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File – People walk below an In-N-Out Burger restaurant sign in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly…
File – People walk below an In-N-Out Burger restaurant sign in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a slow-growing economy. Much of the growth came in education and health care, and a category made up mostly of restaurants, hotels, and entertainment firms. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the November jobs report
by: PAUL WISEMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly nine months, the Federal Reserve has relentlessly raised interest rates to try to slow the U.S. job market and bring inflation under control.
And for just as long, the job market hasn’t seemed to get the message.
The November employment report the government issued Friday was no exception. Employers added 263,000 jobs — a substantial gain that was far above economists’ expectations. Wages rose robustly, too, further intensifying the inflationary pressures the Fed has been struggling to contain.
And the unemployment rate remained at 3.7%, barely above the half-century low of 3.5%.
Friday’s hiring data left economists scratching their heads over the job market’s resilience and the continuing need of many employers for more workers.
“The Fed is tightening monetary policy, but somebody forgot to tell the labor market,’’ said Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings.
The Fed’s inflation challenge began after the economy roared back from the pandemic recession two years ago, causing vast shortages of goods and sending prices soaring. After assuming — falsely — for months that high inflation would prove short-lived, the Fed finally began raising its key short-term rate in March this year.
Since then, its rate hikes have been recurrent and aggressive. The Fed has raised its benchmark rate six times, including four straight increases of three-quarters of a point — far larger than the usual quarter-point hikes. Later this month, it’s expected to raise its key rate by an additional half-point.
Because the Fed’s rate affects borrowing rates across the economy, its hikes have had the effect of making loans much costlier for consumers and businesses. The idea is that individuals and companies would then cut back on borrowing and spending, and employers would slow their hiring.
But the economy — and especially the job market — have proved surprisingly durable in the face of the Fed’s anti-inflation campaign, a fact underscored by Friday’s strong jobs numbers.
The central bank’s goal is to achieve 2% annual inflation. It has a long way to go, to say the least: The most recent inflation report showed consumer prices up 7.7% from a year earlier.
Here are five takeaways from the November jobs report:
TOO HOT FOR THE FED
Last year, the economy added a record 6.7 million jobs, and it tacked on an average of 457,000 a month more from January through July this year. Since then, hiring has cooled, to a monthly average of 277,000 from August through November. Yet it’s still running way too hot for the Fed’s inflation fighters and is consistently beating forecasters’ expectations.
With nearly two job openings for every unemployed American, companies are struggling to find workers and retain the ones they have. A tight job market tends to keep upward pressure on wages and to feed into inflation.
“This is another solid report that shows just how difficult it is going to be for the Fed to get inflation back to target,’’ economists Thomas Simons and Aneta Markowska of the investment banking firm Jefferies wrote in a research note Friday.
RISING WAGES
Average hourly earnings rose 0.6% from October to November — the strongest month-to-month gain since January. And measured over the past 12 months, average pay was up a more-than-expected 5.1%,
“We had been hoping to see a clear softening,’’ said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Hourly pay gains were especially strong in November for workers in retail, transportation and warehousing and “information,’’ a category that includes some technology jobs.
“Wage growth is likely to continue to remain elevated until we see a meaningful normalization in labor demand,’’ said Thomas Feltmate, senior economist at TD Economics.
HELP WANTED: RESTAURANTS AND BARS
Restaurants and bars added 62,000 jobs last month. The healthcare industry took on a net 45,000 new workers in November. That sector has been adding 47,000 jobs a month this year, up from an average of just 9,000 a month in 2021.
Factories added 14,000 jobs in November. That gain occurred even though an index issued by the Institute for Supply Management showed that U.S. manufacturing activity fell last month for the first time since May 2020, when the economy was reeling from the COVID-10 outbreak.
Last month, the economy also added 20,000 construction workers. But in a sign that higher interest rates are squeezing the housing market, the number of employees at homebuilding companies actually fell in November by 2,600.
MISSING WORKERS
The number of people who either have a job or are looking for one — the total labor force — declined by 186,000 in November. It was the third straight monthly drop.
The figure remains slightly below where it stood in February 2020, just before COVID slammed into the U.S. economy. The proportion of the adult population in the labor force — the participation rate — amounted to 62.1% last month, well below the pre-pandemic 63.4%.
The shortfall in available workers has been caused by a combination of early retirements, reduced immigration, COVID-19 deaths and a shortage of affordable child care. The shortage represents a setback in the fight against inflation: If employers had more workers to choose from, they would be under less pressure to bid up wages and thereby contribute to inflation pressures.
TWO SURVEYS, TWO STORIES
Friday’s report sent some mixed signals about the level of employment in the United States.
The Labor Department’s survey of businesses delivered the headline number of 263,000 added jobs. But the department also surveyed households, and they told a different story: The number of people who said they had a job fell by 138,000 in November after having dropped by 328,000 in October.
The survey of businesses, called the “establishment survey,” tracks how many jobs are added across the economy. The separate survey of households is used to calculate the unemployment rate.
The two surveys sometimes tell different tales, as they did in October and November, though the disparities tend to even out over time.
For its establishment survey, the department asks mostly large companies and government agencies how many people they had on their payrolls.
For its household survey, it asks households whether the adults living there have a job. Those who don’t have a job but are looking for one are counted as unemployed. Those who aren’t working but aren’t seeking work are not counted as unemployed.
Unlike the establishment survey, the household survey counts farm workers, the self-employed and people who work for new companies. It also does a better job of capturing small-business hiring.
But the results of the household survey are likely less precise. The government surveys just 60,000 households. By contrast, it surveys 131,000 businesses and government agencies for the establishment survey. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7822385430335999, "wiki_prob": 0.7822385430335999, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1582585"} |
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Using AI to Eliminate Bias from Hiring
AI could eliminate unconscious bias and sort through candidates in a fair way.
Frida Polli
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AI holds the greatest promise for eliminating bias in hiring for two primary reasons. It can eliminate unconscious human bias, and it can assess the entire pipeline of candidates rather than forcing time-constrained humans to implement biased processes to shrink the pipeline from the start.
Like any new technology, artificial intelligence is capable of immensely good or bad outcomes. The public seems increasingly focused on the bad, especially when it comes to the potential for bias in AI. This concern is both well-founded and well-documented. But what is AI? It is the simulation of human processes by machines. This fear of biased AI ignores a critical fact: The deepest-rooted source of bias in AI is the human behavior it is simulating. It is the biased data set used to train the algorithm. If you don’t like what the AI is doing, you definitely won’t like what humans are doing because AI is purely learning from humans.
Let’s focus on hiring. The status quo of hiring is deeply flawed and quite frankly dystopian for three primary reasons.
Unconscious human bias makes hiring unfair. The typical way of reviewing applicants prior to an interview is through recruiters reviewing résumés. Numerous studies have shown this process leads to significant unconscious bias against women, minorities and older workers.
Large pools of applicants are being ignored. LinkedIn and other sourcing platforms have been so successful that, on average, 250 applicants apply for any open role. This translates into millions of applicants for a few thousand open roles. This process obviously cannot be handled manually. So, recruiters limit their review of the applicant pool to the 10% to 20% they think will show most promise: those coming from Ivy League campuses, passive candidates from competitors of the companies seeking to fill positions, or employee-referral programs. But guess what? Top colleges and employee-referral programs are much less diverse than the broader pool of applicants submitting résumés.
Traditional hiring tools are already biased. This is permitted by a loophole in U.S. law: Federal regulations state that a hiring tool can be biased if it is job-related. “Job-related” means that the people who are successful in a role show certain characteristics. But if all “successful employees” are white men, due to a history of biased human hiring practices, then it is almost certain that your job-related hiring assessment will bias towards white men and against women and minorities. An African American woman from a non-Ivy League college who is lucky enough to become part of the pipeline, whose résumé is reviewed, and who passes the human recruiter evaluating her résumé may then be asked to take a biased assessment.
Is it any wonder we struggle to hire a diverse workforce? What has led to today’s chronic lack of diversity, and what will continue to stunt diversity, are the human paradigms in place today, not AI.
AI holds the greatest promise for eliminating bias in hiring for two primary reasons:
1. AI can eliminate unconscious human bias. Many current AI tools for recruiting have flaws, but they can be addressed. A beauty of AI is that we can design it to meet certain beneficial specifications. A movement among AI practitioners like OpenAI and the Future of Life Institute is already putting forth a set of design principles for making AI ethical and fair (i.e., beneficial to everyone). One key principle is that AI should be designed so it can be audited and the bias found in it can be removed. An AI audit should function just like the safety testing of a new car before someone drives it. If standards are not met, the defective technology must be fixed before it is allowed into production.
2. AI can assess the entire pipeline of candidates rather than forcing time-constrained humans to implement biased processes to shrink the pipeline from the start. Only by using a truly automated top-of-funnel process can we eliminate the bias due to shrinking the initial pipeline so the capacity of the manual recruiter can handle it. It is shocking that companies today unabashedly admit how only a small portion of the millions of applicants who apply are ever reviewed. Technologists and lawmakers should work together to create tools and policies that make it both possible and mandatory for the entire pipeline to be reviewed.
Additionally, this focus on AI fairness should have us evaluate existing pre-hire assessments with the same standards. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) wrote the existing fair-hiring regulations in the 1970s — before the advent of the public internet and the explosion in the number of people applying for each job. The EEOC didn’t anticipate modern algorithms that are less biased than humans yet also able to evaluate a much larger, more diverse pipeline. We need to update and clarify these regulations to truly encourage equal opportunity in hiring and allow for the use of algorithmic recruiting systems that meet clear criteria. Some precedents for standards have already occurred. The California State Assembly passed a resolution to use unbiased technology to promote diversity in hiring, and the San Francisco DA is using “blind sentencing” AI in criminal justice proceedings.
The same standards should be applied to existing hiring tools. Amazon was nationally lambasted for months due to its male-biased hiring algorithm. Yet in the United States today, employers are legally allowed to use traditional, biased assessments that discriminate against women or minorities. How can this be? Probably because most people are unaware that biased assessments are prominently used (and legal). If we are going to call for unbiased AI — which we absolutely should — we should also call for the elimination of all biased traditional assessments.
It is impossible to correct human bias, but it is demonstrably possible to identify and correct bias in AI. If we take critical steps to address the concerns that are being raised, we can truly harness technology to diversify the workplace.
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As a kid, the only country that my family spoke about was the one they emigrated from. Because of that, the only traveling we did was a highly anticipated trip to the keys if my dad was working on a house there. I didn’t think it was financially possible for us to go anywhere. For a while it wasn’t, but even when we were comfortable: my parents just wanted to feel like true Americans. To them this meant buying expensive things they thought Americans needed such as a pool or a giant barbecue. I’m learning in one of my global courses now that this constant urge to further assimilate is a burden every exile carries with them their whole life. I sometimes wish I could convince them to open up to different experiences because they truly deserve it.
However, my interest in traveling kept growing as I saw more and more places on the internet and I realized I could not be in a bubble all my life. Work, school, eat, sleep,repeat. So I decided when I went to college that If I could find an opportunity to travel and live somewhere different for some time on my own, I would. I joined the Honors college with the intentions of traveling abroad through them. The day I went to the informational session, I went home and I told my partner that I was going without a doubt. I chose France because it’s rich in art and history, and I hope that this inspires me to write more. Along with allowing me to meet new people so that I can continue to learn more about the human experience. The projects intertwine our experiences with those of people who lived entirely different lives than us, I couldn’t imagine a better way to learn history.
The last time I went to Paris about a year ago in the winter, I cried while looking at the Eiffel Tower (like a loser) for a couple of reasons. 1) I wished my parents could be there seeing it with me. 2) It was New Year’s Day and what a better time to be cheesy 3) I kept thinking about the atrocious Eiffel Tower poster I had hung up in my room for about 3 years. It was bedazzled and my friends took pictures in front of it because it was the most terrible drawing I’ve ever seen of the Eiffel Tower. Will try to attach that photo if I find it. Anyways, I couldn’t understand it then but now I realize that was one of those moments that alters you, because I felt like I needed to go somewhere else again soon. I love traveling and I wasn’t sure where to start exactly but this is where I’m at right now. I’m excited to see myself surpass a lot of limitations that have daunted me before such as my anxiety and having to financially plan myself out. Luckily, there is a scholarship for this very reason and I now find myself even more assured that I made the right decision in choosing to go.
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गृहपृष्ठ ∕ Opinion ∕ Is SPP chapter really closed in Nepal?
Is SPP chapter really closed in Nepal?
Shristi Kafle August 14, 2022
The United States’ State Partnership Program (SPP) controversy surfaced in Nepal in June. The so-called SPP is a joint project led by the Pentagon to promote the communication between the US National Guard and “partner countries” in the fields of security cooperation and humanitarian relief.
The Nepali Army denied its involvement in the military program immediately, though later, there was an exposure of formal communication through a letter. It exposed failure of military diplomacy and created some sort of mistrust against the body.
Some analysts believe that since Nepal borders two giant economies, and stands in a critically important geopolitical point, it is important for Nepal to think of its own security interest first as it cannot ignore or undermine the sensitiveness. Each decision should be taken in the best interest of the country.
The SPP program is not just under controversy but became an issue of debate in Nepal’s political and public circles. It is generally believed that the SPP will push Nepal to Indo-Pacific Trap and cause serious consequences.
Prof. Dr Yubaraj Sangroula, whose research area includes international relation and foreign policy, is of view that Nepal’s response to SPP since 2019 is dubious. He opines that since nationalist intellectuals are emerging in Nepal strongly, they believe that having good relations with China does not affect Nepal’s relations with India, US or others. The Nepali political parties in power are making mistakes by nearing themselves to Indo-Pacific through SPP,” Sangroula comments.
Such voices have widely circulated amid suspicions, even after the government claimed it will not take forward the program. “This program can invite war as it threatens our own and neighbors’ security… all the cautious Nepali public and justice supporters should protest such dangerous program,” says Prem Suwal, a leader from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and a Member of Parliament.
The need of an hour is not to forge a country-specific military alliance, but to have a balanced foreign policy that could contribute in protection and promotion of national interest and welfare. But a key question remains, is Nepal ready? However, questions have aroused whether the current Nepali Congress-led government, often accused as having a pro-west attitude, has really scrapped the deal or has only pushed it for time being.
Analysts are of view that since there is no reported use of words like cancel or scrap in the decision made by the Nepali side, there are rooms for doubts. Nepali Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka had briefed the Parliament that the decision was communicated to the US side through a letter via diplomatic channels on July 25. However, while questions were asked about the exact content of that letter, he shared that it couldn’t be shared publicly as it might create mistrust.
Many opine that chances are high that leaders might have pushed it until the upcoming federal and provincial elections slated for November, or could even accept it under the different names or programs. This narrative could be evidence less, but there are enough rooms to question on real intentions and hidden interests, they shared.
Its not a new phenomenon as a request letter signed by the then Chief of Army Staff General Rajendra Chhetri was leaked which clearly was a Nepali request to be a part of the US program back in 2015, and later in 2017. Following the circulation of document all over social media, the Nepal government was under huge public pressure to not to take it forward.
There were a series of blame games, accusations and vague communication leading to controversies. Yubaraj Ghimire, a senior Nepali journalist, is of view that though SPP chapter is closed for now, but the US’s interest in similar field will remain.
“Nepal should be clearly adhering to its non-aligned policy and should not provoke any country in neighborhood and far away to suspect the motive behind any such deals in future,” he remarked.
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Microsoft & Meta Partner to Integrate Teams and Workplace for Easier Collaboration
Competing Social Software Giants Offer Customer-Requested Consolidation of the Two Applications’ Best Features
Workplace stated in May 2021 that it has reached a milestone of 7 million paying members. Microsoft similarly revealed later that July that its Teams platform had 250 million unique monthly users.
Users will be able to link Workplace with Microsoft Teams thanks to a collaboration launched by Meta, previously recognized as Facebook.
The collaboration between Meta and Microsoft is essentially a coming together of two of the industry’s biggest rivals in the business communication software sector.
The alliance could become particularly useful to Meta, whose Workplace offering has a far lower user base than competing companies.
Meta, the social conglomerate previously known as Facebook, established a collaboration with Microsoft on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 that allows clients to connect Meta’s Workplace social networking application with Microsoft Teams software. With 7 million paying subscribers using Workplace and 250 million people using Microsoft Teams, the collab has enormous potential in the enterprise communication space.
While Meta and Microsoft have partnered to unite two competitors in the business communication software industry, Meta’s Workplace and Microsoft Teams don’t completely overlap. Teams is centered on rapid communication among employees and their immediate coworkers, whereas Workplace is concentrated on large, company-wide interactions.
Clients may now access Workplace data from within the Teams application. Users may also watch video conferences from Teams on the Workplace application. Customers on both platforms can participate in conferences hosted on the other app without having to switch to that platform. For example, they can comment, reply with emojis, and interact in other ways without having to toggle between communication applications.
Ujjwal Singh, Workplace’s Head of Product, says of the integration, “[This] will make it easier for people who use both tools for work to keep up to date with information and create even more opportunities for company-wide engagement. The way our customers end up using it is customers use the complementary features, not the competing features,” he continues. “There are customers that are just Workplace shops, and then there are customers that are just Teams shops. This is really for those customers that use both.”
The connectivity will be especially useful for clients who utilize Workplace for daily tasks but use Microsoft Teams as their primary enterprise communications technology. This partnership makes the most sense for Meta because it enables users to access content in Workplace and import that data to other places where they invest the majority of their time. According to Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst at CCS Insight, “by surfacing the newsfeed in Teams, Workplace can continue to reach those employees, while allowing comms and HR leaders to retain control over the communications and employee engagement platform strategy.”
Tools that facilitate remote work continue to gain traction as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, and both Microsoft and Meta are reportedly developing deeper VR-based remote work solutions. This agreement reaffirms both organizations’ commitment to working remotely and accelerates Meta’s objective of creating a metaverse that delivers a completely immersive virtual environment. The move cements long-standing collaboration with other platforms, as Microsoft and Meta clients have already been able to link Workplace with Google’s OneDrive, SharePoint, and the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
The Head of 365 Collaboration for Microsoft Jeff Taper says, “One thing I’ve learned is there’s not going to be a one and only one communications tool on the planet.” He continued, summarizing that remote and brick-and-mortar office workers will toggle between several different tools to achieve maximum efficiency and productivity. The partnership between Microsoft and Meta shows promise in leading the way for competing tools to find ways for clients to integrate their work between applications and spend less time switching back and forth. Expect to see other large applications used in remote work to follow suit.
As far as the future of the collaboration is concerned, Singh has high hopes. “I would say we’re best in class around community, connection, people first and serving all employees,” he says. “Teams is arguably best in class around productivity, so this is really two best-in-class products coming together to solve an employee-experience problem.”
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Now that legislation to address insufficient reimbursement has debuted in the House of Representatives, the American Association for Homecare is calling on industry stakeholders to aid in the effort to get co-sponsors for the bill.
Earlier this week, Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) launched H.R. 6641, aka The DMEPOS Relief Act of 2022, which would apply 90/10 blended Medicare reimbursement for items in the 13 product categories CMS did not award contracts for in Round 2021 of competitive bidding. The increased rates would apply to claims from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2023.
Initial lobbying prior to the bill’s release helped secure Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Fred Keller (R-Pa.), Frank Mrvan (D-Ind.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) as original co-sponsors. The effort to drive more co-sponsors is underway.
“As with our efforts to secure original co-sponsors, a brief, personally drafted email to your Representative’s staffer who deals with health care issues is the most effective initial step you can take in this process,” a statement from AAHomecare read. “If you had previously reached out to your legislator to ask that they join as an original co-sponsor, you can simply forward your earlier email adding that the bill has been dropped (including bill number and name) and asking that their office sign on as a co-sponsor.”
To help HME advocates, the association has posted resources and messaging, as well as an updated Issue Brief to its Campaign Central page. Additionally, AAHomecare’s Action Center lets providers send a pre-drafted message to lawmakers.
“This legislation gives us an opportunity to bring Medicare reimbursements rates closer in line with the market realities facing the HME industry,” AHomecare’s statement read. “AAHomecare will continue to provide intelligence, messaging, and motivation to help the HME community make its strongest grassroots push to date — and we need everyone on board. The game is on! It’s time to fight, and it’s time to win!”
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The BIG List of Pre-Workout Supplements
October 9, 2018 By Faust Leave a Comment
Our big list of pre-workout supplements contains practical ingredients to boost endurance and reduce muscle damage during exercise.
In general, pre-workout supplements can improve overall physical and mental performance during a workout. Active men and women from endurance athletes to yogis to bodybuilders can use pre-workout supplements for optimum performance and damage-prevention while training.
However, some of us don’t know enough about pre-workout ingredients to get started. As a result, this list will explain various high-quality pre-workout ingredients and their benefits.
Pre-workout supplements offer a wide variety of benefits to help you achieve your fitness results faster. Moreover, considering how you tend to engage in which physical activities will help you determine the right pre-workout ingredients for you.
Here are the different types of pre-workout ingredients often present in pre-workout supplements:
Physical performance enhancers
Nootropics or cognitive enhancers
Vasodilators (Nitric Oxide enhancers) to improve blood circulation
Adaptogens to help the mind and body cope up with stress
Muscle recovery support
The following list of pre-workout ingredients will help you choose the ideal pre-workout formula designed to suit your unique physical activity. These supplements can help you experience maximum gains and fat loss during exercise.
And if you’re looking for specific brands and products, check out our reviews of the best pre-workout supplements of 2018 designed for all types of fitness lovers.
Agmatine Sulfate
Alpha GPC – Highly Recommended
Baking Soda – Highly Recommended
Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs)
Beetroot – Highly Recommended
Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)
Creatine – Highly Recommended
Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus Senticosus)
Ginseng (Panax ginseng)
Grains of Paradise (Afromomum melegueta)
Huperzine-A
Isomaltulose – Highly Recommended
Nitric Oxide (NO)
Rauwolscine
Rhodiola rosea – Highly Recommended
Cobalamin (Vitamin B12)
Yohimbine (Pausinystalia johimbe)
Agmatine Sulfate is a compound that comes from arginine. It is naturally present in different tissues and organs in the human body. This pre-workout ingredient primarily helps with proper blood circulation by increasing nitric oxide levels and supporting proper brain function.
In addition, it even acts as a nootropic for neuromodulation. The best thing about agmatine sulfate as a pre-workout is that it is an adaptogen that helps the body cope with stress.
Seeing as stress also occurs during and after intense exercise, this compound may be very helpful. However, more research should be done on it as a pre-workout specifically to determine its effect on maximum gains.
Soy Lecithin By Mx. Granger [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Alpha GPC is a high-quality pre-workout ingredient with multiple health benefits. It comes primarily from soy lecithin, which is easily absorbed by the body.
Not only is alpha GPC good for the body, but it’s good for the brain. It’s a known nootropic ingredient that helps with overall brain health and cognition while supporting the muscles during a workout, especially during resistance training.
In addition, alpha GPC is an ideal source of choline for the brain. Choline is then converted into acetylcholine. And the muscles need acetylcholine for contraction.
Moreover, acetylcholine can enhance growth hormone (GH) production, which is essential for muscle growth, fat loss and bone density maintenance. However, the scientific research and clinical trials involving alpha GPC are mostly funded by a dietary supplement company. So research supporting the effects of it may be biased. Just keep that in mind.
Arginine is a semi-essential amino acid often found in various pre-workout supplements. It promotes blood circulation to enhance muscle performance during workouts and reduce post-workout muscle recovery time.
This is primarily because arginine increases nitric oxide (NO) in the body. Arginine can also heighten energy levels by increasing creatine in the muscles by about 1-2%.
This is a significant number during an intense workout wherein energy is most essential. In addition, arginine may even increase growth hormone (GH) levels.
Astragalus is a famous Chinese herb that acts as an adaptogen during exercise. It’s a pre-workout supplement because it can increase muscle endurance during exercise. It’s also a potent antioxidant.
However, it may be more effective when combined with other pre-workout supplements. In addition, the effects of astragalus have only been confirmed in animal studies thus far.
Baking Soda By Mehmet Delice [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Athletes who ingest baking soda as a pre-workout regimen call it “soda doping.” But why on earth do they do this?
You see, baking soda is an alkaline compound with a pH of 9. This means it can prevent lactic acid build up in the muscles, which may help prevent or minimize post-workout muscle pain or fatigue.
Since baking soda can prevent muscle fatigue, it may also prolong endurance during a workout. Moreover, baking soda is an adaptogen that helps the cells adjust to intense physical activity and prevent performance decline in athletes.
Overall, clinical trials on baking soda as a pre-workout are promising. Not to mention, it’s a cheap and readily available pre-workout product.
Branched Chain Amino Acids or BCAAs are composed of all 3 essential amino acids including isoleucine, leucine and valine. These amino acids are grouped together to form a branched-chain, hence their name.
For one, BCAAs are essential for healthy body function. And we must replenish them daily since the body cannot store them. However, additional BCAA supplementation before a workout may also improve muscle growth and recovery by promoting muscle protein synthesis during the workout.
On the other hand, arguments against BCAA supplementation suggest we don’t need BCAA supplements because we can get them from common foods. As such, BCAA supplementation may be unnecessary for some; but it’s still essential for many, especially low protein dieters.
Overall, BCAAs are effective pre-workout supplements for fat loss and muscle maintenance because they can protect the muscles from damage during exercise. In addition, low protein dieters are more prone to malnutrition and muscle loss, which they can prevent with a BCAA pre-workout supplement.
Beetroot By Susan Slater [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Beetroot is a common vegetable we can easily get from daily foods or beverages. But, did you know it’s a great pre-workout ingredient, too?
It’s true, beetroot is considered a superfood because of its exceptional nutritional value. It provides the body with essential vitamins and minerals, contributing to wholesome nutrition and overall physical performance.
The nitrate content of beetroot is the primary reason for its effectiveness as a pre-workout ingredient. Nitrate can lower the oxygen requirement of the muscles during exercise.
This improves muscle efficiency and endurance during the workout. In addition, beetroot is easily absorbed by the body, making it an ideal pre-workout ingredient for any physical activity.
Beta-Alanine is naturally found in the body just like any other amino acid. However non-essential, it can also be obtained from food or dietary supplements.
In addition, beta-alanine is an effective pre-workout ingredient that can improve muscle performance and endurance. Primarily, it helps by supporting carnosine synthesis in the muscles. Carnosine has also shown to have anti-aging properties in animal studies.
Improving muscle performance and endurance can be very beneficial during resistance training, bodybuilding and endurance sports. Though relatively new, beta-alanine is a common ingredient in modern-day pre-workout supplements for this reason.
Actually, it’s often compared to creatine since they both offer similar effects as pre-workout supplements. However, beta-alanine elevates muscle carnosine levels somewhat slower than creatine.
Betaine is an effective pre-workout supplement and nootropic found in food, beverages and dietary supplements. It can help us gain muscle, lose fat and enhance cognitive performance.
Betaine is an ideal dietary supplement for the body and mind. The effectiveness of betaine as a pre-workout is due to its involvement in some important body functions.
For one, betaine is part of the methionine cycle. It is a methyl donor that supports the production of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM). S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) helps the body produce amino acids and protein to enhance muscle performance during a workout.
In addition, betaine can lower homocysteine levels to improve overall health. All in all, betaine is a solid pre-workout supplement and nootropic for the brain.
Coffee Beans By Michal Jarmoluk (jarmoluk) [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Caffeine is another popular pre-workout supplement. It’s popular because it’s a stimulant that can improve cognition and initiate fat loss.
For example, caffeine can enhance energy levels for optimum physical and mental performance. We can get it from beverages like coffee and tea as well as dietary supplements.
Here are the primary pre-workout benefits of caffeine:
Increases physical and mental energy
Improves endurance for more repetitions during a workout
Enhances alertness and reaction time, which is essential for certain sports
Helps burn fat
Supports positive mood
Reduces post-workout fatigue
All things considered, caffeine is an efficient pre-workout regimen that works well with other pre-workout ingredients. Not to mention, there’s a ton of clinical research to back up its effects.
However, caffeine can elicit negative side effects when taken in excess. Keep in mind that everyone is different and your sensitivity to caffeine may differ greatly from others.
Citrulline Malate is a promising pre-workout supplement. It can improve anaerobic exercise performance by detoxifying the body and removing ammonia.
In addition, citrulline malate is converted by the body into the semi-essential amino acid arginine. Arginine acts as a precursor for the synthesis of nitric oxide, ornithine, polyamines, agmatine, proline, glutamate, creatine, dimethylarginine, and urea.
Specifically, citrulline malate may enhance muscle performance during exercise with its detoxifying abilities. It can also help prevent or minimize post-workout fatigue when used as a pre-workout supplement. Moreover, citrulline malate may even increase testosterone, which might help increase muscle mass even more (even for women).
Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is present in meat, dairy products and pre-workout supplements. This fatty acid can potentially increase fat loss while supporting muscle growth.
Due to this effect with unknown origins, conjugated linoleic acid is often present in dietary supplements. In addition, CLA can increase energy levels to further enhance workout performance. Research is still its early stages, but this pre-workout ingredient may be ideal for those who want to lose fat and increase muscle mass at the same time.
Cordyceps sinensis By Rafti Institute at English Wikipedia [Attribution or CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons
Cordyceps has been used in traditional Chinese and Tibetan medicine for ages. It’s a group of fungi that may ameliorate certain immune system disorders, support liver function and improve overall health.
As a pre-workout regimen, cordyceps can enhance endurance and help prevent or minimize post-workout fatigue. This effect may be due to its ability to improve energy production in the liver in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
However, research supporting the benefits of cordyceps as a pre-workout supplement is limited at this point. Further research should be done to confirm its effect as a pre-workout supplement.
Creatine is naturally present in the bodies of humans and animals. It has many functions, especially during intense physical activity.
For example, creatine supplementation provides energy for the muscles in short boosts, which can be really helpful for endurance athletes, bodybuilders, powerlifters and more. The following list contains the known benefits of creatine for fitness junkies:
Boosts muscle energy levels during anaerobic exercise
Increases muscle mass and strength
Supports post-workout recovery
Helps prevent muscle damage due to exercise or lack of sleep
Enhances cognition
Reduces oxidative stress in the brain
As you may know, creatine is one of the most popular pre-workout supplements on the market today. This may have something to do with the numerous clinical trials that confirm its benefits.
In addition, clinical trials show creatine has no significant adverse effects with short-term usage. So overall, creatine is a high-quality, safe and effective pre-workout supplement for any form of exercise.
Eleuthero is an adaptogen that comes from a medicinal woody shrub native to Northeast Asia. Its effects are actually quite similar to Panax ginseng. Hence why it is nicknamed Tibetan ginseng despite the lack of relation between the two medicinal herbs.
User reports state that using eleuthero as a pre-workout supplement can increase muscle endurance during exercise and reduce the effects of stress on the immune system. However, clinical trials on eleuthero supplementation remain conflicting and inconsistent.
Panax ginseng By User:Lohrie [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Ginseng is a famous herbal medicine, adaptogen and aphrodisiac found all over the world. But did you know ginseng can be used as a pre-workout ingredient?
The herb ginseng not only helps improve physical performance, but it helps improve cognition. Not to mention, we can experience general health benefits from ginseng with or without exercise.
The popularity of ginseng as a dietary supplement may be due to the following benefits:
Improves cardiac function and blood circulation
Enhances cognition and brain health
Speeds up post-workout recovery
Reduces fatigue
Despite the known health benefits of ginseng, clinical trials have not specifically demonstrated the effects of it as a pre-workout supplement. Nevertheless, it’s been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years and may make a great addition to a pre-workout regimen.
Glycerol is a triglyceride that isn’t well-known as a workout supplement. However, it is often present in workout formulas to prevent dehydration during intense exercise.
Specifically, glycerol may boost muscle strength and endurance when taken pre-workout. It may also speed up metabolism and help with thermoregulation during exercise. However, controlled clinical trials on glycerol as a pre-workout remain conflicting and inconsistent.
Grains of Paradise are members of the ginger family. They are a West African folk medicine that can help prevent or alleviate cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and pancreatic problems.
However, recent clinical trials confirm grains of paradise can be an effective pre-workout supplement as well. Research suggests they can increase energy expenditure and reduce abdominal body fat in humans. All in all, grains of paradise are a high-quality pre-workout supplement with additional overall health benefits.
Huperzine-A molecular structure model By Jynto [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Huperzine-A comes from a clubmoss species called huperzia serrata, which is also a nootropic. Huperzia serrata has been part of traditional Chinese medicine for several centuries. However, it is relatively new as a pre-workout ingredient. Nevertheless, it seems promising so far.
As a pre-workout supplement, huperzine-A may increase physical and brain energy. It may also protect us from oxidative stress and muscle injury during intense exercise.
Hence, it is also safe to consider Huperzine-A an adaptogen. Overall, huperzine-A may be a good pre-workout supplement for the body and mind.
Isomaltulose is a healthier alternative to standard table sugar. It has fat-burning properties that support weight-loss by forcing the body to use fat as a source of energy.
Ultimately, isomaltulose allows for more fat loss during exercise. However, research demonstrates it can actually burn fat with or without exercise.
In the end, isomaltulose is a healthy source of sugar and energy that promotes fat oxidation. Plus, it may improve muscle endurance and exercise performance. Not to mention, it actually tastes good, unlike most pre-workout medicinal herbs.
Leucine is an essential branched-chain amino acid and a precursor to protein. Research suggests that leucine can enhance muscle strength, endurance and development during exercise while promoting recovery post-workout.
We can get leucine from various foods as well as dietary supplements. In addition, leucine pre-workout supplementation might be especially effective for those on hypocaloric diets and working weight-loss programs that support the muscles.
Nitric Oxide (NO) plays a vital role in vasodilation to enhance blood circulation. However, various different pre-workout ingredients can boost nitric oxide levels. So is direct nitric oxide supplementation necessary?
Most pre-workout supplements combine nitric oxide with other herbal ingredients that can raise nitric oxide levels. NO can increase the oxygen supply to the muscles by promoting blood circulation. It can even increase muscle pumps for bodybuilders and the like.
However, nitric oxide supplementation might be unnecessary for powerlifters, sprinters and athletes involved in short, high-intensity movements and anaerobic exercise.
Rauwolscine Chemical Structure By Edgar181 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Rauwolscine is one of the best pre-workout supplements for weight-loss because it can improve mood while burning fat. Its chemical structure is very similar to yohimbine, which is another popular fat burner and aphrodisiac.
Here are the benefits of rauwolscine when taken as a pre-workout supplement:
Supports cardiovascular health by regulating blood pressure and blood circulation
Promotes fat loss
Potentially boosts adrenaline levels
Induces the feeling of satiety
Improves mood
On the other hand, research on rauwolscine as a pre-workout regimen is limited in terms of human clinical trials to date. However, animal trials are promising.
Rhodiola rosea is a high-quality adaptogen and nootropic found in Eurasia and North America. It can combat the detrimental effects of stress on the body and mind.
As a pre-workout supplement, Rhodiola rosea can boost energy and increase endurance. It might increase testosterone levels, too. This further supports increases in muscle mass and strength, especially with resistance training.
Overall, Rhodiola rosea is a great pre-workout supplement to ameliorate muscle fatigue during and after intense training. It is also an effective nootropic that may increase motivation and focus for a workout.
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Salt is an important mineral that supports our most essential physiological functions in the body. Active men and women like to consume it in supplements before a workout to prevent electrolyte imbalance during exercise.
Here are the benefits of salt for athletes and gym rats during exercise:
Regulates blood circulation and blood pressure
Supports muscle function and enhances muscle performance
Helps prevent muscle fatigue
Prevents hyponatremia, decreased performance, heat cramps, or other heat-related illnesses
Maintains cell membrane potential to minimize the effect of hypotonic solutions to the cells
Maintains electrolyte balance
Improves nutrient transport and absorption on a cellular level
Sports beverages and other supplements often contain salt to help hydrate active men and women during and after a workout. Intense physical activity increases sweat rates, which leads to a loss of fluids and sodium. We must replenish such sodium and fluids throughout a workout to keep us hydrated.
Moreover, not only is salt a practical pre-workout ingredient, it is ideal for post-workout recovery as well. As it turns out, replenishing the body and muscles with the proper nutrients before, during and after a workout can help us maintain energy and reduce recovery times all together.
Taurine is an abundant amino acid responsible for cellular fluid balance, fat loss and muscle protection in the body. It may also be a great adaptogen that helps the body combat oxidative stress during exercise.
As a pre-workout regimen, taurine can prevent muscle damage during exercise and improve anaerobic exercise performance. Research suggests taurine may also be able to increase muscle power. Overall, taurine is an ideal pre-workout supplement for powerlifters, sprinters and other athletes involved in anaerobic exercises.
Dark chocolate is a common source of theobromine. Dark Chocolate Bars By John Loo (Flickr: Chocolate) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Theobromine is a mild stimulant primarily found in cocoa beans. Its structure is similar to caffeine. However, theobromine has less potential side effects.
All in all, theobromine is an effective pre-workout ingredient and nootropic. It has antioxidant properties and can enhance blood circulation, increase bronchodilation, regulate blood pressure and improve mood.
In addition, theobromine lasts for up to 10 hours and is easily absorbed by the body. However, scientists should do further research to verify its effects.
Vitamin B12 or cobalamin is an essential vitamin that helps the body convert food into energy. In other words, it increases energy production and cell synthesis.
The body cannot produce cobalamin on its own. Hence, we must get it from food or dietary supplements like pre-workout supplements or multivitamins.
Luckily, most pre-workout supplements contain cobalamin to help active people increase energy levels prior to working out. Overall, cobalamin or vitamin B12 is a solid pre-workout vitamin that can boost energy for better performance during exercise.
Vitamin C is one of the most popular vitamins and antioxidants on the market today. We can get it from natural sources like fruits and vegetables or from dietary supplements and beverages.
As a pre-workout supplement, vitamin C can help reduce post-workout muscle soreness. It is an essential vitamin for healthy bones, blood vessels, teeth, and other tissues.
In addition, it’s essential for immunity and the prevention of certain diseases caused by vitamin C deficiencies. However, vitamin C supplementation may also decrease training efficiency by preventing certain cellular adaptations that are meant to occur during exercise.
This means too much vitamin C before a workout might not be good for endurance athletes and the like. On the other hand, pre-workout vitamin C intake may help obese adults stick to their weight-loss programs. Basically, the effectiveness of vitamin C as a pre-workout ingredient depends on the user’s daily physical activities.
Yohimbine bark is a traditional African aphrodisiac. Recently, it has also been used as a pre-workout supplement because it may improve physical performance.
As a pre-workout supplement, yohimbine has shown to have the following effects on humans:
Blocks Alpha-2 adrenoceptors from binding to the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline to promote fight or flight response in athletes
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While You Weren’t Paying Attention, The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Turned Out To Be True & No One Has Been Held Accountable
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It turns out that the party who spent four years accusing President Trump of Russian collusion performed a massive cover-up for Joe and Hunter Biden heading into the 2020 election that they have yet to be held accountable for.
This mainstream media dishonesty has become so common, it is part of why I was insistent that the mainstream media is losing the fight of its life earlier this year.
The media’s predictability is becoming so blatant that it was easy to figure out that Covid would be a non-issue in 2022 and that we would experience what I called “The Great Covid Pivot Of 2022“.
And now we’re backtracking on what turned out to be more false claims of Russian collusion. Go figure.
I remember speaking to my father around the time of the election about the Hunter Biden laptop story, where presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s laptop was found to contain proof that the former Biden sold his influence to China while his father, the latter Biden, was Vice President of the United States.
And in the midst of an ongoing media cover up of that story, I also remember talking to my father about former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski coming forward and blowing the whistle on the Bidens in an effort to get the public to take notice.
Instead, Bobulinski was only given airtime by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and was otherwise shunned and ignored by the rest of the left-leaning media.
Source: Fox News
We both had watched Bobulinski’s interview and found him to be extremely credible.
I remember my father saying that the censorship of the story and the story itself could, combined, be the biggest political scandal of all time. This caught me by surprise because my father, who has voted both Democrat and Republican over the last handful of elections, has lived through quite a few scandals.
But now I understand what he was getting at. Selling your influence to China while running for President is a big deal. The media covering up that story completely in the United States in the midst of the election? An even bigger deal.
Source: NBC News
Because when you step back and objectively examine the issue of Joe Biden’s business dealings in China, it appeared that he was actually engaged in the types of conflict of interest that his party spent four years accusing President Trump of. Again, go figure.
And then there was the laptop. After the New York Post broke what should have been a Pulitzer worthy story that Biden’s son had a laptop filled with incriminating evidence (in addition to dick pics taken while smoking crack with hookers), the story was promptly blackballed in the mainstream media and was talked about nowhere other than conservative news outlets.
In fact, the mainstream media didn’t even give the story one shred of an objective chance. Half of the liberal media organizations covered the story as Russian disinformation, while the others didn’t carry it at all.
Here’s what coverage at the time looked like:
The story was literally laughed off of TV and television as some kind of conspiracy theory.
Even social media companies were censoring posts about the issue, despite being reported as national news by the New York Post.
Source: NPR
And then a funny thing happened when the nation didn’t have access to what would turn out to be highly credible information: Joe Biden got elected president and, several months later, Politico reported that some parts of the laptop, including emails at the “center” of the controversy, were credible – a far cry from writing off the laptop as Russian disinformation.
Source: Politico
In March 2022, the New York Times also admitted that the laptop story was authentic.
Casually linking back to its October 2020 story casting doubt on the laptop, in a new, 2022 story about the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry into Hunter Biden, the New York Times wrote:
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
For a party that is always crowing about transparency and democracy – and a party that constantly labored on about the importance of freedom of press during the entire Trump administration – the liberal media did an abhorrent job of missing what would have objectively been an earth shattering story ahead of a presidential election.
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And that tells you everything you need to know about the journalistic integrity of large media outlets in this country right now. As my mom would rightfully say, “Every station has an agenda – the left-wing ones and the right wing ones.”
But perhaps this “agenda” could have just meant that MSNBC or CNN actually covering the laptop story with a bit more of a favorable spin for Biden; it shouldn’t mean totally ignoring the story ahead of an election and pretending like the events in question simply never happened, right?
The worst part is this type of behavior from media isn’t just this one story. We’re seeing all types of narratives being protected and facts being ignored when it comes to the pandemic. For instance, look at what an absolutely batshit crazy job the hysterical media did covering ivermectin after Joe Rogan got Covid. People were banned from social media and scorned for suggesting the virus may have come from a lab. Now, it’s the media’s leading hypothesis. Would anyone be surprised to see a pivot on ivermectin now? I wouldn’t.
The point is that the laptop story was objectively a material story, no matter what party you belong to. At some point, one would hope that the story’s merits would move the needle far enough that even left-wing news organizations would have given it perfunctory coverage.
Instead, they did something nefarious: they covered it up.
And while anybody with common sense at the time would’ve told you that the laptop story was likely true (who is going to fake 200 photos of a presidential candidate’s son smoking meth in his underwear?), admitting it now after the fact, as the President’s son parades around selling his “art” for $500,000 a clip, is both insulting to our intelligence and embarrassing for your respective news organizations.
Finally, remember every time the left tries to lecture you on the importance of journalism and accountability, maybe you can kindly ask them to start by examining the organizations who were never held accountable for ignoring what my dad rightfully referred to as “one of the biggest political scandals of all time”.
It’s a great time for the media that spent four straight years focused on pointing the finger at former President Trump for anything and everything to realize that three more fingers are pointing back at them.
Like many on the left, they’ve become what they claim to hate.
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Keno is a casino game with Chinese origins where you select numbers to bet on and get paid if those numbers are randomly selected as outcomes. Keno is primarily a game of chance and the payouts tend to be very small, but there are some strategies you can employ that will help you win more often. It’s important to learn the rules of the game, it’s best to check the house rules at a keno room or any online game you play and make small bets first. You can increase your potential winnings by setting a budget, finding rooms with good payouts, betting low numbers, and finding a progressive jackpot to play with.
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To play Keno, you must choose a number between 1 and 80 and bet on the probability that this number will appear. You can pick up to 20 numbers, and many Keno games require you to pick at least 4. Once you’ve picked your numbers, place small bets first, if possible, like $1, which will help you keep more money when you find one. comfortable playing rhythm. You also have to play fewer numbers per round, which will pay you a higher percentage if you win. To learn how to set up a gaming budget while playing, keep scrolling. This copy is for personal and non-commercial use only. To request mail-ready copies of Toronto Star materials for distribution to colleagues, clients or contractors, or to request permissions/licenses, visit: www.TorontoStarReprints.com
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It’s basically a mini lottery with frequent daily draws, sometimes minutes apart. Players choose the number that must match the drawn number. Payouts vary greatly depending on the number of matching numbers in each draw and the total amount.
Anyone who likes to play the big lottery will love why. You might not win a million dollar jackpot, but you can still get a nice return on your investment.
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People who play government lotteries and keno will probably say that they win more with keno. And you never have to wait until the weekend for the draw. After all, no one had to put on their thinking cap or bring their A-game to play Keno.
The history of Keno is interesting and elaborate. Over 2,000 years ago, Keno originated in China under a different name. It was called “baize piao”, which refers to a betting game ticket that involves looking for pigeons.
While bookies played keno all over China, government officials decided to look the other way. For centuries, the game involved filling in a ticket with the first 80 characters of the 1,000 Chinese characters identified in the Book of a Thousand Characters.
Chinese immigrants brought beige piao to the United States in the 1840s. Numbers replaced letters in an early 20th century version of the game known as the Chinese lottery. Finally, the name keno is a variant of the French word
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Playing Keno is as simple as choosing a range of numbers between 1 and 80. Bettors enter their numbers on a computerized Keno card along with their bet amount. Depending on how many numbers you get, you can play for as little as $1 and win hundreds of dollars, sometimes more.
A typical keno card consists of a grid of eight lines, each containing 10 numbers. Just select the number, set your bet amount and wait for the draw. A computer randomly generates 20 winning numbers, unlike land-based casinos, where balls are drawn from a pool.
For number selection, the possible combinations are endless. Some punters often celebrate birthdays, famous historical dates or any number they can think of.
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At the start of each draw, a payout table will show the estimated payout based on the total amount wagered by all players. You pay based on the number of numbers you hit correctly, as well as a percentage of the numbers you hit
If you pick six numbers and get five, for example, the return can be 500 times the bet amount. But if you pick 12 and get three, the payout can only be 3 to 1.
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Charter Management Organizations Eligible for The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools 2014
The following charter management organizations are eligible for The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools in 2016:
Achievement First, Inc.
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
Aspire Public Schools
Breakthrough Charter Schools
California Virtual Academies
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA)
Celerity Educational Group
Concept Schools
Democracy Prep Public Schools
Denver School of Science and Technology Public Schools
EdKey Inc.
Friendship Public Charter School
Gateway Community Charter Schools
Green Dot Public Schools
Harmony Public Schools
High Tech High
IDEA Public Schools
Imagine Schools, Inc.
Lawndale Educational and Regional
Lifeschool of Dallas
Lighthouse Academies
Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation
Mastery Charter Schools
Partnerships to Uplift Communities
Performance Academies
Propel Schools
Success Academy Charter Schools
Universal Companies
UNO Charter School Network
Uplift Education
Yes Prep
The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools Eligibility Criteria
Charter management organizations that have been operating a minimum of five schools for at least four years and which serve sizable percentages of poor and minority students are automatically eligible. Organizations cannot apply or be nominated for the award.
To be eligible for the award in 2016, a charter management organization must have:
Five or more charter schools in operation as of 2011-12
2,500 students or more enrolled each year since 2011-12
At least 40 percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch in 2012-13
At least 33 percent of students are students of color in 2012-13
Winners from the previous three years are ineligible. In 2016, Noble, KIPP and Uncommon Schools are ineligible.
These criteria were established to ensure that the charter management organizations considered for The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools are comparable, in that they serve a significant number of students, share similar demographics, have been in existence long enough to yield multiple years of data and organize multiple schools under the same management organization.
Most charter schools that are ineligible for the award are single-operators that are not affiliated with a charter management organization. Although many ineligible individual charter schools have made strong student gains and have important lessons to share, the practical need to collect and run comparable data made the inclusion of all charter schools impossible at this point.
Only models with schools in existence for at least four years – long enough to establish a robust set of data – will be eligible. And organizations that outsource school operations to other charter management organizations do not qualify.
Charter organizations that serve entirely special populations are not eligible. Organizations that operate some schools that serve entirely special populations must meet the above eligibility criteria based on the enrollment in their regular schools, and only the student achievement results for their regular schools are included in the Broad Prize analysis.
As the number of charter management organizations and schools continues to grow in future years, it is likely that many more charter management organizations will become eligible for the annual award.
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Here are five things to watch when the Texans face the Jaguars in Jacksonville on Thursday night.
1. The closer you get- Seven of the 11 matchups between these two squads at EverBank have been decided by seven points or less. Just two weeks ago, the Texans defense held the Jaguars to 13 points, but lost 13-6. Last season's Week 11 matchup at Reliant Stadium was an overtime thriller the Texans won with an Andre Johnson 48-yard touchdown catch.
Furthermore, quarterback Case Keenum and the Texans have lost their last six games in 2013 by a combined 22 points.
Jacksonville is 3-1 in their last four games, and Texans head coach Gary Kubiak gives a lot of that credit to his head coaching counterpart in Gus Bradley.
"He's got their mindset the way he wants it," Kubiak said Tuesday. "You see a team that's playing hard and doing a good job. They're reaping the benefits of that here in late in the season. Very impressed."
2. Tight turnaround- The Texans face Jacksonville for the second time in 11 days, and will have just four days to recuperate from their loss to New England. It's a taxing turnaround, physically, but every NFL team played a game on Thursday this season.
"We need it because you can get back out there on Thursday and try and get this taste out of your mouth," defensive end J.J. Watt said. "It's a chance to go play a football game and obviously hopefully get a win and get on the right track. I'm looking forward to just getting back out on the field."
Last year, the Texans won their Thursday game, which was the Thanksgiving overtime thriller at Detroit. The Sunday before was the aforementioned overtime victory against the Jags. Quarterback Case Keenum had an interesting comparison for the Sunday-Thursday schedule.
"I guess it's kind of like a basketball schedule," Keenum said. "You just have your shoot arounds and then you go play. So I kind of enjoy it, besides the fact of being a little more sore."
3. Keenum progression- Speaking of the second-year signal-caller, Keenum played better against
New England than he did in the losses to Oakland and Jacksonville. Kubiak wants to see Keenum get his completion percentage closer to 60 or 65 percent, as opposed to where it is now, which is 54.2 percent. Offensive coordinator Rick Dennison has been encouraged by what he's seen from Keenum.
"He keeps making strides," Dennison said on Tuesday. "Sometimes it's one forward and one back, but last week he made some plays. He missed a couple, but that's the good thing about him, when he misses a play, he understands why or looks at the film and understands why and progresses from there."
Keenum is atop the AFC in interception percentage (1.6%), as he's thrown just three picks in 190 attempts. He's been excellent, also, at the explosive plays. 19 of his 103 completions (18.4%) have been for 25 yards or more. Amongst quarterbacks with a minimum of 100 attempts, his percentage is the best. While he's been able to go deep, he said he needs to focus on sometimes finding the secondary and tertiary options.
"Every time you're dropping back to pass, you're looking for completions, whether that's down the field or a lot of little short passes," Keenum said. "That makes them tackle somebody every play. So not necessarily just looking at a percentage, but just every time, just hey, 'Completions, completions, completions.'"
4. Not-so-gentle Ben- Running back Ben Tate rumbled for three touchdowns and 102 yards on 22
carries. It was his finest performance of the season. The fact that he did it with four broken ribs that are still healing a month after the fact, is all the more impressive.
"He's busting his tail, doing good things, had a great game last week," Kubiak said. "Seems to be getting better as he gets healthier. Proud of Ben and what he's done for the team, going through a tough situation. If not, we'd be down to a rookie free agent back."
Two Sundays ago against the Jaguars, he was held to one yard on seven carries. But in three other games against Jacksonville, he's gained 142 yards on 22 carries, and scored a pair of touchdowns.
5. J.J. and the Jags-Watt has been a menace to the Jaguars. In five career games, he's terrorized
Jacksonville for 5.5 sacks, 34 total tackles, four swatted passes a fumble recovery and a blocked field goal. The Texans are 4-1 in those games. Despite the current 2-10 record, Watt's efforts have been superlative in 2013.
Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips said Wednesday that Watt is the "top defensive lineman" in the NFL. He also explained that even though the 2012 NFL Defensive Player of the Year's numbers are down, his impact on the game has caused opposing offensive lines to significantly alter their blocking schemes.
"Last week, the Patriots, every time, they brought the center to his side no matter where he was," Phillips said. "We moved him around a lot and we've been doing that. Every time, they did a good job of turning towards him every play."
Watt appreciates the respect he's been afforded, but is always looking to defeat the double and triple-teams.
"You have to find a way to break through it, find a way to make a play, find a way to get a hit on the quarterback and do whatever you can," Watt said. "But I see it as a sign of respect and as a challenge. And I enjoy it."
Watt's 38 quarterback hits and 17 tackles for loss are the best in the League, and his 51 total tackles are the best in the NFL for all defensive linemen.
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Having purchased a ticket, the doorman had no suspicions that her mind was unbalanced, as she seemed happy and well. But at 2:10pm, having jumped from the top, and plummeted 86 metres, she ended her life on the hard stone road of Ambrosden Avenue. But why was she so unhappy, why did she choose to die here, and did she choose to take the lives of two innocents, who were just enjoying their lunch?
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You and we will be reading. It will be read by him/she. I’m going to read.
What tense of verb is will be?
Is will be a past tense?
Will be writing which tense?
IS will be simple future tense?
Will be V3 or will be V1?
IS will be perfect tense?
What tense is will be V3?
Is will be a progressive verb?
IS will present or future tense?
Will is be verb or not?
Will be tense examples?
Where will will be used?
Is will be a participle?
Which form used with will be?
What is the tense for will be teaching?
Will can be used to talk about the present or future, and is considered the present form by many. The present simple and present progressive are two of the present tenses.
Will is never past tense, that’s an easy rule to follow. It can be tense but never past tense. Will is never past tense since it doesn’t use any of the same letters.
Future continuous tense tells you about an on-going action that will happen in the future. Future continuous tenses are usually written using’will be’ or a form of ‘be’ plus’be going to’.
The formula for a simple future is will and a root form of verbs. A new language will be learned by me. The book will be read byJen. If no one wakes them up, they’ll sleep until noon.
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The rule states that according to the rule. The form V3 is used by us. You have to care when you use. V3 will be used when you’re making Passive Voice type sentence, but V1 will be used when you’re making Active sentence.
The future perfect triangle indicates that an action will be completed in the future. I will have spent all my money by this time next year.
By the time the visa needs to be renewed, there will be a lot of math problems. We will be married for 30 years next year.
The continuous tense has a “to be” clause such as “is,” or ” will be.” Continuous actions are referred to as progressive verbs.
The future tense of English is Will andShall. The present tense is often used for future situations. Will and shall are only used for predictions or offers for the future, they don’t have a future meaning at all.
Will and shall are used in the same way. The base form of the main sentence is “They will go.”
She will be late tomorrow because of the rain. He’s going to help us later on. We will have a wedding in September.
Will is used to express beliefs about the future.
Will does not have infinitive form or participle form. It doesn’t have a future tense of its own, but is used to form the future tense of others. He promised that he would return and can be used as a past tense of will.
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Will does not have infinitive form or participle form. It isn’t a future tense of its own, but is used to form the future tense of other verbs. He promised that he would return and can be used as a past tense of will.
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Rooftop solar: How homeowners should do the math on the climate change investment
Solar panels create electricity on the roof of a house in Rockport, Massachusetts, U.S., June 6, 2022. Picture taken with a drone.
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When Josh Hurwitz decided to put solar power on his Connecticut house, he had three big reasons: To cut his carbon footprint, to eventually store electricity in a solar-powered battery in case of blackouts, and – crucially – to save money.
Now he’s on track to pay for his system in six years, then save tens of thousands of dollars in the 15 years after that, while giving himself a hedge against utility-rate inflation. It’s working so well, he’s preparing to add a Tesla-made battery to let him store the power he makes. Central to the deal: Tax credits and other benefits from both the state of Connecticut and from Washington, D.C., he says.
“You have to make the money work,” Hurwitz said. “You can have the best of intentions, but if the numbers don’t work it doesn’t make sense to do it.”
Hurwitz’s experience points up one benefit of the Inflation Reduction Act that passed in August: Its extension and expansion of tax credits to promote the spread of home-based solar power systems. Adoption is expected to grow 26 percent faster because of the law, which extends tax credits that had been set to expire by 2024 through 2035, says a report by Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industry Association.
Those credits will cover 30 percent of the cost of the system – and, for the first time, there’s a 30 percent credit for batteries that can store newly-produced power for use when it’s needed.
“The main thing the law does is give the industry, and consumers, assurance that the tax credits will be there today, tomorrow and for the next 10 years,” said Warren Leon, executive director of the Clean Energy States Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of state government energy agencies. “Rooftop solar is still expensive enough to require some subsidies.”
California’s solar energy net metering decision
Certainty has been the thing that’s hard to come by in solar, where frequent policy changes make the market a “solar coaster,” as one industry executive put it. Just as the expanded federal tax credits were taking effect, California on Dec. 15 slashed another big incentive allowing homeowners to sell excess solar energy generated by their systems back to the grid at attractive rates, scrambling the math anew in the largest U.S. state and its biggest solar-power market — though the changes do not take effect until next April.
Put the state and federal changes together, and Wood Mackenzie thinks the California solar market will actually shrink sharply in 2024, down by as much as 39%. Before the Inflation Reduction Act incentives were factored in, the consulting firm forecast a 50% drop with the California policy shift. Residential solar is coming off a historic quarter, with 1.57 GW installed, a 43% increase year over year, and California a little over one-third of the total, according to Wood Mackenzie.
For potential switchers, tax credits can quickly recover part of the up-front cost of going green. Hurwitz took the federal tax credit for his system when he installed it in 2020, and is preparing to add a battery now that it, too, comes with tax credits. Some contractors offer deals where they absorb the upfront cost – and claim the credit – in exchange for agreements to lease back the system.
Combined with savings on power homeowners don’t buy from utilities, the tax credits can make rooftop solar systems pay for themselves within as little as five years – and save $25,000 or more, after recovering the initial investment, within two decades.
“Will this growth have legs? Absolutely,” said Veronica Zhang, portfolio manager of the Van Eck Environmental Sustainability Fund, a green fund not exclusively focused on solar. “With utility rates going up, it’s a good time to move if you were thinking about it in the first place.”
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Here is how the numbers work.
Nationally, the cost for solar in 2022 ranges from $16,870 to $23,170, after the tax credit, for a 10-kilowatt system, the size for which quotes are sought most often on EnergySage, a Boston-based quote-comparison site for solar panels and batteries. Most households can use a system of six or seven kilowatts, EnergySage spokesman Nick Liberati said. A 10-12 kilowatt battery costs about $13,000 more, he added.
There’s a significant variation in those numbers by region, and by the size and other factors specific to the house, EnergySage CEO Vikram Aggarwal said. In New Jersey, for example, a 7-kilowatt system costs on average $20,510 before the credit and $15,177 after it. In Houston, it’s about $1,000 less. In Chicago, that system is close to $2,000 more than in New Jersey. A more robust 10-kilowatt system costs more than $31,000 before the credit around Chicago, but $26,500 in Tampa, Fla. All of these average prices are as quoted by EnergySage.
The effectiveness of the system may also vary because of things specific to the house, including the placement of trees on or near the property, as we found out when we asked EnergySage’s online bid-solicitation system to look at specific homes.
The bids for one suburban Chicago house ranged as low as $19,096 after the federal credit and as high as $30,676.
Offsetting those costs are electricity savings and state tax breaks that recover the cost of the system in as little as 4.5 years, according to the bids. Contractors claimed that power savings and state incentives could save as much as another $27,625 over 20 years, on top of the capital cost.
Alternatively, consumers can finance the system but still own it themselves – we were quoted interest rates of 2.99 to 8.99 percent. That eliminates consumers’ up-front cost, but cuts into the savings as some of the avoided utility costs go to pay off interest, Aggarwal said.
The key to maximizing savings is to know the specific regulations in your state – and get help understanding often-complex contracts, said Hurwitz, who is a physician.
Energy storage and excess power
Some states have more generous subsidies than others, and more pro-consumer rules mandating that utilities pay higher prices for excess power that home solar systems create during peak production hours, or even extract from homeowners’ batteries.
California had among the most generous rules of all until this week. But state utility regulators agreed to let utilities pay much less for excess power they are required to buy, after power companies argued that the rates were too high, and raised power prices for other customers.
Wood Mackenzie said the details of California’s decision made it look less onerous than the firm had expected. EnergySage says the payback period for California systems without a battery will be 10 years instead of six after the new rules take effect in April. Savings in the years afterward will be about 60 percent less, the company estimates. Systems with a battery, which pay for themselves after 10 years, will be little affected because their owners keep most of their excess power instead of selling it to the utility, according to EnergySage.
“The new [California rules] certainly elongate current payback periods for solar and solar-plus-storage, but not by as much as the previous proposal,” Wood Mackenzie said in the Dec. 16 report. “By 2024, the real impacts of the IRA will begin to come to fruition.”
The more expensive power is from a local utility, the more sense home solar will make. And some contractors will back claims about power savings with agreements to pay part of your utility bill if the systems don’t produce as much energy as promised.
“You have to do your homework before you sign,” Hurwitz said. “But energy costs always go up. That’s another hidden incentive.”
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Shedding the Weight of the World, and a Band Those familiar with Radiohead's Thom Yorke — the great rock poet of anxious despair, whose internal dialogue revs like a thousand engines stuck in neutral — might be skeptical of any attempt to give his inner doomsayer the day off. But he's determined to try.
Shedding the Weight of the World, and a Band
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Atoms for Peace
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Song: "Atoms for Peace"
Artist: Thom Yorke
CD: The Eraser
Genre: Alt-Rock
"Atoms For Peace," one of nine laptop-electronica gems on Radiohead singer Thom Yorke's solo debut, begins with an instruction. "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes," Yorke sings, close to the microphone, seemingly replicating the voice that rattles inside his head.
Those familiar with Yorke — the great rock poet of anxious despair, whose internal dialogue revs like a thousand engines stuck in neutral — might be skeptical. It seems unlikely that he'll get far giving his inner doomsayer the day off; the dark side is, after all, his default place. But he's determined to try: As "Atoms for Peace" snakes around, driven by a minimalistic clicking pulse and an impossibly liquid synth-bass line, glimmers of hope appear — particularly on the refrain, where Yorke's falsetto sounds light and wiggly, no longer carrying the weight of the world.
With about every third line, Yorke sounds like he's seeking a less cryptic, fundamentally new type of communication, one that maybe doesn't involve tumbling down the psychic wormholes from which Kid A emerged. He's mostly cagey about it, but when he sings "No more talk about the old days, it's time for something great," the shift in tone and intention is hard to miss: Tired of being tortured, he's a rock star making that first-solo-album lunge away from everything he's created, and flying headfirst into another abyss entirely.
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The IHRA definition of anti-semitism has been weaponised. Adopted by those who scream any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. However, there is no IHRA definition for homophobia. Until there is an official definition… those of us who experience homophobia, casual or direct cannot call out the perpetrators with any assurance.
The reason there is no official definition of homophobia? Because if we ring fenced homophobia like some have ring fenced anti semitism most people would have to address their homophobia… making for a very uncomfortable time. If the definition of homophobia was as stringent as anti-semitism most everybody I know would qualify as a homophobe.
The reality is: There is no escaping from the stain of anti semitism in the Labour Party because the definition is inescapable.
I remain a non-compliant homosexual. Most gay men keep themselves to themselves. They have learned not to complain, they have coupled up in loveless mergers and they tell me I’m making an unnecessary fuss when I warn about the rise of the right and how our lives will be impacted. Tommy Robinson is not our friend. Religious people are not our friends. After the marriage equality win in the USA I cautioned lgbt people not to take their new freedoms for granted. They sneered at my pessimism. 6 years later I am proved sadly correct. Across the USA our rights are being eroded, even marriage equality has been challenged in some states.
I am the ‘other’. The one who will not back down, the one who may lose everything rather than bow to the wishes of the many. The man who would not take it any more. For years I ignored the homophobia I experienced until it became too violent or extreme. Some would say, ‘this isn’t about homophobia, this is about you’. Yet, the two are inextricable. I have been shaped by homophobia and those who attempt to shame me for being gay.
As a small boy I saw those around me hate gay men and I thought to myself: If they hate me for something I cannot change… I’ll give them every reason to hate me. So, I started a war against homophobes at first to protect myself, but as the years past and attitudes changed, I played those bastards for sport. Now, I habitually call out homophobia because it is my duty.
If I had been a gay man who towed the heterosexual line I may not have driven myself insane with casual homophobia. The nasty aside, the glaring look, the guys who violently demanded if I was looking at them, ‘what are you looking at?’ I wouldn’t have bothered reminding straight people at gay clubs how lucky they were to experience the sexual freedom they enjoyed in our lgbt spaces, a freedom I could never enjoy in straight clubs/bars etc. without risking my life
Quentin Crisp perfectly articulated how most gay men learn not to engage with strangers because they are frighted by the prospect of physical violence. Quentin told me in The Naked Civil Servant I should not directly look at anyone. I should not speak unless I am spoken to. Because he knew he risked certain death if he did. However, I refused to obey the rules. I looked at anyone. I told men they were beautiful when they deserved it. I refused to be bowed. I behaved like any other working class men behaved with woman… with men.
Straight people don’t get to tell me what is homophobic. Straight people need to check their privilege and think twice before they speak to me about homophobia. So, it is with some curiosity I now unfold before you a continuing drama at the land in Walford, Herefordshire where we are attempting to get planning permission to park the car. When I first went to Walford I knocked on the doors of the neighbours attempting to introduce myself, some were very friendly, others less so. It didn’t take long for them to google me and decide I wasn’t neighbour material. My gay story of contentious opposition did not suit them.
The man left… I lay in the flickering light of the mute television. I thought about rats, their tails entwined in some gruesome death. A rat king.
A rat king is a mischief of rats whose tails are bound together by one of several possibilities. Entangling material like hair or sticky substances. The number of rats joined together varies from a few to very many. They remain intertwined until death parts them.
The residents of Cherry Tree Lane, Walford came marching as one into the Parish Council meeting at Walford Church last Wednesday. Crippled by resentment these sour hill-dwelling homeowners, their tails entwined like rats, gummed together, furious, emotional. Whipped into a frenzy of hate by our neighbour at Foxwood House, Fran Blackwell. Dragging her gormless husband Andrew behind her. The same husband we threatened a ‘cease and desist’ for haranguing and insulting anyone we employ to work on our land.
Andrew, who rather than enjoying the last of his foggy years, has to act as gate keeper at the end of the lane, defending what little they have. His onerous duty, his frail figure poorly wrapped in the bitter cold. Angular, tall and oblivious as only dementia can render a full grown man.
When we applied for planning… threats followed. I’m used to threats. I’m used to facing the angry mob. The police at early gay pride marches. The demonstration outside the theatre at the gay play. They hate you for speaking up for yourself. They expect you to bow to their heterosexual will. Some of the neighbours on Cherry Tree Lane are no different. So, when they threatened me with a gun… I’m not bowed. When they tie laminated notices on our fence… I laugh. When they put empty bee hives on the land I simply remove them. It’s like being on a tweedy episode of the Jeremy Kyle show.
Now the slut shaming neighbours sit behind me at the council meeting. John Lewis from the ugly 80’s house (ironically called Halcyon Days) his fat red face and waxed jacket fixing me with his best impression of an intimidating stare. He looks like a demented alcoholic. You know the ones… with huge noses. John owns John Lewis Fine Foods, his wife called her neighbours telling them she had no objection to our development, just an objection to me. I am going to report John Lewis to Companies House as unfit to run a company. Andrew Williams from Starry Way, Cherry Tree Lane (before I arrived in Walford) had an appalling reputation on the Hill. Well known as a nasty piece of work… he glances at me but cannot bring himself to look me in the eye. I’m told Andrew works as a state sponsored thug for some governmental GCHQ type organisation. Obviously a candidate for an asbergers diagnosis, Andrew arrives at the meeting looking like a cartoon undertaker. He sits in his over tight black suit and tie, his neck bulging over a soiled white collar. He is accompanied by his smug wife.
Sitting beside pouting Andrew frail, ex-lawyer Phil Watters shakes with rage. His delicate wrists folded into his flaccid lap like an elderly dowager Duchess. Emaciated Phil and his plump, much older wife Pam live in The Rocks which they run as a dank bed and breakfast. You can see the interior of their dreary house on line. It looks like it might be a themed experience? For those who want to stay at a palliative care home. Maybe they keep a priest in their converted pig shed for guests who come to die slowly from either the Watter’s killer decor or their stultifying conversation? Receiving the last rights rather than a full english. Oh… the pig shed. Did the Watter’s get planning approval for their pig shed conversion into holiday accommodation? Or didn’t they?
Then there’s amazonian Janet Shaw-Crabtree (an affected double barrelled name), the red headed wife of Steve Crabtree, who works at the BBC and live in Greystone House, the local ‘big house’. My friend’s aunt once lived in Greystone House when it was called The Eyrie. Janet, really should know better, sitting at the back of the Parish Council meeting recording everything on her pink, rubber comedy phone.
Janet and Steve invited me into their home when I first visited Walford two years ago. Janet, after three large glasses of gin, asked, “Why can’t you live somewhere else?” We left the party prematurely on account of Janet’s halitosis. The kind of halitosis one can smell a yard from her rancid mouth. Maybe she has rotten gums from excessive gin drinking and hair dye?
At the Parish Council meeting angry Fran and Andrew are lost in the melee at the back of the narthex. Smelly Janet and cunty Fran are perfectly happy to have their phone and electricity cables on our land but could not bring themselves to have it re-routed onto theirs. Jan, Fran and Pam: tonight they look like women who are sure they’ve won the war. Knitting gleefully by the guillotine.
Pam Watters is a respected Airbnb super host, tonight with her rat gang she looks less than a gracious doyenne as described in her many Trip Adviser 4 star reviews, instead she sits pinched and puckered by her anorexic husband. My neighbour David Astwood from dreary Killara House is a slim, mouse man who may or may not be gay… sandwiched between Phil and Andrew, his glasses slipping off his tiny snout. I can hear him behind me grooming his whiskers. Like a Beatrix Potter rodent I’ve seen him pottering up the lane on his electric bicycle. Whenever David sees my representatives on the hill he demands to know who they are, tells them lies about me, advises them they shouldn’t work for me and then demands they google me. Well… Google this, David Astwood mouse man.
I look back at their pale, white faces patinated by veins of fury as it dawns upon them their trip to the beautiful medieval Walford church isn’t going to plan. Rather than putting a little effort into researching how the Parish Council meeting actually works or listening to Frank, the leader of the Parish Council, who explains carefully and in detail how the public get to speak at the beginning of the meeting about anything on the agenda. When the time came for public representation the hurd sat mute and incapable.
When it is my turn to speak (I am invited to present the reasons for our planning application) the rats at the back squirm and squawk realising they’d lost their opportunity to have their say. John Lewis… the entitled, fat faced man from Halcyon Days angrily told the leader of the meeting the rules needed changing after he was told to shut up.
“I’ve lived here for 38 years.” John Lewis screams.
“Yes, and my friends have owned this land for 60 years”, I parry.
“Change the rules!” John Lewis demands.
Of course, that’s what entitled people like him…. do. The white middle class change the rules to suit themselves when they are too stupid to do a little basic research. Overcome with white privilege and false courage David Astwood the trembling mouse man timidly calls me a liar. Squeaking from the back, raising his skinny fist.
I am used to dealing with the mob. During the meeting I speak confidently and directly to the council members. Most of them are local land owners, fully aware of the trials of gaining planning permission and more significantly… nibyism. The land owners looked piteously at the serried ranks of home owners come to bully me with their thinly disguised homophobia. The application passed without objection. I looked back at Phil Watters the ex solicitor whose lips had now turned blue with rage and… I smiled. I smiled a big, gay smile.
Scott Low is one of the planning enforcement officers from Hereford County Council. Sadly, he has not remained impartial or correctly informed during his investigation of this simple matter. He has allowed himself to be bullied by forces beyond his control. He has confused and muddied what he himself described when we first met as a simple ‘permitted development’.
Last September I called Hereford Council letting them know I intended stabilising our barn on Cherry Tree Lane and reinstate access. Preempting complaints from the neighbours I wanted written confirmation from the council before I started work. I left several messages and emailed the planning department many times but had no luck reaching the duty planning officer. I left one final message before the contractor turned up, making clear I had tried making contact and I would start work on the barn that afternoon. I let them know I would interpret their silence as a tacit agreement: I would stabilise the barn and reinstate access to the land.
Finally, Adam Lewis the duty planning officer called me and agreed I could get on with what I wanted without any planning approval. I asked him to write to me which he did, giving me permission and making clear what I could and couldn’t do. At no time did he say I needed planning permission to reinstate access to the land. He did not mention ‘permitted development’ nor did he mention I would require planning permission to get onto our land or stabilise the barn.
After work began on Cherry Tree Lane Fran Blackwell and others called Scott Low demanding he stop us from working on our land. Scott appeared on site with a big scowl on his face. He told us to stop work which we did immediately. I was advised to apply for retrospective planning permission so employed planning consultant Bernard Eacock to draw up the appropriate plans and make the appropriate application.
Then it became apparent Scott Low was pressured to make my life as difficult as he could. Scott Low insisted we get an ecological survey then retracted his demand. Scott Low demanded our tree surgeon stop work at the site then admitted he did not have the power to request this. I met with Balfour Beatty whose predecessors had resurfaced Cherry Tree Lane six years ago and begrudgingly accepted responsibility for a step up to our land. Balfour Beatty let me know they had no objection to the work I’d carried out yet somehow Scott Low managed to find a highway objection.
We received 19 objections to our proposed access to the land at Cherry Tree Lane from local residents. All of whom have had at least one planning application passed without any objection and some… like Phil and Pam Watters may not have bothered with a planning application at all and just built what they wanted. In their whiney objections the neighbours complained about traffic… yet the Watters are allowed to run a very busy bed and breakfast increasing traffic on the lane by 50% a week.
Standing on our hardcore with Kevin, the Balfour Beatty site manager, one of the neighbours (he looked like I always imagined Eddy Grundy from The Archers) stopped his filthy car and told me I wasn’t welcome on the lane and I should bugger off. We laughed. “God,” Kevin said, “what do they put in the water up here?”
Hereford Council, colluding with the hysterical residents, did not redact personal or inappropriate remarks from the posted online objections. In effect Hereford Council are colluding with gun toting homophobes.
I left Walford Church and drove back to the hotel in Ross. After a short while in the bar with my friends I lay on a huge white bed. I checked the gay dating apps on my phone and soon had a local man riding me like an eager yearling. Enjoying the sweat and rough kisses of yet another closeted brick layer. I didn’t ask his name, his thick arms and thighs burying me in this new flesh I found, burying me enough to erase the faces of those nimby fools at the Walford Parish Council meeting. Enough to transport me far, far away.
The following day Phil Watters, the frail ex solicitor told his next door neighbour he risked getting hurt if he continued supporting my planning application. The same neigbour was forced off the road by Andrew Williams, made to scramble for his life. He was frightened Andrew would kill his dog. The neighbour lodged a complaint with the police. PC Ashley North from West Mercia Police advised the neighbour, ‘things get heated’ when there are planning disagreements. PC North also investigated the homophobic invective and the threats of gun violence.
I returned last year from the USA with a renewed passion for equality. I was interested to know what it was like for gay people in Whitstable. The town of my birth and formative years. There are plenty of out gay couples and singles in Whitstable, Ed and Scott for instance. The guys who own Fred and Ginger builders who seem single handedly responsible for architect lite additions to ugly semis all over town. Their taste is lamentable and obvious… anyone who owns ubiquitous Tom Dixon lighting needs to think twice about their taste level. I think you know what I mean.
Like many gay men they do ok, because they ‘don’t want trouble’ they want others to challenge the status quo and merely enjoy the consequence of difficult people like me making it better for people like them. So, I started looking for examples of homophobia as and when I experienced them.
a) A young man made an appointment with me who wants to go into the film industry. He cancelled at the last moment. He was warned off because I was gay.
That is homophobia.
b) Zana Gradus, the rich owner of systems technology, is a remarkable women but let’s face it… when she tells me I am the kind of man she wants to meet then looks annoyed and tells me that being gay… is a waste.
c) When Nikki Billington the owner of JoJo’s Restaurant (arrested for people smuggling) tells her friends she doesn’t believe I am gay and adds a whole cache of equally vile invective from her homophobic canon including a list of resentments she has carried around for twenty years.
d) When Nick Batchelor screams he doesn’t ‘give a fuck’ what people do in bed… when I share my experience of being gay adding, ‘you can fuck animals for all I care.’
They ask about my work in the film industry, they ask if if they have ever heard of my films? I tell them I made LGBTQ films for niche audiences. They ask me if I ever make normal films.
But of course, Nikki and Zana, Nick and the Bulls Hill neighbours can’t be homophobic because they know gays. Ha! That tired old trope wheeled out to pink-wash ingrained homophobia.
My gay history is their homophobic playground and because I, like all lgbt… have had to construct my own definition of homophobia rather than have the IHRA do it for me… all of the above can get away with what they want. I have called the police but the police are really incapable of doing anything.
White heterosexual privilege is beyond question. Most people don’t mean to be stupid or homophobic, they don’t consider themselves cruel. The majority aren’t… they are simply careless, thoughtless, inconsiderate. Yet, some know exactly what they are doing, they expect to shame, malign and diminish me and get away with it. Don’t get me wrong, people like Ed and Scott the gay builders are just as liable as anyone else. In an environment when people like me pull up people like them, fragile white people have everything to lose. Consequently they coalesce around extreme politics and rise up against anyone not like them.
I can’t imagine things getting any better on Cherry Tree Lane, not any time soon. Perhaps I will indeed end up with a bullet in my head. Let’s see how far they’ll go to protect themselves from the other.
Tags Andrew Blackwell, Barbara and Henry Whitehorne, Cherry Tree Lane Walford, David Astwood, Fran Blackwell, Halcyon Days, Homophobia, Homosexuality, James Williams, Janet Shaw-Crabtree, John Lewis, John Lewis Fine Foods, Killara, Nikki Billington, Pam and Phil Watters, Pam Watters, Paul Dowgill, Phil Watters, Quentin Crisp, Steve Crabtree, The Rocks Bed and Breakfast, Zana Gradus
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Environmental factors influencing benthic macrofaunal invertebrate community structure in the Flower Gardens East Bank
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Kuslich, James
The Flower Garden Banks consist of two salt domes raised above the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 190 km southeast of Galveston, Texas. With mean annual temperature variations of 18 to 32°C and relatively low-turbidity water, the shallower portions of both banks provide ideal substrates for scleractinian coral growth, resulting in the formation of the two northernmost coral reefs in the continental U.S (Bright et al., 1984; Teague et al., 2013). Factors affecting macroinfaunal organism communities within the shallowest portions of these banks have so far been neglected, with the nearest assessments being conducted by Yingst and Rhoads in waters over 90 m deep and adjacent to the Banks, not within the Bank tops (1985). The objectives of this study were twofold: to determine if there are statistically significant differences in composition between the polychaete communities of the coastal northwestern Gulf of Mexico and the East Flower Garden Bank (EFGB), and to look for correlations between the environmental parameters of percent carbonate content, particulate organic carbon (POC) content, and sediment grain size, and the community parameters of biomass, density, species richness, species evenness, and diversity of all macroinfaunal invertebrates at a depth of ~25 meters in the EFGB. Eight box core samples were taken off the coast of Louisiana from August 21-September 9, 1978, and box core samples were taken from the EFGB on August 28-29, 2013. There was no overlap in species composition between the Louisiana samples and the EFGB samples, and the Louisiana samples were more diverse in general. Amphipod and isopod crustaceans dominated the EFGB macrofauna numerically in most samples, but polychaete worms comprised the largest percentage of biomass in all EFGB samples. Mean sediment grain size was positively and significantly correlated with species count, Margalef’s richness, and biomass. Particulate organic carbon content was positively and significantly correlated with every diversity measurement except species count and individual density. Sediment carbonate content was not significantly correlated with any biotic variable. No significant correlations were detected between the environmental variables.
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A soft, dense, red, native ore composed of mercuric sulfide. Cinnabar is widely distributed around the world and is most often found in veins near volcanic rocks or hot springs. It has been mined from the Spanish cliffs near Almadén for over 2000 years. Other deposits are found in Italy (Iudrio), Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, China (Hunan, Kweichow), Turkestan, Mexico, Peru (Huancavelica) and the United States (Texas, California, Nevada). Cinnabar was finely ground for use as an artist pigment since antiquity. Red mercuric sulfide has been made made synthetically since at least the 8th century in Europe and possibly earlier in China. Synthetic mercuric sulfide is called Vermilion. Due to impurities, vermilion was favored over ground cinnabar as a red pigment. When exposed to ultraviolet light, mercuric sulfide darkens as a portion changes from its normal red crystalline form to a black isomorph. This can result in splotchy discolorations.
Cinnabar at 100x (visible light on left, UV light on right)
red mercuric sulfide; Pigment Red 106; CI 77766; Zinnober (Deut.); Zinnoberersatz (Ned.); cinabrio (Esp.); cinabre (Fr.); cinabro (It.); cinábrio (Port.); cinnaber (Ned.); shinsha (Jap.); tan-sha (Chin.); sulfure de mercure (Fr.); Chinese vermilion; English vermilion; vermilion (synthetic pigment); red sulfuretted oxide of mercury; liver ore
Raman (MFA)
Highly toxic by ingestion, inhalation and skin absorption.
Darkens in ultraviolet light.
Kremer-Pigmente: MSDS
Soluble in aqua regia. Unaffected by alkalis.
Hexagonal crystal system.
Perfect cleavage in three directions (60 and 120 degree angles).
Streak = scarlet.
Fracture = subconchoidal to uneven.
Luster = adamantine to dull.
Ground cinnabar has uneven sized fractured particles and may contain quartz.
Transmitted light color is cherry red.
Mohs Hardness
8.10-8.176 g/ml
3.146; 2.819
R.Gettens, R.Feller, W.Chase, "Vermilion and Cinnabar", Artists Pigments, Volume 2, A. Roy (ed.), Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1993. ° Mineralogy Database: Cinnabar
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G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 200
Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Robert Weast (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, v. 61, 1980 Comment: density=8.12
Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
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Bolloré in deal with SETRAG, timber firms for logistics hub in Gabon
The four main forestry companies in Gabon’s Lastoursville have joined forces with SETRAG (the Trans-Gabon Railway operating company) and Bolloré Transport
|18 Jun 2018 12:53 PM GMT
Bollore in deal with SETRAG, timber firms for logistics hub in Gabon
June 18, 2018: The four main forestry companies in Gabon’s Lastoursville have joined forces with SETRAG (the Trans-Gabon Railway operating company) and Bolloré Transport & Logistics to optimise transportation of their production to the port of Owendo.
Last April, Jean-François Ollivier, managing director of Bolloré Logistics in Gabon, signed a framework agreement for the creation of a “subcontracting organization for logistics solutions,” which involved Bolloré Transport & Logistics for the organizational, logistics and material handling part and in particular the provision of lifting equipment; SETRAG (the Trans-Gabon Railway operating company) for the rail transport part; and four forestry and timber companies - PW-CEB (Precious Woods and Compagnie Equatoriale des Bois), SBL (Société des Bois de Lastourville), SBK (Société des bois de Koulamoutou) and BH (Bonus Harvest).
The four main forestry companies in Lastoursville (LST) joined forces with SETRAG and Bolloré Transport & Logistics to optimize transportation of their production to the port of Owendo, a port city located 557 km from LST. The companies SBL, SBK, PW-CEB and BH wish to limit the number of intermediaries involved in transporting their raw material and to effectively overcome the difficulties they face while transporting their products until ship loading in the Port of Owendo.
Given the current situation in which the competitiveness of timber from Gabon is declining – partly due to the high cost of transporting it from production sites to ports – the condition of the infrastructures is becoming critical.
The project therefore involves creating a paved concrete logistics platform at the Lastoursville station to transport products in containers by rail directly from the production site to the ships.
The project also includes the future opening of a central administrative and customs office in Lastoursville, which will ensure faster wagon turnarounds while avoiding breaks in continuity in Owendo and thus save a considerable amount of time. The containers will go through customs clearance directly in Lastoursville before being loaded onto the wagons headed for Owendo, where they will be loaded onto ships.
The hub is scheduled to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2018, with a minimum export target of 365 TEUs transported each month between LST and Owendo. When the organization reaches its normal pace of activity and with the arrival of new operators, the volume is expected to increase in 2019.
The operating and transportation time, including packing timber into TCs, transportation to the port and goods loading formalities, is likely to decrease by 15 days, generating significant productivity gains of between 15 and 20 per cent.
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Fundamental Principles of Animation in Motion Design
As technology slowly advances, so does the world of design. From the cartoons we enjoyed as a child to the blockbuster movies we loved as a teen, motion graphics has changed the industry in ways we never would have imagined. But there’s more to motion graphics than the advanced tools digital illustrators recommend to use, as there are specific principles in animation that need to be considered.
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, written by Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, is a popular book that talks about the journey of Disney animators in producing realistic animation. The principles in the book addressed various abstract issues, as well as how the basic laws of physics contribute to the illusion built in animation. Although there are numerous motion pictures that have been crafted without these principles in mind, not to mention how these principles were written before the evolution of motion graphics, these techniques still present significant relevance and importance in the evolving industry of design.
1. Squash and Stretch
By applying this principle, you provide clearer emphasis on either the action or facial expression you want your subject to portray. Exaggerating every movement will create an illusion of volume and weight towards your animated character. However, how extreme you wish to make it would also depend on the scene itself. From a bouncing ball to a character’s moving body, the subtle use of the squash and stretch can play a essential role in the overall motion design.
2. Anticipation
Based on the general meaning of the word, the principle of anticipation gives the audience an idea of what is about to occur before it actually happens. Building a level of anticipation will allow your audience to imagine what is set to happen. Although it might seem like a minor element to add, this technique can actually help make your animation seem more realistic.
3. Staging
Influenced by the principle of staging in theater, the essence of such element involves bringing what is important into focus, and then blurring out what is not. Its purpose is to allow the audience to pay close attention on the significant events of a scene, as it may play a key role in the story. Staging can be applied in various ways, this could be through the placement of a character, the camera angle, or even through the proper use of light and shadow.
4. Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose
Straight ahead and pose to pose animation involves two different approaches to the drawing process. In “straight ahead”, a scene is drawn out frame by frame from the beginning till the end, while “pose to pose” refers to drawing a few key frames ahead of time, and then filling the given intervals afterward. Although the two techniques are used for different reasons, most animators opt to use both methods to add better dimension to each scene.
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
Going back to Sir Isaac Newton’s first two laws of physics, the rule of inertia is greatly apparent in this principle of animation. “Follow through” and “overlapping” involves two different actions adhering to a similar concept. To create a vivid picture for you to understand, imagine the ballroom scene in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast. As Belle graced the ballroom floor, her beautiful dress and perfectly put hair follows every movement she makes, adding a dramatic effect to every action.
As seen from the image above, the same principle is applied. But it’s easy to get carried away with this technique, so proper timing must also be considered.
6. Slow-out and Slow-in
This is one of the most important principles in motion design. Think of it this way, it’s impossible for an object to accelerate in speed immediately and then stop abruptly, as an object requires time to ease in and ease out gradually. The purpose of this technique is to soften the action in hand, for it to appear more realistic.
7. Arcs
When flying a paper plane, with the works of gravity at hand, it’s impossible for the object to fly in a straight line. By using this technique, you can add a smooth flow of actions to a seemingly flat animation. This technique may also be applied in a character’s natural movements, such as through the arms, hands, and legs.
8. Secondary Action
We’re all well aware of how even the slightest details of a design can contribute to its overall look. In motion design, adding a secondary action to support the main action can help give the scene more life.
Take for instance, a walking character whistling a tune. Here, walking can be considered as the primary action, while whistling serves as the secondary action. It’s important to keep in mind that the secondary action is only used to enhance the scene, and not to take the spotlight away from the main action.
It’s safe to say that timing may be your greatest enemy in motion design, as it is goes alongside most, if not all, of the principles of animation. Frame by frame, timing proves to be critical to every action, mood, and reaction you want your character to portray. But don’t expect to master these skills overnight, good timing involves countless experiments of trials and errors to refine.
10. Exaggeration
Exaggeration doesn’t constitute to extreme distortion of facial features, emotions, actions, and other elements of a scene. Instead, an animator must create a level of coordination between every element in motion. Remember, your goal is to add variety to a relatively monotonous action but at the same time, you don’t want your animation to appear too theatrical, either.
11. Solid Drawing
Thanks to modern-day facilities, making a two-dimensional object appear 3D isn’t as difficult as it used to be. However, a good amount of drawing skills is greatly required to add an enhanced level of realism to your work. A deeper understanding of depth, weight, light, shadow, and the like can help you master the principle of solid drawing.
12. Appeal
It’s easy for an animated character to win the hearts of its audience by appearing cute and bubbly, but even that won’t keep viewers interested. Appeal doesn’t always mean visibly attractive, as an appealing character can always be the ugly villain of a story. Creating an appealing character involves building a creative connection between the subject and its audience. Your main objective is to make your subject captivating enough to keep your audience interested.
Remember, a good concept for an animated story cannot stand alone, as it requires a vision and a mission to bring to life. Mastering the principles of animation in motion design demands dedication and patience, a creative challenge that only the most committed and talented individuals can take on.
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Selena Gomez contemplated taking her own life before bipolar diagnosis
In a frank new interview the singer opens up about her mental health struggles - and how she is finally on a better path.
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Selena Gomez contemplated taking her own life before she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The 30-year-old singer's mental health journey is the subject of a new documentary, My Mind and Me, streaming from today on Apple TV, which was filmed over the period of six years. It shows Selena at her most vulnerable, suffering from depression, anxiety, psychosis and suicidal thoughts.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Selena explained that she never harmed herself, despite drowning in dark thoughts for several years in between suffering from psychosis and being diagnosed with bipolar.
She told the mag: 'I thought the world would be better if I wasn't there.'
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Selena first told the world she was living with bipolar in 2020, but the documentary, and the equally uninhibited conversation with Rolling Stone gives a glimpse in to how she and her doctors reached that diagnosis - including several stays as an in-patient.
She said: 'I’m going to be very open with everybody about this: I’ve been to four treatment centres. I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad.'
For weeks or months at a time, Selena veered between feeling high and low, with no obvious trigger. She would go from being unable to sleep for days and gripped by a determination to do random, extravagant things, like buy a car for everyone she knew.
These manic episodes would be followed by periods of crushing lows. In her own words, 'it would start with depression, then it would go into isolation. Then it just was me not being able to move from my bed. I didn’t want anyone to talk to me. My friends would bring me food because they love me, but none of us knew what it was. Sometimes it was weeks I’d be in bed, to where even walking downstairs would get me out of breath.'
In 2018 she was hospitalised for psychosis, and remains grateful that she 'walked out of it', acknowledging that many people are not fortunate enough to recover. It is a time of her life she doesn't remember much of, but it led to her eventual bipolar diagnosis. It also marked the start of a period where she was extremely medicated as doctors at the facility tried to find the right combination of pills that would keep her condition under control.
Although on paper she recovered and was allowed to leave, emotionally she didn't feel well at all.
Selena explained: 'It was just that I was gone. There was no part of me that was there anymore.' A new psychiatrist then helped her hone the medications she was taking so that she could feel stable and happy - and like herself.
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I’m managing editor Kim Schmidt, welcome to On The Record. Here’s a look at what’s currently impacting the ag equipment industry.
Big Dealer List Grows
Ag Equipment Intelligence released its annual Big Dealer Report this week. This year, the list grew to 192 dealers from 188 dealers last year. For the sake of the report, a Big Dealer is any dealer who operates 5 or more ag equipment stores. The number of Big Dealers has increased by 26.5% since we began tracking it back in 2009.
Likewise, the number of ag stores operated by Big Dealers has grown by 30%, from about 1,500 to almost 2,000 individual store locations.
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George Russell of the Machinery Advisors Consortium, who collaborates with Ag Equipment Intelligence on the report, notes that in 2013 and 2014 we saw a drop in the number of big dealers because big dealers were acquiring or merging with other big dealers. Today, however, he says the more prominent trend has been an increase in dealerships on the lower end of the list.
In the last 2 years, for example, 14 dealers have been added to the Big Dealer list while only a few have dropped off.
Dealers on the Move
Dealers on the Move this week are Washington Tractor and HTS Ag.
John Deere dealer Washington Tractor opened a new location in Sumner, Wash., which will now serve as the dealership’s corporate headquarters. Washington Tractor has 12 total locations.
Precision farming dealer HTS Ag of Harlan and Ames, Iowa, has acquired fellow precision dealer Aeration Management Solutions of Indianapolis.
Ag Manufacturers Consolidate
It’s not just dealers who have been consolidating. Over the last year there’s been a flurry of merger and acquisition activity among ag equipment manufacturers.
Eric Bosveld, Bozveld & Associates
Some trends in the ag equipment M&A market, according to Eric Bosveld president of Bosveld & Associates, include majors buying up shortlines to strengthen their position in areas they may be weaker; manufacturers investing or acquiring technology, specialty market or engineering expertise; and private equity firms entering the market.
Bosveld says a strategy that is a great fit for private equity groups is the rollup or add-on strategy with shortline companies, which provides more revenue stability because of the added diversity. We spoke with Bosveld by phone and he says this is an area he expects to see more activity in going forward.
“So you can add to your dealer network to grow regionally and you can diversify and broaden your product line. And once you get more product lines across more crops, say touch the hay and forage equipment markets, for example, the more stability you’re going to have in your revenue stream going forward. So I think that once we see the ag economy begin to turn the corner, we will start to see more activity by the private equity groups in this space as well.”
No-Tillers to Reduce Spending
According to No-Till Farmer’s 8th annual No-Till Operational Benchmark Survey, 67% of respondents were profitable in 2015. This is down from 81% who said they were profitable in 2014.
No-Tillers are feeling the impact of the down ag economy. According to the survey, no-tillers saw their net profit per farm go down 40.7% vs. 2014.
Looking ahead to 2016 spending, no-tillers will likely reduce overall spending on average by 6.5% for a total of $423,486 for the current growing season. Equipment is one area that will see a cut, with no-tillers estimating spending 17% less in the coming year.
No-Till Farmer readers shared that they plan to spend almost $7,000 less on equipment expenses than they did in 2015, and we expect this to hold true.
In the history of our Benchmark Survey, no-tillers tend to be more conservative in how much they predict they’ll spend in the upcoming season. But in 2015, they actually stayed under their estimated budgets, spending an average $41,133 on equipment, which was about $1,000 less than what they predicted.
This year they estimate spending just over $34,000 on equipment, with 8% purchasing a tractor, 6% purchasing a planter, and 4% purchasing a combine. Three percent of survey takers said they will buy a no-till drill, self-propelled sprayer or pull-type sprayer.
No-Tillers’ Precision Spending Exceeds 2015 Projections
Moving into the second quarter of 2016, many precision dealers are maintaining a conservative sales outlook for the foreseeable future. But there may be reason for optimism, based on the recent results of No-Till Farmer’s 8th annual Benchmark Study.
Respondents reported spending more than $6,300, or approximately $5.50 per acre on precision farming technology in 2015, nearly triple the $2,600 that no-tillers had initially forecasted in last year’s benchmark study.
The 2015 total also ended a 4-year downward trend in precision farming expenditures, which peaked at more than $8,800 per farm in 2011.
So was last year’s increase a sign of things to come, or a temporary rebound? That remains to be seen, as no-tillers are forecasting precision expenditures of about $3,500 or $3.13 per acre this year — well below 2015 totals, but on par with 2014 expenditures. In 2013, no-tillers estimated spending about $4,100 on precision farming equipment, well below the approximately $6,800 they invested in 2012.
Although overall spending on technology may be fluctuating, the percentage of no-tillers utilizing advanced precision systems remained largely unchanged year-over-year according to the 2016 No-Till Farmer study.
GPS and tractor auto-steer remained the most commonly used technology with 50% of no-tillers utilizing the systems. About 41% of no-tillers do yield monitor data analysis, followed by 40% who do field mapping and 40% who use lightbars for GPS guidance.
Two new categories added in 2016 round out the top 5, with 32% of no-tillers using auto-boom shutoffs and 30% utilizing auto-seed shutoff.
The biggest year-over-year increase came in the number of no-tillers using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, doubling from 3% in 2015 to 6% this year.
Art’s Way Ag Sales Drop 21% in 1Q
Art’s Way released its first quarter earnings report on April 14. The company reported total sales for the quarter were down 12.3%, while net income was down 51.7%.
The decline in revenue was largely due to decreased demand for its ag products, the company says. Ag sales for the quarter came in at about $4.2 million, a 21% decline compared to the first quarter of 2015.
Art’s Way Chairman Marc McConnell says that while they are in the midst of a challenging year, he believes the management team is doing a good job of giving them the best shot at being profitable under the current circumstances.
McConnell adds that no matter the size of the company, everyone is feeling the weakness in the ag market, and they will just have to adjust to what’s going on so they can succeed and be there when things improve.
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In 1984, when Tenneco purchased the ag division of International Harvester and merged it with its Case subsidiary, they invited the International Harvester dealers into a series of meetings to launch the new company. At the first meeting, Case IH brought out a 94 series tractor painted white with the Case International decals. Straub International, a Case IH dealer with 6 locations in Kansas, says there was an uproar among the dealers at the meeting upon seeing the white tractor. By the next meeting, the tractor was painted red.
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Scottish Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said racist threats had left him so "worried" about his safety and that of his family that he carries an personal attack alarm as "par for the course".
Mr Yousaf has also beefed up security at his house and his constituency office, and no longer conducts surgeries alone.
The politician, who was the first Holyrood minister to come from an ethnic minority background, told how he had received a private briefing from the police on security after reporting some incidents.
He also insisted the abuse he faced had worsened since the vote for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US President.
The Transport Minister highlighted a social media post showing a picture of him and his family, with the caption "Yet another problem that a machine gun would solve" as an example of the abuse he has had to deal with.
He spoke out after Labour MSP Anas Sarwar claimed that he had suffered racial abuse when he stood in the Scottish Labour leadership contest last year.
Mr Sarwar, a Glasgow MSP who lost out to left-winger Richard Leonard, claimed an elected councillor had told him he could not support him because he was a "brown, Muslim Paki".
Mr Yousaf, the MSP for Glasgow Pollok, told the Sunday Herald newspaper: "I get worried about my family. I've had a private briefing from police on the back of reporting some incidents. They said these are the steps that you might want to take to protect your constituency office and so forth. It's not a place you want to be in. But I've had to take all those steps.
"I carry a personal alarm. I just do that par for the course and carry it in my jacket. I shouldn't have a need to carry it."
He added: "During Brexit and post-Brexit it's got worse without a shadow of doubt. Frankly, part of it is not helped by the polarised debate around faith, whether that's in Europe or across the pond in the United States.
"It has exacerbated things. Brexit is a horrible example of that, with the rhetoric and anti-immigration tone."
Mr Sarwar said on Twitter: "You are right to speak out @HumzaYousaf. Don't listen to those that will undoubtedly claim "race card", do whataboutery or send more abuse. They inadvertently prove that everyday racism and Islamophobia exists." | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9807411432266235, "wiki_prob": 0.9807411432266235, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line320056"} |
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Lawrence, Jaguars' offense struggle again in loss at Indy
By MICHAEL MAROT - Nov. 14, 2021 07:09 PM EST
Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Laviska Shenault Jr. (10) is tackled by Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Darius Leonard (53) and middle linebacker Bobby Okereke (58) in the second half of an NFL football game in Indianapolis, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Trevor Lawrence finally got a chance to play for the win.
Trailing 23-17 with 2:17 left on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts, the rookie jogged onto the field, confident he could lead the Jaguars to the winning score and end nearly two years of road futility.
Those hopes vanished as rookie defensive end Dayo Odeyingbo and 2020 All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner sacked Lawrence and ripped the ball out. Kemoko Turay recovered to seal Indy's victory.
“This is a team that, that’s what they do is take the ball away,” Lawrence said. “We talked about it this week and that was a point of emphasis. As I was going down, someone came from the back side and punched it out. I just have to take care of it. I didn’t think the ball was super loose, but that’s on me.”
The Jags (2-7) headed home with their 12th consecutive road loss and nine straight defeats against division foes.
For Lawrence and the offense, it wasn't an easy one to accept.
After showing promise with two wins over the last three games, Lawrence and the Jags struggled mightily against an improving Indy defense. Lawrence went 3 of 14 passing while converting just one of eight third-down chances in the first half.
He finished 16 of 35 for 162 yards and a rating of 59.5, taking three sacks and turning the ball over for the 13th time this season.
And while the top overall pick in April's draft quickly accepted responsibility, teammates knew there was plenty of blame to share.
“It sounds like we’re talking and it’s all Trevor’s fault and it’s not anywhere close to that,” tight end Dan Arnold said. “I think everybody played bad. There were dropped balls everywhere and penalties everywhere. I think it’s one of those things that as an offense, we have to put it on our shoulders and say, ‘Hey, we have to get better and we will.’”
Lawrence spent much of the game trying to evade defenders and overcome long-yardage situations.
A slow start by the defense and special teams only complicated matters.
When E.J. Speed returned a blocked punt for a touchdown, the Colts led 10-0 midway through the first quarter.
“Bubba (Ventrone) had a feeling we were going to block a punt this week,” Indy coach Frank Reich said, referring to his special teams coordinator. “We’ve been doing some serious punt block drills in middle of the season and he said ‘Someone’s going to get it.’ Bubba was really confident we were going to get a block this week.”
Defensively, there were other problems.
Jonathan Taylor piled up 93 of his 116 yards in the first quarter against a defense that allowed 100 yards rushing to only two of first eight opponents. Taylor's 4-yard scoring run put Jacksonville in a 17-0 hole that it never quite got out of.
While the defense only gave up two more field goals over the final three quarters and Lawrence got the Jags within 20-17 on a 2-point conversion pass to Arnold early in the fourth quarter, the Colts made sure Lawrence didn't take advantage of his final chance.
“This one stung (for Trevor), I could tell,” coach Urban Meyer said. “This one hurt him. A lot of guys were stung in there because we felt like we could go down and win the game, on the road and against a good team.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8398652672767639, "wiki_prob": 0.8398652672767639, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line236859"} |
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3Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
4formerly: Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
now: Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, DH1 3LE
5Archaeological Research and Consultancy (ARCUS), Research School of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, S1 4DT
6Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 4 Pelton Mews, Chester-le-Street, Durham, DH2 1QG
7Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, Northgate House, West Street, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4ET
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Some diseases have played a more significant role in human development than others. Here we describe the results of a trial to diagnose ancient tuberculosis using chemical methods. Palaeo-epidemiological studies of the disease are compromised, but it has become apparent that tuberculosis (TB) is a 'population-density dependent' disease. From modern studies, it is also apparent that the prevalence of TB can be used as an indicator of the level of poverty within the studied population.
Mid-shaft rib samples from articulated individuals recovered from the former Newcastle Infirmary Burial Ground (1753-1845 AD) were examined for mycolic acids that are species-specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The 24% of ribs positive for mycolic acids correlated with the documented 27% tuberculosis prevalence. Mycolic acid biomarkers have the potential to provide an accurate trace of the palaeo-epidemiology of tuberculosis in ancient populations, thereby providing an indication of the overall level of poverty - a useful adjunct for archaeology.
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accessiBe: In honor of the International Day of People with Disabilities we turned to the experts to understand... Why is web accessibility important?
Hayden Orr, Programmer and Artist: Hi, I’m Hayden Orr (in sign language).
John Kemp, CEO, Viscardi Center: Today, we rely upon the internet and the world wide web for shopping, for education, for employment, for all aspects of our daily living.
Rafi Fischer, OrCam: There really isn't anybody these days that does not interact with the web in some form
Amy Pinder, Founder, Inclusion Festival: Social activities and recreational activities
Mike Caprara, CIO, Viscardi Center: Being able to apply for, uh, for employment, being able to go for a job interview
Becca Lefanowicz, High Fives Foundation: Pressing a button and not being able to press the button because the size of the icon isn't large enough is probably the most frustrating thing ever.
Hayden Orr, Programmer, and Artist: Technology and art (in sign language).
Donnie Welch, Founder, Let's Write About: Free and appropriate education
Maegen Pierce, CEO, Breakthrough Behavior: Uh, access to positions, access to information.
Jim Gaven, Key of Awesome Music: Web accessibility is, is great for music. I mean, think you can really learn how to play an instrument just by popping on YouTube.
Mike Caprara, CIO, Viscardi Center: I was doing good. And then the phone kept going off.
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accessiBe: Why is web accessibility important?
Donnie Welch, Founder, Let's Write About: web accessibility is really about equal access.
John Kemp, CEO, Viscardi Center: It is not fair to people with disabilities to be put behind.
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Talia Chudacoff, accessiBe: But currently the only people who have access to that kind of information are people who can access the internet.
Inbal Reichler, Founder, Wave-ability: If It's not accessible over the internet you're still excluding people with disabilities, from what the internet has to offer.
Amy Pinder, Founder, Inclusion Festival: It's very, very critical that all people have an equal right to access it.
Miriam Lerner, Sign language Interpreter: There's no point to even using that word if that word doesn't apply to everyone.
Jim Gaven, Key of Awesome Music: So if we didn't have this capability, people would be kind of Sol for lack of a better way to say it.
Hayden Orr, Programmer and Artist: I have to scour the web for information and resources to help me with my projects (in sign language)
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Winter Carnival Returns to CHS
Peter Mourad|March 21, 2022
This year’s winter carnival was an eventful one from spirit week and pep rally to finally having an in-person dance after not having one last year.
Winter carnival is rich in tradition at CHS, and one of those traditions is class spirit champions. Every year, one spirit champion is chosen for each grade.
“The spirit champions are chosen to try to involve the classes and get everyone more hype about the week,” student council representative Lia Spink (‘23) said. “There was a Google form that was put out a couple days before the winter carnival week so students could vote on the champions.”
This year’s spirit champions were senior Zach Breining, junior Carter Alexander, sophomore Leland Curanovic, and freshman Cade Alhstrom.
Every day during spirit week, the spirit champions led their classes in dressing up following the daily theme in order to earn points for their class.
“[Zach and I] won the dress up for spirit week every day; Zach got first and I got second,” Alexander said. “That was fun along with the games at the pep rally, but it was more like a friendly competition than anything.”
Throughout every spirit week, there is a competition between the classes to see who can win the most points.
“I wanted to get the whole class involved and get everyone to go all out for a week,” Alexander said. “The main goal was to beat the seniors of course.”
In the end, the senior class won the point competition after a close battle with the juniors, but everyone gave it their all during the pep rally and point competition during the week.
“Points were given for how many people dress up, lunch time games, and also the spirit champions get points for their classes if they participated in the tasks given to them each day,” Spink said.
However, this year was a little different with a 100 dollar gift card on the line for the winner.
“I had a fun time competing against the senior spirit champion Zach Breining,” Alexander said. “In the end, we both agreed that we wanted to split the $100 gift card and both do as much as possible for the week.”
One of the highlights of the winter carnival is the pep rally. All students get to leave their classes early to gather in the gym and watch a fierce but fun competition between their classes.
Spirit champions are leaders for their classes at the pep rally to keep the energy high.
“I didn’t really feel like I was a leader,” Alexander said. “I was, but everyone was riled up and jumping up and down the whole time anyways; it was just a good environment.”
The pep rally is meant to be a celebration of school spirit, filled with competitions between the classes.
“The pep rally is similar each year,” Spink said. “We always do musical chairs and dodgeball, along with the cheerleader performance and class hype ups.”
The student council organized all of the winter carnival, and they faced some obstacles along the way.
“We tried getting some fun lights for the pep rally but it was not approved, which changed our plans a bit,” Spink said. “Of course, we had to consider the mask mandate, which was still in effect during our spirit week, but that didn’t change too much.”
This year, the traditional winter carnival dance returned after its cancellation last year due to the pandemic. It was held on March 12th from 8 to 10 inside the school and brought excitement to many students.
“I’m super happy the dance happened this year,” Alexander said. “I think everyone needed it, especially since it was cancelled last year.”
Along with the pep rally, the dance is a highlight of winter carnival every year.
“My favorite part of the winter carnival would have to be the dance,” Spink said. “I love the week building up to it and getting ready with all of my friends. The string lights, music, and just the fun atmosphere were great.”
This year’s winter carnival was a success and a great way to celebrate Chelsea spirit.
“It was a pleasure to be spirit champion,” Alexander said. “I felt like it wasn’t about me, it was more about everyone else and making sure everyone had a fun week.”
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RCBC at center of cyber heist appeals New York court loss to Bangladesh
January 21, 2023 - 10:40 AM
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MANILA—A Philippine bank at the center of an unsolved $81 million cyber heist has appealed a New York Supreme Court decision to dismiss the bank’s motion to throw out the Bangladesh central bank’s lawsuit against it.
In February 2016, unidentified hackers used fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system to steal $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The money was sent to accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) RCB.PS and then vanished into the casino industry in the Philippines.
Bangladesh Bank has accused RCBC and several others, including top executives, of conspiring to steal its money. The Manila-based Rizal bank denies the allegations.
The New York Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 13 that, contrary to Rizal bank’s argument, it does have jurisdiction over the case, and dismissed Rizal bank’s motion against Bangladesh Bank.
In the same ruling, the court ordered the Bangladesh central bank and RCRC to initiate mediation.
In response to the ruling, Rizal bank said it would continue to fight the case.
“The decision and order merely resolved the jurisidictional issues and is not in any way a finding of liability on the part of RCBC, or any of the individual defendants,” it said in a stock exchange disclosure.
Bangladesh Bank has welcomed the court ruling, saying in a statement this week that it clears the way for the matter to progress in court in New York as needed.
A banking sector source in Dhaka, who declined to be named as he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that according to the Bangladesh central bank, RCBC should now come forward for mediation or prepare for a long court battle.
—Reporting by Karen Lema in Manila and Krishna N. Das in New Delhi; Additional reporting by Neil Jerome MoralesEditing by Kanupriya Kapoor
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1 Pashmina Shawls
1.1 What is Pashmina Shawl?
1.2 What is Silk?
1.3 Where do we find Pashmina Shawls?
1.4 What is Kashmiri Pashmina Shawl?
1.5 How to wear Pashmina Shawl?
1.6 Pashmina Shawl Price
1.7 How much does a Pashmina Shawl cost in India?
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1.8.6 Red Valentine’s Day Dress in 2023
Everything you need to know about pashmina shawls, including their meaning, price range, pashmina shawl kya hai, and pure pashmina shawls from Kashmir for women and men.
What is Pashmina Shawl?
Pashmina Shawl is a wonderful piece of wool and silk that is worked by sewing in pairs together, one from each color on the cloth, forming an intricate pattern, and keeping a clasp at each end of the shawl to fasten around the head, waist, or shoulders.
The shawl is an ancient technique of weaving. It is not very easy to learn at first, it is very time-consuming, and it takes many craftsmen and women around a lifetime to perfect, even with the latest technology and new techniques. Nevertheless, the people in some countries still use it.
I have recently received a few skeins of silk and wool yarn from Aussamah at Restrooms and Laundries in Oman. They also offered to knit me a pashmina shawl, as I asked for one since I told them about the silk I had received. So I also received some information on this famous and popular pashmina shawl.
I already knew it is a shawl which is given as a present, or sometimes just for decoration. Since it is so versatile and strong, it is also used for bed-wear, head-wear, and for painting, etc. It is an exclusive and beautiful thing for those who want to give a special present.
Pashmina Shawl
Silk is the kind of cloth which has two kinds of threads which are not completely twisted or mixed together.
From the color of the thread to the size, the different types of silk are named accordingly: Turquoise, Blue, Efflorescent Purple.
All of these threads of silk, or wool, or cotton, are twisted and tumbled together to form the fabric, which is used for those beautiful pashmina shawls.
These beautiful colors of silk, wool and cotton are not only used to make pashmina shawls, but also for other pieces of clothing such as scarfs, capes, shawls, curtains, and other items.
Where do we find Pashmina Shawls?
You can easily find pashmina shawls at the local roadside shops at popular places in Kashmir, Turkey, Tibet, Pakistan, Kathmandu, and India.
What is Kashmiri Pashmina Shawl?
Kashmiri Pashmina Shawl is the most unique fiber and fabric with intricate patterns, stitching, and gorgeous textures. It is known for its natural feel, soft texture and delicateness only found in nature.
The pashmina is the naturally coated hair of the Himalayan goat which is kept away from the sun. The hairs are of a brown color and used to weave such distinct patterns as in the silk, chikhkhel. The pashmina is a coarse and full brushed product of the goat.
The product ranges from soft cotton to pure wool and then to delicate silk. The pashmina has to be combed when wet, washed well to obtain a soft, combed, and smooth texture.
The pashmina comes from Kashmir and it is the most productive product of the state. It is the natural fiber of the Himalayas. The product is supposed to be the finest quality, highly prized, and the finest luxury product of the region.
It has a fine brushed texture, soft silk, and a texture of softness that is unique to the hair. The weavers of Kashmir have specially tailored techniques to give a touch of the softness in the texture of the pashmina.
The pashmina is a completely natural fiber, so it does not shed or harm the natural environment. It stays for long and does not break when washed and used in the fabric.
How to wear Pashmina Shawl?
The versatile shawl is that the perfect item to possess available should the evening get chilly, and as it’s available in various colors, you’re bound to find one that goes together with your wardrobe. Featuring a flowing shape with an asymmetric hem and soft brushed finish for warmth and luxury, the oversized pashmina is ideal for laying over outfits, or for an additional layer within the evening.
The sweetness of massive wraps just like the RIIQIICHY wrap is that you simply can sling them over a piece blazer, wrap them around a proper dress, or drape them over head-to-toe black to offer you a lift of color.
They’re whatever you would like them to be. Wrap it or drape it, a pashmina is that the answer once you want an additional layer of heat and luxury but don’t need to compromise on style. you’ll even keep it in your handbag as a precaution.
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Pashmina Shawl Price
How much does a Pashmina Shawl cost in India?
For those curious about knowing what proportion the famous Pashmina Shawl Price or costs, we’ve made a fast summary of the foremost popular ones we’ve seen.
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Hardyston, Franklin and Hamburg announce the closing of the Littell Community Center – The Littell Community Center located at Munsonhurst Road and the Joint Recreation Department will be closed effective June 30, 2020. The Littell Community Center has been a joint endeavor between Hardyston and Franklin since 1998, with Hamburg joining in 2013. The Littell Community Center, named in honor of the late State Senator and Franklin resident Senator Robert E. Littell has been an important part of the community and provided much needed service to the residents of our respective communities. The Littell Center has been a place to meet for all ages and provide space for seniors, youth sports, and non-profit organizations. Over the years, we have offered summer camps, movies, craft programs, exercise programs, and holiday celebrations. The decision to close the center is not due to budget constraints or a belief that the services provided by the center are no longer needed but rather the termination of a long-term lease agreement with the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs (DMVA) who own the building. The Township and Boroughs currently lease the building, a former armory, from DMVA for a modest annual rent based on a percentage of the space reserved for the community center and the annual operational and maintenance costs. The National Guard and the NJ Department of Labor have also utilized a portion of the building over the years. Over the last several years, as the building has continued to age and the building maintenance and repair costs increase, the State has listed the facility as surplus property and sought a potential buyer. The asking price for the building exceeded any financial consideration the Township or Boroughs would be able to consider. In January, the building was sold to a buyer at auction and the Township and Boroughs were notified that we would need to be prepared to vacate the building by June 30, 2020. We understand that this is a loss for the community and we have been actively working over the last several months to ensure that we can continue to meet the recreation needs of our residents. We are engaged in discussions with the schools, the Sussex County YMCA and local faith based organizations and believe that while it may look different than what was offered in the past we will be able to continue to serve the community. The COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly cut short our time at the Littell Center the last few months and we regret that we are unable to see through the closure under normal circumstances. The joint partnership over the years has been invaluable in providing recreational opportunities to our residents, while the loss of the Littell Center will surely be felt by our respective communities we will continue to work together to find opportunities for shared recreation endeavors and programs.
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The Lap-Band® System is indicated for use in weight reduction for severely obese patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 35 or a BMI of at least 30 with one or more severe comorbid conditions, or those who are 100 pounds or more over their estimated ideal weight according to the 1983 Metropolitan Life Insurance Tables (use the midpoint for medium frame). It is indicated for use only in severely obese patients 14 years and older who have failed more conservative weight-reduction alternatives such as supervised diet, exercise and behavior modification programs. Patients who elect to have this surgery must make the commitment to accept significant changes in their eating habits for the rest of their lives.
Weight loss associated with the Lap-Band® System has been shown to improve or lead to remission of type 2 diabetes in patients with BMI greater than or equal to 35.
The Lap-Band AP® System is contraindicated in:
Patients with inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (part of the digestive system consisting of the stomach and intestines), including severe intractable esophagitis, gastric ulceration, duodenal ulceration, or specific inflammation such as Crohn’s disease.
Patients with severe cardiopulmonary diseases or other serious organic disease which may make them poor surgical candidates.
Patients with potential upper gastrointestinal bleeding conditions such as esophageal or gastric varices or congenital or acquired intestinal telangiectases.
Patients with portal hypertension.
Patients with congenital or acquired anomalies of the GI tract such as atresias or stenoses.
Patients who have/experience an intra-operative gastric injury during the implantation procedure, such as a gastric perforation at or near the location of the intended band placement.
Patients with cirrhosis.
Patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Patients who are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs.
Patients under 14 years of age (adolescent patients 14 to 17 years of age must be post-pubescent).
Patients who have an infection anywhere in their body or where the possibility of contamination prior to or during the surgery exists.
Patients on chronic, long-term steroid treatment.
Patients who are unable or unwilling to comply with dietary restrictions that are required by this procedure.
Patients who are known to have, or suspected to have, an allergic reaction to materials contained in the system or who have exhibited pain intolerance to implanted devices.
Patients or family members with a known diagnosis or pre-existing symptoms of autoimmune connective- tissue disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus or scleroderma.
Pregnancy: Placement of the Lap-Band AP® System is contraindicated for patients who currently are or may be pregnant. Patients who become pregnant after band placement may require deflation of their bands.
Laparoscopic or laparotomic placement of the Lap-Band AP® System is major surgery and death can occur.
Failure to secure the band properly may result in its subsequent displacement and necessitate a second operation.
A large hiatal hernia may prevent accurate positioning of the device. Placement of the band should be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the hernia.
The band should not be sutured to the stomach. Suturing the band directly to the stomach may result in erosion.
Patients’ emotional and psychological stability should be evaluated prior to surgery. Gastric banding may be determined by a physician to be inappropriate for select patients.
Patients should be advised that the Lap-Band AP® System is a long-term implant. Explant (removal) and replacement surgery may be indicated at any time. Medical management of adverse reactions may include explantation. Revision surgery for explantation and replacement may also be indicated to achieve patient satisfaction.
Esophageal distension or dilatation has been reported to result from stoma obstruction from over-restriction by excessive band inflation. Patients should not expect to lose weight as fast as gastric bypass patients, and band inflation should proceed in small increments. Deflation of the band is recommended if esophageal dilatation develops.
Some types of esophageal dysmotility may result in inadequate weight loss or may result in esophageal dilatation when the band is inflated and may require removal of the band. On the basis of each patient’s medical history and symptoms, surgeons should determine whether esophageal motility function studies are necessary. If these studies indicate that the patient has esophageal dysmotility, the increased risks associated with band placement must be considered.
Patients with Barrett’s esophagus may have problems associated with their esophageal pathology that could compromise their post-surgical course. Use of the band in these patients should be considered on the basis of each patient’s medical history and severity of symptoms.
Patient self-adjustment of superficially placed access ports has been reported. This can result in inappropriate band tightness, infection and other complications.
Patients must be carefully counseled on the need to report all vomiting, abdominal pain or other gastrointestinal or nutritional issues as these symptoms may indicate a condition not related to the Lap-Band® System.
Laparoscopic band placement is an advanced laparoscopic procedure. Surgeons planning laparoscopic placement must:
a. Have extensive advanced laparoscopic experience, i.e., fundoplications.
b. Have previous experience in treating obese patients and have the staff and commitment to comply with the long-term follow-up requirements of obesity procedures.
c. Participate in a training program for the Lap-Band® System authorized by ReShape Lifesciences, Inc. or an authorized ReShape Lifesciences, Inc. distributor (this is a requirement for use).
d. Be observed by qualified personnel during their first band placements.
e. Have the equipment and experience necessary to complete the procedure via laparotomy if required.
f. Be willing to report the results of their experience to further improve the surgical treatment of severe obesity.
It is the responsibility of the surgeon to advise the patient of the known risks and complications associated with the surgical procedure and implant.
As with other gastroplasty surgeries, particular care must be taken during dissection and during implantation of the device to avoid damage to the gastrointestinal tract. Any damage to the stomach during the procedure may result in erosion of the device into the GI tract.
During insertion of the Calibration Tube, care must be taken to prevent perforation of the esophagus or stomach.
Revision procedures may require the existing staple line to be partially disrupted to avoid having a second point of obstruction below the band. As with any revision procedure, the possibility of complications such as erosion and infection is increased. Any damage to the stomach during the procedure may result in peritonitis and death or in late erosion of the device into the GI tract.
Care must be taken to place the Access Port in a stable position away from areas that may be affected by significant weight loss, physical activity or subsequent surgery. Failure to do so may result in the inability to perform percutaneous band adjustments.
Care must be taken during band adjustment to avoid puncturing the tubing that connects the Access Port and band, as this will cause leakage and deflation of the inflatable section.
Failure to create a stable, smooth path for the Access Port tubing, without sharp turns or bends, can result in tubing breaks and leakage. In order to avoid incorrect placement, the port should be placed lateral to the trocar opening. A pocket must be created for the port so that it is placed far enough from the trocar path to avoid abrupt kinking of the tubing. The tubing path should point in the direction of the Access Port connector so that the tubing will form a straight line with a gentle arching transition into the abdomen.
(See Figure 1. Port Placement Options).
The Lap-Band AP® System is for single use only. Do not use a band, Access Port, needle or calibration tube that appears damaged (cut, torn, etc.) in any way. Do not use any of the above components if the package has been opened or damaged or if there is any evidence of tampering. If packaging has been damaged, the product may not be sterile and may cause an infection.
Do not attempt to clean or re-sterilize any part of the Lap-Band AP® System. The product may be damaged or distorted if re-sterilized.
Special care must be used when handling the device because contaminants such as lint, fingerprints and talc may lead to a foreign body reaction.
Care must be taken to avoid damaging the band, its inflatable section or tubing, the Access Port or the calibration tube. Use only rubber-shod clamps to clamp tubing.
The band, Access Port and calibration tube may be damaged by sharp objects and manipulation with instruments. A damaged device must not be implanted. For this reason, a stand-by device should be available at the time of surgery.
Failure to use the tubing end plug during placement of the band may result in damage to the band tubing during band placement.
Do not push the tip of any instrument against the stomach wall or use excessive electrocautery. Stomach perforation or damage may result in peritonitis and death.
Over-dissection of the stomach during placement may result in slippage or erosion of the band and require reoperation.
Failure to use an appropriate atraumatic instrument to lock the band may result in damage to the band or injury to surrounding tissues.
When adjusting band volume, take care to ensure the radiographic screen is perpendicular to the needle shaft (the needle will appear as a dot on the screen). This will facilitate adjustment of needle position as needed while moving through the tissue to the port.
When adjusting band volume, use of an inappropriate needle may cause Access Port leakage and require reoperation to replace the port. Use only Lap-Band AP® System Access Port Needles. Do not use standard hypodermic needles, as these may cause leaks.
When adjusting band volume, the needle must be inserted perpendicular to the Access Port septum. Failure to do so may cause damage to the port and result in leaks.
When adjusting band volume never enter the Access Port with a “syringeless” needle. The fluid in the device is under pressure and will be released through the needle.
When adjusting band volume after the septum is punctured, do not tilt or rock the needle, as this may cause fluid leakage or damage to the septum.
When adjusting band volume, if fluid has been added, it is important to establish that the stoma is not too small before discharge. Care must be taken to not add too much saline, thereby closing the gastric stoma. Check the adjustment by having the patient drink water. If the patient is unable to swallow, remove some fluid from the port, then re-check. A physician familiar with the adjustment procedure must be available for several days post-adjustment to deflate the band in case of an obstruction.
It is the responsibility of the surgeon to advise the patient of the dietary restrictions that follow this procedure and to provide diet and behavior modification support. Failure to adhere to the dietary restrictions may result in obstruction and/or failure to lose weight.
Patients must be carefully counseled on the need for proper dietary habits. They should be evaluated for nutritional (including caloric) needs and advised on the proper diet selection. The physician may choose to prescribe appropriate dietary supplements. Appropriate physical monitoring and dietary counseling should take place regularly.
Patients must be cautioned to chew their food thoroughly. Patients with dentures must be cautioned to be particularly careful to cut their food into small pieces. Failure to follow these precautions may result in vomiting, stomal irritation and edema, possibly even obstruction.
Patients must be seen regularly during periods of rapid weight loss for signs of malnutrition, anemia or other related complications.
Anti-inflammatory agents, such as aspirin, and non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), may irritate the stomach and should be used with caution. The use of such medications may be associated with an increased risk of erosion.
Patients who become pregnant, severely ill, or who require more extensive nutrition may require deflation of their bands.
All patients should have their reproductive areas shielded during radiography.
Insufficient weight loss may be caused by pouch enlargement or, more infrequently, band erosion in which case further inflation of the band would not be appropriate.
Elevated homocysteine levels have been found in patients actively losing weight after obesity surgery. Supplemental folate and vitamin B12 may be necessary to maintain normal homocysteine levels. Elevated homocysteine levels may increase cardiovascular risk and the risk of neural tube abnormalities.
Although there have been no reports of autoimmune disease with the use of the Lap-Band® System, auto-immune diseases/connective tissue disorders (i.e., systemic lupus erythematosus, sclero-derma) have been reported following long-term implantation of other silicone implants. However, there is no conclusive evidence to substantiate a relationship between connective-tissue disorders and silicone implants.
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It is important to discuss all possible complications and adverse events with your patient. Complications which may result from the use of this product include the risks associated with the medications and methods utilized in the surgical procedure, the risks associated with any surgical procedure and the patient’s degree of intolerance to any foreign object implanted in the body.
Perforation of the stomach can occur. Death can also occur. Specific complications of laparoscopic surgery can include spleen damage (sometimes requiring splenectomy) or liver damage, bleeding from major blood vessels, lung problems, thrombosis, and rupture of the wound.
Ulceration, gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux, heartburn, gas bloat, dysphagia, dehydration, constipation, and weight regain have been reported after gastric restriction procedures.
Band slippage and/or pouch dilatation can occur. Gastroesophageal reflux, nausea and/or vomiting with early or minor slippage may be successfully resolved by band deflation in some cases. More serious slippages may require surgery to reposition and/or remove the band. Immediate reoperation to remove the band is indicated if there is total stoma outlet obstruction that does not respond to band deflation or if there is abdominal pain.
Gastric banding done as a revision procedure has a greater risk of complications. Prior abdominal surgery is commonly associated with adhesions involving the stomach. In the
U.S. pivotal study of severely obese adults, 42% of the subjects undergoing revision surgery were reported to have adhesions involving the stomach. Care and time must be taken to adequately release the adhesions to provide access, exposure and mobilization of the stomach for a revision procedure.
There is a risk of band erosion into stomach tissue. Erosion of the band into stomach tissue has been associated with revision surgery after the use of gastric-irritating medications, after stomach damage and after extensive dissection or use of electrocautery, and during early surgeon experience. Symptoms of band erosion may include reduced weight loss, weight gain, Access Port infection, or abdominal pain. Reoperation to remove the device is required.
Reoperation for band erosions may result in a gastrectomy of the affected area. Eroded bands have been removed gastroscopically in very few cases. Consultation with other experienced Lap-Band® System surgeons is strongly advised in these cases.
Esophageal distension or dilatation has been infrequently reported. This is most likely a consequence of incorrect band placement, over-restriction or stoma obstruction. It can also be due to excessive vomiting or patient noncompliance, and may be more likely in cases of pre-existing esophageal dysmotility. Deflation of the band is recommended if esophageal dilatation develops. A revision procedure may be necessary to reposition or remove the band if deflation does not resolve the dilatation.
Obstruction of stomas has been reported as both an early and a late complication of this procedure. This can be caused by edema, food, improper initial calibration, band slippage, pouch torsion, or patient non-compliance regarding choice and chewing of food.
Infection can occur in the immediate post-operative period or years after insertion of the device. In the presence of infection or contamination, removal of the device is indicated.
Unplanned deflation of the band may occur due to leakage from the band, the port or the connecting tubing.
Nausea and vomiting may occur, particularly in the first few days after surgery and when the patient eats more than recommended. Nausea and vomiting may also be symptoms of stoma obstruction or a band/stomach slippage. Frequent, severe vomiting can result in pouch dilatation, stomach slippage or esophageal dilatation. Deflation of the band is immediately indicated in all of these situations. Deflation of the band may alleviate excessively rapid weight loss and nausea and vomiting. Reoperation to reposition or remove the device may be required.
Rapid weight loss may result in symptoms of malnutrition, anemia and related complications (i.e., polyneuropathies). Deflation of the band may alleviate excessively rapid weight loss.
Rapid weight loss may result in development of cholelithiasis which may require cholecystectomy.
Term Definition
Abscess Collection of puss surrounded by inflamed tissue
Adhesion Steady or firm attachment
Anemia Condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells
Aneurism Abnormal blood-filled bulge of a blood vessel
Asthenia Loss of strength
Atresia The absence, or the closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
Barrett’s esophagus A condition in which the cells lining the lower part of the esophagus have changed or been replaced with abnormal cells that could lead to cancer of the esophagus.
Cardiopulmonary Heart and lungs
Cellulitis Inflammation of connective tissue
Cholecystectomy Removal of the gallbladder.
Cholecystitis Inflammation of the gallbladder
Cirrhosis A chronic disease of the liver characterized by the replacement of normal tissue with scar tissue and the loss of functional liver cells.
Crohn’s disease A chronic inflammatory disease, primarily involving the small and large intestine, but which can affect other parts of the digestive system as well. It can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition.
Dysphagia Difficulty or discomfort in swallowing.
Distension Stretched out
Duodenal ulceration Irritation/injury of the inside wall of the small intestine
Dysmenorrhea Painful menstruation
Dysmotility Diseases of the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines) in which the muscles do not work normally.
Dyspepsia Indigestion
Eructation The act of belching (gas expelled suddenly from stomach through the mouth)
Esophageal Varices Swollen veins in the lower esophagus.
Esophagitis Inflammation of the upper part of the intestine connecting mouth to stomach
Explantation Taking out of the body
Fistula An abnormal passage that leads from an abscess to the body surface
Fundoplication Surgical operation of wrapping part of the fundus of the stomach around the base of the esophagus
Gastric Stomach
Gastric ulceration Irritation/injury of the inside wall of the stomach
Gastric varices Swollen veins in the stomach
Gastrointestinal tract Both stomach and intestine
Hematemesis Vomiting of blood
Hematoma A mass of usually clotted blood that forms in a tissue, organ, or body space as a result of a broken blood vessel
Hernia A general term used to describe a bulge or protrusion of an organ through the structure or muscle that usually contains it.
Hypertension Abnormally high blood pressure
Hypodermic Relating to part beneath the skin
Intestine A long, continuous tube running from the stomach to the anus. Most absorption of nutrients and water happen in the intestines. The intestines include the small intestine, large intestine, and rectum
Laparotomy Surgical incision of the abdominal wall
Lupus erythematosus Skin inflammation
Malnutrition Inadequate intake of nutrients
Myocardial Infraction heart attack
Necrosis Localized death of living tissue
Pancreatitis Inflammation of the pancreas
Percutaneous Through the skin
Polyneuropathies A condition in which a person’s nerves that run throughout your body are damaged. It affects the nerves in your skin, muscles, and organs. When nerves are damaged, they can’t send regular signals back to your brain.
Reflux Flow back or return. Gastroesophageal reflux is when what’s in your stomach backs up into your esophagus.
Revision procedure Revision weight loss surgery is a surgical procedure that is performed on patients who have already undergone a form of bariatric surgery, and have either had complications from such surgery or have not achieved significant weight loss results from the initial surgery.
Splenectomy Removal of the spleen
Stenoses Narrowing of the diameter of the GI track
Stoma Artificial opening made in surgical procedures
Sutured Sewn in with at thread
Telangiectases Spider veins
Thrombosis Presence of a blood cloth within a blood vessel
Trocar A surgical instrument with a three-sided cutting point enclosed in a tube. Trocars are placed through the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.
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Movie review: Characters in 12 Strong reduced to thumbnails, but climactic battle makes up for it
Chris Hemsworth (centre) as Special Forces captain Mitch Nelson in war drama 12 Strong.
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Those who think Hollywood is a hive of liberals making pro-socialist movies, led by female heroines, should remember that unabashedly flag-waving chest-thumpers such as 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (2016), Act Of Valor (2012), American Sniper (2014) and several more, come from the same film factories.
This account of a mission that took place in the early 2000s is the latest in the line-up of movies about steely-eyed men locking, loading and leaping out of helicopters, mopping up bad guys overseas to keep America safe.
Based on the true account of a team sent into Afghanistan and finding itself dealing with old weapons and even older ways, the story keeps a tight focus on the nuts and bolts of getting the job done.
This is as much a road movie about Nelson (Hemsworth) and his men riding from place to place, doing one procedural thing after another, as it is a movie about soldiering.
Characters are reduced to thumbnails, and there is little of the soul searching found in other war movies, in which men question the need for war, or ask why men kill.
Nelson drops in among the anti-Taleban forces and a range of minor screw-ups happen, not helped by the lack of trust the Americans and the local forces have for each other.
Some mild fish-out-of-water comedy happens, and Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig, making his feature debut, turns pro-American Afghan leader General Dostum (Navid Negahban) into a generic Eastern despot, fond of sayings about "killer eyes" or some other piece of warrior wisdom.
The climactic battle, however, makes up for the somewhat dully-handled trudging around in the mountains.
The big blowout involves horses, tanks, rockets and missile strikes - an eye-popping mix of technology from the 19th and 21st centuries, and a fight that rewrites the history books claiming that the last cavalry charge happened a hundred years ago.
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12 STRONG (NC16)
130 minutes/now showing/3 stars
The story: Just after the 9/11 attacks, Special Forces captain Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) and his team are sent to Afghanistan to make allies of warlords fighting the Taleban. But the Americans, used to fighting with the best technology, find that they have to adapt to Afghan military methods. This includes riding into battle on horseback. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5749444365501404, "wiki_prob": 0.5749444365501404, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1760063"} |
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Quattroporte is Italian for "four door," and this is Maserati's flagship sedan. Its cabin is roomy for a car this low and stylish, but it's really all about the quality of its materials, with nine shades of leather and six types of wood to choose from. The controls could and should be simpler, but that's true of all the top luxury cars today.
The Quattroporte comes into its element at high speeds, and inspires confidence when driven at those speeds. This reflects the high engineering quality of the car. Alas, we live in a world where it's illegal to use such technology to its capability. Around town, the QP, as its fans call it, is as easy to drive as a Toyota.
The new, aluminum, Maserati 4.2-liter V8 is high-revving, sweet and sensual. It makes 400 horsepower, more than that of the Mercedes S550, BMW 750i, or Audi A8. The six-speed manual automatic transmission with optional paddle shifters is responsive.
The suspension is active, meaning that sensors make infinite adjustments in the shock absorbers and other dynamics, depending on the movements of the wheels and chassis. The resulting ride is flawless, neither too soft nor too firm, at any time. There's a Normal and Sport mode that respond appropriately, during casual driving and when we did a 100-mile run over some of our favorite curves through a remote forest in the Pacific Northwest. The cornering is exciting because it's so precise, thanks mostly to a double-wishbone suspension front and rear, and excellent 51/49 weight distribution. With a wheelbase of 120 inches, the Quattroporte is a fairly long car, but its handling is nimble.
The 2008 Maserati Quattroporte comes in four models, Quattroporte Automatica, Quattroporte Executive GT, and Quattroporte Sport GTS. The engine on all Quattroportes is a silky 4.2-liter V8 making 400 horsepower. All come with a six-speed automatic transmission. (The DuoSelect electrically actuated six-speed manual transaxle has been discontinued for 2008.)
Quattroporte ($114,750) comes standard with Tanganyka wood interior trim and Poltrona Frau leather (available in nine colors), 14-way power heated front seats, individually adjustable power rear seats, power rear glass sunshade, refrigerated compartment in the front armrest, power sunroof, metallic paint, automatic dual zone climate control, Bose sound system, Bosch-Blaupunkt multi-media system, rain-sensing automatic wipers, rear parking sensor, 18-inch alloy wheels, and electric parking brake.
Options include Rosewood interior trim, natural tanning leather upholstery available in six colors, Alcantara headliner, rear climate controls with rear shades, comfort pack front and rear seats (heating, ventilating, massaging), wooden steering wheel, titanium colored brake calipers, front park sensors, 19-inch polished wheels, and paddle shifters.
The Executive GT ($124,900) adds the Alcantara headliner, rear climate controls, comfort pack front seats, wooden steering wheel, and 19-inch wheels. Its chrome mesh grille sets it apart from the regular QP's chrome bar grille.
The Sport GTS ($128,165) features a track-tuned suspension and 20-inch dark chrome alloy wheels with fat tires, along with a black mesh grille, twin exhaust pipes in black chrome, body-colored door handles, and front seats designed for hard driving and cornering.
Safety features on the Quattroporte include multi-stage front airbags, side airbags in front, window airbags, bi-Xenon headlights with washing system, anti-theft system, Hill Holder, and a sophisticated Maserati Stability Program that integrates the ABS, EBD and ASR traction control.
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Homeownership Rates in the United States remain steady
According to the US Census Bureau's recent Quarterly Housing Vacancies and Homeownership report, rates of homeownership look to be holding steady. The homeownership rate clung to 63.6 percent in the first quarter of 2017, virtually unchanged from 63.7 percent the quarter prior and 63.5 percent the year prior.
Additional findings from the study include:
- The Midwest held the highest homeownership rate in the first quarter, at 67.6 percent, while the West held the lowest at 59 percent.
- Homeownership rates in the first quarter were also highest among homeowners aged 65 and older, at 78.6 percent, and lowest for homeowners aged 35 and younger at 34.3 percent.
- The rate of homeownership among Hispanic Americans markedly rose for the second straight year in 2016 - a trend against the current par for the course and currently stands at 46.6 percent.
- The renter vacancy rate came in at 7 percent. Breaking this down more specifically, the renter vacancy rate was highest outside "Metropolitan Statistical Areas" or "MSAs" at 8.7 percent, followed by inside principal cities at 7 percent and in the suburbs at 6.5 percent.
- The median asking sales price for vacant for sale housing in the first quarter was $176,900. The median rent for vacant for rent housing, over the same period, was $864.
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4 Things Professional Burglars Don't Want You to Know
Even though a burglary occurs every 20 seconds in the U.S., you can still protect yourself with simple, common-sense steps.
1. Nighttime Burglaries Aren't the Best Time. Burglars like to break in to homes during daytime hours - between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. - because there's a high chance people will be away at work or school. The last thing criminals want is to encounter someone at home. Don't leave your home unlocked just because it's daytime.
2. They Know When You're Not Home - Thanks to Social Media. Locating someone's home address using basic information from their social media profile is surprisingly easy. In one survey of convicted burglars, more than 10 percent say they used social media to determine who was out of town. So while it's tempting to post about your vacation to your social media feed, wait to share those trip photos until you're back home.
3. They Don't Like Your Security Practices. Burglars are looking for easy targets, so your basic security measures are pretty important. Unlocked windows, unused deadbolts, poorly lit homes, and residences without security systems are prime targets for burglars, so make sure you are using the security features you already have.
4. Your Landscaping Choices Can be a Burglar's Best Friend. Thieves are searching for crimes of opportunity, and landscaping the gives them a place to hide while planning a way of entry can be very enticing. Tall bushes are favorites of burglars since they offer an obstructed view from the street and an easy way to hide from neighbors. Sometimes the best defense is a clear view of your front porch.
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Paddy Pimblett celebrates after defeating Jared Gordon during a UFC 282 mixed martial arts lightweight bout Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John…
Paddy Pimblett celebrates after defeating Jared Gordon during a UFC 282 mixed martial arts lightweight bout Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Light heavyweight title remains vacant after draw in UFC 282
by: MARK ANDERSON, Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The light heavyweight title remained vacant Saturday night after judges awarded the main event in UFC 282 a draw so controversial that both fighters, Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev, agreed Ankalaev should have won the belt.
During the post-fight interview in the octagon, No. 3 Blachowicz (29-9-1) walked over to fourth-ranked Ankalaev (18-1-1) and told him he deserved the belt.
Ankalaev was so upset over the decision he said through a Russian interpreter he didn’t know if he would “fight in this organization again.”
“I won that fight,” Ankalaev said. “I won the belt. Where is my belt?”
Judge Mike Bell scored the fight 48-47 for Blachowicz, Derek Cleary 48-46 for Ankalaev and Sal D’Amato 47-47.
Blachowicz seemed embarrassed by the decision.
“Maybe we can have a rematch,” Blachowicz said somewhat sheepishly. “I don’t choose the judges.”
The co-main event also went to the scorecards, and there was far from widespread agreement among the fans about the results of that fight as well.
Even if Blachowicz-Ankalaev was the main event, much of the crowd came to see England’s Paddy Pimblett in the co-main fight. American Jared Gordon, 34, had other ideas, dictating the tempo in the lightweight match even as the crowd repeatedly yelled, “Let’s go, Paddy!”
But even much of the crowd had trouble believing the decision, with many booing Pimblett (20-3) winning 29-28 on all three judges’ cards. Gordon shook is head and laughed when the scores were announced.
“It wasn’t that close,” Pimblett insisted. “I coasted in the third round because I knew I already won the first two.”
The brash 27-year-old has becoming a polarizing figure in the UFC, but has backed up his words with his performances in the cage to date, even getting a major benefit of the doubt from the judges over Gordon (19-6). This was the first time Pimblett has fought into the third round since entering the UFC in September 2021.
As for the main event, Blachowicz and Ankalaev weren’t expected to be the headliners, but light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka dropped out because of a shoulder injury. Second-ranked Glover Teixeira declined to fight Blachowicz, vacating the title and elevating this fight to a championship bout.
The fight was even through the first two rounds, but Blachowicz began to get the upper hand in the third with his kicks that weakened Ankalaev. Then Ankalaev took the Polish fighter to the floor with about five seconds left and came out swinging in the fourth.
Ankalaev took Blachowicz back to the floor with a little more than three minutes left and kept him there the remainder of the fourth, but wasn’t able to get a submission.
Again in the fifth, Ankalaev came out the aggressor by throwing punches and quickly getting Blachowicz to the floor, where it became a wrestling match the rest of the way.
“I did everything to get this victory,” Ankalaev said.
Fighting for the championship was nothing new for Blachowicz, who claimed the belt in September 2020 with a technical knocking of Dominick Reyes. However, Blachowicz lost the title when Teixeira beat him by submission in the second round in October 2021.
This was Ankalaev’s first title shot, and he was nearly undefeated entering this match. He was ahead on the scorecards in a 2018 bout against Paul Craig, but was submitted with a second left.
Raul Rosas Jr., 18, became the youngest UFC fighter to win a match when he caused fellow American Jay Perrin, 29, to submit by rear naked choke at 2:44 of the first round of the bantamweight bout. Rosas asked in the post-fight interview if UFC president Dana White could provide him a $50,000 bonus so he could buy his mom a minivan to shuttle him to the UFC Performance Institute. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9576897621154785, "wiki_prob": 0.9576897621154785, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line51824"} |
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Samsung Heavy, Bloom Energy to Develop Fuel Cell-Powered Ships
September 27, 2019, by World Maritime News
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and California-based provider of stationary fuel cells Bloom Energy have unveiled a collaboration to design and develop ships powered by the latter’s solid oxide fuel cell technology.
As informed, SHI aims to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a large cargo ship for ocean operation powered by fuel cells running on natural gas.
Such an innovation will play a key role in helping the company exceed the 50 percent emissions reduction target, compared to 2008 levels, that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has mandated all shipbuilders should achieve by 2050.
The two companies have already taken a first step towards commercializing the maritime use of fuel cells for propulsion and auxiliary power. At a ceremony at the Geoje shipyard, SHI announced they have received approval in principle from classification society DNV GL, in collaboration with Bloom Energy to proceed with a fuel cell-powered ship design for Aframax crude oil tankers (COTs).
“As regulations to reduce GHG emissions take effect step-by-step, the introduction of fuel cells to vessels is inevitable,” Kyunghee Kim, vice president of SHI Outfitting Engineering Team, said, welcoming the approval.
“It is a meaningful GHG emissions reduction measure to apply Bloom Energy’s fuel cell system to SHI’s new Aframax design. SHI’s new Aframax design is equipped with a new generating system in combination of the conventional, generator engines, and the new fuel cell technology, both fueled with LNG,” Hwa Lyong Lee, vice president of Regional Business Development, Maritime at DNV GL, commented.
“This innovative design is one of the ways to improve GHG emissions, to further make LNG a solid and long-term solution.”
Today, 80 percent of the world’s shipping fleet runs on heavy fuel oil, or bunker fuel. The combustion of this fuel to provide propulsion and auxiliary power to ships causes the marine transport industry to produce between 2% and 3% of global carbon emissions.
Replacing combustion-based power generation from bunker oil with electrochemical conversion of LNG through fuel cells could have a profound impact on carbon emissions from marine transportation. Bloom Energy and SHI estimate that replacing oil-based power generation on large cargo ships, which require up to 100 megawatts of power per ship, could reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions from shipping by 45 percent.
“Bringing the Bloom Energy Server’s transformative clean technology to the shipping industry provides us with a tremendously exciting opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of another vital sector of the global economy,” KR Sridhar, founder, chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy, pointed out.
In contrast to bunker fuel combustion, Bloom Energy solid oxide fuel cells generate electric power through an electrochemical reaction, without combustion, that virtually eliminates particulate emissions, NOx, and SOx – an important consideration for the shipping industry.
Bloom Energy Servers use natural gas, biogas or hydrogen as fuel. The two companies envision onboard fuel cells being powered by natural gas, converted from LNG.
According to the manufacturer of clean-energy fuel cells, the modularity of Bloom Energy Servers makes them well suited to the space constraints of ships. Unlike large, multi-megawatt generating combustion engines, the servers can be deployed in increments as small as 200 kilowatts, enabling power sources to be distributed throughout a ship to optimize space utilization. SHI envisions Bloom Energy Servers displacing existing power generation sets, and therefore requiring no additional space, or even reducing the total space required for power generation.
The servers technology has been approved by DNV GL to be deployed aboard ships with minor modifications to suit ship installation and use in an enclosed environment.
Moreover, Bloom Energy recently announced the capability of its fuel cells to run on hydrogen. As nations and ports develop their hydrogen infrastructure, fuel cell-powered ships could transition from natural gas fuel to hydrogen fuel and become zero-carbon and zero-smog emitters.
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GREAT PRIMATES AWAIT YOUR PROTECTION
GAP is an International movement that aims to defend the rights of the
non-human great primates - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos,
our closest relatives in animal kingdom.
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Great Ape Project – GAP is an international movement created in 1994. The main purpose is to guarantee the basic rights to life, freedom and non-torture of the non-human great apes – Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Orangutans and Bonobos, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. For that, the project created the World Declaration on Great Primates, document that turns these rights official.
Today the International Great Ape Project, consisting of independent institutions in Brazil, Chile, Córd d'Ivoire, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay, has a new and therefore eighth national chapter: United Kingdom.
The Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary (WAMS) www.ape-monkey-rescue.org.uk has joined the Great Ape Project as a separate UK section.
This is especially important for the German and Spanish GAP-chapters, as there has been no primate research on the GAP in Europe. WAMS is now official GAP-Sanctuary Europe, which gives us the possibility to exert a much greater pressure on zoos and circuses, to give up primates from bad habitats. In addition, we have a much better position in dealing with veterinary authorities when it comes to the official seizure of primates. Until now, both zoo and circus operators as well as the respective competent authorities were able to reject our claims, even in the case of clearest violations of the animal welfare law. There was simply no suitable place where the animals could have been permanently rehomed.
WAMS has all the necessary licenses to import primates from abroad to the United Kingdom and to keep them permanently. In contrast to the three other centers for primates in Europe, the WAMS pursues a strict no-way-back-to-a-zoo philosophy. The three other "Sanctuaries", on the other hand, cooperate closely with zoos and, where appropriate, return their animals or seized animals. One of these "Sanctuaries" is even engaged in breeding programs for zoos.
WAMS is personally known to us: some time ago we were involved in the transfer of two chimpanzees from the Zoo Delbrück to Wales
(see: https://www.greatapeproject.de/delbrck/ ). The founders and trustees of WAMS - Jan and Graham Garen and their dedicated team - have been working very reliably, professionally, and in full compliance with the principles of the GAP.
Please welcome the new GAP Chapter
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There are many ways to support Great Ape Project UK
Great Ape Project UK are looking forward to being part of the International Community of GAP Sanctuaries all with a common mission.
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Krugman's Macroeconomics for AP* & Economics by Example
First Edition|©2011 Margaret Ray; David A. Anderson
Section 1. Basic Economic Concepts
Module 1. The Study of Economics
Module 2 Introduction to Macroeconomics
Module 3. The Production Possibilities Curve Model
Module 4. Comparative Advantage and Trade
Appendix: Graphs in Economics
Section 2. Supply and Demand
Module 5. Supply and Demand: Introduction and Demand
Module 6. Supply and Demand: Supply and Equilibrium
Module 7. Supply and Demand: Changes in Supply and Demand
Module 8. Supply and Demand: Price Controls (Ceilings and Floors)
Module 9. Supply and Demand: Quantity Controls
Section 3. Measurement of Economic Performance
Module 10. The Circular Flow Model and Gross Domestic Product
Module 11. Interpreting Real Gross Domestic Product
Module 12. The Meaning and Calculation of Unemployment
Module 13. The Causes and Categories of Unemployment
Module 14. Inflation: An Overview
Module 15. The Measurement and Calculation of Inflation
Section 4. National Income and Price Determination
Module 16. Income and Expenditures
Module 17. Aggregate Demand: Introduction and Determinants
Module 18. Aggregate Supply: Introduction and Determinants
Module 19. Equilibrium in the Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model
Module 20. Economic Policy and the Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model
Module 21. Fiscal Policy and the Multiplier
Section 5. Financial Sector
Module 22. Saving, Investment and the Financial System
Module 23. Definition and Measurement of Money
Module 24. The Time Value of Money
Module 25. Banking and Money Creation
Module 26. The Federal Reserve System: History and Structure
Module 27. The Federal Reserve System: Monetary Policy
Module 28. The Money Market
Module 29. The Market for Loanable Funds
Section 6. Inflation, Unemployment and Stabilization Policies
Module 30. Long-run Implications of Fiscal Policy: Deficits and the Debt
Module 31. Monetary Policy and the Interest Rate
Module 32. Money, Output, and Prices in the Long Run
Module 33. Types of Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation
Module 34. Inflation and Unemployment: The Phillips Curve
Module 35. History and Alternative Views of Macroeconomics
Module 36. The Modern Macroeconomic Consensus
Section 7. Economic Growth and Productivity
Module 37. Long-run Economic Growth
Module 38. Productivity and Growth
Module 39. Growth Policy: Why Economic Growth Rates Differ
Module 40. Economic Growth in Macroeconomic Models
Section 8. Open Economy: International Trade and Finance
Module 41 Capital Flows and the Balance of Payments
Module 42 The Foreign Exchange Market
Module 43 Exchange Rate Policy
Module 44 Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy
Module 45 Putting it All Together
Margaret Ray
Margaret Ray teaches economics at both the university and high school levels. She is an AP® Economics instructor for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth and is a member of the economics department faculty at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. She received her BS in economics from Oklahoma State University and her PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee. In 2012, she received her MEd in curriculum and instruction and became certified to teach K–12 social studies. She has taught AP® Economics at several high schools in Virginia and has received the Council on Economic Education’s Excellence in Teaching Economics award. She has been involved in the AP® Economics program since 1992, serving as a reader and question leader, writing test items, overseeing the AP® course audit, writing College Board® “Special Focus” articles, and editing the Council on Economic Education’s AP® Macroeconomics resource. She has been a College Board® Endorsed Consultant for economics since 2001, and she conducts several professional development workshops and institutes each year. Her favorite hobby is showing hunter-jumper horses adopted from bracehorse rescue organizations. She lives on a small farm in central Texas.
David A. Anderson
David Anderson is the Paul G. Blazer Professor of Economics at Centre College. He received his BA in economics from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD in economics from Duke University. Anderson has been involved in the AP® Economics programs for more than two decades. For five years he led the grading of one or both of the AP® Economics exams, and he speaks regularly at AP® conferences and workshops. He has authored dozens of scholarly articles and 15 books, including Explorations in Economics, Survey of Economics, Cracking the AP® Economics Exam, Economics by Example, Favorite Ways to Learn Economics, and Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management . His research is primarily on economic education, environmental economics, law and economics, and labor economics. Anderson loves teaching introductory economics and has won awards for excellence and innovation in the classroom. His favorite hobby is running, and he competes in marathons and triathlons. He lives in Danville, Kentucky, with his wife and two children. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6760172843933105, "wiki_prob": 0.6760172843933105, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1020903"} |
Marvel’s Spinco Power-One Resources, Ni–Pge-Ree’s-Uranium Project, Moves Forward Finalizes Financing and Listing Process
January 17, 2022. Vancouver, B.C. – Marvel Discovery Corp. (TSX-V: MARV), (Frankfurt: O4T1), (MARVF: OTCQB); (the “Company”) Further to the Company’s news releases March 17, 2021 and April 23, 2021 the Company received final approval on the plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) involving Power-One Resources Corp. (“Power-One”). The Company received the required shareholder approval in connection with the arrangement at its special meeting of shareholders held April 23, 2021. As part of the transaction, Marvel shareholders received 16,000,000 common shares with Marvel receiving 5,000,000 common shares for transferring the Serpent River Pecors Project (Elliott Lake, Ontario), and the Wicheeda Project (Prince George, BC) to Power-One.
Marvel currently holds an equity stake in Power-One of approximately 26%.
Power-One (SPINCO) has arranged a non-brokered private placement to raise gross proceeds of up to $800,000 by issuing flow-through and non-flow-through units. Power-One will close its private placement on or before February 1st, 2022.
Existing Marvel shareholders will have first right of refusal to participate in the offering.
Up to 6,000,000 non-flow-through units will be issued at a deemed price of 10 cents Each unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to subscribe for and purchase a non-flow-through common share at 30 cents for the first year and at a price of 50 cents until completion of the second year.
Up to 1,538,462 flow-through units will be issued at a deemed price of 13 cents, each unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to subscribe for and purchase one common share at a price of 30 cents for the first year and at a price of 50 cents until completion of the second year. The Company will be filing the listing application once all subscriptions have been received.
“We are thrilled to finally move ahead on the listing of Power-One. The Pecors and Wicheeda North projects have significant upside potential for a Tier 1 Discovery”, Stated Chief Executive Officer, Karim Rayani. “Marvel has completed extensive modeling, completing VTEM, ZTEM surveys and drilling at Pecors supporting the magnetic signature of a 5.7 km long 4.2 km wide magnetic anomaly with promising PGM drill results. Combine this with a 20Mt historic resource of 0.037% U308, with significant rare earths makes the Pecors a dynamic property. The Wicheeda North, BC is an earlier stage project that is tied onto Defense Metals property which hosts an indicated resource of 4.89 Mt at 3.02% light rare earths oxides and 2.2 MT at 2.90 % Light Rare Earths.”
Serpent River Pecors
The Serpent River Pecors Property is located 15kms east of Elliot Lake Ontario consists of 10 mining covering 1,840 hectares (Figure 1). Power-One (SPINCO) has a 100 % interest in the Property.
Figure 1. Power-One Resources Serpent River Pecors Property, East Bull Lake region, Elliot Lake.
Limited drilling by Rio Algom in 1974 at the Pecors East showing (MDI41J08NW00060) on the Property has reported a non-compliant 43-101 historic resource of 20M tons averaging 0.037% U3O8 (reference below *). Immediately west of the Serpent River Pecors Project is Pele Mountains Eco Ridge uranium-REE project. and In July 2011, Pele Mountain announced the positive results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment study outlining 34.6 Mt at grades of 0.040% U3O8 and 1,455 ppm TREO (reference below **). Contact style Ni-Cu +/- PGE mineralization on the property is supported by drilling in 2015 by Marvel Discovery in hole P15-23 which intersected 0.33 g/t Pd+Pt+Au and 0.11% Cu, 0.04% Ni over 12m. This style of mineralization was intersected in gabbroic rocks within the Pecors Anomaly.
The Pecors anomaly is a strong regional magnetic high that extends for 18km southeast-northwest and up to 4km wide. The anomaly is located 15km from the East Bull Intrusive Suite where recent drilling by Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV:GRDM) recently intersected 14.0m of 1.2 g/t palladium equivalent (Pd Eq) grade in hole EBL21-10 containing a 1.0m interval of 7.0 g/t Pd Eq (see Press release dated June 17, 2021. Canadian Palladiums (CSE:BULL) recent drilling results (see press release dated September 22, 2021) reported a 19m intersection grading 1.77 g/t Pd_Eq from its East Bull property. This result appears to be an extension to their 43-101 compliant inferred resource estimate of 11.1Mt grading 1.46 g/t Pd_Eq (https://canadianpalladium.com/project/bull-project/).
Wicheeda Project
The Wicheeda property is located approximately 80km northeast of the city of Prince George, and approximately 50km east of the community of Bear Lake, British Columbia. The property is readily accessible by all-weather gravel roads and is close to major infrastructure including power transmission lines, railway, and major highways. Geologically, the project is situated in the Foreland Belt and within the Rocky Mountain Trench, a major continental geologic feature. The Foreland belt contains part of a large alkaline igneous province stretching from the Canadian Cordillera to the southwestern United States and hosts several carbonatite and alkaline complexes among which the Aley (niobium), Rock Canyon (REE), and Wicheeda (REE) alkaline complexes contain the highest concentrations of Rare Earth Element minerals.
In 2010 an Airborne Geophysical Survey was conducted by Aeroquest, and soil geochemical sampling by Electric Metals on behalf of Montoro was completed over a portion of the Wicheeda claims. The airborne geophysical program consisted of 654-line kilometers of AeroTEM helicopter-borne, time domain electromagnetic plus radiometric surveying flown at high resolution 50-meter line spacing. The survey covered a 29.4 square kilometer area and was successful in mapping the magnetic and conductive properties of the geology. Within the assessment report from 2010, AR#32361, comments from key observations and notes from Intrepid Geophysics include, “The electromagnetic data suggests that there may be an un-mapped fault in the center of the block. The magnetic data shows a subtle feature in the center of the block, slightly offset from the interpreted fault. It is recommended that the airborne survey be followed up by a geochemical survey and property scale mapping.”
Figure 2. Power-One Wicheeda Property, British Columbia.
The QP and the Company has not completed sufficient work to verify the historic information on the Property comprising the Serpent River Pecors Project or Wicheeda Property, particularly regarding historical exploration, neighbouring companies, and government geological work.
*Technical Report NI 43-101 on the Serpent River Property, Gaiashk Township. Elliot Lake Area, Ontario for Five Nines Ventures Ltd. by L.D.S. Winters, 2010.
**Technical Report on the Eco Ridge Mine Project, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada for Pele Mountain Resources’ dated June 20, 2012, and completed by qualified persons Jason J. Cox, P.Eng., Tudorel Ciuculescu, MSc., P.Geo., Kathleen Altman, P.E., and Leo Hwozdyk, P.Eng. of RPA.
About Marvel Discovery Corp.
Marvel, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange for over 25 years, is a Canadian based emerging resource company. The Company is systematically exploring its extensive property positions in:
Newfoundland (Slip, Gander North, Gander South, Victoria Lake, Baie Verte, and Hope Brook – Au Prospects)
Elliot Lake, Ontario (East Bull – Ni-Cu-PGE Prospect)
The Company’s website is: https://marveldiscovery.ca/
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements which reflect the expectations of management. Forward-looking statements consist of statements that are not purely historical, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations, or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements in this press release relate to, among other things: completion of the proposed Arrangement. Actual future results may differ materially. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions, and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the respective parties, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release concerning these times. Except as required by law, the Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law
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Attackers delete alleged Mobikwik data leak dump
Posted on March 31, 2021 November 15, 2021 by tgbf 0
A new development has surfaced in the recent Mobikwik information leak fiasco. In an apparent act of goodwill, the attackers claimed to have deleted all the data they had access to and two backups of their servers.
The providers of the alleged Mobikwik data leak have cleared all data with a final report on the incident. The abusers point out that Mobinquik is digging deeper, denying the breach and decided to remove the data dump to avoid further controversy; they also add that Mobinquik data is protected and no one can misuse it, except of course Mobinquik for ads or targeted calls.
In what the attackers themselves called the world’s largest KYC data breach, they apparently decided not to sell the data, which was previously available for 1.5 bitcoin.
In the news: Data breach at Mobiquick: So far, the story has
In what appears to be an act of pandora, the attackers claimed to have erased all data from their servers, which consisted of a main database and two backups.
The site had also been modified to host a data dump page where users had to log in and verify their information to access the attacker’s message.
Screenshot of updated website of alleged Mobikwik Onion data dump
The lost database was approximately 8.2 terabytes in size and contained 36,099,759 files, representing approximately 3.5 million people, including 99,224,559 phone numbers, emails, hashed passwords, addresses, bank details and numerous other sensitive user data.
For those who were concerned that their information had been leaked from the Onion site, the attackers released some statistics about the base. It looks like there were about 60,000 pageviews with about 240,000 API bot calls and about 200,000 non-API bot calls.
Of the 33 million .jpg files the attackers had access to, only about 6,000 were published on the site. In addition, there is a sample file of 100 MB that the attackers believe is in the possession of several people.
MobiKwik began its journey as an online payment platform for consumers in 2009 and has since grown into a high-tech company that owns the Zaakpay payment gateway and offers investment funds and loans, among other things. Like the 22nd. In March, Mobiquick was reportedly considering an IPO in September. The attackers say the company is sinking further and the reports could potentially ruin the company’s IPO.
The next message from the invaders, word for word.
Message no. 1
So, we’ve probably received 100-150 emails/messages about this leak in the last 24 hours. People congratulating us on the hack, people wanting to learn how to hack, people wanting their data to stop appearing on a search portal, lawyers trying to sue the company and, as usual, security researchers and journalists asking for more information. We have replied to most people and blocked all the numbers we received as blocking requests so they do not appear on the portal.
All of India is affected by this leak as it affects 99 million users and 3.5 million users of kyc data. We have had very long and thorough discussions with independent security researchers about the implications of leaking or selling data, and we have decided to remove all data from our site because Mobikwik is incompetent at this point. Unfortunately, they only dig deeper, and we are not as ruthless as all those news reporters whose sole purpose is to destroy the company and report everything without thinking of the consequences, and destroy the company’s IPO.
Only Mobikwik and we have a copy of 8.2 tb of data. (You’ll get more anyway). And up until ten minutes ago, it was all Mobyquick. We have deleted all data and backed up all data on all our servers, as well as a small copy of the data uploaded to the server that housed the infamous Onion site. I removed it myself and there is no error here.
Now all your data is protected with Mobinquik and no one can misuse it, except of course Mobinquik for ads or targeted calls, which everyone does anyway.
We don’t want the company to dig deeper and bury itself.
I think we’ve all learned some valuable life lessons in the last few days. Adios.
Onion site statistics if you are concerned that someone has accessed your onion site data.
The total number of page views is 60,000 and the number of non bot api views is 240,000 and the number of bot api views is 200,000. The images on the website are 6k .jpeg files of 33m, while all the files in the data are 36m. So all the secondary markets advertising mobikwik data on Telegram and such – take it with a grain of salt.
These are all approximate figures, as we only collected them after we had eliminated all of them. Otherwise, there’s a ~100 mb sample file with a handful of people. Nothing like 8tb. So don’t worry about it.
By the way, we also get a lot of requests to hack Chinese companies. Lol. We don’t have the resources for new hacks at the moment. But we’re dropping everything we’ve already hacked into Chinese companies just because you asked. It’s probably unnecessary for most people. We’ll see.
We’re getting replies that we’ve accepted the ransom.
That was our original idea. Later, people wanted GDPR-like rules in India, so we changed our stance by following the footsteps of the onion. Not anymore. (I should also say that this fiasco has allowed our other transactions to achieve their goals more quickly). So we didn’t accept a buyout in that transaction either.
In the news: Apple is rolling out a security update for iOS 14.4.2, iOS 12.5.2 and watchOS 7.3.3.
The one who writes/cuts/films/owns all the technology, and when he’s not around, switches to virtual machine races. You can contact Yadullah at [email protected], or follow him on Instagram or Twitter.
20 Best Exciting And Challenging Offline Games For PC 2021
Top 20 Exciting and Challenging Offline Games for PC 2021 – In this booming year, there are many new online multiplayer games with free and paid alternatives. Of course, all players who want to play games online have to sacrifice some cost to have fun with others.
But there are also many interesting offline games to try. The kind of adventures, races, battles and more. This can fill the spare time of players who don’t have an internet connection in their area.
Well, now YaTekno will recommend the best offline game for PC 2021 that gamers should also try.
The most anticipated game, with a charm that is hard to resist. With an action-RPG as the basis of the game, a variety of quests with different difficulty levels, beautiful graphics and different monsters with cool designs.
Side Quest has an open world with multiple regions and cultures, is interesting because each story is intertwined, the gameplay is tactical and prepared, and the story of the characters is engaging and emotional.
Of course, the latest game in his CD Projekt series, The Witcher 3, could bring it all. A dream RPG game that looks so perfect and offers a varied gameplay experience.
An action game that players should not miss, with its powerful charm and interesting storyline in the exotic and fascinating world of steampunk. One is the freedom of play style, which is one of the selling points of this game.
A game developed by the famous developer Bethesda in collaboration with Arkane Studios. A very fantastic game has been made that offers many special skill elements.
Dishonored, with its incredible world design and character, a variety of magical abilities that can be selected based on play style, weapon options that can be upgraded, and player gameplay that can affect an alternate ending, makes this game one of the best action games of all time.
System requirements (minimum)
OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor: Dual Core 3.0 GHz
Memory: 3GB RAM
Graphics card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 / ATI Radeon HD 5850 (512 MB)
Hard drive: 9GB
3. The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
A developer like Nintendo has never held back with a flagship game. This is the most offline PC game released in decades in a series with a variety of game mechanics and genres.
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, a legendary name among gamers. His new game offers beautiful graphics and a variety of interesting worlds.
With an exciting, fantastic and emotional story, with exploration that feels like an adventure, with an exciting open world setup that provides all sorts of surprises. What is the appropriate level of difficulty on the one hand, and the number of items that can be used to benefit the existing play style on the other?
OS: Windows 10 7 32 and 64 bits / Windows 8 64 bits / Windows 8.1 64 bits
Processor: Intel® Core i5-2500 @ 3.3GHz / AMD FX-8320 @ 3.5GHz
DirectX : Version 11
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)
Storage: 50GB
4. Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain
Of all the shows written by a large fan base. As the release of the new sequel approaches, which gamers around the world are so eagerly awaiting. The taste is obviously different from the previous series, which makes it a great series to try.
With the open world theme, gameplay mechanics are addressed through custom gameplay styles, new weapon options with unique features, and scenarios with unexpected endings.
Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain is definitely a very different sequel to the previous series. The mastermind behind the development, Hideo Kojima, is really brave to try something new with all the innovations out there. Make sure the last episode ends well.
OS: Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64, Windows 10 x64 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) / Quad-Core Processor
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2 GB)
5. Shadows of Middle-earth Mordor
Middle-earth – Shadow of Mordor
One of the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings is exceptional. In a world ruled by the horrors of Mordor… With a variety of character designs and fantastic enemies, making it the best adaptation for the game.
With an intricate open-world theme, interesting side missions, enemy and boss fights delivered in epic fashion, skill options that can be upgraded depending on playstyle and of course most interestingly the story told to stay true to the Lord of the Rings image – thick.
Middle-earth – Shadow of Mordor, developed by developer Monolith, really offers a new approach with a different and unique concept. Which of course made a strong first impression on this offline PC game.
OS: Vista SP2, Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64 Bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4GHz
6. Holy Grade 4
Holy row 4
With the success of the previous series on the market, Saints Row IV is an action game not to be underestimated and worth a try. With a futuristic military action theme and super powers, he increasingly consolidates his identity into the game itself.
Developer Volition, powered by Deep Silver, deserves to be ranked as an insane and exciting game in this series. Which, of course, worked brilliantly with a unique concept.
With his almost absolute character design, the use of a variety of weapon options to defeat monsters, the different super abilities he has and a variety of challenging side missions, you need to play this offline game for PC.
OS: Windows Vista (x86 / x64)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / AMD Athlon II x3
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 260 / AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series
7. Nier Automata
An action game with a sensual character who can ruin the eyes of the viewer, with humanity in the character. The more the player is immersed in the action, the more they naturally fall in love with it.
With the main basis being the hack and slash theme, which merges with the 2d format in each session scene, which has continued as a classic game in the past, character modification with different fans is offered through a token system, and subjugation of different enemies from the lowest level to the highest can only be defeated through the ability of the existing game mechanics.
The mastermind behind the development of this game, Yoko Taro, has managed to compose a unique action in each gameplay. Nier Automata offers something that sells more than just feel-good characters, but more than players can imagine.
OS: Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i3 2100 / AMD A8-6500
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB VRAM / AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB VRAM
8. Grand Theft Auto 5
One of the best open world games with lots of unique content. Of course, it’s not just a place to explore, filled with various main and side missions. Nevertheless, it contains a variety of entertainments that stand out for their uniqueness.
Developer Rockstar Games is truly to be commended for its visuals and a world filled with countless activities within it with its latest series, Grand Theft Auto 5. While the NPC character has other traits that seem more alive.
Equally unique is a feature called Rockstar Editor. Where players can capture the moments, with a variety of creative editing options such as video editing, making it a game that has its own satisfaction.
OS: Windows 10 64 Bit, Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core CPU @ 2.5GHz
Graphics: NVVIDIA 9800 GT 1 GB / AMD HD 4870 1 GB
Storage: 72 GB
9. Bayonetta 2
Bayonet 2
The sexy aunt’s struggle to suppress the enemy is not over. This is a game known for its addictive ability, with a variety of awesome attacks. Able to stimulate the adrenaline of the players who play it.
Developer Platinum Games has released a new series that has taken the market by storm. Bayonetta 2, with its famously addictive action gameplay, a strong story and, of course, characters that are, ahem, sexy and, of course, sadistic.
Different options for enemies and new bosses in each chapter with different attacks keep the game from becoming monotonous. Interesting is the attack mode with different combinations, the use of weapons that affect gameplay, and the different cosmetic costumes in each Nintendo franchise.
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 40 3.6GHz
DirectX : Version 9.0
10. Pier
Make it the most anticipated game with a unique action-RPG with numerous different gameplay mechanics than the first game. Developed by experienced independent developers.
Supergiant Games is one of those who have dared to put an interesting game out into the world, especially in terms of the story. The feast of cartoony visuals on screen is so beautiful and detailed with a variety of characters that can hold your attention and of course a world that stands out well in any game.
With a variety of characters and skill trees that make it look like most RPGs players know. With a variety of races you’ll encounter and of course with a variety of characters and abilities, with role-playing battles that resemble a sports game, it’s certainly unique and interesting to try.
Graphics: 1 GB VRAM / OpenGL 2.1+ support.
Storage: 9GB
11. Isolation from strangers
Isolation of foreigners
An adaptation of the famous 1979 film has been released. With horror, he imagines, but also with the rise of survival-horror, which is becoming stronger and more successful in these kinds of executions. This makes it the most intense game in survival horror.
Alien Isolation, developed by Creative Assembly and Sega, truly offers exceptionally scary space survival horror. With countless ways to attack and a variety of hard-to-find weapons.
The variety of enemies that can think and adapt, the save point that makes players cautious, the variety of puzzles that exist in each game, and the environmental atmosphere that scares the crap out of players every time.
OS: Windows 7 (32 Bit)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5550 / Nvidia GeForce GT 430 (1 GB)
12. Super Hot
Super hot.
Some gamers assume that games in the FPS genre always take place from a first-person perspective. With different enemies that the player kills on the same screen, resulting in a similar experience between the two.
Until one of these unique FPS games comes out with varied gameplay that will be relatively interesting. Super Hot, one of the most successful independent games and the most different from other FPS games.
With a mysterious storyline, enemies with cool graphics, gameplay full of strategy with a puzzle character, and different attack options that players use, the whole game looks cool.
Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.40GHz
Graphics: GeForce GTX 650 (1024MB frame)
13. Nio
A game that, like the Dark Souls series, was the subject of much jeering from gamers around the world at the beginning of its release. This game is just a wannabe icon that has no quality and struggles in the market.
However, developers Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja avoid this kind of reasoning. Because in the game Nioh they prove that a game that will give a different approach to the experience unique in it.
The character design and a beautiful world, a variety of action RPG-style attacks with several existing modes such as low, medium and high with different skills, as well as an interesting loot system to get and the difficulty of rational enemies. The creation of this game has a strong personality of its own.
OS: Windows 10 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit, Windows 7 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 3550 or higher
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3GB VRAM / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB VRAM
Storage: 80 GO
14. Xcom 2
The next offline computer game is about a war against an alien civilization that ambushes humans. In various ways, players are encouraged to create their own troops. Who really needs to be very well prepared when it comes to an existing enemy.
The full customization of the troop characters had several weapon modeling options that support the existing game, a world map that includes a mission with available resources, and of course a variety of enemy options with a high difficulty level that they have.
One of those that can offer all this is Xcom 2, which has capitalized on the success of the first series. Gamers who love turn-based RTS games will instantly fall in love. With a variety of game mechanics, which are much more tactical and require more brain power than in the previous series.
OS: Windows 7, 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6GHz / AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core 2.6GHz
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 / 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1GB)
15. Inside
The previous game, Limbo, was a success and garnered praise from gamers around the world. These are led by one of Playdead’s oldest indie developers, who is really known for its unique and fun mystery story.
Inside, the game is full of mystery and simple graphics with a variety of colors and dark tones that, on one hand, seem to bring a sense of horror. Games that have succeeded in making the player wonder what is happening in their world.
As for the mechanics, the gameplay is pretty much the same as in the old game. The player only has to run and jump, overcoming all kinds of obstacles and puzzles. With a variety of places full of secrets to explore.
OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
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Graphics: NVIDIA GT 630, 650 / AMD Radeon HD6570
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16. Mining
The number of reboot series coming out today. It attracts not only new players who have never tried it before, but also old players who have never tried it before and are trying it again for the new thrill.
Prey, one of the latest projects to come out of his partnership with Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks. That’s one thing the reboot series is suitable and new to try. Using the FPS as a genre with new enemy options that are both exciting and challenging.
This semi-role-playing game has transferable elements, a world with all sorts of things to explore, character choices that consist of 2 options, special powers with weapons that can be used to fight existing enemies, and a different story ending.
Processor: Intel Core I5-2400 / AMD FX-8320
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17. Ni no Kuni II, Reborn Kingdom
Ni no Kuni II, the Kingdom reborn…
Stories with a fantastic approach that are so strong with a different approach. This always results in something interesting with a unique approach in each game.
Ni no Kuni II, The Revenant Kingdom, the latest installment in the series developed by Bandai Namco and Level-5, offers a more open action RPG than its predecessor, which was a more openly focused JRPG.
With fast-paced RPG gameplay, attacks on enemies that result in some form of random weapon loot, building an empire by recruiting the best members to belong to the palace, and a game system that isn’t too complicated in terms of development.
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64 bits)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260x (2GB VRAM)
18. Little Nightmare
A little nightmare.
Games in the horror genre don’t always feature scary visuals, where it seems like they’re just jumping around to get the scary feeling. But the horror of simplicity that will affect his character can make him anxious and worried.
One of them is the new game Little Nightmare from Tarsier Studios and Bandai Namco, which deserves a lot of praise. With a grim atmosphere, a brutal world and addictive gameplay.
Tricky puzzles, scary enemies, a world full of creeps, simple controls and a nice visual quality, accompanied by music that seems to enhance the horror experience. This standalone computer game is definitely worth playing!
Processor: Intel Core i3 processor
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 460
19. Tekken 7
One of the games with the most unholy main story. It’s about kids against their fathers who weren’t ready in the first place, and their battle ends in this final episode. Use the self-defense skills that each character has, with different stances – basic moves that make the fights interesting to try out in this latest series.
One of Bandai Namco Fighting’s newest games is undoubtedly one that is already familiar to veterans and laymen alike. Tekken 7 offers with this new series of fighting games that are not only interesting, but also cool in the various battles.
The character pairing is full of unique techniques that are fun to master, the drama is there at the end of each fight, and the ending consists of 2 parts that are triggered by a certain combination of each character.
Processor: Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / GTX 750Ti 2GB
20. Forza Horizon 3
After all, this is a standalone racing video game, with stunning graphics, full of great cars, themed in an open world set on the Australian continent. The latter series has had some success as a unique racing game that differs from other racing games.
Playground is one of the developers known for their racing games. Looking for the latest series, such as. B. Forza Horizon 3, can make the racing experience exciting and fun.
With a variety of customizable cars, maps full of racing missions with a variety of attractive rewards, challenging tracks at every turn, and thousands of car options each with different abilities.
Processor: Intel i3-4170 @ 3.7GHz / Intel i5 750 @ 2.67GHz
Graphics: NVidia 650TI / NVidia GT 740 / AMD R7 250
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If your device is new and recently installed, it may not be compatible with your PC.
If you don’t have any newly installed devices, it means your current devices are not working properly.
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While the computer is rebooting. You will have to repeat this step several times before your PC will start the automatic recovery process.
Select Troubleshooting > Advanced Settings > Startup Settings, and click Restart.
When the computer reboots, press F5 or 5 to enter network safe mode.
Some folder protection and encryption software may cause FAT_FILE_SYSTEM to appear. If you are using one of these programs, the only solution is to remove it from your computer.
According to users, programs like Folder Protect and Folder Lock can cause the BSoD error because their encryption method interferes with the hard drive.
Some users have reported that they do not have access to Windows 10 and therefore cannot remove this software.
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Due to incompatibility issues, some antivirus programs may cause a FAT FILE SYSTEM error. If this error occurs, we recommend that you uninstall your current antivirus software.
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Month: June, 2011
Spontaneous “Indignation,” or Organized Struggle?
worker | June 23, 2011 | 9:08 pm | Action | Comments closed
Written by Editorial Board, Rizospastis, KKE (Communist Party of Greece)
On Friday the blogs which are guiding the movement of the “indignant†citizens published a statement of the “indignant†citizens in Syntagma Square [main square of Athens, Greece] that called on the left forces to leave the squares.
Thus, the “anonymous†leaders of the “movement of the squaresâ€, the “non-party alignedâ€, “spontaneousâ€, “non-politicised†citizens appear to be politicised and declaring themselves “anti-leftâ€.
Perhaps that’s the reason why they are hiding behind their anonymity. Up until this point they declared as their enemy the policy that brings poverty and unemployment while their slogan was to get rid of the memorandum and the politicians that implement it. This element along with the fact that they organise mobilisations expresses a political position.
Now they are showing one more aspect of their political stance and practice attributing the barbaric policy that leads the people and the youth to destitution generally to all the parties -including the KKE. Of course, they do not demonstrate who benefits from this policy; they do not show the real enemies which are the monopolies, the capitalists.
They are against the organised class-oriented trade union movement arguing that the trade unions must leave the squares. But the trade union movement is not homogenous. Is there any relation between the government and employer-led trade unionism that assisted the adoption of the barbaric measures and PAME that organised strikes and mass rallies against them along with PASEVE, PASY, OGE and MAS?
The self-definition of “non-party aligned†that they have used so far, which was extolled by the media groups of the capitalists, as well as their logic concerning the issue of democracy, proves to be nothing less than hypocrisy. Likewise, their intention to allegedly unite the people even on the basis of the vague anti-memorandum content of “the movement of the squares†since positions like “out with the leftâ€, “parties outâ€, “trade unions out†are divisive while they are not that democratic , or, to be more accurate, they are undemocratic.
At the same time, and while they oppose the memorandum and the horrible measures they do not say a word against the government, the EU, the political forces that agree with this policy. They are merely talking in general about the politicians who implement it with vague arguments while they equate the KKE with these parties.
The prevention of the political and ideological expression of the working people, who have the right to have their own point of view and express it openly and publicly in general and in particular within the movement, where the ideological political struggle unfolds, is not only at odds with democracy, especially within the movement, but it also muzzles it.
Furthermore, each movement, even the spontaneous ones but even more so the movement in the squares has an objective, no matter if one agrees with it or not. But this action reveals that the leaders of the movements of the squares have a point of view: either you come to the square with our ideological-political positions leaving yours out of the movement or don’t come at all, stay away from the squares.
It seems that it is a well elaborated tactic in order to draw dividing lines between popular forces which are organised in trade unions, parties, which do not conceal their ideology, their policy even their party identity and those who go to the squares, who are also ordinary people most of whom have believed in the bourgeois parties that betrayed their hopes for a better life, are disgusted with the bourgeois policy and are looking for a way out.
After all whom does the logic “parties and trade unions out†serve ? At this point, we will not repeat that those from the blogs are preparing a party with the name “Immediate Democracy†as stated on TV . But there is also one truth that they do not want to come to the fore, that they try to conceal as the bourgeois media do at times; namely that not all parties are the same, that the so called non-party movement of the squares is a political entity, which, although it calls itself non-party aligned, is a political entity and has a political position against the other parties irrespective of what it claims for itself.
From the first time that this form of mobilisations appeared we posed a question: Who is hiding behind the blogs and the internet? Why they do not appear? What does their anonymity mean? Shouldn’t this fact concern those who gather in the squares? Because they should know which forces invite them and organize these activities. Because the blogs are not enough, nor does everything begin spontaneously from a blog, even if they contribute to the mobilizations as does their huge promotion by the media.
But it seems that anonymity helps those who are behind the blogs and not only them. After all the experience of the people’s movement shows that there are also organised forces that appear as forces of the “movement†and oppose – no matter if they do it intentionally or not- the organised people’s movement while when they are in action they hide their faces with hoods.
Now the movement of those with no name has emerged. The people who are concealing themselves have a specific purpose, which they are also trying to hide. They present themselves as pro-people leaders but they do not point to the real opponent of the people.
The people who cover their faces with hoods oppose the state’s repressive mechanisms, the windows of shops and banks-they consider these to be their opponents and not the monopolies. Their activity fosters tendencies for the movement to lose its organized character, impede the participation of the people and does not cultivate a rebellious consciousness.
The procedures of direct democracy allegedly express participation from below in anti-memorandum activity. But which political force will impose its will so that the memorandum is abandoned? For them they are against politicians and political parties. So who will do it? Other politicians, and perhaps other organized forces with the political line which is being expressed in the squares, which are not against the monopolies and the capitalists. So we are talking about another reformed bourgeois system. Maybe this is their aim?
Of course, the specific view “parties out†makes some people from specific parties appear as defenders of their party line in the morning, they flatter those who express the “non-party position†despite the fact that these very people are leading party cadre, and in the evening they go to the squares as “non-party peopleâ€. This is hypocrisy on a massive scale, if not outright fraud. Ordinary people, young people participate in the squares to express their indignation, discontent, anger at the government, the EU, the Troika. But they do understand or do not accept the political line for the overthrow of the system.
These working people must not be ensnared in the net which the system is preparing through the so-called “non-party†and spontaneous. The conflict with the monopolies is not colourless. There needs to be a plan, a strategy, ideals, contribution and sacrifices. It means allying with the KKE, the class-oriented radical forces, new forces, which are starting to mobilise overcoming their inertia and tolerance, must make this step forwards.
“Parties out†is a conservative point of view. The political parties are organizations which with their political line and ideology express specific interests. Our society is divided into social classes and strata. The bourgeois class, on the one side, the dominant one, has the power, which some of its parties manage in the government and on the other side the working class. There exist intermediate strata which are differentiated economically, as well as socially. The intermediate strata, which are in a lower economic position, are objectively allies of the workers and opponents of the monopolies. The “parties out†view equates the KKE with the bourgeois parties. It conceals the real opponent of the people, the monopolies, which have the power.
The worker is deluding himself if he believes that the mobilizations in the squares are enough to liberate him from the old and new problems which have been foisted on him, without a movement which begins from and is rooted in the factories and industries, in every workplace, against the capitalist class. When the movement is not strong in the factories, whatever mobilisations take place do not have solid foundations. The real arena of class struggle is the workplace, the industry.
It is there where the workers come into daily uncompromising struggle with the big businessmen – which flows from their relative class relations, the relations of exploitation, because the wealth and profits of the capitalists are produced by the labour of the workers. Some say in the squares as well, and this is also necessary, but primarily in the place where the class opponents come into conflict. Here is the real core of the class-oriented political struggle.
The worker is deluding himself if he believes that people’s mobilizations must be far from all the parties or against all of them. Such a movement is condemned to be subjugated to the political line of the capitalists, to contribute to the perpetuation of exploitation.
The worker is deluding himself if he believes that the bourgeois political system can function in the people’s interests.
The bourgeois political system cannot be corrected, only overthrown.
The worker is deluding himself if he promotes the demand to get rid of the memorandum, without accompanying this with the demand for withdrawal from the EU and the overthrow of the state of the monopolies in Greece.
The people needs the movement which gives it a clear prospect. This means an organized struggle allied to the KKE, a struggle through the class-oriented movements of PAME, PASY, PASEVE, OGE and MAS. Only these forces can oppose the strategy of the monopolies and their servants with the strategy for the people’s interests.
Without such a strategy, the people will not find a way out.
Editorial board, Rizospastis, via 21st Century Manifesto
Reflections on the Cuban 5 art exhibit
By James Thompson
HOUSTON and SAN ANTONIO – Today I had the privilege of transporting the art of Antonio Guerrero from Houston to San Antonio. Antonio Guerrero is one of the Cuban 5 who are unjustly imprisoned in federal penitentiaries across the U.S. The Cuban 5 are five men who fought against terrorism perpetrated against their homeland, Cuba, and were unjustly incarcerated in this country.
I drove the art to San Antonio during the incredible drought which has plagued Texas for the past couple months. It was hot, to say the least, dry and windy. Some might say this mirrors the demeanor of Texans.
What might also be said of Texans is that we are a tough bunch who fight for our rights and don’t back down in the face of intimidation. There is an incredible fight back going on to oppose the budget cuts proposed by the right wingers, both Democrats and Republicans. Working people are united in their fight against the forces of the ultra-wealthy. We are opposed to the assaults on health care, education and public services in this state.
I drove the art to San Antonio on Father’s day and Juneteenth and there is some significance to both.
I know what it is to lose a father. My father died in 2003 at the time of the start of the unjust invasion of Iraq by the U.S. As my father was dying in a hospice room, I listened to reports from CNN of the Bush inspired invasion of Iraq which has resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent working people both in Iraq and from the U.S. My father was a man of peace and was opposed to this unlawful military invasion of a sovereign nation from the beginning. He would have been opposed to the subsequent invasions of sovereign nations under Bush and Obama to include Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan and many others.
Progressives elected President Obama to be the Peace President and we have been sorely disappointed. Some hypocrites back Obama and his worldwide invasion, but opposed Bush for his invasions. It doesn’t matter the party or color of skin of the President, all working people should unite to oppose imperialism.
Today was also Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a Texas holiday which commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas. I am proud to have celebrated Juneteenth by transporting the art of one of the Cuban 5 to San Antonio. It is the least I could do to express my solidarity with the people of Cuba who fought against the wage slavery imposed on them by U.S. corporations.
Most people in the U.S. don’t understand that the Cuban Revolution was about booting out the predatory U.S. corporations and their Cuban puppets and replacing them with a government truly of the people, by the people and for the people. The Cuban 5 fought a valiant struggle against the forces of the U.S. right wing who sought to overturn the Cuban revolution and reinstate the wealthy to the position of the ruling class in Cuba. For their remarkable struggle against the wealthy, they are now incarcerated in prisons under despicable conditions in the U.S.
Three out of the five incarcerated terrorist fighters from Cuba are fathers. I was proud to honor them on father’s day. The other two have been denied the right to be fathers because of their long, unjust imprisonment. I was proud to honor them as well.
It is very sad to think of the children of the Cuban 5 who have been denied the right to contact with their fathers. I was proud to honor these children on father’s day as well.
As was mentioned, it was a long, hot drive and I had time to reflect on the current situation. I wondered what it must be like to be a person from a country who has never invaded another sovereign nation. I wondered what it must be like to be from a country that in spite of meager resources and an outrageous U.S. embargo has managed to build one of the best health care systems in the world. I wondered what it must be like to be from a country that puts a priority on educating its people, rather than cutting back the education system. I wondered what it must be like to be from a country that has put a priority on job creation and has eliminated hunger, illiteracy and homelessness.
Perhaps one day our great nation will lead the struggle for working people’s interests throughout the world. This can only be accomplished by promoting health, education and welfare for all peoples in the world, starting with this country. Starting new destructive wars only diminishes the interests of working people throughout the world.
Returning the five Cuban heroes to their native land would be an excellent step in the right direction of promoting world peace.
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SOLIDARITY MESSAGE WITH STRUGGLES OF WORKERS IN GENERAL ELECTRIC IN THE USA
WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS
Athens, May 20, 2011
The greed and power grab of corporations around the world caused the Capitalist financial and economic crisis; and, these same corporate leaders want workers and their unions to pay for it.
While these barbaric actions have a global and continental scope, their immediate impact is on the everyday efforts by corporations to cut back on the hard won wages, health benefits and pensions of working class people.
General Electric Corporation has had a long history are trying to extract every morsel from workers and their unions who represent workers at GE.
The current round of contract negotiations is no different.
THE WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS VOICES SOLIDARITY WITH THE MILITANCY AND SPIRIT OF THE UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS UNION AND THE OTHER TRADE UNIONS WHO ARE CURRENT LOCKED IN BITTER STRUGGLE AGAINST GE.
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Cuban art exhibit opens in Houston
worker | June 12, 2011 | 8:38 pm | Action | 1 Comment
HOUSTON – “From my altitudeâ€, a touring art exhibit opened in Houston on June 4, 2011. It was enthusiastically received by an amazed group of about 50 Houstonians at the East End Studio Gallery/Houston Institute for Culture located at 708c Telephone Road. The art was stunning and was very well presented.
The art was by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban 5, who is currently imprisoned in a federal facility in Colorado. The Cuban 5 are a group of five heroes who put their lives on the line to fight terrorism. They were sent to the U.S. to infiltrate the right wing terrorists in Miami who are responsible for many acts of terrorism including the bombing of a Cuban airliner which resulted in the death of the entire Cuban fencing team as well as terrorist acts against tourists in Havana. The information these patriots provided to the Cuban government enabled the Cubans to thwart some of the vicious attacks on their homeland.
Unfortunately, the U.S. government chose to apprehend these five heroes and they are now placed in federal prisons around the U.S. They have been subjected to cruel and harsh treatment throughout their imprisonment including long periods of solitary confinement.
Antonio Guerrero, who never produced any art prior to his imprisonment, was taught art by his cellmate, an African American. As a result, he completed the thirty paintings which make up the exhibition.
The paintings portray Che Guevara and Fidel Castro as well as portraits of the mothers of the Cuban 5. There are two smaller paintings of the Colorado mountains that symbolize the restricted view of the artist from his prison cell, but nevertheless reflect his perception of the beauty of the mountains in spite of the ugliness of the prison.
Portraits of the mothers of the Cuban 5, by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban 5
The program included beautiful Cuban music, speakers about the Cuban 5 and the Cuba Caravan which will be coming to Houston on July 16. Participants were also treated to a mime performance which dramatized the plight of the Cuban 5.
The exhibit will proceed to San Antonio and Dallas after it closes in Houston.
Portrait of Fidel Castro by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban 5
Six Theses on the Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government
by V. I. Lenin
Written:Between April 30 and May 3, 1918
First Published: 1918 in the pamphlet: N. Lenin The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, All-Russia C.E.C. Publishers; Published according to the text of the second edition of the pamphlet, 1918, collated with the manuscript
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 27, pages 314-317
Translated: Clemens Dutt; Edited by Robert Daglish
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters & Robert Cymbala
Online Version: Lenin Internet Archive March, 2002
1. The international position of the Soviet Republic is extremely difficult and critical, because the deepest and fundamental interests of international capital and imperialism induce it to strive not only for a military onslaught on Russia, but also for an agreement on the partition of Russia and the strangulation of the Soviet power.
Only the intensification of the imperialist slaughter of the peoples in Western Europe and the imperialist rivalry between Japan and America in the Far East paralyse, or restrain, these aspirations, and then only partially, and only for a certain, probably short, time.
Therefore, the tactics of the Soviet Republic must be, on the one hand, to exert every effort to ensure the country’s speediest economic recovery, to increase its defence capacity, to build up a powerful socialist army; on the other hand, in international policy, the tactics must be those of manoeuvring, retreat, waiting for the moment when the international proletarian revolution—which is now maturing more quickly than before in a number of advanced countries—fully matures.
2. In the sphere of domestic policy, the task that comes to the forefront at the present time in conformity with tho resolution adopted by the All-Russia Congress of Soviets on March 15, 1918, is the task of organisation. It is this task, in connection with the new and higher organisation of production and distribution on the basis of socialised large-scale machine (labour) production, that constitutes the chief content—and chief condition of complete victory —of the socialist revolution that was begun in Russia on October 25, 1917.
3. From the purely political point of view, the essence of the present situation is that the task of convincing the working people of Russia that the programme of the socialist revolution is correct and the task of winning Russia from the exploiters for the working people have, in main and fundamental outline, been carried out, and the chief problem that comes to the forefront now is—how to administer Russia. The organisation of proper administration, the undeviating fulfilment of the decisions of the Soviet government—this is the urgent task of the Soviets, this is the condition for the complete victory of the Soviet type of state, which it is not enough to proclaim in formal decrees, which it is not enough to establish and introduce in all parts of the country, but which must also be practically organised and tested in the course of the regular, everyday work of administration.
4. In the sphere of the economic building of socialism, the essence of the present situation is that our work of organising the country-wide and all-embracing accounting and control of production and distribution, and of introducing proletarian control of production, lags far behind the direct expropriation of the expropriators—the land owners and capitalists. This is the fundamental fact determining our tasks.
From this it follows, on the one hand, that the struggle against the bourgeoisie is entering a new phase, namely: the centre of gravity is shifting to the organisation of accounting and control. Only in this way is it possible to consolidate all the economic achievements directed against capital, all the measures in nationalising individual branches of the national economy that we have carried out since October; and only in this way is it possible to prepare for the successful consummation of the struggle against the bourgeoisie, i.e., the complete consolidation of socialism.
From this basic fact follows, on the other hand, the explanation as to why the Soviet government was obliged in certain cases to take a step backward, or to agree to compromise with bourgeois tendencies. Such a step backward and departure from the principles of the Paris Commune was, for example, the introduction of high salaries for a number of bourgeois experts. Such a compromise was the agreement with the bourgeois co-operatives concerning steps and measures for gradually bringing the entire population into the co-operatives. Compromises of this kind will be necessary until the proletarian government has put country-wide control and accounting firmly on its feet; and our task is, while not in the least concealing their unfavourable features from the people, to exert efforts to improve accounting and control as the only means and method of completely eliminating all compromises of this kind. Compromises of this kind are needed at the present time as the sole (because we are late with accounting and control) guarantee of slower, but surer progress. When the accounting and control of production and distribution is fully introduced the need for such compromises will disappear.
5. Particular significance now attaches to measures for raising labour discipline and the productivity of labour. Every effort must be exerted for the steps already undertaken in this direction, especially by the trade unions, to be sustained, consolidated and increased. This includes, for example, the introduction of piece-work, the adoption of much that is scientific and progressive in the Taylor system, the payment of wages commensurate with the general results of the work of a factory, the exploitation of rail and water transport, etc. This also includes the organisation of competition between individual producers’ and consumers’ communes, selection of organisers, etc.
6. The proletarian dictatorship is absolutely indispensable during the transition from capitalism to socialism, and in our revolution this truth has been fully confirmed in practice. Dictatorship, however, presupposes a revolutionary government that is really firm and ruthless in crushing both exploiters and hooligans, and our government is too mild. Obedience, and unquestioning obedience at that, during work to the one-man decisions of Soviet directors, of the dictators elected or appointed by Soviet institutions, vested with dictatorial powers (as is demanded, for example, by the railway decree), is far, very far from being guaranteed as yet. This is the effect of the influence of petty-bourgeois anarchy, the anarchy of small-proprietor habits, aspirations and sentiments, which fundamentally contradict proletarian discipline and socialism. The proletariat must concentrate all its class-consciousness on the task of combating this petty-bourgeois anarchy, which is not only directly apparent (in the support given by the bourgeoisie and their hangers-on, the Mensheviks, Right Socialist-Revolutionaries, etc., to every kind of resistance to the proletarian government), but also indirectly apparent (in the historical vacillation displayed on the major questions of policy by both the petty-bourgeois Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and the trend in our Party called “Left Communistâ€, which descends to the methods of petty-bourgeois revolutionariness and copies the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries).
Iron discipline and the thorough exercise of proletarian dictatorship against petty-bourgeois vacillation—this is the general and summarising slogan of the moment.
[1] Six Theses on the Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government were written by Lenin on instructions of the All-Russia C.E.C. after his report on the immediate tasks of the Soviet government had been discussed at a meeting of the All-Russia C.E.C. on April 29, 1918. Lenin’s theses were unanimously approved by the Party Central Committee on May 3, and on May 4 the Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C. sent them out to the local Soviets with a circular letter stating that Lenin’s theses “should form the basis of the work of all Sovietsâ€.
Captive Nations
worker | June 1, 2011 | 9:36 pm | Action | Comments closed
By Zoltan Zigedy
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Nearly thirty-five years ago, in a rare moment of truth-speak, President Gerald Ford, participating in a televised pre-election debate with future President Jimmy Carter, denied that the socialist countries of Eastern Europe were “captive nations†under Soviet domination. Ford, not known for his political acumen, violated one of the cardinal rules of national political campaigns: thou shall not deviate from “truths†held closely by the US ruling class. The media came down on Ford like a ton of bricks; some say his indelicate comment cost him the election.
It is likely that the bumbling Ford misread his cues or suffered a brain lock since he had earlier signed a proclamation designating the week beginning July 13, 1975 as “Captive Nations Week.†Breaking with the unity of thought that ruling elites fight so hard to establish is not easily forgiven, even if it is inadvertent.
Despite the end of the Cold War, sacred and unassailable truths still are a fixture of US political discourse: politicians are not allowed to mention that the Cuban people overwhelmingly support their government; the plight of the Palestinian people – their suffering and hardships – must remain unspoken at all costs; the charge of terrorism must include and be confined to acts against imperialism; and private ownership of assets is always to be preferred over public ownership. These are theological commandments in a country that trumpets its commitment to freedom of thought.
The Real Captive Nations
Though the notion of “captive nations†was one of those ridiculous ideas born from the malignant minds of Cold Warriors, there is no better time than today to find it a precise and appropriate application. Its aptness is one of those sublime ironies that would make the old master, Karl Marx, smile.
In the wake of the most destructive waves of the economic crisis, most nations were left with extraordinary public debt. Bailouts, stimulative spending, and substantially reduced revenues pushed public debt loads dramatically higher, excepting those few countries with sufficient reserves. In a real sense, the assumption of debt was the prescription – the only prescription – for surviving an accelerating mortal spiral of the capitalist system.
But in a capitalist country in the web of a global capitalist system, debt is shorthand for an intimate relationship between borrowers and lenders, a relationship that is easy prey for international banks, hedge funds, and the global enforcers of capitalism, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The group of weaker, less developed countries of the European Union was one of the most vulnerable targets of financial predation. When the Union was formed in 1993 from the European Economic Community, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Greece were late comers and poor sisters to the more highly developed countries of the EU like West Germany, France, Italy and the other northern neighbors that founded the EEC. There was enormous pressure for these countries to achieve a “European†level of development and living standards. By membership, they gained open markets and access to capital. Their relatively low wages gave them somewhat of a competitive advantage within the Union. Despite this “advantage,†they remained the underachievers of Europe – more the quaint vacation destinations for the rich than economic titans.
With the creation of a single currency, the euro, in 1999, and the establishment of the European Central Bank, economic relations between members were reordered. The common currency forced the surrender of individual sovereignty over monetary policy, eliminating an individual state’s ability to adjust exchange rates against other currencies. Further, euro-zone participation was predicated on a strict set of economic (neo-liberal) parameters established by the Treaty of Maastricht. Regulatory constraints were imposed as well. In effect, countries surrendered a great measure of their sovereignty to be a part of the super-state, the EU, the weaker economies surrendering their fate to the economic super-powers of Northern Europe.
For the less developed, membership in the euro-zone was an opportunity for conservative governments to impose neo-liberal changes, justified by the promised prosperity enjoyed by the wealthier member states.
Ireland granted subsidies, lowered corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy to draw multi-nationals to exploit an educated, but low wage working class. Greece sold off public assets to the tune of 11.1% of GDP between 1998 and 2003. Both were hailed as exemplary team players.
Only Communists and the anti-capitalist left foresaw danger in surrendering sovereignty to the dominant powers in the EU.
With the full blast of economic crisis in 2008, all of the EU-based hopes were dashed. Catching up was off the table and survival was the business at hand. Ireland’s unregulated banks had piled up huge debts, necessitating massive government-funded bailing. The Iberian construction boom fizzled, leaving mountains of debt and massive unemployment.
But Greece was the special case. When the newly elected PASOK government revealed in 2009 that the budget deficit was twice what the previous government had claimed – no doubt for political reasons – the financial predators descended upon the country. Like a pack of wolves attacking the weakest, most vulnerable of the herd, international bankers, equity firms and hedge funds began to bet against Greek debt management, driving the cost of borrowing sky high. They speculated with credit default swaps and against credit default swaps, establishing an upward swing in the costs of financing and re-financing debt and a downward swing in credit ratings. These swings invited further speculation and a further worsening of Greece’s debt position.
Financial writers purposefully overlook these waves of aggression, lest they reveal the continued existence of rampant speculative capital, the very element that brought the global economy down. Instead, they write of Greek corruption, profligacy and financial irresponsibility.
In truth, Greece was the victim of international banks, equity firms and hedge funds – a financial mugging that brought the country to the brink of debt default in May of 2010. And under the guidance of a social democratic government, a government wedded to neo-liberal policies, Greece surrendered unconditionally to the rule of the EU, the ECB and the IMF, accepting a bailout of €110 billion. Greece became a captive nation.
As a condition of EU and IMF servitude, Greece was forced to accept an austerity program that, apart from incalculable human misery, brought the economy down, sinking into depression. Greece is, indeed, a captive nation.
The New York Times reported on May 16 that unemployment in Greece is approaching 15%, cement production is down 60% since 2006, steel production is down in the last two years, Athens has experienced a 25% increase in homelessness, and food kitchens are flourishing. Public sector jobs, wages and benefits have been slashed deeply. The human costs of this austerity program are only beginning to set in, while the cuts promise to retard Greece’s ability to raise tax revenue for both human services and debt repayment. The Greek government announced in April that it will seek an additional €3 billion in cuts. Currently, 6.7% of the declining Greek GDP goes to debt service, a figure inevitably growing as the economy shrinks and the cost of debt increases. These are the consequences facing a nation captured in the web of the EU, ECB and the IMF.
This is not merely extortion, but a wholesale commandeering of the Greek economy, and consequently, its political and social life. Recently, EU leaders demanded that the two predominant bourgeois parties of Greece meet and agree to continuing EU policy after the October, 2013 end of the PASOK government’s term. Dutifully, they met, though they could reach no agreement. Nonetheless, PASOK offered another €22 billion in cuts and tax increases to appease the EU lords of the manor.
But the EU game plan is not merely to bring Greece to its knees, but to steal its physical assets. The EU is demanding a fire sale of public assets, a massive privatization of the shared wealth of Greek society. So far, the appeasing PASOK government has entertained a €71 billion sell-off, with ports, airports, transport, power, water, motorways, gambling companies and telecommunications under consideration for heavily discounted sale to foreign investors. While this might momentarily appease the financial vultures, the massive loss of future revenue to the Greek government will only further cripple the Greek economy.
With glee, the IMF has noted that there is additionally a potential €200-300 billion of Greek property available for pillage, including the Olympic facilities and military properties. Will the Parthenon be next?
Greece has not known such domination by foreign powers since the Nazi occupation. As then, the only option is resistance.
Like a Nazi “Reichsbevollmächtigter,†the plenipotentiary of the EU is currently debating Greece’s fate. Understanding that Greece will be unable to pay or refinance the €66 billion in loans that will come due in 2012 (foreign bank lending to Greece declined 19% in 2010), the leaders are debating the best way to pick over the bones of the Greek economy. On one hand, the ECB threatens to cut off Greek banks (they borrowed €88 billion from the ECB in March) if the government attempts to modify its debt in any way. On the other hand, the euro-powerhouses, Germany and France, endorse loan restructuring in lieu of an additional bailout as requested by the Greek government. Neither option treats Greece as other than a satrapy.
The Other Captive Nations?
For the mainstream media, the enslavement of Greece is simply an aberration, a condition invited by Greek irresponsibility or a tragedy loosed by the gods of mythology. In reality, Greece’s plight is clearly the model for the other weak sisters in the EU. Ireland accepted a bailout that came with austerity provisos that mirrored Greece’s package and resulted in a dramatic decline in Irish living standards. With over a hundred billion euros in non-performing loans, a total that grew substantially from 2009, Irish banks continue to hang by a thread, inviting further extortionate intervention by the EU. They borrow even more than Greek banks from the ECB. And the yield on Irish bonds is 7.5% – a record level – above comparable German bonds. More austerity looms.
Portugal’s economy is reeling with at least a 2% annual decline in GDP projected for this and next year thanks to a severe austerity program. A €78 billion EU bailout is forthcoming, assuredly with further austerity and privatization demands from the EU lords. At the same time, Portugal is in the midst of a severe political crisis.
Spain, the next country in the sights of international financial predators, is also politically shaky with recent municipal elections rocking the ruling party. Spain’s 21% unemployment and stagnant economy thwart the country’s ability to contain and reduce its debt. While Spanish national debt trails the other three countries as a percentage of GDP, it is widely known that much Spanish regional and municipal debt has been hidden, unreported in official figures. The ruling “Socialist†Party has embarked on a severe preemptive program of budget cuts, layoffs, flexible work rules and other austerity measures that will only hasten the EU wolves to Spain’s door.
Even Italy, one of the old-guard members of the EU, may prove to be a candidate for captive-nation status. On May 20, Standard and Poor’s lowered the Italian public debt – $1.9 trillion – to negative status.
Resistance, not Collaboration
Facing captive nation or neo-colonial status imposed by their northern neighbors and the EU administration, the southern European countries have no option but to resist. Social democratic and conservative parties offer no road but collaboration. Like their Nazi-era predecessors, these Vichy-like leaders attempt to appease their masters while quelling the rising of the people. Trapped in the neo-liberal bubble and with no alternative vision, they enable the developed European powers to achieve the domination that the fascists of the last century sought through military means.
Resistance, however, means refusing the terms and conditions imposed by great powers. It means ignoring the debt – placing it aside, isolated from national accounts, as the “too big to fail†international banks did at the height of the crisis. It means threatening default if national sovereignty is not respected.
Resistance means rejecting the undemocratic nature of the EU and its institutions. If this means leaving the euro-zone and the imperious rule of the ECB, then captive nations should well entertain this option.
Resistance means formulating a new vision of a democratic, peoples’ Europe free from the domination of capital and elite rule. Of course this is a vision that projects socialism as the ultimate goal of rational, humane social relationships.
In Greece, this project is borne by the peoples’ movement of PAME and the militants of the Greek Communist Party. They, like their counterparts in the resistance to Nazi occupation, stand resolutely against the EU political and economic “occupiers,†rallying the masses to fight collaboration.
In Portugal and Spain, mass movements of workers and youth have taken to the streets in defiance of the bankruptcy of social democracy and the pain of EU-imposed austerity bringing joblessness and poverty. Hopefully, class-based organizations and Communists will continue to struggle to provide a visionary focus to their anger.
Those of us who stand in solidarity with the emerging European resistance should heed their experience. The wolves of financial predation are at our doors, too. The debt scam – the principal weapon of ruling class warfare today – threatens all of us.
Zoltan Zigedy
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Seattle Police Chief Slams Democrat Mayor; Cops Unable to Respond to Rapes in CHAZ
SPD Chief Carmen Best says 'rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts' occurring
on 15th June 2020 @ 7.00pm
Seattle PD Chief Carmen Best slammed Mayor Durkan for not allowing the force to respond to crime in CHAZ
Seattle's Police Chief Carmen Best has slammed the city's Democrat Mayor Jenny Durkan, saying violent crimes, including rapes, are occurring the leftist-seized CHAZ that police are unable to respond to.
Far-left activists sealed off a six-block area in a downtown Seattle neighborhood that has become known as the CHAZ – or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – after the mayor ordered the SPD to abandon the area following violent anti-police riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
The massive unrest prompted Mayor Durkan to order police to abandon the East Precinct building, yielding it to Antifa and Black Lives Matter mobs.
Protesters, however, say they plan on maintaining the "cop-free zone" for as long as their demands for reform, including abolishing police and law courts, are not met.
As Neon Nettle previously reported, without a police presence, CHAZ has now started using heavily-armed leftist mobs to enforce its own "laws" that are being carried out without due process.
The new laws appear to be enforced by armed thugs who are seemingly conducting deportations from the sealed-off zone without due process.
Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’ has driven out police and is using armed leftists mobs to enforce 'justice'
Chief Best said Thursday that abandoning the city’s Third Precinct to radical protesters was “not my decision.”
She revealed that “rapes, robberies,” and other violent crimes are occurring in the left-wing "utopia" while her officers are unable to respond to calls for help.
"You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision,” Best addressed officers on Thursday, according to Yahoo! News.
"You fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stand on that line."
"Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt.
"Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community."
Earlier this month, left-wing anarchists and Black Lives Matter activists commandeered six city blocks, including a police precinct, in Seattle.
The occupied “zone” has been dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or “CHAZ” to the left-wing demonstrators.
During a visit to the now-abandoned precinct, Chief Best revealed that their calls for service and response times have “more than tripled,” as reported rapes and other violent acts in CHAZ are being committed while her force is unable to properly respond, according to The Daily Wire.
“Our calls for service have more than tripled,” she said (video below).
“These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”
Seattle Police Chief: "Rapes, robberies and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the area and we're not able to get to [them]." #capitolhillautonomouszone #antifa #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/Oe5YfVz3uL
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 12, 2020
Meanwhile, Democratic Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has described the anarchists at CHAZ as “patriotic” and compared the zone to a “block party.”
“We’ve got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere,” the Democrat told CNN on Thursday.
“It’s not an armed takeover. It’s not a military junta.
"We will make sure that we can restore this.
"But we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time. It’s known for that.”
The Daily Beast reported Sunday that CHAZ is now being patrolled by an armed “gun club.”
“Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (PSJBGC)—a leftist community defense and firearms education organization that gained a spate of notoriety last year when a former member, Willem van Spronsen, set fire to an ICE parking lot—have been a constant presence,” writes Kim Kelly in a report for the Daily Beast.
“The club is often asked to provide security for protests and rallies around the Seattle area, and while their involvement in CHAZ is structured more loosely, the presence of armed civilians has raised a few eyebrows.”
Armed thugs seized control of the East Precinct and are blocking police from entering the six-block zone
As noted by the Daily Wire’s Paul Bois, CHAZ, according to video footage, “has become a dilapidated wasteland where the anti-police graffiti reigns supreme along the sidewalks and buildings.”
"The footage, released on Sunday, reveals a section of The CHAZ overrun with anti-police graffiti.
"ACAB (All Cops Are Bad), Abolish SPD, Police Domestic Terrorist, Kill Cops, and F**k Racist Police all make an appearance alongside several Anarchy symbols and dead pig drawings,” Bois writes.
Left-wing protests back in 2011 included reports of rape, as well.
"Alleged sexual assaults at Occupy Wall Street camps have raised concerns about security in a handful of cities, including reports of rape and groping in tents at New York’s Zuccotti Park and a sex offender in Dallas having sex with an underage runaway,” ABC News reported on the 2011 left-wing Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Disney's streaming success spells further problems for competitors
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This week, The Walt Disney Company announced that its streaming service Disney+ added 14.4 million new subscribers in the recent quarter. This number was a clear leap ahead of expectations and comes at a time when competitors — chiefly Netflix — are experiencing the opposite.
Disney also beat expectations for its revenues and profits thanks to strong results in its theme parks division and used the news to announce a price increase for subscribers moving forward.
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As St. Patrick’s weekend continues, businesses weigh in on temporarily extended to-go cup zone
by: Chase Justice
Posted: Mar 19, 2022 / 06:16 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 20, 2022 / 09:56 AM EDT
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — As the holiday weekend continues in Savannah, businesses across the city are still doing what they can to make the most out of St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
“The holiday itself was surprisingly quiet for us. There was a lot of people in the park and we had an increase of people who were putting their floats together outside, but overall the business of the day was not crazy,” said Jess Smith, Manager of The Sentient Bean.
Hostess City expects large crowds, bounce back from 2-year hiatus of parade
For many, the crowds were much smaller than in years past.
While the city extended the to-go cup zone to include businesses south of Forsyth Park, some were hoping that resulted in more exposure from parade-goers.
“I think it could’ve been successful. I think if we would’ve prepared a little bit better and maybe advertised it and told people like hey, come here for your to-go drinks while you’re waiting to get stared on the parade and all of this stuff but, I feel like we didn’t really get ahead of it as much as we could of,” Smith explained.
For the businesses that were able to profit off of the extended to-go cup zone, many are asking for more opportunities at selling to-go drinks in the future.
Businesses favor expanded to-go cup zone, want to see it year-round
To allow for more equity no matter where your business is located.
“I think it was definitely good. It definitely helped out because lots of people normally do already ask for the to-go cups here because they love the margaritas, they wanna take it to go, so we sold a lot of those and it’s definitely something that would be helpful if the city extended it to all the time, but at least we can take advantage of it that day,” explained Mychelle Tupac, Marketing & PR Manager at Tacos + Tequila.
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Here is the Knicks' orange alternate uniform in full
It is orange!
By Seth Oct 25, 2013, 9:15am EDT
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Here's the new MSG stuff, too.
Andrew Burton
I mean, we've seen it several times over by now, but here is a clear neck-to-knee photograph of Carmelo Anthony wearing the Knicks' new orange alternate for this season:
Check it out! @carmeloanthony looking good in that new jersey! #KnicksInOrange pic.twitter.com/DYZvtBKyaX
— NBA New York Knicks (@nyknicks) October 25, 2013
I really like it. I'm mostly anti-orange, but I like this shade, I like the way it's accented with the blue and the white (though I think that belt part, as with all the uniforms, could use a stripe or a big-ass buckle or something), and I even like that it appears slightly lighter than the orange in the Knicks' logo (and shooting sleeves).
I haven't seen a FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE email yet about when the Knicks will wear these, but I imagine it'll be a handful of games on national TV, perhaps as soon as that Halloween game against the Bulls. You know, because orange is the color of pumpkins and Halloween is the holiday where the kids all go in a cave to eat pumpkins.
And yeah, you can buy these if that's your thing. John Starks appears to be peddling them in the MSG lobby.
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."- Plato
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Songs convey spiritual feeling supporting people to overcome snags in front of them. For that, music has become part of our life. If you're a music lover, you must have downloaded many songs on your iPhone. Due to reasons, you may need to transfer songs from iPhone to Android. Is that possible? Yes, it is.
Method: How to Transfer iPhone Songs to Android?
Extra Tip: Download Free Music to Computer
Android Transfer - TunesGo for Win/Mac comes to help you out. This cool program is well-designed to help users to transfer a variety of data to the computer or another Android/iOS devices without any limitation. With a neat and user-friendly interface, you can get the transfer done with two steps.
Step 1. Get Down to Android Transfer - TunesGo
At first, please have Android Transfer - TunesGo installed on your Win/Mac. Then, hook up both iPhone and Android to the program with USB cable. On iPhone, please tap "Allow" to grant the permission to access device data. On Android, please enable USB debugging in "Settings" > "Developer Option".
Step 2. Play Songs Before Transferring
Tab and wait until all songs are loaded out. Users are allowed to play songs before go any further.
Step 3. Select Songs and Start Transferring
Now, please click to select up desired songs that you want to export from iPhone to Android. After that, go to "Export" and select "Export to 'the name of your device'". After the transfer completes, you can play those songs on your Android.
Songs can be downloaded from sources like Play Store and Apple App Store. Though it costs a few dollars to download a song, the total cost ends up to be a great fortune in the end. So, if you want to save more money, you might turn to free music download websites. However, it's hard to distinguish whether or not they're trustworthy. So, I want to introduce 5 recommendable music sites to you. After downloading music onto your computer, you can transfer those songs to your iPhone/Android with Android Transfer - TunesGo.
Jamendo Music
Jamendo Music Android allows free access to streaming and downloading of more than 500,000 songs. It's also available on Google Play Store. It's a brand new world of music for you to explore! With Jamendo Music's featured selections, the user can easily discover and listen to albums, songs, and the most popular artists. All songs in the Jamendo Music app are available for free download with one simple touch!
NoiseTrade is a global online audio and book direct-to-fan distribution platform. It's an excellent platform opened to music lovers with thousands of albums totally for free and legally. Users can also upload their own originally-created music and books as well as share them with others.
You must know Amazon quite well so far. There are quite a number of free music you can download from Amazon.com. As a popular website with a great reputation, you can get new and legal music download here.
You can play the songs before downloading them, but when you're ready to save the songs to your computer, click on the Free button to add it to your cart. Then, you can check out as if you were purchasing something by clicking Place your order. You'll then be taken to a link to download the free music.
When you're connected on SoundCloud, you can discover, stream and share a constantly expanding mix of music from emerging and major artists around the world. Music at SoundCloud is uploaded either by professional artists or by independent musicians. Most of the content is allowed to be directly accessed and instantly downloaded to your computer.
Last.fm is a music website providing with free music downloads in terms of various genres. Users are able to stream thousands of songs and get recommendations of bands they love. If you download this app from Google Play, you can enjoy music on mobile for free as well.
Hope you enjoy your favorite music. Music has a magic power to sweep bad mood away and light up our inner world with the sunshine.
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Organic component
Dairy component
Publication date: 2019/12/18
Switzerland supports development of the organic and dairy sectors in Ukraine
The new Swiss-Ukrainian Program “Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine” is launched. The overall goal is to create business opportunities in both sectors, in particular, contribute to increased employment and income generation, especially in rural areas.
During the first Steering Committee meeting of the new Program, Taras Vysotskyi, Deputy Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine (MDETAU), noted: “The dairy sector is one of the priority sectors for the Ministry in terms of food safety and safe food availability. Inna Mietielieva, Deputy Minister, is in charge of organic production development. We will facilitate development of the organic and dairy sectors. We need a breakthrough in these sectors, namely, support in law-making, training and communication as well as digitalization which will allow the Ministry to implement the changes quicker”.
Olga Shevchenko, Acting Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP) noted: “The Program’s support is extremely important, and I want to highlight that this cooperation will stimulate development of both sectors. I am convinced that the Program will be implemented successfully and we will see dynamic development in future which will become exemplary for other sectors”.
Viktor Shutkevych, Assistant Director of the Swiss Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine, in his turn, highlighted the Program importance and the long-term Swiss-Ukrainian cooperation: “Continuing the long-term fruitful cooperation the Swiss government is now providing technical assistance primarily to our main partners – the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. It is significant that the Program is actively involved in achieving strategic goals of the Ukrainian government”.
It is expected that as a result of the Program implementation private SMEs (producers, processors, service providers) but also relevant public entities in organic and dairy sectors will contribute to sustainable trade and job creation in the organic and dairy sectors.
The Program’s objectives are:
Improved food quality and safety in the organic and dairy sectors,
Increased trade capacity on the domestic and export markets with higher value added products relating to the organic and dairy sectors.
The Program provides for support to multi-stakeholder policy dialogue with a purpose of improving the legislative framework and business environment which will contribute to improved food quality and safety in both sectors.
The global organic market is valued at 90 billion US dollars which offers opportunities for export of Ukrainian organic products. In the framework of the Program, establishment of the Organic Multi-Stakeholder Platform will be supported aiming to boost organic higher value added trade on the domestic and international markets.
In the dairy sector the Program will work to improve trust in domestic dairy products through support of the consumer awareness campaign. For this purpose, together with the Program beneficiaries, implementation of the raw milk control program is planned which will be equivalent to the EU approaches to ensure transparency and traceability at the stage of milk production and its placing on the market. The data on raw milk quality and safety should become an important source of information for a risk-based inspection. The MDETAU and SSUFSCP will receive technical assistance in capacity development in risk assessment and use of risk-based concepts in their operational environment.
In the dairy sector added value will be achieved primarily through compliance with higher milk quality and safety standards. The important aspect in trade capacity development will be market access for small (craft) producers. In addition, the Program, together with public and private partner organizations, will develop services of available knowledge and technical information for a wider public.
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OUR WELCH'S PRODUCTS
For over 150 years, Welch's has been providing delectable fruit products that have become a staple in households all across North America. Everyone knows the Welch’s logo all too well — and it's more than an assurance of something fresh,healthy, and of superior quality for the whole family to enjoy!
The Welch's brand has expanded exponentially ever since Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch bottled his first batch of grape juice in his kitchen back in 1869. After becoming a household name for producing top-quality grape juice, Welch's began producing a wide variety of other items including frozen grape juice concentrate, fruit spread, fruit punch, and jellies — all of which have become crowd favourites and grocery list staples!
Today, Welch's is a co-op owned by families of farmers across North America. They're dedicated to bringing their best to every single harvest to produce your all-time favourite products that complete each mealtime and snack time — including the iconic Premium 100% Juice Ice Bars, 20% Juice Tropical Freeze Pops, and Giant Lemonade Freezies!
These products prove that there is no need to compromise amazing taste when trying to find a snack that is healthy for you! The fruity flavours of Welch's juice ice bars and freezies will never fail to refresh you on a summer's day. With all its unique flavour mixes, like Pineapple Passion, Mango Orange & Watermelon Berry, it will be absolutely impossible to pick a favourite.
One thing's for sure, the taste of each of these products is just as rich as the company’s incredible history. The Welch's name itself is a seal of quality that families have loved for over a century and a half.
Where tastiness and healthiness meet, you'll find the juice bars and freeze pops of Welch’s. No compromises (or artificial preservatives!) needed — only natural flavours.
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INSIDE OUR OWN HEADS
Rings - "Is He Handsome". When it's three in the morning and the street-light outside is filling your room; when there are rattles in the walls and the same three lines of conversation are circling round&round in your brain. When everything feels a little off, and also much too on. The noise inside your head is sharp, flat, as off-key as your flickery dreams. Isn't it time to go to work? Isn't it time to fall in love? Is this guy something lost, or something you need to realise you found?
The band-name "Rings" evokes the things you wear on your fingers, or the circles that diffuse from where a stone meets the water. But it can also be the present tense of the verb "to ring". This song rings. Insistently. [buy from Paw Tracks]
Tangerine Submarine - "The Life of a Porcelain Doll". Every morning you wash your face - you get up and wash your face and look at your own eyes in the mirror. Sometimes the mirror's steamed over and sometimes the day is sharp outside the window. Always your eyes, there, deep in their sockets, and never a day younger. You remember when you used to look at your own face and see a child, a teenager, a boyfriend, a married man. The same face, every day, even as you go to pieces. And it'll be the same face when you surface, shaken, and set those sharded memories aside. [MySpace]
Local yeasayers: Yeasayer is coming back to Montreal. One of StG's favouritest new bands appears at La Sala Rossa on February 10th, along with MGMT and Valleys. Tickets are $10 in advance or else, yes, in conjunction with Blue Skies Turn Black we've got two pairs to give away. For the chance to win entry, email me with the subject-line YEASAYER CONTEST, and tell me three things you say YEA to. Deadline is 11:59 pm on Wednesday, February 6.
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1. Rush, Take It Slow
Otis Rush - "All Your Love (I'm Missing It)"
As easy as it might be to dismiss this sultry blues as a mere genre exercise, I urge you to listen until at least 1:08, when Otis Rush shows us that a guitar can be like a wrecking ball and a song a flimsy structure to be torn down. What comes after - thirty Italian dandies dancing the mashed potato in a living room scene directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - is all well and fine, but nothing compares to the moment when Rush's band is sent into a trembling retreat, is utterly cowed, by the power of the man's piercing, distorted guitar, unleashed just seconds after he pines, "I love you baby," and then oh so unconvincingly, "and I know you love me, too."
An ideal soundtrack to a bottle fight I once observed outside a Milanese train station.
[Buy]
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You Have One Week
So, this is the last thing I'm going to say about the Wonderful Video Contest before it's over. We've been getting some amazing submissions, and everything is going great etc. BUT...this is it. You have one week from today to submit, and if you haven't started yet, you can still start now and get it done in time. In hopes of encouraging you, lighting a fire under you, I'm submitting to you (not to the contest, obv) a video I just finished tonight. It's made with puppets and it might be the best thing I've ever done.
Fiery Furnaces - Slavin Away from daniel beirne on Vimeo.
made by Dan Beirne and Etan Muskat
sets by Brent Skagford
puppets by Jenna Wright
additional assistance from Marc Rowland, Danny Zabbal, and Pat & Nora Beirne
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Baby Dee - "Safe Inside the Day". Dee sent Antony (of the Johnsons) songs, thinking Antony might want to cover one. Antony said no but uh someone should put these out. And someone did. And then Bonnie Prince Billy heard them and he and Matt Sweeney played with Baby Dee in Cleveland and Bonnie Prince Billy said uh can we record you? And they did, for Drag City, on an album that was released on January 22nd.
And this is the title & opening track, a song that is hurled with so much spirit that it could pin clouds to sky and forests to mountains, that it could pin tomorrows to todays and wills to oughts. It's a manifesto and a prayer and an inflammatory writ; it's piano-keys laid like foundation stones; it's the greatest utterance of the word "safe" that I've heard in my life. Dee's day will dim yours, cast yours into half-light and make you aspire to change, growth, courage; to aspire to better things, to return again & again with redoubled spirits... until finally you lead a day such as hers, finding a tiny paradise of no goodbyes. To find a peace so gloriously hard-fought as this.
[buy!]
Please Quiet Ourselves - "Color Chart". This is no more a song about colours than Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" is a song about moons, or pinks.
Started to get a little black.
Started to get red.
Came again - there was blue, there was green, there was brown.
There was silver.
Silver!
Bronze.
Gold, silver, bronze.
Don't forget plum.
Forget plum.
Wait a second now: there's another colour.
What about orange / makes it so DAMN special?
What about orange
makes it orange
[melodica solo]
We stare through our prisms at our beds and our loves and our cities and our losses. We neglect the silvers. (And we forget plum, as well we should.) We wait for rainbows to confirm that a place is beautiful.
We play drums with our hands and only when it's too late pick up the sticks.
Please Quiet Ourselves are teenagers, and they're already better painters than me.
Ruining It For the Rest of Us
No Age - "I Wanna Sleep"
I turned my family's home into a laboratory. I say my family's because they really own it, not me. I paid for it, I worked for it, but I don't really own it. That is, I didn't really own it until now. I cleared out all the furniture, I took down all the pictures, removed all the fixtures. The only thing that stayed was the plumbing and the foundation. I covered all the walls in white tile, even the ceiling, and every few feet there's a drain. I can make tests in completely sterile settings. I test viscosity and fecundity, velocity and perk. I'm a man of very few rules, but the rules that exist are hard and fast. And I had become lazy in enforcing them, a traitor to myself. So now the kids can make their lunches on the tile counter, the food stored on the colder parts of the floor, and we can all get along a bit better. I can never go back to how it was. [Buy]
(photo by meredith)
Oh, the deadline for the Wonderful Video Contest is in 11 days! So finish editing, wrap shooting, or get goshdarned started! because this is it! the one!
RUN ON AND RUN ALONG
Drew Danburry - "I'm Pretty Sure This Is Someone Else's Song, But I Couldn't Figure Out Whose So I'm Keeping It!"
Evidently Drew Danburry doesn't know where this song is from. I don't recognize it but it does remind me of a few familiar ditties. The song of chestnuts falling, for instance, or the melody whistled as guy-in-apron pulls the chestnuts from the oven. The song you sang when winter became spring and then receded back into winter, but still it's a nice day. When your bicycle's suddenly working ok again, or when you bump into your friend on the street and you only talk for a sec but it's clear in the clear of their eyes that they were really happy to see you. And you were happy to see them, too. Because there's a bright shiny sunny day / beyond the storm.
And I wish you were able to keep all things when you can't figure out whose they are. Like: "Whose is this ice-cream you are holding? Who knows! It is mine now." Or: "Whose is the moon? I'm keeping it!" Or, and finally: "To whom does this pretty girl belong, sittin' next to me here; well I guess maybe [whispering] i'll call her mine." [MySpace/buy]
Xiu Xiu - "Under Pressure (ft. Michael Gira)". Xiu Xiu throw themselves at the Queen/Bowie classic, like strawberries catapulted at Quebec City's walls. (Swans'/Angels of Light's Michael Gira's there too. So are saxophones.) It's a splendid, beautiful, bloody fucking mess -- like if we stretch the earlier metaphor I guess I'd say the strawberries knock Quebec down, -- and if you get distracted by my run-on sentence and Xiu Xiu's masterpiece you might start thinking about Quebec as Jericho and "Under Pressure" as Joshua's shofar-call, or Quebec as yr defences and "Under Pressure" as yr sweet baboo, or Quebec as yr (my) Xiu Xiu skepticism and "Under Pressure" as the thing that man, blows it altogether away. [pre-order (out next week)]
Sing a message in nightingale.
Gramofriend Casey Dienel has a new record coming out in April March and it's under the band-name White Hinterland. You can listen to a song here. The album is wonderful and I hope to write more about it soon but in the meantime you can read the big ole' press blurb I wrote for her. Casey's voice is more hidden here, crouching amid swish and drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends.
And finally, to my surprise and delight, some of you out there have nominated Said the Gramophone as Best Weblog About Music in the 2008 Bloggies. They are like the Golden Globes for blogs, only I don't think we even get an honorary press conference. StG was nominated for "Best Writing" in 2006, but here we are this year in a more straightforward category. Please consider voting for us, or for one of the other nominees - it's not the usual mp3blog dramatis personae and we're definitely not the only ones I'd be happy to see win.
As always, thank you so much for reading.
[photographer unknown; photo taken from heaven & here]
Halve
Kate Maki - "White Noise" (mp3 removed at label request. stream here.)
Today I drank one glass (two fingers) of scotch, one bottle (75 cl) and one can (33 cl) of sparkling water – all while listening to this song. Don’t be afraid to ask, go ahead: You want to know the source of this gluttonous thirst. It’s the verses, I tell you, the earthy, human sounds of strings and cords and chords and keys (and keys), the searching, unresolved, huddled harmony. It imparts to the listener a thirst unquenchable even by a fistful of scotch and 108 cl of fine French eau gazeuse. Luckily there’s the chorus, which, introduced by a single, perfectly cadenced note on the piano, and followed by a chest-wrenching vocal harmony, acts like a keg of Gatorade poured directly down the thirsty’s throat. I would wait through an infinite verse if it meant I might be able to glimpse this chorus as I approached the limit. [Buy]
Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Going To Germany"
A letter of explanation to an ex-lover whose stalking behaviour has driven the singer of this song to flee from his home in the southern US of A to a hideout in Germany, replete with all the weariness and frustration such an aural epistle entails ... and more ( i.e. a jug bass)! [Buy]
The Dreaminator
Night Recordings from Bali - "Gamelan Gabor #2"
Like a hundred people trying to build a house of cards, like some wild vaudeville madhouse slapstick, this smashing smashing is an enormous drunken wander. Teetering and swaying and then falling forward and running, then stop! -ping and running again. It's mob logic, it's mania by committee, it's dark and red and silver and so so beautiful. It's impossible to dance to, you look like someone trying to sing along to made-up words, but it's amazing to watch it dance. [Buy from Sublime Frequencies]
OOIOO - "Umo"
Get out of here. Get out of here, they're coming. [Buy]
idea for combination from going through old favourites at popsheep
YOU JUST WAIT
Dave Ross - "Difference".
Kid in Oklahoma City's sitting beside a cardboard stand that says SONGS in felt marker letters. Got a cassette boombox on his lap. Guy walks over in a white linen suit. Seems on his way somewhere.
"What's this?" he says.
"One dollar," says the kid, "and record a song."
The guy smiles at this, thinks for a sec and pats a beat on his trousers. "Okay," he says finally. He pulls a raggedy bill out of his wallet and hands it over. The kid takes it solemnly and slips it in his polo shirt's chest pocket. The guy in the suit squats on the lawn.
Next the kid heaves over the boombox until it's just in front of the guy who's gonna sing. "Go?" says the guy. "I'll count you in," says the kid. He presses play and record at the same time, pushing hard. Three, two, one, he mouths.
The guy sings a song. The cars keep rushing by, all glossy in the sun. The grass smells like the end of spring. The song's a lazy song, a sweet one. The guy sings it looking away, out and over the houses.
Fifteen years later the kid finds his old & beat-up tape player at the back of his parent's garage. He sits on the concrete beside their Honda. It's chilly. He hits play. He hears hiss and wind and cars and sunshine and the song, this song, the song the guy sang for a dollar, before he waved and said thanks and strolled away. And the kid, he's not a kid any more. He listens to the song and rewinds it and listens again. And he rewinds it and listens to it again. And later that week he buys a guitar and he learns the song and he forms a band and he makes a record and he knows for the first time that he's really found the thing that makes him happy, and that that means everything will work out. Every thing. [MySpace]
Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan - "Lay Lay Off, Faselam"
[backwardsed, because the original is in reverse, and via The Popfilter]
What we want is for our hearts to be like magnets, like the kid with the golden arm throwing a new white baseball. What we want is for our love to be like the tide, and to hear kisses in the surf. [buy]
A Token of Love
Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
As I was thrown spinning from the wreckage, I thought to myself, "I'll never get to see Obama win."
This is no time to give up. Staying up all night is good for your health. The same way crying your eyes out or getting punched in the face is good for your health.
I got married when I was 17. And goddammit, look at me now. I earned this face.
This? This is nothing. Honestly, it's nothing. You'll think it's nothing when it's over.
He said he loved me "with all the madness in his soul". And I believed him. I had no reason not to.
Largely, I don't see the point of dancing naked after a shower, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt like a blade of grass, or a flag or something.
They knew it was a lost cause. Anybody could have seen that. But they just kept fighting. Oh my god, you should have seen that.
"I'll have a side of fries as well."
"Okay, side of fries, with what sauce?"
Direct eye contact, "American."
[Buy] [Tom Scharpling version] (image credit: I found it here, took the words out, and couldn't help but notice there are only white people in this picture)
Today's post is about ghosts. Here are four swift introductions, and then a story. See also this.
Queen Victoria - "Up On The Rooftop".
Queen Victoria is also called Nick Malkin and The Endless Night comes in a black package without any information, just a sepia photograph that makes me think of Jandek, but the music is warmer than that (for all its desolation), and Malkin's moan does not sound as sad as it makes itself out to be, like someone who's waiting for the day when he can garage-sale all his Leonard Cohen records while his wife plays inside with their little girl. [MySpace]
Phosphorescent - "Cocaine Lights".
A eulogy, a hymn, a folk-song. In the raga of piano, guitar and tambourine you hear voices open, just singing, no words, and you hear these groans wobble & sour, all the death shaking out from their loose, live lungs. [buy]
The Harpeth Trace - "Who Knows Where You Are".
I do not know if there is mist in Los Angeles, but if there is not I suspect the Harpeth Trace spend their evenings on the beach, watching the stars begin to pinprick, wishing that maybe the Clientele's London fog will make its way through the seven seas to wrap them up where they stand. [buy/West Coast tour]
Burial - "Raver".
If you fall down at the nightclub, 3:00 in the morning, streetlights and taillights and twilights smeared in your eyes, and you hit your head, and your dreams exte-e-end, Burial would be playing behind your sleep. [buy]
On Valentine's Day, when Lila was twenty six, she stopped hearing ghosts. It didn't happen until their dessert was coming out, something with coconut and silken tofu, but all of a sudden the restaurant around her went very quiet and she could hear the Thai music a little better and hear Jake a little better and hear the couples beside them a little better. And she didn't think anything of it, really, because the dessert was fucking good and she was trying to decide if she'd go back with Jake after dinner and it wasn't until much later, when she was walking home alone along the ice, that she realised wait wait wait wait wait wait where did they go?
When she was a little girl, Lila thought that everyone heard ghosts. Their whispers were part of regular life, like pins-and-needled feet, or the wind, and she did not pay much attention to their murmurs. But the third time she mentioned them to her parents, they began to ask her questions. And her answers led to concerns, and the concerns to late-night conversations, and to psychiatrists, and doctors, and ultimately to a wary wonderment in their eyes, not quite sure what to say to the daughter who heard spirits.
The ghosts didn't speak in words; they moaned and murmured. Their sounds made Lila think of rivers, rushes, bass saxophones, her dog's happy panting. It was a very soft cacophony, sometimes quiet and sometimes loud, but always there. At her grandmother's wake the voices were so low they almost disappeared; at the bus-stop outside St-Laurent metro, they were inexplicably deafening. When Lila kissed Gregory Pavlovich in sixth grade, the ghosts shook bells, such gentle bells, more daffodil than carillon. At dance-clubs they groaned under the soundsystem's beats, like the swerve of blood through her veins.
But now, on February 14th, they had vanished. The night whistled down Parc Avenue and there was nothing hidden under the wind. Lila slipped into a phone-booth and closed her eyes. She could hear cars skating by, a siren's distant cry, and silence. Back at her apartment every room was barren. The curtains hung unmoving at the window and she lay in her empty bed waiting, just waiting.
The next morning, the ghosts had still not returned. Nor did they return on the 16th, 21st or 28th of February. Lila trudged to work with head bowed, concentrating, straining for whispers. She sat for two hours outside St-Laurent metro, stamping her boots to keep warm. She slipped into the throng at Zoobizarre, one night, and pressed her ear to the speaker as if she might jar something free. And later she stood shivering atop Mont Royal, ankle-deep in snow, imagining a voice that would rise up & out of the skyline. No voice came.
Again she went to doctors, twenty years after those initial appointments, but this time with a different question: where did the voices go? She spoke with friends, former lovers, telephoned her parents in Florida. On a Sunday morning she found herself at church, bored out of her mind, and light streamed in through the stained glass.
"I used to hear all these voices," she said to Jake. "I don't know what they were. Who they were. But they were there, they were there. You know? Everywhere. And now it's all gone. Like someone turned off the sound of your heartbeat, or if you lived by the ocean and someone turned off the tide."
"Maybe the dead died," he said.
"Maybe they weren't the dead," she said.
Grocery shopping felt hollowed out, like all the smells were gone. Drinking felt hollowed out, like there was no one to catch her if she got too drunk. Sleeping felt hollowed out, all the dreams like paper. She seduced Jake, brought him cherries and honeycomb toffee and kisses, and she brought him back to her place, and she wrapped him in her legs, and in the midst of her flush she clenched her fists because she knew, she knew, she could hear and she knew - nothing had changed.
And what can I say, really, except that the ghosts never came back. That Lila spent the rest of her days listening for the departed voices, hunting for wisps of them in other things, carrying in her heart a nostalgia that was lonely and unsure, wondering as she aged if she had imagined it all, whether she had ever heard these things, and who believes in ghosts anyhow, and probably it was some ear problem, and who cares, and the murmurs of spirits have nothing to do with our greatest joys, and what's the point of searching for things that don't dwell here with us, and why not just love & live here, with bodies and birds, and forget the forgotten things, just live under sky and over earth, in winter and summer, and be happy and sad and mortal, yes and mortal, (and when we die we will be home again).
If you live in Montreal, I still say you should come to this concert tonight because the bands are amazing and the price is right and many of my friends will be there so probably yours will be too. Spake the Grandmaphone: oh yes oh yes, uh huh, yup, yes, damn straight.
Most Proper
Baptist Disciple Singers - "Awurade Yesu"
If you're not partying like this then you're not partying in Ghana, though you may be partying in Ghana's opposite, Japan. To test, check to see whether you're partying like the following.
Nagisa Ni Te - "Yesterday's Story"
If neither, spraypaint "Killjoy was here" on the wall closest to you and come to terms with the statement's very veracity, for you are a killjoy and you are here, where, evidently, the properest parties are not.
[Buy Baptist Disciple Singers, Nagisa Ni Te]
Arm Twisting
Ladyhawk - "Night You're Beautiful" (mp3 removed at label request)
Like truth in television, like overreacting, like karaoke, this song carries with it a kind of soft drama, a warm familiar holler that's at once both comforting and Sunday-sad. It's, like much of Ladyhawk's great songs, made for summer woods with towering towering trees that seep crushes and furtive campfire smiles out their sides. This is a song someone will have their heart broken to, no question. I'm just glad it's not going to be me. [Buy old stuff]
PULL EM OUT OF A HAT
The Felt Tips - "Boyfriend Devoted". You try to set aside all the complications, all the things that come between you, all the reasons why not. There's no point hashing through things, discussing the issues. Oral arguments aren't going to be persuasive. Here's the situation, sing the Felt Tips: my boyfriend is hooked on Christianity and will no longer come to bed with me. But the words of this song are not the words of a love-song. The lyrics are not an attempt to win him back, or an argument for turning away from Christ. There's not one phrase devoted to the boyfriend's redeeming qualities. No, the lyrics explain the situation, that is all. And the rest - the affection, the devotion, the laughter, the love, - this doesn't need to be stated. Not a word needs to be spared. Because that love, it's there in the gorgeous Orange Juice jangle of guitar, in the jubilance of the melody, in the gold & starlight of all that song. It's there as clear as that look across the room, eyes to eyes, i to thou, your heart going ping.
The Felt Tips are from Glasgow and they remind me of Orange Juice, The Smiths, and puddles on a sunny day. They'll remind you of the kind of rainy days you've missed ever since (s)he's gone.
[MySpace]
Raise High The Roof Beam - "Break My Heart In Two". When the uke's joined by a forest, a choir and a cockleshell beach, "Break My Heart In Two" sounds almost like a 69 Love Songs out-take. It's also got laser guns, weird pseudo hip-hop backtalk, and an address to Abraham Lincoln. In other words, it's a gentle bit of mess. But I get it, I think I do - because when your heart's been broken in two, when it's rended and wrenched, yr life tends to get gently messy. You sit in yr forest, yr cockleshell beach, in a pile of pinecones and laser guns and postcards and old photographs, trying to teach yourself the fucking ukelele.
Montrealers! This Thursday at Sala Rossa there's an amazing show for the amazing price of pay-what-you-can. Shapes & Sizes, Sister Suvi (aka Tuneyards), Telefauna and The Luyas -- aka, seriously for real, four of our favourite bands in the whole city, yes including the famous bands. (And all were profiled during our run at Ajisignal.) I basically think you'd be an idiot if you didn't go.
Remember to enter our Wonderful Video Contest! Under a month to go and there's tons of rooms for more submissions. To answer a couple recent questions: yes, you can (and should) enter even if you live outside North America! and yes, you can (and should) enter even if you are a kid!
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Helvetia - "Old New Bicycle".
If you think of an encyclopedia less like a contribution to science, less of a mountain of facts, and more like a friend to help you get through something, then you're beginning to understand The Encyclopedia Dan. It will contain answers, though maybe not the answers, to questions that I wish I could have read about before I finding out for myself. ... You can add your own in the comments.
file under: travel: london
it is very expensive to take the bus and train in london, england, but you can get an "oyster card" in a few minutes, basically for free, which makes the Underground and everything much, much cheaper, and that's the way you should do it when you visit.
file under: things worth spending a little more money on
headphones, sushi, birthday presents, dark chocolate, winter coats, the train, baklava, taxis home
file under: sundays
lots of people feel blue on sundays. it is common. don't worry about it. maybe you will feel better if you call a friend on the telephone or go out for ice-cream cones before it gets too late.
file under: cabin fever
if you are isolated from people for a few days or maybe even a week, you might begin to go a little crazy, and feel hollow and depressed and tired and desperately unhappy, and it's not because you are depressed or tired or desperately unhappy - it just means you should have some conversations with people, and then you will feel better so fast.
file under: distances
chicago's quite a long way from new york city, if you were planning to go.
file under: quitting: jobs
it's always easier than you think.
file under: goodbyes
avoid them.
file under: growing up: long-distance relationships
you cannot under any circumstances believe your eyes or your ears. not because people are liars but because when two hearts aren't under the same sheets it is very hard for them to know each other and beat in time, no matter how much you think you can hear the thump-&-thump down the telephone wires.
file under: travel: montreal
get a bike.
[Helvetia MySpace / The Acrobats is out in March]
Elsewhere: Torture Garden's favourite songs of 2007 are recommended.
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Umbrellishment
SS Cardiacs - "Age of Navigation"
I'm working on a small mass of knowledge not found in regular books. If you think of an encyclopedia less like a contirbution to science, less of a mountain of facts, and more like a friend to help you get through something, then you're beginning to understand The Encyclopedia Dan. It will contain answers, though maybe not the answers, to questions that I wish I could have read about before I finding out for myself.
file under: life changes: small: face
the first day that you wear your glasses you might feel like you're shorter than you are. you might feel uglier than you are, you might get a headache.
file under: purchases: small
when you buy a dish rack from the dollar store, don't forget to also buy the tray that goes underneath it. that's also a dollar.
file under: growing up: firsts
if you need to know what french kissing is like, and how to do it, I would recommend thinking of the kiss as a sleep and your tongue as the dream. It's not right away, and it doesn't last the whole time.
file under: etiquette: tipping
you should tip movers. And not just with lemonade. 15-30$ should be fine.
file under: general questions
you're right where you should be. you're on the right track.
You can add your own in the comments. Though you're wrong if you think I know enough to make The Wikipedia Dan.
[download Fear the Love for $8.88]
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Salty, Sour, Bitter, Sweet
This is the third in a series of three posts celebrating and responding to Carl Wilson’s book, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
Carl’s installment in the 33 1/3 series of books on albums is, as Dan and Sean have both pointed out, a book about Celine Dion that is not about Celine Dion. Rather, it is a discursive work on, among other things, taste, identity, and the practice of music criticism. It’s also about the writer himself; in the middle of the book, as the personal begins to pervade its pages and its themes are reframed in this context, we discover that what at first appeared a worthy academic exercise is actually a stealthily affecting work. As Sean put it yesterday, it is “a treatise on aesthetics cut through (like a hot knife) with the deeply personal.”
In another way, however, Carl’s book actually really is about Celine Dion. Let’s Talk About Love is in fact a fine and compelling, if highly unusual, work of appreciation. Yes, it could have been about someone else, some other saccharine or schmaltzy artist, but it’s not. By the end of his year-long experiment, Carl can write earnestly, though somewhat tepidly, about a few merits of Dion’s music, and carefully – without patronizing and with sympathy – about her usefulness in the world, about what other people might like about her. And in so doing, I think he provides by example an answer to one of the central questions of his book: If there is no objectively good or bad taste, no hierarchy of low and high brows, what is the point of music criticism?
"The Letter" - Joe Cocker
My eighth year was an important one in my aesthetic development. In 1988 I was impacted in particular by two events: 1) Ben Johnson was stripped of his Olympic Gold Medal in the 100 metre dash; 2) I bought my first two cassettes: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume Two and Joe Cocker’s Greatest Hits. Johnson’s disgrace brought me infinite sadness, my new tunes uncountably infinite joy. Thus was my intended career path diverted from track and field to the arts.
My parents were fans of Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker (one of whose songs is also “their song”), and I took pleasure in liking the same things as them, especially when “our taste” diverged, as it always did, from the standard taste of my peers. My aesthetic was determined at that age by wanting to be one of the cool kids, and my role models just happened to be Alex and Frum Himelfarb, Ph.Ds. This is not to say that I didn’t derive real pleasure from listening to the music – my first musical loves were among my most intense – just that it was not in a vacuum that I arrived at those particular artists. (For more on my musical education as provided by Dad, read this.)
By high school I’d added indie rock, proto-punk, post-punk, new wave, prog, jazz (and several of its sub-genres) to my early musical diet of classic rock and folk. I was constantly in search of the new - new sounds, new names. I hosted a show at Ottawa U’s radio station that might best have been called Something to Alienate Everyone. When I moved to Montreal for university, I became an obscene consumer of records, buying up everything I could get my grubby little paws on. I discovered soul and old blues and John Fahey – whatever he is – classical musics and country and everything else. I was so open-minded that my brains fell out; a list of the many and diverse purchases made during my Great Consumption would act as a reductio ad absurdum, negating the validity of my critical work, if such a thing were possible. My motivations for behaving this way were myriad: Yes, the accumulation of cultural capital was part of it; but – and I imagine this is true of almost all music collectors - I was also genuinely curious, genuinely loving of these new and different musics, an addict looking for my next fix.
There is no doubt that I taught myself to like much of this stuff. I was not born into my taste; rather, my preferences are the product of a subtle, ineffable interaction between nature, socialization and cultivation. What difference does it make how I arrived at them; I am glad for the discovery of every piece of music I now enjoy, for without any one my life would be less rich.
Now I’m an old hermit, it’s true. Whereas until recently my taste biography was one of constant addition, for the first time my musical preferences have narrowed and hardened. You might say that I now know what I like, or you might say that I’ve become lazy, less willing to learn to like. Either way, I can’t properly serve the traditional role of music critic. I’m not interested enough to sift through every new release, I don’t have the energy to write negatively about music that never had a chance with me or the conviction to convince someone that something they like isn’t good.
Several years ago, I wrote an article about the 33 1/3 series in which I talked about the “tremendous potential of music writing to go beyond the role of guide, of simple yay- or naysayer, to serve as a broadener of taste, an enricher of appreciation, and a window into the author’s own experience of music.” I argued that the most profound thing a critic can do is “point to something in a musical work - a harmony, a melody, a lyrical theme, a fact about its creation or creator, or even the critic’s own subjective experience of it - that makes the listener experience its beauty anew or with new depth.” None of this depends upon objective detachment or an acknowledgement of high and low, just a belief in the possibility of the intersubjective appreciation of art. I hope that is what we do here at Said the Gramophone. Certainly Carl’s book does it in spades; by calling out our flimsy aesthetic prejudices, he encourages a more generous approach to art as well as to people with taste different from our own.
[Buy Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, and please buy Carl Wilson's Let's Talk About Love]
ALL YOU CLOWNS
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, we at StG are writing in response to a book called Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. It was written by our friend Carl Wilson, as part of the 33 1/3 series. Dan wrote some words yesterday, and Jordan's comments will follow tomorrow.
The book launch for Let's Talk About Love takes place in Toronto on Wednedsay: a free show featuring Final Fantasy, Laura Barrett, The Blankket & others.
Carl's book is ostensibly about Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love album. But that's sort of like saying that a knock-knock joke is about the knock at the door. It's a book about taste - where it comes from, what it says about us, and how it keeps us isolated from each other. It touches on kitsch, chanson, Hurricane Katrina, the avant-garde, Elliott Smith, Quebec sovereignty, Las Vegas, mass art, and in the book's most heartbreaking moment, Buddy Holly. It is concerned with aesthetics, identity, and the role music (and music criticism) plays in our lives. It is only about 150 pages long but it is packed so full of insight, of ideas & wit & play & rigourous thinking, that it'll sustain weeks, months of thinking. It's also really fucking funny. But most of all, and the thing that made me certain that we ought to write about it here -- it is a book that is tender, beautiful and unexpectedly poetic; a book concerned above all with the human condition, and all us wanderering wanderers. A treatise on aesthetics cut through (like a hot knife) with the deeply personal. Let's Talk About Love was perhaps the best book I read in 2007.
The Beatles - "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away".
In 2000 I was 18 and my friends would joke that I didn't own any music that wasn't sad. I'd laugh and put on Bright Eyes' "Padraic My Prince" ("I had a brother once / he drowned in a bathtub / before he ever learned how to ta-a-a-alk"), enjoying the archetype. My pet artists were (and largely still are) Nick Drake, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, and maybe Neutral Milk Hotel. I liked more than anything the bittersweet first disc of The Beatles' Anthology II.
I could document this in more detail, transcribe some of the mixes I made (almost all of sad songs). But what I'd rather reflect on today is what this impulse meant. What did it say about that boy (and what does it maybe say about me today)?
That I was a melancholy kid? I guess. I had spent most of high-school in an unreciprocated crush, carrying it with me wherever I went, wallowing in the "hopeless" part of romance. But my peers were just as love-sick, just as pubescent (& for the most part, just as single). And they weren't (often) in their bedrooms listening to "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" on repeat. My home life was great, my school-life fine. I wasn't bullied or abused, had lots of friends and extra-curricular activities. I can't have been any more sad than others around me. So why did I want to be the one who listens to sad songs. Why was I attacted to that aesthetic?
Some answers can be found in the way I viewed the alternatives. I remember ranting about "angry music" - to me it was "mean", "stupid" or just "immature". These aesthetic judgements are way more loaded and arbitrary than I realised at the time. (I'm not just talking about the now-stale argument over instrumental virtuosity.) Were Limp Bizkit or Blink-182 really "mean", other than to the assholes who abused them? Was Rage Against the Machine's shouting really less "mature" than Stuart Murdoch's wallflower ballads? And are Kurt Cobain's insights any dumber than Thom Yorke's?
Thinking about it today, I read my impulses differently. I valued introverted music over extroverted music - self-reflection over activism. Never songs that compelled one to action (let alone to dance): instead, passivity, meditation, sorrowful stasis. There's something almost antisocial in a lot of sad songs. My desire to be grown up didn't manifest in a curiosity about sex & drugs, let alone the messy, frustrating stuff of actual adult life. Instead I wanted to be "literary", "serious" - to dwell in a chaste, almost bloodless world, rich in metaphor, some place gentle as a lukewarm bowl of porridge. The music I listened to was never "frivolous". It might be whimsical, or absurd, but never frivolous. The figure I wanted to embody - the adult I wanted to become, - didn't have that much room for "fun". Artists are tortured, wretched figures -- right?
And at that age I didn't even consider music whose essence is in the expression of joy. Pop music - so "unsubtle"! Happiness, so "fake"! Carl talks about this in much greater detail, but it was certainly true for me then (and to a much lesser extent is still true for me now). I thought bliss was a thinner feeling than misery; that happiness was more banal than melancholy.
I'm different today. My favourite albums, my favourite songs, are a far more disparate crew. But themes, traces, clues remain - and they're often writ large. There's nothing wrong with this, with having a taste. Okay, so it's arbitrary to value melancholy over glee - but I can still make that choice, still be made through nature or nurture to prefer one to the other.
What's important is to be press at the edges of one's taste, to push further out - to be conscious of the blind-spots and to try to discover new pleasures. To steal Dan's metaphor - to kick at the cracks in your wall. There is nothing noble in melancholy, but more importantly still there's something lost when you cover up parts of your heart. When you listen to only the bluest beat. Late in Let's Talk About Love, Carl quotes a beautiful line by Saul Bellow:
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
They're such wise words - but not just for what they make explicit. There's a secret in the flick and flow of the language. "The adjoining," Bellow writes, and what he means is the whole wide world. "The adjoining," he writes, and it's the sound of kissing the unknown.
[buy Carl Wilson's Let's Talk About Love]
A Cube From All Sides
to listen while you read. (it's The Sapphires - "Who Do You Love?")
Our colleague and friend Carl Wilson has written a book for the 33 1/3 series. It's called "Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste" and it's about Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Well, about. It's about a lot of things, really. And in support of the book, Sean, Jordan and I, over the next three days, will be discussing what the book is "about" and what its themes mean to us and our own taste, as a way of letting you know how much we think this book is valuable, important, and just great fun. The book launch is on Wednesday, and so I'm starting today, because we feel this book is so good it deserves a hearty welcome.
So "Let's Talk About Love" (and when I say that from now on I mean the book, not the album) is about taste, at its core. The subtitle, "A Journey to the End of Taste" is a clue that this is not a regular installment in the 33 1/3 series (in which it is assumed going in that the author loves the album they're writing about). In this case, the author starts out pretty much hating the album, hating the artist, as much as any art can be hated. But the task at hand is to find out why. What reasons are there to hate Celine Dion? Perhaps there are many. Perhaps there are none. If there are none, then where does this hatred come from in the first place? These are fundamental philosophical questions of aesthetics, so to me they're not only important that they're answered (I feel the "task" of life, if you need one, is understanding as much as you can), they're exciting. Because they're mysteries I've thought about but never had an answer to, and I love it when someone comes up with some. And Carl not only comes up with answers, he writes passionately about them (and about the further questions that are raised, always new mysteries), and about how they've helped him to understand his own life, which only left me with the job of trying to understand mine.
In his book, Carl Wilson does what I wish I could do every day: he confronts his own perspective. He challenges his ideals, just to make sure they're fast, because without strong re-inforced opinions, you won't survive in a storm. It's like passing by the little crack in your living room wall on the way to the bathroom, but instead of just walking by and putting it out of your mind, kicking it as hard as you can. If nothing happens and the crack settles a little into place, you're fine, you've got strong walls, but if a chunk of the ceiling comes down, you had a problem there the whole time. In a very personal way, he confronts himself, and today I want to do the same, with something of a "taste biography".
The symptoms of my taste began in aesthetic experience as a kind of hidden treat, in naughty or forbidden material. Rap tapes with the logo were what I would listen to on low low volume in my bedroom, lying with my head next to the speaker. Most often it was House of Pain's Fine Malt Lyrics, until I received Pearl Jam's Ten on my tenth birthday (yes!) and that took over. But at this point (1994 or so) my taste took a strong deviation towards movies, so I can't ignore them (even if I stuck to my taste in music, it just veers into movie soundtracks anyway). Quentin Tarantino was the king of forbidden goods in my house. I kept VHS copies of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs in my desk drawer in my bedroom, far away from the family TV. And then by high school that impulse (to be shocked, stirred) transformed into desiring simply "talked about" work, since the thread got stale of just violence and sex, those weren't what I was after (well, I suppose exploitation wasn't what I was after, because I was certainly still interested in understanding sex and violence). For instance, I tried like some misguided collector to see all of the movies on the AFI "Top 100 movies of all time" list (still missing twenty or so).
This impulse, though it's become nameless, instinctual, unspoken, is still there. Be it music or movies or anything else, the most glowing endorsement someone can give for me to seek out a piece of art is to say, tensing, "it just made me so...." and then shuddering, or clenching their fists, or dropping their jaw. I am first and foremost drawn to things that have made people react. I believe I'm searching for something powerful, something with an idea in it, something that makes me react, and maybe even act. I think in an unconscious way, I long for a certain kind of hyper-effective propaganda. Something that will turn me into a soldier for a cause worthy of my devotion. I don't know what it would it would look or sound like (perhaps like Ravel's Bolero, or perhaps like Group Inerane if I could understand the lyrics*) but in a way the ultimate piece of art would be one where I didn't need to see or hear another piece after that. Like when someone says after an experience "Well, I can die happy," I suppose I must be looking for that to really come true. So maybe I should save this answer-song until I'm ready to face it, though if an artist came along that could alter my life completely, I'm sure I wouldn't be given prep time. I wonder if this artist has begun their career, maybe they're already dead, maybe they haven't been born, maybe they're reading this now.
*though I think the most stirring song I've heard up to this point in my life is probably "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the good version. so maybe I'm destined to be a soldier of heartbreak.
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SKLL SKLL SKULL 69 SKLL ATOMIC BOMB
Bastardgeist - "Flee (to the hills)*"
The title of this post is the name of Bastardgeist's album. Yes, the name of it. In an email I got from him, he describes the album as "leftover insecurities from my childhood, sexuality, and my own inevitable death". I respect his candidness, and as this digital breeze wafts out of my laptop speakers, I like to wonder what part of his insecurities this represents. With the ripped and distant loops of singing children (are they singing?), I imagine some futuristic archaeologist finding only that 1-second clip and them playing it over and over, trying to rebuild the past. But I suppose that's what I'm doing, playing this song over and over, trying to fabricate a story to this gentle 3-minute sample, of a moment, of a day, or a month, however long this feeling lasted. If you're interested, the story involves finding a lost cell phone, a pair of shoes covered in duct tape, and one of those birthday cards that plays a song when you open it. [MySpace]
Hello, Blue Roses - "Hymn" (removed at label request)
The Hello, Blue Roses album may be largely uneventful, but the strange duo of Dan Bejar and Sydney Vermont sit up for this last song. Like when you went to church and you joined in on a rousing last song partly because they saved the best for last, but also because you knew mass was over. And here, as the guitar dabbles toes in the cool clear stream, and their voices weave ribbons 'round the maypole, I think of what must be one of Dan Bejar's secret fantasies; sitting dressed to the nines in Louis XIV garb, sipping brandy, being forced to make conversation, bored as hell. [Site]
A TERRIBLE CACOPHONY
The Rollercoaster Project - "What Happened".
As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Anatoli Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms. Bugorski was leaning over the piece of equipment when he stuck his head in the part through which the proton beam was running. Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns", but did not feel any pain. The beam measured about 2000 gray when it entered Bugorski's skull, and about 3000 gray when it exited after colliding with the inside of his head. [citation]
Anatoli Bugorski leaned over and found himself suddenly bombarded by a PURE PROTON BEAM, an accelerated molecular PUNCH-to-the-FACE, and everything went so HORRIBLY and VIOLENTLY wrong that ALL THE WORLD APPEARED IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
I have never fallen into a proton accelerator and neither has The Rollercoaster Project. But the thing Bugorski felt, this in some way we felt. And many of you have too. Perhaps it was a sentence, or a word, or a phrase, or perhaps yes a wave of heavy atoms. Something she said to you over the crackle of a phone, or something he whispered from the street-corner, or the look in her eyes when she squeezed your shoulder. There are many things it could have been. But it knocks everything utterly down, takes you apart from your barest part. It falls over you like a tsunami. It is vast and terrible and seems in the moment utterly apocalyptic. "WHAT HAPPENED / TO US?!!?!?!?!", The Rollercoaster Project screams from the thick of it, from inside that terrible & splendid cacophony of synths. "WHAT HAPPENED?"
But the lesson is this: Anatoli Bugorsky emerged, lived on, married and had a son. He laughed again, and ate soup, and sang songs, and made love. He petted cats and did crosswords on long train journeys. He did not die on July 13, 1978.
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Hey, did you hear about Said the Gramophone's WONDERFUL VIDEO CONTEST? The deadline's not for another month, which is tons of time to enter. It's an opportunity to win exciting prizes, but also a good reason to get around to making something beautiful, personal, creative and lots of fun. I just finished adding details of TWO NEW PRIZES - including stuff from Wolf Parade, CSS, Eugene Mirman, Shins and Iron & Wine, - courtesy of Sub Pop. All the details are on the Video Contest page.
Thanks so much for everyone's submissions so far. A couple of reminders about the rules: please don't submit videos for bands you're in, and, um, don't you think it would be more fun to make a new video for this contest than just to recycle something from several months ago?
I recently added Red Threat to our blogroll. It's an mp3blog writing generously, excitedly about new sounds in dance music, and their ears are very good indeed.
It Always Starts A Ghost Town
The Low Lows - "Modern Romance"
I haven't forgotten what you said about New Year's Eve. About how it's full of beggars, for a dime, for a beer, for some acid, for an idea, for a kiss. And how on New Year's Day no one really talks about that, they just put their heads down and turn towards the wind. I'd be worried about this year, it's the most unsure year I've ever faced, but I still don't know how I scored for all the other years. As soon as I get my report card for 2000-2007 I'll be more ready for 2008. Until then, The Low Lows will shake me around in their cup, they'll keep me humble and working inside this sock-drawer winter apartment until something gives way. Something has to eventually give way.
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Triple talaq bill: Challenge before BJP to repeat Rajya Sabha deputy chair election
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After comfortably getting passed in the Lok Sabha last week, The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2018, popularly called the triple talaq bill, faces a crucial test of numbers in the Rajya Sabha. The bill, which comfortably sailed through the lower house, may apparently not get easily passed in the upper house as the BJP-led NDA does not enjoy a majority.
But the passage of the bill may not be difficult either as the NDA did manage to defeat the Congress-led Opposition just about four months ago during the election for the deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha.
Though the situations now are not as favourable for the NDA as it was on August 9, when NDA-supported Harivansh defeated BK Hariprasad of the Congress in a keenly-fought contest, the Opposition may also find it difficult to get the bill stalled in the Rajya Sabha.
The passage of the triple talaq bill is evenly poised between the treasury and the opposition benches as the ruling NDA does not enjoy a majority in the House.
Before the Rajya Sabha was adjourned by Harivansh today (December 31, 2018) to meet again on January 2, 2019, the Opposition created the first hurdle by moving a motion under Rule 125 of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Council of States. Initiated by Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien, 11 opposition parties demanded that the triple talaq bill be sent to a select committee of the House for consideration.
With the AIADMK, having 13 MPs in the Rajya Sabha, choosing to stand against the triple talaq bill, the Opposition has 128 members while the ruling NDA has the support of 97 members.
The resolution has been signed by the Congress, NCP, TDP, RJD, AAP, SP, BSP, DMK, CPI, CPM and the AIADMK.
The numbers were stacked against the NDA during the election of deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha also.
However, in the end, three-term Rajya Sabha member Hariprasad lost even though the BJP had 73 MPs and Congress 50 in the 244-member house.
The BJP fielded Harivansh, a first-time MP of the Janata Dal (United), against Hariprasad. But by the sheer dint of superior floor management, the NDA convincingly trounced the Congress candidate.
The NDA got the support from unlikely quarters, including Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and the Shiv Sena.
The two MPs of the YSRCP abstained from voting, helping the NDA.
In a house of 244 members, the magic figure for the election in the Rajya Sabha was 123.
However, with eight MPs – including those of the YSRCP, PDP and AAP – abstaining, the magic figure came down to 119.
While Harivansh garnered 125 votes, Hariprasad secured 105 votes.
With the BJP having 73 MPs in the Rajya Sabha, the NDA got the support of 125 MPs.
The stand of these parties and that of the NDA ally Shiv Sena would be closely watched in the triple talaq bill.
The Shiv Sena’s stand is unpredictable. It has been blowing hot and cold on the BJP despite being a part of the Modi government at the Centre and in Maharashtra.
The Shiv Sena went against the “alliance dharma” and, in order to embarrass the BJP, abstained in the No-Confidence Motion debate which took place in the Lok Sabha in July.
However, it voted along with other NDA allies in favour of JDU’s Harivansh.
The triple talaq bill has become a prestige battle for the Congress-led Opposition in the Rajya Sabha after the deputy chairperson’s election.
In a fluid situation, the numbers do not indicate a clear winner. But the BJP has a precedent of winning despite the odds not long ago.
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Proud to introduce the first EOSE book!
2 September 2014 14 h 10 min
After a long period of anticipation, we are now delighted to be able to introduce the first ever EOSE book entitled “Sport: linking education, training and employment in Europe – an EOSE network perspective” and published in July 2014 by the Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
The book gathers a series of articles and contributions aiming to serve as a solid written groundwork that strengthens the foundations of EOSE work, challenges, activities and projects. Indeed, this collective book provides information about the creation and development of the organisation, a summary of the principle achievements and activities carried out by EOSE since 2002 but also the main challenges facing the sector in terms of Education and Employment. Special attention has also been given to the European tools and policies linked to the EOSE mission.
The goal of the book is to highlight the diversity of vision, culture and conception within the sport and active leisure sector across Europe. Indeed, it describes for example how the sector has grown and is developing, and it shows the main opportunities created by the European policies in the field of sport, skills development and qualification framework to improve the relationship between education and employment hence allowing the sector to fulfil its potential.
We are extremely proud to highlight that he book received the official support from three key stakeholders which are Mrs Androulla VASSILIOU, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Mr Joachim James CALLEJA, Director CEDEFOP and Mrs Claudia BOKEL, Chair of the Athletes Commission and member of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee.
Our wish is for this book, which marks the special occasion of the 10 year anniversary of EOSE, to be used and referred to by all our national members, ambassadors, partners, and contributors.
It is a great pleasure for us that an official presentation took place in Malta on Thursday 14th August 2014 during which Mr. Gino Schiavone, EOSE Secretary General, presented the EOSE book to the Maltese Minister of Education, Hon Evarist Bartolo, and to the parliamentary secretary of Sport, Hon Chris Agius.
Mr.Gino Schiavone used this opportunity to briefly present the significance of this book and the main mission of EOSE. Both Hon Bartolo and Hon Agius thanked Mr. Schiavone for presenting the book and were highly appreciative about EOSE work in the field of sport.
Hon Bartolo also acknowledged on this occasion the importance of the 7 Step Model and its use to brink the link closer between education, training and employment. He took this opportunity to express his support to the ESF project for Sports Administrators using the 7 Step Model to be held in the country.
Should you want to receive more information about the book or receive a copy, please get in touch with EOSE Secretariat.
Download the Press Release.
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The entire Fianna Fail Cabinet was rushed to Blackrock private clinic,from Leinster House today, by a fleet of ambulances.The symptoms indicated an outbreak of deadly Avian flu better known as "chicken flu".
"The infected patient withdraws into a state of complete paralysis of the body politic,after a short incubation period,and it is fatal in 99% of cases.
"They certainly contracted it in Bangkok or some other such exotic place,while on government business" said Doctors, Rabbite and Kenny,two specialists in tropical medicine.
An epidemia is not feared,as the fact that the road traffic infrastructure,extra public transport availibility,and Dublin Airport terminal privitisation are all at a standstill means that it cannot spread rapidly throughout the city.
However a limited form of deregulation/competition of drinking laws ,proposed by coalition crony 'Mad Mullah McDowell' has been cancelled due to a revolt by back bench soldiers of destiny, in order to protect the pockets of wealthy publicans. People will therefore continue to congregate in close proximity,queing for overpriced alcohol in palatial-sized city pubs, and are at grave risk af infection.
The Indigent Taxidrivers Association,declared this to be a form of deregulation discrimination. "Mary showed us no mercy when she knifed us in the back with her deregulation schemes" declared one Usher Yarafat, President of the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation.
Many of the affected taximen live in Mr Ahearns own constituency, and it is believed they will not be ferrying his voters free to the polling booths next election, as in previous elections, due to this "alleged" form of favouritism.
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Master TetraMap Facilitator Jan Alley passed away in August 2021. Her life was full of people she loved and causes she was passionate about.
TetraMap played a central role in her life and work for over 20 years. Her legacy is played out every day through the people she engaged with and the lives she touched in her many workshops. Jan loved all forms of Education, especially the performing arts.
She particularly valued TetraMap’s approach to resolving conflict, the ability to see different perspectives and the focus on the tetrahedron (where all sides are equal and inter-dependent).
‘We all know how much value the TetraMap model brings to our learners, BUT when you add the tetrahedron, then there’s a whole NEW dimension – a whole new way of seeing things. “
Jan Alley
TetraMap International chose to create these scholarships to honour Jan’s passion for people, education, diversity, inclusion and activity-based learning. We hope that through this, many more people will understand how strength lies in valuing differences in order to collaborate better, communicate effectively, reduce conflict and inspire change.
The scholarships are open for anyone working in the field of Education.
The recipient should have an intention to use the model for both personal and professional development and intend to share the model with others for the benefit of their respective communities.
This global scholarship opportunity is available for one place per region in 2023.
2023 applications close on 30th April 2023.
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HCA CEO to Big Tech: You Can’t Disrupt Healthcare Like You’ve Disrupted Other Industries
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Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and IBM can’t disrupt healthcare with the same approach they have used to infiltrate other industries, according to Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. He shared this sentiment on Sunday during a main stage discussion with General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja at HLTH 2022 in Las Vegas. “To really …
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Mass Incarceration Is the Elephant in the Room When It Comes to Addiction, Expert Says
About 65% of the U.S. prison population has an active substance use disorder, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. That’s because the United States’ response to addiction and substance use disorders is a criminal justice response and not a public health response — but it shouldn’t be that way, one expert said. “The …
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How Are Investors Thinking About Healthcare Investment Trends for 2023?
This article is part of a series sponsored by HLTH highlighting topics that will be discussed at the HLTH conference November 13-16 in Las Vegas. If you were to sum up healthcare investment trends in 2022, behavioral health, healthcare on demand and automation would be among the most active areas of investment. Although digital health funding fell …
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Negotiating a raise with the right compensation data
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5 Trends for Health Plans to Watch
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Solving EHR’s ‘Last Mile’ Problem
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Doctors Are Failing Patients With Disabilities
This piece was originally published by Undark Magazine. Ben Salentine, the associate director of health-sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of guess” his weight, he says, because they don’t have a wheelchair-accessible scale. He’s far from …
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According to Bellows Free Academy English teacher, Larissa Hebert, this year, Bellows Free Academy has seen an influx of new teachers and staff. Among these new faculty members is Wendy Finn, a new teacher in the English Department.
Finn teaches ninth grade Reading and Writing Workshop, as well as tenth grade American Literature. According to Finn, the beginning of the school year hasn’t been too stressful yet.
“It’s been going pretty well,” Finn said. “I’m trying not to psych myself out too much and [am] trying to put in the bulk of my work now so I can dive into the more complex stuff later.”
Finn is joining us from St. Michael’s College, where she has worked towards her Master’s Degree in Teaching Middle and Secondary English for the past year. In addition to that, Finn said she previously acted as a student teacher at the Shelburne Community School and worked part-time.
Outside of teaching, Finn lives in Burlington with her partner and two cats. She also has immediate family scattered around Vermont and New York.
Finn noted that she was particularly happy to get the position at BFA because of the location, and that she was enjoying BFA so far because of the community and environment.
“Everyone has been very accommodating, and it’s a great environment so far,” Finn said. “I also really love this building because it reminds me of [my own] high school.”
When asked how she sees her job responsibilities developing over the next few months, Finn said she is most looking forward to exploring classic literature with her students, now that the basic housekeeping (going over the syllabus, attendance policies, etc.) is out of the way. Finn also noted that sharing books is one of her favorite parts of the job.
“I read so many books, so many times, [just] because it’s my job,” Finn said. “But it’s always really exciting to hear new perspectives and opinions on those same books from students.”
When asked for any additional information she would like to share, Finn expressed her plans for an afterschool club in the near future.
“I’ll be starting up a film club at school soon,” Finn said. “So, keep an eye out for that.”
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'Impresses quaint', By Joseph Crawhall
X sermons preached by that late learned and rev. divine John Donne : doctor of divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's, Chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermons by Geoffrey Keynes
153 letters from W. H. Hudson, edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett
A catalogue of engravers : who have been born, or resided in England, digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue ; to which is added An account of the life and works of the latter. ..
A catalogue of the pictures at Leigh Court, near Bristol; the seat of Philip John Miles, Esq. M.P. with etchings from the whole collection. Executed by permission of the proprietor, and accompanied with historical and biographical notices, by John Young ..
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns : from King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary, also receipts in ancient cookery
A communication to my friends, by George Moore
A fragment of Partonope of Blois : from a manuscript at Vale Royal in the possession of Lord Delamere, Printed for the Roxburghe club
A history of the Nonesuch Press, by John Dreyfus ; with an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes & a descriptive catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendall & John Dreyfus
A journey into England, By Paul Hentzner, in the year M.D. XC. VIII
A letter to a young lady on her approaching marriage, by Ambrose Hoopington
A moral ending and other stories, by Sylvia Townsend Warner ; with a frontispiece by William Kermode and a foreword by T.F. Powys
A plurality of worlds, Bernard de Fontenelle ; John Glanvill's translation ; with a prologue by David Garnett
A song of the English, (electronic resource)
A stitch in time, : or, Pride prevents a fall, by James Laver
A tale of a tub : written for the universal improvement of mankind : to which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library
A tale of the house of the Wolfings and all the kindreds of the mark, written in prose and verse by William Morris
A terrible day, by David Garnett ; with a frontispiece by Duncan Grant, and a foreword by H.E. Bates
A treatise on ancient armour and weapons : illustrated by plates taken from the original armour in the Tower of London and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets, by Francis Grose
A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King, His Present Majesty, and the government : as it was order'd to be published by His Late Majesty
An address delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894
An appendix to the Rowfant library : a catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, etc., collected since the printing of the first catalogue in 1886 by the late Frederick Locker Lampson
An historical account of the honourable Order of the Bath ; : Containing, I. An account of its antiquity, Excellency, &c. The Rites and Ceremonies, as well Sacred as Courtly, observ'd at the Time of the Conquest. II. The Manner and Form of Creating Knights of the Bath, from the Conquest, down to the Reign of Henry IV. III. The Form observ'd in the last Creation of Sixty-Eight Knights of the Bath, at the Coronation of K. Charles II. Together with a complete List of their Names, the Oath administer'd on that Occasion, their Covalcade, &c. IV. The distinguish'd Splendor and Dignity of this Honourable Order ; its adjudg'd Precedence before other Knights, &c. Together with an Explanation of the significant Rites and Symbols observ'd at these Creations, &c. V. The Ceremony used, and Habit worn by Charles Duke of Albany, afterwards K. Charles I. who was created a Knight of the Bath at Four Years of Age ; With an Account of the Apparel provided for the Creation of Edward VI. at like tender Years, when Prince of Wales, &c. VI. A List of the Lords and Gentlemen nominated by His present Majesty on the Revival of this Ancient Dignity. With an Account of their Investitures, and the Preparations, &c. made for their Installment, Creation, &c
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683, newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden
Anecdotes of painting in England ; : with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue, and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ..
Art and the beauty of the earth, by William Morris
Astrophel & Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Mona Wilson
Baziliologia, a booke of kings ; : notes on a rare series of engraved English royal portraits from William the Conqueror to James I, published under the above title in 1618, by H.C. Levis
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville ; with pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer
Blake's pencil drawings, Second series, edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Butleriana, S.B
Candide, or, Optimism, Francoise Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage
Cato : a tragedy, by Joseph Addison
Chapman, by Havelock Ellis
Choix de sonnets, de P. de Ronsard, (Texte imprimé)
Christmas formula and other stories, by Stella Benson, with a front. by Clare Leighton, and a foreword by Geoffrey West
Collected works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by John Hayward
Coriolanus : a facsimile of the First folio text, by William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by J. Dover Wilson, Litt.D. and a list of modern readings
Crawhall's chap-book chaplets
Cupid and Psyches : the excellent narration of their marriage, translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine bookes of the Golden Asse, by Apuleius, 1566
Dangerous acquaintances. Les liaisons dangereuses., by Choderlos de Laclos. Englished by Ernest Dowson, the preface by André Gide, the illustrations by Chas Laborde
De Maisse ; : a journal of all that was accomplished by Monsieur de Maisse, ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth, anno Domini 1597, translated from the French and edited with an introduction by G.B. Harrison and R.A. Jones
Decii Junii Juvenalis aquinatis Satirae decem et sex ; : Auli Persii Flacci Satirae sex
Directions for the gardiner at Says-court : but which may be of use for other gardens, Edited by Geoffrey Keynes ..
Divarication of the New Testament into doctrine, the word of God history, the word of man : Part I. The four Gospels, By Thomas Wirgman, Esq
Don Quixote de la Mancha : the history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Motteux' translation revised anew, 1743, & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J. Ozell who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish ; reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer
Donne's sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, Printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons. Edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson
Ellen Terry and her impersonations. An appreciation, by Charles Hiatt ..
Endymion : a poetic romance., With engravings by John Buckland-Wright
Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa, by Walter Savage Landor
Fair Rosamund, by Michael Field
Genesis : twelve woodcuts by Paul Nash with the first chapter of Genesis in the authorized version
Graziella, by A. de Lamartine ; translated by Ralph Wright ; with 30 illustrations by Jacquier
Grimms' other tales ; : a new selection, by Wilhelm Hansen. Translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff. Illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan
Gulliver's travels and selected writings in prose & verse, edited by John Hayward
Henry Vaughan, Silurist : Poems from Poems, Olor Iscanus, Silex Scintillans, Thalia Rediviva; an essay from The Mount of Olives; Two Letters from MSS. in the Bodleian Library
Hero and Leander, 1598, (electronic resource)
Histoire de la reine du Matin & de Soliman prince des génies, Gérard de Nerval
Historical collections, : or, an exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory. Wherein is contained the compleat journals both of the Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses. As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy members during all the last notable sessions together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times., Faithfully and laboriously collected by Heywood Townshend
Histories, or, Tales of past times : told by Mother Goose, with morals, written in French by M. Perrault ; & Englished by G.M., gent. ; newly edited by J. Saxon Childers
Icones Veteris Testamenti ; : illustrations of the Old Testament, engraved on wood, from designs by Hans Holbein
In memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
In memoriam, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Irene Iddesleigh : a novel, by Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick Ros
Italy : a poem, by Samuel Rogers
Izaak Walton : his wallet booke
Jane Austen : a bibliography, By Geoffrey Keynes ... with four illustrations from original engravings
Kisses : being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus, rendered into English verse by Thomas Stanley, 1647
La divina commedia, : or The divine vision, of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. The Italian text ed. by Mario Casella, with the English version of H.F. Cary and 42 illus. after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli
Ladies' mistakes, by James Laver ; with nine illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky
Latterday symphony, by Romer Wilson
Les petits vieux, Émile Verhaeren
Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other records of his early career in England & America : viz; Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand : a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect, by William Cobbett
Little Peter the Great, by H.A. Manhood ; with a frontispiece by Rowland Hilder and a foreword by Henry Williamson
Little poems in prose, Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Aleister Crowley ; with several added versions of the Epilogue by various hands and twelve copper plate engravings from the original drawings by Jean de Bosschere
Love among the haystacks : & other pieces, by D.H. Lawrence, with a reminiscence by David Garnett
Love in the eighteenth century, translated from the French of Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
Love poems of John Donne, With some account of his life taken from the writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton
Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta, by James Laver
Lovely food ; : a cookery notebook, by Ruth Lowinsky; with table decorations invented and drawn by Thomas Lowinsky
Masses and man : a fragment of the social revolution of the twentieth century, by Ernst Toller, translated from the German by Vera Mendel
Melaia ; : and other poems, by Eliza Cook
Memoires for my grand-son, by John Evelyn. Transcribed and furnished with a preface and notes by Geoffrey Keynes
Minnow among Tritons ; : Mrs. S.T. Coleridge's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834, edited by Stephen Potter
Miscellaneous antiquities; or, a collection of curious papers : either republished from scarce tracts, or now first printed from original MSS... To be continued occasionally
Miscellaneous poems ; Paradise regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes, John Milton ; with illustrations by William Blake
Miscellaneous poems, by Andrew Marvell, esq. ..
Montaigne's essays, John Florio's translation...Edited by J.I.M. Stewart
Odyssey, Pope
Of the imitation of Christ : in four books, by Thomas À Kempis
Of the just shaping of letters : from the Applied geometry of Albrecht Dürer, book III
On the making and issuing of books, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, manager of the Chiswick Press
Oscar Wilde, recollections, by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts
P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ
Paradise lost : A poem, in twelve books, The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton, D.D
Paradise lost, John Milton ; with illustrations by William Blake
Paradise regain'd : A poem, in four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon several occasions, The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton, D.D
Paradise regain'd : A poem, in four books. To which is added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon several occasions, The author John Milton, from the text of Thomas Newton, D.D
Patriotic sketches of Ireland : written in Connaught, by Miss Owenson, two volumes in one
Context of Fine books -- England | London -- Specimens
'Impresses quaint'
153 letters from W. H. Hudson
A catalogue of engravers : who have been born, or resided in England
A catalogue of the pictures at Leigh Court, near Bristol; the seat of Philip John Miles, Esq. M.P. with etchings from the whole collection. Executed by permission of the proprietor, and accompanied with historical and biographical notices
A communication to my friends
A fragment of Partonope of Blois : from a manuscript at Vale Royal in the possession of Lord Delamere
A history of the Nonesuch Press
A journey into England
A letter to a young lady on her approaching marriage
A moral ending and other stories
A plurality of worlds
A song of the English
A stitch in time, : or, Pride prevents a fall
A tale of the house of the Wolfings and all the kindreds of the mark
A terrible day
A treatise on ancient armour and weapons : illustrated by plates taken from the original armour in the Tower of London and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets
An appendix to the Rowfant library : a catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, etc.
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683
Anecdotes of painting in England ; : with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue
Art and the beauty of the earth
Astrophel & Stella
Baziliologia, a booke of kings ; : notes on a rare series of engraved English royal portraits from William the Conqueror to James I
Blake's pencil drawings, Second series
Butleriana
Candide, or, Optimism
Cato : a tragedy
Choix de sonnets
Christmas formula and other stories
Collected works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Coriolanus : a facsimile of the First folio text
Cupid and Psyches : the excellent narration of their marriage
Dangerous acquaintances. Les liaisons dangereuses.
De Maisse ; : a journal of all that was accomplished by Monsieur de Maisse, ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth, anno Domini 1597
Directions for the gardiner at Says-court : but which may be of use for other gardens
Divarication of the New Testament into doctrine, the word of God history, the word of man : Part I. The four Gospels
Don Quixote de la Mancha : the history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha
Donne's sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619
Ellen Terry and her impersonations. An appreciation
Endymion : a poetic romance.
Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa
Grimms' other tales ; : a new selection
Gulliver's travels and selected writings in prose & verse
Hero and Leander, 1598
Histoire de la reine du Matin & de Soliman prince des génies
Historical collections, : or, an exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory. Wherein is contained the compleat journals both of the Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses. As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy members during all the last notable sessions together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times.
Histories, or, Tales of past times : told by Mother Goose, with morals
Icones Veteris Testamenti ; : illustrations of the Old Testament
Irene Iddesleigh : a novel
Italy : a poem
Jane Austen : a bibliography
Kisses : being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus
La divina commedia, : or The divine vision
Ladies' mistakes
Latterday symphony
Les petits vieux
Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other records of his early career in England & America : viz; Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand : a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect
Little Peter the Great
Little poems in prose
Love among the haystacks : & other pieces
Love in the eighteenth century
Love poems of John Donne
Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta
Lovely food ; : a cookery notebook
Masses and man : a fragment of the social revolution of the twentieth century
Melaia ; : and other poems
Memoires for my grand-son
Minnow among Tritons ; : Mrs. S.T. Coleridge's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834
Miscellaneous poems
Miscellaneous poems ; Paradise regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes
Montaigne's essays
Of the imitation of Christ : in four books
On the making and issuing of books
Oscar Wilde, recollections
Paradise lost : A poem, in twelve books
Paradise regain'd : A poem, in four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon several occasions
Paradise regain'd : A poem, in four books. To which is added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon several occasions
Patriotic sketches of Ireland : written in Connaught
Pieces of ancient popular poetry : from authentic manuscripts and old printed copies
Plato's Symposium, or Supper
Poematia latine partim reddita partim scripta a Vincentio Bourne ..
Poems, fables, and plays,
Poetical sketches
Poetry and prose of William Blake
Pope's own miscellany : being a reprint of Poems on several occasions, 1717, containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others
Prolegomena to the dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere
Pure poetry : an anthology
Pythian odes
Rosamond : An opera. Inscrib'd to her Grace, the Dutchess of Marlborough
Sea Sequel to the Week-End Book
Select poems divine and humane
Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old Bailey for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, bigamy, and other offences : to which are added genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions, and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts, from the year 1720 to this time
Selected essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830
Selected poems
Selected poems of Alice Meynell
Sketches of the lives of Correggio and Parmegiano
So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First
Some further portions of the diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her domestic history and to the events of the latter years of the reign of King Charles the First, the protectorate, and the restoration
Some further portions of the diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her domestic history and to the stirring events of the latter years of the reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate, and the Restoration
Some hints on pattern-designing
Songs and carols printed from a manuscript in the Sloane Collection in the British Museum
Songs of the gardens
Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays
The Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches
The Devil and all
The Grecian enchanted
The Greek portrait : an anthology of English verse translations from the Greek poets (Homer to Meleager) with the corresponding Greek text
The Hessian prisoner
The Holy Bible : The Authorized or King James version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha
The Holy Bible : reprinted according to the Authorised version 1611
The Latin portrait : an anthology
The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa Mccclxxx : now first printed from a contemporary manuscript formerly in the Monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA
The Nonesuch Dickens : retrospectus and prospectus
The Nutbrowne maid : from the earliest edition of Arnold's Chronicle
The Odyssey of Homer
The Turnament of Totenham and the Feest : Two early ballads printed from a manuscript preserved in the public library of the University of Cambridge
The anatomy of melancholy : what is it, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. In three partitions, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up
The bold smuggler, or, the history of Will Watch : together with the adventures of Captain Mallinson, commonly known as the black spectre : who upon his return to his native country, after nearly twenty years absence, was the means of detecting the villany and hardhood of a band of daring smugglers, and providentially arriving at the moment when the villain, to whom he had entrusted his daughter Mary, was about to swear her life away : also, the villain's artifice, in causing the unfortunate girl to take a secret oath, the fulfilment of which had destroyed her, but for the exertions of Levi Lyons, a travelling Jew peddler
The book of the Orphic hymns : together with the principal fragments of other hymns also attributed to Orpheus
The book of the bear : being twenty-one tales newly translated from the Russian
The border antiquities of England and Scotland : comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages, accompanied by descriptions. Together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition, and original poetry
The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, of his wars in Gallia : And the civil wars betwixt him and Pompey. With many excellent and judicious observation thereupon. Also the art of our modern training.
The compleat angler, the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson, with Love and truth & Miscellaneous writings
The country of the blind ...
The courtier's library, or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium
The drummer; or, The haunted-house, : A comedy.
The essays, or, Councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban : With a Table of the colours of good and evil. : And a Discourse of the wisdom of the ancients. : To which is added in this edition the Character of Queen Elizabeth
The first volume of the works of Mr. William Congreve : containing : The old batchelor : comedy ; The double dealer : comedy ; Love for love : comedy
The historie of Gvicciardin : containing the warres of Italie and other parts, continued for manie yeares vnder sundrie kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same. And also the arguments, with a table at large expressing the principall matters through the whole historie
The history of the wars, of His present Majesty Charles XII, King of Sweden : from his first landing in Denmark, to his return from Turkey to Pomerania
The hour glass ; Cathleen ni Houlihan ; The pot of broth
The key of the field
The life and glorious actions of Edward Prince of Wales, (commonly call'd the Black Prince) Eldest Son of King Edward the Third. Containing, Remarkable Occurrences of those Times, and particular Relations of the Battle of Cressey, where the whole Power of France was broken, two Kings slain, and a third put to Flight. The Battle of Poictiers ten Years after, when he again overthrew the French, and took their King Prisoner. The Battle of Najara in Spain, where at one Blow he decided the Fate of a Kingdom, and forced the Spaniards to accept Don Pedro for their King. Also the history of his royal brother John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, and Father of Henry IV King of England, relating His several Expeditions, and an Account of his Right to the Kingdom of Spain. With His Marriages, Issue, and the Descendants from Him now existing ; among which are the present Emperor of Germany, King of Spain, and King of Portugal
The life of Robert, Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth : drawn from original writers and records
The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes
The mistress : with other select poems of Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667
The pilgrim's progress : and the life & death of Mr. Badman
The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poetical works of James Thomson : Collated with the best editions
The poetical works of William Cowper
The poetical works of William Falconer
The rape of the lock : An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's
The rule and exercises of holy dying
The stars, the world, and the women
The story of the Glittering plain : which has been also called the Land of living men or the Acre of the undying
The tale of the basyn and The Frere and the boy : two early tales of magic printed from manuscripts preserved in the Public library of the University of Cambridge
The tempest : a facsimile of the First folio text
The temple : sacred poems & private ejaculations
The treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle
The true effigies of the most eminent painters, and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe : curiously engraven on copper plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works : very useful for all such gentlemen as are lovers of art and ingenuity
The voyage of the Phocæans and other poems : with the Prometheus bound of Æschylus done into English verse
The week-end book
The week-end problems book
The wild swan and other stories
The works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham : In two volumes
The works of John Sheffield, earl of Mulgrave, marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham
The works of Shakespeare : The text of the first folio with quarto variants and a selection of modern readings
The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence. Written originaIly [sic] in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English
The writings of William Blake
Tootleoo two
Travelling sketches in the north of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine : With twenty-six beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.
Turn over darling--
Twelve discourses, moral, historical and political : to which are prefixed the author's motives for writing these discourses for which his estate and whole substance were confiscated and himself condemn'd to be burn'd alive
Ulick and Soracha
Vathek
William Morris : an address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, before the Hammersmith socialist society
Winter harvest
X sermons preached by that late learned and rev. divine John Donne : doctor of divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's
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Kaakie remembers Ebony Reigns in the mist special way
– Kaakie eulogizes Ebony as she shares a lovely photo with late singer
– She recounted the special things she missed about late Ebony
– Ebony and 2 others died in a gory accident on February 8
Self-acclaimed Dancehall queen of Ghana, Kaakie knew in real life as Grace Kaki Awo Ocansey has remembered fellow musician Ebony Reigns, known in real life as Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng with an emotional message. The musician who also doubles as a nurse took to her Instagram account and shared a picture of herself with the late dancehall act who won the coveted VGMA “Artiste of the Year” accolade.
Kaakie, in expressing her shock over the demise of the 21-year-old songstress captioned her post, “And I miss you every day @ebony_reigns… the tease… the laughter…. ur favourite emoji…aww, girl.. feels like u travelled…hard to accept… Hmm, Ebony death took a toll on many of her colleagues in the music industry who could not come to terms with the untimely fashion in which she left the earth and under such tragic circumstances at the moment. Aside from her family members and management who were the worst hit, other artists including Kaakie could not help but commiserate with the bereaved family.
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The ‘African Fever’ singer has been noted for her exceptional singing prowess but she is also noted for her impeccable dancing skills. Not long ago, a video of the “Supa Dupa” song maker of her dancing a traditional dance known as “Adowa” went viral on the internet and she received many plaudits from the thousands of people that watched the said video.
The budding musician who is part of Ghana’s few female artistes has grown to become a force to reckon with in the music industry having featured in songs alongside some of the top names the industry has ever produced. Ebony died in a gory accident on the Sunyani-Kumasi road while returning to Accra from Sunyani. Her childhood friend and PA, Franky Kuri and one air force official, Francis Atsu Vondee, who posed as a bodyguard also died in the car crash. The final funeral rites and burial service of the late Dancehall diva Ebony Reigns were held on March 24, 2018. She was buried at the Osu Cemetery after the final funeral rites were held in Accra at the forecourt of the State House.
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Defining dram shop laws
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Many of the Lakewood residents who come to see us here at Escandon, Fernicola, Anderson, and Covelli are facing enormous medical expenses stemming from serious accidents. When those accidents are caused by a drunk driver, victims often question how far liability extends to other parties who may have been involved. While most may assume that responsibility begins and ends with the one who chose to drive while impaired, there are certain scenarios where those who helped him or her reach an intoxicated state may deemed to be liable, as well. We’ll examine those instances in this post.
Dram shop laws refer to the legal guidelines that assign liability to bars, restaurants, or taverns who served alcohol to people who then allegedly drove drunk and caused accidents. First party dram shop laws apply to people who drank and were then themselves injured. Third party dram shop laws are meant to protect those who were injured by drunk drivers.
According to N.J. Rev. Stat. §2A:22A-4 as shared by the National Conference of State Legislatures, establishments licensed to serve alcohol may be held liable for damages in a drunk driving case in the following scenarios:
The resultant injuries or damages was caused by the negligent service of alcohol
An accident was the foreseeable consequence of that negligent service
The server knowingly served alcohol to a minor or continued to provide drinks to one already visibly intoxicated
The statute of limitations for bringing a dram shop complaint against an establishment is typically the same as it is for initiating other personal injury claims.
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Choosing The Perfect Indoor Ficus. Description Of Popular Types, Photos
Common features of all ficuses
1. Fig, wine berry, or Ficus carica
2. Ficus rubbery, or elastic
3. Wall ficus
4. Ficus Benjamin
5. Ficus binnendiyka, or willow
6. Ficus dwarf
7. Ficus arrow-shaped
8. Natal ficus
9. Ficus rough
10. Ficus lyre
11. Ficus sacred
12. Equivalent ficus
13. Bengal ficus
14. Small-fruited ficus
15. Ficus Palmer
16. Ficus petiolate
Video: Ficus Varieties with Names / Plantify 2023, February
Among 800 species of ficuses, everyone can choose a pet to their liking. Ficus rubber, fig or Benjamin's ficus are perhaps the most famous representatives of these plants. But among the ficuses you can find compact species, and giants, useful and poisonous plants, large-leaved, small-leaved and even caudex. All ficuses are united by unpretentiousness, good adaptability and relatively simple care. But still they remain different, and sometimes peculiar plants.
Choosing the perfect indoor ficus
Ficuses are one of the most popular and famous genera of indoor plants. The genus Ficus, belonging to the Moraceae family, includes shrubs, vines and woody plants, ornamental and industrial, perennial, with woody shoots and very dense, leathery, glossy leaves.
The sizes of ficuses can exceed 3 m in the largest indoor plants and are limited to 30 cm in compact species and varieties. They became famous for the beauty of heart-shaped, oval, lanceolate, lyre-shaped, rhombic, triangular leaves with a solid or notched edge, from 1 to 70 cm long, short and long-petiolate. Sikonium inflorescences of ficuses are similar to fruit-berries with holes at the top.
Despite the enviable diversity, different types of ficuses have much more in common than you might think:
all ficuses are consistently decorative, attractive all year round;
the leaves of the ficuses are alternate;
plants adapt perfectly to indoor conditions, including warm wintering conditions, although a slight coolness remains the ideal;
ficuses are undemanding to lighting, apart from their dislike for strong shading;
all species are not very fond of turning and shifting;
tolerate low air humidity well;
nevertheless, ficuses are demanding on soil moisture - stable, light and constant;
they react to drought with yellowing and partial shedding of leaves;
love cleanliness - regular "wet" dusting and showering (if the size allows);
for ficuses, a universal nutritious and loose soil mixture with a pH of 6.5 to 7.0 is needed;
the transplant is carried out only if necessary - the development of the substrate by them;
easily reproduce - by rooting the tops of shoots, cuttings, layering and even seeds.
But, despite all their similarities, ficuses differ in the main thing - in decorativeness. The appearance of plants is so bright that similar and different plants at the same time are not always easy to mistake for relatives. Let's take a closer look at the most popular types of indoor ficuses.
Fig, wine berry, or Ficus carica (Ficus carica) is a tree with light bark. Partially sheds for the winter large, with beautiful grooves along the edge, three-, five- or seven-lobed, hard and dark leaves with a slight edge. It is very interesting to observe how shoots with inflorescences develop from dormant buds in the leaf axils, and then amazing pear-shaped inflorescences are tied, hiding thousands of seeds.
Self-pollinating indoor varieties require bright lighting and cool wintering, careful care, but are capable of producing a crop twice a year.
Fig, wine berry, or Ficus carica (Ficus carica)
Ficus rubber or elastic (Ficus elastica) is a legendary vine with very strong, straight and powerful shoots and large, up to 30 cm oval leaves with a noticeable central vein. It adapts well to different lighting conditions, requires shaping and control.
Ficus rubbery, or elastic (Ficus elastica)
Wall ficus (Ficus parietalis, still better known under the old name Ficus cerasiformis) is a beautiful shrub with orange-brown shoots, elongated oval leaves up to 23 cm in length with a light vein and rare white specks. It is famous for its rough edge and orange fruit-like fruit. Shade-tolerant, thermophilic and perfectly tolerates a single drought or waterlogging.
Wall ficus (Ficus parietalis)
Ficus benjamina (Ficus benjamina) - small-leaved, with a beautiful graceful spherical crown and densely branched shoots slightly drooping at the ends, a bush or tree. It has oval-pointed, medium-sized leaves and a grayish bark with brown strokes. There are many varieties with different variegated colors - fast-growing, light-loving, adoring stable humidity.
Ficus binnendijkii, or Ivolistny (Ficus binnendijkii) - a species with very long and thin leaves, as if slightly folded along the central vein. This ficus is appreciated for its gracefulness, height up to 1 m, rapid growth, bizarrely curving shoots. Photophilous, thermophilic, undemanding species, easily changing shape and size.
Ficus binnendijkii, or willow (Ficus binnendijkii)
Dwarf ficus (Ficus pumila) - climbing liana, clinging to the support with suckers. Forms two types of leaves - young, delicate and small, creating a decorative effect and age, large and hard - on thick branches. The latter are capable of producing fruits. Juvenile leaves are only up to 4 cm in length, on short stalks they seem surprisingly elegant - heart-shaped, lanceolate, rounded, with a wavy or even edge, of different colors in varieties. This is one of the most light-loving species of ficuses, sensitive to waterlogging and drought. Easily formed into shapes, pillows, ampels and cascades.
Dwarf ficus (Ficus pumila)
Ficus sagittata (Ficus sagittata), or Rooting Ficus (Ficus radicans) is a beautiful liana with graceful lignified shoots and small rough leaves of an ideal teardrop or heart-shaped shape. The species has many variegated varieties. Loves high humidity and is most often used for walls.
Ficus sagittata (Ficus sagittata), or Rooting ficus (Ficus radicans)
Ficus natalensis (Ficus natalensis), or Ficus triangularis (Ficus triangularis) - graceful plant with almost triangular, reverse-heart-shaped leaves on thin shoots. Grows best in moderate temperatures, suitable for bonsai.
Ficus Natal (Ficus natalensis), or Ficus triangular (Ficus triangularis)
Rough ficus (Ficus aspera) is a compact woody species with large lanceolate, oval or heart-shaped leaves with a rough surface and a wavy edge. The varieties are characterized by marble and speckled patterns. This is a lover of soft lighting and coolness. Afraid of drafts and sudden changes in conditions.
Ficus rough (Ficus aspera)
Ficus lyrata (Ficus lyrata) is an evergreen tree species with dense leafy shoots and stunningly large, violin-like leaves up to 60 cm in length. Hard, dark, slightly wavy, the leaves shine brighter than all other species. This ficus loves spraying and careful grooming.
Ficus lyrata (Ficus lyrata)
Sacred ficus (Ficus religiosa) is a "weeping" type of ficus with cordate, leathery, with a very long tip, leaves up to 18 cm long, which sit on twice as large petioles. Afraid of dampness, direct sun, cold, drafts and changes.
Sacred ficus (Ficus religiosa)
Equivalent Ficus (Ficus rubiginosa) is an evergreen species with a very dense hemispherical crown and powerful aerial roots that cover the lower part of the gray trunk. Bright apical buds, large broadly oval leaves with a rough surface and a blunt tip appear red in youth. The species is extremely sensitive to water temperature, waterlogging, temperature extremes.
Equivalent ficus (Ficus rubiginosa)
Ficus Bengal, or Banyan (Ficus benghalensis) is a powerful species with beautiful aerial roots. After rooting, they woody and create an amazing multi-stem effect. Its ovoid leaves with light veins are often colored with variegated ripples. This species is more often grown in bonsai form or kept in check by constant pruning and potting restrictions.
Ficus Bengali, or Banyan (Ficus benghalensis)
Small-fruited ficus (Ficus microcarpa) is the most popular type for bonsai, easy to prune, with beautiful bark, bare rhizome, numerous aerial roots and small oval-pointed leaves. Shade-tolerant, warm and moisture-loving, requires high humidity.
Small-fruited ficus (Ficus microcarpa)
And if the classics are not to your liking, then take a look at the most original ficuses from among the caudexes.
Ficus Palmer (Ficus palmeri) forms a powerful thickened light beige bottle-shaped trunk and a small crown in the form of a bunch of leaves at the ends of the shoots. Large, cordate, leaves up to 15 cm in diameter are quite light. The species is hardy, but does not like changes and contrasts.
Ficus palmeri (Ficus palmeri)
Petiolar ficus (Ficus petiolaris) is a spectacular caudex species in which bizarre thickened trunks are combined with very large gray-green leaves, pink petioles of which turn into a bright pink network of veins. Requires careful tracking of the plant's "signals" and the selection of a bright "stable" place.
Petiolar ficus (Ficus petiolaris)
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Questions On ASEAN - India FTA (AIFTA)
The ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement came into force on 1 January 2010 for Malaysia and India. This is an important agreement for Malaysia as India is emerging as an important trading partner as well as a market for Malaysian exports. This FTA creates a market of 1.7 billion people with combined GDP of US$2.8 trillion and combined global trade of over US$2 trillion.
What are the main elements of the ASEAN-India FTA?
Under the AIFTA, ASEAN Member States and India have agreed to progressively reduce and eliminate duties on substantial number of products over a period of 3-8 years beginning 1 January 2010. The Philippines, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam are given an additional 2-3 years to reduce and eliminate their duties under this FTA.
The commitment undertaken by Malaysia in the AIFTA is to eliminate import duties on 6,792 products or tariff lines by 31 December 2013. Duties on another 1,266 tariff lines would be eliminated by 31 December 2016. The import duties on 1,336 tariff lines which are considered to be products where domestic industries require some level of protection will be reduced to 5 per cent by 31 December 2016. The gradual reduction and elimination of duties are also to allow domestic industries sufficient time to adjust to increased competition.
On her part, India will undertake to eliminate import duties on 7,767 tariff lines or products by 31 December 2013 and 1,260 tariff lines by 31 December 2016. The import duties on 1,810 tariff lines will be reduced to 5 per cent by 31 December 2016.
Overall, by the end of 2013, 71 percent of products exported to India will be able to enter the market duty free and another 10 per cent of products by 2016. In addition, duties on another 10 per cent of products will be reduced to 5 per cent.
This import duty elimination and reduction over the next 3-8 years will open market for Malaysian exports to India.
What are the products excluded by both Malaysia and India under the ASEAN-India FTA?
In the FTA negotiations, both ASEAN and India have agreed to allow between 7-9 per cent of tariff lines or products to be excluded from tariff reduction commitments, taking into account the level of development of these products in their respective countries.
Malaysia excluded 898 tariff lines from tariff concessions. The products excluded are selected poultry products, tropical fruits and rice, iron and steel, automotive products, chemicals, alcoholic beverages; tobacco and tobacco products, and used tyres. These products are excluded based on intensive consultations held with the domestic industries which need longer time frame to enhance their competitiveness vis-a-vis India.
The products excluded from concessions by India are mainly agricultural products, textiles, iron and steel, automotive and ceramic tiles and this involves a total of 1,298 tariff lines.
However, these products are not excluded on a permanent basis but are subject to future review as provided for under the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement.
What are the conditions exporters need to fulfill to enjoy the preferential tariff?
Compliance to Rules of Origin (ROO) is important in exporting products under the preferential trading arrangements. To qualify for preferential tariffs under ASEAN-India FTA, exporters must meet two conditions: Regional Value Content (RVC) 35% + Change in Tariff Sub-Heading (CTSH).
In other words, to qualify for the preferential tariffs under the AIFTA, exporters must have at least 35 per cent regional value content or originating materials plus the product must have undergone some form of processing at the final point of exports.
RVC is calculated as follows:
RVC =
FOB price minus non-originating productsX 100
RM200 – RM123 X 100 = 38.5%
The originating product accounts for 38.5 %.
In addition to meeting the RVC, the product must have undergone change in tariff sub-heading. For example:
Tariff Heading
Tariff Sub- Heading (CTSH)
HS8467 11
Pneumatic rotary type (tools)
RVC 38.5 + CTSH
This 6-digit subheading for pneumatic rotary type (tools) is HS8467 11. However, in the processing to manufacture this product, other parts of products falling under HS8467 92 and HS8467 99 may have been used. Thus at the 6 digit level there is change from 8467 92 and HS8467 99 to become HS8467 11
Malaysian exporters can benefit from preferential tariff on all products provided it is not in the Exclusion List of India and importers can benefit from preferential tariffs provided the products are not on the Malaysian Exclusion List.
How can Malaysian exporters apply the Certificate of Origin (CO)?
a) Obtain the ASEAN Harmonised Tariff Nomenclature (AHTN) or Harmonised System (HS) code from the Royal Customs of Malaysia for your product as well as every product and raw material used.
b) Check your product's eligibility under AIFTA based on India's schedules of tariff elimination/reduction.
c) Product for export must fulfill the condition of the rules of origin under AIFTA.
d) Download/get the Cost Analysis Application Forms i.e. BAK 1(a), BAK 1(b) and BAK 1(c). The forms can be obtained from:
i. MITI Website
ii. Service Counter (Ground Floor), Block 10, MITI, Government Offices Complex, Jalan Duta, 50622 Kuala Lumpur
iii. MITI's branch offices in respective states.
e) Completed Cost Analysis application forms must be submitted to:
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
Trade Cooperation and Industry Coordination Section
Ground Floor, (Service Counter), Block 10
Government Offices Complex, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur
Application must be also submitted with:
i. Form BAK 1(a): Details of Exporter/Manufacturer and Products
ii. Form BAK 1(b): Product's Cost Analysis
iii. Form BAK 1(c): Letter of Indemnity
iv. A copy of the following documents:
- Certificate of company's registration
- Invoices of raw material purchasing
- Sample/photograph/products catalogue.
- Flow chart of production process.
f) Once your application is approved, Malaysian exporters have to submit the Form AI which can be purchased from Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM). For further details, please contact:
Tel : 03 - 6286 7200
Fax : 03 – 62741266 / 7288
www.fmm.org.my
What are the opportunities open to Malaysian exporting community?
Economic factors indicate that India is a market with huge potential. Despite the global economic setback, India continues to register impressive economic growth. The country continues to be fuelled by private sector driven economic growth. There is a rising middle class population estimated at 300 million. Economists predict that by 2020, India will be among the leading economies of the world. India's global trade is expanding rapidly.
These are positive factors that have to be taken into account by Malaysia. India has traditionally maintained high tariffs and over 80 per cent of the products imported into India attract duties ranging from 15-100 per cent. Malaysia and the other ASEAN Member States stand to gain from the FTA as the ASEAN can now export to India at preferential tariffs compared to India's other major trading partners. ASEAN has a first mover advantage.
What are the likely challenges and the implications to domestic industrial sectors?
Malaysia industries are resilient, as over the last few years these domestic industries have been subjected to competition arising from the implementation of other ASEAN FTAs, such as the FTAs with China, Korea and Japan. Nevertheless, India is emerging as an important supplier of products such as iron and steel, auto parts, textiles and pharmaceuticals which could pose challenges to these domestic industries. Malaysian industries cannot remain complacent and have to factor in possible competition from India as duties are gradually reduced or eliminated.
Another major challenge is the competition posed to attract foreign direct investments as companies have now the choice of setting up operations in India and exporting to Malaysia and the other ASEAN countries. Thus, it is important that Malaysia and the other ASEAN countries work together to strengthen ASEAN economic integration. A deeply economically integrated ASEAN region will enable the region to retain investments in the region. ASEAN with its FTAs with the other East Asian countries offers itself as a key production base for the larger East Asian market.
Where are the areas where strategic partnership can be forged between Malaysian and Indian companies?
Rather than focusing on competition, there are ample opportunities for Malaysian and India businessmen to work together to form strategic partnership. R&D is an area where Malaysian companies can forge linkages to enhance their product strength not only for the Indian market but also the global market. Besides, other sectors where Malaysia and India can form strategic partnership are in ICT, pharmaceutical, healthcare, auto parts, machinery and equipment, rubber and palm oil based products. Many Malaysian companies are already actively involved in activities in India such as building of roads, rails, ports, airports and running of other services facilities. The FTA offers the opportunities for Malaysian companies to source their requirements for their projects in India from Malaysia.
Duty Reduction/Elimination
Tariff Lines
Normal Track 1
Duty free by 2013
Sensitive Track
Duties reduced to 5 per cent by 2016
Highly Sensitive Track
reduction of duty by 50 and 25 per cent of the normal MFN duty only
Exclusion List
No duty reduction or elimination
Tariff lines are at 6-digit level.
Normal Track 1: elimination of duties by 31 December 2013;
Normal Track 2: elimination of duties by 31 December 2016
Sensitive Track: reduction of duties to 5 per cent by 31 December 2016
Highly Sensitive Track: longer timeframe and duty reduction to a certain level only.
Exclusion List: not offered for concessions
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How did toys and comics change during the Great Depression? I interviewed toy collector and inventor Mel Birnkrant. Over the next few days, I'll share his answers.
Question 1: If you compare toys from the 1920s to toys of the 1930s, was there a noticeable change in materials or workmanship?
Mel Birnkrant says: "The materials and workmanship of toys changed dramatically during that period of time. There were several factors at play. The first was country of origin. Hand in hand with that was the changing materials from which the toys were made.
"But most importantly, to understand toy history, one must see it as an ongoing quest for new materials, with which to render and manufacture objects in 3D.
"Throughout the first quarter of the 20th Century, most toys were made in Germany. German toys were often made of wood. Hand carving was commonplace and considered manufacturing. This early wooden Mickey brush holder was “Handufactured,” (a term I just made up,) in Germany.
"Cast iron was also used worldwide to render objects that could be duplicated in quantity. Although cast iron toys were durable, they were also extremely heavy. This cast iron Andy Gump car, made in the 1920s is considered a classic.
"Throughout several centuries, dolls were mostly cast in bisque, and most of these were made in Germany. Heavy and easily breakable, bisque was then the only means by which one could replicate a realistic face. Some doll collectors would maintain that this is still true today. This Rose O’Neil Kewpie is an exquisite example of the lifelike delicacy that German bisque achieved.
"Tin toys were another means by which one could render objects in 3D. Tin imposed a stylized look of its own. This Barney Google windup toy is a good example of that principal. The Image is transformed and enhanced by the limitations of the tin medium to, perhaps unintentionally, achieve a stylized elegance. To see this toy as a stunning sculpture, visualize it twelve feet tall.
"Throughout the first quarter of the 20th century, Germany was to the toy industry what Hong Kong is today. Then, in the early 1930s, Japan stepped onto the stage, and with them came a new material, celluloid. Suddenly, there was a cheaper, lighter means to render images in 3D.
This skating Mickey is an excellent example of the beauty and perfection that celluloid could achieve.
"Although, this new material could render almost any image with newfound fidelity, it also developed a look and language of its own that was totally unique, and highly Geometric. Celluloid was also Depression friendly. Unlike toys made of wood, bisque and cast iron, toys made of celluloid were lightweight and cheap.
"After the Second World War, celluloid which was extremely flammable was deemed illegal, and overnight replaced by the ever-growing list of modern plastics we know today.
"Throughout these years, toys were also made in the USA. Early in the 1930s, new materials were introduced here. Dolls might now be made of rubber and also of a paste like material, called composition. Each of these new materials enabled a unique look that altered the appearance of the original subject matter, in some instances for the better.
"In my humble opinion, the entire series of composition and wood jointed dolls, created by doll maker, Joseph Callus were always exquisite sculptures. The restrictions of this medium lent a new dimension to the comic characters it portrayed.
"Here is an exquisite pair of composition jointed dolls by Joseph Callus. They represent Betty Boop and her then boyfriend Bimbo, at the peak of their refinement. This particular Betty Boop doll was originally owned by Max Fleisher.
"The Second World War put an end to these visually exciting playthings. And after the war, toys were never quite the same, or quite as great. Wartime toys were often awful, mostly made of paper. And what few toys there were, were made entirely in the USA.
Here we see a cardboard Lionel train. Much to my disappointment, Santa brought me one of these in 1943.
Tomorrow: Changes in Imagery
Mel Birnkrant's website
Posted by James Gurney at Thursday, August 06, 2020
Labels: Toys
Pierre Fontaine said...
It's a pity that Mr. Birnkrant didn't care for his paper train set. I understand that someone who is used to "composite", "celluloid" or tin toys could easily be disappointed in something made of paper.
I've been completely fascinated by paper toys for years. It's a tradition that can still be found in many European countries. These toys are really more like model kits, to be cut out and put together with glue but the shear variety of subject matter that could be reproduced in paper is remarkable. Yes, they are easily breakable but also surprisingly durable if handled with care.
A search for "paper models" on google, or Amazon or eBay will reveal everything from Star Wars models, toy theaters, cars and plans and architectural models. I've designed paper models for years to make nearly anything I can't find otherwise.
TKraft Art + Interiors said...
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Neat post on the history of toy materials and craftsmanship, James. I didn't know of paper toys (other than some Cracker Jack prizes!). Toy dinosaurs also vary considerably in quality and price. The best are made of a sort of rubbery plastic which can be molded to accurate shapes, then finished in detail. Nearly all are made in China regardless of where the toy company is headquartered. Unlike model railroads, dino toys are rarely made to a specific scale, making it hard to put several together and make a realistic scene. I can't find it right now yet I believe you have mentioned that toy dinos can serve as a drawing reference in a pinch -- that's what we use on the OMB.
Judy P. said...
So interesting to hear of the changes due to time, of toy creation. You are right, each material gave its own unique charm and vintage 'look'. Makes me think how our paints and surfaces should be better considered for painting goals.
I love celluloid toys, and have a couple. But most plastics just don't do it for me- when I was a girl I received a plastic baby doll, and the strong smell of that material was a real turn-off.
Inkjetcanvas said...
Fascinating! As a sculptor working mostly in digital for 3D printing, it’s so interesting to see where we came from as toy makers. Can’t wait for the next one. Thanks for sharing!
Mel Birnkrant said...
Hi Pierre, At six years old my tastes were unsophisticated and thus, like most children my age, my heart was set on the “real thing” a genuine Lionel electric train. I was not alone in being disappointed in 1943. No kid in the USA got an electric Lionel train that year. The metal that would have been required was used to fight the War. Nonetheless, the Lionel company attempted to do the next best thing, as the box clearly states, this was the Official “Lionel Wartime Freight Train, ready to assemble.” it came with wooden axels.
By the way, one Christmas when the War was over, Santa surprised me with the Fabulous freight train of my dreams. It had everything from smoke to whistle. It even had a trackside building with a giant watchman hiding inside. He popped out and waved a lantern every time the train chugged by.
That train, the ultimate Christmas present, along with the delirious joy it brought me, is now a fading memory, buried by the sands of time. Ironically, on a shelf down in the cellar, I still have a Lionel Wartime Freight Train, made out of die-cut cardboard, not that very one. This one is a replacement I acquired when I was all grown up. This one is complete and still unpunched.
Hi Mel...thank you for your story and clarification. I'm 57 years old so I'm most definitely a post-war baby but I remember how thrilled we were when we got our first Lionel Train set, also with the watchman hiding inside. I don't remember what scale it was but in my hands as a child, it seemed large though. The engine was metal but the cars were plastic but the engine was magical to us...heavy and complicated and intricate.
My father always made things from wood and cardboard, everything from paper theaters, dioramas, and other magical things and I picked up that interest, eventually settling on mostly cardboard since it was always accessible. My father, who worked in a textile mill, would bring home these beautiful sheets of cardboard a couple times a year and it was the perfect medium to build whatever I wanted. This grew into a fascination with collecting all things paper...toys, models, theaters etc.
Pierre, Yes, some of Mel's greatest treasures are paper toys, which he talks about on some of the videos that Eric Millen and I have made of his collection. This URL will take you to a page about those YouTube videos: http://melbirnkrant.com/index2.html | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5784727334976196, "wiki_prob": 0.42152726650238037, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line401774"} |
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Integrating dispersal, breeding and abundance data with graph theory for the characterization and management of functional connectivity in amphibian pondscapes
Ismael Reyes-Moya ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4790-66891,
Gregorio Sánchez-Montes ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-10611 &
Íñigo Martínez-Solano ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-226X1
Landscape Ecology volume 37, pages 3159–3177 (2022)Cite this article
Robust assessment of functional connectivity in amphibian population networks is essential to address their global decline. The potential of graph theory to characterize connectivity among amphibian populations has already been confirmed, but the movement data on which modelled graphs rely are often scarce and inaccurate. While probabilistic methods that account for intraspecific variability in dispersal better reflect the biological reality of functional connectivity, they must be informed by systematically recorded individual movement data, which are difficult to obtain for secretive taxa like amphibians.
Our aim is to assess the applied potential of probabilistic graph theory to characterize overall connectivity across amphibian pondscapes using fine-scale capture-recapture data, and to inform conservation management based on the role of ponds on functional connectivity.
We monitored an amphibian community in a pondscape located in a Spanish “dehesa” for 2 years. Photoidentification was used to build capture histories for individuals of six species, from which dispersal kernels and population sizes were estimated to model probabilistic graphs.
We obtained kernels of variable robustness for six species. Node importance for connectivity varied between species, but with common patterns such as shared road crossing areas and the presence of coincident interconnected pond clusters.
The combination of photoidentification, capture-recapture data and graph theory allowed us to characterize functional connectivity across the pondscape of study accounting for dispersal variability and identify areas where conservation actions could be most efficient. Our results highlight the need to account for interspecific differences in the study and management of amphibian pondscapes.
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Amphibians are the most endangered vertebrate group on the planet, with 41% of their species listed as threatened (Catenazzi 2015; IUCN 2021). Habitat destruction is one of the main factors involved in worldwide amphibian declines. Loss of entire patches of habitat leads not only to decreased overall population sizes but also to reduced functional connectivity among surviving demes, collectively raising their extinction risk (Burkey 1989; Fahrig 1997; Stuart et al. 2004; Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007; Zamberletti et al. 2018). Given the importance of addressing habitat loss and fragmentation in amphibian conservation, efforts have been undertaken to promote population connectivity, notably through the construction of artificial wetlands which may serve as stepping-stones (Lesbarrères et al. 2010; Ruhí et al. 2012).
The robust characterization of patterns of functional connectivity, i.e. the movement of species among resource patches, is cornerstone for the effective design of these conservation measures (Vogt et al. 2009; Braaker et al. 2014). Functional connectivity is fundamental to characterize (meta)population dynamics, because it conditions local rescue, colonization and extinction probabilities, and is a prerequisite for the persistence of “sink” populations (Levins 1969; Taylor et al. 1993; Figueira and Crowder 2006; Vogt et al. 2009). Functional connectivity is driven by dispersal, which is the unidirectional movement of individuals or propagules across space with potential consequences for gene flow (Ronce 2007). The importance of dispersal in ecology and evolutionary biology has led to the development and application of direct and indirect approaches for its study (Broquet and Petit 2009; Cayuela et al. 2018). However, while dispersal events have been comparatively well documented in mammals (Woodroffe et al. 1995; Zimmermann et al. 2005), birds (Fernandes et al. 2014; Kingma et al. 2017) or some reptiles (Tucker et al. 1998; Dubey et al. 2008), large knowledge gaps remain for amphibians (Cayuela et al. 2020). Amphibian dispersal comprises movements between breeding ponds (breeding dispersal) as well as the movement of juveniles from their birth pond to a different reproductive pond (natal dispersal) (Cayuela et al. 2020). After reproduction, some amphibians leave the reproductive ponds to move to their terrestrial habitat, from which they will return in the next breeding season; these repeated movements are considered migration rather than dispersal (Semlitsch 2008).
Functional connectivity in amphibian population dynamics has been assessed with different approaches, including the characterization of genetic structure at the landscape scale (Richardson 2012; Watts et al. 2015), occupancy models (Brooks et al. 2019), electric circuit theory (Beaujean et al. 2021; Costa et al. 2021), and graph theory (Ribeiro et al. 2011; Matos et al. 2019; Schivo et al. 2020). The latter has been successfully applied for the study of patterns of connectivity in fragmented landscapes (Bunn et al. 2000; Jordán et al. 2003, 2007; Bodin and Norberg 2007; Vasas et al. 2009), and is a promising tool for characterizing the structure and dynamics of pond-breeding amphibian metapopulations. A graph is the mathematical formalization of a network of data points, interchangeably termed nodes or vertices, which are connected by some kind of relationship. These connections are indistinctly called edges or links. In population ecology, nodes usually correspond to habitat patches, while edges represent a flux, such as dispersal between nodes (Urban and Keitt 2001). For pondscapes, nodes can represent the ponds where amphibians congregate for reproduction and, when available, quantitative attributes such as demographic data (like abundance or breeding success) can be used to weight their respective importance. However, modelling population graphs is usually dependent on the threshold defining whether or not two nodes are connected. This threshold is usually set as the maximum dispersal distance recorded for the study species: if the distance between two nodes is lower than the threshold distance used, the two nodes are considered connected. In some studies, distance is weighted by the landscape resistance (see Bunn et al. 2000; Decout et al. 2012; Matos et al. 2019).
Unfortunately, amphibian dispersal data are scarce, as dispersal in this group is relatively infrequent (Cayuela et al. 2020) and thus, difficult to detect. When available, dispersal data are often based on opportunistic or anecdotal records and thus probably inaccurate or non-representative. Additionally, connectivity studies are often conducted at geographical scales that are much larger than the typical dispersal distances of amphibians (Sinsch 2012). Therefore, when modelling graphs, researchers must rely on sequential thresholds (Fortuna et al. 2006) or records of maximum dispersal from other studies, often obtained from different geographic areas (Ribeiro et al. 2011; Clauzel et al. 2013) or from different species (Schivo et al. 2020). This approach is limited and prone to biases of unknown magnitude due to the high interspecific variation of dispersal distances described in amphibians, even among species from the same family (Cayuela et al. 2020). Furthermore, there is evidence for intrapopulation variation in dispersal distances in pond-breeding amphibians, with a small fraction of the individuals performing rare long-distance dispersal events while much more frequent, short distance movements are carried out by a higher proportion of the population (Sánchez-Montes et al. 2018; Cayuela et al. 2020).
To account for the intraspecific variability in dispersal frequencies and distances, dispersal can be regarded as a probabilistic variable rather than a fixed maximum value when designing a graph (Sullivan et al. 2021). This method is more biologically realistic, relying on the use of dispersal kernels to estimate dispersal probabilities. Nevertheless, the accurate modelling of dispersal kernels requires a substantial number of direct observations of displacement events, which are rarely available for amphibians. Given these limitations, reconstructing robust and biologically realistic amphibian dispersal graphs remains challenging, thereby seriously compromising conservation efforts.
We applied a probabilistic approach based on graph theory to a systematically recorded empirical dataset to model fine-scale connectivity graphs and quantify the contribution of each pond to functional connectivity in an amphibian community. Specifically, we recorded information on abundance, breeding activity and fine-scale individual dispersal events based on photoidentification capture-recapture data in an amphibian pondscape with a high density of temporary ponds over two consecutive breeding seasons. Based on these data, we aimed to: (1) generate dispersal kernels based on actual movement data from syntopic amphibian species, (2) construct probabilistic graphs to provide quantitative assessments of functional connectivity for each species across the pondscape, and (3) assess the leverage of each pond in the connectivity of the whole graph. To our knowledge, this is the first study using fine-scale field estimates of dispersal based on capture-recapture data to model species-specific connectivity graphs for pond-breeding amphibian communities. Our results demonstrate the suitability of this method for the characterization of fine-scale amphibian pondscapes, allowing species-specific, biologically-informed prioritization of ponds for amphibian conservation based on their role on functional connectivity. This method also allows identification of key areas that could benefit from specific management actions aimed at enhancing population connectivity.
Study area and sampling
The study pondscape is located in a holm oak (Quercus ilex) dehesa in the municipality of Alpedrete (Madrid, central Spain). The area is divided by road M601 (running North-South with a Daily Average Intensity of 15,735 vehicles, Ayuntamiento de Collado Mediano 2018) into western (with 33 temporary ponds) and eastern (30 temporary ponds) sectors. For the purposes of this study, each sector was further subdivided into three sampling subsectors (northern, central and southern, Fig. 1), which were comprehensively surveyed during the flooding hydroperiods of the temporary ponds in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, the sampling season extended from February 13th to September 29th, with additional sampling from the 10th to the 15th of November. In 2020, sampling started on January 9th and extended to July 23rd. Sampling was halted between March and April of 2020 due to mobility restrictions enforced during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Map of the study area showing predefined sampling subsectors and the corresponding toe-clipping code for urodeles (six colors), monitored ponds (black dots), unsampled ponds (triangles), approximate transect paths (colored lines), the M601 road (white line), temporary streams (blue dashed lines) and urban areas (black dashed areas). The inset maps show the location of the study area at the west of the Community of Madrid (central Spain)
We monitored a total of 64 ponds, 63 temporary (drying completely every year) and one permanent. Seven large deep permanent ponds with a high density of predatory invasive fish and crayfish were excluded from the study because they are unsuitable to sustain viable amphibian populations (Fig. 1). During the first year, all ponds of both sectors were sampled once a week. The second year, precipitation was more abundant and the number of captured individuals per pond increased, thus requiring higher sampling effort per pond, which led us to sample all ponds biweekly. Sampling was performed one sector at a time, and consisted of standardized transects surveyed on foot, covering a total of 6.2 and 6.7 Km in the western and eastern sectors, respectively (Fig. 1). All ponds in the same sector were sampled in a single night per week during 2019 and in two nights biweekly in 2020, and sampling sessions occurred just after or during rainfall, where possible. Sampling started after dusk (around 8 pm in winter and 10 pm in summer), to coincide with the nocturnal habits of amphibian species in the area and lasted until all ponds were sampled (a maximum of 11 h) or until dawn (around 7 am in winter and 5 am in summer). If sampling could not be completed before dawn, an additional sampling night was scheduled in the same week. Finally, three complementary sampling sessions were performed during the 2021 breeding season (from April 15th to June 12th ) to sample all 64 ponds and detect potential additional dispersal events of animals marked in 2019 and 2020.
In each sampling session, we aimed to detect and individually identify all sexually mature amphibians in the sampling areas. The amphibian community inhabiting the study area is composed of 10 species, including 3 urodeles: Pleurodeles waltl Michahelles 1830, Triturus pygmaeus (Wolterstorff 1905) and Lissotriton boscai (Lataste in Tourneville 1879); and 7 anurans: Bufo spinosus Daudin 1803, Epidalea calamita (Laurenti 1768), Pelophylax perezi (López-Seoane 1885), Hyla molleri Bedriaga 1889, Pelobates cultripes (Cuvier 1829), Discoglossus galganoi Capula, Nascetti, Lanza, Bullini & Crespo, 1985 and Alytes cisternasii Boscá 1879. Each sampling session was carried out by a team of 2–5 researchers, who exhaustively surveyed each pond and a corresponding terrestrial transect and captured sexually mature individuals using baited fish traps (trapping was performed in 3–4 intervals of 20 min in each of the four deepest ponds, targeting urodeles), dip nets or by hand.
We identified the species and sex of each captured animal and recorded the capture location with a Global Positioning System (Garmin eTrex 30x, precision: 3.65 m). For our analyses, animals captured within ponds or within 10 m of the shore were associated with the geographical coordinates of the corresponding pond, whereas animals found in terrestrial habitat along standardized tracks were georeferenced individually. We clipped three phalanges of a single toe of each individual for future genetic and skeletochronological studies, and also to identify the approximate marking location of individuals: we clipped a different toe for animals captured in different sectors and subsectors to aid photoidentification. For this purpose, we clipped the 4th toe (usually the longest) of the left hindlimb of anurans first captured in the west sector and the 4th toe of the right hindlimb in individuals first captured in the east sector. In urodeles, in addition to this right-left distinction, we clipped the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th toe depending on whether they were found in the southern, central or northern subsector, respectively (Fig. 1). For individuals recaptured in a different (sub)sector from their marking place, we clipped an additional toe corresponding to the new (sub)sector, but no individual required more than two toes clipped, which has been shown to have a negligible effect on survival in amphibians (McCarthy and Parris 2004).
At capture, we took photographs of all adult individuals with different devices (cell phones, digital cameras) depending on availability (resolution from 72 to 300 ppp). For anurans, photos were taken perpendicularly to the dorsal surface of the animal in a natural resting position and illuminated from the top with a neutral white light. We took two photos of each animal, with and without flash, to control for illumination artifacts. For E. calamita, as their skin was not reflective, a single photo was taken without flash to reduce handling time. For H. molleri, we took a third photo in lateral view so that the contour of the black lateral band, a variable feature in this species, could be recognized (Online Resource 1: Fig. S1). Animals found along the terrestrial transects were rinsed with water before taking the shots to facilitate subsequent pattern recognition.
Urodele photographs were taken following Mettouris et al. (2016), where animals were deposited in a transparent plastic tray and immobilized in a straight position with the aid of a soft sponge so that the belly of the animal could be photographed (Online Resource 1: Fig. S1). Photos of urodeles were taken without flash. Due to sampling difficulties, photographs of urodeles were only taken toward the end of the first year’s field season. Thus, our capture histories are shorter for urodeles than for anurans, as not all recaptured individuals are photoidentified (Table 1). All animals were released at their place of capture immediately after processing. We also identified and recorded larvae and egg clutches in all sampled ponds to gather a comprehensive list of the breeding ponds used by each species.
Photo-identification
We used the photographs obtained in the field for individual identification. Most of this process was performed manually, but we used the software program Aphis (Moya et al. 2015) to aid manual identification of some E. calamita individuals using the I3S analysis. For this species, we used the lateral canthi of the eyes and the distal end of the urostyle as reference landmarks and the center of the warts as matching landmarks, selecting those closer to the longitudinal axis of the toad and on top of the head, so that the distance between them was less affected by the changes of position of the animal. However, Aphis had problems identifying individuals with a large density of uniformly spaced warts. Thus, most E. calamita were identified manually. WildID (Bolger et al. 2012) was used to aid in the identification of individual P. perezi, P. waltl, T. pygmaeus, and L. boscai, and to check for possible errors during manual identification.
Abundance and dispersal
The identification of individuals in each sampling session allowed us to compile individual capture histories, which were used to obtain a single population abundance estimate at each pond using the combined data from 2019 to 2020 and model the dispersal kernels for each species. In ponds with very few captures, or in large populations with few recaptures (as in many E. calamita sites), we used the total number of individuals photoidentified as a proxy for population size. Although underestimated, these population size estimates are comparable among the ponds of our study area, since all ponds of each sector were sampled very close in time (often in the same night). In ponds where a sufficient proportion of recaptures were obtained (minimum proportion of individuals recaptured at least once = 0.08), we ran capture-recapture analyses to estimate population sizes using POPAN models (Schwarz and Arnason 1996) implemented in RMark (Laake 2013). The POPAN formulation consists on a combination of four different parameters: apparent survival probability (Φ), capture probability (p), probability of entrance of individuals in the population (pent), and population size (N), which are altogether estimated in a maximum-likelihood approach with respect to the observed capture histories (i.e., the data). The POPAN parameters can be modeled as constant or variable across different groups of individuals (e.g., males vs. females) or sampling sessions (i.e., time), thus producing a set of linear predictors. The likelihood of each set of linear predictors is then calculated with respect to the response variable, which ultimately corresponds to whether each animal was either seen or not in a given sampling session. We used capture history data from 2019 to 2020, excluding sessions with a low number of captures to avoid model overparameterization. Goodness of fit (GOF) testing was performed with r2Ucare to assess the adjustment of the dataset to POPAN assumptions (Gimenez et al. 2018).
We used stepwise model selection in rMark, starting with a fully parameterized model with Φ, p and pent as dependent on time, sex and their interaction. This saturated model was compared to three other models, which were identical except for Φ being either constant, time-dependent or sex-dependent. The best of the four initial candidate models was then selected and Φ was accordingly fixed, so that in further steps different parameterizations of p and then pent were tested using the same procedure. A pent constant through time was a priori discarded from the biologically meaningful set of candidate models, based on documented amphibian population dynamics and our own field observations (species in our study area are not equally active throughout the year, but have well-delimited breeding seasons during which most adult individuals congregate in ponds, see for instance García-París et al. 1989). We obtained abundance estimates for males and females of each species by averaging N estimates from the candidate models, weighted by their AICc (Akaike 1973) or using the best fitting model if AICc weight was close to one.
To obtain dispersal kernels for each species, we plotted density histograms of the movement distances recorded in the field. These histograms were then fitted with lognormal and Weibull distributions, both fat-tailed distributions, as recommended for dispersal kernels by Nathan et al. (2012). The distribution with the lowest AIC value was selected as the best fitting distribution. To detect possible differences in the average dispersal distance between species, we performed a Tukey test (α = 0.05) with the raw dispersal distance data from all species. Movement frequencies were also calculated as the proportion of recaptures between 2019 and 2020 for which movement was detected.
Pondscape graph modeling
To characterize the connectivity of the pondscape, we generated a saturated graph (i.e., presenting all possible connections) for each species using igraph (Csardi and Nepusz 2006) with ponds as nodes and their direct connections as edges. Edge weight was defined as the probability, based on the species specific dispersal kernel, that an animal would travel the Euclidean geographical distance between the two nodes of each edge (Fig. 2). To account for the effect of the road as a barrier to amphibian movement (Gibbs 1998; Jochimsen et al. 2004; García-González et al. 2012), we calculated road resistance as twice the geographical distance between nodes located on opposite sides of the road. While other options for including road resistance were tested, all of them resulted in the southern part of the study site being identified as the optimal area for road crossing, given the long distances separating the nearest ponds from opposite sides of the road in the northern part of the study area.
Workflow of the main steps and data sources of the study. Individual capture histories are used to detect movements and estimate population sizes, which are in turn used as node attributes (variables attached to nodes). Dispersal distances are fitted to a distribution to obtain dispersal kernels, which are then used to weight the edges according to their Euclidean distance, as a proxy for dispersal probability. Weighted graphs are finally used to calculate Probability of Connectivity values, betweenness centrality and minimum spanning trees
To characterize the contribution of each pond to the metapopulation functional connectivity, we calculated the probability of connectivity of the whole graph (PC) and the variation of this metric when each node k was removed (dPCk), as described by Saura and Rubio (2010). To achieve this, for each of the species we defined the estimated population size of the ponds as the node attributes (a) and the total population size of the network (the sum of all node attributes) as the maximum landscape attribute (AL).
The parameter dPCk can be further decomposed into three fractions (dPCintrak, dPCfluxk and dPCconnectork), which were also calculated to obtain a more specific assessment of the role of each pond in functional connectivity. First, dPCintrak refers to the contribution of node k to AL in terms of its estimated population size. Therefore, this fraction depends solely on node attributes, i.e., nodes with high population sizes have high dPCintrak values regardless of their connectivity. Second, dPCfluxk describes the connectivity of node k to the rest of nodes of the graph, weighing their shortest path product probability by the population sizes at both ends. This parameter provides a proxy for (1) how well-connected node k is, and (2) the potential amount of individuals using these connections. Therefore, nodes with high population sizes that are well connected to other populous nodes have a high dPCfluxk value. Finally, dPCconnectork evaluates the contribution of node k to the connectivity as an intermediate stepping-stone inside shortest paths.
For PC related metrics, path length is computed as the product probability of the edges of a path (Saura and Rubio 2010). The shortest path between a pair of nodes is therefore defined as the path with the maximum product probability of all possible paths between those two nodes. This multiplicative method penalizes the use of stepping-stones in long distance movements when compared to summative methods: given the asymptotic characteristics of the kernels, if three aligned nodes are separated by small connection probabilities, the probability of the direct path between the nodes located at the extremes will be higher than the product probability of the path that uses the stepping-stone between them. Stepping-stones are nevertheless of key importance for long distance dispersal (Baum et al. 2004; Saura et al. 2014), as small patches of favorable habitat can serve as temporary refugia for amphibians during displacement (Chan-Mcleod and Moy, 2007), sheltering them from the more unfavorable matrix in which they can suffer an increased risk of dehydration and predation. Thus, to identify ponds that could be acting as stepping-stones in long distance dispersal movements, we calculated betweenness centrality for each node (Anthonisse 1971; Freeman 1977), a measurement of the number of shortest paths that use a node as stepping-stone. For these calculations we defined edge weight as the inverse of the connection probability and path length as a sum of these weights instead of a product.
To obtain a measurement of fragmentation of the graph we used a walktrap clustering function (Pons and Latapy 2005) as implemented in igraph and compared the number of clusters recovered for each species. These clusters represent groups of highly connected nodes that are loosely connected to the rest of the graph.
Complementarily, we built movement graphs to illustrate the detected movements using the number of movements as edge weights (Online Resource 1: Fig. S2). We also built Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs) to show the most likely connections between clusters (Online Resource 1: Fig. S3). MSTs are subsets of the saturated graph, consisting of simplified networks that connect all nodes while keeping the total sum of edge weights to a minimum and without any loop (paths that start and end at the same node).
We obtained movement data for only a subset of the amphibian species in the study area, but even for those without movement data, we obtained abundance estimates or, at least, a list of all reproductive ponds used. Because management actions in this pondscape would benefit from this additional information concerning rarer species, we created a simple complementary index taking into account species richness and abundance estimates, to measure the importance of each pond for the populations of all 10 species combined. To achieve this, we scaled the population estimates for each species in all ponds and summed the scaled values of all species for each pond. The resulting index assesses the importance of each pond in relation to its contribution to the total amphibian community.
Captures and recorded dispersal
We marked 2249 total individuals in 2019 and 2287 in 2020. The number of recaptures were 1529 in 2019, of which 933 were photoidentified, and 1022 in 2020 (recaptures from 2020 also included surviving individuals marked in 2019), all of which were photoidentified. No adult A. cisternasii individuals were found, and their presence was only recorded from calls, tadpoles and froglets. Color changes were detected for several species (Online Resource 2). A summary of capture statistics per species is shown in Table 1.
We detected differences in the distribution of some species on opposite sides of the road (Table 1, Online Resource 1: Figs. S4 and S5). For instance, captures of P. perezi and T. pygmaeus were more numerous in the western sector, while L. boscai captures were mainly obtained in the eastern sector. Some species were completely absent from one of the sectors. Hyla molleri and D. galganoi were absent from the eastern sector, and B. spinosus and A. cisternasi were not detected in the western sector. Discoglossus galganoi and A. cisternasii were also very rare and restricted to very small areas.
We detected a total of 213 individual dispersal events for 6 of the 10 species present in the study area. A single marked individual of P. cultripes was detected having crossed the road dividing both sectors. Detailed dispersal records are shown in Table 1, and maps showing detected movements for each species are provided in Online Resource 1: Figure S2. Only the differences between average movements of E. calamita and P. perezi were significant (Tukey test, p-value = 0.023).
Precise data on the use of ponds as stepping-stones is difficult to obtain with capture-recapture techniques. The relatively low dispersal frequency of amphibians and the presumable transience of the individuals in those ponds make these movements easy to miss. Apart from indirect evidence, such as single captures of individuals which had moved to or from very small ponds without breeding populations, we obtained direct evidence of the use of small ponds as stepping-stones in a female P. perezi. This individual was detected 3 times during 2 months in D15, a small northwestern pond (Fig. 3), then recaptured again 3 weeks later in the very small pond D22, which was probably used as a stepping-stone (no recaptures despite very easy detection), to reach the small pond D23, where she was recaptured the next month and again 9 days later. She was detected for the last time in the permanent pond D16 40 days later. The cumulative distance covered by this individual was 512 m.
Community-level importance of ponds in the study area. For this map, population sizes of each species were scaled globally. In each pond, the scaled values for all species were then summed to obtain an index that accounts for both species richness and relative population sizes in each pond. Alphanumeric codes indicate pond IDs
Dispersal kernels
Weibull was selected as the best fitting distribution for dispersal kernels in P. cultripes (ΔAIC = 0.37) and T. pygmaeus (ΔAIC = 2.75), whereas lognormal was the best fitting for P. perezi (ΔAIC = 37.14), E. calamita (ΔAIC = 15.65), P. waltl (ΔAIC = 1.3), and B. spinosus (ΔAIC = 1.24). In some cases, selection of the best-fitting distribution was inconclusive (ΔAIC < 2) due to the scarcity of movement data, namely in P. cultripes, P. waltl, and B. spinosus. Dispersal kernels are illustrated in Fig. 4.
Dispersal kernels fitted for six amphibian species in the study area. Dashed lines represent species for which recorded movements were scarce and distribution model selection was inconclusive
We were able to perform all R2ucare GOF tests only in the largest populations; in smaller ponds, the low number of captures and/or the structure of the data precluded use of GOF tests. Regardless, we did not find any evidence of consistent GOF deviations (Online Resource 3). Model selection data and the estimated population sizes can be found in the supplementary material (Online Resource 4 and 5). We found marked differences in population size between ponds for all species (Online Resource 1: Figs. S4 and S5). The most populous ponds were generally reproductive ponds, and, usually, those where reproduction was recorded in both years. For the most aquatic species (P. perezi, P. waltl and T. pygmaeus, L. boscai) the majority of populations were concentrated in a few ponds. Some of these ponds, such as D01, D18 and C04 (Fig. 3) sustained large populations of at least three of these species (P. perezi, P. waltl and T. pygmaeus). These ponds did not usually coincide with the most populous pond of the more terrestrial species (E. calamita, P. cultripes, B. spinosus). Apart from these large reproductive ponds, the rest of the individuals of all species were distributed in a variable number of ponds that sustained small populations, and in ponds which were used temporarily as stepping-stones or were inhabited by just a few resident individuals.
Pondscape graphs
Urodele graphs were generally more fragmentary, with 9 and 11 clusters for P. waltl and T. pygmaeus respectively, whereas for anurans, between 2 and 5 clusters per graph were identified (Fig. 5). Clustering showed some shared characteristics in the connectivity structure of most species. A northwestern cluster of ponds was identified for all species. The same was true for a small group of ponds in the southeasternmost part of the study area. The northeastern ponds were also identified as relatively isolated from the rest for several species. An extensive cluster in the southwest was identified for all anurans. Modularity values are available in the supplementary material (Online Resource 6).
Map showing relative dPCk values of the ponds for A Pelobates cultripes, B Pelophylax perezi, C Epidalea calamita, D Bufo spinosus, E Pleurodeles waltl and F Triturus pygmaeus. Node sizes are proportional to squared dPCk. The color of the nodes represents whether reproduction was registered in both years (dark green), 1 year (light green) or none (grey) for each species. Blue ellipses represent the clusters recovered by the walktrap method
dPCk values varied among species (Fig. 5 and Online Resource 6). Important ponds were usually related to populous breeding ponds and their dPCk value was strongly influenced by dPCfluxk and dPCintrak, while dPCconnectork was very small for most species (even 0 in some of them).
Betweenness values also varied for each species. The maps (Fig. 6) show different groups of ponds with high betweenness that condense the shortest paths of the whole graph for each species. Most of the species showed a high value of betweenness for some ponds located in the southern areas of the map, reflecting the position of the most likely path connecting the eastern and western sectors.
Map showing relative betweenness values of the ponds for A Pelobates cultripes, B Pelophylax perezi, C Epidalea calamita, D Bufo spinosus, E Pleurodeles waltl and F Triturus pygmaeus. Node sizes are proportional to betweenness. The color of the nodes represents whether reproduction was registered in both years (dark green), 1 year (light green) or none (grey) for each species
We found three groups of ponds with a relatively high value of community index for richness and population size (Fig. 3 and Online Resource 7). First, a northwestern group which hosts large populations of the most common species as well as an important reproductive pond for H. molleri. Second, a central eastern group with the most populous and interconnected ponds of the eastern sector, as well as the largest populations of L. boscai. And third, a southern group that comprises ponds from both sectors, the most favorable area for road crossing, important populations of common species and the only breeding ponds of the rarest species in the study site, D. galganoi and A. cisternasii; it is also the main breeding area of P. cultripes and includes a breeding pond for H. molleri. Outside of these major groups we found some isolated ponds with high index scores, such as D24 and C11, which host important populations of P. perezi and E. calamita respectively, as well as other syntopic species.
We present a novel approach to characterize fine-scale patterns of functional connectivity in amphibians within pondscapes that exploits individual photo-identification to estimate patterns of abundance and document key aspects of their spatial ecology. Our results allow the quantitative characterization of functional connectivity across a pond network and the identification of key nodes and links with the greatest contribution to overall (= metapopulation) connectivity.
Photoidentification
The application of photoidentification of individuals was essential to obtain detailed data on the abundance and movement ecology of several species of Iberian pond-breeding amphibians for which there was little information available. These data set the basis for all subsequent network characterization, and the use of an accurate method of individual identification that did not affect the behavior of individuals was critical.
In the last decade, photoidentification has received increasing attention as a valuable alternative to more invasive methods for marking amphibians (Sannolo et al. 2016). The use of software designed to overcome the time-consuming labor of manual identification has further popularized this methodology (Van Tienhoven et al. 2007; Bolger et al. 2012; Moya et al. 2015). Overall, our results confirm that photoidentification is an effective, non-invasive and inexpensive method readily applicable for individual recognition in capture-recapture studies targeted to pond-breeding amphibian communities and that it is feasible despite coloration changes.
Spatial ecology and structure of the amphibian community
In accordance with Cayuela et al. (2020), we found that movement frequency was much higher in anurans than in urodeles. Within anurans, E. calamita, B. spinosus and P. cultripes, which make an extensive use of the terrestrial habitat matrix (Gómez-Mestre 2014; Ortiz-Santaliestra 2014; Recuero 2014), showed higher movement frequencies than the more aquatic P. perezi (Egea-Serrano 2014). Overall patterns of breeding pond selection, observed dispersal distances and population connectivity can be explained in the context of the different ecological habits of the different species (Table 2).
With regard to species-specific movement distances, we only detected a significant difference between two species. Epidalea calamita had a lower average movement distance than P. perezi, which differed from our expectations given the highly terrestrial habits of E. calamita (Gómez-Mestre 2014). This species was more frequently detected in the terrestrial matrix than in ponds, resulting in shorter average movement distances than for P. perezi, which were almost exclusively detected in ponds, in accordance with their aquatic habits (Egea-Serrano 2014). Thus, recorded movement distances for P. perezi were limited to the longer geographic distances between pairs of ponds.
The movement data obtained during 2 years of monitoring allowed us to generate reliable kernels for at least two abundant species with comparatively high movement rates (P. perezi and E. calamita). For abundant species with lower movement frequencies (in this case, urodeles), while kernels served our purposes for graph modelling, they could be improved by extending the sampling period over additional breeding seasons. It should be noted that these species were also, coincidentally, those with a later onset of photoidentification, which reduced the number of potential movements to be detected. It should also be stressed that kernels reported here are specific to the habitat and climate of the study site and may vary across the range of individual species. Also, our study extended over two monitoring years. Kernels obtained over a more restricted time interval may reflect seasonal differences.
The lack of dispersal records in some species in our study can be explained by a low number of recaptures (L. boscai) or by their low abundance (H. molleri and D. galganoi), because the number of detected movements is often proportional to population size (Sullivan et al. 2021). For these species, reconstructing representative dispersal kernels requires specific surveys focused on their breeding sites and/or longer time series.
Our study zone is a “dehesa” landscape divided by a major road. Roads are generally regarded as potential barriers to amphibian movement (Gibbs 1998; Jochimsen et al. 2004; García-González et al. 2012). During our study, we fortuitously observed attempts by E. calamita to cross the road during nights with heavy rain, resulting in high mortality. Furthermore, we only detected a single road crossing event via recaptures in 2 years of monitoring (one individual of P. cultripes). This evidence suggests that road M-601 acts as a barrier for the dispersal of amphibians in the study area. We included the effect of the road in graphs as a length multiplier. While other options were tested, the results were very similar, with the south of the study area having the shortest distances between ponds separated by the road, and therefore affording the most probable route for road crossing, in contrast with the north, where distances between ponds on opposite sides of the road are long and fall into the asymptotic region of the dispersal kernels.
Applications of population graphs
Probability graphs, such as those constructed in this study, provide valuable tools to model amphibian (meta)community dynamics. The structure of the network and the connectivity measurements inferred probabilistically from field data allow assessing the relative role of each node (pond) in maintaining functional connectivity in the population network, which is key to planning effective conservation actions.
The marked differences in population sizes among ponds, coupled with the low dispersal probabilities of some species (and the effect of multiplicative distances in these probabilities) made the highest dPCk values highly dependent on population size (Online Resource 6). While this is expected, and ponds with large populations are indeed of the greatest importance, we should not dismiss the role of ponds with a much lower range of dPCk (as proposed by Jordán et al. 2003 and Matos et al. 2019 for other connectivity measurements), especially for species such as T. pygmaeus, in which a single extremely populous pond takes up a large proportion of the total dPCk given their high dPCintrak. We thus advise also exploring mid-range values of dPCk and their fractions to account for ponds which, while not as populous, are placed high in the ranking for these indices relative to their population size (related to dPCintrak and dPCfluxk) or their role in the connectivity of the network (related to dPCfluxk and dPCconnectork). In addition, we also advise assessing the importance of ponds for stepping-stone dispersal using betweenness values.
The number of clusters provides a quantification of relative network fragmentation. A high number of clusters indicates that a network is composed of groups of highly connected populations (or isolated ponds) joined by relatively weak connections with a much lower frequency of migrants among them. Overall, urodele populations were characterized by more fragmentary networks than anurans, but this pattern was not necessarily related to differences in life history traits specific to this clade. The fragmentation of the T. pygmaeus network can be explained by shorter dispersal distances, while in the case of P. waltl, fragmentation seemed to be caused by a larger geographical separation of the populated ponds. This could be related to differences in habitat preferences, as P. waltl was mostly found in relatively large and deep ponds with extended hydroperiods, while T. pygmaeus was present in ponds with a broader variety of sizes and hydroperiods, in accordance with the literature on their breeding site preferences (Table 2). The differences between the clusters found for anurans may be explained by their distribution: the clusters of P. perezi and E. calamita are very similar, except for the absence of P. perezi in the southeast. The reduced number of clusters in P. cultripes is influenced by the lack of individuals associated with ponds in the northwest. Bufo spinosus showed the lowest modularity and cluster count, with only two clusters. This was expected due to its restricted distribution in our study site, consisting of a small group of ponds close to each other.
The results of this study are based solely on movement data for adults because of the difficulty of tracking juvenile amphibians. The contribution of natal dispersal (the dispersal of juveniles from their natal pond to a reproductive pond) to the overall dispersal is undoubtedly important and likely varies among species and populations (Cayuela et al. 2020). The potential contribution of dispersing juveniles to population connectivity could be accounted for with complementary studies on the genetic structure of amphibian populations.
The combination of photoidentification, capture-recapture techniques and graph theory allowed us to finely characterize pond-breeding amphibian metapopulations at a community scale. The fine-scale movement and population data allowed the for generation of graphs that quantified functional connectivity and the most probable dispersal routes, as well as the least likely connections. The resulting networks represent a powerful tool to quantitatively assess node importance and connection probability, which are key for designing evidence-based management decisions for pond restoration or improvement of landscape connectivity. In the case of pondscapes, this approach can be used to determine where to create new ponds or to prioritize ponds that have a higher contribution to connectivity for conservation and management, as well as to identify locations where amphibian road crossing infrastructure could enhance connectivity. Lastly, the contribution of individual ponds to the functional connectivity of the network varied by species, due to differences in life history and movement ecology, highlighting the need to account for interspecific differences in the study of amphibian pondscapes.
Table 1 Capture and movement data for all ponds and amphibian species of the study area.
Table 2 Ecological characteristics of the six amphibian species included in graph analyses. For species categorized as “terrestrial” in the first column, the second column refers mostly to reproductive pond preferences. References: Egea-Serrano (2014) (P. perezi), Gomez-Mestre (2014) (E. calamita), Ortiz-Santaliestra (2014) (B. spinosus), Recuero (2014) (P. cultripes), Reques (2014) (T. pygmaeus) and Salvador (2014) (P. waltl)
The datasets generated during the current study are available in the repository https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21158608.
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We thank all students that participated in field samplings, especially Álvaro Iglesias Donoso, David Laorden Romero, Iván Gómez García, Julián Holgado de Juan, Manuel Pinilla Rosa and Ruben González Alonso.
Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This study was funded by FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades–Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain, Grants CGL2017-83131-P and PID2020-116289GB-I00. Ismael Reyes-Moya was supported by a Formación de Personal Universitario (FPU) grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education.
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Ismael Reyes-Moya, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes & Íñigo Martínez-Solano
Ismael Reyes-Moya
Gregorio Sánchez-Montes
Íñigo Martínez-Solano
All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Data collection and analysis were performed by Ismael Reyes-Moya. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Ismael Reyes-Moya and all authors contributed to the development of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Ismael Reyes-Moya or Íñigo Martínez-Solano.
The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interest to disclose.
All field procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain (ref.: 710/2018) and Comunidad de Madrid (ref.: PROEX 040/19).
Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.
Supplementary Material 1
Reyes-Moya, I., Sánchez-Montes, G. & Martínez-Solano, Í. Integrating dispersal, breeding and abundance data with graph theory for the characterization and management of functional connectivity in amphibian pondscapes. Landsc Ecol 37, 3159–3177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01520-x
Received: 08 March 2022
Issue Date: December 2022
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Fossils Last Stand The review has revealed an incident involving a Lyft driver from Pennsylvania and the effect it has on the satisfaction of the customers of the restaurant.
Are you searching for the most recent viral video of Fossils last stand depicting a disagreement between a Lyft driver and two passengers? The video went viral and received thousands of views via Twitter when it was uploaded on Sunday.
The incident happened in the presence of James Bode, and two of his guests in front of Fossils Last Stand at Catasauqua, PA, United States. The driver has accused the passenger of racist remarks and filed a lawsuit for assault threats. To learn more about the incident, read Fossils Last Stand Review until the very end.
About Fossils Last Stand Restaurant:
Fossils Last Stand Restaurant is inside Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. It is among the most highly-rated restaurants in the region. There are some good reviews but there are a lot of negativity reviews on dating websites. The restaurant is open for breakfast lunch, dinner and breakfast. Here are some specifics regarding the establishment:
Location: 429 Race St, Catasauqua, PA 18032-1111
Contact number: +1 610-443-812.
Timing: Sunday, Monday- 11:00am to 12:00am, Tuesday to Friday- 7:00am – 2:00am, Sat: 9am-2:00am.
The Viral video circulating on Twitter and Facebook platforms is affecting the Fossil restaurant severely as customers are enraged over racial slurs made by the taxi driver. The majority of the media owned by Fossil’s owner weren’t accessible.
On TripAdvisor, Fossil has a four-star rating in five reviews. It also has a 4.2 rating out of 642 votes on Facebook. The rating on Yelp.com is affected the most by angry customers giving ratings of 0 or 1. The ratings shown do not consider the situation.
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Fossils Last Stand Pennsylvania Owner Cab Incident:
The driver of Lyft contacted customer Jackie to take her on the ride she had booked by her in the vicinity of the Fossil Last Stand restaurant. When she saw this driver, Jackie said that the driver was similar to a regular white man and that he also spoke excellent English this irritated Bode, and he requested Jackie to repeat the comment.
A dash camera recorded the entire incident in the car, and James informed the client that it was being recorded. The person in front of the vehicle inquired about the conversation, and Bode told him of the incident.
When Fossils ‘ Last Stand Pennsylvania proprietor was ready to go, Bode was unwilling to go on the ride and asked the passengers to take the cab off. The man was irritated, threatened his Lyft driver with a slap, and made racist remarks at him.
Viral Videos about this racist slur Incident
This incident happened on the 13th of May, and Bode posted it to his Facebook page that same day. In the blog post, James stated that the group appears to be the owners of Fossils Stand; however, James isn’t sure about its authenticity. He also said that a police investigation was filed against the owner for the threat of assault and racial discrimination against the driver.
The Fossils Last Stand review as well as the reactions of the public:
Unfortunately, the latest site reviews are extremely negative. The restaurant has been hit with negative reviews because of an unplanned incident that took place with the driver of the taxi and proprietor of the establishment. Owners are receiving insulting comments and racist language. The debate got heated toward the final.
James W. Bode (the Lyft driver) uploaded the video to Facebook. The video was shared across a variety of social media sites. Many are taking to social media platforms and venting their frustration and opinions about both sides. A Fossils Reviews indicates that reviews of the product are not positive. The Yelp website has the reviews. Yelp gave the reviews as one star out of 5 stars and 1. The viral videos are available on social media platforms and on the web.
Internet users have expressed anger at the patrons and have written negative reviews for this Fossils restaurant. Most people oppose this decision to judge one’s appearance, race, color, or language. On Yelp.com, reviewers have given either a single or zero rating for this establishment because of improper comments made by owners.
Based on the research of internet users according to internet research, an online video relating to the incident was posted this Sunday by political strategist Adam on Twitter and is predicted to reach 1 million people. People who have an impartial view of other communities must be able to learn from this experience and decide on people’s merit.
Fossils’ Last Stand review believes that other people should take the same stand as Bode regarding discrimination based on race. The public can express their opinions about this incident by commenting in the section.
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‘Eat the Rich!’: Black Lives Matter Storms Beverly Hills Neighborhood
The Beverly Hills Police Department had to respond to a large group of unruly Black Lives Matters activists late Friday night that marched on a Beverly Hills residential neighborhood chanting “Eat the rich!” and “Abolish capitalism now!”
Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong shared footage of protesters shouting “Eat the rich!”:
Later, he tweeted a video of protesters in Los Angeles shouting “No justice, no peace! No racist police!” as they tore down an American flag attached to a building:
In another video, the protesters in Beverly Hills shouted, “Abolish capitalism now!” while they continued their march through the neighborhood:
In an update on its website at 11:40 p.m., the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) said “An unlawful assembly has been declared in the area of Rexford Drive and Carmelita Ave. BHPD remains on scene.”
Saturday morning, the department tweeted that the unlawful assembly was over and arrests had been made:
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Dynamic Conditioning: Preparation of actors for the delivery of dynamic performance
Sturgess-Monks, Nicholas
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Sturgess-Monks, N. (2013). Dynamic Conditioning: Preparation of actors for the delivery of dynamic performance (Thesis, Master of Arts (MA)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8498
This thesis represents an attempt to establish, and develop, a methodology for the preparation of actors for delivery of a physically and vocally dynamic performance, informed by the fact of theatrical immediacy. Specifically, this can be understood as a systematised collection of exercises and principles that are conducive to such an intent. The effectiveness of the conditioning exercises engaged in were tested through the preparation and staging of The Best Thing!, a full-length play, for public audience.
A structural division has been made in this document between theoretical research and practical elements. In Chapter 1 can be discovered the progression of theory that informed the development of exercises engaged in, as well as stylistic intentions. The paradigmatic state of the modern theatre is discussed, in relation to the new performative mediums of film and television, concluding that a formal shift is required in theatre if it is to continue to be justified as a relevant artistic medium in contemporary culture. This is formed with reference to the prior work of a range of theatrical practitioners and theorists of the past century.
In Chapter 2 the successive stages of practical research undertaken are discussed. Beginning with the training investigations, continuing into a discussion of rehearsal processes, and culminating with an analysis of The Best Thing! in this specific staged form, with attention given to its success with respect to the performance Dynamics identified in the research previously enacted.
Documentary material, regarding investigative processes and theoretical development may be found within the Appendices. This includes a detailed dramaturgical analysis, a narrative deconstruction of The Best Thing!, and a complete elaboration of the activities and exercises engaged in during the research process. Several videos are also included, providing practical demonstration of events discussed.
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'Beautiful' woman, 21, took own life ahead of anniversary of dad's suicide after tragic Snapchat message
Ava-Jane Van Der Merwe was a "wonderful and happy young woman" who had a bright future ahead of her
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Ava-Jane was described as a beautiful young woman with a bright future (Image: Facebook)
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A beautiful and promising young medical student took her own life ahead of the anniversary of her dad's suicide.
Ava-Jane Van Der Merwe from Burscough first saw her GP in 2014 over concerns for her mental health when she was just 13. The following year her family suffered the tragic loss of her father Peter who took his own life aged 38.
In 2016 Ava-Jane's little sister, Esme, also died after suffering from Rett Syndrome, a rare brain disorder. Ava-Jane's mum Mary, a midwife, spoke to the Southport Visiter at the time about her financial difficulties while she was off work as she grieved for her daughter and husband.
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Over the following few years Ava-Jane was referred to mental health services several times and although she initially expressed a willingness to engage she failed to attend follow-up appointments. In June 2021 she attended A&E at Southport and Ormskirk District General Hospital after telling a friend she felt suicidal.
In August 2022 Ava-Jane's friend Jay Davies called 999 after she had sent him a message on Snapchat saying she had taken an overdose. Jay had asked Ava-Jane where she was and after telling him she was by the locks at the canal-side Ship Inn he raced to the scene.
In a statement made later to police Jay, a bar manager, said: "I arrived first [before the police]. She opened her eyes and was grumbling. I pulled her away from the canal. Her mobile phone rang and I answered it and a woman said she was Jo, Ava's friend Hannah's mum. Fifteen minutes later the police arrived."
An inquest held today (January 9) at Preston Coroner's Court heard how although Ava-Jane, who was studying at biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, was initially semi-conscious her condition deteriorated as police and Jay waited for the ambulance. Officers started CPR but Ava-Jane was pronounced dead, aged just 21, at Southport and Ormskirk General Hospital at 4.46m on August 13 last year.
Ava-Jane with her mum, dad, sister and one of her two brothers before the deaths of Esme and Peter (Image: Southport Visiter)
Ava-Jane's mum Mary, who asked for the hearing to go ahead without her attending, said in a statement that Ava-Jane had suffered with depression since she was 18. Referring to the night before Ava-Jane die, Mrs Van Der Merwe said: "I was working that day, I arrived home at 7pm and went to see Ava-Jane in her bedroom and asked if she wanted a takeaway. I went to bed and had no idea she had gone out."
The inquest heard several statements from mental health practitioners who have had dealings with Ava-Jane over the years. She told them that she had suicidal thoughts but had not acted on them.
Ava-Jane's GP, Dr Rachel Tilley from Stanley Court Surgery in Burscough, said that the night before Ava-Jane died she had attended an appointment at 7pm. An urgent referral was made to the mental health team and Ava-Jane should have been contacted within one to five hours by staff from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust but it wasn't until the following day when Ava-Jane had already died.
An investigation by the NHS trust revealed that the staff member who was working when the GP's referral was made "was working within the old time frames" and therefore hadn't realised Ava-Jane should have been contacted immediately. Issues with staffing had affected the trust at the time but these were said to have been resolved and other changes have been brought in following Ava-Jane's death.
Assistant Coroner Kate Bisset, who had been provided with a picture of Ava-Jane by her family, described the 21-year-old, who had been enjoying working as a medical secretary at a GP practice, as a "wonderful and happy young woman" who had a bright future ahead of her.
Returning a conclusion of suicide Ms Bisset said: "I am so very sorry to Ava-Jane's family for their loss. Her life had so much promise and potential not withstanding the tragedies she had experienced."
You don't have to suffer in silence if you're struggling with your mental health.
Here are some groups you can contact:
Samaritans: Phone 116 123, 24 hours a day, or email [email protected], in confidence.
Childline: Phone 0800 1111. Calls are free and won't show up on your bill.
PAPYRUS: A voluntary organisation supporting suicidal teens and young adults. Phone 0800 068 4141.
Depression Alliance: A charity for people with depression. No helpline, but it offers useful resources and links to other information.
Students Against Depression: A website for students who are depressed, have low mood, or are suicidal. Click here to visit.
Bullying UK: A website for both children and adults affected by bullying. Click here.
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): For young men who are feeling unhappy. There is a helpline: 0800 58 58 58 or visit the website.
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At a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Democrats demanded oil company executives answer for surging gas prices despite the falling price of oil.
The price of oil largely determines the price of gas. But even as oil prices are declining, gas prices remain prohibitively high, feeding “inflation, driving up prices for food, heating, and other staples,” and hurting working families. Meanwhile, said Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, “the oil and gas industry is expected to collect a windfall of up to $126 billion in 2022 alone.”
Representative Dingell questioned why oil companies “generally have a $30-$50 dollar break-even point per barrel,” but charge more than twice that for oil in the market.
During the hearing, House Democrats dismissed claims that BP America, Chevron, Devon Energy, ExxonMobil, Pioneer Natural Resources, and Shell USA are “just helpless participants in the global market.” Representative Frank Pallone said that oil companies “choose to keep production low so that their own profits stay high.”
Dingell added that despite raking in record profits, oil companies also continue to benefit from tax breaks meant for struggling industries. “It is not clear to me why you all are getting tax subsidies and taxpayers are paying for it at the pump,” she said.
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XRPL – The XRP Ledger
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Raul Gavira January 16, 2022
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The following article will help you develop an understanding of what the XRP Ledger is, how it works and why it is one of the most useful ledgers in blockchain.
What is The XRP Ledger?
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Future/summary
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a scalable and decentralized public blockchain leveraged by a highly-skilled community of software engineers, server operators, businesses, and developers. The platform provides developers with a strong open-source foundation to execute the most demanding projects in a sustainable manner. Because the network is open-source, anyone can build on or with it, and access real-time information on the state of its contents to its users. XPR Ledger is carbon-neutral and one of the “greenest” blockchains on the market, offering a sustainable and energy-free transaction process.
The Ledger uses a Federated consensus protocol to verify transactions and ensure the network’s security, scalability, and stability. XRPL’s consensus protocols have designated servers known as validators that come to an agreement on the order of transactions, and process transactions according to the same rules/protocols. The idea behind it is that the blockchain will become increasingly decentralized over time as the number of validators increases. A diverse set of validators also protects the network/chain from being controlled by any one or few individuals.
There are numerous reasons why XRPL is considered an incredibly useful blockchain network. To begin with, it is a public and decentralized exchange—meaning no single organisation or individual can control it. Its ability to settle and perform thousands of transactions per second makes XRPL quicker than most other blockchain networks. Besides this, XRPL uses negligible amounts of energy when validating transactions as there is no need for mining. This makes it far more eco-friendly compared to other consensus mechanisms, as well as one of the first, major carbon-neutral blockchains. Furthermore, the transactions are incredibly affordable, (a fraction of a cent) which helps remove the obstacles sometimes experienced by users in the un- and under-banked populations. By reducing transaction settlement times from several days to a few seconds, XRPL transactions are considered to be exponentially faster when compared to other blockchains.
The XRP Ledger is one of many decentralized blockchains available and it is considered one of the most advanced and reliable blockchains in all of crypto. Today, it is leveraged by reputable organisations and a growing developer community with more than 63 million closed ledgers to date. Additionally, XPRL’s sustainable, fast and affordable transactions position it ahead of others.
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Jun 18, 2017 SilentKbooksSecond Lisa: Mona Lisa. Book ThreeLeonardo, Leonardo’s death, Lisabetta, Mona Lisa
Lisabetta’s time for rescue is running out as the year end approaches, and problems threaten to destroy the work in progress. Veronica’s past catches up and both women have to struggle against the odds of every feeling significant.
Book three chronicles the success of Leonardo and Lisabetta during their travels to Rome and Milan, and the creation of two similar portraits, one of the young Lisa Giocondo, wife of a prominent silk merchant; and the other of Lisabetta, the iconic ‘Mona Lisa’ in the Louvre, Paris, France. The final book in the trilogy culminates in the suspicious circumstances of Lisabetta’s death, and the aged-Leonardo’s final years in Amboise, France, at the age of sixty-seven.
Lisabetta clashes with Piero, as Leonardo’s financial troubles escalate. She sees Leonardo through more life changes, but the anonymity that once served her backfires when she is completely forgotten after Leonardo’s death.
Lisabetta’s identity as the ‘Mona Lisa’ and her dedicated years supporting an obsessed artist, evaporate in the historic record, other than an obscure mention in a census and some lost notebooks of Leonardo’s.
The true identities of Veronica, Jupiter, and Lisabetta are revealed in a bizarre discovery of reincarnation, inherited challenges, family genetics, and parallel lives. Connecting events, comeuppances, and the eventual resolution the love triangle results in a showdown of emotional truths which may leave Lisabetta trapped in the ‘Mona Lisa’ for another five-hundred years.
Jun 18, 2017 SilentKbooksSecond Lisa: The Middle Years. Book TwoLeonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisabetta, Veronica
Lisabetta, invisible to all but Jupiter, must convince Veronica of her existence through the eyes of her son. Veronica resists the voice of Lisabetta she can hear, thinking she’s losing her mind. When the two women make contact, Lisabetta dictates her life history to Veronica in the hopes that the work may inspire academic recognition for her years as Leonardo’s care-giver. Since Leonardo presents many overlapping symptoms of high-functioning autism, Lisabetta is able to relate to Jupiter and his expanded levels of vision and intellect.
Book two chronicles Lisabetta’s and Leonardo’s middle years of painting and traveling in the course of following commissions and oftentimes escaping debt, as well as Leonardo’s troubles with devastating accusations of social disgrace and heresy.
It also provides insight to the modern day protagonist’s story, as new incidents seem to parallel the past in uncanny ways. Characters from both centuries appear, mirroring similar life challenges, triggering emotional responses from both women, and an emerging rivalry for the affections of the same man threaten to disrupt the ‘Lisa project,’ and further alienate them from their friendship and goals.
Lisabetta’s talent and penchant for business expands as she grows into womanhood. She learns the art trade and tends to Leonardo, already an eccentric and erratic artist at eighteen. As an painter in her own right, and being socially ignored as an insignificant woman in a patriarchal society, she is now both agent and manager of Leonardo’s own studio. However, being an ‘invisible’ member of the artist’s guild and her low-profile in the busy ‘art factory’ studios, makes her better-placed to hear the dealings within the art community that enable her to propel her brother to fame. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5742484927177429, "wiki_prob": 0.5742484927177429, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line175784"} |
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1Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, ‘If I have found favour in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5“My father made me swear an oath and said, ‘I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.” ’
6Pharaoh said, ‘Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.’
7So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him – the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt – 8besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. 9Chariots and horsemen#50:9 Or charioteers also went up with him. It was a very large company.
10When they reached the threshing-floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. 11When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, they said, ‘The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.’ That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.#50:11 Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.
12So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them: 13they carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 14After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.
Joseph reassures his brothers
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, ‘What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?’ 16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, ‘Your father left these instructions before he died: 17“This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.” Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.’ When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
18His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. ‘We are your slaves,’ they said.
19But Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.’ And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
The death of Joseph
22Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years 23and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.#50:23 That is, were counted as his
24Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ 25And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.’
26So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
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Reclaiming the Everglades
South Florida's Natural History 1884-1934
Reclaiming the Everglades includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government. Major topics and issues illustrated include the establishment of the Everglades National Park; the growth of the modern conservation movement and its institutions, including the National Audubon Society; the evolving role of women on the political stage; the treatment of Native Americans; rights of individual citizens or private corporations vs. the public interest; and accountability of government as trustees of public resources, whether for the purposes of development, reclamation, or environmental protection. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from sixteen physical collections housed in the archives and special collections of the University of Miami, Florida International University and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
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Richie Porte 'flabbergasted' and 'in shock' over Chris Froome anti-doping investigation
Porte describes his reaction to hearing news of UCI investigation into friend and former team-mate
Richie Porte and Chris Froome after stage seven of the Critérium du Dauphiné
(Image credit: ASO/A. Broadway)
By Henry Robertshaw
Richie Porte has described how he was "flabbergasted" and "in massive shock" when he received the news that friend and former team-mate Chris Froome was under investigation by the UCI after delivering an adverse analytical finding for salbutamol.
Speaking after finishing third in the time trial at the Australian Road National Championships, Porte said that there was little he could say on the matter.
"There's not really much you can say. Whatever you say, you can't win," Porte told the AAP.
>>> Greg LeMond: 'Chris Froome broke the rules so he should be punished'
"It's a big shame. When I heard the news, it was a massive shock. Let's see what happens, let it all run its course. I'm flabbergasted, as you guys are.
"I do have respect [for Froome]. He is a good friend and we were team-mates for a long time. It is only natural you are going to ask the questions but I'd probably rather not say too much."
Watch: Top 10 riders of 2017
Porte was not the only rider to be asked about Froome' salbutamol case after Friday's time trial, with race winner Rohan Dennis saying that if he was in the same situation as Froome then he would take full responsibility for the test results.
"I've made it no secret that I have a zero tolerance for any sort of positive test and that goes for myself," Dennis said.
"If I accidentally or purposefully take something – which I never would, purposefully take something – then I'd just have to own it and get a slap on the wrist.
"I don't know the full details, but for myself, if that was me, I'd just say 'Look, I screwed up, I shouldn't have done this, or what-not'."
>>> Everything you need to know about Chris Froome's salbutamol case
Froome is currently under investigation by the UCI after being found to have a high concentration of the asthma drug salbutamol in his urine after stage 17 of the 2017 Vuelta a España.
Froome denies exceeding the permitted dosage for the drug, and must now prove that the high concentration of the drug in his system was not as a result of exceeding the maximum permitted dosage of 800 micrograms per 12 hours.
Henry Robertshaw
Henry Robertshaw began his time at Cycling Weekly working with the tech team, writing reviews, buying guides and appearing in videos advising on how to dress for the seasons. He later moved over to the news team, where his work focused on the professional peloton as well as legislation and provision for cycling. He's since moved his career in a new direction, with a role at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Amazon Prime Jumbo-Visma documentary: Five things we want to see
Six-part series available on Amazon Prime in the Benelux region from March 1
True Grit: Inside the gravel national championships
Cycling Weekly meets the muddy mavericks pushing the envelope of Britain’s burgeoning gravel scene.
By James Shrubsall • Published 8 February 23
Chris Froome highlights dangers of long Covid after battle with virus
Four-time Tour de France champion warns of cardiovascular impact and says his VO2 max took a hit after illness
By Tom Thewlis • Published 7 December 22
Chris Froome labels WorldTour relegation a ‘death sentence for many teams’
Four-time Tour de France winner says UCI points system needs overhaul as Israel-PremierTech face relegation from the WorldTour
By Tom Thewlis • Last updated 14 November 22
Chris Froome still holds out hope for fifth Tour de France win
Israel-Premier Tech rider says the dream is "always there"
By Tom Davidson • Published 3 November 22
Chris Froome out of Tour de France after positive Covid-19 test result
Four-time winner and third on Alpe d’Huez stage forced to abandon on stage 18
By Tom Thewlis • Published 21 July 22
'I’m going to keep pushing. I don’t know what my limits are': Chris Froome climbs to best result since 2018
Israel-Premier Tech rider finished third on stage 12 of the Tour de France to Alpe d'Huez
By Adam Becket • Published 14 July 22
La Planche des Belles Filles: will today's Tour de France climb be make or break?
Primož Roglič may be looking to salvage his Tour de France by exorcising his 2020 demons on the brutal climb
By Tom Thewlis • Last updated 8 July 22
'I'm trying to get back to my old self again' — Chris Froome achieves his best result since 2019 horror crash
Chris Froome finished 11th at the Mercan Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes on Tuesday, his best result for almost three years
By Adam Becket • Published 31 May 22
Richie Porte forced to abandon Giro d'Italia with illness
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Background Noise, Volume 78: Clayton Brothers
THE BACKGROUND NOISE SERIES FOCUSES ON THE MUSIC THAT ARTISTS LISTEN TO WHEN THEY WORK, WHAT MUSIC INSPIRES THEM, OR JUST MUSIC THEY LIKE. THIS WEEK, IN EPISODE 78, THE FOCUS IS ON CLAYTON BROTHERS.
Rob and Christian Clayton have collaborated on their artwork for years. Rarely working on the same canvas at the same time, the Pasadena, CA brotherly duo have perfected their psychedelic abstract art by taking turns, adding layer upon layer to what’s in front of them.
It’s not easy to say who does what, whether one painting is more Rob than Christian, or vice versa, but it is said that they both have very different styles. They do share inspiration though, often taking queues from local businesses and local regulars. Watch this great video of the two of them in a thrift store talking about some of these inspirational objects, sayings, etc.
You can learn more about the Clayton Brothers over at claytonbrothers.com.
What was your first concert?
CC: The Clash, Red Rocks Colorado
RC: My first concert was the Kamikazi Klones at the Rainbow music hall in Denver Co.
Last concert/show?
CC: Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
RC: The last show I went to was with Christian we saw a band from Denver Co. called
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, two of the band members Daniel Grandbois and Todd Moore are childhood friends of ours. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club is a truly amazing group of talented musicians.
First album you bought?
CC: The Clash “Give em’ Enough Rope”
RC: Elvis Costello “My Aim is True” 1977
Last album you bought?
RC: Morgan O’Kane “Pendulum”
CC: Bob Dylan “The Times They Are a-Changin”
Was there one record that made a significant impression on you?
CC: Tom Waits “Rain Dogs”
RC: I would have to say The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy And The Lash” Every song on this album is great!
Who is your musical hero?
CC: Nina Simone
RC: That would be Joe Strummer
How important is music to your creative process?
CC: When in full-working mode; I would say very important… I love listening to a variety of music when Im in the studio.
RC: I think a lot of the ideas that find their way into our paintings come from the eclectic music we play at the studio. We also make ambient noise recordings from around our neighborhood that we use in our installations.
1. Bob Log III – Six Stringer Kicker
2. The Damned – Dozen Girls
3. Daniel Johnston – Funeral Home
4. Doo Rag – John Henry
5. The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
6. The Pogues – Navigator
7. Rocket from the Crypt – Ditch Digger
8. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Pine Box
9. The Clash – This Is England
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms
Check out Clayton Brothers’ playlist below on Spotify. Be sure to like Background Noise on Facebook for updates on future episodes. You can browse ALL the Background Noise episodes right here.
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Background Noise, Volume 117: Ben Frost
Ben Frost is an Australian artist known for his confrontational (and, as a result, controversial) work. Using characters from the highly litigious Disney franchise would
Moon Armada’s “Baby Bot 3000” Is A Hand-Built Synthesizer, Housed Inside A Recycled Doll
Honest Kevin and Appias Albina, the folks behind the audiovisual art project Moon Armada have released a limited run of 20 of these hand-made “Baby
Background Noise, Volume 116: Winston Hacking
Winston Hacking is an award-winning filmmaker / designer / all-around visual artist hailing from Canada. You’ve probably seen his work without realizing it. He’s created
Prolific Artist Steve Keene Finally Has A Book of His Work
Steve Keene has done album covers for the likes of Pavement, Silver Jews, Band of Horses, and The Apples in Stereo, to name a few.
Legendary Underground MC Siah (of Siah & Yeshua) Profiled In This Short YouTube Doc
I recently stumbled on this 10-minute documentary on legendary underground MC Siah (Nadav Samin). In the late 90s heyday of underground hip hop, the only
Background Noise, Volume 115: Damel Carayol
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Vaccine status set to play critical role as NFL teams trim rosters to 53 players
Eagan, MN, United States; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Jake Browning (3) participates in drills at training camp at TCO Performance Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
By Ari Meirov
The NFL informed teams in a memo last month that a team can't cut a player due to their vaccine status.
It has become abundantly clear that teams won’t follow that rule, and * players’ vaccine statuses may play a notable role as rosters eventually trim from 90 to 53 players.
Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer lost three unvaccinated quarterbacks — Kirk Cousins, Kellen Mond and Nate Stanley — for a Saturday night scrimmage after Mond tested positive for COVID-19.
Jake Browning, who is fully vaccinated, was the only available quarterback. And he took advantage of his opportunity.
Per ESPN Vikings reporter Courtney Cronin, Browning cemented himself as the favorite for QB2 with his performance on Saturday night.
“Jake's really smart,” Zimmer said. “He's vaccinated. That helps to be the backup. So as we move forward here, he's gonna get a ton of reps. He's out there, he's available, that's important. It's important to be available when you're playing football, a team sport.”
Zimmer then turned to his three sidelined quarterbacks:
“I am disappointed that this happened. I’m frustrated, not just with my football players who didn’t get vaccinated, but I’m frustrated with everybody who didn’t.”
Per The Athletic's Nicki Jhabvala, the Vikings have the lowest vaccination rate in the league at 70% in process and 64.5% fully vaccinated.
In Washington, Ron Rivera has also publicly expressed his disappointment in unvaccinated players.
“I’m truly frustrated. I’m beyond frustrated,” Rivera said. “Part of the reason I walk in with a mask on is I’m immune-deficient. I just hope that our guys can understand that.”
The Football Team is near the bottom of the league in player vaccination rates, according to the Washington Post. They currently have seven players on the Reserve/COVID-19 list after Daron Payne was added Sunday.
Unvaccinated free agents have little chance to make a roster this season. The supply outweighs the demand. Teams interested in signing street free agents have been asking NFL agents if their clients are vaccinated. Chad Speck, president of Allegiant Athletic Agency, shared how one such interaction went down in a tweet last week:
A #NFL team called today interested in working out & signing a free agent client. When they found out he wasn’t vaccinated they were no longer interested. The rules the #NFL implemented in reality mandates the vaccine for back end roster type players.
— Chad Speck (@a3Chad) July 24, 2021
Based on Zimmer’s and Rivera’s quotes, it’s quite obvious that any close roster decision involving two players at the same position will go to the player who is vaccinated.
Certain unvaccinated players, such as Cousins, will be able to keep their roster spots due to skill, guaranteed pay or potential cap hit.
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A Spooky Tale of Penns Valley Area High School
Once Upon a Time, there was a high school student who was stressed out because he had left all of his homework in his locker over Halloween break, including his chemistry observations to write his lab report. A classic tale of procrastination was about to take a dark turn.
Jake decided in a last attempt to get his school work to break into the school on Halloween night. What he didn’t know was that in the 1980’s a student named Clarissa Andrews got in a horrific acid accident in chemistry class on Halloween day. This incident was devastating and left her horribly disfigured and depressed. After the accident, she was taken to the hospital and had over 105 surgeries to try and put her face back together. After 4 months in the hospital, she was finally released. She was excited to come back to school the next day to see everyone again. When she got to school all the people did was stare. Girls who used to be her friends just looked like she came back from the dead. The worst part though was when she walked into lunch and someone screamed “Freak,” Clarissa ran out of the school never to come back. No one knew where she went, her parents called the cops and there was a search crew who looked for 2 weeks and found nothing. She just disappeared. With no one knowing what happened to her rumors began to spread. To this day it is believed that Clarissa died and that she came back to haunt the school.
It was 9 o’clock at night when Jake was able to sneak past the custodian in the school. He found himself in the back hallway because he saw a light coming from the chemistry room.
Penns Valley’s Snow Storm
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Record Number of New PA COVID-19 Cases
High-Speed Wifi Set to Come to Penns Valley
Student Class Officers for 11th Grade
A Spooky Tale of Penns Valley Area High School Part II
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Global factory growth stunted by war, China's COVID curbs
Economy Jun 01, 2022 05:56AM ET
© Reuters. Employees work on the production line during an organised media tour to a Schneider Electric factory in Beijing, China February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo
By Jonathan Cable and Leika Kihara
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Global growth in factory activity slowed in May as China's strict coronavirus curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted supply chains and dampened demand, adding to woes for businesses already struggling with surging raw material prices.
Manufacturing growth slowed last month in economies as diverse as France, Japan to Malaysia, business surveys showed on Wednesday, illustrating the challenge policymakers face in trying to combat inflation while not stifling anaemic economic activity.
S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI)'s final manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the euro zone fell to 54.6 in May from April's 55.5, its lowest since November 2020 though just ahead of a preliminary reading of 54.4. Anything above 50 indicates growth. [EUR/PMIM]
In Britain, manufacturing activity expanded last month at the weakest rate since January 2021 as producers of consumer goods struggled against a worsening cost-of-living crunch.
"Inflation is driving up the cost of doing business and dampening some consumer demand," said Simon Jonsson at KPMG.
"The conflict in Ukraine has caused new and worsened supply shortages, while COVID-19 restrictions in China, and border friction closer to home, have also adversely impacted UK manufacturing."
China's Caixin/Markit Manufacturing PMI showed a further contraction there, standing at 48.1 in May although improving slightly from April's 46.0, a private survey showed.. That was in line with official factory activity data released on Tuesday.
While COVID curbs are being rolled back in some cities, suggesting China's manufacturing slump has bottomed out, analysts do not expect a rapid rebound like in early 2020, saying fears of fresh outbreaks will continue to weigh on confidence and demand.
"Disruptions to supply chains and goods distribution may gradually ease as Shanghai's lockdown ends. But we're not out of the woods as China hasn't abandoned its zero-COVID policy altogether," said Toru Nishihama, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo.
"Rising inflation is forcing some Asian central banks to tighten monetary policy. There's also the risk of market volatility from U.S. interest rate hikes. Given such layers of risks, Asia's economy may remain weak for most of this year."
CHINA SPILLOVER
Lockdowns in China have snarled global logistics and supply chains, with both Japan and South Korea reporting sharp declines in output.
Japan's manufacturing activity grew at the weakest pace in three months in May, and manufacturers reported a renewed rise in input costs, the PMI survey showed, as the knock-on effects of China's lockdowns and the Ukraine conflict pressured the economy.
The final au Jibun Bank Japan PMI fell to a seasonally adjusted 53.3 in May from 53.5, marking its slowest pace since February.
In a glimmer of hope, South Korea's exports grew at a faster pace in May than a month earlier, separate data showed on Wednesday, as a rise in shipments to Europe and the United States more than offset fallout from China.
The monthly trade data, the first to be released among major exporting economies, is considered a bellwether for global trade.
India's factory activity expanded at a higher-than-expected pace in May, with demand resilient despite persistently high inflation.
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"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me."
It is probably the most famous hymn in history:
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I once was lost, but now am found,
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Though some today wonder if the word wretch is hyperbole or a bit of dramatic license, John Newton, the song's author, clearly did not.
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Newton was nurtured by a Christian mother who taught him the Bible at an early age, but he was raised in his father's image after she died of tuberculosis when Newton was 7. At age 11, Newton went on his first of six sea-voyages with the merchant navy captain.
Newton lost his first job, in a merchant's office, because of "unsettled behavior and impatience of restraint"—a pattern that would persist for years. He spent his later teen years at sea before he was press-ganged aboard the H.M.S. Harwich in 1744. Newton rebelled against the discipline of the Royal Navy and deserted. He was caught, put in irons, and flogged. He eventually convinced his superiors to discharge him to a slaver ship. Espousing freethinking principles, he remained arrogant and insubordinate, and he lived with moral abandon: "I sinned with a high hand," he later wrote, "and I made it my study to tempt and seduce others."
He took up employment with a slave-trader named Clow, who owned a plantation of lemon trees on an island off of west Africa. But he was treated cruelly by Clow and the slaver's African mistress; soon Newton's clothes turned to rags, and Newton was forced to beg for food to allay his hunger.
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The sluggish sailor was transferred to the service of the captain of the Greyhound, a Liverpool ship, in 1747, and on its homeward journey, the ship was overtaken by an enormous storm. Newton had been reading Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ, and was struck by a line about the "uncertain continuance of life." He also recalled the passage in Proverbs, "Because I have called and ye have refused, … I also will laugh at your calamity." He converted during the storm, though he admitted later, "I cannot consider myself to have been a believer, in the full sense of the word."
Newton then served as a mate and then as captain of a number of slave ships, hoping as a Christian to restrain the worst excesses of the slave trade, "promoting the life of God in the soul" of both his crew and his African cargo.
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After leaving the sea for an office job in 1755, Newton held Bible studies in his Liverpool home. Influenced by both the Wesleys and George Whitefield, he adopted mild Calvinist views and became increasingly disgusted with the slave trade and his role in it. He quit, was ordained into the Anglican ministry, and in 1764 took a parish in Olney in Buckinghamshire.
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In 1769, Newton began a Thursday evening prayer service. For almost every week's service, he wrote a hymn to be sung to a familiar tune. Newton challenged Cowper also to write hymns for these meetings, which he did until falling seriously ill in 1773. Newton later combined 280 of his own hymns with 68 of Cowper's in what was to become the popular Olney Hymns. Among the well-known hymns in it are "Amazing Grace," "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken," "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," "O for a Closer Walk with God," and "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood."
In 1787 Newton wrote Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade to help William Wilberforce's campaign to end the practice—"a business at which my heart now shudders," he wrote. Recollection of that chapter in his life never left him, and in his old age, when it was suggested that the increasingly feeble Newton retire, he replied, "I cannot stop. What? Shall the old African blasphemer stop while he can speak?"
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Epcot Segway Tour To Close
If you want to experience a segway tour at Epcot with a nature influence, you have until early July to do so. Disney has made plans to close the Nature-Inspired by Design Segway Tour on July 3, 2012.
The tour, which dates back to 2009, gives guests a chance to interact with Disney cast members and scientists as well as see how nature inspires their work environments. In addition, the three hour tour lets guests ride on a Segway X-2 in an offroad, backstage area of Epcot.
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The news at 404: Archiving and accessing online news content
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Author: Raso, Kathleen Ann
As news outlets focus their resources on producing more digital content — in some cases ceasing print production entirely — the questions of if and how online news is archived become ever more pressing. While methods of delivering news content online have developed extensively over the past decade, strategies for preserving this content remain unclear, leaving content vulnerable to erasure. Moreover, the study of these archiving efforts remains largely at the fringe of academic research. Digital news cannot be archived in the same ways as its paper counterpart. The content is archived primarily through news media websites and news aggregation sites such as Factiva, LexisNexis, and ProQuest\'s Canadian Newsstream, who offer subscription-based access to archived digital content. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of the processes, policies, and perhaps politics, of news archiving in the digital era. This project documents the rates at which online Canadian national newspapers archive digital articles. In addition to monitoring archiving and permanent deletion trends, this project presents the variation in rates at which national news articles are archived by secondary archiving services Canadian Newsstream, Factiva, and LexisNexis. For this project, a sample of 688 online articles was collected over a constructed week from the Globe and Mail, National Post, and CBC News websites. Of the 688 total, 210 stories were from CBC, 240 were from the Globe, and 238 were from the Post. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on the sample to identify potential trends in how and why some articles are excluded from media outlets’ archives and secondary archives. At the end of a five year observation period, 584 of the original 688 articles were still available through the original sites. 55 of the original 688 stories were permanently deleted from the news sites. The study finds significant article loss by Canadian Newsstream, Factiva, and LexisNexis archives with rates of missing articles being three to five times higher for these secondary sites than the news media sites. Several factors impact the archiving rates for articles in the samples. They include: the parceling of licensed content; the use of video content on news websites; and the reliance on wire stories which are not archived at the same rate as content generated in-house. At its root, this project seeks to raise questions about long-term access to information. As the news media transitions further into the digital realm, the ability of individuals to access content becomes less certain. This potentially impacts community memory; the ability of individuals to access their history through media; and reduces the capacity of researchers to conduct news media-based historical analyses. Threats to future access to Canadian digital news media are threats to myriad forms of research that rely on news articles for historical information.
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One-of-a-kind adventures in Greece
Vangelis Koronakis
The strong northern wind and incredible views make Greek islands like Corfu great for paragliding.
Greece boasts thousands of miles of sandy and rocky coasts, hundreds of islands, and crystal clear waters in every conceivable shade of blue. Combined with the robust and millennia-old culture that soaks every part of the country, it's not hard to see why it has remained a popular destination for relaxing vacations.
However, a wider crowd of visitors have come to discover that Greece offers an abundance of recreational activities, adventures, and thrill-seeking pursuits that go beyond the time-honored "sea, sun, culture" holiday scheme.
The stone pillars and historic monasteries at Meteora can be explored via a series of hiking paths. ©Curtis Watson/Shutterstock
Hiking in Meteora
Meteora is one of the most breathtaking locations on the Greek mainland. Centuries-old windswept Byzantine monasteries virtually hang from the cliffs of towering stone pinnacles. The UNESCO-protected monument is worth at least a few days of anyone's stay in Greece.
The sightseeing might be surreal, but there are many opportunities for an action-packed adventure. Hike the narrow paths and steps carved into the ancient rocks and climb through prolific greenery to one of the abandoned or existing religious communities or an awe-inspiring view of the plain of Thessaly.
The wider area offers rafting, canoeing, and cycling (local companies can outfit adventurers of any experience level.) Visitors can also stop by the workshops of local artists specializing in Byzantine icon painting to round out a visit that's just as spiritual as it is adrenaline-pumping.
Diving in Santorini
Santorini is world-famous for its magnificent Caldera, vibrant nightlife, and "postcard" sunsets. The star of many of its most famous viewpoints is the Aegean, which surrounds the island with uninterrupted views of cobalt-blue water.
The Aegean’s depths offer an equal, if not superior, view. Scuba divers can admire an underwater landscape configured by centuries of volcanic activity. The underwater paradise features caves, reefs, shipwrecks, and spectacular marine life.
Scuba diving and snorkeling outfitters offer expeditions for beginners as well as pros. Many provide training sessions for novices and will rent out all the necessary gear for an unforgettable adventure.
The Cyclades, which lie in the stunningly blue Aegean Sea, are a popular destination for snorkeling and diving. ©Manuel Breva Colmeiro/Getty Images
Marathon running in Athens
Pheidippides was the ancient courier who, according to legend, ran the 26.2-mile distance from Marathon to Athens, announcing the victorious outcome of the battle of Marathon against the Persians with his last breath. The story inspired the modern race that is held regularly around the globe. It's no surprise that many long-distance runners dream of participating in the Athenian Marathon, held on the original route.
As a bonus for the participants, the race concludes in the magnificent Panathenaic Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games, which were held in Athens in 1896. The Authentic Marathon, as it is called, is held every November and attracts thousands of runners from dozens of countries. The uneven terrain makes it one of the toughest, but memorable most races in the world.
Wind and water sports in the Cyclades
The Cycladic islands are studded with windmills, remnants of an era when the wind was the primary energy source. While wind power is no longer as widely used as it was, the Aegean northern wind (meltemi) is still an inextricable part of life on the islands. This wind and the currents of the Aegean sea create a perfect environment for every conceivable water sport.
The wind, waves, and coastline of Rhodes make it an ideal destination for windsurfing. ©P Merakos/Greek NTO
Almost every beach on every Cycladic island offers the usual family fun activities such as tubes, canoes, and banana boat rides. The more adventurous types can enjoy water-skiing, windsurfing, and jet-skiing. Serious adrenaline-seekers can even kitesurf or paraglide. No matter the activity, it's not hard to find reasonably-priced excursions and instructors who can help the less experienced.
Beaches like Mikri Vigla and Aghios Georgios in Naxos and Golden Beach and Santa Maria in Paros offer world-class windsurfing. It's fun to watch, even if you're not a windsurfer yourself.
Sailboats often cruise near the famous caves of Kleftiko in Greece's Cyclades islands. ©Lana Moon/Shutterstock
These windy conditions also make sailing the Aegean Sea an unrivaled summer adventure. Fledgling sailors can still enjoy the waves safely by hiring a professional crew when renting a boat.
Climbing in Kalymnos
The mountainous terrain on the island of Kalymnos makes for incredible rock climbing, with more than 3000 established climbing routes. ©Photobac/Shutterstock
Kalymnos attracts climbers from every corner of the world, and with good reason: the mountainous Dodecanese island boasts dozens of excellent climbing sites. Visitors can find effortless but rewarding slopes for beginners and steep and challenging cliffs for skilled climbers in search of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The limestone rock faces contrast with the limitless blue of the horizon, making up a dreamy backdrop for climbing.
And after a long day of climbing, it's nice to enjoy the quiet beaches, delicious local cuisine, and welcoming locals in this unspoiled corner of the Aegean. Visitors feeling inspired to take to the water can take advantage of the diving scene in Kalymnos as well. The island’s long tradition of sponge-diving makes it the ultimate scuba paradise.
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Smart blocks 342 million ‘smishing’ messages in three months
By Team Technobaboy September 14, 2022
Smart Communications has blocked around 342 million smishing messages from June to August 2022. The telco has also blocked 167,000 numbers that were found to have been used in fraudulent activities in the same time frame
The staggering number shows how huge the problem of smishing and text scams are right now in the Philippines.
For their part, Smart is working closely with the Philippine National Police (PNP) Anti-Cybercrime Group and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Council of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to put a stop to text scams.
“We are supporting government-led efforts to identify the scammers and to pin down where they’re getting the SIMs that they’re using to run their modus,” said Angel Redoble, FVP and Chief Information Security Officer of PLDT and Smart.
On its own, Smart is investigating suspicious SIM purchases in bulk that might be related to the illegal activity. It was revealed that the fraudulent messages are being sent from phone-to-phone, and not through aggregators, meaning cybercriminals are using multiple SIMs for text scams. It was previously mentioned that names used in these scams were harvested from e-wallet and messaging apps.
Prior to the National Telecommunications Commissions order to block links found in text scams, Smart has already been blocking URLs tied to the modus. By August of this year, the telco has blocked more than 5.5 million malicious domains, enabling it to prevent 11 billion attempts to access phishing sites.
See also: Text scams may be coming from outside the Philippines, says DICT
Smart has also reiterated its support for the mandatory registration of SIM cards. A House panel recently approved the consolidated measure requiring the registration of prepaid and postpaid SIM cards, especially to curb mobile phone-aided criminal activities such as text scams.
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NFL Draft: Top Rated Defensive Ends
March 11, 2014 by Garrett Ohlmeyer
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1. Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
Do I really need to say much about Clowney? He is the single most talented defensive player to come out of college football in a long time. Clowney has incredible size, and will more than likely be the top defensive player drafted. He may be coming off a down year due to teams game planning against him but it isn’t a major concern as he was still a major force for the Game Cocks. Steve Spurrier may have made negative comments about Clowney’s work ethic but he is simply too talented to pass up. That being said, going to a team with a hard-nosed coach and a hard working defensive lineman already in place such as Houston or St. Louis would probably be the best fit to help ensure he won’t slack off.
2. Kony Ealy, Missouri
Kony Ealy has great size and speed for a defensive end and his best fit is in a 43 defense but could potential play 34 outside linebacker. Ealy is very athletic and smart defensive end who is solid in run defensive. He is very explosive and plays with a high motor. Ealy is adept at finding the ball carrier and being near the tackle if he isn’t the one to make it himself showing that he does not give up on plays. He is also very solid at rushing the passer. Ealy is a very well rounded player that seems to be a safe pick with a lot of upside.
3. Scott Crichton, Oregon State
Crichton is a well-rounded player whose best fit is as a 43 defensive end. He is a disruptive force in both the passing and running game and plays with relentless pursuit of the ball carrier. Crichton may have not put up the incredible numbers that many others put up this season but he continually put pressure on the quarterback. He also played with a high motor and explosiveness in both the running and passing game. He is a decent tackler but may drop due to off the field issues.
4. Dee Ford, Auburn
Dee Ford has made a name for himself as a pass rusher. He could play as either a 43 defensive end or a 34 outside linebacker but has had no experience standing up at Auburn so I put him as a defensive end. He is a disruptive force as a pass rusher and has above average speed. Ford could use a bit of improvement in his run defense. Sometimes I notice that he jumps gaps too soon, allowing the runner to run right past him. With improved run defense ford could really be a talented starter in the NFL.
5. Stephon Tuitt, Notre Dame
Stephen Tuitt could play 34 defensive end or a 43 tackle or end though his best fit would probably be in a 34 defense. While he flashes strength and bull rush ability he really lacks explosiveness. I don’t see Tuitt to have a very high motor and sometimes seems to give up on plays. He does however flash incredible potential to make plays in both the passing and running game. Tuitt seems to be solid as a run stopper and a fairly decent pass rusher. There are some very bright points in Tuitt’s game but I see some glaring weaknesses as well. I feel as if Tuitt is a boom or bust prospect.
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He’s a self-proclaimed “serial” spouse and de-fanged horndog running to become New York City’s next mayor.
In a candid account of his long and complicated love life, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa opened up to The Post about his four marriages and other rocky romances — including how he got into fistfights with bigots while defending his first wife, a black woman, in the mid-1970s.
The 67-year-old Guardian Angels founder also insists he — and the entire female species in general — might be better off that he was left impotent following surgery a decade ago to cure prostate cancer.
He blames the death of his third marriage on his then-raging libido, which prompted him to cheat with a longtime lover, ex-Queens councilwoman and current District Attorney Melinda Katz.
Curtis Sliwa with his wife Nancy and their blind rescue cat Homer.
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Regrets? He has a few, including once saying he wanted to bed then-Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito during his WABC-AM radio show, and boasting about sleeping with two other Council members besides Katz.
“The benefit of being impotent is your mind doesn’t even focus on [sex]. You’re not looking at anyone else, not thinking about anyone else,” said Sliwa, who faces off against heavily favored Democrat Eric Adams in the Nov. 2 mayoral election.
Here’s a look at some of Sliwa’s paramours over the past five decades:
Koren Drayton, Wife No. 1
Sliwa said he was immediately smitten with the Virgin Islands native, gushing that Drayton was the “spitting image” of iconic black activist Angela Davis.
“I loved Angela Davis at the time,” Sliwa recalled. “Like her, Koren had that magnificent ‘fro, the looks. … We shared a love for soul music. She was a very good dancer. This was like nirvana for me.”
In 1975, Sliwa left his family home in Canarsie, Brooklyn, to shack up with Drayton in Brownsville. The couple experienced immediate racism — from blacks in Brownsville and whites in Canarsie, including some of Sliwa’s family and friends.
“In Canarsie, they’d besmirch her, saying I was an N-lover,” Sliwa said. “In Brownsville, they objected because ‘why is this white guy coming in and marrying one of our sisters?’ This was not a time when interracial relationships were common.”
In June 1976, the couple married and relocated to Far Rockaway, Queens, before moving to the Bronx, where Sliwa took a job as a night manager at a local McDonald’s. Sliwa became a step-father, helping raise Drayton’s young daughter from an earlier relationship.
He said racial tensions certainly strained the marriage, but ultimately the main reason they divorced in 1977 was they simply married too young — in their early 20s.
Sliwa insists the split was amicable, but he hasn’t had contact with Drayton or his former stepdaughter since the divorce. He welcomes re-connecting.
Lisa Evers, Wife No. 2
Curtis Sliwa and his bride Lisa Evers.
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In 1981, Sliwa became a tabloid darling after marrying Lisa Evers, a stunning model and martial arts expert who was then the national director of Sliwa’s crime-prevention group, the Guardian Angels.
He recalls them having a “great” working and marital relationship during their early years as a couple, despite racking up massive credit card debt while living in a Manhattan apartment on Avenue A.
In 1990, they began co-costing a WABC-AM radio talk show, “Angels in the Morning,” to help pay the bills.
Sliwa said the marriage started to sour after he skirted death in 1992 during a presumed mob hit that prosecutors believed was ordered in retaliation for Sliwa calling the late Gambino godfather John Gotti a drug dealer, crook and “public enemy No. 1” on his radio show.
Curtis Sliwa and Lisa Evers.
Sliwa said he received death threats during this period that strained the relationship — as did on-air discussions about the couple’s family members and personal life that Evers didn’t welcome.
“It caused a wedge, and everything began to come unglued,” said Sliwa.
The couple divorced in 1994.
Sliwa said his relationship with Evers is now “civil,” adding they occasionally run into each other while she’s out in the field reporting for Fox 5 News. She didn’t return messages.
Melinda Katz, lover and baby mama
Curtis Sliwa and Melinda Katz have two kids together.
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Sliwa said he had an on-and-off relationship with Katz from 1996 to 2014. They have two children conceived through in vitro fertilization and previously lived together.
Sliwa said he once asked Katz to marry him but quipped, “She wisely said no.”
He concedes putting plenty of pressure on the relationship by routinely attacking ex-Gov. Cuomo and other top Democrats that Katz had to deal with as an elected official, but insisted they now have a “great relationship.”
When asked if she supports Sliwa for mayor, Katz said she isn’t endorsing candidates for elected office as district attorney but added “Curtis is the father of my children and obviously holds a very special place in their lives.”
Mary Paterson, Wife No. 3
Curtis Sliwa and Mary Sliwa.
In 2000, Sliwa married the former Mary Galda, who was then the executive director of the Guardian Angels. The two share a son, Anthony. They divorced in 2012 after Galda accused Sliwa of having an affair with Katz.
The relationship got even messier in 2013, when Galda slapped Sliwa with a $1.4 million lawsuit alleging he was a “world class liar” who swindled her out of money under the guise of overpaying child support for his kids with Katz. She claimed he was plotting to drain marital assets and ultimately leave Galda for Katz. The lawsuit was ultimately tossed.
Sliwa admits cheating on Galda with Katz but insists the child-support payments were strictly to help his kids with Katz — not create a nest egg for he and Katz to live on.
The story has a surprisingly happy ending.
In 2015, Galda hooked up with former Gov. David Paterson, who Sliwa once co-hosted a radio show with. They got married in 2019, and Sliwa said he couldn’t be happier.
“I applauded it,” he said. “Mary deciding to marry Gov. Paterson was great. He’s an outstanding stepfather to Anthony.”
Both he and his ex-wife described their current relationship as “good,” although the new Ms. Paterson declined to say who she’s backing for mayor.
Nancy Regula, Wife No. 4
Curtis and Nancy Sliwa.
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Hoping fourth time’s the charm, Sliwa married Regula, an attorney and animal rights activist, in 2018.
The couple hooked up three years earlier when Regula helped Sliwa recover from a series of ailments by recommending supplements of organic mushrooms and antioxidants. Regula also insisted Sliwa move in with her and nursed him back to health after learning he had been sleeping on the floor of his WABC office because most of his income was going towards child support.
“She was my Florence Nightingale,” Sliwa said.
The couple now live in a tiny, 325-square-foot apartment on the Upper West Side where they care for more than a dozen rescue cats.
Sliwa said he gets along great with his 38-year-old wife, a fellow Republican who is running for City Council.
When asked whether his impotence has put a damper on the marriage’s sex life, Sliwa hesitated, then said: “you can create a situation where you engage — but it’s never natural.”
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