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The walk is laid out on the 1000-yard scale of 1 inch to 100,000 miles. Starting from the model of the Sun, the planets of the Solar System are marked out to scale with signs showing some key facts about each one. Walking from the Sun to Pluto takes 1,019 paces, the equivalent of 3,660,000,000 miles. By the time you reach Pluto, you will no longer be able to see the sun. Ideally, the walk starts at the model of The Sun in Bonchurch and finishes outside the chalets at Wheelers Bay, but it can of course be taken in reverse, starting at Ventnor Haven.
"Stokey" is Peter Woodall, who originally hails from Stoke and is still a keen supporter of that football club. But he is better known as an ocean sailor who has crossed the Atlantic some 30 times in 33 years and amassed more than a quarter of a million sea miles. He is a highly respected and much sought after teacher in celestial navigation and has sailed to the Azores some 89 times to teach students completing their Ocean Yachtmaster certification. After over 30 years sailing the seven seas, and having seen pretty much all the world has to offer, Stokey chose to put down his roots in Ventnor in the Isle of Wight which is a pretty big endorsement for the town! From here he plans routes for trans-Atlantic sailors and teaches courses in navigation and ocean sailing and shares his love of the heavens with locals through his popular 'Wonders of the Universe' courses.
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An intriguing and instructive scale model of the solar system
Time you'll need: At least an hour or so
Opening information: Always open but in winter the tides and weather will sometimes mean it won't be a very nice (or safe) walk so good weather recommended.
Location: Stokey's Solar System Walk runs for one kilometre along the revetment from Horseshoe Bay at Bonchurch to Wheelers Bay.
On foot/by bike – easily accessible along the revetment from Bonchurch or Ventnor.
By bus – Southern Vectis Number 3 bus (bus timetables)
By car – Car parks at Bonchurch and Ventnor.
Facilities: Seasonal cafe at Seapot.
More information: Stokey's Solar System Walk
Other things to see and do on site
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REVIEW: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / dancing / fairytale / Historical / New York City / sisters / YA13 Comments
Dear Ms. Valentine,
I first came across your YA historical novel, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, when The Book Smugglers reviewed it. Hapax also raved about it in our Open Thread for Readers for September.
Everything I heard about this novel, especially that it was a Jazz Age set retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, convinced me I would like it, but I held off on purchasing the book for a long while because of the price. Finally, with the end of 2014 approaching and my best books of the year list deadline looming, I bit the ten dollar bullet.
The novel begins by telling us that "By 1927 there were twelve girls who danced all night and never gave names, but by then the men had given up asking and called them all Princess."
The novel, written in a gorgeous present tense omniscient voice, shifts quickly into the men's viewpoint for the first chapter:
Wild things, these girls; wild for dancing. They could go all night without sitting, grabbing at champagne between songs, running to the throng at the table and saying something that made them all laugh, light and low together like the parts of a chorus.
It wasn't right, all those women sticking together so close. Something about the wall of bob-haired girls scared the men, though they hardly knew it. They just knew they'd better dance their best with a Princess, and no mistake.
But the book doesn't stay in this POV for long, and in chapter two we are introduced to Jo, the eldest of the girls, who has just been summoned to her father's office, and we learn that the girls are sisters.
From there on we are only in the twelve girls' viewpoints, and unlike the original fairy tale on which the novel is based, this version of the story places our sympathies with these girls who might, to an outside observer unfamiliar with their story, like those men in the first chapter, seem cold or frightening or even heartless.
Jo, the coldest of them all, is her younger sisters' protector, and the person she is protecting them from is their father.
The girls' father (whom we know only as Mr. Hamilton or as Jo calls him, "Sir,") married their mother so that his son would be able to fulfill his ambitions by marrying into a higher social register. But the girls' mother never gave birth to a son—instead came one daughter after another, until the day Mr. Hamilton's wife died giving birth to the youngest.
The girls, Jo, Lou, Ella, Doris, Hattie, Mattie, Rebecca, Araminta, Sophie, Lily, Rose, and Violet, barely knew their mother and none really know their father, who sends for Jo when he has something to communicate to them. Worst of all, they don't know the outside world, except for the nightclubs they sneak out to dance in. Their father is so ashamed of having fathered twelve daughters in his futile quest for a son that he will not allow them to leave the house.
Jo, who was once taken to the opera house by a nanny for her tenth birthday, taught Lou, Ella and Doris how to dance the waltz and the reel. A nanny gave them the steps to the polka. Jo asked her father for dance lessons; he refused. At ages fourteen and thirteen, Jo and Lou snuck out to the movies and came back with the foxtrot, and later with ragtime, the grizzly bear and the new waltz.
Dancing is the sisters' act of defiance, and of unity in the face of their father's oppression. But in order to protect her sisters from their father, Jo has to enforce his rules as much as she can. By the time Violet, the youngest, is old enough to sneak out of the house with the rest, Jo is in her mid to late twenties. She could escape, live her own life, but if she did, what would happen to her youngest sisters?
Now their father has summoned Jo to his office — to tell her that he has decided it is time for his daughters to marry. He has no intention of introducing the girls to society, or even of letting them get to know the men he will select for them to marry. He wants the weddings to happen quietly and quickly, without his peers ever learning that he has twelve daughters.
The girls, in a panic, turn to Jo, and she in turn promises she'll think of something, but she is fresh out of ideas.
Long ago, Jo had feelings for a bootlegger she met at the Kingfisher Club, such strong feelings that she almost abandoned her sisters to go with him. But he disappeared, and Jo hasn't let herself dance since the night she almost left town with Tom, for fear she'll be tempted with disloyalty again.
Jo's sisters can't appreciate the sacrifice she made for them. To them, she is the enforcer of their father's rules, and her own. She's the one who makes sure they sneak out of the house without being heard or seen, and that they all make it back to their beds before dawn. They don't entirely realize Jo is the buffer between them and a heartless man, that Jo has to appear almost as heartless to protect them from him.
Only Lou, the closest in age to Jo and her roommate, senses some of the cost her sister has paid. Only Lou remembers that it was Jo who suggested that they sneak out to go dancing, to give Lou breathing space in the midst of rage. Lou and Jo resent and love one another as only sisters can.
When their father hears rumors of twelve wild girls who dance all night, things go from bad to worse. When Tom, the bootlegger Jo once liked turns up, and her sisters champ at the bit to escape their father, what will Jo do?
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club is beautifully written, with vivid characterization and setting detail, down to the chapter titles taken from 1920s songs. The language is gorgeous, uncluttered yet poetic. I bookmarked several passages including this one:
Lou will dance anything, with anyone; she needs only a partner to be happy. She'd wear out a pair of shoes a night, if Jo would let them stay long enough.
Lou drinks like a fish and never gets drunk, as if her body burns just to keep her going.
Lou kisses her first boy when she's eighteen. He says he's an actor, which Lou can tell is a lie (so much for acting), but she likes the look of him, and he isn't the only one who forgets the truth in a dance hall.
I consider this novel a feminist take on The Twelve Dancing Princesses because as in the Brothers Grimm version, the girls' cynicism and heartlessness where their would-be suitors are concerned comes through, but here, unlike in the Grimm story, their father's behavior and the situation of the POV with the sisters makes it so easy to empathize with that hardheartedness.
If The Twelve Dancing Princesses sides with the old soldier who discovers the sister princesses' secret, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club sides with the girls. The book had this reader hoping against hope that their secret would not be uncovered.
I loved the way the book portrayed the bond of sisterhood, its fierce love and its fierce tensions, although there were times when I felt it was odd that Jo would be so removed from her ten youngest sisters. The book has no fantasy elements, but it does feel as if the characters inhabit a kind of heightened reality. If I were to take the story entirely literally, I might also wonder how a man could hide twelve daughters from his peers. Didn't his servants gossip? But these things were part of the story's premise, so I accepted them from the beginning. Everything else that happened followed from there.
I admit I initially felt disappointed that Jo's actions couldn't protect her sisters more, that she wasn't ultimately a hero who saved all of them. But on reflection, I decided I like that the story is more complex than that, and that the rest of the Hamilton sisters have their own agency within it, which they might not have had they simply been there for Jo to rescue.
While I wanted some of the sisters' characters to be fleshed out more, twelve women plus a handful of men are a lot of characters for a book that comes in at under three hundred pages.
There were points when I also wished the book would take on more of the issues of the time more directly—the economic disparity between rich and poor in the 1920s, the laws against people of different races marrying and the strictures against their dating or even dancing together. The book touches on these topics lightly because of the focus on the sisters, but these issues are present just enough that I didn't feel the novel was dismissing them.
The romantic relationships, although secondary to the sisters' relationships with each other, held my attention as much as the rest of the story if not more. The novel also contains one sex scene. It's not explicit but it's there. No doubt some readers will want to know if the story ends happily or not.
As far as the sisters, yes, absolutely. The romantic relationships are left somewhat up in the air and open to interpretation, which I don't usually mind at all in a YA. Here I minded a little, but at the same time it felt like the right ending for this book.
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club is suitable for older teens and will appeal to adults as well. If you like fairy tale retellings, don't miss it. B/B+
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Janine Ballard loves well-paced, character driven novels in romance, fantasy, YA, and the occasional outlier genre. Examples include novels by Katherine Addison, Ilona Andrews, Kristin Cashore, Cecilia Grant, Piper Huguley, Carolyn Jewel, Jeannie Lin, Miranda Neville, M. O'Keefe and Nalini Singh. Janine also writes fiction. Her critique partners are Sherry Thomas, Meredith Duran and Bettie Sharpe. Her erotic short story, "Kiss of Life," appears in the Berkley anthology AGONY/ECSTASY under the pen name Lily Daniels. You can email Janine at janineballard at gmail dot com or find her on Twitter @janine_ballard.
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Great review Janine, Hapax recommended this book in Open readers thread couple months ago (?), I thought I thanked her, but if not, thanks so much :). I really liked it too.
I am so glad I bought this recently and have it in my TBR pile, Janine, since our tastes often match up. Can't wait to find the time to read it.
@Sirius: Yay! So glad you liked it too. I have the feeling this book will stick with me– it's very memorable.
@Tanya: I'd love to hear what you think of it when you finish. I could be wrong, but it seems like something that would appeal to you.
Yeah, I read this months ago, and every time I'm reminded of it, I make the Good Book Noise (thanks, SBSarah!) all over.
I agree that that a lot was left open ended and ambiguous, but that was part of the charm, for me. Fairy tales (for me) are archetypal templates that we can write our own stories upon; this book was more of a gorgeous dream, of which we can only snatch wisps as fades away in the morning, trying to weave back into a coherent whole.
Also, I'm a total pushover for ferocious older sisters*. That's why I prefer the version of this fairytale that features the eldest sister and the old soldier to the one with the youngest sister and the pretty gardener (I wonder if the youngest sisters' names were a nod to that?).
*I'm the baby of the family myself, and I wonder if this sentiment is an unconscious apology to my eldest sister, who had to take so many extra burdens?
@hapax: Oh yes, I agree that the ambiguity was fitting. It made me a bit wistful though, you know? Esp. the Jake part of things, knowing what the laws were in the 1920s. But you're right that it had a dreamlike quality– I almost said that in my comment to Sirius! Even though it wasn't a fantasy, it didn't feel entirely of the real world. It has the vividness of a dream, and the girls' fear that discovery of their secret may come in any guise fits with that too, since dreams are often infused with amorphous fears. And as with a dream, I try to continue the story in my own mind, and wonder how it all works out in the end, though if the book told us that, it would lose a lot of its power.
I'm an older sister myself, and I still feel protective of my younger sister, so I really identified with Jo. I think for that reason I wanted a little more acknowledgement from the others of what she'd sacrificed for them than we got (there was some of that, but I wanted more). But again, this book was no wish fulfillment fantasy. It was something else altogether. So it really was written as it should have been, even if it left me with a longing for more. You see my response to its ambiguities is an odd kind of ambivalence. I wouldn't really want it to be what part of me wants it to be. It would feel more shallow if it satisfied my every desire.
Count me in as one who took a look at that price and balked. I might have to rethink that.
Wow, this book looks so interesting. Thanks for the review, Janine!
@Jayne: Unfortunately a lot of YA novels are priced this way, and I have to think carefully about whether to purchase them. This one was worth the cost to me, but sometimes I check them out of the library instead of buying.
@Jennie: I suspect it would be right up your alley.
Jae Lee
I stayed up late last night to finish this and I am so glad I did. Thanks so much for this recommendation, I don't know that I would have made an effort to read this otherwise.
I really loved the ending, btw, it was sort of bittersweet and optimistic at the same time. I did want the other girls to have more sympathy for Jo, but I also understood her distance from them.
@Jae Lee: So glad you enjoyed this one. Thank you for letting me know.
"Bittersweet and optimistic" is a great way to describe the way it ends. It was fitting, perfect for the story, and my quibbles are more to do with how much I loved the characters and wanted to be assured of their happiness than they are a real disagreement with the ending.
Re. Jo and her sisters–I understood how the emotional distance that developed through her being "the General" on the one hand, but on the other hand I felt twelve girls born only a year or two apart and confined to the same house for their entire lives would have no choice but to know each other, even before they started sneaking out. So it wasn't so much their feelings about her that bothered me, as the fact that she knew so little of them and vice versa.
I thought Jo did know her sisters fairly well, I guess. I didn't think the younger sisters knew Jo at all, but that made a lot of sense to me. I agree with you about the ending, I wanted to spend more time with them and I wanted a sparkles-and-sunshine happy ending. I'm just glad I didn't get one.
@Jae Lee: It was stated at one point in the book that Jo didn't know most of her sisters well and that Lou acted as a go-between. That worked for the story but I can't see that situation developing in real life with twelve girls all stuck at the same house.
I wanted to spend more time with them and I wanted a sparkles-and-sunshine happy ending. I'm just glad I didn't get one.
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A former GOP judicial candidate claims in lawsuit she was "tortured" in courtroom and jail
March 26, 2015 — 11:00pm
Michelle MacDonald, the 2014 Republican endorsed candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court, and her husband Thomas Shomita have filed a sixty-page civil rights lawsuit in federal court, in which they claim she was "handcuffed, detained and tortured" in a Dakota County courtroom and jail in September 2013.
The lawsuit stems from an incident where MacDonald, who was representing a client in court, was removed from the courtroom by deputies and placed in a cell after taking pictures in the courtroom. MacDonald and her husband are seeking injunctions and monetary awards for compensatory and punitive damages, along with all attorney fees and costs associated with the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, MacDonald was handcuffed, placed in a wheel chair and wheeled back into the courtroom by a deputy. The hearing resumed and MacDonald continued to represent her client, but she was in a wheel chair and handcuffed. The lawsuit states MacDonald was detained for 36 hours and was charged with one count of contempt of court, which was later dismissed.
In her lawsuit, MacDonald alleges "seven of the eleven internationally recognized forms of torture" were used against her including, "sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, solitary confinement and isolation, temperature extremes, sensory bombardment, and psychological techniques."
MacDonald's lawsuit even notes she has started smoking and continues to suffer from embarrassment due to this incident as she considers another run for public office. Moments after she was sentenced on charges in November 2014 from a traffic stop for speeding and suspicion of drunk driving in 2013, MacDonald declared she would again run for office as a judicial candidate.
Nathan Busch, MacDonald's attorney, said in a press release announcing the lawsuit, "[o]ur Constitution guarantees every citizen inalienable rights of due process before arrest and detention to prevent exactly the outrageous tyranny Dakota County officials have inflicted on Ms. MacDonald."
MacDonald lost to incumbent Justice David Lillehaug by just 7 points - 53 percent to 46 percent. MacDonald received the highest vote percentage of any Republican statewide candidate for office on Election Day and said "she would have won" her campaign if she had not been detained.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19. Only two days after, they released an official wedding portrait. The newlyweds are all smiles, looking gorgeous and so in love.
More in love perhaps than they were a little over a month after they got engaged when they released their engagement portraits back in December? The engagement portraits were taken by Alexi Lubomirski at Frogmore House, where Prince Charles hosted a dinner for Harry and Meghan later in the evening.
Lubomirski also took their official wedding portrait, and the images are actually quite similar. We can't help but notice the way they lean into each other in both. Clearly the two are not afraid to show their affection.
Here is the engagement photo and wedding photo side-by-side, so you can stare at the stunning couple and basque in true love in all its glory.
Harry and Meghan also took an official wedding picture, featuring all of your faves including Kate, William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, the Queen, Prince Charles, and Meghan's mom, Doria.
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"Semblance" is about outward appearance. Inspired by today's world, and the way we view the people around us. I try to have a positive message with all of my work. It usually involves the way we fit into this world, whether it be past experience, our lives now, or the hopes for the future. This show was inspired by the challenges of today. The way we perceive others. The people in my series were individually carved and placed together in different combinations or alone. By using vivid colors in the background I hoped to accomplish a sense of displacement.
The work was created using acrylics & ink on reclaimed wood with an epoxy resin coat.
FLUX (2013)
"Flux" is about change and moving through life. Growing as a person and the importance and significance of objects and communication. Everything from a Popsicle on a hot day when you're a kid, to the power lines that keep us connected to the world around. The airstream that may have inspired moving, the plane that took or will take us to a new destination, the camera that documented a moment in time.
This show was inspired by my nephew Forest and his exit from childhood to his entrance into the world as an adult.
Artwork inspired by one of my favorite holidays, Day of the Dead.
Some pieces made with shadow box mixed media and acrylic on wood.
In and Around (2007)
My first official art show in Illinois.
A lot of experimenting with mixed media on wood.
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How to train for the upcoming Oscar race, the race of the century, on the Amtrak train schedule
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Train schedule for the Oscar race on Amtrak has been updated to include the new race of this century.
Aero Trainer, the title of the training for the Oscars, is now available on the train schedule.
Train schedule update: Aero Trainer will begin on the first leg of the race from Los Angeles on March 16, 2019.
Train schedules for the Hollywood Film Festival and the Academy Awards are available on Amtrak's website.
The Hollywood Film Awards are scheduled for April 8 and 9, 2019, respectively.
The Academy Awards and Academy Awards ceremonies are scheduled to take place April 19, 2019 and 20, 2019 at Hollywood and L.A. Live.
The Oscar ceremony is scheduled for June 12 and 13, 2019 in Los Angeles.
Train timetables for the 2020 Academy Awards have also been updated.
Train timetable update: Academy Awards 2019 will be held on May 20-22, 2019 (L.A.)
Live, the Academy Award ceremony in Los Angelas, California, is scheduled to be held June 14-16, 2019 with the Oscar ceremony to take the form of an intimate, live broadcast on the Disney XD channel, and the Oscar telecast to air on the NBCUniversal network on June 16, 2020.
The schedule of Oscar ceremonies on Amtrak is based on the information from the U.S. National Train Directory and is not an official Amtrak schedule.
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Robert Downey Jr as special to me as Tony Stark is to Peter Parker: Tom Holland
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One of the most heart breaking moments in the history of Marvel Cinematic Universe was when Tony Stark loses Peter Parker to supervillain Thanos' finger snap in Avengers: Infinity War.
While Parker returns to Earth after things go back to normal in Avengers: Endgame, Tom Holland says losing Robert Downey Jr's IronMan in the final scenes of the movie was neither easy for him nor for his teenage alter-ego Spider-Man. The 23-year-old actor, who will be reprising his role as the web-slinger in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home, says he looks up to Downey Jr the way his superhero character admires Stark.
'RDJ (Downey Jr) means so much to me. He is such a role model for me, when I was a kid and before I'd met him. And then to get a chance to work with him and to get to know him was really a dream come true.
He holds a special place in my life like Mr Stark does in Spider-Man's journey,' Holland said.
The British actor added that the 54-year-old Hollywood star inspires him to work hard and be humble. "I love Robert.
It's kind of reassuring for a young actor like me to meet someone who's at the top of the game.
But he is pretty professional, kind and hardworking. He is just a really good guy. So for me, it was a really wonderful experience.'
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Artists launch from Work of Art classes to a collective
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|By Colleen Powers
When the five artists of the Springstep Collective met in a workshop on business skills for artists in Minnetonka, Minnesota, they were looking for a push in the right direction. Each of them had signed up for the free classes — part of Springboard for the Arts' Work of Art program — to learn about time management, marketing their work, and other aspects of being a professional artist. They hoped, too, for affirmation and motivation as they ventured into art as a career.
At the end of the workshop series, Ellen Sweetman invited four of her fellow artists to be part of a group pop-up gallery show. It was then that they decided to form a collective — and got the chance to put the Work of Art career lessons into practice.
"I sat in the class and thought, 'Oh, it'd be really interesting to be an artist, I wish I could do it,'" says Diane Pearson. "Then when Ellen approached me to do the art show, that made it come to fruition."
"Doing it so soon after the class," says Pieter Maas, "in the back of your mind, you're going, 'Oh, that's what they were talking about; now I get it. Now the lightbulb goes off.'"
Sweetman, Pearson, and Maas committed to planning the pop-up gallery show with Steve Holzgraefe and Melissa "Missy" Moore. The five of them had enjoyed sharing ideas and questions during the workshops and chatting in the parking lot after class. They named themselves Springstep — a reference to taking the next step beyond the Springboard-hosted workshops — and created an official logo and website.
Though they set their goals with intention, Holzgraefe says, there was also a willingness to try something new together: "We're going to start and it's going to unfold as we go."
Steve Holzgraefe, aka mnima.
Five artists at career crossroads
One factor that unites the Springstep members is that they all are well into their careers or entering second careers as artists. Sweetman and Moore both speak of "coming out" as artists after focusing on their families and their roles as mothers.
"I would say I've been an artist my whole life, but not in the business sense," says Sweetman, who creates oil paintings with bold strokes and colors under the name livelybrush.
"[The workshops were] the first time I've been sitting in a room where people talked about their kids, talked about how tired they are of being a mom," she says. "I needed to hear that — where I wasn't the only one who put myself on hold and gave myself wholeheartedly to a family, and didn't regret it, but didn't know what to do now."
Moore, too, recently decided to refocus on her art after raising kids, though she had studied fine art and been a certified art teacher. Her paintings and mixed media work feature bright colors and abstract forms.
Doing the workshops and the show, Moore says, helped her say, "This is my job. I'm not just wasting my time painting away in my basement. I am reaching towards a goal, and I should be reaching towards a goal."
Maas Homestead.
Maas is a blacksmith and metalworker who makes and sells work under the name Maas Homestead; he tends to prefer the word "artisan" to "artist." He initially trained in blacksmithing in the 1970s and has returned to the craft recently, after retiring from a decades-long career as a carpenter.
Pearson's experience has been in interior design; she has run her own design business for more than 10 years, but says she "always wanted to be an artist." She draws and paints botanical art and natural landscapes.
Before the Work of Art classes and the Springstep show, Holzgraefe says, it had been five years since he had produced a new body of work. He designs lighting installations and works with fabricators to bring them to life under the name mnima.
It was valuable, Sweetman says, "to be around other people who are just as old as I am, trying to figure it out. I don't need to negate everything with, 'Oh, that ship has sailed. Oh, I shoulda. Oh, I coulda.' Instead, I am. I am doing it."
Learning the business of art
Claiming the title of "professional artist" was one of the first lessons the artists learned in Work of Art. From there, the curriculum covers topics including creating a business plan, pricing artwork, tracking revenue and expenses, and considering legal issues. The information and activities helped the artists focus and set specific goals.
"The time management workshop was really important for me in saying, 'When are you productive? What are you doing with your time?'" Moore says.
One obstacle in time management and budgeting, the artists say, has been figuring out how to balance making their artwork — what they really love doing — with promoting themselves and managing the business side.
"I always remember that Noah [Keesecker, Springboard for the Arts instructor] gave a figure of, I think, 30 percent of your budget should be spent on sales and marketing," Holzgraefe says. "So that's kind of scary, because I think as artists we would put 100 percent of our time and money into supplies, into creating the work. … You actually have to spend time away from your art to get stuff done."
Ellen Sweetman.
The Work of Art marketing curriculum also includes information on finding an audience. That helped Pearson reframe how she thought about attracting customers.
"After all those years of retail and interior design and working with clients, I think I had this misconception that you had to come up with 'what do people want?' What I learned is that you do your art, and people will find it," she says. "I learned not to be all things to all people, and to just concentrate on who I am and what I'm good at."
Being able to find new followers and inspiration online made social media an unexpectedly fun discovery for her.
"I had been a little bit of a dinosaur, buried my head in the sand and hadn't done anything with it. Now it has opened up a whole different world for me," Pearson says. "You get new ideas and see things from all around the world on Instagram."
Holzgraefe was reluctant to share his work on social media for fear his designs could be taken and replicated for mass production. When he did venture onto Instagram, he says, he was surprised by how much time he needed to invest.
"You don't necessarily need to keep it on the downlow; you're going to have a hard enough time attracting attention, attracting as many eyeballs as you want," he says. His effort has paid off, though: Through Instagram, he has been able to catch the interest of followers from multiple continents.
Though they had all gone through the basic curriculum, when it came time to plan the show, each member of Springstep could focus on their personal strengths. Maas calls these "barter elements" that each person brought to the table for trade. His carpentry background proved helpful when it came to setting up the pop-up show and hanging art, while Holzgraefe took on the Springstep website design and social media.
The division of labor didn't mean anyone had to go it alone: Though tasks were assigned to individuals, the artists met as a group to make decisions.
"Whatever it was that we were doing, those things became less intimidating and less difficult because we could lean on someone to do it, to assist, or they supported us while we did it," Sweetman says. "That held us accountable."
Diane Pearson (In Progress).
A community of support
Mutual accountability and support became an essential benefit of Springstep — and, in fact, was something that many of the artists were looking for when they signed up for the Work of Art classes.
"I just wanted to get to know people," says Holzgraefe, who has worked remotely for many years. "Commiserate, collaborate, and I think everybody wants to know that you're not going through whatever you're going through alone."
Sweetman says that she searched for years to recapture the energy of a critique group she had worked with out of college. When she asked the others to join her in an exhibition, she wasn't sure yet if there was potential for that same kind of relationship. Simply being around other people in class, though, had been valuable.
"I enjoyed everyone's takes and their questions," she says. "Things that maybe I couldn't voice, I got from other people stating how they were doing and what they were working on."
Once the collective was formed, the artists began critiquing each other's work as they prepared for the show. They also visited one another's studios. All of the group members appreciated being able to see other artists' creative process, while hearing feedback that, as Holzgraefe notes, stemmed from "kindness and curiosity."
"One of the fundamental things I think this group offered each other is: Are you doing the work you should be doing?" he says. "And, perhaps, is this the work that's going to move your business forward?"
Because blacksmith Maas had never really thought of himself as an artist, he challenged himself to create pieces for the show that were decorative and not strictly practical. In the critiques, he says, the other Springstep members encouraged him to keep trying new things.
"Some of the pieces I brought, they just said, 'Oh, that's art,' and I go, 'Well, I didn't know,'" he says. "It was nice to have someone else affirm that the piece that you brought was presented well."
In addition to questions about artistic intent, the critique sessions gave the collective a tangible way to practice what they had learned in the Work of Art workshops. They discussed pricing and gave input on what each person was charging for their work.
And when Maas exhibited on his own around the time that Springstep was beginning to plan their group show, the other artists came to see him and gave him feedback on how his pieces were displayed.
The artists have also been inspired by each other's work. After seeing one of Moore's abstract pieces, Maas created a metalwork sculpture that mimicked its lines and patterns.
That cross-medium influence was possible because no two artists in Springstep do quite the same type of work. Visitors to their pop-up show asked if they planned that, Sweetman says. In fact, it was a coincidence — but even if the artists' work had been more similar, there has never been a sense of competition.
"If I succeed, we all succeed," says Sweetman. "I do feel as though that united front was felt from early on in our meetings."
The spirit of shared success paid off: On May 7, Springstep drew a strong turnout and sales at their first pop-up gallery show.
Melissa Moore.
What's next for Springstep
Since the show, the artists say, they have taken time off and stepped back to consider what's next. Springstep made a decision early on not to form an LLC or other legal entity, but to contract with one another initially just for the group show. They are weighing options, including requests from more artists to join the collective, but one thing is for sure: They will host another pop-up show later this year.
As individuals, the artists have been feeling a mixture of pride and uncertainty. Pearson points to progress made since signing up for the classes.
"They had us fill out this sheet of goals and timeframes; you address an envelope and they send it back to you in six months," Pearson says of the first Work of Art workshop. "And I got it in the mail, and I had accomplished all those things that I had written down."
At the same time, the group members are still feeling how difficult it is to build a sustainable career as an independent artist, even with the guidance of Work of Art and the support of their peers.
"Oftentimes I'll sit back and think to myself, 'Man, if I don't do this, it doesn't get done,'" Holzgraefe says. "You've got to hustle. You've got to be out there beating the bushes."
"It's a grind, it's hard," agrees Moore, "but it's better when you have people with you to help you pull yourself out of the muck and the mire."
Despite the ongoing challenges of art as a career, the Springstep artists say that they've gotten renewed focus and career direction through learning and then getting to apply the Work of Art curriculum. "It helped me focus my energy, and feel like I had more of a purpose, a plan," Moore says.
"We needed to believe in ourselves. I think going to those classes and knowing everybody helped me believe in what I could do, what I can bring to the table," she says. "It's really exciting, it's very empowering to be doing what my dream has always been."
Individuals and groups of artists can find advice and guidance for the business side of art in the Work of Art toolkit, available digitally for free and in Spanish as Trabajo de Arte. The Work of Art toolkit can also be used to present workshops for artists, like the ones in Minnesota that brought the Springstep members together.
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Our Lady of Florida Spiritual Center will have a Day of Reflection on Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2015 from 10 am until 2:30 pm and an Evening of Reflection from 6:30 pm until 9:30 pm.
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What a beautiful way to begin your Lenten Season!
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Are you full of random facts and tidbits? Is your mind just bursting with trivia knowledge? Well, don't let it all go to waste! Check out these trivia spots in Washington, D.C., and play to win prizes and impress all your friends.
Trivia nights are held at these four establishments every week and on a variety of topics. Read on to get the details about each spot!
Penn Social
801 E Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20004 Penn Social is a big fan of trivia. They often host specialty trivia nights, like the widely popular Gilmore Girls one a couple months ago. If you've got a lot of knowledge about a specific topic, stay tuned for their specialty events. The list of upcoming events can be found here. If you're into more readily available information, though, Penn Social has also got you covered. Every Tuesday the bar hosts a trivia night starting at 7 p.m. This night is one of the busiest at Penn Social and averages out about 75 players, taking over the whole first floor and patio area. Make sure you get there early (think 15-20 minutes) to get a seat. You can enjoy a bite to eat and a beer from the happy hour while you wait. Themes for the night can vary, but the topics tend to be accessible to the general public. You can learn more about trivia here, and more about Penn Social in general, here. [caption id="attachment_7796" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Courtesy of mzmahoganychic.com[/caption]
Roofer's Union
2446 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20009 Roofer's Union is popular during the warmer months for its rooftop bar and performance space (and views of Adams Morgan). They'll often have music events in the spring and summer, and the happy hour is overwhelmingly popular here. But, they also host a trivia night every Thursday night. Trivia starts at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday. Though the space is a little more open than Penn Social, it would still behoove you to get there early to claim a good spot to sit. The hosts are funny and lighthearted, so you don't have to worry about being taken too seriously. Roofer's Union is the place to do trivia if you also love to eat. Start with the Gruyère Macaroni & Cheese, and then order one of the stacked sandwiches for brain fuel. You can check out the full menu here. And if you want to see what other events Roofer's Union has in store for the spring and summer seasons, you can visit their website here. [caption id="attachment_7798" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Courtesy of blog.venuebook.com[/caption]
500 H Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20001 Irish Channel is your go-to trivia spot in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood. Trivia actually happens twice a week here, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. You have the opportunity to win tons of prizes, including cash prizes, so make sure you come prepared. The questions tend to be general, but challenging; find friends with varying interests to go with you. Like most of the other bars listed, Irish Channel also has tons of other events monthly, from performances to comedic acts. You can check out the full calendar here. [caption id="attachment_7800" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Courtesy of irishchanneldc.com[/caption]
1414 14th St. NW (in the basement), Washington, D.C., 20005 If you think your trivia knowledge is just a little bit out there, dare we say nerdy, don't fret: there's still a trivia spot out there for you. And not just a trivia spot, but a whole bar! Kingfisher hosts Trivia Tuesdays, starting at 8 p.m., and run by Geeks who Drink, a traveling trivia organization. Come early, though, so you can grab a seat and take advantage of the late happy hour, which goes until 8. The questions here can be a little more obscure, so be ready to really test your brain power. Prizes are more casual, consisting of mostly beer. All of the beer and wine that Kingfisher serves comes in cans, but once you get over that, you'll love their extensive selection, especially local beers. You can also sip on one of their specialty cocktails (served in an actual glass, not a can: don't worry!). The beer and cocktails menus can be found here. It's also important to note that this bar doesn't have a kitchen, but does have complimentary popcorn available all night long. [caption id="attachment_7801" align="aligncenter" width="994"] Courtesy of Washingtonian.com[/caption] If you're a big fan of trivia and want to take it to the next level, check out District Trivia (which conducts most of these bars' trivia nights) for ways to start teams, get competitive, and win big-time prizes. You can even become a trivia host yourself! Do you love trivia? Have you checked out any of these spots? Let us know in the comments below!
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The Bigfork Inn pub features the chalet-style architecture of the rest of the structure.
The new owners of the Bigfork Inn have changed the appearance of the dining room slightly with black tablecloths.
Since the Bigfork Inn came under new management in July 2018, the most visible change is the addition of black tablecloths in the dining room.
Languein, Francois Zanni and a few other partners now own the landmark structure on the north end of Electric Avenue that has played a big role in the history of Bigfork.
The current building, with its rustic wooden beams and Swiss chalet exterior, was rebuilt after a fire during the latter years of the Depression. Originally called the Bigfork Hotel, its name changed in 1972 to the Bigfork Inn.
Honoring the history of the building and its place as a Bigfork social hub is a big part of the mission for the new owners, Languein said.
Bob and Suzie Keenan were instrumental in shaping that history. The Bigfork couple owned and operated the inn for 37 years altogether. They purchased the property in 1982, and as the years went by, added the library, the "red room," the balcony and deck, and phased out the hotel portion as the restaurant business expanded. The business was leased-to-own by another party from 2006-11, but the Keenans took over again in 2012.
Bob Keenan said the time had come to sell the inn.
"Thirty-seven years was enough," he said.
His long career as a Montana state legislator made his decades in the restaurant business even more challenging. He is currently Republican president pro tempore of the Montana State Senate, and served in the senate from 1999-2007 and the Montana House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.
Despite the stresses, the decision to part with the Bigfork Inn was still an emotional one, Bob said. The property served both as the Keenans' livelihood and family home for many years.
Keenan said he is confident the business he and his wife nurtured for so many years is in good hands.
Zanni has been part of a number of Flathead Valley restaurant ventures, at different times running The Docks in Lakeside, the restaurant at Blacktail Mountain Ski Area, and the former North Bay Grille in Kalispell. He is currently the general manager at Silver Star Steak Company in downtown Helena, where he will continue working through this year's legislative session before making the move to Bigfork permanently.
Zanni tapped Languein, who was working as a manager at Silver Star, to join him in ownership of the Bigfork Inn. Languein, an Oregon native, has been in the restaurant and hotel business for 16 years, with five of those in management. He was part of the team that opened the Broadwater Hot Springs restaurant in Helena a few years ago, working as general manager for a year and a half before returning to Silver Star.
Languein moved to Bigfork in June and learned the ropes with the Keenans before they left the establishment in his care. He put in long days to make it through the frantic summer season.
"The first months were busy and exciting, but I thrive on chaos," he said.
Now that Bigfork is in its off-season lull, Languein said he'll have time to pursue some ideas for the inn.
The marketplace is expected to be a place for coffee, pastries and other to-go breakfast and lunch items. Languein envisions summer customers grabbing beer or wine and pastries for spending the day out on the water.
A more extensive wine list might also be part of the Bigfork Inn's new model.
As far as alterations to the food menu, certain dishes seem to be non-negotiable with customers, Languein said. The Cajun shrimp pasta, the crispy duck and the schnitzel are Bigfork Inn favorites.
Under its new owners, the Bigfork Inn has already made a return to one tradition. After years with no live music, Montana Lite now plays classic jazz, blues and standards on Friday and Saturday evenings for listening and dancing.
Taking over the running of a venerable establishment like the Bigfork Inn was a little intimidating, Languein said.
He said a grand opening celebration that will include all the owners is planned for late spring.
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SDCC 2020: Fear the Walking Dead season 6 trailer
Camille Rae Lim
on July 26, 2020Posted in: News, Television
AMC released the trailer for the upcoming season of Fear the Walking Dead which will be premiering in October.
During the Comic-con@Home panel for Fear the Walking Dead, the team behind the show shared some footage and details about the upcoming season as well as the premiere date. As previously reported, Fear the Walking Dead will be taking the slot usually reserved for season premieres of The Walking Dead as production on the eleventh season of the latter has been delayed to 2021.
The footage featured Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and Strand (Colman Domingo) being interrogated by Virginia (Colby Minifie), who is the leader of the community all the main characters found themselves reluctantly joining at the end of the fifth season.
Scott M. Gimple, head of The Walking Dead franchise, mentioned that this season will feature multiple time jumps as well as a new, anthology structure.
Co-showrunner Ian Goldberg elaborated on these changes, saying:
"The exciting thing is, I think you're going very surprised by the way these characters react in these new circumstances…
Tonally, I think you can probably tell from watching the trailer – it is going be a darker season. No doubt about it because of the way these characters are going to be tested…
The other thing we're really excited about is that we're going to have an anthology structure to the episodes, where we get to deep dive into exactly what these characters are going through within Virginia's communities, within the style of episodes we've done in the past that we've loved… You're going to see a lot more of that kind of storytelling in season six."
But, as with all shows at this time, the creative team is still facing a multitude of challenges in production for the show given the global pandemic. Hopefully, they will be able to film all episodes of the season.
Fear the Walking Dead season six will premiere on October 11 on AMC.
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Dietary fat and cardiometabolic health: evidence, controversies, and consensus for guidance
Nita G Forouhi, professor1, Ronald M Krauss, professor2, Gary Taubes, journalist3, Walter Willett, professor4
Although difficulties in nutrition research and formulating guidelines fuel ongoing debate, the complexities of dietary fats and overall diet are becoming better understood, argue Nita G Forouhi and colleagues
In past decades, dietary guidance has almost universally advocated reducing the intake of total and saturated fat, with the emphasis shifting more recently from total fat to the replacement of saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats and the elimination of trans fat. These recommendations and the link between fat consumption and the risk of cardiovascular disease have been among the most vexed issues in public health: are dietary fats "villains," are they benign, or are they even "heroes" that could help us consume better overall diets and promote health? And, which dietary fats fit into which category?
The medical literature is still full of articles arguing opposing positions. For example, in 2017, after a review of the evidence, the American Heart Association Presidential Advisory strongly endorsed that "lowering intake of saturated fat and replacing it with unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, will lower the incidence of CVD".1Three months later, the 18-country observational Prospective Rural Urban Epidemiology (PURE) Study concluded much the opposite: "Total fat and types of fat were not associated with cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiovascular disease mortality".2 The devil, as always, is in the detail, including the inherent complexity of human diets, methodological considerations, and the role of bias and confounding.
This article takes a critical look at the evolution of scientific understanding about dietary fats and health, the difficulties of establishing public health dietary guidelines, and what the current advice should be for dietary fat consumption. Although the focus is on cardiovascular disease, we also consider other outcomes, including weight gain and obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
History, evolution, and current understanding of dietary fat and health
The public health debate about dietary fats and health has been ongoing for over 60 years. The "diet-heart hypothesis" (box 1) has been the focus of discussions on dietary fat and health because coronary heart disease has been and remains the main cause of death worldwide.
Diet-heart hypothesis
The seemingly simple diet-heart hypothesis was first proposed by nutritionist Ancel Keys in the early 1950s. The hypothesis outlined a sequence of relationships in which a fatty diet elevates serum cholesterol levels, leading to atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction. The focus of the hypothesis soon shifted from the total fat consumed in the diet to the more nuanced idea that saturated fats should be replaced by polyunsaturated fats and the benefits of replacing animal fats with vegetable fats were advocated. Total cholesterol as the atherogenic biomarker was later replaced by cholesterol subfractions: the cholesterol in low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins, and serum levels of triglycerides. That science, too, has continued to evolve in complexity with further research (fig 1).
Pathophysiological and genetic studies and randomised clinical trials with different cholesterol lowering drugs have led to a consensus that low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles are a cause of coronary heart disease.3 The effect of saturated fat on LDL cholesterol levels145 and the association of LDL with coronary heart disease13 have led to the inference that dietary saturated fat directly promotes the development of coronary heart disease. However, direct evidence of the benefits of lowering cholesterol or LDL cholesterol by changing the fat content of the diet is lacking. Meta-analyses and systematic reviews still place emphasis on the results of a few small trials done 40 to 50 years ago, supplemented by the observations of prospective epidemiological cohort studies.46789 This evidence has not been sufficient to resolve controversies as both the randomised trials and the observational evidence have many methodological and interpretive problems. Moreover, as the science has evolved, fat consumption itself and its relation with health have become more complex.
Fat is not just fat
Despite decades of dietary advice that the lower the total fat content, the healthier the diet, researchers and public health authorities now agree that to consider the effect of total fat intake alone on health is meaningless; different types of fats must be considered (box 2).
Dietary fats and their food sources
Dietary fats are mostly triglycerides, with each triglyceride molecule containing three fatty acids on a glycerol backbone
The structure and function of dietary fatty acids can vary greatly depending on chain length (6-24 carbon units); number of double bonds—saturated (with no double bonds), monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated; and whether the double bonds are in a cis (same side) or trans (opposite side) position
Polyunsaturated fats with double bonds that are 3 carbon atoms or 6 carbons from the n-terminal end of the fatty acid (n-3 or n-6, respectively) are considered essential—that is, they must be obtained from the diet because they are not synthesised in the body. Both have important structural and physiological functions
Different fatty acids have distinct biochemical properties and can therefore produce different metabolic and physiological effects with different clinical manifestations, such as cardiovascular, neurological, or other
Food sources of dietary fats
Food sources of individual fatty acids vary within each class. For instance, within the omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid class, alpha linolenic acid comes from plants, including some nuts and seeds such as walnuts and linseed, whereas eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid come mostly from fish and other marine sources
Many food sources contain different types of fatty acids. For example, olive oil is a good source of monounsaturated fatty acids but also contains saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in smaller proportions. Animal products are rich in saturated fats but some also contain large proportions of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids
To produce public health guidelines on which foods to eat or avoid to reduce the risk of chronic disease is complicated because dietary fats are typically mixtures of different types of fatty acids. Animal fats, for instance, are the main sources of saturated fats in many modern diets, but some animal fats are higher in monounsaturated fats than saturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats in vegetable oils will typically contain both omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids in different concentrations. Hence, conclusions about the health effects of saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids are unlikely to consistently translate to the health effects of the fats, oils, and foods in which those fatty acids are present.
Foods are not just nutrients
The scientific investigation of nutrients (both macro- and micronutrients) is essential for understanding pathophysiological mechanisms of disease. However, people do not consume isolated nutrients and the foods they eat are more than the sum of their nutrients.
Synergism and interactions between different components of foods together with the degree of processing and preparation or cooking methods lead to a "food matrix" effect which is not captured by considering single nutrients. Different types of food that are high in saturated fats are likely to have different effects on health. For example, dairy products and processed meats, both high in saturated fats, are differentially associated with many health outcomes in prospective epidemiological studies, often in opposite directions.10 One explanation for this divergence is that despite their similar fat content, other components of these two food groups are associated with different health effects. For example, dairy products contain minerals such as calcium and magnesium and have probiotic features if fermented, whereas processed red meat has a high salt and preservative content.
The potential for residual confounding from lifestyle, dietary, and socioeconomic factors and bias in observational research limits causal interpretation. However, it is also unlikely that randomised clinical trials of individual foods or food groups for disease endpoints will be possible, not least because of the problems of sample size, adherence, dose, duration, and cost. For this reason, dietary guidance is usually derived from analysis and synthesis of different types of evidence.
Nutrient replacement
Within overall diets, eating less of one macronutrient implies eating more of others to keep calorie intake the same. Dietary manipulations in clinical trials always involve multiple variables. If total fat reduction is the intervention in a randomised trial, any effect observed could depend on the replacement source of energy, whether it is mainly carbohydrate or protein or a combination of the two. The quality of the replacement macronutrient (for instance, highly refined grains versus whole grains) can also influence the observed effect. If reduction of saturated fat but not total fat is the intervention, the effect will differ depending on whether the replacement fat is a mostly polyunsaturated fat, in which case whether an omega 3 or omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, or a mostly monounsaturated fat such as from olive oil.
The same principles apply to observational studies, when statistical models of associations between diet and disease need to adjust for total energy intake. In recent years, most observational studies have done this, but the comparison sources of energy (eg, carbohydrate or unsaturated fats) are often not specified.
In meta-analyses of observational studies that adjust for total calorie intake, higher intakes of polyunsaturated fatty acids in place of saturated fatty acids were associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease.61112Similar findings were seen for total and cardiovascular mortality in 128 000 men and women followed for up to 32 years with repeated measures of diet.13 Replacing saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated fatty acids has been part of dietary guidelines since the 1970s and has led to modest reductions in saturated fat intake and an increase in plant oil consumption in the US (eg, polyunsaturated fatty acid intake increased from about 3% to 7% of energy intake) at a time when coronary heart disease mortality fell by nearly 75%.14 At a minimum, these findings support the safety of these dietary changes, although the benefits of changing the type of fat are difficult to quantify because of changes in other factors such as other aspects of diet, smoking, and emergency medical services.
A global perspective on the health effects of dietary fats and other macronutrients was provided by the PURE study, which included 135 335 individuals in 18 countries.2 Higher intakes of total fat and saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids individually were associated with lower total mortality but not with cardiovascular disease mortality or incidence, except for inverse associations of saturated fatty acids with the incidence of stroke. In contrast, higher carbohydrate intake was non-linearly associated with increased total mortality; in nutrient substitution analyses, only the replacement of carbohydrate with polyunsaturated fats was associated with lower mortality. Although limited by the observational study design, these findings add to the concern about guidelines that focus on limiting the intake of total and saturated fats, particularly without considering the replacement nutrient.
Taken together, a single nutrient approach can be misleading both in the interpretation of research findings and in the health implications of translating results into dietary guidelines and public health programmes.
Importance of lipid components in the diet-heart hypothesis
As the diet-heart hypothesis evolved in the 1960s and 1970s, the focus shifted from the effect of dietary fat on total cholesterol to LDL cholesterol. However, changes in LDL cholesterol are not an actual measure of heart disease itself. Any dietary intervention might influence other, possibly unmeasured, causal factors that could affect the expected effect of the change in LDL cholesterol. This possibility is clearly shown by the failure of several categories of drugs to reduce cardiovascular events despite significant reductions in plasma LDL cholesterol levels.151617 LDL cholesterol can also be reduced through diet in ways that do not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease; for instance, when saturated fat is replaced by carbohydrates, this lowers LDL cholesterol but also reduces HDL cholesterol and increases triglycerides.5 In the past, these effects were considered less important as researchers and the pharmaceutical industry focused on the effect of the reduction of LDL cholesterol.
Since the 1980s, studies on the LDL cholesterol biomarker itself and the effects of dietary fats on other biomarkers of disease have revealed a more complicated situation. Researchers now widely recognise the existence of a range of LDL particles with different physicochemical characteristics, including size and density, and that these particles and their pathological properties are not accurately measured by the standard LDL cholesterol assay.18 Hence assessment of other atherogenic lipoprotein particles (either LDL alone, or non-HDL cholesterol including LDL, intermediate density lipoproteins, and very low density lipoproteins, and the ratio of serum apolipoprotein B to apolipoprotein A1) have been advocated as alternatives to LDL cholesterol in the assessment and management of cardiovascular disease risk.17192021 Moreover, blood levels of smaller, cholesterol depleted LDL particles appear more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk than larger cholesterol enriched LDL particles,22 while increases in saturated fat intake (with reduced consumption of carbohydrates) can raise plasma levels of larger LDL particles to a greater extent than smaller LDL particles.22 In that case, the effect of saturated fat consumption on serum LDL cholesterol may not accurately reflect its effect on cardiovascular disease risk. While polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats reduce LDL cholesterol levels, their effects on cardiovascular disease risk factors that are associated with lipoprotein particles are less clear. Although uncertainty exists about the causal role, if any, of elevated triglycerides or low HDL cholesterol levels in coronary heart disease, there has been continued interest because of their association with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, and their relevance in global populations.1923 Notably, these lipid markers improve—that is, triglycerides decrease or HDL cholesterol increases—when saturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated fats replace carbohydrates.
Trans unsaturated fatty acids (trans fats) are an example of a fatty acid category whose effects on lipid biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk are consistent with their association with cardiovascular disease events in prospective cohort studies. When substituted for other macronutrients, these fatty acids, such as those in industrially produced hydrogenated oils, have been shown to increase levels of LDL cholesterol and the number of atherogenic lipoproteins (LDL and very low density lipoproteins), while also increasing triglycerides and reducing HDL cholesterol and LDL particle size.24
To complicate the relation further, dietary fatty acid composition may affect the risk of cardiovascular disease independently of these lipid biomarkers, specifically through the effects on inflammation, endothelial function, thrombosis, ventricular arrhythmias, and blood pressure. However, as reviewed recently,25 insufficient evidence exists to draw firm conclusions about the effects of fatty acid type on these factors (fig 1).
Diet-heart hypothesis and current understanding. HDL: high density lipoprotein, HDLc: high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL: low density lipoprotein
Finally, consideration must be given to the role of personal factors that may alter the effect of dietary fat on LDL cholesterol and other lipids. For example, evidence from clinical trials suggests that saturated fat may have little effect on LDL cholesterol levels in people with obesity.2627 Moreover, the possibility of differing effects of dietary fats on lipids in racial and ethnic subgroups has not been systematically evaluated.
Beyond cardiovascular disease
In the 1960s and 1970s, national per capita intakes of total and saturated fat correlated with rates of cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, and other common cancers in Western countries. Although the ecological findings were potentially confounded by many aspects of diet and lifestyle, and no clear biological basis was shown, these findings were used to support widespread dietary recommendations to reduce total fat intake.28 Later prospective cohort studies with follow-up of up to 20 years have not found positive associations between total fat intake and the incidence of these cancers,29 nor have large clinical trials, most notably, the Women's Health Initiative.30 However, the Women's Health Initiative may not be informative because the blood lipid fractions of participants randomised to a low fat diet did not change, which raises questions about adherence to the diet. In another trial in which participants did show the expected change in blood lipids with a low fat diet, no effect on breast cancer incidence was observed.31 A comprehensive review of the literature by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research concluded that no convincing or probable relation exists between intakes of total or saturated fat and risk of any form of cancer.32 An association between omega 6 intake and cancer incidence is also not supported.
Weight gain and obesity
The assumption that diets high in fat promote weight gain is based on the relative energy density of macronutrients—9 kcal/g for fat compared with 4 kcal/g for carbohydrate or protein. This assumption, however, ignores the important role of macronutrients in hunger and satiety and in pathways regulating fuel partitioning, fat storage, and fatty acid metabolism. Randomised trials of diet and weight loss are easier to conduct than trials that have chronic disease as the outcome because they can be shorter and require far fewer participants. However, several design issues are important in interpreting trial findings. For example, many people initially comply with the intervention diets when they start in a trial and lose weight but regain much of that weight by one year. Because long term weight control is of interest, trials should last a minimum of one year and ideally two years or longer. Moreover, dietary interventions such as counselling, monitoring, feedback, and support can help with weight loss independently of the specific dietary advice because of healthier eating, and this complicates interpretation. Control diet groups should receive a similar intervention.
In studies where the intensity of intervention was similar for the diets tested, participants randomised to low carbohydrate, high fat diets lost about 1.5 kg more weight than those in the low fat group.33 Diets higher in fat and restricted in carbohydrate seem to help weight loss28 but dietary adherence is a critical factor in the effectiveness of any diet.34 Another relevant factor for weight loss is diet quality. A trial comparing diets high in carbohydrates or fats showed an equal amount of weight loss by participants when consuming whole and natural food sources while avoiding sugar, sugary drinks, refined grains, trans fats, and processed foods in general.35
Maintaining a healthy weight to prevent obesity is also important. The typical weight gain in many Western countries is about 0.5 kg a year, which seems small but by age 50 this results in weight levels that are associated with important health risks.36 Few randomised trials have examined the effects of diet on long term weight gain in people who are initially not overweight. In prospective observational studies, a simple design assessing baseline diet in relation to long term weight change is not optimal because many people change their diet during follow-up; a longitudinal design examining the change in diet with change in weight is preferable. Evidence is sparse, but an analysis in the Nurses' Health Study suggested that intakes of saturated and trans fat were positively associated with weight gain in women who were normal weight at the start, while intakes of mono and polyunsaturated fat (mainly omega 6) were not; total fat intake was only weakly associated with weight gain.37
Taken together, the evidence does not support a benefit of low fat diets for weight loss or prevention of overweight compared with low carbohydrate diets. Other aspects of diet may have a greater influence on long term weight control, including the quantity and quality of carbohydrate intake; thus any effect of fat is likely to depend on its food source and the overall dietary pattern.
A combination of insulin resistance and an inadequate capacity to secrete insulin leads to the development of type 2 diabetes, with adiposity a critical risk factor. Prospective studies report little association between total fat consumption and risk of diabetes but an association may exist, as with cardiovascular disease, for type of fat. The findings of a few short term feeding trials (usually lasting four weeks, with some up to 16 weeks) that assessed intermediate endpoints support this evidence. Evidence from randomised controlled trials suggests that industrially produced trans fats increase inflammatory factors and adversely affect lipid levels, but no or inconclusive evidence was found for an effect on markers of glucose homoeostasis.3839 Evidence from prospective studies suggests that intake of industrially produced trans fats is positively associated with the incidence of type 2 diabetes, while the intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids is inversely associated.440 More specifically, a blood biomarker of the most abundant omega 6 fatty acid, linoleic acid, is inversely associated with the incidence of type 2 diabetes.4142 Despite promising studies in animals, diets rich in marine omega 3 fatty acids have not been shown in humans to reduce insulin resistance or the incidence of type 2 diabetes. However, biomarker studies point to an inverse association between blood omega 3 fatty acids (alpha linolenic acid) derived from plants and type 2 diabetes.4143 Because the type of dietary carbohydrate may also affect the risk of diabetes, any relation between dietary fat and type 2 diabetes may depend on the quantity and quality of carbohydrate as well.
Moving from controversy to consensus
Two related issues have caused the most controversy about the relative roles of saturated fats and polyunsaturated fats and the evidence for making public health recommendations.
Since the 1960s, the evidence has suggested that replacing saturated fats in the diet with polyunsaturated fats reduces the risk of chronic disease and premature death. In practice this means replacing red and processed meat and high fat dairy with fish, nuts, and seeds, and replacing animal fats such as butter and lard with vegetable oils such as corn, sunflower, soy, rapeseed, or olive oils. The PREDIMED study, a large primary prevention randomised controlled trial on people at high risk of cardiovascular disease, reported that increased intake of extra virgin olive oil or nuts with a Mediterranean diet significantly reduced the incidence of cardiovascular disease compared with a low fat dietary advice group.44 However, while the intake of unsaturated fats increased in both the olive oil and nut arms and may therefore have contributed to the clinical outcomes, there was no nutrient substitution for saturated fats and their intake was not reduced compared with the low fat dietary advice group. How this evidence should be interpreted and applied remains controversial.
Since 2000, clinical trials lasting up to two years have suggested that low carbohydrate diets in which total and saturated fat replaces the carbohydrate content of the diet have beneficial effects on overweight as well as on lipid risk factors such as HDL cholesterol and triglycerides (but not LDL cholesterol) and on risk factors for type 2 diabetes.4546 Here, we ourselves disagree on the significance and interpretation of these trials because long term trial evidence is not available, definitions of low carbohydrate vary substantially across studies, and few clinical trial data exist on the incidence of clinical endpoints (see related article in this series on diet and management and prevention of type 2 diabetes).47
These controversies arise largely because existing research methods cannot resolve them. In the current scientific model, hypotheses are treated with scepticism until they survive rigorous and repeated tests. In medicine, randomised controlled trials are considered the gold standard in the hierarchy of evidence because randomisation minimises the number of confounding variables. Ideally, each dietary hypothesis would be evaluated by replicated randomised trials, as would be done for the introduction of any new drug. However, this is often not feasible for evaluating the role of diet and other behaviours in the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
One of the hypotheses that requires rigorous testing is that changes in dietary fat consumption will reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases that take years or decades to manifest. Clinical trials that adequately test these hypotheses require thousands to tens of thousands of participants randomised to different dietary interventions and then followed for years or decades until significant differences in clinical endpoints are observed. As the experience of the Women's Health Initiative suggests, maintaining sufficient adherence to assigned dietary changes over long periods (seven years in the Women's Health Initiative) may be an insurmountable problem. For this reason, among others, when trials fail to confirm the hypotheses they were testing, it is impossible to determine whether the failure is in the hypothesis itself, or in the ability or willingness of participants to comply with the assigned dietary interventions. This uncertainty is also evident in diet trials that last as little as six months or a year.
In the absence of long term randomised controlled trials, the best available evidence on which to establish public health guidelines on diet often comes from the combination of relatively short term randomised trials with intermediate risk factors (such as blood lipids, blood pressure, or body weight) as outcomes and large observational cohort studies using reported intake or biomarkers of intake to establish associations between diet and disease.48 Although a controversial practice, many, if not most, public health interventions and dietary guidelines have relied on a synthesis of such evidence. Many factors need to be considered when using combined sources of evidence that individually are inadequate to formulate public health guidelines, including their consistency and the likelihood of confounding, the assessment of which is not shared universally. The level of evidence required for public health guidelines may differ depending on the nature of the guideline itself.
The controversies over the effects of replacing saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated fatty acids—reduced consumption of animal fats, increased consumption of vegetable oils—and the significance of the evidence from trials of very low carbohydrate, high fat diets suggest both "additive" and "subtractive" nutritional approaches to prevention of cardiovascular disease (box 3). Both depend on assumptions about the nature of biological normality in human diets. The replacement of saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats implies that saturated fat as a nutrient causes disease and is being reduced and/or that the consumption of vegetable oils is healthy and without long term risks. Box 4 appraises the debate about the role of omega 6 and omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the use of plant oils. The consumption of very low carbohydrate, high fat diets assumes that high levels of dietary fat and saturated fat can be consumed for a lifetime without the risks outweighing the benefits. A point of controversy is whether such assumptions can be accepted without long term clinical trials of the kind that would be required for a pharmaceutical means of prevention. This controversy might be resolved by longer term clinical trials, but the cost and methodological and ethical challenges of such dietary trials suggest they may never be done.
Public health preventive measures can be divided into two main categories.
Subtractive—Rose described this as "the removal of an unnatural factor and the restoration of biological normality".49 For coronary heart disease, this would include smoking prevention or cessation and, more recently, the near elimination of industrially produced trans fatty acids through a combination of information, advice, and regulation. Despite the absence of long term randomised controlled trials to support the benefits of these interventions, the evidence from observational studies and, in the case of trans fats, short term feeding trials is considered sufficiently consistent to support these public health interventions.
Additive—Rose described this as "not removing a supposed cause of disease but adding some other unnatural factor, in the hope of conferring protection".49 Additive measures for coronary heart disease would include a high intake of polyunsaturated fats and long term medication. Rigorous testing would be required as for any pharmaceutical therapy to ensure long term safety and that harm does not outweigh benefit.
Role of omega 6 and omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in health
Both omega 6 and omega 3 are essential fatty acids and are intrinsic to cell membranes and the structure of the central nervous system. They are precursors of eicosanoids, which are involved in inflammation, cardiac rhythm, thrombosis, vascular function, and many other processes. Evidence suggests, but is inconsistent, that adequate intake of omega 3 fatty acids reduces cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Concerns have been raised that omega 6 polyunsaturated fats are pro-inflammatory but this is not supported by controlled feeding studies and large cross sectional observations.50 In a follow-up study of over 128 000 men and women for up to 32 years, higher intake of linoleic acid (the most abundant omega 6 fatty acid) was associated with lower risks of coronary heart disease, cancer, and total mortality.13 The inverse association between linoleic acid intake and risk of cardiovascular disease and overall death is approximately linear up to about 8% of energy, beyond which data are lacking.13 Notably, linoleic acid levels in blood, a direct marker of dietary intake, were inversely associated, with the incidence of type 2 diabetes in prospective studies but arachidonic acid was not.4151 In contrast, blood omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids were modestly inversely associated with coronary heart disease52 but the association with type 2 diabetes varied by subtype: plant origin omega 3 fatty acid (alpha linolenic acid) was inversely associated while marine origin omega 3 fatty acids were not.41
Use of plant oils to replace saturated fatty acids
With the exception of the cardiovascular benefit44 of extra virgin olive oil (comprised predominantly of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat), which has been used for thousands of years in Mediterranean countries, most of the literature on the effects of plant oils on the risk of cardiovascular disease and other outcomes has examined intakes of specific fatty acids. These oils contain a combination of saturated, monounsaturated, and omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids but the proportions vary greatly. Plant oils also contain other minor constituents, including polyphenols and antioxidants, which may influence the effect of oil consumption on disease risk. A reduction in cardiovascular mortality was observed in the older randomised trials that used plant oils containing both omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids to replace saturated fat.53 Recent publications from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and the Minnesota Coronary Trial raise questions about very high intakes of plant oils containing only omega 6 fatty acids.5354 The concerns raised are complex and discussed elsewhere.1 The safety of long term use of polyunsaturated plant oils was supported by a significant inverse association between the intake of polyunsaturated plant oils and all-cause mortality at 32 years of follow-up; no increase in risk was seen for any outcome.13 Evidence also exists that rapeseed (canola) oil reduces the risk of coronary heart disease: most notably, rapeseed oil was the primary intervention in the Lyon Heart Study of secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, which reduced recurrent cardiovascular disease or death by about 70%.55 Other specific types of oil, including corn, sunflower, coconut oil, and palm oils, have not been well studied. Although a recent report suggests that coconut oil compared with butter results in a more favourable lipid profile (lower LDL, higher HDL cholesterol), and compared with olive oil was equivalent in lipid effects,56 further research is needed in large long term trials and current recommendations on caution about use should be upheld.1 Some plant oils, including corn and sunflower oil, have little omega 3 content. If these are the primary oils consumed and intake of omega 3 fatty acids from fish and other sources is low, this could result in inadequate intake of these essential fatty acids with possible adverse effects on cardiovascular disease and other outcomes. Also, to benefit from the use of unsaturated oils assumes that they are not partially hydrogenated as this (and some other industrial processes such as deodorisation if done improperly) produces trans fats.
In summary, evidence exists of the long term safety and benefit of many of the commonly consumed unsaturated plant oils. Further research is needed to define more precisely the long term effects and optimal intakes of specific fatty acids and plant oils, and their interactions with genetic and other dietary factors, including the amount and type of carbohydrate intake.
Although authorities still disagree, most consider that public health decisions should be made on the weight of the available evidence, acknowledging its limitations, and seeking to obtain further, better evidence when indicated. Equally important is to acknowledge when evidence is insufficient to formulate any guidance, in which case all the relevant options should be clearly outlined to enable informed choice.
For cardiovascular health, substantial evidence supports the importance of the type of fat consumed, not total fat intake, and the elimination of industrially produced trans fats
Much of the evidence suggests that the risk of coronary heart disease is reduced by replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats (including plant oils) but not when carbohydrate is the replacement nutrient
Controversies remain about long term health effects of specific plant oils and of high fat, low carbohydrate diets, and research is needed to resolve these
The focus of dietary advice must be on the consumption of foods and overall dietary patterns, not on single nutrients
Contributors and sources: The author group spans a wide range of expertise from nutritional epidemiology and public health (NF, WW), to science journalism (GT), to cardiology and lipidology (RK), and all have contributed to past dialogue on dietary fats and health. Sources of information for this article included systematic reviews and primary research articles based on randomised clinical trials, or prospective observational study designs as well as dietary guidelines. All authors contributed to drafting this manuscript, with NGF taking a lead role and she is also the guarantor of the manuscript. All authors gave intellectual input to improve the manuscript and have read and approved the final version.
Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: NGF receives funding from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit (MC_UU_12015/5). She is a member (unpaid) of the Joint SACN/NHS-England/Diabetes-UK Working Group to review the evidence on lower carbohydrate diets compared with current government advice for adults with type 2 diabetes and is a member (unpaid) of ILSI-Europe Qualitative Fat Intake Task Force Expert Group on update on health effects of different saturated fats. RK has held grants from the National Institutes of Health, Dairy Management, Inc., Almond Board of California, and Quest Diagnostics. He also licensed a patent for ion mobility analysis of lipoprotein particles. He is on the scientific advisory board of Virta Health and has received honoraria from Quest Diagnostics and Crossfit Foundation. GT is a director at Nutrition Science Initiative, senior editor at Crossfit Health, and author of several books and blogs on diet and health. WCW has no competing interests to declare.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
This article is one of a series commissioned by The BMJ. Open access fees for the series were funded by SwissRe, which had no input into the commissioning or peer review of the articles. The BMJ thanks the series advisers, Nita Forouhi and Dariush Mozaffarian, for valuable advice and guiding selection of topics in the series.
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The Memorial Day ceremony honors veterans laid to rest in Windsor, and will include comments and the placement of the memorial wreath by the American Legion; remarks from Mayor Kristie Melendez and guest speaker Colorado State Representative Perry Buck.
Local Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops will place flags and crosses on veteran graves Friday, May 25. If a veteran gravesite is missing a flag, contact the American Legion at 970-518-9617.
The east entrance of the cemetery will be open for Memorial Day weekend. The barricade on Highway 257 at Walnut St. will be temporarily moved to allow access.
Gravesite decoration regulations are posted at the cemetery and on the town website at windsorgov.com. For more information on Lakeview Cemetery, contact the Town of Windsor at 970-674-2400 or visit windsorgov.com/cemetery. |
Human Revolution// September 17, 2018
A Call for Resonant Leaders: The Importance of Enlightened Leadership in the "Age of Transformation"
Humanity is at a crossroads and enlightened leadership is needed!
Dr. Steven Cangiano, President and Co-Founder of RD&T Media and Events
Resonant Leadership
Humanity is at a crossroads and enlightened leadership is needed. Never in human history has this type of leadership been more important. As the rate of change approaches the speed of light, our leaders face three major challenges:
1. The human brain is not designed for life in the twenty-first century.
2. The intersubjective stories of the past that will no longer work.
3. The story of our future is filled with rapid change (i.e. accelerating expansion).
These challenges must be faced immediately and boldly to move our world forward in a healthy way. We must demand from our leaders a deeper understanding of the true nature of reality: Our new reality is accelerating expansion and it is driving the future story of humanity. They must seize the immense opportunities amid these soluble challenges.
There is, however, reason for optimism. Humanity has overcome every obstacle set before it. We have the ability to feed, clothe, educate, house and provide healthcare for everyone. With our safety and survival needs met, it is possible for us to enter a new era of peace, creativity, prosperity and sustainability. This will take resonant leadership. The following will help light the path.
Leadership Challenge One: Your Stone-Age Brain Needs an Upgrade
Humanity has undergone a radical environmental change. Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens were an insignificant species of hominids whose numbers had dwindled to an estimated two to three thousand. We slowly crawled out of central Africa and seventy millennia later, we dominate the planet. This transformation occurred in a relative nanosecond on the cosmic timescale.
We are not the biggest, fastest, nor the strongest animal, but we are, by far, the smartest. Our brain evolved over 600 million years in three basic stages, or layers: reptile, mammal and primate. The first layer is the reptilian brain. These structures are at the base of your brain and automatically regulate basic body functions. Your reptile brain keeps you safe by constantly scanning for threats. Your inner-lizard keeps you breathing, runs from bigger animals, eats smaller ones and mates with ones of similar size. It's a simple life.
The second/middle layer in your nervous system is your mammalian or emotional brain. While the reptile brain moves away from threat, the mammal brain moves toward reward. It is better suited for survival because it seeks greater opportunities in the form of better food and more desirable mates. It is focused on satisfaction. We also see the beginning of complex social structures, playfulness and the nurturing of offspring. Emotions have served mammals extremely well for the last 300 million years, and they still dominate our behavior today.
The human/primate brain is the top layer and is responsible for our advanced intellect and interconnected world. The human brain has tripled in size over the last seven million years, with most of that evolution happening over the last two million. Humans have developed complex social structures that allow us to cooperate flexibly and efficiently in very large groups.
The hallmarks of the human mind are not just flexibility or intelligence, but it is the connections we make with our offspring and each other that set us apart. Few, if any of us, could survive in isolation. We are completely helpless when born and for many years to follow. Our survival requires an astounding amount of time, energy and resources to nurture and develop our young.
This enormous expenditure encourages one to consider the possibility that safety and survival may be secondary to our need for connection. Our most basic need could be resonant relationship. Clearly, the future of humanity will be focused on strengthening our interconnectedness. The ability to foster and enhance these connections will be the hallmark of effective future leaders.
Safety, Satisfaction and Connection: Ingredients for Happiness
Our environment is radically different than that of our not-too-distant ancestors. We are no longer in a state of constant threat due to predators or rugged environments.
There is much more to evolutionary psychology than the safety, satisfaction and connection algorithm, but it is extremely useful. These are the essential components of happiness. Said another way: Peace, contentment and love is what we all seek.
Unfortunately, there is a glitch in the hardware. Our reptile and mammal brain are much more focused on our survival than our interconnected happiness. Rick Hanson in his book Hardwiring Happiness, puts it this way:
"…one of the brain's major design features for passing on genes [survival] is now a major design flaw, a 'bug,' in the twenty-first century."
The bug is called your negativity bias. Your brain is constantly scanning for threats. It is always asking, "What does this mean to me?" Or, "What's wrong?" Evolution made the negative much more powerful than the positive, and for good reason. Years ago, one mistake meant you were extricated from the gene pool. It was always better to be safe than sorry. For 600 million years, our brains have kept our genes alive using this programming.
This is where evolved leadership becomes important.
Our inherent negativity bias makes us susceptible to manipulation by individuals who prey on this design flaw for their benefit, or to push their agenda. Our world has significant challenges, but the overwhelming evidence points to the fact that we live in the safest, most abundant and interconnected time in history. The major causes of death, famine, plague and war, have been virtually eliminated. Unfortunately, we are still susceptible to leadership that exploits this "bug" by incessantly focusing on the negative.
The great leaders of the future will tip the scales toward the positive; they will help the world develop a positivity bias, a Humanity Upgrade. This is the opposite of sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring problems. It is about unemotionally identifying the problem, marshaling resources and then focusing on solutions. Dewitt Jones said it best:
"When we focus on what's right with the world, we have the energy to fix what's wrong."
It is time for our leaders to focus on what's right with the world because there is a lot to focus on. We have the ability to feed, shelter, clothe, educate and medically care for everyone. When we actualize this ability, the world will explode into a new era of sustainability, peace, creativity and happiness.
Leadership Challenge Two: The Intersubjective Stories of Our Past
Our intersubjective stories are what hold the fabric of society together. These stories allow human beings to cooperate flexibly and effectively in very large numbers. History is the study of these stories. As civilization grew, we encountered a multitude of intersubjective stories including religion, slavery, nationalism, militarism, imperialism, industrialization, nuclearization, fascism, communism, liberal democracy, capitalism and consumerism. Many of these stories worked well, some not so well; others were devastating.
During the Enlightenment, science and rational thought became the dominating influence. Our old stories slowly, and often painfully, adapted to new, undeniable and evolving truths. This was not an easy nor steady path. The twentieth century was dominated by two horrific world wars, terrorism and abject poverty. Recently, we have witnessed astounding peace and prosperity. There is overwhelming evidence that humanity is setting a new course of safety, abundance and peaceful interconnectedness. (It is beyond the scope of this article to go into the details of this progress. Please see Humanity Upgrade, Enlightenment Now.)
Many threats and challenges persist; the most notable of these are the rise of nationalism, nuclear war, sustainability, technological disruption and obscene income inequality. Our leaders must face these challenges head-on and help to rewrite these stories in a peaceful, healthy way. Perhaps a completely new story is needed.
Leadership Challenge Three: A New Story is Emerging on Our Planet
As we move through the twenty-first century, there is a new intersubjective story emerging on our planet and that story is one of accelerating expansion. The pace of change is approaching the speed of light and disrupting every aspect of our society. At the turn of the century, we witnessed unparalleled, rapid progress, and this progress is accelerating. Dr. Geoffrey West in his book Scale writes:
"We live in an exponentially expanding socioeconomic urbanized world."
In 1712, Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine. Since then, humanity has experienced astounding progress. From the Industrial Revolution to the now "Age of Transformation," humanity has seen tremendous advancement.
This progress has been aided by the intersubjective stories of enlightenment, capitalism and consumerism. We have come to expect more from everyone and everything. The consumer is king, and he is not giving up his throne any time soon. We demand exchange in abundance with more and more value added to every interaction. The mega-successful companies of the twenty-first century are leading the way in this regard. They are household names because they have internalized accelerating expansion and exchange in abundance.
The intersubjective story of capitalism/consumerism is perhaps the most compelling in history. It has dominated the world for the last seventy-five years. This has been, for the most part, a productive story. It has lifted most of the world's population out of abject poverty, stimulated amazing progress, fostered medical breakthroughs and been the greatest disincentive to military conflict in human history.
Leaders today must be progressive. They must internalize accelerating expansion and adopt the philosophy of exchange in abundance. We will not accept any other strategy. These fundamentally different times need innovative solutions.
The Solution: These are Fundamentally Different Times for Humanity
Just like the layers of our brain, this new story for humanity, accelerating expansion, is layered on top of old stories. The following are just a few of the many examples that demonstrate why accelerating expansion is an accurate depiction of reality:
1. The study of human history, in the context of the time scale of the universe, makes accelerating expansion abundantly clear. We are in the midst of a rapid environmental change. Modern society has developed in the literal blink of an eye when we look at the full depth and breadth of history.
2. Technological progress is accelerating at an astounding rate. Knowledge is doubling every twelve to thirteen months. Automation, digitization, block chain, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are disrupting the status quo monthly. Automation is eliminating the drudgery of backbreaking, mindless tasks, while AI is replacing humans in many advanced intellectual skills. You can access all the world's information in the palm of your hand and disseminate a new idea globally, all with the touch of a screen. This was science fiction a generation ago.
3. One of the greatest discoveries in science history gives anecdotal support for accelerating expansion. Just twenty years ago, astrophysicists discovered that we live in a universe that is expanding at an accelerating rate. Accelerating expansion is the true nature of our physical reality.
You have probably witnessed multiple examples of accelerating expansion in your daily life. How do we lead ourselves through the twenty-first century and this millennium in a healthy way?
The Future of Leadership: Resonant Relationship
Resonant relationship, through enlightened leadership, is the only predictable way to move our world forward in a healthy way. Resonant leaders will encourage a higher level of interconnectedness by being innovative, transparent, honest and competent. They understand our new reality and will navigate it in healthy and productive ways.
The old methods of leadership were effective in the relatively slow-moving past, but they will no longer work in this new Age of Transformation. There is a new algorithm that accurately describes our new reality: accelerating expansion – accumulating knowledge – rising complexity. This is the new story we must adopt if we want to create a more evolved, safer, abundant and interconnected world.
This is a broad-strokes overview, but it is essential in understanding the new paradigm our leaders must navigate. The challenge they face is that rising complexity and rapid change create extraordinary levels of stress and uncertainty. In times of overwhelming stress, we tend to revert to the past. We look to our old, familiar stories. Because of this, many people will feel left behind. They will be susceptible to manipulation due to their innate negativity bias. Resonant leaders must not allow this to happen.
We must do our part by taking personal responsibility. We must reject leaders who would take us backwards by manipulating our evolutionary glitch, or who waste time and resources with petty distractions. These are fundamentally different times that require better leadership and solutions. Resonant leaders must embrace accelerating expansion to move us forward in a healthy way.
The resonant leaders of the future will encourage an optimism bias, based on the facts of our amazing progress. They will instill confidence by accurately identifying resources prior to aggressively engaging with challenges. They will help us navigate these fundamentally different times. Resonant leaders will encourage us to engage in the solution, rather than be stuck in the problem. They will demand exchange in abundance from us, our government and all its institutions. There is no predictable progress outside the context of a resonant relationship. Resonant leaders are the only way for us to move forward in a healthy, predictable and sustainable way.
As our leaders adopt accelerating expansion as the organizing principle of life, they will be equipped to help us move forward in a healthy way. Through resonant relationship, they will create an environment of trust, safety and abundance. With this type of consensus, they will lead us to a safer, happier, healthier and more interconnected world. Optimism bias will replace negativity bias. We will proactively marshal resources to face challenges. Rising complexity, accumulating knowledge and accelerating expansion will continue to be our new story. Humanity will move forever forward in a peaceful, contented and interconnected way.
Human Revolution,
Weekly Prompt,
Dr. Steven Cangiano is the President and Co-Founder of RD&T Media and Events with its online companions: humanity-upgrade.com and relationship-development.com. Dr. Cangiano spent 13 years in academic medicine (DPM) prior to venturing off into the world of alternative medicine and life enhancement. He is the author of "The Ultimate Secret: The Greatest Insight of Our Generation." He discovered early on that the life enhancement industry is great at activating positive emotions but terrible at installing them permanently. Through his online publications, books, trainings and an expanding team of thought leaders, his mission is to bring predictability to the process of life enhancement.
Community// October 11, 2018
Expansion Mindset: New Thinking for Fundamentally Different Times
by Dr. Steven Cangiano
Why The Best Leaders Are The Most Human Leaders
by Bill Marklein
Humanity Upgrade |
NSSF Statement on Firearms Microstamping Study
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms industry, fully supports the Firearms Microstamping Evaluation and Study Act (H.R. 5667), which calls for federal study of the ill-conceived and flawed concept of firearms microstamping. NSSF is supporting this legislation because we have grave and serious concerns about this concept. We believe that a comprehensive study will add to the scientific body of evidence now available demonstrating that microstamping is an easily defeated, fundamentally flawed concept that holds the potential for pricing firearms out of the reach of the average American. The gun-control movement, lead by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Brady Center, support legislation to mandate microstamping, knowing full well it is fundamentally and inherently flawed. These same anti-gun groups oppose studying microstamping because they fear that a study will reconfirm the results of earlier independent testing that conclusively established microstamping to be a flawed and unreliable concept.
Though some states have given credence to the independent studies that concluded microstamping should not be mandated, other states remain intent on pursuing this concept. A national study, building upon these earlier studies, is exactly what is needed to demonstrate why tax dollars should not be wasted on a flawed concept that is being pushed as a backdoor way to ban handguns. In the past, ballistic imaging (BI) was erroneously considered, like microstamping today, to be a panacea to solving crimes involving firearms. After it was adopted by New York and Maryland, the National Academy of Sciences conducted a study on BI technology that confirmed earlier testing showing a national BI database would be flawed and unworkable. While that NAS study was pending, states around the country declined calls from gun-control advocates pushing BI legislation. These states wanted to see the NAS study results before they acted.
The supporters of this bill in Congress, stalwart defenders of the Second Amendment, understand this political reality. That is why they are backing this study and in the process supporting members of the firearms industry, gun owners and law enforcement. The more than 6,000 members of the NSSF, including all major firearm and ammunition manufacturers, thank them for their efforts.
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Neodron LTD v. Lenovo Group LTD, and Lenovo (United States) Inc.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION NEODRON LTD., Case No. 6:19-cv-00317 Plaintiff, v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED AMAZON.COM, INC., Hon. Alan D. Albright Defendant. NEODRON LTD., Case No. 6:19-cv-00320 Plaintiff, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED v. LENOVO GROUP LTD. and LENOVO Hon. Alan D. Albright (UNITED STATES) INC., Defendants. NEODRON LTD., Case No. 6:19-cv-00321 Plaintiff, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Hon. Alan D. Albright Defendant. STATUS REPORT Pursuant to the Court's Order Staying Case entered in each of the above actions on June 26, 2019 (Case No. 6:19-cv-317, Dkt. No. 16; Case No. 6:19-cv-320, Dkt. No. 16; Case No. 6:19-cv-321), Plaintiff Neodron Ltd. ("Neodron") hereby provides the following status report concerning the United States International Trade Investigation No. 337-TA-1162, "In the Matter of: Certain Touch-Controlled Mobile Devices, Computers, and Components Thereof" (the "ITC Investigation"). A procedural schedule was entered in the ITC Investigation on July 11, 2019. Pursuant to that schedule, the ITC set a target date for the investigation of October 26, 2020, with an evidentiary hearing to be held on March 23-27, 2020. The ALJ has issued a claim construction order for certain claim terms of the four Patents-in-Suit, attached as Exhibit A. Pursuant to the Court's Orders Neodron will provide a further status report in ninety- days. Dated: December 23, 2019 Respectfully Submitted, By: /s/ Kent N. Shum Reza Mirzaie (CA SBN 246953) rmirzaie @ raklaw.com Brian D. Ledahl (CA SBN 186579) Email: [email protected] Paul A. Kroeger (CA SBN 229074) [email protected] Philip X. Wang (CA SBN 262239) [email protected] Kent N. Shum (CA SBN 259189) Email: [email protected] Christian W. Conkle (CA SBN 306374) Email: [email protected] Kristopher R. Davis (IL SBN 6296190) Email: [email protected] RUSS AUGUST & KABAT 12424 Wilshire Blvd. 12th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: (310) 826-7474 Matthew D. Aichele (VA SBN 77821) Email: [email protected] RUSS AUGUST & KABAT 800 Maine Avenue, SW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20024 Phone: (310) 826-7474 Fax: (310) 826-6991 Attorneys for Plaintiff Neodron Ltd -2- CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that the counsel of record who are deemed to have consented to electronic service are being served on December 23, 2019 with a copy of this document via the Court's ECF system. /s/ Kent N. Shum_______ Kent N. Shum -3- |
We have 6602 Asymmetrical Dresses.
The unexpected element of asymmetry adds interest to any dress. The eye is automatically drawn to asymmetrical features, so pick the placement of uneven elements based on what features you want to emphasize. If you want to show off your shoulders or bust, pick an asymmetrical neckline. Use asymmetrical skirts to show off a hint of leg. Vertical asymmetry is especially advantageous to plus sizes to draw the eye to your best features. |
Any group ride outs/meets planned in NE?
Anybody at Hartside tomorrow morning?
St. Mary's Loch Cafe - Waypoint?
WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON IN THE NORTHERN SECTION ?
Fancy a ride out ?
the 'Long Way Up! - heading up and down!
I've got a new bike!
Howay t'the "cyber Burns nicht" ..
Can you check out my route please?
Llangollen Wales 4th - 6th May Anyone?
Llangollen Wales - anyone going?
Many folk going to Rosedale?
Newcastle Bergen Ferry - Hotel Suggestions?
There Giving it Away at The Mill .
Paint Job On a Helmet .
THE BIG SIX Latest News.
Anybody know local "off road" routes ?
08 or 07 adventure ???
Anyone planning any ride outs?
Steam Railway, Beer and Camping in Lake District.
B&Bs or Hotels in t'north?
Anyone bide near Durham / Sherburn?
Easter Egg Run - Were You There?
Saturday lunch 12/04 - The Best Fish & Chips in Britain?
To the fella with the mint 1150 SE in Mills today..
GOTC 2008 - Anyone going? |
I show you some of my fishing reports in 2002 to help those who want to enjoy fishing in Niigata, as there are few available informations about fishing in Japan written in English. I hope that you will enjoy fishing and your stay in Niigata.
Seabass Fishing in October, Vol.2 New !
Seabass Fishing in October, Vol.3 New !
Seabass Fishing in November, Vol.1 New ! |
The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA), founded in 1962 by publicist Eleanor Lambert, and headquartered in Manhattan, is a not-for-profit trade association comprising a membership of over 450 American fashion and accessory designers. The organization promotes American designers in the global economy.
In addition to hosting the annual CFDA Fashion Awards, the organization develops future American design talent through scholarships and resources in high schools, colleges, and postgraduate schools. The CFDA also provides funding and business opportunities for working designers. Through the CFDA Foundation, the organization supports charitable causes.
History
The first president of the CFDA was Sydney Wragge (from 1962 until 1965). Steven Kolb is the CEO since 2006. As of January 2023, Thom Browne is the group's chairman; he follows Tom Ford who served as chairman for three years. Additionally, Diane von Furstenberg served as chairman for 13 years from 2006 until
2019.
The following people were founding members of the CFDA, from 1962:
CFDA Fashion Awards
The CFDA Fashion Awards was founded in 1980 with the first awards in 1981 and honors excellence in fashion design. The CFDA Fashion Awards is an organized event created by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. They honor and showcase the excellence in fashion design in America. It has been called "the Oscars of fashion". Prior to the establishment of the CFDA Awards, the Coty Awards filled a similar role until they ended in 1985, with the final Coty Awards given in September 1984. In 1997, the CFDA Awards made a decision to open its doors to younger and upcoming designers.
Nominations are submitted by the Fashion Guild, a group of over 1,500 CFDA members including fashion editors, retailers, and stylists. Award winners are determined by vote and announced at an annual black tie event held at Lincoln Center, in Manhattan. Award winners receive a trophy made by the New York firm Society Awards.
For the 2022 edition Amazon Fashion sponsored the event.
Collaborations
In 2010, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists Monique Péan, Patrik Ervell, and Sophie Theallet teamed up with Gap Inc. In 2012 and 2013 the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners and runners-up each created capsule collections with J. Crew.
In celebration of the organization's 50th Anniversary, Target and Neiman Marcus partnered with 24 CFDA members to create a special holiday collection that was available at both retailers. Additionally, the CFDA has partnered with Kohl's on designer collaborations such as Derek Lam for Kohl's and most recently, Catherine Malandrino for Kohl's.
On October 3, 2013, the CFDA and Google+ launched an innovative shopping tool, titled "Shoppable Hangouts", where users had the ability to shop Hangouts on Air (HOA). The CFDA kicked off the product launch with CFDA President Diane von Fürstenberg. Rachel Zoe, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of rag & bone, and Rebecca Minkoff also participated in the Shoppable Hangout experience.
Programs
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund
The CFDA and Vogue Magazine have created an endowment for the stated purpose of funding significant financial awards to one or more designers and provide business mentoring. Awarded recipients are selected by a committee of industry experts.
The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Selection Committee annually selects three emerging fashion designers, who receive:
Business mentoring from an established team of fashion industry professionals, in areas such as business planning, marketing, sourcing, production, exporting etc.
To encourage and enable the recipients to pursue his/her own independent design plan (one winner at $300,000 and two runners-up at $100,000 each).
2010s Finalists and Winners
2014: Paul Andrew (Winner), Wes Gordon, Edie Parker and Simon Miller
2015: Becca McCharen-Tran of Chromat; Rio Uribe of Gypsy Sport (Winner)
2017: Chromat: Becca McCharen-Tran (Runner Up), Telfar Clemens (Winner)
2018: Kerby Jean-Raymond (Winner)
2019: Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough of Abasi Rosborough; Alejandra Alonso Rojas; Victor Barragan of Barragán; Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada, Danielle Hirsch of Danielle Frankel; Raffaella Hanley of Lou Dallas; Siying Qu and Haoran Li of Private Policy; Reese Cooper; Natalie Ratabesi of Tre by Natalie Ratabesi; and Christopher John Rogers (Winner)
2020s Expansion and Winners
As of 2021, all 10 designers are to be granted resources including funds and mentorship. Global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast, Anna Wintour, made a public statement noting that "After an incredibly challenging time for all of us in fashion, especially here in New York, we're thrilled that this year we are able to support all of our finalists." This was to address the challenges the American fashion industry is facing.
2021: Batsheva Hay of Batsheva; Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of Eckhaus Latta; Anifa Mvuemba of Hanifa; Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka of House of Aama; Kenneth Nicholson; Jameel Mohammed of Khiry; LaQuan Smith; Abrima Erwiah of Studio 189; Edvin Thompson of Theophilio; and Willy Chavarria
2022: Jacques Agbobly of Black Boy Knits; Elena Velez; Felisha Noel of Fe Noel; Lauren Harwell Godfrey of Harwell Godfrey; Taofeek Abijako of head of State; Conley Averett of Judy Turner; Colm Dillane of Kidsuper; Pia Davis and Autumn Randolph of No Sesso; Omar Salam of Sukeina; and, Jackson Wiederhoeft of Wiederhoeft
CFDA {FASHION INCUBATOR} program
The CFDA {FASHION INCUBATOR} is a business development program designed to support the next generation of fashion designers in New York City. The program provides a creative professional environment with the mission of helping to grow and sustain the businesses of the 10 participating brands over the course of the two-year program. By offering low-cost design studio space, business mentoring, educational seminars, and networking opportunities, the program provides a way for participants to reach their full potential and become an integral part of the New York Fashion community. In 2010, the program partnered with New York University's Stern School of Business to create a Masters Workshop that pairs their top MBA Students with the designers to work on business development projects.
Successful alumni of the Incubator program include Prabal Gurung and the 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners, Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne of Public School.
The 4.0 class (2016-2018) of the {FASHION INCUBATOR} includes Alexandra Alvarez of Alix, Aurora James of Brother Vellies, Charles Youssef, Daniel DuGoff of Ddugoff, Tim Joo and Dan Joo of Haerfest, Jason Alkire and Julie Alkire of Haus Alkire, Ji Oh, Katie deGuzman and Michael Miller of K/ller Collection, Thaddeus O'Neil, and Molly Yestadt of Yestadt Millinery.
Fashion Manufacturing Initiative
The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative (FMI) is an investment fund to help revitalize New York City's garment industry. The program offers matching financial grants to New York City's fashion manufacturing production facilities.
In March 2018, the CFDA and NYCA announced that the following seven production facilities would receive a combined total of $480,000 in the fifth round of FMI grants: Atelier Amelia, Sunrise Studio, In Style USA, Mudo Fashion, New York Embroidery Studio, Season Wash, and Werkstatt.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer® (FTBC), a charitable initiative of the CFDA/CFDA Foundation, seeks to raise public awareness and funds for the breast cancer cause.
The Fashion Targets Breast Cancer name and symbol were created by Ralph Lauren and subsequently entrusted to the CFDA Foundation. FTBC was first presented in the U.S. in the spring of 1994 during New York Fashion Week, and was formally launched in September 1994 at a special White House reception hosted by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. During this initial campaign, 400,000 FTBC shirts were sold, raising $2 million to benefit the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Health at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center. This center was chosen as beneficiary at Ralph Lauren's request, in memory of his friend Nina Hyde, the former fashion editor of The Washington Post, who died of breast cancer in 1990.
Since 2011, the council has led an annual campaign to promote the initiative and partners with well known fashion icons. In 2017, Fabletics partnered with Fashion Targets Breast Cancer to produce an activewear collection. A portion of all sales for the collection would be donated to target breast cancer screening and treatment.
To date, nearly $50 million has been granted to breast cancer charities worldwide from FTBC campaigns. CFDA Members have designed special FTBC branded or inspired merchandise, which was either sold or auctioned over the course of the campaign.
CFDA Scholarship Program
The CFDA scholarship program was created to award annual merit-based scholarship grants to students who study in a four-year, full-time college level design program. It has awarded $1,399,250 to students. The Geoffrey Beene Design Scholarship Award, the Liz Claiborne Design Scholarship Award, and the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship Award in partnership with Target selected scholars from one of the CFDA's 20 participating design schools and donated $25,000 towards tuition and educational expenses. The awards are based solely on merit and judged by a panel of industry experts.
Current members
Notable CFDA Members include:
Tom Ford
Gladys Tamez
Prabal Gurung
Calvin Klein
Michael Kors
Alexander Wang (designer)
Vera Wang
Diane von Fürstenberg
Tommy Hilfiger
Gabriela Hearst
Ralph Lauren
Publications
The CFDA has published the following books, listed in order by publish date:
American Fashion Home
American Travel
See also
New York Fashion Week
Arab Fashion Council
British Fashion Council
Fédération française de la couture
National Chamber of Italian Fashion
List of fashion awards
References
External links
2008 CFDA Photo Gallery
CFDA on The Sche Report
Arts organizations established in 1962
Fashion awards
Fashion organizations
Lifetime achievement awards |
We're very excited to have two organisations that have expressed their support for maaple's aims and are proud to do so! The LGBTQ student group at the University of Birmingham and the LGBT+ staff group at Loughborough University have both declared their willingness to support us and we look forward to working with them!
I hasten to add that individuals within these organisations have been proactive in ensuring that their organisations are known to be among our supporters. This is very heartening and we are very grateful to Marion and David for working so quickly!
If you'd like your organisation or institution to be listed among our supporters, please do get in touch! We are keen to hear from you! |
Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color
By David Rutz
Lightfoot: Anniversary interviews only with journalists of color
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her controversial announcement to only give individual interviews to journalists of color and blasted Chicago media institutions for their "overwhelming whiteness and maleness" in an extraordinary letter on Wednesday.
CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her controversial announcement to only give individual interviews to journalists of color and blasted Chicago media institutions for their "overwhelming whiteness and maleness" in an extraordinary letter on Wednesday.
Upon the two-year anniversary of her election, Lightfoot has drawn outrage after white journalists were told by her press office that they couldn't interview her one-on-one because of their skin color.
In a two-page letter to the media, Lightfoot, the first Black woman as well as the first openly gay mayor in Chicago's history, praised her own 2019 election for "breaking barriers" and took a shot at media organizations in the city for not adequately addressing "institutionalized racism" in their ranks.
Her decision to temporarily only speak to Black and Brown reporters, she said, was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion.
"In looking at the absence of diversity across the City Hall press corps and other newsrooms, sadly it does not appear that many of the media institutions in Chicago have caught on and truly have not embraced this moment," she wrote. "I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically."
In the statement, Lightfoot also mocked white reporters and media bosses as hopelessly out of touch.
"It is too heavy a burden to bear, on top of all the other massive challenges our city faces in this moment, to also have to take on the labor of educating white, mostly male, media about...implicit bias...I don't have time for it," the statement said.
Notably absent from Lightfoot's letter was specific examples of alleged bias, implicit or otherwise.
She claimed numerous incidents occurred during her first two years in office, but she did not previously complain publicly for fear of being seen as a "whiner."
Lightfoot reeled off the diversity of the city's leadership, including its "majority Black and Latinx City Council," and called it "unacceptable" that reporters covering City Hall were mostly White.
"Many of them are smart and hard-working, savvy and skilled. But mostly white, nonetheless," she wrote.
She lectured the Chicago media leadership to evolve and diversify, for fear that "this arm of our democratic system is on life support."
Lightfoot has taken heavy criticism for banning White reporters from speaking with her, with one Latino Chicago Tribune reporter saying he had cancelled his scheduled interview with her in protest.
"Fact is, elected officials, candidates, celebrities, athletes etc. choose who they want to interview them all the time. They just don't do so on the basis of race or gender. Or at least they don't admit they do," the Washington Post's Paul Farhi tweeted.
South Side native and longtime journalist Curtis Lawrence was asked what difference it makes if a reporter covering a story is white, Black or otherwise.
"It makes a huge difference! And we all know that," said Lawrence, now an associate professor of journalism at Columbia College.
He said he does not believe that a story involving people of one race can only be covered by reporters of the same race.
Lawrence said he's glad a Chicago mayor is willing to highlight such issues.
A city council foe of Lightfoot agrees, but questions her motivation.
"You have to be a mayor for the entire city. And you can't pick and choose. And then, you know, when the current turns against you, you all of a sudden want to play the race card," said Ald. Anthony Beale of the 9th ward.
Lightfoot concluded the letter by challenging media outlets to hire more women of color at their outlets and to analyze their own coverage for examples of bias. If an outlet only had a white reporter covering City Hall, she suggested, "make sure there's a person of color working with them as well."
For more, go to Fox News.
FOX 32 Political Editor Mike Flannery contributed to this report. |
Q: Running AUCTeX on Windows - problem writing files I love AUCTeX, and use it on an Ubuntu machine all the time. Right now, however, I am stuck with a Windows machine and would like some help getting around a problem. Whenever I try to compile my .tex file with C-c C-c and the file is also open in the viewer, I get the error that "I can't write on abc.pdf".
Of course, I can close the viewer every time I want to compile, but I hope that someone knows how to get around this.
A: If your PDF-viewer is the Adobe Reader (as it often is on Windozs), the Windozs version locks the PDF-file when it is open. Change the viewer to f.ex. Sumatra PDF.
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package org.firstinspires.ftc.team7316.modes;
import org.firstinspires.ftc.team7316.util.Loopable;
import org.firstinspires.ftc.team7316.util.Scheduler;
/**
* Used for those autonomodes that have a single command (basically a lot of files)
* It takes in a command in the constructor.
*/
public abstract class CommandAuto extends BaseOpMode {
protected abstract Loopable getTask();
@Override
public void init() {
super.init();
Scheduler.instance.addTask(getTask());
}
@Override
public void onInit() { // Make the classes more compact
}
@Override
public void onLoop() {
}
}
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Toray Pan Pacific Open 2016 byl tenisový turnaj pořádaný jako součást ženského okruhu WTA Tour, který se hrál na otevřených dvorcích s tvrdým povrchem s centrkurtem v aréně Ariake Coliseum. Probíhal mezi 17. až 25. zářím 2016 v japonské metropoli Tokiu jako třicátý třetí ročník turnaje. Navazoval tak na turnaj nižší kategorie Japan Women's Open, hraný ve stejném dějišti o týden dříve.
Turnaj s rozpočtem 1 000 000 dolarů se v rámci okruhu řadil do kategorie WTA Premier. Nejvýše nasazenou hráčkou ve dvouhře se stala světová trojka Garbiñe Muguruzaová ze Španělska. Jako poslední přímá účastnice do dvouhry nastoupila 56. hráčka žebříčku Varvara Lepčenková ze Spojených států, která v úvodním kole uhrála jen tři gamy na olympijskou vítězku Mónicu Puigovou.
Na druhé tokijské vítězství dosáhla Dánka Caroline Wozniacká, která tak ukončila 17měsíční čekání na trofej a měla jistotu alespoň jednoho titulu v deváté sezóně bez přerušení. Deblovou trofej si odvezl indicko-český pár Sania Mirzaová a Barbora Strýcová, které získaly druhý společný titul. Mirzaová ovládla tokijský turnaj potřetí ze čtyř předešlých ročníků.
Distribuce bodů a finančních odměn
Distribuce bodů
Ženská dvouhra
Nasazení
Jiné formy účasti
Následující hráčky obdržely divokou kartu do hlavní soutěže:
Madison Keysová
Petra Kvitová
Naomi Ósakaová
Olesja Pervušinová
Následující hráčky si zajistily postup do hlavní soutěže v kvalifikaci:
Kateryna Bondarenková
Magda Linetteová
Aljaksandra Sasnovičová
Varatchaya Wongteanchai
Odhlášení
před zahájením turnaje
Simona Halepová → nahradila ji Caroline Wozniacká
Samantha Stosurová → nahradila ji Madison Brengleová
Sloane Stephensová → nahradila ji Anastasija Sevastovová
Darja Gavrilovová → nahradila ji Varvara Lepčenková
Ženská čtyřhra
Nasazení
Přehled finále
Ženská dvouhra
Caroline Wozniacká vs. Naomi Ósakaová, 7–5, 6–3
Ženská čtyřhra
Sania Mirzaová / Barbora Strýcová vs. Liang Čchen / Jang Čao-süan, 6–1, 6–1
Reference
Pan Pacific Open
WTA Tour 2016
Tenis v Japonsku v roce 2016 |
ANN MASSAL
The Eye of the Cyclops
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
text by: Martina Dalpiaz
Ann Massal's book looks like a diary, a collection, a magnification of what surrounds us every day, but observed from a different eye, the eye of the Cyclops. An essential investigation, which aims to recreate a connection with the instinct and intimacy of the human being.
Ann Massal's work presents itself as a statement against the socio-cultural canons of beauty. In fact the years of work in the beauty industry have given the impetus to the birth of this project, in which she also describes a critique of the world of social media, where all the images have the appearance as their sole objective, but mainly they feed a process of standardization, which she defines as a systematic representation of multiples.
She opens a window towards uniqueness in its naturalness.
Without fear of being irreverent, the author uses organic images of sex, hair and fluids, which connect us with what is original, and is not embellished to be seen, but is represented in its substantiality and belongs to us in a characteristic way.
Not only the author seeks a return to the animal side of the human being, but she also pursues the acceptance of this intrinsic and natural characteristic that is now being lost.
She wants to bring back to their own-self all those daily activities that have now become ritualized, such as sex. These images are represented in its elementarity, without any superfluous and useless ornament.
The archive uses of erotic and non-erotic images which the author pragmatically modifies in an attempt to overcome the flatness of the photographic medium, trying to give them materiality. This book has in fact strongly manipulated, the physical presence is preponderant and the alterations that she implements through numerous modifying techniques, such as cutting, drawing, ripping, are handcrafted, again there is the need to concretize them, to give them body.
Starting from the cover itself, where each issue is a unique piece, the hole is the result of a punch of the authors.
The attempt for deconstruction that the author carries out in all her work could not be clearer, she does nothing but strip, disassemble, decompose reality from its superstructures, bringing it back to what is most primitive, our animal essentiality.
There is no more appropriate word to describe the investigation accomplished by Ann Massal, if not close. In fact, is a research conducted very closely, with the aim of bringing the viewer closer to reality and to their hedonistic nature.
A career started in the beauty industry gave Ann Massal the feeling that Plato's take on beauty as truth was long dead. She subsequently decided to study photography to try to express her very own view. With similarities to the crazy world of Alice in Wonderland, Ann's pictures are never expected. Using a vast array of techniques dripping, bleaching, cutting, rotting – she distorts images to offer us her outlook on beauty: ambiguous, sinful and always colorful.
Massal's work has been exhibited throughout Korea in 2016 and was nominated in 2017 by JH Engström for Photopaper, a monographic issue of her work. She was also a finalist at the Helsinki 2018 Photo Festival. Her first book, The Eye of the Cyclops, was shortlisted for the Istanbul 2017 Dummy Award, the Kassel 2018 Dummy Award and will be published in April 2019 by Kehrer Verlag.
Copyright © Ann Massal and PHROOM, all rights reserved |
Q: Tell Linux what to use swap for I am using Ubuntu 20.04 Server edition.
I have a 512GB of RAM, with about 130GB typically used for a process running on the machine. I also have two ramdisks (tmpfs) both configured as 500GB.
As tmpfs disks expand and contract the amount of RAM they use, depending on how full they are, typically the ramdisks use very little maybe 200GB in total.
I have swap on a fast NVMe drive, about 1000GB. Occasionally, for brief periods of time the usage of RAM spikes, just for a few seconds.
During these moments, how do I tell Linux it should ALWAYS give the ram to the process and use the swap for the drives?
A: To the best of my knowledge (and FelixJN's link seems to agree), all things in RAM are equally swappable, and the decision what to swap is made on freshness, not on type of data. My guess is that this is a good heuristic, even for your use case!
However, you can trick around, a bit, at least.
Assuming your 512GB RAM machine is a NUMA machine:
You can assign (see man tmpfs:mpol) your tmpfs to specific node's memory, and will at least concentrate all the memory on one node.
Honestly, though: instead of tmpfs'ing 200 GB (!) of data, wouldn't be putting that directly on SSD, but using very large file system buffers and very low pressure to flush these to storage work? The moment your processes run out of memory, the kernel will start flushing the buffers to SSD, and throttling access to the files that you formerly put into tmpfs, which implements what you want: your temporary files get stored onto SSD when memory pressure is high, and gets handled in RAM if there's plenty of free memory.
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António Correia follow Portuguese, born 1948
Lives in Setubal, Portugal
Projects/Portfolios
Human existence on the planet leaves unavoidable and irreversible traces. Homo sapiens have been responsible for the evolving change in the world's evolution and development. Fortunately, since the beginning of recorded history, art has preserved the actions and memories of our ancestors. Many of these iconographic symbols and art forms collectively represent a cosmic vision of human existence.
Based on this broad idea, Antonio thought it would be interesting to define a photographic work whose aim would be to build a collection based on the heritage of contemporary architecture, spaces and urban areas where the intervention of the Human Being left in the past strong marks of his presence and transit.
Globalization is being imposed over society and to Portuguese one in particular, a change that forced to radical shifts not always with positive results. Abandonment of housing once full of Life is a depressing reality that he tries to register here as the remains left behind an Human occupation.
Distant Mountains
The camera is now a part of his persona and leaves him to concentrate on the aesthetics of an image. He has that freedom to concentrate on the reality behind the facade, capturing the emotions, experiences, and feelings of people in the street.
The great majority of his photographs are black and white; Antonio is convinced that this classic approach is the best way to show reality.The viewer is not distracted by colour, and the eye concentrates on the contrast and lines of a person.
To date he is involved in local collective exhibitions and has been published two or three times in collective books. As he continues to expand on his themes he is looking forward to holding solo exhibitions, hopefully outside of his country of Portugal.
Antonio was born in Setúbal, Portugal at the end of 1940s. Photography was a family hobby as his father used to take pictures around their hometown of boats, landscapes and people. A special memory he has is of his father and uncle working very late at night in the darkroom.
During his teen years his father lent him his Rolleiflex and taught him how to take pictures. When he became proficient he was given a Pentax and shown how to develop film and print in the darkroom.
His love of photography was cut short when he was called up for compulsory military service and sent off to the former Portuguese colony of Timor, today Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. On his return he obtained a degree in Architecture and worked as a professional for more than 31 years and had little time for photography. However, some years ago, before his retirement, he recommenced his passion for photography.
Returning to his hometown roots he chairs the local camera group and attends regular meetings every week to discuss experiences, analyze photos, practices, new themes and ways to accomplish them. He continues to learn his craft but has mastered most of the fundamental technical issues, learning, experimenting and fine-tuning his skills.
antoniocorreia.com/
antoniocorreia-blog.blogspot.pt/
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05 december 2016 WTO
WTO does not come to agreement on 'green' products
Ministers and senior officials from the 18 participants in the Environmental Goods Agreement (representing 46 WTO members) met in Geneva this weekend to work towards liberalising trade on a range of important environmental goods. Constructive talks were held and progress was made, but participants were not in a position to close the existing gaps at this point. The intensive discussions set the stage for further talks in the near future.
Director-General Roberto Azevedo said:
"Participants negotiated in good faith and made good progress towards an agreement. I believe that the knowledge and understanding gained in these discussions will help us to move forward in the near future. I urge participants to show whatever flexibility they can to help conclude the deal.
"This is not the usual kind of trade agreement as it is focused on protecting a common global good: the environment. The trading system should be in a position to make a positive and meaningful contribution towards tackling environmental degradation. I believe that all delegations involved in these discussions remain committed to this, and to building on recent achievements such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
"I would like to thank all delegations for their intensive work. I would also like to thank Michael Froman, US Trade Representative, and Cecilia Malmström, European Trade Commissioner, as co-chairs of the ministerial discussions this weekend, and Andrew Martin of Australia for his efforts as chair of the overall negotiating process."
The 18 participants representing 46 WTO members account for most of the global trade in environmental goods. Since January 2014, they have been engaged in negotiations to slash duties on products used in a variety of environmentally-related functions including: generating clean and renewable energy; improving energy and resource efficiency; reducing air, water and soil pollution; managing solid and hazardous waste; noise abatement; and monitoring environmental quality.
The EGA participants are: Australia; Canada; China; Costa Rica; the European Union (representing Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom); Hong Kong, China; Iceland; Israel; Japan; Korea; New Zealand; Norway; Singapore; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Chinese Taipei; Turkey; and the United States.
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Style Suggestions - Do What Works For You!
In this day and age many women want a fresh new hairstyle. most women these days are going for short hairstyles. In years past short hair on women has not been very popular. But more recently it has become and more common with women throughout the nation. The truth is a properly done short hairstyle can make a woman look terrific.
On some women short hair can be a curse or the difference between looking terrific or extravagant is a large margin. Picking the correct hair style for you can bring out the best features in your face. Now let's face it some women look terrific no matter what hairstyle they wear. Long or short curly or straight it just doesn't matter. Unfortunately not all of us have this blessing and we must choose a hairstyle that fits our face and brings out our best features.
Let's face it, short hairstyles are in, more and more women have short hair styles these days rightfully so women are working long hours have careers and children and husbands, housework and many other responsibilities that don't leave us the time to sit around and spend an unlimited amount of time styling our hair. We all agree short hair is just easier, faster and more convenient.
There are so many of these wonderful hairstyles to choose from picking the right one for you can be a daunting task. Ultimately our goal is simple, to look good. We all want the same result! Nowadays in the fashion world short hairstyles are everywhere so it can be difficult to choose what's hot and what's not. Many celebrities and musicians have short hairstyles of course with fame and fortune comes beauty flexibility. The common housewife or career woman does not have unlimited flexibility in this department.
Even swept back the thick bangs are in style today. They give the illusion of extra volume draw attention to your face. Nowadays the black short hair style seems to be in fashion. The main thing is to wear whatever style you like in the most achievable way.
There are many websites online these days where you can take a picture of your face uploaded online and try out hundreds of different hairstyles and colors to see what best fits your face and your features. Once you have chosen a couple of different styles that you think will work well for you. Simply print the picture of your new hairstyle than you can run it by your loved ones or your hair stylist.
Often a trip to the salon for advice from your stylist is best you can both share ideas and options and start with a little extra length for adjustment and style changes if you choose a style that you don't like you have a little room to play. Often with a little wiggle room it is very easy to find a style that is right for you. |
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History of the Sonning Branch
Following the devastations and enormous loss of life and injury in World War 1, a voice was needed for the ex-service community. As a result, in 1921 following the merger of four organisations the British Legion was founded. The Legion was formed to help serving members of the armed forces, ex-service personnel and their families, now and for the rest of their lives.
The altruistic aims of the Legion affected the people of Sonning and on 4 February 1924 28 people attended a public meeting and unanimously agreed to form a branch.
Col Anderson was the first chairman and at the first meeting a membership sub of 2/6d was set — it has gone up since. The first function on 5 March 1924 was a smoking concert! Later, arrangements for Remembrance Sunday were agreed for 9 November 1924 and all committee members gave 3d towards the cost of a wreath. By the year end the branch had 41 members.
Social functions were a major part of the activities with profits going to the Poppy Appeal. Until the late 1990s whist drives, dances, garden parties and an annual dinner were held. Many of the dinners were in the White Hart (Great House) and in 1973 132 members and their friends attended.
The social activities were always strongly supported, and often run by, the women's section that was formed in 1928. Unfortunately this was disbanded in 1999 and their standard laid up in St Andrew's Church. The ladies had their own standard bearers and there is a tradition in one family of carrying it. Mrs Irene Nichols started the tradition, then Mary Jane her daughter and now Penny Adams her granddaughter. Both male and female bearers have been excellent and some have paraded at the Albert Hall.
Over the years the committee met in various venues including a hut in Woodley owned by the branch. Pubs were popular, the Bull in Sonning and the Bull & Chequers in Woodley, but the Sonning Club was the most frequently used, as it is to this day.
Visiting sick members was assiduously carried out by committee members when there was much faith and mention of whisky and rum as remedies!
In 1938, with the threat of war, discussion took place as to how the branch could help. Air raid precautions and warden training were reviewed, and gas masks were stored in the branch hut. In October 1939 some members were recalled and support for them was a high priority.
After the war social activities were strongly supported giving much to the Poppy Appeal. Details of funds raised were sketchy until in the 1970s when the amount grew from below £1,000 a year to over £15,000 in 2011 when Malcolm Geeter was the coordinator.
Also in the 70's support for the Somerset Legion Home in Weston Super Mare began. Money and goods were supplied for the Sonning Room in the home and local members have visited and stayed there. In 2004 a framed picture of Sonning Bridge was donated for the Sonning Room. Later a new home was built and the picture is still on prominent display.
Standard tradition: Mary Jane (left) with her mother Irene Nichols and the Legion's standard that is laid up in St Andrew's The Remembrance Sunday service and parade have always been a vital part of its activities including, in earlier days, parading at Sonning in the morning and at St John's Church, Woodley in the afternoon. The route of the march has changed over the years but the enthusiasm for the parade and service has remained unabated by those who join Legion members such as the scouts, guides, brownies — who had a special role in the service — cubs, fire brigade, WRVS and the Reading Blue Coat School.
Providing a band was sometimes a problem until 1978 when the Reading Salvation Army began leading the parade and playing a prominent part in the service. In November 1981 the service and parade was televised by ITV.
St Andrew's Church has always provided excellent support. Recently, Rev Jamie Taylor and the branch under the leadership of Col Gordon Barnett, organised magnificent celebrations for the 65th anniversary of VE Day and in June 2009 the D Day anniversary. The branch has always tried to commemorate the major anniversaries and 2014 will undoubtedly be a year to remember.
In 2001 the branch could not sustain a viable committee to meet National Charter legal requirements so it was agreed to become a sub-branch of Wargrave. This allows the branch to meet the main wishes of members, namely: to parade on Remembrance Sunday with its own standard and to collect for the annual Poppy Appeal in the name of Sonning. So the branch continues and currently has 62 members and the current Poppy Appeal coordinator, Daphne Payne, does a first class job.
The work of the Royal British Legion — it became Royal by charter in 1977 — is vital. Last year it dealt with 36,000 war disablement pension cases for veterans and 300,000 welfare and friendship visits. Some of that work is local, so the need is there just as it was in 1924 when the branch was founded. That need will remain. Your local Sonning sub-branch needs new members, especially younger ones. You need not be ex-service, so please sign up.
Our thanks to Colin Pierce and The Sonning Parish Magazine for permission to publish this article.
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Our D&D characters are going through a 4 year timelapse in my current campaign. To reflect that period of time between modules, our DM has planned for an arena-fighting one-shot session. However, the day came he called the session off since he felt as if he didn't prepare enough content, and one of the players promptly offered to DM the one-shot himself, but in a "play as yourself" scenario.
I did some research into "real life" D&D races and classes but, at first, I hit a wall. Until I came across this super long quiz and decided to take it just to see what my final result would be. The reason why it is so long is that it will calculate your race, class, level, alignment and ability scores, based on your answers. I ended up with "Chaotic Neutral Human Ranger (2nd level)" and ability scores of 8 for Strength, 11 for Intelligence and 10 for everything else. Overall, I was quite pleased with that result but, being a Ranger on a "play as yourself" session is not exactly what I had in mind.
As for the background, I had a look at my favorite list of homebrew content, in search of a fitting Background. I will admit I chuckled at the "Portuguese Kang" but it is the "Afflicted" one that spiked my interest over some of the others I had as a plan B. It was love at first read, so I decided to pick Dysfunction as my Affliction and stick to this background.
The only relevant part missing is my love of animals (which is why the quiz had assigned me the Ranger class), but that could easily be fixed by adding an animal companion.
What about you? Have you ever played has yourself in a D&D campaign or one-shot? Let me know in the comments below.
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Canadian Government Sets New Limits on VOC Levels in Certain Consumer Products
Earlier this month, the Government of Canada published the Volatile Organic Compound Limits for Certain Products Regulations (SOR/201-268), which aim to reduce harmful VOC emissions from products imported to or manufactured in Canada.
What Are VOCs?
VOCs are carbon compounds (e.g., butane, toulene, pentane, propane, etc.) with boiling points roughly in the range of 50 to 250 °C (122 to 482 °F) that are created when toxic chemicals vaporize and form harmful gases.
VOCs include a variety of chemicals that are widely used as in products such as paints and lacquers, solvents, cosmetics, cleaners and disinfectants, engine additives, glues/adhesives, building materials, furnishings, and so on.
When exposed to sunlight, VOCs react with nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide to form tropospheric ozone, often referred to as ground-level smog. Higher concentrations of VOCs may cause irritation of the lungs, as well as damage to the liver, kidney, or central nervous system.
What Products Are Covered?
The new regulations impose VOC concentration limits on roughly 130 product categories, prohibiting the manufacture and import of these products in excess of their respective category-specific VOC limits.
Goods covered by the regulations include a wide range of products used by consumers, or in institutional, industrial or commercial applications and include: personal care products; automotive and household maintenance products; adhesives, solvents, sealants and caulks; and other miscellaneous products.
When Does This Take Effect?
The new regulations are set to come into force on January 1, 2023, to allow for the application for permits and the building of compliance units one year prior to implementation.
Maximum VOC concentration limits for the manufacture and import of products listed in the schedules to the regulations will come into effect on January 1, 2024, for all product categories, except disinfectants, which come into effect on January 1, 2025.
What Impact Will This Have on Canadian Businesses?
The regulations apply to any person who manufactures or imports products that contain VOCs and belong to one of the regulated product categories or subcategories.
Although companies are not required to submit reports or conduct product testing to comply with the regulations, the onus is directly on them to ensure that the products they import, or manufacture meet the regulatory limits.
To help ensure compliance, manufacturers and importers of a regulated product are required to indicate, on the product container, the date on which the product was manufactured or a code representing that date. Additionally, they must also keep records regarding regulated products in Canada for a period of at least 5 years.
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Q: Test consistency over different runs/processes with pytest I would like to write a test using pytest which fails when a function has a different outcome on different runs. An easy example would be hash("abc")
On the terminal:
$> python -c 'print(hash("abc"))'
7757446167780988571
$> python -c 'print(hash("abc"))'
-1754122997235049390
However in one run we have of course:
>>> hash("abc")
-2233283646379253139
>>> hash("abc")
-2233283646379253139
How can I write a test (using pytest) that tests the consistency of the outcome of a function using different processes/runs such that it would fail for hash("abc")?
Background is that I'm implementing a DB access function which compares the binary strings of pickled/dilled dictionaries. However these strings will vary from run to run for the same dictionary.
I want to test for consistency because the function should not add to the DB if the dict is already in it..
A: Its a hacked solution but you can use processes to achieve your goal.
import subprocess
def test_hash():
# Create the command
cmd = ['python', '-c', 'print(hash("abc"), end="")']
# Run a sub-process
other_hash = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
assert hash('abc') != int(other_hash)
A: Based upon Dov Benyomin Sohacheskis answer, I ended up with the following solution to the more elaborate problem of testing the consistency of a function with test fixtures and all..
I'll post it here because it might be helpful to others as well.
I assume that fixture holds the args and kwargs to the function to be tested.
import tempfile
import dill
import functools
import subprocess
def test_consistency_of_f(fixture):
args, kwargs = fixture
f = functools.partial(function_to_be_tested, *args, **kwargs)
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as td:
fn = os.path.join(td, 'test.dill')
with open(fn, 'wb') as fi:
dill.dump(f, fi)
cmd = """import dill
with open('{}', 'rb') as fi:
f=dill.load(fi)
print(f())
""".format(fn)
cmd = ['python', '-c', cmd]
s1 = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
s2 = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
if not s1 == s2:
print(1, s1)
print(2, s2)
assert s1 == s2
|
Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator
V. I. Starikov, Vl G. Tyuterev
An explanation is given in this paper for the anomalous dependence of the centrifugal distortion in flexible molecules of the type H2O on the "bending" quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator. A computation of the dependence of the rapidly varying rotational, quartic, sextic constants of the molecule H2O on v2 describes the experimental behavior of these constants well.
Soviet Physics Journal
Опубликовано - авг 1982
quantum numbers
Starikov, V. I., & Tyuterev, V. G. (1982). Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator. Soviet Physics Journal, 25(8), 762-765. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895258
Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator. / Starikov, V. I.; Tyuterev, Vl G.
В: Soviet Physics Journal, Том 25, № 8, 08.1982, стр. 762-765.
Starikov, VI & Tyuterev, VG 1982, 'Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator', Soviet Physics Journal, том. 25, № 8, стр. 762-765. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895258
Starikov VI, Tyuterev VG. Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator. Soviet Physics Journal. 1982 Авг.;25(8):762-765. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895258
Starikov, V. I. ; Tyuterev, Vl G. / Calculation of the dependence of the centrifugal constants of the molecule H2O on the quantum number v2 on the basis of the Morse oscillator. В: Soviet Physics Journal. 1982 ; Том 25, № 8. стр. 762-765.
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This is part of a collection of 5 documents available on Early Learning HQ featuring activity ideas relating to the Forest School approach. These documents have been produced as a practical resource with ideas and activities that promote a healthy disposition to learning outside. They have been written with the intention of supporting primary schools in a variety of circumstances, from those with limited outdoor facilities to those with woodlands on their doorstep. The multi-sensory nature of these activities are intended to support all areas of learning all year round.
They were created by Clare Beynon, Lynnette Erasmus, Coral John and Elizabeth Rowden.
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The United States was angered by Japan.
"The senior US officials are angry," the Washington Post reported on August 29. The reason is that Japan has concealed from the United States news of talks with North Korea last month.
According to people familiar with the matter, this summer, Japan concealed a secret meeting with senior US officials in North Korea in July. At that time, Japanese senior intelligence official Kitamura met with Kim Song Hye, a senior North Korean official in charge of reunification, to discuss matters related to the abduction of Japanese in North Korea.
Senior US officials expressed anger at Japan's concealment of news, because Washington has been providing Tokyo with the latest information on dealing with North Korea, while Japan has crossed the United States and acted alone.
According to reports, some Japanese officials admitted that the negotiations on the kidnapping of Japanese in North Korea cannot rely solely on the Trump administration to represent Japan.
The news of the US media has drawn the attention of mainstream Japanese media. Japanese NHK TV stations, "Asahi Shimbun", "Sankei Shimbun", Kyodo News and other major Japanese media reported on the 29th, saying: "Japan and Russia had secret contact in Vietnam in July, did not tell the US to cause dissatisfaction."
Subsequently, NHK TV reported that the party and Japanese cabinet intelligence officer Kitamura met with Abe after meeting with Abe on the morning of the 29th and said: "There is nothing to say."
Things are far from over. |
Editor's note: As for Castor's request the chapters of this story will be published in the order they're writtern, rather than the correct reading order.
It was hot. The kind of hot that wasn't meant for an Asphalt jungle, a city where it melted the oil slicks in the potholes, and the steam collected the failed chemicals used to 'clean it. It create a horrible smell that moved like clouds on the windless day. The flies, strengthened by the garbage on the ground went up onto his forehead as he lied in his cardboard box.
He looked up into the sky with prematurely old eyes.
she smiled. And then walked away on high kinda of awkward platform heels.
"Well you got to make the world a good place" She said as she walked forward on shaky legs.
Diana sighed pushing her black hair out of her face, framing her slightly frail face to pale for the hot sun. She didn't have anything to say just walked in her formless grey business suit forward.
"So do you want to go out with me tonight" smiled Rick.
"No thank you" said Diana looking up from her computer with her best fake smile.
She briefly found the eyes of Etta. She was the company's receptionist, who sat dead eyed at the front desk. Saw the sympathy, the creepiness-but also the envy. She wasn't pretty enough for this-granted Etta Hated Rick, but still. Diana shook her head.
"To obvious-Thai" said rick with his suit somehow made in 2017 out of polyester.
This was a game they played. Or it was a game that rick played. Cause he could.
Diana sat in the office of The Gaia Foundation feeling the chill of the overly strong air conditioner on her shoulder. Hot or cold. Pick one. She sat at her tiny grey cubicle smiling.
"This is complicated" said Diana.
Diana grinned the grin of losing just a touch of your soul.
It wasn't so much warm or cold in prison- but it felt like a temperature. The air had a way of not moving creating a stillness-yes there was odors and smells-but mainly the profound sense of stasis that got to him.
Edgar sighed looking up at the cell from his bunk. He knew hope. And hope was a dangerous thing.
"Time for your patrol hearing you psycho" said the guard with a smile.
he did. Edgar Cizko was just under 5 feet tall-a dwarf really as they called them though little person, midget-he didn't care. But that wasn't the thing people noticed. People noticed his stare, how he looked at you. For his body-for anybody really he had big eyes, huge eyes to look right at you and.
Honey candy. She didn't need it. She didn't even particularly want it.. Baklava they called it right?
There was a voice somewhere in her head telling her if she had to take something for herself she should actually want it. That was the problem with the world.
"Oh yes-you're a grad student" said the parole with a smile-A Smile, the bitchy whore. Was.
She laughed. He smiled. Such a big happy smile.
She would go out and wash her hands.
Meanwhile Edgar sighed hyperventilating at the effort to be with the woman.
Diana sat at her desk. Tapping a pen down with it. There was evidence of Carbon monoxide on site would it do anything.
She turned to look up to see a face she had seen in pictures googling. The face was gorgeous. The kinda gorgeous that comes from a regime of makeups to suggest exactly that. Gorgeous. Not Sweet, Not cute, Not Sexual, but a kind of striped down lines of blond gorgeousness. It was a face that smiled at her.
Diana smiled. He had a large office at the end of a hall. She saw him … maybe once a month when he was walking. He Was a Green washing company CEO who seemed to follow the philosophy of schmooze with the clients at expensive lunches.
She put a hand on Diana's shoulder.
Diana paused but she took off her reading glasses and looked at her.
Diana paused. There was the aura of a command that realized it was a command.
Diana stood in the middle of the office and extended her arms a bit bring them in, for a second and then out, doing a kind of ballet like pirouette as she spun around. Her bun like hair got loose and floated around flying through the air, coming in long waves loose It reminded her of something and for a second she was free..not like she had been in a long time.
Diana looked at herself, her long black hair around her arms floating and looking like some kind of jungle child in her now rumpled suit, the sleeves of her bluenose pulled up over her large metal bracelets. There was a dozen eyes looking at her.
"Power" said Cale. And before she could elaborate she seemed to push Dartvist away and towards the hall and ignored her talking at length about things that Diana couldn't quite make out. She heard them arguing once they left the office.
She wondered-well this was Cales power over her-but was it?
Diana went to the bathroom embarrassed a touch to be scene redid her hair, pushed down her suit and went back to work.
Diana walked to subway home Feeling-something, she couldn't quite put her finger on. Something still. Hard, strange.
When she felt something. It was a man brushing up against her on the platform. Her eyes got him. He was large-not in the muscular sense but in the fat slug like large way 6'6, maybe 300 pounds . she saw his eyes … but they weren't on her, but on another woman next to him on the other-side from her-a small frail looking girl who had a look of disgust as he grabbed her thigh with a grin.
Somewhere inside of her came a punch-an honest huge punch she didn't remember she had. A terrifying blow of might as muscles underneath her suit welled up and connected with his jaw.
He staggered back hurt obviously, but just pushed back. He shook his head "Hey" then looked at her.
Diana for a second-just a second felt fear panic-what the hell had she done.
The girl next to her now screamed-screamed fear-but not at her she realized him.
And Diana leaned in and did a slap against his side, feeling her large metal bracelets as metal-as hard stuff against the edge of a body.
She grabbed his head with both of her heads, and felt her muscles-she felt her strength come into her body, some kind of power.
And pushed him to the ground face first.
Diana looked around the woman was next to her as well as half dozen other people-one of which she saw was guard of some kind-but the door to the subway was now open. She grabbed the girl and pushed both of them into the train as the doors closed behind them.
the train pushed out of the station as Diana saw the girl beside her a guard in a window and a dozen people who had seen it.
Diana found her gaze and offered a weak smile to it.
"Yes" said the voice on the other end.
Diana found a seat in the train and looked out through the window at a the city in twilight moving a hundred miles an hour on the elevated track.
She looked at her bracelets with their intricate inlays of pasterns-they where very large for the modern styles-bracers really-carved with symbols and patterns that she barely understood and for a second as she watched them riding in the subway … she felt a wonder over her. |
I heard that while Kamsa was dying, he cursed Shri Krishna that he (Shri Krishna) will also die in the hands of his nephew.
Shri Krishna had only one sister i.e Subhadra. So, while she was pregnant, Shri Krishna was telling her the secret of Chakravyuha, as it was a boring topic for her, she slept soon but the child inside her womb was listening to Shri Krishna's explanation.
The child was acknowledging that he is listening to the explanation by doing hmm sound frequently.
Shri Krishna told the child about how to enter the Chakravyuha but not how to exit it so that the child will die in Chakravyuha and Shri Krishna can get rid of the curse. But some other sources say that Arjuna was explaining the Chakravyuha to Subhadra, when he explained the entering of Chakravyuha, Shri Krishna interrupted him and took him away.
And also during the battle (Mahabharata), Shri Krishna as a charioteer diverted Arjuna's (who is aware of Chakravyuha) Chariot far from the Chakravyuha when Abhimanyu was entering in to it.
PS: There were other nephews of Shri Krishna known as upa-pandavas. Though they weren't in direct relation with Shri Krishna, they died on the night of the end of Mahabharata war.
I haven't heard about the version you wrote, but there are other 2 versions also famous. Both suggest that Abhimanyu was belonging to "Raakshasha" (Demon like) clan.
According the Bheel Mahabharata, Krishna had captured this Danava and he entered Subhadra's womb. The danava was extremely strong & mighty (may be little less than Bhima's grandson Yalamber).
Even before entering the Chakravyuha, Abhimanyu praises few things about his own powers which might be "not so inspiring" for his fans.
According to Harekrsna - Abhimanyu chapter, according to one South Indian tradition, it is a curse from Durvasa that makes Abhimanyu a Rakshasa in his current birth. In a former life he was a gatekeeper at Rama's palace, and Durvasa cursed him to be born as a Rakshasa in his future life because he refused entry to the sage into Rama's court.
In general, the reason for Krishna desiring Abhimanyu's death may not be exactly because he was a Raakshasa, but may be because Abhimanyu's capability of killing the entire Kaurava+Pandava clan all alone (assumption).
And he who was known as the mighty Varchas, the son of Soma, became Abhimanyu of wonderful deeds, the son of Arjuna.
'I cannot give (part with) my son. He is dearer to me than life itself. Let this be the compact and let it be not transgressed. The destruction of the Asuras on earth is the work of the celestials, and, therefore, it is our work as well. Let this Varchas, therefore, go thither, but let him not stay there long. Nara, whose companion is Narayana, will be born as Indra's son and indeed, will be known as Arjuna, the mighty son of Pandu. This boy of mine shall be his son and become a mighty car-warrior in his boyhood. And let him, ye best of immortals, stay on earth for sixteen years.
'So be it.' And then all together applauded and worshipped (Soma) the king of stars.
Thus, how Abhimanyu died was demanded by Soma (the Moon God).
As mentioned above, it was Arjuna, Subhadra's husband who was telling her the ways to break through a chakravyuha, and not her brother Krishna. And during the battle (Mahabharata), Shri Krishna as a charioteer diverted Arjuna's (who is aware of Chakravyuha) Chariot far from the Chakravyuha when Abhimanyu was entering in to it. Sri Krishna did it to save King Dhrupad' s kingdom from the hands of the Kaurav army who had already attacked Panchal. King Dhrupad was a student of Lord Parashuram and he too was aware of breaking the chakravyuha. And to defend his kingdom, he would be taking a part of the Pandava army, which would make them weaker. Lord Krishna was confident enough that, Arjuna would be capable of battling the Kaurav army out there alone;he also knew that it would take King Dhrupad a long time to reach his kingdom, while the Lord himself could travel lightning fast and come to the rescue. So, he took Arjun away, leaving Abhimanyu in the hands of King Dhrupad and the remaing four Pandavas.
First part. It was Arjuna who was speaking with Subadhra regarding Chakravyuha. There is no part for Krishna there.
Abhimanyu said, 'Desiring victory to my sires, soon shall I in battle penetrate into that firm, fierce and foremost of arrays formed by Drona. I have been taught by my father the method of (penetrating and) smiting this kind of array. I shall not be able, however, to come out if any kind of danger overtakes me.
Bonus News: A child inside a mother can listen only when the mother is sleeping and not when mother is awake. It was like Arjuna was explaining things and when he came to chakravyuha, Subadra might have fallen asleep paving Abimanyu to listen to entering the vyuha. Noticing Subadra fallen asleep, Arjuna might have stopped going further and hence Abimanyu never get to know how to come out of the formation.
Second part. No. Kamsa never cursed krishna. If he has cursed, Krishna would indeed be dead by his nephew as curses does come into effect on those days.
Third part. Arjuna was not in the field and that is the only reason Abimanyu was asked to spear head the attack even though he had only little knowledge. So it is not krishna who just drove away just so Abimanyu can have a warrior's death but they were already not available in the field to break into the vyuha.
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Q: I recently donated my hair, and cut it to chin-length. Since then, it has gotten to almost shoulder length (a little longer than the photo... this was taken a couple months ago).
Alicia is thinking about going a lot shorter.
I've been thinking recently about getting it cut a lot shorter (think pixie-length), but I am unsure of what style would suit me best.
A: Wow, what a natural beauty you are, Alicia.
You could do almost anything with your hair—as long as you would be happy with it, it will suit you.
Morena Baccarin at the 2011 Showtime Summer TCA Tour.
With your natural movement and colour, it would obviously be a great look for you.
Dannii Minogue at the 2011 MyDaily Amazing Women Celebration.
A dark rinse will be the easiest way to acquire it and the easiest way to get rid of it. When you have short hair, it is the best time to play with your colour if you want drama.
A little harsh on the hair, but again, if it is short, then it is easy to grow out, and you can always colour it a darker shade to make the grow-out painless.
Have fun with these suggestions. If you are to keep it long, please do not colour your hair. The reason being, with all of the short layers, there is not enough length for the light to reflect and show off your natural colour.
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Oh! This cover is all kinds of gorgeous. And it sounds so good too. Sigh. I cannot wait to read Riders :D It shall be perfect. <3 Because I adore Veronica Rossi. So much. She's amazing. So kind and sweet. I loved her Under the Never Sky trilogy oh so much. And I simply can't wait to read more by her :D And just, gosh damn. This book sounds epic. The summary is so amazing. I cannot wait to get to meet Gideon :D And everyone. And ugh, this plot sounds amazing. I want this book so badly. February 2nd cannot arrive fast enough. I will love this book. And I can't wait to get to read it :D What do you think?
Riders. Veronica Rossi. Official Reveal Post. The Book Depository. Amazon.
This is stunning! I wasn't much interested in Rossi's dystopian series,..but a guy who becomes part of the four horsemen?? THAT strikes my interest! Thanks for sharing this, Carina!
Definitely gorgeous! I love horses, though the face of this one with the flames is a tad bit creepy... But still awesome!
This sounds fantastic, doesn't it?? And that cover is awesome and creepy and simply brilliant!
Thank you for sharing Carina!
LOVE! I relaly enjoyed Rossi's Under the Never Sky trilogy, and her NA series, but I'm excited for more YA!
I love Under the Never Sky SO FREAKING MUCH. I need this book in my life!
Thank you for sharing, Carina! I had missed this news on Twitter!
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The algorithm classifies the incoming traffic every interval into classes. Once the class is determined, the InterruptThrottleRate value is adjusted to suit that traffic type the best. There are three classes defined: "Bulk traffic", for large amounts of packets of normal size; "Low latency", for small amounts of traffic and/or a significant percentage of small packets; and "Lowest latency", for almost completely small packets or minimal traffic.
In dynamic conservative mode, the InterruptThrottleRate value is set to 4000 for traffic that falls in class "Bulk traffic". If traffic falls in the "Low latency" or "Lowest latency" class, the InterruptThrottleRate is increased stepwise to 20000. This default mode is suitable for most applications. |
I'm not sure if this is the expected behavior or not, but when I open a matrix with EDIT or EDITN, if I try to key in a number before using the arrow menu keys, it pushes the old entry into the stack.
If I use an arrow menu key first to move to a neighboring entry, then key in the number just replaces the current one and nothing is pushed into the Y register.
Which is to be expected. If I key in 42 for my first entry, the 0 in X is pushed to Y.
Then I right arrow over to 1:2, where there's another 0 waiting for me. I key in 17 there and the 0 is just overwritten, not pushed into the stack the previous one.
I see the same pushing behavior after I use the GOTO command within the matrix. Once I use an arrow to navigate the matrix, the pushing stops, but if I use GOTO it'll start again.
So I was just checking in to see if that's how it's supposed to behave. It seems odd to me changes like that, but I'm still trying to find my way around this machine.
It is not supposed to behave like that; that's a bug. Or two bugs, actually.
Things are a bit chaotic around here because of the aftermath of the storm (seriously, America, put your power lines underground already!), but I'll fix that in the next release, when I can.
Fixed in 2.0.18, out now for Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux. And for iOS today or tomorrow, if recent experience is anything to go by.
In the 42S, EDIT enables stack lift, GOTO disables it, as do the four arrow commands.
So there was only one bug, the GOTO behaviour?
Hmm, on closer inspection, EDIT enables stack lift, and EDITN disables it. I could have sworn when I checked this yesterday that they both disabled it. I guess I was hallucinating.
Update: no, wait, it's even weirder. EDIT preserves the existing stack lift status. Hmm, and that's exactly what my old code did.
So, in fixing EDITN, I introduced a bug in EDIT. Although I wonder if I should just leave it the way it is now, since it's the original calculator's behavior that's weird to the point of seeming buggy. I certainly can see no advantage to the way it behaves.
Further update: well, except I can't rule out that there might be programs that rely on this behavior, or work around it if you will, and would break with this more consistent behavior. I guess I should roll back the EDIT change, then. Aaargh.
If you ask me (I know you didn't but that's never stopped me) when you have a choice, always go for the behavior of the original even if it's buggy.
Omnis Convenientiae! Kompatibilität über alles!
As a general rule, yes, although I have made exceptions, when there really doesn't seem to be any need for bug compatibility. Free42 does not have the 42S' PERM and COMB bugs, for example.
Sorry to cause all this trouble. Unfortunately, I don't have 42S to compare it to. I had to depend on the kindness of you good strangers.
So, on the original 42S, the EDIT function is the odd one out? That is EDITN, GOTO and all the arrows disable attack lift, but EDIT preserves it?
Now I'm rather curious if it was deliberately designed that way, and for what reason. It seems easier to depend on trusty old ENTER to enable stack lift whenever you need it than to remember in this one specific case you need to rely on CLX or perhaps flag 30 to disable it if you don't want it. I mean, I'll commit it to heart either way. It's just not clear to me what the intention was.
Now I'm rather curious if it was deliberately designed that way, and for what reason.
We'll probably never know for sure, but the way EDIT handles stack lift is so weird I'm sure it's a bug. And, while I generally don't reproduce bugs, this one can easily affect how programs are written, so this behavior should be the same in Free42. |
The way in which businesses in the Netherlands are being managed - their 'corporate governance' - is the result of a set of rules that developed in the past and that are embedded in the culture and society of the country. Traditions in this field go back to the East Indies Company (V.O.C.) of 1602, the first company based on tradable shares (Frentrop 2002). The most salient features of corporate governance were that it was managed by a team of directors, who took decisions in board meetings, that it had a two tiered system of management and supervision, and that its management was based on the acknowledgement that other stakeholders (such as the state) had an important interest in the company as well. Some of these rules have been adapted to circumstances in the past four centuries, but their essence has remained unchanged. The observation by Van Vree (2000), that the Netherlands is the only country that has been governed by meetings (vergaderingen) for the past 400 years, also applies to a large extent to its (big) companies.
In the final quarter of the 20th century a trend towards the Anglo-Saxon business system (or 'model') can be discerned, resulting in the strengthening of the role of the chairman of the board of directors (the Chief Executive Officer or CEO in American firms), a growing influence of shareholders on decision making and supervision, a weakening of the role of other stakeholders (in particular labour), and, perhaps, a declining role of banks in supervision of the big companies (Heemskerk et al. 2002 for a first analysis of these trends between 1976 and 1996). These changes have been accompanied by a lively debate on the corporate governance of Dutch business, which was also stimulated by attempts to harmonize these rules by the EU. This has resulted in a set of new guidelines for corporate governance - the 'Nederlandse corporate governance code' or code Tabaksblat issued in 2003 - which already has a big impact on the management of Dutch companies. It also appears that the new rules, in combination with other developments, such as the decline of the number of banks operating in the Netherlands due to the mergers of c. 1990, have led to the weakening or perhaps even the disintegration of the network of directors and supervisory directors (commissarissen) who previously dominated Dutch business. This has also been linked to weakening of the 'national' character of Dutch business as a result of the process of globalization.
As this brief sketch shows, the Dutch system of corporate governance has certain specific features embedded in its culture and society (such as the omnipresent vergadercultuur), but is also relatively open to international influences. An important idea behind the changes in the past 30 years - such as those proposed by the commission Tabaksblat - is that the Anglo American 'market oriented' business system, in which the power of shareholders and the role played by the stock exchange in financing industrial expansion is relatively large, is more efficient than the network-based systems found in Continental Europe (see for a discussion of these differences Hall and Soskice 2001). The debate on this is still going on. One of the limitations of most contributions to it, is that they focus on the very recent period (during which indeed the Anglo-Saxon economies have been more dynamic than the Continental ones) and often concentrate on relatively short-term indicators of financial performance, whereas the viability of a business system is a long-term affair. For example, La Porta et al. (2002) relate governance structures in 27 countries to the stock market valuation of firms at a specific point in time. A notable exception is De Jong (1991), who considers ten year growth rates and non-financial performance measures like employment.
The proposed project aims at contributing to this important societal debate from an economic-historical perspective, on the basis of a study of the long-term performance of the Dutch business system during the 20th century. Starting from the theoretical framework sketched here briefly (in brief: new institutional economics and financial economics), we aim to systematically analyse these developments in corporate governance using a unique set of data of Dutch companies (whose shares were traded at the Amsterdam stock exchange), and link them to the performance of the companies studied in order to answer the questions about the efficiency and long-term effects of the different rules. The approach is interdisciplinary: we combine the theories and methodologies of economists working with similar datasets for the recent period, with the long-term perspective of the historian, who is able to collect comparable data for the 20th century as a whole, and interpret their meaning on the basis of an intimate knowledge of the business and economic history of the period (building on the detailed work in business history of many of the companies studies carried out by business historians). Also, the new dataset that will be constructed, will be very valuable for future research and an important innovative part of the project itself. It will be possible to address many other relevant questions concerning the long-term development of Dutch business in the 20th century using these data. |
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Top Ten Stories of 2020 #2: Cory Gardner, Out With a Whimper
by: Colorado Pols January 5, 2021 at 11:08 AM MST
Former Sen. Cory Gardner (R-ekt)
November 3, 2020, 7:01 p.m.
That was the exact moment when we learned that Republican Sen. Cory Gardner had lost his bid for re-election to Democrat John Hickenlooper. Gardner was so far out of contention in 2020 that the race for U.S. Senate was called literally one minute after the polls closed in Colorado.
It was an ignominious ending for Gardner, who just barely avoided a double-digit loss (53.5% to 44%). This was a startling change of direction from 2014, when Gardner narrowly defeated incumbent Sen. Mark Udall and was widely pegged as a rising star in the Republican party.
After the 2018 mid-term elections, Colorado was primed as the most competitive Senate battleground race in the country. We never got that far. Gardner's poll numbers were consistently in the toilet, right next to his credibility, and despite tens of millions of dollars spent on his behalf, Gardner was never even really a threat to win re-election in 2020. This bears repeating: Gardner was SO bad at being a Senator and a candidate for re-election that his eventual defeat was a foregone conclusion for months beforehand.
Just before the November 2020 election, we took a long and detailed look at how things went so horribly wrong for Gardner in the years following his 2014 upset victory. We're not going to repeat that analysis here, but the short version is this: Gardner lost his re-election because he made awful decisions nearly every step of the way.
In the end, it was fitting that Gardner's Senate career would close with little more than a shrug from local and national observers. Cory Gardner didn't go down swinging…he just sorta went away.
The word you're looking for is "anticlimactic."
by: Colorado Pols January 4, 2021 at 1:12 PM MST
Republican Rep. Larry Liston (now Senator-elect) during special legislative session on November 30, 2020.
Republicans have not been very competitive in Colorado elections in recent years, helping to turn what was once a swing state into a solid blue rectangle. Republican ineptitude was not a new story in 2020, but there was a different flavor to the Colorado GOP's brand of nonsense in the weirdest year any of us can remember.
It was perhaps inevitable that Colorado Republicans would further descend into madness in 2020 after spending much of 2019 on rudderless grifting operations they called "recall attempts." But it still would have been hard to predict just how absurd things would get for GOP politicians in our state. Nobody knew much about Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert at this time a year ago, but now she's the face of the Colorado Republican Party despite the fact that virtually every news outlet in the state reported that she basically has no idea what she's talking about on any issue.
The coronavirus pandemic opened up a new rabbit hole for Republicans, who immediately responded to efforts to contain the spread of the virus by declaring that wearing a mask was against freedom and that stay-at-home orders were reminiscent of a "Gestapo-like mentality." A group of Republican lawmakers, including then-House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, launched a ridiculous effort to convince Douglas County to end its association with the Tri-County Health Department IN THE MIDDLE OF A FREAKING PANDEMIC. Neville, for one, took this as an opportunity to convince a few idiots to give him money so that he could sue Gov. Jared Polis for making people wear masks.
The GOP attack on the Tri-County Health Department also included State Sen. Jim Smallwood, who contracted COVID-19 after inexplicably traveling to California when the state legislature paused all activity in mid-March. In other words, the people who were urging others to disregard health precautions were themselves becoming health risks because they disregarded health precautions. Meanwhile, Republicans were also busy trying to paint the COVID-19 outbreak as a racial issue…up until it turned out that deep red counties were being hit harder than anywhere else.
Rep. Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert, the new face of the Colorado GOP.
Republican attacks on the Tri-County Health Department ended up going nowhere from a practical standpoint, but they had very real and unsettling consequences elsewhere. In May, for example, Aurora police arrested a man for vandalizing a Tri-County Health office and making all sorts of violent threats. It was not a coincidence that these deranged actions happened after local Republicans began rattling cages about health department officials who were just trying to keep people safe.
Things got even weirder in May after global protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers created a new opportunity for Colorado Republican leaders to play the fool. While the rest of us were gripped by rallies and calls for social justice, GOP leaders primarily complained about vandalism in Denver. Some Republican county party leaders were pretty sure that Floyd's death was just a big ruse of some sort. Others fully supported violent counter-protests around the state. There was even a common refrain that the City of Denver was a burning pile of rubble…something that could be easily verified by anyone who just looked around.
It would take us too long to list every absurd thing that Colorado Republicans said or did in 2020, but here are a couple more examples:
♦ Congressman Ken Buck, who also serves as the State GOP Party Chairman, made a complete fool of himself on Fox News in trying to explain his idea that Antifa was funded by George Soros, or something.
♦ Neville compared the killing of Elijah McClain in 2019 to protestors who tried to super glue themselves to a railing at the state capitol.
♦ Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert was far from the only Republican to express belief in QAnon conspiracy theories.
♦ This ridiculous Op-Ed from Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) speaks for itself.
♦ Rather than spend the last weeks of the 2020 election campaigning for Republicans, a group of activists instead devoted their time and effort on once again not recalling Gov. Polis.
Colorado Republicans enter the new year with their party in tatters. Their highest-ranking statewide elected official is CU Regent Heidi Ganahl, and the GOP might just elect disgraced former Secretary of State Scott Gessler as its new Party Chairman. Republicans need to find candidates for five big statewide races in 2022, but it's hard to envision anyone but the most far-right candidates emerging from the various Primary elections. Heck, it could still be months before some in the GOP finally stop pretending that Donald Trump was re-elected as President.
Colorado Republicans had a lot of problems well before 2020. Thanks to a year of astonishingly-terrible decisions, the future of the state GOP is considerably bleaker today.
Congratulations, Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
At noon today Eastern Time, it became official:
Tune in at 11:30 this morning to watch the ceremonial swearing in, which is the one for the cameras and posterity. Also, Sen. John Hickenlooper's official Twitter account @SenatorHick is live.
Please join us in giving Sen. Hickenlooper a lovely 48 hours of honeymoon before Wednesday.
Top Ten Stories of 2020 #6: Colorado is a Solid Blue State
by: Colorado Pols December 30, 2020 at 11:30 AM MST
Happy Cory Gardner and Sad Cory Gardner. You can plot out Colorado's shift from a swing state in 2014 to a solid blue state in 2020 with these two images:
Colorado was swept up in a massive blue wave in 2018, handing Democrats all four of the top statewide offices (Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State), as well as control of both chambers of the state legislature. Democrat Jared Polis cruised to an 11-point victory over Republican Walker Stapleton in the race for Governor. On a federal level, Democrat Jason Crow's victory in CO-06 gave Democrats the keys to four of Colorado's seven congressional districts.
In 2020, Democrats solidified their advantage in Colorado, with Democrat John Hickenlooper snatching Gardner's Senate seat by a nearly 10-point margin. Democrats even managed to add a seat in the State Senate while maintaining a solid majority in the State House.
In the race for President, Democrat Joe Biden easily defeated President Trump by a margin of nearly 14 points, which was a massive increase from Democrat Hillary Clinton's 5-point victory in 2016. Consider this: Colorado was a swing state for President in 2008 and (sorta) in 2012. In 2020, neither major party candidate for President even bothered visiting our state in the six months before Election Day.
Colorado Republicans have fallen hard since Gardner defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in 2014 by a narrow 47-45 margin. The numbers are staggering: Hickenlooper added 786,911 votes to Udall's 2014 total, while Gardner's vote total only went up by 445,601. Democrats now have such an advantage in Colorado that Hickenlooper would have still beaten Gardner if we didn't count any of the votes from Denver, which is the most heavily-populated area in the state and always a reliably-blue county.
Republicans aren't just losing in Colorado — they're not even competitive anymore. In fact, Republicans are so buried in our state that it's difficult to even come up with plausible names for top ticket races in 2022.
The 2020 election proved that the 2018 Democratic wave in Colorado was no fluke. We are a blue state now, and there's no way to argue otherwise.
Top Ten Stories of 2020 #8: The Trouble With Andrew Romanoff
by: Colorado Pols December 29, 2020 at 9:35 AM MST
Republicans wanted to run against Andrew Romanoff. They didn't get him.
Now-defeated Sen. Cory Gardner came into 2020 as the nation's most vulnerable incumbent Republican U.S. Senator up for re-election. Running in a state that has steadily shifted leftward politically since Gardner's narrow election in 2014, and with Gardner having lashed himself to an unpopular President Donald Trump to preserve his GOP base, Republicans were desperate for any edge to keep Gardner viable.
Through the June 30th primary, Republicans shamelessly exploited someone they thought could give them the edge they so desperately needed–Democratic primary candidate Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who served as Speaker of the Colorado House over a decade ago, had lost an unusually bitter Democratic primary against Sen. Michael Bennet in 2010, then ran with full Democratic support in a marquee race against GOP Rep. Mike Coffman in 2014 and lost again. Romanoff's entry into the 2020 Democratic Senate pack in February of 2019 nonetheless made him the best-known contender at that time against a pack of relatively unknown minor candidates.
But Romanoff was in no position to dominate. When former Gov. John Hickenlooper decided to end his longshot presidential campaign and run against Cory Gardner in 2020, he brought resources and campaign experience to the Senate race that Romanoff simply had no access to. Hickenlooper went on to dominate the primary campaign, outclassing Romanoff by every conceivable metric and blowing out Romanoff by over 17 points on June 30th.
Jeffco Republicans Refuse to Do Thing Nobody Needs Them to Do
by: Colorado Pols November 23, 2020 at 4:54 PM MST
As Erik Maulbetsch reports for The Colorado Times Recorder, the Jefferson County Republican Party is mad as hell and they're not going to pretend to be doing nothing anymore. Instead, they are going to pretend to do something that doesn't mean anything. So there!
From The Times Recorder:
The Jefferson County Republican Party announced on Facebook today that it "refused to certify the election results." Election certification is the responsibility of the canvass board and the County Clerk, not political parties.
Reached for comment, Jefferson County Clerk spokesperson Kara Rowland explained that the county's election results are already certified…
…Colorado Secretary of State spokesperson Betsy Hart confirmed this.
Oh yeah? Well, then, the Jefferson County Republican Party is going to refuse to certify every election this century! Not only that, they're thinking about refusing to certify future elections!
2020 Election Results in Jefferson County, Colorado. Not exactly a photo finish.
And what is the Jeffco GOP's particular beef with 2020?
While the Jeffco GOP says it is not alleging fraud, it is basing its demands for "an audit" on unfounded conspiracy theories about the voting machine software company, Dominion Voting, which is used by Jeffco (and nearly every other county in Colorado).
It's unclear from the public statements and the party's so-called "Minority Report" if the Jeffco executive committee understands the county election process. Chair Denise Mund did not return a request for comment. [Pols emphasis]
With regards to the Jeffco GOP's audit request, Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder George Stern explains that it's already happened.
Oh…so you already did the audit thing…that we are demanding. Okay, well, it's a good thing we demanded it!
We'll leave it to you, dear readers, to suggest other potential actions that the Jefferson County Republican Party can take that will serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
Professor Seth Masket Gets More Smarter
by: Colorado Pols November 13, 2020 at 11:33 AM MST
This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Professor Seth Masket, Director of the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver, about the 2020 election results and his new book, "Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020." Masket's book analyzes how and why Democrats ended up nominating Joe Biden for President in 2020 and how the 2016 election shaped the strategy and thought process for that decision.
Catch up on previous episodes of The Get More Smarter Podcast at GetMoreSmarter.com.
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Different Year, Same Mountain: GOP Plants Flag on Denial
UPDATE: In his column for The Denver Post, soon-to-be-former District Attorney George Brauchler explains that there was no blue wave in Colorado because Republican Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert was elected to a Congressional seat that Republicans already held and Democrats only won one extra battle in the State Senate:
The Blue Wave redux appears to have only dampened Republican socks.
Ah, yes, "2020: The Dampening."
Democrats had another successful election cycle in Colorado, winning a U.S. Senate seat, expanding on their majority in the State Senate, and maintaining a massive advantage in the State House. As Ian Silverii writes for The Denver Post, there was not a lot of suspense last Tuesday after the polls closed at 7:00 pm:
At 7:01 p.m. on Election Day our state was called for Biden and U.S. Senator-elect John Hickenlooper. Most of the statewide ballot initiatives were declared quickly, and most competitive legislative races were called right away as well. Our nationally-renowned and bipartisanly-lauded system of all-options voting with universal mail ballots delivered a doubtless result once again, and our Democratic, unaffiliated, and Republican county clerks and recorders, as well as our secretary of state, Jena Griswold, should be applauded for another competent administration of an incredibly high-stakes election.
Colorado Democrats will continue to dominate state government, as I predicted, possessing the most power Democrats have held in our state since FDR was president. They picked up a seat in the state Senate and held a massive 41-24 seat majority against a demoralized state House Republican minority who only after another punishing defeat grasped their previous leadership was leading them into the abyss.
Republicans currently hold only 24 seats in the State House, which is the lowest number since 1965. Actually, it's the lowest number since 2018, when the same thing happened.
How are Colorado Republicans reacting to their troubles? As The Colorado Sun reports:
It took only an hour after the first election results posted for Colorado Republicans to start seeing the disaster ahead…
…For the party, the examination about how to move forward centers on a fundamental question: Was it President Donald Trump or was it us?
Oh, wait. Those two sentences were written in 2018.
The Republican bench in Colorado
Here's the 2020 version:
Republicans in Colorado are facing a real crisis as the state moves further to the left. The bench of future GOP leaders the party hoped to build now is looking thin, one that could rival the Broncos' injured list…
…No Republican running statewide has won more than 45% of the vote in the past two election cycles.
So, again, how did things get this bad for Colorado Republicans? That's a question that the GOP asked itself after 2018 but never bothered to answer…and it doesn't look like much has changed after another drubbing at the polls. This section from the 2020 Colorado Sun article is particularly enlightening:
Colorado House Democrats spent big money aiming to expand their majority this year, including in the Republican stronghold of Douglas County, only to see it maintain the status quo.
"That tells me a lot about the voters in this state," said McKean, the House Republican leader. "We hear all this talk about how blue Colorado might be getting. I don't believe it for a second."
You could say that the recently-named House Minority Leader is looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, but that would be overly generous. In reality, McKean is looking at the Colorado political world through glasses covered in black felt. What he's doing here is essentially celebrating the fact that Democrats only have a 17-seat majority after the 2020 elections.
Did Republicans hold the line this year? Or did Democrats just finally run out of competitive seats that could be flipped? The answer is closer to the latter than the former. After all, there's no scenario whereby either political party is going to gain 100% of the seats in the state legislature.
It matters not whether McKean and Republicans "believe" that Colorado has turned blue, because this is not a subjective question. What matters is what Colorado Republicans are going to do about it.
If past is prologue, the answer is obvious: Not much.
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (November 11)
by: Colorado Pols November 11, 2020 at 9:48 AM MST
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► President Trump is still refusing to concede defeat to Democrat Joe Biden, but most Americans are not at all confused about who won the 2020 Presidential election (though many Republicans are yet clinging to a deflated life preserver). As The Hill newspaper reports:
The overwhelming majority of Americans say President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election amid unsubstantiated cries of fraud from President Trump, according to a Reuers/Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
The survey, conducted from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday, showed 79 percent of U.S. adults believe Biden is the winner of the presidential election. Approximately 60 percent of Republicans said Biden won.
Even Ben Ginsburg believes it is ridiculous to challenge Biden's victory. Think of it like two people racing in a 100 meter sprint in front of a packed stadium; it's hard to keep claiming that the winner of the race was not the first person across the finish line when everybody watched it happen.
Via The Hill newspaper (11/11/20)
► President Trump isn't the only Republican elected official refusing to concede an election loss. As Salon reports:
Martha McSally, R-Ariz., refuses to concede her election, even though she trails her Democratic rival by a margin which exceeds the total number of outstanding ballots by the thousands.
The Associated Press projected that Senator-elect Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., would win the election nearly a week ago. Kelly has already named his transition team, and he's been assigned temporary office space…
…Though McSally graciously conceded her 2018 race to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., she appears to have latched onto President Donald Trump's baseless allegations sowing doubt in the election result this go around.
We have no doubt that McSally is thoroughly embarrassed at losing two consecutive races for U.S. Senate in Arizona, so maybe this is just her weird way of dealing with failure. Republican John James, who was unable to unseat Democrat Gary Peters in Michigan, is also refusing to concede a Senate loss.
***Here's a fun trip down memory lane: Former Republican Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave never conceded her 2008 loss to Democrat Betsy Markey. If Musgrave's refusal to concede actually meant something, then Republican Cory Gardner could not have gone on to defeat Markey in 2010.***
Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports, another leg of Trump's precarious fraud stool has been knocked out:
The Postal Service's inspector general informed Congress on Tuesday that a worker who had made unfounded allegations of ballot corruption inside a facility in Erie, Pa., had disavowed his claims, which Republicans had amplified to suggest there was widespread fraud in Pennsylvania's voting.
Richard Hopkins, a post office employee in Erie, "completely" recanted allegations that a supervisor was "tampering with mail-in ballots" after investigators questioned him, the inspector general's office said, according to the Democratic leadership of the House Oversight and Reform Committee…
…The inspector general's office told Congress that Mr. Hopkins had recanted his allegations on Monday but "did not explain why he signed a false affidavit," according to the oversight committee's staff.
If you're not convinced by that story, there's more where that came from. The Washington Post breaks down all of the various election fraud claims made by the Trump campaign and associates and notes that NONE of them have been confirmed:
Republicans have made claims of election irregularities in six states where President-elect Joe Biden leads in the vote count, alleging in lawsuits and public statements that election officials did not follow proper procedures while counting ballots in Tuesday's election.
So far, they have gone 0 for 6.
► Democratic Senator-elect John Hickenlooper is in Washington D.C. working on transition efforts after his blowout election victory over Sen. Cory Gardner.
Former Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, meets with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and others.
by: Colorado Pols November 3, 2020 at 5:04 PM MST
UPDATE: Colorado called for Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper by national outlets at 7:01pm.
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Sad Trombone for Cory Gardner
by: Colorado Pols November 3, 2020 at 7:40 AM MST
No additional commentary required:
For the past six years I've had the great privilege of serving the people of Colorado.
I need your vote to help me continue this fight and accomplish so much more for our state. pic.twitter.com/Wmtlf0R3gp
— Cory Gardner (@CoryGardner) November 3, 2020
How Cory Gardner Destroyed Cory Gardner
(Bumped into November)
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-ekt).
It appears likely that Sen. Cory Gardner will not be re-elected to the U.S. Senate next week. If months and years of polling data are accurate, Gardner will be handily defeated by Democrat John Hickenlooper. It will be a loss of his own making.
Like many Republicans, Gardner might have been dragged down by Trump in 2020 no matter what he did. Democrats certainly would have tied the two together whenever possible, but Gardner made it easy by getting stuck in a quintessential quagmire; instead of trying to extricate himself from Trump's backside, Gardner just kept stepping closer and closer and closer.
But Gardner also made decisions that would have been wrong under any president. His quest to abolish the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was his central campaign message in 2014, became untenable as Americans decided that the ACA was actually pretty useful. Gardner's refusal to engage with constituents and his persistent ducking of reporters fed a narrative of aloof indifference. "Cardboard Cory" was a brilliant counter to Gardner's detachment from the public, but it wouldn't have worked so well if Gardner hadn't been such a perfect foil.
Gardner was haunted by his infamous 2014 ad in which he said, "When my party is wrong, I'll say it." This was the type of grand statement that helped him defeat incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, but eventually the bill came due on his promises. Gardner never tried to earn any equity with Colorado voters since that 2014 victory; by the time the 2020 election really started to heat up, his metaphorical wallet was empty.
Policy-wise, Gardner put a lot of time and effort into undertakings that were not as politically-useful as he might have calculated. He made a big deal about moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado, but nobody cared. His push to fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) didn't resonate with voters who were more concerned about the coronavirus outbreak and, later, social justice protests; nobody who was worried about the general state of the country was going to side with Gardner because of LWCF.
The truth about Gardner is that he was never the brilliant rising star that he was portrayed to be in 2014. He made a lot of objectively dumb decisions that began to pile up over time. He never altered his path to reflect Colorado's changing electorate.
Gardner was good at being the opposition candidate, as he was in 2014, but he never adjusted as Republicans gained more power in Washington DC. Gardner's shtick only works if he has a villain to oppose, which is why he needed Hillary Clinton to win the Presidency in 2016. When a Republican majority forced him into the position of actually trying to govern, Gardner was lost.
We took a rather exhausting spin through Gardner's full term in the Senate to identify precisely where things went wrong for Gardner. You can read through the full timeline after the jump, but the short version breaks down into 13 key moments in time:
♦ October 2016
Following the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Donald Trump brags about sexually assaulting women, Gardner calls on Trump to withdraw from the race and says, "I will not vote for Donald Trump." [SPOILER ALERT: This doesn't age well].
♦ Early 2017
Trump takes office and immediately promotes a "Muslim travel ban," signals his full support for repealing the ACA, and nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Gardner makes two big statements that he will eventually abandon: a) Promising not to repeal the ACA without a replacement plan, and b) Opposing Trump's call for a wall along the US-Mexico border.
♦ July 2017
After months of pretending that he hadn't decided how he would vote on repealing the ACA, Gardner casts TWO separate votes to do just that. Gardner never adjusts his talking points even after Arizona Sen. John McCain's famous "thumbs down" on the Senate floor.
♦ August 2017
Two things happen this month that will not happen again: a) Gardner holds his last town hall meetings, and b) Gardner speaks out against President Trump following the racial violence in Charlottesville, VA.
President Trump calls Haiti and other African nations "shithole countries." A few months later, Trump implements his "family separation" policy for immigrants. Gardner is silent.
♦ November 2018
As Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign (NRSC), Gardner relies on a largely pro-Trump message in campaigns around the country. Back in Colorado, a massive blue wave sees Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) defeated by double digit margins. It should have been clear at this point that a pro-Trump message wasn't going to work in Colorado.
♦ January 2019
Gardner becomes one of the first U.S. Senators to formally endorse President Trump's re-election campaign. Whatever once bothered Gardner about Trump's "Access Hollywood" moment no longer troubles the Yuma Republican.
♦ March 2019
Gardner flips on his previous opposition to a border wall and backs Trump's efforts to fund the project by declaring a dubious "national emergency." The editorial board of The Denver Post demolishes Gardner in an Op-Ed that is widely referred to as an "un-endorsement" (The Post endorsed Gardner in 2014).
"Cardboard Cory" goes on a statewide bus tour and generates significant media attention, highlighting Gardner's refusal to engage with constituents.
Gardner absolutely implodes in front of a gaggle of Colorado reporters when pressed to respond to reports that President Trump tried to extort the President of Ukraine. It's hard to overstate how much this moment damaged Gardner's credibility, both with the media and with voters in general.
♦ February 2020
Gardner votes to acquit President Trump after a Senate impeachment trial in which he gets national press for pressing Senate Republicans NOT to call on additional witnesses. Later, Gardner appears at a Trump campaign rally in Colorado Springs in which Trump says that "Cory never wavered" in his support of the President. Gardner finishes the month by jetting to a $1,000-a-bottle champagne tasting party in Palm Beach, Florida…right at the time that the coronavirus pandemic is becoming big news in the United States.
♦ June 2020
The Trump administration has now completely botched the response to COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter protests are taking center stage in the news. Gardner refuses to speak a negative word about Trump on either issue. Gardner also spends millions on TV advertisements critical of Democrat John Hickenlooper, who handily wins a Democratic Primary Election regardless.
Gardner sides with Senate Republicans on confirming a new SCOTUS nominee, which is completely at odds with his 2016 comments on Obama nominee Merrick Garland. Given one last chance to stand up to Trump, Gardner fails; he is asked in a Senate debate whether or not he believes that President Trump is a "moral and ethical man." Gardner answers, "Yes."
And now, the full details of Gardner's demise…
Sickly-Sweet Smell of Desperation Hits Colorado's Senate Race
by: Colorado Pols October 30, 2020 at 11:19 AM MDT
From a Colorado GOP mail piece attacking John Hickenlooper.
Westword's Michael Roberts reports on an ugly new mail piece hitting Colorado's U.S. Senate race from the Colorado Republican Committee, provoking significant backlash over their employment of "Willie Horton"-style racially charged scare tactics:
Accusations of racism and more have arisen over a series of fliers supporting Senator Cory Gardner's reelection bid. Among other things, the mailers are accused of demonizing Reverend Promise Lee, a prominent Colorado Springs religious leader and criminal reform advocate who's also serving as spokesperson for the family of De'Von Bailey, who was fatally shot in the back while fleeing from a Colorado Springs Police Department officer in August 2019; the incident has spurred a lawsuit.
Echoing the infamous Willie Horton ad employed by supporters of George H.W. Bush during his 1988 race for the presidency, the fliers attack Gardner's opponent, former Governor John Hickenlooper, for pardoning, granting clemency or commuting the sentences of supposedly dangerous criminals, most of them people of color.
At the center of five photos is a contemporary snapshot of Lee, whom Hickenlooper pardoned in 2018. But while Lee did indeed commit a murder during a drug deal gone wrong, he was just fifteen at the time — and afterward, he turned his life around, as outlined in his book Pardoned: A Judicial Memoir, which details his inspiring path to redemption.
Using Reverend Promise Lee out of context to bash John Hickenlooper for "putting dangerous convicts back on the street" is deeply offensive to anyone familiar with his story and Colorado Springs-based ministry. Using his image and truncated version of life story to attack Hickenlooper earned this scathing reply from Rev. Lee:
The picture of me and the others lack context. And ironically, showcasing me in the center might acknowledge that reform actually works. However I doubt that this was Mr. Gardner's intention.
It's unfortunate that this attitude and strategy to divide people is not only interwoven in Mr. Gardner's campaign and psyche but is also obviously rooted in his heart.
Do you want to see such a person holding a political office and perpetuating the current toxic climate of racism in our state? I certainly don't. Mr. Gardner, your attempt to dehumanize people of color to advance your political career has backfired on you. Your party should be ashamed at your desperate divisive tactics.
Another individual depicted in this mail piece is a man named Renee Lima-Marin, who this mailer says was "pardoned to stave off deportation." What it doesn't say is that Lima-Marin was pardoned after the Colorado legislature passed a unanimous 99-0 resolution calling for him to be pardoned. Some of the biggest supporters of Lima-Marin's pardon and sponsors of this unanimously approved resolution were far-right Republican hardliners like Rep. Dave Williams and Sen. Owen Hill.
This isn't the first time that Hickenlooper has been hit with grossly distorted attacks accusing him of being "soft on crime," such as in 2014 when his opponent in the governor's race Bob Beauprez ran ads implying Hickenlooper was responsible for the murder by white supremacists of Hick's friend and Colorado Department of Corrections director Tom Clements. In 2020, Colorado Republicans are no less factually off base–and piling on racism and xenophobia for good measure.
In the end, this is noteworthy only because it is so pointlessly shameful. In a race where the outcome is as close to a foregone conclusion as politics affords in the modern era, this was an unnecessary act of desperation that robs Colorado Republicans of honor in defeat.
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► As The New York Times reports, the United States just recorded its worst week yet regarding the COVID-19 pandemic:
The country reported a record of more than 500,000 new coronavirus cases in the past week.
It's not just a few areas driving the surge, as was the case early on. Half of U.S. counties saw new cases peak during the past month. Almost a third saw a record in the past week.
Meanwhile, as POLITICO reports, Vice President Mike Pence hasn't been participating in coronavirus task force meetings FOR MORE THAN A MONTH.
Locally, the Jefferson County Public Health Department has issued new COVID-19 guidelines. Summit County and Mesa County have also added new restrictions.
► This is crazy. As The Washington Post reports:
Early voting in Texas on Friday surpassed the total turnout from the 2016 election, with four days left until Election Day.
More than 9 million people have cast ballots early in Texas, according to the secretary of state's office. In 2016, the Lone Star State's total turnout was just shy of 9 million.
Texans flocked to polling centers when early voting began on Oct. 13, forming long lines that stretched for blocks in some places. The Biden campaign has narrowed its gap in Texas in recent weeks, trailing President Trump by about three percentage points, thanks to a surge in early voting by Democrats.
The Colorado Sun has more on massive voter turnout here in Colorado.
► Westword spends some time going through the not-so-greatest hits from Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert.
► Democrat John Hickenlooper closes out his 2020 Senate campaign with another solid ad:
Hickenlooper's final ad looks a lot like his first ad of this cycle, a positive direct-to-camera spot filmed on his porch. #cosen #copolitics pic.twitter.com/yihXYIfTqo
— Justin Wingerter (@JustinWingerter) October 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Sen. Cory Gardner's closing ad is that spot you may have seen that opens with a speech from former President John F. Kennedy.
Rep. Diana DeGette Gets More Smarter
by: Colorado Pols October 29, 2020 at 4:36 PM MDT
This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with the "Dean of the Delegation," Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Denver), who is about to become the longest-serving federal officeholder in Colorado history. DeGette discusses the craziest election year ever and the curious candidacy of Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert in CO-03. She also gives us the lowdown on just how close we may be getting to a #COVID-19 vaccine.
You've Just Lost an Election; What Are You Going to do Now?
As The Colorado Sun reports via its Unaffiliated newsletter, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) already has some post-election plans:
Ten days after the election Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is hosting a fundraiser at Disney World for his Project West PAC, according to his campaign. It's an annual event.
It's nice that Gardner can take his family on a Disney World vacation on somebody else's dime, but this doesn't seem like it has the makings of a particularly successful event.
In general, we're not sure we'd want to go to Florida itself anytime soon with the way COVID-19 cases are spiking — let alone rubbing shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of people at a theme park to wait in line for "Splash COVID in Your Mouth Mountain." And are there a lot of people who want to go to Disney World to write a check to a PAC controlled by a guy who lost a high-profile Senate race a week earlier?
If you just feel like lighting some money on fire, there are plenty of other bumbling organizations that will take your check.
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (October 28)
► As The Denver Post reports, the COVID-19 outbreak is getting worse in the Denver Metro area:
Denver moved to Colorado's second-highest level of COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday, forcing most businesses to operate at a quarter of their capacity in an effort to curb the virus' spread and avoid overwhelming hospitals.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced the state health department had asked the city to tighten its restrictions after weeks of climbing coronavirus cases and rising hospitalizations.
Denver Public Schools followed with plans to send many of the district's elementary students — who just had returned to their classrooms — back to remote learning.
"I don't believe this is Denver's failing," Hancock said, blaming the virus's resurgence on the lack of a national strategy to contain COVID-19. "It is, rather, a failing by those who still refuse to believe in science, and those who do not take it seriously."
Adams and Arapahoe counties are also moving to more restrictive measures in an effort to reduce the number of positive cases.
As The New York Times reports, European counties such as France and Germany are moving toward lockdown status because COVID-19 cases are out of control.
Meanwhile, as CNN reports:
Via CNN (10/28/20)
And then there's this gem from The Huffington Post:
Via The Huffington Post (10/28/20)
► Ask yourself this question: Would you wait outside for hours — at night — in freezing cold temperatures to listen to anyone speak? Right…now go ahead and argue that Trumpism is NOT a cult. As NBC News reports:
Hundreds of President Donald Trump supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking around three miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances.
Many of those at the rally at the Eppley Airfield faced hours in long lines to get in and clogged parking lots and busy crowds to get out, hours after his Air Force One departed around 9 p.m. Crowds cleared about 12:30 a.m.
According to dispatches from Omaha Police department, recorded by radio communications platform, Broadcastify, at least 30 people including the elderly, an electric wheelchair user and a family with small children were among those requiring medical attention after hours of waiting in the cold at the rally at the Eppley Airfield.
► As The Washington Post reports, Democrat Joe Biden maintains an advantage over President Trump in two key battleground states:
Former vice president Joe Biden continues to outpace President Trump in two crucial Midwest battlegrounds, currently holding a slight lead over the president in Michigan while showing a much more substantial advantage in Wisconsin, according to a pair of Washington Post-ABC News polls.
The surveys show Biden narrowly ahead of Trump among likely voters in Michigan by 51 percent to 44 percent, with Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen at 3 percent. In Wisconsin, likely voters favor Biden by 57 percent to 40 percent, with Jorgensen at 2 percent. Among all registered voters, Biden's edge in Michigan is five points, while he leads by 17 points in Wisconsin.
Wait, what? Biden is up 17 POINTS in Wisconsin?
As Greg Sargent notes in a different story for The Washington Post, Trump is losing ground all across America AMONG WHITE VOTERS. As Colorado Public Radio reports, the Presidential campaigns in Colorado are largely targeting non-white voters in the final week before Election Day.
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► The Republican Senate finished ramming through their confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday evening. This is the same Republican Senate that hasn't been able to move ahead on any sort of coronavirus stimulus bill since the House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act in May, but they managed to confirm a SCOTUS nominee in a matter of weeks.
We probably don't need to tell you that Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) was a 'YES' vote.
► Voters continue to turn out in record numbers in Colorado and across the country. As The New York Times explains, this is not good news for Republicans:
A week before Election Day, more than 64 million Americans have already voted — and about half of them are in the dozen or so competitive states that will ultimately decide who wins the Electoral College.
Possibly even more significant, early votes in these battlegrounds account for more than half of those states' total votes in 2016. Nationally, voters have already cast about 46 percent of the total vote counted in 2016, according to the United States Elections Project.
Via The New York Times
► The campaigns for President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, respectively, can telegraph much of their last week strategy based on travel plans. Biden was in Pennsylvania on Monday and will travel to Georgia today before a stop later this week in Iowa; he will also visit Tampa Bay, FL and Wisconsin before Election Day.
As for Trump, he's traveling to Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.
► The Aspen Daily News endorses Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush in an editorial that contains an absolutely STUNNING comment from Republican Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert:
When asked if she condemned the administration's policies that allowed for children to be separated from their parents — in the same week that the American Civil Liberties Union reported that the federal government has so far failed to locate the parents of 545 children victims of the "no tolerance" policy — Boebert replied that "when parents break the laws, sometimes things happen."
She went on to liken a nearly 10% alleged failure to effectively track the parents of children separated at the border, even amid asylum requests, to her anecdotal experience following an arrest for an unpaid parking ticket.
"When I didn't pay my $100 traffic ticket, I was separated from my kids for about an hour until I got it taken care of," she said. [Pols emphasis]
We'd call this unbelievable, but we ARE talking about the same Lauren "Q*Bert" Boebert. As Alex Burness reports for The Denver Post, many Colorado conservatives think Boebert is the future of the party.
Cory Gardner Says Republicans Have a Health Care Plan!
[SPOILER ALERT: There is no Republican health care plan]
President Trump's somewhat-anticipated interview with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl finally aired on Sunday night. This was the interview that Trump cut short last week when he got sad that Stahl was not going to just let him sit there and pretend that a secret laptop that formerly belonged to Hunter Biden was a real thing (last week, even longtime Republican strategist/pollster Frank Luntz proclaimed, "Nobody cares about Hunter Biden … why is [Trump] spending all his time on him?").
But there was still a surprise ending to the "60 Minutes" interview that hadn't already leaked out beforehand.
After Trump walked out of the interview, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany emerged with a big 'ol book-like object that she hand-delivered to Stahl:
President Trump's press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, gave us a heavy book that she described as the president's health care plan. It was filled with executive orders and congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive healthcare plan. https://t.co/Mn6HRAOwHL pic.twitter.com/WmsoRQP2WJ
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 26, 2020
As CNN's Chris Cillizza explains:
The oversized book that drastically under-delivers on its promised contents is, actually, a pretty apt metaphor for the entire Trump presidency…
…But like so much with Trump, the show and the pageantry belie the emptiness of the actual vessel. A big book filled with executive orders is not a comprehensive health care plan. Because there is no plan.
Undaunted by stupid things like facts and truth, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) picked up the baton from McEnany in an interview Monday morning on "The FOX News Rundown." Behold this amazing baloney:
HOST: The Democrats are arguing [that] Republicans haven't put forth a health care plan, as they're trying to take down, effectively, Obamacare. If President Trump secures a second term, if the Affordable Care Act is struck down, whole or in part, we've heard discussions about a potential Republican health care plan before, but we haven't heard a whole lot in terms of what that would look like. What can you tell us about the planning going on for that phase?
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma)
GARDNER: Well, there's two things that Republicans and Democrats both agree on. Number one, we're always going to provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Number two, both Republicans and Democrats want to replace the Affordable Care Act with something that works. The Democrat plan is Medicare for All, a public option that turns into Medicare for All. Basically eliminating the private insurance that 136-plus million Americans enjoy today that they receive through their employer.
Republicans are focused on a patient-centered health care program that is based on decisions between patients and their doctor…the consumer and their doctor…the constituent and their doctor…not Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And it is about risk pools and reinsurance. It is about liability reforms that delay…you know, it is said right now that unnecessary procedures account for nearly 25% of health care costs because they are driven by liability concerns. That's part of the plan that we have to address. Things like association health plans, across state lines, telehealth. I helped the Governor of Colorado get a waiver for reinsurance through the Health and Human Services department to drive down the costs in Colorado.
You know, our plan is there. They don't agree with our plan because it doesn't involve a government takeover. [Pols emphasis]
What's in the box book?
Say what, now?
This is the point in the story where we would provide a link so that you could read for yourself the Republican health care plan that Democrats disagree on because it doesn't involve a government takeover. But, we can't, because THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN. You can Google "Republican health care plan," and you'll get a lot of results about Republicans and health care — but, alas, no actual "health care plan."
In August, Gardner introduced a 117-word bill for protecting pre-existing medical conditions that fact checkers agree would not actually protect people with pre-existing medical conditions. Much like Gardner's political career, this bill is going nowhere in the U.S. Senate, but at least it is an actual thing that does exist.
We have absolutely no idea what Gardner is talking about when he says "our plan is there." We'd guess Gardner doesn't know, either. Perhaps he watched Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" and got excited when he saw the giant book delivered to Lesley Stahl.
Cory Gardner has seemingly come full-circle six years after winding down his first U.S. Senate campaign. Back in October 2014, Gardner was insisting that there was no such thing as a federal "personhood" bill, which wasn't true. With just one week left until Election Day in 2020, Gardner is pounding the table in support of a Republican health care bill that isn't real.
In with one lie, and out with another.
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► The final Presidential debate of 2020 took place in Nashville, TN on Thursday night. A somewhat-restrained President Trump made the debate almost…normal. As The Washington Post reports:
With the two candidates electronically muted for portions of the night, the constant interruptions from the first debate were replaced by a clearer contrast between their competing views for the country and more sharply defined exchanges of attacks and retorts.
When Trump tried to accuse Biden of making money from China, the former vice president pointed out that the president has a bank account in the country and has failed to disclose his income tax returns despite promises to do so.
When Trump argued that stock markets would crash if Biden were elected, Biden responded with his signature line contrasting the gains of Wall Street vs. the cratering Main Street economy.
And when Trump sought to paint Biden as a puppet of socialist forces, his opponent pushed back with a forcefulness that has been absent from much of his campaign. "He's a very confused guy. He thinks he's running against somebody else," Biden said. "He's running against Joe Biden. I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them."
Trump attacked Biden on multiple occasions, but his rhetoric was a bit too obscure for the average voter to understand. As Elahe Izadi and Jeremy Barr write for The Washington Post, you'd have to be a regular viewer of Fox News to have understood most of Trump's shorthand:
During the final presidential debate, President Trump made reference to "the laptop from hell," "AOC plus three″ and "Russia, Russia, Russia" — yes, said three times in a row.
The material was very familiar to — and maybe only familiar to — regular viewers of Fox News opinion hosts such as Sean Hannity.
"I feel like he almost was speaking the language of Fox prime time," Chuck Todd, host of "Meet the Press," said on NBC after the debate. "If you watch a lot of Fox prime time, you understand what he's saying. If you don't, you have no idea."
► As NBC News reports, coronavirus cases in the United States are continuing to skyrocket:
The U.S. set a record Thursday as the number of new coronavirus cases rose to over 77,000, topping the previous record in July.
Nationwide, 77,640 new cases were reported for the day, up from the previous record of 75,723 on July 29, according to the latest tally compiled by NBC News.
The record-breaking daily tally comes as the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has reached nearly 8.5 million, with 224,280 deaths. There were 921 coronavirus-related deaths reported on Thursday.
Here in Colorado, COVID-19 cases are also increasing. The situation is enough of a concern in Aurora that officials have decided to move students in grades 1-8 to an online-only instruction model. Elsewhere, a new app will be available this weekend that is intended to allow Coloradans to gauge potential exposure to COVID-19 in their communities.
► President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that appears designed to allow him to fire more people who aren't deemed sufficiently loyal to Dear Leader. As CNN reports:
Trump signed an executive order that appears to provide him and his agency appointees more leeway in the hiring and firing of federal employees deemed disloyal, a move that critics say politicizes civil service and could lead to career officials being pushed out for political reasons.
The President has vilified some career officials as the "deep state" during his term and sought to rid the federal government of people he views as anti-Trump. Critics warn that the order would allow the President to fill the federal workforce with his cronies and reverts the country back to a spoils systems.
The executive order, issued Wednesday, creates a new classification of federal employees titled "Schedule F" for employees serving in "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions" that typically do not change during a presidential transition.
The White House says the directive will give federal agencies more flexibility to hire "Schedule F" employees but also be able to remove "poor performers" from these roles without going through a lengthy appeals process.
► Governor Jared Polis will visit the sites of several massive wildfires in Colorado today. The two largest wildfires in state history are now in Larimer County. Large portions of Estes Park were evacuated on Thursday.
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► As The Washington Post reports, a half-filled Senate Judiciary Committee is moving ahead with the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court:
Judge Amy Coney Barrett moved one step closer to a seat on the Supreme Court as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced her nomination with solely Republican support Thursday. Democrats boycotted the vote in protest of what they viewed as an illegitimate confirmation process.
The vote was 12 to 0, with no Democrats present to officially register their objections. Democratic senators boycotted the proceedings to protest Republicans' fast-tracking the nomination of the 48-year-old conservative jurist within days of the Nov. 3 election. They argue that the president elected next month should fill the court vacancy.
"That was their choice," committee chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said. "It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We're not going to allow them to take over the committee."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said the full Senate will vote Monday on the Barrett nomination. Republicans, who hold a 53-to-47 majority, have the votes to install her on the court.
While McConnell apparently has the votes to seat Barrett on the Supreme Court, he hasn't bothered with trying to corral enough Republican support for another coronavirus stimulus package. The lack of movement on a pre-election stimulus package has floored many Republican political observers and left GOP Senators like Cory Gardner with no good answers.
► Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Democrat Joe Biden in Philadelphia on Wednesday, offering up a very simple reason why voters should oust President Trump from office. From Chris Cillizza at CNN:
Amid the rhetoric, one specific set of lines jumped out at me as channeling what so many people — including Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 — feel right now.
Here it is (bolding is mine):
"And with Joe and Kamala at the helm, you're not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that's worth a lot. You're not going to have to argue about them every day. It just won't be so exhausting."
That, for me, is the best and most succinct argument that former Vice President Joe Biden can make in the closing 12 days of this race. Deciding to fire Trump and hire Biden isn't about any specific policy or even any specific mistake that the incumbent has made. It's about a country absolutely exhausted by Trump — his norm-busting, his misinformation, his junior high school bullying, and his tweeting, his tweeting, his tweeting…
► Early voting is going very well:
Via The Washington Post (10/22/20)
Here in Colorado, one-third of likely voters have already cast a ballot.
► The final Presidential debate is tonight on NBC News. President Trump reportedly plans to focus on topics that nobody cares about.
► President Trump is still lashing out at "60 Minutes" over an interview recorded this week that Trump felt was not sufficiently sycophantic for his tastes. As he threatened earlier, Trump has released footage of an interview with Lesley Stahl that he apparently thinks makes him look good?
Grilled by Stahl about the irresponsibility of holding huge rallies that make a mockery of public health precautions during a pandemic, Trump has no defense other than insulting her and lying pic.twitter.com/UowM4rRrjE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020
Trump is also asked a question about when his administration is finally going to announce his new health care plan. Trump has been saying for years that the new plan will be announced in "a few weeks." Guess what he says in this interview?
Oh, and Trump flat-out says that he hopes the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act.
► Rocky Mountain National Park is now closed because of the East Troublesome Fire.
► This is about as cut-and-dried of a case of "voter intimidation" as you're likely to find — and it's happening in Ft. Morgan, Colorado.
► Governor Jared Polis has ordered a statewide moratorium on evictions as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in Colorado.
Ballot Return Update (Through 10/19)
Per the Colorado Secretary of State's office, 924,735 ballots have been returned in Colorado as of Monday, October 19. As you can see from the chart below, registered Democrats continue to outpace both Unaffiliated and Republican voters.
For comparison, a total of 2,855,960 ballots were cast in 2016. In the 2018 mid-term election, 2,566,784 total ballots were cast in Colorado.
Via Colorado Secretary of State
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► Be careful out there, Colorado! New cases of COVID-19 have hit a record high in our state, as The Denver Post reports:
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported 6,722 cases of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday, more than triple the most recent low of 2,016 in the last week of August. Three times last week, the state recorded more than 1,000 new infections in a single day.
Last week's total was the highest since the state has had reliable data, though it's likely there were more cases in the virus's initial surge in March and April that weren't found due to lack of testing at the time.
"These numbers are definitely a concern for us. We need everyone to follow public health guidance to control disease transmission and ensure that health care and public health capacity isn't strained," Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state epidemiologist, said in a statement. "We also want Coloradans who may have been exposed to COVID-19 to get tested."
► Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) doesn't have a Donald Trump problem; he has a Cory Gardner problem.
► Today is the self-imposed deadline for Congress to reach a deal on another coronavirus aid package. As CNN reports, it's probably not happening:
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Tuesday that the "window is closing" on a potential deal for a stimulus package, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's deadline arrives for Democrats and the Trump administration to resolve policy differences if they want to pass a bill before Election Day.
"I think there's still an outside chance something will get done before the elections. But the window is closing," the South Carolina Democrat told CNN's John Berman on "New Day."
Pelosi said Sunday that she and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin must reached an agreement by end of the day Tuesday, the last feasible date to get a bill passed through both chambers of Congress by November 3. The two sides have been divided for months on the topline figure as well as what should be in the bill…
…Clyburn, who is the No. 3 ranking Democrat in the chamber, accused Republicans of not being willing to compromise with Democrats and argued that Pelosi "is trying to stand up for people who are being left out of this deal."
As we've written repeatedly in this space, the real hangup in all of these stimulus talks has been SENATE REPUBLICANS.
► According to Republican polling outfit Magellan Strategies, which regularly tracks ballot returns in Colorado, roughly one-third of Colorado voters have already returned a ballot. Turnout in Colorado is heavily tilted toward Democratic voters at the moment, with some 35% of registered Democrats having returned their ballots as of this morning. Total ballot returns are at 921,342 (for comparison, more than 2.85 million votes were cast in Colorado in 2016).
The Denver Post has more on Colorado's massive voter turnout numbers.
► Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden addressed Colorado's wildfires on Monday as part of a warning about Climate Change. As Colorado Public Radio reports, Colorado'w wildfire season in 2020 is unusual…and ominous:
All told, they add up to a fire season that is longer than most on record for the state, the result of extended drought conditions, high temperatures and a monsoon that just never arrived.
"We haven't gotten any rain. We haven't got any snow," said Jennifer Balch, director of the Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fire researcher. "Coupled with hotter temperatures, you've essentially got a hairdryer blowing at Colorado right now that's making our fuels incredibly dry for very long periods of time."
According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates, precipitation in the state over the past 30 days has been less than 10 percent of normal. Colorado did not receive the usual monsoon rains or snowfall that's common in the fall.
That kind of weather typically prevents large, destructive wildfires from starting, Balch said and dampens those still burning from the summer like the record-breaking Cameron Peak fire. She said just a dozen wildfires over 1,000 acres have begun in October in the past 35 years.
► Can you speak something OUT of existence? President Trump is sure trying. According to CNN, which is keeping track, Trump has claimed at least 38 times that COVID-19 will just "disappear."
Again, Please, Enough With The Cory Gardner Martyrdom
by: Colorado Pols October 20, 2020 at 9:15 AM MDT
A column from Colorado Sun reporter Jesse Paul appeared in the much larger forum of the Washington Post yesterday, offering another torrid take on the impending fall of GOP Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado along a theme we've been hearing quite a bit the last few days: that Gardner, an "excellent candidate" in his own right, is being set up to lose by President Donald Trump and not Gardner's own choices:
In 2014, Republican Cory Gardner, a congressman from rural Colorado, parlayed his charm and ability to connect with voters into a Senate seat by defeating Mark Udall, an incumbent Democrat from a Western political dynasty. Liberals feared Gardner's political talent, and conservatives hoped it would take him far.
Then Donald Trump was elected president. Now, given Trump's extreme unpopularity in a state whose electorate is generally moving to the left, Colorado Democrats are confident that, come Election Day, they will pick up Gardner's seat and fill it with the state's popular former governor, John Hickenlooper…
Making things worse for Gardner is the fact Trump trails Biden by an average of 13 percentage points in Colorado. "Jesus Christ himself couldn't overperform Trump by double digits," said Tyler Sandberg, a Republican operative. [Pols emphasis]
It's a narrative that Republicans seem determined to shape now, with hope of actually saving Gardner's seat realistically gone for his local supporters and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)–the proof being in the money flowing to battleground states as Democrats work to run up the score in a growing wave. If Gardner can't be saved, then perhaps he can be martyred in defeat with a cover story that blames Trump, and in so doing preserves Republican hopes in Colorado that a comeback may be possible in future years against the state's leftward political trajectory.
We give Jesse Paul credit in this column for laying out some of the most damning moments in Gardner's embrace of Trump, from Gardner's initial denunciation of Trump in October of 2016 saying "I cannot and will not support someone who brags about degrading and assaulting women" to Gardner's metamorphosis after Trump's victory into one of the President's most steadfast supporters. The problem with this analysis is blithely dismissing Gardner's transformation as inevitable. The truth is, Gardner's decisions to stand closely with Trump through innumerable scandals, impeachment, and the disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic were voluntary choices–not coerced by base GOP support for Trump or any other factor.
To suggest that Gardner had "no choice" but to fall in line behind Trump after Trump won the 2016 elections is a major misreading of Colorado's political trends since Gardner narrowly won his seat in 2014. In reality, Gardner needed to move to the center from the very beginning of his Senate term in order to have any chance of re-election in 2020, but Gardner's agenda of hard-right low-information crusades against the Affordable Care Act and social wedge issues like abortion made that impossible. Trump didn't force Gardner to the right, Trump simply made Gardner's pre-existing agenda toxic by giving it the chance of actually becoming law–a threat voters in Colorado responded to in 2018 by throwing out Republicans at every level of elected office.
The point here is that Gardner is not some kind of political prodigy brought to earth by factors beyond his control. One of the biggest reasons Gardner's election to the U.S. Senate in 2014 has inspired such lasting division and enmity within the state's political class is that Gardner's politics are so at odds with a majority of Colorado voters that his narrow victory is broadly regarded as a swindle–deception committed by Gardner and many local influencers that allowed Gardner to win a race he should not have won. Since that time, Gardner has had many opportunities to chart a different course for himself, in the mold of respected Western GOP Senators like John McCain or even Mitt Romney–and he never even tried.
For Cory Gardner, a collection of contradictions from the beginning, this is comeuppance a decade in the making. The reason is simple: for all the credit Gardner gets for being a "great candidate," he's really not. At least not for Colorado. Gardner's agenda became more out of step with the state he represents with each election since 2014, and Gardner's energetic wunderkind persona was effectively turned against him in 2020 by a laconic, more authentic John Hickenlooper.
For Colorado Republicans, any road back starts with understanding what Cory Gardner did wrong, not revising history to salvage Cory Gardner's reputation. Trump tops the ticket, but Gardner made choices entirely on his own that brought him to ruin.
The GMS Podcast: Laura Packard and Mayor Michael Hancock
We've got two big interviews his week on The Get More Smarter Podcast.
First, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Laura Packard — health care activist, stage-four cancer survivor, and a powerful voice against Republicans who want to destroy the Affordable Cara Act. Next, we talk with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock to discuss Denver's lengthy ballot, rising COVID-19 concerns, Black Lives Matter protests, and right-wing disinformation campaigns (the City of Denver is, in fact, not a smoking pile of rubble).
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Q: Combine Two hash in Puppet i have 2 hash, and need to "combine" them to make a new ssh_authorized_key resource:
First hash contains all ssh keys
$ssh_keys = {
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key1',
},
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key2',
}
}
second hash contains the "deploys" of the keys and users
$deploys = {
'[email protected]' => { user => ["user3","user4"]},
'[email protected]' => { user => ["user3"]}
}
I want to "merge" this hashes so i can use create_resources
$newhash ={
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key1',
user => ["user3","user4"]
},
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key2',
user => ["user3"]
}
}
create_resources('ssh_authorized_key',$newhash)
how can i create the newhash? puppet do not have iteration which make this way to difficult
The data of the hashes eventually comes from foreman smart classes/variables
Edit:
This is on foreman 1.11.1 with puppet 3.8.7 in ubuntu 14.04
A: I'm not aware of a function for merging hashes built into the puppet language, but you can always use a custom parser function instead -- which would allow you to combine two or more hashes however you like, using pure ruby -- and it's really not as scary as it sounds.
Fortunately, one of these already exists in the puppetlabs/stdlib module. Unfortunately, the function you need for this particular case is not documented in the README. Called deep_merge, it will merge nested hashes and you can find documentation in the source of the function itself.
I don't use foreman, so it's unclear to me if you'll need to install the puppetlabs/stdlib module, or if it's accessible with the default install. It's a common dependency for a large number of forge modules, so you might have it already. If not, the foreman docs explain how to install and add a puppet module to a node (I presume you'd just replace saz/ntp with puppetlabs/stdlib where referenced).
You can then deep_merge to your heart's content, as in ...
$ssh_keys = {
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key1',
},
'[email protected]' => {
type => 'ssh-rsa',
key => 'Key2',
}
}
$deploys = {
'[email protected]' => { user => ["user3","user4"]},
'[email protected]' => { user => ["user3"]}
}
$merged = deep_merge($ssh_keys, $deploys)
notify { $merged: }
... which results in ...
Notice: { \
"[email protected]"=>{"type"=>"ssh-rsa","key"=>"Key1", "user"=>["user3", "user4"]}, \
"[email protected]"=>{"type"=>"ssh-rsa", "key"=>"Key2","user"=>["user3"]}}
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, June 22, 2019
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Look has partnered with blind beauty YouTuber Lucy Edwards to launch a series of UK-wide beauty and make-up masterclasses for visually impaired young people.
Lucy became a role model to many young people with a visual impairment after her YouTube video "Blind girl does her own make-up" went viral in 2015. Since then she has used her online platform to educate the world about blindness, and to share her top tips for doing your make-up when you are visually impaired.
Now, thanks to Look, young visually impaired people can also meet Lucy in person. In the first masterclass, held at the RNIB Offices in Leeds, Lucy taught visually impaired girls the art of doing their make-up without sight. She led group and one to one tutorials, giving participants tips on applying their own make-up, and recommending products to try. Speaking about the importance of visually impaired people learning about make-up and beauty, Lucy says:
"This is something that is visual, but there are techniques to really make us feel good. Even though I can't see a mirror anymore, I control the way I look because I have the strategies, and it's made me feel more empowered."
Young people at the class also discussed some of the barriers they face when shopping for beauty products or clothes. Rachel says:
"When you're visually impaired, it's really difficult when you're relying on a mashup of different people's opinions to know what you look like."
Elin Williams is Look's Events Officer and she's also blind. Elin says:
"We are delighted to be working with Lucy on these masterclasses. Our launch event in Leeds was a real success, leaving young people feeling inspired and motivated to learn more. The classes are all about giving young people the confidence to get started with using beauty products and empowering them to look good and feel good on their own terms."
Lucy will be at LOOKfest – Look's accessible summer festival on July 26-29th in Herefordshire. Go to lookfest.org for more information and how to book. Visually impaired 12-29-year-olds can apply to take part in future masterclasses that will be held across the country. Anyone interested in attending can email [email protected] to get on the waiting list.
The Make-Up Masterclasses are part of Look's overarching mission to boost confidence and wellbeing in young people with a visual impairment. Look Director Charlotte Carson, who has been visually impaired since the age of seven says: "Young visually impaired people often feel embarrassed about being different, and we want to help transform this. We offer a series of workshops and opportunities to connect with other young people, learn new skills and most importantly, grow happiness and have fun!"
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Q: How to know the size of a text when using Canvas.drawText() I'm using the Canvas.drawText() to write text on a custom view.
I want to add a background 9-patch drawable behind the text, so I need to know the boundaries of the text drawn.
The text is given by the user, so it's not a fixed size.
For now I'm using a monospace font and I managed to build a size which looks not so bad, but in the hand i'd rather use another font.
A: You can use public void getTextBounds(String text, int start, int end, Rect bounds) method of Paint to get a rectangle that encloses all your text. Take a look at getTextBounds.
Hope this helps!
A: I think getTextBounds(String text, int start, int end, Rect bounds) can do it for you.
This method belongs to Paint class:
Refer to this link
A: You also may use measureText
mTextTimeColorPaint.measureText(timeText)
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> Who Has More Student Loan Debt—Doctors or Lawyers?
Who Has More Student Loan Debt—Doctors or Lawyers?
By Katie Taylor
On a Sunday afternoon several years ago, my wife and I sat at our kitchen table, staring glumly at a budget I'd worked up for us.
Even though we were both attorneys at the time, the numbers were ... less than great. My wife worked at a small law firm, and I worked as a government attorney—good jobs by most standards. But I carried a hefty debt load from law school, and those monthly payments took a serious chunk out of our budget.
My law school loans felt like a river I would never be able to cross, and I spent hours (days?) feeling sorry for myself. "I'd like to tour the country encouraging people not to go to law school," I huffed. "At least not if they have to take out loans to do it."
I know ... first-world problems and all that ... but the emotional weight of debt is real. And lawyers carry an enormous share of the student loan debt in the U.S.
See also: Digging Out of Law School Debt? Here's How You Compare With Your Peers
But through some recent friendships, I've learned that there's a group of professionals in an even worse situation than attorneys.
If misery loves company (and history would suggest that it does), law school graduates who want to complain about our student debt should call up a doctor friend and invite them out for drinks ... but not if we don't want to be beaten at our own game.
Medical school graduates battle more debt
The debt situation for law school graduates is difficult. But it's worse for doctors. Why? We have a few answers.
1. Medical school is one year longer than law school
One year may not seem like much, but when those nine months cost upwards of $40,000, $50,000, or even $60,000, tacking on an extra year makes a big difference. That's also another year doctors aren't paying back their loans.
And depending on the types of loans they have, that might be another year that a student's loans are remaining unpaid while accruing interest.
2. One word: residency
While many lawyers graduate and head straight for BigLaw jobs (and the six-figure salaries that accompany them), most medical students must spend between two and three years working long hours for about a third of the salary a first-year law associate makes.
This pay disparity is particularly baffling when you consider the type of work residents do right out of the gate. They're managing their own case load and treating patients while a first-year associate at a law law firm probably won't interact with an actual client for another couple years.
3. Many doctors complete fellowships after residency
In some fields, a doctor's training doesn't end with the residency. They must then complete a one- or two-year fellowship, generally at a similarly low salary.
With residency and fellowship requirements, a doctor could easily work for four or five years before landing a position with a paycheck that approaches the high salaries we think of for doctors. And during those years, interest is accruing—perhaps unchecked if residents or fellows defer their loans or put them into forbearance, as many do.
4. More tests cost more money
As a recently graduated law student, you have to hand over serious cash to take the bar.
Med students do that four times during medical school and residency AND at the end of a residency or fellowship program. Most also have to be re-certified every 10 years. That's like paying to take the bar six times before you get to call yourself legit.
What it means for lawyers
When I start feeling overwhelmed by my student loans, I don't always want to think about how much worse someone else has it. Sometimes I just want to wallow.
But those loans aren't going away on their own. That means I need to pull out of my malaise and focus on what matters: getting them paid off faster. Recognizing the struggles facing other professionals helps me put things into perspective.
None of us are alone in this battle with our student loans, and most of us can draw inspiration from someone who's doing the work to pay down an even bigger debt load.
So if you're a lawyer, next time you see a young doctor, give them a silent I-know-what-you're-going-through nod.
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Well, I woke this morning and stretched in all directions to see if there was any sign of that tightness indicative of sun burn and am delighted to report that all seems well. As I have no mirror, I can't testify that I don't look like a lobster but at least as I pulled my shirt on after my shower, I did so without an accompanying scream.
Not a lot happening at school today. The students are just waiting for their reports to be 'topped and tailed' and then tomorrow morning will be the end of year awards ceremony, so, as I needed to go to Pangani, I left mid-morning to cycle back to Mkoma Bay. When I got there I ensured I was well covered, had factor 50 on any bits that weren't; ensured also that Chita was well and truly tethered and set off down the beach to Pangani.
The walk was beautiful but uneventful and certainly quicker without the need to constantly back-track to try to shake of an unwanted follower. As I approached Pangani I looked back over the empty acres of sand behind me, washed by the ocean and under a baking sun, and thought about the opportunities that exist for tourist income in this part of the country, if they could develop the required transport links.
Pangani beach. One o'clock in the afternoon.
I had gone to Pangani to obtain a laminated print-out of a picture I had taken of Mr Mmari. I think he is planning to frame it and put it on the wall of his new house as the start of a genealogical line. It certainly has the imperious look.
As I entered the market place on my way home the leaky bus from an earlier post, pulled in and disembarked its passengers. Having spent 45 minutes on Saturday in Tanga waiting for the same bus to fill up before setting off, I wasn't in the mood to do the same at this end of the road, so I looked round for a pikipiki. By the way, I now find that although a pikipiki is a motorbike, the term used for one that carries passengers for hire is a bodaboda. Whether this comes from the engine noise or what, I don't know, but anyway I found a bodaboda willing to take me for Tsh 2000 and with my usual request, "Mimi Babu; pole pole" I had a steady journey home.
Number one. If I hadn't had Denis I would have really struggled. If you are going to try and do this by yourself, without the aid of an agency I don't know how you would manage if you didn't have someone on the ground to contact. I've made no secret of the incredible helper and friend that Denis has been whilst I have been in Pangani but his involvement started well before that. He was my main, not to say only, contact with the schools over here as a combination of poor phone lines, poor hearing and poor English/Swahili led to many frustrating calls and at one stage I came close to calling the whole thing off.
It's not a cheap experience. Life over here is certainly inexpensive and I can easily get by on £100 a week for board, food and 'spends' and, as you have seen, I have an excellent life style, but the cost of setting the trip up was expensive. The cost starts with the air flight but continues with health insurance which is expensive, especially if you have a history like I have. Some of the injections were free but I still ended up paying over £200 for rabies and 'Hep B' and on top of this my anti-malarial tablets cost over £300. I must admit that at one time I did wonder whether it would be better for the school for me to stay at home and simply send a cheque. Finally there is the cost of the visa to actually enter the country and I have been very lucky that the local immigration officer has not seen fit to levy the further cost of a volunteer visa onto my load as this in itself is several hundred pounds. He did say he was coming to school during my first week and then didn't turn up, so since then I have tried to stay as invisible around Pangani as any 6ft 2in mzungu can.
What do you bring? As far as the school is concerned, anything is helpful. Basic pens, pencils and rulers are freely and cheaply available locally but even so are given as rewards for excellent work, especially in the tests. But outside this, mathematical instruments, staplers, and the like are difficult to get hold of; even graph paper is a luxury and I bought a pad in Dar es Salaam to give a sheet each to my students for their exam. As far as personal things, the most useful things I have brought with me are bin liners and food containers. The food containers are indispensable for keeping the little treats you allow yourself dry in the atmosphere here, and both they and the bin liners can keep food free from the myriad of 'creepy crawlies' that want to share my food every day. Bin liners are also very useful for collecting washing both clean and dirty. Either bring or buy a small flask. I'm an early rising shaver so to have a flask of hot water, half for a shave and half for an early coffee has been a real treat. The flask is then filled again for me for when I return from school and can sit outside my room and enjoy another cup.
A good first aid kit goes without saying. Thankfully, apart from my bike spill on the first day, I haven't used much of it apart from the antiseptic wipes which I have used every time I've even scratched myself, and with the thorn bushes I cycle past, the limestone I clamber over and the insects bites I occasionally scratch away, I'm reaching the end of my supply.
I have taken Cliff's advice about what I carry around with me. If I don't need it that day, I leave it at home. This goes for bank cards, spare money, documents etc. They are locked in my suitcase in my room. At home, like many people, I walk round with a wallet containing club cards that I haven't used for years, but over here I carry the minimum. Obviously Pangani is different to Dar es Salaam. Once again, taking Cliff's advice, I split any money I have into different pockets when in Dar and my camera and phone are well out of sight. In Pangani I don't take such precautions and certainly have never felt threatened in any way.
You need strong footwear. I came here with two pairs of trainers and am going home with one pair that will be thrown away as soon as I have replaced them. The rough limestone roads really take a toll on footwear. How the locals manage with their flip flops I don't know. It is good to get out of my trainers at the end of the school day into shorts and flip flops but I must admit that once the sun goes down I am back into a full covering and my roll on 'No Bite' comes into its own.
The first weeks I seemed to still be getting bitten but as with most things I seem to have got on top of this. As I have just said, in the evening there are no inviting stretches of ankle or leg for the mosquitos to attack and then when I go back to my room, I hold my breath, blitz the place with fly spray, especially the dark corners under the bed, table and chairs, before dashing outside and sitting to read for ten minutes. My mosquito net is tucked under the mattress on three sides and after switching off all the lights I use the torch on my phone to get to bed and tuck the remaining side under. Touch wood, it is now several weeks since I have been obviously bitten.
The YMCA is very particular about hygiene at meals and before I sit down for my dinner I am presented with a boiling hot flannel, which takes some juggling to start with, but at other times of the day I still take it seriously, even if, on occasions, this means simply pouring some bottled water over my hands. Certainly at Mr Masui's, one of his nieces has come with a jug and bowl both before and after the meal to pour water over my hands so that I can wash. Whether it is down to this regime or simply by good luck, but I have survived my stay without any 'tummy trouble' apart from the bloated feeling sometimes after one of Vicky's 'small' helpings.
You must also accept the fact that you will mentally wrestle, or certainly I did, as to whether you are there for the benefit of the students or to satisfy some need within yourself. I finally realised that the answer was, both, but if the end product was that the students and school received help that they needed then this was acceptable. For the experience to be a successful one, you don't need to sleep on the floor wearing sack cloth and ashes and eating only ugali and beans. Having said that I would really recommend taking every opportunity offered to at least sample the local lifestyle. My memories would be incomplete if I had missed leaking basis, daladalas, chai and chapattis with Mr Masui, and the 'bagia' ( a deep fried dough of dengu flour) that Matron gave me to eat. As you have seen the YMCA is hardly a tough life but I have tried very hard not to live within a western bubble.
Finally, as I prepared for the journey out here, Paul handed me the birthday present that he and Chez had purchased, for me. 'A Kindle'. Over the last couple of years I'd seen people sat at the side of swimming pools with these strange flat objects and thought of them as posers. How wrong I was. My Kindle has been my life saver. Tanzania is a country where nothing is rushed, and the ability to pull a new novel out of your pocket and pass the time reading, knowing that if you finish that one another book can be downloaded for sometimes as little as a few pennies, is priceless. And as a postscript, the word download reminds me of another useful thing. In my computer case I packed two USB extension cables and they have been indispensable. The best signal for the internet 'dongle' is just outside my room and at night this means being surrounded by the flying brigade attracted by the screen. So much more comfortable to slide my cables under the door and attach the modem propped on the chair outside, whilst using the computer inside my room.
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In ny app I have to switch between two viewcontroller.
On the second viewcontroller I have three container views.
If I make a Segue in Interface Builder the transition is smooth but I cannot make it slide from right or slide from left.
If I use code instead to make the transition I can make slide from right or slide from left, but i does not look good.
Is it possible to add a slide from right transition in the Interface Builder Segue?
Or is it possible in code to make the transition smotth as an segue?
What are the parameters of your segue ?
Also, that would be helpful to show us the code of the view controller being transitioned to.
The viewcontroller has three container each having its own viewcontroller.
Heres what it looks like when I use a Segue inInterface Builder.
Here I only have Cover Vertical, Flip Horizontal, Cross dissolve and Partial Curl.
I would like to use Slide From Right.
My problem is that the Segue in IB works smoothly, but does nat have the transition I need.
And if I do it in code it look chunky.
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Цанко Яблански е български политик, зооинженер и учен в областта на генетиката и селекцията на селскостопанските животни, посланик в Израел от 1999 до 2003 г.
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Завършва Селскостопанската академия в София. Работи във Висшия институт по зоотехника и ветеринарна медицина (ВИЗВМ) в Стара Загора. Професор по генетика и селекция на животните. Заместник-ректор на ВИЗВМ. Един от инициаторите за учредяването на Тракийския университет. От 1985 до 1990 година е агент на Държавна сигурност.
Политическа дейност
Избран за кмет на Стара Загора през 1995 като кандидат на Съюза на демократичните сили (СДС), след балотаж с кандидата на БСП. Не се кандидатира за втори мандат. След изтичането на мандата му е назначен от президента Петър Стоянов за посланик на Република България в Република Израел.
През 2003 се кандидатира като кандидат на десницата срещу Евгений Желев, но губи на първи тур.
През 2005 ревизия на "Държавен и финансов контрол" установява значителни финансови нарушения по време на мандата му като кмет, но не са предприети наказателни мерки в тази връзка.
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Посланици на България в Израел
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Janie Lois Barnes, 73, a McMinnville resident and White County native, was born Oct. 17, 1947 and died May 28 at St. Thomas West following an extended illness.
She was a private caregiver, and the daughter of the late James Franklin and Lula Fuqua Rollins. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death husband, James Edward "Barney" Barnes, son George Christopher Holland, and brother Jim Rollins.
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A randomised, replicated controlled experiment in Canada found that fewer medium-sized mussels were taken from mussel socks with a protective 'sleeve', compared to un-sleeved socks. There were no differences for small or large mussels.
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'Mussel socks' are protective netting materials designed to reduce predation by birds on shellfish. The socks are made from polypropylene material with a biodegradable layer sown around it. The second layer (which has smaller mesh openings) prevents mussels from migrating towards the outside of the sock in order to filter feed and so reduces the threat from predation. The mussels are buffered between these layers over winter until the following spring when the protective layer decomposes and allows mussel growth to continue unhindered.
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A randomised, replicated controlled experiment in October 2002 in three bays on Prince Edward Island, Canada (Dionne et al. 2006), found that mussel socks with a 'sleeve' of a biodegradable cotton-polyester mesh lost fewer medium-sized (20 mm) mussels to greater scaup Aythya marila predation than un-sleeved socks. Losses were similar for small (14 mm) and large (26 mm) mussels, but more small mussels migrated through sleeved socks (thus more vulnerable to predation).
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Barbeau M.A., Hamilton D.J., Lauzon-Guay J. & Dionne M. (2006) Protective socking material for cultivated mussels: a potential non-disruptive deterrent to reduce losses to diving ducks. Aquaculture International, 14, 595-613
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On Friday my local network from TimeWarnerCable went down. Undaunted by the fact that I was in the middle of a conference call and a Go To Meeting host, I popped open my iPhone and connected to the Wifi hotspot. AND reconnected the call by joining both other callers through my phone.
And something in that process, either the tethering or the threeway calling through the same phone, brought my web experience to a painful and slow death. For a short period of time I could keep up with the conversation my friends were having, using Facebook to follow along. (See the caller had switched the conference to webex, but the invite was lodged in my spam folder in Outlook.
So I had no visual and was forced to imagine what this Facebook sales rep was telling me, because the web became unusable. WHAT?
Just a second. My LTE iPhone 5 has killer stats. I should be flying through this operation with no problems. But the web became dead to me. And unfortunately I couldn't just reboot the phone and the computer because the call was routing through my iPhone. I was skewered and SOL.
So in theory the web via tethered LTE should be lightening fast. Faster than my terrestrial-based cable line even. But in practice, perhaps because the phonecall was taking technical priority, my LTE became NOT.
How much of this technology becomes a tether to us, as in a leash rather than wings? How many clients expect our response in minutes not hours? I recall a conversation I had with a client a few years ago.
BOOM. The expectations had been set before my tenure, that emails would be answered within minutes or at most hours. AND that included when the email came in at 8pm at night.
INBOX ZERO had become INBOX NOW.
And if I allowed that behavior or expectation to run my life, I guess I would have agreed to answer messages at all hours. But I didn't.
For the most part, technology is our friend. But on occasion we have to fight the tether, kill the twitch response to answer at all times of the night. Technology is a tool we use, but should not be a tool used to control us. I did check that client's in-bound messages a bit more frequently, but I refused to agree to some 1 hour SLA on responding to emails.
We need to the web to conduct business. Today it's my presentation tool, my phone, and my rolodex.
We also need to shut the damn thing off and walk away from the net and the client and the response to input. I don't subscribe to DAY WITHOUT TECH strategies, I'd get too far behind on my own creative projects, but I do suggest you get a handle on your tech before the tech has you by the throat, before the tether has become a chain. |
Disney Live! returns to Egypt for first time since 2014 - Daily News Egypt
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Disney Live! returns to Egypt for first time since 2014
Feld Entertainment, the worldwide leader of live touring family entertainment in collaboration with the leading Egyptian activation agency, Dino Activations announced on Tuesday Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic, to the region, under the patronage of Ministries of Tourism and Investment. The show features more than 25 Disney characters, giving the audience an …
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Feld Entertainment, the worldwide leader of live touring family entertainment in collaboration with the leading Egyptian activation agency, Dino Activations announced on Tuesday Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic, to the region, under the patronage of Ministries of Tourism and Investment.
The show features more than 25 Disney characters, giving the audience an exceptional night of entertainment with efavourite songs, mesmerising illusions and Disney stars, including the 'True Original' Mickey Mouse who is celebrating his 90th anniversary this year.
Feld Entertainment creates Disney Live! show that compiles many of the audience's favourite Disney films, such as Tangled, Aladdin, Toy Story, and more.
With Dino Activation's help Disney Live! returns to Egypt for the first time since 2014 to perform again before families and put a smile on children's faces. The performance will go live daily starting 26 September huntil 6 October h2018.
Steven Armstrong, regional vice president of Feld Entertainment, EMEA region, said "we are delighted to be returning to Cairo with Disney Live! Our productions are always warmly welcomed by the people of Egypt. It's always a pleasure to visit a city like Cairo, so rich in culture, and be able to bring families together through the magic of Disney."
For his part, Mohamed Amer chairperson of Dino Activations said that the show is considered the biggest in the entertainment industry in Egypt with expected attendance of up to 60,000 spectators.
Amer noted, "we are thrilled to participate in the entertainment industry here in Egypt, and promoting the country as a hub for tourism in the Middle East.
Amer noted that his company looks forward to continue working with Feld Entertainment to bring joy to Egyptian families and Disney fans for years to come.
Elevating the production to new heights are illusions designed by Jim Steinmeyer. He is a pioneer and master of magic, his knowledge and talent for creating amazing visuals set the scene for some of the most iconic Disney moments. Including Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder levitating in a starry sky amidst the floating lanterns and a laser routine performed by Disney Pixar's Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear.
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https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2018/08/29/disney-live-returns-to-egypt-for-first-time-since-2014/
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Each year, the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates men and women whose lifework enriches Southern food culture. Five SFA awards and honors recognize these cultural standard bearers.
2015 John Egerton Prize Winner: Lora Smith, Appalachian Food Summit
Appalachian Food Summit, 2015 John Egerton Prize Winner
Each year, the SFA awards the John Egerton Prize to artists, writers, scholars, and others, whose work addresses issues of race, class, gender, and social and environmental justice, through the lens of food. John Egerton passed away in November 2013, but his work and spirit continue to inspire the SFA.
The 2015 John Egerton Prize was awarded at the 18th Southern Foodways Symposium, held October 15-18, 2015, at the University of Mississippi. The Egerton winner this year was Lora Smith, on behalf of the Appalachian Food Summit (AFS.) Ronni Lundy, an SFA founder and also a founder of the AFS, wrote this appreciation:
The AFS facilitates conversations among contemporary Appalachian farmers, scholars, writers, chefs, producers and just plain interested parties to see how such traditions can become part of diversified local economies. Summit members are equally committed to revealing and telling the diverse histories of the people through the lens of food. They also cook great victuals and tell wonderful stories while eating them.
This mix of activism and celebration would have been right up the late John Egerton's alley and that is why Lora Smith, one of the original volunteers who brought the AFS to life, was chosen this year to accept the John Egerton Prize on behalf of the Appalachian Food Summit. Lora is a stellar writer, community organizer, scholar, and farmer in the region.
2018 John Egerton Prize Winners: The Neighbor's Field and Fresh Future Farm
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2016 John Egerton Prize Winner: Jon-Sesrie Goff
The 2016 John Egerton Prize, awarded at the 19th Southern Foodways Symposium, goes to documentary filmmaker Jon-Sesrie…
2014 John Egerton Prize Winners: Toni Tipton-Martin and Chuck Reece
The 2014 John Egerton Prize winners were Chuck Reece, of The Bitter Southerner, and Toni Tipton-Martin, author of The…
2013 John Egerton Prize Winner: Cynthia Hayes
In 2013, SFA awarded the Egerton Prize to Cynthia Hayes of Savannah, Georgia, for her work with the Southeastern…
2012 John Egerton Prize Winner: Greg Asbed
Greg Asbed, on behalf of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), accepted the 2012 John Egerton Prize.
2011 John Egerton Prize Winner: Phil Blank
In 2011, SFA awarded artist Phil Blank with the John Egerton Prize. His work celebrates and explores foodways, music,… |
On Wednesday, Larian Studios LLC launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its already highly anticipated video game, Divinity: Original Sin 2. Originally seeking to raise $500,000, the project captured over $700,000 within 24 hours.
The game is currently in development for PC in English and subtitles will be available in German, French and Russian. Other gaming platforms and subtitle languages might be announced at a later stage.
"The theme of Divinity: Original Sin 2 is how your origins affect who you are and what chances you get in life. At the start of the game, you pick a single character and determine your starting stats, race, and origin story.
"You'll be able to recruit up to three companions, each of whom is just as detailed as the character you're playing, with their own origin story and motivation to help you in your quest. This makes it possible for each companion to become a player character in multiplayer mode; every party member is equally important to the whole.
"In multiplayer, up to 4 players can play together, either cooperatively or competitively. During competitive questing, you'll pursue different plot-lines from other players, often because your personal motivations are in conflict with those of the party.
"You are all amazing! Who would've predicted that a pitch built around adding extra dialog options & origin stories to a complex RPG would be capable of mobilizing so many people so fast? For RPG developers like us it's like a dream come true. You are allowing us to create deep complex RPG experiences that we love to make and we're so very grateful to all of you!
The game can be purchased through the campaign for the price of $25. The campaign is set to close on September 30th.
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Appears to be a natural. We didn't get high enough to get a close look as the surface was pencil hard in exposed terrain. Some soft turns were found in the woods though. Flume and Silver Cascade both had pockets of 4F however those are few and far between. Much of the 8cm pencil crust there was faceted beneath all the way to the ice. Bring a rope. |
The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today reported 4.6 per cent increase in its total sales in September 2014 at 1,09,742 units as against 1,04,964 units in the same month previous year.
Domestic sales during the month stood at 99,290 units, up 9.8 per cent from 90,399 units in September previous year, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement.
Sales of mini passenger cars, including Alto, A-Star and WagonR were down 13.4 per cent at 35,547 units as against 41,061 units in the same month previous year.
Maruti said during the month, sales of its compact cars, comprising Swift, Estilo, Celerio, Ritz and Dzire were at 43,304 units as against 36,679 units in the year-ago month, up 18.1 per cent.
Dzire Tour sales were at 1,221 units as against 857 units in September last year, up 42.5 per cent.
During the month, the company said it dispatched 1,375 units of the soon-to-be-launched sedan Ciaz.
The company's sales of utility vehicles, including Ertiga and Gypsy were at 5,980 units as against 2,657 units, up 125.1 per cent.
Van sales, consisting of Omni and Eeco, were at 11,863 units as compared to 8,767 units in the previous year, up 35.3 per cent, it said.
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Adrianne Ho is a Canadian fashion model, who was featured in several magazine covers and fashion editorials and graced numerous beauty campaigns including L'Oreal, MAC Cosmetics and Maybelline. She is a menswear muse for Levi's Stussy, Nike and others. She Is also the founder of the online store, Sweat The Style, balancing fitness and style. She is called an "it-girl" when it comes to streetwear and lifestyle. She is currently living in New York.
Adrianne Ho is a Canadian- born model, with a Chinese – French ancestry, she is exposed to wide range of culture, food and experiences and influenced her a lot while growing up and made her attracted to new, different and exciting things.
She has develop an active lifestyle culture and brand that is devoted to fashionable fitness, natural beauty and real food. A virtual space where others can learn about healthier alternatives from traditional diet, beauty products and workout regimens. Making health and fitness stylish and fun.
As for her style, it came from her life. As she's always on the go, running to castings, gym, she needs to be comfortable. If she's not comfortable, then she won't function. She only wear high heels when getting paid.
Ho stays in shape by participating in kickboxing. She hates the treadmill and said that it's too boring, she would rather run in the dirty New York street rather than a serene beach as it is more active. There are things to jump, see and doge over.
She would want to date someone who is active, it's not important if you're not athletic.
She is currently residing in New York. She said it is an advantage for her when booking jobs since its close to brands, clients and magazine and it also can also provide her loads of new opportunities.
As modeling work includes travelling, she is really fond of experiencing new cultures, climates and lifestyle. Learning Muay Thai in Bangkok, running at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and having reflexology in Hong Kong gives her more room to gain and learn. She said that the hard part on travelling is the travelling itself. Overnight flights and early call times, staying hydrated, enough sleep and making time to exercise is making it difficult.
Ho got collaboration request from street wear brand to collaborate with Sweat the Style but she love to collaborate it with high fashion. She love mixing Isabel Marant, Alexander Wang and A.P.C with Supreme, Levi's and Nike. The combination of high fashion with street wear is a style that evolved living actively in New York City.
She got interested in quality food and fitness when she started modeling, making healthier choices. She was fascinated on her daily routine affected how she felt. Modeling, in her perspective, was a sport by maintaining an athletic and balanced diet. She continuous to work with brands and companies that is related to health, beauty, well-being, fashion and fitness.
Her older sister, Sandrine Holt – model and actress, has been giving her all out support and giving great advice and honest feedback. Her parents were concerned at first as the industry involves pressure. After her parents saw her being focused, secure and positive, they stop worrying and continue to support her.
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Psychosis I believe has permanently effected how I view the world. I, like others with this condition believe lots of what seems wacky nonsense, to many people when I've been delusional. Usually to do with an alternative reality, based on a new world order and religious and spiritual in nature. When the delusions are in full swing I have been driven to the brink of fear, terror or bliss and madness. So it have left an indelible mark on the way I think. This election has sent me thinking about all sort of fantastical stuff. As people talk about what matters to them and voting accordingly, there has been revelations for me I was totally unaware of. I'm wondering if the heart of the nation is predominately Conservative.? If this is true it is a frightening concept to me. I feel Maggie has won. Discovering what people believe and then voting for it was an absolute shock. It was like the tv program V. Where people uncover their true identity, which is an a mouse eating alien. Although I do believe the following that I posted on facebook..
...Society seems have been atomized, isolation from each other, divorced from nature. I understand that people work really hard and have many more responsibilities and pressures than ever before. It seems that the void for co operation and the inter dependance we all share is exploited. Capitalizing on natural wants and needs and desires into shopping and spending. I honestly think most people only have time to work on the treadmill, with a well earned holiday now and again. I understand why people become resentful and vote conservative, get blind drunk on the weekends spend a lot etc. I think its been engineered to be this way. Low pay, long hours, media propagating hate for anything that doesn't fit this norm.
The country is predominately blue on the map now. There is a war on poor and sick people. headlines.. scroungers, immigrants, homeless, and the shambolic NHS.
I believe this is a stabbing at the heart of humanity. I know it's very much a secular society and its now very unpopular to talk about spirituality and religion in this technological age. Whether its something or nothing. I believe it was something that made people think about their conduct towards each other. It obviously doesn't work all the time. It seems like society has been engineered to be self centered and self reliant. We really can't sustain that, like natural resources they will run out and we will be left without. I believe that all we have really is each other, we are completely interdependent on everyone and everything. Things are getting biblical nowadays. The milk of human kindness is going sour. |
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a 1994 American slasher metafilm written and directed by original Nightmare on Elm Street creator Wes Craven. Although it is the seventh film in the franchise, it is not part of the series continuity, instead portraying Freddy Krueger as a fictional movie villain who invades the real world and haunts the cast and crew responsible for his films. This was released on DVD by New Line Home Entertainment in January 5, 2006 on double feature Freddy vs. Jason.
2 List of Deaths
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Just as the first Nightmare film opened with the creation of Freddy's infamous glove, New Nightmare opens with the creation of an updated, more sinister and sleeker looking glove. As the maker of the claws appears to chop off his own hand in preparation for attaching the claws to his own wrist, the other people on the set wince, and the director, Wes Craven, encourages the effects specialists to pump more blood. Soon he yells, "Cut!! Print that, Gretchen!". Heather Langenkamp with her husband, Chase and their son, Dylan are wandering around the set of the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
Presently the claw, which was only a prop a minute ago, comes to life and starts maiming and killing the special effects crew, Dylan disappears into thin air, and, as the claw advances to attack Chase, Heather screams, waking up in her own bed in her own house with Chase, in the middle of an earthquake in Los Angeles. After the earthquake dies down Chase has a couple of scratches, the same as he had received in the dream. This causes Heather to wonder if they were sustained in the earthquake or in the dream.
Heather reveals she has been receiving harassing phone calls from "some deranged fan" acting like Freddy, but they've stopped for the last couple weeks until now. When she gets home, her son has an episode during which he warns her in a voice not his own, "Never sleep again!" Worried, Heather asks Chase to come home. Chase falls asleep at the wheel on the way, and dies in a supposed car crash. When Heather goes to identify the body, it seems, to her, that there may have been more to the crash than meets the eye, mainly the claw marks on Chase's chest. Dylan, now also grief-stricken, continues acting ever more strangely. When Heather takes him to a hospital, the doctors suspect her of being insane and of abusing him.
She goes to Wes Craven for help making sense of what's happening. Craven tells her he doesn't know much more than she does - he dreams a scene or two each night and wakes up and writes them down. He goes on to tell her that in the script he's been writing, pure evil can be temporarily defeated if its essence is effectively captured in a work of art that is able to allow evil to express itself. Craven explains that the evil has taken the form of Freddy Krueger because it is a familiar one. "Freddy" sees her as the gatekeeper who holds Freddy at bay since Heather's character Nancy defeated Freddy in the first movie. To Freddy, it is Heather that gave the character of Nancy her strength. Freddy is attacking her at her weakest points, trying to break her down before confronting her. She leaves as confused as when she arrived. Freddy forces her to accept the role he wants her to play. At the same time, he eviscerates the toy dinosaur Dylan believes has been protecting him and abducts the boy.
The final showdown between Freddy and the mother-son duo occurs in a steamy and water logged dreamscape ruin, apparently Freddy's home turf. Dylan finds Heather, only for them both to be attacked by Freddy, Heather is knocked out, Dylan is left defenseless. Freddy lures Dylan into a trap and tries to eat him, Heather wakes up in time to save Dylan, but Freddy makes his tongue extend and wrap around Heather's face. Dylan gets out of the trap to save her by taking a kitchen knife that Heather brought in with her, cutting Freddy's toungue in half, making his tongue go back to normal size. Even so, the two succeed in killing Freddy and escaping back to the real world. There they find the script of the film Craven has been working on waiting for them. Dylan asks his mother to read some of it to him, which she does: "We open on an old wooden bench. There's fire and tools, and a man's grimy hands building what's soon revealed as a gleaming set of claws. And the claws are moving now as if awakening from a long and unwanted sleep..."
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List of deaths in the film, Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Chuck Wilson Bladed glove in throat Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger Entity Yes Dream World
Terry Feinstein Bladed glove in throat Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger Entity Yes Dream World
Chase Porter Slashed across chest with bladed glove, car accident Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger Entity Yes Dream World, seeing familiar with Dan Jordan's death
Julianna Peyton "Julie" McKenna Bladed glove in back, dragged up wall to ceiling, neck snapped, fell Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger Entity Yes Dream World, based on Tina Gray's death in original
Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger Entity Melted and exploded in oven Dylan Porter Yes Dream World
Heather Langenkamp as herself / Nancy Thompson
Robert Englund as himself / Freddy Krueger
Miko Hughes as Dylan Porter
John Saxon as himself/ Lt. Donald Thompson
Tracy Middendorf as Julie
David Newsom as Chase Porter
Fran Bennett as Dr. Christine Heffner
Wes Craven as himself
Robert Shaye as himself
Marianne Maddalena as herself
Sam Rubin as himself
Sara Risher as herself
Claudia Haro as a New Line Cinema receptionist
Matt Winston and Rob LaBelle as Chuck and Terry, two special effect workers
W. Earl Brown as Morgue attendant
Lin Shaye as Nurse with pills
Nick Corri as himself
Tuesday Knight as herself
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This film was released on January 28, 1995 on VHS by Turner Home Entertainment. It was released on DVD by New Line Home Video in August 22, 2000. that was released on March 30, 2006 on DVD double feature ''Freddy vs. Jason'', in New Line Home Entertainment. This was released on DVD by Warner Home Entertainment in May 28, 2019 from double feature ("Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare")
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Contracts for school resource officers in schools are currently under review.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Dan Rawls says the contracts have been sent to the Webster Parish School Board's attorney Jon Guice and expects to have approval no later than the August 3 meeting.
"If the board approves the positions, we will do a budget revision and include them in the budget," Rawls said. "The reason they weren't in the initial budget is because they came in after the budget had already been constructed and was out for public review. We have a number of accounts that we have to do budget revisions on and that's going to be one of them."
Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd and Springhill Mayor Carroll Breaux approached the board in June about getting the school board to pay for an SRO for them. Currently, the city pays for an SRO stationed at North Webster High School, but he covers other schools when needed, Lynd said in June.
Minden currently has two SROs, one recently becoming full-time at Webster Junior High School.
The board since has come back and said they wanted SROs to cover the other schools as well. Rawls says the board has asked for one for Doyline and Lakeside (one to be split between the two schools), one to be split between North Webster High School and North Webster Junior High and the two in Minden.
In the contracts will be what performances are needed, costs, terms and limits of the contract. Then the board will have to decide where the SROs will be, whether they will be full time or part time and list the conditions.
Lynd says he just wants it all to be fair across the board.
"It's their decision; it doesn't make me any difference either way," he said. "I want it to be fair for everybody. I want it to be fair for Minden, and I want it to be fair for Springhill."
He and Mayor Breaux attended Monday's board meeting, but they were not told it wouldn't be on the agenda, he says. However, he reiterated he just wants it to be fair.
In Minden, the school board pays for one full-time SRO at Minden High School for 10 months out of the year. The other two months, Sgt. Tokia Whiting goes back on regular patrol and back on the police department's payroll.
Rawls says with the deletion of one position (an industrial arts instructor), they should have the money to cover the expense of paying the SROs. |
Q: Could not get fullduration of my MP3 file I am trying to get fullduration my MP3 file but it returns me NaN,
Here is my code:
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$f("player", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf", {
clip: {
// our song
url: '1.mp3',
// when music starts grab song's metadata and display it using content plugin
onStart: function(){
var fullduration = parseInt(this.getClip().fullDuration, 10);
alert(fullduration);
var p = this, c = p.getClip(), d;
timer = setInterval(function(){
d = showtime(c.fullDuration);
$("a[href=" + c.url + "] > samp").html(showtime(p.getTime()) + "/" + d);
}, 1000);
}
},
plugins: {
// content plugin settings
content: {
url: 'flowplayer.content-3.2.0.swf',
backgroundColor: '#002200',
top: 25,
right: 25,
width: 160,
height: 60
},
// and a bit of controlbar skinning
controls: {
backgroundColor: '#002200',
height: 30,
fullscreen: false,
autoHide: false,
volume: false,
mute: true,
time: true,
stop: false,
play: false
}
}
});
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A: I had a look at your code using flowplayer version 3.2.7 and 3.2.8. With version 3.2.7 I get the same error and with 3.2.8 I get the duration in seconds which is what is expected. So you'll need to upgrade and change the following from
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America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Christian Nation - we need to keep religion out of politics and out of the political / legal system.
America also needs to abolish the Federal Government and restore states rights.
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Bring back the witch burnings! The brouhaha involving Rhode Island high school student Jessica Ahlquist, 16, who requested her school remove a prayer banner invoking '"Our Heavenly Father," serves to illustrate how the ideals of the American Founders have been trampled and corrupted by religious fanatics in this country.
Ahlquist made a simple request to preserve what is called the "separation of Church and State," based on the "Establishment Clause" of the American Constitution. For her efforts, she's been viciously attacked with all kinds of insults, hate speech and threats of violence, including death, with a Rhode Island state representative suggesting she's an "evil little thing."
However, it is Ahlquist's Constitutional right to attend a secular public school. If others wish to attend religious schools, there are plenty of those in this country. Our public schools must be kept secular, teaching religion only from a dispassionate and uninvolved perspective. Otherwise, religion must be barred from public schools. No proselytizing, no school prayers - nada.
This Constitutional "wall of separation" was further solidified by a woman named Vashti McCollum, who sued her local school board over religious indoctrination and won, in a Supreme Court ruling in 1948:
Vashti McCollum, a self-described humanist from Champaign, Ill., challenges the practice of allowing students in public schools to attend voluntary religious instruction during school hours, on school property. When her son and other students chose not to attend the classes, they are left to study alone in an empty room. McCollum sues the local school board; her family is subjected to harassment and hate mail; the family cat is lynched. The case reaches the Supreme Court, which rules 8-1 in favor of McCollum, saying the practice of holding religious classes on tax-supported property violates the Establishment Clause.
As Charles Shaynes points out, Ahlquist's request is in line not only with the American Constitution but also with the wishes of the founder of the State of Rhode Island, Rev. Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683), himself a theologian and "deeply religious Christian minister":
Jessica may be in the minority in Cranston, but she's in good company as the latest in a long line of Rhode Island dissenters — beginning with the state's founder, Roger Williams.
Williams, who was himself verbally attacked, was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 for objecting to the entanglement of religion and government that, he believed, corrupted both.
He founded Rhode Island as the first government in history with no established religion and a commitment to protect liberty of conscience for every person. As a deeply religious Christian minister, Williams vowed to put an end to centuries of oppression and coercion by erecting what he called "a wall or hedge of separation" between the "Garden of the Church and the Wilderness of the World."
Rhode Island was to be a "haven for the cause of conscience" where government stayed out of religion and all people (including Quakers, Catholics and others persecuted in surrounding colonies) would be free to choose in matters of faith.
If he were alive today, there's little doubt that Roger Williams would be solidly in Jessica's corner. He would view the "school prayer" banner as blasphemous state appropriation of religion. However big or small the issue, Williams believed that any state entanglement with religion violates conscience, divides society, and (most important for him) offends God....
"Jessica Ahlquist is clearly an articulate and courageous young woman, who took a brave stand, particularly in light of the hostile response she has received from her community."
Fortunately, the federal judge in this case - who made the above quote about Ahlquist - saw fit to uphold the Constitution and ruled in her favor. Naturally, the hate speech and death threats have continued to fly.
In the final analysis, the hate speech, death threats and irrational religious fanaticism displayed in Rhode Island could be deemed "un-American" and "anti-American," as well as illegal and/or immoral. Jessica Ahlquist is the true American in this situation, following the ideals of the American and Rhode Island Founding Fathers.
Moreover, I personally find the idea of a "Heavenly Father" to the exclusion of all other divine concepts, including the "Heavenly Mother" or, perhaps more appropriately, the "Earthly Mother," to be offensive to my religion. It is a sexist and human-derogating notion that I reject - so, these spewers of hate speech and death threats are offending my religion. |
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Assistant Chief Security/Tactical Officer The Assistant Chief Security Officer is sometimes called Deputy of Security. S/he assists the Chief of Security in the daily work; in issues regarding Security and any administrative matters. If required the Deputy must be able to take command of the Security department.
Chief Tactical Officer The Tactical Officers are the vessels gunmen. They assist the Chief Tactical Officer by running and maintaining the numerous weapons systems aboard the ship/starbase, and analysis and tactical planning of current missions. Very often Tactical Officers are also trained in ground combat and small unit tactics. |
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Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar has departed after concluding his two-day visit to Sri Lanka.
Soon after he arrived on the island last evening, Jaishankar called on his Sri Lankan counterpart Minister Ali Sabry for bilateral talks, during which he reiterated India's commitment to increase investment flows to Sri Lanka to hasten the island's economic recovery.
Jaishankar's visit comes a day after India officially conveyed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it strongly supports Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan.
During his meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Jaishankar noted that all bilateral creditors of Sri Lanka must take proactive steps to facilitate the island's recovery.
"India decided not to wait on others but to do what we believe is right. We extended financing assurances to the IMF to clear the way for Sri Lanka to move forward."
He has handed over a letter from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting President Wickremesinghe to visit India at the earliest possible to discuss how the partnership with India can facilitate the island's economic recovery.
Emphasizing that his visit to Sri Lanka is a statement about Prime Minister Modi's commitment to the 'neighbourhood first' policy, Jaishankar said reiterated that India would continue to stand by Sri Lanka in this hour of need. He explained that the primary purpose of his visit at this time is to express India's solidarity with Sri Lanka during these difficult moments.
Jaishankar later called on PM Dinesh Gunawardena and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa.
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Owls soar to see off Seagulls
Last updated : 04 January 2020 By Chris Morris
Wednesday progress in FA Cup
Sheffield Wednesday beat a Premier League team in the FA Cup for the first time since 1993 on Saturday as they won 1-0 at Brighton and Hove Albion.
The Owls came into the game on the back of 3 disappointing defeats that has seen them slip out of the top 6 in the Championship but they were more than a match for their top flight hosts.
Chances were few and far between in a well contested first half, Dawson making a couple of smart saves for the Owls and Fletcher seeing his long-range strike saved as the half came to a close.
Garry Monk's side looked assured at the back with Osaze Urhoghide making his debut and the visitors started the 2nd half well with Reach forcing Button into a save from distance. The Owls were dealt a blow when Steven Fletcher was taken off with a knee injury early in the second half but didn't let it affect them and took the lead with 25 minutes to go. Murhpy rolled a free-kick into the path of Reach and his low drive took a slight deflection before going past Button into the goal.
Brighton had a few attempts off target as they looked for a way back but Dawson was largely untroubled and Wednesday were good value for the win which takes them into the 4th round draw. |
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Cristina Hinds, Attorney understands the difficulties families face with one of their loved ones needs help. Having an attorney that listens to you and your family is critical to your case. In a criminal case, your defense begins during our very first conversation. At that discussion, we start to strategize and discuss options and likely outcomes with you. The overwhelming majority of people who are faced with very serious charges tell Cristina that they feel much better after speaking with her, even if it is just for a few minutes. In personal injury cases is is also essential that your attorney listens to you closely and really pays attention to what you are saying.
In order to ensure your case receives the highest attention and skill, we cannot take all cases. Please call Cristina to inquire about her availability and how she can assist you during your difficult time.
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She later attended the University of San Diego School of Law and received several first place awards for Moot Court competitions. Cristina also spent her a summer during law school in Carson City as an extern at the Nevada Supreme Court for the Honorable Justice Charles Springer. At the Court, she read briefs, researched opinions, and drafted recommendations for the Justices. All recommendations she prepared were unanimously accepted.
The next summer, Cristina interned at the Clark County District Attorney's Office for District Attorney Stewart Bell. She worked exclusively in the Appellate Division preparing briefs and responding to motions for credit for time served and post-conviction petitions for writ of habeas corpus for the State of Nevada.
After graduation from law school, Cristina returned to Las Vegas and the District Attorney's Office. Cristina performed more intensive research and writing. Additionally, she assisted the Bad Check Diversion Unit, and among other duties, drafted legislation which was later enacted into State law. Cristina has also argued before the Nevada Supreme Court.
After approximately two years, Cristina left the DA's Office to start her own law firm. She used her experience gained at the District Attorney's Office to operate a successful criminal defense practice. In addition to handling City and State misdemeanor and felony criminal defense, Cristina's extensive writing experience earned her countless appointments from various courts to assist with researching and drafting post-conviction remedies and appeals for defendants.
As a solo practitioner, Cristina also appeared before the Nevada Pardon's Board on behalf of a woman who, 13 years prior, had been convicted of first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. While preparing the case, Cristina discovered that her client had a defense that was never explored or presented at trial by her former attorney. She successfully argued that the defense would have made a difference in the outcome of the trial. She persuaded all members of the Board to grant her client relief in a unanimous decision. Her client was released from prison shortly thereafter.
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More recently, Cristina was partner in the firm of Mueller, Hinds, and Associates before starting her own practice. When Cristina is not zealously representing her clients' interests, she spends time working out, enjoying her beloved family, and playing with the family dog Winnie and two noisy cockatiels, Cheety and Oreo.
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Switchfoot's Jon Foreman Opens Up About Band Member's Cancer Diagnosis
Written by Herb Longs
A Letter from SWITCHFOOT'S Jon Foreman:
Greetings everyone,
Jon here, I'm always blown away by the incredible community that sings these songs with us. Time and time again you will find ways to encourage, strengthen, and rally around the folks that need it the most. It's with that in mind that I want to tell you some news, but first, a bit of context.
When I first met Jerome, he was the bass player in one of my favorite local bands, Fold Zandura. When they broke up, I called him up and asked him if he wanted to come and play music with us. The day that I called happened to be his first day of work at a "real job" in one of the tallest buildings in LA. He quit his job, called me back, and we've been playing music together ever since. The rest of our story includes family, songs, thousands of shows, and a journey that has taken us from California to Kolkata and back.
Jerome is one of the finest humans you could imagine. He is kind when I'm grumpy. He remembers names and faces when I forget. He eats healthy when I don't. In decades of knowing Jerome, I have never once seen him angry (and I'm in a band with him!). I asked his brother about it one time, and he said that he had never seen him angry either. Suffice it to say, Jerome is one of my favorite people on the planet.
I got a call from Jerome a few weeks ago. He was calling with sobering news: he has cancer. One of Jerome's kidneys has a large mass on it that has been growing for quite some time. The good news is that the cancer has not spread to his other organs. Removing one of his kidneys will hopefully be the first and final cure for Jerome's fight with cancer. The surgeons and the medical team have been incredibly accommodating, making sure that the surgery was scheduled as soon as possible.
And so at the end of the month, Jerome will undergo surgery. He is making the best out of a hard situation. He's in good spirits and is facing all of this bravely, (with his signature smile and laughter intact!). He wanted me to reach out to the beautiful community that has supported our band in the highs and lows to inform all of you of the situation. We hope that many of you will join us in praying for Jerome and his family during this difficult season.
Jerome sent me this note to pass on:
"I wanted to tell this community firsthand what is going on. It's hard to think about being on the sidelines while we release this album. But the songs have meant so much to me, even through this experience.
We've been through so much as a band. This is just one more mountain to climb, one more storm to weather. I know we'll get to the other side. And I look forward to having more reasons to be thankful when all of this is behind us. We will give you an update when we have news to tell you. Thanks again for years of love and support. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you, we look forward to telling you some good news in the near future."
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Shopping for a wedding band to spell out your eternal love for your other half can be quite frustrating if a) the available rings are substandard representations of your undying love, b) the pricing is unreasonably exorbitant, and c) neither of you can agree on a pair.
So, to save yourself from the headaches (and arguments), why not design your own?
Local jewellery designer Wendy Lor is a person you can turn to.
All you have to do is tell her your beautiful love story and she will convey it into exquisite bands.
Lor, with 20 years of experience, captures the emotions through her innate craftsmanship. Thus far, she has achieved a 100% success rate in terms of nailing the design according to her client's requirement.
"I bring the essence of the couple into the ring and by doing that, I believe it's no longer about Wendy Lor or the brand, but the couple," she expresses.
The 42-year old designer says that the majority of the couples that go to her, have tried shopping for rings before consulting her.
"They will say that they couldn't find anything they like but I believe it's more than not being able to find the right ring.
"I am just an instrument that helps tell their story," explains Lor, the founder of WendyLorArtisans and Unique Wedding Bands.
To begin, Lor will aks the couple to relate their courtship and romance. Every little detail helps, from favourite colour to personal likes and dislikes.
"We have to be truthful about ourselves especially when doing something sacred. The more honest they are, the better I can come up with the designs," she advises.
Whether or not it's necessary for the couple to have a preconceived idea of how they'd want their rings to look, Lor says it's not but it can be helpful.
Having said that, Lor did turn away a couple because the bride continuously rejected Lor's designs because Lor did not live up to the Tiffany & Co. design the bride wanted.
Lor is adamant that she does not do copies of designer rings as it is her duty to translate the couple's story and "materialize that desire" into the most extraordinary wedding band.
There are two categories within Unique Wedding Bands, which are Unique Message Band or The Inspired Band.
The former is crafted to articulate the secret message between the couple, which Lor describes as "a meaningful whisper of love" whilst the latter designs are constructed "to suit the couple's beautiful union".
The materials and gems are decided by Lor based on the couple's budget and from her deduction of the story.
The rings will usually be in white or yellow gold in either 9K, 12K or 18K and if gems are used, couples can expect either diamonds or genuine precious stones.
For Muslim men who don't wear gold for religious reasons, Lor makes Suasa rings with a touch of modern white, instead of the conventional reddish colour metal.
Lor, who does everything from designing to the making of the rings, always take functionality into account since the couple will be wearing the rings everyday. "I will not compromise on comfort," she says. |
Bags of joy from Merijn Hos, the Utrecht-based illustrator who can liven up the dullest of briefs. Merijn Hos is a visual artist living and working in Utrecht. Although he creates joyful, bonkers illustrative work for unlikely clients such as Bose, Red Bull, Google, The Guardian and Keds among others, Merijn is also renowned for his beautiful wooden sculptures sold as pieces of art to his ever-growing fanbase. His curious, optimistic characters and passion for mixed-media are testament to Merijn's ability to make every brief as important as the last, and treat every commission with the same respect and attention as his personal work. |
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