially well against humans. He includes statistical analysis on which openings are especially suited to the playing style of computers, i.e. which lines humans should probably avoid. This article will appear this weekend – well, you're just going to have to wait like everyone else, aren't you, Garry...
Jeff Sonas is a statistical chess analyst who has has invented a new rating system and used it to generate 150 years of historical chess ratings for thousands of players. You can explore these ratings on his Chessmetrics website. Jeff is also Chief Architect for Ninaza, providing web-based medical software for clinical trials.
Previous articles:
Championship Chessmetrics Analysis
The Sonas Rating Formula – Better than Elo?
How strong are the top chess programs?
Have chess computers surpassed the strongest grandmasters?
Are chess computers improving faster than grandmasters?
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by Elyssa Goodman
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Tired of hauling out the same old holiday decorations every year?
Rethink the way you deck the halls with the following tips from interior designer Zina Samek, who is based in Boca Raton and has appeared on HGTV. Here, she discusses chic and creative decorating techniques that will set the stage for an unforgettable holiday season.
Go natural at Thanksgiving. For this bountiful holiday, focus on the fruits of nature instead of plastic decorations, Samek suggests. Make a centerpiece by carving out several pumpkins in different sizes and filling them with fresh flowers. "[There's] a trend in using more fresh flowers and bringing more of the outdoors in, and this is a way to incorporate that," she says.
Light the night for Hanukkah. Less is more for Hanukkah, says Samek, who recommends incorporating larger, higher-quality decorations versus lots of little ones. For example, invest in a sturdy metal menorah that will last for decades. Samek notes that many of her clients are putting wreaths of white and blue LED lights on their doors with sparkly blue ribbons to celebrate the Festival of Lights.
Think unique for Christmas. "The trend is not these perfect centerpieces and perfect place settings," she says about Christmas 2018. "It's more just having fun and being different and being creative." Doll up a traditional place setting by tying ribbon around the plate and cutlery to make it look like a present. For a centerpiece, gather disparate elements like ornaments and candles in a variety of sizes, and place them together in an oval shape.
Start fresh on New Year's Eve. Try working with decor elements you've never used before to usher in the New Year. A dramatic option is a balloon ceiling arrangement that covers the entire ceiling with balloons in various colors, such as black and silver, with ribbons hanging down above partygoers' heads. "When you look up, the way the light hits it, it sparkles. It looks iridescent and really cool," she says.
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Feeling like I'm studying at home and I don't really procrastinate there. It helps with my productivity a lot! Having a tutor there is really good and works out really well because if I'm stumped on something I can easily get the answer.
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Also, I've been there so many times where at tutor says – 'Okay, you're freaking out! Go out and do something and get away from your book!' That's really cool to hear because usually you wouldn't hear that from educated people. They want you to just push through, but here they want you to take a break and do your own thing.
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Peugeot Onyx fully revealed
After images leaked onto the internet, Peugeot has fully revealed the Onyx supercar concept prior to its Paris show launch. Full details and gallery here
by: Matthew Hayward
Peugeot's 600bhp diesel-electric hybrid concept car, the Onyx, will be shown at the Paris motor show. The model almost certainly won't go into production, but showcases a new face for future Peugeots.
The Onyx gets its power from a 3.7-litre diesel V8 engine and electric motor from the 908 Hybrid4 Le Mans car. This drivetrain never made it to Le Mans, following the company's pull out of the sport earlier in the year.
Constructed from carbon fibre, the car weighs in at just 1100kg, and Peugeot is claiming a 0-62mph time 'less than' three seconds. The low weight is a result of Peugeot's motorsport experience, with the basic carbon fibre structure weighing in at just 100kg.
The hybrid system is a development of the system Peugeot were developing for the 2012 Le Mans season, which uses kinetic energy recovery, harvesting power from the drivetrain and braking system to recharge the Lithium-ion batteries. This will add up to 80bhp extra, delivered automatically when needed.
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Royal Gold Enters into Agreement to Sell Its Ownership Interest in Peak Gold Project
ROYAL GOLD, INC. (together with its subsidiaries, "Royal Gold" or the "Company," "we" or "our") announced today that the Company has entered into an agreement to sell its ownership interest in the Peak Gold Project in Tok, Alaska and its common share position in Contango Ore, Inc. ("Contango") for total cash consideration of $61.3 million and increased royalty interests.
All conditions precedent to closing have been satisfied and the transactions are expected to close on or before October 1, 2020.
Royal Gold has agreed to complete two transactions with an affiliate of Kinross Gold Corporation ("Kinross") for the following cash consideration:
$49.2 million in return for the sale of its 40% membership interest in Peak Gold, LLC, the owner of the Peak Gold Project; and,
$12.1 million in return for the sale of Royal Gold's entire holding of 809,744 common shares of Contango, Royal Gold's partner in Peak Gold, LLC.
After completion of these transactions, and the concurrent transactions announced between Kinross and Contango, the Peak Gold Project will be owned 70% by Kinross and 30% by Contango, with Kinross as the project operator.
In addition to the cash consideration, Royal Gold will receive increased royalty interests as follows:
An incremental 28% net smelter return royalty on silver produced from an area of interest which includes the current resource area. Peak Gold, LLC, retains the right to acquire 50% of this royalty for consideration of $4 million; and,
An incremental 1% net smelter return royalty on certain State of Alaska mining claims to be spun out of the land package owned by Peak Gold, LLC, to Contango, increasing Royal Gold's royalty on this area from 2% to 3%.
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"This transaction allows Royal Gold to focus on its core royalty and streaming business," commented Bill Heissenbuttel, President and CEO of Royal Gold. "While the Peak Gold Project is a non-core asset to Royal Gold, it is one of the most interesting emerging gold projects in the United States. We developed a strong working relationship with Chief Michael Sam, the Tetlin Village Council and the Tetlin people over the past several years, and we are confident that Kinross' experience and record of responsible mining in Alaska positions them as the ideal operator to advance the project to production. We will retain exposure to the project in a form that is more consistent with our core business through our existing 3% NSR royalty on all metals and the incremental 28% NSR royalty on silver in the current resource area, and the higher 3% NSR royalty on all metals on the exploration properties owned by Contango. Kinross expects to integrate the Peak Gold Project with their existing Fort Knox operation, which should simplify permitting and development and thereby further enhance the value of these royalty interests to Royal Gold, and the increased royalty interest in the spun-out exploration ground will provide continued exposure to exploration success on a substantial and prospective land package without further active involvement from Royal Gold."
Scotiabank acted as financial advisor, and Hogan Lovells LLP acted as counsel to Royal Gold on the transaction.
Source: http://www.royalgold.com
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The State of Black Erotica
Posted in African Americans, Black America, Black Interests, Black Links, Black Men, Black Men In America, Women's Interests with tags Black Erotica, Black Sexuality, Erotica, Erotique Noire, Scottie Lowe on February 26, 2013 by Gary Johnson
By Scottie Lowe
From the rhythmic tales of the sagacious griot, weaving colorful, hushed tales of slaves whose love endured the horrors of dehumanizing captivity, to the Harlem Renaissance with its unapologetic yet poetic examination of those mysterious elements that made our natures rise, to the soul-stirring harmonies of R&B that have been the soundtrack to seduction for decades, African Americans have always had a long tradition of erotic expression. In 1992, an editor by the name of Miriam Decosta-Willis, published an anthology of erotica called Erotique Noire that was not only groundbreaking, it truly was a celebration of Black sensuality and set the stage for a new genre of expression. Today, if one is brave enough to venture into the African American section of any bookstore, they will find it's filled with shelf after shelf of degrading, crude, and offensive books that don't even deserve to be called erotica. We've come a long way baby, but it certainly hasn't been an erotic evolution.
Writing Black erotica is a lot like rapping. Anybody who can come up with three words that rhyme can call themselves a rapper; anyone who uses the words dick, pussy, and fuck in a sentence can call themselves an erotic writer. Black erotic today consists of the same storyline told over and over again: super-beautiful women with abnormal libidos and superficial standards who seduce their super-rich, basketball-playing lovers who always have super-sized genitalia complete with matching, heightened sexual appetites, and a non-existent commitment to being in a relationship. Throw in several dozen references to capitalist trinkets and you essentially have every Black erotic story on the shelves today.
Black erotica has made being ghetto equivalent to being Black. African Americans have a unique culture and experience that have the potential to come across on the page in the reflections, words, and perceptions unique to the Black experience. That, however, doesn't have to include baby mamas, visiting day at prisons, spelling the words boys with a z, or eroticizing the N word. Instead of writing about the beauty, pain, and history of descendents of slave, Black erotica has become little more than cliché tales of dysfunction with a few sexual escapades thrown in for good measure. Yes, our stories need to be told, but glorifying behaviors that are unhealthy isn't art. There certainly is more to Black life than what we are being force-fed.
The road to where Black erotic currently resides has been paved with immaturity, ignorance, and fear. So terrified are the Black middle class of being associated with the freaks and nymphos depicted in Black erotica, so distanced are African Americans from a healthy example of sexuality, they sit in complicit silence, never demanding more, never complaining about the proliferation of erotic literature that reduces Black sexuality to nothing more than a sweaty, recreational activity. Rather than talk about sexuality openly, mature conversations about the subject are shunned in an effort to diminish the impact and scope of what goes on behind closed doors. So desperate are Black Americans for any sort of erotic imagery and representation that reflects the lives of melanin-rich people, that that they know no better than to embrace the vulgarity that denigrates and diminishes the humanity of the entire race.
Erotica is not pornography no matter how much the conservative talking-heads want to insist it is. Erotica is ART created to arouse the senses. There is subtlety, nuance, emotion, and creativity in true erotica. Porn has no subtlety; it's graphic, it's hardcore, it's about arousing one region only. Pictures of oiled booties and close up shots of a woman's labia are not erotic. Women being used, slapped, spit on, choked, and degraded is NOT erotica. "Erotica is tasteful but porn is tasteless," is how porn star Linda Lovelace described it. As the old folks used to say, "She ain't neva lied."
The images of African Americans in the adult industry are largely atypical of the true Black experience. The perpetuation of racist and stereotypical images prevalent in the adult industry work to foster unhealthy perceptions of African Americans and render the majority of Black people without an avenue for healthy erotic expression. The perpetuation of the Black woman as the ghetto bitch, ghetto whore, and ghetto freak is not reflective of the vast and overwhelming majority of Black women. The perpetuation of the Black man as the barely literate, one-dimensional bull is offensive and steeped in sick prejudices that are not reflective of the vast majority of African American males either.
When our literary diets consist only of poorly written, grammatically incorrect, inane tales of ghetto sex, when the commercial objectification of Black women's bodies can be downloaded for free 24 hours a day, that's not feeding our souls, it's poisoning our minds. It's crippling for Black people to subsist on damaging and dysfunctional depictions of intimacy. We MUST raise the bar when it comes to what we are feeding ourselves erotically, when it comes to the sensual sustenance with which we nourish ourselves.
Even with the proliferation banal Black entertainment and the horrendous mediocrity of porn, there are still those who value the melodies and harmonies of jazz, who feel the angst of Morrison's Beloved, who treasure the beauty of Alvin Ailey's Revelations, and who appreciate the artistry of true erotica. Long gone are the days when we dog-eared the pages of Erotique Noire and quoted passages to our lovers in steamy late-night phone calls. Truly empowering erotica lifts us up, paints a picture of our lives and our sexuality that have nothing to do with exchanging sex for money or adultery but that allows us sensual release and to mentally travel to a place of sights, sounds, sensations, and tastes that arouse all of our senses.
Scottie Lowe is the owner of www.AfroerotiK.com, a website dedicated to showing Black people in a positive sexual light and the creator of Sensu-Soul, the groundbreaking erotic video that shows the depth, intensity, and passion of Black love.
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An Open Letter and Plea to President Barack Obama: Who Should Have A Vote?
Posted in Barack Obama, Black America, Black Interests, Black Men, Health & Fitness, President Barack Obama with tags Nursin g Home Abuse on February 20, 2013 by Gary Johnson
By Harold Bell
During your State of the Union Address you made a plea to Congress that Gabby Gifford and Newtown should have a vote as it relates to gun control in America.
Mr. President, I totally agree the time has come to reduce gun violence in America– it is long overdue.
The vote that you proposed should not stop there, senior citizens living in nursing homes in America should also have a vote. The abuse taking place in nursing homes across this nation is appalling. This is a National Crisis. The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, and ABC News have all echoed the same reports. During your State of the Union Address I did not hear you cry out to give senior citizens a vote!
My question to you and the Congress of the United States is: What is the difference in the gun violence and the nursing home violence taking place in this country?
Click here to read the entire commentary.
Disco Is Back (At Least For One Night)
Posted in Black America, Music with tags Black Music, Disco Music, TV One, Unsung on February 14, 2013 by Gary Johnson
TV One is bringing disco back this month on February 20th at 9:00 pm EST with a special two-hour episode of "Unsung" devoted to the 70's music genre.
The broadcast will feature new interviews from disco greats Anita Ward, Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, Earl Young of The Trammps and Harry Wayne Casey of KC & the Sunshine Band.
Through the '70s decade, Disco rolled like a tidal wave across the pop and R&B landscapes, breathing fresh life into dance music and introducing a charismatic generation of stars. Disco's relentless four-on- the-floor beat and ecstatic emotional vocals drew heavily from gospel, funk and soul, and it came with a liberating message that crossed cultural boundaries, uniting fans young and old, white and black, straight and gay.
As the party grew, so did the expressions of open sexuality and drug use that fueled its thriving club scene. And then came the backlash, an angry counter-movement that included riots and record-burnings, and as quickly as it arrived, Disco was dead. Or was it? In this ground-breaking two hour special, 'Unsung' tells the definitive tale of an American phenomenon, featuring two dozen musical performances, and commentary by legendary Disco survivors.
Click here to visit the Unsung web page.
R&B Legend Charlie Wilson Shares His Top 10 Romantic Songs for Valentine's Day
Posted in Black Interests, Black Men, Music, Music and Video Releases with tags Charlie Wilson, Love Songs, Romantic Music, Valentine's Day on February 13, 2013 by Gary Johnson
Happy Valentine's Day! In the spirit of Valentine's Day, legendary R&B crooner Charlie Wilson has shared his personal list of romantic songs.
There Goes My Baby – Charlie Wilson
You Are – Charlie Wilson
Without You – Charlie Wilson
Always and Forever – Luther Vandross
Adorn – Miguel
Supa Sexxy – Charlie Wilson Feat. T-Pain & Jamie Foxx
Would You Mind – Earth Wind & Fire
Yearning For Your Love – GAP Band
Here and Now – Luther Vandross
My Girl – The Temptations
Honorable Mention: You Send Me – Sam Cooke
What are some of your top romantic songs?
To learn more about Charlie Wilson visit his official website at Charlie Wilson Music.com.
Shame on America: Nursing Home Abuse
Posted in African Americans, Black America, Black Interests, Health & Fitness, Women's Interests with tags Elder Care, National Center on Elderly Abuse, Nursing Home Abuse on February 13, 2013 by Gary Johnson
By Gary A. Johnson, Black Men In America.com
For years I've focused my attention on how this country treats children and how so many of our children are abused and neglected. Recently, a colleague sounded the alarm and drew my attention on the abuse and neglect with our senior citizens who live in nursing homes.
All Americans deserve to be treated with respect. As our loved ones get older, they should have access to quality healthcare with dignity. Many residents and patients receive good care and live happy and healthy lives in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. However, statistics show that this is not the case for a number of our senior citizens. In fact, many residents of nursing homes are victims of physical, sexual and financial abuse and many of these abuses go unreported. Elder abuse by caretakers is a worldwide problem but my focus is here in the United States.
The following statistics serve as a snapshot of some the problems in U.S. nursing homes:
91% of U.S. nursing homes have staffing levels too low to provide adequate care
16% of U.S. nursing homes have a drop in nurse assistants' hours per resident per day
The most common injuries in nursing homes due to understaffing or other types of abuse and negligence include fractures and bleeding in the brain
On average (nationally), a nursing home with 100 beds has anywhere from 100-200 falls per year. However, many more go unreported
About 10-20% of the falls reported nationally cause serious injuries; 2-6% of falls cause bone fractures
Approximately 1,800 nursing home residents die annually from falls across the country
In the United States, about 240,900 nursing home residents suffer from bedsores every year. This statistic is based on a national nursing home population of 3.3 million in 2009
Nearly 20% of nursing home facilities were cited nationally for failing to meet standards of care for pressure sores from 2005 to 2010.
In 2009, a CBS News analysis of the federal government's nursing home inspection database found that more than 1,000 homes were cited last year for hiring staff with a history of abuse
According to a study by author Yue Li, from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, blacks in nursing homes are more likely than whites to suffer pressure ulcers and damage to bones and muscles due to differences in the quality of care that both groups receive. The disparities arise in homes where there are a number of predominately black or white patients, not that homes are treating whites better than Blacks.
When Li and his colleagues looked more closely at differences between nursing homes, they found that both black and white residents were more likely to get a pressure ulcer at homes that had a higher percentage of black residents than at those that were almost all white.
That could be due to a number of reasons, said Nancy Bergstrom, who co-wrote an editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For example, nursing homes with more black patients might not be as well funded, or they may not have enough staff.
What can be done to improve this terrible situation? As a community, how do we get started?
Other sobering statistics are as follows:
Elderly Abuse Statistics Data
Number of elderly abuse cases in 2010 5,961,568
Percent of elderly population abused in 2010 9.5 %
Demographics of Elderly Abuse Victims Percent
Percent of female elder abuse victims 67.3 %
Median age of elder abuse victims 77.9
Percent of white victims 66.4 %
Percent of black victims 18.7 %
Percent of Hispanic victims 10.4 %
Breakdown of Reported Elder Abuse Cases
Neglect 58.5 %
Physical Abuse 15.7 %
Financial Exploitation 12.3 %
Emotional Abuse 7.3 %
Sexual Abuse 0.04 %
All other types 5.1 %
Unknown 0.06 %
Percent of nursing homes that lack adequate staff to properly care for patients 91 %
Percent of nursing homes that have been in violation of elderly abuse laws 36 %
Elderly defined as 60 years of age and older
If you suspect elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation, click here for state reporting numbers, or telephone the Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116.
The National Center on Elderly Abuse (NCEA) now has a Facebook page. Click here to go there and stay current on news and information related to the NCEA and elder abuse.
American Association for Justice (http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/justice/hs.xsl/3005.htm)
National Center on Elder Abuse, Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.ncea.aoa.gov/)
Gary A. Johnson is the Founder & Publisher of Black Men In America.com a popular online magazine on the Internet and the Black Men In America.com Blog. Gary is also the author of the book "25 Things That Really Matter In Life."
NAACP's Ben Jealous Says Black Americans Doing Far Worse Under The Obama Administration
Posted in African Americans, Barack Obama, Black America, Black Interests, Money/Economics, President Barack Obama with tags Ben Jealous, Black Unemployment, NAACP, Obama Administration, President Barack Obama on February 12, 2013 by Gary Johnson
In a recent interview on MSNBC's "Meet the Press," NAACP CEO and President, Ben Jealous, told the show's host that black Americans "are doing far worse" than when President Obama first took office. "The country's back to pretty much where it was when this president started," Jealous told show host David Gregory. "White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing far worse."
Statistics show that the African-American community is in bad shape under the Obama Administration. The Labor Department reports that the black unemployment rate was at 12.7 percent when Pres. Obama initially took office. As the employment rate for the nation dropped below 8 percent, black unemployment increased to 12.9 percent and then to 14 percent for December.
Commentators such as Yvette Carnell, Dr. Wilmer Leon and Dr. Boyce Watkins at Your Black World have consistently stated that the president's performance in the black community should be judged based on the quality of his results, not the color of his skin. Also, Dr. Julianne Malveaux recently wrote that the Obama Administration needs to speak out more about existing racial disparities and persistent problems in black unemployment.
You can read the entire article courtesy of our friends at Your Black World. Click here to go there now.
Black History Month: The Foundation for Societal Progression
Posted in African Americans, Black America, Black Interests, Black Links, Black Men, Black Men In America, Guest Columnists with tags Black History, Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson, H. Lewis Smith on February 10, 2013 by Gary Johnson
By H. Lewis Smith
What is the significance of Black history to Black/African Americans? In essence, to this race of people, to know one's history is to truly and intimately appreciate, understand, and leverage one's innate, unbreakable strength. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Week, which later became Black History Month, understood the ramifications of Blacks remaining broken from and unknowledgeable of their history, and the apparent need for Blacks to retake control of their own destiny. Dr. Woodson understood that if Black/African Americans remained separated from and ignorant of their rich history, their roots of being, then they could have no foundation upon which to build a legacy. Plainly, no roots equal no growth, no future, only irrelevancy.
To be candid, the need for a Black History Month would be less apparent if the American halls of academe did not use systematic exploitation (past and present) to minimize exposure to Black/African-American history. The city school systems, colleges, universities and the media are by-products of Eurocentric educational philosophies. These systems were designed to retain real and/or comprehensive truths from Blacks. The system was established to teach (or force) African Americans to learn, believe, and accept European values, traditions, and habits, while at the same time neglecting and/or promoting minimal integration of Black culture and accomplishments.
Modern day manipulation of the Black/African-American mind was born out of slavery and fastly incorporated into the educational system to continually impose upon Blacks an inferior mindset that leads to lacking self-awareness. During slavery, it was forbidden for the Africans to practice their cultural traditions, honor their heritage, as well as to learn to read or write. They were basically stripped of everything that once defined them as a people and confined to learning only what slave owners permitted. Ultimately, over centuries of slavery and educational deprivation, those native ideals and traditions that African ancestors once held close within their hearts were replaced with false ideals of self of an unreal reality generation after generation. Eventually, Blacks born in America had no true and proud racial identity.
Once slavery was outlawed and Blacks were allowed to pursue education, White America devised yet another strategy to continue to push their Eurocentric ideals and veiled perception of Blacks on the Black populous. The primary channels of education for Blacks, since then, have become a perfect device for control from without. Without self-knowledge, a person has no orientation or direction; this status is akin to walking around with amnesia, or no memory of who one used to be. And with no memory of one's past—which one's past does often serve as a compass, a foundation to build upon and offers valuable life lessons, how can one know where they are headed? Black/African Americans must re-connect with their past and embrace it in its fullness no matter how difficult it is to accept some aspects of the ugliness that was imposed upon the people. Then and only then can Blacks progress as a race and arrive to their appointed superior position.
To be clear, historically, the Greeks traveled to Africa as students more than 2,500 years ago to discover what Africans already knew. Writing, science, medicine, and religion were already a part of the Egyptian civilization. History had already been documented thousands of years before Herodotus (the so-called `Father of History`) was even born. Herodotus, Plato, Pythagoras, Socrates, and other Greek Philosophers were all students of African priests.
Few Black/African-American college graduates are aware of this history, but yet most educated Blacks can name every European country on the map and have expert knowledge in the Greco-Roman era from a Eurocentric point of view. Interestingly enough, these same "highly-educated" people look upon Africans as being nothing more than jungle people living in huts who were blessed to be rescued from their savage lives by the white man. This perception couldn't be farther from the truth.
As a matter of fact, during the 15th century, it was the Moors who rescued Europe from the Dark Ages. The Moors taught the Europeans maritime knowledge, which enabled whites to sail and discover Africa. Little did they know, their open sharing of knowledge precipitated the demise and eventual end of a once thriving and progressive Black civilization. Columbus would have never been able to happen upon the foreign land of America if it had not been for the education provided by the Moors.
Presently, the very existence of Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities in Black colleges and universities serves as a source of the promotion of the inferiority complex and the education of Black people against themselves. From their association and embracing of these Greek-lettered organizations comes a false worship of Greek intellect and acceptance perpetuated out of ignorance of one's own philosophical thoughts, ideas and cognitive powers.
To put everything in proper perspective, consider the notion of how sheep dogs are trained. A sheep dog is trained by being placed in a pen as a puppy with other sheep. This puppy nurses and sucks on a sheep mother and it grows up thinking it's a sheep. In other words, it has the body, intelligence, endurance and strength of a dog, but it has the mind frame or thought of a sheep.
Because of this sheep dog's mind frame, it can be trained to do things a-typical of dogs and not in its own interest; the sheep dog will have no allegiance to other dogs. For example, the sheep dog and a non-sheep dog could be born at the same time from the same mother. If that sheep dog never saw that other puppy again until later years as a full grown dog, the sheep dog would treat this dog as if they were enemies. The sheep dog would turn its back on the other dog because although it looks like and is a dog, its mind has been trained and manipulated to think otherwise. The sheep dog believes it is a sheep, and, therefore, defends that which it is not from what it actually is.
This analogy relates to the conditioning of the African American against his own kind, heritage, and culture: consider the black child who, from elementary school throughout his studies to, perhaps, eventually becoming a PhD graduate, has always exclusively read and studied another culture/race's history. This person has been trained against his own, to think in terms of someone it is not. That lacking self-knowledge is the key to separation, confusion, and stagnation or regression.
If effects of slavery are to be mitigated, it must first be acknowledged that the systemic created some unnatural behaviors in Black/African Americans. In present day and only a FEW decades removed from state-sanctioned slavery, much of the trauma of that era still afflicts the race of people. Blacks did not deserve for this to happen, but it did. As such, Blacks must acknowledge the truth of the matter, embrace the fact that ailing issues still exist, and understand that recognition of the affliction will only give rise to alternatives for remedy.
Many people appreciate the value of sharing black history—the good and unfavorable aspects—and strongly support the ongoing study and celebration of black history every day of the year. They understand celebrating black history stretches well beyond just learning the history of a people: history plays a significant role in establishing a healthy mentality, molding one's self-image and, ultimately, the society.
Yet, others are perfectly content with celebrating black history only one time per year—or not at all—and limiting the extent of knowledge shared. They see no further need beyond the month of February to examine the black culture or emphasize African and Black/African-American contributions that unequivocally helped shape and redesign America's landscape. For those opposers of Black History Month, one must beg the question of how can a black person—of any ethnic, social, or cultural up-bringing—want to eliminate and disassociate themselves with the total scheme of black history—ranging from a rich African history to African-American accounts? The whole idea is preposterous and simply befuddling.
Capture their minds, and their hearts and souls will follow is an age old game of deception and propaganda, influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes and behaviors of those being subdued. An all-encompassing and on-going study of Black History is not optional but imperative. Blacks must become re-educated in line with Dr. Woodson's definition of the term. He fought to have Blacks' history brought to the world's attention for one month per year; Blacks must take up the rest of the fight and serve to make black history a natural and daily part of everyone's education within and without the community. Once all people accept that vast, rich and dynamic Black history, Blacks will bring light and resolve to the issues plaguing Black America, rising up to again become that solid, unified, contributing force to humanity. Ultimately, the entire society will benefit from the truth of Black history.
H. Lewis Smith is the founder and president of UVCC, the United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc. www.theunitedvoices.com, and author of "Bury that Sucka: A Scandalous Love Affair with the N-Word". Follow H. Lewis Smith on Twitter: www.twitter.com/thescoop1.
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The RA Collection of Chinese Enamelled Copper. A Collector's Vision (Volume V)
by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, Ana Moás, Ching-fei Shih
Following in the tradition of the previous volumes of The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics. A Collector's Vision, the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2016, Global by Design Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection, loans to other temporary exhibitions and conferences based on the collection, this volume is the result of Renato de Albuquerque's quest to continue to share his collection and the research undertaken on it with the wider public.
The fifth volume of The RA Collection is the first in the series to depart from ceramic to other fields of cross-cultural art. The RA Collection of Chinese Enamelled Copper. A Collector's Vision focuses on pieces made of enamelled copper which were produced in parallel with Chinese porcelain during the 18th and early 19th centuries. As its predecessors, this book illustrates highlights from the collection, works of art representative of the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures in the modern era. Each piece has been carefully selected by the collector, Renato de Albuquerque, ensuring that the overall collection can serve as a source for the study and furthering of knowledge in the field.
Comprising a selection of 55 pieces or groups of pieces, this boxed, hardcover book brings to light new research on the inter-cultural connections that are central to the collection. The book draws on the combined expertise of Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, Ana Moás and Ching-Fei Shih, to shed light on the collector's choices and the complex intersections between enamelled copper and porcelain production in 18th century China. Published in a limited edition of 400 numbered copies, this work is a further supplement to what has been described as 'the best work yet written on Chinese export porcelain' (The Economist, November/December 2011).
Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos is a reputed specialist of 16th to 19th century Chinese Export Porcelain, particularly interested in the first orders for the Portuguese market. She is presently the director of Museu Nacional do Azulejo and of Museu da Presidência da República, both in Lisbon. Former curator of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga and former director of Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, both in Lisbon, and of the Instituto Português de Museus. Curator of exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, lecturer of conferences on Museology, Decorative Arts and Chinese Porcelain, author of various articles and books on Chinese Export Porcelain including the first four volumes of The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics. A Collector's Vision.
Ana Moás is a former Researcher at Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, London, and a Research Collaborator at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also an active member of the Oriental Ceramic Society in London. Her work focuses on Asian export art and the reception of global material culture in Europe in the 16th to the 18th centuries, with an emphasis on ceramics and furniture. At Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing she contributed to several of their publications from 2016 to 2020.
Ching-fei Shih is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University. A specialist in East Asian ceramic history of 10th to 20th centuries CE and the artistic exchanges between East Asia and Europe during the Early Modern era, with a particular focus on the ways in which craft technology and related knowledge were transmitted between cultures. Ching-fei worked as assistant curator at the National Palace Museum (2003-2009) and taught at City University, Hong Kong (2000-2002). She conducted several projects on the Perspectives on Artistic and Cultural exchanges between Europe and East Asia, 1600-1800 and is awarded an Outstanding Young Scholar fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei/ 2012-2014 and 2015-2017. She was an International Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History and Science (2016, July-August), Working group, 'The Making of a Global Knowledge Society' (2015-19), a cooperation of the Descartes Centre (University of Utrecht) and Max Planck Institute for the History and Science, and a visiting Fellow at the Needham Research Institute (2018 August-2019 July) and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University (2019 February-July).
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The Grey Album: The Return of Sampling, The End of New Music, and The Fall of Western Civilization
March 3, 2004 Jeff Sabatini 33 Comments
It's the most significant rap album since Paul's Boutique, arguably the only one since the Beastie's groundbreaking acid trip that can really lay claim to a significant political stance in the upcoming epic battle over corporate copyright laws. While the Beasties may not have set out to craft the ultimate "fuck you" to Disney and the late Sonny Bono, revisionist history says they came damn close. DJ Danger Mouse, however, just put his foot so far up the RIAA's asshole, Nutty McShithead will be tasting his boot-soles for years.
"You say you want a revolution?" —The Beatles, 1968
"What the hell are you waiting for?" —Jay-Z, 2003
For those that haven't heard, Danger Mouse took The Beatles' White Album, pulled some beats from it, and laid them down under the vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album. (That this pairing just by chance creates "grey," as in "many shades of grey," as in the only sane way to interpret law, is no coincidence.) The result is Dope With A Capital "D, motherfucker, D." I respect and appreciate the Beatles, though I'm no great fan, nor am I one to pimp Roc-a-Fella. But this is not about the Fab Four, nor is it about Jigga, because The Grey Album is bigger than either—they're just the instruments Danger Mouse plays to construct a new vision of remixed, sample-driven rap that's as mind-blowing as anything dreamt up by the Dust Brothers back in the day. Just listen—what you're hearing in the oddly shaped sounds is the future.
And yes, the future resembles a Neal Stephenson sci-fi novel: There's no more "new" music, everyone is an artist, and we all provide an endless source of free entertainment for each other in a neo-campfire sing-along and high-tech show-and-tell. Steve Jobs would tell you that's the iLife, but it goes much deeper than that. Think reality TV, This American Life, Jackass, Web cams, blogs, and cell-phone cameras, with all of us on a P2P network that works through our TiVo's. Those who really doubt we could survive a mass-market entertainment holocaust, you're invited to my friend Dano's next karaoke party.
You can make a legitimate argument that no-one has played a new note since before the advent of recorded music, John Coltrane included, but who needs to innovate anyway, now that we have digital tools to catalog and inventory every harmony, melody, and bit of cacophonous silence that's ever been put down on wax/tape/hard drive? And then manipulate it. I, for one, will be content to listen to nothing other than remixed Classic Rock for the rest of my natural life, if it is handled as deftly as Danger Mouse dispatches The Beatles in the name of hip hop sacrilege.
Sacrilege, of course, since Grey was not deployed for profit, an album so hot it's melting the cheddar atop the American-as-apple-pie cultural product we know as Hip Hop. True dat, it's all about the Benjamins, say the marketing mopes, but Danger is all about the revolution of art and the art of revolution, and by the way, this shit is free. The Grey Album is not available in stores, it's just floating around on the Internet, ready and waiting for you to download. (This means the RIAA is going to have a hell of a time suing you for "stealing" it. No, on this one they're going to be hanging the DJ, not you and me.)
That it's free is important. It's important because it fucks with the most important basis of capitalism, that you can (and should) put a price on anything (and everything). Forget that it pisses off the RIAA and the rest of the entertainment cabal and encourages more people to say, "Fuck your copyright laws." No, what's really trick is that Danger Mouse is giving us cause to imagine a world where we're not paying for culture, but participating in it, where music and other types of art are around us as a daily part of our lives. Where our public space, be it physical or psychological, is not under the grasp of corporate ownership, but free and open to the discourse of the interested.
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33 thoughts on "The Grey Album: The Return of Sampling, The End of New Music, and The Fall of Western Civilization"
it's a good mash-up, but hardly that great. it's fun and all, but much of it pales in comparison to the original beats and i'm not even really a fan of jay-z.
I agree with ian (except I am a jay z fan). Its a fantastic concept, that kind of fails in its execution. Im kind of a geek for audio as well, the vocals are kind of distorted, the mp3 compression kind of sucks too. Also, there are (many) times when the beats are really overkill. Too much.
But still, great article Jeff.
I agree, a lot of media has jumped on this.
Make your own Black Album remix: http://www.jayzconstructionset.com/
For me, the Black Album was a terrible let down, and Dangermouse has really found a way to take it to a higher level. Songs like "Dust Ya Shoulder Off," "December 4th," and "99 Problems" are brilliant with his mixing. Some of the songs fail miserably, but the concept is so damn cool you can't knock the guy.
I met him, hes a nice guy
tuntil3 says:
nice article, but the album is much better in idea than actuality. it ranks slightly higher than Luke from 2LiveCrew rapping over Born in the USA.
Well, there's no accounting for taste, but I think the album sounds incredibly fresh, and different enough from other sample-heavy rap to be worthy of praise. Comparing it to the genre of "rapping over" other music is surely not giving Danger Mouse enough credit.
"Comparing it to the genre of "rapping over" other music is surely not giving Danger Mouse enough credit."
absolutely. i was beings assholishly coy. and i think there are some really good moments, the "helter skelter" for example. i mean, danger mouse, gets credit for not only a) having a great name, but 2) for doing something to take HS back from U2.
i think i wanted more chunks of the WA in chunks, like that. Too much of it seems like chopped down bits. You can do that with anything.
Anyhow I don't have the whole thing. Justify My Thug, however, is an embarrassment to all involved.
Smart Feller says:
Regarding copyrights, intellectual property and such…
David Bowie made a comment in the NYTimes around the time "Heathen" was coming out (2002?) that I thought was interesting — though clearly not something he came up with on his own. But it's interesting to hear an established artist's opinion on the matter.*
Entertainment (specifically recorded media) are going to soon be like electricity or water — just a continuously available utility in your home. And the ability to wrap one's legal and financial arms around it is getting ever weaker. Artists (and the business that surrounds them) need to realize that live performance is the only unique thing they'll have to offer soon. Which then may explain the ridiculous heights that concert tix are soaring to.
* You have to realize, of course, that Dave probably isn't overly concerned about who pays whom for his back catalog as he sold it all off several years ago through Goldman Sachs via what are now commonly called "Bowie Bonds." Bastard. Genius.
>True dat, it's all about the Benjamins. . .
In this case, the reproduction (then manipulation) of existing artistic creation brings up another context: Walter Benjamin.
PB says:
Does DJ DangerMouse live off of donations, handouts, begging?
I gather that Mr. Mouse is probably paid to appear at "gigs" no?
If he is just a Robin Hood philanthropist of modern music than please excuse my ignorance.
But I suspect that his using of other peoples music without their and or their record companies permission is making him money and notoriety.
All technology means is that artists now have a choice, attempt to distribute their product by themselves, or with a third party.
And yet somehow, because of past business practices of some less desirable individuals, we are to deem that art should become "free".
The only difference between today and yesterday is, the convenience of technology.
Show me the artist who wants to give you his work for "free" and I show you are a starving homeless person.
But than again is Mr. Mouse an artist? I mean really, he heard one great record, and liked the music. Heard another and liked the words. He might be technologically savy, and may or may not have good taste depending on your opinion. But taking other peoples work and calling it your own is hardly cause for celebration of the dawning of new thought.
The case has less to do with overcharging for records and what there real price should be in this instance, as much as it has to do with, if Mr. Mouse can distribute someone elses work free of charge or royalty payment, why cant I just steal the original record. And the reason is simple, someone made a product and placed a pricetag on it, I agree or disagree whether that price tag is appropriate and purchase or do not.
I believe what is at stake here is not only what defines music, but what defines an artist.
Hip-hop is a hot commodity right now, but the truth of the matter is most of its' music is focused around loops and beats. It is mostly devoid of originality and the Grey Album, or whatever the hell it is, can't touch the B Boys "Paul's Boutique" for many reasons, especially since the Beastie Boys' incorperated samples while still rapping with INTELLIGENCE and telling A STORY; two things that modern rap or Hip Hop, sadly fail to do.
Im sorry, but someone that raps words over a bass line or loop just isnt an artist in my book, (with the exception of the Beaties Boys and a few others,)although they are talented in their own respect.
The really sad reality is that there are bands out there; new bands that could and would knock down the complacent crap that that we are continuously inundated with. But record co. exec.s dont think in artistic freedom; they dream in $$$$ and Hip Hop is what sells in this era.
What a truly sad time we live in……..
Where are the Neil Finns, the Andy Partridges, the Marshall Crenshaw's..etc..when we need them most? They are relegated to indie labels because they don't sell.
>Where are the Neil Finns, the Andy Partridges, the Marshall Crenshaw's..etc..when we need them most? They are relegated to indie labels because they don't sell.
Anon: That's not precisely true. Actually, they're on indie labels because few of us buy them. If more were to plunk down the cash, then they would be bigger on the scene. But is bigger necessarily better? Wouldn't some people (as in, say, the extended GloNo posse) look/listen askance at them if they were to be big?
Anonymous, you might not have intended it, but your comment reeks of racism. "…rapping with INTELLIGENCE and telling A STORY; two things that modern rap or Hip Hop, sadly fail to do." Do you listen to much new stuff? Sure, there are a lot of dumb lyrics, but even a cursory listen to any maninstream rapper will reveal plenty of stories. And, whether you think so or not, there's a great deal of intelligence behind the rhymes. It's ridiculous to even have to point that out. Sheesh.
Jake, it is all how you read into it…
I didnt sniff any racisim or a need for the person to caveat their remarks.
You have implied that the Beastie Boys (white) and modern hip-hop (black) equals that earlier rap was intelligent modern not so.
If there is any modern hip-hop that is telling a new or revealing bit of americana. If so it is "indie" hip-hop that is not what is selling because this stuff is the same stuff over and over and over.
This is not Public Enemy, NWA, KRS-One and such.
With the exception of the Roots, I see and hear alot of contrived eMpTV cartoon characters.
If Jim O'Rourke were to take Blonde on Blonde and rewrite the lyrics for each song and release a record called Brunette on Brunette, would it be modern artistic achievement or fraud.
In visual art, it is called forgery.
In written word, is is called plagarism.
In music, it is called sampling or remixing or whatever, but it is essentially the combination of both, especially in a case where someone borrows from anothers art without the provided right to do so.
Actually, in visual art, it's called collage.
Outkast, Kanye West, Ludacris, Jay-Z, Nelly, Missy Elliot, they all tell stories in their raps, and while I don't listen to much of that stuff, it's still very relevant to a lot of people. And why do lyrics have to say something new? You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs, but I look around me and I see it isn't so. Oh no. What's wrong with that? I'd like to know.
Here's a pretty cool lyric from Jay-Z from "99 Problems":
If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward
Got beef with radio if I don't play their show
They don't play my hits well I don't give a shit SO
Rap mags try and use my black ass
So advertisers can give em more cash for ads…fuckers
I don't know what you take me as
or understand the intellegence that Jay-Z has
I'm from rags to riches nigga I ain't dumb
actually a collage in visual arts is defined as:
"an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface"
"an assembly of diverse fragments "
The latter definition might apply arbitrarily to art.
Jay-Z is being held back by the man
I hope his fifteen minutes of fame don't end
Because the moment his whack persona drys up
The sooner he will be back on the VIBE, BLENDER, SOURCE bus.
I never said their "entertainment" was not relevant to many people. But then again "Friends" is relevant to many people.
I have no problem with hip-hop nor rap, I just think it was quick to exhaust its creative resource which was limited to borrowing ideas to begin with. The Roots are one of a very very few bands/groups that took things in a new direction by adding, gasp Instrumentation.
To me, and perhaps I am wrong, the majority of hip-hop is the creative equivalent of the majority of 1980's hair-metal. Canned, decorated, pre-packaged and very uninspiring.
fauxpaw says:
I heard the Grey Album. It sucks. End of story. It is a great idea, with no delivery. It died on the way.
Bright Eyes kicks mullet head ass!
One last thought and then I should probably do something work-related….
To bring it down to a level that's easier (for me anyway) to understand, I once asked my musician friend what he thought of file-sharing. He's in an established band, signed to a sub of Mercury, tours US and Europe. Performs and sells music. His fans are primarily tech-savvy kids. So his material — the stuff he earns his living from — is being downloaded willy-nilly.
His take is that there's no way to stop it. Whatever protections/processes are put in place will be routinely (and almost immediately) overcome by the file-sharers of the world. Therefor, he just makes sure that he gets his share of free stuff as well — tunes, movies, software, games, etc.
See ya in the next century.
To all the people saying the Grey Album sucks, go ahead and make your own remix. That what this is all about. It's a proof of concept as much as anything. And it's proving that the existing copyright laws and licensing rules are STIFLING THE FUCK out of an entire style of music-making.
…and also one of my favorite music genres. But then again, you've already said I have bad taste.
Ahh, this is getting fun. The Black and Blue Album: http://www.jay-zeezer.com/
So is most rock, country, jazz, etc that is being marketed, but there are also amazing artists in every type of music. This statement should only attest to your dislike of hip-hop..and that's fine. Hip-hop is not for everyone. Neither is math-rock.
But if you think the the Beastie Boys are the only Intelligent hip-hop…
"Mowin' down MC's like I'm mowin' the lawn" is not really a creative or intelligent thing to say. Neither is "it's finger-lickin good, y'all."
I like the Beasties, but why do white people think they are the pinnacle of rap? They're white kids who sample well and re-create Run DMC as whiny as they possibly can.
And adding instruments to rap isn't new thanks to the Roots, either. But why do they need instruments so bad for you to respect it? Why is a five-chord guitar based song more interesting to you than using modern technology to layer many sounds and insruments together?
Watch the film "Scratch" and you can see how rapping evolved from days when the DJ was the focus peformer, not the MC.
Kenan says:
*And adding instruments to rap isn't new thanks to the Roots, either.*
A little off-topic, but that statement bugs me by itself. The Roots aren't to thank for anything except being incredibly pretentious and self-important. Do not, under any circumstances, read an interview with any of them. You'll ruin your magazine with all the throwing across the room.
And as for the Grey Album… bah. Hype hype hype, blah blah blah, not brave, not cutting edge, not especially creative or well executed. But that's just me. Strangely, even among people I like this is becoming a hot argument. Many of them love it to pieces, which makes me think twice, which makes me put on the record again (or "record," if you please), which makes me think it's hype all over again.
No, my mind is pretty much made up. The Black Album is better with real producers, rather than a laptop.
One other thing: The Grey Album is heavily front-loaded, meaning the first few tracks are the best. The first track is especially dope. I wonder if people holding it up as the greatest thing since… well… the Beatles have carefully listened to the whole thing. Some of those later tracks are *real* uneven, if not outright messy.
anybody who prefers the beats on the Black album to dangermouse's production on the Grey album is either 1) retarded or 2) sincerely enjoys the beats johnny j made for "all eyez on me."
ian at the top claims that "much of it pales in comparison to the original beats." ARE YOU F#CKIN SERIOUS? is the eminem-produced instrumental to "moment of clarity" truly superior to dangermouse's version?
i listened to the black album when it first came out, it thought it was lame. a couple things with single potential, but mostly disappointing. the grey album restored my faith in jay-z's lyrical skills.
dangermouse should re-release the mp3s with higher quality compression, AND THEN we'll see what's up.
enraptured says:
so many bright eyes references, so little time on these boards. i would like to see puffy even attempt a project that is 1% as ambitious as the grey album, but i know it wont happen.
like i said. "much of it pales in comparison". the eminem track sounds lazy. a few of them do. i like the rick rubin and just blaze tracks. i'm not that concerned with "single potential". i also don't think dangermouse makes jay-z a better lyricst. the beats don't sound tailored to his rhymes. it's an interesting experiment. that's all. oh yeah, better sound quality won't make the tracks anymore interesting.
retarded
p.s. mf doom makes this all moot…
I hate to say it, but the people who think Jay-Z's OG beats outdo DJ Dangermouse's are just stale old men lagging behind the times as far as rap fans go.
The Grey Album probably has the most evolved beats I've ever heard in any music created by anyone ever.
The only reason this style of laying down beats will never be popular is because only a few people have the skill to map out all the rhythms like DJ Dangermouse does.
And to the fools who have made comments like "Mr. Mouse…" [uhh.. he has a real name and a pseudonym, mr. mouse is neither] "…just heard two records and mushed them together, he's not an artist, yadda yadda"; these fools obviously have never listened to the Grey Album, have never tried to remix an album or (probably) both.
To say the grey album is just an amalgam of the Beatles' work and Jay-Z's work is to turn a blind eye to the skill and art (yes I said art) of creating music. If you've listened to the grey album you know it sounds like neither of the albums it was derived from.
It is more than the sum of its parts. And isn't that wholly the essence of artistic creations?
gregory,
i was taking you seriously until…"The Grey Album probably has the most evolved beats I've ever heard in any music created by anyone ever." i knew you were joking. you had me for a minute.
guitartanic says:
Is there a way to hear the Grey Album without the vocals? I want to feel what it's like to give full concentration to the samples and beats.
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Kim Kardashian West is back to the gym in full swing. The reality star has claimed to have gained around 18 pounds since last year and has her weight-goal set before her 40th birthday. Kim has her focus set on losing the weight she has gained in the past year and wants to do so before her upcoming birthday in October 2020. The mother of four has spoken about her fitness routines on Instagram stories and is keeping her fans updated.
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Kim recorded some videos of her working out at the gym for her fans and said, "And yeah, I mean, sometimes you fall off and sometimes you really gotta get it together and this is one of my fallen off times where I am, I think, 18 pounds up from what I was about a year ago, a year and a half ago." According to Us Weekly, Kim who weighed 116 pounds last year is working really hard to achieve her goals currently. The "Keeping Up With The Kardashian" star says "To feel good, I just want to get it like, a really good goal weight and so that means working out at all costs."
Kardashian at the Armenian Genocide Museum Kim Kardashian/ Instagram
In 2018, Kim had lost a lot of weight which she was certainly proud of but, her sisters Khloe and Kendall along with her mother were concerned and claimed that she was losing too much weight. To achieve her goals Kim Kardashian West had eliminated sugar, started being mindful of what she included in her diet and was working out for 90 minutes every day. She did a lot of weight training during the process of achieving her goals. In August 2018, Kim Kardashian told E!, "I've lost 20 pounds and I'm really proud of that. I was almost 140 forever and now I'm, like, 116 and it just feels good." She also admitted that she never saw results quickly but since she stuck to her routine, she began experiencing changes.
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A Beautiful Star
아름다운 별
일본영화특별전
Synopsis Juichiro OSUGI, a demotivated weather forecaster, suddenly comes to believe that he is from Mars after mysteriously struck by blinding light. About the same time, his children also awake as aliens. They believe that they have di erent missions to accomplish on Earth and Juichiro believes his is to let people realize the immediate danger of environmental crisis. His peculiar plea to save the beautiful planet earns him the limelight; however, a mysterious would-be alien appears to claim against Juichiro. Once a frivolous weatherman now desperately tries to let the man and his audience understands his conviction, not knowing the fate awaiting him ahead.
YOSHIDA Daihachi 요시다 다이하치
Born in 1963 in Japan. He made his directorial debut with Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!, which was world premiered at Cannes Critics Week in 2007. Since then, he has been highly acclaimed with The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio (2009), and Permanent Nobara (2010). In 2012, The Kirishima Thing received 36th Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture and Best Director. Pale Moon (2014) won Best Actress Award and Audience Award at Tokyo International Film Festival.
Director YOSHIDA Daihachi
Country Japan
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Willie Bradford sent a letter, dated Feb. 17, to the AG's office detailing his concerns about the city attorney's role as a legal adviser to both the mayor, who appoints the position, and the council, which ultimately approves the appointment.
In the letter, Bradford revisits the conflict between former Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover and council members who launched an investigation against — and eventually sued to recoup money the city paid for alleged over billings —financial adviser Calvin Grigsby.
Grigsby also sued the city, two of the city's attorneys, and three council members in federal court. The city is listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit though Glover staunchly supported Grigsby and was often at odds with the council over its decision to not use the financial adviser anymore.
Bradford, who was elected Dec. 6, says council members were relying on the legal advice of the city attorney "who serves at the pleasure of the mayor."
According to Shreveport's charter, the city attorney is the legal adviser to both parties as well as for city departments, boards, commissions and agencies the charter establishes. The city attorney also hires and supervises other attorneys advising the council or the mayor, the charter said.
"My concern is that in matters such as this the council is not afforded the conflict free legal representation that is outlined (in) Rule 17 of the Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct," he said in the letter. "The council should have the authority to hire its own special counsel to insure that its legal representation was free of conflict."
He also wants to know if the city charter limits the council's ability to receive legal representation free of from a conflict of interest.
In a telephone interview, Bradford said the council needs an attorney who does not have allegiances to the mayor. Bradford said his ultimate goal is for the city council to have its own attorney.
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These Are The Most Exciting Space Missions To Look Forward To In 2018
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy could finally launch in a few weeks. SpaceX
Hooray! We made it into 2018. And with another year comes another host of exciting space missions to look forward to, from long-awaited launches to deep space rendezvous.
Last year saw a number of fascinating developments in space. India launched a record-breaking 104 satellites on a single rocket, for example, while the Cassini mission came to an end and SpaceX wowed us all with repeated rocket landings.
This year should be even more thrilling though, and things get started almost immediately. So let's take a look at what we can look forward to in 2018.
This month should see the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. Although a date hasn't been set, late January or early February looks like a good bet. It will be the most powerful rocket in operation today, and this first launch will be taking Elon Musk's own Tesla car to the orbital path of Mars. Yes, really.
We should also be seeing the next launch of the Electron rocket in New Zealand from the company Rocket Lab, which is positioning itself as a low-cost way to reach space.
On February 11 Russia plans to send a Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in just three hours. That's shorter than a flight from New York to Los Angeles, and half the quickest time we've ever sent anything to the ISS.
NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is planned to launch no earlier than March 20. It's expected to find more than 3,000 planets outside the Solar System, including Earth-sized worlds.
India plans to launch its second mission to the Moon, called Chandrayaan-2. It will consist of an orbiter, lander, and rover.
TESS will build on the work of the hugely successful Kepler mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech
SpaceX will perform an uncrewed test flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft for the first time, with a crewed flight planned later in the year. Many, however, think Crew Dragon might face delays. (Update: NASA's latest update has pushed this flight back to August 2018).
China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to re-enter our atmosphere at some point in the first quarter of the year. The latest prediction looks like the re-entry might be on April 4 somewhere near South America.
The InSight lander, delayed from 2016, will be launched on a mission to Mars. After landing in November 2018, it will attempt to study the Martian interior using seismology.
China will launch the Chang'e-4 relay satellite to the Moon, intended to be the orbital component of a planned lunar lander on the far side of the Moon at the end of the year.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will reach its target asteroid Ryugu. The plan is to return a sample of the asteroid to Earth in December 2020.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch on July 31, and will study the Sun by getting closer than any spacecraft has before, just 17 times further than the width of the Sun itself. It will also become the fastest spacecraft on record as it "touches the Sun", reaching a speed of 200 kilometers (124 miles) per second.
NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter is expected to end by plunging into the atmosphere of the gas giant, although there is a chance the mission could be extended.
Boeing will perform an uncrewed test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, with plans to then launch humans in November at the earliest.
SpaceX says it will perform a crewed flight test of the Crew Dragon. If this goes ahead, it will be the first time astronauts have launched from US soil since 2011. (Update: Pushed back to December 2018 at the earliest)
NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft will reach its target, the asteroid Bennu, from which it will return a sample to Earth in 2023.
OSIRIS-REx will attempt to scoop material by firing bursts of nitrogen. NASA
The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo mission will launch to Mercury. The mission comprises two orbiters, but it will not arrive into orbit around Mercury until December 2025, owing to the complexities of orbiting a body so close to the Sun.
On December 20, we're finally expecting the launch of one of the final modules of the ISS, the Russian-built Nauka module, which has been delayed since 2007.
And this final one is kind of cheating but… On December 31, it will be one day before the New Horizons spacecraft arrives at its next target, the Kuiper Belt Object called MU69. Not a bad way to ring in 2019.
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Breed-specific variations in the coding region of the feline TLR4
Published: 7 November 2018| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/pxvtkn7yz2.1
Joanna Whitney
Point mutations in toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in humans have been associated with increased risk of infectious diseases, eg. tuberculosis and aspergillosis, and non-infectious diseases, eg. gastric carcinoma and atherosclerosis. In some instances, variations in disease susceptibility associated with TLR4 mutations have been shown to be racially specific. The aim of this study was to evaluate the coding region of feline TLR4 to identify breed-specific variations in sequence and the possible effect of these on protein structure and function. Exonic and flanking DNA of TLR4 was sequenced from 158 individual cats of 9 breeds and compared to the previously reported cDNA sequence. Twenty-two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified. Sixteen polymorphisms (11 non-synonymous) were located in the coding region and four polymorphisms were located in the URT 3' of TLR4. The effect of the non-synonymous SNPs on protein structure was predicted and revealed that a single SNP and resulting amino acid substitution, R289Q, had a significant effect on protein structure. Breed allelic frequencies were compared for 118 unrelated cats for the identified SNPs. Allelic frequencies differed between at least two breeds for 8 of the SNPs (2 synonymous, 2 non-synonymous, 4 in the flanking regions). Within these, Burmese and BSHs most commonly differed from the other breeds. These findings do not support a role of TLR4 dysfunction in breed-predisposition to infection in domestic cats in Australia.
Veterinary Immunology
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Three men found guilty of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery
Thirty-five-year-old Travis McMichael, his father 65-year-old Gregory McMichael and their neighbour 52-year-old William Bryan face sentences of up to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery
Three white men were found guilty of murder and other charges on Wednesday for the pursuit and fatal shooting of 25-year-old black man Ahmaud Arbery in a case that, together with the killing of George Floyd, helped inspire the racial justice protests of last year.
Arbery was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was fatally shot in 2020.
The three defendants — 35-year-old Travis McMichael, his father 65-year-old Gregory McMichael and their neighbour 52-year-old William Bryan — face sentences of up to life in prison for the crimes.
The men have also been indicted on separate federal charges, including hate crimes and attempted kidnapping, and are expected to stand trial in February on those charges.
Mr. Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones reacted to the ruling, saying "it's been a hard fight, but God is good".
She thanks those who marched in protests and as well as those who prayed for her family.
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Encouraging the Development of Drugs for Poor, not Just Rich, Nations
October 23, 2002 • 9 min read
As AIDS and other diseases tear through the developing world, public health advocates are seeking new models to overcome the failure of markets and governments to generate research that would help millions of people suffering from illness and poverty. The current system rewards research into diseases that afflict rich countries, but creating new medicines for the rest of the world – and finding ways to pay for them – will demand new partnerships, according to panelists at the recent Wharton conference on "Pharmaceutical Innovation in a Global Economy."
As AIDS and other diseases tear through the developing world, public health advocates are seeking new models to overcome the failure of markets and governments to generate research that would help millions of people suffering from illness and poverty.
The current system rewards research into diseases that afflict rich countries, but creating new medicines for the rest of the world – and finding ways to pay for them – will demand new partnerships, according to panelists at the recent Wharton conference on "Pharmaceutical Innovation in a Global Economy."
To encourage private companies to find cures for Third World diseases, governments and foundations can push these companies with grants and tax credits, or pull them with market incentives, said Michael Kremer, a Harvard economics professor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. think tank. He and others participated in a session entitled "Stimulating Research and Development for New LDC (Less Developed Country) Drugs and Vaccines." The conference was sponsored by the Wharton health care systems department.
Kremer said push strategies are good for basic research. But when it comes to developing specific drugs, companies need to be rewarded for their risk with a long-term market for their goods and a guarantee that nations will not argue later that prices should be reduced on humanitarian grounds, as has happened with AIDS drugs. That argument, he noted, "will wreck our intellectual property rights system."
According to Sean Nicholson, professor of healthcare systems at Wharton, an examination of alliances between small biotech research companies and large pharmaceutical firms can provide insights into how new partnerships might work. These alliances, Nicholson said, offer biotech firms stable sources of funding to ride out volatile capital markets, provide shared expertise, reduce risk for small firms and serve as a signal to other investors that the biotech company has promising products and strong management. All but the last attribute can be applied to public-private partnerships in which private firms take the role of the biotech while government, or large non-profits, act as the big drug company.
Research, Nicholson noted, shows that alliances improve the odds of a drug making it to market. For example, drugs developed through alliances had a 12% higher success rate in passing through the U.S. regulatory process than drugs developed by individual firms.
Roy Widdus, project manager of the initiative on public-private partnership for health at the Global Form for Health Research in Geneva, suggested that the unwritten partnership – in which rich countries subsidize research for drugs that can also be used in poor countries at lower prices – can only go so far in meeting the need. "I think there's been an enormous tendency to leave the responsibility of government out of the equation."
He said that in current public-private partnerships the bulk of the activity is in distribution of drugs and in product development, but there is little work in original research.
Efforts to develop public-private partnerships must consider that member organizations come to the partnership with different sets of accountability, Widdus noted. Private companies are primarily focused on shareholders and short-term profit goals. Public-private partnerships have more long-term goals and are accountable to a wider group of stakeholders.
Structuring a "win-win proposition" for public-private research requires balancing incentives and costs for each partner, he said. For example, if the public component invests money and expertise, it can receive a supply of drugs and the right to use a partnering company's intellectual property in the field. The private company would invest technology and knowledge to receive intellectual property protection in the rest of the world, along with public and human-relations benefits.
Widdus suggested that non-government aid organizations, which have been vocal in drawing private-sector drug companies into the global debate on access to medicines for the world's poor, should also focus on governments. "Governments could allocate more resources to help. They have to make the choice: I invest in the armament industry or I invest in the health industry."
Paula Luff, director of international philanthropy at Pfizer, noted that her firm contributed $447 million in charitable giving last year, the bulk of it in products. Pfizer has learned, she added, that it must take a comprehensive approach to giving. "We don't just say, 'Hi, here's your Zithormax. Good luck.' [But] I don't think we are the solution. Medicines are a component of healthcare. We have a role and a place at the table, but we can't go it alone." Pfizer programs have already come up against barriers, Luff pointed out. Uganda diverted donated product to medical stores and Tanzania slapped on a 10% tariff.
Pfizer's giving programs will always be tempered with business reality, she said. "We are very willing to play a role in giving access to people who genuinely need help. But if a company doesn't perform well in general, there will be very little support for these kinds of things."
Andrew Metrick, professor of finance at Wharton, outlined lessons from the capital markets that apply to the current problems in supplying medicines to the developing world. "The first lesson," he said, "is that big pharma has the big money."
According to Metrick, 411 publicly traded pharmaceutical and biotech companies spent $47.2 billion on research and development last year. The total budget for the National Institutes of Health was $20.3 billion, while private investment in biotech deals was $3.4 billion.
But very little drug company spending goes to research medicines for the developing world. "If we can push that up by a little bit we're talking about a lot of money," he noted. "If there is any way to push or pull money from pharma it can make an enormous difference."
Metrick pointed out that capital markets are fickle and less inclined to back long-term research into the medical needs of the world's poor. "Biotech is famous for having windows that are wide open, then slam shut. But most R&D is funded by pharma profits which are not so fickle. Their funding is stable. They can afford to be patient." Pull strategies, such as the Orphan Drug Act, which provides incentives – including protection from competition – can be effective policy, he said.
Metrick also cited problems with delivery of vaccines to poor populations as an indication of the challenges ahead. He pointed out that not only are vaccines difficult to make, there is usually enormous political pressure to lower their price. Even in the United States, companies are slowing or discontinuing vaccine production. "It's not just an R&D problem."
Farhad Riahi, senior associate with McKinsey & Co., cited the limited opportunities opening up for private investment in health care in emerging markets. The perception that these markets are small, risky, and unprofitable has kept them off the radar screen of senior management. "Reality, as always, is more interesting than this stereotype, but more challenging to deal with. These markets are not that small anymore. Risk is there, but risk is not a monolith."
Riahi said there are large and rapidly growing markets, including China, Turkey, Mexico and Taiwan, where health-care systems are beginning to improve along with discretionary income and property-rights protection for companies. "Not all of these drivers are operating all of the time in all of these countries. It's necessary to understand which are operating at the country level and to what extent."
The International Finance Corp. (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has been underwriting a growing number of pharmaceutical investments in emerging markets, according to Stewart N. Hicks, senior industry specialist at IFC. "IFC is relatively new in life sciences. Traditionally we were in steel mills and big manufacturing operations, but now increasingly we are investing in technology companies."
So far, he said, IFC has invested $453 million in 14 life science projects around the world, including a bulk drug plant in India, a biotech fund in South Africa and formulation facilities in Macedonia and Costa Rica. And with India and China required to comply with World Trade Organization intellectual property rules by 2005, pharmaceutical investment in emerging markets is expected to increase.
Hicks said India and South Africa have generated the most business plans for IFC consideration. He forecast that the Indian pharmaceutical industry, with 6,000 companies, is about to undergo a major consolidation. However, he added, owners of these life science firms are demanding high valuations for their companies, because they view them as technology firms. "I am surprised to see investors giving huge valuations as if the tech boom is still flowering. News travels slowly to some countries."
In Brazil, there is a steady stream of scientists lining up for funding, and while their ideas are sound, they have little understanding of how to commercialize their products, said Luciano Vilela, a principal in FIR Capital Partners, a Brazilian life sciences investor. "On the plus side, the valuations of these start-up companies looking for investors are low so that decreases the risk." Exchange rates are also attractive for foreign investors.
The problem, he added, is that Brazil lacks a "culture of entrepreneurship … People arrive willing to invest a lot of technological knowledge, but with very small entrepreneurial visions. They sometimes look very naïve." He said Brazil, and other developing countries need to build their own pharmaceutical sectors. "In the long run we have to take solutions within the countries, because if we don't do so, 100 years from now we will still be discussing how to increase the availability of drugs to solve our own problems."
Sanjay Sehgal, a partner with Schroeder Capital Partners, suggested that investment in life sciences has been slow in Asia because of disregard for intellectual property, government protection and price controls, a lack of health insurance coverage and problems conforming with global manufacturing standards.
Despite that, he said a large number of brand-name drug patent expirations in the United States will create new opportunities for generic manufacturers to seek out low-cost Asian production. "We are going to live in a world of low-cost generics," he predicted, adding that global drug companies will begin to outsource research to Asia where governments are aggressively developing science parks to build life science companies.
However, as long as Asian incomes remain low, pharmaceutical companies there will produce largely for overseas markets. "A lot of these companies have looked overseas to make big bucks – quick money – to get up to scale," he said. "Then, at a later stage, maybe they will focus inward."
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Sculpture in the Early Medieval Irish Sea c.800-c.1000: Interlacing Traditions
A research project of the Department of History, part of the Medieval and Visual and Material Culture research groups.
This project explores the cultural significance of early medieval stone sculptures produced in the Irish Sea regions of Britain and Ireland in the ninth and tenth centuries. It challenges prevalent assumptions about state formation and national and ethnic exceptionalism as it has developed in Britain and Ireland, instead investigating their function as symbols of secular, religious and economic power within a culturally connected area. This will allow a nuanced narrative of cultural contact between the areas of ancient and modern northern Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man, which will give greater understanding of the shared materiality in this region. Carved stone monuments of the early medieval Insular world (typically defined as Britain, Ireland and the associated islands in the Irish Sea) are usually studied according to chronological and geographical criteria, using periodization and modern geographical boundaries to categorise, taxonomise and contextualise them. My project takes a new approach to the study of stone sculpture within the culturally interconnected Insular world and further within the wider medieval world. The key research question is how does shared visual culture and iconographic traditions aid and challenge the received historical narratives of the medieval world?
This project aims to address an understudied body of source material, namely that of carved stone monuments, from across Britain and Ireland, broadly distributed from Shetland to Cornwall. These sculptures, often the sole source from these regions for this early period, provide evidence of peoples and cultures and offer valuable information for our understanding of early Christianity that without these monuments would be unattested or underrepresented in the scholarship.
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The early life of The Virgin Mary
December 19, 2018 Melanie V Taylor
During this Christmas week of waiting, I have wondered about Mary's early life, her parents and how their story is portrayed in images.
There are only 150 manuscripts that refer to the parents of the Virgin, including the apocryphal Gospel of St James, known as the Protovangelium, which was written in the second century A.D. Mary's parents do not feature in the 'official' Bible, but clearly she did not just 'appear'. These surviving documents tell us that Mary's mother was St Anne and her father, St Joachim. St Anne is also recognised in the Qu'ran, and appears in the writings of the Eastern Orothodox Church.
Anne was of the line of David and came from Bethlehem and after she married the comfortably off Joachim, they lived together in Nazareth. Unfortunately, during their marriage they were not blessed with children and according to the Christian story, Joachim had been refused entry to the Temple because his marriage had been childless. As a result of being spurned by Temple officials for his inability to father children, he went into the mountains to pray and meditate. His wife Anne remained at home and, she too prayed and promised that if she were to become pregnant then she would dedicate the child to the service of the Lord. During their time of separation, both Joachim and Anne were visited by an angel who told them both that Anne would bear a child.
Giotto Bordone (1266-1337) painted a narrative of the lives of St Anne & Joachim, the life of the Virgin and that of Christ in a series of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Below Giotto portrays Joachim asleep, and during his slumbers Joachim is visited by the angel who gives him the news that he and his wife Anne will have a child.
The Dream of Joachim 1305. Giotto Bordone (1266-1337). Scorvegni Chapel, Padua, Italy
The angel tells Anne to go and meet her husband at the city of Jerusalem. When she see Joachim, they embrace and rejoice because, according to a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer, the angel had told them both that they would have a daughter who would be a powerful Queen of both earth and heaven. (i)
Joachim & Anne at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem (woodcut). 1504. Albrecht Dürer. The Life of the Virgin.
Mary is also known as the Queen of Heaven, and also represents Mother Church. In the central panel of the altarpiece created for the Compagna della Miseracordia by the Tuscan artist Piero della Francesco (c1415-1492) Mary is portrayed in her role as Mother of the Church sheltering the faithful under her cloak.
Central Panel of Polyptych of Misericordia 1445-65. Piero della Francesco (1415-1492). Now in Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro
This panel was commissioned in 1445, but della Francesco ignored the time constraints set down in the original contract and it was not finished for a further twenty years. Image.
The writers of the Christian story will have us believe in the ultimate purity of Mary, and also of St John the Baptist, whose conceptions were revealed to both St Anne and St Elizabeth by an angel. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on 8th December. On a further note, St Anne's sister was Sobe, and according to St Hippolytus of Rome (died c231) Sobe was the mother of St Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. The Greek Orthodox church celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of St Elizabeth on 8th September, but the Church of Rome celebrates this on 5th November.
According to the 6th century sermon of the Christian, John of Damascus, Anne is only married once, but by the late middle ages legend has it that, Joachim dies shortly after the birth of his daughter and Anne remarries, not once, but twice more. Her second husband was Cleopas, and her third – a man called Salome. Apparently Anne gave birth to two more daughters whom she also called Mary. These two Mary's are identified by their father's surnames and are the ones who were also being at the foot of the cross during the Crucifixion, together with Christ's mother Mary.
Whether Joachim died shortly after his daughter's birth or not, at the age of three Mary is handed over to the Temple authorities where she remained until she was finally betrothed to Joseph. A festival celebrating Mary's presentation was first celebrated in eastern versions of Christianity during the 6th century, but did not appear in the West until five centuries later. During the medieval period veneration of Mary grew, but it was not until the late 16th century at the behest of Pope Sixtus V, Mary's presentation to the Temple was entered in the liturgical calendar and becomes celebrated as the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary on 21st November.
In Hebrew and Arabic the equivalent name to Anne is Hannah, which means favour or grace. Scholars have noted that there are great similarities between the story of St Anne and that of the Old Testament Hannah, who was the mother of the prophet Samuel. Like Anne, Hannah was also barren, but after imploring the Lord to give her a male child, falls pregnant and produces a son.
Both Anne and her daughter Mary are both recognised by Islam. In the Qu'ran, finding herself pregnant, Anne (Hannah in Arabic as well as Hebrew) dedicated her unborn child to God with the words "O my Lord! I do dedicate unto Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and knowest all things." (ii) As we know, Anne (Hannah), gave birth to a girl and in fulfilment of her promise the Qu'ran tells us she dedicates her daughter with the words: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!"- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected."(iii)
Nativity of the Virgin (1503-4) Woodcut. Albrecht Dürer.
In Dürer's woodcut of Mary's birth it is difficult to work out whether she has been born, until you spot the woman bottom right, who holds what appears to be a baby with a full head of hair and has a pail of water at her feet. Is this woman bathing the new born infant, or is this her own and St Anne (in bed) has yet to give birth. Over this busy scene is an angel who swings a thurible over those below.
Despite Anne and Mary's story being told in the Qu'ran, the two Abrahamic faiths of Islam and Judaism do not recognise Jesus as the Messiah.
The story of Mary moves towards the end of its first phase with her engagement to Joseph. Their engagement inspired another great artist of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael Sanzio da Urbino. This painting is now in Milan.
La Spozalizio (Engagement) 1504. Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520) Pinacoteca de Brera, Milan.
In England was a relatively new dynasty. Also painted at the beginning of the 16th century is this full page illumination by an anonymous illuminator – probably English, but possibly the document was sent away to be illuminated to the Netherlands.
Full page illumination showing Henry VII & family below Joachimm and Anne at the Gold Gate. Bodleian Library, Oxford.
When it comes to visual propaganda promoting the Tudor dynasty, an anonymous artist was employed to show the story of the Joachim and Anne in this early 16th century full page illumination showing Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York with all their children, including those who died in infancy or childhood. However, do not think these are accurate portraits of the Tudor royals because this was probably not painted in England, therefore the artist would have not known what Henry or Elizabeth (or their children) looked like.
The central image above the royal family is of the St Anne and Joachim embracing at the city gate of Jerusalem with other elements of the story of the Virgin in smaller rectangles in the margins. these have to be read anticlockwise, with Joachim and Anne at the Temple in the top left hand corner. Joachim is on his knees. Bottom left we see Joachim in the country being visited by the angel and this scene is echoed in the bottom right where Anne sits at her devotions. At the top right we see Anne with the infant Mary in her abdomen and Anne's hands clasped in prayer. The royal coat of arms, with the red lion of Wales and the Beaufort greyhound sit centrally in the top margin. What are also very evident are the Beaufort portcullis and the red rose of Lancaster. The Beaufort portcullis echoes the portcullis of the city gate of Jerusalem, the bottom of which we can just see above the heads of the Virgin's parents. The second element of Tudor symbolism, the red rose of Lancaster, is also associated with the Virgin. Red roses had come to symbolise Christ's passion and the blood of martyrs, but in antiquity the Romans and Greeks celebrated the rose in the feast of Rosalia as a commoration of the dead.
You have to wonder if later in 1533, Henry VIII and his Queen Anne knew that the Greek church celebrated the birth of the mother of John the Baptist on the 8th September and chose to name their daughter Elizabeth after her because their daughter was born on 7th September, the day before this feast. The Church of Rome regards the 8th September as the nativity of the Virgin, but since Henry already had a daughter named Mary, surely it cannot be a coincidence that the king chose to name his second daughter Elizabeth having been born so near to the Greek church feast day. For a king who was so focused on dynasty, it does not take much imagination to see why he he named his two daughters after the two most important women in Christianity. This is a convoluted thought I know, but back in the 16th century people knew much more about the writings of the early saints than we do today, and Henry was a highly educated man. Neither should we lose sight of the fact that Henry had written a refutation of Luther's 95 theses of 1517 earning him recognition from Pope Leo X in 1521, who bestowed the title "Defender of the Faith" on the Tudor King.
While it is is possible that Henry did know the date the Greek church celebrated the birth of St Elizabeth's, but it is, of course, also the name of Henry's own mother, Elizabeth of York. Naming his new daughter Elizabeth could also have been a homage to his own mother.
i. Abbot Benedictus Chelidonius who worked with Dürer on the book, The Life of the Virgin, which was illustrated with Dürer's woodcuts.
ii. Qu'ran 3.35 Translated by Muhammad M Pickthall
iii. Qu'ran 3.36 Translated by Muhammad M Pickthall
http://www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it
The Quran: Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu http://www.newadvent.org
Bodleian Library.
Albrecht Dürer: The Life of the Virgin: Anne & Joachim at the Golden Gate, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen: Nativity of the Virgin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne & Joachim at the Golden Gate, Anne Boleyn, Henry VII, Nativity, Piero della Francesco, Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, St Anne & St Joachim, the Virgin Mary
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More information about the virgin Mary can be found in Sanhedrin 106a, and Shabbath 104b
Thank you Philip. As an art historian, I am writing from a different perspective and my knowledge of the Talmud is virtually non-existent. I have found both references online. Again, thank you.
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Tom Clancy's Line Of Sight
Author(s): Maden, Mike
On a break between missions, Jack Ryan Jr is asked by his mother to visit Sarajevo and track down a girl whose life she saved during the Bosnian War. Finally, he thinks, life might be quietening down.
That's until he meets Aida - grown from a child into a beautiful and selfless woman. Jack finds himself drawn to her, not to mention impressed by her dangerous work helping Syrian refugees enter Europe.
But the region is increasingly unstable, and just as Jack lets his guard down, Aida is violently kidnapped by the Serbian mafia.
With no official status, Jack's pleas for help fall on deaf ears, and he realises he must act alone to save the woman he loves. But as the simmering tensions threaten to bubble over, Jack will soon discover Bosnia is a dangerous place to fly solo . . .
Mike Maden grew up working in the canneries, feed mills and slaughterhouses of California's San Joaquin Valley. A lifelong fascination with history and warfare ultimately lead to a Ph.D. in political science focused on conflict and technology in international relations. Like millions of others, he first became a Tom Clancy fan after reading The Hunt for Red October, and began his published fiction career in the same techno-thriller genre, starting with Droneand the sequels, Blue Warrior, Drone Command and Drone Threat. He's honored to be joining "The Campus" as a writer in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jr., series.
Audience: General/trade
Dimensions (LxWxH): 197 mm129 mm35 mm
Weight: 326 gr
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Holy Trinity kick starts "The Grand Tour"
Automotive - Akanksha Singh - Nov 23,2016
Porsche 918, McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari gave a glamorous start to TopGear trio's new show
The Grand Tour (TGT), a motoring television series hosted by BBC TopGear's trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, kick started with a perfect faceoff. The first episode of TGT that was aired on Amazon Prime on November 18, saw what can only be termed as an extremely successful opening.
Icing of the very tasty cake being the "holy trinity." No, not the three very talented presenters James, Jeremy and Richard, but three of the most coveted and yearned for vehicles ever, Porsche 918, McLaren P1, and Ferrari LaFerrari. Called as 'the father, the son and the Holy Spirit of modern day automobiles' by Wall Street Journal's, Ken Sunny.
The show wasn't just stolen away by the presence of these three charismatic vehicles, the three presenters gave nothing short of a joy ride, it was the very amazing "holy trinity faceoff" that the BBC trio promised to deliver.
Each of the three presenters had a handpicked favorite, Clarkson chose McLaren P1, calling it "fast. Really fast. Mind-blowingly fast", Richard Hammond went with his much adored Porsche 918, while James May chose what he calls "the greatest car in the world" (LaFerrari). All of them had their own picks while bringing the cars to Portugal for a race, raising the standards of the show in the first episode itself.
Popularity of the three cars is no news for any fanatic car lover, but an average auto-appreciator would surely break loose. These three are few of the savviest and sexiest cars of the world, not just in terms of physical appearance but considering the performance as well. McLaren P1 is a limited-production plug-in hybrid sports car that debuted at 2012 Paris Motor Show. The Porsche 918, is a mid-engined plug-in hybrid sports car. LaFerrari which literally means "The Ferrari", is the first mild hybrid sports car from Ferrari. When beautiful bullies like them tussle, we groupies just look at them, starry eyed and gloating in happiness.
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TO2015 Unveils One-of-a-Kind Medals – A Unique Product of the Americas
TORONTO, March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee (TO2015) today unveiled the competition medals for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games. Athletes from 41 countries and territories across the Americas will compete for 4,283 medals in 825 medal events.
The paths of the medals originate at different points across the western hemisphere thanks to the collaboration of Barrick Gold Corporation, Official Metal Supplier, and the Royal Canadian Mint, the Official Medals Design and Production Supplier.
"The Games unite us, inspire us and captivate us, and it's the competition — the elite athletes striving for a moment of near perfection — that make it all so thrilling," said Saäd Rafi, chief executive officer, TO2015. "So, we're grateful to all our partners for striving for that same level of excellence in our medals."
The materials for the medals were supplied by Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation from three of its operations across the Americas: copper from its Zaldívar mine in Chile; silver from its Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic; and gold from its Hemlo mine in Ontario. The teamwork and pride of the people at Barrick reflect the excellence and dedication of the athletes competing at the Games. Barrick also has operations in Argentina, Peru and the United States.
"We're honoured to supply the materials for the medals that will mark the success of the best athletes of the Americas," said Kelvin Dushnisky, co-president, Barrick Gold Corporation. "Everyone in our organization — especially those who produced the copper, silver and gold — will be thrilled every time an athlete holds up their medal to the cheers of their country."
The unique Games medals will be skilfully crafted by the Royal Canadian Mint in an innovative process featuring 25 production steps. The process involves 30 Mint employees, including engineers, engravers, die technicians, machinists and production experts working together. The team's combined experience in medals production totals more than 100 years.
"Royal Canadian Mint employees have come together with pride to produce one-of-a-kind medals which truly symbolize the years of training and effort put forth by the remarkable athletes who will compete at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games this summer," said Sandra Hanington, president and chief executive officer, Royal Canadian Mint.
The Pan Am Games will run from July 10–26 followed by the Parapan Am Games August 7–15. The current round of ticket sales for the Pan Am Games will close on March 9 and will not reopen until mid- April. Tickets have been selling fast so fans are encouraged to buy their tickets now to see their favourite athletes vie for these medals.
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Meta, Google earnings suggest RIP to the platform momentum narrative
October 28, 2022 | By Seb Joseph & Krystal Scanlon
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Every momentum story must end.
Judging by the latest earnings update from Google, Facebook et al it's clear that the end is near for this blockbuster chapter of growth for digital advertising. Exceptions aside, it was another tough quarter for the largest online platforms. Here's the rundown on those that were worst hit.
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Not only did Google's topline revenue ($54.5 billion) miss analyst forecasts, YouTube's ad revenue ($7.1 billion) contracted for the first time since the online behemoth started reporting those earnings in Q4 2019. Even Google's search ad business, historically recession-proof, sputtered in the quarter with $39.5 billion. When Google sneezes the rest of the industry tends to catch a cold.
Whatever Google has, Meta got a bigger dose. Revenue for the quarter was down on both the same period last year (4.5%) and the previous quarter (3.8%). Net income is waning; down 52.2% year-on-year, and 34.3% on the previous quarter. Bottom line: At this quarterly pace, Meta will be loss making next year.
Despite Snap's attempts to innovate its way out of trouble (Snapchat+ anyone?), the mobile messaging app's latest set of results show it has a long way to go. Revenue in its third quarter rose 6% compared to the same period a year ago to $1.13 billion. That's the slowest rate of growth since the company went public back in 2017.
Bottom of the funnel is now the top of the pile. Amazon raked in $9.5 billion in ad revenue over the quarter, up 25% on the same period a year ago.
Let's be clear, these platforms are still making loads of cash. They're just not making it as quickly as they once did. Slowdowns like this are inevitable — and not just because there was only going to be some sort of reversion in ad spending after a white hot 2021. This slowdown is more structural.
Ad dollars from the lucrative SME sector? Shrinking. Blame a lot of things, from rising ad prices, worsening ad measurement, ballooning logistical costs, newly-sober public markets, and a more muted than expected demand.
What about e-commerce? There's a contraction in online sales (in the near term), which means fewer opportunities for ads.
OK, but the platforms are still the places to go to sweat advertising hardest, right? Probably, but it's getting harder to know for sure. Remember, ad prices have gone up as measurement has faded.
Which brings us to the elephant in the room: Apple. The company continues to starve some of the biggest platforms of revenue after making it more difficult for them to offer effective targeting and measurement to advertisers.
There's less oxygen for online advertising to grow in the way it has become accustomed to.
Never mind the complex web of economical, epidemiological and policy factors constricting the flow of money even further.
Wherever this volatile period nets out, it's likely to go through some sort of correction to get there. Investors (i.e marketers) are already getting a sense of what their risk tolerance is.
This is the growing-up part of digital advertising, which is now an integral part of many businesses.
Daniel Knapp, chief economist, IAB Europe
"This is the growing-up part of digital advertising, which is now an integral part of many businesses," said Daniel Knapp, chief economist at IAB Europe. "That means the industry can't rely on organic growth playing catch up to all the opportunities these platforms offer. Those investments are going to grow much more in line with how economies and companies are really doing."
Granted, Knapp's view isn't a new one. Marketers have talked about "digital being too big to ignore" for years. But it's a view that rarely went beyond marketing circles. Until now. There's a broader company-wide interest in the way the online advertising industry functions thanks to a variety of factors.
Among them: advertising's data industrial complex and the regulation of it; the environmental, societal and governance issues around ad spending; ad dollars as intangible capital expenditure; advertising for e-commerce sales. Add it all up, and it points to more scrutiny than ever on online advertising — and by extension its biggest stakeholders, i.e the platforms.
Still not convinced the great digital advertising correction is a thing? The numbers are even more conclusive. During the last financial crisis digital media accounted for 12% of total ad spending, according to JP Morgan. Last year, that percentage was 67%. The bigger the ad budgets get the more exposed those dollars — and by extension the media owners they fund — are to broader macro trends.
In short, digital advertising really is too big to ignore now.
"Giant companies like the platforms can only continue to grow sustainably for so long," said Evelyn Mitchell, an analyst for digital advertising and media at eMarketer. "This sort of thing is inevitable, partially because consumer behavior will always change and advertising dollars will always follow the consumer. It's why CTV and retail media — the two biggest trends in advertising over the last year — are still growing as advertising opportunities despite macroeconomic concerns."
Giant companies like the platforms can only continue to grow sustainably for so long.
Evelyn Mitchell, analyst for digital advertising and media, eMarketer
The platforms are going to be fine. They are still beasts in terms of monthly and daily users, which continues to be a big audience for advertisers. The problem, however, is the platforms are — gulp — legacy media businesses now that, at least for the foreseeable future, must operate like the incumbents they disrupted do. Some will be able to, some won't.
"No two platforms are the same; there are islands, ecosystems and hot streaks," said Jared Belsky, CEO of digital agency Acadia. "In a recession, where agencies and clients get thinner, the media buyers have less time to talk to islands so they have to spend more time with ecosystems because that's just a function of reality. Ecosystems control their fate. They're not reliant on one thing in the way an island business is."
That's not so much a cause for concern as much as it is a bellwether that the dynamics of the online ad market are changing. Indeed, corrections like this are anything but a reversion to the mean. They do, however, create winners and losers.
"The slowdown of growth in online advertising really only impacts the largest players who because of their sheer scale and market penetration are exposed to macroeconomic headwinds," said Paul Thompson, U.K. country manager at ad tech firm Seedtag. "The rest of the market will be net beneficiaries of brands looking for other options to drive greater value, differentiation, innovation and creativity."
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Colbert on Amazon-Hachette, Konrath on Colbert
6 June, 2014 11 May, 2017 humor10 Comments
Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert weighed in on the Amazon Hachette contract dispute earlier this week, and with his usual droll wit he both managed to confuse the issue and make Amazon look the bully.
It's quite fun to watch, and for your added enjoyment I suggest that you go read JA Konrath's response to Colbert. I would not normally ridicule someone like this, but Konrath is apparently someone who takes himself so seriously that he didn't get that Colbert was simply joking around and not taking the issue seriously.
Colbert is a comedian, and his routines are not intended to be serious. Konrath missing that point, and getting pissed over Colbert's jokes, is somewhat entertaining.
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Bob W6 June, 2014
eEvil Amazon have obviously been up to more shenanigans and have removed my access to the video. They're replaced the play button with a message that says it's not available from my location. They're pretending that someone else is to blame, but I know better. 🙂
Nate Hoffelder6 June, 2014
Sorry, I didn't realize there would be regional restrictions.
LS6 June, 2014
LOL, it's telling me it's unavailable in my location due to my overly polite attitudes! Canadians have to go watch Colbert clips on thecomedynetwork.ca
Will Entrekin6 June, 2014
"with his usual droll wit he both managed to confuse the issue and make Amazon look the bully"
Well, I think that's the problem. He made Amazon look like the bully. Usually, when Colbert focuses attention, it manages to confuse the issue and make the bully look like the bully.
Colbert is a satirist–and a master-level one at that.
But I think it falters here because he obviously has a stake in it. SuperPACs and Daft Punk are hilarious now, but Colbert's a Hachette offer.
And honestly, it sort of highlights the . . . well, sort of corruption, of corporate publishing.
"The scheme to send Stephen Colbert's fans to an independent bookstore to pre-order a novel by a relative unknown was cooked up between "The Colbert Report" and Colbert's publisher, Hachette Book Group, which is locked in an ebook pricing dispute with online retailer Amazon."
That from http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/06/powells_books_colbert_report.html
At this point, so far as I know, nobody knows the terms in dispute here. Until anyone does, pretty much all the commentary is . . . well, incomplete at best.
oj8296 June, 2014
SC is allowed to believe in his heart of hearts, as a Hachette author, that Amazon is a bad guy and/or bully. He's clearly not alone in this belief, and not everyone who shares it is a Hachette stooge.
He's also allowed to use his clout to direct attention and money to places where it ordinarily would not go (Yellow Ribbon Fund, Donors Choose, US Speed Skating team, indie book retailers who are not Amazon….)
Chris Meadows6 June, 2014
Apparently Konrath's response is meant to be humorous, too. Unfortunately, it's a lot harder to be funny when you can't mug for the camera.
Mackay Bell6 June, 2014
Yeah, I think Konrath was trying to be funny. It's a little over the top, even for him, and most of his posts read like he's had too many Mexican coffees.
Also, I suspect he really is hoping he can build up a controversy and get on Colbert's show. Which would be a win for both of them.
I'll have to take your word for it; I just don't see the humor.
Greg Strandberg7 June, 2014
I'm beginning to wonder what anyone ever learned from Konrath in the first place. How to be angry? I already know that. Not much else of use on that site this year.
I have trouble reading Konrath, I'll admit. I can accept that he is a self-appointed champion for self-publishing but he beats the drum too loudly, IMO.
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Category: Auckland
The official Auckland reporting station got something like 10" of rain on Friday. In our neighborhood, the total was more like 12" according to some amateur meteorologists. Our driveway turned back into the stream it once was. But luckily our house sits out of the path so no damage to us.
Lots of friends and neighbors had their basements get wet. We know one person whose ground-level apartment was chest deep underwater, and her car was completely submerged. Yuck! The bowling / pétanque club took on close to a foot of water, so we went down and helped clean up.
There were a lot of mudslides, and with so many houses perched on hillsides or next to cliff edges, the damage will be costly. In the shot above, that house is a lot closer to the edge of the cliff than it used to be, and the public tennis court is out of service for the foreseeable. Surely this flood will reignite the discussion about letting the whole Little Shoal Bay park complex go back to marshy wetlands.
We've lived through floods before, one-day events like this as well as the big Midwest floods of 1993 and 1995. People will recover and rebuild. But it will be hard, and it will eat up so much of the financial breathing room for affected families and the whole city over the next couple of years… instead of doing whatever was next on the list, our efforts will step back down the hierarchy of needs ladder by a step or two. It's a shame, although I think unavoidable with this many people living in this particular place. Of course drainage systems could be improved, but the cost of truly flood-proofing all the houses and roads in Auckland would be unacceptable.
January 18… We are very proud great-aunts/uncles to Miss Austin Clark Robertson.
After a wonderful visit with cousin-in-law Elizabeth (during which I completely failed to take any pictures), it's back home again.
This friendly jackrabbit sits in the airport terminal as you head toward your flight. Legions of kids pass by it every day. It struck me as somehow wrong that in this metropolis so singularly devoted to pleasuring visitors you can't climb on the rabbit. That rabbit is exactly the right size to be climbed on! My favorite memory of visiting the La Brea tar pits is of climbing on the giant sloth statues outside. Kids want to climb on statues! #climbtherabbit could become the rallying cry for a whole generation of kids who want to break the bonds of xBox. Or not.
Goodbye Strip! And PS, it was way easier to crop this picture to show you the RUMP hotel than to photoshop in something like FASCIST ASSHOLE, so I did. Maybe not quite as impactful, but still.
I don't know exactly how many times I've been to Vegas… maybe a dozen? It's spectacular, no question. But these days it takes a real effort for me to actually get excited about the pleasures on offer. Gambling in particular has lost its appeal for me… I used to really look forward to an hour at the slot machines. But these days, meh. Even though it's legal and convenient to go to the casino in Auckland, I never do. Which I guess is a good thing for the possibility of retiring some day… it sure is easy to lose your money quickly!
The giant lily got so fragrant that it had to go outside.
Gardening supervisor.
The Promise, In Progress
Seldom is art so heroically understandable. Planting the seeds of knowledge!
But it's a changing world. And so more or less across the street it looks like this…
I was intrigued by the idea of a plaque in the sidewalk in front of a vacant car dealership. More San Bruno history (with transcription helpfully provided by text recognition on my phone, first time I've used this feature)!
OLD TIN SCHOOL HOUSE
FIRST CITY HALL
IN 1904 FATHERS OF CHILDREN BUILT SAN BRUNO'S FIRST SCHOOL IT WAS CONSTRUCTED Of WOOD AND COVERED WITH TIN.
A LARGER SCHOOL WAS BUILT AND THE BUILDING BECAME CITY HALL IN 1915.
REMODELED AND ENLARGED IN 1931. IT SERVED UNTL 1953 WHEN THE PRESENT CIVIC CENTER WAS BUILT.
Lilyus Maximus
This ginormous tiger lily, fresh off the set of Fantasia or possibly Avatar, came from our very own backyard. Lee had to cut it before it took over the whole property.
First island to the left and straight on til morning
Since New Years Auckland has enjoyed some pretty crap weather. It's been windy and rainy. And even on the clearer days it's been tough to swim because the rain washes a bunch of yuck into the bay.
But we found a brief window on Sunday morning and took full advantage. Out past that island, then swing to the right just past the edge of the picture, and then back in. It was mostly calm, with a few waves breaking out on the reef to make it interesting.
I felt like I earned my blueberry cream cheese muffin…
Babaco, baby!
Obviously I have a bit of work to do to stain the fence, but soon enough that stick you can barely make out in the middle of this bed will be supplying an abundance of delicious babaco fruit.
We got this cutting from Heather, a pétanque friend, who has a gorgeous backyard garden.
And then, just by chance because now we know what they look like, we saw an older one on a path we walk often. I hope ours grows a few more leaves, however.
New neighbors
This giant ficus tree is the dominant feature of a house just up the road from us. It sold last year, and at the time thought to ourselves that the new owners would have plenty of work ahead of them.
We haven't met them yet, but they seem like the kind of people we want on the street… always decorating for the holidays, painting and fixing, that sort of thing.
And now they've totally won us over with this fairy house door… perfectly placed!
Stay-cation
One of the advantages of moving a lot is still feeling a little like we're on vacation even doing normal things. So when the Christmas break found us with no plans to fly away, nor really the motivation, no big deal.
We dined with friends, did a few projects around the house, went to the beach a couple of times, did some shopping, saw the new Avatar in IMAX… and of course went out for a boozy brunch. Best of all, we didn't feel the least bit deprived for the lack of an airport experience.
Down the hall, first on the left
We saw this sci-fi movie style corridor behind one of those normally closed doors on the outside of the supermarket. It was even more tall and narrow in person.
Compared to the USA, in NZ it's much more common to move into a house without any appliances (or whiteware as it's known here). We negotiated with our sellers to leave everything behind for us. Even though most of the appliances were somewhat older, they were good quality brands, and we didn't want the hassle of shopping for those big items while we were moving.
But things break. Our stove lost a burner a few weeks ago, and we were pretty easily swayed to buy a new one instead of repairing it.
The new cooktop is about 6 inches wider, giving us an additional burner. But most importantly it's induction!
So far we like the controls better than the old stove (although we wouldn't have minded actual knobs you can turn, that's basically not an option on these drop-in cooktops) and we REALLY like the quick heat and cool of the induction elements. All our good pans (thank you Costco in 2008 or so) work just fine on the induction surface.
We already replaced the oven last year… what will go next? Maybe our second-hand freezer, or maybe the microwave? Time will tell…
We spent New Years Eve with our friends Malcolm and Di, and amazingly made it to midnight still awake. We walked down to the end of their road to see the Sky Tower fireworks show.
We're hoping that even more people get to have a great 2023 (except for the seditionists, the invaders, the deforesters, the propagandists, etc).
A moving image
At the start of yesterday's swim we saw a photographer all set up to take sunrise pictures. It turned out I know her husband through work… another example of what a pleasantly small town Auckland can be.
She took this shot of us wading into the water and sent it along later in the day… beautiful! It's created using a technique called Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) where you jiggle the camera using a slow shutter to create these blurry images.
Thanks Anna for the picture, a great way to remember my last swim of 2022.
Until recently, this house and yard were obscured by piles of stuff, old broken cars, etc. An old man would sit on the porch and watch the world go by.
One day, Lee saw it all organized into big piles on the lawn, and now there's temporary fencing across the front. With all the stuff gone, we can see the house sagging and rotting more clearly.
It will likely be torn down and replaced by half a dozen townhouses. Densification certainly makes sense in the big picture, but it's a little disconcerting every time we see this happen. Hopefully the man who lived there has been able to move somewhere with a little more social support… if he owned this property outright he just got a check that should cover his life's expenses quite comfortably.
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Sort file:- Dover, January, 2023.
Page Updated:- Sunday, 08 January, 2023.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Barry Smith and Paul Skelton
40 Townwall Street (Mill Lane 1874)
41 Townwall Street
Above picture kindly sent by Kathleen Hollingsbee from a business card. The proprietor being George James Knight 1907-30.
Above photo from the John Gilham collection, circa 1920.
THIS was how part of Townwall Street looked in the late 1940s. The war was over and considerable damage had been caused. But some buildings survived and life was slowly getting back to normal.
Less than 20 years later, however, all these buildings were demolished to make way for the new Townwall Street dual carriageway and another characteristic part of Dover was lost for ever.
Picture above shows the Robin Hood looking in the other direction.
Above photo 1892. Kindly sent by Chris Grimes of the Dover History Facebook group.
Above photo kindly sent by Graham Butterworth circa 1907.
On the corner with St. James' Lane this was already a going concern in 1840 but plans for renewal were approved in July 1906. They were said to mean the practical rebuilding of the whole, at a cost of £600. The frontage of the pub was covered in very attractive mosaic tiles depicting Robin Hood.
From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 6 June, 1840.
The monthly Conservative meeting was held on Tuesday last, at the Robin Hood. The room was filled to the extreme. Several excellent songs were sung; the usual loyal Conservative toasts given; and the utmost harmony prevailed throughout the evening.
From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 6 January, 1844. Price 5d.
CORONERS INQUEST
An inquest was held on Thursday, at the "Robin Hood," before G. T. Thompson, Esq., coroner for the borough, on the body of Thomas Greenland, aged two months.
William James Greenland, the father, being sworn, said - About six o'clock that morning he found the child dead. Deceased slept in the bed between his wife and eldest child, and lay on its left side, high up, with its head above the clothes. It had been in good health from its birth.
Richard Thomas Hunt, surgeon, deposed - On making a post mortem examination of the child he found the vessels of the brain gorged with blood, which could give rise to convulsions, from which cause, no doubt, death ensued.
Verdict - Died by the visitation of God.
From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 8 March, 1845. Price 5d.
On Monday afternoon, at 7 o'clock, a Coroner's inquest was held at the "Robin Hood," before G. T. Thomson, Esq., Coroner for the Borough, on the body of John Kimber Laws, who on Saturday was seized with a fit on the New-bridge. The jury proceeded to the residence of deceased, in Fishmonger-lane, to view the body, and on their return the following evidence was adduced:-
Joseph Burton, labourer - I reside at Durham hill. On Saturday last, at about half-past 5, while crossing the New-bridge, I saw deceased leaning against the parapet of the bridge wall. I have seen the body, and recognise it as that of the same individual. As I approached him he fell down, and I immediately picked him up, and placed him on the wall. He never spoke, and I went away as soon as Mr. Ottaway came. The deceased had some broken victuals in a cloth, and a few half-pence.
J. C. Ottaway, surgeon - I was called at about half-past 5 to see the deceased, whom I found at the New-bridge. When I saw him I was perfectly satisfied he was dying, and ordered his immediate removal to his residence, which was close by, and when deceased and myself arrived there, I perceived that he was quite dead. I never attended the deceased, and therefore cannot account for the cause of death. My idea is, that it was much accelerated by the cold weather, and also from his being thinly clad.
Harriet Laws, wife of deceased, was next called and deposed - Deceased was a shoe-maker, aged 49 years, and had lived for the last 8 years, in Brewer's Rents. He breakfasted at 9 o'clock on Saturday, and about noon he went out saying, "as he was in arrear for rent, he must have some work." I did not see him again till about half an hour after he was brought home dead. He had been in the Dispensary, and complained difficulty in breathing, which was very troublesome when he was in bed. Lately they had not had sufficient food, but had been better off during the last week.
By Mr. Ottaway - Deceased did not wear any flannel on Saturday, and his clothes were very much torn.
Edward Hogben, police constable, deposed - On Saturday afternoon, I saw the deceased coming from the Waterloo Crescent. Shortly afterwards I was called by the witness Burton, who had placed deceased on the parapet of the bridge. I unloosed his coat and collar, and sent for Mr. Ottaway, who, on his arival, advised that he should be taken home, which was close by. He breathed very heavily, and on reaching his home I found he was dead.
Verdict - "Died by the visitation of God."
From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 19 September, 1846. Price 5d.
SUSPICIOUS FINDING OF THE BODY OF A CHILD
An inquest was held yesterday at the "Robin Hood," before G. T. Thompson, Esq., Coroner for the Borough, on the body of a newly-born infant, which had been discovered in the room of a widow, names Sarah Richardson, a lodger, at the house of Mr. Munser, in Mill Lane, Dover.
The jury having appointed Mr. A. Bottle, jun., foreman, proceeded to view the body, which presented a most disgusting spectacle, being a complete animalculine mass. (A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or paramecium, usually considered to be an animal.) On their return the following evidence was adduced:-
Parker Butcher, police-constable: On Thursday morning, from information I had received, I went to the house of Thomas Manser, in Mill Lane, where I asked Mrs. Manser if she was aware of Sarah Richardson having been delivered of a child, to which she replied that she was not, but had some time accused her of being in the family way. I then went upstairs, and saw Richardson. I asked her if there was a dead child in her house. She replied there was, and she had had it three weeks, and that Mr. Corrall, Mrs. Grange, and Mrs. Spice knew all about it. I then asked her to let me see it, when she went and opened a square chest in the room, and lifting up a few pieces of rag shewed me the body of a new-born child. I said I must take her into custody, and took her to the station-house.
E. C. Correll, Superintendent of police, deposed: I have Sarah Richardson in custody. She never informed me that she had been delivered of a child, or had the body of a child in her room.
G. E. Rutley, surgeon, deposed: On Monday evening I was shewn the remains of a child by the police, and from the state of decomposition should have imagined it to have been dead some months. There is no possibility of forming an opinion whether it was born dead or alive so great was the state of decay.
The Coroner here observed, that after the evidence of Mr. Rutley it was impossible to pursue the enquiry further as to the cause of death, or that death had been caused after birth. The jury would therefore confine their verdict to the finding of the body, as it would rest with the magistrates as to any proceedings with reference to concealment of the birth.
The Jury then returned a verdict, "That the body of a new born infant was found dead, but from the state of decomposition the remains were in, there is no evidence whether such infant was still born, or if born alive, how it met with its death."
Mr. Kennett, who had been present during the enquiry, said he had done so for the purpose of ascertaining if there were sufficient grounds to bring the case before the magistrates, but at present he did not think the evidence sufficient to do so.
Dover Chronicles 20 February 1847.
Feb. 13, at Dover, the wife of Mr. James Grainge, landlord of the "Robin Hood," Townwall Street, of a son.
From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 22 May, 1847. Price 5d.
Mr. James Grange, landlord of the "Robin Hood" - death of his infant son, Henry James Grange on 21 May.
From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 3 December, 1864.
Edward Todd, Landlord of the "Robin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, was summoned by Robert Dewell, a greengrocer living at the Pier, charged with assaulting him on the 16th of November.
Mr. Fox appeared for the defendant.
Complainant said that on the 16th of last month, about half-past twelve o'clock, he was in the "Robin Hood." He had something to drink there, and after remaining in the house a little while, he went out but shortly afterwards returned, as he wanted something else to drink. Defendant refused to admit him, and after some altercations at the door defendant struck him a violent blow under the left ear, which knocked him down. He sustained a severe blow on the back of the head in the fall, and had since been compelled to seek medical advice.
My Mr. Fox: I did not conduct myself indecently outside the house. I did not strike defendant.
Michael Collier, a private in the band of the 37th Regt., said he was walking down Townwall Street, about two o'clock on the 16th, and saw the landlord of the "Robin Hood" push complainant out of his house. Complainant tried to get into the house again, but the landlord would not let him. Complainant still persisted in his endeavours to enter the house, and the landlord then struck him a blow behind the ear, which knocked him down. Defendant afterwards picked complainant up. Complainant bled very much from a wound on his head. He (witness) led complainant away from the house, but as the bleed was flowing very freely and he (witness) was afraid of getting jacket stained, he let go of him, when he went back into the "Robin Hood."
Charles Southwell, fly proprietor, said he was in Townwall Street, and saw the defendant knock complainant down. When complainant got up he was bleeding very much from the head. He took complainant to Dr. Gill's, to have his head attended to.
By Mr. Fox: I came along Townwall Street, just at the time complainant was knocked down. I did not see whether complainant had a stick with him or not. I saw Mr. Todd pick complainant up.
William Greenaway, labourer, said he was coming from St. James's Street, on the 16th, and saw complainant, as he was being picked up by a soldier. He saw him afterwards led away by last witness.
Mr. Fox having replied on the evidence, called witnesses to prove that complainant was in such a state of drunkenness at the time as not to know what he was about, that he behaved in a very indecent manner outside the house, and that defendant did not strike him, but only pushed him away to prevent being struck with a large stick complainant had with him.
After a short consultation the Magistrates dismissed the summons, ordering complainant to pay the costs incurred, 9s.
From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 17 December, 1864.
ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS
Last Friday evening, a meeting was held at Mr. Todd's "Robin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, to re-open Lodge 88, of the Ancient Order of Druids, which has been closed for the past three years. The business done consisted of the appointment of officers, and arranging for the future meetings of the members. Several new members in this town have joined the Order, and others are ready to do so as soon as the necessary preliminaries are arranged.
From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 11 January, 1867. Price 1d.
An inquest was held by the borough coroner, W. H. Payne, Esq., yesterday afternoon, at the "Robin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, on the body of Nicholas Baker, a vendor of Bath bricks, who had died at the "Red Lion" public house, a common lodging house hard by, on the previous morning. Mr. B. A. Igglesden was chosen foreman of the jury, who viewed the body; after which the following evidence was called:-
Mrs. Anne Whiting, the landlady of the "Red Lion": I knew the deceased. He was lodging in my house at different times during the past five or six years. He was a vendor of Bath bricks and hearth stones. He came to my house a week before Christmas. I had not seen him, previous to that time, for nearly a twelve-month. He continued there two or three days, when he became so ill that I insisted on his leaving, telling him that he must obtain an order for admission to the Union. He procured an order, and quitted my house for the Union on the Saturday before Christmas Day. Another lodger accompanied him to the Union and told me that he was admitted to the hospital. Deceased remained there till the following Thursday. He told me he was better, and that they had turned him out of the Union. He asked for lodgings, but I refused to admit him. He said that the authorities of the Union had told him that if he remained there he must do able-bodied men's work, and that he had better do that in his own way about the town. When he came back to the "Red Lion" the weather was bad and it continued so from day to day, so that I could not insist on his going away. He continued to get worse, and he died yesterday morning.
The Coroner: During the time he was ill, was any doctor sent for?
Witness: No, Sir, he never made any complaint. He gave no more trouble than anyone else in the house. He looked very badly, but did not complain of being worse. Previous to going to bed, on Tuesday night deceased ate a basin of gruel and two penny-worth of bread, and he had taken some soup for his dinner. I believe the prisoner was about forty years of age.
By the Jury: Three or four other men slept in the same room as the deceased. I don't think the deceased had nourishment enough to sustain life. He was not able to get about the town and earn his livelihood, and he subsisted on charity. I lent him a penny on the night previous to his death, to get the oatmeal for his gruel. He told me he had been brought into a low way by ague, (A fever (such as from malaria) that is marked by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating recurring regular intervals. Also a fit of shivering, a chill. Hence, ague can refer to both chills and fevers) for which he had been treated in the summer in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He said he was in hospital for several months.
Patick M'Cabe, a labourer lodging at the "Red Lion," said: I slept in the same room with the deceased. When he first came into the town he had no money, and I paid for his first night's lodging. He was then ill, and unable to carry his bricks about. I was present at the time of his death. About four o'clock he asked that, for God's sake, a candle might be lighted. He was seized with diarrhoea, and seemed very ill, He continued very bad up to the time of his death. Shortly before he died he exclaimed "God forgive me; I shall not live ten minutes longer!"
Dr. Allan Duke: I was called at the request of the Superintendent of the Police, to examine the body of the deceased, in the afternoon of yesterday. Death seemed to have taken place some hours. The body was thin and emaciated, and from what was said by those present when the deceased breathed his last, I concluded that the immediate cause of his death was a sudden attack of diarrhoea. I should think the diarrhoea was probably caused by the soup he had taken for his dinner on the day previous to his death, especially if it was taken on an empty stomach and unaccompanied by solids.
The Coroner mentioned that the master of the union was in attendance, if the Jury would like to have him examined. Several members of the Jury thought any further evidence unnecessary, but others were of opinion that as it had transpired that deceased had said that he was "turned out" of the Union, it might be well to have the master's evidence.
Mr. Thurlow was then sworn, and after deposing to the deceased's admission to the Union, and his treatment in the Hospital, said that as soon as the doctor declared him convalescent and ordered him to the able-bodied men's yard, he asked to be discharged. He was not "turned out."
The Jury returned a verdict of Death from natural Causes.
Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 02 April 1867.
Caution to amateur fisherman.
The borough coroner, W. H. Payn, Esq., held an inquest, yesterday afternoon week, at the "Robin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, on the body of a man 37 years of age, named Henry Mills, who had met his death on the previous Saturday evening and the circumstances very melancholy in the nature, though calculated, it may be hoped, to act as a warning.
The deceased, it appears, was fishing after dusk on Saturday, up on the quay facing Northampton Street, with what is called a casting net. One of the lines by which the net is held is retained in the hand of the person fishing, and it seems to be a common practice, in order to give greater freedom to the hand in throwing the net, to attach this line to the wrist by means of a running noose. The unfortunate man in this case, at any rate, adopted this plan, and the consequence seems to have been that the net, or the impetus it had acquired in descending into the water, or by the force of a current, drew the deceased over the quay. Encumbered as he was with the weight of the net, it was impossible for him to support himself, and no assistance seems to have been immediately at hand; for although his cries were heard by some men on the Patent Slipway, which is immediately opposite Northampton Quay, they were unable from the darkness to discover exactly where the deceased was, although, by a singular coincidence, they had rescued from the water, very near to the same spot, and only a few minutes before, a young man who, in all probability, without their assistants would have been drowned.
Mr. T. Middleton having been appointed foreman of the jury, and the body viewed, the following evidence was given.
Francis Mills:- I am a mariner residing at St. James's Street, Dover. The deceased Henry Mills was my son, and his age is 37. He was a sailor. He was a very steady man. He was unmarried. The last time I saw him alive was about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. I do not know anything of the circumstances attending his death. Believing that he had gone fishing, I went down to the quay to assist him; but as I could not find him there, I returned home again. On examining the house I found that his basket and net were gone. I feared that something had happened to him and left the house again to go to the quays. I found his basket on the edge of the Northampton Quay. I at once gave alarm.
By the Jury:- If the net got entangled with the person throwing it, the strength of the current would be sufficient to draw him overboard.
John Prebble, ship's smith living at Commercial Quay, said he was at work on the Patent Slipway between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday evening, when he heard a cry of a man overboard. Some of his men, who had picked out of the water another man who had fallen overboard on the same evening, went a little way into the water, but could not recover the deceased. He heard deceased cry out for help three times, the last time very faintly. He subsequently went round to Northampton Quay, and found there was a man overboard.
By the Jury:- The name of the young man we saved was Robson. There are no drugs or ladders on Northampton Quay. The nearest drag are in the Duke of York passage. Robson had tripped over a cable-chain, and sunk twice or three times before he was recovered. My son threw a rope, and two of my men, Samuel Woolley, and George Hill, slip down the rope and succeeded in pulling him out of the water.
Richard Turner, a fishmonger, living in Dover, said he learnt from the father of the deceased on Saturday evening that he feared his son was overboard. Witness got the grapnels and proceeded to Northampton Quay, knowing the spot where the deceased was in the habit of fishing. He threw the grapnels over the side of the Quay, and succeeded in getting hold of the casting net the deceased had been fishing with. He judged the deceased made the net fast to himself, and he pulled away at the net, thinking that by that means he should recover the body. The line of the net broke, however, and an hour elapsed before he succeeded in catching hold of the deceased's body. When found, the remainder of the line of the casting net was fastened round his wrist. The police took charge of the body and conveyed it to the deceased's father's house.
Dr. Duke said he was called by the police, about 10:20 o'clock on Saturday evening, to see a man who had been taken out of the Pent. He went to the house of deceased's father, in St. James's Street, and examined the body. There were no marks of injury upon it, and witness had not the least doubt that death was occasioned by drowning and nothing else. The body have been in the water too long for any means for restoring animation to be attempted.
The Coroner briefly summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of "Found Drowned." The Jury expressed their opinion that it would be advisable to have a set of drags kept in the neighbourhood of Northampton Quay. It was also a subject of remark that there were no chains along the margin of the quay, and that it was without piles or ladders, to which anyone accidentally slipping over night cling.
From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 8 November, 1867.
STEALING BOOTS
John Donovan and William Whitehead, a couple of other trampish-looking men, were then charged with stealing two pairs of boots value 7s. 10d., the property of Mr. Edward Streeter, another draper living in Snargate Street.
It appeared that the two had entered the town with the other two men just committed. The particulars of this case resembled those of that just disposed of. The boots were taken from the shop door of Mr. Streeter, and were sold to a couple of unfortunate woman at the "Laurel Tree" public-house. The police soon obtained a clue to the robbery, and arrested the two men.
Neither of the prisoners denied the charge. Whitehead protested that he did not actually steal the boots, but admitted dealing with them after he had become aware that they were stolen by Donovan. In defence they put in the same plea as their companions, viz., that they were without food, and yielded to the temptation which was presented to them by the boots being hung within their reach.
It appeared that Whitehead left a third pair of boots with Mr. Todd, the landlord of the "Robin Hood" public-house, and it was owing to Mr. Todd coming to the police-station that the operations of the police were put into motion. It transpired that the prisoners went to the "Robin Hood" and wanted to sell the boots, saying he had a wife and family who had not tasted food for two days. Mr. Todd, however, declined buying the boots, but lent the prisoner 1s. 6d. on them, and fancying the boots had not been honestly obtained he afterwards went to the police-station, and related what had transpired to the police.
The Magistrates, before sentencing the prisoners, sent for the Governor of the gaol, and after a consultation, left the Court and were absent a short time. On their return, Mr. Finnis said the Magistrates had been to inspect the prison, and they found that, in the present state of the gaol alterations, it was not possible for any more prisoners to be received in the building here; so that in the present case the prisoners would have to be sent to Wandsworth Gaol, where it was absolutely necessary that the committal should be for more than thirty days. It was well that this should be known, perhaps, and that offenders who were usually punished with short terms of imprisonment should know before bringing themselves within the jurisdiction of the Court, that, if circumstances rendered it necessary for them to be sent to Wandsworth, they would not be committed for less than thirty days. In this case the Bench sentenced the prisoners to thirty-three days' imprisonment
From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 25 June, 1869. Price 1d.
SUDDEN DEATH AT DOVER
On WEednesday last the borough coroner, W. H. Payn Esq., held an inquest at the "Robbin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, ion the body of Elizabeth cannon, a married woman living at the bottom of St. James's Street, who had died suddenly.
Mr. Thomas Flak was chosen foreman of the Jury; and the body having been viewed, the following evidence was taken:-
Thomas Cannon said: I am a plasterer, and lately resided in the Kent Road, London. I have been in Dover a fortnight , and have lodged at a house occupied by Mr. Simmonds, in St. James's Street. The deceased was my wife, and we had been married eighteen years. Deceased was frequently ill, and often complained about her heart. She complained of having pains in her legs on last Tuesday, and was unable to walk. I was told that during my absence on Thursday she had had a fit. On Friday morning she brought my breakfast to me at the place where I was at work, and she again complained of having pains in her chest, legs, and side. On Friday night I asked her to have a doctor, but she refused, saying that she was getting better. On Saturday evening she came to the door of the house. and on reaching it she fell down, and I carried her into a downstairs room. At eight o'clock on Sunday morning she ate a good breakfast, and said she was getting better; but at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon she was a corpse. I went out to look for a Roman Catholic Priest, and on my returning I found that she was nearly dead. I went after a medical man after I found that she had got worse, and Mr. Long soon attended. Dr. Herbert, the hospital doctor , had attended her previous to Mr. Long arriving. When Mr. Long came she had lost her speech. Mr. Long did not say the cause of her death. Her age was 42. The deceased told me that the people at the house had been very kind to her during the time she had been ill.
Mr. Arthur Long, parish medical officer, said: About half-past one on Sunday afternoon I was sent for to see the deceased. I arrived at her lodgings about two, and found her lying in a garret. She was quite insensible, and in a dying state. I told the people of the house to apply hot bottles to her feet, and give her some strong coffee. On my leaving the house, I told the deceased's husband to come and see me at three o'clock, and inform me how she was getting on; because the landlord of the house was anxious to have her removed if she was well enough. I called again at six, and found her dead. I examined her; but found no marks of violence upon her body, which was fairly nourished. I would not give a certificate of the cause of death, because I arrived too late to form a correct opinion. There did not appear anything suspicious about her death. I do not know the cause of death, but having heard the evidence of the previous witness I should say she died of heart disease.
Henry Betts, a continental interpreter, said: I lodge at the house occupied by Mr. Simmonds in St. James's Street. I have seen the deceased in the house. She complained to me Friday morning. She said that her days were short, and I asked her if I should send for a medical man; but she said she would rather not have a doctor. She had a fit on Friday, which she said would "turn her over," as she did not think she would live to have another like it. In consequence of what I saw on Saturday evening I advised her to send for a medical man. the husband came in at about ten o'clock on Saturday night. The husband went out the next morning, but no medical man arrived till about ten o'clock, when Dr. Herbert came to the house. dr. Herbert recommended me to go back for Mr. Long, the parish doctor, and get an order for deceased's administration into the Union. I went to see Mr. Long and he came immediately. I did not suspect that the deceased had taken anything in the shape of poison.
By the Jury: The husband always appeared to be kind and affectionate to his wife.
Re-examined: When i saw the deceased in the yard she was very sick; but she said this was in consequence of the fit had had had.
The Jury, after hearing the evidence of the last witness, thought it necessary that a post mortem examination should be made, and accordingly adjourned the inquiry until the next day (yesterday). Mr. Long being requested to make the necessary examination.
The Jury again met yesterday, when the following addition evidence of Mr. Long was taken: I made a post mortem examination this morning of the body of the deceased and found all the organs perfectly healthy; but on the right side of the back part of the brain there was a large clot of veinous blood which I believe to have been sufficient to cause death, producing apoplexy, which had been coming on for several days. The stomach looked perfectly healthy, and there was no trace of poison.
The Jury then returned a verdict of "Death from natural Causes."
Dover Express 21 August 1874.
LOCAL LIQUIDATION CASE.
The total number of fresh petitions filed in town and country under the liquidation clauses of the Bankruptcy Act of 1869, for the week ending Saturday, the 16th of August,. has been 143, including the following Dover case:—
Re Edward Todd, of the "Robin Hood Inn." Mill-lane, Dover. A first meeting of creditors for the election of a chairman who may receive proofs of debt and claims aping the petitioner's estate, for the production of a state of affairs by the debtor, and for a majority of the creditors in attendance, or represented by proxy, to appoint a receiver or trustee of the estate and effects, and decide by resolution in writing whether the same shall be wound up under liquidation or bankruptcy in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Law and the rules and orders passed thereunder, will be held on the 2nd of September. at 4 o'clock, at the office of W. Mowll, solicitor, No. 36, Castle-street, Dover.
The Sinnock Directory of 1875 (advert p.276) showed Basil Elson as a wine and spirit merchant, who had just taken over the "Robin Hood," Townwall Street, Dover, from Mr. Todd.
From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 21 January, 1876. Price 1d.
EXTENSION REFUSED
Mr. Elson applied for an extension of time for the Odd Fellows' annual supper and business at the "Robin Hood Inn," and was refused.
From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 8 January, 1886. Price 1d.
DOVER LICENSED VICTUALLERS
At the annual meeting of the Dover Licensed Victuallers' Association, at the "Robin Hood Inn," on Wednesday, Mr. G. Grigg suggested, and made a resolution to the effect, that two guineas from the funds of that Institution be presented to the subscriptions being raised by the Mayor of the relief of the unemployed poor of Dover; but it was strenuously opposed by the Chairman, Secretary, and others; and an amendment being made by the Treasurer, Mr. Grigg's motion was lost by a majority of three.
The annual meeting of the Dover Licensed Victuallers Association was held on Wednesday, January 6th at Mr. J. Cochrane's "Robin Hood Inn," the large room being well filled with most of the respectable members of the trade within this borough.
Mr. Councillor George Birch occupied the chair. He said he was grateful and he was sure they all would be in finding, after an exciting and rather an expensive year, that by the increase in honorary and subscribing members their funds stood exceedingly well, and that they would still be able to give their assistance to the interest and welfare of their friends and the trade as they had hitherto done.
After a long discussion upon trade question, the following report was read:-
"Your committee have again the pleasure of presenting to members and friends their annual report and balance sheet. This is the twenty-fifth issued by the society and although during the year several members have been lost by removal they have been replaced by new ones – so that our members both honorary and subscribing are more than we had since its foundation. Yet we find that there are many in the trade who do not belong to it and we ask that members of the Association will bring its claims before these, as we believe that only by such organization can their rights and liberties be protected; we also consider it a duty to each not to stand aside and enjoy the advantaged obtained by the mental toil and pecuniary assistance of his fellow tradesman whose interests are not greater than his own. The United Kingdom Alliance, Church of England Temperance, and other singular societies spend annually £60,000 for an Idea. Although we believe that this amount would do more good by Education and impressing the duty of self-respect upon the people. Still as their power both in the House of Commons and out is strong, it requires the vigilance and care of a powerful Parliamentary committee to watch your interests. Although the past year has not been what we wished respecting beneficial legislation in reference to the trade interest, the following Bills had to be carefully guarded against "the Beer Adulteration Bill," "Licensing Law Amendment Bill," "Liquor Traffic Bill," "Police Bill," "The Sale of Intoxicating Liquor Bill," "Closing on Sunday for Cornwall, Durham, Northumberland and Wales." None of those reached a second reading. Large and influential meetings were held during the year in London and the provinces in opposition to the increase duties on spirits and they introduced in the Budget of the late government. At the earnest request of the Parliamentary committee of the United Kingdom Delegate from this society attending meetings in consequence of which the parliamentary election the expenses for the year have been slightly increased. Several questions of local interest have come before your committee and have been carefully looked after. We hope that the new Parliament if they alter the present mode of licensing under a local board or introduce a new bill will act with fairness and justice to the trade so that there will be a reduction in the present license duties, and a more equitable method of assessing adopted. A memorial has been drafted and will be presented to the members as soon as the House sits, referring to the past and present position of the trade, and dealing with "Local Option," "Sunday Closing," Excessive License Duties," "Sham Clubs," and other matters of grave interest to the trade.
In conclusion your committee beg to thank the honorary members for their increased support during the year and trust that our future action may lead them to continue their favour. We also hope that Dover may so improve that both the wholesale and retail trade will find themselves in a better condition at the end of 1886.
The accounts, as audited by Messrs. Erby and Grigg, were passed, and a vote of thanks unanimously carried to the Secretary for his past services.
The Chairman said that he had belonged to the Society for upwards of twenty-one years. During that time he had made many friends, and known the Society to assist in doing a great deal of good. Only this year of it had not been for organization they would have to pay a very heavy penalty. He trusted he might be spared to join with them for many years to come.
Several new members were balloted for and approved, and the meeting separated.
DOVER LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY
A large and influential number of the members of the above Society held their annual meeting in the club-room of Mr. J. Cochrane, "Robin Hood Inn." The room was filled, and Mr. Councillor George Birch occupied the chair.
The minutes of a previous meeting were confirmed, and several new members were enrolled.
The following report was then read and agreed to:-
Your committee have the pleasure of presenting to the members and friends, the 28th annual report and balance sheet. Your committee are pleased to state that although several members have been lost by removal, their places have been refilled. The funds have increased during the year, but should the grant and renewal of licenses be placed under the control of the new County Council it is most likely that there will be a heavy strain upon them. After the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of "Sharp v. Wakefield," it is more advisable then ever that all Licensed Holders should join an Association, for considering the great opposition to the interest of the trade, nothing but energy and combination used with the House of Commons will induce them to insert a clause stopping licenses being taken away without compensation. Your commit found it advisable to send delegates to a mass meeting and conference in London and to act with the London and National Parliamentary Committee. During the last year a Bill for the Registration and Management of Clubs where beer, spirits and wine are sold, was draughted, and on the 30th of April taken into the House by Mr. Gent Davis, Mr. Byron Read, Mr. Caine, and Mr. Kelly. It met with opposition, and looking at the state of public business, it ought to be brought forward again next session. A great many Bills injurious to the trade and to the public who use their houses required carefully watching during the year. Among them were: The Public House Saturday Closing, Mr. J. W. Russell; County Government, Mr. Carew; Early Closing, Sir John Lubbock; Closing on Parliamentary Elections, Mr. George Howell; Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday, Mr. J. Stevenson; Liquor Traffic, Local Option, England, Mr. Allison; the Local England and Wales, Mr. Ritchie. Petitions were sent and delegates waited upon their respective members upon most of these questions, but it is understood they have no desire to oppose any Bill that is based on equitable grounds, and that does not infringe on the recognised possession of existing License Holders. Your Committee are glad to state that the law expenses have been nil during the year. Your Committee thank the honorary members for their continued subscriptions and also urge upon every licensed victualler to join this society and share in its efforts for the protection and liberty of the public and the trade.
The chairman (Mr. Councillor George Birch), vice-chairman (Mr. I. Kemp), treasurer (Mr. D. Everson), and secretary (Mr. H. Brown), were unanimously re-elected for the ensuing year.
The health of the chairman was proposed and most cordially drunk.
In response the chairman said that since the society's first formation he had been a member and carefully noticed its progress. There had never been a time when it was more necessary for the wholesale and retail trade to be combined than the present, for however well they had satisfied the wants of the public in the past there was certain, in the close future, an alteration to be made. In all cases where invested interest was involved compensation was expected and given. If the licenses were reduced to one-half, the same quantity of liquor or more, would go through another channel. He wished all present and prosperous New Year.
The healths of the rest of the officers were drunk and suitably acknowledged, and the meeting broken up.
From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 17 April, 1890. Price 1d.
Lodge 38, in union, of the Ancient Order of Druids, at a very pleasant meeting at the "Robin Hood Inn" on Thursday week, elected their Vice-Arch Brother George Gray to the Noble Chair, after which the loyal Lodge toasts were duly honoured, and also "success to the Mother Lodge of the district No. 38," proposed by R. A. Brother Delahays.
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 13 December 1890.
CANTERBURY BANKRUPTCY COURT.
GEORGE HARVEY, LATE OF THE ROBIN MOOD INN, TOWNWALL STREET, DOVER.
Debtor was formerly in business as a butcher at Bromley & Willesden. In 1888 he took the "Robin Hood Inn," Dover, and now owes the brewers (Messrs, Gardner and Co.) £160, and £50 to Messrs. Court and Co. wine merchants. His brother claims £190, balance of a sum of £400 which he lent the bankrupt some time ago. Allowed to pass.
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 29 November 1890.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883. IN BANKRUPTCY.
George Harvey, of the "Robin Hood Inn," Townwall Street, Dover, Kent, licensed victualler. Canterbury, No. 65 of 1890.
Receiving order made, November 21st, 1890; date of order for summary administration, November 24th, 1890; date of adjudication, November 21st, 1890; date and place of first meeting, December 5th, 1890, at the Official Receiver's Office, 5, Castle Street, Canterbury; date of public examination, December 5th, 1890. Worsfold Mowll., Official Receiver.
5, Castle Street, Canterbury.
Dated this 24th day of November, 1890.
From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 29 June, 1906. Price 1d.
An application was made for an hour's extension on Thursday, at the "Robin Hood" on the occasion of the last meeting of the Druids at the house previous to their removal to the "Fountain Hotel."
The application was granted.
The premises was either rebuilt or extensive renovations carried out during 1906, this was the time when George Knight moved from the "Chandos" two doors down after falling out with Shepherd Neame brewers.
Dover Express - Friday 31 March 1911.
On Monday the National Telephone employees had to remove a rook's nest that had been built in the telephone poll over the Robin Hood Public House, Townwall Street. The birds, on being disturbed industrially set to work to erect another nest in the tree on the adjoining side of the road.
Dover Express 12th July 1918.
The Dover Tribunal met on Wednesday afternoon at the Town Hall. The Mayor presided and there were also present Messrs. Robson, Barnes and Beeby.
Mr. T. Harby appeared for Mr. G. J. Knight, aged 44, Grade 11 taxi cab proprietor, licensed victualler of the "Robin Hood" and a director of the County Film Co., Ltd.
Three months exemption was granted.
An early casualty of world war two, it never reopened at the peace. Permission to rectify the war damage at a cost of £930 was refused in August 1946.
Dover Express 14 March 1947.
THEFT FROM WAR DAMAGED "ROBIN HOOD.'
At Dover on Friday, before Mr. H. E. Russell in the chair.
Benjamin Horaces Wilson a labourer, of 15, Granville Street pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of leaded lights from the "Robin Hood" public house on 27th February, the property of Messrs. George Beer and Rigden. Ltd., and was fined £5.
Det.-Insp. E. Pierce said that at 3.25 p.m. on 27th February. Miller was passing the "Robin Hood." when he heard the sound of breaking glass. As he approached defendant came out of the bar door, carrying a quantity of leaded lights, which he placed in a two wheeled hand cart which was standing outside. When defendant saw the Police officer he took the lights off the cart and placed them on the ground. When questioned he said that he had bought it at Flashmans, and was going to dump it. He later admitted that he had taken it with the idea of selling it. The premises, Inspector Pierce added, were bomb damaged and before the windows were taken, they were repairable. Defendant had been before the Courts on three previous occasions—twice as Juvenile, and the last time in 1932, when, at Canterbury, he was bound over for stealing £3 2s. 9d. Since his last conviction he had apparently been going straight.
Defendant was allowed one month in which to pay.
A second request by George Beer and Rigden in 1949, to partially repair the damage was likewise refused. The reason became clear in January 1954 when Dover Corporation made a compulsory purchase order which was confirmed in May 1955. Further to that, a vesting declaration ensued in March 1957 which gave them right of entry. The pub was demolished on their instructions in June that year. For the site and damaged building they made a converted value payment to the brewer of £3,250 in 1957. The licence was still in possession of Fremlin (?), in April 1968.
GRANGE James 1847-51
DICKSON 1857?
FARRIER Frank 1858
DICKSON Sarah A 1861+ (age 55 in 1861 )
DICKSON J 1862
TODD Edward 1864-74
TERSON Thomas Achee Jan/1875
ELSON Basil Jan/1875-82+ (age 54 in 1881 ) (Late of Rugby, beerseller)
HARVEY George 1888-90
TAYLOR Henry 1891-95 (age 39 in 1891 )
SMITH David Edward King 1895
FRANCIS John 1898
BOLDEN Thomas 1899
MILES Tom Mansell 1901-Aug/06 (age 48 in 1901 )
SANDIFORD James G to Jan/1907+
KNIGHT George James Jan/1907-30+
HILLYAR Ernest manager to Feb1922
SCOTT J 1930 dec'd
KNIGHT George James 1932+
WATTS John Edward 1936-Feb/38
KNIGHT Henry L junior Feb/1938+
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Post Office Directory 1862
From Sinnock Directory 1875
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1932-33
From the Dover Express
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
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Black beetle adult
Scientific name: Heteronychus arator
Black beetle male and female
Black beetle larvae
Black beetle life cycle
Black beetle
Black beetle in flight
Black beetle is a pest in northern North Island
Warm years favour black beetle populations
Both beetles and larvae damage pasture, other agricultural and some horticultural crops
Larvae cause damage to pasture in summer
Adult beetles cause damage in autumn and spring
Black beetle is an African species but has been present in New Zealand for several decades. It is at the limit of its climatic tolerance and is restricted to Waikato and Bay of Plenty northwards with a southward coastal extension into northern Taranaki and Gisborne. Black beetle outbreaks occur sporadically and follow above average spring temperatures. It has a high temperature requirement for most life processes. Female longevity, number of eggs produced, egg viability, larval survival, growth rate and the amount they eat are all favoured by temperatures greater than 20°C and are severely inhibited at between 10-15°C.
Adult beetles are a characteristic glossy black and about 15 mm long with females being larger than males. They are usually found in the top 1 cm of soil. They undergo extensive dispersal flights in spring and autumn but surface air temperatures must be above 17°C for flights to occur. The eggs, about 2 mm long and ovoid to spherical in shape, are laid singly in soil, close to the surface, in spring.
The creamy white C shaped larvae, usually found in the top 10 cm of soil, appear superficially like common grass-grub but are larger reaching 2.5 cm when fully grown. These fully grown larave are present and cause damage in summer. In black beetle areas any grass-grub larvae present will be very small (less than 10 mm) at the same time of year. Black beetle larvae can also be distinguished from grass-grub by breathing pores (spiracles) that occur down the length of the body. In grass-grub these are not obvious but in black beetle they are prominent and show clearly as orange spots. Like grass-grub the larvae pass through 3 stages before pupating and emerging as adults. Pupation occurs in February/March and the beetles overwinter. These beetles will not lay eggs until the following spring.
The beetles and larvae of black beetle feed on several pasture grasses including annual ryegrasses, perennial ryegrasses, tall fescue, paspalum and kikuyu. Grasses with high carbohydrate levels in their roots favour adult development and ultimately the size of the populations that develop.
larval feeding is on roots often close to the surface. In severe infestations the turf can be rolled back owing to the destruction of the root system. In less severe cases the pastures can become clover dominated as legumes are not a favoured food source, or they can become open and susceptible to weed invasion. Damage to pastures from larvae can appear similar to common grass-grub but occurs over summer (January to March) as opposed to autumn/winter. The damage threshold for black beetle larvae is approximately 20-30/m2 which is considerably lower than for grass-grub.
Patches of yellowing tillers that pull easily from the pasture may become noticeable in autumn and spring. This is a sign of adult feeding. Adults may feed on roots or on the base of plants at soil level. Any more than 10 adults/m2 in pasture are a concern but populations of 30/m2 have become common and they can reach as high as 95/m2. In maize 1-2 beetles/m2 in spring are sufficient to cause an economic loss.
Both larvae and adults can be particularly destructive to newly sown grasses.
Beetles and larvae will also feed on brassica roots, maize, sweetcorn, kumara and strawberries. A series of dry summers and autumns since 2007/8 has contributed to higher than usual numbers of black beetle particularly on light soil types.
Pugging as a result of plant destruction can be a serious issue.
Damage is generally more severe on dairy than on sheep and beef farms but occurs on all types.
There are few control options available for black beetle other than sowing resistant grasses. Ryegrasses containing the AR37 endophyte are the best option in black beetle prone areas but some protection will also be gained using Endo 5 or NEA2. Wild type (or standard endophyte) also protects from black beetle feeding. Max P in tall fescue helps protect that grass.These endophyte fungi produce toxins that deter the adult black beetles from feeding and if the beetles cannot find alternative plants to feed on they will die before they can lay their eggs. The endophytes do not directly affect the larvae. AR1 infected ryegrasses ARE NOT protected from black beetle feeding. For endophyte selection see http://www.dairynz.co.nz/page/pageid/2145866515/Pasture.
Grass type can affect beetle development. Grasses with high root levels of carbohydrate enable faster beetle maturation. These include paspalum, kikuyu and several other weed grasses. Eliminating these grasses from pasture will slow development and reduce the problem. Annual ryegrasses are good host plants for black beetle.
No chemicals are registered for control of larvae or adults in pasture. Imidacloprid is available as a seed coating.
Sowing insecticide treated seed can provide protection against adult beeles and assist seedling establishment. It will not protect against larvae and if beetle flights are prolonged the level of protection offered may not be enough. Sowing should be delayed until late February to avoid larval attack. To maximise the benefits of pasture renovation and of the endophyte containing grasses it is important that seed is sown into clean paddocks free of other grasses that the beetles can feed on. Any pasture renewal planned for autumn should be consistent with best practice guidelines, see: http://www.dairynz.co.nz/file/fileid/34881
The use of a break crop that is unfavourable to black beetle can provide a clean seed bed and aid establishment of new pasture. Brassicas, maize, legumes and chicory do not support full development of black beetle and can be used in pasture renovation programmes.
Choosing a ryegrass endophyte
AgResearch: black beetle
DairyNZ: black beetle
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He couldn't believe Derek was here. They had never hooked up, though he'd caught Derek watching him once or twice while he was dancing.
Alex had always been just a bit too intimidated to try anything. The guy was just so…big. And he was an ex-cop, which was both exciting and a little scary.
Derek's dark eyes inspected him head to foot, missing nothing: the flush heating his cheeks, the white stripes of come on his chest, the half-empty glasses of champagne on the table, and the open bottle of lube.
"You been having a good party so far?" Derek inquired, and Alex had to laugh.
"Oh yeah," Alex breathed. "The best. So what did you bring me, big guy?"
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Mistrial declared in high profile Evansville rape case
by: Aaron Chatman
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — After a day of deliberating, a jury has come back and reached a decision in a high profile rape case. Wednesday night, Heidi Carter was found guilty of "Carrying a Handgun without a License".
She was facing two rape charges, but one of those charges was dropped Wednesday morning. The jury was unable to make a decision, so the judge ruled all other charges as a mistrial.
Prosecution, defense rest in disturbing Evansville rape case
The prosecutor in the case declined to comment after this verdict was reached. Before the jury came out, the defense attorney told us they expected a mistrial was possible.
Yesterday, the last piece of evidence that prosecution tried to enter was a summary of Facebook messages between Carter and her boyfriend Hammond. The judge did not allow the messages to be entered into evidence. The defense attorney did not make any comment on Facebook messages.
EPD employee no longer facing child molesting charges
The parties will meet on December 9 to set a new trial date. No sentencing date has been set for the handgun charge as of set.
Alleged hazing incident reported at Henderson County …
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MMR vaccination rates in Coventry at 10-year low
Cases of mumps are on the rise as Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns of 'anti-vaccination myth'
Claire Miller
Bobby BridgeReporter
MMR vaccination rates in Coventry are at their lowest level in a decade.
Just 86.2 per cent of eligible two-year-olds in the city had been given the first MMR jab in 2018/19, down from 93.3 per cent a year before.
It is the lowest rate seen locally since 80.7 per cent of children received the first MMR jab by their second birthday in 2008/09.
In Warwickshire, vaccination rates were 92.3 per cent in 2018/19, down from 95.1 per cent a year before, and also the lowest level since 2008/09.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said earlier this year that "those who have promoted the anti-vaccination myth are morally reprehensible, deeply irresponsible and have blood on their hands".
He also said that the evidence is clear that vaccination is good for you, as well as helping protect those who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons.
The health secretary has said he would consider all options to boost vaccination rates.
In the UK, MMR is usually given to infants at around 12 months of age, with a second dose given before school, to ensure best protection - two doses in a lifetime are needed for a person to be considered fully protected.
For children in Coventry who turned five in 2018/19, 94.5 per cent had received the first dose and just 83.8 per cent had received the second dose, which was again the lowest proportions since 2008/09.
In Warwickshire, 96.6 per cent of children had the first dose by five in 2018/19, down from 98.0 per cent in 2017/18, while 89.8 per cent had the second dose, down from 94.4 per cent.
The World Health Organisation recommends a threshold of 95 per cent immunization coverage to achieve so-called 'herd immunity'.
Across England, the first three months of 2019 saw 231 confirmed cases of measles and 795 cases of mumps.
Thousands of kids in Coventry and Warwickshire missing out on MMR vaccines
The number of mumps cases is nearly three times as many as the 275 cases reported in the same period in 2018, and the highest number confirmed since 847 cases in 2014.
While measles cases were down from 265 cases in the same quarter in 2018, it was still up compared to 17 cases in 2017, 67 in 2016, 20 in 2015, and 70 cases in 2014.
As measles is highly infectious, anyone who has not received two doses of MMR vaccine is at risk, particularly unvaccinated people travelling to countries where there are currently large outbreaks of measles.
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Holidaymakers are being encouraged to check they and their family are up to date with their MMR vaccinations ahead of jetting off for the summer holidays - with measles outbreaks reported across the world, with France, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Germany among the countries reporting the highest case counts.
It's never too late to get protected
Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisation at Public Health England, said: "Measles can kill and is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you're not vaccinated and travelling to affected countries.
"If you're in any doubt about your - or your child's - vaccination status, ask your GP or check your child's Red Book.
A measles vaccination being administered
"Before you travel you should ensure you and your family are up to date with all currently recommended UK vaccines and MMR is especially important if you're planning to travel throughout the summer due to the ongoing outbreaks happening across Europe.
"It's never too late to get protected."
Baby MMR jab uptakes fall lower than the national average
The recent measles cases are mainly occurring in under-vaccinated communities, particularly those with links to other countries with ongoing measles outbreaks.
There has also been some spread into the wider population, such as those who may have missed out on the MMR vaccine when they were younger.
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Nikki White, ABTA's Director of Destinations and Sustainability said: "Travellers might not typically think to check vaccination requirements for travel to Europe, but we encourage everyone to check their health records and catch-up on any missed vaccinations wherever they are travelling to.
"No matter where people are going on holiday, we always encourage them to check the Foreign Office's travel advice at the time of booking and before they are due to travel to make sure they are aware of the latest information about the destination and any health requirements."
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SQL File Viewer
No Comments on SQL File ViewerPosted in Dll File Extension By Sharon RousseauPosted on March 5, 2022
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language for accessing and modifying data in databases, and it is included in a SQL file. SQL statements for creating or changing database structures, as well as insertions, updates, deletions, and other SQL actions, are stored here.
SQL Files are most usually only encountered when creating or managing web databases. The SQL language first appeared in the 1970s at IBM and was recognized as the standard language for relational database management systems by the ANSI and ISO standard bodies in 1986. (RDBMS). Since its introduction, it has undergone various updates to accommodate a broader range of capabilities, and it has generated several database language versions, including Mini SQL (mSQL) and MySQL.
What is SQL File?
A SQL Database Script file is a .SQL file. The abbreviation SQL stands for Structured Query Language. The SQL language is a declarative database programming language. The language was created to manage data in relational database management systems and has since grown to become one of the most extensively used database languages.
The code used to edit the contents of an associated database, such as the statements needed to establish or modify the database's structure, is contained in a file with the SQL extension.
SQL files may also contain information on database data insert operations, updates, deletions, and other SQL database operations.
Database utilities such as mysqldump export the whole MySQL database content to a single SQL file, including information on the database structure (also known as Database Schema).
How to Open SQL file?
Any SQL-compatible database program, such as MySQL and Richardson RazorSQL, can read SQL files. Various source code editors, such as gVim, Bare Bones BBEdit, and MacroMates TextMate, can also open and edit SQL files.
You can open a SQL file in a plain text editor like Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit if you don't have access to a SQL database application or a source code editor. These plain text editors, on the other hand, will not display the assistance formatting and syntax that source code editors provide to help users understand SQL files.
SQL Viewer is a free and open-source program for reading and opening SQL database (MDF and LDF) files.
The free SysInfo SQL file reader allows users to examine and open SQL database files without having to utilize SQL Server. This free SQL Opener allows you to view all types of SQL data, including tables, columns, classes, triggers, keys, and indexes. This program has a highly user-friendly interface that allows you to open MDF and NDF files even if they are corrupt. SysInfo Online SQL Viewer is one of the most intelligent ways to open SQL database files without having to use MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, or 2019.
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PDS File
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CLASS OF 2019: 'DMU created opportunities for me to stand out'
Taking advantage of opportunities at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) has helped Vivian Nwagboso land a role as a biomedical scientist.
The graduate, who was presented with a First in Biomedical Science last week, has developed a wealth of transferable skills by representing her course, school and international students.
She also credits the degree's professional accreditation with helping her land a placement, which in turn contributed to her securing a full-time job.
Vivian said: "I am very grateful to DMU and De Montfort Students' Union (DSU) for these opportunities, where I developed so many transferrable skills.
"I strongly believe that these opportunities played a huge role in me landing a placement with the Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI).
"The placement is a huge part of my degree, which qualifies me as a scientist. The root of it all is that DMU's course is accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science, which means it was also easier getting the placement role that landed me this job."
Vivian is equally grateful for the support from lecturers, who encouraged her to focus on gaining a First, and wants to thank 'every single one of you', especially personal tutor Dr Antonio Peña-Fernández.
Born in Nigeria, Vivian moved to Leicester to further her education and will be moving again for her job with the haematology and blood transfusion service at Hull Royal Infirmary next month.
"I'm excited because it was unbelievable that I got a job even before writing my final exams but nervous because it's a new town, new people, with no family or friends," she said. "But I'm hopeful I will be fine."
Duties will involve pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical procedures of blood samples and giving possible diagnoses.
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She said: "When I started at DMU, I was sure I wanted to get this degree, I was also sure I wanted to work in a hospital. But being an international student, I didn't know what skills I needed to break into that career world.
"I thought the best thing I could do was to pursue my passion and I did so vigorously."
When Vivian received an email from the DSU seeking candidates for an international students' representative, she was quick to respond.
"I have never been part of politics but I was passionate about representing us, knowing fully what we wanted," she said. "I went through the election process and was successful."
More opportunities, including course and faculty representative roles, came Vivian's way - and the answer was always yes.
She also chose to enhance her CV by undertaking an industry placement, spending a year with the LRI's blood bank department as a trainee/placement student.
"The HLS careers team is a fantastic bunch and treated me like I was the only student in DMU," she said.
Vivian's placement is among her university highlights, which also include receiving the Vice-Chancellor's most distinguished student award, being nominated for the DSU personality of the year award and a trip to Berlin through the #DMUglobal international experience programme.
"DMU is a part of me that cannot be erased. I am a proud and content alumna," she added.
Posted on Wednesday 24th July 2019
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Mixed picture for the UK's economic recovery, despite positive July jobs numbers
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Multiple reports in recent days have pointed to a potentially unsteady resurgence in the UK economy in the months ahead. The Guardian, for instance, has cited a business trends report from a professional services firm, indicating that worker shortages related to the COVID-19 crisis and Brexit could effectively hold back the national recovery.
This is despite an encouraging picture for employment, the report finding that the jobs market improved during July as lockdown restrictions were lifted and firms hired.
What else are we learning about job-market developments during July?
Last month was a key one in the UK's ongoing recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, and certainly for many businesses calling upon payroll services in Plymouth and Wellington like those of Britebooks.
Sure enough, the professional services firm referenced by the newspaper observed that July saw a scramble for workers, with this in turn exerting upward pressure on wages and leaving bosses concerned about ever-increasing costs. Labour shortages were worsened by factors like staff being alerted to self-isolate by the NHS COVID-19 app, and the effects of the UK's departure from the European Union (EU).
This all contributed to the firm's employment index climbing by 1.57 points during the month, from 106.05 in June to 107.62 in July – equating to the strongest pickup in recruitment so far in 2021.
However, business optimism dropped from the record high seen in June, and the firm's inflation index for July – which monitors price rises – wasn't far shy of the figure for June, which had been the highest in four years.
As global supply chains remain under pressure and struggles have been observed in the import of goods and materials in the wake of Brexit, employers have also forked out more money to land and retain the best talent.
Optimism for the future – albeit split along regional lines
A different survey from another company further indicated the continued mixed prospects for the UK economy. The poll found that two thirds of the country's small businesses felt positive about the UK economic outlook over the coming 12 months, with over half of firms intending to take on more staff.
However, a clear regional split was seen in this regard. While, for instance, seven in 10 (71%) London and south-east firms were positive about the UK economy going forward, this measure was only 60% for Scotland, and 59% in the north-east, north-west and Yorkshire and Humberside regions.
In a climate of guarded positivity, it is crucial for UK firms to reach out for the right sources of support and guidance. Britebooks' own easy-to-use, but also sophisticated and affordable payroll services in Plymouth or Wellington could greatly help your business in this regard.
Get in touch with us now at our Devon or Somerset offices, and we will be pleased to outline to you how our complete service could give you a lot less to worry about as you manage your business through the opportunities – and the storms – in the months ahead.
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£129million Caravaggio painting goes on show in London
Masterpiece was nearly stolen by burglars five years ago
Alex Green, Press Association Entertainment Reporter
Nathan Okell
The masterpiece depicts the biblical tale of Judith (Image: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)
A 400-year-old masterpiece by renown Italian painter Caravaggio, which was nearly stolen by burglars five years ago, has been unveiled in London.
The painting will be sold at auction in June this year, and has been undergoing restoration since it's rediscovery in a Toulouse attic.
The thieves chose not to steal the painting, which was hidden under rags and behind crockery, possibly because they deemed it not 'adequate' enough to steal.
The painting has since been looked at by experts and valued at around £129 million.
Fortunately our painting was not adequate
Speaking to press at the work's grand unveiling at the Colnaghi Art Gallery, auctioneer Marc Labarbe said: "One of my clients was clearing his attic and he needed two men to help him.
"It took a year to sell all the antiquities - clocks, toys, pieces of religion, in good and bad condition, clothes, crockery, as well as many things of no interest.
"I have to tell you that a few years before, burglars broke into the attic and stole many things, but fortunately, our painting was not adequate."
A captivated audience watch the unveiling of the restored painting in London earlier today (Image: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)
He added: "On the 23rd of April 2014 late in the morning, my client called me again because he had found a painting and wanted my opinion on it.
"I went to his house and climbed the stairs to the landing of the attic where the painting was displayed.
"At this moment there was what was like a fog across the whole canvas.
"The painting was blurry and it was almost impossible to see the details, but I was impressed by the state of the composition."
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The painting is believed to have been painted in 1607, and depicts the biblical tale of Judith.
A widow from the city of Bethulia which was under siege, Judith seduced the leader of the opposing Assyrian army and beheaded him.
It is also Caravaggio's second piece on the same subject, with his first being painted in Rome around 1600.
Caravaggio himself is a renown artist, with 68 known paintings attributed to his name.
He was born in Milan in 1571 and died aged 38 in 1610 of suspected lead poisoning from his paints.
The work is due to be sold on June 27 in Toulouse's La Halle aux Grains, and will be on display at Colnaghi from March 1 until March 9.
Mr Labarbe finished by saying: "This magnificent story began in Toulouse, and it has to continue in Toulouse."
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December 11, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week offers a fistful of digital deluxe editions, expansions on holiday favorites, and at least one Bond theme in the mix. Tina Turner, GoldenEye (Parlophone) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) If you're still riding high off the excellent latest James Bond film No Time to Die, released a few months ago, you
Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anita Kerr, Burt Bacharach, Don Williams, Dru Hill, Harold Faltermeyer, Herbie Nichols, Hoobastank, Jackie Gleason, James Brown, Jerry Goldsmith, Jimmy Durante, Loretta Lynn, Neon Trees, Pebbles, Pete Yorn, Post Malone, Rick Derringer, Sarah Brightman, The Tea Party, Tiffany, Tina Turner, Waylon Jennings
August 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Madonna, True Blue (35th
Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben E. King, Bobby Darin, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, The Art of Noise, Tina Turner
June 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments
Tina Turner's Foreign Affair is about to get a lot bigger. The stature certainly befits the artist who was recently voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer; her Broadway musical Tina is scheduled to resume performances on October 8 and the HBO documentary of the same name is currently streaming. On July 16, Rhino and Parlophone will revisit Turner's 1989 album in a variety of formats including a 4CD/DVD Super Deluxe Edition and 2CD and 2LP Deluxe Editions. Tina's
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September 28, 2020 By The Second Disc 15 Comments
With a new James Bond film set to shake (not stir) audiences in November, a longtime compilation of the super-spy's famed film themes is getting a new iteration on November 20. The Best of Bond...James Bond offers a stellar 25-track overview of the pop themes that scored nearly all of the films based on Ian Fleming's famed British secret agent. There are 14 U.K. Top 10 hits and two Academy Award winners herein - altogether, a formidable, half-century-plus musical portrait of one of cinema's
Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Adele, Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, Carly Simon, Carole Bayer Sager, Chris Cornell, David Arnold, Duran Duran, Garbage, Gladys Knight, Jack White, John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Lulu, Madonna, Marvin Hamlisch, Matt Monro, Monty Norman, Nancy Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Rita Coolidge, Sam Smith, Sheena Easton, Sheryl Crow, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Tom Jones, U2, Wings
September 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments
Today, Vinyl Weekend kicks off at Barnes and Noble locations around the United States. This promotion sees the release a number of exclusive vinyl titles including classic albums, compilations, and cast recordings. These titles are typically available even at locations that (shudder) no longer have full music departments, and should also be available at BN.com. We're spotlighting the catalogue-related titles and more below. Click here to locate a B&N near you. Bread, Anthology of
Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alanis Morisette, Bread, Debbie Gibson, Green Day, Leonard Bernstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Linda Ronstadt, Otis Redding, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, The Doors, The Hollies, Tina Turner
September 6, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Miles Davis, Rubberband (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has unearthed a lost album recorded by Miles Davis in 1985-1986 prior to his label debut Tutu. The LP has been completed by original co-producers Randy Hall and Zane Giles with Davis' nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., who played drums on the album sessions. Ledisi and Lalah Hathaway have been enlisted to complete the vocal tracks. Available on CD, 2-LP vinyl,
Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alfred Newman, America, Belinda Carlisle, Black Sabbath, Caravan, Chrissie Hynde, Crystal Gayle, Cyndi Lauper, Glen Campbell, Ian and Sylvia, Miles Davis, NRBQ, The Allman Brothers Band, Tina Turner
March 29, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up. Here's what's due for March 29! John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [5 CD] (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The year 1958 was a breakout one for saxophone legend John Coltrane. It marked the year when Coltrane--already well-established as a talented sideman--began to make a name for himself as a solo musician and developed his signature "sheets of sound" style while exploring many other routes. To
Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Diana Krall, Donna Summer, Emmylou Harris, Frank Zappa, Glen Hansard, Graham Nash, James Taylor, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Kiki Dee, KISS, Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, Michael Nesmith, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Seal, Simple Minds, Stevie Nicks, The Searchers, Tina Turner
November 23, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! CHIC, The CHIC Organization 1977-1979 (Atlantic/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new box set, available in 5-CD and 6-LP formats, brings together new Nile Rodgers Signature Edition remasters of CHIC's first three albums plus Sister Sledge's CHIC-produced We Are Family and a bonus disc of period single edits and 12-inch mixes. The vinyl edition includes additional text
Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: a-ha, CHIC, Chicago, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Lone Justice, Sonny and Cher, The Cars, Tina Turner
October 19, 2018 By Sam Stone 7 Comments
Looking back from a vantage point thirty years on, there's no denying the special place that the 1980s have in the history of popular music. It was a decade that surveyed past musical ground while simultaneously advancing the art form further, making an indelible mark on music to come. With dancefloor grooves, yearning ballads, infectious pop, and more, it was a decade of great music. Now, Rhino has announced a new collection that reimagines some of the smash hits from the decade: 80s
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April 13, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Changestwobowie (Parlophone) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie's 1981 compilation spanning the period between Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) returns to print for the first time in three decades in a newly remastered edition. Its ten tracks include "Starman," "Oh! You Pretty Things," single versions of "Fashion," "Ashes to Ashes," and
Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Andy Gibb, David Bowie, John Prine, Juliana Hatfield, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Nino Tempo, Olivia Newton-John, Tina Turner
December 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments
A decade ago, Herbie Hancock's latest surprised both jazz enthusiasts and mainstream audiences - and now, it's available in a new expanded edition. Verve and UMe will reissue Hancock's River: The Joni Letters for its 10th anniversary this Friday, December 15. The original album, mostly featuring songs of Joni Mitchell, will be paired with a bonus EP of four additional recordings from the sessions. Two of them - covers of "A Case of You" and "All I Want" - were previously only available on an
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October 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments
Bryan Adams is releasing a new compilation encapsulating the best of his 35-plus-year career into one disc. Ultimate, available November 3, features 21 tracks including two new recordings, the single "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love." The Canadian singer/songwriter/photographer's biggest hits are here, including some of his biggest breakthrough singles during the '80s ("Cuts Like a Knife," "Heaven," "Summer of '69"), soundtrack smashes from the '90s and '00s and two tracks from his most
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June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments
Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up - and it's a doozy! As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day. No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date! DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays. We'll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The
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May 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments
What's love got to do with it? Plenty, in fact! On June 30, Warner Music/Rhino will issue a new 2-CD deluxe edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of Tina Turner's landmark "comeback" album, Private Dancer. The four-time Grammy-winning album yielded seven singles and catapulted Tina Turner straight back to the top. When Private Dancer was issued in May 1984, it was Turner's first album since 1979's Love Explosion. Recorded in England with four different production teams, it marked a
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February 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments
Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film "Toomorrow" — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real
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January 7, 2014 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments
Tina Turner knows plenty about love and loss, both on and offstage. The legendary performer shook up the '60s with her husband Ike and their relentlessly soulful revue, culminating with the Phil Spector-produced "River Deep - Mountain High" and an opening slot for The Rolling Stones on tour. But Ike's substance (and marital) abuse led Tina to divorce him in 1976 and struggled to make a name for herself as a solo artist. Of course, less than a decade later, 1984's iconic Private Dancer put her
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N.Korea charged U.S. reporters with spying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. journalists detained by North Korea since last week appear to have been charged with espionage, the State Department said on Tuesday.
The skyline of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on a foggy day, January 23, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
"We're certainly aware of the charges," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood, asked to comment on media reports the pair had been charged with spying.
"The North has assured us the detainees will be well-treated," Wood said.
The United States, which does not have a diplomatic presence in North Korea, is trying to resolve the case of the two journalists, who were arrested by North Korean guards at the border with China last week.
The two, identified by South Korean media as Euna Lee and Laura Ling, have been moved to the capital Pyongyang and are being interrogated there, a South Korean newspaper said, quoting intelligence sources.
Their arrest came at a time of mounting tension on the Korean peninsula, with the North accusing the United States and South Korea of aggressive behavior while Pyongyang continued preparations to launch a long-range missile.
"We understand the two female reporters are staying at a guest house in the suburb of Pyongyang overseen by the Security Command (the North's intelligence agency) and are being interrogated," the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo quoted an intelligence source as saying.
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The two were arrested before dawn on March 17 and driven in separate cars the next day to Pyongyang, JoongAng Ilbo reported.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service could not immediately comment on the report.
The women, who media sources said were working for U.S.-based online news company Current TV, probably crossed the river and were on the North Korean side at a point where the current narrowed in a secluded part of the river, the newspaper said.
A senior State Department official who spoke on condition that he not be identified said it had been "communicated" to the United States that the two faced espionage charges, but he declined to give details.
Asked why information was so scant on the jailed pair, he said: "We are dealing with a very unpredictable actor."
An American cameraman, Mitch Koss, and a Chinese guide who was with the three were detained by Chinese police, media said.
"The male American citizen involved in the case has left China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters Tuesday.
He did not comment on the status of the two reporters in North Korea.
A diplomatic source said the two reporters were on the frozen Tumen river, which runs along the eastern portion of the border with China, when they were taken by North Korean security guards.
It took three months to secure the release of an American in 1996 after he was detained by North Korean guards when he crossed the Yalu River that also separates the North and China.
Reporting by Jack Kim; Additional reporting by Lucy Hornby and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Editing by David Storey
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US blacklists drone giant, other Chinese firms
The United States Commerce Department announced it is blacklisting Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies "to protect US national security."
"This action stems from China's military-civil fusion doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military industrial complex," the Commerce Department said in a statement, according to https://time.com/.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed the move in a Friday morning interview with Fox Business. It was reported first by Reuters overnight. Shares in SMIC, China's top chipmaker, slid 5.2 per cent Friday in Hong Kong on the news.
Other affected Chinese entities include those "that enable human rights abuses, entities that supported the militarisation and unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea, entities that acquired US-origin items in support of the People's Liberation Army's programs, and entities and persons that engaged in the theft of US trade secrets," according to the U.S. government statement.
"There's plenty in the open press about how DJI has been part of the surveillance state and overall suppression within China," a senior Commerce official said.
The majority of the newly banned companies are Chinese and will join the likes of Huawei Technologies Co. on a list that denies them access to U.S. technology from software to circuitry.
Companies including Huawei and SMIC have been caught in the middle of worsening tensions between the world's two largest economies, which have clashed on issues from trade to the pandemic.
President Donald Trump had been widely expected to level more sanctions against China's national champions before Joe Biden formally took office.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called the U.S.'s expansive use of sanctions against Chinese companies "unacceptable" in a video address to the Asia Society on Friday. He urged the U.S. to stop "over stretching the notion of national security," and "the arbitrary suppression of Chinese companies."
Shanghai-based SMIC, a supplier to Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Inc., lies at the heart of Beijing's intention to build a world-class semiconductor industry and wean itself from reliance on American technology. Washington in turn views China's ascendancy and its ambitions to dominate spheres of technology as a potential geopolitical threat. A blacklisting threatens to cripple SMIC's longer-term ambitions by depriving it of crucial gear.
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Jack Warner mounts defence but is not expected to sue FIFA
By Kirsten Sparre
FIFA vice president Jack Warner is expected to drop his threat of legal action against the authors of an auditing report and some FIFA officials, reports The Daily Telegraph. But when the story of Warner's alleged illegal sale of 4,500 World Cup tickets broke earlier this month, he was all set to sue and claimed he had been the victim of a set-up.
As reported by Play the Game, investigative reporter Andrew Jennings published two confidential reports from auditors Ernst & Young detailing that company's findings in two separate investigations of Jack Warner's alleged sale of World Cup tickets. Warner hit back a few days later with a report compiled by lawyer John P. Collins who sits on FIFA's legal committee.
According to Collins' investigation which has been posted on the Internet, the Ernst & Young reports were based on incomplete information and reach "erroneous conclusions." Collins writes that Warner was not involved in the purchase, distribution or re-distribution of any tickets. And the lawyer asserts that the leak of the Ernst & Young reports to Andrew Jennings is highly suspect.
"Not surprisingly, Mr. Jennings used these documents and their erroneous and incomplete information to write an extremely derogatory article against Mr. Warner. Moreover, Mr. Jennings posted these documents on the Internet. Needless to say this "indiscretion" has caused significant harm to Mr. Warner," writes Collins in his report.
Now The Daily Telegraph reports that Warner is expected to drop his threat of getting outside legal involvement with the case and instead accept what FIFA's disciplinary committee decides on the matter.
The disciplinary committee was landed with the difficult task of sifting through the evidence in the Warner case after the FIFA Committee on Ethics and Fair Play was disbanded and a new Ethics Committee was set up under the chairmanship of Sebastian Coe. The new Ethics Committee can only deal with cases that occur after its set-up, so instead Sepp Blatter has handed the matter to the disciplinary committee.
See the reports from Ernst & Young:
Report from Ernst & Young to FIFA on 11 April, 2006
Report from Ernst & Young to FIFA on 8 July, 2006
Keywords: fifa, fraud, corruption, law
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Sympathetic Vibratory Physics » gyrate within and about itself
gyrate within and about itself
"The machines of the future will not destroy their fuel, but direct the energies inwardly. In this way a harmonious motion manifests itself externally, which transmutes the used material organically, exalts it and refashions it one octave higher. The residual material thus becomes endowed with the necessary potency and provided with the possibility to resurrect itself in the succeeding earthly form of life.
Earth, water, air (and light) are organisms, and between them lie the organs of the most diverse nature in a constant state of readiness to act. If we bring these organs together harmoniously; if we place every inner potential opposite its outer harmonic form, then the thing begins to gyrate within and about itself and to evolve, because in rhythmical sequence every impulse is countered by an expulse, through which the harmonic motion gives way to the inflowing and diffusing counter-movement.
The counter-reactive transverse electrical potentials have to be stationed opposite the strongest longitudinal magnetic potentials. Out of this normal state of opposition the harmonic transitional point is created in the golden middle. This golden middle is the organic angle. It is the only true pathway upon which there is no upwards, no downwards, no sideways and no inwards, but only a movement in and about itself, which corresponds to the infinite will of God, the unity in the universality." [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, From Special Edition Mensch und Technik, Vol. 2, 1993, section 7.4]
It is common knowledge that Galilei discovered this motion and because of it, suffered a veritable martyrdom. Up to now nobody has been able to explain why secular and religious science were so hugely disturbed by this discovery. Since then there has no longer been any doubt that the Earth rotates about its own axis. Why it does so, and what purpose is served by this peculiar inclined, gyrating motion, which oscillates to and fro along two different axes has so far never been explained.[5] [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Economy Founded on Reactively Produced Energy]
In patented double-spiral-flow pipes the peripheral water-masses are caused to swirl within and about themselves and around the central pipe-axis. This produces differences in potential between the peripheral and core waters, which lead to an accelerated flow resulting from the energising and ennobling of the bio-dynamically moved water. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Transport of Ore in Double-Spiral-Flow Pipes]
This product of synthesis is characterised by the fact that the ratio between oxygen and its carbone counterpart is 4% : 96%, because all the remaining oxygen has been transformed into fertilising substances and then bound. Therefore the new product of synthesis has the highest negative valency and is of geospheric character. Certain factors relating to these processes should be noted: In the scientific synthesising process heat has a shrivelling effect on the decisive formative substance in its nascent state, while physical pressure ruptures its outer envelope. In the case of coal liquefaction by means of cold flows the increasing cooling on the developmental path acts to increase the potential. However, since the increase in the potential of the true formative substance is of a purely energetic nature, it would be unable to break through the outer envelope had this not been mechanically abraded through the circumvolution and inner rotation (about itself and its own axis) caused by the increasing frictional pressure arising from the doubly increased velocity of the whole water-body. These differences demand the closest attention and consideration. The product of synthesis obtained by means of cold flows, binds itself into its own waste product (juvenile water). Therefore apart from a new, fresh and more highly cultured energy, an associated carrier-substance of the highest order is also created at the expense of the gradually transforming (internally reconstituted) stocks of old water. This two-fold transformation represents the increase and the qualitative improvement of what has been quantitatively increased (the growth of water). The finished product is a crystal-clear water that has neither taste, nor smell, nor colour, because in this product of synthesis all kinds of things are on the loose or have been loosed (emancipated), i.e. they have been raised to the [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Liquefaction of Coal by Means of Cold Flows]
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The Magic of Mercury Glass
Antiques encapsulate time. The materials used in their making, the patina, repairs, bumps, nicks and dents are all a reference to their past. An invitation to step into their world.
For me, the most exciting example of this is mercury mirror glass. Antique glass is fragile and dynamic, constantly evolving. I want a mirror plate that speaks of its survival, testament to the care it's received throughout its life and the importance placed upon it by its owners.
Part of the magic, I suppose, is understanding the precarious process of making mercury glass and how rare and precious early mirrors were. Mercury glass production began in Venice in the early 15th century. Because of its location in the Mediterranean, Venice was at the centre of trade and the richest city in Europe. The finest and rarest goods passed through it, from the Silk Road and spice islands in the east to the further continental mainland to the west, each imprinting their cultural influences as they travelled. No surprise that it was a hotbed for new inventions and innovation. Mercury glass was one of them.
Uniquely, mercury's magical shimmer was a breath-taking revelation after the burnished metal surfaces previously used for reflection and these mirrors were soon prized as a status symbol across the globe. The technique was known only to the workers at the glasshouse in Venice and was kept a secret from the rest of the world. So much was at stake that the glasshouse, along with its workers, was moved to the island of Murano and anyone attempting to enter or leave the island, or sell the secret, did so on pain of death. Since then Murano has been famed for its glass production, where it still thrives today.
The makers who produced mercury glass were highly skilled and had to develop extreme strength and dexterity. They began by blowing large globes of glass, which they swung to elongate them into an oval. Then, while maintaining the perfect temperature to keep the glass even, they'd cut both ends of the oval to create a cylinder before slitting along the length of it and opening it out into a single sheet of glass, pressing it flat with a stone. This would be cooled, ground and polished as smooth and flat as possible. Layers of thin tin were placed on the mirror, followed by a layer of mercury. The two would react and create a stable reflective material against the glass. Only Venetian glass makers had the techniques and ability to perfect this process. Consequently, Venice had a monopoly on mirror making and supplied mercury glass all over Europe.
Glass producers around Europe attempted, unsuccessfully, to emulate the Venetians. France began to cast glass by pouring molten glass onto a dead flat copper or stone surface and then allowing it to cool. This created a much thicker glass without the delicacy of Venetian mirrors. However, in 1618, England caught up. Through his connections in Venice, Robert Mansell (MP, Vice-Admiral, Knight of the realm) managed to bring back exiled Venetians who knew the secret of Venetian mirror making and oversaw the production of mercury mirror glass in Mansell's English glass works, both in Newcastle and later in Vauxhall. Mansell was granted a patent to make mirrors in England and from there England joined the competition. By 1672, as a result of industrial spying, France also perfected the technique, famously using it in the Sun King's Palace of Versailles. From then on, the import of Venetian mirrors to France was banned.
Techniques in England were constantly refining and by the beginning of the 18th century, nearly 100 years on from Mansell establishing his workshop, England became the very best at producing mercury mirror glass.
A century later, mercury glass production was all but over. Less expensive production methods were developed for larger and more widely available mirror plates. Most importantly, mercury had been highly toxic and the average extent of its makers' working life was just ten years.
Glass may have become cheaper and bigger but for me there is no substitute for the magical sparkle and character of a mercury mirror. Shine a light on a true mercury glass plate and it will twinkle back at you, transporting you to a different world, centuries ago.
Here are a few of the many mirrors we have in stock, each with their original mercury glass plates. Click here to browse through our collection.
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Australian Citizenship Changes – what you need to know
On the 20th April 2017, the Australian government announced more sweeping changes to the immigration program. On this occasion, their focus was on applications for Australian Citizenship.
Prime Minister Turnbull said that the new changes will put Australian values at the very heart of Australian citizenship. He says it will enable Australia to be an even stronger and more successful multi-cultural country. The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, emphasized that the government was not asking applicants to abandon their culture or citizenship "but when you come to our country you decide to abide by Australian laws... and adopt Australian values".
Proposed changes:
1. Residence Requirements
Applicants must be permanent residents for four years before applying for citizenship. In addition to this, applicants cannot spend more than a total of 12 months outside Australia during this time. Before this, the requirement was only 1 year of permanent residency but 4 years of living in Australia. It is no longer possible to count time spent in Australia on a temporary or bridging visa towards the four-year requirement for permanent residency.
2. English Requirements
Applicants will now need to sit an English test to demonstrate that they have at least competent English before they sit the citizenship test. Competent English would require a score of 6 in each band of IELTS, or one of the alternative tests of English. Previously, applicants only needed to demonstrate that they had basic English which was tested when the applicant went to sit the citizenship test.
3. Integration Requirement
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is also requesting that applicants demonstrate their integration into the Australian community.
This is likely to include providing evidence that you are
Working or looking for work or studying
Paying all your taxes
Actively involved in community or voluntary organisations
Ensuring your children are attending school.
In addition to this the Department of Immigration and Border Protection will undertake extra security and character checks. If there is evidence of any of the following, your citizenship application may be refused:
Breaching social security laws
Involvement in gangs or organised crime
4. Citizenship test
A new citizenship test will be introduced which tests Australian values more thoroughly. Applicants will be able to attempt the test a maximum of 3 times before being suspended for 2 years. Previously, there was no restriction on the number of times that a person could attempt the test. If a person is found to be cheating on the citizenship test this will result in an automatic fail.
5. Shared Values Statement
It is also proposed that the Australian values statement be strengthened to include references to allegiance to Australia and require applicants to make an undertaking to integrate into and contribute to the Australian community.
6. Pledge of Commitment
All applicants aged 16 years and over are required to pledge their allegiance to Australia before being granted Australian citizenship.
The Australian government has advised that these reforms will not be introduced immediately but will be introduced by the end of 2017.
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Best books of 2021: Economics
Posted on November 17, 2021 by todayseconomic
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance
by Eswar S Prasad, Belknap £28.95/Harvard University Press $35
Digital technologies are also transforming the world of finance. Prasad of Cornell provides an invaluable overview of what this might mean: physical money will disappear; central bank money will compete with the new private versions; financial intermediation will be transformed; and new opportunities will open to the world's population. But, with opportunities come risks. As Prasad summarises: "A glorious future beckons, perhaps".
The Resilient Society
by Markus K Brunnermeier, Endeavor $24
In this important book, Princeton's Brunnermeier argues that "resilience can serve as the guiding North Star for a post-Covid society". The global financial crisis and the pandemic have taught us that we need to be resilient if we are to respond to shocks successfully. Resilience is not the same as "robustness". It is "about being able to weather a storm and recover". We must do better at it.
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle, Princeton University Press £20/$24
Coyle, now at Cambridge university, is an exceptionally thoughtful commentator on economics. In this book, she rejects what she calls the "straw men" arguments of the many critics of economics, though admitting how difficult it is for economists to be objective. Instead, she focuses on two other weaknesses: first, the assumption of the rational economic "cog" has become even more unrealistic in the age of "snowballing" digital "monsters"; and, second, practitioners of economics are wildly unrepresentative of the society they study.
An Economist at Home and Abroad: A Personal Journey
by Shankar Acharya, HarperCollins India $24
Acharya has been a close friend of mine since we met in 1971, when we both worked together at the World Bank. Subsequently, he returned to India, where he was the longest serving chief economic adviser in the finance ministry, serving three reforming finance ministers, notably Manmohan Singh. Since then he has been the wisest analyst of the performance of the Indian economy. In this lovely autobiography, he recounts his personal and professional life with charm and perspicacity.
Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
by Jeffrey E Garten, HarperCollins $29.99
At a secret meeting at Camp David over the weekend of August 13-15 1971, President Nixon and his senior advisers decided to sever the link between the dollar and gold. This was not just the definitive end of the gold standard, it also marked the beginning of a new monetary order. In this outstanding book, Garten explains in detail what happened and draws lessons for today.
Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action
by Raphael Kaplinsky, Polity £18.99/Wiley $21.50
Ours is an age of intellectual upheaval. People are looking for new paradigms. Kaplinsky, an expert on innovation, defines our challenge as the exhaustion of the "Mass Production" paradigm and its replacement with the "Information and Communications Technologies" paradigm. Our task, he argues, is to build a prosperous and environmentally sustainable world in this new context.
All this week, FT writers and critics share their favourites. Some highlights are:
Monday: Business by Andrew Hill
Tuesday: Politics by Gideon Rachman
Wednesday: Economics by Martin Wolf
Thursday: Fiction by Laura Battle
Friday: History by Tony Barber
Saturday: Critics' choice
The New Economics: A Manifesto
by Steve Keen, Polity £12.99/Wiley $14
Keen is one of the world's leading heterodox economists. This book is a fierce assault on a lack of realism of neoclassical economics that borders on religious belief. He is particularly effective in skewering the complacent assumptions of conventional beliefs in macroeconomics, monetary economics and environmental economics. A great deal of what he writes makes good sense, especially on the merits of Post-Keynesian and "biophysical economics". The simplifying assumptions of conventional economics are indeed dangerous.
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict
by Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95
Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits of being both short and important. We have created an interconnected world that has brought great benefits. But it has also led to a tribal backlash, with "populist leaders promoting national glory over global understanding". His correct conclusion is that "if the connections that are essential to our wellbeing are also being turned into deadly weapons, we need to find ways of making them less dangerous."
The Economist's View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being
by Steven E Rhoads, Cambridge University Press £20
This is a 35th anniversary version of a classic. Rhoads, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Virginia, has built upon the best explanation I know of how orthodox economists think about choice, markets, externalities and other concepts. The new edition will be valuable to non-economists and economists alike: the former will learn how economists think; and the latter will learn some of the limits to how they think.
Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, Harvard University Press £28.95/$35
This is an interesting and original book. Its starting point is that people have different "narratives" of globalisation. The authors distinguish six such narratives: the "establishment" narrative; the "left-wing populist" narrative; the "right-wing populist" narrative; the "corporate power" narrative; the "geoeconomic" narrative; and the "global threats" narrative. Their conclusion is that the best approach is to synthesise apparent opposites. There is not one truth, but rather many partial truths.
What are your favourites from this list — and what books have we missed? Tell us in the comments below
Nudge: The Final Edition
by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein, Allen Lane $18
Nudge, originally published in 2008, was an immensely influential and important best-seller about how to influence people to make better decisions, thereby ameliorating the trade-offs between bottom-up foolishness, on the one hand, and top-down command, on the other. The authors called it "libertarian paternalism". Here they have substantially revised the earlier version in the light of new ideas, developments and research. The title represents a commitment to ensure that they do not write another version. So read it now: this is the definitive edition.
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
by Nicholas Wapshott, WW Norton $28.95
This is a follow-up to the author's Keynes Hayek. Its focus is with the debate between MIT's Paul Samuelson and Chicago's Milton Friedman, whose contrasting views graced the pages of Newsweek for 18 years. Samuelson was an economist's economist: his methodological influence was profound. Friedman had a huge influence on monetary economics. But his political influence was arguably even greater. By focusing on these two men, Wapshott illuminates debates that remain current to this day.
The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
by Lorenzo Forni, Agenda £14.99/$25.00
Budget constraints matter. This is true for private households and businesses. It is also true for governments. Those that forget this simple lesson of history will get into a mess. This is the theme of this little book by Forni of the University of Padua. He takes the reader through the basic realities of budgeting, credit and money. It is the job of governments and central banks to stabilise economies through fiscal and monetary policy, as Keynes taught us. But one cannot create long-term growth simply by creating vast amounts of money. If one forgets this truth, one is likely to end up looking rather like contemporary Argentina.
For economics books published in the first half of the year, see Martin Wolf's mid-year selection
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Titolo: Preparations Are Made For The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Descrizione: LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 02: Garlic bulbs are displayed for sale at The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on July 2, 2012 in London, England. The 23rd Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which is the biggest gardening show in the United Kingdom opens to the public tomorrow and runs until July 8, 2012. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Crediti immagine: Getty Images - © 2012 Getty Images
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Cougars teams don't disappoint away from home
Autumn McDowell
While the University of Regina hometown crowd was able to take in a handful of Cougar action last weekend, a few U of R teams hit the road in search of a win.
The University of Regina women's basketball team made the trip to Quebec to compete in the McGill Redburn Classic, a preseason tournament, from Oct. 21-23. Prior to the weekend, the Cougars were sitting pretty in exhibition action at 5-0 and looked to keep their undefeated streak going.
On Oct. 21, the Cougars took on the Carleton Ravens in their first game of the tournament. The Cougars came out strong, leading by as much as 14 points, but a third-period flurry by the Ravens had the Cougars hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
The Cougars were eventually able to hang on to the lead, earning a 61-56 victory and pushing their undefeated streak to six.
Regina was up against the host team, the McGill Redmen, on Oct. 22. Third-year guard Michelle Clark was able to come up big for the Cougars, hitting nine of 13 three-point attempts. With the help of Carly Graham (14 points) and Joanna Zalesiak (11 points), the Cougars took control on route to an 82-74 victory.
The final day of the tournament saw the Cougars take on the Brock Badgers, who were hoping to put the first blemish on Regina's preseason record. Unfortunately, the Cougars could never fully recover from the 22-point deficit that they faced in the third quarter. Even a 27-8 point swing and back-to-back three pointers by Graham couldn't dig the Cougars out of the hole they were in. As a result, Brock took the victory and the streak by a score of 65-56.
Regina finished the tournament with a 2-1 record, Graham was named to the tournament's all-star team, while Clark was named tournament MVP. The Cougars are scheduled to wrap up the preseason with three games in Calgary from Oct. 28-30.
The University of Regina men's volleyball team made the trip to Calgary to participate in the 2011 Husky Dino Cup from Oct. 21-22.
Despite a powerhouse game from middle blocker Joel Colter, which saw him boast a .600 hitting percentage and four blocks, the Cougars could not match the play of the Calgary Dinos, as the host team took Game 1 of the preseason tournament 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-21).
Regina was on the hunt for a win in its second game of the tournament, as it took on the Alberta Golden Bears. However, it would have to endure a five-set marathon match in order to get it. Despite the lengthy game, the Cougars eventually came away with the victory after pushing the final set to a score of 18-16 in order to get it. With the five-set win (25-20, 21-25, 25-22, 22-25, 18-16), the Cougars finished off Day 1 of the tournament even at 1-1.
When Day 2 of the tournament got underway, the Cougars took on the Queen's Golden Gaels in Game 3. Unfortunately for Regina, it was unable to keep up with Queen's, as it lost its final round-robin affair 1-3 (25-12, 25-21, 23-25, 25-20).
The Cougars are set to embark on the regular season with a pair games against the UBC Thunderbirds at the main gym on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 29 at 6:15 p.m.
The men's hockey team went to Manitoba in search of its first win of the regular season. The trip would not disappoint.
Despite starting the regular season off with a 0-4-0-0 record, the Cougars came out firing on all cylinders in Night 1 of the weekend series against the Bisons.
Manitoba entered the contest with a perfect 4-0 record, which many people thought meant disaster for the Cougars, but Regina managed to dominate on the ice skating away with a 6-1 victory.
Brett Leffler was able to notch two goals in his first appearance this season. while Craig Cuthbert, Matt Strueby, Joel Kot, and Terrance DeLaronde all pitched in with singles. Jeremy Schappert was the lone goal scorer for the Bisons in the loss.
Although the Cougars were feeling good after their first regular-season win. the tables quickly turned as Regina was on the losing end of a 5-1 decision. The lop-sided shot count contributed to the loss, as Manitoba also won that battle 42-12. Lucas Gore turned away 37 shots for the Cougars. but Jared Walker, Jordan Davis and Del Cowan were able to notch singles, while Blair Macaulay beat Regina's rookie goaltender twice to lead the Bisons to victory.
The Cougars are scheduled to be back at home for a pair of games on Oct. 28-29 against the UBC Thunderbirds. Both games are at the Co-operators Centre and slated for 7 p.m.
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The Carillon – Vol. 54, Issue 9
The Carillon's official account used to post on the website.
Rink referendum revisited
Regina Band Feature: The Stoop Kids
'The really naughty bits'
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Feds issue guidance on cleanup plan for abandoned coal mines
July 21, 2022 GMT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday issued guidance for nearly $725 million in funding available this fiscal year for the reclamation of abandoned coal mines and cleanup of acid mine drainage.
The guidance provides information about project eligibility, priorities and interpretation for the use of funding from President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure package. It is part of an overall plan announced earlier this year to spend $11.3 billion in the U.S. abandoned mine lands program over 15 years.
The guidance also clarifies how the grant funding differs from traditional fee-based grant distributions authorized by the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
The funding is available to 22 states and the Navajo Nation. Among its provisions, the guidance encourages prioritizing projects that invest in disadvantaged communities, maximize the reduction of methane emissions, hire former coal industry workers and involve public comment and review.
Reclamation of shuttered coal mine sites is crucial to preventing environmental pollution and returning land to its natural setting. Contaminants can seep into waterways and harm wildlife if not properly handled after a mine closes.
AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks
The funding is considered key to removing toxic metals and returning fish and wildlife to waterways that haven't been vibrant for decades.
In a statement, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the Biden administration "is committed to addressing legacy pollution and helping working families who face hazardous pollution, toxic water levels, and land subsidence both during mining and long after coal companies have moved on."
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by Diane De La Haye
Are you passionate about Music? Does your heart go out to victims of Bullying? What about an emotional Adoption story or a Teacher's mission for educational change? Maybe a hilarious BFF comedy is more your cup of tea. Well, we've got that and more for you as the next 5 films are announced for this year's CaribbeanTales Film Festival.
Chrissy by Marcia Weeks
The inspirational and educational film chronicles the story of a poverty-stricken 10 year-old girl, Chrissy Wright (Mikaela Harrison), who lives on the rough side of town with a bedridden mother (Sharon Griffith) and two siblings. Chrissy faces much discrimination from her peers and teachers at school yet fortunately gets support from a Science Teacher, Mr. Fenton (Peter Boyce) and later meets a new student, Melissa Edghill (Cara Odonnel), but the best friends are from two different worlds. Join us to find out what decisions Chrissy makes and if she triumphs by overcoming bullying and pulling her family out of the dumps, using her strong faith and relentless pursuit of academic success.
Payday by Selwyne Brown and Shakira Bourne
This comedy-drama/buddy showcases a raw slice of Barbadian community life as we follow Romie, an aspiring mechanic and ladies man, and his brutally honest best friend Pack, as they invest their entire salaries in a down-payment on a garage. Their goal is to establish a successful mechanic's shop to get away from their boring jobs as security guards, their loving yet eccentric and demanding families, and poor standard of living in their village – Pickletons. The simple task of making their down-payment to the garage owner at the village lime that night is hilariously complicated by Romie's love-life, and Pack's love for cannabis. The chaos and laughs multiply as the best friends go to extremes to avoid violent drug men, a charity collector and a crazy ex-girlfriend.
Garifuna in Peril by Ali Allee and Ruben Reyes
The film follows a Garifuna language teacher, Ricardo, as he struggles to preserve his fading culture by building a language school back in his home village in Honduras. A business venture with his brother Miguel designed to raise money for the school's construction becomes complicated by the expansion plans of a nearby tourist resort, prompting Ricardo to confront land rights issues in tandem with his educational mission. Family tensions heighten when Miguel waivers in the face of pressure from the resort, and Ricardo's wife Becky objects to her daughter Helena's new boyfriend Gabriel. Historical parallels to the contemporary land struggle are invoked as Ricardo's son Elijah rehearses a stage play about Garifuna hero and Paramount Chief, Joseph Satuyé and his last stand against British colonialism on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean over 200 years ago.
Adopted ID by Sonia Godding-Togobo
This gripping observational documentary uncovers the extraordinary journey of Judith Craig who was found in a ditch at birth and adopted by a Canadian family. Judith bravely returns to the impoverished nation of Haiti to find the mother that left her. From the poverty stricken parents who had given up a child to the foreign families looking to adopt one, these disparate worlds collide amid Judith's quest to solve the puzzle of her past. With the sights and sounds of a Haiti before and after the earthquake as a back drop, these intersecting lives provide a rare and intimate insight into the conditions surrounding transnational adoption
El Medico by Daniel Fridell
El Medico is a young Cuban doctor and musician trying to make a better life for his family. Michel is a European music producer seeking fame and fortune. Witness a fight between two minds: one who sees the music as an authentic expression of Cuban culture and history and the other, as a commercial product to be sold by any means necessary. Caught in this clash of views is also Coquita, the young dancer whose dreams are ruined because Michel thinks she is not sexy enough, and El Medico's mother who believes her son is betraying the revolutionary ideals that she suffered for. El Medico realizes that being Michel's product is not his dream, but he has to decide between doing his duty to the State as a doctor fulfilling his mothers dream, or being an artist.
You can read about the other Five films here: http://caribbeantales-worldwide.com/Newz/five-centerpiece-films/
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A Mother's Dance
April 29, 2015 November 29, 2019 writelifeadmin
By Pattie Welek Hall
How does one measure the depth of a mother's love? Pattie never thought it possible until she experienced every mother's worst nightmare—twice.
With all three kids in college and thriving, Pattie is excited about embarking on her new career as community relations manager at Barnes & Noble. That is, until she receives word that her nineteen-year-old son has been admitted to the Medical University of South Carolina and tagged "John Doe" after he suffered a traumatic brain injury. Now her sole concern is to get to Charleston, 250 miles away, before he takes his final breath.
Although Casey is given only twenty-four hours to live, Pattie clings to her faith and refuses to accept her son's death sentence. During Casey's long and arduous healing, Pattie takes a hard look at the past—the kids' tender childhood memories, their challenging teenage years, the skeletons in the closet, and the circumstances that have formed her into who she has become. When tragedy strikes again, Pattie must make a choice—to remain stuck in her grief or to step into the life she's meant to create.
Moving and heart-wrenching, A Mother's Dance is a story about hope, perseverance, self-discovery, hard choices, and most importantly about love . . . the sad and the wondrous.
"I wrote this book in hopes it would bring healing to others," Hall says. "Instead I discovered that I was the one who healed."
ISBN 978-1-60808-137-0 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-60808-134-9 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-60808-135-6 (eBook)
6 x 9, 330 pages
Memoir/Inspirational/Spiritual
Publication date: November 6, 2015
This book is available in paperback and eBook format:
Categories: Biographies & Memoir, Caregiving, Inspirational & Motivational, Spiritual & Metaphysical Tags: a mother's dance, memoir, Pattie Welek Hall
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Preview: Preakness Stakes 2019 (Race Result 2018, Race Video 2018, Race Info)
Can Alwaysmining take on Improbable In The 144th Preakness Stakes?
The Kentucky Derby is far from behind us. The owners of Maximum Security, Gary, and Mary West have sued to reverse the horse's disqualification from the Kentucky Derby earlier this month. They are also seeking the $1.86m winner's share of the $3m purse, including $186,000 each for trainer Jason Servis and jockey Luis Saez. Putting that aside for the moment, we have a blinding open Preakness field which doesn't feature Country House, Maximum Security or Omaha Beach.
We do have some good potentials though with popular War Of Will and Baffert's Improbable lining up. Let's take a look at a horse-by-horse look at the field of the Middle Jewel of the US Triple Crown.
1. WAR OF WILL: The War Front colt is back to rails, again. He has beaten Country House once to win the Gr.2 Risen Star. He will have to take the lead from the beginning and keep it. The question is whether he can go up another gear in the final lengths when the others speed-up? He certainly ran a good race in the Derby but his position is a bit further down than we would have liked to see.
2. BOURBON WAR: The Bourbon Lane Stable and Lake Star Stable colt comes out of Florida Derby, won easily by Maximum Security who set a very fast pace. With less to hinder him, he is likely to come to the front but this may be a tough race for him to win.
3. WARRIOR'S CHARGE: The Munning's colt comes to the Gr. 1 Preakness field unbeaten in his last two starts. He's got both the speed and the talent, however, can he show up his betters in a spectacular upset?
4. IMPROBABLE: Golden boy Bob Baffert's protégé has been declared the hands-down favourite based on his Derby run and the fact that his famous trainer knows exactly what to do, to get the colt into fighting-form so soon after the sloppy Derby. The Group One-winning colt needs to find a fifth gear and some more stamina for this race which is a bit longer to win.
5. OWENDALE: Brad H. Cox trained 3YO was very impressive in taking the Gr.3 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland in a good time when last seen. He is in great form currently but can he take on the Group One winning Improbable, Alwaysmining and War Of Will is the question?
6. MARKET KING: The iconic D. Wayne Lukas trained-Into Mischief colt came almost last minute into the Preakness fray. Market King was third in the Gr.2 Rebel and was on the Kentucky Derby trail until he was 11th in the Gr.2 Blue Grass. He was vet scratched from the Gr.3 Pat Day Mile on Derby Day, just a few weeks ago. He doesn't seem to fit on form and figures but has had two sharp five-furlong breezes since.
7. ALWAYSMINING: Runnymede Racing-owned colt, has won his last six starts including the Tesio which is considered the Preakness prep. The Stay Thirsty colt's greatest weapon is his tactical speed. He will have to make a jump but he looks like a good sort. The jump in class is not too high and he has the ability to take this one with ease.
8. SIGNALMAN: Kenny Mc Peek always had the Derby in his sights for the son of General Quarters but eventually decided to forego the Derby for the Preakness. The colt has been working well the Gr.2 Blue Grass Stakes, where he was third behind Vekoma & Win Win Win. But again, his current form doesn't indicate that he beat the best in the field?
9. BODEXPRESS: Although the Top Racing-owned colt was runner up behind Maximum Security in the Gr.1 Florida Derby his performance in the Kentucky Derby leaves a lot to be desired. He may be out-classed in this fine field.
10. EVERFAST: The Calumet Farm colt comes to the Preakness well-raced. But it almost seems as if, he has tried everything and may not actually end up in the top half of the winner's list.
11. LAUGHING FOX: This 3YO colt has the right credentials to win this race, provided he starts off in the fifth gear and stays there till the end.
12. ANOTHERTWISTAFATE: This son of Scat Daddy may be outclassed in this field.
13. WIN WIN WIN: Given the bad post he is sitting on, the Michael Trombetta trained 3YO faces a challenge again here in a spot where he seems destined to lose all the ground. He could land the trifecta by a longshot.##
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Race Info:
Distance: 1 3⁄16 miles (9.5 furlongs), Record: 1:53.00, Secretariat (1973), Track: Left-handed, Qualification: 3-year-old,Weight: Colt/Gelding: 126 pounds (57 kg), Filly: 121 pounds (55 kg), Purse: US$1,500,000
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The Statue of Liberty, one of the US's greatest symbols, is on Liberty Island, a ferry ride away from the city; nearby is Ellis Island, home to the Museum of Immigration, a historical landmark and testament to the strength of the American Dream.
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Completed in 1931, this skyscraper is probably the best-known of all the buildings in New York. Its observation decks have been visited by over 100 million people and offer breath taking views of this metropolis.
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As one of the world's fashion capitals, New York is home to the famous department stores of Macy's and Bloomingdales, Fifth Avenue's flagship stores (including Armani, Zara and Gucci) as well as many boutiques in Soho. There's something out there for any taste.
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Medal awarded to members of the Armed Forces who was engaged in service in an area outside Singapore after 9 August 1970 which satisfies one or more of the following conditions: service of 96 hours or more in operations; aggregate service of 30 days or more, in a period of 12 months when employed in support of any unit engaged in operations; service of 14 days or more when engaged in operations involving the keeping of peace, restoring of law and order, provision of humanitarian aid or rescue, or relief operations in support of any foreign government.
Prior to 1999, separate ribbons indicated service on Operational or Non-operational service. A bronze star is added to ribbon if the service involves hostile action or considerable personal risk.
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Otago invention helps patients manage Inflammatory Bowel Disease
2:00 November 23, 2018
As increasing numbers of New Zealanders are being diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), University of Otago researchers have developed a smartphone application (app) proven to be as effective as clinical care in helping patients manage their disease.
IBDsmart, an app for symptom monitoring for patients with IBD was launched by one of the developers, Head of the Department of Medicine and Gastroenterologist, Associate Professor Michael Schultz, at the annual scientific meeting of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology in Dunedin today.
At the launch, Associate Professor Schultz announced results of a clinical trial of the app, together with another health app, IBDoc® a commercially-available product used for stool monitoring. The trial compared the management of IBD using the two smartphone apps versus standard face-to-face outpatient care among 100 patients.
IBDsmart was used for symptom monitoring, while IBDoc® for stool monitoring. Results showed the apps were considered by both patients and doctors as acceptable, usable and non-inferior to standard clinic-based care.
"The study showed there was no difference in terms of quality of life for patients whether they used the apps or had face-to-face meetings," Associate Professor Schultz explains.
"The significance is great because we reduced the number of outpatient appointments potentially freeing up time for specialists to see more urgent cases, which is hugely significant as demand for their services increases across multiple diseases they need to find ways of prioritising which patients to see based on need," he says.
"But not only do we have time to see urgent patients, but all the indirect costs for patients of attending appointments like having to travel, or take time off work, are also reduced."
Currently, there are about 22,000 patients with IBD in New Zealand with numbers increasing about 5.6 per cent annually. The trial showed outpatient appointment numbers were 1.7 annually for patients following standard face-to-face care and 0.6 for patients using the apps. There was no difference in the number of surgical outpatient appointments or IBD-related hospitalisations.
A further trial is now being run in Central Otago, where use of the IBDsmart app is combined with patients using teleconference facilities to talk to specialists. It is supported by Southern District Health Board.
Up until now, apps have not been widely used in New Zealand for management of IBD. The IBDoc® app is commercially available however, it is not publicly funded. Following the launch of IBDsmart, it will be freely available to download from the App Store. The app will also be promoted by Chron's and Colitis New Zealand to their members and Associate Professor Schultz expects national pick-up.
Other people involved in the development of IBDsmart include Head of the Department of Information Science Professor Holger Regenbrecht and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science Tobias Langlotz, Professor Murray Barclay from the Department of Gastroenterology at the University of Otago, Christchurch, PhD student Andrew McCombie and Middlemore Hospital gastroenterologist, Dr Russell Walmsley.
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