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UFC secures rights to ADCC, 2024 World Championship
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The UFC has swooped in to secure ADCC broadcast rights.
Late yesterday evening, BJJ fans learned that one of the largest grappling promotions has partnered with the largest MMA organization on the planet.
The UFC has been able to secure rights to the ADCC, with their suite of events now set to air exclusively on UFC Fight Pass. The deal will be for two years, and it was announced during UFC 283.
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“ADCC is thrilled to work with UFC FIGHT PASS and showcase the brilliance of grappling to fans in the United States and around the world,” said Mo Jassim, Head Organizer, ADCC in a press release. “This deal includes our premier event ADCC 2024 in September 2024 in Las Vegas – an event UFC FIGHT PASS subscribers will not want to miss.”
Alongside the biennial championship, Fight Pass will be streaming both the ADCC open and trial events.
The ADCC’s have stood next to fellow grappling powerhouse, the IBJJF, as one of the sport’s most influential organizations from its inception in 1998. Far from a mere no gi BJJ event, invitations to compete have been received by athletes from other major grappling arts like judo and wrestling. UFC stars like Demian Maia and Fabricio Werdum have collected ADCC gold during their careers, the accomplishment serving as a massive reference point when discussing their prestigious ground game.
ADCC previously streamed it’s events exclusively through sports broadcasting company FloSports since 2017. Flo has also hosted the event’s back catalog, alongside other large tournaments and their own grappling tournament, “Who’s Number One” (WNO).
Current ADCC Champion Gordon Ryan made waves last week by signing a lucrative multi-year deal to compete in FloSports’ WNO tournament. Despite the potential conflict, Ryan was quick to laude the decision in a post to his Instagram account.
“You’ll see a lot more of me at ADCC and on the UFC,” Ryan wrote. “I thought I was breaking the internet last week by signing that big deal with flo, but this tops even that.”
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Shock rocker Alice Cooper takes on the coronavirus in his new song
By France24
10 June 2020 | 9:00 am
Whether it was cutting off his own head on stage with a guillotine, or false rumours that he bit the head of a chicken live on stage, his theatrical shows caused a scandal in the early 1970s. Thirty albums later and with 50 million records sold, first as the Alice Cooper band and later as the solo act, he's given us classic rock anthems like "I'm Eighteen", "School's Out" and "Billion Dollar Babies". Alice Cooper speaks to Eve Jackson from his home in Arizona about his rallying anthem "Don't Give Up", shock-rocking audiences for five decades and that chicken incident.
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Music show: Jazz musician Sarah McKenzie and fresh pop artist Yoa discuss creativity
This week, we chat to Australian jazz singer, pianist and composer Sarah McKenzie, who is currently touring France with a mini residency at the prestigious Duc des Lombards jazz club. She tells us more about the creative way in which she connected with musicians from around the world at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. We also meet young Parisian artist Yoa, whose bedroom pop-filled debut EP "Attente" has just been released.
Music show: Lubiana on how playing the kora helped her embrace her mixed heritage
Hailing from Belgium and Cameroon, singer-songwriter Lubiana plays the kora, an ancestral West African instrument traditionally played exclusively by men. She's just released her first album "Beloved", mixing upbeat pop and afro tunes. She tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot about how playing the kora helped her reconnect with her roots and embrace her mixed heritage.
Music show: Natalie Bergman on keeping that 60s-infused gospel folk rolling
US singer-songwriter Natalie Bergman has just released "Keep Those Teardrops From Falling", a follow-up EP to her debut solo album "Mercy" on Jack White's prestigious label Third Man Records. She tells Marjorie Hache why writing this gospel folk music was cathartic following her father's death and about taking her music on the road. We also check out new tracks by Sting, Tanzania's SinaUbi Zawose and Beyoncé.
'I want to be remembered for a lot and not just my music' - Davido
Dominating airwaves in 2011 with his hit song [and second release] “Dami Duro”, David Adeleke made a bold statement by leading with his affluent origin story in a time when the more accepted narrative for artistes was one of coming from nothing. The uptempo song with rattling drums and electric melody on which Davido announced himself as “Omo Baba Olowo” burned his name into the minds of listeners and highlighted his individuality, energy, and sheer will to entertain. Davido talks to GuardianTV about his music, legacy, and philanthropy
A regal return to live music: Ayo takes the deluxe edition of 'Royal' on tour
She's known for her soulful blues and folk, with radio-friendly songs whose gentle melodies often belie their powerful messages. Ayo first released her album "Royal" at the beginning of 2020, before the months of lockdown and cancelled concerts that saw her revisit the record and add some extra tracks.
Tana Quartet: Pioneering French string quartet release new album of music by Philip Glass
For more than a decade, Tana Quartet has been pushing boundaries and reinventing the link between the past and the future over a dozen albums. Well regarded in the world of contemporary music, the French string quartet has worked with composers from around the world and performed in prestigious venues such as the Paris Philharmonic and the Villa Medici in Rome. The trailblazing pioneers are now releasing a new album of music by American composer Philip Glass. Viola player Julie Michael tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot about collaborating with the famous contemporary composer and bringing classical music to a wider audience.
The forgotten music of the Palestinian people
At the start of the pandemic, London-based Palestinian actor, filmmaker and music producer Mo'min Swaitat discovered 10,000 tapes in the West Bank while in lockdown there – music that documented a moment in Palestinian history that hadn't been heard for 30 years. He spent eight months listening to the tapes, making it his mission to digitise and re-release this window into the past. One of the tapes he found was "The Intifada 1987”, an album by Riad Awwad. Mo'min tells Eve Jackson why the discovery is so important to Palestinians.
Music show: Swiss-Angolan musician Dino Brandão pours heart and soul into debut EP
Dino Brandão is considered one of the most promising young stars on the Swiss music scene. The half-Swiss, half-Angolan musician recently released a debut EP under his own name. "Bouncy Castle" features five afro-folk tracks and is a multicultural melting pot of sunny and yet melancholic songs. Oscillating between tropical melodies and darker folk tunes, he honestly addresses physical ailments and mental issues. He speaks to FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot about the importance of opening up.
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in removing music from Spotify over anti-vaccine content
Last week, Young penned a letter to company bosses over the comedian's wildly popular podcast which has been condemned by scientists and doctors for spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine. The 76-year-old musician's catalogue was removed from the streaming service's library on Wednesday.
Music show: Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold on his fourth album
Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold speaks to Eve Jackson about his new album, "Catch Me If You Can”, which showcases the Black experience across music, art and style. They also talk about his 2015 release "Sade", a love song sampling One Direction's "Story of My Life", which propelled his career to the next level, as well as his hit song "High" with Afropop star Davido and the importance of singing in his native Yoruba.
#MeToo in music: Female artists and DJs campaign against sexual harassment
Annette Young talks to Louisahhh, a Paris-based American techno artist about the musicians and DJs taking a stand to end a culture of sexual harassment and violence in the industry. Despite being outlawed by the government; female genital mutilation shows no sign of abating in Guinea. We take a look at the battle to end a deeply-rooted tradition. Plus born to be free; the Tunisian female bikers taking to the road to challenge stereotypes in the North African country.
Doing your bit: making music with garbage
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Why real estate is starting to go electric
Phasing out gas and diesel from buildings is one big way property owners can hit environmental targets
Efforts to power buildings entirely by electricity are starting to take shape amid a concerted push in the real estate industry to ramp up its green credentials.
Real estate is a major contributor of carbon emissions due in part to air conditioning systems running on fossil fuel-powered electrical grids, heating provided by natural gas boilers, and diesel generators used for back-up power.
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With switching buildings to electricity a potential game changer – similar to the electric shift taking place in the auto industry – companies and governments are starting to make the move.
Computer software company Adobe is building what it says is the first all-electric office building in California. Lendlease and Australia’s GPT Group have electrification high on their agendas, making it a key focus within their energy masterplans alongside reducing high-energy demand periods, off-site renewable energy procurement, and on-site battery storage.
“Electrification is the direction everyone is moving, as it is one of the most important tactics for decarbonising our sector,” says Ian McDonald, a director in energy and sustainability at JLL.
The rising pressure for climate action is already pushing broad shifts in the commercial real estate industry. The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, or GRESB, reported a 22 percent leap in participation in 2020 as global investors, pension funds and financial institutions demand ESG performance be incorporated into the risk-adjusted returns of their investments.
“Businesses need to adopt a total systems approach to managing risk around social inequality, climate, and regulation, then seize the commercial opportunity through effective measurement and investment into net-zero carbon technology solutions,” says Guy Grainger, Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG, at JLL.
Governments are also making policy moves to pull the property industry in line. The UK, for instance, has just confirmed a ban on fossil fuel heating systems from new homes by 2025 in line with the country’s 2050 net zero commitments. California is encouraging and even in some cases mandating all-electric buildings, as well as providing incentives for the use of electric heat pumps over gas boilers.
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Heat pumps and heat recovery chillers, which are used where heating and cooling are required simultaneously, are the technologies that enable building electrification. Heat pumps can provide either heating or cooling and are three to five times more efficient than natural gas boilers. Artificial intelligence is making the technology even more efficient.
Retrofitting hurdles
While electrification is relatively straightforward and affordable in new buildings, upgrading existing buildings is more challenging.
“With the shift to decarbonisation of the electricity grid in Australia, building owners are reassessing their long term asset replacement strategies to incorporate all electric options with the view to reducing emissions long term,” McDonald says.
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Meanwhile, pushing to eliminate natural gas in buildings, the Green Building Council of Australia has set a new requirement that buildings must be “genuinely” net-zero, including fully electric, fossil fuel-free and 100-percent powered by renewables, to achieve the highest possible six-star rating. It is the biggest overhaul of its rating system in 18 years.
“COVID-19 has heightened our collective understanding of risk and demonstrated our ability to change behavior when we have to,” Grainger says. “Now we need to maintain the need for rapid action, applying ourselves and organisations to net-zero.”
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Written by Charles Kruger August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015
Review: ‘Don Quixote’ at Marin Shakespeare Company (***1/2)
Rating: ***1/2
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Don Quixote (Ron Campbell) and Sancho Panza (John R. Lewis) share a quiet moment in the midst of their misadventures. Photo Credit: Lorii A. Cheung.
This reviewer is a voting member of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC)
Don Quixote de la Mancha is one of a very small group of fictional characters instantly recognizable to almost anybody. Who hasn’t heard of the mad old man who went crazy over his romantic books and imagined himself a knight errant, setting out on a series of misadventures with his loyal neighbor and squire, Sancho Panza, tilting windmills and generally playing the fool? Quixote’s fame was nearly instantaneous from the time of the novel’s publication during the Golden Age of Spanish Literature, in the early years of the 17th century.
Beloved and admired as it is, Don Quixote has always represented a paradox: is it farce or tragedy? clownish nonsense or a deep meditation on the existential condition of humanity? Of course, the concensus of generations of enthusiastic readers over four centuries is that it is both. Don Quixote is a ridiculously foolish clown, but he is OUR clown, he is US, as we strive for dignity in the face of a seemingly farcical world. He is the greatest comic invention in the entirety of the world’s literature.
To translate this huge sprawling novel to the stage is an impossible dream. At best, a stage translation can only hint at the full glory of the story. Choices must be made. Emphases must be considered. The result must be imperfect. It is, in a word, a quixotic undertaking.
Playwrights Peter Anderson and Colin Heath, and their company of skillful comedians, have taken Don Quixote as an occasion for some delightful masked theatre, traditional clowning, polished slapstick, inspired silliness, and only a hint of gravitas. Many favorite episodes are here, including, of course, the famous encounter with the windmills and the frightening engagement with the Knight of the Mirrors, who forces the Don to see himself as he truly is. There is also the scene with the innkeeper who dubs Quixote “the Knight of the Woeful Countenance,” and the romance with Dulcinea.
The stories are told by masked players using clever props and tumbling about a well-designed multi-level set (by Jackson Currier). Ron Campbell as Quixote is fantastically funny as he creates the illusion of his nag Rocinante using a broomstick and a watering can. His pop-eyed demeanor and flamboyant poses are everthing one would wish. As his foil, Sancho Panza, John R. Lewis displays a mastery of low comedy, delivering the funniest series of fart jokes since the bean-eating scene in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles.” A particularly exciting and telling sequence is performed by the entire ensemble at the start of the play, as they juggle the books that drive the good Don mad, flinging them about the stage as Quixote grabs them from the air to devour. It is a wonderful set piece. The humor of this Don Quxote is as broad as a barn. An encounter with sheep devolves into a pillow fight, with sheep (pillows) being flung into the audience, to be, not unsurprisingly, flung back at the actors, who often leave the stage to barnstorm through the theatre, engaging audience members all the while. It’s great fun.
The deeper themes of the story receive little emphasis, but they are not disregarded, and thoughtful reflections on the nature of fantasy vs reality, good vs evil, hope vs despair, are not absent. This is Cervantes light, but Cervantes it is.
“Don Quixote” plays at the Forest Meadow Amphitheatre at Dominican University in San Rafael through August 30. For further information click here.
“Don Quixote” by Peter Anderson and Colin Heath, adapted from the novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Produced by Marin Shakespeare Company. Director: Lesley Schisgall Currier. Costume Design: Maria Chenut. Fight Director: Richard Pallaziol. Lighting Design: Ellen Brooks. Mask Design: David Poznanter. Properties and Set Decor: Joel Eis. Set Design: Jackson Currier. Sound Design and Composer: Billie Cox.
Don Quixote: Ron Campbell. Sancho Panza: John R. Lewis. Ensemble: Cassidy Brown, Rick Eldridge, Lee Fitzpatrick, Monica Ho, Jed Parsario.
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Using libcephsqlite to store objects
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Object storage (Backlog)
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/39191/files
I don't know enough about the internals of SQLite to figure out if that could work. Having a single writer with EXCLUSIVE + WAL to minimize latency is not too much of a concern (the target is writing at least 100MB/s). But having hundreds of concurrent readers is a requirement: there are many daemons searching the content of the archive. The "yet" in the documentation[0] makes me think it is a next step and hopefully not too difficult.
It is conceptually similar to a collection of RBD images containing a sequence of objects (SHA256 + content). To allow for fast random reads, a rocksdb index located elsewhere (not necessarily in Ceph since it can be rebuilt if lost) is updated when an object is added, using SHA256 as a key, the identifier of the image that contains it and the offset at which it is to be found.
[0] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/39191/files#diff-22aa44fff401f8d885a88967e51b0cea71ee87bdfc956ff3bd878056660a9d5eR197-R202
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dachary changed the task status from Open to Work in Progress.Feb 15 2021, 9:02 PM2021-02-15 21:02:43 (UTC+1)
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dachary added a comment.Feb 15 2021, 9:41 PM2021-02-15 21:41:26 (UTC+1)
There is a hard limit on the sqlite database (~280TB) so it would not work, even if perfectly optimized.
https://www.sqlite.org/limits.html
Maximum Database Size
Every database consists of one or more "pages". Within a single database, every page is the same size, but different database can have page sizes that are powers of two between 512 and 65536, inclusive. The maximum size of a database file is 4294967294 pages. At the maximum page size of 65536 bytes, this translates into a maximum database size of approximately 1.4e+14 bytes (281 terabytes, or 256 tebibytes, or 281474 gigabytes or 256,000 gibibytes).
This particular upper bound is untested since the developers do not have access to hardware capable of reaching this limit. However, tests do verify that SQLite behaves correctly and sanely when a database reaches the maximum file size of the underlying filesystem (which is usually much less than the maximum theoretical database size) and when a database is unable to grow due to disk space exhaustion.
dachary closed this task as Resolved.Feb 15 2021, 9:41 PM2021-02-15 21:41:34 (UTC+1)
dachary mentioned this in T3054: Scale out object storage design.Feb 17 2021, 11:21 AM2021-02-17 11:21:10 (UTC+1)
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dachary reopened this task as Work in Progress.Edited · Feb 17 2021, 11:18 PM2021-02-17 23:18:12 (UTC+1)
Although it is not a good fit to store all objects, it is a better fit than RBD + a custom format to store 1TB worth of objects. Provided support for multiple concurrent readers is added.
dachary mentioned this in T3048: Using a custom Sorted String Table format.Feb 17 2021, 11:22 PM2021-02-17 23:22:10 (UTC+1)
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dachary added a comment.May 3 2021, 5:47 PM2021-05-03 17:47:39 (UTC+2)
There is no need to use Ceph for the Write Storage: PostgreSQL performs well and there is no scaling problem. The size of the Write Storage is limited, by design.
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Beyoncé and Rihanna will not stand for your 'Pokémon Go' shenanigans
Catch 'em all somewhere else, folks.
By Martha Tesema on July 25, 2016
Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision;Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO; ap images
You can play Pokémon Go in the park, in your home, around town—but don't you dar dare to try to play it during the sacred hours you are privileged to spend with Beyoncé or Rihanna at a concert.
SEE ALSO: You shouldn't be ashamed of playing 'Pokemon Go' and loving it
A Beyoncé fan freaked out after spotting, and filming, a fellow audience member playing the game rather than focus solely on the queen singing mere few feet away.
"Look at where she is! She's next to the stage!," the fan exclaims, before getting distracted by Bey's blessing.
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While Beyoncé didn't say anything about the app, Rihanna was a little more straight forward with her remarks.
At a recent show, she stood on stage and told the audience that she didn't want to see them texting significant others.
"I don't want to see you catching any Pokémons up in this bitch," she said.
Ariana Grande on the other hand seems to be a huge fan(Opens in a new tab) of the game and will probably be playing during her own shows. Justin Bieber(Opens in a new tab) and Wiz Khalifa(Opens in a new tab), too.
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Fifty Shades as Told by Christian Trilogy: Grey, Darker, Freed Box Set by E L James [Paperback]
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We, the undersigned, are outraged that Ann Menasche, a long-time civil rights attorney at Disability Rights California (DRC), was fired without notice in May of 2022 from her job of 20 years,for her outside feminist political activity (with Feminists in Struggle) and for having stated that abortion bans harm women as a sex.
This drastic action was taken despite Ann’s strong work record over two decades and is at odds with DRC’s public stance of defending people’s civil rights.
Ann had thanked DRC for taking a position defending Roe and said that access to safe legal abortions is a necessity for women as a biological sex(fn1). This mild statement unleashed a torrent of name-calling and slurs against Ann along with disparaging references to her feminist political activities outside of work.
This was quickly followed by condemnation of Ann in absentia by DRC management for holding political opinions which allegedly denied the rights of transgender identified people and conflicted with the company’s values. Within days of her statement and without warning, she was terminated.
DRC is wrong in insisting that recognition of the existence of biological sex constitutes bigotry against people who identify as transgender, non-binary, or gender non-conforming. It is a fact of evolutionary biology that sex is binary and immutable in all mammals, including humans. Mammalian reproduction depends on eggs and sperm. No third gamete exists. Gender, on the other hand, is about social roles and sex stereotypes dictating the dress, demeanor and activities approved by society for males and females respectively. Sex and gender (including gender identity) are not the same things.
For feminists and lesbians like Ann, maintaining the category of sex is essential to be able to challenge persistent sex and sexual orientation discrimination and to sustain a movement to end the subjugation of women as a sex-class that has persisted for thousands of years under patriarchy.
Ann Menasche believes that it is not possible to effectively defend abortion rights without naming the only coherent group of humans that can get pregnant and who will be directly harmed by abortion bans – females. In Ann’s view, it would be like fighting against racist police without being able to name the victims of police violence – Black people. These views have nothing to do with hate.
Moreover, it is antithetical to long-standing democratic principles to tolerate efforts by employers to control the thoughts, political beliefs, and outside political activities of their employees, on pain of losing their jobs and livelihoods. This ideologically motivated termination is reminiscent of the repression and blacklisting of the darkest periods of U.S. history, including the “red scare” of the 1950’s.
In the words Welch directed at Joseph McCarthy in 1954, we must ask DRC, “Have you no sense of decency?”
So glad DRC came up with a statement in defense of Roe! Thank you! Access to safe, legal abortion is a life and death necessity for women as a biological sex across the board, regardless of race, economic class, gender identity, sexual orientation (even lesbians can be raped) or anything else, and an absolute prerequisite for equal female participation in our society.
Of course, the most vulnerable females, especially poor women, women of color, women with disabilities, young girls, unhoused women and girls, women and girls in prison, etc. will suffer the most under draconian anti-abortion laws. Wealthy white women have often managed to get abortions, even before Roe.
As a veteran of the feminist struggle for abortion rights that preceded Roe, I never thought it would come to this. Yet, it is good to remember that women won this right primarily through grassroots organizing and peaceful mass protests in the streets, and that is the way we are going to protect it.
Thanks again, DRC, for taking a stand!
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As the national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, draws near, a political pressure group, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu Support Group, AATSG, has assured the frontline presidential aspirant and national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu of the readiness of Nigerians to make him the next president of the country.
This was disclosed by the national chairman of the Group, Otunba Abayomi Odunowo while speaking with journalists on the efforts of the group in respect of mobilising support for the former Lagos State governor.
Odunowo, a former senior special assistant to the last administration in Ogun State further stated that giving the parlous state of things in the country, Tinubu is the best candidate not only for the APC but the country at large.
The national chairman who recently was on tour of North East and North West of the country said with the support Tinubu enjoy on the other side of the Niger, the national leader of the APC will emerge victorious at the polls come next year.
"This country is at a crossroads. Next year's election is crucial. The very survival of our nationhood depends on it. We should channel our collective efforts to elect a visioner. Someone who has seen it all for the better part of four decades. Tinubu was a senator then became a governor and served with distinction in both capacities.
'Before his foray into politics, he was an accomplished professional having reached the pinnacle of accounting profession in a multinational oil giant.".
"During the struggles for democracy in the 90s, Tinubu was in the trenches with pro democratic forces especially NADECO. He took great risk to his life given the nature of things back then. Tinubu has seen it all.
"What he achieved in Lagos has stood the test of time. His infrastructure blueprint is still being implemented almost two decades after he left office.
" He is a builder of men. He doesn't care where you ome from as long as you can do the job, it's yours."
" That's the person Nigeria needs in 2023 to take us out of the present economic doldrums. He has the capacity and capability to assemble an A team and put them to task."
On his recent visit to the north west and north east, Odunowo said the people in these regions have fully embraced Tinubu and are ready to make him the next president.
"Maiduguri was great. The reception was unbelievable. The people, accommodating as ever welcomed us with open arms and pledged their loyalty to Tinubu's course. The movement is a moving train and we are so happy as a group to identify with hospitable people we met across the Niger."
"At every city or town we visited, AATSG members and other Nigerians in their legions pledged their support for Tinubu. The atmosphere was incredible."
Odunowo however warned that AATSG members and indeed all Nigerians should not relent in their efforts to make the dream a reality saying Nigeria's political experience does not give room for complacency because things can change very quickly in the country's political matrix.
On the challenges facing the APC as it gets ready for its convention, Odunowo said the internal challenges will be sorted politically saying a compromise will be reached amicably without the party imploding.
Other National Executives of AATSG that were with in the entourage to the North East and North West during the visits include: National Woman Leader Alhaja Madina Sanusi, the National Deputy Woman Leader Ajia zarah Bukar, National Organising Secretary. Habu DAUDA MoiSoro, National Youth Leader Hon Adedayo Adeyemi and National Legal Adviser Chinwe Amarachukwu Opkala. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9522215127944946, "wiki_prob": 0.9522215127944946, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1243894"} |
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What are the hours of operation for Avon Winterfest?
The Avon Winterfest Hours are as follows:
December 2nd - 5:30pm - 9:30pm
December 3rd - 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Where should I park for the event?
General Parking will be located at 10-40 Tower Lane, Avon, CT. Shuttle Buses will be available to bring patrons to our main entrance at the corner of Ensign Dr. and Parkside Lane.
Vendor Parking will be located on Climax Heights Road for drop off only of merchandise. Please bring your signed vendor agreement with you or driver's license. You will check in at Event Headquarters and volunteers will help unload your merchandise. Please Note: You may park your vehicle temporarily on Ensign Dr./Climax heights during the check-in and unloading process. You will receive a special badge to wear during the event.
Performer Parking will be located at the corner of Ensign Dr. and Climax Heights Road in small parking lot to the left. (Follow signs for police station and it's first parking lot on left side). Please bring a valid photo ID and check in at Event Headquarters. You will receive a special badge to wear during the event.
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There will be an online system to reserve your "ticket" at the event. Every patron must bring a ticket for entry or obtain one at our entrance. We will provide a "suggested donation" for an individual, student or family. Bottoms up is hosting this event and it is our biggest fundraising event. All donations will be in support of patients and families living with Crohn's Disease or ulcerative colitis and expenses associated to infusion copayments, medical supplies, maintenance medications, and more.
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Mahindra Scorpio Gets More Than INR 50,000 Cheaper - Full Info
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Mahindra may have been working on the next-gen Scorpio that's slated for a launch later this year, but the carmaker is not quite done with the current-gen model. The existing Mahindra Scorpio lineup has received a rejig with the introduction of a new base-spec S3+ variant. With this, the Mahindra Scorpio has become a tad more affordable and accessible with the entry-level price dropping by more than INR 50,000.
The Mahindra Scorpio will soon see a major overhaul with the introduction of the new-gen model.
So far, Mahindra has offered the Scorpio in four trims - S5, S7, S9, and S11. The new base-spec S3+ trim sits below the earlier lineup and misses out on a few key features such as auto door-lock, bottle and cup holders, central locking, side and rear foot steps, central lamp, rear demister, and one-touch lane indicator. That said, it still has the basics covered with features such as dual front airbags, ABS with EBD, rear parking sensors, tilt steering, manual ORVMs, steel rims, power steering, power windows, front-charging port, and LED tail lamps.
In spite of new competition from the mid-size and compact SUV class, the Scorpio remains a strong seller for Mahindra.
Also Read : Next-Gen Mahindra Scorpio Rendered Based On Latest Spy Shots
Mahindra is offering the new S3+ trim in 7, 8, and 9-seater configurations, with the latter two getting side-facing seats. However, the changes are just not on the features front. Under the hood, the Scorpio S3+ is powered by the same 2.2L mHawk diesel engine that powers the rest of the range. It has, however, been detuned to produce 120hp and 280Nm of peak torque. That's 20hp and 40Nm lesser than what the engine produces on higher trims of the Scorpio. On the upside, this should aid fuel efficiency of the SUV.
With the launch of the new entry-level trim, the Mahindra Scorpio has been priced from INR 11.67 lakh*, going up to INR 16.09 lakh*. The S5 trim, which is the erstwhile base model, costs more than INR 50,000 higher with a sticker priec of INR 12.22 lakh*. Being a three-row ladder-frame SUV, the Scorpio does not have a direct rival in this class. However, it sees competition from the likes of the Hyundai Creta and Kia Seltos with the prices largely overlapping each other.
The Mahindra Scorpio has been in the market for almost two decades now. In spite of tough competition from the mid-size and compact SUV class, the Scorpio still manages to bring in consistent sales numbers for Mahindra each month. The new base trim might further help the case. As for the next-gen model, it is expected to be a big step up over the current model with a lot more tech and features, bigger size and an updated range of engine options as well. Check out production-spec spy pictures of the next-gen Scorpio here.
Stay tuned to IndianAutosBlog.com for more Mahindra updates and other four-wheeler news.
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Herring Meeting/Briefing Room Renovation
Beardsley Architects + Engineers teamed with St. Lawrence University to design the reawakening of the historic Herring Hall. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, Herring Library is the second oldest building on the campus. While it had been well maintained over the years, renovations in the mind-1970s stripped the building of its original character. To correct the actions of the past, SLU used this opportunity to look back at period specific examples on campus and beyond to guide their vision for its future. The newly renovated space will be reserved for special events and speaking engagements and will also serve the students as a learning space and gallery.
To coordinate the interior reconstruction, SLU’s Capital Projects Manager, Bob Hance, in partnership with Master Craftsman, John Gillis, combined their talent to lead the construction team through the integration of a contemporary infrastructure, including the delicate job of installing an entirely new internal steel structural system, staged through the window openings, along with sophisticated information technology, audio/video, and life safety systems.
The original white Carrara marble floors were protected as the only finish to survive the nearly 150 years of use. The layered custom moldings, cabinetry, wainscoting, and coffered ceilings meticulously designed by Beardsley were constructed by John Gillis of white Oak and Douglas Fir, and define the grand lecture space. Carpet pattern design, light fixture selection, and wood stain finish were conceived by Evergreen House Interiors/Ann Stillman O’Leary. Stained glass and custom carpeting designed and crafted by SLU Alumni speak to the love and commitment this SLU community has for this historic and iconic structure.
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After nearly 45 years of bulletins, the BBC signed off from Television Centre for the last time on Sunday evening. As of now the entire BBC news operation is based out of Broadcasting House, billed as The World’s Newsroom and home to over 2,000 journalists the billion dollar revamp of the news division now see’s television, radio and online working alongside for the first time.
Mishal Husain led the final broadcast from Television Centre on March 17th at 10pm, with Sophie Raworth christening the new home for BBC One the next day at 1pm, with the above stories documenting the historic move.
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BBC (Other) Videos: Idents
The black and white Olympics.
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Going against all tradition and cliche, the BBC have created one hell of a Winter Olympics promo. No blue ice, no slow motion athletes, and no gold medals.
It’s the Persepolis of Winter Olympics promos and I love it.
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BBC Alba, always looking towards the Pole Star.
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Glasgow based agency Design is Central recently created this series of sublime idents for the new Scottish Gaelic language channel BBC Alba.
The look of the idents are based around the Pole Star, and the idea of an attraction and movement towards it. A concept which is slightly reminiscent of that used by Welsh broadcaster S4/C, is still nonetheless beautifully executed.
Complimenting the idents are a series of menu boards after the jump.
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Everybody was Kung Fu fighting, on the BBC.
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Here’s a challenge for you: condense a 400-year-old, 100 chapter Chinese novel into a two minute animated trailer for the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
Actually, don’t worry, the BBC have already done it…
That’s right, they’ve abandoned the traditional “gold-infused slow-motion footage of athletes” Olympics imagery in favour of something a bit more creative.
Animated by Gorillaz creator Jamie Hewlett with music by Damon Albarn, this video of Monkey and his friends made its debut last night in the UK at 7:27pm with a simulcast across BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four and BBC News, and will form the centrepiece of the BBC’s Olympic coverage branding.
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BBC HD launches in Australia.
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Foxtel officially launches its high definition service today, and although content wise there isn’t much on the new HD platform yet, with only five HD channels available at launch, BBC HD is one of them, and almost makes it worth it.
It would seem Australia is the first market outside of the UK to recieve the BBC HD brand, but won’t be the last, with plans for expansion into Poland, and the US later this year. The two videos are taken from the newly launched BBC HD Australia and show an ident for the network, and an extended promo.
For more from BBC HD check out this cimematic promo for the UK version.
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The cinematic promise of BBC HD.
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Fiona Bruce stars as the action hero, in this advert for the BBC HD service, available in the UK through Sky, Virgin, and Freesat, and now also available in Australia through Foxtel HD, with further international expansion expected.
The spot was developed by agency Fallon, and produced by Red Bee, and while the Antiques Roadshow inspired action sequences are fun and all, its the first few seconds with the BBC logo that most caught my attention.
– Thanks to Craig for the video.
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BBC (Other) Videos: Broadcast News
The eerie calm of a no news day.
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Jason Arber, a director at the London based motion graphics outfit Wyld Stallyons has created a rather spectacular, and surprisingly profound commentary on the state of telvision news, and all without saying a word. Jason explains that
“for a long time I’ve been obsessed by the look that news presenters have when the other person in a news presenting duo is talking”
And it was this unease that inspired him to create the video.
“I recorded a bunch of footage and then stripped out the talking news presenters and replaced them with non-talking ones. The effect was weird and unsettling, and so I paired it with some wonderful music from the composer Ben Frost that really seemed to suit the mood”.
While its recently been brought to Jason’s attention that a fairly similar video was created by the comedy show Time Trumpet, I think the success of Jason’s video is that its more effective in capturing the vulnerability of the newscasters, and is more subtle and poignant in its approach. Mitchell and Webb also recently did a very funny piece of news parody, exploring the concept that really, everything was just fine.
Jason’s video is beautifully executed on both technical and creative fronts, and its about as close to art I’ve seen television news get.
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BBC (Other) Videos: Broadcast News Videos: Openings
BBC News 24 is no more.
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More of the white space infused refresh of the BBC’s news output, including the new BBC News Channel, BBC News at 10, and regional BBC News service Points West.
The BBC have actually blogged about the changes themselves here and here, and have also compiled a video montage of the look of BBC News over the years here.
Among other things they explain the dropping of the 24 from their news channel:
BBC News 24 becomes simply “BBC News”… The channel is not just at the heart of BBC News. Now it is BBC News.
For videos from the newly renamed BBC World News channel click here.
– Thanks for the videos Craig.
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BBC (Other) Videos: Broadcast News Videos: Idents
The new look BBC World News.
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BBC World is now BBC World News, and BBC News 24 is now just BBC News. The renamed networks got a not particularly dramatic brand refresh as you can see.
UPDATE: Check out the rest of the new look BBC News here.
For a look at the before videos check out my previous post here.
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Name changes for BBC World and BBC News 24.
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In a branding move where apparently “more is more” the BBC’s international news channel, BBC World will change its name tomorrow to BBC World News.
Proving its ability at being truly impartial however, the Beeb is giving BBC News 24 a facelift as well, this time taking the “less is more” approach by dropping the 24 from its name and relaunching as simple BBC News.
Along with the new names will come a new look designed by Lambie-Nairn.
For now though, a look back at the old branding, with videos from BBC News 24 and BBC World, on the eve of their rebrand. And for more from BBC News have a look at their earlier looks from 2006 and 2007.
– Thanks for the BBC News 24 videos Craig.
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Tight security at Paris stadium for first international football match since terror attacks
There has been beefed up security at the Stade de France in Paris, for the first international football match since the November terror attacks.
Events can happen in markets, in any stadium. Don't be scared. It can happen anywhere and we don't have to pander to those who commit these tragic acts
All fans going to the friendly between France and Russia were searched twice and vehicles were also checked.
Dominique, a France supporter, had a clear message: “Events can happen in markets, in any stadium. Don’t be scared. It can happen anywhere and we don’t have to pander to those who commit these tragic acts.”
Another France fan, Melodie, added: “Everything is in place concerning security. When you arrive in the car park, your body is searched and the car is checked on the inside.”
#BPL Security ramped up for first international at Stade de France since … https://t.co/s3DSMZzheh
— Football review (@israel_shapiro) March 29, 2016
Around 12-hundred security workers and hundreds of police and gendarmerie officers were involved in Tuesday’s operation.
The crowd also observed a minute of silence before the match, in memory of those killed in last week’s Brussels bombings.
France will host the Euro 2016 soccer tournament this summer, with games being played in ten stadiums.
Atmosphere building at Stade de France before tonight's game. Everyone feels safe, lots of security around. #SSNHQpic.twitter.com/t67qpN8ebb
— Anthony Hagen (@spineytv) March 29, 2016
A timeline of terror attacks in France and Belgium since Charlie Hebdo
France: Hollande drops controversial plans to strip terrorists' nationality
Belgium: The people known and suspected of being linked to the attacks
Brussels attacks: What we know
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Angela Bassett Measurements, Bio, Age, Weight, and Height
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Angela Evelyn Bassett Vance, the American actress, was born in 1958 on the 16th of August. Her birthplace is New York City. She has completed her BA from Yale University. She debuted her career as a minor character in Boyz n the Hood, the 1991 film. Her next project of 1993, which brought her huge commercial success was named, What’s Love Got to Do with It, a biopic of Tina Turner. This brought her Academy Award nomination. Her notable films include Panther, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Malcolm X, Notorious, Betty & Coretta, Contact, Music of the Heart, Waiting to Exhale, London Has Fallen, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Olympus Has Fallen, etc. In 2018 she appeared in Black Panther. Next year in 2019, she was cast in the famous movie, Avengers: Endgame. She has won several nominations and 3 Black Reel Awards, 9 Imagen Awards, and one golden globe, Saturn awards, screen actors guild, and Hollywood walk of fame awards.
Personal Details of Angela Bassett
Place of Birth: New York City, USA
Birthday: 16th August 1958
Pet name: Angela
Real Name: Angela Evelyn Bassett
Horoscope: Leo
Most Famous Works: What’s Love Got to Do with It, Malcolm X
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Height in Feet: 5’4″
Weight in Kg: 52kg
Weight in Pound: 115lbs.
Body Measurements:34-25-37 in (or, 86-64-94 cm)
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Mother’s Name: Betty Jane Bassett
Father’s Name: Daniel Benjamin Bassett
Number of Siblings: D’nette Bassett
Children: Bronwyn Vance, Slater Vance
Spouse: Courtney B. Vance
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Election 2014: Will It Ever End?
First the Bad News
If you have ever been stuck in traffic especially on a long trip, you have probably wondered whether the ordeal would ever end. Marathons (no I have never done one) and hundred mile bike rides (yes I have done several) cause all but the fittest athletes to ask themselves will it ever end?
Following advice that I have often given to myself — “if you are going to be late call early” — it is unlikely that you will know which party will control the Senate when you go to bed on Tuesday night.
This year, the 3R’s — rural, recount and runoff seem likely to prolong the agony for at least a few days and at worst until January.
The Road Map
The results in 10 states will determine which party controls the United States Senate for the next two years. At first glance, the Democrats appear to have an advantage because they only need to win five to get to the Vice President Joe Biden tiebreaker, while the Republicans need six to avoid it.
Each party begins with 45 seats before you get to the close races. For the Democrats, that means 34 in which there is no election, four that are safe and seven that are likely. Democrats now hold all of them. The Republicans have 30 in which there is no election, 12 that are safe and three that are likely. Of their 45, South Dakota and West Virginia were formerly held by Democrats. Nobody’s paying attention to any of these.
The Hill, widely read among the pros, recently published an article called “How red or blue is your state?” It ranks all 50 from the most liberal –Washington (1) — to the most conservative – Alabama (50). If control of the Senate is to be determined in only 10 states, one might expect that the 10 would be pretty much middle-of-the-road, perhaps ranked between numbers 20 and 30 on the liberal to conservative scale.
They are not. Beginning with the most left-leaning as number one and the most right-leaning as number 50, only Iowa (18), New Hampshire (21) and Colorado (25) are “home games” for the Democrats, while Arkansas (29), Kentucky (30), Louisiana (31), North Carolina (35), Georgia (36), Kansas (47) and Alaska (49) are “home games” for the Republicans.
This is a bad class of Senate seats for Democrats and a good class for Republicans. No matter who loses, there will be recriminations but it will have been a far worse outcome for the Republicans if they end up licking their wounds. Circular firing squads are expected.
In mid-September, LibertyPell began following eight races that seemed likely to determine the outcome. We should have added Kentucky and Louisiana to get to the 10 now in play. Two mistakes so far but the other eight were good choices.
We followed three traditional pollsters, three statistical modelers, one renegade, one aggregator and the British bookies, which are required to put their money where their mouths are. From these sources, we developed the LibertyPell Nyah Nyah Senate Majority Index.
Since September 20, there have been six weekly stories: LibertyPell Nyah Nyah Senate Majority Index, A Bad Nyah Nyah Week for Greg Orman, Will It Ever End?, Nyah Nyah Senate Majority Index # 4, Crash, Pestilence and Boredom vs. Sucking and Ultimate Political Cage Fighting Continues.
The Ten States That Matter
With the election only three days away, here is a review of the Senate races in the 10 most meaningful states, beginning with the most liberal and moving to the most conservative.
Remember, the Democrats need five and the Republicans need six.
Iowa (18) – Beginning in late September, the pattern among the analysts has been strongly in favor of the Republican, Joni Ernst, with more ties (too close to call) than wins for the Democrat, Bruce Braley. The outlier in Iowa is the Rothenberg Political Report that has shown the race as a tie from start to finish. It is hard to explain the consistent certainty for the Republican among the other sources when the latest polls show Ernst either tied or leading by 1 point.
Prediction: A softly whispered R.
New Hampshire (21) – Incumbent Democrat, Jeanne Shaheen leads Republican, Scott Brown by 49 pundit picks to none over the seven-week period. In the most recent polls, she leads by 3.4% and 7%. If she loses it will be a very long night for the Democrats.
Prediction: D if not the circular firing squad will wear blue.
Colorado (25) – Republican, Cory Gardner has been the pundits’ choice over incumbent Democrat, Mark Udall, since early October, though both Rothenberg and the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato have generally found the race too close to call. Udall picked up the best nickname of the year — Mark Uterus — with his endless harping on women’s issues.
Prediction: R followed by much disgruntled pot smoking.
Arkansas (29) – This was supposed to be close but it wasn’t. Republican, Tom Cotton, has led consistently over Democrat, Mark Pryor and is 7% ahead in the most recent polls.
Prediction: R
Kentucky (30) – After not selecting Kentucky as a battleground, we began following it anecdotally because of the prospect that Republican, Mitch McConnell, might lose to Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes. It looks like he won’t but it would have been ironic if the GOP had won the Senate but left its likely Majority Leader at the gate.
Louisiana (31) – This is the other state we began following anecdotally when it got exciting. There are three candidates: Democrat, Mary Landrieu; Republican Bill Cassidy; and Republican, Rob Maness. Under the State’s “jungle primary” system, if no candidate gets 50% of the vote (and it is unlikely that any of them will), a runoff will be held on December 6. On current form, Landrieu should win on Tuesday but not by enough to avoid losing to Cassidy a month later.
Prediction: R but you will have to wait a month to find out.
Now, imagine if Louisiana is the state that will determine which party controls the Senate. The entire national political arsenal will descend on a state not noted for election cleanliness. With a $5 Popeye’s Fried Chicken coupon as the going rate for the purchase of a vote in New Orleans, you might consider buying the stock.
North Carolina (35) – Democrat Kay Hagan led Republican Thom Tillis by a wide margin every week. Libertarian Sean Haugh is not a factor drawing only 4-5% of the vote. Hagan’s lead is down to 1%, well within the margin of error. A loss here would be a Democratic disaster.
Prediction: D with a decreasing level of confidence. Another Democratic circular firing squad opportunity.
Georgia (36) – David Perdue, a Republican, has led Michelle Nunn, a Democrat, and Amanda Swafford, a libertarian, most of the way. This is another state in which a runoff is required unless the candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. In the three-way race on Tuesday, Purdue is tied with Nunn at 47%. He leads fractionally in the two-way runoff, which is not scheduled to take place until January 6, 2015.
Prediction: R with no level of confidence whatever especially if it is the decider.
The runoff is after the date on which the Senate is supposed to convene and determine which party will be in control. If it comes down to Georgia in January, you might try to buy stock in the law firms that will be litigating it.
Kansas (47) – The most consequential race of them all has independent, Greg Orman a point ahead of incumbent Republican, Pat Roberts. Here, the outlier among the pundits is The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, which has steadily called the race for Roberts. Most of the others see Orman winning though there are some ties.
Prediction: I
As an independent, Orman can sell himself to either party when it comes time to determine which one leads the upper chamber. That is quite a bargaining position and there is about a one in eight chance of it happening.
Alaska (49) — Republican, Dan Sullivan, has led incumbent Democrat, Mark Begich, since late September, but renegade analyst, Sam Wang of Princeton most recently called it a tie. Polling is notoriously unreliable in Alaska and counting the votes can take days.
Prediction: R, with a low level of confidence, a bad sign for the Republicans in the country’s second most conservative state.
According to an Alaska political pro, “Squeaker either way. Sullivan should prevail if the potheads and environmentalist kooks stay home. 3 initiatives on the ballot may favor Begich turnout.”
What will you know and when will you know it?
Date D’s R’s Independent
Now 45 45 (2 shown as Ds)
Election Night 2 (NH, NC) 4 (IA, CO, AR, KY) 1 (KS)
Late in the week 1 (AK)
Early December 1 (LA)
Early January 1 (GA)
Will It Ever End?
Now, imagine if these scenarios play out as indicated. By the end of the week, the Republicans will have 50 seats, just enough to lose. The Democrats will have 47 and there will be one independent with a lot of bargaining chips. Two races will be headed for runoffs with the Democrats needing to win both and make the best offer to Greg Orman of Kansas.
Other Nuggets
Here are a few nuggets from some of those I’ve been following.
Rothenberg Political Report — “it could be a bigger night for Republicans than you expect”
Larry Sabato – “While many races remain close, it’s just getting harder and harder to envision a plausible path for the Democrats to retain control of the Senate. Many paths for the Republicans to get to 51.”
Sam Wang – “Six races are within less than 2 percentage points: Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, and North Carolina. Therefore all six of these races could be won by Republicans…or all six could be won by Democrats. However, the likely possibilities range anywhere from a Republican majority of 54-46 to a Democratic majority of 52-48. As of today, cranking through the math and the uncertainties gives a probability of 55% for a Republican takeover.
Nate Silver / 538 — 68.5% chance the Republicans will have a majority
Monkey Cage (The Washington Post) — 95% chance the Republicans will control the Senate. This has been the outlier by a wide margin for over a month.
Upshot (The New York Times) — 70% chance the Republicans will control the Senate
Huffington Post (generally viewed as left-leaning) –Republicans with a 69% chance. Odds are one in eight that Orman is the decider
Daily Kos (generally viewed as left-leaning) — Republicans with a 73% chance
The British bookies have consistently favored the Republicans with ever more certainty. And they have money on it.
Predicting Elections
The more we learned, the more difficult the process seemed. When the races get close – forget Rhode Island and Wyoming; those are too easy – it is not how many the pollsters get wrong that surprises. It is the number they get right – beyond the 50% they’d get just by flipping coins. There’s art and science in polling even after you have gotten past the people who hang up on you.
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POCO F4 and POCO X4 GT arrive as overstuffed mid-range phones
Scott Webster
Xiaomi sub-brand POCO is back at it with a pair of new budget-conscious phones for a global audience. The POCO F4 and POCO X4 GT are priced like mid-range handsets but feature specifications typically found in more expensive devices.
The POCO F4 closely resembles the Xiaomi Redmi K40S and features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor with 6GB LPDDR RAM and 128GB UFS 3.1 storage. A 8GB/256GB variant is also being made available.
The phone comes with a 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED display at 2400 x 1800 pixel resolution and 120HZ refresh rate. In terms of battery, it boasts a 4,500mAh power source with 67W fast charging.
The rear houses a 64-megapixel main camera with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide and 2-megapixel macro camera. Of note, the primary shooter has optical image stabilization (OIS), a feature not common for handsets at this price. Around front is a 20-megapixel selfie camera.
The POCO F4, which runs Android 12 with MIUI 13, has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, and comes with support for 5G, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, and NFC.
A little bit more well-rounded of a device, the POCO X4 GT has a 6.6-inch FHD+ LCD display at 2460 x 1080 resolution with up to 144Hz refresh rate.
Under the hood are a MediaTek Dimensity 8100 processor with 8GB LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB UFS 3.1 storage. Also offered is a version with 256GB storage capacity. The battery comes in at 5,080mAh and also supports the 67W fast charging.
The camera situation is similar with a 64-megapixel primary unit complemented by an 8-megapixel ultra-wide and 2-megapixel macro shooter. The front also has the 20-megapixel camera.
Other specifications include Android 12-based MIUI 13, side-mounted fingerprint scanner, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, NFC, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The new POCO phones will be offered in parts of Asia, Europe, and the UK starting June 27. The Poco F4 (6GB RAM/128GB) starts at €399; the 8GB RAM/256GB variant will cost €449. This shakes out to about $420 USD and $525 USD, respectively. The Poco X4 GT (8GB RAM/128GB) will cost €379 (~$400USD), with the 8GB RAM/256GB option to cost €429 (~$450 USD).
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P. Durdaut, C. Müller, A. Kittmann, V. Schell, A. Bahr, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, J. McCord, Phase Noise of SAW Delay Line Magnetic Field Sensors, Sensors 21, 5631 (2021)
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P. Jovičević-Klug, M. Jovičević-Klug, L. Tegg, D. Seidler, L. Thormählen, R. Parmar, M. Amati, L. Gregoratti, J.M. Cairney, J. McCord, M. Rohwerder, B. Podgornik,
Correlative surface and bulk analysis of deep cryogenic treatment influence on high-alloyed ferrous alloy, Journal of Materials Research and Technology (2022) Link
F.-F. Stiewe , T. Winkel , T. Kleinke , T. Tubandt , H. Heyen , L. Vollroth , U. Martens , C. Müller , J. McCord , J. Walowski, M. Münzenberg, Magnetic domain scanning imaging using phase-sensitive THz-pulse detection, AIP Advances 12, 095010 (2022) Link
A. Kimel, A. Zvezdin, S. Sharma, S. Shallcross, N. De Sousa, A. Garcia-Martin, G. Salvan, J. Hamrle, O. Stejskal, J. McCord, S. Tacchi, G. Carlotti, P. Gambardella, G. Salis, M. Muenzenberg, M. Schultze, V. Temnov, I.V. Bychkov, L.N. Kotov, N. Maccaferri, D. Ignatyeva, V. Belotelov, C. Donnelly, A.H. Rodriguez, I. Matsuda, T. Ruchon, M. Fanciulli, M. Sacchi, C. Rita Du, H. Wang, N.P. Armitage, M. Schubert, V. Darakchieva, B. Liu, Z. Huang, B. Ding, A. Berger, P. Vavassori, The 2022 Magneto-Optics Roadmap, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (2022) Link
K. Richter, O. Vahovsky, R. Varga, Direct Visualization of a Domain Wall Pinning by Time-Resolved Microscopy in Amorphous Glass-Coated Microwires, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(2) (2022) Link
L. Fecova, K. Richter, R. Varga, Annealing Effect on Domain Wall Dynamics in Wires With Induced Gradient of Perpendicular Anisotropy, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(2) (2022) Link
C. Müller, P. Durdaut, R.B. Holländer, A. Kittmann, V. Schell, D. Meyners, M. Höft, E. Quandt, J. McCord, Imaging of Love Waves and Their Interaction with Magnetic Domain Walls in Magnetoelectric Magnetic Field Sensors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2200033 (2022) Link
R. Schäfer, J. McCord, Magneto-Optical Microscopy. In: Franco V., Dodrill B. (eds) Magnetic Measurement Techniques for Materials Characterization. Springer (2021) Link
P. Durdaut, C. Müller, A. Kittmann, V. Schell, A. Bahr, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, J. McCord, Phase Noise of SAW Delay Line Magnetic Field Sensors, Sensors 21, 5631 (2021) Link
L. Fecova, K. Richter, R. Varga, Annealing effect on domain wall dynamics in wires with induced gradient of perpendicular anisotropy, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (2021) Link
U. Sajjad, F. Klingbeil, F. Block, R. B. Holländer, S. Bhatti, E. Lage, J. McCord, Efficient flowless separation of mixed microbead populations on periodic ferromagnetic surface structures, Lab on a Chip 21, 3174-3183 (2021) Link
U. Urdiroz, C. Müller, A. Gomez, M. Magaz, D. Granados, M. Sánchez Agudo, J. Rubio-Zuazo, G.R. Castro, C. Stan, N. Tamura, H.A. Padmore, F. Cebollada, F.J. Palomares, J. McCord , J.M. González, Spin waves excitation at micron-sized, anisotropy modified regions in amorphous Fe80B20 stripes: local properties, inter-regions coupling and phase-shift induction, Materials Science and Engineering B. 271, 115258 (2021) Link
A. D. Matyushov, B. Spetzler, M. Zaeimbashi, J. Zhou, Z. Qian, E. V. Golubeva, C. Tu, Y. Guo, B. F. Chen, D. Wang, A. Will-Cole, H. Chen, M. Rinaldi, J. McCord, F. Faupel, N. X. Sun, Curvature and Stress Effects on the Performance of Contour-Mode Resonant ΔE Effect Magnetometers, accepted for Advanced Materials Technology, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2100294 (2021) Link
F. Block, F. Klingbeil, S. Deshpande, U. Sajjad, D. Seidler, C. Arndt, S. Sindt, C. Selhuber-Unkel, J. McCord, Unidirectional transport of superparamagnetic beads and biological cells along oval magnetic elements, Applied Physics Letters 118, 232405 (2021) Link
B. Spetzler, E. V. Golubeva, R.-M. Friedrich, S. Zabel, C. Kirchhof, D. Meyners, J. McCord, F. Faupel, Magnetoelastic Coupling and Delta-E Effect in Magnetoelectric Torsion Mode Resonators, Sensors 21, 2022 (2021) Link
X. Liang, A. Matyushov, P. Hayes, V. Schell, C. Dong, H. Chen, Y. He, A. Will-Cole, E. Quandt, P. Martins, J. McCord, M. Medarde, S. Lanceros-Méndez, S. van Dijken, N. X. Sun, J. Sort, Roadmap on Magnetoelectric Materials and Devices, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 9446997 (2021) Link
O. Vahovsky, K. Richter, R. Varga, J. McCord, Local distortions of surface domain walls in cylindrical microwires observed by magneto-optics, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 537, 168168 (2021) Link
F. Klingbeil, S.D. Stölting, J. McCord, Sensing of temperature through magnetooptical domain wall susceptibility, Applied Physics Letters 118, 092403 (2021) Link
M Jovičević-Klug, P Jovičević-Klug, J. McCord, B Podgornik, Investigation of microstructural attributes of steel surfaces through magneto-optical Kerr effect, Journal of Materials Research and Technology 11, 1245-1259 (2021) Link
U. Urdiroz, A. Gómez, M. Magaz, D. Granados, M. Sánchez Agudo, J. Rubio-Zuazo, G.R. Castro, C. Stan, N. Tamura, H.A. Padmore, C. Müller, J. McCord, F. Cebollada, F.J. Palomares, J.M. González, Antiphase resonance at X-ray irradiated microregions in amorphous Fe80B20 stripes, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 520, 167017 (2021) Link
F. Qiu, M. Jovičević-Klug, G. Tian, G. Wu, J. McCord, Correlation of magnetic field and stress-induced magnetic domain reorientation with Barkhausen Noise, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 523, 167588 (2021) Link
P. Durdaut, E. Rubiola, J.M. Friedt, C. Müller, B. Spetzler, C. Kirchhof, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, F. Faupel, J. McCord, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 29, 1347 (2020) Link
A. Kittmann, C. Müller, P. Durdaut, L. Thormählen, V. Schell, F. Niekiel, F. Lofink, D. Meyners, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Sensitivity and Noise Analysis of SAW Magnetic Field Sensors with varied Magnetostrictive Layer Thicknesses, accepted for Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 311, 111998 (2020) Link
F. Klingbeil, F. Block, U. Sajjad, R.B. Holländer, S. Deshpande, J. McCord, Evaluating and forecasting movement patterns of magnetically driven microbeads in complex geometries, Scientific Reports 10, 8761 (2020) Link
K. Richter, A. Thiaville, R. Varga, J. McCord, The role of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy distribution on domain wall tilting in amorphous glass-coated microwaves, Journal of Applied Physics 127, 193905 (2020) Link
V. Schell, C. Müller, P. Durdaut, A. Kittmann, L. Thormählen, F. Lofink, D. Meyners, M. Höft, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Magnetic anisotropy controlled FeCoSiB thin films for surface acoustic wave magnetic field sensors, Applied Physics Letters 116, 073503 (2020) Link
N.O. Urs, E. Golubeva, V. Röbisch, S. Toxværd, S. Deldar, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, E. Quandt, D. Meyners, J. McCord, Direct link of specific magnetic domain activities and magnetic noise in modulated magnetoelectric sensors, Physical Review Applied 13, 024018 (2020) Link
B. Spetzler, C. Kirchhof, E. Quandt, J. McCord, F. Faupel, Magnetic sensitivity of bending mode delta-E effect sensors, Physical Review Applied 12 (6), 064036 (2019) Link
P Hayes, M Jovičević Klug, S Toxværd, P Durdaut, V Schell, A Teplyuk, D Burdin, A Winkler, R Weser, Y Fetisov, M Höft, R Knöchel, J McCord, E Quandt, Converse Magnetoelectric Composite Resonator for Sensing Small Magnetic Fields, Scientific Reports 9, 16355 (2019) Link
B Spetzler, EV Golubeva, C Müller, J McCord, F Faupel, Frequency Dependency of the Delta-E Effect and the Sensitivity of Delta-E Effect Magnetic Field Sensors, Sensors 19, 4769 (2019) Link
Z. Chu, C. Dong, C. Tu, Y. He, X. Liang, J. Wang, Y. Wei, H. Chen, X. Gao, C. Lu, Z. Zhu, Y. Lin, S. Dong, J. McCord, N.X. Sun, Voltage-Driven Nonlinearity in Magnetoelectric Heterostructures, Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 044001, 8 (2019) Link
C. Tu, Z.Q. Chu, B. Spetzler, P. Hayes, C.Z. Dong, X.F. Liang, H.H. Chen, Y.F. He, Y.Y. Wei, I. Lisenkov, H. Lin, Y.H. Lin, J. McCord, F. Faupel, E. Quandt, N.X. Sun, Mechanical-Resonance-Enhanced Thin-Film Magnetoelectric Heterostructures for Magnetometers, Mechanical Antennas, Tunable RF Inductors, and Filters
Materials 12, 2259 (2019) Link
E. Lage, R. Mattheis, J. McCord, Stochasticity of domain wall pinning in curved ferromagnetic nanowires investigated by high-resolution Kerr microscopy, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 487, 165273 (2019) Link
M. Jovičević Klug, L. Thormählen, V. Röbisch, S. Salzer, M. Höft, E. Quandt D. Meyners, J. McCord, Antiparallel exchange biased multilayers for low magnetic noise magnetic field sensors, Applied Physics Letters 114, 192410 (2019) Link
F. Qiu, M. Klug, Matic Jovičević, G.Y. Tian, P. Hu, J. McCord, Influence of magnetic domain wall orientation on Barkhausen Noise and magneto-mechanical behavior in electrical steel, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 52, 265001 (2019) Link
R. M. Friedrich, S. Zabel, A. Galka, N. Lukat, J.-M. Wagner, C. Kirchhof, E. Quandt, J. McCord, C. Selhuber-Unkel, M. Siniatchkin, F. Faupel, Magnetic particle mapping using magnetoelectric sensors as an imaging modality, Scientific Reports 9, 2086 (2019) Link
F. Qiu, G. Tian, J. McCord, J. Zhao, K. Zeng, P. Hu, Correlating non-linear behavior of in-plane magnetic field and local domain wall velocities for quantitative stress evaluation, AIP Advances 9, 015325 (2019) Link
P Mazalski, P Kuświk, I Sveklo, I Soldatov, J McCord, R Schäfer, A Wawro, A Maziewski, Modification of magnetization ordering in Pt/Co/Pt trilayers depending on the scanning direction of a focused ion beam, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 477, 317 (2019) Link
D. Viehland, M. Wuttig, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Magnetoelectric magnetic field sensors, MRS Bulletin 43, 834 (2018) Link
U. Sajjad, E. Lage, J. McCord, A trisymmetric magnetic microchip surface for free and two-way directional movement of magnetic microbeads, Advanced Materials Interfaces 5, 1801201 (2018) Link
R.B. Holländer, C. Müller, J. Schmalz, M. Gerken, J. McCord, Magnetic domain walls as broadband spin wave and elastic magnetisation wave emitters, Scientific Reports 8, 13871 (2018) Link
J. Osten, K. Lenz, H. Schultheiss, J. Lindner, J. McCord, J. Fassbender, Interplay between magnetic domain patterning and anisotropic magnetoresistance probed by magneto-optics, Physical Review B 97, 014415 (2018) Link
A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, S. Zabel, J. Reermann, J. Schmalz, B. Spetzler, D. Meyners, N.X. Sun, J. McCord, M. Gerken, G. Schmidt, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, F. Faupel, E. Quandt, Wide Band Low Noise Love Wave Magnetic Field Sensor System, Scientific Reports 8, 278 (2018) Link
M. Lohman, B. Mozooni, J. McCord, Homogeneous microwave field emitted propagating spin waves: Direct imaging and modeling, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 450, 7 (2018) Link
S. Hrkac, C. Koops, M. Abes, C. Krywka, M. Müller, M. Burghammer, M. Sztucki, T. Dane, S. Kaps, Y.K. Mishra, R. Adelung, J. Schmalz, M. Gerken, E. Lage, C. Kirchhof, E. Quandt, O. Magnussen, B. Murphy, Tunable strain in magnetoelectric ZnO microrod composite interfaces, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 25571 (2017) Link
S. Salzer, V. Röbisch, M. Klug, P. Durdaut, J. McCord, D. Meyners, J. Reermann, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, Noise limits in thin-film magnetoelectric sensors with magnetic frequency conversion, IEEE Sensors Journal, PP, 99 (2017) Link
B.N. Dev, N. Banu, J. Fassbender, J. Grenzer, N. Schell, L. Bischoff, R. Groetzschel, J. McCord, Ion irradiation effects on a magnetic Si/Ni/Si trilayer and lateral magnetic–nonmagnetic multistrip patterning by focused ion beam , Indian Journal of Physics 91, 1167 (2017) Link
D. Sander, S. Valenzuela, D. Makarov, C. Marrows, E. Fullerton, P. Fischer, J. McCord, P. Vavassori, S. Mangin, P. Pirro, B. Hillebrands, A. Kent, T. Jungwirth, O. Gutfleisch, C. Kim, A. Berger, The 2017 Magnetism Roadmap (Topical Review), J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50, 363001 (2017) Link
R. John, M. Berritta, D. Hinzke, C. Müller, T. Santos, H. Ulrichs, P. Nieves, J. Walowski, R. Mondal, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, J. McCord, P. M. Oppeneer, U. Nowak, M. Münzenberg, Magnetisation switching of FePt nanoparticle recording medium by femtosecond laser pulses, Scientific Reports 7, 4114 (2017) Link
P. Durdaut, S. Salzer, J. Reermann, V. Robisch, J. McCord, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, Improved Magnetic Frequency Conversion Approach for Magnetoelectric Sensors, IEEE Sensor Letters 1, 2500104 (2017) Link
E. Lage, L. Beran, A.U. Quindeau, L. Ohnoutek, M. Kucera, R. Antos, S.R. Sani, G.F. Dionne, M. Veis, C.A. Ross. Temperature-dependent Faraday rotation and magnetization reorientation in cerium-substituted yttrium iron garnet thin films, APL Materials, 5, 036104 (2017) Link
V. Röbisch, S. Salzer, N. Urs, J. Reermann, E. Yarar, A. Piorra, C. Kirchhof, E. Lage, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, J. McCord, E. Quandt, D. Meyners, Pushing the detection limit of thin film magnetoelectric heterostructures, Journal of Materials Research 1-11 (2017) Link
U. Sajjad, R.B. Holländer, F. Klingbeil, J. McCord, Magnetomechanics of superparamagnetic beads on a magnetic Merry-Go-Round: from micromagnetics to radial looping, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 50, 135003 (2017) Link
R.A. Escobar, E. Lage, J.A. e Castro, D. Altbir, C.A. Ross. Geometry dependence of the magnetization reversal process in bridged dots, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 432, 304-308 (2017) Link
R.B. Holländer, C. Müller, M. Lohmann, B. Mozooni, J. McCord, Component selection in time-resolved magneto-optical wide-field imaging for the investigation of magnetic microstructures, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 432, 283–290 (2017) Link
E. Lage, J. Zhang, C.A. Ross. Head-to-Head Domain Wall Structures in Tapered Magnetic Strips, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 53, 7100104 (2016) Link
J. Trützschler, K. Sentosun, B. Mozooni, R. Mattheis, J. McCord. Magnetic domain wall gratings for magnetization reversal tuning and confined dynamic mode localization, Scientific Reports 6, 30761 (2016) Link
M. Abes, C. T. Koops, S. B. Hrkac, J. McCord, N. O. Urs, N. Wolff, L. Kienle, W. J. Ren, L. Bouchenoire, B. M. Murphy, O. M. Magnussen. Domain structure and reorientation in CoFe2O4, Phys. Rev. B 93, 195427 (2016) Link
E. Lage, N.O. Urs, S. Siddiqui, M. Baldo, J. McCord, C.A. Ross, Depinning of domain walls by magnetic fields and current pulses in tapered nanowires with anti-notches, IEEE Magnetics Letters 6 (2016) Link
N.O. Urs, B. Mozooni, P. Mazalski, M. Kustov, P. Hayes, S. Deldar, E. Quandt, J. McCord, Advanced magneto-optical microscopy: Imaging from picoseconds to centimeters - imaging spin waves and temperature distributions (invited), AIP Advances 6, 055605 (2016) Link
C. Du, I. Lee, R. Adur, Y. Obukhov, C. Hamann, B. Buchner, J. McCord, D.V. Pelekhov, P.C. Hammel, Imaging interfaces defined by abruptly varying internal magnetic fields by means of scanned nanoscale spin wave modes, Phys. Rev. B 92, 214413 (2015) Link
M. A. Basith, S. McVitie, T. Strache, M. Fritzsche, A. Muecklich, J. Fassbender, J. McCord, Lorentz TEM imaging of stripe structures embedded in a soft magnetic matrix, Phys. Rev. Applied 4, 034012 (2015) Link
B. Mozooni, J. McCord, Direct observation of closure domain wall mediated spin-waves, Applied Physics Letters 107, 042402 (2015) Link
M. Kustov, R. Grechishkin, M. Gusev, O. Gasanov, J. McCord, A novel scheme of thermographic microimaging using pyro-magneto-optical indicator films, Advanced Materials 27, 5017–5022 (2015) Link
J. McCord, Progress in magnetic domain observation by advanced magneto-optical microscopy (Topical Review), Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 48, 333001 (2015) Link
V. Röbisch, E. Yarar, N. O. Urs , I. Teliban, R. Knöchel, J. McCord, E. Quandt, D. Meyners, Exchange biased magnetoelectric composites for magnetic field sensor application by frequency conversion, Journal of Applied Physics 117, 17B513 (2015) Link
N. O. Urs, I. Teliban, A. Piorra, R. Knöchel, E. Quandt, J. McCord, Origin of hysteretic magnetoelastic behavior in magnetoelectric 2-2 composites, Applied Physics Letters 105, 202406 (2014) Link
V. Hrkac, E. Lage, G. Köppel, J. Strobel, J. McCord, E. Quandt, D. Meyners, L. Kienle, Amorphous FeCoSiB for exchange bias coupled and decoupled magnetoelectric multilayer systems: Real-structure and magnetic properties, Journal of Applied Physics 116, 134302 (2014) Link
B. Mozooni, T. von Hofe, J. McCord, Picosecond wide-field magneto-optical imaging of magnetization dynamics of amorphous film elements, Physical Review B 90, 054410 (2014) Link
M. Ghafari, R. Mattheis J. McCord, H. Hahn, R. A. Brand, W. A. A. Macedo, Uniaxial in-plane magnetization of iron nanolayers grown within an amorphous matrix, Applied Physics Letters 105, 073102 (2014) Link
C. Hengst, M. Wolf, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Acoustic-domain resonance mode in magnetic closure-domain structures: A probe for domain-shape characteristics and domain-wall transformations, Physical Review B 89, 214412 (2014) Link
O. D. Roshchupkina, T. Strache, J. McCord, A. Mücklich, C. Bähtz, J. Grenzer, Structural modifications of thin magnetic Permalloy films induced by ion implantation and thermal annealing: A comparison, Acta Materialia 74, 278 (2014) Link
E. Lage, N. O. Urs, V. Röbisch, I. Teliban, R. Knöchel, D. Meyners, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Magnetic domain control and voltage response of exchange biased magnetoelectric composites, Applied Physics Letters 104, 132405 (2014) Link
J. Trützschler, K. Sentosun, M. Langer, I. Mönch, R. Mattheis, J. Fassbender, J. McCord, Optimization of magneto-resistive response of ion-irradiated exchange biased films through zigzag arrangement of magnetization, Journal of Applied Physics 115, 103901 (2014) Link
C. Hamann, R. Mattheis, I. Mönch, J. Fassbender, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Magnetization dynamics of magnetic domain wall imprinted magnetic films, New Journal of Physics 16, 023010 (2014) Link
M. Langer, A. Neudert, I. Mönch, R. Mattheis, K. Lenz, J. Fassbender, J. McCord, Magneto-optical analysis of stripe elements embedded in a synthetic antiferromagnet, Physical Review B 89, 064411 (2014) Link
E. Jakubisova-Liskova, S. Visnovsky, A. Wawro, L. T. Baczewski, P. Mazalski, A. Maziewski, M. O. Liedke, J. McCord and J. Fassbender, Effect of Ga+ irradiation in molecular-beam epitaxy grown Pt/Co/Pt thin films studied by magneto-optic spectroscopy, Journal of Applied Physics 115, 17C106 (2014) Link
T. von Hofe, N. O. Urs, B. Mozooni, T. Jansen, C. Kirchhof, D. E. Bürgler, E. Quandt, J. McCord, Dual wavelength magneto-optical imaging of magnetic thin films, Applied Physics Letters 103, 142410 (2013) Link
S. B. Hrkac, M. Abes, C. T. Koops, C. Krywka, M. Müller, S. Kaps, R. Adelung, J. McCord, E. Lage, E. Quandt, O. M. Magnussen, and B. M. Murphy, Local magnetization and strain in single magnetoelectric micorrod composites, Applied Physics Letters 103, 123111 (2013) Link
J. McCord, S. Mangin, Separation of low- and high-temperature contributions to the exchange bias in Ni81Fe19-NiO thin films, Physical Review B 88, 014416 (2013) Link
J. McCord, B. Erkartal, T. von Hofe, L. Kienle, E. Quandt, O. Roshchupkina, J. Grenzer, Revisiting magnetic stripe domains — anisotropy gradient and stripe asymmetry, Journal of Applied Physics 113, 073903 (2013) Link
O. D. Roshchupkina, J. Grenzer, T. Strache, J. McCord, M. Fritzsche, A. Muecklich, C. Baehtz, and J. Fassbender, Focused ion beam induced structural modifications in thin magnetic films, Journal of Applied Physics 112, 033901 (2012) Link
A. Neudert, Y. W. Lai, R. Schäfer, M. Kustov, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Magnetic Domains and Twin Boundary Movement of NiMnGa Magnetic Shape Memory Crystals, Advanced Engineering Materials 14, 601–613 (2012) Link
C. Patschureck, K. Lenz, M. O. Liedke, M. U. Lutz, T. Strache, I. Mönch, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, and J. McCord, Magnetization dynamics of buckling domain structures in patterned thin films, Physical Review B 86, 054426 (2012) Link
S. Wintz, T. Strache, M. Körner, C. Bunce, A. Banholzer, R. Mattheis, J. Raabe, C. Quitmann, J. McCord, A. Erbe, J. Fassbender, Interlayer-coupled spin vortex pairs and their response to external magnetic fields, Physical Review B 85, 224420 (2012) Link
S. Wintz, T. Strache, M. Körner, C. Bunce, A. Banholzer, I. Mönch, R. Mattheis, J. Raabe, C. Quitmann, J. McCord, A. Erbe, K. Lenz, J. Fassbender, Control of vortex pair states by post-deposition interlayer exchange coupling modification, Physical Review B 85, 134417 (2012) Link
J. Steiner, R. Schäfer, H. Wieczoreck, J. McCord, F. Otto, Formation and coarsening of the concertina magnetization pattern in elongated thin-film elements, Physical Review B 85, 104407 (2012) Link
A. Maziewski, P. Mazalski, Z. Kurant, M. O. Liedke, J. McCord, J. Fassbender, J. Ferré, A. Mougin, A. Wawro, L. T. Baczewski, A. Rogalev, F. Wilhelm, and T. Gemming, Tailoring of magnetism in Pt/Co/Pt ultrathin films by ion irradiation, Physical Review B 85, 054427 (2012) Link
K. Mok, C. Scarlat, G. J. Kovacs, L. Li, V. Zviagin, J. McCord, M. Helm, H. Schmidt, Thickness independent magneto-optical coupling constant of nickel films in the visible spectral range, Journal of Applied Physics 110, 123110 (2011) Link
K. Mok, G. J. Kovács, J. McCord, L. Li, M. Helm, and H. Schmidt, Magneto-optical coupling in ferromagnetic thin films investigated by vector-magneto-optical generalized ellipsometry, Physical Review B 84, 094413 (2011) Link
J. McCord, T. Strache, I. Mönch, R. Mattheis, J. Fassbender, Spatial manipulation of magnetic damping in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic films by ion irradiation, Physical Review B 83, 224407 (2011) Link
S. Wintz, T. Strache, M. Körner, M. Fritzsche, D. Marko, I. Mönch, R. Mattheis, J. Raabe, C. Quitmann, J. McCord, A. Erbe, J. Fassbender, Direct observation of antiferromagnetically oriented spin vortex states in magnetic multilayer elements, Applied Physics Letters 98, 232511 (2011) Link
A. Vogel, S. Wintz, T. Gerhardt, L. Bocklage, T. Strache, M.-Y. Im, P. Fischer, J. Fassbender, J. McCord, G. Meier, Field- and current-induced domain-wall motion in permalloy nanowires with magnetic soft spots, Applied Physics Letters 98, 20250 (2011) Link
N. Martin, I. Mönch, R. Schäfer, J. Fassbender, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Influence of dipolar energy on the magnetization reversal in magnetization-modulated thin film systems: Model and experiment, Physical Review B 83, 174423 (2011) Link
M. Wolf, C. Patschureck, R. Schäfer, I. Mönch, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Array anisotropy in structured thin film arrays: Influence on the magnetodynamics, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 1703 (2011) Link
M. Jaafar, R. Sanz, J. McCord, J. Jensen, R. Schäfer, M. Vazquez, A. Asenjo, Pattern-induced magnetic anisotropy in FePt thin films by ion irradiation, Physical Review B 83, 094422 (2011) Link
N. Martin, N.C. Bigall, I. Mönch, T. Gemming, A. Eychmüller, R. Mattheis, R. Schafer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Enhanced Nucleation of Vortices in Soft Magnetic Materials Prepared by Silica Nanosphere Lithography, Advanced Functional Materials 21, 891-896 (2011) Link
S. Haindl, T. Thersleff, T. Shapoval, Y.W. Lai, J. McCord, L. Schultz, B. Holzapfel, Advanced Nb/FePt L1(0) hybrid thin films, Superconductor Science & Technology 24, 024002 (2011) Link
J. Koza, F. Karnbach, M. Uhlemann, J. McCord, A. Gebert, L. Schultz, Electrocrystallization of CoFe alloys under the influence of external homogeneous magnetic fields, part 2: Properties of deposited films, Electrochimica Acta 55, 819-831 (2010) Link
C. Hamann, J. McCord, L. Schultz, B.P. Toperverg, K. Theis-Bröhl, M. Wolff, R. Kaltofen, I. Mönch, Competing magnetic interactions in exchange-bias-modulated films, Physical Review B 81, 24420 (2010) Link
Y.-W. Lai, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Volume magnetic domain mirroring in magnetic shape memory crystals, Applied Physics Letters 96, 22507 (2010) Link
R. Schäfer, C. Hamann, J. McCord, L. Schultz, V Kamberský, The magneto-optical gradient effect in an exchange-biased thin film: experimental evidence for classical diffraction theory, New Journal of Physics 12, 053006 (2010) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, C. Hamann, J. McCord, B.P. Toperverg, H. Zabel, Polarized neutron studies on exchange-bias micro-stripe pattern, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 211, 12014 (2010) Link
A. Berger, S. Mangin, J. McCord, O. Hellwig, E. E. Fullerton, Cumulative minor loop growth in Co/Pt and Co/Pd multilayers, Physical Review B 82, 104423 (2010) Link
C. Patschureck, R. Kaltofen, I. Mönch, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Magnetic domain compensation effect on the magnetodynamic response of ferromagnetic elements, Applied Physics Letters 97, 052507 (2010) Link
N. Scheerbaum, Y.W. Lai, T. Leisegang, M. Thomas, J. Liu, K. Khlopkov, J. McCord, S. Faehler, R. Traeger, D.C. Meyer, L. Schultz, O. Gutfleisch, Constraint-dependent twin variant distribution in Ni2MnGa single crystal, polycrystals and thin film: An EBSD study, Acta Materialia 58, 4629-4638 (2010) Link
J. Fassbender, T. Strache, M.O. Liedke, D. Markó, S. Wintz, K. Lenz, A. Keller, S. Facsko, I. Mönch, J. McCord, Introducing artificial length scales to tailor magnetic properties, New Journal of Physics, New Journal of Physics 11, 125002/1-19 (2009) Link
J. McCord, R. Schäfer, Domain wall asymmetries in Ni81Fe19/NiO: proof of variable anisotropies in exchange bias systems, New Journal of Physics 11, 83016 (2009) Link
S. Girod, M. Gottwald, S. Andrieu, S. Mangin, J. McCord, E. Fullerton, J.-M. L. Beaujour, B. J. Krishnatreya, A. D. Kent, Strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Ni/Co (111) single crystal superlattices, Applied Physics Letters 94, 262504 (2009) Link
Y. F. Chen, J. McCord, J. Freudenberger, R. Kaltofen, O.G. Schmidt, Effects of strain on magnetic and transport properties of Co films on plastic substrates, Journal of Applied Physics 105, 7C302 (2009) Link
N. Martin, J. McCord, A. Gerber, T. Strache, T. Gemming, I. Mönch, N. Farag, R.Schäfer, J. Fassbender, E. Quandt, L. Schultz, Local stress engineering of magnetic anisotropy in soft magnetic thin films, Applied Physics Letter 94, 062506 (2009) Link
J. McCord, I. Mönch, J. Fassbender, A. Gerber, E. Quandt, Local setting of magnetic anisotropy in amorphous Films by Co ion implantation, J. Phys. D 42, 055006 (2009) Link
M. Thomas, O. Heczko, J. Buschbeck, Y.W. Lai, J. McCord, L. Schultz, S. Fähler, Stray field induced actuation mode of freestanding magnetic shape memory films, Advanced Materials, 21, 3708, (2009) Link
M. Wolf, R. Schäfer, J. McCord, Precessional frequency of ferromagnetic elements: Influence of magnetic domain width, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 321, 2920 (2009) Link
J. McCord, C. Hamann, R. Mattheis, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, Non-linear exchange coupling and magnetic domain asymmetry in ferromagnetic/IrMn thin films, Physical Review B 78, 094419 (2008) Link
J. McCord, Y. Henry, T. Hauet, F. Montaigne, E.E. Fullerton, S. Mangin, Mechanism of chirality reversal for planar interface domain walls in exchange coupled hard/soft magnetic bilayers, Physical Review B 78, 094417 (2008) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, A. Westphalen, H. Zabel, U. Rücker, J. McCord, V. Höink, J. Schmalhorst, G Reiss, T. Weis, D. Engel, A. Ehresmann, B. P. Toperverg, Hyper-domains in exchange bias micro-stripe patterns, New Journal of Physics 10, 093021 (2008) Link
J. Fassbender, J. McCord, Magnetic patterning by means of ion irradiation and implantation (Review), Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320, 579 (2008) Link
M. Thomas, O. Heczko, J. Buschbeck, U.K. Rößler, J. McCord, N. Scheerbaum, L. Schultz, S. Fähler, Magnetically induced reorientation of martensite variants in constrained epitaxial NiMnGa films grown on MgO(001), New Journal of Physics 10, 23040 (2008) Link
J. McCord, R. Kaltofen, O.G. Schmidt, L. Schultz, Tuning of magnetization dynamics by ultrathin antiferromagnetic layers, Applied Physics Letters 92, 162506 (2008) Link
S. Widuch, Z. Celinski, K. Balin, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, D. Skrzypek, J. McCord, Variation in ferromagnetic domain density and domain asymmetry in Fe/FeF2 exchange bias structures, Physical Review B 77, 184433 (2008) Link
J. McCord, L. Schultz, J. Fassbender, Hybrid soft-magnetic lateral exchange spring films prepared by ion irradiation, Advanced Materials 20, 2090 (2008) Link
C. Hamann, I. Mönch, R. Kaltofen, R. Schäfer, T. Gemming, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Size effects on the magnetization reversal behavior of exchange bias modulated thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 104, 13926 (2008) Link
J. Walowski, M. Djordjevic Kaufmann, B. Lenk, C. Hamann, J. McCord, M. Münzenberg, Intrinsic and non-local Gilbert damping in polycrystalline Nickel studied by Ti-sapphire laser fs spectroscopy, Journal of Physics D 41, 164016 (2008) Link
Y.-W. Lai, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Direct observation of AC field-induced twin-boundary dynamics in bulk NiMnGa, Acta Materialia 56, 5130 (2008) Link
D.T. Robb, Y.H. Xu, O. Hellwig, J. McCord, A. Berger, M.A. Novotny, P.A. Rikvold, Evidence for a dynamic phase transition in [Co/Pt]3 magnetic multilayers, Physical Review B 78, 134422 (2008) Link
J. McCord, Magnetization dynamics of coupled ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic thin films, in Advances in Solid State Physics 48, R. Haug (ed.), Springer, 157 (2008) Link
A. Neudert, P. Keatley, V. Kruglyak, J. McCord, R. Hicken, Excitation and imaging of precessional modes in soft-magnetic squares, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 44, 3083 (2008) Link
M. Tekielak, P. Mazalski, A. Maziewski, R. Schäfer, J. McCord, B. Szymanski, M.Urbaniak, F. Stobiecki, Creation of out-of-plane magnetization ordering by increasing the repetition number N in (Co/Au)N multilayers, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 44, 2850 (2008) Link
T. Hauet, S. Mangin, J. McCord, F. Montaigne, and Eric E. Fullerton, Exchange-bias training effect in TbFe/GdFe: Micromagnetic mechanism, Physical Review B 76, 144423 (2007) Link
J. McCord, R. Kaltofen, T. Gemming, R. Hühne, L. Schultz, Aspects of static and dynamic magnetic anisotropy in Ni81Fe19-NiO films, Physical Review B 75, 134418 (2007) Link
Y.W. Lai, N. Scheerbaum, D. Hinz, O. Gutfleisch, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, J. McCord, Absence of magnetic domain wall motion during magnetic field induced twin boundary motion in bulk magnetic shape memory alloys, Applied Physics Letters 90, 192504 (2007) Link
M. Jaafar, R. Sanz, M. Vazquez, A. Asenjo, J. Jensen, K. Hjort, S. Flohrer, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, FePt thin film irradiated with high energy ions, Physica Status Solidi (a) 204, 1724 (2007) Link
A. Neudert, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, Domain-wall transformation by high-frequency magnetic fields, Physical Review B 75, 172404 (2007) Link
A. Gerber, J. McCord, C. Schmutz, E. Quandt, Permeability and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic NiFe/FeCoBSi bilayers for high-frequency applications, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 43, 2624 (2007) Link
M. Tekielak, R. Schäfer, J. McCord, A. Maziewski, V. Zablotskii, L. Baczewski, A. Wawro, Needle-like domain structure in Co films deposited on Mo (110), Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 316, 184 (2007) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, B.P. Toperverg, A. Westphalen, H. Zabel, J. McCord, V. Hoeink, J. Schmalhorst, G. Reiss, T. Weis, D. Engel, A. Ehresmann, U. Rücker, Polarized neutron reflectometry study on a magnetic film with an ion beam imprinted stripe pattern, Superlattices and Microstructures 41, 104 (2007) Link
A. Neudert, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, R. Kaltofen, I. Mönch, H. Vinzelberg, L. Schultz, Bloch-line generation in cross-tie walls by fast magnetic-field pulses, Journal of Applied Physics 99, 8F302 (2006) Link
J. Fassbender, J. von Borany, A. Mücklich, K. Potzger, W. Möller, J. McCord, L. Schultz, R. Mattheis, Structural and magnetic modifications of Cr-implanted permalloy, Physical Review B 73, 184410 (2006) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, M. Wolff, A. Westphalen, H. Zabel, J. McCord, V. Hoeink, J. Schmalhorst, G. Reiss, T. Weis, D. Engel, A. Ehresmann, U. Ruecker, B.P. Toperverg, Exchange-bias instability in a bilayer with an ion-beam imprinted stripe pattern of ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interfaces, Physical Review B 73, 174408 (2006) Link
J. Fassbender, J. McCord, Control of saturation magnetization, anisotropy, and damping due to Ni implantation in thin Ni81Fe19 layers, Applied Physics Letters 88, 252501 (2006) Link
S. Flohrer, R. Schäfer, J. McCord, S. Roth, L. Schultz, G. Herzer, Magnetization loss and domain refinement in nanocrystalline tape wound cores, Acta Materialia 54, 3253 (2006) Link
S. Flohrer, R. Schäfer, J. McCord, S. Roth, L. Schultz, F. Fiorillo, W. Guenther, G. Herzer, Dynamic magnetization process of nanocrystalline tape wound cores with transverse field-induced anisotropy, Acta Materialia 54, 4693 (2006) Link
U. Queitsch, J. McCord, A. Neudert, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, K. Rott, H. Brückl, Domain wall induced modes of high-frequency response in ferromagnetic elements, Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 14, 22 (2006) Link
J. Buschbeck, S. Fähler, M. Weisheit, K. Leistner, J. McCord, B. Rellinghaus, L. Schultz, Thermodynamics and kinetics during pulsed laser annealing and patterning of FePt films, Journal of Applied Physics 100, 123901 (2006) Link
K. Potzger, L. Bischoff, M. O. Liedke, B. Hillebrands, M. Rickart, P. P. Freitas, J. McCord, J. Fassbender, Domain structure of magnetically micro-patterned PtMn/NiFe exchange biased bilayers, IEEE Trans. Magn. 41, 3610 (2005) Link
A. Neudert, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, Sub-nanosecond vortex transformation in ferromagnetic film elements observed by stroboscopic wide-field Kerr microscopy, Journal of Applied Physics 97, 10E701 (2005) Link
M. Frommberger, C. Schmutz, M. Tewes, J. McCord, W. Hartung, R. Losehand, E. Quandt, Integration of crossed anisotropy magnetic core into toroidal thin-film inductors, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 53, 2096 (2005) Link
J. McCord, R. Schäfer, K. Theis-Bröhl, H. Zabel, J. Schmalhorst, V. Höink, H. Brückl, T. Weiss, D. Engel, A. Ehresmann, Domain propagation in He ion bombarded magnetic wires with opposite exchange bias, Journal of Applied Physics 97, 10K102 (2005) Link
J. McCord, J. Fassbender, M.O. Liedke, M. Frommberger, T. Gemming, E. Quandt, L. Schultz, Magnetic anisotropy and domain patterning of amorphous films by He-ion irradiation, Applied Physics Letters 86, 162505 (2005) Link
A. Neudert, J. McCord, D. Chumakov, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, Small amplitude magnetization dynamics in Permalloy elements investigated by time-resolved wide-field Kerr microscopy, Phys. Rev. B 71, 134405 (2005) Link
F. Dorfbauer, D. Süss, J. McCord, M. Kirschner, T. Schrefl, J. Fidler, Micromagnetic simulation of asymmetric magnetization reversal in exchange biased bilayers, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 290-291, 754 (2005) Link
M. Frommberger, S. Glasmachers, C. Schmutz, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Microscopic magnetic and high-frequency properties of a stress sensor using FeCoBSi magnetostrictive thin films, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 41, 3691 (2005) Link
M. Frommberger, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Crossed anisotropy magnetic cores for integrated inductors, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 290, 1487-1490 (2005) Link
F. Radu, V. Leiner, K. Westerholt, H. Zabel, J. McCord, A. Vorobiev, J. Major, D. Jullien, H. Humblot, F. Tasset, Magnetic induction and domain walls in magnetic thin films at remanence, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, 1711 (2005) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, H. Zabel, J. McCord, B. P. Toperverg, Quantification of the magnetization arrangement of patterned films measured by polarized neutron reflectivity, Physica B 356, 14 (2005) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, B. P. Toperverg, J. McCord, V. Leiner, A. Westphalen, K. Rott, H. Brückl, H. Zabel, Correlated magnetic reversal in periodic stripe patterns, Phys. Rev. B 72, 020403 (2005) Link
D. Chumakov, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, H. Vinzelberg, R. Kaltofen, I. Münch, L. Schultz, Nanosecond time-scale switching of Permalloy thin film elements studied by wide-field time-resolved Kerr microscopy, Phys. Rev. B 71, 014410 (2005) Link
M. Frommberger, M. Tewes, J. McCord, W. Hartung, R. Losehand, E. Quandt, A new approach to RF thin film microinductors, Proceedings of 34th European Microwave Conf., Amsterdam, 2004, 1361 (2004) Link
S. Glasmachers, M. Frommberger, J. McCord, E. Quandt, Influence of strain on the high-frequency magnetic properties of FeCoBSi thin films, Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research 201, 15, 3319 (2004) Link
J. McCord, R. Mattheis, D. Elefant, Dynamic magnetic anisotropy at the onset of exchange bias, Physical Review B 70, 094420 (2004) Link
M. Frommberger, J. McCord, E. Quandt, High frequency properties of FeCoSiB thin films with crossed anisotropy, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 40, 2703-2705 (2004) Link
S. Dieter, A. Pyzalla, A. Bauer, N. Schell, J. McCord, K. Seemann, N. Wanderka, W. Reimers, Correlation between magnetic properties of CoFe single and CoFe/SiO2 multi-layer thin films and their microstructure, texture and internal stress state, Zeitschrift für Metallkunde 95, 164-175 (2004) Link
J. McCord, Irregular domain patterns in structured magnetic thick films, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 6855 (2004) Link
J. McCord, M. Frommberger, S. Glasmachers, R. Schäfer, E. Quandt, Stress induced remagnetization in magnetostrictive films, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 6861 (2004) Link
A. Neudert, J. McCord, R. Schäfer, L. Schultz, Dynamic anisotropy in amorphous CoZrTa films, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 6595 (2004) Link
J. McCord, S. Dieter, K. Seebeck, Observation and analysis of mixed domain states in sputtered Co50Fe50 films, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 271, 46 (2004) Link
J. McCord, J. Paul, Influence of magnetic properties on magnetization dynamics of high resistivity films, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 39, 2359 (2003) Link
J. McCord, H. Zolla, H. Grimm, Influence of magnetic properties of shields on recording head instability parameters, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 39, 2384 (2003) Link
J. McCord, T. Schmitte, R. Schäfer, H. Zabel, L. Schultz, Kerr microscopy study on sputtered Fe stripes, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 39, 2687 (2003) Link
K. Theis-Bröhl, T. Schmitte, V. Leiner, H. Zabel, K. Rott, H. Brückl, J. McCord, CoFe stripes: Magnetization reversal study by polarized neutron scattering and magneto-optical Kerr effect, Physical Review B 67, 184415 (2003) Link
J. McCord, R. Mattheis, K.-U. Barholz, R. Schäfer, Kerr observations of asymmetric magnetization reversal processes in CoFe/IrMn Bi-layer systems, Journal of Applied Physics 93 (9), 5491 (2003) Link
R.S. Beach, J. McCord, P. Webb, D. Mauri, Orthogonal pinning of two ferromagnetic layers in a synthetic spin-valve, Applied Physics Letters 80 (24), 4576 (2002) Link
L. Baril, D. Mauri, J. McCord, S. Gider, T. Lin, Kinetics of pinned layer and free layer relaxation upon hard axis anneal of NiMn spin valves, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 37, 1698 (2001) Link
J. McCord, J. Westwood, Domain optimization of sputtered permalloy shields for recording heads, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 37, 1755 (2001) Link
B. Argyle, J. McCord, Efficient Kerr microscopy, Magnetic Storage Systems Beyond 2000/ Nato Science Series: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol. 41 ed. G.C. Hadjipanayis (2001) Link
E.I. Cooper, Y. Hsu, L.T. Romankiw, J. McCord, V. Nikitin, Electroplated CoFeCu films in write heads: Plating and magnetic evaluation, 6th International Symposium Magnetic Materials, Processes and Devices, The Electrochemical Society 2000-29, 264 (2001)
Y. Hsu, R. Fontana, M. Williams, P. Kasiraj, E. Lee, J. McCord, High frequency high field permeability of patterned Ni80Fe20 and Ni45Fe55 thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 89, 6808 (2001) Link
L. Baril, D. Mauri, J. McCord, S. Gider, T. Lin, Thermal relaxation of the free layer in spin valves, Journal of Applied Physics 89, 1320 (2001) Link
G. V. Kurlyandskaya, M. Vasquez, J. McCord, J.L. Munnoz, D. Garcia, A.P. Potapov, Magnetic structure and magnetoimpedence effect in stress annealed cobalt-based amorphous ribbons with different values of induced magnetic anisotropy, Physics of Metals and Metallography 90, 549 (2000)
J. McCord, J. Westwood, Domain formation in Fe-N multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics 87, 6502 (2000)Link
B.E. Argyle, J. McCord, New laser illumination method for Kerr microscopy, Journal of Applied Physics 87, 6487 (2000) Link
C. Back, J. Heidmann, J. McCord, Time resolved Kerr microscopy: Magnetization dynamics in thin film write heads, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 35, 637 (1999) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, Normalized differential Kerr microscopy: An advanced method for magnetic imaging, Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research 171(2), 555 (1999) Link
G.V. Kurlyandskaya, M. Vasquez, J.L. Munoz, D. Garcia, J. McCord, Effect of induced magnetic anisotropy and domain structure features on magnetoimpedence in stress annealed Co rich amorphous ribbons, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 196-197, 259 (1999) Link
D.E. Bürgler, D.E. Schaller, C.M. Schmidt, F. Meisinger, J. Kroha, J. McCord, A. Hubert, H.J. Güntherrodt, Antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling across an amorphous metallic spacer layer, Physical Review Letters 80, 4983 (1998) Link
R. Mattheis, K. Ramstöck, J. McCord, Formation and annihilation of edge walls in thin film permalloy strips, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 33, 3993 (1997) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, A. Chizhik, Domains and hysteresis in patterned soft magnetic elements, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 33, 3981 (1997) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, J. Kools, J.M. Ruigrok, Domain observations on NiFeCo/Cu/NiFeCo-sandwiches for giant magnetoresistive sensors, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 33, 3984 (1997) Link
L. Wenzel, J. McCord, K. Ramstöck, A. Hubert, Simulation of magnetooptical domain boundary images, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 33, 3274 (1997) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, J.C.S. Kools, M.-C. de Nooijer, Magnetization processes in exchange biased giant magnetoresistive multilayer elements, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 32, 4803 (1996) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, G. Schröpfer, U. Loreit, Domain observation on magnetoresistive sensor elements, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 32, 4806 (1996) Link
J. McCord, H. Brendel, A. Hubert, S.S.P. Parkin, Hysteresis and domains in magnetic multilayers, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 148, 244 (1995) Link
J. McCord, A. Hubert, R. Schäfer, A. Fuss, P. Grünberg, Domain analysis in epitaxial iron-aluminum and iron-gold sandwiches with oscillatory exchange, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 29, 2735 (1993) Link
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2020 Toyota Camry Vs 2020 Toyota Corolla
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Horsepower (hp)
Torque (lb-ft)
Estimated Fuel Economy (city / hwy)
Toyota Camry L
2.5L Dynamic Force 4-Cylinder
184 lb-ft @ 5,000 rpm
Toyota Corolla L
1.8L 4-Cylinder
When the Best Just Won’t Do
The Toyota Corolla and the Toyota Camry have long been household names thanks to the incredible reliability and pleasantries that grace both sedans. For 2020 both the Corolla and the Camry boast daring designs, premium amenities, and outstanding fuel economy.
Dive in with us as we explore both incredible sedans and the many features they behold. To experience both incredible sedans first hand, get behind the wheel at Toyota of Rock Hill.
The Corolla’s Uncomparable Edge
The 2020 Toyota Corolla makes its entrance with a striking design, sharp edges and ultra-modern touches. Up front, the compact sedan boasts a sporty, aggressive front fascia that exclaims that the Corolla is ready to conquer the road. Integrating the grille into the large lower fascia, the Corolla boasts a pair of sleek LED headlights that take a plunge toward the pavement, adding to its style and edge.
At the rear, wide set sleek tail lights with available dark gray metallic accents complement the available rear diffuser while available 17-inch aluminum-alloy wheels flaunt the Corolla’s daring character.
Three powertrains drive the 2020 Toyota Corolla, each of which ranges from an efficient hybrid motor to a zippy 4-cylinder mated to a 6-speed manual. Powering the Corolla Hybrid LE is a 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine that puts out 121 horsepower and 105lb-ft of torque.
Mated to a hybrid drive system, the Corolla uses an Electronically-Controlled Continuously Variable Transmission to achieve an EPA-estimated 52MPG combined. The standard engine, such as that featured in the Corolla L, uses a tuned version of the same 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine to put out 139 horsepower and 126lb-ft of torque. Paired with a CVT transmission, the Corolla L drives the front wheels and returns an EPA-estimated 38MPG on the highway. If its power and pizzaz you crave, the Corolla presents the ‘SE’.
Using a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine with Valvematic, the Corolla SE boasts 169-horsepower and 151lb-ft of torque. Mated to a direct shifting 6-speed manual transmission, the front-wheel-drive sporty sedan rockets down the road but still manages to return an EPA-estimated 36MPG on the highway.
The Camry Packs a Punch and Doesn’t Apologize
Big brother to the Corolla is the 2020 Toyota Camry, a stylish mid-size sedan that’s not afraid to take risks and show off its athletic side. The highlighted Camry model stands as the Camry XSE, which boasts sweeping curves and powerful edges dominate the front fascia, beckoning a powerful entrance to every occasion. Sweeping and dynamic bodywork grace its waistline, leading to powerful taillights that flow effortlessly into the rear bumper that boasts a powerful rear diffuser. Stylish 19-inch wheels finish off the powerful presence of the Camry, tributing its athletic performance.
Similar to the Corolla, the 2020 Camry is also powered by a choice of three powertrains. Driving the Camry’s hybrid model is a 2.5-liter Dynamic Force 4-Cylinder engine that produces 176 horsepower and 163lb-ft of torque from the engine alone. Mated to a hybrid drive system and paired with an Electronically-Controlled CVT Transmission, the front-wheel-drive Camry LE Hybrid returns an EPA-estimated 52MPG combined.
The standard engine propelling the Camry LE is a tuned version of the 2.5-liter engine that puts out 203 horsepower and 184lb-ft of torque and uses an 8-speed automatic transmission to return an EPA-estimated 39MPG on the highway. Thrusting you back in your seat is the available 3.5-liter V6 engine that produces 301 horsepower and 267lb-ft of torque. Though powerful, the beastly engine is still efficient, returning an EPA-estimated 32MPG on the highway.
Boasting Standard Comprehensive Safety
It’s no surprise that both vehicles boast a similar suite of standard driver-assist safety features. Standard on the 2020 Toyota Camry is Toyota Safety Sense™-P, which includes a Pre-Collision System. The system uses radar and shape recognition technology fixed discreetly in the front fascia to scan the road for danger. If a stopped car or pedestrian is detected, the system will send an audible and visual alert, warning you of the danger. If you don’t react in time, the system will automatically apply emergency brake force to prevent or minimize the effects of a collision. Standard Lane Departure with Steering Assist traces your lanes and will alert you if you drift out of your lane. The system will even provide corrective steering torque to safely guide you back into your lane.
The 2020 Toyota Corolla takes things further with Toyota Safety Sense™ 2.0, which includes all of the standard safety features included in the Camry, but goes further with Lane Tracing Assist, an intelligent system to keep you centered in your lane, along with Road Sign Recognition.
Take a Seat in Luxury
Though the 2020 Toyota Corolla may be a compact sedan, it boasts a spacious premium interior so each trip can be a joy regardless if you’re the driver or a backseat passenger. Designed to exude relaxing energy, the cabin of the Corolla boasts a clean, modern design with few disturbances for a streamlined driving experience. Available SofTex® sport seats feature hugging boulders and premium fabric inserts while the available leather-wrapped steering wheel exudes an upscale feel. The available moonroof frees the cabin with light and fresh air while available soft-touch materials and piano black accents bring premium comfort to every commute.
Boasting a driver-focused design, the 2020 Toyota Camry puts all the bells and whistles within reach. The available leather-wrapped steering wheel features multi-function controls that allow you to keep your hands on the wheel while an available 7-inch multi-function display is fixed between the tach and speedometer gauges. Adding premium conveniences to the cabin, the Camry boasts an available 10-inch color Head-Up display eliminating the need to take our eye off the road to view vehicle vitals.
Included in both edgy sedans is standard Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™, which allows seamless smartphone integration, bringing maps, music, media and more–all on the same familiar interface as your smartphone.
Visit Toyota of Rock Hill Today
At Toyota of Rock Hill, we welcome you to come into our incredible dealership where you can get a great deal every day. In addition to our incredible inventory of new, used, and certified pre-owned vehicles, each one of our vehicles is backed by the Rock Solid Guarantee, a list of amenities available at no cost to you. Whether you are looking to get into the edgy 2020 Toyota Corolla, or the invigorating 2020 Toyota Corolla, we encourage you to come into our Rock Hill Car dealership and test drive one of these incredible vehicles.
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Celebrating Our Nonprofit Community: 2022 in Review
Amy Stefanski
3000 reasons to celebrate
As we transition into a new year, we're taking a moment to celebrate our nonprofit community and highlight some of their successes over the past year. In 2022, nonprofits did a whole a lot of collaborating. Among the 3000+ organizations that use Mural’s free nonprofit plan, we hit some major milestones:
400+ new nonprofits joined the program — more than one per day!
45,000+ murals created
150,000+ collaborators
Those aren't just numbers; they're people, ideas, and organizations that are making a meaningful impact on the world, both locally and globally.
“I am continually inspired by our nonprofit community and the outcomes they're able to achieve," said Ward Bullard, vice president, Mural for Good. "At Mural, we're focused on helping teams solve hard problems together, and these organizations are living out that value every single day. We are proud to play a supporting role in their successes.”
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Changing the world by changing the way teams work
There’s no doubt that the pandemic changed the way teams work forever. When they could no longer work in conference rooms, classrooms, and other physical spaces, they found new ways to collaborate. New ways to brainstorm, solve problems, build community, empower volunteers, fundraise — new ways to make an impact. We are honored that Mural has played a part in helping nonprofit organizations tackle these challenges.
Today, many teams have gone back to in-person work or adopted a hybrid model. We have seen them continue to take advantage of the methods and tools that allowed them to collaborate and innovate in a remote setting — and it’s amazing to see the outcomes. Let’s take a closer look at what members of our incredible community achieved in 2022.
Women’s Money Matters
Bernadette Wheeler is the chief program officer at Women's Money Matters, an organization that empowers women to improve their financial health to create a more secure future for their families and communities. Bernadette first discovered Mural when she attended a community workshop to address homelessness. Participants used Mural to brainstorm and collaborate during the workshop. “I was blown away!” said Bernadette. “As soon as I got off the call, I added [Mural] to our routine.”
Now, Bernadette and her team use Mural to collaborate in the workplace. They’ve also begun to incorporate it into their online sessions with clients by facilitating icebreakers in Mural to get participants warmed up.
Mural also helps the Women’s Money Matters team tackle the challenge of psychological safety for their clients. Bernadette explained, “It's important for us to provide an environment for our workshops where everybody feels accepted and safe.” To help achieve this, they plan to use private mode in Mural, which allows people to contribute and ask questions anonymously.
Little Manila Rising
Little Manila Rising (LMR) serves the South Stockton community, developing equitable solutions to the effects of historical marginalization, institutionalized racism, and harmful public policy. LMR offers a wide spectrum of programs that address education, environment, redevelopment, and public health.
Nathan Werth is the chief of staff at Little Manila Rising, where he and his team use Mural to brainstorm, strategize, and synthesize information. “It’s a container for thinking, so aha moments happen all the time,” he said. “That comes out of everybody's collective thoughts and having a space to put all those thoughts and visualize them.”
United for College Success
United for College Success (UFCS) uses research, technology, and real-time data as drivers of its mission to empower underserved students to obtain a meaningful credential and/or career with upward mobility. UFCS’s central office is in Houston, Texas, and its coalition is spread across the state.
UFCS began using Mural when CEO Yvonne Eype was looking for a way to facilitate design thinking workshops in a virtual environment. She found Mural and started using it to collaborate online with people from across the organization. She took advantage of Mural’s hundreds of premade templates, including ones related to design thinking. Yvonne shared that she customized her sessions by selecting activities and methods from various templates.
Today, UFCS uses Mural for more than just design thinking workshops. During a recent leadership retreat, Yvonne made presentations more engaging and organized by presenting content in Mural instead of a traditional, linear slide deck that may not be conducive to collaboration. She likes using a Mural whiteboard because of its interactivity and flexibility. “Being able to add links and photos and everything housed in one space [is] key,” she said.
Muralistas making an impact
Mural employees — or as we call ourselves, Muralistas — are also dedicated to making an impact in our own communities. In October 2022, Mural launched a paid Voluntary Time Off (VTO) initiative. Built to complement Mural’s flexible time off policy, VTO allows team members to be purposeful about volunteer work.
“Taking paid time off is not just about taking time to go on a holiday,” said Bethan Adelekan, people operations director at Mural. “[VTO is] about encouraging and enabling people to support their communities anywhere, all over the world, which I think is a really powerful thing that a company can do.”
Muralistas are already taking advantage of this time off. “Time to volunteer is so energizing for me. I have always loved giving back to the community and making the world a better place," said software engineer Katie Hendrickson. "One way I have used my volunteer time has been to run events for girls in high school to inspire them [and teach them] how to find a career in technology and find their passion.”
And as Lipi Grover, Sales Enablement, demonstrates, volunteering doesn’t need to be a solo activity. Lipi took the initiative to organize a community service project that had her team members coming together (remotely!) to make cards for children in the hospital.
We look forward to continuing the VTO program and supporting our nonprofit community in 2023!
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Manager, Education & Nonprofit Programs
Amy Stefanski, MBA is an innovative educational and entrepreneurial advocate. In her role as a manager on the Education and Nonprofits team at Mural, she works to ensure that educators, students, and NGOs are equipped to engage in meaningful, useful, and sustainable conversations with best collaboration practices that include all voices. Her background in education and business gives her a unique perspective as she helps others work toward lasting change.
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Home ❭ News ❭ GOP STATE CHAIR URGES SUPPORT OF OHIO SUPREME COURT INCUMBENTS
GOP STATE CHAIR URGES SUPPORT OF OHIO SUPREME COURT INCUMBENTS
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MANSFIELD - Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken urged local Republicans to support down-ballot candidates during this presidential election year, specifically two Ohio Supreme Court justices who are seeking reelection to the bench.
Timken told attendees of the Richland County Republican Party's monthly luncheon on Monday that the state can't afford to have "activist" judges elected.
"We have a separation of powers that is in our Constitution," Timken said. "We need judges to interpret and apply the law as written and not legislate from the bench."
Timken echoed comments made by Ohio Supreme Court Justice Patrick Fischer, whose term is up in 2022.
"My personal feelings don't matter," Fischer said before Timken spoke. "The difference is, do you want activist judges whose personal experiences define how they make a decision, or do you want judges and justices who look at the law and Constitution as written, and enforce it as written?"
Republican incumbents Judith French and Sharon Kennedy will face Jennifer Brunner and John P. O'Donnell, respectively. None of the four candidates has a primary contender March 17, so the races will likely pick up towards the fall.
"Most 'activist' judges I know call themselves 'conservative,'" said Brunner in a statement. "There is not a Republican or Democratic way to be fair, and every judge should stay in their own lane — I do."
Bill DeMora, campaign manager for O'Donnell, called Timken's comments "long-used buzz words."
Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken urged local Republicans Monday to throw their support behind Republican Ohio Supreme Court candidates. (Photo: Monroe Trombly/News Journal)
"The current two incumbents running have said at rallies that they are a 'back stop' for the governor and legislature, meaning that they are there to protect the policies they pass," DeMora said. "How is that a 'separate branch of government?”'
While state Supreme Court races generally are low-profile, the high court could play an important role in the coming years. The Ohio General Assembly or a state commission will draw a new congressional map in 2022 using rules approved by voters through a May 2018 ballot measure. If the newly drawn map faces a legal challenge, the decision could fall to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The state's high court has seven justices. If Democrats win both seats both up for grabs this year, they would have a 4-3 majority on the court.
Democrats won big in 2018 when Michael Donnelly and Melody Stewart were elected to the bench.
During her speech, the three-year GOP chair also made reference to a political group backed by Barack Obama and his former attorney general, Eric Holder.
Ohio is among 12 priority states designated by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group that focuses on redistricting reform.
A spokesperson told Cleveland.com last month that NDRC is considering getting involved in the Ohio Supreme Court races.
"Eric Holder and Barack Obama have put Justices Sharon Kennedy and Judi French as their targets ... most importantly, they want to control the Ohio Supreme Court," Timken said. "Why? Because they want to use the Ohio Supreme Court to draw legislative lines. They want to create more congressional districts for themselves and more statehouse districts. To me, that is the epitome of anti-democratic processes."
Calling their stances "radical" on major issues such as health care and climate change, Timken criticized Democratic presidential candidates and urged Republicans to remain united, adding she would do everything in her power to make sure President Donald Trump is reelected.
His acquittal is all but certain as the president's impeachment trial comes to a close Wednesday.
"As soon as we forget our mission to fight, we give the Democrats an opportunity to take us back to the job-killing days of high regulations, and higher taxes and more dangerous communities," Timken said.
Marilyn John, chair of Richland County's Republican Party, called attention to how Timken played rugby while in college.
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Hackers build a 'Master Key' that unlocks millions of Hotel rooms
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If you often leave your valuable and expensive stuff like laptop and passports in the hotel rooms, then beware. Your room can be unlocked by not only a malicious staff having access to the master key, but also by an outsider. A critical design vulnerability in a popular and widely used electronic lock system can be exploited to unlock every locked room in a facility, leaving millions of hotel rooms around the world vulnerable to hackers. The vulnerability has been discovered in Vision by VingCard locking system—made by the world's largest lock manufacturer, Assa Abloy, and deployed in more than 42,000 facilities in 166 different countries, which equals to millions of doors. After thousands of hours work, F-Secure researchers Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen managed to build a master key that could be used to unlock doors and gain entry to any of the hotel rooms using the Vision by VingCard digital lock technology, without leaving a trace on the system. How Hackers Built
32M Becomes First-Ever Company to Implant Micro-Chips in Employees
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Biohacking could be a next big thing in this smart world. Over two years ago, a hacker implanted a small NFC chip in his left hand right between his thumb and his pointer finger and hacked Android smartphones and bypassed almost all security measures, demonstrating the risks of Biohacking. At the end of the same year, another hacker implanted a small NFC chip with the private key to his Bitcoin wallet under his skin , making him able to buy groceries or transfer money between bank accounts by just waving his hand. And this is soon going to be a reality, at least in one tech company in Wisconsin. Marketing solution provider Three Square Market (32M) has announced that it had partnered with Swedish biohacking firm BioHax International for offering implanted microchips to all their employees on 1st August, according to the company's website . Although the programme is optional, the company wants at least more than 50 of its employees to undergo the Biohacking procedure.
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Are you the one who simply punch your wallet against a reader to get into your office? Then surely your office is using Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) cards to manage building access and security. However, these most common access control systems are incredibly easy to hack — and now more than ever before. Thanks to a $10 tiny device developed by two security researchers that can easily circumvent these RFID cards. Dubbed BLEkey or Bluetooth Low Energy device is a tiny little device designed to be embedded in an RFID card reader, a small box you swipe or touch your card to open doors. BLEkey exploits a vulnerability in the Wiegand communication protocol used by the majority of RFID card readers today in order to clone and skim your RFID-equipped cards. Grab your BLEkey for Just $10 Mark Baseggio from security firm Accuvant and Eric Evenchick from Faraday Future who developed BLEkey are going to present their findings at next week's Black Hat se
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Kill Switch - the ability to render devices non-operational to prevent theft - has become a hot topic nowadays. The ability to remotely destroy data of the device lost or stolen has been available for quite some time now, but Kill switch not only remotely destroy the devices' data but also the device itself, making it useless for the thieves. Just last week, Google and Microsoft signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General to add " kill switches " to the upcoming versions of Android and Windows Phone devices, as a part of the " Secure our Smartphones " initiative. But now, the largest chip manufacturer, Intel will soon going to provide Kill Switches for your laptops as well. The company has been working on a project called Wireless Credential Exchange (WCE) with several partners in an effort to bring Kill switch to other mobile devices, including laptops. The project uses RFID technology to provision, track and monitor devices such as lapt
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Indonesia: Police crackdown on peasants protesting land-grab by a Michelin subsidiary
15 June 2020 Campaign for a Binding Treaty, Food Sovereignty, Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform, International Solidarity, Land, Water and Territories, South East and East Asia, Transnational Companies and Agribusiness
Peasants living in Tebo district in the Jambi province of Indonesia, who have long been resisting the attempts of land grabbing by big plantation firms in the region, were in for a shock when the police arrested Junawal, a local peasant leader and organiser on May 26, 2020.
Junawal
Mr Junawal is the Chairperson of Serikat Petani Indonesia’s (SPI) Tebo unit and was leading the local resistance against PT Lestari Asri Jaya (PT LAJ) – a subsidiary of Royal Lestari Utama (RLU). RLU is a joint venture company between PT Barito Pasifik and French transnational tyre-manufacturing giant Michelin. Through its subsidiaries, RLU manages more than 88,000 hectares of plantation land in Jambi and East Kalimantan.
Since its inception, PT- LAJ has been under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
Peasants allege that in the name of “natural rubber plantations” what is indeed happening is large scale corporate land grabbing, with the backing of international institutions. For instance, this conflict in Tebo district has its roots in the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF), a partnership between the UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas. Under a US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond, this partnership finances a sustainable natural rubber plantation in two provinces in Indonesia, one of them in the Jambi province.
La Via Campesina has, for long, called out these attempts of “green-washing”, which always undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change. What these indeed allow for is good business for carbon companies, international conservation NGOs, consultants and industrialised countries.
On June 10, thousands of SPI peasants held a peaceful protest in front of the Tebo Police Headquarters calling for the immediate release of Mr Junawal.
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“This area covers villages maintained by peasant families organised under SPI, and we had made significant steps towards making the region food sovereign. Brother Junawal was only trying to protect his village and their way of life, and there is no reason why he should be in jail for this!”, said Mr Sarwadi, who coordinates SPI’s Jambi Regional Unit.
Agrarian Reform Program – a much-touted public policy initiative of the Indonesian Government – guarantees peasant families right and ownership over their land and gives them full control over the local food production system. It came about after years of struggle led by peasant unions like SPI. This program addresses various agrarian issues including distribution of land certificates and plots of forest land.
In Tebo, however, locals tell a different story. Large plantation firms have laid siege over the region for timber plantations, and peasant families accuse the firm of forced evictions allowing for large scale land clearing.
“While fully supporting the Agrarian Reform program of the government, peasants organised under SPI have worked hard to ensure our country’s food sovereignty. In the process, we have built schools, local markets, peasant-led cooperatives, cultural and religious centres across the country, including here in Tebo district. Yet, to please a few large plantation firms, our people are being criminalised? On what basis?”, asked a furious Agus Ruli who is part of the Union’s central leadership.
The crackdown has galvanised SPI members across the country.
“Our brother Junawal is being accused of burning of five units of heavy equipment owned by PT LAJ on May 14, 2019. The fact is that Junawal only defended land grabbing, eviction of gardens and agrarian reform villages directed by Mr Jokowi, all of which were carried out by PT LAJ”, Sarwadi said.
Junawal and SPI peasants in Tebo Regency defend their land rights guaranteed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). Is defending our rights a crime?” a visibly enraged Sarwadi added.
For more information about this conflict, please visit www.spi.or.id (available only in Bahasa Indonesia)
SPI Jambi : Hentikan Penggusuran dan Kriminalisasi Petani SPI Tebo Oleh PT LAJ
Indonesia Michelin PT Lestari Asri Jaya Serikat Petani Indonesia SPI
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2014 NFL Mock Draft: Rise of the quarterbacks
With the Super Bowl in the rearview mirror, NFL Draft season is officially underway. This week's mock draft features three rounds and several new starting quarterbacks.
By Dan Kadar Feb 3, 2014, 8:51am EST
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Now that the pesky, boring Super Bowl is out of the way, it is officially NFL Draft season. Leading up to the first round on May 8, prepare to be overwhelmed with speculation, baseless rumors and mock drafts. To celebrate the official start of NFL Draft season, this week's mock draft is three rounds with no trades.
The challenge to mock drafts this time of year is projecting free agency. It's easy to assume what roster subtractions a team may make, but the additions are an impossibility. That, in addition to more prospect evaluation, is why a mock draft will change dramatically between now and May. Oh, and don't forget pro days at the NFL Scouting Combine (of which we'll have full coverage once again). The proverbial process is just getting going.
As always, if you have a mock draft, feel free to leave it in the comments. Houston Texans, you are officially on the clock.
1. Houston Texans - Blake Bortles, QB, Central Florida
In my last mock draft, I had the Texans using the first pick on Jadeveon Clowney. That pick is still a possibility. But if anyone knows the Texans, it's John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. He's pretty adamant about the Texans using the first pick on a quarterback. If that's the case, the Texans will spend the next three months deciding between Bortles, Teddy Bridgewater and Johnny Manziel. The reasons for Bortles are rote. New head coach Bill O'Brien has always succeeded with quarterbacks with some size. Check. His Penn State team got torched by Bortles this season. Check. One of his mentors is Bortles' college coach. Check. For now, Bortles checks out as the top choice. As the draft process rolls along, it will be interesting to see what the Texans leak about how they like the quarterbacks. For now, it's Bortles but that could change.
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2. St. Louis Rams (via Washington Redskins) - Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M
As has been written several times already, the Rams are again in a beneficial spot with the No. 2 overall pick. Unless the team comes out and says Sam Bradford isn't the quarterback of the future, look for St. Louis to move this pick. Notably, it could be up for auction to a team targeting Jadeveon Clowney. Since I'm not doing trades in this mock draft, the Rams could be deciding between Matthews and Sammy Watkins. Matthews gets the nod this time because he's a top-level talent able to play the left or right side of the line. He's a "plug him in for a decade and forget about him" kind of talent.
3. Jacksonville Jaguars - Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville
If Bridgewater is there for the Jaguars with the No. 3 pick, he has to be the choice. Over the next three months, bad NFL Draft evaluators will knock Bridgewater. He's not big enough. He doesn't have a cannon arm. But they'll fail to mention how he's advanced at reading defense or he can actually go through his progressions. Doubters be damned, Bridgewater is a franchise quarterback.
More: Pick reaction from Big Cat Country
4. Cleveland Browns - Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M
This is a pick Browns fans should be getting used to seeing. The speculation about Cleveland's interest in Manziel has been happening for months and seems to be legit. The addition of Kyle Shanahan as offensive coordinator gives a little more credence to the selection since he worked with Robert Griffin III to some success. The Browns have burned through a lot of quarterbacks who have seemed to be content with whimpering off into the sunset. If Manziel busts, he would at least do it in dynamic fashion.
5. Oakland Raiders - Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson
The Raiders are in a tough spot with the fifth pick in the draft. The three top quarterbacks are likely to be gone. I don't do trades in mock drafts, but the Falcons will likely maneuver to get over Oakland to take Jadeveon Clowney. That could leave the Raiders choosing between offensive tackles, Khalil Mack or Watkins. Oakland doesn't have a receiver near Watkins' level and he's clearly the best player at his position in the draft. If they add him early, there should still be some second-round quarterbacks who would upgrade the position for the Raiders.
6. Atlanta Falcons - Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina
Somehow, someway, it just seems like the Falcons are going to come out of the 2014 NFL Draft with Clowney. General manager Thomas Dimitroff isn't afraid to pull the trigger on a trade, and whatever he'd give up would be worth it. Don't be lazy. Don't look at Clowney's stats from 2013. He was double-teamed all season and played injured. He's as rare of a talent as people tout him to be.
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7. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Khalil Mack, OLB, Buffalo
Mack may not be the pass-rushing defensive end the Buccaneers need, but he's a do-everything linebacker who could be a difference-maker straight away. Mack picked apart an Ohio State offensive line that should have four players taken in the draft this year, particularly left tackle Jack Mewhort. He's a physical pass rusher who can get off blocks and uses a variety of moves to get after the quarterback. As good as he is getting upfield, Mack looks comfortable dropping in space and covering tight ends. There's little Mack can't do.
More: Pick reaction from Bucs Nation
8. Minnesota Vikings - C.J. Mosley, LB, Alabama
If Minnesota loses out on the top three quarterback prospects, it'll have to weigh whether or not Derek Carr is a noticeable upgrade over what is on the roster. If the answer is no, the Vikings are in a tough spot with the eighth pick. They could be a prime team to trade back and acquire more picks in a deep draft. If they stick at eight, Mosley could improve a shaky linebacker unit. Chad Greenway is coming off an average season and is due to make big money over the next two seasons. Erin Henderson was charged with a DUI in January, and his off-field issues are becoming a concern. Mosley may not be the next Luke Kuechly, but the leader of Alabama's defense is capable of playing inside or outside and gets to the ball in a hurry.
More: Pick reaction from the Daily Norseman
9. Buffalo Bills - Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn
Erik Pears is a less-than-ideal right tackle, and Robinson could be viewed as a relative steal with the ninth pick. The Bills need to keep E.J. Manuel healthy going forward given his growing knee injury history. Having two very good offensive tackles would go a long way in doing that. Robinson made his name at Auburn as a devastating run blocker, but he's a good enough athlete to handle pass rushers as well. Some even grade him out higher than Matthews.
10. Detroit Lions - Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M
The idea of pairing Evans with Calvin Johnson is criminal. As good as Johnson is, Evans simply wouldn't be a No. 2 receiver. He'd be 1B to Johnson's 1A. A physical marvel, Evans doesn't often get the credit he deserves for his hands and speed. Look for Evans to be one of the stars of the NFL Combine this month, and cement his spot as a top-10 pick.
11. Tennessee Titans - Anthony Barr, OLB, UCLA
The first Titans pick in mock drafts has often been used on an offensive lineman. But if Robinson and Matthews are both gone, as they are here, the 11th pick is a little rich for the third-best tackle. New defensive coordinator Ray Horton would love to get his hands on an athletic, relentless player like Barr. He worked wonders with Cleveland's pass rushers last season and Barr is just as good or better than any of them.
12. New York Giants - Eric Ebron, TE, North Carolina
The Giants' offense needs playmakers and there are few better in this year's draft than Ebron. While he's not Mark Bavaro as a blocker, Ebron plays like an speedy, oversized wide receiver. Whether it was going for almost 200 yards against Miami this season, or pulling in nine catches against North Carolina State, Ebron was a sensation for a North Carolina team that had shaky quarterback play. With a quarterback like Eli Manning, Ebron could quickly become one of the NFL's top tight ends.
13. St. Louis Rams - HaHa Clinton-Dix, S, Alabama
Clinton-Dix is the draft's best safety, by a fair margin. He's rarely out of position and can do anything a safety is asked. Safety is one of the Rams' biggest areas of need this offseason, so why not get the best one in the draft? Another player who should be a combine star, teams may be lucky if Clinton-Dix even slips to the teens.
14. Chicago Bears - Kony Ealy, DE, Missouri
Although the Bears just used a first-round pick on Shea McClellin in 2012, he's not had the career many expected with just 6.5 sacks in 28 games. Ealy is a high-upside player and the second-best 4-3 end in the draft this year. If Corey Wootton leaves in free agency, Ealy is talented enough to take over as a rookie. He's an incredible athlete just scratching the surface of his potential.
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15. Pittsburgh Steelers - Ra'Shede Hageman, Minnesota
The Steelers appear set to let Ziggy Hood and Brett Keisel leave via free agency, leaving them with Cameron Heyward and little else at defensive end. At the Senior Bowl, the massive and athletic Hageman looked like a perfect fit as a five-technique. In a draft light on nose tackle prospects, Hageman would at least give Pittsburgh a physical presence on the edge of the line.
16 or 17. Baltimore Ravens - Cyrus Kouandjio, OT, Alabama
Both of Baltimore's starting offensive tackles – Eugene Monroe and Michael Oher – are free agents. At this point in their careers, Kouandjio is better than both of them. He's a high-upside blocker who likes to get physical and maul defensive linemen. In other words, a perfect fit in the AFC North.
More: Pick reaction from Baltimore Beatdown
16 or 17. Dallas Cowboys - Calvin Pryor, S, Louisville
Barry Church and Jeff Heath, the Cowboys' two main safeties a year ago, wouldn't be able to beat Pryor out for a starting job right now. Isn't that what the draft is all about? Pryor is a good all-around safety. He's comfortable dropping back into coverage and breaking on the ball. But he's an aggressive run stopper as well and a sure tackler.
18. New York Jets - Marqise Lee, WR, Southern California
The Jets need a playmaker on offense. As the 2013 college football season progressed, Lee looked more and more like his old self. Injuries and inconsistent quarterback play knocked Lee down some during his college career, but he was on point in USC's bowl game. Lee is a speedy player who cuts quickly on his routes to get open. His hands aren't at the same level as Evans or Watkins, but they're good enough for Lee to be the third wide receiver off the board.
19. Miami Dolphins - Taylor Lewan, OT, Michigan
Quarterback Ryan Tannehill was sacked 58 times this season, so obviously the Dolphins need to improve the offensive line. Lewan is a big, physical blocker who has his way against power rushers. While Lewan will need to be coached up in the finer areas of handling speed rushers, his natural talent is impressive. In fact, he's very similar to former Dolphins left tackle Jake Long, especially when he first came into the league.
More: Pick reaction from the Phinsider
20. Arizona Cardinals - Antonio Richardson, OT, Tennessee
Sure, head coach Bruce Arians has said left tackle isn't the team's biggest priority this offseason, but the smoke screen is thick this time of the year. After Richardson, the quality of offensive tackles in the draft this year drops off considerably. He combines athleticism and power that many of the other top tackles this year don't.
21. Green Bay Packers - Jace Amaro, TE, Texas Tech
Jermichael Finley is entering free agency and recovering from spinal fusion surgery. The Packers may let him sign elsewhere if they can score a player of Amaro's quality in the first round of the draft. He has exceptional hands for a tight end and can play on the line of scrimmage or split out wide. Even with a good group of wide receivers, Amaro would quickly become a favorite for quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
22. Philadelphia Eagles - Darqueze Dennard, CB, Michigan State
On one hand, you could argue the Eagles were last in the NFL in pass defense because they were on the field so often. On the other hand, you point out that neither Bradley Fletcher nor Cary Williams should be long-term solutions on the outside. Dennard is a press specialist who can hang with big receivers and is quick enough to stick with shifty pass catchers.
More: Pick reaction from Bleeding Green Nation
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23. Kansas City Chiefs - Odell Beckham Jr., WR, LSU
In any mocks I've done, this picked has shifted between wide receivers. So why does someone like Beckham get the nod? He's not a superstar athlete like Florida State's Kelvin Benjamin, but he has some of the best hands in the draft. But don't mistake that for Beckham being only a possession receiver. He can run a full route tree, get open in tight spaces and has some speed.
24. Cincinnati Bengals - Jason Verrett, CB, TCU
Although Verrett isn't the most physically imposing cornerback in the draft this year, he can make a play on the ball better than other corners. Leon Hall had another Achilles injury this season, and Terence Newman will be 36 at the start of next season. Whatever cornerback the Bengals have highest on their board should be the pick.
More: Pick reaction from Cincy Jungle
25. San Diego Chargers - Zack Martin, OL, Notre Dame
The Chargers are in a tough spot with their guards. Chad Rinehart is a free agent and right guard Jeromey Clary has a large contract next season. In some fashion, the Chargers may make some moves at the position this offseason. Martin spent his career at Notre Dame starting at offensive tackle. But he has the look of a superstar guard. He's a nasty blocker who could star next to D.J. Fluker.
26. Cleveland Browns (via Indianapolis Colts) - Xavier Su'a-Filo, G, UCLA
This isn't a sexy pick. This is a pick that may make Browns fans groan (I can hear you). But it's a pick that has to happen. The Browns can't rely on Shawn Lauvao at right guard. If the best offensive tackles are gone, the team may stick with Mitchell Schwartz on the right side. Having a good guard next to him should make him a better player. Su'a-Filo is an athletic and powerful blocker who would fit well if the Browns convert to a zone-blocking scheme.
27. New Orleans Saints - Dee Ford, DE/OLB, Auburn
Although Ford showed at the Senior Bowl he's capable of playing with his hand in the dirt, he's athletic enough to move out to linebacker in the NFL. He's the type of pass rusher defensive coordinator Rob Ryan would love. Ford has a scary-fast first move and rare closing speed. He can be run on, but Ford looks like a 10-sack player as a rookie.
28. Carolina Panthers - Kelvin Benjamin, WR, Florida State
There are some flaws in Benjamin's play. His hands can be shaky and his route tree is somewhat limited right now. But it's impossible to not be intrigued by the size, athleticism and upside Benjamin possesses. Receivers who are 6'5 and 234 pounds don't come around often. He could become the Panthers' No. 1 whenever Steve Smith retires.
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29. New England Patriots - Louis Nix, DT, Notre Dame
Don't pigeonhole Nix because he played nose tackle in Notre Dame's 3-4 defense. He's much more than that. The Patriots were near the bottom of the NFL in run defense and tried to get by with Chris Jones and Joe Vellano, who are solid rotation pieces. Nix plays a lot like Vince Wilfork, who could be a cap casualty because he's due more than $11 million in 2014. While Nix shouldn't be considered just a nose tackle, he would give the Patriots the versatility to shift between three- and four-man fronts.
30. San Francisco 49ers - Justin Gilbert, CB, Oklahoma State
If a cornerback of Gilbert's caliber happens to slide in the draft, the 49ers should pounce. Whether that means waiting until pick No. 30 or trading up, the 49ers have a chance to add a very good cornerback. Tarell Brown is a free agent and Carlos Rogers may be a cap casualty. Gilbert is a highly athletic player who can step in and start as a rookie.
More: Pick reaction from Niners Nation
31. Denver Broncos - Ryan Shazier, OLB, Ohio State
Both Paris Lenon and Wesley Woodyard are free agents for the Broncos, and Shazier is a clear upgrade. Shazier is capable of playing outside or inside linebacker in the NFL. He's more physical than his measurables indicate and gets to the ball as fast as any linebacker in the draft this year.
32. Seattle Seahawks - Brandin Cooks, WR, Oregon State
What better insurance for Percy Harvin is there than adding his clone? That's how Cooks could be perceived. He would be a good fall back if Harvin gets hurt or if Golden Tate leaves via free agency. Cooks has the speed to get open over the top and the shiftiness to make defenders miss after the catch.
33. Houston Texans - Austin Seferian-Jenkins, TE, Washington
What goes better with a new quarterback than a safety valve tight end? The quarterback play at Washington diminished what Seferian-Jenkins is capable of doing for an offense. He's a big-play threat who's as athletic as he is physical. He's pro-ready as a receiver and blocker.
34. Washington Redskins - Bradley Roby, CB, Ohio State
Although the Redskins' first pick last year was used on a cornerback, DeAngelo Hall and Josh Wilson are both free agents, and just really aren't that good. Roby didn't have the season at Ohio State some expected, but he's still a highly talented cornerback with the tools to be a star.
35. Cleveland Browns - Allen Robinson, WR, Penn State
If the Browns don't take a wide receiver with their second first-round pick (assuming they don't have to use it to trade up), there will be some solid options with this choice. Robinson was a big-play receiver for Penn State in 2013, finishing the year with 97 receptions for 1,432 yards and six scores. He's the kind of outside receiver who could take some of the pressure off superstar Josh Gordon.
36. Oakland Raiders - Derek Carr, QB, Fresno State
If Carr tumbles out of the first round – which is a possibility – the Raiders should pounce on him in the second. The No. 5 pick is a little much for Carr, but here he'd be a steal. He's obviously an upgrade over Matt McGloin, and would pair nicely with a receiver like Watkins.
37. Atlanta Falcons - Ka'Deem Carey, RB, Arizona
Steven Jackson didn't have the year the Falcons expected in 2013. He didn't run for more than 100 yards in any game, and averaged just 3.5 yards per carry. Carey is arguably the best running back in this year's draft. He's a speed merchant who is just physical enough to break a few tackles. Get Carey in the open field, and the Falcons have another wrinkle on offense. An offensive lineman would be tempting here, but the best ones are gone.
38. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Gabe Jackson, G, Mississippi State
In my last mock draft, I was soundly ripped for even considering an offensive tackle for the Buccaneers. So how about a massive left guard? Carl Nicks has often been injured, and hasn't lived up to the salary he received. He's owed big money over the next two seasons, as is right guard Davin Joseph. If the Buccaneers choose to cut either, there wouldn't be much drop-off if a player like Jackson is brought in.
39. Jacksonville Jaguars - Jeremiah Attaochu, OLB/DE, Georgia Tech
At the Senior Bowl, the Jaguars coaching staff rarely used Attaochu as a pass rusher. This led to some questions about his ability to line up as a Leo in Gus Bradley's defense. At Georgia Tech, Attaochu showed the ability to play defensive end or linebacker and would be a versatile piece for an improving defense.
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40. Minnesota Vikings - Zach Mettenberger, QB, LSU
Mettenberger and his giant arm are made for Norv Turner's vertical passing offense. Mettenberger's stock is down because he's currently rehabbing a torn ACL, but he's far more talented than Matt Cassel or Christian Ponder.
41. Buffalo Bills - Troy Niklas, TE, Notre Dame
Tight end Scott Chandler is a free agent, and a player of Niklas' caliber would be a considerable upgrade at the position. A surprise early entrant into the draft, Niklas is a good all-around tight end, capable of laying a crushing block and getting open in the seam.
42. Tennessee Titans - Lache Seastrunk, RB, Baylor
There has been some discussion about the Titans releasing Chris Johnson, and if that happens running back becomes a big need. Seastrunk may not have Johnson's pure speed, but he's close. He's one of only a few runners this year who can break a big gain at any moment, and is underrated as a between-the-tackles back.
43. New York Giants - David Yankey, G, Stanford
The Giants' offensive line is in a state of upheaval with Kevin Boothe's impending free agency, the retirement of David Diehl and the uncertainty about Chris Snee's future in New York. If the Giants decided to move on from Snee, right guard becomes a big need. Yankey could fill it suitably with his ability to get out on the move.
44. St. Louis Rams - Brandon Coleman, WR, Rutgers
If the Rams pass on a wide receiver in the first round, it may be wise for them to take a big, high-upside target in the second round. Because of the quarterback play at Rutgers the past few seasons, Coleman didn't develop into the type of player many expected. But when he's on, he's comparable in talent to Mike Evans of Texas A&M.
45. Detroit Lions - Kyle Fuller, CB, Virginia Tech
If not for some nagging injuries that kept Fuller out of the Senior Bowl and Virginia Tech's bowl game, he'd be considered a first-round pick. He's a big, physical cornerback who can beat receivers in man coverage.
46. Pittsburgh Steelers - Jarvis Landry, WR, LSU
Jerricho Cotchery and Emmanuel Sanders are both free agents, and the Steelers could save money by letting both walk. Last year's third-round pick, Markus Wheaton, could fill one spot, and Landry the other. The LSU product fits the mold of recent Steelers receivers and has some big-play capabilities.
47. Dallas Cowboys - Tim Jernigan, DT, Florida State
If the Cowboys can sufficiently address safety in the first round, adding another playmaking presence in the middle of the defense should become a priority on Day 2 of the draft. Jernigan is a fringe first-rounder because of his ability to split gaps and get in the backfield. He's the type of player who would improve Dallas' below-average sack totals.
48. Baltimore Ravens - Jimmie Ward, S, Northern Illinois
If there is a safety teams will look at and think of Earl Thomas, it's Ward. Being a rangy safety may be code word for undersized, but Ward would pair nicely with Matt Elam.
49. New York Jets - Cyril Richardson, G, Baylor
After being exposed some at the Senior Bowl, it's clear that Richardson will have to get drafted into the right system. He'd be a good fit with the Jets because he's a power blocker. Right guard Willie Colon is a free agent, and Richardson should be able to fill that spot pretty easily.
50. Miami Dolphins - Aaron Donald, DT, Pittsburgh
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To get Donald at this point in the second round of the draft should be considered a steal. Donald starred during Senior Bowl week, and the Geno Atkins comparisons are legit. Randy Starks and Paul Soliai are both free agents after this season. Donald would slide inside for Miami nicely.
51. Chicago Bears - Stephon Tuitt, DT/DE, Notre Dame
The Bears have numerous free agents along the defensive line, and at this point Tuitt is arguably the best player available. While he played end in Notre Dame's 3-4 defense, he's powerful enough to hold up as a 4-3 tackle.
52. Arizona Cardinals - Christian Jones, OLB, Florida State
While Jones was at his best last season when Florida State lined him up at end, he's experienced at outside and inside linebacker. The Cardinals don't have a lot of playmakers at outside linebacker, and John Abraham is nearing the end of his career.
53. Green Bay Packers - Ahmad Dixon, S, Baylor
Going into the draft, safety is one of the biggest needs for the Packers. In the first year of a five-year deal, Packers strong safety Morgan Burnett had his struggles. The same can be said for free safety M.D. Jennings. Dixon would be the team's best safety immediately and pair nicely with Green Bay's talented cornerbacks.
54. Philadelphia Eagles - Deone Bucannon, S, Washington State
Another secondary piece for the Eagles. Nate Allen is a free agent, and Patrick Chung didn't do much to live up to the contract he was given. Bucannon is a hard-hitting safety who can cover tight ends in man situations. He's a better coverage safety than he's given credit, and is a player who can set the tone in the back half.
55. Cincinnati Bengals - Dominique Easley, DT, Florida
Brandon Thompson played well when Geno Atkins was injured, but the Bengals may look to move on from Robert Geathers and Domata Peko to save some money. Before tearing his ACL, Easley was viewed as a top-15 pick. So while he does a lot of the same things Thompson and Atkins do, a player of his quality will find a way onto the field.
56. San Francisco 49ers (via Kansas City) - Jordan Matthews, WR, Vanderbilt
Matthews may not have had the Senior Bowl some expected, but he's still a dependable receiver and a threat in the red zone. A savvy route runner, Matthews won't wow a lot of people with his speed, but he has good hands.
57. San Diego Chargers - Kyle Van Noy, OLB, BYU
The Chargers have added several pieces at linebacker, but Van Noy is too good of a player to pass over at this point in the second round. He can play on the outside, or with his hand in the dirt in four-man fronts. He's able to drop in coverage and has been a solid pass rusher.
58. New Orleans Saints - Andre Hal, CB, Vanderbilt
Keenan Lewis is a fine player for the Saints, but they don't have much opposite him. If the Saints don't address the position in the first round, look for them to do it on the second day of the draft. One of the SEC's best cornerbacks the past two seasons, Hal had 18 passes defended as a senior.
59. Indianapolis Colts - Jack Mewhort, OT, Ohio State
There was some buzz coming out of the Senior Bowl that Mewhort was a fringe first-round player. He may not be the interior lineman the Colts need, but Mewhort is a good enough player to bolster the line in some fashion.
60. Carolina Panthers - Lamarcus Joyner, CB/S, Florida State
The Panthers have numerous free agents in their secondary, including cornerbacks Drayton Florence and Captain Munnerlyn, along with safeties Mike Mitchell and Quintin Mikell. What better way to address that than adding a player capable of playing both cornerback and safety? Joyner often gets compared to Tyrann Mathieu because he's an undersized playmaker in the back half.
61. San Francisco 49ers - Dion Bailey, S, Southern California
A converted linebacker, Bailey developed quickly in his final year at USC. If the 49ers decide not to bring Donte Whitner back, they need someone to pair with Eric Reid. While Bailey is at his best working down in the box, he's capable enough of dropping back in coverage.
62. New England Patriots - Davante Adams, WR, Fresno State
While the Patriots did just draft two wide receivers last year and added Kenbrell Thompkins, Adams is too good to pass up. At the least he would save the Patriots from signing an overpriced free agent or banking on someone like Thompkins.
63. Denver Broncos - Pierre Desir, CB, Lindenwood
For teams looking to add bigger cornerbacks this offseason, Desir will be a hot commodity. He can get physical with opposing receivers, and help fill one of Denver's biggest needs.
64. Seattle Seahawks - Will Sutton, DT, Arizona State
Sutton may not be a perfect replacement for players like Cliff Avril or Michael Bennett, but a talent like him can't be ignored at the end of the second round.
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65. Houston Texans - Ja'Wuan James, OT, Tennessee
With O'Brien as head coach, the Texans aren't tied to a zone-blocking scheme any longer. Because of that, if a power-blocking right tackle like James slides, they can strike in the third round.
66. Washington Redskins - Donte Moncrief, WR, Ole Miss
A player as good as Moncrief would be somewhat of a steal at this point in the draft. There are smaller playmaking receivers still on the board, but Moncrief is capable of getting up the field himself.
67. Oakland Raiders - Aaron Lynch, DE, South Florida
Lynch is one the highest upside players in the draft. If he develops how many think he can, he's a top-20 talent.
68. Atlanta Falcons - Morgan Moses, OT, Virginia
The massive Moses is a player capable of lining up on either the left or right side and has the sheer size to immediately be an asset.
69. New York Jets (via Tampa Bay) - Carlos Hyde, RB, Ohio State
Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell are a nice pair of running backs, but neither has the potential Hyde does to be a true No. 1. Hyde is a powerhouse runner with nimble feet and surprising speed.
70. Jacksonville Jaguars - Weston Richburg, C, Colorado State
Veteran Brad Meester is a free agent, and at the Senior Bowl, Richburg asserted himself as arguably the best center in this year's draft.
71. Cleveland Browns - Charles Sims, RB, West Virginia
Sims is the best all-around running back in the draft this year and would give the Browns a running back who can carry the load and catch passes out of the backfield.
72. Minnesota Vikings - Scott Crichton, DE, Oregon State
With Jared Allen's future in Minnesota up in the air and Everson Griffen a free agent, the Vikings have a big need at defensive end. Crichton is a strong pass rusher who will only get better as he adds more moves to his arsenal.
73. Buffalo Bills - Devon Kennard, DE/OLB, Southern California
Sure, new defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said the Wide 9 wouldn't define his defense, but he may like to have an attacking, versatile pass rusher like Kennard.
74. New York Giants - Bishop Sankey, RB, Washington
The Giants can't rely on former first-round pick David Wilson, and Andre Brown is a free agent. Sankey is a no-frills running back with good vision and enough speed.
75. St. Louis Rams - Ego Ferguson, DT, LSU
The Rams already have a good defense, but Ferguson could work his way into the defensive tackle rotation.
76. Detroit Lions - Travis Swanson, C, Arkansas
Center Dominic Raiola's career is winding down, and Swanson is someone who can come in and play at any of the interior line positions.
77. San Francisco 49ers (via Tennessee) - Anthony Johnson, DT, LSU
Johnson is an unconventional fit on a 3-4, but he should be able to find his way because of his quickness.
78. Dallas Cowboys - Demarcus Lawrence, DE, Boise State
George Selvie was good for the Cowboys, but a player like Lawrence would add even more quality pass rush help to the Cowboys' defensive line.
79. Baltimore Ravens - Cody Hoffman, WR, BYU
There isn't a lot of dynamism to Hoffman's game. He's just a dependable possession receiver who can be an asset in the red zone.
80. New York Jets - E.J. Gaines, CB, Missouri
Antonio Cromartie is due a large roster bonus in March, is coming off a down season and has a hip issue. Gaines was a three-year starter at Missouri, and was an All-SEC performer, intercepting five passes as a senior.
81. Miami Dolphins - James Hurst, OT, North Carolina
Doubling up on offensive tackles in the draft this year would immediately improve Miami's biggest weakness. If Hurst weren't coming back from injury, he'd be a second-round player, at worst.
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82. Chicago Bears - Marcus Roberson, CB, Florida
Of the three Florida cornerbacks who will be taken in the draft, Roberson is the most pro-ready. If Charles Tillman is lost in free agency, Roberson could be pressed into duty quickly.
83. Cleveland Browns (via Pittsburgh Steelers) - Loucheiz Purifoy, CB, Florida
The Browns have tried several cornerbacks opposite Joe Haden, and need to keep trying until they find one.
84. Arizona Cardinals - Brett Smith, QB, Wyoming
At some point in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Cardinals should draft a quarterback. Smith left Wyoming a year early and needs to develop for a bit. This would be a good situation for him with plenty of receivers to help him along.
85. Green Bay Packers - DaQuan Jones, DT, Penn State
B.J. Raji is entering free agency, and while Jones may not fill space quite as well, he's a solid defensive lineman who would add toughness to the unit.
86. Philadelphia Eagles - De'Anthony Thomas, WR/RB, Oregon
It's hard to find a good spot for Thomas, but Chip Kelly knows how to use him. He could line up at wide receiver, running back and contribute on special teams.
87. Kansas City Chiefs - Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, Eastern Illinois
When you don't have a second-round pick, taking a backup quarterback can be viewed as a luxury pick. But don't forget, Alex Smith is a free agent after next season and Garoppolo is a good scheme fit.
88. Cincinnati Bengals - Carl Bradford, OLB, Arizona State
If nothing else, Bradford would be a good replacement for James Harrison in the near future.
89. San Diego Chargers - Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska
The Chargers would be gambling waiting this long to add a cornerback, but scoring a player like Jean-Baptiste in the third round would be a good choice.
90 Indianapolis Colts - Ed Stinson, DE, Alabama
Cory Redding is a solid player for the Colts up front, but adding more talent in the draft should be near the top of the team's needs.
91. New Orleans Saints - Seantrel Henderson, OT, Miami
Protecting Drew Brees has to be a priority of New Orleans' offseason. Henderson is rough around the edges, but is a great talent.
92. Carolina Panthers - Billy Turner, OT, North Dakota State
The Panthers have several free agent offensive linemen, and Turner has the ability to play on either side.
93. New England Patriots - Richard Rodgers, TE, California
Rodgers isn't the highest-rated tight end left on the board, but he's the best receiver.
94. San Francisco 49ers - Aaron Colvin, CB, Oklahoma
This is the token injured player luxury pick for the 49ers. Before tearing his ACL during Senior Bowl practices, Colvin had the potential to be a second-rounder.
95. Denver Broncos - Tre Mason, RB, Auburn
Knowshon Moreno is a free agent, and some consider Mason among the best running backs in the draft.
96. Minnesota Vikings (via Seattle) - Jay Bromley, DT, Syracuse
If new head coach Mike Zimmer wants a Geno Atkins-type defensive tackle, Bromley fits the mold. He could pair with Sharrif Floyd in the middle for Minnesota going forward.
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If we want to understand how the brain creates memories, and how genetic disorders distort the brain’s machinery, then the fragile X gene is an ideal place to start. That’s why the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium, taking place November 28-29 at Emory, will be a significant event for those interested in neuroscience and genetics. Stephen T. Warren, 1953-2021 Warren, the founding chair of Emory’s Department of Human Genetics, led an international team that discovered Read more
Mutations in V-ATPase proton pump implicated in epilepsy syndrome
Why and how disrupting V-ATPase function leads to epilepsy, researchers are just starting to figure Read more
Tracing the start of COVID-19 in GA
At a time when COVID-19 appears to be receding in much of Georgia, it’s worth revisiting the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Emory virologist Anne Piantadosi and colleagues have a paper in Viral Evolution on the earliest SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences detected in Georgia. Analyzing relationships between those virus sequences and samples from other states and countries can give us an idea about where the first COVID-19 infections in Georgia came from. We can draw Read more
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Multiple myeloma patients display weakened antibody responses to mRNA COVID vaccines
A new study reports weakened antibody responses to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines among most patients with multiple myeloma, a form of bone-marrow cancer associated with an immunocompromised state.
The research, published in the journal Leukemia, was carried out at the Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research (IMBCR) in California, in collaboration with Emory infectious diseases fellow Samuel Stampfer, MD, PhD.
Patients with smoldering myeloma, not requiring treatment, all achieved a good response to COVID-19 vaccination, whereas less than half of patients with active myeloma requiring treatment did. Specifically, only 45 percent of active patients fully responded to the mRNA vaccines, whereas less than a quarter showed a partial response and one-third did not respond to the vaccines above background antibody levels.
Serum samples from 103 multiple myeloma patients were obtained prior to vaccination and 2-3 weeks after administration of the first and second vaccines, and compared to a group of age‑matched healthy controls. Predictors of reduced antibody responses to the vaccines included: older age, impaired renal function, low lymphocyte counts, reduced uninvolved antibody levels, past first line of treatment, and those not in complete remission. Nearly two-thirds of patients who received the Moderna vaccine responded to a level thought to be clinically significant, whereas only approximately a quarter who received the Pfizer vaccine did.
“Based on these data, myeloma patients may need to continue social distancing following COVID-19 vaccination, and postvaccine antibody tests may help guide decisions regarding supplementary vaccination or antibody prophylaxis for this vulnerable population,” says Stampfer, who co-designed the clinical study, under the guidance of senior author James Berenson, MD, the Scientific and Medical Director of IMBCR.
“This study highlights the importance of recognizing the limitations of current vaccination approaches to COVID-19 for immunocompromised patients, and that new approaches will have to be developed to improve their protection from this dangerous infection,” Berenson says. “It also suggests that there may be clinically significant differences in the effectiveness of different COVID-19 vaccines for immune compromised patients. Until these advances occur, it means that myeloma patients will need to remain very careful even if they have been vaccinated through wearing their masks and avoiding contact with unvaccinated individuals.”.
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Emory MVA COVID-19 Vaccine Safe and Effective in Animal Models
Researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have developed a COVID-19 vaccine that has proven safe and effective in mice and monkeys. Results from this National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded study were published online Thursday, Feb. 4 in Immunity.
The Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine induces protective immunity with the platform of modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), a harmless version of a poxvirus that is well-known for its use in HIV/AIDS vaccines. Like the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, the Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine induces strong neutralizing antibodies, which support the immune system’s ability to fight infections. The Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine also induces killer CD8 T cells, providing a multi-pronged approach to halting SARS-CoV-2.
In addition, the Emory researchers say the vaccine is easily adaptable to address disease variants and can be used in combination with existing vaccines to improve their ability to combat variants and has the potential to be equally effective with a single dose.
Lead researcher Rama Amara, PhD, built the Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine based on his more than 20 years of experience working with MVA and animal models to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. He and his Yerkes-based research team tested two MVA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in mice. One of them, MVA/S, used the complete spike protein of coronavirus to induce strong neutralizing antibodies and a strong killer CD8 T cell response against SARS-CoV-2.
“Generating neutralizing antibodies is an important component of a successful COVID-19 vaccine because the antibodies can block the virus from entering the body’s cells,” says Amara, Charles Howard Candler professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory University School of Medicine and a researcher in Yerkes’ Division of Microbiology and Immunology and Emory Vaccine Center. “It’s as important to activate CD8 T cells that can clear infected cells, so this allows us to approach halting the virus two ways simultaneously. The CD8 T cells also provide ongoing value because they are key to working against other variants of the virus, especially if antibodies fail.”
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In current vaccine research, adjuvants are no secret
Visionary immunologist Charlie Janeway was known for calling adjuvants – vaccine additives that enhance the immune response – a “dirty little secret.”
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Janeway’s point was that foreign antigens, by themselves, were unable to stimulate the components of the adaptive immune system (T and B cells) without signals from the innate immune system. Adjuvants facilitate that help.
By now, adjuvants are hardly a secret, looking at some of the research that has been coming out of Emory Vaccine Center. This week, an analysis by Ali Ellebedy, now at Washington University St Louis, and colleagues showed that in healthy volunteers, the AS03 adjuvant boosted otherwise poor immune responses to a limited dose of the exotic avian flu H5N1, recruiting both memory and naïve B cells. More on that here.
The Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, which has shown some activity in a small clinical trial here at Emory, has its own kind of adjuvant, since it’s made of both innate-immune-stimulating mRNA and clothed in lipid nanoparticles. Extra adjuvants may come into play later, either with this vaccine or others.
A question we’ve seen many people asking, and discussed on Twitter etc is this: how long does the immunity induced by a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine last? How can we make the immune cells induced by a vaccine stick around for a long time? Read more
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Access to HIV’s hideouts: T cells that take on their own
Police procedural television shows, such as Law + Order, have introduced many to the Internal Affairs Bureau: police officers that investigate other police officers. This group of unloved cops comes to mind in connection with the HIV/AIDS research published this week by Rama Amara’s lab at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Vaccine Center.
“Killer” antiviral T cells (red spots) can be found in germinal centers. The green areas are B cell follicles, which HIV researchers have identified as major reservoirs for the virus. Image courtesy of Rama Amara.
HIV infection is hard to get rid of for many reasons, but one is that the virus infects the cells in the immune system that act like police officers. The “helper” CD4 T cells that usually support immune responses become infected themselves. For the immune system to fight HIV effectively, the “killer” CD8 antiviral T cells would need to take on their own CD4 colleagues.
When someone is HIV-positive and is taking antiretroviral drugs, the virus is mostly suppressed but sticks around in a reservoir of inactive infected cells. Those cells hide out in germinal centers, specialized areas of lymph nodes, which most killer antiviral T cells don’t have access to. A 2015 Nature Medicine paper describes B cell follicles, which are part of germinal centers, as “sanctuaries” for persistent viral replication. (Imagine some elite police unit that has become corrupt, and uniformed cops can’t get into the places where the elite ones hang out. The analogy may be imperfect, but might help us visualize these cells.)
Amara’s lab has identified a group of antiviral T cells that do have the access code to germinal centers, a molecule called CXCR5. Knowing how to induce antiviral T cells displaying CXCR5 will be important for designing better therapeutic vaccines, as well as efforts to suppress HIV long-term, Amara says. The paper was published in PNAS this week. Read more
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The cure word, as applied to HIV
HIV researchers are becoming increasingly bold about using the “cure” word in reference to HIV/AIDS, even though nobody has been cured besides the “Berlin patient,” Timothy Brown, who had a fortuitous combination of hematopoetic stem cell transplant from a genetically HIV-resistant donor. Sometimes researchers use the term “functional cure,” meaning under control without drugs, to be distinct from “sterilizing cure” or “eradication,” meaning the virus is gone from the body. A substantial obstacle is that HIV integrates into the DNA of some white blood cells.
HIV cure research is part of the $35.6 million, five-year grant recently awarded by the National Institutes of Health to Yerkes/Emory Vaccine Center/Emory Center for AIDS Research. Using the “shock and kill” approach during antiviral drug therapy, researchers will force HIV (or its stand-in in non-human primate research, SIV) to come out of hiding from its reservoirs in the body. The team plans to test novel “latency reversing agents” and then combine the best one with immunotherapeutic drugs, such as PD-1 blockers, and therapeutic vaccines.
The NIH also recently announced a cluster of six HIV cure-oriented grants, named for activist Martin Delaney, to teams led from George Washington University, University of California, San Francisco, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and University of North Carolina. Skimming through the other teams’ research plans, it’s interesting to see the varying degrees of emphasis on “shock and kill”/HIV latency, enhancing the immune response, hematopoetic stem cell transplant/adoptive transfer and gene editing weaponry vs HIV itself.
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HIV vaccine news: a glass half full
This week, researchers from Yerkes and Emory Vaccine Center led by Cindy Derdeyn published a paper that I first thought was disturbing. It describes how monkeys vaccinated against HIV’s relative SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) still become infected when challenged with the virus. Moreover, it’s not clear whether the vaccine-induced antibodies are exerting any selective pressure on the virus that gets through.
But then I realized that this might be an example of “burying the lead,” since we haven’t made a big hoopla about the underlying vaccine studies, conducted by Rama Amara. Some of these studies showed that a majority of monkeys can be protected from repeated viral challenge. The more effective vaccine regimens include adjuvants such as the immune-stimulating molecules GM-CSF or CD40L (links are the papers on the protective effects). Read more
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Two presentations on Emory research at last week’s AIDS Vaccine 2010 conference concerned adjuvants. These are substances that act as amplifiers, stimulating the immune system while keeping its focus on the specific components of a vaccine.
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Immunologist Charlie Janeway once described adjuvants as immunology’s “dirty little secret,” because for a long time scientists did not know how they worked. Some adjuvants can sound irritating and nasty, such as alum and oil emulsion. Alum is the only vaccine adjuvant now licensed for human clinical use in the US. Over the last few years, scientists have learned that adjuvants rev up what is now known as the “innate immune system,” so that the body knows that the vaccine is something foreign and dangerous.
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Progressive Dairy enters third year of podcasting with nearly 40 episodes available
Jerome, ID — In 2021, the Progressive Dairy staff will continue developing its podcast offerings, marking the company’s third year of publishing success in the new medium.
The Progressive Dairy podcast launched in September 2019 and has featured agricultural and dairy industry leaders like Kay Johnson Smith, Tom Earleywine and Dr. Gordie Jones, as well as well-known dairy managers such as Jim Ostrom and Lloyd Holterman.
“We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished with the podcast in the first two seasons, and we’re looking forward to sharing more of the expertise and powerful stories, straight from the mouths of leaders in the dairy community, in 2021,” says Progressive Dairy Managing Editor Walt Cooley.
Each of the publication’s top six most popular episodes of 2020 received 1,200 downloads, with about 25,000 downloads total from 2019 to 2020.
“Our goal is to provide value to our listeners by continuing to share the voices of the most sought-after industry leaders and dairy producers, with exclusive interviews on real-life, timely topics that impact the dairy industry,” says podcast co-host and Progressive Dairy Editor Peggy Coffeen.
The Progressive Dairy podcast is available in most streaming services, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. You can also listen in by visiting www.progressivedairy.com/podcasts, clicking on an episode title and clicking the “play” button.
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Brewers find new catcher landing Narváez from Mariners
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The Milwaukee Brewers acquired catcher Omar Narváez from the Seattle Mariners on Thursday for minor league pitcher Adam Hill and a compensation round pick in next June’s amateur draft.
Narváez becomes Milwaukee’s replacement for Yasmani Grandal, who signed a $73 million, four-year contract with the Chicago White Sox. Narváez, 28, was excellent at the plate in his one season with the Mariners, hitting 278 with 22 home runs and 55 RBIs in 132 games. Narváez led American League catchers in on-base percentage (.373), slugging percentage (.516) and OPS (.889), and was second among catchers in those categories.
“Omar has established himself as one of the best offensive catchers in the game,” Milwaukee general manager David Stearns said. “We believe his bat will give us an impactful left-handed presence in our lineup.”
The issue for Narváez has been his defense, although he improved last season with Seattle. He had just three passed balls after being charged with 12 in 2018 with the White Sox.
Narváez was expendable because of the depth Seattle has at the position. Tom Murphy emerged as a solid backup and contributor last season and will likely be backed up by Austin Nola going into the season. Seattle also has top catching prospect Cal Raleigh.
“We were fortunate in 2019 to develop really good depth at the catcher spot, with Omar, Tom Murphy and Austin Nola at the big league level, and Cal Raleigh rising quickly in our minor league system,” Seattle general manager Jerry Dipoto said. “That depth allowed us to make a move today that we think will pay long-term dividends to us, while not impacting us in the short term.”
Hill, 22, pitched for Milwaukee’s Class A affiliate last season and was 7-9 with a 3.92 ERA. He was a fourth-round pick of the New York Mets in 2018 and was traded to the Brewers before the start of last season.
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Kenneth Okolie blasts Mummy GO over her comment on BBNaija following rumors about him being ‘Big Brother’
Nollywood Actor, Kenneth Okolie has slammed Popular evangelist, Funmilayo Adebayo also known as Mummy G.O, after she revealed the alleged identity of the mystified voice behind Big Brother Naija.
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Bill Gates, the US billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, has reportedly found love again — after staying divorced for more than a year.
According to Daily Mail, the businessman, 67, is now in a romantic relationship with Paula Hurd, the widow of Mark Hurd, the former Oracle co-CEO, who died in 2019.
Gates and Paula are said to be longtime tennis fans. They are also said to have been seen attending the same tournaments over the years.
The pair were said to have been seen last month at the Australian Open in Melbourne and in Sydney.
“They’re inseparable,” a friend of the couple was quoted to have said.
“They’ve been together over a year and she’s always described as a “mystery woman,” but it’s no mystery to their inner circle that they’re in a romantic relationship.”
Paula, 60, and her late husband, who died of cancer, share two daughters together.
The widow, who was a former tech executive, is now an event planner and organizer, and philanthropist.
Gates and Melinda announced their divorce in May 2021 — after 34 years together, and 27 years of marriage.
They tied the knot in 1994 after dating for 7 years and share three children together — Jennifer and Phoebe, their two daughters, and a son Rory.
The billionaire also said he is still on good terms with his ex-wife while admitting his “grieve” over their divorce.
“We have a super important, complex, close relationship where we’ve chosen to work together. And I’m very happy that we get to work together. I’m also grieving the same way she is,” he had said.
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Fist of the North Star: Raoh Gold Version
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"I am Ken-Oh, the Conqueror! I’m also the last thing you will ever see."
Prime 1 Studio is proud to finally be able to present another jaw-dropping addition to the Premium Masterline Series: The 1/4 Scale Raoh, Gold Version from Fist of the North Star!
Fist of the North Star by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara is among the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Moreover, it’s immense popularity has allowed its characters and themes to rise up into legendary pop-culture status!
With this in mind, the talented team at Prime 1 Studio wanted to perform work that was more than up to the task of portraying such a seminal character in the Fist of the North Star universe: the power-hungry, and extremely ruthless Raoh, Ken-Oh...King of Fists!
Prime 1 Studio’s 31-inch-tall Raoh is magnificent to behold! Covered in his gold and leather armor, he stands proudly as a warning to the next useless weakling in his path. With his arm outstretched, he displays his raw power like only a Master of Hokuto Shinken can! As he walks down a pedestal of stone stairs, his real fabric cape, flows behind in all its majesty.
Our sculptors ensured that we nailed Raoh’s intense stare and threatening demeanor. The sculpting of his helmet and armor pieces is stunningly immaculate. Raoh’s anatomy is befitting his stature. Equally, our skillful painters rendered Raoh in stunning realistic hues and tones. They accentuated the intricate detail and careworn look of his leather chestplate, as well as his bracers and boots.
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Recent Neuro Alum Oliver Sussman (‘21) Wins Fulbright to Conduct Research in Barcelona
Neuro alum Oliver Sussman (‘21) has received a Fulbright Scholarship in support of cognitive neuroscience research that he will pursue in Luca Bonatti’s lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
“I’m beyond thrilled, and deeply grateful for all the support I’ve received at Harvard: from the Caramazza lab, from Ryan Draft and the Neuro department more broadly, and from Chris Gerry, my fellowships tutor,” Sussman says.
For Sussman, the Fulbright year will both bolster his neuroscience research experience and offer immersion in the culture of the Catalonia region. “I’ve been to Barcelona once before, and I fell in love with the city: its energy, its liveability, and the way in which it combines an international feel with a distinctive Catalonian character,” he says. “I’m also excited to practice my Spanish, pick up some Catalan, and visit some of my relatives who live there!”
Sussman’s research project will delve into how verbal reasoning differs from non-verbal reasoning using fMRI experiments. “My project is in a similar vein to my thesis research (which was also an fMRI experiment), albeit aimed at quite different research questions,” Sussman explains. “My general goal for a Fulbright project was to gain further research experience in cognitive neuroscience while trying out new areas of interest prior to selecting a focus for a PhD, and I found that Prof. Bonatti’s lab overlapped perfectly with the topics I most wanted to explore next: language, fundamental cognitive science, and intersections with philosophy of mind.”
“Oliver is a serious and gifted scholar,” says Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience Ryan Draft. “He has followed his interests into the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and neuroscience. His experience at Harvard – in courses, research, and abroad (studying Spanish in Argentina) will serve him well in Barcelona, where he will begin his next research project to study the development of thought and reason.”
He adds that his undergraduate research career didn’t follow the typical timeline and is glad that the Fulbright program is offering an opportunity to expand and elaborate upon his past research experiences. “I began my undergraduate research career relatively late, and in a pandemic no less; as a result, I was concerned I lacked the requisite experience to be a competitive applicant,” Sussman says. “If you’re in my position, I highly encourage you to apply! The Fulbright selection criteria are quite holistic, and I think it can be a great opportunity to deepen early research experience.”
Congratulations to Oliver Sussman!
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A New Milestone for Gamers in the iPad Family
Mobile devices today are getting better and better that the best features are what you can find in them. Not only are these gadgets used for internet browsing, emailing and chatting, they are also commonly used for gaming. In fact, gaming is one reason why many people buy a tablet. They want to experience non-stop gaming wherever and whenever they want. Portability is the main purpose why companies such as Apple and Samsung introduced these gadgets to the world.
Avid tablet gamers and iPad fans will be delighted to know that Apple has just launched its latest baby in the tablet family. This November, Apple presents two great news about the new iPad release. First is the iPad Air, which is considered the most powerful tablet of its class. Second is the iPad Mini which comes in an enabled faster-retina. By the end of this month, these products will be out in the market for public purchase.
Before buying the iPad Air, it would be beneficial to know its advantages to gamers who choose to play games on this tablet. At this point, let us see what Apple has to offer:
Thinner, Lighter and Easier to Carry
The portability quality factor of the Apple iPad is what makes it easy to carry. The new iPad Air is now slimmer by 20 percent and lighter by 40 percent. It certainly defines the term ‘air’. Anything lighter is more convenient to use. This means that even the most complex games are now easier to handle. There is no reason to be tired when playing your favorite game on the iPad Air.
Zippier Wifi
People get an iPad to meet the purpose of being connected to the internet all the time. The iPad Air comes with a faster Wifi allowing users to get connected to the internet easily. As such, gamers can enjoy faster processing, downloading and purchasing thereby making you save time and effort. A faster Wifi is what makes gamers happy. Gaming is simultaneous and game time can be handled efficiently. MMO players will certainly be delighted with this development.
High-Speed Processing and More Vivid Graphics
Apple promised its users more powerful graphics with their fourth-generation iPad and this is certainly what the iPad Air has in store: more powerful video graphics surpassing the performance of its predecessor. Apparently, the iPad Air comes with an excellent A7 CPU processor, which performs eight times faster than the current iPad. High-speed processing is what you can expect with the iPad Air.
The improvement of its CPU pushes Apple to boost its hardware and pattern its capability with the standards of the latest game consoles. Therefore, this platform allows gamers to enjoy a more attractive touchscreen and upgraded graphic effects.
In addition, the iPad Air now includes an upgraded powerful A7 chip. Users and gamers will be delighted to enjoy high-speed functionality, as the device will be running its iOS on a 640bit processor. This means that the iPad Air will be equipped with more memory allowing more games to be installed and huge-sized files to be saved. Although Apple has no revelation on the exact size of its RAM, it is assured that it will be more than 4GB. The larger RAM can therefore run multiple programs all at the same time without sacrificing speed.
As far as gaming is concerned, the A7 Chip allows continuous gaming without any interruptions even with the presence of other programs running. Surprisingly, the gamers who are most pleased about this development are people who play games as simple as bingo on the go. Since the game is live and involves real money, interruptions in the gaming session can have grave consequences, an opinion voiced by bingo players who weren’t satisfied with their existing tablets. As such, the iPad Air is a great device for players who want to play consistently with longer game time, such as the players who play on one of the iPad bingo apps detailed.
Since the advent of the iPad, the creation of video games has increased significantly because of the augmented demands for new and interesting games to play on the go.
Considering the iPad Air’s cutting technology, what gamers will expect is a more a convenient system that will allow them to take their favorite game anywhere they want to be. With the huge number of iPad games today, the iPad Air will surely be a favored gadget .
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Jaguar F-Type and Lana Del Rey in Burning Desire
On February 13, 2013 a new video premiered on YouTube: official music video for Lana Del Rey’s new song Burning Desire. Interestingly it was uploaded by JaguarCarsLimited, the official YouTube channel of Jaguar Cars.
As you might guessed from the title the video includes two stars: Lana Del Rey and Jaguar’s new car model, the 2014 convertible F-Type.
Back in August 2012 Perez Hilton unveiled information that Lana Del Rey inked a six-figure contract with Jaguar to help launch the new F-Type sports car. Jaguar’s global brand director, Adrian Hallmark, explained why the partnership is perfect:
”Jaguar’s allure is in large part due to its unique blend of authenticity and modernity, two values we believe are shared with Lana in her professional achievements.”
Lana Del Rey & Jaguar F-Type (Source: Daily Mail)
The car was first revealed in September 2012 at the Paris motor show. Lana Del Rey helped to unveil the car in Paris and also performed the song Burning Desire, which was apparently inspired by the new Jaguar.
Lana’s song will be also the title track for a special film called Desire (out later this Spring),which will star Damien Lewis (Nicholas Brody from Homeland).
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World Wide Technology Raceway
Located across the river from St. Louis, Missouri, World Wide Technology Raceway is the only venue on the planet that hosts NASCAR, IndyCar, and NHRA racing. Featuring an oval track spanning 1.25 miles with a road course tucked within, the raceway is also home to a high-speed go-cart track and a quarter mile drag strip used for both regional and national racing events. . To keep pace with the raceway’s needs, the venue operators required an updated speaker design powerful enough to overcome the roar of multiple racecar engines, screeching tires, and other sounds synonymous with modern racing.
FACILITY SCOPE Racing complex featuring an oval track spanning 1.25 miles, road course, gokart track, and drag strip
OBJECTIVES The venue operators required an updated speaker design powerful enough to overcome the tremendous noise of modern racecar driving.
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OUTCOME Thanks to Randy Hildebrand’s design expertise, the raceway is now equipped with powerful loudspeakers designed to overcome of the most challenging audio environments, allowing color commentary and music to cut through the racing noise with unparalleled clarity.
The owners of the raceway partnered with Randy Hildebrand and the TG TECH department of Two Guys Music to design and install the necessary audio equipment within the venue. Hildebrand determined that Biamp’s Community loudspeakers would be more than up to the task. “The Community R Series were chosen mostly from my past experiences with them, Hildebrand said. “I have installed them for many years with little to no problems or failures. They cover the area great and fit into the price that was set by the venue owner.” To accommodate the oval track, 66 Community R.5/99TZ speakers were installed for the fans and four Community R1/94Z were placed in the infield for the racers. The drag strip required 36 Community R.5/99TZ speakers for fans and another 12 for races in the staging lanes. Four R1/94Z speakers were installed in the pit area for the racers, while the go-kart track required a total of 12 R.5/66TZ speakers. Between the venues, more than seven miles of speaker cable was pulled. Speakers were flown on poles 18 feet in the air along the front stretch of the oval and into the seating of turns one and two. The speakers on the drag strip were placed on the retaining wall on each side of the track covering the grandstands. The staging lanes are covered from the tower to the pit area with the R.5 boxes on poles 12 feet high. The speakers on the go-kart track are mounted on their light poles about 30 feet in the air, while the infield and pit R1 speakers are about 30 feet high on towers provided by the venue
The result was deemed highly satisfactory by the client and was put into immediate use for some high-profile events held at the raceway. The oval track hosted the 2021 NASCAR truck race, while the drag strip was used for the NHRA Midwest National race. “At both events, the owner and CEO Curtis Francois, the executive vice-president and general manager Chris Blair told us how great it sounded,” Hildebrand said. “At the NHRA race, I was even asked to turn it down. The sound system was too loud at a drag race! That is the best compliment that I could get.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7470149993896484, "wiki_prob": 0.7470149993896484, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1370870"} |
Interior Designers Reveal Their Biggest Pet Peeves
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Gabrielle Savoie is the founder of décor site Savvy Home, a finalist for prestigious style and design awards. She is an expert in interior design and home décor and has been a writer and editor for various high-profile publications in the industry for almost 10 years.
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Taking the leap into the world of interior decorating can be a scary thing, especially the first time around. Just like a budding relationship, the start of a decorating project can bring a symphony of emotions: the heart-swelling when imagining the end result, the butterflies when spotting your dream sofa, the nerves when swiping the credit card, the doubts when awaiting delivery…Is it a good fit? Will it last? Will I love it? Fortunately, there are interior designers who can guide you through every step of the way with their expertise. But there are several factors you should consider to ensure you and your designer enjoy a beneficial partnership.
To help you take the decorating plunge, we tapped our favorite designers to share everything you should know before hiring them. Take notes, and get ready to enter the partnership that will make your house a home.
Most experts agree, having a clear vision is best when hiring a designer. "The client with a blank slate is a myth 99 percent of the time," says designer Max Humphrey. "I actually enjoy working under existing parameters because I like a challenge."
"When working with clients, it’s extremely helpful to get an idea of their aesthetic and what they naturally gravitate toward," says Katie Hodges. "That being said, I think the best types of clients are those who have their own style but hire an interior designer to bring something new and refreshing to the table." Homepolish co-founder Noa Santos agrees: "The more inspiration the better. It's part of the fun."
Interior designer David John Dick of DISC Interiors has a slightly different approach: "We certainly love when clients come inspired and ready to collaborate, but we understand that some clients have not had this time in their life to do this, and we are excited to work with them too. Our goal is to take their initial inspirations or thoughts on how a room should function, and then run with their ideas, and eventually execute [them] into their dream interior."
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The bond between designer and client is a sacred one. In order to have a successful working relationship with your designer, you need to be able to trust them implicitly. "I would advise clients to stay true to who they are, yet keep an open mind and allow their designer to…well, design," shares Hodges. "An interior designer will usually be able to find the right balance between your comfort zone and their vision." Dick agrees: "We love when clients trust us, and we understand trust does not happen instantly," he says. "But when trust happens, beautiful things can happen."
An interior designer will usually be able to find the right balance between your comfort zone and their vision.
Beyond trust, Santos believes that camaraderie is a fundamental pillar to a great partnership: "Find someone you really love," says Santos. "You're going to be spending a fair amount of time together, and the process should be fun for both of you. My favorite clients are the ones I can have a cocktail with."
Finding the right designer upon which to build this productive relationship isn't easy, so doing your due diligence is of utmost importance. "All the online research in the world doesn’t make up for a one-on-one meeting or at least a few phone calls," says Humphrey. "It’s an intimate connection between a client and a designer since we’re in their homes and lives, so just plucking someone off of the internet because they have cool taste can lead to disaster if you don’t click personally."
What should you actually look for in a designer? "It's just as important to understand what you, as the client, want from your designer," says Santos. "Do you want someone who is going to be more assertive, or do you want a designer who is there simply for guidance? Do you want someone that likes to email or do you prefer texting? Personality and working style are too often overlooked, yet it's where we focus the majority of our attention at Homepolish. Great designers can typically work within a range of styles, but you need to love and trust the person you decide to work with."
Where should you look for a designer? "Most of our clients are by referral, but we love when clients find our work via the web, Houzz, Instagram, or a press article," says Dick. "It really is so much about a personal connection when looking for a residential interior designer, so we recommend asking friends or co-workers who you trust and whose style you admire." Hodges also believes in the power of Instagram: "Instagram accounts usually have more content than designers’ websites, and you can see what designers are drawn to and inspired by."
"Communicate your likes and dislikes in any way you know how, whether visual or verbal," says Dick, who often tells clients to give as much information as possible in the beginning. "Discuss your plans with your significant other, and what your combined vision looks like. Don't expect the designer to always be able to decipher if you disagree with your partner and have different visions for the space," he adds.
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Few designers nail the design on the first try, but how many revisions it's acceptable to ask for can be a touchy subject. "Every designer will have their own policy on how many changes they accept, so it’s important for a client to understand their potential designer’s policies prior to working together," says Hodges.
Most of the designers we spoke to agreed that multiple revisions were entirely fine during the design phase, but not so much during execution: "If the design presented is not what you had in mind, it is perfectly okay to communicate the changes that need to occur," says Dick. "But once the client enters into the purchasing phase, changes and exchanges may not be allowed by vendors, so it's important to understand your designer's vision before proceeding, and to read all invoices and contracts."
If the design presented is not what you had in mind, it is perfectly okay to communicate the changes that need to occur.
"There’s definitely such a thing as too much inspiration," adds Humphrey. "I like a client who can pick out a few tear sheets or Pinterest pins but, once we decide on a direction, can stick with it and stay off the internet for the rest of the process."
"I use a 'touch and go' model while designing," adds Hodges, "which involves giving the client benchmarks in the design process to gauge their feelings toward a particular design direction. This allows the client to weigh in during the design development phase, which minimizes, or completely diminishes, revisions and makes clients feel more comfortable along the way."
Be prepared to start with a clean slate and part with items that you may have initially wanted to keep. "I like being challenged by clients," says Humphrey. "With that said, I don’t like when clients are too sentimental about furniture or objects that they’ve owned for years and can't part with. One client of mine was really attached to some bedside tables that she found on the street when she was in college, and I had to physically throw them back out onto the street."
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A simple styling gig can be finished in a week, while large-scale projects can take years to complete, but no matter what your timeline is, designers agree that patience is key. "Timelines depend on two variables," says Hodges: "the scale of the project, and how quickly a client makes decisions (with the latter being most important). Some clients take longer to pull triggers than others, which definitely impacts the pace of the project."
"Furnishing a whole house can take six to nine months, typically," says Humphrey. "I can come up with the design pretty quickly, so a lot of it has to do with how long clients take to make decisions and then we’re at the disposal of the dreaded lead-time." Larger furniture and custom-made pieces can have long lead times, which clients need to be aware of.
"Managing expectations is one of the most important aspects of my job, so I make sure my clients are well informed about lead times and process before I start any project," says Hodges. "However, there are still times that clients think that things can be done overnight. Concepts take time to develop and furniture is not made by robots with superpowers—patience will always pay off in the end."
Each designer has their own pet-peeve. For Hodges, it's texting late at night. "As an interior designer, I form close relationships with clients because the nature of the job is very intimate," she says. "But I wish clients understood that there are times (such as at 10 p.m. on a Sunday) when I am off duty."
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Be sure to have a strong grasp of your designer's payment policies. "Every designer seems to have a different pricing structure, which can be confusing when choosing a designer," says Santos. "Homepolish clients pay a flat rate for design time as their project progresses so they can move as slowly or quickly as they like."
Some designers, like Katie Hodges, work on a 50-50 model, which means a 50 percent retainer is due upfront, and a 50 percent balance due at the end. Other clients are charged either monthly or bi-weekly, with furniture purchases due upfront.
As for discounts, it depends entirely on the designer. "There’s a common misconception that clients will always receive discounts when working with an interior designer," says Hodges. "Retail stores offer very small discounts (if any) to interior designers because their primary client target is the homeowner. However, when custom furnishings are involved, interior designers are usually able to recreate an out-of-budget piece by using local vendors and artisans, so clients do get the best value out of those pieces."
There’s a common misconception that clients will always receive discounts when working with an interior designer.
"Some designers who don’t mark up the retail pieces will charge a higher design fee," says Humphrey. "In general, the client isn’t getting the retail discount passed on to them at all because most designers make their money on commission."
"We try to extend enough of a discount on products to pay for our service fee," says Santos. "Hiring Homepolish is the same price as if you did the work yourself. We want working with us to be a no-brainer."
All interior design firms work differently," says Dick, "so it's important to ask [financial] questions upfront, and to be specific about your project. Whether it's a kitchen remodel or decorating a living room, the discounts and rates can vary."
"For clients, figuring out an interior design budget is often a challenge because they don’t know what furniture costs at their particular price level," says Hodges. That being said, it's important to have a realistic overview of your finances, and what you're prepared to spend. "An interior designer can usually help a client figure out a baseline budget," she adds.
"Clients often ask ballpark numbers, and every time we politely decline until we understand fully what they are looking for," says Dick. "Most of our clients have spent a considerable amount on purchasing their home, and our goal is to make sure the interior we design for them will last for many years and work for their lifestyle."
Interior design budgets vary wildly. Ask 20 designers for a ballpark budget, and you'll get 20 answers. "I could point to a one-bedroom apartment that costs $10,000 and another where the client spent $1M," says Santos. "Design should be an ongoing conversation. It should change as you do, so the design of your space should start with who you are and what you care about, not how much money you have. There are good solutions at almost every price point."
The most important quality that designers look for in clients? An appreciation for their craft. "My favorite types of clients are those that truly appreciate and understand design yet don’t know how to implement it," says Hodges.
"I love clients who believe design and art matter," adds Dick. "Clients who appreciate quality and craftsmanship and seek beauty are more willing to take a risk and collaborate."
Santos also loves clients that have a unique set of challenges. "The best solutions come from solving interesting problems."
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Cardiff Most Affordable For Students
Welsh students spending the most on alcohol
Scottish students have both the UK’s highest and lowest term time incomes
Students in Durham and Oxford receive the most money from parents
Oxbridge students spend more than double the time studying than London students
Cardiff is the most affordable place for students to study in the UK, closely followed by Aberdeen and Durham according to the NatWest Student Living Index.
Students in Cardiff, Aberdeen and Durham are amongst the highest term time earners. However their main source of income is quite different. Students in Cardiff receive the majority of their income from part-time work and it’s similar in Aberdeen, but in Durham students receive most of their income from their mum and dad. Hull is at the other end of the scale with students receiving the least from their mum and dad and the most from bursaries or scholarships.
The NatWest Student Living Index surveyed almost 3,500 students across the country to determine the most affordable place to study. The survey takes into account a range of factors, from how much students spend on essentials such as food, rent and bills, to how much time they spend studying, working and socialising.
Students at Oxford and Cambridge spend the most hours studying, 124hrs and 138hrs each term. This is well above the national average of 91 hours and more than double the number of hours students in London (62hrs) spend studying. On average students spend three times more time studying than they do socialising. The research also found that the more students socialise the more they enjoy studying.
Reading students spend the most time socialising (38.6hrs) and Aberystwyth students spend the most on alcohol (£50.87 a month) compared to a national average of £38.61.
Scottish universities have both the highest and lowest monthly student incomes. Students in Aberdeen also have the highest overall term-time income when taking into account all sources of money such as mum and dad and personal savings, £1583.80 per month, which is £440 more than the national student average. Glasgow has the lowest total income at under half that, £786.60 a month.
Dan Jones, NatWest Head of Student Accounts said, “The Student Living Index helps students to see how they might budget while at University. Our main priority is to help students stay on top of their finances throughout their studies and our Student Account offers a number of features to help students make the most of their money and their time while at University.”
The NatWest Student account offers a free National Express Coachcard to cut the cost of travel, an interest free overdraft of up to £2000 and the market leading mobile banking app to help students better manage their finances on the move. Uniquely it is the only Student Account to offer GetCash, which can be used in emergencies to withdraw money without a bankcard. It works by using the mobile banking app to request a code which can be used to withdraw money at any Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest or Tesco cash machine. NatWest also offers free Financial Health checks which help students to organise their finances in the most efficient and effective way.
Find out more at www.natwest.com/students
City Ranking 18th Oxford
1st Cardiff 19th Edinburgh
2nd Aberdeen 20th Cambridge
3rd Durham 21st Southampton
4th Canterbury 22nd Plymouth
5th Swansea 23rd Nottingham
6th Manchester 24th Liverpool
7th Reading 25th Exeter
8th Leicester 26th Norwich
9th York 27th Brighton
10th Sheffield 28th Belfast
11th Leeds 29th Dundee
12th Hull 30th Stirling
13th Portsmouth 31st Bristol
14th Poole 32nd Aberystwyth
15th Coventry 33rd St. Andrews
16th Birmingham 34th London
17th Newcastle 35th Glasgow
NatWest’s Student Living Index covers 35 university cities and towns, looking at the spending habits and the cost of living for students across the UK and uses the information to determine the most affordable city for students to live in.
Audience: n=3,407 University Students Living in the UK
Survey period: 12th May to 2nd June 2017. Respondents were given a small incentive to take part in an online survey. The survey was unbranded for all respondents.
Panel Provider: YouthSight: Experts in student and young professionals research
The survey was unbranded for all participants.
Available for interview: Dan Jones, NatWest Head of Student Account is available for interviews. For broadcast interviews Dan will be available via ISDN line on Wednesday 19th July. We can also provide audio clips of Dan talking about the Student Living Index. Advance interviews may also be possible.
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Form 55-102F1 Insider Profile
Insider’s Full Legal Name
Provide the full legal name of the insider. Use upper and lower case letters as applicable. Do not use initials, nicknames or abbreviations. If the insider is an individual, complete the “Insider family name” and the “Insider given names” fields. If the insider is not an individual, provide the full legal name of the insider in the “Insider company name” field.
Name of insider representative (if applicable)
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Insider’s address
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Insider’s Telephone Number
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Insider’s fax number (if applicable)
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Insider’s E-mail Address (if applicable)
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Correspondence in English or French
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If the insider is resident in Manitoba or Ontario, the insider may choose to receive any correspondence from the local securities regulatory authority in French. If no choice is made, any correspondence from the local securities regulatory authority shall be in English.
If the insider is resident in New Brunswick, the insider may choose to receive any correspondence from the New Brunswick securities regulatory authority in French or English.
Confidential Question and Answer
Provide a “confidential question” and an answer to the confidential question for use in verifying the identity of the insider or the insider’s representative if a request is being made to the SEDI operator for a new insider access key. Keep a record of the confidential question and answer in a secure location.
Add Name(s) of Reporting Issuer(s)
Add the name of each reporting issuer in respect of which the insider is required to file an insider report in SEDI format. Search for and select each reporting issuer to be added from a database of all SEDI issuers provided for this purpose. Use the reporting issuer’s SEDAR number or its legal name (in English or French) to conduct your search. Make sure you select the correct reporting issuer before you proceed further. If you are unable to find the reporting issuer that you are searching for, contact the reporting issuer or the SEDI operator for assistance. Note that the reporting issuer will not appear in your search results unless the reporting issuer has created an issuer profile in SEDAR and filed an issuer profile supplement in SEDI.
If the insider has ceased to be an insider of a reporting issuer added previously to the insider profile, see item 12 below.
Insider’s Relationship to Reporting Issuer
For each reporting issuer added under item 9 above, disclose all of the insider’s relationships to that reporting issuer by selecting from the list of relationship types provided.
Date The Insider Became an Insider or Date of Opening Balance
For each reporting issuer added under item 9 above, if the insider has not filed an insider report in respect of the reporting issuer since becoming an insider, provide the date on which the insider became an insider of the reporting issuer. Otherwise, provide an opening balance date. This opening balance date will be used as the date for all opening balances of securities of this reporting issuer. The opening balance date should be a date prior to the date of any transactions that will be reported for this reporting issuer in SEDI.
Date The Insider Ceased to be an Insider
If the insider has ceased to be an insider of a reporting issuer added previously to the insider profile, amend the insider profile by providing the date on which the insider ceased to be an insider of the reporting issuer in the fields provided for this purpose on the web page titled “Amend insider profile – Amend issuer information.”
An insider profile filed in SEDI format may, at the option of the insider, contain the following additional information:
the Optional information is specified it items 13 to14.
Additional Contact Information
For each reporting issuer added to the insider profile, the insider may provide another address at which the insider prefers to be contacted (such as a business address) or may provide contact information for another individual who is to be contacted by the securities regulatory authority instead of the insider. To provide additional contact information, check the applicable box under “Optional information” on the web page titled “Create insider profile – Enter information about the insider’s relationship to the issuer”.
Add Name(s) of Registered Holder(s) of Securities
If the insider is required to file an insider report in respect of securities owned indirectly or over which control or direction is exercised, the insider must provide the name of the registered holder of the securities at the time the insider report is filed. To assist the insider in complying with this requirement, for each reporting issuer added to the insider’s profile the insider may add the name(s) of the registered holder(s) of securities of the reporting issuer that the insider is required to provide in an insider report.
To add the name(s) of the registered holder(s) for the reporting issuer, check the applicable box under “Optional information” on the web page titled “Create insider profile – Enter information about the insider’s relationship to the issuer”. Any name added to the insider’s profile in this manner may be selected when an insider report is prepared in SEDI format and registered holder information is required. The full legal name of the registered holder must be provided in each case.
Securities beneficially owned directly but held through a nominee such as a broker or book-based depository are considered direct holdings.
Amending Insider Profile To Add a Reporting Issuer
If an insider that has previously filed an insider profile is required to file an insider report in SEDI format in respect of a reporting issuer that is not already disclosed in the insider profile, amend the insider profile to add the name of the reporting issuer, to disclose all of the insider’s relationships to the reporting issuer and to provide the date the insider became an insider or the date of the previous paper filing, as applicable. Provide the information required in items 9, 10 and 11 above.
Prior to submitting an insider profile, the insider or the insider’s agent must certify that the information is true and complete in every respect by selecting “Certify” on the web page titled “Create insider profile – Certify and file insider profile” and following the instructions provided for this purpose. In the case of an agent, the certification is based on the agent’s best knowledge, information and belief but the insider is still responsible for ensuring that the information filed by the agent is true and complete. It is an offence to submit information that, in a material respect and at the time and in the light of the circumstances in which it is submitted, is misleading or untrue.
Notice – Collection and Use of Personal Information
The personal information required under this form is collected on behalf of and used by the securities regulatory authorities set out below for purposes of the administration and enforcement of certain provisions of the securities legislation in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Yukon. Some of the required information will be made public pursuant to the securities legislation in each of the jurisdictions indicated above. Other required information will remain confidential and will not be disclosed to any person or company except to any of the securities regulatory authorities or their authorized representatives. If you have any questions about the collection and use of this information, you may contact the securities regulatory authority in any jurisdiction(s) in which the required information is filed, at the address(es) or telephone number(s) set out below. In Quebec, questions may also be addressed to the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.
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About Christopher "Caz" Caswell (51 Articles)
Christopher Caswell hails from Austin, Texas, but has called New York City his home for over three decades. Seasoned cabaret soloist, longest running member of the award-winning pops group "Uptown Express" and contributor to ManhattanDigest.com, he shares his view from the audience for TheaterScene.net. http://www.ChristopherCaswell.com
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Downstate
Norris’ smart and effective script is packed with controversy; its characters are stained by the trauma in which their lives have been steeped, and it’s uncertain they will ever feel clean again. So many questions come to mind as this play unfolds. ... "Downstate" is a stirring, thought-provoking play about a deeply painful topic that plagues societies around the world. It’s an extremely tight piece of writing; every word and action is relevant. I can’t wait to see it again. [more]
Burbank: Walt Disney in Crisis
Although "Burbank: Walt Disney in Crisis" occasionally has its actors delivering monologues out to the audience, the most compelling drama occurs from the interactive scenes between the actors themselves; more of this would have absolutely been welcome. Nevertheless, the play does entertain and inform, revealing the financial struggles Disney went through to make such iconic films as "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," and "Bambi," even in the wake of "Snow White"’s success. Bossert also managed to squeeze in the fact that Disney attempted to block Adriana Caselotti, the voice of Snow White, from getting other work, in order to not “spoil the illusion” of the character. [more]
The Near Disaster of Jasper & Casper
As a piece of writing, "The Near Disaster of Jasper & Casper" is whacky and creative, and except for a couple of out-of-place bits of humor, one involving a middle finger and another a candle called “Blow Me,” it is charmingly humorous. The story even becomes lightly touching when Jasper’s love for his brother Casper is tested, and Jasper learns the real meaning of family and what it is to be responsible for others besides himself. "The Near Disaster of Jasper & Casper" is a thoroughly enjoyable, quirky fairy tale told by an expert storyteller, Jason Woods. By the end of this foray into the woods, it was time to go, I hated to leave, I had to, though. Worth a second viewing. [more]
Mister Miss America
D'Astolfo (that’s duh-STAHL-fo, mkay?), who also wrote the piece, sends Taylor off like a firecracker from the moment he comes onto the stage, speeding through Taylor’s wry and witty dialect so fast, why Mother of Jefferson Davis, he’s passing the fox! D’Astolfo’s dialogue is chock full of delightful West Virginian-isms, gay and regional. Taylor is described in the script as “wide-eyed and winning,” and this definitely describes D'Astolfo in the role. He also adds to the play’s humor in a totally different capacity as the voice of the wry, off-stage announcer and master of ceremonies. [more]
Shekar’s script is extremely smart, funny at just the right moments, and morally gripping. Her characterizations of Ariel and Sanam are fully formed, uniquely individual and carefully complementary: Ariel is a crunchy-granola, bee-loving, single mom who’s desperate to prove Monsanto’s guilt, and Sanam is intense, strong-minded and honest to a fault. Through the character of Arvind, Shekar introduces the notion to Sanam that she and Ariel are looking at their study through the impartial lens of confirmation bias. The character of Dr. Hayes adds just the right amount of antagonism, almost sinister. Although there’s lots of statistics jargon in the script, it never impedes the progress of the story, thanks to the actors and director Aneesha Kudtarkar, who skillfully shapes the piece, finely intertwining the performances to maximum impact. [more]
Our Brother’s Son
Freshman playwright Charles Gluck, a retired gastroenterologist who has finally followed his dream to write a play, has turned out one terrific piece of theater. There is virtually no superfluous dialogue in this script; almost every line serves a specific purpose, whether it’s to provide key exposition, continue to build the play’s fully three-dimensional characters or to accelerate and intensify the dramatic through point. [more]
In the 13 years that span this earnest, thought-provoking play, three weddings, fear, war, and death all serve to test the strength and sanctity of these women’s bonds. Toossi’s script is intimate, and searching, both funny and heartbreaking; "Wish You Were Here" is a beautiful testament to the strengths and allegiances women find with each other in times of turmoil and oppression. [more]
Direction by Victoria Pérez could have better negotiated the script transitions and emotional shaping of the piece; however, script, director and actors, as well as lighting design by Miguel Valderrama and sound design by Michael Hernandez all come together to create a moving ending which comes with no answers but does provide a sense of closure. "Bloom" hasn’t fully flowered in this incarnation, but perhaps more will be revealed in future productions. [more]
Songs About Trains
As a piece of theater, "Songs About Trains" is earnest and unique. Lead author (and performer) Beto O’Byrne, along with contributing authors Eugenie Chan, Reginald Edmund, Jay B Muskett and Rebecca Martínez (who also co-directs) have constructed a work that’s not definitely a musical and not quite a play, but more of a performance piece which sews stories together with music, dance and songs. [more]
The Patsy
Greenspan, a six-time Obie Award winner, whirls at breakneck speed through this three-act play in just over an hour, transforming from one character to the next with expert fluidity. He transitions between the highly dramatic and entitled Grace, the histrionic and prideful Mrs. Harrington, the simple but lovable Mr. Harrington, the gentle and sweet Patricia, and the gangly, dopey gentleman callers Tom Anderson and Billy Caldwell, drawing on every gender-bending limb, muscle, hand, voice, look or facial gesture he can muster. Even the brusque Tip Busty and party girl Sadie Buchanan get their own unique treatment. [more]
Tiananmen Requiem
The play itself is suitably dramatic and thought-provoking; as a piece of theater it should continue to be presented to enlighten future audiences. This particular production isn’t quite up to the task of delivering the play to maximum impact. [more]
Barococo
Mandell’s costume and wig design are exquisite, perfectly defining each character in their own distinct look and style with numerous fabrics and colors and without overlap. Each of the actors’ performances are as unique as their costumes. Grastorf gets many laughs from her wide-eyed, innocently naivety (or just plain dimwittedness), and Mark Jaster’s puffy bravura and expressive face are delightfully campy. Mandell’s cantankerous bawdiness is perfectly chosen for her character, and Thomas plays the narcissistic Dauphine with laughable presumptuousness. Vernon’s pretentious, foppish roguery is spot on for his role, and Caleb Jaster as the simple musician interacts perfectly when called upon. Each actor’s facial expressions, gestures and gaits are very distinct and in line with their characters. [more]
The Collision / The Martyrdom
Throughout these plays there resonates an overarching message of female empowerment, a message that provides depth to the otherwise light comedy being served up. Nuns are habit forming, that’s what people say, and this viewer wanted nothing more than to run back and see this show again. [more]
Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, an exquisitely literate and dramatically poignant piece, would certainly suffer in the hands of less than able artists. Fortunately, the production currently running at The Paradise Factory is in well-talented hands and does the material proud. Director Brynn Asha Walker (who also provides sound design and plays Nurse Susie Monahan) has carefully shaped this production for maximum impact, cultivating Stage Four ovarian cancer patient/professor Dr. Vivian Bearing’s (Erin Cronican) gripping descent from dignity to death in a compelling manner. The lighting design by Scott Monnin coupled with Phoenix Lion’s projections of well-placed phrases from the script artfully provide mood and thought provocation, all enhanced by Walker’s sound design. [more]
Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood
This show is conceived, directed, and choreographed by Randy Skinner, and his four-time Tony Award-nominated talents shine throughout the production. The choreography is inventive, interactive, fun and impressive. His staging is well-balanced and keeps the transitions moving. The opening number, “Let Yourself Go” ("Follow the Fleet," 1936), sets the bar high with dynamic tapping that leaves the audience exhilarated and ready for more. Barry Kleinbort’s book is packed with interesting Berlin history and is full of charm and wit. Thank you, casting director Michael Cassara, for the great ensemble cast! Six performers were chosen to present this material: Phillip Attmore, Jeremy Benton, Victoria Byrd, Kaitlyn Davidson, Joseph Medeiros, and Melanie Moore. All six actors move through the evening in harmony, both physically and vocally, interacting with each other in song and dance as though in conversation. [more]
The Antelope Party
Meyer’s darkly comic script is ultimately terrifying, a nod to Orwell and a brilliantly satirical parable which is uncannily prescient in today’s political climate. Director Jess Chayes brings the best out of each of the actors, and finely shapes the delicate arc which begins with laughs and rainbows and descends into fear and suspicion. The costumes by Kate Fry keenly capture each character. The sets by Yu-Hsuan Chen efficiently reflect the simplicity and humble economy of the characters’ environment, and effect some extremely smart scene transitions, one which was so clever it evoked a quiet murmur from the audience. [more]
Without the benefit of sight, one must strain to listen more closely in order to understand the events of the play; footsteps, cane taps, ball bounces, far off music, distant voices and other incidental sounds make much more of an impact in the story, sounds that would have held less significance when simply watching a play. The original music by Mirko Mescia sounds even more beautiful when listened to without visual distraction, including a notably gorgeous guitar piece played by Roberto Ariel Cáceres during an especially transporting interlude. All told, the binaural sound design by Nicolas Álvarez was robust and inventive, providing an amazing, three-dimensional sound experience of Alberto’s world. The audience isn’t just treated to sounds to fill the gaps of sight. Smells of coffee, tangerines, and celery soup waft by when such things are mentioned, and drops of water are felt in relevant moments. These visceral layers greatly enhanced the experience of this production. [more]
The New York Pops Underground Cabaret featuring Max von Essen
Von Essen did sing a couple of songs from a living composer, one Andrew Lloyd Webber. He relayed the story of going on for Ricky Martin in Evita, where the curtain had to be held so that all the box office refunds could be processed; he won the sympathy of every ear in the house on that retelling. He also declared that although auditions for both the parts of Raul and the title character of "The Phantom of the Opera" did not yield successful results for the Broadway production, he did get to play said Phantom in "Love Never Dies," which was a perfect segue to “Till I Hear You Sing.” It seemed the evening was specifically shaped to present this “power ballad” as the 11 o’clock number, and von Essen truly pulled out his most formal, rich and dramatic voice for it, earning him spontaneous applause in the middle of the song and even a few standing ovations afterward. As for the other Webber song, well, I did not think I’d ever want to hear this song again, in or out of its "Evita" context; yet von Essen put Magaldi completely aside and sang a most stunningly beautiful and exquisite version of “On This Night of a Thousand Stars” as one could ever imagine hearing. His sublime and subtle tenor notes were completely glorious, and this song became the superlative number of the evening for this listener. [more]
Polylogues
Each interviewee’s name is projected onto the back wall as Clark carefully transitions between the 21 people she’s interviewed; young, old, male, female, cis- or otherwise. This is a large number of roles for one person to play, so there is some blurring of “characterizations”; nonetheless, Clark establishes an effective conduit for what is ultimately most important: the messages that these individuals share about their experiences and varying successes with non-monogamy and/or polyamory. The direction by Molly Clifford seamlessly shapes the evening into an effective delivery device for thoughts on an intriguing subject. [more]
In his thankless role as Ray, Grossman’s performance is perpetually defensive, harried and out of breath. As unlikable a character as Ray is expected to be, Grossman doesn’t quite manage to bring enough variation, warmth, or earnestness to the part to engender the compassion or believability needed to sustain it. Ravera seems physically uncomfortable in the character of Una. She speaks her lines with intention, but she awkwardly drags herself around the stage as though she’s never worn heels before, and her body belies her words, words which are sometimes lost in her thick accent and lack of projection. It’s surprising to see tears come to her eyes when there doesn’t seem to be enough organic truth coming out of her lines to warrant them. [more]
The Karens
Fortunately, good things come to those who wait, even after an hour and a half. The play suddenly takes a turn when Karen X has a breakdown behind a dumpster at Whole Foods. Karen X may have been talking about her complexion in the opening scene when she tells Karen Y that “black don’t crack,” but in this scene it is her core that is cracked open, when she realizes her life is as empty and pointless as she’s always feared. “#influence me, please?,” she begs of God, as flies buzz around her head. It is a brilliant scene, and Day is brilliant in it. [more]
As Sammy, Jason Alexander’s exquisite comic genius delivers like gangbusters, a delivery which gets even richer in some subtler moments when Sammy surprises himself with some honest emotions. Father Michael is superbly acted by Santino Fontana, who is the perfect straight man to Alexander’s dastardly Sammy. Justina Machado gives a fiery, honest and earnest portrayal as Tracy, the abandoned wife, standing up to Sammy and shining in her own light. Julian Emile Lerner is spot on as the moody Casper; together, he and Alexander strike an excellent rapport as father and son. Patti LuPone deliciously cackles her way through the modestly sized part of Sister Margaret, making every moment count. Loretta Devine also provides some gratifying deadpan moments as Sammy’s secretary Della. [more]
X the Experience
The music by Manuel Pelayo, Giancarlo Bonfanti and Katz sets an eerie, futuristic tone that, combined with numerous dance and visual elements, presents X the Experience like a long MTV video with some thoughtful concepts acted out in between. X the Experience posits the interesting question as to whether human beings can ever truly give up their “personal provocative narrative” in favor of any greater good, and writer Veasey’s script successfully puts this notion forward, when the script is in progress. If you’ve got the time and especially the patience, check out X the Experience. [more]
Chapdelaine’s writing is funny and sincere, thought-provoking and smart. There is a suggestion in the script that these four individuals could all be different facets of the same person, and in retrospect some staging and props do support that, but the suggestions are so subtle that they are easily dismissed as coincidence, perhaps intentionally. There is so much finely crafted personality in the characters’ dialog and narrative, and the overarching themes of isolation, desperation and loneliness are beautifully presented in the writing, performances and direction. Kudos on a fine production to all, and to the Cherry Artists’ Collective. [more]
Tomorrow We Love
There is plenty of over-the-top acting, physical antics and far-fetched story lines, all perfectly acceptable ingredients for a zany gender-bending farce. The only thing missing are the laughs. Even the high school-quality set design by Ryan Goff and delightful costumes by Jimmy Moon are on par for this campy send up of a 1950’s rom-com. Ultimately, Vause’s script reads funnier than it plays, so there is more amiss than the smoking gun in this screwball comedy. [more]
Bundle of Sticks
One of the most interesting attributes of this play (apart from the clever title being a less common and unharmful definition of the word “faggot”) is playwright J. Julian Christopher’s insistence that none of the characters be portrayed by cisgendered men. The most significant effect of this casting is demonstrated in scenes when the men are supposed to be naked and interacting with each other in sexual ways. Where true male nudity and sexual touching would have simply been gratuitous and distracting, clever costuming (presumably) provided by production designer Meghan E. Healey has the characters wearing body suits, onto which sequined phalluses and scrotums of different colors and sizes have been sewn. Each suit sports a large nipple and a heart as well. The depiction of sex and sexuality thus become representational and symbolic, allowing the play and its language to proceed unimpeded by gawking. [more]
Even before the playwright pays homage to William S. Burrough’s "Naked Lunch" through this last line, one is already drawing comparisons to the psychotic, structureless existence of that novel, and wondering whether there is anything more to "The Sickness" than the eventual demise of two wasted lives of X and Y. Later that evening my theater companion admitted to thinking, “die already” at some point during the play, because there seemed to be nothing else happening. The audience is given no reason to like the characters, no reason to think they’re ever going to change and no reason to root for their survival; all that they’re left with is the desire for the play to end. [more]
Doctors Jane and Alexander
Additional credit can be given to Simon and Wolkowitz’s performances by the excellent supporting cast and Einhorn’s writing. The script's one weakness appears to be an insistence on providing an overabundance of mind-numbing facts about blood-type science, details which ultimately don’t lend themselves to the overarching tale of one man’s search for value and importance in his dreams, those of his family that came before him, and the question of whether he will leave anything other than a legacy of his children’s memories. [more]
Employing an impressive array of voices and mannerisms, and only sometimes augmented with a wig or article of clothing, Miller as “Narrator” impersonates numerous performers, personalities, and politicians of the era, voicing every commercial and even dubs his own parents in short video clips at the very beginning of the piece. “100 voices. 25 years. 1 man,” the publicity statement declares, and Miller doesn’t disappoint. [more]
A City of Refuge
The story itself has potential, yet despite the actors’ heroic attempts to bring truth to it, the script has its characters written to say and do so many unrealistic things that the core authenticity of what’s unfolding can’t be upheld. Physical and emotional boundaries get crossed in questionable ways, and unreasonable demands are made to unbelievable responses. Characters drop vague references and make mysterious insinuations, demonstrating resentment and distrust in each other without explanation. Understanding who is what to whom just takes too long to be revealed, and the audience must buffer so many mysterious references and unexplained pieces of information for so long that by the time the play concludes with a battery of accusations and revelations, the audience isn’t sure what’s happening and thrown up its hands in disbelief. [more]
The Santa Closet
Houses on the Moon Theater Company’s delightful and earnest mission is to “dispel ignorance and isolation through the theatrical amplification of unheard voices.” "The Santa Closet," another one-man show written and performed by the company’s co-founder Jeffrey Solomon, doesn’t reach the lofty goals of some of his other plays; however, the newly updated, tenth-year anniversary production of this frothy, zany tale is nevertheless aloft with quite a few grins and chuckles. [more]
The Giant Hoax
"The Giant Hoax" is a charming morality tale about telling the truth and growing up. The expert hands of director Christopher Michaels and choreographer Molly Model are clearly at work in all aspects of this production, bringing a touching story with affable songs and clever lyrics to life with a cast of first rate actors, a fine ensemble, and inventive and humorous choreography. This show will never get any bigger than it is, but it’s big enough to fill the hearts of its audience to bursting, as long as actors of this production’s caliber are playing it. [more]
Confidence (and the Speech)
Political plots can be dry as toast. Hatem attempts to spice things up by crossing the genders of the actors playing Carter and young Cynthia; the convention is an interesting choice although it really doesn’t add any new light to the characters or story and is sometimes distracting. Not to worry, though, the script is smart, imaginative, humorous at the right times and keeps its audience interested. [more] | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.832821786403656, "wiki_prob": 0.832821786403656, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1314893"} |
Contributed by Dr Sacha Goolamali, dermatology specialist registrar and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones, consultant dermatologist, King's College Hospital, London.
Section 1 Aetiology and epidemiology
Pemphigus vulgaris is the most common variant of this condition, accounting for 70 per cent of all cases.
It is rare, with an overall incidence of 0.1-0.5 patients per 100,000 per year.1 The condition is thought to have a strong genetic link to HLA class II alleles2 and has a predilection for Ashkenazi Jews and people of Mediterranean and Asian descent.
It typically presents in middle age, although young Asians appear particularly susceptible. Incidence is equal in men and women.
Oral pemphigus vulgaris with ulceration of the buccal mucosa. Ill-defined buccal erosions are typical
Pemphigus vulgaris may also be associated with other immunological disorders, including thymoma, myasthenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus and pernicious anaemia.1 It has been reported in association with Castleman's tumours3 and may coexist with bullous pemphigoid.4
The mechanism is loss of the normal cell-to-cell adhesion of keratinocytes in the epidermis (acantholysis).
This occurs through damage to connecting desmosomes by circulating IgG antibodies directed against the extracellular domains of the cadherin-type epithelial cell adhesion molecules, the desmogleins5 (so-called pemphigus antigens), which are localised within desmosomes. This immune deposition leads to intraepithelial vesicle formation.
The main antigen in pemphigus vulgaris is desmoglein 3 (pemphigus vulgaris antigen, Dsg3), which is found predominantly in the lower epidermis but is preferentially expressed in oral epithelium.6
However, half of pemphigus vulgaris patients also have autoantibodies to desmoglein 1 (pemphigus foliaceus antigen, Dsg1), which although present throughout the epidermis, primarily the upper layers, is only weakly expressed in mucosae.6
The relative distribution and proportion of the desmogleins expressed reflects the distribution of lesions seen clinically.
Rarer pemphigus antigens, including members of the desmocollin7 and desmoplakin8 families, are now thought to have an important role in pathogenesis, particularly in some of the rarer pemphigus subgroups, such as paraneoplastic pemphigus. Although a patient typically presents with a single pemphigus variant, there have been cases of transition from one to another, which may be related to differences in autoantibody expression.9
Radiotherapy is a known pemphigus inducer, and stress has recently been reported as a potential significant trigger for pemphigus flares. Dietary factors, such as garlic, have been postulated as a potential trigger.
In addition, the role of human herpes virus infections, such as HHV-8, in the initiation of pemphigus flares has been mooted, but the evidence is anecdotal.
Underlying neoplasia is a significant aetiological factor in the variant paraneoplastic pemphigus.10
Section 2 Clinical features
Pemphigus vulgaris invariably involves mucosae, with oral involvement seen in 50-70 per cent of patients.
Cutaneous pemphigus vulgaris lesions can be localised or widespread
Pemphigus foliaceus with crusted erythematous erosions
Slow healing, ill-defined buccal or palatal erosions are typical; intact bullae are rare owing to the level of splitting suprabasally (see image above).
Painful and tender mouth lesions may prevent adequate food intake. Most patients develop cutaneous lesions, although months may elapse before skin involvement occurs.
Rarely, an acute generalised bullous eruption may be the presenting feature.
The skin lesions typically seen are flaccid, easily ruptured vesicles and bullae on normal skin or an erythematous base, leading to erosions and secondary crusting. The lesions tend not to be pruritic, but are painful and can be localised or widespread.
Pressure adjacent to a lesion to dislodge the epidermis from the dermis typically leads to the formation of an erosion (positive Nikolsky's sign). Typical sites of cutaneous involvement include the scalp, face, chest, axillae, umbilicus and groin.
The disease process is typically non-scarring, but post-inflammatory pigment change may be seen. Nail changes, including acute paronychia, subungual haematoma formation and dystrophy, have been reported.
Section 3 Diagnosis
Skin biopsy from a blister or erosion demonstrates separation of keratinocytes suprabasally, leading to a split just above the basal cell layer within the epidermis and vesicles containing acantholytic keratinocytes.
Direct immunofluorescence (IMF) is diagnostic, with IgG and often C3 deposited in lesional and paralesional skin in the intercellular substance of the epidermis. IgG1 and IgG4 are the most common subclasses.
Indirect IMF (serum) detects circulating pemphigus IgG autoantibodies in more than 80 per cent of patients. Serodiagnosis by ELISA reveals 95 per cent of pemphigus vulgaris patients have anti-Dsg3 antibodies and approximately 50 per cent have anti-Dsg1 antibodies.
Titres usually correlate with disease activity, so are a useful monitoring tool.
Without aggressive immunosuppressant therapy, the disease is invariably fatal, usually as a result of secondary sepsis. However, with corticosteroids, the mortality is now 5-15 per cent.11
This depends in part on the extent of the disease and the immunosuppressant requirements. Morbidity is often related to complications of therapy.
Pemphigus vegetans
Pemphigus vegetans is a rare variant of pemphigus vulgaris, characterised by granulomatous, vegetating purulent plaques confined to flexures, the perioral area, scalp and neck.
There are two subtypes, the severe Neumann pemphigus vegetans and the more benign Hallopeau type. Histology demonstrates suprabasal acantholysis with intraepidermal abscesses comprising acantholytic cells and eosinophils; direct IMF shows intercellular IgG.
Pemphigus foliaceus
Pemphigus foliaceus accounts for 10-20 per cent of cases and is less severe than pemphigus vulgaris.12 It represents the superficial form of pemphigus, with acantholysis in the epidermal granular layer.
Bullae are therefore very rare, with lesions consisting of erythematous erosions and patches with associated crusting most commonly on the scalp, face, chest and upper back.
Oral/mucosal lesions are rare, reflecting the predominance of circulating autoantibodies to Dsg1, rather than Dsg3.13 IMF (direct and indirect) is usually identical to that seen in pemphigus vulgaris.
Pemphigus foliaceus is a chronic but benign condition that responds well to treatment and may resolve with time.
Endemic pemphigus foliaceus is a form common in rural parts of South America, especially Brazil.14 It may be environmentally triggered, possibly by an insect-borne infectious agent.
Clinically, histologically and immunopathologically, it is identical to pemphigus foliaceus.
Drug-induced cases
Several drugs have been implicated in inducing or exacerbating pemphigus. These include those containing a sulfhydryl group (so-called thiol drugs), such as penicillamine and captopril, and non-thiol drugs, such as rifampicin, penicillins, cephalosporins, diclofenac, nifedipine and ACE inhibitors.15
Thiol drug-induced pemphigus appears to resolve after cessation of the offending agent in about half of cases. Non-thiol drug cases recover spontaneously in only 15 per cent.15
Neoplastic disease
Paraneoplastic pemphigus resembles pemphigus vulgaris and erythema multiforme clinically and histologically, with severe mucous membrane involvement, erosions and often, palmoplantar targetoid lesions.
It presents in two-thirds of cases with underlying neoplasia,10 including B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders, carcinomas, thymoma and sarcomas.
In the remainder, the neoplasm postdates the eruption.
Antibodies are predominantly against the desmoplakin antigen family and therapy is often ineffective, despite treatment of the malignancy. Death is usually secondary to sepsis, or respiratory or multi-organ failure.
Section 4 Treatment
Topical and intralesional steroids often have a role in localised forms of pemphigus and antibiotics (topical/oral) are frequently used to treat secondary infection. Good oral hygiene is essential.
Pemphigus vulgaris with annular erosions on the arm
Systemic glucocorticoids remain the mainstay of treatment. Regimens differ according to the clinician, but the most common is prednisolone (1-1.5mg/kg/day) until new blisters have stopped appearing, followed by gradual titration of the dose to the lowest that maintains control.
In severe cases, higher doses are required, but are frequently associated with side-effects, despite the use of gastric and bone protection. In such cases, IV pulses of 1g methylprednisolone (initially monthly) or 100mg dexamethasone may be safer.16
Steroid-sparing agents
Steroid-sparing immunosuppressive agents are usually used in conjunction with glucocorticoids to limit the steroid dose and associated side-effects. Azathioprine (2.5mg/kg/day) is frequently used and often continued for many months after steroid therapy has been tapered and stopped.11
Cyclophosphamide (1-3mg/kg/day) in combination with steroids is very effective and can also be used as pulse therapy with methylprednisolone (initially monthly) and then less frequently as the disease improves.16 Remission may be maintained with low-dose oral therapy.
Mycophenolate mofetil (2-3g/day), a newer steroid-sparing agent, is frequently used.17 Other agents include methotrexate (oral or IM), ciclosporin (5mg/kg/day) and gold (oral or IM), both in conjunction with steroids and dapsone.
Plasmapheresis to reduce antibody titres in patients who are poorly controlled, and high-dose IV immunoglobulin (2g/kg) are alternative therapies; the effect of the latter is rapid but temporary.
A relatively new agent, the anti-CD20 chimeric monoclonal antibody rituximab (given as an infusion), has recently been shown to be effective in severe cases resistant to conventional therapy, either in combination with IV immunoglobulins or as monotherapy.18, 19
However, owing to potentially serious side-effects, its use should be restricted to the most severe types of the disease.
Monitoring of disease activity should be both clinical and immunological (antibody titres), but adverse effects that are often the result of immunosuppressive therapy must be detected early to prevent morbidity and mortality.
The authors would like to thank the dermatology and medical photography departments, and consultant clinical scientist Dr Edward Davies, of King's College Hospital, London, for kind permission to publish the photographs.
This article was originally published in MIMS Dermatology. To subscribe visit: www.hayreg.co.uk
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Anokhi’s roots lie in Jaipur, a city whose founders were enlightened patrons of the arts and crafts. Skilled artisans practicing myriad craft forms – block carving and printing amongst them – were invited to settle here and were ensured a secure livelihood.
Founded by John and Faith Singh in 1970, ANOKHI began when Jaipur’s block printing industry was at a very low ebb. Modern manufacturing processes had already marginalized handmade practices, the local patronage system was effectively lost and customers were steadily diminishing.
To help revitalise these age-old skills, ANOKHI started working with craftspeople in and around Jaipur: block carvers and printers, dyers, embroiderers and bead workers. Listening to their concerns, the Singhs aimed to maintain an open & honest relationship with the artisans while committing to provide sustained work throughout the year.
ANOKHI began with small clothing collections. In the studio, designers developed striking ranges around the traditional techniques and skilled work of artisans, while infusing pieces with a contemporary twist for the modern-day user. Traditional prints with elaborate layouts were re-imagined as stylish evening dresses, bolero jackets and kaftans, and sold through boutiques across England. Decorative soft furnishing collections followed, inspired by Jaipur’s traditional quilts and bedcovers. Their introduction expanded the block printed range and generated orders. At a similar time, ANOKHI began offering creative internships and projects to design schools to foster a better understanding of the potential dynamic between craft and design.
ANOKHI became known as an alternative role model for good business practices and its ongoing commitment to the revival of traditional textile skills. Unique hand-made pieces could now be found in small independent shops dotted around the UK and across the craft – loving world – from Paris to Kyoto, San Francisco to Bogota.
In the mid-90s, ANOKHI and its future was placed in the hands of the next generation. Underpinned by the same ideals as its creators, the new custodians continued to find inventive ways to sustain a secure livelihood for its many employees and numerous artisanal relationships. In doing so, ANOKHI gradually established shops across India to reach a wider audience.
ANOKHI went on to found Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing in 2005. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of block printed fabric, exhibitions put emphasis on contemporary design and the present status of the craft while also exploring its historic roots.
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Netflix unleash Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 2 trailer
The second installment looks to put the pedal to the metal.
With Formula 1 pre-season testing due to commence on 19 February at Spain’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, what better time for Netflix to drop the highly anticipated Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 2 trailer.
As expected, the new series is set to feature Red Bull heavily - a team which allowed cameras unrivalled access to both their drivers and garage throughout season 1.
Launching on February 28, the follow up to the acclaimed first season is set to once again be produced by Academy-Award winner James Gay-Rees, the talent behind biopic documentaries Senna and Amy.
The voice of Red Bull Racing Principal Christian Horner can be heard as the trailer opens, declaring that F1 is “all about pressure” alongside the instantly recognisable tones of ex-Red Bull driver Daniel Ricardo.
From Daniel Ricardo’s switch from Red Bull to rival team Renault and Gasly’s demotion to Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso (which has just been relaunched as AlphaTauri for 2020), the 2019 season featured all manner of clashes - both physical and in terms of personality.
The new series is an adrenaline packed feast fit for any self-respecting F1 fan. The first season is already in our best Netflix TV shows guide, which is why we can't wait to get our teeth into the latest tension fuelled installment.
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5 Daily Habits to Steal from Meryl Streep Including Her Powerful Mantra for Self-Confidence
As a digital nomad and journalist, I travel the world while logging around 70 articles a month. To effectively manage
By Lindsay Tigar October 12, 2018
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As a digital nomad and journalist, I travel the world while logging around 70 articles a month. To effectively manage a country-hopping lifestyle while also building my bylines and clients, I turn to the advice of seasoned movers-and-shakers who have developed habits and strategies for success. Each week, I’ll highlight the daily routine of influential professionals, making for the right kind of fodder while you down your coffee.
Perhaps the most shining star of all, Meryl Streep has won over the heart of millions as she effortlessly shifts from one character to another. For the past several decades, this beloved actress has been nominated for an impressive 21 Academy Awards, 31 Golden Globes, 15 British Academy Film Awards and 17 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Of those, she’s won an impressive 14 in her tenure.
Her roles have taken her from the bush of Africa and the beaches of Greece to the legendary kitchen of Julia Child and the imaginative world of Disney — all of these accolades might be a running joke, but they do not come as a surprise.
In addition to her long-lived acting career, Streep has been married for more than 40 years and raised four children, often stating family as a cornerstone of her life. To arrive at this level of fame — and ahem, an estimated net worth of $90 million — Streep has followed certain philosophies to keep her humble, happy and forever rising to the next level of talent. To name a few:
She gives without recognition.
When described in interviews, Streep is often portrayed as confident, yet humble — carrying herself with esteem and kindness. It wasn’t until 2012 when Forbes investigated her tax records to discover Silver Mountain Foundation, a little known charity organization she founded alongside her husband.
Together, they have donated millions to various causes — from women’s interests to the support of theater programs. While the benefit of paying it forward with a grateful spirit is quite obvious, the act of giving without expecting praise speaks volumes into her character. Giving to others in whatever measure available to you will not only alleviate your stress levels but it can make you happier and more creative, too.
When you can take it a step forward — like Streep — and not boast about your kind nature, say, on Instagram, you might even take more away from the experience itself, too.
She still does chores.
Truth be told, there isn’t much to confirm how many chores Streep does in her household. However, one of her most Google-able quotes reveals she often chooses to lead a traditional routine when she can: “I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
This mindset hints to Streep’s attitude toward success: it is something you earn, not a prize you are given from a silver spoon. Perhaps Streep instilled this same ethic in her children as well, considering a 75-year Harvard study found those kids who picked up after themselves, made their bed or washed dishes ultimately achieved more than those who had every whim taken care of.
Considering her income, Streep could definitely afford someone to iron her clothes — and practically anything else — but she chooses to maintain a normalcy, possibly to remind her of the place where she started.
She focuses on her skills – not her looks.
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Streep once shared when she was younger, she never had confidence in her beauty, but rather felt like a character actress. This challenged her to focus on developing her talent, instead of focusing on her outward appearance, or as she put it: “develop what you do. What you put your hands on in the world.”
With this perspective, Streep says she felt liberated and free to pursue what she wanted, without worrying if she would be the most beautiful woman to arrive to the red carpet. She articulated this advice during a graduation ceremony saying, “For young women, I would say, don’t worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now, I don’t.”
Science backs up Streep’s mantra, confirming self-acceptance could be the key to a happier life… even if very few people make it a priority.
She created a connected family.
Streep has respect for working mothers who repeat the 9 to 5 tango while wrangling children. In an podcast, she explained going from job to job allowed her to spend more time with her kids, and doesn’t know if she could have made it chained to a desk while raising them.
When choosing her roles, she didn’t always choose the fanciest or the most prestigious, but rather, focused on creating a connected family unit, prioritizing location and duration. With this flexibility, she could spend more time cultivating those bonds. “My girls and my son and my husband are all way too much in each other’s business, I would say, but we’re close and that’s important. I always tried to stay challenged and work hard, but also keep my hand in and stir the pot at home,” she shared.
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Not only was this careful balance important to Streep, but research shows it ultimately makes both her and her kiddos happier.
She thinks about the bigger picture.
We all are guilty of getting caught in the muck of stress, deadlines, anxieties and worries. It is human nature to succumb to the intense pressure of overcommitting yourself or doubting your abilities to finish projects or reach a certain goal. But when we take a step back — and exhale — we can more clearly see the bigger picture.
Streep shared if she could go back and speak with her 20-something self, she’d remind her to think grander. Instead of harping on the details, she wish she would have spent more time understanding the important role she was playing in culture. “…the thing is that you’re representing lives, and lives look all different ways and shapes. That’s one thing I do see changing, and it’s really good. It makes the cultural landscape richer,” she shared in a podcast.
This perspective of understanding the responsibility she was given as an actress to show life from all walks illustrates maturity and humility — two essential qualities to become a respected, loved household name.
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Conference Article| March 22 2010
Functional genomics of pollen tube–pistil interactions in Arabidopsis
Ravishankar Palanivelu;
Ravishankar Palanivelu 1
*School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.
1Correspondence may be addressed to either author (email [email protected] or [email protected])
Mark A. Johnson
Mark A. Johnson 1
†Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.
Ravishankar Palanivelu, Mark A. Johnson; Functional genomics of pollen tube–pistil interactions in Arabidopsis. Biochem Soc Trans 1 April 2010; 38 (2): 593–597. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0380593
The pollen tube represents an attractive model system for functional genomic analysis of the cell–cell interactions that mediate guided cellular growth. The pollen tube extends through pistil tissues and responds to guidance cues that direct the tube towards an ovule, where it releases sperm for fertilization. Pollen is readily isolated from anthers, where it is produced, and can be induced to produce a tube in vitro. Interestingly, pollen tube growth is significantly enhanced in pistils, and pollen tubes are rendered competent to respond to guidance cues after growth in a pistil. This potentiation of the pollen tube by the pistil suggested that pollen tubes alter their gene-expression programme in response to their environment. Recently, the transcriptomes of pollen tubes grown in vitro or through pistil tissues were determined. Significant changes in the transcriptome were found to accompany growth in vitro and through the pistil tissues. Reverse genetic analysis of pollen-tube-induced genes identified a new set of factors critical for pollen tube extension and navigation of the pistil environment. Recent advances reviewed in the present paper suggest that functional genomic analysis of pollen tubes has the potential to uncover the regulatory networks that shape the genetic architecture of the pollen tube as it responds to migratory cues produced by the pistil.
Arabidopsis thaliana, functional genomics, pistil, pollen tube
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Riding on a Sunbeam
Riding on a Sunbeam: Journeys through Space, Time, Life and Love … is a special and exciting travel film that follows Mauktik Kulkarni (an Engineer turned Neuroscience student turned Zen traveler) and Sammy Jo (a Berkeley undergrad taking a gap semester) … in an unconventional touristy way.
Playfully, abundantly and on occasions, acutely, they explore the contradictions of our Indian society with interesting perspectives … exploring economically developed places alongside backward regions, staunchly nationalistic mind sets side by side with the insurgency prone pockets and the socially conservative elements that co-exist with countless liberal lifestyles … All within the same India.
Through smaller stories experienced throughout with the eyes of the two protagonists … Mauktik, who now turns to his own country and Sammy, who has never seen India before. The film creates a mosaic of India that is at once exhilarating, reflective, enchanting and laughable … in a way that has rarely been seen before.
About Director – Brahmanand S Siingh
Brahmanand S Siingh is an award-winning filmmaker (producer-director) and writer based out of Mumbai. His films like his National-Award winning feature-length documentary on RD Burman, Pancham Unmixed: Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai, (113 mins) continues to enjoy an amazing sweeping cult and critical and popular acclaim across viewing platforms.
His recent film Kaagaz Ki Kashti (Paperboat … 127 mins), a biopic on legendary ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, has just taken-off, interestingly, first digitally, without compromising much on any other platforms.It is also set to release in theaters soon this year.
Siingh often brings out insightful, exploring and reflective dimensions in the subjects that excite him, bringing out its core essence in a soulful and captivating manner. His current feature project, Jhalki … Ek Aur Bachpan (A Different Childhood) … has already received a lot of International buzz in its development stage and has just been shot and is now in its post-production stage.
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Mauktik Kulkarni, Executive Producer and co-anchor of Riding on a Sunbeam, is an engineer-turned-neuroscientist and is an entrepreneur at heart. He has been a part of two successful startups and is currently co-founder of a third startup named Wazzat Labs. He is an author, film maker, public speaker and traveler who has backpacked through more than 50 countries. His first book ‘A Ghost of Che,’ a memoir based on his solo, 8000km motorcycle trip in South America, was published in 2009 and he is working on his second book based on his one-year, round-the-world trip. He has delivered invited lectures on neuroscience, entrepreneurship, traveling, film-making and anything else that strikes his fancy. He has been a guest columnist for travel/sports and, over the past few years, gotten into film-making. ‘Riding on a Sunbeam,’ his first film project, is a backpacking film about India directed by National-award winner Brahmanand Singh. He is currently working on his second film project, which is a feature film adaptation of his book.
Samantha Jo Fitzsimons is the female protagonist of the film, Samantha (Sammy) has backpacked through more than 10 countries even at a young age of 22 years. She has recently completed her degree in Premed and Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She also did a minor in music. Before joining this film, she has tried her hand at acting, modeling and has studied film-making as well.
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‘Riding on a sunbeam’ tries to capture the contradictions, brutality, the spirit and strength of the most ordinary people of India. The mind boggling stories and endless diversity of our country continue to astonish us throughout the running time of this film. Add to this, to see our country through an outsider’s, an American young woman’s point of view is revealing. The way Samantha Jo, fellow traveller of Mauktik in the film, perceives India is intriguing, overwhelming, many a times embarrassing but always thought provoking.
– Tushar Paranjape, Scriptwriter, Berlinale ‘14 Special Jury Prize winner film ‘Killa’ (India)
“I sat at the edge of the seat through the whole movie. The diversities of India is captured beautifully without any judgement. It’s easy to relate to the traveler’s experience and has made me eager to start traveling locally with in India! Great work Mauktik Kulkarni. You are an inspiration to a lot of us who want to travel but haven’t taken the plunge yet!”
-Anup Balagopal, Co-founder, Torch (India)
It was an exhilarating and break-neck ride, one that I’d like to take again and again, for it’s impossible to grab and gulp and digest every incident and conversation in this film in one trip…Interesting (read: gnarled and alien) faces, wacky cultural anomalies, aboriginal dialects, boiling conversations over whistling kettles, and heaps and heaps of learning – it was good to have that feeling returned through Mauktik/Samantha/Brahmanand’s eyes. The director /DOP’s eyes take you through a 4D experience of road, rail and ruckus – discovering frames and viewpoints that the naked eye doesn’t register or recognise. For the non-believers, this film is a must watch if you want to travel, in India that is. Why? Because if an NRI corporate dropout and a US student can survive a month long rigmarole through rickety buses, spicy poori bhaaji, dancing leopards, yawning snakes and misled communal fanatics and wretched politicians – then truly anyone can.
-Protiqe Majoomdar, Writer & Lyricist (I Am Kamal and others)
“I watched the documentary. Twice! I am very happy to be associated with the film and know the filmmaker Mr Mauktik Kulkarni, who gave me the opportunity to live vicariously through his book and now, this film. The film has hit upon so many socio-cultural aspects entrenched in Indian society, that most Indians would not know existed (I certainly am one of them). I always feel like I need to travel more, but have not been able to, or perhaps have not been sufficiently motivated. Mauktik’s film has given me new hope and inspiration, to get off my armchair wanderings in thought and actually hit the road!
-Suvid Nadkarni, PhD, Applied Materials R&D (Singapore)
“Great film … much more than just a story of a man’s travel across the country. Helps you understand India, understand how and what people think in our country, and will force you to think and question your own concept of right and wrong. Over and above this, a lesson in diversity of India. Well made. Deserves to be watched more.”
– Sumit Saurav, CEO, Campus Diaries (India)
“In the movie, Mauktik and Samantha truly embody the adventure that is India. A gripping move that takes you through the nooks and corners and, highs and lows of this vast and diverse country. Given how little the modern/urban Indian is exposed to the “real” India, bag packing across this country can be an eye opener in many ways. I will like to congratulate Mauktik for going an extra mile and getting this bag packing experience delivered to his audience.”
-Apoorve Shende, VP, Goldman Sachs (India)
“Great to see an Indian discover just how incredible the real india is and to capture it on film. A must watch for all back packing enthusiasts. Singh’s reel in classic retro hue weaves exotic newsworthy events across the land into a seamless search for its soul. “What is india and how does it function?” ask the travellers Mauktik and Samantha. A recommended advanced watch for those travellers who already have had a gentle introduction to India and are curious what it might be like to stray off the beaten track.
-Amit Puniyani, VP, Nomura (India)
“One of the things, Samantha the actor of the movie said (I am paraphrasing of course) you can spend an eternity in India but still wont understand it completely. This was evident in the first 20 minutes of the movie when they showed an ashram in Maharashtra. The rest of the hour 30 minutes continue to drop one intense experience after the other. It is a common knowledge amongst travelers worldwide that India opens your experience horizon like no other country in the world. This is true for Indians as much and I am sure anyone watching this movie would agree.”
-Pallav Jhawar, Developer, InMobi (India)
“I saw this movie in Bangalore as a part of TiE Screening. Mauktik has portrayed what a general travel documentary does not portray. He covered a range of topics/issues which I guess are not yet resolved even after 2 years since the making of the movie. At times you feel bored when you watch documentaries, but not for this! Sammy, Mauktik and the crew pulled together a brilliant documentary. You deserve a five star! Can we a get director’s cut for this? Looking forward for your new movie.”
-Mohan Gandhi, CEO, Entersoft Solutions (India)
I saw the film and it was interesting to see India through the eyes of a foreign national. And seeing India with its myriad subcultures. We may not be the cleanest country but it has been proved that the fabric of our nation is strong. It was also an engaging experience. A must watch for urban India and urban students especially. I was deeply touched by the Anandvan part…kudos to Mauktik and his team!”
-Parag Shah, Founding Director, FLAME institute & TEDx speaker (India)
“I have been tracking Mauktik for past 2 years, since he made the plans and started working towards it. It’s not a documentary first of all. It’s an experience. I love the concepts of duality and meaninglessness, and the movie is full of them. I experienced a range of emotions during the whole movie. The parts of India they have captured, and the way they have portrayed, it’s just beautiful. It makes you realise that there is so much more out there. You won’t feel you are watching something recorded, you will actually experience it. This movie is like a prism, through which you get to experience the spectrums and dimensions of India, which I am sure was totally unknown to most of us.
-Hemant Singh, Developer, Google (India)
“I’m feeling so grateful and happy that I finally got the chance to see this beautiful documentary!! Two and a half years ago, when I just met Mauktik Kulkarni and Sammy, they were just in the beginning of their crazy journey exploring different sides of India. I could not imagine I will watch it finally here in Bangalore after all this time. I am extremely moved by this one, I was crying, laughing, feeling all sorts of emotions during this almost 2 hours and was not board even for a split second. Thank you mauktik for inviting me and hope to see more screenings of this wonderful piece!!”
-Atalya Baumer, Dance Instructor (Israel)
“My love for movies and travel got me to this movie screening and I made no wrong choice. A well- crafted movie that gave me a new meaning to travel and to explore places in true sense.The movie is shot in 10 different untapped destinations within India and each place has a story of its own. The scenes, the dialogues and the acting keeps you on the edge throughout. I kept wondering what next! Beautifully scripted and edited, my special kudos to the movie editor! India exposed in the most surreal ‘incredible’ manner. My 10/10 to the entire team for putting up a great show!”
-Archana Mittal, Senior Manager, Fragomen (India)
It’s fun to watch both of them travel across India, as both of them have different perception about certain things be it travelling in buses, trains, autos or rituals, customs etc. The documentary shows the tremendous work done by Dr. Prakash Amte & his family in Hemalkasa & Anandwan. They traveled to Azamgarh in search of a person who brought himself back to life from the dead! I never knew that an association by the name of Dead Men’s Association exists in India & it’s a LIVING example of corruption in this country. The highlight of the documentary for me was their trip to North-East on a motorcycle. Do you know how many Matrilineal States are there in India? Which is the cleanest village in Asia? There are many unheard stories about north-east states which will surprise you. Rebirth, LGBT movements this documentary has it all & to call it just a Travel Documentary is a gross understatement. It’s about India, it’s flavors, colors, people… Kudos to the entire team for a brilliant effort!”
-Abhijit Nerurkar, Senior Consultant, Capgemini (India)
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Whatever Happened To… the Britpop bands?
Gav Reilly takes a look at where the main players in Britpop disappeared to…
Blur went weird. Graham Coxon left in 2001, and had a successful solo career (notably the great single ‘Freaking Out’); Damon Albarn lost his hair, went to Mali and made a CD, came back, bought a sampler and started Gorillaz; Alex James and the other one are bumming around waiting for Damon to call them.
Oasis brought out three mediocre albums, got divorced, remarried, settled down, stopped drinking, and brought out a decent album again, a full ten years on, in Don’t Believe The Truth. But they’re talking to Blur again.
Suede bummed around, had one more successful single in ‘She’s in Fashion’ in 1999, brought out a singles collection in 2004, and haven’t contributed to the public everyday life much since.
The Charlatans did nothing but destroy Slane in 2002 after Nickleback had got the crowd going. Brought out a couple of singles last year that made numbers 23 and 24 in the charts. Nobody really cares.
Elastica became less popular once frontwoman Justine Frischmann stopped dating Damon Albarn. Threw in the towel in 2001 after their second album The Menace went down like a lead balloon the year before. Frischmann now presents an interior design programme on BBC 3.
Kula Shaker came back with their second album Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts in 1999 which didn’t nearly match the success of K. Their Greatest Hits came out in 2002. Keyboardist Jay Darlington plays with Oasis now, and singer Crispian Mills is with The Jeevas, who are bizarrely big in Japan.
Radiohead followed up their masterpiece The Bends in 1995 with another one, OK Computer in 1997, regularly voted the best album ever. Then went weird with Kid A, Amnesiac and hit form again with Hail To The Thief in 2003. Currently recording.
Supergrass had hit albums with In It For The Money, Supergrass, Life On Other Planets and again this August with Road to Rouen, marking a more mature sound for the band that some critics are having trouble digesting.
Menswear (remember them? They were the first ever band to appear on Top of the Pops before ever releasing, with ‘I’ll Manage Somehow’) followed up their debut album Nuisance and a sensational Glastonbury in 1995 with their second album Hay Tiempo! in 1998 which due to their waning popularity was only available in Japan. Guitarist Simon White is now manager of Bloc Party while another, Chris Gentry, manages up-and-coming band The Rumours.
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Home windows into Buddhism: Khyentse Basis Pronounces Launch of New E book and Web site
Khyentse Basis, a nonprofit based by the famend Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, has introduced the launches of two new sources sharing the instructing of the Buddhadharma: and e-book and an internet site, each for practising Buddhists and aspiring college students alike.
Discovering Buddhism is a brand new e-book written by scholar and educator Dominique Facet geared toward introducing Buddhism as a tradition, a system of thought, and a faith, presenting the practices and views of all the fundamental Buddhist traditions.
“I hope to current a transparent and complete overview of Buddhism as an entire to most of the people, in addition to to these already ,” stated Facet. “I feel it’s all the time stimulating to drill into one other faith and tradition. I hope to additionally make clear myths and misunderstandings about what the Buddha stated.” (Khyentse Basis)
Facet is a practising Buddhist and skilled Dharma trainer, holding a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy. She is the writer of Buddhism (Philip Allan 2005) and a participant of the Milinda Program: Coaching Western Buddhist Lecturers for the twenty first Century, an initiative of the Khyentse Basis.
Discovering Buddhism additionally introduces the historical past of Buddhism and the Buddha’s key teachings, in addition to offering a crucial examination of the hyperlinks between conventional texts and up to date Buddhist scholarship.
“So long as I’ve recognized Dominique Facet, she has not solely been a crucial searcher and tutorial, however she has additionally personally seen the worth of the Buddhist path and encountered many nice masters of this century. That’s why her e-book just isn’t like most introductory books that current Buddhism as a faith together with a lot of info, figures, and logical arguments,” Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche observes in his foreword to Discovering Buddhism. “As an alternative, it presents a distinct means of taking a look at life and the world, and it encourages the sort of crucial exploration, questioning, and reflection that may really enrich the reader’s private understanding. That’s why I’d sooner suggest this e-book than some compilation of supplies primarily based totally on tutorial credentials and references.” (Khyentse Basis)
Dominique Facet
Discovering Buddhism
Khyentse Basis is a nonprofit group based by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in 2001 with the intention of selling the Buddha’s instructing and supporting all traditions of Buddhist examine and follow. The muse’s actions embrace main textual content preservation and translation initiatives, assist for monastic schools in Asia, a worldwide scholarship and awards program, improvement of Buddhist research at main universities, coaching and improvement for Buddhist lecturers, and growing new modes of Dharma-inspired schooling for youngsters.
The muse has additionally introduced the approaching launch of “Home windows into Buddhism,” a brand new web site, scheduled to go surfing in July as a free Buddhist academic useful resource.
A undertaking of the European Buddhist Union, funded by Khyentse Basis, Home windows into Buddhism will “supply a variety of sources on Buddhism that can profit lecturers and college students in nations the place Buddhism is taught in mainstream colleges, and also can serve for instructing kids in Buddhist facilities. The web site is managed by a staff of content material builders headed by Discovering Buddhism writer Dominique Facet.
The European Buddhist Union is an worldwide umbrella affiliation of Buddhist organizations and nationwide Buddhist unions in Europe that envisions “a fellowship of European Buddhists bringing Buddhist concepts and rules into European society.” (European Buddhist Union)
“The location will make sources simply accessible by subject and age group, and can function the primary Buddhist traditions current today-Theravada, Zen/Ch’an, Pure Land and Tibetan Buddhism. Sources will draw straight on experience in every of these traditions.” (Home windows into Buddhism)
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
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Born in Bhutan in 1961, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is the son of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and was a detailed scholar of the Nyingma grasp Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–91). He’s acknowledged because the third incarnation of the nineteenth century Tibetan terton Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892), founding father of the Khyentse lineage, and the speedy incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959).
Along with Khyentse Basis, his initiatives embrace Siddhartha’s Intent, a global collective of Buddhist teams supporting Rinpoche’s Buddhadharma actions by organizing teachings and retreats, distributing and archiving recorded teachings, and transcribing, modifying, and translating manuscripts and follow texts; 84000, a non-profit international initiative to translate the phrases of the Buddha and make them accessible to all; Lotus Outreach, which directs a variety of initiatives to make sure the schooling, well being, and security of weak girls and youngsters within the growing world; and Lhomon Society, which promotes sustainable improvement in Bhutan via schooling.
Rinpoche is the writer of a number of books, together with: What Makes You Not a Buddhist (2006), Not For Happiness (2012), The Guru Drinks Bourbon? (2016), and Poison is Drugs: Clarifying the Vajrayana (2021), and has garnered renown inside and outdoors of the worldwide Buddhist group for the feature-length movies he has written and directed: The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2004), Vara: A Blessing (2012), Hema Hema: Sing Me a Music Whereas I wait (2016), and Wanting For A Woman With Fangs And A Moustache (2019).
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National Indigenous Peoples Day in the Workplace
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Stay Close: December 31 Premiere on Netflix and What To Know Before Watching It?
Tuesday, 28 December 2021, 11:45 IST
The forthcoming crime drama, Stay Close, will be getting its release on Netflix this coming December 31, 2021, at the year wraps. In addition to the thriller catalog, it is a British miniseries. It adapts Harlan Coben’s thriller novel, featuring twists and turns that will keep you hooked.
Netflix has previously adapted Coben’s The Stranger, and Safe which proved to be quite a success. Hence, Coben’s fans are anticipating the release of the limited series, Stay Close. His forthcoming TV adaptation will feature a stellar cast, with Cush Jumbo and Richard Armitage in the lead. He was also seen in The Stranger. If you are up for another Harlen Coben thriller, these details will help you.
When Will Stay Close Release?
Stay Close is an upcoming thriller miniseries with eight episodes altogether. It will get its release on Friday, December 31, 2021. Daniel O’Hara has directed the series and features a screenplay by Harlan Coben. Red Production Company is producing the series.
The series was filmed in Manhattan, including places such as Didsbury and Impossible Bar (the city center nightclub). While originally, in the novel, the events take place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, the happenings in the series shift to the UK shores.
Where Can You Watch Stay Close?
The thriller drama, Stay Close will be released on the streaming platform Netflix on the aforementioned date. The development of the series was first announced back in October 2020.
Besides Stay Close, another Coben has also received a successful TV adaptation. It includes Gone for Good, The Woods, Safe, The Innocent, and The Stranger. Harlen Coben and Netflix have a deal of 5 years, which will see the adaptation of Coben’s 14 books into original miniseries for this platform.
Who Is In The Cast Of Stay Close?
In the role of Cassie or Megan Shaw, the series stars Cush Jumbo. The police detective, Broome, is played by James Nesbitt, and the photojournalist Ray on the lookout for his girlfriend, who goes missing, is played by Richard Armitage. Harry is played by Eddie Izzard, Erin Cartwright by Jo Joyner, and Fester by Youssef Kerkour.
Lorraine is played by Sarah Parish, Dave Shaw by Daniel Francis, Jordan Shaw by Dylan Francis, and Simona by Andi Osho.
What Is The Plot Of Stay Close?
Source: What’s on Netflix
Featuring another of HarlenCoben’s iconic thriller mysteries, you will get another round of gripping suspense and trademark thrills as the characters solve the crime. Revolving around three people, who at the outset seem to be living an ideal life, hide dark secrets underneath.
It includes the police detective, Broome; the photojournalist, Ray; and a mother of three, Megan. Megan’s friend, Lorraine, comes with shocking news that will have an unforeseen impact. Find out what mysteries and lies this series will cover.
Is The Trailer For Stay Close Available?
Yes, you can head to YouTube to stream the trailer for Stay Close. It gives you a look into the three lead characters in action in this psychological thriller. Past secrets will come back to haunt them. Their lives get intertwined, and people start to disappear around them. The trailer was dropped on December 3, 2021.
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Taiwan to cut Covid-related quarantine for arrivals to 3 days
Taiwan has kept its quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of Asia have relaxed or lifted them completely, though in May it cut the number of days spent in isolation for arrivals to seven from 10 previously. Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Centre said that the new, reduced quarantine rule would start from Wednesday. After leaving quarantine, people will have to continue to monitor their health for a further four days and avoid going out if possible, it added.
Taiwan said on Saturday it would cut mandatory quarantine for all arrivals to three days from seven, its latest relaxation of the rules to try to live with Covid-19 and resume normal life even as it has been dealing with a surge of infections.
Taiwan has kept its quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of Asia have relaxed or lifted them completely, though in May it cut the number of days spent in isolation for arrivals to seven from 10 previously.
Taiwan has reported more than 2.7 million domestic cases since the beginning of the year, driven by the more infectious Omicron variant. But with more than 99 per cent of those exhibiting no or mild symptoms, the government has relaxed rather than tightened restrictions in what it calls the “new Taiwan model”.
Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Centre said that the new, reduced quarantine rule would start from Wednesday. After leaving quarantine, people will have to continue to monitor their health for a further four days and avoid going out if possible, it added.
Taiwan to reopen to business travellers in March
Business visitors will have to apply in-person with Taiwan's de facto embassies, while Chinese nationals must apply online via local host companies to the National Immigration Agency. Also from March 7, the 14-day mandatory quarantine for all arrivals will be cut to 10 days, in addition to a week of monitoring at home.
The move was made “considering the international and domestic epidemic situation and epidemic prevention and medical capacity, and to promote economic and social activities and necessary international exchanges,” the centre said.
All arrivals will still have to have pre-departure negative PCR tests. The government says the current domestic Covid-19 wave is waning, but has yet to fully reopen its borders.
Taiwanese citizens and foreign residents have never been prohibited from leaving and then re-entering, though have had to quarantine either at home or in hotels. Before the pandemic, Taiwan was a popular tourist destination for mainly Asian visitors, with Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia the most important markets.
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Rock Sport Protection Products Market
Rock Sport Protection Products Market By Product Type (Helmet, Climbing Shoes, Belay Gloves, Nuts), By Sales Channel (Independent Sports Outlet, Franchised Sports Outlet), By Buyer Type & By Region - Global Market Insights 2023-2033
Analysis of Rock Sport Protection Products Market Covering 30+ Countries Including Analysis of US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Nordics, GCC countries, Japan, Korea and many more
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Rock Sport Protection Products Market Outlook (2023-2033)
The global rock sport protection products market is likely to reach a valuation of US$ 118 million in 2023 and is anticipated to progress at a CAGR of 2.7% to reach US$ 154 million by the end of 2033. Sales of the rock sport protection products market accounted for less than 1% share of the global sports accessories market at the end of 2023.
Anticipated Base Year Value (2022)
Expected Market Value (2023)
Projected Forecast Value (2033)
Global Growth Rate (2023-2033)
North America Market Share (2023)
North America Market Value (2023)
US$ 24.6 Million
Europe Market Share (2023)
Europe Market Value (2023)
Prominent Players in The Global Market
Bauerfeind AG
McDavid Inc
Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc.
Shock Doctor Inc.
Decathlon S.A.
Amer Sports Corporation
Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.
Vista Outdoor Inc.
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Sales Analysis of Rock Sport Protection Products (2018-2022) Vs. Market Outlook (2023-2033)
When it comes to recreational climbing, unfortunate injuries are most commonly due to loss of balance and falls. Therefore, protective helmets, gears, and other products are mandatory while climbing activities. Balance and safety are very important to balance the fun of rock climbing and also during its training. Rock sport protection sets and products, such as rock sports shoes, allow climbers to climb comfortably, safely, and easily.
The market for protective products in rock sports is primarily driven by the growing popularity of the climbing sport resulting in an increasing number of climbers. The climbers who wear protective products are less likely to get injured.
The global rock sport protection products market is well-established in various sports industries, but some protective gear that is currently in the launching phase of the market is more likely to gain popularity during the forecast period.
Short Term (2023 to 2026): The increasing participation in rock climbing sports and activities will positively impact the rock sport protection products market growth.
Medium Term (2026-2029): the United States is projected to witness comparatively high rock sport protection products demand due to the maximum number of participants in this sport present in the nation.
Long Term (2029-2033): Considering the wide range of products that are available to provide maximum safety and reduce the risk of injury during the rock climbing activity will propel many participants of this sport to use protective products, which will thereby increase the demand for rock sport protection products.
From 2018 to 2022, the global rock sport protection products market registered a CAGR of 2.3%, according to Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider. It also reveals that the market will exhibit growth at 2.7% CAGR between 2023 and 2033.
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What’s Driving High Demand for Rock Sport Protection Products across Regions?
“Rising concerns for athlete’s safety to enhance the sales of rock sport protection products”
Rock sport protection products are used to protect athletes from accidents in adventure sports such as rock climbing and hiking. Such protection products provide protection against sudden external impacts and drops.
These types of protective products are mandated by various sports federations in consideration of the safety aspects of adventure sports and to avoid injury or harm to athletes.
It is not surprising that safety equipment and goods are in great demand as these activities are becoming increasingly popular. These factors have forced the rock sport protection products market to grow terrifically.
“Inclusion of rock climbing as a fun activity to elevate the market growth”
The main reasons for this are the increasing popularity of adventure sports and tourism among consumers and the growth of sports culture among the general population.
Leisure and adventure tourism are becoming more popular due to changes in lifestyles. An increasing number of health-conscious travellers and sports enthusiasts are opting for vacation packages that include outdoor physical activity and adventure sports such as rock climbing and hiking.
Artificial rock climbing is now made available in different adventure clubs or malls. The promotion of such sports through tourism activities or in malls will boost the market for protective products for rock sports.
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What Do Rock Sport Protection Products Manufacturers Need to Watch Out for?
“Low quality products may hamper the growth of the market”
The protective goods should only be made from high-quality materials. Typically, consumers choose to purchase unbranded goods over more expensive ones. The majority of the materials used to create these affordable goods are substandard.
Low-quality materials increase the risk of failure of the product. Such incidents increase the number of accidents that may lead to severe injuries or even fatal deaths. Studies have estimated the prevalence of climbing-related injuries ranges from 10% to 81%, regardless of cause.
Rock climbing is always considered a dangerous sport. The risks associated with it cannot be completely eliminated but reduced to a greater extent by using good quality protection products during the rock climbing sport.
Comparative View of Rock Sport Protection Products Market
Rock Sport Protection Products Market :
Growing consumer interest in adventure travel and sports combined with an increasing mega sports lifestyle, thereby ramping up the sales of rock sport protective products.
Increase in awareness about the health advantages associated with the sport is expected to provide opportunities for the growth of the rock sports protective product market.
Sports Protective Equipment Market :
Sports Protective Equipment Market
Sales of sports protective gear are being boosted by a growing consciousness of a healthy lifestyle.
Increase in awareness about the use of various sports equipment and rise in number of injuries among various age groups while playing are augmenting the demand for sports protective equipment.
Sports and Leisure Equipment Retailing Market :
Sports and Leisure Equipment Retailing Market
An increase in the number of obese people, an increase in the prevalence of various chronic diseases linked to lifestyle choices, and a rise in consumer preference for and importance of fitness, particularly among millennials is anticipated to propel the market growth.
The increasing number of sporting activities and tournaments at the international and national levels is expected to increase the importance of sports and fitness among the population and drive revenue growth in the market.
Country-wise Insights
Why United States Account for Substantial Demand in Rock Sport Protection Products Market?
Enhanced government efforts for sports and outdoor activities to push market growth
The U.S. will account for a valuation of US$ 24.6 million in 2023 and grow with an impressive CAGR of 3.4% from the year 2023 to 2033. Additionally, the United States is the second-largest market for sports protective gear in terms of value because of the hosting of numerous sporting events and the construction of infrastructure to draw an increasing number of people to engage in sports.
Plentiful important athletic events over the past few years have fueled the market's expansion in recent years. Owing to enhanced government efforts for sports and outdoor activities, as well as increased consumer expenditure on sports protective gear, the United States rock sport protection products market is anticipated to expand rapidly over the forecast period. The United States has many participants in climbing sports. There were 9.89 million participants in climbing in 2019 and 10.28 million participants in 2020.
The U.S. has certain dedicated rocks for climbing activity purposes. Some of the major and most attractive places for rock climbing in 2023 are Red Rock, Red River Gorge, Indian Creek, Shawangunks (The Gunks), and some others.
Owing to the rising popularity of sports in the United States has created a plethora of opportunities for the manufacturers of rock sport protection products.
Why is France Rock Sport Protection Products Market Expected to Be Highly Lucrative?
Popularity of national and international competitions to bolster demand
Considering the geography of France, it certainly has some of the best climbing areas in the world. Hence, the sport of rock climbing is in high demand in this country. There are numerous options for rock climbing and mountaineering in the French Pyrenees. Pene Haute, Sinsat, and Superpene are among the sport climbing crags.
The country is witnessing enormous growth in the popularity of national and international competitions, which attracts a lot of athletes each year and drives up demand for businesses that supply related goods and services, such as sports protective products.
In 2019, France recorded 110,449 licenses and other titles for participation in mountain climbing and sports activities. The organization of various sports events, such as the European Championships Munich 2023, will provide opportunities for athletes to participate in the sport at international levels. All these opportunities offered to the participants in rock sports activities will automatically increase the penetration of protection products used for these types of sports.
Category-wise Insights
Which Product Type is expected to become the Leading Contributor during the Forecast Period?
Helmets being highly preferred by customer
The most frequent injuries in rock climbing are head injuries. However, the truth is that rock climbing is a tremendously risky activity that can cause catastrophic head injuries. Hence, the utilization of helmets during rock climbing activity is very necessary.
Using special shoes designed for rock climbing provides greater stability, traction, and balance on golf courses. The penetration of new climbing shoe models in the market has increased the demand for such kinds of shoes.
The necessity of using helmets and proper climbing shoes during such risky sports is likely to augment the sales of helmets and shoes by a CAGR of 2.8% and 2.7%, respectively.
Which Sales Channel Segment Will Provide Sales Growth in Rock Sport Protection Products Market?
Online segment will continue to dominate the global market during the forecast period
By allowing retailers to provide all of their services and products on a single platform, e-commerce platforms increase convenience for customers. The usage of e-commerce platforms and technology is likely to likely increase in the next years as a result of this factor.
Retailers have experienced a surge in consumer preference to purchase online due to the high degree of convenience and cost-effectiveness of online platforms. Retailers have thus begun utilizing e-commerce platforms to facilitate client browsing for their goods and services as well as to make it simpler for them to connect with customers who are located far away.
The most lucrative sales channel for rock sports protection product suppliers is anticipated to be online sales. Businesses are focusing on online sales at the moment since customers prefer online retailers like Walmart, Amazon, Flipkart, Alibaba, E-bay, and others.
By the end of 2023, the global market for online sales, which presently holds a 17.8% market share, is expected to produce US$ 20.5 million.
Start–up for Rock Sports Protection Product Market
The new market entrants are developing products that incorporate eco-friendly materials that will prove to be more reliable, versatile, and improved insulation against the elements. Some of the start-ups operating in the rock sports protection product market are as follows-
Rocksport Outdoors is India’s leading adventure gear store where one can find a big range of top quality Rock Climbing, Trekking, Hiking, Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Mountaineering and Backpacking equipment from the best brands. Also, provide the best outdoor gear, climbing structures and rope courses to all adventure lovers at unbeatable prices.
Tutwo - Online private label brand for adventure gear & an online travel agent marketplace that offers various adventure & travel products to travel enthusiasts. Sells its products through its own stores & online channels. Travel packages include adventure sports like rock climbing, rafting, hilly terrain cycling expeditions, offbeat trekking & more. Users can book travel products through the mobile app.
Manufacturers can modify items by using lighter materials for use as protection gear during rock sports. The comfort of the sportsperson or player is also crucial because they must wear these items until the activities are completed. Offering affordable and lightweight, protective gear that is pleasant for the player is a crucial sales strategy for makers of rock sport protection gear.
Numerous manufacturers and players have been involved in the production of rock sport protection products to provide maximum protection to the players while they are climbing the rock or playing the sport as a result of the increased risk of injury. The popularity of rock sport protection products will also be primarily driven by collaboration, brand partnerships, and sponsorships.
Some of the important market players operating in the field of rock sport protection products market are Bauerfeind AG, McDavid Inc, Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc., Under Armour, Inc., NIKE, Inc., Shock Doctor Inc., Decathlon S.A., Amer Sports Corporation, Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. and Vista Outdoor Inc.
Recent Developments :
In September 2023, a collaboration between DoorDash and DICK'S Sporting Goods was announced in order to provide on-demand delivery from more than 700 locations in 47 states.
In July 2023, an enhanced, exclusive, non-binding Memorandum of Understanding between HITIQ and Shock Doctor was signed. A self-fit, moldable mouthguard incorporating HITIQ impact sensor technology will be developed as a consequence of this partnership. The professional and amateur sports markets will also benefit from this new product range.
In June 2023, Mego Afek and Mueller Sports Medicine joined forces to provide athletes and consumers with therapy for better circulation and recuperation. The Mueller® Recovery Care® line's newest product is called REVIVE™. It is a rechargeable, portable pneumatic compression device that gently massages muscular tissues to encourage lymphatic absorption and get rid of inflammatory waste products after strenuous exercise, long periods of standing or sitting, and swelling.
Segmentation of Rock Sport Protection Products Industry Research
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What is the expected worth of the rock sport protection product industry in 2023?
By 2023, Fact.MR expected demand for rock sport protection products to reach US$ 118Million.
What is the expected forecast CAGR for rock sport protection products from 2023-2033?
From 2023-2033, rock sport protection product demand is likely to surge at a 2.7% CAGR.
At what value will the market for rock sport protection products close in 2033?
By 2033, the market for rock sport protection products is likely to be valued at US$154 Million.
What was the market worth for rock sport protection products in 2022?
As of 2022, Fact.MR estimated the rock sport protection product market to have reached US$114.9 Million.
At what CAGR did the rock sport protection product market flourish from 2018-2022?
From 2018-2022, the rock sport protection product market grew at a value of 2.3% CAGR.
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AAVMC sees opportunities for less traditional DVM roles
Columbus, Ohio-A wealth of human resource needs have emerged in veterinary medicine, and if students aren't prepared, the jobs likely will pass up the profession.
Columbus, Ohio-A wealth of human resource needs have emerged in veterinarymedicine, and if students aren't prepared, the jobs likely will pass upthe profession.
That's what Dr. Kent Hoblet says as he works to identify manpower needsrelated to veterinary medicine in areas not associated with companion animalpractice. Authoring a white paper on the topic, Hoblet plans to unveil hisresults during the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges'(AAVMC) annual conference in July in Denver.
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine (OSU) professorsays veterinary medical work in public health, laboratory animal medicine,and within the military as well as state, federal and local governmentsis not sufficiently promoted by veterinary college programs.
"Traditionally, veterinary students get into school and a lot ofthem think they have their mind set on private practice," says Hoblet,chair of OSU's Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. "But thetraditional training we give veterinarians is a great base for other things.The opportunities out there are fantastic for veterinary medicine rightnow, but some of those opportunities are not being realized. We need todo a better job in making students aware of all they can do."
The paper aims to reach students considering a career in practice andgraduates of up to five years, which is a crucial time for many DVMs consideringcareer changes, says Dr. Andrew Maccabe, AAVMC director of programs andservices.
"Public health, biodefense, population medicine, administration,public policy - it's all interconnected," he says. "This is apart of the profession that needs some attention right now, especially withthe increased risk for terrorism."
Hoblet reveals federal and state governments as well as industry currentlyemploy roughly 5,000 veterinarians while 10,000 DVMs work in at least someaspect of food animal practice.
"I'm trying to figure out if the veterinary colleges are turningout enough students to meet these needs," he says. "For instance,there's a tremendous shortage of pathologists in public practice."
As the professor continues his research, an AAVMC task force also preparesa parallel study looking specifically at public practice. The white paperwill contain the task force's data, Hoblet says.
"The task force is looking at the needs of the government and federalneeds at the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Agriculture, Departmentof Health and Human Service, plus state and industry needs," he says."My white paper will draw on what they already have. In addition topublic practice, I've added food animal practice in government as well ascorporate and private food animal practice."
While his work isn't complete, Hoblet surmises that the current trainingand career tracks of most veterinary students won't meet the public's evolvinghuman resource needs.
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'Space Force' returns to Netflix for a 2nd season of high-flying hilarity
By Scott Snowden
Season 2 will be available in its entirety starting Friday (Feb. 18).
Science fiction comedy is a television sub-genre that's getting more and more popular. For example, we now have "The Orville," "Resident Alien," "Red Dwarf" and even "Avenue 5."
"Star Trek" even experimented in this arena with the epic "Short Trek" episode "The Trouble With Edward." And now, thankfully, we also have "Star Trek: Lower Decks."
But another solid entry in this essential and undervalued niche of entertainment is the Netflix (opens in new tab) show "Space Force" — and Season 2 will be available to watch in its entirety, starting on Friday (Feb. 18).
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The streaming service hasn't given away any clues about what antics might unfold in Season 2, except for the official trailer above. But it's likely to pick up from the ending of Season 1 with the threat of nuclear war hanging over everyone's heads, the arming, disarming and rearming of Habitat One, potential conflict with the Chinese and General Naird (Steve Carell) headed back to the Space Force to deal with the situation.
Who here wouldn't act like this on their first trip to the lunar surface?! How fun would that be? (Image credit: Netflix)
The dry wit of this show is not for everyone, but if you enjoy Carell's style of humor and other entries that come under the sci-fi comedy classification, then "Space Force" will almost certainly appeal. An interstellar cast — including John Malkovich (Dr. Mallory), Ben Schwartz (F. Tony Scarapiducci), Tawny Newsome (Captain Angela Ali) and Lisa Kudrow (Maggie Naird) — joins Carell, and hopefully we'll see more of both Jane Lynch (Chief of Naval Operations) and Patrick Warburton (Commandant of the Marine Corps) too.
Here's our updated calendar of sci-fi events to look for 2022, and my oh my, are we in for a treat this year.
"Resident Alien" Season 2 — currently airing on SyFy until March 16, 2022
"Raised By Wolves" Season 2 — currently on HBO Max until March 3, 2022
"Star Trek: Discovery" Season 4 — on Paramount Plus until March 3, 2022
"Star Trek: Picard" Season 2 — March 10, 2022 on Paramount Plus
"The Orville" Season 3 — now June 2, 2022 on Hulu
"Upload" Season 2 — March 11, 2022 on Amazon Prime
"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 1 — May 5, 2022 on Paramount Plus
"Halo" Season 1 — March 24, 2022 on Paramount Plus
"For All Mankind" Season 3 — sometime in 2022 on Apple TV
"Love, Death + Robots" Season 3 — sometime in 2022 on Netflix
"The Bad Batch" Season 2 — sometime in 2022 on Disney Plus
"Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 3 — late in 2022 on Paramount Plus
"The Mandalorian" Season 3 — late in 2022 on Disney Plus
"Andor" — late in 2022 on Disney Plus
"Obi Wan Kenobi" — May 25, 2022 on Disney Plus
"Foundation" Season 2 — late in 2022 on Apple TV
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On Tuesday, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced while on a state visit to New Delhi that Sachin Tendulkar would be made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia. . Yet on Wednesday morning, the Australian media is full of outrage. How can such a seemingly safe and popular decision be so controversial?
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It was all so much simpler back in the days when I did my school assignment on the Gorton Ministry. The most complex part then was having separate ministers for Army, Navy and Air Force. Even the Minister for Munitions was long gone by then.
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The Shi’ite leader, Ibrahim El-Zakyzaky, has said that he had greater freedom while in custody in Nigeria than in Medenta Hospital, New Delhi, India, where he went for treatment last Monday.
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0LAUK0 2018Q1 Group 2 - Prototype User Testing
Revision as of 18:44, 29 October 2018 by TUe\s151851 (talk | contribs) (→Proof of Effectiveness)
This page is part of the research done by 0LAUK0 2018 Q1 Group 2, our main page can be found at PRE2018 1 Group2. During week 6 of the project, the tests were revised. The previous iteration of the tests can be found in the section "old tests".
3 Revised tests
3.1 Responding to a Wrong Posture
3.2 Monitor Moves Along
3.3 Unit tests
4 Old Tests
4.1 Physical tests
4.2 Ethical Tests
5 Concrete Scenarios
5.1 User Test 1
6 Proof of Effectiveness
Once the design is ready, it needs to be tested by independent users. The monitor needs to be user- friendly, so a test plan should be made to check whether it is. The requirements are mainly about ethical and physical issues. The monitor should not cause ethical problems and it should be physically pleasant for the user to use the monitor. An idea for testing our monitor could be to place it in MetaForum, and let students and teachers use it. Again, here one can distinguish critical issues from high, medium and low issues. Any critical issues shall be dealt with first, then the high issues, etc. The goal is again to get zero critical and high issues and as less medium and low issues as possible. In the end, a justification of our device will follow.
Screen not moving too slow, but not too fast neither. Optimal would be that once the screen starts moving, it will reach the correct position within ‘x’ seconds. It will move with a constant velocity (or as constant as possible). Screen will move in three parts; first sideways, then vertically and then horizontally.
Screen not too sensitive (an optimal responding time would be ‘x’ seconds).
As less noise as possible.
Cameras delete all frames made.
From a certain angle, it should be impossible to see what is on the screen (privacy).
It must be possible to operate the screen manually.
If the user has a wrong posture, the screen will give a warning. When the warning is not answered, the screen will turn off. (Good or wrong posture is determined by input parameters.
Screen moves by itself to adjust the posture of the user.
One needs a security code to be able to install and/or adjust the input parameters.
Revised tests
Responding to a Wrong Posture
The goal of doing these tests, is finding out what the preference of the user is, regarding how the monitor should respond when the user is having a wrong posture. The response that turns out to be most convenient will then be set as the standard response of the device. The other responses will still be available as custom settings.
The user is sitting behind the monitor, having a wrong posture.
Expected outcomes:
The screen will be lightened or dimmed, depending on whether the user is too close or too far away. If the user is too close, the screen will brighten up, if the user is too far away, the screen will dim.
The monitor will come up with a visual reminder (like a pop-up, a notification, etc.).
The device will play an audio reminder, a sample that starts to play when the user is in an incorrect posture.
The rumble motors in the chair will be activated and the chair starts to rumble (akin to rumble features in present modern video games).
The screen will move towards or away from the user, depending on whether the user is too close or too far away. If the user is too close, the screen will move towards the user, if the user is too far away, the screen will move away from the user.
First it should be tested whether these scenarios work at all (these tests could be performed by us), and then the users could be used to determine a favourite way of responding.
Monitor Moves Along
The goal of doing these tests, is finding out what moving speed of the monitor is the most convenient for the user. This speed will then be set as the default speed. The other speeds could still be available as custom speeds.
The user moves away an enough distance to not maintain an optimal position for the monitor.
Expected outcomes: The monitor will follow along with 1 cm/s, 2 cm/s, 3 cm/s, etc. First it should be tested (by us) whether these scenarios work in the first place. Then the users could be used to determine an optimal moving speed. An additional test could be made concerning the vibration of the monitor when moving (these tests could be performed both by us and the users).
The same as just before.
The monitor doesn’t vibrate when moving, the view of the monitor is not disturbed.
One of us will take place behind the monitor and do the following tasks:
Sit too far away; to be expected is that the monitor will move away from us in order to make clear that we are too far from the screen.
Sit too close; to be expected is that the monitor will move a little bit towards us in order to make clear that we are too close to the screen.
Sit in a wrong position; to be expected is that the monitor will at least have an internal warning such that it knows that our posture is incorrect.
Sit in a correct position and gently move to the right, left, forward, backward; to be expected is that the monitor will follow along.
Sit in a correct position and pick something up from the ground; to be expected is that the monitor will recognize this as a spontaneous movement and thus will ignore it.
Old Tests
Physical tests
Some of the tests that could be done regarding the requirements above will be omitted since that these already have been described in the first test plan (tests like making the actuator less noisy, installing custom made thresholds and thus operating the screen manually, etc.). Of course, everything described in the first test plan should still be valid when testing the device on the real users.
1. The user moves within response time and exceeding the maximum deviation.
Expected outcome: The screen will follow along after ‘a’ seconds (response time) and reach the correct position within ‘x’ seconds, moving with a (as far as possible) constant velocity.
Obtained outcome: …
2. The user is sitting behind the screen, having a wrong altitude.
Expected outcome: The screen will give a warning about the wrong posture of the user. If the user corrects his/her posture correctly, the warning disappears. If the user doesn’t correct his/her posture, the screen will turn off.
3. The user is sitting in a correct position for a ‘x’ amount of time.
Expected outcome: After a ‘x’ amount of time, the screen will adjust itself to a new optimal position.
Ethical Tests
1. The user uses the monitor for a ‘x’ amount of time, with the camera running.
Expected outcome: All frames the camera has made are deleted (instantaneously).
2. Someone stands behind the user and walks to the right/left, looking at the screen.
Expected outcome: From a certain angle, the screen will not be visible anymore.
3. The user wants to install/change his/her input parameters.
Expected outcome: The device asks for a personal security code in order to be able to get access to the input parameters.
Concrete Scenarios
Below the concrete scenarios can be found, that were to be executed. The first user test has actually been realised, the second user test could be executed in case of further investigation.
User Test 1
Permission is asked to an independent user to install our cameras on his/her laptop. Then, the user is asked to just make some homework, while sitting behind the laptop. We will film the user for about 30 minutes. From the frames that have been made, some conclusions can be drawn (assuming that our user is behaving like an average person) about which movements are frequently made by users and which positions are taken the most.
An independent user is asked to make some homework behind our monitor. The exercises will be attached to our monitor and the user can begin studying as he/she normally would do. While studying, the user is bound to move sometimes, or take some other positions. It will be tested whether our monitor responds correctly to the movements of the user. Afterwards the user will receive a survey where it will be asked what his/her experience with our monitor was (e.g. what was good, what was bad) and the user will be asked about what he/she would like to see improved to our monitor.
Proof of Effectiveness
One of the most important things in this project of course is to get proof of that our device will actually succeed in preventing RSI. If our device would not take the known actions for preventing RSI into account, it could become a failure. Therefore, it is important to have a justification of what our device does and why.
In order to maintain and promote ones health, a good balance between activity and rest is necessary. Rest pauses are helpful for recovery of load-induced strain and prevention of fatigue. (1) By giving the monitor a function to give a warning after the user has worked for a ‘x’ period of time, or when desired even shut down, this can be achieved.
The risk of RSI can be minimised by understanding the basic principles of good positioning. (2) This would be the positions as described before (screen at approximately 50 cm distance, maintaining the right viewing angle, etc.). By giving the device these positions as default settings, the risk of getting RSI should be reduced.
Forceful exertion often causes neck MSDs (Musculoskeletal Disorders). (3) Once the device takes the right position, the user can look relaxed to the screen, without exerting his/her neck. This problem could therefore be solved. Furthermore, neck MSDs could also be caused by maintaining a static posture. By taking initiative and adjust its position by itself, the monitor could help the user preventing this problem.
The above scenarios already show that in theory, the monitor should be able to solve all kinds of problems. This could be verified by testing the device out and if necessary approve it.
Luttmann, A., Jäger, M., Griefahn, B., Caffier, G., Liebers, F. & Steinberg, U. Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace. 2003. Retrieved from: [1]
Hendrickson, M. Repetitive Stress Injury: Protect Your Hands Against Repetitive Stress Injuries. 2018. Retrieved from: [2]
3. Bernard, B.P., Putz-Anderson, V., Burt, S.E., Cole, L.L., Fairfield-Estill, C., Fine, L.J., Grant, K.A., Gjessing, C., Jenkins, L., Hurrell, J.J., Nelson, N., Pfirman, D., Roberts, R., Stetson, D., Haring-Sweeney, M. & Tanaka, S. Musculoskeletal Disorders and Workplace Factors: A Critical Review of Epidemiologic Evidence for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Neck, Upper Extremity and Low Back. Retrieved from: [3]
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MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex)
MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex)—it sounds somewhat like “Mickey Mouse”—is a term that was coined by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned political activist Ray McGovern in 2018. The term was entered in the Urban Dictionary on August 27, 2021.
“Military-industrial complex” is an older term coined by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address on January 17, 1961. However, McGovern considers “media” to be a very important part of the MICIMATT power structure.
Wikipedia: Ray McGovern
Raymond McGovern (born August 25, 1939) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned political activist. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA’s involvement in torture. McGovern’s post-retirement work includes commenting for Consortium News, RT, and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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Hey, Mr. Trump! Tear Down That Deep-State Wall Of Secrecy
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Most important of all, any significant improvement in relations with Russia will remain stymied. And the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) complex, with its Deep-State enforcer, will have won yet another round. Merry Christmas.
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Asked about the MIC (Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex”), Ray introduces a new acronym that better describes the ever-wider and more serious threat to the Republic — the threat also known as the “Deep State.” It is MICIMATT (with accent on the first syllable): the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank complex.
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http://raymcgovern.com/2018/12/26/russia-gate-for-dummies/… “Ray introduces a new acronym that better describes the ever-wider & more serious threat to the Republic… It is MICIMATT (with accent on the first syllable): the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank complex.”
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Replying to @DigitalHeretik and @Kevin_Shipp@raymcgovern now suggests using this: MICIMATT (with accent on the first syllable): the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank complex. 😜
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The Big Club is the Big Mafia and their house is called the MICIMATT; coined by @raymcgovern as the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank, through which they manufacture the consent of the ‘submissive and malleable’ (Leni Riefenstahl) masses.
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Intel analyst @raymcgovern PDB JFK-GHWB
not JUST Media
#MICIMATT
military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-MEDIA-academia-think-tank complex
(you’re part of it obviously)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5nkj2493I
3:11 PM · Apr 16, 2020·Twitter Web App
RAY McGOVERN: Once We Were Allies; Then Came MICIMATT
By Ray McGovern
The corporate-controlled mainstream media have become a cornerstone of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex, MICIMATT, if you will.
@raymcgovern
MICIMATT (the Military-Industrial-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) complex is easy to understand/remember. Rhymes w/ both Mickey Mouse & Ike’s MIC warning. Thwarts all attempts to drain Swamp and pull out of Afghanistan.
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“Eisenhower stressed that the only way to prevent the military-industrial complex from endangering our democracy was “an alert and knowledgeable citizenry”.
That’s the rub. The corporate-owned media has become the linchpin of the MICIMATT.” --Ray McGovern
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A new acronym for our times (credit to Ray McGovern) : MICIMATT:. Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex. Use it or lose it—
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MICIMATT
The Military-Industrial-Counter-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex - a term coined by CIA officer turned political activist Ray McGovern.
Pepe Escobar: The “forever war” may have been a disaster for the bombed, invaded and impoverished “Afghan people,” but it was an unmitigated success for what Ray McGovern so memorably defines as the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Counter-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) complex. Anyone who bought stocks of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and the rest of that crowd made – literally – a killing.
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MICIMATT, term that helps us see the US in a better perspective:
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Weapon Mental
@WeaponMental
It’s not enough to end NATO. NATO is a manifestation of the military-industrial complex, which Ray McGovern memorably coined as MICIMATT (military industrial Congressional intelligence media academia think tank).
12:05 AM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App
Naeem Abbas
@tigershark791
What a beautiful term coined for American and crazy poodle think tanks. MICIMATT stands for Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tanks.
4:35 AM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter for iPad
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Interviews, Search Engines February 16, 2006
Any questions for John Battelle?
I will be interviewing John Battelle for PodLeaders.com on Monday.
John is author of The Search – the book on the evolution of today’s search engines, John is one of the co-founders of Wired magazine and the founder and former Chair of Standard Media International (“The Standard”), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Currently John is the founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing.
If you have any questions you’d like me to ask him – feel free to leave them in the comments and I will put them to him.
This interview has been postponed until Tuesday 28th – so you can still get your questions in if you haven’t already.
Filed under: Interviews, search_engines
Search Engines February 15, 2006
Measure Maps swallowed whole by Google!
I see Google have bought Measure Map an online web stats application. Google already have Google Analytics as a Web Stats application so they must really like Measure Map’s technology to say they have bought it from Adaptive Path (the developers) and have taken the Measure Maps team with them.
A comment on Paul Kedrosky’s site by Simon Cast sums up the probable thinking behind this deal nicely:
This acquisition fits very neatly into the strategy of Google becoming an arbiter of attention. Its forays into radio and print are simply the company expanding into other areas of consumer attention. However, Google also needs to be able to measure attention on non-google sites which is where Google Analytics (nee Urchin) and now Measure Map come in.
These utilities will allow Google to gain attention information which can then be used to increase the price for advertising around certain topics and sites.
Michael Arrington has speculated that the price was in the region of $5-$10m.
Filed under: adaptivepath, adaptive_path, attention, google, google_analytics, measuremap, Measure_map, Search Engines, search_engines, urchin, webstats, web_stats
Podcasting, Search Engines February 3, 2006
Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?
I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week.
The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems. These four companies have been invited to a U.S. congressional subcommittee hearing on February 15 on the subject of U.S. Internet firms operating procedures in China.
The ‘fab four’ failed to turn up for a hearing this Wednesday are were roundly berated by Tom Lantos, D.-Calif., one of the caucus leaders:
Companies that have blossomed in this country and make billions, a country that reveres freedom of speech, have chosen to ignore that core value in expanding their reach overseas, and to erect a ‘Great Firewall’ to suit Beijing’s purposes,” he said. “These massively successful high-tech companies, which couldn’t bring themselves to send their representatives to this meeting today, should be ashamed. With all their power and influence, wealth and high visibility, they neglected to commit to the kind of positive action that human rights activists in China take every day. They caved in to Beijing’s demands for the sake of profits, or whatever else they choose to call it.
It is thought they will attend the Feb 15th hearing!
I note see now that the BBC are reporting that MSN is considering changing its censorship policies:
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s senior lawyer, said it would now remove blog entries only if it gets a “legally binding notice” from the government of that nation…. He added that only people in the nation where the entry breaks local laws will be blocked from seeing the controversial comments. In all other nations access to the entry will be unrestricted.
This is a marginal improvement over MSN’s existing policy of deleting accounts of people who wrote about ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’, or ‘demonstration’ but it is still shoring up the ‘great firewall‘ of China.
Interestingly, Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates has come out against censorship today:
The spread of private e-mail means online users could distribute banned news despite government injunctions, he told a news conference.
“You may be able to take a very visible Web site and say that something shouldn’t be there, but if there’s a desire by the population to know something, it’s going to get out,” he said.
However, Gates said Microsoft, the world’s biggest computer software company, had to meet legal requirements of the countries where it does business.
I have spoken to several representatives of search engines recently and they have all told me that search engines are not indexing the audio content of podcasts and don’t have technologies to do so right now.
I wonder, if podcasts are more difficult to index, is there a role for podcasts to get content through the Great Firewall?
Filed under: advocacy, bill_gates, china, Cisco, google, great_firewall, human_rights, internet, law, Microsoft, msn, news_reports, Podcasting, politics, Search Engines, search_engines, yahoo
Search Engines January 26, 2006
Google founder defends censorship
David Kirkpatrick of Fortune met with Sergey Brin (one of the co-founders of Google) at the World Economic Forum at Davos and asked him about Google’s decision to censor the Internet in China (something I posted about the other day).
Sergey’s reasoning for the censorship:
We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that by participating there, and making our services more available, even if not to the 100 percent that we ideally would like, that it will be better for Chinese Web users, because ultimately they would get more information, though not quite all of it.
In the same report, David Kirkpatrick also talks to Human Rights Watch boss Ken Roth – Ken’s attitude to this mirrors the comments I made in my post – Ken said:
the answer is only going to come through safety in numbers. And it’s going to require all of the search engines to get together and say “None of us will do this.” And China needs search engines. If it can pick them off one at a time, it wins. If it faces all of the search engines at once banding together, the search engines win.
Filed under: censorship, china, davos, google, human_rights, Human_rights_watch, search_engines, world_economic_forum
Google censors the Internet
The New York Times published an article yesterday (and I think I heard a reference this morning on Morning Ireland) about Google’s new Google.cn site.
According to the article, the new Chinese version of the Google search engine:
will not allow users to create personal links with Google e-mail or blog sites, will comply with Chinese law and censor information deemed inappropriate or illegal by the Chinese authorities
One of the reasons Google is hobbling its own technology in China is that Google.com is losing ground in the search market in China to Baidu.com – a Chinese search engine due to government censorship on some of Google.com’s content. A pre-censored Google.cn should have no such issues.
Google will argue that it is not putting profit before human rights – it is merely complying with the law of the land it wants to make profits in (they might not use that terminology exactly!) – the same as all the other major tech suppliers working in China (Cisco, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.). However, if these companies worked together, they could flout the repressive laws in China and theree would be little the Chinese Government could do against such a united front from their most important IT suppliers.
The price of doing business in China? You have to be prepared to sell your soul.
I see John Battelle and Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch have pieces on this as well.
Google’s motto of “Do no Evil” should now be changed to “Do no Evil (unless it interferes with the bottom line)”, I guess!
Filed under: china, Cisco, google, human_rights, Morning_Ireland, msn, New_York_Times, Search Engines, search_engines, yahoo
Google News 1.0(?)
I see Google has announced that its Google News is finally out of Beta – it has been in Beta since it launched in September 2002!
Looking at the Google News site, you’d be hard pressed to see any difference but according to the announcement:
today we’re adding a way to automatically recommend stories for users with Personalized Search.
Here’s how it works: You can sign up for Personalized Search to view and manage your history of news searches and the articles you’ve read. When you’re signed in to your Google Account, you’ll receive recommended news stories based on the previous stories you’ve read. These recommendations will be highlighted just below the top news stories on the page, in a clearly marked section. You can also get a full page of recommended stories by clicking on the section. All of this is done automatically using algorithms
No ads on it so far, I’m curious what the revenue model will be?
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Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?
I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed over the data without any question. Google however held out and is now being taken to court by the DoJ for refusing to comply with the order.
Google’s reason for not complying? Well it wasn’t on privacy grounds, nope, Google refused on grounds that the request was too broad and burdensome!
The Department of Justice is playing the monsters under the bed children protection card:
the information it has requested, which includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period, is essential to its upcoming defense of the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act
Danny Sullivan over at SearchEngineWatch has a rapidly updating analysis of this story – according to Danny:
a more accurate way for the government to assess how often children might encounter porn through search engines would be to conduct their own research. Indeed, they have. Government Report Says MSN Search Adult Filter Most Effective from the SEW Blog back in June covers this report (PDF format) that the US Government Accountability Office did back in June. From what I can see, it measured how often children might encounter porn through image search. To do the assessment, no subpoenas were required.
What was interesting for me was how the other search engines caved and handed over the data. I was interviewing Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo! the other night for a Podleaders.com podcast and, in the context of Yahoo! having previously provided information to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese journalist being jailed for 10 years, I specifically asked him:
If this had happened in the US would Yahoo! have fought the government request in the courts?
Bradley’s response was interesting – he said:
We are bound to abide by the laws of any country in which we do business… so under a court order or a subpoena we would hand it over
In this case however, as far as I know, there was no court order or subpoena – simply a request from the Department of Justice. In fairness to Bradley he makes it clear that he is not a policy officer of Yahoo! and Yahoo! are not the only search engine which complied with the request.
However, you have to think that this request is only setting a precedent for far more reaching and specific requests to come in the future. What will this do to Web 2.0 and people’s willingnes to host their data on other companies servers, I wonder?
I see Damien Mulley has posted on this as well.
John Battelle has published another post on this subject showing that the Department of Justice’s motives are far darker than previously suspected – specifically:
From the motion the DOJ filed to force Google to comply with the subpoena:
“The subpoena asks Google to produce an electronic file containing ‘[a]ll URL’s that rea available to be located through a query on your company’s search engine as of July 31 2005.”
“all queries that have been entered on your company’ search engine between June 1, 2005 and July 31, 2005.”
God alone knows why they would want all that data from Google (and presumably the other search engines as well) – but we know it has nothing to do with seeing if children can access porn.
As John said:
No way in hell Google would give that up, given the company’s penchant for secrecy. Sure, the DOJ might guarantee that the data would not enter the public record, but, once in the DOJ’s hands, it’s out of Google’s control.
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Blogging, Search Engines December 23, 2005
Kudos to Michele
Serious kudos to Michele Neylon of Blacknight Solutions (an Irish hosting co.) – Michele was quoted in an article in eWeek where he slates Google’s customer service:
Michele Neylon was once very happy with Urchin Software Corp., which provides a service to analyze Web site traffic.
But ever since search giant Google Inc. bought Urchin in March, he’s changed his tune. His problem is with Google’s customer service.
“If you choose to deal with Urchin in the Google era, you will not get any personal attention and will have no indication of who you are actually dealing with. For all I know, all my e-mails could be answered by a computer,” said the managing director of Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd., a Web hosting and domain registrar.
Sock it to ’em Michele!
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Search Engines December 23, 2005
"no banner ads on the Google homepage" – Marissa Mayer
I see the post I published earlier this week wondering if Google were now going to have banner ads on their site after their puchase of a stake in AOL has bee answered once and for all by none other than Marissa Mayer (Google’s VP of Search Products & User Experience). In a post on the Google blog, Marissa said:
There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.
That’s about as straight an answer as you can get, I reckon.
Thanks for clearing that up for us Marissa – now, how’d you like to be interviewed for a podcast?
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Search Engines, Technology December 20, 2005
Are Google selling out?
We’ve all heard the reports that Google are buying a chunk of AOL – no doubt to keep their business and probably to stop Microsoft from buying them up! But now, the latest story to hit the wires (New York Times) is that Google are going to start running banner ads in search results!
Google originally set itself apart and thus made its name by only having text ads – this, if it does happen would be a major step backwards for Google and may push users into trying out their competition (MSN and Yahoo!) – why not? What is Google’s unique selling point now?
Hopefully this is a kite flying excercise which will get shot down by negative reaction from the Internet…
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MIMETIC - 2015
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Project-Team Mimetic
Biomechanics and Motion Control
Experiments in Virtual Reality
Autonomous Characters
Biomechanics and Motion Analysis
VR and Sports
Interactive Digital Storytelling
VR and Ergonomics
Highlights of the Year
AsymGait
Cinematic Viewpoint Generator
Directors Lens Motion Builder
Kimea
The Theater
Biomechanics for motion analysis-synthesis
Interactions between walkers
Virtual Human Animation
Scheduling activities under spatial and temporal constraints
Shoulder biomechanics
The Toric Space: a novel representation for camera control applications
Data-driven Virtual Cinematography
Logic control in interactive storytelling
Automatic Continuity Editing for 3-D Animation
Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry
Bilateral Contracts with Industry
Bilateral Grants with Industry
Participant : Marc Christie.
Our propelling motivation here is to rely on existing data from real movies (automatically extracted or manually annotated), to propose better better and better framing techniques.
We first contributed to the problem of automated editing, by reproducing elements of cinematographic style. Automatically computing a cinematographic consistent sequence of shots over a set of actions occurring in a 3D world is a complex task which requires not only the computation of appropriate shots (viewpoints) and appropriate transitions between shots (cuts), but the ability to encode and reproduce elements of cinematographic style. Models proposed in the literature, generally based on finite state machine or idiom-based representations, provide limited functionalities to build sequences of shots. These approaches are not designed in mind to easily learn elements of cinematographic style, nor do they allow to perform significant variations in style over the same sequence of actions. We have proposed a model for automated cinematography that can compute significant variations in terms of cinematographic style, with the ability to control the duration of shots and the possibility to add specific constraints to the desired sequence. The model is parameterized in a way that facilitates the application of learning techniques. By using a Hidden Markov Model representation of the editing process, we have demonstrated the possibility of easily reproducing elements of style extracted from real movies. Results comparing our model with state-of-the-art first order Markovian representations illustrate these features, and robustness of the learning technique is demonstrated through cross-validation. See [13] for more details.
We also proposed a tool to ease the process of annotating cinematographic content, for the purposes of both film analysis, and film synthesis [29] . The work relies on the proposition of a film language that extends previous representations such as PSL (Prose Storyboard Language) by integrating the editing aspects, through the notion of cinematographic “techniques” described as patterns of shots.
The proposed language, named “Patterns”, is described in more details in [35] . Our language can express the aesthetic properties of framing and shot sequencing, and of camera techniques used by real directors. Patterns can be seen as the semantics of camera transitions from one frame to another. The language takes an editors view of on-screen aesthetic properties: the size, orientation, relative position, and movement of actors and objects across a number of shots. We have illustrated this language through a number of examples and demonstrations. Combined with camera placement algorithms, we demonstrated the language's capacity to create complex shot sequences in data-driven generative systems for 3D storytelling applications. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5825260281562805, "wiki_prob": 0.4174739718437195, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1036455"} |
Hubble study finds two potentially habitable exoplanets
A pair of nearby planets offer rocky surfaces and dense atmospheres.
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Andrew Dalton|@dolftown|July 21, 2016 4:35 AM
Scientists from MIT and the University of Liège studying a planetary system orbiting the star TRAPPIST–1 have discovered two rocky, Earth-like and potentially habitable planets only 40 light years away from home. According to a paper published in Nature today, the atmospheres on planets TRAPPIST–1b and TRAPPIST–1c are likely to be dense and compact like the atmospheres of Earth, Venus and Mars.
The research team, led by MIT postdoc Julien de Wit made the discovery by pointing the Hubble Space Telescope in TRAPPIST–1's direction just in time to catch a rare double transit – when both planets were passing in front of the star. Using Hubble's spectrograph, the team was able to observe variations in the light passing around the planets. Because the wavelengths didn't vary much, de Wit's team could conclude that the planets' atmospheres were not "light, large and puffy" like the ones found around Jupiter and other Jovian gas giants.
"Now we can say that these planets are rocky," de Wit told MIT News. Now the question is, what kind of atmosphere do they have? The plausible scenarios include something like Venus, with high, thick clouds and an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide, or an Earth-like atmosphere dominated by nitrogen and oxygen, or even something like Mars with a depleted atmosphere. The next step is to try to disentangle all these possible scenarios that exist for these terrestrial planets."
Even if one of these planets is habitable, life as we know it on Earth would be extremely difficult in the system because the two planets orbit much closer to their star, an ultracool dwarf that gives off less heat than the sun, but emits more radiation in the infrared spectrum. While the planets orbit TRAPPIST-1 in 1.5 and 2.4 days respectively, they are also locked into their rotations -- meaning they have a fixed day and night side. On the other hand, NASA scientists believe planet c is within the star's habitable zone, where temperatures are right for liquid water to pool.
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The Flu Could Jeopardize Pink’s Super Bowl National Anthem Performance
Nick Mojica Published: February 3, 2018
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There's only one day left until the Super Bowl but the NFL may be scrambling to find a replacement to sing the national anthem before Sunday's big game.
According to a report from TMZ, Pink, who is scheduled to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," has come down with the flu and it could keep her from performing. Sources close to the production say the singer had a tough time getting through her rehearsal on Thursday night and the performance didn't go smoothly.
There's also cause for concern after Pink's Friday concert in Minneapolis was less than perfect. The singer reportedly had to rely on backup singers and crowd often and even cut her performance of "Beautiful Trauma" short. "I can't do it. I hate this... I can't do that song. I'm sorry," she told the crowd.
The singer also commented on her illness, writing on Instagram, "Trying to practice the flu away... I promise I will do my best, as I always do."
While Pink's pre-game national anthem may not go as planned, Justin Timberlake's halftime show is shaping up to be a memorable one. According to a recent report, the Man of the Woods singer is planning to have hologram of Prince as a way to honor the legendary artist in his home state of Minnesota.
As for anyone else joining JT on stage, dress rehearsals showed no one would be making any surprises appearances. Rumors have been swirling that Janet Jackson or N*SYNC could join the singer during his performance.
Check out Pink's Instagram post below.
Source: The Flu Could Jeopardize Pink’s Super Bowl National Anthem Performance
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Interview with Mark Kaye of Hear Now Live
Mark Kaye is the founder of Hear Now Live, a Boston based company that provides additional revenue sources for local bands. Hear Now Live promotes shows at several local Boston area clubs. According to their website, "[Hear Now Live is] a one stop shop for a local band or an up and coming national band. On top of offering Bands the opportunity to play a HNL concert that will be promoted correctly and be band friendly, our shows attract true music fans, and the vibe created by HNL is unmatched."
The Deli: Tell me about Hear Now Live. How long has it been going on?
Mark Kaye: I have been in and out of the music industry for 20 years but I started HNL 3 years ago. It started as a way to get local music out to people faster by recording the shows and burning them on the spot. It turned into a full service Promotions and booking agency shortly after that. We try to create a community of music fans and have them always want to come back for more. We ask the musicians to believe in the each show and to help us create a positive environment so that there friends and fans will be happy and want to see them again or come to another Hear Now Live event.
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Acoustic Styles at Enormous Room - Cambridge 12.06
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One could make a strong case that the Cambridge and Boston area is filled with a diversity of talented musicians and songwriters…and that there are too few venues in which that talent can find a home. Tony Lovell, a talented singer/songwriter himself, is waging active war against that notion. He has been organizing acoustic showcases featuring some of that talent in rooms that don’t usually see such fare. At first, the dance club Middlesex became a forum for Cambridge singer/songwriters to strut their stuff. Now, he has brought that vibe and vision to The Enormous Room in Central Square. This Sunday evening, beginning at 6PM, a group of local songwriters will perform free of charge in a space that is usually reserved for DJs and electronic music.
Sunday’s lineup will feature a diversity of acts such as the ever-hilarious Joe Kowan, the heartfelt duo of Jeremy Ross and Cilla Bonnie, and yours truly. David Owczarek and Tony Lovell himself will round out the bill. Come join us for an evening of original songs in an original space.
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Will Dailey's Festival Holidad at the Paradise 12.11
WERS 88.9FM Presents Will Dailey's Festival Holidad at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston MA on 12.11. Four bands will be celebrating the season with rock, pop and CD releases galore.
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Cole Schisler
As of Friday, (Feb. 25), the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has dropped to 599 the first time hospitalizations have dropped below 600 since Jan. 14.
Of those in hospital, 96 are in intensive care. Not all people in hospital with COVID-19 are there because of the virus.
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Utah hiker tries lighting spider on fire, sets forest ablaze
Francis WilkinsAugust 3, 2022
A Utah man who took a lighter to a spider and ignited a forest has been arrested.
Police called it a random decision with no known motive when hiker Cory Allan Martin, 26, of Draper, Utah, caught sight of the arachnid on Monday afternoon and tried to light it. He did that and then some, sparking the 60-acre Springville wildfire, police said. Authorities were flummoxed.
“What led him to stop and notice a spider and decide to try to burn it, we don’t know,” Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. “There may not be a why. He might not even know why.”
Springville fire officials received reports of a fire “north of town on the mountainside” just before 5 p.m. Monday, Springville fire officials told KSL-TV. They and Utah County sheriff’s deputies responded and found the fire, and Martin, on the mountain. He told them what had happened.
“When he attempted to burn the spider, the surrounding brush ignited and the fire began spreading very rapidly,” stated an affidavit obtained by KSL.
The fire raced up the mountain but did not engulf more than one square mile and didn’t damage any homes, fire officials said. Several agencies responded, and by Tuesday afternoon the blaze had been 90% contained, KSL reported.
Deputies later found a jar of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Martin’s belongings, and he was arrested on suspicion of reckless burn and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Martin was booked into the Utah County jail on Tuesday, on about $2,000 bail.
Cannon cautioned that it doesn’t take much to start a fire in the tinder-dry brush during a drought.
“We know that sparks from dragging tow chains or sparks shot out of a muffler on an ATV or something like that can cause these, so currently, a tiny little flame can create something to grow to create the problem we are having down there right now,” Cannon told KSL.
However, Martin’s method was a first.
“A fire to start by someone because somebody was trying to burn a spider with a lighter,” Cannon told KSL. “That might top the list of unusual fire starts.”
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Move Over Linkedin Chipotle Shopify And Other Employers Are Flocking To Tiktok For Young Talent
Move Over LinkedIn: Chipotle, Shopify And Other Employers Are Flocking To TikTok For Young Talent
Chipotle can TikTok with the best of them, by corporate standards anyway. It’s amassed 1.8 million followers—almost as many as rivals McDonald’s (1.1 million) and Taco Bell (861,700) combined—by embracing the kind of snappy, freewheeling content the platform’s young users crave. But between posting videos of teens dancing to songs about guacamole and predicting customers’ orders based on their zodiac signs, company executives spotted a trend. “We've seen a big uptick in Gen-Z looking for their next job on TikTok,” says Tressie Lieberman, Chipotle’s VP of digital and off-premise marketing.
The fast-casual chain has, like so many restaurants bouncing back from the pandemic, a lot of positions to fill—20,000 to be exact. So it’s joining more than 20 other companies, including Sweetgreen, Boston Scientific, Shopify and the NBA, participating in “TikTok Resume”: a pilot program through which users can search and apply for job listings with short videos showcasing their qualifications. The program, which TikTok confirmed to Forbes, noting the launch is “upcoming,” will feature 200 job listings that run the gamut from customer service to social media to engineering.
“It allows people to showcase more of who they are, which is what I feel TikTok does an amazing job of, because you can actually be your real self,” says Nick Tran, TikTok’s head of global marketing.
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Analysis: Sure, Texas and Oklahoma could move to SEC. But there's a lot of roadblocks to sort first.
Paul Myerberg
The myriad questions posed by the speculation that Texas and Oklahoma are weeks away from joining the SEC begins with this: Are we really doing this again?
Ten years after college football's map was drawn and redrawn amid massive realignment, the Longhorns and Sooners have the potential to usher in a brand-new landscape defined by 16-team behemoth conferences that ignore geography, history and rivalry in chase of larger and larger television contracts.
According to a "high-ranked college official" cited by the Houston Chronicle, the first outlet to report the story, the Longhorns and Sooners are poised to leave the Big 12 in favor of the SEC "within a couple of weeks."
It is not just possible but highly plausible that these two national powers have inquired about joining the nation's strongest conference, especially given the millions of dollars in annual payouts separating teams in the Big 12 from the SEC.
The SEC generated $729 million in total revenue during the 2020 fiscal year and the conference distributed about $45.5 million to each of its 14 member schools. In comparison, the Big 12 reported revenue of $409.2 million for fiscal year 2020. Payouts ranged from $37 million to $40.5 million among its 10 member schools. SEC revenue is set to increase with a 10-year deal with ESPN worth about $300 million annually, which is scheduled to go into effect in 2024.
However, even as members of the Big 12, Texas and Oklahoma are financial behemoths. In the 2018-19 fiscal year, the last one before the pandemic, Texas had nearly $224 million in operating revenue, according to its annual financial report to the NCAA. That was the most in the nation by $11 million over No. 2 Texas A&M, based on data USA TODAY Sports compiled in partnership with Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Oklahoma was No. 8 with just over $163 million.
“Speculation always swirls around collegiate athletics," Texas said in a statement. "We will not address rumors or speculation.”
But the speculation comes with additional questions and sticking points. Namely:
Is this sort of expansion and realignment realistic?
What would happen to the Big 12 — or, better yet, the rest of the Bowl Subdivision?
Why would the rest of the SEC go along?
And does this move make any sense from a football perspective?
Realignment on this level — with two of the biggest names in the history of the sport trading one Power Five conference for another — is more than realistic; given the will of the five autonomy leagues to have more control over rules, guidelines and regulations, the creation of several 16-team conferences seems almost inevitable.
But this specific move comes with a number of potential snags. One is whether Oklahoma could leave behind Oklahoma State, or whether statehouse politics would prevent one state school from leaving without the other. In a similar vein, Texas entering the SEC would come as news to longtime rival Texas A&M, which originally joined the SEC in part to chart a new path away from the Longhorns' unsteady grip on the Big 12.
“We want to be the only SEC team from the state of Texas," Texas A&M athletics director Ross Bjork said Wednesday.
Existing TV contracts provide further complications. In addition to the SEC's upcoming contract with ESPN, the Big 12 grant of rights agreement includes a clause designed to dissuade teams from looking elsewhere. Should a team leave before the end of the 2024-25 year, "that school's media rights, including revenue, would remain with the Big 12 and not its new conference."
This specific expansion would have a profound impact on the FBS, however. Texas and Oklahoma leaving for the SEC would leave eight teams in the Big 12, and not one with enough national sway to ensure the league's long-term survival. More than likely, losing the Longhorns and Sooners would cast the rest of the Big 12 across the FBS. Even if the conference survived, the Big 12 would not have the talent base or national pull to be taken seriously as a member of the current Power Five.
The impact would trickle through the rest of the FBS as the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 attempt to keep up with the SEC by adding two or four teams. Current members of the Big 12 would be targets. So would teams in the American Athletic Conference and, to a lesser degree, the Mountain West. As always, Notre Dame would be a prime target.
But why would the SEC want to expand, especially less than a year after signing that mammoth deal with ESPN? The network would have to agree to a renegotiation with Texas and Oklahoma in the fold; if not, the current deal would be split 16 ways, not 14. What good does less money — even if it would still be a huge amount of money — do for teams in the bottom half of the SEC, which would then find it even harder to navigate toward mediocrity with two more powerhouse programs on the schedule?
Even the upper crust of the SEC would have to be convinced. Adding the Longhorns and Sooners does nothing for Alabama, which doesn't need another premier opponent on its schedule to impress the College Football Playoff selection committee. Likewise for Georgia, Florida, LSU or whichever team wins the conference championship; if anything, Texas and Oklahoma would make things more complicated.
And as the playoff ponders a 12-team bracket with automatic bids for the six highest-rated conference champions in the near future, it's worth asking why the Longhorns and Sooners would willingly choose to toss aside the relatively easy road afforded by the Big 12 for the treacherous pathway formed by a 16-team SEC.
It's a good question for Texas, which can't even get to the top of the Big 12, and an even better one for Oklahoma, which has dominated the Big 12 since the early 2000s and would seem to have a playoff spot almost on lockdown when the bracket does expand.
But these questions ignore the real driver behind college football expansion. Given the potential revenue created by a move to the SEC, of course the two programs have sought out a seat at the SEC's table. How could they not ask?
"I bet they would," Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher said.
Contributing: Steve Berkowitz
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Are you an author trying to get your manuscript published? You've done everything right - revised, rewritten, sent it through critique groups. Everyone agrees, your story is ready to go!
So how do you get your book published?
Should you start the agent search? Look for publishers? Start on a new project?
My advice is all of the above.
Whenever I finish one project, I immediately start on a new one. Career writers know that you can't depend on every manuscript getting published. You need to keep generating new material. Plus, both agents and editors like to know what else you have in your files!
If you are at the point where you have a finished novel, or a couple of full nonfiction proposals for MG/YA, or three to four perfected picture books, then you are ready for the agent search. But the reality is - finding an agent takes a lot of work and TIME. And sometimes, especially when writing nonfiction, your project can be time sensitive. You need to get it in front of an editor as soon as possible. In this case you may want to submit directly to open publishers.
I have an amazing agent and I am grateful to be her client. But before I signed with my agent, I sold 28 books on my own. (and this wasn't a hundred years ago) It is possible to sell your work directly to editors. You may find that getting an offer on your manuscript will even help you find an agent!
Submitting to publishers yourself is definitely something to consider for unagented authors. I have done the research for you and located publishing houses open to submissions. I've even given you the links to their submission guidelines.
Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to find the publisher that is looking for your type of manuscript. Researching the publisher is just as important as researching for the perfect agent.
I would love to answer questions you may have. Put them in the comment section ans I will do my best to give helpful answers.
I wish you publishing success!
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Workman https://www.workman.com/work-with-us/author-submissions#1
How To Find A Story
Writing is all about finding and falling in love with a story. Sometimes it is a forgotten story like Peggy Thomas' book Full of Beans: Henry Ford Grows a Car, or Linda Skeers' Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, The First Palentologist. Other times it is a story that the world has never heard and needs to know like Nancy Churnin's Manjhi Moves a Mountain, or Pat Miller's The Hole Story of the Doughnut.
These books are great examples of authors discovering true facts and truning them into narrative stories that both inform and enlighten the reader.
So - you may be wondering where the heck is MY great story? Where do I find that undiscovered hero or that hidden bit of history?
This is your lucky day!
I've been digging around and I've got a treasure trove of sites for you to visit and explore. Hopefully you will find a story that sparks your curiosity and gives you the AHA! moment you need to start your next project.
Famous Scientists - A comprehensive list of astronomers, biologists, mathematicians, and geologists from ancient times to the present.
Accidental Science - Sometimes accidents in the lab lead to great discoveries.
Unsolved Mysteries - Reader's Digest provides an interesting list of strange but true events.
Weird History Facts - This list is a great starting point for story ideas. You must supply the research.
Famous Female Scientists - list of 91 famous women scientists
Forgotten History - 10 history stories not taught in school
Historic Women - Legends of America you may not know
Women who changed history - 17 female heroes
African American Inventors - From Lewis Lattimer to Dr. Patricia Bath
Inspiring Asian Americans - 130 Asian Americans and their stories
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Home/Bollywood/Ayushmann Khurrana was elated after getting the support of Akshay Kumar in An Action Hero, shared the post and said – ‘I am on seventh heaven’
Ayushmann Khurrana was elated after getting the support of Akshay Kumar in An Action Hero, shared the post and said – ‘I am on seventh heaven’
Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana is doing films one after the other. Recently she was seen in the film ‘An Action Hero’ alongside Rakulpreet Singh and Jaideep Ahlawat. The film has been given a positive review by the film critics as well as the audience. In such a situation, Ayushmann Khurrana is very happy about his film. Please tell that Akshay Kumar has done a cameo in this film. His cameo has made the film even more special, now Ayushmann Khurrana has thanked Akshay Kumar for being a part of the film through his Instagram post.
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Ayushmann has shared a black and white picture with Akshay on Instagram. In which Ayushmann can be seen in an oversized jacket and pants while Akshay is seen in a pant-shirt.
(Photo courtesy Instagram @ayushmannk
Sharing the picture on Instagram, Ayushmann wrote, “I am in seventh heaven because of the wonderful review of the film. Thank you Akshay Kumar sir for being a part of our film ‘An Action Hero’. We will be forever grateful.” He also wrote, “Book tickets for N Action Hero in theatres.”
Let us tell you that this is the first time for the audience that Akshay Kumar has shared the right screen space with Ayushmann only for a short while. Apart from Akshay, Nora Fatehi and Malaika Arora were also seen with Ayushmann for the dance number. Let us tell you that even though the film N Action Hero has made a slow start at the box office, the acting of the stars in the film looks fantastic.
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Home World Family Grieves For Son Linked To Terror Group
Family Grieves For Son Linked To Terror Group
Toronto university student, who vanished last year, died in Somalia fighting for group tied to Al Qaeda.
The family of a Toronto student linked to an Al Qaeda group in Somalia is in mourning after learning online that their son had been killed.
A two-minute video of Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim, also known as Ahmed, was posted on YouTube late Tuesday night along with a terse message that he had been killed in “battle.”
“They (his parents) heard about it Tuesday night … that their son is dead,” said Omar Kireh, administrator at Abu Huraira Centre in North York, the mosque where Ibrahim worshipped.
“Of course, they are devastated. They never thought it would come to this.”
Born and raised in Toronto, Ibrahim was in his early 20s and a student at the University of Toronto.
He was the first of six Somali-Canadian men who disappeared from the Toronto area last year and were believed to have joined al Shabaab in Somalia, an Islamist youth militia aligned with Al Qaeda.
They all worshipped at the Abu Huraira Centre. Some have called their families and told them they are not returning to Canada.
“I don’t know if he (Ibrahim) had been calling his parents,” said Kireh, adding he had yet to talk to the young man’s parents. “It’s very sad … everyone had high expectations from him.”
In the video, made in Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim speaks in English and discusses the historic significance of the location.
The video’s accompanying text, addressed to Canadian youth, says: “Dont be sadden (sic) but rather rejoice in the news of your dear brother and follow his footsteps and march forth in the ranks of the honest mujahideen, al Shabaab mujahideen. The brave brother achieved his goal while marching forth not wavering. … We ask Allah to accept him.”
It doesn’t say when or where Ibrahim was killed.
His death has not been officially confirmed and Foreign Affairs in Ottawa did not return calls Wednesday.
A Star reporter was turned away at Ibrahim’s parents’ Scarborough home Wednesday evening.
“We are in mourning,” a woman at the door said, asking the reporter to leave.
About 10 cars were parked outside the home and a constant stream of people entered.
Ibrahim disappeared with his passport about eight months ago, his friends told the Star. About a month later, they say, he called his parents and said he was in Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia ruled by al Shabaab.
The sister of a Markham man, one of the other five Somali-Canadians who disappeared, would not say Wednesday whether she had heard about Ibrahim’s death.
RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers have been investigating the disappearances of the GTA men.
This month, al Shabaab was added to the Canadian government’s list of terrorist organizations.
The designation came soon after the Somali-Canadian community reported the group was trying to radicalize and recruit Canadians.
It was listed as a terrorist organization in the U.S. early last year. More than 20 young Somali-American men have disappeared in two years, and are believed to have joined al Shabaab.
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Elmi March 18, 2010 At 5:53 pm
Is this guy a Somalilander?
He should've been fighting for the glorious Somaliland army instead of being on the side of the Wanlaweyn militias
Somalilander March 18, 2010 At 6:11 pm
I know all of these kids that disappeared (being form Scarborough, ON) but feel no sadness. Not an ounce of grief and I wish I could smack the rest of them back into their senses because they are fighting for a gang more closer to bloods and crips than being a religious group. The stories I've heard from people who've been there about how they terrorize the local population with outright hypocrisy are sickening.
While I grieve for your families, my attitude is still 1 down 6 to go. The longer you young men stay alive with that radicalized mentality the more the odds of you hurting innocent people.
Sabar Iyo Imaan to their families for their loss and protect your kids from the Al-Shabaab nutcases to everyone else.
Ibrahim Ahmed March 21, 2010 At 11:20 am
I couldn’t agree more..
Dawaco March 18, 2010 At 8:28 pm
You mean is he Isaaq ?
what a joke he is Somali is that not enough you fck tribalist.
wtf!! you are the one who is mentioning tribe f….k
somalilandgb May 18, 2010 At 12:22 pm
I cannot believe I am reading this!!!! Sad, no sympathy or feeling of loss.
These are kids gone astray and rebellious; and they need the Somali society to steer them, back again, on the right track. No wonder they have become what they are with this type of attitude!!!!!!!!
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Digital Materialities Seminar – Making, Writing, and Knowing in Early Modern Europe – Prof. Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
22 novembre 2022 - 17 h 30 min - 18 h 30 min
https://digitalmaterialities.wordpress.com/
In 2022-23 the webinar will look at the intersections between text(s) and material culture: from 16th-century recipe books to 20th-century poetry and 17th-century satire, we’ll be examining the links between various types of text(s) and their (im)materiality.
The 2022-2023 Programme :
Tuesday 22 Nov. 5.30-6.30 CET Prof. Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
Making, Writing, and Knowing in Early Modern Europe
An intriguing late sixteenth-century anonymous manuscript, Ms. Fr. 640 (now held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France), contains over 900 “recipes” for objects of art and of everyday use. In 2020, the Making and Knowing Project released a digital critical edition and English translation of this manuscript. The technical and artistic “recipes” contained in Ms. Fr. 640 provide an opportunity to explore the meanings and conceptualization of making and materials in the sixteenth century, and shed light on the type of knowledge possessed by handworkers, why their knowledge was of such interest to a literate audience, and how the work of making was related to knowing.
Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, is author of The Business of Alchemy (1994), The Body of the Artisan (2004), and From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (2022). Editor of several volumes on the history of practice, embodied knowledge, and material culture, she now directs a collaborative initiative The Making and Knowing Project that released Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France: A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 in 2020.
Register : https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu6tpjooE9VieNZ89-jYeNPofhd2IzYw
Tuesday December 13th 5.30-6.30 CET Martin George (Université Paris Cité)
“Follow the Instructions”: Materialities of Voice in Participation Poetry and Early Meditation Recordings.
In recent years, guided meditation recordings have become an increasingly popular tool in the ever-expanding arsenal of wellness routines marketed as an antidote to the materialism of Western culture. Yet primitive instances of such recordings date as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, branching from a then-fledgling market of instructional LPs offering crash courses in every field from ballroom dances to ventriloquism. Explicitly performative, and availing themselves of the assertive properties of the acousmatic voice, those early meditation records promised to turn their voiced instructions into supposedly transformational physical responses. In my talk, I will discuss those cultural artifacts in relation to the “participation” poetry of John Giorno, a poet whose use of borrowed language and manipulation of sound recording technologies explore the same interaction of voice and materiality and question the locus of reference and action of the poem through its ambiguous instructional content.
Martin George is a PhD student at Université Paris Cité. He is writing his dissertation on the New York poet John Giorno in relation to performance poetry, queer writing, and to New York’s artistic, musical and political scenes from the 1960s to the present day.
Register: https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc–spz0iHtzEUNaxWbwVGzODCo3WE0Bm
Tuesday January 24th 5.30-6.30 CET Dr. Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti (University of Lille)
“Books talking back: interpreting manuscript alterations in English liturgical books used under Henry VIII”
In breaking away from Rome in the early 1530s, Henry VIII brought about one of the most distinctive features of the English Reformation : the royal supremacy. This ecclesiological and adminstrative revolution entailed a few changes to the liturgy used daily in the parish churches of the realm. Virtually no new liturgical books were published between 1534 and 1547 and the clergy were instructed to “reform” their books to render the prayers there were using consistent with the royal supremacy. A close examination of these alterations showcases the degree to which the royal supremacy was gradually worked out “on the page”, revealing diachronic evolutions and an expected degree of lay involvement in enforcing liturgical change. I wish to argue that these alterations may be intepreted as badges of obedience to be displayed on inspection and hence suggest that these books accrued a function beyond that of ensuring proper liturgical performance. Reading alterations in their political context allows for a much richer understanding of the stakes at play when “reforming” service books.
Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille. Her work is mainly focussed on religious change under the Tudors. She has published in French and in English on the matter of liturgical change under the reign of Henry VIII, on the Book of Common Prayer and on the historiography of the English Reformation.
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Tuesday February 14th 5.30-6.30 CET Prof. John Styles (University of Hertfordshire / V&A/RCA)
John Holker’s Book of Textile Swatches: Between Text and Materiality
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Tuesday March 21st 5.30-6.30 CET Catherine Sutherland (Deputy Librarian Magdalen College, Cambridge)
The Identification of Mary Astell’s Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge
This paper introduces the recent identification of Mary Astell’s personal collection of books in the Old Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. The methodology used to identify the books will be outlined, followed by illustrations of material evidence in the volumes, which illuminate Astell’s methods of book acquisition, her network of friends and associates and her working methods.
This paper is based on research carried out for a forthcoming article in The Library: the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. There are several exciting avenues for further research into Mary Astell’s books, and both this paper and the journal article seek to invite academics from a wide range of disciplines to collaborate in this research. One such avenue pertinent to this particular conference is Astell’s interaction with texts in French, chiefly by René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche. This paper will illustrate examples of some of these books, which are the most heavily annotated in the collection.
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Tuesday April 18th 5.30-6.30 CET Dr Lauren Working (University of York)
Bacchus’ New Muse: Jacobean Wit Sociability and the Material Culture of Wine and Tobacco
In the late sixteenth century, a drug first smoked by Indigenous Americans and produced by enslaved labourers came to find a place in gentlemanly drinking culture. This paper uses material culture and poetry to explore the connection between empire and English self-fashioning in London, focusing on the moment of tobacco’s incorporation into elite wit sociability. Tobacco and wine were seen as apt (if at times competing) companions: in a poem from the 1610s, Bacchus conducted a drunken romp across America to source ‘the Indian herb’, while Bacchus and ‘Kiwasha’, a reference to an Algonquian spirit-being, vied for attention in a 1614 court masque. In exploring tobacco poetry, wine glasses, and other ‘cultural artefacts’ of intoxication in metropolitan sociability, this paper brings the social dynamics of consumption into wider discussions about empire and taste, arguing for the importance of both Bacchus and Kiwasha in how gentlemen identified with and endorsed colonial projects.
Lauren Working is a lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. Her research explores how English colonialism influenced taste and politics in early modern London. She is a consultant for the National Portrait Gallery, and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.
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Piers Morgan Twitter: GMB star responds after Susanna Reid ‘resorts to drastic measures’
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Piers Morgan, 54, appeared in on the joke after Susanna Reid, 48, jokingly stabbed at an image of his face when she was provided with a “voodoo doll” of her co-star. A clip of her pricking a pin cushion which bore a picture of his head was shared by the official Good Morning Britain Twitter account with their 538,000 followers. “Looks like @susannareid100 is now resorting to drastic measures,” GMB quipped. “We suggest you tread carefully @piersmorgan.” They added the hashtag: “#PiersVoodooDoll”.
It wasn’t long before Piers responded to being made into a “voodoo doll” and his fellow presenter lightheartedly taking out her frustration.
“I have requested an urgent meeting with HR,” he joked, in view of his own 6.6 million Twitter followers. “This is a clear incitement to violence in there workplace from a co-worker.”
Fans joined in with the joke, with one commenting: “Yes but did it work? If not you have no case!”
“Brutal misuse of power and position there mate lol get her fired haha… joking obviously,”(sic) another added, while a third chipped in: “She just needs something to do whilst she can’t get a word in with your ranting lol.”(sic)
Piers and Susanna have presenting GMB together since he joined the ITV team in 2015.
The pair are set to go head-to-head in Soccer Aid 2019 this weekend, with the former helping manage the World XI and the latter, England’s all-star squad.
Ahead of the clash, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid opened up about their competitiveness.
“There’s nothing friendly about it,” she said.
“It’s very real and it was much worse when we first met,” he added.
“I first met Susanna at a party,” he told Notebook Magazine. “I said, ‘The trouble with your show [GMB] is that you need a slightly older bloke giving you a hard time.’”
“He said, ‘What you need to transform your show is me,’” Susanna said, to which he replied; “Well, look at the ratings, baby, and keep grinning.”
Susanna took over on GMB in 2014 after leaving her previous role at BBC Breakfast to make the move to ITV.
Piers joined her on the programme the following year.
On Sunday, he will partner up with Harry Redknapp, 72, to manage Soccer Aid 2019’s World XI side, starring the likes of Dider Drogba, 41, and Usain Bolt, 32.
Susanna, meanwhile, will join Sam Allardyce, 64, on the touchline to manage England, featuring Jamie Redknapp, 45, and GMB star Ben Shephard, 44.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
Soccer Aid 2019 airs Sunday at 6.30pm on ITV, kick-off at 7.30pm.
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The Google Duplex Future is Crazier Than we Thought
By David Card
Hey Siri/Alexa/Google: It seems like I’m asking you to help me out more and more recently. I wonder what that means for all the businesses, devices, and brands I interact with everyday—and more important—the sales and marketing implications of this brave new world?
Ok, Google, not only do I ask you to help me around the house, do some shopping, and read me the news, but I noticed you’re also getting better at helping me find restaurants to eat at, things to do around town, and places to do business with. You’re getting smarter—it’s almost like you’re one of us now. We’ve become fast friends.
We’ve always used computers to execute tasks. Those interactions have been two-way—a computer helped us get something done by us giving it a series of commands until we achieved the result—but the communication used to be non-verbal. This was a significant limitation that put a ceiling on how quickly we could finish the said task. But our interactions with computers have become genuinely conversational. More and more, people are legitimately speaking to their digital devices, and our devices are intelligently listening and responding to us.
AI-powered voice assistants, which are now ubiquitous in every smartphone, TV, and in-home speaker, have blurred the line between man and machine in a way we used to see only in sci-fi movies. Folks are using voice assistants to complete home chores, give them news and information, and, increasingly, to perform searches.
In many ways, “Ask Alexa” has replaced “Google it.”
While voice assistants have marked a change in our relationship with computers from interaction to conversation, Google Duplex promises a tectonic shift.
Revealed at the recent Google I/O conference to rapturous praise, Google’s new AI tool promises a leap from entertaining spectacle to practical, everyday use. Duplex mimics human speech better than any other AI-powered voice assistant, complete with lifelike verbal crutches and fillers like “um” and “uh.”
The consumer benefit to Google Duplex is clear. It’s going to be an actual personal assistant, able to handle communications around making appointments, reservations, and certain purchases. The implications on the brand side are fascinating.
One could be forgiven for thinking that big businesses are the ones who need to be prepared for a Duplex-driven future. But we already know that, in the last year, 58% of consumers have used voice search for information on a local business. That’s perhaps why the I/O demo featured a Duplex-powered AI assistant making a hair salon appointment and a restaurant reservation over the phone.
Also, according to Google, voice searches are 30 times more likely than typed searches to be “action queries.” That is, instead of a more open-ended search like “Italian restaurants near me,” that one may type, a voice search is likelier to be akin to “make a reservation at an Italian Restaurant near me.” That means that when consumers are utilizing voice search, they’re already further along the customer journey – and closer to making an actual purchase.
When consumers are utilizing voice search, they’re already further along the customer journey – and closer to making an actual purchase.
Marketing is all about driving sales, purchases, and conversions, but even though Duplex may bring consumers closer to conversion, it won’t necessarily make marketing any more manageable. When people are conducting action queries, they’re less likely to be browsing at various options, rendering paid search campaigns less effective. Even more concerning is the fact that voice search almost eliminates browsing (although new voice assistants with screens like Amazon’s Echo Show and Google Home Hub may close this gap).
While there are exceptions, there isn’t much opportunity for a marketer to vault to the top of a voice search result. Even a generalized, open-ended voice search only has one first result, and the battle to get that result will be fierce. A future dominated by screen-less interactions is one that marketers—and in particular, small, local businesses, need to be prepared for.
But it’s not only consumers who will be utilizing Google Duplex to make specific tasks more efficient. Many businesses will find uses for high-powered AI. It’s plausible to envision a future where computers handle the entire customer service sector. This could result in more seamless interactions between consumer and business, where sticky things like human emotions are eliminated.
Any business that relies on cold calling will doubtlessly find Duplex a valuable tool, able to complete more calls at a fraction of the cost, particularly when the technology becomes smart enough to require little human oversight. Duplex will also help companies who do research and conduct outbound inquiries, efficiently amassing great amounts of data or leads.
The voice-search boom has changed the way marketers approach many aspects of their companies. That includes branding. As technology like Google Duplex becomes omnipresent, every company—big, small, in between—has to think long and hard about what its brand sounds like. This is a new frontier for many companies, those who haven’t utilized any audio-based marketing. What type of voice does your company have? What kinds of words does its public-facing voice use with consumers?
A screenless future means that aspects like vocabulary, tone, and syntax are going to be baked into every company’s branding fabric, right alongside the logo, colors, and overall purpose. A brand’s voice must stand out, speak its consumers’ language, and fit seamlessly within the brand framework.
There’s much to be excited about when it comes to Google Duplex and advanced AI. It presents businesses and consumers the chance to streamline vital, and some mundane, daily tasks. It’s also just plain, well, cool. Anyone who watches Duplex converse with a restaurant host and book a reservation can’t help but be impressed.
But we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out some of the potential blowback that is sure to come as Duplex and similar technology takes hold. It’s one thing for people to ask the speaker in their home to play a particular song, or order some more paper towels, or turn the air conditioning on. But when a person’s AI-assistant makes a doctor’s appointment with the office’s AI-assistant? Some may say that isn’t much different from using a computer to make an appointment; however, there are sure to be folks who view these types of interactions as a tipping point. Is a Duplex future one where technology begins to transition from merely helping us to replacing us? For decades, we have conversed with computers to complete tasks. Google Duplex points to a future where the machines do close to all the talking, with less and less need for us.
We doubt things will soon end up as they did for the lead character in the 2014 film “Her”—a man who fell in love with his AI-assistant only to be heartbroken when she left him for other AI’s like herself. We don’t think Google Duplex marks the beginning of the Singularity. But it does promise a new reality both for consumers and brands. Brands will have to be careful navigating a world where they outsource more of their customer interaction to smart machines. More than ever, brands will have to speak their customers’ language, tell a clear and compelling brand story, and stand out amongst the competition.
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USS YMS-68 (YMS-68)
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Type Minesweeper
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Pennant YMS-68
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Landings off Cebu, as part of operation Victor II.
Around 0700I/24, Task Group 74.3 departed Subic Bay for operations. It was made up of the following units;
Task Unit 74.3.1 was made up of the light cruiser USS Phoenix (T/Capt. J.H. Duncan, USN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral R.S. Berkey, USN) and the destroyers USS Nicholas (T/Cdr. D.C. Lyndon, USN, with COMDESRON 21, T/Capt. J.K.B. Ginder, USN on board) and USS O'Bannon (T/Lt.Cdr. J.A. Pridmore, USN).
Task Unit 74.3.2 was made up of the light cruiser HMAS Hobart (Capt. R.S. Dowling, RAN) and the destroyers USS Abbot (T/Lt.Cdr. F.W. Ingling, USN) and USS Taylor (T/Lt.Cdr. H.H. de Laureal, USN).
Task Unit 74.3.3 was made up of the light cruiser USS Boise (T/Capt. W.M. Downes, USN) and the destroyer USS Fletcher (T/Lt.Cdr. R.R. Green, USN) and USS Jenkins (T/Cdr. P.D. Gallery, USN).
Around 1645I/24, Task Unit 74.3.3 parted company to proceed to Mangarin Bay, Mindoro where they were to remain in reserve.
At 1530I/25, the Attack Force (see below) was joined by the patrol vessel PCE(R)-850 (Lt. J.C. Mallien, USNR) which had on board members of the 8th Army staff. She came from Panay Gulf.
Around 1600I/25, off the southern point of Negros Island, the destroyer HMAS Warramunga (Lt.Cdr. J.M. Alliston, DSC and Bar, RN) joined Task Units 74.3.1 and 74.3.2. She had on board maps for the naval bombardments which were then distributed.
Around 2100I/25, they made rendezvous with the Attack Force to the north-west of Siquijor Island. They then proceeded up Bohol Strait to make for the landing beaches to the south of Cebu City. Task Force 74 was stationed 10 miles ahead of the Attack Force.
The Attack Force (Task Group 78.2) had departed Leyte around 1800I/24 and comprise the following units;
Task Unit 78.2.1 was the headquarters (Communications Command) ship USCGC Spencer (Cdr. J.R. Hinnant, USCG, with the overall commander T/Capt. A.T. Sprague, USN on board).
Task Unit 78.2.2 were the fast transports USS Lloyd (Lt.Cdr. W.R. Taylor, USNR, with T/Cdr, Wm.S. Parsons, USN, Commanding Officer COMTRANSDIV 103, on board), USS Newman (Lt.Cdr. R.I. Thieme, USNR), USS Kephart (Cdr. I.H. Cammarn, USNR) and USS Cofer (Lt. H.C. McClees, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.3 was the LCI unit which was made up of the following LCI(L)'s; USS LCI(L)-972 (Lt. L.B. Brown, USNR, with COMLCI(L)FLOT 15, T/Cdr. W.V. Deutermann, USN on board), USS LCI(L)-607 (Lt. C.V. Fox, USNR), USS LCI(L)-609 (Lt. K.N. Krecke, USNR), USS LCI(L)-613 (Lt. E.E. Kern, USNR), USS LCI(L)-683 (Lt.(jg) B.H. Keppel, USNR), USS LCI(L)-685 (Lt. P.T. O'Hare, USNR), USS LCI(L)-686 (Lt.(jg) B.H. Keppel, USNR), USS LCI(L)-963 (Lt. W.A. Tomb, Jr., USNR), USS LCI(L)-965 (Lt. A.T. Wellman, USNR), USS LCI(L)-966 (Lt.(jg) R.E. Dein, USNR), USS LCI(L)-970 (Lt. W.A. Moore, Jr., USNR), USS LCI(L)-976 (Lt. W.C. Lawton, USNR), USS LCI(L)-977 (Lt. J.T. Morgan, Jr., USNR), USS LCI(L)-978 (Lt.(jg.) L.B. Huckabee, USNR), USS LCI(L)-980 (Lt.(jg.) K.R. Hopkins, USNR) and USS LCI(L)-984 (Lt.(jg) F.J. Keller, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.4 was the LSM unit which was made up of the following LSM's; USS LSM-168 (Lt. R. Whelan, USNR, with COMLSMGR 24, T/Lt.Cdr. G.F. Baker, USN on board), USS LSM-35 (Lt. J.M. Burke, USNR), USS LSM-50 (Lt. J.C. Rogers, USNR), USS LSM-150 (Lt. G.B. McCauley, USNR), USS LSM-151 (Lt. W.H. Fitzgerald, USNR), USS LSM-219 (Lt. H. Burns, USNR), USS LSM-225 (Ens. F.C. Sheppard, USNR), USS LSM-237 (Lt. J.L. Poole, USNR), USS LSM-268 (Lt. N. Steinberg, USNR), USS LSM-316 (Lt. W.F. Ney, USNR) and USS LSM-317 (Lt. W.J. Ayres, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.5 was the LST unit which was made up of the following LST's; USS LST-640 (Lt. F.P. McKenney, Jr., USNR, with COMLSTFLOT 24, T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN on board), USS LST-18 (Lt. F.C. Merriam, USCGR), USS LST-171 (Lt. R.L. McGirl, USNR), USS LST-181 (Lt.(jg) C.V. Lynch, USNR), USS LST-454 (Lt. D.J. Morrison, USNR), USS LST-457 (Lt. W.W. Hacker, USNR), USS LST-560 (Lt. H.T. Holsapple, USNR), USS LST-595 (Lt. A.C. Jackson, USNR), USS LST-619 (Lt. J.M. Brennan, USNR), USS LST-638 (Lt. F. Data, USN), USS LST-709 (Lt. G.P. Cruikshank, USNR), USS LST-777 (Lt. W.F. Lagotic, USN), USS LST-922 (Lt. R.A. Stallings, USN). It also included three LCT's, USS LCT-747 (?), USS LCT-830 (?) and USS LCT-1296 (?).
Task Unit 78.2.51 was the LST tractor unit which was made up of the following LST's; USS LST-597 (Lt. W.H. Loving, USNR, with COMLSTGR 70, T/Cdr. D.P. Stickley, USN on board), USS LST-467 (Lt. M.B. Taylor, USN), USS LST-941 (Lt. L.M. Edwards, USN) and USS LST-1035 (Lt. M. Perry, USN).
Task Unit 78.2.6 was the support unit; it was made up of the following LCI(R)'s; USS LCI(R)-230 (Lt.(jg) R.M. Prestidge, USNR, with T/Cdr. D.H. Day, USN on board), USS LCI(R)-225 (Lt.(jg) A.F. McCormick, USN), USS LCI(R)-340 (Lt.(jg) J.O. Luby, USN), USS LCI(R)-341 (Lt. E.W. Slavik, USNR), USS LCI(R)-342 (Lt.(jg) J.A. Hynes, USNR) and the following LCS(L)'s; USS LCS(L)-30 (Lt. C.H. Sanders, USNR, with COMLCS(L)GR 1, Lt.Cdr. W.F. Hunt, USNR on board), USS LCS(L)-28 (Lt. R.H. Bost, USNR), USS LCS(L)-29 (Lt. J.F. McNamara, USNR) and USS LCS(L)-50 (Lt. B.T. Clark, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.7 was the control unit and was made up of the following patrol vessels; USS PC-1134 (Lt. O.A. Barge, Jr., USNR with Cdr. A.J. Petersen, USNR on board) and USS PC-1133 (Lt. H.G. Wheelock, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.8 was the screen and was made up of the following destroyers; USS Flusser (T/Lt.Cdr. K.G. Robinson, USN with COMDESRON 5, T/Capt. F.D. McCorkle, USN on board), USS Shaw (T/Lt.Cdr. V.B. Graff, USN), USS Conyngham (T/Lt.Cdr. F.W. Bampton, USN), USS Drayton (T/Lt.Cdr. V.A. Dybdal, USN) and USS Smith (T/Lt.Cdr. E.H. Huff, USN).
Task Unit 78.2.9 was the minesweeping unit and was made up of the following YMS's; USS YMS-68 (Lt. G.L. O'Neil, USNR, he was also commanding the minesweeping group), USS YMS-9 (Lt. B.F. Hildes, USNR), USS YMS-46 (Lt.(jg) C.W. Lorer, USNR), USS YMS-52 (Lt.(jg) R.J. Ball, USNR), USS YMS-313 (Lt.(jg) W.H. Reibold, USNR), USS YMS-339 (Lt.(jg) M.E. Fitzgerald, USNR), USS YMS-340 (Lt. P. Schminke, USNR) and USS YMS-481 (Lt.(jg) T.D. Anglin, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.10 was the beach party made up of Beach Party No. 5.
Task Unit 78.2.11 was the demolition party and was made up of the USS LCI(D)-228 (Lt.(jg) R.W. Kearns, USNR).
Task Unit 78.2.12 was the salvage and service unit and was made up of the tug USS ATA-179 (Lt.(jg) T.C. McClaren, USNR).
At 0538I/26, Task Units 74.3.1 and 73.3.2 were ordered to act independently and take assigned stations to cover minesweeping units. HMAS Warramunga was ordered to patrol in the Hilutungan Channel.
At 0700I/26, USS Phoenix and HMAS Hobart opened the bombardment. For spotting duties two aircraft had been launched by USS Phoenix, one to spot her own gunfire and the other to spot for HMAS Hobart.
Between 0740I/26 and 0750I/26, USS O'Bannon, USS Nicholas, USS Taylor and USS Abbot all join in on bombardment duties.
The bombardment was ceased around at 0825I/26.
At the same time the bombardment started the Attack Force was in it's sheduled position and the command ' Deploy ' was executed. The approach began.
At 0716I/26, the Commander Minesweeping Unit reported that his operations were on schedule with negative results to that time.
Around 0745I/26, USS Spencer anchored in position. The Commander Minesweeping Unit reported completion of sweeping of area ' Orchestra ' with negative results. At 0750I/26, the LST unit carrying LVT's [LVT = Landing Vehicle, Tracked] anchored in position. The control officer reports the Control Vessels anchored in position at the line of departure. The Close Support Unit had gained station. LST's commenced launching LVT's and LCVP's [a type of landing craft]. All units were conforming to the shedule.
At 0815I/26, the first wave (LVT's) left the line of departure. Destroyer bombardment of the beach area ceased at 0822I/26, Close support fire by LCS's and LCI(R)'s began at 0820I/26. The first wave landed at 0828I/26 followed by the second wave (LVT's) at 0831I/26. At 0835I/26, the third wave (LCVP's) landed. At 0837I/26, the Commander Close Support Unit reported mortar fire on the left flank of the beach. The landing force reported the presence of large quantities of land mines on the beach from the hight water mark to the edge of the coconut grove back of the beach. The fourth and fifth waves (LCVP's) landed on shedule, followed by the sixg and seventh waves (LCM's). The artillery embarked in the latter unloaded without difficulty. Reports from the beach indicated that LVT's on the right flank had been able to cross the beach. Troops were working inland. No enemy opposition had developed. Land mines were being cleared. Wave eight (DUKW's) beached at 0910I/26 in time.
Beginning about 0900I/26, a continuous series of explosions took place in Cebu City and it was apparent that the Japanese were destroying the city. Strangely no explosions were noted in the dock area. Sporadic mortar fore landed on the beach, but all in one rather small section which was kept clear and no damage resulted. At 0912I/26, HMAS Hobart took a suspected mortar site under fire. At 0917I/26, the Air Observer reported seeing two enemy planes take off from Lahug air strip. The Combat Air Patrol could not find them. They were not picked up by radar and were not seen again and it is believed that the aircraft flew across the island at low altitude.
Wave 9 (LCI) was slightly delayed. The LCI's could not beach due to the submerged log boom obstacle that had not hampered earlier small craft. They were unloaded just off the beach by LCVP, LCM and LCT. Unloading was completed at 1030I/26. The UDT [Underwater Demolition Team] began the task of clearing the obstruction. The LCT's beached satisfactorily at 0930I/26 and unloaded.
LSM's were held up from beaching until the obstruction could be cleared. Pontoon sections were launched from LST's and towed to a position just off the beach. The high priority LST's were brought in and ramp to ramp unloading into LCT's got underway. At 1045I/26, the Beachmaster called in the first LSM. At 1100I/26, USS LSM 168 reported that he was unloading tanks without difficulty. However, it was apparent that the beach gradient would in general prevent the satisfactory beaching of LSM's and LST's for unloading. Not only was the gradient too low, but a small sand bar off the beach caused both types to ground aft with ramps in varying depths from 5 to 7 feet of water. For a limited with, LSM's could beach fairly well. They beached three at a time and unloaded throughout the day but slowly and with the assistance of bulldozers to haul out drowned vehicles.
At 1130I/26, one roadway had been cleared thru the beach mines ashore and two others were nearing completion. Vehicles were beginning to move across the beach. Ramp to ramp inloading was getting underway. At 1148I/26 mortar of 75mm fire bracketed the control lone and nearby LST's and the PC's and LST's were directed to move to seaward.
The first LST was called in and beached about 1300I/26 and work began immediately to rig a pontoon causeway ramp. Unloading commenced at 1435I/26. Inloading continued with no further enemy gunfire on the beach or unloading area.
At 1535I/26, USS Conyngham reported sighting a possibly periscope in the channel from Cebu Harbour. USS PC 1133 was ordered to investigate. At 1610I/26, USS Flusser and USS Conyngham opened fire on an object sighted in Cebu Harbour Channel. It was reported as the conning tower of a small submarine that broached apparently from running on a bar while submerged. Although straddled, actual hits could not be varified. The Task Group got underway immediately and cleared the harbour, formed cruising disposition and steamed in Bohol Strait for the night, returning to the anchorage at daylight on 27 March. USS PC 1134, USS PC 1133, USS Kephart, USS Newman and USS Cofer were directed to conduct a sonar searxh of the anchorage and vicinity. USS Flusser remained in the area available for fire support if needed. The Close Support Unit remained to screen beached ships against small craft attacks. At 1800I/26, sound search results had so far been negative and the two remaining loaded LSM's and two LST's returned and beached to be unloaded during the night. No positive results were obtained from the A/S search of the anchorage and lower harbour area, but at 0035I/27, USS Newman sighted a midget submarne on the surface in position 10°09'N, 123°51'E. USS Newman opened fire with automatic weapons at 100 yards scoring many hits, attempted to ram but the submarine submerged. Two patterns of depth charges were dropped, one with a shallow setting as ramming missed and second with deep settings. Sonar contact was not regained. There were no other enemy contacts during the night.
At 1700I/26, the Cruiser Covering Force was released and left the area. USS Phoenix, USS Nicholas, USS O'Bannon and USS Taylor set course for Mangarin Bay, Mindoro where they arrived around 1115I/27 where the fuelled and ammunitioned. They departed Mangarin Bay around 1900I/27 for Subic where they arrived around 1000I/28.
HMAS Hobart and HMAS Warramunga set course for Leyte where they were to fuel and ammunition and then proceed to Subic Bay afterwards. They arrived at Leyte (San Pedro Bay) around 0815L/27. They departed Leyte on the 28th and arrived at Subic Bay around 0800I/30.
At 1900I/26, USS Kephart was recalled from the A/S search. The first returning echolon was formed and was known as Task Unit 78.2.15. It was made up of USS Abbot, USS Kephart, USS LSM-168, USS LSM-35, USS LSM-219, USS LSM-150, USS LSM-316, USS LCI(L)-965, USS LCI(L)-980 and USS LCI(L)-984 was ordered to return to Leyte. USS LCI(L)-965, apparently disabled, was being towed by USS LSM-316. They arrived at Leyte on the 28th.
Ongoing minesweeping operations meanwhile all had negative results. Sweeping of the area south of Mactan Island and Cebu Harbour inside the 100 fathom curve to San Fernando was completed.
Upon arrival at the anchorage around 0730I/27, LST beached or commenced unloadinf in stream as directed by the Beachmaster. At 0945I/27, 4 LCI(L)'s were detached to Sibonga, Cebu with 600 guerilla troops. They were covered by an LCS and and LCI(R). This group returned around 1545I/27, mission accomplished. At 1500I/27, an Army detachment using LVT's landed on Cauit Island, covered by LCS's and LCI(R)'s. The minesweeping detachment swept Olango Channel with negative results. During the afternoon troops occupied Cebu City. The docks were reported as essentially undamaged.
At 1900I/27, the second return echolon, known as Task Unit 78.2.16, made up of USS Newman, USS Cofer, PC-1134, PC-1133, USS LST-560, USS LST-595, USS LST-597, USS LSM-50, USS LSM-151, USS LSM-225, USS LSM-237, USS LSM-268 and USS LSM-317 departed for Leyte where they arrived on the 29th.
At 1930I/27, a single unidentified enemy plane flew over the beach and anchorage area. Three or four bombs were dropped harmlessly. No radar warning was received due to the low altitude of the plane over the island, and the plane was not sighted until overhead. A smoke haze lay over the anchorage from fires in Cebu City that made visibility poor during the twilight period. There were no other enemy incidents during the night and the unloading of LST's continued.
On 28 March, unloading continued. Progress was such that it was estimated that it would be completed around 1500I/28. The minesweeping unit swept the southern approaches to Cebu Harbour, area ' Stagedoor ', to 15 feet with negative results. The Close Support Unit covered the northern advance of Army elements from Cebu towards Mandaue and also of one company landing on Mactan Island to secure it.
By 1500I/27, indeed all LST's were unloaded and by 1600I/27 the last returning echolon, Task Unit 78.2.17, was formed up to proceed to Leyte. It was made up of USS Flusser, USS Shaw, USS Drayton, USS Smith, USS PCE(R)-850, the remaining 13 LST's and 2 LCI(R)'s [identities unknown to us]. They arrived at Leyte on 29 March.
At 2320I/27, USS PCE(R)-850 parted company with Task Unit 78.2.17 to land the staff officers she had on board at Tolosa.
At 1800I/27, CTG 78.2 (in USS Spencer turned over command of the objective area to CTU 78.2.14 (COMLCIFLOT 15) and departed for Leyte escorted by USS Conyngham. At Cebu remained 11 LCI's, 4 LCS's, 3 LCI(R)'s, 3 LCT's and the 8 YMS minesweepers. (1)
Operation Oboe I, Allied landings at Tarakan.
The Cruiser Covering Group and Fire Support Group (Rear-Admiral R.S. Berkey, USN), known as Task Group 74.3, was made up of the light cruisers USS Phoenix (T/Capt. J.H. Duncan, USN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral R.S. Berkey, USN), USS Boise (T/Capt. W.M. Downes, USN), HMAS Hobart (Capt. R.S. Dowling, RAN) and the destroyers USS Nicholas (T/Cdr. D.C. Lyndon, USN, with COMDESRON 21, T/Capt. J.K.B. Ginder, USN on board), USS Fletcher (T/Lt.Cdr. R.R. Green, USN), USS Jenkins (T/Cdr. P.D. Gallery, USN), USS O'Bannon (T/Lt.Cdr. J.A. Pridmore, USN), USS Taylor (T/Lt.Cdr. H.H. de Laureal, USN) and HMAS Warramunga (Cdr. M.J. Clark, DSC, RAN).
The Tarakan Attack Group (Rear-Admiral F.B. Royal, USN) was made up of the following units;
Task Group 78.1 was made up of the Amphibious Force Command Ship USS Rocky Mount (T/Capt. F.A. Hardesty, USN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral F.B. Royal, USN).
Task Group 70.1.9 was the MTB support unit, which was made up the Motor Torpedo Boat Tender USS Wachapreague (Lt.Cdr. H.A. Stewart, USNR, with COMMTBRON 36, Lt.Cdr. F.D. Tappaan, USNR on board) and the following Motor Torpedo Boats, MTBRON 9 made up of USS PT-156, USS PT-157, USS PT-159, USS PT-160, USS PT-161, USS PT-162, USS PT-187, USS PT-318 and USS PT-319 as well as MTBRON 36 made up of USS PT-522, USS PT-523, USS PT-524, USS PT-525, USS PT-526, USS PT-527, USS PT-528, USS PT-529, USS PT-530, USS PT-531 and USS PT-532. MTB RON 9 was to operate from Malamaui and MTB RON 36 was to operate from Tawi Tawi.
Task Group 78.1.11 was the transport unit made up of Landing Ships HMAS Manoora (A/Capt. A.P. Cousin, RANR(S)), HMAS Westralia (A/Cdr. E.W. Livingston, RANR(S)), Landing Ship Dock USS Rushmore (Lt.Cdr. E.A. Jansen, USNR) and the Attack Cargo Ship Titania (T/Cdr.(Retd.) M.W. Callahan, USN).
Task Group 78.1.12 was the LST unit, which was made up the following LST's; USS LST-466 (Lt. B.M. Bryant, Jr. USCG, with COMLSTFLOT 7, T/Capt. G.A. Sinclair, USN, on board), USS LST-67 (Lt. R.L. McGirl, USNR), USS LST-171 (Lt. M.B. Taylor, USNR), USS LST-467 (Lt. M.B. Taylor, USNR), USS LST-562 (Lt. F.P. Lawrence, USNR), USS LST-584 (Lt. D.B. Russell, USNR), USS LST-585 (Lt. A.P. Morse, USNR), USS LST-590 (Lt. B.J. Arnett, USN), USS LST-613 (Lt. H.P. Rollinck, USNR), USS LST-626 (Lt. M.J. Codoner, Jr., USNR), USS LST-637 (Lt. R.A. Vielhaber, USNR), USS LST-667 (Lt. W.S. Biernat, USN), USS LST-697 (Lt. J.E. Tanner, USNR), USS LST-711 (Lt. F.C. Huntley, USNR), USS LST-742 (Lt. W.W. Holmes, USNR), USS LST-743 (Lt. F.H. Emerick, USNR), USS LST-924 (Lt. L. Tinsley, USN), USS LST-993 (Lt. A.W. Bates, USNR), USS LST-1025 (Lt. C.L. Curfman, USNR), USS LST-1027 (Lt. P.J. Shropshire, Jr., USNR) and USS LST-1035 (Lt. M. Perry, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.13 was the LSI unit, which was made up the following LSI(L)'s; USS LCI(L)-624 (Lt. E.F. Harris, USNR, with COMLCIFLOT 24, Cdr. A.V. Jannotta, USNR, on board), USS LCI(L)-625 (Lt.(jg) C.E. Bole, USNR), USS LCI(L)-626 (Lt.(jg) L.H. Keckler, USNR), USS LCI(L)-634 (Lt.(jg) A. Gain, USNR), USS LCI(L)-655 (Lt.(jg) E. Kingdon Hurlock, USNR), USS LCI(L)-699 (Lt.(jg) P.B. Gates, USNR), USS LCI(L)-700 (Lt.(jg) J.E. Howe, USNR), USS LCI(L)-712 (), USS LCI(L)-1008 (Lt.(jg) R.I. Basch, USNR), USS LCI(L)-1025 (Lt.(jg) W.C. Kingsley, USNR), USS LCI(L)-1072 (Lt.(jg) M.B. Kirby, USNR) and USS LCI(L)-1076 (Lt.(jg) H.S. Fish, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.14 was the LSM unit, which was made up the following LSM's; USS LSM-269 (Lt. H.T. Turner, Jr., USNR, with COMLSMGR 19, T/Lt.Cdr. W.A. Burgett, USN, on board), USS LSM-151 (Lt. W.H. Fitzgerald, USNR), USS LSM-224 (Lt. D.B. Wrensch, USNR) and USS LSM-267 (Lt. R.F. Ruben, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.15 was the LCT unit, which was made up the following LCT's; USS LCT-1317 (With COMLCTgR 74, Lt. DeMoss, USNR on board), USS LCT-1310, USS LCT-1312, USS LCT-1314, USS LCT-1316, USS LCT-1319, USS LCT-1321, USS LCT-1323, USS LCT-1325, USS LCT-1327, USS LCT-1329 and USS LCT-1331. [LCT's were being towed to the landing area.]
Task Group 78.1.21 was the Screen, which was made up of the destroyers USS Waller (T/Cdr. H.leR. Thompson, Jr., USN), USS Philip (T/Cdr. J.B. Rutter, Jr., USN), USS Bailey (T/Lt.Cdr. A.F. Johnson, USN), USS Bancroft (T/Lt.Cdr. C.E. Pond, USN), USS Caldwell (Lt.Cdr. D.R. Robinson, USNR), USS Drayton (T/Lt.Cdr. V.A. Dybdal, USN), USS Smith (T/Lt.Cdr. E.H. Huff, USN). and the frigates HMAS Barcoo (A/Lt.Cdr. C.G. Hill, RANR(S)), HMAS Burdekin (Lt.Cdr. T.S. Marchington, RD, RANR(S)) and HMAS Hawkesbury (Lt.Cdr. H.J. Weston, RANR(S)).
Task Group 78.1.22 was the Destroyer Escort Unit, made up of the escort destroyers USS Formoe (T/Lt.Cdr. J.C. Spencer, USN) and USS Charles E. Brannon (Lt.Cdr. O.M. Shirey, Jr., USNR).
Task Group 78.1.3 was the Support Unit which was made up of the following units.
Task Group 78.1.31 was the LCS Unit and was made up of the following LCS's; USS LCS(L)-50 (Lt. B.T. Clark, USNR, with T/Cdr. D.H. Day, USN on board), USS LCS(L)-8 (?), USS LCS(L)-28 (Lt. R.H. Bost, USNR), USS LCS(L)-43 (Lt.(jg) E.A. Blakley, USNR), USS LCS(L)-44 (J.M. Leggat, USNR) and USS LCS(L)-48 (Lt. D.E. Widel, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.32 was the LCI(R) Unit and was made up of the following LCI(R)'s; USS LCI(R)-71, USS LCI(R)72, USS LCI(R)74 and USS LCI(R)338.
Task Group 78.1.33 was the LCI(M) Unit and was made up of the following LCI(M)'s; USS LCI(M)-359 (Ens. T.S. Adair, USNR) and USS LCI(M)-362 (Lt.(jg) R.W. Kearns, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.34 was the Demolition Unit and was made up of the following USS LCI(D)-29 (Lt. J.F. McNamara, USNR) and USS LCI(D)-228 (Lt.(jg) R.W. Kearns, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.41 was Control Unit Red and was made up of; USS PC-1120 (Lt. J.R. Goodrich, USNR) and USS LCI(L)-624 (this last was assigned to this unit for the assault only).
Task Group 78.1.42 was Control Unit Green and was made up of; USS SC-698 (?) and USS SC- 746 (?).
Task Group 78.1.5 was the minesweeping unit and was made up of the high speed transport USS Cofer (Lt. H.C. McClees, USNR) and the minesweepers (YMS's) USS YMS-51 (Lt.(jg) A.L. Giesenschlag, USNR), USS YMS-68 (Lt. G.L. O'Neil, USNR), USS YMS-73 (Lt. J.H. Frederick, USNR), USS YMS-313 (Lt.(jg) W.H. Reibold, USNR), USS YMS-314 (Lt.(jg) J.W. Easton, USNR), USS YMS-329 (Lt. W.L. Ballew, USNR), USS YMS-334 (Lt.(jg) P.G. Rafferty, USNR), USS YMS-340 (Lt. P. Schminke, USNR), USS YMS-363 (Lt. F.A. Struve, Jr., USNR), USS YMS-364 (Lt. C.K. Soper, USNR) and USS YMS-481 (Lt.(jg) t.D. Anglin, USNR). These were split up into four Task Groups; Task Unit 78.1.51 was made up of four of the YMS's, Task Unit 78.1.52 was also made up of four of the YMS's, Task Unit 78.1.53 was made up of three of the YMS's and Task Unit 78.1.54 was made up of the USS Cofer and four LCVP's.
Task Group 78.1.6 was the Service Unit, made up of Task Unit 78.1.61 (the Survey Unit) made up of the survey vessel (frigate) HMAS Lachlan (Lt.Cdr. G.D. Tancred, RAN, with Cdr. K.E. Oom, RAN on board) and the net tender USS Satinleaf (Lt. Lt. P.F. Taylor, USN). Task Unit 78.1.62 (the Salvage Unit) made up of the tugs USS ATR-61 (Lt. W.M. Heywood, USNR) and USS Vireo (Lt.(jg) M.E. Seymour, USNR). Task Unit 78.1.63 (the Fire Fighting Unit) made up of the LCI(L)'s, LCI(L)-185 [this can't be correct as this LCI had been transferred to the Royal Navy on completion and was sunk of Normandy on 6 June 1944.], USS LCS(L)-961 (?), USS LCS(L)-1000 (?) and USS LCS(L)-1071 (?).
Task Group 78.1.7 was the Press Unit, which was made up of the patrol vessel USS PCE(R)-849 (Lt. C. Sanders, USNR), USS LCI(L)-635 (Lt. H. Hopkins, USNR) and the small army cargo ship FP 47.
The Cruiser Covering Force and Fire Support Group departed Subic Bay on 24 April 1945. The minesweeping and hydrographic groups left Leyte on 22 April, joined at Zamboanga with other units coming from Malabang, Mindanao, and arrived at the objective on 27 April, and commenced minesweeping and hydrographic survey.
Minesweeping was difficult, because the many types of mines encountered and water conditions. The approach of the main force through preferred ' Track Baker ', south of Menoeloen Island, had to be abandoned because of the possibility that mines there had not yet been swept. This necessitated approaching though ' Track Able ' which afforded deeper water, but was much less in width. A red conical top buoy and a black top buoy of Japanese origin were found by the Hydrographic Group and left remaining, the latter buoy being the mid-channel. A buoy was planted at Point Whirlaway, buoy 2 south of Point Equinox, and buoy 3 was planted marking the break-off point for Tracks Able and Baker. Buoys 1 and 4 were also planted, as ordered, in positions as previously charted. The Hydrographic Group on the afternoon of ' Peter minus One day ' [Peter Day was 1 May 1945] installed fixed whire lights on the mid-channel buoy (Point Whirlaway) and numbers 2 and 4 buoys to aid the approach of the Attack Group. The harbour entrance range was lighted. Beach reconnaissance and marking of gaps through obstacles for assault waves and slots for LST's were completed on 30 April, without casualties, despite enemy mortar and machine gun fire from the beach. These groups retired each night prior to ' Peter Day ' at the objective.
On 27 April, ten motor torpedo boats arrived at Tawi Tawi and commenced operations on the east coast of northern Borneo the following day.
On 26 April 1945, the ' Pulau Sadau ' attack echolon daparted Morotai Straits. The Sadau attack echolon was known as Task Group 78.1.16 and was made up from ships from other units which were to rejoin their repective units on ' Peter Day '. The following ships were part of Task Group 78.1.16; USS Philip, USS PC-1120, USS LST-667 with USS LCT-1331 in tow, USS LSM-151, USS LSM-359, USS LSM-362, USS LCI(L)-172, USS LCI(L)-185 [???], USS LCI(L)-961, USS LCI(L)-1000, USS LCI(L)-1071, USS LCS-8 and USS LCS-48.
The main assault force departed on the 27th. Both echolons involved in the two separate assaults arrived in their respective areas off the designated beaches on time, the main assault force arriving one hour ahead of time to allow for the transit to the anchorage area of the last ships of the strung out approach formation through the narrow track ' Able '. The landings proceeded exactly as had been planned.
The preliminary naval bombardment was conducted by the Cruiser Covering Group on ' Peter Day ' [1 May 1945] with only the destroyers participating. This Group had also covered the Minesweeping Group in their activities from 27 April to 1 May. The Minesweeping Group on 27 April first made exploratory sweeps from the hundred fathom curve to ' Point Whirlaway ' with negative results. They then next obtained negative results in sweeps of Areas ' Fork ', ' Spoon ' and ' Knife ' to Point ' Baker '. One thousand yards north and south of the sides of Area ' Knife ', west of Point ' Baker ', four magnetic mines were swept. LCVP sweeps, the same day, explored Spatula and swept two chemical horned type mines south-west of Menoeloen Island, apparently newly laid. The Covering Force could not safely proceed west of ' Point Baker ', so did not. On 28 April, three magnetic mines in area ' Knife ', and seven enemy horned mines were swept in area ' Spatula ', south-west of Menoeloen Island. Two magnetic mines were still known to be in area ' Spatula ' and not yet swept. One of these magnetic mines self detonated near a YMS in area ' Knife ', west of ' Point Baker ', approach ' Track Baker ', after two days of sweeping, was still not considered safe for the passage of the Cruiser Covering Force.
On 29 April, magnetic sweeps were negative in areas ' Knife ' and ' Spatula '. A floating mine was sunk by gunfire four miles east of No.2 buoy. Nine additional enemy contact mines were swept south-west of Menoeloen Island. A one-thousand yard check sweep was made on both sides of ' Approach Track Baker '. Area ' Plate ' was swept within 1200 yards of the beaches and the LCVP's made two sweeps within 400 yards of the pier, all negative. By this time, five magnetic mines in area ' Knife ' were still unaccounted for, as well as two west of the southern tip of Tarakan. Sweepers on 30 April were to continue their magnetic and acoustic sweeps in areas ' Knife ', ' Spatula ' and ' Plate ' and leave by the north channel (' Track Able ') alone. The cruisers could not yet safely venture into area ' Knife '.
On 30 April, two influence mines were swept west of the south tip of Tarakan, and two additional enemy mines south-west of Menoeloen Island were swept after the landing and fire support parties had passed through route ' Baker '. Later, one of the fire support destroyers, USS Jenkins, on retiring, struck a mine 1000 yards off the center of ' Track Baker '. The sweepers swept two more mines in ' Approach Track Baker ' immediately after this incident. Five ' influence ' mines were reported removed at an unknown location. Because ' Track Baker ' was now not considered safe, the sweepers concentrated on ' Track Able ' which was still found negative. That night the Attack Group safely transited ' Track Able ', as had been recommended, and began the assault on ' Peter Day ', 1 May 1945.
The Sadau Attack Force meanwhile had landed around 0800I/30 which was on shedule. They landed without opposition. The landings were completed two hours later.
At 1527I/30, the Commander Task Group 74.3, reported the USS Jenkins having been mined. Casualties were light despite the destroyer being extensively damaged.
Around 1730I/30, two mines were reported swept in the area where USS Jenkins had been mined. This was on ' Approach Track Baker '.
Around 1900I/30, USS Wachapreague and MTBRON 36 (minus six of the MTB's) departed Tawi Tawi for the objective area.
Around 2000I/30, USS Jenkins was reported to be dead in the water and leaking.
At 2010I/30, USS Waller reported hearing a torpedo noise and went on to investigate. Four minutes later she attacked a good sound contact with depth charges. Half an hour later she reported oil on the water and then delivered another depth charge attack on that spot. At 2045I/30, she lost contact. USS Formoe was then ordered to remain in the area and conduct an A/S search.
At 0520I/1, the order ' Deploy ' was given to go ahead with the landings. Ten minutes later USS Rocky Mount anchored in berth 4 in Area ' Mike '.
At 0630I/1, USS LST-562 reported a torpedo passing underneath her bow. The torpedo came from the direction off Cape Pasir. Nine minutes later destroyers opened fire at the mouth of the river near Cape Pasir as it was considered likely the torpedo had been fired from here. At the same time USS LST-562 reported a small submarine surfacing astern of her which immediately submerged again. HMAS Barcoo was ordered to investigate.
At 0646I/1, USS LST-637 launched the first LVT [Landing Vehicle Tracked] as the landing operations commenced. By 0705I/1, all LVT's from various ships had been launched.
At 0651I/1, USS Rushmore launched LCM's and USS Titania had launched all her boats.
At 0654I/1, HMAS Manoora reported her boats in the water. At the same time USS Rushmore reported a torpedo glanced off her port beam without damage. It came from the direction of Cape Pasir.
At 0655I/1, the dawn Combat Air Patrol arrived on station. At the same time USS LST-467 launched LVT's. All LVT's was launched by 0659I/1.
At 0700I/1, All assault causeway LST's and USS Rushmore on station in ' LST Area Two '. HMAS Manoora, HMAS Westralia and USS Titania were all on station in ' Transport Area Mike '.
At 0702I/1, USS LST-1027 launched the first causeway.
At 0705I/1, CTU 78.1.12 (LST Unit) reported all LVT's to have been launched.
At 0707I/1, the Support Line formed up.
At 0712I/1, USS Rushmore reported all her boats to have been launched while boat waves from HMAS Manoora were observed proceeding to the Line of Depature.
At 0714I/1, LCM's from USS Rushmore were observed forming up well behind ' LST Area ' so as to remain out of the way.
At 0722I/1, USS SC-746 reported to be on station on the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0724I/1, All waver for landing area ' Green ' were formed up.
At 0725I/1, USS LST-637 stood out beyond ' LST Area Two ' to clear the area.
At 0726I/1, USS LST-584 and USS LST-585 launched causeways. The causeways from USS LST-590, USS LST-711, USS LST-743, USS LST-993 and USS LST-1027 had meanwhile also been launched.
At 0731I/1, the ' Line of Departure ' was formed.
At 0733I/1, waves 1, 2 and 3 for ' Red Beach ' were formed up and were moving to the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0736I/1, the LCS Support Group was ordered into position ahead of the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0738I/1, CTG 78.1 ordered CTU 78.1.5 to resweep area ' Spatula ' in ordered that ' Track Baker ' may be made safe. Area ' Platter ' also was to be swept for mines.
At 0739I/1, B-24's were observed coming in for air strikes on the beach area. At the same time the Engineer Demolition Party was dispatched from USS LST-667.
At 0742I/1, all waves for ' Red Beach ' were formed up.
At 0747I/1, CTU 78.1.3 reported all ships of the Support Unit ready and on station.
At 0750I/1, air strikes on the beach area commenced, though this was a little late.
at 0756I/1, the first wave was dispatched to ' Red ' and ' Green ' beaches. LCI(M)'s opened mortar fire. At the same time four B-24's came over for an air strike on the beach area.
At 0800I/1, LCS(L)'s opened fire with 3" and 40mm guns.
At 0801I/1, the second wave was dispatched to ' Red ' and ' Green ' beaches.
At 0802I/1, six B-24's came over for an air strike on the beach area. Their bombs landed right on the target.
At 0806I/1, the third wave was dispatched to ' Red ' and ' Green ' beaches.
At 0809I/1, Red flares were sent up by support craft, to direct naval gunfire to shift inland.
At 0811I/1, wave four was dispatched to ' Green ' beach.
At 0815I/1, the first wave landed on ' Green ' beach followed one minute later by the first wave on ' Red ' beach.
At 0818I/1, the second wave landed on ' Green ' beach.
At 0819I/1, the Reserve Battalion from HMAS Westralia was observed moving up to the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0820I/1, the second wave landed on ' Red ' beach.
At 0822I/1, CTG 78.1 directed the reserves to be held at the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0824I/1, USS LST-590 moved up to the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0825I/1, the third wave landed on ' Green ' beach followed one minute later by the third wave on ' Red ' beach.
At 0826I/1, the fifth wave was despatched to ' Red ', ' Yellow ' and ' Green ' beaches. Also the fourth wave landed on ' Green ' beach.
At 0829I/1, USS LST-697 and USS LST-711 moved up to the ' Line of Departure ' with causeways.
At 0831I/1, the sixth waves were dispatched to ' Red ' and ' Green ' beaches. Also USS LST-993 moved up to the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0833I/1, Task Unit 78.1.3 ceased immediate gunfire support scheduled firings.
At 0836I/1, troops reported covering positions were taken without opposition. Bridge was intact and landings were made practically dry.
At 0839I/1, the fifth wave landed on ' Red ', ' Yellow ', and ' Green ' beaches.
At 0844I/1, the sixth wave landed on ' Green one ' beach followed one minute later by the sixth wave on ' Red two ' beach.
At 0845I/1, Red Beachmaster Unit reported ' Red two ' beach to be obstructed, with large logs and a defensive wall on the beach.
At 0847I/1, haze, smoke and dust obscured the beach area.
At 0848I/1, the Air Force requisted permission to make another air strike.
At 0850I/1, the Australian Principal Beachmaster Advanced Command Post indicated the condition of LST slots on ' Yellow ' beach. Extensive bull-dozing was required on some slots. He also indicated that ' Red ' beach was not ready for LST's. Also at this time all causeway LST's were observed on the ' Line of Departure '.
At 0906I/1, CTG 78.1 ordered CTU 78.1.4 to ' land the reserves '.
At 0907I/1, USS LST-584 was ordered to beach.
At 0915I/1, the seventh wave, containing the reserves was sent into ' Green ' beaches. Also USS Rushmore reported that her LCM's were completely unloaded.
At 0918I/1, USS LST-584 beached on ' Red ' beach slot 1 with causeway beached dry.
At 0920I/1, the eight wave was dispatched to ' Green ' beach.
At 0921I/1, USS LST-585, with causeways, beached on ' Red ' beach slot 2.
At 0925I/1, the ninth and last wave was dispatched to ' Green ' beach.
At 0927I/1, a B-25 strike on enemy barracks commenced. Also the seventh wave landed.
At 0931I/1, USS LST-743, with causeways, beached on ' Yellow ' beach slot 5.
At 0932I/1, the eight wave landed.
At 0937I/1, CTG 78.1 ordered general unloading.
At 0939I/1, the ninth wave landed.
At 1001I/1, USS LST-1027, with causeways, beached on ' Yellow ' beach slot 7.
The line up of LST's was now as follows;
Slot 1, Red Beach, USS LST-584,
Slot 4, Yellow Beach, USS LST-711,
Slot 7, Yellow Beach, USS LST-1027.
At 1020I/1, CTU 78.1.4 directed LCI's to proceed to north pier and unload two at a time.
At 1022I/1, enemy mortar fire landed in the water off ' Green Two ' beach.
At 1024I/1, USS LCI(L)-625 and USS LCI(L)-1025 were observed alongside USS LST-590 on the beach.
At 1025I/1, artillery fire was observed near ' Green Two ' beach.
At 1030I/1, USS LST-584 and USS LST-590 started unloading.
At 1034I/1, LCI Fire Support Craft observed heading back from the beach to form a picket line. Also Brigadier Whitehead and his staff went ashore.
At 1035I/1, USS SC-698 directed USS Titania and HMAS Westralia to head towards ' Green Two ' beach.
At 1042I/1, HMAS Manoora ordered to direct small craft with cargo to ' Green Two ' beach for unloading.
At 1104I/1, USS LCI(L)-634 and USS LCI(L)-1076 were observed alongside USS LST-584 on ' Red ' beach.
At 1106I/1, Captain Dugan, Chief of Staff, and party left USS Rocky Mount for an inspection of the beaches.
At 1125I/1, a huge explosion was observed to the right of ' Green ' beach.
At 1142I/1, mortar fire was observed falling on the beachhead area.
At 1143I/1, USS LCI(L)-1076 was unloaded and retracted from the beach.
At 1145I/1, USS LST-742 ordered to beach on the starboard side of USS LST-584.
At 1150I/1, nine LCI(L)'s have unloaded. USS LCI(L)-699 was awaiting instructions.
At 1154I/1, USS LST-171 beached 650 feet off the beach aft of USS LST-584 and USS LST-585 on ' Red ' beach.
At 1157I/1, USS LCS-44 was fired upon by enemy mortar one mile south of ' Green Two ' beach.
At 1204I/1, the Commander 26th Brigade, 9th Australian Division, assumed command ashore of his troops.
At 1216I/1, USS LST-171 retracted from ' Red ' beach still unable to beach in a cleared area.
At 1230I/1, the ' Line of Departure ' was dissolved.
At 1308I/1, USS O'Bannon was relieved of fire support duties and was ordered to stand by USS Jenkins.
At 1315I/1, USS Wachapreague and MTB RON 36 (minus 6 PT boats) stood in and reported to CTG 78.1 for duty.
At 1325I/1, the Principal Beachmaster indicated that it was now impossible to unload more LCM's and LCT's.
At 1339I/1, it was reported that the docks ware usable by hand labor only. The crane on the long pier was reported to be unserviceable.
At 1349I/1, the unloading of LCVP's and LCM's stopped due to the rapid falling of the tide and consequent stranding of the boats.
At 1356I/1, the unloading of LCT's bogged down by mud.
At 1401I/1, it was reported that unloading at the piers was limited to the landing of bulk stores. Damage hindered unloading at the southern pier.
At 1437I/1, it was reported that the northern pier was found to be intact but that the tide was hindering unloading.
at 1454I/1, CTG 78.1 directed no night retirement from the objective area because of the slowness in unloading and so that good advantage might be taken of the high tide. No real enemy opposition had been encountered so far.
At 1500I/1, USS Cofer and the YMS minesweepers reported to CTU 78.1.2 in USS Waller for duty as A/S screen for the night.
At 1524I/1, CTG 78.1 ordered all ships to maintain sufficient armed sentries for protection against hostile small craft and swimmers.
At 1538I/1, Captain Dugan and party returned to USS Rocky Mount after inspecting beachhead and conferring with Landing Craft Control Officer, Beach Group Commander and the Commander, 26th Infantery Bridgade.
At 1539I/1, USS SC-746 reported that there was a possible ' Q ' boat unmannned in bushes north of Cape Karis.
At 1557I/1, Rear-Admiral Berkey came aboard USS Rocky Mount.
At 1600I/1, HMAS Hobart and HMAS Warramunga were released by CTG 78.1 and departed the Tarakan area for Hollandia via Morotai.
At 1610I/1, USS ATR-61 ordered to tow USS Jenkins alongside USS Phoenix and remain to assist.
At 1715I/1, Rear-Admiral Berkey left USS Rocky Mount.
At 1736I/1, two LCS's were stationed off Sadau to prevent movement of enemy craft into the anchorage during the night.
At 1942I/1, CTG 78.1 advised all ships that general unloading would continue during the night and that recognition of our own small craft was mandatory.
At 2008I/1, all beached LST's turned on lights and illuminated the beach and docks.
At 2044I/1, USS LST-697 was ordered to proceed to Causeway 1.
At 2047I/1, all ships and craft were ordered to use full running lights in the Transport Area.
At 2052/1, USS LST-613 was ordered to proceed to Causeway 4.
At 2130I/1, USS LST-171 beached.
At 2137I/1, USS LST-613 beached. By 2200I/1, USS LST-626, USS LST-697 USS LST-924 were also beached.
At 0048I/2, the beach was reported to be under mortar fire.
At 0155I/2, HMAS Manoora reported that she was completely unloaded.
At 0653I/2, CTG 78.1 ordered USS VireoUSS LST-584 to assist in retracting any of the LST's from the beach.
At 0710I/2, CTG 78.1 ordered USS LST-1025 and USS LST-1035 to assist other LST's in retracting from the beach.
at 0746I/2, CTG 78.1 ordered USS ATR-61, unless required by USS Jenkins, to report to CTU 78.1.4 to aid in retraction of LST's.
At 0800I/2, B-25 bombers commenced a call air strike 1000 yards in front of own front lines.
At 0906I/2, CTG 78.1 ordered USS LCS-8 to destroy two small boats east of Cape Pasir.
At 0916I/2, PT'boats with B-25 cover commenced operating to the north of Tarakan island.
At 1028I/2, Major General Wootten, General Officer Commanding 9th Australian Division, came aboard USS Rocky Mount having been flown in from Morotai.
At 1045I/2, the destroyer USS Robinson (T/Cdr. R.E. Malpass, USN) arrived.
At 1050I/2, USS Vireo was ordered to relieve USS ATR-61 and reported to CTG 74.3 to tow USS Jenkins to Leyte. USS ATR-61 was to return to the Transport Area to assist LST's.
At 1100I/2, Major General Wootten went ashore to the Brigade Headquarters.
At 1125I/2, an air strike by three B-25's was observed north-west of the beach area.
At 1127I/2, the tanker USS Winooski (Lt.Cdr. T.B. Christenson, USNR) arrived.
At 1200I/2, HMAS Manoora, HMAS Westralia and USS Rushmore escorted by USS Bancroft and USS Charles E. Brannon departed the Tarakan area for Morotai to reload and then return.
Also around 1200I/2, enemy shells landed near USS Wachapreague. PT boats alongside shifted berth to avoid being hit by gunfire of splinters.
At 1220I/2, CTU 78.1.13 reported that all LCI(L)'s were unloaded.
At 1258I/2, only one LCT was reported unloaded, four LCT's were waiting for LST's on the beach to retract.
At 1310I/2, Rear-Admiral Berkey left the flagship with Rear-Admiral Royal. They went ashore to confer with Brigadier Whitehead and inspect the beachhead.
At 1322I/2, CTG 78.1 directed six LCI(L)'s for screening duty to report to CTU 78.1.3 prior to 1700I/2.
At 1530I/2, camouflaged batteries at Cape Djoeata (in the north-west of Tarakan Island) sank USS YMS-481 and damaged USS YMS-334 and YMS-364. USS Cofer and USS LCS-8 and USS LCS-28 silenced the battery. USS LCS-44, USS LCI(L)-1008 and LCVP's rescued survivors close inshore under direct enemy fire. USS YMS-51 and USS YMS-340 which were also sweeping in the area were not hit.
At 1530I/2, Rear-Admiral Royal and Major General Wootten returned to USS Rocky Mount.
At 1543I/2, four B-25's strafed and bombed the Cape Djoeata area. after they were finished, USS Fletcher bombarded the same area.
At 1555I/2, COMLSTGR 44 shifted his flag to USS LST-924.
At 1600I/2, Major General Wootten departed for Morotai by aircraft with Captain Hains, Assistant Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral Royal.
At 1630I/2, four P-38's also made low bombing and strafing runs on gun emplacements on Cape Djoeata.
At 1635I/2, USS YMS-340 and USS YMS-364 put wounded men from the YMS engagement on board USS Rocky Mount.
At 1740I/2, USS LCS-44 sighted a mine in position 03°23'8"N, 117°30'E. CTU 78.1.3 was later ordered to search for and destroy this mine.
At 1811I/2, USS Fletcher took on board wounded from the YMS engagement from USS LCS-44. She later transferred them to USS Rocky Mount.
At 2015I/2, CTG 78.1 directed all LST's to illuminate all causeways and beaches but at ' Flash Red ' to darken ship until alert is over.
At 0751I/3, USS ATR-61 stood in to assist LST's retracting from the beach.
At 0830I/3, USS Phoenix proceeded to the vicinity of Sadau Island to fire on enemy coastal batteries and installations in the Cape Djoeata area. She opened fire at 0850I/3.
At 0920I/3, USS LST-697 retracted from the beach.
At 0929I/3, PT-boats made runs parallel to the beach to create waves to assist in retracting the LST's.
At 1000I/3, CTU 78.1.2 assumed control of naval gunfire support.
At 1010I/3, USS LST-924 retracted from the beach. USS LST-584, USS LST-585, USS LST-590, USS LST-711, USS LST-743, USS LST-993 and USS LST-1027 remained on the beach.
At 1025I/3, Rear-Admiral Berkey came aboard USS Rocky Mount. He departed again at 1103I/3.
At 1033I/3, USS Phoenix returned from the Sadau Island area on completion of her bombarding duties.
At 1300I/3, USS Phoenix, USS Boise, USS Nicholas, USS Taylor and USS O'Bannon departed the Tarakan area to return to Subic Bay where they arrived around 1100I/5.
At 1700I/3, CTG 78.1, in USS Rocky Mount, escorted by USS Caldwell, departed Tarakan for Morotai where they arrived around 1400I/5. Command had been turned over to Captain Gray (CTG 78.1.16) on board USS Formoe.
At 1830I/3, CTG 78.1.92 with COMLSTGR 44 in USS LST-924 with USS LST-171, USS LST-613, USS LST-626 and USS LST-697 departed the Tarakan area escorted by USS Philip, USS SC-746, USS YMS-51 and USS YMS-363. Seven LST's were still fast in the mud on the beach. The remaining eight other LST's had commenced to unload from the stream. Unloading continued slowly but steadily as did the fighting on the island against increasing opposition. CTG 78.1.92 arrived at Morotai around 1730I/5.
[The report of CTG 78.1 ends here.]
At 0700I/5, HMAS Manoora and HMAS Westralia departed Morotai to return to Tarakan with reinforcements and supplies. They were still escorted by USS Bancroft and USS Charles E. Brannon. They arrived at Tarakan around 0830I/7.
At 1800I/5, CTG 78.1.93 made up of USS LCI(L)-624, USS LCI(L)-625, USS LCI(L)-626, USS LCI(L)-634, USS LCI(L)-655, USS LCI(L)-699, USS LCI(L)-700, USS LCI(L)-712, USS LCI(L)-1008, USS LCI(L)-1025, USS LCI(L)-1072, USS LCI(L)-1076, USS LCI(R)-71, USS LCI(R)-72, USS LCI(R)-74, USS LCI(R)-338, USS LCI(M)-359, USS LCI(M)-362, USS LCI(D)-29, USS LCI(D)-228 departed the Tarakan area for Morotai where they arrived around 1700I/8. They were escorted by USS Waller, USS Cofer, USS PC-1120, USS YMS-6, USS YMS-68, USS YMS-73, USS YMS-313, USS YMS-314, USS YMS-329, USS YMS-334 and USS YMS-364.
At 1200I/7, CTG 78.1.94, made up of the tanker USS Winooski and the frigate HMAS Hawkesbury departed Tarakan for Polloc Harbour where they arrived around 1430I/8.
At 1730I/7, USS LST-924, USS LST-171, USS LST-613, USS LST-626, USS LST-697, escorted by USS Philip and USS Caldwell, departed Morotai for Tarakan with supplies.
At 1730I/7, having unloaded, HMAS Manoora and HMAS Westralia departed Tarakan to return to Morotai. They were still escorted by USS Bancroft and USS Charles E. Brannon. They arrived at Morotai around 1600I/9.
At 0800I/8, CTG 78.1.96 made up of USS LST-466, USS LST-467, USS LST-562, USS LST-637, USS LST-742, USS LST-1035, USS LCI(L)-635, USS LCI(L)-961, USS LCI(L)-985, USS LCI(L)-1000, USS LCI(L)-1071, USS ATR-61 towing USS YMS-51 departed Tarakan for Morotai where they arrived around . They were escorted by USS Robinson, USS Rudderow, USS PCE(R)-849, USS PC-1120 and USS SC-698.
Fighting on Tarakan continued until 19 June. The island was declared secure on 21 June 1945. [Up to this time supplies kept coming in but it goes to far to list these shipping movements here.]
Operation Oboe VI, Allied landings at Brunei.
Composition of the forces taking part was as follows;
Task Group 78.1 was the Brunei Attack Group under Rear-Admiral Royal and was made up of the Amphibious Force Command Ship USS Rocky Mount (T/Capt. F.A. Hardesty, USN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral F.B. Royal, USN).
Task Group 74.3 was the Cruiser Covering Group under Rear-Admiral Berkey and was made up of the following units.
Task Unit 74.3.1, was Fire Support Unit One (Brown Beach), and was made up of the light cruisers USS Boise (T/Capt. W.M. Downes, USN), USS Phoenix (T/Capt. H.L. Challenger, USN), HMAS Hobart (Capt. R.S. Dowling, RAN, flying the broad pendant of Commodore H.B. Farncomb, DSO, MVO, RAN) and the destroyers USS Killen (T/Cdr. J.L. Semmes, USN) and USS Albert W. Grant (T/Cdr. G.S. Higginbotham, USN).
Task Unit 74.3.2, was Fire Support Unit Two (Green Beach), and was made up of the light cruiser USS Nashville (T/Capt. A. MacOndray, Jr., USN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral R.S. Berkey, USN) and the destroyers HMAS Arunta (Cdr. A.E. Buchanan, DSO, RAN) and USS Conner (T/Lt.Cdr. W.A. Sissons, USN).
Task Unit 74.3.3, was Fire Support Unit Three (White Beach), and was made up of the destroyers USS Charette (T/Lt.Cdr. G.P. Joyce, USN), USS Bell (T/Lt.Cdr. B.H. Shupper, USN) and USS Burns (T/Cdr. J.T. Bullen, Jr., USN).
Task Group 74.2 provived distant cover from a position to the west of Brunei Bay. This force was made up of the light cruisers USS Montpelier (T/Capt. W.A. Gorry, USN, flying the flag of T/Rear-Admiral R.S. Riggs, USN (COMCRUDIV 12)), USS Cleveland (T/Capt. H.G. Hopwood, USN), USS Columbia (T/Capt. M.E. Curts, USN), USS Denver (T/Capt. T.F. Darden, Jr., USN) and the destroyers USS Conway (T/Cdr. J.H. Besson, Jr., USN, with T/Capt. S.G. Hooper, USN (COMDESDIV 44) on board), USS Stevens (T/Cdr. G.W. Pressey, USN), USS Cony (T/Lt.Cdr. T.C. Siegmund, USN), USS Eaton (T/Cdr. C. Brown, USN), USS Hart (T/Cdr. W.D. Coleman, USN) and USS Metcalf (T/Cdr. D.L. Martineau, USN).
Task Group 70.1 was the Motor Torpedo Boat Group under T/Capt. S.S. Bowling, USN and was made up of the following units.
Task Unit 70.1.7 which was made up the Motor Torpedo Boat Tender USS Willoughby (T/Lt. J.P.E. Brouilliette, USN, with COMMTBRON 13, Lt.Cdr. A.W. Fargo, Jr., USNR on board). The following Motor Torpedo Boats were part of this Task Unit, from MTBRON 13; USS PT-74, USS PT-75, USS PT-76, USS PT-78, USS PT-80, USS PT-81, USS PT-82, USS PT-83, USS PT-84 and from MTBRON 16; USS PT-223, USS PT-241 and USS PT-298.
Task Group 78.1.1 was the Transport and Landing Craft Unit under T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN and was made up of the following units.
Task Unit 78.1.11 was the Transport Unit under A/Capt. A.P. Cousin, RANR(S) which was made up the Landing Ships HMAS Manoora (A/Capt. A.P. Cousin, RANR(S)), HMAS Westralia (A/Cdr. E.W. Livingston, RANR(S)), HMAS Kanimbla (Cdr. A.V. Bunyan, RANR(S)), Landing Ship Dock USS Carter Hall (Lt.Cdr. H.L. Host, Jr., USNR) and the Attack Cargo Ship Titania (T/Cdr.(Retd.) M.W. Callahan, USN) and the high speed transports (Transport Division 103), USS Lloyd (Lt.Cdr. W.R. Taylor, USNR, with T/Cdr, Wm.S. Parsons, USN, Commanding Officer COMTRANSDIV 103, on board), USS Newman (Lt.Cdr. R.I. Thieme, USNR), USS Liddle (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Kennedy, USNR), USS Kephart (Cdr. I.H. Cammarn, USNR) and USS Diachenko (Lt.Cdr. S.H. Johnson, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.12 was the LST Unit under T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN, which was made up the following LST's from LST Flotilla 24; USS LST-640 (Lt. F.B. McKenney, Jr., USNR, with COMLSTFLOT 24, T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN on board), USS LST-560 (Lt. H.T. Holsapple, USNR), LST-591 (Lt. R.C. Allen, USN), USS LST-595 (Lt. A.C. Jackson, USNR), USS LST-619 (Lt. J.M. Brennan, USNR), USS LST-638 (Lt. F. Data, USN), LST-696 (Lt. G.A. Hayward, USN), LST-806 (Lt. J.E. Montgomery, USNR), LST-912 (Lt. L.R. White, USN), LST-936 (Lt. M.E. Bolen, USN), LST-937 (Lt. G.W. Mitchell, USN), USS LST-941 (Lt. L.M. Edwards, USN) and LST-942 (Lt. H.F. Austin, USNR). From LST Flotilla 15 under T/Capt. L.J. Manees USN, USS LST-574 (Lt. W.F. Kruaeger, Jr., USNR, with COMLSTFLOT 15, T/Capt. L.J. Manees USN on board), USS LST-573 (Lt. G.W. Hessemer, USNR), USS LST-626 (Lt. M.J. Codoner, Jr., USNR), USS LST-709 (Lt. V.N. Jamieson, USNR), USS LST-751 (Lt. R.E. Garris, USNR), USS LST-922 (Lt. R.A. Stallings, USN), USS LST-1025 (Lt. C.L. Curfman, USNR) and USS LST-1027 (Lt. P.J. Shropshire, Jr., USNR). From LST Flotilla 22, USS LST-584 (Lt. D.B. Russell, USNR), USS LST-585 (Lt. A.P. Morse, USNR), USS LST-590 (Lt. B.J. Arnett, USN), USS LST-637 (Lt. R.A. Vielhaber, USNR) and USS LST-1035 (Lt. M. Perry, USNR). From LST Flottila 8 under T/Capt. E. Watts, USN, USS LST-614 (Lt. J.F. Stanfill, USN, with COMLSTFLOT 8, T/Capt. E. Watts, USN on board), USS LST-562 (Lt. F.P. Lawrence, USNR), USS LST-613 (Lt.(jg) D.B. Emmons, USNR), USS LST-667 (Lt. W.S. Biernat, USN), USS LST-697 (Lt. J.E. Tanner, USNR), USS LST-742 (Lt. W.W. Holmes, USNR), USS LST-743 (Lt. F.H. Emerick, USNR) and USS LST-993 (Lt. A.W. Bates, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.13 was the LCI Unit under T/Capt. F.B.C. Martin, USN (COMLCI(L)FLOT 8), which was made up the following LCI(L)'s; USS LCI(L)-546 (Lt.(jg) H.K. Wells, USNR with T/Capt. F.B.C. Martin, USN, on board), USS LCI(L)-544 (Lt.(jg) W.L. Hall, USNR), USS LCI(L)-577 (Lt. E.J. Morgan, USNR), USS LCI(L)-636 (Lt. J.A. Moore, USNR), USS LCI(L)-661 (Lt.(jg) P.B. Pylant, USNR), USS LCI(L)-662 (Lt. G.L. Gates, USNR), USS LCI(L)-701 (Lt. H.O. Cheney, USNR), USS LCI(L)-702 (Lt. H.A. Hamilton, USNR), USS LCI(L)-703 (Lt.(jg) V.E. Harris, USNR), USS LCI(L)-713 (Lt.(jg) W.W. Parris, USNR), USS LCI(L)-744 (Lt.(jg) J.B. Vallely, USNR), USS LCI(L)-745 (Lt.(jg) J.R. Garland, USNR), LCI(L)-746 (Lt.(jg) W.F. Foley, USNR), USS LCI(L)-749 (Lt.(jg) W.F. Foley, USNR), USS LCI(L)-753 (Lt. G.B. Strother, USNR), USS LCI(L)-955 (Lt.(jg) D.C. Alexander, USNR), USS LCI(L)-958 (Lt. W.R. McCracken, USNR), USS LCI(L)-960 (Lt.(jg) E.H. Chittenden, USNR), USS LCI(L)-1019 (Lt. H.D. Curtman, USNR), USS LCI(L)-1060 (Lt. C.J. Wolfe, USNR), USS LCI(L)-1074 (Lt. R.G. Harvey, USNR) and USS LCI(L)-1075 (Lt. R.B. Smiley, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.14 was the LSM Unit under T/Cdr. W.E. Verge, USN (COMLSMFLOT 7), which was made up the following LSM's; USS LSM-54 (Lt. D.L. Newborg, USNR, with T/Cdr. W.E. Verge, USN on board), USS LSM-50 (Lt. J.C. Rogers, Jr., USNR), USS LSM-51 (Lt. J.O. Potts, Jr., USNR), USS LSM-52 (Lt. J.H. Colquitt, USNR), USS LSM-53 (Lt. A.H. Nelson, USNR), USS LSM-63 (Lt. R.B. Hinze, USNR), USS LSM-64 (Lt. S.B. Whitehead, USNR), USS LSM-65 (Lt. L.D. Stephens, USNR), USS LSM-67 (Lt. K.D. Higgins, USNR), USS LSM-68 (Lt. W.R. Walker, USNR), USS LSM-128 (Lt. M.M. de Picabia, USNR), USS LSM-133 (Lt. C.D. Davis, USNR), USS LSM-138 (Lt. W.G. Arnold, USNR), USS LSM-139 (Lt. L.R. Mapes, USNR), USS LSM-168 (Lt. R. Whelan, USNR), USS LSM-203 (Lt. F.L. Townsley, USNR), USS LSM-219 (Lt. H. Burns, USNR), USS LSM-225 (Lt.(jg) F.C. Sheppard, USNR), USS LSM-237 (Lt. J.L. Poole, USNR) and USS LSM-269 (Lt. H.T. Turner, Jr. USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.15 was the LCT Unit under Lt. DeMoss, USNR (COMLCTGR 74), which was made up the following LCT's; USS LCT-1310, USS LCT-1312, USS LCT-1314, USS LCT-1317, USS LCT-1319 and USS LCT-1331.
Task Unit 78.1.16 was the 'Brown' Assault Unit under T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN. It was made up of ships listed above; HMAS Manoora, HMAS Westralia, USS Carter Hall, USS Titania, USS LST-640, USS LST-560, USS LST-585, USS LST-591, USS LST-595, USS LST-619, USS LST-637, USS LST-638, USS LST-696, USS LST-709, USS LST-806, USS LST-912, USS LST-936, USS LST-937, USS LST-941, USS LST-942, USS LST-1025, USS LCI(L)-744, USS LCI(L)-745, USS LCI(L)-746, USS LCI(L)-749, USS LCI(L)-955, USS LSM-168, USS LSM-50, USS LSM-51, USS LSM-52, USS LSM-53, USS LSM-63, USS LSM-64 and USS LSM-65.
Task Unit 78.1.17 was the 'Green' Assault Unit under T/Capt. L.J. Manees, USN. It was made up of ships listed above [except for USCGC Spencer]; fighter direction ship USCGC Spencer (Cdr. J.R. Hinnant, USCG), HMAS Kanimbla, USS LST-574 and USS LSM-237.
Task Unit 78.1.18 was the 'White' Assault Unit, also under T/Capt. L.J. Manees, USN. It was made up of ships listed above; USCGC Spencer, USS Lloyd, USS Newman, USS Liddle, USS Kephart, USS Diachenko, USS LST-574, USS LST-584, USS LST-667, USS LST-751, USS LST-922, USS LCI(L)-636, USS LCI(L)-701, USS LCI(L)-702, USS LCI(L)-703, USS LSM-168, USS LSM-67, USS LSM-68, USS LSM-138, USS LSM-203, USS LSM-219 and USS LSM-225.
Task Unit 78.1.19 was the Reinforcement Unit under T/Capt. E. Watts, USN. It was made up of ships listed above; USS LST-614, USS LST-590, USS LST-613, USS LST-626, USS LST-697, USS LST-742, USS LST-743, USS LST-993, USS LST-1027, USS LST-1035, USS LCI(L)-960, USS LCI(L)-544, USS LCI(L)-577, USS LCI(L)-661, USS LCI(L)-662, USS LCI(L)-753, USS LCI(L)-1019 and USS LCI(L)-1060.
Task Unit 78.1.20 was the Reserve Unit under T/Cdr. W.E. Verge, USN. It was made up of ships listed above; USS LST-562, USS LST-573, USS LCI(L)-713, USS LCI(L)-958, USS LCI(L)-1074, USS LCI(L)-1075, USS LSM-54, USS LSM-133, USS LSM-139 and USS LSM-269.
Task Group 78.1.2 was the screen under T/Capt. R.H. Smith, USN (COMDESRON 22) and was made up of the following units.
Task Unit 78.1.21 was the Destroyer Unit which was made up of the following destroyers; from DesRon 22, DesDiv 43, USS Robinson (T/Cdr. R.E. Malpass, USN, with T/Capt. R.H. Smith, USN (COMDESRON 22) on board), USS Saufley (T/Lt.Cdr. F.W. Silk, USN), USS Waller (T/Cdr. H.leR. Thompson, Jr., USN), USS Philip (T/Cdr. J.B. Rutter, Jr., USN), from DesDiv 28, USS Bancroft (T/Lt.Cdr. C.E. Pond, USN, with T/Capt. L.W. Pancoast, USN (COMDESDIV 28) on board), USS McCalla (T/Lt.Cdr. E. Vinock, USN), USS Caldwell (Lt.Cdr. D.R. Robinson, USNR), USS Edwards (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Weiss, USNR), USS Frazier (T/Lt.Cdr. J.N. Renfro, USN, with T/Capt. G.L. Sims, USN (COMDESRON 14) on board) and USS Bailey (T/Lt.Cdr. A.F. Johnson, USN).
Task Unit 78.1.22 was the Destroyer Escort Unit which was made up of the following destroyers escorts; from ComCortDiv 77, USS Douglas A. Munro (Lt.Cdr. E.S. Stevens, USNR, with COMCORTDIV 77, Cdr. H.G. White, USNR on board), USS Dufilho (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Nienau, USNR), USS Charles E. Brannon (Lt.Cdr. O.M. Shirey, Jr., USNR), USS Albert T. Harris (T/Lt.Cdr. S. King, USN), USS Jobb (Lt.Cdr. N.L. Field, USNR) and USS Day (Lt.Cdr. K.E. Read, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.23 was the Frigate Unit under Lt.Cdr. H.J. Weston, RANR(S), which was made up of the following frigates; HMAS Hawkesbury (Lt.Cdr. H.J. Weston, RANR(S)) and HMAS Barcoo (A/Lt.Cdr. C.G. Hill, RANR(S)).
Task Group 78.1.3 was the Support Unit under T/Capt. R.E. Arison, USN, which was on board the USS LCI(L)-778 (Lt. W.B. Chinn, USNR) and was made up of the following units.
Task Unit 78.1.31 was the LCS Unit, under T/Capt. R.E. Arison, USN, which was made up of the following LCS's; USS LCS(L)-42 (Lt. R.S. Sondree, USN), USS LCS(L)-45 (Lt. E.M. Lang, USNR), USS LCS(L)-46 (Lt. W.P. McCarthy, USNR), USS LCS(L)-47 (Lt. F.E. Butler, USN), USS LCS(L)-58 (Lt. D. Gregory, USNR), USS LCS(L)-59 (Lt. N.L. Claxton, USNR) and USS LCS(L)-60 (Lt. W.H. White, Jr., USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.32 was the LCI(G) Unit, under Lt.Cdr. A.M. Holmes, USNR, which was made up of the following LCI(G)'s; USS LCI(G)-69 (Lt.(jg) H.R. Roesti, USNR, with Lt.Cdr. A.M. Holmes, USNR, on board), USS LCI(G)-23 (Lt. E.P. Wurtzebach, USNR), USS LCI(G)-64 (Lt.(jg) R.K. Call, USNR), USS LCI(G)-65 (Lt.(jg) W.J. McKeon, USNR), USS LCI(G)-68 (Lt.(jg) J.D. Devaney, USNR) and USS LCI(G)-70 (Lt.(jg) V.B. Millsap, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.33 was the LCI(R) Unit, under Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sargent, USNR, which was made up of the following LCI(R)'s; USS LCI(R)-71 (Lt.(jg) C.C. Benson, USNR, with Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sargent, USNR, on board), USS LCI(R)-31 (Ens. D.B. Hummel, USNR), USS LCI(R)-34 (Lt.(jg) F.W. Schwarz, USNR), USS LCI(R)-72 (Ens. C.R. Weiner, USNR), USS LCI(R)-74 (Ens. V.J. Goerke, USNR) and USS LCI(R)-338 (Ens. J.S. Hageman, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.34 was the LCI(M) Unit which was made up of the following LCI(M)'s; USS LCI(M)-362 (Lt.(jg) H.A. Petersen, USNR), USS LCI(M)-359 (Ens. T.S. Adair, USNR) and USS LCI(M)-431 (Lt.(jg) J.C. Elkins, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.35 was the Demolition Unit which was made up of the high speed transport USS Kline (Lt. B.F. Uran, USNR) and the LCI(D)'s USS LCI(D)-29 (Lt. R.M. Burnes, USNR) and USS LCI(D)-228 (Lt.(jg) R.W. Kearns, USNR). Also part of this Task Unit were four Naval Combat Demolition Units (frogmen).
Task Unit 78.1.36 was the 'Brown' Support Unit under Lt.Cdr. Holmes and was made up from ships from the above units; USS LCS(L)-58, USS LCS(L)-59, USS LCS(L)-60, USS LCI(S)-1000 (?) and USS LCI(S)-1071 (?), USS LCI(R)-31, USS LCI(R)-34, USS LCI(G)-69, USS LCI(G)-70, USS LCI(M)-359, LCI(M)-362, LCI(D)-29 and two of the Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDU 20 and 24).
Task Unit 78.1.37 was the 'Green' Support Unit under Capt. Arison and was made up from ships from the above units; USS LCI(L)-778, USS LCS(L)-42, USS LCS(L)-47, USS LCI(G)-65, USS LCI(G)-68, USS LCI(R)-74, USS LCI(R)-338 and USS LCI(S)-961.
Task Unit 78.1.37 was the 'White' Support Unit under Lt.Cdr. Sargent and was made up from ships from the above units; USS LCS(L)-45, USS LCS(L)-46, USS LCI(S)-985, USS LCI(G)-23, USS LCI(G)-64, USS LCI(R)-71, USS LCI(R)-72, USS LCI(M)-431, USS LCI(D)-228 and two of the Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDU 2 and 3).
Task Group 78.1.4 was the Landing Craft Control Unit under Lt. Goodrich, USNR. It was made up of the patrol vessels USS PC-1120 (Lt. J.R. Goodrich, USNR), USS PC 1122 (Lt. J.S. Fullerton, USNR), USS SC-698 (Lt. J.C. Hedges, USNR), USS SC-732 (Lt.(jg) I.L. Mann, Jr., USNR), USS SC-741 (Lt.(jg) P.L. Schilling, USNR) and USS SC-750 (Lt.(jg) F.C. Cuthbertson, USNR).
This Task Group was split up into the following Task Units;
Task Unit 78.1.41 was Control Unit 'Brown' and was made up of USS PC-1120, USS SC-698 and USS SC-732.
Task Unit 78.1.42 was Control Unit 'Green' and was made up of USS SC-741 and USS SC-750.
Task Unit 78.1.43 was Control Unit 'white' and was made up of USS PC-1122 and USS LCI(L)-546. This last was attached for the duration of the assault only.
Task Group 78.1.5 was the Minesweeping Group under Lt.Cdr. T.R. Fonick, USNR. It was made up of the following units;
Task Unit 78.1.51 was Sweep Unit One which made up of the minesweepers USS Sentry (Lt.Cdr. T.R. Fonick, USNR, (COMMINDIV 34)), USS Salute (Lt. J.R. Hodges, USNR), USS Scout (Lt. E.G. Anderson, USNR), USS Scrimmage (Lt. R. van Winkle, USNR) and USS Scuffle (Lt.Cdr. E.A. Johnson, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.52 was Sweep Unit Two which made up of the YMS's; USS YMS-51 (Lt.(jg) A.L. Giesenschlag, USNR), USS YMS-68 (Lt. G.L. O'Neil, USNR), USS YMS-73 (Lt. J.H. Frederick, USNR) and USS YMS-363 (Lt. F.A. Struve, Jr., USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.53 was Sweep Unit Three which made up of the YMS's; USS YMS-4 (Lt.(jg) F.D. Bender, USNR), USS YMS-39 (Lt. R.M. Sullivan, USNR), USS YMS-340 (Lt. P. Schminke, USNR) and USS YMS-365 (Lt.(jg) F.C. Huff, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.54 was Sweep Unit Four which made up of the YMS's; USS YMS-6 (Lt. M. McVickar, USNR), USS YMS-259 (Lt. M. Goedjen, USNR), USS YMS-313 (Lt.(jg) W.H. Reibold, USNR) and USS YMS-314 (Lt.(jg) J.W. Easton, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.55 was Sweep Unit Five (Support Unit) which made up of the high speed transport USS Cofer (Lt. H.C. McClees, USNR), LSM USS LSM-1 (Lt. E.J. Flowers, USNR), 4 LCVP's and 2 ML's.
Task Group 78.1.6 was the Hydrographic Survey Group under Lt.Cdr. G.D. Tancred, RAN. It was made up of the following ships; frigate HMAS Lachlan (Lt.Cdr. G.D. Tancred, RAN), net tender USS Satinleaf (Lt. Lt. P.F. Taylor, USN) and the YMS USS YMS-160 (Lt. E.C. Bolton, USNR).
Task Group 78.1.7 was the Salvage and Service Group. It was made up of the following units;
Task Unit 78.1.71 was the Salvage Unit and was made up of the tugs USS Pinto (Lt. R. Brown, USNR) and USS ATR-61 (Lt. W.M. Heywood, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.72 was the Fire Fighting Unit and was made up of the LCI(S)'s; USS LCS(L)-961 (?), USS LCS(L)-985 (?), USS LCS(L)-1000 (?) and USS LCS(L)-1071 (?).
Task Unit 78.1.73 was the Service Unit and was made up of the tanker USS Winooski (Lt.Cdr. T.B. Christenson, USNR), landing craft repair ship USS Achilles [former LST-455] (Lt.Cdr. F.A. Gherini, USNR) and the LST (as logistics ship) USS LST-473 (Lt. E.H. Davis, USNR).
Task Unit 78.1.74 was the Press Unit and was made up of the patrol vessel USS PCE(R)-849 (Lt. C. Sanders, USNR), USS LCI(L)-635 (Lt. H. Hopkins, USNR) and the small army cargo ship FP 47.
At 1400I/4, the Brunei Attack Group under the command of Rear-Admiral Royal, USN in his flagship USS Rocky Mount departed Morotai for the objective area (Brunei Bay). The mission of this Attack Group was to transport, protect, land, firmly establish on shore the 9th Australian Division in the Brunei Bay area and support it in subsequent operations in order to secure Brunei Bay for use as and advanced fleet base and to protect resources in the area. The assault troops were the veteran 9th Australian Division and such supporting elements, equipment and supplies as would be needed immediately on Zebra Day (wich was set for June 10th). The main assault echelon contained 85 ships with an additional screening force of 6 destroyers, 3 destroyer escorts, 2 PC's and 4 SC's (patrol vessels). A second echelon consisting mainly of LST's and LCI's plus escorts departed Morotai on 5 June and arrived at Brunei Bay on 11 June. Other units, including LCM's and LCT's sailed from Tarakan via Tawi Tawi and also arrived on 11 June. One MTBRON with its tender from Mindoro joined the main assault echelon at sea on 9 June.
The Brunei Attack Group, enjoining fair weather, sailed without incident through the Celebes and Sulu Seas, and overcame the navigational difficulties presernted by Basilan and Balabac Straits without mishap. Although air protection was provided, and dawn and dusk alerts maintained, no enemy planes appeared enroute and no submarine contacts were reported by the screening vessels.
On 9 June (Zebra minus one), off the northwest coast of Borneo, the convoy was joined by USS Boise, USS Killen and USS Albert W. Grant. USS Boise had on board General MacArthur (CinCSWPA) to observe the landings at Brunei Bay.
The Cruiser Covering Group (TG 74.3) departed Subic Bay on 5 June. The Cover Group (TG 74.2) got underway from Subic Bay on 7 June.
The Minesweeping and Hydrographic Groups, which had departed Morotai on 2 June arrived off Brunei Bay in the early morning of 7 June. These units then began operations under the protection of the Cruiser Covering Group and the Fire Support Group commanded by Rear-Admiral Berkey, USN. On 7 June the minesweepers swept 34 contact mines on a north-south line at the main (southwestern) entrance to Brunei Bay in area 'Piccolo'. Areas 'Cornet', 'Trumpet', 'Bassoon' and 'Flute' were swept with negative results. Preliminary hydrographic survey work by HMAS Lachlan indicated that British Admiralty charts were accurate for the area. All sheduled operations were completed without enemy interference. Several large smoke columns in the vicinity of Brunei town indicated that enemy had begun destruction of installations in that area.
On 8 June minesweeping operations continued on shedule and 34 contact mines were swept in area 'Picollo' making a total of 68 mines swept through the second day of operations. At 1516I/8, USS Salute struck a mine which resulted in serious damage. Casualties were reported as 6 enlisted men killed, 3 enlisted men missing in action and 37 wounded. She subsequently sank at 2300I/8 in position 05°08'5"N, 115°05'E, the spot being marked by an obstruction buoy. Reconnaissance of 'Brown' Beeach, Labuan Island was carried out by an underwater demolition team. Swimmers closed to the high water mark along the entire beach, and found a firm sandy bottom. A thorough search revealed no underwater obstacles or mines, and there was little sign of recent activity along the beach. Light enemy opposition on shore inflicted no casualties. Planes of a scheduled bombing strike which failed to check in with the Advance Commander Support Air in USS Nashville dropped their bombs in the water of 'Brown' Beach while the swimmers were approaching the beach and inflicted casualties to the extent of 1 missing and 3 wounded. Buoys number 6 to 16, inclusive, were placed in position, and the original beach on the outer shoal was found still in position.
Reconnaissance of 'Green' Beach revealed a sandy bottom with gradual gradient. No obstructions or mines were found and the beach was marked with small white flags on either flank.
On the same day, the Fire Support Group gave the various landing beach areas a thorough bombardment. USS Phoenix and USS Conner plus gunboats gave 'Brown' Beach good coverage and exploded a large ammunition dump. HMAS Hobart, USS Charette and USS Burns covered 'White' Beach destroying serveal suspected gun emplacements and other targets.
On 9 June, Areas 'Trombone', 'Xylophone', 'Drum', 'Harp', 'Horn' and 'Piccolo' in Brunei Bay were swept with negative results. One mine was swept at the southern boundary of Area 'Piccolo' during a check-sweep making a total of 69 mines swept through the 3rd day of operations. USS Scuffle reported that the explosion of mines in gear streamed to 60-foot depth might indicate that an anti-sweep feature was used by the enemy to blow the mines when they were caught by the sweeping gear. A reconnaissance of 'White' Beach, Maura Island, revealed a hard sandy bottom with no obstructions or mines. Buoys 17, 18 and 19 were laid as hydrographic boats made a complete circuit of Maura Island unmolested. Soundings agreed with the charts.
'Brown', 'Green' and 'White' Beach Areas were again well covered by naval gunfire and a suspected gun emplacement on Pappan Island was thoroughly saturated. Heavy air strikes on Labuan Island and Brunei Bluff drew light inaccurate AA fire. USS LCI(G)-23 ran hard aground south of Maura Island. Commander of 'White' Support Unit assisted by PT boats stood by until she could get off at high tide.
Four PT boats arrived in Brunei Bay at 1500I/9 and commenced patrolling the objective area. Two boats strafed Sipitang town the night of the 9th with no return fire. The other two boats patrolled with no enemy contact to Mangalong River.
On Zebra Day (10 June), the Brunei Attack Group sailed into Brunei Bay in the early morning hours under the protecting guns of the Fire Support Group. At Point 'Lamb', inside the Bay, the assault units broke off and proceeded to the respective Transport Areas to deploy in accodance with directives of the Assault Unit Commanders.
After the 'Brown' Assault Unit had taken up its position of Labuan Island, it was attacked by an enemy plane at 0650I/10. This plane, identified as a twin-engined 'Nick', dropped one bomb near the Transport Area without damage to shipping. The plane was at about 500 feet altitude. It was fired upon but managed to get away.
The bombardment of 'Brown' Beach began at 0805I/10 by the large fleet units of Fire Support Unit One, being joined 5 minutes later by the small support craft with rockets and guns of smaller calibre. Fire Support Unit Two began the bombardment of 'White' and 'Green' Beaches at 0813I/10 and 0815I/10 respectively. Fire at all three points was so heavy and accurate that enemy troops retreated from the landing areas, enabling landings at all three beaches to be made unopposed. The hulk of a merchant vessel in Victoria Harbour was hit repeatedly by close support craft to insure that there were no operational guns aboard to fire on our landing craft.
At 0915I/10, the first waves in LCVPs and LVT's landed simultaneously at 'Brown', 'Green' and 'White' beaches, on shedule. These three separate landings, at different points as far apart as 18 miles, were carried out with precision and dispatch. The beaches were quickly secured and all assault waves were landed by 1003I/10, with the remaining waves on call. Fire support from naval craft was reported to be most effective as was that of the close support craft near shore. B-24's, although somewhat delayed in arriving, carried out attacks on areas in rear of the beaches with good results.
After the 'Brown' Beach Area was secured at 1100I/10, General MacArthur went ashore from USS Boise, accompanied by Lt.Gen. Morshead, COC I Australian Corps, Rear-Admiral Royal, Air Vice Marshal Bostock, General Kenney and others, for an inspection tour of Labuan Island.
The LSM's began unloading on 'Brown' Beach before 1200I/10 and the LST's at approximately 1500I/10.
Vitoria Town on Labuan Island was found deserted and almost completely destroyed. Australian Infantry and Tanks moved inland from 'Brown' Beach against little opposition and by 1129I/10 the 24th Brigade was within sight of Labuan airfield. From this point on the opposition increased. Maura Island was completely reconnoitred without locating any enemy. At 'Green' Beach by nightfall the Australians had captured Brooketon and had avanced 3000 yards towards Brunei Town. At 1724I/10 troops were landed on Hamilton Peninsula, Labuan Island, and at 1830I/10, Major General Wootten, GOC 9th Australian Division assumed command ashore.
During minesweeping on Zebra day, 3 mines were swept in Area 'Banjo', making a total of 72 mines swept up to date.
Before nightfall of Zebra day the transports and cruisers moved out to the middle of Brunei Bay to anchor in Transport Area 'Tare' as a precaution against enemy planes and suicide craft. Support craft and ships of the screen (TU 78.1.2) formed two concentric screening circles around the anchorage area as anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, and anti-boat protection.
On 11 June (Zebra +1), a YMS unit in area 'Banjo' off Labuan Island, swept 25 contact mines making a total of 97 mines swept since the beginning of the operation. There were 9 gear casualties from uncharted pinnacles. Areas 'Tenor', 'Ceillo', 'Chimes' and 'Violin' were swept with negative results.
During the morning, General MacArthur, Lt. Gen. Morshead, Rear-Admiral Royal, and Maj. Gen. Wootten inspected Brooketon area including 'Green' and 'White' beaches.
During the day, troops of the 24th Brigade advanced 3500 yards north of Labuan airstrip encountering opposition to the west and northwest. In the 'Green' Beach area troops advanced 7400 yards southwest on the Brunei Road and those on the Hamilton Peninsula went forward 800 yards. Maura Island was reported secured. A total of 30 Australian casualties were reported to date in all sections.
B-24's and Beaufighters continued to bomb and straft in the various areas as directed by Commander Support Air in USS Rocky Mount.
Durnig the night of 10/11 June, PT boats strafed Tutong, seria, Kuala Belait, Lutong and Miri. Damage was inflicted without drawing any enemy fire. The Japanese were observed to be setting fire to oil well and tanks in the Seria area. PT boat patrols within Brunei Bay were negative, and were discontinued after this day's work.
During the day the LCI's and one attack cargo ship were unloaded and departed. LST unloading progressed rather slowly owing to slow handling ashore.
It was reported that 50 Japanese troops with machine guns and rifles had landed at Menumbok.
Around 0800I/11, USS Cleveland, USS Hart and USS Metcalf parted company with TG 74.2 to report for duty with TG 74.3. The remainder of TG 74.2 then left the Brunei Bay area to proceed towards the Balikpapan Area via Tawi Tawi.
After a final inspection ashore General MacArthur departed the Brunei Bay area around 1315I/11 in USS Boise escorted by USS Killin and USS Albert W. Grant. They proceeded to Jolo.
On 12 June, 5 additional mines were swept in Area 'Banjo', bringing the total to 102. Other areas in Brunei Bay were swept with negative results.
HMAS Hobart and USS Metcalf effectively bombarded towns on the southern tip of the Klias Penisula.
Air strikes were staged on target areas in the objective area as well as Beaufort, Weston and Keningau. Good support was furnished to ground troops.
The Australian lines on Labuan remained virtually unchanged. However, good advantages were made toward Brunei Town resulting in the capture of Brunei airstrip. Hamilton Peninsula was completely secured. Australian casualties to date totaled 15 killed and 49 wounded.
General unloading of shipping was proceeding at a satisfactory rate.
There were indications that the enemy might be staging an evacuation of Jesselton where some small ship activity was reported.
On the night of 11/12 June, PT boats had again strafed Miri and Tutong starting fires. Boats received return machine gun and rifle fire from Miri without sustaining damage.
On 13 June, in minesweeping operations of Miri-Lutong-baram Point Area, minesweepers swept 31 contact mines on their first sweep, losing 5 sets of gear due to exploding mines. An additional 61 mines were swept later the same day making a total of 92 for the day. Additional sweeping gear was requisted by Commander Minesweeping Unit because of the heavy loss of gear to mine explosions since the beginning of the operations on 7 June. While sweeping, the minesweepers were fired upon by 3" guns ashore. About 25 rounds were fired all falling short. The battery ceased fired when destroyers heading in towards the shore. They were unable to close within range due to floating mines.
USS Metcalf bombarded caves and gun positions in hills on the northern end of Labuan Island. The caves appeared unused and the gun positions unoccupied.
The 20th Brigade captured Brunei Town, and made further advances on Labuan Island occupying the road west of Timbalai airfield and also advancing two-thirds of the way up the east coast.
Mitchell and Lightning aircraft rendered support to ground troups. One enemy aircraft (Dinah) approached our aircraft which were strafing Miri airstrip, but retired when fired upon. One other enemy aircraft (a Nick) was shot down over Brunei Bay at 1934I/13 by night fighters capably vectored by the fighter director team in USCGC Spencer.
During the night of 13/14 June 1945, PT boats strafed Cape Lobang and Miri. They reported receiving either 75mm or 90mm return fire from the vicinity of Pujut.
On 14 June, minesweepers of Miri cut 29 contact mines on their first sweep. A total of 72 mines were swept this day, giving 164 mines to date in this area. USS Scrimmage lost all gear and USS Scout and USS Sentry were able to sweep with starboard gear only. YMS vessels had such difficulty in cutting mine moorings that they planned to use explosive cutters. Mines caught in YMS gear slowed ships almost to a stop. Mines appeared deeply set and thickly planted. The minesweepers drew fire from the beach on their first pass, but the remainder of the day was quiet.
The 24th Brigade advanced to the northern tip of Labuan Island and advanced down Brunei-Tutong road with little opposition.
All assault shipping was unloaded as of this date. However the Reserve Unit was not yet committed.
At 2055 all ships went to General Quarters as enemy aircraft were reported. Two bombs were dropped on Labuan Island at 2103I/14 and one bomb fell in the anchorage area without damage to shipping. At 2230I/14, three enemy planes approached from the east. AA fire from ships shot down one of them.
On the night of 14/15 June 1945, PT boats worked south to Niah River (south of Miri) and north to Usukan Bay. Both patrols were negative.
On 15 June minesweeping continued in the Miri-Lutong area. Mines swept in that area to date total 246 mines. Minefield appears to be a continuous line extending from shoal water west of Baram Point in a southeasterly direction, following curve of shore line approximately 9 miles off shore. Heavy loss of minesweeping gear necessitated recalling the minesweepers to Brunei Bay. 9 YMS's continued to sweep. The channel east of Labuan was swept for five days with negative results and it is now considered safe for navigation.
Troops reached Kilanis settlement on Brunei-Tutong Road without enemy contact. On Labuan, the enemy pocked 1000 yards west of Labuan airstrip continued to resist.
USS McCalla and USS Philip bombarded targets in the Miri-Lutong area. Hits were scored on suspected gun emplacements and targets of opportunity. No return fire was observed.
On 16 June, 92 additional mines were swept in the Miri-Lutong area making a total of 338 swept to date. Many sets of YMS gear fouled with mines are in the area, but it was considered inadvisable to attempt recovery at this time since such efforts would interfere with sweeping. Progress in sweeping continued slow due to numerous losses of gear and the heavy chain mooring by which the mines are anchored.
Mopping-up activity continued on Labuan Island and troops advanced to a point halfway to Tutong along the Brunei-Tutong road.
At 0840I/16, the Liberty ship Helena Modjeska (American, 7176 GRT, built 1944) ran aground in Victoria Harbour but was pulled off by USS Pinto at 0947I/16.
Weston was reported to have been evacuated by the enemy. Troops are scheduled to land there on the 17th.
Captain H.B. Hudson, USN, is to assumme status of senior commander on 17 June for operational and administrative control of naval units except for Task Force 74 when CTG 78.1 will leave the area.
As of 1800I/16, Australian casualties in all sectors were 40 killed and 100 to 120 wounded. Enemy casualties on Labuan Island as of 1800I/16 were as follows; 205 counted dead, 29 estimated dead. 20 Wounded. 5 POW's. Enemy casualties in the Brunei Area as of 1800I/15 were as follows; 70 counted dead, 20 estimated dead. 6 POW's.
At 0930I/17, Weston was captured. Minesweeping in the Miri-Lutong Area was continued this date. CTG 78.1, Rear-Admiral Royal in USS Rocky Mount, departed the area at 1800I/17. The Cover Force, Task Group 74.3, also departed the area on this day arriving at Tawi Tawi on the 19th. Earlier that day the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire (Capt. C.A.G. Nichols, MVO, DSO, RN) had arrived. Commodore Farncomb now took over the fire support duties for which HMAS Hobart, HMAS Arunta, USS Hart and USS Metcalf remained with him. he hoisted his broad pendant in HMAS Shropshire. (2)
Landings at Lutong.
Task Group 74.1 was the Fire Support Group under Commodore Commodore H.B. Farncomb, DSO, MVO, RAN made up of the heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire (Capt. C.A.G. Nichols, MVO, DSO, RN), light cruiser HMAS Hobart (Capt. R.S. Dowling, RAN) and destroyers HMAS Arunta (Cdr. A.E. Buchanan, DSO, RAN), USS Hart (T/Cdr. W.D. Coleman, USN) and USS Metcalf (T/Cdr. D.L. Martineau, USN).
Task Unit 76.20.50 was the Lutong Assault Unit under T/Capt. F.B.C. Martin, USN (COMLCI(L)FLOT 8) which flew his flag in USS LCI(L)-546 (Lt.(jg) H.K. Wells, USNR).
Task Unit 76.20.51 was the LSM Unit under T/Cdr. W.E. Verge, USN (COMLSMFLOT 7) which was made up of the following LSM's; USS LSM-54 (Lt. D.L. Newborg, USNR, with T/Cdr. W.E. Verge, USN on board), USS LSM-133 (Lt. C.D. Davis, USNR) and USS LSM-269 (Lt. H.T. Turner, Jr. USNR).
Task Unit 76.20.52 was the LST Unit under Lt. F.P. Lawrence, USNR and was made up of the following LST's; USS LST-562 (Lt. F.P. Lawrence, USNR), USS LST-573 (Lt. G.W. Hessemer, USNR) and USS LST-667 (Lt. W.S. Biernat, USN).
Task Unit 76.20.53 was the LCT / LCM Unit under Lt. DeMoss, USNR (COMLCTGR 74), which was made up the following LCT's; USS LCT-1310, USS LCT-1312, USS LCT-1317 and USS LCT-1331. Also one LCM was attached to this unit.
Task Unit 76.20.54 was the Control Unit under Lt. J.R. Goodrich, USNR. It was made up of the patrol vessels USS PC-1120 (Lt. J.R. Goodrich, USNR) and USS SC-732 (Lt.(jg) I.L. Mann, Jr., USNR).
Task Unit 76.20.55 was the Support Unit under Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sargent, USNR, which was made up of the following LCS(L)'s; USS LCS(L)-46 (Lt. W.P. McCarthy, USNR), USS LCS(L)-58 (Lt. D. Gregory, USNR), USS LCS(L)-60 (Lt. W.H. White, Jr., USNR), LCI(R)'s; USS LCI(R)-71 (Lt.(jg) C.C. Benson, USNR), USS LCI(R)-72 (Ens. C.R. Weiner, USNR), USS LCI(R)-74 (Ens. V.J. Goerke, USNR), LCI(M)'s USS LCI(M)-359 (Ens. T.S. Adair, USNR), USS LCI(M)-431 (Lt.(jg) J.C. Elkins, USNR) and LCS(L)(S)'s USS LCS(L)-961 (?) and USS LCS(L)-985 (?).
Around 1530I/19, the Lutong Assault Unit departed Brunei Bay for the operation. Escort was proviced by the three destroyers from Task Group 74.1. Commodore Farncomb flew his flag in HMAS Arunta. HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Hobart remained standy-by at Brunei Bay and would be called upon for bombardment duties if needed.
At 0701I/20, the order 'Deploy' was given.
At 0738I/20, USS PC-1120 reported that the ' Line of Departure ' had been established.
At 0830I/20, the destroyers began their bombardment duties.
At 0911I/20, wave 1 departed for the beach led by the Support Craft. Mortar ships began their bombardment duties.
At 0914I/20, the 2nd wave departed for the beach.
At 0917I,20, the 3rd wave departed for the beach.
At 0921I/20, support craft began firing a rocket barrage.
At 0925I/20, the rocket bomberdment ceased.
At 0926I/20, the 4th wave departed for the beach.
At 0930I/20, wave 1 landed.
At 0935I/20, wave 3 landed. Also the destroyers ceased their bombardment.
at 1014I/20, the Beachmaster requisted that the second assault force be landed.
At 1017I/20, CTU 76.20.50 ordered the second assault for be landed. These troops were were taken in by LCVPs as they became available.
At 1024I/20, LCT's and LCM's were ordered to get underway and beach.
At 1043I/20, USS LCM-269 was sent in to beach and test conditions for unloading.
At 1102I/20, USS LCS(L)-961 and USS LCS(L)-985 were ordered to help broached LCVP's.
At 1123I/20, all troops of the second assault had been landed.
At 1132I/20, the beachmaster reported that an LCVP from USS LST-667 was sunk 15 yards from the beach.
At 1317I/20, LVT's commenced reloading on USS LST-573 and USS LST-562.
At 1415I/20, CTU 76.20.53 reported that USS LCT-1317 completed unloading at 1119I/20, USS LCT-1312 at 1145I/20 and USS LCT-1310 at 1152I/20.
At 1530I/20, the ' Line of Departure ' was dissolved by CTU 76.20.50.
At 1740I/20, USS LCT-1331 completed unloading.
At 1915I/20, USS LSM-54 and USS LSM-133 beached.
At 0400I/21, USS Hart was detached to make rendezvous with HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Hobart in position 05°30'N, 114°45'E. The cruisers departed Brunei Bay around 0630I/21. Rendezvous was effected around 0900I/21 but by then they had been ordered to return to Brunei Bay taking USS Hart with them.
At 0930I/21, CTU 76.20.50 went ashore to observe unloading and to arrange for the return of released POW's to Brunei Bay.
At 1050I/21, the Beachmaster informed CTU 76.20.50 that the reserves would not be needed and may return to Brunei Bay.
At 1325I/21, all LSM's were unloaded and retracted from the beach.
At 1800I/21, Task Unit 76.20.50 got underway to return to Brunei Bay. They were screened by USS Metcalf, USS PC-1120, SC-732 and the minesweepers USS YMS-4 (Lt.(jg) F.D. Bender, USNR), USS YMS-6 (Lt. M. McVickar, USNR), USS YMS-51 (Lt.(jg) A.L. Giesenschlag, USNR), USS YMS-68 (Lt. G.L. O'Neil, USNR), USS YMS-259 (Lt. M. Goedjen, USNR), USS YMS-313 (Lt.(jg) W.H. Reibold, USNR) and USS YMS-340 (Lt. P. Schminke, USNR).
USS LCS(L)-46 and USS LCS(L)-58 remained at Lutong.
At 0645I/22, HMAS Arunta returned to Brunei Bay. Commodore Farncomb then left the destroyer and re-hoisted his broad pendant in HMAS Shropshire.
Task Unit 76.20.50 returned to Brunei Bay in the morning of the 22nd, around 0900I/22.
Action report of COMTASKGR 74.3 on Cebu City operations 24 - 28 March 1945 + Action report of COMTASKGR 78.2 on Cebu City operations
Report on operation Oboe VI by CTG 78.1
Action report CTU 76/20.50 on the Lutong operation
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Etihad introduces new sustainability-driven economy experience
Hospitality | Sustainability // May 2022
The Etihad Airways economy class experience is being upgraded with sustainability and an improved guest experience in mind, including new soft furnishings and tableware.
Etihad Airways has unveiled new economy class soft furnishings and tableware, which have been designed with sustainability and an improved guest experience as the primary objectives. The new products will be launched onboard in Q4 2022.
The new soft furnishings include a 35% larger pillow with a 200 thread-count cotton cover made locally in the United Arab Emirates. This is complemented by a soft blanket made from recycled plastic.
Meanwhile, Etihad’s new dining experience features reusable tableware made from recycled high-quality plastic. The tray, serving plates and their lids are part of a closed loop recycling system. At the end of their lifecycle, they are collected, washed, ground and reused to make replacement products.
The airline is also introducing stainless-steel cutlery into the economy cabin, upgrading the experience and reducing single-use plastic. It has committed to remove 80% of single-use plastic from its operation by the end of 2022.
“Etihad is trailblazing when it comes to sustainability in aviation,” says Terry Daly, Executive Director Guest Experience, Brand and Marketing, Etihad Airways. “Following extensive research and development through our eco-flights over the past few years, we’re proud to reveal the first in a series of enhancements to our inflight experience. Our commitment to sustainability doesn’t come at a compromise to the quality and thoughtfulness behind Etihad’s guest experience, and these innovative new products will further improve our offering. We look forward to rolling out this new experience across the fleet towards the latter part of the year.”
This new launch follows the introduction of Warner Bros. World™ Abu Dhabi themed children’s packs across the Etihad fleet in February, and the unveiling of the new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft which entered into service in March.
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Remembering Rabbi Dr David J Goldberg OBE
What can one say about a life lived so well and so thoroughly, in only a couple of minutes? David was an extraordinary man and I call myself privileged to have gotten to know him not only as a much respected senior colleague and mentor but also as a friend.
My very first encounter with David was curiously, a rather negative one. It was in fact not a personal encounter, but someone else’s perception of him. I was in the lucky position to have been offered more than one post after my ordination, and when I thanked the other community for their offer and told them I had chosen to work for the LJS its senior Rabbi said: “Well, if that David Goldberg gives you any grief, you come to us!” I like to think David would have found that quite funny. The fact is, many people seemed to see only one side of David. David was known for his forthright sermons and sharp pen, but in truth David was a complex mix of verbal acerbity and loyalty and kindness, intellect and wit, youthfulness and wisdom, meticulousness and generosity, authority and rebelliousness, gravitas and charm.
David projected a lightness of being that belied both his age and depth of care, which showed itself in his manner of walking and his habit of always singing/humming to himself whenever he went about the synagogue. Occasionally David would share what was really on his mind, which revealed that he was not as carefree as he seemed. He tended to share those thoughts during the quiet moments that we were waiting, all gowned up, in the Robing Room before a service. Another misconception about David was that many thought pastoral care was not his priority. It is true, David never spoke much about that side of his work, but I often found that when I arrived at a congregant’s house for an urgent pastoral visit David had already been.
David was not only a mentor to his younger colleagues, he really looked after their welfare. He insisted that we should take our day-off and that we pursue other interests beyond the potentially all-consuming congregational rabbinate. He taught us to create ‘a hinterland’ for ourselves, which for him were reflected in his tremendously wide and interesting circle of friends, his writing, his love for literature, music and the arts – contacts and interests which came to benefit the aesthetics and profile of the synagogue – and he had a love for cowboy films, walking and cricket, all of which would feature now and then in his sermons.
He instilled in his colleagues an eye for a well-conducted service; to the point (one hour maximum!) and accompanied by beautiful and fitting music. He had a great sense of occasion. A superb preacher himself, he imparted the importance of a well-argued, beautifully crafted and perfectly timed sermon. David looked for intellectual integrity, clarity of thought, moral responsibility and personal honesty and a sense of gravitas, not just in his own work, but in that of others too and he always looked for excellence. Yet, despite all that he gave his colleagues completely free reign to do their work the way they saw fit. His colleagues also appreciated the fact that David would not tell them off, if he disagreed with their sermons, (although he would say if he did), but they would expect him to give a sermon about the same subject the next Shabbat!
He was loyally supportive and generous in providing opportunities for his younger colleagues to further their careers and happy to share in their success; thus it was David who suggested I’d might like to take a couple of services in Milan; and when an interview with me appeared in La Republica, he put both the article and a translation (provided by David) on public display in the LJS.
David argued that there are two kinds of Rabbis; those who seek to be loved and those who seek to be respected. David was a Rabbi who wanted to be respected, and he was, but he was also loved. He could be witty and provocative and there was a youthful rebelliousness about him that gave him that timeless quality, which made him particularly relatable to young people. His witty banter would create a sense of camaraderie not just amongst his colleagues and the LJS staff, but also among the numerous teenagers whom we Rabbis would all take on a yearly Kabbalat Torah weekend.
Yet most endearing to behold was his relationships with little children, who felt very at ease with him. I have a vivid memory of him sitting on the LJS lobby floor with my daughter Emma aged 2 entirely engrossed in reading her a Dr Zeus book. Or the mutually loving bond he had with his grandson Oscar; in my mind’s eye I can still see him, sitting on the kitchen sofa, with little Oscar cuddled up against him …
Beyond work at the LJS there are countless personal memories: walks in Kenwood and along Little Venice to discuss synagogue politics. David and Carole’s wonderful hospitality which revealed their support for others, love and care for their children and their great team work. There are memories of breaking the fast after Yom Kippur at David and Carole’s and long lunches at which there was so much to talk while my girls played with Carole’s jewelry box and looked forward to go with David for a walk around the block with Daisy (the dog). And the countless, wonderful s’darim my family and I have celebrated at David and Carole’s, with Rupert often entertaining the children at the far end of the table and always ready to help out wherever he was needed – just as he has done these last very difficult months. With Emily, who became a wonderful nanny to our children when we were between synagogues and with Carole, David’s greatest support, wonderful hostess, the one who managed to read ‘one kid, one kid my father brought for two zuzim etc’ in one breath the furthest, a Goldberg tradition my children have insisted we carry on in our s’darim too.
David faced the end with dignity, pragmatism and a degree of wry humour. When I spoke to him before his last operation he remarked, ‘after all I have done for God, this is how He repays me!’ There is, as always, much truth in it. Life was not always kind to him. After his kidney transplant he did live on extra time, and he used that time to the full: travelling with Carole, reading, writing books and articles, doing all the things he loved and did so well, but the last years were cruelly painful and leave us with a sense that he gave more than he received … all those gifts and memories, may they be for a blessing, always. Zichrono liv’racha.
Words Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton spoke at the funeral of Rabbi David Goldberg z’l.
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Bad Boys For Life also called Bad Boys 3 starring its signature actors, Will Smith (Mike Lowrey) and Martin Lawrence (Marcus Burnette) has its release date set for January 17, 2020.
With the kind of audience that the Bad Boys series has garnered throughout the years, it is no wonder that the movie is enjoying a lot of buzz.
Catch in on the excitement that Bad Boys For Life promises.
Here are five reasons you should watch Bad Boys For Life this weekend at VIVA Cinemas.
1.) Bad Boys team up with Younger Cops:
Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnette would be working with AMMO to take down their latest target.
As expected, the not-getting-along vibe that accompanies a team of older and younger members can be seen rearing its head in the movie trailer.
Thus, sticking together in spite of this, shows just how the stakes have risen especially when the target is on a personal mission to take down Mike Lowrey. With the impending action and drama, it is pretty evident that missing all of this at the cinemas would not be an option.
2.) Will Smith’s Vision for The Movie:
Will Smith reportedly disagreed with the creative direction of the movie with Joe Carnahan, a movie director.
With the help of Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, we will get to see a rendition of Will Smith’s vision for the movie.
If that is anything to go by, then we should be in for an awesome movie experience as the four-time Grammy award winner sure knows a whole lot about movies and how they would fit into his roles for the best execution.
3.) DJ Khaled is ‘Manny The Butcher’:
DJ Khaled was confirmed to be starring in the long awaited movie as ‘Manny The Butcher’. Considering that DJ Khaled is widely known for his penchant for producing hit songs, it would be fun to watch how he handles a role in such a highly anticipated movie.
Plus, what or who is he about to butcher? Whatever it is, it sounds exciting already! and we just cant wait to see him in action!!
4.) Martin Lawrence Is Acting Again:
Martin Lawrence seemed to have stepped away from the big screen.
The Star of the TV series ‘Martin’ and later ‘Big Mommas House’ reportedly stayed away from the spotlight to spend time with his family but since 2016 with his stand up ‘Doin’ Time‘, Martin Lawrence has shown a re-emergence.
Known for his wit and signature comedic style, it would be a breath of fresh air, seeing him act again!
5.) The Possibility of a Bad Boys 4:
During an interview with the Bad Boys stars – Will and Martin, the duo had suggested that the reception of the movie would determine a possible extension of the franchise.
Movie critics who saw the trailer had suggested that it didn’t seem like the duo would be leaving soon, but for the ‘one last time’ statement during the trailer, every other hint had suggested they weren’t handing over to a new group, but were still very much ‘in charge’.
In this way, the action in Bad Boys 3 should not be missed as we would be seeing Mike and Mark solving crime in their full capacities and not as officers about to retire.
Mark your calendars and set your alarms!
Because, on Friday, 17th of January 2020, Bad Boys For Life will be showing at VIVA Cinemas Ikeja, Ilorin, Ibadan, Ota and Enugu
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Company closes latest funding round with prominent investors as follow-on to $3M seed financing and adds AV industry luminaries to Advisory Board
Calgary, AB - Userful, the leading platform-as-a-service provider in the Enterprise AV-over-IP market—the fastest-growing segment of the IT industry announced the close of its second funding round, raising $10M, following on seed financings of $3M. The investment is expected to accelerate Userful’s current growth by funding sales and marketing expansion, new product development, and ecosystem partnerships for its platform.
This latest round of financing garnered new participation from leading venture capital funds, including BDC Capital’s Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology (ICE) Venture Fund and Yaletown Partners (Vancouver). In addition, Birchcliff Partners, Accelerate Fund, and other Series A investors recommitted with greater than pro-rata participation.
“As Userful continues to expand its SaaS business with enterprise customers, telcos, and integrators around the world, we are proud to have garnered the support of BDC ICE and Yaletown. The importance of visual engagement in the operations of the modern enterprise is a priority. Modernizing workflows for better employee and customer engagement is essential,” says, Userful’s CEO, John Marshall. “Userful provides software-defined solutions for AV-over-IP services that includes commercially off-the-shelf hardware that best supports the needs of the modern enterprise.”
Userful’s flagship offering to IT departments that seek to deploy an increasing number of AV and IoT services for employee and customer engagement is its Visual Networking Platform. This infrastructure management offering is Platform-as-a-Service that enables a range of Userful and 3rd party AV and IoT services to the enterprise, including control room services, corporate signage, meeting room solutions, unified communications, datametrics dashboards, and immersive experience (AR/VR/IR).
“From a venture capital standpoint, I’ve been impressed with Userful’s demonstrated leadership and viability within the rapidly growing AV-over-IP market,” says Brad Johns, Partner, Yaletown Partners and new Chairman of the Board, Userful. “I had initial exposure to Userful through the Accelerate Fund investment and the company has proven itself in converting its business model and augmenting its solution.” I congratulate Userful for growing through the pandemic and continuing to advance its mission critical platform.”
“It was clear to us – Userful checked all the boxes, proving it has developed a solid solution for the enterprise, industrial transformation for factories and providing energy conservation benefits as corporations go through the hard time of energy transformation and hardware supply chain challenges,” says Sidd Krishnan, Partner, Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology (ICE) Venture Fund at BDC Capital. “We were impressed by the feedback we’ve heard from various existing clients and are very excited to support the company through this round of financing and its next phase of growth.”
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It is, isn’t it, isn’t different? If the Prisoner-No.6 had to ask the Colonel that, even though the office was the same, Fotheringay was there on hand as always, even the Colonel was still something of a very objectionable man, whose scepticism stands out a mile. He does not suffer fools gladly, but this only makes him more obnoxious then ever, for he sees everything in black and white, a very cynical man, or at least as far as the Prisoner {his ex- colleague} is concerned. He has a very sarcastic nature, with a very jaundiced view of things, no it was just the same, but now it was the Colonel asking the questions instead of No.2.
Since the episode of ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’ was such a defeat, I wonder if the Colonel would be asked any embarrassing questions when he returned to London? Or perhaps Nadia out-ranked the Colonel, seeing as how she was going to be making the report. You recall that it was No.2 who told Fotheringay to get back to London before any embarrassing questions were asked. Perhaps in Fotheirngay’s case he wasn’t meant to be in The Village in the first place. After all he was only there to “egg the pudding” so to speak, to make the situation as normal as possible. Having supposedly returned to London they thought the Prisoner would expect to see Fotheringay.
Luckily for Fotheringay that he was there only for window dressing. The Colonel, he was playing for much higher stakes, I mean the defeat was his and not No.2’s, or was it Nadia‘s failure? As for No.2 he did try and tell them that they were using the wrong approach. And yet who was it who briefed Post 5, Nadia’s supposed contact man? Surely whoever that was, should have made sure that Post 5’s wrist watch was set at the appropriate time, set at Polish time and not English time. And yet whoever thought No.6 would ask for Post five’s wrist watch in the first place? But even then, when No.6 discovered that the wrist watch given to him, when he thought he was Poland, was the same time as English time when there’s one hours difference, should have at least given No.6 a possible clue as to the location of The Village. That its in the same time zone as Britain.
And that’s the point of the matter, even if No.6 had managed to escape The Village and return to London, it would have still been the same. Because they still would have wanted to know why the Prisoner resigned. And yet they should have known already if they had him under close surveillance, and if that didn’t disclose to them the reason, then how about that bloke sat behind the desk to whom the Prisoner handed in his letter. He paced up and down ranting and raving, he must have said something that gave away at least something?
But not everyone seemed to be interested in the reason behind the Prisoner’s resignation, I wonder how long it took them to process that roll of film the Prisoner had containing the pictures of The Village? I suppose during that time the Colonel and Thorpe could have interrogated their ex-colleague. However judging by what we see of the Prisoner in the company of the Colonel, the atmosphere between them is pretty convivial, unlike that of the Colonel’s predecessor. Mind you, Thorpe could be a bit spiky, such was the sceptical nature of the man. But once the dice were heavily loaded in the Prisoner’s favour, all that they seemed to be concerned with was calculating the search area of The Village. It might have been that the Colonel and Thorpe had been in on it all along, agents working for The Village. Well why not? I did used to have doubts about the Colonel and Thorpe. But when one thinks about both their predecessors who worked as agents for The Village, then why not? Anyway I have a feeling that the second time the Prisoner went running back to old colleagues the question of his resignation was never on the agenda. Simply to make sure our old friend No.6 was returned to The Village.
If that episode of ‘Many Happy Returns’ was simply a demonstration, showing that no matter what happened, if the Prisoner escaped The Village, there is nowhere he can go, where agents working for The Village cannot find him. That eventually they would catch up with him. Well as a demonstration it was fine. If they also attempted to break his spirit, then they were disappointed. As it was an awful lot of trouble to go to, for what they actually achieved! Really I suspect that they could have spent their time more productively.
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Jordanian mother wins Dh1 million Yas Island prize
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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A Jordanian mother of two living in the UAE has won Dh1 million in #SayYas grand prize draw conducted by Yas Island in Abu Dhabi as part of its summer promotions.
The lucky winner was revealed at the end of a whirlwind of bespoke VIP experiences for both the winner and her family, according to a press release issued on Sunday.
The winner identified as R. Jarrar was invited to spend a day filled with “a million things to do on Yas Island” accompanied by her husband and children, none of whom had any idea that she was in fact the winner.
“I just can’t believe it! I don’t know what to say — I’m truly speechless” exclaimed a stunned Jarrar as she embraced her family with tears of joy. “Today’s adventure has been absolutely incredible for all of us and never in my wildest dreams did I think that we’d also win the 1 million dirham grand prize. Now, I have one million reasons to love every single thing on Yas Island and the UAE, I’m so grateful and can’t thank Yas Island enough for making this dream come true,” she said.
Kicking off her Yas Island adventure with a luxury breakfast in the presidential suite at the Yas Viceroy hotel, the winner and her family were greeted by popular Emirati social media influencer, Khalid Al Ameri who accompanied the family as their host for the day. After visiting Yas Waterworld Abu Dhabi, the winner got a beautiful pearl as a gift at a traditional pearl diving demonstration at the Hairat Yas Pearl Diving Tank.
They had a thrilling ride at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi’s (FWAD) Driver Experience and their lunch included a live cooking session at Italian eatery, Mamma Rossella. The family enjoyed a retail experience at Yas Mall and had fun at Yas Marina Circuit on a passenger drifting experience and a relaxed sunset yacht cruise at Yas Marina.
Little did they know, they were about to be in for the surprise of a lifetime as host Khalid started to wrap-up the day’s events — they were presented with a cheque for Dh1 million in the winner’s name.
Congratulating Jerrar, Gerardo llanes, Executive Director of Destination Yas Island said: “We hope it makes a treasured impact on her life and the lives of her loved ones. We also extend our sincere thanks to everyone who visited Yas Island throughout the summer and who participated in this exciting campaign, including those who won a daily, instant or monthly prize.”
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Publish date:22/08/2016
Section:Hajj virtues
All praise is due to Allah only, and may His blessings and peace be upon the Messenger after whom there are no Messengers.
The day of ‘Arafah is among the most virtuous days. On that day, supplications are answered, sins are forgiven, and Allah boasts to the angels of the people of ‘Arafat. It is a day that Allah granted a great value to and favored over other days. It is the day of perfecting the religion and completing the favor and the day of forgiveness of sins and salvation from Hell.
You should know the virtues of this day, how Allah favored it over other days and the guidance of the Prophet therein.
We ask Allah to save us from Hell on that great day.
The Virtues of the Day of ‘Arafah are:
1) It is the day on which the religion was perfected and the favor was completed:
‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab narrated that a Jew once said to him, "'O Commander of the believers! There is a verse in your Book that you (Muslims) read, and had it been revealed to us, the Jews, we would have taken that day (on which it was revealed) as a day of celebration.' ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab asked, 'What is that verse?' The Jew replied, '{…This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion….} [Quran 5:3]' ‘Umar replied, 'No doubt, we know when and where this verse was revealed to the Prophet . It was Friday, and the Prophet was standing at ‘Arafah (i.e. the day of Hajj).'" [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
2) The Prophet said, "The day of ‘Arafah, the day of Nahr (slaughtering), and the days of Tashreeq (the 3 days following the day of Nahr) are a feast for us, the people of Islam, and they are days of eating and drinking (i.e. not fasting)." [ At-Tirmithi]
It was also narrated that ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab said, "It (the verse (what means): {…This day I have perfected for you your religion...} [Quran 5:3]) was revealed on a Friday and on the day of ‘Arafah; both of which, all praise be to Allah, are feasts for us."
3) It is a day by which Allah Almighty swore:
The Great One only swears by something great. The day of ‘Arafah is the witnessed day about which Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {And [by] the witness and what is witnessed.} [Quran 85:3] Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet said, "The promised day is the Day of Resurrection, the witnessed day is the day of ‘Arafah and the witnessing day is Friday." [At-Tirmithi; Al-Albani: good]
It is the odd by which Allah swore in the verse (what means): {And [by] the even [number] and the odd.} [Quran 89:3] Ibn ‘Abbaas commented on this verse saying, "The even is the day of Adh-ha and the odd is the day of ‘Arafah." That was also said by ‘Ikrimah and Adh-Dhahhak.
4) The fasting of the day of ‘Arafah expiates two years:
Abu Qatadah narrated that the Messenger of Allah was asked about fasting the day of ‘Arafah, whereupon he said, "It expiates the sins of the preceding year and the coming year." [Muslim]
This is recommended for those who are not performing Hajj. However, it is not the Sunnah for a pilgrim to fast the day of ‘Arafah, because the Prophet abandoned fasting it, and it was narrated that he prohibited fasting the day of ‘Arafah at ‘Arafah.
5) It is the day on which Allah took the covenant from the progeny of Aadam:
Ibn ‘Abbaas narrated that the Messenger of Allah said:
“Allah took the covenant from Aadam’s loin in Na’man (i.e. ‘Arafah), then Allah created from Aadam’s loin all his offspring, then Allah spread them before His Hands and then addressed them directly, Saying (what means): {…."Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] – lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware." Or [lest] you say, "It was only that our fathers associated [others in worship] with Allah before, and we were but descendants after them. Then would You destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?"} [Quran 7:172-173]" [Ahmad; Al-Albani: authentic]
What a Great Day and What a Great Covenant!
6) It is the day of forgiveness of sins, salvation from Hell and boasting about the people of ‘Arafah:
‘Aa’ishah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said, "There is no day when Allah sets free more slaves from Hell than the day of ‘Arafah. He draws near and then boasts of them to the angels and says: What do these want?" [Muslim]
Moreover, it was narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah said, "Allah boasts to the angels on the day of ‘Arafah of the people of ‘Arafah and says, ‘Look at My slaves, how disheveled and dusty they came to Me.’" [Ahmad; Al-Albani: authentic]
The pilgrim should give due care to the reasons for which one hopes to be saved and forgiven; including:
* Preserving his body against forbidden acts on that day. Ibn ‘Abbaas narrated that Al-Fadhl ibn ‘Abbaas was sitting behind the Prophet on the day of ‘Arafah. The young man kept looking at women, and the Prophet kept changing the direction of his face, and the young man would still look at them. The Prophet said, "My nephew, on this day, whoever controls his hearing, eyesight, and tongue will be forgiven." [Ahmad]
* Frequently reciting Tahleel (There is none worthy of worship except Allah), Tasbeeh (Glory be to Allah) and Takbeer (Allah is the Greatest) on that day. Ibn ‘Umar said, “We were along with the Messenger of Allah in the morning of ‘Arafah. Some of us pronounced Takbeer and some of us Tahleel.” [Muslim]
* Frequently supplicating for forgiveness and salvation from Hell on that day as supplication is more likely to be answered on that day. The Messenger of Allah said:
“The best supplication is that of the day of ‘Arafah, and the best thing that I and other Prophets before me said, is, "La Ilaaha Illallah, wahdahu laa Shareeka lah. Lahul mulk wa lahul Hamd wa Huwa ‘alaa kull Shay’in Qadeer." (There is no god but Allah, the only true God, Who has no partner. To Him belongs the dominion (of the universe) and to Him all praises are due. And He has the power to do everything).” [At-Tirmithi; Al-Albani: good]
On that great day, the Muslim should devote himself to Thikr (remembrance of Allah), supplication, and seeking forgiveness. One should supplicate for himself, his parents, his family, and all Muslims. He should not be excessive in supplicating against his enemies nor feel that the answer to his supplications is late or delayed. He should also supplicate persistently. Blessed is the slave who knows how to supplicate on the day of supplication.
* Beware, dear pilgrim, of the sins that hinder forgiveness on that day, such as persistence in grave, major sins such as arrogance, lying, backbiting, tale bearing, and other sins; how come you hope to be saved from Hell while you persist in grave major sins and misdeeds? How do you hope to be forgiven while you are challenging Allah with acts of disobedience on that great day?
* From among the manners of supplication on that day is that the pilgrim should face the Qiblah (the prayer direction), humbly raise his hands to his Lord, admit his shortcomings with regards to the Right of Allah, and with sincere repentance.
The guidance of the Prophet on the day of ‘Arafah:
Ibn Al-Qayyim said:
“When the sun of the ninth day rose, the Prophet proceeded from Mina to ‘Arafah, accompanied by his Companions. Some of them recited Talbiyah and others recited Takbeer. He heard this and did not prohibit any of them. He stayed at Namirah until shortly after the sun declined from the mid of the sky when he ordered his she-camel, named Al-Qaswa’, to be saddled. Then he proceeded to the middle of the valley in the land of ‘Uranah. He then delivered a great Khutbah (sermon) while sitting upon his camel. Therein, he established the basics of Islam and abolished the basics of Shirk (polytheism) and the pre-Islamic days of ignorance. He also confirmed the forbidden issues that all religions forbade.”
The Prophet delivered one Khutbah, not two. When he completed it, he ordered Bilaal, so he called for the prayer, then he pronounced the Iqaamah (second, small call for prayer). Thus, he prayed two Rak’ahs (units of prayer) for Thuhr with silent recitation. Bilaal made a second Iqaamah and he led the ‘Asr prayer as two Rak’ahs also. The inhabitants of Mecca, no doubt, performed the shortened and combined prayer with him. The Prophet did not tell them to perform the prayer in full and did not forbid them from combining the two prayers.
When he finished his prayer, he drove till he reached the place of standing. He stood at the foot of the mountain on the rocks, faced the Qiblah, and made the majority of the people walk on foot before his hands. He was on his camel. He kept supplicating, humbling himself, and sincerely invocating till sunset. He commanded the people to stay above the middle of the valley of ‘Uranah and said that ‘Arafah is not exclusive to his place of standing; rather, he said, "I am standing here, but all of ‘Arafah is a place of standing."
He commanded the people to be keen on their rituals as they are the heritage of their father Ibraaheem. Thereupon, some people from Najd came and asked him about Hajj, so he answered, "Hajj is ‘Arafah. If anyone comes over there before the dawn prayer on the night of Al-Muzdalifah, then his Hajj will be complete. The days of Mina are three days. Then whoever hastens (his departure) by two days, it is no sin for him, and whoever delays it, there is no sin for him." In his supplications, he used to raise his hands to his chest, and he informed them that the best supplication is that of the day of ‘Arafah.
When the sun had completely set, the Messenger of Allah serenely departed from ‘Arafah with Usamah ibn Zayd riding behind him. He pulled the reins of his camel back toward him [to slow its pace] until its head touched the edge of the saddle (so it walked very slowly). He said, "O people, be calm. You will not realize righteousness through hastening."
He continued reciting the Talbiyah along the way. At one point, he dismounted, answered the call of nature, and then performed a light ablution. Usamah said to him, "Prayer, O Messenger of Allah." Thereupon he said, "The prayer is ahead of you (at Muzdalifah)."
He proceeded until he reached Muzdalifah, where he performed ablution for the prayer and ordered the Athaan and the Iqaamah to be called. He performed the Maghrib prayer before making camp and have the camels kneel. After making camp, he ordered a second Iqaamah, but without an Athaan. He performed the ‘Ishaa’ prayer without any prayer between Maghrib and ‘Ishaa’. He then slept until dawn and did not spend the night in worship. There are no authentic narrations about the Prophet offering prayer during the nights of the two ‘Eeds.
The States of the Righteous Predecessors in ‘Arafah:
The states of the righteous predecessors in ‘Arafah varied. Fear and modesty prevailed over some of them: Mutarrif ibn ‘Abdullah and Bakr Al-Muzani stood in ‘Arafah. One of them said, "O Allah, do not reject the people of ‘Arafah because of me." The other said, "What an honorable place and deserving of hope to a Lord, if only I was not with them!"
On the other hand, hope prevailed over others. Ibn Al-Mubarak said, "I came to Sufyan Ath-Thawri on the night of ‘Arafah while he was sitting on his knees and weeping bitterly. He turned to me. I asked him, "Who is the worst in condition among this gathering?" He replied, "Whoever thinks that Allah will not forgive him."
The Slave Between the two States
When you consider, dear pilgrim, the states of the righteous predecessors on that day, know that yours should be between sincere fear and praised hope, as their state was.
Sincere fear: it is that which prevents one from committing the deeds forbidden by Allah The Almighty. If it exceeds this limit, it is feared that it reaches the level of hopelessness and despair.
Praised hope: It is the hope of a slave who obeyed Allah upon the light and insight granted to him by Allah; thus, he hopes to attain the reward of Allah. Otherwise, it is the hope of a slave who committed a sin, repented of it, and returned to Allah. Thus, he hopes to attain His forgiveness and pardon.
Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {Indeed, those who have believed and those who have emigrated and fought in the Cause of Allah – those expect the Mercy of Allah. And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.} [Quran 2:218]
You should, dear pilgrim, in this great place and on this blessed day, gather both feelings; fear and hope. Thus, you fear the punishment and torture of Allah and hope to attain His forgiveness and reward.
Congratulations for those who Stood at ‘Arafah:
Congratulations for you, dear pilgrim, you whom Allah granted standing in ‘Arafah next to people who race to Allah with yearning hearts and flowing tears. Among them, there are many fearful slaves who were disturbed and worried by fear. Others are loving slaves who suffer passionate yearning. Many of them are hopeful slaves who trust the promise of Allah and its sincerity. There are also many repentant slaves who made their repentance sincere and true for the sake of Allah. There are refugees resorting to the door of Allah and knocking on it.
Many of them deserve Hell, but Allah rescued them, saved them, and freed them from the heaviest burdens. Thereupon, the Most Merciful Lord looks at them and boasts about their gathering to the residents of heavens. Then, He comes near and says, "What do these people want? We have, upon their arrival, protected them against deprivation, and the Merciful has granted them their ultimate requests."
May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon Muhammad and all his family and Companions.
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Move-to-Earn is an idea that is growing quickly. It gives cryptocurrency to people who do fitness activities.
It uses GameFi, NFTs, and GPS to track where users go. This information is stored on a blockchain and turned into rewards, which are usually in the form of cryptocurrency.
Users can make money by trading these cryptos on exchanges, flipping in-game NFTs that have gone up in value or staking their assets on the platform to make passive income.
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The move-to-earn (M2E) model lets users earn cryptocurrency by moving around, running, or engaging in any other form of exercise, just like the play-to-earn (P2E) concept of blockchain games lets users earn crypto by playing.
StepN, a popular web 3.0 lifestyle app that came out in September 2021 and gives users crypto and NFTs for doing fitness activities, came up with the idea of “move to earn.”
How do I use Move-to-Earn?
Move-to-earn combines the ideas of GameFi and NFTs with GPS technology on users’ cell phones or other tracking devices. Users are paid in NFTs or in-app tokens as their movements are added to the blockchain. The tokens can be traded on the app’s marketplace or an exchange platform for other cryptocurrencies. They can also be used to pay for additional services on the app.
Many M2E apps also give their tokens more ways to be used. This increases demand for their cryptos, keeps the value of their tokens stable, and makes it less important to sell tokens on third-party exchanges.
How to Use Move-to-Earn Apps to Make Cryptocurrency?
Most M2E apps give users rewards when they exercise or move around. However, there are other ways to earn cryptocurrency on these platforms, such as:
Minting: Some apps have tiered memberships that allow premium users to mint NFTs to earn crypto.
Trading: Most M2E apps give users in-game currency, which they can trade on several DEXs and CEXs.
Staking: Some M2E apps also let users earn crypto through staking, which lets them earn passive income when they are not busy or moving.
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In the past year, the number of move-to-earn games has grown a lot, and many of them have done well regarding how many people play them and how much their tokens are worth. These things are:
Built on the Solana blockchain, STEPN was released in March 2022. In order to use it, users must buy or rent a pair of NFT sneakers.
The prices of the NFTs vary by type, level, and quality. This affects how much and how quickly users can earn in-app tokens. Obviously, the higher-priced shoes bring in more money faster. The last time I looked, the cheaper shoe cost between 11 and 12 SOL, which is about $385. Users start making crypto when their GPS-tracking moves outside are seen. When the price of a GST token was $0.92, a basic set of NFT sneakers gave users five minutes of earn time each session, which was worth 5 GST ($4.60) for every walk or run.
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GST and GMT are the two main cryptocurrencies on STEPN. Users are paid in Green Satoshi Tokens (GST), which are the native utility token. It is also used to make new shoes, fix old ones, and improve them. GSTs can be traded on centralized exchanges like Phemex or decentralized exchanges. The Green Metaverse Token (GMT) can also be bought on exchanges, but it can also be earned by wearing an NFT sneaker (level 30 or higher.)
GENE or Genopets
Genopets combines the Move-to-Earn model with the Play-to-Earn model through role-playing games (RPG). Users get rewarded for exercising, playing games, and caring for their NFT “pets.”
Genopets also use a dual token system. The first token is the GENE governance token, and the second is the KI in-game token, which is used to give out rewards and buy things in-game.
Before you can play Genopets, you don’t have to pay anything. This means that users can make and sell NFTs for free.
FITFI or the Step App
Step App is a lot like the STEPN app. Before users can start making money on the platform, they have to stake NFT sneakers called “sneaks.” Like the STEPN app, these shoes can be made better.
The KCAL token is the utility token for the Step app. It can be used to buy sneak NFT sneakers and enter contests. You can also earn KCAL by staking a sneaker on the app and taking part. The FITFI governance token is used to run the Step App platform and decide on things like burn rates, revenue splits, development milestones, and more.
Step App is fully funded by the community, which is different from other M2E platforms. Its last strong holder offering (SHO) was with DAO Maker, and it launched with a market cap of $348,000. Step App has teamed up with some of the best athletes and has so far signed up 13,753,389 people, which is a big deal in the M2E space.
Sweatcoin
Another app that pays people to stay fit is Sweatcoin. Users get Sweatcoins when they walk, ride bikes, or swim. Sweatcoin doesn’t need any money to start, so users can try it out for free.
At the same time, users of its paid versions can earn more sweatcoins daily. Users can also trade their coins for goods or discounts from Sweatcoin’s partners, such as Yoga Club, Tidal, and Skullcandy.
Wirtual
There are both free and paid challenges on Wirtual. Users are put into different tiers or levels based on how many Wirtual coins they have. The more coins a user has, the higher their tier and the more Wirtual they can earn by participating in fitness challenges.
Does Move-to-Earn have a chance to grow?
Since it started, several move-to-earn projects have been very popular and made a lot of money, and the value of their tokens has gone up in an ideal way. Overall, the idea behind M2E is catchy and easy to understand. It introduces blockchain and cryptocurrencies to people who might not be interested in them otherwise.
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Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay (left) and Contra Costa College President Mojdeh Mehdizadeh (right) bartend for the Richmond Promise during the Cheers for the Promise fundraising event at East Brother’s Brewery in Point Richmond, California on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Richmond Promise Executive Director Jessie Stewart said raising $1,500 is the goal because it is the same amount of a Richmond Promise yearly college scholarship presented to high school graduates living in the city of Richmond.
By Anthony Kinney, Associate Editor
RICHMOND — As a way to celebrate the work of many in this city, school administrators, city officials and community leaders joined the Richmond Promise and East Brother Beer Company to honor West Contra Costa County teachers during the Cheers for the Promise fundraising event at the East Brother Brewery taproom.
The fundraiser, held Sept. 27, was about bringing positive community awareness to the promise and celebrating those who make it a reality in Richmond, Richmond Promise Executive Director Jessie Stewart said.
Stewart said the goal of the fundraiser was to raise $1,500 — the amount of a Richmond Promise yearly college scholarship presented to high school graduates living in the city of Richmond.
“Our community and education partners inspired this event,” she said. “We wanted to kick off the next school year by celebrating the partners that are behind the promise.”
Stewart said West Contra Costa County Unified School District teachers and administrators deserve praise because the promise is much more than just a scholarship.
The promise is a partnership and community effort to create change in young people’s lives through higher education.
Decked in a Navy blue baseball cap that read, “Da Mayor,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt attended the event as a guest bartender beside several other Richmond officials tasked with filling attendees’ mugs with East Brother Company beer.
Mayor Butt said the Richmond Promise is one of the city’s most important programs. It’s also one of his personal favorites.
“It’s a popular program and it gets a ton of support from City Hall,” Mayor Butt said. “It’s wonderful helping those students fulfill their dreams and bring change to our community.”
Among the local officials bartending was Contra Costa College President Mojdeh Mehdizadeh.
“Fifteen hundred dollars a year is a life-changer for so many students in our community and we’re so thrilled to provide that kind of opportunity for them,” Mehdizadeh said.
She said she was honored to work behind the bar in support of the Richmond Promise and enjoyed her time bartending for her fellow teachers and administrators for such a good cause.
“What we’re hearing from students, time and time again, is that they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to go to college were it not for the Richmond Promise,” Mehdizadeh said. “It’s really about the bright future of our young people. What can be better than that?”
As the sun began to set over the brewery’s neighboring hillside and more people started to show up, conversations poured outside over more beer, live music and games of bocce ball.
CCC alumni Russell and Raynard Lozano offered their trademark Filipino inspired American dishes parked outside the taproom in their Curbside Kitchen food truck. All tips earned by the food truck went toward the promise program.
Over raised beer glasses Stewart performed a toast to honor the program’s partners, West County’s teachers and administrators who have supported the promise since its founding in 2014.
Stewart said with over 100 students currently starting their college careers at Contra Costa College, she knows those students are on a pathway to success having CCC as a home base of support.
Mehdizadeh, who also serves on the Governing Board of the Richmond Promise, said keeping the partnership strong between CCC and the program is of utmost importance for both parties.
She said, with CCC being the first major partner of the promise, she works with the program on the policy level to ensure students are receiving the tools necessary for a successful future.
“What we do at CCC is take those incredible young minds in and provide them the opportunity to really find themselves and find their passion,” Mehdizadeh said.
After the toast, raffles were held and five lucky educators won gift bags. All tips collected at the bar went toward the Richmond Promise program.
Stewart said the program is part of a larger movement that is happening to build a college-going and graduating culture throughout the city.
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Just in: Mfantsipim School Wins The Central Regional NSMQ Championship.
By EducationFacts (self media writer) | 1 year ago
Today, like all other days when Competitions are conducted, is and will always be a historical events in the life of every students be it contestants or mere students of all contesting schools.
Yesterday saw to the fierce semi finals contest between all qualified Senior High Schools in the Central Region of Ghana. The schools that made it to the finals were Mfantsipim School, Adisadel College, Assin State College and University Practice Senior High School.
Today, they contested and history has been made. Mfantsipim School managed to take the championship plaque or cup for the first time.
Adisadel College gave Mfantsipim School a hard time but they managed to win it. Actually, four schools were contesting but the main game was between Mfantsipim School and Adisadel College as they were the main schools.
Central Region whether you like it or not is the hub of education in Ghana or African as a whole. I say this because not only do they possess the best Junior High Schools and Tertiary institutions but also the best Senior High Schools.
For this instance, our focus is on the single sexed Senior High Schools; Adisadel College, Mfantsipim School, St.Augustine College, Wesley Girls Senior High School, Holy Child School and Mfantsiman Girls Senior High School.
There has always been a educational 'struggle' between them. As to now, it is not established as to which school is the best. However when we use the National Science and Maths Quiz as a criteria for ranking them, the best school has always been between the all males Senior High Schools.
Congratulations to them.
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Eid-el-Fitri Tragedy: Teenage Boy Drowns At Bar Beach
Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM by Khadijah Thabit
An unidentified teenager drowned at the Bar Beach, Lagos as revellers celebrated Eid-el-fitri in the area on Friday.
A fun seeker, who witnessed the incident and identified himself simply as Michael, said there was a heavy traffic of persons at the beach while there were only two live guards on duty.
It is usual in metropolitan cities like Lagos for residents to go to the beaches during important national celebrations, especially when holidays have been declared.
According to the witness, the teenage boy was spotted by a few people who were standing at the tip of the ocean.
He said three unidentified young men made frantic attempts to see if they could rescue the drowning boy, but they could not muster enough courage to move into the centre of the ocean.
He said the high waves of the surging ocean were too much for the volunteers, who eventually gave up the idea of saving the victim.
According to him, all the fun seekers around watched helplessly as the boy struggled and was finally submerged by water.
However, other fun seekers continued with their fun as if nothing had happened.
It was learnt that nobody came out to complain about a missing person before most of the fun seekers left the beach.
It was learnt that a young lady initially raised the alarm, believing erroneously that the victim was her brother, but she soon kept calm when she saw her own brother.
Spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, who confirmed the tragedy on Friday, told Saturday PUNCH that the victim had not been identified.
“The body has been taken to the mortuary. It is just sad that this had to happen despite the warnings we issued that people should stay off the beach because of an impending ocean surge,” he said.
Farinloye said the warning issued by NEMA stated that there might be an ocean surge of a minimum of four days and maximum of five days, appealing to revellers to avoid swimming at the beach for some days.
“People are allowed to go to the beach but they should not swim. For some months, the ocean had been monitored and the warnings NEMA issued were consistent with the signs that were noticed, which showed that there might be an ocean surge,” he said.
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The J&K Government Cooperative which went from Boom to Bust
In a major decision, the State Government is all set to shut down J&K Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (JAKFED) by August 31 this year and the proposal in this regard is also learnt to have been taken up by State Administrative Council.
J&K Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (JAKFED) is a J&K governments Cooperative which is registered under the Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Societies Act, 1989 and is an apex level institution in the Cooperative Sector in state. According to official website of JAKFED, the J&K Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd. (JAKFED) registered on Ist Oct. 1960 as an Apex Level Institution in Cooperative Sector of J&K State having its Head Office at B.C. Road Rehari, Jammu and Regional Office at Batwara Srinagar. Initially the major activity entrusted to the Federation was procurement and distribution of fertilizer.
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At that time, the organization had been undertaking 100% business of fertilizer distribution in the State which continued as such up to 1995-96 when the State Govt. allowed J&K Agro Industries Development Corporation and some of the Cooperative Societies to deal directly with the Fertilizer Companies which has, in fact, adversely affected the resource position of JAKFED.
In order to overcome the financial crisis so precipitated, JAKFED had to diversify its business and presently the the major activities of the federation included procurement and distribution of Fertilizer, building material, domestic gas, Procurement & supply of nutrition items to Indenting Govt. Deptts, Procurement and supply of cement to Govt./Semi Govt. Departments, etc.
The Federation, which has strength of 224 employees, is suffering annual recurring loss of around Rs 2.75 crore and is having statutory liabilities of Rs 24 crore, including payment of CPF and Pensionary benefits besides liabilities on account of payments to suppliers of around Rs 25 crore. Outstanding against the goods supplied is Rs 19 crore and outstanding to be recovered from the officers/officials against whom impressed advance has already been paid is Rs 1.24 crore. The overall liabilities of JAKFED are to the tune of Rs 67 crore.
According to online reports that all the movable and immovable assets of JAKFED shall be taken over by the State Government and financial commitments, if any, shall be met by the Cooperative Department through sale of these assets and the State Government shall not bear any financial liability whatsoever on this account.
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The report also suggest that the Cooperative Department will propose constitution of an appropriate Committee to the General Administration Department, which will coordinate the winding up of the Federation, sources said adding that the Department will also obtain prior concurrence of the Finance Department to the design and implementation of a VRS for the employees of JAKFED.
According to report of Daily Excelsior, JAKFED was a profit earning organization, however, it could not sustain the same on account of malpractices which were probed by a High Level Committee (Pillai Committee) and, thereafter, by the Joint House Committee of Legislative Council. The matter has been referred to CBI for further investigation.
The employees of JAKFED filed a Writ Petition before the High Court with the prayer to redress their grievances, including those related to release of gratuity, leave encashment, salary etc on eve of their retirement. The High Court in its order dated 20.02.2018 directed the State Government to suggest ways and means by which the employees of JAKFED can be paid their dues.
Pursuant to the Court directions, the matter was examined at various levels of the Government. The financial position of JAKFED, liabilities of the organization; future prospects of the organization and many other aspects were examined critically in order to arrive at a decision whether to go for revival or winding up, if necessary, of JAKFED, while protecting the interests of the employees on the rolls of the federation.
Online news reports suggest that after careful analyses of all the pros and cons and in view of the very limited scope for revival, the State Government has decided to wind up JAKFED and the process in this regard shall be concluded by August 31, 2019.
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Superbug colony behaviors revealed in time lapse video
video: The video shows the progress of a comet of <i>Staph aureus</i> cells moving across an agar surface over a period of 90 minutes from 8 hours post inoculation. view more
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A well-known 'superbug' which was thought to have been a static or non-motile organism has been observed showing signs of active motility by scientists at The Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is the bug responsible for several infections in humans ranging from superficial to life-threatening which are difficult to treat because of antibiotic resistance. Now for the first time the scientists have shown that S. aureus, a spherical bacterium with no propulsive tail or appendages, may be capable of a form of 'active' motility and moving independently.
Motility is central to bacterial behaviours, such as biofilm formation, virulence and host colonisation so the discovery, published in Scientific Reports could have implications for future clinical treatments.
Dr Steve Diggle from The University of Nottingham's School of Life Sciences, said: "Our research has focused on observing the formation of dendrites -- branch-like structures that emerge from the central colony of bacteria. Using high powered microscopy, we saw that the bacteria can spread across the surface of an agar plate in structures that we have called 'comets'. These advance outwards and precede the formation of dendrites. We have observed and photographed the comets 'seeding' cells behind them, without losing mass, which then grow into observable dendrites.
"After 8 hours of colony growth, the comet heads are the main source of movement. Cells in the tail follow the comet heads for a while, while bacteria further away no longer move. Our time-lapse video shows the whole remarkable process."
The researchers found the comet heads are composed of aggregates of S. aureus cells held together by a matrix of slime and display no observable pili or flagella (propulsive tails or appendages). They also observe that under certain conditions, comets can also etch the agar, leaving behind tracks. The moving S. aureus colonies are also capable of avoiding other colonies. The study also showed that the addition of fluid is not able to effectively move comet heads, but can easily move the cells in the comet 'tails'.
Dr Eric Pollitt, who also performed the research, said: "It is amazing how the S. aureus cells can stick together and then stay together whilst moving over distances that are incredibly vast compared to the size of the individual cells."
The team believes these newly observed and time-lapse photographed behaviours are consistent with active motility, and most closely resemble gliding motility. The revelations could inform research into new ways to tackle S.aureus infection as the underlying motility mechanism(s) of the bacteria could be a target for future vaccines and inhibitory pharmaceutical compounds.
The researchers conclude that if S.aureus has true motility as indicated by this work, it would be the first example of a Gram-positive bacteria with a typical Gram-positive cell wall moving without flagella or pili. This begs the question of whether other Gram-positive organisms may also be motile in a similar way and opens the way for further research in the area.
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Founded in 1948, the University of Strathclyde Business School is a pioneering, internationally renowned academic organisation that shapes and develops the business minds of tomorrow. Strathclyde Business School is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The University was established in 1796 as 'the place of useful learning' and this remains at the forefront of our vision today.
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Britney Spears denies attending Cade Hudson's birthday party with Paris Hilton
Britney Spears has denied attending Cade Hudson's birthday party.
The 41-year-old pop star appeared to have celebrated the celebrity agent's birthday over the weekend when heiress Paris Hilton posted a photo of the three of them onto Instagram, but it now appears the picture was old.
Britney wrote on Instagram: "Also have no idea about these pics of me from a birthday party … I haven’t been to a bday party in forever !!! And as for the pics, those have to be from years ago !!! Kind of creepy and weird that no one is talking about that … makes no sense whatsoever !!!”
The birthday party took place in California and was thought to have been attended by the likes of Robert Pattinson, Emma Roberts, Demi Lovato, and Tiffany Haddish, and TMZ also claimed that the '...Baby One More Time' hitmaker spent "all night" with the 'Paris In Love' star but an insider has now confirmed that Britney was not there at all.
The confusion appears to have come when Paris created a birthday tribute post for Cade, in which she posted the photo in a mix of new and old snaps.
She wrote: "Happy Birthday @CadeHudson22! Sending you so much love on your special day!. So many fun memories together over the years! We always have the best time! You always make me laugh. You are so much fun and you have a heart of gold. Thank you for always being such a loyal and true friend. Feel so lucky to have you in my life! Excited to celebrate you this weekend and make more epic memories togetherLove you forever and always."(sic)
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