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Here you can find lots of useful information to support your mental health.
If you have been given a diagnosis, or want to know more about a mental health condition, you can find more information here.
Self-help leaflet library
To understand more about some of the conditions and difficulties we can help with, AWP has a helpful leaflet library that you can view online or download from. The leaflet library is available here.
You can access resources through the SilverCloud website to help with difficulties such as stress, low mood, anxiety and some long-term physical health conditions. This is an online CBT programme with secure access from a computer, tablet or mobile phone with a login. If you are accessing services in Swindon, please use the link provided on the Swindon specific page. If you are accessing services in BaNES or Wiltshire, please contact your service for login details.
Reading Well (books on prescription)
There are many books that can help you with your difficulties on the Reading Well website where books are listed by category to help you find the right material for the difficulty you are experiencing.
Self-help videos
A series of useful self-help videos are available on our YouTube channel. You can view the playlist here.
Counselling support
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) offers advice and support on how to access different kinds of therapy.
General self-help resources
The Bristol Sanctuary, which is run by St Mungo's is a welcoming safe space available for anyone feeling they can’t cope or are feeling desperate over the weekends.
The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) – This Australian organisation offers free self-help resources for adults suffering from anxiety, mood and eating disorders.
Every Mind Matters – NHS site with advice and help on looking after your mental health.
CEDAR (Clinical Education, Development and Research) at University of Exeter workbooks – Downloadable IAPT workbooks and manuals.
Get Self-Help – CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) techniques and information with downloadable worksheets and lots of information on a range of disorders.
Living Life to the Full – A free online CBT interactive programme for people diagnosed with anxiety and depression.
Mental Health Foundation – Useful information and support around mental health.
Mood Gym – A useful anxiety and depression resource, adapted especially for young people aged 16 to 25 years.
No More Panic – Information for people with panic, anxiety, phobias and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) difficulties.
Royal College of Psychiatrists – Useful factsheets on a wide range of mental health problems.
Triumph Over Phobias – Charity set up for people who suffer from phobias and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder).
Wiltshire Service Directory – Database of all Health and Social Care support services and clubs/societies run by Wiltshire Council.
Useful apps we also recommend from the NHS Apps Library website:
Calm Harm – Helps reduce urges to self-harm and manage emotions.
Catch It – Learn to manage negative thoughts.
eQuoo – Use adventure games to teach yourself new psychological skills.
My Possible Self – Manage fear, anxiety, stress and unhelpful thinking.
Pregnancy and parenthood (Perinatal)
Perinatal refers to the period of time that starts from pregnancy up until two years after the baby has been born. Perinatal difficulties can affect individuals with parental responsibilities, which could include one of the following roles:
child’s other parent
adopted or foster parents
the partner of a parent
The resources below will help explain the support available to you. You can then refer yourself to our services for more support by booking an appointment.
Mothers for Mothers – Charity offering support and advice for any worries or concerns.
Bluebell Care – Charity offering support to help families manage their mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy and after birth.
PANDAS – Charity support service for families and their networks who may be suffering with perinatal mental illness, including prenatal (antenatal) and postnatal depression.
Dads In Mind – Charity for new fathers who are experiencing low mood, anxiety, or are supporting a partner with mental health difficulties.
Tommy’s Charity Wellbeing in pregnancy plan – Free wellbeing plan to help you consider what support you might need for your mental health during pregnancy.
Miscarriage Association – Charity providing support and information for people who have experienced miscarriage.
British Pregnancy Advisory Service – Charity providing information and support for women who would like to know more about their pregnancy options, including support for ending unwanted pregnancies.
Resources for deaf people
You can access any of our services by completing an online form to book an appointment.
To talk to us by phone, you can use InterpreterNow which involves an online BSL (British Sign Language) interpreter. Using a smartphone, tablet or computer, you can download the InterpreterNow app, or go to the InterpreterNow website and connect to an interpreter. Find out more here and sign up for an interpreter here.
We recommend accessing the following resources if you are a deaf person, or care for someone with hearing problems:
Deaf 4 Deaf – Deaf mental health counsellors and psychotherapists offer online counselling in BSL.
Sign Health – Charity working to improve the health and wellbeing of deaf people and provide BSL videos on wellbeing, stress, anxiety, depression and more.
Woman Kind – Charity offering free counselling for deaf and hard-of-hearing women in BSL, sign-supported English and English.
Resources for students and young people
Starting college or university can be a stressful experience. If you are a student who feels unhappy and that feeling isn't going away or you feel you can no longer cope, don’t keep it a secret; sharing your problem is the right step towards finding help.
Telling someone how you feel, whether it is a friend, counsellor or doctor, might immediately help. Many colleges and most universities have a free and confidential in-house counselling service, with professionally qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.
The online resources listed below may also help:
The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) – Free self-help resources for adults suffering from anxiety, mood and eating disorders.
NHS Wellbeing Audio Guides – Audio guides on how to manage anxiety, depression and low self-confidence.
NHS tips for young adults – Advice on how to manage exam stress.
Psychology Tools – Information and support for mental health problems using CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy).
Resources for older people
Ageing can bring its own difficulties with feelings of loss, isolation, loneliness, health concerns, sleep difficulties, low mood and anxiety. To help you manage these difficulties, we are here to provide support, advice and suggestions.
You can find helpful advice and resources below:
Age UK – Features health and wellbeing advice, support lines and local events to support older adults.
Mental Health Foundation – Provides resources including information about specific issues that may affect older adults and their mental health.
The Silver Line – Free and confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Independent Age – Charity supporting older adults to lead fulfilling lives. Provides a variety of resources about mental health in older adults.
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)* group resources
*While we understand that using the term ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’ (‘BAME’) can be problematic, our intention is to use this terminology to refer to tackling the challenge of racial disparities based on colour, and disadvantage and discrimination on the basis of ethnic difference.
Experiences of mental health problems are unique to every individual and might sometimes reflect a person’s culture or set of beliefs. We want to change this in any way we can; for example, if you tell us that language is a barrier to accessing support, we can arrange to work with an interpreter service so their interpreter can attend an appointment with you.
We also recommend the following resources:
BAME and Mental Health – Information on how race and diversity can affect mental health.
Nilaari – Bristol-based black, Asian and minority-led charity offering information, support and talking therapies to people from all communities.
Stand Against Racism and Inequality (SARI) – Bristol-based charity providing support and education around diversity and racism.
A series of videos is available in different languages for asylum-seeking people and refugees who would like to know how to access mental health support following truma. You can view the videos on our YouTube channel here.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) resources
We offer a non-judgmental service and treat everyone who accesses our service with equality and dignity. Please book an appointment or look at the resources listed below for further support and information.
Mind – Information about mental health support for people who identify as LGBTQI+.
Off The Record (OTR) – For young people aged 13 to 25 who identify as LGBTQI+, OTR provides weekly support groups as well as other information.
Stonewall – Charity providing information, support and useful resources.
Rethink Mental Illness – Information and useful resources on looking after your mental health when you identify as LGBTQI+.
Resources for men
Andy’s Man Club – A free weekly support group for men to discuss their mental health, named in memory of Andy Roberts, a young man who took his own life.
CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) – Charity campaigning against suicide, especially in men, with a helpline and webchat.
Male Survivors Partnership (MSP) – A network of organisations providing links to national and local support services for male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation.
Man Up – Useful resources encouraging men not to be afraid of speaking up about their mental health and suicidal feelings.
Mankind – Confidential helpline for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence across the UK, also supporting their friends, family, neighbours, work colleagues and employers.
Men’s Health Forum – Helpful information and statistics about men’s mental health and suicide prevention.
Movember – This charity encourages men to grow a moustache during November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, featuring useful information about mental health and suicide prevention.
Splitz – Leading provider of domestic abuse support services in South West England, with support for men.
Patient information leaflets
Wellbeing and mental health
The Facts about Emotional Intensity or Borderline Personality disorder
The Facts about Emotional Intensity or Borderline Personality Disorder N Somerset
Systemic Family Therapy
Substance Misuse and Pregnancy Leaflet BaNES SDAS
Substance Misuse and pregnancy BSDAS
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Schema Therapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Leaflet
Preventing pressure ulcers
Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT)
Meditation and Dynamic Psychotherapy
Group Relational and Analytic Psychotherapy
Getting the most out of your assessment
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing EMDR
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
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Internships at Harrisburg University began this spring for students.
Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Harrisburg University is a private non-profit university offering bachelor and graduate degree programs in science, technology, and math fields.
At Harrisburg University, experiential learning lies at the heart of the University’s mission. And the internships at Harrisburg take this belief to the next level. Harrisburg University students have been known to complete internships with partner companies like Microsoft, Google, and Deloitte, to name a few. This enables them a real-world experience that many strive for and makes all the difference when they enter the workforce.
The university requires each student to complete a 135-hour internship along with a senior project. This allows the students optimum real-world experience to accelerate their growth.
As a result, approximately 92 per cent of Harrisburg University undergraduate students manage to find employment in their fields of study within six months of graduation.
This spring, students at Harrisburg University are set to intern at big names in the industry of Tech, Science and healthcare.
Farhana Akhter, a student at Harrisburg University, is looking forward to interning with UPMC Pinnacle, a healthcare provider in central Pennsylvania and its surrounding rural communities. Rashida Berger will be looking forward to interning at the Office of the District Attorney in Dauphin County. And Hannah Tucci is excited for her internship at Molecular Jig Games. Other students will be looking forward to their internships across states as well.
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Zambia, Namibia, Angola on the look-out as deadly FMD variant is identified in the Zambezi Region
The Zambezi region has been recognized as having a novel foot-and-mouth disease variety, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. According to Minister Calle Schlettwein, the finding of the novel variation, Serotype O, explains why infection rates remained high despite widespread vaccine coverage.
“Laboratory investigations identified a new FMD virus, Serotype O, on 9 August for the first time in the history of Namibia,” he told lawmakers in the National Assembly.
“This explained the poor response to the vaccine which was administered during the first outbreak.”
Schlettwein said investigations to establish the source of the new FMD variant was conducted through gene-sequencing of the confirmed Serotype O in the Zambezi, and the results show that it is associated with the ongoing FMD Serotype O outbreaks in Zambia that were detected from 2018 – 2021.
After the discovery, the ministry ordered 340 000 doses of FMD Serotype O at a cost of N$6 million to vaccinate cattle in the Zambezi.
The vaccines were delivered on 17 September, and the ministry staff are currently administering vaccinations. Through investigations, the ministry concluded that the new FMD Serotype O was introduced into Namibia from Zambia through the illegal cross-border movements of livestock between the Zambezi region and Zambia.
“In addition to FMD Serotype O, Zambia has reported an ongoing outbreak of FMD Serotype A in areas next to the border with Namibia and Angola. This disease situation poses a high risk of the introduction of FMD Serotype A into Namibia which could spread to the north-central regions if the current cross-border livestock movement continues,’’ the minister said.
‘’It is important to note that the FMD serotypes A and O are new viruses in southern Africa and there is, therefore, a need for collaboration among SADC member states, particularly the immediate neighbouring countries, in the control and prevention of these variants as they pose a threat to the livestock industry of Namibia.”
On 28 May, the ministry of agriculture detected an FMD outbreak at Kasenu of the Kabbe South constituency in the Zambezi.
The said outbreak and the FMD serotypes that caused it were subsequently confirmed by the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) on 3 June.
“In the history of Namibia, FMD outbreaks have always been caused by SAT 1, 2 and 3 serotypes. It is important to highlight that
the new FMD Serotype O also causes clinical cases in goats and sheep, and they can spread the disease further to other susceptible animals,’’ he noted.
Since May, 150 cattle are reported to have died due to FMD-related causes such as dehydration and starvation as animals are unable to feed, drink water or walk because of severe lesions (vesicles, sores, erosions) in the mouth and on the hooves.
“Vaccination started and is currently ongoing, targeting the cattle population of 170 000 in the Zambezi region. Farmers are urged to take all cattle to the nearest crush pen for vaccination. Intensive disease surveillance to establish the extent of the outbreak continues in the western parts of the Zambezi region, and movement restrictions of live animals
and raw products from, into and via the Zambezi region have been instituted,’’ Schlettwein added.
Five roadblocks are placed at strategic points, namely Kongola, Liselo, Bukalo, Namalubi and Kalumba in the Zambezi region to enforce the above-mentioned restrictions. Farmers and the general public are being urged to cooperate with the ministry’s officials on the ground and adhere to the movement restrictions to curb the further spread of the new FMD variant to other regions.
“In light of the above, I wish to strongly appeal to all farmers and the general public not to bring animals from northern neighbouring countries to avoid the possible introduction of new FMD variants in Namibia. In addition, farmers and livestock traders are requested to block the illegal movements of animals and potentially infected FMD materials from neighbouring countries to avoid further animal disease outbreaks in our country,’’ he urged.
The minister also appealed to governors of regions along rivers that form national borders as well as farmers’ unions and other relevant stakeholders to assist in informing farmers in their respective regions to refrain from the illegal cross-border movements of animals.
“It should also be noted that once an FMD outbreak is detected in the Northern Communal Areas (NCA), it will hamper progress with efforts made by the ministry to achieve freedom from the disease in the protection zone of Namibia,’’ the politician stressed.
‘’Furthermore, it will also negatively affect the trade agreements that Namibia recently signed with countries such as Ghana on the export of meat and meat products from the NCAs.”
The Namibian Police have been requested to support the ministry by continuing to conduct patrols along the border to prevent the illegal cross-border movements of livestock.
Disease outbreaks have the potential to severely affect and paralyse the economic activities of a country and the livelihoods of farmers and their dependents, as well as food security at the national and household level.
Notably, FMD outbreaks also have diverse negative effects on trade in animals and animal products as many countries in the world that are free from FMD will not accept meat from an infected country or zone.
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Coaching double dip takes getting used to for Keefe
Lance Hornby · Postmedia News | Posted: Sept. 24, 2022, 9:40 p.m. | Updated: Sept. 24, 2022, 9:40 p.m. | 1 Min Read
Sheldon Keefe became the first Maple Leafs coach to work two games in one day on Saturday when Toronto hosted the Ottawa Senators for a doubleheader.
Sheldon Keefe now knows how John Schneider spends his doubleheader days managing the Blue Jays .
The first Maple Leafs coach to work two games in one day, Keefe found his body clock running slow.
“It’s strange, it feels like 10 p.m. right now,” he said after Saturday’s matinee 4-1 win over Ottawa, realizing he had to do it all again in a few hours. “I haven’t seen daylight yet today. But this serves a purpose for me and for us.”
In addition to getting the Leafs and Sens an extra game without travel, it makes taking Sunday off more logical for Toronto after the first two days of intense camp practice.
And at least Keefe didn’t have to think up an all-new pre-scout presentation for the second group of Leafs who began arriving around 5 p.m.
Cleaners raced through the SBA stands to spruce up things after about 15,000 attended the first game, needing to be ready for doors open at 6 p.m.
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Quality of life in detention results from MQLD questionnaire data collected in IRC Heathrow (Harmondsworth), July 4–6, 2017
Ambition and disappointment? Two new Sterne letters of 1752
This article identifies two previously-unknown Sterne letters of 1752, the first ‘new’ pieces of Sterne’s correspondence to be brought to light in over ten years. First, evidence is forwarded to demonstrate that just two years after delivering the assize sermon ‘The Abuses of Conscience’ at York Minster, Sterne wrote a letter of application (now lost) to serve Richard of Sykes of Sledmere, High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1752 – an episode entirely unknown within Sterne studies. The second letter, to John Fountayne, Dean of York, provides a personal insight into Sterne’s activities as commissary in the peculiar courts of the diocese of York. A full text of this letter is presented from the original manuscript. These discoveries, it is argued, provide a crucial insight into a period in which Sterne was embroiled in disturbances in York chapter politics, domestic unhappiness, and an ongoing struggle to gain a foothold with both ecclesiastical and lay patrons in order to further his clerical career.
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Patronage, performance, and reputation in Sterne's early clerical career, 1737-1742
Whereas current research into the biographical aspects of Sterne’s life chiefly seeks to explore the connective sinews of the author’s social networks at the height of his literary fame, this essay argues that new pathways for investigating Sterne’s formative years can be discovered through the re-examination of his early clerical career. Whilst Sterne is usually treated as the focal subject when looking at the Church in York, the completion of an extensive historical investigation into Lancelot Blackburne’s archiepiscopate (1724–1743) has made it possible to reinsert him into a refreshed historical context and thereby test old assumptions about the formation of his clerical identity. This provides a foundation for the reassessment of patronage connections between Sterne and his uncle Jaques. Attention is also drawn to the case of Lewis Stephens (1689–1747), prebendary of York, and satirical writer – hitherto unknown to Sterne studies – whose experience of breaking patronage ties with Blackburne in the 1730s …
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Relations between imagination and creativity
This chapter explores the relation between imagination and creativity, with an emphasis on its origins and development. We discuss different models of creativity, debates about its nature, and different ways of measuring both imagination and creativity. The bulk of the chapter reviews empirical studies with children, both correlational and experimental, and we conclude from these studies that, although the evidence is promising with regard to uncovering a causal relation between imagination and creativity, there is still much work to be done. We report our own research exploring how the content of children's imagination may play an important role in relation to creativity and also discuss our findings on the effects of various personality variables on adult creativity. We conclude with directions for future research.
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Under-identification of cancer outpatients at risk of malnutrition : are we making the most of anthropometric data?
In oncological outpatient settings, patients often require nutritional support after they have developed malnutrition. A delayed dietetic referral can lead to increased difficulties in providing therapies and surgery, and to poorer patient outcomes. The audit described in this article aimed to assess the frequency and completeness of patient record documentation of anthropometric measurements in a day treatment unit (DTU) in a single cancer centre in the UK. The underlying goal was to improve anthropometry monitoring procedures to ensure that documentation is sufficient to indicate weight loss and, hence, allow timely referrals for nutrition support. The results show that, for over 80% of patients, it was not possible to identify a weight trend between the latest two treatments received at the hospital. The audit findings highlight the need to improve malnutrition monitoring and to ensure patient records contain updated and accurate anthropometric measurements in order to facilitate medical staff to recognise…
Creators: Tabacchi, Francesca; Iatridi, Vasiliki; Tammam, Jonathan; Watson, Eila; Coe, Shelly;
'It rips you to bits!’ : woundedness and compassion in carers’ narratives
To be vulnerable is not only to be open and exposed to the world, but in some sense to be wounded by it. As Arthur Frank (1995) observed, these wounds won through adversity call out for stories. For those who provide care to others, these stories are rarely singular or coherent, but throb and ache again as each day bringsa new flavour and flux. While vulnerable narratives expose the self to the world, they also provide a basis for responding to that world with attentive presence. I use the word ‘compassion’ to refer to this receptive engagement and caring responsiveness to suffering, arguing that cultural stories shape the ways vulnerable compassionate subjectivities are formed. In order to illustrate this cultural shaping of woundedness and compassion, I examine the narratives of carers of older family members in Japan and England. Ethnographic examples reveal the ways individuals develop vulnerable narratives and the ways these narratives are constrained by cultural and political circumstances.
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Living well with heart failure: Evaluation of an education and support programme for patients and caregivers
Background/Aims. Living with advanced heart failure places a considerable burden on patients and their caregivers. Improving the education and support given to patients and caregivers, with the input of palliative care services, could support them to live well with heart failure. This study evaluated an 8-week programme of education and support delivered in a day hospice for patients diagnosed with heart failure and their informal caregivers. Methods. An 8-week programme was delivered five times between January 2018 and March 2019, with a total of 39 participants (24 patients and 15 caregivers). Two focus groups were conducted at the end of each programme (one with patients and one with caregivers). Groups were recorded and transcribed verbatim, and inductive thematic analysis was performed. Results. Most patient participants were male (92%) and aged >70 years, while most caregiver participants were female (93%) and aged >50 years. The main themes from the patient participants' focus groups regarding the…
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Toward a dimensional model of risk and protective factors influencing children's early cognitive, social, and emotional development during the COVID-19 pandemic
Variation in infants’ home environment is implicated in their cognitive and psycho-social development. The pandemic has intensified variations in home environments through exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities, and increasing psychological stressors for some families. This study investigates the effects of parental (predominantly maternal) mental health, enriching activities and screen use on 280 24- to 52-month-olds’ executive functions, internalising and externalising problems, and pro-social behaviour; with socioeconomic status and social support as contextual factors. Our results indicate that aspects of the home environment are differentially associated with children’s cognitive and psycho-social development. Parents who experienced sustained mental distress during the pandemic tended to report higher child externalising and internalising problems, and executive function difficulties at follow-up. Children who spent more time engaged in enriching activities with their parents showed stronger executive …
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Profiles in wine: Barry Herbst, Wine Buyer, Bottle Barn
Bottle Barn wine buyer manages 6,000 bottles of wine|
SARAH DOYLE
Barry Herbst is a busy man.
As the wine buyer for Bottle Barn, Sonoma County’s beloved retail mecca for wine, beer and spirits, he oversees the store’s massive collection of 6,000 wines — a number he figured out during the pandemic.
“When we closed the store for two and a half months due to COVID, we spent the time cataloging every item in the store and entering the information into a digital database, something that had never been done before,” Herbst said. “It took our team of about four to five people working eight hours a day to log all 10,000 items. The digital transformation has changed my life!”
Born in Southern California, Herbst began his wine industry career at age 16, when he worked as delivery driver for a liquor shop in the San Fernando Valley. Once the store managers began teaching him about wine, he was hooked, especially when he figured out wine was a good way to meet girls, he joked.
Over the next few decades, Herbst owned a wine shop and held numerous sommelier and retail positions before he landed at Rare Wine Co., a Sonoma-based importer and retailer of premium wines, where he spent the next 12 years. He was three months into his newest venture at Bounty Hunter Rare Wine & Spirits in Napa when he heard Bottle Barn was looking for a new wine buyer.
“It was an opportunity I just couldn’t pass up,” Herbst said. “Out of all the places I’ve worked, Bottle Barn has the most diverse range of customers, from hipsters to box wine drinkers to high-end collectors to people who work in the industry. It really gives me an opportunity to see how both consumers and the wine industry are experimenting with wine.”
Managing Wine Country’s favorite cellar
Founded in 1990 by Bruce and Loretta Emmons and now owned by Sajive and Tina Jain, Bottle Barn is a 15,000-square-foot retail shop in northwest Santa Rosa that sells an extraordinarily diverse collection of wine, beer and spirits at a wide range of prices. There are rare, older vintages and obscure varietals as well as “Wine Spectator” top 100 wines and Sonoma County Harvest Fair wine winners.
As the store’s wine buyer for the last six years, Herbst said he enjoys the constant mental stimulation of his job, which he compares to detective work.
“I’m constantly trying to figure out what’s hot right now, what’s available, what is or isn’t selling or how can I help a customer find the wine they drank at a restaurant in Italy,” Herbst said. “It’s as if I have a set of puzzles to solve, and that makes the job really fun.”
Herbst also manages the constant stream of wine samples that arrive from winemakers who want Bottle Barn to carry their wine. The in-house tasting team reviews every sample. If they’re on board with the wine, Herbst said, he’ll carry it. For some smaller wine producers, Bottle Barn is their only retail outlet.
Keeping track of trends
One of Herbst’s most important duties is keeping track of wine trends, which he monitors through requests from people in the wine industry. Lately, that’s meant stocking wines from Sicily and Beaujolais, given the skyrocketing prices of Burgundian wines.
“I’ve also been getting a lot of requests for wines from Slovenia, Ukraine and Russian Georgia,” Herbst said. “I’m always researching something obscure. It’s amazing when you discover what’s out there.”
Herbst said sparkling wine continues to be extremely popular, as well as natural wines, which have “improved dramatically,” in quality, he said.
“Many natural wines can be found in what we call ‘the hipster section,’ which gets a lot of attention,” Herbst said. “It’s a shopping cart filled with wines that have cool, hipster labels and fun names. They’re made by creative, interesting people and really take the snobbery out of wine.”
One of the best wine shops in America
This August, “Wine Enthusiast” named Bottle Barn one of the best wine shops in the United States after a survey of wine, drink and food industry professionals.
“Ben Pearson, Bottle Barn’s former wine buyer, did such a great job before I arrived in this role. I’m just expanding on what he created,” Herbst said. “At the end of the day, it’s our wine community that really carries the store.”
Three questions for Barry Herbst, wine buyer at Bottle Barn, Santa Rosa
Question: What are you drinking this holiday season?
Answer: We’ll definitely be drinking a sparkling wine, as that is my wife’s favorite. Then we’ll likely go for a Châteauneuf-du-Pape and a Burgundy.
Q: Are there any small wine producers you’ve brought in recently that you recommend?
A: So many! I recommend Raft Wines, which is made by Jennifer Reichardt. Her family owns Liberty Duck farms in Petaluma. Also Jolie-Laide, Naidu Wines (the first Indian-owned winery in the area), Birdhorse Wines, Et Al Wines, Morét-Brealynn Wines and Unturned Stone Spider Chase Wines.
Q: How have online wine sales been?
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QE OLYMPIC PARK 5K & 10K DECEMBER 2023
4.6 · 16 reviews
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 3 Thornton Street, London E20 2ST
Sat 16th December 2023
Join us for the RunThrough Olympic Park 5k & 10k on Saturday 16th December!
Come and run a chip timed 5k or 10k through the incredible grounds of the North Park in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This course is not only flat and fast, but also inspiring. The RunThrough Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 5k & 10k event is a great opportunity for a quick time and a fun morning out with a unique themed medal waiting for you at the finish!
Included is a themed medal, water, fruit & mince pies! Each kilometre is accurately marked out with distance flags and we have plenty of helpers to keep you on track and to encourage you on your way to the finish. Come and enjoy the day with us; we hope to see you there!
Start Time: 9:30
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Public transport is the best and easiest way to get to and from the Park – by train, underground, bus or bicycle.
The nearest train, tube and bus stops are at Stratford, Stratford International, Hackney Wick, Pudding Mill and Leyton stations.
If you are exiting out of Stratford Underground Station – take escalator or lift up to ‘The Street’ (which is the outdoor part of Westfield Shopping Centre) – follow it along, bear right at Fountain Square toward John Lewis and then left at Jamie’s Italian. At the end of the passage, cross the road into the Park.
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The nearest stations are Stratford station and Stratford International station and both provide step-free access from entrance to platform. Stratford station is served by:
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Stratford International station is served by:
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You can also enter the Park via Hackney Wick station which is on the London Overground.
More information is available at www.tfl.gov.uk.
The 388 bus runs between Blackfriars in central London and Stratford City near the station entrance, going through the Park and stopping at the Copper Box Arena and Westfield Avenue near the London Aquatics Centre.
The 308 bus runs between Clapton to Wanstead via Stratford City near the station entrance and Celebration Avenue in East Village.
The 339 bus runs between Leytonstone and Shadwell, with stops at Stratford City near the station entrance, the London Aquatics Centre, and on Carpenters Road at King’s Yard before exiting the Park at White Post Lane.
The D8 bus runs between Crossharbour and Stratford International bus station, going through the Park including Carpenters Road and Pool Street (by the London Aquatics Centre).
Stratford bus station and Stratford City bus station are both located in close proximity to Stratford station.
Paid parking is available in Westfield Stratford City.
There will be marshals all around the course as well as km signs and arrows. The course is two laps for the 5k and four laps for the 10k on the roads/paths in the park. Please be aware that there will be spectators and members of the public using the park.
We will have a secure area where you can leave your baggage. We recommend you bring as little baggage as possible. Your baggage tag is attached to your race number, you simply tear it off and attach to your bag. To collect, all you have to do show you number to the baggage tent staff and they will help you find your baggage.
There will be water provided at the 5k point of the race, and water at the finish. There will also be bananas & flapjacks waiting for you at the finish.
·a year ago
Great course for a PB, pretty flat and laps so feels like a short course. Staff are super organised and highly recommend to anyone
Well organised, really relaxed atmosphere, a bit like a Park Run event. All of the event staff were super friendly and helpful. Suitable for more and less experienced runners. Great support from the Marshalls on the way round the course. Nice medal and tasty snacks at the end. Really enjoyed it.
Great return to racing. My first run since lockdown. Super well organised. Felt very safe. Staggered starts were a bonus - was nice to have so much space. Great venue. Would highly recommend.
Energised simple fun. Was a fun course in a beautiful part of London but a short lap IMO. All staff motivational and positive which was nice, medal and snacks after. Not sure I would do this race again but fun to do!
expensive for what's provided. They try to save as much money as possible and you can see it.
Arati
Really enjoyable. As with all of the run through events, really well organised with a great support team. Lovely venue too
Enjoyable and well organised. Thoroughly enjoyable event from start to finish. Everyone is friendly, and very supportive cheerers through the laps. A little pricey, but I’d definitely do it again.
Goncalo
expensive. for what they provide this race was so extremely expensive
I loved it. What a well organised, fun and friendly event. We shall return!
Fantastic Event. I'am from Portugal and this event was the end of my wonderful hollidays in London. Fantastic event... Congratulations to the organization and thank you so much for the simpathy and support along the all run... See you all some day... who knows...
Funny. The place is lovely, the organization really well done, I had fun with people. You should try too!
Lot’s of fun. Event was perfectly organized! It was a nice experience running 4 laps! It was great trying to chase other runners and trying to not get overlapped by faster runners!
Kayley
A lovely run. The Olympic Park is a beautiful place to run, although doing a 10k gets a bit repetitive as you do four loops of the course. The event was extremely well-organised. The staff were super helpful and supportive throughout the race, despite the rainy weather. I really enjoyed it - would definitely do it again!
Brilliant event. Absolutely brilliant day even in the rain!!!
Brilliant fun event. Event was well organised with incredibly encouraging staff all throughout the course. It was an amazing experience for my first ever run of this type and I couldn't be happier!
5/5 and definitely participate again. I really enjoyed the race and the event itself. I'd give it a 5/5 and definitely participate again!
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Meet NEET 2021 Topper Mrinal Kutteri who Binged Netflix and Studied 4 Hours a Day
Guwahati: NEET 2021 entrance exam result was released by NTA on Monday (November 1).
Out of 16.4 lakh aspirants, three secured a perfect score, achieving a NEET entrance exam scorecard of 720 out of 720 marks.
Hyderabad’s Mrinal Kutteri topped the NTA NEET 2021 entrance exam with AIR 1. Delhi’s Tanmay Gupta and Mumbai’s Karthika G Nair also secured the perfect score, coming AIR 2 and AIR 3 respectively.
Now, in an inclusive interview with News18, Mrinal said that, unlike many toppers, he didn’t really have a fixed routine and used to study for four hours in a day and he also took breaks every 45 minutes.
He also claims to have binged sitcoms on Netflix and Amazon Prime during his two-and-a-half years of NEET preparation.
Mrinal said that the TV shows kept him motivated during grim times.
“I used to get intimidated reading interviews of toppers who claim to study at least 12 hours a day. During the pandemic when I was at home, I had access to a phone, TV, and laptop. All these were distractions and in the beginning, I had to focus and redirect myself towards studying. It got better with time. I used to spend around 4 hours a day studying,” Mrinal told News18.
“When I used to read topper interviews, I used to find out what timetable they follow and what routine worked for them. During my preparation, I, too, followed a lot of routines but later I realised that a structured approach does not work for me. I was lucky to have parents and teachers who never forced me and did not discourage in my own style of studying,” he added.
Mrinal also told a leading daily, “I did not leave my hobbies while preparing for NEET. I think that to do so would have been counterproductive.”
Mrinal has been preparing for NEET since he was in Class 11. The 18-year-old is set to become the first doctor in his family. He aspires to study MBBS from AIIMS, New Delhi.
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The Forty Thieves (Arabic Folk Tale)
Folk Tales, Arabic Folk Tales 30 September 2020 440
In a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town. One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback, coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He was afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety. When they came up to him and dismounted, he counted forty of them. They unbridled their horses and tied them to trees. The finest man among them, whom Ali Baba took to be their captain, went a little way among some bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!”[1] so plainly that Ali Baba heard him. A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself. They stayed some time inside, and Ali Baba, fearing they might come out and catch him, was forced to sit patiently in the tree. At last the door opened again, and the Forty Thieves came out. As the Captain went in last he came out first, and made them all pass by him; he then closed the door, saying: “Shut, Sesame!” Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came.
[1] Sesame is a kind of grain.
Then Ali Baba climbed down and went to the door concealed among the bushes, and said: “Open, Sesame!” and it flew open. Ali Baba, who expected a dull, dismal place, was greatly surprised to find it large and well lighted, hollowed by the hand of man in the form of a vault, which received the light from an opening in the ceiling. He saw rich bales of merchandise–silk, stuff-brocades, all piled together, and gold and silver in heaps, and money in leather purses. He went in and the door shut behind him. He did not look at the silver, but brought out as many bags of gold as he thought his asses, which were browsing outside, could carry, loaded them with the bags, and hid it all with fagots. Using the words: “Shut, Sesame!” he closed the door and went home.
Then he drove his asses into the yard, shut the gates, carried the money-bags to his wife, and emptied them out before her. He bade her keep the secret, and he would go and bury the gold. “Let me first measure it,” said his wife. “I will go borrow a measure of someone, while you dig the hole.” So she ran to the wife of Cassim and borrowed a measure. Knowing Ali Baba”s poverty, the sister was curious to find out what sort of grain his wife wished to measure, and artfully put some suet at the bottom of the measure. Ali Baba”s wife went home and set the measure on the heap of gold, and filled it and emptied it often, to her great content. She then carried it back to her sister, without noticing that a piece of gold was sticking to it, which Cassim”s wife perceived directly her back was turned. She grew very curious, and said to Cassim when he came home: “Cassim, your brother is richer than you. He does not count his money, he measures it.” He begged her to explain this riddle, which she did by showing him the piece of money and telling him where she found it. Then Cassim grew so envious that he could not sleep, and went to his brother in the morning before sunrise. “Ali Baba,” he said, showing him the gold piece, “you pretend to be poor and yet you measure gold.” By this Ali Baba perceived that through his wife”s folly Cassim and his wife knew their secret, so he confessed all and offered Cassim a share. “That I expect,” said Cassim; “but I must know where to find the treasure, otherwise I will discover all, and you will lose all.” Ali Baba, more out of kindness than fear, told him of the cave, and the very words to use. Cassim left Ali Baba, meaning to be beforehand with him and get the treasure for himself. He rose early next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests. He soon found the place, and the door in the rock. He said: “Open, Sesame!” and the door opened and shut behind him. He could have feasted his eyes all day on the treasures, but he now hastened to gather together as much of it as possible; but when he was ready to go he could not remember what to say for thinking of his great riches. Instead of “Sesame,” he said: “Open, Barley!” and the door remained fast. He named several different sorts of grain, all but the right one, and the door still stuck fast. He was so frightened at the danger he was in that he had as much forgotten the word as if he had never heard it.
About noon the robbers returned to their cave, and saw Cassim”s mules roving about with great chests on their backs. This gave them the alarm; they drew their sabres, and went to the door, which opened on their Captain”s saying: “Open, Sesame!” Cassim, who had heard the trampling of their horses” feet, resolved to sell his life dearly, so when the door opened he leaped out and threw the Captain down. In vain, however, for the robbers with their sabres soon killed him. On entering the cave they saw all the bags laid ready, and could not imagine how anyone had got in without knowing their secret. They cut Cassim”s body into four quarters, and nailed them up inside the cave, in order to frighten anyone who should venture in, and went away in search of more treasure.
As night drew on Cassim”s wife grew very uneasy, and ran to her brother-in-law, and told him where her husband had gone. Ali Baba did his best to comfort her, and set out to the forest in search of Cassim. The first thing he saw on entering the cave was his dead brother. Full of horror, he put the body on one of his asses, and bags of gold on the other two, and, covering all with some fagots, returned home. He drove the two asses laden with gold into his own yard, and led the other to Cassim”s house. The door was opened by the slave Morgiana, whom he knew to be both brave and cunning. Unloading the ass, he said to her: “This is the body of your master, who has been murdered, but whom we must bury as though he had died in his bed. I will speak with you again, but now tell your mistress I am come.” The wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband, broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered to take her to live with him and his wife if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave everything to Morgiana; whereupon she agreed, and dried her eyes.
Morgiana, meanwhile, sought an apothecary and asked him for some lozenges. “My poor master,” she said, “can neither eat nor speak, and no one knows what his distemper is.” She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die. Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim”s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead. The day after Morgiana went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold in his hand, and bade him follow her with his needle and thread. Having bound his eyes with a handkerchief, she took him to the room where the body lay, pulled off the bandage, and bade him sew the quarters together, after which she covered his eyes again and led him home. Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim”s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries. Next day she went to live with Ali Baba, who gave Cassim”s shop to his eldest son.
The Forty Thieves, on their return to the cave, were much astonished to find Cassim”s body gone and some of their money-bags. “We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret. Two men must have known it; we have killed one, we must now find the other. To this end one of you who is bold and artful must go into the city dressed as a traveler, and discover whom we have killed, and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death. If the messenger fails he must lose his life, lest we be betrayed.” One of the thieves started up and offered to do this, and after the rest had highly commended him for his bravery he disguised himself, and happened to enter the town at daybreak, just by Baba Mustapha”s stall. The thief bade him good-day, saying: “Honest man, how can you possibly see to stitch at your age?” “Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will you believe me when I tell you that I sewed a dead body together in a place where I had less light than I have now.” The robber was overjoyed at his good fortune, and, giving him a piece of gold, desired to be shown the house where he stitched up the dead body. At first Mustapha refused, saying that he had been blindfolded; but when the robber gave him another piece of gold he began to think he might remember the turnings if blindfolded as before. This means succeeded; the robber partly led him, and was partly guided by him, right in front of Cassim”s house, the door of which the robber marked with a piece of chalk. Then, well pleased, he bade farewell to Baba Mustapha and returned to the forest. By and by Morgiana, going out, saw the mark the robber had made, quickly guessed that some mischief was brewing, and fetching a piece of chalk marked two or three doors on each side, without saying anything to her master or mistress.
The thief, meantime, told his comrades of his discovery. The Captain thanked him, and bade him show him the house he had marked. But when they came to it they saw that five or six of the houses were chalked in the same manner. The guide was so confounded that he knew not what answer to make, and when they returned he was at once beheaded for having failed. Another robber was dispatched, and, having won over Baba Mustapha, marked the house in red chalk; but Morgiana being again too clever for them, the second messenger was put to death also. The Captain now resolved to go himself, but, wiser than the others, he did not mark the house, but looked at it so closely that he could not fail to remember it. He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil. The Captain put one of his men, fully armed, into each, rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the full vessel. Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty-seven robbers in jars, and the jar of oil, and reached the town by dusk. The Captain stopped his mules in front of Ali Baba”s house, and said to Ali Baba, who was sitting outside for coolness: “I have brought some oil from a distance to sell at to-morrow”s market, but it is now so late that I know not where to pass the night, unless you will do me the favor to take me in.” Though Ali Baba had seen the Captain of the robbers in the forest, he did not recognize him in the disguise of an oil merchant. He bade him welcome, opened his gates for the mules to enter, and went to Morgiana to bid her prepare a bed and supper for his guest. He brought the stranger into his hall, and after they had supped went again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the Captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after his mules, but really to tell his men what to do. Beginning at the first jar and ending at the last, he said to each man: “As soon as I throw some stones from the window of the chamber where I lie, cut the jars open with your knives and come out, and I will be with you in a trice.” He returned to the house, and Morgiana led him to his chamber. She then told Abdallah, her fellow-slave, to set on the pot to make some broth for her master, who had gone to bed. Meanwhile her lamp went out, and she had no more oil in the house. “Do not be uneasy,” said Abdallah; “go into the yard and take some out of one of those jars.” Morgiana thanked him for his advice, took the oil pot, and went into the yard. When she came to the first jar the robber inside said softly: “Is it time?”
Any other slave but Morgiana, on finding a man in the jar instead of the oil she wanted, would have screamed and made a noise; but she, knowing the danger her master was in, bethought herself of a plan, and answered quietly: “Not yet, but presently.” She went to all the jars, giving the same answer, till she came to the jar of oil. She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an oil merchant, had let thirty-eight robbers into his house. She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil. When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside. When this brave deed was done she went back to the kitchen, put out the fire and the lamp, and waited to see what would happen.
In a quarter of an hour the Captain of the robbers awoke, got up, and opened the window. As all seemed quiet, he threw down some little pebbles which hit the jars. He listened, and as none of his men seemed to stir he grew uneasy, and went down into the yard. On going to the first jar and saying, “Are you asleep?” he smelt the hot boiled oil, and knew at once that his plot to murder Ali Baba and his household had been discovered. He found all the gang was dead, and, missing the oil out of the last jar, became aware of the manner of their death. He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape. Morgiana heard and saw all this, and, rejoicing at her success, went to bed and fell asleep.
At daybreak Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jars still there, asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules. Morgiana bade him look in the first jar and see if there was any oil. Seeing a man, he started back in terror. “Have no fear,” said Morgiana; “the man cannot harm you: he is dead.” Ali Baba, when he had recovered somewhat from his astonishment, asked what had become of the merchant. “Merchant!” said she, “he is no more a merchant than I am!” and she told him the whole story, assuring him that it was a plot of the robbers of the forest, of whom only three were left, and that the white and red chalk marks had something to do with it. Ali Baba at once gave Morgiana her freedom, saying that he owed her his life. They then buried the bodies in Ali Baba”s garden, while the mules were sold in the market by his slaves.
The Captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to him without his lost companions, and firmly resolved to avenge them by killing Ali Baba. He dressed himself carefully, and went into the town, where he took lodgings in an inn. In the course of a great many journeys to the forest he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen, and set up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba”s son. He called himself Cogia Hassan, and as he was both civil and well dressed he soon made friends with Ali Baba”s son, and through him with Ali Baba, whom he was continually asking to sup with him. Ali Baba, wishing to return his kindness, invited him into his house and received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son. When the merchant was about to take his leave Ali Baba stopped him, saying: “Where are you going, sir, in such haste? Will you not stay and sup with me?” The merchant refused, saying that he had a reason; and, on Ali Baba”s asking him what that was, he replied: “It is, sir, that I can eat no victuals that have any salt in them.” “If that is all,” said Ali Baba, “let me tell you that there shall be no salt in either the meat or the bread that we eat to-night.” He went to give this order to Morgiana, who was much surprised. “Who is this man,” she said, “who eats no salt with his meat?” “He is an honest man, Morgiana,” returned her master; “therefore do as I bid you.” But she could not withstand a desire to see this strange man, so she helped Abdallah to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment that Cogia Hassan was the robber Captain, and carried a dagger under his garment. “I am not surprised,” she said to herself, “that this wicked man, who intends to kill my master, will eat no salt with him; but I will hinder his plans.”
She sent up the supper by Abdallah, while she made ready for one of the boldest acts that could be thought on. When the dessert had been served, Cogia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and then to murder them. Morgiana, meanwhile, put on a head-dress like a dancing-girl”s, and clasped a girdle round her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt, and said to Abdallah: “Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his guest.” Abdallah took his tabor and played before Morgiana until they came to the door, where Abdallah stopped playing and Morgiana made a low courtesy. “Come in, Morgiana,” said Ali Baba, “and let Cogia Hassan see what you can do”; and, turning to Cogia Hassan, he said: “She”s my slave and my housekeeper.” Cogia Hassan was by no means pleased, for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba was gone for the present; but he pretended great eagerness to see Morgiana, and Abdallah began to play and Morgiana to dance. After she had performed several dances she drew her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it at her own breast, sometimes at her master”s, as if it were part of the dance. Suddenly, out of breath, she snatched the tabor from Abdallah with her left hand, and, holding the dagger in her right hand, held out the tabor to her master. Ali Baba and his son put a piece of gold into it, and Cogia Hassan, seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his purse to make her a present, but while he was putting his hand into it Morgiana plunged the dagger into his heart.
“Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?”
“It was to preserve you, master, not to ruin you,” answered Morgiana. “See here,” opening the false merchant”s garment and showing the dagger; “see what an enemy you have entertained! Remember, he would eat no salt with you, and what more would you have? Look at him! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves.”
Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented, and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor.
At the end of a year Ali Baba, hearing nothing of the two remaining robbers, judged they were dead, and set out to the cave. The door opened on his saying: “Open Sesame!” He went in, and saw that nobody had been there since the Captain left it. He brought away as much gold as he could carry, and returned to town. He told his son the secret of the cave, which his son handed down in his turn, so the children and grandchildren of Ali Baba were rich to the end of their lives.
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Going Native by Stephen Wright
Posted on August 16, 2013 by Dactyl Review
Going Native (Vintage, 305 pages), published in 1994, was Stephen Wright’s third novel. Meditations in Green (1983) was inspired by his experiences in Vietnam during the war. M31: A Family Romance (1988) is set among UFO cultists, who rely on an autistic child to communicate with aliens. Going Native is—more or less—a picaresque novel that follows a sociopath who abandons his Chicago family to travel to Los Angeles. It is not an easy trip. It is not an easy book. But it is a fascinating one, and, as I hope to show, one that says important things about modern American life.
The book’s structure is a series of independent chapters, each in a different place, each with different characters, all threaded together by one character and the green Ford Galaxie he steals.
Chapter One is a backyard barbecue in suburban Chicago. Rho prepares the meal; greets her guests, Tom and Gerri; sends the children off to bed with the baby sitter; her husband, Wylie, returns home; he and the other husband go to the local Feed ’n’ Fuel for charcoal where a robber has just been killed leaving the store, which becomes a story for the women when they return home. Here is Rho’s response to a question late in the chapter for a sense of Wright’s style:
“If Rho is expected to comment, she misses her cue. The diverse demands and unforeseen surges of the day, in tandem with tonight’s elevated blood alcohol levels, have driven her circuitry into a sputtering staticy condition near blown-out or worse, she’s phasing eccentrically in an out, her attention temporarily and fiercely magnetized by the oddest fragments of isolated fact, so while Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to—nothing hard now to amuse her audience—stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.”
At the end of the chapter, the end of the evening, Rho’s husband has vanished and taken Tom’s identity.
Chapter Two, in the same suburban Chicago neighborhood, two middle-class crack heads smoke dope, have sex, come down, score more crack, get high, get violent, discover their green Ford Galaxie stolen. Such a précis cannot, unfortunately, convey the texture of Wright’s images of the filthy house, the couple’s drug-logic, their random memories, and the pleasure, despite all, of losing oneself in the drug.
Chapter Three takes place on the road west of Chicago as a hitchhiking drifter is picked up and dropped off and ultimately murders a long-haul trucker good enough to give him a ride but foolish enough to ignore his taste in music. At the chapter’s end, one psychopath rides with another—and neither harms the other. It is almost as if Wright is saying that the only way to be safe in this society is to be as murderous as the killers.
Chapter Four is set in a tatty motel in Colorado. The owner/manager has dreams of being a screenwriter, and we read at length about this misbegotten project. His wife is having sex with one of the local police in the motel parking lot. His teen-age daughter Aeryl—the two younger daughters are Beryl and Cheryl—dreams of running away with Laszlo to Las Vegas. At the end of the chapter, Aeryl and Laszlo take off with Wiley/Tom in the green Ford Galaxie. On the road, Laszlo has sex with Aeryl in the back seat and offers their host the sight of her naked breasts. Tom says he’s seen breasts before. Laszlo says not like hers.
“Their eyes met in the intimacy of mirror space. Laszlo’s angry blues glittering with the message direct and unmistakable: I, a man younger, stronger, braver than you have this minute, under your quivering old nose hairs, fucked a woman younger, sexier, more desirable than any you can ever hope to win, ergo, you must acknowledge the superiority of my force, the potency of my prick, so said stone eyes from a clearing in the wood.”
Tom and Aeryl abandon Laszlo at a service plaza.
The penultimate chapter is a tour de force as we accompany a moderately successful, 30-something-year-old couple, Amanda and Drake, travel into deepest Borneo with two native guides looking for something authentic, unspoiled, native. They therefore skip the longhouse they could visit upriver, which their guide books point out is nothing but a tourist attraction. They hike into the mountain to find a village where the natives still live in longhouses—filthy, stinking, buggy, uncomfortable, and the chief has an autographed photo of Jack Nicholson (an earlier visitor) in the place of honor between pictures of President Suharto and Jesus.
Virtually all of Wright’s characters are looking for something: excitement, fame, peace, money, adventure, sex, status. They are not satisfied, not content. He seems to be making the case that America has promised all this—fame, money, sex, and more—but hasn’t come through. His characters know that more is out there, other people seem to have it (whatever “it” is), but they don’t know how to get it. Wiley, fed up with his white-bread suburban life, wife, and two children, steals a car and heads west. Amanda and Drake, who seem to represent upper middle class life (they are successful enough to afford their trek), crave unique experiences and are willing to suffer to obtain them. But they are still tourists and still at the mercy of American insanity.
Going Native is an occasionally funny, occasionally bitter, occasionally ugly, always thought-provoking meditation on this American life.
Wally Wood, author of The Girl in the Photo, 2013
[In Borneo, Henry, one of Amanda and Drake’s two Indonesian guides, warn them a storm is coming.] An hour later the dim light grew dinner, the tall shafts of the trees began to move like masts in a high gale, the leafy crown swaying together in banded harmony, the moaning of limbs as wood rubbed against wood in the gathering dark. Henry and Jalong [the other guide] giggled nervously between themselves. “You hear,” Henry explained in embarrassment, “the trees, they are having sex together.” A ragged skirt of black cloud must have swept in low overhead, for down in their shelter it turned to night. Lightning began stabbing at the ground somewhere beyond their sight, the thunder loud in their ears like empty steel drums being rolled down a ramp. Bits of leaf and bark fell in gentle hail upon their roof, where they clung to the poles like desperate sailors as the rain descended abruptly in full force as if a trap door had been sprung and the equivalent of a mountain waterfall crashed down upon their heads. In thirty minutes it was over. No one moved. The forest dripped from every surface, noisily, steadily, on through the night and into the next dawn, when they awoke to swirling curtains of steam issuing from the earth and the chirping of tree frogs, the screeching of birds, the hooting of gibbons. Henry and Jalong were huddled in conference over a small pile of damp sticks, urging on the fire from their Bic lighters —p227
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Engineers Without Borders at CMU is helping a community in Zimbabwe
By Bruce Gerson bgerson(through)cmu.edu
Four students took a meaningful and fulfilling winter-break trip they’ll never forget.
Christina Ou, Cathy Fang, Melina Driscoll and Ashley Burbano, members of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB), traveled to Nyadire, Zimbabwe, where they spent two weeks at the town’s United Methodist Centre helping the small community of about 2,000 people. Their trip was two-fold: they followed up on their chapter’s four-year solar street light project and began a new effort to improve the cooking system for a local school.
“This trip has been the highlight of my CMU career,” said Fang, a junior mechanical engineering major who also is studying human-computer interaction. “It’s great that CMU supports these projects to help students broaden their views and perspectives and understand people from different backgrounds. You don’t get that from textbooks.”
Fang and her classmates monitored, evaluated and gathered feedback on the 24 solar street lights installed in September 2017 along the main road of Nyadire. Based on years of research and community feedback, the solar system was determined to be an efficient way to light the resource-strapped neighborhood, where the electric grid is very unreliable.
Cathy Fang and Dennias Chivi of the Nyadire maintenance team check the battery in a solar street light.
Ou, a senior electrical and computer engineering major, said CMU’s EWB chapter led fundraising efforts to pay for 95 percent of the installation cost of more than $40,000. The community will be responsible for covering the maintenance costs moving forward.
“We’re really proud that our chapter spent four years on this project and we were able to see it through to completion,” Ou said. “It’s a sustainable, long-lasting and effective lighting source.”
Feedback from the community has been positive.
“We were told when the electricity is out, students will sit under the lights to do their homework,” Fang said.
Solar street lights illuminate one of the main pathways in Nyadire.
Cooking with Gas
Burning firewood in an oil-lined concrete pot is the current heat source for cooking at the Nyadire Primary School, which has an enrollment of about 150 boarding students and more than 450 day-school students. Firewood is expensive and scarce in Nyadire, which is trying to preserve its forests. The students discovered it takes a large amount of firewood to cook for the students each day and securing the wood is labor intensive.
Propane gas and ethanol gel were identified as alternatives to firewood, but the students have found that a biogas system is the frontrunner at this point.
The EWB team and school kitchen staff weigh the amount of firewood used daily to determine the appropriate size of a new cooking system.
Driscoll, a sophomore information systems major, said the biogas system would use an underground digester, or mixer, that biodegrades human waste, animal waste and food waste. The biodegradable waste releases methane gas, which is fed through a pipe into the stoves.
“Part of our data collection was calculating how much waste was available to make sure there would be enough waste to produce enough gas to cook every day,” Driscoll said.
Driscoll said there are cows and chickens at a local farm that could supply much of the waste, but they’re still weighing options.
Ou (far left), Burbano (center), Driscoll (third from right) and Fang (second from right) worked with the school's kitchen staff, teachers and school headmaster Tendai Mushapaidze (far right).
Implementing a new cooking system is not just an engineering problem, it’s a social problem, too, the students said.
“Manually feeding waste into a digester is really messy. It’s not a fun job. We have to make sure the people are willing to do that. Will they be able to sustain the system? We have to take all these factors into consideration,” Ou said.
Back in Pittsburgh, the four students are now working on drafting a proposal for the biogas system to submit to the national EWB chapter. If that’s approved, specifications for implementation must be crafted, submitted and accepted before another trip to Nyadire is made.
A “Super Valuable” Experience
While a new team of students will carry the torch forward, this team is grateful to have had the opportunity to impact the lives of others.
“Actually contributing to a community that benefits from our work is very rewarding,” Driscoll said. “To see how our work can improve the lives of people in such a big way, so far away, made me very motivated to keep going with every step of the project. The head of the primary school, the children and the cooks really appreciated our work.”
Ou, a four-year member of EWB, said her experience has been rewarding.
“I really like Engineers Without Borders because it’s a practical way to apply my learning as an engineer and an opportunity to solve a real-world problem, impact real people and benefit an actual community,” Ou said.
Evan Schindewolf, a senior physics major who was part of the solar lights team but did not make this most recent trip, said he “learned so much” from his work in EWB.
“I joined EWB because I wanted to work with people from other cultures, learn the engineering process and make an impact. It’s been super valuable to be a member of EWB,” he said.
Christina Ou, Cathy Fang, Ashley Burbano and Melina Driscoll took a winter-break trip to Nayadire, Zimbabwe, where they followed up on a solar street light project and began an effort to impove a local school's cooking system.
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Rumored AMD Ryzen 5 3500 could take out Intel’s budget CPUs going by this leak
By Darren Allan
If the price is right for the alleged Ryzen budget offering, that is
The rumor mill has previously insisted that AMD has a Ryzen 5 3500 (as well as other chips) waiting in the wings, and now a prolific hardware leaker has spilled the apparent specs of the CPU – which, if correct, make the processor look like a worrying prospect for Intel.
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So we are apparently looking at a six-core (six-thread – meaning there is no simultaneous multi-threading here) processor, with a base clock of 3.6GHz and boost to 4.1GHz. Previous speculation has indicated a TDP of 65W, which would make sense based on AMD’s existing models.
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When AMD first announced the Ryzen 3000 line-up, we thought it was a bit odd that there was no budget offering, so presumably this will be exactly that, sitting below the existing AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (currently the lowest spec Zen 2-based processor, which has six cores but 12-threads, and the same TDP and base speed, but it boosts to 4.2GHz).
That existing chip is priced at $199 (around £162, AU$295), so this fresh 3500 product would obviously have to undercut that by a decent amount.
AMD might be looking at a relatively affordable $150 (around £122, AU$220) or so, which would pitch the alleged Ryzen 5 3500 up against Intel’s popular Core i5-9400, also a six-core (six-thread) CPU with boost to 4.1GHz, but a slower base clock of 2.9GHz. That Intel part is priced around $180 (around £147, AU$265) – although you can get the non-integrated graphics version, the 9400F, for more like $150 or so, looking at online prices at the time of writing.
Pre-built PCs only?
So, the theory is that AMD would be looking at competitively pricing this chip against Intel’s Core i5-9400, and the very similar i5-9500 (although that offers boost to 4.4GHz).
However, as Tom’s Hardware notes (opens in new tab) (and has argued previously), there is a chance that this Ryzen 5 3500 may be a successor to the Ryzen 5 2500X, and thus supplied to OEMs only. In other words, you will only get it in pre-built PCs, rather than being able to buy it off the shelf on its own.
Hopefully that won’t be the case though, because it would be nice – and it would make sense – for the Ryzen 3000 range to get a budget option as a standalone product.
If it is indeed incoming, AMD’s Ryzen 5 3500 would likely be more than competitive with rival Intel offerings, because the performance battle is not just fought on pure clock speeds. The chip reportedly has much more cache than Intel’s i5s, AMD’s Zen 2 architecture offers a considerable IPC (instructions per clock) boost, and there are other features like Ryzen’s PCIe 4.0 support to consider.
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NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Calcagni & Kanefsky LLP welcomed the new year with the promotion of Marty Gandelman to partner and the addition of three experienced attorney hires.
"CK achieved extraordinary results for our clients in 2022. Marty was, and has always been, an instrumental part of our success. We're ecstatic having him as a partner as we continue our growth and expand our litigation capacity," said Partner Thomas R. Calcagni.
With CK since 2016, Marty litigates before and defends investigations involving both federal and state regulatory agencies. Marty's practice also includes complex business litigation, and providing practical legal advice on general corporate, transactional, and employment matters. As the firm's designated "E-Discovery Partner," Marty will continue helping the firm and clients in the preservation, collection, review, and production of electronic data, and be CK's point person in guiding CK's clients through e-discovery and data privacy challenges. Prior to joining CK, Marty was a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Attorney General's securities prosecution group.
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"Our newest team members and deliberate growth are a reflection of the firm's deep commitment to its clients," said Partner Eric T. Kanefsky. "As more companies and professionals choose us to handle their most sensitive matters, we're meeting the demand with a hiring strategy focused on top talent with an established record of litigation excellence. Paul, Luke, and Tom each have the superior seasoning and savvy that our clients expect from CK."
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By Chris Keeve and Jeremy Porter, originally published in the Lexington Herald-Leader, July 14, 2022
The charges against Emma Anderson, Erin Doherty, Bradley Milford Lopez, Erin Price, Aiiden Robinson, Sarah Williams, James Woodhead and Liane Woodhead being prosecuted by outgoing Fayette County Attorney Larry Roberts—with trials and hearings this week—are yet another watershed moment in which Lexington must face its past and choose its future. The Constitution of Kentucky, Section 1 Sixth Part, codifies what we also find in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “The right of assembling together…” While rights are not given by the state, only acknowledged by them, this right was demonstrated in full force in Lexington, just like many United States cities, in the summer of 2020. When it came time to protest in the streets of Lexington following the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery (among too many others), thousands of folks showed up–and their protests crystalized around the campaign for Lexington Police Accountability.
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The Violence Happening in Our Midst
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The Poor People’s Campaign resists and rises above systems of oppression in Olympia, Washington (PC: Clancy Dunigan)
The Poor People’s Campaign keeps on rolling. This is from Jeremy Porter in Kentucky:
There is a long history of nonviolent civil disobedience in this country and around the world. The goal is not to be arrested, but to bring attention to the violence happening in our midst. If we get arrested on the road to justice, then we are willing. This violence includes: People without dignified affordable housing (where an individual in KY has to work 77 hours a week on minimum wage just to afford a two bedroom apartment), the 40% of homeless youth who are queer, 200,000 people who die in this country annually from lack of wealth, 1 in 5 KY children who don’t know where their next meal will come from…these are just the tip of the iceberg of violence happening daily.
Our goal in the Kentucky Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is to wage peace and justice against this violence, but first people must know it exists…and so we name it and make it known through nonviolent moral fusion direct action, which sometimes means risking the breaking of a law to bring attention to the unjust laws all around us. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.542585015296936, "wiki_prob": 0.542585015296936, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1048299"} |
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Carianne Luter, Social Media Producer
Published: February 19, 2021, 12:43 PM
Tags: Jayla Roxx, LGTBQIA, Black History Month, The Queerties, Trans
Paving the way: First trans woman of color in the U.S. to launch beauty brand has local ties
Jayla Roxx, who has become role model, trailblazer for LGBTQIA+ community, once called Jacksonville home
Published: February 19, 2021, 12:43 PM Updated: February 19, 2021, 6:21 PM
Jayla Roxx, a 26-year-old television personality and trailblazer in the LGBTQIA+ community, who once called Jacksonville home, spoke to News4Jax about becoming the first trans woman of color in the country to launch a beauty brand.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – She could be defined as a “do-it-all” woman.
Roxx started BatMe! Cosmetics in 2017 after struggling to afford high-quality eyelashes. As a drag performer, Roxx would go through eyelashes weekly and decided to produce her own solution.
BatMe! Cosmetics not only sells eyelashes but has expanded to eyeshadow pallets, contour kits, lip gloss, merch and more. The products are all cruelty free and vegan.
Roxx told us that when she started her business, she had no idea what it would truly mean.
“I didn’t even know that I was stepping forward and becoming the first Black trans woman to create such a wonderful brand,” Roxx said. “I set myself up for a stepping stone without even knowing it.”
During the pandemic in 2020, Roxx released her second eyeshadow pallet The Box O’Donuts “Too!” Eyeshadow Palette.
“It’s 30 colors of beautiful fun,” Roxx said. “The reason I created this product is because it tells a story about my life. I have had to pull myself out of a dark place in the past, figuring out who I am as a person... it’s my whole ‘coming of age’ story. Now I am more bright, bubbly and fun! I want all of my products to be fun.”
As the pandemic hindered many businesses, Roxx said she had the opposite experience.
“I think the pandemic helped me with my business. I’ve been stuck at home, and I can actually sit down and focus on elevating my business and catering to the people that cater to me,” Roxx said.
When asked what’s next for BatMe! Cosmetics, Roxx said she wants to touch more on characteristics of the brand itself and feature queer individuals across the nation who love the product.
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Roxx moved from Jacksonville to live in Los Angeles after being awarded $10,000 on an episode of CBS’ Undercover Boss highlighting Hamburger Mary’s that was filmed in Duval County in 2016. She credits the TV show for propelling her forward in her career.
“I have been doing a lot of TV stuff here and there, but I guess my big break was when I did Undercover Boss. I was able to create a platform for Black trans individuals like myself, and I ended up getting the main prize of $10,000,” Roxx said.
After she moved from Jacksonville, Roxx flourished. She not only has her own popular beauty brand but is a host on AfterBuzz TV and was an actress in “Gayish 2,″ a full web series with Impulse Los Angeles on YouTube, which has been nominated for a “Best Digital Series” Queerties award. The series is a coming of age story about a Black trans woman named Monica.
Roxx said she is excited to be nominated and has her fingers crossed that she can add “award-winning actress” to her resume. She also mentioned how important representation is for the transgender community and especially the Black transgender community.
“Representation means a lot,” Roxx said. “So seeing yourself up there, seeing somebody like you up there definitely brings forth everything we have going on.”
The Queerties 2021 Awards Show will air on Feb. 24 at 9 p.m. on Facebook, YouTube, and Revry TV.
Roxx has worked with big names such as Robin Antin and The Pussycat Dolls, Fantasia Barrino and various drag performers from VH1′s RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Roxx doesn’t plan to slow down, and we are excited to see what the future holds for this young innovator.
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MINI dealership approved
by David Mark Simpson July 17, 2014 July 16, 2014
MID-CITY — A new MINI dealership will open its doors on Santa Monica Boulevard at 14th Street.
The 33,400 square-foot, 35-feet-tall development was approved with relative ease at last week’s City Council meeting.
The dealership stands to generate about half a million dollars for City Hall annually and will include a small café.
Council’s only concern was that the developer would not be able to mitigate construction impacts.
An environmental report noted that “construction-related groundborne vibration would be significant and unavoidable.”
Additionally one resident showed the council footage of loud bulldozers operating outside her window during the demolition of a gas station that previously stood on the site. She claimed that she made numerous calls to the developer without adequate response and was forced to leave her rent controlled apartment. She is seeking compensation but had not reported the issues to City Hall.
Councilmember Kevin McKeown alluded to a hawk he’d seen watching his neighborhood in giving recommendation to city officials as to how to watch the project.
“I think fact-finding and good faith are key in this process because we represent not just the business community or MINI owners but residents,” he said, “and we’ve heard some discussion tonight that, at least in my mind, causes me to question whether we can trust that this project going forward will treat residents the way residents near a project to be treated.”
Councilmember Ted Winterer said he was comfortable with the way the agreement seeks to control construction impacts but agreed with McKeown’s notion that, given the site’s history, it needs to be monitored.
McKeown, who said the applicant should have done more to deal with the resident’s complaints, said he toyed with voting against the project in protest.
“And yet looking at the project, I have to say, this is a good project,” he said. “And I believe in voting for good projects as much as I believe in voting against bad projects.”
Several people spoke favorably about the dealership, which will be mostly black with green, yellow, and red accents. One MINI will hang upside-down in the café and another will face downward on the outside of the building.
“I think it’s an exciting dealership,” said Councilmember Gleam Davis. “The architecture is exciting. I think it’s great to have a MINI dealership. The closest one, as I understanding it, is in Downtown L.A.”
Davis noted that it’s not the job of council to determine who was right or wrong in that dispute over previous demolition impacts.
Councilmember Bob Holbrook noted that, because the dealership offers service for MINI owners, it will do some to reduce traffic.
“This will save people who currently own these cars from traveling and driving around a whole lot to go and get service in other cities,” he said. “It’ll keep people close.”
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the hills: deuces.
So, last night was the season finale of The Hills. It was LC's last episode and Spencer and Heidi's wedding. I remember the first time I ever heard of LC. It was the first season of Laguna Beach and she was trampsin' around Orange County and my life changed forever because of her. For years, I was LC and now, suddenly, I was LC, not the one from Laguna Beach or The Hills.
They are treating her leaving this show like it's the freakin' Cosby Show or something. Hello, it's reality television, this is her life. I just don't understand. Clearly, the producers don't understand either. Instead of sending LC off to a fictional college or something, they are just making her move out of her house and are forcing Lo to ask, "but, really what's next?" I'll tell you what's next-- Tuesday. Come on.
Heidi wants the most extravagant wedding EVER and StephiePratt wants to be a bobblehead apparently the way she keeps agreeing with Heidi.
"I want it to be the best cake anyone has ever had, because that's the most important part of the whole thing." -- Heidi
Heidi just can't seem to really decide on what's most important: LC in attendance, cake or marrying Spencer. I can see the toughness on that. Really.
And hello, StephiePratt, if a girl has a sister and she isn't nine and she isn't shooting up heroin or sleeping with the groom, she's a definite MOH, why are your feelings hurt? Because you have a pen and paper and are writing down names of flowers? Get serious about your life.
Spencer and Darlene sit down for a meal and guess what, Darlene doesn't even eat!
"I want to be the opposite of the person you met." --Spencer
What's the opposite of Satan, Spencer? Darlene gives her blessing and wants to believe Spencer is new and improved. I vote he's old and not improved.
"You're glowing." --Audrina, to Heidi
Holly, the MOH, shows up a few minutes late, undoubtedly at the prodding of the producers, and the gUrls crew, minus Jayde and her MySpace croanies, are having a "lingerie" type party and sha-bamski! Kristin Cavallari's name is dropped.
Audrina and StephiePratt are talking about how she should be the MOH, simply because Holly wasn't writing down gifts. But, I never saw her pick up a pen. And I'm pretty sure they were toasting with white zin. Gag.
Brody and LC meet up at Beso, which I bet is a restaurant that doesn't serve food.
"Cheers, big ears!" --LC, to Brody
That toast prompted a really awesome convo about the size of their ears.
"Talk to me." --Brody
LC gives the dish on Heidi coming to her office and Brody serves only as a tool in the game of reality television, asking obvious questions.
"I feel like while everyone else is attending a wedding, I'll be attending a funeral." --LC
Brody says he is going to make farting sounds when Heidi walks down the aisle and then LC confirms that they are in a restaurant by saying, "you know we're in a restaurant, right?"
Brody thinks LC will regret not attending the wedding of the year, LC stares at him. What. Will. She. Do?
Spencer and king of the bromance, Brody, meet up and Brody has on the same clothes as he was wearing with LC. Brody has a beer and Spencer condones him. Spencer tells him about therapy and the new Spencer. Brody straight-up laughs in his face and tells him about his relationship with his MySpace hottie, Jayde.
"I'm not just cold-stone with no heart." --Spencer
"Yeah, you are, you just pretend that you are not." --Brody
Boom. Roasted.
LC gets to work and talks to Kelly about, "what's next?" Kelly stares blankly at her. How in the world did Kelly Cutrone become this fashion-diva-guru-ista? She looks like a greasy middle school gym teacher.
We meet up, almost suddenly, at the rehearsal dinner. Spencer greets Darlene warmly and Heidi looks a bit like a hooker, not a Biblical wifey.
StephiePratt calls the dinner to order and starts bawling out of nowhere, while toasting. Pretty sure they were toasting the white zin again. Sick. Holly talks about how much Heidi used to pray for her, "love match" while digging in the woods with sticks and berries. I don't know what that means.
Holly threw a potato and it hit Heidi's purse. Heidi freaked out, which led Holly to cry and get up from the table. StephiePratt basked in the glow of Holly's misery and Spencer went to find them.
"You just caught her off-guard by throwing food at the rehearsal dinner." --Spencer
Darlene is taking up for her and telling Spencer, with her side ponytail in clear view, that Holly isn't rude and then she has a bit of a nervous breakdown and leaves, causing a bit of a scene at the rehearsal dinner, that I'm pretty sure Spencer's parents didn't attend.
The girls are getting their nails done and Holly decides to apologize and Heidi then admits that she was pissed that Holly took attention off of her. Holly then says, she is ok with not being the MOH.
"I would never un-maid-of-honor you." --Heidi
Heidi asks Holly if she gave that invitation to the "person" she asked her to give it to. It's obviously Kristin, duh.
Spencer has groomsman, much to my surprise and Charlie Bra wants to bring Bartender as his date. Really? Is this life? Who would do that?
On the eve of the wedding, we meet up at LC's house for her "last night." StephiePratt, the wannabe MOH, is there and not with her brother or future sister-in-law.
Brody and StephiePratt have a great heart-to-heart. Brody is so sensitive these days. StephiePratt goes inside to be a great friend to LC and literally begs her to come to the wedding.
"I don't think my attendance is appropriate." --LC
LC re-joins the party and when asked if she is going to attend the wedding she replies, "maybe next time." Which, in her defense, this is their third wedding, there could easily be a next time.
Finally, it's time and we enter the church. Brody brings his nasty girlfriend and Brent Bolthouse, Heidi's "boss," shows up looking like he might be on his way to a Maroon 5 concert.
Spencer asks to lead his boys in prayer.
"Please, Lord, God, Jesus give Spencer Pratt the strength today to not faint today in front of 500 people, staring at him, to mess up because I really don't want to mess up Heidi's dream wedding one little bit." --Spencer
Wow. Wow. I try really hard not to be critical of other's people's prayers, but really, really? You aren't even going to pray for the marriage? You're only going to pray not to "mess up" the wedding? Wow. Wow. And, you talked about yourself in third person during the prayer? No. Words.
Bartender shows up and so does Justin Bobby. This show is so dumb.
"Is it too much?" --Heidi
"Isn't that what you were going for?" --StephiePratt
Ouch. Not exactly MOH.
And then...then...
LC shows up, Coldplay in the background (which, I think was an accident from the MTV Movie Awards) and LC shows up, all dramatic and everyone gives them, "a minute."
"You're like, bedazzled." --LC, to Heidi
Everyone is talking about whether or not LC is going to show and here comes Kristin Cavallari strutting down the aisle, sweating like a whore in church. She sits down right next to Justin Bobby and we officially have foreshadowing for next season and The Hills without LC. I haven't missed Kristin. She makes me nervous.
Spencer walks out and then LC takes her seat, while walking right in front of Spencer. Really? Classy move, LC. LC then looks like a junior in high school again as she spots Kristin, her formal rival.
The doors open and Cowboy Bill walks Heidi down to Spencer. What a bad idea.
Kristin and LC make eyes at each other the whole wedding, which was just weird. Then, she spots Brody and makes him sweat. Kristin is making everyone sweat. I can't wait to see what Jade and her MySpace crew are going to do to her.
Oh, then they exchanged vows and everyone stood up while they kissed each other.
"Third time's a charm, right?" --Lo
The Hills cast walks out of the wedding like they are important and Kristin tells the story about introducing Heidi and Spencer. Then, Kristin asks to be hooked up with Justin Bobby and Audrina crapped her pants. Or at least that is what her face looked like.
And, in the most dramatic moment of my life, LC snuck out of the back door of the church while Heidi threw the bouquet directly to Kristin, as LC cried in the limo alone.
What a moment.
What an ending.
It was all so fake and so obviously well planned, much like a television show.
Labels: Reality TV, The Hills
vdkn said...
i randomly stumbled upon your blog and i must say, i love reading your hills re-caps more than watching the show itself (ignoring the fact i no longer watch the show). just wanted to give you some props.
LC~ ha. My FAV quote "Is this life?" hahah
heaven only knows.
coming soon: Jesus (maybe)
my father.
corrinne.
connect the dots.
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After years of struggling with mental illness and drug addiction, Garland died in 1969 of an overdose. Judy Garland is Dorothy in this sublime, candy-colored adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s favorite, one of the most beloved film classics of all time.
Proud graduate of Wagner College Theatre. THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939, Warner Bros., 101 min.
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Saudi Arabia’s Top 8 Instagram-able Places
umrahme Team December 20, 2022
Let’s face it, Instagram pretty much rules when it comes to travel inspiration and planning the best places for your next visit. With a million travel photos and videos shared each day, you keep scrolling past your feed to jot down the must-visit and must-eat spots that you don’t want to miss.
Is Saudi Arabia, the next destination on your bucket list? From striking landscapes, red sand dunes, and snow-capped mountains, to verdant oasis, the Kingdom is sure to captivate you with its natural beauty. So, get your cameras fully charged and filters ready, to embark on a spell-binding journey.
But which spots are the most Insta-worthy? We have compiled this simple guide for you to include in your travel plans and paint your Instagram feed with beautiful scenic pictures.
Top 8 Instagram able Spots in Saudi Arabia
The Elephant Rock
Hegra
The Edge of the World
Rijal Alma Heritage Village
Kingdom Tower Center
Taif mountains
Balad, Jeddah
1.Elephant Rock at AlUla
This iconic geological marvel ranks at the top of our list. As the name suggests, it is a colossal piece of red sandstone formed by natural forces of wind and water erosion that took place millions of years ago, forming into the shape of an Elephant in the golden desert of AlUla.
The AlUla is an ancient city and a popular touristic destination surrounded by geological marvels, golden sand dunes, stunning landscape, and is home to UNESCO World Heritage site at Hegra.
Popularly known as ‘Jabal Al Fil’, this is an unmissable spot for many tourists visiting AlUla. There are many seating areas at the spot where you can snap your gram-worthy pictures, sip Arabic coffee, laze around to watch the mesmerizing sunset, or even stay back for late-night stargazing.
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2. UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hegra
Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra is located less than 22km from AlUla, another ancient city that’s a testimony to the Nabataean civilization. It is also known as ‘Mada’in Saleh’.
Having resemblance to the Petra site in Jordan, this archeological gem gives visitors a good indication of how the people of Nabatean civilization lived back then. A number of ancient burial sites can be found along these cliffs, illustrating the rich history of this city.
Embark on an adventure at Hegra. Walk through the stone city to explore the awe-inspiring architecture, walled carvings, decorated facades, and ancient agricultural wells.
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3. Hike to the Edge of The World
If you’re an adventure buff, then this place is a must-visit destination. Located 90 km from Riyadh, the Tuwaiq mountain range or Jibal Tuwaiq is a narrow-elevated platform that cuts through the plateau of Najd and stretches 700 km from Jordan to Saudi Arabia’s central region.
Among the mountain range, there lies the highest peak called the Jibal Fihrayn which has earned the title as the ‘Edge of the world’ due to the formation of different rock layers and fascinating geological features that nature has shaped it into.
Thousands of tourists visit the landmark each year to hike to the top of the cliff and take in its scenic beauty. A word of caution – there are no proper roads to reach the cliff. If you are planning a day trip, we would highly recommend visiting with a group, preferably in an SUV and a good GPS device.
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4. Rijal Alma Heritage Village at Asir Province
Visiting Rijal Alma Heritage villages feels like entering another world. Located 45km from the picturesque Abha city, the Rijal Alma Heritage village is a popular tourist destination known for its architectural wonder, historical gem, green mountains, and cool temperatures.
Most of the buildings built in this ancient city were made from stone, clay, and wood with brightly colored shutters, which is one of the noticeable characteristics of the village. In recognition of its urban heritage, the village was awarded the Prince Sultan bin Salman Prize.
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The best time to visit this quaint little village is during the winter months from December to February to enjoy the surrounding snow-capped mountains and misty skies. Make sure to visit the museum and taste their special honey native to the region to indulge in a local experience.
5. Kingdom Tower Center in Riyadh
A visit to Saudi Arabia cannot be complete without exploring the most iconic tower and one of the tallest buildings in Riyadh, the Kingdom Center Tower. The tower features a high-end boutique store, luxury outlets, a 5-star hotel, a cinema, and a visitor’s gallery area.
You can take the high-speed lift to reach the 99th floor where the sky bridge is located. It boasts floor-to-ceiling glass panels offering mesmerizing views of the city. Make sure to visit the sky bridge during the sunset to marvel at the glistening lights and the painted colorful sky.
The sky bridge is open daily from 12 pm – 11 pm and on Fridays from 4 pm to 11pm. Each ticket will cost you about SAR64. For a better experience, avoid visiting the sky bridge during the weekends
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6. Namar in Riyadh
Another Instagram able spot located within Riyadh is this verdant oasis. It is a popular picnic spot and a weekend getaway place among locals to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
Located 19 min from the city center, Wadi Namar is an oasis perched amidst the deserted terrains surrounded by date palm trees, a beautiful waterfall, and pristine Namar Lake.
Pack your picnic essentials for a tranquil oasis experience at Wadi Namar.
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7. Visit the City of Roses, Taif
If you’re a nature lover and want to fill your Instagram feed with gorgeous rose pictures, then visit Taif during the blooming season. Make sure to visit this hill city during the winter and spring months, when the temperatures cool down and get surrounded by the sweet smell of roses and fruits. It is called the ‘City of Roses’ for a reason.
The Taif Rose festival is an annual event, held every April, where visitors can walk through beautiful gardens full of roses and be intoxicated by the fragrance of the roses. The local farmers later pick these roses during the break of dawn and extract their oils to turn them into rose water and perfumes called ‘Ittr’.
When in Taif, make sure to visit gram-worthy dining spots such as the Mila Café, Sah café, and Boho restaurant to taste the local cuisine and indulge in a wholesome experience.
8. Al Balad Town in Jeddah
Walking down the streets of Al Balad town is nothing short of reimagining your childhood favorite cartoon ‘Aladdin’ and its fantasy marketplaces. The ragged mud-brick buildings made from Teal and Mahogany imported from India and Africa, intricate window shutters, narrow alleyways, and ancient architecture dating back to 500 years, are a sight to behold.
Located within the city of Jeddah, this old town is often visited by tourist to capture beautiful pictures of the buildings, delve into the history of Saudi Arabia, and reminisce the rich Arabian history.
The best time to visit Al Balad town is during the late afternoon and evening when the town is brimming with twinkling lights, vibrant shops selling local delicacies, and sip on Arabic coffee at the Balad Cafes. For easier navigation, start exploring Balad town from ‘Bab Jadid’ and visiting during the prayer times.
And the list is endless. To help you refresh your Instagram grid, we have rounded up the best Instagram able spots you can choose from, for your next visit to Saudi Arabia. Pack your bags, buckle up your travel essentials, and ready, set, goooo!
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moscow says those behind the latest massacre in syria want to ignite full scale civil war more than two hundred people have reportedly been killed in a village in the center of the country as the security council remains deadlocked over how best to stop the bloodshed. non-profit groups funded involved in washington politics have now become one step closer to becoming for egypt as the russian state duma passes to find out more from the you go to school. and read faces under there is the olympics organizers are forced to call in the british army to plug a massive security gap just days before the flame is lit. see
it's eight pm friday evening here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story for you tonight moscow says those behind the latest massacre in syria want to unleash sectarian violence and ignite full scale civil war over two hundred people are believed to have been killed in the central province of both government and rebel forces blame each other for the slaughter of the u.n. remains paralyzed about whether to extend its observer mission or impose sanctions or reports. opposition groups claimed at least two hundred people most of them civilians have been killed in the syrian central province of hama earlier on thursday fierce clashes broke out there between the governmental forces and the rebels fighting over control of the village of tremseh the syrian observatory for human rights says eyewitnesses spoke of civilians died in a to refire before armed militias moved into the village and these are unconfirmed reports and this information provided by observatory change and it's very hard to
be independently verified some analysts have questioned the group's math as counts gunmen armed opposition as civilian casualties even though they are carrying weapons and they're taking part in the armed uprising at the same time we've been hearing other accounts that the syrian army had allowed time for the residents of this village to evacuate and it was only after the rebels refused to surrender that fighting intensified the opposition is portraying these latest developments as having a strong resemblance to may's houla massacre that claimed one hundred eight lives most of them children and women at the top of the opposition reported governmental shelling but later the evidence emerged saying that most of the victims were actually supporters of president bashar assad here and so the true mission in series still unable to establish exactly who was behind this massacre in both cases news has come while the u.n. security council was about to consider a vital decision on the country's future and while violence continues to rage all
across the country damascus has been reporting that a large number of opposition fighters have tried to enter syria from abroad. it's more. talk to author a middle east expert on the line from london. waiting for details about what exactly happened what sparked the violence in syria. but the. heavy artillery was used what do you think we could expect from the international community to this now well let's not true. about the international community in chinese so. what you have isn't about it's security council with russia and china so far resisting it amplify the west to syria over these continuing and we are now seeing a you have a fun moment of them out of. these so rents are reported in the i have seen evidence now from journalists in the field i cross the charts last another being
there who insist there across a tease carried out by the syrian national council and they organize a should all or. of creating mayhem in some areas and to look we're pleased carrying out these are crossties so they can be blamed on to. the regime the regime does its own planes we know that but these people of by no means on the side of the angels as the as the for ten. journalists on the frank photo i'll go my insight on some weeks ago explain what had happened in the law. and was denied but we now have other reports coming from german this charlie scaled from him but god has written a very detailed pointing out of stream really a belief as to who the people are who we see on c.n.n. b.b.c. and who are promoted by the state department and the british foreign office. or
influence them let's put it mildly and these are people who are waiting to come to the bar. very high the west as unleash these people saudi arabia and. beautiful examples of democracy arming people the own side as far as the worst system so they are wanting now a final border to get rid of this regime. from iraq on what process we're witnessing is new for colonizing these countries we've seen it in iraq we saw a very clever. propaganda operation mounted to. libya now which is a mess and. that's trying to keep the focus on how exactly what you say and i take everything you're saying there let's try and keep the focus on syria and also
as everything you are saying is happening at the u.n. discussing proposal long what it is going to do with syria it's going to be sanctions is going to be more monitoring what can we expect from the u.n. do you think. but i think it was the security council can do it can only do with the support of russia and china if the veto any one sided sanctions would be positive i mean if we're going to have sanctions why not impose arms sanctions on these armed groups that are creating him in their country it is not only are they have a very clear over the last few weeks and one can't simply say that this is justified because of who they are fighting against you know the syrian national council it is the favored group of the western countries there are other oppositions on the ground in syria people i respect uncrossed who are not part of this outfit and all are equally concerned over what is going on many of the people who rose against this regime in syria have been have been sidelined and we now have
a very grim polarized situation in which the choices are limited by the western imposed regime. of sundry syrians who work for the western intelligence agencies. or the regime the people of syria it's clear wanton neither so the only way of forward is negotiation just catch him constitution constituent assembly and that it is now obvious that the west is not going to lead because there are affected really backing the people who are opposed to any negotiate at all if the reports about these latest deaths are true no matter which side is responsible for it whoever did it is the u.n. in any position at all to say these are the last deaths to actually do something about it. i mean as i pointed out there are. very difficult to see what the united nations as
a body can do i mean we live in the united nations you have the nato countries who can do things whether or not they are part of the security. council majority your with that they have been vetoed on the treaty of nato like you think i don't know do you think any time soon well they will go it alone if the russian government. gives them the green light which i hope they won't i think it would be a bad precedent if nato won't change don't talk of mother country and change the regime through outside force thank you for your thoughts terry terry kelly there author of middle east expert on the line from london. nonprofit groups funded from abroad although faced tougher scrutiny in russia the country stadium is given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as foreign agents article press can offer reports. it is that all nonprofit organisations funded from abroad and
involved in politics have to register themselves as foreign agents and report to the authorities on their activities that was to prevent outside forces from interfering with russia's internal matters this draft did cause quite a lot of criticism and discussion before with many critics saying that it would be potentially anti-democratic so some of these amendments were introduced specifying that these nonprofit organisations funding from abroad have to be involved in politics since there is also a wide range of other organisations which are also funded from abroad like mass media or educational institutions the business is and so on which can be affected by this draft or the initiator say that it's simply a matter of protecting national interest and really of national security and the similar practices being used for years in the west as my colleague again education explains the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation as a kremlin crackdown on angiosperms shows the money flow where's the money coming.
towards you or your organisation so you get transparency you get regulation you get some monitoring of. these are all framed as a nation a sovereign nation is allowed to do u.s. officials were quick to express concern presenting it as an exclusively russian initiative but as the russian foreign minister said the concept and even the wording of the proposed law was almost entirely borrowed from the american bill called the foreign agents registration act if you work in the united states if you work for another country you have to register as an agent of that country. now that again that's that's not a negative but it means they are representing that country and there has to be no if you can go on the employment of any foreign nation. nick a question in nick of us says while in the u.s. she was forced to register as a foreign agent even though she was not involved in any political activities that
heated him i was a representative from st petersburg we promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic tutor's of foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also registered as foreign agents version of the law doesn't even include known political actors like that the foreign agents registration act in the u.s. quote requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi i political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal as well as a pivotal receipts and disbursements in support of those activities end of quote the sponsors of the russian bill say their version is almost identical with the american law the u.s. argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations but many see another difference. knew that the u.s. doesn't have thousands of forming organizations which work to change its
constitution to change its leadership but we in russia do have a situation when scores of going to say sions work precisely on that for example when some calls for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and on whose payroll they are members of some non-governmental organizations met with hillary clinton behind closed doors in st petersburg afterwards one of them media the russkie said the sector estate is aware of the proposed law and quote is searching for ways to modify the support of russia's n.g.o.s without subjecting them to a crackdown end of quote we say non governmental organizations many of these organizations are government funded right so they get some of their funding from from the government of the united states anyway so and if she is saying that then that they certainly do and they are certainly going to either get over it when maybe she's hinting at covertly i. many of the ngos in russia which get their financing from abroad to preach openness and transparency in the sponsors of this
russian bill or it you it only makes sense that they themselves are subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington r.t. . coming up this hour it's been described as latin america's new style of coup new president who came to power lightning speed gives us his explanation for recent events that shook the country and interview him almost on the way also coming up to whistle blowing when a victory for wiki leaks in his first battle against major u.s. financial companies which blocked payments to the web site we brought you that story last night we got milk more details as well coming up in just a bit. next to an extra three and a half thousand troops are said to be stationed in london to bolster security for the twenty twelve olympics the additional forces were assigned after a private firm responsible for ensuring the games security admitted it unfit to stand up to its tutsis and as artists are referred to reports two weeks before the olympics kick off the organizers flaws just keep on turning up. the london olympics
is now just a few weeks away but it's more than the weather that could be said to cause a dark cloud over the events of the transport system already struggling border control checks under pressure and most disconcerting of all the emergence of significant problems in the security system that is london really ready there lympics twenty twelve soldiers on the streets of london may be an unusual sight but it's one that could be set to greet guests to london's lympics the government have had to call in the troops after it was revealed that the security company g four s. wasn't quite up to the job despite having been awarded a whopping five hundred thirty five million pound contract to well it shows that it has made a great deal of coordination i think between the private sector g four s. which has this massive contract and the military which itself is putting on a major sort of show of force as it were in the run up to the olympics and i think
that you know with such a short time to go one does what one does wonder how three and a half thousand extra servicemen can be implemented very efficiently the drafting in of three thousand five hundred soldiers some of whom have just returned from afghanistan is just the latest in a set of government leaves that have been dubbed the militarization of london on top of the thousands of soldiers that were already being deployed for the games i think that that kind of war is it worse that's called a war on terror that kind of attempt to defend people by intelligence or by infiltration it's not necessarily by scaring people and by putting out ground missile systems and putting them in blackheath park in the top of a pop in blocks or indeed having soldiers on the streets of london or having submachine guns on the tube for the first time in its history this is the problems are also causing concern in the transport sector it's already been experiencing major headaches in the build up to the games security just just work with venues
they work. so how you get people to from the phone use to the strong. how you direct them where they go where they feel safe house is going to operate and at this late stage list four weeks ago can we train three thousand five hundred personnel in specialist areas and different environments in different locations to that equally i do wonder the threat of bus strikes congested roads and directives from london underground to walk rather than take the train has left many with more hope then expectation we want the olympics be a success we'd like the financial basis the money that's been invested in it and we could do with a feelgood factor of my own after a period of austerity but when it comes to the actual benefits to britain's economy campaigners insist it's going to be the wealthy sponsors he pocket the goals they're raising seven hundred million from the sponsors for the london olympics actually six hundred million will be given back in tax rebates and local get soft or get another hundred million in terms of its own tax rebates so why should the
economy there at all with a catalogue of concern some feel it's already clear who the real winners of this year's olympics will be and i think there's a real danger that the olympic games is becoming a showcase for the international security industry and the military around the world rather than what it should be which is the athlete despite the problems in the build up to the games there's no lack of enthusiasm in london but when it comes to the logistics and organization as time runs out it looks like britain's going to need to raise its game so r.t. london. meanwhile the story from across the atlantic kind of linked its matters of fashion rather than security though by the remind us of americans in the run up to the olympics these are the uniforms that the u.s. athletes will be wearing for the games very smart for all of them were actually made in china it's not gone down well of course a big old store in the u.s. congress with one senator so flustered about it he suggested burning said suits the mood quickly caught on the internet too with
a surge of support of two. it's flooding the web. you can read more about the olympics made in china scandal on our website r.t. dot com while there as well you might want to check out these stories we've got lined up for you would appreciate it if you did it on easy pace annual march you did northern ireland to find out what happened when parts of history were crossed on our website also at r t the common a visible laser able to detect traces of explosives drugs a gun powder without people's consent and it be introduced in the us live why not everyone's happy about that plan. and the same for the russian capital these pictures just in flooded by a massive from the storm just now to go check out the footage of r.t. dot com. paraguayan is facing a virtual isolation in south america right now with neighboring states concerned about the swift sting of former president fernando lugo in june he was impeached by the country's senate and replaced by his former deputy frederica franco in just a little over a day in an exclusive interview to us that r.t.
franco gave his view of what was behind the political upheaval. on the fifteenth of june and six police officers and eleven farmers were brutally murdered and the people responsible for this massacre promoted i don't believe this is ever happened in any other country but someone responsible for seventeen deaths would be promoted to the post of a police commander so one guilty party became a police commander and the other a regional commander at that point legitimacy was breached the president could no longer do his job this was something called serious mistakes while in office and this was the reason parliament impeached him. and you watch the full interview with fredricka frank of this hour of live here on our t.v. also spoke to the man who replaced as well fernando lugo on his views by the coup was well you can find out what hear this say and i web site r.t. dot com right now. wiki leaks is struck with
a spectacular victory in its first battle against major u.s. financial companies that have blocked payments to the online whistleblower a court in iceland has ruled that visa and mastercard local partner broke the law by refusing to process public donations to the web site the credit card giants were among several u.s. payments services that stopped accepting money transfers intended for wiki leaks in twenty ten it came after the web site's release of hundreds of thousands of classified american cables and data we collect founder julian assange remains in ecuador's embassy right now in london where he seeking political asylum in the south american country is course wanted in sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes he denies i spoke to human rights activist peter tatchell who told me the wiki leaks blockade is an assault on free society. this is a very very important principle of freedom of expression and the right of people to donate to an organization which is not itself until until these leaks was not itself the subject of any kind of criminal investigations or allegations even today
during the regular. i have not been charged with any offense so to preemptively cut off the finances of a company that has not been found guilty of any crime i think is a very very bad omen it's not what we expect in a free society and it's very threatening a menacing to freedom all going on as oceans. or n.g.o.s depend upon public donations and the willingness of banks and credit card companies to process those nations once we give those companies the right to veto donations to which companies they would accept were on the slippery road known to censorship but indeed to a non free society. now some other international news first of washington's imposing sanctions on iran over the state's nuclear ballistic missiles program levon companies are gated with the defense ministry into round will have their
assets frozen and have been blacklisted now is the latest american move against individuals in the breaching a european ban on buying oil from the country meantime the u.s. has also begun reinforcing its military assets in the persian gulf by deploying underwater drones to target a rainy and mini submarine. a bomb explosions southwestern pakistan has killed at least five wounded eleven more days before the promised his visit to the area where insurgents are active it targeted a political rally by the awami national party which opposes it is in the midst of militants no group claimed responsibility for the blast. at least twenty four people have been killed in a train crash in south africa a freight service carrying coal for export to mozambique get a truck with farm workers at a railway crossing ambulance official say over twenty people were taken to hospital they keep abreast of all our stories of course as they come in online as well if you're not on your t.v. at r.t. dot com twenty two minutes just twenty three minutes past eight o'clock now this
friday evening and of course kate is there the business to know wall street rebounding from the longest decline since may have been talking about this it's been building up to it but i'm looking back at the record seems to be bring us up to date if you would absolutely friday the thirteenth kevin this seems to be good luck for the us market so far so good this still sort of in the first part of their trading day and a lot of that is because we had chinese economic data coming out that was disappointing but what it's doing is it's really in forcing these hopes of further stimulus which is causing the u.s. stocks to rise as investors are really positioning themselves for possible more stimulus and not just from china but from central banks across the globe there was a chinese d.v. piece figures coming out saying that the chinese economy grew at its slowest pace. three years investors are really hoping that the authorities in china are ready going to inject some cash into the system to get it moving again so if we look at
the u.s. markets will be able to see that we do have a rally on our hands at the moment at the dow jones one point four percent for the nasdaq around one and also want to mention the net profit for j.p. morgan to post almost nine percent in the second quarter and now more on this story as london team has taken bets to protect the bank by hedging against it all their investments but was drafted dramatically backfired this not j.p. morgan's reputation and the bank is also about fifteen percent of its market value since the losses were first and late spring so tough times for that bank in particular i also want to talk about the european markets because they're not the end of the trading day but they frame staged a recovery as well and that was because of the optimism as well as i just reiterate as well that the chinese authorities could potentially be forced to intervene and that took its effect in europe as well we also had
a positive figures coming out from today as well a bond auction went rather well today and that was in the face of another downgrade by moot is so but the. percent the dies over two percent in positive territory it's just that we have a look at the common currency as well the sea that's really responding to the optimism as well one twenty to thirty four for the traders favor of the ruble that's how it closed up today it was a mixed performance against a basket of currencies as you can say that moses on to the russian equities then they aren't closed but we did have some optimism as well here in most sky great figures coming out from the government saying that the economy grew four percent in the second quarter and that means that we had gains very much also what about gin or it as well because it's a top topic today because also it's also supported by western companies. just started this so called your friend and asked you to be involved on a rainy and or its sending your eyes price. out of raleigh outputs sliding as we
can see that with many of terrans customers turning to russia as a replacement artie's jacob grieve went to the industry expert for an explanation. of the price this week and the spike in blend joined by alexander and as our of all in gas analysts from gas from. now nice to meet you how long do you think this good fortune for us can last. one so you wouldn't last long like it was before but i think these time it could be different because the reason for that is different and what's the reason for. well unlikely last times when it was some one offs like shadow seaboard because of some stall on the zimbardo full run which will last for months maybe years but soon as that embargo is over then surely the morpurgo option is brant that's why people are going to be putting their money just you know
fundamentally brant crude is better than euros for some characteristic so fruity this cause it here so and so is just lighter their causes. premium brand historically but in reality four refineries is. enough to to you all sound make it. now aside from which is better can russia provide more . if there's more demand of it can it supply more oil marginally i don't think solve the problem is. extra capacities they're used almost one hundred percent at least. capacities which are headed to you or you and the second is that our production capacity is limited we don't have like sodium and we don't have a spare capacity for production historically and right now it's the true as well russian companies produce as much as they can't every single moment. ok so to
conclude kevin disappointing economic data across the board and the markets are rallying let's see what it does now with and sure it will make it a day there and thanks for that kate in our exclusive interview coming up very shortly here in r t tonight with paraguay's new president who came to power controversially after his predecessor was ousted the big names talked to us on this chalice after a short break and a recap of the headlines next. in the long. haul. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum physical impact.
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NEW YORK – According to one new report, New Yorkers hearts are two sizes two small, as the Big Apple was found to be the ‘Grinchiest’ city in the United States.
While the stereotype of New Yorkers is that we’re not the most outwardly friendly bunch (especially during rush hour), no one does the holidays like we do, with everything from gorgeous light displays to stunning store windows, holiday markets, turning 5th Avenue into a traffic-free winter wonderland, the world’s most famous Christmas Tree and even the slightly less universally-beloved SantaCon, how could we possibly have the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile?
People look at homes decorated with Christmas lights and ornaments in the Dyker Heights neighborhood of New York City on December 8, 2022. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Well, the financial information website FinanceBuzz looked at data from 50 cities across the nation, analyzing nearly two dozen metrics, including the number of holiday events, ice skating rinks, holiday markets, food banks, and homeless shelters, along with the percentage of the population that volunteers annually and Google Trends scores for different holiday-themed searches like “Christmas Dinner” and “I hate Christmas.”
And wouldn’t you know it that New York City came in dead last, having the nation’s lowest rates of holiday decoration shops, Christmas tree lots (we’d note, all of New York City’s lots are on the sidewalk), gift shops and food banks per 100,000 people.
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New Yorkers also apparently are not particularly volunteer-minded, with just 23.3% of us volunteering annually, the fourth-lowest percentage in the nation.
Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago and Memphis round out the top 5 Grinchiest cities.
So which city doesn’t have a heart full of unwashed socks? According to FinanceBuzz, it’s Hartford, Connecticut, which boasts over 1,926 holiday festivals per 100,000 people, the most of any city in the country. Providence, Rhode Island finished second, with Minneapolis, Orlando, and Pittsburgh rounding out the top 5.
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2 perspectives to help you live your best life in 2023
New year, new us
By Rolling Out
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Two innovative leaders. Two generations. Munson Steed, publisher of rolling out and Namon Eugene, the media company’s new editor, share their visions and desires for the new year. Though presented in two separate essays, each express a shared hope for 2023 – everyone gets the best.
“Measure and Keep Score” By Munson Steed
Happy new year to everyone reading this initial inquiry on behalf of the Black citizenry; “How do we evaluate and measure progress for individuals of color as well as the larger community?”
Quality of life and life expectancy for Black Americans is a significant factor for gaging and assessing the state of the Black community in 2022. In fact, last year was not only an endurance test for individuals, it provided a milestone marker for measuring racial progress and determining the status of Black families and Black communities in every sector of the nation.
Homeownership continues to be one of the most telling and accurate litmus tests for Black economic stability and wealth-building. Both are prospects that have illuded Black Americans for too many years and continue to be pervasive issues deferring the dream of legacy building in urban and rural communities across the country. For those who have been able to acquire real estate and build real wealth, others struggle to overcome challenges to property ownership. It is imperative that we track those barriers and measure the outcomes and the impact on Black families and communities.
We must keep score.
As we celebrate our culture in music, film and television, maladies like food insecurity and Black people living in the throes of poverty must be examined and addressed to move the needle forward.
When we think that we’ve contained the challenges to the wellbeing of the Black community, ultimately our interests are measured by dollars individuals have in the bank. Saving, frugality and understanding that we should not be the leading consumers in this economy, but the leading producers of a Black economy, is critical. We are shareholders when we spend money with corporations, so we should support our community when we spend our dollars — point blank.
We must keep score for every company that has pledged to support the Black community. Every time we walk into a store, buy their insurance products, bank at their financial institutions, buy their gaming systems and consume their products, all of these individuals have a debt — yes, a debt — to the community that supports them without a doubt. And we’re going to measure that.
We are shareholders and will show up at their meetings to let them know we are watching them and the actions of their boards. And if you’re a Black person on a board, then we want you to be Black on the board. Know what the Black community expects. Our community should see that you are there to be a part of our community while benefiting from being on the board as a Black person.
There is no “special” Black person who is exempt from the ills of racism. We must rock the boat of complacency and disillusionment and ride the tide of hope and accountability for all Black people until we are all free and able to participate unfettered by political and social manipulation — until we beat back a system that holds us back and break through the barriers of disenfranchisement and exclusion.
I urge us to increase our education through trade school or college. Whatever it takes, skill set acquisition is a requirement for us as a community. But asses if it’s a profession that will be eliminated soon through A.I. technology. Know your skills, and share the most modern skills with our young brothers and sisters.
Socially speaking, we should be elevating each other by showcasing skill sets that we acquire, removing misinformation and studying the history of our community.
It’s the beginning of the year, and all of these things are challenges — but we all should keep count.
We must tune in and listen to our ancestors’ hearts, understanding their dream for us to work collectively as a community. We can all benefit and be proud of each other.
There’s much work to be done. Fight for the community, support the community and economically adopt someone in the community. It’s time for us to mend. We all must actively participate in that healing process in order to recover from the ravages of the past several years and excel in an oppressed world constantly working to keep us apart. We are always stronger together.
Let’s celebrate 2023.
*Part two is by our editor, Namon Eugene.
“Will You?” By Namon Eugene
So far, this decade has not been the most joyful. 2020 was a lot, to say the very least. 2021 felt like a remix of the previous year, with the addition of mistrust and an evolution of divide. And although 2022 felt hopeful, something still seemed off.
So many questions: What is normal? What is work? What are the holidays? What is life? We’ve floated through these past three years confused, many of our lives in disarray, working overtime to make sense of the significant shifts we’ve all been subject to. And I know we’ve all had enough.
So, could 2023 be the true silver lining many of us have been waiting for? No one can unequivocally say, but I believe this year is primed for us to tap into an incredible superpower we all possess — our will.
Will, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is a firm desire or determination. Many of us understand it on a fundamental level. You want to watch TV? You turn it on. Feeling hungry? You order delivery. Need a vibe change? You stream your favorite song.
Those simple acts of will you execute are no more accomplishable than seemingly larger desires.
You want a brilliant year that shifts this rollercoaster of a decade toward a new, fabulous direction? Change your mind.
I often think about how my mind sometimes deters my will. And then I look into the sky and see an airplane. The Wright brothers accomplished what others couldn’t believe because of their unshakable will.
2023 is 20/20 see. Too much has happened this decade that has transformed us into savvier consumers, voters and communicators, no longer willing to tolerate BS in any form. These unique times are asking us to push past our post-pandemic limits to will better lives not only for ourselves but each other. And this year feels like we finally have room to breathe and consider how to create a future that is much, much better than the present we’re currently living.
This forward motion is evident through various examples of progress witnessed the previous year. Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, student loan debt was partially canceled and Beyoncé returned in glorious form, musically demanding us all to be our best selves. The sky is the limit in 2023! We simply have to will it.
When I was a kid growing up in Houston, Texas, I used to build mini theme parks in my parents’ backyard out of old lumber, cardboard, toys, water, rope and whatever else I could scavenge. Not to toot my horn, but those creations were magical. So much so that some of the neighborhood kids were moved to explore the imaginative spaces. I would spend hours planning and building in that backyard; nothing could stop me from making my vision a reality. The southern heat, the rain, the lack of resources — nothing could stop me. My heart relentlessly propelled me forward.
As an adult, I still hold on to that strong will, and it’s difficult to believe it’s not living inside us all in some form. If you’re living and breathing and reading this piece, that alone is proof there’s some inkling of it inside of you.
So, no more questions.
Of this I am certain: 2023 is what you want it to be. Think it and do it, and live your best year ever.
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 18: Lando Norris of Great Britain and McLaren walks in the paddock prior to practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Circuit on November 18, 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images) © 2022 Getty Images
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 12: Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the (4) McLaren MCL36 Mercedes during practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Brazil at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace on November 12, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images) © 2022 Getty Images
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 12: Lando Norris of Great Britain and McLaren prepares to drive in the garage during practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Brazil at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace on November 12, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Dan Istitene - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images) © 2022 Formula One World Championship Limited
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 22: Oscar Piastri of Australia and McLaren looks on in the garage during Formula 1 testing at Yas Marina Circuit on November 22, 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images) © 2022 Getty Images
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 22: Oscar Piastri of Australia driving the McLaren MCL36 Mercedes on track during Formula 1 testing at Yas Marina Circuit on November 22, 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Joe Portlock - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images) © 2022 Formula One World Championship Limited
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Since entering the sport in 1966 under the guidance and restless endeavour of eponymous founder Bruce, McLaren's success has been nothing short of breathtaking. Five glittering decades have yielded countless victories, pole positions and podiums, not to mention eight constructors' championships. What's more, some of the sport's greatest drivers made their names with the team, including Emerson Fittipaldi, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton...
Drop to P5 in the standings behind Alpine, with Lando Norris scoring their sole podium at Imola – and 122 of their 159 points. Daniel Ricciardo fails to get to grips with the Mercedes-powered MCL36 and departs the team at the end of season.
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Record their first win since 2012, with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris taking the year’s only one-two result by any team at Monza. Nevertheless, drop to fourth overall after coming off worse in season-long duel for P3 with Ferrari.
Quick and consistent, beat their upper-midfield rivals to P3 in the standings as Ferrari falter, with Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris both scoring podium finishes. Agree deal to use Mercedes power from 2021
With the Renault partnership starting to gel, and rookie star Lando Norris pushing the experienced Carlos Sainz hard, re-establish themselves as clear ‘best of the rest’ behind the big three teams. Third place in Brazil marks their first podium in five years.
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Enough with the PDAs—In Person and Online
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg May 19, 2014
This article originally appeared on rabbisblog.brsonline.org.
Once upon a time, PDA stood for something now obsolete – Personal Digital Assistant. I will never forget my first Palm Pilot together with its cool stylus and what seemed like a miraculous ability to hold over one hundred phone numbers and a To Do list, all on something that could fit in my pocket.
Today, PDA means something very different and not only is it not obsolete, it seems to be growing in popularity. Public Display of Affection or PDA is when a couple, married or otherwise, engages in more than casual physical contact in a public setting. More and more people can be seen engaging in public displays of affection unaware or unconcerned with the impact on others.
The etiquette and appropriateness of PDAs depends on the time, place and cultural expectation. A few years ago, actor Richard Gere affectionately kissed actress Shilpa Shetty on the cheek at a charity event in New Delhi. After becoming aware of the PDA, an Indian judge issued a warrant for his arrest saying the behavior “transgressed all limits of vulgarity.” Gere left India, but five months later, Shetty was actually detained on obscenity charges.
While India has an extremely low tolerance for PDAs, the culture in the US is much more accepting. Just this week, after a historic pick in the NFL draft, a picture of the player chosen became highly controversial, not because of the act of PDA he engaged in which no longer garners attention, but only because of whom it was with.
Thanks to social media, public displays of affection are not only limited to physical contact. I sometimes feel uncomfortable reading Facebook posts written from one spouse to another on their anniversary or birthday or most recently on Mother’s Day. Genuine expressions of affection and love between spouses are wonderful and should be encouraged, but in a private setting, not displayed in a public space. Would anyone write a card extolling their spouses virtues, describing the love they feel towards them and articulating how lucky they are to have found them and then instead of privately handing that card to their husband or wife, hang it on the wall of the Shul, school or supermarket for all to see? Of course not. So why post such sentiments online for public consumption?
Some may liken posting a public message to one’s spouse which is gushing and personal to making a toast in front of a room full of friends and family, but there is a fundamental difference. If I go to a birthday or anniversary party or simcha of any kind, I fully expect to hear words of praise, love and adoration. In fact, if they were absent, I would find it peculiar and ungrateful. But if I was walking down the street and I saw you on the corner shouting out about your love for your amazing, one of a kind spouse, who is the most amazing person you ever met and who changed your life forever, frankly, I would think you are strange and inappropriate. To me, the internet is a street corner, not your private party.
When we see people holding hands in public we would most often think it is sweet and endearing. If we saw the same couple engaged in greater displays of affection in public it would make us uncomfortable and would cheapen their bond. So too, there is the social media equivalent of holding hands in public which let’s the world know you feel love and affection without violating anyone’s space. But engaging in more intimate verbal displays of public affection makes us feel uncomfortable and I think cheapens the relationship of the author as well.
If someone wants the world to know just how much they love, adore and cherish their spouse they can do so simply by treating them really well. Be affectionate in public by being attentive, kind, helpful and appreciative. Let us know how lucky you feel and how in love you are by how you act, not what you write.
Often, those engaging in PDAs are calling out for attention, but more than just attracting attention, they are doing something that is harmful to others, and ultimately to themselves. Being inappropriately affectionate in public, in words or in deed, is simply immodest. But moreover, it can also be offensive and insensitive to those who are lonely and lack loving companionship that don’t need to be reminded of what they don’t have and yet still crave. Many are not married and some are in unhappy and unsatisfying marriages. While certainly not intentional, being physically affectionate in public or penning romantic and adoring messages for all to see, can be unkind and at times even cruel.
But don’t hold back from PDAs online and in person only for others. Do it for yourself and for your relationship. The gemara (Bava Metzia 42) says – Amar Rebbe Yitzchak, ein ha’beracha metzuya elah b’davar ha’samuy min ha’ayin – blessing is not found except in something that is hidden from the eye. There is nothing wrong with sharing and connecting with family and friends using social media. But Facebook is the opposite of samuy, hidden, and inappropriately flaunting our relationships for all to observe will make it difficult to receive beracha, blessing.
Ironically, public displays of affection don’t actually promote intimacy, they detract from it. In Judaism, intimacy, a deep, emotional bond and connection is achieved when something is shared in an exclusive, private and modest fashion. That which we value the most, we protect, shield and keep from the public eye. Our most expensive jewels sit in the vault. Our most precious heirlooms and items are not on display to the public. What does it say about how we value our relationship if we engage in a gesture of affection for everyone to see or post a statement of our love for everyone to read?
And what does it say about how genuine we are when we post messages to people who will never possibly read them. On Mother’s Day, rather than tell their mothers directly how they feel or take the time to write a private heartfelt card, countless people turn to social media as a public stage to profess their love and appreciation to their most amazing mothers in the world, who don’t even have Facebook accounts.
The world is changing rapidly. The Palm Pilot is now an ancient relic of the past and PDA has come to mean something new. Let’s not lose our sense of etiquette and appropriateness either in person or online. By preserving our modesty and privacy in displaying affection, not only will we be showing sensitivity to others, we will bring blessing and true intimacy into our relationships as well. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6796185374259949, "wiki_prob": 0.3203814625740051, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1698165"} |
Trump’s infrastructure council crumbles; we…
Trump’s infrastructure council crumbles; we need a new approach
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, heavy storms caused parts of the shoulder and one lane of westbound Highway 50 give way near Pollock Pines, Calif. The hole is about 40 feet long and 17 feet wide on one of the main routes to Lake Tahoe.
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The one thing most everyone expected from the White House this year — a big new infrastructure deal — now looks dead in the water. How bad a setback is it?
“Infrastructure Week” wrapped up with President Donald Trump pulling the plug on his own Advisory Council on Infrastructure. It wasn’t even fully staffed. Construction stocks, expected to shoot up as Congress approved major outlays, are tanking.
Panels of advisors are unlikely saviors in moments this uncertain, but when it comes to infrastructure — a bipartisan issue with strong public support — there’s good reason to consider forming a private-sector council capable of charting a path forward.
The harsh truth is that Trump himself is responsible for failing to move forward as expected on an issue as important and straightforward as infrastructure. Thanks to his response to the recent events in Charlottesville, Va., Trump drove away so many business leaders affiliated with his administration that, in addition to losing the support of his nascent infrastructure council, he also faced so many defections from the American Manufacturing Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum that those groups had to be shuttered as well.
For a president voted in on the apparent strength of his ability to broker workable deals with established players in business and industry, these are not just setbacks. They are indicators that Trump can’t deliver on what was, by any measure, one of his presidency’s core value propositions.
The notion of depending on the federal government to solve all of our transportation issues was always folly, though. Government management of infrastructure has failed just as spectacularly — if not more so — than in other areas, leading to unmet needs, added costs (not only from inefficiency, but also from policies like the federal Davis-Bacon Act and state and local prevailing wage mandates that require above-market union wages to be paid on public works projects, significantly hiking their costs), infrastructure deterioration, maintenance backlogs, and fanciful, economically unjustified projects undertaken primarily for political reasons (think transit projects with overoptimistic ridership projections and lowball cost estimates). Moreover, the federal government’s ubiquitous involvement in state and local infrastructure projects makes little sense — unless it is to bring some pork back to representatives’ home districts.
So, while it is all well and good to ponder the nation’s infrastructure needs, and to consult experts in the field for advice and ideas, we should be looking more to get government out of providing infrastructure, in favor of privatization — or, at the very least, public-private partnerships — where projects are funded by private capital and through user fees, where appropriate.
To his credit, the PPP approach was a major component of Trump’s infrastructure plans. But too much of the rest of it amounted to a blank check for unknown projects with undefined funding sources.
It may be tempting to look to a central authority to solve problems as large and complex as our infrastructure needs, but we would be better served to return those funds to taxpayers and allow infrastructure decisions to be based on supply and demand — not political pull.
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Columbus Crew SC fall to New York Red Bulls 2-0
By Patrick Guldan Apr 22, 2017, 9:58pm EDT
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Columbus suffered the roughest 90 minutes of the season as they lost to the New York Red Bulls 2-0 and also suffered two first half injuries.
Head coach Gregg Berhalter was forced into an early change as Artur challenged Kemar Lawrence for a ball and fell awkwardly. He injured his left wrist bracing himself and walked off with an air cast on his arm as he grimaced from the pain. Mohammed Abu replaced him in the sixth minute.
The Red Bulls would quickly capitalize as Crew SC struggled to adapt to losing the dynamic Brazilian and Abu got up to game speed with an 11th minute goal from Alex Muyl. Sasha Kljestan slipped a ball into the left side of the box. Lawrence’s centering pass was clipped by Nico Naess, but Muyl was able to trundle the ball home from close range for the early lead.
Columbus still struggled to settle as New York pressed relentlessly. Crew SC played directly as they got stuck in the defensive end, but they let the Red Bulls push forward. Muyl would get another good chance in the 16th minute and Wright-Phillips in the 23rd to make it 2-0, but Crew SC held on.
The second would come off of a penalty on Crognale and to add injury to insult, the rookie injured himself on the errant tackle in the 36th minute. The Red Bulls caught the Black & Gold on the break and Daniel Royer found Bradley Wright-Phillips in the box. Crognale came in hard and trundled into the forward for the easy call.
Royer buried the spot kick to make it 2-0. Josh Williams replaced Crognale, who was unable to continue.
The Red Bulls pulled back defensively as the first half wound to a close and throughout the second half. Crew SC was able to push forward with numbers, but rarely able to create real chances. The visitors would get off five shots in the second half, but none were quality. Ethan Finlay would have the only chance in the last 30 minutes, but it came from 25 yards out.
The early Injury (x2)
Crew SC had to make two first half subs due to injury with Artur and Crognale having to be replaced. Artur injured his left wrist in the first minute and Crognale couldn’t walk off his leg injury suffered in the 36th minute.
Berhalter’s plan didn’t survive Artur’s contact with the field. The early sub forced a change to Abu who doesn’t cover the same amount of ground and struggled early with the press. He grew into the game, but it was out of hand by then.
Crognale’s sub limited Berhalter’s flexibility even more. He had only one more sub to try and change the game. He ended up sending out Finlay in the 61st minute with Crew SC down 2-0.
Crew SC has consistently struggled with the press that the Red Bull uses so Columbus quickly tried to play directly. Through 20 minutes, the passing chart looked like this.
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The Crew SC attackers were starved for the ball as the linking play was lacking. Columbus had five shots, one on goal through the first half.
Shooting Blanks
Crew SC had 60% possession and 10 shots, but only 2 were on target. Justin Meram had a 32nd minute shot from the left side and Ola Kamara from a similar position in the 50th minute. The Red Bulls did an excellent job of keeping Crew SC from getting into dangerous positions and coasted to an easy victory.
The Artur injury certainly created some issues getting into any offensive flow, but the Red Bulls game plan upset whatever Crew SC was trying to do. They couldn’t play through it and they couldn’t go long and they couldn’t adjust.
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Truss to meet cabinet, face MPs on first full day in power
Liz Truss. — AFP Geoff Caddick
Britain’s new prime minister Liz Truss convenes her senior ministers for an inaugural cabinet meeting on Wednesday on her first full day in office, before she faces a barrage of questions in parliament.
Truss, who officially became leader Tuesday at an audience with head of state Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland after the resignation of Boris Johnson, is set to meet her top team at a morning meeting.
They include the most diverse top team in British history ever: Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Cleverly as foreign secretary and Suella Braverman as interior minister.
They face a daunting in-tray of issues, most notably decades-high inflation and how to deal with energy bills set to rise by 80 percent next month and even more again in January.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England has tipped the country to fall into recession later this year.
But Truss was bullish as she entered Downing Street for the first time as premier, narrowly avoiding a heavy downpour.
“I am confident that together we can ride out the storm,” she said.
Her new ministers may be asked to sign off immediately on a plan to freeze energy bills for the coming winter, possibly longer, costing tens of billions of pounds, according to reports.
Tax cuts and diverting some health funding to social care could also reportedly be on the agenda.
“I will cut taxes to reward hard work and boost business-led growth and investment,” Truss promised, while also vowing “action this week” on gas and electricity bills and broader energy policy.
– ‘Almost ungovernable’ –
After Cabinet, Truss will travel to the House of Commons to spar with opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer, in the rival pair’s first Prime Minister’s Questions session.
The often rowdy weekly session, which sees the prime minister quizzed by MPs, will test Truss’s political mettle and rhetorical skills as well as her level of Conservative support.
The 47-year-old won an internal ballot of Tory members on Monday, securing 57 percent of the vote, after a gruelling contest against former finance minister Rishi Sunak that began in July.
But the initial stage of the contest saw her net the support of less than a third of the parliamentary party.
She now faces a tough challenge reuniting the ruling Tories following a bitter leadership battle.
Conservative MPs are “almost ungovernable” and have “no appetite to cope with difficult decisions,” according to a government insider quoted by the Financial Times on Monday.
“They did for Boris and they may do for Liz, too,” the source told the paper.
Truss will likely face a volley of hostile questions from Starmer and the Labour ranks, as they look to capitalise on months of Tory disarray.
Labour has opened up a double-digit lead in the polls but may have to wait two years for the next general election.
Truss vowed Monday to lead the Conservatives to victory “in 2024”, with an election due by January 2025 at the latest.
– ‘Dreadful policy’ –
Truss, who pitched herself to the Tory grassroots as a tax-cutting free-trade champion ready to slash taxes immediately to turbo-charge growth, faces warnings that these moves could make inflation worse.
The UK has already seen prices rise this year at their steepest rate for four decades, driven by spiralling energy costs.
Under her mooted plans to tackle the situation, gas and electricity bills for both households and businesses would be capped near current levels for the coming winter at least.
The government would lend or guarantee private sector loans to energy providers to make up the difference they pay with soaring global wholesale prices.
It remains unclear whether the government will pay for the plan through extra borrowing or ask consumers to pick up the tab over the next two decades through levies on their energy bills.
Paul Johnson, of the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think-tank, said it was “a dreadful policy” but likely necessary.
“Hugely expensive, untargeted, increases risk of shortages,” he noted on Twitter.
But he warned the scale of the problem “means there may just be no practical alternative.”
Other pressing matters for Truss include resolving post-Brexit tensions with the European Union, particularly over trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, and Western support for Ukraine.
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'Girls': EW Exclusive Photos of the Cast
By Sara Vilkomerson Updated January 20, 2016 at 08:47 PM EST
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Who Run the World?
As Lena Dunham's millennial drom-com begins its wind down, the girls talk to EW about what they'll face this season, real-life weddings, and the indispensable advice given to them by Rita Wilson.
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“The most amazing, rewarding thing about Girls is that not only has it created this network of women who work on the show, it’s created a network of women who respond to the show,” Dunham tells EW behind the scenes of our Girls photo shoot.
Williams got married after shooting the Girls episode in which her character ties the knot this season. "My wedding was very different from Marnie's," Williams explains. "I was a very different bride than Marnie. Thank God. I think a lot of people showed up to my wedding expecting more Marnie than they got."
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Kirke says the biggest lesson she's learned from playing the character Jessa has been honesty. "The only way to experience closeness with someone is if you are your authentic self, which she so often isn't, and which is why she finds herself so detached," the actress tells EW. "But it's really not serving her anymore.
The season premiere of Girls will have all four women on screen together, an occurrence that doesn't happen often on the show. "It felt like a family," says Mamet, "Not that it doesn't always, but that episode specifically because we were away together. We all stayed at Jemima's mother's house. I had the best time."
Next season, the show's sixth, will be the last for Girls. "I feel like after you see this whole season you'll see that the girls are heading to... not a conclusion in their life, but this period of this life – that the show is about – is ending," says Dunham. "It's always been important to us that we know and understand when it's time to wrap it up. It is about a very specific time in life, and we don't want to push past that or overextend it."
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Techosmart teams up with Mo3lim for e-learning
TechoSmart for IT Services has partnered with the UAE company Mo3lim Electronic Educational Services to assist in developing the education system in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
According to a press release shared by Zawya, this partnership aligns with Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030 and the digital transformation strategy.
Mo3lim and TechoSmart will collaborate on e-learning using an advanced platform that the firm will make available, according to Mr. Mohamed Alhujairi, CEO of TechoSmart. He also emphasized the significance of e-learning and how it would result in a cutting-edge, adaptable, affordable, and interactive educational system that would support conventional education.
“We share the same social and cultural values with Mo3lim, and they have shown that they have a comprehensive understanding of the region’s needs. We will work together to meet those needs and achieve our goals as effectively as possible,” said Mr Alhujairi.
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Major Recalls – Jeep Grand Cherokee Fuel Tank
Jeep Grand Cherokee Fuel Tank
On October 2, 2009, the Center for Auto Safety filed a safety defect petition for the recall of all 1993–04 Jeep Grand Cherokees with the fuel tank located behind the rear axle. At the time of the petition, CAS had identified 172 fatal fire crashes with 254 fatalities in the FARS file from calendar year 1992 through 2008. CAS identified 44 fire crashes with 64 deaths where fire was the most harmful event. In comparison, NHTSA reported a total of 38 fire crashes with 26 fatalities when it recalled the Ford Pinto.
On August 23, 2010, NHTSA granted the CAS petition and opened a defect investigation. PE10-031, shortly after the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted a 50 mph rear impact crash test of a Ford Taurus into a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee that resulted in a failure to the fuel system that sprayed a fuel surrogate into the air around the Jeep. FHWA also crash tested the Ford Taurus into the back of Ford Explorers at 70 and 75 mph with no damage to the fuel system because the tank was forward of the rear axle. During the course of the investigation, Chrysler produced FARS data showing the Jeep Grand Cherokee was 21 times more likely to be involved in a fatal rear impact fire crash than the Ford Explorer, where fire was the most harmful event
CAS conducted two more crash tests of Jeep Grand Cherokees at Karco Engineering in California, which does FMVSS compliance testing for NHTSA. Both tests resulted in catastrophic failures with one being done at only 40 mph. On June 12, 2012, NHTSA upgraded PE10-031 to Engineering Evaluation 12-005 and expanded it to include the 1993–01 Jeep Cherokee and 2002–07 Jeep Liberty which had similar behind the rear axle fuel tanks.
In a May 22, 2013 letter to Fiat CEO John Elkann and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne seeking a voluntary recall, CAS pointed out that the death toll for Jeeps in EA12-005 had increased to 487 deaths in 349 fatal fire crashes with at least 157 of the deaths being due to fire. On June 13, 2013, NHTSA asked Chrysler to do a voluntary recall of the 1993–04 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the 2002–07 Jeep Liberty. Chrysler initially refused but then agreed to recall the 1993–98 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002–07 Liberty. Chrysler indicated the recall remedy would be a trailer hitch while its own former Vice President for Engineering Francois Castaing testified that trailer hitches do not protect the fuel tank. On January 17, 2014, announced it would close investigation EA12-005 and allow the trailer hitch recall remedy to go forward. On that same day, NHTSA Administrator David Strickland resigned to take a job at Venable LLC, a Washington lobbying firm that represents Chrysler.
As revealed in NHTSA’s Special Order to Chrysler on July 2, 2014, the first repairs were not to take place until August 1, 2014, over 13 months after the recall. Based on NHTSA’s calculations using Chrysler production data, the agency projected that it would take 4.7 years for Chrysler to produce the repair part for the recalled Grand Cherokees, and 2.6 years for the Liberty. NHTSA’s order questioned why Chrysler waited six months to choose a supplier of the trailer hitch “fix” and two further months to purchase the hitches. NHTSA followed up on Chrysler’s slow recall response in November 2014 by issuing a consumer advisory. The advisory urged Jeep owners to fix recalled Jeeps, citing a disappointing 3% recall completion rate.
In a January 8, 2015 letter to Chrysler Chairman Sergio Marchionne, CAS pointed out that at least 20 fatal fire crashes with 29 deaths had occurred involving the Jeeps in 2013 and 2014, while NHTSA and Chrysler wrangled over the details of the recall. By February 2015, the recall completion rate had risen to only 12%.
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Researchers will dig into census data to address Orange County health, social gaps
July 30, 2020 —
Orange County will have a new tool to help direct its response to the health and social welfare disparities that have made Latinos and other minority groups disproportionately susceptible to the ravages of the COVID-19 public health threat.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 28, awarded a nonprofit called Advance OC a $385,000 contract to aggregate over the next five months Orange County-centric data from the census, studies of local populations and conditions, and other indicators for a microscopic look at where health and socioeconomic gaps exist down to the ZIP code level.
The outcome is expected to drive more effective measures to improve the daily lives of the most vulnerable Orange County residents – with pinpoint precision. The work of Advance OC goes hand-in-hand with an effort the county began in May on its Latino Health Equity Initiative to better inform residents and curb community transmission as coronavirus hot spots emerged in Santa Ana and Anaheim.
The county has been ramping up testing and outreach in the hot spots, which are typically low-income neighborhoods where people live more densely in multi-generation households, are more likely to have underlying health conditions, use public transportation and hold jobs that put them at greater risk of contracting the disease.
First District Supervisor Andrew Do, championed Advance OC, even though he described how it took more than one meeting to fully grasp their proposal. Do said the results of what the nonprofit promises to deliver should help officials “make better use of data in terms of policy-making decisions.”
Do’s district includes Santa Ana, the city with the highest number and highest rate of coronavirus cases in Orange County, and the largest slice of the county’s Latino population. COVID-19 ripped the bandages off health disparities nationwide as the disease disproportionately impacts Latino, Black and other minority communities.
Advance OC will work closely with the Orange County Health Care Agency and its director, Dr. Clayton Chau, who also serves as the county’s interim public health officer. A report is due by the end of December.
Advance OC was launched last year by three local women – Sister Thuy Tran, who works for Providence St. Joseph Health at Mission Hospital; Nazy Fouladirad, a tech expert who is chief operating officer of digital management consulting firm Tevora Inc.; and Katie Kalvoda, who founded and managed a highly successful family investment firm and real estate portfolio before turning to progressive political causes in 2016 and launching the nonprofit 3G Ventures that specializes in innovative philanthropy, impact investments and community advocacy.
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Advance OC was the brainchild of Kalvoda, the daughter of immigrants who lost their family wealth when they fled Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon. Kalvoda, a graduate of UC Berkeley, gives an example of how social equity mapping would work in the case of tracking malnutrition. If the mapping tool determines that an area is a food desert – where access to groceries and fresh produce is extremely limited – a city can work with a company to bring healthy meals to the community or an existing nonprofit to serve meals to isolated families.
“Once the problem is identified,” Kalvoda said, “funders can micro-target neighborhoods of greatest need and track their progress over time.”
Fouladirad devised the digital tool that Advance OC will use to dive into data on such basic measures as nutrition and medical care, water and sanitation, housing, traffic safety and crime, basic and advanced education, access to technology, obesity rates and diabetes prevalence, voter registration, walkable neighborhoods, and gender pay gaps.
“The tool was built to measure real things that matter to real people,” Fouladirad said.
Advance OC hopes to eventually partner with the Washington, D.C.-based Social Progress Imperative, which has created a social progress index that compares the quality of life for ordinary Americans in all 50 states and similar projects in other places around the world.
When it comes to the coronavirus, Kaldova added, “If we can overlay this type of map on COVID cases, we might be able to track where it’s heading and be more proactive.”
But transparency is a must, especially at the street level, Sister Tran said: “The community has to have access to the data so they know what’s going on in their neighborhoods.”
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Here's the recipe for the most astonishing cookbook of our time: Take one multimillionaire computer genius, a team of 36 researchers, chefs and editors and a laboratory specially built for cooking experiments. After nearly four years of obsessive research, assemble 2,400 pages of results into a 47-pound, six-volume collection that costs $625 and requires four pounds of ink to print.
To call inventor Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine: The Art & Science of Cooking," on sale next month, a "cookbook" is akin to calling James Joyce's "Ulysses" "a story." The book is a large-scale investigation into the math, science and physics behind cooking tasks from making juicy and crisp beer-can chicken to coating a foie-gras bonbon in sour cherry gel. There is precedent in this genre—science writer Harold McGee has published popular books explaining kitchen science, and chefs Thomas Keller and Ferran Adrià have written about sous vide and other techniques of avant-garde gastronomy—but nothing reaches the scope and magnitude of Mr. Myhrvold's book. While it will likely appeal to professional chefs, within its pages are insights that even the humblest home cooks can use to improve their meals. The book puts traditional cooking wisdom under scientific scrutiny, destroying old assumptions and creating new cooking approaches.
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LABP x NYC: Bareburger
October 4, 2015 October 4, 2015 ~ prachandrasoma
Some of you may have been expecting a review of The Spotted Pig. Well, plans change. Bareburger ended up being the choice for a variety of reasons. First, because it’s coming to Santa Monica, which makes it more relevant to the focus of this Project. Secondly, it was voted the best burger in New York City by the New York Post. Lastly (and admittedly, probably most importantly), it’s really, really close to Julie’s apartment, and we were hungry.
I went with Dec, Brittany, and Julie to see what this place was all about. I know this is neither here nor there, but they should consider serving beverages that sound less like deviant sex acts. I’m sorry, but asking whether I want my beer with a cinnamon rim, or if if I want to follow my burger with a hot honey milkshake? Leaving aside that I said yes to both, that’s creepy and weird.
The Order: Bareburger, elk patty, aged cheddar, country bacon, pickled jalapeños, stone mustard, tomato fig jam
The Price: $15.25 ($8.80 base; $1.10 for elk; $1.20 for cheese; $1.65 for bacon, $0.75 for jalapeños; $1.75 for tomato fig jam)
Okay, so it’s quite possible that I got suckered into the whole gimmicky meat phenomenon here (if there is such a phenomenon), because I saw elk and didn’t think twice about it. One might accuse me, therefore, of missing out on the “typical” Bareburger experience. I don’t know. I’m just anticipating here.
I think anyone who so accused me would be wrong, though, and here’s why. My feeling is that the central (purported) virtue the Bareburger model is that there is no “typical” Bareburger experience. Part of their schtick is that you could go there a few times a week, and never eat two burgers that were even remotely similar to one another over the span of at least a couple months. Bareburger gives the diner the yoke, and with it, the freedom to, as James Mercer wrote, fly the whole mess into the sea.
So you have ten choices of patty (beef, bison, elk, wild boar, duck, grilled lemon chicken, sweet potato and wild rice, black bean, and farmer’s quinoa), four different buns (brioche, sprout, tapioca rice, or a collard green wrapping), nine cheeses (Colby, aged cheddar, pepper jack, manchego, queso fresco, gouda, pimento, amish blue, or vegan cheddar), three bacons (country, duck, or brisket), fourteen garnishes (alfalfa, green leaf, spinach, red onions, tomato, dill pickles, spicy pickles, pickled jalapeños, chickpea onions, stout onions, pickled red onions, sweet pickles, pickled green tomatoes, and wild mushrooms), eleven sauces (mayo, ketchup, buffalo sauce, stone mustard, special sauce, habanero mayo, paprika mayo, horseradish remoulade, curry ginger ketchup, smoke sauce, and buttermilk ranch), and five spreads (spicy pico de gallo, piquante relish, pineapple relish, tomato fig jam, and guacamole).
I know. It’s a lot. Take a minute. I’ll wait.
Now, it’s not clear to me that there is such thing as “too much choice,” but if there is, Bareburger is getting there. At some point, the thrill of customizability is outweighed by the overwhelming multiplicity of options. Decision trees become labyrinthine tangles of equally appealing options. Alternatives become conceptually indistinguishable. And before you know it, you’re more exhausted than you were after dragging your suitcases to your friend’s fourth floor walkup (that was a New York joke).
For that reason, it’s a little tricky to review Bareburger, per se. I can tell you how the burger I got was, as long as you understand that there is statistically zero chance that you order the same one when you go. I can tell you the elk was prepared with surprising facility, which indicates to me that they know how to work with these meats. It’s nice to know that it’s more than just a gimmick. These patties are prepared thoughtfully.
On the point of thoughtfulness, though, I have to return to the abundance of choices. With so many meat, cheese, garnish, sauce, and spread options, it becomes pretty clear pretty fast that Bareburger is concerned more with quantity than synergy. That is to say, they’ll wow you with the amount of options they have, but there’s no guarantee that any assortment of toppings will work well together (Julie, for instance, was less pleased with her choice). It’s that uncertainty that distinguishes Bareburger from other, superior build-your-own outfits.
But going back to my burger, the cheddar was generously portioned, a thick and bubbling sheet atop the elk. The bacon was rich and smoky. The sauce and spread were uninspiring: the mustard was too scarce to make an impression and the tomato-fig jam was a little insipid. Both were lost in the proverbial shuffle. The jalapeños had no heat, so they were essentially duplicative of the pickles, which themselves were a touch on the sad and soggy end. All told, the toppings were good, not great, and reinforced my nagging suspicion that Bareburger is more committed to quantity than to quality.
I went to Bareburger hungry, and left sated. Was it worth the three-minute walk from Julie’s apartment? Yes. Was it worth the $15.25 price tag? Less yes. Would I be confident that I could get an equally good burger the next time I went, regardless of what I ordered? Not at all yes. So…no. Bareburger’s vast array of toppings pits garnish against garnish. And they don’t always work together well. Ultimately, the abundance of items gives rise to some weird tragedy of the commons, where ingredients stand alone rather than collaborating to form a coherent whole. That makes Bareburger an inconsistent roll of the dice. If you’re feeling lucky, go for it.
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Assembly of the Vice-Province of Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - On January 10, 2023, the assembly of the Vice-Province of Madagascar took place in Benasandratra Antananarivo. The day was divided into two meetings: morning and afternoon. We have focused on reading the numbers of the Constitution and those relating to the functions of government...
An autograph Letter from Father de Montfort in Pontchâteau?
PONTCHATEAU, France - Dans le parloir de la maison montfortaine du Calvaire de Pontchâteau le manuscrit d’une lettre du P. de Montfort est encadré et daté 29 Janvier 1711. Cette lettre, fort probablement autographe, fut trouvée au milieu de vieux papiers dans le grenier lors de l’évacuation de la maison réquisitionnée par les ...
Assembly of the Vice-Province of Canada
MONTREAL, Canada - On January 11, 2023, the Vice-Province of Canada met in Montreal in view of the next General Chapter. The motive was to elect a delegate to accompany the Provincial to the General Chapter. Father Louis-Paul St-Laurent was unanimously elected...
The Opening of the Golden Jubilee Year and Perpetual Profession
BANGALORE, India - Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east, from the west, from the north and the south. On the 3rd of January 2023, the Maria Bhavan...
Fr. Prem KUMAR, SMM | 16/1/2023
Needy Parishioners receive Food Relief
BLANTYRE, Malawi - On Thursday 21st December 2022, Montfort fathers working in Bvumbwe – Ugandan Martyrs Catholic parish in Limbe, Malawi donated 42 bags of maize worth 1,155,000 Malawian Kwacha (local currency) equivalent to 1,039.50 euros to some needy Christians in their parish...
Fr. Damian ABRAHAM, SMM | 16/1/2023
Opening of the Chapter of the SMM Province of Indonesia
MALANG, Indonesia - 2023 is important year for the SMM Province of Indonesia because in this year we take the first stage of the Provincial Chapter that determines the direction of our journey. The Chapter meeting has started on Tuesday, January 10 and will continue to January 13, 2023 at the Hermanas Carmelitas Malang Prayer House owned by the H. Carm Sisters...
Fr. Albertus ARIS, SMM | 12/1/2023
Households in Kenya receive Food Relief as Hunger continues to bite
NAIROBI, Kenya – Over 141 households in Meru, Kenya, received food relief in November and December 2022. The Montfort Scholasticate community, Mulot community and Lay Associates in Kenya are carrying out hunger relief intervention activities with support from partners through the German SMM Procure...
Montfortians of Portugal in Assembly
FATIMA, Portugal - On January 3 and 4, 2023, all the members of the Company of Mary in Portugal held an annual meeting at “Casa Montfort” (Fátima). It was precious time for reflection, prayer, conviviality, sharing...
Fr. Luis Manuel FERREIRA, SMM | 10/1/2023
New Administration of the Province of Italy
On 5 January 2023, the Provincial Chapter of Italy in the presence of Father Luiz Augusto STEFANI, SMM, Superior General, has elected Provincial Superior, Father Angelo SORTI, SMM...
Montfort Communications | 9/1/2023
New Evangelization and Modernity
BERGAMO, Italy – Father Battista CORTINOVIS, SMM at the age of 80 is always a dynamic director of “The Apostle of Mary” in Italy, a Montfortian Marian and Missionary Magazine that stands out for its international scope and its attention to the themes of modernity. Recently, he published this article on the new evangelization in Europe which can interest our reflection in all latitudes of the world...
Fr. Battista CORTINOVIS, SMM | 4/1/2023
The Message for the Golden Jubilee Year of India
BANGALORE, India - “It is through the most Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus Christ came into the world, and it is also through her that he will reign in the world,” says St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, our founder, and it’s through the blessing of Mother Mary that the Montfort Missionaries were led to India in 1973. It’s a land, where one experiences the divine milieu in cities and villages alike...
Fr. Peter MASCARENHAS, SMM | 30/12/2022
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Folsom Manifesto for the California Statewide Prison Strike, 1970
A copy of this historic document in its original form was sent to Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir by Kumasi, a Los Angeles-based prison movement scholar and central leader of the Black August Organizing Committee who was a close comrade to George Jackson. Kumasi was reminded of this Manifesto when he learned of the National Prison Strike that began in Black August 2018 and believed Bay View readers would value the opportunity to witness prison movement evolution.
‘It is in the service of God to inflict wrath on...
I am writing to let you know the conditions us convicts at South Central Correctional Center (SCCC) have endured and expose the brutal assault that took place on Aug. 23, 2018. I was placed in Administrative Segregation and stripped of my privileges – contact visits, phone calls, canteen, personal property etc. – for the reason of investigation. That’s a violation of my due process rights, as I am punished before being found guilty of anything.
Criminal is the new nigger
There is a branding within our communities that is honored, praised and promoted – a branding that has been adopted out of ignorance and is more dehumanizing than the word nigger. Yet, this branding has been promoted and ingrained into the psyche of many within our communities to the point that it has been accepted and even worn as a badge of honor, not unlike the derogatory “nigger” terminology. The branding I’m referring to is the mark of a beast, a killer, a robber, a drug dealer or, simply, a criminal.
This ‘modern-day’ slavery isn’t all that modern
Today as I write this article I am sitting in one of Alabama’s prisons looking around at the many lost, confused and content slaves who occupy the overcrowded slave quarters called Alabama Department of Corrections. The task that I, Brother Ra Sun and Kinetic Justice have before us is to convince these brothers on today’s modern day plantations; they are still slaves, made applicable by the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution, and are contributing to their enslavement. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to find the best way to do that.
Missouri guards called the Cowboy Gang say, ‘We’ll make your murder...
I hope this letter gets to the Bay View because correctional officers are destroying my outgoing mail. I had to defend myself against a correctional officer when he swung on me and I ended up busting his jaw and knocking him out. The results: All my property was destroyed, I was jumped on in cuffs and shackles, not fed, slept on concrete naked for weeks and everything imaginable. Corrections Officers have made death threats on my life.
They say the police said I was a snitch, but what...
So tell your little neo-fascist friends – who have no life outside of what revolves around these prison plantations – that they’re right. As long as we have sick individuals who have lost touch with their own sense of humanity, who play with and destroy our lives, who refuse to see us as human beings deserving of respect, I’m going to keep on so-called snitching! Now, go tell, gossip, chat about that!
Are California prisoners the property of prison staff?
I frequently hear correctional officers make statements such as, “Inmate, get off my table,” “Inmate, get off my yard,” “Inmate, get off my bed” and so on. The idea that they own everything in the prison sounds like they have serious ownership issues, along with superiority complex and delusions. It could also be the reason they abuse prisoners so much. If correctional officers believe we are their property, they could justify abusive treatment of “their” property.
‘Security/welfare checks’: Call for 602s, 22s and artwork
Are you living in segregated housing – SHU, Ad-Seg, PSU, Condemned Units? Are correctional officers coming around to your cell every half hour or hour to conduct security/welfare checks? Are these checks conducted in a quiet manner? Or do these checks disturb you? Do they interfere with your ability to sleep, or cause physical or mental health problems? The PHSS Committee to End Sleep Deprivation and CFASC/Family Unity Network want to help prisoners pursue this grievance.
Rising temperatures can kill Texas prisoners. Corrections ignored that, says federal...
A federal judge in Houston ordered a geriatric prison in Texas to help inmates overcome extreme heat and rising summer temperatures, referencing climate change in a groundbreaking ruling this week. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison deemed it cruel and unusual that state corrections are aware of dangerous and lethal heat risks – at least 23 men in Texas prisons have died from the heat in the last 20 years – yet have failed to impose safeguards.
Why so many suicides at Lane Murray Unit, a Texas women’s...
For women in Texas prisons, it’s a perpetual fight. After five long, atrocious years of mental, emotional and physical abuse in prolonged solitary confinement at Lane Murry Unit – infamously nicknamed “Miserable Murray” – I have suffered tremendously. The percentage rate continues to rise for women committing suicide at Lane Murray Unit. When will justice be served? How many women must die before Lane Murray Unit is finally investigated by internal affairs and/or closed down?
My life in solitary confinement
I wake up every morning and stretch, then say a prayer thanking the Lord for allowing me to make it through another day and night. My mattress is in real poor condition, as it’s old and the cotton is coming out, so I’ve had to re-sew it in order not to further damage my back. I spend at least 20 minutes every morning stretching, then brush my teeth and wash my face. This starts at 5 a.m.
White House officials and local leaders attend debate, organized by prisoner,...
Senior White House officials, city leaders, educators, community residents and inmates gathered inside the All Faith Chapel at the Atlanta federal prison on May 9 to hear a debate team of three inmates with lengthy custodial sentences challenge a team of three Morehouse College undergraduates. The highly anticipated event was themed The Great Debate and Reentry Forum: Everyone Deserves a Fair and Second Chance.
Tension at New Folsom between Blacks and guards since assassination of...
I am currently in solitary confinement for a “Battery on a Peace Officer,” which took place on Sept. 24, 2015, six weeks after the assassination of beloved political prisoner Hugo “Yogi” Pinell at New Folsom State Prison B-Facility. Prison officials released a statement to the media that several correctional officers were “ambushed” by a group of Afrikan Amerikan inmates on C-Facility, which in reality is far from the truth.
Assassination of Hugo Pinell: One guard asked another, ‘Did they get...
I would like to expose injustice and further educate you and your readers on the events surrounding the murder of Hugo “Yogi” Pinell. I was housed in California State Prison Sacramento. Black and white inmates were placed on lockdown because of racial tension between the two ethnic groups. While locked down, staff received confidential information that Hugo Pinell’s life was in danger and threats were being made on his life by racially motivated inmates.
‘How long since you had ice cream, Old Man?’ ’51 years,’...
Respects to you for giving brothas a voice and love. I won’t lie in this letter nor put on extras out of respect and in honor of my brother Hugo “Yogi” Pinell. I’m an inmate in New Folsom. I was housed in B2-111, five cells away from Yogi. Every day at yard time it was my honor and duty to escort him to the rec yard. His spirit was amazing. He had jokes. When Yogi hit the yard, the unity just by his presence was beautiful. Afrikans from everywhere were one.
Take action against ongoing sleep deprivation torture – 137 days as...
People in solitary confinement have been loudly awakened by guards every 30 minutes around the clock since the night of Aug. 2, for more than four months! CDCR claims these checks are to improve mental health care and prevent suicides. Instead, this cruel sleep deprivation constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners and their attorneys are demanding that these checks be halted. Stop these torture tactics now! Support prisoners’ human rights! Send emails and make calls. Sleep deprivation is torture!
Prisoners, where is thy victory?
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” – Gandhi. Corrections Corporation of America and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is the epitome of this quote, and it is not enough for those reading this to agree with the truths delineated herein.
Menard hunger strike, Sept. 23-28: Trying to make it better for...
On Sept. 23, 2015, at least 19 and possibly as many as 22 men in Administrative Detention at the Menard Correctional Center began a hunger strike that ended on Sept. 28. It was nearly a week after the hunger strike ended before we received any mail from them. The following is a composite account based on what they sent us, written on the first and last days of the hunger strike.
Build unity: Don’t let CDC undermine the Agreement to End Hostilities
The hunger strike victory – settlement of the class action suit against solitary confinement – is fantastic, but now, more hard work confronts them all. They will continue to be in a relentless fight to prevent COs from destroying the unity and continued political determination of the vision for prison reform in California. There will come a time in which the prisoners will need to essentially rebrand, identify and complete what they started – the five demands.
The other death sentence: Deliberate indifference at Corcoran SHU
“Deliberate indifference” is defined as “the act(s) or omissions of a prison official who knows that the prisoner faces a substantial risk of serious harm or significant pain and disregards that risk by not taking reasonable measures to abate it.” But what happens when deliberate indifference is longstanding, pervasive, well documented and expressly noted by officials over the course of time. Yet the state does nothing to correct it? | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6043084263801575, "wiki_prob": 0.39569157361984253, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1109243"} |
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As a part of the Gofore Group’s employee share savings plan, CrewShare (“plan”), Gofore Plc’s Board of Directors has resolved today to issue a total of 26,279 new shares. The new shares issued account for matching shares paid on the basis of the savings period 2019–2020 (CrewShare 2019) and savings shares acquired with savings from the savings period 2021–2022 (CrewShare 2021). More detailed information about the plan and its savings periods were published in the company announcement on 28 September 2018 and 16 February 2021.
The share issue is based on the authorisation by the Annual General Meeting held on 26 March 2021.
A total of 6,126 new shares are issued without consideration to the plan participants of CrewShare 2019 in accordance with the plan terms as a matching reward against the savings shares acquired with the savings from the savings period 2019–2020.
A total of 20,153 new shares are issued to the CrewShare 2021 participants with the second savings set of the savings period 2021–2022, i.e. the savings accrued during 1 September 2021 – 28 February 2022. The shares have been subscribed for at a price of EUR 21.1050 per share, which is based on the trade volume weighted average share price at the official list of the Helsinki Stock Exchange administered by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd during 1–28 February 2022 with a 10% discount. A total subscription price of the shares is EUR 425,330.
The new shares of the CrewShare 2019 plan are expected to be entered into the Trade Register on or about 21 March 2022, and trading in the new shares is expected to begin on the official list of the Helsinki Stock Exchange administered by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd on 22 March 2022, and the new shares of the CrewShare 2021 plan are expected to be entered into the Trade Register on or about 22 March 2022, and trading in the new shares is expected to begin on the official list of the Helsinki Stock Exchange administered by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd on 23 March 2022. Following the registration of the new shares, the total number of the company shares is 15,370,322. The share subscription price will be credited in full to the company’s reserve for invested unrestricted equity.
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Altagor papers
The Altagor Papers, which span from 1930-2009, contain correspondence, personal papers, writings, artwork, printed material, objects, long-playing records, audio tapes, and other papers by or relating to the artist Altagor, also known as Andre Vernier. These materials document Altagor’s writings including drafts of his novels, manifestoes, typewriter poems, symphonic poems, and his most well-known works, “Discours absolu” and “Simonia.”
This collection also contains Altagor’s musical creations including his post-war compositions and scores, as well as designs for his musical instruments and the proto-type of one of them, the “pantaphone.” Notebooks, correspondence, and reel-to-reel tapes document his performances, his creative practice, and his involvement with Lettrism.
Altagor, 1915-1992
Chiefly in French; some material in English.
Boxes 17-28 (audiotape reels): Restricted fragile material. Consult Access Services for further information.
The Altagor Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Purchased from Didier Lecointre-Dominique Drouet on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Organized into thirteen series: I. Novels and Classical Poems, 1930-1960. II. Simonia, 1942-1964. III. Poetic Fragments, 1936-1961. IV. Symphonic Poems and Odes, 1939-1948. V. Metapoesie and Metapoesie Lettrism, 1941-2001. VI. Discours Absolu, 1937-1958, VII. Recordings and Scores, 1943-2009. VIII. Notes, Notebooks, and Uncollected Texts, 1950-1984. IX. Writings, Theories, and Ideas, 1945-2002. X. Drawings and Paintings, 1957-1985. XI. Personal Papers and Photographs, undated. XII. Annotated Books, 1937-1986. XIII. Objects, 1976, undated.
https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.altagor
The Altagor Papers, which span from 1930-2009, contain correspondence, personal papers, writings, artwork, printed material, objects, records, audio tapes, and other papers by or relating to the artist Altagor, also known as Andre Vernier.
Altagor
Altagor, also known as André Vernier (1915-1992), was a novelist, sound poet, and composer, who was often associated with the Lettrism movement. Born in the French province of Lorraine, he worked briefly as a coal miner before turning his hand to writing, musical composition, and art. From the 1930’s until the end of his life, Altagor made objects and musical instruments, drew and painted, made audio recordings of his musical performances, and wrote in a variety of disciplines including poetry.
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This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
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Poets, French
Guide to the Altagor Papers
by Rosemary K. J. Davis
Finding aid written in English and French.
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Moon Kyungwon + YCAM : Promise Park—Rendering of Future Patterns
Artistic Research
Moon Kyungwon
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
Design: Yuzo Kariya + Nao Kakuta / neucitora. Courtesy Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM).
Moon Kyungwon + YCAM
Promise Park—Rendering of Future Patterns
November 28, 2015–February 14, 2016
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The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) and internationally renowned South Korean artist Moon Kyungwon present new installation works and research results that have emerged from the three-year "Promise Park Project," focusing on "park of the future" since its launch back in 2013.
Focusing on the "park" as a place where the activities of humans across different ages and cultures come together, the project aims to explore the meaning of the park from its establishment and discuss future forms of public spaces with experts from various fields. At the same time, it can also be understood as a platform for various engineers and researchers to engage in research and discussion.
Opening in 2015, this large-scale exhibition summarizes the activities of the three-year project. The exhibition presents various ideas on the subject of "park of the future," based on interdisciplinary fieldwork and approaches from various areas, in the form of new installations and a research showcase.
The exhibition is divided into two parts, respectively introducing new installation works and the “Park Atlas” (archive of parks). The new installations revolve around a large-scale video work realized using such state-of-the-art imaging technologies as computer graphics and drone photography. Furthermore, throughout the exhibition period, a "park of the future" carpet will be woven in collaboration with Kyoto-based Hosoo Co., Ltd. The research showcase, meanwhile, introduces results of the artist and researcher's fieldworks and research into parks and gardens from ancient to present times.
This exhibition is based on fieldwork and drone photographs taken at modern industrial "ruins" and relics. On display are a video installation in which these images are projected onto the floor like a giant carpet, and a woven carpet of "park of the future" that will be continuously produced throughout the exhibition period with collective sounds installation.
Since 2014, guest researchers/projects have been invited to do fieldwork mainly in the Yamaguchi region, with a focus on rocks and historic sites that bear the marks of various ages from ancient to modern. In addition, images have been collected through investigations at such representative modern day parks as Hyde Park (London), Central Park (New York) and Ueno Park (Tokyo), as well as at the Mundaneum, a plan for a “world city” based on an archive of all the world’s knowledge, conceived in the early 20th century by Paul Otlet. These images are presented in the form of the "Park Atlas" slide show, which is programmed so that the playback order and the relationship between the single images keeps changing.
"Park Atlas" direction: Rurihiko Hara (modern culture; enrolled in a doctoral course at The University of Tokyo)
Research cooperation: Ryosuke Kondo (representational culture; enrolled in a doctoral course at The University of Tokyo), Takeshi Kinoshita (garden/landscape design; associate professor at Chiba University), Tomoki Yamauchi (guest researcher, University of Hyogo)
Technical Advisor: Kazuhiro Jo (art engineering; lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences IAMAS)
Visual Programming: Ken Furudate, Ryo Kanda, Ryo Shiraki
Sound Programming: Satoshi Hama
Visual Effect: Alice FX
Sound Design: Dalparan
Special Collaboration: Hosoo Co., Ltd.
Curator: Kumiko Idaka (YCAM)
Supervisor: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
For more information, contact Momoko Aoyagi: T +81 83 901 2222 / press [at] ycam.jp
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As a consequence of the protracted and devastating war launched by the terrorist forces in 2011, thousands of Armenian-Syrians have taken shelter among other countries (Lebanon, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, the USA, Canada, Sweden, etc.) also in the Motherland, in the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh (Karabagh).
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Doughlings: Invasion Developer Diary – Part 7: Rebirth
Alien Busters! Long Time No See.
It has been two years since the release of Doughlings: Invasion, our love letter to the timeless classic Space Invaders. After delivering Mayhem Brawler to the iiRcade platform, we’ve started porting our previous titles on the system, where our classic reimaginations will feel right at home. While in this process, we took the opportunity to tune up Doughlings: Invasion a little along the road as well! Today, we will be talking about how Doughlings: Invasion is changing and what to expect from the title’s upcoming update. Buckle up!
The regular play mode will turn into the “Campaign” mode and receive multiple additions and balance changes. The most prominent of these new features is the level selection. After defeating the specific boss of that level, players can choose and play that particular section at will. If you’ve failed to defeat every Queen during your defense against the alien waves, fear not! Upon finishing the current level, the previous DNA tree will be fully upgraded for that specific character. Naturally, selectable levels will be separated between the difficulties.
Another addition is that players will no longer hold a fixed life the whole playthrough. Instead, Morpheus will commence his resistance with a certain amount of lives at the beginning of every level. We believe these implementations will give Morpheus the upper hand on his journey to save his people.
Those who want to experience the authentic way of playing this fixed shooter have the Arcade mode at their disposal. This mode will play just like the original version of the game with minor tweaks and changes. Players will need to save the imprisoned Doughlings and conserve their lives to withstand alien forces until the bitter end. Along with new modes to experience, players will find new mechanical and balance changes. We will be sharing a detailed patch note for those who want to learn what is new in the update, so stay tuned!
This Day We Fight!
As the Sensational Video Game Company, we in Hero Concept love the timeless classics of arcade gaming. Restoring the retro vibes and giving players that nostalgic feeling while making innovative approaches is our passion. We believe, Doughlings: Invasion is a one-of-a-kind experience as a fixed shooter. Due to this title staying true to the classics, it caused an unexpected difficulty for the newcomers. By addressing these issues, we feel the title will shine out brighter than ever.
We can’t wait to hear your thoughts about the latest version of Doughlings: Invasion! Be sure to let us know about your resistance against the fearsome and colorful invaders. Until we meet again!
See you around space Doughlings…
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Leo Lin, MD, PhD
Medical Director: Immunology
Assistant Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine
Nonmalignant flow cytometry
Medical Degree—University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Doctorate Degree—Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Residency—Clinical Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine
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American Board of Pathology
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Mean Royals: The Spanish Princess vs the Tudor Matriarch & Grand-Matriarch – Did Such a Rivalry Exist?
April 5, 2019 April 5, 2019 Carolina Casas4 Comments
Was Katharine of Aragon’s relationship with her mother and grandmother-in-law, Elizabeth of York and Margaret Beaufort respectively, tense and fraught with discord as shown in The Spanish Princess? The miniseries, a sequel to The White Queen and The White Princess hasn’t aired yet but the latest trailers has given us a taste of what we can expect.
Like its aforementioned predecessors, the miniseries will be using the common trope of other female lead costume dramas: Women vs women.
This is a trope that has been played to dead. And it is not bad, when well done. But that is the problem here. Did it really happen and if it didn’t, how will it play out?
Should we care?
No. If accuracy isn’t what you are looking for. If all you care is about storytelling, this shouldn’t bother you one bit. But if you are a historical purist, then I suggest you turn off the TV and switch to another channel.
As previously stated, the Mean Girls trope has been played to dead. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Contrary to popular belief though, it wasn’t that common.
Women did fight each other for wealth and position, but these fights didn’t as long as they are depicted in these costume dramas. In fact, more often than not, women who started off as enemies, became allies if not friends in the end.
This was no different for Katharine of Aragon. Forget her rivalry with Anne Boleyn, let’s go further back to the start of the sixteenth century, when she landed on Plymouth, England.
Everyone who saw her was enchanted by her, this includes Elizabeth of York. Little is said about Margaret Beaufort’s opinion of her. Given the written records and what’s known about these figures thus far, there is no reason to think that she disliked her.
If anything, Margaret’s attitude towards Katharine had more to do with prioritizing her son and his dynasty’s interests first above her personal opinions. Unlike Elizabeth of York, Margaret was politically active. Following the death of her eldest grandchild, she would advised Henry VII and gone along with his final decision.
Margaret’s hold over her family is well known and much has been written about it, but Margaret’s actions were no different than other older grand-matriarchs. Elizabeth of York on the other hand, chose to take on a passive role. In this, she excelled tremendously, earning the love and admiration of the English people.
Elizabeth was intrigued by her future daughter-in-law. There’s no proof of animosity between them. Days before her London entourage, she had stayed at Lambeth Palace. The day when her procession began, the King and Queen had sent their youngest son, Henry, Duke of York to accompany her. They had even offered her a carriage, which she politely reclined, opting for a humble mount instead.
Katharine displayed tremendous gratitude for all the work and effort that had been put into the celebrations, something that wasn’t lost on the royal family and her future subjects. When the ceremonies came to an end, she retired to the Bishop of London’s home at St. Paul’s (where she would be married to Arthur two days later on Sunday, November 14th). In her dual biography on Katharine and her older sister, Juana (I) of Castile, Julia Fox, notes:
“The royal family were delighted with everything and everyone. Queen Elizabeth had caught her first glimpse of Katherine, and the princess was due to visit her the next day.” (Fox)
Interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral
Arthur’s letters to Katharine had been passionate. This is a key factor that nearly all historians note in their multiple biographies on these notable historical figures. Neither Margaret Beaufort nor Elizabeth of York felt threatened by Katharine’s grace and humility. If anything, these virtues brought them relief.
England had endured a terrible period of dynastic civil war. The repercussions of these royal affairs served as a bitter reminder of what happened when women’s voices rang louder than those of the king’s trusted men. Women played an integral during the wars of the roses. Active or not, they became the object of controversy -real or created- and these controversies were used as weapons against their husbands and sons. After all this chaos, the people expected consorts who took more of a backstage role than a public one. Elizabeth of York had become that and more, to the point of becoming a quasi-religious icon immediately after her death.
Katharine’s soft and apparent humble demeanor, mirrored those of Elizabeth of York, whom Katharine hoped to emulate in her coming years as Queen of England.
For her part, Elizabeth of York had communicated to Katharine’s mother, that both she and her husband were pleased with her daughter. Elizabeth’s correspondence to Isabella had begun some years before. Knowing that Katharine would have to communicate in something other than English with her son, she advised the Queen of Castile to take advantage of Margaret Habsburg, who’d recently married Katharine’s brother, Prince Juan of Asturias. Margaret like Katharine, was highly educated. One of the languages she had come to master was French. While Katharine and Arthur could continue to write to each other in Latin, Elizabeth felt it better if she started to learn and practice French too, since it was language that was still highly popular among the English upper class.
Isabella took Elizabeth’s advice to heart. When Katharine came to England, she committed herself to learning England and slowly but surely, becoming indistinguishable from any of the English ladies at court.
Katharine did succeed, but her success did not come until much later when she was Henry VIII’s queen. During these trying years of battling for dominance, standing her ground against Tudor legal forces and foreign interests that underestimated her intellectual capacity and perseverance, Katharine remained the Spanish Princess. The unfortunate widow whose virginity was often debated and contested, which also placed into doubt her eligibility as the next King of England’s future bride. The future seemed bleak for Katharine. Rather than being discouraged by these seemingly impossible odds, Katharine remained adamant. Her first motto as Princess of Wales had been “not for my crown.” She continued to push, finding other outlets to survive and remain in England, until she got what she wanted.
Elizabeth of York had promised she’d look over her daughter-in-law and be there to guide her through the difficult adjustment into her new country. Following her son’s funeral, Elizabeth did what she could to provide the widowed Spanish Princess with moral support. It is not known what was her opinion of Katharine’s resolute affirmation of her virginity and her parents, especially her mother, pushing for a renewal of the Anglo-Spanish alliance by marrying her to the remaining crown prince, Henry (now) Prince of Wales. Elizabeth’s choice to take on a more conciliatory role as Queen Consort would have made her opinion -if she voiced it- irrelevant. Henry VII had the final say in this matter. Margaret Beaufort’s involvement in this matter seems to have been very minimal. Whatever Henry VII decided, it was for the good of the realm and she, like all his subjects, would follow his lead.
Coming back to the novels this miniseries is based on, from the moment Katharine of Aragon meets Margaret Pole, the two hit it off. This is historically accurate. The two women became best friends, with Margaret reaping the benefits of this friendship right after Katharine weds Henry VIII and is jointly crowned with him. The earldom of Salisbury that had been in her family was restored to her, becoming one of the few female title holders (femme sole) up until that point. But there is a dark history to Katharine and Arthur’s union, a condition which the miniseries will undoubtedly touch upon.
After Katharine and Margaret Pole become fast friends in The Constant Princess, she asks Margaret if she doesn’t blame her for her brother’s execution. Margaret brushes it off as one of many tragic moments in her life, and a reality that royals have to live with.
Is the miniseries going to have Elizabeth of York blame Katharine for what happened to her brother and cousin? The White Queen and The White Princess (based on the novels of the same name) follow the school of thought that Perkin Warbeck was who he claimed he was, the youngest of the lost princes in the tower, Richard of Shrewsbury, better known as Richard, Duke of York. “The White Princess” takes a lot of historical liberties (more so than its predecessor, also deviating from its source material), having Elizabeth of York being one of the plotters behind her brother and cousin’s downfall. Yet, to excuse her actions, she might reason that she was forced into these drastic measures because of Katharine of Aragon’s parents, the Catholic Kings who in real life DID pressure Elizabeth’s husband to secure his throne or else, their alliance was off.
Notable biographer Sarah Gristwood, takes on a different approach from past historians, inferring in her multiple biography on the women of the wars of the roses, “Blood Sisters”, that Margaret never got along with Katharine and held back a gleeful smile when her granddaughter-in-law’s longed for triumph, was nearly ruined by pouring rain. Katharine had come to substitute her as her remaining grandson, Henry VIII, now an adult and the new King of England, trusted adviser.
The Spanish Princess, based off Philippa Gregory’s two novels The Constant Princess & The King’s Curse which protagonists are Katharine of Aragon and Margaret Pole respectively. Judging solely by the miniseries’ trailers, it looks like The Spanish Princess is taking this perspective. In the last chapters of “The Constant Princess”, Margaret Beaufort nearly explodes when Henry VIII begins to listen less and less to her and more to his charming new bride. The miniseries will no doubt recreate this season with Margaret realizing -as Sir Thomas More, Lord Mountjoy and countless others during her joint coronation with Henry VIII- that Katharine of Aragon is not just any Princess, but a woman who was born to be Queen.
In the trailer, Elizabeth reminds Henry VII of the importance of this alliance. “Spain and England unite against our enemies so our son is protected on his throne.”
It’s unknown whether she says this BEFORE or AFTER Arthur dies, and whether or not she is talking about Arthur or Harry. Judging solely from her tone of voice, this conversation could take place after Arthur’s death, when she starts to view Katharine more as a threat and a bitter reminder of the sacrifice they had to make to ensure this alliance. The next line is spoken by her husband in what can only be assumed is an earlier moment in the series, where he warns his Queen that until “that girl arrives, we are lost.”
“Elizabeth of York was glad that after so many delays, the Princess from Spain had finally reached England. In a month’s time, she and Arthur would be wed, and within a year –God willing- she would be a mother. But the Queen’s happiness had come at a price. Before his daughter could come to England, King Ferdinand had demanded the death of the hapless Earl of Warwick. The Young man, though he was a prisoner, was a continuing threat to the security of England, he believed. Until he was properly dealt with, Ferdinand declared, he would not allow his precious daughter to leave Spain. Henry VII complied. To secure the alliance, Warwick and Perkin Warbeck were put to death in 1499.” (Hui)
Taking all of this into account, it’s not far-fetched to say, that part of Elizabeth’s anger towards Katharine will stem from the the losses she and Henry had to endure and the heavy toll they had to pay for the sake of the Anglo-Spanish alliance. Elizabeth’s response to her cousin, Margaret Pole, when Margaret asks what will happen to the widowed Spanish Princess, may be confirmation of this.
Regardless of the historical liberties and deviation from the source material, this miniseries is set to have many historical buffs talking. Hopefully, it will make more people interested in finding out about the real people behind this costume drama, especially Katharine of Aragon, whose beginnings are often overshadowed by her tragic end.
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Book Review: Los Grandes – Maria Tudor
March 10, 2018 Carolina CasasLeave a comment
El libro es mas que otra biografia sobre “Maria la Sanguinaria” como es mejor recordada. Esta biografia es acerca de la Maria historica. Una mujer que nacio en el Palacio de Greenwich en 1516, fue la unica hija que les sobrevivio a sus padres, Enrique VIII y su primera esposa, la Infanta Española Catalina de Aragon. Maria crecio mimada y con un futuro resplandeciente. Su madre era la hija de los Reyes Catolicos y por lo tanto esperaba que su hija heredara el trono de su padre. Sin embargo, la dinastia Tudor era bastante nueva e Inglaterra no tenia bien visto la idea de una Reina gobernante. Maria recibio una educacion de lujo pero esta fue suspendida una vez que Enrique se caso con Ana Bolena, declaro su matrimonio con Catalina nulo, y su hija una bastard.
El libro no excusa las acciones de Maria, pero tampoco da excusas para los otras personas que la rodearon. El siglo XVI era una epoca violenta, mas por los guerras religiosas entre varios grupos Protestantes y Catolicos, y tambien entre el Cristianismo y el Islam. Los autores no buscan dar una nueva interpretacion de Maria, si no reportar los hechos tal y como sucedieron, y presentar su mundo tal y como era. Y a Maria como una mujer que sufrio varias decepciones, las cuales influyeron en su decision de quemar varios Protestantes una vez que ella se volvio Reina. Aunque esto no fue de inmediato, no fue tan popular como se pensaba que iba a ser. Inglaterra estaba cambiando, y su decision de casarse con un hombre once años mas joven que ella, que no fue aceptado por el simple hecho de ser un extranjero, le trajeron muchos problemas. Felipe II, una vez que su padre abdico en su favor en 1556, tuvo menos interes en responder las cartas de su esposa o visitarla.
El libro termina con unas notas tristes, pero duras en cuanta a la vida de esta monarca. Claramente, ponerla como una incompredida heroina y angelita no le hace ningunos favores, pero exagerar su imagen y creer en todo lo negativo (mucho de lo cual era eso: exageracion) tampoco es bueno.
Los Grandes sigue siendo de las mejores ediciones de biografias historicas. No esperaba que me iba a gustar, pero me gusto porque a pesar de estar corta, el libro da a conocer todas los detalles importantes acerca de esta monarca. Tiene una buena documentacion y a la vez entretiene.
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Book Review: Anne Boleyn, Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence
November 9, 2017 November 10, 2017 Carolina CasasLeave a comment
To understand Anne Boleyn, we have to know about her world first. Her roots, going back to the very beginning, tracing her family story, her role in the shifting religious climate of the Tudor era and finally, the differing views on women. When it comes to giving these women’s a voice, nobody is more suited for this task than renowned women’s historian, Amy Licence. The past comes alive in her new biography on Henry VIII’s second consort, and the mother to one of the world’s greatest female leaders who ruled England the longest out of all her dynasty, Elizabeth I.
Anne Boleyn lived during a time when many changes were going on. Nobody could have predicted her fall, or how far Henry VIII would have gone to have her. Nevertheless, looking back further, some things about her character start to make more sense.
Like her previous biography on Catherine of Aragon, this is a very detailed book. Highlighting the difference in status and the ever-changing cultural norms regarding gender, religion, and ceremony, she pulls the reader in to the 15th and 16th century eras. Another thing that I enjoyed from this book is that she did not shy away from the brutality and prejudices that characterized these time periods.
We often forget that these were people, subject to the same emotional and physical pain, although the later was augmented two-fold given the time and place they lived in, and the large gamble many of the up-and-coming families like the Boleyns took; nevertheless, something set them apart. They viewed the world through dark-colored lens.
The courts where Anne Boleyn served women like the archduchess Margaret of Austria and Queens Mary (her future husband’s youngest sister when she married Louis XII) and Claude of France, and later Henry’s first queen, Catherine of Aragon, valued order above all else. Decorum and class were everything for these people. Everything had to be structured, otherwise, society would come crumbling down and with it, chaos would reign.
Anne Boleyn was aware of this so she chose to follow the rules unlike her spirited sister Mary. But Anne was spirited in her own way. Instead of giving herself freely to men, be it through pressure or for passion, she preferred to shine by showing off her intellectual attributes. Her etiquette, her subtle playful and comely behavior, her occasional defiance, her passion for the new learning and indulging others, including Henry Percy and later the king, in harmless games of courtly love is what made her into one of the most alluring and interesting women at the Tudor court.
But, and this is something that historians still ask (and will likely continue to ask in the many years to come), is this what she intended? Was Anne Boleyn responsible for her fall? Was she a victim, pawn, or villain, homewrecker, or all of these things neatly wrapped together? Amy Licence doesn’t pretend to know the answer and as the book progresses, she is not about to give a definite answer but merely what she believed happened given what we know so far, and leave the rest for the reader to decide.
This is what a good historian. He or she gives the reader as much information as it is available, separates fact from fiction, primary from secondary sources and explaining the why, what, where, and when of the latter- letting the reader come to his own conclusion.
Anne Boleyn was a woman of many faces. She was a woman who might not have started out as the ambitious and unique ‘it’ girl from fiction, but as things got out of hand, she saw no other way but to play the waiting game and indulge the King. Having a strong moral compass -and another one of self-preservation- she did not let him take her virtue just like that. If the two of them were going to be together, he had to propose something grander. And ultimately that was marriage.
The road to the marriage bed was paved with obstacles, and it didn’t become any easier after she was crowned Queen of England. Anne was the first and only consort ever to be crowned with the crown of St. Edward the confessor -meant only for kings and queen regnants. Henry’s choice for this was not merely because of his passion and adoration for her, it was to symbolize something greater. He was not going to let anybody question their unborn child’s legitimacy, hence, his wife was going to have a coronation unlike something that hadn’t been seen before.
This is what the monarchy meant. Displays of force and splendor -and if there was something that Henry loved most of all, was wasting no expense on the latter.
But things turned sour and the rest as they say is history. Anne Boleyn’s story plays out like a Greek tragedy. A woman who chose to take the reins of her own destiny like her ancestors before her and navigate dangerous waters. Her gamble paid off (in the beginning). But she ended up losing everything. Yet, something of her remained, something which has catapulted her to fame. Her daughter. Elizabeth I is remembered as one of England’s greatest rulers. “Good Queen Bess”, “Virgin Queen” “Glorianna”, there is no shortage of titles that history has bestowed on her. But when it comes to Anne, people are still divided.
How do we view her? How do we judge a woman whose moral ambiguity still troubles many? The answer is simple and sometimes the simplest answer is the best: We view her as a woman of her times, a woman of her status, who rose too high and who was brought down by various factors. Some of them her doing, many of them not. Once we do this, a new picture of Anne starts to emerge -the same one which Amy Licence brings back to life in this stunning biography of one of England’s infamous femme-fatale.
Those of you interested in learning more about women’s lives, the struggles they faced, and how they used their different strengths to survive and fight against the rising tide, will devour this book.
Few historians choose to focus on women’s lives, and on the harsh realities that others had to face. And even fewer historians choose not to shy away from the less than flamboyant details that these people had to face, and this includes women’s hygiene, their ordeals during pregnancy, widowhood, and general views regarding these by the old and new church.
Ultimately, this biography is a great addition to our Tudor history bookshelves and more importantly to women’s history as it reminds us why Anne Boleyn is still relevant, and how easy it is for her story to be misappropriated or distorted. It is a product of the ever changing times just as she was a product of hers.
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Scenes from a Desert Drama
The tight-knit yet highly contentious social structure of the Kalahari's meerkats has made them the unlikely stars of a television soap opera
Molly Newman
FOR VIEWERS ACCUSTOMED to the typical imagery of wildlife TV shows--teeming herds of wildebeest, slow-motion footage of leaping dolphins, showdowns between predator and prey--the sudden stardom of meerkats may at first seem perplexing. These terrier-sized, dust-colored members of the mongoose family don't behave in obviously showy ways. They spend their days foraging for meals of insects and lizards, excavating new burrows and taking cover in the shade from the relentless heat of Africa's Kalahari Desert. Hardly the makings of high intrigue.
Yet these feisty mammals are currently the stars of a hit television program, Animal Planet's Meerkat Manor, and a closer look reveals why they make for such a compelling show. Meerkats are among the most socially oriented of all mammals. Their small, tight-knit family groups (or "mobs") share bonds of affection and responsibility. But they're also frequently riven by disputes over mating privileges and individual power. A dominant female grooms her daughter one moment, then snaps viciously at her hindquarters to drive her away. Subordinate males and females, discouraged from breeding by the group's dominant pair, sneak into the brush together for illicit coupling. As Caroline Hawkins, creator and series editor of Meerkat Manor says, "Their social structure lends itself naturally to a soap opera format."
These domestic dramas play out in desert regions across southern Africa, including the Kuruman River Reserve in South Africa near the Botswana border. Here, Cambridge University scientists with the Kalahari Meerkat Project have habituated several mobs to the presence of humans, allowing the meerkats to be studied at close range. Working alongside project scientists, a steady stream of camera crews now record the meerkats' lives firsthand. Under this constant scrutiny by researchers and filmmakers alike, meerkats have displayed an astonishing range of behaviors--from endearing to disturbing--that is transforming perceptions of these charismatic creatures.
After working with the Kuruman meerkats for four years, biologist Alex Thornton understands their popularity. "You can't help but laugh at some of the things they do," he says. Early in Thornton's stint at the reserve, he observed a young pup emerging from its burrow to forage outdoors for the first time. One of its adult relatives dropped a tasty treat at its feet: a freshly killed scorpion "bigger than the pup's head." As the youngster struggled with the oversized morsel, a large hornbill suddenly swooped down and tried to steal the prey--but got more than it bargained for. Rather than yielding its prize, the pup held on tenaciously as the hornbill flapped its wings and lifted into the air, scorpion and pup both dangling from its beak. "The pup finally let go before it was too late," Thornton says, "but I wasn't sure if it was going to at first."
Yet as Thornton's research has revealed, getting pups to pick on prey their own size is serious business for every meerkat mob. Lessons begin with the meerkat equivalent of nursery school. A recent study led by Thornton showed that in response to month-old pups' begging cries, older helpers bring freshly killed prey back to the youngsters. As the pups grow and become stronger, their teachers respond with more advanced instruction: They return from their foraging trips with prey that is incapacitated, but still alive. Scorpions--a favored item on meerkat menus--prove a special challenge for student and teacher alike. Adults must pin the wiggling arthropods down and neatly sever their venomous stingers with a flip of a paw, rendering them edible for even the least experienced pup. Older pups are provided with injured but mobile prey, forcing them to sharpen their own killing skills or risk losing a meal.
The pups' own mothers are rarely the ones teaching the lessons of successful foraging. Meerkats are obligate cooperative breeders, meaning that all members work together to rear the young and ensure the survival of the group. Each adult meerkat takes its turn in a round of pup-minding responsibilities. Besides babysitting duty, there's the important job of standing sentry: Predators such as jackals and tawny eagles are never far away, and marauders from competing meerkat groups pose another frequent threat. There are also new burrows to construct, sick or wounded group members to tend, and joint grooming sessions to provide a break from the flurry of activity. Several times an hour, there's a "shift change" as sentries, babysitters and foragers switch places. The effect is one of a harmonious, orderly family working together side by side.
But appearances can be deceiving. As research has shown, life in a meerkat mob is uncertain and perilous at times. Even the seemingly tender relationships between pups and elders can turn violent in an instant.
A meerkat society is ruled by its matriarch, the powerful female that leads her mob and is usually mother to most of its members. She and her partner form the group's sole breeding pair--in theory. In reality, subordinate females often mate surreptitiously, usually with roving males from rival mobs, and bear "unauthorized" litters of pups. The resulting tension between dominant and subordinate females leads to rivalry, squabbling and hostility befitting a prime-time TV series.
A subordinate female's trials begin in the latter half of the dominant female's pregnancy. The testy mother-to-be begins snapping at the other females in her mob, particularly those of breeding age. She nips at the bases of their tails, producing a characteristic wound pattern known as "eviction bites." Her attacks intensify until the hapless subordinates are driven from the group, forced to lurk around the edges of their home territory until the pups are born and the worst of the dominant female's aggression subsides.
This behavior isn't just due to the irritations of pregnancy. Under the strain of these repeated attacks, the subordinate females' bodies become overloaded with stress hormones, chemicals that reduce their fertility and can even cause them to abort an existing pregnancy. In this way, the dominant female increases her chances of being the sole group member to bear young.
At first, this tactic might seem counterproductive for the dominant female. Most of the subordinate females are her own daughters, which means that she is doing her best to prevent the birth of her own grandchildren. But a rationale can be found in the harsh nature of the meerkats' environment. A meerkat mob occupies a territory of one to three square miles, usually surrounded by the territories of competing groups. During the Kalahari's long rainless seasons, and especially during its frequent droughts, food becomes scarce. Each territory is strictly limited in the number of meerkats it can support. A group that grows too large too quickly may no longer be able to feed all its members.
With up to seven pups in each litter, babysitting the brood becomes a daunting task. An overtaxed babysitter may let down its guard for the few moments a predator needs to swoop down and carry away a pup. By limiting the number of babies born to subordinate females, the dominant female ensures that her entire group will be available to help care for her own young. It's a good thing for the mother to have a dependable roster of caretakers lined up: She hardly ever shoulders babysitting duty herself. Her fertility returns shortly after she gives birth, and she's usually pregnant with another litter within a few weeks. Plus, she needs to spend much of her time foraging so she can continue providing milk for her young brood.
There's another, more sinister reason why dominant females control their subordinates' fertility so tightly: When pregnant, subordinate female meerkats often kill other females' pups. In fact, research at the Kuruman reserve has shown that attack by a subordinate may be the most common cause of death for a dominant female's newborn pups. For up to four days after they're born, pups' greatest enemies are their aunts and older sisters; then, in a reversal rivaling any Hollywood plot twist, those same relatives become their teachers and greatest protectors.
Despite the constant stress of their unforgiving environment, meerkats are prospering in their Kalahari home. Thanks to the protection afforded by South Africa's and Botswana's extensive national parks, their habitat remains largely intact--a state of affairs shared by too few other African mammals. Yet, as Thornton points out, "what we're learning about meerkats may help us understand other cooperative breeders in grave danger of extinction, including African wild dogs and golden lion tamarins." The meerkats, with their Machiavellian social dynamics and deceptively mild appearance, are helping to increase scientists' understanding of animals that rely on other group members for every aspect of their own survival.
Perhaps it's this reliance on each other, the dependence on the group in good times and bad, that has catapulted meerkats to their current stardom. The need to belong, to contribute, to fight and make up, are themes that resonate powerfully with human audiences.
Even if the actors playing them out are 12 inches high and have a weakness for six-legged snacks.
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Adaora was a recent law graduate in Los Angeles when by chance, she become part of the team at ABC News covering the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. It was an unlikely launch for someone who planned on living out life as a tax lawyer. It was the beginning of an esteemed career across the full spectrum of broadcast and digital media platforms.
As a journalist, Adaora progressed from a television news producer to foreign correspondent, anchor then co-host, at ABC News, CNN Court TV and public radio, she covered some of the biggest stories of modern history, from the election of Barack Obama to the world economies through the economic meltdown of 2008 to Wimebeldon and the Tour de France to both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and just about everything in between traveling across five continents, dozens and dozens of countries and hundreds of cities. It’s added up to thousands of miles traveled, scenes described and people met, witnessed and stories told.
She was among those honored when CNN won a Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, as well as when the network received a Dupont-Columbia University Award for reporting on the 2004 Tsunami disaster in South Asia. The National Academy of Arts & Sciences cited her reporting during the Afghanistan war. She also was part of the team that produced a documentary on death row at ABC News that won a Cine Eagle Award. Adaora's other accolades include The Network Journal’s ‘40 under 40’ achievement award; The United Nation’s World Diversity Leadership Summit's Leadership Award; and recognition by Essence magazine as one of the most 25 Influential African-Americans.
As an entrepreneur, occasional angel investor and founder of the start-up outLoud, inc, Adaora is focused on cultivating the incredible potential of other people’s stories. outLoud, inc. is a digital and technology public speaking platform designed to help a wide variety of clients —from students and CEOs — tell their stories out loud in pitches, speeches, presentations and other forms of public speaking.
Prior to founding outLoud, Adaora served as interim president of the award-winning startup, News Deeply, which specializes in single-topic publishing and technology. Time Magazine hailed the company’s flagship, SyriaDeeply.org as, “The future of news.” It was a role she took on after coming into the innovation economy by way of the Pipeline Fund Fellowship, focused on angel investing.
She is associated with a number of startups, including: America Meet World; Cisse, Ltd; Hubster TV; Mogul. She has served as a mentor for Women Innovate Mobile, a startup accelerator and has a particular interest in startups at the nexus of new media and technology, such as Single Palm Tree Productions.
In 2014, Black Enterprise magazine recognized her among the 20 Black Angels Worth Knowing For Minority Startups.
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USA: Organic Trade Association: ABC’s Statement of Apology — Just a First Step
Friday night's statement of apology given by ABC News reporter John Stossel is not enough to make amends for the damage caused by the erroneous 20/20 report on organic food, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) said."Friday night's show was a perfect time for ABC News to act in good faith and correct all the misinformation that it has disseminated. The two-and-a-half minute apology cannot undo all the damage caused by ABC's broadcasts in February and July, and continued postings of the transcripts on its web site," said Katherine DiMatteo, OTA's executive director."By airing this brief apology, ABC has taken a corrective step, but more needs to be done," said DiMatteo. Specifically, at a minimum, OTA seeks a full retraction, ABC's immediate withdrawal of archival files of the story, and the posting of corrected information on ABC 20/20's web site.Earlier in the week, OTA had made these requests in a letter to ABC News President David Westin. Although Westin sent a brief message to OTA to acknowledge receiving the letter and promising ABC would send a response in the near future, OTA had not received a response before the apology aired.DiMatteo said the trade association, which represents all sectors of the organic industry in North America, is prepared to take whatever steps are needed to restore the good reputation of organic agriculture.
Friday night’s statement of apology given by ABC News reporter John Stossel is not enough to make amends for the damage caused by the erroneous 20/20 report on organic food, the Organic Trade Association (Ota) said.
“Friday night’s show was a perfect time for ABC News to act in good faith and correct all the misinformation that it has disseminated. The two-and-a-half minute apology cannot undo all the damage caused by ABC’s broadcasts in February and July, and continued postings of the transcripts on its web site,” said Katherine DiMatteo, OTA’s executive director.
“By airing this brief apology, ABC has taken a corrective step, but more needs to be done,” said DiMatteo. Specifically, at a minimum, OTA seeks a full retraction, ABC’s immediate withdrawal of archival files of the story, and the posting of corrected information on ABC 20/20’s web site.
Earlier in the week, OTA had made these requests in a letter to ABC News President David Westin. Although Westin sent a brief message to OTA to acknowledge receiving the letter and promising ABC would send a response in the near future, OTA had not received a response before the apology aired.
DiMatteo said the trade association, which represents all sectors of the organic industry in North America, is prepared to take whatever steps are needed to restore the good reputation of organic agriculture.
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Finding Carter “Throw Momma From the Train”
Kara Howland, August 12, 2014
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She she stay or should she go? What I’ve loved about this show from the beginning is that there are no easy answers. I hoped it would be a difficult decision for Carter to leave. I hoped she’d be conflicted enough to give this huge decision some serious thought. Going with Lori would’ve meant no contact with her friends or family ever again. Lori got them Russian passports, so I’m assuming she had a plan to get them out of the country. And staying? It wasn’t something Carter seriously considered. What is it that makes her stay? Maybe it’s that Lori made Carter celebrate the day she was abducted as her birthday. Maybe it’s that Max tells her they can’t be friends anymore if she goes. Maybe it’s that Taylor won’t ever be able to celebrate another birthday after she leaves. Maybe it’s because she’s getting to know her real family better and although it’s far from perfect, she’s starting to want this life.
I’ll admit it, I like it when Taylor gets feisty. She grew up in the shadow of her sister’s abduction, so she’s had to play it safe, had to wait to experience so many things. So when she’s upset enough to tell Carter how she really feels, I like it. Someone needs to be that voice of reason for Carter, especially since there’s no way Carter can see both sides. She’s wanted to be with Lori for so long, how can she consider any other future? But Taylor’s make her voice heard and I’m loving it. She knows that id Carter disappears again it’ll be a disaster for their family. And she’s not above using emotional blackmail to get Carter to stay.
On the other hand, Carter’s friends have a different reaction. They’ve been supportive of Carter’s reunion with Lori for a while. So while they’ll be sad to see her go, they are genuinely happy that Carter’s doing what she thinks is best for herself. But maybe they’re being too supportive, because Carter doesn’t appreciate that they’re starting to talk about her in the past tense. And Crash isn’t upset at all because he thinks he can tag along.
When Carter decides to talk to David, it’s such a huge deal. She gives him the address where Lori is waiting as well as the emergency burner phone. He tells Carter he’ll take care of it, but doesn’t tell her how. He’s got this, though. He tells her he’ll use the Dad code. Despite David’s hurt and anger and whatever else he’s feeling about the affair, he decides to talk to Liz. He tells her that Carter chose to stay with them. And even though they know where Lori is, Liz can’t be the person to arrest her. She’s not ready to damage her relationship with Carter like that. So David calls Lori and tells her Carter won’t be coming. I didn’t quite expect their exchange to go like it did, so I definitely have questions. Was there something going on between Lori and David when Carter was abducted? Why does she know he’s such a horrible liar? There’s clearly more to that story that I can’t wait to discover.
Speaking of affairs, let’s talk Liz and Kyle. Joan isn’t the least bit fazed that Liz is having an affair. In fact, she encourages it. She thinks David’s a loser and is happy to be Liz’s alibi whenever she needs one. Grant and Gabe also find out during their pity party. So that’s two more people – both children – who are now in the know. But is Liz really, truly ready to end things with David? If that last scene is anything to go by the answer is no. But what happens when he’s exposed for a liar as well? I know he feels pressure to provide for his family, but what happens when Carter discovers his betrayal? It’s gonna be so bad. And such good TV.
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ADORABLE: Little Girl’s Conversation With Alexa Is Required Viewing
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I feel like I can say with some certainty that, at this point, pretty much all of us have had some kind of experience/interaction with an Alexa-type device. Maybe you have Google Assistant on your phone, or an Echo or Dot at home, or some kind of Apple product. The technology is pretty doggone impressive, but it's not perfect.
When you combine a machine that is supposed to decipher what we say, with people who don't always speak so clearly, you're bound to get some interesting results. Now, imagine what happens when you introduce a toddler into the equation. As a grown man with pretty decent hearing, I have a heck of a time understanding what some kids are trying to say - so it must be an even bigger challenge for Alexa to try and figure out a kid's request.
All EraBella Wanted Was "Hickory Dickory Dock"
Meet young EraBella, the daughter of a friend of mine. All the two-and-a-half-year-old wanted in this world was for Alexa to play the song "Hickory Dickory Dock," unfortunately, there was a communication barrier between the two. Sweet EraBella was trying her best to say "Alexa, play Hickory Dickory Dock," and sweet Alexa was doing her best to fulfill that request, but she kept coming up short.
EraBella would quickly stop Alexa, and then try it again - Alexa would essentially say, okay, that didn't work, how about this? EraBella tried to keep her cool, but you could see frustration starting to creep in as Alexa continued to play everything except "Hickory Dickory Dock."
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Well, you've waited long enough, EraBella. We know what you want to hear, and here it is, for you and anyone else who wants to know what that mouse did!
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Aberdeen ace Lewis Ferguson delivers European battle message to Hibs
Aberdeen star Lewis Ferguson has told Hibs it is up them whether they want to finish third or not.
By Joel Sked
1st Mar 2021, 9:57am - 1 min read
Lewis Ferguson has delivered Hibs a message in the battle for third place. Picture: SNS
The battle for best of the rest threw up a surprise result at the weekend.
While Aberdeen lost narrowly at Celtic, Hibs were defeated by Motherwell who had been struggling and were missing a number of players.
It leaves the gap between the sides at four points with the split approaching, although Hibs have a game in hand against lowly Ross County.
Ferguson believes Aberdeen have turned a corner but finishing third is out of their hands.
“We went through a bad spell of not getting results and not performing well,” he said. “We have turned that corner in the last few weeks.
“It is not really down to us at the minute.
"Hibs are obviously in control of that so it is down to them and whether they want to get that spot or not. We can just do all we can as we are pushing as hard as possible.
“We obviously want that and that was in our sights at the start of the season. It is still our aim, but it is not in our hands at the minute.
“We have plenty of games to go and if we can pick up as many points as we want then you never know. It might get us that third spot.”
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NASCAR America at 5 p.m. ET: Reports from shops of playoff teams
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Kelli Stavast is crisscrossing Charlotte to see where several of the top playoff teams stand as they look toward this weekend’s race at Texas. Here’s what to expect on Kelli’s Shop Tour:
Kyle Busch and the No. 18 team are sitting in good shape after a top-five finish at Martinsville. Kelli talks with the team’s crew chief, Adam Stevens, to see why they’re confident of even more success in Texas.
Kelli also goes one-on-one with Mike Bugarewicz, crew chief for the No. 14 team of Clint Bowyer. After a promising day at Martinsville went south with a late-race spin, how does the 14 team plan to rally and score a win to reach the Championship race?
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Kosovan Official Confirms Liverpool Want £33m Man, But Have Deadline To Meet
Matthew Briggs 08 May 2020 7:50 AM
The president of the Kosovan Football Federation says Liverpool want to sign £33million-rated Milot Rashica.
The Werder Bremen midfielder was reported to be a target for Jurgen Klopp earlier this week.
A report on Weser-Kurier, cited on Sport Witness, claimed that the 23-year-old’s performances in the Bundesliga in 2019/20 have caught the eye of both Jurgen Klopp and Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhüttl and both managers are now considering moves.
Rashica has scored 10 and assisted five goals in the top flight of German football this campaign despite his side’s struggles, with Bremen currently sitting 17th and in real danger of being relegated to the 2. Bundesliga.
He’s also scored four goals in 25 appearances on the international stage for Kosovo, and played the full 90 minutes as his country were beaten 4-0 by England last November.
And now Kosovan official Agim Amedi has confirmed Liverpool want Rashica, along with German outfit RB Leipzig.
“There are many requests for him,” Amedi told Syri TV.
“I know that Liverpool in the Premier League want him, but also Leipzig in the Bundesliga. I am sure that he will be advised in the best way to make his decision.”
The price tag on the player is €38million, which is the release clause which has been set in his current contract, although that must be triggered by the June 15, otherwise Werder will be able to attempt to negotiate a higher fee.
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by Chris Libonati December 1, 2022 December 1, 2022
Onondaga County Legislator Charles Garland filed a lawsuit to stop the community grid from replacing Interstate 81. Members from Save the 16th, a nonprofit Garland has often consulted, largely disagree with the lawsuit. Garland is pictured here with Save the 16th members Jackie LaSonde and Charles Pierce-El earlier this summer. Credit: Mike Greenlar
Sitting on the second floor of Beauchamp Library in Syracuse’s South Side, a group of community advocates tried to reconcile their positions on Interstate 81.
Jackie LaSonde gathered the core members of Save the 16th, a nonprofit that advocates for Syracuse’s South Side, in the days after a lawsuit halted work on the highway viaduct.
One of the group’s prominent members, Onondaga County Legislator Charles Garland, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, in favor of stopping the construction. But LaSonde sought to distance Save the 16th from it. The group has since made clear Save the 16th is not affiliated with the suit.
LaSonde and longtime South Side residents Al Williams and Ida Stewart, who all work at a food pantry next to the library, said they want the I-81 viaduct torn down and replaced by a community grid.
But at the meeting, Charles Pierce-El – one of the members in the group who perhaps has the deepest roots in the South Side – spoke up about the lawsuit: “I’m in favor of it.”
LaSonde closed her eyes, exhaled and slumped her shoulders.
Pierce-El’s position flummoxed the group. For years, he knocked on doors in advocacy for the community grid.
The lawsuit isn’t just politically frustrating for many of the group’s members. They live in the shadow of the highway and are again caught in the middle of a battle over the future of their community in which they have little power to decide.
It’s forced the group to grapple with how much they trust each other, Garland and the state.
Garland, former Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler and town supervisors from DeWitt and Salina, among others, filed the lawsuit in September under the name Renew 81 for All.
The lawsuit accuses the state of shirking its duty to fully analyze the effects of the viaduct teardown. Its filers say the state got wrong each step of the process in its decision-making: The review was too short and too flawed; The assumptions that fuel its traffic projections are wrong; The teardown of the viaduct will not make for a more environmentally safe and equitable South Side, the lawsuit says.
Garland in interviews since the filing has reiterated that he supports the lawsuit and believes the skyway and community grid would be best for the community.
Renew 81 for All asked a judge to throw out all the underlying approvals for the community grid project and force the state to reconsider other options, such as a viaduct, a tunnel and a skyway. Two of the options had been studied for about 10 years along with the grid.
The judge agreed to issue a temporary order stopping the construction in November.
The state has been considering whether to tear down or replace the viaduct since 2011. In April, the state Department of Transportation put its choice to tear down and replace the highway in writing: It selected the community grid, which officials say will re-knit streets and neighborhoods.
All of Save the 16th — including Pierce-El — agrees that the viaduct needs to come down. But the group also agrees the state has not answered enough questions about how construction on the viaduct could affect residents living near it.
“We see the devastation that happened when it went up,” LaSonde said. “What’s the purpose of keeping up something that has devastated a community?”
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‘We’ll probably be protesting it’
For much of the meeting at Beauchamp Library, other members of Save the 16th challenged Pierce-El’s position, and the idea that he could both support the viaduct coming down and also support the lawsuit.
Stewart noted Pierce-El is a community elder whose opinion gets respect.
“We don’t always agree with them but we respect their opinion because they have longevity and concern for the community,” Stewart said.
United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks at Wilson Park in Syracuse, advocating for the community grid plan for I 81, November 22, 2022. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current.
The viaduct coming down is an inevitability, Pierce-El said. The lawsuit, he said, is a way to slow down the state and force it to answer questions community members are continuing to ask. Pierce-El said he is particularly worried about how tearing down the viaduct might affect air quality for residents who live nearby.
He said he believes the delay provided by the lawsuit will force the state to reconsider its decision to not to perform a health needs assessment, which has been requested by community advocates.
Pierce-El agreed to join a separate, but similar lawsuit filed in federal court. He is listed as a litigant alongside Garland in that case. He said he saw the federal suit as a chance to advocate for compensation to residents who lost their homes and businesses when I-81 was first constructed.
His point is mentioned in one line of the federal case filing, as he is introduced as a litigant. It is is not a core argument of the suit.
This Wednesday, as Pierce-El joined with LaSonde and Williams to dole out food at the pantry near the corner of South Salina and Colvin streets, he shared his thinking. He said he does not actually hope the federal lawsuit — which lavishes praise on a skyway over the community grid — leads to the skyway being built.
If the skyway goes up, “we’ll probably be protesting it,” he said.
‘I don’t even know what’s in the lawsuit’
At the meeting after the lawsuit was announced, none of the members of Save the 16th members had yet read it.
“I don’t even know what’s in the lawsuit,” Williams said. “It was never brought to me as a member.”
They didn’t know who else was suing alongside Garland or that the lawsuit pushed for the Harriet Tubman Memorial Bridge instead of the community grid.
Earlier this year, Garland billed this group as his advisory committee, a group of residents invested in what’s best for the South Side. But other than Pierce-El, none had any idea Garland was planning a lawsuit.
Charles Garland speaks to the media at Wilson Park in Syracuse, November 22, 2022. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current
Stewart shares Pierce-El’s concerns about the teardown of the viaduct, but said she still doesn’t support the lawsuit as is.
Garland has cited concerns offered by the New York Civil Liberties Union as justification for his involvement in the lawsuit.
The NYCLU has supported a community grid, but it has expressed concern over residents’ safety as construction is done on the viaduct.
The organization asked the DOT to do a health needs assessment for the area but it has so far declined, the NYCLU’s director of the environmental justice project Lanessa Owens-Chaplin said earlier this year.
“Those are the kinds of concerns I thought the lawsuit was. Let’s stop and get that taken care of,” Stewart said. “I’d agree with that 100%.”
‘I changed my mind’
Last year, Garland and Alfonso Davis — a community advocate, former Syracuse mayoral candidate and longtime friend to Garland — stood in Wilson Park to support Save 81’s skyway proposal.
At the time, they both wanted an elevated bridge named after Harriet Tubman to be constructed over a new community grid.
But a year later, days after Save the 16th convened to discuss the lawsuit, it was Davis who publicly announced that the group was against it.
He spoke during a Save the 16th housing town hall at Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ on Oakwood Avenue.
“Save the 16th is not suing along with those people,” Davis said.
The group has been supportive of Garland as the legislator representing its district. The members have found places all over the South Side to meet and talk out issues. In that time, Garland has always supported the skyway bridge.
The group has often gotten along by agreeing to disagree.
Earlier this year, Garland voted for County Executive Ryan McMahon’s proposed aquarium. And while much of the group didn’t agree with his choice, they understood Garland’s premise for his vote: The aquarium was going to get built anyway, so why not get something for the South Side in the process? Garland received a number of assurances — namely regarding housing in the South Side — from McMahon.
The county executive has said he believes he could have gotten the necessary votes without Garland’s.
Now, the lawsuit over the community grid – at least in part because of outside pressure – has become something of a breaking point for many in the group.
“They trust him in the community, he has buried many apersons, genuinely authentic,” LaSonde said of Garland. “… I’ve only been here seven years, these folks have been here their whole lives. It didn’t take me seven minutes to see something is off about this.”
“Maybe he needs to go back to Corn Flakes from Frosted Flakes. Go back to the original,” Williams said, yearning for the types of disagreements they could more easily settle.
After the housing town hall, in front of the church, a light snow had begun to fall, in stark contrast to the summer day when Davis and Garland had announced their support for the skyway.
Davis said his own opinions on the skyway have since changed. Not only that, he believes the community grid is the right way forward. He’s talked to LaSonde and Owens-Chaplin about the benefits of the grid.
“I changed my mind,” he said.
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Come Holiday Time, It’s About Time
Richard Simon
It’s time for the holidays, yet there never seems to be enough time to fully enjoy them. Maybe it’s time to begin thinking about time—or timepieces, to be precise.
There may be no other consumer product whose price tag spans such a wide dollar range, or which presents such an expansive label list, as a watch.
Not counting hundreds of unrecognizable off-brands that are stamped out by the tens of thousands in various countries, there are more than 250 top-notch labels from which to choose, with many offering dozens of unique iterations that range from basic time keepers to those with extraordinary spring-and-gear complications that feature leap years in their calendars, tide cycles and moon phases, cumulated time, and other exotic functions. Aficionados desiring one-of-a-kind models can spend more than $3 million for their watches.
In several Newport Beach jewelry stores, one will find sales experts who are in love with the fine mechanical sophistication of watch “engines,” and are appreciators of watch face designs, as well as the investment realities of fine chronometers.
One such guru is Newport Beach-born Jeff Vaziri, manager of Royal Jewelers in Newport Beach, who’s an admitted chrono-aficionado with 320 unique watches in his collection.
Based on his intense study of both the contemporary watch market as well as the history of time, Vaziri places Patek Phillipe watches atop his pedestal of truly great timepieces. But just an imperceptible tick below this brand are a parade of names that others can and do place at the pinnacle of their lists – such sterling brands as Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Breguet, IWC, Jaeger Le Coultre, Blancpain, Girard Perregaux, Rolex, Ulysse Nardine, Corum, Breitling, Omega, Piaget, Cartier, Panerai, Bell & Ross, and Baume et Mercier.
Basically, there are two types of watches, Vaziri said: mechanical and quartz.
Quartz watches are battery powered, the electricity exciting a quartz crystal to oscillate at nearly 29,000 times an hour, which galvanizes tiny motors to turn the watch hands, or to display numerals and letters in LCD readouts.
The two most prevalent types of mechanical watches, Vaziri explained, are the “manually wound and automatic, in which a weight rotates in response to arm movements of the wearer, thereby winding a mainspring.”
There are offshoots of these, as well, such as the electro-mechanical variety by Seiko—a hybrid watch whose wrist-activated rotor powers a rechargeable capacitor, which sends an electric charge to a tiny motor that advances the hands.
What motivates a person to buy a particular watch?
It might be need, reputation of the watch brand, recommendation by a salesperson, investment, or the emotional and aesthetic tug that a working, living, pulsing, and functional piece of jewelry casts.
Like cars, watches can be purchased both new and used. Aside from which brand to acquire, purchasing a new watch seemingly is less of a challenge than buying a used one. So when it comes to pre-owned timepieces, “It’s important to buy a used watch from a trusted source,” emphasized Tim Harold of William Harold and Sons, Jewelers since 1969, on Newport Blvd. One has to know what to look for, or what to ask the jeweler, he said.
Harold suggests the following questions: What image do you want? What is the age of the watch? What is the condition of both the inside and outside of the timepiece? Are all parts original, and has the watch been refinished? Does the original box or paperwork exist? What is the store’s return policy? Does the watch fit the wearer’s personality? Have you done on-line research and read reviews? If an antique, what is the provenance of the watch?
Occupying the redesigned space on Coast Highway that once housed a motor scooter dealer is one of the most elegant and specialized watch stores in Orange County: Watch Expo, which is dedicated to pre-owned luxury timepieces, particularly Patek Phillippe watches. Owner Paul Busby, a retired businessman, loves these watches. His business is actually his hobby, said Busby.
Sophisticated and successful people know and want these watches, and in their sophistication they know that new watches can lose more than time–they lose at least half their value as soon as they leave the store.
To that end, Busby may advise his clients as to the full financial aspects of a Patek Phillippe watch. If they buy from Busby, he guarantees they’ll get back at least 92 per cent of the purchase price if they choose to return them. With some editions, return may garner amounts higher than the purchase prices.
All Patek Phillippe watches are hand crafted to extraordinarily exacting measurements, one reason the factory turns out a mere 50,000 per year. One model is available for a modest $900,000. Called a moon phase perpetual calendar, after the watch is initially set, it needs be re-set only every 120 years thereafter (providing its proud owner keeps it wound). It’s such an exclusive model that customers can’t buy one until they submit an application to the company. The company president then selects the people he wants to own this complex treasure.
Time is that one gift that all living creatures are blessed with. How you spend your time is up to you. Likewise, how much you spend on telling time is, too.
Watch store information: Royal-Jewelers.com; WilliamHaroldJewelers.com; WatchExpo.com.
Contact Richard Simon at [email protected]
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10 Questions With… Piero Lissoni
Milan-based architect and designer Piero Lissoni, a 2005 Hall of Fame inductee, has lent his design prowess to projects large and small, including an Alessi espresso maker, a United Arab Emirates mega-resort, and everything in between. This past year saw Lissoni’s namesake firm win a speculative competition with a design for a futuristic aquarium and planetarium on New York City’s East River.
Further south, Lissoni recently unveiled a model unit for Villa Lissoni, a village of Miami Beach waterfront retreats boasting Boffi kitchens and neighboring the in-progress Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach, also by the designer. Here, the talent divulges his daily routine and what he has on the boards.
Interior Design: Where did you grow up, and how did it influence your work?
Piero Lissoni: Milano. Lucky for me, my family was very curious. My parents worked in antique restoration. They taught me to be interested in design.
ID: Your degree was in architecture, but you’ve done everything from product and furniture design to graphics and branding. What do you like most about designing a building, and how does that compare to designing a piece of furniture?
PL: At the Politecnico di Milano, we are trained to be architects. To be an architect you must be able to change up your skills and design for interiors, including furnishings. I like to design everything. My process is a bit schizophrenic, if you will—I jump in and out between scales. The most important aspect of my work is proportion.
ID: What does a typical day look like for you?
PL: It starts with an espresso macchiato and a glass of sparkling water. When I’m not traveling, I’m moving between many different teams and projects. But sometimes I need an escape—I’ll run to the museum, a coffee shop, read alone in my room, or sketch.
ID: What are a few of your recent projects?
PL: We’re currently rushing to finish new product launches for Salone del Mobile. Otherwise, we’re designing a group of buildings in Mexico City, a renovation in Budapest, and a brand new villa in Miami.
ID: First app checked in the morning?
PL: I don’t check any app in the morning. I’m free. I’ll open up a newspaper.
ID: Picture books or Pinterest?
PL: Pinterest. I don’t use it since I’m off all social networks, but my studio uses Pinterest during the design process.
ID: Best thing about your job?
PL: I don’t consider this a job. It’s a passion.
ID: What thing—inside the industry or out—inspires you?
PL: One thing is not enough. What primarily inspires me is life.
ID: Latest interiors pet peeve?
PL: Purity. Purity is banal. Cross-contamination is key, whether it be east and west or modernity and antiquity.
ID: What’s one thing you can’t live without?
PL: Ethics.
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Dan Mitchell: Redistribution becomes disgusting and morally offensivewhen it takes money from the less fortunate and gives it to those with more wealth and income. And that’s the net effect of Biden’s student loan bailout!
Student Loan Humor
There are many serious objections to Biden’s unilateral student loan bailout (I included a poll with six potential answers in this column).
And I’m sure I’ll write more serious columns about the issue, whether focused on the specific problemof the bailout or the broader issue of how student loans enable colleges to increase tuition (the third-party payer problem).
Today, though, let’s enjoy some gallows humor.
We’ll start with some satire directed at the people who think others should pay for their mistakes.
Here’s another meme with the same message.
Next, we have a couple well-to-do college graduates explaining the benefits of the bailout to someone who only finished high school.
As you might expect, the satirists at Babylon Beehave weighed in.
One local plumbing contractor, Sam Caughorn, is really looking forward to paying the tab on his neighbor’s $89,000 gender studies degree. “Listen, I’m just a plumber,” he said. “I didn’t go to college, but I work hard and support my family. I don’t know about all that high-falutin gender stuff they teach in college, but I’m sure it must be important since it’s so expensive! Happy to help out another person in need.” According to studies, there are millions of white girls working at coffee shops across the country while struggling under the crushing student debt they acquired by irresponsibly obtaining college degrees that gave them no marketable job skills. …Local gender studies major Amber White is looking forward to having all her debt forgiven, thanks in part to the contributions of plumbers like Sam Caughorn. “I’m so thankful for the generosity of our Democrat leaders!” she said. “They really look out for the little folx. Also, down with capitalism and white men!”
One of my oft-repeated jokes is that I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Well, here’s a bailout version of that sophomoric humor.
But why stop with mortgage? Surely other types of debt deserve forgiveness?
There are many villains connected to this issue, most notably callow politicians such as Biden.
But colleges and universities must be thanking their lucky stars that so few people are focusing on their role.
As is my tradition, I’ve saved the best for last.
Here’s an updated look at the oft-used equality-equity meme.
I’ll close with one serious point.
As a general principle, redistribution is economically harmful since it penalizes work and subsidizes idleness.
But it becomes disgusting and morally offensivewhen it takes money from the less fortunate and gives it to those with more wealth and income. And that’s the net effect of Biden’s student loan bailout.
The Depressing Reincarnation of Build Back Better
One of the best things about 2021 was the fact that Congress did not approve Joe Biden’s economically debilitating plan to raise taxes and expand the welfare state.
His so-called Build Back Better plan was a very bad mix of class-warfare tax policy and redistributionist spending policy.
But one of the worst things about 2022 may be the reincarnation of a slimmed-down version of Biden’s plan.
Simply stated, the “slimmed-down version” of a terrible piece of legislation is bad news – even if it is possible to envision something even worse.
The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial on the package illustrates why it is bad news that Senator Joe Manchin is trying to rescue Biden’s statist agenda.
As the economy slouches near recession, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin…unveiled a tax-and-spending deal that they call the Inflation Reduction Act. Is their aim to reduce inflation by chilling business investment and the economy? …A more accurate name would be the Business Investment Reduction and Distortion Act since that will be the result of its $433 billion in climate and healthcare spending, and $615 billion in new taxes and drug price-control “savings.”
The editorial highlights four terrible provisions.
First, there’s a big tax hike on American companies, with the biggest tax hike on firms that make new investments.
…the 15% minimum tax on corporate book income…will slam businesses whose taxable income is lower than the profits on their financial statements owing to the likes of investment expensing.
For all intents and purposes, politicians would be creating a second type of corporate income tax.
Heavy compliance costs for the business community, of course, but the rest of us probably care more about the estimated loss of 218,000 jobs according to the National Association of Manufacturers.
Second, there are corrupt “green energy” provisions that will degrade America’s energy efficiency and security.
…the bill’s $369 billion in climate spending, most of which is corporate welfare. …All of this will steer private investment into green energy at the cost of reduced investment in fossil fuels. Wind and solar subsidies are already creating distortions in power markets that make the electric grid less reliable and energy more expensive. The expansion of subsidies will compound these problems.
If you want to know why this is bad, just remember Solyndra.
Third, the legislation imposes back-door price controls on the pharmaceutical industry.
The bill will require the Health and Human Services Secretary to “negotiate” Medicare prices—i.e., impose price controls—for dozens of drugs. But the $288 billion in putative savings are fanciful. Manufacturers will hedge potential future losses by launching drugs at higher prices. …The bill will also discourage investment in innovative treatments that could reduce future healthcare spending.
For those of us who value the development of new drugs to fight problems like cancer and Alzheimer’s, this is very bad news.
Fourth, a very corrupt internal revenue service is rewarded for its bad behavior.
Speculative revenue of $124 billion will also come from an $80 billion boost for the IRS. Most of this will finance more audits. The rich can afford more tax lawyers, but middle and upper-middle class Americans will be inclined to settle IRS claims, however meritless, lest they spend even more to defend themselves.
P.S. I can’t resist sharing one final bit of information.
If you peruse the Joint Committee on Taxation’s analysis of the bill, you’ll find that Joe Biden is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 per year.
Not that anyone should be shocked. I have repeatedly explained that the big spenders need to pillage lower-income and middle-class household if they want to finance bigger government.
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Indian Government Launch Coronavirus tracker app called ‘Aarogya Sethu’ Here’s how it works
The government of India has just released a brand new coronavirus tracker app called “Aarogya Sethu”. The release comes approximately per week after NITI Aayog, the coverage think-tank of the Government of India commenced trying out the app. “Aarogya Sethu” appears to be a cultured model of the “CoWin-20” app that was below trying out. The app is currently to be had at the Google Play Store. One can head to the Play Store list to down load and check in the app. As in step with the app description, “Aarogya Sethu” will allow important fitness services to connect “with the humans of India”. Beyond this, it’s miles aimed at augmenting the projects that the Government of India is task to fight coronavirus. Let’s check the info of the app. Let’s see how the app works.
Aarogya Sethu: Here is how the coronavirus tracker app works
The app can help customers stay knowledgeable in case they have got crossed paths with any infected with the coronavirus. As reported in the past, this app uses Bluetooth and location data to create a social graph. This will make certain that the government can song all the individuals who came in touch with a patient. The app asks customers to invite their buddies and circle of relatives to put in the app. This is because the app will most effective paintings if sufficient wide variety of customers install the app to help create the social graph. It will also send commands on a way to self-isolate and what steps to take in case someone develops the symptoms.
Here is a way to get started
First, head to the Google Play Store list and set up the app. Launch the app when the installation is achieved and pick the language of your choice. The app is to be had in 11 foremost languages to make certain a most number of customers can deploy it on their tool. “Aarogya Sethu” will show off how it works in 4 specific slides in the subsequent step. The app will ask users to “Register Now” on the remaining slide navigating to a new “n. Here, the app will App Permissions” screeare details about why it is soliciting for special permissions. These include tool location, get admission to to Bluetooth, and details regarding statistics sharing.
The app claims that it has “taken strong measures to ensure” statistics safety and privacy. Taking a more in-depth look, the app recommends users to set location sharing to “Always”. Aarogya Sethu clarified that it will best proportion the statistics with the Government of India. It will not reveal the name and phone wide variety of the consumer to the general public at any time. After tapping on the “I Agree” button at the bottom, the app will as to access tool place, and Bluetooth.
Aarogya Sethu will as customers to go into their mobile range after the app permissions. It will use the usual OTP code approach to authenticate your mobile wide variety. Next, the app will ask for “Personal Details” including complete name, age, profession, and foreign travel within the remaining 30 days. Here, fascinated users can also select the “volunteer” option within the section. Once you have hooked up the app, Aarogya Sethu will navigate to the house screen. The home screen consists of the danger factor relying on the area, shortcuts to COVID-19
assist centers, and more information on coronavirus. It also includes a chat-bot based totally self-assessment test, Ministry of Health twitter feed and a percentage button.
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Published: May 30, 2013 at 01:34 PM
Mark Sanchez still has supporters, and a legendary New York Jets quarterback is chief among them.
Joe Namath, who joined NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" on Thursday, remains in Sanchez's corner. The Hall of Fame quarterback believes the Jets' struggles over the past two seasons go far beyond their current signal-caller.
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Thousands of Armenians trapped in Nagorno-Karabakh face humanitarian crisis
Issued on: 20/01/2023 - 22:19 Modified: 20/01/2023 - 22:24
Armenian protesters march to a Russian peacekeepers' checkpoint outside Stepanakert on December 27, 2022. ? Ani Balayan, AFP
Text by: Taline OUNDJIAN
The Lachin corridor, the lifeline road connecting the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, has been blocked by Azerbaijiani protesters since December 12, trapping its 120,000 Armenian residents in an increasingly precarious situation. FRANCE 24’s Armenia correspondent Taline Oundjian reports.
For the past 40 days, Azerbaijani protesters wielding placards and flags have blocked the Lachin corridor, a 32-kilometre mountainous road that connects Armenia with the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.
Day and night, Azerbaijiani protesters?demonstrate against the exploitation of natural resources in the region, blocking access to Nagorno-Karabakh and cutting off food, medicine and supplies for its 120,000 Armenian residents.
The tiny, mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh became a self-proclaimed and independent republic during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but its population is predominantly Armenian.
The blockade risks scuppering the fragile peace process between the two countries, which have fought two wars in the past three decades.
Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of being behind the protests, saying the demonstrators are government agitators and that they are sparking an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. But Baku has denied the accusations, saying that Russian peacekeepers closed the road, and that the protesters are concerned about illegal Armenian mining in the area.
Russian peacekeepers control the Lachin corridor, while Azerbaijan is obliged to guarantee safe passage, in both directions, for civilians, vehicles and cargo, under the terms of the November 2020 ceasefire agreement.
For Yana, a young teacher trapped in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s de facto capital, life has become one ordeal after another.
“We’ve got used to electricity, gas and water cuts over the past two years,” she says in a quavering voice. “But this blockade, and the fear of being close to starvation, has disrupted life like never before,” she says. ??
Risk of famine
For more than a month, some 15,000 tonnes of food and medicine have been blocked from reaching the enclave.
“The internet connection is getting slower and slower and the electricity is partly cut off. We feel completely isolated, like we’re stuck in a desert that everyone’s forgotten about.”
“People are thinking about the dark days of the past, and having nightmares about the future,” says Yana.
Ruben Vardanyan, head of the breakaway region's government, has set up a crisis unit to deal with the situation. Power cuts in the enclave currently last for four hours a day, most schools have closed and businesses have been unable to operate normally since the crisis began. More than 700 have closed and 3,400 people have lost their jobs.
Access to gas supply has become a matter of survival in a region where temperatures can drop to -10 degrees.
But the only gas supply pipeline runs under a district controlled by Azerbaijan. Authorities in Stepanakert accused Baku of cutting the gas supply on December 13. However, the gas supply was restored after three days amid international pressure on Azerbaijan.
The situation came as no surprise to Gegham Stepanyan, the human rights ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as the Republic of Artsakh. ?
“It was obvious that Azerbaijan was going to use this tactic (gas supply) to intimidate people, particularly in winter,” explains Stepanyan.
“And there’s no reason why they wouldn’t continue to use this tactic, given the critical state of our infrastructure,” he says.
Nina, 22, is also trapped in Stepanakert. She said Azerbaijan was using the blockade to put the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in a state of “psychological terror”.
“It’s inhuman,” she says. “They’re trying to provoke us – to pressure our treacherous leaders into giving them more land in exchange for opening the road. But we are hanging in there.
Most of our parents lived here during the first war [from 1998 to 1994] when the situation was much worse. We would just like to have some vegetables. At the moment we only eat pasta and grain-based products,” she says. ?
Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Armenia. ? FRANCE 24
Supermarket shelves in the region are empty. On January 18, local authorities began issuing food coupons so that locals can access basic foodstuffs such as pasta, rice, sugar and sunflower oil.
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have set up bartering systems to deal with the shortages. “In the villages, people are trying to exchange eggs and potatoes for fuel. And the men will trade anything for cigarettes,” says Yana.
The population is anxious but calm, the young women say. “That’s because the famine isn’t here yet,” says Nina.
International response
Only the International Red Cross (ICRC) has been able to access the enclave. Thirty-six patients in critical condition have been taken to hospitals in Armenia, over a total of 12 trips, between December 19 and January 18, Zara Amatuni, head of communications for the ICRC, tells FRANCE 24.
"We are ready to facilitate other humanitarian operations like this and other operations, in our role as a neutral intermediary," Amatuni adds.
The crisis has drawn international attention with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calling for freedom of movement in the Lachin corridor.
In a December 21 report, HRW said that “prolonged blocking of the road” could lead to “dire humanitarian consequences”.
“The longer the disruption to essential goods and services, the greater the risk to civilians,” the report added.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a similar plea while The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention regularly warns of the threat of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The European Parliament passed a resolution on January 19, condemning the road blockage and calling on Azerbaijan “to reopen it immediately”.
The resolution stressed that the area needed to be accessible to international organisations, along with a “UN or OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe) fact-finding mission.
MEPs also blame “the inaction of Russian peacekeepers”, suggesting they be replaced with “international OSCE peacekeepers”.
Armenia has also accused its longstanding ally Russia of being too distracted by the war in Ukraine to properly secure the road and prevent it from being blocked. Indeed, Armenia is feeling increasingly rejected by and bitter towards Russia.
Nonetheless, Armenians have welcomed the international response to the blockade, even though there is disappointment at the lack of sanctions against Azerbaijan.
"Our supplies are finished. To avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, we need the UN," says Stepanyan.
His plea for UN intervention came as Vardanyan slammed the European Union’s ambivalent response to the crisis in an interview with FRANCE 24 on Wednesday.
"Azerbaijan signed a big gas contract recently [with the European Union],” he said. “The players that continue their commercial activity with Azerbaijan – Europe for example – are accepting an autocratic regime who is trying to destroy the democratic case of Artsakh," he said.
But Azerbaijan continues to deny that the road is blocked, and a stalemate has set in. Last autumn, the fragile outline of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan was beginning to take shape. But the ongoing blockade risks scuppering it.
Azerbaijan has made its position on Nagorno-Karabakh clear, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently stated: “Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan, and the rights and security of the Armenian population living in this region will be ensured in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan.??
But Nina in Stepanakert does not take the “security” in these statements seriously.
"When you see the way they treat us, how could we trust them and want to live with them? I am sure we would never survive."
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Happy New Year 2015 from the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop!!
Posted on January 2, 2015 by carriganak
Happy New Year 2015 from the directors and staff of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop! We hope you’re all as excited for 2015 as we are! We’re planning a delightful, productive year for our writers and artists with plenty of opportunities to travel, write, practice yoga, and network, and we’re looking forward to seeing you at our retreats, workshops, readings, and literary fest events in 2015!
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop had a wonderful year in 2014. Over the last twelve months, we’ve had a chance to hold retreats and readings across America and the world, meet exciting writers, yoga practicioneers, and artists, and have found new ways to inspire our own writing. Our year began with the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Seattle, WA in February. At AWP 2014, we got a chance to announce our CREDO Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing, promote our new literary internships, and discuss our Summer 2014 Château de Verderonne Yoga & Writing Retreat, and our AWP 2014 A Night at the Victrola Reading. At AWP 2014, CWW Directors, Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai signed copies of their books, Cracklers at Night and Parallel Sparrows, respectively. And our A Night at the Victrola, featuring readings from authors such as Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokollyai, Peter Mountford, Anca Szilágyi, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Pattabi Seshadri, Susan Parr, Johnny Horton, Talia Shalev, Leah Umansky, Dena Rash Guzman, Kevin Skiena, Jessica Day, and Carrie Kahler. Our AWP 2014 literary reading was even featured in Vanguard Seattle as a top AWP reading event.
After AWP 2014, we were off to our annual writing and yoga retreat to the Château de Verderonne in Picardy, France. The event, which was featured in Poets and Writers and Quail Bell Magazine, was a chance for writers to spend two weeks in the French countryside, participating in writing workshops and craft of writing seminars, yoga classes, and culturally tours of Paris and Chantilly. We liveblogged the entire event as well, sharing dozens of photos from our trip while also allowing our writers to share their thoughts on the experience.
Our New Yorker members also hosted an event as part of LitCrawl Manhattan in September 2014. Our Literary Masquerade featured readings of poetry, noir, science fiction, and original songs from Diana Norma Szokolyai, Rita Banerjee, Gregory Crosby, Elizabeth Devlin, Jonah Kruvant, and Nicole Colbert.
We also hosted an annual Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga and Writing Cleanse in November 2014. The two day event kicked off with yoga lessons from Elissa Lewis, followed by fresh juice cleanses, and creative writing workshops and craft seminars from Diana Norma Szkolyai, Jessica Reidy, and Jonah Kruvant. Some of the creative writing classes included on the retreat included “The Art of Withholding,” “The Art of Revision” and “Sense of Smell, Memory, and Narrative.” Our Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga & Writing Cleanse was an opportunity for the participants to cleanse themselves mentally, spiritually, and creatively before the bustling holiday season, and was even featured in a piece in Quail Bell Magazine.
In 2014, we also began work on CREDO Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing. The collection will feature personal writer manifestos, essays on writing advice, and writing exercises to help spur creativity. Our staff has greatly enjoyed critiquing and conversing with writers on this publication, and more information about our featured writers will be announced shortly.
In 2014, we also welcomed our first interns to the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, and these interns include the wonderful Alex Carrigan, Katy Miller, and Megan Tilley, all of whom have helped the CWW greatly this year. They’ve helped manage our social media and written up post about our events, critiqued and edited submissions for CREDO, shown their talent for graphic design and corresponding with writers and hosts in French, Spanish, and English, and have provided much valuable assistance on our retreats and literary events this year. We’re excited to have Alex, Katy, and Megan on our team, and we can’t wait to show you what they’ve helped us plan for 2015!
This was also a good year for our individual staff members getting published. Quail Bell Magazine featured plenty of creative writing from our staffers, including Jessica Reidy’s essay on novel research in Paris, Norma and Rita’s Mis/Translation poems, Megan Tilley’s poem “Puddle,” and Alex Carrigan’s poem “When I First Saw Her.” Reidy also had a series of trauma poems featured in Luna Luna Magazine and Tilley was featured in Fictionvale. Szokolyai was also named one of twenty Romani authors you should be reading by VIDA and published in the anthology Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History.
While 2014 proved to be a very exciting year for all of us, our staff is quite ready to move on to our next round of exciting events. The CWW will once again table at AWP in Minneapolis from April 8-11, 2015 You can find us at the AWP 2015 Bookfair at Table 954. We will also be planning an offsite reading, and more information about that will come as we get closer to the event.
Join us April 2-5, 2015 for our first annual springtime Writing & Yoga Retreat in beautiful and gilded Newport, Rhode Island. Our Newport retreat offers the opportunity for writers of all genres and levels to work alongside award-winning authors & editors to hone their craft and expand their writing skills, while working on new or existing projects. Faculty includes internationally renowned author and writing coach Kathleen Spivack (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), Stephen Aubrey (playwriting, screenwriting), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). Registration closes on February 20, 2015 and spots are limited, so sign up on cww.submittable.com as soon as you can.
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Summer in Paris Writing Retreat will take place July 22-30, 2015 in France. The retreat offers participating writers of all genres and levels to work alongside award-winning authors and editors. Participating writers will hone their craft and expand their writing skills, while working on new or existing projects. There will also be time to explore the city of Paris in all of its historical, literary, and romantic charm. Situated in heart of Paris’ Montparnasse neighborhood, amongst the fresh and popular open air markets and charming boutiques, the hotel where we will stay is full of charm and our Moroccan themed classroom will offer a wonderful oasis to practice the writing life. Faculty includes internationally renowned author and writing coach Kathleen Spivack (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), David Shields (fiction, book-length essay), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). If you’d like to join us in Paris, please apply online at cww.submittable.com by May 5, 2015.
And from August 3-10. 2015, join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop on our summer writing retreat to the cultural oasis of Granada, Spain. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Andalucía, Granada is one of the gems of Spain and has inspired writers from Washington Irving to Salman Rushdie to Ali Smith. Let the old city stimulate your writing with its winding streets, Moorish history, and evocative landscapes. Or, indulge in delicious Andalucían cuisine and traditional Arab baths. Work with world-renowned authors on your manuscript, or look to the beauty and warmth of Granada to inspire all-new projects. Faculty includes Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Jessica Reidy (fiction, poetry) and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). If you’d like to join us in Granada, please apply online at cww.submittable.com by April 20, 2015.
We hope you are all as excited for our 2015 events as we are. If you have any questions about our upcoming retreats, please view the pages linked above. If you have any questions we may not have answered, you can email us at [email protected], and for inquiries, please email the CWW Directors, Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai, at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for more information and updates on any of these events. We look forward to making 2015 a year full of creativity, writing, and renewal, so join us as we make 2015 rock!
– Alex Carrigan & Rita Banerjee
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Along the front lines in Ukraine, cut off from resources, a resilient city holds on
Claire Harbage, Hanna Palamarenko
Claire Harbage
A man stands in front of a crater that was made from a missile strike in Slovyansk on Sunday morning.
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — When you enter this small city in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, a metal sign above the road greets you saying, "Slovyansk is Ukraine." After more than six months of Russia's invasion, it still is.
The front line of Russian-held territory in the east — where fierce fighting has reached a stalemate in recent weeks — is just about 10 miles away. Ukrainian officials have ordered evacuations, saying resources are too scarce and it's just too dangerous to stay. Three residential areas of Slovyansk are without electricity, which won't be able to be repaired in the near future. There is a dire shortage of fuel and constant shelling most nights.
Claire Harbage / NPR
Left: In January, a brightly lit kiosk stays open into the night. Right: In August, the kiosk is closed and vines grow over it.
Despite all this, and a mostly shuttered city center, nearly 20% of residents — about 20,000 people — remain, according to Svitlana Viunychenko, the mayor's spokesperson.
Among them are Oksana Morgun and her longtime friend Oleksandr Olaiarov. They're biking home together, for safety; a habit they started when the war began.
"We sleep separately [as couples] but everything else is together," says Morgun, who, along with her husband, is neighbors with Olaiarov and his family. She has a bag of grapes tied to her bright orange bike. Many people here travel by bike since electricity is spotty and there's no public transit anymore.
Oleksander Olaiarov (left) rides his bicycle with Oksana Morgun through the center of Slovyansk.
The two friends are constantly in touch, especially at night, when the city is shelled.
"When night comes and the thunder from the missiles begins, we are on the phones: 'Everything is fine? Everything is fine? Everything is fine?' we ask each other," says Morgun. "It's really difficult. We survive, we don't live."
Left: In January, a man walks through a painted pedestrian tunnel. Right: In August, the shop next to the tunnel is boarded up.
A bed of roses grows in the central square in Slovyansk.
Most shops in the city center are boarded up, the public gardens and parks are overgrown and buildings are damaged from recent shelling. A few coffee shops remain open, mostly fueled by the groups of Ukrainian soldiers stopping in for a coffee and to relax before heading back out to the front.
"We are stationed nearby," explains a soldier who goes by the call sign Petrovich. He doesn't want to use his full name for safety reasons. He says the lines haven't moved much in recent weeks, and a stalemate for troops means you're constantly on edge without much happening.
Soldiers walk through the entryway to a coffee shop in downtown Slovyansk.
A recent missile strike here left a crater along a residential boulevard, and damaged eight residential buildings and a school, according to the mayor. The damage drew several onlookers, mostly older residents who live in the buildings nearby.
Liudmyla Fakhrutdinova and her neighbor stopped by to look on their way home from picking up humanitarian aid at a local church. Their bags are filled with food and clothes, thanks to Ukrainian and international donors. She says she had just finished watching a movie the night before when she heard the blast. She and her neighbors have been spending nights in the hallway of their building since their bedrooms have windows.
Left: In January, the lights of residential buildings come on in the evening. Right: In August, a woman looks up at the damage from the morning's strike on the residential building.
For Viktoria Batychenko, looking at the damage is painful.
"I feel total despair," says Batychenko, as she sobs. "I think about the people who lost their homes."
Her grief is deepened, she says, because of the history here. Slovyansk was the first city to be seized by Russia-backed fighters in 2014. Ukraine claimed it back soon after and Batychenko says they worked hard to rebuild.
"We're Ukrainians," she says, "we've always been part of Ukraine. I want to live in Ukraine."
Nearby Liubov Mahlii, 75, with an orange kerchief tied around her head, is listening to the conversation. She points to a building just beyond the missile's crater. "This is my house," she says. "I saw the missile last night. But we're used to it by now."
Liubov Mahlii recites a poem she wrote about peace in the Donbas while she stands across from a building that was shelled that morning.
She lives in the fifth-floor apartment by herself. Her husband passed away and her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have all left Slovyansk for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other parts of Europe.
For months, water was out in the city, so Mahlii had to carry jugs up five flights of stairs. About two weeks ago, officials reestablished the water supply, so she finally has water back in her apartment, though, she says, it's finicky.
Left: In January, people walk past an open kiosk in central Slovyansk. Right: In August, the kiosk is shuttered and a man rides his bike.
Still, she's not planning on leaving anytime soon. Who would watch her home, keep her apartment safe? she asks.
"I can't leave," she says. "I don't want strangers in my home."
She passes the days writing and reciting poetry.
She shares one with NPR, about bringing peace to her home:
"I'm looking forward to peace
Although it makes us wait so long
Our patience has not run out yet
Peace is near, we eagerly await
Let there be peace
That is so hoped-for
And let the storms go too
Long live Donbas and Slovyansk!"
Viktoria Batychenko walks her bike in central Slovyansk where missiles hit in the morning on Sunday.
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Bad Faith Refusal to Return Security Deposit Costs Commercial Landlord
Five-year litigation over $16,000 ends with upholding of triple damages and attorney’s fees award.
For most kinds of cases, attorneys’ fees are not a part of recoverable damage.
Bad faith business practice cases based on Massachusetts law GL c. 93a– if found by a judge (not a jury), after trial, can permit recovery of attorney’s fees.
The Exhibit Source v Wells Ave Business Center
of Mass Appeals Court (2018)
A commercial tenant whose lease ended and who walked through the premises with the landlord finding no damages, expected the return of the $16,000 security deposit within 30 days as called for under the lease. The landlord gave excuses but did not return the deposit.
After a “bad faith” GL c 93a letter, the landlord offered $6,000. After suit started, the landlord increased its offer but never to the full amount. A jury found the landlord should have paid. The trial judge made written findings of evidence establishing the landlord’s bad faith (strung along the tenant for months with no intention to return the deposit), tripled the award and ordered the landlord to pay $60,000 – the tenant’s attorney’s fees – for work to recover what should have been paid.
INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION TRUMPS DAMAGE LIMIT OF LEASE
The judge found the landlord’s strategy was to ‘wear out the tenant’ who would need to incur legal fees to fight for the security deposit. The judge found this was not a contract dispute but an intentional strategy to hold the security deposit, despite the landlord’s lacking any right to do so.
Since this was seen as a misrepresentation case rather than a contract case, the clause in the lease limiting the landlord’s liability did not apply to block the recovery awarded by the judge.
Attorney’s fees in Massachusetts are recovered in a tiny fraction of cases. The tenant here incurred $60,000 in lawyer fees over five years of trial and appeals in a dispute over $16,000.
Claims and Disputes, Litigation, Massachusetts law, Real Estate
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Man found with gunshot wound along William Floyd Parkway in Shirley
By LAURA [email protected]_Figueroa May 10, 2015
Suffolk police were investigating reports of a man found with a gunshot wound in Shirley Sunday night.
A police spokeswoman said the department received a call at 7:25 p.m. reporting an adult male with a gunshot wound along William Floyd Parkway near Tudor Road.
The man, who was alive when police responded, was transported for medical treatment, but authorities said late on Sunday they had no further information on his condition or the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
By Laura Figueroa Hernandez
[email protected]_Figueroa
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Pictures of Hollywood
From outside the KTLA studio lot. I wonder who they're expecting...
If you have any photos you'd like to share, send them to [email protected]
Topic: Pictures from the Trenches
Miki Yamashita!!!
It's not often that I get to say I know someone sort of famous. In fact, I'm probably the most famous person I know...that is until now. One of my long-time fans (and the best voice in the Temp Diaries Tabernacle Choir) made her Tonight Show debut the other night in a "Jay Walking" segment about whether people can sing or not.
Please enjoy Miki Yamashita. She makes her debut at 1 minute into the spot. When you're done watching it, please hire her.
Topic: Plug Me
Tales from the bottom
Every once in a while, people get bored of my pontificating and decide to share their own tales of woe in Hollywood. I prefer this because it basically means I get all the fun of good content without having to write it.
So if you ever have any good stories you want to share, please send them along to [email protected]. For now, please enjoy this one I received the other day.
A few months ago I was working on the [singers' names redacted] music video in NYC. I'd lived in New York for a little over a year at this point and had driven on many jobs. But since it's mainly a walking/subway city, still was unsure of some of the streets downtown.
I was asked to go pick up [producer's name redacted] at her hotel in Chinatown and take her to location in Herald Square. I showed up an hour early with the car. She gets in the car and is ready to go. At a red light, I glance at the map on my phone to make sure I take the correct turn.
She snaps, "Oh my God! They sent me a PA that doesn't know NY, this is terrible! Hon, if you look at that phone again, you don't work with me."
So I put down my phone and make my way up 6th Ave to location. The traffic is insane, bumper to bumper. She is immersed in her computer and snaps again, "You need to go faster! The director is already there. Do you want me to drive, because I will." What she fails to see is that the street is PACKED and if I went any faster we would be inside the trunk of the cab in front of us.
So, to make her happy, I drive like a cabby -- pulling up in every open space possible. Then she goes, "Ugh! I can't do this!" She grabs all her stuff and gets out of the production vehicle, walks to the (also stuck in traffic) cab next to us and hops in it.
I called the production office and told them what happened, they said to not sweat it and come back to pick up the line producer. I went back, picked up the line producer and took her to location only to see [producer's name redacted] get out of the cab she ditched me for across the street. Then she bitched out the line producer and told her I was driving way too slow and that this shit wouldn't cut it in LA.
I worked a 22-hour day and was asked to come in the next day to help out in the office because "there's just too much to get done." I gladly did so. Then when I filled out the time sheet and put my hours in, the line producer said, "Why'd you do that? " Then crossed out my hours, changed it to 10 hours and said, "there's no OT on this job." This is the first I'd heard of that.
Then the check didn't show up for two months.
Great Moments in Product Placement History - Modern Family
It must have been "Corporate Synergy Week" or some other ridiculous edict, because last night's episode of Modern Family turned into a 30-minute infomercial for Disneyland. Or perhaps they're just kissing a little parent company ass while contract talks are going on.
(And in the event you're keeping track, the cast says "Disneyland" three times and "The Happiest Place on Earth" once before the opening credits even run.)
Topic: Great Moments In Product Placement History, TV -- The ugly stepchild of Hollywood
To the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of 2012...
I was recently asked to give the commencement address to the 2012 graduates of Emerson College. This is a decent honor (like most Emerson students, UT-Austin was my first choice), but I accepted it anyway. In the process of writing this speech, I realized Hollywood execs are smarter than first thought. Turns out it's much easier to remake something than it is to start from scratch.
Following is a transcript of that address...
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of 2012:
Sunscreen sucks.
If I could offer you only one tip for your future in Hollywood, skip the sunscreen. The short-term perks of a tan -- the healthy glow, tantalizing bikini lines -- have been proven time and again. The rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this nonsense now.
Sleep around.
It's fun. Everyone in Hollywood is good looking. When poolside at the Roosevelt, tell the model wannabe next to you that you're a producer on CSI: Miami. Then see what happens. Bottle service helps.
Vomit.
There's no better way to keep your body in shape than doing abdominal crunches while talking on the Porcelain telephone.
Be jealous.
This town is full of people who get things they don't deserve. Some day, that person might be you. And then you can look down on the masses and mock them.
Keep your old bank statements. Throw away your love letters. Only one of these is beneficial in divorce court.
Smoke cigarettes.
Parliament Lights. Marlboro Lights. Camel Lights. Any of them act as a fantastic appetite suppressant. Smoking makes you cool and it looks great on film. But don't smoke pot because it'll make you hungry.
Plagiarize.
Just tell everyone that your script is an homage to Chayefsky's Network, not a scene by-scene redo. (But hire a good lawyer just in case.)
Buy knee pads.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have an affair with the boss and get promoted. Maybe you'll accidentally get knocked up and have to have an abortion which your boss will put on his corporate AmEx and make you file the expense report. Maybe he'll go back to his wife because he can't afford a divorce in a communal property state especially in this economy.
Love is a relative term.
Whatever you do, don't ever stop self promotion. The key to success in Hollywood is convincing others of how great you are, even if it's not true.
Enhance your body.
If you see something sagging, bagging or dragging, it's best to nip it, tuck it and suck it. If God didn't want you to get plastic surgery, he wouldn't have invented Dr. 90210.
Lap Dance.
Because it pays more than temping and you'll meet more Hollywood executives that way.
Read the directions.
Because your boss's iPhone won't program itself.
Read fashion magazines. Inner beauty is for ugly people.
Get to know your parents. Because once you become a big Hollywood star, you'll blow them off in favor of partying at the Playboy mansion.
Be nice to your siblings. They've got dirt on you that they'll happily to sell to the National Enquirer if you screw them over.
Understand that Hollywood friends come and go because if they can't do anything for you, they're not worth your time. Plus it takes way too long to get from Santa Monica to Los Feliz.
Live in Hollywood once, but leave before you get stupid. Live in Burbank once, but leave before you get bored.
Drink heavily.
Accept certain inalienable truths. Reality programs are here to stay. Movie studio execs are mostly lazy. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, TV shows had scripts and some movies weren't remakes.
Suck up.
Nothing will get you further in Hollywood than kissing ass. Differentiate yourself by ass kissing in different ways such as the Spider-man Kiss ("You produced Spider-man 3? I love when Mary Jane sings!") and the French Canadian Kiss (It's like a regular kiss, but without union difficulties and with a better exchange rate.)
Find someone to support you. Maybe they have a trust fund. Maybe...oh it's probably a trust fund. But hold on with a vice grip because it's easier than working.
Use hair extensions because they look completely natural. Make sure you use a nice epoxy when installing them.
Advice is a way to helping others. Don't offer it. Dispense "recommendations" that won't work, because you don't want someone younger and with a higher, firmer butt passing you on the final lap.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
"My life in Hollywood sucks" -- May calendar
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Rising Artist Jenna Parr Delivers Hit “Break Me”
on March 12, 2020 March 12, 2020 By Matt Durlin
Georgia native Jenna Parr has been passionate about performing since she was young. In 2017, she released her first EP, called God’s Got This. “God’s Got This,” the title track, was released and picked up by multiple radio stations in the USA and internationally.
Fast forward to 2020, and Jenna Parr is now considered a rising star in the faith-based rock community. Her latest 8-song project was released everywhere on January 27. Made For This (Spotify, Apple Music) was produced by Broadhead Music Group’s Randall Broadhead and features hit single “Break Me,” which is an alternative track featuring raw lyrics and passionate vocals.
The rocker has been featured on WJTL’s Some Sort Of Rock Show and has ascended to as high as the top spot on BigBigHit.com’s Breaking Hits charts. The album also features lead single and title track “Made for This,” which was released in July 2019.
Learn more about up and coming artist Jenna Parr by following her on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or by visiting her website at www.jennaparr.com.
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Go the distance with the right golf club
Nancy Quarcelino
For Williamson
Picture yourself standing in the middle of the fairway after your best tee shot of the day. Now you look toward the green to determine which club you should use next.
The green is slightly elevated with a bunker positioned on the front left side, and the pin placement is tucked on the back left corner. You pull out your rangefinder to access the distance to the hole and make your club selection.
You then set up to the ball and hit a great iron shot headed straight for your target only to see it drop short of the green and into the bunker. How could that be?
In order to play your best golf, you must know exactly how far you hit every club in addition to taking into consideration each situation at hand. Knowing this information will be the difference between hitting and missing greens.
Understanding the carry distance of each club will allow you to hit the ball close to the hole and make birdies instead of bogeys — or, in this case, hitting the green instead of landing in the bunker.
Every club, when hit correctly, will carry a certain distance. The ball will then roll out to a total distance. That total distance is usually the only thing that matters to most golfers. But the most important distance to know is how far the ball flies.
Golfers now have the technology, range finders, to determine the distance to the desired target. I also encourage you to access the distance to the front of the green. I want you to know how far it is to carry over that bunker in front of the green. The fact that the green might be elevated also will mean that you very well might require a longer club to now reach the green.
Play smart golf. Have a strategy. Make better club selections and you will not only have more fun, but most certainly, you will play your best golf ever.
Nancy Quarcelino is an LPGA Hall of Fame member and GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher. The Nancy Quarcelino School of Golf is located at Kings Creek Golf Club. For more information call 615-778-8823 or go towww.QSOG.com. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.695889949798584, "wiki_prob": 0.304110050201416, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1227325"} |
Halfway done: Orion reaches farthest distance from Earth on Artemis I mission
Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel on Nov 28, 2022
Published in Science & Technology News
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA officials said the Orion spacecraft traveled to its farthest distance from Earth on Monday, two days after breaking a record set by Apollo 13.
On Saturday, Orion, which launched atop the Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, surpassed the previous record of 248,655 miles from the planet, which was the farthest away from Earth astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise traveled during their aborted 1970 moon-landing mission.
The uncrewed Orion, which has three mannequin passengers on board, reached 268,554 miles from Earth at 4:48 p.m. as part of the capsule’s distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon, marking the halfway point of the 25.5-day mission.
“It was really an important phase of our mission,” said NASA’s Orion program manager Howard Hu during a Monday press conference. “It got us into a point where we feel really good getting to this part of the mission, and really an opportunity to I would say catch our breath a little bit.”
Retrograde means the orbiting spacecraft circles the moon opposite the moon’s spin and orbit of the Earth. The distant part means that Orion’s lunar orbit has reached around 40,000 miles from the moon’s surface.
Orion entered DRO on Friday after having performed a slingshot around the moon on its closest approach last week, coming in about 81 miles from the surface.
NASA plans to have Orion complete only one half of this orbit, so that on Thursday, NASA managers look to fire up its engines again to bring it back down for a close approach to the lunar surface. It will then swing back around the moon on Dec. 5 to begin its return on a speedy trajectory to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11.
The No. 1 milestone for the mission is to prove Orion’s heat shields can withstand re-entry. The expected speed of 24,500 mph that would generate near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit would also set a record for human-rated spacecraft.
“Artemis builds on Apollo,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Not only are we going farther but coming home faster, but Artemis is paving the way to live and work in deep space in a hostile environment to invent, to create and ultimately to go on with humans to Mars.”
So far mission objectives have been so much on target that teams are coming up with additional data to check while Orion is out in deep space.
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Food Factor video series supports healthy eating
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STARKVILLE, Miss. -- National Ag Day celebrates Food for Life on March 21, but a video series by the Mississippi State University Extension Service promotes nutrition, food safety and healthy lifestyles every week of the year.
"The Food Factor" is a series of 90-second videos hosted by Natasha Haynes, a Rankin County Extension agent. These spots air weekly on a variety of television outlets, in addition to being available online.
Elizabeth Gregory North is head of the MSU Office of Agricultural Communications, which produces the video news feature series. She said the shows highlight the Extension Service as a valuable source of information on food topics.
“We designed this program to focus on food while capturing the unique flavor of Mississippi. We want people to watch the show and realize, ‘This is for me. It speaks to me and my family traditions and the food we like to eat,’” North said.
“Knowing that Mississippi statistics for overweight and obesity are a great concern, to the extent that this show can help people make better choices, we are addressing a need in Mississippi,” she said.
Haynes, who has hosted “The Food Factor” since it began in the summer of 2014, said the show typically follows a hands-on learning format, occasionally punctuated by brief interviews.
“I talk to the audience, and we all learn information together,” Haynes said. “The shows may begin on location, but they end with me in the kitchen giving a summary of what we’ve learned or doing a hands-on segment.”
“The Food Factor” is the brainchild of North, who saw a gap in educational media materials being offered to Mississippians. The Extension Service was offering farm and gardening advice in video form, but there was no video product supporting healthy lifestyles.
“I really wanted people to understand the breadth of what Extension contributes and what is available to them related to food and nutrition, healthy living and food safety,” North said. “The foodie culture has boomed, and I realized there was something missing in what the Extension Service offered to television audiences.”
“The Food Factor” was created to address the need for making healthy food choices. Topics are seasonal, relevant and fact-based, drawing heavily from peer-reviewed Extension Service and U.S. Department of Agricuture publications for their scientific basis.
Topics have included coffee drinks, tailgate safety, safe eggnog, potato storage, the lengths of time foods can be refrigerated, and cold-weather dehydration and hot-weather hydration. Humor plays a role in every production.
The Rocky movies inspired a show on avoiding salmonella and cooking eggs properly. Haynes starts that segment in a gym with a punching bag, looking as if she’s about to drink raw eggs. But she puts the drink down and discusses how to safely consume eggs.
“We all need to laugh, and we enjoy a topic more if it includes humor rather than just giving hard facts,” Haynes said. “By adding humor, you’re more likely to remember the tip we’re trying to get across, and you’re also more likely to sit and watch the whole segment.”
Haynes became the host after North recognized the Extension agent’s ability to connect with people and change their mood. North realized this talent would translate well to television.
“I was presenting some training in a large, long room that was a little dark,” North said. “I was at the head of the room, and everyone was seated in long rows away from me. Everyone was very quiet and solemn, just waiting for the training to start. I noticed someone moving through the room, greeting everyone, and the whole mood of the room changed. It was like a light moving across the room, and it was Natasha.”
Haynes is a family and consumer sciences Extension agent with an educational background in communications, so the fit was natural and instant.
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“The Food Factor” airs on local news programs in Jackson, Biloxi, Tupelo, Greenville and Meridian. The feature also can be seen weekly on “Farmweek,” the agricultural news show produced by the Office of Agricultural Communications, which airs on Mississippi Public Broadcasting and on the cable network RFD-TV. All episodes are available on YouTube and online at http://extension.msstate.edu/shows/the-food-factor.
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The Pitch Black Match created by WWE for its Royal Rumble and which will see Bray Wyatt enter the ring with a new opponent for the first time in months, is still a big secret for the entire WWE Universe. As reported by the Fightful Select podcast and then also reported at the bottom on the Ringside News website, it would seem that WWE has in mind to use neon lights within the contest, objects that in the world of independents are widely used for hardcore matches.
As reported by the journalists of the important newspapers mentioned above, in fact: "Fightful Select has learned that there will be neon lights in the Mountain Dew Pitch Black match at the Royal Rumble. They will be a major part of the match during its duration." In practice, from what one could foresee, the Pitch Black match will not have disqualifications, having neon lights as characterizing elements of the contest, which will probably be used as blunt weapons between the opponents in the ring.
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Hairy-nosed wombat, South Australia - rescue effort well worth supporting
Thu, 2015-02-26 15:22 by Sheila Newman
http://wombatawareness.com/2015/02/UPDATE 26-02-2015 - The millionaire bequest fell through! Brigitte and the wombats of South Australia are now facing a truly awful situation. She has set up a donation site in absolute desperation, no amount too small: https://www.chuffed.org/project/wombatssoontobehomeless and we hope our readers will spread this news. No-one else is helping the wombats in SA on a large scale and long term; wombats are starving, dying of mange and being killed by cars and farmers. As you know they are adorable and precious... and really worth saving. Thanks for any help.
The strange and unforgivable decline in wombat appreciation in the 20th century
The reputation of the wombat declined over the 20th century and is now at an unforgivable all time low. People may be interested to read "Rossetti's Wombat: A Pre-Raphaelite Obsession in Victorian England". This lecture by Harold White Fellow, Angus Trumble, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 16 April, 2003, gives a little-known history of wombat appreciation in Britain by 19th century poets, who called the wombat "the most beautiful creature of all". Here is a quote from a description written about 200 years ago, about a pet wombat which was taken to England (not that we approve the kidnapping of wombats to England):
"The wombat, burrowed in the ground whenever it had an opportunity, and covered itself in the earth with surprising quickness. It was quiet during the day, but constantly in motion in the night: was very sensible to cold; ate all kinds of vegetables; but was particularly fond of new hay, which it ate stalk by stalk, taking it into its mouth like a beaver, by small bits at a time. It was not wanting in intelligence, and appeared attached to those to whom it was accustomed, and who were kind to it. When it saw them, it would put up its forepaws on the knee, and when taken up would sleep in the lap. It allowed children to pull and carry it about, and when it bit them did not appear to do it in anger or with violence."
Whilst we do not approve of kidnapping wombats, we do approve the peaceful and positive interaction with them and wonder why it does not happen more frequently in Australia. Perhaps it is because we have been misled by our governments and education system to believe that they are unapproachable. Maybe this is another case for Gloria O'Possum to investigate.
Wombat Awareness Organisation Ltd., Research Conservation Education Rescue Unit
A hairy-nosed wombat community at Portee Station where this rare and persecuted animal is being rehabilitated and protected.
The site of the Wombat Awareness Organisation Ltd., Research Conservation Education Rescue Unit tells the rest of the 20th and 21st century story and that is where to go to purchase a little piece of outback Australia for the wonderful hairy-nosed wombat.
Here is a delightful film (link has been updated to new address)about this wombat refugee community in South Australia, run by Brigitte Stevens and her partner, Frank Mikela. It certainly bears out the earlier reputation of the wombat as a lovable and cuddly animal.
You may also sponsor a wombat, like this one, called, "Turty"
It is great to see a big effort being made to help wombats and the people who care for them with such dedication.
UPDATE September 21, 2010Millionaire bequest due in 12 months - but money urgently needed now
Brigitte Stevens still needs funding urgently, but urgently only for another 12 months or so, when the release of the first million dollar installment of an $8m bequest is scheduled to come through. Only recently has the news arrived that a US horse-racing millionaire has left to this organisation for wombats!
The millionaire's family has chosen to remain anonymous. According to Kim Wheatley, "US millionaire leaves estate to Wombat Awareness Organisation, the millionaire visited the organisation a couple of years ago to meet wild wombats.
He was shown the shameful conditions in which the South Australian government's laws and wildlife monitoring have reduced the wild population.
"I took him out into the wild population and showed him wombats with mange, wombats that were starving to death and wombats with burrows from motorbike tyres," she said.
Brigitte has another paid job just to pay the bills the organisation generates. According to Kim Wheatley's article, last year's vet fees amounted to $70,000. Now Brigitte hopes to buy two new properties and to run a 24 hour free veterinary advice clinic.
Ms Stevens - who works to help pay bills, including last year's $70,000 vet fees - wants to buy two properties in the Murraylands and run a 24-hour free vet advice phone clinic. But she is having trouble simply maintaining the Wombat Awareness Organisation at the minute, since the first installment of this bequest is still a long way off - around 12 months.
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Fri, 2010-09-24 13:41 by Sheila Newman
UPDATE September 21, 2010: Millionaire bequest due in 12 months - but money urgently needed now.
On 7 August 2009 I wrote an article about the Wombat Awareness Organisation, which also referred to some interesting 19th century attitudes to wombats in Britain. On September 21 we learned that, although Brigitte Stevens still needs funding urgentlyfor another 12 months or so, after that the organisation expects the release of the first million dollar installment of an $8m bequest from a US horse-racing millionaire! So rarely do wildlife carers get the recognition they deserve for giving recognition and rights back to our fellow creatures. How wonderful to know that there are some rich people in the world who are not, apparently, entirely given over to land speculation and undermining democracy.
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For the whole article, with the update at the end, see, "Hairy-nosed wombat, South Australia - rescue effort well worth supporting"
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Sam the koala loses another battle and is euthanased - we are all very sad
Another famous koala - from Norman Lindsay's Magic Pudding
"Sam, we were all so glad to hear of your rescue, which gave us hope that the world would realise the plight of you and your fellow koalas and other wildlife in Australia and that our politicians might then wake up. We enjoyed seeing that you had made a friend at the wildlife shelter and it seemed that your future looked comparatively rosey. We are now so sorry to hear that you are no longer with us."
-- Ed.Candobetter
Sam was actually a female koala and, soon after she was rescued, she became fast friends with a male koala who was recovering in the same shelter.
Sam was a victim of controlled burning, not of 'bushfire'
Sam was a victim of the practice of "controlled burning-off" to prevent bushfires. She was not actually a victim of an out of control bushfire. Burning-off is a practice of which the frequency is criticised soundly and scientifically here. In many cases it benefits loggers and land-clearers. Managed and thinned forests are overwhelmingly more frequently linked to uncontrollable bushfires than old growth forests. There is a case for burning off on ridges which are prone to lightening attacks, but, as writers argue in these pages, we should use an entirely different approach to fighting fires in Australia.
Although Sam became known, admired, and undoubtedly loved, by millions of people, due to the terrible fires last February in which hundreds of people died and over a million native animals died, she actually succumbed to chlamydia.
Chlamydia in koalas
Chlamydia is a disease which was found to be epidemic in a number of koala populations about 20 years ago. Since then, the mixing up of different populations in new places in an effort to save the species from extinction due to traditional habitat destruction, has probably contributed to a rise in the incidence of infections. Stress in its own right is also an obvious likely factor in the prevalence, seriousness and chronicity of this illness.
Chlamydia bacteria occur in many different animals, including humans. In koalas clamydia can infect the urinary tract the genetical tract and the respiratory tract. It may cause infertility and blindness and the animal may die from these. They get pink rimmed eyes and cannot keep themselves clean due to incontinence.Source:
How safe are koalas in Australia?
Koalas only live on the South and South Eastern coast of Australia and most wildlife carers consider them in danger everywhere. Unfortunately the way that animals are classified as threatened and endangered in Australia means that you have to wait until the entire population of koalas Australia-wide is on the brink of extinction. Meanwhile, as we head quickly towards this situation, local and regional populations are being extinguished with barely a protest registered in the mainstream media and with only the merest token gestures from parliamentarians.
Wildlife Carers finance most of their work themselves, with little help and much hindrance from the government. People around the world who may read this: please place pressure on our Australian State and Federal governments to start protecting our wildlife instead of killing them through neglect or demonised as 'pests'.
In some cases koalas are endangered by being marooned by human development, so that they cannot get out and they exhaust the food trees where they are boxed in and die of starvation, fighting and disease. Throwing animals together from different populations, without a normal population structure means that these artificially created new colonies lack brakes on reproduction which occur normally through incest avoidance and the Westermarck effect.
However, the greatest direct killer is loss of habitat due to suburban development. This loss of habitat is driven by the growth lobby which has caused Australia to become severely overpopulated to the extent that we are now running out of water and land for farming and for wildlife is being stolen for human development. This means less water and less land for animals and forests.
Koalas are also killed by dogs, humans, stepped on by cattle, and run down by cars.
Brigitte Bardot's site has a very good page on this, devoted to Victoria's Mornington Peninsula Wildlife carer, Jenny Bryant's Koala Refuge.
But koalas are also loved by many Australians
As you can see from this page
In Australia one of our most famous books was Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding, where the hero was a Koala called Bunyip Bluegum, who left his home because he couldn't stand sharing it with his untidy uncle.
This picture shows him eating outside to avoid watching his uncle drag his whiskers in his soup. You can see that Bunyip is being importuned by two small goannas, who want hand-outs.
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People who eat kangaroos and wallabies are at risk of all kinds of parasites that are not normally studied
Fri, 2009-07-03 15:38 by nimby
ZOONOSIS: (zo"o-no'sis) pl. zoono'ses - a disease of animals that may be transmitted to man under natural conditions.
The simplest definition of a zoonosis is a disease that can be transmitted from other vertebrate animals to humans. A slightly more technical definition is a disease that normally infects other animals, but can also infect humans. It is hard to be certain which diseases jumped from other animals to humans, but there is good evidence that measles, smallpox, influenza, HIV, and diphtheria came to us this way. The common cold, and tuberculosis, may also have started in other species.
The majority of pathogen species causing disease in humans are zoonotic - estimated at 75% of all human diseases in Australia.
Zoonotic diseases can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
Diseases of wildlife can cause significant illness and death to individual animals and can significantly affect wildlife populations. Wildlife species can also serve as natural hosts for certain diseases that affect humans (zoonoses).
Many rare species are being pushed towards extinction by exposure to human illnesses, scientists say.
New diseases threaten humans and wildlife
Scientists believe human encroachment into wild areas is hastening the emergence of new viruses that are passing from animals to people.
According to David Obendorf, Wildlife Veterinary Pathologist, there have been several new and emerging diseases in Australian wildlife that warrant greater research investment.
Some novel disease processes or exotic pathogens have the potential to threaten the long-term survival of native species (for example, the chytrid fungus infection in frogs and the facial tumour disease of Tasmanian devils). As wildlife populations become increasing separated through habitat degradation, the threat of extinction through disease or other health impacts caused by man-made influences grows.
Zoonotic diseases also have increased over the years because of human and animal populations living in closer proximity. Farming practices in Southeast Asia as an example.
H1N1 influenza is just one more example of a zoonosis that can "jump" from one species to another and may begin to act differently in a new host.
Human behavior was a key factor driving the emergence of the diseases, the scientists said in a statement which listed pet ownership, global air travel, "food preference" (meat) and poverty.
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Kangaroo exports as an emerging trade
Kangaroos and wallabies can harbour a wide range of parasitic, bacterial, fungal and viral diseases and the majority of infections are unapparent.
Dr David Obendorf: Suffice to say issues such as poor killing practices, delays in gutting carcasses, delays in refrigerating carcasses, inappropriate sanitation and effluent management, the inadequate long-term chilling of carcasses, and failure to use of potable water are the most obvious causes of bacterial contamination of meat product that can lead to human health risks from bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Campylobacter.
Diseases in Kangaroo Meat
It is possible that the weakened genetic pool due to continually shooting the healthiest, strongest animals is responsible for increased disease levels in kangaroos. Kangaroos harbour a vast range of parasites - many increase with stress and crowding.
Australian doctors in 1997 warned of a new threat to human health from eating kangaroo meat. Dr Erika Cox, clinical microbiologist at Launceston General Hospital, said: "Laboratory tests suggest a new species of microscopic worm is responsible." She added: "People who eat kangaroos and wallabies are at risk of all kinds of parasites that are not normally studied because they don't occur in livestock."
A Viva report on the killing of kangaroos for meat and skin
If this trade becomes further established, no wild animal will be safe and it would further threat the safety and existence of kangaroos- the animals that Australia has betrayed! It is no coincidence that in our “Bush Capital”, Canberra, so-called “experts” have degraded Eastern Grey Kangaroos as an environmental “threat” and a “pest” species just when the meat trade to China was quietly revealed! Their kangaroos are being “culled” in the name of conservation, while the real threats to native species, such as livestock, feral rabbits, urban sprawl, continue unabated!
It is time for those with vision and compassion to work within Australia and in the countries that import kangaroo meat and skin on a concerted consumer campaign to stop this evil trade for good.
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Iran: Israel to be punished for terror strike that killed two IRGC advisors in Syria
Tehran has strongly condemned Israel’s recent attack on the Syrian capital that led to the martyrdom of two Iranian military advisors with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), saying the occupying regime’s crime “will not go unpunished.”
During Monday’s missile attack, Israel hit positions south of Damascus, killing two people and leaving some material damage.
Iran’s IRGC named the victims as Colonel EhsanKarbalayi-Poor and Colonel Morteza Saeed-Nezhad.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh offered condolences to the families and friends of the martyrs.
He also strongly condemned “the criminal act that stems from the Zionist regime’s aggressive nature, occupation and terrorism.”
“The infanticide Zionist regime’s insolence and operations via its terror machine will definitely not go unpunished,” Khatibzadeh added, noting that one of the goals of the resistance front in the region is to hold the apartheid regime accountable for its inhumane crimes.
The elite military force, which has been providing Syria with military advisory assistance in the face of foreign-sponsored militancy, has confirmed the martyrdom of two of its members and vowed to avenge their blood.
Tel Aviv has been a key supporter of terrorist groups fighting to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011.
It keeps a significant military presence in Syria’s Golan Heights, which it uses as one of its launchpads for attacks on the Syrian soil.
The occupying regime mostly keeps quiet about its attacks on Syrian territory, which many view as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s increasing success in confronting terrorism.
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Islamabad: China's top leadership has assured its support to Pakistan in countering terrorism, promoting national action plan, ensuring security of its people and stability of the country.
The assurance was given by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in a condolence message addressed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in which they condemned the terrorist attack in a mosque in Peshawar.
Both leaders expressed condolences on behalf of Chinese government and people to the families of those martyred in the incident and conveyed best wishes for speedy recovery of the injured.
President Xi said China is ready to deepen counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan for peace and security in the region and the world.
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Islamabad: Pakistan expects sincere cooperation from the Afghan interim government to address the challenge of terrorism and hopes that Afghanistan will live up its commitments made with the international community and Pakistan in this regard, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated while replying to a question during her weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday.
She said: “Terrorism is a common threat to both Pakistan and Afghanistan and we must take a strong stand against such entities that use violence against innocent citizens and law enforcement agencies”.
The Spokesperson expressed Pakistan's resolve to root out the evil of terrorism and safeguard the security of every citizen.
Mumtaz stated: “We do not believe in accusations or finger pointing. However, we would reiterate our expectations that no country should allow its territory to be used for perpetrating terrorism against Pakistan,” adding that, it is time that the commitments made to the world are fulfilled with sincerity and in good faith actions.
Responding to another question, the spokesperson added, “Pakistan has a foreign policy that prioritizes developing good relations with all countries”.
“We have constructive dialogue with all countries, including Russian Federation, the United States, the European Union, and our neighbors,” Baloch added.
She said bilateral relations with Russia, including economic cooperation, will further deepen in future.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch informed that Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar will undertake a two-day visit to Sri Lanka from tomorrow.
Zahra further added, “The Minister of State will participate in the 75th Independence Day of Sri Lanka as a Guest of Honour. In addition to attending the Independence Day events, she will call on the Sri Lankan leadership and hold a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka”.
The Spokesperson further said: “Pakistan and Sri Lanka have historic ties that have grown steadily in all aspects of bilateral cooperation”.
We also have worked closely in multilateral forums including SAARC. The visit of the Minister of State would contribute to enhanced understanding between the two countries and signal Pakistan's support for Sri Lanka in a difficult time.
He conducted a photo shoot with ICC award.
Lahore: Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam Thursday shared his pictures on social media after receiving the International Cricket Council (ICC) award and captioned it as: “You are your own magic”.
The national team captain conducted a special photo shoot at home with his trophies and caps he received in 2021 and 2022.
The photos include ICC Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20 Team of the Year caps and all three trophies.
You are your own magic 🪄 pic.twitter.com/2VO1c4YZLn
— Babar Azam (@babarazam258) February 2, 2023
Soon after sharing the images, Babar's friends, colleagues and fans starting congratulating him for the success.
It is pertinent to note that Babar Azam was included in the ICC Test and ODI Team of the Year in 2021. He also received the ODI Player of the Year award in 2021.
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January 03, 2022 Life Lines » Obituaries
Obituary: Micheline Hogue Junas, 1933-2022
From an "epic love story" to travel and volunteering, Shelburne woman "lived a very good and full life"
Published January 3, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | Updated January 10, 2022 at 10:53 a.m.
Micheline Junas
Micheline Hogue Junas of Shelburne, Vt., died peacefully at home after a short illness on January 3, 2022, surrounded by her loving family. She was 88.
Marie Pirouette Yolande Micheline Hogue was born in Montréal to Marcel Hogue and Annette Blais on March 18, 1933. She grew up on Rue St. Denis surrounded by her close-knit family, including many beloved aunts, uncles and cousins. She studied at Queens College in Kingston, Ontario, earning a secretarial certificate, and went on to work in downtown Montréal for many years as a secretary and executive assistant.
An avid skier, she spent two weeks skiing at Gray Rocks in the Laurentians each March. This is where she met the love of her life, Tom Junas the American, in 1959, and an epic love story began. She and Tom moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, upon marrying on January 12, 1960, and then to Massachusetts, raising three children in Arlington.
Micheline was active on the Dallin School PTO and the Arlington League of Women Voters, and she worked at one of the area's first volunteer food co-ops. She went on to work at a local office-supply company and then in the office of development and alumni relations at Brandeis University, retiring in 1998. She and Tom moved to Shelburne, Vt., in 2008, where she made new friends through the Shelburne-Charlotte Newcomers and volunteered at the Pearson Library and the Shelburne Food Shelf.
Micheline was an avid home cook, making her famous tourtière for lucky friends and neighbors. Weekends were filled with cooking projects, dinner was always from scratch, and the cookies were always homemade. She loved to walk and found great pleasure in walking around the neighborhood nightly — both in Arlmont Village and on Aspen Circle and Sycamore — and meeting neighbors and getting the latest news.
Travel with Tom was a highlight of their later years. Micheline had fond memories of trips to Italy, England, Holland, Ireland and France. In her words, "I have lived a very good and full life, and I am incredibly fortunate to have the family and friends that I have had."
Micheline is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 62 years, Thomas Junas; and by her children, Elise Johnson and her husband, Greg, of Bedford, N.H.; Andrew Junas and his wife, Laura, of Wakefield, Mass.; and Nicole Junas Ravlin and her boyfriend, Chris Downing, of Charlotte, Vt. She was incredibly proud of her four grandchildren, Ethan and Colin Ravlin and Evan and Isabelle Johnson. They were the true light of her life, and it was an honor to be their Mimi and her children's mother. She is also survived by her sister Suzanne Hogue Léveillé of Île des Sœurs, Québec, and her nephews Yves and Alain Léveillé.
We are truly blessed to have had a good week with Micheline before she died — a week when, in true Micheline style, she told us exactly what she wanted for this obituary, her funeral and a few other things in great detail. (There's a pastrami sandwich for Tom from Rustic Roots in this plan.)
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 7, 11 a.m., at Charlotte Congregational Church, followed by a reception; a virtual option is available and can be accessed by emailing [email protected] for the link.
Micheline chose to donate her body to the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine's Anatomical Gift Program. In lieu of flowers (and she was really serious about this — there are to be only four bouquets, all of which she already ordered), please consider a gift to First Call at the Howard Center, a service that was so very close to Micheline's heart. If donating online, please click "area of greatest need" and indicate in the comments section "First Call in Memory of Micheline Junas."
We are eternally grateful for the care and compassion given by the nurses on Baird 4 and McClure 6; Brittany O. Bryan, PA-C at UVM Medical Center; the exceptional Bayada Hospice team; spiritual support from the Charlotte Congregational Church; and all of our family friends who have made this challenging time so much easier to bear.
If you find yourself thinking about what Micheline would want, pour a glass of wine — or, even better, Champagne! — and toast to her incredible life, create and celebrate your own love story, tell those you love that you love them often, and be sure to eat all the delicious things — especially things with gluten!
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The success of ‘Shrink Wrap’, her EP launched in August 2014, inspired Anna Rest Easy to work on her debut album. ‘Retrospectre’ will be launched on August 24, at The Bedford, Balham. ‘Shrink Wrap’, six songs marked by dark morbid humour (lead song ‘Mathilde’ is the tale of a girl who loses her head…literally), is the perfect lead into ‘Retrospectre’. A concept album it documents the trauma and tragedies of fame from the perspective of protagonist Anna Rest Easy.
‘Retrospectre’ is essentially an album of two halves. We see Anna’s difficult home and school life, bullied and pushed around, knowing that there is more to life than this. Love comes along, gives her the opportunity to get away from it all, for a life on the stage.
Sombre, dark and melodious, piano-led with gorgeous vocals, ‘Curtain Call’ sees the lead voice swelling steadily above waves of synth – more syllables than words. They are joined by a second voice providing a counter harmony.
Continuing in the same vein, ‘Bridal Wave’ is a beautiful song with clever lyrics – “Nights of cruel transiency”, “Dainty eyes, slender thighs, cinematic inner mind” – this time using organ and xylophone. The rhythm gives the impression of a train trip or at least, conveys the idea of journeying somewhere – through life perhaps. Again making great use of the counter harmony, there’s a second lyric overlaying the first, with the resulting feeling of speeding through life with not so much control as one would hope for.
Song three, ‘Look Around Yourself’ is where Anna Rest Easy really shines. Strong piano, beautiful strings in the background, perhaps a finger-plucked violin – there’s an over-riding impression of darkness and melancholy – Anna hasn’t a nice home/school life and but nonetheless is challenged to ‘look around yourself’ to see what life could actually hold, and in any case, ‘you’ve got time to figure it out’.
The album continues, following the journey of Anna – ‘Country Girl’, a song about bullying, follows on her school experiences, being the outsider, not quite fitting in, and knowing there’s much more ahead of her, then ‘Love Letter’, a dark and theatrical song which sets the stage – literally – for what is about to happen in the second half of the album. Dramatic use of piano and strings transport the listener to the next scene in Anna’s life: she’s destined for the theatre.
Our favourite song from the album, ‘Dressing Room B’, is sung from the perspective of a depressed understudy (presumably Anna). Quite thought-provoking with lyrics such as – “you wouldn’t follow me home or send a picture to a magazine” and ‘How can I shine when I’m crying in Dressing Room B’. So true – the understudy works just as hard as the main cast member, sometimes harder, but they’re the unsung hero of the show. It’s a nice segue into ‘Melancholia’, based on the Lars von Trier film of the same name, which features very strong keyboards. It’s emotional, evoking feelings of pain and sadness – ‘The hands upon my watch stand still’. Anna isn’t enjoying life at the moment. She’s a ‘lonely astronaut’.
Without giving away anything more, ‘Retrospectre’ is a beautifully composed album which we feel, given the right promotion, could do very well. We very much enjoyed ‘Shrink Wrap’, and we’ve enjoyed ‘Retrospectre’ even more. No B-sides to this album, it fully deserves to be listened to in one sitting. Due for launch on August 24th at The Bedford in Balham, tickets can be obtained here. Having previously seen Anna Rest Easy perform live, we know it’s bound to be an evening to remember.
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Red Sox 2, Twins 1: Carl Crawford's Walk-Off Double Gives Sox Series Win
By Benjamin Buchanan@OverTheMonster May 9, 2011, 11:46pm EDT
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For the second time in May, Carl Crawford provided a walk-off hit for the Red Sox, who downed the Twins 2-1 in 11 innings.
For the game to even reach the eleventh inning took a lot of luck-good for the Twins, and bad for the Red Sox. Though Josh Beckett would eventually be erased from the decision, he continued his dominant 2011 with seven innings of shutout ball. The usual indicators of a strong Beckett start were all there: a tight breaking ball hitting the bottom of the zone when it did not dip out, and precise fastball command. While he was eventually forced to abandon a changeup that just wasn't working out, it turned out that he didn't need it. Most of the hits the Twins did pick up came on weakly hit flairs that dropped between charging outfielders and retreating infielders.
Still, the Red Sox did not provide him with much of a cushion. Nick Blackburn was not particularly effective, giving up line drive after line drive, but some terrific plays from Ben Revere in left field and some bad luck for the Red Sox let him escape relatively unscathed, with only a single run scoring in the fifth, when Adrian Gonzalez drove Jason Varitek in after a leadoff double.
That could have been enough, though, had luck not continued to work against the Red Sox. With Alfredo Aceves on to pitch the eighth, the Twins struck back in the weakest of fashions. A soft ground ball from Denard Span ended up being a hit when Aceves accidentally interfered with Kevin Youkilis, making the third baseman's throw to first too late. Span would be moved on to second base after a very questionable balk call from home plate umpire Joe West--the second such call from this umpiring crew in the series. Jonathan Papelbon came in to try and put out the fire, but on his eighth pitch to Jason Kubel gave up a broken bat blooper into center field that tied the game at 1-1.
With neither side able to mount a rally--partially thanks to Darnell McDonald once again displaying "aggressive baserunning" by getting picked off of first with two outs--the game went to extra innings, where the Sox were in for yet more trouble. Joe West once more became the ire of Fenway, calling what seemed to be an incredibly inconsistent strike zone, but Hideki Okajima fought back, racking up two scoreless innings of relief despite having runners reach scoring position in both frames.
With one out in the eleventh, the Red Sox finally got their break. Jed Lowrie earned a five-pitch walk off of Minnesota reliever Jim Hoey to lead off the inning, and was quickly replaced with Jose Iglesias at first. In came Carl Crawford, with his eight game hit streak in dire jeopardy. Working the count full, Crawford golfed at a 3-2 pitch nearly in the dirt as Iglesias took off for second. He made contact--loud, hard contact--and sent the ball flying towards the Green Monster. Even with the wind blowing in all night, the ball bounced hard off the top of the wall, and down to Ben Revere, who fired home. The relay was close, but with Iglesias never hesitating rounding third, came in late, allowing the young shortstop to score the winning run.
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Kansas Blows Out West Virginia, Hosts Texas Tech Tonight
The Kansas Jayhawks are now two wins shy of a ninth consecutive Big 12 title. On Saturday, KU overcame a slow start and routed West Virginia 91-65.
Kansas was led by Ben McLemore, who broke out of his recent slump in a big way. The redshirt freshman scored a Kansas freshman record 36 points against the Mountaineers, shooting 12 of 15 from the floor, including five of six from three. Jeff Withey also had a big game for KU, as the senior center nearly notched his second triple double of the season. Withey ended up with 14 points, 10 rebounds and nine blocks, and Elijah Johnson added 12 points and 10 assists for Kansas.
After a rare three game losing streak, Kansas has picked up two tough road wins and blown out every team it has faced at home. A lot of that has to do with Johnson, who has found his shooting stroke and has limited turnovers. If Johnson has another hot March, the Jayhawks could be primed for another deep run in the NCAA tournament.
The Jayhawks could be primed for another big performance tonight, as they host Texas Tech on senior night. Kansas fans will be seeing Johnson, Withey, Kevin Young and Travis Releford for the final time in Allen Fieldhouse, and this is likely McLemore’s last home game as a Jayhawk as well. The Red Raiders won their last game - beating TCU on Saturday – yet it was only Tech’s third league win this season. TTU has been blown out by nearly every decent team it has faced recently, and it doesn’t appear that they can pose much of a threat to Kansas – especially in Lawrence on senior night.
If the Jayhawks can get past the Red Raiders tonight, they will play at Baylor with the Big 12 title on the line on Saturday.
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Labels: Ben McLemore, Big 12 Basketball, Elijah Johnson, Kansas basketball, Kansas basketball big 12 titles, Kansas basketball schedule, kansas city news, kc news, KU Basketball
Kansas - Oklahoma State Preview
While it hasn’t always been pretty, the Kansas Jayhawks have made it to this point in the Big 12 season undefeated in conference play, and currently have a two game lead over several teams tied for second. KU will look to stay undefeated and increase their lead on Saturday, when the Jayhawks host the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The game is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m.
The Jayhawks’ struggles on offense lately have mostly been a result of sloppy guard play, particularly from senior point guard Elijah Johnson. Johnson has been prone to turnovers, and is struggling to score from both beyond the arc and in the lane. Ben McLemore has quickly turned into Kansas’ best offensive weapon, and Jeff Withey and Travis Releford are both efficiently scoring as well. If Johnson can return to the form he displayed in the latter portion of last season, Kansas’ offense will greatly improve.
Oklahoma State is one of the most talented teams in the league, and many pegged them as the second-best team behind Kansas before the season started. OSU is 4-3 in Big 12 play, however all three losses have come on the road to good teams – Kansas State, Oklahoma and Baylor. The Cowboys narrowly beat Iowa State at home on Wednesday, thanks to Marcus Smart’s layup with only seconds left on the clock. If Oklahoma State can defeat Kansas in Lawrence, they will take a huge step towards locking up an NCAA tournament berth and will be officially part of the Big 12’s upper tier of teams.
Kansas has won 102 of its last 103 home games; however Oklahoma State provides a huge challenge. If Kansas can finally get its offense to wake up, they shouldn’t have much trouble handling the Cowboys. However, if KU continues to shoot poorly from three and turns the ball over, Oklahoma State has the talent to pull the upset.
Labels: Ben McLemore, Big 12 Basketball, Big 12 Schedule, Big 12 standings, Elijah Johnson, Kansas basketball, kansas city news, kansas jayhawks, kc news, KU basketball schedule, KU vs OSU
Kansas Defeats West Virginia
The Kansas Jayhawks’ new number one ranking was quickly put to test, as the team got all they wanted from West Virginia in Morgantown last night. Despite blowing a big early lead and some sloppy play, KU hung on to win 61-56. The Jayhawks now have a nation-leading 18 game winning streak, and sit alone in first place in the Big 12 with a 7-0 record.
Kansas was led by Jeff Withey, who had another big game on both ends of the floor. Withey finished with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks, anchoring another stout defensive performance from the Jayhawks. Kansas has held its past six opponents to fewer than 60 points, which has been crucial due to the team’s lack of offensive production.
Early on, it looked like the Jayhawks were on their way to a blowout. KU built a 15 point lead, only to turn the ball over repeatedly and allow the Mountaineers to quickly get back into the game. Kansas had 16 turnovers in the game, and point guard Elijah Johnson once again struggled to put together a consistent performance.
The Jayhawks also struggled from the free throw line, hitting a dismal 18 of 34 attempts. The poor free throw shooting and turnovers wasted a solid shooting night from the floor, as KU hit 54% of the field goals they attempted.
Kansas will be back in action on Saturday, when they host Oklahoma State (13-5, 3-3). West Virginia’s next three games are against the teams that currently sit with the Mountaineers towards the bottom of the conference – Texas Tech, Texas and TCU. WVU will have to find a way to win all three if it wants to get back into the NCAA tournament discussion. The Mountaineers have never missed the big dance under head coach Bob Huggins.
Labels: Big 12 Basketball, Elijah Johnson, Jeff Withey, Kansas basketball, kansas city news, kc news, KU Basketball, KU basketball schedule, Oklahoma State basketball, West Virginia basketball schedule
KU Embarrasses KState in Lawrence
On the day the state of Kansas turned 150, it seemed fitting that KU and KState would battle in Lawrence with ESPN's College Game Day in town. Before the season started, this looked like a potential top 10 or even top 5 matchup. However, KState has not lived up to its lofty preseason ranking, which took a lot of hype out of the Sunflower Showdown.
KState had no answer for the Jayhawks, getting absolutely manhandled by KU, 90-66. KU jumped out to a 15-2 lead and never looked back, relying on its superior post play to turn the game into a layup line. KState couldn't buy a basket, and never got within striking distance. Just two days after burying his mother, Thomas Robinson had a monster game, scoring 17 points and grabbing nine rebounds in an inspired effort to help lead the Jayhawks.
KU was one week off losing its ridiculous 69 home court winning streak at the hands of Texas, and looked inspired, focused and hungry. The Jayhawks were distracted against the Longhorns (the team found out about Lisa Robinson's passing the night before the game), and fell apart against a dangerous Texas squad. The win on saturday was a reminder that the Big 12 title still runs through Lawrence, and that KU will once again be a factor in league play and beyond.
For KState, the loss seemed fitting given how the season has gone. The Wildcats were picked to win the Big 12 and found themselves at third in the preseason top 25 poll. KState has now dropped five Big 12 games and seems headed for the NIT at best. Leadership problems, a stagnant offense and a tough Big 12 have lead to KState's nosedive. Frank Martin has failed to build a program like Bill Self or Mike Anderson at Missouri, and with no high-impact recruits and next year's tougher Big 12 schedule, the future looks cloudy at the moment in Manhattan.
Labels: Big 12 Basketball, Bill Self, Frank Martin, Kansas basketball, KState basketball, KState leadership problems, KU Basketball, KU beats KState, Mike Anderson, Thomas Robinson, Thomas Robinson mother
Texas Ends Jayhawk Win Streak; Missouri Dominates Iowa State
The Jayhawks' impressive home win streak came to an end Saturday with a defeat at the hands of the Texas Longhorns. Kansas blew a sizable first half lead to lose 74-63 to Texas, their first loss at home in almost four years (last loss Feb 7, 2007 to Texas A&M).
This was one of the great streaks in College Basketball, hats off to the Jayhawks - keep in mind this is spoken from the heart of a Missouri fan, I absolutely hate the Jayhawks and root against them no matter who they play, but 69 in a row is one hell of a win streak. I am only hoping that this starts an equally impressive home losing streak. Their next two home games are against Kansas State and Missouri.
Speaking of Missouri, the Tigers spanked the visiting Iowa State Cyclones on a late Saturday game. All the Tigers' starters scored in double digits and the game was not in question from the opening tip. You gotta feel bad for the Cyclones as they play short handed waiting for several transfer players who have to sit out the season. Most of the year Iowa State Head Coach Fred Hoiberg has been playing just 7 players - he played eight against the Tigers.
Missouri seems to be finding its midseason form - like previous Mike Anderson coached teams, they are improving as the season progresses. The Tigers get a week to prepare for a trip to Austin to take on the Big 12 leading Texas Longhorns next Saturday.
Labels: Big 12 Basketball, kansas Jayhawks Basketball, KU Home Win Streak Ends, Missouri Tigers Basketball, Texas Beats Kansas, Texas Longhorns basketball
Mizzou and Kansas State Both Seeking Needed Victories
The Kansas State Wildcats travel to Columbia to take on the Tigers in a rare Monday Matinee game today at 4:30. It should be a great game between two teams that came into the season with very high expectation in conference play. Missouri is 15-3, but has already lost two conference games to only one victory. Kansas State, also 1-2 in conference play, has been a disappointment so far this year having been ranked third in the country at one time, they have since dropped to 20th after losses to unranked Florida, Oklahoma State, and UNLV.
Both teams see this as a must win to keep their Conference Championship hopes alive - the loser of this game would likely have to run the table in the Big 12 to have a chance. Of course, that's assuming Kansas stops being the luckiest team in the history of sports and actually loses a few games.
The Tigers are awfully tough at home, and with Clemente sidelined for The Wildcats, Missouri should hold the edge in this one. But of course Missouri has let a couple of games slip away with bad mistakes at crunch time losing in overtime to Georgetown and Texas A&M. If Kansas State can stay close until the end, anything can happen. I'll say Missouri by 8.
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Missouri Pulls Out Overtime Win Against Vanderbilt
The Missouri Tigers Basketball team escaped with a victory last night at Mi zzou Arena beating unranked, but solid Vanderbilt in overtime 85-82. Marcus Denmon came on strong for the Tigers in the second half only hours after his cousin, Marion died from injuries sustained in a shooting late last Friday. After having an abysmal first half, Denmon scored 19 in the second half and overtime including a layup and free throw to give the Tigers their final three point lead with 5 seconds left. Denmon and his cousin grew up in the same Kansas City house and his death obviously affected his play in the first half. Denmon leads the Tigers in scoring this year averaging over 17 points per game.
A disturbing trend is developing with the Missouri Tigers Basketball team. The last three games have come down to the final play before the buzzer. Last week, Missouri blew a late lead and folded in overtime against a good Georgetown team - then traveled west two days later and let a poor Oregon team back in the game after amassing an 18 point halftime lead (and growing it early in the second half). The Oregon game can probably be chalked up to tired legs, but the Georgetown and Vanderbilt games are signs this team still has work to do. They continue to leave players WIDE open for three-pointers and will continue to be troubled be teams that can shoot the three. Wild swings in games is something we have grown accustomed to as Missouri fans with Coach Mike Anderson's "Forty Minutes Of Hell" style of play, but the Tigers have to play better defense. They probably will, as every Mike Anderson team at Missouri has gotten better throughout the year.
Missouri has now won 51 consecutive non-conference home games. That's pretty cool. Oh yeah, and KU can SUCK IT!
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Colleges Start Basketball Practice
Area colleges officially started basketball season last night and KU put on their annual Dog and Pony show know as "Late Night in the Phog" (it should be called "acting stupid in that dump that looks like a warehouse"). This is good news for Kansas fans who can stoke the fires of inflated sense of "Self" again. With the football team looking a little bit like a Division II powerhouse, thoughts can now turn to a little round ball. Kansas has won 6 straight Big 12 regular season championships, and there is no reason to think otherwise until another team steps up to knock them off. The Jayhawks are not, however, the favorite this year. That title belongs to Coach Frank Martin and his Kansas State Wildcats.
In Manhattan, the Wildcats also held their first public scrimmage and team introduction on Friday night. But they did more than just practice as Athletic Director John Currie also announced plans for a $20 million state of the art basketball training facility. This is good news for the Wildcats, as they were the only institution in the Big 12 that had not at least begun a basketball training facility. This should help with their future recruiting efforts. The Wildcats are looking to improve on their run last season into the Elite Eight.
Down I-70 in Columbia, the Tigers started out in a low key fashion with only a simple afternoon practice. They will not show the team to the public until the annual Black and Gold Scrimmage on October 28th. Head Coach Mike Anderson likes the low key approach and takes a workman like attitude to coaching. Of course, the fact that media that covers Mizzou are all in College Station for the Football game probably has something to do with the delay. Coach Anderson finally has a true big man in Ricardo Ratliffe (Big 12 coaches voted him preseason newcomer of the year), Mizzou has good reason to be optimistic about the upcoming season.
Labels: Big 12 Basketball, Kansas State Basketball, Kansas State Basketball Training Facility, KU Basketball, Late Night in the Phog, Mizzou Basketball, Ricardo Ratliffe
Preseason All Big 12 Awards Announced
Jacob Pullen was named the Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year today following a season in which he scored nearly 20 points per game and K-State to the brink of a final four berth. Pullen's wildcats are predicted to win the Big 12 next season, and the senior guard will have to duplicate his stellar 2009 season to get them there.
Ricardo Ratliffe of Missouri was named the Big 12 Newcommer of the Year, while KU's Josh Selby was named Freshman of the Year. Selby was the nation's top recruit, and joins a talented KU team that should reload quickly after losing Sherron Collins, Cole Aldrich and Xavier Henry to the NBA. The Jayhawks were picked to finish second in the Big 12 behind K-State, despite winning six strait league championships. Marcus Morris, who was named preseason Big 12 First-Team All Conference, will be another big component for KU. Bill Self owns the Big 12, and Selby could be part of another banner-hanging season for the Jayhawks.
LaceDarius Dunn of Baylor was also named to preseason first-conference team, although his recent suspension could force the guard to miss some time. Without Dunn, Baylor goes from a Final 4 darkhorse to a fringe top 25 team.
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New Big 12 Will Be More Competitive
The Big 12 has officially been saved as a conference, and the new make-up of the league should make for increased competition and a tougher road to a conference championship. Should the league continue as a ten team league, which seems to be the most likely outcome after the upcoming departures of Nebraska and Colorado, the new ten team league will be more difficult for both football and basketball, and could make a stronger conference overall.
The New Big 12’s football scheduling will likely be similar to the Pac 10’s conference scheduling: each team will play three non-conference games and then nine conference games. With the elimination of a north and south division, this will assure a much harder schedule, especially for the north teams. Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, well-known for his preference for scheduling cup-cakes before getting into the tough conference games, warns that while the conference will be stronger overall, the schedule may be too much for some teams to overcome (see all of Snyder’s comments here: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/17/2026094/k-states-snyder-likes-the-new.html) North teams like Kansas State, Kansas and Iowa State will now face Texas, OU and Texas Tech every season, which makes the odds for a BCS game run (like Kansas achieved in the 2007 season) difficult.
Big 12 basketball will also be much tougher in conference play, as the schedule will likely now feature an 18 game schedule in which every team plays every other team once at home and once on the road. Increased road games could provide problems for perennial favorite Kansas, who despite winning the league six strait years, has struggled mightily in Austin and Stillwater since the league’s inception. The increased road games and revenge opportunities teams will face should help the league’s schools once the NCAA tournament starts.
The new Big 12 schedules will increase the difficulty to win the league in both football and basketball. While ten teams should make for a more competitive conference, the lack of parity could be problematic, especially for the former north schools.
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Optimizely vs Google Optimize: What’s Best for You?
When it comes to enterprise-level conversion rate optimization tools, it’s a battle of Optimizely vs Google Optimize for market supremacy.
Both of these tools offer robust features that help digital marketers design and optimize experiences on their web pages – but how can you decide which one is right for your business?
In this short comparison guide, we’re breaking down the differences between Optimizely vs Google Optimize. We’ll highlight the similarities and differences between these powerful CRO tools and explore the pros and cons so you can determine which one is ideal for your business.
Comparing Optimizely vs Google Optimize
We wanted to make our comparison as fair and useful as possible, so we created a scoring system based on the five most important elements of a CRO tool. These five categories may not cover every single feature that Google Optimize and Optimizely have to offer, but they do include the features that we think are the most important for a great CRO software tool.
There are 100 points up for grabs in our scoring system, broken down between the following five categories:
Content Experimenting Capabilities (20 points maximum)
Personalization & Targeting (20 points maximum)
Dashboards & Reporting (20 points maximum)
Versatility & Integrations (20 points maximum)
Pricing & Accessibility (20 points maximum)
Now let’s compare Optimizely vs Google Optimize across these five categories and see which option comes out on top.
Optimizely vs Google Optimize: Content Experiments
Conducing content experiments, also called variation testing, is the most important conversion rate optimization activity. Content experimenting capabilities include support for A/B testing, split URL testing, multivariate testing and other ways of comparing the performance of two web pages or two versions of the same web page.
Optimizely and Google Optimize both support several types of content experiments, including A/B testing, split URL and multivariate testing. Each of these tools includes a visual page editor that makes it easy for digital marketers to customize page variations for any experiment without needing to code. They are both extremely user-friendly and deliver as promised.
Optimizely and Google Optimize vary slightly in terms of their test coverage. When you go to set up a content experiment in Google Optimize, you’ll be presented with four options for experiences you can create:
Image: Google Optimize
There are all of the experiment types that Google Optimize supports. You can set up one of the three test types or configure a personalization experience for targeted visitors (more on this later).
Now here’s the corresponding interface from Optimizely:
In addition to A/B and multivariate testing, you can also use Optimizely to perform multi-page experiments that help with funnel testing. The knowledge base on their website includes step-by-step guides for how to set up all kinds of content experiments using Optimizely.
Google Optimize: 18/20
Optimizely: 19/20
Both tools covered the basics, but Optimizely’s additional support for multi-page funnel testing gives it the edge.
Optimizely vs Google Optimize: Personalisation and Targeting
Personalization and targeting deals with a set of features that allow digital marketers to set restrictions on which audience members will be part of a given content experiment.
Again, we can spot a significant amount of feature overlap between Optimizely and Google Optimize. Both tools allow users to include or exclude visitors from an experiment based on what device they use, how they were referred to the page, by language or geography and several other ways.
Google Optimize integrates with Google Analytics and Google Ads, allowing users to select target audiences for experiments that have already been defined in either tool. Webmasters who already use the Google Marketing Platform for PPC advertising and website analytics will appreciate the ability to seamlessly share data across all Google marketing tools and services.
Using the targeting interface (pictured below), marketers on Google Optimize rules can add as many rules as they wish to restrict viewership of an experiment to a narrowly defined audience.
Image: Google Optimize Audience Targeting Options
Optimizely allows for a range of simple and advanced personalization and targeting options for each experiment. Users can create audiences and target known visitors with dynamic customer profiles that contain high-impact information from first and third-party sources. The best part is that targeting options can be combined, so digital marketers can be highly specific about which website visitors should be exposed to a specific page variation or included in an experiment.
Image: Optimizely Audience Targeting Options
Again, both tools cover the basics but Optimizely goes the extra mile by providing more features and more different ways for digital marketers to customize campaign targeting.
Optimizely vs Google Optimize: Evaluation and Reporting
Evaluating the results of content experiments is an important feature for any CRO tool. Optimizely and Google Optimize use tracking snippets on your landing pages to monitor user behavior against campaign goals, collect performance data for each test case and present that information in a concise format with actionable insights.
Optimizely and Google Optimize both use complex statistical modeling to evaluate the outcome of content experiments and provide users with actionable insights on how to improve conversions. They include most of the same information in their reports, such as the number of visitors that interacted with each page variation, the conversion rate for each page, which page performed the best, and the confidence level of the experimental result.
Google Optimize and Optimizely each have unique features when it comes to experiment evaluation and reporting. To help easily keep tabs on their experiments, Google Optimize includes a “summary header” at the top of each report that succinctly describes the status of the experiment. The header could say “waiting for data” to indicate that more data is needed or “keep experiment running” if more data is needed to declare an outcome. In the example below, the experiment has been completed and the summary reads “At least one variant is better than the original”.
Image: Google Optimize Multi-Variate Testing Results
In addition to the standard reporting features, Optimizely allows marketers to filter through experimental results and segment them in different ways to learn more about how visitors responded to each page variation. The platform also automatically filters duplicate conversions out of your results, ensuring maximum accuracy in every report.
Image: Optimizely A/B Testing Results
We should also point out that these tools use different statistical methods to evaluate experiments and validate the statistical significance of results. Google uses a framework called Bayesian inference and a range of hierarchical, contextual and restless models to accurately assess the probability that one page out-performed others in a content experiment.
Optimizely worked with a team of Stanford University statisticians to develop Stats Engine, a statistical framework for evaluating A/B testing results. Stats Engine evaluates experimental results in real-time and controls effectively for false positives, so its findings are accurate a high percentage of the time as compared to traditional statistical methods – they even did a false positives experiment to demonstrate this.
Optimizely 18/20
Both tools do a fine job of communicating with users about the results of their campaigns, and both have created powerful evaluating methods and an attractive reporting interface. Google Optimize is more user-friendly, but again Optimizely has a few extra features that Google Optimize is lacking.
Optimizely vs Google Optimize: Versatility and Integrations
Native integrations make it quick and easy to connect software tools in a single ecosystem that can share data and benefit from complementary features. Versatility simply refers to the overall scope of functions and flexibility offered by each CRO tool.
What exactly can you optimize with Google Optimize? When you start customizing an experiment, you’ll be asked to enter a URL. In fact, Google Optimize is built exclusively for website optimizations – you won’t be able to optimize web apps or other kinds of landing pages at all. As far as integrations, Google Optimize is part of the Google Marketing Platform. You can navigate to the integration center on the platform website and you’ll see that just two native integrations are offered.
Image: Google Optimize Integrations
These integrations are obviously a huge value-add for marketers that are dedicated to the Google platform, but there’s still a huge lack of integration with third-party applications.
Unlike Google Optimize, Optimizely can be used to customize content experiments for websites, mobile applications, television Apps and even IoT devices or conversation apps that use machine learning. Some of these features are supported exclusively by the Optimizely Full Stack product, which includes additional tools for software developers such as feature flags.
In the image below, you can see that Optimizely offers a range of third-party integrations with leading analytics tools and other software that offer complementary features. Optimizely doesn’t offer heat maps, for example, but it offers Clicktale integration with all Optimizely plans so users have an easy way to access heat map analysis for their pages.
Image: Optimizely Integrations
Google Optimize users can still integrate with third-party applications, but it will require some additional manual coding and knowledge of Javascript to get things working properly.
Google: 12/20
Integrations are a major weak point for Google. While Google Optimize certainly adds to the power of the Google marketing platform, Optimizely wins here by integrating with a range of third-party software tools and providing more flexibility and versatility in optimizing different types of media experiences.
Optimizely vs Google Optimize: Pricing and Accessibility
Regardless of how powerful a software tool is, the price ultimately determines who will get to use it and what types of users will be able to generate a positive return on their investment.
Google Optimize Pricing and Accessibility
There are two versions of Google Optimize available: a free version that users can access online and a paid version known as Google Optimize 360. The free version of the tool is quite strictly limited: users can run a maximum of 3 tests at a time and there are limits on variations for multi-variate tests. In addition, Google analytics targeting is not available in the free version.
Google does not publish pricing information for Optimize 360 on its website – instead, there’s a button prompting visitors to contact someone in the sales department – that’s how you know it’s expensive. One source we found confirmed that a subscription for Google Optimize 360 could cost as much as $150,000 annually or more.
Optimizely Pricing and Accessibility
From a pricing standpoint, Optimizely is in the same ballpark as Google Optimize and doesn’t even offer a try-before-you-buy free version for the curious. Software reviewers at Capterra have reported that pricing for Optimizely starts at $50,000 for a one-year license, but could be higher depending on how much traffic your website gets.
What’s clear from these pricing models is that both of these tools are enterprise-level solutions for large companies with popular websites and a lot of traffic to optimize. In view of that, it’s no surprise that Optimizely claims 24 of the Fortune 100 companies as its customers.
Both of these software tools are prohibitively expensive for a lot of companies, but the ones that can afford them will benefit greatly from the ability to more efficiently monetize their already large amounts of web traffic. Google gets the edge for offering a free option that lets digital marketers sample most of the features on their own before purchasing.
Thanks for reading our comparison of Optimizely vs Google Optimize! We enjoyed reviewing both of these powerful CRO tools, but we could only pick one winner and the final score was:
Google Optimize: 77
Optimizely: 84
Optimizely has been in the market for longer than Google Optimize, so it’s no surprise that they’re ahead when it comes to providing cutting-edge features. If you need the best-customized targeting options and the most flexibility to drill down into your results and develop actionable insights, Optimizely is probably the best tool for you.
On the other hand, if you’re already heavily invested in the Google marketing platform, you might want to consider adding Google Optimize to your toolkit. This is especially true for smaller digital marketers who can benefit hugely from implementing the free version of this tool.
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