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One person was killed and another seriously injured last night when a car and a motorcycle collided near Lake Placid. Florida Highway Patrol reports indicate the incident happened shortly after 5:30 near the intersection of Catfish Creek
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Troopers say a Dodge Calibre driven by 17-year-old Raeley Matthews of Okeechobee turned into the path of the oncoming motorcycle which hit it broadside.
Seriously injured was 78-year-old Sandra Pennisi. The driver of the Yamaha V-Star was killed. Their identification has not yet been released. Charges in the incident are pending.
The gates don't open for this year's Super Sebring races until Wednesday, but already there has been action on the track. Competitors from the World Endurance Championship spent Saturday and yesterday in open practice and there were a number of incidents.
Driver Jorg Bergemeister escaped serious injury in a car fire that consumed the #56 Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR. One of the SMP Toyotas also was damaged considerably when it hit the wall at Turn 10.
Meanwhile, campers, vans and trucks continue to pile in to the overflow area of the track for what officials believe will be a record crowd. They say ticket sales already are 70-percent ahead of last year's numbers.
The Avon Park city council will take up a couple items left over from their last meeting when they meet in regular session tonight. Councilwoman Maria Sutherland will again bring up questions about the reimbursement of former city manager June Fisher and also wants to look at the possibility of revising laws regarding the sales of alcohol in the City of Charm.
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Deputy news editor of Construction News, Mr Rogers, said both parties had to take some responsibility for the delayed project.
"Multiplex was at fault in the early part of this saga. They were the builders and they were charged with building it on time and they didn't," he said.
"But Multiplex say there have been up to 600 design changes and Wembley National Stadium has failed to carry out a series of critical works so they have an element of culpability in this."
Mr Rogers explained that a lot of the problems came down to money.
He said over the last 18 months the two firms had failed to work things out and the relationship between them gradually deteriorated.
"Multiplex is fed up with being blamed for everything and have decided to hit back.
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"There is a huge blame game going on and a huge PR battle because everybody can see it and everybody knows what it is but no-one knows when it's going to be open."
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Wallin, D. (2007). Attachment in Psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Publications.
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Five polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus
Zorisadday Gonzalez, David A. Ray, L. Rex McAliley, Matthew J. Gray, Celine Perchellet, Loren M. Smith, Llewellyn D. Densmore
We characterize five polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus, which are being used as markers in a study of the genetics and structure of toad populations inhabiting playa lakes on the Llano Estacado plateau of Texas. Observed heterozygosity (HO) estimates for the toads ranged from 0.56 to 0.90, and expected heterozygosity (HE) estimates ranged from 0.85 to 0.95.
Molecular Ecology Notes
Anthropogenic
Bufo cognatus
Microsatellites
Dive into the research topics of 'Five polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Bufonidae Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
toad Earth & Environmental Sciences 80%
Bufo Agriculture & Biology 79%
toads Agriculture & Biology 66%
Anura Medicine & Life Sciences 65%
Microsatellite Repeats Medicine & Life Sciences 64%
heterozygosity Earth & Environmental Sciences 55%
Marker Chemistry 53%
Gonzalez, Z., Ray, D. A., McAliley, L. R., Gray, M. J., Perchellet, C., Smith, L. M., & Densmore, L. D. (2004). Five polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus. Molecular Ecology Notes, 4(1), 9-10. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00546.x
Gonzalez, Zorisadday ; Ray, David A. ; McAliley, L. Rex et al. / Five polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus. In: Molecular Ecology Notes. 2004 ; Vol. 4, No. 1. pp. 9-10.
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How popular is the baby name Toppie in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Toppie.
Popularity of the Baby Name Toppie
Posts that Mention the Name Toppie
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Rare Girl Names from Early Cinema: Letter T (part 2)
Looking for a rare girl name with a retro feel? Here are dozens of ideas. All came straight from very old films that were released from the 1910s to the 1940s.
This post is part of a series of posts featuring female names from early cinema. I'm going backwards, so the other lists so far are U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. The names below are the second half of the T-list (Ti- to Ty-). The first half has the Ta- to Th- names. Enjoy!
Tiare was a character name in multiple films, including The Leopardess (1923) and The Moon and Sixpence (1942).
Usage of the baby name Tiare.
Tibbie
Aunt Tibbie was a character played by actress Jessie Ralph in the film St. Louis Blues (1939).
Tibby was a character name in multiple films, including Dangerous Females (short, 1929) and Bad Man from Red Butte (1940).
Queen Tika was a character played by actress Dorothy Christy in the film The Phantom Empire (1935).
Usage of the baby name Tika.
Tilah
Tilah was a character played by actress Margaret Morris in the film Beasts of Paradise (1923).
Tildy
Tildy was a character played by actress Alice Terry in the short film The Brief Debut of Tildy (1918).
Tilga
Tilga was a character played by actress Louise Emmons in the film The Last Egyptian (1914).
Timka was a character played by actress Jean Parker in the film Caravan (1934).
Timmins was a character played by actress Zasu Pitts in the film Her Private Life (1929).
Tira was a character played by actress Mae West in the film I'm No Angel (1933). Her name was pronounced TIE-rah.
Usage of the baby name Tira.
Tisa Kepes was a character played by actress Lilli Palmer in the film My Girl Tisa (1948).
Usage of the baby name Tisa (which debuted in the data the year that My Girl Tisa came out).
Tish
Letitia "Tish" Carberry was a character played by actress Marjorie Main in the film Tish (1942).
Usage of the baby name Tish.
Tisha
Tisha was a character played by actress Greta Nissen in the film The Wanderer (1925).
Usage of the baby name Tisha.
Titania was a character name in multiple films, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Usage of the baby name Titania.
Tito was a character played by actress Dorothy Janis in the film The Pagan (1929).
Tituba
Tituba was a character played by actress Madame Sul-Te-Wan in the film Maid of Salem (1937).
Tiza
Tiza Torreon was a character played by actress Myrna Loy in the film Turn Back the Hours (1928).
Tocati
Tocati was a character played by actress Julie Suedo in the film Afterwards (1928).
Toddy
Toddy was a character name in multiple films, including Cain and Mabel (1936) and Youth Runs Wild (1944).
Tohana was a character played by actress Inez Palange in the film One Million B.C. (1940).
Toinette was a character name in multiple films, including A Love Sublime (1917) and Rainbow on the River (1936).
Usage of the baby name Toinette.
Tokiwa was a character played by actress Margaret Gibson in the short film The Love of Tokiwa (1914).
Tollea
Tollea was a character played by actress Maria Montez in the film Cobra Woman (1944).
Tommie Lou Pember was a character played by actress Colleen Moore in the film The Perfect Flapper (1924).
Usage of the baby name Tommie.
Tommy Smith was a character played by actress Dorothy Devore in the film The Tomboy (1924).
Usage of the baby name Tommy.
Tondelayo
Tondelayo was a character played by actress Hedy Lamarr in the film White Cargo (1942).
Usage of the baby name Tondelayo.
Tonia was a character name in multiple films, including In Old Arizona (1928) and Young Buffalo Bill (1940).
Usage of the baby name Tonia.
Tonie
Tonie was a character name in multiple films, including Hold That Girl (1934) and Flight for Freedom (1943).
Usage of the baby name Tonie.
Tonita was a character name in multiple films, including Border Law (1931) and The Fighting Ranger (1934).
Usage of the baby name Tonita.
Tonoma
Tonoma was a character played by actress Eugenie Besserer in the short film A Child of the Wilderness (1912).
Tootie
Tootie Smith was a character played by actress Margaret O'Brien in the film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).
Usage of the baby name Tootie (a one-hit wonder in 1958, thanks to a news item that year).
Tootsie Brown was a character played by actress Muriel Ostriche in the film Leap to Fame (1918).
Usage of the baby name Tootsie.
Toppie
Toppie Westmacott was a character played by actress Esther Ralston in the film The Little French Girl (1925).
Topsy
Topsy was a character name in multiple films, including The Gold Diggers (1923) and Topsy and Eva (1927).
Usage of the baby name Topsy.
Torchy
Torchy Blane was a character played by various actresses in a series of 9 Torchy Blane films (1937-1939).
Usage of the baby name Torchy.
Toru
Toru was a character played by actress Rosita Marstini in the film A Prisoner in the Harem (1913).
Usage of the baby name Toru.
Toshia
Toshia Mori was an actress who appeared in films from the 1920s to the 1930s. She was born in Japan in 1912.
Usage of the baby name Toshia.
Toton
Toton was a character played by actress Olive Thomas in the film Toton the Apache (1919).
Towana
Towana was a character played by actress Movita in the film Wolf Call (1939).
Usage of the baby name Towana (which debuted in the data the year after Wolf Call came out).
Toyo Haynes was a character played by actress Lupe Velez in the film Where East Is East (1929).
Trafalgar was a character name in multiple films, including Trelawny of the Wells (1916) and The Actress (1928).
Trece was a character played by actress Gertrude Astor in the film Hit of the Show (1928).
Trenna
Trenna Plaice was a character played by actress Virginia Bruce in the film Shadow of Doubt (1935).
Usage of the baby name Trenna.
Tressie
Tressie Harlow was a character played by actress Mary Philbin in the film Danger Ahead (1921).
Usage of the baby name Tressie.
Trilby was a character name in multiple films, including Trilby (1914) and Svengali (1931).
Usage of the baby name Trilby.
Trina was a character name in multiple films, including His Sweetheart (1917) and Man's Castle (1933).
Usage of the baby name Trina.
Trini was a character played by actress Paulette Duval in the film Twelve Miles Out (1927).
Usage of the baby name Trini.
Trixi Du Bray was a character played by actress Seena Owen in the film Officer Thirteen (1932).
Usage of the baby name Trixi.
Trixie Friganza was an actress who appeared in films from the 1920s to the 1940s. She was born in Kansas in 1871. Her birth name was Delia O'Callahan. Trixie was also a character name in multiple films, including Falling Leaves (short, 1912) and The Good Bad Girl (1931).
Usage of the baby name Trixie.
Trommy
Trommy was a character played by actress Eula Guy in the film Expensive Husbands (1937).
Truda
Truda was a character played by actress Hedda Nova in the film By the World Forgot (1918).
Usage of the baby name Truda.
Trudi Hovland was a character played by actress Sonja Henie in the film Second Fiddle (1939).
Usage of the baby name Trudi.
Trudie
Trudie Morrow was a character played by actress Lila Lee in the film The Night of June 13 (1932).
Usage of the baby name Trudie.
Trudy was a character name in multiple films, including You Can't Beat Love (1937) and She Married a Cop (1939).
Usage of the baby name Trudy.
Truly Shattuck was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in California in 1876. Her birth name was Clarice Etrulia de Burcharde.
Usage of the baby name Truly.
Trusia
Trusia was a character played by actress June Marlowe in the film Don Juan (1926).
Truth Eldridge was a character played by actress Belle Bennett in the film Flesh and Spirit (1922).
Usage of the baby name Truth.
Tryphena
Tryphena Winter was a character played by actress Helen Gardner in the short film Underneath the Paint (1914).
Usage of the baby name Tryphena.
Tsakran
Tsakran was a character played by actress May Robson in the film Turkish Delight (1927).
Tsuru Aoki was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1960s. She was born in Japan in 1892.
Tui Bow was an actress who appeared in films from the 1920s to the 1980s. She was born in New Zealand in 1906. Her birth name was Mary Lorraine Tui.
Tuila
Tuila was a character played by actress Conchita Montenegro in the film La Melodia Prohibida (1933).
Tula Belle was a child actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in Norway in 1906. Her birth name was Borgny Erna Bull Høegh. Tula was also a character name in multiple films, including The Vengeance of Najerra (short, 1914) and Kongo (1932).
Usage of the baby name Tula.
Tuptim
Tuptim was a character played by actress Linda Darnell in the film Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
Tura was a character played by actress Dorothy Lamour in the film Her Jungle Love (1938).
Usage of the baby name Tura.
Tutara
Tutara was a character played by actress Armida in the film South of Tahiti (1941).
Tweeny
Tweeny was a character played by actress Lila Lee in the film Male and Female (1919).
Tylette
Tylette was a character played by actress Gale Sondergaard in the film The Blue Bird (1940).
Usage of the baby name Tylette.
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Data preparation takes 60 to 80 percent of the whole analytical pipeline in a typical machine learning / deep learning project.
Various programming languages, frameworks and tools are available for data cleansing and feature engineering. Overlappings and trade-offs included.
Data wrangling as important add-on to data preprocessing; it's best used within a visual analytics tool to avoid breaking the analysis flow.
Visual analytics tools and open source data science components like R, Python, KNIME or RapidMiner are complementary.
Avoiding numerous components speeds up a data science project. Therefore, leveraging a streaming ingestion framework or streaming analytics product also for data preparation steps might be a great alternative.
Machine learning and deep learning projects are gaining more and more importance in most enterprises. The complete process includes data preparation, building an analytic model and deploying it to production. This is an insights-action-loop which improves the analytic models continuously. Forrester calls the complete process and the platform behind it the Insights Platform.
A key task when you want to build an appropriate analytic model using machine learning or deep learning techniques, is the integration and preparation of data sets from various sources like files, databases, big data storage, sensors or social networks. This step can take up to 80 percent of the whole analytics project.
This article compares different alternative techniques to prepare data, including extract-transform-load (ETL) batch processing, streaming ingestion and data wrangling. Various options and their trade-offs are discussed using different advanced analytics technologies and open source frameworks such as R, Apache Spark, KNIME or RapidMiner. The article also discusses how this is related to visual analytics, and best practices for how different user roles such as the Data Scientist or Business Analyst should work together to build analytic models.
Data Preparation is the heart of data science. It includes data cleansing and feature engineering. Domain knowledge is also very important to achieve good results. Data preparation cannot be fully automated; at least not in the beginning. Often this takes 60 to 80 percent of the whole analytical pipeline. However, it's a mandatory task to get the best accuracy from machine learning algorithms on your datasets.
Note that feature engineering is already part of the modelling step to build an analytic model, but it also leverages data preparation features (such as extracting parts of a string).
Both data cleansing and feature engineering are part of data preparation and fundamental to the application of machine learning and deep learning. Both are also difficult and time-consuming.
Data Preprocessing: Preparation of data directly after accessing it from a data source. Typically realized by a developer or data scientist for initial transformations, aggregations and data cleansing. This step is done before the interactive analysis of data begins. It is executed once.
Data Wrangling: Preparation of data during the interactive data analysis and model building. Typically done by a data scientist or business analyst to change views on a dataset and for features engineering. This step iteratively changes the shape of a dataset until it works well for finding insights or building a good analytic model.
Step 2 focuses on data preprocessing before you build an analytic model, while data wrangling is used in step 3 and 4 to adjust data sets interactively while analyzing data and building a model. This is also called 'data wrangling'. Note that these three steps (2,3 and 4) can include both data cleansing and feature engineering.
These users have to work together closely to be successful in a data science project (see also 'How to Avoid the Anti-Pattern in Analytics: Three Keys for Machine Learning' to understand the different roles better.
While this article focuses on data preparation, it's important to understand its relation to visual analytics as "a picture shows more than thousand words (or data rows)" and humans are only able to interpret visualizations instead of big unstructured datasets. For more details, see why you should use visual analytics to make better decisions. The leading visual analytics tools include Qlik, Tableau and TIBCO Spotfire.
How is visual analytics related to data wrangling? "When analysts are in the middle of discovery, stopping everything and going back to another tool is jarring. It breaks their flow. They have to come back and pick up later. Productivity plummets and creative energy crashes," says the chief analyst of RITO Research.
The following section shows various programming languages, frameworks and tools for data preparation. Note that one size doesn't fit all problems. Besides, there are many overlappings between the different options. Thus, you can solve many problems with different alternatives depending on user role and use case.
Some programming languages are built explicitly for data science projects or have strong support for it, specifically R and Python. They include various implementations of machine learning algorithms, preprocessing functions such as filter or extract, and data science functions such as scale, normalize or shuffle. The data scientist needs to do relatively low level coding to do exploratory data analysis and preparation. In contrary to classical programming with Java or C#, you don't need to write many lines of code with R or Python for data preprocessing; it's more about understanding the data and experience of what statistical concepts and algorithms you use for data preprocessing and building the analytic model.
These programming languages are built for the data scientist to prepare data and build analytic models, but not for enterprise deployment to deploy the analytic model to new data with high scale and reliability. Therefore, commercial enterprise runtimes are available, too. Typically, they support the same source code, so that you don't need to rewrite anything for enterprise deployment. For R, you can leverage open source Microsoft R Open (former Revolution R) or TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R. The latter has the advantage that it isn't restricted to GPL open source license so that you can use R models in any embedded or external environment without licensing issues.
Therefore it is also very easy to learn and appropriate for many data manipulation tasks. The same is true for the data.table package, to name another one. As you see, you have many options to preprocess your datasets in R.
Programming languages like R or Python can be used to prepare small datasets. However, they are not built for processing really big datasets; in the meantime we often have to analyze several Gigabytes or even Terabytes or Petabytes of data. Big Data frameworks like Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark are built for elastic scalability and data preprocessing at the edge, i.e. where the data is located.
These big data frameworks also focus on "low level" coding and are much more complex to setup than R or Python environments. Commercial offerings such as Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR or Databricks help with this. Typically, the data scientist works together with a developer to realize big data projects. The latter takes care of cluster setup, deployment and monitoring while the data scientist leverages a R or Python API to write the code for data preprocessing and building the analytic model.
You could do the same with Spark's Java or Python API, of course.
These tools can be used by the data scientist to speed up data preprocessing and model building. In addition, they can also be used by a citizen data scientist who does not have as much experience in data science projects as the tool helps out with data preprocessing and applying implementations of machine learning algorithms. Some tools even include recommendations to support the human in preprocessing, displaying and analyzing datasets. The tools get more and more intelligent with artificial intelligence under the hood.
Instead of writing source code in R or Scala as seen before, you use the visual IDE to configure preprocessing. This makes data preparation and analysis easier for most people, and also allows easier maintenance and hand-over to others.
Data wrangling (also sometimes called data munging) is a simple, intuitive way of data preparation with a graphical tool. The focus of these tools is on ease-of-use and agile data preparation. Therefore, it is not necessarily done by a developer or data scientist, but built for everybody, including a business analyst or citizen data scientist. Examples for data wrangling are DataWrangler and Trifacta Wrangler.
Note that these tools are not as powerful as data preprocessing frameworks and therefore often used for the last mile of data preparation. They do not replace other integration options like ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools or data preprocessing with R, Python, KNIME, RapidMiner, or the likes.
Data wrangling tools and visual analytics tools with inline data wrangling can be used by every user role: Business analyst, (citizen) data scientist or developers to speed up data preparation and data analysis.
The article focused on data preparation for building machine learning models. You can use programming languages like R or Python, data science tools like KNIME or RapidMiner, and Data Wrangling with DataWrangler or Trificata, or Inline Data Wrangling via TIBCO Spotfire. Often, you need a step before all this! You need to get access to all your data in a more or less consolidated data source (such as a relational database, data warehouse or big data cluster). Therefore, the following two sections briefly explain ETL and Streaming Analytics tools for data ingestion - which typically also includes parts of data preparation, especially data aggregation and data cleansing.
ETL tools are built for the developer to integrate various data sources, including many legacy and proprietary interfaces with very complex data structures (such as Mainframe or EDIFACT interfaces). This also includes data cleansing (often called 'Data Quality' tooling in this context), and a focus on ease-of-use and enterprise deployments with visual coding (similar to data science tools like KNIME or RapidMiner, but with focus on ETL and Data Quality). They also support big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. In addition, they offer out-of-the-box support for quality improvement, e.g. address validation. ETL and DQ is usually realized in long-running batch processes, which might sometimes have negative implications if you need to act on real time data to build your analytic model.
Some examples of ETL and DQ tooling are open source tools like Pentaho or Talend, or the proprietary vendor Informatica. The market is shifting to more simple web user interfaces so that other personas can also do some basic tasks.
For more details, refer to a comparison of streaming analytics frameworks, products and cloud services.
As for Data Ingestion and ETL tooling, the market for streaming analytics is shifting to more simple web user interfaces so that other personas can also do some basic tasks. This will not replace existing tools for more advanced use cases, but will add an option to deploy some rules, correlations or analytic models more easily and directly by a business analyst or data scientist without the help of a developer.
Building an analytic model with machine learning or deep learning techniques is not easy. Data Preparation takes 60 to 80 percent of the whole analytical pipeline. Various programming languages, frameworks and tools are available for data cleansing and feature engineering, overlappings and trade-offs included.
Data wrangling is an important add-on to data preprocessing. It is best used within a visual analytics tool to avoid breaking the analysis flow. Visual analytics tools and open source data science components like R, Python, KNIME or RapidMiner are complementary.
However, avoiding numerous components speeds up a data science project. Therefore, leveraging a streaming ingestion framework or streaming analytics product also for data preparation steps might be a great alternative. You write preprocessing steps once, and use them in batch processes for historical data to build an analytic model and for real time processing to apply the built analytic model to new events.
Learn more about data preparation for data science projects by taking a look at these slides and video recording, which walk you through the content of this article in more detail. |
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Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in todays Washington Post says it all.
I've been warning folks about this for years – and alas, fake medicine and quackery has finally oiled its way into the healthcare reform bills. We are in the midst of a growing primary care shortage, and on the brink of vastly expanding health insurance coverage without increasing the supply of physicians and nurses. How will our country solve the supply/demand mismatch? Potentially by allowing people without appropriate training in science and medicine to become your "medical home." That's right – your next doctor or nurse may be someone with an online degree in snake oil salesmanship.
As the great campaign to reform the American healthcare system heats up and enters an important new phase – the phase in which key legislative leaders take the five bills that have been passed, here and there, by sundry Congressional committees, and, behind closed doors, attempt to cobble together a compromise bill which they believe they can threaten and/or bribe a majority of Congresspersons into supporting – many Americans find themselves confused about what it all means. What, after all, are we attempting to accomplish here? How much will it cost, and who will pay for it? Why does the whole process seem so darned difficult and confusing?
Surgeon: You need an appendectomy.
You: What are my options?
Surgeon: Either I take out your appendix or you die.
Now that's a conversation people can understand. But what if, instead of whisking you up to the operating room, the surgeon kept talking and invited a few other people into the discussion?
Surgeon: Do you think I should take it out by an open operation or laparoscopically?
Laparoscopy equipment salesman: You know, cutting you open the old-fashioned way and leaving a big scar or having a tiny incision. Laparoscopy is much better than the open procedure.
Guy who sells scar-removal cream: Wait a minute. Better for whom? Laparoscopy takes fourteen minutes longer.
Hospital administrator: But hospital stay is reduced by 0.7 days on average, patients have less pain, and you can return to work sooner.
Surgeon: Laparoscopy costs more than an open operation while you're hospitalized but less once you're home. What's your co-pay?
You: Doc, my belly's hurting a lot more now.
Guy who owns shares in a drug company: What if we just treat him with antibiotics?
Surgeon: Don't be silly. His appendix could burst.
Funeral director: What about doing nothing?
Very smart people are zoning out of the health care reform debate because they think it's just too complicated.
The latest poll out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-care-policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente, says only 27 percent of the public has been following the health reform debate closely. Despite this, more than half (56 percent) of Americans think health reform is more important than ever.
Coverage expansion and subsidies. This is where most of the estimated trillion dollar price tag over ten years would go – to expanding Medicaid for uninsured and lower income people and to help people who can't afford it pay on a sliding scale for insurance through new health insurance exchanges.
Insurance market reforms. This is about fair play in the insurance industry. Advocates want to eliminate practices such as refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions and jacking up premiums if they're sick. The most controversial proposal is the establishment of a "public option" – a government insurance plan that would compete against private ones.
Delivery and payment reforms. This is about delivering more effective care at a lower cost.
About 20 percent of the 2.5 trillion dollar annual health care price tag does not contribute to better health.
Half-truths feed on fear. People are afraid of losing or compromising what coverage they already have. They're afraid of higher taxes and lower quality of care. Who has the time or patience to read the 1,000-page bill proposed by the House of Representatives? So we rely on summaries and are susceptible to all sorts of misrepresentation. And nobody wants a plan with major faults rammed down their throat in the name of political expediency.
No, you're not stupid if you're confused about health care reform. But you may be psyched out. You probably know a lot more than you think – but you may need to do some homework in order to participate in this extraordinarily important national debate. The national debate needs you.
For this week's CBS Doc Dot Com, I moderate a debate about the public option between Wendell Potter, former head of public relations for Cigna and Rob Schlossberg, Executive Sales Director for BenefitMall. Mr. Schlossberg opposes it and Mr. Potter favors it. |
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Writers' Voices continues the "Oz" theme started last week, with this interview with Fairfield-connected Carol de Giere, author of Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked. Carol interviewed Schwartz and his colleagues, friends, and family extensively for this book. She narrates his career from writing Godspell's score at age 23 to his phenomenal success with Wicked. She also covers his not-so-successful creative endeavors. Of interest to other artists and writers is the "Creativity Notes" that share insights about the artistic life.
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Health experts say it's 'concerning' that those without a driver's licence can't renew their OHIP cards online
Published Wednesday, December 8, 2021 4:28PM EST Last Updated Wednesday, December 8, 2021 4:28PM EST
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Healthcare experts are calling on the province to address inequities in Ontario's online OHIP card renewal requirements.
At the moment, Ontario health cards can only be renewed online if the individual has a driver's licence. While government issued identification that shows proof of residency and personal identity is acceptable for in-person renewal, the requirements are different online.
"This is concerning at any time, and it is particularly concerning during a pandemic," said Sarah Hobbs, CEO of Alliance for Healthier Communities, in a release issued on Tuesday.
She pointed to people with disabilities as just one group that could be disproportionately impacted by these rules.
"People made more vulnerable by the pandemic, and at higher risk, are also faced with inequitable access to this system," she said.
Katie Hogue, a nurse practitioner in Ontario, added that there are a wide range of medical reasons that could prevent a person from driving, such as mobility challenges, vision impairment, dementia and epilepsy.
"The system is not considering these people or their needs," Hogue said.
According to the government website, if you cannot visit a Service Ontario for a medical reason, a physician or nurse practitioner can fill out a medical exemption form. Although, once the form is completed, someone must deliver the documents to a Service Ontario to finish the renewal process.
More widely, the pandemic has highlighted inequities that span across the entire healthcare system, Caroline Lidstone-Jones, CEO of the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council, said.
"This discrimination is one example of an inequitable system but this one has a quick solution," Lidstone-Jones said. "Allow people with a photo card to renew their health card online, the same way those with a driver's licence can."
When Minister Ross Romano was asked to address the subject at Queen's Park earlier in the week, he said that the government is working towards "modernizing" the process of renewing OHIP cards, making it "digital first not digital only."
"But I want to be crystal clear that the way in which you would have renewed your health card in the past, you can still do the same renewal processes you always could and we are just making it better," he added.
Romano acknowledged how important it is to have access to OHIP renewal throughout the province and said he will have more to say about the topic at a future date.
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Q: What is this object serialization pattern? Have you ever taken a close look at some of the urls produced as you browse around www.amazon.com? Here's a typical one:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_age_range_2?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abumblebee%2Cp_n_age_range%3A165890011%7C165936011&keywords=bumblebee&ie=UTF8&qid=1373589657&rnid=165794011
After you urldecode it, you get:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_89_2?rh=i:aps,k:bumblebee,p_n_age_range:165890011|165936011,p_89:Pillow Pets&keywords=bumblebee&ie=UTF8&qid=1373589678&rnid=2528832011
I'm particularly interested in this portion:
rh=i:aps,k:bumblebee,p_n_age_range:165890011|165936011,p_89:Pillow Pets
It looks like some kind of object serialization that reduces down even smaller than JSON. There are no quotes around strings, and arrays are bracketless and delimited by pipes.
Ebay does something similar, particularly the array pipes. Have you ever seen this format? Is this a common pattern you recognize? Or is it just some exotic hand-rolled solution that they both happened to arrive at independently? Any idea why they do it, as opposed to just straight JSON?
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Q: Memory models-/Cache coherence protocols: How TSO goes together with MESIF Having just worked through my system's programming lecture material, I stumbled upon the crucial concepts of memory models as well as cache coherence protocols. Although they make sense as independent concepts, it is not really clear how they go together. Specifically, when looking at x86, I am working with an ISA enforcing the TSO memory model, and a CPU (in the case of Intel) using the MESIF cache coherence protocol.
In the beginning, the professor introduced cache coherence protocols as means of ensuring that to any core in the chip, it appears as if they all access one large, monolithic block of memory. Then, after wrapping up with cache coherence, he continued with memory models, specifically TSO (we were introduced to linearizability-/sequential consistency in our parallel programming class already). The following is a direct quote from the lecture material about the x86 memory model:
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*Standard for 64-bit x86 processors
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*Sometimes called Total Store Ordering (TSO)
*Earlier 32-bit x86 implemented PRAM – weaker!
*Write-to-read relaxation: later reads can bypass earlier writes
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*All processors see writes from one processor in the order they were issued.
*Processors can see different interleavings of writes from different processors.
It seems as if we "solved" the problem of slow sequential consistency by introducing what is (yet another) layer in the cache hierarchy, namely the (ordered) store buffer.
To me, TSO seems orthogonal to the principles of cache coherence. We worked so hard to get our caches to match, only to add another layer in between not covered by cache coherence.
Questions:
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*Why are the store buffers not covered by cache coherence protocols? Is it assumed that writeback to L1 from store buffers is so fast, that inconsistencies due to intermediate writebacks would not be an issue in the majority of cases? (i.e. I reckon store buffer -> L1 transfer only takes a few cycles, so as soon as L1 receives the data, it sends a transaction across the bus, telling other cores to invalidate their copy)
*How should I think of the two concepts of cache coherence as well as memory model? The way I understand it, memory models are the theoretical concepts of what we want, and cache coherence is part of the practical implementation to achieve said model.
Thank you so much in advance for the clarifications!
Best,
Felix
A: The sequential consistency model is the most commonly prescribed memory model for shared memory parallel programming. A parallel-program comprising multiple tasks or threads, sequential consistency requires two conditions as described below.
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*Program order execution: All memory operations in each task appear to execute in that task's program order.
*Memory access atomicity: Memory operations (in all tasks of the parallel program) appear to execute one-at-a-time.
Every programmer assumes these conditions to reason about their parallel programs.
Unfortunately, sequential consistency is a less useful model than imagined. The main reason is the implementation cost of these two properties. Enforcing these
properties prohibit many basic compiler and hardware optimizations[1].
Other weak/relaxed memory models are proposed that relax these properties and allow compiler and hardware optimizations. These weak memory models trade
programmability for performance.
Why are the store buffers not covered by cache coherence protocols?
It is a design choice of TSO for performance reasons. Serving a load from the store buffer or serving a load when its preceding store (of different address) is still in the store buffer, reduces the store latency. To keep store buffers coherent, the load has to wait until all other processors have acknowledged receipt of the invalidates generated by the store. Moreover, most of the time, there may not be any copies of the store address in other caches (the variable is local to a task), then waiting for the acknowledges is a waste of time. In case other tasks share this variable, then waiting for the acknowledges can be explicitly enforced by using atomic or fence instructions.
How should I think of the two concepts of cache coherence as well as memory model?
Cache coherence protocols are concerned with serializing stores to the same memory location and ensuring that a load returns the value of the most recent store to the same memory location. Cache coherence protocols are required only when there are caches or multiple copies of the same memory location, and its job is to keep all the copies coherent.
A memory consistency model is concerned with the relative order of loads and stores (of the same task) to different memory locations. Any system that involves executing shared-memory parallel programs (multiple tasks or threads communicating through a shared memory) must define its memory consistency model.
Broadly, cache coherence protocols implement a part of the memory consistency model. More precisely, it is the combination of core pipeline, and cache coherence protocols (and every other component that a memory instruction traverses) must adhere to the memory model specifications.
[1]: Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial
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Sareum Holdings plc (AIM: SAR), the drug discovery and development company, announces that it has made the formal selection of a development candidate from its TYK2 inhibitor programme to advance through preclinical development as a potential new targeted therapy for certain cancers.
The candidate molecule, SDC-1802, demonstrated high selectivity for TYK2 and JAK1 kinases (particularly over related JAK2 and JAK3). SDC-1802 shows compelling efficacy in blocking cancer cell proliferation in cellular and disease models of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) and B-cell lymphoma, the potential for once-daily oral dosing and a good early safety profile. In addition, Sareum has generated encouraging evidence to suggest that these molecules can function as cancer immunotherapy by modulating the host's immune system to block tumour cell proliferation in disease models of certain kidney, colon, skin and pancreatic cancers.
Sareum intends to progress SDC-1802 into preclinical development (and pending satisfactory progress) into human clinical trials which could begin in 2020. The Company owns the commercialisation rights for these candidates and other dual TYK2/JAK1 inhibitors with profiles optimised for oncology indications.
Sareum announced on 10 September 2018 that it is also advancing SDC-1801 as a distinct dual TYK2/JAK1 inhibitor for the potential treatment of autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and lupus. SDC-1802 also has the potential to act as a back-up molecule for these autoimmune indications.
TYK2 and JAK1 are members of the Janus Kinase (JAK) family of protein kinase enzymes with roles in tumour cell proliferation in certain cancers and pro-inflammatory responses in autoimmune diseases. Members of the JAK family are the targets of several marketed and clinical-stage drugs for cancer and autoimmune diseases, although there are currently no marketed products specifically targeting TYK2.
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Gov. Edwards turns focus to easing gridlock, improving roads
By: The Associated Press August 4, 2016 0
With Louisiana's budget gaps partially stabilized, Gov. John Bel Edwards is looking to make roads, bridges and other transportation needs a key initiative for next year's legislative session.
In June, the Democratic governor created an 18-member study group to develop ideas for tackling Louisiana's more than $12 billion road and bridge improvement backlog. The task force has started regular meetings, with its recommendations due by Jan. 1.
The state has struggled for years with ways to chip away at the long list of projects, with only modest success. In the budget year that began July 1, Edwards and lawmakers stopped paying for Louisiana State Police operations out of the state's transportation trust fund, a move that will steer millions more to roadwork this year.
But the governor is seeking more ways to drum up money for infrastructure.
"It's obvious that existing revenue sources aren't going to get for us more than we've been getting, and if we wait for the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy to deliver these infrastructure projects, that's never going to happen," Edwards said at a transportation event Thursday.
He wants the study group to consider gasoline tax hikes, toll roads and public/private partnerships as it devises recommendations to raise more money for road and bridge work. He said he wants the members to look at what other states do to pay for projects.
"It doesn't make any sense to just have another study to determine we have a $12 billion backlog and then we put that study on the shelf. We know that there's a backlog, so we're going to have to come up with some strategies to make sure that we can alleviate it. That cannot be done without resources," Edwards said.
The governor is also planning to steer more dollars from the state construction budget to transportation projects, plans that still need final approval later this year from the Bond Commission.
Edwards held events in Baton Rouge and Lafayette on Wednesday and Thursday to tout new interstate improvements that are planned to ease traffic problems, after the state received a $60 million federal grant.
At Thursday's press conference, the governor said more than $20 million will be spent to build a new off-ramp in Baton Rouge, aimed at lessening congestion at an interstate chokepoint near downtown. Construction will begin in late 2017 or early 2018.
Earlier this week, a new commissioner of the Office of Multimodal Commerce was introduced by the Edwards administration, with a goal of coordinating state programs for ports, railroads, aviation and commercial trucking. The office was created by lawmakers within the state transportation department.
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A HMS Endeavour vagy HM Bark Endeavour angol vitorláshajó volt, amellyel James Cook első útján, 1769 és 1771 között körülhajózta a Földet.
A hajó 1764-ben épült szénszállítónak Earl of Pembroke néven. A Brit Haditengerészet 1768-ban megvásárolta, átnevezte Endeavourra és átalakították a Csendes-óceán déli részére küldött tudományos expedíció céljaira. Az expedíció a Vénusz Nap előtti áthaladását volt hivatott megfigyelni, ezenkívül pedig a feltételezett nagy déli kontinenst, a Terra Australist kereste. A hajó 1768 augusztusában indult Plymouthból, megkerülte a Horn-fokot, majd 1769 júniusában Tahitin megfigyelték a Vénusz-áthaladást. Ezután a Csendes-óceán nagyrészt feltérképezetlen vizein felderítettek több kisebb polinéziai szigetet, majd feltérképezték Új-Zéland partvidékét. Az expedíció volt az első európai hajó, amelyik Abel Tasman 127 évvel korábbi útja óta kikötött Új-Zélandon.
1770 áprilisában az Endeavour volt az első hajó, amely elérte Ausztrália keleti partvidékét. Észak felé haladva felderítették a kontinenst. A Nagy korallgáton zátonyra futottak és csak a rakomány és az ágyúk egy részének vízbe dobásával szabadulhattak róla. Miután hét hetet a hajó javításával töltöttek, északnyugat felé hajóztak és 1770 októberében elérték a jávai Batáviát (ma Jakarta). December 26-án indultak hazafelé és miután 1771 márciusában megkerülték a Jóreménység-fokot, három évnyi távollét után július 12-én futottak be az angliai Doverbe.
A Föld körüli felfedezőút után az Endeavour a Falkland-szigetekre szállított készleteket, majd a haditengerészet kimustrálta és eladta egy vállalkozónak, aki átnevezte Lord Sandwich-nek. Az amerikai függetlenségi háborúban a brit kormány bérbe vette a hajót, hogy csapatokat szállítson Amerikába. A Lord Sandwich-et 1778-ban a Rhode Island-i Newport kikötőjében elsüllyesztették, hogy megakadályozzák a francia flotta behajózását.
A 20. században több próbálkozás történt maradványainak megtalálására. A 2016-os állapot szerint nagy biztonsággal öt 18. századi roncs közül lehet valamelyik.
Az Endeavour vitorlásról nevezték el a NASA Endeavour űrsiklóját.
Építése
Az Endeavourt eredetileg Earl of Pembroke ("Pembroke grófja") néven építette az észak-yorkshire-i Whitby városában élő Thomas Fishburn Thomas Millner részére és 1764 júniusában bocsátották vízre. Whitby kikötőjét főleg bálnavadászok és szénszállítók látogatták; a helybeliek által "Whitby Cat" néven ismert típushoz tartozó Earl of Pembroke az utóbbi célra épült. A kis háromárbocos, keresztvitorlás hajónak ennek megfelelően masszív, megbízható szerkezete volt: orra széles és lapos, fara szögletes, hosszú törzse pedig dobozszerű, nagy befogadóképességű.
Lapos feneke miatt sekély vizeken is jól használható volt és kisebb javításokhoz nem volt szüksége szárazdokkra, elég volt kifuttatni a partra. Palánkja és belső fedélzetei tölgydeszkákból készültek, gerince és kormányrúdja szilfából, árbocai pedig fenyőből.
Árbocainak magassága pontosan nem ismert, mert az eredeti tervrajzai csak a hajótestet mutatják. A hasonló hajókon az elő- és főárbocok mérete 34, illetve 39 m volt; viszont az egyik tervrajzon egy megjegyzés szerint tatárboca 16 yard és 29 hüvelykes (15,4 m) volt, ami majdnem három méterrel rövidebb a megszokottnál és meglehetősen furcsán, megcsonkítottan festhetett. Újabban feltételezik, hogy a rajzoló tévedett a terv másolásakor és eredetileg 19 yard és 29 hüvelyk (18,1 m) szerepelt a dokumentumon, ami megfelel a korabeli szabványnak. A hajó ausztráliai másolata és a greenwichi Nemzeti Tengerészeti Múzeumban látható modellje a kisebb szám alapján készült.
A haditengerészet szolgálatában
1768. február 16-án a Royal Society (Királyi Társaság, gyakorlatilag az angol tudományos akadémia) kérelmet nyújtott be III. György királynak, hogy finanszírozza egy tudományos expedíció felszerelését, amely a Csendes-óceán déli részén megfigyelheti a Vénusz 1769-es áthaladását a Nap előtt. A király engedélyezte az utat, az Admiralitás pedig a csillagászati jellegű cél mellett titkos feladatot is adott az expedíciónak: találja meg a feltételezett déli kontinenst, a Terra Australis Incognitát ("ismeretlen déli föld").
A Royal Society Alexander Dalrymple skót földrajztudóst javasolta parancsnokul, ő azonban azt a feltételt szabta, hogy a kapjon címzetes tengerészkapitányi kinevezést. Az Admiralitás első lordja, Edward Hawke azonban felháborítónak találta az ötletet, ahogyan mondta, előbb vágná le a jobb kezét, mint hogy egy tapasztalatlan civilre bízná a flotta egyik hajóját. Hawke tudta, hogy korábban (1698-ban) előfordult már, hogy a HMS Paramour tisztjei nem voltak hajlandóak parancsot elfogadni Edmond Halley csillagásztól. A patthelyzetet az oldotta fel, hogy az Admiralitás James Cookot javasolta vezetőnek, aki tengerésztiszt volt, de emellett jó matematikai és kartográfiai ismeretekkel is rendelkezett. Őt mindkét fél elfogadhatónak tartotta, így Cookot hadnaggyá léptették elő és kinevezték az expedíció parancsnokául.
1768. május 27-én Cook átvette az Earl of Pembroke parancsnokságát. A 2307 fontra becsült hajót az Admiralitás végül 2840 font, 10 shilling és 11 pennys áron vásárolta meg tulajdonosától és átadta az expedíciónak. A Temze-menti Deptfordban átalakították a hosszú út kívánalmainak megfelelően; ennek költsége 2294 font volt, majdnem annyi, mint amennyiért a hajót vásárolták. A hajótestet újrakátrányozták és beépítettek egy harmadik belső fedélzetet, ahol kabinokat, raktárhelyiségeket és egy lőporkamrát alakítottak ki. A kabinok alapterülete alig 2 m² volt és Cookot, valamint a Társaság képviselőit: Joseph Banks botanikust, az ő asszisztenseit (Daniel Solandert és Herman Spöringet), Charles Green csillagászt, valamint Sydney Parkinson és Alexander Buchan grafikusokat szállásolták el bennük. Ezek a kabinok a tiszti étkezőt vették körbe. A taton elhelyezett nagy kabin a kapitány és a tudósok dolgozószobájaként funkcionált. Az alsó fedélzet hátsó részén, a legénységi étkező mellett helyezték el Zachary Hickes első- és John Gore másodtiszt, William Monkhouse hajóorvos, Stephen Forwood ágyúmester és Robert Molyneux vitorlamester szállását. A legénység és a tengerészgyalogosok az alsó fedélzet egybefüggő terében aludtak és laktak.
A hajó felszereléséhez tartozott két vitorlás csónak, egy nagycsónak és két kisebb bárka. Utóbbiak Joseph Banks és John Gathrey fedélzetmester magántulajdonát képezték. A nagycsónak korhadt állapotban volt és teljesen fel kellett újítani. A raktérben elhelyeztek néhány 8,5 méteres hosszú evezőt is, arra az esetre, ha a hajó elveszti árbocait vagy szélcsend akadályozza az előrehaladást.
Az átalakított hajó a HMS Endeavour ("Törekvés"; a HMS a His Majesty's Ship, őfelsége hajója rövidítése, amelyet minden haditengerészeti jármű nevéhez hozzáillesztettek) nevet kapta. A regiszterben valójában HM Bark Endeavour névvel szerepelt, hogy megkülönböztessék az 1763-ban épült, négyágyús Endeavour kuttertől.
Július végén az Endeavour megkapta fegyverzetét. A csendes-óceáni bennszülöttek esetleges támadásai ellen Cook tíz négyfontos ágyút és tizenkét kis kaliberű, forgatható állványra szerelt ágyút tudott felmutatni. A négyfontosok közül hatot helyeztek el a felső fedélzeten, a többi raktárba került. Július 30-án az Endeavour átvitorlázott Plymouthba, hogy berakodják ellátmányát és felvegye végleges, 85 fős legénységét, akik közé 12 tengerészgyalogos is tartozott. Az élelmiszerkészlet hatezer adag disznóhúsból, négyezer adag marhahúsból, kilenc tonna kenyérből, öt tonna lisztből, három tonna savanyúkáposztából, egy tonna mazsolából, illetve kisebb mennyiségű sajtból, sóból, borsóból, olajból, cukorból, zabpehelyből állt. Ide tartozott még 250 hordó sör, 44 hordó brandy és 17 hordó rum. A hajó disznókat, baromfit, egy tejelő kecskét és két vadászkutyát is vitt magával. Cook parancsára 12 tonna nyersvasat helyeztek el a fenékben, amely ballasztként szolgált.
A felfedezőút
Az Endeavour 1768. augusztus 26-án futott ki Plymouthból, fedélzetén 94 fővel és másfél évre elegendő készletekkel. Ezután először két héttel később, szeptember 12-én kötött ki Madeirán, Funchal kikötőjében. Kisebb javításokat végeztek, friss zöldséget, húst és vizet vételeztek. Az egyik matróz beleakadt a horgonykötélbe, miközben leeresztették a horgonyt, vízbe esett és meghalt; helyére Cook egy amerikai szlúpról raboltatott el egy embert, ahogyan ez akkoriban szokás volt a brit haditengerészetnél (mivel ekkor még nem kezdődött meg az amerikai függetlenségi háború, a férfi brit alattvaló volt).
Az expedíció ezután Afrika partjai mentén haladt délre, majd átszelte az Atlanti-óceánt és 1768. november 13-án megérkezett Rio de Janeiróba. Víz és élelem felvétele után a Horn-fok felé indultak tovább, amelyet 1769. január 13-án értek el. Két napig küzdöttek a viharos idővel, de az ellenszél és az áramlatok miatt alig haladtak előre. A szél január 16-án megenyhült annyira, hogy megkerülhették a Horn-fokot és kis időre megpihenhettek a Siker-öbölben (Bahia Buen Suceso). A legénység fát és édesvizet keresett, eközben Banks és társai több száz növényt gyűjtöttek a jeges partvidéken. Január 17-én rájuk tört egy hóvihar és Banks két szolgája halálra fagyott.
Az Endeavour január 21-én szedte fel a horgonyt és nyugat-északnyugat irányban nekiindult a Csendes-óceánnak. Április 10-én érték el Tahitit, ahol három hónapig tartózkodtak. Június 3-án megtörtént a Vénusz áthaladása a Nap előtt, amelyet Charles Green csillagász a hajó fedélzetéről megfigyelt és részletesen dokumentált.
Felfedezések a Csendes-óceánon
Az expedíció fő feladatának elvégzése után az Endeavour július 13-án hagyta el Tahitit és északnyugat felé haladva Cook feltérképezte a Társaság-szigeteket (amelyet ő nevezett el a Királyi Társaság után). Partra szálltak Huahinén, Raiateán és Bora Borán és ezeket a szigeteket brit territóriumnak nyilvánították. Az Ausztrál-szigetekhez tartozó Rurutun a hullámverés és sziklás part miatt csónakkal sem tudtak kiszállni. A hajó augusztus 15-ig időzött Polinéziában, majd délnek fordult, hogy megkeresse a Terra Australis Incognitá-t.
1769 októberében elérték Új-Zéland partjait, így ők voltak az első európaiak akik Abel Tasman 1642-es látogatása óta a szigetekre tették a lábukat. Először Poverty Bayben kötöttek ki, ahol a maorik szokásuk szerint fenyegetően rájuk rontva üdvözölték őket. Bár ez nem volt valódi támadás, a britek annak vették, tüzet nyitottak rájuk és négy maorit megöltek, többet megsebesítettek. Az Endeavour a következő hat hónapot a partvidék feltérképezésével töltötte és Cook felfedezte, hogy Új-Zéland két nagy szigetből áll, de összességében túl kicsi ahhoz, hogy a keresett Terra Australis legyen. 1770 márciusában Cook formális körülmények között partra vitette magát a nagycsónakban és Új-Zélandot a brit korona tulajdonának nyilvánította. Ezután nyugatnak fordultak és nekivágtak a nyílt tengernek. Április 19-én megpillantották Ausztrália keleti partjait. Április 29-én megtörtént a partraszállás Botany Bay-ben, Cookék voltak az első európaiak aki a kontinens keleti felének földjére léptek.
Hajótörés
A következő négy hónapban Cook lassan észak felé haladva feltérképezte a partvidéket. 1770. június 11-én éjjel 11-kor a hajó a Nagy korallgát egyik szirtjének ütközött, amelyet ma Endeavour-zátonynak hívnak. A vitorlákat azonnal levonták és a vészhorgonnyal megpróbálták nyílt vízre húzni az Endeavourt, de nem jártak sikerrel. A szirt olyan meredeken emelkedett ki a tengerfenékről, hogy Cook alig egy hajóhossznyira már 21 méteres mélységet mért.
Hogy csökkentsék a merülést, vízbe dobálták a ballasztot, a megromlott élelmiszert, négy kivételével az összes ágyút és kiszivattyúzták az ivóvizet is. Közben folyamatosan működtették a szivattyúkat, még a kapitány és a tudósok is besegítettek. Miután 40-50 tonnányi terhet vízbe dobtak, a következő dagálykor ismét sikertelen maradt a próbálkozásuk arra, hogy a hajót levontassák a zátonyról. Június 12-e délutánján a csónakokkal messzebbre kivittek két horgonyt és csigasort erősítettek a láncaikra, hogy nagyobb erővel tudják húzni őket. Bár a léken egyre több víz ömlött be, Cook megkockáztatta az újabb levontatást és az esti dagálykor, 10:20-kor az Endeavour ismét úszott. A horgonyokat aztán összeszedték, bár az egyik úgy beakadt a tengerfenék korallszikláiba, hogy ott kellett hagyniuk.
Ahogyan várható volt, a vontatás során a lék még nagyobb lett és mindhárom szivattyúnak folyamatosan dolgoznia kellett. A hajó majdnem 40 km-re volt a parttól és a csónakokban nem volt elég hely a teljes legénységnek. Joseph Banks feljegyezte, hogy a legénység nyugodtan nézett szembe a veszéllyel, annak ellenére, hogy az életük forgott kockán.
Jonathon Monkhouse kadét (az hajóorvos William fivére) javasolta, hogy kívülről vitorlavásznat húzva rá tömítsék be ideiglenesen a léket. Mivel ő már szolgált olyan hajón korábban, ahol ezt a műveletet el kellett végezni, ő felügyelte a munkát. Kócot és gyapjút varrtak egy régi vitorlába, amit áthúztak a hajó alatt és a víz nyomása rászorította a lékre. Így sokkal kevesebb víz szivárgott be és egy szivattyúval is úszóképesen tudták tartani az Endeavourt.
Innen északnak indultak a korallgáttal és a parttal párhuzamosan és megfelelő kikötőhelyet kerestek, ahol kijavíthatják a hajót. Június 13-án felfedeztek egy széles folyótorkolatot, amelyet Cook Endeavour-folyónak nevezett el. Az erős szél miatt először nem tudtak biztonságosan áthaladni a torkolat előtti homokpadon; csak június 17-én reggel sikerült felhajózni a folyóra, bár egy homokzátonyon így is fennakadt és csak egy órával később szabadult le róla. Ezután az Endeavourt a folyó déli partjára futtatták fel és megdöntötték, hogy kijavíthassák a léket a hajófenéken. Kiderült, hogy ököl nagyságú koralldarab hasította fel a hajó alját, amely aztán letört és beékelődött a deszkák közé. Utóbbi szerencsés körülménynek bizonyult, mert részben eltömte a rést és megakadályozta a gyors elsüllyedést. A lék befoltozásán túl a palánkról levakarták a rátelepedett kagylókat és kicserélték az elhasználódott kötélzetet és vitorlákat is.
Út Batáviáig
Az expedíció a javítások és a megfelelő széljárás kivárása után 1770. augusztus 5-én indult tovább és tizenöt nappal később elérték a York-fokot, Ausztrália legészakibb pontját. Augusztus 22-én Cook a szokásos ceremóniával kieveztetett egy kis part menti szigetre és a brit korona tulajdonává nyilvánította az általa felfedezett földterületeket. A szigetet Possession-szigetnek (Birtoklás-sziget) nevezte el.
Innen a partot követve nyugat felé hajóztak, óvatosan kerülgetve a zátonyokat és homokpadokat; a vízmélységet az egyik előreküldött vitorlás csónak mérte folyamatosan. Augusztus 6-án bekerültek az Ausztrália és Új-Guinea közötti Torres-szorosba, amelyet még 1606-ban fedezett fel Luis Váez de Torres.
A Timortól nyugatra fekvő Savu szigetén háromnapos pihenőt tartottak, majd október 10-én Cook Batávia, a Holland Kelet-Indiák fővárosa felé vette az irányt. Másnap villám csapot a hajóba, de a kezdetleges villámhárítónak felszerelt "elektromos lánc" megelőzte a nagyobb károk keletkezését. Batáviában hosszabb időt töltöttek. Két hetes horgonyon állás után az Endeavourt kiemelték a vízből és amennyire a körülmények engedték, nagyjavítást végeztek rajta. Palánkjai a hajótörés óta igen rossz állapotban voltak, egyes részein már csak egynyolcad hüvelyk (3 mm) hiányzott az átszakadáshoz. Cook maga is azt írta, hogy "mindenki, aki látta a hajófeneket, meglepődött, hogy hogyan tudtuk a víz felszíne fölött tartani". A repedt és hajóféreggel fertőzött palánkokat kicserélték, levakarták róla az algaréteget, újratömítették és lefestették a törzset. A javításokkal 1770 karácsonyára lettek készen és másnap már felhúzták a horgonyt és nyugati irányban nekivágtak az Indiai-óceánnak.
A hazaút
Az Endeavour már jó állapotban volt, ez azonban nem volt elmondható a legénységéről. A batáviai tartózkodás alatt 10 kivételével mind a 94, a hajón tartózkodó ember elkapta a maláriát vagy a vérhast. Mire december 26-án felhúzták a horgonyt már heten meghaltak, negyven másik pedig túl beteg volt ahhoz, hogy ellássa a munkáját. A következő három hónapban még 23-an haltak, meg, köztük Charles Green csillagász, Herman Spöring botanikus, Sydney Parkinson grafikus és William Monkhouse hajóorvos is.
Cook a szennyezett ivóvíznek tulajdonította a betegséget és citromlével próbálta javítani a minőségét, de jelentős javulást nem ért el vele. Február 6-án meghalt Jonathan Monkhouse, aki megmentette a hajót a zátonyra futás után, hat nappal később pedig a hajóács is. A legénység többi tagjának egészsége lassan helyreállt, az utolsó halálesetek február végén következtek be.
1771. március 13-án az Endeavour megkerülte a Jóreménység-fokot és két nappal később kikötött Fokvárosban. Egy hónapot töltöttek itt, kivárva, hogy a betegek egészsége javuljon és kisebb javításokat végeztek az árbocokon. Tíz új matrózt vettek fel, majd április 15-én elindultak hazafelé. Angliát július 10-én látták meg, két nappal később pedig az Endeavour kikötött Doverben.
A visszatérés után egy hónappal James Cookot parancsnokká (Commander, alezredesnek megfelelő rang) léptették elő, 1771 novemberében, pedig az Admiralitás megbízta egy újabb felfedezőúttal, amelyhez egy másik hajót - a HMS Resolutiont - kapott. Cookot a harmadik útja során, 1779-ben ölték meg a hawaii bennszülöttek.
Későbbi sorsa
Míg Cook híres ember lett a sikeres felfedezőút után, az Endeavourról elfeledkeztek. Az Angliába való visszatérés után egy héttel Woolwhichba irányították, ahol átalakították szállítóhajóvá. James Gordon hadnagy parancsnoksága alatt három utat tett meg Anglia és a Falkland-szigetek között. Az első során 1772 végéig elegendő ellátmányt vitt 350 fő számára. 1771. november 8-án futott ki Portsmouthból, de a viharos időjárás miatt csak a következő év március 1-én ért Port Egmontba, a faklkandi brit bázisra. A visszaút május 4-én kezdődött és három hónap után érkezett vissza Portsmouthba.
Második falklandi útján az Endeavour egy kis, szétszedhető járőrhajó, a 36 tonnás Penguin darabjait vitte, amely a HMS Hound szlúpot váltotta a dél-amerikai brit támaszponton. 1773. január 28-án érkezett a Falkland-szigetekre és április 17-én indult vissza a Hound kíséretében.
Harmadik útjára 1774 januárjában futott ki a kikötőből. Ezúttal a teljes bázist felszámolták, mert a London a Spanyol- és Franciaországgal szemben fennálló feszültség miatt attól tartott, hogy a spanyol gyarmati hadsereg megszállja a Falkland-szigeteket és ha megölik a brit katonákat, az akkora felháborodást okozna, hogy belebukna a kormányzat. Az Endeavour a kis kolónia valamennyi tagját visszaszállította az anyaországba, a bázison csak egy zászlót és egy táblát hagytak.
1774 szeptemberében az Endeavourt leszerelték a haditengerészettől és a következő év márciusában 645 fontért eladták J. Mather szállítmányozó üzletembernek, aki legalább egy utat lebonyolíttatott vele Arhangelszkbe.
Az amerikai függetlenségi háború megindulásakor a kormánynak hirtelen nagy számú teherhajóra lett szüksége, hogy csapatokat és utánpótlást vigyenek át Észak-Amerikába; ezért magánszemélyektől is béreltek szállítókapacitást. 1775-ben Mather felajánlotta az Endeavourt, de elutasították. Mather megpróbálta kijátszani a hatóságot és átnevezte a hajót Lord Sandwichre, de a vízijármű rossz állapota miatt ismét visszautasították. Egy renoválás után harmadik jelentkezését 1776. február 6-án már elfogadták. A vitorlás neve Lord Sandwich 2 lett, mert már volt egy hasonló nevű szállítóhajó.
A Lord Sandwich 2, William Author parancsnoksága alatt 1776. május 6-án egy száztagú flottában (ebből 68 szállítóhajó) Portsmouthból New Yorkba indult. Céljuk Howe tábornok New York elfoglalását célzó hadműveletének támogatása volt. A Lord Sandwich 2 206 katonát szállított, főleg hesseni zsoldosokat. Az óceánon való átkelés igen viharos volt, amit a flottával utazó két hesseni katona is megörökített a naplójában. A szétszóródott hajóraj Halifaxnál gyülekezett, majd az Alsó New York-i öböl bejáratánál lévő Sandy Hooknál találkozott a hadművelet többi résztvevőjével. A Lord Sandwich 2 1776. augusztus 15-én vetett horgonyt Sandy Hooknál; a találkozópontnál jelen volt az Adventure (amely a Resolution mellett részt vett Cook második útján) és a HMS Siren, amelynek kapitánya, Tobias Furneaux az Adventure parancsnoka volt a Föld körüli út során.
New Yorkot elfoglalták a brit csapatok, de a felkelők kezén maradt Rhode Island-i Newport fenyegette a megszállt várost, ezért 1776 novemberében a flotta Rhode Island ellen indult. Az odafelé hesseni katonákat szállító Lord Sandwich 2 a sikeres hadművelet után börtönhajóként funkcionált.
Pusztulása
1778 nyarán, miután az amerikaiak oldalán Franciaország is belépett a háborúba, közös terv született Newport visszafoglalására. Az amerikai csapatok a szárazföld felől, a francia flotta pedig a tengerről támadott. A brit parancsnok, John Brisbane kapitány meg akarta akadályozni, hogy a francia hajók behatolhassanak a város kikötőjébe, ezért a fölösleges hajóit (összesen 8 hadihajót és 10 magántulajdonban levő teherhajót) az öböl különböző részein elsüllyesztette, hogy víz alatti akadályként szolgáljanak. A Lord Sandwich 2-t 1778. augusztus 4-én süllyesztették el. A brit kormány a hajók tulajdonosainak kompenzációt fizetett.
Kutatás a roncs után
1834-ben a Rhode Island-i Providence Journal-ban megjelent egy levél, amely felvetette, hogy a Cook híres Endeavourja a helyi öböl alján nyugodhat. A helyi brit konzul ezt tagadta, állítása szerint az Endeavourt 1790-ben a franciák megvásárolták Mathertől és átnevezték La Liberté-re. Később azonban bevallotta, hogy ezt nem hivatalos admiralitási forrásból tudja, csak a francia hajó tulajdonosaitól hallotta. Később felmerült, hogy a Newportnál 1793-ban elsüllyedt La Liberté valójában Cook másik hajója, a Resolution; vagy egy másik Endeavour, egy 1782-ben kiszolgált szkúner volt.
1991-ben a Rhode Island-i Tengeri Régészeti Program (Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project, RIMAP) megkezdte a Newport ostroma során elsüllyesztett hajók azonosítását, köztük a Lord Sandwichét 1999 a londoni Nemzeti Levéltárban a RIMAP megtalálta azokat a dokumentumokat, amelyek bizonyítják, hogy az Endeavourt Lord Sandwich névre keresztelték át, hogy csapatszállítóként szolgált az amerikai forradalom idején és hogy 1778-ban Newportnál szándékosan elsüllyesztették.
1999-ben a RIMAP és az Ausztrál Nemzeti Tengerészeti Múzeum közös kutatócsoportja megvizsgálta az öböl mélyén található ismert roncsokat egy évvel később pedig egy 18. századi hajó marványait, amit részben elfed egy 20. században elsüllyedt uszály. Amennyire meg lehetett ítélni, a régebbi fahajó hasonlított arra, amit Lord Sandwichről tudunk, de a további kutatások nyolc másik 18. századi hajóroncsot mutattak ki a newporti kikötőben, és köztük is voltak olyanok, amelyek megfeleltek az ex-Endeavour jellemzőinek. 2016-ban a RIMAP bejelentette, hogy "80-100% a valószínűsége, hogy az Endeavour roncsa az öbölben van és kutatásaikat sikerült leszűkíteniük egy öt korabeli hajóból álló roncshalmazra".
Magán a hajón kívül sokan (főleg Ausztráliában) próbálták megkeresni az Endeavourhoz köthető egyéb tárgyi emlékeket. Már 1886-ban 300 dolláros jutalmat ajánlottak fel annak, aki megtalálja a hajótörés színhelyén kidobott ágyúkat, de a kutatás eredménytelennek bizonyult. 1900 körül megtalálták az Endeavour-folyó torkolatában hagyott felszerelés maradványait. Az ágyúkat a 20 század során több alkalommal is keresték (1966 és 1968 között három expedíció indult, de korábban, 1913-ban is állította egy gőzös, hogy Cook ágyúit emelte ki a korallzátonyok közül), végül 1969-ben az Amerikai Természettudományi Akadémia csapata találta meg őket érzékeny magnetométerek használatával Az ágyúkat az Ausztrál Nemzeti tengerészeti Múzeum restaurálta és kettőt közülük kiállítottak az Ausztrál Nemzeti Múzeumban, illetve Botany Bay-nél. Egy harmadik ágyút és a szintén előkerült horgonyt a cooktowni James Cook Múzeumnak adományoztak; a többi három pedig a londoni Nemzeti Tengerészeti Múzeumban, a philadelphiai Természettudományi Akadémián és a wellingtoni Te Papa Tongarewa Új-zélandi Múzeumban tekinthetők meg.
Az Endeavour ábrázolása megtalálható az új-zélandi ötvencentes egyik oldalán, és 1989-ben róla nevezték el az USA egyik űrsiklóját.
Másolatok
1988 januárjában, Ausztrália megalapításának kétszázadik évfordulójára a nyugat-ausztrál Freemantle-ban elkezdték megépíteni az Endeavour mását. Anyagi nehézségek miatt csak 1993 decemberére készültek el vele. A hajó a következő év októberében indult első útjára, a sydneyi kikötőből Cook útját követve végigvitorlázott a part mentén egészen Cooktownig. 1996-tól 2002-ig végiglátogatta a Cook által érintett kikötőket az egész világon. Whitby-t, az Endeavour készítésének helyét először 1997-ben kereste fel. (másodszor 2002-ben) A hajóról készített felvételeket digitálisan beillesztették a Russell Crowe főszereplésével készült 2003-as Kapitány és katona: A világ túlsó oldalán c. filmbe. A másolat végül 2005-ben ért vissza Ausztráliába, miután kétszer megkerülte a Földet és a Tengerészeti Múzeum tulajdonába került. Ma múzeumhajóként látogatható Sydney kikötőjében.
Egy másik, az eredetivel azonos méretű másolat az angliai Stockton-on-Tees kikötőjében látogatható meg. Ez azonban csak látványosságnak épült, nem képes kifutni a tengerre. A hajótest acélvázzal készült és az eredetihez képest eggyel kevesebb belső fedélzet van benne. Az új-zélandi Russel Múzeumban egy hajózóképes, az eredetihez képest ötödakkora modellt állítottak ki, Whitbyben pedig egy feleakkora, motorokkal hajtott Endeavour-utánzattal lehet sétahajózásra menni
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Skyros is the largest island of Sporades and ideal for a quiet holiday. An island especially for sophisticated vacations and alternately for family holidays.
Skyros is the southernmost island of the Northern Sporades, situated in the east of Evia, is the largest island of the archipelago and looks like two islands in one. It is separated by the narrowest point by Achilli at the East, to Kalamistra at the West.
According to Greek mythology, Thetis, the goddess mother of Achilles, had sent his son to Skyros, not to take part in the Trojan campaign to verify the prophecy of his death. As for the story, many pass through here: Achilles, Odysseus, Neoptolemus These, the Athenian Kimon, Nicephore Phocas, St. Athanasius, Gkizi Xairentin Barbarossa. A large part is mountainous and the climate is characterized by cool summers and mild winters with little rainfall. The capital is Skyros or Chora, located on the East Coast. It is 10 km from Linaria, the main harbor of the island, in the middle of the West Coast. Pines, cypresses, olive trees and even countless species covering the hillsides, on which is built the village, in the shadow of a medieval castle and the Byzantine Monastery of Saint George of Skyros. It is a typical architectural style of the islands of the Aegean Sea, in a particularly interesting local color.
You can visit the Faltaits museum during your stay on the island. It contains unique pieces of Greek history and local tradition of the island.
In the Archaeological Museum of Skyros you can observe all the history periods of the island without missing the famous local horse. In the museum we will find a clay vase on top of it with two of those horses. No wonder that these beautiful animals are one of the oldest and rarest in the world. Indeed, tradition dictates that Achilles stayed at Skyros in order to avoid the Trojan War but finally he began from Achilli using those famous horses. Also these horses were carved by Phidias on the Parthenon frieze.Skyros is famous for the horses, marble and these livestock products. The typical craft embroidery is used to decorate the house and the traditional costumes of Skyros. The Skyrian furniture is world famous, and the ceramic potteries of the island are a work of art.
The carnival of Skyros has many traditional elements and primitive roots in Greek mythology. The most interesting forms is the Old man, the Korela, Frankos. TheThree Boukes before the naval base, the tomb of the poet (who loved Greece) Roubert Brouk, the British naval officer, dead and buried at this place at the age of 28 years.
Very close to the capital, is the neighborhood "Magazia" which has one of the most beautiful beaches in the island. South Molos, Pera Kambos and the tourist village of Aspous that is between Skyros and Linaria are places that are worth to see. You must also visit the Agios Nicolas church, which is carved into the rock on the North side of the island.
The monastery of St. George of Skyros, probably founded in the 13 th century was an independent abbey, under the leadership of Patriarch of Constantinople "Saint George saved the city." This is the explanation that gives some people for the event, the fact that only the monastery was severely damaged by the 2001 earthquake.
Specialties of the local cuisine of the island is the lobster, the roast lamb and other dishes such as pie oil "Skyros ksynotyro" or "teroptaria petnes" with Macaroni (macaroni with rooster), beans of Skyros and cheeses.
Skyros has connections to both sea and air. Linaria port has a daily connection to Evia and the port of Kimi by the company ETAP SKYROS Maritime (Skyros Shipping Co.) with Achilles ferry.
Skyros has an airport in the northern part of the island. The Skyros Airport is about 17 km from the city.
Skyros is an island full of beautiful beaches that gives excitement to visitors and there are beaches for all tastes. In the northern part of the island, you can swim on the beaches of Pefkos, Agios Fokas and Atsitsa. The road is one of the most beautiful protected pine forest area of the island, is crossed by a dirt road. Pefkos with its long sandy beach and is surrounded pine-covered slopes, is interspersed by the old marble quarry. The small pebbled beach Agios Fokas is distinguished by the beauty of the surrounding landscape, and rich vegetation that reaches the sea. The strangely shaped rocks are founded opposite a small island with stone pillars. These are the remains of the cable car which was built in the 1900s to transport ore mines on the mountain and adds a beautifully paradoxical landscape element. None of these three beaches have umbrellas or other services, and none are crowded even in summer. Aspous beach is sandy, lined with pine trees, small umbrellas, and relatively quiet. Kalamitsa then, is one of the largest and most popular beaches on the island and a favorite destination for windsurfers, with significant winds from the north. After Kalamitsa you can find the deserted beach of Kolybada and well beyond it the beach Renes, with thick pebbles that are ideal for snorkeling. You will surely need a 4×4 car to reach it.
At the bottom of the city, the long beaches continue to Magazia and Molos, with small pebbles and crystal blue waters. Kyra Pagania and Kalogria are some gorgeous beaches near by. Especially in the afternoon it is better to have an umbrella because of the tree undergrowth. |
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The Mets Acquired Kelly Shoppach Because…
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I hate to shatter the myths and nonsense that are being floated by the Joel Shermans of the world, but here's the truth without sycophancy or prophecies of doom.
The Mets acquired Kelly Shoppach because:
He was available now
You can ignore the ridiculous notion that the Mets "should've" either traded for him earlier this year when they were still hovering around contention or signed him before the season started. Had Shoppach been on the market earlier this season, some catcher-hungry contending team at the time—the Nationals, Brewers, Rangers—would've gone out and gotten him with a better offer than what the Mets would've surrendered.
As for the idea that Shoppach would've signed with the Mets last winter? Yes, he would've…if they're offered him substantially more money than the Red Sox did ($1.25 million). The Mets had precious little cash to spend and what they did have, they used on trying to fix the bullpen. It hasn't worked, but that's where the available money went. Shoppach was placed on waivers by the Red Sox, the Mets claimed him and the Red Sox agreed to send him to New York for a player to be named later. The planets were aligned so the deal was there for them to make when it wasn't before.
He's an upgrade on Josh Thole/Mike Nickeas/Rob Johnson
Thole has some attributes. He can catch R.A. Dickey's knuckleball and has shown patience at the plate. But he has no power whatsoever and he can't throw very well from behind the plate. He's a slap hitter who's tried to pull the ball and that's plainly and simply not going to work. Shoppach has power that none of the other catchers on the Mets' roster do, he takes his walks, and he can throw well.
They know what he is and maybe he'll want to stay
Sherman posted the following on Twitter:
For those asking why #Mets did this: Why not? 6 week look to see if like someone who could give inexpensive platoon mate to Thole in '13.
Look to see? Look to see what? Is Shoppach going to be somehow different over the next 6 weeks than he's been over the first 8 years of his career?
The Mets did this because they couldn't stand to look at Thole almost every day and they're aware of what Nickeas and Johnson are (journeyman 4-A catchers). Thole is a backup. Shoppach will be with the Mets for the rest of the season and the team is going to have the chance to entice him with legitimate playing time in 2013 and being on an up-and-coming club with, by and large, a good group of guys. If he was a free agent after spending the season with the Red Sox, other more financially stable clubs with a better chance to win would've been pursuing him and the same situation as last winter would've been in effect this winter: he wouldn't join the Mets if he had a choice. Now maybe he'll want to stay.
This Sherman tweet was after Howard Megdal posted tweets detailing how this is a good move for the team with the predictable caveat that they won't have any money to spend in 2013 either, so Shoppach is one of the few possibly upgrades they can make.
What you have to understand when taking seriously the mainstream media with Megdal, Sherman, Bob Klapisch and the other cottage industry Mets bashers is that not one of them had it right regarding the outcome of the Bernie Madoff trial. No one predicted a settlement and the consensus was that by now the Wilpons would either have been forced to sell the team or had it legally removed from their possession in some sort of a financial downfall the likes we haven't seen since Bruce McNall of the Los Angeles Kings.
No one knows what the Wilpons' finances truly look like. If they don't have much more cash to spend on next year's team than the $95 or so million they have this year, I'd venture a guess that GM Sandy Alderson told ownership that it makes little sense to do anything too drastic given the contracts of Jason Bay and Johan Santana next year (combined they're owed $50 million in salary and buyouts), so what they have to do is sit on their hands and wait until those deals expire. Concurrent to that will be the arrival of Zack Wheeler to go along with Matt Harvey, Jonathon Niese and Dickey in the Mets' rotation of the future. Spending money on bullpens is almost always a mistake and what they'll do in lieu of that is to try a different hand with pitchers they find on the market. The difference between the Mets bullpen of 2012 and other, cheap bullpens like those the Rays have put together in recent years is that the pitchers the Mets signed haven't worked out and the ones the Rays signed did. Billy Beane spent a lot of money on relief pitchers Brian Fuentes and Grant Balfour last season and I didn't see anyone ripping the genius label from around his neck even though they should have half-a-decade ago.
The Mets' owners get bashed when they interfere and they get bashed when they don't. This time I think they're keeping hands off not because of money in and of itself, but because they're listening to reason from their baseball people that it doesn't make sense to waste money when the time to spend will be in 2013-2014, like it or not.
This is a good move for the Mets and no amount of twisting and turning on the part of those who have made it their life's work to tear into the Mets regardless of what they do can change that or turn it into another reason to criticize for things they didn't do—things that weren't going to happen if they'd tried.
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CANADA'S BEST LOCATIONS
From Site Selection magazine, September 2019
Strategic Reserve: That's Canada's Way of Competing
Ontario again tops all provinces, and we name our Top 20 Canadian regions.
Zibi is a 34-acre mixed-use city envisioned to be home to 5,000 people and 6,000 jobs in the bi-provincial Ottawa-Gatineau metro area home to the nation's capital.
Image courtesy of Zibi
by ADAM BRUNS
Green is the color of a certain leaf legalized in 2018 in Canada, where tens of millions of green dollars are being invested in job-creating facilities to cultivate, process and distribute products from it. But the most important leaf remains that red maple on the national flag, symbolizing rugged independence, natural resources (including those 80,000 barrels of maple syrup in the nation's strategic reserve), natural beauty and, to many, an open door to foreign immigrant talent as well as foreign direct investment.
"Foreign investment offers far-reaching economic benefits for the middle class and everyone working hard to join it," said Global Affairs Canada in March 2018 when it launched Invest in Canada, a new federal organization dedicated to attracting global investment and simplifying the process for global businesses to make Canada their new home. "It creates jobs in Canada for Canadians, expands trade, boosts productivity, provides access to new technologies, encourages innovation, and links Canadian firms to global supply chains."
The new organization, funded with $218 million over five years, seeks to attract FDI in sectors aligned with the government's economic growth strategy, in particular in advanced manufacturing, agri-food, clean technology, digital technology, health sciences and bio-sciences, and clean resources. It's led by CEO Ian McKay, familiar to Site Selection readers as the former CEO of the Vancouver Economic Commission.
Foreign investment in Canada currently stands at approximately $800 billion. Approximately 1.9 million Canadians are employed by foreign-controlled multinational enterprises in Canada. That's almost 12% of Canadian workers, or one in eight Canadian jobs.
Foreign investors are prominent among the hundreds of projects tracked by Site Selection from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019 for this year's province-level Canadian Competitiveness Award and regional Canada's Best Locations honors. The recognition is derived from qualifying corporate facility investment project activity in Site Selection's Conway Projects Database, based on meeting one of three criteria: at least $1 million invested; at least 20 new jobs created; or at least 20,000 new sq. ft. of space. Areas are evaluated on a cumulative and per-capita basis for job creation and capital investment affiliated with these qualifying projects.
Following are the top three provinces in the Canadian Competiveness Rankings, followed by (in alphabetical order) the 20 locations earning this year's salute as Canada's Best Locations.
2019 CANADIAN COMPETITIVENESS RANKINGS
1. Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
www.ontario.ca/page/open-business
"We need someone who's got big picture understanding of the cost structure in Ontario. The former finance minister probably has a better perspective than anybody else."
— Flavio Volpe, President, Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, on the summer 2019 appointment of Vic Fedeli as Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
Significant Projects: Noront Resources, UPS Canada, Toyota, Ranovus
Activity: In addition to red tape reduction achieved by previous administrations, the Ontario government aims to reduce regulatory requirements affecting businesses by another 25% by 2020. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business in its 2019 Red Tape Report Card gives the province an A-, up from a C+ in 2018. In February, the government launched its 10-year Driving Prosperity auto plan aimed at addressing challenges in the sector around competitiveness, innovation and talent. In 2017, Ontario exported approximately $145 billion in goods and services to other provinces and territories: The province continues to work with other provinces to eliminate regulatory and other barriers to doing business across all the nation's provinces.
Did You Know? Approximately 60 companies from India have operations in Ontario, a province where approximately 830,000 Ontarians are of Indian origin.
2. Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Hon. Tanya Fir, Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism
investalberta.ca
"Alberta's innovative technology companies and student start-ups are recognized around the world for delivering leading-edge and advanced technology solutions."
— Jim Carr, Canadian Minister of International Trade Diversification, August 2019
Significant Projects: SinoCan Global Trade, Cenovus, Suncor, Amazon, Canadian National Railway
Activity: Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp.'s $4.5 billion petrochemical upgrade plant in Sturgeon County and Inter Pipeline's $3.5 billion Heartland Petrochemical Complex near Fort Saskatchewan will use the province's ample propane to make and export plastics products. They both were initially selected for backing by the Alberta government's Made-in Alberta program in 2016. Another similar project from Value Creation was announced in early 2019. The government announced a second round of support for petrochemical upgrading in 2018, with total support now reaching $2.1 billion to unlock about $20 billion in private-sector investment.
Did You Know? Seven organizations in Alberta's innovation ecosystem — The A100, Alberta Enterprise Corporation, BDC, PwC Canada, Startup Calgary, Startup Edmonton and the Venture Capital Association of Alberta — hosted the inaugural Start Alberta Tech Awards where Startup Calgary received the Ecosystem Supporter of the Year Award.
3. Invest Québec
Guy LeBlanc President and CEO
www.InvestQuebec.com
"It's important to me that Unity has a thriving office in Montréal because it's home to a dynamic community comprised of top tech talent, gaming studios, and indie creators."
— André Gauthier, Montréal Studio Head/Development Director, Unity Technologies, announcing in June 2019 the company would expand its Montreal-area offices, creating 450 new jobs
Significant Projects: Blackrock Metals, Kruger Products, Valero, Endoceutics, Aurora Cannabis
Activity: Among other moves, Hydro-Québec and Invest Québec are joining forces to attract more businesses to the province, with an emphasis on both high-energy-demanding industries such as data centers and metals, and on the province's clean hydropower generation base, responsible for some 99% of all power produced in the province. Invest Quebec also has integrated artificial intelligence into its prospecting process for FDI.
Did You Know? Since 2015, the Québec video game industry has seen 42% growth in the number of companies establishing roots or expanding in the province.
2019 CANADA'S BEST LOCATIONS (alphabetical by region)
Calgary Economic Development
Mary Moran, President & CEO
www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com
"Calgary is in the midst of a sizeable development cycle, with 2.4 million sq. ft. expected to be completed in 2019, while 2018 saw 3.6 million sq. ft. of new supply added to the market."
— Avison Young, Q2 2019 Calgary Industrial Market Report
Significant Projects: BASF, Bayer Crop Science, CLEAResult Consulting, Hexagon, Sofina Foods
Activity: With the MyBusiness program, Calgary is the first municipality in Canada to allow small business customers to start a new business completely online. The vision is for Calgary's new "Calgary in the New Economy" strategy is to be city of choice in Canada for the best entrepreneurs, especially in areas such as cleaner energy, safer and more secure food, better health solutions and the safe transportation of people and goods. In April 2018 the city launched the $100 million Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund, with the first batch of $18.6 million supporting five organizations including MobSquad, ATTAbotics and the University of Calgary Life Sciences Innovation Hub.
Did You Know? Thanks to the Calgary Film Commission and Calgary Film Centre facilities, companies behind such productions as "Dark Fargo," "Lost in Space," "MasterChef Canada" and "Black Summer" have found Calgary a hit location, and poured $181 million into production in the area during the time period examined.
City of Delta (BC)
Sean McGill, City Manager
www.delta.ca/discover-delta/economic-development
We look forward to bringing this state of-the-art entertainment destination to such a rapidly growing and dynamic community. Through our investment of $70 million in Delta we will bring up to 700 new jobs and careers to the area and significant economic spin-offs during the construction and beyond."
— Tony Santo, CEO, Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Ltd., November 2018
Significant Projects: Global Container Terminals, Fisher & Paykel, Pure Sunfarms, Canadian Solar
Activity: Delta is one of more than a dozen communities home to the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port, which supports 4,800 jobs, $300 million in wages and $1 billion in economic impact in Delta alone. The area, known for its low tax-increase environment and fiscal responsibility, promotes saustainability revitalization programs related to the South Delta area, Tilbury Industrial Area and Scott Road.
Did You Know? Farming and fishing (salmon) were the economic foundations of Delta, which now is home to the three municipalities of Ladner, Tsawwassen and North Delta. About 50% of the province's potato acres, 50% of the greenhouse vegetable area and 25% of the field vegetable acres are located in Delta.
Edmonton Global
Malcolm Bruce, CEO
edmontonglobal.ca
"This could be the beginning of a huge start for logistics and distribution in this region because of our proximity to the airport. If Amazon believes that they can make it here, well, I'm thinking most other companies will think that, too."
— Leduc County Mayor Tanni Doblanko, speaking to CBC News in June about Amazon's new $120-million, 600-job fulfillment center
Significant Projects: Aurora Cannabis, Air Canada, MTE Logistix Management, Hocevar, Inter Pipeline
Activity: Home to more than 1.3 million people and generating $105 billion in GDP, the Edmonton metro region — encompassing Leduc, Sturgeon, Strathcona and Parkland counties in addition to Edmonton proper — is Canada's fifth largest economy. Immigrant newcomers make up 23% of the region's population, led by immigrants from the Philippines, India, China and the UK.
Did You Know? Graduates of the University of Alberta, ranked fourth in Canada and 81st in the world for research impact, rank No. 1 in Canada and 31st in the world for employment rate.
Ignite Fredericton (New Brunswick)
Larry Shaw, CEO
ignitefredericton.com
"When we first opened our Fredericton location in 2014, there were five people in the office. Now, less than four years later, we have nearly 100. This immense expansion is due in large part to the incredible local talent that the New Brunswick area offers."
— Pradeep Mannakkara, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Cvent, announcing another 25-job expansion in August 2018
Significant Projects: Lateetud, Canopy Growth, Global Intelligence Inc., Resson
Activity: A record-setting $73 million in building permits was issued from January to May 2019 in Fredericton. Led by CRM automation firm IntroHive, Fredericton's startup community last year ranked No. 5 in the nation in closed venture capital deals and No. 6 for total amount of capital secured, according to the Canadian Venture Capital Association. Ignite Fredericton and several partner organizations this year announced a five-year immigration strategy with targets that include increasing the population by 1,000 new residents annually over the next 25 years, and reaching a target of four working-age residents for each retiree in Fredericton by 2036. The area is also pursuing a new strategy focused on building IT and cybersecurity clusters.
Did You Know? Base Gagetown — Canada's largest military base and the place all military come for training — draws thousands of military personnel and families from across Canada every year.
Invest in Hamilton
Glen Norton, Director
www.investinhamilton.ca
"CIB is proud to take part in a transformational project that will remarkably improve the quality of life for commuters."
— Pierre Lavallée, President and CEO, Canada Infrastructure Bank, on the bank's investment of up to $2 billion in financing in Ontario's GO Expansion – On Corridor project to transform the GO rail network in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
Significant Projects: Fusion Pharmaceuticals, Del Windows & Doors, Mondelez International, Kelowna Flightcraft, Walter's Group
Activity: The Conference Board of Canada last year stated that Hamilton would have the third Largest Projected GDP Growth among large metro areas in Canada. Airports Council International said Hamilton International Airport is the No. 1 fastest growing airport in North America, and the largest overnight express cargo airport in Canada. Research InfoSource found Hamilton's Mohawk College the No. 1 most research-intensive college in the nation, and McMaster University the No. 1 most research-intensive university.
Did You Know? Since 2015, the number of businesses operating in Hamilton has grown by 939.
Halifax Partnership
Wendy Luther, President & CEO
halifaxpartnership.com
"This will change the fabric of our city ... for generations to come."
— Karen Oldfield, CEO, Port of Halifax, reacting to $47.5 million in federal funds for port expansion and improvements that will dramatically reduce truck congestion by putting more shipping containers on rail
Significant Projects: Manulife Securities, REDspace, Eeye, Savormetrics
Activity: The Halifax Index, which benchmarks Halifax against six similar-sized Canadian cities (St. John's, Quebec City, Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, London, Regina and Victoria), notes that a new record was set in 2018 with a 2% increase in population. Over the past three years Halifax's population has swelled by more than 22,000 people to more than 430,500. The Halifax Partnership is working with its investors, partners and the community toward growing the city's population to 550,000 and its GDP to $30 billion by 2031.
Did You Know? On the strength of new highs in conferences and cruise ship visits in 2018, total overnight room bookings grew by 14%, marking six straight years of growth.
Kingston ED Corporation
Donna Gillespie, CEO
kingstonecdev.com
"I'm proud that our current Government takes women's economic empowerment seriously. From tackling pay equity to modernizing parental leave, this government is taking action on gender equality because when women succeed, we all succeed."
— Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands, on the August 2019 announcement of up to $3.2 million in funding for Queen's University from FedDev Ontario to support women entrepreneurs
Significant Projects: Feihe, Canada Royal Milk, Hino Motors, Frulact, Spearhead Brewing Co.
Activity: Kingston Economic Development, Queen's University Office of Partnerships and Innovation and Ontario East Economic Development collaborated with the Center State Corporation for Economic Opportunity and the Central New York Biotech Accelerator to foster the US/Canada Regional Innovation Corridor in order to establish soft landing facilities in both countries for businesses entering new markets. In addition to new outreach efforts with India and South Africa, Kingston EDC hired a Chinese market specialist to assist in aftercare with such investors as Feihe and Canada Royal Milk, and to support further FDI opportunities.
Did You Know? With a June approval, Kingston is now home to Canada's only mine for wollastonite, an organically certified mineral that offers green opportunities in concrete and steel manufacturing, agribusiness, and environmental cleanup
London ED Corporation
Kapil Lakhotia, President & CEO
www.ledc.com
"London is strategically placed in the 400-series [highways]. We have 402, 403 and 401 right at our door."
— Ian McLachlan, A&L Laboratories, London Free Press, August 2019
Significant Projects: Maple Leaf Foods, Sikorsky Sausage, Indiva, Cargill
Activity: Among other initiatives, the LEDC launched an Industrial Lands page on its resources page to provide in-depth information about the industrial sites available in London (www.ledc.com/resources/industrial-land) and integrated a tool called Spacelist onto LEDC's Accelerate page to allow businesses to explore available sites and buildings of all kinds — from office and retail to industrial, land, or medical (www.ledc.com/accelerate/space-incubation).
Did You Know? Fanshawe College — a four-campus school serving 43,000 students a year — has received nearly $2 million over five years from the Government of Canada to establish a research hub focused on the agri-food industry.
City of Mississauga ED Office (Ontario)
Bonnie Brown, Director
www.thefutureisunlimited.ca
"I'm excited to officially welcome CBS's new film and television studio to Mississauga — the first one of its kind in our city and a major investment for this industry."
— Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, welcoming news of CBS Film and Television Studios' new 260,000-sq.-ft., six-soundstage complex
Significant Projects: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Eurofins Scientific, KOTI, Fresenius-Kabi
Activity: Mississauga EDO continues to host Continuous Improvement Sessions for manufacturing companies. Office staff traveled to Japan to conduct a series of prequalified investment meetings in order to strengthen relations with Japanese companies with a Mississauga subsidiary and to continue efforts to attract and retain FDI investment. Mississauga is home to approximately 100 Japanese companies, accounting for over a half of Japanese companies located in Ontario. The EDO also launched a Digital Main Street program to support local main street small businesses.
Did You Know? In March 2019, the City of Mississauga Council voted in principle to become independent from the Region of Peel, a request that would need to be approved by the province and is a result of the Ontario government's regional government review process. "We are paying more into the Region than we are getting out of it and that's simply not fair," said Mayor Crombie.
City of Moncton (New Brunswick)
Kevin Silliker, Director, Economic Development
monctonwins.ca
"Employing Atlantic Canadians and giving them the opportunity to do innovative value-added work is fundamental to our mission at Apex."
— Keith Parlee, CEO of Apex Industries, which began in Moncton in 1961 as a repair machine shop, on the diversified firm's 80-job expansion, announced in May 2018
Significant Projects: Dovico Software, TD Direct Insurance, Al-Pack Enterprises
Activity: Financial and insurance services, BPO and IT continue to be target growth sectors for the Moncton region. A Bank of Montreal labor market report card issued in spring 2018 called Moncton the best city in Canada to find a job, up from last place the year before.
Did You Know? The University of Moncton is a fully bilingual university (the largest French-speaking campus outside Quebec in Canada) and is located in a city that became the nation's first fully bilingual city in 2002.
Montreal International
Hubert Bolduc, President and CEO
www.montrealinternational.com
"Known for being a world-leading video game and entertainment content production hub, with rich resources in talent and technologies, Montréal offers clear advantages and favorable conditions to international online games companies such as NetEase."
— William Ding, CEO and Director, NetEase, on the Chinese company's July 2019 announcement of its new R&D-focused video games studio in Montreal
Significant Projects: Digital Domain Productions, Amazon, Microsoft, Denso
Activity: As Montreal experienced greater growth than any other Canadian city in 2018, this tidbit from Montreal International's annual activity report for 2018 explained why: "The 63 foreign investment projects that received support totaled $2.5 billion and led to the creation of nearly 6,000 direct jobs," the organization said. "What is even more noteworthy is that the annual average salary for these high-quality jobs is $77,000, which is 75% higher than the average salary in Québec's private sector. These investment projects generated significant spinoffs for the metropolitan area that account for 17% of Québec's economic growth in 2018."
Did You Know? In 2018, Montréal International launched its promotion and prospecting activities for high-potential foreign entrepreneurs - a new mandate assigned by the Government of Québec. "Our team has met with more than 250 prospects, 32 of whom have taken steps to launch their startup in Montréal," MI reports.
Invest Oakville (Ontario)
Dorothy St. George, Director of Economic Development
invest.oakville.ca
"Oakville is currently home to businesses that are leading the way in advanced manufacturing and innovative technologies, creating hundreds of jobs in our community and boosting our local economy."
— Oakville MP John Oliver, November 2018, announcing a $230 million Government of Canada investment in the Ontario-based Next Generation Manufacturing Supercluster.
Significant Projects: Ford Motor Co., GVA Lighting, Cipher Pharmaceuticals, Weight Watchers International, Aviva
Activity: The city's new economic development strategy focuses on professional and financial services, digital media, information communications technology, film and life sciences as key sectors. In 2018, MoneySense Magazine recognized Oakville as Canada's Best Place to Live and Best Place for New Canadians. Factors like household income, good quality jobs, community safety, and top performing schools were key determinants. A new Oakville Virtual Tour was developed to showcase new and ongoing opportunities and investments. In 2018, significant activity occurred within the manufacturing sector in Oakville in the area of additive manufacturing.
Did You Know? Although Oakville opted out of retail cannabis, the Ontario Cannabis Store Distribution Center opened operations in Oakville, occupying a 70,000 sq. ft. facility and employing approximately 100 workers.
Quebec International
Carl Viel, President and CEO
www.quebecinternational.ca
"The creativity and innovation that we see in Quebec is among the most exciting things happening in technology."
— Kevin Peesker, President, Microsoft Canada, January 2019, announcing the company would invest more than $1 million in the Quebec market to help grow the innovative startup ecosystem in concert with incubator and accelerator LE CAMP
Significant Projects: Synase, Medicago, Telus, Silicycle, Alpha Brewery
Activity: "Our 2018 initiatives have generated more than $435 million in economic benefits, a significant increase of more than 40% compared to 2017," says QI, especially from foreign investors. "As the availability of labor is a priority for local businesses, our team has stepped up its international recruitment activities, with a 126% increase in the value of the GDP generated by recruited talents. In 2018, this growth allowed the establishment of nearly 2,700 people in the region and generated over $87 million in economic benefits. Finally, now more than ever, the entrepreneurial spirit of the region has been highlighted by the popularity of our consulting services on this subject. Indeed, coaching hours in the field tripled between 2017 and 2018, reaching nearly 1,800 hours."
Did You Know? In 2018, the labor market reached a historical high of 452,600 jobs in the Québec City metro area — 9,800 jobs more than last year. This growth represents an annual increase of 2.2%, the second highest among the eight major Canadian metro areas.
Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership (Ontario)
Stephen Thompson, CEO
www.sarnialambton.on.ca
"I think it has more potential than the rest of Canada probably realizes. There's nowhere else in the world that we would have preferred to build this plant."
— Alex Ward, Manager of Open Innovation, Origin Materials Canada, on the bio-based materials firm's pilot plant at Western University's Research Park in Sarnia, CBC News, July 2018
Significant Projects: Micromidas, LCY Biosciences, Imtex Membranes, Langtree Controls
Activity: In addition to adopting a new strategic plan in April 2018, the Partnership identified FDI attraction opportunities in the Industrial (Biofuels, Biochemicals, Bioplastics); Plastics; Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Chemicals 2.0 (Digitization) arenas. "Sarnia-Lambton has a high concentration of environmental professionals and chemical engineers working in the Petrochemical and Biohybrid chemistry clusters, as well as healthcare professionals," says the Partnership in explaining the debut of a new program to develop alumni networks, which it says "could help prevent brain drain from highly skilled people leaving the community."
Did You Know? Though now diversifying into greener and more bio-based sectors, Sarnia's role in the petrochemical industry stems from its proximity to the oil fields of Petrolia and Oil Springs, which have been drilled commercially since the 1860s.
Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority
Alex Fallon, President & CEO
sreda.com
"We'll have to recruit, definitely, outside of our borders. We'll have to look outside of Canada. But we'll look to bring people back who have left Saskatchewan."
— Brendan King, CEO, Vendasta, on the company's plans to more than double in size to 650 employees, July 2019, CBC News
Significant Projects: Conexus Credit Union, Aurora Cannabis, Fire and Flower Cannabis, JNE Welding
Activity: A first-of-its-kind economic growth plan entitled Growing YXE will lay out a proactive approach towards shaping Saskatoon's economic future over the next five years, and is expected to be released this fall. Among its focal areas will be attracting entrepreneurs. And it can look to another recent report for sustenance: A SREDA report on the Golden Opportunities fund that was founded 20 years ago found that its investment in more than 130 Saskatchewan businesses has led to an economic impact of $3 billion and the creation of more than 15,000 jobs in Saskatchewan.
Did You Know? As Saskatoon's population continues to grow to just over 328,000, the city remains one of the youngest in Canada, with a median age of 35.8 years, compared to the national median age of 41.2 years.
Toronto Global
Toby Lennox, CEO
torontoglobal.ca
"A distinguishing factor in our [HQ2] bid was the decision not to offer any incentives to entice Amazon to choose the Toronto Region. We are proud of our decision to compete solely on the unique strengths of our region, regardless of Amazon's decision."
— Toronto Mayor John Tory and regional municipal leaders, November 2018
Significant Projects: Paccar, Volvo, Netflix, Qualcomm
Activity: The mayor quoted above said the decision to release the region's Amazon HQ2 bid book publicly, (it had been downloaded 17,300 times to date) "opened the door to many conversations with international companies considering the Toronto Region." The Toronto region (which encompasses several other Canada's Best Locations honorees listed here) generates 20% of the country's GDP and houses 40% of Canada's business headquarters.
Did You Know? The percentage of foreign-born population in Greater Toronto (46.8%) is higher than that of such global capitals as Brussels, Sydney, London and New York. There are 16 countries that have over 50,000 people represented in the Toronto Region.
Vancouver Economic Commission
Catherine Warren, CEO
www.vancouvereconomic.com
"Some of the really salient things that stuck with us for Vancouver was that there's a really strong market and talent quota. There are such a lot of startups with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. There are also really good schools, and there are lots of engineering graduates from those schools, like SFU, UBC, and BCIT. Those were our primary drivers."
— Silicon Valley–based work management company Asana's Vancouver site lead Niranjan Ravichandran, Georgia Straight, July 2019, on the company's new presence in Vancouver
Significant Projects: SAP Canada, Emerald Health Therapeutics, SCI Logistics, Dorigo Systems
Activity: In June 2019, the VEC hosted a meeting of film and TV production industry leaders from across the nation to discuss the possibility of a nationwide film commission network. Last year, VEC used audited insurance datasets to calculate $3.8 billion in industry spending in B.C. alone — 42% of the national total. The State of Vancouver's Green Economy 2018 report, showed that one in 15 Vancouverites now work in the green economy, up from one in 20 three years previous. Moreover, Vancouver's economy grew faster than any other city in Canada while reducing its carbon emissions by 11% since 2007, the report said.
Did You Know? Vancouver's foreign-born population percentage of 44.7% barely trails Toronto's and is among the world's leaders in population diversity, part of why Mercer says it has the No. 1 quality of life in North America.
Waterloo Economic Development Corporation
Tony LaMantia, President & CEO
waterlooedc.ca
"With the discoveries already made to date in Waterloo, we can only imagine what can be accomplished when our knowledge and expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing join with the power of some of Canada's most important industrial players."
— Feridun Hamdullahpur, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Waterloo, on the school's involvement in two of the five chosen clusters in the federal government's $950 million Supercluster Initiative
Significant Projects: FGF Brands, Eclipse Automation, Dupar Controls, Frito-Lay Canada
Activity: CBRE's 2019 Scoring Tech Talent report CBRE identifies Waterloo as North America's third-fastest-growing "opportunity market." Among other measures, the EDC hired a consultant to develop a Technology and Innovation FDI Strategy project for the Toronto-to-Waterloo Innovation Corridor, which developed a large database for the site selection process. The organization hosted 95 inbound missions and led 13 FDI outbound missions to core markets, increased the investment pipeline by 263% in investment value. One of the fastest growing communities in Canada, the Waterloo area will see about $3 billion in new development over the next few years. Area representatives took part in a trade mission to Japan that included a stop at Toyota's global HQ in Nagoya following that company's announcement of a $1.4 billion investment in its operations in the Greater Waterloo area.
Did You Know? Part of a post-secondary institutional community that boasts more than 73,000 students, the University of Waterloo has the No. 1 computer science program and No. 2 engineering program in Canada.
Economic Development Winnipeg
Dayna Spiring, President & CEO
www.economicdevelopmentwinnipeg.com
"It has been 30 years since Winnipeg has developed an office building of this significance. With one of the highest leasing rates, TNS has had an effect on vacant and leased Class A & B buildings in Downtown Winnipeg."
— Avison Young Winnipeg 2018 Overview and 2019 Forecast on the four-tower, $400 million True North Square development whose lead tenants include Ceridian
Significant Projects: Canada Goose, Delta 9 Cannabis, Freightliner, Eautopia Biological Technology
Activity: Capacity-building initiatives in the region include National Research Council $60 million in a new manufacturing research facility within CentrePort Canada; an advanced manufacturing stakeholder alliance; the University of Manitoba's $500 million capital campaign that includes its Smartpark innovation hub; a smart city caucus and a creative campus caucus. Over the past five years, EDW says, the city's labor force grew by 6.1% — nearly two points higher than the national average. Manitoba's population growth estimates are forecasted to grow at a rate of 15% — second-best among all Canadian provinces, and trending toward the youngest.
Did You Know? CentrePort, the 20,000-acre development referred to as a trimodal inland port as it utilizes rail, trucks and aircraft, has sold around 1,200 acres, reports Avison Young. "In 2018 CentrePort started seeking partners to develop the 700-acre rail park in which negotiations with potential developers are ongoing," AY reported.
York Link (Ontario)
Doug Lindeblom, Director, Economic Development
www.yorklink.ca
"With proximity to the new TTC subway and bus terminal, expansive open spaces and civic facilities, SmartCentres Place is designed as a people first, pedestrian friendly, urban city center."
— Mitchell Goldhar, Executive Chairman, SmartCentres, on the signing of Scotia Bank to a lease at the 220,000-sq.-ft. mixed-use office complex in Vaughan
Significant Projects: First Studio City (Markham), Northern Transformer, Vision Extrusions, Illuminex
Activity: Home to 1.2 million residents, 52,000 businesses, over 636,600 jobs, and four provincially-designated urban growth centers including Markham and Vaughan, York Region has the second highest number of technology companies in Canada, second largest financial services cluster in Ontario and one of the country's largest manufacturing and construction industry clusters. The region is expected to grow to more than 1.8 million people and 900,000 jobs within the next 25 years.
Did You Know? York Region is home to over 4,300 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies, making it the second largest technology hub, not only in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor, but across Canada.
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Adam Bruns has served as managing editor of Site Selection magazine since February 2002. In the course of reporting hundreds of stories for Site Selection, Adam has visited companies and communities around the globe. A St. Louis native who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, Adam is a 1986 alumnus of Knox College, and resided in Chicago; Midcoast Maine; Savannah, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, before settling in the Greater Atlanta community of Peachtree Corners, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
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To Congress' "Misogyny" Video, BJP Says "B-Grade Video House"
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of a row over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark triggered by Renuka Chowdhury's laughter in the Rajya Sabha, the Congress posted a video on Monday accusing the BJP and its leaders of harbouring a "misogynistic" attitude.
"Misogyny runs deep within the BJP and PM Modi's statements are a classic example of this deplorable mindset," read a tweet posted along with a video with the hashtag "#MisogynisticModi" on the Congress Twitter handle.
The video shows Prime Minister Modi's remark in the Rajya Sabha over Ms Chowdhury's laughter, his reported statement on Sonia Gandhi and his "50-crore girlfriend" remark about Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife, Sunanda Pushkar, as well as RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks terming marriage a "contract".
"How can women of India hope for equality under the leadership of misogynists," the video, which also carried statements of BJP leaders such as Arun Jaitley and Mahesh Sharma, asked.
The BJP has dubbed it a "flippant message" produced by a "B-grade video production house".
"Ever since Rahul Gandhi has taken over as the Congress president, the party has given up on serious political commentary on important issues and is functioning as a B-grade video production house with a flippant message. The party is now operating at the level of Rahul Gandhi's IQ," said BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao.
Last week, Prime Minister Modi had said in Parliament that Renuka Chowdhury's laughter -- sparked by his remark that Aadhaar was mooted by the NDA -- reminded him of the epic serial, Ramayana.
Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had posted a video clip from the TV serial, showing Surpanakha, the sister of Ravana, laughing aloud. |
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I am not sure when this photo was taken, but it had to have been January/February 1967 because John has his home movie camera and looks like he did in the Penny Lane promo.
I like photos like this that show John being a Dad to Julian. There he is shooting home movie footage of his son and an animal (what is that thing?). You don't get too much more "dad-like" than that.
Whenever people say that John didn't love Julian (which is a terrible, heartless thing to say), I show them photos like this one that show that John did spend time with his first son, but admittedly not as much time as he should.
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Furness Abbey
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Manor Road, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, LA13 0PJ
The impressive remains of an abbey founded by Stephen, later King of England, including much of the east end and west tower of the church, the ornately decorated chapter house and the cloister buildings.
English Heritage is carrying out emergency conservation work to stop the ruined Abbey church sinking into the soft ground. This follows earlier routine inspections which revealed serious cracks in the walls. Medieval masons used large pieces of oak in the foundations and after 500 years, this timber is now gradually giving way.
While excavating the grave of a prosperous medieval abbot, a hoard of medieval treasures was discovered at Furness Abbey. This discovery unearthed the first crozier (a staff with a crook on top) to be excavated in Britain in over 50 years and an impressive gemstone ring was also found.
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Central Highlands District Health Council Bursary
In 2012 the now disbanded Central Highlands District Health Council donated the balance of their Scholarship Fund to James Cook University to administer until the funds are exhausted.
Undergraduate 1st Year (Human Health Science Course)
If all the below statements describe you and your current situation, you can apply for this scholarship:
I am an Australian citizen, New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent visa holder;
I am or will be enrolled in the first year of an undergraduate human health sciences course; and
I am a resident of Springsure or another location within the Central Highlands Local Government Area (see Scholarship Rules - Appendix A)
If you are a successful applicant of this scholarship you will receive $3,000.
Prior to completing an application, you should carefully read the Scholarship Rules below. Applicants wanting to apply for this scholarship must attach the following documents:
A certified copy of your academic record from a secondary school or other academic institution;
A copy of your curriculum vitae;
Character reference – from a School principal or other person of standing in the community who will attest to your suitability and interest in the course for which your have been accepted;
Proof of residency of Springsure or other location within the Central Highlands Local Government area; and
Proof of income (Centrelink statement, ATO notice or payslips)
When applying for a scholarship it is very important that you answer all the questions and include all relevant documents. Your application and relevant documents must be submitted before the closing date. If an application is incomplete, it will not be considered.
In 2012 the now disbanded Central Highlands District Health Council donated the balance of their Scholarship Fund to James Cook University to administer until the balance of funds is exhausted.This scholarship is subject to the provisions of James Cook University's Coursework Scholarships, Bursaries and Grants Policy.
The value of the scholarship shall be $3,000 paid in two instalments after the census date of Study Period 1 and Study Period 2 in the year of the award.
One new bursary will be awarded each year until the fund is exhausted. The value of the scholarship in its final year of offering will be the balance of the funds in the Scholarship account.
The Central Highlands District Health Bursary shall be open to competition among applicants who:
Are domestic students, i.e. Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens and holders of a permanent visa;
Are enrolled in their first year of any undergraduate human health sciences course at JCU; and
Are residents of Springsure or another location within the Central Highlands Local Government area (see Appendix A).
The Selection Criteria are:
Academic merit;
Suitability for and interest in Human Health Science; and
Level of financial need of the applicant.
A certified copy of their academic record from a secondary school or other academic institution;
Their curriculum vitae;
Character reference – from School principal or other person of standing in the community who will attest to the applicant's suitability and interest in the course for which the applicant has been accepted;
Proof of income (e.g. Centrelink statement, ATO Notice or payslips.)
The award of the scholarship shall be made in the absolute discretion of the Selection Committee, which shall comprise:
Director, Academic Quality and Strategy (Chair), or nominee;
Dean, College of Medicine & Dentistry, or nominee; and
Dean, College of Healthcare Sciences, or nominee.
The Selection Committee reserves the right not to award a Scholarship in any year if, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, there is no candidate of sufficient merit to warrant an award.
The Selection Committee will determine all matters relating to the Scholarship.
Moneys payable to the recipient of an award shall be paid at in two equal instalments after the census dates of Study Period 1 and Study Period 2 in the year of the award.
If the recipient suspends or defers their study, the recipient will no longer be eligible for the award.
The recipient must maintain an enrolment in subjects with a total credit point value of at least six credit points, in each Teaching Period of the Award.
The recipient must maintain a course GPA of 4.0 or above to be eligible for the second instalment.
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In the event the Chair, Selection Committee terminates or suspends the student's bursary, a student may lodge a request for review of decision in accordance with the provisions of the Student Complaints Policy and Procedure.
The requirements of the Bursary shall not make the awarding of the Bursary conditional upon the recipient providing unremunerated services or products to the donor.
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The funds of the Bursary shall be held in an account in the name of the University and shall be administered by the officer of the University charged with administering the Bursary.
"Academic institution" includes University, Technical and Further Education College, private education provider, secondary school and any other institution that undertakes teaching or research.
"Academic record" means the official records of the University, or any other academic institution that details the levels of academic achievement attained by the person whose academic record it is.
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A catalytic synthesis of 2-fluoro-1,3-cyclopentadienes was achieved via [3 + 2] cycloaddition of 2-trifluoromethyl-1-alkenes and alkynes using a nickel catalyst and a diboron-based ternary additive system.
Welcome to this themed issue of Dalton Transactions entitled 'Fluorine'.
Trifluoromethylsulfinyl 3 and trifluoromethylthio 5 compounds are independently obtained by using the sulfone-type reagent 1 under Cu catalysis.
The [C4F8] ligand supports a family of related fluoroalkyl nickel complexes spanning the +2 to +4 oxidation states.
The solid state structures of O2F2 and OF2 resemble those in the gaseous state. Attempts to isolate the proposed (O2+)2PdF62− from O2F in HF result in the formation of (O2+H3Pd2F12−)n.
The unique reactivity and high selectivity of the zirconocene-hybridized heterobimetallic perfluoalkyl Grignard reagents can be employed for efficient and highly selective nucleophilic perfluoroalkylation of carbonyl compounds and epoxides, in particular.
The electron transfer process between subphthalocyanines differs depending on the o-, m-, and p-geometries of the hydroquinone linker.
Synthesis of perfluoroorgano copper lithium and silver couples.
A new iron-catalyzed reaction for the coupling of perfluoroalkyl iodides with aromatic substrates is described.
Perfluorophenyl-subsituted amidates undergo unprecedented C6F5 migration to Rh(I) on heating, providing a new route to Rh-C6F5 organometallic fragments.
Fluorination reactions at platinum(0) alkyne complexes with N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) occur either at the metal centre or at the metal bound alkyne to give β-fluorovinyl complexes.
This Perspective reviews the synthesis, structure, reactivity and applications of gold trifluoromethyl complexes. The recently reported reactions of gold(III) trifluoromethyl complexes with potential application in synthesis are discussed.
The three isoelectronic inner salts 1-H-x-H3N-closo-1-CB11F10 (x = 12, 7, 2) are accessible by fluorination of x-H3N-closo-1-CB11H11 (x = 12, 2) and 7-H3N-12-F-closo-1-CB11H10, respectively. Deprotonation of the decafluorinated ammoniocarba-closo-dodecaboranes yields the corresponding aminocarba-closo-dodecaborate anions [1-H-x-H2N-closo-1-CB11F10]− (x = 12, 7, 2).
An efficient 1,2-fluorine migration reaction was realized under Brønsted acid catalysis in the absence of an external fluorinating source. The high fluorine atom economy and very mild conditions make this reaction a promising protocol for the construction of the C–F bond.
Organomercurials (C6F5)2Hg and [o-C6F4Hg]3 interact with Ni(II)-salen to form adducts held by arene-perfluoroarene and hydrogen bonding interactions, as well as interactions between Hg, the salen ligand, and Ni.
Nanoscopic metal fluorides with new applications.
Ferrocenyl phosphines containing a stereogenic P-CF3 group show improved selectivities in the Ir-catalysed hydrogenation of dihydroisoquinolinium derivatives.
Preparation of transparent and low viscous MgF2 sols via sol–gel technique which can be applied for antireflective coatings on glass substrates is described.
A multitude of non-covalent interactions, investigated by X-ray crystallography and computational chemistry techniques, proved to be responsible of the spontaneous self-assembly of a bis(trifluoroborate) dipotassium salt.
Highly electron-poor SPhos ligands stabilised the Pd complex by secondary Pd0–arene interaction.
Contrary to previous reports, trimethyltin fluoride was shown to adopt a linear chain structure with symmetric fluorine bridges in the solid state.
Bidentate phosphinothiol ligand induces C–F bond functionalization in perfluoronickelacycles.
Dramatic changes are observed in both the NMR and luminescence spectra of LnDTMA complexes on addition of fluoride, consistent with a change in the nature of the magnetic anisotropy at the paramagnetic lanthanide centre.
Molecular manganese fluorides were studied in solid neon, argon and fluorine using IR spectroscopy and quantum-chemical calculations at DFT and CCSD(T) levels.
Silver and palladium complexes bearing dihydroimidazolylidene or imidazolidinylidene NHC ligands substituted with racemic secondary polyfluoroalkyl groups were synthesized.
La1−xBaxF3−x solid solutions for x < 0.15 were prepared by solid state synthesis in a platinum tube under an nitrogen atmosphere with subsequent quenching for 0.07 ≤ x < 0.15.
Multiple catalytic hydrodefluorination steps take place with the trans-dihydride complex [Ru(IEt2Me2)2(PPh3)2H2] (1), taking C6F6 to tri-, di- and mono-fluorobenzenes.
The influence of organic functional groups (fluorinated versus non-fluorinated) on the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance of MOFs has been studied.
Among five studied hosts, the one having the lowest attractive interaction with a fluoride anion shows the highest selectivity in solution due to reduced solvent hindrance.
Metathetic reactions using salts of highly-fluorinated weakly coordinating anions permit synthesis of high-purity hydrogen storage materials.
The rate determining step for the formation of seven-membered platinacycles from cyclometallated Pt(IV) aryl complexes is determined by the nature of the substituents on the aryl groups.
The title compounds, [Q]2[Fe4S4(S(CH2)nRf8)4], feature dianions with four fluorous thiolate ligands and cations that are non-fluorous, "light fluorous", or "heavy fluorous"; fluorous/organic partition coefficients can reach >93 : <7.
Inner-sphere reduction of a (pentafluoroethyl)(trifluoromethyl)carbene ligand affords perfluorobutyne, perfluorobutatriene and perfluorometallacyclobutene ligands.
The complex (Aryl-BIAN)AgOCF3 has been synthesised and structurally characterised. The reactivity towards trifluoromethoxylation of benzyl bromides has also been examined.
Formation of amidine–BH(C6F5)2 adducts and their thermal dehydrogenation, CO uptake to form five-membered cyclic compounds and stoichiometric transfer hydrogenation toward phenylacetylene.
The fluorous copper(II)-tren complex 2 is a powerful surfactant which strongly reduces the perfluorodecalin/water and diisopropyl ether/water interface tensions. When photoreduced by light it catalyzes the Huisgen click cycloaddition.
Addition of HCl to perfluorocarbene complexes of iridium occurs regiospecifically and stereospecifically.
The functionalization of fluorobenzene is described via insertion of isocyanide after the oxidative addition of the C–F bond.
From HFC replacements CF3CF2CH2F and Z-CF3CF CFH new E-perfluoropropenyl phosphine ligands are prepared, including the first perfluoroalkenyl bidentate phosphine, (E-CF3CF CF)2PCH2CH2(E-CF CFCF3)2.
Detailed characterization is presented of novel AgPO2F2 and AgI4AgII5(PO2F2)14 salts including their complex crystal structures and thermal decomposition.
Guest Edited by Professor Jennifer Love (University of British Columbia), this issue focuses on all applications of fluorine in inorganic chemistry, including: organometallic and coordination complexes using fluorinated ligands, metal-catalysed and metal-mediated fluorination and C–F activation reactions, main group fluoride compounds, solid state metal fluorides, molecular fluoride complexes and materials for fluoride sensing and anion binding. |
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Jersey Shore: Angelina Pivarnick shares 'whirlwind of craziness' as she works to save her marriage
Wed Jan 12, 2022 at 3:53pm ET
By Maggie Michaels
Angelina Pivarnick opens up about her attempt to save her marriage. Pic credit: MTV
Jersey Shore Family Vacation Season 5 premiered with an emotional episode, especially for Angelina Pivarnick. Angelina opened up the season revealing that she was considering a divorce from her husband Chris Larangeira.
She sought support from Jenni "JWOWW" Farley who, despite having a tumultuous relationship with Angelina in the past, was more than happy to be there for her. Having been through the divorce process before with her ex-husband Roger Mathews, she was able to provide insight and help.
Jenni asked Angelina questions about her relationship to help her determine if a divorce was the right thing for her. Angelina was still unsure, even after they visited a lawyer.
Now, Angelina has opened up about why she has continued to fight for her marriage despite the adversity she and Chris have faced.
Jersey Shore Family Vacation's Angelina Pivarnick works to save her marriage despite 'whirlwind of craziness'
During an interview with Page Six, Angelina shared that she was eager to "save" her marriage. She explained, "I said to myself, 'I am not going to get divorced. I am going to try everything that I can in my power to save my marriage, no matter what it is'".
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Angelina went on to explain how difficult it has been to make her relationship work and that being in the public eye while it's all unfolded has only further complicated things.
She described their decision to attend therapy as a couple, despite Chris being reluctant to do so at the beginning. Angelina added that the entire ordeal has been a "whirlwind of craziness" for both her and Chris.
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Regardless of the difficulties they've faced, the two of them seem desperate to make things work.
Angelina Pivarnick and Chris Larangeira's history
Angelina's trip to speak with a lawyer is the latest in a history of ups and downs for her and Chris.
After getting married in 2019, rumors spread that the two of them were having issues when fans noticed them follow and unfollow each other on social media. Followers also read into cryptic messages shared on their social media accounts and noticed how Angelina often went out without Chris and rarely posted pictures with him on her page.
Last January, it was reported that Angelina had filed for divorce, however, by the summer time she had changed her mind and they decided to make things work.
During a recent season of Jersey Shore Family Vacation, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino sat with Angelina as she cried telling him that Chris had moved out to take some space. He ultimately returned and the two of them have seemed to be working through their issues ever since.
Most recently, Chris moved into Angelina's new home she purchased in New Jersey. It's unclear at this time where their relationship currently stands.
Fans should tune in to new episodes of Jersey Shore Family Vacation to find out whether Angelina and Chris can save their marriage or if they're headed for divorce once and for all.
Jersey Shore Family Vacation airs Thursdays at 8/7c on MTV.
Maggie Michaels
Maggie is a freelance writer. The self-proclaimed "reality TV junkie"...read more
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import java.util.List;
import com.googlecode.charts4j.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.googlecode.charts4j.collect.Lists;
import com.googlecode.charts4j.parameters.ChartType;
/**
* Venn diagram constructed with the
* {@link GCharts#newVennDiagram(double, double, double, double, double, double, double)}
* method.
*
* @author Julien Chastang (julien.c.chastang at gmail dot com)
*
* @see GCharts
*/
public class VennDiagram extends AbstractGraphChart {
/** First Venn diagram circle. **/
private Color circle1Color;
/** Second Venn diagram circle. **/
private Color circle2Color;
/** Third Venn diagram circle. **/
private Color circle3Color;
/** First Venn diagram circle legend. **/
private String circle1Legend;
/** Second Venn diagram circle legend. **/
private String circle2Legend;
/** Third Venn diagram circle legend. **/
private String circle3Legend;
/** Data array that will hold the circle sizes. **/
private final double[] data;
/**
* @see GCharts#newVennDiagram(double, double, double, double, double,
* double, double)
*/
VennDiagram(final double circle1Size, final double circle2Size, final double circle3Size, final double abIntersect, final double caIntersect, final double bcIntersect, final double abcIntersect) {
super();
final double[] data = {circle1Size, circle2Size, circle3Size, abIntersect, caIntersect, bcIntersect, abcIntersect};
for (double d : data) {
checkArgument(d >= Data.MIN_VALUE && d <= Data.MAX_VALUE, "Venn diagram values must be between 0 and 100: %s", d);
}
this.data = data;
}
/**
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*
* @param circle1Color
* color of circle 1. Cannot be null.
* @param circle2Color
* color of circle 2. Cannot be null.
* @param circle3Color
* color of circle 3. Cannot be null.
* @see Color
*/
public final void setCircleColors(final Color circle1Color, final Color circle2Color, final Color circle3Color) {
checkNotNull(circle1Color);
checkNotNull(circle2Color);
checkNotNull(circle3Color);
this.circle1Color = circle1Color;
this.circle2Color = circle2Color;
this.circle3Color = circle3Color;
}
/**
* Set the legends of the circles.
*
* @param circle1Legend
* legend of circle 1. Cannot be null.
* @param circle2Legend
* legend of circle 2. Cannot be null.
* @param circle3Legend
* legend of circle 3. Cannot be null.
*/
public final void setCircleLegends(final String circle1Legend, final String circle2Legend, final String circle3Legend) {
checkNotNull(circle1Legend);
checkNotNull(circle2Legend);
checkNotNull(circle3Legend);
this.circle1Legend = circle1Legend;
this.circle2Legend = circle2Legend;
this.circle3Legend = circle3Legend;
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
protected void prepareData() {
super.prepareData();
if (circle1Color != null && circle2Color != null && circle3Color != null) {
final List<ImmutableList<Color>> colors = Lists.newArrayList();
colors.add(Lists.of(circle1Color));
colors.add(Lists.of(circle2Color));
colors.add(Lists.of(circle3Color));
parameterManager.addColors(Lists.copyOf(colors));
}
if (circle1Legend != null && circle2Legend != null && circle3Legend != null) {
parameterManager.addLegends(Lists.of(circle1Legend, circle2Legend, circle3Legend));
}
parameterManager.setChartTypeParameter(ChartType.VENN_DIAGRAM);
parameterManager.addData(Data.newData(data));
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Is Critical Race Theory Racist?
By Gary Houchens|2020-09-30T15:38:27-05:00September 30th, 2020|Categories: Community, Education, Equality, Ethnicity|
Critical theory bulldozes all the complexities of history, education, and communities into a world of good guys and bad guys, oppressors and oppressed. And in doing so, it makes it nearly impossible to deal with the actual issues of denied opportunities, prejudiced expectations, and instances of real racism that need to be addressed.
Most Americans are largely unfamiliar with critical theory (also sometimes referred to as critical race theory or critical social justice theory), but this philosophical perspective is now part of the professional, cultural, and political air we breathe. And it is doing terrible damage to social cohesion, and particularly to meaningful efforts to address racial disparities in education, policing, and social mobility. Especially in education, we need now more than ever to understand and respond to issues of racial and socio-economic equity. But doing so actually requires us to reject critical theory and replace it with more constructive, unifying, and inquiry-driven approaches.
What Is Critical Theory?
Critical theory emerged out of the post-modern intellectual movement of the mid-twentieth century that rejected core ideas of the Enlightenment and posits that truth, rather than being something that can be discerned via reason (or religious revelation), is in fact entirely a social construction. Post-modernism was eventually wed to Marxist theory through the work of scholars like Herbert Marcuse, and stakes the claim that, rather than objective truth, there are only stories that we tell ourselves. And those stories generally are designed to justify or perpetuate power structures between oppressor and oppressed.
Journalist Andrew Sullivan, in summarizing the arguments of Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's new book, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity, explains it this way:
Beginning as a critique of all grand theories of meaning—from Christianity to Marxism—postmodernism is a project to subvert the intellectual foundations of western culture. The entire concept of reason—whether the Enlightenment version or even the ancient Socratic understanding—is a myth designed to serve the interests of those in power, and therefore deserves to be undermined and "problematized" whenever possible. Postmodern theory does so mischievously and irreverently—even as it leaves nothing in reason's place. The idea of objective truth—even if it is viewed as always somewhat beyond our reach—is abandoned. All we have are narratives, stories, whose meaning is entirely provisional, and can in turn be subverted or problematized.
Analyzing how truth was a mere function of power, and then seeing that power used against distinct and oppressed identity groups, led to an understandable desire to do something about it, and to turn this critique into a form of activism… After all, the core truth of our condition, this theory argues, is that we live in a system of interlocking oppressions that penalize various identity groups in a society. And all power is zero-sum: you either have power over others or they have power over you. To the extent that men exercise power, for example, women don't; in so far as straight people wield power, gays don't; and so on. There is no mutually beneficial, non-zero-sum advancement in this worldview. All power is gained only through some other group's loss. And so the point became not simply to interpret the world, but to change it, to coin a phrase, an imperative which explains why some critics call this theory a form of neo-Marxism.
The "neo" comes from switching out Marxism's focus on materialism and class in favor of various oppressed group identities, who are constantly in conflict the way classes were always in conflict. And in this worldview, individuals only exist at all as a place where these group identities intersect.[1]
Critical Theory Is Flawed, on Multiple Counts
Despite the fact that critical theory has come to utterly dominate the thinking of academic elites and universities, most people are not cultural and moral relativists. Most people—including me—believe there is, in fact, such a thing as objective truth, unchanging and applicable for all times, which is discernible through reason, divine revelation, scientific inquiry, or some combination of all of the above. Oppression is sometimes a real social phenomenon, but just because someone feels oppressed, it is not necessarily true that they are (it is also not necessarily true that they aren't oppressed; the point is that there is an objective reality to the question that is bigger than one's feelings).
And while power dynamics are readily observable in groups of all kinds, humans and their interactions are not reducible to power dynamics alone. As Pluckrose and Lindsay write on the website Aero:
The Critical Social Justice metanarrative (roughly the right side of history) is a ludicrously simplistic framework, centered on a cartoonish understanding of privileged and marginalized identity groups, whose relative statuses are believed to be maintained by the ways in which people talk about things. These group identities are understood to dictate individual members' experiences, knowledge and relationships to power in predictable ways. However, both individuals and social reality are actually considerably more complicated than this, as most of us know from observing our fellow humans as we go about our normal lives.[2]
One of the biggest problems with critical theory is that, based on the logic of critical theory itself, its assumptions and claims cannot be challenged. If you question a critical theorist, you are merely proving how deeply you are in denial of your own privilege and power. In an essay for New Discourses called "No, the Woke Won't Debate You—Here's Why," Lindsay elaborates:
Debate and conversation, especially when they rely upon reason, rationality, science, evidence, epistemic adequacy, and other Enlightenment-based tools of persuasion are the very thing they think produced injustice in the world in the first place. Those are not their methods and they reject them. Their methods are, instead, storytelling and counter-storytelling, appealing to emotions and subjectively interpreted lived experience, and problematizing arguments morally, on their moral terms. Because they know the dominant liberal order values those things sense far less than rigor, evidence, and reasoned argument, they believe the whole conversation and debate game is intrinsically rigged against them in a way that not only leads to their certain loss but also that props up the existing system and then further delegitimizes the approaches they advance in their place.[3]
But, at least in my opinion, the single most worrisome aspect of critical theory is where it leads us. If everything is ultimately about exposing power (the bad guys) and giving it to those who are supposedly without power (the good guys), then how is that to be accomplished if the powerful won't simply step aside? Ultimately coercive measures are required to create not just equality of opportunity, but the equality of outcomes, which is the end goal of critical theory.[4] And that portends a massive central power with the authority to silence those who dissent and redistribute wealth and privilege to those it deems worthy—in other words, an Orwellian Marxist regime, which was the ultimate aim of critical theory grandfathers like Marcuse and Michele Foucault. And as history tells us, such regimes murdered over 100 million people in the twentieth century seeking to create their egalitarian utopia.
Critical Theory Everywhere
Alarmingly, critical theory has burst forth from the walls of academia. It is now the guiding philosophy behind much of the corporate world's requisite "diversity," "sensitivity," and "bias" trainings. Critical theory gurus like Robin DiAngelo, author of the best-selling White Fragility, make millions of dollars on captive employee audiences who are deliberately indoctrinated into the assumptions of critical theory (in fact, DiAngelo was paid $12,000 by the University of Kentucky to deliver a two-hour keynote speech).[5]
Critical theory is also the animating spirit behind the Black Lives Matter organization and the frenzy of riots and destruction of statues of America's Founders and key historical figures.[6] Above all, it is the force behind a tenacious effort to rewrite American history, painting our country in the worst possible light and rejecting the idea that there is any sense of a shared, common American story.[7]
In these ways, critical theory has also arrived in our schools, both as the implicit assumptions behind many programs designed to teach and enhance educators' "cultural responsiveness," but also as a taken-for-granted lens through which American history is often taught. In the guise of "inquiry learning," students are sometimes prompted by their teachers to actively seek out villains in the American story, to see racism and oppression everywhere, and to identify good guys (Native Americans, enslaved Africans, labor unions, women, gays, etc.) and to condemn the bad guys (white people, men, the American Founders, business leaders, religions, and the military).
Rarely do ordinary educators realize how much our schools have become thoroughly soaked in critical theory, or the frightening end goal of critical theory's proponents. It's time to make ourselves aware of this fact, and to find new ways to respond. Because racism is still a real thing, and issues of race, class, and gender still correlate to troubling trends in student achievement, discipline, and resource allocation in our schools. So how do we fight racism while rejecting critical theory?
Fight Racism While Rejecting Critical Theory
The first thing we have to acknowledge is that clearly there are racial disparities in education. By disparities, we mean significant differences. Those differences are not necessarily accounted for by racism, although partially they might be. The most vivid differences appear in student achievement outcomes. In Kentucky, for example, only 14 percent of African American fourth-graders were proficient in reading in 2019, compared with 39% of white students (also not a number to brag about).[8] These gaps in student learning are long-standing and not getting better over time.
Likewise, a 2018 U.S. General Accountability Office report found what most educators know intuitively: African American students (along with boys of all races and students with disabilities) are much more likely to be suspended or expelled, even for similar misbehaviors, than their white, female, and non-disabled peers.[9] Additionally, some have pointed to the dramatic differences in (primarily local) education funding between predominately white school districts and those that serve a majority of minority students.[10]
How should we approach the question of where these disparities come from and what should educators do about them? My most direct experience with this challenge has been in my role as professor of education administration at Western Kentucky University where I train aspiring school principals, superintendents, and other district leaders. Let me be clear that I'm not writing as a representative of WKU or any of my colleagues here, but I think our general approach is illustrative of how we can tackle issues of equity without endorsing critical theory lock, stock, and barrel.
In WKU's recently revised principal preparation program, equity is a key theme that is woven through every course. We say that a central goal for our graduates is that they become, among other things, an Equity Engineer. When I teach this concept (other professors may have a different approach), especially in EDAD 604, Creating a Culture of Achievement, I say that equity reviews every school policy, decision, and data point through the lens of how it affects our most vulnerable and marginalized students and seeks equitable opportunities and—to the extent possible—equitable outcomes—for every child. This equity lens does not assume racist structures and motives, but rather takes an inquiry approach to find out what is going on.
For example, we review our school's discipline data for disproportionality, and when we see those trends we take them seriously. We do not automatically assume that this is a product of systemic racism, however. We do take seriously the possibility that minority students may be violating rules in disproportionate numbers, or that family structure may actually be an intermediating variable in that relationship, and we don't consider it racist to consider that perspective. But we also ask ourselves—even if that were the case—why might that be and what can we do to shift our policies or change our school culture to help? In other words, we take responsibility for the disparity to the best of our ability.
And we also are bold enough to ask ourselves: is it possible minority students actually aren't acting out in disproportionate numbers, but maybe we are reacting more aggressively to the same behaviors that white students engage in? Above all we ask ourselves, how would we know? How can we find out? How can we collectively be more sensitive to this question? The only way we can have this conversation is if we can seriously acknowledge that part of the problem may be in our own attitudes and thinking, but not if we assume that every outcome is the result of power, privilege, and oppression (as critical theory repeatedly implies).
The same goes for academic achievement gaps. We ask ourselves: is there an issue related to low expectations for poor and/or minority students? I have my students read excerpts from Zaretta Hammond's book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, which challenges us to consider whether our instructional practices make it harder for minority students to learn. We take seriously research like the Opportunity Myth which seems to show that we systematically expect less from students of color and students of poverty and instead we should collectively seek ways to raise our expectations for all students through careful consideration of what we ask students to do and how.[11]
But we also acknowledge, as Ian Rowe has noted repeatedly, that the breakdown of the family has devastating consequences for student learning (regardless of race), and we are willing to call on our communities to ask for the revival of intermediary institutions like the intact family, civic organizations, churches, etc., if we want to better support student learning outcomes.[12] We teach our students about the Success Sequence: how graduating high school, avoiding having children before marriage, and having at least one adult in each household working full time makes it highly unlikely that one will ever be poor.[13]
It is not racist to point out these realities, and suggesting it is racist has the effect of shutting down all meaningful efforts to make things better for poor and minority communities.
Despite my deep concerns about critical theory, I use critical theory in my classes to help stimulate these lines of inquiry and discussion among my students. In EDAD 604 I require my students to read Muhammad Khalifa's book, Culturally Responsive School Leadership, which is written explicitly from a critical theory standpoint. But we approach his ideas as one perspective on the topic of race and education, not as the Gospel truth. The same goes for when I teach Paulo Freire's classic treatment of critical theory in education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I don't agree with Freire on all (or even most) points, but you can't do a thorough study of modern educational theory without considering this perspective.
But that's the difference that makes all the difference. I don't want to silence critical theorists. But I don't want their ideas to be the default, taken-as-truth regime by which we organize our schools, politics, or society.
History is complicated. Education is complicated. Our communities are complicated. Critical theory bulldozes all those complexities into a world of good guys and bad guys, oppressors and oppressed. And in doing so, it makes it nearly impossible to deal with the actual issues of denied opportunities, prejudiced expectations, and instances of real racism that need to be addressed.
Saying it's complicated does not in any way excuse us from dealing with the problems and doesn't have to. But grossly oversimplifying the problems does not lead to solutions. It leads to more polarization, division, and disunity. And I believe that's actually the goal of many critical theorists. And we should reject that ideology.
[1] Andrew Sullivan, "The Roots Of Wokeness" (July 2020).
[2] Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, "The Two Big Falsehoods of Critical Social Justice," Areo Magazine (July 2020).
[3] James Lindsay, "No, the Woke Won't Debate You. Here's Why," New Discourses (July 2020).
[4] Jarrett Stepman, "How 'Wokeness' Is a Product of Marxism," The Daily Signal (August 2020).
[5] Jake Dima, "$12K a Day: How White Liberals Profit From Pushing 'White Privilege'," The Daily Signal (July 2019). See liberal writer Matt Taibbi's scathing critique of DiAngelo's book and ideas here.
[6] See R. Albert Mohler, Jr., "Black Lives Matter: Affirm the Sentence, Not the Movement," Public Discourse (July 2020), and Gary Houchens, "Our schools need patriotic American history now more than ever," School Leader (June 2020).
[7] See Gary Houchens, "Memory & Hope: Restoring the Teaching of American History," The Imaginative Conservative (August 2020), and Gary Houchens, "E pluribus unum: Another essential principle of 'patriotic' American history," School Leader (July 2020).
[8] See "Kentucky's white minus black achievement gaps from NAEP," Bluegrass Institute (November 2019).
[9] See "Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities," GAO (March 2018).
[10] Clare Lombardo, "Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money," NPR (February 2019).
[11] Gary Houchens, "Every school should confront the 'Opportunity Myth'," School Leader (August 2019).
[12] Ian Rowe, "The Power of Personal Agency," The Wall Street Journal (June 2020).
[13] Wendy Wang, "'The Sequence' Is the Secret to Success," The Wall Street Journal (March 2018).
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About the Author: Gary Houchens
Gary W. Houchens, PhD, is Professor of Education Administration in the School of Leadership and Professional Studies at Western Kentucky University. A former teacher, principal, and school district administrator, he served on the Kentucky Board of Education from 2016-2019.
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Our Walk Toward Ignorance; As Told Through a Dream
Miles V. Schmidt Oct 1, 2020 at 7:44 am - Reply
Excellent explanation of a demented ideology.
Nerina Bellinger Oct 1, 2020 at 10:04 am - Reply
Very informative and helpful article. Thank you!
Conchita Oct 1, 2020 at 10:09 am - Reply
While you allow teaching critical theory as one viewpoint to discuss and teach the other viewpoint on race relations as well, critical theorists will never allow other ideas or theories to be discussed in their classrooms. This is why critical theory will be the default and will go on unchallenged by most students and society at large. Now, we need to take this article, simplify it for the layman, and disseminate it.
Richard Oct 1, 2020 at 7:59 pm - Reply
Excellent article! I have long believed that there is no greater demonstration of racism than that of low expectations. All scholarly studies do show that not having a two parent household, specifically, a lack of a father figure, is the leading predictor of the perpetuation of poverty. No discussion of trying to fix racial disparity can be without mention of the illegitimacy epidemic.
Brian Walsh Oct 2, 2020 at 2:29 pm - Reply
Conchita makes an important point but doesn't take it far enough: there's no basis for teaching lies in a classroom. It's one thing to understand that we live based on imagination, by which I mean there is a concrete reality and how we respond to it is a matter of what we imagine is best. For instance, generational poverty is a real circumstance for many. Republicans say low taxes, school choice, fathers staying married to mothers, tax breaks to encourage business are the solutions. Democrats believe more money for public schools, more welfare to allow single parents to survive, abortion (as an alternative), taxing the the wealthy are solutions.
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Look out for part two of Sam's top tips for nature-friendly families on our stories page, or find out more about Centennial Parkland's next Nature Play for Families event.
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Many of us forget about the importance of water. How valuable it is for our poultry of all ages. A growing chick needs about 2 times the amount of water compared to food. Full grown hens and roosters consume around about 1 ½ times water to feed. Sometimes more depending on body weight.
Water is the most crucial nutrient for your poultry. Water intake for poultry can change depending of the level of sodium and potassium salts, protein and fibre and a few other ingredients can form the basis on the amount of water required.
When your chickens require water, they can be sensitive to the temperature of the water. Too warm and they will not touch it, especially in warm weather. Too cold in the winter months and the same can be said. As your chickens grow and increase in body size and fat their consumption of water decreases.
Not maintaining good drinking water can effect the growth of your chickens and egg production. So every effort should be made to make sure that your poultry have adequate water supply. This also minimises stress on your birds. A loss of 20% or more of water due to stress can actually cause death.
Change the water regularly and never underestimate the importance of water and the quality of water required. You can never be too careful on supplying good water to your poultry. Clean water containers daily or at the least every 2 days. With chickens clean your water containers twice daily to ensure that disease is kept to a minimum while your chickens are young.
There are many types of drink containers available, I have found the very small ones that come with a float attached are the best to use. They prevent the poultry from standing in our doing droppings in the water. These small float style water feeders can be purchased from your local pet shop and attached to a plastic bottle like a coke bottle. Easy to change and easy to replace the bottle if needed. |
Q: leaking memory and possible malloc error I am building an array and I want it to be a fixed size so that as I read in a file it only stores the last 10 commands. The file seems to read in correctly and it looks right when I print it but for some reason my memory is not getting freed.
MAX is set to 1000
and historySize is read earlier from the user. I ran valgrind on my code and when the calls to these functions are commented out I do not have any leaks.
I have a char ** history under my #includes
Here is my code
void setupHistoryFile()
{
char string[MAX];
FILE *fp;
int len;
int pos = 0;
fp = fopen(".ush_history","r");
if(fp == NULL)
{
//create the file
fp = fopen(".ush_history","w");
}
else
{
history = (char**)malloc(historySize * sizeof(char*));//setup history file
fgets(string,MAX,fp);
len = strlen(string);
if(string[len-1]=='\n')
string[len-1]='\0';
while(!feof(fp))
{
if(history[pos] != NULL)
{
free(history[pos]);
history[pos]=NULL;
}
history[pos] = (char*)malloc((strlen(string)+1) * sizeof(char));
//printf("Should be copying %s\n",string);
strcpy(history[pos], string);
pos++;
pos = pos % historySize;
fgets(string,MAX,fp);
len = strlen(string);
if(string[len-1]=='\n')
string[len-1]='\0';
}
}
fclose(fp);
}
I do have a function that cleans the history and it looks like this
void cleanHistory()
{
int i;
if(history != NULL)
{
for(i=0;i<historySize;i++)
{
free(history[i]);
history[i] = NULL;
}
free(history);
history = NULL;
}
}
A: When you allocate memory with malloc, the chunk of memory allocated is not initialized. That means that if you do something like history[pos] != NULL might actually be true even if you haven't put anything there.
To be certain that the allocated memory is initialized, either use calloc or memset.
Edit
To be more specific, this part of your code will behave badly:
if(history[pos] != NULL)
{
free(history[pos]);
history[pos]=NULL;
}
If you are not lucky, history[pos] will contain some old data, which means you will try to free something you have not allocated.
As a small side-note, you should be looping while fgets doesn't return NULL. As it is now you don't check for errors from fgets. Something like this:
while (fgets(...) != NULL)
Then you don't need the double calls to fgets, and you will stop looping on both error and end of file.
A: You allocate memory for history, but you don't initialize it. That means at first pas through history, it might happen that history[pos] is not allocated, nor NULL, and you'll try to deallocate unallocated memory.
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This sounds like something I would do when I get married. I'll provide the wine, the crackling fire, and the fluffy couch pillows. You provide the books and the cozy pajama pants. Who's in?
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Two weeks ago during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Netflix earlier announced that it was beginning a roll out in 130 new markets which included Kenya. The service Netflix launched in Kenya allows a user to stream unlimited televisions shows and movies for a one-off fee between $8-11. A subscriber can stream content on their personal computers, Xbox 360, Blu-ray disc players, set-top boxes and even Android and iOS. The launch in Kenya was met with excitement with many on social media and many Kenyans have since signed up to the service and thus enjoying the free one month subscription.
The launch met interesting opposition from the Kenya Film Classification Board, which stated that Netflix contravened the boards regulations. The opposition by KFCB led to heated discussion with many question the Board's ability to regulate the streaming service. Newly appointed ICT CS Joe Mucheru stated that Kenya lacked the policies and capacity to regulate such over-the-top service. The Communications Authority of Kenya Director General Francis Wangusi also stated that the model of distribution used by Netflix means the service is not subject to Kenyan laws.
The KFCB released a statement today affirming it has the capacity to regulate Netflix as per The Films and Stage Acts Cap 22 that gives the authority power to regulate creation, broadcast, distribution, possession and exhibition of audiovisual content in the country. The board cites its mandate of ensuring content distributed in Kenya meets a threshold that respects Kenya's cultural and national values to which it states some of the content on Netflix fails to meet their classification criteria and ratings. In its statement, the board absolves itself stating that content showing in Kenya should be regulated by the body irrespective of the mode of transmission.
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IN THE RING: Caribbean American Enters 2020 U.S. Presidential Race
In a less that 25-minute informal gathering with reporters at Florida Memorial University (FMU) in Miami Gardens, following his formal announcement that he was running for president of the United States, Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam was called an "underdog" and "long shot" candidate.
Congresswoman Has Deep Concern Over Immigration Ruling
NEW YORK – Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has expressed deep concern over a ruling in the United States Supreme Court, which allows Caribbean and other immigrants facing deportation to be detained even after they have completed their prison terms.
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava Issues Be Strong International County Proclamation
MIAMI, FL – Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava honored Be Strong International with a proclamation recognizing March 23, 2019 as "Have a Heart Day."
POWER GRAB: Caribbean American Legislators Condemn Trump's 'Emergency'
NEW YORK – Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke described as a "power grab" United States President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
Haiti Gov't Falls, P.M. Resigns, Prez Urged to do Same, Protests Continue
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Six months after he was sworn into office, the government of Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant was forced out last month after the Lower Chamber of Deputies voted overwhelming to remove it from office.
Jamaica's Reggae Girlz Set to Make Historic Debut at FIFA Women's World Cup in France
KINGSTON, JAMAICA – Jamaica's Reggae Girlz will be one of four newcomers to soccer's global showpiece, the FIFA Women's World Cup, which gets underway on June 7, 2019 in France. This historic feat was achieved last October when the Reggae Girlz became the first Caribbean nation to qualify for the Women's World Cup,defeating Panama on penalties in the third-place game at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament.
Haitians Get Relief as U.S. Extends TPS Through Jan. 2020
Haitian nationals living in the United States under temporary protected status (TPS) will be allowed to stay in the U.S. under that program for at least another 10 months.
U.S. Group Honors Former Jamaica P.M.
Team Jamaica Bickle, a United States-based hospitality group, is honoring former Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first female leader, was among several individuals scheduled to be honored on April 1 at TBJ's 25th anniversary reception in Kingston.
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Thousands of Caribbean nationals were again forcibly removed from the United States as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to crack down on undocumented residents and non-citizen criminals.
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Urea, also known as carbamide or urea n46, is the most regularly used nitrogen fertilizer in the world. Numerous agricultural and polymer applications employ this additive, and it can effectively reduce automotive-related air pollutants.
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adaptable for various crops and features a high nitrogen content that encourages plant growth. Feed-grade urea can also provide protein to livestock as an ingredient in cattle feed.
Further, urea plays a vital role in the polymer industry. Plastics, inks, textile finishes, adhesives, and similar products all contain the substance. You can also use urea to produce resins, which are commonly used in plywood production, cosmetics, and paints.
More recently, urea has been used to reduce air pollution from diesel engines. These engines produce high concentrations of the pollutant nitric oxide, which can be removed if it reacts with ammonia. However, since ammonia is unsafe to handle alone, a solution of urea can be dissolved in water and injected into the exhaust's gases. It will safely decompose to carbon dioxide and ammonia, thus reducing the nitric oxide pollutant to nitrogen.
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Urea is a compound produced from a chemical formula of carbon dioxide and ammonia. It is composed of 46 percent nitrogen, making it the most concentrated nitrogen fertilizer available. The compound contains a carbonyl group attached to two amine groups.
Human and animal urine naturally contains urea as the result of ammonia produced by amino acid deamination. It can also be synthesized artificially. The compound is solid, white, and odorless, and it is sold in either crystal or pellet form.
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Zurich sued for £1.3m fire claim
By Ben Cook 2004-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
Property fire leads to claims against Zurich and Amlin
Zurich is being sued for £1.3m by property company Morant Investments in a breach of contract row.
The dispute relates to a fire in May 2003 at Morant's property at 58 Commercial Street, London. The property was insured by Zurich.
In its High Court claim, Morant said that, following the fire, it had suffered losses totalling £1.2m, plus loss of rent totalling £150,000.
Morant said: "The defendant [Zurich] is liable to indemnify Morant in respect of the said loss pursuant to the terms of the property policy but, in breach of contract, has failed to do so."
A Zurich statement said: "We can confirm that we are in the process of investigating a claim by Morant Investments in connection with a fire at its premises on 26 May, 2003. However it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further at this stage."
In the same claim, the building's occupant, sportswear retailer Supersport, is suing Lloyd's insurer Amlin for £300,000.
Amlin insured Supersport against various risks associated with the storage of its stock.
Supersport said it suffered losses totalling £300,000 as a result of the fire but that Amlin had, in breach of contract, failed to pay out on the claim.
Amlin declined to comment on the case.
Morant and Supersport are claiming a total of £1,650,000 plus interest on the sum at a rate of 8% amounting to £69,073.
In the claim Morant and Supersport stated that "on or about 26 May, 2003, the property and the sports clothing and footwear stored therein was substantially damaged by fire and further wet damaged by the actions of the fire brigade in putting out the fire".
Supersport is involved in the wholesale and retail of sports clothing and footwear. The company used the property at Commercial Street as a warehouse to store sportswear. |
Renewable technology deals soar, claims PwC analysis
A study by PwC has noted a 40% increase in renewable technology deals in 2011, but Alex Blackburne explains how this year's fortunes are heavily dependent on how the Eurozone plays out. This means 2012 might not be quite as encouraging.
In 2011, a record $53.5 billion (£33.9 billion) was spent on renewable technology deals worldwide – a 40% jump from the £38.2 billion (£24.2 billion) recorded the year before, according to professional services firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
In a report titled, Renewables Deals: 2012 outlook and 2011 review, PwC say the $15.3 billion (£9.7 billion) increase was largely down to advances in the solar and energy efficiency sectors, which combined, accounted for 79% of the upsurge.
Paul Nillesen, partner at PwC renewables, commented on the encouraging figures.
He said, "Sustained high deal numbers and record total value reflect a maturing of the sector.
"The trend is all the more noteworthy given the uncertainty in the market and in government policies on renewables".
This promising trend isn't necessarily going to continue into 2012, though.
The report points to a "rolling uncertainty scenario" with regards to the eurozone, stating that the number of deals is likely to diminish if there were to be a major crisis.
"Worries about a further recession, constraints on financing and fears of a worst case collapse will inevitably cause dealmakers to continually reassess their options over the coming months", it reads.
However, Nillesen said the market uncertainty might not necessarily rule out big deals.
"Staying out of the markets in the hope things will improve cannot be assumed to be the right strategy", he said.
"The potential for further destabilisation domestically, or at an inter-governmental level cannot be ruled out, but if a deal is highly strategic, and mission critical, then parties will still feel it is worth doing on the right terms".
The following chart underlines what percentage of the total deal value each renewable sector contributed to in 2010 and 2011.
Click to enlarge.Wind power was knocked off its 2010 top spot by a budding solar industry that storms to the top despite recent uncertainty surrounding the feed-in tariff scheme.
The PwC report goes on to highlight the increased involvement of pension funds in the renewables industry.
It picks out Denmark – already world leaders in wind power – as the frontrunners at encouraging offshore wind power pension funds. This, it says, is likely to become a growing trend elsewhere in the world, including the UK.
Adam Bell, communications manager at RenewableUK, the trade and professional body for the UK wind and marine renewables industries, welcomed PwC's findings.
"Its findings show that despite both policy and broader economic uncertainty, the [renewables] market continues to both strengthen and mature", he said.
"The entry of institutional investors such as pension funds into the market is a further indication of the secure returns that renewables can offer, not just for investors, but for the wider economy too".
Head of external affairs at the not-for-profit Renewable Energy Association (REA), Leonie Greene, was similarly positive about the PwC report.
"It's good to see renewable energy breaking another record", she said.
"Many countries now recognise that renewables are a driver of, and not a drain on, economic growth".
Greene added that the REA was "cautiously optimistic" about renewable technology progress in the UK, but says we all need to ensure that we're singing from the same hymn sheet.
"We want to see UK firms thriving in the global market which is clearly increasingly competitive", she identified.
"The UK needs to strengthen its position in the global market in many technology areas.
"It is vital that the coalition Government pulls in one direction on renewables and provides investor confidence across the three key sectors: heat, power and transport.
"We'd like to see a clear UK industrial strategy on renewables to ensure the UK maximises its manufacturing, employment and export opportunities".
The PwC analysis clearly proves that the renewable technology industry is thriving, and if things play out well in the eurozone, on the up as well.
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The Chase Kirby is located on the school premises of Kirby Academy, Halstead Road, Kirby Cross.
Although the Nursery is situated safely in the Kirby Primary School premises, the Nursery is privately owned by The Chase Nurseries and we pride ourselves on OUTSTANDING provision. We benefit from being situated on the school grounds as we have access to fantastic outdoor facilities and over look the horses. The Nursery provide care and learning for 24 children at any one time with a dedicated and very strong team.
The nursery is one large room with the developmental areas covered in sections of the room. It has a large cloakroom where the children have their own pegs and trays.We have a large outside area with an undercover sandpit, a play shed, construction area, mud kitchen and much more. We also have access to the schools outside areas (large playgrounds, fields, football pitches and basketball courts), and can use the school hall for dance.
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Nature Work was born out of the desire of two talented musicians to work together more closely. Jason Stein and Greg Ward boldly added the incomparable talents of Eric Revis and Jim Black to give their ensemble an unpredictable and intriguing blend of strength, intelligence and adventure, which can be heard on the new recording, Nature Work.
There is a place in improvisation where it is in the service of the music to shut off the conscious mind and let the subconscious takeover. Bass clarinetist, composer, and improviser Jason Stein thinks of the work of the subconscious as a natural expression and, thus, considers the act of playing and composing as "nature work." There might not be a better example of this process than with Stein and saxophonist/composer Greg Ward's collaborative ensemble, Nature Work.
The Chicago based Stein and Ward are well known in the more expressive corners of the jazz world. Focusing on the bass clarinet, Stein has gained notoriety for his breadth and skill on his horn, not to mention his activity in numerous ensembles. Ward has also made a name for himself as an exceptional player and composer. Stein and Ward are inheritors and explorers of the boundaries between composition and free improvisation stemming from the legendary work of Chicago's own Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, as well as the Ken Vandermark-born, DIY school of eclecticism in music, with a focus on improvisation.
The two woodwind players have known each other and have played in a multitude of musical settings over the past decade. Stein and Ward really began to gel as they toured with Mike Reed's Flesh and Bone ensemble from 2016 to 2018, which led them to look for the right opportunity for putting their own group together.
Long having been a fan of bassist Eric Revis (Branford Marsalis Quartet and Tarbaby), Stein invited him along with the dynamo drummer Jim Black (Human Feel, Alax No Axis and Tim Berne's Bloodcount) and Ward to play a couple of gigs in Chicago. Four individuals from various places (Chicago, Los Angeles & Brooklyn/Berlin) came together to perform high-energy, creative music and Nature Work was born.
The concept around the ensemble seems simple: gather talented musicians who are comfortable at the crossroads of composition and improvisation and create inspired music. The true test is finding musicians who have a natural connection, though they may not have ever played together before (as was the case with Revis and Black). The dynamic of the two horn players matched with the steadfast solidity of Revis and the rhythmic fluidity of Black allow the ensemble to create music that is at times intricate and at times unhinged, but all in the service of creativity.
The compositions on the album are split between writers Stein and Ward. Nature Work used the two performances as rehearsals for their recording session at the beginning of January 2018 at Electronic Audio in Chicago.
The program begins with Ward's jittery "The Shiver," which provides an intricate horn duo over a driving rock rhythm that unexpectedly breaks into swing. Led in by a poignant Revis bass solo, Stein's "Hem The Jewels" reimagines one of sax legend Julius Hemphill's compositional themes before opening up for some impressive solo performances. Stein's "Porch Time" is based on complicated rhythms as the ensemble leans on Revis's time keeping to propel it over Black's deliciously manic drumming. Ward's "Zenith" features the contrast of Black's off-kilter drums versus the low end horns.
Stein's "Opter Fopter" takes its name from his daughter's catch-all title for all illustrators and is a colorful example of the dynamic and expressive range of the ensemble. Ward's "Cryptic Ripple" is quietly pulsing until it explodes with the kinetic energy of free improv, while the saxophonist's "Tah Dazzle" is a buoyantly direct piece that allows the soloists to soar over the driving rhythm section. Stein's "South Hempstead" has a junkyard mentality picked up from the streets of the town the bass clarinetist lived in on Long Island. The recording concludes with Ward's softly swelling "Rise," which builds into an impressive display of interplay and passion.
Nature Work is a collection of fervent improvisers who bring a great intensity and willingness to the interpretation of the compositions of Stein and Ward while adding their unique improvisational voice to the collective sound.
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Once a bistro, that was turned into a gourmet brasserie, yet still retaining its original Art Deco and Art Nouveau styling, the Terminus Nord has been serving French cuisine for businessmen and travellers since 1925 who wish to enjoy a gourmet meal before boarding their train from the Gare de Nord.
Formerly a train station bistro with a warm atmosphere, it was a popular place for people to come for a delightful meal prior to travelling, and when a gentleman fled from the Alsace region after it was annexed to Germany, he took over this bistro in Paris, and turned it into a gourmet brasserie where people would flock to and even enjoy live piano music.
The relaxing calm atmosphere, its history and the decor have remained, and the Terminus Nord has gone from strength to strength, yet going inside is like stepping back in time to the beginning of the 20th century with its high ceilings, the mahogany wood, mirrors and copper.
When visiting this brasserie the Art Deco influences of the chandeliers, wall lights, frescos and posters can be enjoyed within the main dining room, whereas the Art Nouveau styles from the Belle Epoque era are to be found in the small cosy lounge, which is at the back of the restaurant, and here you can enjoy the mosaics, glass features and many floral designs.
And catering for the needs of travellers for over a century of departures from the Gare du Nord, which is actually the busiest train station in Paris, you will find that the staff at the Terminus Nord Brasserie are exceedingly efficient and treat everyone with same respect, whether it be an actor, parliamentary member or a tourist having been on holiday in the city of lights.
The gourmet French cuisine complements the setting with its beautifully presented dishes mixing traditional classics with a modern touch and contemporary dishes to suit all tastes, and the Terminus Nord have certain specialities like calf's sweetbread casserole with Morels and their signature dish of Bouillabaisse.
This gourmet restaurant in Paris also specialises in seafood dishes including platters that range in cost from €27 up to €124 as of 2014 with the ultimate being the Royal Platter that includes an assortment of 18 oysters along with a whole crab and lobster. Yet you can opt for shellfish or crustaceans such as lobster, crab, prawns, langoustines, oysters, mussels, etc all available individually depending upon your tastes or budget and these range in cost from €6.50 up to €43. Plus they have a seafood takeaway option as well.
However, the Terminal Nord also provides Formulas, which are like specific menus and these are available every day except for the evening before a National French holiday, the holiday itself, or on other exceptional days like Valentines day.
The standard Formula menu provides a starter and main course or main course and dessert for €28.50, or you could opt for a three course for €35.50 as of 2014, and with a choice for each course, you could be tempted by delights such as duck Foie Gras with a fruit chutney and toasted bread for starters followed by Chicken supreme served with fresh market vegetables.
However, then Terminal Nord also has a Prestige Formula menu, which is a three course for €47 as of 2014 with starters such as crab meat and avocado tarter in citrus for starters followed by heart of rump steak with coarse mashed potatoes flavoured with black truffle for instance.
But there is also an a la carte menu with fish dishes ranging in cost from €23 up to €39 and meat main courses from €21 up to €36, along with a dedicated childrens menu available.
You could also opt for breakfast at this gourmet brasserie in Paris served daily from opening until 10.30am, plus there is a formula known as tea time, where you can enjoy a hot drink and a pastry, which is available at any time.
So if you wish to have a memorable meal in a beautiful setting prior boarding your train back home, a family gathering, business meeting or even a romantic evening meal, then the Terminal Nord is a great place that will not disappoint.
The Terminus Nord is open seven days a week all year round, normally from 7.30am through to midnight. However, on a Sunday it is only open from 8am through to 11pm, and this is the same times during the months of July and August along with on National French holidays.
You may also be pleased to know that this restaurant in Paris is air conditioned, has disabled access, free WiFi and the staff also speak English, German and Spanish along with French, and there are also menus available in English as well.
Breakfast is served from opening through to 10.30am and you can also have tea with a pastry any time of day, plus there is also a dedicated childrens menu, a seafood stand, express menu for those of you on a tight schedule and even a seafood takeaway option as well.
And when it comes to getting to the Terminus Nord gourmet restaurant, this is located in the 10th Arrondissement right by the Gare du Nord train station, which serves the Metro lines 4 and 5 along with the RER trains via lines B, D and E. |
A strategy for maintaining and advancing U of T's global standing
December 1, 2013 | By Meric Gertler
Twentieth in the world (according to the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings), eighth in the world in scientific performance (according to the 2013 National Taiwan University Ranking), second in the world in total output of scholarly publications (after Harvard), first in Canada in all of these rankings, and yet last in Canada – and amongst the very lowest in North America – when it comes to public funding per student.
Our ability to achieve these incredible results in the face of such a significant resource handicap is nothing short of remarkable. Simply put, this institution defies gravity. It is Canada's leading research-intensive university in one field after another, spanning the humanities, medicine, engineering, sciences, social sciences, law, social work and many other professional disciplines.
What may be less obvious from our global rankings is that U of T is arguably Canada's most accessible university. Our remarkable student aid policy states: "No student offered admission to a program at the University of Toronto should be unable to enter or complete the program due to lack of financial means." We spend more than $150 million every year, over and above student aid support from government, to make good on this pledge.
Very few other universities in the world deliver on this dual mandate of research excellence and openness as well as U of T does. It is embodied in the experience of Jessica Yeung, who came to Canada from Hong Kong as a child. A fourth-year undergraduate student in linguistics and the first in her family to attend university, she is working with University Professor Keren Rice, one of the world's leading experts in the linguistic analysis and preservation of aboriginal languages.
Great stories such as Jessica's are found right across this university. They demonstrate that the University of Toronto is a merit-based portal of opportunity for many thousands of academically qualified students.
Our openness is not confined to residents of the Toronto region, Ontario – or even Canada. International students make up 20 per cent of our incoming undergraduate class this year. They are drawn here, in increasing numbers, to learn from – and work with – our leading scholars. And many of them stay in Canada once they graduate, building careers and spurring creativity and innovation in one sector of the economy after another.
Our university, then, is a critical piece of social infrastructure – one that opens up opportunities for newcomers and provides them with the foundation they need to thrive and contribute to the economic and social well-being of Toronto, Ontario and Canada.
As an institution, we have much to be proud of. Here, I must acknowledge the phenomenal contributions of my predecessor David Naylor, who has steered this institution through challenging times with such clear vision, firm resolve, and utter dedication.
As we look to the future, though, we face some increasingly strong headwinds that could threaten our top-20 global standing and prevent us from moving forward.
Public funding – already scarce – could become even more so if the fiscal position of our government partners deteriorates. Institutions of higher learning find themselves under increasing pressure to produce "job-ready" graduates, and to abandon the time-honoured ideal of a broadly based education. And we now face intense competition as the dissemination of knowledge explodes throughout the online world.
How are we going to meet these formidable challenges if we hope to maintain and advance our global standing? The ingenuity, creativity and efficiency of our faculty, staff and academic leaders will be central to our efforts, of course. The support of our alumni, benefactors and friends has never been more important than it is today, and will become even more so in the next few years.
I believe three strategies will also help ensure our success: leveraging our location more fully; strengthening our international partnerships; and re-examining, and perhaps even reinventing, undergraduate education.
It is our great good fortune to be situated in the world's most open, cosmopolitan and globalized city-region. If we are to achieve our full potential in the future, we must leverage our location within this urban region of six million plus people more fully.
Already, our students engage in learning-by-doing, working with community partners in neighbourhoods right across the GTA. Our faculty also benefit from our location in Greater Toronto. They gain the opportunity to work on urban issues to advance our understanding of how cities develop over time. In this way, they lend their expertise to government agencies, citizens' groups and community based organizations on major urban policy questions.
But we must seek new opportunities to open up our campuses to the city around us, using our physical spaces to convene public discussions of the most pressing urban issues of the day. We need to identify our most successful examples of community outreach and partnership, and scale them up to generate more opportunities for our students and faculty, and more benefit for our local partners – public, private and non-profit. By working more closely with local groups to meet challenges and seize opportunities together, we will make this region a better place in which to live, work and prosper.
Second, at a time when we are keen to expand our role as a city-building institution at home, it makes particularly good sense for us to leverage our partnerships with other great universities in other great world cities. Many of these institutions are engaging in their own city-building efforts, and can offer us access to their local projects, practices and partnerships. Not only does this open up fantastic research opportunities for our faculty and students and encourage our students to become global citizens, it also allows us to bring this experience and expertise to Toronto.
The third strategy is to build on the transformation in undergraduate education that has occurred at U of T over the past eight years. We have multiplied small-group learning opportunities. We have pioneered the use of online technologies, and we have learned much about how to use these tools both to substitute for and to complement classroom based learning. We need to extend this work further, and study the effectiveness of online teaching in real time so that we can reap valuable knowledge from our experience. We also need to support the growing interest in entrepreneurial activity amongst our students, and to provide more opportunities for them to study in professional programs.
At the same time, we need to remind our partners in government and business, as well as the taxpayer, that the value of a university education needs to be measured along many dimensions. In addition to enjoying better employment prospects upon graduation, we know that citizens with a university education are more civically engaged, enjoy healthier and longer lives, accumulate higher lifetime earnings, are less likely to engage in crime or to depend on social assistance, and . . . they are happier.
There is one further and very important element that will be required: we'll need more support from our government partners, at all levels, if we are to succeed. We are grateful for their support in the past. But if we are to achieve our ambitious goals, we need our public-sector partners to recognize – through their funding and their policies – that institutions like the University of Toronto play a unique and differentiated role within Canadian higher education. Just imagine, if we succeed on all of these fronts, what heights we can reach.
While the challenges we face are great and our need to innovate has never been greater, the opportunities have never been more appealing. I look forward to working closely with all parts of the U of T community to build on our wonderful foundations and move this great good place forward.
This is an abridged version of U of T President Meric Gertler's installation speech on Nov. 7, 2013. Read the full text here: president.utoronto.ca/installation-address
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The Branigan Cultural Center is the closest thing to a vister's center that Las Cruces has, and although it may be small, it's worth stopping by at least once, if for no other reason than to say you have.
The cultural center is divided into three basic sections. The first section covers the history of southern New Mexico and Las Cruces. The majority of the pictures and info are similar to other museums in other parts of New Mexico; however the Las Cruces information is quite unique. The bigger museums in places like Albuquerque and Santa Fe tend to focus more on the history of their own region rather than that of their southern neighbors.
The second section is comprised of a hallway containing family histories of some of Las Cruces' oldest families (and I'm sure center contributers) and an open room with a stage. The day I went the room was being used as an art gallery for a water color exhibit. All the art was that of southern New Mexico. Some were quite good and some not so much. I realize that I'm no art critic, but I just don't see how a water color of a yucca plant is art. Again, that may just be me. |
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'Million Little Things' star wins the crying game
Stephanie Szostak has the most resilient tear ducts on television.
For the first six episodes of ABC's "A Million Little Things," she cried her way through scene after scene as her character, Delilah Dixon, coped with the unexpected suicide of her husband, Jon (Ron Livingston). "I never go after the crying," says Szostak, 43. "I thought, 'If it happens, it happens.' We actually did shoot a scene where she completely breaks down and that didn't go into the show. In real-life, there's a point when you have no tears left."
Delilah is not quite there yet, but fortunately for Szostak, she's not the kind of widow who wears black for a year. She has two children to raise. And there's one other thing. Let's call it Big Secret No. 1: At the time of Jon's office balcony leap, Delilah was in bed with her lover, Eddie (David Guintoli), one of Jon's best friends, an unhappily married 40-year-old guitar teacher.
"Jon was the provider and the responsible one, but he didn't hear or see Delilah," says Szostak, 43. "Eddie is in the same situation. Their spouses don't appreciate them. They find a real connection."
"A Million Little Things" wouldn't be ABC's answer to "This Is Us" if there wasn't a Big Secret No. 2: Delilah is pregnant. Delilah was so tortured that she tried to terminate the pregnancy — the show's most graphic scene. "It was an uncomfortable moment to film and an uncomfortable moment to live in," she says. "While I was doing the scene, I felt how your mind says one thing, but your heart says something else. You did not know what Delilah was going to do until the last second. It felt like an eternity."
Szostak was born in France, in the Parisian suburb of La Celle Ste. Cloud, to a French mother and American father. She moved to the US after high school to attend the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. "We don't have liberal arts colleges in France and we don't have college sports and I play golf competitively," she says. Her father introduced her to the game and she credits golf with improving her powers of concentration.
"A round of golf is four hours. You can't let the bad shots get in the way of the good ones." she says. "I think golf is a really good way to develop a good mental game."
Before she went into acting, Szotak modeled and had a career in marketing, working at Chanel, a handy reference point for her role opposite Meryl Streep's beastly Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada." Szostak played Jacqueline Follet, the editor of French Vogue, and says their rapport was easy enough that she was able to improvise en francais with Streep. "I said she had earrings like the Eiffel Tower," Szostak says. "She said, 'Deux Tour Eiffels.' Didn't make it into the movie."
"A Million Little Things" films in Vancouver, taking Szostak far from her husband, Britt, and their two sons, who live in Connecticut. She flies home as often as she can. With the show wrapping early next year, she'll get a break from the sobbing. "Delilah and Eddie are two characters the fans have a hard time understanding and forgiving," she says.
"We all make mistakes. I feel for Delilah."
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Abu Dhabi airports Company (Adac) yesterday said that Abu Dhabi International Airport has received regulatory approval for enhanced low visibility operations.
This approval, the first of its kind in the Middle East, allows aircraft to safely manoeuvre in low visibility conditions.
The newly operational second runway is planned to be CAT III B approach rated in 2009.
The announcement reflects the upgrading of the airport's original runway, which can now be utilised when visibility falls below 200m. Widely expected to help reduce delays associated with weather conditions, such as heavy fog, the new classification puts Abu Dhabi International Airport up among a select number of airports in the world.
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Corbynism from Below
Posted on 20th November 2019 // Britain / Labour Party // 0 Comments
Corbynism from Below edited by Mark Perryman, Lawrence and Wishart (2019) reviewed by Dave Kellaway
In France and Italy political leaders like Mélenchon or Bertinotti inevitably write tomes about their political philosophy and strategic projects but here this is rarer at least within the social democratic tradition. There is no book by Corbyn comprehensively outlining his ideas while John McDonnell has contributed articles to collections but mostly on Labour's economic policies. Most books about Corbynism have been by academics or journalists. This collection, edited by Mark Perryman about the politics of Corbynism is notable for being written by activists.
The seventeen articles do not form a manifesto; they are ecumenical in scope. Authors range from those on the softer left who argue for a more pluralist approach towards other 'progressive forces' to Corbyn supporters who are building currents outside the Labour Party. Mark Perryman does a good job, drawing together a wide variety of perspectives which reflect real debates taking place in the movement today. While the articles cover different areas, the arguments between them are sometimes fierce.
Everyone agrees that Corbynism will not survive unless it is transformative: "Corbynism from Below seeks to explore the breadth and depth that is required for a project of transformation of party and political culture to sustain and develop the momentum for change" p.1
The book is organised in four sections: a) various models of Labour leadership; b) models of Labour membership and campaigning; c) the causes and effects of the setbacks since the 2017 general election and d) looking forward to the remaking of Corbynism 'from below'.
Perryman's long opening overview piece identifies Corbynism's origins and avoids any exaggeration of the movements' role (which Lindsay German's later piece tends to do). He neatly names four components of the current (p.19) :
a) the 'stay-at-homes' – remnants of the Bennite left that stayed in the party, know how the party works, have now won some of the levers of power inside the party and won't let them go in a hurry. He implies they can be a bit sniffy against new people or returners
b) the 'come-back homes' –like a) but bailed out over the new Labour and the Iraq war, dropped out of activity but kept their principles
c) the 'at last we have found a home to call our own' , mainly over thirty, voted Labour or Green, previously unconvinced of the point of joining, often active in unions and campaigns
d) the 'home from other homes', under thirty, political experience is post Blair/Brown and often radicalised over student fees, very keen on social movements.
One could also add those Marxist and radical currents who have joined and are no longer building a distinct political party in electoral competition – most of Left Unity for instance. Of course the SWP, the Socialist Party and Counterfire have rejected the tactic of building Corbynism from within Labour. This means they usually end up cheering Corbyn on and condemning his opponents in Labour but are absent from the main battlefield.
At the end of his piece, Perryman correctly identifies the Brexit impasse it as the 'biggest, single, at times almost insurmountable, barrier to all the hopes placed in Corbynism'. He does not downplay the issue or think if we just concentrate on the bread and butter questions it would be superseded. However he focuses on the poor Remain campaign and the 'arrogance of remain voters' rather than on characterising the rightwing nature of the Brexit project. Probably written before the positive shifts in the Labour Party position, he is sceptical about calls for a people's vote and sees it purely in terms of possible lost seats. Finally there is a plea for the politics of 'we' which tends to say the real issue is not Brexit but the state of my child's school, which reflects a confused slippage from his earlier point above. But if people saying Brexit is their number one issue it is no good just counter-posing education cuts to them. Fighting such cuts will be more difficult under a Johnson-led Brexit government.
Lindsay German doesn't overcome the contradiction of being external to many fights through not being in the Labour Party. She argues that the extra-parliamentary struggle is the primary way to take Corbynism forward and goes so far as to say: "it could be argued further that the Corbyn phenomenon, despite its roots in the movements, has not helped to strengthen those movements but in many ways weakened them, as the focus of political campaigning switches more sharply to Labour" (p.200).
It is one thing is to recognise the limits of institutional change but it is another to continually overegg the strength and depth of movements. She overstates the role of movements in the rise of Corbynism and fails to see that, given the relationship of forces, mass mobilisations are more likely to strengthen as a result of a Corbyn government. In any case the political content of any street level insurgency, as she dubs it, is crucial – and that is not as independent as she thinks from what happens within the Labour Party.
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Lorna Finlayson gives a largely descriptive account of how Corbyn won the leadership and how he held off the attacks of the Labour right wing. She correctly identifies the stakes involved in a Tory reelection: the reactionary forces strengthened by the leave vote will proceed to attack the remaining gains of the 1945 settlement.
Andrew Gamble emphasises the international right wing shift and cites Chantal Mouffe on the need for the left to create its own version of the popular democratic. He favours more collaboration between liberal, green, social democratic and socialist currents and changing the tribal, sectarian culture of the Labour Party. There is a utopian bent to his position which underestimates the opposition to the Corbyn project within Labour.
Neil Lawson argues similarly, tending to ignore the class basis of politics and its relation to both economic exploitation and the state and proposing a left populism that includes everyone from the Labour PLP opposition to some Liberals. He recommends tactical voting for the Liberal Democrats – skating over their support for neo-liberal economics. But both he and Gamble are right about Labour needing to be open to collaboration with the Greens and the SNP to block Brexit or enable an anti-austerity government to be installed.
Corbynism's periodisation is outlined by Phil Burton-Cartledge; the leadership election in 2015, the second leadership challenge after the EU referendum and then the third wave after the remarkable 2017 election campaign. The period after the current election will surely mark the fourth wave.
He highlights the difficulty of developing a new culture in Labour Party branches often dominated by an experienced but old left cadre. New members often work in the gig economy, may not be unionised but are social network savvy. How do you convince them that support for the leadership necessitates battling to win party positions? Political education is vital to explore class, political economy and the state – and challenge the widespread notion of the 'neutral state'. Without raising the political level then crude conspiracy theories, loose political formulations leaking into antisemitism and blind loyalty to the leadership can be risks.
Jeremy Gilbert's Acid Corbynism asks: "What kind of persons might Corbynism want to help produce…people equipped to both navigate and when required overcome the complexities of everyday life and be joyful in the fact of their infinite relationality, and to do this as part of local, national and global communities"
He encourages us to lose the self in a mystical materialism that uses Buddhist and other meditative practices. There are nuggets of truth here – to make the movement really strong and resilient we need a leap forward in how people feel and relate. The personal choices the climate crisis demands overlap here, we cannot be neutral about how individuals act.
Building Blocs from below
Two articles by Jess Garland and then Emma Rees and Adam Klug focus on organising. Garland correctly argues that we need to not just change how Labour works organisationally but that the parliamentary system must also changed. Electoral reform – the Achilles heel of most of the Labour left – is essential. Klug and Rees draw on the US experience to argue for both a big political vision and big organising, exploiting social media to the full. Nothing much to disagree with, particularly the need to empower members to have more of a say in campaigns so that it is not just top-down. The subsequent article by Anne Coddington goes into great detail on how social media campaigning works and how we need to create our own media. Heather Wakefield gives an updated view on the state of the relationship between unions and Labour, particularly on the role of women coming into conflict with Labour councils as in Birmingham.
James Meadway's article is one of the shortest but best, correctly emphasising how the scale of defeats the movement has suffered weighs on the situation. This recognition of how the 'great movement of ours' no longer exists is a useful rejoinder to contributors such as German who does not really assess the relationship of forces. Meadway fleshes out the crisis of decomposition defined by Cartledge previously, talking about a series of disparate movements that come and go. He debunks the myth that the 70s are just around the corner and a new shop stewards type movement will emerge from some spontaneous strike wave. In other words that the class just lacks confidence or the right leadership.
The converse myth that these diverse movements add up to something greater or that their very fragmentation is a good thing – a thesis supported by people like Negri and Hardt with their talk of the multitude against the Empire – is similarly critiqued. Instead we need to develop a mass popular programme of education in political economy and develop 'organic' intellectuals embedded in the movement and not just the universities with the aim of:"building a mass movement for a new economy, one that places the values of solidarity, sustainability and democracy at its centre, but that has the strategic sense to know how to apply them in the reality of our torrid present" p.248
Gerry Hassan takes a different tack and addresses the nature of the British state and its relationship to Brexit. He captures the particular nature of Labour's nationalism, forged in the post-war settlement. He argues that it was founded on the principle of parliamentarianism as the primary and sovereign political authority using a powerful state to advance far reaching change often in the face of vested interests. It endorses the idea of British exceptionalism, a supposed uniqueness of British institutions' continuity and durability (unlike the Europeans) and sees Labour as a force for good in the world, overstating Britain's role in world and exaggerating its moral example (pp. 223-224)
Tony Benn, Corbyn's mentor, subscribed to this but Hassan correctly says that today such a 'Labour nation' is discredited as a road map for future politics. Unfortunately the Labour leadership has not really addressed these questions. Indeed much of the confusion around negotiating a 'good' Brexit deal flows from adherence to the Labour nation ideal. Historically the Morning Star and the Communist Party supported a version of this in the British Road to Socialism;. a progressive Labour government could occupy parliament and use it alongside progressive national capital against foreign or monopoly capital. The EU was later named as an obstacle to this national project.
Hassan favours a transformation that would entail the party abandoning its commitment to parliamentary sovereignty and the unwritten constitution, instead embracing shared sovereignty, a written constitution and codified rights, with checks and balances on central power. He is correct about the necessity to recognise Scotland's right to a referendum but his notion of re-imagining England as a nation separate from Britain is more problematic. But he nails the nature of Brexit: "Brexit has been driven by a reactionary English nationalism of exclusivity in thrall to the chimera of undiluted sovereignty". (p.236)
Satnam Virdee has an excellent piece which covers some of the same ground as Hassan and is particularly relevant given McCluskey's recent intervention against free movement. He is the clearest of all the contributors about the nature of Brexit: "At Brexit's core were concerns around immigration, with the migrant represented not just as an economic threat, but as a security threat as well."
He identifies the current opposition to free movement in how Labour historically made "demands for economic and social justice that were wilfully entangled with questions of national belonging…it offered a vision of the working class that identified certain racialized others as neither fully of that class nor of that nation." (p.209)
He gives examples of labour movement attitudes to Jews, Asian and Afro-Caribbean workers – for example a quota system on the buses in Wolverhampton. More recently a narrative about national decline and the white working class left behind has developed. You even had theorists like Blue Labour's Maurice Glassman and Jonathan Rutherford suggesting that working class voters could be won back to Labour through a rediscovery of its social conservative roots with a concern for 'family, faith and flag'. Notions of 'the people' are toxic precisely because of the mainstream historical narrative which presents a deeply racialised white version of this concept. Corbynism represents a hope but: "as presently constituted it retains intact a particular left understanding of the nation state that has been a feature of the labour movement since its formation, and which is now being reprised through the crisis of Brexit." p216
He sees some hope in the fact that the most dynamic and numerically significant layers of Corbyn supporters are from large cities and university towns, are younger and multi-ethnic/multi-national. A renewal of the left must be built with these activists.
History in the Remaking
Like several others, Paul Hilder is enthusiastic that: "a socialism from below is growing in our movement. We could call it networked labour. This movement is ours to weave and grow and no party apparatchik of whatever shade of red, has any right to stop it." p252
But it's a question of proportion. Social networks played a role in Corbynism's rise but the major factors were material political and social forces. In the context of few strikes and isolated social movements, networked activity can be a virtual space in which some continuity of progressive thinking can be sustained. But this is not the same as actively participating, building organisations on the ground. I think it is possible to reactivate local Labour party wards in a way that transfers or complements some of that networked energy into face to face activism whereas Hilder tends to think it can replace actual meetings and structures. He misunderstands what happened in Podemos where the networked set up weakened internal democracy, leading to a split and a profound weakening of local branches.
Hilder downplays the importance of political leadership and accountability. No amount of imaginative local campaigning can overcome the consequences of national political positions on Brexit or free movement for instance. He advocates citizens' assemblies, lots of primaries, more affiliated societies and even compulsory opting in of all workers into trade unions. He supports tactical voting. Inspired by Zack Exley and Becky Bond's Rules for Revolutionaries 2016, he tends to focus on the techniques of democratic involvement without worrying about political content. Consequently the battle with the Labour right wing is not considered and uninformed judgements, eg that Allende's government in Chile was 'socialism from below', are made.
Hilary Wainwright makes the final contribution. She defines Corbynism's dilemma as a "movement based on principles of popular democracy and militant direct action engaging in the electoral politics of a parliamentary system designed to disempower, and exclude radical politics rooted in the lives of disaffected citizens outside parliament – whether in workplaces, communities or whole regions and nations beyond London and the south east".
She proposes three things to help overcome this and radicalise the relationship between the Labour Party and social movements and deepen its democracy. Prefigurative politics, as seen in e.g. the struggle of precarious workers, in and against state – a formula also used by McDonnell – and party of movements, like what we saw with workers control initiatives in the 80s
Nobody can disagree with these sentiments but there is a tendency to overestimate the importance of some of the examples she cites such as the railway project in Norfolk or the Preston community wealth building work. She suggests the success of the 2017 election was down to this new form of organising whereas I think it was more complex, for example there was evidence of remainers backing Labour as the best bet at that time as the Lib Dem vote collapsed.
Her criticism of referendums to resolve issues like Brexit is correct but we are where we are and you have to deal with the reality facing you. The risk Brexit poses to the Corbyn project is underplayed and there are loose formulations about working class communities voting against a political class in 2015 which gives too much credence to some sort of progressive leave vote. However like Hassan she identifies the need for a democratic reform of the institutions.
Overall this book is required reading if you want to follow the live debate in and around the Corbyn movement. No doubt fresh chapters will be necessary after the coming election.
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The U.S. Government Placed a Big Bet on an Antiviral Pill to Fight COVID-19
By Jeffrey Kluger
We're not going to vaccinate our way completely out of this pandemic. With epidemiologists around the world increasingly accepting the reality that SARS-CoV-2 and its variants will become endemic viruses—like the seasonal flu—the push is on to develop antiviral medications that can be taken at home to prevent infections from leading to hospitalization and death. Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Biden Administration has authorized $3.2 billion to accelerate the development of antivirals already in the R&D pipeline, with the hope that at least one will be ready for release before the end of the year.
"The remarkable and rapid development of vaccines and testing technology has shown how agile scientific discovery can be," said Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in an HHS statement. "We will leverage these same strengths as we construct a platform for the discovery and development of effective antivirals."
The plan will focus on 19 drugs currently being investigated for their antiviral potential, with a goal of accelerating their development to Phase 2 clinical trials. Last week, the Administration already placed a major bet on one of the 19, announcing that it will purchase up to 1.7 million doses of an antiviral being produced by Merck, pending emergency use authorization or full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Of the $3.2 billion being allocated, $1.2 billion is going to fund the creation of what the HHS calls "collaborative drug discovery groups," hoping that the push to create a COVID-19 treatment will also create a developmental infrastructure for other antivirals to treat other diseases.
The new drugs could not only fill the breach left by the vaccine-hesitant who are slowing the push in the U.S. and around the world to reach herd immunity, they could also serve as a backstop against breakthrough infections—cases of COVID-19 that occur even among the vaccinated. Late last month, for example, the CDC reported more than 10,000 breakthrough vaccinations in 46 states as of the end of April, at a time when just over 100 million vaccines had been administered in the U.S. In Massachusetts alone, there have currently been a total of 4,000 breakthrough infections recorded, reported the Boston Herald today. That's still a relatively small number—representing just 0.1% of vaccinated people—but does make the new drugs attractive.
"New antivirals that prevent serious COVID-19 illness and death, especially oral drugs that could be taken at home early in the course of disease, would be powerful tools for battling the pandemic and saving lives," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the HHS announcement.
Write to Jeffrey Kluger at [email protected].
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<?php
namespace Inverted\Core\Tests;
use \Inverted\Core\JSONExecutionContext;
use \Inverted\Core\InvalidConfigurationFileException;
/**
*
*/
class JSONExecutionContextTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
/**
* @test
*/
public function testJSONConfiguration() {
$class_name = "\\Inverted\\Core\\Tests\\Projects\\Problems\\HasNoStronglyTypedParameter";
$ctx = new JSONExecutionContext(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../resources/Projects/simple.json');
$obj = $ctx->getObjectsByClassName($class_name);
$this->assertCount(1, $obj);
$this->assertInstanceOf($class_name, $obj[0]);
}
/**
* @test
* @expectedException \Inverted\Core\MissingConfigurationFileException
*/
public function testMissingJSONConfiguration() {
new JSONExecutionContext('/path/to/any/config.json');
}
/**
* @test
* @expectedException \Inverted\Core\InvalidConfigurationFileException
*/
public function testJSONConfigurationWithBrokenComments() {
new JSONExecutionContext(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../resources/Projects/broken1.json');
}
/**
* @test
* @expectedException \Inverted\Core\InvalidConfigurationFileException
*/
public function testJSONConfigurationWithBrokenJSON() {
new JSONExecutionContext(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../resources/Projects/broken2.json');
}
/**
* @test
*/
public function testJSONConfigurationWithInclude() {
$class_names = [
'\\Inverted\\Core\\Tests\\Projects\\Problems\\HasNoStronglyTypedParameter'
, '\\Inverted\\Core\\Tests\\Projects\\Problems\\FirstImplementation'
, '\\Inverted\\Core\\Tests\\Projects\\Problems\\RequiresRootInterface'
, '\\Inverted\\Core\\Tests\\Projects\\Simple\\FirstClass'
];
$ctx = new JSONExecutionContext(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../resources/Projects/includer.json');
foreach ($class_names as $class_name) {
$obj = $ctx->getObjectsByClassName($class_name);
$this->assertCount(1, $obj);
$this->assertInstanceOf($class_name, $obj[0]);
}
}
}
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Q: strange white line When I try the following script:
http://jsfiddle.net/mYx5y/23/
I get a strange white line in the background instead of it all being gray.
Why is this happening?
A: This happens in all browsers, not just IE8. Slightly misleading question.
You need to add overflow: hidden to #tabs to clear the floats - demo.
If you want the white gone, also add background: none - demo.
A: it's the padding of your #tabs div. Change the padding-top: 10px; to margin-top: 10px; and it's gone.
-edit-
You're right: That's because of the padding that's still set to 10px for all sides. Set the padding and margin of #tabs as follows:
padding:10px;
padding-top:0;
margin-top:20px;
padding-bottom:0px
The white line will disappear.
A: It's coming from the jquery-ui.css file (line 62). Just override it with
.ui-widget-content { background:transparent; }
.portlet-content { background-color:#fff; }
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Marcel/NA9Xx/2/
A: Try changing the padding for #tabs to 0...
#tabs { border:none; padding:0px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; }
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Cornies: Lowering city speed limit an idea not firing on all cylinders
Larry Cornies, Special to The London Free Press
What should be the speed limit in the city's residential neighbourhoods? That was essentially the question posed by an online survey of Londoners that closed Wednesday.
The survey asked three simple questions:
Should the limit be lowered?
If so, should it be 40 km/h or lower? (The default limit is currently 50 km/h.)
And should speeding fines in "community safety zones" (around schools and other high-pedestrian areas, for example) be doubled?
The questionnaire also provided space for additional comments.
(A lower limit, if adopted, would apply only to residential areas. Limits on major arteries such as Wharncliffe, Wonderland, Wellington, Fanshawe Park roads, etc., would be dealt with separately.)
The impetus for the online exercise was more than idle curiosity. City staff were directed by council in May to consult the public about possible lower limits in residential areas. Still to come are a public participation meeting and a report, with recommendations, to the civic works committee in late September.
Road safety is a motherhood type of issue — a feel-good notion with which it is impossible to reasonably disagree. And embedded in the current set of questions in London is a near-biblical genealogy.
Vision Zero, a worldwide movement to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries, originated in Sweden in 1997 as a co-operative effort involving drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, road designers and maintenance operators. That country now claims to have the lowest rate of traffic fatalities in the world.
Vision Zero begat Road Safety Strategy 2025, a national initiative by the Canadian Council of Motor Transportation Administrators, adopted in early 2016 and aimed at "making Canada's roads the safest in the world," within a 10-year time frame.
RSS 2025 begat new legislation in Ontario passed by the Kathleen Wynne Liberals, as well as amendments to the Highway Traffic Act, that permitted cities to pass bylaws to set speeds at less than 50 km/h in designated areas.
Those legislative changes, together with formation of the London road safety strategy involving 10 public and private partners, begat London council's current interest in the issue.
The science alone, as cited in the staff report to council in May, is startling: For collisions in which vehicles are moving at 50 km/h, the risk of fatal injury to pedestrians is about 70 per cent. Dropping the speed limit to 40 km/h reduces fatalities to less than 30 per cent — the steepest change in the speed-fatality relationship. (Any speed above about 70 km/h is nearly always deadly, whereas speeds of 30 km/h or lower drops the fatality rate to less than 10 per cent.)
London's road safety strategy team, which has been aiming for a 10 per cent reduction in fatal and injury-inducing collisions by 2019-20, has already identified red-light-running (and those motorists who see amber caution lights as invitations for a last-second gamble), aggressive driving and speeding as major issues for the city. Anyone who spends more than a half-hour in London's streets knows that's true.
But the team's report also indicates that "countermeasures" required to bring change will need to be broadly shared among participating agencies and won't be cheap.
The four Es in their strategy — engineering, enforcement, education and the promotion of empathy — cost money.
In my neighbourhood in London's southwest — a short distance from where a new casino will be built amid clusters of big boxes and developing neighbourhoods — it's already easy to be cynical about traffic safety and the habits of London's motorists.
Drivers routinely treat stop signs as if they said "reduce speed" or "take a quick glance." Motorists regularly squeeze through amber lights by the threes and fours. The 50 km/h speed limit is considered a suggestion, even on streets where the failed and dreaded speed humps exist. Cellphone use is rampant.
And modified exhaust systems that sound more like gunfire flout noise bylaws as easily as real-estate agents put up those shin-high "for sale" signs at street corners or businesses erect "temporary" street-side signs that become more or less permanent, both in contravention of the city's sign bylaws.
The point is that council can pass all the bylaws it wishes, but they'll have no effect unless they're matched by enforcement. It's the same problem as exists on the province's 400-series highways.
At a time when city politicians are desperately looking under every Forest City leaf for cuts and cost savings, it's highly doubtful council will provide London police with the extra resources needed to enforce a lower residential speed limit.
And if we're not willing to commit to enforcement, the notion of a higher standard road safety remains a motherhood issue and a feel-good exercise. Little else.
Larry Cornies is a London-based journalist. [email protected]
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Meeting 'Twilight' vampires was an opportunity to die for
Kristen Walsh
Young fans got the chance to meet two stars from America's No. 1 movie, "Twilight," in Cambridge during the weekend. Actors Kellan Lutz and Edi Gathegi were at the New England Fan Experience at the Hyatt hotel.
Two stars from America's No. 1 movie, "Twilight," spent the weekend greeting young fans in Cambridge.
Actors Kellan Lutz and Edi Gathegi introduced a midnight screening of the movie at the New England Fan Experience at the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge.
"We'll probably go see it three to five times," said Bryahnna Prevatt, who traveled from New York City to attend the convention with friends Krista and Shayla Conway of Abington.
Prevatt dressed as Bella Swan, the heroine in "Twilight." When she got the chance to meet Lutz, she took a risk and asked him to pose like he was biting her.
Shayla Conway said being able to meet Lutz and Gathegi at a smaller event, one where the stars weren't being mobbed by thousands of fans, was special.
"It's more intimate," she said. "You can actually have a conversation with them. It's not just a quick autograph and move on."
Lutz happily chatted with fans, answered questions about their favorite scenes and obliged requests to pose with stuffed animals.
"I love meeting the fans, and I loved making this movie. It's the type of role that only comes along once in a lifetime," he said.
Jacci Smith, 13, and her friend Briana Naoum, 14, both of Weymouth, waited on Saturday to get a picture with Lutz. They never got the chance, so they were first in line on Sunday. After emerging from the photo room, they jumped with joy and skipped down the hall.
"He said I was one of his favorites!" Jacci said happily.
Early estimates showed that "Twilight" hauled in more than $70 million during the weekend, despite some less-than-stellar reviews.
"I love my character. I love his lines, and his presence. I can't wait to play him again in the rest of the movies," Lutz said of the tough vampire he plays.
Most of the fans who spent the day at the convention planned to stick around to attend a final discussion with Lutz and Gathegi – one more thing to brag about to friends who love "Twilight."
"I like that my friends are jealous. Jealousy is good," Shayla Conway said jokingly.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to warn you of a respiratory infection that may affect your children and even some adults.
All winter parents should ensure that their children are bundled so they do not get sick, but the CDC also wants parents to be mindful of Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV.
When the temperatures cool down, parents like Jennifer Simon says it's hard to keep their growing two-year-old germ free.
"I think it's almost impossible in winter, and on most days we just try to get through and make him happy," Simon said.
Although there is something else to fear from the cough, […] parents have something else to worry about.
Lockett with Coliseum Hospital says RSV causes a spectrum of diseases.
"Anything as severe as respiratory arrest can lead to intensive care and, in rare cases, death," said Lockett.
The CDC almost all children get RSV when they are two, but you should not worry unless you have these symptoms.
"If you have trouble eating or drinking and your cough is so heavy, we can not sleep I can not eat, we can not drink, this is the time when you want to call your pediatrician or call your adult care provider" Lockett said.
Lockett added that you could bring your children to safety by keeping them away from sick people and cleaning the surface. These are tips that Simon says will take you one step further.
At the moment, the CDC says there is no vaccine to treat RSV. The best thing parents can do is keep an eye on their little ones.
"All you can do is do the best you can with your child as you can," said Simon.
Lockett says that RSV is just a type of virus that causes disease.
You should not be afraid of it, but be aware of what the virus can do. |
At the drug house, the party is going full-blast. Snort it, rail it, rock it, poke it, chong it, launch bowls, bang lines, take whacks, smoke it out of glass… It feels like the whole yard could ignite, jump off and blow up into action any minute under the drunken moonlight. For Jesse Gomes, this is the best night of his life. Jesse is 17; "eighty-sixed" from his honest working-class Hawai`i family home, living with the dealer and his crew, running drugs on his moped, useful because he is still legally a juvenile.
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Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is arguably the finest book in Children's Literature. It has shaped millions of little ones all over the world and will continue to do so no matter how hard many publishers try to lure children into reading utterly ridiculous stories full of violence and devoid of any meaningful themes. The influence of this marvelous book in A.L.Kennedy's The Little Snake is evident because, like Le Petit Prince, this is a beautiful, moving fable of freedom, diversity, hope and equality. You know, all those things that are severely under threat in this difficult world of ours.
In an unnamed country, Mary acquires a new loyal, extremely intelligent friend. A beautiful snake named Lanmo. Lanmo visits those who have reached the end of their life but the girl has nothing to fear from the glorious reptile. On the contrary, the actual threat comes from the human beings, the ones who rule her country and every country in the world, the ones who do Lanmo's work much more swiftly and effectively than him. Lanmo and Mary develop a deep bind that will last for years and years, in a world that is slowly falling apart.
The traces of Le Petit Prince are everywhere, inserted seamlessly in the beautiful story created by A.L.Kennedy. The same sadness permeates the narrative, the same call for change and understanding. Lanmo has all the characteristics associated with snakes, the wisdom, the cruelty towards the ones who deserve punishment for their crimes. He is also a symbol of Death, his character composed by tidbits of Folklore related to snakes. As a result, Lanmo is an extremely memorable figure in a story that is dark, poignant and powerful. Mary is also a beautiful character and demonstrates that people can be kind and honest and caring. As Lanmo has the ability to taste the feelings of the humans and control their minds, he understands that the world is worth fighting for. For all the Marys that call this Earth their home. A society where noone wants to change anything, everything has to be ''normal'', every resident has to be the same with everyone else. All Lanmo wants to do is to correct the injustice of the communities.
Many thanks to Canongate Books and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. |
Do You Know the Fro?
By Mitchell Wilston
There once was a kid, and that kid had a dream. A dream to be known across the Penn State campus as Afro-man. (Not to be confused with the rapper.) Not really — for junior Tanner Beck, becoming Afro-man kind of just happened. "When I was in 6th grade I just kind of let it go. It's been a long time," said Beck.
Years after embracing the fro and several sticky gum catastrophes later, Beck is learning to embrace the pseudo-fame that comes with having the biggest afro on campus. "I get it all," he says, "Afro kid, Fro-man, Sideshow Bob—if you watch The Simpsons. Older people call me Garfunkel. I get that one a lot."
It doesn't matter what they call him, but people always remember Beck for his afro. "People always come up and apparently I've met them, but it's hard to keep track," he said.
Being the center of attention has its perks. Free drinks at bars are always welcome, but it requires some upkeep. "Before I was 21 and went to frat parties a lot I'd walk in and have to take 20 pictures with people. I wonder how many people's Facebooks I'm on."
Beck, a double major in international politics and criminology, found out early that he gets the most attention in class — from people behind him saying that they can't see. "I just sit in the back row now because people complain," he said. "The teachers call me out on it sometimes. They tend to remember my name more than anybody else."
For that reason, Beck isn't sure how much longer the fro will last. With plans to go to law school, the issue is pretty open. "I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it through that or not. Who knows?" Beck said.
Despite the recognition around campus, Afro-man is missing the one thing that makes you a Penn State celebrity: a Twitter account. Despite Boombox Guy , yes that Boombox Guy, encouraging him to get online, Beck is hesitant. "He was trying to egg me into getting a Twitter page, but I haven't done it. It's mysterious," he said.
"I like to fly under the radar," says the guy with the biggest afro on campus.
Mitchell Wilston
I apologize in advance.
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David Paul von Hansemann (5 September 1858 – 1920) was a German pathologist born in Eupen. He is remembered for his work in the field of oncology, in particular, his concept pertaining to anaplasia of cancer cells.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin, Kiel and Leipzig, and following graduation spent nine years as an assistant to Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) in Berlin. In 1890 he became habilitated in pathological anatomy, and in 1897 obtained the title of professor. In 1907 he began work as a prosector at Friedrichshain city hospital. During World War I he served as an army pathologist.
His name is associated with "Hansemann macrophages" (also known as "Hansemann cells"), which are large mononuclear cells containing Michaelis-Gutmann bodies that affect the urinary tract or kidney.
Associated works
Über asymmetrische Zelltheilung in Epithelkrebsen und deren biologische Bedeutung. Virchow's Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, 1890, 779: 299–326. (About asymmetrical cell division in epithelial cancers and their biological significance, Anaplasia first described).
Die mikroskopische Diagnose der bösartigen Geschwülste. Berlin, 1897; 2nd edition, 1902.
Books on David Paul von Hansemann:
"David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology (Context, Comments and Translations)", by Leon P. Bignold, Brian L.D. Coghlan, Hubertus P.A. Jersmann (2007);
References
David Paul von Hansemann @ Who Named It
German pathologists
German oncologists
People from Liège Province
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Once you are there, it will show the list of activities vouchers you have currently. If you haven't created any voucher, that list will be empty.
On the list you can see the code, the name, the description, the duration type and the duration.
To add new vouchers press on , to edit created vouchers press on and if you want to remove it press on .
In the General section you must set general information that describes the voucher like the code, the name, if it is Active, a voucher description, the duration that you can set in minutes or in sessions, if it expires, if the guestes can be included, if it includes light, if it is visible on the website and the remarks.
In te Activities section, it will show the list of activities you have registered and you can select the activities that are included in the new voucher you are creating.
In the Prices section, you will see the different available prices for the voucher. Here you can know if the price is Active, the description name, if it expires, if it has priotity above the rest and the amount. You can add new prices pressing on , to modify press on and to remove press on .
In the Activities section, it will show the list of activities you have registered and you can select the activitities that are included in the new voucher you are creating.
By last, in the ¿When can it be used? section you can see when the voucher can be used. If you want to add new fringes to the list press on , you can edit and remove too. |
Q: How do I get a php table to print a range of input values but, ignore the ones that are not filled in? I have made a form for a company website that the user will populate with personal info. I want to use php to handle these values and then render them as a table that can be printed. I have done this before but only for forms where everything is filled in. I want to make this one to where if the user decides to leave a field blank then you will not see it in the php rendered page. I will post a small example below for reference to help with my issue, as of now I have no idea where to start.
Example form...
<form action="post">
<p><input type="text" id="name" name="name"></p>
<p><input type="text" id="phone" name="phone"></p>
<p><input type="text" id="job" name="job"></p>
</form>
In this example form I am gathering name, phone number, and occupation. At the bottom I would have a button to submit the info. A php doc will then handle the values and render them in a table set up like this...(assume I $_POST the variables above this table.)
'<table>
<tr>
<td>Name:' .$name. '</td>
<td>Phone:' .$phone. '</td>
<td>Job:' .$job. '</td>
</tr>
</table>'
This works fine however if the customer decides NOT to give there phone number it looks like this...
Name: Alex
Phone:
Job: Fireman
What I need to do is make it to where if they DO fill out the phone number it will show it however if they do not I need it to look like this...
Name: Alex
Job: Fireman
My actual form is very long however I thought this example would be enough for someone to help me get started, thanks in advance for your feedback.
A: Loop through the $_POST array and print out a key-value when it has value.
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
{
if($value != '')
{
echo ucwords($key) . ': ' . $value;
}
}
OR
With table formatting
// Just set the table up as necessary
echo '<table><tr>';
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
{
if($value != '')
{
echo '<td>' . ucwords($key) . ': </td><td>' . $value . '</td>;
}
}
echo '</tr></table>';
A: Something like this, based on your string.
$table = '<table>
<tr>';
if (!empty($name)) {
$table .= '<td>Name:' .$name. '</td>';
}
if (!empty($phone)) {
$table .= '<td>Phone:' .$phone. '</td>';
}
if (!empty($job)) {
$table .= '<td>Job:' .$job. '</td>';
}
$table .= '</tr>
</table>';
echo $table;
A: The answer is using the empty function of PHP.
Try this in your processing PHP file:
echo "<table><tr>";
if(!empty($name)) echo "<td>Name: $name</td>";
if(!empty($phone)) echo "<td>Phone: $phone</td>";
if(!empty($job)) echo "<td>Job: $job</td>";
echo "</tr></table>";
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Top 10 Tallest Female Tennis Players Of All Time
Published on: November 16, 2022 by Samantha Lauren
Professional Uzbeki tennis star Akgul Amanmuradova, with a height of 6 feet 3 inches, is undoubtedly the tallest female tennis player. She has 10 ITF titles in singles and 16 ITF titles in doubles as of this year. Czech tennis star Eva Hrdinova, with 6 feet 3 inches in height, and legendary Russian tennis champion Maria Sharapova, with 6 feet 2 inches in height, also deserve their mentions among the tallest female tennis players of all time.
Tennis can be a fun alternative to boring gym routines. Here is the list of the tallest female tennis players to date. Read on to know more!
Tallest Female Tennis Players To Date
1. Akgul Amanmuradova (6 Feet 3 Inches)
2. Eva Hrdinova (6 Feet 3 Inches)
3. Maria Sharapova (6 Feet 2 Inches)
4. Venus Williams (6 Feet 1 Inch)
5. Dinara Mikhailovna Safina (6 Feet 1 Inch)
6. Ana Ivanovic (6 Feet ½ Inches)
7. Nicole Vaidisova (6 Feet)
8. Elena Dementieva (5 Feet 11 Inches)
9. Caroline Wozniacki (5 Feet 10 Inches)
10. Serena Williams (5 Feet 9 Inches)
Tallest Female Tennis Players – 2023 Infographics
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At number 1 of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, we have Akgul Amanmuradova. Even though her height is equal to Eva Hrdinova's, she is at number 1 due to alphabetic sequencing.
This has nothing to do with her talent as an athlete or her incorrigible spirit. She is the tallest professional female tennis player on the WTA tour.
Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan is measured to be 6 feet 3 inches tall. Not only is she a damn tall tennis player, but she is also outstanding at her job.
We do have other Czech females on our list, and she is every bit of a deserving candidate. Be it her phenomenal height of 1.91m or a glittering career with three singles titles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF circuit, this Czech prodigy of 38 is as good as one can get.
Coached by Jiri Hrdina, she takes her off-court training with Karel Rubas and Petr Pech. Her favorite shots include forehand and serve, with her favorite surfaces being hard and grass.
She does indeed deliver, and that too in style. Standing 6ft 3in tall, this athlete has the tallest height among female tennis players. In fact, her height matches Akgul Amanmuradova, who is number 1 on this list.
She is a Russian professional tennis player. She is considered one of the sexiest athletes in the whole sports world and also one of the most beautiful female tennis players of all time.
Maria has millions of fans around the globe who know her for the amazing athlete she is. She became the youngest female to win a grand slam.
She won Wimbledon beating Serena at the age of just 17, which was truly amazing. With more than thousands of endorsements a year, she is one of the most marketable athletes that were ever created. The height of 6ft 2 inches Lands her at number 3 in this list of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date.
She has a net worth more than the most popular Sportster. That must tell you a lot about her magnificent playing style. She is enthusiastic and is known to take all her games seriously.
A sportswoman as determined as she is sure to succeed, and she is already there!
At number 4 in this list of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, she stands tall with an amazing height of 6ft 1in.
At number 5 of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, we have Dinara. Another Russian magnificence is on our list. Dinara Safina, too used to be a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player.
With a remarkable height of 1.88 meters and her particular brilliance when it came to the French Open, this tall and slender beauty won many hearts while she let her racket speak for herself.
Novak Djokovic isn't the only marvel produced by Serbia. Ana, at number 6 on the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, is one of them too. Ana Ivanovic has proved herself to be more than a shadow eclipsed by Djokovic's sheer brilliance.
This outstanding performer, with her gorgeous smile and stunning height of 1.84 m, has made a global array of fans likewise.
Her determination and will to win at such an age are incredible. And apart from her game, she has such a pretty face and sizzling long legs worth falling in love with. Her fabulous beauty and mind-blowing skills are the reasons for her fame, and we love her.
Not only this Czech professional tennis player is tall, but she is extremely hot. She may even be among the top ten rankings of the hottest tennis players ever.
Standing 6 feet tall in this list of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date…she really justifies the number 7 position. Even though she retired from sports in 2010, she finally came back in the year 2014 and has been playing ever since.
She was born in the year 1981. This Russian tennis prodigy can take your breath away with her looks alone. But she is no mere beauty unless you consider her grand feat of winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
That was only a notably accomplished improvement from her Silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is skilled enough to defeat opponents in one go.
With her amazing height of 5'11'', she lands at number 8 in this list of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date. Even though she has retired, it still is the spot for her.
At number 9 on the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, We have amazing Carline. This Danish performer of 25 is here to stay. And she is standing tall, literally, with an impressive height of 1.79 meters.
Caroline has already made an amazing career while being the former world no. 1 on the prestigious WTA tour. What's more admirable, she held this position for a staggeringly long 67 weeks.
This one on the list is an American professional tennis player. One of the greatest female tennis players in the world, at number 10 of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date, we have Serena Williams.
She has millions of fans all over the world and continues to increase their number with each match and progression.
With a world ranking of number 1 among all top tennis players ever, she stands 5 ft. and 9 in tall and proud.
And now, we hope that you liked our list of the top 10 tallest female tennis players to date. Don't forget to send us your opinion in the comment box below.
Infographics: Tallest Female Tennis Players
As a tennis player, Amanmuradova is one of the tallest women ever. On the ITF Women's Circuit, Amanmuradova has won ten singles titles and 16 doubles titles. Among her best singles rankings, she reached world No. 26 on 26 May 2008.
Women tend to stand between 5'8″ and 5'9″ (173 – 175 cm). Refer to Graf, Serena, Navratilova, and Seles (before she had that late growth spurt, she won 8 majors at 5'8″). Among the shorter ladies, Evert, Henin, and Sanchez-Vicario come to mind.
Sara Errani stands only 5'4″ tall, while Dominika Cibulková is even shorter, measuring only 5'3″.Also vertically challenged are Vania King, Zheng Jie, and Marion Bartoli. These are the shortest tennis player of all time.
The tallest tennis player today is Reilly Opelka. Since 13 September 2021, he has been the No. 1 American singles player. He can serve at speeds in the low-140 mph range, and at 6 feet 11 inches tall, he holds the record for the tallest-ever ATP-ranked player.
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I use this dough recipe to make pizza, calzones, rolls, bread sticks, and more. It really is a universal dough recipe that is quick and easy to make. This is also a great recipe to get your kids help with. My son loves adding the ingredients, and then later making his own pizza or calzone.
In a bowl or 2 cup measuring glass, add the yeast and sugar to the warm water. Wait till the yeast becomes active and begins to bloom/create bubbles. Then, add the extra virgin olive oil.
While the yeast is activating, combine 1 cup of bread flour and salt together in your mixer. Once yeast has "bloomed" add the yeast and water mixture to the flour and mix. I use the attachment pictured above for my Kitchen Aid mixer to start with.
Continue adding flour 1 cup at a time until the dough becomes sticky. At this point I change out the paddle attachment and use the dough hook attachment. Then, I continue to add more flour 1 cup at a time.
Once the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl, and when you touch the dough it is a tiny bit sticky, but doesn't really stick to your finger, you will no longer need to add flour. If you don't have a mixer, add flour and kneed the dough by hand until it comes together to form a dough ball.
Form the dough into a ball, place in a oiled bowl, cover, and let rise in a warm area until doubled in size. Once the dough has doubled in size, punch the dough down, and it is ready to use!
like the recipe, but oven temp and baking time would be helpful.
I bake my pizza crusts and calzones at 400 degrees F. Sorry I forgot to add that. |
Wash and dry the bananas. Cut the ends off square and split the fruit in halves lengthwise. Divide the pulp in the skin into convenient mouthfuls, sprinkle with lemon juice and then plentifully with powdered sugar. Serve from the skins.
Peel the bananas and split lengthwise. Place in a baking dish, sprinkle the banana lightly with sugar and a little lemon juice, add a few raisins and water barely to cover the bottom of the dish. Cover and bake till tender, about twenty minutes, basting every five minutes with the water in the pan.
Peel the bananas and leave them whole. Place in a baking dish and put a bit of butter on each. Bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes, basting often with a little cranberry syrup. Serve with additional syrup as a sauce.
Peel the bananas and cut in slices lengthwise and then crosswise. Brown gently in bacon fat and serve with broiled or baked bacon, or with lamb. If desired, they may be browned in butter or a good vegetable oil. In the latter case they should be slightly salted, and, if desired, may be lightly sprinkled with sugar, and a few drops of lemon juice. |
Letter from the Editors | A reflection on Evanston's past to inform the present
Lauren Dain and Eden Drajpuch|January 28, 2022
For our January issue, The Evanstonian decided to stray from our normal format and look more closely at the various points of intersection related to education in Evanston history. Over the course of the last three months, the two Advanced Journalism classes at ETHS have diligently researched this topic, dividing it into five sections that critically look at the ways in which education has affected the ETHS and Evanston community over the past 139 years. With that said, we would like to provide a brief overview of our sections prior to your reading of them. Our first section focuses on the founding of Northwestern University and the influence it has had on the Evanston community. Our second section focuses on the shifts in political behaviors of Evanston residents, from mid-20th century "realignment" to protests and mobilization. Our third section looks critically at the integration process that took place in the mid-20th century and the ways in which it has shaped current educational policies. The fourth section was written to honor Foster School, the only elementary school that has existed in the Fifth Ward of Evanston and which was converted to a laboratory school in 1967. The fifth and final section looks at the opportunity gap present at ETHS, honing in on efforts to detrack ETHS courses throughout the last 20 years.
We want to take you, our readers, through what we believe is a fascinating and incredibly valuable history. Through this process our staff has had the opportunity to discover the nuances that exist in Evanston history and contextualize how this history has shaped a school district that strives for excellence and change. Additionally, as ETHS students we find value in understanding and learning about the past inequities of our community and the ways in which Evanston has been at the forefront of major social movements. Like any other part of history, there are both problematic and uncomfortable truths, but ones that must be acknowledged in a quest to better ourselves and our community. As you read, we hope that you feel inspired to discuss Evanston's history and use it to inform your actions and beliefs.
Additionally, we want to acknowledge that there is far more to Evanston history than what we have covered in this issue. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of Evanston's history, we encourage you to utilize Evanston's resources, such as the Evanston Public Library, the Evanston History Center and Shorefront Legacy Center.
Lastly, we want to thank the countless individuals and organizations that have supported us in this project, from the Evanston History Center, Shorefront Legacy Center and the Evanston Public Library to our many interviewees who so graciously agreed to share their knowledge and experiences with us. We hope you find meaning in these pages and we appreciate your willingness to go through this journey with us.
The foundation of Northwestern and Evanston's bond: a history of partnerships and conflict
Lauren Dain, Executive Editor
Hi! My name is Lauren Dain (she/her). I am a senior and an Executive Editor of the In-Depth, Opinion, and Sports sections. This is my fourth year on staff, and previously I have been a staff writer, Assistant Editor, and In-Depth Editor. This year I am excited to help build a strong, welcoming community within The Evanstonian, and publish impactful articles related to issues I am passionate about. Beyond The Evanstonian, I am a captain on the cross country team, as well as a Civic Engagement Committee leader and board member in the Community Service Club. Outside of ETHS, I contribute to the Evanston Women's History Project and I work at Trader Joe's. In my free time, I love to bake, drink lots of coffee, and watch TV.
Eden Drajpuch, Executive Editor
Hey! My name is Eden (she/her). I am a senior and an Executive Editor for the News, A&E, and Feature sections. This is my fourth year on staff, and in the past I have been a staff writer and an editor for the Feature section. This year, I am excited to build new relationships, create content that tells meaningful stories, and have a lot of fun along the way. Outside of The Evanstonian, I enjoy running, cooking meals with my family, and listening to podcasts.
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The formula for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies is fairly simple. A bunch of teenagers or twentysomethings are driving through Texas, stop at an old farmhouse and get killed by Leatherface and his crazy family. You have to work at it to mess that up. Lionsgate worked at it and successfully messed it up.
The story starts off well enough. Leatherface has killed a bunch of people and the local sheriff shows up to arrest him. A bunch of people in town (call them the Redneck Brigade) show up with guns with intention of lynching Leatherface and "helping" Sheriff Hooper.
Things quickly escalate out of control when one of the rednecks hurls a Molotov cocktail into the house. After a firefight, the house burns to the ground. There are two survivors: Leatherface (who everyone assumes is dead) and a baby girl who is raised by one of the couples from the town, who move to another state.
Flash forward 20 years. The baby girl (Heather) is all grown up, and she and her friends are driving through Texas to claim the mansion she has inherited from her recently deceased grandmother. The problem: Leatherface is living in the basement, having been cared for by the crazy old bat for the last two decades. He brutally murders Heather's three friends and a hitchiker they picked up along the way, and tries to kill her.
Heather barely escapes, and while she is in the police station she finds out about the massacre of her family when she was a baby. This causes her to turn heel. She joins forces with Leatherface to get revenge on the people who killed her family when she was a baby and then goes back to the mansion with Leatherface to care for him.
At no time does Heather show any anger or bitterness over the fact that her cousin Leatherface butchered two of her friends and her boyfriend. That heel turn makes absolutely no sense.
Lionsgate could have foreshadowed the heel turn by inserting flashbacks of Heather's childhood where she displayed aggressive, violent and psychotic behavior (with the explanation that mental illness runs in the family) but there was nothing in this movie that would make any normal person join forces with a deranged serial killer who has just butchered her friends!
It gets worse. Sheriff Hooper, the very same sheriff who tried to arrest Leatherface after he slaughtered several other people some 20 years earlier, witnesses Leatherface and Heather murder two members of the Redneck Brigade who murdered Leatherface's family.
Hooper knows Leatherface's history of murdering innocent people and the danger he presents to the community and anyone visiting the town. He simply allows Heather and Leatherface to go back to their mansion, making absolutely no attempt to stop them or apprehend Leatherface. No normal person would behave this way, especially a law enforcement officer.
I understand that Lionsgate wanted to end the movie in such a way that a sequel is possible in a year or two. There are many ways to do this other than the stupid and nonsensical way that this movie ended.
Once again, the 3-D effect is absolutely terrible. I have yet to see a 3-D movie that actually looks good in 3-D. Perhaps one third of the movie was in 3-D as it is, and the 3-D effect literally looks like transparencies on top of each other. It looks really fake, and winds up looking much worse than it would if it was simply in 2-D. Charging an extra $3 for that was a ripoff. |
package io.sidecar.org;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static io.sidecar.ModelUtils.isValidDeviceId;
public class Device {
private UUID userId;
private UUID appId;
private String deviceId;
private ImmutableMap<String,String> metadata;
private Device(Builder builder) {
userId = checkNotNull(builder.userId);
checkArgument(isValidDeviceId(builder.deviceId),
"Invalid DeviceId of %s - must be between 8-40 valid characters", builder.deviceId);
deviceId = builder.deviceId;
appId = checkNotNull(builder.appId);
metadata = (builder.metadata == null) ? ImmutableMap.<String,String>of() : ImmutableMap.copyOf(builder.metadata);
}
public UUID getUserId() {
return userId;
}
public String getDeviceId() {
return deviceId;
}
public UUID getAppId() {
return appId;
}
public ImmutableMap<String,String> getMetadata() {
return metadata;
}
public static final class Builder {
private UUID userId;
private String deviceId;
private UUID appId;
private Map<String,String> metadata;
public Builder() {
}
public Builder(Device copy) {
userId = copy.userId;
deviceId = copy.deviceId;
appId = copy.appId;
metadata = copy.metadata;
}
public Builder userId(UUID userId) {
this.userId = userId;
return this;
}
public Builder deviceId(String deviceId) {
this.deviceId = deviceId;
return this;
}
public Builder appId(UUID appId) {
this.appId = appId;
return this;
}
public Builder metadata(Map<String,String> metadata) {
this.metadata = metadata;
return this;
}
public Device build() {
return new Device(this);
}
}
}
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I am currently pursuing my PGDM – Communications from MICA.
I was fortunate to intern in PepsiCo India and work in the Digital Marketing team for the biggest sporting event in India – The Pepsi IPL. The internship was not just full of enormous learning but also the most exciting and fun filled internship that one could ever think of.
The PepsiCo India digital team handles all the PepsiCo brands – Lays, Kurkure, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Slice, 7 Up, Quaker Oats and Gatorade on all the social platforms. They work round the clock, 365 and days an year. It is an extremely dedicated team that is always on its toes for any help that any brand requires. They truly know that Digital is the future and for an FMCG brand, digital is a key that would open several avenues for them in future.
Coming down to my work, initially I was given a sneak preview of all the PepsiCo brands along with the different ongoing digital campaigns of each of them. A major part of my learning during the internship came from visiting and spending a day or two with several different agencies that PepsiCo works with. The agencies included – Media agency, several digital agencies, Creative agency, mainline agencies, PR agencies and online listening agencies (Not naming them, since it is confidential). The learnings that I gathered from every single visit was like a mini internship for me. I was briefed about the entire structure of each agency, the major work that they undergo and was also made a part of their day to day work. Every session gave me a new perspective towards not only the kind of work carried out by them but also opened me up to an extremely different work culture. The stark difference between a client side culture and an agency side culture was clearly visible to me. Both the cultures are exciting, however it is up to us to decide as to where do we find the perfect fit.
The campaigns that I was assigned to work on were all the digital campaigns of the Pepsi IPL 2014. My mentor showed a great deal of confidence in me to not only work on these projects but also lead them from the front. The 2 main campaigns that I worked on were – @ThatPepsiIntern and Tweet20.
1. @ThatPepsiIntern – Pepsi's main campaign of this IPL season. A Twitter based campaign involving 15 winners (called Interns) spread over the entire duration of the IPL. They were the face of Pepsi of the IPL and brought all the Inside action of the IPL on to twitter. The had all access to stadiums, players, teams, VIP Box, celebs etc. It was an intergrated real time campaign that personified brand Pepsi via User Generated Content. The campaign involved a hectic schedule and the entire brainstorming, idea generation, execution, media planning, logistics was done by a core team and we worked continuously for the entire IPL season to make the campaign a success.
We had a reach of millions with a lot of action on our official twitter handle -@ThatPepsiIntern. Several IPL teams also interacted with us on twitter and it was an extremely successful campaign and we got covered on several media channels.
2. Tweet20 – This was another campaign that I worked on. It was an online game that brought Cricket live on to Twitter. The concept of the game was that the official twitter handle of Pepsi will tweet different kinds of bowls over a duration of an hour and the user need to choose and play from some pre-defined cricket shots. The right shots would earn them runs and the wrongs shots would make them out. We got huge traction on this as well with thousands of users playing the game. We also introduced one on one game play this year wherein users could challenge their friends and play with them. Pepsi tweet20 was also a huge success.
Along with the 2 major campaigns that I was a part of I also handled several ongoing projects and I was completely made to feel that I am an integral part of the Pepsi digital team and not just an intern. I was a part of organizing launch parties for our campaigns and also for events involving the IPL teams. I was a part of organizing an event at the Ambience mall in Gurgaon with the Delhi Daredevils team.
The bonus of the internship was when I was made to travel to Bangalore and watch the Pepsi IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore from the exclusive VIP Box. It was an out of the world experience and something that would stay with me forever.
There are thousands of special memories that the internship has given me (some of which I cannot even share due to confidentiality issues) and I am truly glad to have interned with PepsiCo. It was truly a dream internship and definitely an internship that any MBA graduate would look forward to.
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Man Designed 'Euthanasia Coaster' That You Can Only Ride Once
By Kris Di On Jun 8, 2021 Last updated Jun 8, 2021
In 2010, a Lithuanian man named Julijonas Urbonas invented a 'Euthanasia Coaster' he called a 'hypothetic death machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being'.
Image: Julijonas Urbonas
Details about the fatal rollercoaster were shared in a TikTok video by Luke Davidson (@lukedavidson_).
Luke said:
"You can only ride this roller coaster once."
"Julijonas Urbonas designed this roller coaster called the Euthanasia Coaster. It's capable of holding up to 24 passengers. Once they're all on board there's a slow ascent to the top, which is 510 [metres] in the air – that's just a little bit smaller than the tallest building in America.
"Once they're at the top it gives everyone the decision to stop and go back down safely. After that, everyone has to manually press a button to start the ride.
"Then it falls at a speed of 223 miles per hour, and goes through seven loops that keep getting smaller."
@lukedavidson_
You Can Only Ride This Roller Coaster Once #facts
♬ orijinal ses – ponciklendin
Julijonas' website says he is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and Associate Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Regarding his strange invention, he said:
"Riding the coaster's track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death."
The invention won the Public Prize of New Technological Art of Update 2013 and has become a 'unique media phenomenon' since it was first showcased.
Julijonas says that those who choose to ride it are 'slowly towed to the top of the drop-tower', which takes some time as the rollercoaster is about 500 meters long, which gives people enough time to think their decision through.
He explains:
"You relax and press the FALL button. Whirrr… swish – the ultimate surrender to gravity!
"No, you realize, in fact it is even greater than just giving up, as in the blink of an eye you enter the heart-line, the whirling element of the coaster track, where your heart stays roughly in line with the centre of the fall trajectory.
"In other words, your body spins around the heart while you fall. Gravitational choreography!"
The track then straightens as people enter the ride's several loops, during which time the person becomes immobilized, their face starts drooping down, and breathing becomes more difficult.
"But most probably you are already unconscious, as this force rushes the blood to the lower extremities of the body, thereby causing oxygen deficiency in the brain," Julijonas says.
"It is exactly this cerebral suffocation, also known as cerebral hypoxia, that is going to kill you," he explains, adding: "The rest of the ride […] proceeds with your body being numb, ensuring that the trip ends your life. You die, or, more accurately put, your brain dies of complete oxygen deprivation, a legal indicator of death in many jurisdictions.
"The biomonitoring suit double-checks if there is a need for the second round, which is extremely unlikely, as the result is guaranteed by seven-fold repetition."
If you wish to learn more about Julijonas' invention, please see the video below.
What are your thoughts on the Euthanasia Coaster? Let us know by joining the conversation in the comments and please share this article if you've enjoyed the read.
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Mines researchers awarded $7.7M from ARPA-E to test full-scale hybrid stationary power system
"We're targeting the highest electric efficiency ever for something that's powered by a fossil fuel," Mines' Rob Braun said.
Fuel cell researchers at Colorado School of Mines have been awarded $7.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop and test a full-scale hybrid stationary power system that could provide highly efficient electricity to hospitals, supermarkets, large retailers and more.
"We're targeting the highest electric efficiency ever for something that's powered by a fossil fuel – the world's first 70 percent efficient natural-gas fueled power generation system," said Robert Braun, professor of mechanical engineering and principal investigator on the ARPA-E project. "It's natural gas, but it's clean and there are very few emissions other than carbon dioxide."
Mechanical Engineering Professor Robert Braun
The system, which was developed by Braun's team at Mines, integrates pressurized solid oxide fuel cells with a highly efficient stationary engine fueled by pipeline natural gas – a combination that both increases the efficiency and lowers the cost of power generation.
Collaborating on the project are researchers from Colorado State University and industry partners Kohler Power Systems and Air Squared Inc.
"In Phase One of the project, we've spent almost two years designing the hybrid system, the controls, and developing all the hardware," Braun said. "The next step in Phase Two is to develop second-generation versions of all that hardware, assemble it into an integrated system and test it at full-scale to prove out the technology."
That testing will occur on the microgrid at CSU's Powerhouse facility. The hybrid system should be capable of generating 100 kilowatts of electric power at an unprecedented 70 percent electric efficiency.
Figure 1: High efficiency, hybrid fuel cell-engine demonstration system (Courtesy of Shane Garland, CSU)
"The highest efficiency fuel cell device right now is around 60 percent at beginning of life. By the end of its life, it may not be that efficient any more or it may deliver less power than it did at the beginning," Braun said. "This is going to be 10 points higher efficiency than that and at lower cost. That efficiency is also 10 points higher than the best combined cycle power plants available today."
The type of fuel cell the system uses – a metal supported solid oxide – is a major factor in its lower cost, robustness, and unparalleled efficiency, Braun said. "We are also pressurizing this fuel cell and testing its performance in our facility at Mines, he said. "Most high temperature fuel cells operate at near ambient pressure and an important aspect to achieving high efficiency is to operate the devices slightly pressurized."
Figure 2: Pressurized Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Test Rig at Mines (Courtesy of Advanced Energy Systems Group)
Historically, high capital cost and poor durability have been significant barriers for solid oxide fuel cell technology to achieve widespread adoption in commercial distributed power generation applications. In part, these challenges have historically been associated with their high operating temperatures (750-1000°C).
"In addition to some pressurization, our fuel cells operate at 200 degrees Celsius cooler than the more traditional solid oxide fuel cells, such as those by Bloom Energy, which are the most prevalent right now," he said. "By virtue of that lower temperature, much of the balance of plant equipment – heat exchanges and plumbing – can use lower-cost materials and the heat exchange duties are lower. You can use less expensive materials and the sizes are smaller because you don't have to heat things up to 800 degrees C."
Associate Professor Neal Sullivan and Professor Tyrone Vincent
Potential users of the hybrid system could include hospitals, schools, supermarkets, data centers and large retailers looking for distributed generation of baseload power.
Also working on the project at Mines are Neal Sullivan, associate professor of mechanical engineering who is leading the pressurized fuel cell testing; and Tyrone Vincent, professor of electrical engineering, who is leading the controls development. With this new Phase 2 award, total project funding amounts to $10.8M over five years and will fund over nine graduate students, two post-docs, and eleven engineers and technicians across the entire team. |
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"Everything matters." So spoke multiple Grammy-Award winning recording engineer Leslie Ann Jones, in between sessions at Skywalker Sound. While working on the Cypress String Quartet's final recording, things just weren't sounding the same as they had the day prior, and it was a mystery as to why. The players and equipment were identical. Skywalker's adjustable acoustic system – where the room itself can be tuned for more or less reverb – hadn't been touched. The players themselves were in the same exact positions, as precisely marked with tape on the floor. Still, something was off.
Eventually, a surprising discovery was made. The chairs used by the performers had been swapped out that night, for whatever reason, and replaced with identical models from the same batch. One chair was discovered to have a different angle to it – likely being bent due to regular use – which changed the posture of that particular performer, and thus the relationship of their instrument relative to that of other players. We're talking mere inches here, at most. And that's all it took. The matched pair of Neumann M149 microphones used for this recording were able to clearly pick up on the tonal impact of this seemingly minor change, and the skilled ears behind the console noticed it right away. The offending chair was disposed of, recording continued, and the breathtaking result is free from any incongruity – a suitable exclamation point at the end of a long musical career for the Cypress String Quartet.
Everything matters. It's a concept also applicable to the reproduction of music. And used wisely – no magic rocks or clocks need apply – I think it makes a whole lot of sense.
What's the weakest link in a good number of audio chains these days? Why does a lot of vintage gear sound so damn good, despite often using "inferior" tech compared to the latest and greatest hardware? Speakers and headphones are a different story, but when it comes to a disc spinner, DAC, or other source component, my fingers tend to point straight to the power supply as the answer to both of those questions.
Armed with gobs of processing power and highly-advanced op-amps, it's not all that hard to design a reasonably nice piece of source gear. It can be done at a modest price too. Often times this nets excellent specs and a feature list replete with terms like "ultra-low-jitter" and "DSD capable" – achievements that would have been considerably more expensive even five years ago. At the same time, there's a distinct possibility that this affordable uber-device cut some corners in terms of power supply, perhaps even using the dreaded (for some) "wall wart". What we end up with is something that can still satisfy for the price, yet has some untapped potential just waiting to be drawn out. Enter the Wyred 4 Sound PS-1.
Wyred 4 Sound call their PS-1 a "modular" design, which is the exact reason I was drawn to it. That means far more usefulness than the vast majority of aftermarket power supplies. Over the years, I've spent a considerable amount of money on single-device-specific PSU upgrades from brands like TeraDak, Graham Slee, Teddy Pardo, Mojo Audio, Sbooster, and JKenny – all of which performed quite well for their respective prices. But once the device in question rotates out of the system, I no longer have any use for the PSU, and typically sell it at a substantial loss. Wyred 4 Sound's PS-1 puts an end to the power supply rotation cycle.
The device itself, at US$399, is essentially the platform on which a user builds. It's a discrete linear power supply with a large R-core transformer and room for up to four separate cards – each with selectable output voltage. Choose between 5V, 9V, 12V, or 15V from each card. This covers most (if not quite all) of the equipment I've come across in recent years. Mix n' match as needed to fit your particular system needs, or start with a single card and expand later as your setup grows more complex. Find yourself switching to a new device that needs 9V instead of 12V? Just change a jumper setting on the card. Simple.
Standard cards are US$125 each and provide up to 1.2A. This modest current output tends to cover things like digital converters (e.g. Wyred 4 Sound's own Remedy, Empirical Audio's Offramp 5) as well as USB cleaners such as Wyred 4 Sound's own Recovery. There are even a few all-in-one DAC/headphone amps like the Audinst DX-1 which will run quite happily from the standard card and will show significant gains – particularly on the headphone section.
If one felt so inclined, other potential uses for the PS-1 would be to power external hard drives or various networking accessories. This would keep cheap, noisy wall-warts out of a system, though in my experience having a good power conditioner in the chain can be a more cost-effective solution.
For hungrier devices, Wyred 4 Sound also offers a high-current module ($500) that does the same voltages but at up to 4A. This opens the door to a plethora of DACs, music streamers, and even some headphone amplifiers. Now we're talking.
Listening. My primary testbed consisted of the fabulous little SOtM sMS-200 streamer, used as a Roon endpoint, with a Wyred 4 Sound Recovery sprucing up its already very good USB output. A PS-1 loaded with one standard card and one high-current module rounded out the transport trio.
Digital audio signals traveled over USB to a Resonessence Labs Veritas DAC driving a Pass Labs HPA-1 headphone amplifier. On headphone duties were a mixture of HiFiMAN HE1000, AKG K812, Enigmacoustics Dharma, and the venerable Sennheiser HD800, all of which the Pass amp drives with unwavering honesty. Connections were handled by Cabledyne Silver Reference whilst each device sipped balanced juice from an Equi=Core 1800 power conditioner – which just happens to be a pleasing aesthetic match for the PS-1.
For grins, I also swapped in a B.M.C. UltraDAC which drives custom in-ear monitors directly. My current champion in that department is the ambitious Empire Ears Zeus XRA which is about as resolving a transducer as one will find anywhere. Bottom line – any improvements over the stock wall-wart power supplies, this system will definitely sniff out.
Let me be clear before I go any further: I consider the sMS-200 a fine device all on its own. It's a relatively cost-effective and hassle-free way of transforming any DAC into a Roon-ready networked device, and I heartily recommend it, even without upgrades. On stock power it stays pretty much neck-n-neck with the Sonore microRendu – a rival device which I also happily recommend. I do hear differences between them, and tend to prefer the SOtM more often than not, but that preference changes from one system to the next. Once linear power arrives to the party, both devices improve substantially, and my preference for the SOtM becomes more clear cut – but again, they both have merit.
Adding PS-1 and Recovery to the sMS-200 brings it up to an altogether higher level. We're talking bigger, bolder tone colors, more precise imaging, and a greater sense of heft down low. This means the Reference Recordings HRx release of Felix Hell's Organ Sensation possesses greater pants-flapping authority. Silicon Tare, the latest EP from retro-synth mastermind Com Truise, is more ethereal and layered, and thus easier to get lost in. And the extremely technical metal on Obscura's Akrøasis can be unraveled to a greater degree – their current drummer Sebastian Lanser (of Panzerballett fame) is among the most skilled percussionists of his generation, and the upgraded sMS-200 allows me to discern the intricacies of his performance more easily than in stock form.
More typical audiophile material also sounds phenomenal on this setup. While certainly being cognisant of the potential for over-exposure, I still love me some Waltz for Debby, pretty much anything by Alison Krauss, select tracks from Livingston Taylor (some of his I can't stomach), and yes – even the occasional Norah Jones. I know, I know…these types tend to sound impressive on even the most basic system, and I can see why it's so tempting to play them to death at audio shows. They represent the "safe" approach to showing off audio gear. Still, there are worse offenders (Krall, "Hotel California", and lots of white-dude blues) which are banned from my home outright, so I'm not completely ashamed of my choices here.
I ran through my list of audiophile-approved tracks that I don't hate (yet), and have to admit it all sounded amazing from a technical standpoint. Cymbals and brush work were particularly well represented, as were vocals of all types which came across as more lifelike and present than they did before the Wyred 4 Sound-centric upgrade. Listening to Norah or Livingston with the basic sMS-200, you'd never want for clarity and air, but once those Wyred 4 Sound components join the fun it becomes apparent just how much potential could be fulfilled. I find it interesting how that works – you don't know what you're missing until you hear something better.
Moving on from those selections – which in a way almost seem more like "evaluation tools" than music at this point – I ventured into the decidedly non-audiophile-approved regions of my 4TB+ digital audio library. This is the real reason why I have all this audio equipment in the first place. The chugging, rhythmic complexity of the eponymous debut release from Animals As Leaders. The quirky turntablism of Kid Koala on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The psychedelic Khmer rock of Dengue Fever's Venus On Earth. Idris Muhammad's funk masterpiece Power of Soul. Esperanto by former Kraftwerk member Carl Bartos (operating here under the clever name Elektric Music). I Against I, showcasing Bad Brains at their punk-funk finest. Lazar Berman's haunting performance of Janáček's Piano Sonata 1.X.1905. I could go on and on, but hopefully you get the point here – this is just bunch of music that I love and want to play for my own enjoyment, regardless of whatever audiophile merits it may or may not possess.
And guess what? Notwithstanding the widely varying sound quality of these different artists and albums, I nonetheless heard improvements when upgrading the sMS-200 with PS-1. These improvements were enough to justify the added cost despite the pedestrian quality on many of these releases. They may not be "reference" caliber like my earlier demo music, but that doesn't stop them from showcasing sonic benefits in their own way.
Fatigue is a big one for me. When a recording isn't all that well done in the upper midrange and highs to begin with, it only takes a hint of added digital glare to impede the listening experience after just a short time. In such an instance, I prefer the stock form microRendu to the stock form sMS-200. The SOtM is a bit more lit up and revealing while Sonore's widget ends up being a tad more forgiving – a good thing in some instances. With the PS-1 in place, the sMS-200 exposes more of music's organic tone whilst maintaining its revealing nature. It's a delicate balancing act whose accomplishments very clearly rest on the shoulders of this Wyred 4 Sound upgrade.
Limitations. I've yet to encounter the perfect audio component – and the PS-1 doesn't break that streak. Being fussy, one complaint relates to the amount of total available current and the way that the PS-1's total current supply ceiling, approximately 4A to all modules, might limit its overall utility. Users can run up to four standard modules at 1.2A each. That's great, but many devices demand more than that. The high-current module can provide up to 4A which should be plenty, but at that point the PS-1's transformer is just about tapped out. That same 4A can be split in half between a pair of high current modules, or apportioned between one high-current and two standard cards – but in these cases, max draw on the high-current module is limited to 2A or less. In the configuration I use, with one of each type of module, the high-current card should not exceed 3A.
You'll likely will see where I'm going with this. It isn't hard to come up with numerous theoretical system combinations that work just fine with the PS-1, but neither is it difficult to imagine some that won't.
For example, if I wanted to pair the sMS-200 with an m2tech Young DSD DAC, and use that to feed an Arcam rHead amplifier – I wouldn't be able to power all three with the PS-1. Nor could I use a Squeezebox Touch plus a small DAC such as Arcam's irDAC, while still having enough juice to power an Uptone Regen. Ultimately, the initial excitement about running 4 different devices from a PS-1 is tempered by the realization that only two, or maybe three, are likely to fit in a real-world system.
Furthermore, in many instances, it's tough to really know what the power requirements are for a given component. It's just not something most companies care to list in detail. And even when they do, one can never be sure if that's the normal operating draw or the absolute maximum you'll ever see.
I recently heard from a fellow HeadFi user who runs his sMS-200 with the Wyred PS-1 using the standard module. He claims to have no issues whatsoever, and I have no reason to doubt him. But I also suspect he's using the SOtM in a very simplistic manner. If he connects a USB powered hard drive for direct playback in MPD mode, will he still have enough juice? What about using a DAC that draws power from the 5V section at all times, rather than just for the initial handshake? And how about a USB powered DAC like the Audinst DX-1 I mentioned earlier? Using the high-current module, as recommended by Wyred 4 Sound themselves, gives us legroom to use the device to its fullest potential and not worry about potential quirks caused by inadequate current.
I fully realize the R-core transformer – and probably the entire device for that matter – would require substantial enhancement in order to allow for more flexibility here. Wyred 4 Sound describes the PS-1 as "user-friendly, compact, and affordable" – likely the latter two attributes wouldn't survive the ensuing changes were it to introduce a more robust PS-2 for those with more demanding power supply needs.
My other concern – and not Wyred 4 Sound related – involves the unpredictability of power supply upgrades in general. The Arcam rHead is a perfect example. It's my favorite headphone amp anywhere near its $599 asking price, and you'd think it would respond well to replacing its wall-wart with a nice linear PSU – as most gear seems to do. But you'd be wrong. No, the rHead isn't really concerned with the quality of incoming juice thanks to its extensive internal filtration. This complaint certainly isn't limited to the PS-1 alone, yet as something of a "universal" power supply, it seems more susceptible potential disappointment since you'll be trying more devices.
Overall, these niggles, whilst thoroughly explored, remain minor – not enough to impede my enthusiasm for the PS-1. As we shall see, going deeper into the numbers makes Wyred 4 Sound's PS-1 a highly compelling proposition.
Wrap-up. Let's do a bit of math. The sMS-200 goes for US$450. Adding a Recovery for US$200 brings us to $650. That's a great little combo and plenty of users would be happy to stop there. While the duo is indeed very satisfying, I do recognize its shortcomings compared to my more expensive solutions from B.M.C. and Aurender. Now let's address that by adding the PS-1 for $399, a standard amp module for US$125, and a high-current module at US$500. That powers our SOtM and Recovery to the tune of US$1024, bringing the grand total to US$1674.
Here comes the kicker: for that money, this combo easily plays on the same level as my over-twice-as-expensive Aurender X100L. And it keeps up with my B.M.C. Puremedia which requires well over thrice the souped-up sMS-200's outlay. The feature sets these devices bring are all unique, so I won't get into point by point comparisons other than to say the upgraded SOtM is not at all sonically embarrassed in this company. The takeaway here is that Wyred 4 Sound's PS-1 turns this already competent network playback device and USB cleaner into something of a giant-slayer.
There'll be no play by play of how the PS-1 sounds compared to other aftermarket power supplies either. Frankly, that sounds about as exciting to read/write as a cable shootout. So you'll have to just trust me when I reiterate my experience with most of the players in this segment, and when I say the PS-1 is right up there with the best of the breed. With its modular design, Wyred 4 Sound's PS-1 gives up nothing to its specific-use competition, while taking a significant lead in versatility. I've seen a few PSUs out there with adjustable voltage, and even some with multiple outputs, but to my knowledge the PS-1's feature set has never been done before.
If we look where digital is now, and where it might be headed, I think some of us may need to adjust our attitudes about the lifespan of our gear. Rather than seeking a decade-long relationship with streamers and DACs – a sentiment which still exists for good speakers and amplifiers – it might be prudent to take an approach akin to smartphones and computers. In order to stay on the cutting edge, one must rotate gear every couple years. Keep it fresh by taking advantage of the rapid advancements in technology. Which is why I love seeing devices like the sMS-200 and the microRendu – they don't break the bank and it's far easier to flip one of those little guys on the used market than a vastly more expensive music server.
The PS-1 on the other hand can remain a constant. It will stick with you as other gear is rotated in and out. It may very well be the last power supply upgrade you ever purchase. Your digital gear will come and go but the PS-1 will help bring out the full potential of each new piece – as well as any supporting re-clockers, USB scrubbers or other, possibly yet-to-be-determined gadgets. Because, as we've heard before, everything matters.
Nice review. I am the guy from Head-Fi that's using the sMS-200 with PS-1 (standard module). The higher current module may be overkill, unless like you say trying to power an external HD. That being said, I did test this briefly and it powered my drive just fine…though I only really use sMS-200 as roon endpoint. My guess is that unless you are trying to power an external HD, there would be no audible benefit with springing for the higher current module. In my system, the PS-1 also powers the Chord 2Qute in my system using a second standard module. My sentiments are much the same…digital gear will come and go, but the PS-1 will likely stay right where it is for many years.
Thanks for chiming in here. I think using the standard module is a pretty safe bet for Roon mode, which is the only thing many people want out of the SOtM. That makes the PS-1 upgrade more affordable.
Many of the virtues of the PS-1 also apply to the Uptone LPS-1 with it's multiple voltage selections, being the poor mans Vinnie Rossi Mini power supply with added flexibility.
Definitely interesting times for 3rd party power supplies.
SOtM sMS-200 will accept a large voltage range of 6.5~ 14.5 Volt DC with the supplied wall wart being the nominal 9Volts.
This is a great match for the W4S PS-1 because the standard 1.2 Amp module can be set to 9V if no usb storage attached or increased to 12V or 15V if needed for using usb storage…….I really don't think the 4 Amp high current module is necessary in this instance thus saving $375.
The Uptone LPS-1 is by all accounts an excellent supply for 3.3 V or 5 V or 7 Volts and is a good match at 7V for the sMS-200, but I would be concerned if you need to use the usb ports for external hard drives.
Thanks for the review, it's very timely as I'm shopping for an LPS to mate with my MyTek Brooklyn DAC (min 2.0A). I've always had great experiences with W4S hardware. Unfortunately, once I add a high-current module, the PS-1 enters Vinnie Rossi Mini (ultracap) territory (+$100). If I didn't already have an Uptone LPS-1 (also ultracap) powering my µR, then the PS-1 would start to make some financial sense and I would be left to decide whether ultracap technology is worth the additional spend.
This is a good point. I think the PS-1 really comes into its own when powering multiple devices. Running just your Brooklyn alone, you've got many compelling choices.
If you wanted to add an sMS-200 (assuming Roon use with the standard amp card) plus a Wyred Recovery or a USB to SPDIF converter of choice (thus another standard amp card), the PS-1 could run everything. There aren't many (or any?) others to choose from in this application.
Besides the modular design are there any other reasons why I might choose the PS-1 over another similarly priced LPS?
In other words am I trading sound quality for convenience?
In my opinion it strikes perfect balance. I don't feel as though I'm trading sound for convienience.
Nor do I. That was something I really watched for during my evaluation – does this PSU have merit on its own, or does the utility come at a cost? I'm pretty confident it performs well in its class regardless of the modular aspect.
We don't consider any sacrifice is made (nor was it ever part of the design process) from the modular aspect versus, say, just powering one device. The PS-1 was developed from the ground up to effectively power multiple devices simultaneously, using a custom-made and highly robust R-core transformer. I might add that one of the many benefits of powering multiple devices from the PS-1 is they all will be tied to a common ground.
I remember when I upgraded the SMPS that came with my SB Touch to a CIAudio LPS I didn't notice that much difference (if any).
I decided to keep it just for the peace of mind and to avoid any potential signal "pollution" that could be generated by the SMPS.
That was then and this now and PSUs and streamers have evolved but I'm still wary of spending as much on a PSU as I did on the streamer itself to only gain peace of mind or the "I think I hear a difference" type of improvement.
Another question I ask myself is if the microRendu or SMS-200 really deserve better PSUs then shouldn't they be sold with ones designed specifically for those devices? Why should we need to guess which PSU is best for our device. If the designers are capable of designing a good product they should be able design the optimal PSU for that product and offer it at a befitting price.
Sonore *do* offer an optimised bespoke power supply: https://darko.audio/2016/10/sonore-at-rmaf-2016-talisker-taste-on-a-teachers-budget/ …but if they were to offer only that, potential customers would then ask "Why do we need such a fancy power supply? Why can't we buy it without?".
Additional benefit not mentioned is all devices live on the same ground using this configuration. Running roon core on a nuc with data sitting on a synology nas.
Ah I soon as I read the title, I could hear the notes to Everything counts playing in my head!
John, do you plan on doing a separate review specifically for the sMS-200?
Thanks for the review on the PS-1, it seems an interesting product.
The sMS-200 on the other hand… If it's like their sMS-100 with dedicated power supply for 900Euros which became quickly obsolete, then no thank you. I was stuck with it after only one year and selling it used was not possible as it was EOL. It was too expensive to just switch after only 1 year.
Even with all the added enhacements it still sounded worse than an Aurender X100L.
I tried the sMS-100 briefly and wasn't impressed. The one I heard had the matching battery PSU and some kind of noise isolation gizmo from Empirical Audio… maybe the Short Block? I don't recall. Either way, I agree, it was pretty underwhelming overall.
The sMS-200 is significantly better even in stock form, and scales very well from there. There's a reason it has become so popular while the 100 never really took off.
Quick update – for anyone interested in using a PS-1 with the SOtM sMS-200, I can now definitively confirm that the Standard amp card is perfectly fine for general Roon use. Got my hands on a device which displays the total load, and the sMS-200 rarely exceeds 0.6 amps for Roon duty. Much of the time it hovers around 0.3A-0.4A with very occasional spikes. It only hits 1A while booting, just for a brief couple of seconds.
If you're plugging in USB powered hard drives, then it will probably require the High Current module. For Roon use, the Standard is perfectly acceptable. |
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