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Dave Blinziger Collective performs for Comox Valley jazz fans
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Nov. 20, 2022 5:30 a.m.
The D. Blinzinger Collective plays the Flying Canoe on Thursday, Nov. 24. Photo supplied
Although Dave Blinzinger is new to our stage, he’s accompanied by some of our most seasoned musicians. D. Blinzinger Collective, as they’re known, consists of six members, and features trumpet, tenor saxophone and trombone.
“Our keyboard player is Paoul Gagnon and we will be performing one of his original compositions titled So French. Long-time bassist Grahame Edwards, who is a veteran of the Courtenay/Comox scene, will join us and we will be performing one of his original compositions called Night Flyer,” said Blinzinger. “New to the collective is Ram Sudama, our drummer, who brings with him a series of arrangements, including Joy Spring, Tanya, and Lullaby of Birdland. Also, a seasoned player and pro musician, Jeff Agopsowicz on trombone, brings an original composition and arrangement of his tune titled No Soup for You. On trumpet, hailing from Campbell River, Roger Kirk has been an active musician on the Campbell River/Courtenay music scene for many years and will be featured on the McCoy Tyner tune (most appropriate for these days) Search for Peace.”
And finally on tenor saxophone, from Quadra Island, Dave Blinzinger Jr. brings his musical talent and leadership to the group, and is featured on the great tenor ballad, I’ll Close My Eyes.
Downbeat is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 24 at the Flying Canoe Pub in Courtenay. Admission is $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Visit the Georgia Straight Jazz Society website to review the succession of great shows between now and late May.
Malcolm Holt is the president of the Georgia Straight Jazz Society
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Best Bets: Boxing Day, Holidaze, and a Christmas Vacation Movie Party
Natalie de la Garza December 22, 2022 4:00AM
Spend Boxing Day in the galleries of Rienzi. Photo by Cameron Bertuzzi
It’s that time of year, so be warned: With Christmas right around the corner, this week’s list of best bets is a little more sparklejollytwinklejingley than usual. But whether you celebrate Christmas or not, or if you’re just the epitome of a Scrooge, we like to think we’ve got you covered. So keep reading to see our picks for this coming holiday weekend.
It’s an established fact that “a yuletide trip to the movies has become an American tradition,” and despite the double whammy of pandemic and streaming services over the past few years, 85 percent of audiences have returned to movie theaters since 2021. One of the most popular films of 2022 was Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and whether you saw or not – our guess is you did as it made more than $400 million dollars domestically – you’ll want to relive its predecessor, 2018’s Black Panther, on Thursday, December 22, at 7 p.m. Bank of America’s Screen on the Green will bring the Marvel superhero film, “an action-adventure origin myth which plays less like a conventional superhero film and more like a radical Brigadoon or a delirious adventure by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs,” to Discovery Green for a free outdoor screening.
This weekend Performing Arts Houston will bring a holiday-themed circus to town – and by circus we mean Cirque Dreams Holidaze, a two-act production featuring contemporary circus acts – jugglers, acrobats, aerialists, etc. – along with music, comedy, and more. Marcel Wilson, who has directed and choreographed the two Cirque Dreams Holidaze productions (there are two touring concurrently) with his brother Kevin, recently described it to the Hartford Courant as “a family show, with something for everyone. You can bring your kids or go on a date night or take a co-worker.” Cirque Dreams Holidaze will be presented four times, at 4 and 8 p.m. on Friday, December 23, and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 24 at Jones Hall. Tickets can be purchased here for $37.40 to $110.
We can all debate our favorite holiday films until we’re blue in the face, but we can promise someone is going to bring up that “glowingly goofy homage to family holidays,” National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The 1989 film, the third featuring the Chevy Chase-led Griswold family, “is a tightly bowed story of household delirium,” one “in the spirit of anything-that-can-go-wrong-will-go-wrong,” and “a warm and toasty skewering of Americana.” On Friday, December 23, at 7 p.m. make your way over to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema LaCenterra for the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Movie Party, an immersive and interactive experience complete with props – including pine tree air fresheners and ugly neckties, of course. Tickets are available here for $15.15. (And feel free to prepare yourself in advance by going through a list of 100 of the best National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation quotes here.)
The holidays aren’t always merry and bright for everyone, so do yourself a favor and kick off this weekend with a good laugh. On Friday, December 23, at 8 p.m. The Secret Group and Comedy HUB Houston will present All A’s Asian American Comedy Show Holiday Special. On the bill are comedians such as Son Tran, a two-time finalist for Funniest Comic in Texas; Chicago-based comic Jerry Tran, named one of the “Eight North American Asian comedians to watch out for”; and Sheng Wang, who The New York Times dubbed “Best Member of the Mitch Hedberg Family Tree” for his “laid-back drawl, moseying delivery and gift for ingenious premise.” You can get a general admission ticket for $10 or a VIP ticket (with preferred seating and meet and greet perks) for $20 here.
If you’re from the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth nation, you know the day after Christmas as Boxing Day. Though it seems that we don’t know exactly where Boxing Day came from, we do know that it’s an official holiday in the U.K. and that’s all we need to know to want to celebrate it here. On Monday, December 26, from 1 to 4 p.m., you can get a taste of the holiday our cousins across the pond celebrate during Boxing Day at Rienzi. Enjoy the beautiful holiday decorations adorning the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s house museum, done by The Garden Club of Houston, along with art activities, cookies and beverages, music by harpist Hope Cowan from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., and (of course) self-guided tours of the galleries, including a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Admission to the event is free.
You could say that an entity has reached a certain level of notoriety when it becomes a plot point on a Netflix show, which is exactly what’s happened for the ever elusive Shen Yun. The notably “anti-communist” entertainment company has toured their classic Chinese dances and traditions across the country many times, including multiple stops in Houston, and this year popped up on an episode of Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s Never Have I Ever. They’re back in town for 10 performances at Jones Hall from December 26 through January 2, 2023, with performances scheduled for 2 and 7 p.m. on Monday, December 26, and Sunday, January 1; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 27, through Friday, December 30; and 1 p.m. Saturday, December 31, and Monday, January 2. Tickets can be purchased here for $80 to $200.
Admittedly, the Houston Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker is the crown jewel of holiday shows around these parts. But if you’re anything like us, you can’t get enough of E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic story and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's iconic music, and that’s why we’re recommending Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet over at the Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land on Wednesday, December 28, at 7 p.m. The touring production, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, is back on the road this year after a two-year hiatus with Anna Trofimova, soloist and audition director for Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet, telling Broadway World Minneapolis/St. Paul ahead of performing in the city, “We try to make a miracle on stage to let everybody live their own fairytale.” Tickets can be purchased here for $30 to $100.
Natalie de la Garza is a contributing writer who adores all things pop culture and longs to know everything there is to know about the Houston arts and culture scene.
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World of Bluegrass – The Last Day
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Posted on Oct 8, 2014 in Festivals
Read about our last day at the the World of Bluegrass Festival
Saturday 4 October 2014 Raleigh North Carolina
I’ve been here in Raleigh since Wednesday. The past three days or so have been quite overwhelming. Following on the Awards night and the superb day of artists yesterday, I wondered whether today might be a bit of a let down. I was in fact right.
Whether it was me starting to flag or whether it was the somewhat imbalanced schedule, the final day, Saturday, probably did not kick into top gear musically for me.
I started with the usual walk to the Convention Centre and spent about ninety minutes at either the Exhibition Hall, workshop stages or chatting generally. I discovered a stall that was promoting The Crooked Road – a traditional music trail along the south-west of Virginia. It included the city of Bristol (Virginia and Tennessee border) which I have wanted to visit for a while. I began to hatch a plan.
A film was showing as part of the festival today about the very strong bluegrass tradition in Czechoslovakia. It’s called Banjo Romantika and one of the film makers was there, talking about the background to the movie and how it was made. It sounded very interesting, so I picked up a copy of the DVD for later consumption.
The Clay Hess Band was on the City Plaza Stage and I liked Clay’s raspy, weathered voice – songs included “I Saw The Light”, “Working On A Building” and Bill Monroe’s “Blue Night”. I liked the material and the intensity of the music.
Clay Hess
Time for a quick bite and a double vegetarian samosa from one of the many stalls up the bustling Lafayette St. Vendors included food, drink, ice cream, craft, business, art, tourism and even religion. Back at my favourite coffee haunt in Raleigh The Morning Times for an excellent latte while listening to Kristy Cox on the Hargett Stage, then back to the City Plaza Stage for the end of the Hubby Jenkins show which was followed by Special Consensus. Over to the Ballroom of the Convention Centre where The Kruger Brothers were with the Kontras Quartet, doing a world premiere of a new concerto “Lucid Dreamer”.
Nothing was sticking, so over to The Red Hat Amphitheatre for the full set of Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out. This was old-time and traditional bluegrass, except that the mandolin player swapped for an electric guitar which was the only such instrument I saw outside a music shop all the festival. Same seat as yesterday, a chance to re-acquaint myself with friendly seat neighbours Randy and Cindy. One of the tunes performed during the set was “Pretty Little Girl From Galax” which would have some resonance later on in the trip (the town, not the girl!). Other songs performed were “Devil In The Straw Sack”, which was an interesting dual tempo tune, going from business-like to frantic. Bill Monroe featured yet again, with the band performing “Bluegrass Special” and “John And Mary”, the latter quite hard-hitting.
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out
Oh, to have but half of the talent and gravitas of Noam Pikelny. A banjo player whose music is evenly tied to both traditional bluegrass and contemporary string band music, he is a member of the Punch Brothers and has played with Leftover Salmon and John Cowan. He is Grammy nominated. He released an eye-catching album last year Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe which won Album Of The Year at this week’s IBMA Awards and he got also got the nod for Best Instrumentalist for his banjo playing. Today he was playing with violin maestro and singer Stuart Duncan and it was a highly engaging set. Pikelny didn’t say that much but, when he did, his strong dry wit was to the fore. The music was sublime, taking the audience right back to the most traditional music, even before it was called that, there were Scottish lullabies, Stanley Brothers’ tunes and of course pieces from his new album, which is an homage to Kenny Baker’s 1994 lauded release of Bill Monroe tunes.
Stuart Duncan and Noam Pilkeny
It was getting cold, my T-shirt and shorts attire was probably not going to work for the rest of the evening. It was 5.45pm so I decided to walk to The Lincoln Theatre, two or three blocks away – this is a famous venue where many of my favourite artists play when they come to Raleigh (Jason Isbell is heading here soon, according to the notice board). I wandered around all parts of the festival scene, soaking up the environment and taking some photos by way of reminders. I do not expect to be back in Raleigh next year and I am not sure when of if I will be coming back, so I really wanted to just enjoy the festivities and hubbub. The wind was getting stronger and colder. Del McCoury was on at The Red Hat, (I have seen his show many times), followed by Ricky Scaggs from 9.30 til 11pm. I knew I wouldn’t be able to hold out that long, both temperature wise and stamina wise. I also had a busy travelling day tomorrow.
So, I grabbed a beef gyro and two small bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon and headed back to my hotel, where it was warm and quiet.
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El Dorado Springs Opinion
We the People, Consent of the Governed
November 20, 1910 Jekyll Island, Georgia six men have a secret meeting at the most inaccessible country club in America owned by J.P. Morgan. The reason for this ultra hush hush congregation of bankers, a U.S. Senator and the assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary was to draft the creation of the central banking system we know today. This meeting was to be kept from the eyes of the public, a meeting so confidential that only first names were used and all in attendance had to swear an oath of fidelity. A false duck hunting story was fabricated and each man arrived at the train terminal to board a private rail car. One by one U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich, his private secretary Arthur Shelton, Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg showed up to craft the unconstitutional National Reserve Institution.
The reasoning for creating this central banking system was flawed from its inception. Several men believed that the U.S. was held back from economic growth and prosperity by not having an elastic currency that could expand and flow with the modern economy. At the time the dollars value was tied to the price of gold and the quantity of dollars available was dependent on federal government bonds. The money supply didn’t expand nor did it contract with seasonal changes such as harvest time or holiday shopping. Deflation was also considered a problem and banks couldn’t bank overseas. On average every fifteen years the economy would cause a panic and “runs” on the banks would occur, this often would deplete the banks of their money reserves and sometimes banks ran out!! We now face economic turmoil and change every 5-7 years!!
Our founding fathers rejected paper money and central banks. Last week I included several quotes from our founders that explicitly expressed their thoughts on paper money. “And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor 1816. Our founding fathers knew that unlimited money was a challenge to our countries existence. With unlimited supply the government could fund never ending wars, become a welfare check to buy votes, create unconstitutional agencies that absolutely depended on federal funding, hold states hostage and all kinds of fraud. Look at today and all the government does on the backs of our future generations through borrowing.
Currently our federal government borrows roughly 200 Billion dollars a month to pay for our Bi-Partisan budget. Don’t forget neither party has been the fiscal party since Lincoln needed to fund a civil war!!! I can prove it, and possibly down the road might even touch on it for all you skeptics. Our government has done exactly what our founding fathers warned us about with their unlimited check book practices, all feasible because of the Federal Reserve and a bi-partisan effort to create this abomination. That’s right, it was a bipartisan accomplishment spear headed by a Republican U.S. Senator finished by the other head of Orthrus, the democrats.
I hope your eyes are opened; as we continue to critique the path our government has taken and connect the calamities to the violations of the Constitution. As we traverse the ingenuity of our founding fathers; keep your ears available to the insult of being wrong. Often, when our beliefs and ideals are challenged, we are trained to hold tighter and shut down opposition to our held half-truths. If we are ever to reclaim the liberty that once was, we must be able and willing to accept that our precious, never wrong; never lying government has educated us in a fashion to benefit solely them and those who pay to elect them. establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money.
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The Sinking Yard: A Home Inspection Insurance Claim
By Stephanie Jaynes
“You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you.”
That was how home inspector Nathan Cross’ letter from the state began. According to the state, former home inspection clients Patrick and Miranda Spence were suing Cross and the sellers for “deceptive trade practices,” “breach of contract,” “economic and actual damages,” and “intentional damages by omissions.”
Unbeknownst to Cross, the property used to have a swimming pool. The sellers had filled in the pool and covered it up prior to putting the house on the market. The sellers did not disclose the pool’s existence to either the Spences nor Cross. So, when Cross performed his inspection, there were no visible signs of a pool in the backyard, nor were there any visible defects. Thus, Cross’ inspection report did not indicate any issues in the backyard.
About a year after the inspection, indentations began to appear in the backyard. Upon investigating the property’s tax records, the Spences discovered that a pool had existed prior to them moving in. (The covered pool was not in the sellers’ disclosure.) They surmised that the sellers must have improperly filled the pool, which led to developing indentations. Now, a full year and a half after Cross’ inspection, the Spences were taking legal action. The Spences demanded “monetary relief of $100,000 or less, including damages of any kind, penalties, costs, expenses, pre-judgment interest, and attorney fees.”
Shortly after receiving the letter, Cross reported the suit to our claims department. In his initial discussion with our claims team, Cross confirmed that there were no indentations at the time of the inspection—nor was there any indication of a pool. (In his inspection report, Cross had checked “Not Present” beside the “Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, and Equipment” section.) Additionally, Cross explained that he does not research properties or look at their disclosures prior to inspection. Furthermore, according to the laws in his region, he is unable to look at tax records without being a licensed realtor.
The same day, our claims team called the claimants’ attorney to gauge their understanding of the situation. According to the Spences’ attorney, the backyard “looked perfect” on the day of the inspection. Over the phone, our claims team explained that home inspections are limited, non-invasive examinations. Then, by email, he sent plaintiff counsel a link to the Standards of Practice (SoP) in addition to several excerpts from the SoP that defended Cross’ inspection.
Four days later, the claimants’ attorney reached out to our claims team. After discussing the SoP with the Spences, the attorney offered to settle the claim for $6,000.
That same day, our claims team offered their rebuttal. The issue was not visually identifiable on the date of the inspection by the attorney’s own admission, our claims team argued. Furthermore, there was no way that the home inspector could have predicted that pool was covered up and that it would cause indentations years later.
Our team rejected the Spences’ offer. Instead, they offered to settle for $1,500—a thousand dollars less than Cross’ insurance deductible. (Our claims team knew that, if they could dismiss the claim for less than Cross’ deductible, Cross could save on out-of-pocket costs.)
Our claims team followed up weekly with plaintiff counsel, but they did not hear back for nearly two months. Meanwhile, Cross received an interesting phone call. It was the sellers who, if you remember, were also named in the lawsuit.
According to the sellers, the Spences were “fully aware” that there had been a swimming pool in the backyard. During the buying process, the Spences asked the sellers who had filled the pool, because the Spences wanted to put the pool back in place. The sellers planned on fighting the frivolous claim and then suing the Spenses for suing them.
Our claims team advised against the sellers’ approach; Cross agreed. Even if the Spenses knew the pool was buried all along, it would cost money to prove. And, even if there was no payout to the Spenses, the defense costs would end up on Cross’ loss runs. With the Spenses unwilling to walk away without their “monetary relief,” and with the cost to defend in court outweighing the benefits, our claims team advised that they attempt again to settle for less than the Spenses’ original offer of $6,000.
Once again, our claims team reached out to plaintiff counsel. They reiterated the SoP, arguing that a visually buried pool could not and should not be identified by a home inspection. Our team increased their settlement offer to $2,500, and the attorney agreed to speak to the Spenses.
About a week later, the claimants agreed to settle for $2,500. Our team obtained a signed Release of All Claims, which ensured that the Spences could not make any more allegations against Cross and his company.
Five months after they settled the claim, our claims team and Cross still hadn’t received a dismissal of the lawsuit. Our team helped Cross file a complaint with the State Bar against the Spenses’ attorney and followed up with the Court until they received a copy of this dismissal. Finally, a few weeks after filing the complaint with the State Bar, the claim closed.
Here are a few things you can learn from Cross’ experience.
Setting expectations is always the best claims prevention.
When the Spenses filed suit, they nor their attorney understood the SoP. Although Cross had taken the time to copy and paste his state’s SoP at the beginning of his inspection report, all the Spenses noticed was the check mark by “Not Present” in the swimming pools section.
Take the time to define a home inspection and its limitations with your clients. To make sure that your clients understand your inspection offerings and results, we recommend articulating key points repeatedly, such as during scheduling calls, in your pre-inspection agreement, during walkthroughs, and in your report.
As William Chandler, Owner of Property 360 in Florida, articulated in a recent article, communication is paramount to an inspector’s success.
“Communication, reporting—that’s where the rubber meets the road,” Chandler said. “You can be an excellent inspector, but if you’re not competent in verbal and written communication, you’ll struggle to grow your business, or you’ll find yourself on the wrong end of a claim.”
(For more on setting expectations, read “How to set home buyers expectations,” “Mitigating risk through communication,” and “How to write a report clients understand.”)
It’s important to know how your insurance policy defines a claim…
Here at InspectorPro, most insurance policies define a claim as “a written demand for money.” While Cross’ letter was vague in its demand amount—”monetary relief of $100,000 or less”—it still qualified as a claim. While Cross’ demand was a formal suit filed in a court, demands don’t have to be lawsuits to be considered claims. Any written demand, even an email, qualifies as a claim under standard InspectorPro policies.
Additionally, while the Spences were the accusers, demands can come from non-clients and still be considered claims. While many non-client complaints don’t hold up to legal scrutiny, they still trigger your reporting obligation to your insurance carrier.
Perhaps you have a meritless claim that you think will clear up on its own. Or, maybe you feel that you have the skills and means to fix the problem without insurance help. Regardless of how you think the claim will resolve, you’re still obligated to report it to your insurance carrier.
Your insurance policy acts as your contract between your inspection business and the insurance carrier. In that contract, you have responsibilities, including when to report claims and what details to report. The insurance company then has the responsibility to address that claim so long as it meets your policy’s terms. But, if you don’t meet your requirements, the insurance carrier won’t either. Failing to report a claim can lead to a declination of coverage from your insurance carrier. That means no insurance benefits, like defense and payout help, to help you resolve that complaint.
…and a pre-claim (a.k.a. early reporting incident).
What about complaints that are not written demands for money? The insurance industry calls these non-claims early reporting incidents (ERIs). We recommend reporting potential claimsfor additional benefits, including pre-claims assistance, early intervention, and deductible endorsements.
Check the “Definitions” section of your policy to see how your insurance carrier defines both claims and ERIs.
It doesn’t always matter who’s right.
While it can prevent claims, being a great home inspector doesn’t make you immune to claims. Our 2017 claims data revealed that 80 percent of the claims we received were meritless. In those cases, home inspectors performed the technical aspects of their inspections properly and still received claims.
In a recent article, home inspector Randy Sipe described how, in spite of years of experience, following the SoP, and doing the best job he could, he still received a claim—and others can, too.
“It’s not about the job you did or whether you were right or wrong. You can—and likely will—be sucked into a claim regardless,” Sipe wrote. “A win isn’t a win if it costs more to defend than to settle. You see, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is the dollars—not right or wrong—because, even with insurance, you have to defend your future insurability.”
(You can read Sipe’s article in its entirety here.)
In reflecting on Cross’ claim, our claims team agreed. Despite Cross not being at fault, settling made the most sense in this case.
“Our goal in every case is to minimize the payments on the home inspector’s loss run as much as possible,” Cross’ claims specialist said. “The inspector was satisfied with our efforts and understood that the only alternative would have been to fight this out in court and incur excessive litigation costs.”
Having experienced insurance claims adjusters makes a difference.
It took a lot of negotiating to get from the initial demand of up to $99,999 to the final settlement of $2,500. Having an experienced claims adjuster who knew the home inspection industry—including Cross’ state-specific SoP—made it easier to resolve the complaint.
Additionally, our claims team made sure that the claimants and their attorney didn’t cut corners to hurt Cross later on by fighting for a Release of All Claims and even going so far as contacting the State Board to get an official lawsuit dismissal. Our claims team understands that any loose ends are potential liabilities for your business, so they make sure to work with our inspectors to tie up each one.
Become the next claims success story.
Here at InspectorPro, we take pride in our superior claims handling. And so do our insureds. Don’t believe us? Just read our Facebook reviews:
“The pre-claims really helps deal with those silly complaints that have no merit. They have always been friendly and helpful,” wrote Jim Troth, Owner of Habitation Investigation, LLC.
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This article was originally published on the InspectorPro website on July 1, 2019.
This article was published in the ASHI Reporter in December 2019. See how this story appears in print on pages 6-7 below.
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Advance Review: Old-Fashioned Fisticuffs Dominate `August: Purgatory Underground’ #4
by Tom Smithyman
If you like a good, old-fashioned fist fight, the final issue of this limited series is for you. Creator Benjamin Morse draws a beautiful mano-a-mano exchange that is exciting and easy-to-follow. Some unnecessary and repetitive dialogue clogs the fight a bit, though, and the battles runs on the long side – dominating more than half this issue.
The more that technology plays into science fiction action stories, the more creators choose to simplify their fighting styles. For all the ray guns and flying capes in Flash Gordon, many of the fights are with old-fashioned swords. Star Trek may have its phasers and photon torpedoes, but Captain James Kirk always preferred a drop kick.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that creator of August chose a low-tech approach to the climatic fight of this limited series – despite being set on a far-flung planet in the distant future. Well over half of the final issue is focused on this battle royale between August and Baron Siegan, the cyborg who is hell-bent on getting revenge on the captain and the Earth-based Federation.
Still, it’s a curious choice, given the second issue was also dominated by a fist fight – one that left August clinging to life. He obviously survived, though it took weeks of recovery and a bionic arm to make him whole again. Fortunately, creator Benjamin Morse – who writes, draws, colors and letters the series – has mastered the art of depicting a fight. The motions, energy and momentum swings in the fight are clear with Morse’s pencils. No words are needed for the reader to understand what is happening and who is winning.
Morse, though, does choose to fill the fight with dialogue, as the baron sneers and threatens and as August boosts himself, with help from his newfound ally, a local sheriff. Some back and forth during a fight makes sense and helps to explain characters’ motivations. But given the amount of time spent on the donnybrook, the dialogue gets old pretty quickly. Morse should trust that his strong artwork can convey the story he is trying to tell.
August: Purgatory Underground #4 will be available for purchase on November 16, 2022.
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After a 50-year break in action, the Grace Christian University Tigers are swinging for the fences again!
Back in the day, Bob Marshall ’72 coached a club team of young baseball players as they scrimmaged teams around the region. The 11-man roster and a few photos live on in the 1972 Grace Bible College yearbook, but the memories of baseball alumni like Charley Young ’75 hold fast.
“It was a blast,” Charley says. “It helped me integrate my faith into everyday life and gave me a platform to share my faith.”
Charley went on to become a lifelong pastor.
The schedule and the coach—and of course, the players—are different, but the mission of Grace Christian University baseball is the same as it was fifty years ago. They continue to focus on more than just the game.
“Our team will bring glory to God through our integrity, work ethic, discipline, and servant hearts,” says head coach, Colton Wolfe.
In September, when fall exhibition games began, Coach Wolfe told Grace becoming the Head Coach was “definitely God’s doing.” Coach Wolfe previously played independent baseball in New Mexico, as well as for Calvin University, where he earned a degree in sports management. At Cairn University in Pennsylvania, he finished a master’s degree in organizational leadership and served as assistant baseball coach before moving back to Michigan. In 2020, he joined the online enrollment team at Grace Christian University, and in the spring of 2021, he accepted the head coach role. Assistant coaches Kyle Peets and Jamie Bristol aid Coach Wolfe.
“To have the opportunity to start from scratch and create a foundation for the years to come is truly an honor,” Coach Wolfe says.
Coach Wolfe’s excitement and vision for the future of Grace baseball has spread to his inaugural baseball team. Jared Garnaat, a midfielder from Lowell, Michigan, is a freshman in the communications program.
“A big goal I have is setting an example for the guys that will be joining our program in the future,” Jared says. “Being a part of the first team gives us all the opportunity to set the course of this program.”[/vc_column_text]
One of the team’s captains, Kelan Knoll, a freshman from Grand Rapids, appreciates the entire Grace Christian University community.
“It’s very important to have people supporting you in doing what you love.”
The Tigers’ 40-game schedule holds games in Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio to play teams in the National Christian College Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Home games are played at Lamar Park in Wyoming, Michigan, just two miles away from campus. The Tigers’ home opener is March 30 at 2:00 p.m. Coach Wolfe looks forward to the community atmosphere the baseball season will bring to Grace Christian University.
“I think it will bring more than just a fun place to go on a Friday afternoon,” Coach Wolfe says. “It will bring another aspect for the student body to feel proud of their institution and peers.”
Baseball is back and here to stay. Come support your Grace Christian University Tigers!
Written by: Kate Klingensmith. Kate Klingensmith is a former Grace student and is excited to support the baseball team this spring.
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Email from Lauren: Dear Doc Shurtz, I have a Lifebook E780 Notebook made by Fujitsu. I never unplug my laptop so it will not drain the battery. However, one of the department managers borrowed my laptop to work on a complex document in Adobe Acorbat Pro 9.
He took my laptop to another cube and did not hook up the power cord that I had given him. I later plugged in the laptop while he was away. He then announced that the file he had been working on was corrupted. He was steamed.
Does my computer need some kind of scan/inspection? He said he thought the laptop went into sleep mode and that probably caused the document to get corrupted. What Can I do to reassure myself that this will not occur again when using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9? Your help is most appreciated. Best, Lauren
Tech Talk Responds: Did he save his document? If it was saved on the hard drive, it should not be corrupted during sleep mode. Abruptly turning off power could do that if the drive head is directly over the document in question, but unlikely. If it was in the process of saving the document, when it entered sleep mode, the document could be corrupted. Also unlikely.
I have seen reports with file corruption in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9. My initial thought is that the PDF files you are trying to combine are not Adobe-made. By that, I mean that if you open one of them (assuming it opens) and look at the Document Properties and checking the PDF Producer. That’s the best place to start. Acrobat Pro 9 is stricter about proper PDF architecture than previous versions of Acrobat, which may explain why you can combine the files using Acrobat 8. The files he was combining may have been the problem. In particular PDF’s created by GPL Ghostscript seem to be a problem. Just another thought.
By the way, keeping your laptop always plugged in guarantees that the battery will not last very long unplugged. You need to discharge a battery to keep it at full capacity.
Email from David in Springfield: Dear Tech Talk. What’s the difference between system restore discs and system repair discs? Thanks, David.
Tech Talk Responds: The terms restore and repair disc are completely ambiguous. The problem is that manufacturers don’t ship full installation CDs for Windows. What they have been doing for the past several years is send Windows pre-installed. They place a copy of the Windows installation media in a hidden partition on your disk. The repair disc (or the restore disc) that they either give you or that you make yourself typically only restores the files from that hidden partition on your hard disk back to the main partition in your hard disk. It reinstalls Windows.
If your hard drive fails you have a problem: no restore media. One solution is to make a full system image of your new computer and that image on another hard drive. That is what you would then restore to instead of reinstalling Windows from scratch. You’re now back where you were on the day you got your new machine. There are some good disk imaging software options from $40 to $60. Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost are a couple. Free versions on Acronis are available form Seagate and Western Digital hard drives.
Email from Andrew: Dear Tech Talk, I want to get an iPad3. However, I love to visit websites with Flash. Will the iPad3 support Flash? Thanks, Andrew
Tech Talk Responds: iPad 3 does not support Flash. Apple seems to have taken a pretty hardline stance against it. Most websites are converting to HTML5 and are eliminating Flash. We did that at Stratford University with our last website upgrade. So it is becoming less of an issue. Even YouTube works without Flash now using HTML5.
Apple (formerly Jobs) said that it is a security and speed issue. Flash does have vulnerabilities and it is processor intensive. They do have a point here. But I think it goes back to back blood between the two companies when Adobe refused to support the Mac many years ago.
Email from Tung in Ohio: Dear Doc and Jim, I just got an iPad3 and want to run Microsoft Office. I cannot find this application in the App Store. What are my options? I want to use this device for work. Love the show. Thank, Tung.
Tech Talk Responds: It is rumored that Microsoft is working on an MS Office version for the iPad. However, at this point it is vaporware. You best option is to use a thin client. Two companies offer thin client versions of MS Office. That means you must be connected to the Internet. You are using their servers for processing. You iPad is simply displaying the results. You files are stored on the cloud, normally.
I have installed two such clients on my iPad2: OnLive Desktop and CloudOn.
CloudOn has been out for awhile and is fully integrated with DropBox, which I use on a regular basis. CloudOn is currently free, but expect a monthly charges soon. They are paying licensing fees to MS. OnLive Desktop just came out last month. It is not integrated with DropBox and is more difficult to use unless you opt for their storage (2 GB free, more is $4.99 per month). My Recommendation: CloudOn.
Email form Alice: Dear Doc, I have assumed for years that a reformat of a hard drive will wipe it clean. I’ve done this to web viruses; recently one that put itself into the drive system folder that couldn’t be removed by Norton or manually. So my question is does reformatting the drive clean it? Thanks, Alice.
Tech Talk Responds: A reformat of the drive deletes all the files; which means that any file that existed on the machine is no longer referenced and all of the data will (presumably) be overwritten by whatever you subsequently write on the disk.
Reformatting may be recoverable. The problem is that formatting a hard drive may not actually erase the contents of the sectors. It’s very much like deleting a file.
It would be possible, in many cases, to “unformat” using some utilities that can do that; or to actually use forensic tools like Recuva that will allow you to go in and undelete files. In other words, the free space that you’ve just created could potentially be analyzed and the files that used to be there recovered.
Now, if you’re looking at this as a way to save yourself from a virus, formatting is fine. It certainly does this “delete function” that you want. I know of no malware that comes back from deleted files, YET.
If you’re really concerned about making absolutely sure that not only are the files deleted, but that they are also not recoverable, then I would look into a tool such as DBan. Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. That will not just delete the files, but overwrites all the free space so that the files can’t ever be recovered. Free download from: www.dban.org.
Email from John: Why are some files locked? How can I scan and delete them? Thanks, John.
Tech Talk Responds: When one application has a file open, depending on how that application has opened the file, it can actually cause the file to be locked. It can be locked in several different ways, but the most basic way is that the file cannot be deleted until that program actually lets go of it. You need to close the program has it locked. There are tools to locate this program by looking at processes. However, you can simply roboot your machine to release any of these processes. If the file is being controlled by the OS, you can use a took like Unlock IT to identify and close the process.
Profiles in IT: Jack Tramiel
Jack Tramiel was an American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International, the manufacturer of Commodore and Amiga home computers.
Jack Tramiel December 13, 1928 in ?ód?, Poland,into a Jewish family.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in ?ód?, where he worked in a garment factory.
When the ghettos were liquidated his family was sent to the Auschwitz.
Tramiel was rescued from the labor camp in April 1945 by the 84th Infantry Division.
In November 1947, Tramiel emigrated to the United States. He soon joined the U.S. Army, where he learned how to repair office equipment, including typewriters.
In 1953, while working as a taxi driver, Tramiel bought a shop in the Bronx to repair office machinery. He named it Commodore Portable Typewriter.
In 1955, Tramiel signed a deal with a Czech company to assemble and sell typewriters in North America. Tramiel set up an assembly shop in Toronto.
Tramiel wanted a military-style name for his company, but names like Admiral and General were already taken, so he settled on the Commodore name.
In 1962, Commodore went public. But the arrival of Japanese typewriters in the U.S. market made the selling of Czechoslovakian typewriters unprofitable.
The company sold 17% of its stock to businessman Irving Gould, taking in $400K.
It used the money to re-launch the company in the adding machine business, which was profitable for a time before the Japanese entered that field as well.
In Japan, Tramiel saw the first digital calculators, dropping mechanical machines.
Commodore released its first digital calculators, using an LED display from Bowmar and an integrated circuit from TI. Shortly thereafter, TI cut Commodore out.
Gould once again rescued the company, injecting another $3 million, which allowed Commodore to purchase MOS Technology, Inc. an IC design and manufacturer.
When their lead designer, Chuck Peddle, told Tramiel that calculators were a dead end and computers were the future, Tramiel told him to build one to prove the point.
Peddle built the Commodore PET, based on MOS Technology 6502 processor.
It was first shown publicly at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977.
The PET would go on to be a success — especially in the education field.
As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage. PET lost market share to Apple II and Atari 800.
Commodore responded with the VIC-20, and then the Commodore 64.
The Commodore VIC-20 was the first microcomputer to sell one million units. The Commodore 64 sold several million units.
In January 1984, Tramiel resigned from Commodore, because of disagreement “on the basic principles—how to run the company”.
After a short break, he formed a new company named Tramel Technology, Ltd., in order to design and sell a next-generation home computer.
In July 1984, Tramel Technology bought the Consumer Division of Atari Inc.
Tramel Technology Ltd. was renamed Atari Corporation.
In 1996, Tramiel sold Atari to Jugi Tandon Storage and joinedthe JTS Board.
Tramiel was a co-founder of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (opened 1993).
Tramiel died on April 8, 2012, of heart failure at the age of 83.
iMac Flashback Trojan Update
Security firm Dr. Web released new statistics Friday showing that the process of eliminating Flashback from Macs is proceeding far slower than expected:
On Friday the security firm, which first spotted the Mac botnet earlier this month, released new data showing that 610,000 active infected machines were counted Wednesday and 566,000 were counted Thursday.
That’s a slim decrease from the peak of 650,000 to 700,000 machines infected with the malware when Apple released its cleanup tool for the trojan late last week.
Earlier in the week, Symantec reported that only 140,000 machines remained infected, but admitted Friday that an error in its measurement caused it to underestimate the remaining infections.
Symantec now agrees with Dr. Web’s much more pessimistic numbers. Tech Talk reported the flawed Symantec estimates last week.
Oracle vs Google Java Showdown
Sun wanted to keep its Java platform open enough to achieve widespread industry adoption, but closed enough so it could retain control to avoid fragmentation.
Opening your code is easy, and controlling your proprietary code is easy, but Sun wanted a unique middle way.
So the procedures Sun wrapped around Java are pretty complex – and they have changed over the years.
But Sun achieved what it had pretty much wanted: extensive industry use of Java, and absence of fragmentation. That is, until Android.
Google admits copying Sun Java code into Android. Google maintains that the code it copied didn’t require a license.
Google also argues that the Android platform, in which Java language code is written against Java classes (before compiled for Google’s VM) doesn’t need a Java license.
Oracle’s case against Google is laid out in a 90-page slide presentation released at the start of the trial this week.
Sun launched Java in 1995 and Oracle bought Sun in 2009. The hostilities began that year – but from new evidence we can see they were always simmering under surface.
Android was founded in late 2003 and bought by Google two years later.
In October 2005, Android founder Andy Rubin suggested to Larry Page that Google ought to pay Sun for a Java license.
According to Oracle’s narrative, negotiations were dragging on into 2006, and Google should have at that point contemplated a non-Java option.
The “What the hell” strategy is in Google’s DNA: there are echoes of the Google Book project and Google’s acquisition of YouTube.
Oracle adds that during this period Google hired key Sun Java personnel, who were working under former Sun executive Eric Schmidt.
Tim Lindholm, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun, helped write the original Java VM, and joined Google the same year Google acquired Android.
Lindholm concluded that all the alternatives “suck” and “we need to negotiate a license for Java”. Google fought a long, hard but ultimately unsuccessful battle to keep this email out of court.
Oracle details the code copied from Java into Google. This makes it difficult for Google to argue it was any kind of clean-room implementation of the key Java libraries (classes). Private classes were copied verbatim.
Android remains the only Java system that doesn’t have a Sun/Oracle Java license.
So… it doesn’t look great for Google.
Check for DNS Redirect: May Lose Internet
Hackers have taken over machine and used DNS redirect to force their machine to go through their servers.
He hackers were put out of commission to by the FBI and the redirected IP addresses were maintained by the government so victims could stay online.
Those servers are about to be shut down and victims will lose Internet access.
Go to the following website to check (and fix) you computer.
Website: http://www.dcwg.org/
African Social Networks Growing Fast
New and fast-growing mobile social networks could challenge Facebook in Africa.
When young maize crops began failing in parts of Kenya earlier this month, the bad news—as well as information about where farmers could get seeds for other crops—spread on many Internet sites, including Facebook, which has 38 million users in Africa.
But it was a mobile platform called iCow—which allows 11,000 farmers and other members to receive livestock-management and other agricultural information—that helped cover the crucial “last mile” to older farmers.
When a message from iCow passed along a tip already posted on Facebook about disease-free seeds available from the Kenya Agri Research Institution, that institution was, within two hours, besieged with hundreds of calls.
iCow is a comprehensive agricultural platform, developed for small scale farmers, accessible by mobile phone and web. Features include the cow gestation calendar, iCow Soko livestock market, access to agricultural extension service experts and much more.
iCow is available in Kenya on Safaricom, Orange and Airtel networks
In return for inputting a few pieces of data on their phone, Kenyan dairy farmers are given tailored, time-sensitive SMS updates on how to look after their cows during gestation, calving and throughout the rest of a cow’s life.
According to some recent research conducted by the iCow team, farmers have witnessed significant increases in milk yields from their cows.
At present iCow is being used by farmers in 37 counties throughout Kenya and expanding all the time.
“Facebook has got the younger farmers on it, and iCow has the older farmers on it.
Facebook did not start out as a mobile platform and is still playing catch-up on mobile applications—witness the fact that it felt compelled to spend $1 billion on the mobile-only Instagram photo-sharing app.
And recent moves in Ghana and South Africa show that Facebook will continue to get a run for its money on that continent.
At the end of 2011, Africa had a population of just over a billion people, and 140 million Internet users.
Website: http://www.icow.co.ke/
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You can trust a good music producer with proper arrangements for recording songs. As these producers possess years of expertise in the music industry, they know what hits the chord among the listeners, and what will bring the most potential as a hit song. They make sure that the song has maximum reach potential without losing artistic integrity.
If you are connecting with a renowned music producer in Los Angeles, you might get access to all the latest equipment for sound recording and editing.
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Domain Name: C2A_RasA2_RasA3
C2 domain first repeat present in RasA2 and RasA3. RasA2 and RasA3 are GAP1s (GTPase activating protein 1s ), Ras-specific GAP members, which suppresses Ras function by enhancing the GTPase activity of Ras proteins resulting in the inactive GDP-bound form of Ras. In this way it can control cellular proliferation and differentiation. RasA2 and RasA3 are both inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate-binding proteins and contain an N-terminal C2 domain, a Ras-GAP domain, a pleckstrin-homology (PH) domain which localizes it to the plasma membrane, and Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) a zinc binding domain. C2 domains fold into an 8-standed beta-sandwich that can adopt 2 structural arrangements: Type I and Type II, distinguished by a circular permutation involving their N- and C-terminal beta strands. Many C2 domains are Ca2+-dependent membrane-targeting modules that bind a wide variety of substances including bind phospholipids, inositol polyphosphates, and intracellular proteins. Most C2 domain proteins are either signal transduction enzymes that contain a single C2 domain, such as protein kinase C, or membrane trafficking proteins which contain at least two C2 domains, such as synaptotagmin 1. However, there are a few exceptions to this including RIM isoforms and some splice variants of piccolo/aczonin and intersectin which only have a single C2 domain. C2 domains with a calcium binding region have negatively charged residues, primarily aspartates, that serve as ligands for calcium ions. This cd contains the first C2 repeat, C2A, and has a type-I topology.
No pairwise interactions are available for this conserved domain.
Total Mutations Found: 6
Total Disease Mutations Found: 0
This domain occurred 8 times on human genes (12 proteins).
Click here to find all genes with this domain
CDD (NCBI), PDB
If you've navigated here from a protein, hovering over a position on the weblogo will display the corresponding protein position for that domain position.
The histograms below the weblogo indicate mutations found on the domain. Red is for disease (OMIM) and blue is for SNPs.
Functional Features are displayed as orange boxes under the histograms. You can choose which features are displayed in the box below.
Range on the Protein:
Protein ID Protein Position
Q9BSW7NP_001129277NP_001129278C9J798NP_001180449NP_001180450NP_004649O95294O43374Q15283Q7L804
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Feature Name: Total Found:
putative Ca2+ binding sit
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Please Cite: Peterson, T.A., Adadey, A., Santana-Cruz ,I., Sun, Y., Winder A, Kann, M.G., (2010) DMDM: Domain Mapping of Disease Mutations. Bioinformatics 26 (19), 2458-2459.
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What Happened to the Two Reservoirs That Were Supposed to Protect Downtown Houston?
By Henry Grabar
Aug 28, 20172:25 PM
Homes are seen inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Monday in Houston.
If you look at a satellite image of Harris County, Texas, where subdivisions cascading west into the Katy Prairie have helped make the Houston area the country’s fastest growing metropolitan region since 1980, you can see two large green splotches on either side of the Katy Freeway. These are the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, evidence of how Houston’s planning has been overwhelmed by unregulated urban growth and a storm no one thought possible.
On Sunday night, as Houston sank beneath record rainfall, the Army Corps of Engineers, which runs the reservoirs, announced it would begin releasing water from the dams. That means more water heading into Buffalo Bayou, the river that drains much of the Harris County watershed into the sea.
You may have seen photos of Buffalo Bayou: Normally it’s a small creek that winds through a lovely park in central Houston, running toward the Houston Ship Channel on the city’s eastern edge. On Sunday it was a sprawling mass of brown water, swallowing highways and neighborhoods in its tide. The bayou was expected to crest at 14 feet above its previous record high.
Colored bands correspond to water levels the reservoir is rapidly surpassing, even as engineers let more water flow downtown.
Army Corps of Engineers
Addicks and Barker were built to protect downtown Houston and keep water out of Buffalo Bayou. So why in the world is the Army Corps opening the gates?
In part because even as Buffalo Bayou surges downtown, the back ends of the reservoirs have begun to push into residential neighborhoods upstream. The reservoirs are filling faster than they can empty, so despite the Corps releasing more water downstream, the pool is expanding upstream. The flooding is increasing on either side of the dams. There are three places for the water to go: through the dam gates, down the emergency spillways along the sides of the dams, and upstream into the neighborhoods. Officials think the water will likely go in all three directions, though ultimately it all ends up in Buffalo Bayou. It’s a balancing act to make sure this happens in the most controlled way possible.
When Addicks and Barker were completed, just after the second world war, Houston had recently endured two cataclysmic downtown floods, in 1929 and 1935. The reservoirs—mostly dry, wooded areas with creeks running through them—could be plugged up to stall whole swaths of the watershed from reaching Buffalo Bayou.
This was the plan …
… when Houston looked like this.
But as development has sprawled west along the Katy Freeway, more and more water is being funneled into the region’s creeks, filling the reservoirs faster. “Of the 10 largest pools that have accumulated in the reservoirs, nine have occurred since 1990 and six of those were since 2000,” ProPublica wrote last year.
Meanwhile, developers swooped in and built tract houses up to the very brink of the reservoirs, which appear in dry times to be forests. It’s probably a very pleasant place to live, except when it isn’t. During last year’s Tax Day floods, those subdivisions on the reservoirs’ western edges flooded. Now they are flooding again. None are in the 100-year floodplain. Most are in the 500-year floodplain, areas that FEMA predicts will flood once every 500 years. They are not obligated to have flood insurance. They have flooded two years in a row.
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Penal System
by Lynn Vincent
Compassion in a crisis
Hurricane Gustav once again underscores the importance of local churches in times of need
Associated Press/Photo by Ron Heflin
When Terry and Marcia Watson heard last week that Hurricane Gustav was bearing down on New Orleans like a recurring nightmare, they knew the wise thing to do would be to evacuate their family of six. Just one problem, though: Marcia is a New Orleans police officer. So for her leaving wasn't an option.
"Terry wanted to stay because his wife had to stay," said Rev. J.B. Watkins, pastor of St. Rock Community Church in New Orleans' 8th Ward, an area shredded three years ago in Hurricane Katrina. "But when they started seeing reports about how serious the storm could be, Terry and Marcia decided he should take the children and leave."
By Monday morning, Rev. Watkins, whose family evacuated to Chattanooga, Tenn., learned Gustav's worst winds had veered west of New Orleans, sparing the city a direct hit. By then, the storm had weakened to Category 2 strength and appeared on track to make landfall in Texas. But "weakened" is a relative term: In Southwest Pass, La., a weather station recorded a sustained wind of 91 mph, with a gust of 117 mph just before 5 a.m. Monday. Hurricane warnings remained in effect from east of High Island, Texas, to the Mississippi.
The advancing storm once again underscored the importance of local churches as sources of compassion in crisis.
"We are in a lower income area of New Orleans, so the majority of our people didn't have the luxury of being able to jump in a car and drive somewhere to get out," Rev. Watkins said. So last Thursday and Friday St. Rock acted as a resource clearinghouse, marshaling money, vehicles, water, and supplies to outfit evacuees. The church also contacted camps and hotels in southern states from Mississippi to the Carolinas to find places to stay for about 40 church members, some with extended family.
St. Rock was able to find a camp in Mississippi that could house Terry Watson and his four children-ages 4, 7, 1, and 13.
"After that, we were able to leave ourselves," Rev. Watkins said. Now, watching the storm from the safety of Chattanooga, he's anxious about the condition of his church buildings. Located on a couple of small properties, church volunteers recently completed construction of a youth room, and had almost finished rehabbing the church sanctuary when Gustav showed up on radar.
"We're a little anxious about that," Rev. Watkins said, but added, "I'm grateful that the main thing I have to worry about is building and materials, and not people's lives."
Lynn Vincent
Lynn is executive editor of WORLD Magazine and producer/host of the true crime podcast Lawless. She is the New York Times best-selling author or co-author of a dozen nonfiction books, including Same Kind of Different As Me and Indianapolis. Lynn lives in the mountains east of San Diego, Calif.
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Twinkle Khanna asks if kids use this tactic to ‘drive mothers insane’, fans call it ‘most relatable thing ever’. Watch
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Actor and writer Twinkle Khanna shared a funny new video on Instagram. In the short clip featuring her, Twinkle shares the ‘soundtrack running through every mother’s life’. Twinkle often shares her pictures and videos on social media. On June 8, she posted a throwback picture from her younger years to mark her mother, actor Dimple Kapadia’s birthday. Also Read: Akshay Kumar says he and wife Twinkle Khanna don’t interfere with each other’s life: ‘We think in opposite directions’
Sharing her new video on Monday, Twinkle wrote, “Is this a deliberate tactic to drive all mothers insane? Do they lurk around waiting to strike as soon as they sense that our bladders feel it’s safe to let go? Are they secretly agents from L’Oréal hoping to turn our hair grey early so we spend all our money on hair dye? Raise your hand if this is the soundtrack of your life as well.” She also added AR Rahman’s song Ma Tujhe Salaam to her Instagram Reels.
On Twinkle video, she added the text, “The soundtrack running through every mother’s life.” Adding some more text, she wrote, “Do kids deliberately wait till you are in the bathroom to call out? Can this be a punishable offence? Point to be noted milord.”
An Instagram user commented on her video, “My husband does this to me all the time. Matlab ki telepathy say pata chal jaata hey ke mein washroom mein hoon (I feel he comes to know that I am in the washroom through telepathy).” Relating to this, one wrote, “Every single time.” One mom wrote, “Yeah story of my life since the last two years at times I hear them in the bathroom even in the middle of the night,” while another one said, “This is the most relatable post that I saw today.”
Twinkle and actor Akshay Kumar married on January 17, 2001. They share two children together – son, Aarav and a daughter, Nitara.
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Reimagining the future of habitation in Greenland
How a collaborative urban design platform could help a new northern vernacular architecture emerge.
Bert De Jonghe
The southern side of “Block P,” a massive apartment complex that once stood in downtown Nuuk, Greenland. A new collaborative approach to urbanism could help Greenland avoid some of the urban design failures from its Danish colonial past. (Vincent van Zeijst / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Despite the fact that urbanization in Greenland was once a tool of Danish colonialism, it is actively employed today by the Greenlandic government to strengthen sovereignty. So how can communities in Greenland explore new ways to interact and collectively experiment with alternative urban futures? I propose a virtual innovation platform that seeks to capture Greenland’s public imagination to start a critical discussion that propels the future of habitation in Greenland.
Greenlandic culture has been subject to external influences for many centuries. Geographer Anthony Dzik writes that the most prominent external impacts on Greenland in modern times have been Danish religious missions and governmental programs, World War II, and the Cold War. Furthermore, a history of Danish control has drastically influenced the Greenlandic urban and social landscape.
One key example of this Danish urban influence is the 200-meter-long and five-story-high apartment complex known as “Block P” in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. Arkitektur DK magazine writes that Block P is a monument of Danish housing policy failure in the 1960s. Representatively for other apartment block projects in that period, Block P was entirely unsuitable for an Inuit lifestyle. For example, hallways were too narrow for people wearing heavy outdoor clothes, and there was no place for their dogs or dogsleds.
Else Løvstrøm, communications officer of Block P’s management association, is quoted in the book Exploring Greenland by saying: “Block P contains all good and all bad. Many have lived harmonious lives in that building, really good lives, but others have had a really hard time. It is very mixed.”
Cultural center Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen writes that Block P was “a type of housing that originated in a decidedly different social structure from that which most of the residents came from: a hunting, fishing society. For those of them who found it particularly difficult to adapt to the new conditions, the move had major personal and social costs and negative consequences.”
Journalist Philip Lauritzen takes an even more critical standpoint. He states that “although [Block P] provided toilets and running water for everyone, [it] soon became an architecturally designed bomb of social maladjustment.” Unfortunately, many of these urban and social challenges still exist today.
To tackle the urban challenges Greenland is facing, we need to identify and closely examine Greenland as a distinct region with unique planning needs. To fully understand those needs, it is critical to listen to the voices and ideas of the local people. Therefore, I propose a virtual innovation platform, The Greenland Collective, to explore new ways to interact and collectively experiment with alternative urban futures.
This platform is an interactive online game highlighting the day-to-day needs of communities in Greenland. By collecting, synthesizing, and visualizing those needs in the format of a website or app, a speculative and virtual northern vernacular emerges, one that can be used to start a critical discussion, plan communities, and propel an inclusive future of habitation in Greenland. Vernacular architecture is characterized by indigenous or traditional structures made of local materials. However, a northern vernacular needs to be understood in a much more locally-specific climatic and social context.
In their book “Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory,” Lola Sheppard and Mason White explore the concept of a northern vernacular. They conclude that “a northern vernacular has [so far] failed to materialize, one that simultaneously responds to the unique climatic, logistic, and socio-cultural realities of the North and the diverse people who live there.” Following Sheppard and White, this project identifies the following elements as critical for a northern vernacular in Greenland: temporality, climate, environmentally accountable renewable energy, affordable housing, local notions of public and private, infrastructure, technological innovation, empowerment, and a balance between resource extraction, tourism, research, and culture.
The proposed virtual innovation platform overlays the ideas and creativity of Greenlandic people with the nine categories mentioned above. Every single member of a Greenland community will be able to log in to this online platform and combine virtual prototypes of the nine categories. In doing so, a playful experimentation process can begin. For example, local people will be able to drag-and-drop different landscapes, housing types, and infrastructures into one collective and alternative urban proposal. Throughout the process, people will be able to see, for example, how their neighbor imagines the future, or the changes their fellow residents are envisioning for their living environment. Local people might then vote for the most innovative, urgent, and useful proposals, and use this platform to start a critical discussion with decision-makers.
Furthermore, Greenland’s government — more specifically, the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure — could take a leading role in terms of funding and organization of citizen proposals. Following professor Frank Sejersen, this project can be a critical addition to the current political path of Greenland. Sejersen writes that “urbanization is not only accepted as a major force in society but is being used actively by the Inuit-run government to strengthen self-determination.” The time is now to push for an inclusive future for Greenland, acknowledging the creative ideas, knowledge, and voices of every single community member.
Bert De Jonghe is a Belgian landscape architect, founder of Transpolar Studio, and a graduate student at Harvard University.
This piece is one of a series of op-eds written by the student-scholars of the Arctic Innovators Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative. You can read the full series on this site.
The views expressed here are the writer’s and are not necessarily endorsed by the Arctic Initiative or ArcticToday, which welcomes a broad range of viewpoints. To submit a piece for consideration, email commentary (at) arctictoday.com.
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Welcome to the House of Fun: India vs England, 3rd Test, Day 2
Feb 25, 2021 thelegglance
A ridiculous day of cricket. A ridiculous Test. One way or the other, the shortest Test match since 1935 isn’t a great advert for the game, even if the watching of it was intense, breathless and extremely exciting. There are two separate things here: firstly that low scoring matches of whatever format tend to be the most thrilling, and for the obvious reason that every single ball matters, but secondly when conditions are so far in favour of the bowlers, it makes batting something of a lottery, and brings things to a close far earlier than should be remotely the case. When the batsmen are in true peril, scavenging every run has a value, while the bowlers take on the aspect of pack hunters, circling their prey. Yet it’s always been the case that when conditions favour one discipline too much over the other, it leads to an unsatisfactory game, and finishing well within two days (and with slow over-rates) is not something to relish.
The question though is how much the pitch is responsible for that. Watching on television caused no end of head scratching as to just why both teams (at least until India’s second innings when the target was so small as to make little difference) struggled so badly. The Chennai surface in the second Test seemed to turn more, and the ball seemed to go through the pitch far more. But the players made it very clear that this was extremely difficult, and their view is the most important. What seems to have happened was that the ball skidding on made it impossible for the batsmen to cope with it – the number of bowleds and lbws indicated that particularly. It isn’t always the explicit turn or bounce that does for them, any more than a two paced pitch visibly makes it clear to the naked eye why drag ons on driven catches are so prevalent – the outcome dictates the reason to the observer. Therefore it can’t be a criticism of all the batsmen, quite clearly the conditions were such that everybody struggled, but it is possible to accept that point and also note that England struggled far more, and should have done much better in the first innings in particular.
England looked utterly out of their depth, a far cry from the first innings of the first Test, and part of a trend of England’s scores getting progressively worse. The lack of pressure in India’s second innings makes a judgment a little hard, for there is a huge difference between the heat and pressure of a live match and when both sides know which way the game is heading and are going through the motions.
While irrespective of result, the pitch, or the pitch in combination with the pink ball, weren’t good enough, it was still the same for both sides, and England should have had the best of the conditions on offer. They chose the wrong team, with three seamers and one spinner, and Joe Root was not only being forced into action, but also picked up five wickets. That is both a credit to him and an indictment of the team England had chosen in the first place. Equally, this match wasn’t remotely lost by the bowlers, but by the batsmen, especially first time around.
England’s slim hopes of making the World Test Championship final are thus extinguished, on the back of having made five successive scores below 200. It’s hard not to conclude that England are getting precisely what they deserve for increasingly abject batting displays. India might be better at home, indeed are better at home, but there’s a difference between being outmatched and being hammered. England are increasingly being hammered, and while they have the chance to square the series, few would bet on them doing so.
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31 thoughts on “Welcome to the House of Fun: India vs England, 3rd Test, Day 2”
Vashtar Feb 25, 2021 / 3:16 pm
Yes the pitch was difficult, but England’s batting especially in the first dig was appalling. So many got out to balls that didn’t spin which suggests a defective technique.
As for Bairstow well it’s time he was jettisoned from Test Cricket, he simply isn’t good enough against any bowler of decent Test Class. He’s now been bowled or LBW more times than any player in Test history, not a stat to be proud of. His second innings was embarrassing, slog first ball, because he knows he can’t defend, next ball bowled through a gate a bus could get through,which proves it.
OscarDaBosca Feb 25, 2021 / 3:32 pm
Agree entirely with your comments about Bairstow. He avgs under 10 to straight deliveries, which isn’t anywhere near appropriate for a test match batsman. I enjoyed this morning, and I agree that Englands technique wasn’t great, but I found it interesting how on both sides the specialist batsmen were getting out to straight balls from the spinners. All of Leach’s wickets were the non-spinning ones. It does suggest that a combination of the ball and the pitch meant they were far more difficult to play. Or maybe test match technique is suffering because the shorter format is more popular.
Can’t wait to see Englands first innings score in the last test, by the law of diminishing returns it may be less than 100.
Marek Feb 25, 2021 / 9:27 pm
Could be worse–someone on another blog described it as an oil-tanker…:-)
Amongst other things, this is a selection blind spot. Bairstow was dropped in 2019 because he had not been scoring enough runs over an extended period (17 tests out of a career of 69) and because he was seen to have some glaring technical defects (as per your comment Vashtar). He’s been recalled twice since then despite having played a grand total of two f-c games–in which he scored 102 runs for three times out,…which is more knocking at the door in the manner of an overly polite trick-or-treater than bashing it down.
I can see why they like him–he’s quite possibly England’s best ever white-ball batsman and his 2016 returns show that he has (or at least had) a very high ceiling as a test batsman. But if they’re going to recall someone who’s been dropped with absolutely no evidence that they’ve sorted out the problems that have led to them being dropped, then this kind of result isn’t surprising.
Marees Feb 25, 2021 / 3:39 pm
Any pitch where a part timer such as Joe Root (or Jesse Ryder) gets wickets for fun is a bad pitch
thelegglance Feb 25, 2021 / 3:45 pm
I’m slightly non-plussed by it all. You’re right, and I can definitely see why the ball skidding on would cause carnage the way it did. But the division as to how much of it was between the pitch, the ball, the combination therein, ineptitude on the part of both batting line ups, the pressure of the situation – I just don’t know.
It was a bloody odd Test, and I’m scratching my head about all of it bar the obvious point that India coped better than England.
Kohli reckoned batting was poor on both sides. I tend to agree, but Joe Root got 5 wickets so…
There are two kinds of red soil pitches.
The one in Chennai usually slow turn. You can safely hit against the spin because the turn is slow.
The Chennai pitch becomes difficult when the spinning ball bounces high after gripping. Thankfully there was not too much of that in the second pitch.
By contrast a pitch like Mumbai where Michael Clarke got lots of wickets despite bowling fast, that is a fast turner where survival usually is a lottery
The Ahmedabad pitch seems to have been prepared in the style of Mumbai/Bombay/Wankhede fast turner pitch
man in a barrel Feb 25, 2021 / 4:19 pm
What a strange match! One of the oddest things was that batting seemed easiest in the final session yesterday when all the commentators were expecting the ball to play tricks. Rohit and Kohli made it seem like an ordinary pitch. I was expecting Rohit to cruise to another big ton today and indeed he was cruising until he missed a sweep. No one else seemed to settle at all,however. Stokes looked and played as if he expected the pitch to detonate under him. It was all quite extraordinary. Sure the odd ball turned sharply and some balls skidded through but it really didn’t seem such a bad pitch. Did the batsmen overthink the problems?
Miami Dad's Six Feb 25, 2021 / 4:21 pm
England should thank their lucky stars India opened with Bumrah and Ishant in the first innings. Without Ishant getting Crawley off to a flyer, it could have been far worse.
Will India be a little embarrassed about this pitch? It won’t look good for Virat’s batting average if it’s the same in the Fourth Test, although they are nailed on to win it if there is a repeat. To be honest, they’re probably nailed on to win it whatever surface they churn out.
Root got 5 wickets but it needs to be put into perspective , 3 were left handers on a turning wicket and 2 were tail enders slogging
India coped better and bowled alot better.
They are a better team than England 🤷
Mark Feb 25, 2021 / 5:20 pm
On pitches like this they are!
And if they are so much better than England they don’t need to produce pitches like these to win on
I See better pitches in the IPL most matches. So the groundsman can produce them, when they want to.
England are just as guilty when they play at home, but it means the quality of cricket contest has been going down hill for the last decade. Two day test matches are absurd.
dArthez Feb 25, 2021 / 6:58 pm
Well, to give an example from England: Trent Bridge has produced 3 scores higher in Test cricket than the ODI record this century. Out of 64 Test innings. With all three totals by England coming against India. Coincidence? Surely not. Admittedly some of those 64 innings were chases, but you get the point. England too can doctor the pitches. Because if they can produce national roads for ODIs, why do they tend to produce seamer paradises for Tests?
IPL, you really can’t generalise. Bangalore produces such flat wickets, that I regularly joke that a team will fail to defend 720 in a T20. Kolkata usually has par at about 140-150-ish. Delhi can be both high scoring and the occasional 120 = winning total pitch as well.
For me a great par score in a T20 would be around 140, and for ODIs in the range of about 220-240 (and slightly higher in small grounds, slightly less in bigger grounds). Novel concept for limited overs cricket: the bowlers are not glorified cannon fodder. But tell that to the groundsmen in England and elsewhere …
Mark Feb 25, 2021 / 10:34 pm
There were more runs scored in the New Zealand vs Australia 20/20 match than the 4 innings of India vs England test match.
I don’t think that is good for test cricket.
I acknowledge England create home pitches that are not good for a contest. I have been saying so for years. So they can’t complain when India do it. But I’m not the ECB or England, so I can say in my opinion it’s not good for test cricket in the wider context.
Well stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before, as the man said…but how many sub-par batting performances does Graham Thorpe have to be involved with as batting coach (he was back to being decribed as batting coach in this match) before HE gets dropped?
Since there was a report in one paper that Trescothick had been appointed batting coach, then I would assume that there is no role for Thorpe–the assistant coach (the old Farbrace role) seeming to be taken by Paul Collingwood.
Thorpe seems to be turning into a 2021 version of 2016-era Andy Flower–shifting job titles, buck stopping absolutely nowhere, not apparently contributing much of value…but still there.
Maybe that’s it. He’s there to provide the batsmen with a model of adhesiveness.
Grenville Feb 25, 2021 / 10:31 pm
My, admittedly unevidenced, gut feeling is that England tend to prepare green seamers because they want home advantage. India prepare bunsens because Kohli wants to be in the game from ball one. Subcontinental test cricket played on well-prepared wickets, if you’ll pardon the heresy, is pretty boring for three days. you win the toss, bat first, try to score 500+ in two and a bit days, hope that your opposition is tired enough that you can knock them over the 350. You crack another 150 to 200 and give yourself four sessions to knock them over on a rapidly deteriorating pitch. I wouldn’t pay to sit in that kind of heat on days 1 to 3. I’m not saying that these three-day pitches are the answer, but it makes for a better spectacle. I also think that Kohli, unlike Dhoni, get bored when things aren’t happening. I think that Dhoni was never that interested in test cricket anyway. Whatever the Kohli Dhoni axis, I suspect that it is very hard to get the balance right. if you don’t do anything funny, you’ll get a slow, low, dead pitch and a dull game for three or 3 1/2 days. I suspect that it is very hard to under prepare the surface and still allow a first-innings par score to be around about 320. I do think that that is what the curators are trying. I don’t think that the groundskeepers in England have any such excuse. It’s not so hard to mow and roll the pitch, even if it is going to be damp in May.
(Having said that, some of the temptation to leave a layer of grass on the wicket in England is a result of the improved drainage. If you did things the old-fashioned way, you probably would get dull, low, slow, dead wickets. If you can’t get pace and carry, you do need lateral movement to make the game interesting.)
Metatone Feb 26, 2021 / 6:27 pm
I didn’t get a chance to watch live, but watching some highlights it does look like an interaction between the pink ball and the pitch to me – rather than the pitch alone. That said, England could have been in this game if they had a couple of batsmen who could adapt and bring out what tends to be thought of as “good technique.” Indian batsmen didn’t do much better, but a bit better and were noticeably getting forward more.
And really for me that’s the disappointing bit. I do think Ed deserves some brickbats for misreading the selection pretty completely, and even with better batting, this match would have finished too early to be called a good pitch… BUT BUT England failed in this predictable way they do where they can’t managed the basics. And I am so tired of it.
Not sure that’s Ed’s job; at the very least, it’s not his alone on tour. I suspect Chris and Joe were more central to it.
man in a barrel Feb 27, 2021 / 12:49 am
Look at Rohit’s stats for this match, compared with everyone else combined.
Marek Mar 1, 2021 / 11:05 am
And this week, ladies and gentlemen, Graham Thorpe is….”full-time assistant coach”–again. How many do they need?!
The new Elite coaches (my, England seem to have gone full-on Justin Langer in their nomenclature) seem to be elite in the sense that they’re working with absolutely everybody from the U19s (sorry, Young Lions) upwards rather than anyone in particular–so I fear that a buck stopping nowhere is with us for a while yet.
Last but not least–if there was a prize (there probably is somewhere) for the talking of jargon- and cliche-ridden, semi-literate corporate bullshit, Mo Bobat would walk it!
Marek Mar 3, 2021 / 2:16 pm
I dunno, you wait ages for a two-day test (or at least Tom Harrison does…:-) and then two come along at once…
Marek Mar 3, 2021 / 10:36 pm
This week’s “promoting youth” award goes to the West Indies T20 side, with its 36-year-old, 37-year-old, 39-year-old and 41-year-old. Bert Ironmonger eat your heart out!
dlpthomas Mar 4, 2021 / 3:54 am
So England drop Broad and Archer and bring in Bess and Lawrence. I’m going to be polite and say that seems brave.
Axar gets a wicket with his second ball.
Just imagine how good Axar will be if he ever start turning the ball.
Meanwhile, Root plumb LBW to Siraj and its 3 for 30.
Tom Kerr Mar 4, 2021 / 9:22 am
You have to admit that Siraj bowled beautifully though. That was some top-class quick bowling. I also got the impression that Root and Stokes seemed to look quite rusty against seam bowling, at times looking as though they were getting beaten for pace. Good knock by Stokes in the end though.
dlpthomas Mar 4, 2021 / 11:29 am
He bowled well in Australia, too. He looks a real prospect.
Miami Dad's Six Mar 4, 2021 / 9:29 am
We’ve bobbed along to 166-6.
There is a bit more batting to come this time around – but on this pitch it feels like we’ve maybe missed an opportunity here. Sibley and Crawley got out to a left arm spinner for the umpteenth time this winter, whilst Bairstow, Root and Stokes missed straight ones.
Are we a bowler short? Stokes has barely bowled this winter and has looked terrible when he has had the ball. If it’s not turning, is Leach good enough to tie up an end? It has started turning a bit more already even in this session, at least.
Swann loves Pope which makes me hate him.
I felt very much the same about going in with only Anderson and Stokes as seamers. In the first session it looked a decent pitch for the quicker bowlers so was a bit worried. I understand England’s thinking but Siraj has shown that someone with decent pace can do a job on this wicket, and getting Bess back in the side might not outweigh the advantage of having Broad or Archer playing. However, as you mention, the pitch is now starting to take spin.
For me, I agree with your argument about Stokes. I would have him in the team every match if that was possible, but not at the expense of another opening quick bowler. Anyway, we might get an answer about that before this day is over as Foakes has just been dismissed.
dArthez Mar 4, 2021 / 10:06 am
Rush of blood by Lawrence may mean that England will post less than 200 six innings in a row.
But it is really not a 200 all out pitch.
Tom Kerr Mar 4, 2021 / 10:16 am
I was thinking it’s a 250 pitch after watching the first session, possibly 300. I think it all depends if the seam movement at the start of India’s innings is the same and if the pitch breaks down enough for the spin to become really difficult to play. Of course, England can counter the spin in India’s innings by bowling a whole bunch of full tosses, so who knows?
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A performance comparison of sensitivity analysis methods for building energy models
Anh-Tuan Nguyen, Faculty of Architecture, Danang University of Science and Technology, 54 Nguyen Luong Bang, LienChieu district, Danang, Vietnam
Sigrid Reiter, LEMA, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liege, Bât. B52, Chemin des Chevreuils 1—4000 Liège (Sart-Tilman), Belgium
Monte Carlo approach, variance-based sensitivity analysis, regression-based sensitivity analysis, Morris method, comparison
The choice of sensitivity analysis methods for a model often relies on the behavior of model outputs. However, many building energy models are “black-box” functions whose behavior of simulated results is usually unknown or uncertain. This situation raises a question of how to correctly choose a sensitivity analysis method and its settings for building simulation. A performance comparison of nine sensitivity analysis methods has been carried out by means of computational experiments and building energy simulation. A comprehensive test procedure using three benchmark functions and two real-world building energy models was proposed. The degree of complexity was gradually increased by carefully-chosen test problems. Performance of these methods was compared through the ranking of variables’ importance, variables’ sensitivity indices, interaction among variables, and computational cost for each method. Test results show the consistency between the Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) and the Sobol method. Some evidences found from the tests indicate that performance of other methods was unstable, especially with the non-monotonic test problems.
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RIP Charlbi Dean, Triangle Of Sadness star
Charlbi Dean
Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto (Getty Images)
Model-actor Charbli Dean has died at the age of 32 due to an unexpected sudden illness on Monday, August 29. Deadline confirmed her death, but no additional details have been shared.
The up-and-comer is known for her lead role in this year’s Palme d’Or winner, Triangle Of Sadness from director Ruben Östlund, also starring Harris Dickinson and Woody Harrelson. Dean and Dickinson lead satirical dark comedy as the high-profile modeling couple Carl and Yaya, who take up an offer to board a cruise for ultra-rich social influencers, which soon devolves into a battle of the classes when the ship sinks and leaves the attendees stranded on a desert island.
Following the film’s Cannes victory, Dean wrote on Instagram, “Congratulations our family we did it!!! @ruben_ostlund you’re the GOAT I’m forever thankful for you for trusting me to be apart of your genius and my dear @sinaostlund Can’t believe I had the best year making this during one of the hardest times in my life. Here’s some pics of the year in Sweden and Greece during the pandemic. Forever and always our @triangleofsadness family.”
The actor made her debut in 2010 with the South African boarding school film Spud. Her other film credits include the sci-fi flick Blood In The Water, Don’t Sleep, and Porthole. In 2018, she boarded The CW series Black Lightning as the assassin Syonide, appearing in nine episodes across two seasons of the show. Triangle Of Sadness marked Dean’s first film appearance in four years.
Triangle of Sadness will soon screen at the Toronto Film Festival and has been selected for the 2022 New York Film Festival. The film’s set for an October 7 theatrical release in the U.S. via distributor NEON.
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UN to aid Taliban led Afghanistan
The UN has warned 18 million people are facing a humanitarian disaster, and another 18 million could quickly join them.
Senior Taliban officials met in Kabul on Sunday with the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who promised to maintain assistance for the Afghan people, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political office and other officials met Martin Griffiths as Afghanistan faces a potentially catastrophic humanitarian crisis caused by severe drought and a collapsing economy.
I met with the leadership of the Taliban to reaffirm @UN’s commitment to deliver impartial humanitarian assistance & protection to millions in need in #Afghanistan. https://t.co/CK0bO7dKhY pic.twitter.com/akB6MxOarg
— Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) September 5, 2021
“The U.N. delegation promised continuation of humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people, saying he would call for further assistance to Afghanistan during the coming meeting of donor countries,” Shaheen said on Twitter.
Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been plunged into crisis by the abrupt end of billions of dollars in foreign aid following the collapse of the Western-backed government and the victory of the Taliban last month.
Shaheen said the Taliban assured the U.N. delegation of “cooperation and provision of needed facilities.”
Read more: U.S. funds humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, and not the government
The United Nations is expected to convene an international aid conference in Geneva on Sept. 13 to help avert what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called a “looming humanitarian catastrophe”.
“The conference will advocate for a swift scale-up in funding so the lifesaving humanitarian operation can continue, and appeal for full and unimpeded humanitarian access to make sure Afghans continue to get the essential services they need,” he said in a statement.
He said development gains must also be protected in the country and that the rights of women were an “essential” part of Afghanistan’s future stability.
Read more: China to keep embassy in Afghanistan and provide aid, Taliban spokesman
Even before the Taliban victory, Afghanistan was heavily aid-dependent — with 40 per cent of the country’s GDP drawn from foreign funding.
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Adobe names David Wadhwani as Executive VP & Chief Business Officer - Digital Media
Wadhwani will be responsible for the company's global digital media business across Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud
Published: Jun 3, 2021 4:12 PM | 3 min read
Adobe today announced the appointment of David Wadhwani as executive vice president and chief business officer, Digital Media. In this role, Wadhwani will be responsible for the success of Adobe’s global Digital Media business across Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud, including all product marketing, strategic partnerships, customer support and go-to-market across geographies, working closely with the Digital Media Product organizations. He will report directly to Adobe president and CEO Shantanu Narayen. Wadhwani previously served as senior vice president and general manager of Adobe’s Digital Media business from 2010 to 2015.
Everyone has a story to tell, and Creative Cloud is providing everyone, from the student to the most demanding professional, with the tools, platform and community to create and amplify their stories. In a world where work needs to be done from anywhere and with anyone, Document Cloud is accelerating document productivity, redefining how people view, edit, share, scan and sign documents across every surface.
By delivering continuous product innovation, executing a rigorous data-driven digital business and expanding into new categories, geographies and customer segments, Creative Cloud and Document Cloud target an addressable market that Adobe estimates to be approximately $62 billion by 2023.
“We’re thrilled to welcome David back to Adobe to lead our Digital Media business. He is a transformational leader with an exceptional record of operational excellence, innovation and growth,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO, Adobe. “David’s extensive experience, impressive track record and passion for Adobe and our customers make him the ideal choice to lead the explosive creativity and document categories through their next phase of growth.”
“I’m excited to return to Adobe at a time when digital content is becoming the foundation of expression and engagement for everyone, from individual artists, storytellers and business owners, to the largest global brands,” said David Wadhwani. “Creative Cloud and Document Cloud are helping millions around the world express themselves and digitize their workflows in innovative ways. The tailwinds in Adobe’s Digital Media business are immense, and I look forward to leveraging this moment to deliver even more value to our customers.”
Wadhwani returns to Adobe from Greylock Partners where he is a Venture Partner. Prior to joining Greylock, he was president and CEO of AppDynamics, leading the company as it transformed to a SaaS-first business and grew annual recurring revenue approximately 10 times in four years. Cisco acquired AppDynamics in 2017 for nearly $4 billion.
As senior vice president and general manager of Adobe’s Digital Media business from 2010 to 2015, Wadhwani played an instrumental role in advancing the company’s category leadership, expanding into new markets and contributing to its successful transformation to a cloud-based subscription business. He joined Adobe in 2005 through the company’s acquisition of Macromedia, Inc., where he had been vice president of developer products. Wadhwani holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University and serves on the Brown computer science department advisory board. David is on the digital advisory board for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and on the Board of Trustees for StoryCorps and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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Havas Group gets majority stake in HRZN
HRZN is an emerging independent German creative agency for social media and content
Havas Group today announced it has taken a majority stake in HRZN, one of Germany's emerging independent creative agencies for social media and content. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mannheim with two additional branches in Düsseldorf and Hamburg, HRZN specialises in all disciplines of online-located brand communication – from social media consulting, social listening and analytics to content, brand experience and community management.
The 45-strong team of experts led by Managing Director Stephan Lachmann supports well-known brands and has established an in-depth specialisation in the retail, FMCG and automotive segments.
Yannick Bolloré, Chairman and CEO of Havas Group, says: “We are delighted to start 2023 by welcoming a new member to the Havas family. HRZN is a fantastic addition to our Group and will further strengthen our social media offering which sits at the heart of our Villages. The HRZN teams will work hand in hand with all our creative and media agencies in Germany to provide top-of-the-range solutions for our clients. Our teams have already successfully partnered together in recent pitches, and the potential for future collaboration is endless. A very warm welcome to the team!”
Stephan Lachmann, Managing Director HRZN: "HRZN stands for creative and data-based social media communication as a one-stop shop with a clear focus on client impact. Together with Havas, we now have the opportunity to act even more effectively and holistically in the market and to expand the range of services for clients beyond the industries and regions previously served by HRZN."
HRZN focuses on the consumer-oriented potential exploitation of brands online and implements effective communication and marketing projects that, starting with consulting, extend to web and app development. For example, HRZN is responsible for several holistic campaigns (social media, POS, OOH, digital) as well as community management and social media crisis communications.
"With HRZN, we refine our service offering in Germany and expand the value chain of our fully integrated portfolio under one agency brand. We mutually strengthen our disciplines, which are becoming increasingly relevant for modern marketing, and offer our clients one-stop solutions in an increasingly complex environment. This is another step towards meeting the demands of agility and flexibility that are being placed on an agency," comments Peter Mergemeier, CEO Havas Creative Group Germany.
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‘Letting PIB alone to decide on fake news will make it easier to muzzle free press’
Editors Guild of India expresses concerns over draft amendment gives authority to PIB to determine the veracity of news reports
The Editors Guild of India has expressed concerns over the recent draft amendment made to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) that gives authority to the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to determine the veracity of news reports, and anything termed ‘fake’ will have to be taken down by online intermediaries, including social media platforms.
The amendment was uploaded on the Ministry’s website on January 17, 2023.
“At the outset, determination of fake news cannot be in the sole hands of the government and will result in the censorship of the press. Already multiple laws exist to deal with content that is found to be factually incorrect. This new procedure basically serves to make it easier to muzzle the free press, and will give sweeping powers to the PIB, or any “other agency authorised by the Central Government for fact checking”, to force online intermediaries to take down content that the government may find problematic,” the guild said in a statement.
“Further, the words "in respect of any business of the Central Government” seems to give the government a carte blanche to determine what is fake or not with respect to its own work. This will stifle legitimate criticism of the government and will have an adverse impact on the ability of the press to hold governments to account, which is a vital role it plays in a democracy.
“It must be further noted that the Guild had raised its deep concerns with the IT Rules when they were first introduced in March 2021, claiming that they empower the Union Government to block, delete, or modify published news anywhere in the country without any judicial oversight. Various provisions in these rules have the potential to place unreasonable restrictions on digital news media, and consequently media at large,” it noted further.
The Guild has urged the Ministry to expunge this new amendment, and to initiate meaningful consultations with press bodies, media organisations, and other stakeholders, on the regulatory framework for digital media, so as to not undermine press freedom.
Happening Today: e4m Pride of India Brands – The Best of North conference & awards
The event will be held in Delhi
exchange4media group is hosting the Pride of India Brands - The Best of North conference and awards ceremony today in Delhi. The half-day conference will be followed by a felicitation ceremony recognising the brands of north Bharat. The e4m Pride of India Brands Awards 2023 will celebrate and felicitate brands from the Northern belt of India that have been game-changers.
The theme of the conference is “Building brands for Bharat: Investing in Bharat’s future & reshaping the growth story.” The conference and awards are presented by ABP News and are Co-powered by Star Plus. Fancode is the Co-Gold Partner while the knowledge partner for the event is TAM.
The agenda of the conference is a power-packed one with various brand leaders sharing their seasoned insights. The programme will witness a report unveiling, five panel discussions and a fireside chat.
The conference will be opened with the unveiling of a report by LV Krishnan, CEO, TAM Media Research. In today’s competitive landscape with escalating margin pressures, scaling profitability and gaining an edge over the competition requires advertising campaigns that are relatable, accessible and most importantly feasible for the businesses. Our speaker will share an exclusive report on ‘Advertisement spending and the future of brands of north Bharat’.
While there is no doubt that digital has essentially become a must-have for brands today and is growing exponentially, it is also no secret that TV’s audience scale and presence are massive & all pervasive whether it be large metros or Heartland Bharat. Panellists will try to understand the power that TV holds in building brands and successful Indian Businesses in the first panel discussion on ‘Power of TV building brands and successful Indian businesses’. The session chair for the discussion will be Amrutha Nair, Head - Entertainment Ad Sales & Strategy, Disney Star
The panel members are:
Charu Malhotra, VP & Head of Marketing, Hindware Limited
Jaikishin Chhaproo, Head Media & PR, ITC
Samir Sethi, VP & Head Of Brand Marketing, Policybazaar
Archana Aggarwal, VP- Media, Airtel
Priti Murthy, President, GroupM Nexus
The above-mentioned panel will be followed by another panel discussion on the topic “Powerful marketing strategy: A key to success”. Through the evolution of time, marketing has remained a very important part of the brand-building process. However, marketing has time and again diversified and classified itself owing to the various stakeholders involved and the need of the hour. In this panel, the aim will be to understand how optimizing the marketing budget, content and the concepts underlying the initiatives can make a difference in building a brand that India trusts.
The panel will be chaired by Amit Wadhwa, CEO, Dentsu Creative (India ) and the panel members will be:
Suman Varma, CMO, Hamdard ( Medicine Division )
Amit Anand, MD, Apis India
Udita Bansal, Founder & CEO, TrueBrowns
Prashant Sinha, Co-Founder, Momspresso
Raghunandan Saraf, Founder & CEO, Saraf Furniture
Ravi Singhal, CEO, GCL
Up next, there will be another panel discussion on “Data & Digital: Tools for new Bharat”. The huge increase in customer interactions and touchpoints has created enormous amounts of data – that has in spite of creating new challenges for brands, brought about enormous opportunities to enhance the brand-building process.
In this discussion, panellists will try to explore the importance of identifying many Bharats within Bharat with the use of data and technology in order to reach the ambition of New Bharat.
Please welcome on stage our moderator Shradha Agarwal, Co-founder and CEO, Grapes
The panelists will be:
Varun Khurana, CEO & Founder, Otipy
Aloke Bajpai, Group CEO & Co-Founder, Ixigo
Ameya Dangi, CEO, Niine Hygiene
Sidharth Kedia, CEO, Nodwin Gaming
Mugdh Rajit, Marketing Head, Lava International
Amit Gupta, MD- SAG Infotech
Are there any parameters to define ‘Success’? Especially when it comes to homegrown brands in India. And if yes, what are the secrets of building a successful brand that is truly Indian at heart? We will find answers to these questions and more in another panel discussion at the e4m Pride of India Brands - The Best of North which will explore “Success Stories”.
The session chair for the discussion will be Ruhail Amin, Sr. Editor exchange4media & BW Businessworld and the panelists will be
Aakash Anand, Partner, Ananta Capital, Founder & CEO- IDAM House
OAkshay Bector, Chairman & MD, Cremica Foods
Arushi Jain, Director, Akum Drugs
Varun Ganjoo, Co-Founder & CMO, Baazi Games
Punkaj Guptaa, Director, RP Foam Home Pvt Ltd.
Though an intangible asset, brand trust is key in building brands for Bharat. Almost a “new marketing currency” that goes beyond traditional motivators like price or discounts — brand trust is a long-term approach to building stickiness with consumers
In this exclusive chat on Building brand that Bharat Trusts with Mona Jain, Chief Revenue Officer, ABP Network;
Upasana Taku, Chairperson, Co-Founder & COO, MobiKwik will share the roadmap to revolutionizing digital payments in India.
The conference will be concluded with a “Leader’s Roundtable”. For an industry of such scale that is expanding daily, there is always so much new to learn and the leader’s roundtable will be a window to this wisdom.
The session chair for the panel discussion will be moderator Aditi Mishra, Chief Executive Officer, Lodestar UM and the panellists will be:
Akshay Modi, Joint Managing Director, Modi Naturals
Jitendra Agrawal, CEO - Lighting & Consumer Durables, Surya Roshni
A. K Tyagi, Executive Director, Haldirams
Daviender Narang, Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management
Deepak Sahni, Founder & CEO, Healthians
The awards are a recognition and celebration of the best brands built by North Indian business houses over the years and honour the indomitable spirit of these businesses during challenging times. The awards are given to the brands of North India that have demonstrated leadership, strategic accomplishments, creativity and constant innovation in their product, processes and marketing practices.
https://e4mevents.com/pride-of-north-india-brands-2022/agenda
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ShareChat lays off 20% of its workforce
The move comes shortly after parent company Mohalla Tech's decision to shut down its fantasy gaming platform Jeet11 in December 2022
In the latest spate of firings from the tech industry, ShareChat has announced its decision to let go of 20% (close to 600 employees) of its workforce as part of its cost-cutting exercise. The company announced through an internal mail that the layoffs were carried out to help the company sustain "several external macro factors that impact the cost and availability of capital."
The tech company said that the decision to lay off 20% of its "incredibly talented employees" was one of "the most difficult and painful decisions" in its history.
It added that expensive capital has forced companies like ShareChat to solely "prioritise their bets and invest in the highest-impact projects."
The move comes shortly after Mohalla Tech shut down its fantasy gaming platform Jeet11 in December 2022, when 100 of its employees were let off.
As per the company communique, the severance package will comprise salary for the notice period, two weeks' salary for every year served at ShareChat, payment of full variable till December 2022 and health insurance cover, which will remain active till June 2023.
Tata Tea selects Media.Monks as its digital & content partner
The remit will include a wide scope of digital and content work, from tech integration to creative ideation and content across all digital platforms
Tata Tea has roped in Media.Monks as its digital and content partner.
“Tata Tea, with multiple national and regional brands, holds a mirror to the diversity of India and its varied taste in tea. Recognizing this, Tata Tea’s marketing approach is to connect with its diverse customers through relevant digital content. In order to do this with high quality and at the scale that a hyper-local approach requires, it has selected Media.Monks as its digital and content partner,” the company said.
The remit will include a wide scope of digital and content work, from tech integration to creative ideation and content across all digital platforms.
Adding to this, Kiran Ramamurthy, chief operating officer, Media.Monks India, says, “It is an honor to partner with Tata Tea. The assignment comes with a huge responsibility - to build on the amazing work that brands from the Tata Tea stable have been doing. It calls for creating in the digital universe, brand stories that resonate state by state through sharp local insighting. It will also be about using technology to bring these brand stories to life. We are excited to bring together content specialists from virtually every part of the country to work on this mandate.”
Media.Monks, which connects content, data & digital media, and technology services across one team, built from the bottom up, is ideally suited to this mandate.
PVR-Inox merger deal gets NCLT approval
The merged entity will be known as PVR-Inox
The Bombay Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday approved the merger between multiplex chains PVR Limited and Inox Leisure.
The merged entity will be known as PVR-Inox. According to some media reports, the merged entity will become the largest film exhibition company in India, operating 1,546 screens across 341 properties in 109 cities.
The branding of existing screens will not change. Theatres that open after the merger will be branded as PVR-Inox.
PVR's Joint Managing Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli reportedly said the combined entity would have 3,000 to 4,000 screens in five years.
"We would add 200 to 250 screens every year and we are looking in the next five years maybe (as) 3,000 to 4,000 screens company," reports quoted him as saying.
Indian Business Literature Festival-Gurugram to be held on Jan 11
IBLF recognises and appreciates the life and career experience of industry veterans
Business is an ever-evolving, multi-faceted arena. Everyone has a take on how businesses should be run, and what it takes to ‘make it’ in a competitive industry. It is one of the oldest topics ever written about, and while a lot of ground is already covered, there is still a lot more that can be said. This is why we have authors, speakers, and industry experts from all walks of life who have something to contribute to business and its various aspects.
Recognising this fact, BW Businessworld Pvt Ltd is organising the Gurugram chapter of the ‘Indian Business Literature Festival’ (IBLF) on the 11th of January 2023, at the Leela, Gurugram. It is often observed that with growing seniority in a company, the time to read becomes progressively scarce. The idea of IBLF is to re-instil the habit of reading in CXOs. Once the senior leadership develops the habit of constant reading and learning, it becomes easier for them to inspire young professionals in their company to follow suit.
While we acknowledge reading is a habit one should develop, an even harder task is to write effectively. IBLF is a celebration of all those who are able to accomplish the difficult task of putting forth their thoughts in a lucid and effective manner. The star-studded event will witness the who’s who of top leadership across industries. IBLF recognises and appreciates the life and career experience of industry veterans, who should be celebrated as heroes in their own right. The event has a curated set of speakers who will be present to discuss their work. Some of them include:
‘Fossil Free’ by Sumant Sinha, Chairman and CEO, RenewPower who will be discussing his work
‘Claiming Citizenship and Nation’ Associate Professor, Dr. Aishwarya Pandit, Jindal Global Law School
‘Survive or Sink : An Action Agenda for Water , Sanitation , Pollution and Green Finance.’ By Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairperson, Rothschild & Co India, Senior Advisor, Advent International Private Equity, India
‘The Art of Management’ by D. Shivakumar, Group Executive President- Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Aditya Birla Group
‘The Heart of Work’ by S.V.Nathan, Partner & Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte India.
‘The Rule of 5’ by Paul Dupuis, Chairman & CEO, Randstad Japan
‘Alive’ by Rachna Chhachhi, Founder, RachnaRestores
‘The $10 Trillion Dream and Many More’ by Subhash Chandra Garg, Economic, Finance and Fiscal Policy Advisor SUBHANJALI, Former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Government of India
Corporate Frauds: Bigger, Broader, Bolder’ by Robin Banerjee, President & CEO, Caprihans India Ltd.
‘Decisive Decade: India 2030 Gazelle or Hippo’ by Dr.Kiran Karnik, Author, Columnist & Former President, NASSCOM
Strategic Challenges India in 2030 by Mr.Jayadev Ranade, President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy
‘How Come No One Told Me That’ by Mr.Prakash Iyer, Founder - CEO, Leadership Works
‘The Protectors’ by Kunwar Vikram Singh, Chairman, Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI)
‘Vedas – A New Perception’ by Daksha Bharadwaj, Partner, Bharadwaj Bharadwaj & Associates Architects & Planners, Founder Trustee, Dr Satyakam Bharadwaj Vedic Research Foundation
‘The Subtle Shifts of Radical Change’ by Nikhil Daddy, VP and MD, GoDaddy India.
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Feodor Georgiev
This is a guest post from Feodor Georgiev. Feodor has worked with SQL Server for over 15 years, specializing in database architecture, Microsoft SQL Server data platform, data model design, database design, integration solutions, business intelligence, reporting, as well as performance optimization and systems scalability.
In the past 3 years, he has expanded his focus to coding in R for assignments relating to data analytics and data science. Outside of his day-to-day schedule, he blogs, shares tips on forums and writes articles on his Data Messenger blog.
SQL Compare Snapshots: a lightweight database version control and rollback mechanism
During the proof-of-concept phase of development work, SQL Compare Snapshots offer an easy way to work out what broke, if a change causes some tests to fail, as well as a simple ‘roll back’ technique to return quickly to the last working copy.
I’m a big fan of using SQL Compare during proof-of-concept (POC) development. During the very early stages, I’m often unsure of the value of my current coding efforts and am not ready to commit unstable changes to a version control system (VCS). However, I do need a lightweight way to keep track of my changes. For this, I use SQL Compare to script my source database into an empty directory, together with a click-button way to synchronize the directory, so that it reflects my latest swathe of POC changes.
This article describes a simple extension to these techniques, incorporating SQL Compare Snapshots. A snapshot is a compact, binary file that captures a point-in-time copy of the structure of the source database. A snapshot does not contain any table data. It works a bit like a tag or branch in a VCS, but a snapshot can’t be modified, and so represents a completely stable view of the database structure, as it existed when it was created.
Even during a POC, I’ll develop simple tests to verify that my changes behave as I expect, under a range of conditions. When I reach a point where a POC passes my initial tests, I’ll save it as a SQL Compare Snapshot. This gives me an easy way to work out what I broke, if subsequent changes cause some tests to fail, as well as simple ‘roll back’ technique to return quickly to my last working copy.
Creating a new snapshot
To create a new SQL Compare Snapshot, open a new project, specify the Target as a Snapshot, and click Create….
The source for the new snapshot can be a database, a backup, another snapshot, a version control directly or a simple scripts folder. In this example, I use a database.
Specify the SQL Server instance (a SQL Server 2016 instance), the name of the database (Customers), and a name and location for the snapshot. By default, the name will be the same as the source database. However, you may wish to adapt this to reflect the current database version, for example. The location will be the current user’s Documents folder on the local machine.
Having created a snapshot, we can use it as a target, as a source, or as both.
Using a snapshot as the source
When we use a snapshot as a source, SQL Compare will compare it to the target and generate a deployment script to synchronize the target so that it matches the state of the source snapshot. This has multiple uses.
Creating a scripts directory
If the source is a snapshot and the target is an empty database, or empty scripts folder, the resulting deployment script will create all the database objects, or all the database object scripts, as they exist in the snapshot.
It might be that your system administrator gives you a SQL Compare snapshot of the current production database, as the starting point for your POC development, for example if access to the production data is prohibited, or simply as a quick, lightweight alternative to a database backup, in cases where the course database is very large.
We can simply script the snapshot into an empty directory. I described this basic process in my previous article and the only difference here is that we set a snapshot as a source, rather than a database. Notice that the source lists the Customers database that was the source for the snapshot (taken from a SQL Server 21016 instance) rather than the snapshot itself.
After we have compared the snapshot to the empty script folder, we select the objects we are interested in deploying. In this case we deploy everything.
Finally, we specify how we would like to deploy the changes, either letting SQL Compare write the scripts directly into the folder or creating a deployment script for review.
This results in a directory of object scripts, that we can use as a lightweight versioning mechanism during POC work. We can build a new database from these scripts, fill it with any test data we need, make our required database changes, run tests, and then update the directory with our changes, by comparing the development database, as the source, to the script directory, as the target.
Notice in Figure 5 that we have an option to create a snapshot of the target before deployment. This provides a very useful ‘rollback’ mechanism, during POC work, and highly recommended during database releases generally, for ensuring there is a safe way to “reverse out” of the deployment, if required.
Generating a rollback script
If the source is a snapshot and the target is a newer version of the database, or of the underlying script directory, then the deployment script will modify the target so that its structural state matches that of the snapshot. In effect, this means it will roll back all changes, reverting any object modifications, deleting any objects that were subsequently added, and recreating any that were removed.
Let’s say I’ve deployed a new CustomersPOC database, from the scripts folder, to my development SQL Server 2017 instance, and then made some database changes to my development copy (dropping a table), and I now run a comparison with the original snapshot as the source.
Before deploying any changes to the target, we have the option to Backup target before deployment, and SQL Compare will either create a full database backup, which will back up the schema and all data, or create a new SQL Compare snapshot of the target, which will be a schema-only copy, saving both time and disk space. This is useful if I want to, for example, re-run certain tests on the previous POC, but don’t want to lose my subsequent work
Finally, we generate the deployment script which will, in this case, recreate in my target CustomerPOC database the Contacts table I previously dropped.
SQL Compare will first capture a new snapshot of the target (my CustomersPOC development database) and then run the deployment script to modify CustomersPOC, synchronizing with the original Customers snapshot.
Using a snapshot as the target
We’ve already one way using the snapshot as a target, when we wish to create a new snapshot from the current source, either at the start of the development project, or to save the state of the source database for later use.
However, we can also use an existing snapshot as a target and compare it to a database, backup, scripts folder or another snapshot. Remember that we cannot modify an existing snapshot, so the target of the resulting deployment script is, in fact, the source database for the snapshot. The deployment script will synchronize the target so that it is the same structurally as the source database.
This is useful when it approaches the time to deploy the development changes to pre-production environment, or to production. The team can, for example, compare the latest database version, in development, with a snapshot of the production database, and provide the DBA with the deployment script, for detailed review.
Using snapshots as both source and a target
Sometimes the team will want to compare two snapshots. This might happen if, for example there was no way to directly compare the source development database to the latest database version in a different environment, because they are on separate network segments. Alternatively, the development team might have several PoC snapshots and want to know the difference between them so that they can merge the changes into a single database.
With a snapshot set as both source and target, SQL Compare will generate a deployment script to modify the database for the target snapshot so that it matches structurally the source snapshot. So, for example, if the development team provides the DBA with a snapshot of the final version of the development database, the DBA could compare it to the latest snapshot of the production database, and examine the resulting deployment script.
Snapshots provide an easy way to keep track of changes during development work, whether they are small changes between iterations, or significant changes between releases. Snapshots can be used to quickly generate rollback scripts during releases even in environments which are isolated by infrastructure design for security reasons.
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There was still tape stuck to Nihlus’s nose. Even then, the lines were unbalanced.
Disregarding all else, symmetry is the most important element for traditional insignia.
The light in the cockpit was too dim. It must be the light; Saren hoped it was the light, casting the shadow of a crooked smirk on Nihlus’s otherwise handsome features.
Do not apply more than two coats to the same area. Covering the designated area in a single stroke is optimal in practice.
The stripes over his cheekbones were too thin, but he dared not paint over them a third time. They would become thick and matte, like the ruined pattern over his left ear. A stifling coat that ill suited the texture of his youthful, scarless plates.
Saren leaned back and crossed his arms, inspecting his handiwork.
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Nihlus’s body flopped into the navigator’s seat. Nihlus’s mind was still in the corridor; checking the VI’s notice board, turning down the lightstrips, salivating at the smell of lightly-burnt rations wafting from the miniature oven. Must have set it for a few minutes too many. Damn colonial models. Seemed like everyone out there ate their food raw, their kitchens all automated and sterile, like medical labs. No feral varren to fight you for your share on your way back to the hab, no need for fires to scorch away the dirt. Just as well. He’d never fancied the taste of ash.
The screens in the cockpit flickered like the flames in his memory, but without warmth. That came courtesy of the vents on the ceiling, roaring in overtime. A yellow ribbon fluttered in the stream. The thermochromic fabric had turned white at the knot, his favourite litmus test for the temperature of home. A pleasant 310K, long attached to a bill he couldn’t afford. He put his feet up on the console. And now? Who’s got the last hearth now?
Nihlus paused at the foot of the stairs and waved the plastic tube. “I’m looking for a replacement water filter. The small ones, for the tap.”
“They’re on the third row.” Saren’s eyes narrowed as Nihlus padded his way across the vehicle bay. “Use a ladder.”
There were perfectly sturdy crates lined up in the bottom row. But still, the ladders were just a few steps away from the workbench, and it gave him an excuse to peer over Saren’s shoulder. Saren was poking at something small, and the panels overhead were set to maximum brightness. Maybe he’d picked up that targeting system from Ilium after all.
Nihlus spotted the cushioned case, hidden behind a tri-tiered toolbox. Wasn’t the targeting system. He whistled.
“So that’s the new pair. How do they fit?”
“The reason I ran the cycle five times, Nihlus, is because that is the minimum number mandated by the revised Biodiversity Conservation Act to eliminate all contaminants. Zurael-2 is a garden world under the observation of the United Institute of Exoscience Studies, and they are very sensitive when it comes to…”
Nihlus subtly dialled down the volume, stretched, and yawned. The inside of his helmet fogged up briefly, to be replaced by an overlay showing the optimal path to their destination. Damn, quite the steep climb.
He shouldered his pack, pulling the straps tight around his cowl, and checked behind him one last time. His ship was hidden beneath a giant sheet of camo-cloth. Careful observers would never be fooled; even without the ragged holes, the cloth was only a pale imitation of the surrounding alien landscape, so bright and beautiful it made him want to burst into song. He was panting from creatively tying the cloth around every fin and strut of the excessively angular vessel, but one look at the rosy skyline reinvigorated him, filled his chest with awe, and massively improved the quality of his recycled oxygen.
As the door slid open, Desolas wished fervently that the voices belonged to the plumbers.
They did not.
The man wore white and blue and black. The symbol on his cowl matched the one on the skycar downstairs. He was kneeling, and he had his back to Desolas. He had a tiny vial between his talons. A complex-looking machine sat on the ground nearby.
The woman wore the same colours, but her face was bare. In one hand she held what appeared to be a thermometer, and in the other, Saren’s wrist.
“You’re a precocious thing, but you should listen to her,” the man said. “Patience is key, remember.”
“The recommended exercises are all on the handbook,” the woman said gently, pocketing her instrument so she could clasp Saren’s hand in both her own. The scales on her right thumb were a different colour from the rest. “I’ve updated the community caretakers and systems with your new access level. Be a good soldier. Don’t make me revoke it.” She winked.
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18% GST on air freight leaves bad taste in the mouths of Indian betel leaf exporters
Say, the move could see Bangladesh, India’s main competitor, gaining. Betel leaf, used in making paan and as mouth fresheners, is mainly exported to the UK, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Oman.
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A revival in betel leaf export from India has been marred by the imposition of 18 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on air freight. Exporters fear this may allow India’s main competitor Bangladesh to gain an upper hand in the export markets, particularly the UK, which, with the presence of a large Asian population, has become the top buyer of Indian betel leaves.
Earlier, Pakistan used to be a big consumer of Indian betel leaves which went from Kerala and other places. But the shipments thinned after the Kargil war and gradually stopped, as relations between the two countries soured and Pakistan imposed higher duty for Indian betel leaf.
The market for betel leaf, which is used in paan and as mouth fresheners, in India is concentrated in Kolkata from where it is taken to several countries by air. It goes to Bangladesh, a significant buyer, by road. The UK, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Oman are the other chief destinations.
Betel leaf exports saw a surge after the registration of exporters for shipments to the UK and European Union (EU) came under the Shellac and Forest Products Export Promotion Council (Shefexil) from September 2021. The council became the competent authority to issue the health certificate, instead of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda).
India exported $6.18 million worth of betel leaves in FY22, compared to $3.56 million in the previous year. The industry reckons that the export would have more than doubled this year if the GST on air freight had not been enforced. Interestingly, there is no GST on betel leaves.
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According to Dr Debjani Roy, Executive Director of Shefexil, 630 consignments amounting to 378 tonnes of betel leaves were shipped from February to November 2022 to the UK and France without any rejections for salmonella.
Indian betel leaf consignments had faced rejections due to the presence of the bacteria salmonella from the UK and Europe in the last few years. “After it came under Shefexil, we have competently addressed the issue of salmonella by educating the farmers and streamlining the production and testing procedures for issuing the health certificate,” Roy said.
The price realisation for export is more now as it is sent directly. When they did not get health certificates from Apeda, the exporters used to send the consignments to Sri Lanka, Thailand or Malaysia and re-export it to the UK or Europe changing the origin. Since this involved additional expense, it affected the export margins.
Bangladesh, which also exports betel leaf to the UK and Europe, could be the chief gainer because of the 18 percent GST charged on air freight by the government of India from October 2022. “We purchase the leaves at about Rs 210 per kg from farmers. And after adding all the expenses, we sell at Rs 300 per kg. GST is on top of this. Bangladesh doesn’t have GST and their production has increased, allowing the country to export at cheap rates,” said prominent exporter Premjit Adak, adding that it has led to a decline in Indian shipments in the last two months.
The traders and the exporters have taken up the issue with the government. “The government says they will refund the GST money. In that case, why should they impose it in the first place. As a result, the exporters are facing cash flow problems,” said Ankush Saha, Director of JGB Agrofresh Pvt Ltd.
West Bengal is now the leading producer of betel leaf in India. It is also grown widely in southern and northeastern states. E Arun, Partner of Suraj Trading, based in Kerala, buys betel leaf from the Kolkata market and exports it to Israel. “Since it is cultivated round the year in West Bengal, availability is not a problem. We do two shipments of around 200 kg a week. It is consumed by the Indians and other Asians in Israel,” he said.
In places like Kerala, the cultivation is seasonal with arrivals limited to the January-April period. Betel leaves from Tirur in Malappuram district of Kerala used to be much favoured in Pakistan fetching high prices. “Around 10 tonnes used to go from Tirur a week during the heydays of export. It was a lucrative business and leaves used to fetch Rs 1,300 to Rs 1,400 per kg,” Arun said. Pakistan’s betel leaf market has been captured by Sri Lanka. Betel leaf from Tirur now goes to states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan for making paan.
PK Krishnakumar is a journalist based in Kochi.
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It was about this time last year that Dimitri, Ron and I set out to launch a site dedicated to OS iPhone and the apps that would run on it. It was a mad rush to launch the site prior to the release of OS iPhone 2.0 and then a continued race to load the site with the initial App Store apps last July. In the year since the App Store has grown to over 50,000 apps, well more than a billion have been downloaded and the site has grown tremendously.
As a dedicated, some might say obsessed, iPhone user who really believes this is the next great computing platform, WOiP has been an absolute labor of love. Through it I have met some great people, have gotten to know and appreciate some of the top developers helping to build the platform, and I have had the opportunity to be constantly focussed on the newest apps or updates. I hope you, our loyal readers, have found the posts helpful.
Just a few days ago iPhone OS 3.0 was released. It is fantastic. This morning iPhone 3G S will begin arriving at people’s homes. (I keep looking for the FedEx truck!) Big changes are afoot for the iPhone… and here at WOiP, as well.
I have loved building this and having a site that I could claim as, in part, my own. For numerous reasons, however, it is time for me to bid What’s On iPhone fair well. This will be my last post on the site.
It doesn’t not mean I won’t continue to be obsessed, and write about the iPhone, I will, but through some of the other venues to which I have access.
For now, I wish all well, and know that the site will continue in the good hands of Ron and Dimitri.
Enjoy OS 3.0 and your new iPhones. No doubt this is still just the beginning.
App Update – Evernote Hits Version 3.0
Evernote is probably the most important 3rd Party app on my iPhone. I use it for just about everything from notes, to pictures, to documents I know I might need to access at any moment and more. It was on the iPhone from the release of OS 2.0 and has seen numerous updates since then. And today, as promised on the Podcast a few days ago, the next version was released.
In Evernote for iPhone 3.0 you can now–
Yeah! Woohoo! Hurray!!! Welcome to 3.0!!!
3.0 went live two minutes ago. Start your downloads!!!!
An Upcoming App Worth Flipping For…
I love my Flip video cameras. They take great video, especially for their size, and are small and light enough to carry everywhere.
This Friday, however, they’ll get come stiff competition when the iPhone 3G S and its video recording, editing and uploading come out. The folk at Flip have taken some good steps toward securing their position, however. They have two HD cameras with much better images than the iPhone will have and they just announced a new service called Flip Channels. I have been using a pre release of it and now that it is live can openly say that it is an impressive addition to their offerings. In addition…
New In The App Store – Taptu
Google works just fine on the iPhone, especially now that iGoogle is back on line. But is it the only choice of search engines for the device? NO WAY!
Taptu brings a unique aproach to web searches on the iPhone with its new search engine. Designed to be finger friendly, it is intended for small screen. And it shows.
Updated: Documents To Go Now Available
It has been a long time coming but DataViz’s DocumentsToGo is now live in the App Store and… On Sale!
The standard version is currently just $4.99 while the version with support for Exchange attachments will run you $9.99.
I just grabbed it and I must say… first impression is…
With new hardware AND firmware on the way this is a HUGE week for Apple and the iPhone. The new OS will add a host of features and the new hardware, while not the homerun many were dreaming of, will take some significant steps forward.
So here is the question…
Push Notification Goes Live!
Word from 9to5Mac that the push notification system is already live for those running iPhone OS 3.0 already. (Developers etc)
If you have been wondering what it is, how it will work and whether or not it is a real replacement for background apps (it isn’t!) check out this video…
Does iPhone 3.0 Finally Get Apple The Longed For Invitation???
The new hardware and OS 3.0 are about to have a radical impact on the iPhone. The new iPhone will have video, a better camera and be loads fast. OS 3.0 will include stereo bluetooth, landscape keyboard and global search.
All of those are HUGE, but perhaps the biggest change, if eWeek has it right, is that these new digs will finally get the iPhone an invitation to… the Enterprise Ball.
Bug Or BackPedal?
Since last July reloading an app was as easy as "re-purchasing it" for free right on your iPhone. It would look just like any other over-the-air purchase except for one thing… it was free.
Then a few weeks ago developers running an early version of iPhone OS 3.0 discovered that when they tried this method a screen informing them that it was no longer possible would appear. Instead, the were told they could reload the app for free from a desktop or, if they needed to do it on the go they would have to repurchase it on their iPhone.
It had the potential to be more than a bit annoying.
Now word comes from appadvice (via Gizmodo) that this was "a bug" and will not be the case. A bug? A mistake? It was a polished pop up window that appeared every time you tried t reload an app. Now THAT is one polished bug!!!
Look, it is fantastic that we will still be able to redownload apps right on our handheld but I am left to wonder… does there come a point where there are so many lies that the people telling them stop knowing they aren’t true?
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The Pragmatics of Ritual
Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House
[Pragmatics 30:1] 2020
► pp. 64–87
Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’
The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons
Peter Bull | University of York
Anita Fetzer | University of Augsburg
Dániel Z. Kádár | Dalian University of Foreign Languages | Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the UK House of Commons is a ritual event, governed by a cluster of conventions. Members of Parliament (MPs) must address their remarks to the Prime Minister (PM) through the medium of the Speaker of the House, who is responsible for maintaining order during debates, and determining which MP may speak next. Due to the sacred role of the Speaker and the prevalence of conventionalised conflict avoidance between the PM and those who ask challenging questions, PMQs resembles archaic tribal councils, in which rights and obligations prevail. Yet, the importance of conventionalised indirectness and the sacred role of the Speaker do not correlate with a lack of face-threats and challenges. PMQs represents an aggressive ritual setting in which the ritual roles and rules only offer a façade to package aggression, and indeed may operate as interactional resources whereby participants can even increase the efficiency of their verbal attacks. Thus, PMQs embodies a scene that ritual experts define as ‘anti-structural’ in character: in this setting, the normative expectation in daily life to avoid conflict is temporarily suspended, to such an extent that conflict has become the ritual norm and is regarded as quintessential to this parliamentary institution.
Keywords: Prime Ministers Questions, the Speaker, face-threats, indirectness, conflict avoidance, unparliamentary language
1.1PMQs: A ritual practice
1.2Mediated address in PMQs
2.Methodology
3.Data
4.Analysis
4.1Discourse organisation
4.2Conflictual situations
5.Discussion
6.Conclusions
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19020.bul
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🌱 NYPD and NY Fire Department must involuntarily commit more New Yorkers with mental illness
Posted on November 29, 2022 by Amalie Flesland
Good morning, New York!
Mayor Adams is ordering the police and fire departments to involuntarily remove more mentally ill New Yorkers from the streets.
Subway and bus fares may need to go up by as much as $3.50 per trip, a new study finds.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting is tonight!
But first, today’s weather:
The winds get strong; rain. High: 57 Low: 34.
Here are today’s top stories in New York City:
Mayor Eric Adams has announced his plan to have more New Yorkers who appear to be mentally ill and have an “inability to provide” for their own basic needs to be involuntarily taken off the streets by the NYPD and FDNY. The directive drew strong criticism from the New York Civil Liberties Union and other groups, including Vocal-NYC. (New York City Patch)
New York City subways and buses may need to increase fare prices by 28 percent to $3.50 per trip to avoid a looming budget shortfall by 2024, an analysis by the Office of the State Comptroller found. Both the MTA and the Comptroller agree that it’s an unpleasant prospect. The MTA is already proposing a 4 percent fare increase for 2023, with another 4 percent in 2025. (New York City patch)
New York City has agreed to issue $3,500 payments to people who were detained on Rikers Island for more than three hours after posting bail between 2014 and October 21 of this year, if a judge approves the deal. With an estimate of more than 71,000 eligible people, the city would pay more than $300 million. (NY1 Spectrum News)
State legislation would require New York City to buy the salt it uses to clear streets when it snows in the country, instead of importing it from Chile as it does now. That could potentially benefit salt mines in upstate New York. Governor Kathy Hochul has until the end of the year to consider the bill. (Gothamist)
The MTA is prepared to spend nearly $1 billion on subway and commuter rail accessibility improvements, making eight subway stations compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The agency settled a pair of lawsuits in June that required it to bring 95 percent of stations into compliance by 2055. (AMNY)
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Today in New York City:
Welcome to NY Food and Coat Drive (11am)
Euphoria by Julian Rosefeldt — Park Avenue Armory (12:00 p.m.)
Vermeer and the art of love (3 p.m.)
“SHEETS” by Victor Vauban Jr. @ NYTheater Festival on November 30, December 2 and 4 (4 pm)
All Star Comedy-All Queer Lineup @ Greenwich Village Comedy Club (7 pm)
From my notebook:
Don’t miss the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting tonight at 8:00 pm After the lighting, the tree will be lit throughout the day. and for a full 24 hours at Christmas. (New York City Patch)
A cat named Smells was brought to Orlando almost inadvertently after it snuck into a suitcase, according to TSA agents who captured it in an X-ray machine at the airport. (New York City Patch)
New York is now auctioning off items that were given to New York City mayors. Here are some of the weirder items up for grabs: a Louis Vuitton soccer ball given to Guiliani in commemoration of the 1998 World Cup, Michael Bloomberg’s stainless steel cake cutter, and more. (artnet news)
Two brothers set up a pop-up store in Manhattan encouraging shoppers to “buy blind.” and find a cure for blindness. (Pix 11 New York News)
The Phantom of the Opera will extend its last curtain on Broadway from February to April, after raising millions from a sold-out performance last week. (NY1 Spectrum News)
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on November 30 will begin at 8 pm ET and will air live on NBC. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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92NY 60+ Himan Brown Program — FREE Open House! (November 30)
Bard: Screening preview and discussion with writer-director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (November 30)
Deb Perelman in conversation with Sonia Chopra: Smitten Kitchen Keepers (November 30)
All Star Comedy-All Queer Lineup @ Greenwich Village Comedy Club (November 30)
Marko Stout exhibition (December 1)
Berkeley College Transfer Open House (December 1)
‘I am what I am: queer, questioning and Christian’: a conversation commemorating World AIDS Day (December 1)
West Park Holiday Tag Sale! (December 3)
36th Annual Miracle on Madison Avenue (December 3)
Best Asian Cooking Class in New York (December 3)
The Harlem Night Market in La Marqueta (December 3)
Sonic Sanctuary: The Luminous Darkness A concert by Tyrone Birkett | Emancipation (December 3)
We didn’t start The Friars – Comedy and karaoke at The Friars Club (December 6)
Berkeley College MBA Information Session (December 6)
White Collar Week Speaker Mike Kimelman All About Crypto, FTX, etc. (6th of December)
Living: Advance Screening and Conversation with Actor Bill Nighy and Director Oliver Hermanus (December 6)
A service of lessons and carols (December 11)
Berkeley College Justice and Legal Studies/Homeland Security Career Seminar (December 14)
19th “Christmas in Italy®” by Cristina Fontanelli (December 17)
The 24th Annual Christmas Pipes (December 17)
Arts and Jazzfest NYC: Community Christmas Caroling and End-of-Year Holiday Celebration (December 18)
Holiday Lights at the Bronx Zoo (December 23)
The Dinner Detective Comedy Murder Mystery Dinner Show (December 23)
Handel Messiah (December 23)
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Fast topological design with simulated annealing for multicast networks
Miyoshi, T., Shimizu, S. & Tanaka, Y., 2002 12月 1, Proceedings - ISCC 2002: 7th International Symposium on Computers and Communications. p. 959-966 8 p. 1021788. (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications).
Multicasting 100%
Simulated Annealing 83%
Physical mechanisms of performance instabilities such as gate-lag and kink phenomena in GaAs MESFETs
Mitani, Y., Wakabayashi, A. & Horio, K., 2002, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 2002-January. p. 189-193 5 p. 996634
Impact ionization 100%
Surface states 45%
Simulation of reduction properties of radiated emission by on-chip decoupling capacitor
Sudo, T. & Bonkohara, M., 2002 12月 1, Proceedings - 6th IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects, SPI. p. 15-18 4 p. 4027643. (Proceedings - 6th IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects, SPI).
Capacitors 100%
Two-dimensional simulation of surface-state effects on breakdown characteristics of narrowly-recessed-gate GaAs MESFETs
Mitani, Y., Wakabayashi, A. & Horio, K., 2002 12月 1, 2002 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems - MSM 2002. Laudon, M. & Romanowicz, B. (eds.). p. 580-583 4 p. (2002 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems - MSM 2002).
Surface states 100%
Electric breakdown 39%
Estimation of turbine shaft torques using observer
Kakinoki, T., Yokoyama, R., Fujita, G., Nakano, T., Koyanagi, K., Funabashi, T. & Nara, H., 2001, 2001 IEEE Porto Power Tech Proceedings. p. 81-84 4 p. 964722. (2001 IEEE Porto Power Tech Proceedings; vol. 2).
Turbines 100%
Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials via bulk mechanical alloying
Aizawa, T., Kuji, T. & Nakano, H., 2001 12月 1, Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials X. Srivatsan, T. S., Varin, R. A., Srivatsan, T. S. & Varin, R. A. (eds.). p. 164-183 20 p. (Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials X).
Mechanical alloying 100%
Hydrogen storage 93%
Palladium 72%
Ball milling 23%
Platelets 23%
Simulation of recess-structure dependence of gate-lag phenomena in GaAs MESFETs
Horio, K., Mitani, Y. & Wakabayashi, A., 2001 12月 1, 2001 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems - MSM 2001. Laudon, M. & Romanowicz, B. (eds.). p. 510-513 4 p. (2001 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems - MSM 2001).
Threshold voltage 76%
Single-shot measurement of the carrier-envelope phase through observation of the self-referencing spectral interferometry
Kakehata, M., Takada, H., Kobayashi, Y., Torizuka, K., Fujihira, Y., Homma, T. & Takahashi, H., 2001, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2001. Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA), CPD20. (Optics InfoBase Conference Papers).
Structural characteristics of Mg-Ni alloy films prepared by ion beam sputtering
Mitsuo, A. & Aizawa, T., 2001 12月 1, Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials X. Srivatsan, T. S., Varin, R. A., Srivatsan, T. S. & Varin, R. A. (eds.). p. 121-127 7 p. (Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials X).
Ion beams 100%
Sputtering 90%
Crystal structure 38%
Transmission electron microscopy 20%
Analysis of trap-related kink dynamics in GaAs MESFETs
Horio, K., Wakabayashi, A. & Mitani, Y., 2000, IEEE Semiconducting and Semi-Insulating Materials Conference, SIMC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 2000-January. p. 337-340 4 p. 939256
field effect transistors 54%
traps 52%
Impact Ionization 41%
An influence of voltage sag duration on nonutility generator's shaft torque
Funabashi, T., Otoguro, H., Fujita, G., Koyanagi, K. & Yokoyama, R., 2000, 2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society, Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 1. p. 153-158 6 p. 849946
Adenosinetriphosphate 58%
Electric switchgear 55%
A study on communication tool for urban disaster prevention using multimedia
Saito, K. & Shinozaki, M., 2000 12月 1, Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. Fruchter, R., Pena-Mora, F., Roddis, W. M. K., Fruchter, R., Pena-Mora, F. & Roddis, W. M. K. (eds.). p. 396-401 6 p. (Computing in Civil and Building Engineering; vol. 1).
Disaster prevention 100%
Geographic information systems 35%
Communication oriented WebGIS for collaborative urban planning
Chiba, S. & Shinozaki, M., 2000, Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. Fruchter, R., Pena-Mora, F. & Roddis, W. M. K. (eds.). ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers, p. 233-239 7 p. (Computing in Civil and Building Engineering; vol. 1).
Urban planning 100%
Daylight simulation in urban open space using radiance
Shinozaki, M., Kuwata, H. & Saito, K., 2000 12月 1, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. p. 1542-1549 8 p. (Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering; vol. 279).
Daylight simulation 100%
Data Sharing 63%
DECOMPOSITION OF MOMENT METHOD IMPEDANCE MATRIX ELEMENTS FOR PRINTED WIRE ANTENNAS
Hirose, K., Nakano, H., Kawano, T. & Yamauchi, J., 2000 8月, Proceedings of ISAP2000, Fukuoka, Japan: International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. 2C3-1 ed. IEICE Proceeding Series, Vol. 9.
Preparation of mono-dispersed droplet using ultrasonic
Arai, T., Imaizumi, K. & Takeda, K., 2000 12月 1, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Processing Materials for Properties. Mishra, B., Yamauchi, C., Mishra, B. & Yamauchi, C. (eds.). p. 989-992 4 p. (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Processing Materials for Properties).
Electric distortion 51%
Acoustic generators 41%
Stroboscopes 40%
Analysis of surface-related kink phenomena of GaAs MESFETs
Horio, K. & Wakabayashi, A., 1999 12月 1, Technical Digest - GaAs IC Symposium (Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit). IEEE, p. 167-170 4 p. (Technical Digest - GaAs IC Symposium (Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit)).
Electric space charge 30%
Substrates 16%
Design of dispersion-managed fiber and its FWM suppression performance
Nakajima, K., Ohashi, M., Horiguchi, T., Kurokawa, K. & Miyajima, Y., 1999, OFC/IOOC 1999 - Optical Fiber Communication Conference and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 87-89 3 p. 768072. (OFC/IOOC 1999 - Optical Fiber Communication Conference and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication; vol. 3).
Four Wave Mixing 100%
Four wave mixing 97%
Wavelength division multiplexing 67%
four-wave mixing 61%
Experimental study on the stiffness improvement of a cylinder type pneumatic actuator for a control valve
Yoshihara, T., Kawai, S., Kawakami, Y. & Terashima, Y., 1999 12月 1, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ISFP'99). Zuwen, W., Junwei, H., Songjing, L., Yaoming, X., Manlin, Z., Zuwen, W., Junwei, H., Songjing, L., Yaoming, X. & Manlin, Z. (eds.). p. 442-447 6 p. (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ISFP'99)).
Pneumatic actuators 100%
Pulse width modulation 66%
New design method for seismic retrofit of bridge columns with continuous fiber sheet-performance-based design
Mutsuyoshi, H., Ishibashi, T., Okano, M. & Katsuki, F., 1999 8月 1, 4th International Symposium - Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Reinforced Concrete Structures. Dolan, C. W., Rizkalla, S. H. & Nanni, A. (eds.). American Concrete Institute, p. 229-241 13 p. (American Concrete Institute, ACI Special Publication; vol. SP-188).
Ductility 100%
Shear Strength 97%
Fiber 54%
Column Like Crystal 51%
Quadrature booster for optimisation of power flow
Goswami, P. K., Yokoyama, R. & Fujita, G., 1999 1月 1, International Conference on Electric Power Engineering, PowerTech Budapest 1999. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 1 p. 826621
Electric power distribution 100%
Study on built-in cushion with relief valve for pneumatic cylinder
Kawakami, Y., Satoh, K., Nakano, K. & Bando, T., 1999 12月 1, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ISFP'99). Zuwen, W., Junwei, H., Songjing, L., Yaoming, X., Manlin, Z., Zuwen, W., Junwei, H., Songjing, L., Yaoming, X. & Manlin, Z. (eds.). p. 359-364 6 p. (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Power Transmission and Control (ISFP'99)).
Pressure relief valves 100%
Orifices 39%
Kinetic energy 38%
Thermal fatigue damage of quad flat pack leads and Sn-3.5Ag-X (X=Bi and Cu) solder joints
Warashina, K., Kariya, Y., Hirata, Y. & Otsuka, M., 1999, Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, EcoDesign 1999. Suga, T., Yoshikawa, H., Umeda, Y., Kimura, F. & Yamamoto, R. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 626-631 6 p. 747688. (Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, EcoDesign 1999).
Thermal fatigue 100%
Fatigue damage 85%
Soldering alloys 79%
Bismuth 31%
Thermal oxidation and characterization for surface layers of Al implanted TiN films
Mitsuo, A. & Aizawa, T., 1999 12月 1, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology. IEEE, p. 865-868 4 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology; vol. 2).
Oxidation 100%
Characterization (materials science) 99%
Diffractometers 27%
An H∞ based PSS for multi-machine stabilisation
Goswami, P. K., Devi, A., Yokoyama, R. & Fujita, G., 1998, POWERCON 1998 - 1998 International Conference on Power System Technology, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 781-784 4 p. (POWERCON 1998 - 1998 International Conference on Power System Technology, Proceedings; vol. 2).
Controller 100%
Stabilization 92%
Modeling Error 49%
Power System 45%
Anisotropy and heterogeneity of gravelly soil layer in Hualien, Taiwan
Tanaka, Y. & Okamoto, T., 1998 12月 1, The geotechnics of hard soils - soft rocks. Proceedings of the second international symopsium on hard soils-soft rocks, Naples, October 1998. (Two volumes).. Evangelista, A., Picarelli, L., Evangelista, A. & Picarelli, L. (eds.). A.A.Balkema, p. 889-900 12 p.
soil layer 100%
triaxial test 80%
wave velocity 63%
S-wave 62%
Effective processing on a digital signal processor with complex arithmetic capability
Negishi, Y., Watanabe, E., Nishihara, A. & Yanagisawa, T., 1998 12月 1, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems - Proceedings. IEEE, p. 619-622 4 p. (IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems - Proceedings).
Digital signal processors 100%
Multimedia communication pendant for sensor-based robotic task teaching by sharing information-modular structure and application to sensing systems
Nakamura, Y., Kanayama, K. & Mizukawa, M., 1998, Proceedings - 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 1998. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1166-1171 6 p. 677250. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; vol. 2).
Small spiral-loaded antenna
Nakano, H., Mimaki, H., Sugama, M., Yamauchi, J. & Hirose, K., 1998 8月, 1998 Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics. Publ by IEEE
Spiral antennas 100%
Method of moments 38%
Frequency bands 31%
Development of a selectable teleoperated robot system using RSNP
Ishida, S., Ogiya, H. & Matsuhira, N., 1997 3月 9, 2014 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 500-503 4 p. 7057469
Network protocols 100%
Moment method solution of square spiral antenna on dielectric half-space
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Tokyo Olympics 2020: This Is How the Japanese Capital Looks Like From Space While the Games Are Underway
The 2020 Summer Olympics is currently underway in Tokyo, Japan, and NASA has posted a stunning night view of Tokyo city on Instagram, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The picture shows the city in all its glory as the games unfolded. In its post, NASA wrote, “The Olympic games light up the night”, adding that the city of Tokyo glows bright with the magic of Olympics in this image. The photograph was captured by astronaut Shane Kimbrough. NASA concluded its post by asking a question, “What is your favourite Olympic event? Drop a comment below.”
The post is going viral and over 682,000 people have already ‘liked’ the image. Many were simply in awe of this never-seen-before view of Tokyo.
Instagram user @erfan.azizi.daf wrote the photograph was “very beautiful.”
“Amazing,” came the response from another user @interstellar1994__.
@samanvaiiidiii said: “Amazing NASA. Good job.”
User @thayoliveveira wrote, “I really love this” and tagged NASA in her comment.
“As always, great images. Priceless,” said @lightbearer23l.
Shane Kimbrough, the NASA astronaut who is currently stationed at the ISS shares pictures from space on his personal Instagram account as well. Kimbrough, in fact, takes special interest in clicking images of different cities as the ISS moves through space.
Check out this image of Savannah, a coastal Georgia city, whose photograph he captured from space.
And this picture, shared yesterday, is of the city of Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil. Kimbrough wrote that the city is the seventh largest in the state of Paraná. “The population of ~258,000 consists of roughly 80 different nationalities making this a highly culturally diverse destination,” he added.
Last week, in another upload, Kimbrough spoke about Saint-Louis, Senegal, that he said was looking “sweet from space.” This city is known for its colonial architecture and is a major commercial and industrial centre for sugar production, he added.
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Bonnie Kay Tystad, 80, of Gordon, Nebraska, passed away on Thursday, January 5, 2023, at Gordon Countryside Care.
Bonnie was born on November 4, 1942, in Gordon. As a young girl, she attended Demmer School, a rural school in Shannon County, South Dakota. She later attended and graduated from Gordon High School. She was an excellent student. While still in high school, Bonnie began working for the telephone company as a telephone operator.
On February 6, 1965, Bonnie married Larry Tystad. They were both looking forward to celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary next month. Bonnie and Larry raised three children, Todd, Shannon, and Dianne, on the family farm near Batesland, S.D. Bonnie and Larry moved the family to Gordon in 1976.
Bonnie worked at KN Energy in Gordon in customer service for several years. Later on, she went back to school and earned a degree from Oglala Lakota College. She then worked as a registered nurse in different medical facilities in Nebraska and South Dakota.
Bonnie enjoyed sewing, quilting, knitting, gardening, and reading. She created many beautiful quilts for family members over the years.
Bonnie was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Batesland and later a member of the Rock of Ages Lutheran Church in Gordon. She was a member of the Ladies Guild at Rock of Ages.
Survivors include her husband, Larry, Gordon; a son Todd Tystad, Lincoln; a daughter, Shannon (Mandy) Salway, Rapid City; and a sister, Bev (Bill) Paul, Gordon.
Other survivors include her three grandchildren: Gabriele Mannlein, Phoenix, Ariz.; Zac Moore, San Diego, Calif.; and Tre Tystad, United States Marine Corps.
Survivors also include two uncles, Myron (Linda) Seveland, Evergreen, Colo.; and David (Julie) Seveland, Linwood, Kan. Bonnie leaves behind multiple beloved nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews.
Bonnie was preceded in death by her mother, Pauline Munn; her father, Randall Shepard; her stepfather, Philip “Shorty” Munn; an infant brother, Dale Paul Shepard; a daughter, Dianne Coenen; and two special cousins, Bonnie Sue Seveland and Brian Seveland.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at Chamberlain Pier Funeral Home in Gordon with Pastor Thad Flitter officiating. Following the service, Bonnie will be laid to rest next to her daughter Dianne at the Gordon Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Tystad, Steve Ledgerwood, Kenny Shepardson, Don Shepardson, Randy Benben, Mike Montoya, and Matt Kratovil. Honorary pallbearers will be Bonnie’s many beloved friends and family members.
The family suggests memorials to the Rock of Ages Lutheran Church and can be sent to Chamberlain Pier Funeral Home, PO Box 366, Gordon, NE 69343.
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Marbella embraces diversity with foreign residents’ meeting
By Euro Weekly News Media • 18 May 2018 • 10:22
PADRON PLEA: Marbella Mayor Angeles Muñoz (second from right) speaks to foreign residents
FOREIGN residents on the Costa del Sol have come together to discuss the benefits of joining the civil register, or padron.
It comes as Marbella Mayor Angeles Muñoz hosted an informative and valuable meeting with the presidents of associations based in her city.
The well-attended get together, to which the Euro Weekly News was invited, was held at the Adolfo Suarez Conference Centre, which features an impressive new foreign residents’ department.
Ms. Muñoz said: “Our foreigners’ department, with its new headquarters, aims to offer an information service to the community and provide a link between citizens and the local administration.
And the official went on to stress that she considers it “essential” that expatriates in Marbella, and by extension throughout Spain, should sign onto their local civil registers “on the first day they arrive,” since “the more people registered, the more money the government gives us to spend on public services.”
She emphasised that the register has “absolutely nothing to do” with applying for fiscal residence or to pay taxes in Spain, since it is “a local census, which is not even physically connected to national databases, there is literally no relation between the two.”
The mayor added that there are 143 nationalities currently resident in Marbella, and that the council is “organising a series of activities to celebrate different national holidays, plus conferences and information days to help them to adapt to their lives here…we want them to be an integral part of our city.”
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Zoom Said It’s Getting Into Ticketed Virtual Program For Paid Users
Zoom revealed that it won’t take a cut of ticket sales during the beta, which it expects to run through to the end of 2020. This could be because the feature is only available to only paid Zoom users at the moment.
Zoom Said It's Getting Into Ticketed Virtual Program / Photo credit: Screenshot
At this stage in the pandemic, chances are you’ve already used Zoom for one thing or the other, it could be for work meetings or to take part in classes and workshops. So it’s almost normal for Zoom to capitalize on that trend.
Now, Zoom is beginning to test a new service called OnZoom that will allow Zoom users to host and sell tickets for their virtual events. You’ll better understand this if ever you’ve used apps like Eventbrite and Meetup.
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Those who’re attending the events will find a space where they can discover new workshops, classes, and other events to attend. They’ll be able to participate directly via Zoom and pay for them using a credit card or PayPal account.
It’ll also be possible to find an option to gift OnZoom tickets to friends and relations in the invent that they need to attend the event as well.
The company revealed that it won’t take a cut of ticket sales during the beta, which it expects to run through to the end of 2020. This could be because the feature is only available to only paid Zoom users at the moment.
Zoom is by no means the first company to try and make money off the concept. In September, Google’s Area 120 incubator released Fundo, an app that allows YouTubers and influencers to host paid online events. Even earlier in the pandemic, Airbnb started offering online versions of its experiences workshops and tours. Naturally, you attend those through Zoom.
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In another blog post, the company announced it will finally start rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to users next week. End-to-end encryption won’t be turned on default; users will need to find that out in Zoom’s settings to enable the feature work.
Moreover, participants in a meeting have to have the proper settings before Zoom will use E2EE. They will know if they’re in a call where that’s the case they’ll see a green shield icon at the top left of the screen.
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Gilmer era begins at Clay-Chalkville with spring practice
Posted By: Trussville Tribune staffon: May 02, 2017 In: Sports
By David Knox
CLAY – Drew Gilmer has been a football coach at Clay-Chalkville High School for seven years. But even he had to confess the first day of spring football practice as a head coach was a little different.
“Yeah, it does feel a little different,” said the man who has replaced longtime head coach Jerry Hood as the Cougars’ leader. “I’ve got more responsibilities, I have to see the big picture. But as a whole, it comes down to coaching ball and getting after it.”
Gilmer was happy with Monday’s first day of practice, a spirited and physical one that saw Gilmer still overseeing the linebackers, but sprinting from one end of the field to another to praise or prod a player, blasting his whistle and clearly establishing himself as the boss.
“It’s a big learning curve for all of us,” Gilmer said, “New players, new coaches.”
Among the new coaches is offensive coordinator Jon Clements, who came over from Pinson Valley in mid-year after Matt Glover was let go. Clements was OC and quarterbacks coach at Pinson. He was tutoring the Cougars quarterbacks, including returning starter Willie Miller, and signaling in plays from the sideline during full-on scrimmage work. Gilmer said there will be a few tweaks to the offense, previously run by Stuart Floyd, who’s now at Hewitt-Trussville, to better take advantage of this group’s talents.
The 10 days of spring drills will be important to the new coaching staff and players.
Jon Clements (right) works out the CCHS quarterbacks. Photo by David Knox
“We’ll use the time to evaluate out talent,” Gilmer said. “Make sure guys are in the right places, and that we’re asking them to do things they can do and not asking them to do things they can’t do.”
It will be both competitive for positions – Gilmer posts a depth chart every day – and finding the best players for the best spots.
“The depth chart changes every day,” he said. “We tell them every day is an interview. ‘Did you have a good day? Did you improve?’ If they improve 1 percent every day, we’ll be in good shape.”
The Cougars will hold an open scrimmage on May 12 at 2 p.m. to allow students to see that improvement. Clay-Chalkville will travel to Gadsden City for their spring game on May 19 at 6 p.m. to see how far it’s come.
The Cougars also, as usual, will hit the summer tour of 7on7 competitions, including June 27 at Spain Park, July 22 at Alabama and then they will host the Deerfoot Invitational on July 25.
Fall practice begins Monday, Aug. 7. The Cougars will open the 2017 season at Florence on Aug. 25.
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Lent and L’arche: Losing Our Heroes and Refocusing on the Gospel
BY MATT WOOTERS, S.J. | February 28, 2020
This year Lent felt like it started last Saturday, not Ash Wednesday. I, like many of you, woke to the stomach-turning news that Jean Vanier used his power to manipulate and sexually assault 6 women over many decades.
I lived and worked at L’arche, the community Vanier started for people with and without disabilities as a Jesuit novice. I have said to anyone who asks that it was a time in my Jesuit formation I most clearly saw a glimpse of the Kingdom of God: where all are welcome, all are celebrated, where meals, tears, laughter, and affection are shared with ease and equal measure. Under the unassuming disguise of birthday cakes, kitchen dance parties, and chicken nuggets God’s dream for us is lived out.
I feel profound sadness for the victims and gratitude for their bravery in coming forward. How difficult it must have been to watch the world informally canonize a man who hurt you. L’arche grew from austere beginnings of three men living together in France to an international movement of hundreds of houses around the world. All the while Jean, the face of the organization, was teaching the world about compassion, human value, and tenderness. He was also hurting women.
How do we hold these complicated feelings together? The broken, sinful, and abusive nature of the founder and the beautiful, transformative, and holy foundation he created? Well, first we remember that it was never about the founder. The reason I and thousands of others love L’arche is because of the joy, honesty, goodness, and self-gift of the core members and assistants. The core members, those with intellectual and physical disabilities, have always been our greatest teachers on how to be human, not the founder.
Next, we need to be honest that we are all capable of goodness and evil. Do not mishear me, I am not conflating serial sexual abuse with minor slights and failings. What Vanier did was warped and in many ways, sinister. But he was also kind to people with intellectual disabilities when the rest of society discarded them, ignored them and locked them away. He offered those men and women a compassionate, non-institutional place to live based on the simple fact that they matter. (One of the hard things I’ve been wrestling with is why he didn’t have that same compassion towards his victims??) We too are capable of hurting those around us while also being generous parishioners, good students or loving parents. We contain multitudes. As St. Ignatius reminds us we are all “loved sinners”. If and when we forget either side of that phrase we can veer off course. Yesterday at an Ash Wednesday Mass Pope Francis reminded us “We are the dust of the earth, upon which God has poured out his heaven, the dust that contains his dreams, we are God’s hope, his treasure, and his glory.” We are loved sinners. We are dust, divine dust.
Finally, in the face of such terrible news, in an age of terrible news, we need to applaud the way L’arche International has handled these revelations. They can inspire the rest of us and illuminate the way we are to bring hard things to the light. L’arche International was transparent, forthcoming, thorough, remorseful and compassionate in their response. God’s saving work throughout history has happened in, with, and through broken individuals. God is still very much at work at L’arche. Even in their darkest days, they are showing us a way to do that.
So this Lent, may we work to tear down our false idols and false heroes. May we believe those who say they have been hurt in our lives. May we continue to uncover and dispel all that does not serve the Gospel and recover and refocus on all that does. As we continue the painful work of purification, may the heart of L’Arche be our balm and teach us the joy of patient, playful, and loving peace.
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...Ephemera Michael Harris 1 Introduction 2 Some definitions 3 Collecting ephemera: ballads, chapbooks, almanacs, and newspapers 4 Other collections 5 Conclusion 1 Introduction The category of ephemera forms an elusive, sometimes contentious, element in the output of print. The aim of this essay is not to attempt to describe everything that can be identified as ephemera, but rather to trace the category’s porous boundaries and, in particular, to suggest how different forms have, over time, changed in their relationship to the book. Ephemera...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun plural ephemeras , ephemera L17 Medieval Latin (from noun use of feminine of late Latin ephemerus from Greek ephēmeros lasting only one day). 1 Originally, a winged insect that lives only one day; an ephemeron . Now, a winged insect of the genus Ephemera , a mayfly. 2 M18 A person or thing of short-lived usefulness or...
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
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... things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time; items of collectable memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity. Recorded in English from the late 16th century as the plural of ephemeron , from Greek, neuter of ephēmeros ‘lasting only a day’. As a singular noun the word originally denoted a plant said by ancient writers to last only one day, or an insect with a short lifespan, and hence was applied (late 18th century) to a person or thing of short-lived...
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... • Altamira , chimera, clearer, Elvira, era, hearer, Hera, hetaera, interferer, lempira, lira, lire, Madeira, Megaera, monstera, rangatira, rearer, scorzonera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Thera, Utsire, Vera • acquirer , admirer, enquirer, firer, hirer, inquirer, requirer, wirer • devourer , flowerer, scourer • Angostura , Bonaventura, bravura, Bujumbura, caesura, camera obscura, coloratura, curer, Dürer, durra, Estremadura, figura, fioritura, Führer, insurer, Jura, juror, Madura, nomenklatura, procurer, sura, surah, tamboura,...
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Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time; items of collectable memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness ...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
...with the nation-state and its sanctioned cultural expression in Scripture, law, history, and a canon of published great works by known authors. The second exemplary figure, Francis Grose, ex-army captain, draughtsman, historian, lexicographer, satirist, jester, and collector of ephemera, had already begun his remarkable career as a commentator on culture before the appearance of Brand 's Popular Antiquities . Grose's most massive if not his most original achievement is the Antiquities of England and Wales , (6 vols, 1773–87 ), a county-by-county record of...
31 The History of the Book in Hungary Reference library
Bridget Guzner
...the growing number of printers forced prices and quality down. The development of *lithography resulted in the break-up of technical and commercial networks; typographical traditions and aesthetic considerations were disregarded. With the mass production on cheap paper of ephemera, daily *newspapers ( see 14 ), books, and journals, typographic standards sank to low levels. The 19 th -century Reform Movement sought to promote Hungary’s economic and cultural progress. To eradicate the country’s cultural backwardness, Count István Széchenyi ( 1791–1860 )...
Publishing Reference library
...The concerns of the circulating library complemented those of two other institutions, the subscription library and the book club. The former focused on serious non-fiction and stocked relatively few novels, while the latter usually specialized in small pamphlets and printed ephemera in which current political and religious controversies were vehemently rehearsed. The holdings of these libraries mirrored the civic preoccupations and commercial interests of their members. Liverpool held an outstanding collection of works on the pros and cons of the slave... | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7220131754875183, "wiki_prob": 0.2779868245124817, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line254307"} |
UD-3 board OKs study of Creek Road site for rec center
MIDDLEBURY — The UD-3 school board on Tuesday evening unanimously agreed to keep a district-owned Creek Road parcel in play for potentially hosting a new town recreation center.
The panel came to that decision after a brief discussion about the town of Middlebury’s recreation center plan and how such a facility might benefit UD-3, which includes Middlebury Union middle and high schools.
It was in 2000 that UD-3 agreed to pay Middlebury American Legion Post 27 a total of $275,000 for the roughly 2-acre parcel and building off Creek Road. That parcel currently provides a parking area for users of the surrounding Little League, lacrosse and other playing fields. The former Legion hall is vacant and has been deemed unsalvageable by UD-3 officials, who were told a few years ago that it would cost upwards of $65,000 to demolish and remove the structure.
Plans currently call for an 11,507-square-foot recreation center that would replace the current municipal gym at the intersection of College and South Main streets. The most recent design shows several elements that appeal to UD-3 directors, including:
• Demolition of the old Legion hall.
• The potential for a small building addition that would include locker rooms, showers and restrooms to accommodate athletes, who must now either show up at the Creek Road playing fields dressed or change in vehicles in the parking lot. The restrooms would more than supplant two portable latrines at the site. The locker-room addition would be the financial responsibility of the UD-3 school district, which encompasses Middlebury and six other towns whose athletes use the Creek Road playing fields.
• A structure that could provide shelter for athletes in inclement weather.
• Adequate expansion space for an indoor turf playing field, should the community decide to invest in such an amenity in the future. Such a facility would likely result in elimination of the Little League field.
“I was thinking this might be a way to solve some of the problems not directly related to education, but they do reflect the quality of the sports program we have at the high school,” said UD-3 Facilities Committee Chairwoman Lucy Schumer. “It would get rid of an old building and provide some safety to our students. For that reason, I spoke at the facilities committee in favor of this proposal.”
Leonard Barrett, chairman of the UD-3 board, also supports the idea.
“I think it’s a good space for that building to go,” Barrett told his colleagues.
But Barrett stressed the next move is up to the Middlebury Town Office & Recreation Facilities Steering Committee and Middlebury selectboard. The steering committee must recommend to the selectboard one of two sites currently in contention to host the recreation center. A spot off Mary Hogan Drive, in the town’s recreation park, is also very much in the running.
The steering committee is scheduled on Dec. 17 to pick a preferred site to refer to the selectboard. If Creek Road is picked, UD-3 board members will want to learn more details about the project, including the potential terms of an agreement between the school district and town regarding use of the property. At this point, UD-3 officials anticipate the district would maintain ownership of the site and enter into some kind of lease arrangement with the town.
Laura Lass, UD-3 board member from Salisbury, voiced concerns about potential traffic and safety issues that might be created by the recreation center. MUHS Principal Bill Lawson and steering committee Chairwoman Nancy Malcolm said the town has received a grant to make Creek Road upgrades, including sidewalk installation, next year.
Devin McLaughlin, UD-3 board member from Middlebury, said he too had some questions about how a deal could be consummated with the town for use of Creek Road property. But he added he likes the idea so far.
“I support the concept in principle,” he said. “I think it’s a win-win.”
In other action on Tuesday, the UD-3 board — by a narrow majority — agreed to advance a 2014-2015 budget that calls for an overall 2.8 percent increase compared to this year’s spending plan. It’s a budget that would result in some substantial cuts to the MUMS spending plan, including two teacher layoffs and a reduction from four to three academic teams. But the board will not take a final vote on the budget until at least Dec. 18. The Addison Independent will feature more coverage of the UD-3 budget discussions in the Monday, Dec. 9, edition. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9596186280250549, "wiki_prob": 0.9596186280250549, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1199415"} |
GTA V Story DLC Still Not Confirmed As The Game Sells More Than 54 Million Copies
Rockstar Games has revealed the latest sales figure for GTA V and they are a big jump over the last announced number. As we heard about the sales of GTA V last time, they were over 52 million after the game’s launch on PC. They have managed to sold more than 2 million since the last announcement, bumping the number up to 54 million.
Rockstar Games also refused to talk about any story DLC for the game, even though there have been plenty of rumors regarding a potential story DLC for the game. These rumors have been started by the main voice actors of Michael, Franklin and Trevor in GTA V. Since GTA IV received two story DLCs during its lifetime, it is not unreasonable to expect the same from GTA V.
In addition to this news, Rockstar Games has revealed that the series has now shipped more than 220 million units worldwide (via ZhugeEX). This makes it one of the best selling series in the history of video games.
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State-of-the-art laboratories for campus constituents to conduct freshwater research, hands-on exhibits for community members to learn ways to protect natural resources, and wall-to-wall windows for uninterrupted views of the St. Marys River as the backyard-backdrop highlight Lake Superior State University’s new $14.2 million Richard and Theresa Barch Center for Freshwater Research and Education (Barch CFRE).
LSSU held a grand opening of the 18,000 square-foot, two-story site for campus colleagues, community partners, and the general public on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.
“The Richard and Theresa Barch Center for Freshwater Research and Education expands our footprint deeper into the Soo and extends our trailblazing environmentalism. Barch CFRE immediately has become the crown jewel of our campus buildings and an important hub for the region,” said LSSU President Dr. Rodney S. Hanley. “Because Lake State is surrounded by three Great Lakes and the five comprise the largest freshwater system in the world, we’ve made their stewardship a priority for faculty and an opportunity for students since our beginnings in 1946. Due to the generosity of lead donors Richard and Theresa Barch, Lake State now has a top-notch repository that equips our graduates with the knowledge and skills to craft a life of meaningful employment while augmenting the quality of life of the Great Lakes region, per our mission. Put simply, Barch CFRE is innovative and transformative, reflecting ecological sustainability, student learning, operational excellence, and community alliance, which are pillars of our strategic plan.” Read more.
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Vijay Deverakonda Hunting For New Options | Vijay Deverakonda News Vijay Deverakonda Hunting For New Options: After the disastrous failure of Liger, Vijay Deverakonda is low and is not much excited during his public outings. The actor who generally outspeaks on the stages of events is now calm and is going cool.
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Vijay Deverakonda Hunting For New Options
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Vijay Deverakonda Hunting For New Options:- After the disastrous failure of Liger, Vijay Deverakonda is low and is not much excited during his public outings. The actor who generally outspeaks on the stages of events is now calm and is going cool. The actor also shelved Janaganamana which was planned in the direction of Puri Jagannadh. Vijay Deverakonda has Kushi lined up and the shoot of the film is kept on hold as Samantha is not available. Shiva Nirvana is the director and the film is aimed for release during March 2023. Vijay Deverakonda is keen to sign two new projects and kick-start the shoot by the time he completes the shoot of Kushi. The shoot of Kushi is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
As per the ongoing rumors, Vijay Deverakonda has signed his next film, a romantic entertainer and it will be directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri. Gowtam delivered a flop with Jersey (Hindi) and he was holding talks with Ram Charan for a film. The movie got shelved after which Gowtam started working on the script of Vijay Deverakonda's film and narrated the script. NV Prasad will produce this film. Vijay Deverakonda is also in talks with Harish Shankar for a film. A couple of other films are under discussion stages and they will be announced right after Vijay Deverakonda gives his final nod. For now, Vijay Deverakonda is rushed with offers and he is quite cautious after the debacle of Liger.
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Boston subway ads are shocking– ‘and so is the reality on the ground’
Annie Robbins on June 8, 2014 66
(Photo:Ads Against Apartheid)
Bostonians have been checking out the “ONE WORD” campaign in their subway system, describing Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The ad campaign was launched this week by Ads Against Apartheid (AAA), a local Boston-based nonprofit.
(Graphic:Ads Against Apartheid)
The ads are currently running in Boston’s downtown State Street Station where they can be seen by upwards of 13,000 riders per day. AAA’s website states they are “challenging Israel’s commitment to peace”.
The ads have already made headlines– in Palestine and Israel that is. Both WAFA Ads against Apartheid Launches Campaign Questioning Israeli’s Commitment to Peace and Ynet, MBTA approves pro-Palestinian ads in Boston subway quote Chadi Salamoun, the President of Ads Against Apartheid, and Richard Colbath-Hess, the NGO’s co-founder:
“The ads simply state the facts and are backed up with citations from credible human rights and international organizations, including the United Nations,” said Chadi Salamoun, the president of Ads Against Apartheid, who added that “if the ads are shocking, that’s because the reality on the ground is shocking.”
Richard Colbath-Hess, a Jewish-American faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, and the co-founder of Ads Against Apartheid, noted that “American tax dollars help the Israeli government maintain an incredibly brutal military occupation, which has denied the Palestinian people their basic rights for decades. These ads show what Israel’s occupation and apartheid really look like, and it is important for Americans to see that.”
Colbath-Hess told me that the ads featuring one word per ad– HOMELESS, VIOLENCE, and STOLEN– each represented an aspect of Israel’s “unrelenting injustice towards Palestinians.” IMHO, the “ONE WORD” approach is in your face, educational and very effective:
Ads Against Apartheid is planning to expand the campaign to other cities all across America. The campaign has other hard hitting ads up on their website too. Instructing readers to “Stop Talking, Start Acting” and support spreading the campaigns.
Here’s one featuring that pillar of Israeli zealotry Naftali Bennett, from AAA’s Peace or Land Series:
Peace or Land Series, Naftali Bennett (Graphic: AdsAgainstApartheid)
This one is from their Palestinian Children Series:
Palestinian Children Series (Graphic AdsAgainstApartheid)
About Annie Robbins
Annie Robbins is Editor at Large for Mondoweiss, a mother, a human rights activist and a ceramic artist. She lives in the SF bay area. Follow her on Twitter @anniefofani
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WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC. - FORM 8-K - September 26, 2016
EX-99.1 - EX-99.1 - WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC. d73171dex991.htm
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 26, 2016
The Williams Companies, Inc.
One Williams Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172
¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
x Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On September 23, 2016, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Williams Companies, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed, effectively immediately, two new independent directors to the Board: Stephen Chazen and Peter Ragauss.
There are no arrangements or understandings between either of Messrs. Chazen and Ragauss and any other person in connection with their respective appointments to the Board. There are no transactions between either of Messrs. Chazen and Ragauss and the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
The Board appointed Mr. Chazen to the Nomination and Governance Committee. Mr. Chazen will serve with Stephen Bergstrom and Dr. Kathleen Cooper on the reconstituted Nomination and Governance Committee of which Mr. Bergstrom will serve as Chairman.
The Board appointed Mr. Ragauss to the Audit Committee.
As non-employee directors, each of Messrs. Chazen and Ragauss will participate in the Company’s non-employee director compensation arrangements. Under the terms of those arrangements, they will each receive:
• $110,000 annual retainer paid in quarterly cash payments
• $140,000 annual equity retainer in the form of restricted stock units which will vest after one year pursuant to The Williams Companies, Inc. Amended and Restated 2007 Incentive Plan and are subject to 60% retention until the director meets the five times annual retainer stock ownership guidelines as approved by the Compensation Committee.
The Company pays dividend equivalents on annual non-employee director equity grants. Non-employee directors have the option to defer their annual equity grants until retirement. If the director elects not to defer, shares will be distributed at the scheduled vesting date and dividends will be paid in the form of cash. If the director elects to defer vested shares until retirement, the dividends will be reinvested until such date.
As Messrs. Chazen and Ragauss are non-management directors who were appointed on or after August 1 but prior to the next annual meeting, each will earn compensation on a pro-rata basis. The equity award will be issued the first day of the month following appointment and the cash retainer(s) will be paid during the remaining quarterly payment dates or at the time of the next annual meeting date if no quarterly payment dates remain.
Non-employee directors are also reimbursed for certain expenses including those incurred in attending Board, committee and stockholder meetings. In addition, the Company pays premiums on directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies.
The Company issued a press release, dated September 26, 2016, announcing the appointment of Messrs. Chazen and Ragauss to the Board, which press release is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
A copy of the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein.
99.1 Press release dated September 26, 2016.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
/s/ Robert E. Riley Jr.
Robert E. Riley Jr.
DATED: September 26, 2016
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Home/News and Gossips/Neha Sharma showed off a bold avatar wearing a bralette and saw the look elevate fans’ hearts
Neha Sharma showed off a bold avatar wearing a bralette and saw the look elevate fans’ hearts
Neha Sharma Look: Having carried her acting and beauty from TV to Bollywood, Neha Sharma needs no credit today. Neha has a huge following on social media and she shares her pics and videos every day. At the same time, he shared a photo that raised the temperature of the Internet.
Neha Sharma hot look
The heart of the fans beats during the performances
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This photo was shared by Neha Sharma on her Instagram account, where she wears both a black bralette and jeans, showing her bold look that is very difficult to take your eyes off. When she shared this video, the actress wrote in the caption, “One of my favorite shoots of all time.” She wrote a throwback photo and made a heart emoji.
Neha Sharma’s post has more than 3,000 likes so far and this number is constantly increasing. Not only that, fans have been fiercely commenting on the actress’ post and never getting tired of praising her look. Commenting on a user said ‘sexy’. At the same time, another user called him “hot”. Many users made a fire emoji with it.
It’s not the first time the actress’ photo has been making the rounds on social media. The actress wreaks havoc with every look and that’s why she’s ruling the hearts of millions of people today. Fans are dying to get a glimpse of the actress and that’s why her name is covered all over the place today. On the other hand, Neha Sharma’s work front will be featured in the movie Jogira Sara Ra Ra.
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Post Hurricane Harvey, U.S. Lumber Import Trade Agreement Needed in Massive Rebuild Efforts- Rebranded
by MyInvestment | Sep 30, 2017
The National Association of Home Builders chairman Granger MacDonald issued the following statement in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and its potential effects on lumber prices as Gulf Coast residents prepare to rebuild after the catastrophic storm. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of my great state of Texas and our friends in Louisiana as they suffer through the extreme flooding and other damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. Yet even as they cope with the immediate effects of the disaster, many are already looking to the future and the long rebuilding process ahead. “In the aftermath of the devastating storm, demand for softwood lumber is expected to increase dramatically as home builders and re-modelers repair and replace housing in Houston and across Texas. This crisis makes it more important than ever that the United States quickly achieve a lasting trade agreement regarding U.S. imports of Canadian softwood lumber. “NAHB applauds Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ decision to postpone application of duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The delay will give the parties time to seek a negotiated solution. This is important because tariffs – basically just a tax on consumers – will be felt most harshly by families trying to rebuild. And lumber prices will rise even more as flooding in Texas and Louisiana constrains timber harvests there. “We need a more permanent solution. That why we’re calling on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue to work collaboratively to open more public lands for domestic timber production. This is the most straightforward way to diminish reliance on imported lumber and to meet demand as Texas and Louisiana look to rebuild.”
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Posted on March 27, 2021 March 24, 2021 Author sada-ascom Comments Off on Court ruling suspends U.S. ban on investment in Xiaomi
A U.S. federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Defense from forcing American investors to divest from Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp on the grounds the company has ties to China’s military.
The Defense Department, under the Trump administration in mid-January, added Xiaomi and eight other firms to a list that requires Americans to sell their interests in the firms by a deadline. The restrictions were set to go into effect next week.
Xiaomi in late January filed a complaint in a Washington court seeking to be removed from the list, calling its inclusion “unlawful and unconstitutional” and arguing it was not controlled by the People’s Liberation Army.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that the court “concludes that defendants have not made the case that the national security interests at stake here are compelling.”
The Defense Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a statement, a Xiaomi spokesperson welcomed the ruling and called the designation of Xiaomi as a Chinese military company “arbitrary and capricious.”
“Xiaomi plans to continue to request that the court declare the designation unlawful and to permanently remove the designation,” the spokesperson said.
Microsoft could reap more than $150 million in new U.S. cyber spending, upsetting some lawmakers
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What is Rexx?
Rexx is a procedural programming language that allows programs and algorithms to be written in a clear and structured way. It is easy to use by experts and casual users alike. Rexx has been designed to make easy the manipulation of the kinds of symbolic objects that people normally deal with such as words and numbers. Although Rexx has the capability to issue commands to its host environment and to call programs and functions written in other languages, Rexx is also designed to be independent of its supporting system software when such commands are kept to a minimum.
General Programming using Rexx
Rexx provides powerful character and arithmetical abilities in a simple framework. It can be used to write simple programs with a minimum of overhead, but it can also be used to write robust large programs. It can be used for many of the programs for which BASIC would otherwise be used, and its layout may look somewhat similar to that of a structured BASIC program. Note, however, that Rexx is not BASIC!
A simple program in Rexx looks like this:
/* Count to ten and add the numbers up */
do count = 1 to 10
say count
sum = sum + count
say "The sum of these numbers is" sum"."
Macro Programming using Rexx
Many applications are programmable by means of macros. Unfortunately, in the Unix world, almost every application has a different macro language. Since Rexx is essentially a character manipulation language, it could provide the macro language for all these applications, providing an easy-to-use and consistent interface across all applications. The best examples of such systems are on CMS (IBM's mainframe operating system which was the birthplace of Rexx) and on the Amiga. However, IBM's OS/2 is catching up, and now that Rexx is freely available on Unix it cannot be long before applications start to appear which have Rexx as their macro language. Two products already exist. They are the Workstation Group's Uni-XEDIT and Mark Hessling's THE (The Hessling Editor).
Rexx treats any instruction that it doesn't immediately recognise as an expression which it evaluates and passes to the host environment as a command.
A simple XEDIT macro in Rexx looks like this:
/* this XEDIT macro centres the line containing the cursor. */
width = 72 /* Width within which to centre the line */
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Grundy County Memorial Hospital is a regional healthcare destination with a small community feel and big city services. The hospital attracts patients not only from Grundy County but serves individuals from Black Hawk, Butler, Hardin, and Marshall counties.
One of the reasons this small town hospital has gained regional recognition is an expansion of specialty services such as orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, wound clinic, ENT, and skin cancer. In total, 17 specialists use the facility. “We have a wide variety, which is wonderful for our patient demographic,” said Lynn Blythe, ambulatory services manager. “They don’t have to go far from home to get specialty care.” Since the specialty clinic opened in 2005, patient visits have more than doubled, reaching 7,500 yearly visits. Lynn attributes the increase to the quality of the patient experience. “People trust and respect this hospital and know they are going to get excellent care here,” said Lynn.
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Marine Ornithology Vol 36, No 2 (2008)
Censuses of penguin, Blue-eyed Shag Phalacrocorax atriceps and Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus populations on the Antarctic Peninsula, 2001-2007. 83-97.
LYNCH, H.J., NAVEEN, R. & FAGAN, W.F.
At-sea distribution and movements of nesting and non-nesting Marbled Murrelets Brachyramphus marmoratus in northern California. 99-105.
HÉBERT, P.N. & GOLIGHTLY, R.T.
Growth of Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla chicks in relation to delivery rate, size, and energy density of meals. 107-114.
JODICE, P.G.R., ROBY, D.D., TURCO, K.R., SURYAN, R.M., IRONS, D.B., PIATT, J.F., SHULTZ, M.T., ROSENEAU, D.G. & KETTLE, A.B.
Breeding distribution and population status of the Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli and Southern Giant Petrel M. giganteus. 115-124.
PATTERSON, D.L., WOEHLER, E.J., CROXALL, J.P., COOPER, J., PONCET, S., HUNTER, S. & FRASER, W.R.
The seabird community of the Peru Current, 1980-1995, with comparisons to other eastern boundary currents. 125-144.
SPEAR, L.B. & AINLEY, D.G.
Using a video camcorder to quantify spatial association between seabirds and their prey. 145-151.
VEIT, R.R., SANTORA, J.A. & OWEN, H.
Seasonal decline in breeding performance of the Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus. 153-157.
BORBOROGLU, P.G., YORIO, P., MORENO, J. & POTTI, J.
First breeding population of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii recorded on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) - population size and morphometric data. 159-162.
LUZARDO, J., LÓPEZ-DARIAS, M., SUÁREZ, V., CALABUIG, P., GARCÍA, E.A. & MARTÍN, C.
Reproductive biology of Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmaeus in Siahkeshim Protected Area, Northern Iran. 163-166.
BARATI, A., JAVAN, S., MOHAMMAD, S. & SEHHATISABET, E.
Sexual size dimorphism and assortative mating in the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris. 167-173.
EINODER, L.D., PAGE, B. & GOLDSWORTHY, S.D.
Breeding biology of Tristram's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tristrami at French Frigate Shoals and Laysan Island, Northwest Hawaiian Islands. 175-181.
McCLELLAND, G.T.W., JONES, I.L., LAVERS, J.L. & SATO, F.
Leg-loop harness design for attaching external transmitters to seabirds. 183-188.
MALLORY, M.L. & GILBERT, C.D.
Peruvian Diving-Petrels Pelecanoides garnotii on Lobos de Afuera Islands, Peru. 189-190.
FIGUEROA, J. & STUCCHI, M.
First record of a Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata at Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands. 191.
BLIGHT, L.K. & WOEHLER, E.J.
King Cormorants Phalacrocorax [atriceps] albiventer foraging from within a Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus raft. 192.
COOPER, J.
Concerted small group foraging behavior in Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua. 193-194.
COPELAND, K.E.
Beak deformation in a Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus chick. 195-196.
MARTI, L.J., BELLAGAMBA, P.J. & CORIA, N.R.
A new longevity record for the Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus. 197-198.
SHOJI, A. & GASTON, A.J.
REVIEW: The complete guide to Antarctic wildlife: birds and mammals of the Antarctic continent and southern ocean (by H. Shirihai). 199.
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REVIEW: Pelicans, cormorants, and their relatives: the Pelecaniformes (by J.B. Nelson). 200-201.
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REVIEW: Petrels night and day: a sound approach guide (by M. Robb, K. Mullarney and The Sound Approach). 202-203.
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The Kunts mock LadBaby after placing seventh in Christmas number 1 chart battle
The Kunts aren’t exactly applauding LadBaby after their Christmas chart success.
LadBaby – comprised of Mark and Roxanne Hoyle – made history this year as their Food Aid song, featuring Martin Lewis, soared to the top, making it their fifth Christmas number 1.
They’re the only artist to ever achieve the feat, as it’s something even The Beatles didn’t manage.
Meanwhile, The Kunts placed seventh with their song named F**k The Tories, which is actually too explicit to be played on radio.
The Essex punk band is known for their sweary protest songs, having previously given us back-to-back festive singles aimed at former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
This latest track is the group’s third attempt at a Christmas number 1, having reached number five in 2020 with Boris Johnson Is A F***ing C**t and in 2021 with Boris Johnson Is Still A F***ing C**t.
Mocking LadBaby following their triumph, The Kunts appeared to accuse the chart-topping duo of ‘swindling’ the public.
They tweeted a mock up of a musical poster, with images of Mark and Roxanne eating sausage rolls, in reference to a previous tune.
‘The Great Sausage Roll Swindle’, they added to the image, which featured Ed Sheeran and £50 notes.
‘No. 7. You can’t beat the system but the minute you stop banging your head up against it they’ve won,’ they wrote in the tweet.
‘Thank you all you certain sorts of person. It is life-affirming to know so many of you also can see through all the b******s. F**k them and F**k The Tories. X’
Despite not breaking into the top five this year, The Kunts received plenty of support from their social media followers.
‘Another campaign to be proud of! 3rd top 10 in 3 years despite being blacklisted and smeared by practically every big name in the media. Hold your heads high lads’, one fan replied.
‘Be proud mate and know that one day we will beat the system’, tweeted another.
Meanwhile, LadBaby’s 2022 release has been raising money amid the poverty and hunger crisis, with a feature from Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis.
The song has shifted a total of over 65,000 chart units and delivered the fastest-selling single of 2022 to date.
Profits from the single will be split equally between food bank charity The Trussell Trust and the Band Aid Trust, given that the song is a re-interpretation of Band Aid’s 1985 Christmas Number 1 single Do They Know It’s Christmas?
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$1 million bond set for 3 men accused of killing student in LeBron James-founded school parking lot
Ethan Liming, 17, was found dead around 10:30 p.m. on June 2 in the school parking lot after his friends called 911, according to Akron police.(Source: Akron Public Schools)
By Julia Bingel, Avery Williams and Emily Van de Riet
Published: Jun. 13, 2022 at 4:52 PM EDT
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – Three men who were arrested for the beating death of a student outside LeBron James’ I Promise School had their bonds set at $1 million each.
U.S. Marshals and Akron police officers arrested Deshawn Stafford Jr., 20, Tyler Stafford, 19, and Donovon Jones, 21, on Saturday.
All three men pleaded not guilty to murder at their arraignment in Akron Municipal Court Monday morning.
Ethan Liming, 17, was found dead around 10:30 p.m. on June 2 in the school parking lot after his friends called 911, according to Akron police.
WOIO reports that U.S. Marshalls arrested Jones, Stafford and Stafford Jr. after tracking the three suspects to homes in the area, where they were taken into custody.
Authorities said they arrested three men in the death of a student in Ohio. Clockwise from bottom-left: Tyler Stafford, Donovan Jones, Deshawn Stafford Jr.(U.S. Marshals Service)
The Akron Police Department said Liming was knocked unconscious and brutally assaulted during a fight. Police Chief Stephen Mylett said the altercation began after Liming and three others arrived at the school parking lot and started firing a gel blaster gun at people on a basketball court.
The police chief also shared that through their investigation, they found the incident was not a hate crime, and there is no indication to suggest race was a factor.
I Promise School is a part of the Akron Public School District, serving students in third through seventh grades.
According to Akron Public Schools, Liming was a rising senior at Firestone Community Learning Center in the Academy of Design.
The Liming family also released the following statement after the arrests were announced:
“Our whole family is beyond thankful for the help the community has given us. Throughout this whole process, we’ve seen horrific things, but the good we’ve seen is just so much brighter. We love our son, and we miss him dearly.”
Copyright 2022 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Conviction for Attempts of Sex Acts Points to Increasing Hostility Towards LGBTQ Persons In Malaysia
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Kuala Lumpur, 8 November 2019 — We strongly condemn the sentencing of five men on 7 November 2019 by the Selangor Syariah High Court on the charge of attempt of sexual intercourse against the order of nature (Section 52 read together with Section 28 of the Selangor Syariah Criminal offences Enactment 1995) following a raid and arbitrary arrests made at a private event held last year (2018).
Four individuals were sentenced to a RM4,800 fine, 6 months imprisonment and 6 strokes of the cane, while another individual was sentenced to a RM4,900 fine, 7 months imprisonment and 6 strokes of the cane.
The alarming trend of prosecution of persons on the basis of attempted sexual intercourse “against the order of nature”, liwat or musahaqah, and the heavy-handed punishment as a method to teach others as a cautionary tale or as deterrence is a cause of concern. We remind the court that sexual conduct between consenting adults is not a crime and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are not criminals. Private and consensual sexual acts between adults must not be anyone’s concern. We also condemn the act of ‘tajassus’ or spying by the religious authorities for the purpose to persecute the five men.
In court, the judge had made many prejudicial statements unrelated to the facts in issue causing victimisation of the five men. The judge’s decision should not be based on impact on society, as these impacts are entirely assumed, imagined and exaggerated. However, society’s discriminatory laws have a severe impact on LGBT people’s access to justice. And the court’s excessive punitive measures have an impact on these men’s livelihood, job security, and responsibilities to their families, among other things. The judge was insistent on imprisonment in order to rehabilitate them and to isolate them from “others and their environment” (read: other LGBTQ people) as a preventative measure. The judge also said that as people like them are difficult to control, thus they must be segregated. These statements suggest extremely prejudicial sentiments in the judge, which resulted in unjust judgments for the men.
The lack of understanding of LGBTQ persons and narrow views of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in public education leads to injustice and victimisation of LGBTQ persons, as evidenced in this case. Court decisions like the one yesterday deepen the perception that LGBT people are criminals, which then further sanction other ways in which this vulnerable, marginalised community experience harm — not only by the state but also at the workplace, by their communities as well as their families.
These state laws are inherently discriminatory and violate multiple human rights, particularly the right to live with dignity. These state laws are also in violation of the rights enshrined in the Federal Constitution, namely Article 8 on equality before the law, Article 5 on living with dignity and fair and impartial trial, and Article 9 on freedom of movement.
Furthermore, these laws further violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of Article 1, 2 and 7 on the right to equality, non discrimination and dignity, Article 5 to be free from torture and cruel punishment, Article 10 on equality to a fair and impartial trial, Article 13 on freedom of movement, and Article 21 and 23 on right to employment.
Given the adverse and long term impact on the lives of people, these laws must be repealed immediately. These laws not only empower moral policing, raids and arbitrary arrest, but it also allows harmful and violent practices like caning to continue. We urge medical practitioners to strongly condemn the unethical use of doctors to sanction caning and facilitate harm towards people.
We also urge the media to exercise the highest level of professionalism in reporting this case. As it is, we have seen biased and sensational reporting by certain publications which will further harm the safety, wellbeing and livelihood of the individuals involved and by extension, other LGBT persons. The language and messaging used in these reports foster dangerous discussions in the public sphere, arousing mob mentality and death threats. As we have seen before, biased and sensationalist reporting increases homophobia and transphobia among the public, directly affecting the wellbeing and safety of people deemed to be LGBT.
The state has a duty to protect and promote the human rights and dignity of all people, including people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and end all forms discrimination, marginalisation and victimisation. LGBTQ and people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression have suffered enough discrimination and violence from the state and non-state actors alike. It is time for the state to end all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ persons.
Endorsed by:
Justice for Sisters
Pelangi Campaign
Seksualiti Merdeka
People Like Us Hang Out (PLUHO)
Transmen of Malaysia
All Women’s Action Society (AWAM)
PLUSOS (People Like Us Support Ourselves)
KL Queer Women Discussion Group
Cempaka Collective
L-INC Foundation
KLSCAH YOUTH
The KLSCAH Women Section
Persatuan Sahabat Wanita Selangor
KRYSS Network
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
Tenaganita
RRAAM (Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance)
QUASSA
Gerakan Pembebasan Akademik (GPA)
Queer Temple
Gerakan Mahasiswa Maju UPM (GMMUPM))
North South Initiative (NSI)
BENTARAKATA
BIKAR ALAM
Good Samaritan Kuala Lumpur (GSKL)
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)
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Warsaw Must See Free Tour
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Sign up for our Must See Free Tour in Warsaw in English. Visit the three most important attractions: the 237m high Palace of Culture, the magnificent Royal Route and the beautiful Old Town. All on one city tour with our licensed guides.
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Address: Rynek Starego Miasta, 00-272 Warszawa
Meeting point is in front of the mermaid on the medieval Market Square.
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On our Must See Free Walking Tour we visit the top 3 attractions of Warsaw: the medieval Old Town, the Royal Route and the modern city centre with the imposing Palace of Culture.
The tour lasts 2.5 hours and offers a complete yet very manageable insight into the city. Numerous aspects are included. History plays an important role, but it will not dominate and weigh you down.
The different facets of Warsaw could not be more different. Boredom is not an option on this tour. There is something for everyone. The diversity makes this tour unique.
In addition to the sights, topics such as the medieval foundation of the city, the Warsaw Uprising, the Jewish heritage, the communist period and modern times are covered.
To conduct such a tour, you need guides with the special experience to put the individual parts together into a meaningful whole, but also the ability not to digress too much. Our guides have years of experience behind them. We meet regularly and hear from each other what could have been done better or what our guests have to say about what we have to offer.
What exactly will you visit and learn about?
In the Old Town:
Why was the city founded here?
Why is Warsaw the capital of Poland?
From the observation deck, the guide will tell you about the Vistula River and the notorious Warsaw Praga district, once the most dangerous district in Poland.
Why is Warsaw’s Old Town a special UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Why is the Royal Castle a Siamese twin?
On the Royal Route:
Where exactly did Frédéric Chopin grow up?
Why is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier housed in a ruin?
Which flags hang in front of the presidential palace and why are there three of them?
What are the most expensive hotels in the city?
Why are there so many universities and students in Warsaw?
In the city centre:
What purpose does the Palace of Culture serve
Who is said to have given the Palace of Culture to the people of Warsaw?
Why are some skyscrapers in Warsaw full of holes?
Why is the city in architectural chaos?
And what else is there?
If you thought that was all, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Of course, there are also tips and recommendations for successful evenings in clubs, a good Polish meal or even museum suggestions.
With this tour, we would like to offer you an all-round package that will prepare you perfectly for the rest of your journey of discovery in our great, but complicated city in 2.5 hours.
Old Town, Royal Route, Palace of Culture in the modern City Centre
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Antoni is the founder of Free Tours Warsaw by Walking Poland. He was born in Poland in 1984 and grew up in Germany. After studying law in Bielefeld, he moved to Warsaw in 2012. German and Polish are his mother tongues, he speaks English fluently. In 2013, he acquired a city guide licence and founded his own tour company in 2017.
He says about himself that his Polish heart pumps blood into the German brain. His Polish and German perspectives mix and complement each other to form an overall picture full of interesting conclusions, which he is happy to pass on to his guests.
On his city tours, he enjoys talking to the tourists and is very grateful for every unexpected question.
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LOCKHART ROSS, Sir Charles, 7th Bt. (1763-1814), of Balnagown, Ross.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986
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TAIN BURGHS
30 June 1786 - 1796
ROSS-SHIRE
LINLITHGOW BURGHS
b. 15 Aug. 1763,1 1st s. of Sir John Lockhart Ross†, 6th Bt., of Balnagown by Elizabeth Baillie, da. of Robert Dundas† of Arniston, Edinburgh, and h. to her mother Henrietta Baillie Carmichael of Lamington and Bonnington, Lanark. m. (1) 1788,2 Matilda Theresa (d. 1 Feb. 1791), da. and h. of James Lockhart Wishart of Carnwath, Lanark, count of Holy Roman Empire and lt.-gen. in Austrian service, 1s. 1da.; (2) 15 Apr. 1799, Lady Mary Rebecca Fitzgerald, da. of William Robert, 2nd Duke of Leinster [I], 2s. 5da. suc. fa. as 7th Bt. 9 June 1790.
Cornet, 7 Drag. 1780, lt. 1783; capt. 3 Horse 1784; maj. 37 Ft. 1787, lt.-col. 1791; brevet col. 1795; lt.-col. 116 Ft. 1795; half-pay 1798; maj.-gen. 1798, col. commdt. 85 Ft. 1800, half-pay 1802-6, col. 1806; lt.-gen. 1805; col. 86 Ft. 1806-10, 37 Ft. 1810-d.
Lockhart Ross, nephew of the lord advocate Robert Dundas*, succeeded his father a month before the general election of 1790, when he retained the seat for Tain Burghs which he had won with government backing in 1786, having in the interim frustrated the persistent efforts of the local Whigs, led by Francis Mackenzie* of Seaforth, to overthrow him. He controlled the burgh of Tain and had a substantial stake in Ross-shire and an estate in Lanarkshire, derived from his mother’s inheritance. It was said in 1806 that he, together with his mother and brother, possessed ‘landed property to the amount of £20,000 per annum’.3
Lockhart Ross continued to support government but was an infrequent attender and is not known to have spoken in debate. He was absent, supposed hostile, on the Test Act division of 10 May 1791. He voted against abolition of the slave trade, 15 Mar. 1796. In March 1793 he was officially ‘under orders for foreign service’, but he did not go to the Continent and was placed on the staff in Scotland in 1794.4 He later transferred to Ireland where he spent far more time than at Westminster during the next few years. In 1794 Mackenzie, who was now supporting government and had concluded an electoral pact with the Sutherlands which gave him control of Tain Burghs at the next election, thought that Lockhart Ross would stand for a county in southern Scotland, although it had been rumoured earlier that he intended to ‘try his luck’ at Ross-shire. As it happened he returned Lockhart Ross’s uncle William Dundas for the burghs and obliged Henry Dundas, who had promised him a peerage, by bringing in Sir Charles for the county. In October 1797 William Dundas told Mackenzie, now Lord Seaforth, that he had ‘written to Sir C. Ross, that we expect him to attend his duty in Parlt.’. He was present to vote for the triple assessment, 4 Jan. 1798, but he admitted four years later that ‘the discharge of my military duty’ had seriously curtailed his parliamentary attendance.5
His quiet retention of the county seat in 1802 was guaranteed by a prior arrangement between Seaforth and Henry Dundas, from whom he received a stiff rebuke for trying to disrupt the Seaforth-Sutherland alliance in Tain Burghs.6 Charles Innes believed that Lockhart Ross, whom he thought to be politically attached to his new father-in-law the Duke of Leinster, would probably support Addington even if Dundas went into opposition, but in a list in the Melville papers he was numbered among the ‘partisans’ of Pitt and Dundas. He voted for inquiry into the Prince of Wales’s debts, 4 Mar. 1803, but there is no other indication that he opposed Addington’s ministry. He was classed under ‘Pitt’ in the ministerial lists of September 1804 and July 1805, but did not vote against the censure of Melville, 8 Apr. 1805.
By this time he knew that he would be opposed at the next election by Seaforth’s brother-in-law. He continued to canvass Ross-shire to the last minute, even though he had no hope of success and had already been provided with an excellent prospect of a seat for Linlithgow Burghs by Melville’s intercession with the Duke of Buccleuch. In September 1805 Charles Hope, the lord justice clerk, agreed to help him secure a pension for his family, but attached no political strings to the promise. Soon afterwards Lockhart Ross pressed government, evidently with success, to grant the reversion of the clerkship of the peace for Lanarkshire to the provost of Lanark, ostensibly to bolster the ministerial interest against the Whig Hamilton family in both county and burghs. To justify requesting a deviation from the general rule concerning reversions he pleaded to Lord Hawkesbury his ‘having supported the present administration for 18 years in Parliament without ever soliciting any favour in the civil department’.7
The accession to power of the ‘Talents’ made his position awkward. In March 1806 he wrote in alarm to Lords Grenville and Spencer of a report that the reversion was to be revoked and warned that this would compel him to alter his intention of giving ‘cordial support’ to the new government. William Dundas mediated, but found him determined to stand his ground. He seems to have got his way, but he did not vote with government for the repeal of the Additional Force Act, 30 Apr. 1806. When he later asked Grenville to appoint his brother sheriff of Cromarty if it was decided to separate the jurisdiction from that of Ross-shire, the premier consulted the lord advocate, Henry Erskine, who, as an old adversary of Melville, viewed the matter with a jaundiced eye:
I have no doubt of Sir Charles meaning to give your lordship a fair and steady support, and ... I know that, though the nephew of Lord Melville, he has for some time been so situated with regard to that noble lord, as not to be embarrassed so much at taking a line of politics opposite to his wishes, as he would have been from family connection; especially as Lord Melville’s interest procured him a regiment just before the late change of administration ... Should your lordship incline to listen to Sir Charles’s application, I would suggest the propriety of securing Sir Charles’s interest in every quarter where he has any, as otherwise I fear it will all go with Lord Melville ... In the county of Lanark, it is understood that he will vote against Lord Archibald Hamilton ... And in the burgh of Lanark ... Sir Charles Ross and his friends are giving Lord Melville the most warm and open support. An explanation ... on these important points I submit ... as proper before you give him assurance ... as Sir Charles’s support ... which he can at any time withdraw, would but ill compensate the permanent mischief that might be done in these two elections ... At all events it will be most important to place Sir Charles’s having detached himself from Lord Melville in the most conspicuous point of view, in order to defeat the endeavours of Lord Melville’s friends who would not fail to hold out the favour ... as a concession to Lord Melville who, they persist in maintaining will ultimately be connected with your lordship.
A month later Lockhart Ross, claiming to have supported the government ‘on every occasion’ since March, complained to Grenville that he was being opposed in Linlithgow Burghs by William Maxwell II* of Carriden, who was backed by the Hamiltons and boasted of having ministerial support. For his part, Lord Archibald Hamilton* protested bitterly to Erskine that Lockhart Ross, who ‘votes with government for his own purposes’, was attacking his family interest in burghs and county. While Adam Erskine and the Scottish Whigs sided with the Hamiltons, Grenville, who observed that the baronet had ‘always supported administration since its formation’, refused to give his personal sanction to the opposition to him. As Grenville had given Sir Charles no written pledge of support, the Scottish Whigs were able to oppose him; but he was returned by the casting vote of Lanark and survived Maxwell’s subsequent petition.8
He was nettled by these events and, when offering to direct Tain to vote as Grenville wished, told him that
my conduct entirely results from my personal respect for you; as the hostility which I have experienced from branches of the present administration in my political views in this country must make me decline communication with any person but your lordship.
Although Grenville expressed a wish that Seaforth’s candidate should be supported, Lockhart Ross, who bore a grudge against Seaforth for turning him out of the county, secretly abetted the unavailing opposition of Sir John Sinclair*. Lady Stafford exposed his devious conduct to Grenville, and Seaforth complained to Melville that the baronet’s friends had invoked his authority for their actions in both county and burghs. Melville denied any personal involvement in either business and stated that since the negotiations for the Linlithgow seat he had ‘scarcely seen Sir Ch. Ross’ and ‘far less’ had ‘political intercourse with him as to the county of Ross’.9
In his list of early 1807 Adam placed Lockhart Ross, who continued to badger Grenville on the subject of the shrievalty of Cromarty, among those who ‘profess to support government’. On the fall of the ‘Talents’ he immediately transferred his support to the Portland ministry, with whose backing he contested Linlithgow Burghs at the 1807 election. He lost to Maxwell by the casting vote of Peebles, but the Dundases apportioned much of the blame to his own ‘scandalous’ neglect of the constituency. He also canvassed Ross-shire, but did not go to a poll.10
His subsequent attempts to re-enter the House confirmed his enemies’ poor opinion of him and exhausted his relatives’ patience. When a vacancy occurred for Ross-shire in 1809 he claimed Melville’s support and rejected Seaforth’s generous offer of a compromise. Melville felt unable to oppose Seaforth, but tried to conclude an arrangement which would have given Lockhart Ross the seat until the first election after Seaforth’s son came of age in 1812. Seaforth refused to treat a second time and Sir Charles was narrowly beaten by his stopgap candidate. In November 1810 Seaforth warned Adam that if the Whigs came to power they would be well advised not to support the baronet’s pretensions in the county:
if he could succeed you will find him not a very desirable chap. He is so confederated with the second and third order of Dundases, that you would never be sure of him for a week. This I know experimentally.11
In 1812, Lockhart Ross, who intended to stand again for Ross-shire, also demanded government support in Linlithgow Burghs. The 2nd Viscount Melville and William Dundas told him bluntly that his scheme was out of the question, not least because ‘no set of boroughs will be kept as a pis aller’. Buccleuch went out of his way to meet his desire to reenter Parliament at the next election by offering terms which Robert Dundas thought over-generous, although he gave his nephew every chance to accept them; but Lockhart Ross, who was suspected by his relatives of being reluctant to spend money and of bargaining with opposition, havered so long that Buccleuch had to look elsewhere. His uncle was sharply critical of his overweening and purblind attitude:
What in God’s name would Sir Charles have? What proposal would he make? What contre-projet has he to offer? ... I have done with the business, and lamenting as I truly do, Sir Charles’s infatuation, am glad to be free of the affair altogether.
Although he eventually gave his interest in Lanark to Buccleuch’s candidate, in return for a promise of support at the next election, it emerged that he had failed to prepare the ground adequately and attempts were made, apparently without success, to force him to meet the costs of a canvass needlessly occasioned by his ‘mismanagement’ and ‘mischief’.12 He was defeated by Seaforth’s son in Ross-shire and by his nominee in Tain Burghs. He died 8 Feb. 1814.
Ref Volumes: 1790-1820
Authors: D. G. Henry / David R. Fisher
1. Scots Mag. (1763), 471.
2. Ld. Ankerville told William Adam, 11 Oct. 1788, that he had married ‘not long since’ (Blair Adam mss).
3. Fortescue mss, Dundas to Grenville [19 Mar. 1806].
4. CJ, xlviii. 318; Kent AO, Stanhope mss 729/7.
5. Portland mss PwF6559; SRO GD46/4/119/3, 4; Add. 39194, f. 41; Blair Adam mss, Lockhart Ross to Adam, 24 Mar. 1802.
6. NLS mss 1001, f. 91.
7. Add. 39196, ff. 163, 169, 178, 186; Blair Adam mss, Hope to Lockhart Ross, 13 Sept. 1805; HO 102/19/262, 270.
8. Spencer mss, Lockhart Ross to Spencer, 5 Mar.; Fortescue mss, Lockhart Ross to Grenville, 13 Mar., 13 Sept., Dundas to same [19] Mar., Erskine to same, 19 Aug., 27 Sept., 19 Oct., reply 22 Oct., Hamilton to Erskine, 20 Sept., 17 Oct.; Blair Adam mss, Adam to J. Gibson, 1 Oct., Erskine to Adam, 27 Oct. 1806; see LINLITHGOW BURGHS.
9. Fortescue mss, Lockhart Ross to Grenville, 1 Nov., 5 Dec., reply 7 Nov., Lady Stafford to Grenville [16 Dec.] 1806; NLS mss 1, f. 107; 1053, f. 126; see TAIN BURGHS.
10. Fortescue mss, Lockhart Ross to Grenville, 19 Feb.; NLS mss 8, f. 172; Melville mss, Melville to R. S. Dundas [May] 1807.
11. NLS mss 1054, f. 7; Blair Adam mss, Seaforth to Adam, 27 Nov. 1810; see ROSS-SHIRE.
12. SRO GD224/580 passim; see LINLITHGOW BURGHS.
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Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture
Love is the Message podcast
Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and dance party organisers. Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso's NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ”There’s one big party going on all the time. Sometimes we get to tune into it.” The rest of the time there’s Love Is The Message.
LITM Extra - Interview with Sharon Zukin
This is a patrons-only episode. To hear the full interview, and many more episodes like it, go to Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode Jeremy and Tim talk about New York City in the 1970s with writer and academic Sharon Zukin. Sharon is a Professor of Sociology, teaching at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of books including Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World, and Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. In this interview, Jeremy and Tim ask Sharon both about her research and her experiences as a public sector worker in New York City in the 1970s. They discuss changing patterns of cooperative housing and loft living in downtown Manhattan, the social and economic circulation within and between these various neighbourhoods, and the problems loft living presented. They also talk about the visual art scenes of the East Village and Soho, the pursuit of professional art careers within these spaces, the role of gender and race in how these opportunities were presented, and the incorporation of the avant-garde into the American establishment. Tim, Jeremy and Sharon also discuss the work of David Harvey, Richard Nixon, suburbia, and scrutinise why the 1970s came to be so widely understood as a crisis decade. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.
Stonewall and Beyond: Queering the New York Dance Floor pt.2
Tim and Jeremy return from a mini winter break with a second episode looking at the music and politics of the Downtown queer dance floors of the early 70s. They interrogate the position of the Stonewall Riot in the history of queer culture, exploring many of the historiographical problems latent in the received accounts of this period and recontextualising the gay liberation movement of the time within a broader set of radical, anti-imperial demands. Tim and Jeremy also return to one of the most important clubs of the moment - the Sanctuary - and take a trip upstate to Fire Island Pines. Plus, Jem delivers a healthy dose of iconoclasm to a particularly beloved classic. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron for £3pcm by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod And check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: Abaco Dream - Life & Death in G & A Gladys Knight and the Pips - Got Myself a Good Man Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Diana Ross and the Supremes - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
LITM Extra - Walter Gibbons pt.2 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the whole thing, plus lectures on music and Marxism, Afrofuturism, Louis Vuitton, Fordism and more, become a patron by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode Tim continues to read from and discuss his essay Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology. We hear about developments in DJ technique in both the uptown Bronx and Downtown discotheque party scenes, including the many key tracks which crossed over between the two. Tim discusses the break, DJ Kool Herc's 'merry-go-round' spinning style and the differing musical demands of disco dancers and B-Boys. Tim also details Walter's studio craft, unpacking a number of his famous remixes, as well as his experiences cutting his live mixes to acetate. Read Tim's original article is here: https://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/disco-madness-walter-gibbons-and-the-legacy-of-turntablism-and-remixology-journal-of-popular-music-studies-20-3-2008-276-329 Tracklist: Benny Goodman & his Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing Freddie Perren - 2 Pigs and a Hog The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun Miroslav Vitous - New York City James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose Walter Gibbons - The Ten Commandments Are The Law Of The Land Kongas - Jungle Salsoul Orchestra - Salsoul Hustle Double Exposure - Ten Percent (Walter Gibbons Mix) Jakki - Sun... Sun... Sun... (Walter Gibbons Original 12" Edit) The Salsoul Orchestra - Salsoul 3001 (Walter Gibbons 12'' Original Mix) Compilations: Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music [Strut Records] Walter Gibbons - Mixed With Love (The Walter Gibbons Salsoul Anthology) [Suss'd Records] Books: David Toop - Rap Attack, The: African Jive to New York Hip Hop Peter Shapiro - Turn The Beat Around Mark Katz - Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ Nelson George - The Death of Rhythm and Blues
LITM Extra - Christmas Special [excerpt]
The is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear more, as well as many more episodes on Fordism, Afrofuturism, Walter Gibbons, Marx and more, become a patron by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. As we're in the dog days of December, we're happy to share with you: the LITM Christmas Special 2022. Tim and Jeremy have selected 9 records to form the basis of your alternative festive listening. We hear from show staples like the Salsoul Orchestra, Arthur Russell and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, some seasonal deep house, Senegalese monastic music and the Modern Jazz Quartet. We also discuss the relevance of the winter solstice, the proliferation of novelty records, what makes a gimmick, acid brass, glam rock, vibes and more... Thank you for all your support this year, it's been great to have you all along for the party. We'll be taking a short winter break, then the music is back on the platter early in January. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tracklist: Williams Fairey Brass Band - Voodoo Ray The Modern Jazz Quartet - England's Carol The Salsoul Orchestra - Christmas Medley Choeur des Moines de l'abbaye de Keur Moussa au Sénégal - Exulte, fille de Sion Blondie & Freddie - Yuletide Throw Down Rapture Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Merry Christmas (Happy New Year) Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle Jerome Sydenham & Kerri Chandler - Winter's Blessing The Celestial Singers - Stand on the Word
Over The Rainbow: Queering The New York Dance Floor pt.1
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy begin a three-part investigation into the music, politics and social practices of the downtown gay party scene in mid-70s New York City. The guys review the historiography of homosexual sexual activities, beginning with a refresher on Michel Foucault's analysis found in his History of Sexuality. Jeremy and Tim also cover Freud and the psychoanalytic account of sexuality (heavily critiqued by Foucault), broader questions around the creation of homosexual social identity, and how thinking around sexuality developed into the Fordist era. The episode also covers the Gay Liberation Front on both sides of the Atlantic, the influence of Feminism and Civil Rights on the GLF, the police, early 70s gay bar culture, the erasure of women in all this, Motown, jukeboxes, and Judy Garland. We end on the eve of the Stonewall Riot - in the next show, bricks get thrown. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron from £3 per month by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod And check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly The Temptations - Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down Diana Ross & The Supremes - No Matter What Sign You Are Books: Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality
In this patrons-only episode Tim takes the long view on Walter Gibbons: DJ, remixer, break-juggler, born-again Christian and seminal character in the LITM story. In part one, we hear about Walter's early life, the techniques he developed to extend tracks when DJing, and his early experiments in reel-to-reel editing. Tim also discusses difficulties with disco historiography, misunderstandings about the relationship between Bronx-based Hip Hop and the Downtown party scene, and how connections between the two can be mediated by Walter himself. This episode draws on Tim's article 'Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology' from the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Read Tim's original article is here: https://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/disco-madness-walter-gibbons-and-the-legacy-of-turntablism-and-remixology-journal-of-popular-music-studies-20-3-2008-276-329 Tracklist: Strafe - Set It Off (Walter Gibbons Love Mix) Jimmy Bo Horne - Gimme Some (12" Mix) La Belle - Messin’ With My Mind Arthur Russell - School Bell / Tree House (Walter Gibbons Mix) Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants Compilations: Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music [Strut Records] Walter Gibbons - Mixed With Love (The Walter Gibbons Salsoul Anthology) [Suss'd Records] Books: David Toop - Rap Attack, The: African Jive to New York Hip Hop Peter Shapiro - Turn The Beat Around Mark Katz - Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ Nelson George - The Death of Rhythm and Blues
The 12" Single (Side B)
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim flip the record for Side B of our examination of the 12" single. The guys consider what was going on in Dub culture and the format in the mid-70s, talk dubplate spec, and give the proper meaning to the dub discomix. They consider the appealing acoustic qualities of the 12" record, situate SalSoul within the story, and consider when the 12" single could be judged to have truly established itself. Plus, Walter Gibbons. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron from £3pcm at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod And check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: The Jays and Ranking Trevor - Yaho Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You Double Exposure - 10 Percent (Walter Gibbons Remix) Freddie Perren - 2 Pigs and a Hog Rare Earth - Happy Song Jermaine Jackson - Erucu Jacki - Sun, Sun, Sun
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, November '22 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons episode. To hear the full show, plus lectures on Fordism, Marxism and music, book readings, interviews and more, become a patron from £3pcm by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. Tim and Jeremy play and discuss Malian Blues-inflected modern psychedelia, uncover devotional south Indian classical music, and try to pin down what Prog House is meant to mean. They select another slice of excellent contemporary ambience from show favourites International Anthem, introduce a new Afro House bootleg through Radio Mundo, and tie back to the main series with a new Walter Gibbons release. Plus, sunrise on Mount Sinai. This is part of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recently and what we've been up to that we'll be releasing to patrons to say thank you for your support. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Be sure to visit our new website athttps://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tune in, turn on, get down! Tracklist: Vieux Farka Toure and Khruangbin - Savanne Bombay S Jayashri - Kalimaheshwari Photay with Carlos Niño - Change Jorja Smith - Rose Rouge Roy Ayers - Liquid Love Greg Foat - Electric Dreams pt.2 Andronicus - Make You Whole Radio Mundo - Garango Kerri Chandler - Kaiku (Disco Version) Walter Gibbons - The Ten Commandments Are the Law of the Land
The 12" Single (Side A)
A major technological innovation to emerge from the milieu of NYC 1975 was the 12" single. In this episode, Jeremy and Tim uncover the demands of dancers and DJs in the discos for longer tracks, the precursors found in acid rock and Bob Dylan, and tell the story of individual releases that presaged widespread adoption of the 12" format. Tim and Jeremy also talk album aesthetics, the Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields double A side, nascent remix culture, the importance of wide grooves, and return to a recurring character of the show: Tom Moulton. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a Patron from just £3pcm at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod And check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: Rare Earth - Get Ready Eddie Palmieri - Una Dia Bonito Leon Russell - It's A Hard Rain Gonna Fall Don Downing - Dream World Al Downing - I'll Be Holding On (Disco Mix) Calhoon - (Do You Wanna) Dance Dance Dance Bobby Moore - (Call Me Your) Anything Man South Shore Commission - Free Man (Tom Moulton Mix)
LITM Extra - Music and Marxism pt.2 [excerpt]
This is a excerpt of a patrons-only episode. To become a patron from just £3pcm, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In the concluding episode of the mini-series, Jeremy completes his account of those Marxist academics and thinkers whose work either makes reference to music or can be brought to bear on it. Picking up in the 1950s, we hear about ways of understanding music's autonomous capacity to affect people's bodies and make them feel, desublimation, Structuralism and it's descendents, and vibe. Jeremy touches on the writing of Bloch, Marcuse, Freud, Barthes and Kristeva, as well as staples of the show Deleuze and Guattari. We hear about the 'grain' of the voice, the difference between the meaning and the material aspects of song, and finally return to the big question: what drives historical change? Tracklist: Pete Seeger - Which Side Are You On? Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger - The Shoals of Herring The Grateful Dead - Birdsong Books, articles etc: #ACFM Podcast on folk music: https://novaramedia.com/2021/05/08/acfm-microdose-jeremy-gilbert-on-folk-music/ Ernst Bloch - The Spirit of Utopia Herbert Marcuse - One Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents Roland Barthes - Mythologies Roland Barthes - The Grain of the Voice Julia Kristeva - Revolutions in Poetic Language Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus Jeremy Gilbert - 'Becoming Music: The Rhizomatic Moment of Improvisation’ in Deleuze and Music Buchanan & Swiboda (Eds) Jaques Attali - Noise
All For One and One For All: The NYC Record Pool pt.2
In this episode Tim and Jeremy continue the story of the NYC Record Pool. We hear how the Pool invited the record labels to their inaugural meeting in the basement of David Mancuso's Prince Street Loft, the demands they made of them, and the egalitarian way they wished the Pool to be organised. These techniques of self organisation and collective self-assertion are set against the wider contemporary context of political and social movements of the New Left. We also hear about feedback forms, the changing status of the DJ as a professional category, modern platform capitalism, and how the DJs of the Pool staged a sit-in protest at the offices of a record company who refused to play ball. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get down! Become a patron from £3 a month by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod Check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: Double Exposure - My Love is Free D.C. LaRue - Cathedrals Blood Hollins - Don't Give It Up WAR - Why Can't We Be Friends WAR - Leroy's Latin Lament Brass Construction - Movin'
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To become a patron from just £3 a month, got to Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod In this patrons-only episode, Jeremy dons his professorial gown to deliver the first of two lectures on music and Marxism. What is historical materialism? What does it mean to apply historical materialist analysis to culture? Jeremy shows how Marxist theory can be - and has been - applied to music from Bach to Jazz, illustrating ways in which we can explain cultural and aesthetic changes with Marxian thinking. In this episode Jeremy gives a whistlestop refresher on Marxist thought, then introduces us to some of the writers whose work can be applied to analysing music: Lukács, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and members of the Frankfurt School including Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer. Jeremy considers the main innovation of the interwar period - the development of recording technology - and introduces the idea of reification as both a positive and negative phenomenon…
"We The Undersigned...": The New York City Record Pool pt.1
In this episode Jeremy and Tim begin the first of a two-parter on the New York City Record Pool - a cooperative venture that saw DJs in the city come together to distribute the records they received from the labels equally and with a spirit of egalitarianism. We hear about the lay of the land for early DJs in the city, the ways in which they tried to make money, the role they played in 'breaking' records, as well as what early disco journalism was doing. Naturally, we also hear about the important role David Mancuso played in setting up the Pool. These developments are contextualised as part of an international wave of people in different areas of life seeking ways to self organise and democratise, from Italian Autonomia to American and British trade union militancy, and in the tradition of 'commoning'. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron by visiting Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod Check out our new website: https://www.l…
LITM Extra - David Mancuso and Louis Vuitton: Can They "Fall in Love"? [extract]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode, Tim and Jeremy react to Louis Vuitton's latest menswear line "Fall in Love", designed by the late Virgil Abloh and, according to the LV publicity, inspired by David Mancuso and the Loft. Tim published a long article on this topic, linked below, in which he tears into the claim by Louis Vuitton, the largest and most profitable luxury corporation in the world, that it shares David’s concern with egalitarianism. The show opens with Tim outlining his argument after which Jem and Tim dig deep into the problem of corporate appropriation, the luxury brand market, conspicuous wealth in music culture, the role of language in fashion reportage, Roland Barthes, private luxury and public squalor, how to deal with corporations, and some extended biographical recollections about D…
Happiness is Just Around the Bend: Living in NYC 1975
Love is the Message series 4 continues apace. In this episode Jeremy and TIm continue to examine the dynamic environment of New York City around the 1975 Fiscal Crisis, contrasting pessimistic and optimistic accounts of the time: was the Big Apple a depressed town cut off from the rest of the country, or a city enjoying its own cultural renaissance? Or both? We hear about the early emergence of Neoliberalism, the cybernetic revolution, and the affect and aesthetics of Heroin. Tim and Jeremy introduce some early electronic music outfits, spend time on the singular sound of Suicide, discuss artistic representations of alienation, and introduce us to the downtown 'Loft Jazz' scene. Plus, Richard Hell and Morton Subotnick. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron from £3pcm by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod And check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Tracklist: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Bad Luck…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, September '22 [excerpt]
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So Good They Named it Twice: Back to New York City
Love is the Message is back for a new series! Early this year we travelled the world in search of Afro-Psychedelic sounds, but in now we're bringing it back to New York City. Tim and Jeremy will be exploring the melting pot city around the year 1975: at the pinnacle of the musical and art worlds, yet teetering on fiscal collapse and almost bankrupt, transforming from industrial to post-industrial and at loggerheads with the rest of the American population. In the opening episode of the series, Jeremy and Tim set the scene on the political and economic backdrop of the age. As the Fordist settlement begins to collapse, we hear about the creeping neoliberalisation of the city. We explore the austerity aesthetics of the proto-punk scene emerging from bands like the Ramones and the Modern Lovers, and think about how Patti Smith bridges this new sound to the rock songwriters of the late '60s. Plus a Loft classic and the return of Adam Curtis. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune…
LITM Extra - Phantom Power Podcast Episode Swap: 'Screwed and Chopped'
As listeners will know, we've come to the end of our series on Afro-Psychedelia. Tim and Jeremy will be back soon with a whole new series, but in the meantime Love Is The Message is very happy to share 'Screwed and Chopped', an episode from the archive of the Phantom Power Podcast. Phantom Power is an excellent podcast about sound, sound art, music, and the scholarship that surrounds it. It's beautifully put together and is a real treat for the mind and the ears. Host Mack Hagood was kind enough to share an episode of ours with his listeners recently, and we're happy to return the favour with you today. If you like what you hear, do check out the back catalogue at PhantomPod.org, or search wherever you get your podcasts. 'Screwed and Chopped' features an interview with folklorist and Houston native Langston Collin Wilkins, who studies “slab” culture and the “screwed and chopped” hip hop that rattles the slabs and serves as the culture’s soundtrack. Since the 1990s, many…
Un Día Bonito: Salsa and NYC pt.2
As we finally come to the end of our series on Afro-Psychedlia, Tim and Jeremy bring us back to New York, David Mancuso and the dancefloor of The Loft via Puerto Rico, Salsa and the Latin influence on the city in the early '70s. We hear about the mighty Fania Records - a classic example of the sort of small labels who found a commercial audience while still releasing amazing music - and the band they fostered, the Fania All-Stars. We also spend time exploring the catalog of Ray Barretto, who's track Acid featured at the very beginning of the LITM project. Jeremy and Tim also interrogate the idea of New York as a 'melting pot', consider the construction of the Nu Yorican identity, and contrast it to the other cultural and musical formations of the late '60s we've heard about in this series. We're also introduced to Boogaloo, 'the Watusi', and close with Eddie Palmieri's fantastic, epic track 'Un Día Bonito' - a worthy place to end for now. We'll be taking a bit of a summer break and…
Nu Yorica! Salsa and NYC pt.1
We're almost at the end of our series on Afro-Psychedelia. The final stop on our tour is the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the USA, with a rich musical tradition and close migratory ties to New York City, where our journey began. We hear about the accessible complexity of the percussion-rich music of Puerto Ricans like the mighty Tito Puente; hear how Cuban and Jazz flavours made their way into Salsa and Mambo; and consider the role played by Puerto Ricans in the construction of NYC as an immigrant city. Plus, Celia Cruz, Louis Vega, and how purchasing a vacuum cleaner secured Tim his first trip to the Big Apple... Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a supporter of the show by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod Tracklist: Cortijo Y Ismael Rivera - Bomba Carambomba Tito Puente - Abaniquito Tito Puente - El Rey Del Timbal Tito Puente - Tito And Mongo On Timbales Tito Puente - Hong Kong Mambo Tito P…
Invention, Radicalism and the Popular Imagination '68 -'75: Brazil pt.3
In this week's podcast Tim and Jeremy complete their three-parter on Brazil, looking at music in the country from 1968 - 1975. Against a backdrop of managed democracy, repression and censorship for musicians, we hear about a number of exciting artists who combined inventive experimental radicalism with a popular imagination to create electrifying music. Jeremy and Tim introduce Fusion groups like Azymuth and Aitro, totemic Brazilian singers like Astrud Gilberto, and the incredible output of Jorge Ben. Tim and Jeremy also discuss varying psychedelic aesthetics in the country and internationally, including the contrast between indigenous practices and the classical countercultural LSD scene; spent time on the place of reissuing culture of contemporary labels like Mr Bongo; and disagree over how we should listen to music with explicitly religious lyrics. Plus, Pelé! Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron from as little as £3pcm by visit…
Tropicália: Brazil pt.2
In this week's podcast Jeremy and Tim continue with the second of three episodes evaluating Brazilian music from 1965-1975 as they turn their attention to Tropicalia. We hear about the origins of Tropicalia, or Tropicalismo, set against the turbulent political climate and eventual military coup of the country in the mid-'60s. Via music from the Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Caetano Veloso and more, Tim and Jeremy show how the genre articulated an aesthetic of 'cannibalism' consonant with Brazil's multiplicity and cultural fluidity, but also how it leaned heavily on Anglophone psychedelic rock and vague trends and styles of the Counterculture for much of its inspiration. Tim and Jeremy problematise the period of Tropicalia, asking questions of its political valiancy, discuss whether it was actually radical or should be understood instead as an expression of liberal modernity, and examine the movement's rejection of paternalism in keeping with other youth scenes internationally. Join us ne…
Samba and the New Beat: Brazil pt.1
In this week's podcast Tim and Jeremy begin a multi-show examination of the music of Brazil in the Twentieth Century, starting in part one with the emergence of Samba in the late 1920s, Bossa Nova, and the first shoots of what would become Tropicalia. We hear about the complex and hybrid makeup of the nation, considering its Indigenous, African and European sources, and the role of slavery and colonialism on the vast nation. Tim and Jeremy talk about how music, and especially Samba, was used to cohere a new idea of Brazilian-ness, mobilised to express and represent a new national identity. We learn about new instruments like the cuica and surdo, and end with the introduction of a titan of Brazilian music, Jorge Ben. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Become a patron from as little as £3pcm by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod Tracklist: Almirante & o Bando de Tangarás - Na Pavuna Ary Barosso - Aquarela Do Brasil Geraldo Pereira - Ca…
LITM Extra - 'What We're Listening To' June '22 [extract]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. Jeremy brings a pair of Indian compositions from very different ends of the musical spectrum: a steel strung guitar played like a sitar, and one of ten famous 'ragas to a disco beat'. Joining the dots between Indian Classical, '60s American fingerpickers and today, we also hear a new-ish release on show favourite International Anthem from reformed Post-Rocker Jeff Parker, and tuck into some 2010s electronic Afro-Disco from London's Ibibio Sound Machine. Tim shares a number of new discoveries, including the riotous contemporary Ghanian gospel of Alotgté Oho and a deeply psychedelic dancefloor freakout from Nico Gomez. We end with the new release from our friends at Beaut…
LITM Extra - Decolonising Disco—Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco pt.2 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode Tim concludes reading from his essay Decolonising Disco—Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco, published recently in the collection Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias, edited by Flora Pitrolo and Marko Zubak. Picking up where he left off in part 1, Tim introduces us to Sylvere Lotringer, the French critic who straddled both the worlds of academic Post-Structuralism and the Downtown NYC scene, itself a 'heterotopic' formation (after Foucault). We hear about the hybridity and convergence of the city's overlapping scenes in the early '80s, embodied by musicians like Arthur Russell, before the AIDS and Crack crises, Reaganomics and shifts in the art world caused this exciting collectivism to give way to…
Small Islands of the Caribbean - Trinidad, Guadalupe and Haiti
In this week's podcast Jeremy and Tim turn their atteniton to the musical cultures of 1965-1975 on some of the smaller islands of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Guadalupe and Haiti. We hear about Trinidad's particular combination of Afro-diasporic and South Asian populations during Imperial rule, how Calypso mediated the island's relationship to the British Empire, the emergence of the steel pans on the island in the face of persecution, and how American Soul influences gave rise of Soca. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the archipelago of Guadaloupe - not a country but a department of France - and it's two great Twentieth Century musics, Zouk and Gwaka. They discuss the history of Haiti, from its successful slave revolt to the many political pressures its suffered subsequently, and it's Compas music, along with the particularities of the spiritual practice of Voodoo on the island. Plus, cricket lovely cricket! Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance par…
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode Tim reads from his essay Decolonising Disco—Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco, published recently in the collection Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s : Disco Heterotopias, edited by Flora Pitrolo and Marko Zubak. Drawing together arguments from all three of Tim's books covering the party culture of the 1970s and early 1980s, the piece re-historises the so-called 'genre wars' of Disco, Punk and Hip Hop / Rap to better represent the fluidity between these scenes and musics as part of a city-wide music culture. Tim continues to assert this radical creative potential of the post-Fordist conjuncture in '70s music culture, and concludes by asking: what happened to the influence of music from the Global South on Disco; h…
LITM Extra - Heavy Dub Theory pt.3
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode, Jeremy and Tim conclude their mini-series ‘Heavy Dub Theory’ (for now). They talk about the work of the French radical philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, introducing three of their key concepts: the molar and the molecular; deterritorialisation and deterritorialisation; and the refrain. We then hear how these philosophical analytical ideas can be applied to Dub. Later in the episode we consider the changing role of the producer in Dub and the ways in which this problematised authorship; contrast dub riddims with NYC remix culture, and finally ask whether dub and reggae can be thought of as truly psychedelic musics. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tracklist: Sound Dimension - Real Rock Bounty Killer - Roots, Reality and Culture Modern Romance…
Music in the Cuban Revolution
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim travel to New Years Day 1959 as Che Guevara's forces defeat Batista to complete the Cuban Revolution. We hear about the military embargo imposed by the USA on their island neighbour, its impact on life for musicians on both sides of the border, and is resonances with American foreign policy in Latin America more broadly. Tim and Jeremy also consider the nationalisation of the Cuban record industry, the pros and cons of state sponsorship on music creation, and how Communists across the world have addressed the problem of vernacular popular music's status within the culture industry. Plus, the Cha Cha Cha source of a foundational piece of Garage Rock, the Bay of Pigs, and why cymbals were banned for being 'too jazzy'. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half thei…
Pre-Revolutionary Cuba
In this week's episode we move away from Jamaica across the Caribbean Sea to Cuba. To explain the theological precursors to modern Cuba, Jeremy and Tim start with the history of slavery on the island and the influences of Congolese and Uruban religious and musical practices the trafficked people brought with them. We hear about pantheism, master drummers and a musical culture centered around danced devotional rituals where percussion was key. Later in the show we cover Batista's brutal takeover of the island, the emerging links between Cuban and New York musicians, Rhumba, and the phenomenal popularity of Mambo. Join us next week, where revolution's in the air. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced and edit…
LITM Extra - Heavy Dub Theory pt.2 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode, Tim and Jeremy continue their deep exploration of the aesthetics of dub. We begin with a history of MCing, toasting and chatting in Jamaican music, taking in famed MCs like U-Roy alongside NYC contemporaries like DJ Kool Herc. This opens up a conversation about spontaneity, improvisation and liveness that problematises received ideas about ownership, authorship, and the musical work itself. Via a brief refresher on Critical Theory and Continental Philosophy, Jeremy and Tim explore the tensions between the musical performance and its recording, the power of repetition, and why dub's self-conscious experimentation with studio production makes it the most innovative medium of twentieth century music. We also get a healthy dose of Hauntology, '90s electronica and Socrates…
We Know Where We're Going: Bob Marley & the Wailers pt.2
LITM returns with the second half of our examination of the life and work of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Jeremy and Tim pick up the story in 1973, with the release of Burnin', the band's split, and the launch of Marley in the rock star mode. A discussion on the strange case of Eric Clapton's cover of I Shot the Sheriff follows, along with Marley's first international smash, No Woman, No Cry. Tim and Jeremy proceed to the release of Exodus in 1977 - also the year of an assassination attempt on Marley - and dig into the politics of a turbulant late '70s Jamaica, the Socialist PM Michael Manley, and the complexities of Marley's own political appeal to love and peace in the face of extreme political violence. The episode concludes with the singer's cancer diagnosis, a late return to explicit radical anti-colonialism, and eventual death in 1981, with time given to parsing his singular posthumous legacy. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance pa…
[unlocked] LITM Extra - Interview with Daphne A. Brooks pt.1
Unlocked - for a number of personal reasons, we've been unable to record the episode on Bob Marley and the Wailers. In its stead, we've taken this opportunity to unlocked both parts of our interview with Daphne A. Brooks, previously only available to patrons. Become a patron from £3pcm to access much more of this material at www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. We'll be back to pick up with Afro-Psychedelia very soon. In this episode Daphne talks with Tim and Jeremy about the writers, practitioners and 'organic intellectuals' who have created a new discourse around Black female sound, taking in figures such as the writer and collector of field recordings Zora Neale Hurston, the writer, journalist and singer Pauline Hopkins, and the writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry. They dig into what it means to hold precious these forgotten figures, affectionate writing praxis, and the relationship between curatorial or archival work and contemporary music making. In part 2, coming in a fortnight…
Unlocked - for a number of personal reasons, we've been unable to record the episode on Bob Marley and the Wailers. In its stead, we've taken this opportunity to unlocked both parts of our interview with Daphne A. Brooks, previously only available to patrons. Become a patron from £3pcm to access much more of this material. We'll be back to pick up with Afro-Psychedelia very soon. In this episode we conclude our two-part interview with Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks. Following from our previous show, Daphne disucsses some of the contemporary figures in her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, including Janelle Monáe, who along with the Wonderland Arts Collective engage in an act of intellectual worldbuilding around her music, and the deep archival searching of jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. With reference to Beyoncé Tim, Jeremy and Daphne consider to what extent we are living through an ascendent per…
LITM Extra - Live Conversations March '22 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. This is the audio from our recent patrons-only 'Live Conversations' between ourselves and our patrons, which took place over Zoom in March of this year. Tim, Jeremy and our guests discussed the role of the internet in music fandom, the relative importance of mediating figures like critics and DJs, the impact of the net on the record market and its infrastructure, and ask whether DJs can still truly break a record from behind the booth. We also talked about how strongly subcultural affiliation and music are linked in the 2020s, the perils of (sub)genrification, pluralistic listening, and whether dance music culture is - or has ever been - politicised. We intend to hold these events semi-regularly, so do come along to the next one if you can. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on…
Soul Rebel: Bob Marley & The Wailers pt.1
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy focus on the early life and work of Bob Marley & The Wailers. They explore the role Marley and the group played in bringing Reggae to the world, with the singer becoming a singular and ubiquitous figure in culture in the process. Beginning with their first Ska singles from the mid-'60s, we hear how the original 1965 recording of One Love articulated a nascent form of philosophical universalism, with love as a political virtue to overcome difference. We also follow Marley on his journey towards Rastafarianism, and reintroduce Island Records' Chris Blackwell to the show. Tim and Jeremy discuss the powerful, dub-inflected production of the Wailers' second album Soul Rebels, consider the anti-imperialism of rootsyness, and explore the recording and marketing of their follow up, Catch A Fire. We'll be back in a fortnight with part two of our deep dive on Marley. One Love. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile d…
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only episode, Jeremy and Tim begin a multi-part exploration of what we're calling Heavy Dub Theory: a deep dive on the aesthetic, musicological and theoretical understandings of dub. We start with a discussion of the materiality of bass as expressed in the concept of Bass Materialism - how bass frequencies behave in space, are felt in our bodies, and how bass music rejected and upset prevailing musical expressions of white heteropatriarchal culture. We also consider how dub composition is organised around subtraction rather than addition - a fact it shares with the contemporaneous school of Minimalism - and make the case that dub is anti-climactic, anti-telos, and ultimately breaks with traditional musical conceptions of time all together. We'll be back in a fortnight with the n…
Worlds of Echo: Dub Pt.2
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim move through the late 20th century to trace dub's echoing influence on Disco, Post-Punk, early House and the music of the British Rave scene. Dub's aesthetics of space, minimalism, and bass-centric production are revealed on the New York dancefloor through the early remix experiments of Walter Gibbons and the studio work of Francois K, as well as in the punk clubs of London and the after-party living rooms of late '80s ravers. Tim and Jeremy consider how the Clash came to lean heavily on their fascination with Dub and Rastafarianism; how Reggae as a musical vocabulary was repeatedly drawn on for distinctly Feminist musical projects with explicitly experimental aims; and spend some time discussing one of UK music's most singular figures, Andrew Weatherall. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties si…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, March '22 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. In a genre-busting and wide-ranging discussion we consider potential connections between the current wave of excellent ambient psychedelic jazz releases from labels like Chicago's International Anthem with '90s Post Rock and the '70s Minimalism; explore the fresh and surprising offerings of '70s Belgium and the unusually Cuban sounds of '60s Senegal; and consider how Reggae covers of American and British pop songs are expressions of Gilroy's Black Atlantic. Also in this episode we hear a Brazilian Tropicalia tune about the apparent founder of a universal mystic gnostic philosophy, contemplate the religion and theology of Late Antiquity, enjoy an exciting spurt of post-Jun…
The Version: Dub pt.1
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy dive headlong into Dub. They discuss the changing meaning of the term, the difficulties in charting the history of the music, and explore the work of two of the pioneers of the sound, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and King Tubby. Jeremy and Tim discuss the sonic properties of dub, including the innovative use of reverb and delay, as well as the distinctive vocal practice of toasting and the starring role performed by the bass in this new musical form. Tim and Jeremy also talk about why the innovations of Dub took place in Jamaica, the importance of addition and subtraction to the dub producers, and the persistent dialectic between seriousness and playfulness out of which so much Dub emerges. In this spirit, we also hope you enjoy the special LITM theme music version. Back in a fortnight with more - stay dubwise. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators sin…
LITM Extra - 'Love Saves the Day' Reading Series: Chapter 1 part 3 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. Continuing our ongoing patrons-only reading series, Tim picks up where he left off in his 2004 book 'Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. I'm sure you'll all have heard him reference the book the show, and many of you will have read it, so here we present a reading series of the book to compliment the Love is the Message project. In Chapter 1 part 3, we hear about the original parties thrown by David Mancuso in his home at 647 Broadway. Tim describes the make up of the crowd, the lengths David went in preparing for the party, his innovations in décor, and the freedom people found dancing there. Thank you for your continued support of the show - we couldn't do it without you. Expect to hear much more from the book in the coming months, as well as more patrons-…
Beat Down Babylon: Reggae Arrives
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim focus on the birth of Reggae in Jamaica. Beginning with the island's first popular music, Ska, we hear how the music of Alton Ellis and Desmond Decker transformed into Rocksteady, with it's slower pulse, rootsy feel and serious lyrical turn. Set against the backdrop of Kingston's high crime rate and Rudeboy culture, Tim and Jeremy recount how this music took on the feeling of suffering and anguish many Jamaicans experienced in their lives. We hear how these musicians began to look less to America for their musical inspirations than to the island's Mento folk traditions as the Reggae sound began to crystalize in the late '60s. Also in this episode, we are introduced to the pioneering producer and performer Lee 'Scratch' Perry (more from him next episode), explore the emerging link between Reggae music and Michael Manley's socialist People's National Party, and consider the problematic gender and sexual politics of a genre so focused on emancipation…
LITM Extra - Live Conversations January '22 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. This is the audio from our recent patrons-only 'Live Conversations' between ourselves and our patrons, which took place over Zoom in January of this year. Tim, Jeremy and our guests discussed the relationship between Afrofuturism and Afro-Psychedelia, the 'Robotic Sublime' of electronic music, Boomer politics and more, as well as a lengthy and unexpected conversation about how the Extreme Metal scene overlaps with those cultures discussed on the podcast, and a breakdown of the 8 hour Beatles documentary, Get Back. We intend to hold these events semi-regularly, so do come along to the next one if you can. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get down!
Rasta, Rocksteady and Race: Jamaica in the Early '60s
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy turn their attention to the island of Jamaica. They recount a history of Jamaica as a British Colony and the liberation struggles that grew up in the face of Imperial rule, including the work of Marcus Garvey, the Back to Africa movement, and the eventual socialist prime minister Michael Manley. We hear about the emergence of Rastafarianism in the early Twentieth century, considering the importance of Zion or a promised land to the Rastas, their development into an anti-colonial vanguard, and the role of Indian mystical and religious rites on their own spiritual practices. Jeremy and Tim also introduce us to some major players of the early '60s Jamaican music scene, including the head of Studio One Coxsone Dodd and the founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell. Finally, the pair reflect on how the history of Abolition has been written, how we should seek to remain transparent in the present, and tie these questions of historiography to the BLM pr…
LITM Extra - Interview with Daphne A. Brooks pt.2 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode we conclude our two-part interview with Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks. Following from our previous show, Daphne disucsses some of the contemporary figures in her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, including Janelle Monáe, who along with the Wonderland Arts Collective engage in an act of intellectual worldbuilding around her music, and the deep archival searching of jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. With reference to Beyoncé Tim, Jeremy and Daphne consider to what extent we are living through an ascendent period of Black feminist consciousness and discuss the way such Black female megastars are held in cultural production. We also took advantage of speaking with Daphne to ask her…
Roots and Routes: Flows of Influence in '70s Africa
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim complete their three-part study of African music by looking at the flows of musical influence across the Black Atlantic. They explore how diasporic sounds reflected back on music being made in African nations, including the heavy Latin rhythms found in the Malian Super Rail Band and the fingerprint of Duke Ellington on the Ethiopian Jazz of Mulatu Astatke. Tim and Jeremy also investigate how state subsidies in aid of building national culture affected musical production, flesh out the geopolitical background these independence movements took place against, and dedicate a long discussion to Manu Dibango and his talismanic record, Soul Makosa. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast.…
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode we are happy to present the part 1 of our very first interview on LITM. Jeremy and Tim were happy to welcome the Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks to the show to discuss her new book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. In this episode Daphne talks with Tim and Jeremy about the writers, practitioners and 'organic intellectuals' who have created a new discourse around Black female sound, taking in figures such as the writer and collector of field recordings Zora Neale Hurston, the writer, journalist and singer Pa…
Fela, Funk, and Nigeria in the Early '70s
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy continue with the second part of their mini-series on the music of '60s and '70s Africa. They start with an exposition on the ideas put forward in Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic. With reference to a variety of historical theorisations of the experience of Black people since the period of slavery, we hear how Gilroy offered a diasporic understanding, showed the moderness of black cultural production, and opens questions of why music ended up paying such a central role in the culture of North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Jeremy and Tim then turn their attention to Nigeria in the early '70s. We hear about the titanic influence of Fela Kuti on world music, how he exchanged ideas and influences with James Brown on his 1970 tour of Africa, and how the length of the records of the Afrobeat sound he pioneered lent themselves to the emerging dancefloors of NYC and beyond. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs an…
LITM Extra - Afrofuturism pt.3 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode, Jeremy and Tim finish their mini-series on Afrofuturism. As it's LITM, the guys finally dig into the contested role of Disco to Afrofuturism, taking in the futuristic innovations of Larry Levan, the queer cyborg aesthetics of Sylvester, and the key developments being made on the synthesizer in the the Disco tracks of the early 80s. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the guitar innovations of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the singular force of Afrika Bambaataa, Prince's fusion of electronic and rock sounds, while closing out on two contemporary artists - Janelle Monáe and Moor Mother - who's self-conscious use of cybersoul and Afrofuturist tropes ring true today. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tracklist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head Ednah Holt - S…
Counterculture to Modernity? Music from Africa in the 1960s
In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim expand their series on Afro-Psychedelia with a multi-show exploration of the music of Africa, beginning today in the 1960s. They discuss the contested and shifting conceptualisations of Africa through history, the emergence of Marcus Garvey and Pan-Africanism, Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic, and the production of the specific relationship between Black Americans and Africa as a form of identity. Jeremy and Tim look at the national liberation movements of the mid-twentieth century, starting with Highlife music in Ghana, Congolese Catholic chorales, and two legends of South African music and activism - Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba - including their improbable meeting in a musical production of King Kong. Finally, Tim and Jeremy link up Babatunde Olatunji's seminal album Drums of Passion with psychedelic currents already explored in the show like the Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Santana, and the dancefloor of the Loft. Tim and Jer…
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode, Tim and Jeremy continue their mini-series on the aesthetic and political content of Afrofuturism. Beginning with Kodwo Eshun's 1998 book More Brilliant Than The Sun, Tim and Jeremy interrogate the thinking of a number of academics and journalists around the Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit, their body of work around cyber theory, and the music of the 'Hardcore Continuum' in the context of '90s intellectual culture. Tim and Jeremy spend time talking about the Detroit Techno of Drexciya, consider the complex position of soulfulness within Afrofuturism, and dig further into the contested ideas around the promise of technology. Finally, we hear about the origins of dubstep, with Jeremy making a strident case against the aestheticization of alienated urban life unde…
Flushing the Categories Away: Psychedelic Jazz
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy describe the genres of psychedelic jazz and fusion. Drawing on rock, modal and free jazz and funk, as well as a wider pool of international musics, we hear how artists like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report created - through processes of fusion and fission - a new sound. Tim and Jeremy consider the impact hearing the Grateful Dead had on Miles, the virtuosity and immanence of his trio of fusion albums, and the struggles he had in marketing this new music (with little understanding or help from the label suits). We also hear about the various psychedelic qualities of the music and musicians, how rock displaced folk and jazz as the countercultural music of the moment, and join the dots between American jazz musicians and the improvisatory brilliance of the Indian Classical tradition. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since…
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In the first few episodes of our new series on Afro-Psychedelia we've mentioned the concept of Afrofuturism a few times, so we wanted to take a moment to record this supplementary patrons-only two-parter outlining exactly what we mean by the term. Beginning with Mark Derry's 1994 book Flame Wars, Tim and Jeremy expound the aesthetic and political components of Afrofuturism to serve as a helpful supplementary text to our main episodes. Tim and Jeremy cover Detroit Techno and the Belleville 3, the 'Golden Age' of Hip Hop, the particular position of Dub in the Afrofuturist imaginary, and the singular insights of Goldie, along with the antagonisms of Gangsta Rap, white libertarian cyberpunk culture and the politics and economics of the early '90s. Tim and Jeremy will be back in a fortnight with part…
A City Called Heaven: Afro-Psychedelia in Gospel, Reggae, Acid Rock and Funk
In the second episode of our third series, Tim and Jeremy describe a psychedelic aesthetic appearing in the transformative and rapturous musics of the American Black church, Rastafarian Jamaica and Nigeria, with reference to Gospel, Juju, Reggae and Funk. They counterpoint this with a strain of musical antipathy with roots in Plato and iterating in radical Protestant tendencies throughout history, while also pointing up the specific and slightly scary millenarianism to the utopias imagined through the tunes discussed. Tim and Jeremy also spend a good amount of time on the West Coast Acid Rock scene, contemplating the edginess of the sound and it's representation of paranoid psychoactive experiences; the musical expressions of Caribbean Brits in the early '70s; and touch some more on Afro-Futurism, with specific reference to the playful childlike energy of space-facing Parliament-Funkadelic. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organis…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, Oct '21 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. In line with the themes of our new series, Tim and Jeremy have been on an Afro-Psychedelic tip recently. In this show they discuss the relational philosophies of early '70s anti-colonial Africa, the UK's brilliant current strain of psychedelic jazz, and link Floating Points' new release to Vangelis, prog rock and 'Hooked On Classics'. We also hear excerpts from the only record Hendrix ever produced, consider the importance of vocal records to a party, and hear some sublime House selections to lift your spirits as the weather gets colder. This is part of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recentl…
American Afro-Psychedelia
Love is the Message returns with series 3! In our last cluster of episodes, Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert took a deep look at the musical, social and political currents flowing through New York City from the late '60s to around 1975. This time, they're turning their attention outwards, expanding their analysis of this crucial period of time to include South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and parts of Asia. In this opening episode of the series, Tim and Jeremy are exploring American examples of Afro-Psychedelia. They begin by defining the term, alongside its close cousin Afro-Futurism. They then discuss the psychedelic experiences of a number of Black American musicians, and interrogate the often misrepresentative history of Black America's involvement in Acid culture. Taking in great musicians like Sun Ra and Hendrix, Tim and Jeremy talk about how both Ancient Egypt and outer space recur as images of alternative and utopian possibilities, and consider the esteem with which ja…
LITM Extra - 'Love Saves the Day' Reading Series - Chapter 1, part 2. [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only LITM Extra episode. To hear the whole thing, as well as conversations between Tim and Jeremy about what they've been listening to, intermittent lectures, listeners' questions and more, visit www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 a month. Continuing our ongoing patrons-only reading series, Tim picks up where he left off in his 2004 book 'Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. I'm sure you'll all have heard him reference the book the show, and many of you will have read it, so here we present a reading series of the book to compliment the Love is the Message project. In Chapter 1 part 2, we hear about 'Le Club' and the first discotheques of New York; how a converted church came to be known as The Sanctuary nightclub, and how Francis Grasso scored the gig of DJing there; and we dig into the NYC underbelly to hear about the involvement of the Mafia in the gay bars and clubs of Manhattan. Th…
LITM Extra - Listeners' Questions, Oct '21 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the whole thing, along with accessing lots more LITM Extra content, go to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 per month. In this patrons-only episode of LITM Extra, Tim and Jeremy take questions from you, the listeners. They talk about the portrayal of disco as synthetic music, the misplaced protest of rock musicians and fans against the genre, and dig into the odd phenomenon of the novelty disco single. Tim and Jeremy also share with us the system components David Mancuso used at the Loft, including amps, turntables and cartridges, and respond to the accusation of retro behaviour. And to close out, we hear some of our favourite modern disco remixes and learn the how to talk about bangers in Seventies lingo. Tracklist: Rick Dees - Disco Duck Gorillaz - Dare (DFA Remix) Sandy's Gang - Hungry (Sean P Re-edit) Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face (Kon's Duet Mix) Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
[UNLOCKED] LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, Aug '21
We've unlocked this patrons-only bonus episode from August, in which Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. To hear more of these conversations, along with book readings, lectures, Q&As and (soon) interviews, become a patron from £3 per month by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. Tim and Jeremy discuss New Orleans hip hop, big edits of legendary tunes, reissue culture, online digging, playfulness in music, and getting back into the saddle of DJing again. This is part of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recently and what we've been up to that we'll be releasing to patrons to say thank you for your support. The tracks discussed are: Mario Rui Silva - Kazum-zum-zum Sylvester & the Hot Band - Southern Man The Invisible Session - People All Around the World, Can Make It Butch - LSD-25 79ers Gang - 79ers Bout to Blow Ash Ra Tempel - Ain't No Time For T…
LITM Extra - Live Conversations Recording 10th Sept. [excerpt]
This is the an excerpt from the audio of our first patrons-only 'Live Conversations' between ourselves and our patrons, which took place over Zoom on the 10th September. To hear the whole thing, and to participate in the next one, along with accessing lots more LITM Extra content, go to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 per month. Tim and Jeremy discussed and took questions on Acid, Ecstacy, and the 'downer' drugs; talked about the particulars of the Japanese listening bar culture and it's impact on both their own soundsystem and David Mancuso; and gave their top tip on what is the best amplifier for the Klipshorn speakers. We also chatted about the role of early internet culture, hear a funny anecdote about David being trolled on Deep House Forum, and reflect more broadly on the Love is the Message project. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get down!
LITM Extra - 'Love Saves the Day' Reading Series: Chapter 1, part 1. [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only LITM Extra episode. To hear the whole thing, as well as conversations between Tim and Jeremy about what they've been listening to, intermittent lectures, listeners' questions and more, visit www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 a month. In first of an ongoing patrons-only project, Tim reads from his seminal 2004 book 'Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. I'm sure you'll all have heard him reference the book the show, and many of you will have read it, so here we present a reading series of the book to compliment the Love is the Message project. In Chapter 1 part 1, we hear about David Mancuso's childhood in the children's home in Utica, New York; his early employment after leaving home; and his first forays into throwing parties in the mid-1960s, featuring two recurring characters from our show, Timothy Leary and Richard Long. Thank you for your continued support of the show - we could…
What's In A Name? Disco Gets Genrified
In the final episode of our second series, Tim and Jeremy turn to 1974 to consider the emergence of disco as a discernible and self-conscious genre. Does genre allow people to define themselves through the music they listen to, and to consider themselves part of a (physical or imagined) community? Or is genre simply a cynical tool of division promoted by a rapacious media and music business that stifles creativity and interaction? Tim and Jeremy also consider our present moment of algorithmic listening and Spotify playlists, the performance of sexual pleasure in music, Eurodisco, the importance of strings to the disco sound, and dip into their record bags for a selection of dancefloor fillers fit for this bumper 12" edition of the show. We'll be taking a short break, but will be back in less than a month to begin a new series, leaving the Anglophone world for the shores of South America, the Caribbean and Africa. In the meantime, expect some more patrons-only content to tide you…
'Liberation Conversation' - Feminist Soul
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy explore one of the most important musical currents of the early '70s, Feminist Soul. Beginning with Aretha Franklin, they situate the music of these powerful, articulate and conscious female performers within the Women's Liberation and Black Power movements, alongside the scholarship of Simone de Beuvoir and Angela Davis, and in relation to the girl groups of Motown and the mid-'60s. Through lyrical, musical and cultural analysis, Tim and Jeremy also consider the explicit revolutionary subjectivity of Nina Simone, marvel at the potency of Marlena Shaw, and link these musics with the Loft, the Gallery, and the emerging Disco scene. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, August '21
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. Tim and Jeremy discuss New Orleans hip hop, big edits of legendary tunes, reissue culture, online digging, playfulness in music, and getting back into the saddle of DJing again. This is part of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recently and what we've been up to that we'll be releasing to patrons to say thank you for your support. The tracks discussed are: Mario Rui Silva - Kazum-zum-zum Sylvester & the Hot Band - Southern Man The Invisible Session - People All Around the World, Can Make It Butch - LSD-25 79ers Gang - 79ers Bout to Blow Ash Ra Tempel - Ain't No Time For Tears (The Sacred Rhythm Mix…
Huh! Here Comes The Funk
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy get ready to make you sweat with an extended length episode for maximum dancing. Starting with Soul Brother Number 1 James Brown, Tim and Jeremy chart this history of Funk, from its roots in Soul and R'n'B, via it's adoption by the Panthers and Black Power, and on to the psychedelia of Funkadelic. We also hear the source material of some of the most samples breaks ever, moonlight in some film criticism, and freak out to some serious lysergic experiences. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. We are committed to making Love is the Message free to everyone who wants it, but if you have the means, please become a supporter by visiting www.patreon.…
Get Up! Disco Music 1973-75
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy consider the emergence of Disco as a recognisable and distinct sound in the period 1973-75. They grapple with the problems of codifying a genre, showing how genrefication can limit previously open spaces of possibility, and talk about to what extent the participants in the nascent scene saw themselves as part of a single project. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the lush orchestrations of the Philly Sound, the machinic pulse of the four-to-the-floor drumbeat, the development of remix culture as a way of sculpting tracks more appropriate for the dancefloor, and finish up with the coronation of Gloria Gaynor as the first Queen of Disco. Plus: the Disco swear word! Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launch…
Does It Make You Dance? Proto-Disco in the Early '70s
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy consider the numerous musical and cultural currents of the early '70s that fed into the emergence of 'Disco' as a genre. They discuss the important antecedents of Soul and Rhythm and Blues, consider the yearning, future-facing qualities of Gospel, the musical influence of the Latin community in the city, and the imminent insistence of Funk. Tim and Jeremy also consider the important role of romance, eroticism and sensuality on this developing musical form, discuss the appeal of longer tracks to dancers and DJs, and end with a friendly disagreement over that age-old question: what was the first disco record? Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.…
Loft Culture
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy are exploring the emergence of 'loft'-style living in downtown New York in the early '70s. Set against a backdrop of deindustrialisation and middle class flight to the suburbs, they detail how artists, bohemians and party hosts moved into these vacated loft spaces, affording them the space and time to exhibit their art and - crucially - throw parties. Tim and Jeremy discuss David Mancuso's first party venue, at his loft space at 647 Broadway, along with some of the other parties which took his loft style, such as Nicky Siano's The Gallery and the more exclusive Tenth Floor. We hear some of the biggest records from these parties, consider the changing demographic makeups of their clientele, and finally ask: were these experiments in alternative styles of living inherently political, or were they opening themselves up to cooption by capital? Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They…
Motown to Salsoul pt.3: Disco as Post-Fordist Entertainment
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy finish their three-part overview of the transition from a Fordist to a Post-Fordist world by examining the period 1973-75. They cover the OPEC oil crisis, rising inflation worldwide, and the breakdown of the Bretton Woods Agreement, all of which served to puncture the post-war mood of endless growth and prosperity. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the sense of pessimism that set into some music of the time, detail the emergence of the Salsoul label with its new dancefloor-focused sound, and bring some of Antonio Negri's ideas to bear, analyzing the pivotal role of workers and artists in forming a new culture. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.…
Motown to Salsoul pt.2: Music at the Birth of Post-Fordism
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy continue their in-depth look at the economic, social and musical transformations of post-Fordism, focusing specifically on the years 1970 to 1972. They discuss the tedium, boredom and conformity many experienced during the post-war period, and the myriad ways people pushed back through art, inspired by a romantic vision of the expressive artist and new set of democratic demands from workers, hippies, black radicals, feminists and more. We also hear about the resurgent economies of Japan and Germany, the ripple effects of the cybernetic revolution, the development of the Technics turntable, and the emergence of the synthesiser, and interrogate the charge that hippies should be held responsible for the advent of neoliberalism. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and…
Episode Zero
Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements past and present, from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso's NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Become a supporter by visiting our Patreon at www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod
Motown to Salsoul pt.1: Music in the Age of Fordism
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy begin the first of a three part series-within-a-series connecting the dots between Motown and Salsoul. We start with Fordism, Antonio Gramsci's term for both the industrial practices of Henry Ford and the wider post-war settlement in which they occurred. Tim and Jeremy discuss how the experience of Ford's production lines inspired Berry Gordy to create Motown Records, the groups and solo acts birthed by the label, and the emergent cultural norms they both expressed and reacted to. We also hear about the changing patterns of employment for musicians in the post-war era, the bohemia of Jazz and the Beats, and the imminent, embodied and sexual power of Funk. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launchin…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, July '21 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. Tim and Jeremy discuss Afro-psychedelia, chill out rooms and ambient music, and how best to use the sound system at the start of a party. They also talk about rock & roll, contemporary harp, and give as a taste of a new label reissuing some of the earliest dance edits from Francois K and Walter Gibbons. The two tracks discussed are: Noel Brass Jr - Prism Jousting Marty Wilde - Jezebel Mary Lattimore - Jimmy V Sunshine Sound - I Feel Love Medley (Francois K Edit) If you like the clips we played, we'd encourage you to support the artists and buy the tracks, most of which are available on bandcamp. And be sure to check out Moonshine Sound for more historic reissues: ht…
Rewind! Early DJ Culture pt.2
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy continue their two-part look at early DJ practices. They consider the role played by the personality-focused radio DJs of the late '60s, interrogating the relationships between these radio jocks, the party DJs, and the record companies, and the conditions that led to the establishment of the NYC Record Pool. Tim and Jeremy also take an in depth look at other aspects of DJ culture, including early mixing techniques, beat juggling and turntablism, as well as charting the history of the first dancefloor-focused remixes. Finally, they consider whether the figure of the DJ - branded, mobile, and able to process large amounts of musical information on behalf of a paying public - prefigures the ideal neoliberal subject. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their j…
Early DJ Culture pt.1
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy turn their attention to the wheels of steel, and the inhabitants of late 1960s and early 1970s New York who played them. We hear about the overwhelmingly Italian American young men who first pioneered the scene, the various public discotheques in which they performed, and the numerous technical innovations which advanced the craft. Tim and Jeremy also contrast the emergent New York scene with the soundsystem culture of Jamaica by considering the extent to which both could be thought of as assemblages of dancers, DJs, MCs and equipment, and share how rudimentary advances in beatmatching and mixing laid the groundwork for what we would consider today as the DJing archetype. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re…
Turn Off Your Mind, Relax and Float Downstream...
In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy are tuning in and dropping out as we talk all things Acid. We hear a history of the psychedelic movement within the Anglophone world, taking in the accidental maiden trip of chemist Albert Hoffmann, the activities of Timothy Leary at Millbrook and the Merry Pranksters on their Magic Bus, and The Beatles' musical rendering of the classic trip. Tim and Jeremy also consider how dancing is incorporated into the Acid experience, with a grateful nod to the role played by the Dead and their sound engineer Owsley Stanley, and draw out the tensions between the post-war consumer culture and the emergent psychedelic movement that rendered Acid such a uniquely potent political - as well as pharmacological - phenomenon. Note: At Love is the Message, we don't encourage our listeners to take Acid, which is of course illegal! Also, more prosaically, in this episode Jeremy refers to Ralph ‘Metzinger’ - he is of course talking about Ralph Metzner, the Americ…
New York in the 1960s
In the first episode of our new series looking in depth at the transformative decade of 1965-75, Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the pivotal position of New York City in the 1960s. They contrast the emergent New York with the fading Paris as centres of cultural and political life, taking in such important assemblages as the Greenwich Village Folk scene and Andy Warhol's Factory. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the contrasting schools of Jazz during the period - free, bebop and cool - and consider how the changing demographics of the city, forever a melting pot, led to the introduction of salsa to the New York audiences. The episode also takes in the various manifestations of the aesthetics of minimalism across the city, and ties it all back to David Mancuso's ear for the perfect lyric. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2…
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, June '21 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. We had planned to listen to 6 or 7 tracks, but the conversation was flowing and so we only managed 2. Tim and Jeremy discuss the British jazz revival, taking in labels like Gilles Peterson's Brownswood and venues like the Total Refreshment Centre; their own recent experience of throwing parties in East London; developing a more global musical palette than that offered by David Mancuso; and the changing patterns of migration that feed into interesting syntheses of international musics. This is the first of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recently and what we've been up to that we'll be releasing to pa…
Why the ’70s?
In this final episode of our introductory series, Jeremy and Tim dig into why the 1970s was such a crucial decade for political, social and musical innovation. Challenging the negative image of the ’70s so popularly held, they discuss the crucial importance of the era's global anti-colonial movements, and its liberation struggles around gender, sexuality and race, which found expression in music through punk, disco, afrobeat, reggae and proto-rap. Tim and Jeremy also take on the thesis that the Counterculture of the late ’60s and early ’70s served purely as a precursor to neoliberalism, arguing that countercultural movements represented a genuine rebellion against the rigidity and conformity of the postwar settlement. Finally, with an eye to the dancefloor, they discuss how the decade saw the emergence of the DJ, and later the remixer, and the technical innovations both of early mixing and of the 12" single. We're now taking a couple of weeks off, after which Love is the Mes…
In this week's episode, Tim and Jeremy are discussing love as the central affect of countercultural dance practice. They talk about the heteronormativity of the post-war period and the queerness of many male '60s pop singers, the religious antecedents to both the anti-war and the psychedelic movements, and the embrace of love as a universal force in both rock and jazz music of the period. They describe a continuum of dancefloor experience that runs from spiritual rapture to eroticised mating ritual, and place the collective experience of shared ecstacy through dance along that time. Finally, Tim and Jeremy recount the special place David Mancuso held for songs about love, and reflect on how Coronavirus has deprived us of that special type of dancefloor friendship. Join us next week as Tim and Jeremy ask - why the '70s? Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching tog…
The Dancefloor
In this week’s episode, Tim and Jeremy chart the emergence of the dancefloor as a site of important cultural practice. From the frigid discotheques of the 1960s to the wild abandon of the all night dancing that would explode in popularity just a few years later, we hear how the role of the DJ changed in both technical innovation and relationship with the crowd, the types of people who were heading onto the dancefloors of the early 1970s, and the repressive society they were seeking to cast off. Tim and Jeremy also discuss David Mancuso’s early audiophile experiments, the parallel sonic explorations also taking place in the sound systems of Jamaica, and draw similarities and differences between dancing and another ’70s activity, jogging. Join us next week as Tim and Jeremy ask - is love really all you need? Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together an…
Meeting David
This week Tim and Jeremy recount their personal journeys across the dancefloors of the UK and the USA, talk about how they came to work together, and their first time meeting David Mancuso. They recall how - after playing in London for the first time - David would join Tim and Jeremy in eventually hosting four UK Loft parties a year. They discuss the difficulties of finding an appropriate venue and sound system, the effects of hearing David’s selections in the flesh, and why balloons are always better than lazers. Jeremy's 3 hour postmodernism lecture, mentioned in the show, can be found here: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2020/12/20/what-is-or-was-postmodernism-3-hour-version/ Join us next week when we'll be talking about DJing and the dance floor as forms of cultural practice. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003…
The First Loft
This week Tim and Jeremy take us back to Valentine's Day 1970 for the very first of what would become a 50 year era of David Mancuso's Loft parties. They consider David's childhood experience of collectivised living while in care; the important antecedents found in the rent party scene and the '60s psychedelic culture of the melting pot city of New York; Tim recounts the origins of David's interest in audiophile sound; and the pair ask whether creating a space of freedom on the dance floor can be seen as a form of molecular politics. Join us next week when Tim and Jeremy talk about meeting David, working with him to throw the first UK Loft parties, and forming their own party collective, Lucky Cloud Sound System. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’r…
Counterculture pt.2
In the second of two episodes on Counterculture, Tim and Jeremy leave the '60s and move through the rest of the 20th Century, identifying the countercultural characteristics of reggae, punk, hip hop, house, techno and drum & bass. They cover the anti-imperial and anti-colonial sentiment of Rastafarianism, the simultaneous emergence of DJing in both Kingston and New York, and discuss the ambivalent political status of Punk. We also dig into the historiography of House and Techno, and consider the idea and potentiality of 'the machine' for the creators of these musics, asking: can the embrace of pleasure alone ever change the world? Join us next week as we go back to Valentine’s Day 1970 and the very first Loft party. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, the…
In the first of two episodes on Counterculture, Tim and Jeremy focus on the late ’60s and early ’70s – a period of exceptional cultural and political activity in the UK and the USA. They discuss the emergent New Social Movements, how Rock was institutionalised as the sound of the counterculture at the expense of other genres, the limitations of Timothy Leary’s invitation to ‘tune in and drop out’, the under-appreciated importance of Miles Davis and Jazz to the moment, and whether love really is all you need. Join us next episode for part 2, where we’ll look at countercultural tendencies in Reggae, Hip Hop, Punk, House and Techno. Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.…
Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast. Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements past and present, from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso's NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In this introductory episode, Tim and Jeremy set out some of the major themes and moments the project will encounter, as well as introducing themselves as thinkers, dancers and friends. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Become a supporter by visiting our Patreon at www.patreon.com/LoveMess…
Love is the Message: Trailer
Welcome to Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture, a new podcast from academics, DJs and soundsystem owners Jeremy Gilbert and Tim Lawrence. Join us for a long and winding journey through David Mancuso's legendary Loft parties in NYC, via the countercultural musical expressions of acid rock, jazz, reggae, hip hop and jungle, and to the early '00s, when Tim and Jeremy started hosting their own parties. Expect political discussion, detailed analysis and deep tunes. Be sure to subscribe to this channel to get the first episodes as soon as they're published. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8741427659988403, "wiki_prob": 0.8741427659988403, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line188744"} |
The Anatomy of Asterix
By Jessica Morley
A crowd of curious spectators lean forward as one. Before them a cadaver is laid out. Through its dissection, they hope to advance their age into new territories of knowledge. Yet this solemn ceremony is taking place not in the anatomy theatre of Dr. Tulp, so famously depicted by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in 1632, but at the dining table of Asterix and Obelix.
(DETAIL) UDERZO, ASTÉRIX: LE DEVIN. ESTIMATE: €140,000-180,000.
ASTERIX® - OBELIX® / © 2017 LES EDITIONS ALBERT RENE / GOSCINNY – UDERZO
Uderzo, the visionary illustrator of Asterix and Obelix, frequently cast his motley crew of Gauls in the masterpieces of European art, comically framing the trials and tribulations of village life, with the compositional monumentality of works such as Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) and Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830). In this frame from Le Devin (1972), which features in the Bande Dessinée (Comics) auction in Paris on 21 January, Uderzo offers an incisive reinterpretation of Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Theatre of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp (1632), one of the Dutch master’s most famous works.
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN, THE ANATOMY LESSON OF DR. NICOLAES TULP, 1632.
Rembrandt’s painting, which depicted contemporary science at its literal ‘cutting edge’, is turned upside down in this clever reimagining. Uderzo transforms esteemed anatomist Dr. Tulp into a suspect soothsayer claiming to interpret the wishes of the gods from animal entrails, converts his learned audience into credulous Gauls and swaps Rembrandt’s haunting, waxy skinned, anatomical subject with a fish. Science becomes superstition as Uderzo’s rowdy Gauls unwittingly become actors in this parody of Rembrandt’s depiction of rational inquiry. Only Asterix is wise to the satire, peering archly out of the frame at his readers with an irreverently raised eyebrow.
(DETAIL) UDERZO, ASTERIX THE LEGIONARY (1967). ASTERIX®- OBELIX® / © 2017 LES EDITIONS ALBERT RENE / GOSCINNY - UDERZO
Uderzo’s revisionist anatomy theatre tampers knowingly with its Rembrandtian model. For want of volunteers, seventeenth-century dissections were performed only on the bodies of executed criminals. In Dr. Tulp’s case this unfortunate subject was Aris Kindt, charged with the theft of a cloak. Uderzo wittily substitutes his for another criminal body; one of the village fishmonger Unhygienix’s criminally rotten fish.
THÉODORE GÉRICAULT, THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, 1818-1819.
Yet Dr. Tulp and Uderzo’s soothsayer have more in common than is initially apparent in this comic juxtaposition of progress and prophecy. It was not only the soothsayer’s carnal probing whose purpose was a better understanding of the heavens. Science and religion were not in opposition in Rembrandt’s world and the pursuit of religious knowledge was at the core of Dr. Tulp’s anatomical investigations. In fact, Rembrandt’s painting is an elaborately staged fiction, precisely designed to reflect the divine insight acquired by Dr. Tulp and his colleagues through their work; though only those experienced in seventeenth-century anatomy would have spotted this. The dissection has begun in the wrong place. In this pre-refrigerator age, dissection was a race against the clock and the sensible anatomist began his investigations in the sites most susceptible to decay - the central organs - only moving to the limbs and extremities after this point. Rembrandt has adapted this reality in order to show Dr. Tulp in the moment of dissecting the forearm to reveal one of the flexor muscles, considered by Rembrandt’s contemporaries to be the greatest testament in the human body to the intelligent design of God.
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How do you solve a problem like gobshites?
Apr 6, 2014 | Conservatives, politics |
That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a mortgage after a favourable change in the lending interest rate is not surprising.
That the affair has been so badly managed by the professional party and the MPs so close to an election should probably raise some eyebrows.
That the PM still reckons he doesn’t have a woman in the party good enough to promote into her place is lamentable. I reckon he’s also wrong.
The Conservative Party’s elected women are a remarkable bunch with real substance – they should be presenting the PM with an embarrassment of promotable riches – but the bias in the party at the last election towards creating good constituency MPs at the expense of the executive has created a pool of talent with outspokenness and principle in abundance, loyalty and ambition in short supply.
That’s good for constituencies but fucking awful for the executive whose job must be appointing people of competence to positions of consequence.
Politics, red in tooth and claw is the reality for the PM today. He wanted to keep Maria Miller in position – she is obviously competent and capable, but her judgment in her dealing with IPSA was evidently flawed.
Truculence is the correct response to a stupid and incapable bureaucracy, but not if you’re in the cabinet.
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Engstrom Model 150
WLMD ID: amel
Anesthesiologists may use muscle relaxant drugs to provide good operating conditions during surgery. While in this state, the patient's breathing is done for him or her by the anesthesiologist. Introduced in 1942, the use of muscle relaxants increased over the next decades, often becoming part of general anesthesia. The growing need for ventilation during anesthesia coincided with the world-wide spread of poliomyelitis, or polio. Thousands of polio survivors needed a respirator of their own to be able to breathe. Anesthesiologists sought a way to reduce the complication of this additional equipment in the operating room.
Swedish physician Carl Gunnar Engstrom, M.D. (1912-1987) filed to patent a new respirator in 1950. Four years later, the Engstrom Universal Respirator, also called the Model 150, was introduced. It was the first mechanical ventilator that could also deliver inhalation anesthetics. Like the Emerson Respirator, it applied both positive and negative pressure to the patient’s lungs, but did this more gradually. Mechanical ventilators soon became a standard feature of all anesthesia machines, improving patient safety. This example of the Engstrom Respirator has been modified by the addition of a Draeger Vapor halothane vaporizer.
Catalog Record: Engstrom Model 150
Access Key: amel
Accession No.: 2012-01-06-3
Title: Engstrom Respirator Modell 150.
Author: Engström, Carl-Gunnar, 1912-1987.
Title variation: Alt Title
Title: Engstrom Universal Respirator Model 150.
Title: Engstrom Universal Ventilator Model 150.
Publisher: Stockholm, Sweden : MIVAB Elektromedicinska Aktiebolog, [between 1953 and 1974].
Physical Descript: 1 ventilating anesthesia machine : metals, plastics, rubber ; 153 x 106 x 61 cm.
Subject: Anesthesia Machines.
Subject: Anesthesia – history – Sweden.
Subject: Poliomyelitis – history.
Subject: Ventilators, Mechanical.
Notes: The date range is based on the known date of introduction and date when a new
generation [the 2000 series] was introduced.
The undated brochure titled “The Engstrom Respirator” is kept in the Engstrom
Company vertical file.
Note Type: With
Notes: George S. Bause, M.D., Honorary Museum Curator, in conversartion with the
cataloger, recalled that the previous owner refurbished the machine prior to
donating it to the WLM, and may have added the vaporizer at that time.
Notes: Engstrom C-G. Treatment of severe cases of respiratory paralysis by the
Engstrom Universal Respirator. Br Med J. September 18, 1954;2(4889):666-669.
Notes: Engstrom, C-G. The Clinical Application of Prolonged Controlled Ventilation:
With Special Reference to a Method Developed by the Author. Stockholm:
Aarhuus Stiftsbogtrykkerie; 1963.
Notes: Gedeon, Andras. Science and Technology in Medicine. New York: Springer; 2006.
Notes: McPherson SP. Respiratory Therapy Equipment. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company;
Notes: MIVAB el. med.ab. The Engstrom Respirator. Stockholm: MIVAB el. med.ab., date
unknown. Archives. Located at: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology,
Schaumburg, Illinois.
Notes: Mushin WM, Rendell-Baker L, Thompson PW. Automatic Ventilation of the Lungs.
2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1969.
Notes: Mushin WL, Rendell-Baker L, Thompson PW and Mapleson WW. Automatic
Ventilation of the Lungs. 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications;
Notes: The cabinet is made of metal that has been painted or enameled a sky blue
color; Each of the four wheels is equipped with a lever that acts as a brake
when engaged;
Mounted on the top of the cabinet, from left to right, are: 1) a short
cylinder, made of the same metal as the cabinet, with three connecting ports,
one of which holds a black corrugated hose that leads to the central
assembly; 2) An empty armature; 3) A rectangular housing, made of the same
metal as the cabinet, holds a large round gauge marked “1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Liters”; This is connected by one black corrugated hose to the short cylinder
and by a second such hose to the central assembly; 4) An assembly of several
components with hoses that connect it to other parts of the machine, and one
hose that is not connected to anything else; These components include a
narrow chrome cylinder, a gauges and two dials; The dial at the upper right
is marked “Automatic Vent, Manual Vent”; The dial at the lower right is
marked “Breathing Position [new line] Spirometer [new line] Venturi, Danger”;
The gauge at lower left is marked “cm H2O”, with graduation marks in
ten-degree increments from 30 to 0 and from 10 to 60; 5) A large, clear
plastic cylinder that houses the ventilator containing a rebreathing bag; On
the front of the ventilator, near the top of the cylinder, is a control dial
with three settings, marked “Rebreathing, Filling, Nonrebreathing”; Mounted
on the top of the ventilator is a small red metal canister, marked “Danger
[new line] Watertrap Off [new line] Release at Max Pressure [new line] [left
arrow] 70 cm H2O” (the top of this canister is the highest point on the
machine);
Other controls for the unit are mounted on an angled front panel, between the
horizontal top of the unit and the vertical front panel; From left to right
the angled panel holds 1) a metal block with three hose connection ports and
a dial (this block bears a Dynatape label that reads: “Machine”), 2) the
“pressure regulator” knob, 3) a round window that might have been intended to
hold a gauge, 4) the “selector switch” knob, 5) the “frequency of respiration
per minute” knob, 6) the “dosing valve calibration” knob, 7) a gauge for “cm
of H2O”, 8) the manometer on-off knob, 9) a knob marked “emtying [sic]
pressure for the rubber bag”; The “frequency of respiration” knob is in the
center of the panel; below this a label reads: “Do Not Turn [new line] Dial
Unless [new line] Motor is Running [new line] Schick X-Ray, Chicago”; The
manometer on-off knob is at the upper right of the panel; Above this a label
reads: “Caution! [new line] Do Not Allow Explosive Gases or [new line]
Vapours to Enter the Respiration Bag” …. [Continued]
Notes: [Continuation]… Mounted on the right side of the angled front panel are two
brackets that hold a horizontal shelf made of a single piece of clear
plastic; The shelf is set in a metal frame; The plastic measures 35.5 x 21.5
cm;
There are two labels on the vertical front panel; The upper, larger label
reads: “Engstrom Respirator Modell [sic] 150 [new line] Patented Made in
Sweden”; directly below this appears a round label bearing the name and logo
of the manufacturer: “MIVAB”;
Mounted on the left front corner of the angled panel is a post that holds a
Draeger Vapor vaporizer; The two black rubber hoses that are a part of the
vaporizer are not attached to the machine;
A second post behind the vaporizer holds a vertical flowmeter with three
tubes, marked “O2, O2, N2O”; The housing for the flowmeter is made of a red
metal;
Set into the left wall of the cabinet is a round window marked “Stunden [new
line] 110 V 60 ~”; This contains a mechanism with slots for a total of six
digits; Currently, the number registered is 0915679;
A clear corrugated plastic hose is attached by a clip to the right wall of
the cabinet; This holds a large H-shaped connector; each of the long arms of
the H terminates in a valve; The center piece of the H terminates in a dial
marked “Expir. Pressure [new line] O [left arrow] Max“;
Set into the right wall of the cabinet are two ports for connecting to a
piped gas system, marked “N2O” and “O2”, respectively;
A stout black handle is mounted on the left wall and another on the right
wall of the cabinet, to facilitate moving the machine;
On the back wall of the cabinet, in the upper left corner, a label reads:
“MIVAB Elektromedicinska Aktiebolag [new line] Luntmakargatan 12 – Stockholm
[new line] Tel. 10 47 72 [new line] M 985 H 847 [new line] V 220 W 600 [new
line] Vaxelstrom”; To the right of this, another, larger label holds a
diagram titled “Lubrication Chart” and a list of instructions for the
lubrication of the apparatus.
Notes: Photographed by Mr. Steve Donisch, January 14, 2015.
Notes: The donor’s name and the date of acquistion have not been determined. The
machine was in the WLM collection by January 1, 1999. The machine was given
an artificial accession number during the inventory conducted in 2013.
Gerorge S. Bause, M.D., Honorary Museum Curator, in conversatrion with the
cataloger, recalled that it was donated by a private practive of
anesthesiologists in Illinois.
Notes: Anesthesiologists may use muscle relaxant drugs to provide good operating conditions during surgery. While in this state, the patient’s breathing is done for him or her by the anesthesiologist. Introduced in 1942, the use of muscle relaxants increased over the next decades, often becoming part of general anesthesia. The growing need for ventilation during anesthesia coincided with the world-wide spread of poliomyelitis, or polio. Thousands of polio survivors needed a respirator of their own to be able to breathe. Anesthesiologists sought a way to reduce the complication of this additional equipment in the operating room.
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Odisha Farmer's Innovative Seed-Extractor Cuts De-Seeding Time Of Vegetables By Over 60%
Writer: Ankita Singh
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A farmer from Puri, Odisha named Dilip Baral has developed a seed extractor that could make de-seeding vegetables easier and faster.
Dilip used to have manual labourers to de-seed vegetables. It would take five labourers to crush three quintals of tomatoes and six quintals of brinjals in an hour. The process was time-consuming. This prompted Dilip to come up with a solution which could make the process easier for all those who were involved in seed extraction related activities.
With hardly any engineering knowledge, Dilip approached various local farming equipment manufacturers to design the machine. After working on the design for seven long years, Dilip finally developed the machine for use in 2007.
The machine is designed in a way such that the vegetables is loaded from the top, where the steel tank rotates with the help of a motor to cut and smash the vegetables with blades and hammer.
The pulp is extracted from one end of the machine, while peels or remaining unwanted residue are removed from another point. As a result, the seeds are separated in the entire process. After fermentation and washing, the seeds are ready to be packed and sold.
The machine is powered by an electric motor which holds the capacity to crush ten quintals of tomato and three quintals of brinjal in an hour. The machine has made the entire de-seeding process easier, read an EvXprts Foundation's post.
It does not just save time but is also economical for farmers who are into seed production. Dilip Baral was felicitated by the Odisha State government for this innovation.
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HyperNation & Hyperverse – Scam Review
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By gfdgad gfdagda On Jan 4, 2023
Investors in Hyperverse will have to pay up to $100,000 to move their positions to HyperNation.
This update is based on a HyperNation webinar that Rory Conacher and Sean Maaske put on.
Conacher and Maaske are South African Hyper* promoters.
Through “The Rocket Community,” Conacher promotes MLM crypto Ponzi schemes;
The Rocket Community is home to thousands of crypto fans. It was started by Rory Conacher in 2013 and renamed in 2021.
We are an independent community resource that was made to help people in the community find the best services, tools, and resources for Blockchains, DeFi, NFTs, and Cryptocurrencies.
It’s not clear if Maaske is part of The Rocket Community.
Under the guise of “purchasing nodes,” the move from Hyperverse to HyperNation is being sold.
Investors in Hyperverse can choose between two different price levels for moving their funds:
$10,000: Move your Hyperverse investment position, but you can only make money on the first ten levels of your downline.
$100,000: Move your Hyperverse investment position and make money on your whole team.
There are three traps.
Hyperverse funds can’t be used to pay migration fees. Once paid, investment positions will be moved “at some point in the future,” and for Hyperverse investors to make money on their downlines, those downlines also need to pay migration fees.
So, Ryan Xu and the rest of the Hyper* scammers are looking for an easy way to get money. The ability to move is already there, but it is locked behind a paywall.
HyperNation is promising a 500% return on investment (ROI) to make up for the crazy fees. It is said that this will be paid at a rate of 0.7% per day.
Anyone who is interested in this should remember that HyperFund failed in late 2021. The new version of Hyperverse fell apart almost as soon as it started.
Sean Maaske, for his part, says he is not moving over.
I can tell you right now that I’m not moving anywhere else. I won’t go to HyperNation again. That’s what I want.
It’s not fair to tell someone, “Don’t worry about that, let’s go here instead.” That’s not fair. That’s not right.
Withdrawals from Hyperverse and HyperNation are still broken, and all Hyper* coins are either not working or have essentially stopped working.
Ryan Xu and Sam Lee, who own Hyper*, have been on the run since early 2021, when they fled to Dubai.
Most of the Hyper* leaders, or net-winners, have already left the ship, leaving mostly victims behind.
I don’t know if Rory Conacher is a Hyper* net-winner or not, but here’s what he’s telling his downline:
Look, I’m just as upset as each and every one of you. I don’t like how things have turned out. We’re all unhappy.
But they also have to wear the shoe on their foot. No matter how you wash it, things were used badly.
Remember that they said they would consider people with 300 or more accounts to be the bad boys. Oh my goodness, I mean three hundred accounts.
Funny enough, Conacher doesn’t talk about how Hyper* corporate stole hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars from investors and ran away with the money.
Let’s talk about the FSCA and what’s going on in South Africa.
So, around October of last year, I started working with the governing bodies and regulators to make sure we were doing everything right.
And that was done to make sure everyone was safe.
So you already know that there have been problems with plans and all that. We wanted to check that what we were doing was legal. We also wanted to make sure everything was done right.
Since October, we’ve been working with this governing body, and we’ve been able to make sure that they don’t see Hyperverse or HyperFund as a Ponzi scheme because of how we explained it.
Conacher seems to be making things up. The FSCA hasn’t signed up any of the Hyper* schemes. All of them are illegal Ponzi schemes that Conacher and Maske have been promoting and still are.
This is called fraud on the stock market. Securities fraud is against the law everywhere, including South Africa, even though the FSCA isn’t very good at stopping it.
Conacher says that the FSCA is “dealing with the HyperTech Group,” which is pretty funny. Ryan Xu and Sam Lee used HyperTech to run their different Hyper* Ponzi schemes over the years.
Conacher’s attempt to silence Hyper* victims by telling lies about FSCA compliance is obvious.
The problem we’re having right now is that we have our own community, but there are also other communities that aren’t part of The Rocket Community and may not have done things the right way or told people about things in a different way.
But now, everyone is rushing to the FSCA and saying, “We can’t get our money out. Our money can’t get out.”
So right away, that makes everything look like a red flag. So all of the work we’re doing to negotiate is now at risk.
Because if it gets bad enough, everyone loses. Everything is shut down, and then you wait many, many years and everyone goes through a process.
In Hyper*, the truth is that everyone has already lost. Since HyperFund went bankrupt around October 2021, withdrawals have been stopped or put on hold in one way or another.
HyperNation seems to have found its feet in Italy, the UK, and Canada after an embarrassing launch party for idiots.
It looks like HyperNation has stopped recruiting in Colombia.
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The Five Stupidest Articles in Fox News Magazine
PublishedJune 21, 2012
Did you know that Fox News has a magazine? For the ladies? It's called Fox News Magazine, and it's an online magazine full of magazine articles from the people that brought you Fox News! But in a magazine! Do you like reading PARADE but think it's just a little too risque? Are you befuddled by normal everyday tasks, such as how to wash your face or use scissors? Do you give a shit about Jackie Collins for some reason? Well then has Fox News got the magazine for you. Here's a taste.
5. 6 Surprising Habits That Could Hurt a Man's Sex Life
Fox News Magazine understands that you're having troubles with your boner. But don't fret—they've cracked the case and figured out why! It's because of your oral hygiene:
Men who forget to floss their teeth increase the bacteria in their gums, and this bacteria can travel through the bloodstream, combine with plaque and clog blood vessels which make getting an erection difficult.
Yes. That sounds like a COMPLETELY LOGICAL and common problem. But if you're flossing like crazy and things still aren't working down there, have you considered that you might have a violent and traumatic penis injury?
Lastly, if a man has sustained pelvic injuries from severe trauma, e.g., falling from a ladder or a car accident, the damaged nerves and arteries in the urethra will lead to dysfunction.
Oh, man, I've heard about that! You know what else is a major source of erectile dysfunction? Getting your penis chopped off by a sword. Check back next week, when Fox News Magazine outlines "11 Surprising Ways to Spice Up Getting Your Penis Chopped Off By a Sword".
4. Easy Solutions for Any Wardrobe Malfunction
Are you covered in lint? What the fuck do you do, right? Well, FNM has a solution so groundbreaking, they wrote it down in an article. Their secret? Use a lint roller! Oh, did a button fall off your shirt? I hope you're sitting down for this one...just sew it back on with a needle and thread! If you have a common problem, use the common solution that everyone knows about. If you feel like watching TV, try turning the TV on! Personally, I like to use the power switch. But, you know, try volume first! Solving problems can be fun!
3. Surprising Way to Get Killer Abs [sic]
Oooooh, this sounds like an article that will be full of surprises about how to get killer abs. I can't wait to find out the big surpri—
Contract your abdominal muscles.
'Kay.
2. The Ultimate Guide to Gorgeous African-American Hair
The only person who has ever clicked on this article is Herman Cain.
1. 10 Pranks That Will Spice Up Your Relationship
This article is full of "hilarious" pranks you can play on your husband (you're not living in sin, obv) to keep things caliente in the bedroom. Because nothing gets people's genitals engorged with blood like being ridiculed and lied to! Suggestions include taping over the trackball of his mouse (if you're a time-traveler from 1997), replacing his gatorade with colored water, stuffing his shoes with newspaper, and supergluing a coin to the hardwood floor (the "prank" is that then he has to refinish it)! They're all great—I'm SUPER turned-on right now—but the best one is obviously this:
This is one of our favorites and it can translate into a number of situations. Ask your guy to go to the supermarket and give him a list of made up things like dehydrated water, sweet salt or a blunt knife. If he's into fixing things, send him to the hardware store for a glass hammer or cement humidifier. For the sports guy, tell him to grab a box of curveballs and meet you in the park after work. Beware though, this could keep him tied up for a while.
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Beartooth: The Journey Below: The Journey Below (Paperback)
By Bear Tooth, Tony Lee, Omar Francia (Illustrator), Szymon Kudranski (Illustrator), Z2 Comics, Carlos Cabrera (Contributions by)
Ohio's Heavy Metal Heroes Beartooth Partner With Writer Tony Lee and Artist Omar Francia For ‘The Journey Below
The story behind the myths of Beartooth’s album 'Below' is brought to life as Barry awakens corporate drone Lita’s memory of how alive the world once was before the cold forces of the corporate world outlawed rock, reminding her of who she truly was, and who she could be again. Told by #1 New York Times best-selling author Tony Lee with the members of Beartooth, The Journey Below is a powerful tale reminding us of the vital power contained within every chord and beat of a song.
-A multiple-time New York Times Best-seller List and Eagle Award winning Writer, Tony Lee has worked professionally for over thirty years, including a decade in trade journalism and media marketing/creation for radio. Since returning to comics in 2003 he has written for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Titan Publishing, Markosia, 2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Superboy, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
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Denver’s Virtela acquired by NTT Communications…
Denver’s Virtela acquired by NTT Communications for $525 million
By Howard Pankratz | The Denver Post
Denver-based Virtela Technology Services is being acquired by NTT Communications Corp. for about $525 million.
Virtela is a 400-employee company with global operations and delivery centers in the United States, India and the Philippines.
It serves more than 500 customers worldwide, including many of the world’s largest multinational companies.
“Virtela is well-known for its strong technology, networking expertise, global reach and highly regarded services,” said Akira Arima, CEO of NTT.
“As we advance our Global Cloud Vision, we expect to continue offering enterprise customers the highest possible value in services ranging from branch office networking to large-scale cloud migration,” Arima added.
Ron Haigh, Virtela CEO, said NTT and Virtela “share a vision for passionate customer support and enhanced customer experience.”
“We look forward to continuing to work closely with our customers and partners to deliver even higher value,” said Haigh in a statement.
NTT is a Japanese company based in Tokyo.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939, [email protected] or twitter.com/howardpankratz
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Valuing Child Health Utility 9D health states with a young adolescent sample: a feasibility study to compare best-worst scaling discrete-choice experiment, standard gamble and time trade-off methods
Julie Ratcliffe, Leah Couzner, Terry Flynn, Michael Sawyer, Katherine Stevens, John Brazier, Leonie Burgess
QALYs are increasingly being utilized as a health outcome measure to calculate the benefits of new treatments and interventions within cost-utility analyses for economic evaluation. Cost-utility analyses of adolescent-specific treatment programmes are scant in comparison with those reported upon for adults and tend to incorporate the views of clinicians or adults as the main source of preferences. However, it is not clear that the views of adults are in accordance with those of adolescents on this issue. Hence, the treatments and interventions most highly valued by adults may not correspond with those most highly valued by adolescents. Ordinal methods for health state valuation may be more easily understood and interpreted by young adolescent samples than conventional approaches. The availability of young adolescent-specific health state values for the estimation of QALYs will provide new insights into the types of treatment programmes and health services that are most highly valued by young adolescents.The first objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of applying best-worst scaling (BWS) discrete-choice experiment (DCE) methods in a young adolescent sample to value health states defined by the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) instrument, a new generic preference-based measure of health-related quality of life developed specifically for application in young people. The second objective was to compare BWS DCE questions (where respondents are asked to indicate the best and worst attribute for each of a number of health states, presented one at a time) with conventional time trade-off (TTO) and standard gamble (SG) questions in terms of ease of understanding and completeness.A feasibility study sample of consenting young adolescent school children (n16) aged 1113 years participated in a face-to-face interview in which they were asked to indicate the best and worst attribute levels from a series of health states defined by the CHU9D, presented one at a time. Participants were also randomly allocated to receive additional conventional TTO or SG questions and prompted to indicate how difficult they found them to complete.The results indicate that participants were able to readily choose 'best' and 'worst' dimension levels in each of the CHU9D health states presented to them and provide justification for their choices. Furthermore, when presented with TTO or SG questions and prompted to make comparisons, participants found the BWS DCE task easier to understand and complete.The results of this feasibility study suggest that BWS DCE methods are potentially more readily understood and interpretable by vulnerable populations (e.g. young adolescents). These findings lend support to the potential application of BWS DCE methods to undertake large-scale health state valuation studies directly with young adolescent population samples.
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Ratcliffe, J., Couzner, L., Flynn, T., Sawyer, M., Stevens, K., Brazier, J., & Burgess, L. (2011). Valuing Child Health Utility 9D health states with a young adolescent sample: a feasibility study to compare best-worst scaling discrete-choice experiment, standard gamble and time trade-off methods. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 9(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.2165/11536960-000000000-00000
Ratcliffe, Julie ; Couzner, Leah ; Flynn, Terry et al. / Valuing Child Health Utility 9D health states with a young adolescent sample: a feasibility study to compare best-worst scaling discrete-choice experiment, standard gamble and time trade-off methods. In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2011 ; Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 15-27.
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In some regions of the United Kingdom, such as England and Wales, there are rights of way on which pedestrians have a legally protected right to travel. National parks, nature preserves, conservation areas and other protected wilderness areas may have trails that are restricted to pedestrians.
Footpaths can be connected to form a long distance trail or way, which can be used by both day hikers and by backpackers. Some of the trails are over one thousand miles (1,600 km) long.
In the USA and Canada, where urban sprawl has begun to strike even the most rural communities, developers and local leaders are currently striving to make their communities more conducive to non-motorized transportation through the use of less traditional trails. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has established the Active Living by Design program to improve the livability of communities in part through developing trails, The Upper Valley Trails Alliance has done similar work on traditional trails, while the Somerville Community Path and related paths, are examples of urban initiatives. In St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada the "Grand Concourse", is an integrated walkway system that has over 160 kilometers (99 mi) of walkways, which link every major park, river, pond, and green space in six municipalities.
Footpaths can be located in different settings for various uses. These can include:
Disability and wheelchair accessible paths in sensory gardens and all the above settings.
Gardens and designed landscapes: in private gardens and in public areas; and at park visitors centers as natural history interpretive nature trails in designed wildlife gardens.
A type of trail that was quite popular in the 1970s and 1980s but is less popular today is the exercise trail (also known as trim trail), which combines running with exercise stations.
Jogging or running paths. Many runners also favor running on trails rather than pavement, as giving a more vigorous work-out and better developing agility skills, as well as providing a more pleasant exercise environment.
Parks: including public spaces, urban parks, neighborhood parks, linear parks, botanic gardens, arboretum, and regional parks.
Sculpture gardens and open-air museums, as sculpture trails and historic interpretive trails.
Urban pedestrian footpaths or trails are sometimes called alleys or lanes and in older cities and towns in Europe and are often what is left of a medieval street network or right-of-ways or ancient footpaths. Similar paths also exist in some of the older North American towns and cities, like Charleston, South Carolina, New Castle, Delaware, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Such urban trails or footpaths are narrow, usually paved and often between the walls of buildings. This type is usually short and straight, and on steep ground can consist partially or entirely of steps. Some are named. Because of geography steps are a common form of footpath in hilly cities and towns. This includes Pittsburgh (see Steps of Pittsburgh), Cincinnati (see Steps of Cincinnati), Seattle, and San Francisco in the United States, as well as Hong Kong, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and Rome. Stairway trails are found in a number of hilly American cities. This includes the Stairway Trails in Bernal Heights, East San Francisco.
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The Return of Politics, the End of Merkel? Germany’s New Grand Coalition
By Julian Jürgenmeyer
Martin Schulz went head-on against Angela Merkel: the German chancellor was a “vacuum cleaner of ideas,” sucking up the programmatic core of other parties and selling it as her own whenever public opinion polling promises a profit; her “systematic refusal of politics” was responsible for the rise of right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD); her election campaign nothing short of “scandalous.” The problem with Schulz’s fierce attack: it came too late.
Reconciling Neo-liberalism and Community Based Tourism in South Africa: The African Ivory Route
By Chris Boonzaaier and Harry Wels
The commodification of culture in tourism is often critiqued and lamented in academic texts. What this process often seems to entail is that so called “cultures” of local communities are showcased to tourists from around the world. Often, it is especially what is considered “exotic” and “indigenous” that is showcased to tourists.
Belgrade, 1941 by Biljana Jovanović
Translated by John K. Cox
Ivan urged his mother impatiently on, watching her root around in the ruins on Uskočka Street. He screamed at her, flapping his arms, cursed, threatened her, looked around in nervousness and fright: It’s already getting dark! But Milica, not paying him any heed, sat down on a smashed ceiling joist, and, now with her cane and now with her bare hand, she picked through the indistinguishable mass of rags, furniture, burnt scraps…
Primavera, an Art Series
By Sokari Douglas Camp
In this art series, Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas Camp finds herself inspired by European painters William Blake, Botticelli, and Michelangelo. These pieces aim to signify beauty and hope.
Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance
Reviewed by Mark Lawrence
Nina Berman’s Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance is a thoughtful effort to draw connections between the ever-vexed land question in the postcolonial world, the frequently oversimplified complexity of the history behind this, and the often-marginalized ways in which the personal has played as important a role as the political in externally-driven material development in Africa.
Generation Identity: A Millennial Fascism for the Future?
While many elements of the extreme far-right were suppressed after the Second World War, today, neo-fascists, white nationalists, far-right traditionalists, and new groups have emerged, such as Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity)—a trans-European, networked group of primarily young people who advocate for a “Europe of Nations.”
Writing into A Cultural Divide: An Interview with Sana Krasikov
Interviewed by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
Krasikov immigrated to the United States in 1987 from the Soviet Republic of Georgia. Her critically-acclaimed debut short story collection, One More Year, was published in 2008. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists of 2017. I spent an afternoon with Krasikov in the Hudson Valley discussing her novel in the context of the recent global paradigm shift, and Russian-American political attitudes.
How Fascist is Arktos? A Traditionalist Confronting Fascism
From its beginning, ITP/Arktos heavily promoted the work of far-right philosopher Julius Evola, whose ideas were popular amongst fascist thinkers and in the press under Mussolini. Politically, Evola located himself to the right of fascism. Like many of his fascist contemporaries, Evola wanted to eschew modernity to restore an imagined, glorious past, delving into a sort of occultism that obscured the rhetoric of his fascistic ideologies.
History Repeating Itself: The Rebirth of Far-Right Ideology and Internal Strife
Established by many of the original ITP collaborators, most of whom no longer are with the company, Arktos dominates the field of far-right publishing, and has published and translated authors with the purpose of radically transforming the conservative and neoliberal right—calling forth a return of the “real right,” as Arktos C.E.O., Daniel Friberg, articulates in his less-than-eloquent manifesto work published in 2015.
ABCs of Arktos: People, Ideas, and Movements
Over the last decade, ITP/Arktos has created a trans-European and global Nationalist-Traditionalist network, translating and editing texts that have appealed to supporters of both nationalist and neo-traditionalist ideologies.
Populism Is a Problem. Elitist Technocrats Aren’t the Solution.
By Sheri Berman
Democracy today seems to be in constant crisis. Democratic backsliding has occurred in countries from Venezuela to Poland, and autocratic leaders, including Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, proudly proclaim that the era of liberal democracy is over.
The Rise of the European Far-Right in the Internet Age
Over the course of this series, readers will be introduced to a hybrid print/digital publisher that has brought esoteric, fascist ideologies back from the grave. Each installment will delve into another aspect of the media company, outlining Arktos’ history, while describing more broadly the ways its collaborators are using both the internet and analogue media to promote fascistic ideologies.
The Legacy of the Georgian Revolution
By Eric Lee
While the Russian Bolsheviks were clamping down on trade unions, which were dismissed by Trotsky as being under the control of “chatterboxes,” in Menshevik-led Georgia they thrived – retaining their independence from the state and winning a constitutional right to strike. They also played a key role in a remarkable institution known as the Wages Board, which consisted of ten representatives each from the employers and trade unions.
EuropeNow’s Favorite Translations of 2017
The EuropeNow Editors choose their favorite literary translations of 2017.
A Revelatory Biography: The Genial Genius
By Anne Price-Owen
For over three decades, devotees of the painter-poet David Jones have waited eagerly for the definitive biography and attendant revelations concerning this extraordinary artist and poet, and they have not been disappointed. Thomas Dilworth’s book is a compelling read, and his claim that Jones was the greatest native British Modernist working in twentieth century Britain is convincingly articulated.
The European Pillar of Social Rights as an Opportunity Towards a More Social Europe?
By Christos Louvaris
Sixty years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome, and nearly twenty years after the proclamation of the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, the Commission finally published the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) in April 2017.
On Populism, Liberalism, and the Future of the Left: An Interview with Raphael Liogier
Interviewed by Frédéric Baitinger
The question of populism is essential, even though the term is a bit confusing. To be a populist does not mean to be close to the people. To be a populist, according to me, is to speak in the name of people, to speak for them, which is to say, on their behalf.
“Trotskyists on Trial:” Defining Spanish Republican Antifascism in the Spanish Civil War
By Jonathan Sherry
All too often, the Spanish Civil War is discussed by way of subsequent events. The trend is just as marked in public discourse as it is in academic study. Whether intellectuals conceptualize the terms of World War II as the “first chapter” in the battle between the Axis and Allied powers, or in the Cold War lexicon as a struggle against Communist or Soviet domination, the ideological and historical complexity of the conflict is often swept under the carpet.
By Mark Römisch
Among the many challenges that Europe faces in the wake of the recent refugee crisis is the integration of millions of immigrants and the rise of xenophobia and nationalism at the same time. The photographic work Broken highlights an aspect of the crisis that is not necessarily obvious to those who are in support of the refugees or for those who want to refuse them entry to their country.
Exiles: Interviews by Kader Attia
Interviewed by Kader Attia
Many Syrian refugees are suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as delirium. These people were already ill in Syria before they arrived here. The delirium is mostly political; they feel persecuted by ISIS, the Syrian army. It has to do with politics rather than religion. We see more patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder than patients who are truly depressed.
Shanty Town Deluxe
By Roger Eberhard
It is quite common for wealthy tourists to visit impoverished countries without ever exposing themselves to the extreme penury its citizens suffer.
Sustainability and the Transformation of Transnational Politics
The EU is about to digest the separation from Great Britain, a major member state, and one of Europe’s two military powers. Setting a precedent of sorts, Brexit, so far, may appear to be a negative example of how to prepare for common challenges and multilateral cooperation in times of turbulence.
Lord McConnell: United Kingdom Can Still Shape Europe’s Future Despite Brexit
By Michael Keating
Ten years after stepping down as first minister of Scotland, Jack McConnell remains a busy man. I caught up with him by Skype in New York, where he was attending the UN meetings on development.
Forget Workers Going Out on Strike – In Future It Should Be Consumers
By Aude Cefaliello
I belong to a generation that has been told there is no other choice other than to be flexible in the labour market. It means being flexible about where you go to work, when you go to work, and about what work you are going to do. For many of us, the idea of a long-term employment contract in a company where there is the possibility to progress belongs to another time.
Big Business Prioritizes Climate Change Over Labour Rights – Here’s Why
By Kelly Kollman and Alvise Favotto
When the Trump administration was still deciding whether America should remain in the Paris climate agreement, the president’s closest officials lined up on different sides of the debate. Those in favour of the agreement included Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, a career property developer, and the secretary of state and former chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson.
Austerity Has Wounded Public Health in EU Bailout Countries – Greece Worst of All
By Susan Giaimo
The economic crisis of the past decade has been a wrenching experience, particularly for Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. They all required bailouts from the Troika of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and the IMF. The bailouts came with tough conditions to slash public spending and employment and raise taxes to achieve a balanced budget.
So Much for Dutch Tolerance: Life as an LGBT Asylum Seeker in the Netherlands
By Sarah French Brennan
Aziz is from Kabul in Afghanistan. His boyfriend was murdered by his own family in early 2014. They threatened to kill Aziz too, so he fled. After he arrived at an asylum camp in the Netherlands, the family beat his mother and siblings. He sought asylum claiming he was in fear of his life, but the Dutch authorities rejected the application.
Conference Dispatches
Understanding Central and Eastern European Energy Security: Transition, Russia, and the EU
By Alexandra Ba-Tin
Over the last twenty-five years, clear patterns were emerging in the Central and Eastern European region, showing that unlike in the Baltics and in Ukraine, Russian involvement in private and state energy sectors had been relatively low.
The New Repartition of Forces Between Employers and Unions in the Current Industrial Relations’ Equation
If we want to deal with the challenges Europe faces and develop sustainable mechanisms to overcome them, it is necessary to understand the forces exercised at the decision-making level, for example, in the relations between employers, unions, and European Union institutions.
The Role of Values in EU Governance
By Shumail Javed
“Human dignity,” Drowet makes the comparison, is “what the precautionary principle was in the 90s, and dignity is becoming the symbol of Europe in the European Framework of values.”
Windows, Gates, and Bridges, or the Architecture of the Bill
By Hunter Doyle and Sofia Pia Belenky
Zooming to the scale of the individual bill, it is clear that the note itself reflects both of these trends, the cultural narrative or mythology, as well as the private desire for territorial accumulation. Each euro note has an architectural theme ranging from classical to “modern” twentieth century. As the bill increasses in value, the architectural period becomes more contemporary.
Finland’s Brain Drain: What Happens to Small Countries When the Talent Leaves?
By Juho Korhonen
The difference with today’s migrants is that they are better educated and leaving a welfare state that ranks as one of the best places to live in the world according to most indices. The likelihood of them returning has nevertheless fallen sharply. Why?
Citizen of the English Language: An Interview with Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Interviewed by James Crossley
I hoped this story would go beyond the Persian diaspora. It is about all migrant communities, all refugees, all people exiled either by choice or because of necessity. We do need labels, to flag the limits of our knowledge, the extent of our ignorance, but as Aminatta Forna says, labels can also limit who we are.
Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema by Mariana Liz
Reviewed by Roger Hillman
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ongoing emergence of a new, multi-faceted European identity has been a gradual process. In a valuable contribution, this book takes stock of a work-in-process after its first quarter century, the melting pot fusion that is Europe, as reflected (but not in a vulgar Marxist sense) in European cinema
How the Spectre of Yugoslavia Looms Over EU’s Handling of the Refugee Crisis
By Irial Glynn
With peak season approaching for refugees making treacherous journeys to and through Europe, don’t be surprised if we are told again that this is unprecedented. That would certainly be in keeping with what news organisations, politicians and research bodies have asserted in the past several years.
Announcing the EuropeNow Film Festival
By Jake Purcell
EuropeNow is collaborating with the World of Film International Festival Glasgow to make the EuropeNow Festival, featuring films from across the globe that address sustainability and transformation in Europe.
Locating Myself in the Anthropocene
By Julie Reiss
Like many people, I had been concerned about the frightening implications of the Anthropocene long before I even heard the word. As I worried about the widespread destructive impact of human activity on the earth, I became aware that geologists were debating whether that impact was so far reaching that it had caused a distinct geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
“We Are Poor,” the Czechs Have Realized with Horror
By Jan Čulík
While the Czechs as members of a ten million nation know very well their international influence would be greatly diminished if the EU ceased to exist, their dissatisfaction of what they increasingly see as a position of second rate citizens within the EU could in future become a deeply destabilizing factor.
Artist Spotlight: The Thousand Colors Of Nik Spatari
Curated by Antonio Laruffa
When you talk about Nik Spatari, it is a very complex figure you are dealing with. Like the pagan god Janus, this artist might be seen as a man with two faces; like the god that can look to the past and the future, Spatari has been and still is a protagonist of artistic movements that span two centuries, both representing 20th-century Avant-garde and being an independent pioneer in 21st-century art.
The Contemporary Presence of the Past: Memory Studies in the Council for European Studies and Beyond
By Aline Sierp and Jenny Wüstenberg
As Michael Rothberg recently pointed out, we currently appear to be living in a “moment of danger” in which memory has become particularly salient–both in terms of being abused by authoritarian and populist forces, and in terms of its importance in resisting them.
Remembering the Netherlands during World War II: War Diaries and the Role of the Historian in Collective Memory
By Sacha van Leeuwen
On May 8, 1945, three days after the liberation from Nazi Germany, the State Institute for War Documentation (Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie; RIOD) was founded in the Netherlands. Led by historian, Loe de Jong, RIOD was tasked by the government to write the official history of the Dutch kingdom during World War II.
Compass by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Reviewed by Yasmin Roshanian
With language, Mandell encompasses this urgent tie to the past. The history is fed to us in visceral images of women required to veil, drug rings flowing with opium, rotting buildings crippled with rickety bedframes, and cigarette burns dented in wood. As Franz recollects his most poignant memories from Tehran, he revisits a city still reeling from a revolution.
Perí-pherein, the European Necessity to Think a Different Political Act
By Agostino Petrillo
There is nothing more vague and ambiguous than the concept of the suburb; it cannot exist on its own, it can only do so in connection with the center, in a never-ending and repetitive connection of meanings, a spiral of reciprocal definitions that Saint Thomas Aquinas called infinitum ad quem.
World of Film International Festival: An Interview with Martin Petrov
Interviewed by Jake Purcell
Director of the World of Film International Festival Martin Petrov, discusses EuropeNow Festival; a collaboration with WoFF and the Council for European Studies.
Why is the Czech Republic So Hostile to Muslims and Refugees?
The significant upsurge of refugees, which came into Europe in 2015, was met with unprecedented anger and hostility from an overwhelming majority of citizens of most of the post-communist Central European countries. It would appear that a synergy of several historical, cultural, political, and economic factors has created this fiercely hostile reaction.
Analysis: Europe’s Center-Left Risks Irrelevance
Economically, much of the continent suffers from low growth, high unemployment and rising inequality, while politically, disillusionment with the European community as well as domestic institutions and elites is widespread. Partially as a result, right-wing populism is growing, increasing political instability and uncertainty even further.
Language Cafes as a site of Wider Cultural Integration
By Claire Needler
This project aims to influence policy and practice, and to make tangible improvements to the lives of migrants who have settled in Scotland. Our focus is participatory action research, working with migrants and stakeholders to find local, grassroots solutions to issues they have identified.
Who Did Europe March For?
By Mary Wang
In European countries with growing right-wing movements, the upcoming elections should serve as a reminder that merging bodies into one space isn’t always enough. Instead, those in countries like France and the Netherlands, who will elect new governments in March, will need to understand that even in countries where the female body isn’t immediately under threat, female solidarity means voting against the politicians who will hurt immigrant and colored bodies more.
Trump, Brexit, Populism, and the Dawn of the Liberal World Order
Never before has the change of administration in the United States caused this much concern globally, and never before has a US President incited so much tension ahead of taking office. As the hopes for a Damascene conversion for the new POTUS are waning, one thing has become evident by now: the path of naive unilateralism that the forthcoming American government is set to follow will prove to be of little help for international development or a burgeoning global policy of common good.
The Politics of Hair
By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
While city attitudes toward women cutting their tresses had by then become more liberal, in small towns and villages the daring ones were branded morally delinquent and sentenced a priori to eternal damnation. A popular saying: “Short hair, short on brains” expressed prevalent attitudes.
End the Potemkin Villages
By Robert van Voren
The tragedy of Leonidas’ death is the fact that he did not have to die. The fact is that Vilnius airport has three defibrillators and none of them was touched. As I said, none of the airport staff tried to resuscitate him, and instead waited until the ambulance arrived–too late to save his life.
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
Translated by Jordan Stump
But just then a crowd appeared, bellowing, with machetes in their hands, and spears, bows, clubs, torches. We hurried to hide in the banana grove. Still roaring, the men burst into our house. They set fire to the straw-roofed hut, the stables full of calves. They slashed the stores of beans and sorghum. They launched a frenzied attack on the brick house we would never live in. They didn’t take anything, they only wanted to destroy, to wipe out all sign of us, annihilate us.
Dispatch: Brexit and Higher Education
On December 1 and 2, Columbia University hosted Brexit: Before & Beyond, a set of panels and events that brought together journalists and scholars from both European and American universities to discuss the events that precipitated the UK’s vote to leave the EU, as well as the continuing fallout from that referendum.
Dispatch: Post-Brexit International Relations
John Lancester’s “Brexit Blues,” published in the London Review of Books starts with an explanation of the “Overton window,” a concept in political science that describes the range of ideas that are deemed acceptable by the public at one time. The crucial insight of Joseph Overton, the inventor who lent his name to the concept, was that this window of acceptability could be shifted.
What the Rise of Populism Reveals: An Interview with Sheri Berman
Council for European Studies chair Sheri Berman, discusses the rise of populism and the inclusion problems of the center-left.
Columbia Historians Tackle the Past and Future of Brexit: ‘What Happened?’
Columbia University’s Department of History kicked off the academic year with an “air-clearing” conversation about the Brexit vote.
Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood by Mel Gibson
Reviewed by Margaret Galvan
In focusing on the readership patterns of comics among British girls in the second half of the twentieth century, Mel Gibson recuperates a richly textured subject that has, by her account, “been largely neglected as a research subject within the academy and in popular accounts of youth culture.”
Analysis: Europe’s Traditional Left Is in a Death Spiral
Europe today is a mess. The strongest countries face lackluster economic growth, while the weakest, like Greece, are struggling to recover from depression-like downturns. Politically, things are even worse, as disillusionment with European and domestic institutions and elites is at record levels, and support for far-left and far-right parties is growing, creating political instability.
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power and Culture after Socialism by Douglas Rogers
Reviewed by Julie Hemment
Oil, corporate power, and shifting corporate/state alignments are all urgent twenty-first century themes, implicated and embedded in Europe’s current intersecting crises.
Populist Political Communication in Europe by Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Strömbäck, and Claes H. de Vreese
Reviewed by Hanspeter Kriesi
Although they only indirectly speak to the topic of the volume, some of the conceptual discussions of populism in the country chapters are of more general interest, because they clarify the sources of confusion that exist in the debate on populism.
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of the Aristocracy by Victor Kiernan
Reviewed by Stephen Banks
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Mom Exposes Pedophile Books Given to Kids, Gets Silenced by ‘Woke’ School Board
‘Both of these books include pedophilia, sex between men and boys’
A Virginia mom read from books to a school board depicting pedophilia which was made available to her child by the school as part of its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Ironically, the school board silenced the mom because there were children in the room.
Stacy Langton, holding two books said:
“After seeing a September 9th school board meeting in Texas on pornography in schools, I decided to check the titles at my child’s high school, Fairfax High School.”
“The books were available, and we checked them out,” she said.
“Both of these books include pedophilia, sex between men and boys.”
“The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation, and violent nudity.”
Then she read from them:
“I can’t wait to have your c*** in my mouth.
“I am going to give you the blowjob of your life, and then I want you inside me.”
“What if I told you I touched another guy’s d***? What if I told you I sucked it?
“I was ten years old, but it’s true.
“I sucked Doug Goble’s d***, the real estate guy, and he sucked mine too.”
“This is not an oversight at Fairfax High School—” she said.
One school member quickly indicated her mic should be cut as another member cut her off.
“I’m sorry, there are children in the audience here,” the board member said.
But the mother would not back down.
“Do not interrupt my time! I will stand here until my time is restored and my time is finished. These books are in stock and available in the libraries…”
The school board interjected, saying, “For high school students, ma’am!”
The entire crowd erupted in jeers at the school board’s efforts to silence the mom.
Even before the buzzer sounded the end of her allotted three minutes, the school board began talking over her.
School board member Karl Frisch, who is gay and does not have children, seemed to defend the pornography on Twitter:
“It’s not every week the School Board receives two exorcisms during public comment. To be clear, nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families, and staff. Nothing.”
It’s not every week the School Board receives two exorcisms during public comment. To be clear, nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families, and staff. Nothing. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
— Karl Frisch (@KarlFrischFCPS) September 24, 2021
The book “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison is available in Fairfax school libraries; here is a passage from the book:
“What if I told you I touched another guy’s d***?” I said.
“Pff.” Nick waved me off and turned his attention back to his beer.
“What if I told you I sucked it?”
“Will you please just shut up already?”
“I’m dead serious, Nick.”
“Well, I’d say you were a f**.”
“I was ten years old, but it’s true. I put Doug Goble’s d*** in my mouth.”
“The real-estate guy?”
Nick looked around frantically. “What the f*** are you talking about, Michael?”
“I was in fourth grade. It was no big deal.”
Cringing, Nick held his hands out in front of him in a yield gesture. “Stop.”
“He sucked mine, too.”
“Stop! Why are you telling me this?”
“And you know what?” I said. “It wasn’t terrible.”
“Lawn Boy” is in schools as it is proclaimed by the Young Adult Library Services division of the American Library Association (YALSA).
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Develops and writes speeches, briefings, and other communications for executives. Translates the ideas, objectives, corporate position, and management philosophy into messaging that relates to the topic, speaker, and intended audience. May compose editorials, press releases or articles representing management. May assist executive with speech delivery preparations. Requires a bachelor's degree. Ty... View job details
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Creates and publishes technical documentations and manuals. Collects and interprets technical data or information and coordinates layout for publication. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to a manager. A specialist on complex technical and business matters. Work is highly independent. May assume a team lead role for the work group. Typically requires 7+ years of related experience.... View job details
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Turning an Empty Space into an Experience
Written By More Vang
After being fully leased for decades, Presidential Tower was returning to the market. To announce its return, Avison Young wanted to create an engaging real estate experience. During our first meeting, we stood on the 12th floor and took in the commanding views—verdant on one side, metropolitan on the other—and formulated a plan. We would treat the entire space as a gigantic showroom, illustrating the different experiences that make the building and its environs so desirable.
One problem: we only had six weeks to do it. Sometimes its a great thing to have control over every step of the process, from creative to installation.
We hung 4’x 8’ acrylic panels, using clamps and ceiling tracks. We recreated the commuter feel with wall vinyl Metro pillar signs. And to show how desks, tables, and chairs could populate the space, we spray painted stenciled replicas of the furniture.
Inspired by Presidential Tower’s emblematic logo, we provided a 500-foot route for prospective tenants to follow from the elevator to each experience in the space.
The walkway wraps around the Route 1 side of Presidential Tower and arrives at a corner where planes can be seen taking off and landing at Reagan National Airport.
And the space itself is pillared by Metro signage for King Street, Pentagon City, Crystal City, and the airport.
As the walkway approaches a right angle bend around a pillar, silhouettes of actual office furnishings appear on the interior floor. They’re stenciled sketches that show exactly how a real office environment could be laid out in situ.
The final stop is the Conference area, where we highlight all the impressive specs: the thousands of rentable square feet, the LEED® Silver certification, and neighborhood amenities.
In the end, we turned a drab concrete shell into a colorful, informational experience that paid homage to the building’s convenience and amenities for today’s professional class. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6558956503868103, "wiki_prob": 0.3441043496131897, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1438001"} |
Will Disneyland charge for Fastpasses when Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opens?
Scott Craven
The Republic | azcentral.com
As the May 31 debut of Disneyland’s highly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction approaches, the theme-park giant continues to experiment with its Fastpass system in ways to suggest it may embrace a practice many would consider a disturbance of the Force.
Will Disney start charging the general public for its skip-the-line passes?
In January, Disney allowed certain high-end guests at Disney World in Florida to purchase three Fastpasses for $50. At Disneyland Paris, guests may buy a Star Wars package for 59 euros ($67) that includes Fastpasses to Hyperspace Mountain and Star Tours.
It begs the question: Will Disney ask parkgoers to pay above and beyond admission for an exclusive Fastpass to Galaxy’s Edge? If so, will it lead to a rise of guest resistance, particularly among those who believe the theme park shouldn't favor those with deep pockets?
Disney: Equal waits for all
Disney has resisted the temptation to sell priority access to its parks, a method long embraced by its competitors (particularly Universal Studios, which sells front-of-the-line tickets for roughly 60 percent more than standard admission).
And for now, officials are using a reservations system to control crowds. All guests will require a (free) reservations in addition to a valid admission ticket through June 23. Details of how to get reservations have not been released, though people staying in one of Disney's three on-site hotels will get first crack. Rates at those hotels range from $300-$400 a night for the cheapest rooms, far higher than most off-property hotels.
That said, Disney has been happy to shower perks on those who can afford them. Guests who stay at official Disney World hotels have access to exclusive bonuses, like making ride and show reservations 60 days in advance, as well as the use of complimentary electronic wristbands (Magic Bands) that multitask as hotel key, admission ticket and charge card.
While Disney has yet to sell Fastpasses to the general public at Disneyland or Disney World, it has offered special access to the parks for additional cost.
A series of After Dark special events has proven popular in the California and Florida parks. The themed evenings run 9 p.m.-1 a.m., open only those with event wristbands.
A Valentine’s Day After Dark at Disneyland sold out, and demand is expected to be much higher for an upcoming Marvel-themed affair, the first After Dark to feature two nights. Tickets to Disneyland After Dark: Heroes Assemble are $109.
Premium experiences for sale
When Pixar Pier opened at Disneyland in 2018, Disney sold $299 preview passes that allowed guests a few hours to explore the new area before it opened to the general public. Don't be surprised if the company sells previews to Galaxy's Edge as well.
If it is just a matter of time before Disney starts selling Fastpasses, there would be no more opportune time than the opening of Galaxy’s Edge.
There is so much pent-up demand for the 14-acre attraction that some theme-park experts are predicting more than 100,000 people will show up for the debut (compared to the nearly 30,000 who overwhelmed Disneyland when it opened July 19, 1955, a snafu-filled day that later would be referred to as “Black Sunday”).
Selling Fastpasses, either for the entire park or for specific attractions, could do more than add to the bottom line. It could also help manage the crowds.
Galaxy's Edge to test patience
The question Disneyland fans have been asking on social media is what steps will be taken to make sure everyone has an enjoyable time when Star Wars opens. Will people tolerate the eight-hour lines seen when Pandora — The World of Avatar opened at Disney World in 2017? Might visitors wait even longer than that to get into Galaxy’s Edge?
The reservations system seems to be the first step. Speculation is that each reservation will include a timed window (three hours, perhaps), as well as a specific day and time to visit. That's in addition to how Disney has blocked out much of the summer for holders of the cheapest annual pass.
Only time will tell if the limited sale of Fastpasses at Disney World and Disneyland Paris was done to gauge the public’s willingness to pay up for a better experience.
It's anyone's guess what Disney will do in the future to best monetize the 14-acre Star Wars land in the months after if opens. But one thing is sure: Guests will decide for themselves if the entertainment conglomerate is using the Force for good or evil.
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November 9, 2013, 11:07 AM HST
* Updated November 10, 2:45 AM
This sign is posted at the Ulaino River in East Maui, which can overflow during heavy rains, making the road impassable. File photo by Wendy Osher.
By Wendy Osher
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch through late Saturday night, Nov. 9, for the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi, due to an upper level trough and surface shear line approaching the state.
Forecasters with the NWS say the conditions will enhance an “already moist and unstable airmass.”
The agency is forecasting possible brief heavy showers on Saturday afternoon, with the greatest potential for flash flooding occurring tonight.
“Strengthening trade winds, (and) heavy rains will be focused primarily across windward sections,” according to the NWS forecast.
As a precaution, the public is advised to monitor updated forecasts and be prepared should flash flooding occur.
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Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 22 November-28 November 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 22 Nov 2006, 06:00 The Darwin VAAC reported that a diffuse plume from Barren Island was visible on satellite imagery on 27 November. The height and direction of the plume were not reported. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 8 November-14 November 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 8 Nov 2006, 06:00Based on satellite imagery, the Darwin VAAC reported that diffuse plumes from Barren Island on 8 November reached altitudes of 3 km (10,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted SW and W. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 18 October-24 October 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 18 Oct 2006, 06:00 Based on pilot observations, the Darwin VAAC reported that ash-and-steam plumes from Barren Island on 19 and 20 October reached altitudes of 1.5 km (5,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted WNW. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 20 September-26 September 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 20 Sep 2006, 06:00Indian Coast Guard officials noted in a news report on 23 September that the continuing eruption at Barren Island was decreasing in intensity. A surveillance report stated that there was less lava but more "smoke" coming from the volcano. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 24 May-30 May 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 24 May 2006, 06:00 Based on a pilot report, the Darwin VAAC reported an ash plume from Barren Island on 26 May that reached an altitude below 3 km (10,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted N at 1230. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 3 May-9 May 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 3 May 2006, 06:00On 3 May, low-level ash plumes from Barren Island were visible on satellite imagery extending N. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 26 April-2 May 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 26 Apr 2006, 06:00 A plume emitted from Barren Island was visible on satellite imagery on 2 May at a height near 3.7 km (12,000 ft) a.s.l. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 19 April-25 April 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 19 Apr 2006, 06:00A low-level plume emitted from Barren Island was visible on satellite imagery on 19 April extending westward. Read all
Barren Island (Andaman Islands, India), eruption update: continuing ash emisssions
Thu, 6 Apr 2006, 08:41
Barren Island remains active. Pilots frequently observe ash plumes at around flight level 100. The volcano continues to emit small to moderate amounts of ash forming plumes travelling beneath 10-15000 ft (ca. 3-4,5 km a.s.l.) and extending for about 20 nm (30-35 km). -->More on Barren Island
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 5 April-11 April 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 5 Apr 2006, 06:00Based on information from a pilot report and satellite imagery, the Darwin VAAC reported that an ash plume was emitted from Barren Island during 5-6 April. The plume did not rise higher than 4.6 km (15,000 ft) a.s.l. Read all
Barren Island (India): eruption update
Sun, 19 Mar 2006, 23:56
The volcano on Barren Island is still very active as news reports. The height of the cone has increased by about 50 metres during the past nine months since its eruption started last May. A team of scientists from India landed on the island to study the recent eruption. Lava flows have covered the entire north-western face of the island destroying the lone landing site. ->More on Barren Island
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 15 March-21 March 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 15 Mar 2006, 06:00According to a news article, a team of scientists that visited Barren Island around 12 March found that the volcano was still very active and the height of the volcanic cone had increased by 50 m since eruptive activity began in May 2005. In addition, lava flows covered the NW side of the island. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 25 January-31 January 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 25 Jan 2006, 06:00 During 12-13 January, a team from the Geological Survey of India visited Barren Island. They reported that dense clusters of incandescent tephra of various sizes were ejected from the crater. In addition to the eruption from the main crater, the scientists saw incandescence on the N flank of the volcanic cone and thin layers of incandescent material on the W slope. Read all
Barren Island volcano (Andaman Islands, India) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 4 January-10 January 2006 (Continuing Activity)
Wed, 4 Jan 2006, 06:00Satellite imagery showed a thin ash plume emitted from Barren Island extending WNW during 5-7 January. Read all
Barren Island, a possession of India in the Andaman Sea about 135 km NE of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, is the only historically active volcano along the N-S-trending volcanic arc extending between Sumatra and Burma (Myanmar). The 354-m-high island is the emergent summit of a volcano that rises from a depth of about 2250 m. The small, uninhabited 3-km-wide island contains a roughly 2-km-wide caldera with walls 250-350 m high. The caldera, which is open to the sea on the west, was created during a major explosive eruption in the late Pleistocene that produced pyroclastic-flow and -surge deposits. The morphology of a fresh pyroclastic cone that was constructed in the center of the caldera has varied during the course of historical eruptions. Lava flows fill much of the caldera floor and have reached the sea along the western coast during eruptions in the 19th century and more recently in 1991 and 1995.
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The virtue of surah kafiroon | Quran Oasis
Posted on February 18, 2022 February 18, 2022 by Quran Oasis
surah kafiroon (Arabic: سورة الكافرون) is the 109th sura of the Qur’an. It is a Makki sura located in juz’ thirty. This sura is called al-Kafirun because it speaks about faithless ones. In this sura, Allah ordered Muhammed Prophet (PBUH) to explicitly declare his renouncement of idol-worshiping
It is from the mercy of Allah (saw ) – and the greatness of His bounty that he arranged the great reward for the easy work, so he made the reading of a short surah, which is Surah Al-Kafirun, equivalent to a quarter of the Qur’an, and made in it innocence from polytheism.
What surah is Al-Kafirun?
Surat Al-Kafirun ( qul ya ayyuhal kafirun surah ) is the 109th chapter in the order of the Surahs of the Noble Qur’an and is located in the thirtieth part.
It is preceded by Surat Al-Kawthar and followed by Surat Al-Nasr, and it is considered one of the shortest of the surahs.
An information site in this article reviews the merits of Surat Al-Kafirun and its contents,
in addition to the graphic touches related to this blessed surah.
surah kafiroon benefits and The virtue
(1) innocence of polytheism
On the authority of Nawfal Al-Ashja’i – may Allah be pleased with him – he said: The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: (Recite when you sleep: “Say: O you who disbelieve”; for it is free from polytheism.”
Nawfal – may Allah be pleased with him – said: (I came to The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, and he said: “Are you coming?” He said: “I have come to teach me something that I say when I sleep.”
(2) Surah Al-Kafirun is a quarter of the Noble Qur’an
The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) – said: (Say, He is Allah, One is equal to a third of the Qur’an, and say, O you disbelievers, it is equal to a quarter of the Qur’an), meaning that Surat Al-Kafirun is equal in reward for reciting it a quarter of the Qur’an, and many scholars said that the reason That is because Surat Al-Kafirun contains innocence from polytheism and disbelief and its people
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How do you recite surah Kafirun?
There are many virtues that scholars have enumerated, coupled with evidence for the virtue of Surat Al-Ikhlas, and perhaps the most prominent of these virtues are:
Reciting it is equivalent to reciting a third of the Qur’an, and the evidence for that is his saying – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him-: “Is one of you unable to recite a third of the Qur’an in a night?” They said: How can he recite a third of the Qur’an?
Reciting it leads to paradise for its owner, and this is evidenced by the saying of Abu Hurairah – may Allah be pleased with him – that he said: “I came with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, and he heard a man reciting, Say: He is Allah, the One, the Eternal One. Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him: It is obligatory, so I asked him: What, Messenger of Allah? He said: Paradise, so I wanted to go to the man and give him good tidings. Then I decided that I would miss lunch with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Then I went to the man and found him gone.”
Why was Surah Al-Kafirun revealed?
The interpreters stated that the reason for the revelation of Surat Al-Kafirun was because four infidels came to the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – and they are Al-Waleed bin Al-Mughirah Al-Makhzumi, Al-Aas bin Wael Al-Sahmi, Umayyah bin Khalaf Al-Jamahi, Al-Aswad bin Al-Muttalib, offering him to worship Allah. -Exalted be He – Sunnah provided that he participates with them in worshiping their allahs as a Sunnah.
So, Surat Al-Kafirun was revealed to end and cut off all negotiations that would not achieve the perfection of the oneness of Allah – the Highest.
The place of revelation of Surat Al-Kafirun. Exemption from polytheism, hypocrisy, misguidance, and Surat Worship.
When was Surah Al-Kafirun revealed?
Surah Al-Ma’un has revealed in which Allah referred to the attributes of the unbelievers who deny religion, then surah kafiroon was revealed, which Allah Almighty commands to be faithful to him and to absolve from the work of the unbelievers who worshiped idols besides Allah Almighty, and to settle the negotiations that they had They resorted to it after their plans to confront the religion of Allah – the Highest – failed, and after Allah – the Highest – made it clear that there is no compromise on belief and religion, He revealed Surat Al-Fil in which he mentioned a well-known historical fact, for two reasons:
The first: in order to draw the attention of the unbelievers and open Their eyes were on the elephant incident that they had taken from the year in which it occurred as a year of history so that they would say this happened in the year of the elephant, before or after it.
Second: With the aim of reminding the believers, especially the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – of the weakness of the unbelievers and the aggressors, of Allah’s support and support for his army and his party, and the loftiness of truth and its emergence over falsehood.
What is the commentary of surah al Kafirun?
Surat Al-Kafirun is a Meccan surah, and a Meccan surah in relation to its revelation to the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – in Makkah Al-Mukarramah. Surat Al-Kafirun was revealed after Surat Al-Ma’un. On the purposes of Surat Al-Kafirun, the reason for its revelation and its name, and its merit.
The Reason for the Revelation of Surah e Al-Kafirun It was brought by the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – on the condition that the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – participate with the infidels of Quraish in worshiping their Allah of idols that do not harm, benefit or move, so he revealed this surah to end these negotiations, so there is no bargaining or discussion in the worship of the one and only And Abdullah bin Abbas – may Allah be pleased with him – narrated the reason for the revelation of this surah, saying: “The Quraysh promised the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – to give him money so that he would be the richest man in Mecca, and they would marry him as he wanted from the women, and they would step on his heels, so they said to him: This is for you with us, O Muhammad, and stop cursing our allahs, so do not mention them badly.
If you do not do that, we will offer you one trait, and it is yours and we have goodness in it. He said: What is it? Watch what comes from my Lord, for the revelation came from the Preserved Tablet: {قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ} qul ya ayyuhal kafirun.
The story was also narrated by Saeed bin Mina, the freed slave of Al-Bakhtari, by saying: “Al-Waleed bin Al-Mughirah, Al-Aas bin Wael, Al-Aswad bin Al-Muttalib and Umayyah bin Khalaf met the Messenger of Allah, and they said: O Muhammad! If what is in our hands was better than what is in your hands, you would have involved us in our matter, and you took your share from it, so Allah revealed: {Say, O you disbelievers} and Allah Almighty abolishes the surah even knowing.
Objectives of Surat Al-Kafirun
Surah Al-Kafirun consists of six verses, and it contains an explicit statement that religion is Islam and a person cannot compromise over any religion other than Islam. {قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ * لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ * وَلَا أَنتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ * وَلَا أَنَا عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ * وَلَا أَنتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ * لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ
In the first verse, the method of command and call, where Allah Almighty commands His Messenger – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – to call the unbelievers by the name of the unbelievers and not the polytheists, because this verse refers to the unbelievers whether they show disbelief or conceal it, so it explicitly included the hypocrites and polytheists, and in the second verse what is meant by The call and from the command of Allah Almighty His Messenger – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – to say to the unbelievers that he does not worship what you worship of false Allah, and in this, categorical denial of worshiping anything besides Allah Almighty, and the word you worship means what you worship today and tomorrow without Allah Almighty, and as for the third verse Among the purposes of Surat Al-Kafirun also in this verse is that the Messenger of Allah denounces the unbelievers to worship these Allah other than Allah Almighty.
In the fourth verse, confirmation and acquittal of the Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – from worshiping the idols worshiped by the unbelievers, the Almighty said through His Messenger: {إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يُبَدِّلَ دِينَكُمْ أَوْ أَنْ يُظْهِرَ فِي الْأَرْضِ الْفَسَادَ}.
What is the meaning of surah kafiroon?
Surat Al-Kafirun is a Meccan surah, meaning it was revealed before the Hijrah in Mecca. The number of verses in Surat Al-Kafirun is six. The arrangement of Surat Al-Kafirun in the Qur’an 109, and its place in the last part of the Holy Qur’an; That is, part thirtieth. Surat Al-Kafirun was revealed after Surat Al-Ma’un. Surat Al-Kafirun was called by other names, which are: Worship, Sincerity, and Al-Qashqasha. That is the exoneration of hypocrisy and polytheism in Allah.
The topic of the surah and the focus of its talk was about absolving from polytheism and hypocrisy, and the importance of monotheism and worshiping Allah alone, as the polytheists asked the Prophet to worship their Allah for a year, and to worship his Allah for a year, so the surah responded to their words and their request.
The reason for the revelation of Surat Al-Kafirun: It came from Ibn Abbas – may Allah be pleased with him: “The Quraish called on the Messenger of Allah to give him money so that he would be the richest man in Makkah, and marry him whatever he wanted from women. If you do not do that, then worship our Allah as a Sunnah. He said: Until I see what comes to me from my Lord, so Allah sent down (Say, O you who disbelieve) to the end of the surah.
How to read surah kafiroon?
In the two rak’ahs, you read the desire for dawn, and this is evidenced by what Abu Huraira – may Allah be pleased with him – said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him-: “He recited in the two rak’ahs of dawn, say: O you unbelievers, and say, He is Allah the One.”
You read in the two units of circumambulation, and the evidence for that is what Jabir bin Abdullah – may Allah be pleased with him – said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him -: “He used to recite in the two rak’ahs: Say, He is Allah, One, and say, O you unbelievers.
It is read in Sunan al-Maghrib, and on the authority of Ibn Umar – may Allah be pleased with them: that the Messenger of Allah: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him: He recited in the two rak’ahs before dawn and the two rak’ahs after Maghrib a few twenty times, or a few ten times, say, O unbelievers, And say Allah is one.”
Reciting while sleeping, and evidence of this is that the Prophet said: “Recite while you sleep. Say, O you unbelievers.” He said: Then sleep on its conclusion, for it is absolution from polytheism.
Doa surah al kafirun
Allah – Glory be to Him – wants good for all His servants, but humans by nature love injustice and evil, and this is for some people. Allah – glory be to Him – wants good for all of us.
Therefore, if one of us falls into evil or wrongdoing, he should pray, as Allah – Glory be to Him, the Highest – said: Call upon Me, and I will respond to you. All you have to do is trust in Allah and pray for the one who wronged you, and Allah will take your right from him.
And he will avenge you, so how does that happen with a prayer for the doom of the unjust in Surat Al-Kafirun?
Surah Al-Kafiroon hadith
Abdullah ibn Umar reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace, and blessings be upon him, said, “The chapter, ‘Say: He is Allah the One,’ (112:1) is equal to one-third of the Quran. The chapter, ‘Say: O unbelievers,’ (109:1) is equal to one-fourth of the Quran.” Ibn Umar said, “The Prophet would recite either of them in his two cycles before the dawn prayer.”
Surah al kafirun in English
Say O ye that reject Faith!
I worship not that which ye worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
To you be your Way and to me mine.
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Surah al kafirun transliteration
Qul yaaa-ayyuhal kaafiroon
Laaa a’budu maa t’abudoon
Wa laaa antum ‘aabidoona maaa a’bud
Wa laaa ana ‘abidum maa ‘abattum
Lakum deenukum wa liya deen.
After we have mentioned the merit of Surah e Al-Kafirun, we will now move to mention the merit and reward of reciting the Qur’an in general. When we read every letter in the Qur’an, we are rewarded for it. Reciting the Qur’an is one of the great acts of worship.
And no people gather in one of Allah’s houses to recite the Book of Allah and study it among themselves except that tranquility descends upon them, mercy envelops them, the angels surround them, and Allah mentions them to those who are with Him) Narrated by Muslim.
And it was authentically reported from the Messenger, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, that he said: (O people, do what you can handle, for Allah does not get bored until you get bored. narrated by Muslim.
surah kafiroon Arabic text
1. قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ
2. لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ
3. وَلَا أَنْتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ
4. وَلَا أَنَا عَابِدٌ مَا عَبَدْتُمْ
6. لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ
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CFP: Islamic Art – Mudejar Art (Cordoba, 18-20 November 2016)
Artistic Dialogue during the Middle Ages. Islamic Art – Mudéjar Art
Córdoba, Casa Arabe, November 18 – 20, 2016
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Alberto León (Universidad de Córdoba), Prof. Dr. Francine Giese (Universität Zürich), Casa Arabe
The research about Spain’s medieval cultural heritage has experienced a great development in the last centuries. With the reassessment of the
legacy of al-Andalus and of the Reign of Castile and Aragon during the nineteenth century, the historiography focusing especially on cultural
connections and disconnections has grown extensively. Concepts like Reconquista, Convivencia and Mudéjar Art, are being interpreted as the
result of Spain’s nineteenth century’s particular socio-political interests, related to the debate about national identity, religious
intolerance and to an evolutionist conception of history. The special political and cultural reality of the Peninsula and its Middle Ages as
a geographical and temporal frame of cultural coexistence, pluralism and heterogeneity has been controversially debated since that time.
At present, we assist to a critical revision and to an intense debate on those inherited concepts. While the traditional historiography had delineated several political, religious and artistic frontiers, new conceptions of the medieval reality arise that interpret those frontiers as being permeable and dynamic. This perspective leads to the consideration of an artistic dialogue as the basis of shared vocabularies. Such a dialogue will be the common thread of the present conference: we intend to analyze, share and spread recent results and new research projects on the Islamic and Mudéjar past of the Peninsula. The conference will constitute a platform for novel lines of investigation contributing to the debate on the artistic dialogue of the medieval Iberian Peninsula.
The following sections and themes are planned:
– Nineteenth century’s historiography: the reassessment of the Islamic and Mudéjar past
– Islamic and Mudéjar urbanism
– Architectural reuse
– The twelfth century: dialogue or confrontation?
– The Iberian Peninsula and Europe: cultural connections
– Al-Andalus and the three cultures
Each presentation will be of 20 minutes, and may be given in Spanish or English. Please submit a proposal of maximum 300 words and a brief
curriculum vitae by the 15th of April to the following e-mail address: [email protected]
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Grofers shuts down operations in 9 cities
2 min read . Updated: 05 Jan 2016, 01:45 AM IST Ashna Ambre
Grofers ran pilot projects in 15 new cities in September. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint
The cities where Grofers has decided to stop services include Ludhiana, Bhopal, Kochi, Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam
Mumbai: Grofers India Pvt. Ltd has shut delivery operations in nine cities in the past 15 days because of low acceptance of its services in these areas, company co-founder Albinder Dhindsa said.
Grofers ran pilot projects in 15 new cities in September. The nine cities where it has decided to stop services include Ludhiana, Bhopal, Kochi, Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam.
“We ran a series of marketing campaigns including television ads in these cities to test the markets and see if the volume picks up," said Dhindsa. Operations in cities that did not react to the marketing effort were shut. The company now operates in eight cities.
“The smaller cities are not ready for hyperlocal business yet, once they are, we will reconsider our strategy," he added.
Grofers had a team of 20-30 people employed in these cities. These employees are being relocated, the company said.
In November, Grofers raised $120 million in funding from Japan’s SoftBank Corp., Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner and existing investors Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital.
Other hyperlocal companies like Shadowfax Technologies Pvt. Ltd and Peppertap also said that their current focus is on consolidating their businesses rather than expansion. Gurgaon-based Nuvo Logistics Pvt. Ltd, which operates grocery delivery brand Peppertap, raised $36 million in September in a round led by e-tailer Snapdeal (Jasper Infotech Pvt. Ltd). Peppertap had earlier announced that it will look to grow to 75 cities by March.
“Our focus is to ensure that processes, systems and operations in the current 17 cities are fully efficient. For the next few months we are not looking to grow to any new city," said Navneet Singh, co-founder of the firm. Singh said the company has put its expansion plans on hold for a while as its current focus is to enhance efficiencies within its existing operations.
Shadowfax has restricted operations to three cities—Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru. “We will be functional in these three cities, generate cash flows and operational efficiency. There are no plans to expand to new cities," said Abhishek Bansal, co-founder at the company. The firm has 75 employees and is not looking to hire any more except at senior management positions.
“We have most of our hiring done, particularly those that require heavy manpower during May and June. We are more focused on stabilising our businesses. We are now concentrating on expanding our categories. We want to achieve few of our internal targets before we think of increasing our capacities. This would take about two to three months," said Dhindsa over the phone on 24 November. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9432860016822815, "wiki_prob": 0.9432860016822815, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line883279"} |
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Tiny tot ‘coughs up’ part of tumour after devastating diagnosis
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Isabellah Owen’s family initially thought that she had a cold or hayfever after she was left feeling poorly. However, doctors soon gave them the devastating news she had a rare cancerous tumour.
A year on, the brave four-year-old has survived a regime of traumatic, gruelling treatment – which included the youngster actually coughing up half of the tumour.
Despite this, her family say that the happy Hartlepool girl has kept in high spirits throughout her ordeal, being hailed as a hero.
Speaking to TeessideLive, Amy and Rob Owen shared how they had their world turned upside down last August when they were given the heartbreaking diagnosis that little Isabellah had a cancerous tumour in her nasal pharynx. This is part of the tube behind the nose connecting to the throat. Due to its inoperable position medics had to immediately start the youngster on radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment.
The West View Primary School pupil also had to undergo painful laser treatment to burn away parts of the tumour, which included being sedated for two weeks, as well as having to travel to Manchester for proton beam therapy. Although still having mild chemotherapy, doctors say there is no sign of any remaining cancer.
Amy, 29, said: “It started with what we thought was a bit of a cold. Then it was strange that she started snoring and then she started to get really bad breath, I thought ‘what’s going on here’?”
Isabellah’s breathing became difficult, but the family’s GP put it down to polyps. When things got worse Amy and Rob, who live in West View, took the youngster to James Cook University Hospital. Doctors there realised it was something more serious and sent the family to Newcastle’s RVI.
Amy said: “There was something hanging out of her nose, but still it never crossed my mind it was cancer, it’s not the first thing you think of in a young child.” However, they were to be dealt the bitter blow following further investigation.
Soon the youngster had to be fitted with a breathing tube because the tumour was restricting her breathing. Amy said: “It was very traumatic for her, the tumour was blocking her throat and she had sleep apnoea. The tumour was through her nose and dangling down the back of her throat.
“At one point she coughed up half the tumour. It was like something out of a horror movie.”
Throughout her ordeal, Isabellah has amazed everyone with her positivity and even said she quite liked it when all her hair fell out – although she now wants to grow it like Rapunzel. Amy said: “She has shocked everyone with what a superhero she has been. She has been amazing.
“The only time she got a bit down was when she couldn’t get out of bed in hospital. But, once they took the tubes out she was up and running around the wards.”
Amy said she can only describe what the family as been through as a ‘living hell’ but, thankfully the journey is almost at an end and they are looking forward to getting a normal life back and Isabellah being able to enjoy all the things she has missed out on. This will include getting a little brother in October, which she is excited about.
Amy said: “Having a child in and out of hospital is extremely difficult. We had to drive 40 miles each way to the hospital. We spent a fortune on food, petrol and parking. This doesn’t include the out if the blue hospital visits due to worries, A&E visits and medical collections. We really struggled. It’s been emotionally, physically and financially horrendous.”
The family has set up a fundraiser for Isabellah to help pay for fun activities in a bid to make up for all the things she has missed out on due to her illness.
To donate, visit the family’s fundraising page.
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SACRAMENTO, CA— Assemblymember Akilah Weber, M.D., (D-La Mesa), is joined by Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles) in introducing AB 1655, a bill that would recognize “Juneteenth,” or June 19th, as a paid state holiday.
On June 19th, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger led troops into Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of the Civil War and the insidious institution of slavery. As a result, thousands of enslaved people in Texas were among the last to be informed of their liberation. Today, Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19th to commemorate when American forces declared that enslaved people in Texas were to be freed. The joyous commemorations that began in Texas spread around the nation, with cities and communities in California joining to celebrate this milestone in the American journey to freedom for all.
“It is time that June 19th has the status it deserves in California to honor the significant contributions of Black Americans to our nation and reflect on the long struggle for freedom,” said Assemblymember Weber. “By making Juneteenth an official state holiday, California would demonstrate its commitment to celebrating the emancipation of all slaves.”
Last year, Juneteenth became an official federal holiday to be celebrated by all Americans. In addition, Juneteenth is a paid state holiday in nine states, including Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, Oregon, and Illinois. AB 1655 would amend current statutes to include June 19th as an official state holiday for public schools, community colleges, and California State University systems. It would also extend to University of California systems, and grant paid time-off to all state employees.
This is a significant milestone for African Americans, to have a date recognized by our state that is celebrated by all Californians,” said Assemblymember Jones-Sawyer. “AB 1655 is an inclusive act marking a key point in our nation’s history – one we should never forget or ignore, and one that correctly balances the American scale of freedom from 3/5ths to a whole.”
Juneteenth is an important and special annual celebration for Black culture, resilience, and achievement,” said Assemblymember Weber. “Designating this date as a paid state holiday mirrors the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. I am pleased to join Assemblymember Jones-Sawyer on this legislation that honors the lives, history, and sacrifices to achieve freedom in America.”
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New Impressions At Bridge Project
by Imana Gunawan
Four of Seattle’s emerging choreographers got their big break recently at Velocity Dance Center’s Bridge Project, a showcase of work created over a four-week residency. It’s safe to say they all rose to the challenge of the pressure-cooker time frame. The show ran January 30 to February 1, 2015.
Adriana Hernandez’s this border called my back
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The evening began with this border called my back by Adriana Hernandez. Dancers in white slinked and withered on the floor among slips of paper with words like “poor,” “smug,” or “weak” written on them. The dancers attached those words to others’ clothing, thus “labeling” them. Although the labels charged the piece with meaning, they eventually were left aside and became a utilitarian prop as opposed to an integral part of the work.
To the lilting movements of Nico Torres’ pulsing music, Hernandez interspersed finger and hand gestures that resonated beautifully, especially in Velocity’s intimate Founders Theater. An edgy sense of tension also loomed, as if something (a thought? An emotion? A spastic response?) could burst the seams of control the group strived to maintain. This band of a people had a shared history of pain, and they tried to keep it under the surface. At the end, as each dancer did their own high-powered, virtuosic solos, they either broke free of the bonds of uniformity, or reached a high enough edge that the tension started to show its face.
Eat the Heart by Dylan Ward
Second on the program was Dylan Ward’s Eat the Heart -or- Waltzes for People Who Sometimes Do Bad Things. This year, in honor of the University of Washington Dance Program’s 50th anniversary, Velocity partnered with UW Dance by giving residency to a UW alumnus, and Ward was the inaugural recipient. His piece featured impeccable live street drumming by Colin Ward and five dancers in pedestrian clothing. This is not Ward’s first time presenting work with Velocity, and Eat showed his growth as a director/choreographer. His choreography has grown more compositionally intelligent—playing with timing and inserting gestural quirks to virtuosic steps. It also helps to have committed, intelligent, and technically proficient dancers, all of whom radiated intimate bonds with each other, whether platonic or familial, that were apparent on stage.
This was especially clear between dancers Andrew Hallenbeck and Erin McCarthy. At one point, McCarthy audibly told Hallenbeck to stop dancing and proceeded to walk him through a different movement phrase, as Hallenbeck followed absent-mindedly. Yet despite the skillful choreography, music, and dance, there was something slightly missing. Relationships emerged and dissipated, but there wasn’t much effort in making the audience invest in any of those interactions. Some parts felt like witnessing a college house party from the outside: young, beautiful people had fun, talked, and danced with each other for a night, but nothing evident ever came of it except the fun. And because of the dancers’ close bond, it was clear the audience wasn’t invited.
Hannah Simmons’ Your Dreams are Growing Teeth
After intermission came Hannah Simmons’ Your Dreams are Growing Teeth, set to music by Atticus Lazenby. Four dancers stood behind panels of sheer fabric hanging from the ceiling, and each started their own distinct movement phrase—walking through the fabric, rolling it up, pressing hand gestures into it, or a methodical floorwork solo. Every so often, they finished their original phrase and moved on to another. Both systematic and organic elements appeared throughout the work. The repetition of material showed a mathematical structure, yet within those solos, each dancer sustained a sense of discovery and anticipation—like something had just happened, or was about to happen, and they were either reeling from or waiting for it. The fabric panels evoked images of human clones in tubes; the dancers were not only learning the logical systems of the world, but the irrational humanity within it. Given all that, the piece would still have benefited from more of a compositional arc. While the repetitions were interesting, they created a monotonous experience that needed more variation.
In the post-show discussion, Simmons, who studied math and dance prior to coming to Seattle, told the audience that during her original process and in the Bridge Project Speakeasy (held the previous weekend), she used movement-responsive projections which were cast over the scrims and dancers, and onto the back wall. While that multimedia element would have undoubtedly added a layer of meaning to the work, the piece sans-projections still felt complete, and showed Simmons’ intellect and poignancy.
Coleman Pester’s The Architecture of Being
The Architecture of Being, by Coleman Pester of Tectonic Marrow Society, closed the show. Fifteen dancers composed a single mass on stage as they walked, danced, and squirmed through the space — a sight doubled in volume by the exposed mirror on the back wall. Within this melee, soloist Patrick Kilbane slid, thrusted, and slinked fervently through the pack as Bret Gardín’s dystopic sound score played. Near the end, soloist Marlyn Yvonne joined Kilbane in a tactile and fiery duet. Nothing came of the relationship, however, making it feel like a love affair hastily tacked on to the end of an apocalyptic movie. Pester showed a knack for creating beautiful images with the crowd, like a straight line facing the mirror with Kilbane the only one facing side, or an almost centipede-like chain of bodies. While trying to focus on both Kilbane and the mass was sometimes distracting, both evoked incredibly rich images and Pester effectively juxtaposed the power of one against the power of many.
With only four weeks to create their work, each choreographer managed to construct a world full of humanity and vivacity. Seattle will be lucky to witness where their intellect and fervor takes them next.
For more information on The Bridge Project and Velocity’s other programs, visit velocitydancecenter.org.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated Adriana Hernandez’ name, as well as the title of her work, this border called my back.
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Interference: Friday Night Lights Meets Emma
Interference by Kay Honeyman
So during COVID19, we have been reorganizing the library. No better time to rearrange shelves than when people are not in the building.
So as I was making the changes and this caught my eye:
“Friday Night Lights meets Jane Austen’s Emma in this delightful novel about big dreams, big games, and a little romance.”
So of course Emma, caught my eye as I plan on reviewing every Jane Austen adaption, (I know that’ll take years, but I’m okay with that), and had to check it out. Besides Jane Austen, I’m a big fan of Friday Night Lights.
So let’s get started.
Kate Hamilton (Emma Woodhouse) and her mother and Congressman father have been sent back to her father’s hometown of Red Dirt, Texas after her public scandal.
It started off as something good…Kate discovered that there was serious graft regarding which kids received letters of recommendation, scholarships, etc, for colleges. She exposed this and changed the practices, but it was a hollow win.
Her boyfriend, now EX, was cheating on her with a senator’s daughter who lost her recommendation, and he secretly took photos of Kate- styling them to look extremely compromising and blasting them on the internet.
So Kate has a plan-she wants to go to art school to be a photographer, but to do that she needs an awesome portfolio and a fantastic letter of recommendation. She decides to find a way to lay low, up her volunteer hours, send them to her old school, get the letter and get out with what she wants.
She espechially wants to get way from her dad as she feels so guilty about what happened, and hates having to always be in “political mode”-all the time. She needs volunteer hours and starts to help her Aunt Celia at her animal shelter.
There she is in the middle of trying to birth a calf, unsuccessfully, when she meets Hunter (Mr. Knightley). He is cute and nice and whenever Kate gets a little too cocky and sure of himself, he is there to help push her on the right track, espechially as he understands the dynamics and politics of the town better than her.
The two end up being paired as science partners and they spend a lot of time together. In fact, they become best friends as Hunter helps her transition to Texas life, and appreciate things without constructing a narrative of doing some political machinations.
Kate quickly becomes friends with Ana-a shy, studious, photographer who helps Kate out with her photography and gets her in on yearbook staff (which gives her access to the darkroom she needs). Kate hates to owe anyone anything and has decided that she is going to help Ana. Ana is adorable, but her ex-boyfriend has given her a bad reputation with the lies he has spread about her.
Kate decides the best way to fix Ana’s reputation is to pair her up with a guy better than her ex-basketball playing boyfriend Hank. Someone higher up the social hierarchy and settles on quarterback, Kyle.
Hunter warns her that Kyle is a serious jerk and that matchmaking Ana and him up is not a good idea, but Kate doesn’t listen.
Kyle is not just the quarterback, but he is also the son of her father’s political rival. Her father wants her to avoid Kyle, as he doesn’t trust him or his father, but she ignores him and sets her plan into serious levels of action.
She hangs out with him a bit, takes photos of him.
This popped in my head when reading it.
Kate has lunch with him and Ana and people begin changing in the way they are acting around her-and after Kyle defends her, things seem to be going great. Kate and Ana even get coveted invites to several after game bonfires.
Kate is super pleased at how things are going and starts to divert her attention to her other plans. Spending time working with her Aunt and seeing how much her Aunt pours into her shelter, she decides to help out by creating a website where people can donate to care for an animal, getting D.C. friends and friends’s parents to give. She also tries to match her D.C. friend Tasha up, over the phone by giving her advice.
Emma 1996 AKA the Gwyneth Paltrow version.
She also works hard on her project with Hunter. But it turns into more than science. He helps her see the beauty of the area, she helps him mend some of his broken relationship with his mom, as said before they become best of friends…thoughts turn to more-but their can’t be as Kate is not interested in anything more after her jerkwad ex.
Except Hunter
But then Kate goes to a party with Kyle and he tries to force himself on her.
She breaks his wrist and takes off in his car crashing in a ditch (she’s only had one lesson). Hunter, worried about her going to a party alone with Kyle, rescues her-but things are looking grim.
It seems like everything Kate does screws up:
Kate’s breaking Kyle’s wrist and crashing his car reflects bad on her father
Everyone in the town hates Kate for costing them the championship game (as they have no quarterback)
Her aunt found out about the website and hates it-yelling at Kate
Kyle treats Kate and Ana like crap (espechially Ana-publicly dissing her [such an Elton], but Hunter helps her out)
Kate gets revenge against Kyle by making mock yearbook pages embarrassing him and she and Ana spread them around the school
Their little revenge plan gets Ana is kicked off yearbook
And Hunter who never wanted to play football ever again (as it is too much pressure) does so to save the team and Kate.
Kate has to figure out a way to fix things and she decides to do the one thing she never thought-she is willingly going to put herself in the front of the camera-and partner in her father’s campaign.
Will Kate be the thing that helps tip the scales in her father’s favor? Will Ana get back on yearbook and achieve her photography dreams? Will Hunter win the big game or choke? And will Kate admit she cares for Hunter or let her fear and insecurity keep her from taking a leap?
So when I was first reading this book I had a hard time. The beginning moves slow and her parents seem checked out. They just leave her alone and don’t seem to care about the trauma she went through with her pictures being posted everywhere. Nothing about that relationship seemed to micmic the one shared by Emma and Mr. Woodhouse.
But once I reached the middle with Kate and Hunter being best friends, adorable Ana, Kate’s matchmaking…I got invested.
And then when they got to the hardcore part of Kate taking Kyle down and then her pairing up with her father to take down Kyle’s dad- it became a real page turner.
Tell ME!!!!!
I really liked Kate and Hunter’s relationship, although I think he if he had been a little less vague about Kyle not being a good guy it would have been better. I mean he did try, telling her he heard the way Kyle would talk in the locker room-but with Kate/Emma you can’t be subtle.
From Emma (1996)
I really enjoyed it and how it had the aspects of Jane Austen but still was its own story. Like Clueless, this is a great gateway to get teens interested in Jane Austen and Austen fans will adore it.
For more Emma, go to Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
For more Emma Woodhouse, go to Take a Chance on Me: Austentatious (2015)
For more Jane Austen adaptions, go to At Legend’s End
For more Friday Night Lights, go to What a Fanatic!
Posted in Emma
Tagged Ana, Animal Shelter, Art School, Aunt Celia, Basketball, Car Crash, Clueless, COVID-19, Emma, Emma Woodhouse, Football, Friday Night Lights, Hunter, Interference, Jane Austen, Kate Hamilton, Kay Honeyman, Kyle, Mr. Knightley, Photographer, Politics, Quarterback, Science Partner, Texas
December 28, 2014 by L.
What a Fanatic!
So here we are on post five of my fandom posts. And with each post I write, I realize how I must sound absolutely boring with all the books and TV shows I spend my time watching.
Pretty much
So here is the next few on my list. I hope you enjoy it and that it strikes your interest in some of these things.
This was a show my sister and I were huge fans of. We started watching it when it first came out and faithfully continued even through the horrible seasons.
So one day 4400 people are just dropped out in Washington. They had disappeared from all throughout time. None of them remember what happened in the years that they were gone or where they had traveled to.
Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris are the two from Homeland Security that are in charge of figuring this out and monitoring the 4400. The both end up having personal connections, as Tom’s nephew was one that was taken and returned, and Diana ends up adopting a girl from the far, far past.
The show is really interesting as it deals with a lot of different issues. First of all, to those taken it feels as if no time has passed, but they have to come to grips that loved ones may have moved on or died. For many years have passed and everything is completely different, technology, social cues, etc. Plus they have to deal with all the questions about what happened and who they are.
But what’s even more interesting, every person brought back has some kind of power or ability. This makes things much harder on Baldwin and Skouris, as not all use their powers for good.
Friday Night Lights was a show my mother and friends were all SUPER into, and I had seen a few episodes but wasn’t hooked (mostly as I had seen them out of order). But once I had some free time I decided why not try this show out? And burned through the episodes.
I’m on season 5 right now, and slowly going through it.
So the show is about a family that moves to Dillon, Texas. Coach Eric Taylor is the new football coach for the team, his wife becomes the guidance counselor, and they brought their daughter Juliet (vegetarian and a culture snob). They find the town a little suffocating as football means EVERYTHING to the people of Dillon. Coach Taylor also ends up with his star quarterback, Jason, getting injured and paralyzed. He has everyone judging him and giving him advice. It can be hard.
He gets through that, but faces more issues in the years to come. He becomes a college coach, but ends up going back to Dillon as he doesn’t want to be away from his family. Then he has a young kid (Jeremy Sumpter) who’s parents try to takeover the team. Coach Taylor eventually gets wedged out and sent to the rival team, in a poorer district.
Besides the awesome football, the great thing about this show is that it deals with real life issues. Sometimes you watch the angst and you are ah, too realistic.
So first of all Coach Taylor is awesome.
He becomes a father figure to all the boys on the team and helps them as much as he possibly can. He has a great no-nonsense attitude, getting the job done. I just love him.
Then we have Matt Saracen.
The sweetest boy ever. His father is in the military and his mom ran away. His grandma is supposed to be raising him, but in actually, he takes care of her as dementia is settling in. He goes to school and gets great grades, works after-school to pay for the bills, and strives hard to be a great quarterback for the football team.
And then we have his relationship with Julie Taylor. He first tries all he can to be nice and be seen as more than just a football freak. And he always lets Julie run the show. If she wants to do this okay, if not then he’s fine doing nothing. He just so romantic.
In season 2, Julie dumps him for a Swedish lifeguard, who sings in a band, and SUCKS. He is not cute, untalented, and stupid. I mean the things he says. Plus he likes getting it on with as many ladies as possible. How could you ever trade Matt in for anyone?
She comes to her senses and gets back with him. And she’s lucky she managed to get him, men like that get snapped up in two seconds.
And then we have Tim Riggins.
Tim oh Tim. My absolute favorite. I LOVE HIM! He is just so dreamy!
First of all, look at him. Taylor Kitsch is a great looking man and a great actor. He really got the shaft on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, barely having any screentime. And his other movies bombed, which is such a shame. But besides that, let’s move onto his personality.
So at first Tim appears to be just a dumb jock, but there is a whole lot more to him than meets the eye. He may not be book smart but he is one savy buisnessman. He knows how to create a proposal, bargain, etc. Plus he’s super handy; coaching, construction, mechanics, etc. Anything physical he can do it. And to top that all off, he has perseverance. Once he gets the drive to do something, nothing will get in his way.
And then we have his sweet heart. Tim is the most caring guy ever! He is great with mentoring kids, helping people out with their problems, and never ever takes advantage of a situation. What can I say? He’s AWESOME!
NOw this series isn’t perfect. The first season is probably the best of all. After that the writer’s do some strange things, like certain characters are missing and NOBODY comments on it! It’s like what happened to that person? For instance Brain “Smash” Williams has a girlfriend in season 1, and then in season 2 she’s not there. No explanation, no nothing.
Otherwise this show is awesome! And you should definitely give it a view.
There is no middle ground.
So I did not want to watch this series when it first came out. I knew of George R. R. Martin’s history of killing off the characters and I didn’t want to become another mourner.
But I should have realized that it was only a matter of time until it happened.
So it all started after I finished my finals this past spring. I had free time and saw the DVD for season 1 in the library. I thought I’ll just check this out, and, of course, found myself hooked!
Go here to see which one you should live in.
In fact my roommate (she was already a fan) and I just blew through the first season.
It’s kind of confusing to describe, but I’ll try. So the country Westoros is made up of seven kingdoms, each with a ruler that is united under a High King, kinda like The Black Cauldron. The Targaryens used to rule, as they had dragons, but due to so much inbreeding, the last king went crazy and was thus dethroned. His son and daughter were able to escape and hope to gain back the kingdom. Now Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark were leaders in the rebellion and the people really wanted Eddard to rule, but he didn’t want to be the High King. So he went back home and Robert became ruler. Robert married Cersei Lannister, of the rich Lannister family. The actual series starts 20 years after these events with Robert needing Eddard’s help. His main advisor was on the scent of something and was murdered. Eddard goes into court and discovers one huge secret many would kill to keep quiet. Meanwhile, the princess Daenerys Targaryen is trying to get her kingdom back. Wars begin with all trying to get the iron throne. It is an AWESOME show! But grab those tissues!
So I have a few favorite characters. I try not to love anyone, as I know as soon as you start loving one, it signs their death warrant. However, that of course is impossible to do as the characters are just so amazing. This pretty much describes my watching experiences.
So first we have the Stark family
Go here to see which TV family you belong in.
Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) is the patriarch and one of the most honorable men there has ever been. He is kind, caring, sweet, and one of the best fictional dads. Of course as I’m sure you all know from the countless memes, he doesn’t stay long in the series. Oh why? Why George R. R.? Why!?
Then we have Jon Snow (Kit Harrington).
He’s been my favorite from the begining as he is:
And I have such a soft spot for people who are mistreated by others. Love him! And he is such a great older brother, I am so sad that he joined the Wall and doomed to be in that icy tundra.
Robb and the other Stark sons are cool too, but Arya is super awesome!
Swordswoman, and intent on righting all the wrongs in her family.
Now outside the Stark family I only have two characters I love. I once loved Khal Drogo
But George R.R. killed him off
So now I only care for Daenerys Targaryen, the one trying to reclaim her throne. She is strong, powerful, and has dragons.
The other is Tyrion Lannister. Mostly for this:
But besides that he is one awesome dude. If you haven’t jumped on the Game of Thrones train, check it out. If you have, then stay strong fellow fan.
I have always loved orange, striped cats. Until I was able to have one of my own I was obsessed with them: coloring them, cutting pictures out of magazines, and of course loving Garfield.
This sarcastic cool cat will always be one of my absolute favorite comic strips as he is hilarious, fun, and describes my own orange cat perfectly. I have a ton of his comic books, stuffed Garfields, other Garfield memorabilia. And I’m always collecting more. Besides the books, I grew up watching his TV series and holiday specials.
You just gotta love that cat!
For more on Garfield, go to For All the Men Who Wonder What It’s Like
So this was a show I grew up watching. I absolutely love it.
So Lorelei Gilmore (Lauren Graham) was born in a super wealthy family, but instead of fitting the “proper” mold she was an extreme wild child. She got pregnant at 16 and ran awau to nearby (but not too close) small town, Stars Hollow. There she raised her daughter Lorelei (Alexis Bledel), more commonly known as Rory. The show is about mother and daughter relationships, as Lorelei and her mother are always on the outs trying to understand each other; while Lorelei and Rory are best friends, making it hard for Lorelei when she should be parenting.The characters are amazing, the references hilarious, and this show makes you wish you could hang out with the crew at Luke’s Diner.
Now my all-time favorite character was Dean Forester, played by none other than Jared Padalecki. Yep, he was just perfect!
Dean was Rory’s first boyfriend and I always wished he were mine.
He was sweet, kind, caring, totally got her, wore a leather jacket…need I really go on?
Rory screwed it up by cheating on him with another guy. That about broke my heart as Dean was just so perfect! Eventually the writers tried to bring them back together, but the way they did it with Dean being a cheater and Rory the “other woman”, just ruined the romance and ended his time on the show. Although I can’t be too mad or sad at his leaving. Because after that he moved on to Supernatural, and you all know how I love that.
Loved the series, but the truth is; the Dean moments are my absolute favorite.
For more on Gilmore Girls, go to Love of My Life
Words can not describe how much I love this film. It is just one truly amazing work.
So anyone who knows me, knows that there is no meme as true as this.
I am always peppering my conversations with movie quotes, and most of the time it’s The Godfather.
And why not? It IS the sum of all wisdom:
Every life lesson you need to know is in there, and one day I will do a huge post on it. But today, is not that day.
So The Godfather, as I mentioned in an earlier post is a fav film of my family. We used to watch it every Thanksgiving together. Now when I went away to school, I was mentioning how amazing this film is to my friend Aylin, and it turned out she had never seen the films. We decided to watch it together, and after the first one she was obsessed. Even more than me.
We watched them all, over and over again. We even traveled over an hour away to see the rerelease in theaters. And let me tell you that was awesome! As we watched the movie so many times, each one of us was given a character as to who we thought was the most similar. I got Michael.
Don’t mess with me!
That should tell you a lot about the type of person I am. 🙂
So the first film is the absolute best.
Such an awesome film! The Godfather is a story about the Italian mafia in the 1940-50s. This specific sect is overseen by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). He has three sons; Alfredo (played by John Cazale), Santino (James Caan), and Michael (Al Pacino); and one daughter, Connie (Talia Shire). Santino is next in line to be godfather. Unlike his siblings, Michael wants nothing to do with his father’s business, instead wanting to live a “legal” life. When Don Corleone is shot by a rival, it changes everyone’s plans as they are all spiraled down a new path. You really feel for Michael as he ends up becoming someone he never wanted to ever be.
Now the second film was great, but not as good as the first. In this we have two storylines interweaving. We switch between the flashback of Don Vito Corleone and present day Michael Corleone. In Vito’s storyline we his immigration and early start in America; ending with his completion of becoming “The Godfather.” In the present, we have Michael: now moved to Nevada in hopes of being legitimate, his interests in Cuba, and FBI hearings.
The third movies was horrible don’t watch it. TRUST ME! Don’t watch it! The first & second, but the third is just—it really shouldn’t have been made.
For more on The Godfather, go to Episode IV: A New Favorite Movie Lines List
For Part 4, go to A Whole Lot of Fanfare
For more quizzes, go to 25 More Films of Christmas
For more of my favorite quotes, go to An Assembly Such As This
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IT Service Desk Life in 2017
By Ann James
Category: Service Desk
The findings of the Sunrise Mobile & Summer Survey are in and make for some interesting reading – validation of many things we thought were happening, but also other results that lead to some raised eyebrows.
So, what did we find out about IT service desk life in 2017?
Three key survey findings
The rise of mobile devices and remote working is putting an increasing strain on IT service desks – two thirds of respondents said their workloads had increased since the widespread adoption of mobile devices, with 27% saying it had increased by a quarter or more.
Support teams do, however, consider themselves better understood and appreciated, but are finding the business more demanding than ever. Over half (60%) feel really stretched and feel they can’t cope, not a good position to be in.
The biggest mobile– and holiday–related issues mentioned were requests to fix or replace lost/damaged equipment, cited by 70% of respondents, and security breaches (30%) – something potentially catastrophic to a business, yet easily done, I can imagine, when in holiday mode.
What do service desk staff think would help with the first two points?
The most popular answer to improving the life of the service desk is not new – over 60% would still like their customers to use self-service, or use it better.
It’s interesting how this, the low usage of self-service, still keeps coming around – do people still prefer to talk, can they not be bothered to “self-serve,” does self-service not work on the devices in question, or is the information available just not good enough?
A few years ago, I’m pretty sure banning personal devices would have been higher on the list of ideal support changes too, but now the boundaries are blurred, BYOD is the norm, and shadow IT is increasingly creeping in – with 17% of respondents wanting to see own-sourced software/services banned.
“The boundaries are blurred”
Maybe this is what we know already. However, stepping back for a minute, I think the main “take home” for me is that there’s less and less distinction between work and home in terms of expectation of equipment use and requests for IT support when something goes awry.
Even if that request has nothing to do with work at all – the following will hopefully make you smile.
Are service desk requests getting more peculiar?
Our appeal for the most outlandish IT support requests brought some painful (almost literally) responses.
The mobile phone tumbling out of a pocket and into a lawnmower – that was our winner. Someone still feels the agony of that, I’m sure.
We had bags with phones and other devices run over by cars, plural – it really happens more than you’d hope. A toddler changing a laptop password. The son of an executive who lost his A-level coursework (and I have to salute the support team who wouldn’t help sort that one). The mission of mercy to save a manager’s safari holiday photos from a crashed hard drive.
Then there’s the irony of having to drive 110 miles to explain how to use a satnav and the effort in installing a CEO’s new home fax machine (that takes us back) – which then had to be removed because it was the wrong color, in the wrong place…
Read all this and it’s probably no wonder IT service desks are often stretched. But at least they appear to retain their sense of humor – the evergreen advice of “turn it off and turn it on again” is still there, if you can find the switch, and support teams really aren’t above helping a bird (or lightbulb) in distress if you catch them at the right moment.
You can read the full Survey at https://www.sunrisesoftware.com/news/summer-it-support-survey/
Ann James
Marketing Director at Sunrise Software
Ann James has been in technology marketing since leaving university with a since little used degree in International Business and French. Initially working in network adapter cards, she then moved into software, experiencing the sharp end of the dotcom boom and bust at a CX software startup. A spell in ITSM marketing was interspersed with more CX Management vendors and she is now firmly back in Service Management as Marketing Director at Sunrise Software. Ann spends too much of her spare time and income training, competing and paying bills for her two horses.
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Sarah Everard’s Murder and the Questions We Should Be Asking Ourselves
Sophia Mirabal
Alarm, grief, and unshakable anger swept through the UK after the kidnapping and death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who disappeared during her walk home in South London on March 3rd. The following week, her remains were discovered in Kent, 40 miles from where she was last seen. Not only did the community and perhaps the nation were filled with alarm and unease, but her case sparked a broader conversation, and one well worth having. Personal accounts of street harassment and assault from women everywhere brought attention to the ongoing issue that is male violence and women’s safety. And as if this was not alarming enough, an even more significant threat was posed as London Metropolitan Police Officer Wayne Couzen was charged and convicted with her abduction and subsequent murder. Surely, if nowhere else, not just women, but all victims, all people in fear for their safety, can confide and seek refuge in law enforcement? Unfortunately not. Since then, protests have broken out in Britain, as women and countless others mourn her, oppose the violence that took her so wrongly, and question their own safety on the streets of London.
In this period of uncertainty and animosity, Sarah Everard’s death has brought up countless questions involving violence against women and the long-lasting fight for their safety. Questions we should be asking ourselves that cannot be ignored any further.
Why Sarah’s case?
We should, by no doubt, mourn Everard’s death and object to the horrific violence she suffered. However, we must consider why it was her murder, her case that has attracted incredible attention at the exclusion of so many others. As unfortunate as it is, women in the UK go missing at an alarming rate, and most are not nearly as widely reported. This is because it takes a case of incredible circumstance to favor the public, one that conforms to a famed, traditional concept of victim and killer. People are most willing to accept male violence scenarios that conform to narrow paradigms that meet the specific criteria. They are easily moved by the young, attractive woman who is innocent without convincement. Her killer is called a monster, he is sick, twisted, and his actions are inconceivable. He is seen as far from human as if he is not a member of the population.
Unfortunately, the public does not react similarly to cases involving “imperfect” victims, more sympathetic perpetrators, or situations that unfolded in a more complicated manner. The truth is, anyone can be a victim, and anyone can be a perpetrator. If Sarah had been a prostitute or killed by a star athlete or her spouse, would others have given her the same treatment and compassion? If she had dressed provocatively or walked dimly lit alleys, would others still be so understanding? Though these cases may be harder to grasp, they are most common. The public should demand news coverage for all injustices and encourage the media to expand their concern and focus on various situations.
Are we making progress in the fight against gender-based violence?
Cases of abduction, murder, and sexual violence are hardly a surprise. This can especially be seen in the numerous accounts of discrimination depicted by women who have spoken out after Sarah’s death. This seems to be a recurring theme. Like in any major tragedy, people grieve, protest, and shed light on the harassment they, too, have endured. We have seen this before, and unfortunately, this will happen again. We must ask ourselves, is this recurring cycle of abuse and resistance truly furthering our fight, or is it superficial and inefficient?
This prompts the question: what more can be done to protect women?
An undeniable quality of Sarah’s case was her precaution. She had followed every rule in the book. She had walked home at a reasonable hour, taking the long route through well-lit streets. She wore bright clothing and called her boyfriend to let him know of her location. Nevertheless, this could not save her. Women throughout the UK were unsettled. If the laws they had been told to abide by their entire life could not protect them, then what can? The case of Sarah’s death perfectly demonstrates how society’s directives for women cannot and will not help as long as men intend to harm them.
While messages of personal safety for women are well intended and should continue to be practiced, why is it so widely accepted that it is a woman’s responsibility to prevent an attack or some form of harassment? Perhaps this issue should be regarded at its root, with the instigator. More work must be done to educate men against chauvinistic attitudes and aggressions that may create hostile environments for women.
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We love Dr. Barfield, Dr. Rodriguez, Dr. Antenor and Dr. Diogene, the amazing female physicians here at GrowingTogether Pediatrics, but did you know only 36% of professionally active American physicians are female?
Today, February 3, marks National Women Physicians Day which is a day to honor the progress made by female doctors in a historically male-dominated profession. The date marks the birthday of Elisabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1849. Blackwell graduated from Geneva College, in rural New York, at the top of her class despite challenges and discrimination from professors, classmates and local townspeople. She went on to open the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857, she founded a medical college in New York City in 1868 and became a professor of gynecology at the new London School of Medicine for Women in 1875. Dr. Blackwell started the movement that helped women gain admission into the field of medicine but young female physicians still face obstacles and inequity in the workplace so there’s still more work to be done!
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Boris Johnson sees ‘no reason’ for Scotland holding second independence vote
The new Prime Minister spoke out on his first visit north of the border since taking over from Theresa May.
by Ollie McAninch
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New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted there is “no reason” for Scots to have the second independence referendum that Nicola Sturgeon is pushing for.
On his first visit north of the border since becoming Prime Minister, Mr Johnson declared the vote in 2014 had been a “once in a generation event” and public faith in politics would be further damaged if a second such ballot was to take place.
His comments came after the Scottish First Minister warned the new Tory leader’s “hard-line” government was driving the country towards “disaster” by pushing for a no-deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson and Ruth Davidson are divided on the issue of a no-deal Brexit (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has also made it plain she will not support the UK leaving the European Union without a deal in place – with the issue marking a split between the Tory leadership north and south of the border.
Despite that, Mr Johnson promised he would be “doing everything I can to assist” Ms Davidson to become Scotland’s next first minister in the 2021 Holyrood election.
He hailed her as a “fantastic leader of Scottish Conservatives”, adding: “I am lost in admiration at what she has achieved, I am a massive fan of the way she has taken the argument to those who would destroy our union.”
Mr Johnson hit out at the “campaign to destroy the union” from the SNP – and while he refused to unequivocally rule out granting Holyrood permission for a second independence referendum, he said comments that the 2014 ballot was a “once in a generation” event must be respected.
He spoke as he visited the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, where he went on board HMS Victorious, one of the nuclear submarines stationed there.
Asked if he was ruling out a second referendum during his premiership, Mr Johnson said: “It was a once in a generation consultation of the people, we did it in 2014 and the people were assured then that it was a once in a generation consultation.
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“I see no reason now for the politicians to go back on that promise.”
The new Prime Minister added: “In 2014 there was a historic vote, I think it was the only one there has been in my lifetime that I can remember, the only vote on Scottish independence that I can remember in my lifetime, and I’m 55, it is the only time it has happened and it was decisive, there was I think at least a 10-point margin.
“Everybody made clear at the time in 2014, even the Scottish Nationalist Party, I seem to recollect, said that this was a once in a generation vote and I think that the confidence of the public in politicians would be undermined yet further if we were to go back on that and hold another referendum.”
Nicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson is driving the country towards ‘disaster’ (Jane Barlow/PA)
Ms Sturgeon, who will meet the PM later on Monday, argued: “The people of Scotland did not vote for this Tory Government, they didn’t vote for this new Prime Minister, they didn’t vote for Brexit and they certainly didn’t vote for a catastrophic no-deal Brexit, which Boris Johnson is now planning for.”
She added: “Boris Johnson has formed a hard-line Tory Government with one aim – to take Scotland and the UK out of the EU without a deal.
“Scotland has been ignored throughout the Brexit process and it is now time for everyone who cares about the future of Scotland to come together to chart our own course and say to the Tories – stop driving our country towards disaster.”
As well as meeting Ms Sturgeon and Ms Davidson, the PM used his visit north to announce a £300 million funding pot for communities in the devolved nations.
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He said critics who have dubbed him the last prime minister of the UK were “grossly underestimating the United Kingdom”.
“Our union is the most successful political and economic union in history,” Mr Johnson said.
“We are a global brand and together we are safer, stronger and more prosperous.
“So as we prepare for our bright future after Brexit, it’s vital we renew the ties that bind our United Kingdom.”
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in scathing statement
Frustrated Trump slams Sussmann verdict
Washington Times, by Jeff Mordock
Posted By: Imright, 5/31/2022 6:43:44 PM
Former President Trump railed against the legal system and judges in a bitter statement released Tuesday after Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was found not guilty of lying to the FBI.Mr. Trump took aim at some of his favorite targets, including the Biden administration, immigration and election integrity, in a short but scathing post on his social media site, Truth Social.“Our legal system is corrupt, our judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are ‘through the roof,’
Reply 1 - Posted by: VAPMAN 5/31/2022 6:47:36 PM (No. 1171767)
Trump is absolutely right.
Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 5/31/2022 7:03:25 PM (No. 1171779)
The many Knotseez at the New York Times and Washington Post worship the Demented Fuhrer. By now, they probably have a good clue as to his favorite ice cream flavor. A quid pro quo executive order.
Reply 3 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 5/31/2022 7:05:39 PM (No. 1171782)
Until we exterminate these vermin in public.... ALL OF THEM... We can expect to see things continue as they are. Ready to man up yet America?
Reply 4 - Posted by: Italiano 5/31/2022 7:07:13 PM (No. 1171786)
I don't get it. Aren't Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Adam Schiff, et. al. (and Liz Cheney) always lecturing us peons that "no one is above the law?" What a sick, pathetic joke this country has become. And elections aren't going to change anything.
Reply 5 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/31/2022 7:29:28 PM (No. 1171812)
Trump can take solace that the Russia hoax never helped Hillary, and he beat her like the nag she is.
Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/31/2022 7:37:07 PM (No. 1171821)
We need to stop seeking justice from the left. Criminals don't send their associates to jail.
Reply 7 - Posted by: GoodDeal 5/31/2022 8:19:24 PM (No. 1171852)
Martha Stewart spent time in the Greybar Hotel for lying to federal investigators. I guess the jury thought she was a republican.
Reply 8 - Posted by: Venturer 5/31/2022 9:08:15 PM (No. 1171880)
The verdict was settled before the trial ever started.
I'm starting to feel like a 1770's colonist must have felt.
Reply 10 - Posted by: GirlwithaCurl 5/31/2022 9:42:15 PM (No. 1171905)
Whack-A-Vermin!
Reply 11 - Posted by: smokincol 6/1/2022 12:09:59 AM (No. 1171993)
and he was being Ultra-MAGA polite making this statement and it most likely was NOT what he really wanted to say
Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 6/1/2022 7:44:05 AM (No. 1172149)
President Trump, take solace in the fact that the world knows that OJ is a murderer, that the Clintons are corrupt, and that Sussmann is a liar.
Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 6/1/2022 9:28:10 AM (No. 1172277)
As usual, Trump is correct. We need to get over the notion that the next few elections will change anything and take this country back the hard way. Hurry before I say to hell with it and move to the Dominican Republic.
Watch: Kamala Harris Bursts Out Laughing
in Speech on the Deadly Serious Threat
of ‘Climate Change’ 0 replies
Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris on Wednesday addressed the country on the purportedly dire threat posed by climate change. In the middle of her speech, she couldn’t help but burst out laughing. Watch: (Video) “And I remember watching in the Oakland Hills, Northern California that the the landscape turning from green to brown, and everyone from my mother, our teachers, the radio DJs at KDIA,” she said and cackled loudly. “Lucky 13… saying how important it was to conserve water.”Then, the vice president turned to the threats of droughts and water shortages,
“No Easy Questions Today, Huh?” –
Karine Jean-Pierre Struggles to Answer
if Joe Biden Was Wrong About Inflation (Video) 3 replies
Gateway Pundit, by Christina Laila Original Article
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday struggled to answer simple questions on inflation. “When are you guys going to admit that you were wrong about inflation?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre after peppering her with questions about the baby formula shortage. “No easy questions today, huh?” Jean-Pierre shot back. “The Treasury Secretary said that she was wrong, so why isn’t anybody here at the White House–” Doocy said.
Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats WILL
move on assault weapons ban as she reads
long wish list of liberal gun control
policies she's considering in wake of
the Uvalde school shooting 11 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Rob Crilly Original Article
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday told a gun control rally that Democrats will plan to push legislation banning 'assault weapons,' in what would be the most aggressive response so far to last week's elementary school massacre that killed 19 children.Republicans have signaled their opposition to restricting the general availability of guns - and some opponents say there is no workable definition for 'assault rifles.'But with the nation once again wondering why America must suffer so many mass shootings, politicians on both sides are under pressure to act.Speaking at an anti-gun violence event in her home town of San Francisco, Pelosi reeled off a long list of actions.
Monica Lewinsky says we are 'all guilty'
for watching the 'courtroom porn' of the
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial 19 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Alex Oliveira Original Article
Monica Lewinsky, 48, likened the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial to 'courtroom porn' in a scathing Vanity Fair op-ed published before the verdict.In the piece, the former White House intern turned television personality said that viewers who tuned in to the blockbuster court-case are 'all guilty' for participating in the 'tawdry' spectacle.'We have become so attuned to this narrow, cynical cycle of social media encounters that we consider the trial not tragic or pathetic, but as a pure car wreck: accessible, tawdry, and immediately gratifying,' Lewinsky wrote.
Beto O’Rourke: AR-15 Owners Should Not
Be Able to Keep Them 20 replies
Breitbart Politics, by AWR Hawkins Original Article
During a campaign event on May 21, Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke expressed his belief that Americans who own AR-15s should not be able to keep them. On May 31, FOX News highlighted the comments as part O’Rourke’s ongoing effort against the guns. In the comments, O’Rourke stressed his position that no one should be able “to purchase an AR-15 or AK-47,” and added, “I don’t think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them.”
Government Officials Blame Biden For Inflationary
Surge Hurting Most Americans 5 replies
Gateway Pundit, by Michael Robison Original Article
Officials in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have released reports that squarely place the rate of inflation on President Biden’s stimulus efforts during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The CBO notes that President Biden is culpable for the record-high inflation creating undue pressure on America’s workforce in its latest annual report. The nonpartisan CBO report also says that Biden’s preferred fix, increasing taxes, will worsen the economy.
Former Corinthian students get federal
student debt erased 8 replies
Associated Press, by Collin Binkley Original Article
WASHINGTON—Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain will automatically get their federal student loans canceled, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, a move that aims to bring closure to one of the most notorious cases of fraud in American higher education.Under the new action, anyone who attended the now-defunct chain from its founding in 1995 to its collapse in 2015 will get their federal student debt wiped clean. It will erase $5.8 billion in debt borrowers, loan discharge in Education Department history, “As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back
What Predisposes Jews to Vote for Democrats? 17 replies
American Thinker, by M.B. Mathews Original Article
Why are so many Jews Democrats? It has been hard to fathom why the Jews, thought by many to be so intelligent and overrepresented in science, medicine, literature, music, and sociology, would embrace Democrat ideology so as to plant the seeds of their own economic and cultural destruction. Jews are voting Democrat in numbers that far outpace Gentiles and people have been wondering why for a very long time. It makes no sense if Jews are as intelligent as they are reputed to be. Democrat ideology works against the best interest of Jews in America.Seventy-three percent of American Jews say they are liberals who support Democrat candidates. What is puzzling
Joe Biden Forgets HHS Secretary Xavier
Becerra’s Name (VIDEO) 8 replies
Joe Biden on Wednesday met virtually with infant formula manufacturers to discuss his non-existent plan to fix the baby formula crisis he created.Biden was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and others in the South Court auditorium. Joe Biden totally forgot the name of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.Biden’s brain broke during the virtual meeting.He could barely read through the opening remarks on his teleprompter, then he bungled the name of the HHS Secretary.“I’m gonna hand it over to Secretary Be—uh, Mr. Secretary…” Biden said.
Sheryl Sandberg resigns as COO of Facebook
parent company Meta after 14 years as
Mark Zuckerberg's top lieutenant 7 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Keith Griffith Original Article
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as the chief operating officer of Facebook parent company Meta.Sandberg, one of the most powerful women in tech and the top lieutenant to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced her departure from the company in a Facebook post on Wednesday. 'Sitting by Mark's side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime,' she wrote. 'I am so immensely proud of everything this team has achieved.'Sandberg said she will continue to serve on the Meta board of directors, and that her resignation would officially take effect sometime in the fall.
'The jury gave me my life back.' Johnny
Depp celebrates in the UK as he wins defamation
trial against 'heartbroken' ex-wife Amber
Heard and walks away with $8.35M in damages 16 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Daniel Bates & Kayla Brantley Original Article
Johnny Depp has won his libel case against Amber Heard, saying he now has 'his life back' after the jury ruled he was defamed and awarded him $15million.In a statement after Wednesday's verdict, Depp said, 'Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed. 'And six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled.'After less than three days of deliberation, Heard was awarded $2million in compensatory damages out of the $100million she was seeking
Joe Biden Creates ‘Office of Environmental
Justice’ for ‘Communities of Color’ 14 replies
Breitbart Politics, by Wendell Husebo Original Article
President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday a new Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) to preserve “communities of color” from zoning restrictions and pollution, among other objectives.The OEJ will report to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will sit within the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at HHS, according to Xavier Becerra, secretary of HHS. Biden created the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity in 2021 to stop the warming of the globe.“The blunt truth is that many communities across our nation – particularly low-income communities and communities of color
Sussmann Juror Is Talking, and It's an Eye-Opener 42 replies
Red State, by Nick Arama Original Article
Posted by Dreadnought — 5/31/2022 7:49:22 PM Post Reply
As we reported earlier, Michael Sussmann was found not guilty of lying to the FBI, despite the evidence that he was working for the Clinton campaign and that he told FBI General Counsel James Baker that he was not working for any client. That raised questions as to how, given the evidence, you get a not guilty verdict in this case? Now, part of the issue may have been judicial rulings that hindered Special Counsel John Durham’s case to some degree, as I noted. The other part may have been you likely started out with an unfavorable jury, to begin with, in D.C., but then, in this case, you also seemed
Chicago High School to Implement Race-Based
Grading System 41 replies
Breitbart, by Penny Starr Original Article
Posted by Beardo — 5/31/2022 10:14:12 PM Post Reply
A high school in a Chicago is implementing a race-based grading system “to adjust classroom grading scales to account for skin color or ethnicity of its students.” The move is necessary, advocates say, because “traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities,” a slide used in a presentation said. Students, depending on their race, will not be held accountable for missing class, misbehaving in school, or for failing to turn in assignments. (snip) “Teachers may unintentionally let non-academic factors—like student behavior or whether a student showed up to virtual class—interfere with their final evaluation of students,” Sullivan said.
Ex-Clinton campaign lawyer Sussmann not
guilty in Trump-Russia trial 39 replies
New York Post, by Ben Feuerherd & Reuven Fenton Original Article
Posted by Ribicon — 5/31/2022 12:34:12 PM Post Reply
Washington—A federal jury on Tuesday found former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI — finding special counsel John Durham did not prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt. The verdict by a jury in heavily Democratic-leaning DC, came midway through the second day of deliberations following a two-week trial on a single count of making false statements to a federal agent. Durham’s prosecution team unsuccessfully sought to prove that Sussmann deliberately lied to then-FBI general counsel James Baker by claiming not to be acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and an internet executive when the two met in 2016.
UPenn Prof Anthea Butler: Uvalde Police
Did Not Rush into School Because of Mostly
‘Mexican American’ Children 38 replies
Breitbart Tech, by Alana Mastrangelo Original Article
Posted by ladydawgfan — 5/31/2022 10:13:20 PM Post Reply
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) professor and MSNBC contributor Anthea Butler suggested that Texas police didn’t respond sooner to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde because they “didn’t give a damn” about a school filled with mostly “brown kids.” “So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas.. and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal,” Butler tweeted on Friday. The UPenn professor has since deleted her tweet,
George Will on Biden's 'achievement' 38 replies
American Thinker, by Francis P. Sempa Original Article
George Will’s recent column reviewing the first 500 days of the Biden presidency includes praise for the president’s “deft diplomacy” and “stunning achievement” in the administration’s response to Ukraine. According to Will, Biden’s diplomacy is substantially responsible for nudging Germany to play a larger geopolitical role and persuading Finland to join NATO, thus extending the alliance’s reach to more than 800 miles of Russia’s border. Biden, he writes, has revised the concept of the West, but Will writes that Biden’s achievement will not earn him political dividends because “what Americans usually want in foreign policy is as little as possible.”
Supreme Court marshals are 'asking clerks
to hand over CELL PHONE records and sign
affidavits' as they ramp up the hunt for
the Roe v. Wade leaker 36 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Katelyn Caralle Original Article
Supreme Court law clerks are being asked to turn over their personal cell phone records and sign affidavits as the search ramps up for the person who leaked the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.Language of the affidavits and what the scope of the cell phone search will be are not yet clear, sources familiar with the efforts told CNN – but the potential of handing over their personal devices have clerks exploring their options, including hiring outside counsel. Considering the crack down on law clerks, it's likely the court has not yet been successful in determining the source of the breach.
Airlines' mask mandates may soon be REINSTATED
as DOJ appeals ruling by Trump-appointed
judge that struck down face covering requirement
on public transportation 34 replies
Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters, by Melissa Koenig Original Article
Posted by Ribicon — 6/1/2022 12:31:20 AM Post Reply
Those flying throughout the United States may soon have to put their masks back on, as the Department of Justice has filed an appeal of an April decision that ended the unpopular mask mandate on planes and public transit. The Centers for Disease Control had first implemented the mandate in February 2021 amid rising COVID cases, but as the number of cases started to drastically decline the mandate became unpopular among both passengers and crew members. In fact, during a Senate hearing about the financial support airlines received in 2020 and 2021, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest CEO Gary Kelly spoke out against the mandate.
Joe Biden says job growth may diminish
by TWO-THIRDS as economy 'transitions'
to a period of stable growth - as he sets
up 'crunch talks' with Fed Chair to discuss inflation 34 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Harriet Alexander Original Article
Joe Biden has warned Americans that the rapid pace of job creation likely will not continue - but insisted that there was no need to panic over the looming economic storm.The president will meet the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, on Tuesday to discuss ways to bring inflation down.The consumer price index has increased 8.3 percent from a year ago, the latest data shows.The figures, from April, represent a slight ease from March's peak but were still close to the highest level since the summer of 1982.
Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen
Pastor: ‘God Is Nothing’ 33 replies
American Spectator, by Ellie Gardey Original Article
Posted by zephyrgirl — 6/1/2022 4:14:54 PM Post Reply
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness. In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure
Bison gores woman in Yellowstone National
Park, tosses her ten feet in the air 33 replies
Associated Press, by Staff Original Article
Posted by NorthernDog — 6/1/2022 9:08:01 AM Post Reply
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A bison gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park. The bison was walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, just north of Old Faithful, when the woman approached it on Monday, according to a park statement. She got within 10 feet before the animal gored her and tossed her 10 feet in the air. The woman, from Grove City, Ohio, sustained a puncture wound and other injuries. Park emergency medical providers responded and transported her via ambulance to a hospital in Idaho. Park officials say it's the first reported bison goring this year.
Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann
is ACQUITTED of lying to FBI in John Durham's
Russia probe: Trump tears into 'corrupt'
legal system and 'partisan' compromised judges 30 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Elizabeth Elkind Original Article
Former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann has been found not guilty of lying to the FBI in the first trial of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into what sparked the investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. It's one of just two indictments in Durham's three-year inquiry into the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, spurred by allegations that Trump's 2016 campaign got help from Russia. After just six hours of deliberation, a jury rejected Durham's claim that Sussmann lied to federal agents when sending them dirt on Trump's alleged links to Moscow.
Karine Jean-Pierre claims she 'did not
hear that part of the speech' when Biden
falsely claimed he was 'appointed' to
the Naval Academy in 1965 28 replies
Daily Mail (UK), by Nikki Schwab Original Article
Posted by NorthernDog — 5/31/2022 10:22:03 PM Post Reply
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she 'did not hear that part of the speech' when asked Tuesday about claims made by President Joe Biden that he was 'appointed' to the Naval Academy the same year he was already finishing college. 'I need to read it myself, and just go back and see what you're talking about exactly. I can't speak to it right now,' Jean-Pierre told CBS News' Ed O'Keefe during the press briefing, as he had asked whether Biden could be confused about the timeline. At the top of Biden's commencement address to Naval Academy graduates Friday | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6260756850242615, "wiki_prob": 0.3739243149757385, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line854369"} |
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by Valentin Khorounzhiy 8 April 2013
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Photo: Renault Sport/DPPI
The beginning of the season in three Formula Renault categories sees the young and inexperienced prevail as rookies score maiden poles and wins.
Formula Renault 3.5
Talented trio of title favourites deliver Monza thriller
While great things were expected of Eurocup champion Stoffel Vandoorne right from the get-go, especially due to how previous series champion Robin Frijns fared with Fortec in FR3.5, it’s a safe bet that not a lot of people expected a debut in this fashion. After frontrunner pace shown in pre-season testing, Vandoorne put in a stunning lap on a drying track to claim pole in his first Formula Renault 3.5 qualifying session. Under huge pressure from the vastly more experienced opposition, he managed to create a gap right away and, with a flat-spotted tyre and a shaky suspension, crossed the finish line in first to win in his maiden race at Monza.
On-form Kevin Magnussen also had a great start to his season, capitalising on trouble around him to finish second in the opening race – and then repeating that feat the next day, keeping the race leader honest for all of the race. However, a win proved elusive as Antonio Felix da Costa, having retired from race one after his Arden Caterham broke down on the straight, came back full force on Sunday and scored a calm, confident win from pole. Vandoorne, meanwhile, having made it two out of two front row starts, lost out to Magnussen during the start but still bagged another podium finish. The trio’s superb battle for the lead in the opening laps was befitting of their status as pre-season favourites, and hopefully a sign of things to come for the rest of the year.
It was a weekend of great potential for the ISR rookie duo as well. While Sergey Sirotkin started race one from second and ran in the top ten for the majority of the Sunday outing, he was unable to score any points, as a collision with Daniil Move ended his first race while car problems denied him points in the second. His slightly overlooked partner, Swiss Christopher Zanella, showed a return to his 2011 form, finishing a very impressive third in his maiden race and following that up with a strong finish in the top ten in race two.
Zanella and Webb did well (Photo: Renault Sport/DPPI)
While Vandoorne grabbed headlines, his teammate and returnee from Indy Lights Oliver Webb also produced two great races. He was a very inspired fourth in the opener and would’ve finished sixth in race two if not for a last-lap puncture. Another returnee to the series, after claiming a podium at a 2012 one-off, Nigel Melker took fifth in the season opener to score the first points for the teams’ champions Tech 1.
Finally, the weekend started off rather similarly bad for two title outsiders – Marco Sorensen and Nico Muller, both of who were let down by tyre strategy in qualifying. While neither made any strides in the first race (and Muller was subsequently penalised for a collision), the Swiss man’s weekend did get better in race two, as he took a well-deserved fifth. For Sorensen, it was another disaster of a race, starting in the top ten but pitting in almost right away with damage. The Dane was unhappy with the form of the car and will be looking to bounce back next weekend – his 2012 performances certainly make that a very likely thing to happen.
Will Stevens was another expected contender who had a tough weekend. In race one, he collided with Nikolay Martsenko during his second scrappy attempt to pass the fast-starting Russian for second place and dropped to the back. Then in race two he had to start from the pits after an oil leak, but was fighting his way up towards the points before having to retire. One man who did gather plenty of points meanwhile was?Arthur Pic. Traditionally stronger in qualifying than races, he and new team AV Formula lined up towards the back for both races but the Frenchman surged towards the front to scoop a sixth place in race one and a fourth in race two, not far from Vandoorne.
Report: Vandoorne claims dominant victory on Formula Renault 3.5 debut
Report: Felix da Costa scores first victory of 2013
Next round: Aragon, 27-28 April
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Three different winners, but it’s consistent Rowland who top-scores
The season opener at Hockenheim attracted a sizeable strong grid, with both series full-timers and those looking at irregular appearances. While the first group ended up largely prevailing in the end, a few surprises were produced, not the least of which occured during the qualifying session on Sunday.
Parry couldn’t convert his poles to wins, but was still the top series regular (Photo: Chris Schotanus)
In a field of proven race-winners and hungry youngsters, Intersteps champion Matt Parry hardly turned up as one of the favorites. Thankfully for him and for Fortec Motorsports, that didn’t faze him one bit – and, when the chequered flag flew in qualifying, it was Parry who set the quickest time in his group, claiming pole position for race one and race two. It was sort of downhill from there – an incident with the charging reigning champion in race one cost him the lead, while race two brought him a maiden podium but nothing else. Another stellar podium run in race three, still, left Parry with a fair share of points ahead of the next round, while his poles cemented him as one of the title favorites for this year.
Another Brit on the field, current series champion Jake Dennis, came into the round as a clear favourite for wins, but ultimately did not have luck on his side. His win in race two was nothing short of classy, but tangling with Parry in race one and an anonymous race three left him with the 42 points. Still, it’s very unlikely Dennis is shooting for another title, instead focusing on the Eurocup, so his proof of form this weekend was of a significant value.
The revelation of the pre-season, Frenchman Esteban Ocon, enjoyed a good weekend. After topping the absolute majority of Eurocup test sessions, the Lotus F1 junior entered the weekend as one of the favourites and delivered. Running third for most of race one, he picked up the spoils of war between Parry and Dennis to claim the win. He was fourth and eighth in following races, but still lies second in the championship with 60 points – a very decent start for the 16-year-old ahead of his Eurocup campaign.
While not getting a win this weekend, RSF man Oliver Rowland was stunningly consistent and absolutely remarkable in his overtaking.? The qualifying session might’ve seen him lower than you would expect, but Rowland was untouchable come race time – fighting his way through the field on all three occasions to claim three podiums that see him lead the standings. His pre-season test pace didn’t, perhaps, live up to expectations, but the Brit’s mighty performance at Hockenheim sent a message to all his Eurocup title rivals.
Another part-timer, Fortec’s Mikko Pakari wasn’t that eye catching compared to his rivals, but was up there when it mattered. Without Rowland’s phenomenal overtaking antics and the pace Dennis and Ocon enjoyed, Pakari was still very consistent – taking second in race one and following it up with fourth and fifth. His performance during the weekend was very characteristically Finnish in the best way possible and, if Pakari wasn’t a title dark horse in the Eurocup before, he is one now.
Pakari, Ocon and Rowland – all worth watching this year (Photo: Chris Schotanus)
Unlike most of the other men contracted to the Eurocup, Andrea Pizzitola is expected to run as many NEC events as possible, which could very well make him a title contender. He didn’t fully live up to that status this weekend, but his performance was still of note – fairly anonymous in races one and two, being sixth in the first outing allowed him onto the reverse-grid pole for the third race, which he absolutely controlled.
Finally, some people did not have the weekends they would hope for, but still turned out performances of note. Jack Aitken shadowed fellow Intersteps graduate Parry for most of the weekend, but had some bad luck, only getting one points finish in fifth. French F4 champion Alex Baron struggled with consistency, failing to finish the first two outings and not being able to start in the third. Ignazio D’Agosto also had incidents in the first two races but, starting the third one at the back, managed to claw his way back into the points with a lot of overtaking.
Report: Ocon triumphs in race one at Hockenheim
Report: Dennis eases to race two victory at Hockenheim
Report: Pizzitola triumphs in reverse-grid race at Hockenheim
Next round: Nurburgring, 20-21 April
Formula Renault 2.0 Alps
Prema reign with experienced Bonifacio and debutant Fuoco
Even though Bruno Bonifacio made appearances in Alps before this year, he’s still largely a Formula Renault rookie. You wouldn’t say it by his weekend performance though, as Prema’s Brazilian driver took commandeering pole for both races of the weekend and proceeded to win the first one without making any mistakes. He was well on his way to do the same in race two, but his race was ruined due to an incident that saw him drop out of the points. Still, he leaves the weekend as, perhaps, “the” favourite for the title, an achievement in its own right.
Bonifacio leads Fuoco (Photo: Fast Lane Promotion)
Nyck de Vries, on the other hand, didn’t exactly live up to expectations. He only managed fourth in race one, which, while a reasonable achievement, won’t satisfy all as with the level of hype around him – he’s expected to be in contention for every Formula Renault race. He was in contention in race two, but a rash overtaking move on Bonifacio took them both out of the points.
While it wasn’t the best weekend for McLaren protege de Vries, Ferrari protege Antonio Fuoco put in a stunning performance at the start of his first proper campaign in cars. Prema’s youngster was great in qualifying and spectacular in race one, mostly keeping up with the more experienced Bonifacio. In race two, he managed to reap the results of the crash ahead to take his first Alps win, which propelled him to the championship lead with 43 points.
The third Prema driver, one Luca Ghiotto, wasn’t exactly under the radar either. He had a great first race of the season in fifth, but it was the second one where he really excelled, managing to hold off experienced opposition to make it another Prema 1-2.
Elsewhere, Pierre Gasly and Guilherme Silva demonstrated their experience, taking solid points finishes and a podium each, while Matthieu Vaxiviere and William Vermont recovered with good performances in race two after mishaps in race one.
Report: Bruno Bonifacio wins first Vallelunga Alps race
Report: Antonio Fuoco victorious in second Vallelunga race
Next round: Imola, 11-12 May
Auto GP
Campana wins again in Marrakech
Sergio Campana and Kimiya Sato continued to pull away from the rest of the field in round two of the championship at Marrakech as no title-challenging driver in the series besides the Japanese man had a particularly consistent two races.
Campana narrowly cleared Narain Karthikeyan for pole and, with the Indian fairly slow off the start, built up a massive gap over the first few laps. The effort was enough to secure the Italian’s second victory of the season and give him the lead in the standings – however, with the retirement on the first lap in race two, he once again sits in second.
Campana leads the field in Morocco (Photo: Auto GP)
Karthikeyan had very strong showings in qualifying and practice but was let down in race one by a slow stop that cost him his first Auto GP podium. Again, he was another casualty of the first-lap tussle in race two, won by his teammate Luciano Bacheta from reverse-grid pole.
Despite a poor showing in qualifying, Sato continued his streak of podium finishes, with two third-place finishes that allowed him to retain the championship lead. Meanwhile, Daniel de Jong marked his return to the series with a podium in race one, while Vittorio Ghirelli added to his Monza podium with a second-place finish in race two.
The weekend could’ve seen a maiden podium for Andrea Roda, but the Italian was mistakenly signaled for a drive through by the track marshals in race two, losing his second place but still scoring solid points. Robert Visoiu, running third in race one, could’ve also added to his podium tally but had his car break down with two laps to go.
The form of Campana and Sato might create a mistaken impression, but, from all indications, we’re in for a close title fight in Auto GP. The nearest challenge is likely to come from Karthikeyan, who has shown a lot of improvement in the second round, but the likes of Visoiu, Ghirelli, Bacheta and Riccardo Agostini should also not be underestimated.
Report: Campana overcomes engine troubles to take victory at Marrakech
Report: Bacheta scores maiden Auto GP win at Marrakech
Next round: Hungaroring, 4-5 May
F3 Sudamericana
After winning the F3 Brazil Open, Felipe Guimaraes started off his F3 Sudamericana campaign with expected dominance. The Brazilian, who is poised to return to GP3 seat with Bamboo, won both races at the opening round at Interlagos from pole. Raphael Raucci came closest to him in Class A, taking second and third, while Argentinian Bruno Etman, also appearing on both podiums, took two Class B victories and leads the category that Bonifacio won in 2011.
Next round: Brasilia, 20-21 April
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It was almost expected, so impressive was Vandoorne in testing, but even though he had some luck go his way, his dominant win from pole in his first race out of Formula Renault 2.0 was something special. Felix da Costa isn’t going to have things all his own way.
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Struggles if being a new team seem over
15 years ago William Burnett
For two years the hockey team struggled to make a mark. That struggle seems to be over.
With 205 goals this season, second most in Division II, the team can score.
An impressive stat; but coupled with a staunch defense that has allowed 91 goals in the season thus far, even the most illiterate of the hockey world can see the rise of the Wolverine hockey team.
If you need more than that, try eight games this season with a winning margin of 10 or more, including a 25-2 win against BYU-Idaho earlier in the year.
Granted, it isn’t facing teams competing for the Stanley Cup, but one cannot help but notice the level of talent among the team.
Playing in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA), Utah Valley started the season ranked No. 2 in the Western Division and lived up to that expectation.
Winning (or tying) the first 14 games, and suffering only respectable losses at the sticks of University of Denver, University of Colorado, and Eastern Washington, the first half of the hockey season found the Wolverines at 19-6-3 including 11-3-1 at home at the Seven Peaks Arena.
Then something no one could have prepared for happened. Tragedy struck, and rocked the Wolverine locker room, with the death of assistant coach Ken Dolezsar.
"We still miss him. I miss him," coach Matthew Beaudry said. "Not only missing his energy as a hockey coach, but as a person, so genuine, so sincere. His attitude caused others to try and work harder and be better. So you remove that and that’s huge loss, but we still play hard for him."
The Wolverine team has fought hard to honor their late coach.
Utah Valley currently shares the lead with Colorado in the conference with 41 points ahead of other storied athletic programs like BYU, USC, UCLA and University of Utah, and enjoys a seventh-place ranking overall.
The team is a few spots down from their pre-season ranking of No. 2, thanks to mid season losses to under-matched teams like Weber State and UNLV, but Coach Beaudry and his team remain focused.
"You know it’s better that we lose these games midseason – games we should have won but we didn’t, due to underestimating teams or not preparing fully for games. I would rather lose these now and fix the problems, and be better prepared for the post-season play," Beaudry said.
The potent Wolverine team is led by David Wyman, who is enjoying a 34-goal and 60-assist season, and Chris Glen, with 26 goals and 45 assists – scorers leading not only their team, but who enjoy spots among the top-five point-leaders in the ACHA.
The Wolverines’ next big game is Jan. 31, next week, at Park City Ice Arena against Colorado State University.
Colorado State is looking to avenge the 3-2 loss suffered at the hands of the Wolverines in Colorado last November.
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Plea on Nageswara Rao's appointment: CJI Ranjan Gogoi recuses himself from hearing, says he is on panel to pick new CBI chief
The petition challenging Rao's appointment, filed by NGO Common Cause and RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj, has sought laying down of specific mechanisms to ensure transparency in the process of appointment of CBI director.
FP Staff January 22, 2019 08:29:21 IST
Ranjan Gogoi recused himself from hearing a plea challenging M Nageswara Rao's appointment as interim director of the CBI
While announcing the decision, Gogoi sought transparency in the process of short-listing, selection and appointment of the CBI director
The petition alleged that Rao's appointment was not made on the basis of recommendations of the high-powered selection committee
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Monday recused himself from hearing a plea challenging M Nageswara Rao's appointment as interim director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), according to media reports.
"I am participating in the selection committee meeting and so I will not be hearing this," said the CJI. ANI reported that he sought transparency in the process of short-listing, selection and appointment of the CBI director.
#NewsAlert -- CJI recuses to hear #CBIvsCBI matter | @utkarsh_aanand with more details pic.twitter.com/J8GHSC3QiM
— News18 (@CNNnews18) January 21, 2019
The bench, also comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna, then said that the PIL filed by NGO 'Common Cause' would be heard by some other appropriate bench.
The petition alleged that Rao's appointment was not made on the basis of recommendations of the high-powered selection committee, comprising the prime minister, the leader of the single largest Opposition party and the Chief Justice of India or a judge of the apex court nominated by him.
"In fact, it appears that the committee was completely bypassed and had no role in the appointment of Rao, thereby rendering the appointment illegal as it is in violation of the procedure for appointment of Director, CBI laid down in the DSPE (Delhi Special Police Establishment) Act," the plea, filed through advocate Prashant Bhushan, said.
The plea will now be heard by another bench on 24 January, the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led selection committee is also scheduled to meet.
The high-powered panel will discuss probable names for the coveted post. Former CBI director Alok Verma was removed as the chief of the central agency on 10 January, three weeks before he was to demit his office.
With inputs from agencies
Updated Date: January 22, 2019 08:30:32 IST
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Government has ‘given up on housing for young peopl...
Post By: Olivia January 31, 2023 0 Comment(s) estate agency, Martyn Gerrard, Nathan Emerson, Propertymark, Simon Gerrard, Zoopla
An estate agency veteran has urged Government ministers to consider where their own children will live amid a continuing shortage of property on the market.
Simon Gerrard, managing director of Martyn Gerrard estate agents and past-president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has suggested buyers are still waiting for the dust to settle after September’s mini-Budget but argues the real issue the sector faces is a lack of supply.
It comes after Zoopla’s latest House Price Index shows house price growth has slowed and demand is rising but remains below the five-year average.
Gerrard said: “The reported fall in house prices at the back end of last year confirms we’re still feeling the ripples of September’s mini-Budget and the wider economic pressures. I don’t think demand has necessarily disappeared, as we have had a busier than expected return after Christmas.
“However, some people are choosing to remain patient, hold steady, and wait to see if there are any further changes to interest rates or whether the wider economy improves in the near future. “However, this dip in demand that is likely behind the price drop should only be temporary, and I am hopeful for a return to growth.”
He suggested there are still people looking to buy in more affluent areas of the country but said the real issue is the lack of supply in the market, which Gerrard said has probably prevented an even sharper fall in prices than the moderate drop being reported.
Gerrard added: “There simply aren’t enough properties coming onto the market, nor is new stock being built at the rate we need.
“The question every politician should be asking is where are my children going to live?
“I think this Government has given up on housing for young people. Moreover, those that can’t afford to buy are also now having affordability problems with renting, as the Government has killed the buy to let market. The Government needs to realise that increasing the tax burden on landlords has ultimately hit the pockets of tenants too.
“The issues around supply are far from being resolved as the Government continues to avoid confronting the ‘NIMBYs’ who oppose badly needed housing developments near them, and local councils continue resist developers’ attempts to expand existing stock.
“Authorities and those opposing new development seem to be wilfully ignoring a very real and growing problem – we have a growing population, a shortage of housing stock, and a widening gap between the two. The country, and the housing market, needs strong leadership and this starts with enacting the planning reform urgently required.”
Agency trade body Propertymark has also commented on the Zoopla report, its chief executive Nathan Emerson said: “Estate agents have noted a booming January with a rise in homes coming to the market and plenty of keen sellers present.
“Buyers are learning quickly that the power of the purchase is now in their hands due to competition levels easing for the first time in a while, but their purse strings are being tightened and some are now looking for slightly smaller, more cost effective homes than before.”
Was there a Boxing Day property listings boost?...
Post By: Olivia January 3, 2023 0 Comment(s) Boxing Day, Rightmove, Zoopla
Agents are preparing to return for a full week of work as the festive period comes to an end, but was there a Boxing Day listings boost?
The idea of a wave of listings going live on Boxing Day is a marketing ploy mainly used by portals to encourage agents and sellers to list their homes when potential buyers may be bored of turkey sandwiches and Christmas crackers, so could instead be browsing property listings online.
There is also an argument that potential vendors may realise how much more or less space they need having had the family around at Christmas.
Estate Agent Today understands that the portals will release data this week showing whether there was an uptick in new listings, especially with a market downturn predicted.
For now, our incredibly unscientific research shows there was a slight boost but not as much compared with the number of listings that went live in the final two weeks of the year.
We searched for listings 40 miles from London on Rightmove that were added in the seven days between 26 December and 2 January and the website returned 2,799 properties for sale.
Many of these were price reductions though and in the past two weeks there have been 14,554 listings added, suggesting there wasn’t a massive influx within this search radius at least since Boxing Day.
Similarly, Zoopla had 2,000 new results in the seven days between 26 December to 2 January, but 9,220 when you go back by two weeks
Market crash predictions are overstated...
Post By: Olivia December 30, 2022 0 Comment(s) Charlie Bryant, Estate Agents, housing market, Zoopla
Talk of a housing market crash is overstated, Zoopla’s chief executive Charlie Bryant has claimed.
Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate Agent Today, Bryant said the market has been overheated since the pandemic and predicted that demand will return once prices normalise next year.
He said: “We are coming off the back of a hot market.
“The post pandemic period saw the highest level of property transactions since the 2008 financial crisis.
“When you don’t have that heat in the market, we will see a price squeeze and a softening of the price momentum.
“Mortgage rates have been very volatile since the mini-Budget, those will settle somewhere between 4% and 5%, which is affordable when you think banks are currently stress testing borrowers to 6% or 6.5%.
“There are lots of people calling doom and gloom in the market, my personal view is that this is overstated.”
Bryant said that while demand has dropped, some of this is seasonal and some is due to a lack of certainty in the mortgage market.
He added: “Those buyers will come back and we will see asking prices come down and sellers becoming realistic.”
Looking to 2023, he said Zoopla plans to be “more than just another digital classified site.”
He promised a platform to help agents run their businesses efficiently and to help reduce costs, win instructions and sell homes.
Watch the video interview below:
London house prices: the areas that saw the biggest annual rises — and falls
Post By: Olivia December 26, 2022 0 Comment(s) Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Havering, House prices, London property news, sutton, Zoopla
ondon’s cheapest borough Barking and Dagenham enjoyed the biggest rise in property prices in 2022, according to exclusive data prepared for Homes & Property.
Average prices rose by 6.6 per cent to £339,100 in the east London borough as buyers sought out affordable housing options amid the cost of living crisis, the figures from property portal Zoopla reveal.
The area has also been boosted by public transport improvements such as the extension of the London Overground to Barking Riverside where thousands of new homes are being built.
The Zoopla analysis shows that most of the biggest rises were in outer London boroughs where buyers can get far more for their money. The shift to hybrid working also means they do not get saddled with such high commuter costs as in the pre-pandemic era.
Second was Bexley with a 5.7 per cent rise to £403,800, followed by Havering (5.5 per cent to £428,900) and Sutton (5.2 per cent to £445,800)
The highest ranked more affluent borough was the always in-demand Richmond where prices rose 5.2 per cent to £774,500.
Prices in more expensive central London boroughs barely rose as rising mortgage rates, stretched affordability, and the slow return of foreign buyers after the pandemic kept a lid on values.
The smallest rise of all was in Westminster where prices went up just 1.3 per cent to £976,000, followed by Kensington & Chelsea with a 1.7 per cent increase to £1.182 million.
Two other wealthy boroughs, Camden and Hammersmith & Fulham, also saw small increases of around 2 per cent.
Price rises in London have generally lagged behind those in the rest of the country this year with increases in the mid single digits.
However this is expected to reverse over the coming year amid growing evidence that urban areas are coming back into fashion as memories of the pandemic recede.
The Zoopla data also shows how London houses have gone up far more in value than flats since the start of the pandemic. Since 2019 average house prices have risen 15 per cent to £687,621 while the average cost of a flat is only 3.5 per cent higher at £409,812.
Borough-by-borough annual house price rises
Source: Zoopla
Year-on-year change
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Zoopla supports Crisis at Christmas with homepage tak...
Post By: Olivia December 6, 2022 0 Comment(s) Agents, christmas, Crisis, Zoopla
Zoopla’s homepage may look a little different from today.
The portal is supporting homeless charity Crisis’s Christmas fundraising campaign with a homepage takeover and new articles for consumers on its website – all aimed at driving donations.
It follows the launch of a three-year partnership in August, which will enable Zoopla to use its unique market position and brand awareness to support Crisis’s mission to end homelessness.
Crisis’s fundraising campaign will be visible on Zoopla’s homepage and will be supported by a series of articles within Zoopla’s ‘News & Guide’ section.
This includes advice for landlords wishing to help tenants who may be at risk of homelessness, as well as further information on why Zoopla has partnered with Crisis.
Alongside this, Zoopla will also be continuing to co-publish research with Crisis on key topics such as the challenges of accessing affordable private rented accommodation for those on the lowest incomes
Zoopla will be using its Lettings Advisory Board to inform its partnership with Crisis.
The Board, which is composed of industry experts and influencers from across the lettings sector, aims to support the sustainable growth of the rental market and create a sector that maintains supply and supports renters, landlords and agents to evolve with the changing market and policy environment.
Zoopla employees have also been using their ‘Good Deed Day’ to volunteer at Crisis warehouses, stores and Skylight Centres across the country – and have also raised over £55,000 this year for the charity
Commenting on the partnership, Charlie Bryant, chief executive of Zoopla, said: “Crisis at Christmas is a fantastic initiative and we’re delighted to be playing our part to drive both awareness of the campaign and homelessness, as well as donations to help those most in need this Christmas.
“We’re just getting started when it comes to our partnership, and I look forward to working closely with both the Crisis team and our agent customers to make further inroads next year when it comes to ending homelessness.”
Matt Downie, chief executive of Crisis, added: “We’d like to say a huge thank you to our charity partner Zoopla for their amazing support this Christmas. It is only because of their continued support, that we are able to be here at both Christmas, and all year-round, for people experiencing homelessness up and down the country.
“As the cost of living continues to bite, their generous support ensures that we can provide warmth, companionship and support to people this Christmas and help them take their first steps out of homelessness. Because only when we stand together will we get closer to our ultimate goal of ending homelessness for good.”
Portals rule out cost of living fee cuts for agents...
Post By: Olivia December 2, 2022 0 Comment(s) agency fees, Charlie Bryant, OnTheMarket, pandemic, Rightmove, Zoopla
The major property portals have ruled out cuts and discounts to agency fees amid the cost of living crunch.
Estate agents, like all businesses, are facing increased transport and energy costs as well as other rising bills but support such as agency fee discounts and waivers that were provided by property websites during the pandemic appears unlikely in the current situation.
Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate Agent Today’s Nat Daniels, Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant explained why Zoopla has no plans to offer discounts at this time.
He said: “We are all facing similar pressures.
“I understand agents are facing pressures and we recognise that offering them great value for money and something that they see helps their business and gives them a great return on investment is really important.”
Bryant said the current situation is different to the pandemic.
He added: “In early 2020 during the first Covid lockdown when the industry shut altogether, there was no activity in the agent space.
“At that point we were quick and in monetary terms were the largest to deliver discounts and support for agents.
“What we are facing now is a different situation but we are absolutely focused on return on investment.”
Bryant was also asked whether Zoopla’s staff redundancy plans would reduce the service it provides agents.
He said: “We are in consultation but I can reassure customers that this will not in any way affect the service.
“It is about running our business in the most efficient way so customers can run their business in the most efficient way and in a way which allows us to keep prices at a level that provides a good return on investment for customers.”
Jason Tebb, chief executive of OnTheMarket, told Estate Agent Today: “The Covid pandemic was an extreme event where we swiftly took steps to support our agents as the property market effectively shut down for a period of time.
“OnTheMarket has always been, and continues to be, committed to fair and sustainable pricing, offering exceptional value to our customers and a whole host of products and services that help agents do their jobs quicker, more efficiently and more cost effectively too, under all market conditions.”
Rightmove has been asked for comment.
See the Zoopla video interview below:
‘Agents may already be in the Christmas sea...
Post By: Olivia October 20, 2022 0 Comment(s) christmas, Estate Agents, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Richard Donnell, Zoopla
They say Christmas hits the shops earlier each year and the same may be said for the seasonal slowdown, Zoopla suggests.
Its latest analysis claims rising interest and mortgage rates have dampened demand so many buyers are now holding off until next year, meaning the festive slowdown may start earlier than usual for property professionals.
Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, said: “Looking back over the past week’s activity from homebuyers on Zoopla, we see that interest from new buyers continues to weaken – down a further 8%.
“Those who haven’t managed to arrange cheaper mortgages are stepping back from the market, creating a sense that the Christmas seasonal slowdown has started early.”
He revealed that the rate at which new sales are being agreed is slowing – down 25% on this time last year, but Donnell remains positive, adding: “Sales have not stalled showing there are committed buyers in the market that want to press on and secure a sale.
“Mortgage rates are important for many buyers but life-related decisions and other pressures will continue to bring a flow of buyers and sellers into the market, albeit at a slower pace than earlier this year.”
The claims were made as part of a Zoopla blog by Donnell on reasons the housing market will hold-up despite high mortgage rates.
Beyond sales still being agreed, he highlighted that mortgage rate pricing is falling back from the highs of 6%.
He said: “Our analysis has always suggested that mortgage rates of 4% were manageable for most buyers. Rates getting to 5% of higher would be more of a tipping point with the likelihood of some localised price falls and fewer sales.
“Looking ahead, what really matters now is the outlook for inflation – in particular, how much more central banks needs to increase the base rate to bring inflation under control in the UK. We will know more in the next 2 weeks.
“As soon as we get signs that inflation is starting to peak, the financial markets should start to take a very different outlook on borrowing costs.”
Buyers do need to realise that sub-2% rates are a thing of the past and 4% may be more normal, the blog said.
Donnell suggests that there are minimal chance of negative equity, claiming that new borrowers have not relied on large mortgages to purchase homes.
He also highlights that 30% of sales are cash buyers while mor than half of homeowners don’t have a mortgage at all.
New Zoopla guide aims to help agents sell homes for v...
Post By: Olivia October 12, 2022 0 Comment(s) Estate Agents, EweMove, housing market, Nick Neill, Zoopla
Zoopla has launched a new guide to help agents advise buyers when purchasing a property with a partner to avoid future nightmares.
The document includes advice on how buyers can protect their own share in a property and what to do if selling a home while separating.
It comes as a survey by the portal highlighted tricky situations that have emerged when partners purchase a property together and later split-up.
One in eight who remain living with their ex are forced to continue sharing a bedroom with them, the survey found.
The poll showed that 13% of couples found themselves involved in a standoff – with neither prepared to move out, while 15% said their ex-partner made things awkward by starting a new relationship whilst still living together.
Another 42% of married respondents said it took them longer to get out of their joint mortgage than it did to get a divorce
The analysis found that couples were forced to live together for an average of 1.3 years after they split up.
For 95% of respondents, it was at least one month.
The portal is therefore urging couples who own together to plan ahead to avoid nightmare scenarios and is providing guidance on how to do so, including for agents on selling a property where the vendors have a relationship breakdown.
Commenting on the launch, Nick Neill, managing director at Ewemove, said: “For any agent selling a home where there is a relationship breakdown, it is critical that you deal with both parties equally and fully when communications are involved.
“Not least having both their signatures on your terms of business, but also in respect of booking viewings, presenting offers and agreeing to inclusions for the sale.
“Relying on the response from one party only is a recipe for disaster. “Really importantly, always host the viewings yourself as the agent – don’t rely on either party to do it for you, as if they’re feeling reluctant to sell, you’ll be going nowhere fast, as they’ll put potential buyers off.”
– Read the guide
‘We aren’t looking to overtake ...
Post By: Olivia September 29, 2022 0 Comment(s) Jason Tebb, OnlineMarketPlaces, OnTheMarket, Rightmove, Zoopla
OnTheMarket (OTM) is not currently aiming to overtake Rightmove or Zoopla but has succeeded in reducing listing fees for agents across all portals, its chief executive claims.
Speaking to proptech and property portal news website OnlineMarketplaces, OTM’s chief executive Jason Tebb explained how the company’s ethos has evolved.
At launch in 2015, much of the narrative around the aim of OTM was to challenge the market dominance of Rightmove and Zoopla.
Tebb suggested in a video interview this week that OTM is not here to “take on Rightmove” but wants to offer something different that agents and consumers find valuable.
He said: “The original ethos of OTM, those principles that the founding agents and executive team launched the business with, was as an insurance policy against the rising duopoly of the other two.
“We achieved that.
“Agents tell us quite often that they’re convinced that having three major portals to offer some differentiation and some challenge means that their net total spent is actually less than if there were two.
“I dread to think where prices from the others would be if we hadn’t been around.”
The portal also launched with a controversial ‘one other portal’ rule for agents – meaning users could only use OTM plus either Rightmove or Zoopla.
This was dropped in 2016 but OTM still has a unique selling point of getting agents to list properties at least 24 hours before they go live on other portals.
Around 4% to 7% of stock on the portal is listed this way, Tebb revealed.
He said OTM’s aim is to provide the products, services and functionality that helps agents do their jobs better, adding: “Will the outcome be that we become market leader, or second, who knows?
“My vision for the business is to become as cost effective and valuable as we can be.
“We are already delivering that in terms of our commercial partnerships, new products and building additional service as part of our main fee.
“The long term strategy might be that we raise our own presence and maybe one day do take over the mantle of market leader.
“Just focusing on toppling this or that guy isn’t the right strategy.”
You can watch the full video interview below:
'We are well placed to improve the home ...
Post By: Olivia September 12, 2022 0 Comment(s) Charlie Bryant, Estate Agents, homebuying, Zoopla
Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process.
Speaking on the Evening Standard’s How To Be A CEO podcast, Bryant said future homebuyers expect the homebuying process to be more personalised and technologically and data driven.
But he warned the property industry has been slow to catch up and meet the demands of this trend.
Bryant said: “We want to take the stress away from homeownership and use our data to bring more transparency to the process.
“Twenty years ago you could search for property by value or postcode and it is the same today.
“That is not the experience when you, for example, buy a book or go shopping.
“There is a more curated and personalised experience, property is not there.”
Bryant said the next generation think differently about how they buy products and services, which will become the same for property.
He added: “People think of Zoopla as a property listings site but we are also the largest supplier of software to agents, provide CRM for builders and risk data for mortgage lenders.
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UNICEF bares learners’ letter request to VP and DepEd chief Sara Duterte
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday unveiled “Letters to VP Sara,” an initiative that places children’s voices at the core of efforts to address the learning crisis.
“Children should have a say in matters that affect them. We hope that adults will continue to consult children on how they can learn better,” said UNICEF Philippines Representative Oyunsaikhan Dendevnorov on the occasion of the International Day of Education.
Dendevnorov added: As we tackle learning challenges, let’s empower children to participate meaningfully in their schools and communities.
The UNICEF official presented the letters to Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte the letter listing the wishes of learners all over the Philippines.
The UN General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as International Day of Education (IDE), a day to celebrate the crucial role of education for peace and development.
This year’s theme, “To invest in people, prioritize education,” builds on the global momentum spurred by the UN Transforming Education Summit (TES) participated in by the Philippines, where education stakeholders committed to act boldly and ambitiously in transforming the education system to deliver inclusive, equitable, and continuous quality education instrumental in breaking the cycle of poverty that keeps millions of children behind.
“This year’s theme ‘To Invest in People, Prioritize Education’ affirms that the new administration is on the right track. At the UN Transforming Education Summit in September last year, President Marcos announced our commitment to recover the learning losses from the pandemic and rebuild our education to be more inclusive, relevant and resilient to future shocks and disruptions,” Duterte said in her speech during the event.
“Let us work together to ensure that our education system empowers our young people to navigate lives, challenges with 21st century skills, resilience, leadership, and strength of character as they join us in reshaping and rebuilding a better and stronger Philippines,” Duterte added.
The said activity is primarily envisioned to generate visibility from local to global level on prioritizing education to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ahead of the SDG Summit building on the outcomes of the United Nation’s Transforming Education Summit.
The department’s celebration of IDE was participated by United Nations Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres, Director of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Office, Jakarta Mr. Mohamed Djelid and Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Specialist Dr. Kamaleswaran Jayarajah, among others.
Crisis in foundational learning
Today, the UNICEF said, 244 million children and youth globally are out of school.
In the Philippines, 2.6 million Filipinos aged 6 to 19 were not attending school in 2020.
There is a crisis in foundational learning, as well as an alarming decline in the literacy and numeracy skills among young learners, it added.
UNICEF also shared that many schools in the Philippines lack facilities and human resources to help children with their lessons.
“Vulnerable children such as those living in poverty, those living in isolated, disaster-prone, and conflict areas, children with disabilities and children belonging to indigenous communities fare far worse,” UNICEF said.
For this year’s commemoration, UNICEF asked learners all over the Philippines to write letters on what they need to be able to enjoy their full rights to education.
Learners’ needs were diverse, such as better peace and order situation in their localities for uninterrupted learning, facilities for LGBTQ+ students, learning program for children with disabilities, and school development projects in their communities. Some also shared their dreams and career aspirations.
Viah from Bagumbayan Central School in Legazpi City thanked Duterte for taking care of teachers, saying that “happy teachers will make them efficient, effective and dedicated teachers.”
“My dream is to have more rooms and more teachers. We only have two teachers because other teachers are afraid to come here. I hope we will have peace and order so that we can continue to go to school,” Aisha from Lebbuh Primary School in Lamitan, Basilan says.
Meanwhile, Choleen from Oranbo Elementary School in Pasig City said, “It will greatly help if we have bond papers, art materials, printers and good Internet connection so we can easily print our work sheets and test papers.”
“My wish is for us to have food. I hope I can also have uniforms,” Matuy Balenton, a child belonging to the Aeta tribe studying in Dinalupihan, Bataan said.
Alhadz from Naungan Primary School in Tawi-Tawi lives far from the town and gets to school by riding a boat.
“My only wish is for us to have a big boat that we can use even if it is windy and the waves are strong, so that we can get to school safely,” Alhadz said.
Basic Education Development Plan 2030
Education authorities are tackling education challenges through its Basic Education Development Plan 2030.
This January, DepEd is presenting the Basic Education Report (BER) 2023 and the Education Agenda.
UNICEF has been a long-standing education partner, advocating for children’s right to education in the Philippines for over 75 years.
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Class action suit over Keystone XL?
by Ken Paulman May 17, 2011 June 23, 2012
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Domina Law Group, an Omaha-based trial lawyer firm, is considering a lawsuit against TransCanada over its use of eminent domain to secure a route for the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska.
In a news release, Domina asks:
“TransCanada’s threat to use eminent domain under the authority of a Nebraska statute permitting pipeline companies to do so with no checks on their authority is a real concern. Does this mean any foreign company from any nation can announce a pipeline project and condemn Nebraska land even if the company serves the interests of a nation out of favor with our own?”
It’s a question that’s come up before, creating an interesting political alliance between environmental groups and political conservatives.
However, as SolveClimate News reported in March, a special legal status may make the pipeline immune to such lawsuits.
h/t Politico’s Morning Energy
Tagged: Keystone XL, Nebraska, oil sands
Ken Paulman
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<h1>Class action suit over Keystone XL?</h1> <p class="byline">by Ken Paulman, Energy News Network <br />May 17, 2011</p> <p>Domina Law Group, an Omaha-based trial lawyer firm, is <a href="http://www.dominalaw.com/template_view.cfm?PageID=292&search=">considering a lawsuit against TransCanada</a> over its use of eminent domain to secure a route for the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska.</p> <p>In a news release, Domina asks:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"> <p> “TransCanada’s threat to use eminent domain under the authority of a Nebraska statute permitting pipeline companies to do so with no checks on their authority is a real concern. Does this mean any foreign company from any nation can announce a pipeline project and condemn Nebraska land even if the company serves the interests of a nation out of favor with our own?”</p> </blockquote> <p>It’s a question <a href="http://energynews.us/2011/01/24/spotlight-on-keystone-xl/">that’s come up before</a>, creating an interesting political alliance between environmental groups and political conservatives. </p> <p>However, as SolveClimate News reported in March, <a href="http://solveclimatenews.com/news/20110302/landowners-lawsuit-oil-sands-keystone-pipeline-transcanada-part3-common-carrier">a special legal status</a> may make the pipeline immune to such lawsuits. </p> <p><small>h/t Politico’s <a href="http://www.politico.com/morningenergy/">Morning Energy</a></small></p>
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Kraken shuts down global headquarters because ‘San Francisco is not safe’
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell announced that he has made the decision to close Kraken’s global headquarters in San Francisco.
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The Golden City is losing its shine as one of the largest United States-based cryptocurrency exchanges closes its San Francisco-based headquarters.
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell retweeted an announcement stating that the exchange will close its global headquarters at 548 Market Street, in the center of San Francisco. In the statement, a copy of which was initially tweeted by San Francisco-based political commentator Richie Greenberg, Powell states:
“We shut down Kraken’s global headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco after numerous employees were attacked, harassed and robbed on their way to and from the office.”
A spokesperson from Kraken told Cointelegraph that their "responsibility has been, and always will be, to ensure the safety and security of our team members," adding that Kraken has "no plans to establish a new, formal global HQ" following the San Francisco closure.
A poor advertisement for living in California’s financial center, the statement also alleges that “San Francisco is not safe” and crime is “dramatically underreported.”
BREAKING: KRAKEN CEO Jesse Powell @jespow today issued a statement regarding rampant crime in San Francisco and the failures of DA @chesaboudin . pic.twitter.com/7gx7PldQM0
— Richie Greenberg (@richieSF2016) April 7, 2022
Coinbase, another U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, will also close its San Francisco headquarters in 2022; however, no mention of crime or homelessness was cited regarding the decision. Instead, Coinbase is following the lead of its competitor Binance to become a fully remote, global company.
The Kraken spokesperson explained to Cointelegraph that Kraken was "one of the first companies in the world to pioneer the remote-first model." The focus on "round-the-clock crypto services," especially relevant given that crypto markets are 24/7 is key. Kraken continued:
"While we [Kraken] have no plans to change our status as a US-based entity, the location of our headquarters doesn’t affect how we run our business."
The Twitter community was quick to respond to the Kraken news, sharing dark anecdotes of working in San Francisco.
I worked at Market St for few months, it is crazy, it turns into skid row after 6pm. I'm from Europe and never seen anything like it. Still have flashbacks of the things I witnessed. Just tried to look away and not get stabbed. Remember walking in the smell of skunk and pee.
— Markus (@markustallinn) April 7, 2022
The living situation has allegedly become so dire that there are applications that track human waste around San Francisco, with “Snap Crap” among the most popular. The apps help San Franciscans navigate the city without putting their foot in it.
A San Francisco poop map. Source: ARCgis
Comments from the Twitter and Reddit community shed light on how soaring rental prices have made homelessness more common, while crime is “rampant.” The average rent is now roughly $3,000 per month, and the San Francisco Chronicle has estimated that there are more than 18,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city.
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A report in 2020 revealed that San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area boasted the highest concentrations of crypto investments. In light of Kraken’s decision and the social crises in San Francisco, the region’s hold on crypto and the future of finance may falter.
Other U.S. cities and states have made clear their intentions to attract crypto capital. Texas, for example, hosts pro-Bitcoin (BTC) Senator Ted Cruz, while Web3 and crypto payments have been lauded by the mayor of Austin.
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