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Growing forced displacement crisis impacts over 65 million people worldwide
IFAD Asset Request Portlet
©IFAD/Lana Slezic
A group of men work together to repair a fence on a farm in Jordan. In Jordan alone, more than 1.4 million Syrian refugees are being hosted, with 90 per cent of them residing in rural areas.
19 September 2016 – According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the current global crisis of forced displacement has affected an unprecedented 65 million people worldwide. More than one-third of the displaced – or 22.2 million – are in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.
On 19 September, IFAD launches the Facility for Refugees, Migrants, Forced Displacement and Rural Stability (FARMS), a new financing facility, at the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting which coincides with the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants.
FARMS has been created to specifically address the rural dimensions of the current crisis resulting from the large movements of refugees and displaced people from and to rural areas.
In the run-up to the launch, Khalida Bouzar, IFAD's Director for the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia (NEN), explains how the current migrant crisis has both a rural and agricultural dimension, and what can be done to provide better livelihood opportunities for refugees, displaced people and their host communities in rural areas.
Q: Millions of people have been displaced in 2015, causing global refugee and forced displacement totals to skyrocket. What do you think is the rural dimension of the current crisis of migrants and refugees?
"The world is experiencing the greatest crisis of migrants and refugees since the Second World War. At the end of 2015, nearly 65 million people were displaced globally, and more than 22 million from the Near East and North Africa alone. When we talk about a strong rural dimension of the current crisis, we refer to the large movements of refugees and displaced people from and to the rural areas. At IFAD, we are noticing that large numbers of displaced people tend to originate from rural areas and are now living in rural host communities in neighbouring countries.
"In Jordan alone, more than 1.4 million Syrian refugees are being hosted, with 90 per cent of them residing in rural areas. In Lebanon, displaced people make up almost 20 per cent of the rural population. The consequences of this are serious and far-reaching. They include degradation of agricultural land and collapse in food production in the areas left behind; while, in the host communities, there is increased pressure on natural resources, food security and agricultural production systems, as well as increased competition for jobs.
"In addition, there is a disproportionate burden on the host communities of the neighbouring countries, who carry the human and financial responsibility to respond to this enormous challenge, which if left unaddressed could lead to further instability and displacements."
Q: Why is there a gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses, and how can IFAD help bridge it?
"There is a gap between meeting the most immediate needs of refugees in real time and short term, the so-called humanitarian responses, and working towards reducing the drivers of mass displacement or building resilience of host communities as well as self-reliance of the displaced to allow them to return home when it is safe to do so – the latter ones considered longer-term, sustainable development solutions. There is a gap for a simple reason that both types of responses cannot match the scale of the crisis.
"So it is crucial to mobilize support from partners, explore complementarities without engaging in 'mission creep', and scale up joint efforts, not only to be better at anticipating and preventing crises from happening but also to help build the resilience of both refugees and host communities alike. Even crises that appear to be short-term often have long-term consequences.
"And addressing the roots of these crises requires long-term planning and solutions. Today IFAD is well positioned to serve as a key partner to bridge the gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses in rural areas and is already actively engaged in many of the most affected regions. Many ongoing IFAD projects in the region have found themselves working with communities increasingly affected by these issues, where needs and vulnerabilities are increasing, but more remains to be done."
Q: To help solve some of these challenges you just mentioned, IFAD is launching a new initiative called FARMS on 19 September – what is it?
"The Facility for Refugees, Migrants, Forced Displacement and Rural Stability (FARMS) has been created to address the rural dimensions of the current crisis. FARMS will have an overall envelope of US$ 100 million and will initially focus on the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, where the current crisis is most acute.
"We estimate that FARMS will reach out to a total of about 1 million people, or at least 200,000 families. FARMS will address both host areas, where displaced populations are based, and origin or sending areas, whose communities have been diminished by forced displacement or unsustainable levels of migration – desperation migration driven by poverty and lack of opportunity. By improving rural infrastructure, strengthening natural resources management, building the capacity of community-based organizations, enhancing policy and regulatory frameworks and, where legally possible, creating employment, particularly for youth – FARMS can help to reduce the vulnerability of refugees and the displaced, and the communities that host them."
Q: IFAD has a lot of experience in fragile and conflict-affected situations. Could you give an example of the impact of IFAD's work in one of these countries?
"With almost half of IFAD's ongoing operations in fragile states, IFAD has decades of experience working in active- and post-conflict situations, where refugees, IDPs and returnees were a relevant share of the main beneficiaries, supporting reconstruction, resettlement and reestablishment of livelihoods. Even under challenging security conditions in highly fragile contexts, IFAD-supported projects have proved effective.
"A good example from the field can be found in rural Syria. There, in the province of Idleb, 30 microfinance groups called sanadiq, or 'savings boxes' were established by the Idleb Rural Development project (IRDP) before violence broke out in that country. Today, all 30 sanadiq are still operational, and small farmers and their families continue to benefit. This is an example of an activity/benefit delivered by IFAD that has proved to be resilient and sustainable even in a period of conflict."
About the Facility for Refugees, Migrants, Forced Displacement and Rural Stability (FARMS)
The Facility for Refugees, Migrants, Forced Displacement and Rural Stability (FARMS) has been created to specifically address the rural dimensions of the current crisis resulting from the large movements of refugees and displaced people to rural areas.
FARMS will support people living in rural areas of host countries by helping them to improve sustainable agricultural productivity, which is the basis of their livelihoods. Refugee families will also receive support to develop marketable skills and increase their incomes. Economic opportunities will also be created in countries of origin so that the people who have left have income-generating opportunities to return to, and those who remain have a chance to rebuild their livelihoods.
Follow the conversation online at #ruraltransformation and #UN4RefugeesMigrants. | {
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You're a thoughtful person if you are reading this review. And probably interested in climate change, too, if you've wandered here.
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"The decision to work together, build a system and activate synergies with Veronafiere has certainly borne fruit, given the results achieved by the three events," said, Fiera Milano president Roberto Rettani. "This edition of Transpotec confirms the approach taken by Fiera Milano three editions ago. Facts and figures, optimism and overall satisfaction clearly evident in the halls confirm the event as the most important and well-attended business opportunity for sector operators in Italy.
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Given: Hart can rise to England challenge
SHAY Given insists Joe Hart won't let England down at the World Cup – but is determined to keep him out of Manchester City's first team.
THAT WAY TO SOUTH AFRICA: Joe Hart is battling for the England number one spot
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Hart is set to be named in Fabio Capello's World Cup squad after an outstanding season on loan at Birmingham.
The 23-year-old is locked in a three-way battle for the No 1 jersey in South Africa with ex-City keeper David James and West Ham's Robert Green.
But he demonstrated his international credentials in the 2-1 win against Japan in Graz on Sunday with a fine display after coming on as a half-time substitute.
And Given reckons his City colleague – the least experienced of England's three keepers – is more than good enough to handle the World Cup pressure.
"It would be great for Joe to get a couple of games," said Given. "He's had a fantastic season. Rob Green and David James are two fantastic keepers as well.
"It's going to be a difficult decision for the England manager, but Joe has given him that difficult decision to make. He's done really well."
Given is hoping to be fit for the start of next season, having damaged his shoulder during City's 0-0 draw at Arsenal in April – if for nothing else but to ensure he keeps Hart out of the side.
"I was told I would be out for three to four months when I picked up the injury," said the 34-year-old Republic of Ireland international.
"Three months would take me to the end of July, while four would make it the end of August. So I'm pushing for the earlier date! I'm hoping to be back for the start of the season. That's the aim, because I don't want to miss any games.
"I was gutted to miss the final week of last season. It couldn't be helped, but I don't want to miss any more matches.
"I want to be back for the first game. That's my target. I hope I can get to play in pre-season as well."
Given sat out City's final three games of last season following the injury – the first Premier League matches he had missed since his £8m arrival from Newcastle in February 2009.
Boss Roberto Mancini was unable to recall Hart from his loan spell at Birmingham, while back-up keeper Stuart Taylor was recovering from a knee operation, and so he brought in Marton Fulop on loan from Sunderland.
Given added: "The physios are really happy with the way I've healed."
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package android.support.v7.app;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.LayoutRes;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.view.WindowCompat;
import android.support.v7.view.ActionMode;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.Window;
/**
* This class represents a delegate which you can use to extend AppCompat's support to any
* {@link android.app.Activity}.
* <p>
* When using an {@link AppCompatDelegate}, you should any methods exposed in it rather than the
* {@link android.app.Activity} method of the same name. This applies to:
* <ul>
* <li>{@link #addContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)}</li>
* <li>{@link #setContentView(int)}</li>
* <li>{@link #setContentView(android.view.View)}</li>
* <li>{@link #setContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)}</li>
* <li>{@link #requestWindowFeature(int)}</li>
* <li>{@link #invalidateOptionsMenu()}</li>
* <li>{@link #startSupportActionMode(android.support.v7.view.ActionMode.Callback)}</li>
* <li>{@link #setSupportActionBar(android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar)}</li>
* <li>{@link #getSupportActionBar()}</li>
* <li>{@link #getMenuInflater()}</li>
* </ul>
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* <li>{@link #onConfigurationChanged(android.content.res.Configuration)}</li>
* <li>{@link #setTitle(CharSequence)}</li>
* <li>{@link #onStop()}</li>
* <li>{@link #onDestroy()}</li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* An {@link Activity} can only be linked with one {@link AppCompatDelegate} instance,
* so the instance returned from {@link #create(Activity, AppCompatCallback)} should be kept
* until the Activity is destroyed.
*/
public abstract class AppCompatDelegate {
static final String TAG = "AppCompatDelegate";
/**
* Flag for enabling the support Action Bar.
*
* <p>This is enabled by default for some devices. The Action Bar replaces the title bar and
* provides an alternate location for an on-screen menu button on some devices.
*/
public static final int FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR = 100 + WindowCompat.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR;
/**
* Flag for requesting an support Action Bar that overlays window content.
* Normally an Action Bar will sit in the space above window content, but if this
* feature is requested along with {@link #FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR} it will be layered over
* the window content itself. This is useful if you would like your app to have more control
* over how the Action Bar is displayed, such as letting application content scroll beneath
* an Action Bar with a transparent background or otherwise displaying a transparent/translucent
* Action Bar over application content.
*
* <p>This mode is especially useful with {@code View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN}, which allows
* you to seamlessly hide the action bar in conjunction with other screen decorations.
* When an ActionBar is in this mode it will adjust the insets provided to
* {@link View#fitSystemWindows(android.graphics.Rect) View.fitSystemWindows(Rect)}
* to include the content covered by the action bar, so you can do layout within
* that space.
*/
public static final int FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY =
100 + WindowCompat.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY;
/**
* Flag for specifying the behavior of action modes when an Action Bar is not present.
* If overlay is enabled, the action mode UI will be allowed to cover existing window content.
*/
public static final int FEATURE_ACTION_MODE_OVERLAY = WindowCompat.FEATURE_ACTION_MODE_OVERLAY;
/**
* Create a {@link android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegate} to use with {@code activity}.
*
* @param callback An optional callback for AppCompat specific events
*/
public static AppCompatDelegate create(Activity activity, AppCompatCallback callback) {
return create(activity, activity.getWindow(), callback);
}
/**
* Create a {@link android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegate} to use with {@code dialog}.
*
* @param callback An optional callback for AppCompat specific events
*/
public static AppCompatDelegate create(Dialog dialog, AppCompatCallback callback) {
return create(dialog.getContext(), dialog.getWindow(), callback);
}
private static AppCompatDelegate create(Context context, Window window,
AppCompatCallback callback) {
final int sdk = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if (sdk >= 23) {
return new AppCompatDelegateImplV23(context, window, callback);
} else if (sdk >= 14) {
return new AppCompatDelegateImplV14(context, window, callback);
} else if (sdk >= 11) {
return new AppCompatDelegateImplV11(context, window, callback);
} else {
return new AppCompatDelegateImplV7(context, window, callback);
}
}
/**
* Private constructor
*/
AppCompatDelegate() {}
/**
* Support library version of {@link Activity#getActionBar}.
*
* @return AppCompat's action bar, or null if it does not have one.
*/
public abstract ActionBar getSupportActionBar();
/**
* Set a {@link Toolbar} to act as the {@link ActionBar} for this delegate.
*
* <p>When set to a non-null value the {@link #getSupportActionBar()} ()} method will return
* an {@link ActionBar} object that can be used to control the given toolbar as if it were
* a traditional window decor action bar. The toolbar's menu will be populated with the
* Activity's options menu and the navigation button will be wired through the standard
* {@link android.R.id#home home} menu select action.</p>
*
* <p>In order to use a Toolbar within the Activity's window content the application
* must not request the window feature
* {@link AppCompatDelegate#FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR}.</p>
*
* @param toolbar Toolbar to set as the Activity's action bar
*/
public abstract void setSupportActionBar(Toolbar toolbar);
/**
* Return the value of this call from your {@link Activity#getMenuInflater()}
*/
public abstract MenuInflater getMenuInflater();
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onCreate Activity.onCreate()}.
*
* <p>This should be called before {@code super.onCreate()} as so:</p>
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
* getDelegate().onCreate(savedInstanceState);
* super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
* // ...
* }
* </pre>
*/
public abstract void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState);
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onPostCreate(android.os.Bundle)}
*/
public abstract void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState);
/**
* Should be called from
* {@link Activity#onConfigurationChanged}
*/
public abstract void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig);
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onStop Activity.onStop()}
*/
public abstract void onStop();
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onPostResume()}
*/
public abstract void onPostResume();
/**
* Should be called instead of {@link Activity#setContentView(android.view.View)}}
*/
public abstract void setContentView(View v);
/**
* Should be called instead of {@link Activity#setContentView(int)}}
*/
public abstract void setContentView(@LayoutRes int resId);
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* Should be called instead of
* {@link Activity#setContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)}}
*/
public abstract void setContentView(View v, ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp);
/**
* Should be called instead of
* {@link Activity#addContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)}}
*/
public abstract void addContentView(View v, ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp);
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onTitleChanged(CharSequence, int)}}
*/
public abstract void setTitle(CharSequence title);
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#invalidateOptionsMenu()}} or
* {@link FragmentActivity#supportInvalidateOptionsMenu()}.
*/
public abstract void invalidateOptionsMenu();
/**
* Should be called from {@link Activity#onDestroy()}
*/
public abstract void onDestroy();
/**
* Returns an {@link ActionBarDrawerToggle.Delegate} which can be returned from your Activity
* if it implements {@link ActionBarDrawerToggle.DelegateProvider}.
*/
public abstract ActionBarDrawerToggle.Delegate getDrawerToggleDelegate();
/**
* Enable extended window features. This should be called instead of
* {@link android.app.Activity#requestWindowFeature(int)} or
* {@link android.view.Window#requestFeature getWindow().requestFeature()}.
*
* @param featureId The desired feature as defined in {@link android.view.Window}.
* @return Returns true if the requested feature is supported and now
* enabled.
*/
public abstract boolean requestWindowFeature(int featureId);
/**
* Query for the availability of a certain feature.
*
* <p>This should be called instead of {@link android.view.Window#hasFeature(int)}.</p>
*
* @param featureId The feature ID to check
* @return true if the feature is enabled, false otherwise.
*/
public abstract boolean hasWindowFeature(int featureId);
/**
* Start an action mode.
*
* @param callback Callback that will manage lifecycle events for this context mode
* @return The ContextMode that was started, or null if it was canceled
*/
public abstract ActionMode startSupportActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback);
/**
* Installs AppCompat's {@link android.view.LayoutInflater} Factory so that it can replace
* the framework widgets with compatible tinted versions. This should be called before
* {@code super.onCreate()} as so:
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
* getDelegate().installViewFactory();
* getDelegate().onCreate(savedInstanceState);
* super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
*
* // ...
* }
* </pre>
* If you are using your own {@link android.view.LayoutInflater.Factory Factory} or
* {@link android.view.LayoutInflater.Factory2 Factory2} then you can omit this call, and instead call
* {@link #createView(android.view.View, String, android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet)}
* from your factory to return any compatible widgets.
*/
public abstract void installViewFactory();
/**
* This should be called from a
* {@link android.support.v4.view.LayoutInflaterFactory LayoutInflaterFactory} in order
* to return tint-aware widgets.
* <p>
* This is only needed if you are using your own
* {@link android.view.LayoutInflater LayoutInflater} factory, and have therefore not
* installed the default factory via {@link #installViewFactory()}.
*/
public abstract View createView(View parent, String name, @NonNull Context context,
@NonNull AttributeSet attrs);
/**
* Whether AppCompat handles any native action modes itself.
* <p>This methods only takes effect on
* {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH} and above.
*
* @param enabled whether AppCompat should handle native action modes.
*/
public abstract void setHandleNativeActionModesEnabled(boolean enabled);
/**
* Returns whether AppCompat handles any native action modes itself.
*
* @return true if AppCompat should handle native action modes.
*/
public abstract boolean isHandleNativeActionModesEnabled();
}
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"motel breakfast" record release party
Fri Feb 28 2020
Bus info:
Reilly's Daughter
4010 W 111th St, Oak Lawn, IL 60453
pick up before the show 7pm.
Return after the show.
Motel Breakfast came to form playing dive bars and basements in the winter of 2016. With members split between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, they've built their name as members of all three Midwest scenes. After two years of live shows in the Midwest, the band hit the studio in the summer of 2019 to record to tape at Treehouse Records in Chicago. Produced by Andy Goitia (Sleepy Gaucho), the self-titled debut album captures the high energy and chemistry of the band's live show. The album is set to be released everywhere on February 7, 2020.
Autumn Sky Passage by Jeff Scott Castle
SLEEPY GAUCHO
Sleepy Gaucho's discerning brand of Panamerican influenced folk music floats somewhat aimlessly in a realm of it's own. Born in Wisconsin while also growing up some time in Argentina, the young multi-instrumentalist's music can at times be melancholic, at others ethereal, but always agreeable. The seven track debut record "Another Time", while initially recorded in Madison, WI, was eventually finished after the songwriter happened to find himself drifting around an East London neighborhood for a few months. Spring of 2019 brought the release of "Another Time" on vinyl via Hear Here Records, with the songs being brought to life by trusted musicians in the Midwest scene. Since returning to his hometown of Milwaukee, he began the creative process for his next project. Straying away from his usual approach, he recruited the likes of veterans such as Patrick Sansone of Wilco and fellow talent ranging from local friends and Nashville session musicians for his upcoming sophomore album, "Morning Light".
THE DEAD BOLTS
Growing up as musicians in their neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago, Eddie Hennessy (Vocals/Guitar), John Rolence (Vocals/Guitar), Matt Paske (Lead Guitar), James Ryan (Drums), and Tyler Hancock (Bass Guitar) eventually found each other to form The Dead Bolts in the summer of 2018. The band started out playing shows in crowded neighborhood bars, garages, houses, blocked off streets, and basically anywhere they could draw a crowd. With influences from Chicago's prominent Blues, Rock, and Alternative music scene, as well as every other genre they happen to listen to, the band never put a label on their sound. All still enrolled in college or working, the band pieced together their first EP "Part Time" during the same summer, which they released in September of 2018.
The band hit the road come fall 2018 and debuted for the first of its many shows outside of their usual spots on the South Side, playing the college bar scenes of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. Gaining the approval from packed and rowdy crowds, they're booking shows all over while piecing together their first full album. As good as they sound on record, they're better live and they like it that way. Give'm a follow on the social medias.
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I captured a word: genuine.
Hidden in wild flowers, I waited for them: her, a fairy crowned in natural beauty, warm and present, like a fall wind, the kind that calls you home. It called him too, a barefoot traveller returned to his mother earth, with much missing, but lots of loving.
They could shout their story, but instead they whisper it, with trust and tenderness, in a world created for them by the time they spent holding each other and all the laughter they shared.
He carries her, dancing, and she floats, a mesmerizing butterfly, and their kisses show themselves and look like the blessing given to a thirsty man too long gone in the desert, like the smell of baked bread.
They're children and also titans, because love does that, it makes the sum of two people enough to tell all the stories of all ancient forests in this world.
They returned with flowers on their hair, in their hands and inside their souls, and I followed, curios and pulled, like to a tinny shine of a spring, like the faint aroma of gingerbread.
You hear laughter, but behind it there's the song of wild birds, and the noise, crowded around them, all the fuss, sweeps over them like the fog veil of a morning in a secret world.
The together movements, in dance, of the audience, the wishes, sweet and welcomed, are given to them as gifts, and if the weight of the metal crown on her head is too much, it's because her fingers only know the delicacy of the flower petals and his love.
He carries her, often and possessive, as if there could be a scenario between them where she could leave, would want to leave, as if she could ever look and him and not say to herself: What fate, what luck? I decide my destiny and he is it.
And when the feast is over, they are still laughing, friends and family tearing up, and they retire to natural landscapes, green and genuine and endless, like their love.
Where I thought there couldn't be new ways for the light to show them to me, or fresh smiles to capture, he whispers something, careful and playful, and light explodes along with her smiles.
I watched them like you would do a wild flowers field, not too close for it to lose the feeling, but impossible to get away from.
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I really love the chalkboard background Jennifer has been featuring in her listings on Urban Collective. The contrast with my papercuts is absolutely gorgeous!
In the photo: Peonies with blackboard texture background.
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The Math Behind Rail Guns
Posted bychacerandolph March 28, 2022 Posted inUncategorized
Blog Post Number 10 Written: 05-24-2021 Uploaded:03-28-2022 (Sorry this wasn't uploaded on 03-25-2022 Like it should have been, life happens.)
I know I said I am bad at math, but that doesn't stop me from trying. I'd rather try, be wrong, and get corrected than have never tried at all and been even more wrong. So… It might not be relevant in the first book, or even the second book…. But there are rail guns, and here's a little math I did to try and make sure I described the kinetic weapon's effects appropriately.
To start with, I'll talk a little about normal ballistics. A typical projectile's kinetic energy is not difficult to calculate. For example a simple kinetic energy formula for a bullet fired horizontally in the atmosphere is The weight of the bullet (in grains) multiplied by the velocity squared (in feet per second) and that number is then divided by the number 450440 (this 450440 number is a constant that takes into account average air pressure, temperature and humidity at just above sea level.) Let's see if Microsoft word will let me write formulas.
W x V^2/450440=ft-lbs
Not everyone is familiar with a 'grain' as a unit of measurement, but at least in the manufacture of ammunition that is the standard unit of measure. So for the purposes of this paper, don't mistake G for grains and G for grams. They are two different units of measurement. There are roughly 7000 grains to a pound and only 453 grams per pound.
As an example, the 30-30 your fudd grandpa shot bambi with should look like this…
170 G x 2200 fps^2 /450440=1826.65 ft-lbs
Make sense? Tracking so far?
The problem is, that formula doesn't work with excessive numbers…
My rail gun, on the other hand, does involve some excessive numbers. To start with the projectile must be a Ferris metal in order to be magnetically accelerated, a very hard metal that resists deformation in this case I selected to use Tungsten.
I knew velocity was going to be very high, in order to strike targets as accurately as possible over the vast interplanetary distances involved in space combat, you would want a fast projectile so that flight time would be as short as possible and there would be less time for your target to avoid the shot. I chose a small projectile ( as far as cannons are concerned anyway.) 2 kilograms of tungsten occupies a volume of 103.9 cubic centimeters. However, I am an American science fiction author and an Aviation mechanic, airplanes and the old cars I own, don't come in metric, I don't think in metric when I don't have to, so to convert that to pounds, two kilograms is 4.41 pounds and 103.9 cubic centimeters is 6.34 cubic inches. I guess for the purposes of this discussion the actual shape of the projectile doesn't matter, but I had always imagined it as a cylinder. A two kilo/4.41 pound cylinder of tungsten would be 28.75mm x 160mm /1.132 in x 6.299 inches. Doesn't sound very big, does it? Well, that's just the projectile, next we must impart some velocity on it. Light speed, it the galactic speed limit, nothing can exceed that, at least not under current physics. Light speed is 299,792,458 meters per second or roughly 186,000 miles per second. Woof, fast I know, but we're not going to push this tungsten quite that fast. Electricity travels at the speed of light, but computers take time to process, and capacitors take time to cycle and coils to energize and then you have to consider the tolerances and variability that comes into any mass-produced engineering project. I estimated that the electromagnetic coils inside a spaceship's rail gun powered by a nuclear reactor or six would be able to embark a speed of 24% of light speed. No, I didn't do any math for that, it's just a gut feeling estimation. For argument's sake, for the lore of the world, the Russian Federation can build rail guns that can accelerate a 2-kilo slug of tungsten 28.75x160mm to 24% of light speed.
24 percent of light speed is that's 44,640 miles per second or 71,950,189.92 meters per second. Still really fast. However, that formula I described earlier won't work. Sure we could convert the kilos and pounds into grains, and the miles per second into feet per second, but that 450440 number is a constant that represents Earth's atmosphere and gravity at sea level. This rail gun is being fired from one ship to another, without the interference of an atmosphere, and it's not over Earth either. Fortunately, the ship firing the rail gun is at a lower orbital altitude and is fighting at a second ship at a higher orbital altitude, so the effect of gravity is working in the inverse direction of the projectile. This planet's gravity is roughly 1.7 that of Earth's gravity, and we all know Earth's gravity exerts a force of 9.8 meters per second, so this other planet will exert a force of 16.66 meters per second on the projectile, slowing it down. For reference, this combat is in orbit over the planet Kepler 452B which is estimate to be roughly 1.9 earth masses, but I figure in order to make space flight and general human occupation more feasible there I would lighten up the gravity and attribute the current 'over estimation' of its mass to things like its moon and asteroids in the solar system increasing the solar wobble that was in part used to discover the existence of and calculate the mass of the planet. Anyway… back to giant space guns.
Without factoring atmospheric interference the kinetic energy formula is a simple KE=.5 x m x v^2 where M=mass and V = velocity so in this case, we have .5 the mass of two kilos (one kilogram) multiplied by the velocity of 71,950,189.92 meters per second
KE= 1 kilo x 5,176,829,829,524,069.6064 meters per second but also have to subtract the 16.66 meters per second from Kepler 452B's gravity. So then the end result is
KE=5,176,829,829,523,792.05 Jules (3,818,233,735,506,251.5 foot pounds) now that's a big number… that's roughly 2,089,892,575,537 times more powerful then the deer rifle mentioned in the initial formula/example.
That is a number so big, that it will be operating on a whole different scale. That's like a meteor hitting a planet level of kinetic energy and I find, at least for the way my head works, it best to compare this to explosives and convert it to TNT-related units like they do with nuclear devices. Using some calculator I found on the internet and no specific formula I am told that 5,176,829,829,523,792 Jules is the same as 1,237,292 tons of TNT or as would be said in colloquial speak "1.2 megatons of TNT". That's a big boom the little boy dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons of TNT. This is nearly ten times as powerful as that, but it's purely kinetic energy, no radiation, no explosion, just wallop.
But I didn't stop there…. These two space ships in orbit are some distance apart right? If one ship is in a low planetary orbit, and the other is slightly higher, for this instance I chose an altitude difference of 200 kilometers, that's a safe orbital distance separation so you don't have to worry about colliding with each other. At the 24% of light speed chosen velocity flight time of the projectile is .00278 seconds. That's not enough time for the targeted ship to get out of harm's way. To use a larger example, if fired from the Earth, across the 382500-kilometer gap to the moon, the projectiles flight time would only be .0053 seconds. The same velocity would get you from the earth to Mars in just about thirteen seconds.
I know I could have been more accurate in my calculations since the planet's gravity would be 16.6 meters per second on the surface, but if the two ships mentioned are orbiting at 500 and 700-kilometer altitudes the gravity will be less up there.
That was the easy part of the problem, for the story's sake. The next question is what left me hung up for months. If that small of a projectile actually hit the target at that velocity… what would happen to the target? Would the tungsten punch a little hole through the targeted ship and go off into space leaving a 29ish mm hole in the hull, or would it impart some or all of that kinetic energy and convert the spaceship into a cloud of orbital glitter?
I spent months crawling through forums, social media platforms, and so on talking to engineers and people better at math than I in order to try and answer that question. Finally, I met a NASA engineer who was lurking in one of the dark quiet nerdy corners of Discord, and after some discussion, the answer I got was "it depends". As the author, I took some creative liberties at that point, and you'll just have to read the third book, when it comes out to see what happened. (*wink wink*)
Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you out there.
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Cubs Vs. Cardinals Preview: St. Louis Looks To End Losing Streak
The St. Louis Cardinals will be looking to avoid their longest losing streak of the season as they host the Chicago Cubs on Monday.
By Satchel Price May 14, 2012, 8:00am CDT
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The St. Louis Cardinals will be looking to avoid their longest losing streak of the season as they host the series opener against the Chicago Cubs on Monday night. After being swept by the Atlanta Braves, the Cardinals' three-game losing streak is tied for the team's longest of the season.
Jake Westbrook will be making his seventh start of the season for St. Louis. He's coming off his best start of the season, during which he pitched seven shutout innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks while striking out a season-high eight batters.
The Cards will be facing the Cubs' Ryan Dempster, who is pitching extremely well this season despite having zero wins. In five starts, Dempster has a 1.05 ERA but Chicago hasn't won a single one of the games that he's appeared in.
Game Date & Time: Monday, May 14, 6:00 p.m. CST
Location: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
TV: ESPN
For more news and updates from around the MLB, drop by Baseball Nation with Rob Neyer, or dig deeper into the stats at Beyond the Box Score. Also, check out the team blogs Bleed Cubbie Blue and Viva El Birdos.
Cubs Vs. Cardinals: St. Louis Defeats Chicago 7-6 In Dramatic Fashion
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Whether its an AEG or your first spring action airsoft rifle, you obviously want the best you can get for your money. This list contains some of the best airsoft rifles you can currently get for your next skirmish games. Make the difference and upgrade your weapon here!
Taking inspiration from the popular SCAR assault rifles, this CA107M comes in two colours and is one of the most powerful AEGs on the market. This Rapid Assault Carbine is ideal for CQB skirmishes as well as medium flanking. With a 3-position stock and semi to fully automatic firing modes, this weapon is a force to be reckoned with.
With full metal construction, protected hand guard and quick-reloading flash mag, this M4 Carbine allows the airsofter to shoot fast and get out of there quicker. Adjustable hop-up with 330FPS means this gun will take at enemies at shorter distances with ease.
A unique rifle with some impressive additions. The SR4 Mamba has a huge range of specs, including a nylon fibre grip, a fibre optic front sight with a good aluminium build. Ranging up to 330 FPS, this rifle can hold it's own on the field and looks brilliant whilst doing it. With a sturdy front grip, you're going to be able to keep shots steady even if you're pinned down by the enemy.
This SR416 is a modified version of the M4 and due to the gun's popularity, there is a lot that can be done to this weapon. With a 1:1 scale and adjustable tactical rail you can put laser sights, torches or other airsoft accessories on to make this gun your own. Couple that with an adjustable stock and this gun will become an attachment of yourself, perfect for taking out opponents at your next skirmish.
Recognised around the world, the M4 style of rifle is eponymous with western military and this choice from WE is one of the most popular airsoft rifles currently on the market. This Gen 2 M4 hits a consistent 330fps, perfect for UK skirmishing and has a good metal build, capable of surviving the wear and tear of a heavy weekend of airsoft. | {
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Judge Strikes Down Federal COVID Vaccine and Mask Mandate for Head Start Program
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In a devastating blow to yet another one of the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday ruled the government cannot require Head Start program teachers, staff and volunteers be vaccinated against COVID-19, nor can they require that adults and children wear face masks.
The jab-or-job mandate affected nearly 280,000 Head Start Program teachers, staff and volunteers and more than one million children.
U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty wrote:
"The public interest is served by maintaining the constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals who do not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine. This interest outweighs Agency Defendants' interests. The public has a liberty interest in not being required to take a vaccine or be fired from their jobs. The public interest must be taken into account before allowing Agency Defendants to mandate vaccines. Although vaccines arguably serve the public interest, the liberty interests of individuals mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any interest generated by the mandatory administration of vaccines."
The lawsuit was originally filed in Dec. 2021 by teacher Sandy Brick in an effort to stop the mandate. The Liberty Justice Center, a national law firm, and the Louisana-based Pelican Institute for Public Policy took the case.
"Although President Biden recently declared that the 'pandemic is over,' the fight to restore Americans' individual liberties is not," said Daniel Suhr, managing attorney at the Liberty Justice Center in a statement.
"We will continue to fight for teachers like Sandy and the low-income students they serve until every illegal and unjustified mandate is wiped from the books," he added. "Today's decision is a significant step toward undoing the injustice perpetrated against everyday Americans throughout the COVID-19 crisis."
"Louisiana teacher Sandy Brick has been serving her students through adversity and uncertainty the last two years. Today, this decision vindicates her right to teach without sacrificing her freedom," said Sarah Harbison, general counsel at the Pelican Institute for Public Policy.
According to the Liberty Justice Center, Head Start programs help children up to age 5 from families at or below the federal poverty level prepare for school. Head Start agencies are local, primarily nonprofit or governmental providers that receive federal funding to provide services for these children.
Brick's lawsuit was filed in response to the Office of Head Start under the Department of Health and Human Services publishing an "interim final rule" on Nov. 30, 2021, that required teachers, staff and volunteers in Head Start programs to be "fully vaccinated" by Jan. 31, 2022, or face losing their jobs.
A universal mask mandate was also forced on all adults and children over two years old, despite no science supporting the practice.
The federal government must now decide whether to appeal the ruling of the Western District to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the same court that blocked the government's vaccine mandate for private businesses.
The Head Start mandate was one of five federal mandates included in President Biden's COVID-19 action plan announced on September 9, 2021. The Liberty Justice Center and Pelican Institute also challenged the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for private employers that affected more than 80 million Americans.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Louisiana business owner Brandon Trosclair and six Texas CaptiveAire employees in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and was blocked on Jan. 13, 2022, by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Baking and self-care for moms aren't two things that typically come to mind together, but trust me, baking is an ideal addition to your self-care routine.
Especially for moms, the benefits are huge.
For one, just the process of measuring and mixing is therapeutic. Then there's a break where your entire house starts to smell lovely.
At the end of it all, you're left with a steaming treat that you and your kids can enjoy—the bonus being their little mouths will be so full of yummy stuff that you're sure to have a few more minutes of quite, too.
If you read my linen spray recipe, you'll know that I'm completely obsessed with lemons. It's my favorite as both a scent and as a cooking ingredient.
So, when I'm thinking about dessert, lemon pound cake is my top pick. Because, of course.
Today, I'm sharing my recipe for lemon pound cake plus 4 more recipes for lemon cake that I absolutely love!
Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray and then lightly flour it.
Add the eggs, sugar, and sour cream to a large mixing bowl. Whisk vigorously until smooth and combined. I'll admit that I totally cheat on this step most of the time and use my Kitchenaid Standing Mixer. Best wedding present ever!
Drizzle in the oil and add the lemon zest and lemon extract—no substitutions!
Add the flour, baking powder, and salt until just combined. Make peace with the lumps and don't over mix. You'll end up with touch, chewy pound cake later.
Pour the batter into your loaf pan and bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick or fork comes out clean after being inserted into the center. Putting foil loosely over the loaf pan in the last 5-10 minutes of cooking helps prevent too much browning.
For the glaze, whisk lemon juice into the powdered sugar until the mixture is smooth. Increase or decrease the amount of lemon juice until you reach the desired consistency.
Drizzle over your lemon pound cake once it has cooked and completely cooled.
These recipes for lemon cakes are to die for! If you're a fan of lemon like me, try one of these and let me know what you think.
Learn how to make this lemon cake recipe!
Moms know they need more self-care, but finding time to actually get more of it is more of a challenge.
Surprisingly, though, a few of the activities you do every day can be incredibly beneficial.
Cooking in general and baking, for me, specifically are incredibly therapeutic. There is something very meditative about the process of measuring and simmering and stirring and watching as something turns from a batch of raw ingredients in your oven into something delightfully delicious.
Outside of my experience, though, there are a number of health benefits of baking.
Better health physically often translates to better health mentally.
While it may seem obvious that nutrition plays a vital role in mental health, there are studies that have linked specific nutrients to brain health.
According to Psychology Today, these include omega-3 fats, B vitamins, iron, zinc, magnesium and amino acids.
Being more mindful helps reduce stress and increase our love of life.
In the kitchen, being mindful may look like watching carefully as the knife glides through a cucumber or feeling the bumpy outside of an avocado.
Taking it one step further, it even includes thinking about the flavors and textures of the food as you eat it.
In the grand scheme of things, it's easy to consider cooking or baking as just one more thing to be done. However, it can be anything but a chore!
In fact, baking can bring an immense amount of satisfaction and joy to your life.
As someone who is always looking for ways to promote more self-care for moms, finding ways to add more joy to our everyday lives is somewhat of a mission.
I find that baking allows me to be grateful for the food and abundance in my life. And it helps me create little joyful moments where I can teach my children to invest in and treat themselves. It reinforces my work-hard-play-hard philosophy.
When I really think about it, the fact that baking can do all of that is really quite amazing.
Love to bake? Try these M&M'S Mini Bundt Cakes! They're the perfect size to indulge in all by yourself and decorated with white candy icing and crushed M&M'S.
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Q: Python tree traversal from specific breadth I've been trying to solve this probably very simple problem for a day now, and I still can't get my head around the problem.
Suppose we have a dictionary, e.g.
di = {'a' : ['b','c','d'],c : ['g','j','k'],k : ['z','y']}
I've been trying to write out only elements, which appear lower in the tree than an element specified. So for e.g if I call get_low('a',2), it will return the elements [g,j,k,z,y], so all elements down the a tree from the second level down.
My attempt:
def get_low(obj, level, children = [], generation = 0):
if level == 0:
children = [obj]
generation += 1
#print (generation, level)
for child in di[obj]:
if level <= generation:
children.append(child)
get_low(child, level,children, generation)
return set(children)
This although prints some of the correct values, two things don't work: 1.) it doesn't include obj if level is set at zero and 2.) if I set level to e.g. 4, it doesn't throw empty set() as a result.
Thanks for any help!
A: Well, I did it a bit different but I think it gets the right nodes:
di = {'a' : ['b','c','d'], 'c' : ['g','j','k'], 'k' : ['z','y']}
children = set()
def get_low(obj, level):
if level==0:
children.add(obj)
level -= 1
if di.get(obj):
for i in di.get(obj):
if level<=0:
children.add(i)
get_low(i,level)
else:
return
get_low('a', 2)
print children
For example for level=2 the result is:
set(['y', 'k', 'j', 'z', 'g'])
for level=0 is:
set(['a', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'g', 'k', 'j', 'y', 'z'])
and for level=4:
set([])
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There were a few games last year the Tigers didn't believe they could actually win, according to sophomore quarterback Michael Lindauer. He knows that needs to change if they want to improve upon last season's 2-8 finish.
"We were surprised when we came close. We have to go into (the season) knowing we can win ballgames," Lindauer said. "We lost three guys last year, so we have no excuse."
PICK SIX: Who will win these HS football games?
Lindauer admitted he wasn't as confident in his own abilities as he should've been. He was thrust into the starting role when then-senior Will Durchholz suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 3.
At 6-foot-3, 170 pounds, Lindauer is stronger and more comfortable with his role this season. The other 16 returners should feel the same when they walk onto Enlow Field against Jasper at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
"Michael does a good job at quarterback, but he's 15. He's a sophomore and he's still developing and he's still maturing," coach John Hurley said. "That puts it on the other guys who have been around for awhile … they're going to have to pick up their play and get everything else going."
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Memorial has an opportunity to validate its preseason optimism against Jasper, which went 10-2 last year. Jasper also has won its past 11 against Memorial, which has lost all eight under Hurley. Memorial has held leads in recent years, but hasn't finished within two touchdowns the past five meetings.
"That just makes us want to beat them even more," Memorial senior Peyton Head said. "Everyone is saying this can be the year and I truly believe that. We've got a good team and we're ready to go."
Head, a wide receiver and safety, is one of Memorial's captains. He's sensing higher expectations from his teammates and outsiders. He said the Tigers know the plays, so wins will depend on "whether we can keep our heads in the game all the way until the fourth quarter."
Head headlines a strong receiving corps, which should help Lindauer, who threw for 1,583 yards and 16 touchdowns last season. Defensively, Head and senior linebacker Jack Folz have placed an emphasis on being more aggressive, rather than letting plays come to them.
Memorial doesn't want a fifth consecutive losing season. The Tigers are trying to escape the bottom of the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference.
Friday's a fresh start.
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A career in business can take many forms, but earning a graduate business degree is your key to taking your career to the next level. With a b-school degree, you'll gain knowledge that allows you to access exciting opportunities, earn a higher salary, and create an expansive network of business professionals.
Expand your portfolio of work experience and demonstrate your commitment and dedication to potential employers by enrolling in a summer internship. Internships can up your professional game by giving you skills and experiences you can't always get in the classroom.
They're a great way to try out different industries or professions and confirm your career path. Plus, they expand your network and can help you get a foot in the door with desirable employers, increasing your chances of full-time employment down the road.
Finding a mentor who can guide you on college, career, and GMAT prep is a crucial step to ensuring long-term career success. Mentors have access to tools and expertise that can advise and inform the critical steps along your professional path and how to best prepare for success.
The LinkedIn profile is today's digital resume. If you don't already have one, set up a LinkedIn account to showcase your academic and professional accomplishments.
Expand your profile by adding details such as work history, unique skills, and how your accomplishments have made an impact. Include information about your extracurricular activities and volunteerism to give a more complete representation of your skills and interests. Use your account to connect with peers and professionals you meet throughout the summer, and beyond.
Choosing a business school is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming with more degree opportunities and choices than ever before. Give yourself time to research different programs and decide if they fit your interests, goals, and learning style, starting with School Finder on mba.com.
Schedule school visits and get a sense of campus culture by talking to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Once you've narrowed your options, research Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) score ranges and benchmark yourself against fellow test takers. Then, formulate a GMAT prep plan and set milestones to help you achieve your personal goals.
With your test-taking abilities at their absolute peak, there's no better time to take the GMAT exam than now. Math and verbal skills are fresh in your mind and you have access to the best test-prep resources. Your score is good for five years so you'll have plenty of time to decide where or when you want to apply. And with 600+ testing centers across the United States, you can take the exam wherever (and whenever) it's convenient for you.
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Q: Selecting last row, range, vba I'm fairly new to vba and have a rather simple problem. Can someone please help:
Instead of selecting the specific cell, I want my vba macro to go to the bottom of the column of interest, skip, and two cells below it do the following:
Range("W72").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "General"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "Null_value"
Range("X72").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "General"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[-2]C[1]-SUM(R[-2]C[-8]:R[-2]C[-6])"
As you can see the code above refers to the specific cells W72 and X72. Currently, the last entry in these columns are in W70 and X70 but next month my dataset will get bigger so W72 and X72 aren't the right locations to do the actions above. How do I correct for this such that my vba code is automatically going to the bottom of W(n):X(n), skips one row and in W(n+2), X(n+2) performs the code above.
Also, my formula above (ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1) also is referring to specific cells, in my case Row 70 several columns to the left, but as you probably tell, this too has the same issue since the row referencing changes each month. I need to get my vba to have the formula pick up the last row of those columns, the columns are P,Q,R.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Update: Part of my same working project, I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help with this too. Thank you:
Hi All,
I currently have an input box for a variable that changes everymonth:
r_mo = Application.InputBox(prompt:="Enter the reporting month as YYYYMM (Eg:201604). Errors in this entry will result in errors in the results.")
This prompts an input box which one has to manually enter into... However, I want to automate this process and eliminate the need for an input box. Isn't there a now function in vba that will automatically generate today's date.
From a now, or system function all I want to do is extract the year in four digits and the month in two digits.
So for example, if we're in decemeber 2016
Sub asasdas ()
"Now function"
r_mo = YYYYMM ' automatically updated from "now function"
End Sub
I appreciate any help you can give me and thank you so much all.
A: You can get the last populated row of a given column (W in my example) in VBA with the following code:
Dim ws As Worksheet : Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("MySheetNameHere")
lastRow = ws.Cells(ws.Rows.Count, "W").End(xlUp).Row
Naturally, if you then add 2 to lastRow you have the cell you are looking for.
A: I'd do it like
Sub asdf()
Range("w1048576").End(xlUp).Offset(2, 0).Select 'gets the last row
With Selection
.NumberFormat = "General"
.FormulaR1C1 = "Null_value"
End With
ActiveCell.Offset(, 1).Select
With Selection
.NumberFormat = "General"
.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[-2]C[1]-SUM(R[-2]C[-8]:R[-2]C[-6])"
End With
End Sub
A: If you want a more detailed answer you're going to have to make a new question but for your second question try this.
Sub Now()
Dim myDate As String
myDate = Date
myDate = Format(myDate, "yyyymm")
Debug.Print myDate '201606 output for June 10th 2016
End Sub
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As 2015 draws to a close we can look back at the more than 150 new projects we have completed and see first hand how we have been able to bring substantial benefit to our clients.
Our website design quality and marketing philosophy has brought real results. As most website companies put sites together with no regard for any marketing prowess or design balance and, realistically, just 'paint by numbers' to achieve the desired result of just getting a website for the sake of getting a website, Allcorp projects stand above the crowd on another tier altogether.
Our websites are designed for the client. They are made to suit the business image and branding. Unlike others we also put effort into making the potential customers who are viewing our client websites see the benefits of making a buying decision based on what they see in the site. This is accomplished with visual and written cues to make an impact on the potential customer and sufficient 'call-to-action' events to encourage them making contact.
These are not services that other website businesses incorporate into their projects. This is why throughout 2015 we have had dozens of calls and emails of feedback exclaiming how our clients have received extra business based on the website alone and how our website has opened new doors that were previously closed.
We revel in this feedback as it encourages us to continue to find new ways of adapting our styles to enhance the amount of extra business we can bring to all of our clients. Couple this with our class leading Google services and the fact that we are the only local website design business who is a certified Google partner and we can see only more avenues we can use to drive new clients through our clients doors.
If you want more business let us show you how we can generate real results for you. With our experience of more than 15 years as leaders in our field, exclusive partnerships and accredited staff we are the only choice if you want your online marketing to succeed. Over 1,000 very busy clients can't be wrong.
We are now a certified Google Partner - The only local website design company to achieve this status and the preferred choice for any business who needs to successfully market themselves online.
After many years of working towards improving the internet marketing of our clients and attending Google courses and seminars along with taking exams and other due diligence criteria we have successfully been granted the status of approved Google Partner.
This status is not an easy achievement and it is only given to those who are seen as having the knowledge and understanding to effectively use Google marketing products to assist businesses and improve their online footprint.
Couple these abilities with the quality of the website products we produce and the real world benefits are seen by clients. It is these abilities coupled with our ongoing commitment to working with Google and maintaining our relationship with them that sees us as the leaders in our industry and the only source for clients who want to get the most out of their website and associated marketing.
We are very pleased that, going into our 16th year as a local website design business, we have been able to gain this accreditation as it shows that we have been recognised by one of the biggest companies in the world for the quality of our services. We are a website design business that both knows how to design websites of the highest quality but can also effectively market these websites with search engine programs such as Google AdWords and organic optimisation services - and we are the only locally owned company who has this status.
In the words of Google themselves they sum up that a Google partner is a business that is able to assist clients with Google search engine marketing services and as an agency that is recognised as a trusted business partner by Google. This means that we have undergone qualification procedures to maintain a service level which is to the high standards of Google. We have also implemented business practices that are consistent with Google policies meaning we are a trusted source of Google services in the region and have full Google support with all of our client accounts.
This month our work into helping clients with Google marketing showed us some more examples of the unprofessional tactics some of the other Google marketing companies out there are using - even some of the big national companies.
A new client from Townsville called Twin Cities Auto Electrical had been paying a Google marketing company to promote their business with Google AdWords. After working with us to redesign their website (also made by the same company who was doing their Google marketing) and being very impressed by the quality of our projects they asked us to look into their Google campaign.
The first thing we noticed was that there was a grammatical error in the ad itself - not so big a deal really, we all make mistakes and this would be easily fixable. We then looked further into the ads this company was selling to their clients and noticed an identical ad - with the same grammatical error - was appearing for an Auto Electrician in Cairns.
Broadening the scope a bit and looking around at other cities' auto electricians we found that pretty much every town had an auto electrician with the same identical ad running in Google AdWords - all managed by the same company.
We then looked into other industries and types of companies and found they all had the same ads running too. Numerous times the same identical ads appeared just with a different business name.
For a company to sell a marketing product to their clients that is just picking a predetermined industry specific template off a shelf shows a certain amount of laziness and very little desire to actually try and help improve their clients' businesses.
At Allcorp we tailor make our Google AdWords packages to suit our client. If we were to do an identical Google campaign for Twin Cities Auto Electrical as we are doing for another auto electrician we'd basically be just saying that all Auto Electricians are the same.
Our Google campaigns are carefully written to suit the client's business and their location along with the target demographic of their potential customers in mind. This additional care and attention we take is why our clients are receiving real world benefits from their Google marketing.
If you are doing a Google campaign with another company we urge you to do some searches for similar businesses to your own in other cities and see if your provider is using this tactic. If they are you are not receiving the full benefit of your marketing in Google and need to bring this to their attention straight away.
If you would like us to help you with these services please contact our offices and find out how you can start enjoying the advantages that dealing with professionals who are Google AdWords certified can bring to your company.
Now that we have staff working in our studio who are Google AdWords certified we see a lot of examples of businesses who have appointed non certified Google AdWords businesses to handle their campaigns poorly.
Unfortunately we usually only see this when a business has wasted a lot of time and money on such campaigns. This is usually when the client comes to us asking for help and is wondering why their Google investment isn't providing much of a return on their investment.
One such example is in the case of a client who is a local business in Cairns. The nature of their business means that they don't service clients from outside of the Cairns area. This business had been approached by a Melbourne business to manage a Google AdWords campaign. Claiming to be the experts when it comes to setting up and managing Google campaigns the client agreed to pay them just over $1,500 per month to effectively market their business on Google.
The chart below is one full month of Google clicks that we investigated after the client came to us for help. As you can see by the chart, in this campaign that was being managed by a Melbourne based company of Google marketing experts, the majority of clicks were from areas other than Cairns.
To put in in other words, the majority of clicks were from people who live in areas that the client can't service. These clicks were effectively wasted and when you consider that the client pays on a 'per-click' basis you can see why this is an unwise investment.
The good news is that once our Google AdWords Certified staff took over the campaign we are achieving a much more precise result to an audience that the client can service. Due to our abilities to manage and run these campaigns efficiently we have increased the relevant traffic to the site while cutting the monthly spend to less than a quarter of what the other business were charging.
This is just one example of many that we see and there are other problems that we have found when non Google Certified businesses try and manage these campaigns. If you are doing one of these campaigns with a company other than Allcorp we impress upon you the importance of having a meeting with one of our team and letting us do a free audit on your Google AdWords account. Wouldn't it be worth it if we can get you better traffic from a more relevant market for a lesser price?
Click here to read more about our Google Certified SEM services.
Elliot has been part of our team for a few months now and has made significant inroads towards helping a lot of businesses find success in their online advertising and marketing strategies.
Coming from a successful career in business-to-business sales and with a long history of successfully working with clients towards efficient project management, Elliot is instrumental in helping us keep our Cairns clients up to date with the latest trends.
We are also able to manage our time much more precisely and deliver our award winning and proven products and services to clients quicker than ever. Elliot manages the entire Cairns region in both client development and support and is fully up to speed on all of our services and products.
Being the Cairns representative for the best website development and Google marketing services in the region, Elliot has spent many hours working with the various departments within Allcorp to ensure having the right information to portray to all clients.
Are you investing your advertising budget wisely?
One of our colleagues who is a property manager at one of the Cairns Beaches accommodation complexes sent us this photo of the latest editions of the Local Directories phone books at their centre management office.
Our colleague advised that last year when the books were delivered they were individually placed on the doorsteps of each of the 96 apartments in the complex. The problem was that, like we all have realised over the last 4 or 5 years, nobody really reads these books, and the majority of the 96 books delivered last year ended up as wet, soggy messes in the gardens a short time after their delivery.
The property management therefore decided that all future deliveries of Yellow Pages and Local Directories phone books will be delivered to the management office and then all the residents of the complex would be advised that they can be collected if they wanted one.
The image shows the reality of how much demand there is for these books. Not one of the 96 residents in this upmarket apartment complex chose to take their copy of the phone book. Now, 1 month later, the apartment complex management have decided that recycling is the only solution. They have also notified the phone book companies not to bother because not a single person in the complex was interested in their product.
We were also advised that the managers of this apartment had heard similar reports from other apartment buildings in the area with stacks of yellow books piling up in driveways.
The question this story should pose to any business owner is how much did your investment in these phone books have at offering a return on your investment? Certainly the good people at Trinity Beach in Cairns didn't take notice! A business who advertised in this book may as well have just recycled their money in the same manner that these 96 books are being recycled now.
A wise spend of your advertising budget in smarter, new media such as websites and internet marketing not only is relevant to the majority of your clients and potential clients but also is considerably cheaper than the dinosaur marketing products with the soon to be recycled cheap yellow paper. Talk to our industry leading local web experts today about how we can get you more business while saving you money.
SEO is a process undertaken on the website to increase the performance of your site and make it most attractive to Google and many other popular search engines, to give your site the best opportunity to rank well in organic searches.
SEM is a pay per click form of advertising and is displayed separately from the organic search results.
Google clearly marks out the paid advertising with an "Ad" icon and are displayed at the top of search results, the right hand side and often below the organic listings as the example on the left.
Allcorp are unique in being able to provide customers with Google AdWords SEM services because all staff who work in the Google SEM department hold an official Google AdWords Certification.
This means when we say that we are bringing you the real Google package we mean it!
In order to gain this accreditation our personnel (Headed up by Kate Mayer) have attended Google conferences, Google seminars and undertaken exams to ensure we have the correct knowledge to provide clients with official Google SEM AdWords products and services.
Our SEM team also have a dedicated Google account manager who ensures we have the Google support we need to keep our SEM clients at the cutting edge of smarter Google marketing.
If you are currently performing Google AdWords with another company in the region be sure that you're confident in their certifications. If they aren't Google AdWords Certified there are high you run the risk of spending too much on an inferior service and not using your SEM budget wisely.
Another year over and lots of developments have been taking place in our company to better fulfill the needs of our clients. In the new year we have implemented staff increases to assist us to better work towards achieving excellent results for our clients and we have finally finished setting up our new head office which is set to be the central hub of our operation.
With so many internet marketing professional services now on offer we are positioned as the leaders in our field in our regions. No other similar company has the resources, people power and accreditation's that we have and we are set to mark the new financial year as another milestone towards our provision of only the highest quality services and products.
So we hope that all of our clients have enjoyed 2014/2015 and we are looking forward to working with you in 2015/2016 with some of the exciting new services we have engaged along with the tried and tested services we have always been providing.
A quick shout out to one of our valued customers who's doing their part in helping out the local community – Danielle at Bellero's Electrical in Mossman heads up the KIND (Kids In Need Of Donations) Organisation, helping out children with serious illnesses.
Throughout the year KIND runs local events to help raise money and spread the awareness of the need for these children and their families.
The financial support the families are given is through a range of initiatives - from airfares for family members not covered by the Government assistance to attend their child's medical appointments in other cities such as Brisbane and Melbourne, through to simply reimbursing out of pocket expenses such as taxis, accommodation or groceries.
Join KIND Inc at their facebook page to keep up to date with current events and get the details to make a much needed donation!
As you will be aware from past news items this year, 2015 marked the year the Allcorp staff became fully Google certified for AdWords pay per click search engine marketing (SEM). With the assistance of our Google case manager we have been working with our clients in targeting Google advertising.
Using our new found skills and with Google providing valuable insights to assist us (A service that Google only provide to certified AdWords people), we have shown some great returns to our clients.
With our Google AdWords services we can provide our clients with valuable resources of how website users are interacting with the website and provide real facts based on our analytic software provided by Google that is installed on all SEM client websites.
For instance we were showing an SEM client their regular monthly traffic report and along with the usual collected data such as number of clicks on the advertisement, how many people saw the ad, what keyword people searched for, who clicked on the ad but also tracking of the people who click on the ads through the website. We can show SEM clients where the people who responded to their ad went in their website, how they interacted with 'call to action' messages placed through the site and even if they made attempts to make contact with the website owner through the contact form or completing forms within the website.
On top of all of this great information we can also see increases in the organic ranking of the website in Google. We see this because we are working with many SEM clients who are doing these campaigns as an add on to their already running SEO campaigns.
It has become apparent in recent months that the competitiveness of Google search results has meant that in some industries it is important to add SEM to the SEO that is already being performed because the SEO on its own is proving to not be powerful enough.
With our SEO clients who have been running our Google certified AdWords campaigns with SEM for a few months we have tracked a significant increase in their SEO rankings. This means great things for these businesses because they will often have twice as much exposure on the frontpage of Google searches - once with their AdWords SEM listings that we are managing on their behalf and once more with the organic SEO listings that we are maintaining for them.
All of this results in a great ROI with clients already seeing significant increases in the number of phone calls and general inquiries they are receiving on a day to day basis. With most of them dropping all of their low-tech advertising such as newspaper, radio, phone directories and television in order to divert their budgets towards the internet services provided by Allcorp they can only attest that the increased business they are receiving is all thanks to Allcorp and our fully Google certified services.
Many of our clients in Townsville will have already met Peta over the last month and if you haven't yet you will be hearing from her soon. Peta is a very experienced and knowledgeable media sales expert who has joined our team as the account director of our Townsville office.
Peta moved to our company from a very successful career with Local Directories and Sensis Media (Yellow) after seeing the transitioning effect of businesses shying away from printed media and more towards digital media.
Being a media professional with fingers on the pulse of what is going on in Townsville, Peta already knew of our company. After witnessing firsthand the explosion of Allcorp acceptance amongst Townsville businesses and seeing us grow exponentially over the last 15 years to be the largest internet development company in the area (and probably losing a few clients to us as well!) Peta has made the wise move of joining in with our company to ensure being part of a forward thinking, future proof organisation.
Peta has the main responsibility of marketing our advertising services including search engine optimisation and Google AdWords certified SEM services to our Townsville clients and has already had a roaring success in her first few weeks on board. We're very confident you will find the professionalism and product knowledge of Peta to be of the highest standard and trust you will find her willing to do what is best for your businesses success in digital marketing.
All you have to do is read the latest market research and media headlines to see that there are very positive things being said about the economy in our regions. Property is starting to sell in droves which is always a very good sign of the trickle down effect of a rising economy.
Allcorp has seen this first hand with our biggest production month ever in April with 12 brand new website designs being finalised, 8 mobile website projects completed and the commencement of 3 SEO campaigns and 8 Google AdWords SEM campaigns.
All of our sales offices are also reporting a new-found positivity and confidence amongst clients with more willingness to invest money in the growth of their businesses with all of the quality services Allcorp provides.
All in all we are confident that this and previous good news stories signals the return of the peak times and signals 2015 as the year that it all changed.
Google have announced the cut-off date for those who don't yet have their websites mobile friendly is to be April 21st with the official statement being that if your site isn't mobile friendly by this date you'll be ignored by Google searches on mobile devices and the main website search engine positioning will most likely suffer as well.
This comes as a result of Google continually driving the internet in the direction it needs to go in order to grow and further benefit consumers and, with Google possessing some of the best statistics in the world on how people use the internet, they are in the best position to make this call.
We know from our own insights into the Queensland internet users market with our own portfolio of over 1000 website clients that the statistics are showing more and more the numbers of people using mobile devices to view websites and make buying decisions and up until now it has always been an option to have the website mobile optimised. Now though Google have basically made it compulsory by punishing those who do not embrace this technology and make their website mobile friendly.
This doesn't necessarily mean a huge expense. For Allcorp clients we can develop your mobile friendly website version from as little as $440.00. A small price to pay in order to keep the website user friendly to your customers, technically correct and ranked well by Google as well as protected from the potential damage that can ensue if Google decide they are going to stop noticing your website which can take months to counteract.
If you would like to get your website mobile device friendly by the cut-off date of April 21st don't delay contact our sales team today and let us get things moving in the right direction.
Google robots now gather even more information about your website when they crawl it – could your website be suffering because of what they are now seeing?
Late last year Google announced that they had changed the way their crawlers and robots gather information about websites they visit. The main area they have changed their tactics is by increasing the type of information they see including a more astute look at the content and structure of a website. Previous Google robot standards were mainly focussed on website content but their new way of gathering information about a website gives a clearer indication of how the website actually looks.
There has been a significant impact on websites that are built on the older HTML platforms as well as websites that contain Flash animation. While this wasn't such an issue in previous years it has now become important because Google is not just grabbing the text from a website but also looking into how things are built and how the structure is laid out much more closely. This in turn handicaps websites that are built on older framework as well as sites that contain older development tools that Google now sees as obsolete.
While we always develop our websites around current trends the reality of this industry is that what is current is only such for a short time before something new and improved comes along. With our SEO clients who are noticing a drop in exposure it is important to look into how the websites are built and how old they are to determine what course of action can improve the situation.
Basically any website that is more than 24 months old will probably be affected by this. Not to say that there is anything wrong with the websites in general, only that Google have changed what they are looking for in a website and downgrading websites that don't have certain aspects included. These aspects weren't important issues 24 months ago but now, with these new website crawling policies from Google, it is important to ensure that websites are up to the latest standards in technology.
Fixing this issue is usually quite simple and it doesn't cost a lot at all. It is also something that we have seen dramatically improves the Google ranking of a website. If you feel your website is lacking or dropping in Google ranking talk to one of our sales team today and let us help you get back on top.
Allcorp are now managing numerous Google AdWords campaigns on behalf of many clients who are finding their Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is no longer providing strong enough results. A Google AdWords campaign falls into the category of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and is the process where we manage a campaign of targeted search engine keywords with sponsored advertisements.
Google users will recognise these SEM sponsored ads as the initial shaded listings displayed at the top of search results and sometimes down the right hand side of the page. By allowing us to manage your Google AdWords SEM campaign we can use the sponsored listings to provide leverage to the SEO listings and by increasing traffic and clicks through to your website we can provide overall ranking increase to the website SEO.
Confused yet? Basically by adopting a Google AdWords campaign it will provide immediate search engine results and in doing this we will increase the traffic through to your website. This increased traffic to your website will make the organic website listing improve.
If you would like to discuss the benefits that a Google SEM campaign with Allcorp can bring to your business including real time tracking and results driven pay structures contact your Allcorp representative today.
We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and a big welcome back to what is set to be a great 2015. Already there has been positive news for our regions with economy predictions reassuringly optimistic from key research and analysis groups. Our regions are significant growth areas and we are all looking forward to developments that will occur in the next 12 months that will help maintain our way of life.
As a business owner it is imperative that you take every opportunity to be at the forefront of your industry as this growth and higher demand for your services happens. Simply put, when the new opportunities that 2015 is sure to bring to whatever business you are in arrive you need to be ready to 'catch' it and process it efficiently.
There are more and more people from the southern states realising what a great part of the world we live in and realising that by relocating here they can enjoy the improved lifestyle that we all enjoy. This coupled with the statistically transient nature of the population coming and going each year we are often refreshed by not only a growing population but a changing one.
When someone is making their plans to relocate to our cities what do you think they are using to research businesses they will legitimately need the services of before, during and after they arrive? Your businesses web presence is vitally important to enabling you the best chance to 'catch' these customers and clients as it is literally the first impression they receive. We all know how important first impressions are and having a new website developed for your business by us is sure to deliver the image your operation truly deserves.
Another element that must be looked after is the ability for your website to be found easily. Our new residents who are planning on moving here will be using Google to find your business and at Allcorp we are one of the few local website development companies who can guarantee your Google ranking before we commence the project.
Whether for a new business or sprucing up your existing web presence, talk to us about helping you get the cutting edge image you need that will make these first impressions turn into increased business for you. Now in our 15th year of providing our important services to the region we are better equipped than any other to partner with you and make 2015 a prosperous year. | {
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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) é um modelo de programação unificado e ambiente de execução (Framework) criado pela Microsoft que visam a construção de aplicações orientadas a serviços (Service Oriented Architecture).
O objetivo principal do WCF é permitir que analistas e desenvolvedores criem aplicações voltadas para computação distribuída.
O WCF possui ainda um conjunto de bibliotecas (classes) que permitem aos desenvolvedores criar estas aplicações para funcionarem sob o sistema operacional Windows.
Referências
Visão geral da arquitetura do WCF
Downloads do Windows Communication Foundation
Extensões para Visual Studio 2005 trabalhar com WCF
Interfaces de programação de aplicações da Microsoft
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When I [Sarah] met Gerry around 2004, he had recently finished workshopping his memoir on Bill Manhire's Creative Writing Course at Victoria University, Gerry had been jilted at the printing press by a someone who thought they might be a publisher. They weren't, but I was, so when the page proofs passed across my desk (via the wonderful Mary Varnham), I just knew that publishing his book was something I was destined to do.
Gerry – who passed away in 2008 – was my kind of fellow … the sort of man you wished you'd known all your life and kinda felt you actually had. He was kind, warm, clever, funny, colourful. He was gentlemanly and upstanding. An ardent trade unionist, he had plenty to say about people, politics, the state of the world. So did I. I'd pop around to his family home in Karori to talk through something book-related and before you knew it we'd be chewing the fat randomly chewing for an hour or often two. I sure missed him when he went, and I still do.
So, about the book. This is what Iain Sharp said in The Sunday Star-Times.
Though Gerry Evans has been based in Wellington since the early 1960s, he is one of those relatively rare Welsh imports. He was brought up in the port of Aberystwyth and went to sea at 16 – a more common career choice back then than it is today. In 1954 the British merchant marine had 95,000 seamen in its employ. Now, in this little gem of a book, as he nears his 70th birthday, Evans looks back on his youth with fond nostalgia.
His memories aren't all rosy, though. He readily concedes that on some of his voyages the food was foul, the quarters were cramped, the shipboard tasks were tedious and the skipper was a swine. Ah, but what larks Evans enjoyed with his shipmates ('on the homeward passage someone threw a snake through the porthole of the chief steward's cabin, right onto his bunk') and what nights of revelry they had in the seaside dives of seven continents.
The best way to get hold of Shipping Out is to contact us direct, although good New Zealand bookshops can also order it up for you. | {
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Joker probably won't do that well at this year's Oscars
Joker may not be a superhero movie, per se. But with comic book roots the film has overcome the odds to receive a staggering eleven Oscar nominations. But don't expect it to win many.
Twelve months ago we celebrated Marvel's 'Black Panther'. Historically there have been slim pickings for superhero movies at the Oscars, but 2019 marked a year of change for the awards ceremony and 'Black Panther' received seven nominations including Best Picture. Perhaps no one genuinely expected the film to pick up the main prize and , alas, it didn't. But ultimately 'Black Panther' did win awards for best set and costume design.
Whilst 2019 felt like a step towards a more progressive and inclusive event with race and gender more fairly represented than in previous years, criticism has been directed towards the Academy once more in 2020. Making the headlines this year is how males dominate the Best Director category with a notable absence of any female nominations at all.
Within that category sits Todd Phillips, director of 'Joker'. His film is a unique take on the origin story of Batman's most infamous nemesis, but shuns typical superhero tropes and indeed almost any link to DC Comics, from the pages of which the basis of the film was born.
Instead 'Joker' is an unsettling dissection of one man's descent into crime as the result of increasing and untreated mental health issues. It's as much a commentary of the failings in mental health care in the early '80s as it is a graphic portrayal of deranged psychosis.
Despite almost unanimous acclaim from fans and critics alike and an impressive haul nominations at this year's Academy Awards, 'Joker' probably won't fare that well. According to SBD the film's best shot at a major award at the Oscars this year lies in only one category.
Like 'Black Panther' in 2019, 'Joker' is almost certain to end up as an "also ran" when it comes to Best Picture. Sam Mendes' '1917' provides far more gravitas and a much more worthy story in that category. Despite this, it looks like Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' could scoop the big prize. The Best Picture award would overshadow Tarantino's previous two Oscar wins for 'Pulp Fiction' in 1995 and 'Django Unchained' in 2013. Both of which were for Best Original Screenplay.
Whilst he may miss out on Best Picture with '1917', Sam Mendes is the current favourite for Best Director. It would be the second time Mendes has won this award. The first was for 'American Beauty' in 2000. We're expecting to see Todd Phillips applauding the victory from his place in the audience in this category.
Phillips may well be applauding again when it comes to Best Actor. This time under better circumstances. For his portrayal of Arthur Fleck and his subsequent evolution into Joker, Joaquin Phoenix is almost certain to scoop the Oscar for Best Actor ahead of Adam Driver. The later is nominated for his role in 'Marriage Story' rather than his more recognised role as Kylo Ren in the recent Star Wars trilogy. Joaquin Phoenix has two previous nominations in this category for 'Walk The Line' in 2006 and 'The Master' in 2013. He also received a nomination for Best Supporting actor for 'Gladiator' in 2001.
'Joker' is nominated for a further eight categories including: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best make-up and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Despite an impressive haul of nominations 'Joker' is up against strong competition in each of these categories. It's entirely likely that on the night the film could walk away relatively empty handed. No one said show business was easy.
The 92nd Academy Awards will take place on February 9th (The early hours of February 10th in the UK). For a full list of nominees visit oscars.org.
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'I feel like I have failed as a parent,' dad says after this shocking discovery
Posted 5:48 pm, November 25, 2014, by Web Staff, Updated at 06:34PM, November 25, 2014
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Grandview Heights police are working to identify and contact the victims of a voyeur: an alleged teenaged "Peeping Tom" who lurked outside the windows of women, recording them, some while they were nude.
As shocking as the crime, may be how police found their suspect.
"I'm ashamed. I feel like I have failed as a parent."
WBNS has agreed not to reveal the identity of this Grandview Heights father, to protect the anonymity of his young children. It is the actions of his oldest child, a 15-year-old boy, that have launched a criminal investigation.
The father says he was doing his son's laundry when he found a camera memory card.
He plugged it into the computer, and found photos and videos of women from his neighborhood.
"There were a few that were dressed, and there were quite a few where the women were not dressed at all," he said.
He says the videos and photos were taken from outside bedroom windows, looking in.
"It was just feelings of disgust flowing through me, like why would somebody do this to another human being?"
He confronted his son, who he says eventually admitted to making the recordings through the windows of Grandview homes.
"The first thing I did was call the police and let them know, and then I took the memory card with the evidence on it to the police station and let them handle it," he said.
The father says he never considered not involving police.
"He has to, I guess, face the consequences for his actions. There's no ifs, ands or buts about it. I, as a parent, cannot do what's wrong to try to cover up something my son did that was wrong. I have to do what's right, regardless."
Police say there are three victims, one of whom has been identified.
To those women, this father apologizes.
"I can imagine there's probably going to be a lot of people in the area that are now going to be looking out their windows and wondering is somebody standing out there and I feel horrible."
To those who would question his decision to turn his son in to police, he says he had no choice.
"I love my son unconditionally. But that love is not going to override the fact that he needs to pay for what he did."
Grandview Police are in the process of searching the teen's phone and electronics for any other images.
He has not yet been charged with a crime.
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Way to go, Dad!!! Too many parents would run to "protect" their child from consequences of their actions. Totally support you! You are giving your son the best lesson ever– and while you are there to help him through it all. So much better to stop his behavior now, than to let it progress and become embedded into his psyche and character. Personal responsibility is such a key component of integrity– I so wish I had more friends like you. Thank you for what you are doing for your son, and our community as a whole.
Dad shouldn't feel bad. He did the right thing.
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He has officially sealed his son's future and fate.
Patsy Smith
This dad did not seal his son's fate or future, the son did that when he broke the law! If his dad had not turned him in, this would probably have been the gateway to even more horrific behavior. Bravo dad, way to take your responsibility as a parent to heart. We have to teach our children responsibility and respect .
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Yes, but it is an impersonal account. I toyed with the idea PVJ was dumped nearby to make it look like a pattern. But we know little about how Heidt made her money, if you know what I mean.
Yep. It's hard to tell what really happened at such a distance in time, what the details of the crime are, etc. Also, since the authorities were looking for a roommate of the victim, who knows what her associates were like, or, as you say, how she made her money. People in bad situations/environments are so susceptible to violence. Especially women and children.
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APA Group has formally increased its takeover offer for Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund (HDF), and HDF has responded that it is superior to the takeover offer by Pipeline Partners Australia. To help with the possible acquisition, APA is to issue $350 million in listed notes.
APA's new offer is 62 cents cash and 0.390 APA securities for each HDF security, giving a value of $2.51 per HDF security based on a price of $4.85 for APA securities.
The offer is above the midpoint of the value range for HDF determined by HDF's independent expert.
The consideration will be reduced by any further HDF distributions paid to HDF securityholders during the offer period. But if APA's offer succeeds, and the consideration is paid by 31 December, HDF securityholders who still hold APA securities will also receive APA's interim distribution.
The offer will close on 4 September unless extended. Pipeline Partners has until 14 August to make a matching offer.
APA has lodged a prospectus to raise $350 million through long dated, unsecured, subordinated, cumulative notes. The proceeds are for corporate purposes, investment in its infrastructure assets, and the acquisition of HDF if it proceeds.
The notes will have a face value and issue price of $100. The first call date is 31 March 2018 and maturity is on 30 September 2072.
Investors will receive quarterly payments based on the 90 day Bank Bill Rate plus the margin, which will be determined after the bookbuild and is expected to be in the range of 4.50 to 4.70 per cent. This implies an initial yield of around 8.14 to 8.34 per cent per annum, said APA.
The bookbuild to determine the margin is on 16 August, the closing date for the securityholder offer and general offer is 10 September, and the notes begin trading on ASX on 19 September. The ASX code for the notes will be AQHHA.
APA expects the notes will provide an amount of equity credit from Standard & Poor's and Moody's.
Chief financial officer, Peter Fredricson said "The Notes offer is part of APA's ongoing capital management strategy, broadening our funding options for the considerable growth and investment opportunities that exist in our business. This includes organic growth investment in APA's pipelines and related infrastructure, in the order of $300 million each year, as well as the possible acquisition of the HDF assets if our takeover is successful.
Private equity takeover target Gerard Lighting Group made a net profit of $17.6 million for 2011-12. The reduction on 2010-11 was $1.9 million. Full year earnings per share were 10.14 cents compared to 11.37 cents the previous year.
Revenue was $389.3 million, down 3.7 per cent.
Managing director, Simon Gerard, said "Over the past twelve months, the Australian lighting market has been impacted by a downturn in residential building consents and continued soft levels of approval for commercial and retail construction. Further, our ability to expand margins was impacted by a competitive landscape influenced by the strong Australian dollar, resulting in increased price competition from our competitors who import the majority of their product.
Shares in Energy Developments touched a three year low of $2.22 on 3 August, then bounced to $2.40 when the company announced a 20 year contract to extend power supply to Xstrada's McCarthur River Mine in the Northern Territory.
Energy Developments has been the sole power supplier to the mine since it opened in 1995. The new contract, which starts in January 2012 and goes to 2033, is to provide 68 MW and construct a new 53 MW gas fired power station. It will partially utilize Energy Developments' existing 24 MW power station. The natural gas will be supplied by Xstrata from the Daly Waters to McArthur River gas pipeline.
The new power station and infrastructure will be funded from a mix of debt facilities and cash reserves.
After what it says were the disappointing results from its recent research into geothermal explorers, August Investments has sold all its holdings in Greenearth Energy, Panax Geothermal and Petrotherm. It retained its holdings in KUTh Energy and Geodynamics.
It also made some small adjustments to its portfolio. Based on the expected profit results for 2011-12, it purchased additional shares in Energy Action and M2 Telecommunications.
Aeris Environmental has issued 1,145,524 shares as consideration for the annual interest of $240,560 on 12.5 million convertible notes issued in a private placement in 2009.
Green Invest has entered a joint marketing and supply agreement with Niagara Conservation Corporation for its Green Plumbers brand in North America and Mexico.
Green Invest said Niagara is one of the leading US designers, manufacturers and distributors of water and energy conservation products, with expertise in the planning, development and management of energy and water efficiency programs for national electric, natural gas and water utility companies. It is also the major supplier of water efficient toilets and other products to the retail market.
Niagara will have an exclusive license to use the Green Plumbers brand for municipal projects and specific Niagara plumbing products.
"GNV believes that Niagara is ideally positioned to assist in growing the Green Plumber and Green Star Brands in North America and Mexico and to maximize employment opportunities for our Green Plumber (USA) members," said chairman, Peter McCoy.
Niagara will pay Green Invest an annual license fee. It will also pay royalties for Green Star Projects. These are projects introduced to Niagara by Green Invest as well as projects sourced by Niagara utilizing Green Plumbers.
The value of the fee and royalties were not disclosed.
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The two new items will be released in the first half of the new financial year, and will add to existing products for the Trophon EPR including wall mounts, trolleys, and service contracts.
The dramatic way in which Phoslock can clear up polluted water bodies is well illustrated in an article in the latest issue of US magazine Land and Water. This discusses how a severe case of liverwort and algae infection at Whitehall Pond in Virginia was cleared up using Phoslock. The situation was so bad the water was called "The Creepy Pond".
The dramatic before and after pictures will remind investors why the environmental investment theme is so important.
Style Ltd has appointed two new non-executive directors and a new company secretary.
Ian Unwin is a Melbourne based consultant with 35 years of management experience in a range of industries in the UK, USA and Australia. This includes five years with the Boston Consulting Group, and 12 years as CEO or COO including Carter Hold Harvey and the Australian Music Group.
Anthony McIntosh manages his family's investments which include listed and unlisted shares, and rural, residential and commercial property.
Company secretary Mark Licciardo is with Mertons Corporate Services, a specialist corporate governance consultancy.
The appointments follow the resignation of chairman Charles Gullotta and company secretary Paul Smith.
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"Newport Corporation's Technology & Applications Center's Photovoltaic (TAC PV) Laboratory has tested Dyesol's next generation DSC 'strip cell' active area at 7.48 per cent efficiency at one third Sun typical lower light, real world light conditions," it said.
With performance confirmed and an initial proof of concept phase nearing completion, Dyesol Inc.'s US joint venture in Ohio, DyeTec Solar, expects to relocate and expand its workshop to allow it to enter the testing validation and prototype development phase.
This will confirm the product's performance in building integrated applications, which is the last phase before the joint venture commences product development of a DSC enabled glass building façade product for commercial demonstration.
The testing validation and prototype development phase should take 12 to 18 months, and will focus on material evaluation, design, finalizing low cost manufacturing procedures and producing a limited quantity of façade product.
Shares in Earth Heat Resources fell to a two year low of 1.2 cents on 7 August. This was the same day the company announced that it had raised $670,000 to help develop its Copahue Project in Argentina. The placement, to local and overseas sophisticated investors, was at 1 cent per share with one three year option for every two shares and exerciseable at 4 cents each.
Subject to shareholder approval, directors will underwrite up to $73,000 worth of shares under the placement.
"Strong interest has contributed to consideration of a modest rights issue to existing shareholders in the short term, which is likely to be underwritten," they said.
Managing director Torey Marshall said the capital raising and consideration of a future rights issue are to ensure the company has an appropriate balance sheet during the financial gap period ahead of critical decisions to keep the development on track.
"Whilst the current investment market is not good for anyone, our project's development schedule dictates continuous progress and the need for on going, short term funding," he said.
"The Copahue project, a first of its kind in South America, is highly sought after by both debt lenders, power offtake partners and competitors to Earth Heat. This momentum should be continued as a solid response to the value proposition of the project rather than fall victim to current negative capital market sentiment.
Geodynamics took 22 days longer than expected to complete the reverse cementing at its Habanero 4 well, and said that partner Origin Energy will not contribute further to the well's costs.
Geodynamics is now responsible for the ongoing risk and cost of the well. Origin retains the right to resume paying its full contribution and return to full participation at any stage. But Geodynamics said it has no knowledge of Origin's intention at this time.
The well delays occured while completing the reverse cementing of the 251 mm casing in the current 311 mm diameter hole section.
Mr Ward said the decision to use reverse cementing was taken after a review of the Habanero 3 well failure identified that this was the best available method to ensure the safety and integrity of the Habanero 4 well.
This is the first time a reverse cementing operation has been carried out in Australia, he said. "The operation was identified as technically challenging during the design and engineering phase of the well with significant focus over 18 months on planning its execution bringing together experts from both within the joint venture and various organizations from around the world.
The 22 day delay was primarily due to drilling out cement encountered higher than anticipated inside the casing.
The placement of cement has been completed and the cement drilled out to the casing shoe, and an expert review of the logging results concluded that the cement placed in the upper section of the well has met its objectives.
But Mr Ward said "Cement integrity testing at the base of the well has identified that some additional work is necessary to ensure sufficient zonal isolation to protect the higher sedimentary formations from the higher pressures encountered in the bottom of the well. Further remedial work may also be necessary in order to safely conduct stimulation activities and achieve the program objectives.
"Geodynamics is currently preparing to undertake the necessary operation to complete the well section as soon as possible. This entails a 3 to 6 day operation to inject a small volume of cement at the bottom of the well in order to provide the appropriate pressure isolation, following which Geodynamics will undertake further pressure testing of the cement at the base of the well.
"Once a satisfactory pressure test has been achieved, Geodynamics will proceed to drill through the final 216 mm hole section, targeting the previously encountered main fracture system. Geodynamics expects to complete the drilling of the Habanero 4 well by the end of August.
"The total cost to complete the well and associated stimulation and open flow test activities is now estimated to be approximately $50 million, an increase of $1.5 million or 3 per cent compared to the maximum authorized expenditure of $48.5 million agreed with joint venture partner, Origin Energy.
Shares in Hot Rock fell to an all time low of 2 cents on 19 August when the company announced a non renounceable rights issue to raise up to $1.74 million. The one for two offer is at 1.5 cents per share, and is not underwritten.
The capital raising is mainly to fund exploration in its South American projects and attract joint venture partners to fund ongoing exploration and development. The exploration programs including mapping, sampling and magneto telluric surveys will help outline geothermal reservoirs for drill testing.
Panax Geothermal raised $1.1 million under its rights issue. It received applications for $447,161 in the rights issue from 470 shareholders out of 2,400 shareholders. The issue was undersubscribed by 177,442,935 shares and the underwriter, Patersons Securities, will take up 93,262,631 shortfall shares for a total of $652,839.
Shares in Water Resources Group fell to an all time low of 2 cents on 10 August.
On 6 August the company responded to an ASX query about whether its cash burn rate, based on its June quarter report, is sustainable.
Chief executive Brian Harcourt said factors that should be taken into account are the $883,000 in proceeds from the rights issue that closed on 31 July, the program of shortfall placement in progress with $408,000 already raised, and progressive revenue generation over a 10 month build of the desalination plant and then 25 year revenue from water sales with its joint venture partner.
"The company is confident that it will generate sufficient funding from both its rights issue and additional placements, as needed, to continue to operate at its current rate. Overheads will be continually monitored and streamlined until such time as revenue generation commences," he said. | {
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Former Bakkt CEO Under Fire for Selling Millions in Stock Ahead of Market Crash
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Senator Kelly Loeffler, former CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange's cryptocurrency-venture Bakkt, has been under fire for selling millions of dollars worth of stock ahead of the recent market crash induced by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
According to a report published by The Daily Beast, based on disclosures from Loeffler, the first sale of stock was on January 24, the same day her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private meeting on the coronavirus outbreak, which included the CDC director and the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States.
The first transaction was a sale of Resideo Technologies, of between $50,001 and $100,000 worth of stock. The company's stock price has since fallen my more than half, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about one-third of its value over the COVID-19 pandemic.
In total, Loeffler reportedly made 29 stock transactions through mid-February, with only two being purchases. One of these purchases, The Daily Beast points out, was for stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, a tech firm offering teleworking software.
In total, Loeffler's sales totaled between $1.27 million and $3.1 million. The senator initially reported the sales in the name of her husband – Jeffrey Sprecher, founder and CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The report was amended last week, on March 12.
The former Bakkt CEO has also been accused of downplaying the public health and financial threats the coronavirus poses, after selling her holdings. In separate tweets, Loefflerp claimed "Democrats have dangerously and intentionally misled the American people on #Coronavirus readiness," and that President Donald Trump and his administration were "doing a great job working to keep Americans healthy & safe.
Responding to the accusation Loeffler tweeted out on social media she was informed of the transactions on February 16, three weeks after they were made by "multiple-third party advisors" without her knowledge.
As confirmed in the periodic transaction report to Senate Ethics, I was informed of these purchases and sales on February 16, 2020 — three weeks after they were made.
— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) March 20, 2020
The former CEO of Bakkt was appointed as a U.S. Senator to serve Georgia in January, but has been facing scrutiny over possible conflicts of interest, as her committee oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates her husband's Intercontinental Exchange.
A report from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that Senator Richard burr, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has also sold stock in February, shortly before markets tanked. Burr sold between $500,000 and $1.5 million in stock.
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An Essay About Whether The Characters In The House Of The Seven Gables (Written By Nathaniel Hawthorne) Are Responsible For Their Own Bad Luck, Or If It Has To Do More With Fate.
In The House Of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents an ongoing deliberation on whether the Pyncheon's bad luck is caused by fate or whether it is caused by their own choices and actions. This inevitably causes the reader to constantly question weather they will ever truly escape the history of the dark and decaying mansion. In the beginning of the story, Hawthorne gives a reason to believe that it is fate controlling the family members by presenting detailed descriptions of the curse that was born and continues to thrive in the house. But later in the book, the Pyncheon's, especially Hepzibah and Clifford, reveal themselves to be passive characters submissively accepting their bad luck. The Pyncheon characters, Hepzibah, Clifford, and Judge Jaffrey, are responsible for their own bad luck by creating fear in themselves on account of the twisted history of the house, leaving imagination to take control of their own logic, and by openly committing the seven deadly sins, whereas the more humble member of the family, Phoebe, leads an easier and happier life.Hepzibah and Clifford are predominately the two characters creating their own prison of fear in the house. Hepzibah constantly goes back and forth looking at the portrait on the wall and the photograph, reminding herself of the Colonel and of the curse itself. She is also driven by fear when the Judge, who looks disturbingly like the Colonel himself, comes to her house the last time before he passes away, threatening her that Clifford will go to a mental institution if she doesn't comply to his request of seeing him. Out of fear of his power and his striking resemblance to the Colonel Pyncheon, she rushes inside the house in search of her brother. Everything Hepzibah is experiencing is psychological and she needs to overcome her fear. She's always the one initiating the fear by looking at the Colonel and reminding herself of her supposed destiny without actually doing anything to counter it. Clifford has constant dark images found in the pebbles at the bottom of the well and in the branches of the trees. His imagination is haunted by dark faces, which end up ruining his mood for an entire day and messing with his head. Clifford ends up leaving his imagination in complete control, letting it overpower his sense of logic and judgment. Both characters are so tightly tied to the house they are even afraid to leave the premises of the property to go to church, afraid of what people might think or say about them.The seven gables on the house represent the seven deadly sins in which Hepzibah, Clifford, and the Judge in one way or another posses. Hepzibah represents pride, sloth and envy. Pride is a sin against the virtue of humility. In the beginning of the book, when Hepzibah first opened the store, she gave a few items away for free because pride got in the way of her realizing that she needs to work and charge people in order to stay alive. Sloth is a sin against the virtue of zeal. Zeal is...
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Mots clés: FBMC-OQAM, OFDM, High Power Amplifier (HPA), Digital Predistortion (DPD), phase error sensitivity.
Résumé: The Filter Bank Multicarrier with Offset Quadra- ture Amplitude Modulation (FBMC-OQAM) is emerging as one of the alternatives to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multi- plexing (OFDM) for next generation broadband wireless access systems. In this paper, we focus on the nonlinear distortion effects in a FBMC-OQAM system when the signal is passed through a nonlinear High Power Amplifier (HPA) which is modeled as Saleh's one exhibiting amplitude and phase distortions. First, we develop an analysis showing that the FBMC-OQAM signals are more sensitive to the phase distortion than OFDM signals. Then, we address the problem of the compensation of these distortions in FBMC-OQAM systems using digital predistortion (DPD) at the transmitter. Therefore, two DPD schemes are considered in this investigation and their performance are compared in OFDM and FBMC-OQAM systems. | {
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The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery (USA): Foramen Magnum Decompression in Achondroplasia in Children. New York, USA: The International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2023 (https://ispn.guide/spinal-diseases-and-anomalies-in-children/metabolic-bone-disease-in-children-the-craniospinal-effects/management-of-metabolic-bone-disease-in-children/the-operation-for-metabolic-bone-disease-in-children/foramen-magnum-decompression-in-achondroplasia-in-children/) (Accessed January 31, 2023)
HomeSpinal Diseases and Anomalies in ChildrenThe Craniospinal Effects of Metabolic Bone Disease in Children HomepageManagement of Metabolic Bone Disease in ChildrenThe Operation for Metabolic Bone Disease in ChildrenForamen Magnum Decompression in Achondroplasia in Children
Decompression of the foramen magnum in achondroplasia deserves specific mention as the surgical technique differs from foramen magnum decompression for Chiari malformation and requires familiarity with the surgical anatomy unique to this condition (2).
Anatomical features
Small foramen: The foramen magnum is narrow, and the vertebral arteries are closer to the midline and are at risk during surgery.
Thick rim with keel: The rim of the foramen magnum is substantially thickened, and commonly there is a deep midline bony keel that extends up from the foramen magnum in the dorsal midline of the posterior fossa.
Decompression technique
Thin rim with drill: The bone should be removed gradually by drilling back to the inner cortex rather than attempting to use rongeurs. The procedure should be performed under the operating microscope.
Remove final egg shell piecemeal: Once the cortex is thinned to an "egg shell," the bone can be lifted out piecemeal, decompressing the dura.
Cut fibrous band dorsal to C1: A thick ligamentous band lies at the level of the foramen magnum. This should be removed by sharp dissection.
Dural opening not always needed: Formal dural opening is not required if intraoperative ultrasound demonstrates CSF flow in front of and behind the brainstem (3). Dural opening is associated with a high rate of CSF leakage (2).
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Flamboyant Russian lawmaker in parliament chamber brawl
Flamboyant, ultra-rightwing Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky clashed with a legislator from a rival party on Wednesday in a violent brawl inside parliament that highlighted his frustration at the dominant role of pro-Kremlin forces.
In chaotic scenes in the chamber broadcast throughout the day on national television, the leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party - who is also deputy speaker of the parliament - spat at a lawmaker from the leftist Rodina party.
The legislator, Andrei Savelyev, and Zhirinovsky lunged at each other with their fists and others joined in the fight.
Zhirinovsky grabbed his opponent by his hair, but he was wrestled to the ground and hit repeatedly.
"Where's that bastard?" Zhirinovsky said as other lawmakers struggled to separate the two men.
The speaker of the State Duma, or lower house of parliament, Boris Gryzlov, said that the general prosecutor's office should assess who was responsible for the brawl after the Rodina party demanded Zhirinovsky be stripped of his position as deputy speaker.
The fight broke out as the Liberal Democratic Party leader protested at weekend regional parliamentary elections to the Yamalo-Nenets region in Western Siberia in which his party scored disappointingly, behind Rodina and the Communists. The pro-presidential United Russia party came out on top with more than 60 percent of the vote, Interfax reported.
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Robert Francis Gifford, 2. Baron Gifford (* 19. März 1817 in London; † 13. Mai 1872) war ein britischer Peer.
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Er war der älteste Sohn von des Juristen und Politikers Robert Gifford, 1. Baron Gifford und dessen Frau Harriet Maria Drewe, Tochter des Reverend Edward Drewe, Pfarrer in Willand. Er hatte sechs Geschwister.
Beim Tod seines Vaters erbte er am 4. September 1826 dessen Adelstitel als Baron Gifford und den damit verbundenen Sitz im House of Lords.
Am 2. April 1845 heiratete er Frederica Charlotte FitzHardinge Berkeley, Tochter des Admirals Maurice Berkeley, 1. Baron FitzHardinge. Mit ihr hatte er acht Töchter und vier Söhne, darunter sein ältester Sohn Edric Gifford, der ihn 1872 als Baron Gifford beerbte, und sein dritter Sohn Edgar Gifford, der den Titel bei dessen kinderlosem Tod 1911 übernahm.
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With delicious dishes from the original book, plus popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living magazine, and sure-to-become classics from Elizabeth's own treasured recipe box, The Southern Living Party Cookbook has menus for any occasion, whether it took weeks to plan or came together at the last minute.
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Divided by occasion, The Southern Living Party Cookbook by Elizabeth Heiskell is a modern-day reinterpretation of the top-selling Southern Living cookbook of all time. The Southern Living Party Cookbook offers a fresh lineup of party ideas, including Bridal Tea, Garden Club Luncheon, Summer Nights, Cocktails and Canapés, Tailgate, Picnic on the Lawn, Fall Dinner, and 24 more gatherings you'll want to host. With delicious dishes from the original book, plus popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living magazine, and sure-to-become classics from Elizabeth's own treasured recipe box, The Southern Living Party Cookbook has menus for any occasion, whether it took weeks to plan or came together at the last minute.
Whether you're planning a small family gathering or a feast for a crowd, The Southern Living Party Cookbook provides fun and delicious recipes that are bound to please! Some of our favorites are the Frozen Peaches and Cream, Vichyssoise, Strawberry Pretzel Crostini, Mint Julep Jigglers, Hot Cheese Squares, and Mint Chocolate Truffles, to name a few. This cookbook inspires at every turn! Intimidated by the idea of hosting a party? This cookbook will help banish this fear!
The Southern Living Party Cookbook is as just as inspiring as the original cookbook that came out in 1972. In addition to a bevy of crowd-pleasing recipes, you'll find party-themed menus and guides for party planning – from invitations and estimating portions to decorating and farewell favors.
Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, Elizabeth Heiskell's culinary journey started in her parent's Delta kitchen, where food and fun went hand in hand — a tradition she is passing down to her three daughters. She went on to serve as Lead Culinary Instructor at the Viking Cooking School in Greenwood, Mississippi (headquarters of the Viking Range Corporation). Today, she owns a bustling vegetable business with her husband Luke, selling beautiful vegetables to the best restaurants in the South. Elizabeth's long-time love is her catering company, Elizabeth Heiskell Catering, where she has served the famous and not-so-famous for 20 years. In her spare time, she produces The Debutante Farmer line of Bloody Mary mixes. Elizabeth is the TODAY show food contributor and a regular on Sirius XM radio.
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Reading (UK/England)
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Reported on Thursday 02. April 2009
Shape: Sphere | Duration: 2-3 minutes
The light caught my eye as it passed by my window, it was a large brightly coloured orange ball shape, the outside edge was orange and gold and flickered like a candle. It moved slowly and very smoothly. i opened the window to listen and there was no sound only silence, it just drifted along high in the sky until it was hardly visable then it just disappeared. It's left me feeling a little scared but curious..((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD))
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'Underground Tech House' is an essential collection of raw, dark and urban tech-twisted sounds. Featuring 250MB+ of uncompromising analogue-infused bass loops, filthy drum loops, classic stabs and atmospheric music loops, acid-driven synth loops, percussive & top workouts, FX and much more.
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I made review, I make account yesterday on wordpress.org just to make review of wondderful plug in and then I come today and my review gone ?! In my profile said that I never made any kind of review ?! OK, then I try to make another one and I get an error: "ERROR: Duplicate topic detected; it looks as though you've already said that!" so I cannot post review and site said that I did it already which is correct but apparently is not viewable, please correct that issue, thanks !
Your review was removed because you inserted a link to that review. That was one of… twenty that did that that day.
Don't do that. That's not what the reviews are for and users who do that are frequently spamming. If you want to leave a review then then limit it to your experience. If you want to post your link there then yes, that will be removed.
I am sorry because I did not know that is forbidden to support with links wordpress and supporting plug in with ling on my site which is running on wordpress and using plug in for which I want to make review. I make account on wordpresss just because that review about brilliant plug in. Nevertheless I am familiar with worpress at least 10 years… so if you do not allow me to repost review I have no choice then delete this account, make new one and post review again, in any case I would not post any kind of links.
so if you do not allow me to repost review I have no choice then delete this account, make new one and post review again, in any case I would not post any kind of links.
You left a review with a link. You were one of many that did that, and most of the times that's from spammers. Your review was archived for that reason.
Most accounts that do that are spammers and don't come back. You're not a spammer and here we are.
This was explained to you just now in this topic. It happens.
You replied that if you can't leave that review then you'll just create a new account to leave a review.
The above point? I have a thing about fake accounts and you just replied to me with a threat to create one to get around the link admonition.
So. Let's start over. I have un-archived your review. Your account will remain on moderation watch for the time being because a) links and b) saying you'll create multiple accounts to get around a restriction.
Please do not put links in reviews. Even more so, don't create more accounts. That will lead to your reviews being archived and your accounts being banned from here.
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Mon, Feb 1, 2021
Movement and Mindfulness Morning Workshop
9:00 am - 9:15 am Zoom Link
The Learning & Development Team invites you to focus on your wellness with Molly Kitchen. Kick-start your day with invigorating, accessible movement as well as a few minutes of grounding meditation. These workshops will set you up for a calm, focused day and provide you with practical mindfulness tools
you can use and reuse any time. Schedule these breaks as a fun way to start your week, as well as to learn tips for keeping that energy alive each day.
Workday Open Lab/AskIT
9:00 am - 10:00 am Virtual
Workday Open Labs are still happening! Join a session if you have a question about Workday. View the training website (login required) for the full schedule and Zoom info.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Virtual
Introduction to the Finance Industry Workshop Series -- Loeb Center Session 1 of 5
This is a 10-hour program open to first year students and sophomores interested in learning more about the finance industry and exploring potential careers in finance.
The workshop series will be held February 1-5, 2021, from 6pm – 8pm ET, and will be led by Stephanie Hockman, Loeb Center's Director of the Traub Careers in Business and Finance Program.
The series is designed to help students explore and understand the finance industry, learn industry jargon, consider the intersection of industry players, and distinguish the nuances of roles and responsibilities in the industry. Topics covered during this 5-day, 10-cumulative-hour workshop series include:
1. Overview of the Finance Industry, finance terms, and interaction between the economy and finance
2. Overview of the Sell-Side Investment Bank and potential roles including investment banking (coverage and product), Sales & Trading, Research, and support functions (e.g. legal, compliance, risk management, human capital management)
3. Overview of the Buy-Side of the Industry and the various investment vehicles including:
• Asset Management/Investment Management
• Hedge Funds
• FinTech
• Insurance
• Private Equity (including venture capital, growth equity and LBOs)
4. Overview of Private Wealth Management
5. Role of Institutional Investors in the finance ecosystem
6. Next steps if considering further exploration of careers in finance
REGISTRATION & COMMITMENT:
To register, you must commit to attending all five sessions February 1 – 5 (Monday – Friday) from 6pm-8pm each night. Please register on Handshake by January 28 to secure your spot. You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link by January 31.
Questions may be directed to Stephanie Hockman at [email protected].
Tue, Feb 2, 2021
Workday - Expenses & Procurement
10:00 am - 11:00 am Virtual
Join a Workday help session for answers to your questions about expenses and procurement.
Tepper Future Business Leaders Program Information Session - Carnegie Mellon
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Virtual
Come join us on Tuesday, February 2, to hear more about graduate opportunities at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business!
Taken from https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/why-tepper/index.html:
The Tepper School offers a future-focused business school experience, tailored for the complexity of today's marketplace. Where others see challenges, we see opportunity. Always looking ahead, we are consistently moving the world forward with innovative ideas, creative solutions, and new approaches.
Today, more than ever, the world of business is transformed by technological innovation, the ubiquity of data, and the application of advanced analytics. The Tepper School and Carnegie Mellon have long been renowned for research and teaching that doesn't simply keep pace with business practice but forges ahead, powerfully transforming the way organizations compete and lead.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Tuesday, January 26, to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
This event is being conducted over Zoom. As the host, Mount Holyoke College reserves the right to record this session and the event sponsors will give prior notification to event participants of any intention to do so. The recording feature for others is disabled so that no one else will be able to record this session through Zoom. At all times, no recording by any other means is permitted without prior written permission from the event sponsor or as an approved accommodation.
This event is brought to you by a three-college consortia partnership between Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges' career centers.
Workday for Students
Sessions are meant for students and will cover searching and applying for student employment opportunities, submitting time worked, payslip and tax information.
Middlebury School for the Environment Information Session
Interested in opportunities in environmental studies? Spend six intensive summer weeks in Yunnan Province, China, with dual sites in Kunming and Dali. Connect with faculty, environmental advocates, and NGOs including the Nature Conservancy and Planet Forward, while earning nine credits. Designed for college students and recent graduates.
For more information, please visit: https://www.middlebury.edu/schools-abroad/summer-programs/school-environ....
Wed, Feb 3, 2021
Workday - Student Hiring
Sessions are designed for supervisors and will review the process for creating a student job requisition and hiring student employees.
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Information Session
Are you a graduating senior looking for a full-time work opportunity in biomedicine? Come join us to learn more about Research Associate opportunities at the Broad Institute!
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to improve human health by using genomics to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies.
The institute was founded to seize the opportunity that arose from the Human Genome Project -- the international effort that successfully deciphered the entire human genetic code. Despite that accomplishment, scientists knew they still lacked a clear understanding of the genetic basis of disease, and how to translate that understanding into more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Wednesday, January 27th to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
French Table
12:30 pm Virtual
Virtual French Table will start up again beginning January 20. Please join your French Language Assistants for informal conversation in French! French Table is open to students, faculty, and staff. French speakers of all levels are welcome! If you were not enrolled in a French course during fall semester, but would like to participate, please email [email protected] directly.
Lunch & Learn: Dr. Scott L. Rauch '82, President & Psychiatrist in Chief of McLean Hospital
Dr. Scott L. Rauch '82 is President and Psychiatrist in Chief of McLean Hospital, Chair of System Behavioral & Mental Health for Mass General Brigham, and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. On Monday, February 3, he will virtually visit Amherst's Loeb Center for a "Lunch & Learn" presentation and conversation about his career path.
Dr. Rauch's principal research interests relate to neuroimaging and the neurobiology of anxiety disorders, as well as healthcare delivery and the use of technology in psychiatry. He received his undergraduate degree with honors in Neuroscience from Amherst College ('82) and attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his residency training and a chief residency in Psychiatry, as well as a Radiology Research Fellowship, at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in affiliation with Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Rauch served on the faculty at MGH for more than 15 years, during which he founded the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, the Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program, and the Psychiatric Neuroscience Division. He was appointed to his current leadership roles at McLean and MGB in 2006.
Most recently, Dr. Rauch has been involved in the leadership of several national professional societies, including as past president and current secretary of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and as past secretary and current Board member of the Anxiety & Depression Association of America. Dr. Rauch has also been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
All class years and majors are welcome to attend.
Amherst College Creative Writing Virtual Residency February 2021
1:00 pm on Feb 3, to 4:00 pm on Feb 9
Join us for a virtual independent residency in creative writing. Modeled on writers' and artists' colonies like MacDowell, Yaddo and the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop, this program offers you the opportunity to devote attention to your fiction, poetry, dramatic writing or creative nonfiction in a supportive environment. Participants will have opportunities for collaborative structured writing and the freedom to choose between social and independent writing each day. Participants are welcome to work on either new or existing projects. And for participants seeking guidance, instruction or simply feedback on their work, we'll offer one-on-one mentoring sessions with program leaders. At the end of the program, we'll come together for a virtual community reading, during which we'll share work produced during the residency. We will meet via Zoom and Google docs from 1pm to 4pm (EST) on February 3rd-5th and February 8th and 9th. The residency is led by writing center associates Roy Andrews and Emily Merriman. Please register via the link below.
Students Only
Using a Prioritization Matrix to Focus on What Matters
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Zoom Link
In times of turbulence and change, it may be challenging to determine what projects take precedent, or how to set priorities when everything seems top of mind. This session will talk through how our priorities may have shifted both individually and within our teams, and how to facilitate a decision-making process using a prioritization matrix tool.
Thu, Feb 4, 2021
DIAL/SELF Youth & Community Services Information Session
Come join us on Thursday, February 4, from 4:30pm - 5:30pm ET to hear more about the 2021-2022 DIAL/SELF AmeriCorps Program!
DIAL/SELF helps young people become independent by connecting them with housing, employment, education and civic opportunities. We believe that all youth possess unique strengths which are enhanced by community support and collaboration and that all youth should have the right to exercise choice in their own lives.
We are a community-based non-profit agency that has been serving the youth and communities of Western MA since 1977. We provide a wide array of services that foster youth empowerment and community service. Over the course of the last four decades, more than 38,000 area youth have been served by the agency in Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties and the North Quabbin Region.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Thursday, January 28th to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
Virtual Education Pathways Panel: Education in the Age of COVID
How are schools and education programs adjusting to COVID-19 related uncertainty? What does this uncertainty mean for the future of my career in education? Get the answers to these questions while learning about job opportunities at 10 different education organizations. See below for the full list of employers attending.
Employers Attending:
Boston Plan for Excellence
Breakthrough Collaborative
College Advising Corps | Boston University
Generation TEACH
Match Education
Teach for America
Uncommon Schools
Urban Teachers
Fri, Feb 5, 2021
The Learning & Development Team invites you to focus on your wellness with Brenna Werme. Set the tone for your day by calming your nervous system and connecting with ease to your body and breath. These workshops will give you quick, easy tools to reset and release stagnant energy throughout your day.
Sat, Feb 6, 2021
Sophomores: Take the LEAP 2.0 - Change the Way You Experience Spring 2021
Missing the spaces on campus where you could comfortably show up as yourself? Missing meaningful, spontaneous social interactions that all add up to feeling connected and a part of? While there is so much diversity in who we are and how we show up in the world as Amherst students, we are all going through the shared experience of college in the pandemic... Which for sophomores, is a shared experience of college away from college. Which is why we are creating a space for Amherst sophomores (and any other students, on or off-campus who want in!) that will reinvent the Val-sit, go further then a cross-quad hello, and overcome all the space between us. Take the Leap 2.0 is an every-other-week virtual meet-up throughout Spring 2021 that will create connection amidst the distance, find meaning in our and others' experiences, and continue building the friendships and memories that college is made of.
#WHYIMASK WINTER GIVEAWAY
8:00 am on Feb 8, to 12:00 am on Feb 12
Share why you mask and protect the herd in the comment section of the post on the PA, SHE, and Health Ed pages. The first 65 respondents will win a free t-shirt and everyone will be entered for raffle prizes which include Delivery Express gift cards! All students are welcome to post and if you do not have social media, you can send in your response to the PA email. Be sure to include if you are on or off-campus in your post. Questions? Contact [email protected] or call (413) 542-2760.
Caregiver Sessions
9:30 am - 10:45 am Zoom Link
As you may recall, the college asked faculty and staff with caregiving responsibilities to participate in an anonymous survey last fall. The goal was to learn more about how members of our community are doing with managing the demands of work and caregiving during the pandemic.
As part of its response to the survey, the Office of Human Resources is now offering sessions that will provide a forum for caregivers to connect and to share their experiences with one another, including strategies that they have developed to cope with what they are facing. Facilitators may also pass along to HR helpful suggestions that may emerge from these conversations.
Each session will be limited to 25 participants. Additional dates will be added if needed and/or if participants would like to reconvene.
Jodi Foley and Laurie Frankl will be facilitating the sessions. If you have questions, please reach out to them via email at [email protected] or [email protected].
Intro to the Houston Internship Program & Loeb Center Internship Resources
If you're not sure where or how to find an internship, you should consider joining the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program. The Houston Program is designed to not only allow Amherst students to apply for quality, vetted internships that are paid, but also provides preparatory guidance and support throughout the summer.
Additionally, the Loeb Center has funding available for students who have secured unpaid summer internships.
Come to this information session to learn about the process for joining the Houston Program, as well as the application process to be considered for funding for unpaid internships.
Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program. Learn more about the Program here: https://www.amherst.edu/mm/575805
"Amherst Faculty in the Public Arena in the Trump Era and Beyond"
The Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Amherst College Press invite the Amherst College community to a panel discussion moderated by Professor Austin Sarat, with faculty members who will explore the motives that led them to take on a public role in their writing. Presenters will be professors Lawrence Douglas, Javier Corrales, Catherine Sanderson, Eleonora Mattiacci, Pawan Dhingra and Ilan Stavans.
Register in advance:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsduqprz0pH9MFloDsClMs...
Foundations of Resume Writing Workshop — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual
Learn about the skills and strategies needed to create resumes that best represent your unique experiences to land summer internships and future job opportunities. Get comfortable with the Loeb Center's resume approval process and criteria necessary in order for you to apply to opportunities on Handshake.
*This workshop will fulfill the Internship Preparation Workshop requirement for the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program*
Foundations of Cover Letter Writing Workshop — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
Did you know that you need to write a customized and specific cover letter for every internship opportunity you apply for? Learn the basic formatting and strategies for writing effective cover letters, as well as advanced tips to write exceptional cover letters that will make you stand out.
Student Video Showcase
A virtual screening and Q&A by students in the Amherst College class "Foundations in Video Production"
Videos by:
Leland Culver
Raymond Dixon
Seojin Jung
Anna-Blanca Leake
Frank Peprah
Andrew Rios
Grace Walker
Attendees must register in advance: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceGrrDktEtS8_cbNdGrL...
Renting in New York: A Practical Guide
Planning to relocate to New York City after graduation? Considering a big city move in the future, but feeling overwhelmed by what that might entail?
Join representatives from Cooper & Cooper Real Estate -- a Manhattan-based residential real estate brokerage firm -- for their annual "Renting In New York" webinar workshop. During the session (~45 minutes), agents will break down the ins-and-outs of finding a new apartment in the Big Apple. Topics include: starting your search, neighborhoods & subways, the application process, paperwork requirements, income & credit guidelines, scams to avoid, etc.
With access to over 9000+ buildings throughout NYC, Cooper & Cooper agents are experts at helping graduating students make successful transitions. As former investment bankers (Goldman Sachs, Bank of America) and college grads (Harvard, Northwestern, Columbia MBA), Cooper & Cooper's founders understand the needs of transitioning undergraduate and graduate students. Their mission is to ensure your experience is as smooth and stress-free as possible.
Note: Students who RSVP through the external link AND attend the session will receive a $100 Credit Check Gift Certificate from the firm!
Wed, Feb 10, 2021
Establishing and Communicating Workplace Boundaries
10:00 am - 11:00 am Zoom Link
When working from home, do you find yourself working longer hours, or stepping back into "the office" to just finish up that one thing? How we set and communicate boundaries helps us fight burnout and fatigue. This session will amplify strategies for establishing boundaries for yourself and communicating them to others.
Student Hiring in Workday
City Year Information Session
Join us on Wednesday, February 10, from 11:30am - 12:30pm to hear more about opportunities at City Year!
From City Year's Website (https://www.cityyear.org/about/):
At City Year, we believe that all students can succeed and that developing the skills and mindsets of children and young adults contributes to strong, vibrant communities—outcomes that benefit all of us.
Many students lack access to learning environments and resources they need to thrive in school and in life, due to systemic inequities that disproportionately affect students of color and students growing up in low-income households.
City Year AmeriCorps members serve in schools all day, every day, preparing students with the social, emotional and academic skills and mindsets to succeed in school and in life.
Developing civic leaders
City Year AmeriCorps members not only make a difference in the lives of students they serve, but also acquire valuable skills that help them and prepare them to be leaders in their communities and their careers.
As City Year continues to innovate alongside our school and district partners, we aim to share what we are learning and contribute to a broader conversation about how to ensure equitable access to learning opportunities for all students.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Wednesday, February 3, to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
Sessions are meant for students and will cover searching and applying for student employment opportunities, submitting time worked, and tax information.
How to Improve Your Internship Search — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
Have you started your internship search, but feel like you haven't been able to find exactly what you're looking for? Do you feel overwhelmed about the search and want advice about how to organize yourself? You're not alone. Come to this workshop to learn about strategies you can use to search for and secure the right internship or research opportunity for you.
CHI Salon: "Worthless: An Ethnography of Devaluation and Domecide in a Midwestern Trailer Park"
Manufactured homes (MHs), better known as "mobile homes" or "trailers," house an estimated 22 million Americans; however, fewer than 25 percent of all manufactured homes are titled as real estate. Classifying their homes as personal property is the only option for the estimated 7 million residents living in approximately 50,000 mobile home communities (MHCs) across the United States. Although over 90 percent of MHs never move once sited, most municipalities restrict MHs to MHCs, where resident landownership is prohibited.
Drawing on 28 months of ethnographic research in urban MHCs in Lincoln, Neb., in this talk, 2019-20 CHI Fellow Allison Formanack describes how mobile-homeowners create symbolic-- if not economic --value in their homes. As these case studies reveal, the affective labor of home-making produces a hybrid identity-- that is, a deeply meaningful relationship between "home" and "owner" that is as often destructive as it is beneficial.
Allison Formanack is an incoming assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Formanack considers the process by which pollution, ruin and "trashiness" is transferred from home to resident in the context of the most maligned housing type in the United States: the "mobile" or "trailer" home. Drawn from 28 months of ethnographic fieldwork in urban mobile home communities in Nebraska, her work finds that immaterial systems of law and finance conditions the materiality of categorically ambiguous "mobile" housing. This creates a state of "im/permanence," or imposed temporariness, which threatens the rights and well-being of an estimated 22 million mobile-homeowners. She is currently working on a book project based on this work, Mobile Home on the Range: Manufacturing Ruin and Respect in an American Zone of Abandonment. Dr. Formanack received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado Boulder, where her research received support from from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, among other organizations.
Careers in Grantmaking & Foundations — Advice from Linda Steele '85, Katyana Dandridge '18, and John Abodeely '01
Do you want to have a meaningful impact on your community and support initiatives that fuel change? Are you curious to learn how your disciplinary interests might extend into your professional career? Join us for small group discussions with alumni & other industry leaders to explore how grantmakers and foundations shape economic development, foster thriving creative communities, drive education reform, and much more.
You'll leave this event with:
• an understanding of the work of community and national foundations/grantmakers.
• practical tips from industry leaders on landing jobs and internships.
• the networking connections that are essential in this industry.
This Loeb Center event is co-hosted by Linda Steele '85 and Katyana Dandridge '18 of ArtUp and will feature the following panelists:
• John Abodeely '01 | CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance
• Jennifer Coleman | Program Director, Creative Culture & Arts for The George Gund Foundation
• Carol Coletta | President & CEO of Memphis River Parks, and Senior Fellow at The Kresge Foundation
• Stacey Easterling | Vice President of Programs for the Virginia Piper Charitable Trust
• Chantel Rush | Managing Director of The Kresge Foundation
• B. Sutton Mora | Executive Vice-President & COO of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
Workday for Faculty
Join a Workday training session for Faculty. Sessions will cover employee self service tasks but will primarily focus on internal awards, student hiring and approval of student hours.
Intro to Networking, Pt 2: Informational Interviewing — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
An informational interview is a conversation with a professional in an industry, field, company, or position that interests you and that you would like to learn more about. It's a valuable opportunity to conduct personalized research with someone whose experience and perspective you think you can learn from.
In this workshop, students will learn how to respectfully reach out to people you'd like to speak with, prepare for the conversation, maintain the relationship, activate your Amherst community through the Alumni Directory, and more.
While this workshop builds off of Part 1 from Fall 2020, anyone may attend regardless of participation last semester.
Prosek Partners: Public Relations Agency Info Session
Curious about a career in public relations? Learn how you can put your liberal arts skills in writing, unpacking ideas and collaboration to use in the fast-paced world of a PR agency. Join Gabrielle Simon, of financial communications agency Prosek Partners, for an information session on working in communications and public relations, what Prosek Partners does for clients, post-graduate job opportunities in Boston, New York, and Connecticut and a lively Q&A session.
Prosek Partners is among the largest independent public relations firms in the U.S., and one of the few domestic, mid-size firms that offers global capabilities through its London office and international network. Specializing in providing a full range of communications solutions to financial and professional services companies, the firm delivers an unexpected level of passion, creativity and marketing savvy. Prosek Partners' "Unboxed Communications" approach brings breakthrough ideas to every client engagement.
Students from all class years and majors are welcome to attend.
Arts at Amherst Initiative Spring Soirée
5:00 pm Virtual
Join the Arts at Amherst Initiative at our Spring Soirée to hear Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Kate Pukinskis and Mead Art Museum Study Room Manager and European Print Specialist Miloslava Hruba share their recent research. Miloslava will share field notes from her recent survey of printmaking practices in the former Czechoslovakia (1948-1989) with a focus on gender differences within the ideologically and culturally ostracized group of nonconforming artists. Following these presentations, there will be an opportunity for audience Q&A.
While the Spring Soirée cannot take place in person, the AAI Steering Committee is planning to do its best to replicate the welcoming atmosphere that these biannual events traditionally foster by offering contactless pickup of complimentary wine and cheese to the first 20 people who register for the event!
Fri, Feb 12, 2021
Creative Thinking Coffee and Conversation
Wrap up your week with creative skill building and conversation. Join Learning & Development for a conversation and reflection of the LinkedIn Learning videos Becoming an Idea Machine and The Power of Creative Collaboration (about 5 minutes total). While these videos are part of the February LinkedIn Learning Creative Thinking Challenge, participation in the Challenge is not necessary to join the discussion.
Sessions are designed for supervisors and will review the process for creating a student job requisition and hiring a student employee.
Hired Guns? The Politics of Foreign Interventions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Held Via Zoom, Zoom Link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.u
The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2020-21 presents a lecture entitled "Hired Guns? The Politics of Foreign Interventions" presented by Eleonora Mattiacci, Assistant Professor of Political Science. This lecture will be held via Zoom (see link below). Faculty Colloquium events are sponsored by a group of faculty colleagues who meet informally with the purpose of supporting and promoting the College's commitment to faculty research. The event is open to the Amherst College Community. For more information about the Faculty Colloquium Series please visit this link https://www.amherst.edu/mm/597044
LINK TO THE ZOOM MEETING:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/j/97050893817?pwd=VWxwTjBPN0xRakpXQTZiMXh...
Mastering the Digital Internship Interview — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
How do you best prepare for interviews in digital settings? Has an application ever requested that you pre-record a video introduction?
Join us to learn how to effectively prepare for a range of interview formats, answer challenging questions, and present yourself in a professional manner, even if you're Zooming in from your bedroom.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Virtual
Take the LEAP 2.0 - Get Connected!
3:00 pm on Feb 13, to 4:00 pm on Feb 14 Virtual
ARE YOU READY TO BE DONE WITH FEELING DISCONNECTED??
Missing the way that being with others has the power to make you feel more human and less stuck in yourself? How about the way that a good shared laugh, or having "real talk" with friends, or simply saying something out loud to another person can all feel like an important reminder that the world is so much bigger than the four walls we can feel trapped in, especially as we navigate all of the unknowns of the pandemic? Part of the magic of Amherst is that it has been a place where all of these things came alive for us daily just by being there. For those who will not be on campus this semester (and those who are, but just want to add new friendships to your being-with-people-again reboot) Take the Leap 2.0 is a completely virtual experience, defying what we know to be possible on zoom, and recreating these feelings of connection in an entirely new space in Spring 2021. This every-other week meet-up will reinvent the Val-sit, go further then a cross-quad hello, and overcome the space between us as we continue building the friendships and memories that college is made of!
"I feel so much better than I did an hour and half ago. That was the most valuable time I've spent on Zoom!" - Student who attended last week's virtual open house
Biology Monday Seminar: Walking and Singing: The Neurobiology of Multitasking in Drosophila"
Osama Ahmed, Ph.D., Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, will speak on "Walking and Singing: The Neurobiology of Multitasking in Drosophila."
Locomotion, such as walking or flying, is vitally important for the survival and fitness of practically all animals, and regularly occurs in tandem with other motor actions. Human locomotion, for example, may occur concurrently with talking, and similarly, Drosophila flies can walk and produce complex acoustic signals called "courtship songs." While many components of the neural circuits that control either walking or singing have been identified, the neural substrates that couple these behaviors during multitasking are entirely unknown. Here, I show how Drosophila courtship behavior can be leveraged as a neuroethological model for studying multitasking. During courtship, male flies must attend to and keep up with their potential mates, all the while producing the right songs at the right times by correctly vibrating their wings. My results show that fly chase-and-stop courtship sequences exhibit hallmarks of multitasking: male flies either walk, or sing, or perform both behaviors simultaneously. Through optogenetic activation of locomotor neurons in freely courting male flies and new machine-learning methods for automated behavioral analysis, I reveal performance differences in how flies walk or sing (single-tasking) compared to when they walk and sing (multitasking). These results demonstrate that the fly courtship model is an advantageous and promising framework for characterizing and testing the neurogenetic control of multitasking. These experiments provide a strong foundation and entry point for probing circuit mechanisms that underlie multitasking via brain-wide neural recordings in behaving animals. Identifying these mechanisms will inform our understanding of how neural pathways interact to control, or limit, behavioral simultaneity.
Persons from the college community that wish to attend should please register by sending an email request to the Biology ADC, Karen Racz, who will provide the Zoom link to the event.
Call for Applications: NAIS Mellon Mini-Grants and Residencies | Five Colleges, Inc.
Five Colleges, Incorporated, has been awarded a $2.5 million, four-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help its member campuses transform how they approach Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) with the goal of enhancing teaching, learning and scholarship in the field. As part of this multi-year initiative, FCI is offering mini-grant and residency opportunities to Five College faculty and staff interested in working collaboratively to integrate NAIS into their curricula.
Five College full-time faculty or staff members responsible for creating curriculum are encouraged to apply for mini-grants and lead team projects to develop one or more course modules, a new course, or a cluster or sequence of courses (such as language study). This funding opportunity is also open to faculty with a more multi-disciplinary background and no prior experience in NAIS who are interested in infusing Indigenous approaches into their courses through collaboration with other faculty experts. Mini-grant projects should include multiple faculty and can also include Five College staff, students, and community participants as collaborators. Faculty can also apply for residencies to host Indigenous artists, authors, activists, and community historians. Residencies can span a few weeks to an academic year. Please note that campus policies during the pandemic will severely restrict residencies but creative and/or remote options will be considered.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with two more deadlines this academic year: March 2 and May 2021 (specific date to be determined). Additional rounds of applications will be available through 2022. A virtual Information session will be offered prior to each deadline to assist applicants in refining their proposals. The next information session will be held on February 16 from 4 to 5pm. Applicants are encouraged to attend information sessions and read the Frequently Asked Questions available on the FCI website.
For more information on the NAIS Mellon Mini-Grants & Residencies and to register for the February 16 info session, please visit the FCI website listed below.
Redefining Health: Building Skills for Radical Healthcare Workshop Series
until May 15 Virtual
The Department of Health Education and SHES present a new workshop series on health equity! Co-sponsored with Your Embodied Sexuality (YES!), we will offer monthly workshops that expand our understandings of health and provide skills for navigating healthcare and the systems of oppression that shape it. Workshop topics will include self-managed abortion care, medical fatphobia, medical racism, misogyny in healthcare, birth control information and how to perform your own breast and pelvic exams, gender affirming healthcare, medical ableism, death positivity and planning, and more. (Registration required: sign up link will be available on the Daily Mammoth during the week leading up to each workshop.) Contact [email protected] with additional questions.
February 20 at 3pm EST: Building Abortion Knowledge for Self and Community Care
Facilitated by Women's Medical Fund's Seneca Joyner and Brittany Chung
Come join the folks at the Women's Medical Fund and YES! for a skill-building workshop on abortion care! The interactive workshop will offer helpful information on how to care for yourself and others before, during, and after an abortion. We will be working together to expand our understanding of the differences between various abortion methods and sharing knowledge in order to better equip ourselves and our loved ones. We'll be looking at accessing and experiencing abortion care as whole people who are part of vital, complex communities. The workshop will be a liberation-focused space and an opportunity to discuss the realities of abortion openly and honestly.
March 20 at 3pm EST: Don't Tell Me to Lose Weight: Navigating and Challenging Medical Fatphobia
Facilitated by Isy Abraham-Raveson
The so-called "obesity crisis" is a fatphobic myth that constructs fatness as a disease that needs to be eliminated for the good of society. In fact, fatness is not correlated to disease, and dieting to lose weight isn't sustainable and can lead to major health problems. On top of that, this misinformation, along with discrimination and shame, prevents people in large bodies from accessing the healthcare they need. In this workshop we will challenge commonplace myths about fatness and health and develop self-advocacy strategies to use when faced with fatphobia in healthcare settings.
April 17 at 3pm EST: Subverting the Master's Tools: Effective Strategies for Navigating Racism in Medical Care
Facilitated by Michelle Munyikwa
In this workshop, we will review the concept of medical racism and discuss its implications for folks seeking care in the medical system. After a brief review of the history and politics of racism in American healthcare, we will move on to more applicable concepts. Drawing on the experiences of the presenter and advice from local activist groups, we will discuss concrete strategies for engaging in self-advocacy and advocacy for loved ones navigating a complex, racist system.
May 15 at 3pm EST: Fertile Wounds: An Exploration of Misogyny in Medicine
more information TBD
Unhunch: Spinal Health Workshop
Now more than ever, how our bodies exist in the world has shifted with the adjustment to remote work and wearing masks. We are also in an environment of stress, which impacts our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. In this workshop you will learn an easy routine to incorporate into your day to enhance your spinal health and wellbeing as well as how to tune in and recognize when you're experiencing extra spinal stress.
Money at Work 1: Foundations of Investing
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Live Webinar
The OHR Learning & Development Team invites you to a live webinar presented by TIAA to discover how you can manage risk versus reward as well as understand the role of investing and managing risks, ways to help accelerate savings and tools that can help sustain a portfolio.
Buddhist Group
Join us as we meet weekly over Zoom for guided meditation and conversation about how the Buddha's teachings - from interconnection to embodied awareness to skillful relationship to thoughts - can make our daily lives a bit more grounded and happy. You don't need to be Buddhist to attend, and all College students, staff, and faculty are welcome.
For more information please contact interim Buddhist Advisor Harrison Blum ([email protected]).
Black Faith: A Panel and Conversation
Join us as we hear from and speak with Black leaders from the Muslim, Buddhist and Christian traditions on their intersectional experience of race and religion.
Co-sponsored by Religious and Spiritual Life, the Black Student Union and the Multicultural Resource Center
Zoom info and panelist question submission form at link below
Health Education Insta Follower Giveaway!
until Feb 26 Virtual
The Health Education Department presents our Instagram Follower Giveaway! Follow @ac_HealthAndWellbeing on Instagram for a chance to win some great (and delicious) prizes (Girl Scout Cookies and swag) and keep updates on how to improve your wellbeing. The raffle starts Sunday, February 14, and closes Friday, February 26. Follow the instructions in our February 13 Insta Follower Giveaway post, and three winners--remote or on-campus--will win a collection of Girl Scout cookies! Only current Amherst College students, faculty and staff are eligible.
Perfecting Your "No-Guilt" No
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Live Webinar
The OHR Learning & Development Team invites you to a live webinar presented by Care.com.
Saying no can be uncomfortable and awkward but it's absolutely necessary to avoid burnout and help you remain focused on your most important goals. In this session led by Lisa Abramson, you'll learn a powerful "saying no" framework and get a cheat sheet to make saying no less stressful in the future. After this session, you'll be able to confidently deliver a firm and appropriate no without the side of guilt.
Called an "inspiration" by Oprah, Lisa Abramson is an executive coach, mindfulness teacher, author, and mom of two girls. She teaches overachievers how to develop a resilient mindset and create success that's sustainable.
Blocking Burnout
The OHR Learning & Development Team invites you to a live webinar presented by the EAP, New Directions, to learn how to detect burnout triggers and discover ways to regain enthusiasm at work and at home by becoming more conscious of your needs and motivators.
Lifetime Income: Marketproof your Retirement
The OHR Learning & Development Team invites you to a live webinar presented by TIAA.
You've worked hard to save for retirement. TIAA can help you understand how to create a plan that protects you against key retirement risks as well as helps build a diversified retirement income plan.
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service and Distribution of Ashes
12:00 pm Johnson Chapel
Join a brief worship service marking the start of the Lenten Season and remembering our mortality and the God who holds us in all of it. This year there will be two separate services. Rev. Anna Woofenden, Protestant Advisor, will lead the noon service. Ashes will be individually distributed and self-administered to maintain social distance. Deacon Tom Lynch, Catholic Advisor, will lead the 1:30pm service. Ashes will be imposed on the top of the head of each individual.
Inside Money: Managing Income and Debt
Discover how to help make your money work harder by using your cash flow more effectively, developing good saving habits and better managing debt.
Workday for Managers, Supervisors and Staff
CHI Salon: "The Indian in the Freezer: The Genomic Quest for Indigeneity"
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Virtual, Zoom
Visiting Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies Jennifer Hamilton will present her new book manuscript, The Indian in the Freezer: The Genomic Quest for Indigeneity (under contract with the University of Washington Press). The book explores what she terms "the genomic quest for indigeneity," and follows people, scientific objects, biomedical discourses and capital over time and in space in order to provide a rich ethnographic account of how race, sex and sexuality continue to inform and shape contemporary biomedical inquiry. Hamilton argues that indigeneity is a productive category, particularly in terms of how genomics is imagined. She does the empirical work of tracing how indigeneity circulates and how it impacts the creation of diagnostic technologies and therapeutics as part of a larger intervention in ongoing discussions of how and why health disparities cannot be reduced to naturalized narratives of biological difference. The overall point of the book is to take seriously that if we accept, possibly embrace, the speculative and contingent yet material and consequential dimensions of genomics and the life sciences more broadly, we can potentially shift scientific modes of inquiry to be more inclusive of other possible worlds.
Tomorrow in Focus: Saving for Your Ideal Retirement
Find out how retirement savings, planning and the real benefit of time are essential features of retirement investments.
Designing Virtual Meetings
How many times in the past week have you left a meeting and thought, "that could have been an email"? Studies show that we have more meetings on our schedule than ever during this time of remote work and change. How often are those meetings productive and intentionally thought out? This session will focus on an intentional process for designing and facilitating meetings (both virtual and in-person) to ensure they are worth everyone's while. You will leave the session with an understanding of how to determine the purpose and method for various meetings, as well as a tangible tool to put into use immediately.
Understanding Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
You may know about the tax advantages of contributing to a Health Savings Account (HSA), but did you know that HSAs are also a way to save for health care in retirement? This webinar will help you understand unique aspects of HSAs including how they help account owners to pay for current health care expenses and save for those in the future.
Rapaport Lecture: Jason Moran, "The Sound Will Tell You"
This year's Rapaport Lecture will feature jazz pianist, composer and artist Jason Moran, the artistic director for jazz at The Kennedy Center. Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010. He has recorded 16 solo albums, with the most recent being his third solo piano recording, titled The Sound Will Tell You.
To attend, please register in advance: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bArSNWdMQyGOSCejVqgOBg
Internship Application Clinic — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
How does a compelling internship application come together? Learn how to put your best foot forward with your application materials by targeting your resume, aligning your cover letter and resume, and conducting adequate employer research to embed into your materials in this group advising and working session.
To attend, please register via Handshake by 12:00PM EST the Wednesday prior (48 hours in advance). If you wish to RSVP after the Wednesday deadline, email [email protected] to confirm available space.
Hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program team. To learn more about the Program, visit: https://www.amherst.edu/mm/575805
Cheminar: Professor Robert Gilliard, University of Virginia: "Electronic Tuning in the Main-Group: From Subvalent Organometallics to Novel π-Electron Materials"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Via Zoom Link
Abstract: Research efforts in the Gilliard laboratory span diverse areas of chemical synthesis related to the activation of inert chemical bonds, energy storage and molecular hybrid materials chemistry. Our work with s-block metals has resulted in a number of advances in the low-valent and hydridic chemistry of the alkaline earth metals (e.g., beryllium, magnesium), including molecular models for hydrogen storage. Recently, we have begun to study heterocycles "doped" with p-block elements for the development of new π-electron materials with unusual bonding and photophysical properties. This has led to the first examples of pyrene-fused N-heterocyclic germylenes and boranes, thermochromic and thermoluminescent borafluorene materials, and stable borafluorene radicals. Our primary goal has been to isolate molecules in rare electronic states and to provide a link between structure and function. This presentation will highlight our most recent results in these research areas.
CANCELED M@A: A Virtual Season Presents Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, and Daniil Trifonov, piano
M@A regrets very much to have to inform you that COVID restrictions make it impossible for the artists to offer the following program:
Presenting the fourth free online concert for M@A 2020-2021: A Virtual Series:
Grammy Award winning Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov—winner of Musical America's 2019 Artist of the Year award—has made a spectacular ascent of the classical music world as a solo artist; a champion of the concerto repertoire; a chamber and vocal collaborator; and a composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of awe. "He has everything and more … tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that," marveled pianist Martha Argerich. Trifonov recently added a Grammy Award to his already considerable string of honors, winning Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with Transcendental, a Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. As the Times of London notes, he is "without question the most astounding pianist of our age."
Pärt "Fratres" for violoncello and piano
Shostakovich Sonata for Violoncello and Piano D Minor, Op. 40
Rachmaninov Sonata for Violoncello and Piano G Minor, Op. 19
Hailed by the Washington Post as "a seasoned phenomenon," Narek Hakhnazaryan won the Cello First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011 at the age of 22.
until Mar 1 Virtual
Virtual Crafting Classes with Book & Plow
Farming together is a great way to form connections and build community. This is in part because the tasks are repetitive, grounding, and give a sense of accomplishment. Many farmers have "winter hobbies" which possess the same qualities to fill the dark months between fall harvest and spring seeding.
Join campus farmers Kaylee & Julia for virtual crochet and embroidery lessons. Open to all Amherst students, both on campus and remote, on a first come first served basis. Supplies will be provided.
Spring Virtual Get Involved Fair
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Virtual, https://thehub.amherst.edu/event/6867091
Learn about new organizations! Gain insight on leadership opportunities! Make your organization's presence known! Come to the Spring '21 Virtual Get Involved Fair on the Hub.
To view the event, visit the Hub or click the link below. Please note that only Eboard members can sign organizations up, but anyone can RSVP. Hope to see you there!
Black Movement Makers brought to you by the Peer Advocates
8:00 am on Feb 22, to 8:00 am on Feb 28 Instagram @amherst_pa
The Peer Advocates for Sexual Respect will be highlighting Black Movement Makers who have contributed to work surrounding sexual respect and violence prevention. A different person will be featured daily from Monday, February 22, through Sunday, February 28, on Instagram. Be sure to follow the Peer Advocates @amherst_pa to learn about each of these movement makers! Questions? Email [email protected].
HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities) Internship Opportunities Information Session
Join us on Monday, February 22, to hear more about internship opportunities with HACU's Corporate Component Internship. For more information, please visit: https://www.hacu.net/hacu/Corporate_HACU_Internship_Program.asp.
HACU National Internship Program - Corporate Component:
The HACU National Internship Program - Corporate Component, partners with some of the leading corporations in the nation to assist them in attracting and hiring the best talent from HACU member colleges and universities. The process is very competitive but rewarding, as many internships lead to full-time roles. Opportunities for both internships and full-time employment are available.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Monday, February 15, to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
Holyoke (USA - Massachusetts) Monday, February 22, 2021 at 11:30:00 am EST
Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Monday, February 22, 2021 at 5:30:00 pm CET
Mumbai (India - Maharashtra) Monday, February 22, 2021 at 10:00:00 pm IST
Beijing (China - Beijing Municipality) Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 12:30:00 am CST
Los Angeles (USA - California) Monday, February 22, 2021 at 8:30:00 am PST
Job Search Foundations: The Resume — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
If you are a senior looking for a boost of support in your job search, the Loeb Center team is here for you!
In this special week of workshops designed just for Seniors, Loeb advisors will break down the core components of any job search and give you the tools you need to tackle the process. All sessions are designed to apply to ANY field of career interest.
In this two-part workshop that kicks off the Senior Job Search Bootcamp, get up to speed with a job search-ready resume (4 - 5 p.m. session) and cover letter (6 - 7 p.m. session). A special discussion on personal statement writing will be included in the cover letter session.
Invest time now in these critical documents so you can tackle your search this spring! Attend one or both parts; there is a one-hour break between topics.
Learn more about and register for other sessions in the Loeb Center's week-long Senior Job Search Bootcamp series on Handshake:
-- 2/22: Job Search Foundations: The Resume https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/669995/share_preview
-- 2/22: Job Search Foundations: Cover Letters and Personal Statements https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/670006/share_preview
-- 2/23: Dynamic Job Search Strategies https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/670018/share_preview
-- 2/24: Your Impressive Self: Strategies for Effective Interviewing https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/670038/share_preview
-- 2/25: Demystifying Networking: How Relationships Are Key to Any Job Search https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/670049/share_preview
-- 2/26: Money Matters https://amherst.joinhandshake.com/events/670062/share_preview
Please join your French Language Assistants for the virtual weekly meeting of French Table. French Table is an opportunity for informal conversation in French, and is open to students, faculty, and staff. French speakers of all levels are welcome! If you would like to join this group, please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
Job Search Foundations: Cover Letters and Personal Statements — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
Resume Review Drop-in Clinic with Loeb Center Peer Career Advisors
Meet with the Loeb Center's Peer Career Advisors to have your resume reviewed. Whether it's your first time seeking Handshake resume approval or you simply want to freshen up your for this semester, we are here to help!
Participants should come prepared to the clinic with a completed draft in Google Docs that you can share with a PCA.
The Loeb Center's weekly virtual drop-in clinics run from February 15-March 29th in addition to the Peer Career Advisor appointments that are available for booking via Handshake. If you have questions, email [email protected].
Can I study away as a senior?
Petition a Non-approved Study Away Program! Deadline April 1
Project Connect Spring Sign-ups Open
until Mar 5
Want to get to know more students? Help build community? Learn ways to improve the connections you have? Project Connect is a fun, five-session peer-led program. Participants discuss a series of thought-provoking questions, complete a mini outreach project, and share experiences with a small group of fellow students. Sign up at the following link https://forms.gle/2WnfbfcmgMN1TgXx8
You may contact [email protected] for more information.
Brought to you by the Wellness Team!
Verite Information Session - Summer Internship Opportunities Available!
Come join us to learn more about summer internship opportunities at Verité, an international labor rights nonprofit located in Amherst, MA!
Verité is an Amherst-based nonprofit and award-winning pioneer in the social auditing, training, research, and consulting field. The organization has over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 corporations and their local suppliers through our global network of NGO partners. Verité works in over 70 countries to empower companies, factories, NGOs, governments, and workers to create sustainable workplace practices in the factories and communities where our consumer goods are made and the raw materials that go into them are sourced.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Tuesday, February 16, to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
Virtual Russian Table
11:30 am Virtual
Please join us for the Virtual Russian Table every Tuesday between 11:30am and 1:00pm EST.
Russian Table offers an opportunity to gather and converse with other Russian-language learners and teachers. Come for the whole time or drop in for a shorter conversation - all levels of Russian speakers are very welcome!
Please email Kristina Diachenko ([email protected]) for the Zoom info.
Peer Support Skills Training
1:50 pm on Feb 23, to 2:50 pm on Mar 10
Have you had feelings of concern for a friend but felt unsure how or if to help? Would you like to learn more about how to use Empathy and Active Listening to become a better communicator? Do you feel uncertain how to start challenging conversations?
The Peer Support Skills Training (PSST) is a first step to becoming part of the Peer Support Network here At Amherst College. Over the course of three two-hour sessions we will work to develop the fundamental skills to support one another and to advocate for yourself more effectively. Importantly this training also includes ways to establish boundaries and safety measures to care for yourself and will review a wide variety of supports you can offer to someone you feel concerned about.
This training does not prepare folks to become primary supports for those in need but can offer a toolbox of techniques for helping those around us access help.
Currently these sessions will be offered remotely via Zoom and are open to all current students at Amherst. We are offering two sessions at this time.
Tuesdays, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23 from 6pm-8pm EST
Fridays, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19 from 10am - Noon EST
For more information and to register for a series, please contact Garrett Fitzgerald at [email protected].
This Program is brought to you by the Amherst College Counseling Center.
Dynamic Job Search Strategies — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
Are you ready to get organized and in command of your job search strategy? Whether you're just getting started or feeling stalled out, this workshop will offer you tools and resources to navigate the landscape of job prospects; advice for staying adaptable, energized, organized, and engaged; and concrete suggestions for finding opportunities that are viable and relevant to your interests.
Kinetic Light Screening and Discussion with Alice Sheppard
In preparation for her February 26 public lecture, disabled dancer/choreographer Alice Sheppard will introduce the Five College community to the work of her company Kinetic Light and its undergirding concepts of intersectional disability arts, disability aesthetics, and aesthetic access. We will watch clips of performances, and Dr. Jina Kim will moderate the discussion. Open to the Five College community. Five College Dance students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to attend in order to gain a foundational understanding of Alice's work and aesthetic.
Register here: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodeiorTopHtxTGn5UpnjF...
Alice Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a leading disability arts ensemble. She studied ballet and modern dance with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Sheppard joined AXIS Dance Company, where she toured and taught in the company's education and outreach programs. As an independent artist, she has danced in projects with Ballet Cymru, GDance, and Marc Brew Company in the U.K. and Full Radius Dance, Marjani Forté, MBDance, Infinity Dance Theater, and Steve Paxton in the U.S. Her choreography has been commissioned by Full Radius Dance, CRIPSiE, and MOMENTA.
As a Bessie award-winning choreographer, Sheppard creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging disability arts, culture, and history, she is intrigued by the intersections of disability, gender, and race. In addition to performance and choreography, Sheppard is a sought-after speaker and has lectured on topics related to disability arts, race, and dance. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and in academic journals.
Jina B. Kim is an Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, and a 2016 PhD graduate of the Women's Studies and English Program at the University of Michigan. She teaches and writes about critical disability studies, feminist- and queer-of-color critique, and contemporary ethnic American literature. She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Imaginaries after the US Welfare State. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Signs, Social Text, MELUS, American Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and The Asian American Literary Review.
An Evening with Trevor Noah
#1 New York Times best-selling author, comedian, and host of The Daily Show in a moderated Q&A with SNL cast member Heidi Gardner.
Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in Africa and is the host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. Under Trevor, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" has broken free from the restraints of a 30-minute linear show, producing engaging social content, award-winning digital series, podcasts and more for its global audience. In 2020, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" received six Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Variety Talk Series and Outstanding Writing for A Variety Series. Trevor also received NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information (Series or Special). "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" also received Webby Awards for Best in Comedy and Best Web Personality/Host, as well as a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Talk Series. Trevor originally joined "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in 2014 as a contributor.
Trevor Noah is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" and its young readers adaptation "It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood," which also debuted as a New York Times bestseller. The book received the Thurber Prize for American Humor and two NAACP Image Awards, one for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author and another for Outstanding Literary Work in the Biography/Auto-Biography category.
To view the live stream click the link below. This event is limited to students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents. An Amherst College login is required to watch the event.
Thinking about study abroad or domestic study in 2021-2022?
Casa de Esperanza Service Year for Graduating Seniors Information Session
Casa de Esperanza is a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas providing residential care to children ages birth through six years old who are in crisis due to abuse, neglect, or the effects of HIV. Care is provided in our residential neighborhood by our Hands of Hope Service Year House Parents. House Parents join us for a year of service (generally after finishing their undergraduate degree- although this is not a requirement) and come from all majors- the single unifying factor for all of our House Parents is the desire to serve vulnerable young children. In our program House Parents arrive and complete training as a small group. We accept and process applications on a rolling basis and applicants can indicate their desired start date on their application.
This event will take place via Zoom. For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact the Career Development Center Team at [email protected]. Please make accommodation requests no later than Wednesday, February 17, to give implementation time, however, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
Stress Management for Managers
The OHR Learning & Development Team invites you to a live webinar presented by the EAP, New Directions.
Managers are constantly being pulled in different directions and have high accountability for how a team functions. This can lead to cumulative stress. Learn more about the stress cycle, how to recognize it's impact on health, and strategies to lower stress that can be applied in daily life. This webinar is designed for anyone who actively supervises others.
Join the Queer Resource Center staff and Dr. Darien McFadden & Dr. Sarah Erickson from the Counseling Center for an open discussion and support space centering conversations concerning our current moment, navigating gender, sexuality, identity at large, and what it means to be LGBTQ+ at Amherst and beyond.
Join us via this link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/j/98710086723?pwd=WVFmWHl1ODMyWlRpeVpnOXF...
For accessibility needs or concerns, please contact [email protected] or 413-542-5964.
Your Impressive Self: Strategies for Effective Interviewing — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
This interactive workshop meets you wherever you are in preparing for an upcoming interview. Strategies, best practices, and current considerations will be shared as well as follow-up resources and training tools. Come learn how to put your best self forward when competing for internships, fellowships, or employment.
CHI Salon: "Spain, the Second World War and the Holocaust"
Join editors Gina Herrmann and Sara J. Brenneis in a discussion of the new publication Spain, the Second World War and the Holocaust: History and Representation (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Herrmann and Brenneis brought together over 30 international experts around the topic of Spain's involvement in World War II, combining the vantage point of Jews who fled Nazi persecution through the Iberian Peninsula, Spaniards who were directly involved in the war and/or imprisoned in Nazi camps, and artists who have created representations of this historical period and its actors. The waves of people-- Jewish refugees and Spanish antifascists alike --who moved across borders, through concentration camps and into exile press us to consider what "home" meant during a moment of unparalleled global strife.
The editors will speak about this collection as the first volume to take this kind of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural view of the period, consider how the volume came together, and discuss some of the more extraordinary takeaways from the book.
Gina Herrmann is a Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, professor of Spanish and director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Sara Brenneis is professor of Spanish and department chair at Amherst College.
This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Spanish and European Studies at Amherst College. Pre-registration is required.
Please note this event will be recorded.
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcO6upj8tE9Na0OjzvYdy...
Solidarity Book Project: Shape the Books that Have Shaped You
Turn your books into art! Sculpt the iconic solidarity fist into books that have shaped your understanding of solidarity. To commemorate our Bicentennial, the College will donate per submission, up to a total of $100,000, to organizations providing Black and Indigenous communities with access to books. Have questions? Join Sonya Clark's make-with sessions to sculpt your books with other members of the Amherst community. Join us at our first session on Feb. 24!
Fostering a Culture of Recognition and Appreciation
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Zoom Link
When was the last time you highlighted a colleague for their good work? Why do we not build appreciation into the culture of our groups? This session will focus on appreciating and recognizing those around us as a tool for supporting comradery and connection.
Demystifying Networking: How Relationships Are Key to Any Job Search — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
The Amherst network is one of the greatest assets you have as you navigate your career. This workshop will teach you about the how-to's of successful professional relationship building, and empower you to start today.
FREEDOM! Amherst College's Annual Speaking Competition
Please support student speakers by attending FREEDOM: Amherst College's remote speaking competition. Students from all four class years have written persuasive speeches about this year's theme, "FREEDOM," and will speak compellingly about what matters to them. Speaking prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the event. Please Zoom in to cheer on these FREEDOM speakers on Thursday, Feb. 25, from 4 to 5:15 p.m.
Pre-registration is required for this webinar event. Please register here:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uEvv829_SYqTfgEtq2IXNA
Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started In Tech
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Zoom
Womxn in Computer Science @ Amherst presents "Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started In Tech" by Beth Linker, Class of '98, in this first installment of the WiCS Alumni Speaker Series! Considering going into tech? Join us in this special presentation by Beth to hear their thoughts on planning (and not planning!) a career in the tech industry. Register online at bit.ly/wics-speaker-series for a spot. (Attendees get free t-shirts!)
Verkada: New Grad Analyst Program Information Session
Founded in 2016, Verkada is an IoT security technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area in the heart of Silicon Valley. Built on the vision of creating the operating system for modern buildings, Verkada's end-to-end building security solution helps modern teams protect people, assets, and privacy.
Verkada is the fastest-growing physical security company in the world, backed by top venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, Meritech and First Round Capital. In January 2020, Verkada raised a Series C round at a $1.6B valuation and recently ranked #10 on LinkedIn's Top Startups 2020 list.
On the Sales Strategy and Operations team at Verkada, new hires hit the ground running with high-impact projects and work cross-functionally across the organization -- gaining exposure to a wide variety of challenges, processes and data. Those hired will become part of a tight-knit team with a diverse set of backgrounds in sales leadership, consulting, banking, private equity, and software engineering.
Analysts on this team drive key policy and strategic initiatives across the company through data-driven insights and play a key role in developing the analytical basis for executive-level decisions. These roles also focus on building future-proof systems and processes, aiming to optimize existing workflows and strategically designing improvements across systems for the long-term.
Join Phoebe Chan, Sales Recruiter; Phuong Tran '09, Sales Operations Lead and Amherst alum; Bobby Pease, Senior Director of Sales Operations; and Stephen Rickli, Sales Operations Manager, to learn more about the company and its opportunities. All class years and majors are welcome to attend.
Getting Sexy, Not Sick! with the SHEs
Join the SHEs for an exciting workshop and discussion about sexual experience during COVID-19 times! As we are in the midst of a global pandemic, we're still aware of the needs and wants of the students within our community, and we want to make sure students are equipped with the resources and tools to have safe and pleasurable sexual experiences. Access the zoom workshop via the following link: http://tinyurl.com/acsexy-feb-25. For more sex related health education, check out our instagram @ac_she!
Spoken Word Slam for Amherst Students
LitFest kicks off with the Spoken Word Slam, hosted by Daniel Gallant, executive director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. The Slam will begin with performances from reg e gaines and J.F. Seary.
Interested students should register now to participate in this virtual event. Registration is open until February 22.
Daniel Gallant is the executive director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the author of the short story collection Determined to Prove, and a playwright, theatrical producer, actor and teacher. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time Out, the New York Post, the Daily News, six anthologies from Applause Books and Vintage Books and elsewhere. He is the recipient of an Eisenhower Fellowship and fellowships from National Arts Strategies and the DeVos Institute, and was recently named to the Fulbright Specialist roster. He has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Crain's New York, Forbes, Adweek, Inc., The Washington Post and Voice of America; and on CNN, MTV, NPR, NBC, NY1, CBS, Univision, the BBC and other networks.
reg e gaines is author/lyricist of the Tony Award-winning musical Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk and is in his ninth year as artistic director of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in New York. Most recently, reg directed Through the Looking Glass for Center Theatre Group and Rock WILK's Brooklyn Quartet. He is currently writing and directing two musicals: The 88 and FREE. His spoken-word career began at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he was named Grand Slam Champion.
J.F. Seary is a Nuyorican poet and actor. She has performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Bowery Poetry Club and Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, as well as in London, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Juan, Grand Rapids and Orlando. She has also toured colleges across the United States with her solo poetry show and with the ensemble production HerStory. Seary has taught English and drama for Monroe College, John Jay College and Borough of Manhattan Community College for 13 years. She is currently working on Necromancer (pilot), and she is a co-creator/co-writer for the web series The New York Effect.
Alcahoot! With the SHEs!
Want to relive the glory of high school Kahoot victories? Then come get a shot of knowledge with the SHEs this Thursday night! We will be hosting an alcohol related Kahoot game where you can have some fun and learn some facts about safe drinking. Follow this tinyurl link to access the zoom meeting: https://tinyurl.com/ac-alcahoot-2-25. More information will be posted on our instagram @ac_she or you can email us at [email protected] with any questions. Hope to see you there!
Creative Thinking Coffee and Conversation: Creative Blocks and Problem Solving
Join Learning & Development for a conversation and reflection of the LinkedIn Learning videos "The Origin of Creative Blocks and Why we Need to Remove Them" and "Bite Sized Problem Solving" (about 5 minutes total). While these videos are part of the February LinkedIn Learning Creative Thinking Challenge, participation in the Challenge is not necessary to join the discussion. Use the link below to register and to find the videos being discussed.
Carleton College--Buddhist Studies in India Information Session
Money Matters — Senior Job Search Bootcamp Week
This workshop focuses on how to put your best foot forward in the job search process and beyond. As you enter into life post-graduation, it is important to understand your value proposition and how to communicate it to your employers and how to live within your means to create long term success. In this workshop you will learn how to research salary ranges, how to negotiate salary and benefits, and how to budget effectively.
Five College Dance Annual Lecture: "Under Wired: Intersectional Disability Aesthetics On and Off Stage," Delivered by Alice Sheppard
Five College Dance is thrilled to welcome dancer and choreographer Alice Sheppard for our 2020-2021 Five College Dance Lecture. Sheppard will deliver a public talk via Zoom entitled "Under Wired: Intersectional Disability Aesthetics On and Off Stage." With Kinetic Light's Wired at the center of this talk, Alice Sheppard invites you into a world where intersectional disability aesthetics and culture take the stage.
Leaving aside the deficit-based understandings of medicalized bodyminds, Sheppard lays out the principles of the newly re-emerging disability arts movement.
This event is free and open to the public, with ASL interpretation and captions provided.
Please register here to receive the Zoom link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdOmoqDsuHdaWmzFmCfKw...
Please also visit our webpage for reading and viewing that we encourage you to engage in advance of Alice's talk, in order to situate it within the broader context of her and her company's artistic practice and ethos: https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance/alice-sheppard-events
Alice Sheppard is the artistic director of Kinetic Light, a leading disability arts ensemble. Sheppard studied ballet and modern dance with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Sheppard joined AXIS Dance Company, where she toured and taught in the company's education and outreach programs. As an independent artist, Sheppard has danced in projects with Ballet Cymru, GDance and Marc Brew Company in the U.K., and Full Radius Dance, Marjani Forté, MBDance, Infinity Dance Theater and Steve Paxton in the U.S. Her choreography has been commissioned by Full Radius Dance, CRIPSiE and MOMENTA.
As a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Sheppard creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging disability arts, culture and history, she is intrigued by the intersections of disability, gender and race. In addition to performance and choreography, Sheppard is a sought-after speaker and has lectured on topics related to disability arts, race and dance. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and in academic journals. alicesheppard.com // @wheelchairdancr
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A Conversation with 2020 National Book Award Winner Charles Yu and Nominee Megha Majumdar
Join Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint for a conversation with National Book Award winner Charles Yu and nominee Megha Majumdar, with a welcome from President Biddy Martin. This virtual event, hosted in partnership with the National Book Foundation, is open to the general public and will be followed by a Q&A.
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award. He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Megha Majumdar was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University, where she was a Traub Scholar, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an associate editor at Catapult and lives in New York City. A Burning, her first book, was longlisted for the National Book Award and was named a top book of the year by the New York Public Library and NPR.
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is the author of a novel, The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven, which won a 2018 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her second book, Names for Light: A Family History, was the winner of the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming from Graywolf Press this August. Myint was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. She is currently a visiting writer at Amherst College.
A Conversation with 2020 National Book Award for Poetry Finalists Tommye Blount and Natalie Diaz
Join John Hennessy for a conversation with National Book Award for Poetry Finalists Tommye Blount and Natalie Diaz. This virtual event, hosted in partnership with the National Book Foundation, is open to the general public and will be followed by a Q&A.
Tommye Blount is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020)—a finalist for the National Book Award—and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). A Cave Canem alumnus and graduate from Warren Wilson College, he has been the recipient of a fellowship from Kresge Arts in Detroit and the John Atherton Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Blount's work has been featured in Magma, Poetry, New England Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review and elsewhere. Born and raised in Detroit, Blount now lives in the nearby suburb of Novi, Mich.
Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, a United States Artists Ford Fellow and a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz is director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Ariz.
John Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims, and his poems appear in The Believer, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, The New Republic, Poetry, The Poetry Review (UK), Poetry Ireland Review and other journals and anthologies. He is the co-translator, with Ostap Kin, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2021; Hennessy and Kin won the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation from Poetry magazine for work included in this book. A former Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow, Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and director of undergraduate creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Emily Dickinson's Amherst College
In partnership with Amherst College's Bicentennial, join Museum staff for a talk about the impact of the College on the life of poet Emily Dickinson. The Dickinson family was instrumental to the College during its first 75 years, beginning with Samuel Fowler Dickinson's part in its founding and continuing with Edward and Austin's combined 60 years of service as treasurers. The College was an early and lasting influence in Emily's life, playing an inestimable role in her early education and friendships, and later connecting her to an ever-widening local and global community. Through original photographs and archival documents, encounter some of the people and places that defined the Dickinsons' 19th-century Amherst College, including students, professors, workers and alumni.
Readings by The Common's Literary Publishing Interns: Amherst Students Share Their Own Creative Work
Jennifer Acker '00 will host readings by The Common's the literary publishing interns: Olive Amdur '23, Sofia Belimova '22, Eliza Brewer '22, Whitney Bruno '21, Elly Hong '21 and Isabel Meyers '20.
Jennifer Acker '00 is founder and editor-in-chief of The Common and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations and reviews have appeared in Amazon Original Stories, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest.
Alumni Authors Cocktail Hour Reading
Jennifer Acker '00 will host brief readings by Calvin Baker '94, Chris Bohjalian '82, Dan Chiasson '93, Edward A. Farmer '05, Michael Gorra '79, Kirun Kapur '97, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne '01 and Ismée Williams '95. A Q&A to follow.
Acker '00 is founder and editor-in-chief of The Common and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations and reviews have appeared in Amazon Original Stories, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest.
The Poet's Prose: Rereading Joseph Brodsky's Essays Today
This LitFest event features Professors Polina Barskova and Catherine Ciepiela '83, in conversation with Christopher Benfey, Sven Birkerts and Jonathan Galassi about the prose works of the Nobel Prize Winner and 5-Colleges Literature Professor Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). This event is hosted in partnership with the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.
Polina Barskova is a poet and a scholar, author of 12 collections of poems and two books of prose in Russian. She has also authored a monograph, Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster (2017), and edited three scholarly volumes. Her collection of creative nonfiction, Living Pictures, received the Andrei Bely Prize in 2015; it was published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag and is forthcoming in English from New York Review Books. Barskova edited the Leningrad Siege poetry anthology Written in the Dark (Ugly Duckling Presse) and has four collections of poetry published in English translation: This Lamentable City (Tupelo Press), The Zoo in Winter (Melville House), Relocations (Zephyr Press) and Air Raid (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse). She has taught at Hampshire College, Amherst College and Smith College. Starting in 2021, she will be teaching Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Catherine Ciepiela '83 is a scholar and translator of Russian poetry who teaches at Amherst College. She is the author of The Same Solitude, a book on Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak; co-editor, with Honor Moore, of the anthology The Stray Dog Cabaret; and editor of Relocations: Three Contemporary Russian Women Poets. Her translations have appeared in The Nation, The Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, The Common, Pequod and elsewhere. Her translation of Polina Barskova's book of poetic essays will appear in the coming year from the New York Review of Books.
Christopher Benfey is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of five books about the American Gilded Age, including A Summer of Hummingbirds, which won both the 2009 Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Ambassador Book Award. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Benfey is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2013, he won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is given to a writer whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose style.
Sven Birkerts is the author of 11 books, most recently an appreciation of Nabokov's Speak, Memory (Ig Publishing). He co-edits the literary journal AGNI at Boston University, and was for many years the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He interviewed Joseph Brodsky for The Paris Review.
Jonathan Galassi has been at Farrar, Straus & Giroux since 1986 and currently serves as president. His most recent publication is a translation of Eugenio Montale's selected poems (part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series, 2020).
A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Anne Applebaum
Join Pulitzer Prize Winner Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy in conversation with host Cullen Murphy '74 H'19. This virtual event, hosted in partnership with the National Book Foundation, is open to the general public and will be followed by a Q&A.
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she runs a project on 21st-century disinformation. She was a Washington Post columnist for 15 years and a member of the editorial board. She is the author of several history books, including Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Her newest book, Twilight of Democracy, appeared in July 2020. Her writing has also appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among many others.
Cullen Murphy '74 is editor-at-large of The Atlantic where he has spent most of his career, and a former editor-at-large of Vanity Fair. His most recent book is Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe, a memoir about the large cartoonist colony in Fairfield County, Conn. His other books include Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and The Fate of America and God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World. For 25 years he collaborated with his father, illustrator John Cullen Murphy, on the comic strip Prince Valiant. Murphy was a longtime member of Amherst College's board of trustees and chaired the board from 2012 to 2018. He lives in Massachusetts.
M@A Presents: Dan Tepfer, piano and computer
Virtual performance of "Natural Machines"
Bringing together his undergraduate studies in astrophysics with his passion for music, his groundbreaking multimedia project "Natural Machines" integrates computer-driven algorithms into his improvisational process.
"Combines superb technique with a complex set of impulses: he's a deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown." — The New York Times
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Sealord ordered to forfeit $24 million vessel and pay penalties for trawling in a protected area
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Watch Rosie Gordon's report. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Sealord
Sealord must forfeit a US$16 million (NZ$23.98m) vessel and pay penalties for five bottom trawling incidents in a protected area during 2018 a hoki fishing trip.
The global seafood enterprise must pay $24,000 dollars for the offence, while a vessel master and first mate have also been fined.
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Sealord must also forfeit the proceeds from the entire catch - more than $112,000, along with the boat.
According to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), Sealord failed to take reasonable steps to avoid the offending.
"All bottom trawling and dredging is illegal in benthic protected areas," MPI compliance director Gary Orr said.
"To ensure that fishing gear does not touch the bottom, trawling within 100m of the seabed is prohibited within a benthic protection area.
"It is important that the companies sending skippers to sea give them adequate training and provide sufficient oversight well after the vessel leaves the port."
MPI says the fishing trip happened at Chatham Rise, about 200 nautical miles east of Christchurch.
"For each of the trawls, the net was hard on the seabed and within the lower buffer zone of 50 metres off the bottom."
About 40,000 kg worth of fish was caught during the trawls, MPI says.
"Sealord Group Ltd can make an application to the courts for relief from the effects of forfeiture in relation to the vessel," the public service department said in a statement. "The defendants were sentenced on the basis that they had not deliberately bottom trawled in a protected area, but they had failed to take reasonable steps to avoid the offending." | {
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Bad Characters, Female Characters, Dakotaverse Characters,
1994 Character Debuts
Modern-Age Characters
Ivan Velez, Jr./Creator
ChrisCross/Creator
Power Limitation
Female Villains
Identity Unknown
Wytch (Dakotaverse)
Wytch
Current Alias
Shadow Cabinet, formerly Star Chamber
Shadowspire, formerly Star Chamber headquarters (location unknown)
Operative of the Shadow Cabinet, former member of the Star Chamber
Dakotaverse
Ivan Velez, Jr. · ChrisCross
Hardware #11
(January, 1994)
Little is known about Wytch's background before she joined the Shadow Cabinet, an ancient team of metahumans that covertly protects mankind from being destroyed by its worst instincts. She is a worshiper of New Age mysticism, which presumably led to her becoming a true witch.[1] At some point, Wytch's powers came to the attention the Shadow Cabinet's leader, Dharma, who convinced her to join his team. Wytch's abilities quickly made her a valued asset to the team. She also joined a popular clique of Cabinet operatives consisting of Ash, Blitzen, Donner, Iota, and Jigsaw, who would hang out off duty.[2]
Wytch's relationship with the Cabinet's field commander, Iron Butterfly, was not so cordial. Butterfly made little secret of her belief that Wytch's New Age religion as well as her recklessness had no place in the team. Conversely, Wytch thought Iron Butterfly was too tightly wound to be an effective leader. Not surprisingly, the two women often locked horns though they were able to put aside their differences to complete a mission.
That changed due to a major upheaval in the Shadow Cabinet in recent years. An ambitious operative named Headmaster felt that beings as powerful as the Cabinet should rule humanity rather than protect it. His views were shared by several other operatives including Wytch.[1] These dissidents would eventually become the faction known as the Star Chamber, which promptly split off from the Cabinet. This schism would begin the covert metahuman conflict known as the Shadow War.[3]
Since the Shadow Cabinet would oppose their goal of world domination, the Star Chamber needed to quickly bolster their ranks. The key to doing so was the Dakota City, which saw a major increase in metahumans due to the "Big Bang" event.[3] Dharma had extensive files on Dakota's metahumans, information which the Chamber had secretly copied before leaving the Cabinet.[3] Thus, the Shadow War quickly escalated as Shadow Cabinet and the Star Chamber vied to get Dakota's superheroes and supervillains to join their side. Wytch did participate in the recruitment, but instead coordinated the Chamber's efforts from their secret base.[3]
After the recruitment was largely successful, the Star Chamber then sought to acquire Quantum Juice or "Q Juice", an unpredictable, dangerous mutagen responsible for the Big Bang.[1] The only known stockpile of Q Juice belonged to the malevolent conspiracy S.Y.S.T.E.M., who stored it in a vault hidden in an American casino. Headmaster convinced the new Chamber recruits that stealing the Q Juice from SYSTEM was necessary lest it fall into the hands of the "evil" Shadow Cabinet. Headmaster also desired to capture Q Juice's creator Dr. Nathan Flack, but the Chamber's efforts to find him had so far failed.[1]
Several Chamber members including Wytch teleported via Funyl's powers into the casino, breached the vault's outer door, and quickly overcame the squad of armored SYSTEMatics protecting the stockpile.[1] However, the Chamber met new opposition as the Shadow Cabinet teleported in, leading to a fierce battle. During the battle, Chamber member Slag attempted to capture the Q Juice, but was beaten to the prize by Blitzen.[1] With the Q Juice in enemy hands, the Star Chamber teleported back to their headquarters.[1]
Headmaster had anticipated this possibility and implemented a new strategy. Since the Star Chamber could not steal Q Juice, they would make their own by using the superconducting supercollider in Luoyang, China to process certain radioactive materials into the mutagen.[1] These materials were available in three fusion reactors on Earth. Headmaster split the Chamber into three teams, each assigned to a fusion reactor.[1] These simultaneous strikes would increase the odds that at least one team would be successful.[1]
Wytch joined Harm and Rocket to raid the L'institut Des Recherches Atomiques in Paris, France, where they clashed with a Shadow Cabinet strike team led by Iron Butterfly.[1] In the midst of the battle, Wytch and Butterfly confronted each other, and years of simmering loathing for each other finally boiled over into violence.[1] Initially, Wytch seemed to have the upper hand, but Iron Butterfly turned the tables due to her tactical ability and greater experience with her powers. Before Wytch knew it, she was on the ground with Butterfly's sword at her throat.[1] Harm soon ordered a retreat after the Shadow Cabinet began winning the battle. Somehow, Wytch broke free from Iron Butterfly's grasp and used Funyl's teleportation funnel to return to base.
Despite this defeat, another Star Chamber team acquired the radioactive material so the entire group teleported to the collider, leading to a final showdown with the Shadow Cabinet.[1] However, the Star Chamber's battle with the Cabinet was a diversion allowing Wytch's teammates Ash, Funyl and Slag to reach the collider control room and take the staff hostage. The trio then reprogrammed the collider so it would process the stolen radioactive material into Q Juice, which they loaded into an already prepared missile. Ash, Funyl, and Slag launched the missile, whose loud roar was so startling that it brought the fight between the Cabinet and the rest of the Chamber to a halt.[1]
Headmaster then revealed to all present that in minutes the Q Juice-bearing missile would reach geosynchronous orbit.[1] The rocket was rigged to be detonated by a remote in Headmaster's hand, thus releasing its payload into Earth's atmosphere and killing countless millions. The missile was Star Chamber's trump card in case any superhero tried to thwart the group's true goal of world domination.
However, Headmaster's gloating was short-lived when his remote was suddenly snatched by an invisible observer: Dr. Nathan Flack, who now called himself Dr. Nemo.[1] Nemo gained his cloaking power by exposure to Q juice, and he now wanted to similarly "bless" humanity by repeating his experiment on a global scale.[1] After observing the Shadow War for days, Flack realized that the Star Chamber's scheme for world conquest was the perfect way to accomplish his dream.[1] Nemo then detonated the missile to the horror of those assembled.
Fortunately, the Cabinet's ally Hardware had secretly flown off to intercept the Star Chamber's missile as Headmaster explained its purpose.[1] Hardware boarded the missile and then escaped with its Q Juice payload just seconds before it exploded.[1] Thus the world was saved from Flack's genocidal plans.
The Star Chamber promptly surrendered except for the new recruits who either joined the Cabinet or fled the scene.[1] After securing the new Q Juice, the Shadow Cabinet left the rest of the Chamber to be picked up by the authorities. Wytch and her teammates soon found themselves in maximum security prison with lengthy sentences.[1]
Wytch would still be incarcerated if not for an unexpected turn of events. During the infamous Utopia Park Riots, several Shadow Cabinet members disobeyed Dharma's explicit orders to not get involved in order to save endangered civilians and police.[4] Dharma considered this mutiny as proof that his Cabinet operatives had too much free will and thus were less effective in his eyes.[5] So, he declared that operatives could no longer leave the Cabinet's headquarters, the Shadowspire, except for missions.[6] Deeming Dharma insane, operatives Donner, Blitzen and Iota fled the Shadowspire to form their own public superhero team, Heroes.[5] Perhaps anticipating such a rebellion, Dharma had earlier arranged for the release of the Star Chamber, who having no where else to go decided to rejoin the Cabinet.
Months later, many of Dakota's Big Bang survivors or "Bang Babies" were kidnapped by the Traffic Men, mysterious figures who used energy staves to temporarily disrupt their victims' powers.[7] For unknown reasons, Wytch was in Dakota at this time and wound up being kidnapped by the Traffic Men, who thought she was Bang Baby.[8] Wytch's captors secretly served John Tower, the legendary superhero turned supervillain who sought to boost his powers with a serum derived from the blood of his metahuman captives. The Heroes and Hardware eventually discovered Tower's hideout thanks to information shared by Iron Butterfly, who also joined the rescue effort.[8] While his allies fought the Traffic Men, Heroes member Static freed Tower's captives, including Wytch. Soon, Tower found himself alone and without his serum leading to his quick defeat by Wytch and her fellow captives.[9] Heroes member Gloria Mundi then absorbed the souls of Tower and the Traffic Men into her collective intelligence.[9]
Presumably, Wytch returned to her duties as a Shadow Cabinet operative.
Magic: All of Wytch's superhuman abilities stem from her study and knowledge of witchcraft.[1] The full extent of her power is unknown though it clearly pales to that of more experienced sorcerers like Arcaana and Red Dog.
Telekinetic Animation: Wytch can project her mystical energy into inorganic inanimate objects which then move according to her will.[1] Through this means, she can cause utility pipes to erupt from the ground to ensnare an unsuspecting opponent or turn debris into deadly missiles by commanding them to fly at a target.[1] Wytch is also capable of creating complex structures from inorganic materials such as concrete slides that she can use to quickly transport herself and others.[1] Wytch usually gestures with her hands to better control the inorganic matter she animates.
Flight: Wytch can magically levitate herself and thus fly.[1] She cannot levitate much weight besides her own body. Hence, Wytch could not get airborne if she tried to levitate herself and another person.[1]
Power Limitation: Wytch's mystical powers cannot affect organic matter except for herself.
Shadowslide: As an operative of the Shadow Cabinet, Wytch can also teleport via the Shadowslide.
Sideshow admitted to having a crush on Wytch, who remains unaware of his feelings for her.[2]
3 Appearances of Wytch (Dakotaverse)
5 Images featuring Wytch (Dakotaverse)
Quotations by or about Wytch (Dakotaverse)
Character Gallery: Wytch (Dakotaverse)
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↑ 2.0 2.1 Shadow Cabinet #3
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Hardware #11
↑ Shadow Cabinet #16
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↑ Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #1
↑ 8.0 8.1 Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #3
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For our fourth annual natural-beauty awards, we vetted winners with our trusted advisors (naturally). Their extensive ingredient knowledge added up this list of the year's must-haves.
To help us bring you a lineup of clean winners, we teamed up with these natural beauty pros who shared their extensive ingredient knowledge.
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When SpaceX launches a Dragon capsule full of supplies toward the International Space Station Sunday night, it will be the beginning of a new era for space exploration. It will be the first privately funded commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo shipments to space.
After SpaceX successfully tested its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon capsule in May (see its historic docking in the gallery below), now it's ready to actually deliver the goods, consisting of a half a ton of equipment and supplies. If all goes well with the launch attempt, set for 8:35 p.m. ET Sunday night, the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the space station on Wednesday, October 10.
This initial mission carrying a half-ton of cargo will be the first of 12 resupply flights NASA has contracted with SpaceX. The space agency and SpaceX have made a $1.6 billion deal to deliver 20 metric tons of supplies into space for NASA.
Tonight's launch puts the United States back into the space launching business again, a welcome capability for NASA, whose space shuttle fleet has been retired since Space Shuttle Atlantis landed on on July 21, 2011 after its last flight.
Look toward the south about 3 to 6 minutes after launch.
Concentrate your gaze low toward the south-southeast about 6 to 8 minutes after launch.
Get out your binoculars, and look close to the horizon for the spacecraft. You might also want to be sure the Falcon has actually launched — you can watch it live on NASA's public Ustream site. | {
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A satisfying breakfast doesn't get much quicker and easier. Make ahead and grab one of these cheesy, savory stuffed rolls and be on your way. Mix and match fillings by adding scrambled eggs, leftover hash browns, sautéed red or green peppers or any of your favorites. Gorgeously Delish & Portable!
Preheat oven to 375°. In a small bowl, combine sausage, bacon, cheeses, onion and parsley.
Unroll crescent dough and separate into four rectangles; seal perforations. Transfer to a foil-lined baking sheet. Place 3 tablespoons mixture in the center of each rectangle. Bring four corners of dough over filling and twist; pinch to seal.
Bake 14-16 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers. 4 servings.
Scatter and fill hot waffle iron with frozen potato tots. No oil needed for the iron—allow the tots to do the work. Press the waffle lid over the top of your spuds. After about a minute, open the waffle iron to see how the hash browns are cooking. If you need to fill in any spaces add a few more tots to the bare spots. You'll know your waffles are done when they are golden brown and crispy. Carefully place waffle onto a large plate. Allow to cool slightly before slicing into individual hash browns for your portable breakfast to go.
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Are these Napoleon's Tots? Looks great!
hahaha! They're better actually 😉 Less Napoleonic, Pedro would be proud lol!
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On All Saints Day, Christians have traditionally remembered those they have lost. Co-founder Andrew Packman reflects on the hope that despite the reality of death, all will be well.
After this I looked, and behold, a great countless crowd from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands; and they shouted loudly saying, "Salvation to our God who is enthroned and to the Lamb." And all the angels stood around the throne with the elders and the four living creatures and prostrated themselves before the throne and worshipped God saying, "Amen; praise and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might to our God forever and ever; Amen." And one of the elders spoke to me saying, "Who are these who are clothed in bright robes and from whence have they come?" And I said to him, "My Lord, you know". And he said to me, "These are the people who have come through the great ordeal and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. On this account, they are before the throne of God, and they worship night and day in his Sanctuary, and he who is enthroned will shelter them. They shall not hunger anymore or thirst anymore, neither shall the sun nor any scorching heat fall upon them, because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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Loki has a what the vet thinks fairly certain is a cyst on his tail. He said you can drain cysts or remove them, but he recommends removal while still small especially on the tail. Anyone else experience a cyst on a huskies tail? He has been scheduled to have it removed, but I'm nervous for him. The vet said that cysts on tails are not normal.
I guess no one else had experience with this issue. Loki is at the vet getting it removed. I have been worried since I dropped him off. Can't wait till he comes back home.
I'm sorry Jessica! I've never dealt with this either. I hope Loki does well with surgery and keep us updated.
Loki is home and sleepy. I have to keep him not active for 5 days including no walks. This will be hard with two husky boys under 2. My dog lexi has a sebaceous cyst on her back. We removed it once during teeth cleaning but it came back. Since it never got bigger or caused problems we have left her cyst. The vet though was concerned as Loki's was on tail and if it got bigger it could cause issues where he could lose tail. He saud cyst are uncommon on tail and for his age so I am concerned. I am use to my lumpy old dog, just not lumpy young dog. He said pretty sure cyst but I read something about sebaceous carcinoma and other things where male huskies can be predisposed. The lump was sent to lab for histology. So I should get more info soon.
^^this was my go to for help when Beka would have issues.
This one below is a thread from here that I posted information about her sebaceous cysts in.
It did feel same as my other dogs cyst and was round with hair on it, not calif lower like picture. I will take a look at other link. Thanks!
First I would ask you if they gave the cyst a style or a name? is it on the tail or or at the base or the tip? Beka had several different kinds. We were told basically that since she was a mix she was prone more. Did they lance it and scoop it out? The one we had this done to never came back. We had others drained and some a "center" came out and they were fine others just drained ad would come back. Some would be warty and cauliflower like others like skin tag or horn, others were almost like a pillow packet under the skin.She did over produce skin oil and we were told to watch how much and what we washed her with. Tails are bad because there are lots of nerves there. The odd thing with Beka was she started getting them at about two or three and had them her whole life. She started with sebaceous then as she got older the horns, cornified things, pillows, most things we gland or hair follicle related.
The biggest tip I have is that even though the vet would aspirated popped or check the cysts she was always leary about popping. Depending on the kind of cyst some can internally pop/ If you pop it but the "insides" leak inward rather than out ward. The cyst can wall itself off because it could be bad to leak inside.
One of Beka's popped on its own near her back hip it was like a pillow pocket. it was like the skin just stretched to far. but then she had one years later that was like a pimple the popped but had a hole and it started to well up and wee had to have it lance because it was an internal infecting it was leaking inside almost a reverse tumor. We did not have that one have surgery on it because she was in her last year.
The bump was on the underside of his tail and in the middle. It was not at the base.
The vet just said like a sebaceous cyst. It didn't move around or anything either. At first I though it may be a matt or something. Even vet had to shave to see it. I told the vet I play with his tail alot and when I brush him, so I think it came on pretty fast and was about size of dime. It was covered in hair though, so maybe I missed it. They said they could lance to try and drain (may or may not work - could get infected), use creams for 2 weeks to see if it goes down (unlikely to work), or remove the cyst. The vet was concerned if we didn't remove it could become infected. He also felt that given it seemingly came on fast, if it continued to grow it would be much harder to remove if that would be needed as there is not much to work with on the tail.
Loki actually seems to have the least amount of oil of my 3 dogs. Ichigo is more oily. Vets and people who meet him are pretty sure he is fully husky, but he was rescue so who knows. I also had a lab for a number of years, so many dogs feel less oily (ie maybe I'm not the best judge). They get baths about every 6-8 weeks. I have oatmeal shampoo. However, my fiance was so happy he bought conditioner for loki and put that on the last time he bathed him a couple weeks ago. I wonder if that may have bothered his tail?
I agree with Colleen, I don't think it has anything to do with being clean or using shampoos. I see it more as an ingrown hair that humans get, or acne, which isn't necessarily because of excessive oils. The cat, when I was a teenager, he was a fastidious cleaner, but he was young. The cat with the face or chin acne should have been covered in cysts, she was extremely overweight and could not clean most of herself, and I had to brush her way more often than Miya, lol, I mean I brushed that cat almost daily, but only had a mild reaction to plastic bowls.
Like I said I file this stuff for the just in case, but also, I think some people do searches, and this may prove to be helpful to others......Jessica, glad Loki is home and hope he is on a quick mend.
To answer your question ....all have something in common all of these are a filled pocket all cysts are walled off pockets. How they are formed, what they are formed around, wether they are under the skin or over the skin etc that is what is different.
Jessica, I hope I did not hijack your thread, wasn't my intention, I just wanted to understand this more.
No worries. You didn't hijack. I'll just keep a eye on him to see if anymore come up. I know my dog Lexi is lumpy from 2 fatty tumors, a cyst, and a few skin tags. The vet has left all of those and I just have grown use to her being a bit lumpy. Loki's tail looks like it is healing well. Now I will just have to keep an eye on it and see how long it takes for hair to regrow.
It was a dermoid cyst. Vet said I should bathe him every 2-3 weeks. Seems like a lot so I will need to look into it.
My husky had a cyst removed from his tail a year ago. It started small and grew rapidly in a three month period. My doctor said it was sebaceous. I had the cyst surgically removed. It was sent to the lab for testing and it was benign. I developed so quickly and began to ulcerate in a few months. He went to the doctor several times for ointments and oral antibiotics before the doctor recommended surgery. I would have it removed only if it increases in size or starts to ulcerate. My husky has several cysts and the doctor says it is due to aging. He doesn't feel they should be removed if they are superficial and not growing.
Oh dermoid cyst I thought those (in humans) were the "You ate your twin at birth cysts."
It's from a movie sorry.
I thought those were cyst that formed as a defect starting at birth sometimes having hair or teeth in them and mature as the body grows. Yep just looked it up.
So it sounds like if the cysts do not rupture and are not causing the dog any apparent discomfort, removing them basically is a cosmetic option for the benefit of the owner. | {
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New Mexico Utility Sparks Change with Fleet Electrification
There is no silver bullet, no perfect vehicle technology to meet all fleet needs, but PNM is pushing the envelope.
Frank Burcham, Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coordinator
The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) provides electricity for more than 500,000 residential, commercial, and tribal customers. In addition to delivering power, PNM is inspiring fleets and vehicle owners in their community to consider electric drive vehicles.
With a fleet comprised of about 700 vehicles that travel 5 million miles annually, PNM has always looked for ways to cut fuel use. As a founding member of the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities coalition (LECC) and covered fleet under the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Policy Act (EPAct) State and Alternative Fuel Provider Fleet Program, PNM considered fleet electrification for years, even piloting one of the first EV pickups available in the 1980s. Recent vehicle technology advancements made a more substantial transition a reality. PNM began incorporating PHEV sedans, including the Ford Fusion and C-MAX and Chevrolet Volt, into the fleet beginning in 2013.
With the release of VIA Motors' extended-range PEV pickup truck, PNM partnered with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in 2013 to cover the $60,000 per vehicle incremental cost for three VIA pickups. The fleet purchased an additional three vehicles without financial support. In 2014, PNM acquired their first heavy-duty electric drive service trucks. Employing electric boom technology from Versalift and Altec, the fleet currently operates 16 electric bucket trucks, with six more on order.
Driven by Edison Electric Institute's Fleet Electrification Initiative, which requires utilities to dedicate 5% of annual fleet purchases to PEVs, PNM plans to continue along this path. "Whenever we have the opportunity to replace a vehicle, we look to PEVs," said Fleet Manager Dave Fisher. "Our fleet's success was a combination of timing, new technologies, and a management team that fully supports our efforts."
To charge their vehicles, PNM installed Level 2 EVSE at four of its facilities, including the PNM offices in downtown Albuquerque, where charging is also available to the public. In addition, thanks to an introduction made by LECC, PNM is partnering with Nissan to install 11 public DC fast charging stations along the Rio Grande corridor from Albuquerque to Santa Fe.
As a result of their electric drive vehicles, PNM is averting 606 tons of greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis, and has achieved a cost savings of $166,347 per year. In addition, PNM's telematics system--which is used to monitor fleet performance, track driver behavior, and inform driver training--has improved the fleet's average fuel economy by 15%.
These activities also align with the EPAct State and Alternative Fuel Provider fleet Program requirements. Under the Program's Standard Compliance method,alternative fuel provider fleets like PNM must ensure that at least 90% of their annual non-excluded light-duty vehicle acquisitions are light-duty alternative fuel vehicles. Medium- and heavy-duty electric drive vehicle acquisitions, as well as investments in fueling infrastructure, also count toward compliance under the Program.
Through connections with LECC, PNM is sharing their knowledge of PEVs with other fleets, offering free charging installations to fleets in their service territory, and promoting the vehicles at state fairs and other events. "Through Clean Cities, you always get the inside scoop," Fisher said.
"There is no silver bullet, no perfect vehicle technology to meet all fleet needs, but PNM is pushing the envelope," said LECC Coordinator Frank Burcham. "They are seeing huge benefits and spreading the word to others."
Fleet Type: Public utility vehicles
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Number of Vehicles: About 700
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction (tons/yr): 606
Cost Savings (annual): $166,347
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Mae West made a career out of being an unapologetic bad girl. She was the kind of woman who always said the wrong thing, the brassy thing. "Dirty Blonde" embraces the legacy of Miss West with affection and admiration. The new Portland Center Stage Production tells the story of two overanxious New Yorkers, people who share a love of the actress and develop a relationship based on that commonality. Their eventual quirky romance contains a large dose of her influence. The pair are a frustrated actress and a man with an interesting obsession. They both draw inspiration from the diva.
The production consists of three actors with varying roles. Jennifer Taub plays West with a fantastic energy and a great attention to detail. Her interpretation of the legend is right on without leaving the audience with a feeling of overdone exaggeration. The actress does a wonderful job of doubling the characters of the star and a fan with the fluidity necessary to conquer the role.
The production, while not as elaborate as the original Broadway version starring Kathy Najimy, is solidly presented. The dialogue has a steady pace with the songs creating a beautiful addition to it. The music is simple and non-intrusive to the flow of the story. The infusion of flashbacks of West's career creates a humorous ground for the presentation of the comparatively banal love story. Miss West's life and personality are far too big in contrast to a story about two regular people falling in love.
Mae West starred in 12 movies throughout the course of her career, most of which were released in the 1930s and 1940s, and she left a lasting imprint. Her position as a classic film icon can be traced to her early start as a child star on Broadway and her incredible talent for writing her own dialogue. Her comic timing puts her miles ahead of her costars with the exception of her last work, "Sextet," which was released in 1978 and ridiculously shows an 85-year-old West as a sex symbol of sorts.
Her legacy of outshining all who surrounded her translates to the production of "Dirty Blonde." While the destiny of her two fans may lie with each other, they don't have the power to take the spotlight away from a personality like West's.
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Exercise can boost the effectiveness of your Covid-19 vaccine, new study finds: here's how to get the most out of it
Being the most protected against serious consequences after a Covid-19 infection is largely attributed to vaccination. But, shooting efficiency can be improved by physical activity, according to a new study.
High levels of physical activity appeared to be associated with greater efficacy of the primary series of the Covid-19 vaccination, according to new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
"The higher the exercise dose, the greater the protective effect, obviously to some extent," said Jon Patricios, professor of sports and exercise medicine at Wits University in Johannesburg and co- author of the study, to CNBC Make It.
So how often and how hard should you exercise to get the most out of your Covid-19 vaccinations? Here's what Patricios and his co-authors discovered.
2.5 hours of exercise per week may increase protection against severe Covid consequences in vaccinated people
Researchers found that vaccinated people best protected against serious consequences, such as hospitalization, after Covid-19 infection followed these exercise guidelines:
Frequency: They did at least 150 minutes, or two and a half hours, of physical activity each week.
Intensity: Their physical activity was of moderate intensity, which means that their heart rate was between 70% and 79% of their maximum heart rate during exercise.
Participants in this group were 2.8 times less likely to develop serious consequences of Covid-19 than people who rarely exercise. Or, in simpler terms, their vaccines were 25% more effective at protecting them from these outcomes than sedentary people.
In a video embedded in the study, visual depictions of weightlifting and running are highlighted as some of the exercises the group engaged in.
"It's likely that at a higher level of physical activity you get a more positive stimulation of that immune response," says Dr. Elizabeth Joy, senior medical director of wellness and nutrition at Intermountain Healthcare, who did not participate in the study. .
"This, in turn, leads to the observed decrease in disease burden."
Yet even vaccinated people who exercised between 60 minutes and 149 minutes were 1.4 times less likely to have severe cases of Covid infection.
This is how the study was conducted
The researchers analyzed data collected from South Africa's largest health insurer on nearly 200,000 vaccinated adults in the country, including both men and women. At the time the study was conducted, only the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was available.
The data included Covid-19 PCR test results from February to October 2021. And minutes of physical activity, step count and heart rate data were tracked for each person using a wearable device.
Exercise may also reduce risk of severe Covid outcomes in unvaccinated people
"We had another study that showed that in people who got Covid — and they were unvaccinated people — those who did the recommended 150 minutes of exercise per week had better results," says Patricios.
"They were admitted to hospitals less, fewer of them were in intensive care and on ventilators and fewer of them died."
Similar to his research, a study was conducted on more than 48,000 participants with Covid, before vaccines became available, to determine whether exercise was associated with a lower risk of serious consequences from the disease.
The researchers found that those who walked or exercised regularly, before infection, were about half as likely to be hospitalized due to Covid.
"It just adds to that evidence base that people who are more physically active are healthier," says Joy.
Although it has been widely studied that exercise can reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases like dementia and cancer, "physical activity is also an effective strategy to prevent communicable diseases like Covid-19", notes Joy.
When it comes to physical activity for better health outcomes, she says, "none is bad, some is good. [and] more is better."
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EFCC Discovers Another N6bn Hotel In Abuja Linked To Patience Jonathan
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced a magnificient architectural edifice of an uncompleted eight-storey building in Abuja to be allegedly owned by wife of former president of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan.
The building, which is valued at N6billion, is located within the Central Business District, between the National Mosque and the Federal Secretariat. It was alleged that the property was bought through her foundation known as Aribawa Aurera Reach Out Foundation.
In a document, which has been attached to a court application, the anti-graft agency said it had written to the Corporate Affairs Commission to get the identities of the directors of the foundation who are believed to be fronts for Patience.
The commission further stated that it had written to the Abuja Geographical Information System to get the history of the property and how and when it was bought. The anti-graft agency has also written eight banks: Skye Bank, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, Union Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank, United Bank for Africa and Unity Bank.
Recall that the EFCC had frozen tan account belonging to the Aribawa Aurera Reach Out Foundation with account number 1222014221 in Ecobank with a balance of N479m.
The document read:
"Plot 1350 Cadastral Zone A00 CBD which was allocated to Ariwabai Aurera Reach Out Foundation in 2010 and Certificate of Occupancy issued in 2011. The plot bears an eight-storey building still under construction.
"Inference may be drawn from investigation that the suspect's (Patience) last known official position was permanent secretary in Bayelsa State. Hence, there is no way such magnificent architectural edifices could have been built within a short space of time.
"There is a high probability that it could have been built with the proceeds of crime. It is evidently clear that it is a case of money laundering but there is a need to do more investigation."
The commission had also sealed a five-storey hotel, belonging to Patience, believed to be worth about N3bn located near Setraco Construction Company beside Mabushi Kado Expressway. The property, which has not been officially opened, has between 50 to 100 rooms, a gymnasium, a fountain and other amenities.
Patience has been under probe since May 2016 when the commission arrested a former Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa.
Patience laid claim to about $15m found in bank accounts allegedly belonging to Dudafa's domestic servants. She later sued Skye Bank Plc and the EFCC after which the commission, through a court order, froze her personal account with a balance of $5m.
However, in the case of the alleged N2bn hotel, the Anti-graft agency, it was learned, had proceeded to court to obtain an interim forfeiture order for the hotel and a N6bn plaza. The document read in part,
"In view of the foregoing, I request for an interim forfeiture order on the two properties amongst others linked to the suspect and believed to have been acquired from the proceeds of crime. "This is particularly very important because attempts to mark the properties were resisted and even the portion that was successfully marked was later cleaned off by the agents of the suspect."
In a similar development, the anti-graft agency has also traced three other properties in Abuja to Patience in Karsana, Wasa and Idogwari areas of the Federal Capital Territory.
According to documents from AGIS, the three properties were bought in the names of two companies – Finchley Top Homes Ltd. and AM-PM Network Limited. The bank accounts of Finchley Top Homes Limited, which have been traced to Patience, were frozen by the commission a few months ago.
The accounts include: Account number 1102001996 in Ecobank, with a balance of N226,376,700.23 and a fixed deposit of N1,099,511,484.88; a Skye Bank account numbered 1771731336, with a balance of N14,173,848.85; Fidelity Bank account numbered, 4011019539 with a balance of N1,800,494,000; Stanbic Bank account numbered, 0016901361, with a balance of N40,594,12.88; and Diamond Bank account 0019213687 with a balance of N39,418,712.12.
In his reaction, Patience's lawyer, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), said he was not aware of the fresh attempt to seize more of his client's properties. He, however, said it was sad that the former first lady had become a victim of a witch-hunt.
Adedipe said her client had dragged the EFCC to the Court of Appeal over the freezing of Mrs. Jonathan's account while a harassment suit had been filed against the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court. The senior advocate said:
"I am not aware of any of these but we are in court over the freezing of her accounts and that case is at the Court of Appeal level and we have a fundamental human rights case against them in court.
"My thinking is that the EFCC, which says nobody is above the law, should have waited for the judiciary to finish its process. In my humble opinion, it appears they are abusing judicial powers. When you file something today, tomorrow you file another. Why not put everything in one pot? That is why they lose cases.
"Why are they focusing on Mrs. Jonathan who was neither a minister nor a government official? I'm not saying people should steal but it may seem she is being persecuted wrongly". | {
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People attend a candlelight vigil in Queens, NYC, for the eight victims of the mass shooting in Atlanta. (Sipa via AP Images)
The Violent Embrace
The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture that connects Asian women to sex and violence. It has its origins in U.S. wars—particularly the Korean War—and is fueled by our continued military presence in Asia.
Jessie Kindig
Categories: Class & Inequality
Topics: Asia, War and National Security
After he killed eight people in the Atlanta suburbs on March 16, the perpetrator told police that he "wanted to eliminate" the "temptation" of the massage parlors and spas he had targeted. While it is unclear if he actually said that he wanted to "Kill all Asians"—as Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on its front page—his actions speak for themselves: of the eight he killed, six were Asian women, four of them Korean.
Activists, feminists, and historians are exhausted from explaining again and again the basic idea that Asian women's stories and lives matter.
The killings came on the heels of an international outcry following Harvard professor J. Mark Ramseyer's claim—now known to be based on nonexistent sources—that Korean women's conscription into imperial Japan's "comfort women" system from 1932 until 1945 was wholly voluntary. That this even remains a matter of debate is astonishing: Ramseyer's assertion came despite survivor testimony and over a decade of careful scholarship documenting the enslavement of women from Japan's colonies into a system of sexual slavery. Yet Ramseyer's claims are echoed by the Japanese government's continued attempts to downplay the issue. Activists, feminists, and historians are exhausted from explaining again, and again, the basic idea that Asian women's stories and lives matter.
I see this exhaustion in the commentary I read from the United States now too, where, following the Atlanta murders and a national wave of anti-Asian violence, Asian American women have taken to telling their own stories, again, with the icy and deliberate anger of those who have been living with, and saying, this their whole lives.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, described to the New York Times what men said to her when she arrived in the United States for college in 2000:
It is the 'Me so horny, I love you long time,' in like weird accents, and 'Oh, are you Korean? I love Korea,' she said, adding that she began to wonder if American men were crazy. They would 'go into this whole thing about how they served in the military in Korea and how they had this amazing Korean girlfriend that was just like me. And will I be their girlfriend?'
The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture shaped by decades of U.S. empire-building in Asia. In the fantasies of American men, the enduring connection of Asian women to sex, the understanding of Asian women as "submissive" to a dominant American partner, and the shading of sex into violence, has its origins first and foremost in the U.S. wars, occupations, and continued military presence in the region. This has been especially true in East Asia, where Asian women's voices have gone unheeded while stories about them have been amplified with deadly consequences.
Americans have long relied on sexual metaphors to figure the country's relationship with East Asia, a turn of phrase that perhaps titillated the speaker but also cast the imperial presence in Asia as benevolent, pleasurable, and natural. In 1868, for example, U.S. Navy Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt described the Pacific as "the ocean bride of America" and imperialism as sexual consummation:
Let us as Americans—see to it that the 'bridegroom cometh' . . . . It is on this ocean that the East & the West have thus come together, reaching the point where search for Empire ceases & human power attains its climax.
In 1882 Shufeldt would be the chief architect of the treaty "opening" Korea to U.S. and Western trade, a relationship he described as "amicable intercourse."
The defeat of imperial Japan in World War II allowed the United States to build an extensive military presence across East Asia, where it remains entrenched today. At the end of World War II, the U.S. military occupied Japan (1945–52) and the southern half of a newly divided Korea peninsula (1945–48). The United States led one side of the Korean War (1950–53) and maintains a large military presence in Japan and Okinawa as well as in South Korea, where thousands of U.S. soldiers are always ready to "Fight Tonight" in case of renewed war with North Korea.
Americans have long relied on sexual metaphors to figure the country's relationship with East Asia, casting the imperial presence in Asia as benevolent, pleasurable, and natural.
The opportunity to contain communism in Asia after World War II and ensure the stability of allied governments, no matter how undemocratic, shaped the tenor of American interest in Asia after 1945. This was pretty basic Realpolitik—but culturally, at least, it was imagined in intimate, sexual, or familial terms. As historian Naoko Shibusawa has argued, Japan was understood as a "geisha ally," passive, defeated, and willing. In Korea the U.S. Army's Korean Military Advisory Group, whose mission was to train the new South Korean Army, described its work as cultivating a "big–little brother relationship." It was the stronger, male partnership of the United States that was, in both cases, necessary.
U.S. soldiers, already steeped in an orientalist imaginary populated by sexually submissive "geisha girls," seductive and dangerous "dragon ladies," and demure "lotus blossoms," moved through U.S.-occupied Japan to occupation, then war, in Korea, and avidly took to the thriving economy of sex work in Japan's geisha houses and Korea's camptowns. During their tours of duty move between Japan and Korea, soldiers learned to expect Asian women's sexual embrace as part of their deployment. This was, after all, what they were told "Rest & Relaxation" was all about. One of the most popular cartoons for men serving in Japan and Korea was Navy officer Bill Hume's Babysan, a series of cheesecake pinups detailing "Babysan's" charms, instructing soldiers in "how to be occupied while occupying." It is estimated that of the $185 million spent by U.S. troops in occupied Japan, half went toward the sexual procurement of Asian women.
U.S. military culture during and after World War II encouraged the "healthy" expression of heterosexual masculine desire, provision for which was a constant headache for commanders. That soldiers needed sex, however, was unquestioned. Or as the U.S. brigadier general in Japan, Bryan Milburn, put it in 1950 in a letter about controlling street prostitution, because of their young age, "their comparatively new and strong sex awakening and the abundant opportunity of attractive and submissive girls, it is indeed difficult for the soldier to cope with the situation." In other words, it was the women who needed regulating, because sex was just what soldiers did.
Soldiers learned to expect Asian women's sexual embrace as part of their deployment. Indeed, U.S. military culture during and after World War II encouraged the "healthy" expression of heterosexual masculine desire.
Actually, it took quite a bit of planning, institutional collaboration, administrative work, wartime economic deprivation, venereal disease inspection, state oversight, city district planning, and what would now be called sex trafficking to make soldiers' sexual fantasies about East Asia come true. This was a project not just of the U.S. military but equally of the Japanese and South Korean governments, which were willing to use women's bodies to cement political alliances and rebuild war-torn economies.
In Japan the U.S. military government forbid "fraternization" between Japanese civilians and U.S. soldiers, with a segregated system of restrooms, trains, and water fountains reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. The one kind of fraternization that was allowed, however, was heterosexual sex. Afraid of an epidemic of rape by Allied soldiers, the Japanese Home Ministry instituted a system of "comfort facilities" across the country in the days after Japan's defeat, drawing on their recent experience running imperial Japan's "comfort women" system. Known as the Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA), these brothels were soon endorsed by the U.S. occupying government and the Japanese police. The Japanese government tried to recruit by appealing to Japanese women's patriotism: the Americans, the government said, needed "welcoming."
For most women, though, this work wasn't patriotism but a job in a desperate economic climate. As Otoki, a leader of sex workers from Tokyo's Yūrakuchō district, explained in a 1947 radio broadcast,
Of course it's bad to be a hooker. But without relatives or jobs due to the war disaster, how are we supposed to live? . . . There aren't many of us who do this because we like it.
The RAA came to employ about 70,000 women, many of whom had not been sex workers previously. Like the "comfort women" before them, they were expected to service between fifteen to sixty men per day. It seems that for some RAA workers, their task was more daunting, exhausting, and exploitative than government ads had promised: a nineteen-year-old former typist committed suicide shortly after she began working there. One of the Japanese police chiefs also, it seems, hadn't realized what he was abetting; it's reported he wept when he saw how the women were treated on opening day.
The Japanese and South Korean governments were willing to use women's bodies to cement political alliances and rebuild war-torn economies.
Though the system was immensely popular among U.S. servicemen and spread to twenty cities outside of Tokyo, it was closed by the U.S. military authorities after one year. The official reason given was that it impinged on women's human rights—but actually, archives reveal that it was because of concern over servicemen's climbing rates of sexually transmitted infections. Consequently, women working in the privately run system of brothels, bars, and cabarets now came under tighter regulation from the U.S. military and Japanese police forces, with compulsory pelvic exams and disease checks.
It became Korean War–era GI slang to refer to all Korean women as "moose," a derivative of the Japanese euphemism musume (娘), unwed girl. In the same fashion, ways of imagining—and sexually regulating—Korean women were borrowed from the Japanese imperial system as well as the U.S. experience of occupation in Japan.
In South Korea the Japanese "comfort women" system was reconfigured to suit the new U.S. occupying power. As the research of Chunghee Sarah Soh and Na Young Lee has found, South Korean brothel owners, police, and petty officials who had procured comfort women for Imperial Japan now sourced women to serve American GIs.
The first Korean camptown—the soon-ubiquitous shantytowns thrown up outside U.S. Korean military installations to provide cheap drinks, women, and Western commodities to soldiers—appeared in Bupyeong just months after the U.S. occupation forces arrived in 1945. It expanded during the war to host 2,000 women workers. As in occupied Japan, the main problem for the U.S. military in Korea was how many troops were contracting STIs; by 1948 nearly 20 percent of American troops in Korea were hospitalized for this reason, reportedly the highest in the Far East Command.
Shantytowns were thrown up outside U.S. Korean military installations to provide cheap drinks, women, and Western commodities to soldiers.
In an effort to provide "healthy recreational opportunities" for servicemen, the U.S. Army built "R&R" facilities in 1947, alongside shopping centers for U.S. products, enshrining the camptown—the gijichon—into U.S. military practice in Korea. With the war causing widespread dislocation and poverty for Koreans, these military installations offered the possibility of steady work as houseboys, janitors, housekeepers, cooks, secretaries, live-in girlfriends, sex workers, and black marketeers, and provided access to "luxury" goods such as toothpaste, cigarettes, and liquor.
For many women in Korea, working in the bars and hostess clubs or securing an American boyfriend was a way to support their families and communities, despite the shunning they often received as a yanggongju, "Western princess," or yanggalbo, "Western whore." For a few, though, especially during the 1950–1953 war years, it was not a question of choice. Some of the first camptown women were kidnapped or sold by their families into prostitution. One British war journalist, a lecturer at Warwick College, wrote of the "flourishing trade in girls to serve the needs of the US Army," in which the South Korean police "supplied the refugee girls."
What this unequal sexualized landscape produced, overlain with the violence of war and the impositions of occupation duty, was an epidemic of rape, not only in the prostitution districts and camptowns, but also spilling out well beyond them. Not all soldiers were rapists, of course. But in such a context—where it was primarily soldiers' health, needs, and lust that mattered, not those of local women—it is no surprise that some soldiers took this blend of political and sexual dominance to a violent extreme.
Overlain with the violence of war and the impositions of occupation duty, an unequal sexualized landscape produced an epidemic of rape.
As the Japanese occupation continued and the Korean War began in 1950, Japan came to be seen by GIs as an erotic playground in which sex and dating shaded easily into sexual violence, becoming part of the U.S. military's lexicon of pleasures: R&R leave, in Korean War–era GI slang, could also mean "Rape & Restitution" or "Rape & Ruin." Japanese women reported being abducted and raped by servicemen while walking home at night, on empty buses, or in their homes. Gang rape became a particularly common practice of soldiers in both Japan and in Korea. In Yokohama, for example, an eleven-year-old Japanese boy witnessed five U.S. GIs rape a twenty-six-year-old woman and then take a photograph of her vagina.
In October 1950 General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. military government in Japan, attested to the "complete camaraderie" between Japanese and Americans—a statement possible only to a mind where "Rest & Relaxation" was the same thing as "Rape & Restitution." Japanese women and men, however, saw the occupation differently and complained, protested, and organized against their treatment: the U.S. military archives are full of their letters and petitions for redress. But in this landscape, reporting rape could lead to further stigmatization: at least one Japanese woman reporting her rape was treated like a prostitute and put in a guarded venereal disease hospital.
The Korean War emerged in this climate, and the rape of Korean women by U.S. and allied South Korean and United Nations forces took on epidemic proportions. Sometimes it was used as a weapon of war: "sexual punishment" of suspected communist women by right-wing Korean youth groups and U.S.-allied South Korean military and police forces was frequent during the war. One North Korean eyewitness described how 300 politically suspect Korean women were held in a warehouse and used at will by U.S. soldiers after the recapture of Seoul in 1950.
R&R leave, in Korean War–era GI slang, could mean "Rape & Restitution" or "Rape & Ruin." In this landscape, reporting rape could lead to the further stigmatization of Japanese women.
It also became common wartime practice, as the fighting—in which young and largely untrained GIs fought a guerrilla war in which all Korean civilians were "suspect"—moved up and down the Korean peninsula in its first chaotic year. U.S. troops were said to entice young Korean refugee girls across the Naktong River to rape them. Memoirs, oral histories, and journalists' accounts describe families either hiding their daughters or trading time with their daughters to soldiers in exchange for cigarettes or gum. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bussey remembered overhearing his troops discussing how best to "rape a woman." One U.S. Army chaplain reported to General Matthew Ridgway a case of seven U.S. soldiers caught raping Korean women in Pyongyang and complained that the soldiers were released unpunished. In war journalists' accounts, there are numerous allusions to "the constant raping" behind the battlelines; in the internal archives of the U.S. Army, there are continual orders from commanders to stop raping.
Because Asian women's voices and lives were neglected, accounting for the full extent of rape and sexual assault through U.S. military papers is nearly impossible. In Korea, for example, the Army's partial tabulation of reported rape cases only appears as part of a general survey to determine the workload of Criminal Investigative staff. For a report to make it into military files, it had to be a formal complaint lodged by the Korean woman or her family, a fraught undertaking in the midst of active combat, language barriers, and mutual distrust. But the silence in U.S. accounts is belied by the memory of Korean women and men, for whom rape or fear of rape is one of the most enduring memories of the war.
An international fact-finding commission organized by the Women's International Democratic Federation, an antifascist women's organization recognized by the United Nations, visited North Korea in May 1951 and carefully recorded evidence and testimony of the systematic use of sexual torture against North Korean women by U.S., UN, and Republic of Korea (ROK) forces, including the cutting off of breasts (common on all sides in World War II's Pacific theater), kidnapping and forced prostitution, rape, and extremely brutal rapes-then-murders. As historian Suzy Kim's research has shown, the commission's report was undertaken by longtime committed peace activists independent of North Korean or communist forces, and its findings are wholly consistent with what we can glean from the archives.
Because Asian women's voices and lives were neglected, it is nearly impossible to account for the full extent of rape and sexual assault through U.S. military papers.
Many U.S. Army commanders continually denounced U.S. soldiers' crimes against Korean civilians, including rape, but—at least in their public statements—understood these crimes as an exception to an otherwise amicable relationship. In March 1951 Army General Matthew Ridgway sent a letter to all subordinate commands arguing that the "gross misconduct of a few members," including instances of "molestation," "provides grist for the vicious Communist propaganda mill in its effort to belittle our mission in Korea." Even if Ridgway's concern was truly for the women and not the Army's image, it's quite clear that violence in an unequal, sexualized, militarized environment could not be controlled.
After the war U.S. troops stayed on in Korea, welcomed by Republic of Korea president Syngman Rhee, who was single-mindedly focused on maintaining the U.S. military presence in order to guard against threats from North Korea. If, for U.S. commanders, the camptowns were a necessary evil, for Rhee they were issues of national security, necessary to maintaining friendly U.S.–ROK relations as well as boosting the national economy, and his administration formally organized the camptowns into an R&R system at the end of the war. As Americans stayed on, the camptowns flourished, particularly under South Korea's successive military dictatorships. During the 1960s, as political scientist Katharine Moon has found, the U.S. military presence accounted for 25 percent of the ROK's economy, and the state was happy to offer cheap sexual access to some of its own citizens in order to support the country financially.
The reliance of the South Korean state on camptown women's labor, however, did not mean that the women working in them were welcomed back into South Korean society or that they were well-paid or protected from extortion and violence. In the 1970s a joint U.S.-Korean effort to "clean up" the camptowns focused mainly on regulating sexually transmitted diseases. Largely, this led to criminalizing the women working in them. Among other indignities, sex workers were now required to wear a large tag listing their disease status, their most recent medical check, and last menstrual cycle for clients to consult prior to purchasing sex.
As it had been earlier, not all women were working in the camptowns by choice. As Park Young-ja remembered of working in the gijichons in the late 1960s and early '70s:
They say we walked into gijichon on our own, but we were cheated by job-placement agencies and were held in debt to pimps. I was only a teenager and I had to receive at least five G.I.s every day with no day off. When I ran away, they caught and beat me, raising my debt.
And even for those not held in debt like Park, there was the constant negotiation of living within two states who used their bodies as political collateral. Jeon found work in the camptown in Dongduchon, near the DMZ, in 1956, and stayed through the 1960s:
The more I think about my life, the more I think women like me were the biggest sacrifice for my country's alliance with the Americans. Looking back, I think my body was not mine, but the government's and the US military's.
Some of these women married American soldiers and came to the United States as war brides, numbering nearly 100,000 emigrants between 1950 and 1989. Yong Ae Yue, one of the women killed in the March 16 attacks, came to the United States from South Korea in just this way after marrying a U.S. soldier in 1979.
Of course women developed survival strategies and support networks and organized to protect themselves and each other.
Though some of these were love matches, others were more clearly products of the unequal power dynamic under which they were formed, as historian Ji-Yeon Yuh's oral history–based research with Korean military brides has found. Domestic violence, abusive forms of control, and desertions were common, and the women rarely had the mobility offered by English language fluency, driver's licenses, or financial independence. Sil Dong Kim, a graduate student at the University of Washington, conducted interviews in the mid-1970s with Korean military brides in the towns near Ft. Lewis, and found that stories like this one were not exceptional:
Even though he beats me up almost every other day, I could not leave him. He brings money in family. Without him, I don't think I could survive. If I have had good brain and English, I wouldn't take this ordeal. I don't have any education. I don't speak English. I don't know how to drive. I have two infants. What can I do? I can't even go back into the street again. I just have to suffer through this until I learn some English and until the kids grow up, I am just stuck to this S.O.B.
Of course women developed survival strategies and support networks and organized to protect themselves and each other. Near Ft. Lewis, for example, the Korean Women's Association formed in 1972, offering English classes and access to social services. The organization is still active today.
In Korea Durebang (My Sister's Place) was established in Uijongbu in 1986 by women activists. It provided community support, shelter, services, and work at the organization's bakery to women in the camptowns hoping to transition out of working at the clubs; other local women-run centers now exist elsewhere in the country. The horrifying murder and sexual torture of Yun Geum-i by a U.S. serviceman in October in 1992 served to catalyze local communities to address the inequities of living in the camptowns. And since 2014 former sex workers in Korea—including Park Young-ja—have lodged successful lawsuits against the Korean government for abetting the camptown system, and for forcing women to undergo mandatory pelvic exams and disease checks. What's more, today—in the wake of 2004's harsh anti-prostitution law—there is a thriving movement of Korean sex workers advocating for decriminalization, rights and recognition, and better working conditions. Most notable among these is the Hanteo National Union, which represents around 15,000 sex workers of all genders.
In 1971 Evelyn Yoshimura contributed a blistering polemic, "GIs and Asian Women," to Roots, an edited collection which became a founding text of the new Asian American movement, buoyed by the liberation movements of the 1960s and spurred on by the U.S. war in Vietnam. "As long as there are U.S. troops in Asia," Yoshimura wrote,
As long as the U.S. government and the Military wage wars of aggression against Asian people, racism against Asians will serve the interest of this country. . . . We, as Asian Americans cannot divorce ourselves from this reality, and we as Asian American women cannot separate ourselves from our Asian counterparts. . . . The mentality that keeps Suzy Wong, Madam Butterfly and gookism alive; the mentality that turns human beings into racist, murdering soldiers, also keeps Asian Americans from being able to live and feel like human beings.
In the past two decades, the U.S. military has bent its resources toward further tightening regulations on soldiers and developing a culture that discourages what it once encouraged as a "perk" for GIs serving in East Asia. "Houses of prostitution" are off-limits to all U.S. military personnel today, but they still exist outside the gates of U.S. bases—staffed, in Korea these days, by Filipina and Russian immigrant women.
But despite these changes, the legacy of decades of sexualized war and occupation is impossible to neatly place "off limits," creating an environment in the United States in which men like the Atlanta shooter can see Asian American women as the outlet for any urges they have—sexual, racist, or destructive.
This isn't just what men do "on a really bad day," as the Cherokee County sheriff first suggested. This is what men have been taught to do.
We know this because Asian and Asian American women have been saying it, writing it, yelling it, organizing against it, living despite it, for decades; we know this because historians and scholars in multiple countries have documented it in minute detail; we know this because it was built on our watch with our tax dollars. What we lack here is not information or empirical evidence. What we lack is an attendance to Asian and Asian American women's stories. This isn't just what men do "on a really bad day," as the Cherokee County sheriff first suggested. This is what men have been taught to do.
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Dr Annapoorna Kini from Puttur honoured the 'Heart of Gold Award'
Puttur, Jun 15, 2018 : Dr Annapoorna Kini, the director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Mount Sinai, has been awarded the 'Heart of Gold Award' for her contribution to improve the health of New Yorkers. Kini hails from Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district.
Valentin Fuster, the director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-In-Chief of Mount Sinai Hospital handed over the award to her.
On June 6, the American Heart Association in New York City celebrated its annual Heart and Stroke Ball. The event brought together hundreds of volunteers, survivors and other supporters who work round the year to bring the American Heart Association's mission to life. This year's event was unique because its theme of 'Access and Health Inequity' highlighted growing health disparities in New York City.
Dr Annapoorna said, "It is such a big honour to receive the Heart of Gold Award from the American Heart Association. My advice to all women out there is to pursue your passion in whichever field it is. Remain focused, remain humble and maintain balance between family and work. There is no substitute for hard work and family is equally important."
Dr Annapoorna is married to U Subhash Kini. Last year, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honour and was one among six Indian-Americans to win this medal which is considered as one of the most prestigious awards award in the US. Kini is an international leader in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy. After receiving her medical degree from India, she completed her training in England, followed by a fellowship in general cardiology and interventional cardiology at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Her brother Radesha Vittappa Prabhu, her brother who stays at Bolwar in Puttur taluk, said, "The family feels proud of her achievements. She has always worked hard. She comes home every year.
Dr Kini performs over 1,000 coronary interventions annually, the highest number by a female interventionist in the US.
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My buddy Thom "Jimmy" Strange (Will Black OPS) has lived on Cora, a house boat, in Dockyard Bermuda for like the past 7 years and this week he finally sold the old gal and made the move back onto land.
While celebrating with a final couple mugs of dark & stormy we filmed some takes of some stuff... yes, it was HOT out. Hard to keep the guitar in tune when the summer sun is beaming down on it!
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Unwto Highlights Potential Of Domestic Tourism To Drive Restoration
The transfer is likely to squeeze domestic tourism additional, battered by the pandemic. The authorities had aimed to welcome 40 million international visitors in 2020 when the country was initially scheduled to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, but the Summer Games were postponed for a yr as a outcome of pandemic. Yes, both US and Myanmar nationals can apply for the 60-day TR visa from the Thai Embassy in Yangoon.
Lockdowns may be lifting, but a lot of international journey is still grounded. So when you open the doorways to your attraction again, the droves of international vacationers that normally crowd your entrance will most likely nonetheless be confined to their hometowns and exploring the sights there instead. If this had been a normal summer season, tourists from all around the world can be vacationing in the United States. The U.S. welcomed almost eighty million worldwide guests in 2019, and July and August are two of the busiest months of the 12 months for tourism across the nation. Josh Armel runs a San Francisco tour firm with a fleet of seven vintage Volkswagen buses. He says that 99% of his company's present web site visitors comes from domestic sources at a time when many worldwide vacationers sometimes visit the U.S.
It has been found that domestic tourist's journeys for leisure purposes can last, in average, a minimal of 1.6 days (Yang et al., 2011) or greater than four days (Grigolon et al., 2014) relying on the season. It is plausible, due to this fact, that a number of man-made attractions may be collectively visited by domestic tourists throughout their regional visitation. Ultimately, leisure tourists are encouraged to maximise their trip experience in the destination by visiting various venues and sites for leisure purposes, which can turn out to be an important part of vacationers' recollections and experiences.
These embody destination exposition, destination appreciation and economic improvement. All travelers must have their adverse test outcomes inside 72 hoursprior to the final leg of departure as a substitute for Hawaii's quarantine requirements. He means that nations that traditionally depend on international visitors ought to as an alternative goal domestic tourists in 2022 to help rejuvenate the sector, adding that getting more people vaccinated was additionally critical to turning things round. The first 2022 concern of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer indicates that rising rates of vaccination, combined with easing of journey restrictions because of elevated cross-border coordination and protocols, have all helped release pent up demand. International tourism rebounded moderately in the course of the second half of 2021, with international arrivals down 62% in both the third and fourth quarters in comparability with pre-pandemic ranges. According to limited knowledge, international arrivals in December had been 65% below 2019 levels.
The vaccination or testing requirements for contractors and visitors to state amenities. Currently, neither Kauai nor the Big Island has any particular rules for restaurants; the foundations are at the discretion of every particular person restaurant to determine in the occasion that they want to implement any sort of requirement for entry. However, a word to the clever – if you plan to go to these islands within the near future, be sure to carry proof of vaccination with you, as some institutions might require proof of vaccination. At this time, no different island in Hawaii seems to be following Maui's lead on the booster requirement, however we'll proceed to monitor this situation carefully. Oahu has not up to date its Safe Access Oahu guidelines to incorporate boosters presently, but the vaccine pass necessities remain in place on Oahu, for indoor dining, and so on.
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Inside Shein's Sudden Rise: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
I had come to watch Kelly film a haul. She skipped off to the living room to dance around—a warm-up—then led me upstairs to the carpeted second-floor landing where she does her shoots. There was a Christmas tree, a cat tower, and, in the middle of the landing, an iPad mounted on a tripod and haloed with a ring light. On the ground lay a mound of shirts, skirts, and dresses from Romwe.
Kelly's mother, Nichole Lacy, scooped up the clothes and headed to the bathroom to steam them. "Hello, Alexa, play Christmas music," Kelly said. She joined her mother in the bathroom, then, over the next half-hour, emerged wearing one new outfit after another—heart-patterned cardigan, star-print skirt—and silently modeled in front of the iPad camera, making kissing faces, kicking a leg up, fingering a hem here or a tie there. At one point, the family's sphynx, Gwen, sauntered into the frame, and they cuddled; later, the other cat, Agatha, made an appearance.
For years, Shein's public face has taken the form of people like Kelly, who make up a federation of influencers filming hauls for the company. According to Nick Baklanov, a marketing and research specialist at a company called HypeAuditor, Shein is unusual in the industry for the enormous number of influencers it sends free clothing to. They in turn share discount codes with their followers and earn a commission on the sales. This strategy, HypeAuditor says, has made it the most talked-about brand of any kind on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Along with the free clothes, Romwe also pays Kelly a flat rate for her posts. She wouldn't name her fee, though she said she makes more in a couple hours of video work than some of her friends with normal after-school jobs make in a week. In exchange, the brand gets relatively low-cost marketing, in the places where its target audience, teens and twentysomethings, prefers to hang out. While Shein has collaborated with major celebrities and influencers (Katy Perry, Lil Nas X, Addison Rae), its sweet spot seems to be the ones with medium-size followings.
In the 1990s, before Kelly was born, Zara popularized a model of borrowing design ideas from whatever was getting attention on runways. By manufacturing clothing near its headquarters in Spain and streamlining the supply chain, it offered up these already proven styles in a matter of weeks at prices that felt shockingly low. Connie Chan, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz who invested in a Shein competitor called Cider, told me that Shein represents a newer phase of fast fashion: Now, what appears on runways and in fashion magazines matters less, and people look to one another for what to wear. "They don't care that Vogue doesn't think it's a cool piece," she said. Boohoo, a UK-based company, and Fashion Nova, based in the US, are part of the same trend.
After Kelly finished filming, Lacy asked me how much I thought all the pieces—21 of them, plus a decorative snow globe—cost on Romwe's website. They looked better than what I had bought by intentionally clicking on the cheapest items, so I guessed $500, at least. Lacy, who is around my age, smiled. "It was $170," she said, widening her eyes as if she couldn't believe it herself.
Every single day, Shein updates its website with, on average, 6,000 new styles—an outrageous figure even in the context of fast fashion.
By the mid-2000s, fast fashion was the dominant paradigm in retail. China had joined the World Trade Organization and had quickly become a major clothing production center, and Western companies moved much of their manufacturing there. It was around that time, in 2008, that the name of Shein's CEO first appeared in Chinese business filings, as Xu Yangtian. He was listed as a co-owner of a newly registered company, Nanjing Dianwei Information Technology, along with two others, Wang Xiaohu and Li Peng. The filing shows Xu and Wang each owning 45 percent of the business and Li having the remaining 10 percent.
Wang and Li shared their recollections from that time. Wang said that he had met Xu as a work colleague, and in 2008, they decided to start a marketing and cross-border ecommerce business together. Wang took on business development and some aspects of the finances, he said, while Xu was in charge of a range of more technical matters, including SEO marketing.
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Established in 2001 as the first Singapore International School in Thailand pioneering the Singapore education curriculum, Singapore International School of Bangkok launched SISB Ekkamai as its first campus. SISB currently owns five campuses in Thailand, which adopt the Singapore and UK curricula as the foundation for teaching and learning.
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Denpasar is a haven for those looking for the perfect blend of a slower pace of life and a connection to the chaos and hubbub of a metropolis. Denpasar is where great shopping meets yoga and where religions, languages, and cuisines collide. Many opine that Denpasar is just a frenetic city known for the trade. But, ask an avid traveler, and they will tell you that there is more to Denpasar than just buildings and temples. This capital city is an eclectic mix of traditional beauty and modern architecture and amenities. Here are the few most incredible thing to do while in Denpasar :
Visit Bajra Sandhi Monument
Situated in the heart of Denpasar city, the Bajra Sandhi Monument gives prominence to the struggle faced by the Balinese people. Built in 1987, the monument preserves various cultural aspects of Bali and passes on the journey, history, and spirit of the Balinese people for present and future generations to understand.
Take in the Historical Architecture
From temples and monasteries to royal palaces, Denpasar's buildings and places of worship feature a beautiful mix of Eastern carvings and ornate and intricate designs. Check out the Palace of Satria and the Royal Temples.
A Visit to Pasar Badung Market
The largest market in Denpasar, the Pasar Badung Market is filled with a large range of groceries and goods. The market is only a kilometer away from the city center, and locals and tourists visit on a daily basis – and rightly so! They have a huge variety of clothes and fabric, handicrafts, accessories, homeware, and produce, which is great for travelers looking to get their hands on some great souvenirs and gifts to take back home.
Desa Budaya Kertalangu
Desa Budaya Kertalangu (Kertalangu Cultural Village) is a locally run recreational site on the eastern outskirts of Denpasar. It has green paddies looked after by the local village farmers, an outdoor activity centre, spas, various restaurants, shops and a freshwater fishing arena. The 'village' covers 80 hectares with pathways connecting tenants who occupy their own unique enclosures made from wooden houses and straw huts.
Among the activities on offer here are horse riding, woodcarving, traditional Balinese dancing lessons and painting. A convenience store and souvenir shop is located near the entrance, offering items at attractive prices. At the heart of the village, you can also find a world peace monument in well-manicured gardens alongside sculptures of world figures.
Sari Wisata Budaya Barong Dance
Sari Wisata Budaya in the village of Suwung Kauh, east of Kuta, features an amphitheatre where the Barong and kris dagger dances are shown. Pamphlets are handed out before the show, which explains the episodes of the performances inspired by the legendary Calonarang tale of the struggle between the powers of good and evil, represented by the 2 main characters known as the Barong and Rangda.
Popular Neighborhoods in Denpasar
Panjer – this district has the beautiful and picturesque Lapangan Puputan Renon. At any given time, you'll see people jogging, doing yoga, and just simply relaxing.
Dauh Puri Kangin – this is another spot in the city where you can relax at the Puputan Badung Park and catch a movie at Denpasar Cineplex.
Sanur Kaja – right on the coast of the sparkling waters and beaches in this neighborhood is the Bali Beach Golf Course and Sector Bar and Restaurant.
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Are people more generous when they feel more connected? Yes, according to a study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, feelings of relatedness effectively promote prosocial behavior, like donating to a charity.
In the first experiment, words that invoke feelings of relatedness -- like community, together, connected, and relationship -- caused the test participants to report a greater intention toward prosocial behavior, in this case volunteering.
In the second experiment, participants were asked to share a time when they experienced relatedness in their own lives. Again, sharing feelings of relatedness -- as opposed to feelings of competence or autonomy -- generated more prosocial intentions, like donating to a charity, volunteering, or helping a friend.
In the third experiment, words about relatedness -- like community, together, connected, and relationship -- caused participants to give more money to a charity than feelings of competency and autonomy and even feelings of empathy.
Overall, according to this research, feelings of relatedness seem pretty important for giving. But the problem is that reading a fundraising appeal you get in the mail, or reading a fundraising email, or looking at a charity's website -- these are all usually solitary endeavors.
Add to this the fact that in our messaging for fundraising appeals we always want to focus on one donor, and speak to that individual donor as personally as we can. That's good, of course, and it's the right approach. But on the other hand, it doesn't necessarily engender feelings of relatedness and being part of a community.
Fortunately, this is something we can address in the messaging for appeals. It might mean using words like community, together, connected, and relationship.
They're part of the community of your supporters, and all the donors in this special group are working toward the same goal.
Donors are part of the community they live in, and chances are, the work your charity does will make some aspect of living in that community better. It would be good for donors to know that.
Donors are part of the community of humankind, and humans as a group, should help one another make our world better.
These are all things that can establish feelings of relatedness for your donors and can show them how they're connected to your nonprofit, your supporters, and other people. And, togetherness like that just might inspire more donations. Try it and see.
Donors are interested in what other donors are doing. That's why social proof -- telling them what others are up to -- is often a powerful tool in fundraising. Especially for influence the amounts donors choose to give.
Social proof, showing what other people are doing, is a nearly certain way to boost your nonprofit donations. If you show that many others are donating, you will convert more new donors. But a new study shows there's a risk of lowering donation amounts if you use social proof the wrong way.
Don't use social proof. Only use it when it is likely to improve your results. So if average gifts are low, why mention it at all?
Use broader social proof. If you're in a campaign or context that generates social proof for low gifts, widen your focus and look beyond that context for a number that resonates.
Use qualitative social proof. It's not always about numbers. Testimonials from donors can also provide a powerful form of social proof.
Promote the desired donation level. Just say, "Many people give this much" about a number you want people to give at.
Urgency and social proof. Something like "57 donors gave $50 in the last week." This adds a time element to your social proof.
Test, Test, Test Your Social Proof. This is a complex area that can give surprising results. Test to make sure your idea accomplishes what it's meant to without serious unintended consequences.
Some of the biggest fundraising disasters I've witnessed had "iron-clad" approval from focus groups and/or donor survey research.
They loved it in the research!
But in the real world: Nothing.
Why were those donors lying to us? They seemed like such good people!
Well, they weren't trying to lie. They were telling what seemed to them to be the truth. It's just that they, like all human beings, make most decisions with their emotions -- and we don't have rational access to how our emotions work.
When you use qualitative research, you will never get trustworthy qualitative information.
Most of the thoughts and feelings that influence consumers' behavior occur in the unconscious mind.... People think they will make an objective, transactional decision, when in reality they will make a subjective, relational one.
We believe we will decide with our mind. But in the moment of truth, we decide with our heart.
You can learn interesting things from qualitative research. But you cannot get facts about future donor behavior that you can count on.
For that, you have to look at actual donor behavior.
You are not your donor.
That's easy enough to say, but let's look at one way the difference plays out that just might shock you. It's what you fundamentally want from life. It's likely not the same as what your donors want.
People in their 50s and older (that is, most donors) equate happiness with peacefulness.
Younger people (that is, most fundraisers) usually equate happiness with excitement.
If you are in your peacefulness phase, you can probably remember your excitement phase, so it's not hard to understand. But if you're living in the excitement phase of life, you might find it hard to grasp how anyone would be motivated by peacefulness.
Excessively vibrant and youthful looking design.
It all seems right to them, because it addresses their need for excitement. But it misses what older donor actually want.
Big mistake. And very common.
Remember who your donors are. And remember the ways they are different from you.
If you ever took a psychology class, you may remember Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It looks like this, with "low" physical needs at the bottom and "high" emotional and spiritual needs above.
I'm not going to argue with Dr. Maslow. But I do have a problem with the way his pyramid is often interpreted in fundraising.
I can't count how many times a Psych 101-educated fundraiser has told me that the "low" levels on the pyramid are in some way less important, less worthy, even less moral than the "high" needs at the top. That strange interpretation of life means fundraising offers that are about food, shelter, or other basic body needs are less appropriate subjects than the nobler high needs like esteem and self-actualization.
There's a real problem with that: It sets up a false pecking order, as if different needs have different value -- as if low needs like food are equivalent to other "low" things. As if a food offer is like a crummy pop-music hit by the flavor-of-the-week celebrity, while a self-actualization offer is a Brahms symphony.
That's simply an incorrect view of the world. But more to our point, it leads to ineffective fundraising. The higher you go on Maslow's pyramid, the harder it is to get donors to give. Almost every donor is pleased to help feed a hungry person. Not so many are ready to write a check to aid in the confidence of a stranger.
Here's the good news: There's a way to make Dr. Maslow a friend of your fundraising, rather than a problem. All you have to do is turn his pyramid upside down. Make it a funnel. That puts the "low" basic body needs at the top, where they can "catch" the most donors. And it allows some donors -- the ones who want to -- to filter down to the "high" needs.
Sometimes, you just can't tell what's wrong with your fundraising. It's not working, and you've tried every logical fix, but it still doesn't work.
That's a frustrating feature of any kind of marketing. Or any kind of communication, really.
Let me give you a non-fundraising example: A while back, an online course I was teaching wasn't getting the number of registrations expected. We took a close look and found what seemed to be an obvious culprit: the title of the course wasn't quite right. It didn't capture the benefit of the webinar in the powerful way that the stronger-selling ones did.
So we changed the course title to make it more like those webinars that got lots of registrations.
What happened? It got worse. Registrations dropped even lower.
We quickly switched back to the old title, and registrations returned to the old, not-so-good level.
Back to the drawing board. Where we still are, as of now. Still looking for the solution.
Sometimes, no matter how much you know, you miss the mark and it doesn't work as it should.
Usually, you can fix that with the clarity of hindsight.
It takes more time and energy (and often a new set of eyes) to find the real answer.
And in some rare cases, you can never find your way to success.
I'm not telling you this to discourage you. It's just a reality we sometimes face. Fortunately, not very often.
But it points out the basic truth about communications of any kind: The human mind is mysterious. You can know a lot about it and how to connect with people. But you don't know everything. And you don't know what you don't know.
So, as they say, sometimes s*** happens in fundraising.
That's when you just choose to move on.
One of the most important things you can know about fundraising is this: What people say about their charity or your fundraising has little to do with what they do.
When you believe that, you are free from taking terrible advice.
People's opinions and their actions do not line up. Don't expect them to. And don't build your brand or fundraising platform based on what people tell you in surveys or focus groups.
You only have to ask me for a donation once a year. I'll respond with my whole year worth of giving then.
Don't send me address labels; I don't need them to respond.
You don't have to thank me for giving.
And yet these things are repeatedly and resoundingly shown to be really bad advice for fundraising.
Likewise, when a donor tells you, "I'd donate to that," they virtually always tell you something that fails in the real marketplace.
No. They're telling the truth as well as they know it.
It's just that giving your opinion about something is a fundamentally different action from actually responding to it. When you just opine about something, you have no skin in the game. It's easy to say something you think looks reasonable or politically correct or will make you look good. That's why complex and intellectual offers do well when people are asked about them.
But not in real-life fundraising.
But when it actually comes to shelling out money, a different dynamic is in play. You respond to what actually moves you, not what you think should move you -- or what you think others think should move you.
That's why fundraising approaches that work best are super-simple, emotional, and often a bit short-sighted. Providing a meal for a hungry child will always beat creating systems that keep the child from going hungry. Even though most people agree that fixing a system is better than reacting to the problem.
You can spend your whole fundraising career trying to change this fundamental quirk of the human mind -- and you'll have a miserably unsuccessful career.
Or you can work with people as they really are -- and raise more money to actually get stuff done.
A chance to be the "hero"
Here's the important takeaway of this: Donors give mostly because of factors in their own hearts, minds, and lives.
Not because your organization is awesome, your programs are superb, your staff the best, your mission important.
Those things matter, but they aren't the reasons people give.
That's why effective fundraising is not about persuading people your organization is great and the cause is important. It's about showing donors how your organization and cause are a good channel for their needs.
That's why fundraising that works isn't about us, but about you.
And that's why fundraising isn't about educating people but connecting with people.
The Trickle Up call to action is bigger. It's asking us to be part of a major transformation of the entire world -- one that is actually possible. The Doctors Without Borders call to action is a micro-action: helping one refugee. Just one.
So which one is more likely to get clicks and donations?
Hands-down: The micro-action of Doctors Without Borders.
It is often argued that donors "should" support big-picture action rather than micro-action. Maybe they should. But they don't.
It's the human brain. We respond to things we can see (or imagine we can see). Not to large-scale or abstract things. When you base your fundraising on what donors "should" respond to, you fail to reach most donors.
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The prevalence of transitional vertebrae in the lumbar spine
Spine J. 2011 Sep;11(9):858-62. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.08.005.
Alexios Apazidis 1 , Pedro A Ricart, Christopher M Diefenbach, Jeffrey M Spivak
1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY 10003, USA.
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.08.005
Background context: Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae (LSTVs) are a congenital vertebral anomaly of the L5-S1 junction in the spine. This alteration may contribute to incorrect identification of a vertebral segment, leading to wrong-level spine surgery and poor correlation with clinical symptoms. Although several studies describe the occurrence of this anomaly in back pain populations, investigation of the prevalence in the American general population is lacking.
Purpose: To establish the prevalence rates for LSTVs in the general population.
Study design: Retrospective review.
Patient sample: Consecutive kidney-urinary bladder (KUB) radiographs of subjects from the past 2 years (2008-2009).
Outcome measures: Clinical demographics, number of lumbar vertebrae, L5-S1 transverse process (TP) height, and rib length.
Methods: Consecutive adult KUB studies of adult subjects were queried with clear visibility of the last rib's vertebral body articulation, all lumbar TPs, and complete sacral wings. Exclusion criteria consisted of any radiologic evidence of previous lumbosacral surgery that would obstruct our measurements. A total of 1,100 abdominal films were reviewed, and 211 were identified as being adequate for the measurement of the desired parameters.
Results: Two hundred eleven subjects were identified as eligible for the study, and 75 (35.6%) were classified as positive for a transitional lumbosacral vertebra. The most common anatomical variant was the Castellvi Type IA (14.7%). The average age at the time of the KUB study was 59.8 years (18-95 years). One hundred ninety-seven subjects (93.4%) presented five lumbar (nonribbed) vertebrae, and only 14 (6.6%) had six lumbar vertebrae.
Conclusions: The significance of lumbosacral transitional level changes to the establishment of pain, degenerative changes, stenosis, and disc disease have been well documented in symptomatic patients. Although LSTV's role in low back pain remains controversial, our study has shown that, when the same criteria are used for classification, prevalence among the general population and symptomatic patients may be similar.
Low Back Pain / epidemiology
Lumbar Vertebrae / abnormalities*
Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
Sacrum / abnormalities
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J-School Educators Dive into Startup Culture
by Michelle Ferrier
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When 15 educators from around the world went back to school — metaphorically speaking — at the third annual Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute earlier this month, they learned two big things: the art of the pitch in gaining support for an entrepreneurial idea and the idea of the pivot — the change in direction that moves an idea or team forward.
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"We hope we're helping folks better understand the startup culture -- including what it takes to be an entrepreneur and the resources available to entrepreneurs." - Dan Gillmor
Journalism schools, as they seek to remake themselves to adapt to the changing media environment, would be well-served to learn these two lessons and adopt the "agile development" model for building curriculum. These professors will take these lessons learned and apply them to new courses designed to teach their students how to be entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs innovating within existing companies.
Hugh Martin, associate professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, teaches media management. "What I learned will improve the way that I teach students to prepare a pitch for investors," he said. "The workshop also offered useful insights into how startup companies and investors think and act."
Understanding a culture
The weeklong event, hosted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, helps educators implement media entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the curriculum. Professors are introduced to startup founders, venture capital partners, angel investors and others who helped orient faculty to the startup culture and why entrepreneurial skills are critical for today's communication school graduates.
Dan Gillmor encourages innovation at the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute. (Photo by Molly J. Smith, courtesy of the Cronkite School at Arizona State University)
"Entrepreneurship and creativity have been at the heart of our company since its founding 135 years ago," said Mike Philipps, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation, the corporate philanthropy arm of The E.W. Scripps Company. "This spirit of innovation has made Scripps one of the nation's leading media companies, so it's incumbent upon us to encourage entrepreneurial thinking to support the industry's evolution."
Dan Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, coordinates the program, bringing his experience and contacts in Silicon Valley to educators.
"We hope we're helping folks better understand the startup culture — including what it takes to be an entrepreneur and the resources available to entrepreneurs. Then they can help their students understand it as well."
Spreading innovation
The benefits of the institute go beyond helping students in the classroom. Scott Titsworth, dean of the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, has three faculty members who have completed the fellowship program. "In a landscape defined by innovation, change and new business models, one of the challenges we face in higher education is professional development for faculty," he said. "We think an added bonus is that these faculty will infuse the perspectives of innovation and entrepreneurship into our own practices as we seek to adapt and grow as an academic unit."
Participating educators develop and deliver pitches during the ASU institute. (Photo by Michelle Ferrier)
2014 Scripps Howard Entrepreneurship Institute Fellows
Kiesha Easley, mass communication instructor, Benedict College
Neil Foote, principal lecturer, the University of North Texas Mayborn School of Journalism
Lori Henson, journalism lecturer, Indiana State University
Susan Jacobson, assistant professor, Florida International University
Rachele Kanigel, associate professor of journalism and acting director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University
Beth Konrad, journalism program director and senior professional in residence, Loyola University Chicago
Kurt Lancaster, associate professor of digital media, Northern Arizona University
Norm Lewis, associate professor of journalism, University of Florida
Hugh J. Martin, associate professor, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University
Joy McDonald, assistant professor, Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University
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Michael I. Williams, associate professor and director of special projects and innovation, University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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PUNDIT Satyanand Maharaj says he is considering lodging a complaint with the Equal Opportunities Commission against the Prime Minister over what Maharaj sees as Dr Rowley's bias against the Indian community. In a media release yesterday, Maharaj said Rowley hosted Emancipation Day celebrations at the Diplomatic Centre on Sunday, and most government ministers and officials attended.
He said this was evidence that the PNM administration was not interested in the Indian community but only in its vote and financing.
However, according to the OPM's official Facebook page, the PM, together with other senior government ministers had gone on an official trip to China (14-19 May) and Australia (20- 25 May). He returned to Trinidad on May 28 and on May 29 hosted a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre to report on the two official visits. The Indian Arrival Day holiday was the next day. Meanwhile, Maharaj said he was awaiting the PM's Emancipation Day itinerary with "bated breath," as Emancipation Day was also important to the Indian community.
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Q: SQL Query to Join Multiple Tables with Sum Function I need to combine 5 tables:
history - (contract_no, run_date, dataset_code)
premium - (contract_no, trx_amt)
contract - (contract_no, status, owner_idn)
confund - (contract_no, blg_method, blg_status)
client - (client_idn, client_ssn)
Ultimately, I want the results to show like this:
Contract No | Run_Date | DataSet_Code | Status | Blg_Method | Blg_Status | Suspense_Total
My biggest issue has been in getting the SUM function to work. The trx_amt from the premium table is where I get my suspense total. A contract can have numerous rows. Also, within that table the trx_amt can be from the contract_no or a client_ssn.
SELECT history_contract_no,
history_run_date,
history_dataset_code,
contract_status,
confund_blg_method,
confund_blg_status,
SUM(premium_trx_amt)
FROM HISTORY LEFT JOIN PREMIUM
ON history_contract_no = premium_contract_no JOIN CONFUND
ON history_contract_no = confund_contract_no JOIN CONTRACT
ON confund_contract_no = contract_contract_no
WHERE history_dataset_code in ('CONTINU1', 'CONTINU2')
AND history_run_date between 20140118 and 20140124
GROUP BY history_contract_no
Without the SUM function above, I can get close, but I get multiple rows if a contract has more than one entry of suspense. I cannot figure out how to sum those rows in my results. I also cannot even get close in figuring out how to bring in the fifth table "client", so that I can sum up suspense entries that are sitting on the client_ssn and not under contract_no. The contract_no in premium field is either an SSN or a contract_no.
I am fairly new to SQL (couple months), I am really wanting to do more complex queries, so if you know a good resource or tutorial, please let me know.
Thanks!
A: In order to use the Sum function, you need to have a 'Group By' clause in your query.
Try something like this:
SELECT history_contract_no,
history_run_date,
history_dataset_code,
contract_status,
confund_blg_method,
confund_blg_status,
SUM(premium_trx_amt)
FROM HISTORY LEFT JOIN PREMIUM
ON history_field = premium_contract_no JOIN CONFUND
ON history_field = confund_contract_no JOIN CONTRACT
ON confund_contract_no = contract_contract_no
WHERE history_dataset_code in ('CONTINU1', 'CONTINU2')
AND history_run_date between 20140118 and 20140124
GROUP BY history_contract_no
, history_run_date
, history_dataset_code
, contract_status
, confund_blg_method
,confund_blg_status
If you would like to join on the client table as well, find which field in that table correlates between tables of interest.
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The Hanna Hawks football team Won the ASAA Semi finals against the Brenton Cougars 63-60 On Saturday in Hanna . the Hawks go on to play the Alberta bowl provincial 6-man finals against St. Josephs on Friday November 23rd at 4 p.m. at the SMS equipment Stadium in Fort McMurray.
The Hanna Hawks continue to power through the competition this season, pulling ahead in a close game against the Breton Cougars during the provincial semi-final on Saturday, Nov. 17.
The game was neck and neck to the last point as the Hawks and Cougars battled each other for a shot at the provincial title in Fort McMurray on Nov. 23.
The Hawks came out with a narrow win, beating the Cougars with a final score of 62 – 60.
With the win, the Hawks secured a spot in the Alberta Bowl in For McMurray, where they will have to take on the St. Joseph's Crusaders from Brooks.
Hawks head coach Cam McKeage said the game was packed with high intensity and was by no means a given.
"It was a very exciting game, and came down to the final play of the game to run the clock out. We got behind early in the game, but restored the lead in the second quarter and hung on for the win," said McKeage.
He said the Cougars are a powerhouse team, and the defence performed admirably.
While the victory is a huge one for the team, McKeage said the boys need to stay focused with their development if they want to compete for the provincial title.
"We need to work a bit on our special teams—especially the kick-off team. We allowed three runbacks for touchdowns. We also need to adjust to a new offense to play against Brooks," he said.
Still, McKeage said the team has the will and confidence to be provincial champions.
The progress the Hawks have made this year has shown improvement from last year, where they were knocked out for the provincials in the quarterfinal.
The Hawks will continue to truck onward throughout the week to find out if they'll be named provincial champions come Friday in Fort McMurray. | {
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One of the big six energy suppliers SSE has announced an average price increase of 8.2% in gas and electricity prices from 15 November. The energy firm said the rise reflected higher costs of buying wholesale energy and paying to deliver it to customers' homes, plus government levies. The price rise is expected to impact around 4.4 million customers on its electricity tariffs, and 2.9 million on its gas tariffs, not including those on fixed-price tariffs.
SSE's average standard duel-fuel bill will rise by £106 to around £1,380 per year. The energy supplier has pledged, as a result of the increase, to not increase prices before next autumn (2014). The company has said that 8.2% is an average rise, with customers in the North of England and central Scotland seeing the smallest increase, of 7%, in their dual fuel price, and customers in the South East of England seeing the biggest, up 9.7%.
Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon said he was "disappointed" by SSE's decision to increase energy prices. He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I would encourage all customers to look again at their tariffs and see whether they can switch to a cheaper tariff." He added the long-term answer to high energy bills was "more competition and encouraging consumers to shop around."
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Andy Kruspe, a Huntsville-based bodhran teacher and performer, conducted a bodhran residency for grades four and five at Valley View and Michigan Avenue elementary schools the week of Feb. 19-22. Students were exposed to the music and culture of Ireland, as well as correct playing techniques for the bodhran, an Irish frame drum. Each school hosted a parent/student drum night where students and parents learned about the history of the drum and experienced playing the bodhran together. "Mr. Kruspe was an outstanding teaching artist, and we look forward to having him back in the future to work with our students," said Cara Rogers, Michigan Avenue music teacher. A special thank you was extended to the Allied Arts Council for its generous grant in bringing Kruspe from Alabama to Cleveland. | {
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News Flashes – July 2016
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HSD PhD student Monamie Bhadra received the 2016 Mullins Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for "an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student." 4S evaluated many entries based on contribution to the STS field, depth of research, writing quality and ethical/political relevance of the piece. On why Bhadra's paper, "Nation-Building Civic Epistemologies in India through Nuclear Politics," won the $1000 prize, 4S noted, "As a well-researched and well-written piece it demonstrates the dynamic formation and contestation of civic epistemologies in India."
Congratulations to new PhDs
Three students in the school's Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology program successfully defended their doctoral theses in July.
Jathan Sadowski has accepted a position as Visiting Lecturer in Ethics of Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).
Dissertation Title: Selling Smartness: Visions and Politics of the Smart City
Abstract: There is much at stake with the smart city. This urban governance movement is predicated on infusing information-and-communication technology into nearly all aspects of the built environment, while at the same time transforming how cities are planned and managed. The smart city movement is global in scale with initiatives being rolled out all over the planet, driven by proponents with deep pockets of wealth and influence, and a lucrative opportunity with market projections in the billions or trillions of dollars (over the next five to ten years). However, the smart city label can be nebulous and amorphous, seemingly subsuming unrelated technologies, practices, and policies as necessary. Yet, even with this ambiguity, or perhaps because of it, the smart city vision is still able to colonize urban landscapes and capture the political imaginations of decision makers. In order to know just what the smart city entails I work to bring analytic clarity to the actions, visions, and values of this movement.
The arc of this project, in short, moves from diving into the "smart city" discourses; to picking apart the ideologies at its heart; to engaging with the dual logics—control and accumulation—that drive the smart city; and finally to imagining what an alternative techno-politics might look like and how we might achieve it. My goal is that by analyzing the techno-politics of the smart city we will be better equipped to understand these urban transformations—what logics drive them, what they herald, and what our role should be in how they develop.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
– Selin C, Rawlings KC, de Ridder-Vignone K, Sadowski J, Allende CA, Gano G, Davies S, and Guston DH. (Forthcoming). "Experiments in Engagement: Designing Public Engagement with Science and Technology for Capacity Building." Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662515620970
– Halpern MK, Sadowski J, Eschrich J, Finn E, and Guston DH. (Forthcoming). "Stitching Together Creativity and Responsibility: Interpreting Frankenstein Across Disciplines." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. DOI: 10.1177/0270467616646637 [Part of special issue: "Science and Science Fiction"]
– Sadowski J and Guston DH. (2016). "'You Caught Me Off Guard': Probing the Futures of Complex Engineered Nanomaterials." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 18 (7): 208. [Part of special issue: "Anticipatory Governance of Complex Engineered Nanomaterials"]
Denise Baker will be joining Missouri University of Science and Technology this fall as an assistant professor in their university-wide cluster on "Smart Living", building on her work here in the IGERT Alliance for Person-Centered Accessible Technologies. Her home will be in the Psychology Department, but she will be working with a variety of engineering teams to build integrative research projects.
Dissertation Title: Self "sensor"ship: An interdisciplinary investigation of the persuasiveness, social implications, and ethical design of self-sensoring prescriptive applications
Abstract: This dissertation research investigates the social implications of computing artifacts that make use of sensor driven self-quantification to implicitly or explicitly direct user behaviors. These technologies are referred to here as self-sensoring prescriptive applications (SSPA's). This genre of technological application has a strong Presence in healthcare as a means to monitor health, modify behavior, improve health outcomes, and reduce medical costs. However, the commercial sector is quickly adopting SSPA's as a means to monitor and/or modify consumer behaviors as well. This growing industry consists of primarily wearable sensors that monitor characteristics such as movement, heartrate, and respiration; ostensibly to guide the users to better or more informed choices about their physical fitness. However, applications that claim to use biosensor data to assist in mood maintenance and control are entering the market, and applications to aid in decision making about consumer products are on the horizon as well. Interestingly, there is little existing research that investigates the direct impact biosensor data have on decision making, nor on the risks, benefits, or regulation of such technologies. The research presented here is inspired by a number of separate but related gaps in existing literature about the social implications of SSPA's. First, how SSPA's impact individual and group decision making and attitude formation within non-medical-care domains (e.g. will a message about what product to buy be more persuasive if it claims to have based the recommendation on biometric information?). Second, how the design and designers of SSPA's shape behaviors and third, how these factors should be considered in future design and public policy decisions.
Michael Burnam Fink
Dissertation Title: Making Better Students: ADHD in Higher Education and the Biopolitics of Stimulant Mediation
Abstract: According to my 2016 survey of ASU undergraduate students, 33% have used stimulant medications (e.g. Adderall or Ritalin) without a prescription to study. I view this practice as a step towards cognitive enhancement, which is the deliberate application of biotechnology to radically alter the human condition. From a foresight perspective, the ability to actively improve human beings, to take our evolutionary destiny into our own hands, may be a turning point on par with agriculture or the use of fossil fuels. The existential risks, however, may be greater than the benefits—and many of the most radical technologies have made little documented progress.
I turn to an actual example where people are trying to make themselves marginally better at academic tasks, as a guide to how future transformative development in human enhancement may be incorporated into everyday practice. This project examines the history and context that led to the widespread use of stimulant medication on college campuses. I describe how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), for which stimulant medication is prescribed and diverted, governs students, negotiates relationships between parents and school authorities, and manages anxieties resulting from a competitive neoliberal educational system. I extend this archeology of ADHD through the actions and ethical beliefs of college students, and the bioethical arguments for and against human enhancement. Through this work, I open a new space for an expanded role for universities as institutions capable of creating experimental communities supporting ethical cognitive enhancement.
SFIS welcomes new faculty members
Laura Hosman, Assistant Professor, shared with The Polytechnic School of the Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering
Thad Miller, Assistant Professor, shared with The Polytechnic School of the Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering
Darshan Karwat, Assistant Professor, shared with The Polytechnic School of the Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering (Jan 1 start)
Britt Crow-Miller, Assistant Professor
Robert Cook-Deegan, Professor and Director of Collaboratory for Health Research (July 1 start)
Sasha Barab, Professor, shared with Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Lauren Withycombe-Keeler, Visiting Assistant Professor
Dehlia Hannah, Visiting Assistant Professor (fall 2016)
Denisa Kera, Visiting Assistant Professor (spring 2017)
Mahmud Farooque, Clinical Associate Professor
Heather Ross, Clinical Assistant Professor, shared with the College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Global Security Initiative
Deborah Strumsky, Assistant Research Professor, shared with the ASU-Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Visiting scholar Steven Flipse is assistant professor in Science Communication in Innovation at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has been involved with the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) program coordinated by Erik Fisher since 2009. During his stay at ASU, he will work with SFIS to advance his research and develop further collaborations.
Associate Professor Diana Bowman gave a public lecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia on the topic of "Dealing with Deficiencies: How the European Union and United States Continue to Diverge on Emerging Technology Policy."
Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary spoke about "the next frontier in digital journalism: semi-automated local news networks, directed by humans, for public good and commercial gain. The talk was delivered on July 8 at the Association for Alternative Newsmedia in Austin, TX.
Professor of Practice Darlene Cavalier hosted an online Q&A on Reddit on July 19, during which she fielded questions about citizen science and how interested parties could get involved.
Renowned Conservation Biologist's Swan Song
SFIS affiliate Andrew Smith, President's Professor and Parents Association Professor in the School of Life Sciences, was profiled in this ASU News article. This will the last year of Smith's illustrious career. He initiated the first Conservation Biology degree program in the nation at ASU, co-created the system used to capture data for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, and received multiple awards – including the coveted Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society of Mammalogists – for his monumental work establishing the pika as a keystone species in vulnerable mountainous regions of North America and Asia. SFIS Post-doc Jesse Senko, a former TA for Smith, said, "Perhaps his greatest gift is his ability to show his students how much he cares."
HSD student Miles Brundage will be an Artificial Intelligence Policy Research Fellow at the Strategic AI Research Center at Oxford University. He is also now serving on an IEEE committee to develop standards for Artificial Intelligence, to make general recommendations to policy-makers, practitioners, etc., and to foster wider dialogue of key issues.
ASU Citizen Science and Maker Summit 2016
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Explore the crossroads of citizen science, the maker movement and higher education.
ASU Now reported on a Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) project called Future Tense Fiction, which is headed up by Ed Finn, an SFIS affiliate and CSI director. The project, which grew out of an existing collaboration between ASU, Slate magazine, and the New America Foundation, pairs accomplished science fiction writers' stories with expert scientist response essays to reach a wider audience.
Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary was quoted in a New York Times article on R&D divisions in companies like the multinational conglomerate Alphabet. "In general," said Zachary, "the model of having a central research lab that the corporation funds for research into new technologies has not produced much for these companies."
HSD PhD student (now an alumni), Jathan Sadowski, and SFIS' Director David Guston published a new paper, "You caught me off guard": Probing the futures of complex engineered nanomaterials, for the Journal for Nanoparticle Research. The paper aims to "lay the groundwork for the anticipatory governance of complex engineered nanomaterials (CENMs) by mapping out what … will be the main issues and themes that we need to pay attention to in the near future."
Risk Innovation Lab director and SFIS Professor Andrew Maynard wrote a new article for the Conversation on Elon Musk's vision for the future of his company Tesla Motors. "Elon Musk doesn't just want to fast-track the transition to renewable energy and self-driving cars — he wants to rewrite the rulebook on how we build a futuristic sustainable society," wrote Maynard. He was also interviewed about the article on Omny Radio.
SFIS affiliate Ed Finn wrote an article for CNN commenting on the proliferation of smartphone cameras and social media platforms in society and focused on Turkey's President Erdogan use of a smartphone to thwart an attempted military coups on July 15-16. "Live video is empowering powerful eyewitness testimony, but it is also giving politicians another way to leverage the cult of celebrity and to short-circuit traditional media filter," wrote Finn. "In many ways we're just beginning to discover what persuasion and decision-making mean in the era of constant connection."
Andrew Maynard, SFIS professor and director of the Risk Innovation Lab, posted "Navigating the nanotechnology risk landscape" on his blog, 20/20 Science. Maynard describes seven basic "guideposts" to think about when contemplating risk. The post is an abridged version of a more detailed article on the subject Maynard wrote for the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
CSPO and SFIS Associate Professor Erik Fisher published his first editorial as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Responsible Innovation entitled "Navigating Responsible Innovation" (JRI, volume 3, issue 1, 2016). "Navigating responsible innovation requires addressing its normative, conceptual and practical dimensions," wrote Fisher, "while resisting counterproductive dichotomies … so as to inform emerging agendas for funding, conducting and evaluating knowledge-based innovation in the context of social and public values."
CSPO director Dave Guston published "The Muddled Legacy of Alvin Toffler," a new article for Slate about the author of "Future Shock" who passed away on June 27 at the age of 87. "We owe a debt to Alvin Toffler," concluded Guston, "but it is more inspirational and heuristic than methodological and programmatic."
SFIS Associate Director Clark Miller and new faculty member Clinical Assistant Professor Heather Ross, along with affiliates Gaymon Bennett and Benjamin Hurlbut wrote "The Ethics of Ubiquitous Computing in Healthcare," a chapter in the recently published Wireless Computing in Medicine: From Nano to Cloud with Ethical and Legal Implications.
Brad Allenby, SFIS affiliate and President's Professor of Sustainable Engineering, wrote "The Self-Driving Car Generation Gap," an article for Future Tense. The article points out that, while fewer and fewer millennials are getting driver's licenses, older people see driving as representing freedom.
SFIS Professor and Risk Innovation Lab Director Andrew Maynard's latest video for Risk Bites — the Lab's Youtube channel — seeks to clearly and concisely explain what "nanotechnology" is. Watch "What is nanotechnology" here.
Vintage Tomorrows, a documentary about the steampunk subculture, has been released for rental or purchase on iTunes. SFIS Professor of Practice and resident futurist Brian David Johnson appears in the film and also co-wrote the accompanying book which was published in March 2016 and is also available for purchase. More information, including introductions to the many influential writers and thinkers featured in the film, can be found at this website as well as this twitter page. | {
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"A system to allow efficient image backup and restore (full or selective) by using an object-storage system as a backing store."
Current prior art, such as UltraBac's Image Backup and UltraBac Warp allow for an "image" (or block-level backup) to be taken of a user's computer and stored on a filesystem – usually resident on the network, or locally attached (either internal, or external disk drives). When storing the backup data in this way, the data is normally stored in monolithic files of many GBs or even TBs in size. These are typically broken down into "data" files which represent the compressed/encrypted data, and smaller "index" files which describe the layout of the data contained in the "data" files so that they may be used to skip regions of the drive that are marked as not-in-use and describe the ranges of data and how they map from uncompressed to compressed sizes. The "index" data may be interspersed into the "data" files themselves eliminating the need for separate files, but having the data separated allows the restore processes to be more efficient.
Currently there are "object-storage systems" such as OpenStack Swift architecture developed by Rack Space and released as open-source. Although there are other competing technologies (such as from Amazon.com Inc.) for object-storage systems that this invention could use, for purposes of illustration this document is based on using the Swift architecture. This invention could easily be applied to other object-storage systems other than Swift. Object-storage systems such as Swift are used by cloud-storage providers to allow end-users (their customers) to store large amounts of personal data "in the cloud." Swift, and similar technologies, allows a massively scalable and distributed object-storage infrastructure to be built up quickly and cost-effectively. The distributed component of Swift means that Swift, when properly configured, provides data redundancy so that the objects stored in Swift are not exposed to any single point-of-failure.
While Swift, and other object storage systems, are extremely effective at managing millions, or even billions, of objects, it is very inefficient at handling large objects that would be necessary to store if Swift were to be used as a target for an image (block based) backup. Swift does provide "large object support" which allows "segmentation" – this allows very large files (>5GB) to be supported by breaking the large object into segments and then describing these segments with a "manifest file."
Some technologies exist to present the Swift object storage system as a filesystem which would allow existing backup technologies to read/write backup data. This is a poor solution as the creation of files greater than 5GB may cause the technology to fail. Even if it works, a problem exists where if the internet connection or cloud service provider falter, it may result in a partially transferred backup (which may have taken days or weeks to transfer thus far) having to restart from the beginning.
To solve the problem with large files, this invention describes a technique to write directly to the Swift (or other cloud technology) and to manage the segmentation to assist Swift in efficiently storing the image backup data. A "mount" of the backed-up data can be achieved by implementing a user-mode service to process requests from the filter-driver that makes the virtual mount device visible to the operating system.
The backup process, as part of its normal backup operation, will write many GB (or TB) of data to the Swift storage. It writes to the storage directly via the use of libcurl (or it could issue http commands directly via TCP, but libcurl facilitates this process). It will set a maximum file system (which is configurable) and, for sake of argument, we will assume it is set to 100MB for this description. When the backup program has written 100MB of data to Swift, it will write to a local storage a file that will eventually become the manifest to represent all of the files present in Swift that represent the one image backup file. If the internet link fails, or the internet/cloud service provider becomes too congested, it is possible that libcurl/TCP will time out and the current transfer of the backup file will fail. This will not result in starting over the backup, but rather only re-starting the current 100MB segment that was in progress at the time of the failure. The backup will wait for the link to re-establish and then continue the backup at the beginning of the current segment. The backup will write its traditional index also to a local file – this file describes the offset/length and compressed-length for each block of data written to the main "data" file. The index will also now contain a segment-identifier so that it knows which object the data exists in for each defined range.
Only once the backup data has been completely written will the backup process then transfer to Swift the objects that will represent the manifest and the index. The manifest will also contain a reference identifier inside its data to identify the name of the object that contains the index for this backup.
The current art in UltraBac and UltraBac Warp is to use the UltraBac Filter Driver ("UBFD") to mount a virtual drive that represents the data contained in the backup. In order to do this for Swift, UBFD will communicate with a user-mode service (functionality could be added to the "WarpService" process for this, or a dedicated service could be added). The user mode service will receive requests from UBFD that will be read or write requests for specific ranges of data from the backup. The user-mode service will determine which object holds the data by reading (or maintaining in-memory tables) the index and manifest objects and determining which object-segment holds the data required. It will use libcurl/TCP to request the data from Swift, then decompress/decrypt it and pass the data back to UBFD which will then satisfy the operating system's request for the data (in the form of an IRP). In this way, a virtual drive of the user's backed-up data can be made available for any point-in-time requested. A user can also restore (in the event of total data-loss of the original drive) the entire drive by using the existing prior art in UltraBac Warp to restore the whole volume (this can be done with a boot CD or USB key where there is no longer any bootable operating system).
Existing prior art in UltraBac Warp allows the user to continually back up changes made to the protected drives to the backup destination. When the backup destination is a locally or network-attached drive it is reasonable to back up these changes immediately as they occur. When targeting a backup on a Swift server, it may make more sense to aggregate changes after a certain period (say every 15 minutes). In this case, the backup application will keep track of all changes made to protected drives since the last successful transfer to Swift and then generate a new object that represents all of the changes made since that point. It is quite possible that these changes will exceed 100MB (or other segment size defined), so the backup process will use a similar process as described above for backup where, once the object size exceeds the defined limit, the current one will be closed and validated and then a new object will be created for transfer. For each object transferred in this way a second "index" object will be created (this can be easily identified by using a suffix such as "-i" in the object name, or by maintaining a master list of the names of all objects in Swift that are related to the CIP data).
Keep all 15 minute "incrementals" for a period of a minimum 24 hours, then consolidate to one "daily" incremental.
Keep all "daily" incrementals for a minimum of 60 days to "weekly" incremental.
Keep all "weekly" incrementals for 20 weeks, and then consolidate into "master."
The consolidation of the incrementals is fairly straight-forward to those accustomed in the art. For example, all of the 15 minute incrementals that are older than 24 hours are identified; the index data is read to determine the most recent instance of all ranges covered by the data during that period. Only the most recent data available is then written out to a new data/index file for each new "daily." The master list of names of CIP objects is replaced with a new file to represent the consolidation once complete.
Once data will no longer be kept in CIP data (for example the weekly incrementals above referenced that are now 20 weeks old), these files will be read, merged into the "master" data/index files, and then deleted. Because of the architecture described above, it is possible to update parts of the master image backup by generating just new 100MB segments that will replace the existing segments. New data can also be inserted into the master image by generating new segments and then inserting a reference to these segments. By reducing the size of the individual segments, to say 10MB, this increases the efficiency of the consolidation because it reduces the amount of "incidental" updates that each update is likely to incur (for example if 1MB of data changes in one segment, then 99MB has to be read/written to fill the segment with the original non-impacted data), but places additional resource utilization on Swift by making it store 10 times as many objects. These conflicting efficiency improvements have to be balanced when deciding upon the segment size. | {
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Air Pollution's Connection to Infant Mortality
The study of sub-Saharan Africa finds that a relatively small increase in airborne particles significantly increases infant mortality rates. A cost-effective solution may lie in an exotic-sounding proposal.
Rob Jordan
A man walks through a sandstorm in Chad, home of the Bodélé Depression – the largest source of dust emissions in the world. George Steinmetz
Dust sweeping across the Southeast U.S. in recent days warns of a growing risk to infants and children in many parts of the world. A Stanford-led study focuses on this dust, which travels thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert, to paint a clearer picture than ever before of air pollution's impact on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper, published on June 29 in Nature Sustainability, reveals how a changing climate might intensify or mitigate the problem, and points to seemingly exotic solutions to reducing dust pollution that could be more effective and affordable than current health interventions in improving child health.
"Africa and other developing regions have made remarkable strides overall in improving child health in recent decades, but key negative outcomes such as infant mortality remain stubbornly high in some places," said study senior author Marshall Burke, an associate professor of Earth system science in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. "We wanted to understand why that was, and whether there was a connection to air pollution, a known cause of poor health."
Understanding airborne danger
Children under 5 are particularly vulnerable to the tiny particles, or particulate, in air pollution that can have a range of negative health impacts, including lower birth weight and impaired growth in the first year of life. In developing regions, exposure to high levels of air pollution during childhood is estimated to reduce overall life expectancy by 4-5 years on average.
Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution – a crucial step for understanding global health burdens and evaluating policy choices – has been a challenge in the past. Researchers have struggled to adequately separate out the health effects of air pollution from the health effects of activities that generate the pollution. For example, a booming economy can produce air pollution but also spur developments, such as lower unemployment, that lead to better healthcare access and improved health outcomes.
To isolate the effects of air pollution exposure, the Stanford-led study focuses on dust carried thousands of miles from the Bodélé Depression in Chad – the largest source of dust emissions in the world. This dust is a frequent presence in West Africa and, to a lesser extent, across other African regions. The researchers analyzed 15 years of household surveys from 30 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa covering nearly 1 million births. Combining birth data with satellite-detected changes in particulate levels driven by the Bodélé dust provided an increasingly clear picture of poor air quality's health impacts on children.
Sobering findings and surprising solutions
The researchers found that a roughly 25 percent increase in local annual mean particulate concentrations in West Africa causes an 18 percent increase in infant mortality. The results expand on a 2018 paper by the same researchers that found exposure to high particulate matter concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for about 400,000 infant deaths in 2015 alone.
The new study, combined with previous findings from other regions, makes clear that air pollution, even from natural sources, is a "critical determining factor for child health around the world," the researchers write. Emissions from natural sources could change dramatically in a changing climate, but it's unclear how. For example, the concentration of dust particulate matter across Sub-Saharan Africa is highly dependent on the amount of rainfall in the Bodélé Depression. Because future changes in rainfall over the Bodélé region due to climate change are highly uncertain, the researchers calculated a range of possibilities for sub-Saharan Africa that could result in anywhere from a 13-percent decline in infant mortality to a 12-percent increase just due to changes in rainfall over the desert. These impacts would be larger than any other published projections for climate change impact on health across Africa.
Safeguarding children against air pollution is nearly impossible in many developing regions because many homes have open windows or permeable roofs and walls, and infants and young children are unlikely to wear masks. Instead, the researchers suggest exploring the possibility of dampening sand with groundwater in the Bodélé region to stop it from going airborne – an approach that has been successful at a small scale in California.
The researchers estimate that deploying solar-powered irrigation systems in the desert area could avert 37,000 infant deaths per year in West Africa at a cost of $24 per life, making it competitive with many leading health interventions currently in use, including a range of vaccines and water and sanitation projects.
"Standard policy instruments can't be counted on to reduce all forms of air pollution," said study lead author Sam Heft-Neal, a research scholar at Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment. "While our calculation doesn't consider logistical constraints to project deployment, it highlights the possibility of a solution that targets natural pollution sources and yields enormous benefits at a modest cost."
Additional co-authors include Eran Bendavid, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford, member of the Maternal andChild Health Research Institute and an affiliate of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Jennifer Burney and Kara Voss of the University of California San Diego. Burke is also deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment; and a fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Sea of Thieves gets Forsaken Shores and Devil's Roar with it
By:Adnan Kljajic - Nem
Published: 15:22, 28 September 2018
Sea of Thieves Forsaken Shores
Rare have released Forsaken Shores expansion for Sea of Thieves, sending players into the volcanic region known as Devil's Roar. It will present them with new loot, new type of voyage and a new vessel for navigating tight bodies of water.
Devil's Roar is by its nature a challenging place to navigate as it features lava rocks falling out of the sky and hot geysers coming out of the ground. Players will need to dodge these environmental dangers in order to complete voyages successfully, especially with the new voyage type - cargo runs.
Cargo runs will, as the name suggests, task players with picking up goods at a given place and then delivering them to islands, seaposts or outposts. The initially promised reward is rather high according to Rare, but it will diminish if players take too much time bringing the cargo back or if they don't preserve its condition. Hence, avoid being hit by hot lava.
The area around Devil's Roar features tight bodies of water so regular ships will have a hard time sailing there. That's where the rowboats come in. These tiny vessels should prove to be adequate for moving players and cargo around, albeit in smaller amounts than the larger ships, so the trade-off for navigating tight corridors is apparent on first sight.
Lore enthusiasts will be treated as well, since players will be able to discover the fate of Forsaken Shores Alliance and meet new characters in Devil's Roar. Explorers will have several new islands to discover, while fashionistas will have time limited customisation items to look forward to.
Rare Sea of Thieves Forsaken Shores
All of the mentioned content makes for quite a bit of new gameplay experience in Sea of Thieves but not all of it is available on launch. One of the main features players were looking forward, cargo runs, will only become available during the third week of Forsaken shores, according to .
Until then, players will have to settle with regular exploration and voyages which will reward them a bit more due to the dangers of the region.
Sea of Thieves, Rare's swashbuckling adventure
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Rare's Sea of Thieves promises serious fun in a meticulously crafted world.
Sea of Thieves switching to Battle Pass and Season model
Rare have delivered what they claim is the final Sea of Thieves update in 2020, announcing that the swashbuckling adventure is switching to the Battle Pass model.
GTA VI will reportedly have playable female and male protagonist
According to reliable industry insider Tom Henderson, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI will have a playable female and male protagonist for the first time in the series history.
Respawn Entertainment are working on a new game that will allow players to "adventure forever"
According to a now-deleted job listing on Respawn's website, the studio are currently hiring for a brand new game, which will let players keep "adventuring forever."
Steam getting extended support for Xbox controllers
Steam's Client Beta has been updated with extended support for four Xbox controllers, which includes rumble and key binding on Xbox Elite and Xbox Series X gamepads.
Next Assassin's Creed game could be a spin-off title, set for release in early 2022
The rumour has it Ubisoft are planning to release a smaller, spin-off Assassin's Creed title in early 2022. Ubisoft Sofia who previously worked on a similar title - Assassin's Creed Rogue - are reportedly helming the project.
Rumour: The Coalition are working on Perfect Dark multiplayer
An Xbox Game Studios leak which originally surfaced back in May has seemingly turned out to be true. It claims that The Initiative's Perfect Dark title will have a multiplayer, which is developed by The Coalition.
Dark Knight and Inception director is interested in adapting his films into video games
The director of Hollywood blockbusters like Inception, Interstellar, Tenet and The Dark Knight trilogy, Christopher Nolan would love to work on adapting his films into video games but there's a catch.
Cyberpunk 2077 will corrupt save data if you craft or pick up to many items
Don't go all crazy on crafting or looting if you want to keep your Cyberpunk 2077 saves well and alive. CD Projekt Red have confirmed that save data will be permanently damaged if it exceeds 8 MB.
Fallout 76 nuke codes for the week of December 16, 2020
December 16, 2020, brought a new set of nuke codes to Fallout 76. The new codes have been decrypted and can be found right here. Some festive items are available at the Atomic Shop and the Santatron Collectron Station can be claimed for free.
Fallout 76: Scribe of Avalon update details
Fallout 76 just got its "Scribe of Avalon" update. The update brings a bunch of new stuff to the game and serves as a jumping-off point for Fallout 76 Season 3. | {
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There are host of new management tools for businesses of all sizes currently coming on-stream. Tools linked to CRM, ERP, Project Management, Team communication which were once only used by large companies being offered to them by even larger companies such as SAP and Oracle are now available to SME via the cloud. One of the areas a lot of new tools are available is around Data Visualisation. We are fans of "Dashboards" for managing businesses and hence are now trialling several of these tools to see which is genuinely useful.
Business data visualisation – especially used for sales over multiple products over multiple months - budgets versus actuals, product categories, visualisation etc. At its core, it takes excel data you have collated and with guidance, creates charts. It is smart enough not to need to know what the columns ACTUALLY mean but guides you through a process so that you give it enough information to create comparisons between budgets and actual data, averages, best monthly sales etc. The beauty of this product is that it displays well on mobile and tablets having being designed from the bottom up for these smaller displays. In a rush for sales meeting and have nothing prepared? Perfect for these purposes.
$10 per user per month for the basic plan. Cheaper plans for more users.
Ease of use? Plus across devices?
You have to dedicate some time to making sure you have the correct excel data in the first place – this is the real work. This tool will NOT DO DATA ORIGINATION or tell you what you need to look at. It is dumb until you instruct it. However the guidance as you step through the uploaded file is fairly good and leads to a good result. The charts are clean and well spaced and you have multiples choices from bar to line to pie to….
This tool essentially replaces an analyst who can use pivot tables and do basic excel charting and link the charts to a nice document with headlines. For $10 per month – this is not expensive. The thing is – if you have your excel file set up properly in the first place with output charts– then it will more or less update itself as time goes on and you add more data and update the charts.
SO – if there is no one in your office who can use an excel charting tool or pivot tables – this is perfect. If you have some staff who have basic excel - then use them. Most of the trouble is in collecting the right data in the first place and knowing what you should be looking at.
Score: 6/10 - docking marks because it essentially just automates chart making, which excel has pretty much automated already. | {
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Hugh Kinsella Cunningham – Wildfire (Ebola Amidst Conflict)
In 2019, the Ebola virus spread like wildfire through North Kivu, a region of the Congo beset by militia groups. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham, a candidate for the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, documented the outbreak and brought it to global attention.
Women in colourful dresses; a tropical rainforest saturated with green: at a first fleeting glance, British photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham's colourful and intense pictures appear to speak of life; in fact, they speak of death. The children in the photos carry crosses in their arms. Family members stand in the cemetery and mourn. Medical staff squeeze themselves into protective clothing. The country is in a state of emergency: last year, over 2000 people died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo; it was the second largest outbreak of the virus in the world – a wildfire.
"These issues need to be reported and documented for global awareness; but when dealing with the crisis, I am looking for moments of empathy and connection, rather than simply depicting hardship for its own sake."
The photographer spent three months observing the situation there. He visited Ebola treatment centres, events to sensitise communities, and the funerals of patients. "The photos are intended to convey the trauma of the virus, with a sense of upended normality; but also, the incredible work and fearlessness of local health workers," Cunningham says, speaking of the series. "Because I was working long-term in the region, I was able to create longer and more human reportage work, and wait for the story to develop around me."
The photographer has been travelling to the DRC, since 2017, in an effort to bring to light the country's critical health and social issues to people around the world. Election processes, the protection of primates, the lives of former child soldiers – Cunningham says that it is a privilege for him to be a witness and correspondent, covering events that often get no international resonance: "Awareness of social conflicts is best expressed with images, so as to create a universal human connection to the crisis at hand. In my work, I seek to create this connection with a global audience, in the hope that this awareness will be vital to help prevent the same happening again."
"The outbreak occurred in a region beset by attacks by the ADF armed group, who have declared themselves the Central African branch of ISIS ideology, with numerous militia groups conducting assaults, robberies and killings throughout North Kivu. This meant safety was key."
News agencies and health organisations around the world have published many of the photographs from this series. Cunningham says that he is particularly concerned to show pictures of medical staff, a highly endangered risk group, whose daily routines he followed – from the distribution of medicines to patients, to consoling a child whose infected parents had been put into isolation. His portraits of nurses document fearlessness, courage and strength in a very difficult time. In truth, the British photographer is less focussed on depicting the emergency itself, and more intent upon giving a face to the people in a country where conflicts and humanitarian problems have long been ignored by the government, as well as by the international community – culminating last year in the Ebola crisis.
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham was born in London in 1994. In his work as a photographer, he deals primarily with critical hotspots and conflicts, and is concerned with health and society. He received a Pulitzer Scholarship for crisis reporting, and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as on the BBC News. He works regularly for organisations such as the WHO, Save the Children and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Portrait: © Nejla Karic | {
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"""Metadata and operational constants."""
from typing import Any, Dict
from pudl.metadata.constants import CONTRIBUTORS, KEYWORDS, LICENSES
from pudl.metadata.enums import EPACEMS_STATES
SOURCES: Dict[str, Any] = {
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"title": "Census DP1",
"path": "https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/2010/geo/tiger-data.html",
"description": (
"US Census Demographic Profile 1 (DP1) County and Tract " "GeoDatabase."
),
"working_partitions": {}, # Census DP1 is monolithic.
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"censusdp1tract",
"census",
]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"eia860": {
"title": "EIA Form 860",
"path": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860",
"description": (
"US Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 860 data for "
"electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater combined nameplate "
"capacity."
),
"field_namespace": "eia",
"contributors": [
CONTRIBUTORS["catalyst-cooperative"],
CONTRIBUTORS["zane-selvans"],
CONTRIBUTORS["christina-gosnell"],
CONTRIBUTORS["steven-winter"],
CONTRIBUTORS["alana-wilson"],
],
"working_partitions": {
"years": sorted(set(range(2001, 2021))),
},
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"eia860",
"form 860",
"ownership",
"annual",
"yearly",
]
+ KEYWORDS["eia"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
+ KEYWORDS["fuels"]
+ KEYWORDS["plants"]
+ KEYWORDS["environment"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"eia860m": {
"title": "EIA Form 860m",
"path": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m",
"description": (
"US Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 860 M data for "
"electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater combined nameplate "
"capacity. Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (based on "
"Form EIA-860M as a supplement to Form EIA-860)"
),
"field_namespace": "eia",
"contributors": [],
"working_partitions": {
"year_month": "2021-12",
},
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"eia860m",
"form 860m",
"monthly",
]
+ KEYWORDS["eia"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
+ KEYWORDS["fuels"]
+ KEYWORDS["plants"]
+ KEYWORDS["environment"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"eia861": {
"title": "EIA Form 861: Annual Electric Power Industry Report",
"path": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861",
"description": (
"EIA Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, detailed "
"data files."
),
"field_namespace": "eia",
"working_partitions": {
"years": sorted(set(range(2001, 2021))),
},
"contributors": [],
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"eia861",
"form 861",
"balancing authority",
"advanced metering infrastructure",
"customer class",
"green pricing",
"energy efficiency",
"demand side management",
"demand response",
"net metering",
"business model",
"service territory",
"annual",
"yearly",
]
+ KEYWORDS["eia"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"eia923": {
"title": "EIA Form 923",
"path": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923",
"description": (
"The EIA Form 923 collects detailed monthly and annual electric "
"power data on electricity generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel "
"stocks, and receipts at the power plant and prime mover level."
),
"field_namespace": "eia",
"working_partitions": {
"years": sorted(set(range(2001, 2021))),
},
"contributors": [
CONTRIBUTORS["catalyst-cooperative"],
CONTRIBUTORS["zane-selvans"],
CONTRIBUTORS["christina-gosnell"],
CONTRIBUTORS["steven-winter"],
CONTRIBUTORS["katherine-lamb"],
],
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"eia923",
"form 923",
"monthly",
]
+ KEYWORDS["eia"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
+ KEYWORDS["fuels"]
+ KEYWORDS["plants"]
+ KEYWORDS["environment"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"eiawater": {
"title": "EIA Thermoelectric Cooling Water",
"path": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/water",
"description": (
"Monthly cooling water usage by generator and boiler. Data "
"collected in conjunction with the EIA-860 and EIA-923."
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"epacems": {
"title": "EPA Hourly Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS)",
"path": "https://ampd.epa.gov/ampd",
"description": (
"US EPA hourly Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) data."
),
"field_namespace": "epacems",
"working_partitions": {
"years": sorted(set(range(1995, 2021))),
"states": sorted(set(EPACEMS_STATES)),
},
"contributors": [
CONTRIBUTORS["catalyst-cooperative"],
CONTRIBUTORS["karl-dunkle-werner"],
CONTRIBUTORS["zane-selvans"],
],
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"continuous emissions monitoring system",
"cems",
"air markets program data",
"ampd",
"hourly",
]
+ KEYWORDS["epa"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
+ KEYWORDS["environment"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"ferc1": {
"title": "FERC Form 1",
"path": "https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/general-information/electric-industry-forms/form-1-electric-utility-annual",
"description": (
"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 1 is a "
"comprehensive financial and operating report submitted annually for "
"electric rate regulation, market oversight analysis, and financial audits "
"by Major electric utilities, licensees and others."
),
"field_namespace": "ferc1",
"working_partitions": {
"years": sorted(set(range(1994, 2021))),
},
"contributors": [
CONTRIBUTORS["catalyst-cooperative"],
CONTRIBUTORS["zane-selvans"],
CONTRIBUTORS["christina-gosnell"],
CONTRIBUTORS["steven-winter"],
CONTRIBUTORS["alana-wilson"],
CONTRIBUTORS["austen-sharpe"],
],
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"form 1",
"ferc1",
]
+ KEYWORDS["ferc"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["finance"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
+ KEYWORDS["plants"]
+ KEYWORDS["fuels"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"ferc2": {
"title": "FERC Form 2",
"path": "https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/natural-gas/industry-forms/form-2-2a-3-q-gas-historical-vfp-data",
"description": (
"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 2 is a "
"comprehensive financial and operating report submitted for natural gas "
"pipelines rate regulation and financial audits."
),
"field_namespace": "ferc2",
"working_partitions": {
"years": [], # Not yet working!
},
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"ferc714": {
"title": "FERC Form 714: Annual Electric Balancing Authority Area and Planning Area Report",
"path": "https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/general-information/electric-industry-forms/form-no-714-annual-electric",
"description": (
"Electric transmitting utilities operating balancing authority "
"areas and planning areas with annual peak demand over 200MW are required "
"to file Form 714 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), "
"reporting balancing authority area generation, actual and scheduled "
"inter-balancing authority area power transfers, and net energy for load, "
"summer-winter generation peaks and system lambda."
),
"field_namespace": "ferc714",
"working_partitions": {}, # Data is monolitic, one file with all years.
"keywords": sorted(
set(
[
"form 714",
"ferc714",
]
+ KEYWORDS["ferc"]
+ KEYWORDS["us_govt"]
+ KEYWORDS["electricity"]
)
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"ferceqr": {
"title": "FERC Form 920: Electric Quarterly Report (EQR)",
"path": "https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/power-sales-and-markets/electric-quarterly-reports-eqr",
"description": (
"The EQR contains Seller-provided data summarizing contractual terms and "
"conditions in agreements for all jurisdictional services, including "
"cost-based sales, market-based rate sales, and transmission service, "
"as well as transaction information for short-term and long-term "
"market-based power sales and cost-based power sales."
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"mshamines": {
"title": "Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Mines",
"path": "https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/OGIMSHA.asp",
"description": (
"The Mine dataset lists all Coal and Metal/Non-Metal mines under MSHA's "
"jurisdiction. It includes such information as the current status of each "
"mine (Active, Abandoned, NonProducing, etc.), the current owner and "
"operating company, commodity codes and physical attributes of the mine."
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
"license_pudl": LICENSES["cc-by-4.0"],
},
"phmsagas": {
"title": "Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Annual Natural Gas Report",
"path": "https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/data-and-statistics/pipeline/gas-distribution-gas-gathering-gas-transmission-hazardous-liquids",
"description": (
"Annual reports submitted to PHMSA from gas distribution, gas gathering, "
"gas transmission, liquefied natural gas, and underground gas storage "
"system operators. Annual reports include information such as total "
"pipeline mileage, facilities, commodities transported, miles by material, "
"and installation dates."
),
"license_raw": LICENSES["us-govt"],
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What's the pyramid joke?
In The Light Fantastic, after talking about the dimensions of the Pyramid of Tsort, it says
All in all, it was a lot of effort to go through just to sharpen a razor.
What's the joke here?
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Just like to add that I asked TP this very question at a book signing. The answers given are very much in line with what he said. – Andrew Stacey Aug 18 '18 at 22:30
There was a Donald Duck, many many years ago, with a story about a salesman trying to sell hand-sized Pyramid replica's. One of it's features was indeed sharpening a razor. While I can't find that story (otherwise I'd have made this an answer), I do have this cartoon from a newspaper (Gadsden Times, November 2 1977). – Mast Aug 19 '18 at 11:05
@Mast The Donald Duck cartoon references the same thing, but certainly isn't the originator of the superstition. – mattdm Aug 19 '18 at 18:16
@mattdm Oh, definitely. But it goes to show how well-known Pyramid Power story was. As support to the other answers. TP wasn't the first or the last to make jokes about it. – Mast Aug 19 '18 at 18:19
I remember cardboard pyramids being put under the beds of small children, to stop them wetting it. Same people who believed in the razor sharpening thing. In the 70s in the Netherlands. – RemcoGerlich Aug 28 '18 at 9:04
In the real world, there is or was a belief, brought on by the Egyptomania of the early 20th century, that pyramids had special powers—including, specifically, the power to sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades.
Pyramid power refers to the belief that the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape can confer a variety of benefits. Among these assumed properties are the ability to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator", trigger sexual urges, and cause other effects. Such unverified theories regarding pyramids are collectively known as pyramidology.
Czechoslovakian Karel Drbal even patented a pyramid-shaped device specifically designed for razor blades. Among the specifications:
It is beneficial to leave a new blade in the pyramid one to two weeks before using it. It is essential to place it there immediately after the first shave, and not the old, dull one. But it is possible to use an old one, if it is properly resharpened. The blade placed using the method above is left unobstructed until the next shave. The west edge should always face west. It improves the sharpening effect.
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My uncle had a "keeps razors sharp forever" pyramid in (at least) the late 1970s. – RonJohn Aug 19 '18 at 18:53
@RonJohn Well? Did it work? – pipe Aug 20 '18 at 11:01
@pipe he swore it did. I was more than dubious then (just as I am now), but wasn't going to argue with him about it, in the same way I wouldn't argue religion. – RonJohn Aug 20 '18 at 11:06
"Sharped a razor blade, put it in this pyramid, don't use it for 2 weeks - and it'll still be sharp!" – Cubic Aug 20 '18 at 11:19
This was busted on mythbusters: kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_jetpack_pyramid_po.html – AncientSwordRage♦ Aug 20 '18 at 15:36
This is a reference to the popular myth that placing a razor blade inside a pyramid shape somehow confers magical powers on it, keeping it sharp, something that that inspired multiple patents in the 1950s.
Interestingly, this does actually work in the world of the Discworld, but not for the reasons you might think. Pyramids cause a slowing (and in extreme cases reversal) of time.
By the way, contrary to popular opinion pyramids don't sharpen razor blades. They just take them back to when they weren't blunt. It's probably because of quantum.
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This is the legend of 'Pyramid Power'
Pyramid power refers to the belief that the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape can confer a variety of benefits.
Among these assumed properties are the ability to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator", trigger sexual urges, and cause other effects.
Such unverified theories regarding pyramids are collectively known as pyramidology.
There is no scientific evidence that pyramid power exists.
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As an additional note: pyramidology often makes a lot of noise about the precise dimensions of the pyramids and how impossibly advanced the measurements are. (In reality, the Egyptians knew what they were doing, and had perfectly serviceable geometry and tools for the task.) – Cadence Aug 18 '18 at 18:04
The best resource to find the explanation of jokes in Terry Pratchett books is the trusty old Annotated Prattchet File on L-Space Web. If you look up the annotations for The Light Fantastic in it, and search for "razor", you will find a short explanation there.
[p. 35] "He read that its height plus its length divided by half its width equalled exactly 1.67563..."
A parody of the typical numerical pseudo-science tossed about regarding the Great Pyramid and the 'cosmic truths' (such as the distance from the Earth to the Sun) that the Egyptians supposedly incorporated into its measurements.
The remark about sharpening razor blades at the end of the paragraph is similarly a reference to the pseudo-scientific 'fact' that (small models of) pyramids are supposed to have, among many other powers, the ability to sharpen razor blades that are left underneath the pyramids overnight.
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Thanks for the L-Space Link. – Jontia Aug 21 '18 at 8:59
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Volkssturm var en tysk militär organisation i slutskedet av andra världskriget. Den hade existerat på papperet sedan 1935, men det var inte förrän i och med Adolf Hitlers order den 18 oktober 1944 att sex miljoner "stridsföra" män skulle rekryteras som Volkssturm blev en verklig stridskraft. Dessa män utgjordes av personer mellan 16 och 60 års ålder som ännu inte tjänstgjorde i något militärt förband.
Förutsättningar
Tanken var att Volkssturm skulle fungera som ett hemvärn och enbart verka i sina lokalområden, men ändå sändes många män direkt till frontlinjerna. De största insatserna gjordes dock i slaget om Berlin där många Volkssturmsoldater stupade, på grund av sin ideologiska övertygelse samt fruktan för vad ett tillfångatagande av Röda armén skulle innebära.
Eftersom Wehrmacht inte kunde förse Volkssturmssoldaterna med en uniform, tilldelades dessa en svart armbindel med texten Deutscher Volkssturm – Wehrmacht för att de skulle uppfylla krigsfolkrättens krav på att betraktas som legala kombattanter. De som hade civila yrkesuniformer, exempelvis tågkonduktörer, bussförare, brevbärare med mera använde då istället dessa som klädsel.
Utbildningen var oftast endast en ytterst kortfattad genomgång av vapen som Karbiner 98k eller Panzerfaust, men det fanns trots det ett visst militärt kunnande då flertalet av de äldre var veteraner från första världskriget eller åtminstone fullgjort sin allmänna värnplikt.
Termen förväxlas ibland med Volksgrenadier-division.
Organisation
Trots texten på armbindeln var Volkssturm inte underställd Wehrmacht utan nazistpartiet (NSDAP) ansvarade för uppställning och ledning. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, som då också var chef för arméreserven och chef för arméns materielförsörjning, fick ansvar för den militära organisationen, utbildningen, beväpningen och utrustningen.
Volkssturm organiserades i bataljoner, som under omfattande propaganda uppställdes genom respektive Gauleiter. Volkssturms uppdrag omfattade i första hand fältarbeten, bevakning och lokalförsvar, huvudsakligen i den egna hemorten.
Freikorps Sauerland
Freikorps Sauerland var ett paramilitärt förband som organiserades i september 1944 av Gauleitern i Gau Westfalen-Süd, Albert Hoffmann. I oktober underställdes det Volkssturm och kom att betraktas som ett elitförband inom folkstormen. Det utmärktes genom sin enhetligare uniformering och egna förbandstecken på uniform och hjälm. Förbandet led betydande förluster i striderna vid Rhen.
Rekrytering
De sex miljoner folkstormspliktiga männen indelades i fyra uppbåd:
Aufgebot I, första uppbådet, omfattade alla vapenföra män i årsklasserna 1884-1924. De flesta av dessa var över femtio år gamla och hade deltagit i första världskriget. Första uppbådet kunde inkallas i upp till sex veckors sammanhängande tjänst. Av första uppbådet bestående förband kunde sättas in även utanför hemorten.
Aufgebot II, andra uppbådet, bildades av män i åldern 25-50 år som inte inkallats till Wehrmacht på grund av sina krigsviktiga civila arbetsuppgifter. Förband bestående av soldater från andra uppbådet kunde bara sättas in nära hemorten, för att inte störa krigsmaterielproduktionen.
Aufgebot III, tredje uppbådet, omfattade årsklasserna 1925-1928, såvitt de inte redan tjänstgjorde i Wehrmacht eller Waffen-SS. Årsklass 1928, som då var 16 år gamla, skulle till slutet av mars 1945, få militär utbildning i Hitler-Jugend (HJ) och Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD). De äldre årsklasserna var redan organiserade i HJ eller inkallade till RAD.
Aufgebot IV, fjärde uppbådet, omfattade alla inte krigstjänstodugliga män, det vill säga sådana som egentligen var frikallade, men kunde användas för bevakningstjänst.
I regel blev endast de två första uppbåden organiserade. Årsklass 1928 var helt och hållet uppväxta och uppfostrade i Nazityskland och 17 % av denna årsklass anmälde sig som frivilliga till Volkssturm. Efter Hitlers död utsträckte Wilhelm Keitel folkstormplikten även till att omfatta årsklass 1929. Det är okänt hur många verkligen tjänstgjorde i Volkssturm. Folkstormens stabschef uppskattade att över 700 bataljoner hade stridskontakt med fienden.
Grader
Det fanns endast fem grader inom Volkssturm.
Volkssturmmann (ingen gradbeteckning) (folkstormman)
Gruppenführer (gruppchef)
Zugführer (plutonchef)
Kompanieführer (kompanichef)
Bataillonsführer (bataljonschef)
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There is an old Chinese proverb that says, "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same." If the "top of the mountain" translates as the role of chief executive of your company, is one of those paths a career in supply chain management? There is an old Chinese proverb that says, "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same." If the "top of the mountain" translates as the role of chief executive of your company, is one of those paths a career in supply chain management?
If you had asked this question 15 years ago, the answer would be "no." Today, that's changing, albeit slowly. More supply chain executives are starting to progress toward the executive suite. But if the few who do make it are to become many-as we believe they should-we need to give serious thought to what's needed for that to happen. In effect, we need to know how to chart a wider, more accessible path to the top of the organization chart. It is important to do so not only to elevate the supply chain profession but to benefit businesses by having more high-quality, well-rounded, operationally savvy executives vying for the top job.
Like Sir Edmund Hillary being the first to climb Mt. Everest, we can point to some pioneering chief executive officers (CEOs) who rose through their organizations as executives with significant supply chain and logistics operational experience. One of the most notable is H. Lee Scott, who served as president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. from January 2000 to January of 2009. Scott was a major catalyst behind the improvement of Wal-Mart's distribution network. Another trailblazer is W. Bruce Johnson of Sears Holding Corp., who was executive vice president of supply chain operations before becoming interim CEO and president of Sears Holdings (it's yet to be seen if Johnson assumes the CEO role on a permanent basis). However, the majority of Fortune 500 CEOs still come from disciplines such as marketing, sales, finance, and legal. While those paths are by no means inappropriate for development of the next corporate chief, they are not the only paths. We believe that CEO succession committees would be helping to strengthen the top management team if they routinely considered supply chain executives as potential candidates.
There are two important reasons for our assertion. First, for those who deeply understand the breadth and depth of the supply chain experience; it is clear that supply chain management offers some of the most comprehensive and underutilized training grounds for high-potential leaders. The supply chain leader's vantage point encompasses the entire value chain. His impact extends from the supply base through his company's operating platform and on to the customer. The best supply chain leaders regularly interact with key players across this span. With the exception of general managers and CEOs, few if any other roles in a business share this comprehensive scope.In addition, and perhaps most importantly, the two core skills that best define supply chain leaders-influence management and people/team development- typically define the best CEOs and general managers as well. We need to fully exploit this alignment, which is currently misunderstood and underleveraged. This will require us to explore our own perceptions of supply chain leadership-and to be open to making some changes in our beliefs and approaches.
Secondly, we need to accelerate the attraction of top talent to the discipline. Consider the mindsets of two intelligent and ambitious college students who are pondering supply chain careers. The first student sees strong evidence that that career choice is a great way to climb the organizational ladder, perhaps even making it to the top spot one day. She studies the careers of business leaders who graduated with supply chain degrees and went on to secure higher and higher positions, including CEO roles. The second student sees very few examples of this trajectory. Which student will be more compelled to pursue a career in supply chain?
Why don't chief executives come from the top supply chain ranks as readily as they do from finance, marketing, and sales? Senior supply chain management roles constitute some of the best preparation possible for the CEO's position. But if they are to be seen as such by those who plan CEO successions, supply chain leaders themselves need new ways to think about the route to the top office.
It is important to call out a subtle but critical distinction regarding the career path to the CEO position.
Increasingly, there are examples of executives who began their careers in marketing, sales, or finance who received supply chain experience on their way to the top. A recent case in point involves the relatively new chairman and CEO of Xerox Corp., Ursula Burns. Burns began her Xerox career with a degree in mechanical engineering and moved through a diverse series of assignments, including heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations. In many media announcements about her appointment as CEO, Ms. Burns' supply chain experience was called out. However, Burns didn't start out as a supply chain professional. Her career began in product development and planning.
Consider two hypothetical career paths. In one, the college graduate (let's assume he graduated with a B.A. in marketing) enters through the marketing function and after proving himself, he gets operational and supply chain experience before earning his first general management assignment. (See Exhibit 1.) Another graduate starts in the supply chain organization and after a successful tenure, moves on to pick up operations and marketing experience prior to becoming a general manager. This second career path, specifically its starting point, is the focus of our discussion. Reaching the CEO's office via the supply chain organization is certainly possible and, as noted earlier, has some precedent today. However, we need to ask, "What will it take to create a well-worn path from the supply chain organization to the CEO's office?"
For a start, we must more fully understand and communicate the rich CEO training ground that the supply chain organization offers. We need to promote the fact that many of the most important skills practiced by great CEOs carry equal importance for effective supply chain leadership.
In our practice, we have found that five traits separate the best supply chain leaders from everyone else: influencing skills, developing leaders and teams, customer centrism, results orientation, and emotional fortitude. (See Exhibit 2.) Consider the emphasis that companies like General Electric Co., IBM Corp., and Cisco Systems, Inc. place on developing these skills-and the investments they continually make to do so. Let's take a hard look at the first of the two core skills: influence. As management thinker Peter Drucker said, "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers." Drucker went on to say that influence is required in order to acquire followers. Leaders use influence to help shape the actions, behaviors, and opinions of people around them. A leadership style that relies on influence contrasts sharply with one that uses the power of the position to force followers to conform to the leader's directives.
Over the last 10 years, value chain management has become increasingly critical to a company's success. Leading businesses such as Wal-mart consider value chain management a core strategy. The responsibility for ensuring that all the value chain players operate together as a seamless and powerful system sits squarely on the supply chain leader's shoulders. Achieving this alignment requires superb influencing skills that span internal and external boundaries.
We worked with a supply chain leader who was put in charge of a major inventory reduction project. The goal was to improve annual inventory turns from 12 to 18 for a major raw material used in one of the company's business units. This was no small task for many reasons: The supply base lacked appropriate concentration, the inventory ordering process was nonstandard and decentralized, and the various manufacturing sites strongly resisted "outside interference." Our client needed to enlist the support of the business unit leadership team and various other functions. This meant that the business unit would have to agree to underwrite all time, money, and resources for the project. The inventory management solution required the collaboration of sales, operations, finance, suppliers, and others. Many of these constituents didn't report to our client; regardless, she owned the operational and financial targets associated with the project.
To the uninitiated, this might seem like a relatively straightforward task. After all, the business unit would receive the benefits-that is, the reductions in working capital required-if the project was successful. Shouldn't that be enough to gain the cooperation of all involved? Not necessarily. In the real world, each of these constituents had a "day job"-an array of other demands on their time and resources. They had their own bosses who expected them to deliver on all their objectives, not just this one. Securing a strong, passionate commitment from these individuals became highly dependent on our client's ability to wield effective influence to secure full cooperation and dedication. Fortunately, her influence created a sense of positive obligation on the part of those involved, compelling them to balance the project's demands with their other responsibilities. As a result, the project was successful and the team made a significant and lasting contribution.
Now let's turn to the successful CEO. We worked with a CEO who, in the words of Jim Collins,1 author of Good to Great, was an exceptional Level Five leader. Her leadership embodied a powerful combination of modesty and conviction. As she worked with her team to create an entirely new business focus, her ability to convey trust, confidence, and unshakeable determination excited her organization to take the leap. Due to her positive, influential leadership, her team followed her from the known into the unknown. Today, they are well on their way to transforming their business. This is influential leadership at its best. The influence requirements of this CEO and our supply chain chief differ only in scale and scope. Imagine our supply chain leader refining her influencing skills over and over again with larger and more complex enterprise-wide supply chain projects. She just might end up becoming a CEO candidate.
Now let's examine the skills sets needed to develop leaders and build strong teams. The supply chain officer faces some unique challenges in practicing these skills. Like a CEO's executive team, the supply chain function is inherently cross-functional and ubiquitous, touching nearly every corner of the enterprise. It embraces all functions: operations, finance, marketing, IT, and many others. Perhaps most testing of all: It regularly calls for building cross-functional, collaborative teams that include external parties such as suppliers.
We worked with a senior vice president of supply chain for a large manufacturer. A couple of years ago he was challenged to regionalize several critical supply chain activities. As a market leader, his company had the financial strength to consolidate its market position via two highly targeted acquisitions. With the acquisitions, supply chain complexity increased significantly. Prior to the acquisitions, 50 percent of the total spend was sourced domestically. Now 80 percent of the total spend was concentrated in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Different procurement processes, cultures, and commodity categories came with these acquisitions. The differences had to be rationalized to achieve the synergy advantages anticipated in the acquisition's financial projections.
The supply chain chief needed to establish a common vision for his function, build the most effective team possible, drive alignment between the supply chain organization and the business units, and achieve significant cost savings-a daunting set of tasks. To streamline the procurement process, eliminate redundancies, and improve compliance, the global organizations were to be reorganized into regional procurement centers. This meant big changes for many employees. During a private meeting with a key manager from the newly acquired company, the executive was discussing some scary changes-changes that could significantly affect the organization's employees. An impressive moment came when the manager spoke up: "The only reason my organization isn't running for the hills from your proposed changes is that they've heard great things about you and the quality of your team. Our best players want to be part of your team and will work hard to earn a spot."
Throughout the acquisition and integration initiatives, the supply chain executive faced huge organizational challenges that touched every corner of the business. Not only did his assignment exercise his own leadership skills-particularly his ability to influence others and develop new leaders-but it expanded the suite of skills that would improve his chances of landing in the CEO's chair. If the cachet of supply chain management is to rise, we need to take action to make it so. Let's begin by taking a new look at ourselves.
Every business leader has a professional brand. In simple terms, your brand comprises the image and feelings that come to mind when others think of you. Your brand creates associations; hopefully, these are associations you desire. Like any commercial brand, a leader's brand also creates expectations. Your brand should reflect your essence-what you care about as a leader. It reflects what you value and how you create value. A brand needs to be proactively developed, refined, and managed. When a leader neglects to proactively develop his brand, be assured that those around him have "branded" him in their minds, and often in ways he will not like.
So what is supply chain's brand? How well does it align to the brand of great CEOs? We need to think of ourselves as brand managers, with our brand being supply chain leadership. We need to realize that while we have a healthy brand today, we have several sources of untapped equity that when released, will significantly improve our opportunities to ascend to the CEO position.
Following are three specific areas where we can act on that realization.
1. Balance Strategy and Tactics. It's our observation that the supply chain brand is more associated with tactical execution than with vision and strategy development. That was clear during dinner at a conference some years ago with several senior supply chain leaders. The conversation turned to the previous quarter's financial results, and some of the leaders were describing what their teams delivered and how they did it. They demonstrated an impressive focus on results. During the conversation, one of the leaders remarked, "We are like well-oiled machines when it comes to executing initiatives and delivering results.
But you know, our people are also strategic thinkers. I don't think my peers fully appreciate how good we are at developing vision and strategy. As long as we deliver the cost numbers, they don't seem much interested in how we got there." That mindset can be changed through better communication and by being opportunistic. Here's one instance of a golden opportunity: A supply chain manager applied a new logistics strategy to deliver significant cycle time reductions. The strategy challenged some of the company's traditional business practices and beliefs-for instance, its long-time resistance to strategic partnerships. At a review with the business-unit president, the supply chain chief announced the initiative's results, and quickly passed the baton to the next presenter.
Typically, the business unit leader would let the moment pass. However, this time, he turned to the supply chain boss and asked her, "Just how did you pull this off?" After she had explained the strategy-that included forming a strategic partnership-the president responded, "This is great stuff. Typically, I don't get what you guys do and-don't take this wrong way-I don't really want to know the details. But the strategy you have just described is really powerful and has application across other areas of the business. I want my marketing folks to hear this story." In the mind of this business-unit president, this supply chain leader had just added a "strategic" association to her brand.
Supply chain leaders should focus on creating more balance between the strategic and tactical associations to their brand. In the early weeks and months, it will almost certainly require an "over-correction" by aggressively looking for ways to develop strategic skills in key managers and deliberately showcasing these capabilities to the organization.
2. Balance Cost and Revenue. Another brand association of supply chain professionals is a tenacious focus on cost reduction. Business leaders continue to experience intense pressure to cut costs everywhere, especially because their post-recession revenues are growing so sluggishly (if at all). In the current environment in particular, the supply chain organization has been the hero riding to the rescue. Many companies owe their last two years' profit and loss (P&L) performance to supply chain organizations that "found the cost" when top-line growth was nowhere to be seen. However, the CEO brand stretches much further to encompass vision and strategy, largely because top-notch CEOs are renowned for being able to keep their companies' growth engines firing continually-and profitably.
For these CEOs, if you are not growing, you are shrinking. For them, growth is very much about increasing sales, growing market share, expanding into new markets, and developing innovative new products. So are supply chain leaders pegged in perpetuity as cost-cutters and tacticians? Not necessarily. They can pursue opportunities to expose their teams to important market- and customer-focused initiatives that put them closer to the bull's-eye of profitable growth generation. One supply chain leader decided that the best way to get out of the "cost only" box was to form an alliance with his company's senior vice president of sales and marketing. The two leaders established a mutual commitment to create an experiential learning exchange between their organizations and in the process, to create value for their customers and several targeted prospects. They developed a plan to pursue value chain integration with their best customers-a plan that required sales, marketing, and supply chain representatives to work with select customers to pursue cost reduction and product innovation. The targeted customers represented more than 30 percent of the business unit's profit.
Throughout the process, the supply chain leader's team had numerous interactions with the CEO to review progress. Later, the CEO confided in us that he was "very impressed" to hear supply chain executives talk so much about customers. In fact, this cross-functional team was responsible for renewing all targeted customers at substantially higher margins.
3. Emphasize Inspirational Leadership. It isn't unusual for the supply chain brand to have a strong technical association. This technical bent, which emphasizes the "hard" vs. "soft" skills, can effectively mute the key role that inspirational leadership plays in supply chain success. Supply chain leaders need to attack this perception and in the process, unlock the untapped passion within themselves and their organizations. When they do, they are leading like the best CEOs and pumping equity into their brand. One supply chain executive had a two day offsite meeting with her leaders to kick off what she envisioned would be a transformation of her organization's culture.
She was looking for more than a "shot in the arm"; she wanted her team to become authentically passionate about their mission. In advance of the meeting, she sent out an e-mail to her leadership team asking them to think about the following questions.
What are we really passionate about?
What are our current sources of inspiration?
What can we commit to achieving tomorrow that seems almost impossible today?
What value do we create that goes beyond dollars and cents? How do we improve lives?
These questions comprised the only agenda items for the meeting. The discussions over those two days were fascinating and resulted in an inspirational manifesto, developed by the leadership team, which guides the team's activities to this day. The manifesto wasn't full of soft, fluffy language. Instead, it called out specific behaviors, activities, and goal-setting processes that the team committed to embedding in their business culture. The team embraced this quote from Richard Branson, founder of the famous Virgin brand, that reflects the essence of the culture they want to build: "I don't know whether the word insane is right, but you've got to love a challenge and you've got to be willing to push the limits beyond what other people think is possible." This is the spirit that these supply chain leaders are bringing to their organization. It would make any CEO proud.
Supply chain leadership is an exceptional and underexploited source of CEO talent. Outside of P&L management, nothing compares with the comprehensive nature of supply chain management, which spans all of a business value-creating processes. Success in this discipline leans heavily on some of the very leadership skills that distinguish the world's best CEOs. As such, our challenge is to educate ourselves and our companies on these key points of alignment. We may need an assertive marketing campaign to make our point, but the effort will be well worth it.
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BlueToque Software has been working on TrueNorth Geospatial, our light geographic information system, for a few years and we began getting feedback from our users that even though TrueNorth is easy to use (much easier than an enterprise GIS), they needed something even simpler.
One of our users in particular needed a tablet based application that ran on Windows 8 and Windows 10 that they could display their current position from a GPS, record waypoints / tracks, and load and mark up GeoPDF (a georeferenced PDF document – basically a PDF that has geographic coordinates embedded in it).
Now TrueNorth is designed around the concept of inversion of control (IoC) – a software architectural pattern where the main application devolves control to modules that are loaded as needed to change the functionality of the program as a whole. Another way to explain this with specific references to TrueNorth is that the main application holds the concept of a map, and a layer. The layers are implemented as plugin modules. A TrueNorth map contains references to the layer plugins and the configuration data for each layer. All TrueNorth does is handle the user interface interactions to select the viewport, or the area of the world to be displayed. TrueNorth transfers drawing control to each layer to draw what it is responsible for.
In this way TrueNorth can add new layers at any point to create new functionality, which is exactly how we handle things like our asset tracking application which can track the remote positions of InReach, SPOT or GPS enabled radio systems. The Tracking Layer when added to the map just draws the locations of the items it's tracking.
The modularity extends further however; TrueNorth inverts control for user interface elements, data visualization, data transformation, data import and export, printing, and many other functions.
The title of this article is an exaggeration of course – the components of TrueNorth have been under development for five years, but the fact is that we took those components and built a new application from scratch in a single week – mostly because of the flexibility of IoC.
The goal of Borealis was to take the multi-window docking user interface in TrueNorth Geospatial and turn it into a single window, tablet friendly mobile application. In Microsoft Visual Studio the code for that single window and two auxiliary files is just under 2000 lines. The rest of the effort is an XML configuration file, some icons and some documentation.
From inception to the minimum viable set the development time was 8 hours. The remaining days was involved polishing, bug testing, and a re-branding effort.
The main part of the new application just reads the configuration file and loads the plugins. Because it's a new user interface, most of the code is just deciding where to put buttons to activate the plugins. There was some code to handle the creation and destruction of dialogs – which in the other editions of TrueNorth are part of the docking user interface, but in Borealis these are non docking windows.
TrueNorth Borealis is now live on the TrueNorth web site. You can download the demo version and try it out – and let us know what you think in the support forums!
TrueNorth's IoC design is one of its strongest features, but its also something that we hope most users never notice, except when they're using a feature. The power of IoC and a well thought out architecture has many benefits for us the developers which we hope to pass on to our users.
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原文:the bottom flares out a little much, not sure how to fix it. otherwise, beautiful herringbone coat!
原文:It is real good cloth to wear in cold weather where seen in eastern europe. I dont know what happens in rainy days. I got L size what fits well. I am 5.8 ft tall and 169-170 lb. I am happy to get this coat with its price and it is The first one in Herringbone style.
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<div class="typ -center -text-center -text-medium">
<h1>Customization</h1>
<p>
If you use Gridy with SASS, it is very easy to customize the grid to meet your project requirements.
</p>
</div>
<div class="spacer">
<div class="spacer__mask"></div>
</div>
<div class="typ -center -text-center -text-medium">
<h2>Getting started</h2>
<p>
Let's see how we can setup gulp and node-sass for compiling our grid with SASS.
</p>
</div>
<div class="doc-custom">
<div class="doc-custom__typ typ -center">
<p>
First, create the <code>package.json</code> file in the root of your project:
</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
{
"name": "YourProjectName",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Project name description",
"author": "AuthorName",
"main": "gulpfile.js",
"license": "MIT",
"devDependencies": {
"es6-promise": "^3.2.1",
"gulp": "^3.9.0",
"gulp-autoprefixer": "^3.1.0",
"gulp-clean-css": "^2.0.10",
"gulp-plumber": "^1.1.0",
"gulp-rename": "^1.2.2",
"gulp-sass": "^2.3.2",
"gulp-watch": "^4.3.8"
}
}
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>Now create this <code>gulp.js</code>file:</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
'use strict';
// include plugins
var gulp = require('gulp'),
es6Promise = require('es6-promise'), // required for autoprefixer
minifyCSS = require('gulp-clean-css'),
prefix = require('gulp-autoprefixer'),
plumber = require('gulp-plumber'),
rename = require('gulp-rename'),
sass = require('gulp-sass');
// sass and css
gulp.task('css', function () {
gulp.src('src/**/*.scss')
.pipe(plumber())
.pipe(sass({
sourceComments: null,
precision: 7
}))
.pipe(prefix({
browsers: ['last 2 versions'],
cascade: false
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'))
.pipe(minifyCSS())
.pipe(rename('gridy.min.css'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});
// watch files
gulp.task('watch', function () {
gulp.watch('src/**/*.scss', ['css']);
});
// default task
gulp.task('default', ['css', 'watch']);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>Now include the <a href="https://github.com/microcipcip/gridy/tree/master/src" target="_blank">Gridy source</a>
to your SASS file.</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
@import "vendor/gridy";
</code><!--
--></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="spacer">
<div class="spacer__mask"></div>
</div>
<div class="typ -center -text-center -text-medium">
<h2>Customizing the grid</h2>
<p>
You can customize your grid by editing the <code>$gyVars</code> variable that you find in the
<a href="https://github.com/microcipcip/gridy/blob/master/src/gridy.scss" target="_blank">gridy.scss file</a>:
</p>
</div>
<div class="doc-custom">
<div class="doc-custom__typ typ -center">
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
$gyVars: (
prefix : gy,
helperPrefix : gy-h,
wrapWidth : 1400px,
wrapName : wrap,
gridName : g,
colName : c,
colTot : 12,
orderName : order,
offsetName : off,
gutter : 16px, // total
colBottom : 16px, // usually same as gutter
bpDivider : '', // usually empty, see customization docs for more info
bp : (
// careful: do not use the letter 'g' or 'c' here, it would break the grid
// because it's the gridName and colName
s : 400px,
m : 768px,
l : 1100px
)
);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>
For example, let's suppose that <strong>you don't like the prefixes</strong> <code>gy=""</code> and
<code>gy-h=""</code>,
maybe because you need to target your grid with javascript and therefore want to use proper
<code>data-attributes</code>,
for example <code>data-gy=""</code> and <code>data-gy-help=""</code>:
</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
$gyVars: (
prefix : data-gy,
helperPrefix : data-gy-help,
...
);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>
What if you prefer <strong>using classes instead of data attributes</strong>?
No problem, you can use them too! Let's see an example:
</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
$gyVars: (
prefix : class,
helperPrefix : class,
// Note: rename g to gridy or any other unique name
// to avoid collision with other classes
gridName : gridy,
// Note: rename c to coly or any unique name
// to avoid collision with other classes
colName : coly,
// this is needed otherwise the breakpoint
// would be attached to the class name therefore
// the class would be difficult to read
bpDivider : '-'
);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
<!-- Now you can build a grid like this -->
<div class="wrap">
<div class="gridy-12 gridy-s-6 gridy-m-4">
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
<div class="coly">...</div>
</div>
</div>
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>Maybe you want a <strong>6 columns</strong> grid with <strong>30 pixels gutter</strong>?</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
$gutter: 30px;
$gyVars: (
...
colTot : 6,
gutter : $gutter, // total
colBottom : $gutter, // usually same as gutter
...
);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>
What about those media queries...why not <strong>add more breakpoints</strong>?
</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
// Note: be careful not to add too many breakpoints
// or the generated CSS file will become huge.
// Also, remember not to use as breakpoint names
// the reserved letters "g" and "c".
$gyVars: (
...
bp : (
s : 400px, // small
sl : 580px, // small larger
m : 768px, // medium
ml : 992px, // medium larger
l : 1100px // large
xl : 1200px // extra large
)
);
</code><!--
--></pre>
<p>
What about setting up <strong>multiple gutters</strong>?
</p>
<pre class="doc-custom__source"><!--
--><code>
// extend gridy to change the gutter
// note that this gutter will be applied
// only to direct children, it will not cascade
@include gy-gutters($gyVars, 'small', 20px);
@include gy-gutters($gyVars, 'medium', 40px);
// usage
<div gy="g" gy-h="g-small-gutter">
<div gy="c">small gutter grid</div>
</div>
<div gy="g" gy-h="g-medium-gutter">
<div gy="c">medium gutter grid</div>
</div>
</code><!--
--></pre>
</div>
</div>
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PureDrive Automotive – A full day of supercar fun on Jebel Jais.
A big part of the Nocturnal Bandit is adapting to certain situations. Sometimes, things don't work out photography-wise, or a car doesn't start at the last minute or schedules don't work out. On the flip side though, sometimes, opportunities sometimes arise from places that one would not have dreamt of. Why am I beating about the bush and not getting to the point? Good question.
I found myself thinking about this, on the road to Ras Al Khaimah (a northern emirate of the UAE) at 7 a.m. on a misty Monday morning. I had gotten in touch with the gents behind The Land Rover Diaries (TLRD) – a Landie lifestyle blog – and they had very kindly invited me for a behind the scenes look at the production of a video for the launch of their supercar lifestyle brand, PureDrive Automotive. They had also mentioned that they had closed off a mountain road for the day and it would be a lot of fun.
I reached our meeting point, the Hilton and met them for breakfast. A bit of light toast and conversation later, we were on our way to Jebel Jais, the tallest peak in the United Arab Emirates. The fact that this mountain has a road cut into it which is also known as the 'Nurburgring of the UAE' was the icing on the cake.
We stopped for fuel a short while later and I looked at our crew. Among others, Matt and Theo from TLRD, vlogger James Walker, racing driver Ollie Webb, photographer Riad and a couple of people from RAK Tourism. A W Motors Lykan Hypersport, a McLaren 650S Spyder, a Ferrari 488 Spider, a Range Rover Sport SVR and a Mitsubishi Pajero were the primary vehicles.
Picture the scene: a tight mountain road with sharp curves and hairpins, snaking its way into the clouds, with sheer drops to the side, being driven in high-powered supercars all day long. Oh, and the road was closed by the police, just for us.
A lot of fun they said? Just a small understatement right there.
The sun was high in the sky by the time we reached the foot of the Jais. After ensuring that the road was well and truly locked down, it didn't take long for us to reach the peak, courtesy of some spirited driving by all. Greeted by beautiful scenery and lower temperatures, we planned out the whole day. The Lykan would stay at the peak, while the 650S and the 488 would be driven up and down the roads leading to the peak. The SVR would undertake primary filming duties, with a videographer hanging out the back. The Pajero would try and keep up with the high-speed convoy, armed with supplies and assorted gear. Time to get the show on the road, literally.
Back and forth the cars went. The valley reverberated to the sounds of high-powered V8 engines belting out the note of sheer power. The sounds of the Ferrari and McLaren contributed to the treble, while the bass department was ably held up by the roar emitted by the SVR. Add to this the high-pitched whine from the camera drone flying overhead, and we had a full-blown mobile philharmonic orchestra.
Every few minutes we'd stop to find out what the next step was, which depended on whether the videographers had got their desired shots. This process continued as we made our way up the mountain, occasionally interrupted by the odd mountain goat or construction truck.
On one occasion, the Lykan at the peak needed a screwdriver. Theo was tasked with getting it to the top and I volunteered to ride shotgun with him in the SVR.
I had not been expecting what came next. While I have heard very good things about the Range Rover SVR, I've never been in one, until now.
With a deep roar the SVR bolted up the mountain. An SUV is not supposed to have this much power and yet somehow the SVR keeps it manageable. Hurtling between corners, the car isn't light but the power and the suspension make up for that, along with very good brakes. Theo, a skilled hand behind the wheel, made short work of the distance and within a few minutes we made our crucial delivery. Then it was time to go back down. Process: repeat!
Talking to Theo on the way down, I asked him how they had come up with the idea for TLRD and PureDrive. He explained that they had always been into cars and once they'd come to the UAE, the abundant availability of desert terrain and supercar culture had sparked the two brands. Then he told me about Matt.
Matthew Croucher GC, is one of the most highly decorated British servicemen in existence. Awarded the George Cross in 2008 for bravery on the battlefield, he survived extreme injuries, recovered and went back to serve in an active warzone. Did Matt tell me all this? No, I found it on Wikipedia. Matt didn't say a word about any of it the whole day, a shining example of modesty, something you don't see every day.
It was about 3 in the afternoon when we stopped to grab a quick bite to eat. There were a number of shots still required and the videographers were anxious to press on.
The next shot involved the Ferrari drifting around a curve, with the McLaren close behind. Scaling a part of the Jais in order to get a better view, I suddenly came to a point where I had 360 degree views. I watched as the cars set off and Ollie, at the wheel of the Ferrari, deftly swung the car sideways. The sun glinted off the red supercar, as its rear tyres screamed, leaving a plume of white smoke to be dispersed by the McLaren. That particular shot had four takes, and each one was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The hours flew by and soon it was sunset. All the shots had been completed and we stood in silence at the peak, admiring the beautiful mountain vistas, as the sky changed from blue to gold to orange. As darkness fell, the mountain was illuminated by red and blue strobes, mounted on the RAK police cars that had kept the road clear all day. We said our goodbyes and I set off on my way back to Dubai, giving me time to reflect on the day.
A cracking mountain road. Supercars and a super SUV. High speed driving action. Mr. JWW and Ollie Webb, both celebrities in their own right. An opportunity to see how a video production takes place behind the scenes.
I could have never dreamt that I'd be part of something like this, which brings me back to my earlier point. Sometimes, opportunities arise from nowhere, creating highly enjoyable experiences that I'll forever be grateful for.
Matt and Theo were right. It had been an absolute ball.
Cheers to Matt and Theo for inviting me for a thoroughly enjoyable day of supercar madness, mountain style. You can watch the video below.
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Antique Auctions – How can you make money from antique auctions?
Antique collecting is a very big business and one of the best ways to start building up your inventory of quality antiques is with the help of antique auctions and estate sales. Bidding in antique auctions or estate sales is a great way that you can find pieces you may not be able to find anywhere else. If you have a community of the right collectors or a great storefront where the item could be resold for a profit, you can start to make a healthy sum of money in the antique resale market.
Finding a niche: start working on some research for a particular niche within antiques that you are very passionate about. If you have some experience collecting sports memorabilia, furniture, jewelry, toys or clothing, stick to this as your main buying and selling category.
Look for only an established dealers: auctioneers and dealers that have an established reputation in the market are always the best to deal with. Choosing a company that's very inexperienced could mean that you might fall victim to a potential scam or some low-quality items. Antique auctions performed by experienced companies will also run much more smoothly and they will know how to pack/care for the items while they are on the auction block or shipping to you.
Know the signs of fakes and restorations: training yourself to spot a fake or restoration is extremely important. Most collectors are interested in original pieces when it comes to antiques with minimal restoration. A botched restoration, partial replacement of an item or a complete re-creation/fake could be substantially less value than the original piece in great condition.
Consider auction costs: most auctions will have extra fees such as taxes, buyer's premiums, auction fees and shipping. If you're going to relist items at auction remember all of these additional fees. When buying items remember to leave a little bit of money in your budget for shipping the item and other applicable costs associated with the actual purchase of an auction.
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If you have an antique item that you want to sell and if you want quick cash then the best option available to you is to approach a good antique dealer. Antique dealers may be someone that works alone or he or she could be working at an antique mall. Regardless, they are always ready to offer you an easy solution provided you are willing to negotiate with them.
The fact is that when you sell to a dealer you won't have to pay any fees, as would be the case when selling the item through an online ad. Also, you won't need to worry about collecting your payment and you are also spared all the troubles associated with packing and shipping your items to an online buyer. The best part is that you also don't have to worry about damaging your items in transit, which is an important consideration if you are selling an antique item that is very delicate and fragile.
Before you approach an antique dealer it makes sense for you to know what to do and you should also have reasonable expectations. This can make a huge difference in how well you complete your deal.
The first thing that you need to do when dealing with an antique dealer is research them well. Also, you need to be very well informed about your antique item. The fact is that dealers are not very keen on giving you a free evaluation about your item. The more well informed you are about your antique piece the more likely it is that you will get a good price for it. And, it also ensures that you won't be cheated out of your money. By researching the value of your antique piece you will be in a position to know what to expect.
When you walk into a dealer's shop you should have a ballpark estimate about the value of your antique piece. However, do not be surprised if the dealer offers you less. Typically, he or she will want to pay you between a quarter and half of what you think is the current market value of your item.
Most antique dealers also expect sellers to give them a price that they can work with. So, be ready to let them know how much you expect for your antique. Also, be prepared to negotiate a final price. Try to also judge how much you think the dealer is willing to pay.
Last but not the least; after selling your antique piece to an antique dealer, do not look back. Even if the piece has great sentimental value once the deal is done there is no looking back. Remember also that the dealer may not be willing to sell the item back to you at a later date. So, make sure that you are ready to part with the item before approaching the dealer.
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An ENTIRE PINT has less calories than a grande PSL.
Why ever leave your couch again?
The soft-serve is hiding a big secret.
These bad boys are about to become your new favorites.
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